Thursday, May 22, 2008

Where Are Those Iranian Weapons in Iraq?

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By Gareth Porter "The US military command in Iraq continues to talk about an alleged pipeline of Iranian weapons to Iraqi Shiites oppos...

A true housing crisis

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The scale of the Israeli government's crimes in the West Bank is all too clear on a tour organised by a local NGO By Seth Freedman The G...

Finger lickin' good

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By Steve Bell, The Guardian

Israeli Extortion Has Just Begun!

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Israel-Syria Talks Won't Affect Hamas- Damascus Ties Al-Manar "22/05/2008 A day after the announcement of diplomatic negotiations b...
Wednesday, May 21, 2008

Reproducing Oslo-era illusions

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From Khalid Amayreh in Bethlehem "A three-day economic conference aimed at attracting foreign investments to revive the dilapidated Pal...

المفاجأة السورية

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المفاجأة السورية عبد الباري عطوان "الاعلان المفاجيء الذي صدر يوم امس في كل من دمشق وتل ابيب حول انخراط حكومتي العاصمتين في مباحثات سلا...

Acknowledging the tragedy

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Raja Shehadeh, The Electronic Intifada , 21 May 2008 (Raja Shehadeh is an attorney in Ramallah and author of Palestinian Walks: Notes on a V...

New report critiques West Bank development projects

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Report, The Grassroots Palestinian Anti-Apartheid Wall Campaign , 21 May 2008 "....." Development or Normalization?" argues ...

Muck and menace in Maliki's Iraq

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By Sami Moubayed Asia Times "On his second anniversary in office, Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki has little to brag about. Baghdad...

Real News Video: US media spins Sadr City "success"

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"US corporate media has found a feel good story about Iraq: “Operation Peace” – 3 brigades of 10 thousand Iraqi soldiers taking over th...

Paying for War at the Pump

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By Robert Scheer "What’s it got to do with the price of gas? Would some reporter with access to the Republican presidential candidate p...

From The Cheering Section For The Puppet: Olmert: I hope Abbas does not quit before peace talks progress

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"Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said Wednesday in an interview with The Times that he hopes Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas remains in...

Syria-Israel peace deal 'requires shift in U.S. policy'

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"Analysts, including former senior Israeli officials, believe there is little prospect of a peace between Israel and Syria without a sh...

'Olmert the interrogee won't move us away from here'

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Golan Heights Council head says public 'will not allow government to transfer strategic Golan Heights to Arab axis of evil' "Go...

Hizbullah gets veto power in unity government

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Major triumph for Lebanese opposition: All demands made by Nasrallah materialized in breakthrough agreement between feuding factions announc...

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By Mike Luckovich

Bush's Endless Hypocrisy on Terror

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Is a government guilty of terrorism if it harbors known terrorists? What should one say about a country that permits open fund-raising on be...

A Jewish Taliban Celebration!

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Orthodox Jewish youths burn New Testaments in Or Yehuda Contributed by Anders " Orthodox Jews set fire to hundreds of copies of the New...

Sons of Iraq? Or Baghdad's Sopranos?

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Working with a U.S.-funded Sunni guard force can be a lot like dealing with the mob. Some of the armed men act like the dons of their neighb...

Irony Man

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by Nick Turse and Tom Engelhardt TomDispatch ".....It's lucky, then, that, in the real world, the Bush administration has made the ...