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Blackwater Mercenaries
Fired Without Provocation
By Kate Randall

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An official Iraqi investigation into the deadly shooting involving Blackwater USA found that the security contractors opened fire without provocation on September 16 in a main square in Baghdad, killing 17 Iraqis and wounding 22

Bush Awards Congressional Medal To IBC Czar – A Satire
By E.B. Patton

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President Bush announced today he was awarding Iraq Body Count (IBC) co-founder John Sloboda the Congressional Medal of Honor. Bush said, “It’s very important to every person in America that we continue to minimize the true costs of the Iraq War. Mr. Sloboda has done important work in this regard, by giving us tolerable Iraqi casualty figures to promote, instead of the Godless crap you see in the Lancet or Opinion Business Research. Every single one of the American people owes Mr. Sloboda a debt of gratitude, which is why I’m awarding him this medal.”

Iraq’s National Liberation Front
By Ibrahim Ebeid & Husayn Al-Kurdi

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On September 22 Iraqi Resistance groups convened a Unification Congress in a liberated area of Baghdad. The Congress resolved to unite all the groups who were in attendance on the basis of achieving the total liberation of Iraq, however long that may take. The Congress also decided that membership in the unified Resistance Front would be open to other groups or fighters wishing to join. A Supreme Command of the Jihad and Liberation Struggle was created and Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri, Ba’ath Secretary-general and President of Iraq, was elected the Supreme Commander of the Front

US/Indo Nuclear Agreement:Derailing A Deal
By Noam Chomsky

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This Indo-US agreement richly deserves to be derailed. The threat of nuclear war is extremely serious, and growing, and part of the reason is that the nuclear states – led by the United States – simply refuse to live up to their obligations or are significantly violating them, this latest effort being another step toward disaster

Invisible Genocide Of The Poor
By Parshuram Rai

www.countercurrents.org/rai081007.htm

The number of people who fell prey to Hitler’s insanity was 6 million and the “silent holocaust of hunger” is killing over 13 million people every year. Every year more than two genocides of Nazi scale. But unlike the victims of Nazi gas chambers, the victims of hunger die unnoticed, unmourned and in the backyards of vibrant democracies

Columbus Day: American As Apple Pie
By Max Kantar

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Columbus: a hero? Yes, for Slavery, Colonization, Genocide, Racism, Religious Fanaticism, and Human and Environmental Exploitation. Yet we do not only condone Christopher Columbus in the United States of America, we honor his life by celebrating and observing a holiday in his name. On second thought though, slavery and genocide are as American as apple pie

Stalemate On The South American Chessboard?
By Federico Fuentes

www.countercurrents.org/fuentes081007.htm

It has been a year of political tours and counter-tours for Latin America, principally by the two figures who dominate the regional political landscape: Venezuela’s socialist President Hugo Chavez and US President George W. Bush. While Bush embarked on a tour in March of Brazil, Uruguay, Colombia, El Salvador and Mexico, Chavez made his move by visiting Argentina, Bolivia, Nicaragua and Haiti. At each stop, the warmonger who presides over the US empire was met with mass protests; the firebrand revolutionary proclaiming the need for a new socialism of the 21st century was met with mass outpourings of support

ANC Policy Statement On The Peoples Of Arakan Shows Lack Of Foresightedness
By Dr. Habib Siddiqui

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There is too much suspicion and animosity between various races and ethnicities within Burma, including Arakan. Burma needs integration, trust-building, equity and justice for all, and not failed assimilation attempts that disrobe, dispossess, and dehumanize minorities at the altar of the majority

Playing “Patty Cake” With E. Coli Amid Hygienic Anarchy In US Slaughterhouses
By Martha Rosenberg

www.countercurrents.org/rosenberg081007.htm

E. coli contamination in meat is the ultimate example of “crap in; crap out.” Not only can Escherichia coli 0157:H7 make you violently sick or kill you, it is a grim reminder of where the beef you ate came from and the fact that the cow didn’t die voluntarily. That’s why big meat and the government agencies that protect it want to keep the focus on beef packagers like Topps Foods and Cargill Inc

The Attack On Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
By Dan Lieberman

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Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the president of Iran, arrived in the United States with a baggage of alleged demagoguery. He didn’t have to bring demagoguery here; the U.S. media showed it has enough to stock the world

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