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  • Oil Timeline
    22 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    This is a brief and fanciful timeline predicting the future of oil.
    2006: The U.S. attacks Iran and secures its oil and natural gas supplies. For the next decade, Europe and Japan give their tacit approval in exchange for a share of oil.
    2009: The U.S. starts angling for Venezuela’s oil, using the same pretext of national security it used against Iraq and is currently using against Iran.
    2012: The U.S. invades Venezuela and secures its oil supplies.
    2015: China and India demand a (…)

  • The march of folly, that has led to a bloodbath The Iraq War: Three Years On By Robert Fisk
    22 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    03/20/06 "The Independent"
    It is the march of folly. In 1914, the British, French, and Germans though they would be home by Christmas. On the 9th of April 2003, corporal David Breeze of the 3rd Battalion, 4th US Marine Regiment - the very first American to enter Baghdad - borrowed my satellite phone to call his home in Michigan. "Hi you guys, I’m in Baghdad," he told his mother. "I’m ringing to say ’Hi, I love you. I’m doing fine. I love you guys.’ The war will be over in a few days. I’ll (…)

  • Rumsfeld asks general overseeing Iraq war to stay
    22 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Army Gen. John Abizaid, who oversees U.S. military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan as head of Central Command, has agreed to keep the job at least another year at the request of Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, defense officials said on Tuesday.
    Abizaid, 54, is responsible for about 250,000 troops in the 25-nation Central Command region stretching from the Horn of Africa to Central Asia, spanning much of the Middle East.
    Since he succeeded Army (…)

  • BUSH OPTIMISTIC ABOUT IRAQ : THAT `DIRTY WAR’ ?
    22 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    George W. Bush continues his "March Madness" Tour in West Virginia . MESSAGE : THE WAR IS GOING GREAT.... Well, the civil war instigated by his Pentagon is going great .... Is that what he is talking about ? The Mossad has trained thousands of Kurdish Peshmerga death squad cadre to join up with their new best friends , the Badr Brigade , to terrorise the Sunni civilian population.... The Pentagon promiscously bragged of carrying this diabloic plan to journalists at Newsweek and , for (…)

  • Chavez Says U.S. Lying About Iranian Nuke Ambitions
    22 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    CARACAS, Venezuela — Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said the U.S. is spinning lies about Iran’s nuclear program as an excuse to control more foreign oil.
    In a nationally televised speech, Chavez said escalating U.S. concern about Tehran and the invasion of Iraq both resulted from America’s insatiable thirst for petroleum.
    One of the world’s most outspoken critics of U.S. foreign policy also claims the Bush administration is lying about Iranian efforts to build an atomic bomb, while (…)

  • Thousands Protest War’s 3rd Anniversary
    22 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    From Australia to Hollywood, people march to demand that troops be withdrawn.
    By Sara Lin and Deborah Schoch
    While some brought anti-war placards and petitions to Hollywood on Saturday, a group called Veterans for Peace crafted 100 flag-draped coffins from cardboard cartons and carried them down Sunset Boulevard to mark the more than 2,300 U.S. troops killed in the Iraq war.
    At MacArthur Park in Los Angeles, the American Friends Service Committee laid out 240 pairs of boots, each (…)

  • The Second Death of Rachel Corrie Censorship of the Worst Kind
    22 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    By VANESSA REDGRAVE
    I am urging the Royal Court Theatre to sue the New York Theatre Workshop for the cancellation of the production of "My Name Is Rachel Corrie". Not because I donated money for this production, which the Royal Court have been fundraising for—a target of 50,000 pounds, underwritten by Alan Rickman.
    This is censorship of the worst kind. More awful even than that.It is black-listing a dead girl and her diaries.A very brave and exceptional girl who all citizens, whatever (…)

  • SAS soldier quits Army in disgust at ’illegal’ American tactics in Iraq
    21 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Sean Rayment
    An SAS soldier has refused to fight in Iraq and has left the Army over the "illegal" tactics of United States troops and the policies of coalition forces.
    After three months in Baghdad, Ben Griffin told his commander that he was no longer prepared to fight alongside American forces.
    He said he had witnessed "dozens of illegal acts" by US troops, claiming they viewed all Iraqis as "untermenschen" - the Nazi term for races regarded as sub-human.
    The decision marks the (…)

  • Who Are the War Criminals? Naming Names Behind every war criminal is a criminal idea
    21 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    December 19, 2005 Who Are the War Criminals? Naming Names Behind every war criminal is a criminal idea by Justin Raimondo Editorial note: What follows is the text of a speech delivered on Dec. 16, in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, at the 2005 Perdana Peace Forum.
    The theme for this part of the program is "Crimes Against Peace, Crimes Against Humanity." We are discussing here the question of defining and dealing with war crimes. In any such discussion, however, we must start out by (…)

  • MUKA MUKA: The Japanese have a phrase for it
    21 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    In Japanese, "Muka Muka" means "I’m so angry that I could throw up!"
    Today George Bush (no doubt on the advice of Karl Rove),went before the Press Corps and took questions from all quarters, including Helen Thomas (who he has diss’d for 3 years!). Helen asked him "After thousands have died in Iraq because of a series of reasons given by this Administration which have been proven untrue, can you explain why you went to war?"
    Bush’s response to this question was only among the first of a (…)