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  • How to withdraw from Iraq without losing our shirts — and our social security too!
    11 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Jane Stillwater Let’s see. Bush invaded Iraq shortly after Saddam Hussein changed over from the dollar to the Euro. If the purpose of the war on Iraq was to keep the dollar strong, Bush has been defeated already — no matter how many Iraqis he kills. Bush is like one of those gunfighters in the Old West who swaggers into town to rob the bank and steal the land. But apparently Bush didn’t count on the local ranchers, townspeople and school marms organizing (…)

  • The Worst Is Yet to Come. Be afraid. Be very afraid....
    11 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Justin Raimondo
    Those "moral values" Republicans - you know, the ones who supposedly tipped the election in favor of the War Party - really are a hoot. Forget the Iraq war - killing tens of thousands of Iraqi civilians for no clear reason isn’t a moral question as far as these folks are concerned. What they’re really up in arms about is gay marriage and Hollywood’s moral depravity (or do I repeat myself?). But what about this kind of depravity?
    "The Iraq war, [Norman Podhoretz] (…)

  • Top U.S. Marine in Iraq Calls for Massacre in Fallujah
    11 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Take Action: Stand with the people of Fallujah
    The U.S. has surrounded the sealed off City of Fallujah and is preparing to launch the complete destruction of the city. They have told the people that any traffic on the street is now subject to attack and any males between the ages of 15 and 55 who go outside will automatically be killed by the U.S. soldiers. The U.S. is terrorizing and bombing the citizens of Fallujah every night, recently targeting and fully destroying its emergency (…)

  • A march of 2,000 people took place last night, in San Francisco...
    11 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Dear friends:
    A march of 2,000 people took place last night, in San Francisco, against the genocidal attack on Fallujah, and in solidarity with 4,000 hotel workers who are locked out of their jobs by major hotel chains.
    The action was sponsored by International ANSWER and endorsed by the San Francisco Labor Council, and all other anti-war groups.
    Very militant, the marchers were in support of Iraqi people’s resistance and for US out of Iraq immediately.
    Another ANSWER action, in Los (…)

  • Whose Heads Have Turned Away? Comment regarding: The Final Solution (Endlösung) for Fallujah and Ram
    11 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Whose Heads Have Turned Away?
    Comment regarding: The Final Solution (Endlösung) for Fallujah and Ramadi By Yamin Zakaria ,Al-Jazeerah, November 7, 2004....
    Excerpts for background: “The propagandist’s purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human” ............Aldous Huxley "...While modern propaganda techniques were developed by Adolf Hitler and his spin master Joseph Gobbels, it is now the likes of CNN, Fox TV and mainstream (…)

  • The Optimism of Uncertainty
    11 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Howard Zinn
    From an excerpt of Paul Rogat Loeb’s book "The Impossible Will Take a Little While":
    In this awful world where the efforts of caring people often pale in comparison to what is done by those who have power, how do I manage to stay involved and seemingly happy? I am totally confident not that the world will get better, but that we should not give up the game before all the cards have been played. The metaphor is deliberate; life is a gamble. Not to play is to foreclose any (…)

  • End Game Democracy: America Sells its Soul & Loses the World
    11 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Bravo Zulu Bywyd 11-11-2004
    An open letter to the world community:
    " I say we had better look our nation searchingly in the face, like a physician diagnosing some deep disease." —Walt Whitman, "Democratic Vistas"
    Now we have come the End of the colonial experiment known as the "United States of America." It has ended as the founders had warned it would likely end, with concentration of wealth, corruption, and despotism despoiling its democratic foundations. Unfortunately, it (…)

  • Arma-geddon Sick of You : World to US as Americans prepare to level Fallujah
    11 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Valid Outrage
    by Daniel Patrick Welch
    Bush’s Sword of Damocles is poised above the people and city of Fallujah, ready to wreak the pent-up wrath his addled brain thinks his tainted election victory permits. This is the bizarre world-in-a-bubble in which most Americans reside. With a chorus of Onward, Christian Soldiers and a vapid, cheerleading press, the crusade continues unabated, as the world’s revulsion continues to grow.
    True, Americans do have elections, and candidates often take (…)

  • Woe to thee, Fallujah!
    10 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    —As my heart bleeds I’m filled the more with pain—
    Besides the loss of life, the unattended injured, the harried displacement of citizens into questionably ’safer areas’ while escape routes have been blocked, a fractured infrastructure that cannot provide the most basic of needs such as water, food, utilities, medical care; with the tailored destruction of those grand buildings of Muslim worship, combined with every other totally unacceptable action committed under the false veil of (…)

  • Fallujah, the sequel : preparing for Butchery
    9 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Maarten Vanheuverswyn
    The war drums are being beaten once again in Fallujah. After the siege in April this year, the city will again be the scene of an onslaught, probably bigger than last time. Life has almost come to a standstill as thousands of people are fleeing their houses. During the last weeks, the US forces stepped up their daily air raids while at the same time applying heavy psychological warfare tactics. Threatening to crush the resistance, US imperialism is now actually (…)