July 2006
July 31, 2006 News
Posted: Monday, July 31, 2006
¤ How can 'terrorism' be condemned while war crimes go without rebuke?
¤ White flags, not a legitimate target
¤ How can the violence be stopped?
¤ 'How can we stand by and allow this to go on?'
¤ The world has to stop this slaughter
¤ Is the US Encouraging Israel to Attack Syria?
¤ How mad for Britain to be the US poodle
¤ "Just a bunch of [dead] Arabs."
¤ The children went to sleep believing they were safe.
¤ 15 disabled children killed in Qana
¤ Another massacre in Qana
¤ Israel Responsible for Qana Attack
¤ Syria's Assad calls Israel's Qana attack terrorism
¤ Huge rally challenges Mexico poll
¤ Chávez Leads, Rivals Below 10% in Venezuela
¤ 100 (Plus) Years of Regime Change
¤ The West has forgotten that might is not right
¤ Israeli carnage in Lebanon triggers outrage
¤ 'They found them huddled together'
¤ The Final Say
¤ Disillusioned With the War? Here's Why
¤ The Peculiar Disappearance of the War in Iraq
¤ Immorality, Inc.
¤ The second Qana massacre
¤ Qana Massacre - SEE FOR YOURSELF
¤ Photographic Evidence of Israeli Crimes against Humanity
¤ Angry Beirut Protesters Storm U.N. Building
¤ Lebanese children bear scars of Israeli brutality
¤ Empire: war and propaganda
¤ Foreign and Domestic enemies of our constitution
¤ Mr. Bush, Self-defense is not exclusive to Israel
¤ Not in My Name
¤ The Israel You Don't See on the News
¤ Chavez, Vietnam eye energy deals
¤ Israel to expand Lebanon offensive
¤ Realities, Absurdities of Israel-U.S. Policies
¤ Pictures From Qana Graphic
¤ More "Birth Pangs" in Rice's "New Middle East"
¤ An Unfair War Video
¤ Olmert Justifies Israeli Blitz On Lebanon Village
¤ Irish refused bombs sent to Prestwick airport
¤ Imperial Rulers and the Deadly Games They Play
¤ The latest chutzpah
¤ Child prisoners left without support
¤ Jewish law permits Qana carnage
¤ INDEX ON ILLEGAL US WEAPONS IN LEBANON
¤ Dear Kofi, It's Time remove the U.S. and Israel from the United Nations
¤ The "Human Shield" LIE Exposed
¤ Qana crime is one of many, committed by Israel...blessed by the US
¤ Slaughter at Qana: Just Arabs, Never Mind
July 29, 2006 News
Posted: Saturday, July 29, 2006
¤ Just What America's Delusional Democracy Needs
¤ Belief and Betrayal: The New Jahiliyyah
¤ India could make 50 warheads under nuclear deal with Bush
¤ Former Haitian Prime Minister Yvon Neptune is Freed
¤ Israeli sniper kills a 13-year-old boy in Jabalia refugee camp
¤ How Much Longer?
¤ Kill 'Em All, Let God Sort Us Out
¤ Israeli bombs kill 13 in Lebanon
¤ Sergeant Tells of Plot to Kill Iraqi Detainees
¤ Disaster In The Making
¤ Israeli attacks stall aid efforts in Lebanon
¤ Israel's secret war
¤ WP spouts IDF propaganda
¤ More Evidence Americans Are Insane
¤ The Myth of the Israeli Soldier.
¤ A List of UN SECURITY COUNCIL RESOLUTIONS against Israel
¤ The "hiding among civilians" myth
¤ Israeli air strike on Lebanese house kills 7
¤ Humanitarian Intervention
¤ Anyone Who Opposes Israel is Label a Terrorist
¤ Shredded by Cluster Bombs
¤ Bush and Blair Risk Repeating the 1982 Fiasco
¤ Who Says Crime Doesn't Pay?
¤ Delusional Expectations
¤ Back in the USSA
¤ A Warning to Israel
¤ Dozens Die, More Troops Called Up
¤ The Power of Arrogance
¤ Condoleezza Rice: Midwife From Hell
¤ Trapped In A Vengeful Machismo
¤ Audit Finds U.S. Hid Actual Cost of Iraq Projects
¤ Lebanese Die as Condi Plays Piano in Malaysia
¤ War & Words
¤ Israeli Precision Bombing?
¤ Israel Violates Law on U.S. Weapons in Mideast
¤ 'President Bush is at the helm of an administration that won't stop lying'
¤ 'Bush's biggest offense at summit overlooked'
¤ 'Groping killer speaks at NAACP'
¤ California Heat Wave Leaves More Than 130 Dead
¤ Operation "Save Israel's High Command"
¤ Blair and Bush: Killing To Go On Until We Find A Plan
¤ On a Red Cross mission of mercy when Israeli air force came calling
¤ 4 U.N. Peacekeepers killed in Israel’s Targeted Assassination
Former Haitian Prime Minister Yvon Neptune is Freed
Posted: Friday, July 28, 2006
After more than two years in prison and a fifteen month hunger-strike, former Haitian Prime Minister Yvon Neptune was freed Thursday. The most high profile political prisoner detained by the U.S.-backed interim government in Haiti, Neptune was jailed shortly after the 2004 coup that ousted Haitian President Jean Bertrand Aristide. He was never charged with a crime.
Full Article : democracynow.org
July 27, 2006 News
Posted: Thursday, July 27, 2006
¤ Who are the real terrorists in the Middle East?
Lebanon's Children and Israeli Phosphorous Bombs
Did the American people see on CNN the child whose face was burnt by Israeli phosphorous bombs in Lebanon? Did they hear him screaming in pain at Sidon Hospital, with his mother falling to pieces in agony beside him because of the injury he sustained from the terrible bombs? How can the American people accept their elected President George W. Bush's rejection of a ceasefire?
World Leaders Cower Before U.S. Power
In the face of United States opposition, an international conference here today stopped short of calling for an immediate cease-fire in the Lebanon crisis. The conference instead adopted more nebulous language that reflected America’s desire to give Israel time to continue its bombardment of Hezbollah targets.
¤ The summit fails. War rages
¤ Indulging folly
¤ 'Birth Pangs of a New Middle East'?
¤ Babies among dead on Gaza front line
¤ Rice defends U.S. over Mideast cease-fire
¤ Rice’s Lebanon plan is mired in self-delusion
¤ Smoke signals from the battle of Bint Jbeil send a warning to Israel
¤ Great soul of power
¤ Dean Calls Iraqi PM an 'Anti-Semite'
¤ Israel Attacks US
¤ Israeli tank shelling kills two Palestinian sisters in Gaza Strip
The neocon resurgence
Once again the Bush administration is floating on a wave of euphoria. Israel's offensive against Hizbullah in Lebanon has liberated the utopian strain of neoconservatism that had been traduced by Iraq's sectarian civil war. And the secretary of state, Condoleezza Rice, has propelled herself forward as chief cheerleader. "What we're seeing here," she said, "are the birth pangs of a new Middle East." At every press conference she repeats the phrase "a new Middle East" as though its incantation is magical.
Empire: War and Propaganda
One of the museum's exhibitions is called "The Price of Freedom: Americans at war". In the spirit of Santa's Magic Grotto, this travesty of revisionism helps us understand how silence and omission are so successfully deployed in free, media-saturated societies. The shuffling lines of ordinary people, many of them children, are dispensed the vainglorious message that America has always "built freedom and democracy" - notably at Hiroshima and Nagasaki where the atomic bombing saved "a million lives", and in Vietnam where America's crusaders were "determined to stop communist expansion", and in Iraq where the same true hearts "employed air strikes of unprecedented precision".
¤ .N. Says It Protested to Israel for 6 Hours During Attack That Killed 4
¤ Israelis ignored repeated warnings before killing UN observers
¤ Israeli Strikes Kill 23 in Gaza Strip
¤ Explosions Kill 24, Wound 46 in Baghdad
¤ Civil war won't end until troops leave Iraq
¤ We Europeans must never forget that we created the Middle East conflict
¤ Israel’s Barrier to Peace
¤ Israel bombing new sites in Lebanon
¤ An estimated 800,000 people uprooted by attacks
¤ US House backs India nuclear deal
¤ Spinning out of control
Israel's "new Middle East"
Beirut is burning, hundreds of Lebanese die, hundreds of thousands lose all they ever owned and become refugees, and all the world is doing is rescuing the "foreign passport" residents of what was just two weeks ago "the Paris of the Middle East". Lebanon must die now, because "Israel has the right to defend itself", so goes the U.S. mantra, used to block any international attempt to impose a cease fire.
