Crackdown in Ramadi
Mike WhitneyRamadi is not an "insurgent stronghold" as it is characterized in the media. Nor is it a "safe-haven" for foreign fighters and Al Qaida. This is merely the Pentagon’s fairy-tale to justify attacks on a civilian population. In fact, Ramadi is a city of 400,000, the capital of Anbar Province; a peaceful enclave that never experienced any widespread violence or turmoil before the illegal invasion by the United States armed forces. Most of the city’s people do not support the occupation of their country and a considerable number of them have taken up arms against the invaders. They are fighting in defense of their country...
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Legacy of Treason
Depleted Uranium and the Poisoning of Humanity
Alok O'BrienIn recent years I have become aware of the issue of depleted uranium (DU) and its use by the US Military in Iraq in 1991 and again in the current Iraq war. The photos of birth deformities and stories of suffering resulting from DU shocked me, reminding me of the Agent Orange victims of America's Vietnam war. Then I watched David Bradbury and Peter Scott's new film, Blowin' in the Wind . Its content shocked and appalled me, and spurred me into researching and writing this article. It is undoubtedly by far the most significant issue on the planet today, and yet the mainstream media stays quiet...
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Mainstream Media Lets White House Determine What is News, Virtually Ignores Offically-Declared "State of Emergency" in Iraq as Various Resistance Groups Battle Our GIs Around the Green Zone
WhatReallyHappened.comThe mainstream media is -- as usual -- letting the Bush Administration lead it around by its nose. You'd have to look hard in any mainstream paper, or on any mainstream news program, to know that an official State of Emergency has been declared in Iraq. What does that mean? It means that the fighting, blood-letting and death has gotten so bad that American GIs are battling the resistance right outside the Green Zone. It means that never-ending talk of the "last throes of the insurgency" are, once again, shown to be lies by the reality on the ground...
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A FORGOTTEN "DAY OF INFAMY"
Malcom LagaucheMost countries have one or two days a year that indicate a tragedy for the nation. In the U.S., December 7, 1941, the day the Japanese attacked Peal Harbor, has been labeled a "day of infamy." September 11, 2001 has surpassed December 7 as a rallying cry for U.S. solidarity. Iraq, a county much smaller than the U.S., and never as large a player on the international scene, can claim several days of infamy: January 17, 1991; February 14, 1991; March 20, 2003; and April 9, 2003, among others. But, one date that gains little international attention is imbedded in the hearts and minds of all Iraqis: June 26, 1993. On that date, the U.S. military, under the command of Bill Clinton, ordered 23 Tomahawk guided missiles to demolish the headquarters of the Mukhabarat, the Iraqi intelligence services, in central Baghdad. Twenty of the missiles hit the agency complex, while "only" three missed their targets...
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The killing of US soldiers in Yusufiya: who’s responsible?
David Walsh, WSWS...More than three years of indiscriminate violence and repressive military operations, the imprisonment and torture of innocent civilians, the destruction of the economy and infrastructure, which has made life unlivable for all but the most privileged stooges of the Americans, the deliberate fomenting of sectarian conflict, with its horrifying consequences—all this has produced levels of popular rage that inevitably find expression. Every ruthless colonial war has been met with popular ruthlessness. In every case, the responsibility lies with the colonizers...
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Bush's domestic spying: How America is rapidly becoming a police state
Mike AdamsFor years I've been warning my readers about the coming police state and the abusive use of power by the Bush administration. This year, we have learned that President Bush -- or should I say King George Bush -- personally authorized domestic spying on American citizens by the National Security Agency (NSA). In articles that have appeared in the New York Times, USA Today, The Washington Post and other national news papers, George Bush admitted that he personally signed off on 30 illegal surveillance wiretaps, and furthermore, he defended the practice, explaining that wiretapping American citizens was saving American lives because of the war on terror (...) There is no doubt that these acts are federal crimes. Add this to the list of crimes committed by the Bush administration, including the condoning of torture, the illegal kidnapping of American citizens, the detainment of those prisoners without charging them, the violation of the Geneva Convention with prisoner torture, and the use of weapons of mass destruction against the Iraqi people. Depleted uranium, which is a nuclear weapon of mass destruction, is being used by U.S. troops on an almost daily basis in Iraq....
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Hidden Histories
William Bowles, I'n'I...Airbrushing the crimes of capitalism has reached new heights with the invasion of Iraq, but make no mistake, it is by no means new, it is merely the latest and the most brazen. The major difference is that the latest Big Lie was revealed even as it took place. Earlier crimes against humanity and equally as horrendous in scale have, with the complicity of the media, been hidden from view. Without exaggeration successive British governments, whether Labour or Tory have proved to be the most cunning at weaving a web of deceit about the way they have manipulated our perception of events. This includes engineering election results, frame-ups of politicians, murders, bribery and corruption that extends to the highest levels of government...
