Blame the terrorist behind that tree!

"Life is NOT just a box of chocolates. Nor is it an endless video game or just one big television production. When American soldiers, sailors and marines are riddled with real bullets -- blasted apart by real bombs -- they don't get up, dust themselves off and go home after the "show." They die. And they stay dead."

Building a Peace – Demolished home rebuilt in Anata village

"Settlements receive basic infrastructure support from Israel and the protection and development of this apparatus often overrides the interests of existing villages in the West Bank to the detriment of its residents. Israeli security concerns were deemed more important than Palestinian human rights concerns in Israel’s decision to proceed with the Separation Wall and now the de facto annexation of land in the process is difficult for the Palestinians to counter."

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Scandals of Imams, Ayatollahs, Popes and Priests

"The recent denouncement of the US installed puppet Iyad Allawi by Muqtada al-Sadr as an apostate and being worse than Saddam Hussein has missed the bigger culprit."

Israel in Europe?

"To be sure, wars did not burst out between Israel and European countries, although this is precisely what happened with the Arabs. But why should this be a good reason for the defenders of the Israeli admission to Europe? Didn’t wars burst out also between the Europeans themselves?"

A Very One-Sided War

"What is the difference between an American pilot who drops a bomb on a Baghdad market and the Iraqi terrorist, who lays a bomb in the same market? The fact that the pilot has a uniform? Or that he drops his bomb from a distance and does not see the children he is killing?"

Coronado Crosses the Jordan

"The twin polarities of Israel and Palestine, the US and Iraq. The first is the acknowledged master of modern occupation theory and practice, a slow grind to the death. The second is a clumsy and deadly attempt to emulate the teacher on a much larger human and geographic scale."

What exactly is so "radical" about Moqtada Sadr?

"Indeed, the media overlooks the fact - as it does with many organizations that happen to have a military wing, such as the Palestinian Hamas or Lebanese Hezbollah - that Sadr runs a network of schools and charities built by his father. What is he possibly thinking, providing impoverished Iraqis with education and social welfare as their country descends ever-faster and deeper into turmoil?!"

The Trouble with electing Caesar

"When Kerry isn't photographed earnestly saluting or jabbing his finger in a bad parody of John Kennedy during the Cold War, he's photographed being thoughtful next to some symbol of war."

Democracy? Yeah, right

"2004 will only offer voters a choice between the same wafer, and a new marshmallow, both designed to keep a majority from even thinking about voting."

Justifying the Means

"It is said that the end justifies the means, in the case of Pakistan we have to watch out that the means used may well justify the end, as it almost did in 1971."

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Crude Oil Prices Rising / Gasoline Prices Dropping — What Does...

"...gasoline prices do not go down while crude oil prices go up, except in highly extraordinary circumstances! This reality should be a signal to the masses that something extremely unusual and highly significant must be pending at the highest levels of national and world governance. This pattern is absolutely unsustainable, and common sense should tell us to treat it that way."

Making the U.S. Safer for Opium Dealers, Terrorists and Neocons

"Since the Bush-Cheney Gang invaded Afghanistan in 2001, the opium industry has grown to $2.3 billion a year. When the Taliban was in charge, the trade was almost totally suppressed. During the 80s and early 90s, when Ronald Reagan and “Daddy” Bush were running the U.S., the Mujahedin, which morphed into al-Qaeda, received hundreds of millions of dollars in funding from the CIA, including plastic explosives, enough to blow up “half of NYC...”

How the News Media Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love Rumsfeld

"Major U.S. news outlets are hardly inclined to be up in arms about Rumsfeld’s record of prewar deception when they remain so dainty about critiquing their own. What passes for soul-searching at the New York Times and the Washington Post is much more like autoeroticism than self-flagellation. No wonder Rumsfeld the media star is back."

Water and international law

"Israeli water policy in the occupied territories is also an illustration of the racial discrimination inherent in the occupation. Studies show that Israeli settlers, with no restrictions on their usage of water, on a per capita basis use 20 times more water than the average Palestinian individual."

Ralph Nader’s statement is indeed "a breath of fresh air"

"The pusillanimous stand of Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is further proof of the power the fanatical friends of a foregn power have over American foreign policy in the Middle East."

Things could get worse

"Israel has the requisite infrastructure to cope with its water shortages in the near term. The Palestinians, under conditions of conflict, growing anarchy and possibly separation imposed by Israel, do not."

Australian complicity in war crimes involving mass mortality of children in...

"Australia has been variously associated with British military involvements in Iraq that date back to 1914. The “excess mortality” for Iraq has been 5.2 million (since 1950) and 1.5 million (since 1991)."

A Technocrat Joins the Power Troika

"The controlled hence abnormal political process in Pakistan faces no immediate threat of disruption. It does however raise two critical questions. One, remaining with this largely establishment-controlled democracy can the 8-point agenda, that general Musharraf had articulated and the public had supported in October 1999, be implemented. Two, can the current dispensation produce new political forces which can erase existing public support for the PPP and PML(N) leadership."

A clinical resolution of the Israeli / Palestinian conflict

"At its core, the Israeli/Palestinian conflict comes down to extraordinary popular delusions and the madness of crowds. Those who are committed to resolving this murderous genocidal conflict should work to infuse a little rational DNA tonic into the volatile mix."

Donkey Circus, Flip-flopper Kerry and Presidential Election

"Americans have no choice in this system. Economic elite crafted it in such a way that Americans (people) have no choice. They have to select Bush or Kerry."