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Edward De Sutter 26/05/2001 source : Dutch Journal Medical Science
Source: Nederlands Tijdschrift Geneeskunde, 2001, 26 mei; 145(21), blz.1024 (Dutch Journal Medical Science, 26 May, 2001; 145(21), p.1024) Iraq: Too many babies without eyes
Mohammed A. Salman, an eye surgeon from Baghdad, is reporting via the internet about the phenomenon anophthalmos: babies who have been born with only one eye or who are missing both eyes. This is a rare anomaly, which normally exists at 1 of the 50 (…)

In Feb 1991 USA planes bombed a shelter causing the death of 408 innocent civilians
Inside the Al-Amiriya Shelter / Baghdad- IRAQ By RAMZY BAROUD
A few years ago, I stepped into the horror of the Gulf War. It was April 1999, and the place was Baghdad’s al-Amiriya bomb shelter.
Living most of my life in a refugee camp in Gaza, where the murder of innocent people at the hands of Israeli troops is routine, I was little hesitant to walk into al-Amiriya. I was not braced for what I would (…)

By MICHAEL R. GORDON
WASHINGTON — The Army is accustomed to protecting classified information. But when it comes to the planning for the Iraq war, even an unclassified assessment can acquire the status of a state secret. That is what happened to a detailed study of the planning for postwar Iraq prepared for the Army by the RAND Corporation, a federally financed center that conducts research for the military. After 18 months of research, RAND submitted a report in the summer of 2005 called (…)

By Vincent Browne
Last Wednesday afternoon, I visited the offices of the European Commission in Molesworth Street, Dublin. I wanted a copy of the Lisbon Reform Treaty, on which we will vote in a few months. One of the three gentlemen at reception gave me a photocopy of the document, the only form in which this treaty is available.
I noted that on page 10 (I think it was on page 10, for even the page numbers are confusing) Article 1 stated: ‘‘The Treaty on the European Union shall be (…)

In 1965, during a commencement speech at Howard University, then-President Lyndon Johnson stated, “You do not take a person who, for years, has been hobbled by chains and liberate him, bring him up to the starting line of a race and then say, ‘You are free to compete with others,’ and still justly believe that you have been completely fair.”
With those words, the idea of affirmative action was born. Although it has been distorted and misused over the years, affirmative action simply (…)

If 80% of America wants to End the War & Impeach Bush, why can’t we accomplish our goals?
We have been unsuccesful thus far because we are not united. And why is that? Because many of the anti-war ’leaders’ are actually government plants operating in the cointelpro tradition of infiltrate, disrupt and discredit.
Does that sound outlandish to you? Do you still think we’re a free country and our government would never use nazi tactics like that? Well it’s true.
* Police spies (…)

The USA most Savage Crime of the Century/ Bombing of Al-Amiriya Shelter In February 1991, during the First Gulf War, a U.S. bomb punched a hole through the roof of the Al-Amiriya bomb shelter; seconds later a missile plowed through the opening. The blasts killed 408 civilians, mostly women and children( as can be seen from the following list). Many were killed by the concussion, the rest by a fire so intense it left flash-burned outlines of women and infants on the walls that are still (…)

I Think that I Shall Never See By David Glenn Cox
I think that I shall never see a site as lovely as a tax rebate, for free A partisan platform based on greed by giving more to those who don’t need To rescue the economy is not a mistake but throwing life jackets to those not in the lake?
It’s hard to get angry with the people who are passing out money, only once before in my life have I been this angry about found money. A few years ago I bought a TV from a store which shall remain (…)

Why has the Bush administration been dancing around the question of whether waterboarding is torture?
Waterboarding was one of the most common tortures employed by the Spanish Inquisition for the first half of its 450-year-long history (circa 1480-1834). This has never been a secret. It is attested to by reams of documents - letters, debates, manuals of instruction and copious records of trials that include verbatim accounts of the torture sessions themselves - in the Historical Archives (…)

Alternet
By Robert Scheer
http://internationalnews.over-blog.com/article-16482544.html
Curb your enthusiasm. Even if your favored candidate did well on Super Tuesday, ask yourself if he or she will seriously challenge the bloated military budget that President Bush has proposed for 2009. If not, military spending will rise to a level exceeding any other year since the end of World War II, and there will be precious little left over to improve education and medical research, fight (…)