Iraq Before and After "LIBERATION"!!
"An Iraqi Tear"The first two photos are Iraqi female students in 1963-1964; the third photo is Iraqi female students in 2006!! In other words the Iraqi women before and after "liberation"…
You can imagine the condition in Iraq through these photos. Iraq was the most developed and liberated country in the Middle East and among the Islam World although the Iraqis were devoted Moslems; yet they knew the real Islam not the Iranian imported Islam… I have no more comments.. Waiting yours..
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AIPAC: Lobbies and Whistleblowers Yes!, Spies No!
James Petras, Axis of LogicThe arrest of two leading members of the principal pro-Israel lobby AIPAC for procuring confidential information from a leading Pentagon official and passing it to an Israeli spymaster seems to be an open and shut case of espionage. This is especially so when the Pentagon employee later confessed and agreed to testify against the accused AIPAC leaders. AIPAC, after reviewing the case, decided to fire the two accused spies and stopped paying their legal expenses. The Israeli agent, recipient of the confidential information fled to Israel, and has refused attempts by the prosecution to interview him. The information disclosed to the Israeli state touched on very sensitive material pertaining to US strategy toward Iran and Iraq and was a grave matter of state, considering that the AIPAC functionaries passed on the information during wartime...
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MEDIA ALERT: MAELSTROM OF VITRIOL - THE BBC SMEARS MEDIA LENS
MEDIA LENSOn April 28, BBC online published an article by David Fuller titled, 'Virtual war follows Iraq conflict.' The article discussed challenges made by Media Lens and others to the website Iraq Body Count (IBC) which had released a "rebuttal" of criticisms the previous day. Fuller's article represents the first substantial coverage the BBC have afforded Media Lens and is the most distorted and damaging smear of our work to appear over the last five years. The report began with about the most basic factual error that can be made about the topic, with Fuller asserting: "IBC compiles a list of all violent deaths in Iraq reported in the media since the outbreak of the war." In fact IBC only records civilian deaths reported by the media. Other basic errors followed. Fuller claimed: "The Lancet study is the highest estimate available." Les Roberts, lead author of the Lancet report, told us last year that his report was the third from highest out of eight studies...
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National Sovereignty and Military Occupation Not Compatible
Ramzy Baroud...The fact of the matter is that much of the country’s ailments were a direct result of the illegal war and violence that followed. Only an end to the occupation can put Iraq on the right track toward national reconciliation and return to normality. As long as the US government perceives its stay in Iraq as a long one, all the complementary attributes of military occupation — violence, security chaos, sectarianism and corruption — will persist, and there is little that Al Maliki, or any other politician, can do about it...
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DAILY WAR NEWS FOR WEDNESDAY, April 3, 2006
Today in IraqA US civilian killed and two others were wounded when their vehicle hit a roadside bomb near Nasiriyah. "I can confirm that one US civilian was killed and two wounded in the incident," a British military spokesman said Wednesday, without providing details (...) Police also found the bodies of 14 Iraqi men in Baghdad who apparently were the latest victims of a wave of sectarian violence involving death squads that kidnap civilians, torture them in captivity and dump their bodies on city streets...
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Iraqi Resistance Report for events of Wednesday, 3 May 2006
Translated and/or compiled by Muhammad Abu Nasr, member, editorial board, the Free Arab VoiIn a dispatch posted at 3:40pm Makkah time Wednesday afternoon, Mafkarat al-Islam reported that Iraqi Resistance fighters assaulted a US military camp at Kilometer 5 southwest of ar-Ramadi, about 110km west of Baghdad. The correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam reported eyewitnesses in the area as saying that a short while earlier Resistance fighters armed with mortars and rockets as well as light and medium weapons attacked the US camp in 'Ulwat ar-Rashid in the Kilometer 5 area, completely destroying one American tank and disabling a Humvee...
