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Military use of Private Employees Harms Transparency. . . AP Enterprise: A Private Army Grows Around the U.S. Mission in Iraq and Around the World.
The increasing use of private contractors to do work formerly performed by the military makes it more difficult to accurately portray what is going on in Iraq, according to an Associated Press report. Transparency rules and Congressional oversight that apply to the military do not apply to the private employees. It has been estimated that there is one private contractor for every 10 soldiers in Iraq. Private contractors perform duties from food preparation to training Iraqis to providing armed security. Deaths among these private contractors are not counted among the official tally of U.S. soldiers killed in Iraq, and when asked who they work for the contractors often respond "no comment" or "I can't tell you that." . . .By Jim Krane Associated Press Writer -- Published: Oct 29, 2003 --
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Laura Secor
In Iraq, snags on transfer of power
Cleric wants UN to act as overseer -- Boston Globe
OccupationWatch
Occupation to End in July?
Paul McGeough
Who got him? : Kurds say they caught Saddam
ABC Newsonline
Saddam held by Kurds, drugged and left for US troops: report
Global Free Press
After "Saddam Capture": Kurds demand Kirkuk
Christina Asquith,
The Christian Science Monitor
New textbooks rewrite history in Iraq through omission -- with the ouster of former President Saddam Hussein, U.S. officials say teachers will finally be free to teach a more factual account of historical events. But the question is: Whose account will that be?
Mustafa Abdel-Halim
Ex-U.S. Attorney General
Ready To Defend Saddam
"Saddam must be domestically prosecuted," Clarke said
John Coleman
Gulf War I
Jordan's King Hussein, Bush Sr, and Mubarak:
What went wrong?
Excerpted from: "Diplomacy by Deception" (copyright 1993)
BlackCommentator
Dean Makes Racial-Political History
e-mail backlash
BlackCommentator Raked Over Coals for Dean Commentary
Jim Rarey
The CIA/John Muhammad Axis: It Was Only a Matter of Time
Want To Know
MKULTRA: The CIA Mind Control Projects
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What is Institutionalised Terror?
Al Bawaba
Former Iraqi air defense general dies during US interrogation after ''not feeling well''
Tim Shorrock
The Big Guns -- Carlyle
HereinReality.com
The Axis of Corporate Evil
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Historisists... Ain't that odd?
Warren Hedges
New Historicism Explained
Anthony Sutton
First we have to
dump the trap of right and left,
this is a Hegelian trap to divide and control.
-- Promoting Headwing?
NIRANJAN RAMAKRISHNAN
Ancient Epic and Modern Parallels
Duryodhana Dies
Calvin E. Johnson, Jr.
A Confederate Black Soldier's Christmas Gift
Bakari Akil II
The Cultural Jacking of Hip-Hop
Susan Sontag
The fragile alliance
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Israeli-Palestinian Re-unification
Adam Entousom
Bush 'will appoint' Pipes
YUSUF AL-KHABBAZ
discusses modern and traditional Islamic ways of understanding culture, with particular reference to the challenges facing Muslims in today��s global, multicultural and West-dominated society.
Islam, culture and identity: towards an understanding of culture
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North and South Korean Re-unification
Moon Sun-Myung
North and South, East and West; Proclaiming "God's Fatherland and the Era of the Peace Kingdom" in 2004
Michael Breen
Confucian Roots of Moon Family Village
As the 19th century Korean scholar Chong Yak-Yong ("Dasan") put it: "The studies of the Confucian gentleman begin with attending parents and end with the attendance of Heaven."
Chong Yak-Yong ("Tasan")
The Road to Tea Mountain
Third Adam / Fourth Israel
Three Couples in 1960; and Re-Unification Today
Seo Soo-min
Inter-Korean Trade Reaches $700 Million
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African Re-unification
Agence France Presse
Zimbabwe pullout compounds misery as Africa blames West
Vanguard (Lagos)
Mbeki Urges South Africa, Zimbabwe to Close Ranks
Polytropos.org
Liberia / Charles Taylor Update
BBC
Nigeria warns off bounty hunters
Reuters
Congo Conflict--December 2003
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Completed Testament
Good News / bad news
Frontlines / Spiritual-Physical Resurrection
American Clergy Leadership Conference
Exchanging the Cross for the Crown
CHRISTIAN LEADERS TO CARRY CROSS, THEN TAKE IT DOWN IN EFFORT FOR PEACE AND RECONCILIATION
Rev. Michael Jenkins
Special "Israel" Report / The Jerusalem Declaration
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Frontlines / Sexual Identity
Hanan Dover
Pornography Is Not The End
YUSUF AL-KHABBAZ
The role of television in the spread of consumerism and voyeurism -- The television has become one of the most essential and ubiquitous items of a modern lifestyle, but few people are aware of the role it plays in shaping society. YUSUF AL-KHABBAZ discusses its link with consumerism
John M. Duvall
Choosing to Remain Sexually Pure
Serge Trifkovic
Islam's Love-Hate Relationship with Homosexuality
Answering Islam
Mut'a-- A temporary marriage for a stipulated amount of time. A Shi'ite belief, and generally not accepted by Sunni Muslims. There is a variant verse in the Qur'an which Shi'ites used to justify this practice.
al-shia.com -- Pro
Temporary Marriage in Islam (Part I)
A Plea from A Muslim Sister -- Con
Temporary Marriage
Answering Islam
"CHASTITY HOUSES"
Tantra-Yoga
The Yoga of Sex
Gihwa / Hamheo Deuktong
Drinking Alcohol / The Exposition of the Correct
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Frontlines / Species-Race Identity
Rick Weiss
Cloning Yields Human-Rabbit Hybrid Embryo
Boyd Ed Graves
Ending the Censorship on
the U.S. Causation of AIDS
Keelynet.com
Tetrasil as a cure for AIDS?
Tetrahedron.org
Cliff Kincaid / Leonard Horowitz Exchange
Tom Keske
EARLIEST AIDS
Alan Cantwell, Jr
Blaming Chimps, Blacks, and Gays for AIDS
A-albionic Research
Or perhaps, Blacks are just grasping for
straws -- in one conspiracy theory or another
Minjok Han
Mounting Evidence
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Words of Wisdom -- Let it be...?
Peace in Corporate Life
Yusuf al-Khabbaz
Developing alternatives to the western pattern of "modern" education -- NON-WESTERN EDUCATIONAL TRADITIONS: ALTERNATIVE APPROACHES TO EDUCATIONAL THOUGHT AND PRACTICE, by Timothy Reagan. New Jersey and London: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2000. 2nd ed.: pp. 263; pbk. $23.
Peace in Family Life
Buddhist Perspectives
Filial Piety
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