Haniyeh: Israel shows it doesn’t want peace
Emergency
meeting to discuss terrorism, aggression against Palestine by
Israel: Minister for Information and Broadcasting
Muhammad Ali Durrani Friday said that Israeli terrorism and
aggression against Palestine would come under discussion during
emergency OIC executive meeting called at Jeddah.
Israel's UN envoy walks out of UN session on Beit Hanun
shelling : The Palestinian Authority's
representative to the UN, Riad Mansour, called for "Israeli war
criminals" to be put on trial for the shelling.
President Carter Discusses New Book on Israel and the
Middle East : Q: In your book, you argue that
‘because of powerful political, economic, and religious forces
in the United States, Israeli government decisions are rarely
questioned or condemned.’ Can you explain that more fully?
Nasrallah Speaks : Al Manar TV interviews Hezbollah
leader Hasan Nasrallah : The Hezbollah leader
criticized US "hegemony" in Afghanistan, Iraq and the
Palestinian situation as well as Lebanon. He predicted the US
had no future in the region and would "leave the Middle East and
the Arab and Muslim worlds in the same way they left Vietnam".
Bush Assures Israel Iran Seen As Threat:
Visiting Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert will return to his
country with reassurances from the Bush administration that it
is not backing down from its view that Iran and its nuclear
program are a world threat.
Iran announces intent to move away from U.S. dollar:
Iran may have signed a virtual "death warrant" by openly
declaring a governmental decision to move away from the dollar
in the country's foreign-exchange transactions, says WND
columnist Jerome Corsi
Ex-Iranian president warns U-S against invading
: It would be "dangerous" for the U-S to think it can do in
Iran what it's done in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Russia implementing arms contract with Iran - official
: Russia is going ahead with a contract to deliver
sophisticated air defence systems to Iran, a Russian defence
ministry official said, despite appeals from Washington to
reconsider
5 Minute Video: What Ted
Koppel Found In Iran
Russia to cooperate with Pakistan in defence, security
fields : Pakistan and Russia today decided to
activate their joint governmental commission and further
reinforce cooperation in the fields of defence and security.
Three killed in bomb explosion in Lahore :
Three people were killed and 17 injured Friday when a bomb kept
in a dustbin exploded near a bus stop in the Pakistani city of
Lahore.
Suicide bomber dies attacking Pakistan police:
"Islamist" groups seeking to destabilize the government because
of President Pervez Musharraf's alliance with the United States
in the war on terrorism are suspected of being behind a wave of
attacks in the northwest of the country in recent weeks.
UK: Exclusive: Reid "Hype On Threats": The
Home Secretary was accused of sexing up the terror threat to
boost his chances of becoming Prime Minister.
UK: Security alert as police lose a briefcase full of
dummy bombs on train: A major security alert has
been sparked after police lost a briefcase full of imitation
bombs.
UK: The Army 'approved
abuse of prisoners': THE Army’s high command was
accused last night of officially sanctioning the hooding and
mistreatment of Iraqi prisoners in direct contravention of the
Geneva Convention.
Pentagon wants to build mini-city for terror trials:
The Pentagon plans to build a military commissions compound at
Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, costing up to $125 million, a major
undertaking meant to accommodate up to 1,200 people for the
first U.S. war crimes trials since World War II, The Miami
Herald learned Thursday.
Where is the Justice?:
Anti-Castro Terrorist Gets Only 4 Years
U.S. Lawyers: Libby May Have Disclosed Iraq Secrets:
A former White House aide, I. Lewis Libby, may have disclosed
conclusions from a highly classified government report on Iraq
to journalists before the report was declassified by President
Bush, federal prosecutors said in a new court filing.
Aides to DeLay Clean Files
and Quit : Representative Shelley Sekula-Gibbs,
who was elected to finish the term of Tom DeLay, the former
House majority leader, has asked Congress to investigate the
destruction of files in her office by former staff members of
Mr. DeLay.
Paul Craig Roberts: Milton
Friedman In Memoriam: Early in the morning of
November 16, 2006, at the age of 94, Milton Friedman passed
away. Friedman was the great economist of our time who more than
anyone saved the economics profession from dogma.
Why we need independent media:
Hotel
chain drops CNN over Iraq sniper video: Midwest
firm pulls channel off lineup; ‘their actions supported
terrorism’
Town bars foreign flags in swipe at immigrants:
A Nevada town passed a law this week making it illegal to fly a
foreign nation's flag by itself, the latest swipe by a U.S.
community at illegal immigrants.
US to unveil new citizenship test :
Starting this winter, questions will center on American ideals
rather than historical facts.
Netherlands to propose burqa ban: The Dutch
cabinet has backed a proposal by the country's immigration
minister to ban Muslim women from wearing the burqa in public
places.
11/16/07
US plans last
big push in Iraq
Strategy document calls for extra 20,000 troops, aid for Iraqi
army and regional summit
By Simon Tisdall
President George Bush has told senior advisers that the US and
its allies must make "a last big push" to win the war in Iraq
and that instead of beginning a troop withdrawal next year, he
may increase US forces by up to 20,000 soldiers, according to
sources familiar with the administration's internal
deliberations.
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Violence in Iraq at almost satanic levels, says CIA
director
Audio & Transcript
In the United States, the top spy says violence in Iraq
has reached almost satanic levels, and he fears the Iraqi
Government is not capable of bringing it under control.
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An idea whose
time had come
By Ted Rall
Special prosecutors ought to track down everyone, up to
and including Bush, who lied about WMDs in Iraq, chose not to
pursue Osama in Pakistan after 9/11, deliberately withheld help
that could have saved lives during the Hurricane Katrina, and
signed off on warrantless wiretapping of American citizens. Law
and order starts at the top.
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Missing presumed
tortured
By Stephen Grey
More than 7,000 prisoners have been captured in America's
war on terror. Just 700 ended up in Guantanamo Bay. Between
extraordinary rendition to foreign jails and disappearance into
the CIA's "black sites", what happened to the rest?
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What Rumsfeld Knew
By Michael Scherer and Mark Benjamin
Interviews with high-ranking military officials shed new
light on the role Rumsfeld played in the harsh treatment of a
Guantánamo detainee.
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CNN host to first-ever Muslim congressman:
"Prove to me that
you're not working with our enemies."
2 Minute Video
"I have been nervous about this interview with you, because what
I feel like saying is, 'Sir, prove to me that you are not
working with our enemies.' " Beck added: "I'm not accusing you
of being an enemy, but that's the way I feel, and I think a lot
of Americans will feel that way."
Click to view
As
Many as 60 More Killed / Kidnapped: : As many as 60
or more passengers of six hijacked microbuses were killed by
militants Thursday in occupied Baghdad, eyewitnesses told the
official TV channel al-Iraqiya, in the latest horrific incident
of sectarian violence in conflict-torn Iraq
More than 33 killed as U.S. occupation grinds on:
U.S. forces killed nine "insurgents" and detained nine others
during a raid just south of Yusufiya, 15 km (9 miles) south of
Baghdad, the U.S. military said.
55 bodies found around Baghdad: Police
recovered 55 unidentified bodies, most of them tortured and
shot, around Baghdad in the 24 hours to Wednesday evening
Four U.S. soldiers killed in Iraq : Four
more U.S. soldiers have been killed in Iraq, the U.S. military
said on Thursday, bringing to at least 10 the number killed over
the past two days in gun battles and roadside bomb blasts around
the country.
Iraq gov't in crisis after staff abducted, tortured
: Kidnappers tortured many of the dozens of
hostages seized in a daylight raid on a government building and
killed some of them, a minister said as he warned that he felt
Iraq no longer had an effective government.
Baghdad Shi'ite militant says fighting for all Iraqis:
"Sunnis are as much my brothers as Shi'ites. My only enemies are
the occupiers," he said during the encounter in Sadr City, the
sprawling Baghdad slum where U.S. and Iraqi forces have been
hunting him as, effectively, Public Enemy No. 1 for months.
Iraq sectarian strife imperils entire region:
Analysts say civil war is a reality, but real worry is that
chaos will spread
Afghan Civilians Shot Dead By British Troops
: Two Afghan civilians were killed and a child injured on
Thursday after their van was shot at by the British troops.
Afghan violence 'likely to rise' : A top
American defence official has warned that the level of violence
in Afghanistan will go on rising.
CIA: Taliban, al Qaeda resurge in Afghanistan
: Al Qaeda's influence and numbers are rapidly growing in
Afghanistan, with fighters operating from new havens and
mimicking techniques learned on the Iraqi battlefield for use
against U.S. and allied troops, U.S. intelligence officials
said.
Pentagon boosts 'media war' unit : The US
defence department has set up a new unit to better promote its
message across 24-hour rolling news outlets, and particularly on
the internet.
Concerned
more for the dead than for the living : The British
intercede when they see their war dead threatened but when
innocent Palestinians are killed in their sleep by monstrous
unprovoked Israeli violence, they set about quibbling about the
balance of blame between the two sides.
Israelis mourn Gaza deaths: The readers of
Haaretz daily newspaper in the past days were in for a surprise
after three Israeli citizens published obituaries in the back
pages of the newspaper which expressed their grief for the death
of civilians in Beit Hanoun last week.
US rebuffs Syria, Iran offers: "We believe,
at this point, that we are engaged in the proper course with
respect to Syria, Iran, on all the various issues that are
before us," state department spokesperson Sean McCormack said
when pressed on whether Washington is ready to end its silent
treatment of the two regimes.
US 'broadly ready' for Iran talks : The US
government has confirmed its willingness, in principle, to
discuss the conflict in Iraq with its neighbour, Iran. David
Satterfield, a state department adviser, told a Senate committee
the timing of such talks was under review.
How to get promoted in the Bush administration? Spy for
Israel:
Alleged AIPAC informant promoted : 06/23/06
- The Bush administration promoted David Satterfield, an alleged
informant for a former AIPAC lobbyist facing trial in a
classified information case.
Israel: 2007 budget to perpetuate gaps between Jewish,
Arab schools : The Education Ministry's 2007 budget
will likely preserve the gaps between Jewish and Arab schools in
terms of teaching hours, and development plans for minorities
will also be slashed, Haaretz has learned.
Bush gives go-ahead for 'Bush Center' in Israel :
U.S. President George Bush was informed on Tuesday of an
initiative to establish a center under his name in Israel, as a
sign of gratitude for his support for the country and its
security
Groups Side With Bush on Bolton : In the
first post-election battle between the Bush administration and
the Democrats, the Jewish community is standing behind the
president as he pushes the candidacy of John Bolton.
Campus Conflict: How the Israeli lobby uses
intimidation to prevent academic freedom in the U.S.
War Crimes Complaint Against Rumsfeld, et al. The
evidence file: The November 14, 2006, criminal
complaint is a request for the German Federal Prosecutor to open
an investigation and, ultimately, a criminal prosecution that
will look into the responsibility of high-ranking U.S. officials
for authorizing war crimes in the context of the so-called “War
on Terror.”
Charge Rumsfeld with War Crimes: If
Rumsfeld is going to be held accountable for authorizing torture
and other human rights abuses, we need your help.
In case you missed it:
Rumsfeld OK'd Dog Scares, Strips:
Newly-released documents on U.S. policy of torturing prisoners
show that Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld authorized guards
to strip detainees and threaten them with dogs.
Chavez: Bush should get death penalty: "If
sentencing is to be done," said Chavez earlier this week, "the
first one to be given the most severe sentence this planet has
to offer should be the president of the United States, if we're
talking about genocidal presidents,"
Ex-prisoner tells of torture at Guantanamo:
A GERMAN, who was held for four years in the US detention camp
at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba, has alleged systematic torture in the
hands of the US military, from beatings to being chained to a
ceiling for days.
Dismay Grows Over US Torture School :
Recent reports of the Bush Administration's decision to increase
training and aid for the militaries of Latin America so as to
reverse the region's leftward swing have only sharpened
criticism at home and abroad.
CNN host to first-ever Muslim congressman: "Prove to me
that you're not working with our enemies." [VIDEO]
"I have been nervous about this interview with you, because what
I feel like saying is, 'Sir, prove to me that you are not
working with our enemies.'
Republicans propose last-minute spy bill:
The outgoing Republican chairman of a key U.S. Senate committee
has made a last-minute attempt at giving the Bush administration
what he calls the necessary "resources" for carrying out its
phone call and Internet surveillance within the law, but critics
remain unconvinced.
America faces a future of managing imperial decline:
Bush's failure to grasp the limits of US global power has led to
an adventurism for which his successors will pay a heavy price.
Hoyer Beats Pelosi’s Pick in Race for No. 2 House Post
: House Democrats chose Representative Steny H. Hoyer of
Maryland as their majority leader today after a bruising fight
that cast a cloud over the party’s post-election celebration.
Pelosi
backs Democrat tainted
by scandal for top position
:
Last month,
a New York Times article described him as operating "a political
trading post" on Capitol Hill, and a watchdog group has listed
him as among the 20 most corrupt members of Congress in its 2006
list.
Pentagon's Travel System Is Hardly Used :
The Defense Department's computerized travel reservation system
has turned into a half-billion-dollar fiasco, so flawed that
only 17 percent of the travelers are using it as intended,
Senate investigators say.
Race still divides U.S., census says: -
Decades after the civil rights movement, racial disparities in
income, education and home ownership persist and, by some
measurements, are growing.
Some Americans Lack Food, but USDA Won't Call Them
Hungry: The U.S. government has vowed that
Americans will never be hungry again. But they may experience
"very low food security."
Banks warned of 'end to the good times':
The City regulator issued a warning to the high street banks
yesterday that the "clouds were already darkening" and urged
them to prepare for the impact of rising unemployment and the
knock-on effect on bad debts.
11/15/06
Conflict in the Middle East is Mission Implausible
By By Robert Fisk
The UN troops claim they are in Lebanon to protect the Shia.
The Shia think they're there to protect Israel from Hizbollah.
Is this because the peacekeepers are really a Nato army in
disguise?
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Democrats Must Offer A New Blueprint for Iraq
By Scott Ritter
The political astuteness of the decision by President Bush
to replace Rumsfeld with Gates has escaped notice by many
Democrats, who seem inclined simply to gloat over the demise of
their archenemy.
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Family Feud: Little Bush Hits Back at Daddy
By Chris Floyd
Little Bush's suddenly conceived internal Iraq policy review is
just another salvo in this ongoing struggle. The Cheney
militarists will certainly not give up without a fight, even
after the "Gray Hawk Down" disaster of Rumsfeld's resignation.
Bush Junior will certainly not keep swallowing Daddy's cod liver
oil without throwing a fit now and then.
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Worshipping The State: Why They Die
By Michael Gaddy
The inboxes at my email sites are
constantly bombarded with pictures and articles designed to pull
at my heartstrings and make me believe there are troops in Iraq
and Afghanistan fighting for our freedoms.
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Don’t Look for Much From the “Bipartisan” Iraq
Study Group
By Ray McGovern
Ret. Gen. John Keane of the “Military Senior Adviser Panel”
takes a different tack. He recommends that 40,000 additional
U.S. troops be sent to secure Baghdad. And Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz.,
too, continues to press for sending more troops to Iraq as the
only way to “salvage” the situation.
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Death Squads
Exposed: The reality of U.S. occupation
Of Iraq
This Is A Must Watch - Channel 4 Video Investigation
This shocking film investigates the links between the death
squads and high-ranking Shia politicians. It reveals how the
Shia militia that these politicians control have systematically
infiltrated and taken over police units and even entire
government ministeries. It investigates how these units are
closely linked to the death squads, indeed they often are the
death squads. And the killers act with impunity -- there's
little investigation into their activities.
