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  • "It was worth it"..They died in the line of what?
    14 June 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    On his visit to Iraq this week George Bush took the time to tell everyone that the fight in Iraq, with all it’s carnage, was...as he so nobly put it, "Worth It" **********************************
    Nobody really knows exactly how many US and coalition troops were killed or wounded in Afghanistan and Iraq since military actions commenced, but the numbers are staggering. Not many media pundits, much less our distinguished El Presidente and staff, take the time to comment on the cost of human (…)

  • "Anything...even if it’s a three-year-old, needs to be killed. Over."
    14 June 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Israel Spinning Out of Control Sam Bahour, The Electronic Intifada, 13 June 2006
    Israel’s Defense Minister Amir Peretz announced today that Israel is preparing a global "propaganda offensive" to counter the recent barrage of news reports and writings that condemned Israel for the recent killing of 10 civilians, including 5 children, on a Gaza beach. In political and media lingo this is called spin, to twist and turn an event so as to give an intended interpretation, and Israel excels at (…)

  • Zarqawi’s DNA?
    14 June 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    I have a question about Zarqawi’s DNA. As C.S.I. fans we know that it takes two samples of DNA to confirm someone’s identity! So where did our government get the comparitive DNA sample? From his hairbrush? Perhaps his hooka pipe? Do Terrorists provide a DNA sample as a matter of entry into the War On Terror? Or, in a careless moment, did he sip tea from a paper cup and discard it, allowing our government agents to retrive it? If so, how did they know where he was and how long have they (…)

  • Root Causes of Haditha
    13 June 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The guy retired after 31 years so he could blow the whistle, The incompetency he describes reminded me of Katrina
    By Maj. Gen. John Batiste (retired) The Salt Lake Tribune Friday 09 June 2006
    There is a direct link between the alleged atrocities in Haditha and Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld. His poor decisions and bad judgment in 2003 and 2004 are the root causes for the prolonged challenge we now face. Haditha is but a symptom of a much bigger problem.
    The (…)

  • The "White Hats" delusion
    12 June 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Like many of you out there I have some Right Wing acquantances. While most won’t discuss politics, and others are wild and crazy "kill ’em all and let God sort ’em out" types, there is a third variety I find particularly fascinating and challenging. These are the WHITE HAT crowd.
    We can call them Nationalists, patriots, "America Firsters",etc., but the bottom line is they fervently believe the USA stands for truth, justice, generosity and compassion.
    America is a fine place in which to (…)

  • Comments on Greg Palast’s New Book Armed Madhouse
    9 June 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Comments on Greg Palast’s New Book Armed Madhouse - by Stephen Lendman
    I’ve known about and followed Greg Palast’s important work for some time. I read his eye-opening book The Best Democracy Money Can Buy a few years ago and have mentioned it several times in some of my other writing. Greg is one of the most important and exhaustively thorough investigative journalists anywhere, which is especially important at a time when that kind of effort is needed more than ever. I knew he had a (…)

  • Washington fury over UN attack on Bush ’hypocrites’
    9 June 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    · Annan’s British deputy criticises administration · US envoy calls comments ’a very, very grave mistake’
    by Oliver Burkeman
    The deputy secretary-general of the United Nations was last night accused of making "a very, very grave mistake" after calling the Bush administration hypocrites who were feeding a right-wing anti-UN frenzy in middle America.
    Washington’s ambassador to the UN responded with undisguised fury to a speech by Mark Malloch Brown, the deputy secretary-general, in which (…)

  • For the Women of Iraq, the War is Just Beginning
    9 June 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Terri Judd
    The women of Basra have disappeared. Three years after the US-led invasion of Iraq, women’s secular freedoms - once the envy of women across the Middle East - have been snatched away because militant Islam is rising across the country.
    Across Iraq, a bloody and relentless oppression of women has taken hold. Many women had their heads shaved for refusing to wear a scarf or have been stoned in the street for wearing make-up. Others have been kidnapped and murdered for crimes (…)

  • Don’t forget those other 27,000 nukes
    9 June 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Hans Blix
    STOCKHOLM During the Cold War, it proved possible to reach many significant agreements on disarmament. Why does it seem so impossible now, when the great powers no longer feel threatened by one another? Almost all the talk these days is about the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction to states like Iran and North Korea, or to terrorists. Foreign ministers meet again and again, concerned that Iran has enriched a few milligrams of uranium to a 4 percent level. Some (…)

  • Sanctions & boycotts against racist, Apartheid Israel should exclude universities for DISCOURSE
    9 June 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The world should respond to Israel’s racist, human-rights abusing Apartheid policies with SANCTIONS and BOYCOTTS. However Israeli universities should be exempt from such blanket boycotts because the academic ethos is about truth, reason and dialogue - indeed such dialogue might well help to bring an end to gross, proto-Nazi ultrazionist violations of the Geneva, Human Rights and Rights of the Child Conventions.
    The recent academic boycott resolutions of the Canadian CUPE and the British (…)