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Archive for June, 2007

U.S.: 60 pct of Baghdad not controlled | Yahoo News

Posted by Faiz on 30th June 2007

It seems as though every major city in Iraq is on the verge of collapse. The occupation must end.

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Government has lost control of Basra | Azzaman

Posted by Faiz on 30th June 2007

“Attacks on British troops have increased significantly recently. Roadside bombs target British armored convoys and their barracks come under frequent mortar attacks … The sources said Basra was in the midst of “huge chaos” with the political factions and their militias dividing the city into zones of influence.”

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Fallujah On The Boil Again | Counter Currents

Posted by Faiz on 30th June 2007

“Fallujah, which is largely sympathetic to the Iraqi resistance, was assaulted twice by the U.S. military in 2004 … The second attack in November destroyed roughly three-quarters of the city of 350,000 residents.”

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SYRIA: Warning of looming crisis as Iraqi refugee influx continues | Reuters

Posted by Faiz on 30th June 2007

“With up to 2,000 Iraqi refugees arriving each day, adding to the 1.5 million – equivalent to around 8 percent of the Syrian population – who have flooded into Syria since the start of the US-led war on Iraq in 2003, economists and refugee experts warn of a looming social and economic crisis.”

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CLC/CTC > Advisory – Canadian Labour Calls on Government to Respond to First Nations’ Action Plan to End Poverty

Posted by graham on 29th June 2007

–Demand and end to oppression and poverty.

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June 29, 2007: AFN Day of Action – by James Lawson | Socialist Project | The Bullet

Posted by graham on 29th June 2007

–Support the struggle against oppression.

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Venezuela and the International Struggle for Socialism — By Roger Annis and John Riddell | Socialist Voice

Posted by graham on 29th June 2007

–The quest for socialism continues.

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BBC NEWS | Americas | US split over school race verdict

Posted by graham on 29th June 2007

–Sure, the split is over those who do not understand that there is still inequality together with those that profit off there still being inequality against those that continually suffer from oppression based on the colour of their skin and historical injustices.

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Killed by a bomb in Basra: two young men from Brown’s neighbourhood – Independent Online Edition > Middle East

Posted by graham on 29th June 2007

–More death in Iraq.

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Patrick Cockburn: An open letter to the new Prime Minister – Independent Online Edition > Commentators

Posted by graham on 29th June 2007

–If only the PM was listening.

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First genome transplant turns one species into another | Science | Guardian Unlimited

Posted by graham on 29th June 2007

–Wow. There is so much bad science language in this article one does not know where to start. It is an awfully strange species concept where the simple swapping of DNA can lead to a change of one species into another.

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Ideologes from CD Howe urge more profits for banks, less money for people

Posted by graham on 29th June 2007

–Or at least that is what the title should have read.

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Quebec breakaway could be long way off: Parti Quebecois leader – Yahoo! News

Posted by graham on 29th June 2007

–The PQ becomes less militant.

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Sask. health-care workers prepare for job action as talks break off

Posted by graham on 29th June 2007

–Without a well paid and supplied staff there is no such thing as good healthcare. Support the workers. Demand public healthcare that is funded properly.

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Aboriginal blockades bring highway, rail line closures

Posted by graham on 29th June 2007

–As the news and corporations (see CN) tries to vilify the First Nations protesters for trying to get the message out that they are suffering from direct oppression from the Canadian State I would suggest that you support their rights to highlight and fight against that oppression. When talks give nothing for decades action is the only alternative.

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First big wave of Iraqi refugees heads for the US | Christian Science Monitor

Posted by Faiz on 28th June 2007

“In February, the US agreed to accept 7,000 Iraqi refugees this year, a large jump over the fewer than 700 Iraqis accepted by the US in the first three years of the war … The US accepted only about 600 refugees from Vietnam between 1954 and 1974. The floodgates opened after the fall of Saigon, with the first wave composed largely of Vietnamese who had worked with Americans in that country.”

Also see: 2000 Iraq Refugees A Day Crossing Into Syria | Iraq Slogger

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S Africa unions call off strike | BBC

Posted by Faiz on 28th June 2007

“Correspondents say it has been the biggest strike since the end of apartheid in 1994.”

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Eva Liddell: Why They Want to Fire Ward Churchill | Counterpunch

Posted by Faiz on 28th June 2007

“What struck me about Ward Churchill’s essay that caused the stir leading to his current troubles, ‘The Roosting of Chickens’ and the thing about little Eichmanns was that it was not that radical a piece of writing.”

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Russia: Ex-Guantanamo detainee killed | Yahoo! News

Posted by Faiz on 28th June 2007

“In March, Human Rights Watch charged that the seven former Guantanamo detainees had been tortured or harassed and abused by Russian law enforcement agents since their return.”

It would be interesting to know how many ex-captives from Guantanamo have either died or disappeared since their release.

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ZNet |Mideast | Imminent Crises: Threats and Opportunities

Posted by graham on 27th June 2007

–Noam Chomsky writing in the Monthly Review. Can you really resist reading it?

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LENIN’S TOMB: Trotsky Speaks!

Posted by graham on 27th June 2007

–I could not resist posting this.

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ZNet |Mideast | How can Blair possibly be given this job?

Posted by graham on 27th June 2007

–Robert Fisk says it like it is.

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