¤ Israel Fakes a Provocation
¤ Israel: A wolf dressed in victim’s clothes
¤ Israeli Crimes Against Humanity
¤ Chavez hails Russia for defying US with arms sale
¤ Blair is called to account again over war in Iraq
¤ MEDIA ALERT: DEMOLISHING LEBANON - PARTS 1 and 2
July 26, 2006 News
Posted: Wednesday, July 26, 2006
Iran: The Next War
Even before the bombs fell on Baghdad, a group of senior Pentagon officials were plotting to invade another country. Their covert campaign once again relied on false intelligence and shady allies. But this time, the target was Iran
¤ Israel’s Invasion Pretext Under Fire
¤ Is Beirut Burning?
¤ They plundered Iraq for fun and profit
¤ Oh, and Afghanistan is still a mess too
At the heart of the Lebanon crisis lie the lethal mistakes of George Bush
It was meant to be over by now. This time last week Israeli military planners were demanding another 72 hours to finish the job: that's all they needed, they promised, to clear southern Lebanon of Hizbullah. Yet the enemy has proved stubborn. Despite two weeks of bombardment, Hizbullah's formidable arsenal remains in place. Yesterday they fired yet more rockets - 60 of them - deep into Israel, reaching the city of Haifa and killing a teenage girl in the Arab village of Maghar.
¤ Dissent grows in Israel over Lebanon
¤ Israeli Strikes Kill 23 in Gaza Strip
¤ Annan accuses Israel over attack on UN post
¤ 'Why do they give weapons to Israel and food to us?'
¤ Israeli strikes on Gaza kill 24
It's Disproportionate. . .
Just my luck. I go away on vacation and it happens to be the week when George W. Bush's strategic view of the current world situation is revealed: Russia big. China big, too. World leaders boring. Lady world leaders need neck rub. Terrorism bad. Elections good (when the right people get elected). Israel good. Time to go home yet?
¤ U.S. Despised Because of Iraq War, Say Americans
¤ Blood in Beirut: $75.05 a Barrel
¤ How UN Lebanon post was bombed
¤ Israel 'ignored UN bomb warnings'
¤ 'How George Bush became a dictator'
¤ 'Kill 'em all, let God sort us out'
¤ Fighting Them There, As We Create Them Everywhere Else
¤ Applauding While Lebanon Burns
¤ The Occupation of Iraqi Hearts and Minds
¤ Russia rebuffs U.S. call to rethink $1bln Venezuela arms deal
¤ Applauding While Lebanon Burns
¤ They simply can't stop lying, can they?
July 25, 2006 News
Posted: Tuesday, July 25, 2006
¤ U.N. official: 4 peacekeepers killed in Lebanon
¤ Lebanon president says Israel uses phosphorous arms
¤ GRAPHIC VIDEO - Lebanese Doctor Says 'Phosphorus Weapons' Cause Suffering
¤ Officials: 7 Killed by Israeli Missile
¤ Bloodshed in Baghdad as PM meets Bush
¤ Israel plans to stay in Lebanon
¤ US sends more troops to help quell Baghdad violence
¤ Kidnapped in Israel or Captured in Lebanon?
¤ Leading lawyers say Bush creates loopholes in laws he doesn't like
¤ UK Government sources confirm War with Iran is on
¤ The Terror Campaign Against Us All
¤ Five myths that sanction Israel's war crimes
¤ Israel kills six in Gaza, hits rocket factories
¤ Israel's "Shock and Awe" Bombing of Lebanon
¤ Israeli strike kills family of seven in Lebanon
¤ It's Not Only About Israel, Ms. Rice
¤ Why Israel is Losing
¤ Hey Israel you missed one
¤ Putin's billion-dollar arms sale risks souring Western détente
¤ Bolton Lied
¤ Let’s have no more talk about Bush’s stupidity
¤ Lebanon's 9/11 or Why Do They Hate Us? Graphic Photos
¤ Why Is Israel Destroying Lebanon?
¤ White House Endorses Column Calling For Israel to Attack Syria
¤ Seven Palestinians, including two children, killed in the Gaza Strip on Monday
¤ My Letter to Lebanon's Prime Minister Fouad Siniora
¤ The History Of War Is The History Of Lies
¤ Did you know?
¤ Israel's False Assumptions about Lebanon
¤ I accuse you !
¤ Condoleezza Pregnant: Giving Birth to Monster
U.S. Turns to Arab Dictators to Contain Hezbollah
Posted: Tuesday, July 25, 2006
WASHINGTON, Jul 24 (IPS) - The United States is using authoritarian Arab leaders, who fear that Iran could export its revolutionary political model to their disgruntled populations and are concerned about Washington's reprisal against them a la Saddam Hussein in Iraq, as a buffer between the Iran-backed Hezbollah and Israel, Washington's protégé in the Middle East, analysts here say.
"Saudi Arabia, Egypt, and Jordan fear the momentum behind Iran's regional ambitions, which largely explains their surprisingly public criticism of Hezbollah, and by implication Iran," said George Perkovich, vice president for studies at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington, referring to how the three nations sided with their former arch-enemy Israel in its attacks against Lebanon.
Full Article : commondreams.org
Scale of the Human Crisis Emerges
Posted: Tuesday, July 25, 2006
BEIRUT -- The people of Lebanon are facing their "hour of greatest need", the UN said yesterday in launching an emergency appeal for $150m (Ł81m) to help an estimated 800,000 civilians whose lives have been disrupted by Israeli bombing of Lebanon.
The relief plan would focus on providing food, water, healthcare and other essential services, Jan Egeland, the UN emergency relief coordinator, said.
Full Article : commondreams.org
UN Slams Israel over Lebanon Strikes as Killing Rages on
Posted: Monday, July 24, 2006
The UN relief chief condemned Israel for "violating humanitarian law" over its blistering raids on Lebanon as the Jewish state and Hezbollah killed more civilians in another wave of attacks.
As Israel tightened its grip on a strategic border village seized in south Lebanon, Syria fuelled fears the fighting could spread by issuing a warning that it would intervene if Israel dared launch a full-out invasion of Lebanon.
US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice was also heading to the Middle East with Washington increasingly estranged from European and Arab allies over a conflict that has killed close to 400 people in just 12 days and triggered a major humanitarian crisis.
Full Article : commondreams.org
July 24, 2006 News
Posted: Monday, July 24, 2006
¤ The brutal story of British empire continues to this day
¤ They don't call it the 'White' House for nothing
¤ Typhoon Lashes Northern Philippines
¤ Condoleezza Rice visits Beirut to make the war much longer
¤ Hugo, Fidel and Che united
¤ Fleeing civilian vehicles hit by Israeli missiles
¤ Robert Fisk: A war crime?
¤ Stop now, immediately
¤ Bush's Middle East Democracy Flop
¤ Doubts on WMD expert's suicide
¤ Chavez forging his own links
¤ New suicide attack as 11 more killed in Afghanistan violence
¤ None left untouched by daily violence in Baghdad
¤ Over 60 dead in Baghdad, Kirkuk blasts
¤ Israel’s Criminal Accomplice
¤ Israelis Kill Three Teenagers 'In Cold Blood Without Guilt or Reason'
¤ The Crime of Lebanon and Palestine
¤ Meanwhile, back in Iraq
¤ Eye On Iraq: The Shiite Bloody Saturday
¤ Sure, Shit Happens, But President Bush Should Stop Making It Happen
¤ US Mideast plan 'preposterous'
¤ Israel bans reporting of use of "unique" weapons in Lebanon
¤ Do you know what kind of weapons causes this damage?
¤ Israel rejects comments by UN humanitarian boss
¤ Scared to flee ... even more scared to stay
¤ USA out-flanked in Eurasia energy politics?
¤ The Lame Duck of Destruction
¤ The Savage Heartlessness of Condi Rice
¤ About those little girls signing bombs . . .
