By Robert Fisk
"They think we will be so broken, so shattered by this suffering that we will do anything - even give our own lives - to get rid of Saddam. The uprising against the Baath party failed in 1991 so now they are using cruder methods. But they are wrong. These people have been reduced to penury. They live in shit. And when you have no money and no food, you don't worry about democracy or who your leaders are."
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20452.htm
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The Forged Iraqi Letter: What Just Happened?
By Ron Suskind
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"We Were Basically Hiring Terrorists"
By Anna Badkhen
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This is Horseshi*
It is not if we will be extremists, but what kind of extremists will we be? - Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr
By Cindy Sheehan
I am angry. No, I am incensed that hundreds of thousands of people are dead, dying, wounded, displaced from their homes or being imprisoned and tortured by the sadists that reside or work at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue -- Are you incensed? If not, maybe you should ask yourself: "Why?" Hypothetically: "Why am I not enraged that my country has killed or hurt so many people for absolutely no noble cause in my name and with my tacit approval?"
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20454.htm
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The Prophetic Challenge:
"Few Are Guilty, but All Are Responsible"
By Robert Jensen
No one escapes responsibility living in an imperial state with the barbaric record of the United States (in my lifetime, we could start with the list of unjust U.S. wars, direct and through proxies, against the people of Latin America, southern Africa, Southeast Asia, the Middle East, resulting in millions of victims). Bush and Clinton couldn't carry out their crimes in this relatively open and democratic society if we did not allow it.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20450.htm
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Vote for Bush? Pay Up
Did you help put America's worst prez into power? Time to make amends
By Mark Morford
What can you do, all you increasingly humiliated, disillusioned, deeply mistaken Bush voters? How can you, having hopefully realized by now the violent error of your ways, take steps both small and large to try and make amends for shoving Dubya down the throat of the world, for your tiny but oh so poisonous contribution to the worst and most demeaning eight years in modern American politics?
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20453.htm
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American Insouciance
Does This Make You a Proud American?
By Paul Craig Roberts
Now that military officers selected by the Bush Pentagon have reached a split verdict convicting Salim Hamdan, a onetime driver for Osama bin Laden, of supporting terrorism, but innocent of terrorist conspiracy, do you feel safe? Or are we superpower Americans still at risk until we capture bin Laden's dentist, barber, and the person who installed the carpet in his living room?
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20451.htm
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The New American Empire
3 Minute Video
Congress no longer chooses to read new legislation before voting it into law. Bills are switched at the last minute for unread, substitute legislation. New laws say ANYONE can now be followed and watched - for ANY reason... or for NO reason. .... and the list goes on...
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20455.htm
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Israel's Front-line Thugs
By Seth Freedman
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43 killed in occupied Afghanistan:
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Provincial Chief Judge Killed in Eastern Afghanistan:
The governor of Khost province, Arsala Jamal, told VOA News Afghan Service Thursday provincial chief judge Sher Gul was killed near the provincial capital. Officials say Gul is one of a series of judges killed by militants in recent weeks.
http://www.voanews.com/english/2008-08-07-voa15.cfm
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Taliban gaining control, strength:
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Some Afghan MPs back Taliban, drugs trade: official:
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Manufacturing Consent For An Attack On Pakistan:
Afghanistan accusing Pakistan of aiding insurgents:
Afghanistan's spy agency alleged Wednesday that a Pakistani consulate official directed and funded terrorist activities carried out by a Taliban commander.
http://tinyurl.com/6hfzug
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Karzai says `confident` of evidence linking Pakistan to bombing:
"We and some of our allies have evidence not only from the scene of the explosion but evidence beyond it that unfortunately indicate a hand like that," Karzai told the NDTV television news network.
http://www.paktribune.com/news/index.shtml?204149
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Pakistan: 25 Militants killed along Afghan border:
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200 pro-Taliban militants attack Pakistan post: Officials:
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Coalition in Pakistan Moves to Impeach Musharraf:
Pakistan's usually fractious coalition government moved decisively for the first time on Thursday to impeach President Pervez Musharraf, who has been an important American ally in the campaign against terror but who has largely been pushed to the sidelines since his party lost elections in February.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/08/world/asia/08pstan.html
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Zardari warns Musharraf against government dismissal:
'If he does it, it will be his last verdict against (the) people, against (the) people's mandate and against Pakistan,' Zardari, widower and political successor of slain former prime minister Benazir Bhutto, told a news conference.
http://tinyurl.com/6fbbwr
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Iraq: At least 19 killed in another bloody day of US occupation:
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Iraq's Islamic Party leader assasinated in Mosul:
The leader of Iraq's Islamic Party was shot and killed in an apparent assassination in Mosul province, a party spokesman said Thursday.
