The goodness of Israel is on display again. The crossings to be built in Jerusalem as part of the separation fence will actually improve the lives of Palestinians in East Jerusalem, the city’s police chief Ilan Franco has claimed. During… Read moreWall will help Palestinians: Jerusalem police chief
Well, don’t this beat all. Islamic Jihad, the most rejectionist Palestinian faction, says it may recognize Israel, accept a 2-state solution: Last update – 13:06 03/08/2005 Islamic Jihad head: We may recognize the State of Israel By Gideon Levy, Haaretz… Read moreIslamic Jihad may recognize Israel
From Scientific American, Aug. 4: In the spring of 2002, a large chunk of the Larsen B ice shelf (LIS-B) on the Antarctic Peninsula broke off and tumbled into the Weddell Sea. A new analysis published today in the journal… Read moreAntarctic ice shelf collapse “unprecedented”
From AP, Aug. 3: 2 NY Officials Back Terror Check Profiling Middle Easterners should be targeted for searches on city subways, two elected officials said, contending that police have been wasting time with random checks in efforts to prevent terrorism… Read moreDov Hikind: freedom hater
The UN is pledging to lead an investigation into the helicopter crash that claimed the life of Sudan’s newly-installed vice president John Garang, longtime leader of the southern guerillas. (UPI, Aug. 3) Violence since his death has already left at… Read moreViolence and fear in Sudan
Hundreds have taken to the streets of Mauritania’s capital, Nouakchott, shouting and honking car horns in celebration after the army announced it had seized power and ousted long-ruling President Moawiya Ould Tayeh. Convoys of vehicles with people hanging out the… Read moreCoup d’etat in Mauritania
In the Gaza Strip, reality parodies Monty Python. Avid surfers from several Gush Katif communities are threatening to take their boards out to sea on evacuation day and commit mass suicide by drowning. Settlement secretariats, psychologists and social workers have… Read morePopular Suicide Surfer Squad of Judea threatens strike
In the belly of the beast, the Business section of the NYT, appeared today an unbelievably nice article about the Venezuelan socialist revolution underway. The articles describes Chavez’ push to transform both public and private enterprises into worker-managed and worker-owned… Read moreThe Bolivarian revolution goes mainstream
The New York Times, as usual, gives op-ed space to right wing “free market” fundamentalists. In The Price Is Right, August 3, 2005 Pankaj Ghemawat, a professor of business administration at Harvard and Ken A. Mark, a business consultant in… Read moreWal-Mart good for workers, NY Times says
Wow, the more things change the more they stay the same. This is exactly the issue which led to Saddam Hussein’s world-changing invasion of Kuwait in 1990 (see WW4 REPORT #70). Is it ever going to be embarrassing for the… Read moreIraq: Kuwait stealing our oil —again!
Some fairly amazing words of self-evident truth from Jack Straw, which it is impossible to imagine issuing forth from any figure in the US administration. But a consensus appears to be emerging on both sides of the Atlantic that there… Read moreJack Straw: “We are part of the problem”
Daniel Yergin, author of the Pulitzer-winning history of the petroleum industry, The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money & Power, was recently invoked by New York Times columnist Bob Herbert to drive home the point that the Persian Gulf… Read moreYergin rains on “peak oil” parade
