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ARSENALE D'IPOCRISIA
RANDY ATKINS, Comedonchisciotte.net
...L'USAF ha scaricato 1.5 milioni di tonnellate di bombe sul Laos e
150.000 tonnellate di bombe sul Vietnam. Più recentemente, i bombardamenti
Statunitensi, le invasioni militari di paesi perdonati, e le sanzioni delle
Nazioni Unite (per lo più mantenute dagli Stati Uniti) sono responsabili
per l'alto livello di morti e violenza dovuti alle sanzioni. Tali azioni
hanno causato la morte di piu` di 1.5 milioni di Iracheni; circa il 50% di
queste morti sono bam bini Iracheni al di sotto dei 5 anni d'età.
Naturalmente questo numero continuerà a crescere per l'uso di munizioni
all'Uranio Impoverito. Uranio Impoverito e` stato usato anche in Yugoslavia
ed Afganistan. Circa 10.000 tonnellate di bombe sono state scaricate in
Afganistan. Gli Stati Uniti riportano di aver avuto 110.000 sortite aeree
contro l'Iraq, scaricando finora circa 100.000 tonnellate di bombe
convenzionali, quasi sette volte l'equivalente della bomba atomica che
distrusse Hiroshima...

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La negazione della tortura
Tom Engelhardt, ZNet
... Graner era un uomo crudele che traeva piacere dal commettere azioni
sadiche. Ma il suo evidente entusiasmo per la tortura, come riferito da
testimoni, il suo desiderio di sentire i prigionieri gridare, la sua voglia
di poter tirare giusto un cazzotto in più e infliggere una manciata di
dolore in più, bene, questo entusiasmo non era appannaggio esclusivo dei
secondini di Abu-Ghraib o altrove in Iraq, Afghanistan, Guantanamo, o nelle
varie tappe intermedie. Questo entusiastico spirito a favore della tortura
era evidente anche ai livelli più alti dell'amministrazione dall'inizio
della guerra al terrore; permeava i documenti legali che erano usciti
dall'ufficio del Consiglio della Casa Bianca; può essere percepito nei
commenti scarabocchiati sui memorandum della tortura mandati al suo
ufficio...

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Delusione imperiale
Tariq Ali, Il Manifesto
...In occidente, il coro trionfalista dei media di stato o legati alle
corporations riflette un unico fatto: le elezioni irachene non miravano
tanto a preservare l'unità dell'Iraq, quanto a ricompattare l'occidente.
Già dopo la rielezione di Bush i francesi e i tedeschi stavano cercando un
ponte verso Washington. I francesi avevano collaborato all'occupazione di
Haiti senza che dai media francesi si levasse alcun dissenso. I tedeschi
ora possono unirsi nuovamente al grup po...

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The US is Declining
An Interview with Ricardo Alarcon (Part One)
SAUL LANDAU, CounterPunch
... Elections were a pretext to extend U.S. control. I don't believe the
U.S. will withdraw. They can't give a sense they may abandon Iraq without
giving the impression of having suffered a big defeat. I don't think
elections solve political problems in Iraq. The U.S. occupation remains an
issue. Prior to the elections, CNN international had vast coverage of
voting elsewhere, Iraqis in the U.S., Australia and Europe. An d the
turnout wasn't that big. It may have been a very big fraud. One commentator
committed a Freudian slip referring to women voting, saying that Iraq was a
secular society and women were accustomed to exercising rights. In the
future, women may be deprived of rights in a religious society. But before
the occupation, women had rights...

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RAPID RESPONSE MEDIA ALERT: ONE SECOND PER VICTIM
Slaughter In Iraq And ITN's Descent Into Absurdity
David Edwards, MEDIA LENS
...On ITN's main lunchtime news today, anchor Andrea Catherwood reported
that 22 people had been killed in Iraq in two attacks on a mosque and a
bakery. The report lasted exactly 22 seconds - one second per victim. Only
the basic facts were given and the carnage was not included in a summary of
the day's major stories at the end of the programme. The 22 seconds were
followed by a 5 min ute 30 second report on the planned wedding of Prince
Charles to Camilla Parker-Bowles - a story also covered ad nauseam
yesterday...

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Fury at the fuel station
Iraqis frustrated by shortages in oil-rich country
Arwa Damon, CNN
"No gas, no fuel. This is destruction, not freedom!" It is just another
morning at the pump at a fuel station in Mansuriye, northeast of Baquba,
where tempers of the weary civilians waiting for gasoline in oil-rich Iraq
are flaring. Dozens of men crowded at the locked gate say they have been
waiting for hours to fill their tanks. But who is responsible for solving
these issues? "Let Allawi come here, [interim prime min ister] Ayad Allawi,
Ayad Allawi, where are you? Where is the freedom, where is the democracy?
We've been waiting since 4 a.m. Why?" screams Salah Hassan Abbas. "Saddam
Hussein did not do this to us!"...

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Allawi, Kurds Set to Form Coalition: Report
IslamOnline.net
The two main Kurdish parties in Iraq have given their conditional go-ahead
for a parliamentary coalition with interim Prime Minister Iyad Allawi,
well-placed Kurdish sources have revealed. The Patriotic Union of Kurdistan
(PUK) and the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) asked, in swap, for Allawi's
backing for PUK leader Jalal Talabani to be elected president, the sources
told Al-Quds Press Friday, February 11...

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VETERANS FOR PEACE CALLS FOR BAN ON DEPLETED URANIUM MUNITIONS
International Labor Communications Association
.... An increasing number of studies has linked DU with Gulf War syndrome,
and DU is strongly implicated in birth defects among veterans' children.
Disturbing reports of suspected radiation-related problems among Iraq war
veterans are surfacing. Children in Afghanistan and Iraq are exposed to
radiation from DU munitions in walls, in soil, and, in one study in which
Dr. Rokke participated, from spent projec tiles scattered in city streets.
Babies have been born in these countries having no eyes and lacking crowns
on their skulls. Anemia, cancers, liver and kidney dysfunctions, and
infections due to immune system deficiences occur more frequently than
before the wars...

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'My Name Is Giuliana Sgrena: I Write for a Newspaper Which Opposed the
Sanctions and the War Against Iraq'*
Luciana Bohne, Online Journal Contributing Writer
...Giuliana Sgrena's life is in peril in Iraq, where the horror has ceased
to be horrible because it has been so barbarically and unnecessarily
normalized. The illegal invasion of Iraq has indeed turned out to be that
ultimate Nuremberg-tribunal crime: the crime against the peace. From this
original crime, all others have derived. Well might we reflect on Sgr ena's
prophecy at the beginning of the war: "This is the most absurd of wars and
it will be a bloodbath." If only she hadn't been so damned right!...

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Is the Army's manpower problem so bad it must now recall the injured?
Jack Dalton, Online Journal Contributing Writer
Twenty-three-year old Adam Mowery was discharged by the U.S. Army in May of
2003,, from the 188th MP Company stationed in Taegu, South Korea, due to a
back injury he sustained while on active duty at Walter Reed Army Medical
Hospital following the attacks on September 11. On February 1, 21 months
after Adam was forced out of the Army, he was notified he is to report for
active duty the first week o f April...


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Ahmed Abdullah Story
Cliff Kindy, Electronic Iraq
Ahmed knocked at the door of the CPT apartment, accompanied by his
translator. His family had been searching for his brother Mohammad for
three months without success. His translator had met CPT at a conference
last summer and suggested the family ask CPT for help. On November 7, 2005,
U.S. soldiers knocked at the door of Ahmed's home...

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