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David J McKnight
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Thu Jan 13 13:19:22 GMT 2005
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The War Hits Home
Reflections of a family member of an Iraq- bound soldier
by Mary Shaw
My nephew came to visit over the holidays, and I pray it wasn't to say his last goodbye. He is young, intelligent, handsome, and funny. He has not experienced much in life yet, and I can only hope that he has a full life ahead of him in spite of going to war.
http://207.44.245.159/article7660.htm
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The Right Is Wrong Again
by Angie Pratt
For all of their piousness, the Right just doesn't get it. Their new tactic for making the prisoner torture scandal go away is to say that it wasn't really torture. Torture by any other name is still torture.
http://207.44.245.159/article7661.htm
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The Financial Immorality of American Generosity
By Lucinda Marshall
The bottom line is that we are willing to spend much more to kill people than to save people, and that our giving is minuscule compared to our hedonistic quest for power. In other words, far from being the generous nation that we portray ourselves to be, we Americans are morally bankrupt.
http://207.44.245.159/article7662.htm
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Mosul Attacks Kill Five Iraqi Soldiers, Injure Eight, U.S. Says
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000103&sid=azz.vgJVSDE0&refer=us
http://snipurl.com/bynr
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Booby-trapped car explodes in Mosul, killing four civilians, wounding two
http://www.kuna.net.kw/Home/Story.aspx?Language=en&DSNO=696508
http://snipurl.com/byns
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United States Officially Abandons Iraqi WMD Search:
The search is officially over. The group in charge of searching for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq has left the country and returned home to the U.S.
http://snipurl.com/bynv
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War Pimp Alert:
U.S. mulls strikes on Syria:
Some former and serving U.S. intelligence officials who have usually been opposed to any expansion of U.S. military activities in the region are expressing support for such strikes.
http://207.44.245.159/article7666.htm
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Russian deputy FM discusses crisis with Israeli officials :
Russia's Deputy Foreign Minister Alexander Saltanov visited Israel on Wednesday and discussed with government officials a recent crisis between Moscow and Jerusalem over reported Russian plans to sell Syria missiles capable of striking targets within Israel.
http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/spages/526031.html
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Syrian president to visit Russia on reported missile shopping trip:
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad will travel to Russia on January 24 for talks with President Vladimir Putin, sources said, amid reports that he is shopping for a missile that can strike anywhere in Israel.
http://www.turkishpress.com/world/news.asp?id=050112172835.h3lqeraz.xml
http://snipurl.com/bynz
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Robert Fisk: Fear stalks city where the police hide behind masks:
Journalism yields a world of clichés but here, for once, the first cliché that comes to mind is true. Baghdad is a city of fear. Fearful Iraqis, fearful militiamen, fearful American soldiers, fearful journalists.
http://207.44.245.159/article7670.htm
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Robert Parry: Bush's 'Death Squads':
George W. Bush is pushing the United States toward becoming what might be called a permanent “counter-terrorist” state, which uses torture, cross-border death squads and even collective punishments to defeat perceived enemies in Iraq and around the world.
http://207.44.245.159/article7668.htm
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What's Our Biggest Problem...the Insurgency or Bush?:
Three years ago in the Washington Post Ken Adelman, formerly an assistant to Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, promised us "Cakewalk In Iraq." I wonder how Mr. Adelman feels about his promise today.
http://www.counterpunch.org/roberts01122005.html
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Health fears for 'torture victims' :
The four Britons soon to be released from Guantánamo Bay after up to three years in detention may need months of care when they arrive back home, experts in treating torture victims warned
http://www.guardian.co.uk/guantanamo/story/0,13743,1388398,00.html
http://snipurl.com/byo2
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Tortured, humiliated and crying out for some justice :
Four Guantánamo Britons are coming home. Don't forget those left behind
http://207.44.245.159/article7671.htm
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Out of the Bay, far from free
For all the claims about Habib, and despite holding him since May 2002, the US clearly doesn't think it has sufficient evidence to win a conviction -- even in one of the military commissions that critics say are inherently biased against the accused.
http://snipurl.com/byot
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Guantanamo: Three Years of Lawlessness:
Three years after it was created, the U.S. prison camp at Guantanamo remains an enclave outside the law, Human Rights Watch said today.
http://snipurl.com/byoz
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Iraqi Victim Says U.S. Torture Worse That Saddam:
A former inmate at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison forced by U.S. guards to masturbate in public and piled onto a pyramid of naked men said on Tuesday even Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein did not do such things.
http://reuters.myway.com/article/20050111/2005-01-11T231117Z_01_N11310356_RTRIDST_0_NEWS-IRAQ-ABUSE-DC.html
http://snipurl.com/byo4
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Investigate alleged violations of law in Fallujah attack:
U.S. forces cut off Fallujah's water and electricity. About 200,000 residents were forced to flee, creating a refugee population the size of Tacoma. Those who remained faced a grim existence; they were afraid to leave their homes for fear of snipers and they had little to eat and only contaminated water to drink.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/opinion/207300_fallujahhospital11.html
http://snipurl.com/byo6
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Terry Jones: Why are there no fundraisers for the Iraqi dead? :
Why aren't our TV companies and newspapers running fundraisers to help Iraqis whose lives have been wrecked by the invasion? Why aren't they screaming with outrage at the man-made tsunami that we have created in the Middle East? It truly is baffling.
