IMF in Iraq: The Second Invasion
Karen ButtonLast December the US-backed Iraqi government agreed to a $685 million loan from the International Monetary Fund, and effectively sold their country down the river called economic slavery—the master being the Free Market Economy. They will have a lot of company. Many of the world’s so-called third world and developing nations are already on that river, barely afloat. Most of Latin America has been under the thumb of the IMF’s brutal austerity programs for decades, though certain countries, most notably Venezuela and Bolivia, who are nationalizing their resources, are testament to the pervasive undercurrent of socialist ideals. For Iraq though, the journey has just begun. That $685 million loan came with a heavy price tag: end oil subsidies and open Iraq’s economy to the free market. In other words, dismantle any form of socialised society and make it a commodity...
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More About Home Occupation in Ramadi
Brian ConleyDuring the time of our being in the dark hot room, we heard sound of single shots, the sounds coming from above the house-seems like on the roof. I asked the Iraqi soldiers about these sounds of shooting. They told me that there is some American snipers staying on the roof of my house. Oh my! They used my house as a snipers base, to kill the people. This is what happened many times for the last year. They will shoot all the people who are leaving their house in the early morning, yes they will...
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Latest Hitler: how lies become news
Lenin's TombCanada's National Post ran a false story claiming that Iran was planning to oblige non-Muslims to wear badges to indicate their ethnicity so that they could be distinguished in public. Experts have already dissed the story. The National Post tries, in a lustrum written by Chris Wattie, to distance itself from the sensationalist item by describing it as a "news story and column" by Amir Taheri - a column, an opinion piece, the work of a malevolent hoaxster perhaps. Except of course that the original news story was by, well, Chris Wattie. Wattie adds, in his own defense: "The Simon Wiesenthal Centre and Iranian expatriates living in Canada had confirmed that the order had been passed, although it still had to be approved by Iran’s "Supreme Guide" Ali Khamenehi before being put into effect." Also cited in its defense is the view of the Simon Weisenthal Centre that, although it had no independent corroboration of the report, they believe it to be true...
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Ba’ath Party Denies Distribution of Applications to Members
al-Moharer.netAccording to a spokesman for the Arab Ba’ath Socialist Party in Iraq, the news item which claims that the Party distributed applications to its members asking them to rejoin the party is a failing attempt of the miserable agents of the occupation. Though the Iraqi people are witnessing the Ba’athist fighters heroically sacrificing themselves for the liberation of Iraq, those agents are desperately suggesting that the Party does not exist and is now trying to recruit its members. This insidious attempt was intended to suggest that there are traitors in the Party who might sell their honor and their glorious history of struggle to the occupier. The attack on the Party and its militant leadership assures us that the CIA and its "Iraqi" agents are behind it all...
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A statement issued by the General Command of the Mujahideens' Armed Forces concerning the so called negotiations between some Jihadi factions and the pagan occupier enemy and his stooges
Al-Moharer...After all that, here he appears this who calls himself (the president of the republic) through the media claiming yet another calumny and lie and pretending that he is negotiating and his US masters with some factions of the Iraqi Resistance. Iraqis know very well and the whole world over understands too that these claims are nothing but wishful thinking, which the enemy and his servile stooges and puppets try to convince themselves to be true… This insipid news have been so much repeated and talked about that they have become boring. For, every time, these lies were uncovered and laughed at. Faith, dignity, manhood and honor prevent every Mujahid and Resistance Combatant to stain his hands by extending them to the pagan occupiers’ hands and to their stooges. Sure! This Jalal (Talabani) or the US can find some liars pretending to be part of the Resistance and the Mujahideens or to have one fine day have carried the Jihad banner for earthly, cupid purposes and personal ambitions…
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Neocon Scaife and the Nose Cone Blob Ruse
Kurt NimmoAs noted by the blogger Xymphora—upon reading a post on the Smirking Chimp site—Judicial Watch, the organization responsible for filing a FOIA request and thus bringing us earlier this week the eminently ignorable Pentagon crash video, is hooked up with Richard Mellon Scaife, billionaire bankroller of fascist neocon outfits such the American Enterprise Institute, the Hoover Institution, and the Marxist turned neocon David Horowitz’s various smear operations...
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Iraqi Resistance Report for events of Friday, 19 May 2006.
