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 Breaking the silence- Truth and lies in the war on terror
By Paola Desiderio
Award winning journalist and film-maker John Pilger presented his new film: "Breaking the silence- Truth and lies in the war on terror", at the NFT in London on Friday 19 September. The film, commissioned by Carlton television, was broadcast on ITV at 10.45 on Monday 22.
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Sunday, September 21 @ 09:44:23 UTC
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'How many more must die_'
Tim Predmore, a serving U.S. soldier in Iraq, asks what cause he and his fellow troops are really supporting......
Friday, September 19 @ 06:14:03 UTC
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A Chink in the Armour
Andrew Kohut, New York Times, September 18, 2003
Public opinion is shifting in the USA, bringing potential problems for Bush, says this NYT columnist
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Thursday, September 18 @ 17:46:34 UTC
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A Failure of Historic Proportions
Patrick Cockburn, Counterpunch, September 16, 2003
The US failure to win a conclusive victory in Iraq is like that of Britain in South Africa during the Boer War, says the respected Iraq analyst Patrick Cockburn. From the moment US troops entered Baghdad the victors seemed to go out of their way to alienate every section of Iraqi society.
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Wednesday, September 17 @ 09:05:45 UTC
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Retreat from Reality: Ex-US Diplomat on the Bush Admininstration in Iraq
Joseph Wilson, ZNet, September 16, 2003
Joseph Wilson was deputy chief of mission at the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad from 1988 to 1991. In July 2003, he called into question the Bush administration's assertions about Iraq seeking uranium from Africa by revealing that he had been asked by the U.S. government to look into such claims -- and had reported...
Wednesday, September 17 @ 08:54:01 UTC
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After Two Years: Real Dangers and False Solutions in the Age of Terrorism
Stephen R. Shalom, ZNet, September 10, 2003
Kenneth Adelman, a former Reagan administration official and close associate of the ruling neoconservatives, has offered his advice to the Bush administration for securing its re-election. "We should not try to convince people that things are getting better," he said. "Rather, we should convince people t...
Thursday, September 11 @ 09:36:16 UTC
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There's Good Reason to Fear US
Noam Chomsky, Toronto Star, September 8, 2003
Amid the aftershocks of recent suicide bombings in Baghdad and Najaf, and countless other horrors since Sept. 11, 2001, it is easy to understand why many believe that the world has entered a new and frightening "age of terror," the title of a recent collection of essays by Yale University scholars and ...
Tuesday, September 09 @ 13:16:33 UTC
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Is the Neocon Agenda for Pax Americana Losing Steam_
By Jim Lobe, Foreign Policy in Focus, September 8, 2003President George W. Bush's speech to the nation last night was notable in many ways, most critically for marking what appears to be a weakening of the steep unilateralist trajectory on which neoconservative and right-wing hawks set U.S. foreign policy two years ago. Who would have thought it wo...
Tuesday, September 09 @ 13:04:38 UTC
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