Free Iraq
The US's occupation of Iraq will see to it that the Lion of Babylon rises again .. سنـُبعـَث ُ من جَديد ، وإلى ضَـيـرِِهِـم
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| Unrevealed Milestones in the Iraqi National Nuclear Program: 1981-1991 | معالم وأحداث غير مكشوفة في البرنامج النووي الوطني العراقي 1981-1991 | 
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Saturday, February 16, 2008
US bloody platitudes ..... في ذكرى مجزرة ملجأ العامرية .. المتكررة
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المطر الأسود ... د. ميسون البياتي
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The above are the memoirs of an Iraqi lady broadcaster (in Arabic) during the 1991 war on Iraq which culminated in the bombing of the Amiriyah shelter where hundreds of civilians perished in an inferno:
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"The Amiriyah shelter[1] was an air-raid shelter ("Public Shelter No. 25") in the Amiriyah neighborhood of Baghdad, Iraq. The shelter was used in the Iran-Iraq War and the Gulf War by hundreds of civilians. It was destroyed by USAF two laser-guided "smart bombs" on 13 February 1991 during the Gulf War, killing more than 408 civilians [1]. According to U.S. government sources, the attack was based on signals and human intelligence reports suggesting the bunker was a military command site."
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"The planned reduction in the number of US troops in Iraq is to be put on hold, the US defence secretary, Robert Gates, indicated while visiting US troops in Iraq; following the statement of General David Petraeus that he wants to slow troop withdrawals, "to consolidate the past year's security gains".
There is no mention of Petraeus's "sustainable level of violence" of which the last six weeks have been a fine example. For Iraqis who are long forgotten by the US and British governments, since they are often seen as terrorists' facilitators, the security gains mean pre-dawn house raid, arbitrary arrests, kidnapping, killing by mercenaries called security employees and car bombs in crowded markets. Blasts have occurred in Baghdad, Salah ad Din, Anbar and Ninevah. The historic city of Mosul, north of Iraq, is under siege by occupation troops for the third week.
To minimise the US casualties, during the surge, Iraqis have been subjected to collective punishment, Israeli style. The list of our dead as a result of indiscriminate US air strikes is long. Here are but a few (emphasis added):
There is no mention of Petraeus's "sustainable level of violence" of which the last six weeks have been a fine example. For Iraqis who are long forgotten by the US and British governments, since they are often seen as terrorists' facilitators, the security gains mean pre-dawn house raid, arbitrary arrests, kidnapping, killing by mercenaries called security employees and car bombs in crowded markets. Blasts have occurred in Baghdad, Salah ad Din, Anbar and Ninevah. The historic city of Mosul, north of Iraq, is under siege by occupation troops for the third week.
To minimise the US casualties, during the surge, Iraqis have been subjected to collective punishment, Israeli style. The list of our dead as a result of indiscriminate US air strikes is long. Here are but a few (emphasis added):
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US platitudes on Iraq, Haifa Zangana, February 15, 2008
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U.S. Forces Accused of Killing Relatives of Iraqi Ally: ... [T]he U.S. military said it had received no reports of such an incident.
"There was a great mistake that took place last night and pushed the American forces to commit a massacre against this family, which supported the security and the stability and was a victim of the terrorists," said Col. Muhammad Muhsin Jumaa al-Jubouri, the Zaab police chief.
The incident was one of several in recent days in which American forces may have inadvertently killed civilians and U.S.-backed tribesmen. ...
According to officials and witness accounts, the attack in Zaab took place after 10 p.m. Thursday when the U.S. military began an operation nearby with air support from four helicopters. Hemood al-Sabiel, a resident who sobbed as he described the assault, said U.S. troops entered the area after one of their helicopters came under attack.
When Latifa Abdullah al-Sabiel, 33, went outside to wash dishes, an American soldier shot and killed her, he and other witnesses said. When Sabiel's 11-year-old daughter ran out after her, she was killed, too, they said.
Then two men, Ajeel Shafiq and Falah Abdullah, 28, the brother of the tribal leader, went out with guns but were also shot, witnesses said. Jafar Najeeb, 23, their cousin and a member of the Awakening, ran out with a gun and began shooting at the source of the gunfire, the witnesses said.
"There was a great mistake that took place last night and pushed the American forces to commit a massacre against this family, which supported the security and the stability and was a victim of the terrorists," said Col. Muhammad Muhsin Jumaa al-Jubouri, the Zaab police chief.
The incident was one of several in recent days in which American forces may have inadvertently killed civilians and U.S.-backed tribesmen. ...
According to officials and witness accounts, the attack in Zaab took place after 10 p.m. Thursday when the U.S. military began an operation nearby with air support from four helicopters. Hemood al-Sabiel, a resident who sobbed as he described the assault, said U.S. troops entered the area after one of their helicopters came under attack.
When Latifa Abdullah al-Sabiel, 33, went outside to wash dishes, an American soldier shot and killed her, he and other witnesses said. When Sabiel's 11-year-old daughter ran out after her, she was killed, too, they said.
Then two men, Ajeel Shafiq and Falah Abdullah, 28, the brother of the tribal leader, went out with guns but were also shot, witnesses said. Jafar Najeeb, 23, their cousin and a member of the Awakening, ran out with a gun and began shooting at the source of the gunfire, the witnesses said.
