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Friday, March 23, 2007

 

Current News & Views

FRIDAY MORNING, BREAKING…Iran navy detains 15 British soldiers in Gulf

Story

·        Iranian Navy Launches War Games in Gulf

·        Ex-envoy John Bolton admits U.S. blocked Lebanon truce: A former top American diplomat says the US deliberately resisted calls for an immediate ceasefire during the conflict in Lebanon in the summer of 2006. He said the US decided to join efforts to end the conflict only when it was clear Israel's campaign wasn't working.

Israel was criticised for bombing Lebanese

civilian centres

·        US Wounded Rates Rise in Iraq

·        Thursday: 3 GIs, 51 Iraqis Killed; 42 Iraqis Wounded

·        US Defense Spending Highest Since WWII

·        FINGERPRINTS OF HISTORY – THE MIDDLE EAST: Gamal Nkrumah and Mohamed El-Sayed gauge the state of the world's most troubled region with eminent author Robert Fisk

·        Pakistan's Strategic Goals and the Deteriorating Situation in Afghanistan

·        ‘AFRICOM’ The last thing we need: The new US command for Africa will militarize the continent and inflame a string of regional conflicts…

·        Bangor, Washington: Nuclear Sub Base an Indicator of Military Intentions

Dr. Sami al-Arian

Dr. Sami al-Arian: Former University of South Florida Professor Continues to Deteriorate in Washington’s Orwellian Political Limbo

 

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·        Shssh! Don't Tell Americans How We Treat "Enemy Combatants"

·        Top-Secret Torture: Editorial, Washington Post

·        The Waterboarded Evildoer by Pepe Escobar, Asia Times
 

Videos

·        DOCUMENTARY: The Doomsday Code - The apocalyptic movement that underlies the religious right

Cartoons

·        Tortured Confessions, American Style: Peter Bromhead, Dominion-Post Wellington and Sunday-Star Times, Auckland New Zealand

·        The Addict and the Enabler: Mikhaela Reid


 

 

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An extraordinarily prescient TV interview with General Norman Schwarzkopf and Robert Gates - Deputy National Security Advisor to Former President George Bush Sr.

 

Why Invading Iraq Was A Very Stupid Idea…

 

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