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  • Hezbollah Denounces Evrensel Interview of Nasrallah as a Fake
    1 September 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The Interview That Wasn’t
    By ALEXANDER COCKBURN
    Hussain Rahhal, Hezbollah’s press liaison, has issued a written statement:
    "Our secretary general Nasrallah has not given any interviews to any Turkish or other non-Lebanese journalist during the month of August. In the face of this imaginary interview that is untruthful, and hence does damage to journalism, credibility and objectivity, Hezbollah reserves its right to take legal action against those who have published it."
    This is in (…)

  • Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them
    31 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Mike Schiller
    Permission granted to publish & post this article on any website at will, free of charge.
    Tom Kean, the Republican running against Bob Menendez for the U.S. Senate seat recently vacated by John Corzine, is trying very hard to avoid talking about the issues. For instance, he’d rather avoid letting New Jersey know that he would have voted to confirm Samuel Alito to the Supreme Court. He’d rather avoid discussing whether he would have voted for the Bush tax cuts that (…)

  • Snap Judgments. About That Nasrallah Interview
    30 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    By ALEXANDER COCKBURN
    On August 17 we published a very interesting interview with Sayyid Hassan Nasrallah, the leader of Hezbollah. A CounterPunch reader had found it on the Marxmail list, moderated by Louis Proyect, and passed it along to us. The interview was translated from Turkish, in which language it had appeared in the Turkish socialist daily, Evrensel, on August 12 and 13. We didn’t publish the full interview, which had some sections on the war that had been somewhat overtaken by (…)

  • HILLARY CLINTON: IS SHE THE NEXT PRO-WAR DEMOCRAT TO FALL?
    17 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Randolph T. Holhut
    DUMMERSTON, Vt. - Joe Lieberman’s sorry hide has been nailed to the wall, and there is rejoicing in the land (except from the lobbyists, pundits and political hacks who make up the permanent occupation force of Washington).
    And while I am pleased to see a discredited, humiliated Lieberman forced to cast his lot in with his friends in the Republican Party, I won’t be completely convinced that the revolution is here until Hillary Clinton’s hide is nailed to the wall (…)

  • Bye Bye Bipartisanship
    15 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Wayne Besen
    I have long endorsed the political strategy of supporting both GLBT friendly Democrats and Republicans. For pragmatic reasons, it made sense not to put all of our eggs in one basket. However, that was before the GOP leadership was hijacked by right wing basket cases. Sadly, I think it is time for the GLBT movement to reassess the political landscape and consider saying goodbye to bipartisanship.
    The defenders of the status quo will claim that loyalty is an important (…)

  • LCP on UN Lebanon Resolution
    14 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Tranlslation courtesy of M. Abu Nasr.
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    The Lebanese Communist Party.
    Latest developments: 12 August 2006.
    Will the American-Israeli aggression against Lebanon stop after the unanimous adoption by the Security Council of Resolution 1701 yesterday?
    One month and a day after the start of the American-Israeli aggression against Lebanon, after the failure of that aggression and its inability to achieve its aims, after America’s repeated use of stalling tactics, delaying (…)

  • Dorothy Healey, 91; Lifelong Communist Fought for Working People
    10 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Dennis McLellan
    Dorothy Healey, a onetime labor organizer, civil rights activist and Marxist radio commentator who was chairwoman of the Southern California district of the Communist Party USA from the late 1940s through the 1960s, has died. She was 91.
    Healey, dubbed "the Red Queen of Los Angeles" by headline writers during her heyday, died Sunday of pneumonia in the Greater Washington Hebrew Home, said her son, Richard. She had been a resident of Washington, D.C., since 1983.
    The (…)

  • Statement by the General Secretary of the Lebanese Communist Party
    9 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Statement by the General Secretary of the Lebanese Communist Party, Dr. Khaled Haddadeh on the occasion of the Emergency Meeting of Arab Foreign Ministers in Beirut. After 25 days of continuous American-Israeli aggression against our country, barbaric aggression that has killed our women and children and committed wholesale massacres from Marwaheen to Qana; from Bint Jbeil to al-Jamaliyah and al-Qaa massacres that are still going on, After the Arab governments have sat silent out of (…)

  • ’Single issue’ candidate knows what’s important
    6 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    BY JESSE JACKSON
    To this day, Joe Lieberman still doesn’t get it. The 18-year incumbent Democratic senator from Connecticut is in the battle for his political life in the Democratic primary. He dismisses his challenger — Ned Lamont, a Connecticut businessman whose campaign is grounded on opposition to the war in Iraq, as a single-issue candidate.
    But Iraq is not a single issue, it is a central issue — both for the country and for the Democratic Party. It is a catastrophic foreign policy (…)

  • JEWS SPEAK OUT AGAINST ISRAELI AGGRESSION END THE KILLING IN GAZA, LEBANON AND ISRAEL!
    4 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Jewish Socialists’ Group leaflet distributed at the demonstration on 22nd July 2006
    JEWS SPEAK OUT AGAINST ISRAELI AGGRESSION END THE KILLING IN GAZA, LEBANON AND ISRAEL!
    The Jewish Socialists’ Group unreservedly condemns Israeli military aggression in Gaza and Lebanon, the appalling loss of civilian life on all sides in this conflict, and continued imprisonment without trial of thousands of Palestinians whose “crime” is to oppose Israel’s occupation.
    When Israel commits acts of (…)