ICH: Robert Fisk:  The True Story of Free Speech in America
 
Date: Sun, 8 Apr 2007 23:38:37 -0500 (CDT)


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"There is one safeguard known generally to the wise, which is an
advantage and security to all, but especially to democracies as
against despots. What is it? Distrust."

-- Demosthenes: Philippic 2, sect. 24

= We have come out of the time when obedience, the acceptance of
discipline, intelligent courage and resolution, were most important,
into that more difficult time when it is a person's duty to understand
the world rather than simply fight for it. -- Ernest Hemingway

= "It's important to realize that whenever you give power to
politicians or bureaucrats, it will be used for what they want, not
for what you want."-- Harry Browne

= "Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't
mean politics won't take an interest in you." -- Pericles, 430 B.C.

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=== Number Of Iraqi Civilians Slaughtered In America's War On Iraq
- At Least 655,000 + + http://tinyurl.com/usq4x
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Number of U.S. Military Personnel Sacrificed (Officially acknowledged)
In America'sWar On Iraq 3,275 http://icasualties.org/oif/
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The War in Iraq Costs $415,335,108,449

See the cost in your community
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American Tortured by US in Iraq Speaks Out

David Phinney

At a luncheon at the National Press Club, Vance received the Ridenhour
Prize for Truth-Telling, an award named in memory of Army helicopter
gunner Ron Ridenhour who struggled to bring the horrific mass murders
at My Lai to the attention of Congress and the Pentagon during the
Vietnam War.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17501.htm
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The True Story of Free Speech in America

By Robert Fisk

Sami al-Arian is 49 but he stayed on hunger strike for 60 days to
protest the government outrage committed against him, a burlesque
of justice which has, of course, largely failed to rouse the sleeping
dogs of American journalism in New York, Washington and Los Angeles.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17503.htm
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War Pimp

Iranians Behind Sept. 11 Attacks: Rudy Giliani

By Marc Santora

Giuliani Says Nation at War Requires Him
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"Preventive Warriors"

Video

The film features many of the leading thinkers and intellectuals
of our time including Noam Chomsky, Chalmers Johnson, Tariq Ali and
more. The film examines a bold new foreign policy paper introduced
by the White House in September 2002 entitled: "The National Security
Strategy of the United States."

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/video1020.htm
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Where Have All the Bees Gone?

By Fidel Castro

And Other Reflections on the Internationalization of Genocide.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17505.htm
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Shalom, Shin Bet

By Uri Avnery

Recently, The chief of the Shin Bet declared that the "Israeli
Arabs", a fifth of Israel's population, constitute a danger to the
state.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17504.htm
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Iraq - Sunday: At least 86 killed as deadly U.S. occupation grinds
on:

A car bomb killed up to 17 people and wounded 30 more in the town
of Mahmudiya, 30 km (20 miles) south of Baghdad, local officials
said.

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Al-Sadr calls for attacks on U.S. occupation troops:

Cleric Muqtada al-Sadr urged the Iraqi army and police to stop
cooperating with the United States and told his guerrilla fighters
to concentrate on pushing American forces out of the country,
according to a statement issued Sunday.

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Iraqis flock to Najaf for anti-U.S. occupation protest:

Thousands of Iraqis flocked to the holy city of Najaf on Sunday for
a big demonstration called by radical Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr
against the U.S. presence in Iraq.

http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/CrisesArticle.aspx?storyId=BAY845674
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Ex-army officer: troops are dying in Iraq for a 'doomed project' :

A former captain in the Scots Guards who has served in Afghanistan
and Iraq describes both operations as a political and military
shambles in a book to be published next week.

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/article2432462.ece
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Reid: America Cannot Afford Plan to Send National Guard to Iraq,
Further Stretch Military:

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid released the following statement
regarding the Defense Department's proposal to send 12,000 National
Guard combat forces to Iraq and Afghanistan:

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Suspect 'chained like a dog' in Iraq for three months:

A SYDNEY spray painter, Ahmed Jamal, was treated like a dog and
handcuffed continuously for three months while imprisoned in Iraq
as an alleged insurgent, his brother said yesterday
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Iran warns Iraq over Iranians held by U.S. forces:

Iran has warned neighbouring Iraq that its failure to secure the
release of five Iranians detained there by U.S. forces could impair
Tehran's cooperation with Baghdad, a senior official was quoted on
Sunday as saying.

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Iran bars Iraq PM from its airspace - Iraq official :

Iran refused to allow a plane carrying Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri
al-Maliki on a trip to Asia to cross its airspace overnight, a
senior adviser to the Iraqi leader said.

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Iran shuns meeting with US at Iraq conference:

Iran's foreign ministry spokesman has said that Iran has no plans
to meet with US officials on the sidelines of the forthcoming
conference on Iraq.

