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  • Neocolonial tool serving geopolitical interests
    17 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    the Logic of "Humanitarian Intervention" Neocolonial tool serving geopolitical interests
    by Brendan Stone
    May 13, 2006 GlobalResearch.ca
    On his recent speaking tour across Canada, former Haitian minister of defense Patrick Elie, an elected representative in the first government of Jean Bertrand Aristide, was asked by a member of the World Federalists NGO to support Canada’s new “Responsibility to Protect” (RtP) doctrine. The idea behind the “RtP” is that other countries should (…)

  • Palestine: The Great Catastrophe Historical Review article by Karma Nabulsi May 15, 2006 The
    17 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Historical Review article
    by Karma Nabulsi
    May 15, 2006 The Guardian - 2006-05-12
    May 15th marks the 58th anniversary of the founding of Israel in 1948 - and the expulsion of Palestinians from their land. With millions still living under occupation or in exile, what Palestinians call their ’nakba’ remains at the heart of their national identity, argues Karma Nabulsi
    In the last week of April 1948, combined Irgun-Haganah forces launched an offensive to drive the Palestinian people out (…)

  • Bush’s Unanswered Letter - A Strategic Mistake
    16 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Bush’s Unanswered Letter - A Strategic Mistake
    By Tom Porteous
    5-13-6
    The first reaction of the Bush administration to the extraordinary letter from Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has been to dismiss it out of hand on the grounds that it does not offer any compromises over Iran’s nuclear enrichment program. That’s a strategic mistake, because the biggest complaint of Middle Easterners about the United States is precisely that it has consistently failed to listen to concerns of (…)

  • 58 Years of Zionist Cruelty and Terror... It’s Time to Put America First
    16 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    58 Years of Zionist Cruelty and Terror... It’s Time to Put America First
    By Hassan El-Najjar
    Al-Jazeerah, May 15, 2006
    On May 15 1948, world Zionists claimed their state, which they called Israel. It was not good news to the world in general, and the Palestinian people in particular.
    Zionist Israelis did not limit their state to the borders prescribed in the 1947 UN Resolution 181, known as Partition Resolution. They occupied most of the lands prescribed to the Arab state of (…)

  • A Perfect Mother’s Day Gift: Create a Peace Movement That Ends the Iraq Occupation
    15 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Julia Ward Howe, the author of the Battle Hymn of the Republic, became so horrified with the carnage of the Civil War that she began advocating for a Mother’s Day of Peace She published the Mother’s Day Peace Proclamation in 1870. By 1873, 18 cities celebrated Mother’s Day of Peace celebrations - some of these celebrations continued for 30 years. Still today, we have the enduring legacy of Mother’s Day.
    Now we are faced with the modern carnage of the occupation of Iraq, and still there are (…)

  • SADDAM TRIAL: PROSECUTION RESTS THE DEFENSE BEGINS
    13 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Original link
    May 12, 2006
    Defence witnesses in Saddam Hussein’s trial will start their testimonies in Monday’s session, a member of the defence team told Aljazeera.net.
    Najib al-Nuaimi, a former Qatari justice minister and member of the defence team, said 30 people, including former government members, would take the stand for the defence.
    Iraq’s former president has been on trial since August 2005 for approving death sentences against 148 Shia villagers from al-Dujail village north (…)

  • Majority of Israelis Want Gov’t to Encourage Arabs to Leave (IsraelNationalNews.com)
    13 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Arutz Sheva - IsraelNationalNews.com Majority of Israelis Want Gov’t to Encourage Arabs to Leave http://www.arutzsheva.com/print.php3?what=news&id=103312
    Tuesday, May 9, 2006 / 11 Iyar 5766
    Almost two-thirds of Israelis want the government to encourage Arabs to leave the country, according to a study by the Israel Democracy Institute.
    According to the preliminary summary of the 2006 Democracy Index, 62% of Israelis would like to see the government actively encourage Arabs to (…)

  • VENEZUELA : The Bush Administration is Trying to Link Hugo Chavez to Iran’s Nuclear Program
    12 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Is Venezuela the New Niger?
    The Bush Administration is Trying to Link Hugo Chavez to Iran’s Nuclear Program
    By LARRY BIRNS and MICHAEL LETTIERI
    http://www.counterpunch.org/birns05102006.html
    Washington is no stranger to flimsy pretexts when it comes to justifying its ill-conceived, and at times illicit, Latin American initiatives. The contra epoch, the Bay of Pigs invasion, the Cuban missile crisis, Ollie North, former U.S. ambassador John Negroponte’s skullduggery in Honduras, and (…)

  • Emergency Aid May Be Too Little, Too Late for Palestinians Trying to Survive a Crisis (commondreams)
    12 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Published on Thursday, May 11, 2006 by the Independent / UK Emergency Aid May Be Too Little, Too Late for Palestinians Trying to Survive a Crisis by Donald Macintyre
    Zarifa Abdel Khadr came in secret to Gaza City’s jewellery souk this week to sell the two gold rings she has owned for half a century.
    She had no intention of telling her five sons and four daughters that she was parting with her possessions for about £150 to help feed them and her grandchildren.
    "They wouldn’t allow me (…)

  • High-Octane Rocket-Rattling Against Tehran Won’t Work By TARIQ ALI (counterpunch)
    12 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    May 11, 2006 Ringed by Nuclear States, Iran’s Atomic Program is Scarcely Unreasonable. So Why has Bush Manufactured a Crisis?
    High-Octane Rocket-Rattling Against Tehran Won’t Work
    By TARIQ ALI
    Till now, what has prevented the crisis in Iraq from becoming a total debacle for the United States has been the open collaboration of the Iranian clerics. Iranian foreign policy - fragmentary and opportunist - has always been determined by the needs and interests of the clerical state rather (…)