Walden Bello: Beirut – A Bittersweet Day

2006-08-16 Richard Moore ——————————————————– Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2006 07:57:44 +0200 Subject: Walden Bello WG: Beirut, August 14: A Bittersweet Day From: “H. Ritter” <•••@••.•••> Beirut, August 14: A Bittersweet Day By Walden Bello* BEIRUT – The bittersweet mood in Beirut on this day when the ceasefire took effect was perhaps best expressed by Rahul, … Read more

book review: Korten’s “Great Turning”

2006-08-16 Richard Moore ——————————————————– From: “Brian Hill” <•••@••.•••> To: “‘Richard Moore'” <•••@••.•••> Subject: FW: [Bioreg] The Great Turning: From Empire to Earth Community Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2006 19:32:09 -0700 Organization: Institute for Cultural Ecology —<forwarded message>— From: •••@••.••• [mailto:•••@••.•••] On Behalf Of Gene and Joyce Marshall Sent: Monday, August 14, 2006 11:50 AM To: … Read more

Anti-tank weapons inflicting heavy losses on Israeli army

2006-08-15 Richard Moore Friends, Here we have an example of the important principle of ‘asymmetric warfare’. These Russian missiles, which can reliably destroy tanks, are much cheaper to produce, transport, and operate, than the tanks are. It seems Israel might have been caught off guard here, which is not surprising given their overwhelming military superiority, … Read more

Israel using diabolical weapons? (surprise!)

2006-08-15 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=25757 Are New Weapons Being Used In Gaza and Lebanon David Halpin MB BS FRCS August 14, 2006 Gulf News reported a claim by Dr Al Saqqa, Head of the Emergency Unit of El Shifa Hospital, Gaza on 7-07-06 that the Israeli Occupation Force was using a new ‘chemical’ … Read more

War preparations: Iran demonization propaganda broadens

2006-08-15 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=750472 U.S. President: Iran must stop supporting militants Bush: Iran must stop supporting armed groups By Reuters As a fragile truce took hold in south Lebanon on Monday, U.S. President George W. Bush again blamed Hezbollah for provoking the month-long conflict, adding that the Islamic guerilla organization suffered a … Read more

Mike Whitney: Ceasefire or Trojan Horse?

2006-08-15 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=25743 Ceasefire or Trojan Horse? Mike Whitney August 14, 2006 “Israel¹s strategy is to establish positions as far north as possible to implement a fighting withdrawal, meaning they will try to take on as much of Hezbollah as they can as they work their way south. ” Ha¹aretz editorial … Read more

Iranian warns Israel to fear missiles

2006-08-15 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060815/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iran_israel_3 Iranian warns Israel to fear missiles By ALI AKBAR DAREINI, Associated Press Writer Tue Aug 15, 7:41 AM ET An Iranian hard-line cleric warned Israel on Tuesday that Iran’s long-range missiles will land in Tel Aviv if the Jewish state attacks Iran, state-run television reported. Ahmad Khatami, a … Read more

NY Times: Testing How Long the Truce Can Last

2006-08-15 Richard Moore Friends, In commenting on recent postings, I’ve noted that the cease-fire appears to be phony, a way to suppress the Lebanese resistance while leaving Israel free to make ‘selective’ air strikes against alleged ‘terrorist’ targets. In the NY Times piece, we see an anticipation of failure of the cease-fire, and a propaganda … Read more

Aspartame: the world’s best ant poison

2006-08-15 Richard Moore ——————————————————– From: “Electronz Ezine” <•••@••.•••> Subject: ELECTRONZ – 631 Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2006 14:27:02 +1200 Priority: normal ELECTRONZ – 631 14 AUGUST 2006 Weekly international Ezine focusing on the New Economics ============================================================================ In this issue: [1] ASPARTAME-THE WORLD`S BEST ANT POISON [2] WHEN THE SKIES RAIN DEATH ============================================================================ [1] ASPARTAME-THE WORLD`S … Read more

Israel promises to violate cease fire

2006-08-15 Richard Moore ³We will continue pursuing [Hezbollah leaders]… and we do not intend to ask anyone’s permission.² Ehud Olmert Very interesting. This gives a very special meaning to the term ‘cease fire’. While the UN protects Israel from retaliation, Israel will continue air strikes in Lebanon. Thus, once again, the UN plays a supporting … Read more