July 23, 2006 News
Posted: Sunday, July 23, 2006
¤ They put the 86 corpses into plain wood caskets
¤ How U.S. Weapons Manufacturers Profit From Middle East Conflict
¤ Once again, truth is the first casualty of war
¤ The End Is Near, but first, this commercial
¤ War Savages Everything
¤ U.S. Could Take Lessons from Mexican Voting Process
¤ Bush Doesn't Measure up
¤ News Bias in the Associated Press
¤ Iraqi detainees
¤ Britain criticises Israeli tactics
¤ Israel builds detention center for Lebanon captives
¤ Anti-war Tel Aviv rally draws Jewish, Israeli Arab crowd
¤ White House Calls on Jewish Groups to Line Up Behind John Bolton
¤ The end of Iraq, the neocon gift for you
¤ IOF Massacre in Al-Maghazi Refugee Camp, Gaza
¤ When Terror Is Just Fine
¤ Open Letter to United for Peace and Justice
¤ Here's How To Halt This Horror
¤ The Double Standard on Depression
¤ Bush's Fecal World
¤ "Stop That Shit!"
¤ Targeting Civilians As Deliberate Strategy
July 22, 2006 News
Posted: Saturday, July 22, 2006
¤ Hundreds dead or missing in North Korea
¤ Israel Massing Troops on Lebanese Border
¤ America's domestic policy vs America's foreign policy
¤ U.S. Speeds Up Bomb Delivery for the Israelis
¤ Israel set war plan more than a year ago
¤ Israeli raids toll hits 100
¤ The Shame of Being an American
¤ Stop That Shit, Indeed
¤ Nuking Hezbollah
¤ The Lebanon Blitz
¤ India Calls It a Technological Error, but Blog Blockade Continues
¤ Protests erupt worldwide against Israel's 'genocidal war'
¤ Annan: Lebanon worse hit than Hezbollah
¤ Fox attacks BBC's coverage of Iraq
¤ Stewart Punches Hole In Bush's "Pro-Life" Universe
¤ Who Will Prosecute Bush for a Double Felony?
¤ Sharon demands US apology before accepting $10b in aid Flashback
¤ Deathly Silence in Deserted Beirut
¤ Negroponte Blocks CIA Analysis of Iraq "Civil War"
¤ Israeli troops take over Lebanese village
¤ Death toll from Indonesia tsunami hits 659
¤ 9/11 Deserves Further Investigation
¤ Rice sees bombs as birth pangs
¤ Iraqi speaker decries US 'butchery'
¤ Backing for Israel Stymies Larger US Aims in Region
¤ Bush's Infamous Back Rub Magnified in Cyberspace
¤ Schwarzenegger, Bush heckled in Hillsborough
¤ 23 die in Iraq violence
¤ This bombing thingy is well out of order
July 21, 2006 News
Posted: Friday, July 21, 2006
¤ Sharp rise in Baghdad violence reported
¤ Israel preparing Lebanon ground offensive
¤ I Was Israel's Dupe
¤ The Iraq War is a Huge Success
¤ Locals split over US missile base
¤ Thousands Flock to Hills, Parks and Schools
¤ FEMA muzzling La. trailer-park residents
¤ The Apple of His Eye
¤ The Unfolding Horror Show
¤ Sanctioning Israeli Crimes Marks New Era of Lawlessness
¤ Thousands of Iraqis flee homes amid rise in violence
¤ Chicago police 'tortured black suspects'
¤ Thousands of IDF troops operating in S. Lebanon
¤ Army Cuts Expenses Not Essential to War
¤ Corner stones of Israel's terror
¤ The dead are rotting in the rubble of smashed homes
¤ Do you know what kind of weapons causes this damage?
¤ The real aims of the US-backed Israeli war against Lebanon
¤ Israel uses Palestinian children as human shields
¤ Credibility
¤ The Israel we know
¤ Gaza massacres continue
¤ US Complicit In Israel
¤ The shame of the puppeteers
¤ Afghanistan close to anarchy, warns general
¤ Hezbollah, Hamas and Israel: Everything You Need To Know
¤ The Senate Bows to Imperial Power
¤ Israel's Irreconcilable Hypersensitivity, Yet Insensitivity to Pain
¤ Theories on Militarism and Prospects for Transformation
¤ Context of Israeli Wars in Lebanon, Palestine: Back to Roots
¤ What a Fine Mess
¤ We were under orders to kill
¤ Mideast Conflict Boosts Chances of Iran-US Showdown
¤ Curfew extended as Baghdad bleeds
¤ Israel and the War Profiteers
¤ When is the USA going to invade Israel?
¤ Spain denies anti-Semitism in criticizing Israel
¤ World Sick Of US Media's Double Standard
¤ Hundreds Of Civilians Killed in Lebanon
U.S. Government May Have Carried Out 9/11
Posted: Thursday, July 20, 2006
Pentagon Papers Author Daniel Ellsberg Says Government May Have Carried Out 9/11
Predicts Bush Regime Will Stage Terrorist Attack to Provide Pretext for Iran, Syria Invasion, And Justify Internment Camps for American People
Full Article : infowars.com
U.S. to Israel: you have one more week to blast Hizbullah
Posted: Wednesday, July 19, 2006
The US is giving Israel a window of a week to inflict maximum damage on Hizbullah before weighing in behind international calls for a ceasefire in Lebanon, according to British, European and Israeli sources.
The Bush administration, backed by Britain, has blocked efforts for an immediate halt to the fighting initiated at the UN security council, the G8 summit in St Petersburg and the European foreign ministers' meeting in Brussels.
"It's clear the Americans have given the Israelis the green light. They [the Israeli attacks] will be allowed to go on longer, perhaps for another week," a senior European official said yesterday. Diplomatic sources said there was a clear time limit, partly dictated by fears that a prolonged conflict could spin out of control.
Full Article : guardian.co.uk
Israel Violates Law on U.S. Weapons in Mideast
Posted: Wednesday, July 19, 2006
UNITED NATIONS - Israel is in violation of U.S. arms control laws for deploying U.S.-made fighter planes, combat helicopters and missiles to kill civilians and destroy Lebanon's infrastructure in the ongoing six-day devastation of that militarily-weak country.
Full Article : commondreams.org
July 19, 2006 News
Posted: Wednesday, July 19, 2006
¤ You have one more week to blast Hizbullah
¤ Massive evacuation gathers pace
¤ Rice will back demands for ceasefire - after a few more days of carnage
¤ There is a way out of this crisis, but...
¤ Suicide bomber kills 53 in attack on labourers
¤ Israeli ground troops enter Lebanon
¤ Israel claims Iran link to crisis
¥ Sure....
¤ Iraqi Death Toll Rises Above 100 Per Day, U.N. Says
¤ Where Are Bush's Critics Now?
¤ Is Anyone Still Listening to the Flaming Bush?
¤ Triumph of the Will
¤ Israel Lobby in Action
¤ The Definition of Tyranny
¤ Oil hits record
¤ Marathon Dancing
¤ Bush's Bloodbath in Babylon
¤ Cowboy My Foot
¤ Israeli Tanks Move Into Gaza Refugee Camp
¤ The Asshole's Asshole
¤ Bush Gropes Germany's Merkel
¤ If I...were king...of the foRRRRRest...
¤ Human Rights organizations and the Middle East
¤ Why is Israel Back in Gaza?
¤ The American People Are the Target for Corporate Media Censorship
¤ Don't Forget the Bloodletting in Iraq
¤ So that's where they got the lie that Padilla was a "dirty bomber."
