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In fact, the extent to which the resistance has taken hold indicates that it has recruits from mainstream Iraqis. The Shiite community, let us not forget, was the backbone of larger nationalist parties, as well as the communist party.
The package, which more than triples the $300 million Afghanistan receives this year, is designed to fund projects that can be completed within a year to have maximum impact on the lives of the Afghan people before scheduled elections in October 2004, the officials said, speaking on the condition of anonymity.
"The nature of terrorism is that intelligence about terrorism is murky," Wolfowitz, one of the architects of the Iraq war, said on the "Fox News Sunday" program.
"The battle to secure the peace in Iraq is now the central battle in the war on terror," he said. <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<HUH??!???>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
The evidence that the World Trade Center towers were demolished is compelling. Take a look for yourself.
The "Counterpunch" column about this Texas preppy's remark elicited a stunning reaction--my email was hit by a tidal wave, hundreds of responses an hour at first, reactions of empathy and outrage that told me there is a vast reservoir of doubt, fear, and rage filling up beyond the ken of the cringing institution that calls itself the press. Around 40 percent of those responses came from troops, military families, and veterans. There is a great well of sullen anger smoldering out there against these pop-opera generalissimos. Now, as parents facing our son's first combat tour, we are even more part of that burning.
"He pats us on the back with his speeches and stabs us in the back with his actions," said Charles A. Carter of Shawnee, Okla., a retired Navy senior chief petty officer. "I will vote non-Republican in a heart beat if it continues as is."
"I feel betrayed," said Raymond C. Oden Jr., a retired Air Force Chief Master Sergeant now living in Abilene, Texas. Registered Republican James Cook, who retired to Fort Walton Beach, Fla., after 24 years in the Air Force, said he is abandoning a party that he said abandoned him. "Bush is a liar," he said.
Americans turn botched house raid into a bloody carnage of civilians
This article reviews the well known interview of professor Thomas Eagar (of MIT) by Peter Tyson (chief editor of NOVA) concerning the collapse of the World Trade Center towers. It points out many of the errors contained in this interview. In fact, the errors in the interview are so many that one has to conclude that the article is deliberate deception.
The Bush family were doing business with Saddam Hussein from 1989 up to months before the outbreak of the first Gulf War.
In a document obtained by the respected London-based International Currency Review, it was claimed that after a year long investigation, it had uncovered evidence "of the mobilisation of trillions of dollars in 1989-91". The document names a number of banks it alleges were "supervised by the Bush Sr White House" in the transactions.
In a news report released July 23, Amnesty International (AI) stated it has received reports of unlawful imprisonment of Iraqis and torture by coalition forces, as well as shooting of civilians and theft of property.
Your least favorite troll here. Inviting the Portland IndyMedia readers with capacity to hear more than one side of an issue to read the following commentary that outlines the harm being done to the middle east by their activism.
You can disagree with Mr. Krauthammer's version of the facts. You can disagree with his conclusions. But at least you will understand better the thinking of your politacal opponents. Isn't that to your advantage? If you will read the whole article I'll come back in a day or so and read your comments. The infantile name calling of the rest of you will be ignored.
"It is not a rumor or an Iraqi propaganda but it is a fact, because I myself know a lot of drivers who helped U.S. soldiers escape from Iraq," Badri insisted, adding that smuggling rates hit first a mind-boggling $5,000 for each soldier but were not put down to $500.
"Facts interest me, not theories. The fact is the US consumes more than it produces. There is a gigantic growing annual US foreign trade deficit of $500 billion.. The wars of the US are not an expression of strength but an attempt to prove something that is disappearing, the global power of the US.. The fear spread by the US seems to me the last convulsion of global US power.." Translated from the German
The soldiers were accused of punching, kicking and breaking bones of Iraqi prisoners at Camp Bucca.
Many observers believe the economic situation is direr than the Bush administration has been willing to tell anyone. Iraq is, after all, a country with a debt load larger than Argentina's, a wobbly currency, rising inflation and rampant looting. Add to that an infrastructure that has been pounded by three major wars in the last two decades and millions of people who find themselves suddenly without work.
"Iraq is clearly a basket case," Dean Baker, the co-director of the Washington-based Centre for Economic and Policy Research, recently told a meeting of economists.