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Russian general says U.S. continues preparations for military action
against Iran:

The release of the 15 British sailors and marines captured by Iran
has robbed the U.S. of a pretext to attack Iran, but the U.S. has
not given up plans to attack Iran militarily, said Col. Gen. Leonid
Ivashov, president of the Academy for Geopolitical Problems, a
Russian think tank.

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Iran says wants to make nuclear fuel due to delayed Bushehr:

Delays in completing the Bushehr nuclear power plant in Iran prompts
the Islamic Republic to produce nuclear fuel on its own, Iran's
Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki said Sunday.

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7 NATO occupation force soldiers killed in roadside bombings in
southern Afghanistan :

Roadside bombs in southern Afghanistan on Sunday left seven NATO
occupation force soldiers dead, the alliance said, as its forces
continued an anti-Taliban offensive in the world's most fertile
opium-producing region.

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Prime Minister Stephen Harper confirms six Canadian soldiers in
Afghanistan killed
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Afghan translator for kidnapped Italian journalist beheaded:

Taliban spokesman: Ajmal Naqshbandi, a freelance journalist and
translator, was kidnapped along with Daniele Mastrogiacomo of the
Italian newspaper La Repubblica, and a driver in southern Helmand
province March 5.

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Gideon Levy: Israel doesn't want peace:

The moment of truth has arrived, and it has to be said: Israel does
not want peace.

The arsenal of excuses has run out, and the chorus of Israeli
rejection already rings hollow.

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/846420.html
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Nasrallah gives up hope of deal :

The leader of Hezbollah used a speech on Sunday to say that the
only way to end the stalemate with Fouad Siniora's government was
through a referendum or early elections.

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US allowed Ethiopia to buy arms secretly from N. Korea:

Three months after the United States successfully pressed the United
Nations to impose strict sanctions on North Korea because of the
country's nuclear test, Bush administration officials allowed
Ethiopia to complete a secret arms purchase from North Korea, in
what appears to be a violation of the restrictions, according to
senior US officials.

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Cuba slams US' double standard on terrorism :

Cuba yesterday slammed what it said was the US' double standard on
terrorism after a US federal judge ordered the release of an
anti-Castro activist convicted in the deadly downing of a Cuban
jet.

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Death threat's close news website:

"I have concluded that it's not safe for me any more to continue
editing Al-Jazeerah.info in this atmosphere of intimidation, which
abridges freedom of speech and freedom of the press."

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Migrant workers in US protest :

Thousands of people have marched in protest over a leaked White
House proposal that would require illegal immigrants to pay thousands
of dollars to become legal US residents.

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News for 04/07/07

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Iraq: At least 62 killed in another bloody day of U.S. occupation:

U.S. and Iraqi troops fought gunmen for a second day in Diwaniya.
A source at the local hospital said it had received a total of 13
bodies and 41 wounded in the past 48 hours
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L07640269.htm
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U.S. Attack Kill Iraqi Woman and Children:

A local hospital source and a resident said six people, including
two children and a woman, were killed in the missile strike on a
home in the centre of the city, 110 miles south of Baghdad.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070407/wl_nm/iraq_dc
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Iraq says British raid was a violation:

A British-led raid on a police intelligence headquarters in southern
Iraq last month violated Iraq's sovereignty as well as a U.N.
Security Council resolution, the government said on Friday.

http://origin.mercurynews.com/nationworld/ci_5612462
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McCain says he misspoke in upbeat Baghdad comments:

U.S. Senator John McCain said in an interview to be broadcast on
Sunday he misspoke in his recent upbeat comments about security in
Baghdad, where he traveled under heavy military protection.

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UK: Five more years in Iraq, say defence papers:

News of the future operations can be revealed just three days after
four soldiers, two of them women, were killed in a carefully planned
ambush in Basra, taking the British forces death toll in Iraq to
140.

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Pawns in a losing game: Britain's policy in tatters :

Fifteen British hostages are freed, at cost unknown. Meanwhile, six
soldiers pay with their lives in Basra. Raymond Whitaker, Anne
Penketh and Angus McDowall ask:

just what are our soldiers dying for?

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/article2432474.ece
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Is there any truth to 'the enemy would follow us here?':

In speech after speech, in statement after statement, Bush insists
that "this is a war in which, if we were to leave before the job
is done, the enemy would follow us here."

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Cindy Sheehan blasts US Democrats:

Prominent Iraq war opponent Cindy Sheehan urged US President George
W. Bush on Friday to "end this madness" and accused his Democratic
foes of having "betrayed" their anti-war supporters.

