Saturday, January 2, 2010

What a picture! Kabul.


From the NASA website, a satellite photo of Kabul, Afghanistan.

The link will take you to a closer view which shows the presence of
roads and settlements.

Is there anywhere in the USA comparable to this? It is quite a remarkably
beautiful place.

Friday, January 1, 2010

Links to recent Gaza news

Info for your activist phone calls to office holders &/or the State Department.

New York Times, picture of Hedy Epstein & peace activists
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/30/world/middleeast/30egypt.html

NYT via Reuters
http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/2009/12/31/world/international-us-egypt-gaza.html?_r=1&scp=9&sq=Gaza,%20West%20Bank,%20March%20for%20Freedom&st=cse

Gaza Freedom March
http://www.gazafreedommarch.org/article.php?id=5262

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Global Research
(4)
Truthout
ttp://globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=16691

Ramzy Baroud
http://globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=16700

Montreal, KPFA Radio, "Guns & Butter" with Michael Chossudovsky
http://globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=16703

Muriel Mirak-Weissbach
http://globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=16722


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Reuters, re: Netanyahu
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE5BU38T20091231

Electronic Intifada
http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article10977.shtml

The Jewish Daily Forward, calls for objectivity
http://www.forward.com/articles/122209/

Common Dreams, via Russia Today
http://www.commondreams.org/video/2009/12/31-0

Palestine Chronicle (2)
http://www.palestinechronicle.com/view_article_details.php?id=15645

http://www.palestinechronicle.com/index.php

Palestine Monitor, via Jon Stewart
http://www.palestinemonitor.org/spip/spip.php?article1190



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Our ability to reach unity in diversity will be the beauty and test of our civilization.  
Mohandas Gandhi