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  • Book refuting Jewish taboo on Israel’s bestseller list
    27 October 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    Book refuting Jewish taboo on Israel’s bestseller list
    Jonathan Cook, Foreign Correspondent Last Updated: October 06. 2008 10:38PM UAE / GMT
    TEL AVIV // No one is more surprised than Shlomo Sand that his latest academic work has spent 19 weeks on Israel’s bestseller list – and that success has come to the history professor despite his book challenging Israel’s biggest taboo.
    Dr Sand argues that the idea of a Jewish nation – whose need for a safe haven was originally used to justify the (…)

  • Zionist nationalist myth of enforced exile: Israel deliberately forgets its history
    27 October 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    Zionist nationalist myth of enforced exile: Israel deliberately forgets its history
    An Israeli historian suggests the diaspora was the consequence, not of the expulsion of the Hebrews from Palestine, but of proselytising across north Africa, southern Europe and the Middle East
    By Schlomo Sand
    Every Israeli knows that he or she is the direct and exclusive descendant of a Jewish people which has existed since it received the Torah (1) in Sinai. According to this myth, the Jews escaped (…)

  • Top World thinkers & writers sign Le Feyt Declaration for END to US-UK Iraqi Holocaust & Iraqi Genocide
    26 October 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    The “Le Feyt Declaration on Iraq” (see: ) demands the withdrawal of foreign occupation forces from illegally occupied Iraq and has been signed by eminent scholars, writers and professionals from around the world.
    Peace is the only way but silence kills and silence is complicity. I was accordingly OBLIGED to add my name to the Le Feyt Declaration when invited to do so, the more so since I have been researching the avoidable deaths (excess deaths, deaths that should not have happened) (…)

  • Iraq War Creates Shortage of Night Vision Gear for Domestic US Medical Pilots
    16 October 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    The war in Iraq is creating a major - and perhaps deadly - shortage of night vision goggles for civilian pilots who fly medical helicopters in the U.S. "The war in Iraq escalated and the goggles weren’t available," said Gary Sizemore, president of the National EMS Pilots Association and a pilot in Perry, Fla. "We were put on a waiting list." Sizemore estimated only 25 percent of the 800 or so emergency medical helicopters in the U.S. have the technology.
    Iraq War Creates Shortage of Night (…)

  • US-India nuke deal is signed, sealed, and delivered
    14 October 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    WASHINGTON: Generations to come may slice and dice the US-India nuclear cooperation deal, but for now it has been firmly stated by New Delhi and broadly accepted in Washington that India will be bound only by the bilateral 123 Agreement with regards to the terms of the deal, other sentiments of the US Congress notwithstanding.
    Nuke deal is signed, sealed, and delivered 11 Oct 2008, 2115 hrs IST, Chidanand Rajghatta,TNN
    Having assured itself that US President George Bush asserted his (…)

  • Kashmir : The Answer Lies In Autonomy
    13 October 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    Sheikh Abdullah’s attempt to reinforce secularism by Kashmir’s example requires exceptional unity of direction in New Delhi
    BY AJIT BHATTACHARJEA Journalist and Author
    IN HIS article in TEHELKA, Arun Jaitley traces the problems we face in Kashmir to Jawaharlal Nehru. In a sense he is right. Kashmir would not have been part of India if Nehru had not been Prime Minister in October 1947, when the state was faced with the decision of whether to accede to India or Pakistan. It would have gone (…)

  • Pakistan: All US missile strike victims were tribesmen
    13 October 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    Monday, October 13, 2008 by Our correspondent
    Source: The News
    MIRAMSHAH (FATA): The three people killed in the missile attack by the US drones on a house in Machas Colony area here Saturday night were all local tribesmen.
    Tribal sources said the dead included Rustam, Munawar and Sakhi, all residents of the area. Five men including Shaider Khan, Faizullah, Muqaddas, Zabiullah and Gul Qadam were injured in the missile strike on a ‘hujra’ at Machas Colony, which used to serve as a camp (…)

  • Iraq: War in the Time of Cholera By Patrick COCKBURN
    12 October 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    CounterPunch Weekend Edition October 10 / 12, 2008
    Corruption and Dirty Water
    A deadly outbreak of cholera in Iraq is being blamed on a scandal involving corrupt officials who failed to sterilize the local drinking water because they were bribed to buy chlorine from Iran that was long past its expiration date.
    The centre of the epidemic is in Babil province, south of Baghdad, in the marshy lands east of the Euphrates river, not far from the ruins of ancient Babylon. In Baghdad, where (…)

  • Too Few Aware Of World Orphan Week.
    11 October 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Brian McAfee
    October 11 marked the end of World Orphan Week. With 133 million orphans in the world today, most in Africa, Asia and Latin America, and 15 million of them orphaned due to HIV/AIDS (according to SOS Children) we have a moral responsibility to ensure the basic needs orphans around the World. These needs include health, education and welfare. Addressing poverty issues in the various regions particularly populated with high levels of orphaned or abandoned children is being (…)

  • Kashmiri shot dead during protest against Indian premier
    11 October 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Jawed Naqvi
    Source: "The Dawn", daily from Karachi
    NEW DELHI, Oct 10: Police in the Kashmir Valley gunned down a protester on Friday ahead of a visit to Srinagar by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh that coincides with the arrival here on Saturday of Pakistan’s National Security Adviser Mahmud Ali Durrani.
    Widespread protests by Kashmiris have begun to include President Asif Ali Zardari as one of the targets and according to reports from the Valley angry crowds burnt his effigies after (…)