31 December 2006 | Uncategorized | Aaron Glantz
SAN FRANCISCO, California (IPS) – Iraqi-Americans reacted with sadness to the execution of Saddam Hussein Saturday, calling the former Iraqi president’s death by hanging early this morning Baghdad time a missed opportunity for justice. An Iraqi tribunal set up by the U.S. government had convicted Hussein of murder in the killings of 148 Shiite [...]
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31 December 2006 | Uncategorized | Margaret Griffis
Updated at 12:30 a.m EST, Jan. 1, 2006 A day after Saddam Hussein’s execution, Iraq remains eerily quiet. So far 24 Iraqis have been killed and 16 wounded in violent attacks. The U.S. military reported that one American soldier was killed and two more injured when a roadside bomb blasted them in southeastern Baghdad. Another [...]
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30 December 2006 | Uncategorized | Praful Bidwai
NEW DELHI – If prospects for nuclear weapons reduction took a turn for the worse in 2006, the New Year holds out little hope for containing proliferation. In October 2006, eight years after India and Pakistan crossed the nuclear threshold, the world witnessed yet another breakout, when North Korea exploded an atomic bomb and demanded [...]
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30 December 2006 | Uncategorized | Gordon Prather
On hearing of the death of former President Gerald Ford, syndicated columnist Robert Novak – who infamously “outed” a CIA covert agent in what appears to have been a White House conspiracy, involving Vice President Dick Cheney, to discredit the CIA operative’s husband, who had joined the international chorus of those claiming that President Bush [...]
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30 December 2006 | Uncategorized | Alan Bock
I happened to hear an old country classic today that somehow got me thinking about the New Year: Charlie Daniels’ "The Devil went down to Georgia." Here are the lyrics: The devil went down to Georgia He was looking for a soul to steal And he was in a bind ‘Cause he was way behind [...]
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30 December 2006 | Uncategorized | Margaret Griffis
Updated at 6:05 p.m. EST, Dec. 30, 2006 Saddam Hussein was hanged at dawn. He joins the 110 other Iraqis who were killed or found dead today; another 172 Iraqis were wounded in violent attacks throughout the country. Also, the death of another American soldier brought the total number of GIs killed in Iraq [...]
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29 December 2006 | Uncategorized | Gareth Porter
This year saw the emergence of a sectarian civil war in Iraq and much more open Sunni-Shi’ite conflict in the Middle East. Sunni regimes in the region expressed acute anxiety both about the possibility of the Sunni-Shi’ite civil war in Iraq spreading to their own countries and about the growth of Iranian influence. In that [...]
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29 December 2006 | Uncategorized | Dahr Jamail
with Ali Al-FadhilyBAGHDAD – More US troops are expected to be deployed in Iraq in the New Year. Despite obvious rethinking, there is no decision on withdrawal of occupation forces. The presence of troops may be raised just for their own protection. According to a Pentagon report, US and Iraqi forces are facing close to [...]
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29 December 2006 | Uncategorized | Paul Craig Roberts
In her historical mystery, The Daughter of Time, Josephine Tey (a pen name of Elizabeth MacKintosh), has Scotland Yard Inspector Alan Grant, while confined to his hospital bed, solve the 15th century murder of the two York princes in the Tower of London. The princes were murdered by Henry VII, and the crime was blamed [...]
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29 December 2006 | Uncategorized | Backtalk
The Trap of Recognizing Israel Jonathan: Interesting and well put together. But I would like to suggest that it does not withstand analysis. It’s fundamental flaw, as in so many arguments of the type, is in the premise: If you accept the premise that recognizing Israel’s right to exist necessarily means the subjugation [...]
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