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  • Israel’s Dual Onslaught On Lebanon And Palestine
    17 July 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Gilbert Achcar interviewed by Paola Mirenda
    Q. Since last Wednesday, the Israeli Army has been imposing a siege on Lebanon and bombarding the country as a result of the abduction of two of its soldiers and the killing of seven others by a Lebanese Hezbollah commando unit. Israel’s reaction was predictable, even in its disproportion. What are the political and strategic reasons that can be seen behind this action by Hezbollah?
    Achcar: The explanations that Hezbollah has given for its (…)

  • Lebanon’s Al Manar TV Targeted
    17 July 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Lebanon’s Al Manar TV Targeted Free Speech "Marked for Death" by Trish Schuh
    After years of asymmetric attacks on the First Amendment- assassinating journalists, surveilling dissent, and censoring the free flow of information- the Democracy Mukhabarat rules. Using national security to prohibit scrutiny or prosecution, the Bush administration instead labels opposition media as the criminal, declaring the Fourth Estate to be the Fourth Front. "Full spectrum information dominance" equates (…)

  • Todays War-Terrorism are Corporation Sponsored Media Propagandized Capital Investment Schemes
    17 July 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Todays corporations and their primary movers of investors are driven by the continous desire to drive investment capital as a pure and simple attack on socialized - democratic organization and resource management structures that are not favorable to the currently intrenched capitalist families directly alignment with the major transnational corporations - to drive the goal of the elitists who define the basic struggle of the two opposing world views.
    1. The Capitalist Liar Genocide (…)

  • Students Call NZ To Speak Out On Israel Aggression
    17 July 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Students Call NZ To Speak Out On Israel Aggression
    The University of Auckland’s Students for Justice in Palestine call on the New Zealand government to pressure Israel to end the callous bombing raids in occupied Gaza and nearby Lebanon that has resulted in the death of civilians on both sides. The international community has failed yet again to address the core issues of the Middle East conflict by only calling for ’restraint’ alone, thereby paving the way for another regional conflict. (…)

  • One Minute a Day to Create Peace
    16 July 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The amount of violence in the world is threatening all of us. It is time we use our power to create Peace. How can we do this? By taking one minute a day to generate feelings of Peace within ourselves and then focusing that energy upward and outward, we will cause a shift to move us from violence and conflict to Peace.
    Why would this work? Science has shown us that we are all producing spurts of energy all the time through our emotions and thoughts. This energy, though we do not (…)

  • Lebanese Information Minister: Israel is using internationally prohibited weapons against civilians
    16 July 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Lebanon’s Cabinet today issued a statement saying the country faced “real annihilation” by Israel.
    It also accused the Jewish state of using banned weapons against Lebanese civilians.
    “We are facing a real annihilation carried out by Israel,” Information Minister Ghazi Aridi said after an emergency cabinet meeting.
    “Israel is using internationally prohibited weapons against civilians,” he said.
    He did not elaborate, but Lebanese media reports, which could not be confirmed, claimed (…)

  • Israeli Bombings could lead to Escalation of Middle East War
    16 July 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Michel Chossudovsky, GlobalResearch.ca
    Following the bombings of Beirut by Israel, there is a danger that the US sponsored Middle East war, which is at present characterized by three distinct war theaters (Afghanistan, Palestine and Iraq) will escalate and extend to the entire Middle East - Central Asian region.
    The bombings of Lebanon are part of a carefully planned military agenda. They are not spontaneous acts of reprisal by Israel. They are acts of provocation.
    The attacks (…)

  • Israel prepares to drag Syria & Iran into war
    16 July 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    How Israel mistook an "aircraft rigged with explosives" for a missile, as the Associated Press reports, is not explained. However, blaming Iran certainly fits the picture, as both Israel and the United States are trying to drag Iran and Syria into Israel’s invasion of Lebanon and thus widen the conflict, as planned.
    Israel Prepares to Invade Syria
    by Kurt Nimmo
    July 15, 2006
    As to be expected, the story about a Hezbollah drone hitting an Israeli warship was tweaked this morning (…)

  • Attacks Are Part of US/Israel Strategy
    16 July 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Israel, with U.S. support, intends to resist calls for a cease-fire and continue a longer-term strategy of punishing Hezbollah, which is likely to include several weeks of precision bombing in Lebanon, according to senior Israeli and U.S. officials.
    For the United States, the broader goal is to strangle the axis of Hezbollah, Hamas, Syria and Iran, which the Bush administration believes is pooling resources to change the strategic playing field in the Middle East, U.S. officials say. (…)

  • From my home, I saw what the ’war on terror’ meant
    16 July 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Robert Fisk
    All night I heard the jets, whispering high above the Mediterranean. It lasted for hours, little fireflies nthat were watching Beirut, waiting for dawn perhaps, because it was then that they descended.
    They came first to the little village of Dweir near Nabatiya in southern Lebanon where an Israeli plane dropped a bomb on to the home of a Shia Muslim cleric.
    He was killed. So was his wife. So were eight of his children. One was decapitated. All they could find of a baby (…)