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GUARDIAN Tuesday 30 December 2008 08.00 GMT
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/dec/30/gaza-hamas-palestinians-israel1
From the ashes of Gaza, Tariq Ali
In the face of Israel’s latest onslaught, the only option for Palestinian nationalism is to embrace a one-state solution.
The assault on Gaza, planned over six months and executed with perfect timing, was designed largely, as Neve Gordon has rightly observed, to help the incumbent parties triumph in the forthcoming (…)

On Tuesday, Dec. 30, 2008, Human Rights activists, in Baltimore, MD, staged a demonstration in solidarity with the beleaguered Palestinian people of Israeli-Occupied Gaza. The rally took place at the Memorial Plaza, opposite City Hall.
Tuesday, Dec. 30th was declared a “National Day of Action: Stop the Massacre of the Palestinians,” with protest rallies taking place across the United States. http://answer.pephost.org/site/News2?abbr=ANS_&page=NewsArticle&id=8871&news_iv_ctrl=1621
For the (…)

Decent folk must oppose mass murder of CHILDREN in the Occupied Palestinian Territory and elsewhere in the American Empire and the First World-dominated World in general urgently applying SANCTIONS and BOYCOTTS to genocidal Apartheid Israel, US, UK, NATO countries and war criminal, climate criminal, racist White Australia
As the Gaza Massacre by Apartheid Israel continues (see the LATEST reports with SHOCKING PICTURES from the Gaza Concentration Camp by Sameh Habeeb: ) , decent people (…)

On Monday, Dec. 29, 2008, the “Maryland Coalition to Stop the BGE Rate Hikes,” called a press conference. It was held at noon at the historic New Shiloh Baptist Church, in Baltimore, MD. The activists urged Gov. Martin O’Malley; members of the state’s General Assembly; and BGE/Constellation, the utility conglomerate, to support “a moratorium on utility shuts-off from Jan. 1, 2009 through May 31, 2009.” In its press release, the advocacy group underscored: “Ten people have died across (…)

“Wall Street has hijacked the economy for the last twenty some years.” - Richard L. Trumka, Secretary-Treasurer, AFL-CIO
The Fed and Wall Street are the real powers in the land. During the financial meltdown crisis in the Fall of 2008, the U.S. Congress acted as a patsy for the fiscal elite. The Fed Chairman, Ben S. Bernanke, and the Secretary of the U.S. Treasury, Henry M. Paulson, Jr., ordered the politicos to give Wall Street banksters a bailout of $700 billion of taxpayers’ money with (…)

50 Factors that Affect the Value of the US Dollar
By Jessica Hupp, August 8th, 2007
Would you believe something as mundane as a rainstorm in New England can affect the value of the Dollar? It’s true. The US Dollar is subject to numerous influences, from politics to Walmart, and everything in between. The following list contains 50 factors that affect the value of the US dollar, both big and small.
Balance of trade and investment
The balance of trade and investment is often cited by (…)

Save the Innocent Civilians of Gaza-Palestine
I bring to your attention that the government of Israel has being bombing the city of Gaza since midday of 27 Dec. by air strikes with heavy weaponries. They are targeting various places in Gaza city, where large number of innocent civilians have been targeted intentionally. Up till 29 Dec., more than 310 people have been killed, and more than 1400 were injured. In spite of this massacre, military personnel of Israel have constantly (…)

The BBC has reported that the Israelis have bombed the Islamic University in the Gaza Concentration Camp (see: ) . The same BBC report (Monday 29 December 2008) says that about 300 people have been killed so far by Israeli bombing of the Gaza Concentration Camp/Bantustan.
This bombing of a Gaza university is a disgusting and barbaric act that reveals how far the violent Zionist fanatics running the violent, war-criminal, race-based State of Israel have departed from the Jewish culture of (…)

UN Resolution 1850 pushes Palestinian unity further from reach than ever, argues Nicola Nasser**
The body of UN Security Council Resolution 1850 avoids any meaningful mention of a two-state solution or the creation of a Palestinian state with the exception of a feeble reference late in the text — added almost as an afterthought — to "preparation for statehood". While the preamble does mention Resolution 1514, issued five years ago, and notes that "lasting peace can only be based on an (…)

Japan Should Scrap U.S. Debt, Dollar May Plummet, Mikuni Says
by Stanley White and Shigeki Nozawa
Global Research, December 26, 2008 Bloomberg - 2008-12-24
The article below is a wake-up call to the harsh reality of the financial fiasco that has visited the US. For further details see Matthias Chang’s articles on www.FutureFastForward.com and www.GlobalResearch.ca
Japan should write-off its holdings of Treasuries because the U.S. government will struggle to finance increasing debt (…)