Click to view
The Highjacking of a Nation
By Sibel Edmonds
Foreign influence, that most baneful foe of our republican
government, has its tentacles entrenched in almost all major
decision making and policy producing bodies of the U.S.
government machine. It does so not secretly, since its
self-serving activities are advocated and legitimized by highly
positioned parties that reap the benefits that come in the form
of financial gain and positions of power.
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Whistleblowers : Who Are They?
By Peter Rost
After blowing the whistle on fraud, 90 percent of the
whistleblowers were fired or demoted, 27 percent faced lawsuits,
26 percent had to seek psychiatric or physical care, 25 percent
suffered alcohol abuse, 17 percent lost their homes, 15 percent
got divorced, 10 percent attempted suicide, and 8 percent were
bankrupted. But in spite of all this, only 16 percent said that
they wouldn’t blow the whistle again.
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Watch Al Jazeera English Live Broadcast
Al Jazeera English
Al Jazeera English, the new international news channel from the
Qatar-based television network, has begun broadcasting in
English from its main studios in Doha.
Click here to view
Latin America
is preparing to settle accounts with its white settler elite
By Richard Gott
The recent explosion of indigenous protest in Latin
America, culminating in the election this year of Evo Morales,
an Aymara indian, as president of Bolivia, has highlighted the
precarious position of the white-settler elite that has
dominated the continent for so many centuries.
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Iraq: At least 42 killed in ongoing U.S. occupation:
6 U.S. occupation force soldiers among those killed as violence
rages across Iraq.
U.S. Commander Warns Against Iraq Cutoff :
The top U.S. commander in the Middle East warned Congress
Wednesday against setting a timetable for the withdrawal of U.S.
troops from Iraq, saying it would impede commanders in managing
U.S. and Iraqi forces.
U.S. Soldiers pleads guilty in rape and murder of Iraqi
child and her family : The indictment accuses Green
and others of raping the girl and burning her body to conceal
their crimes. It also alleges that Green and four others
stationed at a nearby checkpoint killed the girl’s father,
mother and 6-year-old sister.
She Survived Iraq -- Then Shot Herself at Home
: Her name doesn't show on any official list of American
military deaths in the Iraq war, by hostile or non-hostile fire,
who died in that country or in hospitals in Europe or back home
in the USA. But Iraq killed her just as certainly.
Why stop the Great Satan? He's driving
himself to hell: Tehran can sit back and watch its tormentors
sweat. But the US and Britain must start from diplomatic ground
zero
Rice snub for Iran and Syria : Condoleezza
Rice, the US secretary of state, has said she opposes the idea
of including Iran and Syria in talks to curb the violence in
Iraq.
Official says U.S. may consider
pre-emptive Iran strike: The United States or
other countries will one day be forced to consider pre-emptive
action if Iran and North Korea continue to seek nuclear weapons,
a senior U.S. government official said on Tuesday.
War pimp alert:
Worried
about Gates’ views on Iran: Israel backers hope he toes Bush
line : President Bush’s nomination of Robert Gates
as defense secretary has anxious pro-Israel and Israeli leaders
looking East, trying to gauge whether Gates’ past conciliatory
noises on Iran herald a change in U.S. policy.
War pimp alert:
Bush will not hesitate to use force in Iran: Israeli
ambassador: Ayalon said that a US military
operation against Tehran would differ substantially from its
invasion of Iraq in 2003.
War pimp alert:
Olmert: Israel will challenge Iran : Israel
“will not shy away from challenging Iran’s development of
nuclear weapons,” Ehud Olmert told the annual gathering of the
North American Jewish federation system.
War pimp alert:
Bolton: Reluctance To Impose Iran Sanctions Misguided
: U.S. ambassador John Bolton Wednesday warned
reluctance to impose sanctions on Iran to preserve bilateral
trade was misguided.
China supports solving Iran's nuclear issue peacefully:
Chinese Foreign Ministry Office declared here Wednesday that
China always supports solving Iran's nuclear issue through
negotiation.
Iran-IAEA-Plutonium : It said in a
statement that the plutonium contamination which has been
pointed in report of IAEA Director General Mohamed ElBaradei
last October had been discussed several times with the agency in
the past three years and it is not something new.
War pimp alert:
U.N. says Iran sought Somali uranium: Iran
attempted to swap weapons for use by Islamic radicals in Somalia
for uranium, the U.N. Security Council was told Wednesday.
U.N. report says 10 nations violating arms embargo in
Somalia : There were also doubts about the U.N.
panel's findings that Iran shipped arms to the Islamic militants
in return for access to uranium mines in the hometown of the top
Islamic leader.
Iran signs 450-million-dollar railway deal with
Germany's Siemens : Iran has signed a
450-million-dollar deal with German electronic giant Siemens to
build 150 trains, Iran's Ambassador to Germany Mohammad Mehdi
Akhoundzadeh told IRNA on Tuesday.
Palestinian rocket kills Israeli woman near Gaza:
A rocket fired from Gaza killed a 58-year-old woman in an
Israeli border town on Wednesday, prompting Israel to warn
Palestinian militants they would "pay a heavy price."
'Palestinians punished for democracy': The
emir of Qatar, Sheik Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani, on Wednesday
criticized the West for boycotting the Hamas government, saying
that Palestinians are being punished for practicing democracy.
Amira Hass : Preparing for the next invasion
: The management of the Beit Hanun hospital decided to dig a
well in the hospital's yard. By Saturday, laborers and
bulldozers were already on the job. That is how the hospital is
readying itself for the next invasion by the Israeli army.
Coalition's Afghan policy will fail:
Musharraf: President Pervez Musharraf has said that the US-led
coalition forces were 'failing' to curb the Taliban in
Afghanistan and that they would "keep failing" if they pursued
their current policies.
Afghan women seek death by fire :
Increasing numbers of Afghan women are committing suicide by
setting fire to themselves to escape difficult lives, according
to NGOs based in the country.
Congo faces danger of new civil war as opposition
rejects election result: · UN forces surround house
of president's rival. Armed groups in capital urge return to
fighting
Watch Al Jazeera English
Live Broadcast: Al Jazeera English, the new
international news channel from the Qatar-based television
network, has begun broadcasting in English from its main studios
in Doha.
The Struggle for Self-Determination in Venezuela: Video
: Martín Sanchez, Venezuela's consul general in Chicago, on "The
Struggle for Self-Determination in Venezuela;" and Joel Geier,
Associate Editor of the International Socialist Review, on
"Resisting US Empire"
CIA Finally Acknowledges Existence of Presidential Order
on Detention Facilities Abroad : "Confusion about
whether such a presidential order existed certainly led to the
torture and abuse scandal that embarrassed America. With a new
Congress and renewed subpoena power, we now need to look up the
chain of command."
CIA pressed on torture guidelines: THE CIA
has acknowledged for the first time the existence of two
classified documents, including one signed by the US President,
George Bush, that it used as guidelines in the interrogation and
imprisonment of terrorist suspects.
White House seeks dismissal of CIA leak suit:
The Bush administration asked a federal judge on Tuesday to
dismiss a lawsuit brought by former CIA officer Valerie Plame
and her husband against Vice President Dick Cheney and others
for alleged involvement in disclosing her employment as a
clandestine CIA operative.
Fox News Internal Memo: "Be On The Lookout
For Any Statements From The Iraqi Insurgents...Thrilled At The
Prospect Of A Dem Controlled Congress"...
11/14/06
Baghdad: The New Saigon?
By Patrick J. Buchanan
As the Democrats have now captured Congress, they assume
co-responsibility for the retreat from Mesopotamia. Which is as
it should be.
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Movers and Shakers of U.S. Foreign Policy
By: Soraya Sepahpour-Ulrich
Without a doubt, in the very near future, Americans
will wake up with a jolt and realize that they have paid the
heftiest price of all. Their White House can no longer make a
decision without Israel’s blessing. They will recognize that
gone with the lives of their sons and daughters, is their
reputation, and they have become a nation both morally and
fiscally bankrupt only to enable the growth of an unstoppable
fiend in the Middle East.
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U.S. Administration: Detainees have no rights
By Matt Apuzzo
The Bush administration said Monday that Guantanamo Bay
prisoners have no right to challenge their detentions in
civilian courts and that lawsuits by hundreds of detainees
should be dismissed.
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Al Qaeda Leader: Materials Smuggled Across Border
Terrorists trying to blend in
with Mexican culture
A News Channel 5 Investigation
A News Channel 5 Investigation investigation reveals
what the feds don't want you to know. Suspected terrorists are
hiding inside the U.S. and they got here by sneaking across the
Mexican border.
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Iraq: At Least 38 Killed and more than 100 abducted in
another day of U.S. occupation:
Police found 11 bodies with gunshot wounds in the northern city
of Mosul on Tuesday, police said
35 killed in US raid on Ramadi: A doctor at
Ramadi's main hospital, said 35 bodies had been brought in and
that he believed others had not been retrieved because access
was limited by continuing military operations.
U.S. "raid" kills six in Shi'ite area: Sparks protest:
Chanting slogans in support of a radical, anti-American, Shi'ite
cleric, mourners carried coffins on Tuesday through a Baghdad
district where Iraqi officials said U.S. forces killed six
people in an overnight raid.
Cleric al-Sadr may hold Iraq's future in his hands
: Muqtada al-Sadr, the
anti-American (occupation) cleric President Bush once dismissed
as the head of a "band of thugs," has emerged as one of the most
powerful forces in Iraq, commanding a large militia and a
growing political organization.
Bush against phased Iraq pullout: The US
president has renewed his objection to any timetable for the
withdrawal of US troops from Iraq after discussing the situation
there with a bipartisan commission.
Commission improbable: What chance Baker's
Iraq Study Group coming up with something original? Don't hold
your breath
Premature US Exit From Iraq Will Boost Terrorists, Says
Australian PM : Australian Prime Minister John
Howard said Tuesday that the premature exit of the United States
from Iraq will be seen as a victory for international terrorists
and added that "Iraq will become a haven for terrorists".
"Iraq Is Not Winnable":
What happens next in the Middle East? SPIEGEL spoke to
Richard Haass, president of the Council on Foreign Relations, to
find out. A widely respected foreign policy expert, Haass warns
that the Middle East could become dangerous for years to come.
America
Becomes Hostage to Iraq : The cut-and-run stage
hasn't yet arrived. But it's close.
Fourth US serviceman pleads guilty to Iraq civilian
death charges : Prosecutors and witnesses in
earlier hearings say the soldiers dragged Awad from his home and
shot him before covering up the killing to make it look as if he
was an Iraqi insurgent planting roadside bombs.
Iran says ready to talk if U.S. changes attitude:
Iran's president said on Tuesday he was ready to talk to the
United States if there was a change of attitude in Washington,
which faces pressure to deal directly with Tehran to help ease
violence in neighbouring Iraq.
Fury in U.S. over Olmert's comments on Iraq war
: Prime Minister Ehud Olmert drew fire from Democratic Party
members Monday by publicly praising the war in Iraq.
U.S.
Occupation Forces Acknowledge Attack Killed 31 Afghan Civilians:
Eighteen dead civilians were found scattered in one field. Ten
civilians were found dead in a ditch. Three more lay nearby,
according to the senior NATO official, who declined to say how
many women and children perished.
No militants
killed in Pakistan madrassa attack, commission says:
A legal panel in Pakistan's North-West Frontier Province has
ruled out any militant link to a religious school that was
bombed last month, leaving 82 people dead, media reports said
Tuesday.
Four US soldiers were killed by the Taliban: :
Taliban spokesman Muhammad Hanif said that an explosives laden
van driven by one of their fighters was hit with a US military
tank, completely destroying it and killing four soldiers on
board at Shindand region in Herat province.
Report:
Plutonium Found in Iran Waste Facility:
nternational Atomic Energy experts have found unexplained
plutonium and highly enriched uranium traces in a nuclear waste
facility in Iran and have asked Tehran for an explanation, an
IAEA report said Tuesday.
War pimp alert:
Israel: Iran nearing 'point of no return':
"Iran denies the Holocaust and seeks the weapons to perpetrate
one. If the promise of 'Never Again' supersedes the price of oil
then the time for international indifference and hesitation in
the face of the Iranian threat has long passed," the Israeli
Foreign Minister said
War pimp alert:
Blair tells US panel Iran is 'strategic threat' to the
region : Prime Minister Tony Blair told the Iraq
Study Group that Iran was a 'strategic threat' to the Middle
East that had to be confronted with the choice of helping to
secure peace 'or face isolation', his spokesman said.
War pimp alert:
Netanyahu: Iran Preparing Another Holocaust:
"It’s 1938, and Iran is Germany,” Netanyahu said, "and Iran is
racing to arm itself with atomic bombs.”
War pimp alert:
Iran 'is training the next al-Qa'eda leaders':
According to recent reports received by Western intelligence
agencies, the Iranians are training senior al-Qa'eda operatives
in Teheran to take over the organisation when bin Laden is no
longer leader.
War pimp alert:
Iranians Training Qaeda Terrorists to Attack Our GIs:
The Iranian government has been providing a safe haven for
fighters loyal to Osama bin Laden's Al Qaeda terror group since
they were forced to flee Afghanistan in late 2001.
ran, No
cakewalk in the park? : The neo-conservatives (neocons)
who gave us the "cakewalk" prediction for Iraq before the war
are now plugging "a walk in the park" in Iran -- i.e., a U.S.
bombing campaign to consign the mullahs' nuclear ambitions to
oblivion, or at least to retard the advent of an Iranian bomb
for a few years
Iran cuts dollar-based transactions to “minimum”:
“We will carry out our foreign currency transactions with
currencies other than the dollar and our use of the dollar will
reach a minimum level,” Economy Minister Davoud Danesh Jafari
was quoted as saying by student news agency ISNA.
President: We are to commission some 60,000 centrifuge:
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said here Tuesday that the Islamic
Republic of Iran is determined to commission some 60,000
centrifuges to meet the country's requirements in peaceful use
of nuclear technology.
Iran will soon celebrate completion of nuclear fuel
program: Ahmadinejad: President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
boasted Tuesday that Iran will soon have mastered the production
of nuclear fuel, but conceded the country was far from producing
enough fuel to power its Russian-built reactor.
Ahmadinejad: 2 major achievements to be announced in
10-Day Dawn: President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said
here Tuesday that two major technological achievements of the
government will be made public during the Ten-Day Dawn (February
1-11) this year.
Ahmadinejad to send message to American nation soon
: President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said here Tuesday that he will
soon send a message to the American nation.
Human rights organization claims Israeli army 'executed'
2 West Bank militants : The Israel Defense Forces
on Monday denied claims by an Israeli human rights organization
that the shooting death of two Palestinian militants near the
West Bank town of Jenin last week was an "execution."
EU ministers pound Israel over Beit Hanun:
Deploring the action as "unacceptable" and saying that while
Israel has a right to self defense, it "should not be
disproportionate or in contradiction to international
humanitarian law."
Bush to Olmert: No international peace convention
: The iSRAELI prime minister also claimed that President Bush
did not pressure him to moderate the Israel Defense Forces'
military activity in the Gaza Strip
I voted for a war criminal : They say that
confession is good for the stricken soul. So here's mine: I
voted for a war criminal. My intentions were sound. I wanted a
better life for the Israelis who had it the worst. I wanted a
better life for the Palestinians, who had it worse than anyone.
Hamas: No recognition of Israel : A future
Palestinian national unity government will not agree to demands
that it recognise Israel, the ruling Hamas faction has said.
FBI: Israeli spy passed info to Pakistan and Australia:
According to new evidence released by the FBI on Monday,
Jonathan Pollard not only passed classified information on to
Israel, but also to Pakistan and Australia.
North Korean Sanctions: A Cruel Mirage:
Even if Russia and China had been willing to endorse robust
sanctions, it is unlikely that such measures would convince
North Korea to give up its nuclear weapons or dismantle its
nuclear facilities. Sanctions have a poor record of getting
regimes to abandon high-priority policies, and North Korea's
nuclear program clearly falls in that category.
