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Wednesday 30 August 2006 (05 Sha`ban 1427)

Editorial: Mission of Compromise

United Nations’ Secretary-General Kofi Annan yesterday saw for himself the terrible destruction in southern Lebanon which, thanks to US obstruction, he had tried and failed for a month to halt with... Full Story


Finally, Bush Admits Something We Already Know

President George Bush made a confession at last week’s press conference with the Beltway journalists. He admitted clearly that Iraq had “nothing” to do with the Sept. 11, 2001 attack on the World Trade... Full Story


China: The Revolutionary Myth

Arriving in Beijing on Aug. 23 for his third China visit in five years, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez praised the country’s communist leaders to the skies for having rescued China from a “practically... Full Story




GMA Expert at Manipulating Events So That Plausibility Remains

In explaining how usually numerically inferior (though perhaps better-armed) imperialists managed to colonize other countries, the Roman maxim “divide and conquer” is usually quoted by way of an explanation.... Full Story


The Rights of Women in the Grand Mosque

Last Friday a number of Saudi newspapers carried a report concerning possible new prayer arrangements for women at the Grand Mosque in Makkah. The new arrangements are based on proposals made by a... Full Story


The Day After: A Reading Into the Post-Lebanon War

If it is true that the 33-day war on Lebanon was the culmination of regional developments and that it can hardly be fathomed separate from the brutal Israeli war on Gaza or the faltering American imperial... Full Story