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  • Civilian Killings Went Unpunished. Declassified papers show U.S. atrocities went far beyond My Lai
    9 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Nick Turse and Deborah Nelson, Special to The Times
    The men of B Company were in a dangerous state of mind. They had lost five men in a firefight the day before. The morning of Feb. 8, 1968, brought unwelcome orders to resume their sweep of the countryside, a green patchwork of rice paddies along Vietnam’s central coast.
    They met no resistance as they entered a nondescript settlement in Quang Nam province. So Jamie Henry, a 20-year-old medic, set his rifle down in a hut, unfastened (…)

  • The Iraq War Enablers
    9 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Bob Herbert
    So there was Hillary Rodham Clinton grandstanding for the television cameras last week, giving Donald Rumsfeld a carefully scripted chewing out for his role in the Bush administration’s lunatic war in Iraq.
    Casual viewers could have been forgiven for not realizing that Senator Clinton has long been a supporter of this war, and that even now, with the number of pointless American deaths moving toward 2,600, her primary goal apparently is not to find an end game, but to (…)

  • ISRAEL:Left-wing activists protest against ’war crimes’ at IAF base
    9 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Some 25 activists protest outside Ramat David air force base calling to ’stop civilian killings.’ After battling with police, 12 were taken into custody. Ali Waked
    Some 25 left-wing activists from central Israel protested Tuesday outside the entrance to the Ramat David air force base. They held banners calling to "end war crimes." The protestors called for an immediate ceasefire and release of all prisoners and captives. The protest was held without authorization. Police arriving at (…)

  • Kashmir students condemn Israeli aggression in Lebanon and Palestine
    9 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Kashmir students condemn Israeli aggression in Lebanon and Palestine By our correspondent in Kashmir Monday, 07 August 2006
    Only class war can stop imperialist aggression
    On August 1st more than 200 students of JKNSF (Marxists) organised a rally in Rawalakot (Kashmir) to condemn the Israeli aggression on Lebanon and Palestine. They were chanting slogans like “Down with imperialism.... Long live Socialism”, “No religious war nor national war...Class war, Class war” and were flying red (…)

  • Statement by the General Secretary of the Lebanese Communist Party
    9 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Statement by the General Secretary of the Lebanese Communist Party, Dr. Khaled Haddadeh on the occasion of the Emergency Meeting of Arab Foreign Ministers in Beirut. After 25 days of continuous American-Israeli aggression against our country, barbaric aggression that has killed our women and children and committed wholesale massacres from Marwaheen to Qana; from Bint Jbeil to al-Jamaliyah and al-Qaa massacres that are still going on, After the Arab governments have sat silent out of (…)

  • Israeli Intellectuals Love the War
    8 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Ran HaCohen
    Dedicated to the too few Israeli intellectuals who do dare speak out against this war.
    All generalizations are wrong, except this one: Israeli liberal intellectuals are against war. They have always been against it, and they even suffered greatly for their critical views, as they stress proudly. They were against the previous war, they will be against the next war, they are against all wars. There is just one minor exception, though: the present war, every present war, (…)

  • Right now a tragedy is unfolding in the Middle East
    8 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Silvia Cattori
    Dear friends,
    Right now a tragedy is unfolding in the Middle East. Hundreds of civilians
    have died in the bombings in Lebanon, Israel and Palestine and the death
    toll is rising every day.
    UN Secretary General Kofi Annan has called for an immediate ceasefire and UK
    Prime Minister Tony Blair has joined Annan in calling for the deployment of
    international troops to the Israel-Lebanon border. This is the best proposal
    yet to stop the violence, but for it to succeed (…)

  • "Bring the Soldiers Home! "It will not End - Until we Talk!"
    8 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The biggest demonstration against the war held in Israel until now took place today (5.8.06) in the heart of downtown Tel-Aviv, an area that is considered especially right-wing.
    Close to 10 thousand demonstrators from all over the country, among them many Arab citizens, marched from Ben-Zion Boulevard, along King George Street, to Magen David Square. There, at the entrance to the Carmel market, a stage was set up. The thousands that did not find place in the square flowed over into Nahlat (…)

  • Voice of the White House August 6, 2006
    8 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Voice of the White House August 6, 2006
    TBR News.org - August 6, 2006
    “The American public is being told one thing by the Administration and the DoD. and various staff members here are being told something quite different.
    This, of course, deals with the current terrible events in Lebanon. While the public is told that Israel is going after terrorists, the death tolls are way underreported.
    When Israeli bombing attacks kill two hundred Lebanese, Tel Aviv wants us to publish that (…)

  • The Administration’s Futile Attempts to Continuously Redefine the War
    8 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Over the past four years the Administration has presented a sequence of failed rationales for the War on Terror and the war in Iraq, ranging from WMDs to spreading democracy. The rationale behind the rationales is a textbook case of shifting from one marketing hook to another, hoping the masses finally embrace one of them. And to think; these were the same people who called Bill Clinton a waffler.
    Without the acumen of a sophisticated ad agency, the Administration has repeatedly shown (…)