Secret minutes of EU-Russia meeting found in bin:
Documents from the informal EU summit in Lahti, Finland, last
month — together with other top-secret papers — were found in a
bin outside the Spanish foreign affairs ministry in Madrid last
week, according to Spain’s El Pais.
In case you missed it: :
Video: The Corporation : This is an
extraordinary film about the creation of the American
corporation, its legal organizational model, its global economic
dominance and its psychopathic tendencies, and its incredible
ambition to influence every aspect of culture in its unrelenting
pursuit of profit.
A Rude Awakening for
Americans in Nicaragua: Some U.S. investors and
retirees in the Central American nation fear president-elect
Daniel Ortega, but others are more worried about how President
Bush will respond to the stunning election victory
War Crimes Suit Filed in Germany Against Rumsfeld Over
Prisoner Torture: The complaint requests that the
German Federal Prosecutor open an investigation - and
ultimately, a criminal prosecution - looking into the
responsibility of high-ranking U.S. officials for authorizing
war crimes in the name of the so-called "War on Terror
Senate to investigate rendition abuses:
Abuses carried out under the CIA's secret programme of
extraordinary rendition are to be investigated by one of the
Senate's most powerful committees, it emerged today.
US: Immigrants May Be Held Indefinitely:
Immigrants arrested in the United States may be held
indefinitely on suspicion of terrorism and may not challenge
their imprisonment in civilian courts, the Bush administration
said Monday, opening a new legal front in the fight over the
rights of detainees.
President Given Undue Power to Silence Critics:
The current version of the Military Commissions redefines an
"unlawful enemy combatant" (UEC) so broadly that it could
include anyone who organizes a march against the war in Iraq.
Why the FBI Is Coming After Me: In late
April last year, while I was out at the hair salon, my husband
phoned to tell me that two Department of Homeland Security
agents had arrived at my home in Santa Barbara, Calif., to serve
me with a subpoena.
Prosecutors Deny Padilla's Torture Claim :
Padilla's lawyers last month asked a federal judge to dismiss
the terror support charges against him based on their
allegations that he suffered from ``outrageous government
conduct'' while in military custody for more than 1,300 days.
Election Issues: Ohio's 2006 vote count now
includes a higher percentage of uncounted ballots than in 2004,
and a statistically impossible swing to the Republicans
Global warming may wipe out most birds:
Nearly three quarters of all bird species in northeast Australia
and more than a third in Europe could become extinct unless
efforts to stop global warming are stepped up, a report says.
11/13/06
Are Democrats Turning A Blind Eye to Civil Liberty?
Paul Craig Roberts
Democrats are anxious to get on with their agendas and
have shown no recognition that the first order of business is to
repeal the legislation that permits torture, warrantless
detention and domestic spying.
Continue
“With Great Power…”
By Rick Banales
We must remind these people that until we have the 900-year-old
principle of Habeas Corpus returned in this country – whole,
undiluted, for citizen and non-citizen alike, we really do not
live in America.
Continue
Open Letter to Reps Pelosi and Conyers
We the People are Setting the Table Now
By Cindy Sheehan
We the people put the Democrats back into power because we want
to see a change in this country and a rejection of politics as
usual. We want politics as unusual. We want to see the issue of
impeachment and a speedy and safe withdrawal of our troops from
Iraq de-politicized and brought into the realm of "right and
wrong" where these issues belong, not "right and left."
Continue
Rumsfeld’s long walk into Political Oblivion
By Mike Whitney
Even after being forced to resign in utter disgrace, he
still shows no sign of doubting his abilities as a military
genius. His ego remains as impervious to criticism as tempered
steel.
Continue
Saddam Finale
By Said K. Aburish
What is good for America in Iraq is not necessarily good for
Iraq. Controlling Iraq and using its strategic position, oil and
status within the Arab-Muslim worlds is part of America’s plans
and the weaker Iraq is through religious and ethnic divisions
the easier it is to control.
Continue
Iraq: More Than 41 killed in ongoing U.S. occupation:
U.S.-led occupation troops killed eight suspected "insurgents,"
believed to be linked to members of an al Qaeda cell in Iraq.
Another 16 killed in bus bombing in east Baghdad
:The bombing occurred shortly after midday in the predominantly
Shiite neighborhood of Shaab, police Lt. Ali Muhsin said.
Iraq
reconstruction needs more than $100B: The civil
reconstruction of Iraq will cost at least $100 billion, U.S.
officials in Baghdad told Iraqi contractors who are vying for
some of the work.
Danish journalists on trial for publishing leaked
intelligence reports on Iraq: The reports said
there was no evidence that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction
during Saddam Hussein's rule — one of the main reasons behind
the U.S.-led invasion in 2003.
In case you missed it:
Message of the Iraqi Resistance to the American People:
Propaganda or disinformation? You decide.
Australia: Officials linked to AWB deals:
AWB paid $290 million in kickbacks to Saddam Hussein's regime
between 1999 and 2003, most of which went through Alia,
disguised as trucking fees.
More
than 20 "Taliban" killed in Afghan fighting : Two
trucks carrying "militants" destroyed in eastern province,
official says
Afghan conflict deaths quadruple: More than
3,700 people have died so far this year - about 1,000 of them
civilians. The report also highlights corruption and says that
alienation among the Afghan people is hampering those fighting
the insurgency.
Taliban insurgency gains strength and sophistication:
The insurgency's high level of sophistication has aroused
suspicions that Pakistan has quietly reactivated its old
alliance through its powerful spy agency, Inter-Services
Intelligence (ISI).
Post-Taliban Kabul blossoms for the rich :
The owners of these mansions "are commanders, ministers. It
makes me angry. These people use everything that isn't theirs
and they ruin the houses of the poor people to build their
homes," said Mohammed.
'Taleban law' passed in Pakistan :
Pakistan's North West Frontier Province (NWFP) has passed a bill
setting up a Taleban-style department under a cleric to enforce
Islamic morality.
U.S.-educated professor to lead emerging Palestinian
government: The rival Fatah and Hamas movements on
Monday agreed on a candidate for prime minister of their
emerging coalition government, turning to a U.S.-educated
professor to end months of infighting and help lift a painful
international aid boycott.
Amira Hass : How a Beit Hanun family was destroyed
: The light filtered in through the cloud of dust,
and she saw his blanket was covered by fragments of broken
glass. She pulled it off and found him shaking. "You weren't
hit," she said, urging him to run and join her other children,
May, Rami and Fadi, who fled with her downstairs.
Nobel winners petition Israel to outlaw targeted killing
: Hundreds of Israeli peace activists, joined by three foreign
Nobel laureates, asked the nation's high court to rule against
targeted assassinations carried out by the army in the
Palestinian territories, saying the attacks were killing
civilians.
The Democrats Don't Care: Screw the
Palestinians, Full Steam Ahead
Norman Finkelstein: Peace Not
Apartheid - Jimmy Carter's Roadmap: Peace will
come to Israel and the Middle East only when the Israeli
government is willing to comply with international law, with the
Roadmap for Peace, with official American policy, with the
wishes of a majority of its own citizens--and honors its own
previous commitments--by accepting its legal borders.
South Africa seen as model for
Palestine: The two-state solution remains
attractive and comforting in its apparent simplicity and
finality. But in reality, it has proved unattainable because
neither Palestinians nor Israelis are willing to give up enough
of the country that they love.
Video: Wall of Shame:
The wall being constructed on the West Bank by the Israeli
government is twenty-five feet high. Studded with guard towers
and armaments, and encrusted with high-tech sensors, the wall
cuts across the land, separating Palestinians from their own
farms, their own neighbors, and from the Israeli settlements
which have sprung up rapidly as a result of lavish subsidies
from the Israeli government.
War pimp alert:
'Israel must prepare for full-scale war'
"The challenge from Iran and Syria is now top of the Israeli
defense agenda, higher than the Palestinian one," another
official said.
Bush Meets Israeli Leader, Warns Iran :
President Bush says the world must speak with one voice about
Iran's nuclear ambitions and that Tehran should realize its
continued defiance will lead to sanctions
Bush Calls For Isolation Of Iran :
President Bush, responding to concerns Israeli Prime Minister
Ehud Olmert brought to the White House, called on Monday for
worldwide isolation of Iran until it "gives up its nuclear
ambitions."
U.S. insists no direct talks with Iran :
The United States reiterated on Monday that it will not hold
direct talks with Iran, saying Tehran must first suspend
sensitive nuclear activities.
Call for 'good will' as Iranian nuclear negotiator meets
Putin Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov called
for "good will" on all sides as President Vladimir Putin met
Iran's top nuclear negotiator for talks on Tehran's
controversial nuclear programme.
Israel Detonated a Radioactive Bunker Buster Bomb in
Lebanon: What kind of weapon leaves traces of
radiation & produces such lethal & circumscribed consequences?
Lebanon crisis as Hizbullah quits government:
. "If our resignation doesn't lead to political gains then
we will continue to use democratic means to overthrow this
government," said Ghaleb Abu Zeinab, a senior Hizbullah
politburo member.
Robert Fisk : Lebanon faces new
crisis after walkout by Hizbollah : What prompted
this extraordinary crisis at a time when thousands of foreign
troops are still pouring into Lebanon to secure a peace which
looks ever more self-destructive by the day?
Korea 'spurns ship search plan' : South
Korea will not join a US-led scheme to stop and search
suspicious North Korean ships, officials say
U.S. arms sales overseas doubled in a year:
Sales of military weapons by U.S. contractors to
foreign governments doubled in the past year, as countries
including Pakistan, Australia and Greece stepped up purchases of
armaments and the U.S. government loosened policies to allow
more American weapons to be sold on the world market.
US 'must send inquest witnesses' : The US
military's refusal to send witnesses to inquests of British
troops killed in Iraq has been criticised by the constitutional
affairs minister.
BBC reopens Kelly case with new film: The
corporation is filming a programme about the alleged suspicious
circumstances surrounding Kelly’s death in an Oxfordshire wood.
Leahy aims at restoring habeas corpus: Sen.
Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., is expected to take over as chairman of
the Senate Judiciary Committee, and The (Calif.) Daily Journal
reports that Leahy is drafting a bill to undo portions of the
new law in an effort to restore habeas corpus rights for enemy
combatants.
Pelosi Endorses Murtha as Next Majority Leader:
House Speaker-to-be Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) endorsed Rep. John
P. Murtha (D-Pa.) yesterday as the next House majority leader,
thereby stepping into a contentious intraparty fight between
Murtha and her current deputy, Maryland's Steny H. Hoyer.
Exclusive: U.S. 'Torture Taxis' Make Regular Stops in
Las Vegas: This is the story of so called rendition
planes, otherwise known as torture taxis. They are civilian
aircraft often owned by companies suspected of being fronts for
the CIA. The planes are used to travel abroad, kidnap suspects,
and take them to dark places at the ends of the earth, from
which few ever return.
ATF Raid Nets Militia Man, Weapons Rap: A
machine gun that can fire 550 rounds a minute and assorted 9 mm
Sten submachine guns are stored in the Washington County
militia’s concrete and steel vault, according to information
gathered from an interview conducted by The Morning News
Humor: Rumsfeld? -
Sometimes You Just Have to Laugh!
11/12/06
Cheney’s Revenge
By Mike Whitney
The establishment “old school” Republicans and country club
plutocrats put-together a plan to sabotage the Cheney
administration and put an end to the Iraq debacle.
Continue
The Republicans Took a Dive
By Ezekiel Jones
What explains the curious decline from the high--powered
Republican machine that could snatch victory from the jaws of
defeat in 2000, 2002 and 2004 to the broken down jalopy of 2006
that blew control of both houses of Congress?
Continue
US elections in the 21st century: Voting rights and
voting wrongs
By William Cohn
Does this election vindicate the US political system as
protecting our basic democratic interests?
Continue
In One Word: Massacre
By Uri Avnery
The first revolutionary act is to call things by their
true names, Rosa Luxemburg said. So how to call what happened in
Beit Hanoun?
Continue
A Veteran Remembers
By Howard Zinn
Our decent impulse, to recognize the ordeal of our
veterans, has been used to obscure the fact that they died, they
were crippled, for no good cause other than the power and profit
of a few. Veterans Day, instead of an occasion for denouncing
war, has become an occasion for bringing out the flags, the
uniforms, the martial music, the patriotic speeches reeking with
hypocrisy.
Continue
Iraq: More Than 160 Killed as Bloody U.S. occupation
Grinds On: Four British occupation
force troops were killed in the southern city of Basra. Three
U.S. soldiers died on Saturday from wounds suffered in combat in
the western Anbar province
Suicide Bombs Kill 35 Iraqi Police Recruits:
At least 33 people have been killed in a suicide bomb attack
Sunday morning in occupied Baghdad and police fear the toll will
rise.
Somber
analysis of Iraq's future: The situation in Iraq is
``even worse than we thought,'' with key Iraqi leaders showing
no willingness to compromise to avoid increasing violence, said
Leon Panetta, a member of the high-powered advisory group that
will recommend new options for the war.
Forget democracy and bring home troops, Bush will hear:
A commission of experts appointed by President George W Bush
will advise him to abandon his dream of cementing a new
democratic system in Iraq and instead tackle the security crisis
so that the withdrawal of American troops can begin.
A vicious monster rises in Iraq's sectarian war – 'the
Shia Zarqawi' : As the White House begins to
rethink its policy on Iraq, savage new warlords are battling for
power and the country is starting to splinter
Democrats seeking planned US troop withdrawal from Iraq:
A week after taking control of both houses of Congress,
Democrats on Sunday started talking about a plan to pull US
troops from Iraq in four months from now, but the White House
said the idea might be harmful to US national security.
Confession of Chalabi’s top assistance: An
American Army colonel, Ted Seal, was assigned to be with Chalabi
and his fighters as a liaison officer, and every day he would
get on the phone and report back to CENTCOM the status of
Chalabi’s fighters, unvetted. A lot of them were from Iran, by
the way — Iraqis who had fled to Iran.
ACLU Applauds Rumsfeld’s Resignation,: The
American Civil Liberties Union today applauded Donald Rumsfeld’s
resignation from his post as Defense Secretary, and called on
Congress to investigate the gross abuse of power committed under
his watch.
That way son: By nominating Robert Gates to
the Pentagon, Bush Jr was reduced to asking one of his father’s
closest friends to clean up the mess. What was Gates’s last job?
As president of Texas A&M University, Gates hosted Poppy’s own
presidential library. What was his previous claim to fame? Poppy
had appointed him CIA director.
Foreigners among 60 "insurgents" killed in occupied
Afghanistan: A NATO and Afghan operation that has
now ended killed more than 60 "Taliban-linked rebels" over six
days, a provincial governor said, adding that Chechen and Arab
fighters were among the dead.
Afghan violence up sharply: Afghanistan
suffers more than 600 cases of terrorist or insurgent-related
violence a month, a fourfold increase from last year, according
to a report released Sunday.
In case you missed it:
Powell aide: Torture 'guidance' from VP: A former
top State Department official said Sunday that Vice President
Dick Cheney provided the "philosophical guidance" and
"flexibility" that led to the torture of detainees in U.S.
facilities.
Palestinian killed by Israel fire, another dies of
wounds : Israeli occupation troops on Sunday fired
a land-to-land missile and killed a Palestinian young man north
of Beit Lahia, in the Gaza Strip, while another Palestinian
succumbed to serious wounds suffered in the Israeli shelling of
Beit Hanun on 8/11.
Palestinian FM accepts proposal for Palestinian-Israeli
peace conference : The Arab League called Sunday
for an international peace conference with Israel, and diplomats
said the Hamas-led Palestinian government accepted.
