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  • Uri Avnery: "Death to the Arabs!"
    6 April 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Uri Avnery
    TOMORROW WILL BE the 32nd anniversary of the first "Day of the Land" - one of the defining events in the history of Israel.
    I remember the day well. I was at Ben Gurion airport, on the way to a secret meeting in London with Said Hamami, Yasser Arafat’s emissary, when someone told me: "They have killed a lot of Arab protestors!"
    That was not entirely unexpected. A few days before, we - members of the newly formed Israeli Council for Israeli-Palestinian Peace - had handed (…)

  • Ritter says White House preparing for war in Iran
    4 April 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Ritter says White House preparing for war in Iran
    Ed Barna – Rutland County Herald April 4, 2008
    Scott Ritter, former head of weapons inspection in Iraq who protested there were no weapons of mass destruction to justify an invasion, believes the same is true for Iran.
    But there is an 80 percent chance of war with Iran, he told about 200 people Wednesday at Middlebury College as part of a series of talks facilitated by the Vermont Peace and Justice Center.
    The pattern of (…)

  • Like Dubya : Pelosi, Clinton and Mikulski Deserve Boos, Too!
    4 April 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
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    “The Iraq War is the greatest strategic mistake in our history.” - Lt. Gen. William E. Odom, USA, (Rtd.)
    On March 30, 2008, President George W. Bush tossed out the ceremonial first pitch at the home opener of the Washington Nationals. He was roundly booed by the capacity crowd. He is easily the worse chief executive in the history of the Republic. Bush, with V.P. Dick Cheney and their mob, lied the country into the Iraq War. If you’re keeping count, it was 935 damnable lies! (1) As a (…)

  • Testimony Before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Iraq
    4 April 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    Testimony Before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Iraq
    By William E. Odom, LT General, USA, Ret. – 2 April 2008
    Good morning Mr. Chairman and members of the committee. It is an honor to appear before you again. The last occasion was in January 2007, when the topic was the troop surge. Today you are asking if it has worked. Last year I rejected the claim that it was a new strategy. Rather, I said, it is a new tactic used to achieve the same old strategic aim, political (…)

  • ILWU to Shut Down West Coast Ports May 1 to Protest War
    3 April 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    ILWU to Shut Down West Coast Ports May 1 to Protest War
    In a major step for the U.S. labor movement, the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) has announced that it will shut down West Coast ports on May 1, to demand an immediate end to the war and occupation in Iraq and Afghanistan and the withdrawal of U.S. troops from the Middle East.
    In a February 22 letter to AFL-CIO president John Sweeney, ILWU International president Robert McEllrath reported that at a recent (…)

  • Paul Craig ROBERTS : A Third American War in the Making?
    2 April 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
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    CounterPunch
    The US Congress, the US media, the American people, and the United Nations, are looking the other way as Cheney prepares his attack on Iran.
    If only America had an independent media and an opposition party. If there were a shred of integrity left in American political life, perhaps a third act of naked aggression—a third war crime under the Nuremberg standard—by the Bush Regime could be prevented.
    On March 30, the Russian News & Information Agency, Novosti, cited "a (…)

  • Thousands of police officers who refused to fight Sadr are given the sack
    2 April 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    Thousands of police officers who refused to fight Sadr are given the sack
    Azzaman, March 31, 2008
    Interior Minister Jawad Boulani has ordered the dismissal of thousands of police members and officers who allegedly refused orders to take part in the fight against the militiamen of cleric Moqtada al-Sadr.
    The decision covers most of the police force in the predominantly Shiite neighborhoods of Baghdad and also several cities in the southern Iraq including Basra where most of the (…)

  • Ralph NADER : Put Impeachment Back on the Table (CounterPunch)
    1 April 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    An Open Letter to John Conyers
    Chairman John Conyers House Judiciary Committee U.S. House of Representatives U.S. Congress Washington, DC 20510
    Dear Chairman Conyers:
    Prominent Constitutional law experts believe President Bush has engaged in at least, five categories of repeated, defiant "high crimes and misdemeanors", which separately or together would allow Congress to subject the President to impeachment under Article II, Section 4 of the Constitution. The sworn oath of members of (…)

  • Regime Change: An American Addiction
    1 April 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
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    “The seizure of faraway lands by America...is a perversion of our national mission.” - President Grover Cleveland, in 1893.
    It didn’t start with the U.S.’s Neocon-inspired invasion of Iraq in March, 2003. Whether knowingly or not, the morally bankrupt Bush-Cheney Gang was following an imperial script which is over 110 years old. During that period, the U.S. has “overthrown fourteen governments that displeased it for various ideological, political and economic reasons,” writes Stephen (…)

  • Iraq : Classified memo reveals Iraqi prisoners as "starving" By Jason Leopold
    1 April 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    Online Journal Mars 28, 2008
    A classified memo written by a top military official stationed in western Iraq reveals that a prison in downtown Fallujah is "so overcrowded and dirty that it does not even meet basic “minimal levels of hygiene for human beings.”
    “The conditions in these jails are so bad that I think we need to do the right thing in terms of caring for the prisoners even with our own dollars, or release them,” says the memo, written late last month by Maj. Gen. John Kelly, (…)