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Tens of thousands of Iraqis have been killed in violence since the U.S.-led invasion last year, American public health experts have calculated in a report that estimates there were 100,000 "excess deaths" in 18 months.
The rise in the death rate was mainly due to violence and much of it was caused by U.S. air strikes on towns and cities.
"Making conservative assumptions, we think that about 100,000 excess deaths, or more have happened since the 2003 invasion of Iraq," said Les Roberts of (…)

Oct. 29, 2004 | George W. Bush tried to laugh off the bulge. "I don’t know what that is," he said on "Good Morning America" on Wednesday, referring to the infamous protrusion beneath his jacket during the presidential debates. "I’m embarrassed to say it’s a poorly tailored shirt."
Dr. Robert M. Nelson, however, was not laughing. He knew the president was not telling the truth. And Nelson is neither conspiracy theorist nor midnight blogger. He’s a senior research scientist for NASA and (…)

Greens Call the Survival of the U.S. Constitution a Missing Issue of the 2004 Election
OCTOBER 28, 2004
WASHINGTON — October 28 — Green Party candidates and leaders have called the sustained assault on the U.S. Constitution over the past decade one of the missing issues of the 2004 election year. "The Constitution — not the flag or the Pledge of Allegiance — is the glue that holds our nation together," said Marakay Rogers, Green candidate for Attorney General of Pennsylvania. "Democrats (…)

By Marc Kaufman
The Defense Department must immediately stop inoculating troops with anthrax vaccine, a federal judge ruled yesterday, saying that the Food and Drug Administration acted improperly when it approved the experimental injections for general use.
Concluding that the FDA violated its own rules by approving the vaccine late last year, U.S. District Judge Emmet G. Sullivan said the mandatory vaccination program — which has inoculated more than 1.2 million troops since 1998 — is (…)

by Justin Raimondo
The tragicomedy of errors currently playing in Iraq took an ominous turn the other day when the ambush of 49 Iraqi National Guards by insurgents was blamed on ... the U.S. And, no, the accuser wasn’t Michael Moore, or Noam Chomsky, or any of the other demonized figures in the Bush-neocon gallery of hate: it was "Prime Minister" Iyad Allawi, our very own puppet, who unilaterally decided to cut his own strings (or, at least, appear to be seen doing so). Allawi told the (…)

Market specialists believe that the reduction of sales in Europe might last for quite a long period of time
The US government is suffering losses not only in Iraq. Cult American brands such as Marlboro, Coca-Cola, MsDonald’s, Ford and others are currently experiencing a decline on the European market, particularly in Germany in France.
According to the results of the third quarter of this year, American companies have found themselves in a rather unpleasant situation. Car makers Ford and (…)

by John Pilger
Three forgotten, grainy films shot more than 40 years ago reveal the evidence of a crime committed by British governments against some of its most vulnerable citizens. What they tell is a shocking, almost incredible story in which the Blair Government has played a major part. One of the films, made in 1957 by the government’s Colonial Film Unit, shows the people of the Chagos islands, a British Crown colony in the Indian Ocean.
The setting is idyllic; a coral archipelago (…)

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A 5 EYEWITNESS NEWS crew in Iraq shortly after the fall of Saddam Hussein was in the area where tons of explosives disappeared, and may have videotaped some of those weapons.
The missing explosives are now an issue in the presidential debate. Democratic candidate John Kerry is accusing President Bush of not securing the site they allegedly disappeared from. President Bush says no one knows if the ammunition was taken before or after the fall of Baghdad on April 9, 2003 when (…)

Reports that 377 tonnes of conventional explosives have gone missing
from an Iraqi storage facility are exaggerated, according to a US news network.
An ABC News report on Wednesday suggested the total may in fact be just three
tonnes .../...
– http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exe...

By LDH
Both European and World social forums aim to be spaces of open and pluralist democracy. They intend to bring together people who share the idea of possible alternatives to the neo-liberal model, as well as to facilitate the broader convergences through meetings and debates.
Keeping that in mind, we are forced to state that some events occurred during the London ESF want comments from Ligue des Droits de l’Homme - French Human Rights League.
Each ESF or WSF takes place in a given (…)