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  • Uraniums Effect On DNA Established
    8 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    The use of depleted uranium in munitions and weaponry is likely to come under intense scrutiny now that new research that found that uranium can bind to human DNA. The finding will likely have far-reaching implications for returned soldiers, civilians living in what were once war-zones and people who might live near uranium mines or processing facilities.
    Uranium - when manifested as a radioactive metal - has profound and debilitating effects on human DNA. These radioactive effects have (…)

  • Iraq: Permanent US Colony
    8 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Dahr Jamail t r u t h o u t tive
    Tuesday 14 March 2006
    Why does the Bush Administration refuse to discuss withdrawing occupation forces from Iraq? Why is Halliburton, who landed the no-bid contracts to construct and maintain US military bases in Iraq, posting higher profits than ever before in its 86-year history?
    Why do these bases in Iraq resemble self-contained cities as much as military outposts?
    Why are we hearing such ludicrous and outrageous statements from the highest (…)

  • IRAQ : How Massacres Become the Norm By Dahr Jamail (t r u t h o u t)
    8 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Tuesday 04 April 2006
    US soldiers killing innocent civilians in Iraq is not news. Just as it was not news that US soldiers slaughtered countless innocent civilians in Vietnam. However, when some rare reportage of this non news from Iraq does seep through the cracks of the corporate media, albeit briefly, the American public seems shocked. Private and public statements of denial and dismissal immediately start to fill the air. We hear, "American soldiers would never do such a thing," or (…)

  • Cutting and Running in Baghdad by Robert Dreyfuss and Tom Engelhardt (Tom Dispatch)
    7 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    April 7, 2006 Cutting and Running in Baghdad by Robert Dreyfuss and Tom Engelhardt Tom Dispatch http://www.antiwar.com/engelhardt/?articleid=8818
    It didn’t take long after the invasion of Iraq began in March 2003 for one of the radioactive words of the Vietnam era to make its first appearance, even if in stunted, referential form. Media pundits, former military men, and others began fretting, even as American soldiers advanced, about the "Q word." They were, of course, worrying about (…)

  • 60,000 Iraqis ’Disappeared’ into US Camps by Dahr Jamail
    7 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    60,000 Iraqis ’Disappeared’ into US Camps broadcast : http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article8994.htm
    Independent journalist, Dahr Jamail, citing local humanitarian and other sources says the number of Iraqis detained by occupation forces is now well over 60,000 -far in excess of the commonly quoted official figure of 17,000.
    Speaking exclusively to BreakForNews.com from Amman, Jordan on Monday night, Jamail said his sources included many doctors and the director of a (…)

  • Iran: The Next Neocon Target by HON. RON PAUL OF TEXAS Before the U.S. House of Representatives
    7 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    HON. RON PAUL OF TEXAS Before the U.S. House of Representatives - April 5, 2006
    Iran’s history is being ignored, just as we ignored Iraq’s history. This ignorance or deliberate misrepresentation of our recent relationship to Iraq and Iran is required to generate the fervor needed to attack once again a country that poses no threat to us.
    Iran: The Next Neocon Target
    It’s been three years since the U.S. launched its war against Saddam Hussein and his weapons of mass destruction. Of (…)

  • Dr. Michael Parenti: "Terrorism, Globalization and Conspiracy" (video)
    7 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Wealth Creates Poverty?
    Dr. Michael Parenti: "Terrorism, Globalization and Conspiracy"
    Globalization is an attempt to extend corporate monopoly control over the whole globe. Over every national economy. Over every local economy Over every life.
    Dr. Parenti has taught political science at a number of colleges and universities in the United States and other countries. He was written 250 majro magazine articles and 15 books and is frequently heard on public and alternative radio. (…)

  • The War Gets More Grim Every Day Three Years After They Toppled Saddam’s Statue by PATRICK COC
    7 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Weekend Edition April 7—9, 2006
    The War Gets More Grim Every Day
    Three Years After They Toppled Saddam’s Statue
    By PATRICK COCKBURN (COUNTERPUNCH)
    A cruel and bloody civil war has started in Baghdad. A trio of suicide bombers disguised as women, explosives strapped to their bodies hidden by long black cloaks, killed 74 people and wounded over on Friday when they blew themselves up in a Shi’ite mosque in the capital.
    One bomber came through the women’s security checkpoint at the (…)

  • U.S. Quits Council Race, Possibly Fearing Defeat by Inter Press Service
    7 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Published on Friday, April 7, 2006 by Inter Press Service U.S. Quits Council Race, Possibly Fearing Defeat by Thalif Deen
    UNITED NATIONS - The United States, which has been lambasted for human rights abuses both by members of its armed forces in Abu Ghraib prison outside Baghdad and by U.S. law enforcement officials in the Guantanamo detention facility in Cuba, has backed out of a hotly contested race for membership in the newly-created U.N. Human Rights Council (HRC).
    U.S. State (…)

  • Scientists Say Planned Blast a Part of Nuclear Testing
    7 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Published on Thursday, April 6, 2006 by the Las Vegas Sun http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/ Scientists Say Planned Blast a Part of Nuclear Testing by Launce Rake The Defense Department’s plan to detonate 700 tons of explosives at the Nevada Test Site is intended to simulate a nuclear blast as part of Pentagon research into development of low-yield nuclear weapons, a science advisory group charged Tuesday.
    The Pentagon refused to confirm or deny the claim, made by the Federation of (…)