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Insurgent attacks provoke new U.S.
losses in Iraq
March
15.07
BAGHDAD, March 15 (PL).—More resistance attacks in
Baghdad and other areas in the vicinity are keeping
in check the U.S. occupation forces trying to
control the country’s central region. At least four
U.S. soldiers died and nine were wounded in the last
24 hours, according to reports from the army command.
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USA: Do as I say, not as I do
March
15.07
THE U.S. State Department released its "Country
Reports on Human Rights" in Washington D.C. on March
6 with a flurry of press conferences and photo ops
starring Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.
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U.S. intensifies attacks on Iraqi
civilians
March
14.07
BAGHDAD, March 13.—At least 18 civilians have died
as a result of U.S. helicopter attacks in the north
and northeast of Baghdad, reported EFE. Meanwhile,
PL reported that Baghdad’s Attorney General Omar
Abdul was shot dead on Tuesday by unknown gunmen.
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Good-bye, Mister Bailey
March
14.07
THREE months: that was how long the Super Spy
appointed by George W. Bush to monitor Cuba and
Venezuela lasted. A patent relic of the Reagan
regime, veteran CIA agent Norman Bailey has been
tossed into the dust-bin, against all expectations,
by the new National Intelligence Director Mike
McConnell.
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Bombs kill 29 people in Baghdad following meeting in
Iraq
March
12.07
BAGHDAD, March 11 (Reuters).— Bombs
killed 29 people in Baghdad this Sunday, the day
after Iraq stated that international powers and
neighboring countries had agreed it was vital for
everyone to stem the sectarian violence threatening
the region.
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Palast Charged with Journalism in the First Degree
March
8.07
IT'S true. It's weird. It's nuts. The
Department of Homeland Security, after a five-year
hunt for Osama, has finally brought charges against
... Greg Palast. I kid you not. Send your cakes with
files to the Air America wing at Guantanamo.
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THE ABOLITION OF MILITARY BASES
Ending imperialist intervention
March
8.07
THE
fact that the United States has military bases all
over the world is not news; neither is its news that
it uses them to back its imperialist geopolitical
strategies.
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Day of violence
in Iraq: more than 100 dead and 150 injured
March
7.07
BAGHDAD, March 6.—In one of the
most bloody days since the U.S. occupation of Iraq,
this Tuesday was the scene of various acts of
violence resulting in the death of more than 100
Iraqis.
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Ten
more U.S. soldiers killed in Iraq
March
6.07
BAGHDAD, March 6 (PL) —. The U.S.
occupation forces command acknowledged the deaths of
10 of its soldiers in actions by the resistance in
the Iraqi provinces of Salahadin and Diyala.
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IRAQ-AFGHANISTAN
The prince goes
to war
March
2.07
WITH the dispatch of Prince
Harry, the younger son of the late Lady Di and the
grandson of Queen Elizabeth II, Premier Tony Blair
is applying a dramatic effect intended to raise the
morale of troops in Iraq, according to the British
media.
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IRAN
Badly recycled
ambitions
March
2.07
PLANS to intervene
in Iran are not as up-to-date as one might suppose.
The neo-conservatives who have plotted the course of
and are currently moving the political strings of
the Bush administration have had that proposition
among many other foreign policy blunders committed
or in the making.
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RUSSIA – U.S.A.
A new arms
race?
February 23,
2007
THE strongest criticisms of the United States
expressed by Russia so far have taken place during a
NATO defense ministers’ summit in Munich. Speaking
of the military organization, Vladimir Putin said
that he was against it as a replacement for the UN,
alluding to at least two interpretations.
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Miami in the
Bundestag
February 23,
2007
FORMER theology student Arnold Vaatz did not have to
consult the angels to understand that he would not
get rich from his salary as a deputy in the
Bundestag alone.
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THE UNITED STATES BLOCKADE
“We are only
hurting ourselves with our policy
on Cuba”
February 23,
2007
SEVERAL U.S. Congress members are proposing to cut
restrictions on food sales to Cuba and allow
transactions between banks in the two countries,
according to legislation proposed in Washington.
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Iraqi
resistance continues wearing down the occupying
forces
February 23,
2007
BAGHDAD, February 23 (PL).—A U.S. soldier died and
another three were wounded when their vehicle
activated a bomb close to the Iraqi city of
Diwaniyah in the continuance of insurgent actions
that are eroding and demoralizing the occupiers.
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Families of soldiers killed in Iraq protest in
London
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Another U.S. helicopter brought down
in Iraq
February 22,
2007
BAGHDAD, February 22 (PL).— The U.S. command of the
occupation troops has acknowledged that one of its
Black Hawk helicopters was shot down by the Iraqi
resistance to the north of this capital, according
to press reports.
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Britain
announces withdrawal of its troops from Iraq
February 21,
2007
BRITISH Prime Minister Tony Blair has
said that he will withdraw 1,600 of his troops from
Iraq in the next few months, and hand over
responsibility for security in the southern Iraqi
city of Basora to the Iraqi forces.