Half of Baghdad without water: The stoppage has led to the closure of bakeries and restaurants in Rasafa, aggravating the suffering of Baghdad residents.
Water resumed intermittently and in inadequate quantities through household taps for half a day after a three-stoppage on Thursday. Then the taps dried once again.
Water resumed intermittently and in inadequate quantities through household taps for half a day after a three-stoppage on Thursday. Then the taps dried once again.
Report: Hizbullah goes on high alert: Lebanese newspaper reports Shiite militant group orders 50,000 of its fighters to prepare to ‘curb any Israeli aggression,’ evacuates most buildings used for non-military purposes in south Lebanon; US embassy asks staff to stay vigilant
(WHR Comment:
"Those consequences look like they are about to get seriously ugly.
Israel is itching to have an excuse to hit any country in the region where they think their chances of a big military "win" are at least decent.
Remember: President Bush has pledged to support Israel militarily, no matter whether it starts the next new regional conflict or not.")
(WHR Comment:
"Those consequences look like they are about to get seriously ugly.
Israel is itching to have an excuse to hit any country in the region where they think their chances of a big military "win" are at least decent.
Remember: President Bush has pledged to support Israel militarily, no matter whether it starts the next new regional conflict or not.")
FBI warns of possible Hezbollah revenge in U.S.: The FBI and Department of Homeland Security sent a bulletin Friday to state and local law enforcement authorities advising them to watch for potential retaliatory strikes by Hezbollah, one day after the Lebanese militia group vowed to avenge the death of a top commander by attacking Israeli and Jewish targets around the world.
The FBI also said it was intensifying its domestic intelligence-gathering efforts to identify any potential Hezbollah threats in the United States in the aftermath of Tuesday's car-bomb assassination of Imad Mughniyah in Syria.
On Wednesday, the FBI sent a confidential internal bulletin to its 101 Joint Terrorism Task Forces across the country warning of the possible domestic consequences of Mughniyah's killing. As part of that effort, FBI officials at headquarters told the bureau's field offices and multiagency task forces to increase monitoring and surveillance of suspected Hezbollah operatives and to conduct fresh interviews with sources and informants about the U.S.-designated terrorist group, according to two FBI officials.
(Again, WHR Comment:
"It couldn't be that this administration is concocting some kind of false flag operation to be ultimately blamed on Iran, could it?
Or are they, predictably, playing the "fear card" because Bush didn't get the FISA bill he wanted passed by the House before he left for his African trip?")
The FBI also said it was intensifying its domestic intelligence-gathering efforts to identify any potential Hezbollah threats in the United States in the aftermath of Tuesday's car-bomb assassination of Imad Mughniyah in Syria.
On Wednesday, the FBI sent a confidential internal bulletin to its 101 Joint Terrorism Task Forces across the country warning of the possible domestic consequences of Mughniyah's killing. As part of that effort, FBI officials at headquarters told the bureau's field offices and multiagency task forces to increase monitoring and surveillance of suspected Hezbollah operatives and to conduct fresh interviews with sources and informants about the U.S.-designated terrorist group, according to two FBI officials.
(Again, WHR Comment:
"It couldn't be that this administration is concocting some kind of false flag operation to be ultimately blamed on Iran, could it?
Or are they, predictably, playing the "fear card" because Bush didn't get the FISA bill he wanted passed by the House before he left for his African trip?")
Iraq: Children Starved of Childhood: In 1996, former U.S. secretary of state Madeleine Albright was asked by Lesley Stahl on the CBS ླྀ Minutes’ show if she thought the price of half a million dead children was worth it. She replied, "I think this is a very hard choice, but the price — we think the price is worth it."
One in eight children in Iraq died during that period of malnutrition, disease, and lack of medicine.
The U.S.-led invasion of Iraq during March 2003 brought hope that things might change, but that change has only been for the worse.
"During the nineties, they were malnourished but they could find a place to play in the streets," Khalid Ali, a local economist, told IPS. "Nowadays, they cannot even get out of their home because of the violence. And a large number of children have been killed through the violence."
According to an Oxfam report on Iraq released Jul. 30, "92 percent of children had learning impediments that are largely attributable to the current climate of fear. Schools are regularly closed as teachers and pupils are too fearful to attend. Over 800,000 children may now be out of school, according to a recent estimate by Save the Children UK — up from 600,000 in 2004."
The Oxfam report also said that child malnutrition rates in Iraq have risen from 19 percent before the invasion in 2003, to 28 percent. "More than 11 percent of newborn babies were born underweight in 2006, compared with 4 percent in 2003."
Scarcity has brought all sorts of difficulties for children. "I put a sandwich in the bag for my son to take to school," said a mother who declined to give her name. "When he got back home, he said he could not have it because his classmates do not bring their own sandwiches; their parents do not give them sandwiches."
A local primary school teacher, Ali Abbas, said it is common now for students to arrive at school without breakfast.
"One day, one of the children suddenly passed out," Abbas said. "We immediately took her to the administration room. When she regained consciousness, I asked her why she fainted. She told me that she did not have breakfast because there was no breakfast at home."
