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Cherishing children is the mark of a civilized society. – Joan Ganz Cooney If, as I would like to believe, the above…
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See Dick Loot Halliburton and its subsidiary Kellogg, Brown and Root (KBR) have been making hay in the burning Iraqi sun for…
They told him, ‘We are going to cut your head off and send you to hell.’ Ali Abbas, a former detainee from…
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The American media continues to ignore the increasingly devastating air war being waged in Iraq against an ever more belligerent Iraqi resistance…
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