Robert Fisk: This was a guilty verdict on America as well
So America's one-time ally has been sentenced to death for war crimes he committed when he was Washington's best friend in the Arab world. America knew all about his atrocities and even supplied the gas - along with the British, of course - yet there we were yesterday declaring it to be, in the White House's words, another "great day for Iraq".
A Letter to May Chidiac - by Carla Faissal Sabbagh
Dearest May,
It is with a lot of disappointment and anger that I find my-self writing to you this letter; but I guess things are getting beyond what is humanly and ethically accepted.I have been watching your program on LBC almost every week.
Israeli Bomblets Plague Lebanon
Since the war on Lebanon ended in August, nearly three people have been wounded or killed each day by cluster bombs Israel dropped in the waning days of the war, and officials now say it will take more than a year to clear the region of them.
The War on Lebanon and the Battle for Oil
by Michel Chossudovsky
Is there a relationship between the bombing of Lebanon and the inauguration of the World's largest strategic pipeline, which will channel more than a million barrels of oil a day to Western markets?
War in Lebanon - by Geoffrey Pounder
The bombs fall in the Middle East day after day. Years from now, I shall be able to tell my grandchildren, “This is what my Prime Minister sanctioned. While women and children were being blown to bits, he stood by and did nothing. He took a principled stand. What were his principles? Might makes right. The end justifies the means.”
UN Security Council Resolution 1701
PP1. Recalling all its previous resolutions on Lebanon, in particular resolutions 425 (1978), 426 (1978), 520 (1982), 1559 (2004), 1655 (2006) 1680 (2006) and 1697 (2006), as well as the statements of its President on the situation in Lebanon, in particular the statements of 18 June 2000 (S/PRST/2000/21), of 19 October 2004 (S/PRST/2004/36), of 4 May 2005 (S/PRST/2005/17) of 23 January 2006 (S/PRST/2006/3) and of 30 July 2006 (S/PRST/2006/35),
Your coffee may be from Columbia, but is it supporting the Middle East conflict?
In the happy world of perfect lattés and mocha frappacinos, a world of
frustrated citizens sends out a plea to stop drinking or buying coffee from
Starbucks. If you haven‚t heard of Starbucks, they are a Pacific Northwest
company that is literally the McDonalds of coffee.