One in eight children in Iraq died during that period of malnutrition, disease, and lack of medicine.
The U.S.-led invasion of Iraq during March 2003 brought hope that things might change, but that change has only been for the worse.
"During the nineties, they were malnourished but they could find a place to play in the streets," Khalid Ali, a local economist, told IPS. "Nowadays, they cannot even get out of their home because of the violence. And a large number of children have been killed through the violence."
According to an Oxfam report on Iraq released Jul. 30, "92 percent of children had learning impediments that are largely attributable to the current climate of fear. Schools are regularly closed as teachers and pupils are too fearful to attend. Over 800,000 children may now be out of school, according to a recent estimate by Save the Children UK — up from 600,000 in 2004."
The Oxfam report also said that child malnutrition rates in Iraq have risen from 19 percent before the invasion in 2003, to 28 percent. "More than 11 percent of newborn babies were born underweight in 2006, compared with 4 percent in 2003."
Scarcity has brought all sorts of difficulties for children. "I put a sandwich in the bag for my son to take to school," said a mother who declined to give her name. "When he got back home, he said he could not have it because his classmates do not bring their own sandwiches; their parents do not give them sandwiches."
A local primary school teacher, Ali Abbas, said it is common now for students to arrive at school without breakfast.
"One day, one of the children suddenly passed out," Abbas said. "We immediately took her to the administration room. When she regained consciousness, I asked her why she fainted. She told me that she did not have breakfast because there was no breakfast at home."
Talking to a Wall: Palestine in the Mind of America - You would think that showing maps clearly delineating the truncated, obviously non-viable area available for a possible Palestinian state and showing pictures that define Israel's occupation of Palestinian territories would have some kind of impact on an audience of astute but, on this issue, generally uninformed Americans. We recently spoke to a small foreign affairs discussion group and devoted much of our presentation to these images of oppression -- images that never appear in the U.S. media -- in the probably naïve hope of making some kind of dent in the impassive American attitude toward Israel's 40-year occupation of Palestinian territory.
But our expectations that these people would listen and perhaps learn something were sadly misplaced. Few among the elite seminar-style discussion group seemed concerned about, or even particularly interested in, what is happening on the ground in Palestine-Israel, and the event stands as starkly emblematic of American apathy about the oppressive Israeli regime in the occupied territories that the United States is enabling and in many instances actively encouraging.
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Why is this interesting to anyone but us? Because this in-depth discussion with a small but representative group of intelligent, thinking Americans is indicative of a broad range of U.S. public opinion on foreign policy issues, and their level of disinterest in the consequences of U.S. policies is quite disturbing. The self-absorption evident during this meeting, the general "don't-rock-the-boat" posture, the overwhelming lack of concern for the victims of Israeli and U.S. power amount to a license to kill for the U.S. and its allies. The same unconcern allowed the United States to get away with killing millions of Vietnamese decades ago; it gives license to mass U.S. killing in Iraq and Afghanistan; it is the reason Democrats still, after seven years of Bush administration torture and killing around the world, cannot fully separate themselves from Republican militarism. It gives Israel license to kill and ethnically cleanse the entire nation of Palestine. (emphasis added)
But our expectations that these people would listen and perhaps learn something were sadly misplaced. Few among the elite seminar-style discussion group seemed concerned about, or even particularly interested in, what is happening on the ground in Palestine-Israel, and the event stands as starkly emblematic of American apathy about the oppressive Israeli regime in the occupied territories that the United States is enabling and in many instances actively encouraging.
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Why is this interesting to anyone but us? Because this in-depth discussion with a small but representative group of intelligent, thinking Americans is indicative of a broad range of U.S. public opinion on foreign policy issues, and their level of disinterest in the consequences of U.S. policies is quite disturbing. The self-absorption evident during this meeting, the general "don't-rock-the-boat" posture, the overwhelming lack of concern for the victims of Israeli and U.S. power amount to a license to kill for the U.S. and its allies. The same unconcern allowed the United States to get away with killing millions of Vietnamese decades ago; it gives license to mass U.S. killing in Iraq and Afghanistan; it is the reason Democrats still, after seven years of Bush administration torture and killing around the world, cannot fully separate themselves from Republican militarism. It gives Israel license to kill and ethnically cleanse the entire nation of Palestine. (emphasis added)
The Lost Kristol Tapes: I’m talking about Kristol’s two-hour appearance on C-Span’s Washington Journal on March 28, 2003, just nine days after the President launched his invasion of Iraq. No one remembers it today. You can’t even fish it out of LexisNexis. It’s not there. Yet it’s a masterpiece, a double album of smarm, horrifying ignorance, and bald-faced deceit. While you’ve heard him play those instruments before, he never again reached such heights. It’s a performance for the history books — particularly that chapter about how the American Empire collapsed. [2 hr. video here]
... [T]here is a deep cultural connection running from our conquest of the continent to the invasion of Iraq. While Americans have mostly forgotten this, the early settlers did not perceive themselves as simply pushing Indians out of the way. Rather, they came here with the very best of intentions. The 1629 seal of the Massachusetts Bay Colony is a picture of an American Indian, who is saying, “Come over and help us.” Three hundred seventy-three years later in 2002, Ahmed Chalabi was being paid by the U.S. government to tell Americans to come over and “help the Iraqi people.” In his book The Winning of the West, Teddy Roosevelt wrote that no nation “has ever treated the original savage owners of the soil with such generosity as has the United States.” In 2004, Fred Barnes wrote (in the Weekly Standard) that the invasion of Iraq might be “the greatest act of benevolence one country has ever done for another.”
