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»Bush Is About to Attack Iran26 Jan 2007Excerpt: The American public and the US Congress are getting their backs up about the Bush Regime’s determination to escalate the war in Iraq. A massive protest demonstration is occurring in Washington DC today, and Congress is expressing its disagreement with Bush’s decision to intensify the war in Iraq.
Students, Professors Flee to the Kurdish North26 Jan 2007Excerpt: ARBIL —Academic life in Iraq’s volatile southern and central regions has become increasingly paralyzed, with hundreds of students and professors targeted and many more abandoning their educational institutions in search of a refuge.
And the Winner Is…26 Jan 2007Excerpt: The general elections in Serbia, held on January 21, were described as “low-key” by the BBC. Somewhat greater voter turnout than in the past—60% of the electorate showed up at the polls—didn’t translate into clear results, however…
Washington Ups the Ante in Afghanistan26 Jan 2007Excerpt: Despite growing domestic opposition to his plans for escalating US military intervention in Iraq, US President George W. Bush is calling for a sharp increase in Washington’s economic and military commitment to Afghanistan.
Saturday: 92 Iraqis, 7 GIs Killed; 83 Iraqis Wounded26 Jan 2007Excerpt: Updated at 1:05 a.m. EST, Jan. 28, 2007 The U.S. military announced that seven U.S. servicemembers were killed and three wounded. Also, at least 92 Iraqi were killed or found dead today and another 83 were wounded in various attacks throughout the country. Baghdad continues to be rocked by various explosion, many in the form of car bombs and mortar attacks.
Friday: 84 Iraqis, 1 GI Killed; 130 Iraqis Injured25 Jan 2007Excerpt: Updated at 1:05 a.m. EST, Jan. 27, 2007 Although Fridays are the Muslim prayer day and generally quiet, several bombs rocked the capital today. Overall, 84 Iraqis were killed or found dead today and another 130 were injured in various attacks throughout Iraq. Also, a Marine was killed in combat today in Anbar province.
What If?25 Jan 2007Excerpt: Sometimes, in contemplating war and the need for peace, one wonders, “what if”; what if Thomas Paine’s ideas were not considered radical, unconventional, or “out there” at all; what if the entire citizenry of the United States of America read and was influenced by The Rights of Man and Common Sense; what if the current administration had not been installed; moreover, what if one embraced the seemingly radical notion that governmental systems would be better led by women, the natural proponents of peace and nonintervention? In considering those what-ifs as they relate to peace, one may find the key to peace is in educating the public to discard the status quo.
Russia Gets its Warm-Water Port25 Jan 2007Excerpt: A number of simultaneous recent events and trends in the Balkans evidence a startling yet indisputable conclusion: that across the board, the Western influence that had for so long seemed so hegemonic is on the wane, or has at least encountered very serious stumbling blocks…
Strategic Errors of Monumental Proportions25 Jan 2007Excerpt: The role that US military forces can play in that conflict is seriously limited by all the political decisions the US government has already taken. The most fundamental decision was setting as its larger strategic purpose the stabilization of the region by building a democracy in Iraq and encouraging its spread. This, of course, was to risk destabilizing the region by starting a war…
China Rising: The Next Global Superpower25 Jan 2007Excerpt: Last week China took a small but critical step to end American global dominance. Until now the US and Russia were the only two nations thought capable of making military use of space. But Beijing dramatically crashed this select club by using a ground-based ballistic missile to destroy an old weather satellite. Although America will remain the globe’s military number one for decades, it must begin to contemplate a world in which it no longer stands alone.
And Mahdi Army Makes Three Fronts in Iraq25 Jan 2007Excerpt: George W. Bush’s State of the Union address appears to confirm other recent indications that the president is not merely sending more troops to Iraq to do more of the same, but has adopted a new strategy of fighting all three major Iraqi Arab political-military forces simultaneously.
Mideast Strategy Increasingly Targets Iran25 Jan 2007Excerpt: Six months after last summer’s war between Israel and Lebanon’s Hezbollah, Iran has become the George W. Bush administration’s “Public Enemy Number One,” against which its Middle East strategy is increasingly focused, according to one of the US’s leading experts on the Gulf.
US Military Spied on Hundreds of Antiwar Demos25 Jan 2007Excerpt: At least 186 antiwar protests in the United States have been monitored by the Pentagon’s domestic surveillance program, according to documents obtained by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), which also found that the Defense Department collected more than 2,800 reports involving Americans in a single anti-terrorism database.
The Forgotten American Dead25 Jan 2007Excerpt: When we hear about the American dead in Iraq, we normally learn about the circumstances in which they died…
Homage to Herzliya25 Jan 2007Excerpt: Asked about a Senate resolution disapproving the “surge” of U.S. troops going into Iraq, Vice President Dick Cheney growled: “It won’t stop us.”
US, Iranian Publics Not So Different24 Jan 2007Excerpt: The people of Iran and the United States share many of the same hopes and fears about global problems but remain deeply distrustful of each other’s government, according to a major survey of public opinion in both countries released here Wednesday.
Revolt Builds Against Bush’s Iraq Policy24 Jan 2007Excerpt: In the first step toward what some believe could eventually lead to a constitutional crisis, a key Congressional committee approved a nonbinding resolution here Wednesday formally dissenting from President George W. Bush’s plan to send some 21,000 more troops to Iraq.
The Ideologue24 Jan 2007Excerpt: Churchillian it was not. Yet the State of the Union seemed a success if Bush’s purpose was to buy time from Congress to wait and see if his surge of US forces into Iraq might yet succeed.
Antiwar Groups Plan Surge on Washington24 Jan 2007Excerpt: Peace activists from around the United States will converge on Washington Saturday for what organizers hope will be the largest demonstration to date against the Iraq war.
Don’t Let Congress Backslide24 Jan 2007Excerpt: George Bush’s State of the Union speech provided every single US resident that opposes the war in Iraq with a reason to take that opposition into the streets.
Thursday: 113 Iraqis, 1 GI Killed; 190 Iraqis, 3 GIs, 2 Britons Wounded24 Jan 2007Excerpt: Updated at 1:25 a.m. EST, Jan. 26, 2007 At least 113 Iraqis were killed or found dead today and another 193 wounded during a series of bombings in the capital and other attacks throughout the country. One American soldier was killed and three more GIs were wounded in a roadside bomb attack northwest of the capital. Two British soldiers were injured during a mortar attack at their base in central Basra as well. Also, the city of Karbala is on high alert for expected sectarian violence in conjunction with a major Shiand#8217;ite religious observance.
Death to a Nation23 Jan 2007Excerpt: War can mean power, land, resources, or money. But war also means chaos and losses of money and people. Everything has a price, but is killing people a decent price?
The State Spies on the Union23 Jan 2007Excerpt: State of the what? Let’s see, 28 percent, 31 percent, 33 percent, 35 percent. That pretty much sums up the state of the president—or, at least, of his ever more dismal approval ratings in four of the latest major polls (and don’t even mention his state of approval in similar nose-diving polls abroad).
The Empire Turns Its Guns on the Citizenry23 Jan 2007Excerpt: In recent years American police forces have called out SWAT teams 40,000 or more times annually. Last year did you read in your newspaper or hear on TV news of 110 hostage or terrorist events each day? No. What then were the SWAT teams doing? They were serving routine warrants to people who posed no danger to the police or to the public.
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