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  • WHEN DOGS WARN US
    13 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    A TALKATIVE DOG
    By Peter Fredson
    July, 11th 2005
    I often take an early morning walk around my block. There is a large house, about 4 doors down, with about 5 kids, a very noisy parrot, and a very large dog. I have to cross a graveled driveway and usually the gravels makes a slight bit of noise, probably not discernable to any human over a yard away. But, the dog seems have supersensitive hearing. And he lets people know that something may be going wrong. I can practically hear him (…)

  • George Galloway speaks on the bombings
    13 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    From Hansard - House of Commons, 7th July , 4.29pm,
    Mr. George Galloway (Bethnal Green and Bow) (Respect): The hon. Member for Pendle (Mr. Prentice) said that it is a funny old world, and that is certainly true with regard to the issue that he raised. I am, I think, a longer-serving Member of this House than he is, and I remember when the Labour Benches were littered with members of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament. Indeed, Members who wear different badges today used then to sport (…)

  • 128,000 Iraqis have been killed since the U.S. invasion began
    13 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    An Iraqi humanitarian organization is reporting that 128,000 Iraqis have been killed since the U.S. invasion began in March 2003.
    Mafkarat al-Islam reported that chairman of the ’Iraqiyun humanitarian organization in Baghdad, Dr. Hatim al-’Alwani, said that the toll includes everyone who has been killed since that time, adding that 55 percent of those killed have been women and children aged 12 and under.
    ’Iraqiyun obtained data from relatives and families of the deceased, as (…)

  • War Crimes - World Tribunal on Iraq
    13 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    I just returned from Istanbul, where I attended the last sitting of the World Tribunal on Iraq (WTI) and heard three days of testimony from researchers, scientists, and witnesses from all over the world (including Iraq) on crimes against humanity and against this planet-for detailed information see www.worldtribunal.org.
    This was the culminating session of the WTI (modeled after the Bertrand Russell World Peace Foundation tribunal of the late 1960s on crimes committed in Vietnam), after (…)

  • Fathers and mothers of the Americans killed in the Iraq war talk to al-’Arab al-Yawm.
    13 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The bridge of death from Baghdad to Washington sets off grief and anger among the American people.
    * Anti-war, anti-Bush movement on the rise in the US. * Bill Mitchell: “I asked Bush to bring me my son home from Iraq, and he sent him home in a coffin.” * Nadia McCaffrey: “My son was killed in a war without honor for the sake of lies.” * Sue Niederer: “I’m talking to you in order to expose the face of the killer of humanity who stole my dreams.” * The star of Fahrenheit9 /11: “We invaded (…)

  • Iraq: Voices of Resistance
    13 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    An Interview with Dr. Mohammad al-Obaidi of Iraq’s Peoples’ Struggle Movement
    The mainstream media’s attenuation of information regarding Iraq has now rendered public discourse about US policy in Iraq incoherent and incomprehensible. In spite of rising death and tragedy in Iraq, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld claims "progress". Instead of debating the criminality of the US invasion and occupation of Iraq, the New York Times and Washington Post are discussing what Dick Cheney actually (…)

  • Signs of U.S. defeat in Iraq adventure
    13 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The news out of Iraq was more of the same this week, and the signs from Fort Monmouth, N.J., to Sydney, Australia, from the Pentagon to Rome, were that the world’s people, including those in the U.S. armed forces, are fed up with the occupation.
    On July 11, a bomb killed 20 Iraqis west of Baghdad who were waiting to enlist for a job with the pro-occupation army. Resistance fighters killed another 10 Iraqi troops outside Baquba in a firefight. According to the Graduate Institute of (…)

  • Israel Plans To Use Deadly Force Against Anti-Disengagement Protestors
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    Israel Plans To Use Deadly Force Against Anti-Disengagement Protestors
    by Mark Kato
    Ariel Sharon’s Likud government is in the final stages of its plan to remove some 8,000 Israeli citizens from the illegal settlements in Gaza. It is supposed to begin in mid-August, although unforeseeable circumstances could slow the process even though the Israeli cabinet recently voted down 18-3 a proposal to delay the action for three months. Nonetheless, (…)

  • The London Bombings and the Class War
    12 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Dave Stratman
    The terror bombings in London differ from the atrocities committed against the people of Iraq only in scale. In Iraq well over 100,000 people have been butchered by the US/UK killing machine. In London as many as 50 people were killed and hundreds injured. In both cases the killed and injured are the victims of actions designed to terrorize, demobilize, and control innocent people.
    We do not yet know who is responsible for the atrocities in London. Responsibility has (…)

  • If a Mob Boss Says to a Hit Man, "Kill Jim Smith’s Wife," Can He Claim He Didn’t Order the Murder...
    12 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    If a Mob Boss Says to a Hit Man, "Kill Jim Smith’s Wife," Can He Claim He Didn’t Order the Murder Because He Didn’t Mention Her Name? Apparently, That’s Karl Rove’s Thinking.
    We’ve warned BuzzFlash readers not to get too overjoyed about the reports of Karl Rove being nailed as one of the two people who outed Valerie Plame as a CIA operative specializing in tracking the illicit sales of WMD at a time that he was orchestrating the propaganda to start a war based on a nation possessing (…)