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By Makoto Igarashi, The Asahi Shimbun Thanhniennews.com

For the last 30 years, Japanese photojournalist Goro Nakamura has focused on one thing: the damage made to the Vietnamese people and their country by the US use of the defoliant Agent Orange during the Vietnam War. (more…)

by Kathy Dopp http://www.opednews.com 9/13/06

Ari Feldman, Alex Halderman and Ed Felten of Princeton’s Center for IT Policy have released a paper and video that demonstrates a series of serious attacks against the DESI AccuVote-TS (used statewide in Maryland and Georgia). (more…)

No longer should the peace business be undermined by the arms business

by Desmond Tutu Independent.co.uk 9/13/06
 
For many years, I’ve been involved in the peace business, doing what I can to help people overcome their differences. In doing so, I’ve also learnt a lot about the business of war: the arms trade. In my opinion it is the modern slave trade. (more…)

By Meron Rappaport Haaretz 9/12/06

“What we did was insane and monstrous, we covered entire towns in cluster bombs,” the head of an IDF rocket unit in Lebanon said regarding the use of cluster bombs and phosphorous shells during the war. (more…)

By Tom Engelhardt Truthout 9/12/06 Originally in TomDispatch.com.

    You’ve heard the President and Vice President say it over and over in various ways: There was a connection between the events of September 11, 2001 and Iraq. (more…)

By Chris Floyd, TO’s UK Correspondent Truthout 9/11/06

    1. The Possessed and Their Plans

    In Dostoevsky’s 1872 novel, The Possessed, a prescient dissection of the roots of political terrorism, a bit player named Shigalov provides a revealing glimpse (more…)

By Arnaud de La Grange  Le Figaro 9/11/06 Truthout

    The Pentagon’s 2006 Quadrennial Defense Review counted a surprise guest on the sidelines of one of its pages: Lawrence of Arabia, to whose strategies George W. Bush appealed to illustrate what asymmetric warfare and psychological action should be. (more…)

By Matthew Rothschild progressive.org 9/11/06

At almost every progressive gathering where there’s a question and answer period, someone or other vehemently raises 9/11 and espouses a grand conspiracy theory. (more…)