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Uranium Weapons Causing Cancer in Iraq
zaman.com
There are claims that the cancer rate in Iraq has increased tenfold, and the number of birth defects has multiplied fivefold times since the 1991 war, and the increase is believed to be caused by depleted uranium. There are people who want to investigate these events, but the United States is quite uneasy about the attempts to inspect the aftermath of the war. The United States was also criticized due to its unwillingness to cooperate with the United Nations on the issue. A girl who appeared in a famous photograph taken in 2003 in Fallujah was suffering from leukemia while soldiers and scientists were discussing depleted uranium…
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Treacherous Road to Oslo Begins Here
Ramzy Baroud
Attempts to coerce Palestinians into submission have not always manifested themselves in the crude form of a tank, a bullet, the withholding of aid or the denial of freedom of movement. These efforts were at times more imaginative and shrewd, through the sponsoring and espousing of factionalism, the purchasing of the integrity of a politician, pressing Palestinians themselves to promote foreign agendas, whether knowingly or unwittingly. Coupled with the collective punishment endowed on Palestinians by the ever-indifferent international community – i.e. Israel’s friends in the West and a few Arab and Muslim allies – such creative methods often reaped the desired results, albeit for a little while. I became familiar with one of these attempts recently in London…
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Cheney in a Box
Mike Whitney
…Bush is teetering and he’s probably left the Cheney-Rumsfeld orbit already. Robert Gates’ job is to influence Bush, to win him over with reason and, thus, move the country away from the brink of disaster. Cheney has been removed from the policy-making apparatus and he knows it. So, what’ll he do next? What will Cheney do now that he’s been backed into a corner and his power is oozing away like the blood from a sucking chest-wound? Will he quietly retire and disappear into the political vapor or “lock-n-load” and go down with both guns blazing? Here’s a clue: Cheney is “dead-ender”. He won’t go peacefully…
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True Lies About U.S. Aid to” Israeli “ War Machinery
Cost of Israel to U.S. Taxpayers
PalestineFreeVoice
For many years the American media said that “Israel receives $1.8 billion in military aid” or that “Israel receives $1.2 billion in economic aid.” Both statements were true, but since they were never combined to give us the complete total of annual U.S. aid to Israel, they also were lies—true lies. Recently Americans have begun to read and hear that “Israel receives $3 billion in annual U.S. foreign aid.” That’s true. But it’s still a lie. The problem is that in fiscal 1997 alone, Israel received from a variety of other U.S. federal budgets at least $525.8 million above and beyond its $3 billion from the foreign aid budget, and yet another $2 billion in federal loan guarantees. So the complete total of U.S. grants and loan guarantees to Israel for fiscal 1997 was $5,525,800,000…
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Video
There Was No Warning
Umkahlil
Watch the video without the obscene spin of ignorant journalists. First the Jewish supremacists of the IOF called them whores, then they started shooting. There was no warning. Their men weren’t “holed up” as western media derisively natters. They were seeking shelter in a mosque, trying to avoid the facist state’s mass arrest of men and boys between the ages of 15-35. A short clip follows showing Jewish supremacist snipers shooting unarmed Palestinian boys…
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My wife’s first and last videoblog; Beit Hanoun Massacre!
Sabbah’s blog
My wife recorded this for my blog a couple of days ago. Since then, she won’t even look at the news. Guess why?
This is what Israel don’t want you to see!
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DAILY WAR NEWS FOR FRIDAY, November 10, 2006
Today in Iraq
Two 89th Military Police Brigade Soldiers were killed and one Soldier was wounded Thursday after their vehicle was struck by an improvised explosive device at 12:48 p.m. Thursday in west Baghdad. (MNF- Iraq). One Soldier assigned to the 13th Sustainment Command (Expeditionary) was killed and another wounded Nov. 10 during a combat logistics patrol when their truck was hit by an improvised explosive device west of Hadithah. (MNF- Iraq). One Marine assigned to Regimental Combat Team 5 died Thursday from wounds sustained due to enemy action while operating in Al Anbar Province. (MNF- Iraq). Gunmen abducted a police lieutenant colonel in northern Baghdad. Gunmen killed a former Baath Party member in Diwaniya, 180 km (112 miles) south of Baghdad. Gunmen in four cars broke into two houses and abducted and killed 14 people in Kwerisha village, near the town of Yusufiya 15 km (9 miles) south of Baghdad. The bodies were found dumped in a field…
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AIPAC Eats New Congress Critters for Lunch
Kurt Nimmo
Lest we forget who runs Congress, consider the following “briefing” posted on the AIPAC website yesterday: AIPAC Builds Ties With New Lawmakers
AIPAC reached nearly every lawmaker elected in Tuesday’s mid-term congressional elections as part of its effort to educate political candidates on the value of the U.S.-Israel relationship. During the campaign that ended Tuesday, nearly every viable candidate met with AIPAC professional staff members and submitted a position paper summarizing his or her views on U.S. Middle East policy. A non-partisan organization, AIPAC has for decades worked with Republican and Democratic members of Congress to strengthen the ties between the United States and Israel. Translation: Nearly every lawmaker, except the few stragglers hiding out in bathroom stalls or the cloakroom, was told he or she best tow the AIPAC-Israel line, or suffer short tenure in Congress…
