Revealed: Secret Plan to Keep Iraq Under US Control
By Patrick Cockburn
Bush wants 50 military bases, control of Iraqi airspace and legal immunity for all American soldiers and contractors. Continue
New Agreement Lets US Strike Any Country From Inside Iraq
By Basil Adas
A proposed Iraqi-American security agreement will include permanent American bases in the country, and the right for the United States to strike, from within Iraqi territory, any country it considers a threat to its national security, Gulf News has learned. Continue
Majority Of Iraqi Legislators Call For Timetable For U.S. Withdrawal: Thirty-one Iraqi legislators, representing a majority of the Iraq Parliament, have expressed "widespread disapproval of the proposed U.S.-Iraq security agreement if it does not include a specific timetable for the withdrawal of U.S. military troops."
Iraqi lawmakers tell Congress of misgivings about security agreement with US: "The Iraqi government right now still does not have full rein of its sovereignty because of the thousands of foreign troops now on its land," Nadim al-Jaberi, an Iraqi Shiite lawmaker, told a House panel on Wednesday.
Aljazeera: Iraqi Reactions to Security Agreements: "Will Iraqi political and religious sides succeed in aborting the controversial draft agreement? What would be the ramifications on Iraq and its neighbouring regional countries if the agreement were signed?"
Mortgaging America
By Eric J. Weiner
Investment funds run by foreign governments are keeping the U.S. afloat. Continue
Senate report says Bush misused Iraq intelligence: United States President George Bush and his top policymakers exaggerated Saddam Hussein's links to terrorism and ignored doubts among intelligence agencies about Iraq's arms programnes as they made their case for war, a Senate committee reported on Thursday.
AN AUSTRALIAN doctors' group is pushing to have former prime minister John Howard charged with war crimes for sending troops to Iraq.
Collateral Damage
What It Really Means When America Goes to War
By Chris Hedges
American Marines and soldiers have become socialized to atrocity. The killing project is not described in these terms to a distant public. The politicians still speak in the abstract terms of glory, honor, and heroism, in the necessity of improving the world, in lofty phrases of political and spiritual renewal. Those who kill large numbers of people always claim it as a virtue. Continue
Obama Resigns From Black Nation
"Barack Obama is true-blue to the slaveholding forefathers and heroic blond mothers of the storybook U.S. of A."
By Glen Ford
How far is Barack Obama willing to run from the very same Black nationalism that was fundamental to his victories in so many state Democratic primaries? Continue
War Criminals Must Fear Punishment.
That's why I went for John Bolton
By George Monbiot
As long as the greatest crime of the 21st century remains unprosecuted, we all have a duty to keep the truth alive. Continue
Venezuelan foreign minister says Negroponte has 'criminal record':
At the annual meeting of the General Assembly of the Organization of American States (OAS) in the Colombian city of Medellin, Maduro accused Negroponte of being "responsible for disappearances, for tortures and for deaths in Central America and in several parts of the world."
How Cheney Outfoxed His Foes on Iran and EFPs
Analysis by Gareth Porter
For many months, the propaganda line that explosively formed projectiles (EFPs) that could penetrate U.S. armoured vehicles were coming straight from Iran has been embraced publicly by the entire George W. Bush administration. But when that argument was proposed internally by military officials in January 2007, it was attacked by key administration officials as unsupported by the facts. Continue
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