Archive 1986 – 2017

BBC NewsUN urges global action on Darfur Dawn.comEU sees no evidence of genocide in Darfur GuardianDarfur’s deep grievances defy all hopes for an easy solution Tracy McNicoll, IHTSanctions on Sudan have little chance of working Omvärldsbilder.sePå jakt efter flaskhalsen för bistånd åt Darfur Omvärldsbilder.seDarfur – folkmordet som kanske “bara” blir en humanitär katastrof John Laughland, ScoopFill full the mouth of famine Enver Masud, The Wisdom FundSudan, Oil, and African Muslim vs. African Muslim Norm Dixon, Green LeftSudan: Oil profits behind West’s tears for Darfur Samson Mulugeta, TruthoutHumanitarian Disaster in Sudan

National Nine NewsIraq war a gift to Osama: CIA Sabrina Tavernise, IHTChalabi calls Iraqi judge a U.S. puppet Kurdish MediaKurdish language banned in the Iraqi Ministry of Defence News and StarWar killed my Peter Jamie Tarabay, TruthoutIraq Issues Arrest Warrants for Chalabi, Nephew Robert Scheer, TruthoutBush’s Big Blunder: Chalabi Mike Lee, TruthoutCasualty Ward Luke Baker, TruthoutIraq Reimpoes Death Penalty Rawya Rageh, TruthoutIraqi government shuts Al-Jazeera Station Jonathan Freedland, ICHThe Failed Occupation John F. Burns, The NYTIraqi Conference on Election Plan Sinks Into Chaos Larry Chin, Global ResearchUS occupation “hands over” Iraq to lethal puppet regime

LinksTFF’s Comprehensive Link Library Collection Iraq 4Read the materials on Iraq from 2004 here Collection Iraq 3Read the materials on Iraq from 2004 here Collection Iraq 1Read the newest materials on Iraq here Articles by non-TFF Associates F e a t u r e s Occupation Crisis (Dec. 5, 2003) Howard LaFranchi, CSMBound to Iraq, Kurds eye options John Gershman, Foreign Policy in FocusThe Progressive Response Oliver Burkeman & Julian Borger, the GuardianWar Critics astonished as US hawk admits invasion was illegal Susan Sachs, NY TimesIraq Picks American as Ambassador to U.S. Randall Richard, TruthoutAt Least 17 U.S. Troops Have Committed Suicide in Iraq, Army Seeks Answers Mark Matthews, TruthoutIraq War Providing a Boost to Al-Qaida Eric Boehlert, Truthout“The President Ought to be Ashamed” Andrew M. cockburn, Common DreamsTired, Terrified, Trigger-Happy Jeff Wilkinson, Common DreamsU.S. Tactics in Iraq May Backfire, Critics SayIn Tikrit, US Destroys Homes of Suspected Guerrillas Robert...

TFF’s Comprehensive Link Library Collection Iraq 1Read the materials on Iraq from 2004 here Collection Iraq 3Read the materials on Iraq from 2004 here Collection Iraq 2Read the newest materials on Iraq here Articles by non-TFF Associates F e a t u r e s TFF Feature Collection, February 1, 2005Iraq Analyses: The resistance & the electionsPlus human rights, WMDs, the occupation in a wider strategic perspective and the destruction of BabylonSome 40 articles on aspects we should keep in mind in the future. They offer perspectives on what to learn and what to remember when they build up the next crisis… TFF Feature – Farhang Jahanpour, January 14, 2005The Iraqi elections must go ahead as scheduled: the alternative is much worseThere are four main groups inside Iraq who oppose the elections. In spite of spiralling violence, elections should be held. Jahanpour argues postponing the elections does not promise a...

Av FRANK SØHOLM GREVIL 16 augusti 2004  Vi er nu nået til tredje akt i det absurde teaterstykke, der i analogi med de store skueprocesser i Moskva 1936-38 er blevet døbt ‘Grevil-sagen’. Første akt bestod i min anonyme fremlæggelse af egenhændigt nedklassificerede rapporter i Berlingske Tidende i februar og marts. Andet akt udgjordes af min fremtræden med navn og billede i Information i april samt den efterfølgende mediestorm, som uden min direkte medvirken kostede en forsvarsminister taburetten samt en sigtelse for brud på tavshedspligten. Tredje akt bliver en retssag, hvor jeg står tiltalt for at have overtrådt straffelovens bestemmelser om uberettiget videregivelse eller udnyttelse af fortrolige oplysninger. Statsanklageren har ovenikøbet valgt at påberåbe sig særligt skærpende omstændigheder. Da jeg aldrig har modtaget betaling for at stille rapporterne til rådighed eller lade mig interviewe, må det skærpende bestå i, at “videregivelsen eller udnyttelsen er sket under sådanne omstændigheder, at det påfører...

LinksTFF’s Comprehensive Link Library Collection Iraq 4Read the materials on Iraq from 2004 here Collection Iraq 1Read the materials on Iraq from 2004 here Collection Iraq 2Read the newest materials on Iraq here Articles by non-TFF Associates Articles by non-TFF Associates F e a t u r e s “Transfer” to IraqJune 30, 2004 Iqbal Siddiqui, Media Monirots NetworkTransfer of power in Iraq is no more than a cynical exercise in public relations Robert Fisk, ICHA Pitiful Occasion for the People Annia Ciezadlo, CSMOld Iraqi council clings to key roles Dan Murphy, CSMSurprise ending: occupation over Warren Hoge, TruthoutU.N. Rights Chief Warns of War Crimes in Iraq TomDispatch.comA cut-and-run transition Rajiv Chandrasekaran & Walter Pincus, WashingtonpostU.S. Edicts Curb Power of Iraq’s Leadership Iraq Occupation FiascoJune 30, 2004 Mark Follman, ICHA Temporary Coup Robert Parry, consortiumnews.comBush Sr.’s Iraq-Iran Secrets CBC NewsBush continues to insist on link between bin Laden and Saddam...

