(San Francisco) – Israel, a nuclear weapons armed colossus in the Middle East, fights a lot of wars with two small, almost defenseless neighboring countries – Lebanon and Gaza. The 2006 War with Lebanon took a turn for the worse, though.
Israel executed an emergency purchase for 100 plus US GBU-28 5,000 lb, or 2,722 kg, weaponized uranium aerosol bombs from their patron, the United States.
The GBU-28 is a cobbled together weapon consisting of an approximately 20 ft long surplus (...)
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Did the Israeli Defense Force Bomb Jews?
30 August 2010 par (Open-Publishing)
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TOO EARLY TO WRITE-OFF THE NEW ISRAEL-PALESTINE TALKS – AN ANSWER TO JOURNALIST ALUF BENN’S EMPTY WORDS
28 August 2010 par (Open-Publishing)
John Chuckman
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/its-too-early-to-write-off-direct-israeli-palestinian-talks/article1688191/
Too early to write-off direct talks?
Please.
Representatives for these "direct talks" on the Palestinian side in a sense do not even exist: Abbas’s election mandate timed out a year ago, and he stays in office under emergency measures – i..e,, he has absolutely no democratic legitimacy.
But even poor Abbas, a kind of Palestinian "step’n’fetch it" (...) -
US robot drones bomb flood-devastated Pakistan - Sanctions & Boycotts must stop UK & US state terrorism
15 August 2010 par (Open-Publishing)
Today is August 15, Indian Independence Day, the anniversary of British departure from India and Pakistan and the cessation of a 2-century Indian Holocaust that killed 1.8 billion Indians through dire deprivation. Pakistan abandoned its Independence Day (14 August) celebrations because of the floods disaster but the US has continued its cowardly robot drone bombing attacks on defenceless Pakistani villages.
It was reported today, India Independence Day, that the Pakistani Prime Minister (...) -
If Opium Funds Terrorism then Arrest the Queen of England
10 August 2010 par (Open-Publishing)
If Opium Funds Terrorism then Arrest the Queen of England
Sep 8th, 2009 | By Keelan Balderson
A lot of recent headlines in the mainstream press have discussed the vast amount of poppy fields in Afghanistan that are under Taliban control. The assertion is that these fields which produce ingredients used in opium and heroin production are being cultivated by the Taliban to fund their various terrorist operations.[1]
It is a fact that Afghanistan had a 95% monopoly over the world’s (...) -
NZ Aid cuts sending wrong message to Pacific - Amnesty International
10 August 2010 par (Open-Publishing)
Posted at 03:54 on 09 August, 2010 UTC
Amnesty International says New Zealand’s new aid policy is sending the wrong message to the Pacific.
The group’s Pacific researcher Apolosi Bose says the Vanuatu Women’s Centre is one NGO facing difficulties under New Zealand’s change of direction.
The centre says without the 100 thousand US dollars in annual assistance, the organisation will have to shut its doors in Luganville.
“Wrong messages are being sent to the Pacific internationally, (...) -
The Gaza Prison
9 August 2010 par (Open-Publishing)
By Chris Patten Published on August 8, 2010
IT IS easier to enter a maximum-security prison than it is to enter the strip of land – 45 kilometres long and maybe eight wide – that is home to Gaza’s 1.5 million Palestinians. Surrounded by a forbidding wall, watchtowers, and deadly buffer zones, I entered with a hard-to-obtain visa at the Erez crossing – iron gates, an interrogation by bored young immigration officers and scanners. On the other side is a kilometre-long caged walkway that (...) -
The Impossible Dream Erdogan
8 August 2010 par (Open-Publishing)
1 commentSo far Turkey has lived polarized between secular nationalism, typical of more developed urban areas, and traditional Islam which has sheltered the most disadvantaged rural population. and the purpose of reshaping the modern Turkey, Erdogan, new "father of the fatherland" (Atatürk), trying to bring Islam, nationalism and Europeanism with their entry into the EU.
The ruling Justice and Development (Adalet Partisi, or AKP sees Kalkınma), often called in Turkey Ak Parti, "and that his (...) -
Pakistan Hit By Worst Flood In 80 Years
6 August 2010 par (Open-Publishing)
Reports out of Pakistan now indicate that about 1,500 people have lost their lives and tens of thousands have been left homeless. This years monsoon, which began July 28, is said to have affected 3.2
million people in northwest Pakistan. The most urgent need is clean drinking water followed by food, shelter and sanitation and medicines. Homes, bridges, roads and agricultural land has been swept away
leaving scores of families with no homes or livelihood.
The potential for disease (...) -
Dangerous Illusions
5 August 2010 par (Open-Publishing)
Dangerous Illusions
by James Zogby (Monday, August 2, 2010)
"That another war will create peace; that more arms that only provoke your dangerous better-armed and unrestrained neighbor will make you secure; that bad policy made under the duress of domestic politics will produce anything other than bad results - these are the dangerous illusions under which all have been laboring for decades, and apparently still are."
After a century in which tragedy has been heaped upon tragedy (...) -
British Judge: "Israel is Nazi regime"
3 August 2010 par (Open-Publishing)
1 commentBritish Judge: "Israel is Nazi regime"
Judge faces anti-Semitism probe after speech attacking Israel helps free arms factory protesters
By STEVE DOUGHTY, SOCIAL AFFAIRS CORRESPONDENT
Remarks: Judge Bathurst-Norman is being investigated after summing up in a trial which led to protesters being acquitted
A senior judge was under investigation yesterday after being accused of making anti-Semitic remarks in court that may have swayed his jury into acquitting a group of protesters. (...)