Nixed
Signals: When Hamas hinted at peace, U.S. media
wouldn’t take the message
Arab FMs lash out at the US veto against the Arab draft
U.N. resolution: Arab foreign ministers on Sunday
denounced on Sunday the U.S. veto against an Arab draft
resolution to the U.N. Security Council on the situation in
Gaza.
How Israel put Gaza civilians in firing line:
Israeli military commanders drastically reduced the 'safety'
margins that separate artillery targets from the built-up
civilian areas of Gaza earlier this year, despite being warned
that the new policy risked increasing Palestinian civilian
deaths and injuries, The Observer can reveal.
Beit Hanoun: Massacre or
Technical Error?: Video: Israel killed 19
civilians, including 7 children. And like in Cana, Lebanon, in
August, where 28 civilians died, and after it killed 4 unarmed
UN observers, it is claiming a "technical mistake"
Ahmed Amr: Listen
Carefully to Condi’s Silence on Beit Hanoun :
Collective punishment is the law of the land in the occupied
territories. Israel does it because Israel gets a license to do
it from the great white father in Washington. Gaza has lived in
darkness for an entire summer on account of the IDF’s malicious
destruction of its power plants. The pitch-black nights are
perfect cover for nightly raids by Israeli death squads.
In case you missed it:
List of U.S. Vetoes of UN Resolutions Critical of Israel
- (1972-2006)
Arab Nations To Lift Financial Blockade On Palestine
: Arab nations on Sunday decided to lift the financial
blockade on Palestine following the US veto on a U.N. Security
Council draft resolution on Saturday
A Dissenting Note on the
Balfour Declaration of November 2, 1917: On the Anti-Semitism of
the Present Government: As the one Jewish Minister
in the Government I may be allowed by my colleagues an
opportunity of expressing views which may be peculiar to myself,
but which I hold very strongly and which I must ask permission
to express when opportunity affords.
AIPAC Builds
Ties With New Lawmakers: AIPAC reached nearly every
lawmaker elected in Tuesday’s mid-term congressional elections
as part of its effort to educate political candidates on the
value of the U.S.-Israel relationship.
4 Minute Video:
Scott Ritter describes Israel's role in shaping U.S. Foreign
policy
In case you missed it:
Peace, Propaganda & the Promised Land: Video:
How Israel manipulates and distorts American public perceptions
Number of Jewish lawmakers worldwide reaches record high
: The United States is still only in third place worldwide for
the number of Jewish legislators, after Israel and Britain.
Poll: One-third of American voters believe in Christian
Zionism: The Council for the
National Interest has just conducted a Zogby International poll
that reveals that nearly a third (31 percent) of likely American
voters believe in Christian Zionism, as defined as "a belief
that Israel must have all of the promised land, including
Jerusalem, to facilitate the second coming of the messiah."
Israeli PM Begins 5-Day US Trip : The main
topics of discussion between Olmert and the US leaders are
expected to be Iran's nuclear ambitions and its threat to Israel
as well as the Israeli-Palestinian relations.
Israel's Olmert says Iran should "pay dearly" if it
continues its nuclear program: The international
community must make clear to Iran that it will "pay dearly" if
it does not halt its nuclear program, Ehud Olmert said in an
interview published Saturday, a day before the Israeli leader
was to arrive in Washington
White House calls Iran, Hezbollah a `global nexus of
terrorism` : White House spokesman Tony Snow issued
a statement saying the Islamic republic was responsible for the
deaths of hundreds of innocent civilians as the world's "leading
state sponsor of terrorism." It gave no specifics.
Israel warned off nuclear 'folly' : Iran's
foreign ministry spokesman has warned Tehran will not hesitate
to retaliate with a crushing blow if Israel attacks its nuclear
sites.
Oil revenues fuel resistance to
U.S.: Iran, Venezuela and Russia are flush with
petroleum money, a buffer allowing them to challenge perceived
American dominance.
Lockerbie
trial was a CIA fix, US intelligence insider claims:
THE CIA manipulated the Lock erbie trial and lied about the
strength of the prosecution case to get a result that was
politically convenient for America, according to a former US
State Department lawyer.
Outrage at
London sting by US spies: - Undercover American
agents are staging secret 'sting' operations in Britain against
criminal and terrorist suspects they want to extradite to the
US.
Beware: George Bush's secret agents can now arrrest us
in our own country: The Government
last week cravenly surrendered control of the independence of
our criminal justice system to the United States.
Open letter: Attacks on Muslims : We
express our solidarity with all people in Britain of the Muslim
faith, affirm their right to dress as they please and live their
lives in peace and security.
Britain monitoring hundreds who plot "active terrorism":
British spies are watching 1,600 people in 200 cells believed to
be plotting terrorist acts in Britain or overseas, according to
the head of Britain's domestic spy agency.
Vietnamese court convicts three U.S. citizens, on
terrorism charges: It said the scheme was hatched
by the "Government of Free Vietnam," a Garden Grove, California,
organization that the Vietnamese government considers a
terrorist group.
In case you missed it:
Golden
State Terrorists: What do Somalia, Yemen, Sudan,
the Philippines, Iraq, and Garden Grove and Long Beach,
California have in common? They all appear to be harboring
terrorists of one stripe or another
Former B-2 Bomber Engineer Accused of More Spying:
Noshir Gowadia, one of the lead engineers on the B-2 project,
was originally indicted in November 2005 for allegedly selling
information about the B-2 to China; the new indictment charges
that his lust for money went even further as he shopped U.S.
defense secrets to individuals in Israel, Germany and
Switzerland, as well China.
Social Security Data a Major Source in Terrorism Probes:
Since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, the Social Security
Administration's vast databases of personal information have
become a resource for federal investigators
Global growth in carbon emissions is 'out of control':
The growth in global emissions of carbon dioxide from fossil
fuels over the past five years was four times greater than for
the preceding 10 years, according to a study that exposes
critical flaws in the attempts to avert damaging climate change.
11/11/06
Here come the odious excuses
By Robert Fisk
The philosophers behind the bloodbath in Iraq are now washing
their hands.
Continue
US
vetoes UN draft
condemning Israel's
killing of civilians
By Gerard Aziakou
The United States vetoed an Arab-sponsored draft
resolution in the UN Security Council that would have condemned
Israel's deadly attack in the Gaza Strip, calling the text
"unbalanced" and "biased."
Continue
Video - Shows Casualties Of Israel's Attack On
Palestinian Civilians
Beit Hanoun Massacre, Nov 8, 2006
Here are just some of the victims of Israel's
attack on Palestinian civilians. The U.S. has vetoed a UN
resolution condemning the the attack.
Click to view
Campus Conflict
Video Investigation
How the Israeli lobby uses intimidation to prevent academic
freedom in the U.S.
Video and
Transcript
The Bush Administration's Torture of U.S. Citizen Jose
Padilla
By Glenn Greenwald
In an effort to gain Mr. Padilla’s "dependency and trust," he
was tortured for nearly the entire three years and eight months
of his unlawful detention. The torture took myriad forms, each
designed to cause pain, anguish, depression and, ultimately, the
loss of will to live.
Continue
Iraq; At least 34 killed in another bloody day of U.S.
occupation: Police found five bodies, including a
woman, bearing signs of torture and bullet wounds, in different
parts of Baghdad, Interior Ministry sources said.
Compare
bloodshed. Saddam is then the moral victor, not
Bush: How easily we in the West can now afford to chortle at the
petty defiant antics of Saddam Hussein as he struts his final
hours on the Baghdad courtroom stage.
US vetoes UN draft
condemning Israel's killing of civilians: The
United States vetoed an Arab-sponsored draft resolution in the
UN Security Council that would have condemned Israel's deadly
attack in the Gaza Strip, calling the text "unbalanced" and
"biased."
Palestinians: US veto backs Israel massacre
: The Hamas-led Palestinian government said on Saturday that
the United States’ veto of a UN Security Council resolution
condemning Israel’s attack that killed 19 Palestinians showed
the US backed Israel’s action.
Hamas to end rule to get aid flowing :
Prime minister says he'll resign, let new government form
Treacherous
Road to Oslo Begins Here:
Hamas, a government under siege, backed by most
Palestinians, is losing its grip on power; the Palestinian
economy is in complete tatters; factionalism and chaos are
taking hold to the point that iniquitous civil war predictions
are becoming part of mainstream life in Gaza.
In Washington: Really helping Israel: One
of the reasons Israel is rarely an issue in House and Senate
campaigns is that Congress only considers one significant piece
of legislation relating to Israel every year. That is the Israel
aid package, which is itself part of the overall foreign aid
bill.
How serious is the threat of terrorism? :
The head of the security service has given a stark warning that
her organisation is tracking 30 UK terror plots and 1,600
individuals. How safe do you feel?
Breathing the 'I' word: Though Democrats'
gains on Tuesday were hard fought, they still pulled one big
punch during the campaign. Party leaders chose to refrain from
publicly uttering any "i" words -- investigation, immunity, and
above all, impeachment -- and to dismiss those who did, for fear
of somehow galvanizing disaffected GOP voters.
11/10/06
War on Iran
Unleashing Armageddon in the Middle East
By Dr. Elias Akleh
The powder keg is ready and all it needs is a match to
ignite it. This could come in the form of an “arranged”
terrorist act in Lebanon – e.g. another political assassination
or toppling of government- to be blamed against Syria and Iran.
American warnings of such an act are already in the media.
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Gunning for Iran
Video Documentary
Exposed : Where The U.S. gets its "intelligence" about Iran's
nuclear program.
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Iraq disaster
warning
By William S. Lind
An attack on Iran will not be an invasion with ground troops. We
don't have enough of those left to invade Ruritania. It will be
a "package" of air and missile strikes, by U.S. forces or
Israel. - The Democrats taking either or both Houses of
Congress, if it happens, will not make any difference. They
would rather have the Republicans start and lose another war
than prevent a national disaster. Politics comes first and the
country second.
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I doubt there
is guilt
By John Chuckman
The Democratic Party has been all but dead for years as a
meaningful national alternative. The party has no recognized
national leader. It has no cause, no fire in the belly. It has
been largely silent for six years while Bush rampaged through
the world and literally peed on American liberties like a
grotesquely-smirking, small-town sheriff.
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'Iraq: Legacy of Hate' : The Lost Generation
Video Documentary By Channel 4 - UK
'Iraq: The Lost Generation' opens a window onto the hidden world
of Iraqi youth, revealing the brutalisation and psychological
trauma of living under military occupation. It reveals how the
people with whom the future of Iraq rests, are reacting with
anger, aggression and, in some cases, violence.
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Cheney in a
Box
By Mike Whitney
The Democrats didn’t win anything; that’s all hogwash.
Bush was buried beneath an avalanche of bad news. It was a
carefully-coordinated coup intended to install “adults” (like
Robert Gates) in positions of power, change the policy in Iraq,
and remove Rumsfeld and Cheney from office.
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Nightmare
in Beit Hanoun
How Gaza Offends Us All
By Jennifer Loewenstein
An opened jaw with yellowed teeth gaped out of its bloodied
shroud. The rest of the head parts were wrapped in a plastic bag
placed atop the jaw and nostrils, as if to be close to the place
to which it once belonged.
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Reports say 220 dead in Chad clashes: More
than 220 people have been killed, many injured and their village
huts razed in clashes between Arab and non-Arab tribes in
eastern Chad, local villagers told a UN assessment team in the
region
At least 24 killed in ongoing U.S. occupation of Iraq:
Three American soldiers were killed in two separate incidents in
Iraq, the military said on Friday.
Iraq: 6 killed, 18 wounded in suicide attack:
At least six Iraqi soldiers were killed and 10 wounded when a
suicide bomber drove his explosives-rigged car into an army
checkpoint in the northern city of Tal Afar on Friday, the
military said.
Iraqi health
minister: ‘150,000 civilians killed in war’ : A
stunning new death count emerged Thursday, as Iraq's health
minister estimated 150,000 civilians have been killed in the war
-- about three times previously accepted estimates.
Staggering New Bill For Iraq :The U.S.
armed services have requested a $160 billion supplemental
appropriation to fund the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan in the
remainder of fiscal year 2007
Mubarak warns on Saddam execution :
Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak has warned that hanging former
Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein will lead to even more bloodshed in
Iraq.
Exclusive:
Charges Sought Against Rumsfeld Over Prison Abuse:
A lawsuit in Germany will seek a criminal prosecution of the
outgoing Defense Secretary and other U.S. officials for their
alleged role in abuses at Abu Ghraib and Gitmo
Coalition of
Antiwar, Veteran Groups Launching National Movement to Impeach
Bush and Cheney: On Saturday, a coalition of groups
are meeting near Independence Hall in Philadelphia to announce
plans to mobilize a national movement to impeach President Bush
and Vice President Dick Cheney. Audio and transcript
Fighting empire: An interview with former US Attorney
General Ramsey Clark: Just government is a
commitment to fulfil human need wherever it exists and prevent
violence wherever it threatens. The present US administration is
the antithesis of that.
U.S. vote embarrasses allies: America's
rejection of President George W. Bush's Iraq policy is a slap in
the face for his allies, but it may give Prime Minister Tony
Blair a chance to improve his standing at home by discussing
exit options.
18 "Taliban" killed by NATO occupation forces:
: Afghan soldiers backed by Nato forces and warplanes killed 18
Taliban militants in a series of clashes in south-eastern
Afghanistan, the alliance said on Friday.
Israel accused of 'state terrorism': Riyad
Mansour, the Palestinian UN observer, told an emergency UN
Security Council meeting on Thursday: "This is terrorism, this
is state terrorism. "These are war crimes for which the
perpetrators must be held accountable under international law."
UN: Israeli Occupation Forces killed 116 children in
2006: UNICEF says 17 children killed in Gaza, and 2
in West Bank so far in November, 40 killed in July
Kahane supporters praise Gaza killings as 'holy':
Supporters of assassinated rabbi Meir Kahane hold ceremony to
commemorate killed rabbi, say 'holy canon' fired shells at
family in Beit Hanoun in which 18 Palestinians died on Wednesday
Gilad Atzmon:
Deconstructing David Grossman: If He Is Israeli Left, Who Needs
Right?: : Though the man is seen by some as an
Israeli left intellectual, I see in his speech nothing but hard
core Jewish supremacy and even maintenance of the old crude
Zionist racial agenda.
Deputy Defense Minister: Israel may be forced to attack
Iran : Deputy Defense Minister Ephraim Sneh
suggested in comments published Friday that Israel might be
forced to launch a military strike against Iran's nuclear
program - the clearest statement yet of this possibility from a
high-ranking Israeli official.
Olmert to Focus on Iran in Visit to U.S. :
"The prime minister is going to be focusing on the Iranian issue
- how to get the world on path with what are essentially very
similar views between the United States and Israel," said Olmert
spokeswoman Miri Eisin.
Cleric
Details CIA Abduction, Egyptian Torture:
In an account smuggled out of prison, a radical Muslim
cleric has detailed how he was kidnapped by the CIA from this
northern Italian city and flown to Cairo, where he was tortured
for months with electric shocks and shackled to an iron rack
known as "the Bride."
Sweden Violated Torture Ban in CIA Rendition:
The United Nations’ ruling that Sweden violated the global
torture ban in its involvement in the CIA transfer of an asylum
seeker to Egypt is an important step toward establishing
accountability for European governments complicit in illegal US
renditions, Human Rights Watch said today.
The CIA, the MCA, and Detainee Abuse:
Everyone knows that after the crime, comes the cover-up. In this
case, the government is not only taking aggressive steps to
prevent its crimes from coming to light, it has also tried to
ensure that when and if these crimes come to public attention,
the perpetrators are protected from punishment.
Bolton unlikely to hold U.N. ambassador post:
Sen. Lincoln Chafee, R-R.I., who holds the swing vote that would
determine whether the evenly split Foreign Relations Committee
reconsiders Bolton, said he would not support the nomination,
which the White House resubmitted Thursday.
