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John Chuckman

A recent article called “Ahmadinejad Won, Get Over It” by Flynt and Hillary Leverett is not the only source with serious credentials offering reasonable, non-sensational explanations for events around Iran’s presidential election.

For more than a week, Iran has been convulsed by mass demonstrations denouncing election fraud. Hundreds of thousands have repeatedly taken to the streets to denounce the government, which is now threatening, and beginning to carry out, a bloody crackdown. This time around, imperialist intervention is veiled: the White House feigns neutrality, the Western media go all out for the opposition, while in the background various agencies provide vital technical aid. In reality, all candidates in the presidential vote swear allegiance to the Islamic Republic, and the supposed moderate reformers are no less butchers and enemies of poor and working people than the conservative "populist" government. The situation cries out for revolutionary leadership independent of all factions of the theocracy, to wage a struggle for workers revolution against imperialism and clerical reaction.

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   The letter (appended below) to Ottawa City Council comes from an Afghan woman MP who expresses her clear opposition to the use of Ottawa facilities for any military trade shows.

Malalai Joya is an elected Afghan Member of Parliament. However, in May 2007 she was barred from Parliament for three years because she had denounced the many foreign-backed warlords and drug barons who dominate her government. While the Afghan Parliament passed a law giving immunity to all Afghan's who have committed war crimes over the previous 25 years, it also passed a law saying that Afghan MPs could not criticise each other.

So it is permissible to have MPs in Afghanistan's parliament who are war criminals, but it is not permissible to have MPs in that Parliament who dare to risk death threats for merely criticising the presence of those war criminals. This is the democracy that Canada helped to install and is now protecting. Canada helped the US to replace Taliban warlords with other warlords from the "Northern Alliance" who killed tens of thousands of innocent civilians in Kabul alone during the 1990s.

Ronnie Kasrils
Pañestine Think Tank

Traducido por Andrés Prado para Rebelión

Uri Avnery
Counterpunch

Traducido para Rebelión por LB.

(Que tal trasladar los asentamientos ilegales a territorio de los EEUU?)

Una base de datos secreta de Israel revela el alcance total de los asentamientos ilegales

Uri Blau
Comité de Solidaridad con la Causa Arabe

Cómo los medios anexaron Jerusalén Este
¿Dónde quedaron los colonos faltantes?

Jonathan Cook
Media Monitors
(Traducido del inglés para Rebelión por Germán Leyens)

“Se puede descontar que los medios israelíes sigan la línea del gobierno sobre Jerusalén Este. ¿Pero por qué tantos periodistas extranjeros hacen lo mismo? Sin duda algunos son ignorantes, otros flojos.”

Une série de réunions publiques sur la guerre en Géorgie a eu lieu mi-février en Allemagne. Vadim Damier du KRAS (Fédération des Travailleurs de l'éducation, de la science et de la technique), de Moscou, a présenté des exposés à Völklingen, Landshut, Kirchheim, Offenbach sur le Main, Mayence, Nottuln, Münster, Neu-Isenburg, Trèves et Hanovre. La réunion publique à Hanovre du 13 février 2009 était organisée par le DFG-VK (Deutsche Friedensgesellschaft – Vereignite KriegsdienstgegnerInnen). (association d’objecteurs de conscience). Environ une cinquantaine de participants étaient présents à cette réunion pour s'informer de la situation, poser ses questions et pour écouter une voix internationaliste en provenance de Russie contre la guerre.