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Tuesday, May 8, 2007 |
HuffingtonPost: "Congress should de-authorize the war today and demand that the President begin redeploying our troops. There would be no need to negotiate the withdrawal with the President, and he could not veto the resolution.
The time has has come for Congress to stand up to this President who refuses to recognize that his war is bleeding our military and weakening our country. He believes mere stubbornness is a foreign policy and that he can just ignore the will of the American people. In the interest of our national security, he must be stopped."
Aljazeera: "A draft law being considered by the Iraqi parliament would enable US companies to take control of Iraq's oil industry, oil experts in the country say."
Of course, the war is about oil. That is also why the Dutch government is so lenient towards the US and Britain. Royal Dutch Shell is not really Dutch, the money is international and does not benefit national economies. On the contrary, as the oil prices also set the price for our natural gas, we citizens lose big. Our Royalty, however, and also our ex-prime-ministers (including the Labour ones) have a large stake in the war; after all they are important shareholders or directors.
GulfDailyNews: "Royal Dutch Shell added to the woes of its arch-rival BP yesterday by shrugging off lower oil prices and a fall in production delivered record profits of $6.9 billion for the first quarter of the year."
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Guardian: "Palestinians detained by Israeli security forces are routinely tortured and ill-treated, according to a new report published by Israeli human rights groups yesterday. The ill-treatment, which includes beatings, sensory deprivation, back-bending, back-stretching and other forms of physical abuse, contravenes international law and Israeli law, the report says."
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