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Fighting Them There, As We Create Them Everywhere Else By Ron Fullwood July 26, 2006 "We’re fighting them there so, we don’t have to fight them here." That’s still the mantra of the right wing regarding Iraq.
But, if it is our presence in Iraq that is a magnet for combatants, then it’s immoral to expect Iraqis to continue to bear the brunt of those violent expressions of resentment that are directed at the U.S.. Especially since the Bush regime seems intent on provoking even more (…)

Is the Turkish Mafia Mucking Around in America? By Mike Mejia Thursday, 27 July 2006 at 19:13 French filmmaker Mathieu Verboud is set to release a new documentary for European television this fall, which will reveal important new insights into the case of former FBI translator and president of the National Security Whistleblower’s Coalition Sibel Edmonds. Edmonds, a Turkish-American whose wrongful termination lawsuit was suppressed by the government’s invocation of the all-too-common (…)

"Why don’t they help us?, try to help us?...before this great and granite planet falls apart?"....Gene Pitney’s "A Town Without Pity" *********************************
Just who is it then, who is making matters worse on this sadly violent little planet? Surely it’s the Godless heathens and Socialists, right?
Surely it’s the American enemies: Countries like France, Cuba, Russia, China, Venezuela, Bolivia, Spain. Socialist regimes and dictatorships who are, so the State Department (…)

The Crime of Lebanon and Palestine - Are Iran and Syria Next?: Part II - by Stephen Lendman
On July 26, Aljazeerah reported a story headlined - "Israeli invasion of Lebanon planned by neocons in June (2006)." It was done at a June 17 and 18 meeting at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) conference in Beaver Creek, Colorado at which former Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and Likud Knesset member Natan Sharansky met with US Vice President Dick Cheney. The purpose was to (…)

At one time, not so many decades ago, we had men and women of peaceful disposition and effect upon this planet. People like Mother Theresa, Martin Luther King, Mahatma Ghandi,Dag Hammerskold... Even Jesse Jackson had much influence in the Middle East. Where are the peacemakers now? Where are the men and women of good will who have profound influence on the leaders of difficult countries..of ANY countries?
When is the last time you heard a peep from a Republican party operatchik about (…)

July 26, 2006 — Our intelligence sources report that the Israeli Defense Force attack on Lebanon is being carried out as a joint Israeli-U.S. military operation. Moreover, there are joint Israeli and U.S. war rooms coordinating the U.S.-supported Israeli attacks on Lebanon. The ultimate aim of Washington and Jerusalem is not only to eliminate Hezbollah as a political force in Lebanon but also to remake Lebanon as an American and Israeli client state. Israeli forces are pounding parts of (…)

The face of a Zionist Jewish girl, ably captured by a passing Reuters cameraman, radiates wondrous joy as she writes her name, "with love", on a missile of death. Moments later, the object of her erotic fascination smashes and shatters the bodies of two Lebanese toddlers near a playschool, whose only crime was not belonging to the Synagogue of Satan. The missiles were made in "Christian" America and were delivered by "Christian" American hardware.
The outlaw state of Israel, rapaciously (…)

Appeal from Italy’s Il Manifesto July 28, 2006 | Page 11
THE LEFT-wing Italian daily newspaper Il Manifesto is facing a financial crisis that threatens its future. Here, we print their appeal for support.
FOR 35 years, Il Manifesto has represented a unique phenomenon in Italian, and not just Italian, newspaper history.
Without a boss, other than the workers’ cooperative that gets the paper out each day, equal (low) wages for all, and an independent, autonomous political journalism that (…)

While watching DICK CHENEY:
(I hate him! Sure, he gave me power, but he still wants to run the show. Darth Cheney indeed! Well,maybe I’m too tough on him, after all he does want to make me emperor for life.)
While listening to NURI AL-MALIKI:
(What a jerk! Can’t even speak English goodly. He looks like a two day drunk ((I ought to know)), and turns out he’s double crossing me..he’s a Jew hater. Now what can I do?)
While listening to DONALD RUMSFELD:
(I wish I could be as clever (…)

The spirit of resistance
By Pepe Escobar
07/25/06 "Asia Times" — — As southern Lebanon is turned into a wasteland mirroring the Gaza gulag, Washington neo-cons may stridently celebrate the contours of a final solution for the Hamas-Hezbollah "problem". Or should they?
Israel’s feverish military machine at least conveys the impression it knows exactly what it’s doing - with its made-in-the-USA bombs destroying not just military but civilian targets. But this does not mean Israel is (…)