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  • WHY BUSH INVADED IRAQ
    6 February 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Why Bush Invaded Iraq
    By Peter Fredson
    February 6, 2007
    Let me see if I got it right. Bush is away on a long vacation when teams of Muslims, most of them from Saudi Arabia, crash 3 planes into government installations, another falls into a field, but none were intercepted despite considerable intelligence that this might happen. So Bush and Cheney get into planes, and scoot into bunkers. Later they make speeches while letting their Saudi Arabian oil partners fly out of possible (…)

  • ‘Quartet’ Corners PLO, Hamas into Critical Options
    6 February 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    http://www.aljazeera.com/me.asp?service_ID=13134
    By Nicola Nasser*
    In Washington on February 2, the Middle East Quartet of peace mediators promised the Palestinian people more of the same devastating status quo, perpetuating their 40-year old Israeli occupation, prolonging the international siege imposed on them, exacerbating their internal divide, and thus cornering them into a situation that they can only shake off either through civil war or unconditional surrender to the U.S.-backed (…)

  • Iran — the gathering storm
    5 February 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Farooq Hameed Khan*
    -The massive US military build-up underway in the Gulf is strikingly similar to the ones before the invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan. The second US aircraft carrier battle group is enroute to the Gulf and a Patriot anti-missile battery has already been deployed. The US has also transferred deep penetration bunker buster bombs to Israel under cover of the Lebanon war. -Any joint US and Israeli pre-emptive strikes with precision munitions from F (…)

  • About 1,000 killed last week in Iraq
    5 February 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    About 1,000 people were killed throughout Iraq in the
    past week due to surging violent attacks, according to an estimate by
    the Iraqi Interior Ministry.
    The figure includes members of militia and terrorist groups,
    civilians and Iraqi security forces, media reports quoted a ministry
    official as saying on Sunday.
    The statistics came just one day after one of the deadliest single
    bomb attack in central Baghdad that killed at least 130 people and
    wounded some 305.
    The (…)

  • Israel’s Kafkaesque "Matrix of Control"
    3 February 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Stephen Lendman
    Finding an equitable solution to the intractable, festering decades-long Israeli-Palestinian conflict is the Gordian Knot that must be cut to achieve peace overall in the Middle East. Today, no solution is in sight nor are any serious efforts planned to find one despite occasional rhetoric to the contrary like what’s now being heard from Washington with similar disingenuous echos inside Israel.
    Palestinians know otherwise from long experience. They’ve heard this (…)

  • The Media Cover-up of the Najaf Massacre
    2 February 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    Mike Whitney – uruknet.info January 31, 2007
    So far, there are 2 things that we can say with certainty about the massacre of the 250 Iraqis outside Najaf on Monday. First, we know that there is no substantiating evidence to support the official version of events. And, second, we know that every media outlet in the United States slavishly provided the government’s version to their readers without fact-checking or providing eyewitness testimony.
    This proves that those who argue that (…)

  • U.S. gets more aggressive with Iran
    2 February 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    U.S. gets more aggressive with Iran Jim Krane and Robert H. Reid – Associated Press via Liberty Forum Feb 1, 2007
    Citing Iranian involvement with Iraqi militias and Iran’s nuclear ambitions, the Bush administration has shifted to offense in its confrontation with Iran – building up the U.S. military in the Persian Gulf and promising more aggressive moves against Iranian operatives in Iraq and Lebanon.
    The behind-the-scenes struggle could explode into open warfare over a single misstep, (…)

  • Najaf battle sign of Iraq’s chaos and clash of loyalties
    1 February 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Abdulhussein Gazal
    Azzaman, January 31, 2007
    Truth is perhaps the main victim of Iraqi atrocities which exacerbated following the U.S.-led invasion itself based on lies and allegations.
    And as the dust settles over the battle of Najaf last Sunday, it emerges that the official story had no grain of truth.
    Iraqi officials said 263 members of a little known group they identified as the Soldiers of Heaven were killed. They and U.S. officials who sent in helicopter gun ships and tanks (…)

  • Everything Old is New Again: Our generation’s Gulf of Tonkin is about to drag us further into endles
    31 January 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Everything Old is New Again: Our generation’s Gulf of Tonkin is about to drag us further into endless war
    Synopsis—US writer Daniel Patrick Welch reports on the war fever now being whipped up for an attack on Iran, and fears unimaginable consequences if the war is not stopped—if it is not already too late.
    from http://danielpwelch.com translations pending—visit website to volunteer
    I’m putting my mother into bed and the high-pitched urgency of MSNBC’s ’this just in’ crisis (…)

  • Dr. Makdisi Urges a One State Solution for Palestinians
    31 January 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    “They [the Israeli Zionists] are imposing a system...of Apartheid on the Muslim and Christian citizens of the Occupied Territories.” - Ex-President Jimmy Carter (1)
    Washington, D.C. “I think it is long past the time for the Palestinians to...[abandon] the Israelis’ ‘Master Narrative,’ [a two state solution under Israeli domination], and in a unified voice present to the world their “own narrative” for a one state solution, said Dr. Saree Makdisi, a distinguished author, U. of California (…)