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by Uri Avnery
Next Saturday, 100 days since Abu Mazen (Mahmud Abbas) assumed the office of President of the Palestinian National Authority, Jews will celebrate Passover, in memory of the Exodus from Egypt - one of the great stories in human annals.
According to the story (Exodus 5), Pharaoh ordered the Children of Israel to produce bricks from straw, but did not provide the straw. “And the Children of Israel came and cried unto Pharaoh, saying: Wherefore dealest thou with thy servants? (…)

By Jonathan Cook April 8, 2005
http://www.iviews.com/Articles/articles.asp?ref=IV0504-2670
Anti-Semitism, like some plague-inducing virus, is "evolving" — or so warns Holocaust scholar Daniel J. Goldhagen in the American Jewish weekly The Forward . According to the author, the lessons of the Holocaust are slowly being forgotten and a "free-floating" globalized hatred of Jews is being spread via the Internet and television.
Goldhagen’s piece, "The Globalisation of anti-Semitism," is (…)

http://www.antiwar.com/reese/?articleid=5577
April 16, 2005 An Unjust War by Charley Reese It would pay us all to remember that the war in Iraq was both unjust and illegal. We launched a war of aggression against a country that was not attacking us, did not have the means to attack us, and had never expressed any intention of attacking us.
Thus, America’s attack against Iraq is the same as Germany’s attack against Poland in 1939. We were the aggressor, pure and simple, and for (…)

To justify its continuing occupation of Iraq, Washington has endeavored to portray itself as the selfless protector of the Iraqi people who are menaced by ruthless terrorists. The corporate media has obliged Washington, by creating an impression that most guerrilla attacks target Iraqi civilians and that most Iraqi civilian casualties are caused by guerrillas, not by US and other coalition troops and Iraqi soldiers and policemen trained by them. A good example of the corporate media’s (…)

April 16, 2005 - The ceaseless demonization of Iraqis committed to ending foreign control of their country is a key ideological crutch for maintaining the American occupation. Smearing the armed resistance as a band of murderous thugs is well understood by American war planners to be a crucial part of effective counter-insurgency work. (1) Obviously, brutal and horrific attacks on Iraqi civilians have been carried out by some forces claiming to be a part of the resistance. But there is (…)

London groping case dogs governor British libel law seen as benefit to TV host’s suit
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s treatment of women he encountered as a movie star has largely faded from public discourse, aside from the occasional Doonesbury cartoon that depicts the governor as a giant hand addressed by reporters as Herr Gropenführer.
But there’s one incident that refuses to go away. A British television interviewer, Anna Richardson, says Schwarzenegger pawed her during a publicity stop (…)

THREE US soldiers were killed by mortar fire at a US base in the city of Ramadi overnight, the US military said today.
Seven servicemen were also wounded in the attack, three of them seriously, the military said in a statement. The attackers were believed to have fled into a nearby mosque. But when Iraqi security forces searched it, they found no insurgents.
Ramadi, about 110 km west of Baghdad, has been one of the most violent cities over the past two years, with daily attacks on US and (…)

In a column entitled “Senator Frist in a fluster over Democrats filibuster” in The Irish Times (conservative/liberal Irish newspaper of record) today, the paper’s US correspondent Conor O’Clery addresses the renewed fuss brewing in the US about allegations of fraud in the presidential elections of last November.
See excerpt below.
I am naturally delighted that O’Clery has come good on a promise to give the matter some attention, following messages about the statistical analysis and Clint (…)

I have watched for years the "development" of articles about so called chemical trails. I have an advanced degree in the sciences and I am here to tell you there is no such thing as a chemtrail spraying program.
I know science and work in the media presenting weather to the general public at FOX TV. Contrails can last for hours and hours and this is what you are seeing. You can think of the atmosphere as a column of air. Planes fly at differenct levels and moisture flows in these (…)

"Big Stick" Politics Not The Answer, America Rickey Singh April 17, 2005 There seems to be no limit to the unbridled arrogance of spokespersons for the United States Administration of President George W Bush when it comes to publicly rebuking, indeed, dictating to governments in the Caribbean Community how they should conduct their foreign and domestic governance policies.
Latest example of this US ’big-stick’-wielding policy emerged last week to affect Guyana. But there were two earlier (…)