Kristol finishes the C-Span show with a crescendo:
“The moral credentials of this war are strong. We’ll see if we follow through. I agree with Mr. Ellsberg on this, if we’re not serious about helping the Iraqi people rebuild their country and about helping promote decent democratic government in Iraq… it will be a much less morally satisfying and fully defensible war… I’m happy to be held to a moral standard. I ask that it be a serious moral standard.”
... [T]here is a deep cultural connection running from our conquest of the continent to the invasion of Iraq. While Americans have mostly forgotten this, the early settlers did not perceive themselves as simply pushing Indians out of the way. Rather, they came here with the very best of intentions. The 1629 seal of the Massachusetts Bay Colony is a picture of an American Indian, who is saying, “Come over and help us.” Three hundred seventy-three years later in 2002, Ahmed Chalabi was being paid by the U.S. government to tell Americans to come over and “help the Iraqi people.” In his book The Winning of the West, Teddy Roosevelt wrote that no nation “has ever treated the original savage owners of the soil with such generosity as has the United States.” In 2004, Fred Barnes wrote (in the Weekly Standard) that the invasion of Iraq might be “the greatest act of benevolence one country has ever done for another.”
Kristol finishes the C-Span show with a crescendo:
“The moral credentials of this war are strong. We’ll see if we follow through. I agree with Mr. Ellsberg on this, if we’re not serious about helping the Iraqi people rebuild their country and about helping promote decent democratic government in Iraq… it will be a much less morally satisfying and fully defensible war… I’m happy to be held to a moral standard. I ask that it be a serious moral standard.”
(Entire)
Is he really dead? There was a car bombing in Damascus. It killed someone inside the car, and the bomb was so big it damaged neighboring buildings and killed a passerby. Some time later Hezbollah announced that the man in the car – or, perhaps, approaching the car – who was killed was legendary terrorist Imad Mughniyah.
The story is odd. The evidence that the victim was Mughniyah seems to be a picture of a body (?) under a white sheet, and the fact that Hezbollah made an announcement. Would Mughniyah have been traveling in a car by himself, with no bodyguards or aides? If he wasn’t alone, why weren’t the other passengers also victims of the bomb?
Mughniyah has acquired legendary proportions, being held responsible for just about everything bad that has happened to Zionism in recent years. Besides the decades-old attacks on Americans in Lebanon (for which he probably was responsible), he has been blamed for the attacks in Argentina (bafflegab), and has even been described as the mastermind behind the Hezbollah victory over the IDF in 2006 (ultimate bafflegab, and obviously intended as a message to Israeli civilians that Israel can safely mount another illegal attack on Lebanon now that the big bad witch is dead). In fact, he seems to have been retired for decades, and was a bit of an embarrassing anachronism for Hezbollah, which has rebranded itself as a political, social, cultural, educational and welfare organization, an organization which can also take up arms to defend its country if it is subject to an illegal attack from a psychopathic neighbor. Nobody even knows what Mughniyah looks like (in the absence of DNA, this fact alone makes identification of the real victim impossible), making him the ultimate symbol of Evil for whatever Zionism wants to blame on Hezbollah, Syria, or Iran.
Could this incident be a ruse to get Mughniyah out of the picture? He can safely retire without as many worries of a Mossad assassin, and Hezbollah removes an old embarrassing connection which is no longer useful. A massive car bomb explosion is typical of the Mossad work (generally blamed on Syria despite the fact the the victims are invariably supporters of Syria!) we have seen in recent years in Lebanon. Perhaps it was set up to work as a ruse, or maybe Hezbollah just took advantage of the situation to take care of an old problem.
Is he really dead? There was a car bombing in Damascus. It killed someone inside the car, and the bomb was so big it damaged neighboring buildings and killed a passerby. Some time later Hezbollah announced that the man in the car – or, perhaps, approaching the car – who was killed was legendary terrorist Imad Mughniyah.
The story is odd. The evidence that the victim was Mughniyah seems to be a picture of a body (?) under a white sheet, and the fact that Hezbollah made an announcement. Would Mughniyah have been traveling in a car by himself, with no bodyguards or aides? If he wasn’t alone, why weren’t the other passengers also victims of the bomb?
Mughniyah has acquired legendary proportions, being held responsible for just about everything bad that has happened to Zionism in recent years. Besides the decades-old attacks on Americans in Lebanon (for which he probably was responsible), he has been blamed for the attacks in Argentina (bafflegab), and has even been described as the mastermind behind the Hezbollah victory over the IDF in 2006 (ultimate bafflegab, and obviously intended as a message to Israeli civilians that Israel can safely mount another illegal attack on Lebanon now that the big bad witch is dead). In fact, he seems to have been retired for decades, and was a bit of an embarrassing anachronism for Hezbollah, which has rebranded itself as a political, social, cultural, educational and welfare organization, an organization which can also take up arms to defend its country if it is subject to an illegal attack from a psychopathic neighbor. Nobody even knows what Mughniyah looks like (in the absence of DNA, this fact alone makes identification of the real victim impossible), making him the ultimate symbol of Evil for whatever Zionism wants to blame on Hezbollah, Syria, or Iran.
