World-News

Nicht nur US-Soldaten stehen unter Drogen bei Kampfeinsätzen, auch das britische Verteidigungsministerium sucht nach Mitteln, die Müdigkeit zu bekämpfen.

http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/25/25499/1.html

CounterPunch
by Jeffrey St. Clair

06/12/07

The war on Iraq won’t be remembered for how it was waged so much as for how it was sold. It was a propaganda war, a war of perception management, where loaded phrases, such as “weapons of mass destruction” and “rogue state” were hurled like precision weapons at the target audience: us... [excerpt from Cockburn and St. Clair’s new book on the death of the mainstream media: End Times.]

http://www.counterpunch.org/stclair06122007.html


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USA Today

06/12/07

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said Tuesday the Senate will face another round of votes on the Iraq war before the July Fourth recess, a strategy intended to show that Democrats are not giving up on efforts to bring troops home. While the measures are unlikely to pass, the announcement comes as party leaders are under fire by many liberal supporters for passing legislation that funds the war through September...

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This spring's debate over a timetable for withdrawal from Iraq may have implied that the US presence there is likely to wind down soon, but recent comments from both the administration and military officials suggest a different scenario.

http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0612/p01s01-woiq.html


From Information Clearing House



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AS THE saying goes, "the enemy of my enemy is my friend." It may be catchy, but history has shown its peril as foreign policy. It's now the risky strategy U.S. commanders are following in arming Sunni fighters who pledge to hunt down al Qaeda guerrillas in Iraq.

http://tinyurl.com/38c5qs


From Information Clearing House

By Terry Jones

Where there's death and destruction, there's profit - as security companies in Iraq know only too well.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17867.htm



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The Silence Of The Bombs

by Norman Solomon, TomPaine.com
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http://afterdowningstreet.org/node/23557


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CounterPunch
by Patrick Cockburn

06/11/07

Sahar al-Haideri, an Iraqi journalist, had received 13 death threats before she was murdered in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul last week. Her killing brings to 106 the number of journalists, almost all Iraqi, murdered in the country since the US invasion in 2003 along with 39 support staff. Mrs al-Haideri, a 45-year- old mother of three who worked as a freelancer for many publications, knew she was likely to die but refused to stop working. ‘We know we will be killed soon,’ she told fellow journalists on the Journal Iraq online newspaper. She had even stopped using a nom de plume and wrote under own name with her picture. She said: ‘I was kidnapped and threatened while using a pen name, so I decided to write … with my real name’...

http://www.counterpunch.org/patrick06112007.html



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Consortium News
by Ivan Eland

06/12/07

The Iraq War has made refugees of millions of Iraqis. They have been ethnically cleansed or displaced to other locations both inside the country, to neighboring countries, and overseas. Yet the Bush administration, the creator of the chaos and mayhem in Iraq, has done little to help them...

http://www.consortiumnews.com/2007/061107a.html


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