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July 31, 2006
WHY MUST THE RIGHT WING SOUND SO BRUTALLY STUPID?
John Chuckman
Just when I thought he had shown a glimmer of statesmanship, Stephen Harper, Canada’s prime minister courtesy of just over one-third of the vote, reverted to character. Following Israel’s apparently-deliberate targeting of four UN observers in Lebanon, including one Canadian, Harper thought it appropriate to ask, not why Israel killed them, but why the observers were there?
His inspired question reminded me (…)

By failing to press for the impeachment of President Bush and his most bellicose advisors, the American people and their elected members of the House of Representatives expose our country to ever greater hatred and isolation. By permitting President Bush to pursue his policy of domination through threat and lawless force, we risk ever widening international violence.
The new tragedy of Lebanon has brought death to hundreds of civilians, children, women and men. Hundreds of thousands, (…)

Chavez Claims : Israel Resembles Hitler By Anadolu News Agency (aa), Tehran Monday, July 31, 2006 zaman.com
Veneuzela President Hugo Chavez condemned Israel’s attack on Lebanon and Palestine. During an official two-day visit to Iran’s capital Tehran, Chavez declared, “What Israel is doing is fascism and terrorism. We call on the world to stop Israel’s insanity,” during a ceremony at the University of Tehran in which he was awarded the Order of the Islamic Republic of Iran, First Grade. (…)

found this article in Hareetz against the war... Can be an information but it is far from to be enough;-) The most unsuccessful war By Ze’ev Sternhell
No situation can continue to exist for long without an ideological reason. That’s how when once it was clear that it was not achieving its aims, an unsuccessful military campaign was upgraded with the wave of a magic wand to the level of a war of survival. When everyone understood that a moral reason had to be found both for the dimensions (…)

by John Crewdson
WASHINGTON - Shortly after Sept. 11, 2001, the CIA targeted for abduction and rendition nearly a dozen Muslims living in Italy whom it suspected of having ties to al-Qaida, a senior Italian intelligence official has told prosecutors in Milan.
Meanwhile, aircraft flight records suggest the possibility of the CIA’s previously unsuspected involvement in the disappearance of Mohamed Morgan, an Islamist militant living in Milan now believed to be in an Egyptian prison.
The (…)

By Dan Eggen
Some staff members and commissioners of the Sept. 11 panel concluded that the Pentagon’s initial story of how it reacted to the 2001 terrorist attacks may have been part of a deliberate effort to mislead the commission and the public rather than a reflection of the fog of events on that day, according to sources involved in the debate.
Suspicion of wrongdoing ran so deep that the 10-member commission, in a secret meeting at the end of its tenure in summer 2004, debated (…)

THE QANA MASSACRE AND THE RISKS IN RELYING ON ISRAELI PROPAGANDA
On July 30, the Israeli Defense Force (“IDF”) released infrared aerial footage purporting to show a Hezbollah Katyusha battery situated in a residential area of Qana, firing rockets at Israel. The IDF claimed that Hezbollah hid the trucks, which are used as launch platforms for the Katyushas, in and around residential neighborhoods in Qana, in support of its claim that Hezbollah is using civilians as human shields. (The (…)

by Annia Ciezadlo – Beirut Despatch New Republic July/August 2006
In the early hours of September 13, 1997, the Israeli army killed one 45-year-old woman, two Hezbollah fighters, and six Lebanese soldiers in the mountains of southern Lebanon. Later that day, Hezbollah officials viewed video footage of the bodies and confirmed that one of the slain was a precious kill indeed: 18-year-old Hadi Nasrallah, son of Hezbollah’s leader, Secretary-General Sayyid Hassan Nasrallah.
That evening, (…)

“Expanding and strengthening†the onslaught against the people of Lebanon. That was Israel’s response to the international outcry over the slaughter of 56 civilians, most of them children, in Qana.
And with the world’s eyes turned to the increasingly savage offensive in southern Lebanon, Israel has tightened the noose of collective punishment around the Palestinians in Gaza.
Accompanying all this are the barely concealed calls in Washington for an assault on Iran and Syria.
No (…)

"Now is the time of the furnaces, and only light should be seen." Jose Marti
Twenty-one years have already elapsed since the end of the last world conflagration; numerous publications, in every possible language, celebrate this event, symbolized by the defeat of Japan. There is a climate of apparent optimism in many areas of the different camps into which the world is divided.
Twenty-one years without a world war, in these times of maximum confrontations, of violent clashes and sudden (…)