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Party of the Laboring Masses - Philippines | 03.22.2011
No to imperialist intervention in the Libya! Saudi, UAE troops out of Bahrain! On March 17, 2011, the UN Security Council passed a resolution authorising military intervention by the Western imperialist powers or their puppets in Libya. The justification for this is to prevent further loss of life in fighting between forces remaining loyal Muammar Gaddafi and forces supporting the uprising that began on February 15 against his 42-year-old rule, and to support the pro-democracy forces.
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| 09.26.2010
Iraq as it was no longer exists One of History's Greatest Crimes - by Stephen Lendman America's hidden history is ugly and disturbing. No nation ever matched it. To Iraq alone, over the past two decades, it includes ongoing genocide, destruction, terror, occupation, and contamination - a horrendous combination of crimes, unmentioned in Western discourse. Environmental Engineering Professor Souad N. Al-Azzawi documents them, including in her report titled, "Crime of the Century: Iraq's Occupation and DU Contamination," a detailed account of US culpability. America's strategic aims, she explains, include: -- controlling most of the world's oil and other natural resources;
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Stephen Lendman | 08.24.2010
daily violence rages Iraq Pullout: Mission Accomplished or Strategic Retreat? - by Stephen Lendman In an August 2 speech to disabled veterans, Obama touted his planned withdrawal, saying: "As a candidate for president, I pledged to bring the war in Iraq to a responsible end....Shortly after taking office, I announced our new strategy....for a transition to full Iraqi responsibility. And I made it clear that by August 31, 2010, America's combat mission in Iraq would end. And that is exactly what we are doing - as promised, on schedule." At two or more recent fundraisers, he repeated the "pledge:" "We are keeping the promise I made when I began my campaign for the presidency: by the end of this month, we will have removed 100,000 troops from Iraq, and our combat mission will be over."
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Internationalist Group | 12.21.2009
On December 1, President Barack Obama officially announced a massive escalation of the U.S. war on Afghanistan, tripling the number of American military personnel there since Obama took office. This move marks a decision by Washington to continue the colonial occupation of Afghanistan indefinitely, and with it the bloody slaughter of the Afghan people. Obama’s claim that he would “begin the transfer” of U.S. forces by mid-2011 was just sucker bait for gullible liberals. “Afghanistan Is Now Obama’s War,” proclaimed the media from New York to London to Mumbai. But Afghanistan has been the Democrats’ war since the moment it was launched, in September 2001, and together with the war on Iraq, it is a bipartisan imperialist war. No one in Washington thinks the Afghan puppet army will be able to handle the Taliban. The actual U.S. strategy is not to defeat the Taliban but to weaken it enough so that elements of the Islamists can be brought into a political deal. It is striking that in the United States, a majority of the population is turning against the war even though there hasn’t been a major national antiwar march in more than two years – ever since the start of the last presidential election campaign. At protests following Obama’s announcement of more troops to Afghanistan, organizers carefully avoided any signs mentioning the president by name. Our Internationalist contingent, in contrast, carried signs including, “Hey Obama, How Many Kids Did You Kill Today? Defeat Imperialist Slaughter in Afghanistan, Iraq.” The Internationalist
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Iraq Veterans Against the War | 09.15.2009
Iraqi Labor Reps Speak on East Coast Tour on Their Way to National AFL-CIO Convention. Iraqi Labor leaders hope to make their case about the lack of labor rights in Iraq to audience of U.S. union reps and war veterans in Philadelphia, New York City, and Washington, D.C. IN PHILADELPHIA: September 21, 7:00-9:00 pm at Friends Meeting House, 4th & Arch Streets, Philadelphia, PA
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Rich Gardner | 06.30.2009
Summary of various events. Iraq withdrawal proceeds on schedule. Congratulations to Minnesota's new Senator, Al Franken! I'm very pleased to say that the suspicions I expressed in early March have turned out to be unfounded, at least for now. The first phase of US troop withdrawal from Iraq, the removal of troops from the cities and the ceasing of regular patrols there, occurred on schedule.
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Dave Lindorff, thiscantbehappening.net | 12.15.2008
Al-Zaidi listened to Bush blather that the half-decade of war he had initiated with the illegal invasion of Iraq had been “necessary for US security, Iraqi stability (sic) and world peace” and something just snapped. The television correspondent, who had been kidnapped and held for a while last year by Shiite militants, pulled off a shoe and threw it at Bush—a serious insult in Iraqi culture—and shouted “This is a farewell kiss, you dog!” When the first shoe missed its target, he grabbed a second shoe and heaved it too, causing the president to duck a second time as al-Zaidi shouted, “This is from the widows, the orphans, and those who were killed in Iraq!” Muntadar al-Zaidi Did What We Journalists Should Have Done Long AgoBy Dave Lindorff When Iraqi journalist Muntadar al-Zaidi heaved his two shoes at the head of President George W. Bush during a press conference in Baghdad, he did something that the White House press corps should have done years ago.
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Rich Gardner | 11.30.2008
Really good history of Iraq War for people that know absolutely nothing about the issue. Not very enlightening for those who do. Re: "Road Map in Iraq" Nov 30 |
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