From CNN, July 20:

Lebanese refugees pour across Syrian border
YABOSS, Syria — As many as 50,000 refugees from Lebanon poured through one border crossing into Syria alone Thursday, officials said, as the desperate and displaced fled to escape Israel's bombing campaign.

We have already noted the deep denial about the reality of sectarian civil war in Iraq which pervades both the pro-war right and the anti-war left. Finally, we are beginning to see the limits of willful self-delusion in the painfully obvious face of unrelenting massacre. Patrick Cockburn, writing for the UK's Independent July 19, sees not only a civil war already well underway, but a the approach of a genocidal threshold...

From La Jornada, July 18, translation via Chiapas95:

Government prevents Subcomandante Marcos' radio appearance

by Hermann Bellinghausen

Subcomandante Marcos' appearance on the airwaves of Radio 620 this Monday was prevented "by the pressures of the Mexican Presidency, the Secretariat of the Interior, the Senate, and those gentlemen from the Federal Electoral Institute (IFE), who consider themselves referees", denounced the conductors of 'Politica de Banqueta' during the last broadcast of the program. The show hosts as well as numerous in-calling listeners and a protest in front of the radio station, condemned this "act of censorship", which was also considered an "attack" against the liberty of expression.

From La Jornada, July 17, translation via Chiapas95:

Torture and harassment of political prisoners in El Amate prison denounced

by Hermann Bellinghausen

Civil organizations in Chiapas denounced the torture and harassment of "political prisoners" in the prison El Amate, in Cintalapa, on the initiative of the prison director, Armando Fabricio Maldonado Gomez, as well as physical aggressions against the relatives and friends of the prisoners constituting the group The Voice of El Amate and adhering to the Other Campaign.

"¡Farouk Vive! ¡La Lucha Sigue!"
Vigil Commemorating the Life of Farouk Abdel-Muhti

New York-based Palestinian activist Farouk Abdel-Muhti died suddenly of a heart attack on July 21, 2004, three weeks before his 57th birthday and 100 days after he was released from immigration detention. Federal agents and New York City police arrested Farouk in April 2002, just as he was beginning to work as a producer of segments on Palestine at New York's WBAI-FM. The US government then held him in a series of county and federal facilities for nearly two years—in clear violation of his constitutional rights—and refused to release him until ordered to do so by a federal district judge.

From the LA Times, July 18:

Masked gunmen kill 42 in attack at Shiite market in Mahmoudiya

BAGHDAD -- Masked gunmen wielding rocket launchers and grenades swarmed a predominantly Shiite market in a town south of the capital Monday morning, firing at terrified men, women and children on the streets.

From Lebanon's Daily Star, July 19:

Latest targets of air blitz: milk and medicine
BEIRUT: Israel switched gears in its military campaign against Lebanon Monday and Tuesday, launching a series of debilitating air strikes against privately owned factories throughout the country and dealing a devastating blow to an economy already paralyzed by a week of hits on residential areas and crucial infrastructure.

From the International Middle East Media Center (IMEC), July 18:

Troops invade Nablus, occupy a building belonging to its municipality
Israeli soldiers operating in the occupied West Bank city of Nablus broke into a building belonging to the Nablus municipality and used it as military post. Soldiers also occupied a school and fired shells at several houses in Old City.