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  • “Peace on Earth” Means “No More War”
    27 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by John Dear
    The story goes that when the nonviolent Jesus was born into abject poverty to homeless refugees on the outskirts of a brutal empire, angels appeared in the sky to impoverished shepherds singing, “Glory to God in the highest and peace on earth!” That child grew up to become, in Gandhi’s words, “the greatest nonviolent resister in the history of the world,” and was subsequently executed by the empire for his insistence on justice.
    This weekend, as tens of millions of (…)

  • What I heard about Iraq in 2005
    27 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Eliot Weinberger
    In 2005 I heard that Coalition forces were camped in the ruins of Babylon. I heard that bulldozers had dug trenches through the site and cleared areas for helicopter landing pads and parking lots, that thousands of sandbags had been filled with dirt and archaeological fragments, that a 2600-year-old brick pavement had been crushed by tanks, and that the moulded bricks of dragons had been gouged out from the Ishtar Gate by soldiers collecting souvenirs. I heard that the (…)

  • The Coming Meltdown (A Review)
    27 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Bill McKibben
    The year 2005 has been the hottest year on record for the planet, hotter than 1998, 2002, 2004, and 2003. More importantly, perhaps, this has been the autumn when the planet has shown more clearly than before just what that extra heat means. Consider just a few of the findings published in the major scientific journals during the last three months: Arctic sea ice is melting fast. There was 20 percent less of it than normal this summer, and as Dr. Mark Serreze, one of the (…)

  • Growing Dissent in UK Parliament: MPs "don’t belive what the US Administration states anymore"
    27 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    The US ambassador in London has been forced into an embarrassing retreat after his embassy clarified comments he made denying that the United States was involved in removing terrorist suspects to Syria.
    Robert Tuttle told Radio 4’s Today programme last Thursday that there was no evidence that US forces had sent suspected terrorists for questioning in Syria, a practice known as "extraordinary rendition".
    The US embassy issued a statement yesterday acknowledging that there had been claims (…)

  • 40 + Jewish & Palestinian organisations defy EU secrecy
    27 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Dismayed by the refusal of EU to publish their own Ramallah and East Jerusalem Heads of Mission findings regarding Israeli state actions towards non Jewish residents of East Jerusalem, Jewish and other peace groups and Palestinian Solidarity campaigns around Europe have decided they must take matters into their own hands.
    Every organisation listed below will publish the Report on their websites. A copy of the report can be found on the PSC www.palestinecampaign.org
    The day after the (…)

  • Taken for a ride in the ’war on terror’
    24 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Syed Saleem Shahzad
    KARACHI - Since the onset of the "war on terror", the US has detained more than 3,000 people worldwide in a network of secret prisons established by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in a number of regions, from Southeast Asia to North Africa, South Asia and Eastern Europe.
    Revelations of this policy have drawn a flood of criticism, with allegations that prisoners held in such countries at the CIA’s behest could have been subject to unlawful interrogation.
    US (…)

  • Christmas message: If you have faith in God ... how would He expect you to react?
    24 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Mary MacElveen
    To all of our readers around this planet I want to wish all of you a very Merry Christmas, Feliz Navidad, Happy Hannukah and a Happy Kwanza ... no matter how we express ourselves during this season, it is far more important to do so with love in our hearts.
    The other day, taking a cab to the market, in conversation with a Jewish cab driver, I asked him his take on how we should express what is in our hearts during this season. He said: "If someone wishes me a Merry (…)

  • U.S. Airstrikes Take Toll on Civilians. Eyewitnesses Cite Scores Killed in Marine Offensive in Western Iraq
    24 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Ellen Knickmeyer
    RAMADI, Iraq — U.S. Marine airstrikes targeting insurgents sheltering in Iraqi residential neighborhoods are killing civilians as well as guerrillas along the Euphrates River in far western Iraq, according to Iraqi townspeople and officials and the U.S. military.
    Just how many civilians have been killed is strongly disputed by the Marines and, some critics say, too little investigated. But townspeople, tribal leaders, medical workers and accounts from witnesses at the (…)

  • Israel & Palestine: A Way Out?
    24 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Conn Hallinan
    In a 2002 Le Monde Diplomatique article titled ’Constructing Catastrophe,’ Israeli journalist Amon Kapeliouk challenged one of the central myths about the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinians. To wit: that Palestinian President Yasir Arafat was offered a great deal at the Camp David talks in July 2000, but turned it down and launched Intifada II.
    What is so damaging about the Camp David myth is that it perpetuates the fable that the Palestinian side of (…)

  • On the abuse of Palestinians by Israeli security forces
    24 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    On apathy By Haaretz Editorial
    In today’s Haaretz Magazine, Gideon Levy tells the story of Mahmoud Shawara, a 43-year-old father of nine, who left for work on his donkey one day from his house in the village of Nuaman, near Bethlehem, was arrested by border policemen, and, after he refused to accompany the soldiers without his donkey, was tied to the donkey. The frightened donkey then galloped toward the village; Shawara sustained serious injuries all over his body, and ultimately died (…)