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American War Crimes In Iraq 1991-2005 EuroYankNewsTicke ...The above photo of wreckage on the infamous "Highway of Death" was taken in March 1991, in southern Iraq. The road went from Kuwait to Safwan, at the Iraqi border, and on to Basra. Tens of thousands of soldiers and civilians were fleeing desperately, many in civilian vehicles. They were obviously no military threat to anyone. And yet American forces gleefully massacred them all, joking that it was as easy as "shooting in a sheep pen." On many occasions Ir! aqi soldiers tried to surrender to American forces. It didn’t make any difference. U.S. Air Force and Navy pilots were under orders to mass-murder every last human being in cold blood... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=23498 Bush has his hand in the Monkey Trap Abid Ullah Jan ...Let us assume that Macbeth is fake. The problem of the more than 100,000 killed in Iraq would nevertheless remain with us. After all someone killed them, if not Macbeth. The fact will remain that 1.8 million were starved to death before that. The fact remains that the war machine is in full gear, not only in Iraq but also in Afghanistan. After indiscriminate bombing villages are closed down and no journalists are allowed (...) If the U.S. administration, the ! pundits in the "mainstream" media, their allies in the non-Muslim world and the puppets in the Muslim world believe that they will remain the same despite their crimes against humanity, they are totally out of their mind like a monkey in the Indian trap. Silencing one Macbeth or one liar posing as Macbeth can hardly hide the reality of the U.S. crimes against humanity that are still underway... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=23493 Time for Abbas to Retire Mike Whitney Mahmoud Abbas has little to show for his two years as Palestinian president. He has neither produced a settlement nor forced Israel to sit down and negotiate terms for a final agreement. Just this week, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert brushed aside Abbas’ advances saying that talks would be pointless because Abbas is "powerless" to speak for his people. If this is so, then why was Sharon so eager to help Abbas win the election by shuttling him around the territories? In ! truth, Abbas is exactly the president that Israel wants, a feeble, ineffective bureaucrat who gets his marching-orders from Tel Aviv and poses no threat to Israel’s territorial ambitions... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=23487 A WOMAN OF HER CONVICTIONS Malcom Lagauche After the announcement of his capture, a lesser-known lawyer from Lebanon sent the following letter to Saddam: To: Mr. President Saddam Hussein, may God protect him and guide him to the right path. President of the Republic of Iraq and leader of the Arab Mujahideen. Your image which appeared yesterday on TV showing you in the hands of those hypocrites made me feel that you are the only free Arab man, while all other Arabs without exception are the real prisoners. I ap! peal to you to allow me to have the honor of defending you in case a so-called "trial" is set up. The writer of the letter was Bushra al-Khalil. She is not your typical female Middle Eastern lawyer. A Shia Muslim, she dresses in a modern secular manner. And, she is very outspoken. After the assassination of well-admired Lebanese political figure Rafiq al-Hariri, much speculation came forth that Syria was behind the killing. Not al-Khalil... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=23486 DAILY WAR NEWS FOR TUESDAY, May 23, 2006 Today in Iraq A roadside bomb damaged one Humvee in a U.S. convoy in the Dora neighborhood. An Iraqi woman and a child were wounded in gunfire that followed. A car bomb exploded in New Baghdad, killing two police commandos and three civilians. The attack, which damaged nearby shops and cars, also wounded five commandos and three civilians. Gunmen killed a cigarette vendor in a drive-by shooting in the capital. Gunmen killed a professor at Baghdad's Technology University, ! in northeastern Baghdad. An industry ministry employee was shot dead in northeastern Baghdad. Three corpses were found in Baghdad: two floating in different spots on the Tigris River, and one of a 10-year-old boy from the neighborhood of Dura in the south, police said. The boy, who was kidnapped on Monday, had been tortured before being shot through the head... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=23484 The Militarisation of the Eastern Mediterranean: Israel's Stake in the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan pipeline Michel Chossudovsky, GlobalResearch.ca The Anglo-US Military alliance seeks to establish control over Central Asian oil and gas reserves as well as strategic pipeline routes. The most important strategic corridor is the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan oil and gas pipelines dominated by British Petroleum (BP). This corridor integrates the Caspian Sea to the Eastern Mediterranean. Israel is a potential partner in the Baku-Cey! han oil pipeline, which is also protected by GUAM, a US-NATO sponsored military alliance between Georgia, Azerbaijan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan and Moldava... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=23503 Iraqi Resistance Report for events of Tuesday, 23 May 2006. Translated and/or compiled by Muhammad Abu Nasr, member, editorial board, the Free Arab Voice In a dispatch posted at 2:10pm Makkah time Tuesday afternoon, Mafkarat al-Islam reported that an Iraqi Resistance bomb exploded by a US military column in the northeastern area of al-Hadithah, about 300km west of Baghdad. The al-Hadithah correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam reported eyewitnesses in the al-Haqlaniyah area as saying that a bomb that had been plante! d by the side of the main road to the US military headquarters in the middle of al-Haqlaniyah blew up as an American column was driving past. The explosion totally destroyed a Humvee, killing four US troops who were aboard it... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=23501 A Slow Motion Coup Rowan Wolf, POAC ...Generally, a coup is seen as the overthrow of those in power by another - usually with support of at least part of the military. Often this is imagined as a swift move followed by a consolidation operation (kill or expel those who were previously in power). However, a coup seems to be occurring in the United States, but it is a slow coup. It may be culminated by one drastic move that consolidates the plan, but the pieces are being clearly put in place for a coup of the enti! re government with the eradication of democracy and the Constitution. I will constrain my discussion to three areas: executive power, intelligence, and military reach... