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News: Human Rights : International : War and Militarism |
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Letter to the Editor: Chomsky, Zinn, Roy... |
Submitted by: yo / 03 Aug 2006
Publisher: The Guardian
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War crimes and Lebanon
Thursday August 3, 2006
The Guardian
The US-backed Israeli assault on Lebanon has left the country numb, smouldering and angry. The massacre in Qana and the loss of life is not simply "disproportionate". It is, according to existing international laws, a war crime.
The deliberate and systematic destruction of Lebanon's social infrastructure by the Israeli air force was also a war crime, designed to reduce that country to the status of an Israeli-US protectorate. The attempt has backfired. In Lebanon itself, 87% of the population now support Hizbullah's resistance, including 80% of Christian and Druze and 89% of Sunni Muslims, while 8% believe the US supports Lebanon. But these actions will not be tried by any court set up by the "international community" since the US and its allies that commit or are complicit in these appalling crimes will not permit it.
It has now become clear that the assault on Lebanon to wipe out Hizbullah had been prepared long before. Israel's crimes had been given a green light by the US and its loyal British ally, despite the opposition to Blair in his own country.
In short, the peace that Lebanon enjoyed has come to an end, and a paralysed country is forced to remember a past it had hoped to forget. The state terror inflicted on Lebanon is being repeated in the Gaza ghetto, while the "international community" stands by and watches in silence. Meanwhile, the rest of Palestine is annexed and dismantled with the direct participation of the US and the tacit approval of its allies.
We offer our solidarity and support to the victims of this brutality and to those who mount a resistance against it. For our part, we will use all the means at our disposal to expose the complicity of our governments in these crimes. There will be no peace in the Middle East while the occupations of Palestine and Iraq and the temporarily "paused" bombings of Lebanon continue.
Tariq Ali
Noam Chomsky
Eduardo Galeano
Howard Zinn
Ken Loach
John Berger
Arundhati Roy |
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News: International |
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Masked Face of "V" |
Submitted by: Anne Coulter / 03 Aug 2006
Publisher: Cleaves Publishing
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Whether or not the Wachowski Brothers 'succeeded' with their latest movie, "V", is not on issue. It nevertheless deserves a cursory analysis; a half-hearted attempt at film production deserves only a half-considered response/critique. |
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News: International |
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Israel's Dependency on the Drug of Militarism |
Submitted by: yo / 02 Aug 2006
Publisher: truthout.org
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[this could also be applied to the US, although unfortunately here in our country it's a BIG BUSINESS]
"Those who mindlessly
support Israel, right or wrong, from President Bush on through the
cheerleaders in Congress and the media, betray the security of the Jewish
state. They are enablers who have encouraged Israel's dependency on the
drug of militarism as a false escape from the difficult accommodations
needed to bring peace to the Middle East," writes Robert Scheer. |
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News: International |
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9/11 Live: The NORAD Tapes |
Submitted by: yo / 02 Aug 2006
Publisher: truthout.org
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How did the US Air Force respond on 9/11? Could it have shot down United 93, as conspiracy
theorists claim? Obtaining 30 hours of never-before-released tapes from
the control room of NORAD's Northeast headquarters, Michael Bronner
reconstructs the chaotic military history of that day - and the Pentagon's
apparent attempt to cover it up. |
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News: International |
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Rumors in Miami claim Fidel Castro is dead |
Submitted by: Miami / 31 Jul 2006
Publisher: UPI
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An announcement has been made in Cuba that Raul, Fidel's brother, will be in control while Fidel undergoes an operation for internal bleeding. The official press says he is alive. Local Cubans calling their families say that the word in Cuba is that Fidel Castro is dead. |
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War Crime: Preposterous! |
Submitted by: finch / 30 Jul 2006
Publisher: Cleaves Publishing
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Indirectly confirmed by John Bolton, U.S. Ambassador to the UN (and sociopath) in a public statement; the first casualty of war is LANGUAGE – the needless slaughter of innocent children in Qana by an Israeli airstrike was an "accident of war"! In the face of an obvious war crime it is now incumbent on the Bush regime, especially its representatives Bolton and Rice, to define the rules of engagement and what constitutes a war crime. We do not forget how quick the U.S. and NATO were to condemn war crimes in the Balkan conflict -- it would seem that allies of the U.S. (Israel) are immune; their obvious crimes become tragic 'accidents' whereas those opposed to the U.S. are war criminals and liable to indefinite incarceration (‘Torture’ Bay) or trial in an 'independent' court at the Hague. |
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News: Politics |
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Audit Finds Criminal Bush Regime Hid Actual Cost of Iraq Projects |
Submitted by: @ / 30 Jul 2006
Publisher: NY Times
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BAGHDAD, Iraq, July 29 — The State Department agency in charge of $1.4 billion in reconstruction money in Iraq used an accounting shell game to hide ballooning cost overruns on its projects there and knowingly withheld information on schedule delays from Congress, a federal audit released late Friday has found.
The agency hid construction overruns by listing them as overhead or administrative costs, according to the audit, written by the Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction, an independent office that reports to Congress, the Pentagon and the State Department.
Called the United States Agency for International Development, or A.I.D., the agency administers foreign aid projects around the world. It has been working in Iraq on reconstruction since shortly after the 2003 invasion.
The report by the inspector general’s office does not give a full accounting of all projects financed by the agency’s $1.4 billion budget, but cites several examples... |
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News: Human Rights |
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Katrina victims allowed to talk to media |
Submitted by: @ / 29 Jul 2006
Publisher: FAIR
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The Federal Emergency Management Agency prohibits journalists from having unsupervised interviews with Hurricane Katrina victims who have been relocated to FEMA trailer parks, according to a report in the Baton Rouge Advocate (7/15/06).
"If a resident invites the media to the trailer, they have to be escorted by a FEMA representative who sits in on the interview," FEMA spokesperson Rachel Rodi is quoted in the article. "That's just a policy." |
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