Free Iraq

I can't begin to put myself in the place of Iraqis living with the horror of what has been done to their population, society, culture, environment and future prospects.

It would astonish me to find an Iraqi in any station of life who did not endorse the sentiments of Pakistini journalist, Ansar Abbasi, when he said: "You should know that we hate all Americans. ... From the bottom of our souls, we hate you."
 

Iraqi Natural Gas by Pipeline to Western Europe
 

Depleted Uranium documentary by a German group: The doctor, depleted Uranium, and dying children. Also, a dutch group with photos of Iraqi depleted uranium victims. Also, a Thai website with photos of Afghan victims. Words are superfluous.
 

Report reveals yet another unapproved CIA interrogation method: The hard takedown: In 2002, Iraqi Bisher al-Rawi, a permanent resident of Great Britain, was detained by local and CIA officials in the airport in the Republic of Gambia where he had legitimate, work-related business. Mr. al-Rawi recalls of his captors, detailed in In a court filing dated August, 2007, by the ACLU on behalf of five detainees who had been in US custody, or under US authority at various times:

“Then, without speaking, one of his escorts began to gently rub Mr. al-Rawi’s feet as they waited. The kindness of the gesture took Mr. al-Rawi by surprise and seemed to be almost apologetic in nature. Although he could have no idea of what was about to unfold, it was at this point that Mr. al-Rawi became convinced that something awful was about to happen.

After some time, the two Gambian officials stood up and, with Mr. al-Rawi between them, began to walk forward. They released him momentarily but then he was immediately grabbed from behind by two other men and dragged into a small, dark room located somewhere on the perimeter of the airport. In this room, several men and women – hooded and using flashlights to guide them – removed Mr. al-Rawi’s handcuffs and shackles, cut off all his clothes, and dressed him in diapers and different clothing. His handcuffs and shackles were replaced with new ones that were part of some sort of restraining harness. Something was then placed in or around his ears that impaired his hearing and both a blindfold and goggles were placed over his eyes. Mr. al-Rawi was then roughly manhandled on board a waiting aircraft, and once inside was restrained on a stretcher-like platform. For the duration of flight Mr. al-Rawi was unable to move or change position. He was also denied access to food, water, or a toilet. It was all he could do to keep himself from screaming.”

“All of the men wore dark hoods and were dressed in civilian clothes,” the report states. “Mr. Agiza was brought into a small room. There the men conducted a physical search, forcibly sliced off his clothes, including his underwear, inserted suppositories into his rectum, fitted him with a diaper, dressed him in overalls, blindfolded him, and placed a hood over his head. One of the men photographed the whole process.”

Meanwhile, the Obama Department of Justice is working to determine what aspects of the CIA interrogations constitute a crime ... .
 

America The Violent -

1969

Arthur Schlesinger Jr. “We are today the most frightening people on this planet. The ghastly things we do to our own people, the ghastly things we do to other people, these must at least compel us to look searchingly at ourselves and our society before hatred and violence rushes on to more evil, and finally tear our nation apart. . . . we cannot blame the epidemic of murder at home on deranged and solitary individuals, separate from the rest of us. For these individuals are plainly weak and suggestible men stamped by our society with a birth rite of hatred and a compulsion toward violence. We must recognize, I believe that the evil is in us, that it springs from some dark intolerable tension in our history and our institutions. It is almost as though some primal curse had been fixed on our nation. We are a violent people with a violent history, and the instinct for violence has seeped into the bloodstream of our national life.”
 

Video (4 min): Donald Bostrom Swedish Journalist on Israeli organ harvesting
 

Afghan vote called 'mockery'

(Following comment, in toto, received by email)

Question : When an incumbent government in the Islamic Third World -- one known for brutal suppression of the opposition, reactionary Islamicist oppression of women, and pervasive censorship of the media -- blatantly rigs an election, complete with ballot box stuffing and other widespread cheating, when is it just fine and dandy, and when is it "a shocking usurpation of the democratic rights of ordinary citizens", with universal condemnation of the offending regime, accompanied with shrieking demands on the part of Western neocon pundits for "air-tight sanctions" and bombing raids, against the "evil, anti-democratic" country, in question?

