U.S. soldiers’ negligence appears to be the cause of Monday’s killings of two Iraqi media workers in the city of Samara north of Baghdad, said an official from the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) on Tuesday. The organization had not completed its probe of the killings of Al-Iraqiya correspondent Asaad Kadhim and driver Hussein Saleh, …
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The story of Yusuf Fakri Amash is the story of so much of Fallujah. The 11-year-old boy just managed to escape from the town with his family. But not before the U.S. military killed his best friend. "Ahmed was in my class," he says. "He was younger than me. He was standing next to the …
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Civil society groups in Honduras applauded the government’s decision to withdraw the country’s 370 troops from Iraq, while voices in El Salvador called for a pullout of the Salvadoran forces as well. "We were taken by surprise, because it looked like the troops would stay there," Juan Barahona, coordinator of the Popular Bloc, which links …
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“Speaking of the Palestinians, they were dealt a lethal blow,” exulted a jubilant Ariel Sharon, “It will bring their dreams to an end.” Sharon was bragging about his trip to Washington where he bullied Bush into selling out the Palestinians as thoroughly as Neville Chamberlain sold out the Czechs at Munich. “Sharon Got It All” …
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The American press needs to end its lovey-dovey relationship with the Pentagon. The Pentagon has provided ample evidence that it can propagandize the American people without the help of a lap-dog press. It is not the job of the press to support the troops. That is the duty of the American people, their loved ones …
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Once there was a time when American conservatives defended their country from government. No more. Today conservatives defend Bushs warmongering neo-Jacobin government at all costs. In a recent column, “Feeling a Draft” (April 15), I reported that the US has now killed more Iraqi women and children than Saddam Hussein. Two pro-Bush, pro-military superpatriots took …
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Perhaps you haven’t noticed certainly the neo-crazies hope you haven’t but we have just experienced a coup d’etat. What’s a “coup d’etat“? Well, according to Edward Luttwak, author of Coup D’etat: A Practical Handbook, “A coup consists of the infiltration of a small but critical segment of the state apparatus, which is then …
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President Bush may never have actually read the memo contained in his President’s Daily Brief (and here) titled “Bin Ladin [sic] Determined To Strike in US.” The brief has been at the center of a controversy about whether President Bush took appropriate action to protect the country prior to the attacks on 9-11. The “President’s …
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It was a twofer for the serial killers at the helm in Tel Aviv. Israeli helicopter gunships had just taken out a blind paraplegic, Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, when his successor, Abdel Aziz Rantisi, also went up in a puff of smoke. The United States, as usual, exculpated Israel, while the Arab world blamed Uncle Sam. …
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