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  • What business is it of Chirac?
    4 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Amira Hass
    A European journalist was asked to write about the wall being built around Anata, which will transform it into an enclosed ghetto within Jerusalem. Sorry, she said, the paper’s editors are only interested in the disengagement. It has it all: upbeat news, lots of action, Jews cursing Jews, Jews beating up Jews. We’re fed up with the repetitious details of the wall’s damages.
    The other side of that coin is the affection with which Ariel Sharon was welcomed in France last (…)

  • Preempting Cheney
    4 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Whatever plans Dick Cheney and his neo-conservatives may have had to conjure up a nuclear threat from Iran as "justification" for military action have been sharply undercut by some timely leaks to the Washington Post. In a redux of President George W. Bush’s spin on the "grave and growing" danger from Iraq, Cheney protégé and newly appointed U.N. Ambassador John Bolton is on record warning that Iranian "deception" must not be allowed to continue much longer: "It will be too late. Iran will (…)

  • Iran 10 Years From Nuclear Bomb-U.S. Intelligence Review Contrasts With Administration Statements
    4 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    A major U.S. intelligence review has projected that Iran is about a decade away from manufacturing the key ingredient for a nuclear weapon, roughly doubling the previous estimate of five years, according to government sources with firsthand knowledge of the new analysis.
    The carefully hedged assessments, which represent consensus among U.S. intelligence agencies, contrast with forceful public statements by the White House. Administration officials have asserted, but have not offered proof, (…)

  • Polish PM on Iraq "It failed totally...Many mistakes, major mistakes, have been committed."
    4 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    TALLBERG, Sweden - Poland’s prime minister said Monday that postwar nation-building efforts in Iraq have "failed totally," but expressed hope that the country’s different religious groups can work together to build an independent nation.
    Prime Minister Marek Belka, whose country has been a close U.S. ally since the invasion of Iraq, said the United States and its allies made a mistake by basing its postwar plan for Iraq on the same model used for Germany after World War II.
    "It failed (…)

  • Ohio-Based Battalion Loses 14 More Marines
    4 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    BROOK PARK, Ohio (AP) - The 14 Marines killed in Iraq on Wednesday by a roadside bomb were members of the same Ohio-based battalion that lost six Marines two days earlier, a Marine Corps spokesman said.
    The Marines were members of the 3rd Battalion, 25th Marines based in this Cleveland suburb, according to Gunnery Sgt. Brad R. Lauer, public affairs chief with the unit.
    The local unit to which the 14 Marines were assigned wasn’t disclosed. The battalion has units in Brook Park, which lost (…)

  • board of veterans appeals re; VA violation
    3 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    I need your help, and it’s now all up to you veterans. I can’t do no more.
    With regard to my claim, VA violation of 38 USC 1722a, I had asked, the Board of Veterans’ Appeals, in accordance with the Code of Federal Regulations, 38 CFR 20.900 “(c) Advancement on the docket. (1) Grounds for advancement..A case may be advanced on the docket..may be granted only if the case involves interpretation of the law of general application affecting other claims...appellant is seriously ill..severe (…)

  • 14 US troops killed
    3 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Iraq bomb attack kills 14 marines
    Pacifying western Iraq is a priority for US-led forces
    Fourteen marines and their civilian translator have been killed in a roadside bombing in north-western Iraq, the US military says.
    It is one of the deadliest attacks on US forces since the 2003 invasion.
    It happened near the city of Haditha, in the same area as an incident on Monday in which six US marines were killed by hostile fire, the army said.
    The city is near the Syrian border in an area (…)

  • 14 Marines, Interpreter Killed in Iraq
    3 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Fourteen U.S. Marines and a civilian interpreter were killed Wednesday in western Iraq, the U.S. command said.
    The Marines, assigned to Regimental Combat Team 2, 2nd Marine Division, II Marine Expeditionary Force (Forward), were killed in action early Wednesday when their vehicle was hit by an improvised explosive device, the military said. One Marine was also wounded in the attack.
    The incident occurred during combat operations just outside Haditha, which is 140 miles northwest of (…)

  • The AFL-CIO and the Iraq war
    3 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    by James Petras
    The US labor confederation, the AFL-CIO, is in a deep crisis. Following a recent split, it lost over 3 million members, reducing it to a mere 9% of the labor force and 7% of the private sector.
    The crisis of the AFL-CIO is the result of politics, including the politics of collaboration with employers and opposition to militant “grass-root” organizing. Over the past 50 years the AFL-CIO trade union bureaucrats have intervened against militant local unions, surrendered past (…)

  • ’Universal Democracy’ Is the Goal As Congress Eyes New Legislation
    3 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    WASHINGTON - When senators return to Washington this September, they will be set to consider new legislation that would commit America to ending tyranny the world over.
    Tucked inside the House version of a bill that authorizes spending on foreign aid is the language of what is known as the ADVANCE Democracy Act. The act instructs American ambassadors and embassy staffs to draw up democracy transition plans for unfree regimes, with input from nonviolent opposition movements in the various (…)