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  • White Phosphorous, Daisycutters, DU, Thermobaric, Clusterbombs, Napalm...US uses WMD on civilians
    15 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    White Phosphorous, Daisy cutters, Depleted Uranium, Thermobaric bombs, Clusterbombs, Napalm... US uses WMD against civilians Dirk Adriaensens, coordinator SOS Iraq, Executive committee BRussells Tribunal (12 Nov 2005)
    "Injuries to everyone involved in war - civilians and troops of all sides - shown supreme contempt for international humanitarian law ever since WW2.
    If this war shows one thing it is the need for the World to start to get control over the barbarity of the US military (…)

  • Secretive firm helps U.S. wage information war abroad
    15 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Stephen J. Hedges
    WASHINGTON // To fight what it sees as an insidious propaganda war waged by militants, from incendiary Web sites to one-sided television images of the Iraq war, the Pentagon has been quietly waging its own information battle throughout the Middle East and Central Asia.
    One of its primary weapons is a secretive firm that has been criticized as ineffective and too expensive.
    The Rendon Group, directed by former Democratic Party political operative John Rendon, has (…)

  • CIA Accused of Using Airport in Mallorca
    15 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Spanish Court Gets Report Accusing CIA Used Airport on Mediterranean Island to Transfer Suspects
    By MARIA JESUS
    The National Court has received a prosecutor’s report on allegations that the CIA used an airport on the Spanish island of Mallorca for a program of covert transfers of terror suspects, court officials said Monday.
    The chief prosecutor for the Balearic Islands, which include Mallorca, submitted the 114-page report to the court in July, after a four-month investigation (…)

  • Burn in hell, Mr. President
    14 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by DOUG THOMPSON
    My first reaction when I read the transcript of President George W. Bush’s Veteran’s Day speech was anger. No, not anger. Rage. Blind rage.
    How dare he, I thought. Not even the lowest, scum-sucking son of a bitch in politics would stoop to using a day to honor those who served their country would stoop to using that day to promote his lies-based, illegal, immoral exercise in mass murder called the invasion of Iraq.
    Yes he would. George W. Bush is a pathetic, pitiless (…)

  • Radioactive Tank No. 9 comes limping home
    14 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    (Topeka, Kansas, USA) Across the plains of Kansas the destroyed, radioactive 140,000 lb Abrams Tanks perched on railroad flat cars and rolled towards an uncertain future. Only one thing was certain. They would be radioactive forever. This would be their everlasting Death Mask. RADIOACTIVE The Pentagon deceptively calls it "depleted uranium." The Abrams Tanks are constructed with a layer of radioactive uranium metal plates. The big Tanks fire a giant uranium dart at 2,100 mph, much faster (…)

  • Why are they not in front of their cameras calling Bush a butcher?
    14 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Mary MacElveen
    I first want to thank Mark Parent and LiveJournal.com for bringing this video feed to the attention of many (English Version from Italian TV): US Chemical Weapons Attack on Iraqi Civilians.
    But before you watch this video which is 27 minutes in length, I want to strongly caution you that what you are about to see is so horrific and if you have children, under no circumstances are they to view this feed.
    While I have seen graphic photos of the “Bush War” in Iraq, I (…)

  • Civil Rights Focus Shift Roils Staff At Justice. Veterans Exit Division as Traditional Cases Decline
    14 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Dan Eggen
    The Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division, which has enforced the nation’s anti-discrimination laws for nearly half a century, is in the midst of an upheaval that has driven away dozens of veteran lawyers and has damaged morale for many of those who remain, according to former and current career employees.
    Nearly 20 percent of the division’s lawyers left in fiscal 2005, in part because of a buyout program that some lawyers believe was aimed at pushing out those who did (…)

  • Too Pretty A Picture
    14 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    By E.J. Graff
    Isteeled myself as the camera panned slowly over a vast, sprawling mine operation. I’d come to see the new Charlize Theron movie, "North Country," which is supposed to be based on a real story of sexual harassment at the Eveleth Taconite Co., in Minnesota’s Iron Range. I was expecting the film to bring alive the hostile environment the women hired there in the 1970s and ’80s had endured. If it was at all true to life,the moviecould be rough going. But I hoped it would expose (…)

  • Students rebuffing military recruiters. More high schoolers in state opt out of lists
    14 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Maria Sacchetti and Jenna Russell
    More than 5,000 high school students in five of the state’s largest school districts have removed their names from military recruitment lists, a trend driven by continuing casualties in Iraq and a well-organized peace movement that has urged students to avoid contact with recruiters.
    The number of students removing their names has jumped significantly over the past year, especially in school systems with many low-income and minority students, where (…)

  • A DEADLY INTERROGATION : Can the C.I.A. legally kill a prisoner?
    14 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by JANE MAYER
    At the end of a secluded cul-de-sac, in a fast-growing Virginia suburb favored by employees of the Central Intelligence Agency, is a handsome replica of an old-fashioned farmhouse, with a white-railed front porch. The large back yard has a swimming pool, which, on a recent October afternoon, was neatly covered. In the driveway were two cars, a late-model truck, and an all-terrain vehicle. The sole discordant note was struck by a faded American flag on the porch; instead of (…)