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  • Towards an uneasy peace in the Middle East?
    4 September 2010 par (Open-Publishing)

    The new strategy of the Obama Administration’s Middle East seek to deepen the lines of negotiation "multilateral" (including the opening of a direct line to the Tehran regime and the establishment of an Arab ally in front, to isolate the hawks militarists, both Tehran and Tel Aviv) and would be further supported in the new UN sanctions on Iran with the aim of achieving real weakening of the Iranian economy and the possible revival of the "Green Tide" and supplemented with measures of (…)

  • Withdraw the Last Combat Politicians from Washington
    1 September 2010 par (Open-Publishing)

    Pretending to end a war and occupation, while stationing 50,000 soldiers, 18,000 mercenaries, and 84,000 support contractors in massive and permanent military bases in Iraq is a far cry from what candidate Barack Obama described as ending "the mind-set that got us into war in the first place." It fits better with Nobel Peace laureate Obama’s description of war as "not only necessary but morally justified."
    Over the past 20 years, the United States has imposed on Iraq two intense wars and (…)

  • Did the Israeli Defense Force Bomb Jews?
    30 August 2010 par (Open-Publishing)

    (San Francisco) – Israel, a nuclear weapons armed colossus in the Middle East, fights a lot of wars with two small, almost defenseless neighboring countries – Lebanon and Gaza. The 2006 War with Lebanon took a turn for the worse, though.
    Israel executed an emergency purchase for 100 plus US GBU-28 5,000 lb, or 2,722 kg, weaponized uranium aerosol bombs from their patron, the United States.
    The GBU-28 is a cobbled together weapon consisting of an approximately 20 ft long surplus artillery (…)

  • TOO EARLY TO WRITE-OFF THE NEW ISRAEL-PALESTINE TALKS – AN ANSWER TO JOURNALIST ALUF BENN’S EMPTY WORDS
    28 August 2010 par (Open-Publishing)

    John Chuckman
    http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/its-too-early-to-write-off-direct-israeli-palestinian-talks/article1688191/
    Too early to write-off direct talks?
    Please.
    Representatives for these "direct talks" on the Palestinian side in a sense do not even exist: Abbas’s election mandate timed out a year ago, and he stays in office under emergency measures – i..e,, he has absolutely no democratic legitimacy.
    But even poor Abbas, a kind of Palestinian "step’n’fetch it" (…)

  • "Don’t mention the War": 50 Questions Australian ABC TV Q&A wouldn’t ask Opposition Leader Tony Abbott
    17 August 2010 par (Open-Publishing)

    The taxpayer-funded Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC), the Australian equivalent of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), has a TV program moderated by presenter Tony Jones and called Q&A. In Q&A selected studio audience members or viewers submit questions to a panel of 5 MPs, commentators or other public figures (all but one panellist usually being quite right wing) (see: ).
    In my view, the ABC achieves "balance" by positioning its editorial policy between the (…)

  • US robot drones bomb flood-devastated Pakistan - Sanctions & Boycotts must stop UK & US state terrorism
    15 August 2010 par (Open-Publishing)

    Today is August 15, Indian Independence Day, the anniversary of British departure from India and Pakistan and the cessation of a 2-century Indian Holocaust that killed 1.8 billion Indians through dire deprivation. Pakistan abandoned its Independence Day (14 August) celebrations because of the floods disaster but the US has continued its cowardly robot drone bombing attacks on defenceless Pakistani villages.
    It was reported today, India Independence Day, that the Pakistani Prime Minister (…)

  • Why the UN won’t solve Western Sahara (until it becomes a crisis)
    13 August 2010 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Anna Theofilopoulou, Jacob Mundy, 12/08/2010
    In what is possibly a first for the mainstream U.S. media, New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof recently noted some of the parallels between Israel’s occupation of Palestinian lands and Morocco’s attempted annexation of Western Sahara:
    "It’s fair to acknowledge that there are double standards in the Middle East, with particular scrutiny on Israeli abuses. After all, the biggest theft of Arab land in the Middle East has nothing to do (…)

  • ABC FOS: Questions Q&A won’t ask of pro-war, pro-coal, pro-gas, pro-Zionist Australian PM Julia Gillard
    10 August 2010 par (Open-Publishing)

    Australia’s post-Coup, pro-war, pro-coal, pro-gas, pro-Zionist Labor PM Julia Gillard appeared in a stultifying episode of the TV Question and Answer TV program "Q&A" but 50 Elephant in the Room questions (listed below) were not put - the unspoken narrative of the current election campaign in Murdochracy and Lobbycracy Australia (right wing Libs versus right wing Labs, with the anti-war, pro-environment Greens hoping for 15% of the vote) is "Don’t mention the war".
    The (…)

  • Video: David Eberhardt Reads his Poetic Remake of “Once to Every Man and Nation.”
    9 August 2010 par (Open-Publishing)

    On Friday evening, Aug. 6, 2010, at the Bufano Sculpture Garden, on the campus of the Johns Hopkins U., in Baltimore, MD, a remembrance ceremony was held by the “Hiroshima-Nagasaki Commemoration Committee.” One of the participants in the event was David Eberhardt. He is a peace and social justice activist, an author and poet. See: http://davideberhardt.webs.com/farewelltophil.htm Mr. Eberhardt read his remake of James Russell Lowell’s hymn, “Once to Every Man and Nation.” Check out: (…)

  • The Gaza Prison
    9 August 2010 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Chris Patten Published on August 8, 2010
    IT IS easier to enter a maximum-security prison than it is to enter the strip of land – 45 kilometres long and maybe eight wide – that is home to Gaza’s 1.5 million Palestinians. Surrounded by a forbidding wall, watchtowers, and deadly buffer zones, I entered with a hard-to-obtain visa at the Erez crossing – iron gates, an interrogation by bored young immigration officers and scanners. On the other side is a kilometre-long caged walkway that (…)