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  • Mother of Iraq War Vet Who Committed Suicide Flies Flag Upside Down
    24 July 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Matthew Rothschild
    Terri Jones lost her son Jason Cooper just over a year ago.
    He was an Army Reservist in the Iraq War.
    On July 14, 2005, four months after returning home to Iowa, he hanged himself.
    He was 23.
    Since then, Jones has been flying her American flag upside down, though someone came on her property once and turned it right side up, and another person stole it.
    “We had a flag out the whole time Jason was in Iraq,” she says. “Once he died, my boyfriend Vince turned (…)

  • At a crossroads in downtown Beirut
    24 July 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Zena el-Khalil writing from Beirut, Live from Lebanon
    Today I drove through downtown on my way to visit my parents. I was driving alone and was a bit nervous. First time in a car alone since this whole thing started ... But I had to see my parents.
    I came across a red light and stopped. The streets were empty, and I caught myself wondering why I stopped and didn’t just go through. Streets were totally empty - no other cars, no traffic police. Then I remembered my latest policy that is (…)

  • Bush’s Faith in Force and the Middle East in Flames
    24 July 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Tom Engelhardt
    So, as the world spins on a dime, where exactly are we?
    As a man who is no fan of fundamentalists of any sort, let me offer a proposition that might make some modest sense of our reeling planet. Consider the possibility that the most fundamental belief, perhaps in all of history, but specifically in these last catastrophic years, seems to be in the efficacy of force — and the more of it the merrier. That deep belief in force above all else is perhaps the monotheism of (…)

  • Condi’s Flying Dutchman
    24 July 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By MAUREEN DOWD Washington
    As USA Today noted about summer movies, the hot trend in heroines “is not the damsel in distress. It’s the damsel who causes distress.”
    Uma, Oprah. Oprah, Condi.
    The more W. and his tough, by-any-means-necessary superbabe have tried to tame the Middle East, the more inflamed the Middle East has become. Now the secretary of state is leaving, reluctantly and belatedly, to do some shuttle diplomacy that entails little diplomacy and no shuttling. It’s more like (…)

  • The Zionist conspiracy to divide the Arab states into small units
    23 July 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    The eminent Israel Shahak provided this crucial translation of Israeli policy some years ago. Seems to be on track. Here are a few excerpts:
    The Zionist conspiracy to divide the Arab states into small units
    "Egypt: Egypt, in its present domestic political picture, is already a corpse, all the more so if we take into account the growing Muslim-Christian rift. Breaking Egypt down territorially into distinct geographical regions is the political aim of Israel in the Nineteen Eighties on (…)

  • End it now. The government is conducting this war with no peripheral vision
    23 July 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Susie Becher
    When a lone Qassam fell on the grounds of an Ashkelon school that was closed for summer vacation and caused some damage to the building, Prime Minister Olmert called the attack a "declaration of war." One wonders whether he was just being loose with his tongue or whether he really forgot the meaning of the word.
    Since then, he has since gotten a very clear reminder: You think that’s war? We’ll show you what war is!
    Analysts looking for the answer to how we got here (…)

  • Three Letters from Beirut
    23 July 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Personal Account of the Seige of Lebanon
    By Rasha in Beirut
    "Slowly but surely, in cold blood the country was being dismembered, ligament after ligament, inland, on the coast, and in the mountains."
    Dear All,
    I am writing now from a cafe, in West Beirut’s Hamra district. It is filled with people who are trying to escape the pull of 24 hour news reporting. Like me. The electricity has been cut off for a while now, and the city has been surviving on generators. The old system that was (…)

  • "Stop that shit!"
    23 July 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Uri Avnery
    A WOMAN, an immigrant from Russia, throws herself on the ground in total despair in front of her home that has been hit by a missile, crying in broken Hebrew: "My son! My son!" believing him dead. In fact he was only wounded and sent to the hospital.
    Lebanese children, covered with wounds, in Beirut hospitals. The funeral of the victims of a missile in Haifa. The ruins of a whole devastated quarter in Beirut. Inhabitants of the north of Israel fleeing south from the (…)

  • Israel’s creationn of Hamas
    22 July 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    War on Terror?? Islam-o-rama-fascism?? Real or just pap from the ends of the "repsonsible" news organs?
    What’s all this Israeli support for terror groups all about? Us hayseeds is truly stumped:
    Hamas, Son of Israel- by Justin Raimondo Israel’s support for Hamas ’was a direct attempt to divide and dilute support for a strong, secular PLO by using a competing religious alternative - www.antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=8449
    Heck, let’s go whole hog
    Israel’s Hamas by George Szamuely (…)

  • Update on Poison Gases being used in Lebanon by IDF
    22 July 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The operative word here is BURNED!!!!!!!!!! Wayne Madsen added this article today to update his original article yesterday.
    July 22/23, 2006 — U.S. military intelligence sources have told WMR that the artillery shell shown below being used by an Israel Defense Force member in Lebanon, is a type of dual and multi-use weapon the neocons falsely accused Saddam Hussein of possessing. Although the canister artillery shell is marketed as an anti-land mine fuel-air bomb, its payload can also (…)