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=23499 Slaves to the "Free Market" Unite Can Humanity Make a Stand Against the Ruthless Onslaught of Capitalist Imperialism? JASON MILLER Relentlessly delivering the triphammer blows of a youthful Mike Tyson, America’s imperialist ruling class of wealthy and corporate elites has been pummeling the poor, minorities, and the working class with impunity for years. As some of my readers have aptly pointed out, America and its White Christian patriarchy do not have a historical monopoly on abuse of power or exploi! tation of "lesser people". It is also true that Anglos have been victimized at various points in history. Yet the United States exists and thrives almost solely because it obscenely exploited Africans to attain economic power and committed genocide against North America’s indigenous people to obtain and expand its territory... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=23488 European governments cover up illegal CIA abductions Martin Kreickenbaum, WSWS Alleged terror suspects have been kidnapped in the European Union (EU) by the CIA and taken to third countries where they have been subjected to torture. The European governments knew of these illegal actions and were even involved in them. This is the conclusion reached in the first interim report of the subcommittee of the European parliament examining the illegal activities of the CIA within Europe. Dick Marty, the special investiga! tor of the Council of Europe, reached a similar conclusion in February. Forty-six European states belong to the Council of Europe; the European parliament includes representatives of the EU’s 25 member states... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=23497 The Great Iraq Oil Grab Joshua Holland ...The national security arguments about Saddam Hussein's "WMD" and supposed ties to Al Qaeda -- all disproved -- only took centerstage after the attacks of 9/11. In the decade before, industry groups that are now closely tied to the Bush administration issued a string of position papers and op-eds urging the ouster of Saddam specifically in order to open Iraq's economy, and they openly lobbied for war on those terms. People like Dick Cheney, George Schultz and Henry Kissing! er (L. Paul Bremer was a protégé of Kissinger's) warned that American energy firms were at a competitive disadvantage as long as Saddam Hussein remained in power... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=23494 Will Elena Benador Start World War III? Bob Fertik Joseph Cannon rightly calls our attention to Elena Benador, the woman who played a crucial role in brainwashing millions of Americans into supporting the invasion of Iraq - and is trying to do the same in Iran. Here's what the Jim Lobe wrote about her in 2003: When historians look back on the United States war in Iraq, they will almost certainly be struck by how a small group of mainly neo-conservative analysts and activists outside the administration were abl! e to shape the US media debate in ways that made the drive to war so much easier than it might have been… But historians would be negligent if they ignored the day-to-day work of one person who, as much as anyone outside the administration, made their media ubiquity possible. Meet Eleana Benador, the Peruvian-born publicist for [Richard] Perle, [James] Woolsey, Michael Ledeen, Frank Gaffney and a dozen other prominent neo-conservatives whose hawkish opinions proved very hard to avoid for anyone who watched news talk shows or read the op-ed pages of major newspapers over the past 20 months... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=23495 New Estimate of Venezuela's Total Oil Reserves Makes It the Grandest of Grand Prizes for US Stephen Lendman I just finished reading an important new book the author's publisher sent me, which I'll shortly be reviewing for publication. The book is investigative journalist (and in his words "forensic economist") Greg Palast's latest foray into exposing the hidden from view crimes and wrongdoings of the Bush administration. I'm very familiar with Palast's important work and can only wish many others of his profess! ion did the same sort of it he does - his job. Sadly most don't, but luckily we have some who do, and we should pay close heed to what they tell us. They're our window to the dangerous world around us, and the information they provide is our protection from it... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=23492 Slaves to the "Free Market" Unite Can Humanity Make a Stand Against the Ruthless Onslaught of Capitalist Imperialism? JASON MILLER Relentlessly delivering the triphammer blows of a youthful Mike Tyson, America’s imperialist ruling class of wealthy and corporate elites has been pummeling the poor, minorities, and the working class with impunity for years. As some of my readers have aptly pointed out, America and its White Christian patriarchy do not have a historical monopoly on abuse of power or exploi! tation of "lesser people". It is also true that Anglos have been victimized at various points in history. Yet the United States exists and thrives almost solely because it obscenely exploited Africans to attain economic power and committed genocide against North America’s indigenous people to obtain and expand its territory... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=23488 What is the rehabilitation for someone who will no longer participate in war? Monica Benderman On May 16th Monica Benderman was invited to participate in a Congressional Briefing hosted by Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney, at the Longworth Office Building, Washington DC. This briefing was to call attention to Conscientious Objection and Military Recruitment practices. Monica's husband, Kevin, is currently serving a prison sentence for refusing to return to Iraq. He was recently denied parole because he has not bee! n sufficiently 'rehabilitated.' Below is a transcript of her testimony. Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=23490 QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Why even discuss the so-called 'Iraqi government'? Comment posted by John C. at Just World News (via Today in Iraq) Why even discuss the so-called "Iraqi government?" No such thing exists outside the realm of propaganda. To write about this or that Green Zone politician, or even to criticize the impotence, ineptitude and corruption of this group of puppets, is to promote the narrative of the puppetmasters. If people are talking and writing about an Iraqi government, then there must! be one, and if there is one (especially a weak, pathetic one), then there is a purpose for the continuing occupation other than murder, destruction, pillage and plunder. Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=23485 www.uruknet.info: a site gathering daily information concerning occupied Iraq: news, analysis, documents and texts of iraqi resistance available in Italian and English. You receive this newsletter because you subscribed it. If you think it was an abuse, or simply if you don't want to receive it any more, click here to unsubscribe from the newsletter.