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VIDEO: Massacre of Palestinian Women and Children
Israel’s “Cloud of Autumn” Massacre in Gaza
Global Research
The official story of the Israeli military is that this was an crack-down operation on “terrorists”. Read the semi-official report by the Voice of America (VOA) (below) and then view the video to see what really happened: “Mr. Olmert says Israel intends to stop what he describes as the terror coming from Gaza, but has no intention of reoccupying the territory. Israeli military authorities expressed regret for the death of a 12-year old girl. She was shot by an Israeli sniper who Israeli authorities say was aiming at a Palestinian militant. Two Palestinian women were killed by Israeli troops in a chaotic demonstration by Palestinian women acting as human shields for Palestinian militants. The militants escaped from a mosque in Beit Hanoun that was under siege by Israeli forces.” (VOA) The “hidden agenda” behind Israel’s so-called “unilateral disengagement plan” (leading to the 2005 evacuation of Jewish Settlers) is to transform Gaza into a concentration camp. How long will the Western media, which claims to be balanced, continue to justify Israeli war crimes? …
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Startling findings in probe of Tillman’s death
SCOTT LINDLAW and MARTHA MENDOZA, Associated Press Writers
…The Pentagon’s failure to reveal for more than a month that Tillman was killed by friendly fire have raised suspicions of a coverup. To Tillman’s family, there is little doubt that his death was more than an innocent mistake. One investigator told the Tillmans that it hadn’t been ruled out that Tillman was shot by an American sniper or deliberately murdered by his own men — though he also gave no indication the evidence pointed that way. “I will not assume his death was accidental or ‘fog of war,”’ said his father, Pat Tillman Sr. “I want to know what happened, and they’ve clouded that so badly we may never know.” And so, almost two years after three bullets through the forehead killed the star defensive back — a man who President Bush would call “an inspiration on and off the football field” — the fourth investigation began. This time, the investigators are supposed to think like prosecutors. Who fired the shots that killed Pat Tillman, and why?…
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Iraq Development: 10 Nov 2006
Roads to Iraq
…Asharqalawsat give one example of the chaos in western policy with Iraq, Hadi Al-Amri the, leader of “Badr Brigade” terrorist organization was invited to London: In his interview with the newspaper he said: There are 33 terrorist Militias in Iraq, there are 33 Ministry and every Ministry has a Militia of there own. Ironically Al-Amri is also; Chairman of Defense and Security Committee in the Iraqi Parliament. I can’t say it better than on the comments at the bottom of the article: It seems that the Defense and Security Committee in the Iraqi Parliament, is the Committee of coordination with the Militias to operate freely and openly in broad daylight as long as it is chaired by the leader of the Badr Brigade…
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Conyers Betrays Impeachment
Kurt Nimmo
John Conyers, Ranking Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee, didn’t mean it. “The incoming speaker has said that impeachment is off the table. I am in total agreement with her on this issue: Impeachment is off the table,” Conyers declared after the Democrats stormed the House and Senate. But wait a minute. idn’t Conyers seek to create a select committee to investigate Bush crimes and make recommendations regarding grounds for impeachment? Last December, Conyers, along with Senator Barbara Boxer and Congressmen John Lewis, said Bush committed impeachable offenses by illegally ordering the National Security Agency to eavesdrop inside the country without a court warrant…
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Sunni-Shiite Mortar War Marks Escalation
BASSEM MROUE, Associated Press Writer
Mortar battles have erupted between Shiite and Sunni neighborhoods in Baghdad, and the once-mixed city is reeling as the two sides adopt the weapons and tactics of urban civil war. Throughout the capital and in towns and villages within a 50-mile radius of Baghdad, whole populations have shifted as Shiite and Sunni flee violence from death squads and suicide bombers to the safety of places where their Islamic sect is the majority. The highly portable though inaccurate mortar is increasingly the weapon of choice as Shiite and Sunni populations separate, because it allows sectarian fighters to fire into a district from a distance…
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Iraq: the new cover-up
Martin Bright, New Statesman
The government is withholding a secret draft of the Iraq WMD dossier that was never disclosed to the Hutton inquiry, the New Statesman can reveal. In a development that will stoke demands for a full parliamentary inquiry into the events that led up to the war, we can confirm that the draft was written not by the intelligence services, which had responsibility for the accuracy of the information contained in the dossier, but by a senior Foreign and Commonwealth Office press officer, whose name has previously featured only on the fringes of the controversy over Saddam’s weapons of mass destruction. It raises the possibility that the dossier originated with the government’s spin machine rather than the intelligence services. This secret draft may even turn out to be the foundation of the government’s ill-fated presentation of the threat from Saddam’s WMD, which Tony Blair used to persuade parliament of the case for war…
