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  • Pro-Israel lobbyists charged in Pentagon case
    5 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By James Vicini
    ALEXANDRIA, Va. (Reuters) - Two former officials of the pro- Israel lobbying group AIPAC were charged on Thursday with conspiring with a Pentagon analyst to obtain and disclose classified national defense information, U.S. prosecutors said.
    They said the indictment charges Steven Rosen, 63, the former foreign policy director for the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, with conspiracy to communicate national defense information provided by analyst Lawrence Franklin. (…)

  • Military-Indusrial Complex.
    5 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Every once in a while,it’s good to read the short speach as Eisenhower left office.This reminded of the dangers and traps that the U.S. should avoid in the future.Would that they had listened with more attention.

  • Campus Antiwar Network Statement on Self-Determination and Unity in the Antiwar Movement
    5 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    As students organizing against the war on campuses across the United States, we stand in support of full self-determination throughout the Middle East, including the self-determination of Iraqis and of Palestinians. As our generation is asked to sacrifice our consciences and our lives for the sake of U.S. empire-building, we are committed to opposing that empire-building in its entirety.
    In the Middle East today, illegal occupations exist not only in Iraq, but also in Palestine. We (…)

  • Chevron Paid Nigerian Troops After Alleged Killing
    5 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Villagers in Lawsuit Say 4 People Died - Oil Company Questions if Attacks Took Place
    by David R. Baker Nigerian soldiers guarding Chevron oil rigs billed the company for $109.25 a day after they allegedly attacked two villages in the volatile country, killing four people and setting fire to homes.
    The company paid.
    The money was requested in a small invoice — stamped with Chevron’s logo and the name of its Nigerian subsidiary — that surfaced this year as part of a lawsuit against the (…)

  • How the UK gave Israel the bomb
    5 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    London, United Kingdom
    Britain secretly supplied the 20 tonnes of heavy water to Israel nearly half a century ago which enabled it to make nuclear weapons, according to Whitehall documents which have been discovered at the Public Records Office.
    Officials in the Macmillan government deliberately concealed the deal from the United States, according to the files, which were discovered by BBC Newsnight and broadcast on Wednesday night.
    Historians and politicians have been startled by the (…)

  • Gov’t issues two construction tenders for W. Bank settlement
    4 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Nadav Shragai and Gideon Alon, Haaretz Correspondents, and Reuters
    The Housing Ministry issued two tenders Thursday for the building of 72 housing units in the settlement of Betar Ilit, which is situated between Jerusalem and the Etzion Bloc of settlements in the West Bank.
    This year, the ministry has issued tenders for the building of 235 housing units in settlements, the majority of which are for locations in high demand in the so-called "settlement blocs" near metropolitan (…)

  • LARRY FRANKLIN/Michael Ledeen/Israeli SPY CASE Blown Wide Open by NIGERGATE Prosecutor
    4 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    [Alexandria, VA] Reuters reported that US Attorney Paul McNulty, whose grand jury has been investigating Israeli espionage against the US, involving Bush Administration figures, will announce this afternoon new charges against Defense Department analyst Larry Franklin. Franklin had already been accused of illegally disclosing classified defense information to Israeli lobbyists.
    For the first time, Reuters says, McNulty will announce charges against two former employees of the Israel (…)

  • The War on Terror Explained in Plain English
    4 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Carmen Yarrusso
    Basic nature
    To understand the war on terror, it helps to compare it to the war on drugs. Both “wars” use the same basic scam: implement government policies GUARANTEED to create a problem and then charge gullible taxpayers billions to fight a “war” against the problem (which of course can’t possibly succeed because the problem is perpetually sustained by the government policies).
    As long as US government prohibition policies guarantee massive drug profits to millions (…)

  • A Rally and a demontration in front of the nuclear submarine base of l’Ile longue in Bretagne (France)
    4 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Hello,
    We inform you that the Mouvement de la Paix, Greenpeace, Sortir du nucléaire, and differents others organisations organize a Rally and a demontration in front of the nuclear submarine base of l’Ile longue in Bretagne, where are 90 % of the french nuclear weapons, on the 7th august.
    We denounce the violation of the NPT by the french governement
    We ask french governement to respect the NPT and to take initiatives for the nuclear disarmament.
    We ask the local councils to (…)

  • GSFP goes to Crawford to stop the killing
    4 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    George Bush said speaking about the dreadful loss of life in Iraq in August: (08/03/05): "We have to honor the sacrifices of the fallen by completing the mission." "The families of the fallen can be assured that they died for a noble cause." In reaction to these two assinine and hurtful statements, members of Gold Star Families for Peace (GSFP) are going to George’s vacation home in Crawford, Tx this Saturday, August 6th at 11:00 am to confront him on these two statements. 1) We want (…)