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  • Iranian president sticks by anti-Israel comments
    13 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Monday stuck by comments casting doubt on the Holocaust that drew censure from the U.N. Security Council and widespread condemnation by world leaders.
    Ahmadinejad, echoing statements he made in Saudi Arabia last week, was quoted by state television and the semi-official ILNA news agency as accusing the West of using the Holocaust as an excuse to favor Israel.
    "If the killing of Jews in Europe is true and the Zionists are (…)

  • Members of Congress Ask Bush to Stop Undercounting U.S. Casualties
    12 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    December 7, 2005
    The Honorable George W. Bush President of the United States of America The White House 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW Washington, D.C. 20500
    Dear Mr. President:
    We are concerned that the Department of Defense has been under-reporting casualties in Iraq by only reporting non-fatal casualties incurred in combat. We write today to request that you provide the American people with a full accounting of the American casualties in Iraq since the March 19, 2003 invasion, (…)

  • Shiite, Sunni groups sign pact for US withdrawal timetable
    11 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Baghdad, Dec. 9 (AP): A group of Shiite and Sunni parties has signed a declaration condemning terrorism, urging a timetable for the end of the US military presence, and vowing never to normalise relations with Israel.
    The parties to the "code of honour" included followers of radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, deputy Prime Minister Ahmad Chalabi, Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari, the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq and the Sunni Iraqi Consensus Front.
    The code also (…)

  • Flashback: Judge Halts Mandatory Anthrax Shots- Troops shouldn’t be "Guinea Pigs"
    11 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    WASHINGTON - A federal judge yesterday ordered the Pentagon to stop administering an anthrax vaccine to service members without their consent, ruling that defense officials cannot require troops to "serve as guinea pigs for experimental drugs."
    In blocking mandatory anthrax inoculations until a full trial can be held on the matter, U.S. District Judge Emmet G. Sullivan agreed with the contention by six unnamed Defense Department plaintiffs. They say the anthrax vaccine is an experimental (…)

  • The Silencing of Carlos Delgado
    11 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    by DAVE ZIRIN
    Sometimes sports mirrors politics with such morbid accuracy you don’t know whether to laugh, cry or hide in the basement. Just as the Bush Administration shows its commitment to democracy by operating secret offshore gulags and buying favorable news coverage in Iraq, the New York Mets have made it clear to new player Carlos Delgado that freedom of speech stops once the blue and orange uniform—their brand—is affixed to his body.
    For the last two years, Delgado chose to (…)

  • Dinner with Condi & the Fate of Gaza
    11 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Conn Hallinan
    There is a moment in Jeffery Goldberg’s New Yorker profile of Brent Scowcroft, George Bush Senior’s former National Security Advisor, when the current Administration’s combination of arrogance and cluelessness crystallize. Over dinner, Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice tells Scowcroft that the ’good news’ from the Middle East is that Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon is pulling out of Gaza, the first step toward resolving the issue of a Palestinian state.
    According (…)

  • Kucinich wants Iraqi vote on withdrawal
    11 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    WASHINGTON, Dec. 9 (UPI) — Rep. Dennis Kucinich, D-Ohio, wants the Iraqis to decide whether the United States military should be withdrawn from Iraq.
    "Congressman Kucinich believes that Iraq, as a free nation and a blossoming democracy, should have the right of self determination," said his spokesman Doug Gordon.
    Kucinich is working on a resolution to be introduced on the floor of Congress "soon" that would make it the sense of Congress that the United States would support an Iraqi (…)

  • Should Israel give up its nukes?
    10 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By George Bisharat
    IN A SUDDEN ATTACK of common sense, a Pentagon-commissioned study released in mid-November suggests an approach to nuclear nonproliferation in the Middle East that might actually be accepted by the people of the region. What is this breakthrough idea? That U.S. policies begin not with a country that currently lacks nuclear weapons - Iran - but rather with the one that by virtually all accounts already has them - Israel.
    To avert Iran’s apparent drive for nuclear (…)

  • Spiegel satirist Broder re Iran Presid’s idea "Give the Jews Schleswig Holstein"
    10 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Henryk M. Broder Iranian President Mahmud Ahmadinedshad’s suggestion to move Israel to Germany is not as absurd as it sounds. If you consider the idea impartially, you can see a historic land reform concept which can be advantageous to all parties. Everyone is attacking the Iranian president again because he suggested moving Israel from the Middle East to Germany, or Austria. Even those who were not outraged about Mahmud Ahmadinedschad’s demand "to wipe Israel off the map" are (…)

  • FREE IRAQI DETAINEES, FREE HOSTAGES
    10 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    A human being is a human being whether he is an American, a British, or an Iraqi. His Wrights must be respected by all governments as those Wrights are guaranteed by all religions and man-made constitutions. The people in Iraq has long suffered from the unjustified embargo which has led to the death of more than 1 million Iraqis. The USA invasion and subsequent occupation of Iraq has resulted in hundreds of thousands of deaths and injuries. Added to all of these inhuman conditions, that the (…)