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  • US begins "Evacuation of the Most Needy"
    18 July 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The first to be evacuated from Lebanon are those poor, starving, and desperate members of the Embassy in Beirut.
    Next came about 75 truly needy US citizens, caught up in the dreadful Israeli bombings. They include.
    Mr. and Mrs. J. Pierpont Smithe-Fettering III, starving owners of the "Stuffed Pig" gourmet restaurant.
    A family of 14 from the American University, the Wellington-Farquarts of the Hamptons,CT. They were desperate and caught in the crossfire. They were pulled out just in (…)

  • US vetoes UN ceasefire call
    18 July 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    THE UN Security Council has again rejected pleas that it call for an immediate cease-fire between Israel and Lebanon after the United States objected, diplomats said overnight. Washington argued in closed-door talks that the focus for Middle East diplomacy for now should be on the weekend summit in St Petersburg of the Group of Eight industrialised nations, council diplomats said.
    It was the sole member of the 15-nation UN body to oppose any council action at all at this time, they said. (…)

  • How Many? (apologies to Bob Dylan)
    17 July 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    How many buildings must be blown down before this war is done? and how many kids must die needlessly, victims of bomb or of gun? Yes, how many terrorists on BOTH sides will continue actions insane? The answer my friend is blowin’ in the wind... the answer is blowin’ in the wind. How many politicians will fight in any offensive they start? and how many rich kids go off to these wars we know...they don’t go (that is smart!) How many more deaths and rapes will it take.. to make this world (…)

  • The wars on Iraq, the wars on Lebanon
    17 July 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    In the last 3 decades, two major wars were raged against Iraq. The 1st war was on Jan 91 when Mr. Bush, the father, and allied forces organized that war to force the withdrawal of Iraqi army from Kuwait. At that time USA refused any negotiation with Iraq and insisted on war. In that war, the USA army targeted bridges, refineries, electric power stations, factories and other infrastructures instead of the Iraqi troops in Kuwait. When the Iraqi troops seized fire and started withdrawal, then (…)

  • Mamas, Don’t Let Your Babies Grow Up To Be Soldiers
    17 July 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Mamas, Don’t Let Your Babies Grow Up To Be Soldiers By Cindy Sheehan July 13, 2006 As of today, the War Department lists 2544 as the number of murdered troops in Iraq. Dozens of innocent Iraqis are being killed due to this war crime every day. More than 80 Iraqis were killed in Baghdad alone on July 9th: dozens of people just in one city on one day who would be alive if not for BushCo.
    I don’t know what number Casey was. I have seen people say 614, I have seen people say 714. It doesn’t (…)

  • The Collapse Of Baghdad
    17 July 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    The Collapse Of Baghdad By Larry Johnson Saturday, 15 July 2006 at 12:51 The following is worth your time to read. Bush can continue to tout the "success" of Iraq, but the reality is something else:
    Baghdad starts to collapse as its people flee a life of death By James Hider, of The Times, from Baghdad
    As I hung up the phone, I wondered if I would ever see my friend Ali alive again.
    Ali, The Times translator for the past three years, lives in west Baghdad, an area that is now in (…)

  • Israel Takes A Stupid Pill
    17 July 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Israel Takes A Stupid Pill By Larry C Johnson Saturday, 15 July 2006 at 13:53 Apparently not content to let the U.S. do a self-immolation act in the Middle East by itself, Israel decided to set itself on fire by invading Lebanon. Burn baby burn? Like George Bush, Israel’s Prime Minister, Ehud Olmert, never served in a combat unit and launched military operations without thinking the matter through. In fact, Olmert reportedly never even served in the military. I raise this because (…)

  • We Need An Honest Debate On Iraq
    17 July 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    We Need An Honest Debate On Iraq By E.J. Dionne 7/16/2006 The most intellectually honest case for the war in Iraq was never about Saddam Hussein’s alleged weapons of mass destruction. It was the Big Bang Theory. Not to be confused with theories about the origins of the universe, the Middle East Big Bang idea was simple and seductive. Unlike other arguments for the war, it was based on some facts. The point was that the Middle East was a mess. A nest of authoritarian regimes bred (…)

  • Israeli use of poisonous material alleged
    17 July 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    The Palestinian health ministry accused Israel of using a new type of banned explosives containing poisonous material.
    A ministry report released Monday said testimonies from surgeons in Palestinian hospitals indicated that "all 249 casualties inflicted by the Israeli war machine during the operation on Gaza which started on June 27 resulted from shrapnel of new and developed shells and explosives which cause amputation of limbs and burning of all the injured parts."
    The ministry called (…)

  • The Real Aim
    17 July 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Uri Avnery
    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 Lebanese elite.
    That’s the main (…)