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  • UN Official: US Troops ’Starving’ Iraqi Civilians
    16 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    GENEVA - A United Nations human rights investigator on Friday accused U.S. and British forces in Iraq of breaching international law by depriving civilians of food and water in besieged cities as they try to flush out militants.
    Swiss Jean Ziegler, UN special rapporteur of the commission on human rights on the right to food, speaks, with regard to World Food Day on October 16, about the hunger situation in the world at the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, Friday, Oct. 14, 2005. (AP (…)

  • Severely Wounded Troops Tormented By Rumsfeld’s Bill Collectors
    16 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    “It Was Like I Was Being Abandoned. I Was No Good To The Military Anymore”
    At his home near Middletown, N.Y., Robert Loria plays a keyboard. He lost his left hand in a bombing in Iraq. (Dominick Fiorille - Middletown Times Herald Record)
    His hand had been blown off in Iraq, his body pierced by shrapnel. He could not walk. Robert Loria was flown home for a long recovery at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, where he tried to bear up against intense physical pain and reimagine his life’s (…)

  • Depleted uranium is WMD
    14 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    de Leuren Moret
    My grandfather, U.S. Army Col. Edwin Joseph McAllister, was born in Battle Creek in 1895. He does not know that his first grandchild is an international expert on depleted uranium. I have worked in two U.S. nuclear weapons laboratories, and in 1991 I became a whistleblower at the Livermore lab. Depleted uranium is very, very, very nasty stuff: Depleted uranium (DU) weaponry meets the definition of weapon of mass destruction in two out of three categories under U.S. Federal (…)

  • Harold Pinter: Torture and misery in name of freedom
    14 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Harold Pinter who yesterday won the Nobel Prize for Literature
    The great poet Wilfred Owen articulated the tragedy, the horror - and indeed the pity - of war in a way no other poet has. Yet we have learnt nothing. Nearly 100 years after his death the world has become more savage, more brutal, more pitiless.
    But the "free world" we are told, as embodied in the United States and Great Britain, is different to the rest of the world since our actions are dictated and sanctioned by a moral (…)

  • Should the U.S. Withdraw? Let the Iraqi People Decide
    14 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Abigail A. Fuller and Neil Wollman
    Give us three minutes and we can find an op-ed piece in a U.S. newspaper calling for the withdrawal of U.S. forces from Iraq, or arguing that they should stay. The arguments are varied and numerous: If the U.S. leaves, anarchy will ensue. Occupation forces are a target for foreign terrorists. Bush should set a timetable for withdrawal. Setting a timetable would embolden those using violence in Iraq. And so on. What is missing from this picture? Any (…)

  • Cindy Sheehan, I Have Arrived : I Am Home
    13 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Cindy Sheehan
    I was honored and humbled to be in the presence of holy man, Thich Nhat Hahn, today at MacArthur Park in a very Hispanic neighborhood in Los Angeles.
    Thay (teacher), as he is known, is a Buddhist monk who was active during the Vietnam War years, bringing peace and reconciliation to the countries of North and South Vietnam. He was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize by Martin Luther King Jr. He walks with an aura of peace and acceptance radiating from him. (…)

  • Vice President’s role in outing of CIA agent under examination, sources close to prosecutor say
    13 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Jason Leopold
    Cheney’s role in CIA outing not known
    Special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald is trying to determine whether Vice President Dick Cheney had a role in the outing of covert CIA operative Valerie Plame-Wilson, individuals close to Fitzgerald say. Plame’s husband was a vocal critic of prewar intelligence used by President George W. Bush to build support for the Iraq war.
    The investigation into who leaked the officer’s name to reporters has now turned toward a little known (…)

  • Republican Congressman Slams Bush On Militarized Police State Preparation
    13 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Congressman Ron Paul has accused the Bush administration of attempting to set in motion a militarized police state in America by enacting gun confiscation martial law provisions in the event of an avian flu pandemic. Paul also slammed as delusional and dangerous plans to invade Iran, Syria, North Korea and China.
    Ron Paul represents the 14th Congressional district of Texas. He also serves on the House of Representatives Financial Services Committee, and the International Relations (…)

  • Please Don’t Support My Troop
    13 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    My son returned from Iraq last weekend after a year’s service. I confess to breathing much easier now that he is out of that quagmire.
    I have a personal request for all of you George W. Bush supporters and Christian warhawks: please do not support my troop. I have visions and aspirations of having him around, seeing him settle down and start a family at some point, and being near as I grow older. Your support would mean that he would be sent back to this war started and continued on lies (…)

  • What Iraqis Really Think About The Occupation
    13 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The lack of critical media coverage at the beginning of the Iraq War is widely acknowledged. But the media’s failure to cover Iraqi voices of opposition is arguably a greater default.
    The mainstream media convey the impression that there are two categories of Iraqis—the handful of fanatical jihadist terrorists and the majority who showed their yearning to be free during January’s election. In this paradigm, our troops are seen as defending, even cultivating, a nascent democracy. Not (…)