Valid Outrage
by Daniel Patrick Welch
Bush’s Sword of Damocles is poised above the people and city of Fallujah, ready to wreak the pent-up wrath his addled brain thinks his tainted election victory permits. This is the bizarre world-in-a-bubble in which most Americans reside. With a chorus of Onward, Christian Soldiers and a vapid, cheerleading press, the crusade continues unabated, as the world’s revulsion continues to grow.
True, Americans do have elections, and candidates often (...)
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Arma-geddon Sick of You : World to US as Americans prepare to level Fallujah
11 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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Woe to thee, Fallujah!
10 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
53 comments—As my heart bleeds I’m filled the more with pain—
Besides the loss of life, the unattended injured, the harried displacement of citizens into questionably ’safer areas’ while escape routes have been blocked, a fractured infrastructure that cannot provide the most basic of needs such as water, food, utilities, medical care; with the tailored destruction of those grand buildings of Muslim worship, combined with every other totally unacceptable action committed under the false veil of (...) -
Fallujah, the sequel : preparing for Butchery
9 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
54 commentsby Maarten Vanheuverswyn
The war drums are being beaten once again in Fallujah. After the siege in April this year, the city will again be the scene of an onslaught, probably bigger than last time. Life has almost come to a standstill as thousands of people are fleeing their houses. During the last weeks, the US forces stepped up their daily air raids while at the same time applying heavy psychological warfare tactics. Threatening to crush the resistance, US imperialism is now actually (...) -
Yasser Arafat : a Man and his People
9 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
3 commentsby Uri Avnery
Wherever he may be buried when he passes away, the day will come when his remains will be reinterred by a free Palestinian government in the holy shrines in Jerusalem.
Yasser Arafat is one of the generation of great leaders who arose after World War II.
The stature of a leader is not simply determined by the size of his achievements, but also by the size of the obstacles he had to overcome. In this respect, Arafat has no competitor in the world: no leader of (...) -
Rare Sight of Jewish-Muslim Harmony Outside Arafat Hospital
8 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
6 commentsAt a solemn vigil outside the hospital treating Yasser Arafat, a remarkable, poignant moment of peace: A Jewish rabbi and a Muslim prayer leader shaking hands and extending hopes for the Palestinian leader’s recovery.
Rabbi Moishe Arye Friedmann travelled from Vienna to show his support, while Kamel Titouhi came from a local mosque where he had led prayers for Arafat’s recovery.
The two men met at what has become a small shrine to Arafat beside the main gate of the modern military (...) -
Israel’s Gaza commander resigns
8 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
1 commentThe most senior Israeli army commander in Gaza has resigned his post.
Brig Gen Shmuel Zakai is believed to have told reporters that Prime Minister Ariel Sharon ordered an operation in Gaza that the army thought unnecessary.
One report says Gen Zakai failed a polygraph test that was part of the investigation into the press leaks.
More than 100 Palestinians died in clashes after Israeli forces went into the Jabaliya camp in northern Gaza in late September for 17 days.
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Falluja & Those Mass Graves
6 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
1 comment...Meanwhile, this week Human Rights Watch issued its long-awaited conclusive report on Saddam’s genocidal record. As far as I know, the major news media has not picked up the report, which is available on the internet at HRW’s website, http://www.hrw.org/reports/2004/iraq1104/1.htm
I read about the report in the British press. It turns out that in 19 months HRW’s experts have not been able to find the missing 100,000 bodies it said were of Kurds who had been rounded up and trucked (...) -
Republicans, ever wonder why half the country vehemently disagrees with you?
6 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
16 commentsIt’s not about caving in to terrorists, it’s not about wanting a lack of morality, and it’s not about hating Republican voters. It is about wanting the freedom of choice as individuals over our lives that a democracy is supposed to allow. It’s about not shipping jobs overseas and destroying the economic foundations of the middle class and impoverishing millions of Americans.
It’s about having every citizen’s vote count and be counted fairly. It’s about killing people in defense only. (...) -
Palestine or Money ?
5 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
October 31, 2004 _ (The Times)
Fading Arafat fights to keep hold of $1billion war chest Uzi Mahnaimi, Ramallah and Matthew Campbell, Paris
IN THE END it came down to money. While fighting for his life in a French military hospital, Yasser Arafat, the Palestinian leader, was engaged in another, secret battle last week as he tried to keep control of bank accounts that are central to his survival in power.
Arafat’s godfather-like sway over his people derives less these days from his (...) -
Margaret Hassan to be Turned Over to Mythical al-Zarqawi
5 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
November 3, 2004 - Now we are told the kidnappers of CARE’s Margaret Hassan ( http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,134206 8,00.html ) have threatened to hand her over to Abu Musab al-Zarqawi - the mythical master terrorist who supposedly chops off heads and then posts videos of the grisly executions on the internet-unless British troops are removed from Iraq in 48 hours.
Interesting the kidnappers decided to announce this mid-stride in the corporate election of the next CEO of the (...)