We know that medical personnel have failed to report to higher authorities wounds that were clearly caused by torture and that they have neglected to take steps to interrupt this torture. In addition, they have turned over prisoners’ medical records to interrogators who could use them to exploit the prisoners’ weaknesses or vulnerabilities. We have not yet learned the extent of medical involvement in delaying and possibly falsifying the death certificates of prisoners who have been killed by torturers. A May 22 article on Abu Ghraib in the New York Times states that “much of the evidence of abuse at the prison came from medical documents” and that records and statements “showed doctors and medics reporting to the area of the prison where the abuse occurred several times to stitch wounds, tend to collapsed prisoners or see patients with bruised or reddened genitals.” http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/080604J.shtml#16 According to the article, two doctors who...

Nuclear weapons occupy the highest rung on the ladder of military cowardice. They are long-distance devices of mass annihilation. They destroy indiscriminately &endash; men, women and children. They draw no lines between soldiers and civilians. Those who make the weapons, who deploy them, who order their use and who press the buttons to send the missiles on their way have virtually no connection with the victims. They are simply human instruments in a chain of activities leading to massive devastation. The only arguably sane use of nuclear weapons is deterrence, and deterrence is largely an unproven theory. General George Lee Butler, a former commander-in-chief of the United States Strategic Command, who was in charge of all US nuclear weapons, has expressed his deep concerns about deterrence. “Nuclear deterrence,” he wrote, “was and remains a slippery intellectual construct that translates very poorly into the real world of spontaneous crises, inexplicable motivations,...

LONDON – If all the world were like Sweden there would be no news to report. The last time that Sweden hit the front page was when its foreign minister, Anna Lindh, was knifed to death by a madman last year on the eve of a referendum on Swedish entry into the Euro zone. The time before that was in the distant past. But news and truth, as Walter Lippmann observed, should never be confused. The truth is, as a recent report by the United Nations showed, that Sweden is probably the most successful country in the world – that is if you factor in not just national income, but the longevity of its people, low infant mortality and high levels of education. Moreover, a new study by Professor Richard Florida of Carnegie Mellon university which measures the kind of creativity most useful to business – talent, technology and tolerance...

By LONDON – In his forthcoming memoir on his involvement in the Indian/Pakistani nuclear relationship Strobe Talbott, the former U.S. deputy Secretary of State, recounts the surprise and alarm that swept through the eighth floor of the State Department when, on May 11th 1998, the first reports came in over CNN that India had tested a nuclear weapon. Yet one presumes his diplomats were reading the Indian press carefully. For example, I have in front of me two articles dated April 8th and 15th, 1998, in the influential Indian daily, The Statesman, that argued that now the Indian nationalists of the Bharatiya Janata party had come to power India going nuclear was going to happen very quickly. The information was around for those who had eyes and ears. It was as if Washington didn’t want to know until it had to. Rather similarly the reports emerging today suggesting that Saudi...

The 9/11 Commission Report BBC’s Q & A about the report Richard Clark, International Herald TribuneThe 9/11 Report is honorable but incomplete FBI whistleblower Sibel EdmondsOpen letter to the Chairman of the 9/11 Commission Ray McGovern, at TomePaine.comWhat price unanimity? Bruce St. John at Foreign Policy In Focus, FPIFBush policies makes terrorism a growth industry Gerald Posner, Intenational Herald TribuneWhat about the Saudi who flew off on 9/13 The Independent InstituteThe 9/11 Commissions reommendations will not improve intelligence Terry McDermott, Los Angeles Times, on TruthOutQuestions persist despite 9/11 investigations Enver Masud, The Wisdom FundWhy no Arabs on the passenger list Richard Falk, TFF AssociateForeword to the essential book, A New Pearl Harbour – about 9/11 Maureen Dowd, International Herald TribuneA scary tale on the top Eric A. Smith, TokyoA most comprehensible list of articles and background

Very comprehensive link collection from Global IssuesHandover of power to Iraqis Ahmed Janabi, Aljazeera.netIraqi group claims over 37,000 civilian toll Robert Fis, The Independent, on TruthOutCan’t Blair see this country is about to explode? Can’t Bush? Osha Gray Davidson, Rolling StoneThe secret file of Abu Ghraib Robert Fisk, The Independent, from TruthOutThe unreported war Michael Weinstein, PINR – Power & Interest News ReportIraq’s transition to dictatorship Robert Fisk, The Independent, from The Wisdom FundThe trial of the century Vladimir Radyuhin, The Hindu2,000 US troops killed in Iraq Robert R. Goldberg, Information Clearing HouseWhy Americans believe only American deaths count in Iraq William S. Lind, The Washington DispatchCivil war in Iraq? William O’Rourke, Chicago Sun-TimesLooking for a Iraq precedent? Try Honduras Rajiv Chandrasekaran & Walter Pincus, Washington PostU.S. edicts curb power of Iraq’s leadership Dan Murphy, Christian Science MonitorRadical islam grows among Iraq’s sunnies Tom Parker in The International Herald TribuneSaddam’s...