http://207.44.245.159/article7663.htm
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Arab Intellectual Alleges Report Coverup :
An Arab intellectual has accused the United States and Egypt of keeping the United Nations from publishing a survey of the Arab world because it criticizes the U.S. invasion of Iraq and the state of democracy in Egypt.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-4726732,00.html
http://snipurl.com/byob
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Audio: Noam Chomskey 'The Imperial Presidency.':
Chomsky speaks on the war crimes of Bush II, how his legal advisers are attempting to further insulate Bush & Co. from prosecution under international law, and about the meaning of the recent election.
http://207.44.245.159/article7667.htm
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Ayatollah alarms Sunnis with pledge of security force purge:
Ayatollah Abdelaziz al- Hakim told The Times that under US occupation and the interim administration the security forces had become infested with former officers of Saddam Hussein’s Sunni-led regime and needed to be shaken up. His comments are likely to worry Sunnis, who already fear that their grip on government is slipping.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,7374-1436281,00.html
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Jack Dalton: How Many More Will Have to Die?:
Andreas Raya, a Marine that had been to Iraq once, and was scheduled to go back to Iraq a second time, has committed suicide--by forcing the police to shot him in front of a convince store in Ceres, Ca.
http://207.44.245.159/article7669.htm
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Iraq rebels in video taunt:
Departing from fiery Islamic slogans, Iraqi guerrillas have launched a propaganda campaign with an English-language video urging U.S. troops to lay down their weapons and seek refuge in mosques and homes.
http://207.44.245.159/article7672.htm
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Iraq's power supply sinks to record low:
US general : Iraq's national electricity supply has fallen well below its level of before the 2003 invasion, a US army commander told reporters Wednesday.
http://www.turkishpress.com/news.asp?ID=35871
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Cartoon of the week:
http://www.cristianfleming.org/index.php?d=1/10/05
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Israel Wants U.S. to Partly Fund New Checkpoints:
Israel is asking the United States to help pay for a $450 million proposal to set up new crossing points and upgrade others along its barrier with Palestinian areas, U.S. sources briefed on the plan said on Tuesday.
http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=politicsNews&storyID=7297956
http://snipurl.com/byog
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Former British Minister criticizes US support to Israel:
Tony Benn, who was elected an MP in Britain between 1951- 2001, criticized also British Prime Minister Tony Blair for accepting the US policies, particularly occupying Iraq, adding that the British people strongly opposed the war on Iraq and sympathize with the Palestinian people.
http://www.arabicnews.com/ansub/Daily/Day/050112/2005011212.html
http://snipurl.com/byoh
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Militants Kill Israeli Settler, Challenging Abbas:
One militant detonated the bombs and opened fire as the jeep came by, killing a 28-year-old Israeli and wounding three Israeli occupation soldiers
http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=worldNews&storyID=7305271
http://snipurl.com/byoj
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Ghali Hassan: Israel’s Forgotten Tsunami:
The Israeli army has killed more unarmed Palestinians civilians since September 2000 than Americans died in 9/11 attacks. In a callous cold blood, the Israeli army has killed 622 children on their way to schools, in the street, at checkpoints, and in their homes.
http://207.44.245.159/article7664.htm
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Mahmoud Abbas : Where is the bride?:
The poll, this stilted, shotgun wedding, had a strange energy -- drained, anemic, and hesitant. Few seemed genuinely enthusiastic. The bride was not there, after all, and big issues and concerns were also missing. Universal human rights and international humanitarian law were not honored guests at this celebration.
http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article3507.shtml
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Despite False Claim, His Star Rises:
The man who insisted that President Bush make the claim that Saddam Hussein was seeking uranium for nuclear weapons in Africa is poised to assume a top State Department job that would make him the lead US arms negotiator with Iran and North Korea, according to administration officials.
http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/011/nation/Despite_false_claim_his_star_risesP.shtml
http://snipurl.com/byol
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Greg Palast: CBS' Cowardice Behind Purge :
"Independent" my ass. CBS' cowardly purge of five journalists who exposed George Bush's dodging of the Vietnam War draft was done under cover of what the network laughably called an "Independent Review Panel."
http://207.44.245.159/article7665.htm
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Bush Paints Grim Outlook to Sell Social Security Plan:
President Bush warned younger workers on Tuesday of a grim future for their Social Security benefits but critics accused him of exaggerating the retirement system's problems to try and sell his plan to change it.
http://snipurl.com/byom
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Homeland Security Chief Nominee Chertoff helped oversee the detention of hundreds Muslim and Arab men without pressing charges by using the "material witness" statute.
A subsequent report by the Justice Department's inspector general determined that immigrants were rounded up in a "indiscriminate and haphazard manner," held for months while denied access to attorneys and sometimes mistreated behind bars.
http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=05/01/12/155209
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Gov. Bush Wants to Privatize Medicaid:
Bush says the 40-year-old health care safety net for the poor and elderly is in danger of total failure without a complete revamping. He notes that double digit annual cost increases can't be predicted.
http://www.wtev.com/news/state/story.aspx?content_id=E3EB8A6E-D8C1-4C16-8FA2-973E076F63BB
http://snipurl.com/byon
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