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  • Shooting of British Cameraman by Israeli Soldier Cold-Blooded Murder, Inquest Told The Guardian/UK
    5 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Published on Wednesday, April 5, 2006 by the Guardian / UK Shooting of British Cameraman by Israeli Soldier Cold-Blooded Murder, Inquest Told by Vikram Dodd A military expert yesterday told an inquest that the death of a British journalist who was shot dead by an Israeli soldier was "calculated, cold-blooded murder".
    James Miller, 34, was killed by a single shot in May 2003 in Gaza while making a documentary about the suffering of Palestinian children. No soldier has been disciplined (…)

  • Harvard Takes On the Israel Lobby By Joshua Holland, AlterNet.
    5 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    A few weeks ago two scholars published a study that might have languished in the obscurity of academia.
    But the paper was about the impact that the "Israel Lobby" — which the authors characterized as a loose confederation of like-minded individuals and groups — has on U.S. policy in the Middle East. So, predictably, it set off a nice little firestorm with accusations of anti-Semitism flying around our most hallowed Ivy League colleges and members of Congress discussing how to respond to (…)

  • WISCONSIN BADGERS THE WAR
    5 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Final results from 32 Wisconsin towns who voted on a non-binding resolution calling for immediate US troop withdrawal from Iraq are as follows : # of Communities in favour of immediate withdrawal 24 .... # of communities opposed to withdrawal 8 ....... # of Voters in favour of immediate troop withdrawal 40,043 ( 61%) ..... # of voters opposed to immediate troop withdrawal 25,641 (39%) ....... The chattering classes have attempted to marginalise the PEACE NOW movement as the (…)

  • Blair and the Neo-Cons’ Permanent World War
    5 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By now, the manner in which Blair & Co have again hoodwinked Britain into a totally illegal military strike -this time using nuclear weapons- against a peaceful nation should have become frighteningly clear.
    But it hasn’t.
    The Bliar’s low-profile treatment of Iran, added to the contradictory signals sent out by him and others such as Foreign Minister, Jack Straw and John Reid, whose job is better described as the Secretary for War, has worked very well to keep the country in the (…)

  • By Matthew Rothschild Homeland Security Hassles Owner of Truck with Bumperstickers
    5 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Homeland Security Hassles Owner of Truck with Bumperstickers
    By Matthew Rothschild February 22, 2006
    Dwight Scarbrough used to be in the Navy. He was a machinist on submarines, some of them nuclear, in the Pacific from 1975-1980.
    Now he heads up the Vets for Peace chapter in Boise, Idaho.
    And he’s not shy about expressing his opinion.
    At any given time, he may have as many as ten bumperstickers or peace signs on every conceivable spot of his truck.
    He (…)

  • Bush’s War Hawks Edged Out of the Nest by Jim Lobe
    5 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Published on Tuesday, April 4, 2006 by Inter Press Service
    Bush’s War Hawks Edged Out of the Nest
    by Jim Lobe
    WASHINGTON - Although still united in pushing for confrontation with Iran, the coalition of hawks that propelled U.S. troops toward Baghdad three years ago appears to have finally run out of steam.
    Demoralized by the quagmire in Iraq, as well as Pres. George W. Bush’s still falling approval and credibility ratings, the coalition of aggressive nationalists, (…)

  • Noam Chomsky : Returning to the Scene of the Crime: War Crimes in Iraq
    5 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Published on Tuesday, April 4, 2006 by TomDispatch
    Returning to the Scene of the Crime: War Crimes in Iraq
    by Noam Chomsky
    This piece is adapted from Chapter 2 of Noam Chomsky’s newest book, "Failed States: The Abuse of Power and the Assault on Democracy" (New York: Metropolitan Books, 2006).
    In 2002, White House counsel Alberto Gonzales passed on to Bush a memorandum on torture by the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel (OLC). As noted by constitutional scholar Sanford (…)

  • Ulster thrown into crisis by murder of Sinn Féin spy
    5 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Denis Donaldson, the senior Sinn Féin administrator who had admitted being a British agent for 20 years, was yesterday found shot dead inside the isolated cottage to which he had retreated in Co Donegal. Reports last night suggested his body had been mutilated and his right hand almost severed.
    Suspicions that he had been murdered by dissident republicans cast a shadow over the government’s hopes of reviving the stalled political process. Tony Blair and Bertie Ahern, the Irish prime (…)

  • RIDE , RIDE THE ANTI- JOEMENTUM TIDE !
    4 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    The national Democratic Party has shat upon it’s base yet expects it’s strongest supporters to form a mighty host on Election Day 2006.... Such insufferable arrogance is the result of placing IDF volunteer Rahm Emanuel and his loopy pro-Blair , DLC confederates in charge of plotting strategy in the forthcoming canvass.... Our country needs an opposition party, now more than ever.... Many conservatives privately acknowledge that to be the case.... The national Democratic Party is (…)

  • A CLEAR & PRESENT DANGER : PRESIDENT JOHN McCAIN
    4 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    He is the warmonger’s war-monger.... He makes Bush look like Gandhi .... The prospect of President John McCain should scare the hell out of you . It probably doesn’t scare you because his bitches in the MSM refuse to inform you of his volcanic temper and irrational lust for war..... What hypocricy we see on display... The African-American congresswomen Cynthia McKinney is facing an arrest warrant and possible indictment because those Jim-Crow KKK Capitol Hill police thugs goated her (…)