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The Epic Crime That Dares Not Speak Its Name, by John Pilger; Seymour Hersh Interviews Scott Ritter, more Headlines from ICH

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"We are reluctant to admit that we owe our liberties to men of a type that today we hate and fear -- unruly men, disturbers of the peace, men who resent and denounce what Whitman called 'the insolence of elected persons' -- in a word, free men.": Gerald W. Johnson - (1890-1980) Source: American Freedom and the Press, 1958

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A common and natural result of an undue respect for law is that you may see a file of soldiers, colonel, captain, corporal, privates, powder-monkeys, and all marching in admirable order over hill and dale to the wars, against their wills, ay, against their common sense and consciences, which makes it very steep marching indeed, and produces a palpitation of the heart. They have no doubt that it is a damnable business in which they are concerned; they are all peaceably inclined. Now, what are they? Men at all? or small movable forts and magazines, at the service of some unscrupulous man in power?: Henry David Thoreau, On the Duty of Civil Disobedience

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Dress it as we may, feather it, daub it with gold, huzza it, and sing swaggering songs about it, what is war, nine times out of ten, but murder in uniform?: Douglas Jerrold


The Epic Crime That Dares Not Speak Its Name
By John Pilger

At the Nuremberg trial of the Nazi leadership, counts one and two, "Conspiracy to wage aggressive war and waging aggressive war", refer to "the common plan or conspiracy". These are defined in the indictment as "the planning, preparation, initiation and waging of wars of aggression, which were also wars in violation of international treaties, agreements and assurances". A wealth of evidence is now available that George Bush, Blair and their advisers did just that. The leaked minutes from the infamous Downing Street meeting in July 2002 alone reveal that Blair and his war cabinet knew that it was illegal.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article10785.htm



Declaration of Dependence and the Fall of the American Empire:

The United States currently has a military presence in 192 nations and troops stationed in 135 of them. This means the United States has a military presence in just over 70% of the world’s nations, making the United States far more influential and widespread than any empire before it.
http://blogcritics.org/archives/2005/10/27/093554.php

Jim Lobe: The strange saga of Cheney and the "nuclear threat":

Cheney's initial public attempts to raise the nuclear nightmare did not in fact begin with his August 2002 barrage of nuclear speeches, but rather five months before that, just after his return from a tour of Arab capitals where he had tried in vain to gin up local support for military action against Iraq.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article10789.htm

U.S. Supreme Court Is Asked to Consider Padilla Terrorism Case :

Jose Padilla, held for three years as an ``enemy combatant'' in the war on terrorism, asked the U.S. Supreme Court to limit the government's power to detain American citizens as terror suspects without charges.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article10792.htm

Charge Him or Release Him

Jose Padilla : U.S. Citizen Imprisoned Without Trial or Charges for 3 Years and 171 Days

"Under a government which imprisons unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison." : Henry David Thoreau


Mother of slain US soldier arrested in Iraq war protest:

US police arrested Cindy Sheehan, the mother of a US soldier killed in Iraq who has become a prominent war opponent, along with two dozen people for demonstrating without authoritization in front of the White House.
http://tinyurl.com/afwh7

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Iraqis Forced to Take in Uninvited Troops:

The Marines call it a necessary evil — taking over houses and buildings for military use. For the Iraqis who become unwilling hosts, it can be anything from a mild inconvenience to a disruption that tears apart lives.
http://tinyurl.com/a689g

Where is the Grand Inquisitor When You Need Him?

A Dead Civilian a Day Keeps the Terrorists at Bay?

By Jason Miller

"The new doctrine was not one of preemptive war, which arguably falls within some stretched interpretation of the UN Charter, but rather a doctrine that doesn't begin to have any grounds in international law, namely, preventive war. That is, the United States will rule the world by force, and if there is any challenge to its domination---whether it is perceived in the distance, invented, imagined, or whatever--then the United States will have the right to destroy that challenge before it becomes a threat. That's preventive war, not preemptive war."
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article10788.htm

Fabricated Links?:

A secret draft CIA report raises new questions about a principal argument used by the Bush administration to justify the war in Iraq: the claim that Saddam Hussein was "harboring" notorious terror leader Abu Mussab al-Zarqawi prior to the American invasion.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9831216/site/newsweek

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Interview of Scott Ritter by Seymour Hersh:

The acclaimed journalist interviews weapons inspecter Scott Ritter on KPFA's Against the Grain.

Audio. MP3
http://www.againstthegrain.org/audio10.26.05.mp3


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Oil-for-food probe implicates 2,000 firms:

It detailed the manipulation of the program by companies around the world as well as individuals, groups and governments and made clear that nearly half of all the companies that took part in the program made illegal payments.
http://tinyurl.com/a4e3z

Another document, dripping with blood, surfaces in House of Death case:

In the case, dubbed the “House of Death,” an informant, under the supervision of U.S. law enforcers, is accused of participating in torturing and murdering a dozen people in a house in the Mexican border town of Ciudad Juárez.
http://narcosphere.narconews.com/story/2005/10/22/23542/882

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U.S. Soldiers Involved in Drug Smuggling Ring:

A U.S. army sergeant fighting the war on drugs in Colombia was recently sentenced to six years in prison for using military aircraft to smuggle cocaine into the United States.
http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/print?id=1252876

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Arar tortured in Syria, report determines:

An independent factfinder says there is no doubt that Maher Arar was tortured in Syria and that the horrible ordeal has had a devastating effect on the Ottawa software engineer and his family.
http://tinyurl.com/8danr

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