Bush says conspiracy is a war crime

2006-08-15 Richard Moore Bush wants ‘conspiracy’ to be a war crime. I’d be in favor of that as well, provided that the worst conspirators are indicted first, ie., Bush, Cheney, Blair, etc. etc. rkm ——————————————————– Original source URL: http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/081406D.shtml http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0814/p02s01-usju.html from the August 14, 2006 edition Is conspiracy a war crime? The White House urges … Read more

* Lt. Ehren Watada: a soldier’s real duty *

2006-08-15 Richard Moore Original source URL: ——————————————————– From: •••@••.••• Subject: Ehren Watada ** Dahr Jamail’s Iraq Dispatches ** ** Visit the Dahr Jamail Iraq website http://dahrjamailiraq.com ** ** Website by http://jeffpflueger.com ** Ehren Watada By Dahr Jamail t r u t h o u t | Perspective Monday 14 August 2006 On Saturday night, I … Read more

* very good * Empire comes to Lebanon

2006-08-15 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://www.flonnet.com/fl2315/stories/20060811005800600.htm Empire comes to Lebanon: The U.S.-Israel axis goes all out to remove the last impediments to building a “New Middle East”. AIJAZ AHMAD Vol:23 Iss:15 LET us begin with a supposedly “undisputed” fact: The official story, told first by the Israeli government and automatically accepted by governments and … Read more

Insider view: the UK Terror plot

2006-08-15 Richard Moore ——————————————————– From: “Tim Murphy” <•••@••.•••> To: “Tim Murphy” <•••@••.•••> Subject: Craig Murray – The UK Terror plot: what’s really going on? Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2006 20:02:56 +0100 Mr. Craig Murray is the former British Ambassador to Uzbekistan. He was dismissed from his job after he exposed the fact that there were … Read more

* excellent * Joe Quinn: The Real Enemy

2006-08-15 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://www.signs-of-the-times.org/signs/editorials/signs20060720_TheRealEnemy.php Editorial: The Real Enemy Joe Quinn Signs of the Times 20/07/2006 At the moment, many writers in the alternative media are feeling extremely angry, depressed and frustrated at what is happening in Palestine and Lebanon. Despite hundreds of editorials and essays eloquently decrying Israeli aggression and provocation and … Read more

Cuba: foreign aid as it should be – applause deserved

2006-08-15 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://mondediplo.com/2006/08/11cuba Cuba exports health Some 14,000 Cuban doctors now give free treatment to Venezuela¹s poor and 3,000 Cuban medical staff worked in the aftermath of last year¹s Kashmir earthquake. Cuba has plans to heal those poorer than itself. By Hernando Calvo Ospina When Hurricane Katrina ripped through the southern … Read more

Scotland: insightful letters to The Herald

2006-08-14 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://www.theherald.co.uk/features/67803.html Removal from office won¹t solve the problem Your Letters August 14 2006 As a gift of US Imperialism, Iraq lies trashed and thousands of its innocents are still being slaughtered every week. Lebanon follows closely behind. The entire Middle East has been deliberately turned into a giant powder-keg. … Read more

Robert Fisk: Now the real war begins

2006-08-14 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://news.independent.co.uk/world/fisk/article1219037.ece Robert Fisk: As the 6am ceasefire takes effect… the real war begins Published: 14 August 2006 The real war in Lebanon begins today. The world may believe – and Israel may believe – that the UN ceasefire due to come into effect at 6am today will mark the … Read more

Lebanon invasion: preparation for Iran attack?

2006-08-14 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/article1219021.ece Bush ‘viewed war in Lebanon as a curtain-raiser for attack on Iran’ By Andrew Buncombe in Washington Published: 14 August 2006 The Bush administration was informed in advance and gave the “green light” to Israel’s military strikes against Hizbollah ‹ with plans drawn up months before two Israeli … Read more

Did Bush push Israel into Lebanon?

