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  • The most entrancing of them all is the almond-tree
    22 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    August 17th, 2006
    Have you ever taken the time to listen to a tree, once in your life?
    You have to be fine of hearing, because such beings do not speak loudly. It’s all in the wind. The leaves are moving, then the branches, and it even happens that the entire tree is swaying. And after the passing of the wind, there comes the sun. Leaves that filter the sunlight. Shadows that are cast and shadows that are not. Greens that play with blues and browns. It is the dance of the (…)

  • Bush Loses Lebanon at the Roulette Table
    22 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Bush Loses Lebanon at the Roulette Table by Ahmed Amr
    Sunday August 20, 2006
    On the Arab Street, the United States is getting a well-deserved share of vilification for promoting the orgy of violence that has already claimed the lives of over a thousand Lebanese civilians. That figure might be no more than a statistic in America. But, due to extensive live coverage on satellite TV, millions of Arabs now have the ability to attend the funerals of many of the victims. Every casualty is (…)

  • Caught in a Net of Delusion. After Lebanon, Israel is Looking for More Wars
    22 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    By JONATHAN COOK Nazareth.
    Late last month, a fortnight into Israel’s war against Lebanon, the Hebrew media published a story that passed observers by. Scientists in Haifa, according to the report, have developed a “missile-trapping” steel net that can shield buildings from rocket attacks. The Israeli government, it claimed , would be able to use the net to protect vital infrastructure — oil refineries, hospitals, military installations, and public offices — while private citizens could (…)

  • In the face of Bush’s lies, it’s left to Assad to tell the truth
    22 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    de Robert Fisk
    In the sparse Baathist drawing rooms of Damascus, reality often seems a long way away. But it was a sign of the times that President Bashar al-Assad was able to bring the great and the good of Damascus to their feet by the simple token of telling the truth - which no other Arab leader has chosen to do these past five weeks: that the Lebanese Hizbollah guerrilla army has, in effect, won this round of their war with Israel.
    There was plenty of hyperbole in the Assad speech. (…)

  • Chavez launches fundraising drive for Lebanon, Palestinians
    21 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    By The Associated Press
    President Hugo Chavez said Venezuela is carrying out a nationwide fundraising drive to raise money for rebuilding Lebanon and for the Palestinian people.
    Chavez called the Lebanese and Palestinians "heroic people" and reiterated his criticisms of Israel over its military offensive in Lebanon.
    "I ask everyone in the country to give what we can for this fundraising campaign for the reconstruction of Lebanon - destroyed by the genocidal and fascist hand of Israel, (…)

  • A Timeline of the Bush Administration’s Road to War in Iraq
    21 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    The road that led to the U.S. invasion of Iraq in March 2003 may be conceptualized in the form of two parallel timelines. One timeline involves documentation of the Bush administration’s determination and plans for war, interspersed with concurrent public pronouncements that it was primarily seeking a peaceful solution to its conflict with Iraq.
    The other timeline (actually, a series of timelines by subject area) involves the Bush administration’s accumulation of “evidence” of the need (…)

  • Reservists: Officers stopped us attending protest against war
    21 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Reservists: Officers stopped us attending protest against war 20/08/06 By Nir Hasson
    Some 160 infantry reserve soldiers are accusing their commanders of preventing them from participating in a demonstration against the war in Lebanon, which they called a "debacle." The soldiers said they had been used as "sitting ducks."
    "I’ve been in the army and reserves for 26 years and what happened this time was not merely a fiasco, it was a complete debacle. We felt like tin soldiers in a game of (…)

  • Bush is crap, says Prescott
    21 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Deputy PM criticises US handling of Middle East, condemning ’cowboy’ President at private meeting
    By Colin Brown 17 August 2006
    John Prescott has given vent to his private feelings about the Bush presidency, summing up George Bush’s administration in a single word: crap.
    The Deputy Prime Minister’s condemnation of President Bush and his approach to the Middle East could cause a diplomatic row but it will please Labour MPs who are furious about Tony Blair’s backing of the United States (…)

  • AMERICANS ARE TOO BRAINWASHED TO FOLLOW THE $$MONEY$$ IN A WAR
    21 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    AMERICANS ARE UNABLE TO ***** - FOLLOW THE $ MONEY - ******
    THAT IS - AMERICANS CAN’T SEE ***WHO*** TAKES THEIR MONEY AND HOW THEY DO IT.
    WHY FOR INSTANCE WAS THERE NO 9-11 TYPE ATTACK ON PARIS? ON MOSCOW? ON ROME?
    SIMPLE: AS BIN LADEN AND ALL THE OTHER ARAB-WORLD LEADERS HAVE SAID: BECAUSE IT THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA THAT GIVES ISRAEL THE WEAPONS TO OCCUPY PALESTINE AND CONTROL THE PALESTINIANS BY KILLING THEM. MANY U.S. SCIENTISTS AND ACADEMIC INVESTIGATORS NOW HAVE DETERMINED (…)

  • Real Photo Fakers Real War Crimes
    21 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By JONATHAN COOK Nazareth.
    During Israel’s war against the people of Lebanon, our media, politicians and diplomats have colluded with the aggressors by distracting us with irrelevancies, by concocting controversies, and by framing the language of diplomacy. In the fragile truce that is currently holding while Lebanon waits for Israel to withdraw, we are simply getting more of the same.
    One example of the many distractions during the war that neatly reveals their true purpose is the (…)