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  • Doing the Wrong Thing in Afghanistan. Depleted Uranium: The Definitive Moral Paradox
    30 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Michael Clarke
    It is Canada Day evening, and I can barely hear the whistles, booms and bangs of the fireworks. It sounds a bit like distant bombs exploding, reminding me of the incredible moral paradox our federal government’s aggressive military role in Afghanistan has created for all Canadians. Our government, military, newspapers, television and radio media are efficiently dispersing the official sound bytes: "our troops in Afghanistan have the moral authority"; "Canada is doing the (…)

  • In Lebanon, France Converging to Pre-mandate Policy
    30 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Nicola Nasser* In a pattern that reminds of the 1916 Sykes-Picot Agreement (1), France seems converging to a role that belongs to its previous colonial era in Lebanon and Syria, in harmony with, but under the regional hegemony of the United States’ involvement in other countries of the Arab Levant, in a stark departure from Charles de Gaulle’s post-Algeria legacy. Gone are the days when Paris was briefly perceived early in 2003 as if it was in the shoes of the former Soviet Union as a (…)

  • Snap Judgments. About That Nasrallah Interview
    30 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    By ALEXANDER COCKBURN
    On August 17 we published a very interesting interview with Sayyid Hassan Nasrallah, the leader of Hezbollah. A CounterPunch reader had found it on the Marxmail list, moderated by Louis Proyect, and passed it along to us. The interview was translated from Turkish, in which language it had appeared in the Turkish socialist daily, Evrensel, on August 12 and 13. We didn’t publish the full interview, which had some sections on the war that had been somewhat overtaken by (…)

  • THE MAN MADE FLASH FLOOD OF SURAT- GUJARAT- India
    30 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Handling of KATRINA in U.S. has become the model for the ruling class in India.The developments minus human face in the socalled golden age! of Globalisation and liberisation has brought miseries after miseries of the people and opening the gate of all out privatisation of service sectors. The recent man made flood in Surat of Gujarat of India can be an eye opener.
    THE MAN MADE FLASH FLOOD OF SURAT- GUJARAT
    The danger of second flood is lurking. First it was the district of (…)

  • Bush says Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11: Tell that to the Troops
    30 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Bush says Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11: Tell that to the Troops
    Feb 2006:
    85% of troops say the U.S. mission
    is mainly to retaliate for Saddam’s role in 9-11
    Aug 2006:
    Bush says Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11.
    Get this video to all men and women in the military!
    More on what the troops think:
    An overwhelming majority of 72% of American troops serving in Iraq think the U.S. should exit the country within the next year, and more than one in four say the troops should (…)

  • Can you really not see?
    30 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Can you really not see?
    By Amira Hass
    Let us leave aside those Israelis whose ideology supports the dispossession of the Palestinian people because "God chose us." Leave aside the judges who whitewash every military policy of killing and destruction. Leave aside the military commanders who knowingly jail an entire nation in pens surrounded by walls, fortified observation towers, machine guns, barbed wire and blinding projectors. Leave aside the ministers. All of these are not counted (…)

  • Iran TV debate challenge to Bush
    29 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Iran’s president has challenged US President George W Bush to a live TV debate on world affairs.
    Mahmoud Ahmadinejad accused the US and UK of abusing their "special privileges" and said a debate would let both sides air their views uncensored.
    The White House called his suggestion a "diversion" from global concerns over Iran’s nuclear programme.
    Mr Ahmadinejad was speaking two days before a UN deadline for Iran to halt work on its nuclear programme.
    He said Tehran had proposed a (…)

  • Annan asks Israel to end Lebanon blockade
    29 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Annan asks Israel to end Lebanon blockade
    BEIRUT (BBC) - United Nations chief Kofi Annan has called on Israel to lift its blockade of Lebanon and urged Hezbollah to free two captured Israeli soldiers.
    Speaking after talks in Beirut, he said he was working for an immediate end to the sea and air blockade and the troops should be handed over to the Red Cross.
    Mr. Annan is on a regional tour to try to prop up the two-week-old ceasefire.
    The secretary general said the truce had (…)

  • Police: Evidence could lead to indictment against Katsav
    29 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Police: Evidence could lead to indictment against Katsav
    Last update - 11:52 29/08/2006 By Jonathan Lis and Yuval Yoaz
    Police sources say the evidence collected so far against President Moshe Katsav could lead to the recommendation of an indictment. He stands accused of raping a former employee, A.
    "An indictment may be prepared," said a source close to the team investigating the president on suspicion of sexual offenses.
    This statement is based on current evidence and the belief (…)

  • Hi-Res version of Alex Jones’ latest Movie "Terror Storm"
    29 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Hi-Res version of Alex Jones’ latest Movie "Terror Storm"
    http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5792753647750188322&q=terror+storm