ICH: 'If our Prime Minister is crying, what are we to do?'
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=== What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and the
homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of
totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty and democracy? - Gandhi
= Once and for all the idea of glorious victories won by the glorious
army must be wiped out. Niether side is glorious. On either side
they're just frightened men messing their pants and they all want
the same thing - not to lie under the earth, but to walk upon it -
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=== Number Of Iraqi Civilians Slaughtered In America's War? As Many
As 250,000 http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article11674.htm
Number of U.S. Military Personnel Sacrificed (Officially acknowledged)
In Bush's War 2547
The War in Iraq Costs $296,137,858,911 See the cost in your community
http://nationalpriorities.org/index.php?option=com_wrapper&Itemid=182
===
Israeli strikes on Lebanon kill 42
By Lin Noueihed
Israeli air strikes killed 42 people across Lebanon on Monday,
raising the death toll since Israel's offensive to 204, all but 14
of them civilian.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article14028.htm
=== Nothing but anti-Arab racism can fully explain the behaviour
of the Israelis
By Yasmin Alibhai-Brown
As we witness the bombardment by Israel of Lebanon and Gaza - a
grotesque over-reaction - and, as the death toll of Arab civilians
mounts, you have to ask how the Israelis can do what they do. My
only answer now is to conclude that it is racism. No political or
territorial struggles can convincingly explain or excuse the maddened
onslaught by the Israeli state.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article14024.htm
=== We're Being Set Up for Wider War in the Middle East
by Paul Craig Roberts
The old adage, "fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame
on me" does not apply to Americans, who have shown that they can
be endlessly fooled.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article14026.htm
=== Hezbollah, the United States and the Context Behind Israel's
Offensive on Lebanon
Democracy Now! Report
As Israeli warplanes continue to bomb Lebanon and Hezbollah fires
rockets into northern Israel we get context on the crisis with two
analysts: As'ad AbuKhalil, a Lebanese professor of political science
at California State University and Chris Hedges, a senior fellow
at The Nation Institute and the former Middle East bureau chief for
The New York Times.
This is a must listen report
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article14031.htm
=== Israelis are dying: it must be an escalation
By Jonathan Cook
Here we go again -- more than 130 Lebanese dead after five days of
savage aerial bombardment from at least 2,000 sorties by Israeli
war planes that are making the countrys south a disaster zone and
turning Beirut into a crumbling ghost town. Those dead, most civilians
and many of them women and children, hardly get a mention, their
lives apparently empty of meaning or significance in this confrontation.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article14032.htm
=== 'If our Prime Minister is crying, what are we to do?'
By Robert Fisk in Beirut:
The few who were not lying in their basements ran shrieking through
the streets - not gunmen, but women with screaming children, families
holding suitcases, desperate to leave the heaps of broken buildings,
entire apartment blocks smashed to bits, the roadways covered in
smashed balconies and torn electrical wires.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article14016.htm
=== The Final Say
By Eric Margolis
Hezbollah, from my experience, is no mere cat's paw of Syria and
Iran, but a fiercely independent-minded movement that is Lebanon's
dominant political and military force. Though backed by Tehran and
Damascus, Hezbollah pursues its own local interests, sometimes in
opposition to its allies.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article14018.htm
=== Where is the rage? Where is the outrage?
By Michael Payne
A large segment of this society is currently in a state of conditioned
silence. It watches as America is undergoing radical changes that
are transforming this nation into an instrument of world domination
with the objective of controlling this planet's energy resources.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article14029.htm
=== Gods among Ordinary Men
By Charles Sullivan
Bush and his cadre of neo-conservatives may think that they are
above the law and that they can act with impunity and without
consequences. They may think of themselves as Gods who operate above
the strata of ordinary mortals, as the result of their socioeconomic
privilege. That is because other people have always born the cost
of their wrong doing.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article14023.htm
=== The Caped Crusaders in a Comic Book War
By Jerry Ghinelli
When we last left off, our gallant crusaders, Bush Wayne and his
trusted confidant, Dick Grayson-Cheneyoil executives by day, freedom
fighters by nighthad earned yet another significant victory in their
divinely inspired war on terror.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article14020.htm
=== Iraq: At least 83 killed as U.S. occupation continues:
Gunmen stormed a crowded market in the town of Mahmudiya, 30 km (20
miles) south of Baghdad, amid mortar or grenade explosions, the
U.S. military, police and the mayor said. A local hospital put the
death toll at 56 http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/KAM329798.htm
=== Military leaders foresee Iraq exit in 2016:
U.S. war commanders think some level of American forces will be
needed in Iraq until 2016 and those forces will receive continued
support from the vast majority of Iraqis.
