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  • Media Cleansing: Dirty Reporting Journalism & Tragedy in Yugoslavia by Prof. Edward Herman
    15 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Z Magazine
    Review by Edward S. Herman
    This important and valuable book complements perfectly the superb volumes on Yugoslavia by Diana Johnstone (Fools’ Crusade) and Michael Mandel (How America Gets Away With Murder). Johnstone provides essential history and context to the Balkan wars, analyzing the indigenous participants, their backgrounds, motivations and strategies, and the very important role played there by external interveners (the Croatian and Bosnian Muslim diaspora and PR (…)

  • Endgame in Kosovo? The Destruction of Yugoslavia Continues
    15 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Jake Hess
    January 30, 2006 Globalresearch.ca
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    The coming ’final status talks’ on Serbia’s southern autonomous province will complete the Western conquest of the Balkans
    A decade ago this month [Nov 2005] , a US-sponsored conference to end the Bosnian war opened in Dayton, Ohio. The peace treaty that resulted effectively concluded the first round of the Western-fueled breakup of Yugoslavia [1], the south Slav federation that lead (…)

  • Nuclear Bunker Buster Bombs againt Iran: This Way Lies Madness
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    by Stephen M. Osborn
    March 14, 2006 GlobalResearch.ca
    The latest information I have had from the followers of Bush is that he has demanded and received permission to use nuclear “bunker busters” in Iran in a preemptive strike. As a nuclear veteran (Operation Redwing, Bikini, 1956) I can affirm that this is absolute madness. The “bunker buster” is a cute sounding name for a nuclear horror. Air bursts are horrible enough, doing incredible destruction through heat, shock and (…)

  • Did Milosevic or His Accusers "Cheat Justice"? By ALEXANDER COCKBURN
    15 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    The Show Trial That Went Wrong
    "It’s hard not to feel that by dying in his cell, Slobodan Milosevic finally succeeded in his determined effort to cheat justice."
    Thus the opening sentence of a New York Times editorial, Tuesday March 14. The editorial cited without comment Carla Del Ponte, the chief prosecutor of the United Nations tribunal, who told an Italian interviewer that "the death of Milosevic represents for me a total defeat."
    The editorial ended with words of praise for the (…)

  • Pentagon Eyeing Weapons in Space
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    Published on Tuesday, March 14, 2006 by the Boston Globe
    Budget seeks millions to test new technologies
    by Bryan Bender WASHINGTON - The Pentagon is asking Congress for hundreds of millions of dollars to test weapons in space, marking the biggest step toward creating a space battlefield since President Reagan’s long-defunct ’’star wars" project during the Cold War, according to federal budget documents.
    The Defense Department’s budget proposal for the fiscal year beginning Oct. 1 (…)

  • U.S. Military Plans to Make Insect Cyborgs by Shaun Waterman
    15 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Published on Tuesday, March 14, 2006 by United Press International
    WASHINGTON - Facing problems in its efforts to train insects or build robots that can mimic their flying abilities, the U.S. military now wants to develop "insect cyborgs" that can go where its soldiers cannot.
    The Pentagon is seeking applications from researchers to help them develop technology that can be implanted into living insects to control their movement and transmit video or other sensory data back to their (…)

  • Israel/Occupied Territories: Palestinian prisoners at risk of being killed by Israeli forces
    15 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Amnesty International is deeply concerned about the safety of Palestinian detainees in Jericho Prison. The prison is currently surrounded by Israeli forces who have threatened to kill detainees who refuse to surrender to them.
    The detainees most at risk are Ahmad Saadat, leader of the Palestinian Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), and four other Palestinians who have been detained at Jericho Prison since 2002 despite a court decision ordering their release. While detained under (…)

  • Iran: Where do we go from here? By Mike Whitney
    15 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    03/14/06 "ICH"
    The Bush administration has run into a rock wall at the Security Council. Neither Russia nor China will agree to any resolution that condemns Iran for “noncompliance” with its treaty obligations. In fact, there is general agreement that Iran has not violated the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT) so the point is moot. This eliminates any chance that punitive action will be taken against Iran or that sanctions will be applied.
    So why did the Bush administration take the (…)

  • Lessons of Iraq War start with U.S. history by Howard Zinn
    15 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    03/14/06 "The Progressive" — — On the third anniversary of President Bush’s Iraq debacle, it’s important to consider why the administration so easily fooled so many people into supporting the war.
    I believe there are two reasons, which go deep into our national culture.
    One is an absence of historical perspective. The other is an inability to think outside the boundaries of nationalism.
    If we don’t know history, then we are ready meat for carnivorous politicians and the intellectuals (…)

  • Bush’s Roadblock at the Security Council
    14 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    March 14, 2006
    Bush’s Roadblock at the Security Council by Mike Whitney
    Surveys were conducted months before the war on Iraq which showed that the American people would only support the conflict if there was a danger that Saddam was developing nuclear weapons. Other questions in the poll addressed the issues of humanitarian intervention, Saddam’s abysmal human rights record, and the prospect that Iraq had stockpiles of chemical and biological weapons.
    None of these other potential (…)