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U.S. France and UK Launch Military Action Against Gaddafi Forces in Libya

U.S. weapons struck more than 20 integrated air defense systems.

(WASHINGTON D.C.) - French news agencies report that air attacks were launched today against forces loyal to Col. Gaddafi in Libya.

We know that Libya's rebel stronghold of Benghazi came under attack on Saturday morning, and also that in spite of the decision of western nations to enforce a no fly zone, a Libyan warplane was shot down in flames as the rebel-held city of Benghazi was targeted by air strikes early on Saturday.

Battle for Libya

Battle against Gaddafi...

(PASO ROBLES, Calif.) - Here’s a thought that could more quickly put an end to the forces loyal to Gaddaffy against the insurgency:

Avoid the armament of pro-Gaddafi troops, and go after the source of their remuneration. If the pro-forces aren’t paid, I’ll bet they will stop fighting. It’s a rule among mercenaries; no gold, no fight! And that ought to open the flood gates for the insurgents to capture Tripoli with little or no further assistance from the International Community. Isn’t that what we really want?

Libya--To Invade or not to Invade: that is the Question

Why is the US so concerned with the plight of the Libyans when we recently killed over one million innocent Iraqis?

(JAMESTOWN, R.I.) - While the British have been caught red handed with a small contingent of military sneaking into Libya, the US continues to build up and get prepared for a military intervention as well.

One has to wonder why? The administration would argue that military intervention might be needed to protect the people of Libya; despite the rebels having made it abundantly clear on many recent occasions they do not want, or need outside intervention.

U.S. Human Rights Policy is Self-Serving and Duplicitous: George Katsiaficas

In my view, the synchronicity of revolts and occupation of public space that began in 1968 is continually widening its circles. - George Katsiaficas

(TEHRAN / GWANGJU) - George Katsiaficas is a renowned university professor, sociologist, author and activist. He is a visiting American Professor of Humanities and Sociology at Chonnam National University, Gwangju, South Korea where he teaches and does research on the 1980s and 1990s East Asian uprisings.

He specializes in social movements, Asian politics, the U.S. foreign policy, comparative and historical studies and has written numerous books in these fields.

Ashraf (Very Graphic Images)

Have his friends back in Tel Aviv read the news? Do they know that he is dead, that Israeli soldiers didn’t prevent a terrorist attack, but killed their friend, who wanted to go back?

(GAZA ) - When Ashraf Abdellatif Iqtifan was eleven, his 14-year-old brother Rami, who on his slightly yellowed photo smiles cheekily and brightly into the camera, threw a stone at an Israeli soldier, Gaza was occupied by Israel.

A soldier standing next to them saw this, he took his gun and shot Rami between the eyes, the bullet got stuck in the brain.

Visiting Nasser

The tents are flapping in the wind, you can see the two thin mattresses on the floor...

(GAZA) - It’s stormy, the wind is whipping through the trees, and scattered rain drops hit us in the face as we go down the muddy dirt road to Nasser's house. It’s a few hundred yards from the couple of houses around the cemetery, which form the village of Juhor al-Dik, to his small house near the border.

"Goodbye," shouted the driver who will pick us up from this remote area again, and with a look at the path we chose he added laughingly: "Insha Allah - God willing."

Gaza`s Forgotten Children

"We, the children here in the buffer zone," says Heba, the black-haired girl with the blue ribbon from Khuza’a’s school, "we carry our souls unprotected on our hands."

(GAZA) - On a sunny day in March 2009, Wafaa Jehad Elnagar, now 17 years old, did something that millions of children did on that day, and do on every day: she went home from school.

But unlike other children in this world who do that safely every day, for Wafaa walking home is a serious danger.

Jerusalem: an Occupation Set in Stone?

"This forceful documentary...introduces us to Jerusalemites we rarely hear from." —San Francisco Jewish Film Festival

(LONDON) - This is a tribute to the thousands of Palestinians living in East Jerusalem without access to life's most basic amenities.

Filmmaker Marty Rosenbluth details the devastating effects of Israel's urban planning policies that, according to many, aim to uproot the Palestinian presence in the Holy City. It was made in 1995.

Wael Ghonim and Egypt`s New Age Revolution

New names, new labels, new titles, same old business and government as before.

(DUBAI) - Like he says in the interview posted below…. without the advent of the technical means of modern communication available today, this would not have happened. But, those are but the tools.

Revolutions are founded upon and fueled by the naiveté, spirit and the dreams of innocent young idealists such as he.

I Only Have You

"I am an old man," Nasser Abu Said says, 37-years old, "to me it is no longer important, but what about my children? Don’t they have the right to life, the right to grow up in safety and with some joy?"

(GAZA) - "I only have you to count on. From now on, my children depend on you ". This is the desperate call of a man who sees no way out for himself and his children, and we ISM members who came to his phone call, receive it in helpless silence.

It is not the first time that we visit this family, and every time we go home more horrified.