September 2006



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From the Marxist Information Clearing House

The story of what happens to everyday Americans when corporations go to war.

Acclaimed director Robert Greenwald (Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price, Outfoxed and Uncovered) takes you inside the lives of soldiers, truck drivers, widows and children who have been changed forever as a result of profiteering in the reconstruction of Iraq. Iraq for Sale uncovers the connections between private corporations making a killing in Iraq and the decision makers who allow them to do so.

 Runtime 75 Minutes - video

Quick background on Marxist Robert Greenwald:

Film director and producer Robert Greenwald is the co-founder, along with actor Mike Farrell, of Artists United to Win Without War (AUWWW), a political activist group formed by hundreds of Hollywood actors, directors, and industry personnel who oppose the Bush Administration’s war and liberation efforts in Iraq. Citing the "flawed case for war in Iraq," this group calls for an investigation into claims that weapons of mass destruction were being manufactured in Iraq. AUWWW is associated with MoveOn.org, an online political activist group that has generated hundreds of millions of dollars for leftwing political campaigns.

Greenwald produced and directed the 2000 film Steal This Movie, which lionizes the 1960s radical and drug felon Abby Hoffman. Two years later, he produced Unprecedented: The 2000 Presidential Election, a film that purports to expose "the battle for the Presidency in Florida and the undermining of democracy in America."


In 2003, Greenwald was the executive producer of a one-sided and tendentious documentary titled Uncovered: The Whole Truth About the Iraq War. The film’s tagline reads, "the story of how truth became the first American casualty in Iraq." According to the website TruthUncovered.com, "This controversial and arresting film takes you behind the walls of government, as CIA, Pentagon and foreign service experts speak out, many for the first time, detailing the lies, misstatements and exaggerations that served as the reasons to fight a ‘preemptive’ war that wasn’t necessary. The war with Iraq brought about unparalleled resistance, both in the streets and in the chambers of government….Throughout the fall of 2002, and into the weeks preceding the war in Iraq, the Bush administration systematically distorted intelligence evidence and misled the public in order to turn opinion favor of ‘regime change’ in Iraq." The film begins by misstating the rationale for the war in Iraq and rapidly degenerates from there.

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Nasrallah: We have over 20,000 missiles

 Hizbullah leader says his group possesses more than 20,000 missiles despite Israel’s military offensive; lauds his guerillas for turning IDF soldiers into ’scared mice’

Lebanese officials say terror group transporting rockets, heavy weaponry to Palestinian camps in south of country, just few miles from Israeli border. [more]

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Hizbullah supporters in Beirut (Photo: AFP)

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Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice yesterday accused Bill Clinton of making "flatly false" claims that the Bush administration didn’t lift a finger to stop terrorism before the 9/11 attacks.

Rice hammered Clinton, who leveled his charges in a contentious weekend interview with Chris Wallace of Fox News Channel, for his claims that the Bush administration "did not try" to kill Osama bin Laden in the eight months they controlled the White House before the Sept. 11 attacks. [more]

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Mel Gibson has returned to the spotlight to promote his upcoming movie "Apocalypto," and to criticize the war in Iraq, according to the Hollywood Reporter.

Almost two months after he railed against Jews when he was arrested for driving drunk in Malibu, the actor made a surprise appearance Friday at Fantastic Fest, an event in Austin, Texas, devoted to new science fiction, horror and fantasy films, the trade paper said in its Monday edition.

He presented a work-in-progress screening of his Mayan adventure tale, and then took questions. About one-third of the full house gathered for the film gave him a standing ovation. The film is scheduled for a December 8 release via Disney.

In describing its portrait of a civilization in decline, Gibson said, "The precursors to a civilization that’s going under are the same, time and time again," drawing parallels between the Mayan civilization on the brink of collapse and America’s present situation. "What’s human sacrifice," he asked, "if not sending guys off to Iraq for no reason?"

Appearing alongside Rudy Youngblood, one of the film’s actors who hails from the Austin area, Gibson said he plans to make further trims in the film, which ran more than two hours. The print shown did not include sound effects and score, and some visual effects have not yet been added.

Gibson’s appearance at the festival, co-founded by Harry Knowles, was reminiscent of a similar appearance he made at Knowles’ Butt-Numb-a-Thon, which offered one of the first public previews of "The Passion of the Christ."

Aliraqnews revealed that a three days secret meeting held in Novotel hotel in London – Hammersmith among 100 former Iraqi generals and former Iraqi Prime Minister Ayad Allawi, hosted by UK government.

Guest attendees are:

- Iraqi Army Chief of Staff “Babakr Zebari” (national security adviser to Talabani).

- “Wafiq Al-Samari’i” (head of military intelligence during the rule of Saddam).

- “Salah-a-Shekhli”, Iraqi ambassador in UK.

- Generals and ambassadors from Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Tunisia, Morocco and former Kuwaiti Information Minister “Saad bin Tifla al-Ajami”.

No matter what he says, the record shows he failed to act against terrorism.

“I worked hard to try and kill him,” former president Bill Clinton told Fox News Sunday. “I tried. I tried and failed.”

”Him” is Osama bin Laden. And in his interview with Fox News’ Chris Wallace, the former president based nearly his entire defense on one source: Against All Enemies: Inside America’s War on Terror, the book by former White House counterterrorism chief Richard Clarke. “All I’m asking is if anybody wants to say I didn’t do enough, you read Richard Clarke’s book,” Clinton said at one point in the interview. “All you have to do is read Richard Clarke’s book to look at what we did in a comprehensive systematic way to try to protect the country against terror,” he said at another. “All you have to do is read Richard Clarke’s findings and you know it’s not true,” he said at yet another point. In all, Clinton mentioned Clarke’s name 11 times during the Fox interview. [more]

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