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  • GI Special 4B12 - Let Your Conscience Be Your Guide - February 13, 2006
    14 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Monday, February 13, 2006 4:13 PM GI SPECIAL 4B12: 13/2/06 thomasfbarton@earthlink.net Print it out: color best. Pass it on. SOWING THE WIND: 2003 REAPING THE WHIRLWIND: 2006
    Former Iraqi Army soldiers shout anti-American slogans during a protest outside of the Republican Palace in Baghdad June 2, 2003. Hundreds of former Iraqi soldiers protested outside the office compound of Iraq’s U.S. occupiers, demanding pay for all troops dismissed when the American civil administrator (…)

  • Stuff to Do to Stop the War
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    Stuff to Do to Stop the War STAN GOFF, CounterPunch
    June 18, 2005
    The war in Iraq is degenerating ... a lot. For American troops, Iraqi police, and Iraqi civilians, the last two months have been filled with dread, death, and disfigurement. In spite of around-the-clock spin by the administration and show-dog obedience by the bouzhie-press, the reality of the war is filtering into the public’s consciousness. Certain phrases are haunting us: "weapons of mass destruction"... "yellow-cake (…)

  • IED Strike Kills Four U.S. Servicemembers in Afghanistan
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    American Forces Press Service
    BAGRAM AIRFIELD, Afghanistan, Feb. 13, 2006 - Four U.S. servicemembers were killed today when a suspected improvised explosive device struck their up-armored Humvee north of Deh Rahwod in Uruzgan province, officials here reported today. The servicemembers were on patrol with Afghan National Army forces at the time of the attack. Their unit and service branch information was not released.
    Shortly afterwards, the patrol was engaged with small arms and (…)

  • Simpleton Says : watch this sale like a hawk
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    Gunman Opens Fire at Ft. Hood LAST UPDATE: 2/13/2006 3:59:44 PM Posted By: Jim Forsyth This story is available on your cell phone at mobile.woai.com.
    (FORT HOOD, TEXAS) — One person is in custody after a sniper opened fire on troops this morning at Ft. Hood, the country’s largest military installation, 1200 WOAI news reported this morning.
    Base Public Affairs Officer Delena Kanaus says the shots were fired at morning troop formation of the 13th Corps Support Command, a unit which (…)

  • Walkin’ to New Orleans Veterans’ and Survivors’ March from Mobile to New Orleans
    13 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    March 19, 2006, is the 3rd anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq.
    Veterans for Peace, Iraq Veterans Against the War, Vietnam Veterans
    Against the War, Military Families Speak Out, Gold Star Families for
    Peace, and hurricane survivors’ organizations are organizing a five-day
    march along Gulf Coast Highway 90 to demand the immediate return of our
    troops from Iraq, and to call for U.S. tax dollars to be spent on human
    priorities and rebuilding of the devastated Gulf Coast, (…)

  • Professor Ilan Pappe on Norman Finkelstein’s Beyond Chutzpah
    13 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Occupation Hazard
    Norman Finkelstein Challenges the Conventional Line on Israel.
    Why is the history of modern Palestine such a matter of debate? Why is it still regarded as a complex, indeed obscure, chapter in contemporary history that cannot be easily deciphered? Any abecedarian student of its past who comes to it with clean hands would immediately recognize that in fact its story is very simple. For that matter it is not vastly different from other colonialist instances or tales of (…)

  • Letter from Iraq by PFC Moe Lyse
    13 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Dear Ma
    I cannot believe the progress our soldiers are making here in Iraq. I am sitting at a small table in downtown Baghdad (Ali’s),sipping a cool spiced tea and joking with local businessmen. They tell me things couldn’ be better now that George Bush has introduced democracy in their once stife-torn country.
    I have heard reports that the electricity is now up and running 24/7 in almost all parts of Iraq, and there are new schools and hospitals being constructed every day. Those (…)

  • ’10,000 would die’ in A-plant attack on Iran
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    By Thomas Harding
    A major American attack on Iran’s nuclear sites would kill up to 10,000 people and lead to war in the Middle East, a report says today.
    Hundreds of scientists and technicians would be targets in the opening salvos as the attacks focused on eliminating further nuclear development, the Oxford Research Group says in Iran: Consequences of a War.
    The research coincides with reports that strategists at the Pentagon are drawing up plans for "a last resort" strike if (…)

  • More Evidence Nuking Iran is on Schedule
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    In a story appearing in the Sunday Telegraph, the newspaper once owned by the Canadian criminal finagler and neocon “Lord” Conrad Black, amoral strategists “at the Pentagon are drawing up plans for devastating bombing raids backed by submarine-launched ballistic missile attacks against Iran’s nuclear sites as a ‘last resort’ to block Teheran’s efforts to develop an atomic bomb.” If not so deadly serious, the idea that the Straussian neocons will shock and awe Iran only as a “last resort” (…)

  • Chavez and the good people of Venezuela have only the best of intentions for USA
    12 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Mary MacElveen
    There are times when I read an article that borders on comedy ... where I actually sit there laughing, as well as shaking my head, knowing that an ill-informed public will actually believe it.
    I first want to state to my readers around the globe and especially here within the United States, that if you think that Venezuela is a threat to you ... you really do need to get a life.
    The piece I am referring to is Pentagon document mentions Venezuela as a concern and I (…)