The end of Western funding and Israel’s crossing closure sharpen Palestinian divisions, reports Conal Urquhart in Gaza City
An empty watchtower overlooks a deserted road lined with rusting vehicle parts. The only traffic is a pregnant bitch and a mule and cart. This is Gaza’s economic lifeline, the Karni crossing into Israel, which is supposed to handle 1,300 containers of merchandise and food per day in order to sustain 1.3 million people.
But nothing is entering or leaving Gaza, and (…)
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Going ghetto
17 April 2006Last week, Cynthia McKinney’s big hair collided with racism that never dies.
by Erin Aubry Kaplan
I’VE GONE ghetto.
Don’t be alarmed. This isn’t news. Actually I haven’t gone ghetto; I’ve just realized that I’ve been ghetto all along. I’ve always figured - wrongly - that certain key lines on my resume at a certain point in my life would dispel ghetto for good, such as a couple of degrees, a certain facility with words and language and an inordinate fondness for Greek mythology.
I’ve (…) -
STATE SPONSORED TERROR : CASE HISTORIES ABOUND
17 April 2006Those who deride the notion of state-sponsored terror do not inhabit the reality-based universe the rest of us live in.........
All major terrorists hits’ of the last 30 years have left behind the foul stench of western-intelligence involvement............
Case histories abound...........
OPERATION GLADIO http://globalresearch.ca/articles/GAN412A.html .........
The antics of Louis Posada Carilles http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/sep2005/posa-s29.shtml ............
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The Cannabis Man - The last word.
17 April 2006According to the Cannabis Man this is it. We have promised all along that this is leading somewhere and we reckon that we’re just about ready to show you where.
So, if you will indulge us for a few more lines then we can get to the nitty gritty of this issue and - hopefully - move on. By now you probably think you know a bit about this man (after all, if I mention his 13 years of work again I’ll probably hear you scream from here!) but he wants it known that he is distinctly working class (…) -
FLYING HIGH: A VERY EARLY HISTORY OF SPACE TRAVEL
16 April 2006By Peter Fredson
April 16, 2006
People, watching birds, probably wished they too could fly. In ancient times, in many countries, flying Gods were imagined by story tellers, who invested them with immortality, supernatural powers to overcome natural conditions such as gravity, with the ability to live in the sky and travel through space.
In Ancient Sumer, gods flew in vehicles called Shems, described as rocket-like "rocks” emitting fire. It was thought possible to travel to the sky home (…) -
Blair refuses to back Iran strike
16 April 2006TONY Blair has told George Bush that Britain cannot offer military support to any strike on Iran, regardless of whether the move wins the backing of the international community, government sources claimed yesterday.
Amid increasing tension over Tehran’s attempts to develop a military nuclear capacity, the Prime Minister has laid bare the limits of his support for President Bush, who is believed to be considering an assault on Iran, Foreign Office sources revealed.
US Secretary of State (…) -
THE WAR ON IMMIGRANTS
16 April 2006by Stephen Lendman
"Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore." Once that was true, but no longer. Emma Lazarus’ beautiful and memorable words we’ve all heard many times and know well are fading into memory. If we’re honest, they should be removed from "Lady Liberty" and be replaced with something like: We’ll take your Anglos, especially well-off ones, and the ones we choose with needed skills; you keep the (…) -
PRISONS AND TORTURE IN IRAQ
16 April 2006by Sarah Meyer
There is, at present, confusion about the closure date of Abu Ghraib. The United States is uncomfortable under the global spotlight on its prisons and torture policies in Iraq. Rather than moderate their policies to accommodate democratic and legal guidelines, they are, instead, planning to move ‘detainees’1 to newly built prisons which they hope will be less visible.
In February ’04, The International Red Cross published its (January) “Report on the Treatment by the (…) -
Letter to Col. Adkins Who Said Bush Must Go.
16 April 2006To Colonel James A. Adkins US Army Retired,
I want to commend you as I read your comments concerning Pres. Bush: “I am no longer a Republican. Now I think the president needs to go. His failure to hold subordinates accountable now places the blame for his administration’s incompetence squarely on his shoulders” At this point the handling of this war transcends party lines. I am a Democrat where I was and still am opposed to this war in Iraq. I feel that this is an American issue and (…) -
Assaulting Cynthia McKinney
16 April 2006By Remi Kanazi
Joe Scarborough, political hack and host of Scarborough Country on MSNBC, went on yet another odious rant on April 3. This time his scurrilous remarks were aimed at six-term Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney. The Congresswoman is accused of punching a Capitol Hill security officer in the chest (with cell phone in hand). After McKinney skirted a metal detector (members of Congress are not required to go through metal detectors) an officer, according to a witness, asked McKinney (…)