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  • Chavez launches fundraising drive for Lebanon, Palestinians
    21 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    By The Associated Press
    President Hugo Chavez said Venezuela is carrying out a nationwide fundraising drive to raise money for rebuilding Lebanon and for the Palestinian people.
    Chavez called the Lebanese and Palestinians "heroic people" and reiterated his criticisms of Israel over its military offensive in Lebanon.
    "I ask everyone in the country to give what we can for this fundraising campaign for the reconstruction of Lebanon - destroyed by the genocidal and fascist hand of Israel, (…)

  • A Timeline of the Bush Administration’s Road to War in Iraq
    21 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    The road that led to the U.S. invasion of Iraq in March 2003 may be conceptualized in the form of two parallel timelines. One timeline involves documentation of the Bush administration’s determination and plans for war, interspersed with concurrent public pronouncements that it was primarily seeking a peaceful solution to its conflict with Iraq.
    The other timeline (actually, a series of timelines by subject area) involves the Bush administration’s accumulation of “evidence” of the need (…)

  • Reservists: Officers stopped us attending protest against war
    21 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Reservists: Officers stopped us attending protest against war 20/08/06 By Nir Hasson
    Some 160 infantry reserve soldiers are accusing their commanders of preventing them from participating in a demonstration against the war in Lebanon, which they called a "debacle." The soldiers said they had been used as "sitting ducks."
    "I’ve been in the army and reserves for 26 years and what happened this time was not merely a fiasco, it was a complete debacle. We felt like tin soldiers in a game of (…)

  • Real Photo Fakers Real War Crimes
    21 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By JONATHAN COOK Nazareth.
    During Israel’s war against the people of Lebanon, our media, politicians and diplomats have colluded with the aggressors by distracting us with irrelevancies, by concocting controversies, and by framing the language of diplomacy. In the fragile truce that is currently holding while Lebanon waits for Israel to withdraw, we are simply getting more of the same.
    One example of the many distractions during the war that neatly reveals their true purpose is the (…)

  • Lebanon: The 33-Day War and UNSC Resolution 1701
    20 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Gilbert Achcar
    The resolution adopted by the UN Security Council on August 11, 2006 fully satisfies neither Israel nor Washington nor Hezbollah. This does not mean that it is "fair and balanced": it only means that it is a temporary expression of a military stalemate. Hezbollah could not inflict a major military defeat on Israel, a possibility that was always excluded by the utterly disproportionate balance of forces in the same way that it was impossible for the Vietnamese resistance (…)

  • Falling behind in Lebanon
    20 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Falling behind in Lebanon
    The New York Times Published: August 17, 2006
    Hezbollah is taking charge of reconstruction in south Lebanon, while the world is still dithering over the makeup of a peacekeeping force. After a month of war, large swaths of the country are in ruins. Thousands of people are without homes. Many Lebanese are furiously blaming the United States as well as Israel for their suffering. Whatever anger they may also harbor toward Hezbollah for provoking the war is being (…)

  • Egypt Warns Against Strike on Iran
    20 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Egypt Warns Against Strike on Iran
    CAIRO (Reuters) - Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak warned against any military strike on Iran in an interview published yesterday.
    The United Nations Security Council has demanded Iran suspend uranium enrichment by the end of the month after Tehran failed to persuade the international community its atomic scientists were working on power stations, not bombs.
    Washington has declined to rule out military strikes as a solution to the nuclear dispute. (…)

  • Iran launches massive military exercise
    19 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Iran launches massive military exercise
    Tehran, Aug. 19 (AP): Iran today launched a series of large-scale military exercises aimed at introducing the country’s new defensive doctrine, State-run television reported.
    The television report said the military exercise would occur in 14 of the country’s 30 provinces and could last as long as five weeks.
    The first stage of the manoeuvers began with air strikes in the southeastern province of Sistan Va Baluchistan, the report said.
    The (…)

  • Kevin Zeese: Attack on Iran May Lead to WWIII!
    19 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    “Our ‘Neocons’ are neither new nor conservative, but old as Babylon and, evil as Hell.” - Edward Abbey
    Takoma Park, Maryland - Kevin Zeese got right to it in his opening remarks at a Forum, entitled, “Independent Solutions for the Middle East Crisis.” It was held in the town’s City Hall on Thursday evening, Aug. 17, 2006, in the Council Chambers. Zeese said: “The dividing line between peace candidates and pro war candidates is no longer opposition to the Iraq War. It is whether they oppose (…)

  • Nuclear war starting in 10 days?
    19 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Nuclear war starting in 10 days?
    11.08.2006 Such was the conclusion reached in the U.S. Russian generals and political scientists disagree only about its exact starting date.
    Our world is on the brink of another world war. It will originate August 22nd in the Middle East. The prediction was presented not by Vagna or Nostradamus but by an American political scientist Bernard Lewis in the acclaimed publication of Wall Street Journal. He is a man with close ties to the Bush administration (…)