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  • War Against Iran
    1 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    War Against Iran, April 2006 Biological Threat and Executive Order 13292 by Jorge Hirsch
    History repeats itself, but always with new twists. We are back to the good old days when a Declaration of War preceded the start of a war. Such declaration occurred on March 16th, 2006. Reversing the old order, we are now in the "Sitzkrieg", to be followed shortly by an aerial "Blitzkrieg" in the coming days.
    In the old days, Congress declared war, and directed the Executive to take action. In the (…)

  • THE WAR LOVERS by John Pilger, the New Statesman
    1 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    In his latest column for the New Statesman, John Pilger describes a kind of war lover and war salesman (and woman) very different from the ’almost endearing fools’ he has met in real wars. : Pilger :23 Mar 2006 The war lovers I have known in real wars have usually been harmless, except to themselves. They were attracted to Vietnam and Cambodia, where drugs were plentiful. Bosnia, with its roulette of death, was another favourite. A few would say they were there "to tell the world"; the (…)

  • Casey Austin Sheehan: May 29, 1979 - April 04, 2004 by Cindy Sheehan
    31 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Published on Friday, March 31, 2006 by CommonDreams.org
    As far as we can piece things together, March 31st, two years ago is the day that the First Cavalry arrived in Sadr City, a slum in Baghdad, formerly named "Saddam City," Iraq. I say "as far as we can piece together" because we have heard many different stories, but this date seems to be the one that we have heard most often.
    Casey began a letter to us, his family, on April 1, 2004, telling us that he finally had an address where we (…)

  • Ed Asner Shares 9/11 Concerns-Highlights story of hijackers still alive and well
    31 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Award winning director, producer and actor Ed Asner is the latest high profile public figure to voice his support for Charlie Sheen’s stance on 9/11 and share his own concerns about 9/11, the war in Iraq and the Neo-Cons.
    Speaking to The Alex Jones Show Asner, best known for his Emmy-winning role as Lou Grant on The Mary Tyler Moore Show, echoed Charlie Sheen’s sentiments in stating, "I became suspicious of 9/11 on the day it happened."
    "I will always be that suspect of it and challenge (…)

  • At last the Silence is being Broken, UK War-Plans are Exposed by the World’s Media
    30 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    At long last, the warning cry about the Bliar’s dangerous state-of-mind and foreign policy is being picked-up by the media. Significantly, the recently-leaked Sawer memo and its implications come first from Dubai and Pakistan , ie Asian countries with a rather different perspective on what New Labour’s arrogant John Reid assumes to be the world community.
    When people like Reid and Bliar use such phrases, attaching them to emotive clarion calls for the ’defence of freedom’, ’our traditional (…)

  • IRAQ WAR ’TRIUMPH ’ : THE BATTLE OF AL-JAZEERA
    30 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    To say the Iraq War was a total failure would be an unfair assessment. The Pentagon succeeded in rousting the Qatar-based news channel Al-Jazeera from it’s Baghdad headquarters ...... "THE MIDDLE-EAST NETWORK AL-JAZEERA WAS ACCUSED BY DONALD RUMSFELD OF BROADCASTING "VISCOUS , INNACURATE, AND INEXCUSABLE REPORTS ABOUT THE WAR ON IRAQ THE DAY BEFORE PRESIDENT BUSH MET TONY BLAIR AND APPARENTLY SUGGESTED BOMBING THE STATION’S HEADQUARTERS. " ( "Rumsfeld’s Al-Jazeera Outbursts", The (…)

  • Is Blair preparing for a new war?
    30 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    DUBAI: The British Prime Minister Tony Blair’s March 21 speech defending his country’s foreign policy seems fairly benign until one delves between the lines.
    It has been billed by the press as a defence of decisions made to invade Afghanistan and Iraq in light of Blair’s diminishing popularity.
    It might be. But on the other hand, it could be an attempt at setting us up for an endless war scenario in the name of defending "our values".
    There is no doubt that Blair is a natural salesman. (…)

  • "We Are Human, Like You"
    29 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    By David Swanson
    A delegation of women from Iraq told stories last night in Washington, D.C., unlike anything we’ve ever heard about this war from the media in the United States. And the media was not there, so I’m going to tell you what they said.
    The event was held at Busboys and Poets, the restaurant that serves as the gathering place for all social justice groups in Washington. The restaurant’s owner is Andy Shallal, an Iraqi American and an active opponent of the war. Shallal spoke (…)

  • Francis Fukuyama and the neoconservatives
    29 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by LOUIS MENAND
    On February 10, 2004, the columnist Charles Krauthammer gave the annual Irving Kristol address at the American Enterprise Institute, in Washington. The lecture was called “Democratic Realism: An American Foreign Policy for a Unipolar World.” It defended the Bush Administration’s policies of unilateralism and preëmption, and proposed that their application be defined by means of a doctrine: “We will support democracy everywhere, but we will commit blood and treasure only in (…)

  • The rancid relationship
    29 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Britain’s close alliance with the United States has become nothing but one-way traffic
    by Richard Norton-Taylor
    A senior British military commander in the invasion of Iraq said the other day that Donald Rumsfeld, the US defence secretary, should be tried for war crimes. He was speaking in private and, I assume, did not mean to be taken literally. But there was no mistaking the anger in his voice.
    It reflected a deep fury at the decision to disband the Iraqi army after the invasion, a (…)