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H5N1 Bird Flu in Michigan Recombinomics Commentary August 14, 2006
White House press secretary Tony Snow has announce a press conference of H5N1 in mute swans in Michigan. His comments indicated it was low pathogenic avian influenza and is likely to have strong relationship to the H5N1 detected in Manitoba last August. The H5N1 was part of an expanded surveillance program across southern Canada. H5 was detected across Canada and was found in 24% of young mallards tested in British (…)

Desert of trapped corpses testifies to Israel’s failure
Robert Fisk - The Independent August 15, 2006
They made a desert and called it peace. Srifa - or what was once the village of Srifa - is a place of pancaked homes, blasted walls, rubble, starving cats and trapped corpses. But it is also a place of victory for the Hizbollah, whose fighters walked amid the destruction yesterday with the air of conquering heroes. So who is to blame for this desert? The Shia militia which provoked this (…)

by Mary MacElveen
At this point, I want to knock some sense into the mainstream media for playing Bush and Blair’s game and that is the game of terror and fear.
These so-called news organizations that are read and viewed by millions are now coming out with disturbing facts concerning this alleged terror plot that would have blown ten airplanes headed to the United States out of the skies.
In fact, I’m ripping mad that they would play with the lives of innocent people and those that (…)

By David Swanson
Can you name the one country on earth where the government can steal elections, strip away basic rights, spy on citizens, and launch wars based on lies, but where the people do not take over the nation’s capital in protest?
If you said the United States, you’ll be wrong on September fifth when Camp Democracy begins on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. http://www.campdemocracy.org
At long last, Americans are preparing to say "Enough is enough," and to do what (…)

Change of Location in Israel’s ’Operation Change of Direction’ by Trish Schuh
A team of Israeli lawyers are suing the Lebanese government for starting the war. The projected multi-million dollar lawsuit, to be filed in US civil court, will sue for compensation and war damages suffered by Israeli residents and businesses. Attorneys Yehudah Talmon, Yoram Dantziger and Nitzah Libai claim the Lebanese government violated international law because it didn’t stop Hezbollah’s casus belli (…)

Rebuilding could top $2.5 billion, officials say, as recent repairs from past war are wiped out.
By Kim Murphy
BEIRUT - When Lebanon breaks, Fadl Chalak gets called to fix it. Over the years, he’s seen it all: the destroyed roads and bridges, the displaced families, the blown-up buildings. Still, he says, nothing in three decades of war and recovery prepared him for the ferocity of Israel’s month-long bombing campaign.
"I’ve never seen so much destruction in such a very short time," (…)

by AIJAZ AHMAD
The U.S.-Israel axis goes all out to remove the last impediments to building a "New Middle East".
LET us begin with a supposedly "undisputed" fact:
The official story, told first by the Israeli government and automatically accepted by governments and media outlets across the world, is that Hizbollah is a Muslim fundamentalist, terrorist organisation which periodically lobs shells and rockets into civilian population centres of northern Israel and that, in its latest (…)

by John Martinkus
IT WAS a Stanley meets Dr Livingstone moment and if it hadn’t been so tragic, it would have been hilarious. I was sitting in the office of Uruzgan’s Governor, Abdul Munib, filming an interview with him in May this year when two Australian officers and an American walked in complete with body armour and weapons.
The Governor introduced me as an Australian journalist and the two Australian officers simply ran out of the room, leaving their American colleague to turn to (…)

The country’s largest protest against the U.S.-Israeli assault 30,000 fill the streets around the White House
More then 30,000 demonstrators filled the streets around the White House today chanting, “Stop the US-Israeli war against Lebanon and Palestine.”
The New York Times reported today that the demonstration’s “diverse crowd included many Arab-Americans and Muslims, college students and families, as well as veterans of prior demonstrations against the war in Iraq.” The NY Times goes (…)

Holocaust victims would decry the slaughter of innocent children during attacks on Hezbollah
BY SILVIA TENNENBAUM
Silvia Tennenbaum, a writer in East Hampton, is author of the novels "Yesterday’s Streets" and "Rachel, the Rabbi’s Wife."
As a Jew who escaped the Holocaust by moving with my family to America in 1938, I turn on the BBC at night. And what I see are clouds of black smoke, explosions; the dead and the dying - children crying bitterly, cities in ruins. Only yesterday, these (…)