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www.altpr.org - February 12, 2007

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War: It's just a pretext away
By Mickey Z.

Anyone viewing international events with even a shred of objectivity knows 
that the U.S. government is just a pretext away from bombing Iran. American 
history, after all, is teeming with convenient provocations that created an 
opening for military intervention.

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Other articles of interest

http://www.counterpunch.org/kozloff02092007.html
Bombing Venezuela's Indians: "If We Have to Die For Our Lands, We Will Die"
Nikolas Kozloff, CounterPunch

For Hugo Chavez, large, industrial mega projects could turn into a political 
mine field. The contradiction between Chavez's rhetoric stressing social 
equality, on the one hand, and environmental abuses on the other, was driven 
home to me over this past summer when I attended the first ever 
environmental conference of Lake Maracaibo.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17013.htm
Rape Of Iraq
Ed Kinane, ICH

A man is raping a woman. He has been raping the woman off and on for many 
years. Despite her vigorous resistance, for the past four years he rapes her 
relentlessly. He occupies her body. He shares her with his friends. When 
must he withdraw? Only when he is spent? Only when it's convenient? The word 
"occupation" (like "invasion") was carefully avoided by the authors of the 
Iraq Study Group Report. But even that taboo word is vague, anemic. It 
muffles reality. The U.S. invasion -- and ongoing violation -- of Iraq is 
mega-rape. It is mega-crime. It is war crime.

http://carolynbaker.org/archives/fabricating-the-case-against-iran-another-carolyn-bakerorg-exclusive-by-larry-chin
FABRICATING THE CASE AGAINST IRAN
Larry Chin, Speaking Truth to Power

According to Michael Klare, conflict with Iran must be viewed as a chapter 
of resource war. According to some Iranian estimates, there is enough energy 
to last many decades. The Bush administration must also be infuriated that 
Tehran has shown intense interest in doing energy business with foreign 
investors (not American ones), and maintains good ties with both China and 
Russia. As Peak Oil and Gas makes itself in earnest, and the lifeblood of 
the Anglo-American empire disappears drop by drop, Iran's geostrategic 
importance (as a target) looms.

http://kurtnimmo.com/?p=764
Neocon Iranian Mortar Ruse Fizzles
Kurt Nimmo, Another Day in the Empire

For some reason the geniuses at the Pentagon have failed to explain why the 
Iranians used a date from the Christian Gregorian calendar and not one from 
the Islamic Persian calendar. According to the Muslim calendar, the date 
stenciled on this mortar shell should read 1427, not 2006. And why did Iran, 
a country speaking and writing in Persian, a language written in a version 
of the Arabic script, decide to label their shells in English? Maybe they 
thought it would fool the infidels? I'm not taking the bait. As usual, this 
attempt to frame Muslims stinks of neocon sloppiness.

http://www.uruknet.de/?s1=1&p=30561&s2=12
Killers in the Classroom
Dr. June Scorza Terpstra, Uruknet

Here they sit in my course on social justice, terrorist war criminals, 
wanting high paying "criminal justice" jobs in a university Justice Studies 
program. They want approval, appreciation and honors for terrorism, torture, 
and murder. They want a university degree so they can get an even higher 
salary terrorizing more people around the world with security companies such 
as Blackwater or Halliburton. They want that appropriately named "sheepskin" 
so they can join the CIA, FBI, and other police and track down and terrorize 
US residents here. These military and mercenary terrorist-students are 
trained in terrorist training camps all under the USA, funded by American 
taxpayers.

http://www.dissidentvoice.org/Feb07/Akre11.htm
One Great Big Plastic Hassle
Jane Akre, Dissident Voice

Today, phthalates are one of the top offenders in a group of 70 suspected 
endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDCs) that we spray in our homes and yards 
and use in our makeup, nail polish, detergents, flame retardants, plastic 
bottles, metal food cans and even children's toys. When we're done with 
these products, we flush them down our sinks or burn them in our 
incinerators, where their runoff filters into our national waterways. Even 
if you eschew plasticized products in your personal lives, it's impossible 
to avoid contamination; EDCs are in the bodies of every man, woman, child 
and fetus in the U.S.

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NewsWire

http://news.com.com/Senator+to+propose+surveillance+of+illegal+images/2100-1028_3-6156976.html
Ayatollah McCain proposes surveillance of "illegal" internet images

http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003544369
Turning Up the Propaganda: NYT Reporter Who Got Iraqi WMDs Wrong Now 
Highlights Iran Claims

http://glenngreenwald.blogspot.com/2007/02/ny-times-returns-to-pre-iraq-war.html
All the Lies Fit to Print: The NY Times returns to pre-Iraq-war "journalism"

http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003544378
'Wash Post' Joins 'NYT' in Trumpeting 'Anonymous' Claims on Iranian Weapons 
in Iraq

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article11631.htm
Fixed intel from Feith's Gestapo office

http://www.alternet.org/stories/47921/
Attack on Iran has been a six-year project

http://www.guardian.co.uk/iran/story/0,,2010086,00.html
Target Iran: US able to strike in the spring

http://www.wakeupfromyourslumber.com/node/610
Rationalizing Mass Murder: Pentagon Report Finds Killing Over 600,000 Iraqis 
"Inappropriate" But Not Illegal

http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig8/paterson1.html
Watada trial clear anti-war victory

http://www.capitolhillblue.com/wp/2007/02/12/2069
Dixie Chicks get their revenge

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines07/0209-08.htm
Inuit Accuse US of Destroying Their Way of Life with Global Warming

http://www.motherjones.com/blue_marble_blog/archives/2007/02/3494_orangutans_losi.html
Orangutans Losing Their Forests Faster Than Expected, Extinction Draws Near

http://newstandardnews.net/content/index.cfm/items/4293
Big Enviro Groups 'Holding Back' Anti-Warming Movement

http://oreaddaily.blogspot.com/2007/02/arrest-developers-not-our-people.html
Arrest the Developers! Not Our People!

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