An Appeal From South Korea

From a representative of People's Action Against the Dispatch of Korean Combat Troops to Iraq:An Appeal by 365 Korean Organizations to the Iraqi Group Holding a Korean National We appeal for the release of the Korean national Kim Seon Il. Today the Korean people were...

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Marines executed in Ramadi

Now, here's a really bizarre story. (06-21-2004) - Four U.S. service members were killed Monday - shot repeatedly in the head during an ambush while they were on patrol in the Sunni Muslim stronghold of Ramadi. [...] The four Americans killed in Ramadi had failed to...

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Your Papers, Please

How come the more wars we fight to defend freedom, the less there is left to defend? I'm just now trying to imagine what my new identity patch will look like. How to depict a cheese-eating surrender monkey? The patches needn't all be ethnic, of course. Sure,...

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Thrill of War is Gone

A letter from a KBR civilian employee in Iraq: The thrill of war is gone Imagine explosions without warning 24-7. Mortar attacks are unpredictable. They're in the minds of every person who lives on the forward operation bases in Iraq. They kill, wound, bloody and...

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Putin’s warning

President Putin really stunned the world, and especially the State Department, when he recently stated that Russian intelligence had warned Bush before the war that Saddam had oodles of terrorists in Iraq just waiting in the wings to attack America and the world....

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Israeli agents in Kurdistan

Israeli agents in Kurdistan I first saw this report on a rather unreliable Bulgarian site, but Ha'aretz is now running it, so I'll just post it as an FYI:WASHINGTON - Israel operates hundreds of agents in the Kurdish areas in northern Iraq, according to a report...

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Neocons thrilled by bombed Arabs

When are the Americans going to stop acting on their bad intelligence? Just as their garbage intelligence led them to bomb a wedding party in their last foray against imaginary "foreign fighters", so have they now killed over 20 Iraqis by dropping huge bombs on a...

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‘Ask Dahr Jamail’

Dahr Jamail's excellent reports from Iraq have graced Antiwar.com over the past few months. They come to us courtesy of The New Standard. Dahr's editor, Brian Dominick, is announcing a new feature: "Ask Dahr." He is asking readers to send email to Dahr, who will do...

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It doesn’t get any more uncanny

In an immediate response to 9/11, Robert Fisk noted "the utter, indescribable evil of what has happened in the United States," but he also warned that "[T]his is not really the war of democracy versus terror that the world will be asked to believe in the coming days....

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O’Reilly: Bomb Iraq Again!

Via Media Matters (via pontificator at Kos and Brad DeLong) From the June 17 broadcast of The Radio Factor with Bill O'Reilly: O'REILLY: Because look ... when 2 percent of the population feels that you're doing them a favor, just forget it, you're not going to win....

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