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More than two years after the invasion of Iraq, the United States-led occupying force has failed to pacify the Iraqi population and crush the resistance. Nevertheless, U.S. military and civilian leaders have celebrated “victories” and so-called “turning points” in their war for the re-colonization of Iraq time and again.
At the beginning of the occupation, the U.S. government claimed Iraq would be stabilized rapidly, promising that “Baathist remnants” would be apprehended. This didn’t (…)

BAGHDAD, July 3 (UPI) — Several Iraqi legislators Sunday demanded the Iraqi government exert pressure for a timetable for the withdrawal of the U.S.-led forces from the country. During a session on Iraqi sovereignty in the 275-member National Assembly, several lawmakers insisted that extending the presence of foreign forces in their country was illegal because it "ignored the will of the people and their representatives."
The demands came a week after 83 lawmakers signed a memo saying (…)

Patriotic Americans have a lot at stake this Fourth of July. After the glare of fireworks has faded, the true test of American patriotism moves to Congress, where both the House and Senate Judiciary Committees will prepare to debate the fate of the USA Patriot Act.
It’s a debate that has long been anticipated. When Congress passed the Patriot Act — all 150 sections of it — just weeks after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, many lawmakers understood that some of these broad new powers should (…)

WOMBLES was started in the autumn of 2000 by a group of anarchists who were radicalised from the J18, N30, Mayday and Prague actions. Many of the ideas which had difficulty being articulated in the ready existing radical anarchist/Reclaim the Streets movement in London formed the basis of what gave birth to the WOMBLES.
As many of us met each other during the demonstrations against the IMF/World Bank summit in Prague, we wanted to recreate the experiences we all had shared, the emotions, (…)

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AIPAC/Franklin Spy Scandal Spreads to The Whitehouse Mon Jul 4, 2005 23:35
AIPAC/Franklin Spy Scandal Spreads to The Whitehouse As the spy scandal unfolds it now appears to spread further than AIPAC, AEI, and the Pentagon. Michael Ledeen an ultra-Zionist Likudnik believed to be an Israeli agent is a key foreign Policy Advisor to Karl Rove. Posted Jul 4, 2005 06:12 PM PST http://www.sw-asia.com/People/Bio916.htm
Flashback: Why were AIPAC and (…)

Global Eye Heaven’s Gate
By Chris Floyd
This week, President George W. Bush gave a big speech "explaining" the Iraq war to the American people. It was the usual load of lying blather and false piety — deeply, even murderously cynical. But there’s no point in wasting a single thought over these clown shows anymore. Bush is a nasty little moral cretin fronting a gang of elitist thugs whose only concerns are loot and power. Nothing he says has the slightest credibility. Only his actions — (…)

Another July 4th is upon us. Many of my neighbors are hoarding up on the fireworks, the barbecue specialties, and the booze. “Its Independence Day” they exclaim...“This is America, with much to celebrate!” Yeah, right!
Too bad most of America is oblivious to the Downing Street Memo. A few years back, almost one half of those polled thought that Clinton should be impeached from office for lying about sex. Never a Clinton supporter, this writer laughed at the presumptiveness of the charge. (…)

Karl Rove: Worse Than Osama Bin Laden Ted Rall July 04, 2005 NEW YORK—In war collaborators are more dangerous than enemy forces, for they betray with intimate knowledge in painful detail and demoralize by their cynical example. This explains why, at the end of occupations, the newly liberated exact vengeance upon their treasonous countrymen even they allow foreign troops to conduct an orderly withdrawal.
If, as state-controlled media insists, there is such a creature as a Global War on (…)

Anti-Official Communiqué #2.5: (CIRCA): Britain declares Independence from US at Menwith Hill, Yorkshire - 04.07.2004
The largest US spy base in the world is located in the heart of rural England at Menwith Hill in North Yorkshire. Today, July 4th, people assembled at Menwith to declare Independance from America.
Mobeen Arzard, Co-chair of Leeds Stop the War Coalition; Jean Lampert, green MEP for London; and John Sloboda, Co-founder of Iraq Body Count spoke to the people who then walked (…)

Bush and Rumsfeld reject the idea of a timeline to withdraw from Iraq. Bush says we need to "stay the course." Rumsfeld says we’ll be there another 10 years. I wonder if these men would be willing to go through what our soldiers do: Occupying a country that is increasingly hostile to U.S. presence, where more and more we look like a foreign occupying power than a liberating army.
I am sickened every time I hear about another soldier killed in their Humvee, or scores of Iraqi kids blown up (…)