31 July 2006 | Uncategorized | Dahr Jamail
SIDON, Lebanon – The Israeli attack on Qana has taken the biggest toll of the war, but it is only one of countless lethal attacks on civilians in Lebanon. Large numbers fled the south after the Israeli military dropped leaflets warning of attacks. Others have been unable to leave, often because they have not [...]
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31 July 2006 | Uncategorized | Sibel Edmonds and William Weaver
Two days ago we made available to the public news that one of our members, Russell Tice, a former NSA senior analyst, had been served with a subpoena asking him to appear before a federal grand jury regarding the criminal investigation of recent disclosures that involved NSA warrantless eavesdropping. Our announcement was followed up in [...]
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31 July 2006 | Uncategorized | Ran HaCohen
Nothing compares to Israel’s open, independent, and pluralistic media in times of war. Saturday we had the pleasure of watching Anti-Defamation League national director Abraham Foxman give an especially repulsive horror show on Israeli public television (Channel 1). Foxman was invited to the studio to comment on Kofi Annan’s announcement that four UN observers had [...]
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31 July 2006 | Uncategorized | Justin Raimondo
In the weeks before the Israeli re-invasion of Lebanon, Israel’s amen corner launched a preemptive attack against the enemy – Condoleezza Rice. Richard Perle, writing in the Washington Post, lashed out against the "dithering" of the Bush administration: "For more than five years, the administration has dithered. Bush gave soaring speeches, the Iranians issued extravagant [...]
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31 July 2006 | Uncategorized | David R. Henderson
Sometimes, something happens that is so awful that we find ourselves rationalizing it, talking as if it had to happen, to make ourselves feel better about the horrible event. For many people, I believe, President Truman’s dropping the atomic bomb on Hiroshima on Aug. 6, 1945, and on Nagasaki on Aug. 9, 1945, were two [...]
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31 July 2006 | Uncategorized | news
Despite Israel’s repeated insistence that it does not want an armed conflict with Syria, could the United States be encouraging the Israelis to attack Syria, or to goad the Syrians into attacking Israel first? According to Sunday’s Jerusalem Post, IDF officials have been "receiving indications from the United States that the U.S. would [...]
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31 July 2006 | Uncategorized | Ehsan Ahrari
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30 July 2006 | Uncategorized | Dahr Jamail
Byblos, Lebanon – Israeli air strikes on an electricity plant have released oil that has now spread over much of Lebanon’s coastline. More than 15,000 barrels of oil have hit the coast after the bombing of five of six storage tanks at the plant in the coastal village El-Jiye, 30km south of Beirut. The [...]
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29 July 2006 | Uncategorized | Backtalk
The Human Shields of Nazareth Dear fellow activists, … Jonathan Cook’s article clearly demonstrates that yet another journalist (Matthew Price) within the BBC has been “reporting” fallacies and hinting at a pro-Israeli stance. This must be combated by truthful analysis, not counter-propaganda that the BBC in its entirety (or its reporting arm) [...]
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29 July 2006 | Uncategorized | William S. Lind
Welcome to my parlor, says the Hezbollah spider to the Israeli fly. The Israeli high command continues to express its faith in the foxfire of air power to destroy Hezbollah, but, as always, it’s not working. Lebanon is taking a pounding, to be sure, but Lebanon is not Hezbollah. Slowly, reluctantly, Israel is edging toward [...]
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