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December 10, 2004

Fallujah photos
http://dahrjamailiraq.com/gallery/view_album.php?set_albumName=album28&page=1

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http://www.altpr.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=397&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0
Haiti: Colin Powell's Crime in Progress
By Black Commentator

History will record that the first Black U.S. Secretary of State personally
engineered the theft of the national sovereignty of Haiti, the world's first
Black republic and the second nation in the western hemisphere to free
itself from European rule. Such is Colin Powell's horrific legacy - an
historic shame and blight on the collective honor of Black America. Powell
returned to the scene of his crime last week to assure Gerard Latortue, the
evilly buffoonish U.S.-installed interim Prime Minister, "We are with you
all the way" - words of encouragement to a man who is said to have estimated
it will be necessary to kill 25,000 people in the capital alone to stop
calls for the return of exiled President Jean-Bertrand Aristide.

http://www.altpr.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=396&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0
Rumsfeld to troops: You're all bullet-stopper slaves now
By Kurt Nimmo

How many Americans would have signed up for Bush's military if they knew at
the time they'd be trapped in rotating tours of the Iraqi hell-hole?
Probably not many. In Kuwait yesterday at Camp Buehring, Rumsfeld basically
told a gathering of soldiers and Marines tough luck, you're in the army now.
"You go to war with the Army you have," he told them, "not the Army you
might want or wish to have." In other words, the Army the soldiers "have" is
not the same Army they were promised when they signed up. But then that's
what happens when you turn yourself over to the government-you become a
slave drone and bullet-stopper for the Strausscon version of World War IV.

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Other articles of interest

http://www.ipsnews.net/africa/interna.asp?idnews=26463
ARGENTINA: Factories Without Bosses - and Without State Support
Marcela Valente, IPS News

"We have gas masks, slingshots and stones to defend ourselves," said an
employee at a worker-run tile factory in Argentina that is facing the threat
of being shut down, because local authorities want the machinery seized to
collect on a debt left unpaid by the former owners.

http://www.counterpunch.org/colson12102004.html
Rebellion in the Ranks: Grunts Are Resisting Stop-Loss Orders
Nicole Colson, CounterPunch

Sending more U.S. soldiers to kill and be killed. That's the Bush
administration's plan for the occupation of Iraq. Pentagon officials
announced last week that 12,000 more troops would be deployed to Iraq in
time for the country's scheduled January elections--raising the total number
to 150,000. For soldiers who were promised a "quick" war and told that they
would be welcomed as "liberators," the news will add to growing bitterness
and frustration. That frustration is beginning to drive some
soldiers--particularly reservists--to take action.

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NewsWire

http://www.washingtontimes.com/functions/print.php?StoryID=20041201-114750-6381r
Tenet calls for Internet security, suggests limiting internet to
government-approved users

http://www.reason.com/hod/jb120604.shtml
Citizen Snoops Forever: Intelligence reform bill will turn car dealers into
spooks, permanently

http://foodproductiondaily.com/news/ng.asp?id=56340&n=dh330&c=tzlvsrxywshqwyj
Half of US food goes to waste

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines04/1210-03.htm
Nobel Winner Maathai Sounds Alarm Over Planet

http://www.denverpost.com/Stories/0,1413,36~53~2585336,00.html
US Army denies Denver Post access to Fort Carson base

http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=04/12/09/1516228
Intel Agent Strapped to Gurney and Flown Out of Iraq by U.S. Army After
Reporting Torture of Detainees

http://www.madre.org/articles/me/fallajah.html
US guilty of war crimes in Iraq

http://fairuse.1accesshost.com/news2/million.html
One million US troops have been deployed for war in Iraq or Afghanistan;
Data shows US military being stretched to its limits -- or beyond

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-1397131,00.html
US Army plagued by desertion and plunging morale

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2002113845_officershortage09m.html
Army Reserve facing extreme shortage of company officers, surge in
resignation requests

http://www.boston.com/news/world/articles/2004/12/09/amputation_rate_for_us_troops_twice_that_of_past_wars/
Maimed for Empire: Amputation rate for US troops twice that of past wars

http://www.recordonline.com/archive/2004/12/10/abandon1.htm
Merry Christmas! -- Soldier loses arm in Iraq, Army confiscates his
paycheck, demands $2000, has no money to get back home

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines04/1209-02.htm
Anti-Bush protesters plan lawsuit over arrests

http://news.scotsman.com/international.cfm?id=1411482004
Oil-rich Iraq running on empty

http://www.capitolhillblue.com/artman/publish/article_5832.shtml
Staggering national debt worries economists

http://observer.guardian.co.uk/business/story/0,6903,1366578,00.html
Japan threatens huge dollar sell-off

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