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  • The Military’s Problem With The President’s Iran Policy
    3 July 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    The Military’s Problem With The President’s Iran Policy By Seymour M. Hersh Issue of 2006-07-10 Posted 2006-07-03
    On May 31st, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice announced what appeared to be a major change in U.S. foreign policy. The Bush Administration, she said, would be willing to join Russia, China, and its European allies in direct talks with Iran about its nuclear program. There was a condition, however: the negotiations would not begin until, as the President put it in a June 19th (…)

  • Thirteen From The Niagara Frontier; They Died As Heroes, Not As Numbers
    3 July 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Thirteen From The Niagara Frontier; They Died As Heroes, Not As Numbers Analysis By Mike Hudson July 3, 2006
    On June 15, White House Press Secretary and former FOX News anchor Tony Snow was asked about President George W. Bush’s reaction to the fact that the 2,500th American soldier had been killed in Iraq.
    "It’s a number," he said.
    But for 13 grieving families on the Niagara Frontier, and thousands of others across the country, Snow’s "number" is something much more personal. It’s a (…)

  • Former Vets With GOP Ties Boost War Effort In Blogs
    3 July 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Former Vets With GOP Ties Boost War Effort In Blogs By Jerry Zremski, News National Correspondent 6/25/2006 WASHINGTON - A former spokesman for President Bush recently offered to several newspapers supposedly objective freelance stories from Iraq by two combat veterans who lead a pro-war group with deep Republican ties. Several months after revelations that a Pentagon contractor was paying Iraqi news outlets for favorable war coverage, former White House spokesman Taylor Gross approached (…)

  • No Place For Canada. Foreign Invaders Will Never Control The Fierce Pashtun Tribesmen Of Afghanistan
    3 July 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    No Place For Canada Foreign Invaders Will Never Control The Fierce Pashtun Tribesmen Of Afghanistan By Eric Margolis July 02, 2006 The war in Afghanistan that was supposedly won has resumed — with a vengeance. Fighting is reportedly intensifying and spreading across southern Afghanistan as resistance to foreign occupation grows.
    In 2001, unable to withstand high-tech U.S. forces, the Taliban leader Mullah Omar ordered his men to disband and blend into the civilian population. At the (…)

  • Diabetes and depleted uranium - Italian embassy refuses visa
    3 July 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    June 29, 2006 - "You are not being truthful about the purpose of your visit to Italy. What is your interest in diabetes and depleted uranium?" the Italian consul in Bombay demanded to know.
    "I am just traveling to Italy to meet with Leuren Moret," the famous Indian doctor answered.
    Leuren Moret recounted the episode in an interview June 29, 2006. She said, "The doctor had never mentioned either diabetes or depleted uranium."
    The Italian government official was grilling one of the (…)

  • On July 4th: What "Patriots" should remember
    2 July 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    This July 4th, just like all that have gone before in the modern age, will be larded down with sentimentalism, bar-b-ques, VFW confabs and TV maudlin and treakly rhetoric about our freedoms and our "values". In addition there will be fireworks to honor the attack on Ft.Sumpter and Francis Scott Key’s imortal hymn.
    But any real American, and especially any naturalized American, should know that a lot of the "values" we pretend to possess; those which continually support the great myth of (…)

  • Aw Shucks, Another U.S. Embarrassment...
    2 July 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Rape and murder inquiry is 5th in recent months
    WASHINGTON, D.C. — (OfficialWire) — 07/02/06 — Listening to a popular radio talk-show yesterday, I heard the newsreader say (referring to a report of the rape and murder of an Iraqi woman and the murder of three members of her family):
    "...and in what is yet another embarrassment for the U.S. Military..."
    To be honest, I admit that I didn’t hear the rest of the story.
    Embarrassment!?
    Are Americans so accustomed to the illegal acts (…)

  • Hunger Strike at the White House starting July 4 to End the Iraq War
    1 July 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    On July 3, 2006, CODEPINK: Women for Peace, Global Exchange and Gold Star Families for Peace will announce a historic hunger strike against the war in Iraq. At 5pm, they will sit down in front of the White House to eat their last meal and hold a press conference before beginning the fast at the same location in the morning of July 4 at 10am.
    “We’ve marched, held vigils, lobbied Congress, camped out at Bush’s ranch. We’ve even gone to jail. Now it’s time to do more,” says peace mom Cindy (…)

  • Is The FBI Entrapping Idiots? (& No, Timothy McVeigh Was No Idiot)
    30 June 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Is The FBI Entrapping Idiots? (& No, Timothy McVeigh Was No Idiot) By Ilana Mercer Wednesday, June 28, 2006 CNN reports that seven Miami-based men “concocted a plot to ‘kill all the devils we can,’ starting by blowing up Chicago’s Sears Tower, according to charges in a federal indictment revealed Friday.”
    It transpires that this information was elicited by an “FBI operative posing as a member of the terrorist network.”
    I watched the sister of one of the suspects enter “The (…)

  • Why Are Americans So Angry?
    30 June 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Why Are Americans So Angry? Ron Paul Friday, June 30, 2006
    I have been involved in politics for over 30 years and have never seen the American people so angry. It’s not unusual to sense a modest amount of outrage, but it seems the anger today is unusually intense and quite possibly worse than ever. It’s not easily explained, but I have some thoughts on this matter. Generally, anger and frustration among people are related to economic conditions; bread and butter issues. Yet today, (…)