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John Pilger detects the Salvador Option
John PilgerThe American public is being prepared. If the attack on Iran does come, there will be no warning, no declaration of war, no truth, writes John Pilger
The lifts in the New York Hilton played CNN on a small screen you could not avoid watching. Iraq was top of the news; pronouncements about a "civil war" and "sectarian violence" were repeated incessantly. It was as if the US invasion had never happened and the killing of tens of thousands of civilians by the Americans was a surreal fiction. The Iraqis were mindless Arabs, haunted by religion, ethnic strife and the need to blow themselves up. Unctuous puppet politicians were paraded with no hint that their exercise yard was inside an American fortress...
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US invasion of Iraq brings religious persecution, US report says
Truth about IraqisThe US invasion of Iraq has produced several results in the oil-rich country: 1. Lawlessness 2. Sectarian violence fuelled by US-trained death squads 3. Debilitated state of the Iraqi economy 4. Abu Ghraib-style torture and murder 5. Failing public health care system 6. Failing infrastructure 7. Embezzled monies slated for reconstruction ... This list is virtually endless...
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GI Special 4E3: "I Ran All Those Missions" - May 3, 2006
Thomas F. Barton... Magaoay said he became troubled by his officers’ instructions during training. "The mentality is shoot anyone who gets close to you and especially those who look like insurgents," he said. "I know that killing persons just because they are of a different race is wrong," he said, "no matter what the rules of engagement are. That is why I left." Magaoay said he was especially troubled by an order from a senior officer, whom he said told him not to take responsibility for any civilian deaths in Iraq, whether the Marines caused the deaths or not. "That just disgusted me," he said. "They wanted us to lie. The Marine Corps is supposed to be the most honorable service in the United States, and I wasn’t expecting to hear them say this."...
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In the chaos of Iraq, one project is on target: a giant US embassy
Daniel McGrory, The TimesTHE question puzzles and enrages a city: how is it that the Americans cannot keep the electricity running in Baghdad for more than a couple of hours a day, yet still manage to build themselves the biggest embassy on Earth? Irritation grows as residents deprived of air-conditioning and running water three years after the US-led invasion watch the massive US Embassy they call "George W’s palace" rising from the banks of the Tigris...
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"Reason for Their Death Is Known"
Dahr Jamail, t r u t h o u tDeath in Iraq. It is relentless and incessant. Know what it is like when scores of your fellow citizens are being killed every single day while the world proceeds unheedingly on? As a journalist I've had but a taste of that poison during my eight months in Iraq. Try it out: be an Iraqi for a day, into your fourth year of being occupied, humiliated, tortured and killed, doing all you can just to survive (...) The vast majority of deaths in Iraq are not being counted. Anyone who has spent any time there knows this. It was and remains common knowledge amongst my colleagues who worked on the streets, rather than those "embedding" or conducting "hotel journalism." (...) My aforementioned friend in Fallujah is both frustrated and angry that most news agencies choose not to report the number of dead in Iraq more accurately. "I know there are some organizations who claim that they have an accurate count, which is less than 40,000 dead Iraqis," he wrote me recently...
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Iraqi boy drowned after soldiers 'forced him to swim at gunpoint'
Times Online and PA NewsFour British soldiers forced an Iraqi teenager into a river at gunpoint and watched him disappear beneath the water "to teach him a lesson", a court martial heard today. They watched as 15-year-old Ahmad Jabbar Kareem - who could not swim - struggled in "obvious distress" in the Shatt al-Basra canal in May 2003, it was alleged. The four soldiers - three from the Irish Guards and one from the Coldstream Guards - then drove from the scene, leaving the boy under the water, the court heard...
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Radical cleric's loyalists want to run 5 ministries
Al-Sadr's followers seek Iraq posts that direct jobs, services
Borzou Daragahi, Los Angeles TimesLoyalists of firebrand Shiite Muslim cleric Muqtada al-Sadr have demanded control over five of Iraq's 19 public-service ministries, in what many worry is a trend toward a government more concerned with satisfying demands for political patronage than serving Iraqis (...) Al-Sadr's followers, who control as many as 35 of 275 seats in parliament representing working-class Shiites from eastern Baghdad and the country's south, already control the ministries of Health and Transportation. But they are now eyeing Education, Youth, Commerce, Agriculture and Electricity as possible additions to their portfolio. Iraqi and Western officials have criticized the ministries under al-Sadr's control over the last year as corrupt and ideological. Doctors, nurses and pharmacists say the health system is poorly run and deteriorating. In addition, al-Sadr's loyalists in the Transport Ministry have removed alcohol from airport duty-free shops and put up portraits of ayatollahs on the billboard in front of the Baghdad train station...
