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La Paz, Aug 2 (Prensa Latina) The Congress of Bolivia voiced concern over
Israel attacks on Lebanon that has targeted civilians, and called the United
Nations to stop the hostilities.
A joint House and Senate resolution passed Tuesday considers this
Israel-Lebanon conflict a threat to world peace and the Middle East.
The resolution recalls that the civilian population has been the main
victim and urges for effort from the world community, the UN namely, to end
the attacks.

Jewish Socialists’ Group leaflet distributed at the demonstration on 22nd July 2006
JEWS SPEAK OUT AGAINST ISRAELI AGGRESSION END THE KILLING IN GAZA, LEBANON AND ISRAEL!
The Jewish Socialists’ Group unreservedly condemns Israeli military aggression in Gaza and Lebanon, the appalling loss of civilian life on all sides in this conflict, and continued imprisonment without trial of thousands of Palestinians whose “crime” is to oppose Israel’s occupation.
When Israel commits acts of (…)

Dahr Jamail
Red Cross workers and residents of Qana, where Israeli bombing killed at least 60 civilians, have told IPS that no Hezbollah rockets were launched from the city before the Israeli air strike.
The Israeli military has said it bombed the building in which several people had taken shelter, more than half of them children, because the Army had faced rocket fire from Qana. The Israeli military has said that Hezbollah was therefore responsible for the deaths.
"There were no (…)

byLara Deeb
(Lara Deeb, a cultural anthropologist, is assistant professor of women’s studies at the University of California-Irvine. She is author of An Enchanted Modern: Gender and Public Piety in Shi‘i Lebanon.)
Hizballah, the Lebanese Shi‘i movement whose militia is fighting the Israeli army in south Lebanon, has been cast misleadingly in much media coverage of the ongoing war. Much more than a militia, the movement is also a political party that is a powerful actor in Lebanese (…)

US state terrorism has exacted a horrendous death toll in Bush’s War on Terror. Unfortunately Mainstream Media scrupulously IGNORE the harsh reality that the vast bulk of avoidable deaths in the Bush Wars have been non-violent but nevertheless avoidable deaths due to economic and infrastructure destruction. Thus the post-invasion VIOLENT deaths in Iraq total about 44,000 (according to Iraq Body Count) but the total post-invasion deaths total 0.5 million (see: , ).
The post-1967 (…)

Qana bombing may turn support for war in Israel
The World Today - Monday, 31 July , 2006 12:26:00
Reporter: Eleanor Hall ELEANOR HALL: Ten years ago, when Israel’s Army shelled a UN compound in Qana, killing more than 100 civilians, it was one of a series of events that led to an explosion of internal opposition to Israel’s continued presence in Lebanon.
Four years later Israel pulled out of Lebanon altogether. And leading the campaign for that withdrawal was an Israeli group called (…)

Although the "End Times" may not even be around the corner for the Middle East and the world at large, they certainly seem to be in the good old U.S. of A.!
As a nation, just over the last 5 years under the criminal Bush Administration, we’ve collapsed into a system which favors the rich over the poor, the healthy over the sick and cheap labor over the unions. We have the biggest per capita crime rate in the world (just recently I read we have 800,000 young gang members engaged in the drug (…)

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 (…)

3 Thursdays August 2006 (16h29): FIDEL ALWAYS LIVES AND VIVIRA BY IN THE HEART AND THE MIND ON THE TOWNS Hardly the state of health of the historical leader of the Cuban revolution, the taken Fidel Castro Commander was disclosed from Cuba, and measures by means of which it delegates his functions in Raul Castro and other leaders of the Communist Party and the Cuban government, a reaction of endorsement and support of all the institutions and the Cuban town to Fidel Castro Commander took (…)

Freedom to Fascism - A Must-See Film by Aaron Russo - by Stephen Lendman
Aaron Russo has produced an important and powerful documentary film titled Freedom to Fascism that should be must viewing for everyone. It’s now playing in theaters in selective cities around the US and hopefully will be shown abroad as well as what happens in the most powerful country on earth affects all others for better or worse. No one seeing this film will doubt it’s frighteningly for the worst.
The film (…)