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  • Indiana Jones and the battle for Fallujah
    20 December 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    Hollywood has joined the war. Universal Pictures announced on Thursday that it is to make The Battle for Fallujah. To prove it is serious, it has enlisted Indiana Jones himself, actor Harrison Ford, to help defeat the insurgency.
    The film — Hollywood’s first foray into the second Iraq conflict — is due to go into production next year and will be based on a yet-to-be-finished book, No True Glory: The Battle for Fallujah by Bing West, a former marine, politician and now war correspondent. (…)

  • Secret Pinochet payments linked to BAE
    20 December 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    David Leigh, David Pallister and Suzanne Goldenberg in Washington
    The British arms firm BAE yesterday refused to comment on documents showing mysterious payments linked to UK weapons purchases by General Augusto Pinochet.
    Sums of up to $5m (£2.57m) are listed in Gen Pinochet’s bank records obtained by a Senate investigation in Washington.
    Some appear to be linked to arms purchases he agreed to make from Royal Ordnance, a BAE subsidiary.
    At one point, Gen Pinochet obtained £1m, which (…)

  • US military sees sharp fall in black recruits
    20 December 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Dolly Wilson’s father proudly served in the Second World War and her husband in Vietnam. But her children will not join the military if she has any say in it.
    "We don’t want our kids to go into no war for nothing," said Mrs Wilson, snatching a cigarette with colleagues outside her Washington office.
    "Bush has two daughters. Let them go over and fight," she added, to a chorus of "That’s not our war" from the others.
    James Golladay served in the US coastguard, but would discourage his (…)

  • Support Grows for January 20 Counter-Inaugural Protest
    19 December 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    A.N.S.W.E.R. leaders on C-Span 1 at 1 pm ET today to report on Jan. 20 CounterInaugural protests
    Leaders from the A.N.S.W.E.R. Coalition and others involved in the January 20 Counter-Inaugural Protest in Washington DC will be holding a press conference at 1 pm ET today (December 17). The press conference will be broadcast live on C-Span 1. Please check the C-Span website for when the press conference will be rebroadcast today and during this weekend. It is called "Inaugural Parade Protests (…)

  • Jan. 20: Line the inaugural route in DC by 9:00 am!
    19 December 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Line the Inaugural Route on January 20 Be there by 9:00 am!
    Update on CounterInaugural Demonstration permits
    Four years ago as George W. Bush rode in his limousine along the Inaugural parade route, he was met by a sea of vocal protestors and anti-Bush signs. Vividly captured in a dramatic scene from the movie Fahrenheit 9/11, the anti-Bush demonstrators lining the inaugural route on Pennsylvania Avenue became the dominant feature of the inauguration, his first day in office.
    On January (…)

  • How Iran will fight back
    19 December 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Kaveh L Afrasiabi
    TEHRAN - The United States and Israel may be contemplating military operations against Iran, as per recent media reports, yet Iran is not wasting any time in preparing its own counter-operations in the event an attack materializes.
    A week-long combined air and ground maneuver has just concluded in five of the southern and western provinces of Iran, mesmerizing foreign observers, who have described as "spectacular" the massive display of high-tech, mobile (…)

  • Cuba Erects Sign Linking U.S. and Nazis
    19 December 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by VANESSA ARRINGTON
    HAVANA - Cuba retaliated for the U.S. diplomatic mission’s Christmas display supporting Cuban dissidents by putting up a billboard Friday emblazoned with photographs of American soldiers abusing Iraqi prisoners and a huge swastika overlaid with a "Made in the U.S.A" stamp.
    The billboard, erected overnight facing the U.S. Interest Section’s offices, stands on the Malecon, Havana’s famed coastal highway.
    A diplomat at the mission noted the abuse of prisoners at (…)

  • World Gathering of Intellectuals and Artists in Defence of Humanity
    17 December 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    CARACAS APPEAL
    Gathered in Caracas, birthplace of Simon Bolivar, intellectuals and artists from fifty-two countries and diverse cultures, all agreed to build a wall of resistance against the project of global domination that is being imposed on the world today.
    We are living in an era in which United Nations decisions are not respected, international laws have been broken, and the basic principles of non-intervention in the internal affairs of sovereign nations ­and the concept of (…)

  • Respite
    15 December 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Respite
    December 11-13, 2004
    11 Dec. “My list is now 32,” says Salam as he arrives at the hotel, “Now 32 of my friends have been killed.”
    He still has tears in his eyes, even though he’s being stoic. Another of his friends has been shot and killed.
    “You know I feel like shit every time I add someone to my list. Sometimes it feels like it is every day,” he says.
    Welcome to Iraq. Where the news gets better with each passing day.
    Heavy fighting is continuing in Fallujah. While the (…)

  • La La Land
    15 December 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    La La Land Maxine Nash, Electronic Iraq, 13 December 2004
    Living here in Iraq I sometimes get a distinct sense of unreality. Recently, I was working in CPT’s office. My colleague Tom Fox was in the office with me, working on the computer. Next to the computer he had placed a kerosene lamp so he could see the papers from which he was working because the electricity was off. In Iraq, the name for a kerosene lamp is la la. I couldn’t help but be struck by the sheer sense of the bizarre in (…)