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Lynching Saddam – Part 2: Juan Cole’s informed comment
Gabriele Zamparini, The cat's dreamFollowing the murder of one of the main lawyers defending prisoner of war President Saddam Hussein in that lynching circus the US’ government exported to Iraq (even Kafka would have not dared calling that thing a "trial"), one of the most interesting comments comes from Juan Cole. The favourite of much part of the western anti-war movement spent as many as 111 words to comment: Another of Saddam's defense attorneys was assassinated. That tribunal, which at one time seemed as though it would be source of good news for the Bush administration, has been handled so badly that it has become nothing short of an embarrassment. Three defense lawyers killed, and one witness alleging that some of the men Saddam is alleged to have had killed at Dujail are still alive. Saddam even emerged after the February bombing of the golden dome at Samarra and the subsequent faith-based massacres between Shiite and Sunni as a voice of national unity. To give the old mass murderer the occasion to grandstand that way. It is incompetence, criminal incompetence. The former (?) head of state overthrown by a foreign, military, illegal and immoral invasion that’s destroyed the whole state of Iraq and slaughtered hundreds of thousands of Iraqi people, is called by Cole’s informed comment "Saddam" for three times and finally "the old mass murderer". Cole's Conclusion: "It is incompetence, criminal incompetence". This is the same Juan Cole who wrote last November, about the US’ use of White Phosphorous in Fallujah: "This is a public relations issue, not an issue of war crimes"...
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DAILY WAR NEWS FOR FRIDAY, June 23, 2006
Today in IraqA U.S. soldier takes position near Haifa street, where U.S. soldiers and Iraqi troops clash with gunmen in Baghdad June 23, 2006. REUTERS/Namir Noor-Eldeen (IRAQ). Two U.S. Marines were killed during combat in the volatile Anbar province. A U.S. marine was killed in combat action in Iraq's western Anbar province The marine. assigned to the 1st Brigade, 1st Armored Division, was killed on Wednesday as a result of "enemy action" in Anbar province. Two U.S. soldiers were killed on Friday when their vehicle struck a roadside bomb southeast of Baghdad, the U.S. army said in a statement. Iraqi government declared a state of emergency and imposed a curfew after insurgent gunmen set up roadblocks in central Baghdad and opened fire on U.S. and Iraqi troops just north of the heavily fortified Green Zone..
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US Senate backs indefinite occupation of Iraq
Patrick Martin, WSWSAfter a two-day debate, the US Senate voted Thursday to reject two efforts to set limits on the duration of the US occupation of Iraq. An overwhelming bipartisan majority voted by 86-13 to reject a resolution setting a deadline of July 1, 2007 for withdrawal of US troops. Leading Democrats, including Hillary Clinton and Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid, lined up with the White House against the measure introduced by John Kerry, the Democratic presidential candidate in 2004. Then, by a 60-39 vote margin, the Senate rejected a non-binding resolution, introduced by Democrats Carl Levin and Jack Reed, calling on the Bush administration to begin withdrawing some American troops by the end of this year and to announce a timetable for further withdrawals...
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Fighting Brings Curfew on Baghdad Streets
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Iraq WMD Redux: Neocons Flail One Trick Pony Again
Kurt NimmoSo pathetic are the neocons and their echo chamber over at David Horowitz’s Frontpage Magazine, they were immediately all over the latest effort to salvage Bush’s easily dispelled lie that Saddam Hussein possessed weapons of mass destruction, or rather weapons not worth their corroded casings and canisters. "The anti-war proclivities of nearly two-fifths of the Senate on display today is even more astonishing in light of yesterday’s release of declassified portions of an intelligence report which found that U.S. forces have discovered hundreds of chemical weapons munitions in Iraq over the past three years, and that even more weapons of mass destruction have yet to be uncovered," Frontpage declares, recycling a Center for Security Policy propaganda piece (CSP is "a small think tank funded mainly by U.S. defense contractors, far-right foundations, and right-wing Zionists" with Frank Gafney as its president)...
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Iraqi Resistance Report for events of Thursday, 22 June 2006
Translated and/or compiled by Muhammad Abu Nasr, member, editorial board, the Free Arab Voice. http://www.freearabvoice.org...In a dispatch posted at 11:20am Makkah time Thursday morning, Mafkarat al-Islam reported that fierce fighting raged between Iraqi Resistance forces and US occupation troops in the 17 Tammuz Street area and the ad-Dubbat neighborhood of the city of ar-Ramadi, about 110km west of Baghdad during the night just after midnight on Thursday morning. The correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam reported the combat broke out in both areas at 12:30am local time Thursday morning and about an hour and a half. The sound of explosions and gunfire reverberated through the area but little information on the nature or extent of casualties was available. Local residents said that the wreckage of one totally destroyed Humvee could be seen for a while in the middle of a street in the ad-Dubbat neighborhood area...
