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  • The Killing Fields: Ghosts of the Walking Dead
    29 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Don’t know if it has already been posted but that this was a must read. Sorry if this is a dupe.
    Found at www.valenzuelasveritas.blogspot.com Lesley Stahl on U.S. sanctions against Iraq: We have heard that a half million children have died. I mean, that’s more children than died in Hiroshima. And, you know, is the price worth it?
    Secretary of State Madeleine Albright: I think this is a very hard choice, but the price—we think the price is worth it. 60 Minutes (5/12/96)
    Oil, Simply (…)

  • WORLD SOCIAL FORUM: A Loud, Multicoloured ’No’ to Imperialism and War
    29 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Humberto Márquez
    CARACAS, Jan 25 (IPS) - Although the sixth World Social Forum grants equal importance to all of the myriad workshops, seminars and other activities taking place this week in the Venezuelan capital and to all of the participating civil society groups and figures, that has not kept some personalities from standing out, like U.S. peace activist Cindy Sheehan, whose soldier son Casey was killed in Iraq.
    "We need to bring our troops home immediately," Sheehan told the (…)

  • US plans to ’fight the net’ revealed
    29 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    A newly declassified document gives a fascinating glimpse into the US military’s plans for "information operations" - from psychological operations, to attacks on hostile computer networks.
    Internet cafe in Iraq The document says information is "critical to military success"
    Bloggers beware.
    As the world turns networked, the Pentagon is calculating the military opportunities that computer networks, wireless technologies and the modern media offer.
    From influencing public opinion (…)

  • How do you like your democracy now, Mr. Bush?
    29 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Hamas’ stunning victory underlines the contradictions and hypocrisies in Bush’s Mideast policies.
    By Juan Cole
    Jan. 27, 2006 | The stunning victory of the militant Muslim fundamentalist Hamas Party in the Palestinian elections underlines the central contradictions in the Bush administration’s policies toward the Middle East. Bush pushes for elections, confusing them with democracy, but seems blind to the dangers of right-wing populism. At the same time, he continually undermines the (…)

  • 9/10/01 : ON THE EVE OF DESTRUCTION
    28 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    1) The Northern Alliance Leader, Ahmed Shah Massoud , is buried - paving the way for installation of an oil company company executive , Hamid Karzai. The likey perps : British intelligence and Pakistan’s ISI
    2) The head of Pakistani intelligence arrives in Washington on this day , after wiring 100k to Mohamed Atta. An asset of British intelligence , Omar Saeed Sheikh, facilitates the transaction.
    3) Sir David Manning ,Tony Blair’s top foreign policy advisor, meets with Deputy Sec. of (…)

  • Financial Times/LA Times - 57% Americans support military action in Iran
    28 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    WASHINGTON - Despite persistent disillusionment with the war in Iraq, a majority of Americans supports taking military action against Iran if that country continues to produce material that can be used to develop nuclear weapons, a Los Angeles Times/Bloomberg poll has found.
    The poll, conducted Sunday through Wednesday, found that 57% of Americans favor military intervention if Iran’s Islamic government pursues a program that could enable it to build nuclear arms.
    Support for military (…)

  • My Fax to Bush After Reading: A SOLDIER OF TRUTH HAS FALLEN: In Memory of Specialist Doug Barber
    27 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    To President Bush,
    Every single day, I pray that we make it through the next three years with you ruling this country. I have serious doubts that this republic will survive. There are so many indications that it will indeed fall. But, I pray anyway.
    But tonight, my prayers are with Specialist Douglas Barber who served in Operation Iraqi Freedom although, I do not see signs of a free Iraq. Why are my prayers with him? It is because he took his own life while suffering from PTSD after (…)

  • Bush commits US to defence of Israel in face of Iran threat
    27 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    George Bush yesterday committed the US to the defence of Israel against threats from Iran, saying he would not allow the world to be "blackmailed" by an Iranian nuclear weapon.
    The US president’s warning, issued in an exchange with students in Kansas, came at a tense time in relations with Iran, after Tehran vowed to restart nuclear research. The US is leading a diplomatic attempt to persuade other countries to refer Iran to the UN security council for failure to cooperate with United (…)

  • My Fax to Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi Concerning a Comment Made by Her in the SF Gate
    27 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi
    Washington, D.C. Office
    2371 Rayburn HOB
    Washington, DC 20515
    Phone: (202) 225-4965
    Fax: (202) 225-8259
    Email: sf.nancy@mail.house.gov
    To Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, January 18, 2006
    I was more than surprised to hear your comment concerning any impeachment of President Bush as I read this column in the (January 15th, 2006) edition of the San (…)

  • Excess death of Austrians, Bulgarians, Czechs, Estonians, Germans, Hungarians, Latvians & Ukrainians
    27 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    WHAT IS KILLING HUNGARIANS? For millions of former subjects of the Soviet Union in Eastern Europe the Cold War is still killing but is killing them softly. Thanks to lying mainstream media essentially nobody knows about this (except for specialist epidemiologists) - the silence is deafening. We are OBLIGED to INFORM EVERYONE about mass mortality and gross inhumanity.
    On 26 January 2006 a letter (reproduced below) was (with some slight changes) variously sent to governments and mainstream (…)