Probably no word better defines or underscores the Bush presidency than "terrorism" even though his administration wasn't the first to exploit this highly charged term. We use to explain what "they do to us" to justify what we "do to them," or plan to, always deceitfully couched in terms of humanitarian intervention, promoting democracy, or bringing other people the benefits of western civilization Gandhi thought would be a good idea when asked once what he thought about it.

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Sacré bleu! Who is that chic, handsome devil on Darryl Bradford Smith’s ‘The French Connection’ website with a slightly sinister smile on his bearded, olive complexioned, semitic-looking face as if he were up to no-good? Why, c’est moi, as the French are fond for saying and the latest installment from the Three Amigos, meaning Darryl Bradford Smith, Eric Huffschmidt and Christopher Bollyn in their earth-shattering exposé of Zionist intrigue and how I am a Zionist operative out to fool an unsuspecting mass of well-intentioned people who are looking for the truth.

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“When a man has learnt to yield to his essential being, he has overcome...fear of the world.” - Karlfried Graf Von Durckheim

Baltimore, MD - The Lord called him home on May 28, 2007, the same day ten more U.S. troops had died in the Neocon-inspired Iraqi War. (1) His name was Parren J. Mitchell. He died at the age of 85, and was widely revered as a genuine servant of the people--not only in his own African-American community--but by a wider community as well. For eight terms, (1971-87), he was a splendid Congressman from Maryland’s 7th district, which embraced most of his home turf in West Baltimore. Rep. Mitchell started the “Black Congressional Caucus” in the House of Representatives. He was first, a man of the U.S. Constitution. He believed, unlike U.S. Sen. Barbara A. Mikulski (D-MD), that the Congress should be a check and a balance on the power of the Executive Branch of government--not a rubber stamp. Rep. Mitchell was a leader, too. He was a sharp critic of the Vietnam War and a fierce opponent of the chicanery of President Richard M. Nixon. He didn’t hesitate, in 1970s, to demand Nixon’s impeachment for breaching the public trust in the Watergate-related scandal.

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Incensed by the brutal ugliness of Israel’s apartheid policies against Palestinians, members of Britain’s University and College Union (UCU) have voted to boycott Israeli academic institutions.

The vote, passed Wednesday, 30 May, by 158 in favor as opposed to 99 against, called for freezing European funding of Israeli academic institutions for their role and involvement in promoting apartheid and oppressing Palestinians who have been languishing under a sinister military occupation for forty years.

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The same people are behind them both -and for the same purpose: The Zionists, with their fanaticism & extremism, hatred & greed are victimizing the Muslims.

Israel has pounded Hamas targets with missiles and heavy machine gunfire on the Gaza Strip, for over two weeks now, alleging that the reason for these large-scale attacks on Gaza (a pretext, really) is to stop an increasingly determined campaign by the the Palestinian resistance, who has been firing rockets at the Israeli settlement of Asderot.

Israeli missile attacks have so far killed 56 Palestinians, 15 civilians - and 41 resistance fighters from the Palestinian Homeland defense - the Israelis have mostly targeted the resistance of the Hamas organization. But the Israeli Zionists have failed to stop the rocket fire of the Palestinian resistance, nearly 250 rockets were launched at the Israelis since May 15, killing two Jews, and wounding 20 more -forcing hundreds of them to flee the Southern town of Asderot.

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Corporate media—and even some alternative websites, are blaring with headlines about Cindy Sheehan “quitting” the anti-war movement. It is true that Sheehan has stepped down as the consummate symbol of the ordinary, salt-of-the-earth American mother crusading against the empire for the end of the war that brought about her son’s meaningless death. But it is not true that Cindy is “quitting.”

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It’s time for some plain speaking about the issue of climate change and capitalism and the progressive movement’s approach to the whole issue, at least in the so-called developed world. (Progressives in the developing world have more pressing needs right now which is why we have to get our act together.)

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When it's time to excuse from the den of discourse certain "rogue" entities within the Mainstream Mafia, how do you do it?

Hugo Chavez has a way, and I believe our leaders would do well to follow suit, but I'm afraid, however, that they're either too cowardly, too rogue, or in too deep to do so.

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Dan Merica © dan_merica@comcast.net

Bush boasts that the US economy has never been so robust with the Dow hitting over 13,000. This figure shouldn't be any surprise after he and his GOP cohorts pumped money into the top tier and the business sector via tax cuts, corporate grants and a war economy. Bush has been playing 'Republican Trickle Down', except there is little trickle down. The 13,000 Dow could be the boom before the bust.

