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Iraq's 'Year Zero'. Pol Pot visits Mesapotamia.
Felicity Arbuthnot
The continuing destruction of Iraq's history - ancient and modern - of
homes, lives and civil society under the watch of and at the hands of US
and British troops - in defiance of a swathe of international law - is an
uncanny and chilling mirror image of Pol Pot'sYear Zero (...) Iraq's
society too is being 'purified', with precisely the same categories of
humanity targetted by Pol Pot being killed in their hundreds: academics to
doctors, scientist! s to soldiers. Former US Viceroy Paul Bremer called his
purification 'de-Ba'athification' and sacked just about every strata of
society needed to run a civilised one - in Iraq's Year Zero, as Cambodia,
their real sin was their race and its heritage, ancient and modern...

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Federation of Journalists accuses US over killing Al-Jazeera reporter
Report, IFJ - Electronic Iraq
Reports that President Bush and British Prime Minister discussed a plan to
bomb the Arab TV station Al-Jazeera add to concerns among journalists
world-wide that the United States attack on the station's Baghdad office on
8 April 2003 in which a reporter was killed was deliberate targeting of
media. "If that is the case, then the US is guilty of the murder of an
innocent journalist," said Aidan White, IFJ General Se! cretary. "It is
time for the United States to tell the truth about this attack and to take
responsibility for its actions which appear to be a gross violation of
international humanitarian law."...

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Downing Street Delusions
Felicity Arbuthnot
...'The people that have died in Iraq' since the invasion is as a result of
'insecurity .. terrorism .... those who want to disrupt the democratic
process', asserts Mr Blair. Wow. The decimation of Falluja,Tel Afar, Najav,
Kerbala, the terrified, napalmed, white phosphoroused, hunted, herded,shot
on the towns of the Syrian border, slaughters of Mosul, Tikrit and others,
Abu Ghraib, torture chambers, hidden prisons, and more, shamefully, too
numerous to mention, air brus! hed out of 'Shock and Awe'. Stunning. Now we
discover the Prime Minister disauded his accident prone Master from bombing
Al Jazeera HQ in little Quatar -a western ally - can this be true? If so,it
will truly be a first...

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Cindy Sheehan Back in Crawford with Message for George
The Associated Press & Cindy Sheehan - t r u t h o u t
... George, My family is spending our 2nd Thanksgiving without Casey,
thanks to you and your lies. I am spending the day crying on a plane on my
way to Crawford to again ask you for a meeting. I had been to Crawford for
three weeks in the summer and to DC several times, asking for a meeting
with you, and now I am returning to our vacation home to once again try to
meet with you. I don't know why you li! ke Crawford so much, but I love it,
because of the Camp Casey Peace Community that arose during August this
year when you wouldn't meet with me...

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Chris Matthews Enjoys Story About American Soldiers Robbing Iraqis
Jesse, Editor, TVNewsLies.org
Tonight on MSNBC’s Hardball, Chris Matthews asked his guest, John Crawford
(Iraq invasion veteran, author of "The Last Story I’ll Ever Tell"), what
his best day was in Iraq. Crawford told Matthews of a night where he asked
his commanding officer for permission to "confiscate" alcohol from the
local Iraqis who were drinking by the Tigris River. Then Crawford and his
pals got drunk on the "confiscated" alcohol. Confisca! ted? They STOLE the
alcohol from the locals with permission from their commander!...

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Fallujah: The Flame of Atrocity
Chris Floyd, Empire Burlesque
...When you begin by bombing hospitals, devouring innocent people with hot
jellied death is not exactly a stretch. It is simply part and parcel of the
inhumanity of the Bushist mindset. Indeed, the slaughter in Fallujah was a
microcosm of the entire misbegotten enterprise launched by those two
eminent Christian statesmen, Bush and Blair: a brutal act of collective
punishment for defying the imperial will; a high-tech turkey shoot that
mowed down the ju! st and unjust alike; an idiotic strategic blunder that
has exacerbated the violence and hatred it was meant to quell...

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Is Bush lying about his lies?
ANDREW GREELEY
Not only did the Bush administration deceive the American people about the
reasons for invading Iraq, it is now deceiving them about the deceptions.
In a burst of political tantrums, the president and the vice president have
shouted that it was "irresponsible" to assert that there had been deception
and it was unfair to the troops fighting in Iraq. Is the administration
lying about its lies?...

