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  • Iraq war acts as testing lab for gee-whiz technology By LISA HOFFMAN April 5, 2006
    7 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    http://www.knoxnews.com/kns/national/article/0,1406,KNS_350_4600907,00.html

  • Kerry, the Antiwar Candidate?
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    April 7, 2006
    by Patrick J. Buchanan
    With the Gallup Poll showing 51 percent of Americans want all U.S. troops out of Iraq by year’s end, John Kerry has made his move.
    The 2004 Democratic nominee is calling for complete withdrawal of U.S. forces, if Iraqis do not agree on a unity government by May 15. Even if the Iraqis pull a government together, Kerry wants all U.S. forces removed by Dec. 31.
    The ice is cracking. With half the nation backing "Bring-the-Boys-Home-by-Christmas," (…)

  • U.S. Marines say can keep Iraq levels indefinitely (Reuters)
    7 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060406/pl_nm/iraq_usa_marines_dc

  • Dutch Islands Caught Up in US-Venezuela Friction (Antiwar.com)
    7 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    April 6, 2006
    by Humberto Márquez
    CARACAS - Several Dutch islands in the Caribbean, off the coast of Venezuela, have been caught in the middle of the war of words between the Venezuelan and U.S. governments, while the United States is getting ready to carry out naval exercises in the area.
    Dutch Defense Minister Henk Kamp recently remarked that Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez is a "fanatic populist who has his sights set on Aruba, Bonaire, and Curaçao" - Dutch islands located off the (…)

  • The Architects of War: Where are They Now?
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    ThinkProgress.com
    Wednesday 05 April 2006
    President Bush has not fired any of the architects of the Iraq war. In fact, a review of the key planners of the conflict reveals that they have been rewarded - not blamed - for their incompetence.
    Paul Wolfowitz
    Role in Going to War: Wolfowitz said the U.S. would be greeted as liberators, that Iraqi oil money for pay for the reconstruction, and that Gen. Eric Shinseki’s estimate that several hundred thousand troops would be (…)

  • Thinking Strategically About Ending the Iraq War by Phyllis Bennis
    7 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    • IRAQ EXIT STRATEGY
    Thursday, 06 April 2006 Challenges Facing the Anti-War Movement As a movement we have been extraordinarily successful in achieving our initial goal: we have helped transform public opinion to the now almost 2/3 majority opposition to the war in Iraq. Our task now is to transform that consciousness into empowerment. The administration’s most useful tool - fear - remains a factor in U.S. politics, but it is now much more concentrated in congress, less so in the (…)

  • The Anti-War Movement? by Cindy Sheehan (democracyrising.us)
    7 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Thursday, 06 April 2006
    Being a so-called anti-war movement leader (at least to the MSM), brings much responsibility and so much love for the people and the groups who are working hard to end this insane occupation, but is this enough?
    Recently, a blog written by an aquaintance, Scott Ritter, on AlterNet was called to my attention, where Scott, who is a self-proclaimed Republican, conservative who courageously opposed this war from the beginning, is predicting the eminent demise of the (…)

  • ZNet’s Selected Anti War Song
    7 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    ZNet’s Selected Anti War Song :
    http://www.zmag.org/Songs/songarchive.htm

  • Turkey’s Displaced
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    ZNet | Europe
    Turkey’s Displaced by Sinem Yilanci; March 21, 2006
    Turkish Republic is not a country that has a good reputation for its attitude and discourse towards minority groups. One of the recent controversial problems about minority rights is the issue of displaced people.
    In East Anatolia, during 80s and 90s lots of people but specifically the most crowded minority group, Kurds, was forced to migrate by the state systematically. At the verge of the new millennium, even though (…)

  • Human Rights Activism in Turkey
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    ZNet | Europe
    Against All Odds Human Rights Activism in Turkey by Khatchig Mouradian; April 05, 2006
    “I refuse to buy my freedom of speech by paying money,” said Eren Keskin, the Head of the Istanbul Branch of the Human Rights Association of Turkey, during a press conference in Istanbul on the 22nd of March. A few days earlier, a Turkish court had sentenced her to 10 months’ imprisonment for insulting the country’s military. The sentence was then converted to a fine of 6000 New Turkish (…)