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  • IRAN: CLINTON’s Monstrous Threat
    27 April 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The Politics of Obliteration
    By DAVE LINDORFF
    Tough guy Hillary Clinton, on the morning of a critical primary vote in Pennsylvania, uttered a monstrous threat, saying on ABC’s "Good Morning America program today that if Iran were to launch a nuclear attack on Israel while she was president, "we would be able to totally obliterate them."
    Think about that a moment!
    A country that we view as a theocracy, run dictatorially by a bunch of self-appointed religious fanatics, whose rule is (…)

  • Breaking the Silence - Israeli Soldiers Speak
    26 April 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Stephen Lendman
    They’re called "Refuseniks" but not for refusing to serve. They’ve done it proudly and courageously, and here’s how "Courage to Refuse" members state their position:
    "We, reserve officers and soldiers of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF)....have always served in the front lines....were first to carry out any mission, light or heavy, (and we did it) to protect the State of Israel and strengthen it.
    We....served....long weeks every year, in spite of dear cost to our (…)

  • Clinton Would ‘Obliterate’ Iran
    23 April 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Commondreams.org April 22, 2008
    Democratic presidential Hillary Clinton has threatened to “obliterate” Iran if it launches a nuclear attack against Israel as she fights for her own political survival.
    “I want the Iranians to know that if I’m the president, we will attack Iran,” Senator Clinton told ABC News, asked what she would do as president were Iran to launch a nuclear attack on Israel.” In the next 10 years, during which they might foolishly consider launching an attack on (…)

  • A pro-Israel group’s plan to rewrite history on Wikipedia
    22 April 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    A pro-Israel group’s plan to rewrite history on Wikipedia
    Report, The Electronic Intifada, 21 April 2008 A pro-Israel pressure group is orchestrating a secret, long-term campaign to infiltrate the popular online encyclopedia Wikipedia to rewrite Palestinian history, pass off crude propaganda as fact, and take over Wikipedia administrative structures to ensure these changes go either undetected or unchallenged.
    A series of emails by members and associates of the pro-Israel group (…)

  • Nato admits mistakenly supplying arms and food to Taliban
    19 April 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    Nato admits mistakenly supplying arms and food to Taliban Anil Dawar and agencies Friday April 18 2008
    Nato forces mistakenly supplied food, water and arms to Taliban forces in southern Afghanistan, officials today admitted.
    Containers destined for local police forces were dropped from a helicopter into a Taliban-controlled area of Zabul province.
    The coalition helicopter had intended to deliver pallets of supplies to a police checkpoint in Ghazni, a remote section of Zabul (…)

  • The Bush Admin’s How-to Guide for Using Religious Warfare to Destroy Iraq
    16 April 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Joshua Holland, AlterNet http://www.alternet.org/story/82212/
    Here’s a thought exercise.
    Imagine if the greatest minds this country has to offer were assembled in a conference room and tasked with drawing up a post-invasion plan that would lead to sectarian bloodshed in a country like Iraq — where different groups had long lived side-by-side, intermarried and thought of themselves first and foremost as Iraqis, rather than as Shiites and Sunnis.
    Their first recommendation would (…)

  • Pearl JAM : "No More" (video, 2007 + lyrics)
    16 April 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Pearl jam "no more" werchter 29-6-2007 envoyé par giorgiolucchese
    I speak for a man who gave for this land took a bullet in the back for his pay spilled his blood in the dirt and the dust and he’s come back to say
    That what he has seen is hard to believe and it does no good to just pray he asks of us to stand, and we must end this war today
    With his mind he’s saying NO MORE With his heart he’s saying NO MORE With his life he’s saying NO MORE WAR
    With his eyes he’s saying (…)

  • Setting the Propaganda Stage for an Attack on Iran, by Paul Craig Roberts
    16 April 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    Global Research, April 15, 2008 Lew Rockwell
    American Hegemony Is Not Guaranteed
    Exactly as the British press predicted, last week’s congressional testimony by Gen. David Petraeus and Green Zone administrator Ryan Crocker set the propaganda stage for a Bush regime attack on Iran. On April 10 Robert H. Reid of AP News reported: "The top US commander has shifted the focus from al-Qaida to Iranian-backed ’special groups’ as the main threat . . . The shift was articulated by Gen. Petraeus (…)

  • LEADING TO WAR, A New Film to See ead Download
    16 April 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    How does a government lead its people to war? How does it communicate to its citizens – and to the wider world – the reasons an rationale for initiating military conflict? What rhetorical devices and techniques are employed? And how is a nation brought to support the profound decision to wage war against another nation? These are the questions that LEADING TO WAR seeks to explore.
    This 72-minute film shows the evolution of the United States government’s case for military action against (…)

  • Costs of war: US budgetary apocalypse
    13 April 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
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    An estimate of the cost of war in Iraq is US$12 billion per month, and in the meantime, demographic trends are creating a budgetary apocalypse, Shaun Waterman writes for ISN Security Watch.
    08 April 2008
    By Shaun Waterman in Washington, DC for ISN Security Watch (08/04/08)
    Before the 2006 election campaign, I asked a veteran congressional aide how Republicans would explain to voters the ruinous continuing costs of the war in Iraq.
    "They’ll just tell ’em the good news," he said. (…)