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  • Veterans-Turned-Candidates Have New PAC
    27 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    By NANCY ZUCKERBROD
    WASHINGTON (AP) - A new political action committee to put veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan in Congress is getting under way.
    There is not one policymaker debating this war who has actually fought this war,’’ Jon Soltz, the executive director of the PAC and an Iraq war veteran, said in an interview Wednesday.
    Retired Army Gen. Wesley Clark, a former Democratic presidential candidate, is heading the advisory board of the group, Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans (…)

  • Rejecting Bin Laden And Cheney
    26 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Rami Khouri
    Rami G. Khouri is editor at large of the Beirut-based Daily Star newspaper, published throughout the Middle East with the International Herald Tribune.
    Their faces flashed across my television screen at home in Beirut Thursday evening like multiple-choice answers to a quiz show question, "Which of these three images best personifies the future values you want to define the Arab world?"
    First there was Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, releasing another audio tape (…)

  • The Killing Fields: Ghosts of the Walking Dead
    26 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Taken from 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 Oil
    The story of Iraq and its people since 1991 is one of immense tragedy, of a fate cruel and (…)

  • Stop the War Against Iran Before It Starts!
    25 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Every day new stories in the media add to an increasingly horrifying trend preparing world opinion for a military onslaught against Iran. The propaganda war against Iran ”based on blatant untruths, half-truths, double standards and distortions” acts as a basis to confuse the public and intimidate potential voices of opposition against a new war in the Middle East. In the absence of strong opposition to their threats against Iran, the governments of the US and Israel speak openly of military (…)

  • Halliburton accused over Iraq water supplies
    24 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Julian Borger in Washington
    Halliburton, the vast Texan oil and military services corporation, was accused by former employees yesterday of supplying contaminated water to American troops and Iraqi civilians at a marine base in Ramadi.
    The claims by former employees, who gave evidence to Democratic senators yesterday, was backed up by internal Halliburton emails relating to the untreated water and the health problems it had caused in Camp Junction City, as the Ramadi base is called. (…)

  • Unfathomed Dangers in PATRIOT Act Reauthorization
    24 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    A provision in the "PATRIOT Act" creates a new federal police force with the power to violate the Bill of Rights. You might think that this cannot be true, as you have not read about it in newspapers or heard it discussed by talking heads on TV.
    Go to House Report 109-333 USA PATRIOT Improvement and Reauthorization Act of 2005 and check it out for yourself. Sec. 605 reads:
    "There is hereby created and established a permanent police force, to be known as the ’United States Secret Service (…)

  • Was Everything we did a Total Waste of Time?
    24 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Was Everything we did a Total Waste of Time? by Rory Winter
    January 24, 2006 GlobalResearch.ca
    As a peace campaigner from the ’eighties, one of the questions I keep asking myself is: given the imminent threat of nuclear war in the Middle East why is the UK peace movement unable to replicate the effectiveness of the ’80s?
    We can find all kinds of reasons for this, including the mistaken priority that both CND and the Stop the War Coalition (STWC) appear to put on solely organizing (…)

  • Venezuela’s President Hugo Chavez Frias did not fire off missiles at innocent women and children
    23 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Mary MacElveen
    It is so typical of the United States media to sound the alarm as they just did in an editorial: Halt Chavez arms buildup as if the sky is falling. Meanwhile, under this Bush administration, and as reported in a previous article, they allow Russia to rebuild the arms race ... which is far more devastating to the human race.
    Easy does it, my fellow Americans, you have nothing to fear from President Hugo Chavez ... but you do from Bush. Come to think of it, so does the (…)

  • Pity the Orphan
    23 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Uri Avnery
    IT WAS a colorful day in Bil’in. Political flags of many colors were fluttering in the brisk breeze, the vivid election posters and the colorful graffiti on the walls adding their bit. It was the biggest demonstration in the beleaguered village for a long time. This week, the protest against the Fence was interwoven with Palestinian electioneering.
    I was happily marching along in the wintry sunshine, holding high the Gush Shalom emblem of the flags of Israel and Palestine (…)

  • They hate our freedoms?Why did the President circumvent the government and disregard those freedoms?
    23 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    (Washington, DC) Congressman Robert Wexler (D-FL) issued the following statement today at a Democratic Judiciary hearing, which questioned the legality of President Bush’s controversial domestic surveillance programs. The hearing focused on findings by the New York Times and other news sources, which have been corroborated by the Administration that President Bush authorized domestic spying on U.S. citizens by the National Security Agency (NSA) without court approval. In addition, Richard (…)