A World Beyond Capitalism Conference.NoCharge
diversity,

The Second Annual International Multiracial Alliance Building Peace Conference, known as the 2006 A World Beyond Capitalism Conference is set to begin August 26th in Portland. It will continue from August 26th-28th, 2006. There is no charge for anything!  http://aworldbeyondcapitalism.org
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WALL STREET JOURNAL RHAPSODIZES OVER SHAM UN
Stephen Lendman,

ANALYSIS OF WALL STREET JOURNAL ARTICLE PRAISING SHAM UN RESOLUTION
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Queers in Iran
Mitra Roshan, Kourosh Shemirani repost znet,

The July 19 actions marking the anniversary of the execution of two young men in Mashad, Iran, have initiated an important discussion about the role Western LGBT activists can play in relation to persecuted minorities around the world. We feel the July 19 actions were fundamentally flawed and showed a dangerous trend in LGBT politics, which could lead to a counterproductive, if not outright destructive, situation for sexual minorities in Iran and other countries.

Much as in the U.S., the protection of sexual minorities is fundamentally a cultural issue that must be addressed through personal experiences and public debates that draw on values important to the entire community. Iranians are already engaged in these debates.

We must come to terms with the fact that we are limited in our ability to effect positive change in the rest of the world. This is the price we pay for living under the shadows of George Bush's America and a history of Western domination, as our actions are always implicated in our nation's global power.
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San Diegans Say No to US/Israeli Aggression
queer-j brad,

About 300 protesters met in San Diego's Balboa Park on Saturday for a combined march and rally to express opposition to the criminal US/Israeli aggression occupation in Lebanon, Palestine and Iraq. The mood of the demonstrators and speakers spanned outrage at the continuing atrocities and human rights violations, celebration of the effective resistance of Hezbollah, and contemplation of what will be required to right the wrongs. The overly long rally sapped energy from the crowd, but this was compensated somewhat by the sprinkling of gems throughout the speeches, especially the reading of the poem "Intifada" by Professor of Languages and Humanities at Southwestern College, Steve Kowit. A handful of counter-protesters parroted the elite/right-wing pundit/corporate media line. A 16-1/2 min video captures some of the highlights of the protest, as i experienced them.

Here is a larger frame version of the video

Al-Awda Website: Photos | Steve Kowit's Intifada

US Indymedia: Demonstrations across the country denounced U.S. support and participation in war crimes and occupation.
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Video: Call for Blockades of G8 in 2007
repost from imc uk,

Watch the video here:

Blockade, from protest to resistance

 http://media.de.indymedia.org/rtsp/2006/08//154985.rm
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From Lebanon: This Pain Has No Ceasefire
Barucha Calamity Peller,

Five hours after the ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah. In a village just north of the Litani River I walk over houses, houses that have become ruins of what once was.

Also, watch the PSA from Elecronic Lebanon.net:
 http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article5473.shtml

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Victor Thorn and Lisa Guliani --
Captain Eric H. May,

A former Army intelligence and public affairs officer who has

spent the last three years tracking and interdicting Bush

administration terror plans exposes the double-dealing side of

the alternative media, focusing on the Wing TV team of Victor

Thorn and Lisa Guliani, who have deliberately sabotaged the

ongoing efforts by the 911 Truth Movement to spread word to

endangered areas of possible pending 911's.

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SHAM UN RESOLUTION GUARANTEES NO END TO ISRAE
Stephen Lendman,

UN RESOLUTION 1701 GUARANTEES NO END TO THE CONFLICT
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« HASBARA » CYBERWAR :A CALL TO 100 000 ZIONI
ORWELL,

« HASBARA » :ISRAELI PROGRAM TO POLLUTE THE WEB WITH ISRAELI PROPAGANDA

-THE TOOL :MEGAPHONE

(The Israeli Foreign Ministry provides Free Internet Tool to online activists »
Arjan El Fassed, The Electronic Intifada, 26 July 2006)

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Remember the Hunger Strikers: Continue the Fight for Freedom
Janice Jordan - Peace and Feedom Party Candidate for Governor,

I returned last week from an eight day trip to Belfast, Northern Ireland. Every year the month of August in Belfast is filled with street festivals in many of the city's communities. This year is especially active, because 2006 marks the 25th Anniversary of the Ten Irishmen who gave their lives in the name of Irish freedom! The history of Irish liberation is a part of every day life. Support for the people of Palestine and Lebanon was visible in the pubs, on the streets and in the music halls. Recognizing and acting on the struggles of occupied and oppressed people around the world is something the Irish do without effort.
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Tracing the Trail of Destruction in Lebanon
Walden Bello*,

BEIRUT, Lebanon - The wounds of war were evident shortly after we crossed the Syria-Lebanon border at 1130 in the morning on August 12. At Haissa, about three kilometers from the Dabboussiyeh border crossing, we come across the ruins of a bridge hit by Israeli war planes just the day before. Villagers tell us 12 people were killed and 10 wounded, all civilians.


