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  • On Memorial Day: 3 Letters to Bush
    27 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Dear President Bush: I’m writing to you from Iraq to say to your honor I’m true. I know that I’m fighting to keep our land free to stamp out a tyrant, protect family. This is a tough war, it’s hard but it’s worth it, but I know you’ll protect me, unlike that John Murtha!
    ....John. Q. ********************************* Mr.Bush: I’m here at the hospital in Ramstein Air Base an IED blew off a lot of my face Part of my spleen was destroyed in addition, and docs say I’m not in the finest (…)

  • Blair in Rome: PRODI PROVOKES THE ANTI-WAR MOVEMENT
    27 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    WE DON’T WANT BLAIR IN ROME
    In these days we have repeatedly asked the [Romano] Prodi government to abolish the obscene war parade of June 2. Why should the Holiday of the Republic be celebrated with lethal weapons and units of the occupation troops of Iraq and Afghanistan? Why not transform it into a holiday for everyone, eliminating the military presence? No answer: the parade has been confirmed.
    We have then asked the new president of the House, Bertinotti [Fausto Bertinotti, former (…)

  • World is blind to real situation in Iraq: activists
    27 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    OSAKA — An Iraqi journalist and a Japanese human rights activist said the public has a poor idea of the situation in Iraq and warned of an impending health catastrophe as more Iraqis contract cancer from exposure to depleted uranium shells used by the U.S. and Britain.
    Speaking at a public gathering Thursday evening in Osaka, Isam Rasheed, a freelance journalist, and Fumikazu Nishitani, head of Osaka-based NGO Rescue the Iraqi Children, gave an update of what was going on in the Middle (…)

  • Baghdad ER induces tears and outrage
    27 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    I saw "Baghdad ER" on HBO last night (Sunday, May 21). I’d heard that the Defense Dept. had issued warnings urging servicemen and women back from Iraq to be wary of watching as it might trigger PTSD symptoms. Perhaps they hoped those about to go wouldn’t watch as well, for fear they might not show up.
    "Baghdad ER" is a documentary about a "CASH," a Combat Support Hospital in Baghdad. I recommend it for every American, but the queasy be warned: it is excruciating. I cringed at the gore, (…)

  • GOP: Mowed Down By The Bushwacker
    26 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    What we’ve all been praying for is going to happen: George bush and the Crony Crew are going to expose every Republican lie and dirty secret ever cooked up in any copy of their books. Indeed, it’s already BEEN happening. Their rationale for the Iraq war has been shattered numerous times, everytime they try to flip it to something else it gets blown out, and nobody but the densest believe any of it now. It’s become painfully obvious they did it so they could siphon off defense contracting (…)

  • Liars’ Club Confab: Bush and Blair at White House
    26 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    "All the war-propaganda...screaming, lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting." - George Orwell
    On May 25, 2006, President George W. Bush and UK Prime Minister, Tony Blair, met in the afternoon at the White House. Their topic was the Iraqi War. The specific purpose of the get together between the war’s two key co-conspirators, "Chicken Hawk" Bush and his "British Poodle" Blair, dealt with this issue: How to continue to sell this unnecessary bloodbath to the (…)

  • Bush pedocide - complicity in 0.1 million US &1.6 million Iraqi & Afghan avoidable infant deaths
    26 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    For decent human societies the worst imaginable crimes involve the killing of children (paedocide, or pedocide in America) or the killing of infants (infanticide) - and unthinkably before Nazism, the Jewish Holocaust and other 20th century genocides from Armenia and Namibia to Cambodia, Rwanda, Darfur and Timor Leste - mass paedocide (mass pedocide) and mass infanticide. As outlined below, the Bush Administration - Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld & Dr Rice aka Dr Death - are complicit in the (…)

  • High-ranking Rep cuts off AIPAC: Lobby threatens to defeat Minnesota Democrat
    25 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Congresswoman cuts off AIPAC: A hero of our times.
    This is one for the record books. For the first time a US politician stands up to the Israel lobby. Watch for AIPAC’s attempts to destroy her politically.
    "A congresswoman says the American Israel Public Affairs Committee is unwelcome in her office until it apologizes for an activist who called her a terrorist supporter. Rep. Betty McCollum (D-Minn.) said that the supporter told her chief of staff that “Congresswoman McCollum’s support (…)

  • Bipartisan Support for Iran Freedom and Regime Change: Congress works for AIPAC!
    25 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    At a time when the Republican Party is divided on immigration reform and when the Democrats and the Republicans are positioning themselves for the mid-term elections on such issues as gay marriage, Congress is demonstrating alarming bipartisan unity on Iran.
    On April 27 the House of Representatives passed the Iran Freedom Support Act by a vote of 397 to 21. The bill tightens sanctions imposed on Iran under the Iran Libya Sanctions Act (ILSA) of 1996 and tightens sanctions on companies that (…)

  • Not the Hay Festival: Juhasz, Muttit, Christodopoulos
    25 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Sarah Meyer
    I used to be a Guardian Hay Festival addict. Good talks, good bookshops, good food. This year the festival is a bit incestuous. The blog editor of The Guardian is interviewing Alan Rusbridger, the editor of the Guardian, for example. Now this would have been a stimulating conversation if one of the Media Lens editors had conducted the interview. The BBC, under continual criticism from bloggers for ‘unbalanced’ reporting, is much again in evidence at Hay - unchallenged. It (…)