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Published on Friday, June 15, 2007 by CommonDreams.org
US and Israel Stir Up Palestinian Crisis
by Ira Chernus
It’s so obvious that Fatah and Hamas should work together to achieve an independent Palestine. Not long ago, they were proclaiming their unity. So why are they now destroying each other? If you get your news from the mainstream U.S. media, you might well think that they are just two irrational factions, driven crazy by lust for power.
But if you know how to read between the (…)

Published on Friday, June 15, 2007 by The Guardian/UK
The Threat to al-Jazeera
by George Galloway
Since its launch just over a decade ago, the al-Jazeera satellite TV station has transformed the politics of the Middle East. For the first time, people in the region had access to a genuinely free and independent source of news and comment that was neither under the control of dictatorial regimes nor western states or corporations. Under its slogan of “The opinion … and the other (…)

Published on Thursday, June 14, 2007 by The Progressive
Bush Pushes Iraq Oil Law for ExxonMobil
by Matthew Rothschild
With Iraq going to hell, and the al-Maliki government failing to meet one benchmark after another, Bush is getting desperate.
On Sunday, he sent Admiral Fallon, the chief U.S. commander in the Mideast, to lean on Prime Minister al-Maliki.
On Tuesday, John Negroponte, former U.S. ambassador to Iraq and the UN, flew to Baghdad to lean on al-Maliki.
And what were (…)

Published on Thursday, June 14, 2007 by The Rocky Mountain Outlook(Canada)
Keeping An Eye On Transgenic Crops
by David Suzuki
Did you know that genetically modified, or “transgenic” crops are now commonplace on North American farms? According to a recent survey in the United States, the majority of Americans have no idea just how pervasive this technology has become. In fact, North Americans have been eating transgenic foods and using products made from their crops for over a decade. (…)

Recently Chinese officials have raided Hongtong Shanxi an area of Northern China and rescued almost 500 workers from slavery type conditions. The workers were forced to work in brick kilns, iron mines and coalmines. Some 29 of the workers were children and some were mentally disabled.
Of course the easy thing to do here in fat and happy America is to look down our nose at the Chinese. That’s the most wonderful aspect of outsourcing the corporate capitalist has the ability to bring about (…)

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A Draft Proposal from the Troops Out Now Coalition— From Protest to Resistance
Troops Out Now! Put the Antiwar Movement Back on the Streets
September 29 — March on Washington D.C. Assemble at the Capitol — March on the White House
September 22 – 29 —Encampment in Washington D.C.
Stop the War Abroad and at Home
In the spirit of unity, and for the purposes of taking the movement away from politicians and putting it back into the streets, the Troops Out Now Coalition submits this (…)

Gauche
Uranium Wars: here’s something else you’re just not going to hear about on the mainstream media (MSM).
Yet this is the reality: since the dropping of atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the US, Britain and the rest of what is called the New World Order has been conducting a systematic program of genocide —or population reduction as it is euphemistically called— with the use of one or another form of radioactivity.
The fact is that the United States and its military partners (…)

Inter Press Service News Agency Friday, June 15, 2007 19:16 GMT
US-IRAN: New War Rhetoric Undercuts Iraq Talks
Analysis by Trita Parsi*
WASHINGTON, Jun 12 (IPS) - U.S. Senator Joseph Lieberman’s call for cross-border raids into Iran appears to be the culmination of a two-week long campaign by proponents of war to put the military option centre-stage in the U.S. debate over Iran once more. The immediate effect of reigniting the let’s-bomb-Iran discussions is the undercutting of the (…)

Inter Press Service News Agency Friday, June 15, 2007 19:09 GMT
CUBA-VENEZUELA: Making Biofuels Without Wasting Food
Patricia Grogg
HAVANA, Mar 6 (IPS) - The governments of Cuba and Venezuela are planning to move forward together on biofuels production, but they will rely on producing alcohol from sugarcane, in order to spare food crops. Official Cuban sources described the cooperative alcohol programme between the two countries as part of their "joint efforts" to protect the (…)