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  • Bush defiant in face of anti-war demonstrations
    29 January 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    White House increasingly isolated as even the Republicans join condemnation of ’surge’
    By Rupert Cornwell in Washington
    Published: 28 January 2007
    As thousands of demonstrators protested against the Iraq war outside the Capitol yesterday, top Congressional Republicans have warned President George Bush that his controversial troop increase has a few months at the very most to show results.
    The threat that his own party will turn against him is the clearest sign yet of the (…)

  • The Pentagon hunkers down in Africa
    29 January 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    Charles Cobb Jnr
    26 January 2007 09:18
    The stance of the United States with respect to the rest of the world has changed radically under the “conservative” administration of George W Bush. The latest indication of the militarisation that is at the forefront of this shift came on December 13, when then-defence secretary Donald Rumsfeld announced that within “one to two months” the US military would establish an African Command — adding a sixth region to the existing five US geographic (…)

  • Thousands Protest Iraq War In Washington - January 27, 2007
    28 January 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    As President Bush orders more troops to Iraq, thousands of demonstrators marched on Washington’s National Mall Saturday to urge the withdrawal of U.S. forces.
    The Washington Post reported authorities have pegged the crowd at about 100,000 people, including venerable war opponents such as Jane Fonda, Susan Sarandon, Sean Penn and the Rev. Jesse Jackson.
    Penn chided Bush for what he said was trying to make Americans afraid.
    "Remember a time when presidents said ’the only thing you have (…)

  • Antiwar protesters target Congress
    27 January 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    Organizers expect more than 300,000 people to converge in Washington this weekend seeking more than resolutions.
    By Brad Knickerbocker | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor
    When thousands of Iraq war protesters gather in Washington Saturday, their chants and amplified speeches are likely to be heard inside the secure grounds of the White House where the commander in chief has made his case for sending more troops into combat.
    But the other end of Pennsylvania Avenue – the (…)

  • Why American citizens WILL accept the use of NUKES
    27 January 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Why will American citizens accept a Nuclear strike on IRAN?.........Because they "think "that no American soldiers will die in a nuclear airstrike.The fact that the middle east will become a radiation fallout zone(it already is-DU) dosen’t matter as long as they can continue to go to work,go to the mall,brink beer and watch t.v. The fact that thousands if not millions of innocent Middle Easterners will suffer horribly MEANS NOTHING!!
    The ONLY reason that American citizens are against (…)

  • Oldthinkers Unbellyfeel Bushsoc: Bush’s State of the Union: ’Leader of the Free World’ blabs to nobody in particular
    24 January 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Synopsis: US-based Daniel Patrick Welch reacts with expected horror to George Bush’s surreal State of the Union address. Democrats, he notes, don’t appear willing or able to stop the runaway train. With no cavalry riding to the rescue, Welch turns to familiar metaphors to describe a new despair.
    Daniel Patrick Welch http://danielpwelch.com
    It strikes me how little of George Bush’s bullshit I can actually stomach as time goes on. It’s a little bit like THC, which builds up in the (…)

  • The Peoples’ Counter State of the Union Message
    24 January 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    “Powerful republics are the most warlike and unscrupulous of nations.” - Ambrose Bierce
    Washington, D.C. - While the Liar-in-Chief, George W. Bush, was giving his so-called, “State of the Union,” message inside the U.S. Capitol, on Tuesday evening, Jan. 23, 2007, demonstrators were outside robustly exercising their First Amendment Rights, on the west side of the building, near its reflecting pool. Close by is a monument to one of my heroes—Gen. Ulysses S. Grant. The protesters listened to (…)

  • Strain Theory in Iraq; an alternative strategy to militarism
    23 January 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The death of dogma is the birth of reality. Immanuel Kant During the latter part of the 90s the Neocons distilled their intentions into dogmas and ideologies aimed to spread democracy and Capitalism across the globe, particularly in the Middle East. Consequently, democracy, which had previously existed as a largely non-ideological phenomenon and written with a lower case ’d’ became an ideological set of beliefs written with an upper case ’D’. From Greece to Rome to the hinterlands, where (…)

  • U.S.-tailored Iraqi Oil Alarm for Producers, Consumers
    23 January 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    While the Iraqis were busy counting their death toll of more than 650,000 since March 2003, the United Nations busy counting their dead of more than 34,000 in 2006 only, the Pentagon counting more than 3,070 American deaths and the U.S. treasury counting more than $600 billion of taxpayer money spent so far in Iraq , stealthily and suddenly the U.S. occupation’s oil prize rang louder than the war drums to alert the regional oil producers as well as the major world consumers to guard against (…)

  • BAGDAD: Residents describe life as ‘hell’ in Haifa Street
    22 January 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    Hayder Amran
    Azzaman, January 20, 2007
    Life is turning into ‘hell’ for residents of Haifa Street and the surrounding quarters.
    Residents said the area was under siege by Iraqi and U.S. troops and scores of innocent civilians have been either killed or injured as a result of the ongoing clashes.
    U.S. and Iraqi troops have besieged the street and several other adjacent districts. The operation is seen as a prelude to a massive military push against Baghdad by Iraqi and U.S. troops. (…)