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  • Michael Moore: put Away Your Hankies...
    22 September 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Michael Moore
    Dear Friends, Enough of the handwringing! Enough of the doomsaying! Do I have to come there and personally calm you down? Stop with all the defeatism, OK? Bush IS a goner
    IF we all just quit our whining and bellyaching and stop shaking like a bunch of nervous ninnies. Geez, this is embarrassing! The Republicans are laughing at us. Do you ever see them cry
    "Oh, it’s all over! We are finished! Bush can’t win! Waaaaaa!" Hell no. It’s never over for them until the last (…)

  • First american hostage beheaded in Iraq
    21 September 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    A militant group headed by al Qaeda ally Abu Musab al-Zarqawi has killed an American captive in Iraq after the lapse of a 24-hour deadline, a statement posted on the Internet and an Arabic channel says.
    The Qatar-based Al Jazeera said a statement announcing the killing of American Jack Hensley, 48, by the Tawhid and Jihad group was posted on the Internet on Tuesday. It gave no further details.
    On an Islamist site, a contributor who has in the past posted messages in the name of Tawhid (…)

  • Second American hostage beheaded in Iraq
    21 September 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    di LUKE BAKER
    BAGHDAD - Militants killed a second American captive in Iraq after a 24-hour deadline passed on Tuesday, a web site statement and Arab television said.
    There was no immediate word of the fate of a Briton also being held by the Tawhid and Jihad group which on Monday said it had beheaded the first of three contractors seized last week.
    The group, led by al Qaeda ally Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, said on Monday in video footage of American Eugene Armstrong’s killing that it would (…)

  • The Temple Mount Bombers
    21 September 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    di Uri Avnery
    The Security Service is haunted by a terrible fear: that another Israeli Prime Minister will be assassinated. The extreme right-wing, which does not hide its admiration for Yigal Amir and his deed, harbors some who dream of a similar action. After all, if Amir succeeded in murdering the Oslo process, why shouldn’t another Amir succeed in murdering the process of dismantling the settlements in the Gaza Strip?
    But the Security Service also entertains an even greater fear: (…)

  • Classic guerrilla war forming in Iraq
    20 September 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    Recent upsurge in attacks against authorities and US forces has parallels, and differences, with past insurgencies.
    By Brad Knickerbocker
    War is never by the books. Adversaries learn and adapt. The political climate shifts on both sides. Loyalties and alliances couple and decouple. The civilian populace - caught in the crossfire - often remains passive just to survive.
    To many experts, the conflict in Iraq has entered a new phase that resembles a classic guerrilla war with US forces (…)

  • Livio Maitan: brief biographical
    20 September 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    Livio Maitan: “My autobiographical balance sheet cannot be separated from the balance sheet of the political and cultural, national and international current which I joined in 1947 and in which I have been an active participant ever since."
    Livio Maitain was born in Venice in April 1923. He graduated in Classics (lettere classiche) from the University of Padua.
    He became politically active during the years of the Nazi occupation of Italy, and was subsequently a leading member of the (…)

  • The British Army is to start pulling troops out of Iraq next month...
    19 September 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Jason Burke
    The British Army is to start pulling troops out of Iraq next month despite the deteriorating security situation in much of the country, The Observer has learnt.
    The main British combat force in Iraq, about 5,000-strong, will be reduced by around a third by the end of October during a routine rotation of units.
    The news came amid another day of mayhem in Iraq, which saw a suicide bomber kill at least 23 people and injure 53 in the northern city of Kirkuk. The victims were (…)

  • Letters from France: Divided by a single language
    18 September 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Robert Thompson
    It is said that the late Sir Winston Churchill was the first to make the comment that the U.S.A. and Britain were divided by a single language, and listening to spokesmen for the present administration in the U.S.A. this becomes more and more evident as the election campaign rolls on on your side of the Atlantic.
    It seems almost comic when one has to learn that what you call "diapers" are the ordinary British "nappies", or that your "sidewalk’ is the British (…)

  • Bad Moon Rising
    18 September 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Daniel Patrick Welch
    “I see a bad moon a-risin’/I see trouble on the way
    I see earthquakes and lightning/I see a bad time today
    Well don’t go ‘round tonight/for it’s bound to take your life
    there’s a bad moon on the rise”
    Credence Clearwater Revival
    So what’s a thinking American to do? Metaphors from Alice in Wonderland don’t even cut it any more. Bizarro World is too comical, and “Beam me up, Scotty..” too hopeful. At least the good men and women of the Enterprise had (…)

  • Hidden Toll of the War In Iraq. Mental Health and the Military
    18 September 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Stephen L. Robinson
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    The alarming number of suicides earlier this year among U.S. troops serving in Iraq has raised a red flag about the mental strain on our service men and women as they face grueling battles and a conflict with no clear end in sight. These suicides are only the most visible manifestation of the rising mental health toll from the Iraq war and other U.S. combat operations abroad. Studies indicate that troops who served in Iraq are suffering from (…)