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Bush: The 2005 State of the Union Address

The United States Threaten Syria and Iran

by Paul Labarique

7 February 2005

Every speech made by President Bush gets the United States closer and closer to the Orwellian language. The 2005 State of the Union address was another occasion for new aggressive statements, for a new re-writing of History with a significant melodramatic staging. As a backdrop, Mr. Bush first (...)

U.S.: War Crimes in Iraq

Samarra, Martyr City

by Arthur Lepic

6 October 2004

Faced with a people’s uprising, the Anglo-Saxon Coalition resorts to the counterinsurgent classic methods: to blindly strike the civil population, to terrorize it in order to dissuade it from getting involved with the resistance. While the war has officially ended and Saddam Hussein’s army has (...)

Special Report: French Hostages in Iraq

Decoding

by Thierry Meyssan

2 September 2004

A rigorous analysis of the issue of the French hostages shows that the "Islamic Army of Iraq", as they call themselves, is neither Islamic nor Iraqi. Unknown to the opposition organizations, this army has only established contacts with the government of Iyad Allawi and serves the interests of (...)

Iraqis talk to Iraqis

The view of the Iraqi Resistance

by Subhi Toma

12 July 2004

Reports on the Iraqi situation conveyed by international press agencies are limited to what official releases by the Coalition and the government appointed by the latter say. However, resistance groups have started to coordinate their actions and their voice is being heard outside Iraq through (...)

New orders in Abu Ghraib, Baghdad

The American Army Manuals of Torture

by Arthur Lepic

26 May 2004

Torture has always been a practice widely used by the United States and many countries of the world; a history that does not end in Iraq.

The War of Civilizations

Destruction of Iraq Cultural Heritage

24 May 2004

One year after the plundering of the Baghdad Museum, the Iraq puppet Government Provisional Council maintains that the extent of the robbery was overrated and that the Coalition forces have recovered almost all the stolen objects. The truth is quite another. With the Pentagon’s complicity, a (...)

Letter of the 52 Diplomats to Tony Blair

26 April 2004

Dear Prime Minister,
We the undersigned former British ambassadors, high commissioners, governors and senior international officials, including some who have long experience of the Middle East and others whose experience is elsewhere, have watched with deepening concern the policies which (...)

From revolutionnaries to mercenaries

The Moudjahidins that lost their way

by Paul Labarique

Paris (France) | 17 February 2004

The Moudjahidin of the People (hereinafter “the MDP”) was the progeny
of an armed resistance to the dictatorship of Iran’s shah. Its raison
d’etre was to bring about an Islamic and social revolution. However,
Ayatollah Khomeiny, shoved it, sine nolente, to a side. From objective (...)

Remodeling Public Opinion

False reasons to intervene in Iran

by Thierry Meyssan

12 February 2004

After having invaded Iraq, the hawks redouble their pressure on Iran and Syria. The Pentagon’s Office of Special Plans is setting up Iranian opposition groups in exile around the son of the defeated Shah and is orchestrating an international propaganda campaign. Anticipating a probable (...)

"Pre-emptive wars"

Syria: an Imperialist Military Target

by Paul Labarique

27 January 2004

Indifferent to Colin Powell’s opposition, the "hawks" prepare the next stage to reshape the Middle East: the "liberation" of Lebanon and an attack on Syria. They are already preparing the indictment file to justify such operations with the same rhetoric they used for Iraq: supporting (...)

The US Army Attacked the Iraqi Civilian Population

Operation “Iron Hammer” in the War of Iraq

by Paul Labarique

11 December 2003

When Operation “Iron Hammer” was launched on November 12, 2005, the Pentagon decided to implement in Iraq the principles of a “low intensity conflict” like previously done in Algeria, Viet Nam and South America. These methods include the physical closure of villages, destroying houses, taking (...)

Statement regarding the Separation Wall by heads of Churches in Jerusalem

by Abba Cuostos , Butros Malki , Mtanious Haddad , Riah Abu El-Assal , Swerios Malki Mourad , Anba Abraham , Torkom II Manougian , Giovanni Battistalli , His Beatitude Michel Sabbah , His Grace Bishop Dr. Munib Younan

Al Quods/Jerusalem (Palestine/Israel) | 26 August 2003

We, the heads of churches in Jerusalem affirm our determination to do all in our power to work for Peace in this Holy Land, a Peace that is concerned with the well-being of every resident of this land, be they Israeli or Palestinian, to give the security, justice, freedom, independence and (...)

Some people’s Unhappiness is Other People’s Happiness

War as a World Strategy

19 March 2003

The control of Iraq’s energy resources represents an essential strategic bet for the United States. The economic bet lies on the arms market and, above all, in that of reconstruction. Five big associations share the biggest public market since the end of World War II. George Schultz, Donald (...)

Colin Powell Speech at the UN Security Council

by Colin L. Powell

New York (USA) | 11 February 2003

Thank you, Mr. President.
Mr President, Mr Secretary General, distinguished colleagues, I would like to begin by expressing my thanks for the special effort that each of you made to be here today.
This is important day for us all as we review the situation with respect to Iraq and its (...)

Beirut Declaration

The Arab Peace Initiative on Recognition of Israel in Return for Israeli-Palestinian Peace

Beirut (Lebanon) | 28 March 2002

The Council of the League of Arab States at the summit level, at its 14th ordinary session:
REAFFIRMING the resolution taken in June 1996 at the Cairo extraordinary Arab summit that a just and comprehensive peace in the Middle East is the strategic option of the Arab countries, to be (...)

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