middle east

Happy Birthday Mordechai Vanunu

Nabil Shaban wishes Israeli whistle-blowing international hero, Mordechai Vanunu a Happy Birthday on 13th October 2008.

Mordechai Vanunu Timeline

PROLOGUE 1954-86:

13. Oct. 1954 - Mordechai Vanunu (0), born as son of Moroccan Jews

1963 Vanunu (9) with family emigrated to Israel

One year has passed since the first Palestinians were allowed to return to the outskirts of the destroyed Nahr al-Bared refugee camp, to the so-called "new camp". Meanwhile, up to 15.000 people have resettled there, many of them waiting to access their destroyed homes in the "old camp", the core of what used to be Nahr al-Bared Camp.

One year has passed since the first Palestinians were allowed to return to the outskirts of the destroyed Nahr al-Bared refugee camp, to the so-called "new camp". Meanwhile, up to 15.000 people have resettled there, many of them waiting to access their destroyed homes in the "old camp", the core of what used to be Nahr al-Bared Camp.

Barack is losing support among many of this nation's leading progressives following his address on June 4, 2008, before the AIPAC policy conference (for example, see Chris Hedges' article on www.truthdig.com entitled "The Iran Trap" and subsequent reader comments).

As contributing editor for The American Conservative and Sun Media, and Founding Committee member of The Real News Eric Margolis says: "The reason I was drawn to [The Real News] was the fact it seemed to me to be the voice that I and many others had been looking for."

More at: http://therealnews.com

Former UN Iraq weapons inspector Scott Ritter discusses the crisis in US-Iranian relations in a talk at the Sanctuary for Independent Media in Troy NY. Watch this keynote video here.

By Marjorie Cohn, Published on September 2, 2007 by CommonDreams.org

The Sunday Times of London is reporting that the Pentagon has plans for three days of massive air strikes against 1,200 targets in Iran. Last week, Alexis Debat, director of terrorism and national security at the Nixon Center, told a meeting of The National Interest, a conservative foreign policy journal, that the military did not intend to carry out “pinprick strikes” against Iranian nuclear facilities. He said, “They’re about taking out the entire Iranian military.”

by Noam Chomsky; Information Clearing House; August 04, 2007

07/30/07 -- The death of a nation is a rare and somber event. But the vision of a unified, independent Palestine threatens to be another casualty of a Hamas-Fatah civil war, stoked by Israel and its enabling ally the United States.