2006-08-14 Richard Moore As part of Bush¹s determination to create a ³new Middle East² ­ one that is more amenable to U.S. policies and desires ­ Bush even urged Israel to attack Syria, but the Olmert government refused to go that far, according to Israeli sources. ——————————————————– Original source URLs: http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/081306A.shtml http://www.consortiumnews.com/2006/081206.html Israeli Leaders Fault … Read more

Israel suffers highest 1-day toll of war

2006-08-14 Richard Moore …Hezbollah grudgingly joined Lebanon’s government in accepting the U.N. resolution but vowed to keep fighting until Israeli troops leave and hand over territory to a muscular U.N. peacekeeping force… This is a cease fire? rkm ——————————————————– Original source URL: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060813/ap_on_re_mi_ea/lebanon_israel_1031 Israel suffers highest 1-day toll of war By LAUREN FRAYER and SAM … Read more

Israel-Lebanon cease-fire goes into effect

2006-08-14 Richard Moore But the military will maintain its air and sea blockade of Lebanon to prevent arms from reaching Hezbollah guerrillas, a military official said. This is a cease fire? rkm ——————————————————– Original source URL: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060814/ap_on_re_mi_ea/lebanon_israel Israel-Lebanon cease-fire goes into effect By RAVI NESSMAN, Associated Press Writer 36 minutes ago Israel halted its offensive … Read more

(fwd) Alex Jones’ New Warning

2006-08-14 Richard Moore Use your own judgement. rkm ——————————————————– From: “Brian Hill” <•••@••.•••> To: <•••@••.•••>, <•••@••.•••> Subject: RE: [toeslist] Alex Jones’ New Warning EXTREMELY IMPORTANT Date: Sat, 12 Aug 2006 21:45:58 -0700 Organization: Institute for Cultural Ecology Alex Jones was on the Mike Papantonio/Robert Kennedy Jr. Air America program Ring of Fire Today. Alex is … Read more

9/11 Transcripts released

2006-08-14 Richard Moore to be viewed with suspicion. rkm ——————————————————– Original source URL: http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB196/index.htm Government Releases Detailed Information on 9/11 Crashes Complete Air-Ground Transcripts of Hijacked 9/11 Flight Recordings Declassified National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book No. 196 Edited by Barbara Elias For more information contact: Barbara Elias – 202/994-7000 Posted – August 11, 2006 … Read more

Terror Plot Mirrors Bojinka: Run By US Government Agent

2006-08-14 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/august2006/100806terrorplot.htm Terror Plot Mirrors Bojinka: Run By US Government Agent Prison Planet | August 10 2006 Associated Press reports that the dastardly new terror plot is a re-hash of Operation Bojinka – a 1995 plot to blow up 10 Western airliners simultaneously. What they don’t report is that its … Read more

soft-drink terrorism: the Matrix version

2006-08-14 Richard Moore Original source URL: Ties to Al Qaeda? That’s a strong indicator of ‘false flag’ operation, as Al Qaeda has always been a CIA asset. rkm ——————————————————– http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/12/world/europe/12plot.html August 12, 2006 THE INVESTIGATION Suspect Held in Pakistan Is Said to Have Ties to Qaeda By ALAN COWELL, DEXTER FILKINS and MARK MAZZETTI This … Read more

Soft-drink terrorism: a skeptical blogger’s view

2006-08-14 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://malakandsky.blogspot.com/2006/08/london-plot.html FRIDAY, AUGUST 11, 2006 The London Plot Something is Rotten in the State of Denmark By Anwaar Hussain A huge Œterror plot¹ has just been uncovered in London. ³This was intended to be mass murder on an unimaginable scale² say the London Metropolitan police. Britain’s terror alert, accordingly, … Read more

Sickened Iraq vets & depleted uranium

2006-08-14 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2006/08/13/sickened_iraq_vets_cite_depleted_uranium/ Sickened Iraq vets cite depleted uranium By Deborah Hastings, AP National Writer | August 13, 2006 NEW YORK –It takes at least 10 minutes and a large glass of orange juice to wash down all the pills — morphine, methadone, a muscle relaxant, an antidepressant, a stool softener. … Read more

Seymour M. Hersh: US helped plan Lebanon invasion

2006-08-14 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://www.newyorker.com/printables/fact/060821fa_fact WATCHING LEBANON by SEYMOUR M. HERSH Washington¹s interests in Israel¹s war. Issue of 2006-08-21 Posted 2006-08-14 In the days after Hezbollah crossed from Lebanon into Israel, on July 12th, to kidnap two soldiers, triggering an Israeli air attack on Lebanon and a full-scale war, the Bush Administration seemed … Read more

Protests Around Mexico

2006-08-14 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://scoop.epluribusmedia.org/story/2006/8/8/17155/39777 Protests Around Mexico by XicanoPwr Tue Aug 08, 2006 at 05:15:05 PM EST As tens of thousands of supporters for presidential candidate Andrés Manuel López Obrador (known by his initials as AMLO) continue protesting what is barely covered are the people who are participating in the acts of … Read more

Oregon dead zone: are the oceans turning to poison?

