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  • White House Weekly Llewellyn King’s The soldier said, "Well, sir, in the shitter it says,
    12 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    March 11, 2006 — Llewellyn King’s consummate Washington insider newsletter, White House Weekly, never disappoints when it comes to straight and unvarnished reporting from the White House Press Pool. In the March 8, 2006 issue, the press pool reporter describes an account of what happened when the White House press plane touched down to refuel at Shannon Airport in Ireland on its way back to Washington after Bush’s recent trip to India, Pakistan, and Afghanistan. Upon deplaning and repairing (…)

  • We stand in the light of his strong witness to the power of love and the courage of nonviolence
    11 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    http://cpt.org/iraq/response/06-10-03statement.htm CPT Release: CPT Release: We Mourn the Loss of Tom Fox
    10 March 2006
    In grief we tremble before God who wraps us with compassion. The death of our beloved colleague and friend pierces us with pain. Tom Fox’s body was found in Baghdad yesterday.
    Christian Peacemaker Teams extends our deep and heartfelt condolences to the family and community of Tom Fox, with whom we have traveled so closely in these days of crisis.
    We mourn the loss (…)

  • The 48 Hour Media-blitz for War with Iran
    11 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The 48 Hour Media-blitz for War with Iran Mike Whitney March 10, 2006
    In the last 48 hours all the major players in the Bush administration have issued statements warning of the impending danger of Iran.
    Cheney blasted the Islamic regime saying there would be "meaningful consequences" if it refuses to comply with international demands to stop its nuclear program.
    Condoleezza Rice said, "We face no greater challenge from a single country than Iran... This is a country that seems (…)

  • Gulf War Veteran Gets Placebos Instead Of Real Medicine
    11 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    ORIGINAL LINK WITH ADDITIONAL VIDEO Gulf War Veteran Gets Placebos Instead Of Real Medicine
    POSTED: 4:13 pm EST February 23, 2006 UPDATED: 5:33 pm EST February 23, 2006
    A Gulf War veteran undergoing medical treatment said he was given placebos — (…)

  • Iraq’s intellectuals : Tortured, shot, ambushed, victims are found dumped outside morgues.
    11 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Dr Mohammed Tuki Hussein Al Talakani Dr Eman Younis Dr Jammour Khammas Dr Mohammed Washed Professor Wajeeh Mahjoub Professor Sabri Al Bayati Professor Laila Al Saad Professor Muneer Al Khiero Professor Emad Sarsaan ProfessorMohammedAl Rawi Professor Munim Al Izmerly Dr Ali Al NaasI The horrific killings of Iraqi intellectuals have left suspicions that occupying forces may be behind some of the cases, says Felicity Arbuthnot.
    It is estimated that between 250 and 500 intellectuals have been (…)

  • Israelis consider attack on Iran
    11 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    ACDN.NET
    Publication date 11 March 2006
    Amos Dror, the former head of research in Israeli military intelligence, recently made the following statement to the Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s Lateline programme: "If Israel will be hit by any missile, the Iranians will not have enough people to count their dead. It will lead to the destruction and the end of Iran and as a civilisation."
    In plain English, he was saying that, if Israel is hit even by a single conventional Iranian (…)

  • Students and Teachers Unite for Campus Walkout in Protest of War
    11 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    NEW BRITAIN — About a hundred Central Connecticut State University students participated in a walkout Thursday, in protest of federal cuts in student aid and inflation of the military budget. The "M9 Walkout," organized by the Progressive Student Alliance, a student activist group, took place outside the student center one month after Congress passed a budget cutting $12 billion from student loan programs and the same day Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice pressed for a $91 billion spending (…)

  • WILLIAM F . BUCKLEY’S "APOLOGY" : RETURN TO SENDER
    10 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    I read with great amusement of news conservative "icon" William F. Buckley has now admitted that Operation Iraqi Freedom was a big mistake. It takes a Yale man 3 years to discern that obvious conclusion while the rest of us , the great unwashed , figured out the plot before the massacre commenced. Buckley disingenuously claims Der Fuhrer didn’t place enough boots on the ground to subdue Iraq’s restive masses ..... Such malarkey ..... 80 -90 % of the people of Iraq (…)

  • A Veteran’s Letter to the President: “I Return Enclosed the Symbols of My Years of Service”
    9 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Joseph DuRocher was for 20 years the elected Public Defender of Florida’s Ninth Judicial Circuit, covering Orange and Osceola counties. Since retirement, he’s been writing and teaching law at the University of Central Florida and the Barry University School of Law. He was a commissioned officer in the U.S. Navy in the 1960s, serving as a Naval Aviator in the Atlantic, the Caribbean and the Mediterranean. On Monday, Mr. DuRocher returned his Lieutenant’s shoulder bars and Navy wings to (…)

  • LEDEEN LINKS CHAVEZ , CASTRO TO IRAN : PNAC MARCHING SOUTHWARD ?
    9 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Michael Ledeen , appearing on C-SPAN , has apparently linked the governments of Fidel Castro and Hugo Chavez to Iran. I am getting this information second hand but I have no reason to believe that it is not true.... Are the neocons preparing to march southward rather than mounting an immediate invasion and occupation of Iran ? ..... One can readily envision a scenario of a staged-managed "Al Qaeda" attack , say perhaps a "dirty bomb", being smuggled over the Mexican border . ....... (…)