Could this incident be a ruse to get Mughniyah out of the picture? He can safely retire without as many worries of a Mossad assassin, and Hezbollah removes an old embarrassing connection which is no longer useful. A massive car bomb explosion is typical of the Mossad work (generally blamed on Syria despite the fact the the victims are invariably supporters of Syria!) we have seen in recent years in Lebanon. Perhaps it was set up to work as a ruse, or maybe Hezbollah just took advantage of the situation to take care of an old problem.
119 Israeli children have been killed by Palestinians and 982 Palestinian children have been killed by Israelis since September 29, 2000.
1 Israeli is being held prisoner by Palestinians, while 10,756 Palestinians are currently imprisoned by Israel. (View Source)
Israel currently has 121 Jewish-only settlements and 102 ‘outposts’ on confiscated Palestinian land. Palestinians do not have any settlements on Israeli land.
Gunmen kill US sahwa mercenary in Samarra
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Public Health Crisis in Iraq: 13 years of sanctions and bombings, an illegal invasion and 5 years of death and destruction -
An Open Letter to the Minister of State for International Development : Regarding Public Health in Iraq.
Iraq's heath care system is not ' .. the result of decades of under investment and mis-management', but of thirteen years of draconian sanctions and bombings, an illegal invasion and five years of further destruction and decimation.
An Open Letter to the Minister of State for International Development : Regarding Public Health in Iraq.
Iraq's heath care system is not ' .. the result of decades of under investment and mis-management', but of thirteen years of draconian sanctions and bombings, an illegal invasion and five years of further destruction and decimation.
Coalition against the Gaza Siege: Press Release
... [O]n the morning of Monday, Feb. 18, seven tons of basic food and water filters will arrive at the Sufa Border Crossing; peace activists will accompany the supplies until the checkpoint, holding up placards: Gaza - lift the blockade!
Contact: Adam Keller 03-5565804 or 0506-709603 Ya'akov Manor 09-7670801 or 050-5733276 Dr. Eyad Sarraj 0599-408438 Marwan Diab 0599-462037
Participating organizations: Gush Shalom, Combatants for Peace, Coalition of Women for Peace, ICAHD – The Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions, Bat Shalom, Bat Tzafon for Peace and Equality, Balad, Hadash, Adalah, Tarabut- Hithabrut, Physicians for Human Rights – Israel, AIC – The Alternative Information Center, Psychoactive – Mental Health Workers for Human Rights, ActiveStills, The Students Coalition (Tel Aviv University), New Profile, MachsomWatch, PCATI – The Public Committee Against Torture in Israel, Yesh Gvul, Gisha, Local Television on the Internet, Committee for Israeli-Palestinian Dialogue, "On the Left Side", and Faculty for Palestinian-Israeli Peace (Israel).
... [O]n the morning of Monday, Feb. 18, seven tons of basic food and water filters will arrive at the Sufa Border Crossing; peace activists will accompany the supplies until the checkpoint, holding up placards: Gaza - lift the blockade!
Contact: Adam Keller 03-5565804 or 0506-709603 Ya'akov Manor 09-7670801 or 050-5733276 Dr. Eyad Sarraj 0599-408438 Marwan Diab 0599-462037
Participating organizations: Gush Shalom, Combatants for Peace, Coalition of Women for Peace, ICAHD – The Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions, Bat Shalom, Bat Tzafon for Peace and Equality, Balad, Hadash, Adalah, Tarabut- Hithabrut, Physicians for Human Rights – Israel, AIC – The Alternative Information Center, Psychoactive – Mental Health Workers for Human Rights, ActiveStills, The Students Coalition (Tel Aviv University), New Profile, MachsomWatch, PCATI – The Public Committee Against Torture in Israel, Yesh Gvul, Gisha, Local Television on the Internet, Committee for Israeli-Palestinian Dialogue, "On the Left Side", and Faculty for Palestinian-Israeli Peace (Israel).
Civil Resistance In the Age of Bush and Cheney ( amazon.com: "Protesting Power: War, Resistance, and Law" )
I've got an Excedrin Holocaust Headache: "The Jewish people as a whole will be its own Messiah. It will attain world domination by the dissolution of other races...and by the establishment of a world republic in which everywhere the Jews will exercise the privilege of citizenship. In this New World Order the Children of Israel...will furnish all the leaders without encountering opposition..." * (Karl Marx in a letter to Baruch Levy, quoted in Review de Paris, June 1, 1928, p. 574)
Here’s why I have a headache. According to numerous sources that you can find on your own, there was something in the neighborhood of one hundred thousand Jewish survivors from the camps at the end of the war. Today there are far more holocaust survivors than there were to begin with. Even Steven Spielberg says so HERE
Is it possible that they reproduce? Could someone who survived an auto wreck now have more companion survivors from that event than could ever fit in the car that had
the accident in the first place? You see why I have a headache?