The reluctance of the world's biggest oil companies to invest long-term in Iraq because of security concerns is a setback to US efforts to revive the oil industry and rebuild the economy. Industry experts estimate it would cost $30bn-$40bn to tap the full potential of Iraq's vast oil deposits.
Some interesting possibilities raised by this article.
But the sergeant reserves his most blistering remarks for US commanders, who recently announced that his Third Infantry Division will remain in Iraq until the autumn, several months beyond its originally scheduled departure. "We're being told to stay by commanders who just got here a month ago," he complains. "They haven't been here since fucking September like we have."
Since Uday and Qusay Hussein were killed in Mosul on Tuesday, the ambushes have, if anything, become deadlier. Eight US soldiers have died. They may also hasten yet another revamp of the reconstruction effort.
With their laser-targeting assault rifles, wrap-around sunglasses and black uniforms, the men guarding Afghan president Mohammed Karzai look like US special forces.
But in fact they are American mercenaries, working for private contractors. The special forces who used to guard Karzai flew home last autumn after the Bush administration decided to contract out the job of protecting the Afghan leader.
They travel like foreign dignitaries, their SUVs escorted by two US Army Humvees and a security detail led by a master sergeant.
''We don't need KBR,'' says Dathar Al Khashab, general manager of Baghdad's Daura Refinery Co., which like Iraq's other refineries badly needs new equipment after a generation of sanctions. ''I can work with any other company to do this job.''
Releasing militants? ! while innocent administrative detainees are left in jail...
If AP says hundreds, it's gotta be thousands! Thanks Ardeth, Jackie, and Carol!!
Benito Mussolini, says "CORPORATE STATISM IS A RADICAL FORM OF SOCIALISM DESIGNED TO BRIDGE THE GULF BETWEEN THE CLASSES, CREATING EQUALITY FOR ALL THROUGH A REDISTRIBUTION OF THE NATIONAL WEALTH". In otherwords, Fascism is a form of government that turns a profit for the masses.VOTE FASCIST 2004!!!
Bamboo is beneficial to the CO2 value of the atmosphere. While growing it emits more oxygen that the equivalent amount of wood pulp.
A few days ago, the Zapatista Army of National Liberation decided on the death of the so-called "Aguascalientes" of La Realidad, Oventik, La Garrucha, Morelia and Roberto Barrios.
"Another world is possible and another economy is necessary..an economy in which massive social resources are used according to plan. This different economy can only function on the base of radical democracy. In contrast capitalism means dictation of the market and profit and tends to political dictatorship.. We are attacked as once in the dying phase of the Weimar republic." Translated from the german
The song lyric is from Merle Haggard; The cartoon is from Danziger in the July 9 Oregonian; The body count continues...BBC news reports 3 more GI's killed...
The summary of a new Human Rights Watch report includes testimony from an abducted girl who says she witnessed negotiations for the sale of captive children:
Operation Rockingham, established by the Defence Intelligence Staff within the Ministry of Defence in 1991, was set up to 'cherry-pick' intelligence proving an active Iraqi WMD programme and to ignore and quash intelligence which indicated that Saddam's stockpiles had been destroyed or wound down.
Former CIA officer Larry Johnson said, "It's a group of ideologues with pre-determined notions of truth and reality. They take bits of intelligence to support their agenda and ignore anything contrary. They should be eliminated."
You know, the very obvious thing is: Why haven't we found the nuclear weapons? Why haven't we found the evidence that Saddam was really trying to import uranium and enrich uranium for nuclear weapons? Where are the scud-type missiles that Cheney was talking about? Where are the hundreds and hundreds of tons of chemical agents that he said, and the C.I.A. said could fill 16,000 rockets? Where are the huge numbers of materials that were supposedly produced for thousands of liters of Anthrax and botulinum toxin and all of the other biological agents that Colin Powell listed in his speech to the UN--which was written for him by the C.IA. after he turned down a version of the speech that was written for him by Dick Cheney's chief subordinate? Where is any of this material?
The Americans peppered their car with bullets. The vehicle burst into flames. And the Americans just left. For half an hour, the car blazed out of control. Whether the Iraqi occupants had already died of their wounds or were burnt alive, no one knows.