Howard Zinn on activism: Audio MP3 - There is
nothing more satisfying than to participate with other people in
a struggle or a good cause. That whatever sacrifices may be
required of you, whatever troubles you may go through, whatever
threats may be made to you, once you have been part of such a
movement, you will never forget it. It will be a high point of
your life.
Paul Krugman:
The Great Revulsion : I'm not feeling giddy as much
as greatly relieved. O.K., maybe a little giddy. Give 'em hell,
Harry and Nancy!
U.S. seeks better ties by aiding militaries
: Concern about leftist victories in Latin America has prompted
President Bush to quietly grant a waiver that allows the United
States to resume training militaries from 11 Latin American and
Caribbean countries.
Venezuela's Chavez applauds Rumsfeld's resignation, says
Bush should quit too: Chavez pointed to the strong
gains by Democrats in U.S. congressional elections and called it
a "reprisal vote" against Bush's policies and the Iraq war. The
leftist leader beamed as he read aloud a news report of
Rumsfeld's resignation.
Video shows
LA police beating suspect: The video shows two
officers punching William Cardenas in the face while he
struggles. David Willis reports from Los Angeles. - Viewers may
find the footage in this report disturbing
Homeland Security Creates Terrorism Score for Travelers:
What's your terrorism quotient? U.S. Customs and Border Patrol
agents will know with a newly announced Automated Targeting
System, a data mining system which will use the Treasury's watch
list (.pdf), data provided to it by the airlines, your I-94 form
and other data sources to compute your terrorism risk when you
cross the border.
18,000 votes in U.S. House race may be lost:
Thousands of votes were either not counted or not cast in
Sarasota's nationally watched congressional race.
11/09/06
Saddam: Let's
now charge the accomplices
By John Pilger
Why isn't George Bush Snr being charged? In 1992, a
congressional inquiry found that Bush as president had ordered a
cover-up to conceal his secret support for Saddam and the
illegal arms shipments being sent to Iraq via third countries.
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Journalists' Coverage of Middle East Shallow and
Distorted
By Robert Fisk
Journalists in the "West" should feel a burden of guilt for much
that has happened in the Middle East because they have, with
their gullibility, sold a fictitious version of events.
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Hubris followed
by nemesis: The verdict on perhaps the worst presidency in US
history
By Rupert Cornwell
That old Bush self-certainty and swagger ('In Texas, we
call it walking') is dead and buried.
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Will the Democrats Become Part of the Problem?
Paul Craig Roberts
If the Democrats are to make a real difference, their first task
is to repeal the Orwellian-named “Patriot Acts,” the torture
legislation, the detention without court evidence legislation,
and the right-to-spy and invade privacy without court warrant
legislation. The White House tyrant needs to be quickly told
that one more “signing statement” and he will be impeached,
convicted, and turned over to the War Crimes Tribunal at the
Hague.
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Our Long National Nightmare Has Just Begun
By Ted Rall
As ugly secrets surface, Bushists will turn desperate.
Democracy has failed their grand schemes; token resignations
like Rumsfeld's come too little, too late. Only tyranny can save
their skins. Will the beleaguered neocons led by Cheney and
Bush, cornered like rats, unleash their brand-new police state
on their political opponents? Or will they tough it out and suck
up the fines and prison sentences to come? The next year or two
could go either way.
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War Crimes Suit Prepared Against Rumsfeld
By Democracy Now!
The president of the Center for Constitutional Rights,
Michael Ratner, is heading to Germany today to file a new case
charging outgoing Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld with war
crimes for authorizing torture at Guantanamo Bay.
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The Deeper Reality Behind Rumsfeld's Resignation
By Chris Floyd
As Don Rumsfeld is tossed overboard by the panicky
Bushes (who value loyalty to themselves above all other virtues
but never, ever, practice it toward others; there will be many
more bodies left behind as the Family rallies to clean up
Junior's mess again)
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Rumsfeld: Virgin For The Volcano
By Greg Palast
President Bush is one lucky fella. I can imagine him
today on the intercom with Cheney: "Well, pardner, looks like
the game's up." And Cheney replies, "Hey, just hang Rummy out
the window until he's taken all their ammo."
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Bush’s Chernobyl Economy;
hard times are on the way
By Mike Whitney
In the next few months, a financial crisis will arise somewhere
in the world which will jolt the American economy and trigger a
swift and precipitous decline in the value of the dollar.
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We overcame our
fear
The unarmed women of the Gaza Strip have taken
the lead in resisting Israel's latest bloody assault
By Jameela al-Shanti in Beit Hanoun
11/09/06 "The Guardian" -- -- Yesterday at dawn, the Israeli air
force bombed and destroyed my home. I was the target, but
instead the attack killed my sister-in-law, Nahla, a widow with
eight children in her care.
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News Reports Capture Courage Of Palestinian Women
4 Minute Video
"Israeli troops fired at a crowd of women"
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At least 41 killed in ongoing bloody U.S. occupation:
A total of six people were shot dead, including a police
officer, in Mosul, 390 km (240 miles) north of Baghdad, a
medical source said.
29 Bodies Found Scattered Around Baghdad:
Police in Baghdad found 29 bodies around the capital in the last
24 hours with gunshot wounds and signs of torture, an Interior
Ministry source said.
Baghdad car bomb blast kills six, wounds 28: A car
bomb in central Baghdad killed six people and wounded 28 more on
Thursday, an interior ministry source said.
US was warned of Iraq chaos, says ex-diplomat
: He claimed that when official documents from the Foreign
Office are made public, they will prove that the view of British
officials, repeatedly conveyed to the Americans, was that
overthrowing Saddam Hussein would cause chaos.
Dahr Jamai: Bechtel's billions down the drain
: The decision of the giant engineering company Bechtel to
withdraw from Iraq has left many Iraqis feeling betrayed. In the
company's departure, they see the end of remaining hopes for the
reconstruction of Iraq.
Baghdad's 'missing' billions : "I think
we're looking at a huge scandal. The CPA handed over $8.8bn in
cash to the Iraqi government even though that new government had
no security or accounting system. "No one can account for it. We
don't know who got that money," Mr Waxman said.
UN watchdog: $22 mln missing in Iraq contracts:
An audit of 15 noncompetitive contracts paid for by U.S.
government agencies with Iraqi oil money was unable to account
for $22.4 million in funds
34 "Taliban" killed in clashes in occupied Afghanistan:
Clashes between "insurgents" and NATO-led and Afghan troops have
left 34 Taliban and three policemen dead in the latest violence
in Afghanistan.
28 suspected Taliban die in Nato-led airstrikes:
Nato launched airstrikes as clashes in the southern Afghan
province of Kandahar killed 28 suspected Taliban militants, the
police said on Thursday
Taliban kill 5 Afghan soldiers, destroy 2 tanks : A
number of US soldiers were reportedly killed in a clash with the
Taliban in southern Afghanistan.
Anger as Gaza buries its dead: Tens of
thousands of Palestinians wept and screamed for revenge as they
buried 18 civilians killed by Israeli shelling in a massive
funeral in Gaza on Thursday.
US to veto int’l probe on Gaza attack:
United States expected to veto Security Council decision against
Israel regarding recent IDF operations in occupied Gaza
Venezuela's Chavez condemns IDF shelling in Gaza:
"This morning Israel again, against UN resolutions, began
bombing Gaza ... sleeping children and their mothers perished,"
Chavez said at a news conference with foreign journalists.
Israeli forces beat schoolchildren in occupied
Jerusalem: More than 25 female and male school
students were beaten, amongst them 8 female students, who were
fiercely beaten, causing one of them to lose consciousness.
French troops almost fired at Israel jets: minister:
French peacekeeping troops in Lebanon recently came within two
seconds of firing missiles at Israeli fighter jets that
approached as if to attack them, French Defense Minister Michele
Alliot-Marie said.
Are Democrats' gains in House good for Israel?:
Supporters of Israel are expected to lean heavily on the party's
incoming House Democratic leadership
Pelosi’s support for Israel: With Pelosi as
speaker, Jewish activists and officials are confident that the
U.S. Congress will remain strongly pro-Israel.
In case you missed it:
Nancy Pelosi Gives A Pep Talk To AIPAC: The speech
affords a up-close look at what Pelosi thinks about Israel, the
Palestinians, the Mideast, and nukes.
John Bolton
Likely to Depart U.N. : U.S. ambassador to the
United Nations John Bolton will likely leave his post next
month. - "The Bolton nomination will not get voted on," Senate
Minority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., reportedly has told
colleagues.
Bush Crony to Head UN's Food Program : US
Ambassador John Bolton once again breached UN protocol in New
York, this time by prematurely announcing the appointment of
former Washington Times editor Josette Shiner to head the World
Food Program.
Peter Phillips : Human
Rights Denial Deserves Impeachment: Human Rights
belong to people collectively. To believe in rights for some and
not others is a denial of the humanness of people worldwide.
Yet, denial is exactly what Congress and George W. Bush did with
the signing of the Military Commission Act of 2006.
Outlawed: Video: Extraordinary Rendition, Torture and
Disappearances in the "War on Terror" : Human
rights groups and several public inquiries in Europe have found
the U.S. government, with the complicity of numerous governments
worldwide, to be engaged in the illegal practice of
extraordinary rendition, secret detention, and torture.
Rumsfeld replacement (Robert Gates) was director of
voting company : I don't know about you, but I'd
rather use a paper, pencil, and count by hand at the polling
place than have former CIA director Robert Gates fooling around
with my vote.
Tariq Ali: Bolívar's dream:
A shadow of his former self, Ortega's victory is still an
expression of the wider demand for change sweeping Latin America
Colombian rebels want Denzel Washington, Oliver Stone,
Michael Moore to help negotiate with government:
"To the people of the United States, we ask for your always
generous solidarity to pressure President Bush and his
government to support a prisoner exchange in Colombia," said
Raul Reyes, the chief spokesman for the FARC
One day cock of the walk, the next a feather duster:
Allen concedes in Virginia Senate race: Republican
Sen. George Allen conceded defeat Thursday to Democrat Jim Webb,
sealing the Democrats’ control of Congress and the political
downfall of a man once considered a White House contender
US Court grants AT&T, govt. appeal in spy case:
The U.S. government and AT&T Inc (T.N: Quote, Profile,
Research), fighting against a lawsuit accusing the telephone
operator of illegally allowing the government to monitor
telephones and e-mails, won the right to argue for dismissal of
the case before a U.S. Appeals Court on Tuesday.
In case you missed it:
The Doomsday Code: Tony Robinson
investigates the people with powerful political friends in the
White House, who are trying to bring about the end of the world.
Julia Bard reports.
11/08/06
Plebiscite on
an Outlaw Empire
Outlaw Empire Meets the Wave
By Tom Engelhardt
The wave -- and make no mistake, it's a global one -- has just
crashed on our shores, soaking our imperial masters. It's a
sight for sore eyes.
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Voting in the
absence of Choice
By Charles Sullivan
The corporate financing of political campaigns is, in fact, a
capital investment in the status quo that benefits the wealthy
and marginalizes those with neither wealth nor property. That
explains why substantive change is rarely accomplished through
the vote in America. It also explains the remarkable consistency
and homogeneity of governmental policy through the decades;
domestic and foreign, regardless of which party is in power.
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Election 2006: Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up To Me
By Chris Floyd
If anyone thinks the horrors of the Bush Imperium are somehow at
an end – or will even be seriously impaired – by the results of
yesterday's election, they have a harsh and bitter awakening to
come.
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The Fire Next Time
By Morton Skorodin
It was no fluke that the reckless faction of the ruling
elite picked up the ball and ran with it – the neoconservatives
with their Project for a New American Century. These geniuses
had and, presumably, still have the utopian plan of establishing
permanent military predominance over the whole world.
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A brutal taste
of the future
The assault on Beit Hanoun is a
terrifying example of what lies in store for Palestinians
By Sami Abdel-Shafi in Gaza City
The initiation of Avigdor Lieberman - widely regarded as an
outright racist - into Ehud Olmert's Israeli government seems to
have already brought a taste of things to come. For the past
week, the Gaza Strip city of Beit Hanoun has been made a ground
zero by the Israeli army. By yesterday, more than 260
Palestinians lay dead and injured, with 53 fatalities - women,
children and ambulance drivers among them.
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raq: At least 52 killed as U.S. occupation grinds on:
- Police found six bodies with gunshot wounds in different parts
of Mosul, 390 km (240 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.
21 killed in apparent tit-for-tat mortar attacks in
occupied Baghdad: The attack appeared to have been
in response to mortar fire on a Sunni neighborhood across the
Tigris River earlier in the day that killed seven people and
wounded 25.
Mortar Kills 8 at Baghdad Soccer Field :
Mortar rounds strike soccer field in Baghdad Shiite district,
killing 8 and wounding 20
1,500 Baathists killed in south :
Assassinating former members of Saddam Hussein’s Baath Party is
going on unabated particularly in southern Iraq, according to an
independent group monitoring human rights in Iraq.
Juba the Baghdad sniper eclipses Saddam's call for
reconciliation: Juba, whose name is taken from an
African death dance, is shown marking off his kills on a wall
before he lays down his sniper rifle. He then writes an ode to
Allah (God) and calls on Iraqis to fight the crusaders and Jews.
In case you missed it:
Juma: Iraqi Resistance Propaganda Video:
Juma, An Iraqi Sniper is said to be responsible for the deaths
of over 100 U.S. military personnel.
Bush: Donald Rumsfeld Stepping Down:
President Bush announced Rumsfeld's departure and Gates'
nomination at an afternoon news conference. Administration
officials notified congressional officials in advance.
Iraq exit the No 1 priority for Rumsfeld successor:
Robert Gates, the 63-year-old career intelligence officer chosen
to replace Donald Rumsfeld at the Pentagon, takes over with the
clearest of missions: get American troops out of Iraq as quickly
and cleanly as possible.
Who
is Robert Michael Gates : Involvement in the Iran-Contra
Scandal: Owing to his senior status in the CIA,
Gates was close to many figures who played significant roles in
the Iran/contra affair and was in a position to have known of
their activities.
Robert Gates: A New Perspective on Iran?:
Whatever else he may bring to his new job at the Pentagon,
Robert Gates apparently holds a view on the highly sensitive
subject of relations with Iran that hasn’t been embraced by all
his new colleagues in the Bush administration.
Justin Raimondo : The Antiwar Wave : The antiwar
wave that has been rising for months crashed and broke over the
heads of the Republican Party, sweeping away all but the most
entrenched incumbents. This election, in the broadest sense, was
a referendum on the Iraq war – and the results are a dramatic
rebuke to the War Party.
UK's Iraq policy 'a rank disaster' :
British policy in Iraq has been a "rank disaster", a former
diplomat told MPs on Wednesday as he pledged to reveal secret
evidence about the war.
A shameful vote in the House of Commons :
On Tuesday 31 October MPs missed an historic opportunity to pass
judgement on the Iraq war.The following MPs voted with the
government
S.Lanka rebels say army firing kills 45 civilians:
Sri Lanka's Tamil Tiger rebels said 45 civilians were killed and
125 hurt on Wednesday when army artillery fire hit a camp for
internally displaced, as renewed civil war deepens.
Over 100 Civilians dead and injured : Over
100 persons have been killed or injured in an artillery
(multi-barrel rocket) attack by the Sri Lanka Armed Forces in
Vaharai, Batticaloa District. Forty (40) bodies have been
recovered including 6 babies between the ages of 3 and 6 months.
76 persons have been admitted to the hospital.
Suicide bomber kills 42 soldiers in Pakistan:
A suicide bomber killed 42 Pakistani soldiers at an army
training ground on Wednesday in an attack the military said was
linked to a bloody army assault on a militant camp last week.