It seems to me that The Holocaust has become one of the world’s premier money machines and haven’t they received enough money yet? Now Elvis Sarkozy wants French school children to adopt a Holocaust Ghost
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Here’s why I have a headache. According to numerous sources that you can find on your own, there was something in the neighborhood of one hundred thousand Jewish survivors from the camps at the end of the war. Today there are far more holocaust survivors than there were to begin with. Even Steven Spielberg says so HERE
Is it possible that they reproduce? Could someone who survived an auto wreck now have more companion survivors from that event than could ever fit in the car that had
the accident in the first place? You see why I have a headache?
It seems to me that The Holocaust has become one of the world’s premier money machines and haven’t they received enough money yet? Now Elvis Sarkozy wants French school children to adopt a Holocaust Ghost
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* emphasis added
Iraqi guards leave posts near Baghdad: U.S.-allied security forces said Saturday that they were abandoning their posts in a volatile area south of Baghdad to protest airstrikes by American forces that they say have killed at least 12 civilians this month.
ISRAELI LAW PREVENTS ME FROM CALLING THE EXTERMINATION OF AN ENTIRE PALESTINIAN FAMILY A ‘NAZI ACT’ OF AGGRESSION
Imagine 50 Million American Refugees: "From the vast out-migration and internal migrations of its desperate citizens comes damage to society as a whole that is almost impossible to estimate. The displacement of people carries with it the destruction of human capital. The destruction of human capital deprives Iraq of its most precious resource for repairing the damage of war and occupation, condemning it to further infrastructural decline. This tide of infrastructural decline is the surest guarantee of another wave of displacement, of future floods of refugees. As long as the United States keeps trying to pacify Iraq, it will create wave after wave of misery."
Hundred-Year Hangover: Betrayal and Blindness in the Making of the Modern World ( "Why do they hate us? Why do they hate us? Why do they hate us? . . . . . . . . )
Pakistanis Reject Tyranny, Terrorists and the "Terror War": ... [N]ot only has Musharraf's kowtowing to Bush's policies been roundly rejected by the Pakistani people, the electorate's overwhelming support for secular and/or non-fundamentalist, non-extremist parties undermines the Bush/Hitchens/Steyn/Amis fantasy of a billion breeding Muslims yoked together in a dark conspiracy to impose a Talibanic caliphate on all the world. ...
In other words, the Pakistanis rejected both sides of the so-called "War on Terror," that sinister symbiosis of easily manipulated, thoroughly penetrated religious cranks and the vast might of an imperial state addicted to war and domination. As I once put it years ago, each gang draws meaning and justification from the other, each cloaks its own criminality and murder in the guise of a crusade against the other's evil. And both draw their power and profit from the same unrenewable natural resource -- the blood of innocent people.
The Pakistanis have obviously had enough of this murderous farce. The question now is: when will the American people rise up against it? And here comes the answer, blowing in the wind: not any time soon, given the three staunch Terror Warriors now topping the presidential polls.
In other words, the Pakistanis rejected both sides of the so-called "War on Terror," that sinister symbiosis of easily manipulated, thoroughly penetrated religious cranks and the vast might of an imperial state addicted to war and domination. As I once put it years ago, each gang draws meaning and justification from the other, each cloaks its own criminality and murder in the guise of a crusade against the other's evil. And both draw their power and profit from the same unrenewable natural resource -- the blood of innocent people.
The Pakistanis have obviously had enough of this murderous farce. The question now is: when will the American people rise up against it? And here comes the answer, blowing in the wind: not any time soon, given the three staunch Terror Warriors now topping the presidential polls.
The timing of the Guantanamo trials is not an accident: ... [T]he timing will ensure that members of the Bush administration either are long gone when the trials prove disastrous, or benefit from death sentences before they leave office.
On Castro Stepping Down (above, February 19, 2008 9:38 AM) -
Comment from WMR: "This morning the Mainstream media is falling all over themselves as to why Cuba is still "The Bad Guys" and why the embargo must be maintained and how the mighty nuclear-armed United States is still threatened by tiny little Cuba (about as silly as nuclear-armed Israel being threatened by Gaza).
So, a bit of history the MSM will probably NOT mention, but which goes farther in explaining this strange bullying by the US.
A long time ago, about the time the second Godfather film is set, Cuba was ruled by Fulgencio Batista, a US puppet ruler, not unlike the Shah of Iran, Ferdinand Marcos of the Philippines, Augusto Pinochet in Chile, etc. etc. etc. etc. etc.
Like those other rulers, there were rumors that Batista had won office in Cuba through CIA-assisted election fraud. Like those other rulers, Batista oppressed and impoverished his own people in order to allow US Corporations operating in Cuba to make more profits. Batista sold Cuba's agricultural produce at below-market prices to PepsiCo, United Fruit, and other US companies. Batista also extended a welcoming hand to the Mafia, which built hotels and casinos in Havana, which was wide open to every vice imaginable. Anything could be had for the price, nothing was illegal.
The CIA was well-entrenched in Cuba. It made a very convenient base to operate out of for operations in South America (see reference to Chile above). It gave the CIA "deniability" to operate out of Cuba rather than directly out of the US.
