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August 10, 2005

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What is the U.S. Military Doing in Paraguay?
By Benjamin Dangl

The U.S. military is conducting secretive operations in Paraguay and
reportedly building a new base there. Human rights groups and military
analysts in the region believe trouble is brewing.

http://www.altpr.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=466
Occupational Hazard
By Remi Kanazi

Ariel Sharon's government is prepping the world for a major offensive,
which, if the past is any indication, will lead to a high death toll,
including many children and civilians.

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Other articles of interest

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/aug2005/mowh-a05.shtml
US lies and murder in Iraq: the killing of Maj. Gen. Mowhoush
Barry Grey, WSWS

The Post's account of the killing of Mowhoush is but the latest sickening
revelation of Nazi-style crimes being carried out by the American military
and CIA in Guantánamo, Afghanistan and Iraq. It stands out because it
provides a detailed and concrete picture of the atrocities being carried out
in the name of the American people.

http://www.tomdispatch.com/index.mhtml?pid=10216
The Twilight Era of Petroleum
Michael T. Klare, TomDispatch

Several recent developments -- persistently high gasoline prices,
unprecedented warnings from the Secretary of Energy and the major oil
companies, China's brief pursuit of the American Unocal Corporation --
suggest that we are just about to enter the Twilight Era of Petroleum, a
time of chronic energy shortages and economic stagnation as well as
recurring crisis and conflict.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/col/story/335627p-286712c.html
Atomic truths plague prize coverup
Juan Gonzales, NY Daily News

Laurence was no ordinary embedded reporter. A brilliant and respected
pioneer of science reporting at the [NY] Times, he was also an unabashed
cheerleader and paid government propagandist for nuclear weapons. In March
1945, Gen. Leslie Groves, military director of the Manhattan Project,
secretly recruited him - with the approval of Times publisher Arthur Ochs
Sulzberger - as a press agent for the War Department.

http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0805-20.htm
The Hiroshima Cover-Up
by Amy Goodman and David Goodman, Baltimore Sun

A story that the U.S. government hoped would never see the light of day
finally has been published, 60 years after it was spiked by military
censors. The discovery of reporter George Weller's firsthand account of
conditions in post-nuclear Nagasaki sheds light on one of the great
journalistic betrayals of the last century: the cover-up of the effects of
the atomic bombing on Japan.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article9705.htm
Vermin and Souvenirs: How to justify a nuclear attack
Mickey Z.. ICH

Because Japan chose to invade several colonial outposts of the West, the war
in the Pacific laid bare the inherent racism of the colonial structure. In
the United States and Britain, the Japanese were more hated than the
Germans. The race card was played to the hilt through a variety of Allied
propaganda methods. Spurred on by a growing Chinese lobby and vocal American
trade protectionists wary of inexpensive Japanese goods, the campaign would
eventually help cajole the American public into a pro-war, anti-Japan
position. By 1938, as historian Michael C.C. Adams writes, polls showed more
Americans favored military aid to China than to Britain or France. Even more
so than the Third Reich, Japan was the U.S. villain of choice.

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NewsWire

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/080905O.shtml
Judith Miller's Tale under Scrutiny - At Her Own Paper

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/aug2005/mart-a09.shtml
Pentagon devising scenarios for martial law in US

http://politics.guardian.co.uk/terrorism/story/0,15935,1543291,00.html
Galloway: Blair and Bush have "far more blood on their hands" than the
terrorists who carried out the London tube bombings

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/west_midlands/4126688.stm
The "similarities" between the demonization of Arabs and Hitler's
demonization of the Jews

http://www.capitolhillblue.com/artman/publish/article_7162.shtml
Military Planners Tell Bush Iraq War 'Cannot be Won'

http://japantoday.com/e/?content=news&cat=8&id=345817
U.S. reportedly planning to boost troop levels to 160,000 in Iraq

http://www.metimes.com/articles/normal.php?StoryID=20050809-095013-2379r
Iraq statistics tell grim story

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/aug2005/atta-a10.shtml
Why were the terrorists shielded? US military intelligence identified four
9/11 hijackers in 2000

http://www.wired.com/news/medtech/0,1286,68434,00.html
Rivers of Coke

http://www.energybulletin.net/7676.html
Big Oil warns of coming energy crunch

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4748287.stm
Alaskan natives tell of climate change

http://www.ens-newswire.com/ens/aug2005/2005-08-05-05.asp
All World's Glaciers Could Melt, Latest Scientific Data Indicates

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/0808-07.htm
Environmentalists warn Australia is facing "the most serious genetic
contamination event" in its history

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