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Kurdish leader warns Turkey not to intervene in Kirkuk :

Turkey must not interfere in the Kurds' bid to attach Iraq's oil-rich
city of Kirkuk to the Kurdish semi-autonomous zone, the top official
in Iraqi Kurdistan said in remarks broadcast Saturday.

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Kurdish leader says U.S. sought to capture Revolutionary Guard :

American forces who captured five Iranians in the northern city of
Irbil three months ago were really after commanders of Iran's
Revolutionary Guards who were visiting Kurdish officials, the Kurdish
leader said in remarks broadcast Saturday.

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CIA tortured me in Iraq, claims freed Iranian diplomat:

Allegations spark fresh speculation of secret deal
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U.S. denies Iranian claim of CIA torture:

An Iranian diplomat freed two months after being abducted in Iraq
accused the CIA of torturing him during his detention, state
television reported Saturday. The United States immediately denied
any involvement in the Iranian's disappearance or release.

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Torture account sidesteps gag on Hicks:

A British document speaks for the terrorist and reveals what the
US hoped to hide, reports
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40 killed as sectarian riots erupt in Pakistan :

About 40 people have been killed and more than 70 injured in violent
clashes between Sunni and Shia Muslims in northern Pakistan.

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Taleban attack mine clearing team; 7 killed :

Suspected Taleban militants ambushed Afghan workers of US-funded
mine-clearing team in occupied Afghanistan yesterday, leaving seven
people dead and four wounded, an official said.

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=== The U.S.-led occupation and Afghan forces kill 5 "Taliban
militants" : - The U.S.-led coalition and Afghan troops killed five
Taliban insurgents in Zabul province of southern Afghanistan on
Saturday, a coalition statement said.

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2007-04/07/content_5947231.htm
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=== We want the Taliban back, say ordinary Afghans :

Faiz Mohammed Karigar, a father of two, fled Kandahar when the
Taliban held power in Afghanistan because he was against their
restrictions on education. Now he wants the fundamentalists back.

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/asia/article2432448.ece
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=== What the government won't tell you: we are losing Afghan hearts:

Our success or failure in Helmand depends not on warlords, or the
governor of the province, or even special forces soldiers, but on
the ordinary Afghans. And while we are spectacularly winning the
war at the tactical level against the Taliban, we are rapidly losing
the fight for those ordinary hearts and minds.

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=== Afghanistan's mentally ill chained up for cure:

HIS leg shackled and padlocked to a tree, Mohammad Tahir rocks
relentlessly back and forth. He has been like this, day and night,
lying in the open with nothing but a blanket for cover for 21 days.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article1627003.ece
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=== Israel launches deadly attack in Gaza :

Israeli occupation forces have killed a Palestinian resistance
fighter and wounded two in what is believed to be the fiercest
exchange of fire between Israeli occupation forces and Palestinian
resistance fighters since a ceasefire agreed in November.

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=== US court unfreezes Palestinian money:

A US appeals court has unblocked 30 million dollars belonging to
the Palestine Monetary Authority (PMA), the authority's head said
Saturday.

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=== A Jewish Plea:

How Can Children of the Holocaust Do Such Things?

http://www.counterpunch.org/roy04072007.html
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=== Cuba slams US over release of convicted bombing mastermind:

Cuba has slammed the US over what it says is a double standard on
terrorism after a US federal judge ordered the release of an
anti-Castro activist convicted in the deadly downing of a Cuban
jet.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200704/s1892133.htm
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=== Is Sickness a Crime? Arizona Man With TB Locked Up Indefinitely
in prison:

27-year-old Robert Daniels is being held against his will in a
Phoenix hospital ward reserved for sick prisoners. If state officials
have their way, he could be there for the rest of his life. He has
been forced to live in a hospital cell in complete isolation.

http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=07/04/06/142246
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=== Climate change 'could mean war': Channel 4 video report:

A new report warns that climate change could provoke border conflicts
and social collapse.

http://www.channel4.com/player/v2/player.jsp?showId=5738
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=== The World's Water:

Leonardo DiCaprio probes the water crisis and reminds us that "access
to clean water is a basic human right."

http://www.tompaine.com/articles/2007/04/06/the_worlds_water.php
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=== Are GM Crops Killing Bees?:

A mysterious decimation of bee populations has German beekeepers
worried, while a similar phenomenon in the United States is gradually
assuming catastrophic proportions.

The consequences for agriculture and the economy could be enormous.

http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,473166,00.html
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=== Pioneering Welsh town begins the transition to a life without
oil:

As the supply of cheap fuel dwindles, rural Lampeter embarks on
'energy descent'
http://environment.guardian.co.uk/energy/story/0,,2051912,00.html
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=== Peace & Joy      Tom Feeley
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