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Scenes Of Israeli Massacre In Qana 1996 Warning! - This video of an Israeli Massacre of Palestinian & Lebanese civilians in April of 96 is very graphic and should only be viewed by a mature audience.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/quana_01_19_03.htm
By ROBERT FISK
05/06/96 "The Independent" — Qana: It is a soldier’s videotape, recorded — at the start at least — as just another incident to remember back home by a United Nations trooper after his six months’ tour of duty (…)

http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0604/S00361.htm
Kerry Sponsors Palestine’s Collective Punishment Friday, 28 April 2006, 10:51 am Opinion: Genevieve Cora Fraser
By Genevieve Cora Fraser
As a former state prosecutor and lieutenant governor whose father was a Foreign Service officer, the former Presidential candidate Senator John Forbes Kerry should know a violation of international law when he sees one. Perhaps he could blame intimidation by the American Israeli PAC organization or a (…)

By Sarah Meyer
April 22, 2006 Index Research and Global Research
Baghdad Airport, The Green Zone and Occupation Garrisons 2003
The deliberate obfuscation of permanent bases in Iraq by the US and UK governments illustrates the myth of "freedom of information." Many of the US bases in Iraq already have, or are now building, facilities which will keep the US government - if not the Iraqi people - happy for the foreseeable future.
US Bases in Iraq will be a researched study of the (…)

Starve the Racist Prison Beast: Review of America’s System of Mass Incarceration
By Paul Street
April 19, 2006 Black Commentator
Let me start by quoting my favorite historical personality from Indiana - the great democratic Socialist Eugene Debs, from Terre Haute. "While there is a lower class," Debs once said, "I am of it. While there is a criminal element," he added, "I am of it; while there is a soul in prison, I am not free."
Prison Nation: "Not Unless This Country Plunges Into (…)

Nuking Iran
By Jorge Hirsch and Foaad Khosmood
April 22, 2006 ZNet - 2006-04-10
Foaad Khosmood: In the April 17 issue of New Yorker Magazine Seymour Hersh has an eye-opening piece that quotes Administration insiders who suggest nuclear war with Iran is a serious option. You had written back in October of 2005 that "The strategic decision by the United States to nuke Iran was probably made long ago." What led you to that conclusion at that time? What do you think of the Hersh piece? (…)

Administration’s Nuclear Saber Rattling on Iran Threatens Global Security Statement by Dr. Kurt Gottfried, Chairman, Union of Concerned Scientists
April 30, 2006 ucsusa.org
Statement by Dr. Kurt Gottfried, Chairman, Union of Concerned Scientists, and Emeritus Professor of Physics, Cornell University
"Recent reports suggest that the Bush administration is considering using nuclear weapons against Iran. The very fact that nuclear weapon use is being discussed as an option-against a (…)

By Dr. Thomas R. Olmsted
April 30, 2006 Scholars for 9/11 Truth website
I am an ex Naval line officer and a psychiatrist in private practice in New Orleans, a Christian and homeschool dad. It troubled me a great deal that we rushed off to war on the flimsiest of evidence. I considered various ways to provide a smoking gun of who and why Sept 11th happened. Astute observers noticed right away that there were no Arabic sounding names on any of the flight manifests of the planes that (…)

Development World Health Organization: Life Quality Dramatically Deteriorated for Palestinians Adri Nieuwhof, The Electronic Intifada, 28 April 2006
In order to have a deeper understanding of the social suffering of the Palestinian people under occupation, a pilot Quality of Life study was undertaken by the World Health Organization - West Bank and Gaza and the Bir Zeit Institute of Community and Public Health in cooperation with the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics. The (…)

electronicIraq.net
Art, Music & Culture Artists become targets in rising atmosphere of intolerance
Report, IRIN
25 April 2006
BAGHDAD - Local artists, actors and singers, who have tried to bring smiles to the faces of children living in deteriorating conditions, have been targeted by insurgents and militias who accuse them of indulging in un-Islamic activities.
"Artists are being threatened and killed because they want to change the reality of the country by helping people (…)

electronicIraq.net
Aid & Development For quality of life, Baghdad ranks last in world, survey finds
Report, IRIN
11 April 2006
BAGHDAD, 11 Apr 2006 (IRIN) - Residents of the capital were not surprised by the results of a recent survey that ranked Baghdad as the worst city in the world in terms of the quality of living.
"We have to admit, this city is getting worse everyday in regard to the quality of life," said Fadia Ibraheem, a senior official at the Ministry of Labour and (…)