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  • Palestinian Propaganda Prize for Israel
    18 September 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Nicola Nasser*
    The inter-Palestinian war of words and the mutual violations of the freedom of press and expression by the Hamas - led government of Ismael Haniyyeh in the Gaza Strip and the Fatah – led government of Salam Fayyad in the West Bank have presented Israel with its biggest propaganda prize that is overshadowing the violations of human rights committed by the Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) in the Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPT).
    The Palestinian Center for Press (…)

  • Censored by Fox for political reasons?
    18 September 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    Sally Field: Censored by Fox for political reasons?
    Controversy is brewing online over whether Fox TV (owned by the politically conservative Rupert Murdoch) censored Sally Field during her Emmy acceptance speech Sunday night for an obscene word or because she was making an anti-war statement.
    Field, who is no stranger to unusual acceptance speeches, said: ""If mothers ruled the world, there wouldn’t be any god ... " when the sound was cut off and the camera cut to other shots from the (…)

  • IRAQ : It Is The Death of History by Robert Fisk
    18 September 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Published on Monday, September 17, 2007 by The Independent/UK
    It Is The Death of History
    by Robert Fisk
    2,000-year-old Sumerian cities torn apart and plundered by robbers. The very walls of the mighty Ur of the Chaldees cracking under the strain of massive troop movements, the privatisation of looting as landlords buy up the remaining sites of ancient Mesopotamia to strip them of their artefacts and wealth. The near total destruction of Iraq’s historic past - the very cradle of human (…)

  • 100,000 March Against Iraq War in Washington - 200 Arrested in Dramatic Mass Die-In
    18 September 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    100,000 March Against Iraq War in Washington 200 Arrested in Dramatic Mass Die-In
    Sept 15 crowd shot
    September 15 Iraq Veterans Against the War speaking at the Sept. 15 rally
    Yesterday, nearly 100,000 people — led by anti-war Iraq veterans, military families and others — marched from the White House to the Capitol in Washington, D.C. to demand an immediate end to the occupation of Iraq. The march concluded with a dramatic "die-in" of 5,000 people surrounding the Capitol. Almost 200 (…)

  • Update from Syria: After IDF bombing
    17 September 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    SYRIA’S SMOKING GUN by Trish Schuh DEIR EZ ZOR, Syria- On a bridge over the Euphrates River at sundown, neighboring mosques weave a chorus calling Muslims to prayer. This destitute, ramshackle oil town on Iraq’s desert frontier seems calm, despite Israel’s recent raid on a military base outside the city to destroy "Syria’s nuclear program."
    The Qamishli-Deir Ez Zor highway, alleged by Israel to be a weapons route for Iraqi insurgents, was also quiet, and there were no heavy (…)

  • The disgraced ABC consultant and the push for war in Iran
    17 September 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The disgraced ABC consultant and the push for war in Iran
    Attytood.com – September 13, 2007
    There’s a huge new media scandal breaking this morning, and the headline so far — that a much-used consultant to ABC News published a phony interview with Barak Obama — may well be the tip of the proverbial iceberg. The news about now ex-ABC consultant Alexis Debat (left) is just dribbling out, but I’m surprised people haven’t been connecting the dots. This post will seek to connect a couple of (…)

  • AFRICOM: Wrong for Liberia, Disastrous for Africa
    16 September 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    Just two months after U.S. aerial bombardments began in Somalia, the Bush administration solidified its militaristic engagement with Africa. In February 2007, the Department of Defense announced the creation of a new U.S. Africa Command infrastructure, code name AFRICOM, to “coordinate all U.S. military and security interests throughout the continent.”
    Ezekiel Pajibo and Emira Woods | July 26, 2007 Editor: John Feffer http://www.fpif.org/fpiftxt/4427
    “This new command will strengthen (…)

  • Alan Greenspan claims Iraq war was really for oil
    16 September 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Alan Greenspan claims Iraq war was really for oil
    Graham Paterson – Sunday Times September 16, 2007
    America’s elder statesman of finance, Alan Greenspan, has shaken the White House by declaring that the prime motive for the war in Iraq was oil.
    In his long-awaited memoir, to be published tomorrow, Greenspan, a Republican whose 18-year tenure as head of the US Federal Reserve was widely admired, will also deliver a stinging critique of President George W Bush’s economic policies. (…)

  • If you’re Muslim, you’re Guilty!
    16 September 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    En Français,
    Yet another case of a Pakistani Muslim being tried for thought-crimes is taking place, this time in Scotland which appears to be new ground for the British state’s phony ’War on Terror’.
    Mohammed Atif Siddique, 21, from Alva in Clackmannanshire, faces several terrorism charges, including providing instructional material for bomb-making, and collecting and distributing terrorist propaganda. So far, the jury has been unable to make up its mind but the prosecutor, calling (…)

  • WW3 Has Already Started or: 18 Ways To Stop The Bomb
    15 September 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    World War III has already started.
    On April 17 2006, Seymour M. Hersh, “an American Pulitzer Prize winning investigative journalist and author based in Washington, DC”, reported in ‘The New Yorker’ that the United States is considering the use on “bunker-buster tactical nuclear weapon, such as the B61-11, against underground nuclear sites” in Iran. This story was also carried on CNN.
    It was reported that on January 7 2007, an Israeli attack squadron comprising of three IAF F-16s, each (…)