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  • "If I Did It" — OJ
    21 November 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    George W. Bush is responsible for the deaths of over 650,000 Iraqis
    and 2,800 American GIs and counting. Jr. was protected in Indonesia by more than 18,000 troops upon his visit to that country hours ago.
    OJ Simpson was acquited of killing two people and yet his new book and television special, "If I Did It," were canceled by News Corp.

  • Is a damaged Administration less likely to attack Iran, or more?
    21 November 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    by SEYMOUR M. HERSH
    A month before the November elections, Vice-President Dick Cheney was sitting in on a national-security discussion at the Executive Office Building. The talk took a political turn: what if the Democrats won both the Senate and the House? How would that affect policy toward Iran, which is believed to be on the verge of becoming a nuclear power? At that point, according to someone familiar with the discussion, Cheney began reminiscing about his job as a lineman, in the (…)

  • A Cafe Opens to Serve a Mission to End the War
    21 November 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    By MICHELLE YORK
    On Veterans Day, John Hartlaub wandered into the newest cafe in Watertown, N.Y.
    It was sparsely furnished, with three Internet stations, a black sofa and an offering of hot or cold cider. A customer who actually wanted coffee would have to buy it a few doors away.
    Mr. Hartlaub stayed most of the afternoon anyway. He browsed a few dozen military books for sale, then pulled up a folding chair to watch "Poison Dust," a documentary about the health effects of depleted (…)

  • Palestinian human shields give Israel pause
    21 November 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Joshua Mitnick
    TEL AVIV - In perhaps the most effective act of nonviolent protest in the six-year Palestinian uprising, hundreds of Gazans forced Israel over the weekend to call off airstrikes on the residence of a militant leader by swarming the house as human shields.
    In recent months, Israeli security forces have used telephone calls to warn Palestinian militants and others near alleged militant safe houses and weapons caches, giving them up to a half hour to evacuate. When militia (…)

  • The United States use of Depleted Uranium, installment number one
    20 November 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The United States use of Depleted Uranium, installment number one By Mary MacElveen November 20, 2006
    With the newly elected Democratic controlled congress set to take power in January, one Congressman, Charles Rangel has called for the reimplementation of the draft. I really do not know how I feel at this at any given moment. I am just so sick and tired of these wars that we have been fighting and want us all just to sit down and breathe. Please remember that word breathe.
    But, my (…)

  • Unmasking the Second Palestinian Intifada
    20 November 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Remi Kanazi
    Over the last five years, the Palestinian people have faced a host of obstacles in their fight for sovereignty, preventing them the opportunity to create a life those in the Western world brag about. A principal impediment facing the Palestinian struggle today is the constant reaffirmation that the Palestinian people-deemed by Israel and the US-are “terrorists,” “militants,” or animalistic beings lesser than those of the “civilized world.” In Ramzy Baroud’s new book, The (…)

  • WOMEN IN BLACK-LOS ANGELES: Dear members of the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra
    20 November 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    WomeninBlackLA@gmail.com
    Dear members of the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra,
    It is with great respect for classical music in general, and for the music of the Israel Philharmonic in particular that we, members of Women in Black, Los Angeles are writing you this letter. Some of us are Israelis now living in the US. We grew up attending concerts of the orchestra, and remember the experience with so much joy. We have the deepest appreciation for artists, musicians in this instance, and see (…)

  • Karen Armstrong on Religion and the Arab-Israeli Conflict
    19 November 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    "Man is kind enough when he is not excited by Religion." - Mark Twain.
    Washington, D.C. - On a rainy, windy afternoon, Nov. 16, 2007, before a capacity audience at St. Mark’s Episcopal Church, only a few blocks east of the U.S. Capitol, Karen Armstrong, a distinguished author, Feminist and scholar, addressed the potent issue of religion as it impacts on the Arab-Israeli conflict. The event was sponsored by the Council for the National Interest, (CNI), a feisty grassroots group, with (…)

  • IDF calls off strike after hundreds shield Gaza militant’s house
    19 November 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Nir Hasson, Aluf Ben and Avi Issacharoff, Haaretz Correspondents, Haaretz Service and Reuters
    The Israel Defense Forces canceled a planned air raid on the home of a militant in the northern Gaza Strip on Sunday after several hundred Palestinians barricaded themselves inside the building, an IDF spokesman and witnesses said.
    Palestinian sources called the protest the first of its kind to have in effect prevented an air strike by the IAF. An IDF spokesman said the strike had been called (…)

  • “V” Makes A Mark In DC
    19 November 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    November 18, 2006
    http://www.givemeliberty.org/RTP2/UPDATES/Update2006-11-18.htm
    “V” Makes A Mark In DC
    Worldwide Interest in RTP Stirred
    It’s working.
    We are making good use of the powerful concept of en masse activist resistance used in the movie, “V for Vendetta.”
    “V” is helping us as we build support for the unalienable Right to a Response from Government to our Petitions for Redress of Grievances regarding the Government’s violation of the war powers, tax, privacy and money (…)