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The difficulty of being an informed American
By Paul Craig Roberts Online Journal Contributing Writer Jan 9, 2009, 00:24
The American print and TV media have never been very good. These days they are horrible. If a person intends to be informed, he must turn to foreign news broadcasts, to Internet sites, to foreign newspapers available on the Internet, or to alternative newspapers that are springing up in various cities. A person who sits in front of Murdoch’s Fox “News” or CNN or who (…)

by Johann Hari
How did a Jewish state founded 60 years ago end up throwing filth at cowering Palestinians?
When you hit your 60th birthday, most of you will guzzle down your hormone replacement therapy with a glass of champagne and wonder if you have become everything you dreamed of in your youth. In a few weeks, the state of Israel is going to have that hangover.
She will look in the mirror and think – I have a sore back, rickety knees and a gun at my waist, but I’m still standing. (…)

Communiqué on the death of the student Abderrazak El Gadiri
During the march of solidarity held on Sunday 28 December 2008 by the Cadi Ayyad University students in Marrakech, the public forces have acted violently against the students and especially those who helped organize the march. During this harsh intervention, a good number of students has been the subject of a wide-ranging wave of arrests and injuries. Among victims the student Abderrazzak ELGadiri – born on 28 july 1987 and (…)

BEIJING, Jan. 8 (Xinhua) — Israel and Hamas should agree to a ceasefire immediately and mitigate the humanitarian crisis, Sun Bigan, China’s special envoy on the Middle East issue, told reporters Thursday.
Voicing deep concern over ongoing turbulence in the region, Sun said achieving an immediate ceasefire was urgent. Israel should stop military operations in Gaza immediately and Hamas should stop firing rockets at Israel.
"If the two sides cease fire, the situation will not (…)

By David Glenn Cox
Gee, I wish I could be a happy idiot. Just think, then nothing to worry about except whether Tom Cruise and his wife are going to have another baby or not. Gosh, life would be swell; it makes you wonder why Steinbeck wrote all those depressing stories about poor people. How could anyone sit through Hemingway’s story about an old fisherman and a fish when they could have been reading about who Clark Gable was dating?
It really makes you wonder about this world, (…)

Canadian Liberal leader and Harvard man Michael Ignatieff backs Israel’s offensive and places blame upon Hamas. Is this man stupid or evil? Is this why they call him the ’Prince of Darkness’?
http://www.thestar.com/article/564293
Why not ask him?
ignatieff.m@parl.gc.ca
Or Minister Peter Kent?
kent.p@parl.gc.ca
cc: Canadian Peace Alliance
cpa@web.ca

Are highly secretive Canadian Joint Task Force 2 Commandos assassinating Afghanis during night raids...? According to a report in La Presse, Canadian soldiers are telling villagers "too bad for you if you don’t want to tell us where the Taliban are hiding. We will come and kill them. We will drop many bombs and fire all over..."
Canadian troops fired an astounding 4.7 million bullets between April 2006 and Dec 2007
"our soldiers are well trained and good shots and you will die.." (…)

Israeli Butchers Order 100 Family Members Into House Then Shell It, Killing 70
By Mary Sparrowdancer, 1-8-9 For those who still believe the Israeli lie that they are not targeting civilians, and that if they do target civilians, then those civilians (including infants) must be "terrorists," this is a recount of the butchery displayed by the US-funded Israeli military earlier this week. According to surviving members of the al-Samouni family, on Sunday of this past week, Israeli (…)

Israel Slaughters Over 760 Palestinians: Break Links With Apartheid Israel, Unions must build direct solidarity
Since Israel withdrew its troops and settlers from Gaza, the Zionist rulers have maintained it as an open air prison and most of the time as a shooting gallery. Now they have made it an extermination camp. The premeditated slaughter of more than 760 Palestinians, one-third children, with more than 3,500 wounded has horrified the world and especially the Arab masses, who (…)