OVER 100,000 people took to the streets of London on Saturday to demand an immediate ceasefire in Lebanon.

During the week of Aug. 7-11, while Members of Congress are home on recess, organize local pressure on your Representatives and Senators to demand an end to support for Israel's human rights violations, an immediate cease-fire, a just peace, and the end of weapons deliveries to Israel.

His fondness for words. His power of seduction. He hunts for a problem wherever it is. The impelling force of inspiration is befits his style. The breadth of his tastes is very well reflected in his books. He gave up his cigars so as to have the moral authority to fight smoking. He likes to prepare recipes with a sort of scientific fervor. He keeps in excellent shape through several hours of daily exercise and frequent swimming. Invincible patience. Strict discipline. He's drawn toward the unexpected by the force of his imagination. Learning to work is as important as learning to rest.

The support rate of Hezbollah has reached as high as 86.9 percent, more than 70 percent of residents in Lebanon support Hezbollah's assaults against Israel patrol forces, and 63.3 percent of the people consider it impossible for the Israeli army to defeat Hezbollah, according to an opinion poll conducted by Beirut Centere for Research and Information among various religious factions in Lebanon in late July. At the early stage of Israel-Lebanon conflict, however, many Lebanese, the Christians and Suni Muslims in particular, had reservations about the actions of Hezbollah.

Ranking member of the House Judiciary Cmte. John Conyers and his staff are assembling a blistering followup to last year’s report “The Constitution in Crisis.” Though the Administration’s power grab has met some effective resistance in 2006, Conyers warns in his preview report that “the unfortunate reality is we are a long way from being out of the constitutional woods under the dangerous combination of an imperial Bush presidency and a compliant GOP Congress.”

If anyone ever doubted that the Republican Party is the party of the rich, working tirelessly to make themselves richer off the labor of American workers, those doubts were erased as Republicans moved into action in the final days of the Congressional debate over the federal minimum wage.

The dissolution of the Soviet Union associated with the end of Cold War hostility may explain how a small, South Florida clique gained inordinate power in relation to a vast Federal government bureaucracy. Since then, US relations with Cuba have been captive to increased restrictions and unequal terms. While the rest of the world enjoys travel, trade and cultural ties, U.S. policy remains aloof, disdainful and perplexed. Why can’t neighbors only 90 miles away be friends?

U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice returned from the Middle East almost empty-handed. The Israeli air strike at Qana village in south Lebanon blasted a hole in the American reputation, and plunged the White House into extreme isolation as during the Iraqi war.

LONDON -- The government is out of step with public opinion over the need to bring about an immediate ceasefire in Lebanon and to end the suffering of the Lebanese people.

The weekend of 29-30 July 2006 marked the culmination of the SACP’s month-long 85th anniversary celebrations. The highlight of our anniversary activities were the Red Saturday demand for a once-off amnesty for all that are blacklisted by the faceless Credit Bureaux, the holding of our anniversary gala dinner, addressed by the Minister of Public Enterprises, Cde Alec Erwin, and the holding of the national rally in Pietermaritzburg.

HAVANA -- The most important thing is that the country is running perfectly well, affirmed Fidel in his message sent August 1 to the Informative Roundtable.

The love, respect and consideration that Fidel has won in the world, as opposed to the media campaigns of the U.S. empire against his revolutionary work and moral stature, are confirmed in the thousands of messages that have come in from all over the world wishing him a speedy recovery.

On July 4, Gold Star Families for Peace and Code Pink began a fast to end the war in Iraq. Hundreds of pro-peace supporters marched from the Gandhi Memorial statue in Washington, D.C. to the White House to call upon President Bush to bring the “Troops Home Fast.” The fast will continue until September 21, International Peace Day.

David Brooks, the ultra-right columnist for the New York Times’ op ed page (hired for “balance” no doubt) has penned an analysis of the current Israeli attack on Lebanese civilians which purports to tell us what must be done (and its not a let up on killing civilians, especially women and children.) His article, “Cease-Fire to Nowhere” can be found in the Sunday New York Times (July 30, 2006) and was written before the latest Israeli butchery of unarmed civilians, mostly children, in Qana.

Ashley O'Donoghue is a low-level, nonviolent offender currently serving a 7-to-21-year sentence for the sale of 2 1/2 ounces of cocaine. In September 2003, the Oneida County district attorney claimed that the 20-year-old was a major drug kingpin and needed to face a life sentence under the Rockefeller Drug Laws.

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Israel's continuing military offensives in Lebanon and Gaza are producing a human catastrophe, and have immense political consequences. First, the human cost, as of July 30: at least 561 dead in Lebanon, the vast majority civilians - with 60 killed (including 37 children) by Israeli air attacks on the village of Qana this morning. Over 1,000 wounded and 700,000-800,000 Lebanese made homeless...

We have learned that Israel’s massive bombing of Lebanon has now escalated into a full invasion, at the cost of (so far) hundreds of lives, most of them Lebanese.

Reading about the imaginative plans Washington's expatriate plotters have for a post-Castro Cuba, the thing that always sticks out is their lack of any grounding in reality.

The international community on Sunday reacted with shock over the Israeli assault on civilians in the southern Lebanese village of Qana, which killed at least 57 Lebanese, including 37children.