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Withdrawal
of US Troops From Iraq Highly Suspect |
Deaths Revealed By
Wikileaks Are Tip Of An Iceberg The Western media are dutifully adding these 15,000 deaths to their so-called "estimates" of the total numbers of Iraqis killed in the war. This is deceptive. What the unreported deaths really demonstrate is that the passive methodology of these body counts is a woefully inadequate way to try and estimate the number of deaths in a war zone. |
Depleted Uranium: A War Crime
Within a War Crime As if destroying a country and its culture ain't bad enough, how about destroying its future, its children? |
The Troops Protect Our
Freedom, and Other Lies I Learned in School When it comes to guaranteeing stability and promoting democracy, the United States’ record is pretty clear. “Global security” and “stability” mean the security and stability of a particular global order guaranteed by the United States—a global order that reflects the interests of the coalition of class forces that control the American government. |
The Plunder Of
Iraq’s Oil The awarding of development rights over the huge West Qurna oilfield in southern Iraq to Exxon-Mobil and Royal Dutch Shell last Thursday once again underscores the criminal character of the continuing US-led occupation. As the direct result of the Iraq war, major American and other transnational energy conglomerates are now gaining control over some the largest oilfields in the world. |
Pentagon
Pouring Your Money Into Afghanistan: Are They Preparing
for a Very Long War? While Washington has put modest funding into civilian projects in Afghanistan this year -- ranging from small-scale power plants to "public latrines" to a meat market -- the real construction boom is military in nature. The Pentagon has been funneling stimulus-sized sums of money to defense contractors to markedly boost its military infrastructure in that country. |
How the U.S. Funds
the Taliban In this grotesque carnival, the US military's contractors are forced to pay suspected insurgents to protect American supply routes. It is an accepted fact of the military logistics operation in Afghanistan that the US government funds the very forces American troops are fighting. |
9th year of Afghanistan war: US ready to
embrace facts of an illegal War of Aggression? |
Bush Sr. Lies to Start First Gulf
War Son Learned Well-Did Obama Learn Also? With rare exceptions, American politicians seem incapable of opposing an American war without befriending another in a different place or time. Barack Obama, an early and ardent enemy of the Iraq War, quickly declared his affinity for a war in Afghanistan and/or Pakistan. |
Obama
Doesn't Plan to End the Occupation in Iraq Anyone who took the time to cut past Barack Obama's campaign rhetoric of "change" and bringing an "end" to the Iraq war realized early on that his Iraq plan boiled down to a down-sizing and rebranding of the occupation. _______________________________________________________________________________ |
U.S. Would Control Profits
From Iraqi Oil Exports Under Agreement The terms of the agreement effectively allow the U.S. to continue to control billions of dollars of proceeds from the sale of exported Iraqi oil held in the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. _________________________________________________________________________________ |
Neocon Says That 4000 US Troops ‘Had
To Die’ In Iraq States that he is “delighted” that the invasion went ahead regardless of crooked intelligence ____________________________________________________________________ |
Bush Still Lies about Iraqi
Inspections Like previous times when President Bush has used this lie, it went unchallenged by the journalist who heard the false claim, in this case ABC News anchor Charles Gibson. ____________________________________________________________________ |
U.S. Would Control Profits From Iraqi
Oil Exports Under Agreement The terms of the agreement effectively allow the U.S. to continue to control billions of dollars of proceeds from the sale of exported Iraqi oil held in the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. ____________________________________________________________________ |
U.S. Radical Christian Missionaries in Iraq 100 More Years of Spreading Christianity Southern Baptist Convention, especially its "missionary" work in the Third World, has been heavily subsidized financially and logistically by the Rockefeller syndicate for over a century. _______________________________________________________________ |
Webmaster's Thoughts on Veteran's
Day My number came up 13 in the first Draft lottery back in 1969 while I was a senior in college. ______________________________________________________________ |
This Veterans Day, U.S. Soldiers Say
'Stop the War' On this day, Veteran's Day, we would like to express to the American public why we, veterans of the Global War on Terror, have chosen to refuse orders to reactivate into military service. ______________________________________________________________ |
Top CIA Official
Confesses Order to Tie Iraq to 9-11 Came on White House
Stationery |
In damning transcript, ex-CIA official
says Cheney likely ordered letter linking Hussein to 9/11 attacks _____________________________________________________________________ |
Suskind-Sources of WH Forgery under Pressure to Deny |
Author Ron Suskind says his sources
are under "enormous pressure" to change their stories after revealing
to him that the Bush administration had ordered the CIA to forge
a letter from the head of Iraqi intelligence connecting Iraq to
the 9/11 hijackers. _____________________________________________________________ |
The Forged Iraqi Letter: What
Just Happened? In the fall of 2003, after the world learned there were no WMD — as Habbush had foretold — the White House ordered the CIA to carry out a deception ____________________________________________________________________ |