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  • Giuliana Sgrena, true defender of Iraqi and Afghan people must be release soon!
    7 February 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    From Rawa
    It was painful news for us to know about kidnapping of our best friend Giuliana Sgrena in Iraq. She has been a wonderful voice for people of Iraq and Afghanistan and has tried hard in the past years to inform others about the plight of Iraqis and Afghans under the so-called "war on terror" camping launched by the US government.
    Giuliana was in Iraq to witness the plight of innocent Iraqi people and show to the world that the invasion of Iraq by US forces has brought nothing (…)

  • Conscientious Objector Launches Web Site
    7 February 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    WINTHROP, Maine - A 22-year-old veteran from Peaks Island, Maine who was granted conscientious objector status from the Army last November is taking to the Internet to share what he learned with others. Perry O’Brien, who served a tour in Afghanistan as an airborne medic before he was honorably discharged, on Saturday launched his online guide - http://www.peace-out.com - at a Winthrop Area People for Peace breakfast at the Winthrop Congregational Church.
    "The Army doesn’t make this (…)

  • GIULIANA SGRENA: APPEAL NET of ARTISTS AGAINST WARS
    7 February 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Artists Against Wars
    Giuliana Sgrena
    The italian net of Artists against wars appeals to the kidnappers in order to release our friend Giuliana Sgrena.
    It’s not Giuliana the enemy and not even the other reporters of the free press who talk sincerely in favour of the Iraki people and finally not even the volunteers of the NGO’s.
    The net of Artists appeals to the Italian government and asks for the withdrawal of the Italian soldiers, like other contries have done before.
    Democracy (…)

  • Paranoia Grips The US Capital
    7 February 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Paranoia Grips The US Capital Eric Margolis-Contributing Foreign Editor Sunday, February 06, 2005
    The film Seven Days In May is one of my all-time favourites. The gripping 1964 drama, starring Burt Lancaster, depicts an attempted coup by far rightists in Washington using a top-secret Pentagon anti-terrorist unit called something like "Contelinpro."
    Life imitates art. This week, former military intelligence analyst William Arkin revealed a hitherto unknown directive, with the Orwellian (…)

  • New Non-Lethal Weapon Lets Troops Microwave Hostile Crowds
    5 February 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The United States has developed a non-lethal microwave weapon for use in Iraq.
    Officials said the vehicle, termed Sheriff, would contain the Active Denial System. The system uses millimeter-wave electromagnetic energy that can be directed at targets at a range of 1 kilometer.
    The ADS system would be downgraded for Iraqi deployment in urban areas, officials said. The ADS causes the skin to burn, causing the people to run away.
    The Pentagon plans to install the non-lethal, high-powered (…)

  • New Book Says US Has Five Secret Military Bases In Israel
    5 February 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/s...
    New Book Says US Has Five Secret Military Bases In Israel
    Yossi Melman, Haaretz Correspondent
    February 02, 2005
    The United States has five secret military bases in Israel, according to a new book published recently in the US.
    "Code Names," written by journalist William Arkin, a former U.S. intelligence official, says there have been secret ties between the US and Israel since the September 11, 2001 attacks.
    Arkin says the American military is (…)

  • Scottie & Me
    5 February 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    http://www.commondreams.org/scottie.htm
    Scottie & Me
    (formerly known as Ari & I)
    White House Press Briefing with Scott McClellan
    Tuesday, February 01, 2005 12:15 PM
    Russell Mokhiber
    Mokhiber: Scott, last night, in an amicus brief filed before the US Supreme Court, the Justice Department came down in favor of displaying the Ten Commandments at courthouses and statehouses around the country. My question is - does the President believe in Commandment Number Six - thou shalt not (…)

  • Denver Post Seeks Access To Sealed Papers In GI Trials
    5 February 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Denver Post Seeks Access To Sealed Papers In GI Trials Miles Moffeit, Denver Post Staff Writer Friday, February 04, 2005
    The CIA is denying Denver Post attorneys access to evidence used in a closed Army hearing that will determine whether Fort Carson soldiers face murder trials in the fatal interrogation of an Iraqi general.
    In recent weeks, attorneys representing The Post in its attempt to open up the proceedings have sought to view sealed documents introduced in a December evidentiary (…)

  • A.N.S.W.E.R.’s response to Bush’s State of the Union address
    4 February 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Empire - the true aim of the U.S. government - is barely concealed under the lofty rhetoric of Bush’s State of the Union address. In its pursuit, the U.S. government is committed to the destruction of every government and people that stands in its way, in the Middle East and throughout the world.
    "Freedom and democracy" for Iraq and "liberty" around the world are new code words for a very particular global strategy. According to this strategy, the Pentagon’s military pre-eminence will be (…)

  • Soldiers Speak Out: Words from the front-lines
    3 February 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    by US & UK Soldiers
    “The reality right now is that the most dangerous opinion in the world is the opinion of a U.S. serviceman.” - Lance Corporal Devin Kelly, 1st Battalion, 2nd Marine Regiment, Iskandariyah, Iraq.
    “We’re basically proving out that the government is wrong. We’re catching them in a lie.” - Lance Corporal Alexander Jones, 1st Battalion, 2nd Marine Regiment, Iskandariyah, Iraq.
    “We don’t give a crap. What are they going to do, send us to Iraq?” - Corporal Brandon (…)