http://washingtontimes.com/national/20060717-124948-7563r.htm
=== Retired soldier concludes: "We are pawns" in Iraq:
At what price would you take a job that included scraping human
flesh off ambushed Humvees?
http://www.denverpost.com/style/ci_4037566
=== Try Putting Us in Their Place:
I offer here an amended version of a July 15, 2006, report by
Reuters. This version allows Americans to judge the nature and
magnitude of various events in Iraq by placing them in the context
of familiar persons, places, organizations, and magnitudes in their
own country.
http://www.lewrockwell.com/higgs/higgs46.html
=== The military's disregard for the deaths of Iraqi civilians is
turning friends into enemies:
In Iraq, lives differ in value - and so do deaths. In this disparity
lies an important reason why the United States has botched this
war.
=== Corruption Cited in Iraq's Oil Industry:
U.S. Comptroller General David M. Walker told Congress last week
that "massive corruption" and "a lot of theft going on" in Iraq's
government-controlled oil industry is hampering the country's ability
to govern itself.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article14027.htm
=== Israeli Ground Forces Invade Lebanon:
Israeli troops crossed the border into southern Lebanon on Monday
to attack Hezbollah bases there and to push the Shiite militants
out of rocket-firing range, an Israeli government spokesman said.
=== Israeli pilot, co-pilot killed in Lebanon airspace :
Pilot and co-pilot of an F-16 warplane have been killed after it
was shot down in eastern Beirut.
http://www.irna.ir/en/news/view/menu-234/0607171793185352.htm
=== Robert Fisk Video Report From Beirut As 143 Civilians Killed:
:
On the ground, I can tell you that the slaughter of innocents
continues and the Israelis are well aware they're killing many
civilians. Windows Media - Video and transcript
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article14021.htm
=== Ten killed' as Israel bombs vehicles :
Seventeen people died elsewhere in Lebanon on the sixth day of
Israeli bombardment.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/5188420.stm
== Report: Nine Lebanese soldiers killed in Israeli strikes:
Nine Lebanese soldiers were killed and many more wounded in Israeli
air strikes on two army bases on the northern Lebanese coast early
on Monday, a security source said.
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3276952,00.html
=== Lebanon: 4 civilians killed by gunboat fire:
Lebanese police say four Lebanese civilians were killed by fire
from Israeli gunboats on a hilly village overlooking the Mediterranean
south of Beirut.
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3276942,00.html
=== Dahr Jamail: Fleeing Lebanese Speak of Indiscriminate Bombing:
"Everything is being bombed," a teacher from the United States who
was on vacation in Beirut told IPS. "It's terror. We've literally
been terrorised."
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article14022.htm
=== Eyewitness reports from Israel's assault on Lebanon:
Around 60,000 refugees from the south of Lebanon and the southern
suburbs of Beirut have arrived in the capital. Many of these refugees
have said that the villages in the south of Lebanon are full of
people who are unable to leave as roads are being bombed and bus
convoys attacked.
http://www.socialistworker.co.uk/article.php?article_id=9247
=== Barrages renewed on north:
After few-hour abatement, Hizbullah renewed rocket attacks on
northern communities. Residents of eastern Galilee, Rosh Pina,
Carmiel, Safed, Nahariya told to take shelter. Thus far, no casualties
reported http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3277498,00.html
=== Israel spurns UN call for monitors:
Israel has rebuffed a UN call for an international monitoring force
to be deployed in Lebanon as it continued to attack the country.
=== Iranian leader says Hizbollah will ignorecalls to disarm:
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran's supreme leader, said yesterday that
Hizbollah, a key ally of Tehran, would not disarm, despite calls
from the US and Israel.