¤ As the world looks elsewhere, death toll rises in Gaza
¤ Peace, Propaganda & the Promised Land Video
¤ Venezuela slams US for veto of Israel resolution
¤ Indonesian tsunami death toll climbs to 531
¤ Nine Palestinians killed in Israeli raids
July 18, 2006 News
Posted: Tuesday, July 18, 2006
¤ Leviathan run amok
¤ 'Blow up my city and I'll blow up yours'
¤ Writing with their children’s blood
¤ Israeli kids sends gifts of love to Arab kids
¤ Mass grave found outside Iraq massacre town
¤ Israel kills another 42 Lebanese civilians
¤ Israel violently attacks Lebanon simply to demonstrate its military power
¤ Israel uses Russia’s experience in its operation against Lebanon
¤ Iraq civilian toll spikes to almost 6,000
¤ U.N.: 14,000 Iraqis killed in 2006
¤ Meth still No. 1 drug problem, study finds
¤ 'Bush, Cheney and Rice: Major league assholes'
¤ The Ugly Truth: Our President is an Imbecile
¤ Al Qaeda Presence in Kashmir complete haox: Police
¤ Doing Maths In Mexico
¤ A Pantomime President
¤ "The Insane Brutality of the State of Israel"
¤ Lebanon: the world looks on
¤ Israeli Forces Kill 16 in Lebanon Bombing
¤ Thousands flee Lebanon as Israel’s campaign escalates
¤ Israel refuses to rule out invasion
¤ Israel Violates US Law With Attack on Lebanon
¤ Taliban have control of towns in south
¤ Israelis Are Dying:It Must Be an Escalation
¤ New players, old mistakes
¤ The Mideast death dance
¤ Atrocities in the Promised Land
¤ 'It is madness. Why is no one doing anything to stop this?'
¤ Energized Neocons Say Israel's Fight Is Washington's
¤ Déjŕ Vu in Lebanon
¤ Is the USA Bankrupt?
¤ Hezbollah website hosted by a US defense subcontractor?
¤ One Giant Gaza Strip
¤ There's the Big Lie, and then there's the Really Big Lie
¤ That's a demonstration: 1.1+ million in Mexico City
¤ The Civil War in Iraq Has Begun
¤ What's Wrong With This Picture? 7-16-06, NO-IMAGES-OF-DEAD-ISRAELIS.
¤ Iraq: Understanding Why They Raped From Pro-War Blog
¤ Pearl Harbor Mother Of All Conspiracies
¤ Wildly disproportionate attack on Lebanon seems like pretext to confront Iran
¤ US gives Israel a blank check to wage war
¤ New York Times Tells a Whopper About Legality and Morality of Israel’s Actions
¤ 'The media is helping Bush scare the populace'
¤ 'Halliburton's fleecing ends — or does it?'
¤ Death Toll From Indonesia Tsunami at 327
Radio 103 FM's 13th Anniversary Mela
Posted: Monday, July 17, 2006
103 FM's 13th Anniversary Mela in Pictures
Local radio station 103FM, boasts of being the first Indian frequency and the most successful one that specializes in broadcasting Indian music in Trinidad and Tobago. It has been in existence since 1993 and has become popular among the Indian listenership in the country. In fact, according to recent polls, it is the only Indian radio station in the top ten in the country. Thus, according to Programme Director of 103FM, Hemant Saith, the station has a lot to celebrate. In this regard, the 103FM 13th Anniversary Mela was held at Gilbert Park, Couva to commemorate their success. This event, according to the Coordinators of the Mela, Southex, has grown to become the largest free event in TT. Not only was it a mini concert to celebrate Indian legacy via dance and song, but it was also a day for families to enjoy.
Full Article : triniview.com
July 17, 2006 News
Posted: Monday, July 17, 2006
¤ 'If our Prime Minister is crying, what are we to do?'
¤ The Final Say
¤ The Caped Crusaders in a Comic Book War
¤ Blair calls for UN force in Lebanon
¤ The west must recognise that Israel's agenda is in conflict with its own
¤ On the brink of chaos
¤ Israeli Forces Kill 17 in Lebanon Attacks
¤ Death Toll From China Storm Rises to 178
¤ Israel Steps Up Raids After Haifa Attack
¤ Israel jets blast Lebanon
¤ Rice Defends Israel
¤ What I am watching in Lebanon each day is an outrage
¤ We're Being Set Up for Wider War in the Middle East
¤ More than 500 protest in TA against IDF raids in Lebanon, Gaza
¤ Lopez Obrador leads protest in Mexico
¤ The Internet is not a big truck. It’s “a series of tubes.”
¤ Exiled Iranian Has Another Run As U.S. Informant
¤ Bush's pig tales show disengagement
¤ Oil Prices Rise Toward $78 a Barrel
¤ Maybe it will take a revolution after all
¤ Al Jazeera in Israel accuses Israel Radio of incitement
¤ Russians' suspicion of West growing
¤ Americans Want U.S. Out of Mid-East War
¤ Stabbed in the Back!
¤ Medically retired soldier concludes: "We are pawns" in Iraq
¤ Israel Takes a Stupid Pill
¤ Israel Prepares to Invade Syria
¤ New Massacre in Lebanon by Israeli Terrorists
¤ 8 Israelis 8 Canadians - Why doesn't Canada bomb Israel?
¤ 7 Canadians killed in Israeli air strike
¤ Beware Of False Flag War Provocations
¤ When retribution comes, don't cry for Israel
¤ In war, semantics is everything
¤ Is the Road to Damascus Through Lebanon?
¤ Palestine 2006 : corpses on the ground, minds in the clouds
¤ THE SPIN OF BLAMING PROVOKATIONS ON THE WRONG PEOPLE
¤ It's war by any other name
¤ Try Putting Us in Their Place
¤ What's Really Going on in Lebanon
¤ What Iran Really Wants
¤ Might isn't Right
¤ 'Bush's exit strategy: Escalate, dominate and eliminate'
¤ Israel bombs Palestinian Foreign Ministry
¤ Mexico candidate demands full r
¤ Mexicans rally against vote 'fraud'
¤ Iraq market attack kills 55
¤ The P-Word
¤ Robert Fisk and the "independent" Independent
¤ Me, Hugo and George
¤ The coup attempt that started a war
¤ Inconvenient truths: Chaldea, Phoenicia . . . will Syria and Persia be next?
When retribution comes, don't cry for Israel
Posted: Sunday, July 16, 2006
By Raffique Shah
Hardly a voice is raised in protest. Not a tear is shed by those who would otherwise howl "bloody murder" when one Israeli is killed by a Palestinian. Those who wanted to crucify Iran's President Ahmadinejad for his statement that the state of Israel should not be allowed to exist are silent as the Zionist warmongers inflict terror and wanton destruction in the Gaza, on the West Bank, and now in sovereign Lebanon. But when retribution comes, as it must, we are sure to hear them scream from every which country about "those sub-human terrorists".
This has never been a just world, and I imagine it never will be. One American life has always been worth 1,000 or more of lesser mortals. In days of old, one British life had similar, disproportionate value: if African slaves so much as hurt one "massa", scores of their brethren would pay with their lives, but not before they were tortured in the most horrible manner. Today, what we are witnessing as Israel wields the Zionist hammer on its hapless neighbours is apartheid with full fury, military might that is always right, and a world, including Arab and Islamic countries, that will heartlessly turn their eyes in another direction, not to add, in the case of Muslims, their cheeks to be slapped and bludgeoned repeatedly.
For those who may not have noticed the carnage, ever since Ehud Olmert succeeded the ailing Ariel Sharon, and Hamas won the elections in Palestine, Israel has become ten times as murderous as it has ever been. To dwell a little on Hamas, bear in mind that it was George Bush who called for democracy across the world (as I write, he has gone off to visit Russia with the same message to President Putin).
When free elections were held in Palestine and Hamas defeated the PLO to take power, Israel immediately withheld huge sums of money it collects on behalf of the Palestinian government. As if that was not bad enough, it proceeded to bomb at will wherever it pleased in the tiny, impoverished state. Its air force killed an entire family that was picnicking on a beach off the Red Sea. It repeatedly murdered civilians across the Gaza and the West Bank under the guise that it was targeting "terrorists".
Lashing back the only way they know, some elements among the Palestinians burrowed under the border, attacked a military outpost, killed a few Israeli soldiers, and captured one. Well, as Trinis would say, who tell them to do that? Olmert immediately massed tanks on the border and started shelling "terrorist" targets in Palestine. His forces then invaded and besides killing an untold number of civilians, children included, proceeded to arrest half of Hamas's Cabinet. Israel arrogated unto itself the right to dismember another country's government. A parallel would- be Hugo Chavez sending his forces into Port of Spain and besides flattening most of the city, making off with Prime Minister Manning and half of his Cabinet.
To add jet fuel to a fire that is sure to engulf the entire Mid-East, this rogue state deployed its forces to isolate Lebanon, bomb the country's only airport, lay siege to its main harbour.
