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  • Absalom, O Absalom: ’Not for inciting hatred, but for learning lessons from history’
    5 June 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Jerry Saltz
    The irony couldn’t be sharper, the justice more poetic: What America calls "the Vietnam War," Vietnam calls "the American War." Perhaps the Iraq war will be one day be called "the American War" as well. For his powerful, almost anonymous outing at White Columns, Portland-based Harrell Fletcher, a quiet strong point in the 2004 Whitney Biennial with his video project of a group of mechanics and their customers reading snippets of James Joyce’s Ulysses, has installed 90 images (…)

  • When AWOL Is the Only Way Out
    5 June 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    As explained in a new book, Mission Rejected, the sight of U.S. troops kicking the heads of decapitated Iraqis around ’like a soccer ball’ made Army soldier Joshua Key desert to Canada.
    By Peter Laufer
    The following text is an excerpt from Peter Laufer’s new book, "Mission Rejected: U.S. Soldiers Who Say No to Iraq" (Chelsea Green, 2006).
    "We was going along the Euphrates River," says Joshua Key, a 27-year-old former U.S. soldier from Oklahoma, detailing a recurring nightmare — a scene (…)

  • Liberators as Murderers. The Way Americans Like Their War
    5 June 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By ROBERT FISK
    Could Haditha be just the tip of the mass grave?
    The corpses we have glimpsed, the grainy footage of the cadavers and the dead children; could these be just a few of many? Does the handiwork of the United States’ army of the slums go further?
    I remember clearly the first suspicions I had that murder most foul might be taking place in our name in Iraq. I was in the Baghdad mortuary, counting corpses, when one of the city’s senior medical officials, an old friend, told me (…)

  • If Iran is ready to talk, the US must do so unconditionally
    5 June 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    It is absurd to demand that Tehran should have made concessions before sitting down with the Americans
    by Jonathan Steele
    It is 50 years since the greatest misquotation of the cold war. At a Kremlin reception for western ambassadors in 1956, the Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev announced: "We will bury you." Those four words were seized on by American hawks as proof of aggressive Soviet intent.
    Doves who pointed out that the full quotation gave a less threatening message were drowned (…)

  • Kevin Zeese: “Both Parties Selling Country to Highest Bidder!”
    5 June 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Baltimore, MD - On Sunday afternoon, June 4, 2006, a Forum, which dealt with the topic of “Iraq, Iran and Militarism,” was held at the Cork Gallery. It is located near the historic Greenmount Cemetery. (1) The event was sponsored by the “Generations for Peace and Democracy,” a progressive group. The speaker at the affair was the popular anti-war activist, Kevin Zeese.
    Zeese said, “We know that both parties are selling the country to the highest bidder. So, in a historical context, where (…)

  • Anti-War Protests Continue At Port Of Olympia
    4 June 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Tracy Vedder
    OLYMPIA - A protest became a melee on Olympia’s waterfront Tuesday as sheriff’s deputies arrested 22 people who stormed the port’s gate. And war protesters were back on the line Wednesday night — as are the deputies.
    The protesters hope to disrupt shipments of war supplies heading to Iraq.
    For more than a week, the two sides have held their ground on Olympia’s waterfront. The military transport ship Pomeroy continues to load cargo bound for Iraq, including Stryker (…)

  • WAR PROFITEERING: A familiar song!
    4 June 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    We all know what war is about: M.O.N.E.Y. Here is a familiar tune (you can find some music, I’m sure). When you wish upon a star it makes a difference who you are Only if you pay the price do dreams come true. If you donate to the "team" no war profit’s too extreme When you wish (and pay the Czar) as Bushies do! Fate is blind She brings to those who give the sweet fulfillment of their avarice. Like a gift out of the blue Bush steps in with contracts too! When you wish upon his star (…)

  • Only Domestic Help Wear Uniforms
    3 June 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    As you may know, President George W. Bush has three brothers and a sister. Together, the five Bush children have produced 10 combat-capable enlistment age adults who would be suitable for military service in this, a time of war declared by their father or uncle.
    These children are the president’s daughters, Jenna and Barbara; Jeb’s sons George P. and John Ellis Bush Jr., and daughter, Noelle; Neil Bush’s daughter Lauren and son, Pierce: Marvin Bush’s son Marshall; and Dorothy Bush Koch’s (…)

  • Dreams Of Sand...
    2 June 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Dreams Of Sand... He awoke to heat and thirst and pain, Not sure where he was in the silence, Lying torn on burning sands, Seeing the cloudless blue sky waver and shimmer.
    Rolling over with a groan, He shakily got his feet under him, Unsteady and drenched in sweat that steamed away instantly.
    He raised a hand to shield his eyes, All the world was sand unbearably bright, A scorpion crawled by nearly at his feet, He licked his cracked and bleeding lips and remembered what it was, Just in (…)

  • SHAM US PROPOSAL TO IRAN EVOKES MEMORIES OF PAST SIMILAR ONES
    2 June 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Sham US Proposal to Iran Evokes Memories of Past Similar Ones - by Stephen Lendman
    It may be a new month, but it’s the same old Wall Street Journal trumpeting the latest US gambit designed to hide its real intentions toward Iran. Again it was in a front page feature story on June 1 headlined: "In Shift, U.S. Offers to Talk to Iran, Aiming to Bolster Allies’ Cohesion." The WSJ is never up to explaining the real motive behind the latest ploy and instead falsely claims it’s "a nod to (…)