Pakistani Taliban claim responsibility as Musharraf
condemns suicide attack: Pakistani Taliban have
claimed responsibility for the suicide attack in an army camp,
which killed some 40 recruit soldiers, a regional TV channel
reported.
NATO kills 15 rebels in occupied Afghanistan:
NATO-occupation troops aided by military aircraft killed 15
suspected rebels in eastern Afghanistan
Afghan violence leaves five dead, including Nato
occupation force soldier : The latest in a wave of
attacks blamed on Taleban fighters in Afghanistan has left five
people dead, including a foreign soldier.
4 militants killed, 2 detained in occupied Afghanistan
: A joint operation conducted by Afghan and NATO occupation
forces in Afghanistan's eastern Paktika province has led to the
killing of four "insurgents" and arresting of two others, a
statement of the Afghan Defense Ministry said Wednesd
Massacre in Beit Hanoun: Israeli occupation
forces kill 24 Palestinians, including women and 8 children.
Bloodbath
in Gaza: Hamas Urges Attacks Against America: Hamas'
exiled leader, Khaled Mashaal, says a 2005 truce with Israel is
finished and appealed to all Palestinian factions to resume
attacks: "There must be a roaring reaction so that we avenge all
those victims." Israeli tank shells ripped through a residential
neighborhood in the northern Gaza Strip early Wednesday, killing
at least 18 members of an extended family, including eight
children as they slept
Survivors tell harrowing tales of Israeli barrage:
Scorched fragments of clothes, a girl's slipper and
body parts lay strewn in pools of blood in front of a row of
houses that was riddled by what witnesses said was an Israeli
artillery strike today while Palestinian residents slept.
Gaza media: It's Palestine's Qana massacre:
"We pulled out bodies, all women and children, dismembered,
without heads or hands," says Khaled Abu Saada, a Palestinian
ambulance driver who evacuated the wounded to hospitals
International Red Cross 'appalled' by deaths in Gaza:
The international Red Cross said it was "appalled" that 18
people — mostly women and children — had been killed during
Israeli military operations Wednesday in the northern Gaza
Strip.
Study: 57 unarmed Palestinian minors killed by IDF since
June : A third of unarmed Palestinians killed
during IDF operations in the Gaza Strip since the abduction of
Gilad Shalit have been minors, according to a new report
prepared by Physicians for Human Rights, to be published
Wednesday.
Israel:
Divorce America, Marry Russia:
Although few Israelis realize it, Israel has strategic options
that it didn't have 15 years ago. In many respects, Russia is a
much more suitable partner for Israel than the US.
Prosecutors renew extradition request for Americans in
alleged CIA kidnapping: Prosecutors have renewed
their request for Italy to ask Washington to extradite 26
Americans in the alleged CIA kidnapping of an Egyptian cleric in
Milan in 2003, a prosecutor in the northern city said Tuesday
CIA aircraft made 80 flights in UK air space, claims MP:
It has been claimed that CIA is using Britain's air space to
carry out "extraordinary rendition" – secret, international
transfers of terrorism suspects across the world.
Senate in balance as Bush battered :
Americans delivered a sharp rebuke to President George Bush and
the Republican leadership in Congress, sweeping Democrats into
power in the House for the first time in a dozen years and
dismantling most if not all of the Republican Senate majority.
Ortega wins Nicaraguan presidency: With 91%
of the ballot counted, Mr Ortega had 38% of the votes compared
with 29% for his rival Eduardo Montealegre. Under Nicaraguan
law, the winner of Sunday's election must have 35% of the vote
and a lead of 5 percentage points to avoid a runoff vote.
Venezuela, Guatemala Give Up Battle for Security Council
Seat, Choose Panama : Venezuela and Guatemala have
ended their battle for an open U.N. Security Council seat from
Latin America. Both countries agreed to withdraw in favor of
Panama.
Chávez speech haunts Venezuela oil firm in U.S.:
In the weeks since his Sept. 20 speech and his comments the next
day at a New York City church referring to Bush as "an alcoholic
and a sick man," momentum has been building for a fledgling U.S.
boycott of Citgo.
Superbug brought back by Iraq war casualties ::
He said the exact source of the infection had not been
identified but US casualties returning to America had also been
found to be carrying the superbug.
Australia suffers worst drought in 1,000 years:
Depleted reservoirs, failed crops and arid farmland spark global
warming tussle
11/07/07
Here's how the 2006
mid-term election was stolen.
Note the past tense. And I'm not kidding.
By Greg Palast
And shoot me for saying this, but it won't be stolen by
jerking with the touch-screen machines (though they'll do their
nasty part). While progressives panic over the viral spread of
suspect computer black boxes, the Karl Rove-bots have been
tunneling into the vote vaults through entirely different means.
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Bush Has Gone Unchecked For Too Long:
By Keith Olbermann
Having frightened us, having bullied us, having lied to us,
having ignored and rewritten the Constitution under our noses,
having stayed the course, having denied you’ve stayed the
course, having belittled us about "timelines" but instead
extolled "benchmarks," you’ve now resorted, sir, to this?
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Video and transcript
Sandinista! How Will Bush Make Nicaragua Pay for its
Disobedience?
By Chris Floyd
There's no doubt that one way or another, the Nicaraguan
people are about to learn that in the Bush Imperium, democracy
is never free; if you vote the "wrong" way, you've got to pay
the price.Continue
At least 20 killed including UK and U.S. occupation
force soldiers: A roadside bomb targeting a U.S.
military patrol killed three civilians, including a student, and
wounded eight others, including three students
15 bodies found in the Tigris river as fierce battle
rages in Ramadi: 15 bodies of unidentified torture
victims were found floating in the Tigris River in Suwayrah, 25
miles south of Baghdad, Police Lt Mohammed al Shamari said.
10 Bodies Found In Occupied Baghdad:
A total of 10 bodies were found with gunshot wounds during
the last 24 hours in different districts of Baghdad, an Interior
Ministry source said. Some of the victims showed signs torture.
Fallujah once again beset by violence: In
recent months, insurgents have filtered back into the city,
despite tight controls that limit access to only six
checkpoints. Residents must submit to an extraordinary
identification system that includes fingerprinting, retina scans
and bar-coded identification cards.
Iraqi Ministry Accuses Employees of Prison
Abuse : The Interior
Ministry has formally accused 55 employees of committing human
rights crimes in connection with the torture and abuse of
prisoners at a detention center in eastern Baghdad, a spokesman
for the ministry said this morning.
Saddam will be
hanged 'by end-January': Saddam’s execution will
probably take place in a closed room inside an Iraqi prison,
most likely in Baghdad in the presence of Iraqi government
officials and private citizens, whose families suffered under
the dictator’s reign
Two
TV stations closed for showing Iraqis protesting against death
sentence for Saddam: Reporters Without Borders
today condemned the Iraqi government’s decision yesterday to
close down two privately-owned TV stations for “inciting
violence and murder” by screening footage of protests against
former President Saddam Hussein’s death sentence.
Gwynne Dyer: Why Hussein ultimately wins, and dies a
martyr: He is the victim of a state-sponsored
lynching, and so, for many people, he will die a martyr.
Move to reinstate Saddam supporters :
Iraq's Shia-dominated government has announced a major
concession for the Sunni Muslim backers of Saddam Hussein, a day
after the former president was sentenced to hang.
New audit hunts Iraq's lost millions: A new
audit examining 15 contracts signed in Iraq has found new
evidence of massive corruption and mismanagement by the US
government.
Hundreds of US Soldiers Call for Iraq Withdrawal in
Petition : Hundreds of US soldiers have signed a
petition calling for a troop withdrawal from Iraq and the
document is to be formally presented to Congress in January,
organizers said.
'Failed'
American envoy to leave Iraq :
Zalmay Khalilzad, the US envoy in Baghdad who tried to
conciliate the Sunni people, is to leave his post in the next
few months said a senior member of the US administration.
Rats jump ship:
U-turns the neocon way:
David Frum, Mr Bush's "axis of evil" speechwriter, reportedly
believes failure in Iraq is inescapable and the president is to
blame. Other well-known neocons also have critical things to say
about administration competence.
It's clear. The case for war was cooked
up: The vast majority of
Labour MPs failed Parliament when they didn't back a fresh
inquiry into Blair's manipulation of the case for the invasion
of Iraq
Israel occupation force kill another eight Palestinians:
Withdraw from Gaza town: Israeli troops have left roads were
gouged out. Homes, two mosques and a school were destroyed. The
historic old town was pockmarked with bullet holes and shell
craters, electricity pylons ripped from the ground and sewage
spewing in the streets.
Red Cross Descries Shooting of Medics: The
International Red Cross Committee condemned Friday s shooting of
two Palestinian Red Crescent Moon medics during an Israeli
military operation against the Gaza strip.
Hundreds of Ethiopians protest in Jerusalem / Blood demo
becomes anti-racism rally : Hundreds of Israelis of
Ethiopian descent demonstrated yesterday in Jerusalem against
what they said was blatant discrimination against their
community by the state.
Something's rotten in Israel : Latest drop
in global corruption index yet another warning sign
One NATO occupation force soldier killed, two wounded in
southern Afghanistan blast: An explosive device
struck a NATO patrol vehicle in southern Afghanistan, killing
one soldier and wounding two others,
Dilip Hiro: Keeping the oil pumping:
Washington and Tehran are preparing for a fight to see whether
Iran can block the Straits of Hormuz, source of a quarter of the
world's oil.
Israel will not strike Iran nuclear plants: US official
: "Israel will not target Iran's nuclear facilities
because it has said this is a problem of the entire world," the
official told AFP. "Israel understands that the only way to
defuse the nuclear crisis is through diplomatic channels."
Muslim officer sacked from guarding Blair :
An experienced Muslim firearms officer has begun race and
religious discrimination proceedings against the Metropolitan
Police after he was removed from a close-protection unit
guarding senior dignitaries, including Tony Blair.
George Monbiot: Britain is determined to protect its
right to kill civilians at random: The British and
US governments will today join forces in Geneva to block an
international ban on cluster bombs
In case you missed it:
The Secret Wars Of The CIA: : How 6 million People Were
killed in CIA secret wars: John Stockwell, former
CIA Station Chief in Angola. He is a very compelling
speaker and the highest level CIA officer to testify to the
Congress about his actions. He estimates that over 6 million
people have died in CIA covert actions, and this was in the late
1980's.
CHAOS: Problems worsen, Dems seek voting extension:
On a day already rife with computer glitches, long lines, and
legal appeals to extend voting in Denver, provisional ballots
are now running out at some Denver voting centers.
Long Lines, Voting Machine Problems Reported Across
State: James W. Marquart of Cleveland said he left
an elementary school polling place without voting because
election workers told him his name wasn't on the rolls even
though he had with him a postcard from the elections board
showing that's where they told him to vote
Virginia Voters Report Getting Suspicious Calls:
The FBI is looking into allegations from Jim Webb's campaign
that Virginia Democrats are getting suspicious telephone calls
from so-called volunteers threatening voters with arrest if they
go to the polls
Sheila Samples : Give Us The Word: : Never
in its 230-year history has America been in such peril. It is up
to us to keep George Bush from further ransacking of this great
nation. We must not wake up the day after the elections and
realize -- too late -- that we failed to vote when "Democracy"
was the single most important issue on the ballot.
Cheney Says Unlikely He Would
Comply with Congress Subpoena : US Vice President
Dick Cheney said he would likely refuse to testify before
Congress if he is faced with a subpoena from the opposition
Democratic party.
EU to investigate secret CIA jails in Poland :
A delegation of the European Council will arrive in Warsaw on
Tuesday to start a three-day probe into alleged secret CIA
prisons in Poland, the Polish Press Agency reported.
Swift justice, then Swift booted : Navy
attorney is ousted after victory for Gitmo inmate
Need a laugh?
U.S.: 'American Taliban' soldier deserves records
'privacy' : A government lawyer told a judge
yesterday that American-born Taliban soldier John Walker Lindh
deserves privacy for his written arguments aimed at shortening
his 20-year federal prison sentence.
Analysts outraged over U.S. adjustments of employment
data: 'Massive revisions' make report 'nonsense'
Dollar poised for a dip: We believe we have
just seen the beginning of a more pronounced slowdown that will
likely push us into recession. The reason we are more negative
than many economists is that high levels of consumer debt make
the economy much more interest-rate-sensitive than in past
economic cycles.
U.S. loses business travelers to Europe:
The United States is losing substantial numbers of business
travelers to Europe because of the stringent security measures
it imposes on international visitors, according to a report by a
tourism industry group that was released Monday
11/06/06
The Hidden Horrors Of Israel's Attack On Palestinian Civilians
In Gaza
Images that the Israeli and
U.S. government's don't want you to see.
Click to view
Are We Winning in Iraq? – A Dark Argument
By James Rothenberg
It is not unreasonable to suggest we are winning the war.
Not won, but winning.
Continued
Bush’s Carnival of Blood
By Mike Whitney
This is a dark day for Americans and Iraqis alike. Killing
Saddam Hussein isn’t justice; its vengeance. Only Bush believes
the two are the same.
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This was a guilty
verdict on America as well
By Robert Fisk
So America's one-time ally has been sentenced to death for
war crimes he committed when he was Washington's best friend in
the Arab world. America knew all about his atrocities and even
supplied the gas - along with the British, of course - yet there
we were yesterday declaring it to be, in the White House's
words, another "great day for Iraq".
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In case you missed it
Iraq-Gate
How The United States
Illegally Armed Saddam Hussein
"Spider's Web": The Secret
History of How the United States Illegally Armed Saddam Hussein;
a Conversation with the Journalist Who Broke the Iraq-gate
Scandal That Involved President George Bush, James Baker and
Donald Rumsfeld
.
This is a must listen
Is Bush Next?
Paul Craig Roberts
The show trial of Saddam Hussein was drawn out until two
days before the midterm US elections. The death sentence imposed
on the former Iraqi president may help the deluded band of Bush
supporters find victory in the defeat that Bush has met in Iraq
and motivate them to support the beleaguered Republicans on
November 7.
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Elections Or Electrons
What If Anything Will Count Your Vote
By Dom Stasi
This new gang are not only non-Republicans, they’re not even
politicians. Hell, they are not even corrupt politicians. No.
They are criminals. They are criminals and sociopaths posing as
corrupt politicians and dragging the GOP legacy down with them.
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Hacking Democracy
HBO Video Special Report
This cautionary documentary exposes the vulnerability of
computers - which count approximately 80% of America's votes in
county, state and federal elections - suggesting that if our
votes aren't safe, then our democracy isn't safe either.
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The Genocide Election
By Peter Rost
This election is about much more than Democrats or Republicans,
higher or lower taxes, or the war in Iraq. It is about the
survival of millions of people around the globe. And if
candidates supported by the drug industry prevail, we may become
participants in a silent genocide.
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U.S. Occupation Forces Killed in Iraq: Two U.S.
Marines and one soldier died on Saturday and Sunday from wounds
sustained in combat in the western province of Anbar
Only 8% of Americans Support
Iraq Strategy: Many adults in the United States
believe their federal administration should alter its tactics in
Iraq, according to a poll by the New York Times and CBS News. 61
per cent of respondents believe the U.S. should change its
military strategy.
US 'breeding extremism' in Iraq: An Iraqi
parliamentary delegation visiting Qatar has accused the US army
in Iraq of breeding extremism by carrying out an "irresponsible
arrest campaign".
Military services seek $160 billion extra to cover war
costs : The military services and defense agencies
have requested as much as $160 billion in supplemental spending
for the remainder of fiscal 2007 -- a staggering figure that
would bring wartime costs this year to $230 billion, defense
sources said Friday.
