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  • The BBC: A Global Instrument of Zionist Propaganda
    19 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    BBC Coat of Arms, c1932: "Nation Shall speak Peace unto Nation"!
    The portrayal of the BBC as independent and impartial public broadcaster is sadly misleading. The BBC is a global instrument of Zionist propaganda. In addition to defending Israel’s terrorism and the illegal occupation of Palestinian land, the BBC is an active complicit in Zionism war crimes throughout the Middle East.
    A study by Greg Philo and Mike Berry of the Glasgow University Media Unit in Scotland reveals that the (…)

  • Bush seeks expanded military tribunal role
    19 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    The White House is seeking legislation that would allow people not affiliated with terrorism to be prosecuted in military commissions — with far fewer rights than afforded civilians.
    Washington Post Service
    WASHINGTON - A draft Bush administration plan for special military courts seeks to expand the reach and authority of such ’’commissions’’ to include trials, for the first time, of people who are not al Qaeda members or the Taliban and are not directly involved in acts of international (…)

  • Israel’s Water Wars
    19 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Israel’s Water Wars Tuesday, August 15th, 2006 by Jason Godesky The stated rationale for Israel’s invasion of Lebanon was nonsense. Ostensibly, Israel invaded Lebanon because Hizb’allah captured two IDF soldiers that violated the Lebanese border.1 Later reports in Western media were changed so that Hizb’allah was entering Israel in an unprovoked attack; this is the generally understood scenario in the West, though it conflicts with the original reports and Lebanese police. Hizb’allah asked (…)

  • Marines Protect Their Own: A Cover Up of Cold-Blooded Murder in Iraq
    18 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Marines May Have Excised Evidence on 24 Iraqi Deaths
    By DAVID S. CLOUD
    WASHINGTON, Aug. 17 - A high-level military investigation into the killings of 24 Iraqis in Haditha last November has uncovered instances in which American marines involved in the episode appear to have destroyed or withheld evidence, according to two Defense Department officials briefed on the case.
    The investigation found that an official company logbook of the unit involved had been tampered with and that an (…)

  • The army is back, but don’t expect it to disarm Hizbollah
    18 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    The army is back, but don’t expect it to disarm Hizbollah
    Robert Fisk - The Independent August 18, 2006
    Now you see them, now you don’t. Hizbollah weapons? None to be seen. And none to be collected by the Lebanese army. For when this august body of men crossed the Litani river yesterday, their officers made it perfectly clear that it would not be the army’s job to disarm the Hizbollah. Nor was anyone in Lebanon surprised. After all, most of the Lebanese troops here are Shias - like the (…)

  • Kurds flee homes as Iran shells Iraq’s northern frontier
    18 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Kurds flee homes as Iran shells Iraq’s northern frontier
    Michael Howard in Qandil Mountain Friday August 18, 2006
    Turkey and Iran have dispatched tanks, artillery and thousands of troops to their frontiers with Iraq during the past few weeks in what appears to be a coordinated effort to disrupt the activities of Kurdish rebel bases.
    Scores of Kurds have fled their homes in the northern frontier region after four days of shelling by the Iranian army. Local officials said Turkey had also (…)

  • AIPAC Congratulates Itself on the Slaughter in Lebanon
    18 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    "Look What You’ve Done!" AIPAC Congratulates Itself on the Slaughter in Lebanon By JOHN WALSH
    "My fellow American," Howard Friedman, President of AIPAC, begins his letter of July 30 to friends and supporters of AIPAC, "Look what you’ve done"! After warning that "Israel is fighting a pivotal war for its life," by which he means Israel’s wanton slaughter and all-out destruction in Lebanon, Freiedman condemns "the expected chorus of international condemnation of Israel’s actions" and (…)

  • WALL STREET JOURNAL RHAPSODIZES OVER SHAM UN RESOLUTION TO END LEBANON WAR
    18 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Wall Street Journal Rhapsodizes Over Sham UN Resolution to End Lebanon War - by Stephen Lendman
    On its editorial page at least the Wall Street Journal is consistent. It never fails to disappoint or miss an opportunity to misinform its readers. The August 16 article by the right wing Hoover Institution George Shultz Senior Fellow and former US State Department legal advisor in the 1980s Abraham Sofaer is just the latest example. The article is a typical Journal litany of propaganda, (…)

  • Is the Lebanon invasion a step toward a regional war?
    18 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Is the Lebanon invasion a step toward a regional war?
    8/17/2006 10:30:00 AM GMT
    By: Kevin Zeese
    The dividing line between peace candidates and pro-war candidates is no longer opposition to the Iraq War - a view now held by large majorities of Americans. It is whether they oppose the pre-meditated destruction of Lebanon by Israel - with U.S. weapons, and oppose a first strike military attack on Iran.
    Israel’s massive attack on Lebanon, resulting in the death of more than 1,100 (…)

  • Why Do We Hate Them?
    18 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Fear and Loathing in the Occident
    By Jason Miller
    Islamophobia is a mental and spiritual affliction. And our Western ruling elites bear the responsibility for inflicting it upon the psyches of the masses.
    Now that the Stalinist/Maoist regimes have collapsed or evolved toward capitalism and no fascist states with imperial ambitions exist (besides the United States and its few allies), the American Empire needed to find a new "enemy" to replace Stalinists and Nazis. Much of the soft (…)