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  • U.S. Willing to Deploy Combat Troops to Colombia Znet
    7 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    ZNet | Colombia
    by Garry Leech; Colombia Journal; April 02, 2006 While the U.S. mainstream media widely-reported the U.S. Department of Justice’s recent indictment of 50 rebel leaders belonging to the leftist Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), an announcement by the State Department the next day received surprisingly little coverage. On March 24, Assistant Secretary of State Anne Patterson told Colombia’s Radio Caracol that, while the United States would not initiate any (…)

  • Divine Strake,The Pentagon to set off bunker buster bomb in Nevada (The Guardian )
    7 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Julian Borger
    April 2, 2006
    Pentagon plans in Washington Saturday April 1, 2006
    Guardian
    The Pentagon is preparing to set off a record-breaking bang, detonating 635 tonnes of high explosives and sending a mushroom cloud into the sky over the Nevada desert. The blast, on June 2, codenamed Divine Strake, is likely to be the biggest controlled conventional explosion in military history, experts said, and is designed to test the impact of bunker-busting bombs aimed at underground (…)

  • U.S. Rolls Out Nuclear Plan (LATimes)
    6 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    The administration’s proposal would modernize the nation’s complex of laboratories and factories as well as produce new bombs. By Ralph Vartabedian, Times Staff Writer April 6, 2006
    The Bush administration Wednesday unveiled a blueprint for rebuilding the nation’s decrepit nuclear weapons complex, including restoration of a large-scale bomb manufacturing capacity.
    The plan calls for the most sweeping realignment and modernization of the nation’s massive system of laboratories and (…)

  • Iraq war could cost US over $2 trillion, says Nobel prize-winning economist (The Guardian UK)
    6 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    · Economists say official estimates are far too low · New calculation takes in dead and injured soldiers
    Jamie Wilson in Washington
    The real cost to the US of the Iraq war is likely to be between $1 trillion and $2 trillion (£1.1 trillion), up to 10 times more than previously thought, according to a report written by a Nobel prize-winning economist and a Harvard budget expert.
    The study, which expanded on traditional estimates by including such costs as lifetime disability and (…)

  • How GI Resistance Changed History (Alternet)
    6 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Paul Rockwell, In Motion Magazine Posted on April 6, 2006, Printed on April 6, 2006
    http://www.alternet.org/story/34532/
    When actors Jane Fonda and Donald Sutherland organized an anti-war review, touring U.S. military bases and towns around the world, the GI rebellion against the war in Vietnam was already in full force. In one theatrical episode, evoking laughter and applause from thousands of soldiers and Marines, Fonda played the part of an aide to President Richard Nixon. (…)

  • Nobel Prize winning economist Joseph Stiglitz : Trillion Dollar War "The War Is Bad for the Economy"
    6 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Nobel Prize winning economist Joseph Stiglitz, 63, discusses the true $1 trillion cost of the Iraq conflict, its impact on the oil market and the questions of whether the West can afford to impose sanctions on Iran.
    By Frank Hornig and Georg Mascolo
    04/06/06 "Spiegel" — — Professor Stiglitz, at the beginning of the Iraq war, the United States administration was hoping to almost break even in terms of the costs ...
    Stiglitz: ... they truly believed the Iraqi people could use their oil (…)

  • Argentina and Uruguay Shun US Military Academy (the Guardian / UK)
    6 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Published on Thursday, April 6, 2006
    by Duncan Campbell Two Latin American countries are to stop sending troops for training to a controversial military academy in the US.
    The move was welcomed by groups that have been campaigning against the academy since it was accused, in its previous incarnation, of training Latin American soldiers in illegal interrogation techniques.
    The defence ministers of Argentina and Uruguay have decided to stop sending soldiers to train at the Western (…)

  • Getting Out of the Military
    6 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Rod Powers
    It seems that hardly a week goes by that I don’t receive email from someone asking how they can get out of the military. Sometimes the person is disillusioned — perhaps their recruiter lied to them, or perhaps they had "selective listening," and only heard what they wanted to hear. Perhaps they simply decide, after basic training and/or job training, that they don’t like the military, and want out.
    If you thought this was an article detailing the "secret tips" to getting (…)

  • BUSH-CHENEY DEFENCE : LOOK AT THIS EO !
    6 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    We hear news today that Scooter Libby has told prosecutors in the CIA Plame Leak case that King George and his Prime-Minister Dick Cheney authorised him to leak contents of a classified National Intelligence Estimate to NYT Times reporter Judith Miller.... I thought that was illegal ? .... NOOOO !!!.... Our preznit’ , invoking his dictatorial powers as Commander-in Chief , had earlier issued an "Executive Order " granting his Prime Ministerial Dick plenary authority to (…)

  • Iraq’s US/UK Permanent Bases : Intentional Obfuscation
    6 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Sarah Meyer
    There is Pentagon and US governmental obfuscation surrounding United States permanent bases in Iraq. Whilst Donald Rumsfeld, US Secretary of Defence, continues to deny a permanent US presence there, the facts appear to contradict his statements.
    In February 2002, Zoltan Grossman wrote the following cogent perception entitled New US Bases: Side Effects or Causes of War? “Even if this administration pulls combat troops out of Iraq in the future, it intends to keep at least (…)