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Citgo To Stop Selling Gas To U.S. Stations Jul 12, 2:30 PM EDT
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) - Venezuela-owned Citgo Petroleum Corp. has decided to stop distributing gasoline to some 1,800 U.S. stations, shedding a lackluster segment of its business while forcing the owners of those stations to find other suppliers.
While it may create some logistical headaches for gasoline retailers in the short term, the move should not have any impact on the nation’s overall fuel supply.
Citgo, which is (…)

The Palestinian health ministry accused Israel of using a new type of banned explosives containing poisonous material.
A ministry report released Monday said testimonies from surgeons in Palestinian hospitals indicated that "all 249 casualties inflicted by the Israeli war machine during the operation on Gaza which started on June 27 resulted from shrapnel of new and developed shells and explosives which cause amputation of limbs and burning of all the injured parts."
The ministry called (…)

by Uri Avnery
THE REAL aim is to change the regime in Lebanon and to install a puppet government.
That was the aim of Ariel Sharon’s invasion of Lebanon in 1982. It failed. But Sharon and his pupils in the military and political leadership have never really given up on it.
As in 1982, the present operation, too, was planned and is being carried out in full coordination with the US.
As then, there is no doubt that it is coordinated with a part of the Lebanese elite.
That’s the main (…)

by Gilbert Achcar interviewed by Paola Mirenda
Q. Since last Wednesday, the Israeli Army has been imposing a siege on Lebanon and bombarding the country as a result of the abduction of two of its soldiers and the killing of seven others by a Lebanese Hezbollah commando unit. Israel’s reaction was predictable, even in its disproportion. What are the political and strategic reasons that can be seen behind this action by Hezbollah?
Achcar: The explanations that Hezbollah has given for its (…)

Huge soya farms financed by Cargill, the largest privately owned company in the world, are the rainforest’s new worst enemy
By Daniel Howden
The scars are unmistakably man made. Hard-edged squares and rectangles,hundreds of acres across, hacked and burned out of the Amazon rainforest. The dark green of the canopy is lacerated with thin red lines - the illegal dirt roads that stitch together these giant clearings.
Seen from the air, this fearful symmetry marks out the battle lines of an (…)

Lebanon’s Al Manar TV Targeted Free Speech "Marked for Death" by Trish Schuh
After years of asymmetric attacks on the First Amendment- assassinating journalists, surveilling dissent, and censoring the free flow of information- the Democracy Mukhabarat rules. Using national security to prohibit scrutiny or prosecution, the Bush administration instead labels opposition media as the criminal, declaring the Fourth Estate to be the Fourth Front. "Full spectrum information dominance" equates (…)

Todays corporations and their primary movers of investors are driven by the continous desire to drive investment capital as a pure and simple attack on socialized - democratic organization and resource management structures that are not favorable to the currently intrenched capitalist families directly alignment with the major transnational corporations - to drive the goal of the elitists who define the basic struggle of the two opposing world views.
1. The Capitalist Liar Genocide (…)

Students Call NZ To Speak Out On Israel Aggression
The University of Auckland’s Students for Justice in Palestine call on the New Zealand government to pressure Israel to end the callous bombing raids in occupied Gaza and nearby Lebanon that has resulted in the death of civilians on both sides. The international community has failed yet again to address the core issues of the Middle East conflict by only calling for ’restraint’ alone, thereby paving the way for another regional conflict. (…)

The amount of violence in the world is threatening all of us. It is time we use our power to create Peace. How can we do this? By taking one minute a day to generate feelings of Peace within ourselves and then focusing that energy upward and outward, we will cause a shift to move us from violence and conflict to Peace.
Why would this work? Science has shown us that we are all producing spurts of energy all the time through our emotions and thoughts. This energy, though we do not (…)

Lebanon’s Cabinet today issued a statement saying the country faced “real annihilation” by Israel.
It also accused the Jewish state of using banned weapons against Lebanese civilians.
“We are facing a real annihilation carried out by Israel,” Information Minister Ghazi Aridi said after an emergency cabinet meeting.
“Israel is using internationally prohibited weapons against civilians,” he said.
He did not elaborate, but Lebanese media reports, which could not be confirmed, claimed (…)