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In a couple of hundred years, historians will be comparing the frenzies over our supposed human contribution to global warming to the tumults at the latter end of the tenth century as the Christian millennium approached. Then, as now, the doomsters identified human sinfulness as the propulsive factor in the planet's rapid downward slide. Then as now, a buoyant market throve on fear.

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Thomas Paine's Corner

There is no shortage of political pundits now wading into the discussion of global warming, despite the scientific complexity of the field. One of the latest entries is Alexander Cockburn. I have read Cockburn regularly over the years, and while I recognized him as a very talented polemicist whose acerbic screeds I could tolerate when directed to the likes of Henry Kissinger, Robert McNamara and Augusto Pinochet, his latest foray into the field of man-made global warming is scientifically dreadful, and hence irresponsible, and reflects journalism and public service at its worst.

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"We'll make a pastrami sandwich of them. We'll insert a strip of Jewish settlement, right across the West Bank, so that in 25 years time, neither the United Nations, nor the United States, nobody, will be able to tear it apart."- Ariel Sharon to Winston Churchill III, 1971.

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An oligarchy controls just about all the wealth and power in the
American Empire, especially in periods like the Gilded Ages.

When I was young, I was very conservative, a big supporter of the Moral Majority and a Cold Warrior who voted for Ronald Reagan. It wasn't any one thing in particular that changed my mind and caused me to move left. I read Howard Zinn's book, People’s History of the United States, which really opened my eyes and told me things about this society that I'd never heard before. Then there was a two-month visit in Mexico City, where I saw the vast slums and extreme poverty that I had never imagined existed, and heard about how the International Monetary Fund was imposing 'austerity measures' on the country.

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By May 23, 2007 it became clear that the Democrats were little better than the Republicans when given the task of ending the Iraq War. Like their Republican counterparts, the Democrats took on the mantle of Bush-enablers by granting him another $95 billion dollars supplemental authorization to keep the war going. Not until September 2007 would the matter of funding the Iraq War come home to roost in the Congress.

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Is the Bush administration violating the law in an effort to provoke a Palestinian civil war?

Deputy National Security Advisor, Elliott Abrams — who Newsweek recently described as “the last neocon standing” — has had it about for some months now that the U.S. is not only not interested in dealing with Hamas, it is working to ensure its failure. In the immediate aftermath of the Hamas elections, last January, Abrams greeted a group of Palestinian businessmen in his White House office with talk of a “hard coup” against the newly-elected Hamas government — the violent overthrow of their leadership with arms supplied by the United States. While the businessmen were shocked, Abrams was adamant — the U.S. had to support Fatah with guns, ammunition and training, so that they could fight Hamas for control of the Palestinian government.

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I was finally stirred to briefly come out of retirement after listening to a one hour interview with Al Gore discussing his latest book, 'The Assault on Reason'. As a one who has dedicated himself to the encouragement and preservation of clear thinking, arguably the greatest gift entrusted to us by the Enlightenment, I was naturally curious about the apparent subject of his book. I've certainly had never thought of Gore as a rationalist, although he certainly can be quite rational about climate change. I've always viewed him as an aristocratic member of the Washington establishment.

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It's wartime, the neocons are "in control", and we have unreliable and fraudulent sources, news reports and commentaries flooding the mainstream airwaves and newspapers. Gee. Imagine that.

Amir Taheri is still raking in the shekels a living as a contributor to administration-friendly mainstream publications, and still appears as a "terror expert" or "Middle East expert" on FOX Noise Channel and Glenn Beck's show — all despite the fact that he's been debunked and discredited for fraudulent "reporting". [1] Go figure.

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Since Arroyo took power in 2001 there have been 858
civilians murdered in what appear to be government
sanctioned killings of left wing leaders and journalists.
There have also been 198 disappearances.

The Philippine May 14 elections were marred by fraud, intimidation, and political murders by the U.S. supported Arroyo regime and military. Reports coming out of the Philippines on the recent elections indicate that there was a climate of fear, intimidation, and harassment before and during the polling. In the days following the polls, left wing poll workers began to be abducted and killed.

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It is imperative that Fatah and Hamas reach an accord sooner or later to prevent further infighting, writes Khalid Amayreh in the West Bank.

Careful to ensure that the "shortcomings" of last year's war with Hizbullah were not repeated, the Israeli army continued to bomb Palestinian residential neighbourhoods in Gaza and surrounding areas, inflicting death and destruction on the defenceless population.

Last Sunday evening, an Israeli F-16 bomber launched two missiles at the home of Khalil Al-Hayya, a Palestinian lawmaker representing the pro-Hamas Reform and Change Party.

