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  • An Orthodox American Jew fund a campaign against the demolition of Palestinian homes
    12 June 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    Tovah Lazaroff, THE JERUSALEM POST Jun. 12, 2007
    An Orthodox American Jew has donated $1.5 million to fund a campaign against the demolition of Palestinian and Beduin homes throughout Israel and the territories, the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions announced on Monday.
    The committee plans to use those funds to rebuild as many as 300 Palestinians homes it expects to be demolished this year either by the Interior Ministry, the Jerusalem Municipality or the Civil Administration. (…)

  • The Siege of Baghdad
    12 June 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    It’s funny, in a sad sick almost perverse sort of way, but it seems the only people who listen to George Bush and take him seriously anymore is the insurgency. Several months after his royal hind ass made his now famous “bring em on” statement the insurgency issued their own proclamation saying in affect, we have brought it on do you have anything else you wish to say to us?
    The on going political battle over Bushes insane surge, like Custer wishing for ten more men or Westmoreland’s (…)

  • ‘Cleansing’ the Two-state ‘Vision’ in Jerusalem
    12 June 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Nicola Nasser*
    “Israel Slides towards the Disastrous One State Trap,” The Baltimore Sun’s editorial concluded on June 5. The conclusion is no more true than in Jerusalem, where systematically and persistently Israel is accelerating her “Israelization” plans for eastern Jerusalem that will in the foreseen future doom the “land-for-peace” formula as obsolete, outdated and dead letter, and rule out the widely trumpeted solution of the two-state “vision” based on it as “unrealistic” wishful (…)

  • Why the Current Antiwar Movement is So Impotent by Ralph Nader (COMMONDREAMS)
    12 June 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Published on Saturday, May 19, 2007 by CommonDreams.org
    Why the Current Antiwar Movement is So Impotent
    by Ralph Nader
    The current issue of the UTNE Reader (May - June ‘07) carried a short but sensibly provocative article protesting the stagnation and the cul-de-sac nature of street protests that involve nonviolent civil disobedience.Joseph Hart, the author, asks why the current antiwar movement is so impotent, despite “a staggering 67 percent disapproval of President Bush’s handling (…)

  • Nation States are Designed to Suppress the Freedom of the Working by Illegitamate Control of Money
    12 June 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    Colonialism-Imperialism-Corporationism-Capitalism is about taking, killing, lies, and propaganda. But mostly its about a lack of concience and about MONEY!MONEY made not by the legitamate work in society as a ethical, honorable, and reality oriented indviduals.
    Since the transformation of the existus of the Roman empire from the what was to become the nation states of europe the elite for generations have been using the DIFFERENCES between people. Religion vs Religion. Man vs. Woman. Right (…)

  • UN warns of five million Iraqi refugees, half of wich have no access to food aid (Cockburn)
    12 June 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    UN warns of five million Iraqi refugees Half of displaced people have no access to food aid By Patrick Cockburn Published: 10 June 2007
    Omar, a Sunni driver, lived in a pleasant house in a Shia neighbourhood of al-Jihad district in west Baghdad until he decided that it was too dangerous for his family to stay.
    He moved with them to Damascus, but it was too expensive and he had no chance of getting a job.
    He returned to his home in al-Jihad, but when he arrived his neighbours said (…)

  • Resource Wars - Can We Survive Them?
    12 June 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Stephen Lendman
    Near the end of WW II, Franklin Roosevelt met with Saudi King ibn Saud on the USS Quincy. It began a six decade relationship guaranteeing US access to what his State Department called a "stupendous source of strategic power, and one of the greatest material prizes in world history" - the region’s oil and huge amount of it in Saudi Arabia. Today, the Middle East has two-thirds of the world’s proved oil reserves (around 675 billion barrels) and the Caspian basin an (…)

  • US Missiles in Europe: Beyond Deterrence to First-Strike Threat By Prof. Francis A. Boyle
    12 June 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    US Missiles in Europe: Beyond Deterrence to First-Strike Threat
    By Prof. Francis A. Boyle
    Global Research, June 6, 2007
    These European ABMs are an adjunct to the longstanding US policy of nuclear first strike against Russia, as explained in my book "The Criminality of Nuclear Deterrence"
    By means of a US first strike about 99%+ of Russian nuclear forces would be taken out. So Bush Jr. needs ABMs to take care of what remains. And in any event what really matters here is the (…)

  • World military expenditure increase of 37 per cent over the ten-years period since 1997 (SIPRI)
    11 June 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    Recent trends in military expenditure
    World military expenditure in 2006 is estimated at $1204 billion in current prices. This represents an increase of 3.5 per cent in real terms since 2005 and of 37 per cent over the 10-year period since 1997. Average spending per capita has increased from $173 in 2005 to $177 in 2006 at constant (2005) prices and exchange rates and to $184 at current prices.
    World military expenditure is extremely unevenly distributed. In 2006 the 15 countries with (…)

  • Washington and Israel discuss possible war against Syria By Chris Marsden (Global Research)
    11 June 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    Washington and Israel discuss possible war against Syria
    By Chris Marsden
    Global Research, June 9, 2007 World Socialist Web Site
    The Bush administration has used discussions between Israeli Transportation Minister and former Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz, US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Under Secretary of State Nicholas Burns to insist that there should be no talks between Israel and Syria.
    State Department spokesman Sean McCormack told reporters Wednesday June 6, “We’re (…)