LOS TITULARES DE HOY

• Número de muertos en el Líbano llega a mil, de los cuales más del 90% eran civiles
• Militar israelí: “El Líbano va a quedar a oscuras por varios años”
• Se teme que docenas de personas estén enterradas vivas en el sur del Líbano
• Ataque israelí mata 33 agricultores cerca de la frontera con Siria
• Israel advierte a todos los residentes que abandonen la tercera ciudad más grande del Líbano
• Resolución de Estados Unidos permitiría que Israel permanezca en el Líbano
• Informe: Israel permite ataques con cohetes para dar “una suerte de equivalencia moral”
• Alrededor de cien mil personas protestaron en Londres contra los ataques israelíes
• Cinco mil israelíes protestaron contra los ataques en Tel Aviv
• Pilotos de combate israelíes pasan por alto objetivos en forma deliberada
• Fuerzas Armadas israelíes secuestran presidente del Consejo Legislativo Palestino
• UNICEF advierte acerca de crisis humanitaria en Gaza
• Activistas culturales palestinos convocan boicot contra Israel
• Reuters suspende fotógrafo por alterar fotografía
• Tribunal Electoral de México rechaza recuento de votos
• Estados Unidos envía otros 3.700 soldados a Bagdad
• Fuerzas Armadas estadounidenses inician audiencia sobre caso de violación y asesinato
• Gobierno cubano: Castro volverá pronto a trabajar
• Presidente boliviano Evo Morales inaugura convención constitucional
• 45.000 personas conmemoran aniversario de bombardeo atómico en Hiroshima
• Congresista republicano Bob Ney no buscará la reelección
• Último día de campaña electoral de candidatos Lieberman y Lamont
• Cindy Sheehan regresa a Crawford, Texas, para protestar contra Bush
• Movimiento ‘Students for a Democratic Society’, que se ha vuelto a unir recientemente, realiza convención nacional
• Libro dice que Bush no conocía la diferencia entre chiítas y sunitas

EL RESTO DE LA HORA DE DEMOCRACY NOW!

• As Hezbollah Rocket Attacks Kill 15 in Northern Israel, An Israeli Red Cross Official Describes Haifa Under Siege

  
  

  After the bloodiest day for Israel in the Middle East Conflict, the Israeli death toll has topped 75. Twelve soldiers were killed Sunday in the town of Kfar Giladi and three civilians were killed in Haifa. As the world awaits an official comment from Tel Aviv on a long-awaited UN ceasefire proposal, we go to Haifa to speak to Erez Gellar of the Israeli relief service Magen David Adom. [includes rush transcript]

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• Death Toll in Lebanon Reaches 1000; Humanitarian Crisis Mounts As 1/4th of Lebanese Residents Are Displaced

  
  

  The Israeli military is reportedly planning to ramp up its attacks on Lebanon by targetting more of the civilian infrastructure as well as symbols of the Lebanese government. One military official told the Israeli newspaper Ha’aretz "It could be that at the end of the story, Lebanon will be dark for a few years." We speak to Catholic Relief Services representative Mark Shnellbaecher, who suggests that Lebanon could run out of fuel within the week, leading to a humanitarian catastrophe that will not be easily solved by ceasefire alone. [includes rush transcript]

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• "The War The World Ignores": A Look at War-Devastated Congo & The Country’s First Multi-Party Elections in 45 Years

  
  

  The conflict in Congo has been called the world’s largest forgotten war. Yet while millions have died since the start of the most recent violence in 1998, the country has been torn apart by resource exploitation and government repression for decades. On July 30, Congo’s voters went to the polls for the first time in over 45 years, however allegations have surfaced that the elections were marred by fraud and international meddling. We speak to Alexis Motunda, national secretary for Congo’s main opposition party, as well as to journalist Johann Hari of the UK Independent, and the Congo Education Council’s Tshimanga John Metzel. [includes rush transcript]

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• Protesters Target Bechtel for War-Profiteering In Iraq & Its Ties to Nuclear Industry

  
  

  Last week, the U.S. government announced that it was going to cancel a $50 million dollar contract with Bechtel, after a federal audit exposed gross mismanagement of a project to build a Children’s Hospital in Basra, Iraq. The auditors plan to expand their investigations to all of Bechtel’s $2.85 billion in Iraq contracts. Author and Activist Antonia Juhasz joins us from San Francisco. [includes rush transcript]

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