The large-scale military attack of Israel military forces on Lebanon since July 12th has created a severe turmoil in the Middle East and has heightened the possibility of spreading the war to other countries in the region.

Israel's massive violent response to the actions of Palestinian and Lebanese armed groups is pouring gasoline on a Middle East already in flames from the U.S. war in Iraq and threats against Iran.

Representatives of the international donor community insisted that the AU peacekeeping mandate must be transferred to the United Nations by 1 January 2007.

As the G8 summit of the world’s economic powers wound up in St Petersburg, Russia, a “Poor People’s Summit” in Mali slammed global institutions such as the World Bank and the IMF, and demanded immediate debt relief for developing nations.

Indeed, as Israel, with Bush's blessing, expands its initial militaristic bullying of Gaza into a full-scale invasion of Lebanon...a version of Oliver Hardy’s famous line springs readily to mind: "Well, here's another nice mess you've gotten us into."

United for Peace and Justice (UFPJ), the largest antiwar coalition in the United States, urgently calls on the Bush administration and Congress to pressure Israel to immediately halt its assaults in both Lebanon and the Gaza Strip.

"You've got electronic voting machines. Many people called in and shared their concern. They pushed the button for Cynthia McKinney and Hank Johnson came up. It wasn't one time, it wasn't two times, it was many, many times."

Washington’s embargo against Cuba has been a longstanding obstacle to U.S.-Cuban relations of any kind, but the emergence of economic opportunities in the Cuban market has prompted a possible thaw in the historic hostilities.

President Bush said in a recent press conference, "Israel has a right to defend herself." Here's the $64,000 question: Do Palestinians have a right to defend themselves against the killing of their innocents? Do the Lebanese?

The solution of the Cyprus problem must be viable and that it should be lasting. In order for the solution of the Cyprus problem to be viable, it must be workable and as much as it is possible more just.

"Nothing what Washington says is good, it is a mixture of disinformation, lies and threats," said the religious leader alluding the text approved against the Cuban people.

Luis Posada Carriles, notorious Venezuelan criminal and former CIA agent, responsible for dozens of terrorist attacks, is currently on remand in a prison in El Paso, Texas.

The real aim is to change the regime in Lebanon and to install a puppet government

As Israel lashes out indiscriminately, mocking international law, U.S. government officials and prominent pundits have expressed sympathy — not for the victims of these attacks, but for their perpetrators.

Venezuelan President Chavez and other high level government officials sharply criticized U.S. efforts to undermine both Venezuela and Cuba.

Friday’s New York Time’s op-ed page (7-14-06) features an article by Michael Young ("Israel’s Invasion, Syria’s War"), identified as an editor at the Lebanese paper The Daily Star and also for Reason magazine.

The disparity between Israel’s public narrative and its actual intents cannot possibly be any more palpable than in the current Gaza onslaught following the capture by Palestinians of an Israeli solider near Gaza in a daring June 25 raid on a military post.

We might not particularly like it, but we do live in interesting political times. In a time-frame of several months or years big changes take place. What used to take tens of years now seems to be compressed in a much tighter period.

More than any other weapons system, the chief products of the military industrial complex are lies.  We just learned this week that Congress was cracking down on corruption by denying another contract to Halliburton.

EARLY in July, with Israeli forces rampaging through Gaza, killing, maiming and destroying with gay abandon, the New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman had a moment of revelation.