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The U.S. Occupation and the Resistance In Iraq U.S. TROOPS OUT OF IRAQ!...
Posted: Mon, Apr 21, 2003 3:40pm PDT
Was it Iran rather than Iraq that gassed the Kurds? The Portugal News has received a full transcript of a report by a former CIA senior political analyst that states that Iran was responsible for the mass murder of 5,000 Kurds by chemicals at the Iraqi township of Halabja in 1988....
Posted: Mon, Apr 21, 2003 1:03pm PDT
Oil - U.S. National Security A very interesting article on Aljazeera's web site. Now looking back, Carter was really the only good guy to make U.S. less dependent on foreign oil and to build a more peaceful world. The U.S. corporations have been the axis of evils who fixate the nation on the same old war path to conquer and consume more and more oil. Resolutions to this decades old problem?...
Posted: Mon, Apr 21, 2003 12:54pm PDT
US 'to keep bases in Iraq' The Bush administration is reported to be planning a long-term military relationship with the post-Saddam Hussein government of Iraq. Such access would be useful for putting pressure on Iran and on Syria....
Posted: Mon, Apr 21, 2003 2:51am PDT
Religion and politics converge in march of a million Iraqi Shias A vast army of Iraqi Shia Muslims are marching in a traditional annual pilgrimage that was banned under Saddam Hussein. Though primarily a religious event, the mass march – which will continue today – is a de facto show of strength by Iraq's Shia majority, ruthlessly suppressed under Saddam, and now eager to lay down their marker in the political vacuum of the chaotic and dangerous post-Saddam days. It could equally prove to be the start of an overwhelming problem for Washington and London as...
Posted: Sun, Apr 20, 2003 6:27pm PDT
Hollywood revives McCarthyist climate by silencing and sacking war critics Hollywood is often depicted in the US media as a hotbed of anti-government dissent and left-wing politics but that is not how it feels to Ed Gernon............The clearly emerging pattern is that entertainment personalities who speak out on touchy political subjects – particularly Iraq – do so at their peril....
Posted: Sun, Apr 20, 2003 6:17pm PDT
US wants permanent access to military bases in post-war Iraq The United States is planning to use Iraq to maintain a long-term strategic foothold in the Middle East that would include the right to use four of the country's military bases, Bush administration officials said....
Posted: Sun, Apr 20, 2003 6:10pm PDT
Talkin' 'Bout My Generation After 9/11, I also dared to hope, as did Tim Robbins, that some great good might come from the horrors of that day. I imagined that our leaders finally might begin to listen rather than pontificate; that my generation might finally be roused from its apathetic, avaricious condition and remember that it is more blessed to give than to receive.
"And then came the speech."...
Posted: Sun, Apr 20, 2003 3:31pm PDT
First Newspaper to Hit Baghdad's Streets Is Commie! BAGHDAD (Reuters) - It would not be Washington's first choice, but the long-banned Iraq Communist Party on Sunday won the race to publish the first newspaper in Baghdad since the fall of Saddam Hussein....
Posted: Sun, Apr 20, 2003 11:36am PDT
CHILDREN MAIN VICTIM OF ANTICHRIST CLUSTER BOMBS NO ONE knows exactly where Hala Hassan and her brother, Ali, were playing when they found the squat brown cylinder lying on the ground. The children, aged five and two, are too stunned to talk about it, and their father and mother were inside at the time. In a poor city, they live in the poorest quarter of all, where the closest things to toys are bits of plastic scavenged from the rubbish that covers the muddy ground. “They thought it was a kind of ball,” said Hala’s aunt, weeping. “They onl...
Posted: Sun, Apr 20, 2003 6:55am PDT
CHINA CANCELS MAY DAY AND SACKS HEALTH MINISTER AS SARS CASES MULTIPLY BY 10 The SARS bioweapon has 10 times as many victims in China as previously reported and the week-long Mayday festivities have been officially cancelled and the Health Minister has been kicked out of the government as a major SARS cover-up is revealed....
