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  • Iraq war could cost US over $2 trillion, says Nobel prize-winning economist
    14 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    – Economists say official estimates are far too low New calculation takes in dead and injured soldiers
    by Jamie Wilson in Washington
    The real cost to the US of the Iraq war is likely to be between $1 trillion and $2 trillion (£1.1 trillion), up to 10 times more than previously thought, according to a report written by a Nobel prize-winning economist and a Harvard budget expert.
    The study, which expanded on traditional estimates by including such costs as lifetime disability and (…)

  • American Terrorists Strike Again
    14 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    18 innocent people killed in air strike
    ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN — (OfficialWire) — 01/14/06 — Acting on local intelligence, the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) targeted and killed at least 18 innocent civilians including women and as many as five children.
    While American TV channels reported that Ayman al-Zawahiri was the target of a CIA air strike Friday in Pakistan Bajur tribal region and may have been among those killed, the reality is quite the opposite.
    What really happened is that (…)

  • PNAC WAR MONGERS FRAMING IRAN WITH AID OF COMPLICIT MEDIA
    14 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Here we go again . The war drums are beating . The New York Times is spewing forth yet more baloney . Judith Miller is gone but James Risen has taken her place as Chief Correspondent for the Neocon War Party and it’s The Toilet Paper of Record .
    Risen claims that Iran has been pursuing the dreaded nuke for the past twenty years . Oh Really? Where are they hiding this programme? For the past three years , The International Atomic Energy Association has scowered the country from one (…)

  • US bribes to recruits reach new high: $40,000 sign-up, $90,000 re-enlistment bonuses
    14 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The Army cited incentives approved by Congress for the current budget year that may help further. New recruits now can receive up to $40,000 as sign-up bonus and up to $90,000 for re-enlisting.
    This is the last paragraph of a long and winding article, unrelated to recruitment.
    – http://www.washtimes.com/national/2...
    or here
    – http://www.infowars.com/articles/ww...

  • BUSH CRUISE MISSILES MURDER PAKISTANI CIVILIANS
    14 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Bush Cruise Missiles Murder Pakistani Civilians
    By Peter Fredson
    January 14, 2006
    Emperor George I, by grace of the Supreme God of the Universe, and the Republican Senate, murdered at least 17 to 35 civilians today, in Pakistan, by launching multiple cruise missiles, which destroyed their homes and lives. By Bush terms, so few deaths are negligible, hardly worth mentioning.
    He would be willing to murder many more times that number to achieve his objective in combating “terrorism” (…)

  • Cheney calls Iraq " Remarkable Success Story"
    13 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    On the Pentagon’s own website , Vice President Cheney was quoted as telling Tony Snow of Fox News that Iraq has become ,in his words, " a remarkable success story."
    A country in ruins , hundreds of thousands dead , US journalists and diplomats billeted behind their Maginot Line , the so called Green Zone, a country polluted with depleted uranium , and the President of Vice regales in his "triumph".
    He furthermore is touting yet more forgeries created by the Pentagon’s Office of (…)

  • Flashback: July 5, 1987 - REAGAN AIDES AND THE SECRET GOVERNMENT
    13 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by ALFONSO CHARDY, HERALD WASHINGTON BUREAU
    WASHINGTON — Some of President Reagan’s top advisers have operated a virtual parallel government outside the traditional Cabinet departments and agencies almost from the day Reagan took office, congressional investigators and administration officials have concluded.
    Investigators believe that the advisers’ activities extended well beyond the secret arms sales to Iran and aid to the contras now under investigation.
    Lt. Col. Oliver North, for (…)

  • Prime (Time) Evil
    13 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    "Iran’s relations with its erstwhile partners in Europe seem to be hurtling downhill like a snowball out of control." - Bridget Kendall, BBC diplomatic correspondent, 27 October 2005
    No prizes awarded for what inspired this classic piece of state propaganda but it speaks reams about the relationship between the state and the corporate media. After all, what is it based on? Nothing more than the US and UK’s assertion concerning Iran’s ‘intentions’, in other words, Ms. Kendall’s words are (…)

  • My Lai saviour & US hero dies - expose UK-US state terrorism, PC racism & Coalition war crimes
    12 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    HUGH THOMPSON, the American helicopter pilot who courageously intervened to save Vietnamese civilians from massacre by US troops at My Lai, Vietnam in 1968, has died.
    HUGH THOMPSON (Vietnam veteran, US Army helicopter pilot, Purple Heart, Distinguished Flying Cross, Soldier’s Medal) (4/15/1943-1/6/2006) was an American hero and a profoundly decent human being of the kind whose decency and courage surely give hope for all humanity.
    On March 16 , 1968, Hugh Thompson (24) and his 3 man (…)

  • The night the Americans came
    12 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Last weekend an American special task force unit raided my house. It was precisely the kind of terrifying experience I have had described to me over and over again by Iraqis I have interviewed in the past two-and-a-half years. My wife, Zina, described it as like something out of a Hollywood action movie.
    It began at half past midnight on Saturday when explosives blew apart the three entrances to my house. We thought we had been caught in a bombing, but then a rifle sneaked round our (…)