Prof. Jean Bricmont, a Belgian scientist, specialist in theoretical physics, and author on politics, who was member of the prosecution at the BRussells Tribunal, has written a short but strong statement "Stop the escalation" (see the text after this message, in English, French and Dutch). It has been signed already by several distinguished people (see underneath).
We feel that we can’t wait any longer to do something. We hope that you and/or your organisation will sign this letter, (...)
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World Wide Petition against the Escalation in Iraq: An initiative of the BRussells tribunal endorsed
5 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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Palestine: the assault on health and other war crimes
5 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
4 commentsby Derek Summerfield
Does the death of an Arab weigh the same as that of a US or Israeli citizen? The Israeli army, with utter impunity, has killed more unarmed Palestinian civilians since September 2000 than the number of people who died on September 11, 2001. In conducting 238 extrajudicial executions the army has also killed 186 bystanders (including 26 women and 39 children). Two thirds of the 621 children (two thirds under 15 years) killed at checkpoints, in the street, on the way (...) -
Study predicts Arctic ice melt by 2100
4 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
3 commentsby WWF
A new scientific study says the Arctic ice cover will disappear in summer by the end of this century unless carbon dioxide emissions are significantly reduced.
The study, to be released next week, says the Arctic ice melt will cause sea levels to rise and could lead to the extinction of some species such as polar bears.
"The melt has begun," said Jennifer Morgan, director of the Climate Change Campaign for the environmental organisation WWF, which published excerpts of the (...) -
American Board of Rabbis blasts France over Arafat
3 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
4 commentsby Big News Network
In an unprecedented and extraordinary attack on France, the American Board of Rabbis has demanded a worldwide ban on French products.
The New York-based association which promotes Jewish unity abroad voted unanimously to call on Jewish people around the world to boycott everything French: goods, services, and even the language.
The board is outraged at France’s providing hospital treatment for Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, who it describes as a ’master (...) -
Carlyle Covers Up
3 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
6 commentsby Naomi Klein
Less than twenty-four hours after The Nation disclosed that former Secretary of State James Baker and the Carlyle Group were involved in a secret deal to profit from Iraq’s debt to Kuwait, NBC was reporting that the deal was "dead." At The Nation, we started to get calls congratulating us on costing the Carlyle Group $1 billion, the sum the company would have received in an investment from the government of Kuwait in exchange for helping to extract $27 billion of unpaid (...) -
In God - or reality - we trust
3 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
1 commentBy Pepe Escobar
"We will export death and violence to the four corners of the Earth in defense of our great nation." - George W Bush in Bob Woodward’s Plan of Attack
It all boils down to Iraq. Will the majority of Americans reject George W Bush because of his defining moment - launching an indefensible preemptive war?
No matter what happens on election day - or days or weeks if the multibillion-dollar special again goes to the Supreme Court - the fact is that at least half of the (...) -
A Question of Conscience: How Many More? British Study Concludes That 100,000
3 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
1 commentCivilian Deaths Have Been Caused By Iraq War’s Violence
by Evan Augustine Peterson III
"...if the USA’s population suffered the proportional equivalent of 130,000 Iraqi civilian deaths, there would be 1,608,750 American civilian deaths. What if the entire population of a city the size of San Diego had been slaughtered over nineteen months after some hostile nation invaded US soil?"
"...it is clear that whatever planning did take place was grievously in error. The invasion of Iraq, (...) -
Muslims Feel Militants Have Gone Too Far
3 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
by RAWYA RAGEH
BAGHDAD, Iraq - Its name means "the Arab one," but that didn’t spare Al-Arabiya television from attack by insurgents who perceive it as pro-Western.
The Saudi-owned satellite station lost five Iraqi employees when a car bomb exploded Saturday at its Baghdad bureau. It was one of several recent operations - militant groups have also kidnapped women and killed Muslims - that are drawing criticism as "un-Islamic."
"Such operations are 100 percent wrong," said Adel Zeyada, (...) -
Kyoto Is Too Little to Fix Warming, Says U.N. Climate Chief
3 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
1 commentBy Alister Doyle
OSLO, Norway - Although saved recently with Russian help, the Kyoto pact on global warming offers too little to arrest climate change and governments should adopt more radical solutions, the top U.N. climate expert said.
"My feeling is that we will probably need to do more than most people are talking about" to combat climate change, said Rajendra Pachauri, chairman of the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
He welcomed ratification of (...) -
Why we are still backing Arafat
3 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
Palestinians value their democracy and won’t accept a pliant successor
by Karma Nabulsi
Why has Yasser Arafat not "groomed" a successor (like some petty oriental despot), commentators have demanded to know in recent days, and why he is leaving a chaotic power-vacuum? What has been striking about these questions is not so much their wilful ignorance of the Palestinian reality, but the underlying assumptions they reflect.
The first is that the ailing Palestinian leader is now either (...)