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  • Britain to probe Iraq ’abuse’ video
    12 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Pictures from a video apparently showing British soldiers beating a group of Iraqi teenagers have been published on Sunday by the News of the World, a British tabloid.
    The footage appeared to show soldiers dragging youths and kicking them.
    A military spokesman in Iraq condemned "all acts of abuse and brutality" by British troops, saying the allegations related to a "tiny number" of soldiers.
    The Royal Military Police are probing the incident, which the newspaper said happened in (…)

  • Blair orders probe into Iraq abuse allegations
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    By Ben Hall
    Tony Blair promised a full investigation into fresh allegations of abuse of Iraqis by British troops after a Sunday newspaper obtained a video apparently showing soldiers beating a group of youths.
    The Ministry of Defence launched an urgent probe after the News of the World published images from the video of soldiers kicking, punching and striking young civilians with batons. The newspaper said the incident was filmed during street riots in Basra in early 2004.
    The (…)

  • Exposed.. squad of British soldiers beat teenage Iraqis and shame their country
    12 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    SHAMED BY 42 BRAINLESS BLOWS
    By Robert Kellaway
    TODAY we expose a rogue squad of British soldiers who savagely attacked a defenceless bunch of Iraqi teenagers -and with 42 brutal blows brought shame on our nation and its proud army.
    The horrifying scenes on these pages will shock the world and ignite a huge military scandal.
    They were captured on a secret home video - apparently filmed for "fun" by a corporal-and show at least eight of his hulking comrades (…)

  • Breakthrough or Blockade in Middle East Peace Process? Why Hamas won, and why negotiations must resume
    12 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Joel Beinin
    Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has admitted that her staff was caught off guard by Hamas’ victory in the Jan. 25 Palestinian Legislative Council elections. "I’ve asked why nobody saw it coming," she said. "It does say something about us not having a good enough pulse."
    While the State Department, President Bush and many other observers understand that Hamas’ popularity is due to frustration with Fatah’s corrupt governance of the Palestinian Authority, they have been (…)

  • Britain’s Breaking Abu Ghraib Scandal
    12 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    In a shocking video obtained by the British newspaper, News of the World, shot in 2004 by an approving British Corporal who shouts encouragement during the minute long footage, British troops inside a military compound in Iraq are seen savagely beating Iraqi children who had been throwing stones at the base.
    The February 12th article, "Shamed By 42 Brainless Blows" reports that "The video - later shown to the corporal’s pals at their home base in Europe - was exposed to the News of the (…)

  • Stage Set For Nuclear Annihilation of All Life On Earth
    12 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Watch a 9 minute video with Dr. Helen Caldicott explaining what the world’s fate will be should George Bush and/or Vladimir Putin get their nuclear wires crossed and launch thousands of nuclear warheads.
    With almost a dozen nukes pointed at all 250 cities in the Northern Hemisphere in every country (w/over 50,000 people each), a strike against Iran, a technical mistake, a drunken rage or even an accident could very well be the flash point which sets an irreversible nuclear, worldwide (…)

  • The Pipeline To War
    12 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Barry Chamish
    Imagine a dozen cartoons serving the same purpose as Pearl Harbor or Sarajevo, being the final straw that led the planet into world war. Now imagine the cartoons were a staged event, designed purposely to drag us into unimaginable violence. If that is the case, then those who foisted the plot on an unsuspecting world, would be guilty of super-mass-murder.
    And what if the latest candidate for the Attila the Hun award goes to Daniel Pipes? That is precisely what is being (…)

  • Cindy Sheehan honored here Anti-war activist among 4 hailed at synagogue
    11 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    By REGINA MEDINA
    LAST TUESDAY, peace activist Cindy Sheehan was arrested, handcuffed and removed from the U.S. House gallery shortly before President Bush’s State of the Union Address.
    She was wearing a T-shirt alluding to her anti-war sentiments - "2245 Dead. How many more?"
    Yesterday, Sheehan had the same basic message, but wore a long black dress with a large photo of her fallen son, Army Spec. Casey A. Sheehan, hanging from a ribbon around her neck.
    This time, her 250-strong (…)

  • Cheney ’Authorized’ Libby to Leak Classified Information
    11 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Murray Waas
    Vice President Dick Cheney’s former chief of staff, I. Lewis (Scooter) Libby, testified to a federal grand jury that he had been "authorized" by Cheney and other White House "superiors" in the summer of 2003 to disclose classified information to journalists to defend the Bush administration’s use of prewar intelligence in making the case to go to war with Iraq, according to attorneys familiar with the matter, and to court records.
    Libby specifically claimed that in one (…)

  • The murder of a half a million children is a price worth paying?
    11 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Mary MacElveen
    In my piece concerning John Edwards which ran this past week, I wrote: "In the November 28, 2005, issue of ’The Nation,’ John Edwards was quoted as saying: "I voted for the resolution ... it was a mistake."
    I have to add that I respect anyone, regardless of what decision they made in the past, when they see that it was wrong. I have deep respect when they come out of the political closet and with humility to state that their vote was a "mistake."
    With that said, I (…)