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  • God Sitting in your lap: Zarqawi dead?
    8 June 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The famous mystery writer had a great expression for amazing luck: "It’s like having God sitting in you lap"
    The news came this morning,as we all know, that coalition forces dropped two 500 pounders on a safe house North of Baghdad...and killed al Qaeda’s #2 man for the third time...Zarqawi!
    If true, this is great news for the innocent Iraqi citizens, many of whom were beheaded and killed or maimed in the past by Zarqawi’s actions. But....
    What if it’s a scam? There are a few (…)

  • Tell Congress: Close the School of the Americas - Vote YES to cut its funding now!
    8 June 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    This week (the week of June 5) Congress will vote on an amendment to close the notorious School of the Americas/WHINSEC. The School of the Americas, funded by our tax dollars and located at Ft. Benning, Georgia, has trained - for more than 60 years - over 60,000 Latin American Soldiers in torture, psychological warfare and war against civilian populations.
    Many of the tactics of Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo Bay began at the SOA to be used on civilians and those working for justice in Latin (…)

  • Abusing And Killing Prisoners And Civilians, And The Conscience Of A Nation
    8 June 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Jim Bush
    Growing up in a military family, I was exposed to all that is military, including the history of America’s wars. One of the things I was led to believe was that American soldiers didn’t kill prisoners of war or civilians. The Japanese and Germans killed prisoners and civilians, but not Americans. The Communists killed prisoners and civilians, but not Americans.
    Later, the Vietnam War disabused me of the misconception that Americans did not kill prisoners or civilians. But the (…)

  • Other People’s Blood
    8 June 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By BOB HERBERT
    For the smug, comfortable, well-off Americans, it doesn’t seem to matter how long the war in Iraq goes on ? as long as the agony is endured by others. If the network coverage gets too grim, viewers can always switch to the E! channel (one hand on the remote, the other burrowing into a bag of chips) to follow the hilarious antics of Paris, Britney, Brangelina et al.
    The war is depressing and denial is the antidote. Why should ordinary citizens (good people, religious (…)

  • Why Israel’s capture of Eichmann caused panic at the CIA
    8 June 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Information that could have led to Nazi war criminal was kept under wraps
    by Julian Borger in Washington
    On May 23 1960, when Israeli prime minister David Ben-Gurion announced to the Knesset that "Adolf Eichmann, one of the greatest Nazi war criminals, is in Israeli custody", US and West German intelligence services reacted to the stunning news not with joy but alarm.
    Newly declassified CIA documents show the Americans and the German BND knew Eichmann was hiding in Argentina at least (…)

  • Kucinich reveals American Accomplice of Terrorist, Army Col. Steele, Linked to Death Squads in Iraq
    8 June 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Havana, June 6 (ACN) US Army Colonel James Steele, who was involved in the Iran-Contras scandal along with international terrorist Luis Posada Carriles at his command, is now an advisor to death squads in Iraq.
    The presence of the US army officer in Iraq has just been revealed by US Congressman Dennis J. Kucinich, Granma daily reports.
    Luis Posada Carriles, currently under arrest in the US charged with illegal entry into that country, was the first to report to Colonel Steele about the (…)

  • Haditha, Bush and Nuremberg’s law
    7 June 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    June 6, 2006
    Editor’s Note: As the U.S. military completes its investigation of the alleged murder of 24 Iraqi civilians at the hands of U.S. Marines last November in Haditha, the next phase likely will be some form of court martial against Marines implicated in the case.
    If that happens, President George W. Bush has made clear that he expects justice to be meted out to any Marine found guilty of a war crime against Iraqi civilians. But, as we anticipated in an earlier article , (…)

  • HELL ON EARTH: The Bush Legacy
    6 June 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    (The words here are powerfully distorted...from "Let there be peace on Earth") LET THERE BE HELL ON EARTH AND LET IT BEGIN WITH ’THREE’ IRAQ ’DEMOCRATIZED’ SOON SYRIA, IRAN WILL BE! WITH BUSH AS OUR LEADER ZOMBIES, ALL ARE WE! LET US BOMB FOR ’FREEDOM’ WITH TRUE HEGEMONY. LET ’PEACE’ BE OURS,YOU SEE YES, THIS IS OUR MOMENT NOW. WITH EVERY WAR WE MAKE WE’LL SEE ESCALATING DOW! WE’LL TAKE EACH COUNTRY AND RAPE EACH COUNTRY FOR PROFITS, SET THEM FREE! LET THERE BE HELL ON EARTH AND WAR FOR (…)

  • LEFT LETTERS: The Good News From Haditha
    6 June 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by David McReynolds
    Good news? Yes, of a sort. It is good news that Time magazine, which of late has taken a Wall Street Journal turn with its choice of columnists, broke the story. Strange, of course, that a massacre that took place last November only made the big news here in May. But not so strange. My Lai, which involved the slaughter of hundreds of Vietnamese, took place in 1968 but wasn’t revealed until 1969.
    It is good news that Americans have been forced, at last, to see the Iraq (…)

  • Degrees of Separation, the Numbers Game, and How to Bring Peace to the World
    5 June 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Best viewed at http://www.chycho.com/two_degrees.html where all the formatting, images, tables, and links are in place
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    Degrees of Separation, the Numbers Game, and How to Bring Peace to the World
    To bring peace to the world we must first understand the consequences of war, specifically how many people it affects. The calculations required to truly understand the number of people that are directly affected by war are quite simple. To get a ballpark estimate, all we have to (…)