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15,000 hepatitis cases reported in Baghdad neighborhood
Khayoun Saleh, Azzaman
There are 15,000 cases of Hepatitis in Al-Sadr Town, one of Baghdad’s most
impoverished neighborhoods, a study has revealed. The study was conducted
by doctors and scientists concerned with the living standards of the town,
where more than 1.5 million people live...

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The Plastic Turkey President
Kevin Zeese
Last year President Bush made a surprise visit to the troops in Iraq, put
on an Army jacket and served the troops a turkey. The photograph and video
of a smiling president serving the loyal troops was played throughout the
country – over and over. Only later did we discover that the service was a
staged event and the turkey was plastic. This year there is no plastic
turkey. President Bush is in Crawford, TX where the day before Thanksgiving
demonstrators were arrested and ! on Thanksgiving Day Cindy Sheehan arrived
saying: "I'm heartbroken that we have to be here again." She expressed
disappointment that the troops were not able to spend Thanksgiving at
home...

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Murtha and the Demented Neocon Political Constellation
Kurt Nimmo, Another day in the empire
Christopher Adamo, writing for the reactionary website ChronWatch, labels
Jack Murtha an "anti-war Vietnam veteran" and a Democrat "of the same
political class that, to this day, refuses to officially recognize the
embarrassing fact that lead hijacker Mohamed Atta was a known threat within
this nation’s borders." Of course, even if we buy the official nine eleven
fairy tale, we can not avoid the obvious conclusion Atta ha! d nothing to
do with Iraq or Saddam Hussein. However, it appears likely he had something
to do with the United States military, as the New York Times revealed in
the days following the nine eleven attacks...

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Letter To Judy
Judy Andreas
...Today I received the following letter and asked the sender for
permission to publish it He granted it gladly and requested that I omit his
name and email address. The letter both warmed and broke my heart. I was
born of Jewish parents and this man is a Muslim, yet these labels become
meaningless as we meet in friendship and caring. There is no distance
between us. This man is my brother.
Dear Judy. I listened to part of your interview on Channel Islam from
Zambia. It was a heartwarming experience for me also. Your statements and
comments were like music to I am sure all the Muslim listeners of Cii. I
have the following contribution to make from a Muslim perspective. The
confrontation we are witnessing today in my opinion is not just about
democracy, oil reserves, occupied Palestine & Iraq ...

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Scholars Threatened By Australian Anti-Terror Laws
Gideon Polya, Countercurrents.org
...The hysteria- and Islamophobia-driven, Police State Anti-Terrorism Laws
will violate major international human and civil rights agreements (notably
the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the International Covenant on
Civil and Political Rights). These draconian Anti-Terrorism Laws will
threaten free speech and the integrity of Australian teachers, researchers,
schools and universities – and hence profoundly corrupt the! next
generation of Australians. Driven by media lying and hysteria, Australia is
about to install proto-Nazi Police State laws...

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Daring to Hope
Thanksgiving at Camp Casey
LEIGH SAAVEDRA
In the three months since we fought the heat and crowds, watching a bit of
history being made by the presence of Cindy Sheehan in Crawford, Texas, a
lot has changed We drove into town late this morning, noting the landmarks
of last summer, Rattlesnake Hill Road, the Yellow Rose (where pro-Bush
people hang out), the Crawford Peace Center. It was a completely different
scene from the one that started a firestorm of adamant opposition to Bush's
war ! last August...

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My interview with the BBC
Gabriele Zamparini, The Cat's Dream
On 17 November 2005 I received an email from the BBC. They wanted to
interview me for the BBC 2 programme Newsnight. Wow! I felt excited. Then I
thought, wait a minute. Why should the BBC interview the guy who wrote
"Will the BBC tell the truth about Fallujah?" (November 07, 2005),
"EXCLUSIVE: the BBC is WRONG!!! Fallujah, the RAI NEWS 24 documentary and
my e-mail exchange with the BBC" (November 08, 2005). "BBC and Fallujah:
War Crimes, Lies and Omert! à" (November 09, 2005), "The BBC, of course!"
(November 16, 2005), "SHAMELESS BBC: WHEN MISINFORMATION MEANS WAR CRIMES.
Exclusive interview with Karen Parker, Chief Counsel of the Association of
Humanitarian Lawyers" (November 17, 2005). Still thinking, I got the first
of three telephone calls from BBC Newsnight. After each call I sent an
email to a friend of mine to let him know about the news. Here below I
reproduce the e-mail I received from the BBC asking for an interview and
the three e-mails I sent to my friend. Have fun!...