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Dismembering the body politic in Iraq
Ahmed JanabiThe US and British leaders may be getting domestic flak for their perceived mistakes in Iraq, but some observers in the Arab world see them as being quite successful - in carrying out a well-calculated plan to divide the country. The debate dates back to July 13, 2003, when the Iraqi Governing Council was formed under Paul Bremer, the US administrator. Sectarianism and ethnic extremism were strengthened in that council and various laws have since encouraged an aggressive sectarianism leading to a fierce militia war. Anis Mansour, an Egyptian editor and author, believes the US is following the historical British policy of divide and rule. He says: "What we are seeing now is just the beginning of a scheme to split the country up into regions. "It is not true that the US has failed. It did what it wanted to do and this will last for a long time...
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ACLU to Seek Public Accountability in Haditha Investigations
ACLUThe American Civil Liberties Union today filed a Freedom of Information Act request demanding that the Defense Department publicly disclose investigative files relating to the alleged killing of 24 civilians by U.S. Marines in Haditha, Iraq. "The intentional killing of civilians is a profoundly serious violation of both domestic and international law, and the allegation that senior officers suppressed evidence of this tragic incident is deeply troubling," said ACLU attorney Jameel Jaffer. "The request we filed today is meant to encourage an investigation that is credible and comprehensive."...
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Israeli firms probed for illegal dealings in Iraq: report
XinhuaSeveral Israeli firms involved in defense exports are being investigated by the police on suspicion of illegal dealing in Iraq, local newspaper Ha'aretz reported on Thursday. At the focus of the investigation are Shlomi Michaels, and Kodo, a firm registered in Switzerland but operating in Israel. According to Ha'aretz, the two firms are suspected of selling equipment, know-how and technology, as well as providing security advisers from Israel to groups and companies of Kurds operating in northern Iraq...
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WHAT DID YOU DO DURING THE WAR?
Malcom LagaucheHuman nature is very encompassing. Sometimes, we see people working for good causes, but they extract a heavy price in publicity to satisfy their egos. Other times, we see people who perform great deeds in an almost anonymous fashion. Rarely, however, do we see a person conduct extraordinary actions without self-publicity at the age of 16. Today’s article will be about such a person. In 1996, a friend called me and said, "You won’t believe what I just saw at school (San Diego City College). There is a photo exhibition showing the destruction of the Amiryah Bomb Shelter." I asked, "Who’s putting it on?" My friend replied, "A student. His name is Chris Martin"...
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The Truth Lies Buried in Gaza Sands
Jonathan Cook, www.dissidentvoice.orgIf you keep lying long enough and with enough conviction, people start to believe you -- or at least doubt the evidence in front of their own eyes. And so it has been with the Israeli army’s account of how seven members of a Palestinian family were killed, and dozens of other Palestinians injured, during shelling close by a beach in Gaza. This week, according to reports in the Israeli media, even Marc Garlasco, a Pentagon expert on the effects of battlefield weapons hired by Human Rights Watch to investigate the deaths, "conceded" that he could not contradict the findings of the Israeli army’s own inquiry...
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Blackmailing Iran
Eli Stephens, Left I on the NewsI've written on a previous occasion (can't find the link) about why the idea that Iran should be happy to accept becoming reliant on foreign sources for its nuclear power fuel was absurd. Giving other nations power over yours, allowing them to blackmail you into doing whatever they want with the threat of withholding the item on which you are dependent, just isn't a sensible position for a sovereign nation to place itself in...
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Rick Santorum, WMD Hunter
MashSenator Rick Santorum, together with Congressman Peter Hoekstra, announced today that newly declassified evidence proves the existence of Weapons of Mass Destruction in Iraq after the 2003 Iraq invasion. Senator Santorum went on the Senate floor and touted this "new" information. Finally here was proof that George W Bush’s little adventure in Iraq was not totally pointless (...) Either Senator Santorum is an idiot or he thinks the American public are idiots - or both. After his stunning revelations it made some sense to go back and review three crucial reports on the subject of Iraq’s WMD...
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AIB Episode 4 - Man Killed in Samarra by American Troops
Alive in BaghadIn this episode, a human rights advocate interviewed the mother of a man who was apparently murdered in cold blood by United States troops in Samarra.The killing happened on May 6th, and the events prior to it are here described by his mother.Atif Abed Khalid is survived by his four children, wife, and both parents. He was an only child.If you feel this work is valuable, please understand we are funded entirely by donations, so consider making one of your own.We are currently establishing a network of correspondents in Baghdad and Iraq to continue to expand our coverage and provide real insight into the ongoing conflict in Iraq...
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