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  • Who Wants Peace in Darfur?
    1 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    The "Save Darfur" rally today was aired on C-Span. The rally was small — only several thousands according to Reuters ("Thousands March to Stop Darfur Killing," 30 April 2006). And the crowd in attendance was overwhelmingly white. But, boy, it was a professionally-staged photo op, with celebs, politicos, and exiles from Sudan at the podium expertly framed by the U.S. Capitol in the background.
    The timing of the rally was perfect, designed to coincide — and scuttle — the Abuja peace (…)

  • MEDIA : Pack Journalism can be Lethal
    1 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Pack Journalism can be Lethal Instead of checking facts, the media prefer to follow what others are saying
    By Gregory Clark
    April 10, 2006 Japan Times
    Some call it pack journalism. It is also lazy journalism.
    Instead of checking facts, the media prefer to follow what others are saying. And what others are saying is often inspired by establishment hardliners seeking to impose their agendas with the help of bogus news agencies, subsidized research outfits and hired scribblers. (…)

  • IRAQI slaughter :US allies behind Iraq’s death squads and ethnic cleansing BY JONATHAN STEELE
    1 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    US allies behind Iraq’s death squads and ethnic cleansing BY JONATHAN STEELE
    30 April 2006
    BAGHDAD - MUCH ink, as well as indignation, is being spent on whether Iraq is on the verge of, in the midst of, or nowhere near civil war. Wherever you stand in this largely semantic debate, the one certainty is that the seedbed for the country’s self-destruction is Iraq’s plethora of militias. In the apt phrase of Zalmay Khalilzad, the US ambassador in Baghdad, they are the "infrastructure of (…)

  • PM, Bush to discuss convergence in May
    1 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Aluf Benn
    Interim Prime Minister Ehud Olmert will meet in Washington with U.S. President George Bush on May 23. The two will focus on Olmert’s convergence plan, the Hamas-led government in the Palestinian Authority, and the Iranian nuclear threat.
    Olmert’s first trip abroad as prime minister will be devoted entirely to meetings with U.S. administration and Congressional leaders in Washington, and he will not travel to other destinations.
    Advisers Dov Weissglas and Shalom Turjeman (…)

  • Say Uncle, Rummy
    1 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    By MAUREEN DOWD
    Even some State Department officials thought it was like watching a cranky, eccentric uncle with an efficient, energetic niece.
    Rummy was ordered to go to Iraq by the president, but he clearly has no stomach for nation-building, or letting Condi run the show. He seemed under the weather after a rough overnight ride on a C-17 transport plane from Washington into Baghdad. And Condi’s aides were rolling their eyes at the less than respectful way the DefSec treated the (…)

  • Going to War with the Morons you have Mike Whitney
    30 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    April 28, 2006
    "As you know, you go to war with the Army you have. They’re not the Army you might want or wish to have at a later time." — Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld,
    Bad news continues to pile up around Don Rumsfeld like garbage at a land fill. The latest blast came from an unlikely source, The Army Times, which conducted a poll showing that 64% of enlisted men think Rumsfeld should tender his resignation immediately.
    It would be impossible to find a more conservative (…)

  • MANHATTAN : Tens of Thousands in New York March Against the War in Iraq
    30 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Desmond Butler The Associated Press
    Sunday 30 April 2006
    New York - Tens of thousands of antiwar protesters marched yesterday through Manhattan to demand an immediate withdrawal of US troops from Iraq just hours after an American soldier died in a roadside explosion in Baghdad - the 70th US fighter killed in that country this month.
    "End this war, bring the troops home," read one of the many signs held by protesters during the march more than three years after the war in (…)

  • IRAN : House votes 397-21 for “Iran Freedom Support Act”
    30 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    House votes 397-21 for “Iran Freedom Support Act” Ben Frank April 27, 2006
    As if Iraq isn’t a big enough mess, the House of Representatives has just voted to ’hold Iran accountable and support a transition to democracy’. Sound Familiar? Only this time Iran is a democracy. They just held an election where their president was actually elected by the people. How refreshing.
    After everything that has been exposed...the lies, the profiteering, the long list of war crimes, 397 (…)

  • Meet Bush’s Latest Enemy in the War on Iraq: The Raging Grannies of Tucson, Arizona ’Peace grannies
    30 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Published on Saturday, April 29, 2006 by the Guardian/UK Meet Bush’s Latest Enemy in the War on Iraq: The Raging Grannies of Tucson, Arizona ’Peace grannies’ part of growing anti-war network Elderly women tried to enlist in place of young
    by Oliver Burkeman and Emma Brockes in New York
    Three years after the start of the Iraq war, one thing New York police do not lack is experience in dealing with protesters - so when they were called to a disturbance at the military recruitment (…)

  • Spotter Plane Seen Over UN Compound - Video
    30 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Scenes Of Israeli Massacre In Qana 1996 Warning! - This video of an Israeli Massacre of Palestinian & Lebanese civilians in April of 96 is very graphic and should only be viewed by a mature audience.
    http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/quana_01_19_03.htm
    By ROBERT FISK
    05/06/96 "The Independent" — Qana: It is a soldier’s videotape, recorded — at the start at least — as just another incident to remember back home by a United Nations trooper after his six months’ tour of duty (…)