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  • Piranha In The Fish Tank
    11 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Wayne Besen
    Religion and politics used to be two issues polite company did not discuss at the dinner table. But as the ill-mannered Neo-Puritan Right belches and bellows victoriously over their bread, it is clear that they have changed the rules of American civility in the most unappetizing ways. A Crucifix now dangerously adorns the body politic and threatens to crucify anyone who doesn’t pander to the pious.
    At its best, religion is a deeply personal tool to build a better life, (…)

  • Yasser Arafat "Abu Ammar" dead at 75
    11 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Yasser Arafat, who triumphantly forced his people’s plight into the world spotlight but failed to achieve his lifelong quest for Palestinian statehood, died Thursday at age 75.
    He was, to the end, a man of many mysteries and paradoxes - terrorist, statesman, autocrat and peacemaker.
    Palestinian Cabinet minister Saeb Erekat confirmed to The Associated Press that Arafat had died. The Palestinian leader spent his final days in a coma at a French military hospital outside Paris.
    Tayeb (…)

  • We, the people demand the impeachment of George W Bush
    10 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    "Bush can run, but he cannot hide from the Constitution" "The election does not pardon the President for past, or future "high Crimes and Misdemeanors."
    Impeachment is not a partisan political issue. The House of Representatives, possessed of the "sole power of impeachment," is required to consider a bill of impeachment on the facts even if every Member were of the same party, or political persuasion, as the President. The seven specific provisions of the Constitution setting forth the (…)

  • Yasser Arafat : a Man and his People
    9 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Uri Avnery
    Wherever he may be buried when he passes away, the day will come when his remains will be reinterred by a free Palestinian government in the holy shrines in Jerusalem.
    Yasser Arafat is one of the generation of great leaders who arose after World War II.
    The stature of a leader is not simply determined by the size of his achievements, but also by the size of the obstacles he had to overcome. In this respect, Arafat has no competitor in the world: no leader of our (…)

  • Rare Sight of Jewish-Muslim Harmony Outside Arafat Hospital
    8 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    At a solemn vigil outside the hospital treating Yasser Arafat, a remarkable, poignant moment of peace: A Jewish rabbi and a Muslim prayer leader shaking hands and extending hopes for the Palestinian leader’s recovery.
    Rabbi Moishe Arye Friedmann travelled from Vienna to show his support, while Kamel Titouhi came from a local mosque where he had led prayers for Arafat’s recovery.
    The two men met at what has become a small shrine to Arafat beside the main gate of the modern military (…)

  • Bush Vs. Bin Laden: The propaganda war
    7 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Bush Vs. Bin Laden: The propaganda war
    by: An American citizen soon to be arrested for thought crimes.
    Like Bin Laden, Bush has been highly effective in winning the hearts and minds of the people. OBL has used the same strategy and techniques that were taught to him by the CIA. Why is it working for Osama and not Bush?
    Bush has not been able to control the media as well as Osama, even though most of the corporate US media has been complicit in helping to hide the realities of the war (…)

  • Palestine or Money ?
    5 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    October 31, 2004 _ (The Times)
    Fading Arafat fights to keep hold of $1billion war chest Uzi Mahnaimi, Ramallah and Matthew Campbell, Paris
    IN THE END it came down to money. While fighting for his life in a French military hospital, Yasser Arafat, the Palestinian leader, was engaged in another, secret battle last week as he tried to keep control of bank accounts that are central to his survival in power.
    Arafat’s godfather-like sway over his people derives less these days from his (…)

  • Election Reactions from Germany : "Our Values Systems are Separating"
    4 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    George Bush has been re-elected. Leading German foreign policy experts tell SPIEGEL INTERNATIONAL what the outcome means for transatlantic relations.
    Even before Kerry’s Wednesday concession, politicians and thinkers in Germany were at work strategizing the future of foreign relations with the world’s only superpower.
    A number of serious issues divide Germany and the United States — from the go-it-alone attitude of incumbent President George W. Bush to the Iraq war to Washington’s (…)

  • American Board of Rabbis blasts France over Arafat
    3 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Big News Network
    In an unprecedented and extraordinary attack on France, the American Board of Rabbis has demanded a worldwide ban on French products.
    The New York-based association which promotes Jewish unity abroad voted unanimously to call on Jewish people around the world to boycott everything French: goods, services, and even the language.
    The board is outraged at France’s providing hospital treatment for Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, who it describes as a ’master (…)

  • Why we are still backing Arafat
    3 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    Palestinians value their democracy and won’t accept a pliant successor
    by Karma Nabulsi
    Why has Yasser Arafat not "groomed" a successor (like some petty oriental despot), commentators have demanded to know in recent days, and why he is leaving a chaotic power-vacuum? What has been striking about these questions is not so much their wilful ignorance of the Palestinian reality, but the underlying assumptions they reflect.
    The first is that the ailing Palestinian leader is now either (…)