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  • Kathy Kelly to James Baker: “Tell the Truth about Iraq!”
    23 November 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    “Mankind must put an end to war before war puts an end to mankind.” - John F. Kennedy
    Catonsville, Maryland - On the evening of Nov. 20, 2006, peace activist, Kathy Kelly, gave a talk at the U. of Maryland’s Baltimore County campus (UMBC). It was entitled, “Eyewitness to War, Witness for Peace.” She said: “It’s a heck of a lot more ‘comfortable’ to take the party line of former Secretary of State, James Baker. He went for four days into the ‘Green Zone’-[a heavily-guarded, fortified (…)

  • Is a damaged Administration less likely to attack Iran, or more?
    21 November 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    by SEYMOUR M. HERSH
    A month before the November elections, Vice-President Dick Cheney was sitting in on a national-security discussion at the Executive Office Building. The talk took a political turn: what if the Democrats won both the Senate and the House? How would that affect policy toward Iran, which is believed to be on the verge of becoming a nuclear power? At that point, according to someone familiar with the discussion, Cheney began reminiscing about his job as a lineman, in the (…)

  • Palestinian human shields give Israel pause
    21 November 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Joshua Mitnick
    TEL AVIV - In perhaps the most effective act of nonviolent protest in the six-year Palestinian uprising, hundreds of Gazans forced Israel over the weekend to call off airstrikes on the residence of a militant leader by swarming the house as human shields.
    In recent months, Israeli security forces have used telephone calls to warn Palestinian militants and others near alleged militant safe houses and weapons caches, giving them up to a half hour to evacuate. When militia (…)

  • Unmasking the Second Palestinian Intifada
    20 November 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Remi Kanazi
    Over the last five years, the Palestinian people have faced a host of obstacles in their fight for sovereignty, preventing them the opportunity to create a life those in the Western world brag about. A principal impediment facing the Palestinian struggle today is the constant reaffirmation that the Palestinian people-deemed by Israel and the US-are “terrorists,” “militants,” or animalistic beings lesser than those of the “civilized world.” In Ramzy Baroud’s new book, The (…)

  • WOMEN IN BLACK-LOS ANGELES: Dear members of the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra
    20 November 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Dear members of the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra,
    It is with great respect for classical music in general, and for the music of the Israel Philharmonic in particular that we, members of Women in Black, Los Angeles are writing you this letter. Some of us are Israelis now living in the US. We grew up attending concerts of the orchestra, and remember the experience with so much joy. We have the deepest appreciation for artists, musicians in this instance, and see (…)

  • IDF calls off strike after hundreds shield Gaza militant’s house
    19 November 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Nir Hasson, Aluf Ben and Avi Issacharoff, Haaretz Correspondents, Haaretz Service and Reuters
    The Israel Defense Forces canceled a planned air raid on the home of a militant in the northern Gaza Strip on Sunday after several hundred Palestinians barricaded themselves inside the building, an IDF spokesman and witnesses said.
    Palestinian sources called the protest the first of its kind to have in effect prevented an air strike by the IAF. An IDF spokesman said the strike had been called (…)

  • To the Victors Belongs Impunity
    17 November 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Of Incorrigible Transgressors, Tacit Complicity, and Lady Justice’s Conspicuous Absence
    By Jason Miller
    “The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer.”
    Henry Kissinger, New York Times, October 28, 1973
    Baghdad’s kangaroo court has issued a verdict that virtually guarantees that Saddam Hussein will launch his journey into the hereafter from the platform of a gallows. Convicted of “revenge killings of 148 people, deportation of 400, and razing of (…)

  • The Price of Imperial Arrogance
    16 November 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The Price of Imperial Arrogance - by Stephen Lendman
    Lyndon Johnson was a conflicted man about Vietnam almost from the time he took office. As early as May, 1964, he confessed his doubts about the conflict to his good friend Senator Richard Russell in one of the many phone calls he taped in the Oval Office. That was three months before the fateful Gulf of Tonkin Resolution gave him congressional authorization for military action in Southeast Asia without needing a formal declaration of (…)

  • Preparing for the next invasion
    15 November 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Amira Hass
    The management of the Beit Hanun hospital decided to dig a well in the hospital’s yard. By Saturday, laborers and bulldozers were already on the job. That is how the hospital is readying itself for the next invasion by the Israeli army.
    The hospital, like the rest of Beit Hanun, has faced serious water supply difficulties due to the week-long military assault on the city and its 43,000 inhabitants. On the third night of the invasion, the army removed about 300 people from (…)

  • Listen to Maj. Gen. Stern
    13 November 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Gideon Levy
    A bloodbath is taking place in Beit Hanun, the Israel Defense Forces runs rampant and kills at least 37 people in four days - and Israeli public opinion yawns with indifference. A brigade commander tells his soldiers, who killed 12 people in one day: "You’ve won 12:0," and the soldiers grin broadly. This is the moral nadir we have reached, following a long slide down a slippery slope: Human life has become cheap.
    Proof of this came at the end of the week from the big mouth (…)