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Kashmir students condemn Israeli aggression in Lebanon and Palestine By our correspondent in Kashmir Monday, 07 August 2006
Only class war can stop imperialist aggression
On August 1st more than 200 students of JKNSF (Marxists) organised a rally in Rawalakot (Kashmir) to condemn the Israeli aggression on Lebanon and Palestine. They were chanting slogans like “Down with imperialism.... Long live Socialism”, “No religious war nor national war...Class war, Class war” and were flying red (…)

Statement by the General Secretary of the Lebanese Communist Party, Dr. Khaled Haddadeh on the occasion of the Emergency Meeting of Arab Foreign Ministers in Beirut. After 25 days of continuous American-Israeli aggression against our country, barbaric aggression that has killed our women and children and committed wholesale massacres from Marwaheen to Qana; from Bint Jbeil to al-Jamaliyah and al-Qaa massacres that are still going on, After the Arab governments have sat silent out of (…)

by Ran HaCohen
Dedicated to the too few Israeli intellectuals who do dare speak out against this war.
All generalizations are wrong, except this one: Israeli liberal intellectuals are against war. They have always been against it, and they even suffered greatly for their critical views, as they stress proudly. They were against the previous war, they will be against the next war, they are against all wars. There is just one minor exception, though: the present war, every present war, (…)

by Silvia Cattori
Dear friends,
Right now a tragedy is unfolding in the Middle East. Hundreds of civilians
have died in the bombings in Lebanon, Israel and Palestine and the death
toll is rising every day.
UN Secretary General Kofi Annan has called for an immediate ceasefire and UK
Prime Minister Tony Blair has joined Annan in calling for the deployment of
international troops to the Israel-Lebanon border. This is the best proposal
yet to stop the violence, but for it to succeed (…)

The biggest demonstration against the war held in Israel until now took place today (5.8.06) in the heart of downtown Tel-Aviv, an area that is considered especially right-wing.
Close to 10 thousand demonstrators from all over the country, among them many Arab citizens, marched from Ben-Zion Boulevard, along King George Street, to Magen David Square. There, at the entrance to the Carmel market, a stage was set up. The thousands that did not find place in the square flowed over into Nahlat (…)

by David R. Hoffman, Legal Editor of PRAVDA.Ru
Several years ago I worked for a company whose manager would routinely say “Life isn’t fair” whenever he cheated an employee out of a raise or benefits. A few years later, while in law school, I listened in stunned silence as an adjunct professor, who also worked as a prosecuting attorney, nonchalantly remarked “Oh well!” after informing my class that a man she believed was innocent had just been found guilty.
These two examples, and (…)

Voice of the White House August 6, 2006
TBR News.org - August 6, 2006
“The American public is being told one thing by the Administration and the DoD. and various staff members here are being told something quite different.
This, of course, deals with the current terrible events in Lebanon. While the public is told that Israel is going after terrorists, the death tolls are way underreported.
When Israeli bombing attacks kill two hundred Lebanese, Tel Aviv wants us to publish that (…)

Over the past four years the Administration has presented a sequence of failed rationales for the War on Terror and the war in Iraq, ranging from WMDs to spreading democracy. The rationale behind the rationales is a textbook case of shifting from one marketing hook to another, hoping the masses finally embrace one of them. And to think; these were the same people who called Bill Clinton a waffler.
Without the acumen of a sophisticated ad agency, the Administration has repeatedly shown (…)

U.S. & Israel Selecting Targets for Cruise Missile First-Strike Attack
Bruce K. Gagnon - Global Network August 8, 2006
Multiple military sources have told the Global Network that Pentagon personnel responsible for selecting targets for cruise missile first strike attacks have been sent to Israel.
This indicates that U.S. and Israeli military strategists are now likely meeting to plan a joint attack on Syria and/or Iran.
The Persian Gulf war and the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq (…)

By Aluf Benn, Haaretz Correspondent
Israel refrained from issuing an official response Saturday to the draft resolution presented by the United States and France to the United Nations Security Council, which called for a full cessation of violence between Israel and Hezbollah. The silence is not accidental.
The final version of the resolution has not yet been approved, and it could change. Demonstrated Israeli enthusiasm for the draft could influence support among Security Council (…)