Israeli army chief rabbi under fire over booklet

Dandelion Salad AlJazeeraEnglish 28 Jan 09 The Israeli army’s chief rabbi has been critcised over a controversial booklet distributed to soldiers before the war on Gaza suggesting that they can ignore the rules of war concerning civilians. Al Jazeera’s Jacky Rowland reports from Jerusalem. more about “Israeli army chief rabbi under fire o…“, posted with [...]

Israeli troops killed Gaza children carrying white flag, witnesses say + Obama and global power

Dandelion Salad By Dion Nissenbaum McClatchy Newspapers 01/27/2009 EZBT ABED RABBO, Gaza Strip — Nasser Abu Freeh was one of the first to see the Israeli soldiers as they entered this pastoral Gaza neighborhood overlooking the Israeli border on Jan. 3, hours after the Israeli government ordered the first ground forces into Gaza. Abu Freeh’s [...]

“You Can’t Talk About The Reality Of Israel”

Dandelion Salad ICH January 27, 2009 “IPS“ Omid Memarian interviews former CIA operative ROBERT BAER In an interview with IPS, Baer discussed the regional implications of the Gaza conflict and his take on Iran’s Revolutionary Guard, Hamas and Hezbollah, three major groups in the Middle East which have been called terrorist organisations. Excerpts from the [...]

Bailout This! by Andrew Hughes

Dandelion Salad by Andrew Hughes Global Research, January 27, 2009 The Stabilization of the Financial Sector: The Holy Grail of Economic Salvation Idiocy is usually described as “endlessly repeating the same process, hoping for a different result”. Lawrence Summers, Timothy Geithner, Nancy Pelosi, Joe Biden et al are straining at the leash to get the [...]

CIA-ISI Jihadi “Frankenstein” Sows Chaos, Reaps Death

Dandelion Salad by Tom Burghardt Antifascist Calling… 1.25.09 With 180 girls’ schools torched since 2008 in Pakistan’s Swat Valley and some 900 indefinitely closed, the future for education for some 125,000 young women is under dire threat by the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP). The latest bombings took place Monday in the district capital, Mingora, “once considered [...]