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  • Ex-guerrilla flees France as extradition looms
    25 August 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    Ros Taylor
    One of France’s ex-terrorists is missing. Cesare Battisti, the Italian ex-guerrilla turned thriller writer and pin-up of the far left who was granted asylum by a sympathetic François Mitterrand in 1985 after a court in Rome handed down a life sentence in his absence, has apparently fled.
    The precise nature of Battisti’s revolutionary activities has never been entirely clear. Born in 1954, the biography on his website records that he joined an organisation called Armed (…)

  • Vanessa Redgrave: Guantanamo’s torture regime is a shameful disgrace
    24 August 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The British intelligence services and the Foreign Office appear complicit in the torture
    Vanessa Redgrave
    I have just returned from a theatre workshop in Croatia, with women who survived Tito’s concentration camp for political prisoners on the island of Goli Otok. Officially this was a "work site" or "labour camp", and was opened by the Yugoslav State Security Service in 1948, when Tito split from Stalin.
    The women prisoners were suspected of being pro-Stalin. They were never formally (…)

  • Shame on the Swift Boat Veterans for Bush
    23 August 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By JIM RASSMANN
    I came to know Lt. John Kerry during the spring of 1969. He and his swift boat crew assisted in inserting our Special Forces team and our Chinese Nung soldiers into operational sites in the Cau Mau Peninsula of South Vietnam. I worked with him on many operations and saw firsthand his leadership, courage and decision-making ability under fire.
    On March 13, 1969, John Kerry’s courage and leadership saved my life.
    While returning from a SEA LORDS operation along the Bay (…)

  • The Tiny Victims of Desert Storm
    23 August 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    When our soldiers risked their lives in the Gulf, they never imagined that their children might suffer the consequences—or that their country would turn its back on them.
    EDITOR’S NOTE
    Behind the lens again, photographer Hudson shoots the team that got the Gulf War babies’ story told: left to right, reporter Briggs; senior editor Robert Sullivan, and contributing editor Kenneth Miller, who wrote the piece
    The Kids Are Not All Right Last year, rookie LIFE reporter Jimmie Briggs took on (…)

  • Demand Rumsfeld Account For Missing 8.8 Billion
    23 August 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    ’Staggering Amount’ Of Cash Missing In Iraq
    By Emad Mekay WASHINGTON - Three U.S. senators have called on Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld to account for 8.8 billion dollars entrusted to the Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA) in Iraq earlier this year but now gone missing. In a letter Thursday, Senators Ron Wyden of Oregon, Byron L Dorgan of North Dakota and Tom Harkin of Iowa, all opposition Democrats, demanded a "full, written account" of the money that was channeled to Iraqi (…)

  • The Untermensch Syndrome
    23 August 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Manuel Valenzuela
    The labeling as anti-Semitic of anyone critical of the state of Israel’s policies in the continued destruction of Palestinian identity and the increasing domination into American foreign policy no longer has the sting of threat or intimidation it once mastered. For too long this masquerade has been used to silence those opposing anything Israel, shouted at anyone disseminating truth and seeking justice. Like the boy who cried wolf, this charade has lost its power or (…)

  • Ninety-three years of bombing the Arabs
    21 August 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By GAVIN GATENBY
    In Iraq, few days pass without the US Air Force bombing civilian targets. In a high-profile atrocity in May, a bunch of trigger-happy fly-boys shot up a village wedding in western Iraq, killing 45 guests including many children, and a Baghdad singer loved by millions, but these things happen almost daily in towns like Najaf, Samarra and Fallujah, and in other places too far from public gaze to warrant media attention.
    The explanation - on the increasingly rare occasions (…)

  • Depleted uranium: Dirty bombs, dirty missiles, dirty bullets
    21 August 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    A death sentence here and abroad
    By Leuren Moret
    “Military men are just dumb stupid animals to be used as pawns in foreign policy.” - Henry Kissinger, quoted in “Kiss the Boys Goodbye: How the United States Betrayed Its Own POW’s in Vietnam”
    Vietnam was a chemical war for oil, permanently contaminating large regions and countries downriver with Agent Orange, and environmentally the most devastating war in world history. But since 1991, the U.S. has staged four nuclear wars using (…)

  • Maxine Gentle’s letter to Tony Blair
    21 August 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Maxine Gentle
    Here is a copy of the letter sent to the Prime Minister by Maxine Gentle, the sister of soldier Gordon who died in Iraq.
    To Prime Minister Tony Blair,
    My name is Maxine Gentle and I am 14 years old. I am the sister of Fusilier Gordon Gentle who died in the war in Iraq on the 28th June 2004. I want my thoughts and feelings to be heard and known.
    My feelings are that I think you are rubbish at your job. You don’t care about the British public, armed forces or anyone in (…)

  • How Dick Cheney Got Away With $35 Million Right Before the Govt Launched a Probe into Halliburton
    19 August 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Jason Leopold
    It’s obvious that no mainstream news reporter has the gumption to seriously question Vice President Dick Cheney’s ethics when he was chief executive of Halliburton, the oil-field services company that is currently embroiled in a scandal with the Pentagon due to its questionable accounting practices related to its work in war-torn Iraq.
    Pity those journalists because this is the stuff Pulitzer’s are made of. What’s even more remarkable is that there’s reams of documents (…)