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What Is Junior Afraid Of?
This is the second time in six months that a case such as this has surfaced. The first was a fourteen-year-old kid. Seems to us that he oughta quit worrying – his final judgement is not in the hands of … Continue reading
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Palast: That Tongue Thing and Other Evils
Off the Rails: Big Oil, Big Brother Win Big in the State of the UnionPublished by Greg Palast January 24th, 2007 in Articles by Greg PalastTuesday, 23 January, 2006 There was that tongue again. When the President lies he’s got … Continue reading
Killing Them Slowly
U.S. Prisoners Exposed to Deadly Chemicals in Toxic SweatshopsBy Christopher Moraff, In These Times. Posted January 24, 2007. For more than a decade, the Federal Prison Industries has been forcing inmates to handle toxic “e-waste” containing arsenic, mercury, lead and … Continue reading
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Memoirs of Failure
Aliens in an Alien Land: Iraq Through the Lens of Soldiers’ Memoirsby Stephen Soldzwww.dissidentvoice.orgJanuary 23, 2007 Not so many years ago, perhaps five, there was a country known as “Iraq.” That Iraq no longer exists. It has been replaced by … Continue reading
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Step One: Negotiate
Prominent Iraqi tribal leader says a truce between U.S. and insurgents is possibleThe Associated PressPublished: January 23, 2007 AMMAN, Jordan: A truce between insurgents and the U.S. forces in Iraq is possible if the Shiite-dominated government in Baghdad is dismissed … Continue reading
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Weapons-Derived Uranium
Aka, depleted uranium. This is a lengthy, revealing article about the serious dangers that weapons made from U-238 pose. Depleted Uranium Poison Explosions Target US CitizensBy Cathy GargerJan 23, 2007, 21:13 I Left My Heart In (a 2500 miles radius … Continue reading
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Sectarian Spillover Into Pakistan?
Iraq’s sectarian violence haunts PakistanWeb posted at: 1/24/2007 2:57:28Source ::: REUTERS ISLAMABAD • Plagued by sectarian violence imported from the Gulf during the 1980s, Pakistan is on guard for any spillover from the conflict between Sunnis and Shi’ites gripping Iraq. … Continue reading
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Part Three of the Monday Movie
Pt.3 The Antiwar Party – Underground GI Movement
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Carrying Out Extrajudicial Murder – A Lawyer Speaks
Behind the executioner’s mask: U.S. ‘justice’ and the hanging of Iraqi judge Awad Hamad al-BandarSaturday, January 20, 2007By: Mara Verheyden-Hilliard An attorney’s essay On Dec. 26, 2006, the Appellate Court of the Iraqi Special Tribunal announced that Judge Awad Hamad … Continue reading
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The New Way Forward
Also known as increasing both the casualty rate and the collateral damage. In the Vortex of Baghdad, Staying Put This TimeBy MARC SANTORAPublished: January 23, 2007 BAGHDAD, Jan. 22 — Two blocks from the new American outpost in Ghazaliya, one … Continue reading
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Perhaps They Learned an Important Lesson
For example, that duplicity doesn’t really pay, or that the Amerikans are imperialist aggressors and not bringers of democracy, roses, and happiness. War’s Arab Supporters Bitter Over Its ResultsBy Anthony ShadidWashington Post Foreign ServiceMonday, January 22, 2007; Page A01 DUBAI, … Continue reading
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The Exciting Baghdad Night Life
A cigarette could really kill you in Iraq! I tried to leave the hotel at night to buy some cigarettes, when one of the hotel security guys took me a side and asked me where I was going? I told … Continue reading
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