UK Site Sets Up Israeli Boycott

Unfortunately, the information below only applies to products sold in the United Kingdom. There are pages and pages of references and links to other sites, initiatives, educational sources, even a section providing a historical frame for the crises.
Keep an eye on the goods bar code:
Israel's country prefix is 729.
This website has been set up for two main purposes:
- To help people who want to boycott produce from Israel and illegal Israeli settlements in the West Bank and Gaza, by providing sources of information about companies, products etc.
- To act as an educational resource... many people have not the foggiest idea of the war crimes, human rights abuses and flagrant breaches of international humanitarian law that are regularly committed by the Israeli Government and its armed forces (the IDF) in the what remains of Palestine. The many links on this page will lead you to valuable sources of information.
Lest there be any doubt on the subject, this site is not anti-Jewish. Many of the sites linked to on this page are run by Jews and/or Israeli citizens who are at the forefront of efforts to secure peace and justice in the Middle East. We are opposed to the Likud Government that is in power in Israel today, however we are not anti-Israel, on the contrary, we believe that it is only through the delivery of peace and justice for all citizens of the region that Israel can prosper in the long term.
As soon as Israel reaches a just peace with the Palestinian people within the framework of international law we will call an end to this boycott.
http://www.mylinkspage.com/israel.html
In fact, I've had my own ad hoc boycott going on for a while, but not regarding Israel. Whenever I start aimlessly browsing for things I probably don't need, I look at the label. If it says, Made in China, I say out loud--but not necessarily loudly, "Made in China," and put the object back. It's most effective if I keep my affect completely neutral. People haven't a clue what I'm doing or why, but they'll be thinking about it, especially next time there's a report about China and American debt.

Media Makes Enemies

Terrorists? Our future enemy? Children have the same joyous spirit all over the world!
Foreign media experts on 11/9 media fallout
Arts & Culture
3/30/2008 5:41:00 PM
KUWAIT, March 30 (KUNA) -- Visiting foreign media experts affirmed here Sunday that the September 11, 2001 events had brought negative reflections on mass media.
They made the affirmation during a two-day forum organized by the Foundation of Abdulaziz Saud Al-Babtain's Prize for Poetic Creativity under the rubric "The Role of Media in Arab-Western Dialogue", which kicked off here earlier in the day.
The ideal way to fight thoughts prepared in advance, which are delivered to the public opinion through mass media, is to enable the public to form a special and free perception over events, according to Virginie Sandrock, a French media and international relations expert.
The September 11, 2001 events have contributed to forming a public opinion towards the Middle East and to triggering off further tensions, she said.
Since the incidents, the US has been using mass media to prevail on the public opinion that terrorist acts constitute forms of wars, she added.
Restrictions have been imposed on the press freedom and the Internet due to the US-led fight against terrorism.
[...] Restrictions have been imposed on the press freedom and the Internet due to the US-led fight against terrorism.
For his part, Michael Binyon, a journalist with the British newspaper "The Times", dismissed possible control by some governments over mass media, saying that journalists are not judges, politicians or UN staff whose jobs are to seek solutions to political problems or to develop inter-state relations.[...]
http://www.kuna.net.kw/NewsAgenciesPublicSite/ArticleDetails.aspx?id=1895527&Language=en

Leaving Kids "Interminable War"

Even if the man didn’t have the bone fiddies to make this proposition, the argument stands alone. I only take acceptation to his assertion that Europe is a “nonexistent” country. True, history is in your face in every European town, but the young people are adapting quite easily (I believe) to multiculturalism. It’s the old wankers who are holding up the process. Comments, Europeans?
Catapulting Propaganda The Wages of Hegemony
By PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS
When he departs the White House on 20 January, 2009, the current resident will bequeath to the American people and the next administration an interminable war in the Middle East and a depreciated currency.
…As large and troublesome as this cost is, it pales in comparison to the damage the war has done to the value of the dollar and its role as reserve currency. Since 2001, the Euro has risen 60 percent against the dollar.
Paul Craig Roberts was Assistant Secretary of the Treasury in the Reagan administration. He was Associate Editor of the Wall Street Journal editorial page and Contributing Editor of National Review. He is coauthor of The Tyranny of Good Intentions. He can be reached at: PaulCraigRoberts@yahoo.com
http://www.counterpunch.org/roberts11012007.html

The Loose Nukes Story Has a New Wrinkle

I knew there was more to this story. Let's hope it gets reported.
Nuke transportation story has explosive implications
By ROBERT STORMER
Special to the Star-Telegram, Posted on Sun, Oct. 07, 2007
The procedure is to separate the warhead from the missile, encase the warhead and transport it by military cargo aircraft to a repository -- not an operational bomber base that just happens to be the staging area for Middle Eastern operations. [emphasis added]

http://www.star-telegram.com/245/story/259201.html

See past posts: September 13, 2007, This was No Accident: Nuclear Weapons are Different and September 7, 2007, Heads Up re Stand Down