RE: The cost of the lies and the price of truth

The cost of the lies and the price of truth
John Kaminski
Eric Hoffer was right. The first thing people do with freedom is put themselves in jail. Here’s your question. What is the true cost of all the lies? Nimble minds would immediately respond "$2 billion per week in Iraq, $1 billion per month in Afghanistan, $14 trillion per year for Israel, counting all the labyrinthine corporate perks ... " and continue chattering through a long list that ends somewhere around trillions being made on poisons that are put i! nto bottles and sold as medicine. You get the general idea that a considerable amount of spare change disappears in the blink of an eye as the cost of doing business in the world of official lies...

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We Will Not Be Intimidated
Elizabeth Wrigley-Field, OrbStandard
...This student movement is significant, because it is students who are targeted daily by military recruiters asking us to leave school and become the next round of cannon fodder in a war most of us oppose. And it is the rising opposition to war among young people, and the grassroots counter-recruitment movement that began to take shape on campuses last spring, that has put the Army in its worst recruiting slump since 1979. And yet events of the last! week make it clear that students' right to dissent from the war, and from the recruitment taking place on our campuses, remains in question. At three different colleges in the last week -- Holyoke Community College, George Mason University, and UW-Madison -- students engaging in peaceful counter-recruitment were met with police repression. At Holyoke and George Mason, students face ongoing charges from the school or the state...

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US Policymakers Despair of Iraqi Army
Martin Sieff, United Press International
US politicians and policymakers' perceptions towards the Iraq war have reached another tipping point: There is now a widespread recognition shared among senior uniformed US military officers and Washington foreign policy analysts that plans to rapidly build up the Iraqi army as a new, independent effective fighting force have failed disastrously. The Senate heard testimony last week from some of America's top generals that the war in ! Iraq is going worse than ever and that only 1 out of 119 Iraqi army and security battalions can operate by itself in combat situations without US military backup...

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Did Bush administration attack peace movement with military grade biological bacteria?
Bob Fitrakis
Washington D.C. Public Health Director Greg A. Pane posed the right question in the Post article, “Why that day? That’s what is not explained.” Pane pointed that it was “just this 24-hour period and none since.” The Post noted that Pane found “. . . it was puzzling that the finding was from a day when the mall was packed with people.” Puzzling? Indeed. Biohazard sensors detected tularemia bacteria at the mall on Sa! turday, September 24...

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WHAT IS A CITIZEN?
Malcom Lagauche
Last week, an acquaintance made a curious statement to me. He opposed the illegal invasion of Iraq until the bullets started flying and then he became a part of the "I support our troops" brigade of millions of Americans. I differed with his opinion, but everybody is entitle to one. His next statement threw me off. He said, "I guess there must be a head sheriff to keep the world in order...

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Bush's Dilemma
www.rense.com
Bush and his vindicators still insist that that the occupation of Iraq would spread democracy and stability in the Middle East. That naïve declaration couldn"t be farther from the truth. Not only is Iraq in the clutches of a civil war, the US-led invasion threatens to destabilise the whole of the Middle East, if not possibly the world. It might have irrevocably done so already...

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Blood, Sweat & Tears: Asia’s Poor Build U.S. Bases in Iraq
David Phinney, Special to CorpWatch
Jing Soliman left his family in the Philippines for what sounded like a sure thing--a job as a warehouse worker at Camp Anaconda in Iraq. His new employer, Prime Projects International (PPI) of Dubai, is a major, but low-profile, subcontractor to Halliburton's multi-billion-dollar deal with the Pentagon to provide support services to U.S. forces. But Soliman wouldn’t be making anything near the salaries-- starting $80,0! 00 a year and often topping $100,000-- that Halliburton's engineering and construction unit, Kellogg, Brown & Root (KBR) pays to the truck drivers, construction workers, office workers, and other laborers it recruits from the United States. Instead, the 35-year-old father of two anticipated $615 a month – including overtime....

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War Porn
What the Gruesome Images Say
JOHN CHUCKMAN, CounterPunch
There is an Internet site that displays extraordinarily gruesome photographs taken by American soldiers in Iraq. Apparently, the owner of the site exchanges access to pornography for soldiers sending him their war pictures. Digital cameras and the Internet are now providing a real glimpse of war to an American public that still daydreams about fresh-faced boys and girls marching off to do brave deeds on behalf of democracy...

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The Iraqis Rights to be Free
Ghali Hassan
With the continuing US attacks on Iraqi population centres, the Bush administration appeared more desperate than ever to force the new US-crafted constitution on the Iraqi people. The attacks are concentrated on Iraqi communities, who oppose the Occupation, to prevent them from voting on the constitution in the upcoming referendum. The US aim is to divide Iraqis on sectarian and ethnic lines and force them into neo-colonial dependency. It is the Iraqi people’s legitimate ! rights to fight for their unity, freedom and national independence...

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Basra Shadowlands
Sarah Meyer
...Fattah al-Shaykh continued : “the sons of Basra caught two non-Iraqis, who seem to be Britons and were in a car of the Cressida type. It was a booby-trapped car laden with ammunition and was meant to explode in the centre of the city of Basra in the popular market. However, the sons of the city of Basra arrested them. They [the two non-Iraqis] then fired at the people there and killed some of them. The two arrested persons are now at the Intelligence Department in Basra, and they ! were held by the National Guard force, but the British occupation forces are still surrounding this department in an attempt to absolve them of the crime.” (...) On the day following Basra vs. The British, I opened the The Web of Deceit by Mark Curtis 1, to where I had left off, ‘Explaining the War Against Terrorism,’ which describes British undercover operations...

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