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  • IDF commander: We fired more than a million cluster bombs in Lebanon
    14 September 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Meron Rappaport
    "What we did was insane and monstrous, we covered entire towns in cluster bombs," the head of an IDF rocket unit in Lebanon said regarding the use of cluster bombs and phosphorous shells during the war.
    Quoting his battalion commander, the rocket unit head stated that the IDF fired around 1,800 cluster bombs, containing over 1.2 million cluster bomblets.
    In addition, soldiers in IDF artillery units testified that the army used phosphorous shells during the war, (…)

  • IDF commander: We fired more than a million cluster bombs in Lebanon
    12 September 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    IDF commander: We fired more than a million cluster bombs in Lebanon
    By Meron Rappaport
    "What we did was insane and monstrous, we covered entire towns in cluster bombs," the head of an IDF rocket unit in Lebanon said regarding the use of cluster bombs and phosphorous shells during the war.
    Quoting his battalion commander, the rocket unit head stated that the IDF fired around 1,800 cluster bombs, containing over 1.2 million cluster bomblets.
    In addition, soldiers in IDF artillery (…)

  • The “Other” September 11: Stimson, the Bomb, Bush and Iran
    12 September 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by William Marina
    The fifth anniversary of September 11, 2001, will certainly produce an outpouring of politically motivated media presentations ranging from conspiracy theories to justifications for pursuing the “War on Terror.”
    I would like to use the occasion, however, to give renewed attention to the significance of a previous September 11, sixty-one years ago, the day that retiring Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson’s top-secret, eight-page, memorandum was sent to President Harry S (…)

  • When will someone on the British left break ranks?
    12 September 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Craig Murray’s appeals for scepticism regarding the latest supposed Muslim plot to carry out terrorist attacks have marked a possible turning point in popular attitudes towards the so-called war on terror.
    His blog has apparently been inundated with hits suggesting, as he puts it, that he has struck a nerve. Evidently, not everyone keeps swallowing this terror stuff uncritically. But his stance also has significance from another point of view: Murray is something of a hero on the left, but (…)

  • UN details massive US arms sales to Taiwan
    11 September 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    UN details massive US arms sales to Taiwan
    Monday, 11 September, 2006, 09:56 AM Doha Time
    TAIPEI: The UN Conventional Arms Registry (UNCAR) shows that the US has sold huge amounts of weapons to Taiwan in the past decade to help defend Taiwan against China, the Central News Agency (CNA) said yesterday.
    CNA said that the US has reported its arms sales to UNCAR from 1995 to 2005, but has been asked by the UN to stop the reporting as Taiwan is not a UN member.
    In line with the UN (…)

  • Palestinians forced to scavenge for food on rubbish dumps
    11 September 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Patrick Cockburn in Jerusalem
    09/09/06 "The Independent" — — The Israeli military and economic siege of Gaza has led to a collapse in Palestinian living conditions and many people only survive by looking for scraps of food in rubbish dumps, say international aid agencies.
    "The pressure and tactics have not resulted in a desire for compromise," Karen Abuzayd, the head of the UN Relief and Works Agency is said to have warned. "But rather they have created mass despair, anger and a sense (…)

  • Army official: Rumsfeld forbade talk of postwar
    11 September 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Army official: Rumsfeld forbade talk of postwar By Stephanie Heinatz
    Daily Press (Newport News, Va.)
    FORT EUSTIS, Va. - Long before the United States invaded Iraq in 2003, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld forbade military strategists to develop plans for securing a postwar Iraq, the retiring commander of the Army Transportation Corps said Thursday.
    In fact, said Brig. Gen. Mark Scheid, Rumsfeld said "he would fire the next person" who talked about the need for a postwar plan. (…)

  • national anthem for our times
    11 September 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Dedicated to all those who died for a lie. -js Oh say can you see What the fuck’s going on? Once so proudly we stood as a beacon for the good. That was practically true Up and through world war two. But we blew that conquest When dividing east from west. So we had our cold wars, Murdered "gooks" on their shores, and started to see about he-ge-mo-ny. Oh say does that star spangled banner yet wave? O’er the world we dominate, Then we ask why they hate.
    peace, love, end the bush (…)

  • 62,006 - the number killed in the ’war on terror’
    11 September 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by David Randall and Emily Gosden
    The "war on terror" - and by terrorists - has directly killed a minimum of 62,006 people, created 4.5 million refugees and cost the US more than the sum needed to pay off the debts of every poor nation on earth.
    If estimates of other, unquantified, deaths - of insurgents, the Iraq military during the 2003 invasion, those not recorded individually by Western media, and those dying from wounds - are included, then the toll could reach as high as 180,000. (…)

  • The Next Phase of the Middle East War by Michel CHOSSUDOVSKY
    9 September 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The Next Phase of the Middle East War
    by Michel Chossudovsky September 4, 2006 GlobalResearch.ca
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    Israel’s war on Lebanon is an integral part of a US sponsored "military roadmap".
    The war on Lebanon, which has resulted in countless atrocities including the destruction of the nation’s economy and civilian infrastructure, is "a stage" in a sequence of carefully planned military operations.
    Lebanon constitutes a strategic corridor (…)