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  • US Troops told to ignore Opium Crop that is now more than 1/2 Afghan GDP
    20 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Philip Shishkin in Faizabad, Afghanistan, and David Crawford in Berlin, The Wall Street Journal
    The suspicious whirring of a motor came from somewhere in the dark skies above the river separating Northern Afghanistan from Tajikistan. Tajik border guards say they shouted warnings and then opened fire. What fell out of the sky was a motorized parachute carrying 18 kilograms of heroin.
    It was a small drop in a mighty flood of Afghan heroin that is reshaping the world drug market. Once (…)

  • Depleted uranium: Dirty bombs, dirty missiles, dirty bullets
    20 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    A death sentence here and abroad
    by Leuren Moret
    “Military men are just dumb stupid animals to be used as pawns in foreign policy.” - Henry Kissinger, quoted in “Kiss the Boys Goodbye: How the United States Betrayed Its Own POW’s in Vietnam”
    Vietnam was a chemical war for oil, permanently contaminating large regions and countries downriver with Agent Orange, and environmentally the most devastating war in world history. But since 1991, the U.S. has staged four nuclear wars using (…)

  • BUSH & CHENEY: WINDBAGS OF WAR EMIT MUCH HOT AIR & NATURAL GAS
    20 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Intent on spreading their unique brand of "catastrophic sucess" Cheney and his Boy Blunder have set their sights on Iran.
    They tell us that the mad , psychopathic mullahs are men of such deranged mindset , that no negotiation is possible.
    This vile demagogy plays to the worst instinct of Americans who have been brainwashed since birth to harbor this infantile view of the country.
    Cheney ,if not Bush, certainly knows that :
    a) Iran is a signatory country to the non (…)

  • Beyond Abramoff: House Speaker Hastert Accepted "Tens of Thousands" in Bribe $$
    20 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Turkish officials boasted of giving “tens of thousands of dollars in surreptious payments” to House Speaker Dennis Hastert (R-Illinois) in exchange for political favors.
    That allegation is contained a profile of Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) whistleblower Sibel Edmonds in the current issue of Vanity Fair magazine.
    The article, “An Inconvenient Patriot,” by British writer David Rose, reports that Edmonds was asked to listen to wiretaps as part of what appeared to be an FBI public (…)

  • Woolsey’s Way to Peace
    20 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By David Swanson
    We’ve all heard the line. "That would make us look weak on national security." That line is supposed to be based on public opinion, not just the opinions of media corporations and pundits working for Pentagon-funded think tanks. That line is supposed to have something to do with the general American public. But it does not.
    Take a look at this survey from last spring by the Program on International Policy Attitudes (University of Maryland): http://tinyurl.com/8jzp5 (…)

  • ETAN Calls for Broad International Discussion of Timor Truth Commission Report
    20 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    January 20 - The East Timor and Indonesia Action Network (ETAN) today called on the United Nations to launch a broad and thorough discussion of the report of Timor-Leste’s Commission for Reception, Truth and Reconciliation (known by its Portuguese acronym, CAVR). The group said such attention to the report’s findings and recommendations is needed to prevent others from suffering as the East Timorese have.
    "Widespread understanding of the truth commission’s report and recommendations is (…)

  • Ready, Aim, Cease-fire
    20 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Remi Kanazi
    The people of Gaza are living under occupation. The prison quarters diminished as Israel implemented “no-go” areas in the northern Gaza Strip and took military control. Israel remains firmly in control of the airspace as well as the sea and all borders except the European Union monitored Rafah border, which according to Israel can be shut down at any time. All the while, human rights reports come and go, asserting that the harsh conditions of “post disengagement” are (…)

  • President Hugo Chavez Frias believes that the Bush administration is is plotting it...
    20 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    UPI Intelligence Watch
    By JOHN C.K. DALY, UPI International Correspondent
    WASHINGTON, Jan. 13 (UPI) — The Venezuelan government President Hugo Chavez Frias believes that the Bush administration is plotting it, and Vheadlines.com reports that Venezuelan intelligence believes that the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency is preparing the ground for a coup.
    Among the allegec contenders for leadership in Washington’s post-Chavez contingency planning is billionaire Gustavo Cisneros. Cisneros is (…)

  • Have You Forgotten?
    20 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Monica Benderman
    Have you forgotten? We are people.
    Have you forgotten? There are feelings inside.
    Have you forgotten?
    We are fighting for our lives. We are fighting for the right to live in peace, as we choose. We are fighting to live by what we believe, in the hope that others will be allowed the same opportunity, even as they choose to live differently than what we have chosen.
    Have you forgotten the purpose - while you fight so hard for the cause?
    We gave more than you (…)

  • BUSH’S NEW MULTILATERALISM
    20 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by William Fisher
    With the billions of dollars appropriated by the U.S. for Iraqi reconstruction almost all spent, Japan, Australia and other nations in President George W. Bush’s “coalition of the willing” are likely to be asked to shoulder much of the burden for funding the large number of unfinished projects.
    Getting others to take up the slack is reportedly high on Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice’s agenda when she visits the Far East in March. Her trip, originally scheduled for (…)