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  • Layla Anwar, An Arab Woman Blues - Reflections in a sealed bottle... (URUKNET)
    16 June 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    /- A Red Line -/- Layla Anwar, An Arab Woman Blues - Reflections in a sealed bottle...
    Saturday, June 16, 2007
    Never had I fathomed, not even in my remotest imagination, that a day will come when God’s houses will be attacked and destroyed. The way they are today, in Iraq...Never.
    This was and remains the most unthinkable, unacceptable act to me and to countless others... This Red Line is now crossed...Crossed, transgressed, trespassed into blasphemy...
    In fact, this Red Line was (…)

  • IRAQ : Iraqis on the hunt for security contractors
    16 June 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    Iraqis on the hunt for security contractors truth-about-iraqis
    June 16, 2007
    We start today with a news quote:
    According to Victoria Wayne, who served at the Reconstruction Logistics Directorate of the Corps of Engineers in Iraq, the military wanted to hide information showing that private guards were fighting and dying in large numbers because it would be perceived as bad news, the paper said.
    "Wanted to hide information ..."
    Is that new to any of us Iraqi patriots? For years, in (…)

  • Laboratory rats: Palestinians of Gaza and our contemporary Josef Mengeles. Agustin Velloso (URUKNET
    16 June 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

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    Laboratory rats: Palestinians of Gaza and our contemporary Josef Mengeles. Agustin Velloso
    Madrid - Spain - June 16, 2007
    Faced with the fear that things may get even worse, one must not lose sight of the causes of the events in Gaza, their connection with the situation in Lebanon and Iraq and above all the lies the media use to defend the interests of the West and Israel at the expense of the Palestinians.
    An editorial of (…)

  • US and Israel Stir Up Palestinian Crisis (COMMONDREAMS)
    16 June 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    Published on Friday, June 15, 2007 by CommonDreams.org
    US and Israel Stir Up Palestinian Crisis
    by Ira Chernus
    It’s so obvious that Fatah and Hamas should work together to achieve an independent Palestine. Not long ago, they were proclaiming their unity. So why are they now destroying each other? If you get your news from the mainstream U.S. media, you might well think that they are just two irrational factions, driven crazy by lust for power.
    But if you know how to read between the (…)

  • The Threat to al-Jazeera by George GALLOWAY (THE GUARDIAN)
    16 June 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    Published on Friday, June 15, 2007 by The Guardian/UK
    The Threat to al-Jazeera
    by George Galloway
    Since its launch just over a decade ago, the al-Jazeera satellite TV station has transformed the politics of the Middle East. For the first time, people in the region had access to a genuinely free and independent source of news and comment that was neither under the control of dictatorial regimes nor western states or corporations. Under its slogan of “The opinion … and the other (…)

  • Bush Pushes Iraq Oil Law for ExxonMobil by Matthew Rothschild (The Progressive)
    16 June 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    Published on Thursday, June 14, 2007 by The Progressive
    Bush Pushes Iraq Oil Law for ExxonMobil
    by Matthew Rothschild
    With Iraq going to hell, and the al-Maliki government failing to meet one benchmark after another, Bush is getting desperate.
    On Sunday, he sent Admiral Fallon, the chief U.S. commander in the Mideast, to lean on Prime Minister al-Maliki.
    On Tuesday, John Negroponte, former U.S. ambassador to Iraq and the UN, flew to Baghdad to lean on al-Maliki.
    And what were (…)

  • The New Slavery
    16 June 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    Recently Chinese officials have raided Hongtong Shanxi an area of Northern China and rescued almost 500 workers from slavery type conditions. The workers were forced to work in brick kilns, iron mines and coalmines. Some 29 of the workers were children and some were mentally disabled.
    Of course the easy thing to do here in fat and happy America is to look down our nose at the Chinese. That’s the most wonderful aspect of outsourcing the corporate capitalist has the ability to bring about (…)

  • US-IRAN: New War Rhetoric Undercuts Iraq Talks (IPS)
    15 June 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    Inter Press Service News Agency Friday, June 15, 2007 19:16 GMT
    US-IRAN: New War Rhetoric Undercuts Iraq Talks
    Analysis by Trita Parsi*
    WASHINGTON, Jun 12 (IPS) - U.S. Senator Joseph Lieberman’s call for cross-border raids into Iran appears to be the culmination of a two-week long campaign by proponents of war to put the military option centre-stage in the U.S. debate over Iran once more. The immediate effect of reigniting the let’s-bomb-Iran discussions is the undercutting of the (…)

  • An Orthodox American Jew fund a campaign against the demolition of Palestinian homes
    12 June 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    Tovah Lazaroff, THE JERUSALEM POST Jun. 12, 2007
    An Orthodox American Jew has donated $1.5 million to fund a campaign against the demolition of Palestinian and Beduin homes throughout Israel and the territories, the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions announced on Monday.
    The committee plans to use those funds to rebuild as many as 300 Palestinians homes it expects to be demolished this year either by the Interior Ministry, the Jerusalem Municipality or the Civil Administration. (…)

  • Putin’s Censored Press Conference The transcript you weren’t supposed to see By Mike Whitney
    12 June 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    Putin’s Censored Press Conference The transcript you weren’t supposed to see
    By Mike Whitney
    Global Research, June 11, 2007
    On Tuesday, Russian President Vladimir Putin gave an hour and a half-long press conference which was attended by many members of the world media. The contents of that meeting---in which Putin answered all questions concerning nuclear proliferation, human rights, Kosovo, democracy and the present confrontation with the United States over missile defense in (…)