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Fountainhead e-Letter, Berlin Germany
Fountainhead,

An international, intercultural organization based in Berlin Germany producing: annual film festival, publications, television programs, cinema distribution & dance theatre.
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Israeli/US Aggression and Occupation in Lebanon, Palestine and Iraq: Teach-In
queer-j brad,

The American Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee of San Diego sponsored a teach-in on July 27 to provide background to the recent attack on Lebanon, the escalation of attacks on Gaza, and the continuing occupation of Palestine, Iraq and now southern Lebanon. Six speakers discussed the historical and political context, the resistance, the human experience of occupation, and international law: Nasser Barghouti (moderator), Doris Bittar, Farid Abdel-Nour, Nadia Keilani, Marjorie Cohn and Jonathan Graubart. Audio Duration: 1:38:40, with partial transcript. A question and answer period followed. Audio Duration: 1:03:40.

"Imagine if the I-5 was bombed and I-805 and the I-15 and the depots of fuels and half of the gas stations of San Diego were bombed. Then imagine if one third of our hospitals had been destroyed. We have no electricity, no water and 800,000 of San Diego residents were forced to flee, go somewhere, inland maybe. Then you would get to understand the situation in Lebanon."

"As an artist, I have gathered many photo essays that document how individuals resist, often through creative acts, like Haldia at the Bourj al Barajneh refugee camp in Beirut, whose camp now is surrounded by rubble, built her entire home with mortar, cinder blocks, and river rocks from Nabitieh... There are many forms of resistance, and all can be legitimate... For the ordinary person, Hamas and Hezbollah crush the walls of a demented and bigoted logic, whatever else you agree or disagree about their philosophy."

"Stability has historically has been usually brought about by barbarism and brutality...The reason Middle East politics is so complicated is that is usually hanging by thin delicate threads that connect different communities with each other... The reason the Middle East is unstable is that there hasn't been that kind of brutality in its history... I'm afraid that this administration takes this cruel truth not as reminder not to overvalue stability, not as a reminder of how cruel it is to merely pursue it. They take it as a prescription for what to do."

Prior to 1991, our first attempt to destroy Iraq, Iraqi women had equality in education and health care. They had the most progressive human rights in the region and they were the first Arab women to hold high positions in academia, government and law. Before the US invasion, they constituted 40% of the public sector work force and they made up 20% of Iraq's Parliament. In the U.S. Congress, only 15% of it is made up of women... Today an Iraqi woman walking alone in the street is asking to be killed, raped or kidnapped... I asked Iraqis if they had a message for the American people. None of their messages was without an expletive..."

"Bush could stop Israel in its tracks with a snap of his fingers. But why would he? Israel is doing his bidding. Redrawing the map of the Middle East to facilitate U.S. domination. Bush began that task with Iraq, and Israel is following suit with Palestine and Lebanon... The United States loyal and consistent support for Israel's policies to the tune of more than 3 billion dollars in aid per year has enabled Israel government to conduct a war of terror against the Palestinian and Lebanese people."

"These can be subject to great debate in the specifics, but a number of the Israeli actions defy any sort of debate. Certainly collective punishments, which is a pretty explicit effort to impose massive desperate conditions on the civilian population until they give in, is no question illegal. Certainly causing massive displacements, the attack on the power plants, even the United Nations, which is fairly diplomatic about this, has called these war crimes."

"About forty years ago, 1967, in six days the Israeli army destroyed the armies of Egypt, Syria and Jordan, occupied all of the Sinai strip, the Golan Heights, the West Bank, the Gaza Strip and East Jerusalem, killed thousands of soldiers in those Arab armies, all in six days. Today after 14 days of punishing bombardment of Lebanon, the Israeli army has not been able to progress more than 10 km into Lebanon."

Click here for audio

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ISRAEL MUST BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE FOR ITS INTER
Stephen Lendman,

ISRAEL'S WAR OF ILLEGAL AGGRESSION AGAINST PALESTINE AND LEBANON
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Art of War : Trapped
Larmee,

Trapped
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US Media's "Rules of Political Correctness"
anon,

Due to Zionist-dominated media...
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Reparations for Iran
Rosemarie Jackowski,

Operation Ajax
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Letters from Lebanon: The Proximity of Death
Barucha Peller for Fault Lines, Indybay paper,

Death is close here. And some of us are not as close to death as
others. The south of Lebanon is cut off from humanitarian aid. Here
on the north side of the Litani River, the people in the south,
taking the worse of the missiles and mortars of the Israel
aggression, are always on our minds. there are whispers in the back
of our thoughts: "How long do they have? How can we possibily get to
them?"
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Twilight Zone Manic Spewing Propaganda Blitz
Various,

“Unable to window dress the obvious failure to eradicate growing resistance in Lebanon, Iraq, and Afghanistan—even with the mighty propaganda power of a complaisant media—the neocon intelligence apparatus has staged yet another terrorist event, or would be terrorist event.”