As I write, the carnage in Lebanon continues: scores of civilians, including entire families, are being murdered at will, and Olmert tells the visiting Japanese Prime Minister: "Those responsible for the attack (three Israeli soldiers captured thus far) will pay a high and painful price." The EU issues a feeble statement, criticising (not condemning) the "disproportionate use of force". Bush says: "Israel has a right to defend its territory against terrorists." The Arab world is silent. Even Iran stays quiet, although I suspect in the latter instance, this is deliberate.
Of course Israel, heavily funded by the US, has the most powerful military in the Mid-East, nuclear arsenal included. But its terrorist leaders (and I write with authority here) seem to have learnt little from their own history, their scriptures. Remember the story of David and Goliath?
Ahhhh! Even superpowers have to account to a higher authority for their unbridled cruelty to human beings. And not even their military might will save them when retribution strikes. They don't know from which direction it will come. They are looking at Iran and Ahmadinejad. But the biblical David did not have the might of Goliath: he did not need it. When his people were threatened by an inordinately stronger enemy, he took the giant out with a slingshot.
So while Bush and Olmert and all the warmongers look to Iran, they may well be surprised at the direction from which their demise comes, this Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse. History has shown that whenever power becomes a tool of repression, of absolute inhumanity, all-conquering empires implode. Israel-and America-may never learn from history, just as Rome didn't, or Hitler. Those who don't learn from history are doomed to being consumed by its lessons.
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July 16, 2006 News
Posted: Sunday, July 16, 2006
¤ Children die in convoy attack
¤ Israel's response risks its security
¤ Putin: Don't lecture me about democracy
¤ Massacre of Haiti innocents
¤ Lies of the Times
¤ IRAQ: 'Liberating’ a city by levelling it
¤ BBC: where human life doesn't count if you are on the "wrong" side
¤ What they want is the head of the resistance movement
¤ Is U.S. Winning? Army Chief Is at a Loss
¤ Much of United States in heat wave
¤ Israel Makes Its 'Clean Break'
¤ The Destabilization Game
¤ Israel: Stop Shooting Journalists
¤ Israel may launch false flag war provocation vs. Americans in Lebanon
¤ 12 Egyptian Sailors Rescued to al-Bassel Hospital in Tartous, Syria
¤ Putin: Israel has goals other than troops
¤ The Semantics of War
¤ Appearance, reality and the spoiling of the Holy Land
¤ US vetoes UN ceasefire call
¤ The Real Aim
¤ The Occupation? Fuhgeddaboudit!
¤ Go Back Seven Centuries, Not Just Three Days in History
¤ Eight killed in rocket barrage on Haifa
¤ UN Unanimously Adopts North Korea Sanctions
¤ Supported by the US, Israel is running amok again
¤ Strikes Are Called Part of Broad Strategy
Only one man stands between Israel and World War III
Posted: Saturday, July 15, 2006
The leaders of Israel are brutal, and could not care less about human rights, civilian casualties, international law, or the commission of war crimes. But they are not stupid.
That is why there is one man, and one man only, who can prevent what is otherwise rapidly going to escalate into at minimum, a messy and destructive regional war; at worst, World War III. That man is, unfortunately, George W. Bush, who in five years has never shown the slightest inclination for doing what he must now do at a time of great provocation and crisis: rein in Israel. He is the only world leader with the credibility and leverage to do it, and the political and national self-interest to compel it.
Full Article : commondreams.org
July 15, 2006 News
Posted: Saturday, July 15, 2006
¤ Hizbollah's response reveals months of planning
¤ Israeli is preparing the battlefield
¤ The address of the General Secretary of Hizballah
¤ Israeli missile strike on bus of evacuees
¤ A humanitarian disaster is taking place
¤ Israeli Bombings could lead to Escalation of Middle East War
¤ Lebanese babies killed by Israel
¤ The U(seless) N(ations)
¤ American Mistakes and Russian and Chinese Gains
¤ Mumbai Blasts and Pakistan Connection
¤ Playing the Destabilization Card at Home and Abroad
¤ Putin Jabs Bush
¤ Humiliating spectacle of a world leader caught without a policy
¤ Bush avoids talking turkey at pig roast
¤ Putin Chides President's Comment on Democracy
¤ Mexico: Allow More Time For Democracy
¤ Witnesses: Israel attacks hit central Beirut
¤ Israel kills Lebanese civilians
¤ Iran warns Israel against extending conflict
¤ Gunmen kidnap Iraq Olympic committee chief
¤ Cowboy Diplomacy Is Not Dead Yet
¤ Is Damascus the Key?
¤ Israel's Latest Bureaucratic Obscenity
¤ Why Democrats Don't Count
¤ DID THE PALESTINIANS REALLY DIG A TUNNEL UNDER THE NOSES OF THE ISRAELIS?
¤ Iraq's Holocaust
¤ Arabs rally against Israeli attacks
¤ Russian defense minister says Hezbollah uses 'terrorist methods'
¤ Bush Fiddles While Middle East Burns
¤ Israel's War on Hamas and Hizbullah
¤ Lebanon calls for cease-fire under U.N.
¤ 'Closer to the beginning' in Iraq war
¤ UK defends strike on Afghan town
¤ Civilians killed in Israeli strike on southern Lebanon
July 14, 2006 News
Posted: Friday, July 14, 2006
¤ Chirac admonishes Israel
¤ What are they fighting for
¤ We Are Not the People
¤ Kafirs used chemical weapon in Khasavyurt
¤ Get Me out of Here!
¤ Who Profits Most From Torture?
¤ Iraq War Was Lost the Day It Started
¤ "This is Going to Be A Big War"
¤ Refugees Fleeing Beirut Speak of Catastrophic Bombing
¤ Bush's Indifference Drives Conflict
¤ Dramatizing the Banality of Evil
¤ Planning for the Re-Colonization of Cuba
¤ Racism Plagues Western Media Coverage
¤ Reality vs. Kabuki
¤ Israel, the US and the New Orientalism
¤ Slavery and Deforestation
¤ Is Damascus the Key?
¤ What Are They Fighting For?
¤ Israeli jets hit Beirut-Damascus highway
¤ Israel's Failed Strategy
¤ Sexual Terrorism in Iraq
¤ Iran denies Israel fears that soldiers head to Iran
¤ Bush Rejects Lebanon's Call for Cease-Fire
¤ Israel hits Lebanon with more airstrikes
¤ Prime minister derided over 'Dear George' letter
¤ Bush's indifference drives conflict
¤ Death toll climbs in fresh wave of attacks
¤ Uncensored News Reports From Across The Middle East Graphic
¤ From my home, I saw what the 'war on terror' meant
¤ U.S.-Backed Israeli Policies Pursuing "End of Palestine";
¤ Pour out your fury upon the people of Lebanon and Gaza
¤ Author of Iran insignia lie invited to White House as 'expert'
¤ Israel Crosses the Line
¤ Bronze Age Blowback: Fresh Hell in the Holy Land
¤ Washington Threatening Cuba and Venezuela, Says Hugo Chavez
¤ How is a rape and murder planned?
¤ 'Bad cop, worse cop'
¤ Condemnation of Israeli action mounts
¤ Israel is NOT a COUNTRY ...
¤ If Americans Knew
¤ War on Iran Has Begun
¤ Corporate Media Faithfully Spins Lebanese Mass Murder
July 13, 2006 News
Posted: Thursday, July 13, 2006
¤ Mikhail Gorbachev says USA has ‘disease worse than AIDS’
¤ Lebanon under siege from Israel
¤ Family of nine killed as they slept
¤ Bush Defends Israel's Attacks in Lebanon
¤ Lebanon under blockade as Israel blasts airport
¤ Israel bombs Palestinian Foreign Ministry
¤ Israel blockades Lebanon
¤ Congress must hold Israel Accountable for violating US law
¤ U.S. vetoes UN resolution condemning Israel's Gaza incursion
¤ Geneva Convention? We Thought You Said Geneva Chocolate
¤ "You raped the country, why not the people?"
¤ THEN & NOW
¤ The Hidden War on Women in Iraq
¤ Crying Terrorist
¤ The "Decider" Discovers He's Not Above the Law
¤ Beirut waits as Syrian masters send Hezbollah allies into battle
¤ Comparing the cost of war and domestic expenses
¤ Lebanese Civilian Deaths Rise
¤ Bush defends Israel, EU, Russia condemn attacks
¤ Israeli missiles hit Beirut airport
¤ Karzai orders probe into Afghan killings
¤ The Politics of American Greed
¤ Killing and more killing
¤ Israel is Killing Incubator Babies and the World Says That it is OK!