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Award for Granma International
contributor
February 20,
2007
THE Association of Hispanic Canadian Professors is
pleased to announce that York University Spanish
Lecturer Pastor Valle-Garay and York graduates
Camilla Esther Beniluz, Sara Kun and Helen Mayer,
Spanish Majors in York’s Department of Languages,
Literatures and Linguistics, will be awarded Merit
Plaques and Diplomas in recognition of their
scholarship and their outstanding academic and
community accomplishments.
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Resistance causes U.S. casualties in Baghdad and Al
Anbar
February 19,
2007
BAGHDAD, February 19 (PL)—. The
western Iraqi province of Al Anbar is an open grave
for U.S. troops, who have reinforced their
occupation strategy there but are continuing to lose
soldiers in resistance attacks.
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Bush
government censoring scientists
February 15,
2007
THE U.S. government has been
resorting to reprehensible methods to deceive
citizens about a subject that involves humanity as a
whole: climate changes that are leading to increased
global warming. Hundreds of scientists who were
asked admitted to having suffered some type of
pressure or interference in their studies on the
subject.
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Three bombs
kill 90 people in Baghdad
February 13,
2007
BAGHDAD,
February 12.—Two vehicles loaded with explosives
blew up in a crowded market in the center of
Baghdad, causing the death of 81 people and wounding
195, while another bomb that exploded nearby killed
at least another nine people, AP reports.
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Heavy attack
in Baghdad leaves 60 dead and 150 injured
February 12,
2007
BAGHDAD, February 12 (PL).—At midday
today a shattering explosion that left 60 dead and
150 injured rocked this capital, submerged in chaos
due to extreme security measures applied by the
authorities in conjunction with the U.S. occupying
forces.
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U.S.
acknowledges 11 casualties in one day in Iraq
February 9,
2007
BAGHDAD, February 8.—
The U.S. Army lost 11 soldiers on Wednesday in Iraq,
according to a military communiqué, which said that
the four most recent fatal casualties occurred in
combat in Al Anbar province.
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Ex-national
security adviser warns that Bush is seeking a
pretext to attack Iran
February 8,
2007
TESTIFYING before the Senate Foreign Relations
Committee on Thursday, Zbigniew Brzezinski, the
national security adviser in the Carter
administration, delivered a scathing critique of the
war in Iraq and warned that the Bush administration’s
policy was leading inevitably to a war with Iran,
with incalculable consequences for US imperialism in
the Middle East and internationally.
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U.S. troops
assault deputy health minister in Baghdad
February 8,
2007
BAGHDAD, February 8 (PL) — In
attacking the Iraqi Health Ministry offices, U.S.
and Iraqi troops are carrying out a security plan in
line with Washington’s new strategy against the
resistance forces in Baghdad.
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No room at
the Hilton: Cubans find US trade ban stretches to
Oslo
February 6,
2007
AN Oslo hotel, owned by the US Hilton chain, refused
a booking by a Cuban trade delegation to the city's
travel fair last month because of the US embargo of
the communist Caribbean island.
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Court-martial
for officer opposed to war
in Iraq
February 6,
2007
WASHINGTON, February 5.—In the midst of anti-war
demonstrations by pacifist organizations, Lieutenant
Ehren Watada, a first officer who has refused to
back his country’s military adventure in Iraq, was
set to be court-martialed (tried in a military
court).
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Car bomb
explosion leaves 18 dead and 102 injured in Baghdad
February 5,
2007
BAGHDAD, February 5.—The explosion of two car bombs
in different Baghdad neighborhoods resulted in the
death of 18 people and left 102 injured this Monday,
the police informed.
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Iraqi resistance brings down another U.S. helicopter
February 2,
2007
BAGHDAD, February 2 (PL).—Members of
the Iraqi resistance to the occupation today shot
down a U.S. Apache helicopter in the Al Mashahida
region north of the capital, witnesses said.
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IRAQ
News that’s much too old
February 1,
2007
DESPITE criticism from Democratic Party congress
members and even from a Senate committee that has
rejected Bush’s new (?) plan for Iraq, it continues
to go ahead. It should be noted that it does not
just include sending 21,500 more troops in addition
to the 132,000 now misplaced in that invaded
nation; another aircraft carrier is also be
dispatched to the Persian Gulf, with its
accompanying warships and the deployment of the new
Patriot PAC-3 anti-missile system.
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CounterPunch - Staging
Area for Anti-Castro Forces
Miami: a Refuge for Terrorists
January 31,
2007
HOW is the surrender of huge weapons caches supposed
to lighten someone's sentence? This is the case with
Santiago Alvarez and Osvaldo Mitat, who by any
dictionary's definition, are terrorists.
