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By ROBERT H. REID
BAGHDAD, Iraq — American generals have laid bare the facts: Baghdad is on the brink of chaos, and the specter of all-out civil war looms.
Instead of standing down, as had been hoped this year, the U.S. military is preparing for a major operation to try to take back Baghdad’s streets from Shiite and Sunni extremists. The goal is to stem sectarian violence that Iraqi security forces could not control.
The stakes could not be higher: The fate of the U.S. mission in Iraq (…)

An umbrella organization of various progressive groups today condemned the Israeli Government and its military leadership for the criminal air strikes, sea and land bombardments of Lebanon.
"We especially abhor the killing of innocent civilians, such as the bombardment of Qana village and the murder of mainly women, children and the old. This is a crime against humanity", said Wilson Fortaleza, spokesperson for Laban ng Masa.
Also, the war already has claimed the lives of two of our (…)

by Uri Avnery
"In order to embark on a new course, the only one that will solve the problem: negotiations and peace with the Palestinians, the Lebanese, the Syrians. And: with Hamas and Hizbullah."
The day after the war will be the Day of the Long Knives.
Everybody will blame everybody else. The politicians will blame each other. The generals will blame each other. The politicians will blame the generals. And, most of all, the generals will blame the politicians.
Always, in every (…)

Thursday August 3rd, 2006- 23rd day of attack
August 12th, 2006- INTERNATIONAL DAY OF PROTEST AND SOLIDARITY
Reporting after 23 days of consistent Israeli attacks on Lebanon:
More than 900 Lebanese people have been killed in three weeks of fighting with Israel, More than 3,200 have been wounded 1 million or a quarter of the total population had been displaced Third of the casualties had been children under 12. Numbers are still not very accurate many bodies still under rubble and (…)

By The Associated Press
Three Jewish Moroccans have submitted Rabat’s high court with a petition against Defense Minister Amir Peretz, accusing the Moroccan-born Israeli of war crimes.
Leftist activist Abraham Tsarfati, author Amran al-Malich and human rights group official Zion Asidon claim Peretz may be tried in their country due to his Moroccan citizenship.
"The criminal terrorist, Zionist Amir Peretz, has retained his Moroccan citizenship and is still registered in Morocco’s (…)

Ambassador Leo Wanta is trying to return 27.8 trillion dollars to the US Treasury. He is being being illegally blocked from doing so by Bush and the Federal Reserve.
For all the info on this huge story see www.arcticbeacon.com
This money is ours. the powers that be have been stealing from this fund for twenty plus years and they don’t want to relenquish their access to it.
The funds actually amount to at least 70 trillion because of interest. Are you wrapping your minds around the (…)

Saturday 5 August 2006 (21h45): Por.Faustino Rodríguez Bauza From the beginning of the genocida invasion of Israel, with the support of the North American government, to Palestine and Lebanon, in Venezuela a movement of solidarity of a great amplitude has taken place and throughout all the country. President Chávez by ricochet gave a declaration to the invasion, from the first day that this one began. At the same time in all Venezuela concentrations were made and simultaneous marches in all (…)

How America Nukes Its Own Troops - Death By Slow Burn
AMY WORTHINGTON / The Idaho Observer (Spirit Lake) What ’Support Our Troops’ Really Means
On March 30, an AP photo featured an American pro-war activist holding a sign: "Nuke the evil scum, it worked in 1945!" That’s exactly what George Bush has done. America’s mega-billion dollar war in Iraq has been indeed a NUCLEAR WAR.
Bush-Cheney have delivered upon 17 million Iraqis tons of depleted uranium (DU) weapons, a "liberation" gift (…)

UNITED POLICE STATES OF AMERICA II
Tasers, K-9’s used at Counter-Recruitment Demonstration
This is the longer version of the “unnecessary taser use” video that dononeg posted. August 20, 2005: young woman is held to the ground and tasered at a counter-recruitment demonstration in Pittsburgh, PA. An older woman is bitten by a police dog and then arrested. Two small children are pepper-sprayed and an M.S. patient is toppled in his motorized scooter. See http://www.organizepittsburgh.org/ (…)

Christian right steps up pro-Israel lobbying By Bill Berkowitz Online Journal Guest Writer
Aug 4, 2006, 00:09
Over the past two decades, as the Christian Right has grown in political power in the United States, there has been parallel growth in support for Israel. A number of organizations made up of conservative evangelical and Jewish leaders have been founded, and millions of dollars have been raised and donated to charities in Israel.
Now, a new group plans to take it up a notch, (…)