¤ An open letter from Ohio to the people of Mexico
¤ Israel's latest bureaucratic obscenity
¤ Washington Plots Regime Change
¤ Rationalizing War Crimes
¤ Attacks across Iraq kill at least 14
¤ Seeds of Hope, Seeds of War
'Never Again' Gone Mad In Israel
Posted: Wednesday, July 12, 2006
In the name of forcing the release of a single soldier, Israel has seized members of a democratically elected government; bombed its interior ministry, the prime minister's offices and a school; threatened another sovereign state (Syria) with a menacing overflight; dropped leaflets from the air, warning of harm to the civilian population if it does not "follow all orders" of the Israel Defense Forces; loosed nocturnal "sound bombs" under orders from the Israeli prime minister to "make sure no one sleeps at night in Gaza"; fired missiles into residential areas, killing children; and demolished a power station that was the sole generator of electricity and running water for hundreds of thousands of Gazans.
Full Article : commondreams.org
July 12, 2006 News
Posted: Wednesday, July 12, 2006
¤ History Doesn't Start Wars; Governments Do
¤ Nation honours Genghis Khan
¤ Israelis use "unprecedented type of projectiles" on Palestinians
¤ Palestinian injuries suggest Israel is using chemical weapons in Gaza
¤ Israeli offensive kills 23 in Gaza
¤ Jewish Law And Torture
¤ Will Israel accept The Inevitable March to A Full-blown Democracy?
¤ Israel's Latest Bureaucratic Obscenity
¤ "Never Again" Gone Mad In Israel
¤ The world rebuilds it, Israelis destroy it - again and again and again
¤ US's zero-sum diplomacy toward Iran
¤ With war in Iraq, Bush is trading blood for oil
¤ Recognising US duplicity
¤ Embargoes, Blacklists and Assassination Plots
¤ Mexico Splits in Half: the Election Hits the Streets
¤ Afghans say civilians killed in U.S. force bombing
¤ Addicted to Oil
¤ U.S. Democracy Crusade Falls by the Wayside
¤ BAYER dumps AIDS infected drugs overseas
¤ Hidden Toll: Civilians Killed Accidentally
¤ Nine Palestinians killed in Israeli airstrike
¤ Mumbai death toll tops 200
¤ Columnist names White House adviser in spy scandal
¤ Two US soldiers mutilated and killed 'in revenge' for girl's rape
¤ Nine Palestinians killed in Israeli airstrike
¤ UN impotence laid bare as Gaza suffers
¤ Who's Behind the India Bombings?
¤ Twenty bodies found in Iraq after abductions
¤ Oil prices rise above 74 dollars
¤ When Is a 14-Year-Old Girl a 'Woman'?
John Lichfield: Why France still loves Zidane
Posted: Tuesday, July 11, 2006
Win or lose, Sunday's World Cup final should have marked the glorious climax to Zinedine Zidane's dazzling career. Instead, it will be remembered for the rage-filled moment that exposed the tragic flaw in a true sporting hero. As France embraces its beloved 'Zizou', John Lichfield unravels the complex mental state of a man who carried the burdens of a divided nation on his shoulders - and buckled under the weight
Full Article : independent.co.uk
July 11, 2006 News
Posted: Tuesday, July 11, 2006
¤ Terrorists attack India's Bombay with seven explosions
¤ Mumbai train blasts 'kill 160'
¤ Aggression Under False Pretenses
¤ Diplomatic Deception: The Calm Before the Firestorm
¤ 60 Afghan civilians killed in US air strikes
¤ Attacks Across Iraq Kill at Least 47
¤ Closing In on the Niger Uranium Hoax
¤ 'Gaza is starving in the darkness'
¤ Gringo tactics don't help Mexico
¤ Does a State of War Give Bush a Right to Commit War Crimes?
¤ The US of A and the Beautiful Game
¤ Iraq: Raped
¤ Leftist Screens Videos He Says Prove Fraud in Mexico Vote
¤ WMDs in Slow Motion
¤ The Palestinian Catastrophe, Then and Now
¤ The Real WMD Threat
¤ 'Gates and Buffett: 1,000 times worse than Ken Lay'
¤ 'The politics of greed'
¤ An increasingly confident Russia poses problems for U.S.
¤ “One soldier cut off a baby's head with a knife” - Guess Who?
¤ Suicide Attempt Probed in NYC Collapse
¤ Gunmen Ambush Minivan, Kill 10 in Baghdad
¤ Brazen Daytime Violence Continues in Baghdad
¤ Olmert defends Gaza onslaught as death toll hits 50
¤ Déjŕ Vu in Gaza
¤ Who started?
¤ Children caught in Iraq's bloody crossfire
¤ US in $80m 'Cuba democracy' plan
¤ Mindless slaughter a calculated tactic
¤ History repeats in Afghanistan
¤ The Revolution Will Not Be Televised Video
¤ Who stimulated North Korea to become a Nuclear Power?
¤ The Fraudulent Meaning of Elections
¤ Sectarian Flames
¤ Car bombs kill 8 in Shiite slum in Baghdad
¤ 9/11 'revisionist' allowed to teach
July 10, 2006 News
Posted: Monday, July 10, 2006
¤ Report on Torture at Gitmo PDF
¤ A Dreadful Mistake
¤ The President Doesn't Do Funerals
¤ Electoral Fraud and Rebellion in Mexico
¤ Mexico and Florida have more in common than heat
¤ Business as Usual: Mexican Election Stolen by Neolibs
¤ Dozens die as sectarian attacks escalate in Iraq
¤ Iraq attacks claim 22 killed, 53 injured
¤ Police Abuses in Iraq Detailed
¤ 41 dead as Israel pounds Gaza
¤ Israeli Savagery in Gaza
¤ My Life in Gaza
¤ What's an Iraqi Life Worth?
¤ Misreading Macedonia's Elections
¤ America: Government of Cowards
¤ Afghanistan's mounting body count no measure of success
¤ Mexico's leftist candidate presents evidence of fraud
¤ Condi vs. the Truth
¤ Iraq Is 'Doomed,' Bush 'Manages the News'
¤ A One-sided War
¤ Anti-Americanism Made in U.S.
¤ The reoccupation of Gaza
¤ Pakistan plane crash kills 45
¤ Could Bush Be Prosecuted for War Crimes?
¤ Cry havoc, and let slip the puppies of war
¤ Chechen rebel leader Basayev killed
French Soccer and the Future of Europe
Posted: Monday, July 10, 2006
By Dave Zirin and John Cox
The story of the 2006 World Cup has been the resurrection of France. After a lackluster performance in its first two games, the French team shocked the football watching world -- otherwise known as "the world" -- by upsetting Spain and then dethroning Brazil, the second time in three World Cups the French have knocked off the global kings of "the beautiful game."
While hundreds of thousands of people celebrated on the Champs-Elysées following France's stunning turn-around, not everyone was feeling the joy. Proud racist and leader of the ultra-right wing National Front, Jean-Marie Le Pen, could not resist defiling the moment. Le Pen decried France's multi-ethnic team as unrepresentative of French society, saying that France "cannot recognize itself in the national side," and "maybe the coach exaggerated the proportion of players of color and should have been a bit more careful."
Full Article : edgeofsports.com
July 9, 2006 News
Posted: Sunday, July 9, 2006
¤ Shia massacre revives fears of civil war
¤ At least 122 dead in Russian air crash
¤ Gunmen kill 40 in western Baghdad
¤ 5 more charged in Iraq rape-slayings case
¤ Italy beats France for 4th World Cup title
¤ The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy
¤ Exiles Eternal
¤ The Republicans Have a Plan - And it is Called FEAR
¤ Recount Would Show that Obrador Won Mexico's Presidency
¤ Annan urges Security Council to take stand on Gaza incursion
¤ Nowhere to Hide - Israelis kill 6yr old girl and her family in Gaza
¤ Landmark al Qaeda trial collapses
¤ Plan to attack New York tunnels: Yet another dubious "terror plot"
¤ When War Criminals Retire
¤ Mexico's Election Lacks Credibility
¤ Is Pakistan Expendable?
