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  • EZLN Communiqué: GENERAL REDALERT
    22 June 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Communiqué from the Clandestine Revolutionary Indigenous Committee - General Command of the Zapatista Army of National Liberation.
    Mexico. June 19, 2005
    To the People of Mexico: To the Peoples of the World:
    Brothers and Sisters:
    As of today, the Zapatista Army of National Liberation has declared, throughout all rebel territory, a
    GENERAL RED ALERT
    Based on this, we are informing you:
    First - That at this time the closure is being carried out of the Caracoles and the Good (…)

  • New report by Dahr Jamail: “Iraqi hospitals ailing under occupation”
    22 June 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    * This report is submitted as evidence to the Jury of conscience during the culminating session of the World Tribunal on Iraq, Istanbul 23-27 June
    New report by Dahr Jamail: “Iraqi hospitals ailing under occupation”
    Bert De Belder
    From April, 2004 through January, 2005, Dahr Jamail surveyed 13 hospitals in Iraq in order to research how the healthcare system was faring under the US-led occupation. While the horrendous security situation in Iraq caused him to confine the survey to (…)

  • Former Unocal Official Zalmay Khalizad vows to crush Iraqi resistance
    22 June 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    New US ambassador vows to crush Iraq’s insurgency
    by Beth Potter- Baghdad
    The new US ambassador to Iraq said Tuesday he would work with the population to crush the insurgency that is throttling much of the country despite massive operations against the rebels.
    "I will work with Iraqis to break the back of the insurgency," said Zalmay Khalilzad, who presented his credentials to President Jalal Talabani on the way to Brussels for an international conference on rebuilding Iraq.
    "Foreign (…)

  • Why We Will Lose the War in Iraq
    21 June 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Douglas Herman June 20, 2005
    Before the war in Iraq began—the covert black operation known as Operation Iraq Freedom—then-Treasury Secretary Paul O’Neill predicted a cost of approximately $200 billion for the operation. The media storm that greeted his forecast cost O’Neill his job. Unfortunately, the meter’s still running, while the war machine idles at the curb, like an overheated Abrams tank. Now the estimate is $300 billion and rising.
    I’d rather be a Pollyanna than a Cassandra. (…)

  • Letter to Dana Milbank about the Downing Street Memo and Corporate Media Complicity in War Crimes
    21 June 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    To: milbankd@washpost.com, Sketch@washpost.com, ombudsman@washpost.com
    Mr. Milbank---
    Regarding Friday’s WashingtonSketch ("Democrats Play House To Rally Against the War"): what an offensive, intelligence-insulting, childish rant, totally lacking in professionalism and propreity. Give me a break.
    First of all, the Washington Post--- as well as much of the mainstream press--- seems more than a bit confused about the Downing Street Memo. (In this age where apparently the words (…)

  • Iraqi Lawmakers demand US forces withdraw from Iraq
    21 June 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Iraqi lawmakers from across the political spectrum called for the withdrawal of foreign forces from their country in a letter released to the media June 19.
    The move comes as U.S. President George W. Bush is under increasing domestic pressure to set a timetable for the pullout of American forces in the face of an increasing death toll at the hands of insurgents.
    Eighty-two Shiite, Kurdish, Sunni Arab, Christian and communist deputies made the call in a letter sent by Falah Hassan (…)

  • Ending the farce
    21 June 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    It is clear the insurgency, contrary to the Bush administration’s view, is homegrown and is exacerbated by every week longer that the U.S. occupies Iraq. American troops are still dying daily and the security situation in Iraq is still a mess two years after Saddam’s ouster.
    It is also clear now that ousting Saddam wasn’t the primary goal.
    The Bush administration has steadfastly refused to tell Americans the real reasons for invading Iraq: having a permanent U.S. military presence in the (…)

  • We’ve seen enough to impeach Bush
    21 June 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    As I said in this space two weeks ago, if Bill Clinton was impeached for lying about having sex with an intern, then George Bush needs to be impeached for the deliberate lies he and his cabal told to start a war that has now taken the lives of more than 1,700 young American men and women and countless Iraqi citizens, plus threatens to bankrupt the country.
    One of our "Sound Off" callers insisted last week that only "Bush haters" would say such things.
    Another took to task the Wisconsin (…)

  • US Asks Japan For Half A Billion Dollars For Missile Defense
    21 June 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    US Asks Japan For Half A Billion Dollars For Missile Defense The Yomiuri Shimbun June 20, 2005 The United States has asked Japan to contribute 58 billion yen toward a joint missile defense development project expected to begin in fiscal 2006, The Yomiuri Shimbun learned Sunday.
    The U.S. government estimates it will spend a total of 545 million dollars (about 58.3 billion yen) on the project by fiscal 2011 and it has requested Japan make an equal contribution.
    Japan contributed 26.2 (…)

  • The Downing Street Memo: Primary source or 2nd hand info
    20 June 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The Memo raises the question: Did the President, the Vice President and other high level officials deliberately fabricate intelligence to convince a gullible public to accept war? These are high crimes and misdemeanors, impeachable offenses to say the least. And with the carnage in Iraq, they could all go to trial for war crimes. Is it any wonder that Bush and Co are running away from the questions?
    Mr. Bush has refused to respond to the allegations, sending his PR man Scottie McClellan (…)