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  • Indian - Israeli Ties Could Neutralize Delhi’s Palestinian Policy
    12 July 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Nicola Nasser*
    A seminar on “Palestine: 1967 and After” organized by the Indian Council of World Affairs (ICWA) and the mission of the League of Arab States (LAS) in New Delhi on June 22 highlighted India’s still unwavering historical support for the Palestinian people, but failed to address the potential political effects of the growing Indian – Israeli ties on New Delhi’s more than ten – decade old policy on the Arab – Israeli conflict in Palestine.
    Only the criticism of those ties (…)

  • BODY COUNT - comparing Jewish, Indian, Bengali, Palestinian, Iraqi & Afghan HOLOCAUSTS
    12 July 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    This year South Asia (Pakistan, India, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Nepal, Sri Lanka, and Maldives) celebrates 60 years of Independence from racist, colonialist, imperialist Britain. 2 centuries of violent, racist British rule was associated with horrendous avoidable mortality (excess deaths, deaths that would not have happened under benign and competent rule) totalling 1.5 BILLION (see: ; also see the recent book “Body Count. Global avoidable mortality since 1950: ). Thus the annual death rate (…)

  • The Iraq War: Every cloud has a silver lining!
    11 July 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Bush and the MSM may brag about their efforts in Iraq, but the public at large and most pundits decry it as the "4 year failure".
    Ask anyone in the world and they will tell you that the war is the biggest failure the US ever launched as a military/occupation venture. But wait!
    Secretly, when you slink down the back allys of Foggy Bottom and query those "in the know", they will confide that this "war" is considered by Washingtonians as the biggest success in our history!
    Huh?
    True. (…)

  • Cindy Sheehan to Lead Rally in Charlottesville, Va.
    10 July 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    by David Swanson
    WHAT: Rally for peace, justice, and impeachment, part of Cindy Sheehan’s "Journey for Humanity"
    march/drive from Crawford, Texas, to New York City.
    WHO: Cindy Sheehan, other leading activists for peace and justice, the Charlottesville Center for Peace and
    Justice, Code Pink, and other allied peace and justice organizations.
    WHEN: Friday, July 20, 6:00 p.m.
    WHERE: Outside, on the west end of the Downtown Mall, in front of the Charlottesville Ice Park, in (…)

  • "Demonstration" Government in Palestine
    10 July 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Stephen Lendman
    In 1984 (a year of Orwellian significance), activist and media and social critic Edward Herman wrote one of his many important books titled "Demonstration Elections." In it, he analyzed the US-staged elections in the 1960s in the Dominican Republic and Vietnam and the 1982 one in El Salvador. In the book’s Orwellian glossary of terms, he defined the process as "A circus held in a client state to assure the population of the home country that their intrusion is well (…)

  • Paying The Price: Killing The Children Of Iraq
    10 July 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    A documentary film by John Pilger
    Sanctions enforced by the UN on Iraq since the Gulf ... all » War have killed more people than the two atomic bombs dropped on Japan in 1945, including over half a million children - many of whom weren’t even born when the Gulf War began.

  • Peek a Boo
    8 July 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    We hold our hands in front of our faces and tell an infant, “Peek a boo!” Then we put our hands back in front of our face and ask, “Where’s the baby?” From the earliest days of life we are thus trained that some how out of sight equals out of mind. But just like in the childish game we are startled when it comes back and says again, peek a boo.
    Perhaps it is just an evolutionary flaw, a hole in our intelligence that only rears it’s head from time to time. Slowing, but not eliminating human (…)

  • Hillary’s Bizarre History of the Iraq War Blame the Puppet By SAUL LANDAU (COUNTERPUNCH)
    8 July 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Hillary’s Bizarre History of the Iraq War Blame the Puppet
    By SAUL LANDAU
    Hillary Clinton blamed the Iraqi government for failure to make progress. "The American military has succeeded," she declared to a stunned public. "They got rid of Saddam Hussein, they gave the Iraqis a chance for free and fair elections. It is the Iraqi government which has failed to make the tough decisions that are important for their own people," she said, unable to finish her sentence because of a chorus of (…)

  • Israel-Syria war rumors rise
    7 July 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    www.jnewswire.com Jerusalem Newswire Israel-Syria war rumors rise
    By Stan Goodenough Jul 06, 2007
    The US state department’s Dennis Ross, who played point man in the Middle East for the Clinton administration, believes war could erupt between Israel and Syria this summer.
    Ross, who now heads up the Jewish People Policy Planning Insitutue, told Ynetnews Friday “there is a risk of war” between the two countries.
    His warning comes two days after Syria denounced a massive IDF exercise (…)

  • IDF carries out massive exercise on Golan By Yuval Azoulay (HAARETZ)
    7 July 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    IDF carries out massive exercise on Golan
    By Yuval Azoulay
    The Israel Defense Forces this week carried out one of the largest infantry exercises of recent years in the Golan Heights region, training for conflict with Syria and Hezbollah.
    Supplies were air-dropped, tanks provided covering fire and infantry forces trained in nonconventional warfare and countering anti-tank missile attacks.
    "We are training for every possible scenario. Syria, Hezbollah, Hamas in the Gaza Strip and (…)