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  • IRAQ : The Secret US Plot to Kill Sadr By PATRICK COCKBURN
    10 June 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    The Trap That Backfired The Secret US Plot to Kill Sadr
    By PATRICK COCKBURN
    Baghdad.
    The US Army tried to kill or capture Muqtada al-Sadr, the widely revered Shia cleric, after luring him to peace negotiations at a house in the holy city of Najaf, which it then attacked, according to a senior Iraqi government official.
    The revelation of this extraordinary plot, which would probably have provoked an uprising by outraged Shia if it had succeeded, has left a legacy of bitter distrust in (…)

  • Remembering the USS Liberty: Four Decades Later
    9 June 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    “Anybody who couldn’t identify the [USS] Liberty could not tell the difference between the White House and the Washington Monument!” - The late Admiral Thomas Moorer
    Arlington, VA - On a beautiful, but very humid morning, Friday, June 8, 2007, I joined about two hundred others at the National Cemetery, located here, on the south side of the Potomac River, opposite Washington, D.C. My invitation card read: “No Greater Love: The 40th Anniversary Remembrance Ceremony: Honoring the 34 (…)

  • Pentagon ‘Coup’ Completes Military Takeover Of United States Government
    9 June 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Pentagon ‘Coup’ Completes Military Takeover Of United States Government June 9, 2007
    By: Sorcha Faal, and as reported to her Western Subscribers
    On a day when the majority of Americans were absorbed in the drama of a young celebrity woman, Paris Hilton, being sent to prison, and which was broadcast live on all US propaganda media outlets, the dreams of the Founding Fathers of the American Republic were destroyed by the complete takeover of the United States Government by its Military (…)

  • Palestine, non violent resistance: Bil’in Habibti - Bil’in my love (film)
    8 June 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    – http://www.bilin-village.org

  • Republican Presidential Candidates Back Nuclear Strike Against Iran By Patrick Martin 07 June2007
    8 June 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    Republican Presidential Candidates Back Nuclear Strike Against Iran
    By Patrick Martin
    07 June, 2007 World Socialist Web
    Nine of ten candidates for the Republican presidential nomination explicitly or tacitly supported a US attack on Iran using nuclear weapons, in response to a question at Tuesday night’s nationally televised debate in New Hampshire.
    Despite the extraordinary character of these declarations—giving support to the first use of nuclear weapons in war since Hiroshima and (…)

  • Palestine: The 40th Anniversary of Occupation by Prof. Francis Boyle Global Research, June 7,
    8 June 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    Palestine: The 40th Anniversary of Occupation
    By Prof. Francis Boyle
    Global Research, June 7, 2007 PalestineChronicle.com
    Israel and the United States are still doing everything humanly possible to promote a Palestinian civil war by means of arming, financing and encouraging comprador Palestinian surrogates toward that diabolical end.
    On the 40th Anniversary of the so-called Six Day War, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas stated that the Palestinians were on the verge of a civil (…)

  • Nuking Iran: The Republican Agenda?
    7 June 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    William M. Arkin on National and Homeland Security Nuking Iran: The Republican Agenda?
    At the Republican debate last night, almost all the candidates said that they would not rule out a nuclear attack on Iran as a means to prevent it from getting its own nuclear weapons. Only one of these knuckleheads would say that attacking Iran — indeed even threatening to nuke Iran — is not the right strategy.
    "We have to come to our senses about this issue of war and preemption," he said. The (…)

  • Rebellion in the British Army by John Pilger
    7 June 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    June 7, 2007 Rebellion in the British Army
    by John Pilger
    An experienced British officer serving in Iraq has written to the BBC describing the invasion as "illegal, immoral, and unwinnable," which, he says, is "the overwhelming feeling of many of my peers." In a letter to the BBC’s Newsnight and MediaLens.org he accuses the media’s "embedded coverage with the U.S. Army" of failing to question "the intentions and continuing effects of the U.S.-led invasion and occupation." He says most (…)

  • BODY COUNT: on 40th anniversary of Israeli war, post-war excess Palestinian deaths total 0.3 million
    7 June 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    On the 40th anniversary of the war criminal Israeli attack on its neighbours in June 1967 post-invasion Palestinian excess deaths total 0.3 million - mostly CHILDREN.
    According to demographic data from the UN Population Division (see: ) and UNICEF (see: ) the post-invasion excess deaths and under-5 infant deaths in the Occupied Palestinian Territory now (mid 2007) total 0.3 million and 0.2 million, respectively (for a detailed analysis see the recently published book BODY COUNT. Global (…)

  • “Resisting the Empire” by Documentary Filmmaker John Pilger
    7 June 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    “Resisting the Empire”: Documentary Filmmaker John Pilger on Struggles for Freedom in Israel-Palestine, Diego Garcia, Latin America and South Africa
    Thursday, June 7th, 2007
    The renowned investigative journalist and documentary filmmaker John Pilger has spent the better part of his life documenting American empire and the resistance it has met. Pilger has made over fifty documentaries and is the author, most recently, of "Freedom Next Time: Resisting the Empire," which looks at ongoing (…)