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Liberty For All
by Roderick T. Beaman

07/10/08

Yes, we do think we’re clever and classless and free. We delude ourselves into thinking it. There is no way that we are. We may have once been, but no more. It began to dissolve not long after George Washington took office and it’s been downhill ever since. That is where the politicians come in to help us celebrate our lies...

http://www.libertyforall.net/?p=1360


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Nick Mottern writes for Truthout, "The reality of US troops killing and dying for Iraq oil hit US public consciousness hard on June 19, 2008, when it was announced that the occupied government of Iraq intended to award no-bid oil service contracts to ExxonMobil, Shell, BP, Chevron and Total."

http://www.truthout.org/article/time-iraq-war-oil-profits-taxes



Time for Iraq War Oil Profits Taxes - Part II

Nick Mottern writes in the second of this two-part series for Truthout: "Based on an analysis of economist Dean Baker, co-founder of the Center for Economic and Policy Research, we estimate about 25 percent of oil company profits since the 2003 invasion of Iraq can be traced to the war's impact on world oil prices. On this basis, the excess war profit for ExxonMobil alone, between 2003 and 2008, would amount to about $40 billion."

http://www.truthout.org/article/time-iraq-war-oil-profits-taxes-part-ii



Military Whistleblower Highlights Attempts to Keep War Dead From Public

Dana Milbank for The Washington Post says: "The ghost of Rummy is proving difficult to exorcise. Defense Secretary Robert Gates has tried to sweep out the symbols of his predecessor's capricious reign, firing acolytes of Donald Rumsfeld and bringing glasnost to the Pentagon. But in one area, Rummy's Rules still pertain: the attempt to hide from public view the returning war dead."

http://www.truthout.org/article/military-whistleblower-highlights-new-limits-funeral-coverage



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"Our stance in the negotiations with the Americans will be strong. We will not sign any memorandum of understanding without specifying a date for the withdrawal of foreign troops from Iraq," al-Rubaie told reporters in the Shi'ite holy city.

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-07/10/content_8520414.htm



US: Pull-out Demand Signals Final Bush Defeat in Iraq

The official Iraqi demand for U.S. withdrawal confirms what was becoming increasingly clear in recent months -- that the Iraqi regime has decided to shed its military dependence on the United States.

http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=43140



U.S. ground troops in Iraq done by mid-2009: general

U.S. ground troops in Iraq will be "mostly" finished with security operations by the middle of 2009, the senior U.S. Army officer in charge of training Iraqi forces said on Wednesday.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080709/ts_nm/usa_iraq_training_dc_1



Security firms lose immunity in Iraq deal

The Iraqi armed services are likely to target widely-hated American security contractors when they lose their immunity to Iraqi law under a new agreement between the US and the Iraq.

http://tinyurl.com/67r4jj



Iraqis demand end to 'occupation

Iraqi opposition and resistance groups have renewed their demands for an end to all negotiations with the United States while US troops remain on Iraqi soil.

http://tinyurl.com/6kdtxe



Brown ends hopes of withdrawal from Iraq

Gordon Brown dashed hopes that he was about to announce a withdrawal of British troops from Iraq when he rejected calls by Labour MPs and the Iraqi Prime Minister, Nouri al-Maliki, for a clear timetable to pull out. "I cannot set an artificial timetable," the Prime Minister said yesterday.

http://tinyurl.com/62ne8t



Iraq says hope slim for security deal with current U.S. gov't

"There is a large possibility of postponing the signing of the long-term agreement between Iraq and the U.S., until a new U.S. administration is elected," Ali al-Dabbagh was quoted as saying by the Voice of Iraq news agency.

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-07/15/content_8545482.htm


From Information Clearing House



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One-sixth of Iraq's residents are displaced inside and outside of the country, UN secretary general's representative, David Shearer, said on Tuesday.

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By Noam Chomsky

The deal just taking shape between Iraq's Oil Ministry and four Western oil companies raises critical questions about the nature of the US invasion and occupation of Iraq - questions that should certainly be addressed by presidential candidates and seriously discussed in the United States, and of course in occupied Iraq, where it appears that the population has little if any role in determining the future of their country.

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By Press TV

In a meeting with Iraqi national security adviser Muwaffaq Al-Rubaie on Tuesday, Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani expressed his concerns over the security deal by calling it an excuse that will justify the presence of US forces in Iraq.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20254.htm



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