"The International Monetary Fund recently warned of a `deflationary development' and a dangerous intensification of the economic crisis in Germany.. Deflation is characterized by a lowering of price levels on a broad front and thus by the increased purchasing power of money. The cause is a surplus of the supply of goods over the demand for goods. A deflationary gap or demand gap occurs.." Translated fromGerman
And now for something from Down-under
Road Map to nowhere
Cheney explains it all.
I wonder what else they "touched up"?
IF this is true, it throws into question What Really Happened at that shootout where he and Qusay were killed.
Succinct language proffered by this anonymous letter translated from the french by New York based post-situ zine notbored! incites one's consciousness and calls for using "any means necessary" to combat the crisis of our current terror-state. Posted many months ago on the translator's website, distributed at anti-terror-war marches in Portland, this open letter still packs a punch into just two pages.
ISP problems caused a 2 hour publishing outage for portland indymedia.
The White House calculated--correctly--that before anyone would make an issue of the fact that this key piece of "intelligence" was based on a forgery, Congress would vote yes. The war could then be waged and won. In recent weeks, administration officials have begun spreading the word that Cheney was never told the Iraq-Niger story was based on a forgery. I asked a senior official who recently served at the National Security Council if he thought that was possible. He pointed out that rigorous NSC procedures call for a very specific response to all vice presidential questions and added that "the fact that Cheney's office had originally asked that the Iraq-Niger report be checked out makes it inconceivable that his office would not have been informed of the results."
The president has dodged questions over whether he takes responsibility for those words.
Weapons of mass destruction, once a key basis for military action, now are "not of immediate consequence," Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz says.
A weekly 30 minute review of news and opinion recorded from a shortwave radio. 2 files- broadcast quality (13.3MB) and quick download (3.3MB). With times and freqs for listening at home. Free to rebroadcast. Netherlands, Spain, China, Russia, Germany, and Cuba.
The last victim of Bush's political assassinations yesterday: a 14 year old boy. The occupation and pillage of Iraq by U.S. forces continues. A Bush family legacy, folks: no child left behind (alive).
"The message must be new options for the transportation participant, not crusade against the car.. The idealization of the car and individual transportation goes back to the "Third Reich". The streets were designed more and more for high speed unlike the Netherlands for example. In addition there is our problematic ;relation to freedom. The car symbolizes freedom and adventure.." Translated from the German
Depleted uranium exposure from the first gulf war is killing American veterans faster than Bush's war on Iraq is killing troops every day. Ten times as much depleted uranium munitions has been used in the second war on Iraq. The Pentagon continues to ignore the health effects of depleted uranium on its troops and war victims. Its suggestion? Duct tape. The Bush death legacy continues.
Trade unions around the world have launched a boycott of Coca-Cola products, alleging that the company's locally owned bottlers in Colombia used illegal paramilitary groups to intimidate, threaten and kill its workers.
It was hot and stuffy in the chapel of the 1st Unitarian Church. Makeshift handheld fans tried to stir the stale air (global interconnectedness: will they cause tornadoes in Tierra del Fuego?). Joanna made it worth our while to sit through an hour plus of her (for lack of a better word) lecture. And, after all, suffering is the first noble truth of Buddhist teachings!
wow!
With each passing day we are watching the long awaited and much anticipated crash of the Bush Empire.
With no NATO help, no help from any major sources, Bush has no option but take his unilateral tail, and tuck it under his unilateral ass, and take a Unilateral Journey to the United Nations and pray they save him.
Three American soldiers have been killed in Iraq, a US military spokesman has said.
The attack early on Thursday took place in northern Iraq.
No Shit Sherlock
Family letter about a guy in the National Guard, forwarded to me by a co-worker. Shame on you, Bush et al.
When the anti-union B.C. Liberal provincial government sold pulp producer Skeena Cellulose, the buyer closed the doors of the Carnaby mill in Hazelton. Over 100 workers were left without jobs.
Let's get back in his face!
When will these paranoid neo-conspiracy theorists realize that war begets war and their kind incite only hatred and violence?
The purpose of the Front is to aknowledge that the purpose of the public education system has more to do with the system then it has to do with public education. The purpose of the Front is to organize a student resistance capable of going on strike, of self education, of fighting back. The purpose of the Front is to aknowledge that we're sick of this systematic mass therapy bullshit and to take the school out of the hands of the plutocracy, even if that means abandoning it.
Dear One, My sweet brother
In the Dark of The Moon I send you my love my prayers and blessings to the angels that watch over you
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