¤ All Foreigners Are Our Enemy
¤ Missile Envy
¤ The Rape of Iraq
¤ French Soccer and the Future of Europe
¤ Globalizing the Occupation
¤ A One-Sided War
¤ Terrorism was a part of the struggle
¤ Distorted Morality: America's War on Terror? Video
¤ The house of slaves
¤ Blasts Near Baghdad Mosque Kill At Least 15
¤ US officers ignored massacre reports
¤ Stop U.S. Intervention in Nicaragua's November Elections!
¤ All Iraq is Abu Ghraib
¤ North Korea and the vanishing American Empire
¤ Brazen Attacks Kill 41 In Baghdad
¤ California Man Revealed as al Qaeda Leader
¤ Project SCARECROW
Manzanilla, Mayaro & Guayaguyare in Pictures
Posted: Sunday, July 9, 2006
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Manzanilla, Mayaro & Guayaguyare in Pictures
Nicaragua Presidential elections worry US
Posted: Saturday, July 8, 2006
US ambassador attempts to unite right wing parties but government fails to respond to intervention.
Nicaragua's presidential elections, set for November, have become a priority foreign policy issue for the US, which fears a possible victory for the left. Since 2005, the increasing participation of US diplomats in Nicaragua's political debate has been reported in the national and international media.
On April 5, US ambassador in Nicaragua, Paul Trivelli sent a letter offering financial and technical support to the leaders of every right-wing party in Nicaragua so that they could hold a multi-party primary to select a single presidential candidate for the upcoming general elections, scheduled for Nov. 5. As well as having various legal implications, the offer has provoked an outcry from a series of political factions who denounce the diplomat's "interference."
Full Article : latinamericapress.org
July 7, 2006 News
Posted: Friday, July 7, 2006
¤ Go to Venezuela, You Idiot!
¤ Not in Our Name: The Voters' Pledge
¤ The Destabilization Game
¤ 17 Palestinians, one Israeli soldier killed in Gaza clashes
¤ Zarqawi successor 'in Egypt jail'
¤ Another fine mess you've gotten us into, Condi!
¤ The New American Cold War
¤ Oil will soar to well over $100, stay high
¤ Chavez shows off new Russian jets
¤ BBC Allowed Security Service To Spy On Employees
¤ Targeting Gaza's Children with Sound Bombs
¤ The Khan job and the 'back-off' directive
¤ What's the fuss about North Korean missiles?
¤ North Korea's missile bluff resembles anti-missile bluff of USA
¤ From the eye of the storm
¤ Conservative wins Mexico's protracted presidential election
¤ Mexico Presidential Election Ballots Found in Dump
¤ Bill Clinton and George W. Bush start another Cold War against Russia
¤ Two US Helicopters Shot Down in Iraq
¤ Monarchy and Democracy at the Top of the World
¤ Why America Terrorizing Muslims?
¤ Destroying an Iraqi City to Save It
¤ The Real Reasons for Israel's Invasion of Gaza
¤ Run for cover - the Israelis are coming
¤ 23 killed as Israel invades northern Gaza
¤ In Gaza's Rocket Rain
¤ U.S. Plants Seeds of Disaster in Kazakhstan
¤ Hadji Girl
¤ Beyond the World Cup: "Can You Feel What I Feel Today?
¤ Cambodia Then; Gaza Now
¤ Who Mourned the Victims of US Covert War on Chile?
¤ Profiting from the Occupation
¤ Russia's Signal to Stations Is Clear: Cut U.S. Radio
¤ Angry Putin says he will not sell fuel for 'peanuts'
¤ India rushes 700 additional troops to Congo
¤ Iraqi exodus accelerates with rising violence
¤ Going in harm's way
¤ In Cold Blood: Iraqi Tells of Massacre at Farmhouse
¤ Hegemonic Tyrant Courts Doom
¤ It's Baaack!
¤ '15 Afghan civilians killed in US strike'
¤ Guantánamo inmate tells of worsening conditions
¤ Venezuela defends North Korea
¤ Rape, murder -- and conspiracy
Let's Be Honest About Food's Origin
Posted: Thursday, July 6, 2006
The U.S. economy manages to follow the law and label every electronic gadget and stitch of clothing with where it comes from. Manufacturers likewise have no trouble putting a required nutrition list on food packages. But telling where food originates is called too daunting, and whether it was made by means unknown in nature is judged irrelevant.
Full Article : counterpunch.org
Go to Venezuela, You Idiot!
Posted: Thursday, July 6, 2006
I don't usually take the advice of rightwingers. But I did this time. After receiving inflamed email messages from dozens of angry rightists that I should get the hell out of the USA and go to Venezuela, I accepted their challenge and flew to Caracas.
Full Article : trinicenter.com
July 6, 2006 News
Posted: Thursday, July 6, 2006
¤ Nation bound together by state paranoia
¤ http://www.guardian.co.uk/korea/article/0,,1813481,00.html
¤ Bush told Cheney to discredit diplomat critical of Iraq policy
¤ Ken Lay dies at luxury ski chalet
¤ Europe's response to the siege of Gaza is shameful
¤ Ex-GI Accused in Iraq Rape Had Rocky Past
Flashback ¤ More mentally ill soldiers heading to Iraq
Flashback ¤ US Sending Mentally Unstable Troops into Battle...
¤ Eighteen killed in attacks around Iraq
¤ Israel creates buffer zone in northern Gaza
¤ Europe Turns a Blind Eye to the CIA
¤ A Story I Never Wanted to Tell
¤ What a Mess
¤ Blood on Our Hands
¤ Nuking Iran Is Not Off the Table
¤ How Many More Must Die?
¤ An Axis of Nuts
¤ Let's Be Honest About Food's Origin
¤ Shouting Down Nazis in Olympia
¤ Washington is Losing 'War on Terror': Experts
¤ White House to Chabad: Bush won’t press Israel
¤ Israel Authorizes Deeper Gaza Invasion
¤ An Amazing Coincidence
¤ 9/11: The Myth and the Reality
¤ Chávez calls for new talks on Falklands sovereignty
¤ Suicide Blast Near Iraqi Mosque Kills 10
¤ Iranians killed in Iraq blast
¤ 8 Killed in City Bus Explosion in Trans-Dniester
¤ 'Shadows on the wall'
¤ Our Declaration of Intolerance
¤ Times revealed little that Bush hadn’t told us
¤ Floods kill 41
¤ Millions of votes still in question in Mexican race
¤ Oil hits record above $75 on US demand
¤ Canada confirms 6th case of mad cow
¤ Protecting Israel, Intimidating Congress, Lying to the American People
¤ The War in Afghanistan Is Only the Beginning
¤ Dear Dubya, Happy Birthday!
¤ Killing Without Blame, Killing Without Shame
¤ Foreign powers are fuelling war in Congo
¤ Aiding the Enemy
¤ Military pans ceremony ban
¤ Critical Theory and Revolutionary Praxis
Foreign powers are fuelling war in Congo
Posted: Wednesday, July 5, 2006
As long as the war in the Congo and the plundering of its natural resourses continue, we cannot talk of democratic elections.
More than four million people have been killed in the war that has been raging in the Congo since 1996.
The war is based on Western interests. There are more than 50 foreign companies exploiting minerals in the Congo. Congolese people have not been consulted about any of this.
Full Article : rastafarispeaks.com
July 5, 2006 News
Posted: Wednesday, July 5, 2006
¤ CIA disbands Bin laden unit
¤ Iraqi civilians become like dogs in the eyes of US soldiers
¤ Israeli army killed 951 Palestinian children and minors since September 2000
¤ Switzerland decries Gaza campaign
¤ ABC Nightline Biased Toward Israel
¤ GRAND THEFT MEXICO
¤ Judge Temporarily Bars Navy From Using Sonar
¤ Bush's Army: a Few Good Degenerates
¤ "Dictatress of the World": Has America Become JQ Adams' Worst Nightmare?
