It seems as though every major city in Iraq is on the verge of collapse. The occupation must end.

“Attacks on British troops have increased significantly recently. Roadside bombs target British armored convoys and their barracks come under frequent mortar attacks … The sources said Basra was in the midst of “huge chaos” with the political factions and their militias dividing the city into zones of influence.”

“Fallujah, which is largely sympathetic to the Iraqi resistance, was assaulted twice by the U.S. military in 2004 … The second attack in November destroyed roughly three-quarters of the city of 350,000 residents.”

“With up to 2,000 Iraqi refugees arriving each day, adding to the 1.5 million - equivalent to around 8 percent of the Syrian population - who have flooded into Syria since the start of the US-led war on Iraq in 2003, economists and refugee experts warn of a looming social and economic crisis.”

–Demand and end to oppression and poverty.

–Support the struggle against oppression.

–The quest for socialism continues.

–Sure, the split is over those who do not understand that there is still inequality together with those that profit off there still being inequality against those that continually suffer from oppression based on the colour of their skin and historical injustices.

–More death in Iraq.

–If only the PM was listening.

–Wow. There is so much bad science language in this article one does not know where to start. It is an awfully strange species concept where the simple swapping of DNA can lead to a change of one species into another.

–Or at least that is what the title should have read.

–The PQ becomes less militant.

–Without a well paid and supplied staff there is no such thing as good healthcare. Support the workers. Demand public healthcare that is funded properly.

–As the news and corporations (see CN) tries to vilify the First Nations protesters for trying to get the message out that they are suffering from direct oppression from the Canadian State I would suggest that you support their rights to highlight and fight against that oppression. When talks give nothing for decades action is the only alternative.

“In February, the US agreed to accept 7,000 Iraqi refugees this year, a large jump over the fewer than 700 Iraqis accepted by the US in the first three years of the war … The US accepted only about 600 refugees from Vietnam between 1954 and 1974. The floodgates opened after the fall of Saigon, with the first wave composed largely of Vietnamese who had worked with Americans in that country.”

Also see: 2000 Iraq Refugees A Day Crossing Into Syria | Iraq Slogger

“Correspondents say it has been the biggest strike since the end of apartheid in 1994.”

“What struck me about Ward Churchill’s essay that caused the stir leading to his current troubles, ‘The Roosting of Chickens’ and the thing about little Eichmanns was that it was not that radical a piece of writing.”

“In March, Human Rights Watch charged that the seven former Guantanamo detainees had been tortured or harassed and abused by Russian law enforcement agents since their return.”

It would be interesting to know how many ex-captives from Guantanamo have either died or disappeared since their release.

–Noam Chomsky writing in the Monthly Review. Can you really resist reading it?

–I could not resist posting this.

–Robert Fisk says it like it is.

–No shock to the Left (or the Right-wing that pays attention). He truly is the great survivor.

–The role of Iran… or the role of the Iranian people? We must trust that the people are moving forward as much as they can, as fast as they can. Support the people.

–Some interesting comments for the new leader of NeoLabour in Britain. If Brown thinks that he can get by with the flash of a media campaign declaring that he is different than Blair but then not do anything different or say anything different then I think that he is underestimating the people of Britain.

–Ya think?

–Of interest to those that are looking for the realities to the recent elections and fallout in Nigeria. The people continue to organise and continue to use their power to get what they want… well, not all that they want…

A server breakdown at our hosting company (and my lack of backing up the database since June 16th) means that posts and comments between June 16th and June 27th have been lost. I apologise for the inconvenience.

Graham Cox
Editor
Leftnews.org

This is likely the most lucid analysis available on what is transpiring in the Occupied Territories.

“From the moment of its election victory, Hamas acted pragmatically and with the intent to integrate itself into the existing political structure. It had observed for over a year a unilateral ceasefire with Israel and had halted the suicide attacks on Israeli civilians that had made it notorious … Despite a bloody attempted coup against Hamas in December and January, Hamas still agreed to join a “National Unity Government” with Fatah brokered by Saudi Arabia at the Mecca summit … Haniyeh in a speech [yesterday] evening carried live on Al-Jazeera issued 16 points, among them that the “unity government” represented the will of 96 percent of Palestinians under occupation freely expressed at the ballot box. He reaffirmed his movement’s commitment to democracy and the existing political system and that Hamas would not impose changes on people’s way of life. Haniyeh said the government would continue to function, would restore law and order and reaffirm Hamas’ commitment to national unity and the Mecca agreement … Wise leaders in Israel and the United States would recognize that Hamas is not a passing phenomenon, and that they can never create puppet leaders who will be able to compete against a popular resistance movement … the Palestinian people have not won any great victory. The sordid game at their expense continues.”

“We’re deeply concerned about the lack of democracy, the lack of transparency in this process”

“Mr Banna was arrested in The Gambia in 2002 with another former Guantanamo detainee, Bisher al-Rawi, who has been freed. The two men had travelled to west Africa to set up a peanut processing plant but were arrested and taken to Afghanistan and Guantanamo after an MI5 tip-off.”

“Israeli officials were quoted as saying that Ehud Olmert would tell President George Bush that Gaza and the West Bank will now have to be treated differently, and that the military would need to enforce a ” separation policy” between the two Palestinian entities.”

Also see: Hamas offers amnesty to Fatah leaders | Yahoo News

“Atlantica is part of the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America, which aims to create a common market between the Maritime provinces, Newfoundland, parts of Quebec, Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire and upstate New York.”

Also see: Police on lookout for protests | The Daily News

Also see: The Myth of Atlantica | The Council of Canadians, and The Atlantic Canadians’ Declaration Against Atlantica.

“The US state department said on Tuesday it believed Gen Musharraf would seek re-election from parliament after, not before, elections due later this year.”

“The men were arrested in July 2004 after Afghan forces raided a house in a Kabul neighbourhood and discovered eight Afghan men being held captive.”