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  • Not the Hay Festival: Juhasz, Muttit, Christodopoulos
    25 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Sarah Meyer
    I used to be a Guardian Hay Festival addict. Good talks, good bookshops, good food. This year the festival is a bit incestuous. The blog editor of The Guardian is interviewing Alan Rusbridger, the editor of the Guardian, for example. Now this would have been a stimulating conversation if one of the Media Lens editors had conducted the interview. The BBC, under continual criticism from bloggers for ‘unbalanced’ reporting, is much again in evidence at Hay - unchallenged. It (…)

  • Should Noam Chomsky Reset His Compass?
    24 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    “Don’t tell fish stories where the people know you.” - Mark Twain
    Recently I read the book: “Imperial Ambitions: Conversations on the Post-9/II World,” (2005, Metropolitan Books),” which contains interviews by David Barsamian with Noam Chomsky on a wide range of issues, including the Iraqi War. I was deeply disappointed with it. Not because there wasn’t a lot of solid analysis in it. There was. My misgivings dealt with what was left out of the paperback. If the comedian Stephen Colbert (…)

  • Hamas PM Haniyeh: Retreat to 1967 borders will bring peace
    23 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Danny Rubinstein
    Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh told Haaretz Monday that the Hamas government is prepared to agree to an extended cease-fire if Israel withdraws to the 1967 lines.
    "If Israel withdraws to the 1967 borders, peace will prevail and we will implement a cease-fire [hudna] for many years," Haniyeh said during an interview in his south Gaza office. "Our government is prepared to maintain a long-term cease-fire with Israel."
    Palestinian Transportation Minister (…)

  • International Conference in Geneva “For a just peace in Palestine and Israel"
    23 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Report from the european network after the seminars, working sessions and Assembly on Palestine during the ESF in Athens, conducted with the participation of Palestinians civil society representatives and Israeli anticolonialist activists.
    The occupation system on Palestine is achieving a new stage. Israel is implementing its strategy in order to achieve its own unilateral solution completing the building of an apartheid system. The total isolation of Gaza is part of this system.
    We (…)

  • Khalilzad AP Interview
    22 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Sarah Meyer
    AP: "Do you feel that the new government will have a honeymoon, or will it be immediately faced with challenges?"
    KHALILZAD: “I think it will be faced immediately with challenges because the terrorists are not going to go away, they’re going to persist in their effort to promote a sectarian conflict. They want Iraq to fail, but Iraq in itself is not important for them. Iraq is one theater in a global war; that they want to provoke a war of civilization.”
    One only needs (…)

  • Ahmadinejad: A study in obstinacy
    22 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Iason Athanasiadis
    TEHRAN - The West is just coming to know the resoluteness of Iranian President Mahmud Ahmadinejad as he doggedly sticks to his beliefs with regard to Iran’s nuclear program, despite the weight of international and domestic pressure building up against him.
    To friends and colleagues who have known Ahmadinejad for a long time, though, his perseverance in the face of daunting odds comes as no surprise.
    "Mahmud has not changed in the 30 years I’ve known him, at school (…)

  • IRAQ : One Person Killed Every Hour The Carnage in Basra By PATRICK COCKBURN (COUNTERPUNCH)
    18 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    One Person Killed Every Hour The Carnage in Basra
    By PATRICK COCKBURN
    Arbil, Iraq.
    One person is being assassinated in Basra every hour, as order in Iraq’s second city disintegrates, according to an Iraqi Defence Ministry official.
    And a quarter of all Iraqi children suffer from malnutrition, a survey of 20,000 households by the Iraqi government and Unicef says.
    The number of violent killings in Basra is now at a level close to that of Baghdad, and marks the failure of the British (…)

  • U.S war dead vastl underestimated
    18 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    In the on-going vicious occupation of Iraq, the American and British are seemingly meticulous about reporting their own casualties - as opposed to Iraqi casualties, whom they refuse to count, despite obliged under international law to do so.
    As of 13th May 2006, the U.S. military states its casualties as 2,436 deaths of US soldiers and 17,648 injured. These very precise figures are updated daily. The problem with these statistics is that they are misleading and wrong and deliberately so. (…)

  • IRAN:America’s Step Off the Nuclear Edge:Take the nuclear option off the table now! by Pr. J.Hirsch
    18 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    America’s Step Off the Nuclear Edge: Take the nuclear option off the table now!
    by Prof. Jorge Hirsch
    May 12, 2006 Antiwar.com
    Remember the old cartoons where the character walks off a cliff and continues walking on thin air until he looks down and plunges? America walked off the cliff on April 18, 2006, and has been suspended above the nuclear abyss since, set to plunge down at a moment’s notice. Meanwhile, it is in a catatonic state of collective stupor, or perhaps it should be (…)

  • IRAQ WAR IMAGES UNCENSORED
    18 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Iraq War Images Uncensored
    http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/uncensored
    Submitted by davidswanson on Mon, 2006-05-15 17:02. Evidence
    This collection of photos is the most complete we are aware of. Many of them are being made public here for the first time. Many of them are extremely gruesome. These must not be censored, because this is what a war really looks like, and that is something citizens need to see in order to cast informed ballots and lobby our representatives for or against (…)