¤ American Power in Mahmudiyah
¤ Peru farmers clash with police in US trade protest
¤ Doubts over Blair's 'blank cheque' to defeat the Taleban
¤ Bomb in Baghdad kills 3 on police patrol
¤ Bush's foreign friends fading fast
¤ America is clearly losing the 'war on terror'
¤ Power of the Pen
¤ US media ensnared in liberty vs security debate
¤ Pace of Killing in Baghdad Rises in June
¤ Valencia train crash blamed on speeding
¤ 'The myth of terrorism'
¤ 'The 'whatever' presidency of George W. Bush'
¤ US democracy agenda: dangerous farce
¤ General Motors, Market Engineering, and Confidence 'Protection'
¤ George Bush, Alcoholic
¤ Is Cheney betting on Economic Collapse?
¤ A New Declaration of Independence
¤ Rape Is Official Policy
¤ Why Is the World Deaf to Gaza's Cries?
¤ Osama, Death Squads and the Biggest Lie Ever Told
¤ Subtle Loyalties to Zionism
¤ Huda's Cry for Palestine
July 4, 2006 News
Posted: Tuesday, July 4, 2006
¤ Terrorist attack by Israel
¤ 9000 to 1? Destroy the Gaza Strip
¤ Corporate Media Ignores War Against Palestinians
¤ Blast rocks Kabul
¤ Mexico stumbles toward crisis in chaotic election
¤ Rape victim was 15 year old child
¤ Former US private charged with rape and killing victim's family in Iraq
¤ Israel to launch a large-scale war against Palestine
¤ At least 41 die in Spanish metro crash
¤ Trust undermined by WMD failure
¤ Bush Directed Cheney To Counter War Critic
¤ The Reality Beneath the Flag-Waving
¤ The Politics Behind the Iranian 'Nuclear Threat'
¤ Somalia: A Case Study in Interventionism
¤ Same old bloody ball game for Iraq
¤ Blast hits Iraq oil pipeline
¤ Orwell in Iraq: Snow Jobs, Zarqawi and Bogus Peace Plans
¤ Alan Dershowitz: Should we fight terror with torture?
¤ The Assassination of Hugo Chávez
¤ While researching Kenya, she found shocking truths about the British empire
¤ Israel PM gives go-ahead to keep up military operations
¤ 6 Pakistani soldiers killed in bus blast
¤ More condemnations of Israel over Gaza
¤ CIA: Osama Helped Bush in '04
¤ Two Kinds of Infiltration
¤ Poor, Frustated and Powerless
¤ The Real Meaning of the Hamdan Ruling
¤ Are All Lives Equal?
¤ US shrugs off nuclear strike threat
¤ Living conditions in Gaza grim
¤ Man's brain rewired itself, doctors contend
¤ US-led offensive in southern Afghanistan kills hundreds
July 3, 2006 News
Posted: Monday, July 3, 2006
¤ Britain plans extra troops to fight Taliban
¤ Schwarzenegger Orders Release of Reports
¤ Passenger did not threaten to strangle baby
¤ Nicaraguan Presidential Candidate Dies
¤ I Bombed Afghanistan and All I Got Was Osama's Driver
¤ For His Eyes Only: Bush's Secret Crimes
¤ The military’s problem with the President’s Iran policy
¤ Soldier’s captors give ultimatum to Israel
¤ IDF has 'no idea' where kidnapped soldier held
¤ The government is losing its reason
¤ Gaza attacks 'inadvisable', says Annan
¤ Israel’s Infrastructure Warfare
¤ Israel's act of war is inexcusable
¤ A black flag
¤ Cockroaches of the world unite!
¤ Disgusting Israelis Prepare Genocide
¤ U.S. massacres in Iraq reveal reality of occupation
¤ Sadist, Torturer, and Murderer...
¤ A new low (?) for the Washington Post
¤ Sonic boom from Israeli jets shatters Gaza homes
¤ A Cycle of History?
¤ Car bomb strikes market in Iraq, kills 7
¤ A History of Publishing, and Not Publishing, Secrets
¤ Downer threatened US
¤ Hague questions mission of British troops
¤ Bolivians Elect Assembly to Revise Constitution
¤ Tehran finds 'ambiguities' in Western plan
¤ Another Iraq woman lawmaker targeted by gunmen
¤ At least 11 Iraqis killed as Sunni Arabs boycott parliament
¤ Baghdad morgue out of space
¤ Hasty Plans a Bigger Threat Than N. Korea
¤ Did Bush commit war crimes?
¤ Charges against Saddam wife and daughter 'baseless'
¤ Ahmadinejad slams West's 'bullies'
¤ Supreme Court ruling troubles GOP senators
¤ True Lies Video
July 2, 2006 News
Posted: Sunday, July 2, 2006
¤ Muslim group condemns reports of U.S. rape
¤ 'More set to die' in Afghanistan
¤ Mexico votes for president
¤ Israeli bombing could cost US
¤ Worst President In History?
¤ Israeli rally opposes Gaza offensive
¤ Insanity Defense
¤ The urban nightmare
¤ Call it by any other name, the end of empire is always the same.
¤ Pentagon Misinformation the Only Sure Thing in This War
¤ Massacre at Market in Iraq
¤ Baghdad attacks higher since security crackdown
¤ Chavez urges Africa to unite against U.S.
¤ Glaring gap in Sea-Tac security
¤ Video: Rice, Russian diplomat argue 'in private'
¤ If Only Gay Sex Caused Global Warming
¤ We've Ditched Peacekeeping to Back U.S. Actions
¤ No Place for Canada
¤ Spy Agency Sought U.S. Call Records Before 9/11
¤ Rally for Palestine
¤ Implementing Israel’s Strategy
¤ Dollar Likely to Extend Declines
¤ Letter from Palestine
¤ Did Bush commit war crimes?
¤ When art is incapable of matching life
Israel warns: free soldier or PM dies
Posted: Sunday, July 2, 2006
ISRAEL last night threatened to assassinate Palestinian Prime Minister Ismael Haniyeh if Hamas militants did not release a captured Israeli soldier unharmed.
The unprecedented warning was delivered to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in a letter as Israel debated a deal offered by Hamas to free Corporal Gilad Shalit.
It came as Israeli military officials readied a second invasion force for a huge offensive into Gaza.
Hamas's Gaza-based political leaders, including Mr Haniyeh, had already gone into hiding.
But last night's direct threat to kill Mr Haniyeh, a democratically elected head of state, sharply raised the stakes.
Full Article : theaustralian.news.com.au
July 1, 2006 News
Posted: Saturday, July 1, 2006
¤ Palestinian PM: Israel Aims to Oust Gov't
¤ Exiled islanders face appeal by government
¤ Tell Us How Many Civilians You've Killed
¤ "Won't Get Fooled Again," Indeed
¤ U.S. Nuclear Superiority Forms Backdrop to "Talks" with Iran
¤ Putting the Blame Where It Really Lies
¤ Guantánamo Suicides Sound an Alarm
¤ Blast kills 66 in Baghdad Shiite district
¤ GIs may have planned Iraq rape, slayings
¤ Israel warns: free soldier or PM dies
¤ Only “cranks” care if the government illegally searches their bank records
¤ World skeptical over Guantanamo ruling
¤ 14 Iraqis killed in attacks, 10 bodies found
¤ Suicide attacks rising in Afghanistan
¤ The problem with arrogance
¤ Why American Liberalism is Impossible
¤ The Big Show
¤ 'Karl Rove buys into his own hype'
¤ Big Oil's Big Profits, and the Big Lies
¤ 'Derailing Dictator Dubya'
¤ 'All if's, and's and butts'
¤ Gonzales defends US 'renditions'
¤ Elvis and war crimes: One shrine or another
¤ Petro-hysteria grips a superpower
¤ At Guantanamo, Dying Is Not Permitted
¤ U.S. to pay $48 million to cover damages to Gaza power station
¤ Rampage in Gaza
¤ Imagine for a moment, that it was you in Iraq . . .
¤ Amnesty International accuses Israel of war crimes in Gaza, urges UN action
¤ Five Fort Campbell soldiers investigated in Iraq murders
¤ Something very wrong with this picture
¤ Why Would bin Laden Praise Zarqawi?
¤ When Liberation is Worse Than Oppression
¤ From the Mekong Delta to the Sunni Triangle
¤ Ravening Wolves in Sheep's Clothing
¤ Bombing Gaza again and again
¤ Stealing Mexico
¤ FBI and Western Union helped Israel With targeted assassinations
¤ Unfit To Lead The World
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