Posted by smeddum on January 7, 2009
Zimbabwe: New Govt by February
Posted: Monday, January 5, 2009
By Political & Features Editor
January 05, 2009 Race and History
The Herald
PRESIDENT Mugabe is pressing ahead with the formation of a new Government with the full consent of Sadc following invitations extended to the opposition to join structures agreed upon in the broad-based agreement signed last year. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by smeddum on January 7, 2009
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Hezbollah Chief hails Gaza resistance as “miracle and legend”
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BEIRUT, Jan. 5 (Xinhua) — Chief of Lebanese Shiite armed group Hezbollah Hasan Nasrallah said Monday night that the resistance steadiness in Gaza until Monday is a “miracle and a legend,” al-Manar TV reported. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by smeddum on January 7, 2009
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Posted by smeddum on January 6, 2009
Recent Belfast mural {enlarge}
The recent barbarism in Gaza has caused me to recall the words of Patrick Pearse for O’Donovan Rossa, the words run in parallel from Ireland’s darkest hours to those of Palestine
It has been thought right, before we turn away from this place in which we have laid the mortal remains of O’Donovan Rossa that one among us should, in the name of all, speak the praise of that valiant man, and endeavour to formulate the thought and the hope that are in us as we stand around his grave. And if there is anything that makes it fitting that I rather than another, I rather than one of the greyhaired men who were young with him and shared in his labour and in his suffering, should speak here, it is perhaps that I may be taken as speaking on behalf of a new generation that has been re-baptised in the Fenian faith and that has accepted the responsibility of carrying out the Fenian programme. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by seumasach on January 6, 2009
6th January, 2009
It is unbelievable that after 11 days of slaughtering the children of Gaza, the world has yet to decide if it is going to call on Israel to stop its savage offensive.
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Posted by seumasach on January 6, 2009
6th January
CARACAS (AFP)–The Venezuelan government Tuesday expelled Israel’s ambassador to Caracas, to protest the Israeli military’s operation in the Gaza Strip, the Venezuelan foreign ministry said.
“Venezuela has decided to expel Israel’s Ambassador and some of the staff at the Israeli Embassy, restating its call for peace and respect for international law,” the ministry said in a statement.
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Posted by seumasach on January 6, 2009
“There are several other casualties of the Gaza War. The most important of these is peace. The whole so-called ‘peace process’ of recent years has now been thrown into reverse. Such is the popular anger aroused by Israel’s actions that there is no hope that meaningful peace talks will be revived in the foreseeable future.”
This is surely the crux of the issue. Obama sought to bring about a change of tack in US foreign policy, taking its focus away from the Middle-East towards confrontation with Russia and China. Israel have just made that prospect a very remote one indeed. Thus , the neo-cons have their revenge for the way in which they have been sidelined and the US elite is now in utter disarray.
Patrick Seale
5th January, 2009
Until the Middle East manages to contain Israel’s rogue regime by a regional balance of power, peace will remain out of reach, says Patrick Seale.
A striking feature of the War in Gaza is the extraordinary immunity Israel has enjoyed to strike and kill at will. Defence Minister Ehud Barak and Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni, leading members of the Israeli government, have not hesitated to resort to mass murder. Yet, no one has been able to stop them. To all appearances, Israel is a rogue regime, spinning out of control.
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Posted by seumasach on January 6, 2009
Historian John Milloy is helping to uncover their stories in official research on burial sites. “We know that children were buried in unmarked graves, children who disappeared and were never heard from again,” he said. The research is part of Canada’s attempts to face up to a disturbing legacy of its residential school system, an attempt to “assimilate” native children that resulted in thousands of deaths and ruined lives.
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Posted by seumasach on January 6, 2009
6th January, 2009
Demonstrations in Israel’s main regional ally Turkey led swelling Muslim protests Sunday over the ground offensive in Gaza.
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Posted by seumasach on January 6, 2009
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Posted by seumasach on January 6, 2009
Safa Joudeh writing from the occupied Gaza Strip, Live from Palestine, 5 January 2009
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The evening of 3 January, we realized that if there was any truth to Israeli war minister Ehud Barak’s words, it’s that this invasion will be a long one. At approximately 9:15pm local time Israeli forces entered the Strip from three locations. From the east of Gaza City and the northern towns of Jabaliya and Beit Lahiya, tanks rolled into the Palestinian residential areas while Israeli F-16s created a cover from the sky. At the same time, Israeli tanks and infantry troops entered Rafah from the southeast, while tanks shelling and artillery fire rained on the Mintar area of Gaza City. Israeli warships were simultaneously barraging Gaza City from the sea. The entire Strip was surrounded and being heavily pounded by Israeli missiles and artillery fire.
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In These New Times 
