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  • Iraq: Civil War or "Divide and Conquer"
    30 November 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Everyday the US Corporate Media bombards America with the "huge spike in violence" that inevitably means that Iraq is descending into civil war. We’re told there are two choices, it’s a civil war, or its "al Qaeda" - but there is a third option the corporate media refuses to utter.
    Even high-school slackers have heard of the age-old strategy "Divide and Conquer". Is it possible that there are outside forces working this strategy in Iraq today? Perhaps rogue elements inside some (…)

  • Journalist Mohammed Omer on the Hell that is Gaza
    30 November 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    “No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expediency.” - Theodore Roosevelt
    Washington, D.C. - On Tuesday, Nov. 28, 2006, Mohammed Omer, a 22-year-old Palestinian journalist/photographer, shared his eyewitness account of living and working in Israeli-Occupied Gaza, a densely population area that 1.4 million people call home. He was raised there in the Rafah refugee camp, located near the border with Egypt. He had the opportunity to know and admire Olympia, WA-based peace (…)

  • Bush is to blame and not the Iraqi people and we must remember that
    29 November 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Bush is to blame and not the Iraqi people and we must remember that By Mary MacElveen November 29, 2006
    In the American criminal justice system victims of rape, sexual harassment is often blamed by the defense attorney representing the rapist. As I was reading this Washington Post column As Iraq Deteriorates, Iraqis Get More Blame the same can be said for blaming the Iraqi people for the strife and civil war that now surrounds them.
    I would say, let us put the blame squarely where it (…)

  • Noam Chomsky and Gilbert Achcar’s New Book - Perilous Power
    29 November 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Noam Chomsky and Gilbert Achcar’s New Book: Perilous Power - by Stephen Lendman
    Noam Chomsky needs no introduction. He’s MIT Institute Professor Emeritus of linguistics and a leading anti-war critic and voice for over 40 years for social equity and justice. He’s also one of the world’s most influential and widely cited intellectuals on the Left. Gilbert Achcar is a Lebanese-French academic, author, social activist, Middle East expert and professor of politics and international relations (…)

  • OJ and Dubya: Both in Denial, Both Unrepentant
    28 November 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    “The hardest tumble a man can make is fall over his own bluff.” - Ambrose Bierce
    President George W. Bush is in denial about the hell-on-earth that he and his Neocon cronies have created in Iraq. O.J. Simpson is in denial, too, about his supposed involvement in a sensational, grisly double murder. The two episodes are, of course, beyond any comparison. The issue of O.J. and Bush’s refusals to see their own personal culpability in these matters, however, is a trait that they both share in (…)

  • The Media’s ‘Irreparable Harm’ to our soldiers and to the Iraqi people
    28 November 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The Media’s ‘Irreparable Harm’ to our soldiers and to the Iraqi people By Mary MacElveen November 28, 2006
    While I wish to congratulate NBC news for labeling this war over in Iraq a ‘Civil War’, it does not take back the irreparable harm done upon the Iraqi people as well as our soldiers. The reason I chose the terminology of irreparable harm is because that was the phrase used in the Bush V. Gore case in which a the counting of votes during that presidential campaign would be seen as an (…)

  • THE NEXT ACT The Next Act: Is a Damaged Administration Less Likely to Attack Iran, or More?
    23 November 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    A month before the November elections, Vice-President Dick Cheney was sitting in on a national-security discussion at the Executive Office Building. The talk took a political turn: what if the Democrats won both the Senate and the House? How would that affect policy toward Iran, which is believed to be on the verge of becoming a nuclear power? At that point, according to someone familiar with the discussion, Cheney began reminiscing about his job as a lineman, in the early nineteen-sixties, (…)

  • Kathy Kelly to James Baker: “Tell the Truth about Iraq!”
    23 November 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    “Mankind must put an end to war before war puts an end to mankind.” - John F. Kennedy
    Catonsville, Maryland - On the evening of Nov. 20, 2006, peace activist, Kathy Kelly, gave a talk at the U. of Maryland’s Baltimore County campus (UMBC). It was entitled, “Eyewitness to War, Witness for Peace.” She said: “It’s a heck of a lot more ‘comfortable’ to take the party line of former Secretary of State, James Baker. He went for four days into the ‘Green Zone’-[a heavily-guarded, fortified (…)

  • The only way to bring the troops home: Impeach
    22 November 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    "Our soldiers are sitting ducks in a shooting gallery.
    If we really cared about them, we would bring them home."
    Dennis Kucinich
    mp3 of floor speech
    Is anyone really going to disagree with that? I think it rings true, if we really cared about our young men and women, then we would bring them home.
    Bring the Troops Home: Impeach
    Our young men and women were sent to Iraq on lies, yet now we must stay.... just another lie- yet it’s accepted as truth because the Democratic Leadership (…)

  • U.S. WEAPONS AT WAR: PROMOTING FREEDOM OR FUELING CONFLICT?
    21 November 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    U.S. WEAPONS AT WAR: PROMOTING FREEDOM OR FUELING CONFLICT? U.S. Military Aid and Arms Transfers Since September 11
    A World Policy Institute Special Report by Frida Berrigan and William D. Hartung, with Leslie Heffel June 2005
    http://www.worldpolicy.org/projects/arms/reports/wawjune2005.html#execsum
    EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
    Perhaps no single policy is more at odds with President Bush’s pledge to "end tyranny in our world" than the United States’ role as the world’s leading arms exporting (…)