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U.S. headed for disaster when efforts in Iraq collapse:- We may now be only weeks away from a complete collapse of the Iraqi army and the withdrawal of British troops from Iraq in the face of overwhelming public pressure on Tony Blair.
Rumsfeld: Iraqis Must Defeat Insurgency- Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said Sunday it may take as long as 12 years to defeat Iraqi insurgents and that Iraqi security forces, not U.S. and foreign troops, will finish the job.
Appears as though even Don is having doubts now.
Report: U.S. Secretly Met With Insurgents- U.S. officials recently held secret talks in Iraq with the commanders of several Iraqi insurgent groups in an effort to open a dialogue with them, a British newspaper reported Sunday.
Oh yeah, we're winning, Don.
Shiner: There Must Be Accountability For Dreadful Numbers Of Iraqi Civilian Casualties- ''Before military action can lawfully be undertaken against Iraq, the Security Council must have indicated its clearly expressed accent. It has not yet done so. A decision to undertake military action in Iraq without proper Security Council authorization will seriously undermine the international rule of law. This war did not have legal authorization from the Security Council. The use of force as exercised constituted war crimes. Crimes against humanity were committed during the war,'' he said.
Unveiling Iraq's teenage prostitutes
U.S. General admits to secret air war
Suicide attacks kill 33+ troops, police
Water cut adds to Baghdad's misery- 'I didn't think it could get worse - and then it did,' she said, her kitchen filled with dirty plates and the lavatories unflushed. 'The children are crying. All we want is to pour some water on our bodies.'
'I now wish we could go back to Saddam's time. We suffered then, but not like the suffering nowadays. There is no water or electricity. I can't sleep because of the heat. How are we to live these lives of misery?'
The most cowardly war in history
8 Iraqi policemen killed west of Baghdad - Gunmen attacked a police station near the city of Ramadi, west of Baghdad, on Saturday, killing eight police officers, a police chief said.
Students quit over anti-American slurs: AMERICAN student
s are quitting Queensland universities in the face of hate attacks by Australians angry at US President George W. Bush and the war in Iraq
:-:Eight policemen, five Shiite poultry vendors killed in Iraq : The bodies of eight Iraqi policemen and five Shiite poultry vendors were found in two separate areas near the capital, said security sources and relatives.
Iraqi Police Find Eight Beheaded Bodies : Six of the bodies belonged to Shiite farmers taken from their home in Hashmiyat, 10 miles west of Baqouba, by an armed group wearing Iraqi army uniforms
Iraqi Reporter Shot Dead By U.S. Troops: An Iraqi reporter working for an American news organization was shot and killed in Baghdad by U.S. troops after he apparently did not respond to a shouted signal from a military convoy, witnesses said.
Iraqis Fear Era of Relentless Chaos, Cruelty: The mood darkens among residents as a wave of bombings swells the death toll. The new violence quiets talk of success against rebels.
Iraq Shi'ite leader wants insurgents wiped out: One of Iraq's most powerful Shi'ite leaders, Abdul Aziz al-Hakim, ruled out any dialogue on Friday with insurgents who, he said, had declared all out war on his community and "must be terminated".
Iraq: 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
Iraqi oil workers lament lack of jobs : "We believe American forces must withdraw immediately," Al Asade said outside the Port's Terminal 6. "We want to rebuild our country as Iraqis."
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Does a new pill contain the fountain of youth?: Protandim May Slow Aging Process by Increasing Enzymes That Fight Free Radicals
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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.
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."
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.
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
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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.
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
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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
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‘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.
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.
Aruba
police detain father of Dutch teen
Hermes
store turns away Oprah Winfrey- : 'Having
problems with N.Africans lately'
2005
Second Half FX Outlook- Daily FX - New
York,NY,USA ... earning itself the title the 'anti-dollar.'
Now ... talk of the euro as an alternative reserve currency.
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