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  • Gathering of mothers in front of the White House for peace in Iraq and Iran
    14 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    WASHINGTON, May 13 (XINHUA) — Mothers, whose militant pacifist Cindy Sheehan, gathered Saturday in front of the White House to call the day before the Mother’s Day, at the end of the war in Iraq and to be opposed to a possible attack against Iran.
    (Photographs: Xinhua)
    This gathering was organized by the movement “Women for peace” and the mothers and their families gathered in front of the White House starting from 15H00 (19H00 GMT) and planned to remain there all the night until the (…)

  • NEW YORK Times’ Frank Rich: Any ’witch hunt’ for traitors should begin in the White House
    14 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Times’ Frank Rich: Any ’witch hunt’ for traitors should begin in the White House
    RAW STORY Published: Saturday May 13, 2006
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    Defending journalists who have been castigated as traitors for exposing government blunders, New York Times columnist Frank Rich writes that any "witch hunt" for traitors should begin in the White House, RAW STORY has found.
    "What really angers the White House and its defenders about both the Post and Times scoops are not the legal (…)

  • Dear President Bush
    13 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Dear President Bush:
    In this, your most distressing hour, with poll numbers down to rock bottom, I am writing to let you know that you’ve still got fans out here in the American hinterlands.
    I been told you’ve had a bad rap in the press and by those weasley Democrats who only wish you ill. Various pundits are saying you were an idiot way back when 9/11 happened and you just sat there reading My Pet Goat. I just think you were focused and enjoying yourself. Anyone can do that.
    I loved (…)

  • SADDAM TRIAL: PROSECUTION RESTS THE DEFENSE BEGINS
    13 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Original link
    May 12, 2006
    Defence witnesses in Saddam Hussein’s trial will start their testimonies in Monday’s session, a member of the defence team told Aljazeera.net.
    Najib al-Nuaimi, a former Qatari justice minister and member of the defence team, said 30 people, including former government members, would take the stand for the defence.
    Iraq’s former president has been on trial since August 2005 for approving death sentences against 148 Shia villagers from al-Dujail village north (…)

  • Majority of Israelis Want Gov’t to Encourage Arabs to Leave (IsraelNationalNews.com)
    13 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Arutz Sheva - IsraelNationalNews.com Majority of Israelis Want Gov’t to Encourage Arabs to Leave http://www.arutzsheva.com/print.php3?what=news&id=103312
    Tuesday, May 9, 2006 / 11 Iyar 5766
    Almost two-thirds of Israelis want the government to encourage Arabs to leave the country, according to a study by the Israel Democracy Institute.
    According to the preliminary summary of the 2006 Democracy Index, 62% of Israelis would like to see the government actively encourage Arabs to (…)

  • Third Reich Tyrants
    13 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    May 12, 2006 "ICH" — — I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it. -Dwight D. Eisenhower
    The day that the apparently reformed war-monger, President Dwight D. Eisenhower, envisioned decades ago has finally come. It is time for governments to get out of our way.
    I have had a chance since Camp (…)

  • VENEZUELA : The Bush Administration is Trying to Link Hugo Chavez to Iran’s Nuclear Program
    12 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Is Venezuela the New Niger?
    The Bush Administration is Trying to Link Hugo Chavez to Iran’s Nuclear Program
    By LARRY BIRNS and MICHAEL LETTIERI
    http://www.counterpunch.org/birns05102006.html
    Washington is no stranger to flimsy pretexts when it comes to justifying its ill-conceived, and at times illicit, Latin American initiatives. The contra epoch, the Bay of Pigs invasion, the Cuban missile crisis, Ollie North, former U.S. ambassador John Negroponte’s skullduggery in Honduras, and (…)

  • Emergency Aid May Be Too Little, Too Late for Palestinians Trying to Survive a Crisis (commondreams)
    12 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Published on Thursday, May 11, 2006 by the Independent / UK Emergency Aid May Be Too Little, Too Late for Palestinians Trying to Survive a Crisis by Donald Macintyre
    Zarifa Abdel Khadr came in secret to Gaza City’s jewellery souk this week to sell the two gold rings she has owned for half a century.
    She had no intention of telling her five sons and four daughters that she was parting with her possessions for about £150 to help feed them and her grandchildren.
    "They wouldn’t allow me (…)

  • High-Octane Rocket-Rattling Against Tehran Won’t Work By TARIQ ALI (counterpunch)
    12 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    May 11, 2006 Ringed by Nuclear States, Iran’s Atomic Program is Scarcely Unreasonable. So Why has Bush Manufactured a Crisis?
    High-Octane Rocket-Rattling Against Tehran Won’t Work
    By TARIQ ALI
    Till now, what has prevented the crisis in Iraq from becoming a total debacle for the United States has been the open collaboration of the Iranian clerics. Iranian foreign policy - fragmentary and opportunist - has always been determined by the needs and interests of the clerical state rather (…)

  • Chomsky Says U.S. Pressuring Syria, Iran to ’Punish Disobedience’
    12 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Published on Friday, May 12, 2006 by Agence France Presse
    Chomsky Says U.S. Pressuring Syria, Iran to ’Punish Disobedience’
    Leading U.S. intellectual Noam Chomsky was loudly applauded Tuesday at a lecture in Beirut when he lashed out at U.S. pressure against countries, namely Iran and Syria, as a way to "punish disobedience."
    (no AFP on BC thx !)