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  • Hideous Kinky: Moral Nullity as Normality in Pentagon Plans
    20 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Hideous Kinky: Moral Nullity as Normality in Pentagon Plans
    By Chris Floyd
    May 1, 2006 chrisfloyd.com
    Imagine growing up in a family where every day, father raped daughter, mother tortured son, brother abused brother, sister stole from sister, and the whole family murdered neighbors, friends and passing strangers. Imagine the underlying assumptions about life that you would adopt without question in such an atmosphere, how normal the most hideous depravity would seem. If some outsider (…)

  • DEMOCRATS AND THE DEFENSE BUDGETS : Just as Ruinous as Republicans
    20 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Just as Ruinous as Republicans Democrats and the Defense Budgets
    By WINSLOW T. WHEELER
    All the conditions are ripe for a major debate on America’s defense budget. A Republican White House and Congress have produced, at increased cost, a military establishment that is shrinking, aging and less ready to fight. The ruinous effects have shown up again and again, in the form of over-stretched, poorly supported forces in Iraq.
    There is, however, no debate. The Democratic Party, while happy (…)

  • VENEZUELA : State Department Looking for a Fight in which it Might get a Black Eye
    19 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    www.venezuelanalysis.com/articles.php?artno=1732
    State Department Looking for a Fight in which it Might get a Black Eye
    Tuesday, May 16, 2006
    By: Council on Hemispheric Affairs
    In yet another blow to the credibility of one of its annually released “certification” reports on the performance of other nations on some broad social or political issue - this time on the degree of cooperation in the anti-terrorism struggle - the State Department in its 2006 compilation included Cuba as a (…)

  • The Million Dollar Staffer
    19 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Wayne Besen
    Like her father’s misbegotten war in Iraq, Mary Cheney’s book is backfiring. Just as Dick thought the Iraqis would throw flowers at our troops and greet them as liberators, Mary imagined her tome would liberate her from being perceived as a lesbian lackey. But instead of roses, people are roiled and "Now It’s My Turn" makes Mary appear more sycophantic than sympathetic.
    Time and again, Mary is confronted with opportunities to educate America and voice her opposition to (…)

  • Sheehan Labels Bush’s White House: “A Crime Scene!”
    19 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    “The people have an indubitable, unalienable, and indefeasible right to reform or change their government...” - James Madison
    Washington, D.C. - On Thursday afternoon, May 18, 2006, over a hundred protesters, led by Cindy Sheehan, exercised a right older than the U.S. Constitution itself: the “Right of Petition.” The Right of Petition existed at Common Law and was re-declared in the “Assemble and Petition Clauses” of our First Amendment. Nevertheless, when the activists attempted to (…)

  • U.S. Antiwar Activists Launch Campaign Supporting Conscientious Objectors (commondreams)
    19 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Published on Wednesday, May 17, 2006 by OneWorld.net U.S. Antiwar Activists Launch Campaign Supporting Conscientious Objectors by Haider Rizvi
    NEW YORK - Peace groups in the United States are testing new ways to stop the U.S. war machinery in Iraq, Afghanistan, and places that might become new targets in the new future.
    Peace advocates in New York and Washington, DC have held a series of meetings with their counterparts from other countries to discuss how they could strengthen an (…)

  • IRAQ : One Person Killed Every Hour The Carnage in Basra By PATRICK COCKBURN (COUNTERPUNCH)
    18 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    One Person Killed Every Hour The Carnage in Basra
    By PATRICK COCKBURN
    Arbil, Iraq.
    One person is being assassinated in Basra every hour, as order in Iraq’s second city disintegrates, according to an Iraqi Defence Ministry official.
    And a quarter of all Iraqi children suffer from malnutrition, a survey of 20,000 households by the Iraqi government and Unicef says.
    The number of violent killings in Basra is now at a level close to that of Baghdad, and marks the failure of the British (…)

  • U.S war dead vastl underestimated
    18 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    In the on-going vicious occupation of Iraq, the American and British are seemingly meticulous about reporting their own casualties - as opposed to Iraqi casualties, whom they refuse to count, despite obliged under international law to do so.
    As of 13th May 2006, the U.S. military states its casualties as 2,436 deaths of US soldiers and 17,648 injured. These very precise figures are updated daily. The problem with these statistics is that they are misleading and wrong and deliberately so. (…)

  • IRAN:America’s Step Off the Nuclear Edge:Take the nuclear option off the table now! by Pr. J.Hirsch
    18 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    America’s Step Off the Nuclear Edge: Take the nuclear option off the table now!
    by Prof. Jorge Hirsch
    May 12, 2006 Antiwar.com
    Remember the old cartoons where the character walks off a cliff and continues walking on thin air until he looks down and plunges? America walked off the cliff on April 18, 2006, and has been suspended above the nuclear abyss since, set to plunge down at a moment’s notice. Meanwhile, it is in a catatonic state of collective stupor, or perhaps it should be (…)

  • IRAQ WAR IMAGES UNCENSORED
    18 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Iraq War Images Uncensored
    http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/uncensored
    Submitted by davidswanson on Mon, 2006-05-15 17:02. Evidence
    This collection of photos is the most complete we are aware of. Many of them are being made public here for the first time. Many of them are extremely gruesome. These must not be censored, because this is what a war really looks like, and that is something citizens need to see in order to cast informed ballots and lobby our representatives for or against (…)