Why, of course, it's just A-OK, if it's done by the American-supported puppet regime of Hamid Karzai in Afghanistan; but it's awful, terrible (pick the pompous, hypocritical rhetoric of your choice) if it's done by that horrible regime in Iran -- and note that in Iran (unlike in Afghanistan), there isn't a brutal, armed-to-the-teeth foreign army, occupying the whole country and "protecting" all the voting locations. (In fact, as you can see from the nonsense going on in the story appended below, there's quite a good chance that Mr. Ahmadinejad in Iran, whatever one thinks of his policies, has far more of a 'democratic' mandate, than does Mr. Karzai, in Afghanistan.)

But the "echo chamber" of Western mainstream media is completely blind to awkward little comparisons, such as the one I made above. When our boys (they're always "boys") rig an election, that's "the democratic will of the people". When people who we don't like rig an election (or, when people who we don't like -- Hamas, for instance -- actually win the election), then it's a "blatant abrogation of the democratic process".

And then we wonder why people in the Third World don't take us seriously, when we preach to them about "the miracle of democracy".
 

If you lie, lie BIG . . .

Scientists Confirm the Effectiveness of The Big Lie - People Will Go To Extraordinary Lengths to Create False Justifications for Government Misdeeds: As the study notes, this tendency of many people to make up false stories to explain why we went to war and then to hold on to such false beliefs in the face of contrary evidence is "a serious challenge to democratic theory and practice". Until people learn to think more clearly and rationally, they are easily manipulated.
 

US Copter Loses Ballot Boxes as Afghan Vote Count Moves Slowly Forward: Chinook Dropped 25 Ballot Boxes into the Mountains
 

Israel's Super-Thermite Lab: by Christopher Bollyn

The crime of 9-11 is still very much at the center of the political stage. It is the real reason why the Zionist-controlled Barack Obama is president of the United States and why the 86-year-old Shimon Peres is president of Israel. The lie has to be defended to protect the real criminals. Shimon Peres, the father of Israel's nuclear arsenal, and the Zionist criminals who helped him build nuclear weapons in the Negev Desert are at the very center of the false-flag terrorism and deception of 9-11. Peres' friends and Mossad agents like Arnon Milchan, Rafi Eitan, Zvi Malkin, and Avraham Ben-Dor played crucial roles in both 9-11 and the creation of Israel's nukes. This is not merely coincidence.

The main reason for 9-11 was to change the military equation in the Middle East and bring the United States and NATO into the region on a permanent basis to wage war against the foes of Israel. ...

Israel's secret and super-secure nuclear lab is where the extremely powerful super-thermite of 9-11 was designed. The chief scientists involved in the manufacturing of the nano-composite used to pulverize the World Trade Center on 9-11 will be named in a forthcoming article in this space.
 

Where is the money sent to rebuild Iraq? (Video): It's been six years since the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq toppled Saddam Hussein’s regime, but much of the country is still in ruins with little or no improvement to basic necessities like electricity and water supplies.
 

Video (10 min): pakistan,china,russia,sodan are in hit list of obama (shocking report)
 

CIA Involvement: Police chief: Lockerbie evidence was faked -
CIA planted tiny fragment of circuit board crucial in convicting a Libyan for the 1989 mass murder of 270 people
 

The secret deal behind Megrahi's release: In fact, according to the British intelligence sources, the Libyans were never responsible for the bombing of PanAm 103, which was carried out by the Iranians and their Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command (PFLP-GC) proxies in Lebanon�s Bekaa Valley in retaliation for the shooting down by the USS Vincennes of an Iran Air Airbus-300 over the Persian Gulf in July 1988 that killed all 290 passengers and crew.





(Following, a subscriber question to Wayne Madsen posted 8/26/09)

Wayne, a question regarding PanAm 103: what about the CIA/Mossad being behind the downing to prevent exposure of their smuggling ring by the CIA/DIA officers on board? Clearly, Abu Nidal was used by the Mossad on many occasions, why not that time? I understand you have some ABC journalists sources but so many of them are CIA-controlled. Maybe the involvement of Iran claimed by the CIA is a fail-safe cover in case the first cover story, Libya, is exposed as such. It's not Iran's style to provoke super-powers and what's the point of retaliation if you cannot and don't claim responsibility for it? It's not like the US could not further retaliate. Just wondering what your thoughts on this are.