=== Justin Raimondo : Will We Go to War for Israel? :
Listening to Newt Gingrich bloviate on Meet the Press, advocating
U.S. intervention on Israel's behalf against Syria and Iran and
the pathetic Joe "Me Too" Biden effectively agreeing with him one
can only wonder how or why anybody listens to these crazies.
http://antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=9314
=== Robert Dreyfuss: Neocons Rise From Mideast Ashes:
The key question: Is the Israeli offensive designed as a calculated
effort to catapult the hard-right, neoconservative ideologues back
to power in Washington?
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article14030.htm
=== Americans Want U.S. Out of Mid-East War:
Many adults in the United States believe their government should
not become involved in the current dispute between Israel and its
neighbours, according to a poll by SurveyUSA. 55 per cent of
respondents think the U.S. should not attempt to negotiate a
ceasefire, and 84 per cent reject a military intervention.
http://www.angus-reid.com/polls/index.cfm/fuseaction/viewItem/itemID/12567
=== The west must recognise that Israel's agenda is in conflict
with its own :
Whatever else can be said for or against Israel's escalation of
military action against Lebanon, there is little prospect that it
will achieve its stated objectives. If Israel couldn't defeat
Hizbullah after 18 years in which its army occupied large swaths
of Lebanese territory, it is not going to succeed with air strikes
and blockades, or even another occupation.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article14025.htm
=== Senator Hillary Clinton joins thousands who demonstrate in
support of Israel :
Among the speakers at the demonstration were Senator Hillary Clinton
and Israeli Ambassador to the UN Danny Gillerman.
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3277464,00.html
=== Bush curses Hezbollah during G-8 luncheon :
It wasn't meant to be overheard. Private luncheon conversations
among world leaders, picked up by a microphone, provided a rare
window into both banter and substance including President Bush
cursing Hezbollah's attacks against Israel http://tinyurl.com/psmfb
=== In case you missed it:
Robert Dreyfuss: Syria In Their Sights :
Three years ago, the U.S. invasion of Iraq was widely viewed as the
first chapter of a region-wide strategy to redraw the entire map
of the Middle East. After Iraq, Syria and Iran would be the next
targets, after which the oil-rich states of the Arabian Gulf,
including Saudi Arabia, would follow.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article11527.htm
=== Israeli Police detain Al Jazeera crew members for third time :
The official cause for the brief arrests was suspicions against the
crew members of reporting on the location of rocket hits in order
to assist Hezbollah. Other TV networks, including Israeli news
services, made similar reports without suffering from police
intervention.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/739027.html
=== One Palestinian killed :
According to eyewitnesses, Israeli snipers posted on the roof of
one of the buildings opened fire against the Palestinian, who was
near his home.
http://www.kuna.net.kw/home/Story.aspx?Language=en&DSNO=887368
=== Israeli Occupation Forces soldier killed in Nablus :
While all eyes were drawn to the fighting in the north and to the
Qassam rockets in the south, the fighting in the West Bank continued
early Monday, claiming a heavy price as an IDF soldier was killed
after an explosive device exploded in Nablus.
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3277022,00.html
=== Al-Aqsa: We kidnapped Border Guard officer in W. Bank:
The Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, Fatahs armed wing, claimed Monday
afternoon they had kidnapped a Border Guard officer in the West
Bank.
=== Israeli jet flattens Palestinian Foreign Ministry :
At least nine Palestinians were injured in the attack, which ripped
through nearby homes, shops and offices. Most of the wounded were
children
http://euronews.net/create_html.php?page=detail_info&article=369829&lng=1
=== In case you missed it;
John Pilger Documentary : "Palestine is Still the Issue":
Stateless and humiliated for so long, they've risen up against
Israel's huge military machine, although they themselves have no
arm, no tanks, no American planes and gun ships or missiles. Video
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article14019.htm
=== Heavy Fighting in Afghanistan; 100 "Taliban" Members killed :
During Monday's battles in the southern province of Helmand, 37
Taliban fighters were killed and 22 were wounded.
http://themedialine.org/news/news_detail.asp?NewsID=14406
=== 6 Afghan Soldiers Killed, 3 Injured In Roadside Blast : -
A roadside bomb blast killed six Afghan soldiers and wounded three
more Sunday in western Herat province, an Afghan army commander
said.