The missiles destroyed his home, killed at least six members of his family, including his wife and a number of his children. Another two visitors in the Al-Hayya home were also killed in the attack which Israeli officials suggested were designed to cause "shock and awe". Al-Hayya, however, escaped injury.

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Where Have All "the Brave Ones" Gone - the Warriors of Kataeb?

On the Gaza Strip, Imad Shabana, activist and a leader of the Al-Qassam Brigades, succumbed on Saturday evening to the wounds he sustained one week ago, when Israeli state terrorists from F16 jets, targeted him while he was walking on a street in Gaza City.

On the West Bank - On Sunday the residence of the family of Mazin AbuWafa in the northern town of Kafr ad Dik, west of Salfit, was trespassed and violated by the Israelis. - Mazin Abu Wafa was killed earlier by the Israels - his home has been transformed into a monitoring post. The Israelis brought trunks and an excess of material, indicating their intention is to stay for a long period of time. - The home of the diseased Mazin Abu Al-Wafa, is located between Kafr ad Dik and Bruqin on the bypass road, used by Israeli settlers.

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['Sine Die' =Without a day specified for a future meeting; indefinitely (The Free Dictionary) -Ed.]

Venezuelan TV station Radio Caracas Television's (known as RCTV) VHF Channel 2's operating license expired May 27, and it went off the air because the Chavez government, with ample justification, chose not to renew it. RCTV was the nation's oldest private broadcaster, operating since 1953. It's also had a tainted record of airing Venezuela's most hard right yellow journalism, consistently showing a lack of ethics, integrity or professional standards in how it operated as required by the law it arrogantly flaunted.

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Liberty turns to evade Israeli torpedo boats.

American Treachery in the Attack on the USS Liberty Much Deeper Than Previously Thought

For those who follow the intrigues and explosive events surrounding the relationship between America and Israel over the last 4 decades it is easy to "get into a rut" so to speak and blame every single catastrophic event solely on the treachery of Israel. The tragedy though (and certainly the part hardest to swallow by patriotic Americans who would just as soon take their own lives as betray their fellow countrymen) is that there have been and are players on the American side of the equation whose hands are just as dirty as those of their Israeli counterparts.

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The defensive and guarded Arab reaction to the self-pronounced and reported pro-Israel and pro-America statements of Nicolas Paul Stephane Sarkozy de Nagy-Bocsa, who was sworn in as the new President of France on May 16, as well as his Jewish connection and that of his foreign policy team, have alerted Arab capitals and public opinion to a possibly imminent break with his country’s more than a five-decade old balanced approach to Arab conflicts and the Arab – Israeli conflict in particular.

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Mohammad Omer, international independent reporter and correspondent for the Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, spoke from Gaza with Arab Talk Radio in San Francisco as events unfolded in the Gaza Strip on May 25, 2007:

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Governments and corporations can be stopped...
But at what cost?

"The state or the company, in whose favour the land is acquired, is not supposed to be property dealers or brokers and they should not be permitted to take unnecessary advantage as it happened in the present case," said the Additional District Judge in his decision before revising the award of Special Land Acquisition Officer [SLAO] of Moradabad district.

NEPA Project site • Aliganj • Manpur Duttram • Dhela river • A Bridge Too Far

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Oprah is going to Israel for a solidarity visit.

Will she go to the Little Town of Bethlehem: Occupied Territory and bear witness to what the INDIGENOUS people of The Holy Land have suffered after 40 years of OCCUPATION?

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The very idea of the Nobel Prize was originally motivated by sublime and altruistic considerations. Alfred Nobel wanted the prize to go to those who in the preceding year brought maximal goodness to mankind in various fields.

However, through the years, the prize itself, while retaining its symbolism, has lost much of its moral luster and relevance.

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“History...has no present, only the past rushing into the future.” - John F. Kennedy, our martyred President. (1)

Jamestown, VA - For some reason, I wasn’t invited by the British Embassy to welcome QE II to the 400th reunion bash, which celebrated the founding of the colony here a few weeks back. It might have had something to do with the fact that the last time I was in Her Majesty’s presence, it was at a major league baseball game at the now-defunct Baltimore’s Memorial Stadium, on May 15, 1991. That was a protest action dealing with spotlighting the moral issue of dismantling the police state in the British occupied north of Ireland. Went the tune, “God Save the Queen,” was played before the game began, a group of several hundred protesters, located in the right field grandstands--I was one of them--turned their collective backs on the Queen. That particular night, she was the guest of Dubya’s father, Bush 1, the then U.S. President. It was a strange evening! Besides being hot and humid, and having to put up with the Royals’ entourage and presidential coat holders, the Cal Ripken-led Orioles lost to the Oakland A’s, in a sloppy game, by a 6 to 3 score. Bummer!

