World-News

https://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/04/26/766/



https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Jeremy+Brecher
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Brendan+Smith

"For over four years, the president has been waging a war without end and a war without accountability and oversight. No longer will this Congress and the American people continue to give the president a blank check in order to continue a failed policy. Accountability is desperately needed," Congressman John Murtha, chairman of the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Defense stated Wednesday.

https://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/042607M.shtml



https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Murtha

Charlotte Observer

A sharply divided House brushed aside a veto threat Wednesday and passed legislation that would order President Bush to begin withdrawing troops from Iraq by Oct. 1. The 218-208 vote came as the top U.S. commander in Iraq told lawmakers the country remained gripped by violence but was showing some signs of improvement...

https://www.charlotte.com/206/story/98230.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Iraq+troop+withdrawal

"Islamist" fighters returning from Iraq pose a serious threat in Algeria, security sources say, recalling how mass bloodshed in the 1990s was fuelled by veterans of the war in Afghanistan.

https://www.turkishpress.com/news.asp?id=173049


From Information Clearing House

The report describes the situation in Iraq as a "rapidly worsening humanitarian crisis".

https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6591151.stm


From Information Clearing House

After a 35 year wait, American and British oil corporations are on the verge of securing control of Iraq's vast oil reserves. Becca Fisher reveals how the unholy alliance of Big Oil, government and the IMF is getting closer to its goal of reconstructing the Iraqi state to gain secure oil supplies.

https://www.corporatewatch.org/?lid=2912



https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Big+Oil

Robert Scheer writes: "Blame it on the military, but make it look like you're supporting the troops. That's been the convenient gambit of failed emperors throughout history as they witnessed their empires decline. Not surprisingly then, it's become the standard rhetorical trick employed by President Bush in shirking responsibility for the Iraq debacle of his making."

https://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/042507F.shtml



https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Robert+Scheer