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Thursday, 02 October 2008 08:31 |
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by Larry Jones
Even before the recent financial crisis, 80% of U.S. voters were
expressing serious dissatisfaction with the war on Iraq. But somehow the endless, unjust war and occupation of Iraq have been virtually removed as an "election issue". To the (very limited) extent either major candidate or the mainstream media discuss the situation in Iraq, it is to debate whether Bush's "surge" is "working", and to comment on the reduction of violence in Iraq.
But the fact is that the U.S. occupation has been an endless horror for the people of Iraq. it is also continuing to present the occupiers with challenges of sustaining a fragile political stability on the country, and many of the measures the U.S. has taken for short term "stabilization" may undermine the more long term U.S. goals.
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Thursday, 02 October 2008 13:32 |
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By
Andy Worthington
A prosecutor resigns
On September 24, Col. Lawrence Morris,
the chief prosecutor of Guantánamo’s Military Commission trial system,
announced that Lt. Col. Darrel Vandeveld, the prosecutor in the case
of Mohamed Jawad
(an Afghan — and a teenager at the time of his capture — who is
accused of throwing a grenade at a jeep containing two US soldiers and
an Afghan translator), had asked to quit his assignment before his one-year
contract expired.
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Sunday, 12 October 2008 08:47 |
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by Dennis Loo
Naomi
Wolf is one of the brave voices. She warns in this video that a coup
has taken place and that we have a small window of time within which to
reverse things.
I agree with Ms. Wolf in most particulars but
do see things in some respects quite differently. I will get to those
differences at the end - I encourage you to read the links within this
post as they elaborate much further on what's going on and why - but
first, a short list of what I would describe as critical points along
this sliding path to a police state.
As Wolf has pointed out in her book, The End of America, the initial stages of a "shift"
contain fascist elements side-by-side with liberal democratic elements.
This stage of co-existence can go on for some time, but sooner or later
the fascist elements eat up the democratic ones. For those who aren't
paying proper attention, in other words, day-to-day life can appear
quite normal while the horrors build and build in the background.
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Monday, 06 October 2008 12:31 |
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Darlene/Deennaa - former resident of my birth home Alaska
I am an indigenous native of Alaska - Indian. There has been no
mainstream news & even little more in Alaska about what Sarah Palin
thinks and does against our Natives of Alaska. I'm sure I'll be
waiting til hell freezes over to see it in the public arena anywhere.
She opposes tribal sovereignty - which also covers, under the Federal
Indian Child Welfare Act(ICWA) the right to keep our own children.
Where is anyone telling this in national news? She opposes our
inherent (and by Federal Law) our rights to our traditional way of
feeding ourselves by hunting & fishing - this being called the
"Subsistence issue".
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Thursday, 16 October 2008 12:07 |
By Kristofer Goldsmith
On Wednesday, October 15th 2008, a peaceful protest outside the third Presidential Debate at Hofstra University on Long Island was met with violence and misconduct by police.
Iraq Veterans Against the War had a clear mission that night: to ensure that the issues most important to Veterans would be at the forefront of the debate. With over 4,183 service members having been killed in Iraq (at the time of the protest), it's unforgivable that the candidates have been allowing the Occupation of Iraq and it's casualties to fall into avoidable talking points instead of focused attention.
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