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  • Will Watertown, MA Uproar Bring Abe Foxman Down?
    26 August 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    “Man is the only animal that blushes—or needs to.” — Mark Twain
    What would we do without him? I’m talking about Abe Foxman, National Director of the Anti-Defamation League (ADL). Although, he mostly pretends to be one of the guys, he actually does have some super abilities. Working 24/7, he functions like a One-Man Censor Board to protect Americans from any ideas that might cause them to question what the Israel Firsters, like himself, are really up to. He also can perform as an attack (…)

  • War for Water on the Golan Heights
    26 August 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    QUNEITRA, Syrian Golan Heights— Trucks of every size were queued up for miles and some hadn’t budged in days. At the end of the line, drivers resigned to a long, hot ordeal set up camp waiting for inspections.
    At the border checkpoint on the Beirut-Damascus highway, each industrial vehicle must be searched in compliance with UN Resolution 1701 to insure it isn’t smuggling missiles or weapons into Lebanon. Israel and the US repeatedly charge Syria with rearming Hezbollah, and if true it (…)

  • Kansas Activists Bring Down the Rafters
    25 August 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Report by Anne Pritchett and Carol Huhs
    In case you haven’t heard, last night Kansas Representative Dennis Moore and Kansas Senator Pat Roberts met for a little "kaffeeklatch" at Johnson County Community College (JCCC) near Kansas City, Kansas. It was an attempt at bipartisanship - - a blue dog Dem talking with a Repub - - trying to make all the problems go away. They sat and talked about nothing for about an hour and a half. They took questions from the audience that were written on (…)

  • The Guardian vs. ZNet – a case study for Noam Chomsky and Edward Herman
    24 August 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Gabriele Zamparini
    As everybody else I fell in love with the classic Manufacturing Consent, the propaganda model proposed by Edward Herman and Noam Chomsky almost twenty years ago, as soon as I read it.
    The following I believe is an interesting case I would like to submit to the attention of my readers, including Noam Chomsky and Edward Herman.
    The Guardian
    "There have also been around 70,000 Iraqi civilian deaths as a result of the military action by the US and its allies, (…)

  • How Congress Will End the Occupation
    24 August 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    By David Swanson
    Public pressure on Congress to end the occupation of Iraq resulted in a fundamental breakthrough on July 19th when 70 congress members sent a letter to the president. The key sentence in the letter was the first one:
    "We are writing to inform you that we will only support appropriating additional funds for U.S. military operations in Iraq during Fiscal Year 2008 and beyond for the protection and safe redeployment of all our troops out of Iraq before you leave office." (…)

  • Resistance of One
    24 August 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    By David Swanson
    There is something else we can try. If you’ve given up on staging marches and rallies, or if – like me – you haven’t but you want to try something else as well, and if you’ve given up on lobbying Congress as pointless, or if – like me – you haven’t but you want to try something else as well, and if educating your fellow citizens as to exactly how completely corrupt the whole system is seems like an incomplete answer, and if staging a general strike or taking over the (…)

  • Making us all "safer".
    23 August 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    Army gets new ’enhanced blast’ weapon to fight Taliban..... or any other resisters who happen to oppose western imperialism.
    British soldiers in Afghanistan are being supplied with a new "super weapon" to attack Taliban fighters more effectively, defence officials said yesterday.
    The "enhanced blast" weapon is based on thermobaric technology used in the powerful bombs dropped by the Russians to obliterate Grozny, the Chechen capital, and in US "bunker busters".
    Defence officials (…)

  • The Iraq War: An American made holocaust
    23 August 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    As people are waking up to the grim news that 14 U.S. soldiers lost their lives in the hell hole known as Iraq, I suspect there are many who do feel that the Iraqis could be doing more to stop this blood letting. But, that line of thinking is one of sheer hubris since this blood letting began when we illegally invaded that sovereign country back in 2003. Yours truly including millions more around this globe tried to stop it, but we were not listened to by this arrogant government.
    While (…)

  • Atomic Weapons Tested in Hawai’i: Army Bombing Continues on Sacred Lands
    23 August 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Army Survey Confirms Use of Nuclear Weapon System in Hawaii: Formerly Classified "Davy Crockett" Cannon at Pohakuloa
    Tuesday, August 21st, 2007 Associated Press Radioactive depleted uranium has been found at the U.S. Army’s Pohakuloa Training Area, the Army announced Monday.
    Military contractor Cabrera Services has also determined that a formerly classified weapon capable of firing atomic rounds, the "Davy Crockett", was used at the Big Island military base, the Army said in a two-page (…)

  • Illegal Attacks - A new Anti-war music video by Ian Brown with Sinead O’Connor For STOP THE WAR UK
    23 August 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    ILLEGAL ATTACKS
    A new Anti-war music video by Ian Brown with Sinead O’Connor
    Ian Brown, ex singer of the landmark British rock group Stone Roses and creator of four highly acclaimed solo albums, launched his latest single ’Illegal Attacks’ as a Stop the War exclusive.
    ’Illegal Attacks’ is an anti-war song and Ian Brown is joined in this powerful duet by Sinead O’Connor. Shot in London directed by Colin O’Toole, the video tells the story of a young British man who enlists in the army and (…)