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The Trap That Backfired The Secret US Plot to Kill Sadr
By PATRICK COCKBURN
Baghdad.
The US Army tried to kill or capture Muqtada al-Sadr, the widely revered Shia cleric, after luring him to peace negotiations at a house in the holy city of Najaf, which it then attacked, according to a senior Iraqi government official.
The revelation of this extraordinary plot, which would probably have provoked an uprising by outraged Shia if it had succeeded, has left a legacy of bitter distrust in (…)

June 9 / 10, 2007 An Interview with Ricardo Alarcon, Vice President of Cuba "We Must Find Another Mode, Not Based on Greed"
By SAUL LANDAU
Editors’ Note: Ricardo Alarcon de Quesada is Cuba’s Vice President and President of its National Assembly. He was interviewed in Havana on May 23, 2007 by Saul Landau.
Saul Landau: Cuba recently received billions in investment from China and Venezuela. In addition, nickel prices have risen sharply and foreign firms are drilling for oil off Cuba’s (…)

“Anybody who couldn’t identify the [USS] Liberty could not tell the difference between the White House and the Washington Monument!” - The late Admiral Thomas Moorer
Arlington, VA - On a beautiful, but very humid morning, Friday, June 8, 2007, I joined about two hundred others at the National Cemetery, located here, on the south side of the Potomac River, opposite Washington, D.C. My invitation card read: “No Greater Love: The 40th Anniversary Remembrance Ceremony: Honoring the 34 (…)

Pentagon ‘Coup’ Completes Military Takeover Of United States Government June 9, 2007
By: Sorcha Faal, and as reported to her Western Subscribers
On a day when the majority of Americans were absorbed in the drama of a young celebrity woman, Paris Hilton, being sent to prison, and which was broadcast live on all US propaganda media outlets, the dreams of the Founding Fathers of the American Republic were destroyed by the complete takeover of the United States Government by its Military (…)

– http://www.bilin-village.org

In sheer frustration and anger with the lying media-machine, I started my blog, Chimes of Freedom, a short while after the false-flag bombings in London in July 2005. Nearly two years later, Channel Four TV News decided to broadcast a piece on a recent survey of British Muslims, showing the majority to believe that 7/7 was indeed a false flag operation for which the British government and its secret services were responsible.
Readers are cautioned that this video of a C4 broadcast is in (…)

Republican Presidential Candidates Back Nuclear Strike Against Iran
By Patrick Martin
07 June, 2007 World Socialist Web
Nine of ten candidates for the Republican presidential nomination explicitly or tacitly supported a US attack on Iran using nuclear weapons, in response to a question at Tuesday night’s nationally televised debate in New Hampshire.
Despite the extraordinary character of these declarations—giving support to the first use of nuclear weapons in war since Hiroshima and (…)

Palestine: The 40th Anniversary of Occupation
By Prof. Francis Boyle
Global Research, June 7, 2007 PalestineChronicle.com
Israel and the United States are still doing everything humanly possible to promote a Palestinian civil war by means of arming, financing and encouraging comprador Palestinian surrogates toward that diabolical end.
On the 40th Anniversary of the so-called Six Day War, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas stated that the Palestinians were on the verge of a civil (…)

William M. Arkin on National and Homeland Security Nuking Iran: The Republican Agenda?
At the Republican debate last night, almost all the candidates said that they would not rule out a nuclear attack on Iran as a means to prevent it from getting its own nuclear weapons. Only one of these knuckleheads would say that attacking Iran — indeed even threatening to nuke Iran — is not the right strategy.
"We have to come to our senses about this issue of war and preemption," he said. The (…)

June 7, 2007 Rebellion in the British Army
by John Pilger
An experienced British officer serving in Iraq has written to the BBC describing the invasion as "illegal, immoral, and unwinnable," which, he says, is "the overwhelming feeling of many of my peers." In a letter to the BBC’s Newsnight and MediaLens.org he accuses the media’s "embedded coverage with the U.S. Army" of failing to question "the intentions and continuing effects of the U.S.-led invasion and occupation." He says most (…)