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This weekend, in scenes reminiscent of the Jenin massacre last year, Israeli occupation forces waged total war on a refugee camp, using tanks, helicopter gunships, and armoured bulldozers against innocent civilians and lightly armoured Palestinian defence forces.
Rene Villegas
Five people were reported killed on Sunday after Bolivia’s government sent thousands of troops backed by tanks to quell increasingly violent protests against right-wing President Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada.
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The UN Security Council is presently discussing both the attempt by the USA to garner official support for it’s occupation of Iraq, and Syria’s attempt to pass a resolution criticising Israel’s recent illegal air strike against Damascus. While the USA would condemn anyone vetoing the former, it has itself threatened to veto the latter. At this point, it’s worth reminding ourselves of the seventy-seven times the USA has used its veto against proposed resolutions inside the Security Council over the last thirty years.
Chris Floyd
All this blood and destruction so that Bush might remain in power, and dole out the plunder of two nations—Iraq and America—to the gilded corporate mafia he represents. And now the greatest prize in the history of the world beckons: domination of the world’s oil reserves, precisely at the point when the rising, insatiable demand for oil is about to exceed the remaining supply. Nations will be increasingly desperate, willing to pay any price—financial and political—to those who control access to the precious, dwindling resource.
Islam Online
The Shiite leader Moqtada al-Sadr ended his Friday sermon yesterday by declaring that he is to set up a rival government, and to call independent elections open to all Iraqis, in contravention of USA plans for the country. Meanwhile, more than 10,000 Shiites, many armed, marched alongside the coffins of the two men killed in a recent shooting by USA troops. They raised their fists, roaring: “There is no God but Allah. America is the enemy of Allah”.
Jonathan Steele
Grenada was catapulted on to the front pages in October 1983 when troops from the world’s most powerful country invaded the nutmeg-exporting island in order to effect “regime change”. The White House sledgehammer was successful and US forces soon withdrew, but claims that a minuscule place with no army and a population of less than 100,000 could conceivably be a military threat prompted derision.
Jim Lobe
The neo-conservatives in and around the administration of US President George W Bush may be on the defensive, but Washington’s reaction to the Israeli attack on Syria on Sunday shows that they remain in the driver’s seat at the White House. Bush’s explicit embrace of Israel’s attack on an alleged Palestinian training camp in Syria is a striking departure from decades of US Middle Eastern diplomacy.
Michael Jansen
Washington’s freshly minted plans for Iraq are fragmenting as soon as they begin to take shape. UN Secretary General Kofi Annan torpedoed the Bush administration’s draft resolution before it was tabled at the Security Council. Annan said he could not send UN staff - who has been withdrawn - back into Iraq unless the world body is in charge of reconstruction and the restoration of Iraqi rule.
Larry Elliott
Some say the 1960s ended with Woodstock in August 1969. Others date the decade’s demise to the break-up of the Beatles eight months later. Both are wrong. The 60s died 30 years ago this week when, on October 6 1973, Egypt and Syria chose Yom Kippur, the holiest date in the Jewish calendar, to launch a surprise attack on Israel.
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