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This Friday too the Israeli state forces refused to let us do the Friday joint demonstration against the occupation and the separation fence. However, it seems the higher authorities told something to the new regiment commander responsible to the region Bil’in is part of. We started as usual from the village center […]

Bush Now Says What He Wouldn’t Say Before War: Iraq Had ‘Nothing’ To Do With 9/11
BUSH: The terrorists attacked us and killed 3,000 of our citizens before we started the freedom agenda in the Middle East.
QUESTION: What did Iraq have to do with it?
BUSH: What did Iraq […]

PRISONER OF CONSCIENCE
For the first time since exposing the atrocities at Abu Ghraib, Joe Darby speaks out
Everybody thinks there was a conspiracy at Abu Ghraib.
Everybody thinks there was an order from high up, or that somebody in command must have known. Everybody is wrong. Nobody in command knew about the abuse, because nobody in command […]

A third of the world is facing water shortages because of poor management of water resources and soaring water usage, driven mainly by agriculture, the International Water Management Institute said this week.
Water scarcity around the world was increasing faster than expected, with agriculture accounting for 80 percent of global water consumption, the world authority on […]

Lebanon war costs environment

In the days and weeks after the July 13 bombing of a Lebanese power station, 19 miles south of Beirut, and the subsequent release of 15,000 tons of fuel oil into the Mediterranean Sea, environmental and human rights watchdogs had little choice but to sit back and wait.
The U.N. Environmental Program and […]

More than just a few rotten apples as Jobs is drawn into latest US corporate scandal
By Stephen Foley in New York
It is the scandal Wall Street can no longer dismiss as “a few bad apples”. In what amounts to systematic corruption, dozens of American companies stand accused of manipulating share options to inflate executive pay […]

Kurds flee homes as Iran shells Iraq’s northern frontier
Turkey and Iran have dispatched tanks, artillery and thousands of troops to their frontiers with Iraq during the past few weeks in what appears to be a coordinated effort to disrupt the activities of Kurdish rebel bases.
Scores of Kurds have fled their homes in the northern frontier […]

Congress Poised to Unravel the Internet

Jeffrey Chester
Lured by huge checks handed out by the country’s top lobbyists, members of Congress could soon strike a blow against Internet freedom as they seek to resolve the hot-button controversy over preserving “network neutrality.” The telecommunications reform bill now moving through Congress threatens to be a major setback for […]