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News :: Government Secrecy : International Relations : Iraq : Media : Political-Economy : Regime : Right Wing |
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When Will the Mainstream Media Get It Right? |
by Jerry Lanson
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17 Jun 2006
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The Bush Administration and its Republican allies in Congress today regularly eviscerate all opponents of the war as weak on terror if not anti-American. Shouldn’t the news media accounts of such attacks review the evidence of how the war is going? Or is it enough to merely print the attacks and the denials and move on? |
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Zarqawi’s Death & Civil War in Iraq |
by TANVEER JAFRI
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16 Jun 2006
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After the death of Zarqawi, the decreasing figures relating to the class struggle will witness the sign relief among the Iraqis. It is hoped that his death will lessen the class struggle there & the increasing possibilities of civil war will also diminish. |
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News :: Civil & Human Rights |
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Killing season in the Philippines |
by Herbert Docena
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16 Jun 2006
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 The escalating repression taking place now in the Philippines is no coincidence. Twenty years since the end of the dictatorship and three "people's power" uprisings later, Philippine society is hugely polarized. If the recent killing spree signifies anything, it's that the growing coercion and the abandonment of democratic rights portend the fraying of the post-1986 political order, when the dictator Marcos was unceremoniously thrown from power and democracy restored. What will replace those democratic hopes, more than at any time in recent years, is a point of bitter political contention. |
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Soldier's Duty: Say No to Illegal War |
by Michael Honey
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16 Jun 2006
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Watada is the first soldier to resist the war based on the Nuremburg Principles pioneered by U.S. prosecutors during Nazi war crimes trials after World War II and adopted by the United Nations General Assembly (and the United States) in 1950.
Those principles hold soldiers, as well as heads of state, liable for "crimes against peace" (planning, preparing, initiating or waging a war of aggression or conspiring to do so), war crimes (violating "the laws or customs" of war) and crimes against humanity. A key phrase reads: "The fact that a person acted pursuant to order of his Government or of a superior does not relive him from responsibility under international law, provided a moral choice was in fact possible to him." |
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News :: Elections & Legislation : Government Secrecy : International Relations : Iraq : Regime : Right Wing |
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As 2,500th U.S. Serviceperson Dies in Iraq, House Leadership Thwarts Debate on Iraq War! |
by United for Peace and Justice
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16 Jun 2006
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Our local U.S Rep. Tim Johnson will no doubt waffle again on the war, making loud public noises about his discomfort with current policy in Iraq to try to co-opt enough of the center on the war to win the November election, while continuing to give unequivocal support to Bush's failed war when it comes time to vote on the floor. |
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BTL:3 Suicides at Guantanamo Prison Renews Calls for Closing "America's Gulag" |
by Between the Lines' Scott Harris
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16 Jun 2006
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Interview with Retired Brig. Gen. Stephen Xenakis, a psychiatrist, conducted by Between the Lines' Scott Harris |
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True Nature of Obscenity |
by Michael James
mbatko (nospam) lycos.com (verified) |
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16 Jun 2006
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We are daily surrounded by capitalist obscenities such as poverty, war, injustice and inequality. Insult is added to injury when bourgeois spokespersons such as Billy Graham blame God and human beings. |
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News :: International Relations : Iraq : Media |
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The SHORTWAVE REPORT 6/16/06 ¡LISTEN GLOBALLY! |
by Dan Roberts
outfarpress (nospam) saber.net (verified) |
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15 Jun 2006
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A weekly 30 minute review of news and opinion, recorded from a shortwave radio. With times and freqs for listening at home. 2 files- broadcast and slow-modem streaming. Free to rebroadcast. China, Netherlands, Cuba, and Russia. |
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LOCAL News :: Civil & Human Rights : Government Secrecy : International Relations : Iraq : Peace : Protest Activity : Regime |
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Illinois Walk for Justice: “Look Them in the Eye,--Honest Abe and the Residents of Ramadi” |
by Kathy Kelly
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15 Jun 2006
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In the towns that we visit, here in Central IL, I don’t think many people are thinking much about small town Iraq. Some people firmly believe the U.S. war in Iraq is necessary. “Gotta fight ‘em there or they’ll attack us here,” a trucker told us, leaning out of his window. “I wish we would have just dropped a big bomb and done the job.” But while we walk along the road, we realize that support for keeping U.S. troops in Iraq is weak. “Thumbs up” signs, friendly waves, and encouraging honks far outnumber the negative responses to our placards that say “End Iraq War” and “Rebuild the U.S. Rebuild Iraq” |
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