4 Minute Video:
Saddam reacts to death penalty
Bush and Blair have forfeited the moral authority to
hang Saddam: George Bush's handling of this issue
restores one's respect for Pontius Pilate.
Blair opposed to Saddam death penalty : "We
are against the death penalty, whether it's Saddam or anybody
else.
In case you missed it:
Exclusive: Saddam Was key in early CIA plot:
While many have thought that Saddam first became involved with
U.S. intelligence agencies at the start of the September 1980
Iran-Iraq war, his first contacts with U.S. officials date back
to 1959, when he was part of a CIA-authorized six-man squad
tasked with assassinating then Iraqi Prime Minister Gen. Abd al-Karim
Qasim.
In case you missed it:
Secret Message From James Baker to Tariq Aziz:
Baker informs Aziz, whose government 13 months previously had
gassed Kurdish villages, that "the United States seeks a
broadened and deepened relationship with Iraq."
In case you missed it:
The Teicher Affidavit: Iraq-Gate: The
United States actively supported the Iraqi war effort by
supplying the Iraqis with billions of dollars of credits, by
providing U.S. military intelligence and advice to the Iraqis,
and by closely monitoring third country arms sales to Iraq to
make sure that Iraq had the military weaponry required.
A Brief History: US-Iraq 1980s: Iraq uses
US-supplied military intelligence “to calibrate attacks with
mustard gas on Iranian ground troops....”
America helped make a monster: It is hard
to believe that, during most of the 1980s, America knowingly
permitted the Iraq Atomic Energy Commission to import bacterial
cultures that might be used to build biological weapons. But it
happened.
Roadside bomb kills 3 U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan:
Three U.S. soldiers have died of wounds received in a bomb
explosion in Afghanistan, the U.S. military said Monday.
Taliban support on rise in Afghanistan:
Many in southern Afghanistan had high hopes after the
election of their fellow Pashtun tribesman Karzai in 2004, but
two years later remain mired in poverty and lamenting a lack of
security and development in the south.
2 killed from Israeli Occupation Forces near Jabalia:
Palestinians sources in Gaza reported that two Palestinians in
their 30s were killed by IDF fire east of Jabalia
Israeli fighter jets strike children on way to school;
15-year old killed, teacher critically injured
Woman blows herself up, slightly injuring Israeli
soldier in occupied Gaza: One Israeli soldier is
slightly hurt after what officials say was a suicide bombing by
a woman.
Israeli official urges Jew-Arab divide:
Israel's new deputy prime minister called for a near-total
separation between Arabs and Jews in the Holy Land yesterday,
sparking a wave of condemnation less than a week after the
far-right politician joined the Cabinet.
IDF girds for possibility of war with Syria, Hezbollah
in 2007 : Syria and Hezbollah are likely to start a
war against Israel next summer, according to General Staff
assessments that have been gathered during a series of meetings
in recent week
Ortega headed for stunning victory in Nicaragua:
"It is God's miracle. Our savior has returned," said Fernanda
López, 76, tears of joy streaming down her face.
In case you missed it:
Nicaragua - A Nations Right To Survive:
A Documentary Film By John Pilger
Report: Feds Refusing FBI Terror Cases: The
Justice Department increasingly has refused to prosecute FBI
cases targeting suspected terrorists over the past five years,
A Job Prospect Lures, Then
Frustrates, Thousands : The call for job
applications seemed routine; certainly nobody at corporate
headquarters gave it much thought. A new candy store that would
be opening in Times Square needed workers. Starting pay was
$10.75 an hour.
Do Republicans Think Black Voters Are Stupid?:
There are reports out of Nashville that African Americans are
getting phone calls telling them if they voted for Harold Ford
Jr. in the August primary, they don't need to vote for him again
now.
In case you missed it: :
1984 - The Movie - George Orwell
11/05/06
Bush & Blair: The Iraq Fantasy
Neither will admit that Iraq is a
disaster. But while their state of denial may cost votes in
Washington and London, on the frontline in the Middle East, it
continues to cost lives
By Patrick Cockburn
"When does the incompetence end and the crime begin?" asked an
appalled German Chancellor in the First World War when the
German army commander said he intended to resume his bloody and
doomed assaults on the French fortress city of Verdun.
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Rough Justice;
Prowling Baghdad with a sidearm and a defective bulletproof-vest
By Mike Whitney
None of the people who started this war will ever be held
accountable. In fact, the cabal of militarists, think-tank
sycophants, and genocidal nutbars, who operate covertly behind
the scenes, are probably devising their next bloodbath already.
Unless we root them out, the cancer will persist.
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Fourteen Senators Face Voters for the First Time since
Authorizing Iraq War
By Stephen Zunes
It should be remembered that it was the Democrats who controlled
the Senate in the fall of 2002 when the Senate voted to
authorize the invasion of Iraq. Majority leader Tom Daschle and
assistant majority leader Harry Reid led the majority of their
fellow Senate Democrats in voting to launch a war of aggression
against a country that, despite their claims to the contrary,
was no threat to the security of the United States.
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Bush Plans Post-Election Call Up Of National Guard And
Reserves
By Brent Budowsky
Plans are secretly underway for a suprise new call up
of National Guard and Reserves to be announced sometime after
the election.
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U.S. says terror suspect shouldn't talk to civilian
lawyer
By Associated Press
A suspected terrorist who spent years in a secret CIA
prison should not be allowed to speak to a civilian attorney,
the Bush administration argues, because he could reveal the
agency's closely guarded interrogation techniques.
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87 Bodies Found In Occupied Baghdad: Police
discovered the bodies of 87 torture victims around the city
yesterday as Iraqi bloodshed escalated in the lead-in to the
expected sentencing of Saddam Hussein.
At least 10 killed in another day of U.S. occupation:
U.S. helicopters struck the town of Balad, killing two people
and wounding five, including two policemen
1999 war
games foresaw problems in Iraq : The U.S.
government conducted a series of secret war games in 1999 that
anticipated an invasion of Iraq would require 400,000 troops,
and even then chaos might ensue.
Neo Culpa: As Iraq slips further into
chaos, the war's neoconservative boosters have turned sharply on
the Bush administration, charging that their grand designs have
been undermined by White House incompetence
Saddam Hussein sentenced to hang:
Saddam's sentence will be automatically appealed and
reviewed by a panel of appeal judges, who will decide whether or
not to allow a retrial. If the judgement stands, however, Saddam
must be executed within 30 days of the appeals panel delivering
its verdict, the chief prosecutor has said.
In case you missed it: :
Iraqi president will not sign death warrant for Saddam
: Iraq's new rulers split yesterday over whether to execute
Saddam.
Saddam urges Iraqis to not take revenge:
Saddam Hussein urged Iraqis on Sunday to reject the sectarian
violence ripping his country apart and to "not take revenge" on
"invading" forces, his chief lawyer said after the ousted leader
was sentenced to death.
Judgment: Statement of
Saddam Hussein's Defense Lawyers : This is a trial
which has a political purpose to convict President Saddam
Hussein in order to keep pace with the occupying invader's
policy to get use of such a decisions (of conviction) and to
utilize it for electoral objectives as been illustrated by
President Saddam Hussein in a letter he sent to the Court on the
22nd of October 2006
Baghdad Burning: When All Else Fails...… Execute the
dictator. It’s that simple. When American troops
are being killed by the dozen, when the country you are
occupying is threatening to break up into smaller countries,
when you have militias and death squads roaming the streets and
you’ve put a group of Mullahs in power- execute the dictator.
Saddam verdict date 'rigged' for Bush :
"This court is a creature of the US military occupation, and the
Iraqi court is just a tool and rubber stamp of the invaders,"
insisted Dulaimi.
World differs on Saddam's sentence: Islamic
leaders warned that executing Saddam could inflame those who
revile the U.S., undermining President Bush's policy in the
Middle East and inspiring terrorists.
EU: Saddam should not hang: The European
Union urged Iraq on Sunday not to carry out the death sentence
passed on Iraq's former leader Saddam Hussein after his
conviction for crimes against humanity.
War Criminals, Beware
: On November 14 a group of lawyers and other experts will come
before the German federal prosecutor and ask him to open a
criminal investigation targeting Donald Rumsfeld, Alberto
Gonzales and other key Bush Administration figures for war
crimes.
War Crimes : The Case Against Secretary Rumsfeld
: Our effort to gain information vitiated 200 years
of history. International obligations didn’t matter, nor did
morality or humanity. "
Israeli snipers continue Gaza executions:
Israeli snipers killed two Palestinians in occupiedGaza on
Saturday, one of them a 12-year-old girl, Palestinian sources
said.
Five more Palestinians killed in Israeli attacks on
Occupied Gaza: Palestinian officials said the
deaths bring the toll since Wednesday to nearly 50.
Gideon Levy : Listen to
Maj. Gen. Stern : A brigade commander tells his
soldiers, who killed 12 people in one day: "You've won 12:0,"
and the soldiers grin broadly. This is the moral nadir we have
reached, following a long slide down a slippery slope: Human
life has become cheap.
Hamas lawmaker says Haniyeh will not head new govt:
Hamas and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas's Fatah group have
reached a deal on forming a unity government that will not be
headed by current Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh of Hamas, a
lawmaker from the Islamist movement said on Sunday.
Pentagon targets Kim’s nuclear sites: THE
Pentagon is speeding up plans for possible military strikes on
North Korea’s nuclear programme as concern mounts that Arab
states are also looking to acquire nuclear technology
U.S. Wants Filmmaker's Suit Dismissed : "I
found it disturbing that their position is that American
citizens can be treated with impunity by American officials
without a recognition that the constitution applies," Rosenbaum
said.
Cheating possible on vote machine: Pushing
yellow button on device could reset machine, let someone cast
ballot multiple times
Republican dirty tricks:
Repeat calls not from Hodes : Democratic
field offices received dozens of phone calls and e-mails from
frustrated voters upset about repeated automated phone calls
they thought were coming from Democratic candidate Paul Hodes -
though the calls were paid for by a Republican group instead.
5 Minute Video:
The U.S. Constitution Explained
Medicaid Wants Citizenship Proof for Infant Care
: Under a new federal policy, children born in the United States
to illegal immigrants with low incomes will no longer be
automatically entitled to health insurance through Medicaid,
Bush administration officials said Thursday.
11/04/06
U.S. speeds
attack plans for North Korea
By Bill Gertz
The Pentagon has stepped up planning for attacks against North
Korea's nuclear program and is bolstering nuclear forces in
Asia, said defense officials familiar with the highly secret
process.
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The Case for Engagement
By Scott Ritter
I recently returned from a trip to Iran, where over the
course of a week I made the journey from the northern suburbs of
Tehran to the gates of the Natanz enrichment facility, and in
doing so had my eyes opened. The Iran that I witnessed was far
removed from the one caricatured in the US media. I left with
the frustrating realization that, as had been the case with
Iraq, America was stumbling toward a conflict, blinded by the
prejudice and fear born of our collective ignorance.
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Iraq War Will Cost More-than-$2-Trillion
By Linda Bilmes and Joseph E. Stiglitz
In January, we estimated that the true cost of the Iraq
war could reach $2 trillion, a figure that seemed shockingly
high. But since that time, the cost of the war – in both blood
and money – has risen even faster than our projections
anticipated.
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U.S. seeks
silence on detainees
By Carol D. Leonnig and Eric Rich
The Bush administration has told a federal judge that
terrorism suspects held in secret CIA prisons should not be
allowed to reveal details of the "alternative interrogation
methods" that their captors used to get them to talk.
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While poverty
persists, there is no freedom
By Nelson Mandela
Millions remain enslaved and in chains at a time of breathtaking
advances in technology and wealth.
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Homeland Security Tightens Grip on International Travel
By Ezekiel
The Department of Homeland Security proposed new rules
back in July that would fundamentally undermine the right of
American citizens to travel abroad. Public carriers--airlines,
cruise lines, even fishing boats--will be required to submit the
names of all passengers to Homeland Security prior to departure
and to obtain permission from Homeland Security to board those
passengers. These new rules will take effect January 14, 2007.
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Just Try Voting Here:
11 of America's Worst Places to Cast a Ballot (or Try)
By Sasha Abramsky
Machines that count backward, slice-and-dice districts,
felon baiting, phone jamming, and plenty of dirty tricks.
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Iraqi police find 56 bodies scattered around occupied
Baghdad : Most of the
bullet-riddled bodies were bound, blindfolded and showing signs
of torture, the source said.
Iraqi police kill 53 "terrorist" suspects in Baghdad
: Iraqi security forces killed 53 insurgents and
detained 16 others in fierce gunbattle in southeastern Baghdad
on Saturday, Iraqi official television reported.
At least 29 killed as brutal U.S. occupation continues:
Mortar rounds killed seven people and wounded 20 in
Baghdad's western Adhamiya district on Saturday night
Poll: 70% Of Iraqi's Want
U.S Occupation Troops Withdrawn Within A Year : 78
percent said the U.S. presence provokes more conflict than it
prevents; 84 percent said they had little or no confidence in
the U.S military.
Iraq Imposes Curfew in Capital, Four Provinces:
Iraqi officials on Saturday announced an all-day Sunday curfew
in Baghdad and four provinces, fearing that the expected
announcement of a verdict in the trial of former leader Saddam
Hussein could inflame nationalist and sectarian passions and
escalate the daily deluge of violence.
Verdict in trial of Saddam Hussein due Sunday
: Iraqis and human rights advocates have questioned the timing
of the verdict in the Dujail case — two days before midterm
elections in the United States — and whether it is intended to
boost President Bush and his Republican allies.
Juan Cole: Top Ten Ways we know We have Lost in Iraq
Rats Jump Ship:
Richard Perle: Iraq War Decision Wrong:
Richard Perle, a leading proponent of the U.S.-led invasion of
Iraq, now says devastating dysfunction within the Bush
administration has turned U.S. policy there into a disaster.
More on
Perle
Rats Jump Ship:
Neocons turn on Bush for incompetence over Iraq war:
Several prominent neoconservatives have turned on
George Bush days before critical midterm elections, lambasting
his administration for incompetence in the handling of the Iraq
war and questioning the wisdom of the 2003 invasion they were
instrumental in promoting.
Israel Gaza attack kills 43 : Seven people,
including a teenager and five resistance fighters, were killed
in the Gaza Strip Saturday as Israel pressed an attack on anti
occupation forces that has left 43 Palestinians and one soldier
dead in four days.
Palestinians: Saturdays Death toll up to 11;
Palestinian sources reported that an additional Palestinian was
killed and another wounded from Israeli occupation forces fire
near Beit Hanoun in occupied northern Gaza.
Number of dead in occupied Gaza reaching historic
levels: - Malki Shahwan silently picks at the peach
tissue she's using to dab at the tears in the corners of her
opaque eyes, eyes that her family says have gone blind from
grief.
Palestinian PM: Israeli operation is massacre:
Ddemands international intervention
Gaza's pain:: Muhammad Zakout’s 14-
year-old son, Alaa, leaked blood on to a hospital pillow as his
family gathered around the bed, incredulous that after repeated
warnings to stay out of trouble he had been shot while throwing
stones at Israeli tanks.
Palestinian Cabinet minister warns Israel's offensive in
Gaza could kill Israeli soldier held there:
Israel's offensive in the Gaza Strip could endanger the life of
an abducted Israeli soldier and is an impediment to his release,
the Palestinian foreign minister told Egypt's state-run news
agency on Saturday.
Blast shuts down Kuwait refinery: Kuwait
has shut down its Shuaiba oil refinery after an explosion hit
the 200,000 barrel-per-day plant, a Kuwaiti energy official
said.
