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  • Small Nuclear War Would Cause Global Environmental Catastrophe (LiveScience)
    6 July 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Small Nuclear War Would Cause Global Environmental Catastrophe
    By Jeanna Bryner, LiveScience Staff Writer
    SAN FRANCISCO-A small-scale, regional nuclear war could disrupt the global climate for a decade or more, with environmental effects that could be devastating for everyone on Earth, researchers have concluded.
    The scientists said about 40 countries possess enough plutonium or uranium to construct substantial nuclear arsenals. Setting off a Hiroshima-size weapon could cause as many (…)

  • AFGHANISTAN :U.S. and NATO troops killed more noncombatants in the last six months than did Talibans
    6 July 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    U.S. and NATO troops killed more noncombatants in the last six months than did Taliban insurgents, several tallies indicate. By Laura King LA Times Staff Writer
    July 6, 2007
    KABUL, AFGHANISTAN — After more than five years of increasingly intense warfare, the conflict in Afghanistan reached a grim milestone in the first half of this year: U.S. troops and their NATO allies killed more civilians than insurgents did, according to several independent tallies.
    The upsurge in deaths at the (…)

  • SCOTT RITTER : A Farewell to Arms Control (TRUTHDIG)
    6 July 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    A Farewell to Arms Control http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20070705_a_farewell_to_arms_control/ Posted on Jul 5, 2007
    By Scott Ritter
    The organization that was at the center of the maelstrom of the Iraqi weapons-of-mass-destruction fiasco, responsible for bringing the world to the brink of war on no fewer than a half-dozen occasions during the 1990s, and then unable to prevent a war in March 2003, has departed the global scene. It left not with a dramatic flair befitting its former (…)

  • IRAQ : Is the United States Killing 10,000 Iraqis Every Month? Or Is It More? By Michael Schwartz,
    6 July 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    Is the United States Killing 10,000 Iraqis Every Month? Or Is It More? By Michael Schwartz, After Downing Street Posted on July 6, 2007, Printed on July 6, 2007 http://www.alternet.org/story/56124/
    A state-of-the-art research study published in October 12, 2006 issue of The Lancet (the most prestigious British medical journal) concluded that — as of a year ago — 600,000 Iraqis had died violently due to the war in Iraq. That is, the Iraqi death rate for the first 39 months of the war was (…)

  • Fed Up With War, Some Won’t Pay Taxes by John Christoffersen
    6 July 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    Published on Thursday, July 5, 2007 by Associated Press
    Fed Up With War, Some Won’t Pay Taxes
    by John Christoffersen
    NEW HAVEN, Conn. - When the United States invaded Iraq more than four years ago, war opponent David Gross asked his bosses for a radical pay cut, enough so he wouldn’t have to pay taxes to support the war.
    “I was having a hard time looking at myself in the mirror,” Gross said. “I knew the bombs falling were in part paid with my tax dollars. I had to actually do (…)

  • Spanish Customs Officers Uncover Weapons Haul in ship en route from Israel to Nicaragua
    5 July 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Spanish customs officers uncovered more than 1,000 weapons aboard a ship en route from Israel to Nicaragua during a routine cargo inspection, the governor of the southern Andalusia region said Wednesday.
    By AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE, MADRID
    Posted 07/04/07 11:13
    Spanish customs officers uncovered more than 1,000 weapons aboard a ship en route from Israel to Nicaragua during a routine cargo inspection, the governor of the southern Andalusia region said Wednesday.
    Gov. Juan Jose Lopez (…)

  • INDEPENDENCE
    4 July 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    July 4th, 2007 - Apparently, those who have already chosen a candidate, are not willing to discuss the parameters of their involvement in their candidates’ stand on certain issues.
    The number one, with me is to be : against war. Against all war. And, against the U.S. led, and U.N. approved decimation of Lebanon last August.
    As I said, at the time, every day "WE" the U.S., supported Israel, in it’s illegal bombing of Lebanon, would surmount rage and aggression on U.S. forces, (…)

  • IRAQ : "Mission Accomplished.» by Felicity Arbuthnot (stopusa.be)
    3 July 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    "Mission Accomplished.»
    Felicity Arbuthnot, 1st May 2007 http://stopusa.be/scripts/texte.php?section=BDBD&langue=3&id=25359
    Four years ago today the (alleged) Draft Dodger in Chief, landed on the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln and declared: ’ mission accomplished’ In Iraq.
    Forty eight blood soaked months later, what exactly has been accomplished?
    * Possibly as many as one million Iraqi dead, four million fled or displaced internally. The largest exodus since the (…)

  • An Open Letter to America: Now Is The Time For Us To Stand Up and Stand Together by Rev. Lennox Yea
    3 July 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Published on Monday, July 2, 2007 by CommonDreams.org
    An Open Letter to America: Now Is The Time For Us To Stand Up and Stand Together by Rev. Lennox Yearwood, Jr.
    July 2, 2007
    My Fellow Americans:
    The power of our voices against the U.S. occupation of Iraq is reaching the top echelons of the military and the administration. Our government is persecuting Americans who speak out against the U.S. military presence in Iraq. The U.S. military has launched politicized attacks on its own (…)

  • U.S. Account of Afghan Deaths at Odds With Head of Rights Group
    2 July 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    Published on Saturday, June 30, 2007 by the New York Times
    U.S. Account of Afghan Deaths at Odds With Head of Rights Group
    by Barry Bearak and Abdul Waheed Wafa
    KABUL, Afghanistan - Four civilians were killed early Friday by American and Afghan forces in eastern Afghanistan, according to the leader of a small human rights group who gave an account of the deaths entirely at odds with that of the United States-led coalition.
    “The soldiers claimed they were looking for three Taliban (…)