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

    In the face of Bush’s lies, it’s left to Assad to tell the truth
    Robert Fisk - The Independent August 16, 2006
    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 (…)

  • Protest Tel Aviv : Women cannot be bought like shawarma
    17 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Protest Tel Aviv : Women cannot be bought like shawarma
    During Tel Aviv demonstration, former MK Yael Dayan calls for end to women trafficking; ’it’s more than rape,’ she says. Haifa representative says prostitutes forced to look for customers in city’s streets during war, in spite of rockets Merav Crystal
    Women rights activists held a demonstration against women trafficking Wednesday, during which they chanted slogans such as "Police, women are not goods" and "Customers are rapists." (…)

  • Iraq War Vets’ Support for Lt. Watada Growing
    17 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Sarah Olson
    Clifton Hicks was looking for a body. Specifically, the Army tank driver was fumbling about in the dark, looking for and failing to find the remains of the Iraqis who, moments before, had been firing on his tank. When Hicks’s flashlight swept the ground around his feet, he realized he was standing in the remains of a man. Literally. His boots wedged between the rib cage and the pelvis, blood and human organs squishing out from beneath the soles of his shoes.
    It’s this (…)

  • Israeli Black Panthers support the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel
    16 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Israeli Black Panthers support the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel
    by Reuven Abarjel, introduction by Jeffrey Blankfort
    During the late ‘60s and into the ‘70s, the reputation of the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense, which had its start in Oakland in 1966, spread far and wide, not only throughout the United States, but around the world, where the party was considered the leading arm of the Black liberation struggle in AmeriKKKa.
    In Israel, the Black Panthers’ exploits (…)

  • 12000 US Dead in Iraq, 25000 Seriously Wounded
    16 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    12000 US Dead in Iraq, 25000 Seriously Wounded
    Brian Harring - TBR News.org August 15, 2006
    Note: There is excellent reason to believe that the Department of Defense is deliberately not reporting a significant number of the dead in Iraq. We have received copies of manifests from the MATS that show far more bodies shipped into Dover AFP than are reported officially. The actual death toll is in excess of 10,000. (See the official records linked at the end of this piece.) Given the (…)

  • Record-low stocks bring world rice price to the boil 
    16 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Record-low stocks bring world rice price to the boil Jeff Wilson and Saijel Kishan
    Posted to the web on: 15 August 2006 Bloomberg
    THE world may soon pay more than ever for its most abundant food: rice.
    A record crop this year in a market anticipating rising production costs will do little to slow the rally for the staple diet of 3-billion people throughout the world.
    As China, the top consumer, and Vietnam, one of the food’s biggest exporters, continue to plough up their paddies, (…)

  • The “European Left” calls on European powers to intervene in Lebanon
    16 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Lucas Adler and Peter Schwarz
    The Party of the European Left (EL) has appealed to the heads of the European Union (EU) and European governments to play a more active role in the present conflict in the Middle East.
    In a statement adopted August 1 by the EL executive committee, the organisation says it is bewildered by “the weak, irresponsible position of the EU and European governments with seats on the UN Security Council, faced with the necessity to exert maximum pressure on all (…)

  • Israel’s verdict: We lost the war
    16 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Israel’s verdict: We lost the war
    By Donald Macintyre in Metulla, Israel
    Published: 15 August 2006
    from The Independent & The Independent on Sunday
    16 August 2006 11:36 Ehud Olmert, the Israeli Prime Minister, was obliged to admit "shortcomings" in the 34-day-old conflict in Lebanon yesterday as he launched what may prove a protracted fight for his own political survival.
    Mr Olmert’s admission in a stormy Knesset session came in the face of devastating poll figures showing (…)

  • Ahmadinejad gives ’victory speech’ before masses
    16 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Ahmadinejad gives ’victory speech’ before masses
    In speech before thousands in city of Ardabil, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says ’Iranian people will force the powers to surrender. The stances in favor of the US and Israel harmed the Security Council’s image’ Roee Nahmias
    Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad carried a "victory speech" before a crowd in the city of Ardabel, and sent his congratulations to "the resistance" (Hizbullah ) and to the "free Lebanese people (…)

  • Israel: victim or aggressor?
    16 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Emma Clancy
    Watching television footage of the Qana massacre - the killing of dozens of civilians, including children - Beshara Doumani thought she was watching “the old footage of the Israeli massacre that killed one-hundred Lebanese civilians in the village of Qana during Operation ’Grapes of Wrath’ in 1996”. But, she wrote in a July 30 article for Electronic Intifada, “it suddenly becomes clear: another massacre at the same village, Qana, ten years later”.
    Claiming that the (…)