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Inigo Gilmore
A hard-hitting United Nations report has warned that Israel will effectively annex large tracts of Palestinian territory by ordering thousands of Arabs living near the new ‘security’ wall to apply for a permit to stay in their homes.
Peter Beaumont and Patrick Graham
The occupation of Iraq is failing, writes Peter Beaumont and Patrick Graham. It’s failing because the USA forces have been unable to win the support of Iraqi people, and because without that support they will never have the intelligence needed to resist or counteract the guerilla partisans. No amount of propaganda over who is leading the attacks, designed to convince Iraqis that they should support the occupation, will change that fact.
BBC News
Villagers displayed blackened pieces of wreckage to journalists, and residents in nearby Falluja celebrated in the streets. “This was a new lesson from the resistance, a lesson to the greedy aggressors,” one Iraqi said to reporters. “They’ll never be safe until they get out of our country.”
Thomas Cat?n
The US-led provisional authority in Iraq may be breaking international law by selling state assets, experts have warned, raising the prospect that contracts signed now by foreign investors could be scrapped by a future Iraqi government.
Christopher Scheer
On Monday and Tuesday, amid the suicide bombing carnage that left at least 34 Iraqis dead, three more USA servicemen were killed in combat in Iraq. In the coming days their bodies will be boxed up and sent home for burial. While en route, the coffins will be deliberately shielded from view, lest the media capture on film the dark image of this ultimate sacrifice. It is almost certain, as well, that like all of the hundreds of USA troops killed in this war to date, these dead soldiers will be interred or memorialized without the solemn presence of the President of the United States.
Call for Action & Provisional Calendar of Activities
On November 9, 1989 the Berlin Wall - which truly epitomized the Cold War in Europe and, therefore, became the symbol of shame of the politics of division of the 20th century - was torn down. Now, a new wall must fall!
Gabriel Ash
Just as the world learned about the secret Geneva Accord, supposedly a groundbreaking blueprint for a comprehensive peace between Israel and a future Palestinian state, the parents of two Palestinian children in Rafah learned of their children’s death at the hands of brave Israeli pilots. Hence, the accord, even before anyone read it, had already helped the Israeli “peace camp” fulfil its traditional diplomatic role, deflecting international attention from the horrible things Israel does, to the pious chants that accompany expressions of Israeli hopes for peace.
Chris Floyd
I owe a heartfelt apology to a top official in the Bush Administration, whom I unjustly maligned some weeks ago. No doubt infected by the corrosive wave of cynical anti-Americanism now raging across an ungrateful world, I predicted that the report of David Kay - who was hired by the CIA to find Iraq’s elusive weapons of mass destruction - would be nothing but a sham, a whitewash: “the fix is in,” I sneered.
Yamin Zakaria
We are now supposed to accept the sole Afghani woman being paraded in a bikini in the USA as a symbol of “progress” in contrast to the “oppressive” veil. Instead, it could have been her promotion to become a University Professor, or a Doctor or a Lawyer or a successful Entrepreneur but no! Somehow it had to involve the removal of her clothes in order for the western dominated mass media to demonstrate to the rest of the world that the liberation of the Afghan women has begun.
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