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By Jeremy Brecher and Brendan Smith Truthout 1/7/07

While the November elections provided the Democratic Party a public mandate to end the war in Iraq, President Bush has signaled his intent to use his institutional powers as Commander in Chief to maintain and even escalate the US commitment, public or Congressional opinion notwithstanding. (more…)

Saddam jailed me but his hanging was a crime. Iraq’s misery is now far worse than under his rule.

Haifa Zangana Guardian.co.uk 1/4/07

At 3.30am last Saturday, I was abruptly woken by the phone ringing. My heart sank. By the time I reached the phone, I was already imagining bodies of relatives and friends, killed and mutilated. (more…)

From Hussein Al-alak, The Iraq Solidarity Campaign 1/8/07

In an interesting turn of events, Deirdre Fitzsimmons, the sister of murdered aid worker Margaret Hassan, has called upon the “muslim” community to help retrieve the body of her sister, who was kidnapped and killed after living in Iraq for thirty years. (more…)

How the West will profit from Iraq’s most precious commodity

The ‘IoS’ today reveals a draft for a new law that would give Western oil companies a massive share in the third largest reserves in the world. To the victors, the oil? That is how some experts view this unprecedented arrangement with a major Middle East oil producer that guarantees investors huge profits for the next 30 years

By The Independent, U.K. 1/7/07

So was this what the Iraq war was fought for, after all? (more…)

Sun Journal

GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — During the 10 years since the end of a civil war that took 200,000 Guatemalan lives, the survivors have faced a recurring frustration: A family comes forward asking for information about a vanished parent, child, husband or wife, only to be told there is no paper trail to help their search.

Now a leaky warehouse crammed floor-to-ceiling with 3 million documents may finally provide answers. (more…)

Globalization in Retreat?

By WALDEN BELLO Counterpunch 1/6/07

When it first became part of the English vocabulary in the early 1990s, globalization was supposed to be the wave of the future. Fifteen years ago, the writings of globalist thinkers such as Kenichi Ohmae and Robert Reich celebrated the advent of the emergence of the so-called borderless world. (more…)

By Dr. Abbas Bakhtiar ICH 1/4/07

On Saturday 30th Dec 2006 at approximately 5:45 AM, former dictator of Iraq, Saddam Hussein was executed by hanging at the former headquarters of Saddam’s military intelligence where many of his victims were executed in the same gallows. Shortly after the execution, the Iraqi government released a short film of the execution (more…)

By Retired Colonel Ann Wright Truthout 1/3/06

On New Year’s Day, sixty peace activists organized by CodePink: Women for Peace gathered on both sides of the Golden Gate Bridge to walk across one of America’s great landmarks in vigil for the 3,000 US servicemen and women killed in Iraq and for the hundreds of thousands of Iraqis who have died since the US invasion and occupation. (more…)