Translated and/or compiled by Muhammad Abu Nasr, member, editorial board, the Free Arab Voice.In a bulletin posted at 6pm Makkah time Friday afternoon, Mafkarat al-Islam reported that a short while earlier Iraqi Resistance fighters had shot and killed the First Secretary of the puppet "Governor of al-Anbar Province" Ma’mun Sami Rashid. The correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam reported that Iraqi Resistance fighters ambushed the car carrying 'Umar Sirri, the First Secretary of the puppet governor, spraying it with a hail of bullets and killing him instantly...
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Inflated Terrorism - Propaganda Lies
Exaggerated misconceptions of worldwide terrorism to frighten us into supporting a global police state.
Peter Phillips, Project CensoredThe Bush administration is paltering to the American public with exaggerated misconceptions of worldwide terrorism to frighten us into supporting a global police state. With seven hundred military bases and a budget bigger than the rest of the world combined, the US military has become the new supreme-power force repressing "terrorism" everywhere...
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GI Special 4E20: "The Constitution Trumps The UCMJ" - 20 May 2006
Thomas F. Barton"The Constitution Trumps The UCMJ"
"An Officer’s Oath Is To The Constitution, Not To The President"
May 15, 2006 Army Times [Excerpts]
Retired generals’ comments provoke reader response
An April 24 story, "Retired generals blast Rumsfeld," inspired readers to debate whether generals should go public with their opinions while on active duty or keep silent even after they retire.
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The age of the neocons headed for the dustbin of history
Linda S. Heard, Online Journal Contributing Writer"The final hours of the North American empire have arrived . . . Now we have to say to the empire: 'We are not afraid of you. You’re a paper tiger.’" These were the words of Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez during his recent visit to Vienna. He may be right. The concept of a "New American Century," conceptualized by neoconservatives who envisioned total US hegemony over land, seas, skies and even space, is fast fading. In the post-Sept. 11 climate of fear it seemed that all Washington had to do was wag its finger at errant nations for them to cave and do its bidding. Not so today...
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UK law will imprison soldiers for life if they refuse Iraq-style foreign occupations
GERRI PEEVSOLDIERS who object to taking part in a military occupation of a foreign country will face life in prison under measures due to be rubber-stamped in the House of Commons on Monday. The little-noticed Armed Forces Bill will have its third reading in the Commons on Monday and left-leaning MPs are alarmed that it will legitimise pre-emptive military strikes. It will change the definition of desertion to include soldiers who go absent without leave and intend to refuse to take part in a "military occupation of a foreign country or territory"...
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No one in Baghdad wants to talk about U.S. Embassy project
Leila Fadel, Knight Ridder NewspapersDon't ask about the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad. It's a secret - security reasons. But it's hard keeping a 104-acre complex rising on the banks of the Tigris River hidden. Anyone who cares to know can easily see four giant construction cranes towering over the river at the largest such project ever undertaken by the United States - a symbol of American presence that will last well into the future. When the complex is completed by June 2007 - this one apparently is on schedule, unlike most construction projects here - it will be an American oasis in the heavily fortified Green Zone, away from the fear and lack of services that permeate the rest of Baghdad. Among the 21 buildings will be a recreation center to rival any in the United States with, among other amenities, a pool, gym, food court, beauty salon and, of course, a recreational area that will be called the American Club. Baghdad may have little potable water and only a few hours of electricity a day, but the embassy complex will have its own water treatment facilities and electricity generator...
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Fatwa in Effect
The Republic of T.It’s as I suspected. Yesterday I posted an update on the situation with religious anti-gay death squads in Iraq, after seeing an article describing ongoing attacks despite reports that Iraqi cleric Ali al-Sistani had lifted the fatwa against gay men (though not lesbians) and deleted it from his website. I suspected that the fatwa might still be in effect, despite previous reports, and it looks like I was right.
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A Little Fascism Still Goes a Long Way
Greg Moses...On the question of ideological models, it would be prudent to consider that the Vice President’s description of the next Mexican border sounded a lot like the Israeli border with Palestine. In this context, the Bush-Cheney troop deployment will provide free of charge to the winning bidder of border security services a cadre of perma-temp employees who are already trained, dressed for photo-ops, and security-cleared (in case you missed the simultaneous news this week that the agency in charge of security clearances was shutting down because of poor budgeting)...
