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With 2.4 million mobilising in mexico city last sunday the biggest march in its history and a 10km long permanent tent city established until ALL the votes are recounted from the July 2 elections, mexico is becoming a very interesting place. In one region, the movement seems to have take a tentative step forward..... Oaxaca Initiates Alternative Government Popular Assembly Reclaims Government Palace for the People
By Nancy Davies Commentary from Oaxaca
July 7, 2006
The Popular Assembly (…)

The hundreds of civilian casualties and the vast destruction of the infrastructure of Lebanon’s economic and social life by the Israeli armed forces is provoking world-wide indignation and anger. And so it should!
Does Israel have a right to defend itself from those whose stated political and military objective is to wipe out the Jewish nation? Yes, it has. But, apart from any other considerations, the disparity of power as between Israel and Lebanon, and Israel and the Palestinians, is (…)

Courtesy of the BBC: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/5233770.stm
Proclamation by the commander in chief to the people of Cuba:
As result of the great effort exerted to visit the Argentine city of Cordoba, to participate in the Mercosur meeting, the closing of the People’s Summit in the historic University of Cordoba, and to visit Alta Gracia, the city where Che [Guevara] grew up, together with my participation in the commemoration in Granma and Holguin Provinces of the 53rd (…)

Palestinian workers’ organizations urgent appeal Take Immediate Action to Save Lives and Protect Human Dignity in Palestine and Lebanon
The Israeli occupying power is waging a ruthless war on Palestine and Lebanon, which resulted in the killing and injuring of thousands of innocent civilians -among them many women and children- and destruction of houses. Israel is acting with the full support of the current leaders of the United States of America which are trying to impose their (…)

by Steve Masterson, London, 1st August 2006 steve5masterson@yahoo.co.uk
The sheer brutality of the butchery of civilians by Israeli WMD - bombs and fighter planes provided by the United States - on Lebanon is firstly a warning to the rest of the world from the United States: `accept US global domination, or else’; and secondly, it is the beginning of a serious struggle for all-out control over Middle- East, Caspian Basin and Central Asian oil and gas. It is not the puppet Israel but (…)

Our Lebanese People:
The army of the Zionist enemy is continuing its aggression against Lebanon for its third consecutive week.
From its very beginning stage, this aggression has taken the form of a savage predatory war. Neither man nor stone is safe from its fiery hell, nor are human and civil institutions, the media, or the infrastructure. The Zionist killing machine has most recently targeted even international observers.
This savage raging storm that took as its pretext the (…)

http://www.palestine-pmc.com/details.asp?cat=4&id=3456
By Max Elbaum
LEBANON & GAZA: "NOTHING IS SAFE" Israel’s continuing military offensives in Lebanon and Gaza are producing a human catastrophe, and have immense political consequences.
First, the human cost, as of July 30:
*at least 561 dead in Lebanon, the vast majority civilians - with 60 killed (including 37 children) by Israeli air attacks on the village of Qana this morning. Over 1,000 wounded and 700,000-800,000 (…)

By Lily Galili
Yesterday’s bombing in Qana sparked an immediate surge in opposition to the fighting in Lebanon. Spontaneous demonstrations and petitions were organized within hours, and drew more people than the organized demonstrations of the previous two weeks.
Meanwhile, the first person to refuse to do army service during the current fighting was yesterday sentenced to 28 days in a military prison.
According to the refusal organization Yesh Gvul, which issued a public statement (…)

Melbourne Stop the War media statement
Israel is using depleted uranium in its brutal war on Lebanon. The time to act against war and nuclear madness is NOW!*
Thousands of people will be marching in Melbourne, on ’Hiroshima Day", Sunday August 6 against war and for a nuclear free future. *On August 6, 1945, an atomic bomb was dropped on the historic Japanese city of Hiroshima and three days later on Nagasaki. While this was a military triumph for the United States, for humanity it (…)

By The Associated Press
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said Thursday he has recalled his country’s ambassador to Israel to show his "indignation" over the military offensive in Lebanon.
"We have ordered the withdrawal of our ambassador in Israel," Chavez said in a televised speech, calling Israeli attacks in Lebanon "genocide."
"It really causes indignation to see how the state of Israel continues bombing, killing ... with all of the power they have, with the support of the United (…)