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UNIFIL investigates reports of thefts by Italian troops
Mohammed Zaatari, Daily Star staff
UNIFIL’s military police are investigating reports that a group of Italian troops in Hariss, near Bint Jbeil, stole more than $300 in merchandise from a shop in the village. In the village of Hariss in the qada of Bint Jbeil, soldiers from the Italian contingent allegedly walked into a shop that sells military apparel and gear and pocketed over $300 in merchandise. The shop’s owner, Moussa Souweidan, said eight Italian soldiers engaged in “military tactics” to shoplift from his store, meaning one group distracted him while another attempted to provide cover for a third group that loaded their pockets with various items…
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israelis call Gaza massacre ‘price tag’ for launching attacks
The Truth Will Set You Free
Hardly surprising coming from the same group who used white phosphorous against fleeing civilians, and dropped millions of clusterbombs on Lebanon hours before the truce. Sure there are isolated pockets of regret and remorse, but the opinions of those who command and control the gunships and tanks are remarkably cold and remorseless…
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Howard Zinn on Activism
Charles Jenks, Traprock Peace Center
…This fascinating 22 minute conversation by one of the great thinkers and activists of our time is available for download at
www.traprockpeace.org/traprock_audio/ Dr. Zinn encouraged activism in peace and justice movements, both for the sake of society and for the sake of ourselves. “Historically we can point to the successes of these movements [such as civil rights and against the Vietnam War]…I think the other thing that is important to tell people who perhaps are on the verge of becoming active but are not sure what it will mean to their lives, and what sacrifices they will have to make. I think what is important for them to know is that there is nothing more satisfying than to participate with other people in a struggle or a good cause. That whatever sacrifices may be required of you, whatever troubles you may go through, whatever threats may be made to you, once you have been part of such a movement, you will never forget it. It will be a high point of your life. There is nothing so satisfying as getting together with other people who believe in peace and justice.”…
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We are the Snails on the Slope
William Bowles , I’n’I
The following two stories are typical of what greets me as I go through my mail every am: “50 dead in ongoing operation; missile hits schoolchildren
IOF’s continued offensive on north Gaza has left 45 Palestinians killed in (50 in the entire Gaza Strip) in its sixth day. Of the killed, nine are children, two are women and one is elderly. Some 190 have also been injured, including 46 children and 45 women. An IOF air strike hit near a school and a nursery bus children. (…) “Israeli forces kill medical volunteers and block access to hospitals in Gaza The Israeli occupying forces have deliberately attacked and targeted unarmed civilians as well as PRCS ambulances and medical teams. On November 3, 2006, Israeli forces targeted and killed two members of PRCS medical teams, while they were attempting to evacuate a victim killed by Israeli fire in Beit Lahia area. At the same time, Beit Hanoun Hospital is continued to be under siege by Israeli tanks and armored vehicles, which prevent medical teams and victims from reaching the hospital.” Just two stories of the many that land on my desktop every day, yet where is the outrage in the Western media? Clearly Arabs are ‘unter mensh’ along with the rest of the inhabitants of the world that surrounds us as far as the West is concerned…
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EIGHTEEN FUNERALS
Desert Peace
Hebrew numerals are taken from the alphabet. The number 18 is from the letter ‘Chai’… which ironically means life. Today it represented death… 18 funerals of Palestinian civilians brutally murdered in their sleep yesterday by Israel.
After the funerals the families returned to what was left of their homes to begin a three day mourning period for their dead. ENOUGH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Israelis fire on Palestinian women
Gaza military siege ‘made in USA’
Leslie Feinberg
Tel Aviv is carrying out a massacre in the Gaza Strip and there’s not a peep of protest from Democrats or Republicans in Washington—not even after Israeli troops opened fire on unarmed Palestinian women demonstrators. Shrapnel taken from the bodies of Palestinianskilled in recent Israeli attack on the Gaza Strip.Imprint reads: "Made in USA.” Operation “Autumn Cloud”—the Israeli offensive against the population in the Gaza Strip—began on Nov. 1. Within six days, some 57 Palestinian women, men and children had been killed and hundreds more wounded. Metal shrapnel dug out of their bodies was stamped “Made in USA.”…
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Pelosi’s support for Israel is heartfelt, supporters say
peacepalestine
Before a packed meeting of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee three years ago, U.S. Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) connected her political support for the Jewish state with her personal life. “My daughter is Catholic. My son-in-law is Jewish,” she said. “Last week I celebrated my birthday and my grandchildren — ages 4 and 6 — called to sing ‘Happy Birthday.’ And the surprise, the real gift, was that they sang it in Hebrew.” Now that the Democrats have taken control of the U.S. House of Representatives, the party is expected to install Pelosi, 66, as speaker, making her the first woman to hold the position that is two heartbeats away from the presidency…
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