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Video
The Star War in Iraq
Maurizio Torrealta e Sigfrido Ranucci, RaiNews 24Majid Al Ghezali : They used incredible weapons Patrick Dillon: Experimental weapons? Majid Al Ghezali : Yes… Yes, I think. They shoot the bus. We saw the bus like a cloth, like a wet cloth. It seemed like a Volkswagen, a big bus like a Volkswagen. This testimony was reported to American filmmaker Patrick Dillon a few weeks after the battle for the airport (April 2003) . The person interviewed, Majid al Ghezali, is a well-known and respected man in Baghdad, who is the first violinist in the city orchestra. In addition to describing the battle, Majid al Ghezali wanted to show Patrick Dillon the site near the airport where this mysterious weapon was used, along with the traces of fused metal still visible, and the irregularly sized ditches where the cadavers were buried before they were exhumed...
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The Palestinians are not a Nation of Beggars
Ibrahim Ebeid, Al-MoharerThe United States and the European Union dominated and controlled by the Zionist Movement and its entity, are resorting to the new form of weapons of mass destruction against the Palestinians in the same way that they used in the deadly blockade on Iraq. The Palestinians are blockaded, their county is being taken piece by piece and they are living in reservation camps surrounded by concrete walls and Zionist armed fortifications, settlements. Their homes are being blown up; their fields and olive trees are being destroyed or confiscated...
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"Islamism" Anglo-American Style Is Sectarian
Ibrahim Ebeid"Islamism" as we see it in occupied Iraq is the creation of the Anglo-American Occupation. It is sectarian and detrimental to Islam's values, to our Character, culture and heritage. We are witnessing its results where it is tearing Iraq and ripping it apart. It is not part of the Arab character. "Islamism", this style, is alien to us and will not replace our nationalism that binds us together (...) Islam motivated the Arabs and helped them to unify their homeland and establish a large state with a very advanced civilization that was very important for the whole World; the imported sectarians of occupied Iraq are ripping the nation apart and casting it in an abyss...
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Uprising at Guantanamo
Lenin's TombAmerica's own Chateau D'If is experiencing a desperate, doomed revolt by prisoners armed with weapons made of fans and light fixtures. They stand no chance against soldiers and professional torturers armed to the teeth and in control of almost every inch of the base, and so you could reasonably conclude that they are at this point indifferent to death...
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Canadian Federal Court of Appeal to Hear US War Resister Refugee Cases
Faisal Kutty, www.dissidentvoice.org"Our children did not enlist to commit war crimes and crimes against humanity," said Cindy Sheehan, the prominent American anti-war activist who toured Toronto, Vancouver and Ottawa during the first week of May. Sheehan, who lost her own son Specialist Casey Sheehan in Iraq, in April 2004; she rose to prominence last year when she camped out at President George Bush's Texas ranch, demanding answers for the war. Sheehan called on the Canadian government to welcome war resisters as refugees. "I believe our war resisters are legitimate refugees," she said during a visit to the Legislature in Ottawa...
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Witnesses, video document massacre in Haditha
US Marines killed Iraqi civilians “in cold blood”
Kate Randall, WSWS...Video taken inside the houses shows walls and ceilings riddled with bullet holes, as well as splattered blood and flesh. Blood is smeared across the floor, apparently where the dead bodies were dragged out. Shoes, clothing and other household items are scattered amidst what appears to be blood. Reuters reported that the video shows bodies piled up in the back of a pickup truck outside the morgue, including that of a young girl about three years old. One man’s face had been torn apart by bullets; legs and forearms were missing from another corpse (...) The Haditha incident is being cited as potentially the worst single incident involving the deliberate killing of civilians by the US military in Iraq. It is widely accepted, however, that well over 100,000 Iraqi civilians have been killed in the three years since the US invaded the country. Just last week, the Muslim Clerics Association, a Sunni religious grouping, accused US occupation forces of killing 25 civilians in a weekend raid in the rural area around Latifya and Yusifiya, south of Baghdad...
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DAILY WAR NEWS FOR FRIDAY, May 19, 2006
Today in IraqFirst Lt. Robert Seidel III, 23, died when the Humvee he was riding in was struck by an improvised explosive device, Seidel's mother, Sandy, told The News-Post of Frederick. A roadside bomb targeting a U.S. convoy exploded in Dora district, southern Baghdad, seriously wounding one U.S. soldier and damaging his vehicle, the U.S. military said. Five civilians killed during clashes between police commandos and insurgents in Jihad District, southwestern Baghdad. Two police commandos were wounded in the attack. Three Iraqi army soldiers were wounded when their patrol was struck by a roadside bomb in western Baghdad...
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