This was all very cozy for the mafia and the corporations and the CIA. It was not very well for the people of Cuba who, forbidden to sell their produce at fair market prices, languished in poverty.
Had Batista not so abused his own people, Fidel Castro would have likely remained a farmer his entire life. But, Cuba was a living hell for the Cuban people, and Fidel became the focal point for the inevitable revolution.
So, Batista fell, the members of his government fled to Florida, and Castro came to power. The irony is that he approached the United State about establishing relations. But Castro wanted to sell Cuba's agricultural produce for the going global market price. This did not sit well with US Corporations that had grown wealthy on Batista's "discounts." Castro also wanted to curb some of the more extreme activities at the Havana casinos. The Mafia did not like that at all. They had invested heavily in Havana to have a place where they could do and sell things still illegal in Las Vegas. And the CIA wanted their base of operations back.
So the US, urged on by the corporations, the Mafia, the CIA, and Batista's henchmen (now called the Cuban Exiles) took a hard line. They did not want to be friends with Castro, unless Castro were willing to be the new Batista. Knowing that being a new Batista would result in a new revolution, Castro prudently declined the offer.
The US declared an embargo to starve Cuba into getting rid of Castro and allowing the Batista regime to return. This forced Castro to turn to the USSR for trade relations in what was possibly one of the worst foreign policy blunders the US ever made. That Cuba had broken free of its US puppet was bad enough, but that Cuba was now a soviet satellite just 90 miles from the United States was a major embarrassment.
US Corporations started backing candidates who promised to restore Cuba to its former subservient condition. United Fruit was one of Richard Nixon's largest backers, and Nixon, while vice-President under Eisenhower, started the preparations to try to invade Cuba, assuming that he would complete the plan as President after Eisenhower. Of course, John F. Kennedy beat Nixon in the 1960 election, but the plan went forward anyway. The CIA covertly armed and trained the "Cuban Brigade" made up of former Batista government thugs, then lied to John F. Kennedy by telling him that the Cuban people would rush right down to join an invasion to crush Castro and return Cuba to a Batista-style regime. So, Kennedy approved the invasion plan, yet another foreign policy blunder. (As a side note, a Texas oil company owner by the name of George Herbert Waker Bush was involved with the CIA at that time, recruited by legendary CIA operative Felix Rodriguez. Bush supplied three ships for the operation, named the Barbara, the Houston, and the Zapata, named for his wife, his home town, and his oil company.)
The invasion force landed at the Bay of Pigs and the Cuban people rushed right down to the landing zone and proceeded to stomp the invading force into the sand, sending a clear message to the world that the people of Cuba preferred communist rule by Castro to anything the US had to offer. JFK, incensed that the CIA had lied to him, terminated the operation and fired Allen Dulles, the head of the CIA.
In the end, the United States had to violate its own embargo and ship $5 million worth of badly needed medical supplies to Cuba to secure the release of the captured CIA invasion force.
As a result of the attempted invasion, the USSR sent nuclear missiles to Cuba, both to prevent another invasion and to counter the US missiles that threatened the USSR from Turkey.
The world avoided a nuclear war only when Khrushchev removed the missiles from Cuba, with the explicit understanding that if the US attacked Cuba ever again, the USSR would immediately launch a nuclear strike at the United States. This was a mirror of Kennedy's own doctrine in which he had proclaimed that an attack on any nation in the Americas would be construed as an attack on the US itself.
So, the US, despite positive spin, the reality is that the history of Cuba is the story of one major policy screwup after another, which ended with the US embarrassed before the world. The CIA, the mafia, the Cuban Exiles, and the corporations all have long memories and they know how to hold a grudge. They also know that normal relations with Cuba will allow the story of Cuba's history to be told from Cuba's point of view, and that is something they cannot allow.
So, as Fidel steps down, expect a non-stop Cuba-bashing to dominate the mainstream media news. Pay no attention to what really happened in Cuba. Just know that drinking Cuban rum or smoking a Cuban cigar is a crime punishable in the United States, because Cuba refused to sell that run or those cigars at prices the United States dictated.
Ultimately, it was the US and its puppet Batista that created Castro, and the story is one more black eye in the history of the United States."
Comment from WMR: "This morning the Mainstream media is falling all over themselves as to why Cuba is still "The Bad Guys" and why the embargo must be maintained and how the mighty nuclear-armed United States is still threatened by tiny little Cuba (about as silly as nuclear-armed Israel being threatened by Gaza).
So, a bit of history the MSM will probably NOT mention, but which goes farther in explaining this strange bullying by the US.
A long time ago, about the time the second Godfather film is set, Cuba was ruled by Fulgencio Batista, a US puppet ruler, not unlike the Shah of Iran, Ferdinand Marcos of the Philippines, Augusto Pinochet in Chile, etc. etc. etc. etc. etc.
Like those other rulers, there were rumors that Batista had won office in Cuba through CIA-assisted election fraud. Like those other rulers, Batista oppressed and impoverished his own people in order to allow US Corporations operating in Cuba to make more profits. Batista sold Cuba's agricultural produce at below-market prices to PepsiCo, United Fruit, and other US companies. Batista also extended a welcoming hand to the Mafia, which built hotels and casinos in Havana, which was wide open to every vice imaginable. Anything could be had for the price, nothing was illegal.
