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The Great Mirage(Imperialism’s lies )

Posted by smeddum on June 26, 2008

(Thecatsdream)
The British Medical Journal published a few days ago “Fifty years of violent war deaths from Vietnam to Bosnia: analysis of data from the world health survey programme”

In the study’s abstract, the conclusions read: “War causes more deaths than previously estimated, and there is no evidence to support a recent decline in war deaths.” Read the rest of this entry »

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Iraqi resistance seeks cross-sectarian unity

Posted by seumasach on June 21, 2008

 

FRIDAY, JUNE 20, 2008

 

Good news(Missing Links)

The names and orientations of political parties registered for the upcoming provincial elections show a dramatic shift from sect- and other small-group orientations to a focus instead on nationalist themes (summary of the trend by Visser here; report by AlHayat here).

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Things Fall Apart

Posted by seumasach on June 20, 2008

 

THURSDAY, JUNE 19, 2008

Things fall apart(Missing Links)

There has always been a problem trying to piece together anything but fragmentary and discontinuous accounts of Iraqi affairs, but the problem is getting noticeably worse. What’s happening in Mosul following the publicized security campaign there, or is that campaign still going on? What about the provisional Sadrist okaying of the campaign in Amara; what does it say about conditions in the Iraqi army and police? And what is the meaning of “foreign minister” Zebari touting in Washington the near-certainty of a bilateral agreement by the end of July, in the face of more or less contradictory statements by the Prime Minister?

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Bush pledges on Iraq bases a ruse

Posted by smeddum on June 15, 2008

    (Asia Times) 

Bush pledges on Iraq bases a ruse

By Gareth Porter 

WASHINGTON – Two key pledges made by the George W Bush administration on military bases in its negotiations with the government of Iraq have now been revealed as carefully worded ruses aimed at concealing US negotiating aims from both US citizens and Iraqis who would object to them if they were made clear. 

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Bush forced to rethink plan to keep Iraq bases

Posted by seumasach on June 12, 2008

 

“Momentum is also growing within the Maliki administration for the US to leave altogether. Mr Maliki was in Iran this week where the supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei told him not to sign up to any long-term security deals with Washington.‘

Sartraps against the empire.

President offers concessions after furious reaction in Baghdad to American ‘colonialism’

By Leonard Doyle in Washington(Independent)

hursday, 12 June 2008

Faced with Iraqi anger over a US plan to enable Washington to keep military forces in the country indefinitely, George Bush is offering concessions to the government of Nouri al-Maliki in an effort to salvage an agreement, it emerged yesterday. Read the rest of this entry »

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IRAQ: ‘Special Weapons’ Have a Fallout on Babies

Posted by seumasach on June 12, 2008

By Ali al-Fadhily and Dahr Jamail


FALLUJAH, Jun 12 (IPS) – Babies born in Fallujah are showing illnesses and deformities on a scale never seen before, doctors and residents say. Read the rest of this entry »

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The resignation of Admiral Fallon will provoke renewed fighting in Iraq

Posted by seumasach on June 10, 2008

by Thierry Meyssan(Voltairenet)

Contrary to what has been written so far in the mainstream media, Admiral William Fallon was not removed because he was opposing President Bush on an attack against Iran. He resigned from his own initiative after the agreement he had negotiated and concluded with Tehran, Moscow and Peking was sabotaged by the White House. This decision by the Bush administration will provoke renewed fighting in Iraq and exposes gravely the GI’s to a new Resistance this time supported without restraints from the outside. Read the rest of this entry »

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Sadr’s agreement with Iraqi Army

Posted by seumasach on May 18, 2008

Wednesday, May 14, 2008

Why the war-party’s reading of this is wrong(MISSING LINKS)

The point that Moqtada has emphasized consistently in all of his recent statements is that the Sadr trend is at war with the occupation only, and not with the Iraqi forces. The strategy is to drive out the occupation (1) without triggering civil war between Iraqi groups; and in fact (2) use the process as preparation for an Iraqi government freed from the filth of the occupation. You can see this in his statements of April 8; April 19; and April 25. (Discussion of the latter here). I won’t bother to quote the relevant parts again, because the strategy is clear: Fight the occupation without triggering an intra-Iraq war. Read the rest of this entry »

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