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  • 20th anniversary of the First Intifada: Boycott !
    9 December 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    ANOTHER VOICE
    http://www.ism-france.org, December 9, 2007
    On the twentieth anniversary of the first Intifada, we call for a general boycott of Israeli products.
    Israel’s income from Palestine is estimated at 3 billion dollars annually. When anyone purchases Israeli products, they are funding the occupation of our land. They are funding bullets, weapons, tanks, and fighter planes which are being used to kill our family and countrymen. They are funding bulldozers to uproot the trees of (…)

  • Israel’s war on Lebanon : an integral part of a US sponsored "Military Roadmap"
    9 December 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    Pr Michel Chossudovsky
    The war on Lebanon, which has resulted in countless atrocities including the destruction of the nation’s economy and civilian infrastructure, is "a stage" in a sequence of carefully planned military operations.
    Lebanon constitutes a strategic corridor between Israel and North-western Syria. The underlying objective of this war was the militarization of Lebanon, including the stationing of foreign troops, as a precondition for carrying out the next phase of a (…)

  • IDF to show US nuclear data on Iran
    8 December 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    IDF to show US nuclear data on Iran
    Yaakov Katz – jpost.com December 6, 2007
    Disappointed after failing to make their case on Iran and influence the outcome of the United States’s National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) released this week, Military Intelligence will present its hard core evidence on the Islamic Republic’s nuclear program on Sunday to the chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff during a rare visit he will be making to Israel.
    Admiral Michael Mullen will land in Israel (…)

  • Israel Considering Strike on Iran Despite US Intelligence Report
    8 December 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Rory McCarthy
    Senior Israeli officials warned today they were still considering the option of a military strike against Iran, despite a fresh US intelligence report that concluded Tehran was no longer developing nuclear weapons.
    Although Israel argues that it wants to see strong diplomatic pressure put on Iran, it is reluctant to rule out the threat of a unilateral military attack. Matan Vilnai, Israel’s deputy defence minister, told Army Radio today: “No option needs to be off the (…)

  • Diaries from troubled times
    7 December 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Natasha Greenblatt
    American college student Rachel Corrie was 23 when she was killed by an Israeli bulldozer in the Gaza Strip, March 16, 2003. Some of her emails home, released by Corrie’s parents after her death and serialized in The Guardian newspaper, caught the attention of British actor Alan Rickman. After receiving a large package of previously unreleased journals, emails, and to-do lists from Corrie’s parents, Rickman and journalist Katharine Vinerthey edited them into a play. (…)

  • Voices of the Iraq War Dissenters Ring Out
    5 December 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    “One’s first obligation is to the moral truth buried deep inside our own souls.” - Ex-Private First Class Joshua Key, U.S. Army (1)
    From soldiers in the U.S. Army, who refused to be deployed to Iraq; to diplomats who resigned their offices rather than endorse an illegal war; to courageous whistleblowers inside the U.S. and British governments, who put themselves at risk to tell the truth about the lies that took their countries to war; this book has it all, and more. Entitled: “Dissent: (…)

  • DECLARATION OF WORLD AGAINST WAR CONFERENCE (LONDON, DECEMBER 1st)
    4 December 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    This conference of delegates from peace, anti-war, anti-imperialist and liberation movements across the world declares its opposition to the “endless war” prosecuted by the US government against states, peoples and movements in all parts of our planet.
    We oppose the interference of the US and its allies in sovereign states, and assert the right of all peoples to self-determination. We support all people fighting for peace and against imperialism.
    In particular, we demand:
    * An (…)

  • US forces pillage, destroy humanity’s most ancient artifacts in occupied Iraq
    3 December 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    An-Nasiriyah
    Iraqi Resistance Report for 12/1/2007
    140,000 ancient relics officially recorded as having been stolen or destroyed since US invasion in spring 2003
    In a dispatch posted at 9:54pm Baghdad time Saturday night, the Yaqen News Agency reported that US forces were continuing to destroy, rob, and smuggle ancient Sumerian and Babylonian artifacts despite opposition by UNESCO, Iraqi intellectuals, and even the attempts by the American-installed "Iraqi Ministry of Culture" to stop (…)

  • O’Malley Hugs Olmert, While USS Liberty Is Forgotten
    3 December 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    “Time’s glory is...to wrong the wronger, till he render right.” - William Shakespeare, the Bard of Avon
    On Nov. 27, 2007, an ultra-hyped, one-day Mideast parley was held in Annapolis, MD, the capital of the state. This is also where the U.S. Naval Academy is located. The idea that the hawkish Bush-Cheney Gang is going to successfully broker an Israel/Palestine peace is absurd. In a show-off-like gesture Maryland’s Governor, Martin O’Malley invited Israel’s Prime Minister, Ehud Olmert, for (…)

  • Dec 1st London World Against War Conference: Videos
    3 December 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    The Stop the War Coalition hold a successful international peace conference in London on 1st December
    The World Against War conference was a follow up to international conference hosted in 2005.
    Peace and anti war groups from South America, the Middle East, USA, South Asia, Canada and Europe participated in the conference. The conference discussed the occupation of Iraq and Afghanistan and opposition to any attack on Iran. It also looked at the broader struggle against war and for (…)