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Ahmadinejad gives ’victory speech’ before masses
In speech before thousands in city of Ardabil, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says ’Iranian people will force the powers to surrender. The stances in favor of the US and Israel harmed the Security Council’s image’ Roee Nahmias
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad carried a "victory speech" before a crowd in the city of Ardabel, and sent his congratulations to "the resistance" (Hizbullah ) and to the "free Lebanese people (…)

by Emma Clancy
Watching television footage of the Qana massacre - the killing of dozens of civilians, including children - Beshara Doumani thought she was watching “the old footage of the Israeli massacre that killed one-hundred Lebanese civilians in the village of Qana during Operation ’Grapes of Wrath’ in 1996”. But, she wrote in a July 30 article for Electronic Intifada, “it suddenly becomes clear: another massacre at the same village, Qana, ten years later”.
Claiming that the (…)

Baghdad district is hit by shells, a car bomb and a suicide bomber. Police in Fallouja stay home.
By Solomon Moore, Times Staff Writer
BAGHDAD - Coordinated attacks Sunday in a predominantly Shiite neighborhood in south Baghdad killed at least 56 people and wounded 148, local officials said.
The attacks on a market in Zafaraniya included a barrage of mortar rockets, a car bomb and a suicide bomber on a bicycle, police reported.
Elsewhere, insurgents appeared to strike a blow to (…)

by united for peace
Fear is in the air again. From Dick Cheney to Joe Lieberman, the proponents of the Iraq War are once again playing the fear card to try to shore up support for their failed policies — policies that have only made us more vulnerable to attacks like the one thwarted last week in England.
Neither their overheated rhetoric, nor their color-coded warnings, nor their bloated and ineffectual "homeland security" apparatus are doing anything to keep us safer. They’re just (…)

by Craig Murray
I have been reading very carefully through all the Sunday newspapers to try and analyse the truth from all the scores of pages claiming to detail the so-called bomb plot. Unlike the great herd of so-called security experts doing the media analysis, I have the advantage of having had the very highest security clearances myself, having done a huge amount of professional intelligence analysis, and having been inside the spin machine.
So this, I believe, is the true story. (…)

by ADAM COHEN
At a law school Supreme Court conference that I attended last fall, there was a panel on “The Rehnquist Court.” No one mentioned Bush v. Gore, the most historic case of William Rehnquist’s time as chief justice, and during the Q. and A. no one asked about it. When I asked a prominent law professor about this strange omission, he told me he had been invited to participate in another Rehnquist retrospective, and was told in advance that Bush v. Gore would not be discussed. (…)

Thanks to Bush’s lies which thrust young soldiers into a "war" against "insurgents" in Afghanistan and especially Iraq....thanks to poor and irresponsible recruiting techniques back home....we are losing the VERY expensive "war on terror".
Here is a sample of our troop makeup which clearly demonstrates why we aren’t winning...and never will.
HARRY: Private 1st Class in the Army. Joined in North Carolina 2 days after 9/11. He was angry and wanted to get even. Shortly after going to (…)

DAMASCUS, Aug. 15 (Xinhua) — Syrian President Bashar al-Assad on Tuesday told the opening session of a journalists conference that Israel’s war on Lebanon was a "planned aggression".
"The Israeli aggression against Lebanon was not connected with its kidnapped soldiers (by Hezbollah), but had been prearranged for a period of time," Assad said.
He said the resistance in Lebanon had achieved victory, adding the people’s support had helped the resistance achieve this victory. (…)

by Wayne Besen
I have long endorsed the political strategy of supporting both GLBT friendly Democrats and Republicans. For pragmatic reasons, it made sense not to put all of our eggs in one basket. However, that was before the GOP leadership was hijacked by right wing basket cases. Sadly, I think it is time for the GLBT movement to reassess the political landscape and consider saying goodbye to bipartisanship.
The defenders of the status quo will claim that loyalty is an important (…)

Michael P. Wright — Norman, Oklahoma, USA — mpwright9@aol.com
Earlier I had posted a link to the bushbusiness.com website, which presented a video of George Tenet telling a lie about 9/11 during March 2005. This was during a speech at the University of Oklahoma, where his friend and mentor, former U.S. Senator David Boren, is president. The video was originallly posted here:
http://www.bushbusiness.com/Wright_...
For reasons which remain a mystery, the website has decided to take it (…)