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  • Holocaust group trying to halt Leumi privatization
    18 May 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    Last update - 02:53 13/05/2007 By Amiram Barkat
    The state-owned Company for Locating and Retrieving Assets of People Who Were Killed in the Holocaust is attempting to halt the privatization of Bank Leumi until an agreement is reached over the transfer of accounts of Holocaust victims. This weekend, company chairman Avraham Roet appealed to Minister Rafi Eitan, who was recently appointed by Prime Minister Ehud Olmert to advance the privatization of the state-owned bank, to stop the process (…)

  • Rebellion By US Forces In Iraq Prompts ‘Rapid’ Pentagon Crackdown
    17 May 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    May 17, 2007
    By: Sorcha Faal, and as reported to her Western Subscribers
    Reports from Russian Military Analysts are describing what they term as a ‘rapidly declining will-to-fight” among American Soldiers fighting in Iraq, with the greatest concern being placed upon US Soldiers from the 10th Mountain Division who reportedly this past week refused orders to ‘take to field’ against their Iraqi insurgent enemies.
    According to these reports, the unprecedented rebellion against their (…)

  • WHEN THE SMOKE CLEARS...a few problems remain
    17 May 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    For over 4 years Iraq has been a living Hell, but George W. "Decider Guy" Bush is still confident that some day in some way the good old guys in the white hats will prevail. After all, that’s the myth that persists in many circles. Of course the folks who believe that tripe are themselves going in circles.
    Let’s suppose a most unlikely scenario; that by September General Patreaus reviews the Iraq situation and concludes that indeed the smoke has cleared and the government has changed it’s (…)

  • Bushra’s final exam
    15 May 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Gideon Levy
    Blood on the hands: Two crimson handprints stain the white wall. The tile floor shines in shades of brown, the walls are painted in white and soft pastels, their new house, after the two previous ones were destroyed by the Israel Defense Forces. The bloody handprints stand as silent testimony on the wall of the staircase that goes up to the second floor.
    This is where Ruqiya stood, the blood of her dead daughter all over her hands, as she pounded them on the wall in a (…)

  • "HOME" isn’t always where the heart is
    11 May 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Heading into the Hellishly hot Iraq Summer once again. Fresh, wet-behind-the-ears Guard troops shipped into the broiler to fight a nondescript enemy of occupation. Some terrorists, some foreign religious fighters, some angry Iraqis whose parents or kids took a bullet of a bomb.
    As these new guys compliment the existing surge with trepidation and anxiety, motivated by career or ire or the dream of a good education at taxpayer expense...others, the hardened 3rd or 4th termers, with scorched (…)

  • Dr. Gilbert Burnham on the 654,965 Death Toll in Iraq
    11 May 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    “The pillars of truth and the pillars of freedom. These are the pillars of society.” - Henrik Ibsen
    Washington, D.C. - Dr. Gilbert Burnham is the co-author of the report entitled: “The Human Cost of the War in Iraq: A Mortality Study (2002-2006).” (1) It was published by ”The Lancet,” a British Medical Journal, in Oct., 2006. (2) It concluded that 654,965 Iraqis have died as a result of the U.S.-led invasion on March 20, 2003, and from the subsequent occupation of that country by the (…)

  • USA Under-Compensating Afghans for Civilian Deaths
    10 May 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    News: U.S. Pays and Apologizes to Kin of Afghans Killed by Marines - “I stand before you today, deeply, deeply ashamed and terribly sorry that Americans have killed and wounded innocent Afghan people,” Colonel Nicholson said, recounting to reporters the words he had used in the meetings. In a videoconference to reporters at the Pentagon, he added, “We made official apologies on the part of the U.S. government” and paid $2,000 for each death.”
    According to the (…)

  • Who is Newport Chamber of Commerce Loyal To? Not Veterans
    10 May 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Letter to Newport Chamber of Commerce in response to the exclusion of VFP and others from their Loyalty Day Parade, May 5, 2007 Gordon
    To Whom it May Concern:
    I have read several reports about your recent "Loyalty Day" parade and the exclusion of the Veterans for Peace and other groups with messages calling for an end to war. There is video tape of parade organizer, Patty Louisiana saying that the peace message, even from combat veterans, "doesn’t support the spirit of our community". Is (…)

  • THE LIKELY HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE OF THE WAR IN IRAQ
    9 May 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    May 9, 2007
    THE LIKELY HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE OF THE WAR IN IRAQ
    John Chuckman
    Names like Haditha, Fallujah, Samarra, and Abu Ghraib are likely destined to become, at least in the Muslim world, iconic symbols for America’s bloody adventure in Iraq. This will not so much represent the deliberate selecting of horrors to remember and feature, for America’s entire crusade has been a horror, but the impulse to have tough summary images of complex events.
    America invaded Iraq for two main (…)

  • THE SEVEN DEADLY SINS: IRAQ
    9 May 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    PRIDE: It goeth, they say just before the fall. Bush brags that "We freed them", egad, what gall!
    ENVY: Cheney says Iraqis envy U.S., but when polls are taken, results? just guess!
    GLUTTONY: Neocon nutjobs stuff gullets each day ,but starving Iraqis don’t eat, they can’t pay.
    LUST: The monster oil companies lust for more dough, too bad Iraqis, your profits must go!
    GREED: The commonest sin of mankind is greed, and Bush/Cheney love it, results of "bad seed"
    SLOTH: Our Congress is (…)