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Unless the White House abandons its fantasies, civil war will consume the Iraqi nation
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Robert Fisk
30 August 2003
In Iraq, they go for the jugular: two weeks ago, the UN’s top man, yesterday one of the most influential Shia Muslim clerics. As they used to say in the Lebanese war, if enough people want you dead, you’ll die.
So who wanted Ayatollah Mohamed Bakr al-Hakim dead? Or, more to the point, who would not care if he died? Well, yes, there’s (…)

A Failed Israeli Society Collapses While Its Leaders Remain Silent
By AVRAHAM BURG
The Zionist revolution has always rested on two pillars: a just path and an ethical leadership. Neither of these is operative any longer. The Israeli nation today rests on a scaffolding of corruption, and on foundations of oppression and injustice. As such, the end of the Zionist enterprise is already on our doorstep. There is a real chance that ours will be the last Zionist generation. There may yet be a (…)

CONGRESS MUST INVESTIGATE WAR PROFITEERING BY HALLIBURTON, OTHER BUSH-CONNECTED CORPORATIONS
Newly-launched Campaign to Stop the War Profiteers says recent revelations of secrecy, ballooning tax-payer funded contracts underscores need for action
DURHAM, N.C. — News reports yesterday that Bush- connected corporations Halliburton Co. and Bechtel are receiving billions of dollars in no-bid, insider contracts for Iraq reconstruction - including contracts previously kept from the public, and (…)

Remarks by AFL-CIO President John Sweeney at Labor Day Reporter Roundtable August 28, 2003
As we come to Labor Day 2003, working America is facing a crisis. It’s a jobs crisis and it’s the number 1 issue facing Americans. Despite our so-called recovery, far too many people are out of work and many have been out of work for a long time. White collar as well as blue- collar employees are losing jobs, and many of these jobs aren’t coming back. And executives are slashing health care and (…)

By Jonathan Turley
washingtonpost.com
Thursday, August 28, 2003; Page A27
Last week accused sniper John Allen Muhammad raised a point of legal procedure and received a shocking response — literally. Muhammad objected to a medical test that had not been ordered by the court or discussed with his attorney. In response to his refusal to cooperate, the guards activated a stun belt that sent a powerful electrical charge through his body. While few people in this region have sympathy for (…)

Tariq Ali
The Age
August 27, 2003
The recolonisation of Iraq is not proceeding smoothly.
The resistance in the country (and in Palestine) is not, as Israeli and Western propagandists like to argue, a case of Islam gone mad. It is, in both cases, a direct consequence of the occupation. Before the recent war, some of us argued that the Iraqi people, however much they despised Saddam Hussein, would not take kindly to being occupied by the United States and its British adjutant. (…)

Witnesses testify to beating of Iraqi prisoners by four soldiers
TAREK AL-ISSAWI Associated Press Posted on Thu, Aug. 28, 2003 UMM QASR, Iraq - In a second day of testimony Thursday to determine whether charges of mistreating prisoners of war should be brought against four U.S. Army reservists from Pennsylvania, an officer testified he saw a prisoner being thrown to the ground and other prisoners being punched.
"I saw what appeared to be a punch," Staff Sgt. Donald Bragg testified, in (…)

Suzanne Goldenberg in Washington
Wednesday August 13, 2003
The Guardian
Anti-war activists who visited Iraq before the US invasion have discovered that they could face up to 12 years in prison and $1m in fines. Although travel firms now tout adventure tours to a country that is a temporary home to 150,000 US troops, scores of American protesters have been warned they risk fines or imprisonment for violating a prewar travel ban.
During the past few weeks a retired schoolteacher in (…)

23 Agustos 2003 Rock’n Peace Festival; 2 days long Anti-CocaCola & Anti-War affair... 6/7 September in Istanbul, almost 40 music bands from Turkey and all over the world will join... We all know that Coca Cola is not only a drink trademark. It is a lifestyle. It is a logo of global system.We are the people who have problem with the system. Because we think this system cause poverty, injustice and wars in the world. That Coca Cola is one of the symbols of this system. AND COCA (…)

The Guardian (UK)
August 25, 2003
The foot soldiers are rebelling
Getting into Iraq proved easy. Getting out is already a nightmare
By Peter Preston
There is one grim, twisty rule about the politics of death in action. It isn’t the bodybags coming home that make the difference, sap the resolve and drain the popularity. It is the suitcases packed and stacked on the front porch for those who may replace the fallen. The real pressure points are in the waiting and the anticipation. (…)