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Israel the goldstone report

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THE GOLDSTONE REPORT NEEDS BETTER EVALUATION

By Costa Gazi

(source: Politics Web)

The Goldstone Report on Gaza was commissioned by the United Nations Human Rights Commission to examine what happened in Gaza in the three weeks of the Israeli invasion – the so-called Operation Cast Lead.

It is a report of over 400 pages and the media in the West have succeeded in avoiding any emphasis on its main research and conclusions. The picture generally painted is of two sides confronting each other and both committing crimes against humanity. It does mention the disproportionate action of the Israeli armed forces, but is not able to blame Israel for the wholesale massacre of Palestinians.

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Us imperialism 9 11 the Iraq war

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By Patrick Martin

(source: World Socialist Website.org)

While the American corporate media has given little attention to it, an official British inquiry into the war with Iraq has brought to light damning testimony about the Bush administration’s deliberate launching of an invasion to overthrow the regime of Saddam Hussein and subjugate Iraq to American domination.

Former British diplomats and security officials from the 2001-2003 period began testifying this week under oath before a panel headed by Sir John Chilcot, charged with examining the entire course of the war, from its origins to the final British pullout in June 2009.

More than enough evidence has already been produced to indict top Bush administration leaders, including Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Powell and Rice, on the same charge for which Nazi leaders were convicted at the 1946 Nuremberg Tribunal—deliberately waging an aggressive war.

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