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  • Top World thinkers & writers sign Le Feyt Declaration for END to US-UK Iraqi Holocaust & Iraqi Genocide
    26 October 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    The “Le Feyt Declaration on Iraq” (see: ) demands the withdrawal of foreign occupation forces from illegally occupied Iraq and has been signed by eminent scholars, writers and professionals from around the world.
    Peace is the only way but silence kills and silence is complicity. I was accordingly OBLIGED to add my name to the Le Feyt Declaration when invited to do so, the more so since I have been researching the avoidable deaths (excess deaths, deaths that should not have happened) (…)

  • Video: Iraq, Afghan Vet: “Kill Without Thought!”
    20 October 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    Bryan Casler is a U.S. Marine Corps veteran of both the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars. He is the Northeast Regional Coordinator for the Iraq Veterans Against the War. Speaking at a “Winter Soldier” rally in Baltimore City, on Oct. 18, 2008, he said: We were trained, intensely, to “kill without thought”...and then to “think about it later.” The military’s objective is to make its soldiers “into a killing machine.” In basic training and in boot camp, they “broke people down. You weren’t a person (…)

  • Iraq War Creates Shortage of Night Vision Gear for Domestic US Medical Pilots
    16 October 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    The war in Iraq is creating a major - and perhaps deadly - shortage of night vision goggles for civilian pilots who fly medical helicopters in the U.S. "The war in Iraq escalated and the goggles weren’t available," said Gary Sizemore, president of the National EMS Pilots Association and a pilot in Perry, Fla. "We were put on a waiting list." Sizemore estimated only 25 percent of the 800 or so emergency medical helicopters in the U.S. have the technology.
    Iraq War Creates Shortage of Night (…)

  • Kashmir : The Answer Lies In Autonomy
    13 October 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    Sheikh Abdullah’s attempt to reinforce secularism by Kashmir’s example requires exceptional unity of direction in New Delhi
    BY AJIT BHATTACHARJEA Journalist and Author
    IN HIS article in TEHELKA, Arun Jaitley traces the problems we face in Kashmir to Jawaharlal Nehru. In a sense he is right. Kashmir would not have been part of India if Nehru had not been Prime Minister in October 1947, when the state was faced with the decision of whether to accede to India or Pakistan. It would have gone (…)

  • Pakistan: All US missile strike victims were tribesmen
    13 October 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    Monday, October 13, 2008 by Our correspondent
    Source: The News
    MIRAMSHAH (FATA): The three people killed in the missile attack by the US drones on a house in Machas Colony area here Saturday night were all local tribesmen.
    Tribal sources said the dead included Rustam, Munawar and Sakhi, all residents of the area. Five men including Shaider Khan, Faizullah, Muqaddas, Zabiullah and Gul Qadam were injured in the missile strike on a ‘hujra’ at Machas Colony, which used to serve as a camp (…)

  • Iraq: War in the Time of Cholera By Patrick COCKBURN
    12 October 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    CounterPunch Weekend Edition October 10 / 12, 2008
    Corruption and Dirty Water
    A deadly outbreak of cholera in Iraq is being blamed on a scandal involving corrupt officials who failed to sterilize the local drinking water because they were bribed to buy chlorine from Iran that was long past its expiration date.
    The centre of the epidemic is in Babil province, south of Baghdad, in the marshy lands east of the Euphrates river, not far from the ruins of ancient Babylon. In Baghdad, where (…)

  • Paintings for Peace & Planet - making a Hole in the Lying Mainstream Media Wall of Silence
    11 October 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    The most blatantly unreported reality in the Orwellian World of 2008 is entrenched LYING by commission and omission by Mainstream media, politicians and academics. Yet Humanity seems unable to breach a Hole in the Mainstream Wall of Silence.
    There is horribly unjustified mass slaughter (avoidable deaths associated with the 1990-2008 Bush Wars now total 9-11 million; see “9-11 excuse for global genocide. The real 9-11 atrocity: 9-11 million dead in Bush Wars”: ); the biosphere is under (…)

  • US dropped nuclear bomb near Basra in 1991, claims veteran
    9 October 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    Rome, 8 Oct. (AKI) - An American veteran of the first Gulf War in Iraq claims that the United States dropped a five-kilotonne nuclear bomb in 1991 in a deserted area outside the southern city of Basra on the Iranian border. The claim by US war veteran
    A US war veteran has accused the Pentagon of launching a nuclear attack on southern Iraq in the final day of the first Persian Gulf War.
    Jim Brown, a mechanic in the Army’s 10th Mountain Division at the time, told Italian state news channel (…)

  • America’s Secret war in Pakistan
    9 October 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    Marines with long beards and without uniforms
    Posted on October 8, 2008 by Moin Ansari
    There have been reports of US incursions into Pakistan. This report clearly discusses the good, the bad and the ugly
    JALALABAD, Afghanistan – U.S. military officials don’t talk about our secret war in Pakistan.
    Don’t even ask, I was told, on U.S. military bases in Afghanistan at Bagram and Jalalabad.
    Don’t ask about the remotely-controlled American drones armed with missiles that are now (…)

  • “Invasion Of The Sea-Smurfs”
    9 October 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Amy Goodman
    Democracy Now!
    A little-noticed story surfaced a couple of weeks ago in the Army Times newspaper about the 3rd Infantry Division’s 1st Brigade Combat Team. “Beginning Oct. 1 for 12 months,” reported Army Times staff writer Gina Cavallaro, “the 1st BCT will be under the day-to-day control of U.S. Army North, the Army service component of Northern Command, as an on-call federal response force for natural or manmade emergencies and disasters, including terrorist attacks.” (…)