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What Can You Believe
Brian Conley and Isam Rashid...Everyone seems to agree that media cannot function independently under occupation. "Iraq media are not good media because we are under occupation and the occupation controls the media," journalist Salah Hassan told IPS. Safa Muayad says there is no free press in Iraq. "Because occupation killed many journalists.. They want Iraq to be empty of Western journalists, to destroy Iraq. In Fallujah and other cities they did many crimes freely because there were no journalists there." Baghdad resident Ya’rub Tarik believes that once Iraq has a free press, it will serve the people better. "Then the media, by showing the truth, will help to end occupation"...
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Bush Administration Proclaims Concern for Guantánamo Detainees
Kim PetersenThe New York Times ran a piece on Sunday, [1] beginning: "A long-running effort by the Bush administration to send home many of the terror suspects held at Guantánamo Bay [itself a symbol of US imperialism], Cuba, has been stymied in part because of concern among United States officials that the prisoners may not be treated humanely by their own governments, officials said." [italics added] It is not a satire.It is rather a sickly, farcical statement considering that Amnesty International holds that "Guantánamo has become the gulag our times" and a "human rights scandal." Furthermore, Amnesty International holds that these "enemy combatants" -- as the US has designated them -- are unlawfully detained...
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EVO MORALES' COURAGEOUS MOVE NOW MAKES HIM A US TARGET ALONG WITH HUGO CHAVEZ
Stephen LendmanTo get a good sense of where US policy is heading, one need only read the front page of the New York Times or Wall Street Journal - painful as that may be to do. I skip the Times but do read the Journal daily because of the audience it reaches - high level people in business and government who want real information to guide them in their work. So despite the Journal being a voice for US business and imperialism, knowing how to read it and doing it carefully yields useful information and clues about what future US policy is likely to be. The May 2 Journal was a good example as they had a feature front page story headlined "Bolivia Seizes Natural-Gas Fields In a Show of Energy Nationalism." That alone signals a call to arms that's backed up strongly in the copy that follows...
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Dumbed Down Americans: Chattel for Global Tyranny
Kurt NimmoEducation in America has done a fine job. "Despite nearly constant news coverage since the war there began in 2003, 63 percent of Americans aged 18 to 24 failed to correctly locate the country on a map of the Middle East. Seventy percent could not find Iran or Israel," reports National Geographic. "Young Americans just don’t seem to have much interest in the world outside of the U.S.," mused David Rutherford, a specialist in geography education at the National Geographic Society in Washington. Young Americans are so ill-educated, half of them can’t find New York on a map, let alone Iran and Iraq. "Many young Americans also lack basic map-reading skills…. Told they could escape an approaching hurricane by evacuating to the northwest, only two-thirds could indicate which way northwest is on a map." But it is not simply geography.
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OPEN LETTER : WHAT’S IN A NAME?
Of West Point, War, and Pizza
James Ryan, Cofounder, West Point Graduates Against The WarWhen is a "West Point" graduate no longer a "West Point" graduate? That's easy, according to the legal experts at the United States Military Academy. Any time you have an organization using the term, West Point, of which they do not approve. In fact, according to a letter received by us from these authorities, any use of the words or phrases "West Point", "United States Military Academy", "USMA", and "U.S. Army" without the "express permission of the Department of Army [ sic ] constitutes a violation of Title 17 of the United States Code." And so we de facto , legitimate West Point graduates, who belong to an organization accurately named West Point Graduates Against The War, have been advised by the very institution we cherish, to cease and desist calling ourselves West Point graduates. Surely this is just some silly paranoia of the Bush-Patriot-Act variety.
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