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I find that religious ignorance plays an important role in most wars and conflicts. If people can accept difference and realize that we all live in the same house, just in different rooms, then maybe we all can become the Human Race!
(Gaiacomm)

The Time Machine:
Let us board our newly developed time machine and transport us to the distant past and view the results of our progress as humans on this tiny little planet!
We see that man has always kept women his most trusted partner as his slave and has disrespected her thru the ages when in fact they both are equals and need each other always. Man has come from the slime of the earth and has lied and cheated and murdered his way to the top of the food chain only to be destroyed by (…)

Death certificates by Iraqi doctor claim evidence of torture
Michael Howard in Majar al Kabir and Richard Norton-Taylor
Military police are investigating claims that British soldiers mutilated the bodies of Iraqi insurgents after a firefight last month near the southern Iraqi town of Majar al Kabir.
The allegations are contained in official death certificates seen by the Guardian written by Dr Adel Salid Majid, the director of the hospital in Majar al Kabir, on May 15, the day after (…)

by SEYMOUR M. HERSH
In July, 2003, two months after President Bush declared victory in Iraq, the war, far from winding down, reached a critical point. Israel, which had been among the war’s most enthusiastic supporters, began warning the Administration that the American-led occupation would face a heightened insurgency—a campaign of bombings and assassinations—later that summer. Israeli intelligence assets in Iraq were reporting that the insurgents had the support of Iranian intelligence (…)

Syria is preparing a law that would prohibit trade dealings with the United States in response to U.S. sanctions imposed on the Arab country last month, Syrian legislators said Saturday.
More than 130 members of the 250-seat legislature have prepared a draft of the "America Accountability Act" that would impose "strict sanctions" on American interests in Syria.
In a statement faxed to The Associated Press in Damascus, parliament officials said the draft law is a response to "Washington’s (…)

The former French Prime Minister and current member of the European Parliament, Michel Rocard, blasted Israel as an "abnormal case in the world", describing its creation by the 1917-Balfour Declaration as a "historic mistake".
Rocard, who is also a well-known member of the French Socialist Party, was delivering a lecture at the Bibliotheca Alexandrina on June 16, in which he said that the Balfour promise England gave to the Jews to create a national homeland for them in Palestine was a (…)

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraqi militants threatened on Monday to behead a South Korean hostage within 24 hours to try to stop Seoul deploying 3,000 troops to northern Iraq, according to a videotape aired on Arabic television station Al Jazeera.
A banner in the background of footage showing 33-year-old Korean businessman Kim Sun-il pleading for his life named the group as Jama’at al-Tawhid and Jihad, the name of the militant group led by al Qaeda operative in Iraq Abu Musab al-Zarqawi.
"Please (…)

America is Lost!
When Jesus was being led to the cross he was thinking all along how wonderful it was that he made his point known and that it would take thousands of years for mankind to realize that Jesus is not the only Savior of the world. We all have choices to make one of which is our freedom to choose which we all seem to do quite well considering the state of affairs of this planet. Now America took a concept taken from the Greeks and attempted to master its secrets called (…)

By Tim Wise
Rarely am I considered insufficiently cynical. As someone who does anti-racism work for a living, and thus hears all manner of excuse-making by those who wish desperately to avoid being considered racist, not much surprises me. I expect people to lie about race; to tell me how many black friends they have; to swear they haven’t a racist bone in their bodies. And every January, with the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday just around the corner, I have come to expect someone to (…)

By: Uri Avnery*
Two weeks ago, the international community made a shocking declaration.
Giving in to a demand by George Bush, the “Quartet” accepted the “Revised Disengagement Plan” of Ariel Sharon. This means that the United Nations, the European Union, the Russian Federation and the United States confirmed this document. I wonder if any one of the honorable diplomats has read the document with their own eyes.
In the first paragraph of the “plan”, the following words appear: “ Israel (…)