by Thom Hartmann
published by Common Dreams
Hyping Terror for Fun and Profit
What if there really was no need for much - or even most - of the Cold War? What if, in fact, the Cold War had been kept alive for two decades based on phony WMD threats?
What if, similarly, the War On Terror was largely a scam, and the administration was hyping it to seem larger-than-life? What if our "enemy" represented a real but relatively small threat posed by rogue and criminal groups well outside (...)
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Hyping Terror for Fun and Profit
10 December 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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Rumsfeld Attempts to Respond to Troop Concerns
9 December 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
24 commentsby Tabassum Zakaria
NEW DELHI, India - Under fire from troops who complain they are being sent to war in Iraq with inadequate gear, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld promised Thursday that more would be done to protect forces.
Responding to criticism from troops a day earlier, Rumsfeld also said steps were being taken to deal with explosive devices, a lead cause of death among U.S. forces in Iraq, where more than 1,000 soldiers have been killed in action.
Teams in Washington have (...) -
Widow of Opportunity?
9 December 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
by Uri Avnery
My immediate reaction to Marwan Barghouti’s registration as a candidate for the presidency of the Palestinian Authority was positive.
First of all, I am always in favor of the underdog. And who could be more of an underdog than a prisoner?
Second, I respect the man. I have met him at planning meetings for joint peace actions. I have demonstrated for him in Tel-Aviv and been forcibly evicted from the court building, with a rightist lynch mob howling in the background. (...) -
Uncle Sam Wants Your Kids - Now!
9 December 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
1 commentBy David H. Hackworth
We’ll soon have 150,000 U.S. troops stuck in the ever-expanding Iraqi quagmire, a number that will probably grow even larger before Iraq holds elections presently scheduled for the end of January ’05.
Maintaining such a force is a logistical and personnel nightmare for every grunt in Iraq. And according to several Pentagon number crunchers, it’s also driving the top brass bonkers.
Meanwhile the insurgents continue cutting our supply lines and whacking our (...) -
Kucinich: “The Iraqis Will Not Be Handed Freedom Based On Lies”
9 December 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
18 commentsCongressman Dennis J. Kucinich (D-OH), Co-Chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, gave the following speech today on the House floor:
“Nearly thirteen hundred brave American men and women have sacrificed their lives in Iraq. Yet the central reasons for the US invasion have fallen apart: Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11. Iraq had no weapons of mass destruction. No proof that Iraq was instrumental with Al Queda’s role in 9/11. Iraq was not trying to get nuclear materials from (...) -
You asked for my evidence, Mr Ambassador. Here it is
7 December 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
18 commentsIn Iraq, the US does eliminate those who dare to count the dead
by Naomi Klein
David T Johnson,
Acting ambassador,
US Embassy, London
Dear Mr Johnson, On November 26, your press counsellor sent a letter to the Guardian taking strong exception to a sentence in my column of the same day. The sentence read: "In Iraq, US forces and their Iraqi surrogates are no longer bothering to conceal attacks on civilian targets and are openly eliminating anyone - doctors, clerics, journalists - (...) -
Why are confederate cult Christians BRAGGING about the rape of Fallugah?
7 December 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
By Jane Stillwater
http://jpstillwater.blogspot.com "American troops took Fallugah by storm this week," bragged the evening news. "Airplanes strafed insurgents and tanks rolled through the streets." Why would people who actually call themselves Christians want to make the rape of Fallugah sound like a GOOD thing? You would think, after reading the teachings of Jesus every day like they claim to do, that they would have the good grace to shut up about it. **** Every (...) -
KABUL : US building army base near Iran border
6 December 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
1 commentThe US-led coalition forces in Afghanistan are working on a military base near the country’s western border with Iran.
Locals told the Pajhwok news agency that US forces have been sketching and surveying the land for two months for a 300-hectare airbase in the desert area of Holang, in Ghorian district of Herat province, just 45 kilometres from the Iranian frontier.
Some military commentators believe the development could be linked to rising tensions between the United States and Iran, (...) -
A call for civial disobedience ...
6 December 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
It hurts to see more and more Iraqis are killing themselves for foreign interests
or the treacherous interims government lead by Alawi.
The solution:
All Iraqis should not to take jobs in police or armed forces.
All Iraqis should stop to fight themselves - making the nationalization of this
war impossible.
Leave this unjust war in the hands of the war criminals of USA/Britain.
Report any Iraqi casualty to the international sources which can be trusted.
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Navy probes new photos of Iraqi prisoners abuse
6 December 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
19 commentsThe U.S. Navy has launched a criminal investigation into new photos that were posted on a website showing Navy SEALs in Iraq sitting on hooded and handcuffed Iraqi detainees, and pictures of bloodied prisoners, a Navy spokesman said on Friday.
by aljazeera
An Associated Press reporter found about 40 of the photos posted on a commercial photo-sharing Web site, by a woman who said that her husband brought them from Iraq after his tour of duty.
The reporter handed turned over the photos (...)