Posted: Sun, Apr 20, 2003 5:33am PDT
Baghdad conditions 'appalling': UN Aid agencies have described the basic infrastructure conditions in Baghdad as appalling. While food aid is trickling into the city, children have been seen digging in the street for untreated water. Power is yet to be restored across most of the city, and the lack of traffic lights has caused widespread traffic jams. Carol Bellamy of the UN children's fund UNICEF says hospital conditions are also grim. "While they still have some of the essential medicines, [they] are very low on oxygen,...
Posted: Sat, Apr 19, 2003 9:42pm PDT
Christians Cancel Easter Celebrations Over Iraq Christians in Egypt and across the Arab world will not celebrate Easter this and next week to show their heartfelt solidarity and sympathy with the Iraqi people, a spokesman for the Middle East Council of Churches (MECC) said Saturday, April 19. "In the name of the Egyptian church and other Eastern and Arab churches; and in solidarity with the current distress of Arabs after the U.S. occupation of Iraq; and in view of the deplorable conditions of the Iraqi people, churches will not celeb...
Posted: Sat, Apr 19, 2003 8:52pm PDT
Perle Maneuvers U.S. into Syrian Phase of "A Clean Break" Richard Perle, member of the study group that authored the"A Clean Break: A New Strategy for Securing the Realm" (ACB) strategic plan for Israel, has increased efforts to fully implement the Syrian phase with U.S. armed forces.
Perle and other ACB operatives and allied administration officials have intensified the volume and repetition scathing criticism against Syria to sell this portion of the plan to the American public....
Posted: Sat, Apr 19, 2003 4:39pm PDT
Fake Photo from Military 
Yesterday a doctored photo was published of Australian special forces showing 51 planes in Western Iraq....
Posted: Sat, Apr 19, 2003 2:27pm PDT
Boycott for Peace - ACT NOW: Contact Corporations mano-a-mano! 
A little sleuthing on Google gave me these *personal* contacts for major companies being targeted in the Boycott. These are the VPs, CEOs, and spin doctors of the greedy creeps that donate their dollars to the Bush and his cronies year after year. Please send these lucky folks an email to let them know how you feel (see my sample letter for inspiration)....
Posted: Sat, Apr 19, 2003 12:21pm PDT
The Rosy Dawn of US Imperialism Hawai'i, January 16, 1893 The Rosy Dawn of US Imperialism by GARY LEUPP January 16, 2003 CounterPunch edited by Alexander Cockburn and Jeffrey St. Clair...
Posted: Sat, Apr 19, 2003 11:50am PDT
US Tax Dollars Paid for Looting of Iraq As suspected, and assumed by those of us who have seen these imperial invasions many times before, it is clear the US taxpayers unwillingly and unknowingly paid for the looting and bookburning, making the rich, richer....
Posted: Sat, Apr 19, 2003 10:39am PDT
A dangerous groundswell of resentment is building up on the streets of Baghdad Without American power, Iraqis would still live in fear of Saddam. With American power, they feel weak and humiliated
A BBC correspondent reports from the streets of Bagdhad on how "the forces suppressed for the last quarter of a century are emerging. None are friendly to the US or its vision for the Middle East. What exactly did the Allies believe would emerge when it burst open the doors of Saddam's demented republic? Peace, democracy, secularism?"....
Posted: Sat, Apr 19, 2003 10:35am PDT
Gunfire interrupts first press conference by 'Pentagon's man' As Ahmed Chalabi, the Pentagon's candidate for leader of Iraq, was being asked if he was a thief, the sound of gunfire interrupted the press conference. Mr Chalabi insisted his conviction for embezzling $60m (£38m) was all a plot.
Outside, one of his supporters, Haqi Ismail, sat in shock dabbing the graze on his nose from one of the eight bullets fired into his pick-up truck....
Posted: Sat, Apr 19, 2003 10:22am PDT
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