By PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS - Counterpunch

It is 1939 all over again. The world waits helplessly for the next act of naked aggression by rogue states. Only this time the rogue states are not the Third Reich and Fascist Italy. They are the United States and Israel...The targeted victims are not Poland and France, but Iran, Syria, the remains of the Palestinian West Bank and southern Lebanon...The neoconservatives are ecstatic. Hegemony uber alles is back on track.

By Stephen Lendman - April, 26 2008

They're called "Refuseniks" but not for refusing to serve. They've done it proudly and courageously...["]We [Israeli reserve officers & soldiers] shall not continue to fight beyond the 1967 borders to dominate, expel, starve and humiliate an entire people...We hereby declare that we shall continue serving the Israel Defense Forces in any mission that serves Israel's defense...The missions of occupation and oppression do not serve this purpose - and we shall take no part in them."

By Dan Freeman-Maloy - May, 07 2008

When Ben Dunkelman...returned from the European battlefields of WWII...he had already been [asked]...to participate in the looming fight in Palestine. Soon, Dunkelman was juggling management responsibilities at Tip Top Tailors with his tasks as head of the Canadian branch of the Hagana. These included fundraising for weaponry, direct arms procurement, and recruitment for Hagana forces. By the summer of 1948, he was in command of a Brigade actively depopulating Palestinian villages by force - a unit so heavily comprised of recruits from Canada, the United States and South Africa that it came to be known as the "Anglo-Saxon Brigade."

By CYNTHIA McKINNEY - May 1, 2008

...[T]he criminal justice system in [the United States] "always finds a rationale for letting off cops who kill black and brown people." Indeed, police officers seem to know that they can kill certain people with impunity...the prospects are that black and brown men and women will continue to be murdered by police officers who, fundamentally, seem scared of black people. That fear apparently extends to the larger community because juries construct ways to let murderous police officers escape just punishment.

By ANDREW COCKBURN - May 2, 2008

Six weeks ago, President Bush signed a secret finding authorizing a covert offensive against the Iranian regime that...[is] "unprecedented in its scope."...Bush’s secret directive covers actions across a huge geographic area – from Lebanon to Afghanistan – but is also far more sweeping in the type of actions permitted under its guidelines – up to and including the assassination of targeted officials.

Bush administration [Department of Justice] targeting animal and environmental activists.

By Khalid Amayreh in Occupied Jerusalem - 7 April 2008

Israel, the Bush Administration and the Palestinian Authority (PA), headed by Mahmoud Abbas, are collaborating to build a depoliticized Palestinian security force whose main task...will be to crush any popular uprising against a prospective “peace deal” imposed upon the Palestinians...According to one cadet...the force, whose members had to be thoroughly sifted by the Shin Bet, Israel’s chief domestic intelligence agency, is being trained in crowd-control tactics, conducting arrests, suppressing demonstrations as well as using rifles.

by SchNEWS - Friday 18th April 2008

In the Quiche region of northern Guatemala...lies the isolated Ixcan Municipality. It is home to around 75,000 indigenous Mayans who are mostly subsistence farmers...[T]he area also contains many of Guatemala’s most coveted natural resources...One of these, the Chixoy River, is the controversial proposed location for what would be Guatemala’s largest hydroelectric development. If built, the dam is set to flood an area of 7.5km, displacing at least 3000 people and destroying the agricultural land and livelihoods of around 6-8000...Unsuprisingly, the plan is meeting huge resistance from the Ixcan population.

Bombs would fall under other circumstances, but when influential [Israeli] [R]abbis call for the total annihilation of the Palestinians the world watches without blinking...

By WILLIAM BLUM - March 29 / 30, 2008

It's nice to see the West's conscience stirred up. They're real good about such things, when the target is not one of their own, particularly against a communist country. In 1980, 62 nations -- including the United States, Canada, West Germany, Japan, and Israel -- boycotted the Olympics in Moscow because the previous year the Soviet Union had invaded Afghanistan. Four years later, the Olympics were held in Los Angeles. Not a single member of "The Free World" boycotted it, even though the previous year the United States had invaded Grenada...

Anna Feigenbaum

Ward Churchill. Pacifism as Pathology. AK Press 2007; Peter Gelderloos. How Nonviolence Protects the State. South End Press 2007

The ICT - an international policy think tank on terrorism - has released an analysis of actions taken against the 2010 Olympics in Vancovuer, BC Canada. They call for "an intensive knowledge-led" response to social justice groups and others "just interested in anti-social behavior" who have come together to disrupt the corporate games. Action must be taken "now", they continue, in order to quell resistance from becoming "increasingly unmanageable as the events approach".

A list of "violent" actions such as stealing flags and painting is included. Mostly Water gets a mention as one online resource for anti-Olympic organizers.

By PATRICK COCKBURN - March 15/16, 2008

Five years of occupation have destroyed Iraq as a country. Baghdad is today a collection of hostile Sunni and Shia ghettoes divided by high concrete walls. Different districts even have different national flags. Sunni areas use the old Iraqi flag with the three stars of the Baath party and the Shia wave a newer version, adopted by the Shia-Kurdish government. The Kurds have their own flag.

With a new highway completed that runs through Papun District and 60 new military encampments in the northern region of Karen State[,] [f]resh well equipped troops from Burma’s Military Operations Command Units 4 and 16 launched a March offensive against 8 Karen villages. Villagers ran for the safety of the jungle as mortars rained down on their huts, livestock and inhabitance. With orders to shoot, soldiers shot randomly while Karen villagers fled into the jungle.