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  • ANOTHER BUSH FAILURE: DIA Chief Warns of More Afghan Violence
    1 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    ORIGINAL LINK By KATHERINE SHRADER, Associated Press Writer Tue Feb 28, 12:11 PM ET
    WASHINGTON - Painting a bleak picture of U.S. military operations overseas, the head of the Defense Intelligence Agency told Congress on Tuesday that violence in Afghanistan increased 20 percent last year. "We judge insurgents now represent a greater threat to the expansion of (…)

  • If it’s not soup it’s wet bread...
    28 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    "It rained all night the day I left, the weather it was dry..." (from the song, Oh Susannah!)
    There’s an Italian expression, which,translated, says "If it’s not soup it’s wet bread". The rough English version would read: Even if something looks different, it’s often the same.
    Our inept and lamentable media is playig word games in the same fashion.No matter whether they say "We’re leaning or tipping toward a civil war in Iraq", or "We’re headed for a civil war" or "We’re on the brink of a (…)

  • In the name of equality and freedom
    28 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    of RUMINA SETHI
    Feminist critique of the march of globalisation and the resultant shrinking of democratic possibilities
    AGAINST EMPIRE - Feminisms, Racism, and the West: Zillah Eisenstein; Women Unlimited, an associate of Kali for Women, K-36, Hauz Khas Enclave, Ground Floor, New Delhi-110016. Rs. 350.
    This book marks a significant attempt to conflate activism among women and the hegemonic processes of globalisation. Zillah Eisenstein’s particular attack is on the masculinist U.S. (…)

  • Top-secret notes confirm congressional, 9-11 Commission & Pentagon cover up of Iraq war plans
    28 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Top-secret notes confirm congressional, 9-11 Commission & Pentagon cover up of Iraq war plans on day of Sept. 11 attacks:
    http://tomflocco.com/fs/TopSecretNotes.htm

  • FBI Memos Reveal Torture Approved by Top Officials
    27 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Drew Brown, Knight-Ridder News
    WASHINGTON - Military interrogators posing as FBI agents at the U.S. detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, wrapped terrorism suspects in an Israeli flag and forced them to watch homosexual pornography under strobe lights during interrogation sessions that lasted as long as 18 hours, according to one of a batch of FBI memos released Thursday.
    FBI agents working at the prison complained about the military interrogators’ techniques in e-mails to their (…)

  • A message of peace to the Sunnis, Shi’ites, Ba’athists:
    27 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    A message of peace to the Sunnis, Shi’ites, Ba’athists:
    In The Name Of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful.
    All praise be to Allah The Cherisher and Sustainer of the Worlds.
    It is unfortunate that all of you and others not mentioned are experiencing discord and unrest due to the fall of your last regime and the install of another that promotes democracy. We understand that it is difficult and almost impossible to have democracy rule over your Islamic faith. It is in direct violation of (…)

  • Troskyite Kristol wants Total War in Iraq
    27 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The balding mean-spirited dwarf Bill Kristol wants American to get serious crushing those recalcitrant Iraqis . Blow them to smithereens. ! Obtain total submission. ... Has ever such a cock-eyed maniac ever been granted such respect and authority. Who elected this Zionist Caesar. From whence does he derive the moral authority to strut around like the Crock of the Walk. ...... This little fuhrer didn’t fight in Vietnam.... If this panty-waste were to incur so much as a (…)

  • Monsters, Inc.
    27 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Monsters, Inc. by Sam Bostaph, February 24, 2006
    In 2001, an animated film from Pixar Animation Studios was released and became extremely popular with both adults and children. Monsters, Inc. is set in the city of Monstropolis, where all monsters live. A corporation that gives the title to the movie employs “scarers,” monsters who venture out of the city every night to enter the human world through the closets of children. Their job is to scare children into screaming because the screams (…)

  • Folksinger Anne Feeney signed the Manifesto against conscription and the military system
    27 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Christian Bartolf, Gandhi Information Center, Berlin, February 26, 2006 -
    The US American singer, songwriter and Labor, Peace and Justice activist Anne Feeney from Pittsburgh (Pennsylvania, USA) signed the "Manifesto against conscription and the military system" on 26 February 2006 [see below].
    In the noble tradition of Malvina Reynolds and Peggy Seeger, her musical contributions and public performances have encouraged her audience to resist oppression and injustice.
    Her song "Have (…)

  • “Best Director” Oscar for Ports Brouhaha Production
    27 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    It’s been surreal! Suddenly, the mostly conscience-challenged U.S. Congress in recent history sprang upright into bipartisan action on all fronts. Its members held press conferences, did talk shows, while its chairpersons called their respective committees to hearings. In unison, they demanded, along with the Media, immediate answers from the Bush-Cheney Gang. No, it wasn’t asking about how it had dragged the nation into the dreadful Iraqi War based on a pack of lies. (1) Hell, no, that’s (…)