“My grandmother was ill in bed when the Nazis came to her home town.… A German soldier shot her dead in her bed, he said. My grandmother did not die to provide cover for Israeli soldiers murdering Palestinian grandmothers in Gaza,” the MP said.

via Israel using Holocaust guilt to continue Gaza op, says British Jewish MP — Haaretz — Israel News.

The head of Colombia’s intelligence services has resigned after admitting her agents spied on left-wing political opponents of President Alvaro Uribe
BBC NEWS | Americas | Colombia spying row head quits.

Big, evil Russia tried to destroy small, democratic Georgia.

Olga Ivanova — A Free Press? Not This Time. — The Washington Post

Tskhinvali was in smoking ruins and thousands of people were fleeing — before any Russian troops arrived

MIKHAIL GORBACHEV — Russia Never Wanted a War — Op-Ed — NYTimes.com

En el Ecuador, el mezquino “respaldo” al Gobierno por parte de la derecha ultra de charreteras o de corbatín, golpista o conspiradora, astuta o bobalicona, y su periodismo alineado, ha sido más bien un apoyo… a Uribe. Qué grandeza…

Omar Ospina García, Los hechos, que son tercos…

Translation:

In Ecuador, the stingy support for the government from the right, being it with epaulettes or bowties, revolutionary or conspiratory, astute or idiotic, and its aligned journalism, has stood behind… Uribe. Great…