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  • "May Day, I Repeat, May Day," Say Vets!
    30 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    "May Day, I Repeat, May Day," Say Vets!
    Cathy Garger
    In small towns throughout America there’s a new flurry of concerned activity from grassroots organizers of a most un-likely type. It might even be fair to say that this latest, most determined and focused group is nothing at all like the socialists, hippies, yippies, and liberal rebels from our country’s last major radical movement.
    Even if we consider that many of these worried dissenters are the exact same age as protestors from (…)

  • A Sad Song, a soldier to his wife on Memorial Day
    30 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    (you may remember the tune: We’ll Meet Again) I’ll see you again don’t know where, don’t know when but I know they’ll kick us out some sunny day. Keep hoping, dear it’s been only three years Bush’s "freedom"s getting close that’s what they say. Will you please say hello tell my pals not to go them them this war is wrong They’ll be happy to know when I hear the bombs blow I’ll be singing this song: We’ll meet again when the priest says "amen" but at last we’ll meet again yes, I know (…)

  • The Threat of Depleted uranium Exposure - It’s Real, Deadly and Covered Up by the Pentagon and VA
    29 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The Threat of Depleted Uranium Exposure - It’s Real, Deadly and Covered up by the Pentagon and VA - by Stephen Lendman
    The Pentagon must surely believe the old but very foolish saying that what you don’t know won’t hurt you. To prove it they nearly always go to great lengths to conceal what they do know so we won’t find out. That’s especially true when what they know is bad news or hazardous to our health or that of our troops. That’s certainly the case regarding the real and deadly (…)

  • 3,000 UK troops are Awol since war began
    29 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Michael Evans
    NEARLY 3,000 British soldiers have gone absent without leave every year since the start of the Iraq war, with more than 1,000 of them still missing, according to Ministry of Defence figures.
    The numbers evading capture by the Royal Military Police have risen sharply since the invasion of Iraq, giving rise to allegations that an increasing number of soldiers might be trying to avoid further tours to the conflict zone.
    The MoD denied there was any evidence that soldiers (…)

  • At least 1,000 UK soldiers desert
    28 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    More than 1,000 members of the British military have deserted since the start of the Iraq war, the BBC has learned.
    Figures for those still missing are 86 from 2001, 118 from 2002, 134 from 2003, 229 from 2004, 377 from 2005, and 189 for this year so far.
    The news comes as Parliament debates a law that will forbid military personnel from refusing to participate in the occupation of a foreign country.
    The MoD insists "absent without leave" figures have remained constant.
    A Ministry of (…)

  • GUARD DUTY FOR DEMOCRACY
    28 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    How many laws must Bush break until someone steps up to the plate? Oh sure, we have had many good speakers on the subject-Russ Feinstein, Cindy Sheehan, John Murtha, Al Gore and others in command of the truth, as well as American gumption.
    We have protestors; thousands of them show up in Washington D.C. before the war, and again Sept 24, 2006. There were millions protesting worldwide all of them protesting the war in Iraq. Unprecedented numbers of military families are protesting this (…)

  • The Great Iraq Oil Grab
    28 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    The official reasons the U.S. invaded Iraq don’t hold water. So, as the man said, follow the money ... straight to the oil fields.
    By Joshua Holland
    There’s a story, perhaps apocryphal, that Pentagon planners wanted to name the invasion of Iraq, "Operation Iraqi Liberation." Only when someone realized that the acronym — O.I.L. — might raise some uncomfortable questions, was "Operation Iraqi Freedom" born.
    Supporters of the Iraq war airily dismiss chants of "no blood for oil" as a (…)

  • Iran offered ’to make peace with Israel’
    28 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Gareth Porter
    WASHINGTON - Iran offered in 2003 to accept peace with Israel and cut off material assistance to Palestinian armed groups and to pressure them to halt terrorist attacks within Israel’s 1967 borders, according to a secret Iranian proposal to the United States.
    The two-page proposal for a broad Iran-US agreement covering all the issues separating the two countries, a copy of which was obtained by Inter Press Service (IPS), was conveyed to the US in late April or early May (…)

  • Confident U.S. generals commit war crimes
    28 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Uranium as a force multiplier Bob Nichols
    May 27, 2005
    It always pays to listen, and to listen exactly, to what the senior U.S. military officials say about fighting wars. In 1991, Gen. Colin Powell sent 500,000 men with Gen. Norman Schwarzkopf, lots of 70-ton Abrams Tanks and other soldier equipment for a 100-hour war against a weak third world country - Iraq. It was called the Powell Doctrine and required a quick enemy defeat by "overwhelming force," "defined goals" and an "exit (…)

  • Iran Top Secret: Everything You Know Is Wrong
    28 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    IRAN TOP SECRET: EVERYTHING YOU KNOW IS WRONG
    What if everything that you think that you know for certain about Iran is wrong? After 27 years of status quo, why do you believe that the Brits and the Yanks really want to get rid of the Islamic regime in Iran? Is it possible that the oft-stated slogan of “regime change in Iran” is cloaking a naked, 27-year-old status-quo truth? Is it possible that the British and American emperors are wearing no clothes?
    Recent warnings about an (…)