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The Carve-up Begins- As the costs of the Iraq occupation spiral, British and American oil companies meet in secret next week to carve up the country's oil reserves for themselves. Tom Burgis reports
Car Bomber Slams Into US Convoy in Iraq- west of Baghdad and there were casualties, the military said Friday. A top US commander testified before Congress that the foreign fighter problem in Iraq has worsened.
Recruiters Sink to New Lows: While the stunning list of recruiting abuses has received some needed media attention, it's worth reviewing the extremes to which the military has gone to fill its ranks.
Democrats Demand Rove Apologize for 9/11 Remarks: Leading Democrats reacted furiously to remarks by Karl Rove that liberals had responded to the Sept. 11 attacks by wanting to "offer therapy and understanding for our attackers," with some Democrats calling for him to apologize or resign as a White House adviser.
In case you missed it: War critics astonished as US hawk admits invasion was illegal: International lawyers and anti-war campaigners reacted with astonishment yesterday after the influential Pentagon hawk Richard Perle conceded that the invasion of Iraq had been illegal.
Censorship: So the American government is pressuring foreign countries to censor their news. Aside from the fact that this act is the height of arrogance by the United States, it makes it exceedingly clear why so many Americans who rely on the corporate media for their news continue to be so misinformed/un-informed about the goings on in Iraq.
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Dahr Jamail's Iraq Dispatches: Censorship
Don't Let Them PLUCK The Big Bird-from thepen_ab
We knew
they would keep playing semantics, so for everyone, here is
the definition of 'fixed around',- from
a graduate in English language.
CAPITOL KABUKI...
By William Fisher
Just Say Noruba-If you were to get your news only from television, you’d think the top issue facing our country right now is an 18-year-old girl named Natalee who went missing in Aruba. Every time one of these stories comes up, like, say, Michael Jackson, when it’s finally over I think, what a relief, now we can get back to real news. But we never do. When one of these big league nonstories ends, they just call up a new one from the minors... and off they go with another round of breathless reporting. Anything to not have to actually report actual news.
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Iranian hardliner wins landslide victory
US acknowledges torture at Guantanamo and Iraq, Afghanistan: UN source
China flood toll surges-The official figure of 536 is believed to cover floods in all parts of China, though the focus this week has been on the torrential rains in the south.
"I think there are going to be more assassinations"-Robert
Fisk: I don't think there's going to be democracy
in the Middle East and I don't really think we want
democracy. One of the problems of democracy in the
Middle East is that, if it really exists, the Arabs
may not do what we want them to do, and it's much
more easy to have dictators, generals, businessmen
running countries on our behalf. Continue---
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Nuke
whistleblower demands Israel release his letters
US
kills 76 Afghan militants
Arabs
cool to Rice visit-Saudi Arabia
reacted angrily to Rice's remarks, with Saudi Foreign
Minister Prince Saud al-Faisal in effect telling
reporters after talks with Rice that the government
resented her interference. Calling Rice's criticism
"meaningless," the prince said, "The assessment
that is important for any country in the development
of its political reform is the judgment of its own
people. And that is, in the final analysis, the
criteria we follow."
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Fire, explosions rock St.Louis gas plant
Grilled Rumsfeld, anyone? -
Noting that he had not uttered the 'last throes' line, an obviously exasperated Rumsfeld said of Cheney's choice of words: 'I didn't use them, and I might not use them.' Perhaps Kennedy should have asked Rumsfeld if Cheney ought to resign.
Storm clouds for GOP
RACISM REBOOTED -
Forty years after the fact, Edgar Killen is finally
convicted of manslaughter in the killings of three civil
rights workers. But the system that produced him remains
alive and well.
The New York Times reporter who helped spread the fallacy
that Saddam Hussein had WMD has a new beat: discrediting
the United Nations.
Bush's Empathy Shortage
A War Waged by Liars and Morons
What is Bush's Agenda in Iraq?-
byy Paul Craig Roberts:
In his June 18 weekly radio address last
Saturday, Bush again lied to the American
people when he told them that the US was
forced into invading Iraq because of the
September 11 attack on the WTC. Bush, the
greatest disgrace that America has ever had to
suffer, actually repeated at this late date the
monstrous lie for which he is infamous
throughout the world
BLACK MEN: MISSING?-
Salim Muwakkil, In These Times It's downright depressing
how, besieged by poverty, disease, violence and mass incarceration,
African-American men are conspicuously missing from families
and communities.
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Explosion
of oil tanks kills two in Moscow region
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Bush aid to Africa called ‘crumbs’-
by Tim Wheeler, 06/23/05
WASHINGTON — Aid groups blasted
President George W. Bush for refusing
additional development aid for Africa, branding
his offer of $674 million during a meeting with British Prime Minister Tony Blair 'crumbs.'
How
Europe cheats Africa- Heather Stewart
describes how the EU's cosseted farmers are helping to
keep a continent in poverty MORE |
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To plunder, to slaughter, to steal, these things
they misname empire; and where they make a desert, they call it peace.
– Calgacus
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CONCERN AFTER CHINA BIDS FOR U.S. OIL CO...
Canadian Campaign to Give US Army Deserters Refuge Persists-NDP MP Bill Siksay is lending his support to a campaign aimed at allowing a growing number of American military deserters to find refuge in Canada.According to the British Columbia MP, the issue resonates with a lot of Canadians.
For example, Siksay told CTV's Canada AM early Wednesday, Canadians are widely opposed to the prison abuse reported at the Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo Bay prisons.
Italy Judge OKs CIA Agent Arrests-An Italian judge ordered the arrests of 13 people in the purported CIA abduction of an imam, who then was sent to Egypt, the Milan prosecutor's office said Friday. An Italian official said earlier the 13 were CIA officers involved in U.S. anti-terrorism efforts. All the agents are Americans and include three women, the newspaper Il Giorno said.
US Doctors Linked to Torture
‘Somos el partido de esperanza’ We are the party of hope : the
Colombian Communist Party - by Roberta Wood, 06/23/05
BOGOTA, Colombia — The office of the Colombian Communist Party [PCC] is
on a pleasant residential street in this nation’s capital.
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Tim Robbins' controversial
antiwar play, "Embedded,"- which debuted onstage
in Los Angeles and was followed by a major run at NYC's Public Theatre,
has been released on DVD in conjunction with NetFlix. The arrangement, which
takes the film directly to DVD, making it available to the nation's three
million Netflix subscribers, is a new trend in film distribution.
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IBM ships 14,000 jobs to India
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