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  • IRAQ : Death Toll ’Above Highest Estimates’ By Ahmed Ali and Dahr Jamail*
    4 June 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    Inter Press Service (IPS) June 2 2008
    The real number of the dead is far higher than even the highest declared in death tolls, many Iraqis say.
    A study by doctors from the Johns Hopkins School of Health in conjunction with Iraqi doctors from al-Mustanceriya University in Baghdad, published in the British medical journal The Lancet in October 2006, estimated the number of excess deaths as a result of the occupation at above 655,000.
    Source: www.worldproutassembly.org
    Just Foreign (…)

  • David McCullough, at Boston College, Sees No Evil
    3 June 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    “It is the responsibility of the intellectual to speak the truth and to expose lies.” - Noam Chomsky
    On May 19, 2008, David McCullough, acclaimed author and gifted historian, gave the commencement address at Boston College, a Jesuit institution. His message to the graduating class centered on the “Love of Learning.” (1) He sharply criticized the misuse of the English language and urged the students to “cure the verbal virus that seems increasingly rampant among your generation.” Mr. (…)

  • Video : Palestinian “Al Nakba” Commemorated on National Mall
    2 June 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    On Sunday, June 1, 2008, on the National Mall, in Washington, DC, a ceremony was held to commemorate—The Catastrophe—know as “Al Nakba.” It represents the forceful expulsion, in 1948, of 750,000 Palestinians from their ancestral homeland to “make way for the state of Israel.” Ms. Dina Shan’ak shared her views about “Al Nakba.” She was raised in a UN refugee camp in Lebanon. Her family was expelled, via “ethnic cleansing,” from their ancient village of Taytaba, in the District of Safad, in (…)

  • 1/3 Oz forces quit Iraq - but Oz STILL in Iraqi & Afghan Genocides
    2 June 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    Australia has now withdrawn one third of Australian forces from the Iraq War, withdrawing 550 but leaving 1,000 to continue Australian participation in the Iraqi Holocaust, the Iraqi Genocide (2 million post-invasion Iraqi excess deaths, 4.5 million Iraqi refugees).
    War criminal, anti-Arab anti-Semitic, racist White Australia remains committed to indefinite military occupation of Iraq - as if a whole ethnically cleansed continent and half of Antarctica were not enough for this greedy, (…)

  • Palestinians Trapped at Crossroads
    1 June 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Nicola Nasser*
    Firing home-made primitive rockets at Israeli targets from the Gaza Strip, the mass sweeping through the Palestinian – Egyptian border crossing of Rafah in January and the series of ongoing peaceful demonstrations at Gaza’s crossing points with Israel are not an aggressive demonstration of self-confidence, but more a show of defensive despair and weakness against the tight Israeli military siege, as much as Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’ threats to resign are (…)

  • NADER : Why McCain, Obama, Clinton haven’t signed onto cluster bombs ban Bill?
    1 June 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    May 29 2008: 111 countries agreed on a treaty to ban the use of cluster bombs, except the USA, Israel, India and China. (+ videos)
    Nader.org Friday, May 30, 2008
    Presidential candidate Ralph Nader wants to know why Senators McCain, Obama and Clinton have not signed onto legislation, S. 594, introduced by Senator Dianne Feinstein, that would serve as a de facto ban on the use and export of nearly all of the one billion cluster bombs in the U.S. Stockpile.
    The bill has 21 Senate (…)

  • War Abroad, Poverty at Home, By PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS *
    31 May 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    CounterPunch May 23, 2008
    Another Stimulus Package for the Pentagon
    The US Senate has voted $165 billion to fund Bush’s wars of aggression against Afghanistan and Iraq through next spring.
    As the US is broke and deep in debt, every one of the $165 billion dollars will have to be borrowed. American consumers are also broke and deep in debt. Their zero saving rate means every one of the $165 billion dollars will have to be borrowed from foreigners.
    The “world’s only superpower” is so (…)

  • Israel Arrests Outspoken Academic Norman Finkelstein
    27 May 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    And the American academic Norman Finkelstein has been arrested and ordered deported from Israel. Finkelstein arrived in Tel Aviv earlier today on his way to the Occupied Territories. He was immediately detained and told he is banned from Israel for ten years. He’s expected to be deported tomorrow. Finkelstein is known one of the most prominent academic critics of Israel’s occupation of the West Bank and Gaza.
    Tuesday, May 27, 2008
    http://www.democracynow.org/2008/5/23/headlines

  • Video : Iraq War Vet Rose Forrest Criticizes Sen. John McCain
    27 May 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YO-bGQS10C0
    Video: Iraq War Vet Rose Forrest Criticizes Sen. John McCain
    Memorial Day, May 26, 2008, Baltimore, MD. On top of Federal Hill, a ceremony of planting Forget-Me-Nots flowers was done to remember America’s heroic war dead. Speaking at the event was Ms. Rose Forrest, an Iraq War veteran, former U.S. Army Captain, National Guard. She served a 12 month tour of duty in Iraq. In her comments, she was critical of some members of the U.S. Congress for (…)

  • What we should remember on this Memorial Day
    26 May 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    “Memorial Day is a United States Federal holiday observed on the last Monday of May (in 2008 on May 26). Formerly known as Decoration Day, it commemorates U.S. men and women who perished while in military service to their country. First enacted to honor Union soldiers of the American Civil War, it was expanded after World War I to include casualties of any war or military action.”
    How unfortunate that we have a need for such a day, especially since “War is a racket. It always has been. It (…)