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  • Ralph NADER : The Silent Violence of Gaza’s Suffering That Candidates ignore
    31 March 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
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    CounterPunch
    The world’s largest prison—Gaza prison with 1.5 million inmates, many of them starving, sick and penniless—is receiving more sympathy and protest by Israeli citizens, of widely impressive backgrounds, than is reported in the U.S. press.
    In contrast, the humanitarian crisis brought about by Israeli government blockades that prevent food, medicine, fuel and other necessities from coming into this tiny enclave through international relief organizations is received with (…)

  • Two Movies and Three Documentaries for Our Times
    30 March 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    1984 - “After The Atomic War the world is divided into three states. London is the capital of Oceania, ruled by a party who has total control over all its citizens. Winston Smith is one of the bureaucrats, rewriting history in one of the departments. One day he commits the crime of falling in love with Julia. They try to escape Big Brother’s listening and viewing devices, but, of course, nobody can really escape...” Nineteen Eighty-Four (1:50:29)
    The Road to Guantanamo - “Part drama, part (…)

  • Ralph NADER : Bush Blisters the Truth on Iraq (CounterPunch)
    30 March 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    CounterPunch Weekend Edition
    March 22 / 23, 2008
    Worth the Sacrifice?
    By Ralph NADER
    On the occasion of the fifth anniversary of Bush’s illegal war of aggression in Iraq, the Fabricator-in-Chief made a speech at the Pentagon, whose muzzled army chiefs had opposed his costly, ruinous adventure from the start for strategic, tactical and logistical reasons.
    As benefits the dictatorial monarch of yesteryear, evicted by America’s first patriots, this modern-day King George blistered (…)

  • EU Soldiers Accused of Torturing Civilians in Congo
    30 March 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    29.03.2008
    The Swedish military has accused French soldiers of torturing civilians during the EU-led Operation Artemis in the Democratic Republic of Congo in 2003, one of the bloc’s first joint missions.
    Five years ago, the European Union sent some 1,500 soldiers to DR Congo as part of a UN mission to take action against the bandits marauding the north-eastern part of the country. The troops were there to protect the civilians.
    Now the Swedish military is saying that French soldiers (…)

  • OBAMA’s Pandering to Israel, The Audacity of Hypocrisy (CounterPunch)
    29 March 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
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    March 26, 2008
    By Joe MOWREY
    Enough already. I can hardly stand to read the relentless insipid back and forth about Barak Obama’s recent speech on race. Somebody writes a clever bit of cliched rhetoric for him and the Right can’t quit hosing it while at the same time the Left can’t quit drooling over it. What a slippery mess. I keep waiting for some one, somewhere, PLEASE, to point out the giant pimple on Barak Obama’s rhetorical nose. But no one seems to get it. No one seems to want to (…)

  • ARE WE SEEING THE BEGINNING OF THE END IN IRAQ ?
    29 March 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
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    ARE WE SEEING THE BEGINNING OF THE END IN IRAQ AS AN ALLIANCE OF SHIITE INSURGENTS JOIN FORCES AGAINST THE U.S.?
    Saturday, March 29, 2008
    Last October, 2007, Moktada al Sadr and Abdul-Aziz al-Hakim, two of Iraq’s most powerful Shiite leaders, agreed to put their differences aside in an effort to confront their common enemy, the US occupation. For a while the two groups pulled their heads in while they reconfigured their approach to the problem.
    It seems now that they are ready to take (…)

  • Dick Cheney gave the orders for Basra campaign
    28 March 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    Dick Cheney gave the orders for Basra campaign
    Maliki’s government busy trying to save face by issuing a dead line for Mahdi fighters, but the reality is another way around it is Al-Sadr asks AL-Maliki to leave the city, Maliki was saved by the American helicopters when the fighters surrounded his resident in Basra, Al-Qabas reported about the main problem faced the government in this bad presentation that forced Maliki to use his relatives with extra forces came from Karbala:
    Members of (…)

  • Neocon Jonah Goldberg Praises David Mamet
    26 March 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    “All mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion.” - Tom Paine
    On March 11, 2008, a rant from David Mamet appeared in the “Village Voice.” It was entitled: “Why I am No Longer a ‘Brain-Dead’ Liberal.” In it, he confesses that he now embraces the “Free Market” theology and that the late economist, Milton Friedman, is one of his heroes. (1) Mamet is a playwright, who prides himself for his writing on “politics.” His article, however, shows he’s not really much of a political (…)

  • In The Words Of The Dead
    26 March 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    Lizette Alvarez and Andrew Lehren
    March 26, 2008
    BY THE time Jerry Ryen King decided to write about his experiences in Iraq, the teenage paratrooper had more to share than most soldiers.
    In two operations to clear the outskirts of the village of Turki in the eastern Diyala province, Specialist King and the rest of the 5th Squadron faced days of firefights, grenade attacks and landmines. Well-trained insurgents had burrowed deep into muddy canals, a throwback to the trenches of World (…)

  • Valley of Death
    24 March 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The Charge Of The Light Brigade
    by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
    Memorializing Events in the Battle of Balaclava, October 25, 1854, Written 1854
    Half a league half a league, Half a league onward, All in the valley of Death Rode the six hundred: ’Forward, the Light Brigade! Charge for the guns’ he said: Into the valley of Death Rode the six hundred.
    ’Forward, the Light Brigade!’ Was there a man dismay’d ? Not tho’ the soldier knew Some one had blunder’d: Theirs not to make reply, (…)