Truthout's Maya Schenwar re****ts on the Bush administration's negotiation
of
"economic ties" with Iraq; Isaiah J. Poole on stalled progress toward Dr.
King's vision of social and economic justice; more than 1,000 Iraqi
soldiers
and policemen refused to fight in Basra assault; another story - and
attempted
cover-up - of the rape of a KBR contractor in Iraq; Tom Engelhardt on why
the
testimony of General Petraeus will be delusional; Art Levine on GOP
propagation of the myth of voter fraud; poll finds 81 percent believe US
in on
the wrong track; and more ... Browse our continually updating front page
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t r u t h o u t | 04.04
Maya Schenwar | Managing Iraq's Econoccupation
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/040408J.shtml
Truthout's Maya Schenwar re****ts: "While the battle of Basra raged last
week,
a series of talks between the Bush administration and the US-backed Maliki
government rolled forward. These negotiations may have at least as many
implications for Iraq's future as the violence on the ground."
Isaiah J. Poole | Forty Years Later, Still Far From the Mountaintop
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/040408K.shtml
Isaiah J. Poole writes for The Campaign for America's Future: "This is the
Dr.
King that the nation tends not to commemorate when we honor his birthday
in
January, the man who 40 years ago this week was at the side of workers
fighting for fair wages and preparing to take his case for economic
justice to
Wa****ngton. Since that battle, his message has too often been scrubbed
clean
of anything that would hold the nation accountable for making racial
equality
an economic fact of life."
More Than 1,000 in Iraq's Forces Quit Basra Fight
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/040408L.shtml
Stephen Farrell and James Glanz re****t for The New York Times: "More than
1,000 Iraqi soldiers and policemen either refused to fight or simply
abandoned
their posts during the inconclusive assault against ****ite militias in
Basra
last week, a senior Iraqi government official said Thursday. Iraqi
military
officials said the group included dozens of officers, including at least
two
senior field commanders in the battle."
Another KBR Rape Case
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/040408M.shtml
Karen Houppert re****ts for The Nation: "Over the next few weeks Smith
would be
told to keep quiet about the incident by a KBR supervisor. The camp's
military
liaison officer also told her not to speak about what had happened, she
says.
And she would follow these instructions. 'Because then, all of a sudden,
if
you've done exactly what you've been instructed not to do--tell
somebody--then
you're in danger,' Smith says."
Tom Engelhardt | Why the Testimony of General Petraeus Will Be Delusional
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/040408N.shtml
Tom Engelhardt writes for TomDispatch.com: "The United States is hardly
the
first empire whose representatives have felt at home anywhere in its world
(if
not, in past times, in the world). When you are at the peak of your
imperial
powers, you can ignore the problems and contradictions that such a
feeling,
such an attitude, naturally calls up. This is no longer the situation for
the
United States and so the contradictions ripen, the problems only grow, and
the
plunge into delusional thinking deepens."
Art Levine | The Republican War on Voting
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/040408O.shtml
Art Levine writes for The American Prospect, "Using the Department of
Justice,
friendly governors, and its usual propaganda outlets, the GOP has
propagated
the myth of voter fraud to purge the rolls of non-Republicans."
81 Percent in US Poll Say Nation Is on the Wrong Track
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/040408P.shtml
David Leonhardt and Marjorie Connelly re****t for The International Herald
Tribune, "Americans are more dissatisfied with the country's direction
than at
any time since the New York Times/CBS News poll began asking about the
subject
in the early 1990s, according to the latest poll. In the poll, 81 percent
of
respondents said they believed 'things have pretty seriously gotten off on
the
wrong track,' up from 69 percent a year ago and 35 percent in early 2002."
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