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Four Palestinians killed and seventy injured during Israeli military incursion into Ramallah Four Palestinians were killed after being fired upon with live bullets in the central square in Ramallah on Wednesday during an Israeli military incursion. One Palestinian died after being hit in the head by an exploding bullet, another after being struck in the chest by a high velocity bullet. Another seventy Palestinians were injured, fifteen severely, and five arrested.
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By VIRGINIA TILLEY Johannesburg, South Africa.
It is finally time. After years of internal arguments, confusion, and dithering, the time has come for a full-fledged international boycott of Israel. Good cause for a boycott has, of course, been in place for decades, as a raft of initiatives already attests. But Israel’s war crimes are now so shocking, its extremism so clear, the suffering so great, the UN so helpless, and the international community’s need to contain Israel’s behavior so (…)

By Nick Turse and Deborah Nelson, Special to The Times
The men of B Company were in a dangerous state of mind. They had lost five men in a firefight the day before. The morning of Feb. 8, 1968, brought unwelcome orders to resume their sweep of the countryside, a green patchwork of rice paddies along Vietnam’s central coast.
They met no resistance as they entered a nondescript settlement in Quang Nam province. So Jamie Henry, a 20-year-old medic, set his rifle down in a hut, unfastened (…)

By Nicola Nasser* The Israeli bombardment of Lebanon and Palestine as well as the ongoing U.S. process of abruptly and forcibly delivering to life a lifeless new U.S.-modeled Iraqi regime are crushing the Arab League “system” in a life-or-death test and again pushing it into a collision course with the people. Almost all the constitutions and basic laws of the Arab League’s twenty-two states, including the stateless Palestinian Authority, stipulate that their peoples and countries are an (…)

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By Remi Kanazi
The US media’s biased coverage of the crisis in Lebanon should come as no surprise. While the White House and Congress claim a “special relationship” with Israel, our news outlets are not supposed to have a “special relationship” with anyone. Their job is to fairly reports on matters; anything less is a disservice to those watching their news programs and reading their newspapers.
Shockingly, Larry King Live has been “fair” in its coverage of the conflict consuming Lebanon (…)

by Mark Stevenson in Mexico City
Mexico’s left-wing presidential candidate called for more street protests to demand a full recount in the country’s disputed election on 2 July, despite the federal electoral court’s ruling that only a partial, ballot-by-ballot review was necessary.
The tribunal decided on Saturday that granting Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador’s request for a full recount would violate electoral laws that prohibit recounts unless there is evidence of irregularities or fraud. (…)

Giving one person power over others is like a giving a 3-year-old a hose: not everyone will get soaked, but the chances of coming out dry are slender.
By Barbara Ehrenreich
The AFL-CIO’s Working America project has launched a "bad boss" contest. Unfortunately, the prize is only a free vacation, rather than the opportunity to see your nominee drawn and quartered after a lengthy and humiliating public trial.
I’ve heard so many bad boss stories that I’d hate to be one of the judges. The (…)

The Discovery Institute’s True Raison d’être and Why We Need to Be Deeply Concerned
by Jason Miller
"In 1998, members of a Seattle nonprofit think tank drafted a secret five-year plan with an ambitious goal: to "defeat scientific materialism" and "replace materialistic explanations with the theistic understanding that nature and human beings are created by God."
Discovery Institute, a Seattle-based think tank which champions socially conservative causes, has become heavily invested in (…)

by Michael Dwyer, Film Correspondent
The Irish Film Institute has cancelled its sponsorship arrangement with the Israeli embassy in Irelandfor the screening of an Israeli film at the IFI cinemas in Dublinthis weekend.
The screening of the film, Walk On Water, will go ahead as scheduled tomorrow evening.
IFI director Mark Mulqueen informed the embassy of the decision on Monday in a statement which reads: "The decision is taken in light of the current activities of the Israeli (…)