=== 'Suicide bomb' in Helmand capital :
Three people died, including the top justice official in the area.
Earlier, US-led coalition forces said they had killed four suspected
al-Qaeda militants in eastern Khost province. Locals said the dead
were civilians.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/5186230.stm
=== Fury as Karzai plans return of Talibans religious police:
The Afghan government has alarmed human rights groups by approving
a plan to reintroduce a Department for the Promotion of Virtue and
Prevention of Vice, the body which the Taliban used to enforce its
extreme religious doctrine.
http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/story.jsp?story=698861
=== N.Korea says not bound by UN resolution: report :
North Korea said on Sunday it was not bound by a U.N. Security
Council resolution, which has created "an extremely dangerous
situation" and the country would "bolster its war deterrent" in
every way.
=== South Korea Divided on Missile Tests:
South Korean adults are split in their assessment of North Koreas
recent actions, according to a poll by R&R. 50.6 per cent of
respondents feel threatened by this months missile tests, while
49.4 per cent do not.
http://www.angus-reid.com/polls/index.cfm/fuseaction/viewItem/itemID/12566
=== Rattled by N.K. missile launches, Japan may try to buy secretive
:
U.S. fighter jet: The United States may seriously consider selling
its closely guarded F-22 fighter jets to Japan http://tinyurl.com/omfjl
=== Containing the Military Industrial Complex:
Last month the Senate rejected, nearly along party lines, a bill
to create honest contracting and impose penalties for fraud of the
sort almost openly engaged in by Halliburton.
=== UN's Iran nuclear referral "not constructive" :
Iran said on Sunday sending its nuclear file back to the U.N.
Security Council undermined prospects for talks over its atomic
dispute with the West.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060716/ts_nm/nuclear_iran_talks_dc
=== Powerful military explosive used in India :
Indian officials have linked the attacks that killed 182 people to
Pakistan, and the use of RDX explosives is a hallmark of the
militants, who get at least a degree of support from Islamabad in
their fight to wrest the predominantly Muslim Kashmir from India.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060717/ap_on_re_as/india_train_bombings
=== Lopez Obrador leads protest in Mexico:
Claiming fraud robbed him of the presidency, leftist candidate
Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador led hundreds of thousands of marchers
through Mexico's capital Sunday, demanding a full recount in the
disputed election apparently won by his conservative opponent.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060716/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/mexico_elections_5
=== El Salvador's war children return to their roots:
They represent a lost generation - thousands of children kidnapped
by soldiers or otherwise separated from their parents during the
bloody and chaotic civil war that tore apart El Salvador.
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/article1181669.ece
=== Exclusive: FBI Paid Informants In Suspected Terror Group:
An unreleased court filing from the U.S. Attorney's office in Miami,
obtained by NBC 6, reveals compelling new details about the
investigation into terror suspects arrested earlier this month in
Liberty City and charged with plotting to blow up Chicagos Sears
Tower and other buildings and to "wage jihad on America."
http://www.nbc6.net/news/9524121/detail.html?taf=ami
=== Stranger than fiction:
Failures' targeted at birth :
Doctors and midwives will identify all children at risk of 'failing'
so they can be monitored by state nannies
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/politics/article1180225.ece
=== Eating the Amazon:
The fight to curb corporate destruction : Huge soya farms financed
by Cargill, the largest privately owned company in the world, are
the rainforest's new worst enemy
http://news.independent.co.uk/environment/article1181617.ece
=== Drought threatens Amazon basin:
Last year the worst drought in more than a century hit the Amazon
basin, drying up tributaries more than a mile wide and prompting
Brazil to declare a state of emergency across the entire region.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/print/0,,329531027-111023,00.html
=== Stranger than fiction: Jackson mayor to set curfew on homeless:
Jackson Mayor Frank Melton said today hes planning to amend the
citys emergency proclamation to include a 10 p.m. curfew on the
homeless, beginning Friday.
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