Posted by smeddum on November 1, 2010
Linda Bilmes
31st October, 2010
Nobel Prize recipient Joseph Stiglitz and Harvard budget guru Linda J. Bilmes are revising their original $3 trillion war cost estimate. As Bilmes reports, the Iraq and Afghanistan wars are at least 25 percent costlier than previous projections.
As Election Day draws near, it’s pretty clear: Voters are worried about jobs, the budget deficit and the rising national debt. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by smeddum on October 27, 2010
Agence France-Presse
New York, October 28, 2010
for UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by smeddum on October 27, 2010
27/10/10
MOSCOW — Russia’s foreign ministry on Wednesday called for “clemency” for former Iraqi deputy premier Tareq Aziz after he was sentenced to death by hanging for murder and crimes against humanity. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by smeddum on October 27, 2010
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(Note: Inside the Vatican will organize a small pilgrimage to visit the Vatican and attend the November 20 consistory and meet several of the new cardinals. For further details see the end of this newsflash.)
The Catholic at Saddam’s Side to Be Executed
Aziz has been in prison since his arrest in 2003, when Saddam’s regime was overthrown.
Before he was imprisoned, Aziz spent the last weeks of his life as Saddam’s deputy in a vain search for a negotiated peace in attempt to stave off the imminent invasion of his country.
“The position of the Catholic Church on the death penalty is known,” Father Federico Lombardi, S.J. (photo) head of the Vatican Press Office, said yesterday after hearing of the Iraqi high court decision.Posted in Iraq | Leave a Comment »
Posted by smeddum on October 27, 2010
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Posted by seumasach on October 27, 2010
Pepe Escobar,
28th October, 2010
The neo-conservatives always contended that the United Statesinvaded Iraq to bring “democracy” (from the barrel of a gun). Seems like if not democracy, at least the greatest hits of the US judicial system are indeed being implemented in (still occupied) Iraq; torture (as WikiLeaks has amply demonstrated) and the death penalty. Talk about liberation.
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Posted by seumasach on October 27, 2010
27th October, 2010
His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI,
His Grace The Archbishop of Canterbury,
His Grace the Archbishop of Westminster,
The Prime Minister, the Rt. Hon., David Cameron,
The Deputy Prime Minister, The Rt., Hon., Nick Clegg,
The Foreign Secretary, The Rt. Hon., William Hague.
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Posted by seumasach on October 26, 2010
Gareth Porter
27th October, 2010
A newly released WikiLeaks document on Iraq and the new political alignment between Shi’ite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr and Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki both provide fresh evidence that General David Petraeus’s war against Shi’ite militias in 2007-2008 was a futile exercise.
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Posted by seumasach on October 19, 2010
Pepe Escobar
20th October, 2010
Iraqi Premier Nuri al-Maliki hit Tehran this Monday. He was duly received by Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and talked extensively to President Mahmud Ahmadinejad, still beaming after his rock-star tour of Lebanon last week.
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Posted by seumasach on September 23, 2010
22 September 2010
PRESS RELEASE
For Immediate Use
Women advised not to have children as legacy of US and UK WMD
Bill Wilson MSP (SNP) has lodged a Parliamentary Motion highlighting the consequences of the US and UK’s use of Weapons of Mass Destruction during an attack on Fallujah in 2004.
Speaking after lodging his motion, Dr Wilson said, “The consequences are ongoing: a survey showed a four-fold increase in all cancers, a 12-fold increase in childhood cancer in under-14s and a 38-fold increase in leukaemia. By contrast, Hiroshima survivors showed a 17-fold increase with regard to the latter. What’s more, because of this cancer crisis, local doctors are advising women not to have children.
“I have long been convinced that those responsible for the invasion of Iraq should be charged. It seems to me that any reasonable person looking at what happen in Fallujah would conclude that major war crimes have been committed. Tony Blair has to answer for his decisions.
“It is disappointing, to say the least, that our media have paid relatively little attention to this issue. Yet women are now being advised not to have children. To turn a blind eye now would surely make us all complicit.”
Contact
Dr Bill Wilson MSP
Tel +44 (0) 782 459 6994 / 131 348 6805 / 141 840 2772
Fax +44 (0) 131 348 6806 / 141 889 4693
E-mail Bill.Wilson.msp@scottish.parliament.uk
Website www.billwilsonmsp.org
Notes to Editors
1. FULL TEXT OF THE MOTION
Short Title: Women Advised Not to Have Children as Legacy of US and UK WMD
S3M-07049 Bill Wilson (West of Scotland) (SNP): That the Parliament notes a report in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, Cancer, Infant Mortality and Birth Sex-Ratio in Fallujah, Iraq 2005-2009, on the effects of the United Kingdom and United States’ attack on Fallujah in 2004; notes the reports that this attack involved the use of illegal chemical weapons, phosphorous bombs and nerve gas; understands that it has been further reported that this has led to an explosion of infant mortality, leukaemia and cancers, exceeding those following the dropping of atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, to the extent that local doctors are advising women not to have children; supports the international courts in their pursuit of war criminals since 1945; believes that no individual guilty of such crimes should escape justice, and calls for the detention and trial of Anthony Charles Lynton Blair.
2. BACKGROUND INFORMATION
BEYOND HIROSHIMA – THE NON-REPORTING OF FALLUJAH’S CANCER CATASTROPHE
http://www.medialens.org/alerts/10/100907_beyond_hiroshima_t
he.php
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MSP Seeks Legal Advice re Crown Office Refusal to Disclose Deliberations on Iraq Prosecution
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Posted by seumasach on September 22, 2010
Dick Adriaensens
22nd September, 2010
“It is the people of Fallujah’s cherished right to hold to account the International Community that now has both the mandate and moral responsibility to initiate proceedings to prosecute and hold accountable all those perpetrators, and to seek full restitution and compensations commensurate with the endured suffering and pain throughout the occupation period, continuing till the present day.” (Dr. Muhamad Tareq Al-Darraji, President of Conservation Centre of Environment and Reserves in Fallujah – CCERF, Director of Monitoring net of human rights in Iraq – MHRI)
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In These New Times 