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  • What The P.L.O. Has To Offer
    6 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Saeb Erakat - New York Times
    Jericho, West Bank - Many have argued that Hamas’s winning of a decisive majority in the Palestinian Parliament provides yet another setback for peace and democracy in the Middle East. Some have even suggested that it vindicates Israeli unilateralism. I, however, think the opposite is true: A negotiated and lasting peace may now be closer than many of us could have imagined just weeks ago.
    The parliamentary elections could be seen as a referendum on the (…)

  • Paradise Found
    6 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Erica Silverman - Al Ahram Weekly (Egypt)
    Where in the world exactly is the "Palestinian Authority?" Somewhere in the Middle East? In Israel? Or perhaps, in Palestine? All questions Americans may be asking as they settle down on their couches to watch the Academy Awards 5 March. Al-Janna Al-Aan (Paradise Now) a film from the West Bank portraying two suicide bombers from Nablus, is one of five movies nominated for best foreign language film.
    Directed by Palestinian Hany Abu Assad, best (…)

  • A nation of beggars
    6 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Amira Hass, Haaretz
    It is not the Palestinians who should be welcoming the European Union’s decision to hastily donate another $142 million before the Hamas government is formed. It is Israel that ought to be pleased that the Western states will continue compensating the Palestinians for the economic decline that is a product of the Israeli occupation. For it is not natural disasters that have transformed the Palestinians into a nation that lives on handouts from the world; it is (…)

  • Don’t wait for God. We will judge you
    5 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Near civil meltdown in Iraq greets the third anniversary of Shock and Awe. To families who mourn it seems the world has forgotten
    God will judge Tony Blair on the Iraq war. Or so the Prime Minister told Michael Parkinson. Think back to another television appearance, this time last year. On that occasion, Mr Blair faced a studio of women and a different ombudsman. History would deliver its verdict on him, he said. His audience denounced his war, but he was certain that no tribunal, divine (…)

  • MEET THE CHARTER MEMERS OF IRAQ’S ’’ HELL OF SHAME’’
    4 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    1 ) Known as the Bird-Brained assassin of Armstrong Ranch , this famed psychopath orchestrated the NORAD stand down on 9/11. That faked terror incident set in train the horrors witnessed daily on the streets of Iraq. Dick Cheney has amply proved that combining Southern Comfort with Jack Daniels makes for a most combustible mix 2) George W. Bush .... Did Harvard have an MBA programme for the learning impaired or did Pa issue forth mucho bucks to that university ? So much (…)

  • The World Demands U.N. Action To Remove U.S. Dictatorship
    3 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    TAKE THE WHITE HOUSE BY STORM - Stop Genocide, Torture and Occupation
    "U.N. SOS" - World Protest03 /20/ 06Against Torture & U.S. Criminal Government
    The World Demands U.N. Action To Remove U.S. Dictatorship
    Global Event:3 -20- 06Protests at U.N. Offices Worldwide and in Washington D.C. More info at http://www.CitySites.com
    Washington D.C. Events:3 -20-06,9 : 00a.m.
    FROM MOURNING TO RESISTANCE! 3 YEARS TOO MANY - STOP THE WAR! Washington, DC, March,20 , 9 AM The National (…)

  • Is Hell Too Good for the Iraqi Warmongers? (Satire)
    3 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    “Abandon every hope who enter here.” - Dante Alighieri
    The first book of Dante’s “The Divine Comedy,” is simply called, “Inferno.” It deals with the author’s descent into hell, guided by the greatest poet of antiquity, Virgil. (1) The purpose of the journey is to free the writer of his “temptation to sin.” (2)
    Born in 1265, in Florence, Italy, which was then a notable Republic, Dante became involved in politics as a young man, but he made the mistake of making an enemy out of a (…)

  • Robert Fisk: Who Benefits from a Civil War in Iraq
    3 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Lateline Video: Robert Fisk
    TONY JONES: Well, Robert Fisk is one of the most experienced observers of the Middle East and in his latest book, ’The Great War for Civilisation - the Conquest of the Middle East’, he draws on almost 30 years of reporting from his base in Lebanon to look at the forces which have shaped current events and conflicts Robert Fisk, thanks for being there.
    ROBERT FISK, WRITER & JOURNALIST: You’re welcome.
    TONY JONES: Now, unless you’ve changed your position (…)

  • Fearing Reprisal, Baghdad official who exposed executions flees: New Pigs are just like the Old Pigs
    3 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Faik Bakir, the director of the Baghdad morgue, has fled Iraq in fear of his life after reporting that more than 7,000 people have been killed by death squads in recent months, the outgoing head of the UN human rights office in Iraq has disclosed.
    "The vast majority of bodies showed signs of summary execution - many with their hands tied behind their back. Some showed evidence of torture, with arms and leg joints broken by electric drills," said John Pace, the Maltese UN official. The (…)

  • Air Force Col Robert Bowman Running for Congress (FL)
    2 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Col Robert Bowman is running for Congress! A True Patriot and exactly what America needs in DC.
    For a quick intro to Col Bowman, check this out:
    This war in Iraq has nothing to do with National Security or freedom or democracy or human rights or protecting our allies or weapons of mass destruction or defeating terrorism or disarming Iraq. It has to do with money, it has to do with oil, and it has to do with raw imperial power. And it’s based totally on lies.
    If you like that mp3, be (…)