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  • Fallujah: Dresden in Iraq
    15 April 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Although studiously ignored by the mainstream news media, last month came reports that the U.S. used napalm and chemical weapons in its assault upon the city of Fallujah
    http://www.politicalaffairs.net/article/articleview/744/1/80/%20
    The assault of November 2004 resulted in the near-total destruction of the city, as well as the deaths of thousands of non-insurgent Iraqi civilians. If the reports about napalm and chemical weapons are true, not only would the U.S. be in violation of (…)

  • Congressional report shows US investing hundreds of millions constructing "long-term" bases in Iraq
    15 April 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Kucinich: New Report From Congressional Research Service Shows US Has Long-Term Plans To Stay In Iraq Report Commissioned By Kucinich Shows US Is Spending Hundreds of Millions of Dollars On "Long-Term" Bases In Iraq
    WASHINGTON — April 14 — A new Congressional Research Service (CRS) report commissioned by Congressman Dennis J. Kucinich (D-OH), and released today, shows that the United States is investing hundreds of millions of dollars in the construction of "long-term" bases in Iraq.
    The (…)

  • Block Tokyo from the UN Security Council!
    15 April 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    If Tokyo manages to obtain a permanent seat, it will be a reliable pro-war vote in the foreseeable future, so all leftists, not just patriots in Asia, ought to join the campaign to block Tokyo from the Security Council. Read the Washington Coalition for Comfort Women Issues’ message "Global Petition to Reject Japanese Bid to Obtain a Permanent Seat on the U.N. Security Council," and sign any of the four petitions recommended by the coalition.
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  • How the Bush Administration’s Biological Weapons Buildup Affects You
    14 April 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    A U.S. company recently sent vials of a 1957 pandemic flu strain to laboratories across the world by accident is only the latest outrage from the billion-dollar boondoggle called the federal biological weapons program.
    As you might recall, the Bush administration started its “biodefense” spending spree following the September 2001 deadly anthrax attacks, and one of its first projects was to genetically engineer a super-resistant, even more deadly version of the anthrax virus. (…)

  • U.S. soldiers : how many have gone to war?
    14 April 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Even experts are surprised at the vast numbers of U.S. soldiers who have been deployed after 9/11. Even if troop levels in Iraq are cut next year, the military may be permanently damaged.
    By Mark Benjamin
    Three and a half years have passed since U.S. bombs started falling in Afghanistan, and ever since then, the U.S. military has been engaged in combat overseas. What most Americans are probably unaware of, however, is just how many American soldiers have been deployed. Well over 1 (…)

  • FIERCE FIGHTING IN AL-QA’IM, HEAVY LOSSES ON BOTH SIDES
    14 April 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    ORIGINAL:
    Iraqi Resistance Report for events of Tuesday, 12 April 2005 Translated and/or compiled by Muhammad Abu Nasr, member, editorial board, the Free Arab Voice. http://www.freearabvoice.org
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    Tuesday, 12 April 2005.
    The Battle of al-Qa’im. Ferocious US attack repulsed.
    Resistance communiqué Tuesday night gives US forces 12 hours to withdraw from environs of al-Qa’im.
    Men and women fighters flock to defend liberated city.
    Woman Resistance fighter (…)

  • Occupation Watch: "No Staff on the Ground in Iraq"
    14 April 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The International Occupation Watch Center, launched in July 2003 with the staff of "two Iraqi women and two international peace workers," was quietly restructured. Now the center has "no staff on the ground in Iraq." Lack of funding? If so, that’s a shame. As the power elite implant fake news and manufacture consent through the corporate media, the anti-war movement in the United States needs its own foreign correspondents, photographers, and documentary film makers. The Occupation Watch (…)

  • Don’t be fooled by the spin on Iraq
    14 April 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The US is failing - and hatred of the occupation greater than ever
    by Jonathan Steele
    Saddam Hussein’s effigy was pulled down again in Baghdad’s Firdos Square at the weekend. But unlike the made-for-TV event when US troops first entered the Iraqi capital, the toppling of Saddam on the occupation’s second anniversary was different.
    Instead of being done by US marines with a few dozen Iraqi bystanders, 300,000 Iraqis were on hand. They threw down effigies of Bush and Blair as well as the (…)

  • Child Malnutrition in Iraq Doubles: Let Them Eat Bombs
    14 April 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    A report to the UN human rights commission in Geneva has concluded that Iraqi children were actually better off under Saddam Hussein than they are now.
    This, of course, comes as a bitter blow for all those of us who, like George Bush and Tony Blair, honestly believe that children thrive best when we drop bombs on them from a great height, destroy their cities and blow up hospitals, schools and power stations.
    It now appears that, far from improving the quality of life for Iraqi (…)

  • Karzai Wants US To Stay In Afghanistan Permanently
    13 April 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    In a surprise move today, the Mayor of Kab...er...I mean the President of Afghanistan, Hamid Karzai, is requesting a long-term security pact with the United states that - get this - may include permanent U.S. military bases. When asked about this latest development, Secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld, who is visiting the country, reportedly said that it was up to his boss, Junta leader George Bush to decide if the U.S. will honor Karzai’s request.
    In Washington, White House Press (…)