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U.S. Trained Iraqi Chemical Weapons Experts
November 22, 2002 SEATTLE — U.N. weapons inspectors should have no trouble communicating with some of the scientists in Iraq’s weapons program. After the Gulf War it was discovered that many of Saddam Hussein’s top engineers were educated in the … Continue reading
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Students Walk Out of Class, Protest Gulf War II
Sonoma County high school and college students walked out of classes Wednesday to protest a possible war against Iraq, part of a national demonstration for peace. About 300 students gathered to listen to speeches and sing protest songs at Sonoma … Continue reading
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Depleted Uranium: America’s Military ‘Gift’ That Keeps on Giving
Despite scant coverage in the U.S. media, a controversy over depleted-uranium ammunition used in the Gulf and Balkan wars has been raging in Europe. Several governments that provided troops for these conflicts fear that a rash of unexplained illnesses in … Continue reading
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New Homeland Law Exempts “Leaky Gas Masks”
The triumphant Bush White House won a fresh victory yesterday when its homeland security bill was passed by the Senate. The Democrats had suspended their efforts to block the bill. It will implement the biggest US government reorganisation in a … Continue reading
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Gulf War II Censorship Begins
WASHINGTON – When Army Times writer Sean Naylor linked up with the 101st Airborne Division in Kandahar to cover the Afghanistan fighting, he found that instead of the traditional practice of being housed with the troops, reporters were ”quarantined” in … Continue reading
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What Bodies?
Leon Daniel, as did others who reported from Vietnam during the 1960s, knew about war and death. So he was puzzled by the lack of corpses at the tip of the Neutral Zone between Saudi Arabia and Iraq on Feb. … Continue reading
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Thoughts of a Pro-War General
[Editor’s Note: The General failed to mention the US already destroyed Iraq’s infrastructure during 12 years of bombing. The General failed to mention Bush Administration plans to occupy Iraq. And, the General failed to mention how the US blew up … Continue reading
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Fascism Comes On Little Cat Feet
Just wondering. But this isn’t a column about the Gestapo, the Brownshirts and the Blackshirts. It’s about our new Homeland Security Department (due to be approved by the Senate today), government jobs and events in the state of Michigan. In … Continue reading
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Bush’s Lies and Simple Truths
George Bush HAS misled the American public. He IS misleading the American public, and we can assume he WILL continue to mislead the public. In fact, the entire Bush administration has been misleading the public, sometimes by misdirection, sometimes by … Continue reading
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The Usual Suspects—and Beyond
Even most flashes of seeming organization turned out to be spontaneous—the 50 percussionists who assembled “out of the air,” according to one, and the 60 Muslim men, strangers to each other, who paused for prayer at 4:30 alongside the march … Continue reading
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