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  • Congressman Kucinich first US Official to Tour Damage in Southern Lebanon
    2 September 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    CLEVELAND (September 1) Congressman Dennis Kucinich, ranking member on the Subcommittee on National Security, Emerging Threats and International Relations, and his wife Elizabeth have just returned from a personal peace-building initiative in the Middle East. Their mission included war-torn Lebanon, where they met separately and at length with Lebanon Prime Minister Fouad Siniora, President Emile LaHoud, General Michel Aoun, former Prime Minister and now leader of the Progressive Patriotic (…)

  • Basra Oil Workers Strike Could Resume Sunday
    2 September 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Kathlyn Stone
    Oil pipeline workers in Basra, Iraq, will resume their strike as early as Sunday if authorities do not meet the remaining demands of workers, the Federation of Workers’ Councils and Unions in Iraq said Thursday.
    About 500 oil and gas workers went on strike for 48 hours beginning Aug. 22 for higher pay, overtime, timely pay and ambulances at the work site.
    The oil ministry agreed to raise the salaries of workers, which average about $200 a month, but did not commit (…)

  • JERUSALEM : Holy Land churches condemn Christian Zionism
    2 September 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Matthew Tostevin
    09/01/06 --- -JERUSALEM (Reuters) - The Vatican’s envoy in the Holy Land and bishops from three other churches have launched a rare joint attack on the Christian Zionist movement, accusing it of promoting "racial exclusivity and perpetual war."
    Christian Zionists form a growing part of the pro-Israel lobby in the United States, the Jewish state’s main ally. They believe the return of Jews to the Holy Land and establishment of Israel are proof of God’s promises to (…)

  • "The Jerusalem Declaration On Christian Zionism"
    2 September 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    "The Jerusalem Declaration On Christian Zionism"
    Statement by the Patriarch and Local Heads of Churches In Jerusalem
    08/25/06
    Christian Zionism is a modern theological and political movement that embraces the most extreme ideological positions of Zionism, thereby becoming detrimental to a just peace within Palestine and Israel. The Christian Zionist programme provides a worldview where the Gospel is identified with the ideology of empire, colonialism and militarism. In its extreme (…)

  • Their view of the world is through a bombsight
    2 September 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    American support for Israel’s unwinnable aim of destroying Hizbullah only boosts its support in Lebanon and beyond
    by Noam Chomsky
    In Lebanon, a little-honoured truce remains in effect - yet another in a decades-long series of ceasefires between Israel and its adversaries in a cycle that, as if inevitably, returns to warfare, carnage and human misery. Let’s describe the current crisis for what it is: a US-Israeli invasion of Lebanon, with only a cynical pretence to legitimacy. Amid all (…)

  • Brits Abandon Major Southern Iraq Base
    1 September 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    by M.J. Akbar
    WASHINGTON — On Friday, Aug. 25, the Washington Post published a startling story from its Baghdad bureau. I can do no better than to quote its opening paragraph: "British troops abandoned a major base in southern Iraq on Thursday and prepared to wage guerrilla warfare along the Iranian border to combat weapons smuggling, a move that anti-American cleric Moqtada Sadr called the first expulsion of US-led coalition forces from an Iraqi urban center. ’This is the first Iraqi city (…)

  • A Little Reminder To Secy. Rumsfeld From The Memory Hole
    1 September 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    A Little Reminder To Secy. Rumsfeld From The Memory Hole By Southern Beale 08/30/2006 01:06:40 PM CST This week Defense Secy. Rumsfeld compared critics of the Iraq war to Nazi appeasers prior to WWII. He said we have not "learned the lessons of history." A yes, history. Such a funny thing:
    Rumsfeld’s handshake deal with Saddam is indeed a history lesson more Americans need to remember.
    Oh, and by the way: a message to President Bush, Karl Rove, and the rest of the Republicans who are (…)

  • An Exit Strategy For Iraq
    1 September 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    An Exit Strategy For Iraq By The Veteran Voice 08/31/2006 07:39:05 PM CST One of my veteran buddies, U.S. Attorney Bob Coleman has proposed an exit strategy for Iraq that I personally wish I had thought of myself. But jealousy aside, I do think it is one worth considering. Bob, a Korean War Air Force vet, proposes that the United Nations send an peace-keeping force to Iraq composed of armed forces from moderate Islamic nations such as Turkey, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emerates, Jordan (…)

  • Hezbollah Denounces Evrensel Interview of Nasrallah as a Fake
    1 September 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The Interview That Wasn’t
    By ALEXANDER COCKBURN
    Hussain Rahhal, Hezbollah’s press liaison, has issued a written statement:
    "Our secretary general Nasrallah has not given any interviews to any Turkish or other non-Lebanese journalist during the month of August. In the face of this imaginary interview that is untruthful, and hence does damage to journalism, credibility and objectivity, Hezbollah reserves its right to take legal action against those who have published it."
    This is in (…)

  • Israel Lobby Takes a Few Hard Hits
    1 September 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    President George W. Bush’s reply to a reporter’s question about whether Iraq had anything to do with 9/11: "Nothing!"
    Washington, D.C. - On two consecutive days this week, the Israel Lobby, aka “The Lobby,” took direct hits from opponents. On Monday, Aug. 28, 2006, two distinguished scholars, authors of the “Harvard Study,” Professors John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt, showed up at the National Press Club, near the White House. (1) The Professors, who are both Jewish, ably demonstrated (…)