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  • Uri Avnery Has Got It Right
    19 July 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Uri Avnery
    15.7.06
    "The Real Aim
    THE REAL aim is to change the regime in Lebanon and to install a puppet government.
    That was the aim of Ariel Sharon’s invasion of Lebanon in 1982. It failed. But Sharon and his pupils in the military and political leadership have never really given up on it. As in 1982, the present operation, too, was planned and is being carried out in full coordination with the US.
    As then, there is no doubt that it is coordinated with a part of the (…)

  • M.O.N.E.Y.
    19 July 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    In college my History professor constantly advised us to "follow the money" if you want to know what causes international conflict. In the current Mid East fiasco this could never be more obvious.
    The U.S. sells an inordinate amount of expensive sophisticated weaponry to Israel each year, and the truth is...we ALSO sell it "sub rosa", via neutral third countries...to various Arab quasi-terror organizations!
    Everyone in the upper 1% of the world’s elite power structure (read: Cheney and (…)

  • Israel Targets Civilians Not Hezbollah
    19 July 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Dozens die in fresh Lebanon raids Southern Lebanon is sustaining heavy damage
    Enlarge Image At least 55 civilians have been killed in Israeli air strikes in Lebanon.
    The latest raids hit targets in the east and south of Lebanon, where at least 12 people died in one village.
    Two Israeli soldiers died in clashes with Hezbollah militants in the south, after troops crossed the border to look for Hezbollah weapons and facilities.
    Three people have been killed by rockets in the Israeli (…)

  • Palestinian injuries suggest Israel is using chemical weapons in Gaza
    19 July 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    http://www.maannews.net/en/index.php?opr=ShowDetails&ID=13044
    Palestinian injuries suggest Israel is using chemical weapons in Gaza
    Date: 10 / 07 / 2006 Time: 22:07
    Salfit- Gaza- Ma’an- The Palestinian ministry of health revealed on Monday that the Israeli army has used a new type of explosive in its offensive on the Gaza Strip. These explosives contain toxics and radioactive materials which burn and tear the victim’s body from the inside and leave long term deformations.
    The (…)

  • What Bush’s Open Mike Revealed
    19 July 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    What Bush’s Open Mike Revealed By Robert Scheer Posted on July 18, 2006 Editor’s note: In the midst of a Middle Eastern crisis that threatens to destabilize the entire region and perhaps beyond, it was unnerving that what most seemed to interest President Bush at the G8 summit is that China is a long flight from Western Russia. Bombs were exploding and innocents dying, from Beirut to Haifa to Baghdad, and yet George Bush managed to pose for yet another photo op, smiling as he gave the (…)

  • This is an outrage!
    19 July 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    United States to Israel: you have one more week to blast Hizbullah Bush ’gave green light’ for limited attack, say Israeli and UK sources Ewen MacAskill, Simon Tisdall and Patrick Wintour Wednesday July 19, 2006 The Guardian
    The US is giving Israel a window of a week to inflict maximum damage on Hizbullah before weighing in behind international calls for a ceasefire in Lebanon, according to British, European and Israeli sources.
    The Bush (…)

  • Rep. Kucinich’s to introduce Resolution Calling on Bush to Push for Cease-Fire
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    Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) will introduce a resolution in Congress on Wednesday that calls on President Bush to appeal to all sides for a cessation of hostilities in the Israeli-Lebanon conflict and to commit the United States to multi-party negotiations.
    Also, at bottom, read the speech that Rep. Kucinich delivered on the House floor on Tuesday that warned of “mutually assured destruction” if saner heads do not soon prevail in the Middle East.
    Click here for a .pdf version of (…)

  • Government Monitored Anti-War Group E-Mails. DOD UC Berkeley Students’ Plans To Hold Protest
    19 July 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Government Monitored Anti-War Group E-Mails Report Shows Department Of Defense Surveillance Of UC Berkeley Students’ Plans To Hold Protest By Kaitlin Anderson, Contribution Writer Thursday, July 13, 2006 Newly surfaced government surveillance reports reveal that the U.S. Department of Defense monitored anti-war and anti-military e-mails sent by UC Berkeley students in April. The students’ e-mails contained plans to host a campus protest against the war in Iraq and against the presence of (…)

  • The Hidden War On Women In Iraq
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    The Hidden War On Women In Iraq By Ruth Rosen TomDispatch July 13, 2006 Abu Ghraib. Haditha. Guantanamo. These are words that shame our country. Now, add to them Mahmudiya, a town 20 miles south of Baghdad. There, this March, a group of five American soldiers allegedly were involved in the rape and murder of Abeer Qassim Hamza, a young Iraqi girl. Her body was then set on fire to cover up their crimes, her father, mother, and sister murdered. The rape of this one girl, if proven true, is (…)

  • Israel’s War Is Not Ours
    19 July 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Israel’s War Is Not Ours Ilana Mercer Tuesday, July 18, 2006 It’s ominous to hear prominent American neoconservatives speak of Israel’s war as our own and the conflagration in the region as the commencement of WWIII. “What’s under attack,” writes William Kristol, “is liberal democratic civilization.”
    It’s ominous but not surprising. Hyping a war as a symbolic war gives it momentum-and facilitates its expansion beyond regional confines.
    Iran and Syria’s involvement in instigating the (…)