http://tinyurl.com/6h3ylm
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Iraqis: Deal close on plan for US troops to leave:
Two Iraqi officials say the U.S. and Iraq are close to a deal under which all American combat troops would leave by October 2010 with remaining U.S. forces gone about three years later.
http://tinyurl.com/6dtvad
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Cleric may end cease fire if no US withdrawal timetable released Friday:
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Iraq failed to adopt new electoral law, UN ready to assist:
'Without new electoral legislation, however, these critical governate elections cannot go forward,' Pascoe said, warning of the deadlock in the Iraqi parliament.
http://tinyurl.com/6g5f7l
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Military insists 'segregation boxes' for Iraqi prisoners are 'humane':
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Manufacturing Consent For An Attack On Iran:
US military: Iranian-made munitions seized in Iraq:
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Manufacturing Consent For An Attack On Iran:
Israel Considering Military Strike on Iranian Nuclear Sites:
Israel is building up its strike capabilities amid growing anxiety over Iran's nuclear ambitions and appears confident that a military attack would cripple Tehran's atomic program, even if it can't destroy it
http://tinyurl.com/5r5u2y
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Rice on possible IDF Iran strike: U.S. has no veto over Israeli military ops:
United States Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on Thursday refrained from saying the U.S. would prevent Israel from mounting a much-touted attack against Iran over the Islamic Republic's nuclear aspirations.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1009504.html
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Egypt warns Israel of war on Iran:
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Iran root of all evil - Israeli MP:
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Israel Seeking U.S. Aid On Missile Update:
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Kurdish militants claim 51 Iranian deaths:
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In case you missed it:
Hezbollah, PKK and American Hypocrisy:
The Party for Free Life in Kurdistan (PJAK), essentially a branch office of the PKK, also based in northern Iraq, which carries out attacks into the adjacent Kurdish-populated region of Iran, and the United States does not condemn the PJAK? It even sends its officials to have friendly chats with the PJAK terrorists? How odd!
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18644.htm
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Moscow denies sanctions deal:
Russia yesterday denied having agreed with the US, UK and other countries to push for another round of economic sanctions against Iran at the United Nations.
http://tinyurl.com/6xh5nj
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U.N. nuclear inspector in Iran for talks:
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Pentagon mounts 2.2 billion-dollar push for occupation zone surveillance:
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British consulate: Israeli "settlers" attack U.K. diplomats on Hebron tour:
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Israeli prof. joins 40 activists sailing to Gaza:
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Liberia: CIA Agents Executed 1980 Coup:
A former official of the administration of slain President William R. Tolbert has linked agents of the American Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) to the execution of the 1980 coup d'état
http://allafrica.com/stories/200808061031.html
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COLOMBIA: Video Raises Numerous Questions About Rescue Mission: -
"It is a serious matter that members of the armed forces clandestinely leaked news without coordination with their superiors," says a presidential communiqué issued in Colombia after a local TV station broadcast a video on the operation in which Ingrid Betancourt and 14 other hostages held by the FARC guerrillas were rescued last month.
http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=43469
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Morales calls for Bolivian unity:
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Hugo Chavez sends diesel shipment to Paraguay:
Venezuela has sent 70 million liters (18.5 million gallons) of diesel fuel to support Paraguay's incoming president.
http://tinyurl.com/58lhns
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Greg Palast: The McCain Plan: Homer Simpson without the Donut:
Obamaniacs might not want to read this next paragraph: The presumptive Democratic presidential candidate has been derided as the "Senator from Commonwealth Edison," the Chicago company which is the nation's largest operator of nuclear plants - and whose executives were the money backbone to his early presidential campaign.
http://tinyurl.com/63cwju
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How Solid Is the Anthrax Evidence?:
Unnamed federal officials are telling media outlets that the FBI used new DNA technology to link the anthrax that killed five people in 2001 to anthrax handled by Ivins in his federal lab. But scientists who knew Ivins - and some who didn't - tell TIME this is not a simple matter, technically speaking.
http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1829495,00.html
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Anthrax Case:
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FBI was told to blame Anthrax scare on Al Qaeda by White House officials:
After the Oct. 5, 2001, death from anthrax exposure of Sun photo editor Robert Stevens, Mueller was "beaten up" during President Bush's morning intelligence briefings for not producing proof the killer spores were the handiwork of terrorist mastermind Osama Bin Laden, according to a former aide.
http://tinyurl.com/6gujsn
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US jobless claims hit six-year high:
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Let Us Work Towards Peace & Joy
Tom
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