The “Big Wedding” and Its Sinister Offspring Book Review: The Big Wedding: 9-11, The Whistle Blowers and the Cover-Up by Sander Hicks VoxPop, New York, 2005 by A. Kronstadt, The Shadow In the months after the horrific events of September… Read moreJIHAD, INTELLIGENCE & 9-11
Continue ReadingJIHAD, INTELLIGENCE & 9-11The Labor Crisis Behind the Electoral Crisis by David Bacon, TruthOut NACOZARI, Sonora – Just days after conservative candidate Felipe Calderon declared himself the winner of Mexico’s July 2 presidential election, the Mexican federal labor board lowered the boom on… Read moreMEXICAN MINERS FACE LOCK-OUT
Continue ReadingMEXICAN MINERS FACE LOCK-OUTUrban Gardening and Self-Sufficiency in Caracas by April M. Howard, Toward Freedom In the middle of the modern, concrete city of Caracas, Norali Verenzuela is standing in a garden dressed in jeans and work boots. She is the director of… Read moreVENEZUELA: THE GREENING OF THE REVOLUTION
Continue ReadingVENEZUELA: THE GREENING OF THE REVOLUTIONby Stefan Baskerville, Diplo Rusty buses lined the wide road, their roofs packed with men, sitting, crouching and lying down. Families sat and stood in the back of old pick-up trucks. The people arrived in droves, by truck, bus or… Read moreTHE NEW AGRARIAN REFORM IN BOLIVIA
Continue ReadingTHE NEW AGRARIAN REFORM IN BOLIVIAAw Shut Up Already, Will Ya? by Bill Weinberg, WW4 REPORT After the 1898 explosion of the battleship Maine, the 1933 Reichstag Fire, the 1939 bogus Polish “invasion” of Germany, and the 1964 Gulf of Tonkin incident, it is irresponsible… Read more9-11 AND THE NEW PEARL HARBOR
Continue Reading9-11 AND THE NEW PEARL HARBORText of a report in Arabic from the London-based newspaper Al-Hayat, Aug. 31: Syrian group threatens to copy Hezbollah’s action, abduct Israeli soldiers A secret organization in the occupied Syrian Golan Heights has threatened to abduct Israeli soldiers to swap… Read moreGolan Heights resistance threatens to capture Israeli soldiers
The Ibrahimi mosque/Tomb of the Patriarchs in Hebron/Khalil has been a flash point for decades. It was split into Muslim and Jewish sides after Israeli settler Dr. Baruch Goldstein massacred 29 Palestinian worshipers in 1994. From Ma’an News Agency, Aug…. Read moreHebron: Israeli settlers steal ancient mosque window
An International Solidarity Movement press release, Aug. 25: Peace Demonstrators Beaten in Bil’in At today’s weekly demo against the Apartheid Wall in Bil’in soldiers attacked protesters with batons and fired rubber bullets at them from close range. Around 100 protesters… Read moreWest Bank: protesters beaten, shot
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Mike di Paola writes an excellent summary of the environmental and archeological damage from the Lebanese war for Bloomberg, Aug. 15. One of the coastal areas affected by an Israeli bombing-induced oil slick is the ancient Phoenician Canaanite harbor of… Read moreLebanon: historic Byblos threatened by oil slick, Israeli naval blockade
Despite the ceasefire, Israeli soldiers fanned out across the Litani river, and between 10 – 30,000 may remain in Lebanon, creating certain logistics problems. According to Ha’aretz, Aug. 14: IDF general: Soldiers may steal food from south Lebanon stores “If… Read moreIsraeli general: troops in Lebanon should steal food, get ready for winter
Indigenous Middle Eastern Jewry, from Lebanon, Morocco, and Iran, have issued recent condemnations of the Israeli assaults on Lebanon and Palestine. The first here is from the Jews of Lebanon website. Lebanese Jewry goes back to 1000 B.C., and did… Read moreIndigenous Middle Eastern Jews condemn Israeli aggression