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Senator Clinton is sure trying hard to court the antiwar vote while still sustaining a muscular U.S. foreign policy agenda as she runs for the presidency. On May 16, Hillary Clinton sided with 28 other senators in support for advancing legislation to cut off funding for the war in Iraq after March of 2008.

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"We think those ripped apart children are fine. We think we have torn
the hearts and stomachs from those children for their own good."

Excuse me, aren't you all just hired killers? ... Go wait in that foxhole. We'll tell you when we need you to kill somebody." — Bill Hicks

Is This Heaven?

No.

It's Iowa.

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Reid & Pelosi: traitors and turncoats to our troops, the voters, the constitution. Funding the Iraq Occupation without Timelines or Deadlines is a Travesty.

In the face of a petulant, pig-headed, pertinacious President, for weeks both Reid and Pelosi claimed the moral high ground. They promised to insist on timelines for the withdrawal of our troops, currently stuck like fish in a barrel.

Let's review what is happening in today's IraqNam. General David Howell Petraeus was appointed to take over command after four years of lies and misreporting, after four years of worsening conditions and growing turmoil and death. His prior success in a small region was his biggest selling point. Anyone who could actually make friends and earn the trust of several factions, despite the brain-damaged policies of Bremer, Rice, Rumsfeld, Cheney, Bush, Feith, Wolfowitz, had to have something going for him. Congress approved his promotion by an overwhelming majority.

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I stand at the southernmost corner of Africa, the Cape of Good Hope. The grand mountains underneath and behind infuse a moment of spiritual reflection unmatched in its depth and meaning. Before me is an awe-inspiring view: here the Atlantic's frigid waters gently meet the warm waters of the Indian Ocean. They meet but don't collide. The harmony is seamless; the greatness of this view is humbling.

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The presently deteriorating political situation in the process of the Federal government's deliberations on critical issues in today's U.S.A. demands some frank speech from me now. During the days and weeks ahead, I shall formulate a programmatic policy-statement of the type urgently needed by leading political parties which have shown themselves currently unable to grasp the actual situation which menaces our own and other nations today. Therefore, for the present moment, I fill in the political gap left by the major party leaderships with a relatively few words to the wise.

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This Monica revealed something hotter — much hotter — than a stained blue dress. In her opening testimony yesterday before the House Judiciary Committee, Monica Goodling, the blonde-ling underling to Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and Department of Justice Liaison to the White House, dropped The Big One….And the Committee members didn’t even know it.

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Anti-war Democrats have been reduced to impotent griping and accommodation, as a result of their refusal to take up the popular mandate to impeach Vice President Dick Cheney.

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The article that was in this location has been removed. I apologize for any inconvenience that I might have caused.

It was necessary to remove the article ("Two-State Chimera, No-State Solution") because it became apparent that it was not representative of the position of thepeoplesvoice as it concerns the Israeli occupation of Palestine.

The Palestinian people's land has been occupied by invaders just as Iraq is also being occupied by invaders. In such instances we will always be on the side of the non aggressor, the innocent, those who are being unjustly invaded.

It is our firm position that the Palestinian people must have their own independent and free state and they have the right to choose their own destiny. To accept anything less is to accept lawlessness and theft and the subjugation of a people as legitimate.

To condone such antisocial and murderous behavior by governments and states drags our entire civilization toward the abyss of repression, war and self destruction. We at thepeoplesvoice.org want civilization go in the other direction towards justice and respect for all peoples and cultures and respect for all life.

The Gleaners by François Millet, 1857

This essay will examine the gigantic failure of worldwide credit welfare as a centerpiece, and why it can easily be associated with modern-day Serfdom. Hence the " S " word as the title reads. Yet many Westerners would agree that slavery is intolerable and must be dealt with. Alas those asking for action generally ignore that in the 1850s a slave went for the equivalent of 40,000 present dollars while today a slave often cost under $100 as Dr Kevin Bales stresses in his video-documentary "Disposable People, New Slavery In The Global Economy". The latter also states that the number of slaves worldwide represent the largest number alive at one any time in history. Unfortunately there is more. Over the last century, slavery has taken a new turn concludes The National Geographic: There are more slaves today than were seized from Africa in four centuries of the trans -Atlantic slave trade... Although slavery in its traditional form survives in many parts of the world, debt slavery of this kind, with variations, is the most common form of servitude today...

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"Israel has given itself the right to kill and destroy
everything and target every Palestinian regardless of
whether he is a man, a woman or a child."