2006-08-14 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://www.oregonlive.com/search/index.ssf?/base/news/1155178563281860.xml?oregonian?lcfp&coll=7 ‘Dead zone’ startles scientists Graveyard – A video survey Tuesday finds offshore areas of the Pacific Ocean completely empty of marine life Thursday, August 10, 2006 MICHAEL MILSTEIN The Oregonian Ocean scientists took their first look Tuesday into the oxygen-starved “dead zone” spreading off the Oregon Coast and … Read more

NY Times: How British cook plots

2006-08-14 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/13/world/europe/13disrupt.html August 13, 2006 Tracing Plots, British Watch, Then Pounce By PHILIP SHENON and NEIL A. LEWIS WASHINGTON, Aug. 12 ‹ The disclosure that British officials conducted months of surveillance before arresting 24 terrorism suspects this week highlighted what many terrorism specialists said was a central difference between American … Read more

Israeli army attacks Israelis

2006-08-14 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0608/S00184.htm IDF Causes Serious Head Injury to Israeli Lawyer Saturday, 12 August 2006, 8:57 am Press Release: International Solidarity Movement Israeli Army Cause Serious Head Injury to Israeli Lawyer at Demonstration Earlier today, August 11, the Israeli Army and Border Police shot an Israeli demonstrator with rubber bullets from … Read more

Escaping Gas Bubbles: Rising Temperatures

2006-08-14 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://freepage.twoday.net/stories/2491795/ Super Computer Predicts Rising Temperatures as Escaping Gas Bubbles Up Through the Sea By Bill Blakemore ABC News August 4, 2006 Visualization can be a powerful aid to realization, and two such aids to realizing the great and imminent danger of global warming have just come to light. … Read more

Dissent mounts in Israel over Lebanon war

2006-08-14 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20060811/wl_mideast_afp/mideastconflictisrael_060811100443 Dissent mounts in Israel over Lebanon war by Marius Schattner Fri Aug 11, 6:04 AM ET Dissent in Israel over the government’s handling of war in Lebanon started to mount, as international diplomatic efforts intensified to bring the month-old bloodshed to an end. For the first time, opinion … Read more

Connie Fogal: The North American Union

2006-08-14 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://www.canadianactionparty.ca/temp/articles/morphosis/part1.asp We’d Rather Be Canadian Latest News CAP/PAC office tel: PST (604) 708 3372 e mail: •••@••.••• and •••@••.••• Summary and Part 1:The Metamorphosis and Sabotage of Canada by Our Own Government- The North American Union written by Connie Fogal, Leader CAP/PAC, November 2005 Summary: The North American continent … Read more

Aspen Global Warming Study: Grim Future

2006-08-14 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://freepage.twoday.net/stories/2491763/ Aspen Global Warming Study Suggests Grim Future By Allen Best The Telluride Watch August 4, 2006 ASPEN, Colo. – A new study in Aspen paints a dramatic picture of the area’s climatic future should temperatures and atmospheric pollution continue to rise. In a better-case future, in which the … Read more

* rkm on radio * please forward *

2006-08-14 Richard Moore Friends, There are a few radio interviews coming up, re/ Escaping the Matrix (http://EscapingTheMatrix.org). If you have friends who you’d like to introduce to Escaping the Matrix, this would be a convenient opportunity for them. If you’re thinking of listening online, you might want to check out the station in advance, to … Read more

cyberjournal news-posting policies

2006-08-11 Richard Moore Friends, One never really knows, based on feedback, what the ‘sense of an audience’ is. Most feedback I get about our lists is positive, but that may simply mean that those who are unhappy don’t want to get into an argument, and don’t send in comments. (I’d hardly blame them.) In any … Read more

Israel seeks greater lethality

2006-08-11 Richard Moore Never has there been such a shameful time in history. The world sits and watches while a whole nation is being brutally raped and murdered. rkm _______________ Original source URL: http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/11/world/middleeast/11military.html August 11, 2006 WEAPONS Israel Asks U.S. to Ship Rockets With Wide Blast By DAVID S. CLOUD WASHINGTON, Aug. 10 – … Read more