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Americans Are Being Terrorized By Americans
Starfishgirl,

Terrorist Gang Stalking is a tool employed by fascists who seek to quash freedom of speech along many other Constitutional rights. Please join us in the fight to expose and stop this insidious crime.






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Imperial Presidency Rebuked by ABA
Kenneth J. Theisen,

On January 24, 2006, the American Bar Association (ABA) issued a press release stating that, “Presidential signing statements that assert President Bush’s authority to disregard or decline to enforce laws adopted by Congress undermine the rule of law and our constitutional system of separation of powers…” The press release was publicizing a report by a blue-ribbon ABA task force which was created in June 2006 to examine the “changing role of presidential signing statements” under the Bush administration. On August 8, 2006, the ABA’s House of Delegates overwhelmingly approved the report by voting to call on President Bush and future presidents not to issue signing statements that claim the power to bypass laws, and it called on Congress to pass legislation to outlaw the practice.

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9/11 conspiracy 'theories' persist, thrive
reposted,

By JUSTIN POPE, AP Education Writer
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Operation Apocalypse: "888" Results
Captain Eric H. May,

A former Army intelligence and public affairs officer continues his

examination of End-Times Christians, and how they have been duped

into becoming a suicide cult, with an analysis of four predictions in his

August 1 essay, "Operation Apocalypse." The results are shocking and

disturbing, and invite new questions, even as they answer old ones.

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Petition: International Criminal Tribunal for Israel
Kathy,

We, the undersigned, demand that The United Nations General Assembly immediately establish an International Criminal Tribunal for Israel (ICTI) as a ‘subsidiary organ’ under U.N. Charter Article 22 to prosecute the Israeli Prime Minister Olmert, Defense Minister Peretz, Chief of Staff Halutz and Israel’s other top generals and war criminals for their infliction of international war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide against the Peoples of Lebanon and Palestine.
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Civilian Resistance in Lebanon
SDIMC 101,

Leaving from Martyr's Square in Beiruit, Lebanon on Sat Aug 12 7AM local time, a civilian convoy is to bring supplies such as medicine, food, water to beleagured civilians in the south who are being victimized by the bombing of Lebanon. This movement is being started because no one else, nation or international body, is acting to help these people. By spreading word on the convoy, this will draw international attention to Israel's reaction to the convoy as they risk being shelled en route. Subsequent actions will culminate in an August 19 civilian march to reclaim the South.

lebanonsolidarity.org

UPDATE
radioActive sanDiego's dj lotu5 interviews Ali from lebanonsolidarity.org, who is currently in Beiruit and is about to embark Saturday morning on a civil caravan to the south of lebanon to take supplies like food and water.
Click Here to Listen

Don't forget -- Occupation is a Crime from Lebanon to Iraq to Palestine Protest - Saturday, August 12, NOON Big Fountain at Balboa Park - March to 6th and Laurel

Press Contacts:
Rasha Salti, +961 3 970855
Huwaida Arraf, +961 70 974452
Samah Idriss, +961 3 381349
Wadih Al Asmar, +961 70 950780

If you are outside Lebanon and want to sign up and join the convoy, contact Adam Shapiro at: adamsop@hotmail.com

Links: IMC Beirut | IMC Israel | IMC Cyprus | Internation Middle East Media Centre | Palestine News Network | Electronic Intifada | Electronic Lebanon | Palestine Blogs | Tadamon


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G. Galloway, MP on Lebanon
BN,

Here other oppions about the war!
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Save the Date! Make Your Voice Heard! A Call
Paul Frazier,

Declaration of Peace Campaign Calls on Congress to End the Occupation of Iraq.
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Bay Area Queers: Cancel World Pride
QUIT! Palestine,

QUIT! (Queers Undermining Israeli Terrorism) condemns the decision by Jerusalem Open House and other promoters of World Pride Jerusalem to go ahead with the planned week of international pride events scheduled for August 6-12, despite Israel's ongoing assault on civilian communities in Lebanon and Gaza.

"While members of the Lebanese queer group Helem are turning their community center into a shelter for refugees, their counterparts in Jerusalem are preparing for a film festival and beach party," said QUIT member Kate Raphael. "What is the message that this sends to the world about what our community cares about?" "Instead of being visible in Jerusalem, partying during an ethnic cleansing, we must be visible in the movements in our home countries calling for freedom and justice for all people."
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The Gordian Knot of the Christian Faith
Doug Soderstrom, Ph.D.,

Having taken time to consider the axiomatic basis of Fundamentalist Christianity, it has become clear to me that such makes no sense at all!
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Euro-Judeo-Christianity
Tony Ryals,

But the historians and governments story-don't believe
them-they lied,
Just blame it on their pseudo-Christian pride,
Because the Christians and Allies who won the war,
Rewrote history to separate Christianity from the Nazi horror,
They'll tell you the Nazis weren't Christians,
That they worshipped astrology and Norse pagan religions,
This should upset many modern Germans,
Who must still pay taxes for their Christian sermons,

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