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  • The Leaker-in-Chief By William Rivers Pitt (t r u t h o u t)
    12 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/printer_040706J.shtml (video)
    Friday 07 April 2006
    Is there not some chosen curse, Some hidden thunder in the stores of heaven, Red with uncommon wrath, to blast the man Who owes his greatness to his country’s ruin? Joseph Addison
    "I don’t know of anybody in my administration who leaked classified information," said George W. Bush on September 30, 2003. "If somebody did leak classified information, I’d like to know it, and we’ll take the (…)

  • Palestinian Health Care Conditions Under Israeli Occupation : 129 Patients Have Died at Israeli Checkpoints
    11 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    http://www.counterpunch.org/nettinin04112006.html
    129 Patients Have Died at Israeli Checkpoints
    Palestinian Health Care Conditions Under Israeli Occupation
    By SONIA NETTININ
    Members of the Ibdaa Health Committee are on tour in the US. They are educating Americans on the devastating health conditions of Palestinians and health care workers in the West Bank, East Jerusalem and Gaza.
    The facts on the ground are shocking, yet the international community ignores Israel’s widespread (…)

  • The Human Costs of Bombing Iran by Matthew Rothschild (The Progressive)
    11 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Published on Tuesday, April 11, 2006 by The Progressive The Human Costs of Bombing Iran by Matthew Rothschild
    George Bush didn’t exactly deny Seymour Hersh’s report in The New Yorker that the Administration is considering using tactical nuclear weapons against Iran.
    Neither did Scott McClellan.
    Bush called it “wild speculation,” and McClellan said the United States would go ahead with "normal military contingency planning."
    Those are hardly categorical denials.
    So let’s look at (…)

  • Situation in Iraq Could Not be Worse by Patrick Cockburn
    11 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    http://www.commondreams.org/cgi-bin/print.cgi?file=/views06/0411-21.htm
    Published on Tuesday, April 11, 2006 by the Seattle Post-Intelligencer Situation in Iraq Could Not be Worse by Patrick Cockburn A cruel and bloody civil war has started in Iraq, a country that President Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair promised to free from fear and establish democracy. I have been visiting Iraq since 1978, but for the first time, I am becoming convinced that the country will not (…)

  • WAR ON IRAN : When if not if
    11 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    http://en.rian.ru/analysis/20060410/45508405.html
    10/04/2006 13:06
    Moscow, (Pyotr Romanov, RIA Novosti)-The United States and Iran seem to have firmly set on a path that leads to the hell of war. There are hopes for the best - and I myself would be happy to be erring on the pessimistic side - but the way things look here and now, hopes are increasingly overshadowed by grim reality.
    Assertive statements on the American side and Gulf wargames on the Iranian side equally scream of (…)

  • Iraq After 3 Years of U.S. ’Democracy’ Iraqis are dying by the hundreds every week Haider S. Kadh
    11 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Iraq After 3 Years of U.S. ’Democracy’ Iraqis are dying by the hundreds every week uruknet.info
    Haider S. Kadhum
    April 10, 2006
    Despite promises of democracy and safety, Iraq remains gripped by civil strife, death and terror three years after the American-led invasion of the country. A nation that was once united is now disintegrating. Security in Iraq under the occupation no longer exists. Going out to buy a newspaper could cost you your life. People are being killed as they are (…)

  • Iraq Mess is Literally Making People Sick Judy Leurquin
    11 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    http://www.uruknet.info/?p=m22430&hd=0&size=1&l=e April 10, 2006
    Of the more than 670,000 troops deployed to the Gulf in 1991, about one-third of them now receive disability compensation.Remember your mother’s warning, "If you can’t clean up after yourself, don’t make the mess"? Didn’t we subject our children to that mantra?
    But what was and is a continuing motif running through the theater of family life has not apparently carried over into the theater of modern warfare. (…)

  • Urgent Message to Congress: Put The Brakes On Bush’s Iran Plans; Reject Nuking Iran
    11 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    It is time for the US congress to speak, to pass a motion— a message to the president that they do not authorize him, based on their authorization to go into Iraq, to attack Iran, to start another war.
    It is time for the antiwar movement to get out in the streets with one message. Congressional representatives must make it clear to the Bush whitehouse that they have cut off their authorization of any further warmaking.
    We know that there is now a risk that the chickenhawk neocons who (…)

  • Elementary: If Bush was Sherlock Holmes
    11 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Let’s just fantacize for a moment or two. If Bush became the famous detective and was reflecting on his own behavior, he might have uttered something like these pronouncements (paraphrased from actual Holmes dialogue)
    In comedy they say: Buy the premise, but the bit.
    "How slow witted I am, and many blunders have I committed in my lifetime"
    "The air of Washington is sweeter for my presence"
    "What has become of any brains that God has given me?"
    "My well of English is permanently (…)

  • Images of War they dont want us to see
    11 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Images of War they dont want us to see
    http://www.voltairenet.org/article136827.html