Day August 14, 2006

Photos from the protest

From the Aug. 12 march and rally in L.A. There are several hundred thousand Armenians living in Lebanon, and the Glendale / Pasadena area of Los Angeles has a large Armenian population.

UK Terror plot: what’s really going on?

From Craig Murray, former Brit ambassador to Uzbekistan who was forced out of his job after protesting the US/Brit policy of sending prisoners there to be tortured. None of the alleged terrorists had made a bomb. None had bought a…

The truce that wasn’t

The Lebanon government has postponed indefinitely talks on implementing the cease-fire. Disagreements on disarming Hezbollah are a primary reason, according to the BBC. Robert Fisk: “As the 6am ceasefire takes effect… the real war begins.” The Israeli army, reeling under…

Lebanon invasion planned in advance

Seymour Hersh details in the New Yorker that plans to invade and bomb Lebanon were made in advance, “earlier this summer, before the Hezbollah kidnappings” by Israel and the US, with the full agreement of Bush, Cheney and Rice, as…

Fair Use and blogging, Creative Commons

Creative Commons is a nonprofit organization that offers flexible copyright licenses for creative works. This is a great way for blogs and websites to allow their content to be shared under criteria of their choosing. Polizeros now displays a Creative…