The conservative Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs/JINSA reported in February 2005, "the Administration named Lt. Gen. William Ward, USA, "American security coordinator" in the Palestinian Authority territories and tasked him with consolidating and improving Palestinian "security forces." The mission, in our view, was flawed and the result of American intervention was simply better trained terrorists." - http://www.jinsa.org/

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This June will mark an anniversary that will live in infamy for the people affected by the event it commemorates following a far greater one 19 years earlier on May 14, 1948. On June 5, 1967, Israel launched its so-called "Six-Day (preemptive) War" against three of its neighboring Arab states - Egypt, Jordan and Syria - claiming it was in self-defense to avoid annihilation Israeli leaders later admitted was spurious and false cover for a large-scale long-planned, calculated war of aggression it believed it could easily win and did.

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During the days and the nights on the Gaza Strip, in particular in the northern parts, if you are lucky, you might be able to get a few minutes of deep and much needed rest. Many people in Gaza are suffering from depression and are frequently unable to sleep at all during the night hours. Almost everyone has these problems. The children too. They are likely to develop chronic insomnia.

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Phoenix Rising

Can you smell the putrid fumes of authoritarianism rising like smoke from burning trash, filling our senses with the toxins of despotism? Do you see these clouds of tyranny surpassing the morning horizon, their darkened haze making blind our eyes, deaf our ears and ignorant our minds? Can you hear the America of yesterday screaming in agonizing pain as the cancer of the authoritarian personality slowly devours her from within? If so, you are not alone, for evolving within our shores since 9/11 lies a most ominous and frightening reality, namely, the rise and acceptance of American-style authoritarianism.

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Ideological and political thinkers often start out with the task of defining their subjects. It should be assumed that they have come to their conclusions through intellectual processes of deduction and categorical research. Here are some (devastating) quotes that expose what early Zionist ideologists had to say about their brothers, those for whom they were developing a nationalist project based on a philosophy of racial ethnic identity:

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Gershon Baskin is the Co-Director of IPCRI, the Israel-Palestine Center for Research and Information and one of the visionaries of the Global June 5th Initiative for International Solidarity Against the Israeli Occupation of Palestine.

He wrote: ...I don't know if we as a state of the Jewish people will be able to survive either. Our hatred, our fears, our extremism and our arrogance have helped us to arrive at a place and a time when the possibility of liberating ourselves from the occupation of the Palestinian people may be too late.

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Larry Kudlow is CEO of Kudlow & Co., LLC, an economic and investment research firm. Kudlow is host of CNBC’s “Kudlow & Company” which airs weeknights at 5 p.m. He is the host of “The Larry Kudlow Show” on WABC Radio on Saturdays 10:00am. Kudlow is a nationally syndicated columnist and also hosts his own blog.

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Far be it from me to lecture one of my favorite political writers, but it seems that a bit of common sense is lacking in Kurt Nimmo's evaluation of Ron Paul.

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I am writing this piece a few hours after an American-supplied Israeli F-16 bomber launched laser-guided missiles at the home of a Palestinian lawmaker in downtown Gaza City. The missiles destroyed the home of Khalil al Hayya, a lawmaker, killing eight people, including his wife and six of his family members.

The bombing was not a collateral damage but a deliberate act of criminality designed to inflict "shock and awe" on a people thoroughly tormented by 40 years of occupation, savagery and systematic persecution.

The annihilation of al-Hayya's family is not an anomaly or an isolated incident. It represents the "normal order of things" in the context of the Zionist occupation of Palestine.

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"Leave there. Leave there now. You don't have a lot more time..." Thus went a recent email from an expatriate American correspondent, writing from his new home of many years in Moscow, Russia.

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This year marks the 59th anniversary of the Nakba (Palestinian catastrophe) in which the Zionist Jewish militias committed a horrendous number of massacres and crimes which led to the displacement of half of the Palestinian nation (around 750,000) from their villages and towns and the occupation of most of Palestine. In the memory of the Palestinian holocaust I have five messages that I would like to send to different people who have a lot to do with this continuing catastrophe: Palestinians living in Palestine, Palestinians living outside Palestine, Palestine solidarity movement activists, the international community and Jews worldwide.

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Today’s clashes in Lebanon with “Fatah Al-Islam” [a split group from a Fatah Al-Intifada group which is also a split from Fatah, western media mistakingly associate them with Al-qaeda, read: A new face of Al Qaeda emerges in Lebanon], one of many Mushroom spreading Islamic groups in the Middle-East, opens a question:

Who are these organizations? And are they really associated with Al-Qaeda?

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