The CIA was well-entrenched in Cuba. It made a very convenient base to operate out of for operations in South America (see reference to Chile above). It gave the CIA "deniability" to operate out of Cuba rather than directly out of the US.
This was all very cozy for the mafia and the corporations and the CIA. It was not very well for the people of Cuba who, forbidden to sell their produce at fair market prices, languished in poverty.
Had Batista not so abused his own people, Fidel Castro would have likely remained a farmer his entire life. But, Cuba was a living hell for the Cuban people, and Fidel became the focal point for the inevitable revolution.
So, Batista fell, the members of his government fled to Florida, and Castro came to power. The irony is that he approached the United State about establishing relations. But Castro wanted to sell Cuba's agricultural produce for the going global market price. This did not sit well with US Corporations that had grown wealthy on Batista's "discounts." Castro also wanted to curb some of the more extreme activities at the Havana casinos. The Mafia did not like that at all. They had invested heavily in Havana to have a place where they could do and sell things still illegal in Las Vegas. And the CIA wanted their base of operations back.
So the US, urged on by the corporations, the Mafia, the CIA, and Batista's henchmen (now called the Cuban Exiles) took a hard line. They did not want to be friends with Castro, unless Castro were willing to be the new Batista. Knowing that being a new Batista would result in a new revolution, Castro prudently declined the offer.
The US declared an embargo to starve Cuba into getting rid of Castro and allowing the Batista regime to return. This forced Castro to turn to the USSR for trade relations in what was possibly one of the worst foreign policy blunders the US ever made. That Cuba had broken free of its US puppet was bad enough, but that Cuba was now a soviet satellite just 90 miles from the United States was a major embarrassment.
US Corporations started backing candidates who promised to restore Cuba to its former subservient condition. United Fruit was one of Richard Nixon's largest backers, and Nixon, while vice-President under Eisenhower, started the preparations to try to invade Cuba, assuming that he would complete the plan as President after Eisenhower. Of course, John F. Kennedy beat Nixon in the 1960 election, but the plan went forward anyway. The CIA covertly armed and trained the "Cuban Brigade" made up of former Batista government thugs, then lied to John F. Kennedy by telling him that the Cuban people would rush right down to join an invasion to crush Castro and return Cuba to a Batista-style regime. So, Kennedy approved the invasion plan, yet another foreign policy blunder. (As a side note, a Texas oil company owner by the name of George Herbert Waker Bush was involved with the CIA at that time, recruited by legendary CIA operative Felix Rodriguez. Bush supplied three ships for the operation, named the Barbara, the Houston, and the Zapata, named for his wife, his home town, and his oil company.)
The invasion force landed at the Bay of Pigs and the Cuban people rushed right down to the landing zone and proceeded to stomp the invading force into the sand, sending a clear message to the world that the people of Cuba preferred communist rule by Castro to anything the US had to offer. JFK, incensed that the CIA had lied to him, terminated the operation and fired Allen Dulles, the head of the CIA.
In the end, the United States had to violate its own embargo and ship $5 million worth of badly needed medical supplies to Cuba to secure the release of the captured CIA invasion force.
As a result of the attempted invasion, the USSR sent nuclear missiles to Cuba, both to prevent another invasion and to counter the US missiles that threatened the USSR from Turkey.
The world avoided a nuclear war only when Khrushchev removed the missiles from Cuba, with the explicit understanding that if the US attacked Cuba ever again, the USSR would immediately launch a nuclear strike at the United States. This was a mirror of Kennedy's own doctrine in which he had proclaimed that an attack on any nation in the Americas would be construed as an attack on the US itself.
So, the US, despite positive spin, the reality is that the history of Cuba is the story of one major policy screwup after another, which ended with the US embarrassed before the world. The CIA, the mafia, the Cuban Exiles, and the corporations all have long memories and they know how to hold a grudge. They also know that normal relations with Cuba will allow the story of Cuba's history to be told from Cuba's point of view, and that is something they cannot allow.
So, as Fidel steps down, expect a non-stop Cuba-bashing to dominate the mainstream media news. Pay no attention to what really happened in Cuba. Just know that drinking Cuban rum or smoking a Cuban cigar is a crime punishable in the United States, because Cuba refused to sell that run or those cigars at prices the United States dictated.
Ultimately, it was the US and its puppet Batista that created Castro, and the story is one more black eye in the history of the United States."
Cages of Conquest: Inside America’s gulags the future of the nation is being determined, one malevolent policy at a time, one sadistic interrogator at a time, one tortured soul at a time. It is here where our way of life is being altered, perhaps forever, not by terrorist evildoers hating us for our freedoms, but by fascism’s enablers doing the work of those domestic evildoers that hate us for our freedoms, for our way of life. In this Crusade of Surge and Siege, the Arab and Muslim victims have become a bridge of precedence set and normalcy born reaching out towards America, becoming the scapegoats and patsies granting access, and an omnipresent reach, to tyranny rising over that city on a hill once known as the United States of America.
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