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John Pilger: The Rise of America's New Enemy

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“Soldiers should not be held up as national heroes " - “I would rather be Edison than Hannibal; Peabody rather than Radetzki, Newton rather than Wellington.” Source - Invertarium einer Seele by Bertha von Suttner, the first woman awarded the 1905 Nobel Peace Prize.

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"Individuals have international duties which transcend the national obligations of obedience ... Therefore [individual citizens] have the duty to violate domestic laws to prevent crimes against peace and humanity from occurring.": The Nuremberg Tribunal 1945-1946.

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If a war be undertaken for the most righteous end, before the resources of peace have been tried and proved vain to secure it, that war has no defense, it is a national crime: Charles Eliot Norton

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War is the health of the State. It automatically sets in motion throughout society these irresistible forces for uniformity, for passionate cooperation with the government in coercing into obedience the minority groups and individuals which lack the larger herd sense: Randolph Bourne


Charge Him or Release Him

Jose Padilla : U.S. Citizen Imprisoned Without Trial or Charges for 3 Years and 186 Days
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article9221.htm


The Rise Of America's New Enemy

By John Pilger

While the world looks to Iran and Syria for the next Bush attack, Venezuelans know they may well be next. On 17 March, the Washington Post reported that Feliz Rodríguez, "a former CIA operative well-connected to the Bush family" had taken part in the planning of the assassination of the President of Venezuela.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article10943.htm


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US denies using 'napalm' on civilians:

THE US military in Iraq denies a report shown on Italian state television saying US forces used incendiary white phosphorus against civilians in an offensive on the Iraqi town of Fallujah last November.
http://tinyurl.com/dkhup

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In case you missed it:

U.S. Journalist Reports On Use Of White Phosphorous In Fullajah:

Bogert is a mortar team leader who directed his men to fire round after round of high explosives and white phosphorus charges into the city Friday and Saturday, never knowing what the targets were or what damage the resulting explosions caused.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article10941.htm

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In case you missed it:

Military Report Confirms White Phosphorous Used In Fullajah:

"WP proved to be an effective and versatile munition. We used it for screening missions at two breeches and, later in the fight, as a potent psychological weapon against the insurgents in trench lines and spider holes when we could not get effects on them with HE. We fired 'shake and bake' missions at the insurgents, using WP to flush them out and HE to take them out."
http://tinyurl.com/amt75


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A name that lives in infamy :

The destruction of Falluja was an act of barbarism that ranks alongside My Lai, Guernica and Halabja
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article10946.htm

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Ukraine to withdraw soldiers from Iraq before December 30:

Ukraine will end the withdrawal of its soldiers from Iraq by December 30, 2005, Ukrainian Defense Minister Anatoliy Gritsenko said.
http://www.interfax.ru/e/B/politics/28.html?id_issue=11419117

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Any Soldier Will Do:

The Pentagon has been calling up reserve soldiers who are ill or medically unfit to serve. The reservists are serving primarily in Iraq and Afghanistan.
http://tinyurl.com/ccvuk

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Army reaches low to fill ranks:

The number of new recruits who scored at the bottom of the Army's aptitude test tripled last month, Pentagon officials said, helping the nation's largest armed service meet its October recruiting goal but raising concerns about the quality of the force.
http://tinyurl.com/7a6c6

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Do Not Serve in this War :

The regime of torture continues because the military provides a shield that keeps the public from intervening. The military is the facilitator of torture; the "enabler" of torture. Without its support the system would fall apart.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article10949.htm

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Rumsfeld can override Pentagon policy barring torture:

A little-noticed loophole in the directive gives the Defence Secretary or his deputy authority to override the policy.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article10948.htm

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U.N. Blasts Practice of Outsourcing Torture: Six countries -- the United States, Britain, Canada, France, Sweden and Kyrgyzstan -- have been singled out for violating international human rights conventions by deporting terrorist suspects to countries such as Egypt, Syria, Algeria and Uzbekistan, where they may have been tortured.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article10952.htm

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Sen. Graham Introduces Amendment to End Habeas for Detainees :

Senator Lindsay Graham is introducing an Amendment to the defense appropriations bill pending in the Senate (S. 1042) that would strip those designated by the Administration as enemy combatants of the ability to seek habeas review in federal courts.
http://talkleft.com/new_archives/013056.html

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Frist worried about leak, not prisons:

Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist says he is more concerned about the leak of information regarding secret CIA detention centers than activity in the prisons themselves
http://www.sanluisobispo.com/mld/sanluisobispo/news/politics/13133346.htm


Los Angeles Times Confirms Israeli Evacuation Prior To Bomb Blasts:

Amos N. Guiora, a former senior Israeli counter-terrorism official, said in a phone interview with The Times that sources in Israel had also told him about the pre-attack evacuations.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article10953.htm

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How the U.S. Helped Create Zarqawi and the Terror Financing Network:

Democracy Now! speaks with Italian writer Loretta Napoleoni, author of "Insurgent Iraq: Al Zarqawi and the New Generation."
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article10954.htm

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Chalabi claims he didn't mislead U.S.:

Rep. Henry Waxman, D-Calif., said that Chalabi's private appearance today on Capitol Hill should instead be public, and that he should be put under oath "to answer questions about his role in providing false intelligence to the United States ... "
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2002614991_chalabi10.html

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IDF choppers in service of drug cartel:

American officials demand Israel provide explanations for how U.S.-made choppers sold to Israel ended up in service of Columbian drug cartel. Incident may cloud relations between countries
http://tinyurl.com/cnmgx


House of Commons, 4:56pm: The moment Tony Blair lost his authority :

Tony Blair's personal authority was badly dented last night when he suffered a humiliating defeat over his plan to allow the police to detain suspected terrorists for up to 90 days without charge.
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/politics/article326057.ece

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Foreign policy 'spurs Muslim extremism' :

The group of Muslim advisers hand-picked by the government in the wake of the July 7 bombings has attacked Tony Blair's anti-terrorism plan, just hours after the 90-day detention rule was defeated in parliament.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/terrorism/story/0,12780,1639511,00.html

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Is US planning an Iraq-style 'regime change' in Syria?:

A new intelligence report, however, says any successor to Assad's regime won't be any friendlier to US.
http://csmonitor.com/2005/1109/dailyUpdate.html


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