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  • A Great Miracle
    17 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Uri Avnery
    "This is a well-known phenomenon in many countries: the most discriminated class of the ruling nation provides the most radical enemies of national minorities and foreigners in general. Those who are trampled-upon trample those beneath them. After being robbed of their self-esteem, they can regain some self-respect only by belonging to a "master race". Thus the poor whites in the United States. The same in France."
    NORTH AFRICAN immigrants on the periphery of French cities (…)

  • All in the Family
    17 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Returning soldiers and their spouses, parents, and children are the backbone of the antiwar movement spreading today in the United States. And they’re speaking louder than ever.
    By Nan Levinson
    CARLOS ARREDONDO, a wiry man with expansive gestures, circles the Cambridge Common, handing out copies of letters his son Alexander wrote in January 2003 as he shipped out for his first tour of duty in Iraq. "I feel so lucky to be blessed with the chance to defend my country 6 months after I (…)

  • Open letter to the BBC
    16 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by The MEDIALENS Editors
    To:
    peter.horrocks@bbc.co.uk (head of TV news) kevin.bakhurst@bbc.co.uk (head of 10 O’clock news)
    I hope things are fine with you. I was pleased to see the Ten leading last night with a report on the use of white phosphorus in the assault on Falluja last year.
    Could you possibly provide the source of Paul Wood’s assertion that "this deadly substance [WP] was fired directly at trenches full of insurgents." That was misleading. As you are likely aware, there is (…)

  • White House Iraq Group Must be Investigated
    15 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Was the White House truthful with the American people and with Congress in making their case to go to war in Iraq? This is a critical question that demands a clear answer and it is long past time for the United States Congress to properly ask it and investigate the matter.
    A group of top White House advisors, including Karl Rove, Condoleezza Rice and Lewis "Scooter" Libby, the now-indicted former chief of staff to Vice President Dick Cheney, formed the White House Iraq Group(WHIG) in (…)

  • The US used chemical weapons in Iraq - and then lied about it
    15 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Now we know napalm and phosphorus bombs have been dropped on Iraqis, why have the hawks failed to speak out?
    by George Monbiot
    Did US troops use chemical weapons in Falluja? The answer is yes. The proof is not to be found in the documentary broadcast on Italian TV last week, which has generated gigabytes of hype on the internet. It’s a turkey, whose evidence that white phosphorus was fired at Iraqi troops is flimsy and circumstantial. But the bloggers debating it found the smoking gun. (…)

  • The Iraqi government started punishing provinces who rejected the constitution
    15 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The referendum about the Iraqi constitution was associated with huge frauds made by the ruling parties, who insisted on passing articles that are in their favor. Many parties and politicians have asked for investigations. However, instead of investigating these frauds, the Iraqi government has raised major offensives against people of the provinces which rejected the constitution. The minister of interior and minister of defense are from parties that strongly backed the constitution. (…)

  • White Phosphorous, Daisycutters, DU, Thermobaric, Clusterbombs, Napalm...US uses WMD on civilians
    15 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    White Phosphorous, Daisy cutters, Depleted Uranium, Thermobaric bombs, Clusterbombs, Napalm... US uses WMD against civilians Dirk Adriaensens, coordinator SOS Iraq, Executive committee BRussells Tribunal (12 Nov 2005)
    "Injuries to everyone involved in war - civilians and troops of all sides - shown supreme contempt for international humanitarian law ever since WW2.
    If this war shows one thing it is the need for the World to start to get control over the barbarity of the US military (…)

  • Secretive firm helps U.S. wage information war abroad
    15 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Stephen J. Hedges
    WASHINGTON // To fight what it sees as an insidious propaganda war waged by militants, from incendiary Web sites to one-sided television images of the Iraq war, the Pentagon has been quietly waging its own information battle throughout the Middle East and Central Asia.
    One of its primary weapons is a secretive firm that has been criticized as ineffective and too expensive.
    The Rendon Group, directed by former Democratic Party political operative John Rendon, has (…)

  • Radioactive Tank No. 9 comes limping home
    14 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    (Topeka, Kansas, USA) Across the plains of Kansas the destroyed, radioactive 140,000 lb Abrams Tanks perched on railroad flat cars and rolled towards an uncertain future. Only one thing was certain. They would be radioactive forever. This would be their everlasting Death Mask. RADIOACTIVE The Pentagon deceptively calls it "depleted uranium." The Abrams Tanks are constructed with a layer of radioactive uranium metal plates. The big Tanks fire a giant uranium dart at 2,100 mph, much faster (…)

  • Why isn’t Tony Blair behind bars?
    14 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Tony Blair knew full well before he went to war that he could face criminal charges for ‘waging a war of aggression’, which is is not only illegal in international law but it is the most serious criminal offence known to mankind. 100,000 deaths later and he still isn’t behind bars.
    by Chris Coverdale
    When the Prime Minister and the Attorney General announced that the war with Iraq would be legal, they betrayed the trust of the British people.
    Waging a war of aggression is not only (…)