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Crude Designs:
The Rip-Off of Iraq’s Oil Wealth
By Greg Muttitt
...This report reveals how an oil policy with origins in the US State
Department is on course to be adopted in Iraq, soon after the December
elections, with no public debate and at enormous potential cost. The policy
allocates the majority (1) of Iraq’s oilfields – accounting for at least
64% of the country’s oil reserves – for development by multinational oil
companies. Iraqi public opinion is strongly opposed to handing control over
oil develo! pment to foreign companies. But with the active involvement of
the US and British governments a group of powerful Iraqi politicians and
technocrats is pushing for a system of long term contracts with foreign oil
companies which will be beyond the reach of Iraqi courts, public scrutiny
or democratic control...

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Bush & Co. Must Stop Their Pouting
Will the US Seize the Opportunity for Troop Withdrawal?
RAY McGOVERN, Former CIA analyst
The surprising degree of consensus reached by the main Iraqi factions at
the Arab-League orchestrated Reconciliation Conference in Cairo last
weekend sharply undercuts the unilateral, guns-and-puppets approach of the
Bush administration to the deteriorating situation in Iraq. The common
demand, by Shia and Kurds as well as Sunnis, for a timetable for withdrawal
of occupation force! s demolishes the administration's argument that
setting such a timetable would be a huge mistake. Who would know better-the
Iraqis or the ideologues advising Bush?...


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GI Special 3D25: " My Husband Will Not Be Silenced"
www.militaryproject.org
...For over a year, my husband, Sgt . Kevin Benderman took everything the
military could pound him with, and walked tall, held his head high -
knowing the day would come when the "Truth would set him free." I walk
every step with him, Sir - not to hold him up when his drugged stupor wears
off, no, Sir - I walk proudly by my husband's side, because I know the
leader that he is, and I know the strength that he has. It is an honor,
Sir, to s! tand by his side and help him build his case against you, and
all of those who have dared to disrespect him. What is it that you and the
commanders who imprisoned him are so afraid of? Why was it that they were
so willing to commit crimes, to tell lies and to manipulate evidence in my
husband's case?...


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GI Special 3D24: Soldier, Come Home
www.militaryproject.org
While you're off in Iraq because the traitors who have seized the
government lied to trick the nation into an Imperial war of occupation,
this is what's happening back here at home. In addition to all the other
reasons to get you out of that shithole, like saving your life, we need you
back here to defend us against this over the line police state bullshit and
the people who are determined to keep it going until we have no liberties
left. We need you, an! d all the troops, to stand up against the domestic
enemies who rule in Washington, and spread their poison all over America...

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First Light
Chris Floyd
Last week, America's troubled sleep was shattered by a trumpet blast of
truth sounding deep in Washington's corridors of power, where the rule of
the Lie has held sway for so long. This intrusion of reality into the
bloodstained fantasyland of the Bush Regime comes late in the day for the
moribund Republic -- perhaps too late -- but it has struck a mighty blow
against the Lie's adherents, driving them into spasms of hysterical panic,
like rats exposed suddenly to the light. The unlikely in! stigator of this
historic upheaval was U.S. Representative John Murtha, the 73-year-old
conservative Democrat and war hawk, one of many "opposition" leaders who
once strongly backed President George W. Bush's murderous folly in Iraq...

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Attack Dogs
Stephen Gowans, What's Left
"Mr. Bush was said to have referred to the idea of bombing Al Jazeera’s
studios in Qatar, a close Western ally, according to a document quoted…in
The Daily Mirror. The tabloid said it was quoting from a leaked government
memo said to contain a transcript of a conversation by Mr. Bush and Mr.
Blair." (New York Times, November 23, 2005.) More evidence of just how far
off the "is there no end to this madness?" meter Bush is? No. This isn’t
peculiar to Bush. While Bill Clinton! was president, NATO not only talked
about bombing an overseas TV network – it did so...

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We Give Thanks for our Freedom
Chris Floyd, Empire Burlesque
This AP picture shows Hiram Myers, 74, of Edmond, Oklahoma, being hauled
off by armed officials for the heinous crime of sitting in a county-owned
ditch in Crawford, Texas, to protest the war in Iraq. It is of course
simply intolerable to think that President Bush's holiday repose might be
disturbed in the slightest by the presence of such miscreants in the
proximity of his own sacred person. This is freedom in America today...

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