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Growing
criticism in Congress of Bush “plan” for Iraq
January 30,
2007
WASHINGTON, January 29.— Just 20
senators are supporting the so-called new strategy
proposed by President George W. Bush in Iraq,
according to Democrat Joseph Biden, head of the
Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
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Bloody clashes close to Baghdad
January 29,
2007
BAGHDAD, January 28.— An estimated 100 to 250 people
were killed on Sunday during fierce clashes in the
outskirts of Nayaf, 150 km south of the Iraqi
capital.
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IN THE USA
For Blacks and Latinos – justice is a
joke!
January 29,
2007
"MY defendant was unjustly incarcerated for 10 years,
11 months and three days of his life," affirmed the
lawyer for James Waller, a Black man who is 6’4" and
200 lbs, convicted of rape in the city of Dallas, in
the southern state of Texas, on November 2, 1982.
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White House criticized for
mismanagement of funds
January 26,
2007
WASHINGTON, January 25.— The White House has once
again met with criticism and skepticism on the part
of legislators from both parties in relation to its
strategy in Iraq, this time over the mismanagement
of funds supposedly destined for the country’s
reconstruction.
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Couso case
reopened in Spain
January 25,
2007
THE day on which José Couso, a
cameraman with the Madrid channel Telecinco, died,
it occurred to someone to ask the 300 journalists
covering the U.S. aggression in Iraq to meet in the
garden of the Palestine Hotel to light candles and
observe several minutes of silence.
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U.S. press against Bush’s stirring speech
January 25,
2007
INFLUENTIAL U.S. dailies attacked
President George W. Bush this Wednesday following
the problems provoked by his sixth annual address to
the nation which was marked by his so-called “new
strategy” for Iraq.
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E. Howard
Hunt, 88: Led break-in of Watergate
January 24,
2007
A former
CIA officer, Hunt was best-known for recruiting the
'plumbers' who broke into the Democratic National
Committee at the Watergate hotel and for being one
of the organizers of the invasion of Guatemala in
1954 and Cuba in 1961 E. Howard Hunt, who stumbled
into history after helping organize a botched break-in
at the Watergate Hotel that brought down a president,
died Tuesday at North Shore Medical Center. He was
88.
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General strike
and confrontations shake Lebanon
January 24,
2007
BEIRUT, January 23.—From north to
south and east to west, in Christian and Muslim
areas, the Lebanese opposition, headed by the Party
of God (Hezbollah) demonstrated its strength with a
call for a general strike that paralyzed the country
before being suspended during the night, PL cables.
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Spiraling
violence kills and injures hundreds in Iraq
January 23,
2007
BAGHDAD, January 22.— Two Marines
died in an ambush in Al Anbar province, raising the
number of U.S. soldiers killed in combat this month
to 46, DPA reported.
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Racism and
other fears
January 19,
2007
INCLUDED among its aggressions,
genocidal wars, unilateral impositions and the
threats that it tends to use in the international
arena, the Republican administration of George W.
Bush accumulated another historic demerit in the
year that just concluded: brutality, contempt and
racism in dealing with the immigration issue.
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Iranian
ambassador exposes U.S. double standards
January 19,
2007
THE Islamic Republic of Iran celebrates the 28th
anniversary of the triumph of its revolution on
February 11, and is preparing to do so with
significant advances in its economic development,
its nuclear program for peaceful ends, its
democracy, and an expansion in terms of meeting the
needs of its people.
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New U.S. defense secretary in Kabul
January 16,
2007
KABUL, January 16 (PL).—Robert Gates, the new U.S.
defense secretary, has arrived in this capital to
examine the uncontrollable resistance actions and
the general instability in this nation with the
Afghan administration and military commands.
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U.S. aviation attacks Southern
Somalia
January 9,
2007
NAIROBI, January 9 (PL).—U.S. aviation has attacked
towns in the Somali area of Ras Kamboni, on the
border with Kenya, in an operation politically
backed by the president of the transition
government, Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed.
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Israel
planning nuclear attack on Iranian installations
January 8,
2007
LONDON, January 7.—Israel is
planning a nuclear strike on installations within
the Iranian nuclear development program, according
to The Sunday Times of Britain.
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U.S.
Congress members negotiate with countries scorned by
Bush
January 5,
2007
WASHINGTON -- Frustrated with the
Bush administration, members of Congress are
traveling to countries with poor diplomatic
relations with the United States to conduct their
own negotiations with leaders the president has
refused to meet.
• Car bombs
in Iraq: 13 dead, 22 injured
January 4,
2007
BAGHDAD, January 4 (PL) .—At least 13
people died and another 22 were injured when two car
bombs exploded in unison in the Sunni neighborhood
of West Al Mansur, the police reported.
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The year
begins with U.S. casualties in Iraq
January 3,
2007
BEIRUT, December 2. — The first
two deadly casualties, one on Monday, and another on
Tuesday, were acknowledged by the U.S. military
command in Baghdad, which said in a press release
that they were both caused by ambushes with
explosives.
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