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Crassnerd Questions the "Iranian" Mortar Rounds
Iranians Operatives Use English Language to Make US Look Like Chumps BBC Reporters Taken In At First The weapons were reportedly made after the fall of Saddam Hussein Green Zone, Baghdad(Feb 12 2007) Paul Crassnerd, WtFNS BBC reporters called to … Continue reading
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In Case You Missed It
A road map out of IraqBy Zbigniew Brzezinski U.S. leadership is being tested in the Mideast. We might fail unless we change direction. 02/11/07 “Los Angeles Times’ — – THE WAR IN IRAQ is a historic strategic and moral calamity … Continue reading
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We Need to Stop This Madness
An “Existential” Conflict: Charging Iran with “Genocide” Before Nuking ItBy GARY LEUPP 02/10/07 “Counterpunch” — – In a very interesting analysis last month, the former chief of staff of the Russian Army, Gen. Leonid Ivashov, predicted a U.S. nuclear strike … Continue reading
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A. Cockburn on US/Iran Brinkmanship
Intelligence Briefings to NYT Notch Up Tension: Will They Nuke Iran?By ALEXANDER COCKBURN President Nixon, a very good poker player, once defined the art of brinkmanship as persuading your opponent that you are insane and, unless appeased by pledges of … Continue reading
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More Singin’ On Sunday – Solidarity Forever
Solidarity Forever (Pete Seeger & The Weavers)
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More On Ehren Watada
The Army blinkedBy Geov ParrishFeb 9, 2007, 06:02 An amazing thing happened in a courtroom at Fort Lewis, Washington on Wednesday. The U.S. Army was in the third day of what to all appearances was a kangaroo court martial of … Continue reading
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Fisk – Conspiracy of Silence
Conspiracy of silence in the Arab world: Where are the sheikhs when the Iraqi dead are fished out of the Tigris?By Robert Fisk 02/10/07 “The Independent’ – — Could Rifaat al-Assad’s day in court be growing closer? Yes, Rifaat – … Continue reading
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BushCo Murders Them in All Sorts of Imaginative Ways
Told to wait, a Marine dies: VA care in spotlight after Iraq war veteran’s suicideBy Charles M. Sennott, Globe Staff | February 11, 2007 STEWART, Minn. — It took two years of hell to convince him, but finally Jonathan Schulze … Continue reading
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Singin’ On Sunday – Norah, Again
Norah Jones – Rosie’s Lullaby (Live)
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More On the Impending Action Against Iran
Also from Another Day in the Empire Iran Dossier: More Brothers Grimm NonsenseSunday February 11th 2007, 9:01 am Maryam Rajavi, along with husband Massoud, leaders of the Marxist-Islamic Mujahedin-e Khalq cult and terrorist group, will provide “evidence” in an attempt … Continue reading
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War with Iran Is Inevitable and Near
As I drove to visit my Mother this morning, I heard this report on CBC and knew that the third war was about to start. Now that BushCo is having the lackies (CBC called them anonymous sources) trot out this … Continue reading
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