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Playboy has an exclusive on American military-industrial complex that’s worth the read.

by Richard Cummings
In November of 2002, Stephen J. Hadley, deputy national security advisor, asked Bruce Jackson to meet with him in the White House. They met in Hadley’s office on the ground floor of the West Wing, not far from the offices of Vice [...]

Warnings to Iran and Syria Cause Concern in Congress
By JOHN HENDREN
President Bush’s sternly worded warning to Iran and Syria that the United States’ new strategy in Iraq could include action against them sent shock waves across Capitol Hill today, prompting pointed questions for top administration policymakers.
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Some pressing concerns over the “Pentagonization of our world” by Tom Engelhardt:

Just this week, the Bush administration is considering making a little futuristic news. The President might soon approve “a major step forward in the building of the country’s first new nuclear warhead in nearly two decades,” the Reliable Replacement Warhead. If only names were [...]

AlterNet: Oil for Sale: Iraq Study Group Recommends Privatization
The Iraq Study Group may not have a solution for how to end the war, but it does have a way for its corporate friends to make money!
By Antonia Juhasz, AlterNet.
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An absolutel read for critical media scholars and peace loving people.

By Joe Kay and Barry Grey
13 October 2006
The US media is virtually silent on a new scientific study that estimates the Iraqi death toll from the US war at 655,000. The study, conducted by Johns Hopkins University’s Bloomberg School of Public Health and funded by [...]

More than 650,000 people have died in Iraq since the U.S. led invasion of the country began in March of 2003. This is according to a new study published in the scientific journal, The Lancet. The study was conducted by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and Al Mustansiriya University in [...]

A Coroner is to ask the attorney general to consider bringing charges against US troops who killed ITN reporter Terry Lloyd in southern Iraq.
After hearing how the 50-year-old correspondent had died from a bullet in the head fired into the back of a makeshift civilian ambulance by American Marines, Oxfordshire Assistant Deputy Coroner Andrew Walker [...]

Tony Jones speaks with former US Defence Department official, Daniel Ellsberg, who accuses President Bush of lying to take America to war with Iraq, and believes secret groundwork is being laid for a war with Iran.
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Broadcast: 12/10/2006
Transcript:
TONY JONES: Well, comparisons between the US war in Iraq and the quagmire of the [...]

Detailed report here: http://www.ainfos.ca/en/ainfos18434.html
This Friday too the Israeli state forces refused to let us do the Friday joint demonstration against the occupation and the separation fence. However, it seems the higher authorities told something to the new regiment commander responsible to the region Bil’in is part of. We started as usual from the village center [...]

Bush Now Says What He Wouldn’t Say Before War: Iraq Had ‘Nothing’ To Do With 9/11
BUSH: The terrorists attacked us and killed 3,000 of our citizens before we started the freedom agenda in the Middle East.
QUESTION: What did Iraq have to do with it?
BUSH: What did Iraq [...]

Lebanon war costs environment

In the days and weeks after the July 13 bombing of a Lebanese power station, 19 miles south of Beirut, and the subsequent release of 15,000 tons of fuel oil into the Mediterranean Sea, environmental and human rights watchdogs had little choice but to sit back and wait.
The U.N. Environmental Program and [...]

Kurds flee homes as Iran shells Iraq’s northern frontier
Turkey and Iran have dispatched tanks, artillery and thousands of troops to their frontiers with Iraq during the past few weeks in what appears to be a coordinated effort to disrupt the activities of Kurdish rebel bases.
Scores of Kurds have fled their homes in the northern frontier [...]

Major arms soar to twice pre-9/11 cost
Systems to have little direct role in terror fight
By Bryan Bender, Globe Staff
WASHINGTON — The estimated costs for the development of major weapons systems for the US military have doubled since September 11, 2001, with a trillion-dollar price tag for new planes, ships, and missiles that would have [...]

From Mania to Depression

Uri Avnery
THIRTY THREE days of war. The longest of our wars since 1949.
On the Israeli side: 154 dead - 117 of them soldiers. 3970 rockets launched against us, 37 civilians dead, more than 422 civilians wounded.
On the Lebanese side: about a thousand dead civilians, thousands wounded. An unknown number of Hizbullah fighters [...]