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  • Bush Making More Enemies in the Middle East
    3 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    By failing to press for the impeachment of President Bush and his most bellicose advisors, the American people and their elected members of the House of Representatives expose our country to ever greater hatred and isolation. By permitting President Bush to pursue his policy of domination through threat and lawless force, we risk ever widening international violence.
    The new tragedy of Lebanon has brought death to hundreds of civilians, children, women and men. Hundreds of thousands, (…)

  • Chavez Claims : Israel Resembles Hitler
    3 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Chavez Claims : Israel Resembles Hitler By Anadolu News Agency (aa), Tehran Monday, July 31, 2006 zaman.com
    Veneuzela President Hugo Chavez condemned Israel’s attack on Lebanon and Palestine. During an official two-day visit to Iran’s capital Tehran, Chavez declared, “What Israel is doing is fascism and terrorism. We call on the world to stop Israel’s insanity,” during a ceremony at the University of Tehran in which he was awarded the Order of the Islamic Republic of Iran, First Grade. (…)

  • The most unsuccessful war
    3 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    found this article in Hareetz against the war... Can be an information but it is far from to be enough;-) The most unsuccessful war By Ze’ev Sternhell
    No situation can continue to exist for long without an ideological reason. That’s how when once it was clear that it was not achieving its aims, an unsuccessful military campaign was upgraded with the wave of a magic wand to the level of a war of survival. When everyone understood that a moral reason had to be found both for the dimensions (…)

  • The Qana Massacre And The Risks In Relying On Israeli Propaganda
    2 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    THE QANA MASSACRE AND THE RISKS IN RELYING ON ISRAELI PROPAGANDA
    On July 30, the Israeli Defense Force (“IDF”) released infrared aerial footage purporting to show a Hezbollah Katyusha battery situated in a residential area of Qana, firing rockets at Israel. The IDF claimed that Hezbollah hid the trucks, which are used as launch platforms for the Katyushas, in and around residential neighborhoods in Qana, in support of its claim that Hezbollah is using civilians as human shields. (The (…)

  • Sheik Up
    2 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Annia Ciezadlo – Beirut Despatch New Republic July/August 2006
    In the early hours of September 13, 1997, the Israeli army killed one 45-year-old woman, two Hezbollah fighters, and six Lebanese soldiers in the mountains of southern Lebanon. Later that day, Hezbollah officials viewed video footage of the bodies and confirmed that one of the slain was a precious kill indeed: 18-year-old Hadi Nasrallah, son of Hezbollah’s leader, Secretary-General Sayyid Hassan Nasrallah.
    That evening, (…)

  • Blair, Olmert and Bush are murderers
    2 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    “Expanding and strengthening†the onslaught against the people of Lebanon. That was Israel’s response to the international outcry over the slaughter of 56 civilians, most of them children, in Qana.
    And with the world’s eyes turned to the increasingly savage offensive in southern Lebanon, Israel has tightened the noose of collective punishment around the Palestinians in Gaza.
    Accompanying all this are the barely concealed calls in Washington for an assault on Iran and Syria.
    No (…)

  • Message to the Tricontinental
    2 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    "Now is the time of the furnaces, and only light should be seen." Jose Marti
    Twenty-one years have already elapsed since the end of the last world conflagration; numerous publications, in every possible language, celebrate this event, symbolized by the defeat of Japan. There is a climate of apparent optimism in many areas of the different camps into which the world is divided.
    Twenty-one years without a world war, in these times of maximum confrontations, of violent clashes and sudden (…)

  • Analysis: Hezbollah may have the edge
    2 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    CAIRO, Egypt (AP) — It’s hard to defeat a group of extremists who can mingle among civilian supporters and are pros at propaganda. Israel’s military faces the same conundrum the United States has encountered elsewhere — finding that airstrikes are costly in civilian deaths and public support, while ground attacks are risky for soldiers.
    That does not mean Hezbollah is winning militarily. But the guerrilla group has so far avoided a knockout by Israel, even as international pressure for a (…)

  • Lebanon oil spill crisis
    2 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    I don’t know how many readers have booked holidays in the Med, but it’s not looking good and the mainstream media seems to be not reporting this. Al Jazeera has picked it up, but Greenpeace and others have been reporting it since the bombing.
    The Lebanese government has appealed for help to clean up a huge oil spill along its coastline created after Israel bombed a power plant.
    The environment ministry says up to 30,000 tonnes of oil flooded into the sea after Israeli jets attacked (…)

  • Washington’s secret germ warfare laboratory will violate international law
    2 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    VHeadline.com commentarist Megan Love writes: There seems to be some dissent among VHeadline.com readers about what is really going on. My last few articles have been loaded with some heavy passages and conspiracies that are happening.
    This article should help to bring some light to at least one factor of what is going on ... especially straight after the revelation that ’something or someone somewhere’ is purchasing uranium from the Congo region that is mined illegally by natives (…)