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  • Ahmadinejad gives ’victory speech’ before masses
    16 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Ahmadinejad gives ’victory speech’ before masses
    In speech before thousands in city of Ardabil, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says ’Iranian people will force the powers to surrender. The stances in favor of the US and Israel harmed the Security Council’s image’ Roee Nahmias
    Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad carried a "victory speech" before a crowd in the city of Ardabel, and sent his congratulations to "the resistance" (Hizbullah ) and to the "free Lebanese people (…)

  • Israel: victim or aggressor?
    16 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Emma Clancy
    Watching television footage of the Qana massacre - the killing of dozens of civilians, including children - Beshara Doumani thought she was watching “the old footage of the Israeli massacre that killed one-hundred Lebanese civilians in the village of Qana during Operation ’Grapes of Wrath’ in 1996”. But, she wrote in a July 30 article for Electronic Intifada, “it suddenly becomes clear: another massacre at the same village, Qana, ten years later”.
    Claiming that the (…)

  • 56 Iraqis Die in Attacks on Marketplace
    16 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Baghdad district is hit by shells, a car bomb and a suicide bomber. Police in Fallouja stay home.
    By Solomon Moore, Times Staff Writer
    BAGHDAD - Coordinated attacks Sunday in a predominantly Shiite neighborhood in south Baghdad killed at least 56 people and wounded 148, local officials said.
    The attacks on a market in Zafaraniya included a barrage of mortar rockets, a car bomb and a suicide bomber on a bicycle, police reported.
    Elsewhere, insurgents appeared to strike a blow to (…)

  • This Fall, We Declare Peace!
    16 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    by united for peace
    Fear is in the air again. From Dick Cheney to Joe Lieberman, the proponents of the Iraq War are once again playing the fear card to try to shore up support for their failed policies — policies that have only made us more vulnerable to attacks like the one thwarted last week in England.
    Neither their overheated rhetoric, nor their color-coded warnings, nor their bloated and ineffectual "homeland security" apparatus are doing anything to keep us safer. They’re just (…)

  • They fight for our freedom...Our soldiers in Iraq
    16 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Thanks to Bush’s lies which thrust young soldiers into a "war" against "insurgents" in Afghanistan and especially Iraq....thanks to poor and irresponsible recruiting techniques back home....we are losing the VERY expensive "war on terror".
    Here is a sample of our troop makeup which clearly demonstrates why we aren’t winning...and never will.
    HARRY: Private 1st Class in the Army. Joined in North Carolina 2 days after 9/11. He was angry and wanted to get even. Shortly after going to (…)

  • Israel’s war on Lebanon "planned aggression": Syria
    15 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    DAMASCUS, Aug. 15 (Xinhua) — Syrian President Bashar al-Assad on Tuesday told the opening session of a journalists conference that Israel’s war on Lebanon was a "planned aggression".
    "The Israeli aggression against Lebanon was not connected with its kidnapped soldiers (by Hezbollah), but had been prearranged for a period of time," Assad said.
    He said the resistance in Lebanon had achieved victory, adding the people’s support had helped the resistance achieve this victory. (…)

  • A Self-Defeating War
    15 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    by George Soros The war on terror is a false metaphor that has led to counterproductive and self-defeating policies. Five years after 9/11, a misleading figure of speech applied literally has unleashed a real war fought on several fronts — Iraq, Gaza, Lebanon, Afghanistan, Somalia — a war that has killed thousands of innocent civilians and enraged millions around the world. Yet al Qaeda has not been subdued; a plot that could have claimed more victims than 9/11 has just been foiled by the (…)

  • Israel should pack up and go
    15 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Nadim Shehadi
    What is the logic that will emerge from this war? If Israel can exist only by destroying the neighborhood, then it’s time to declare it a failed state. The Zionist dream has turned into a nightmare and is not viable. If the future holds more of the same, then the time has come to reconsider the whole project. Every state has a duty to defend its citizens, but also it has a duty to provide them with security and the two are different. The prospects are for more destruction, (…)

  • When we turn our backs on the Law, we have told the bin Ladens they’ve won!
    15 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Mary MacElveen
    I have been speaking of what is a warranted fear as opposed to an unwarranted one and as I read this statement from the extremist right-wing-nut, Dick Cheney in which, concerning Ned Lamont’s win in the Conneticut Democratic primary, he stated that he found it "disturbing."
    The rightist vice president then went on to say “the al Qaeda types, they clearly are betting on the proposition that ultimately they can break the will of the American people in terms of our ability (…)

  • As the 6am ceasefire takes effect... the real war begins
    15 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Robert Fisk
    The real war in Lebanon begins today. The world may believe - and Israel may believe - that the UN ceasefire due to come into effect at 6am today will mark the beginning of the end of the latest dirty war in Lebanon after up to 1,000 Lebanese civilians and more than 30 Israeli civilians have been killed. But the reality is quite different and will suffer no such self-delusion: the Israeli army, reeling under the Hizbollah’s onslaught of the past 24 hours, is now facing the (…)