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  • The "Yellow Peril" and the Latin Invasion!
    17 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Does anyone recall the incredibly realistic Right wing John Milius film "Red Dawn"? It told the story of an invasion by the Russians, the Nicaraguans,the Bolivians and the Cubans. They were enabled,of course,by the U.N.blue helmets.
    Well, truth is stranger than fiction! Recent reports indicate that China is beginning to train South American troops! Soon (I’m sure think tanks are musing), the Latin hoards...right on "our doorstep" will swarm across our secure borders and take over our (…)

  • The People Defeated the anti-Venezuela Mack Resolution! by Brian Becker, ANSWER (USA)
    17 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Dear friends of Venezuela,
    Following a massive outpouring of opposition, H. Con. Res. 328 (the Mack resolution) was withdrawn from the Subcommittee on Western Hemisphere Affairs in the House Committee on International Relations. Due for a vote today, Rep. Mack (R-FL) and his supporters pulled the resolution before a vote could take place. Clearly, they felt that the resolution would now fail.
    In recent weeks the A.N.S.W.E.R. Coalition, VoteNoWar.org, the Venezuelan Information Office (…)

  • Is Another 9/11 in the Works?
    17 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    If you were President George W. Bush with all available US troops tied down by the Iraqi resistance, and you were unable to control Iraq or political developments in the country, would you also start a war with Iran?
    Yes, you would.
    Bush’s determination to spread Middle East conflict by striking at Iran does not make sense.
    First of all, Bush lacks the troops to do the job. If the US military cannot successfully occupy Iraq, there is no way that the US can occupy Iran, a country (…)

  • Delusional Scott McClellan Attempts to Rewrite History
    17 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Helen Thomas: "Does the President know that he’s in violation of international law when he advocates preemptive war? The U.N. Charter, Geneva, Nuremberg. We violate international law when we advocate attacking a country that did not attack us.
    MR. McCLELLAN: Helen, I would just disagree with your assessment. First of all, preemption is a longstanding principle of American foreign —
    Q It’s not a long-standing principle with us. It’s your principle.
    MR. McCLELLAN: Have you asked your (…)

  • Folly, Tragedy and Farce Condi and Iran By RON JACOBS Counterpunch
    16 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Although the strategy is older than the mean sheriff and his less sadistic deputy in the Old West, we need to only go back a few years here. If one recalls prior to the US/UK invasion on Iraq in 2003, there were several initiatives to "promote democracy" in that country. Usually it was the State Department that played the good cop to the Defense Department’s bad cop. Give money to dissident groups and others opposed to the regime of Saddam Hussein—that was the good guy approach. (If there (…)

  • Killing Off Slobo Was Serbia a Practice Run for Iraq? By PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS Counterpunch
    16 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    On March 11, the former Serbian leader and president of Yugoslavia, Slobodan Milosevic, died in his prison cell at the Hague, where he had been on trial for four years and one month for war crimes and genocide. The Serbian Socialist Party leader Zoran Andelkovic responded to the news of Milosevic’s death with the following statement:
    "Slobodan Milosevic, the president of the Socialist Party of Serbia and a former president of Serbia and Yugoslavia was murdered today at the Tribunal in (…)

  • Iraq: Permanent US Colony By Dahr Jamail t r u t h o u t
    16 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Tuesday 14 March 2006
    Why does the Bush Administration refuse to discuss withdrawing occupation forces from Iraq? Why is Halliburton, who landed the no-bid contracts to construct and maintain US military bases in Iraq, posting higher profits than ever before in its 86-year history?
    Why do these bases in Iraq resemble self-contained cities as much as military outposts?
    Why are we hearing such ludicrous and outrageous statements from the highest ranking military general in (…)

  • "Let’s Divide Iraq as We Did in Yugoslavia!" by Michel Collon
    16 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Un texte plus que jamais d’actualité
    WASHINGTON HAS FOUND THE SOLUTION
    Michel Collon
    They have found the solution! Divide Iraq into three mini-states and then pit them against one another. Does that remind you of something else? Oh, yes! It’s not the first time something like this happened....
    The New York Times published an editorial on November 25, 2003 carrying Leslie Gelb’s by-line. He’s an influential man who, until recently, presided over the very important Council of Foreign (…)

  • British Special Forces Caught Carrying Out Staged Terror In Iraq?
    16 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Media blackout shadows why black op soldiers were arrested
    Paul Joseph Watson | September 20 2005
    In another example of how the Iraqi quagmire is deliberately designed to degenerate into a chaotic abyss, British SAS were caught attempting to stage a terror attack and the media have dutifully shut up about the real questions surrounding the incident.
    What is admitted is that two British soldiers in Arab garb and head dress drove a car towards a group of Iraq police and began firing. (…)

  • Israeli repression of the Palestinian people by International ANSWER (USA)
    16 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Israeli repression of the Palestinian people intensifies Statement of the National Council of Arab-Americans on Israeli Raid of Jericho
    The ongoing U.S.-backed Israeli war against the Palestinian people took a new criminal turn yesterday with the military assault against the Palestinian detention center in Jericho. This blatant act of state-sponsored terrorism included at least three deaths, scores of injuries and the confinement of an estimated 800 children in their school for many hours (…)