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Melbourne Indymedia, Australia
by Center for Constitutional Rights
Thursday February 01, 2007
Today European, international, and U.S. legal and human rights groups issued an open letter warning of the illegality of any offensive military action by the United States against Iran.
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Center for Research on Globalization, Canada
by David Walsh
Global Research, January 31, 2007
Woreld Socialist web Site - 2007-01-30
In recent weeks US government and military officials, aided and abetted by the American media, have stepped up the war of words against Iran. As they did precisely four years ago, in the run-up to the invasion of Iraq, [...]

by Don Nash
Brick-ah-brack-ah-firecracker sis-boom-bah! Bomb Tehran bomb Tehran rah-rah-rah!
Nothing says warmongering madness like a CNN report that lacks vital relevant facts. Iranians pulled the murder of U.S. service personnel in Karbala and you can just ask the CNN brainiacs that got their “story� from the U.S. military. Right! No reason to doubt that report. Nope, [...]

Antiwar.com, CA
by Paul Craig Roberts
President George W. Bush’s invasion of Iraq is the greatest crime of the 21st century.
Armed with a powerful moral case against Bush, whose lies are responsible for a war that has caused thousands of U.S. casualties and killed vast numbers of Iraqi civilians, Democratic leaders are damning Bush’s war because it [...]

Swissinfo, Switzerland
By Susan Cornwell
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Congress has the power to end the war in Iraq, a former Bush administration attorney and other high-powered legal experts told a Senate hearing on Tuesday.
Facing mounting opposition over his Iraq troop increase plan, President George W. Bush insisted it would be “too extreme” if lawmakers pass [...]

The Reporter: Read Feingold’s opening statement 01/30/07
Text of U.S. Sen. Russ Feingold’s opening remarks this morning to the Senate Judiciary Committee
For The Reporter
The following is the text of U.S. Sen. Russ Feingold’s opening remarks this morning to the Senate Judiciary Committee:
Good morning, and welcome to this hearing of the Senate Judiciary Committee entitled “Exercising Congress’s [...]

CounterPunch, CA
By DAVE LINDORFF
The largely unstated word at the massive anti-war demonstration and march in Washington on Saturday was “impeachment.” Not that it wasn’t on demonstrators’ lips and signs, but it wasn’t coming from the podium.
The march, organized by United for Peace and Justice, was instead deliberately focused narrowly on the issue of ending the [...]