Six Arab states join rush to go nuclear:
Algeria, Egypt, Morocco, Tunisia, UAE and Saudi Arabia seek atom
technology
Nuclear Lab Breach Could
Be 'Devastating': : Data Found In Drug Raid
Contains Weapons-Design Secrets
U.S. Web Archive Is Said to
Reveal a Nuclear Primer : Last March, the federal
government set up a Web site to make public a vast archive of
Iraqi documents captured during the war. The Bush administration
did so under pressure from Congressional Republicans who had
said they hoped to “leverage the Internet” to find new evidence
of the prewar dangers posed by Saddam Hussein.
7 Taliban "militants" killed in S. Afghanistan
: Afghan and NATO occupation forces killed seven Taliban
"insurgents" and injured 30 others on Saturday in Helmand
province of southern Afghanistan, the provincial police chief
told Xinhua.
Taliban kill two in attack on US convoy in Afghanistan:
Taliban fighters ambushed a convoy supplying logistics and goods
to a US base in southeastern Afghanistan, killing two Pakistani
drivers and wounding an Afghan, police said.
Afghan politician flays U.S., Britain roles in
Afghanistan : "The continued illegal stay of
foreign forces and the criminal behavior of the U.S. and the UK
troops would cause more crises in Afghanistan,"
C.I.A. Review Highlights Afghan Leader’s Woes
: A recent Central Intelligence Agency assessment found that
the Afghan president, Hamid Karzai, had been significantly
weakened by rising popular frustration with his American-backed
government, American officials say.
Kabul: Mock execution of child: Germany's army was
hit by fresh allegations of misconduct on Saturday when a
newspaper reported peacekeeping soldiers in Afghanistan staged
the mock execution of a local child in 2002.
German military challenges newspaper over terrorizing
Afghan boy : The German Defense Ministry challenged
a newspaper Saturday to provide proof for a claim that German
soldiers terrorized a little Afghan boy in 2002 by holding a gun
to his head.
Time for Pakistan Army to Arrest its Chief: Who
should Pay for 83 Killed at Khar in Bajaur?
Ex-CIA Analyst Ray
McGovern Talks About 9/11 : 7 Minute Video:
Interview with Ex-CIA Analyst Ray McGovern. He talks about
running into ex-Secretary of the Department of Transportation
Norman Mineta and confronting him regarding his testimony before
the 9/11 Commission.
One Minute Video: Video:
Rev. Ted Haggard Puts Foot In Own Mouth: Ted
Haggard stepped down from his church, amid allegations of paying
for sex with a man and doing methamphetamine with him.
Rick Perlstein: The Odd Couple: Nixon and Lieberman:
Richard Nixon said one thing and did another. So, it seems, does
Joseph Lieberman.
Test Spits Out Wrong Results At Board Of Elections:
During a test using an optical scanner, officials discovered
that the machine was providing incorrect election results
UK: Insolvencies jump 55%: The number of
people becoming insolvent has jumped by 55% over the past year,
official figures revealed today, in the latest evidence of
Britain's mounting personal debt problems.
Google 'will be able to keep tabs on us all':
The internet will hold so much digital data in five years that
it will be possible to find out what an individual was doing at
a specific time and place, an expert said yesterday.
Tracked In
America: Stories from the History of U.S. Government
Surveillance: This documentary Web site explores
more than two centuries of surveillance in America. Included are
two hours of audio interviews, 300 photographs and 25 personal
stories beginning in 1917.
Ocean Life on the Brink of No Return: Every single
commercial fishery in the world will be wiped before 2050 and
the oceans may never recover if over-fishing continues at its
current rate, a four-year scientific investigation has found.
No more fish to eat in 40 years: Fish
stocks are declining so rapidly that scientists have predicted
that they will disappear by the middle of the century unless
radical measures are taken to protect them
11/03/06
Blood and money
By John Pilger
The United States promised a democracy when the Civil Rights Act
became law in 1964 and the Voting Rights Act the following year
finally ended slavery. For the next decade, the civil-rights
movement joined the great popular movement to end the slaughter
in Vietnam, and Congress legislated to restrain the CIA's
secretive parallel power. It was a fleeting intermission.
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I Want To Hurt Somebody
By Greg Palast
It was pure war-nography. The front page of the New York Times
yesterday splashed a four-column-wide close-up of a
blood-covered bullet in the blood-soaked hands of an army medic
who’d retrieved it from the brain of Lance Cpl. Colin Smith.
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Baghdad is Surrounded: “The American Era in the Middle
East has ended”
By Mike Whitney
After 3 and a half years of violence and mayhem we
still know as little about the Iraqi resistance as we did in
March 2003. This is inexcusable. In addition, there’s been no
attempt to engage the representatives of the resistance in
political dialogue. How can we possibly reach a political
solution without dialogue and negotiation?
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American Prison Planet
The Bush Administration as Global Jailor
By Nick Turse
The American gulag is so much more than Guantanamo and
so much worse. The combination of U.S. "homeland" prisons, where
"one in 140 Americans, or as many people as live in Namibia, or
nearly five Luxembourgs" are locked away, the offshore imperial
detention facilities, the shadowy CIA black sites, and the
ever-shifting outsourced detention facilities operated by other
nations adds up to something new in history -- the makings of a
veritable American prison planet.
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The Consequences of the Death of Empathy
By Robert Jensen
One of the most devastating consequences of unearned
privilege -- both for those of us on top and, for very different
reasons, those who suffer beneath -- is the death of empathy.
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British believe
Bush is more dangerous than Kim Jong-il
By Julian Glover
America is now seen as a threat to world peace by its closest
neighbours and allies, according to an international survey of
public opinion published today that reveals just how far the
country's reputation has fallen among former supporters since
the invasion of Iraq.
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It's Always Darkest, Right Before ... It Goes Completely
Black
By Phil Rockstroh
While I harbor little affection for nor feel any affinity with
the corrupt establishment of the Democratic Party, I don't
believe, as is the case with the present leadership of the
Republican party, they're a klavern of insane, death-smitten
apocalypticists. However, I do believe that a craven desire for
power and privilege has transformed them into morally bankrupt,
lickspittle, corporate stooges.
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The Election Farce
By David Pérez
The only reason the Democratic Party is against the
fiasco in Iraq is because the U.S. is losing the war. It’s all
about “bad planning,” or “bad timing,” or whatever. If Bush and
Co. had easily subjugated the nation and controlled the oil
fields, the entire U.S. ruling class and their paid politicians
would be joyous.
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"Hey America, Stop your
Bellyaching and get to Work"
By Mike Whitney
What can we expect in the midterm elections?
The real question is: What should we NOT expect in the
elections. We should not expect dramatic change from our present
trajectory. Whether Karl Rove engineers another electoral-coup
or not, is beside the point. The system has been reshaped to
meet the needs and aspirations of the ruling mandarins.
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Foreclosure USA
By Joel S. Hirschhorn
We the people once owned our democracy. We elected
“representatives” to run it for US. Have you noticed? Somewhere
along the way we lost our democracy. It was foreclosed by
wealthy and power elites that corrupted our “representatives”
who literally sold us out. Our homeland was foreclosed right in
plain sight.
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Collective Punishment
By Soraya Sepahpour-Ulrich
It is the aim of the United States to inflict collective
punishment on the Iranian people. The Bush White House,
successfully invoked Chapter VII, Article 41 of the Charter of
the United Nations stipulating a threat to peace (the pot
calling the kettle black) subjecting Iran to sanctions. The
compliant United Nations Security Council drafted the Iran
Resolution, paragraph 15 of which is as follows: Continue
A cacophony of
fundamentalism
By Noam Chomsky and Gilbert Achcar
In the United States, what we call fundamentalism has
very deep roots, from the early colonists. There’s always been
an extreme, ultrareligious element, more or less
fundamentalist, with several revivals.
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Islamic Fascism?
By Ismael Hossein-zadeh
The Bush administration's labeling of radical Islamic movements
and leaders as fascist, or "Islamofascism," is sheer nonsense.
It betrays either blatant demagoguery, or shameful ignorance, or
most probably, both.
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The Power of the Israeli Lobby in the US
Audio
An interview with James Petras, author, "
The Power of Israel in the United States".
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Iraq: More than 83 killed as U.S. occupation continues:
Police found 56 bodies and a severed head scattered around
occupied Baghdad over the last 24 hours, an Interior Ministry
source said
7 U.S. occupation soldiers killed in Iraq:
Three U.S. soldiers were killed by a roadside bomb in Baghdad
and four Marines were killed in "enemy action" in Iraq's western
Anbar province on Thursday, the U.S. military said on Friday.
U.N.: Nearly 100,000 Flee Iraq Monthly :
The agency says an additional 50,000 Iraqis a month are fleeing
their homes but remaining within Iraq, which classifies them as
"internally displaced" rather than as refugees who have crossed
an international border.
US spy chief on secret Iraq mission: John
Negroponte, the US national intelligence director, has made an
unannounced visit to Baghdad for talks with Nouri al-Maliki, the
Iraqi prime minister.
Election looming, U.S. general urges Iraq patience:
A senior U.S. general compared Iraq on Thursday to a work of art
in progress and played down incessant violence and friction with
Iraqi leaders as "speed bumps" on the road to stability.
Paul Krugman: As Bechtel
Goes: Baghdad received less than six hours a day of
electricity last month, and much of Iraq’s population lives with
untreated sewage and without clean water. But Bechtel, having
received $2.3 billion of taxpayers’ money and having lost the
lives of 52 employees, has come to the end of its last
government contract.
U.S. spending watchdog on Iraq closed down by
Republicans: Pink slip for overseer mysteriously
added to big spending bill
Israeli
occupation forces kill, 23 Palestinians :
Palestinian medics said on Friday that 23 people, including
militants, women and children, were killed as the Israeli army
ground military operation called "Cloud of Autumn " went on in
northern Gaza Strip.
Israel occupation forces kill women at mosque siege:
Two Palestinian women have been killed during a stand-off near a
Gaza mosque while they were trying to rescue about 60
Palestinian men besieged inside.
Israel kills 25 Palestinian in 72 hours: In
the West Bank, Israeli occupation troops also arrested a
Palestinian cabinet minister in the internationally boycotted
Hamas-led government, shot dead two Palestinian youths and
wounded another two people
Israeli sniper shoots dead a 14-year old boy in Balata
refugee camp: A teenage Palestinian boy was killed
and his older brother injured during an attack by Israeli
occupation forces into Balata refugee camp in the West Bank city
of Nablus on Thursday evening.
4-year-old boy among 9 Palestinians killed in occupied
Gaza: A 4-year-old boy and 40-year-old woman were
among four Palestinian civilians killed Friday during an Israel
Defense Forces operation in the northern Gaza town of Beit Hanun,
Palestinian sources said.
Israel occupation forces kill 4 in Gaza missile attack:
Four members of Hamas's armed section have been killed by an
Israeli missile fired on their car as they were going to pray in
the Gaza Strip.
Must listen Democracy Now! Report:
Casualties Mount in New Israeli Attack on Gaza:
The dead include a 70 year-old Palestinian man who was shot in
the head by Israeli troops when he went onto the balcony of his
home to take his disabled son inside.
Annan urges Israel to restraint, protect civilians:
Secretary-General Kofi Annan on Friday urged Israel to do their
utmost to protect civilians and to refrain from further
escalating an already grave situation.
Kissinger meets with Jewish leaders on Iranian threat to
Israel : Kissinger had accepted an invitation from
the Jewish People Policy Planning Institute to be one of a group
of leaders tasked with setting strategic goals for improving the
situation of the Jewish people. Last week's discussion centered
on the Iranian threat to Israel.
Iran Says Missile Tests Send 'Strong Signal' To U.S.
: A senior commander of Iran's Revolutionary Guard
Corps, Brigadier General Ali Fadavi, told state radio that the
tests should send a strong message to the United States to cease
military maneuvers in the area.
Rice Says Iran Understands Consequences of Its Missile
Threat : U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice
said, while Iran was trying to show it is ``tough'' by test-
firing a ballistic missile able to hit Israel, any use of the
weapon would invite consequences understood by Iranian leaders.
Russian Foreign Minister: Says EU Draft On Iran Goes Too
Far : Sergei Lavrov says a European draft
resolution to impose UN sanctions on Iran over its nuclear
program went far beyond what had been agreed.
Iran: Official says UN draft resolution is illegal:
"NPT is a valuable document, and the Islamic Republic abides by
its commitments on the treaty." Larijani stipulated that
countries such as the US are trying to form a monopoly club for
use of nuclear technology and supervise nuclear energy in the
coming years.
US posted Iraqi nuclear bomb documents on Internet: report:
The US government hurriedly closed down an official website
this week after a newspaper reported it contained Iraqi
documents that included details for building a nuclear bomb,
officials said Friday
Six Afghan police killed in Taliban attacks:
Six Afghan police and a soldier were killed and eight NATO
troops injured in three separate attacks by Taliban insurgents
in Afghanistan, officials and the military say.
Pakistani Taliban behead "US spy": Pakistani
Taliban fighters beheaded a tribal cleric accused of being a US
spy in the Waziristan region bordering Afghanistan, a security
official in the restive tribal region said.
Occupation of Afghanistancould last 10 years:
NATO operations will likely continue in Afghanistan for another
10 years, a high-ranking Canadian soldier said Thursday.
Thousands protest over school airstrike:
Thousands of angry tribesmen and Islamists protested today
across Pakistan against an airstrike that killed 80 people at a
religious school near the Afghan border this week.
Pakistan airs bombed
madrasa video: Pakistan has broadcast a government
surveillance footage, taken a week before the military raided a
madrasa which was believed to have links with al Qaeda.
Amnesty expresses concern over arrest of former
Guantanamo inmate in Pakistan: Dost's "whereabouts
are now unknown and he is at risk of torture," Amnesty said in a
statement.
US to deploy inspectors at Pakistani ports:
The United States will soon deploy inspectors at Pakistani ports
and airports to monitor passengers and cargo ships in a bid to
prevent terrorist attacks
Letter in Support of the People of Oaxaca:
A new sign-on support letter has been drafted. Signatories
include Tariq Ali, Noam Chomsky, Eve Ensler, Danny Glover,
Eduardo Galeano, Michael Moore, Arundhati Roy, Alice Walker,
Howard Zinn, and many others.
Heather Wokusch: Bush’s Permanent War Economy Must
Crash: The Bush administration's military
adventurism and the economy are two issues expected to impact
next week's US midterm vote. We ignore their interplay at our
peril.
Gloves come off! : Bush hints Dems love
terrorists in late push
Greenhouse gases hit record high : This is
expected to lead to melting of polar ice caps and glaciers,
rising sea levels and more extreme weather events such as storms
and floods.
11/02/06
Bush : U.S. Must Stay In Iraq To Control Oil
By Raw Story
During an interview with conservative pundit Rush Limbaugh, US
President George Bush expressed deep concerns about the
possibility of the United States leaving the Middle East,
raising fears that extremists could topple governments to
"control oil resources."
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Are the
neo-conservatives losing their influence?
Stephen Sackur talks to a leading
neo-conservative, Norman Podhoretz.
Must watch BBC Interview
Podhoretz, provides insights into the racism, and fascists
ideology that fuels Neo-Conservatives.
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Fascists
By John T. Flynn
when fascism comes it will not be in the form of an
anti-American movement or pro-Hitler bund, practicing
disloyalty. Nor will it come in the form of a crusade against
war. It will appear rather in the luminous robes of flaming
patriotism.
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Howard Zinn: "We Live In An Occupied Country"
Audio
Historian Howard Zinn spoke on "The Occupation of the United
States" at Northwestern University, Evanston Illinois.
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Evil Is As Evil Does
By Paul Craig Roberts
Perhaps Americans don’t notice, but the rest of the
world does see the double standard applied when Saddam Hussein
is put on trial for war crimes and crimes against humanity,
while US, UK, and Israeli government officials commit far
greater crimes by illegally invading countries, targeting
civilian populations, and torturing detainees.
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More Troops—or Less Empire
By Patrick J. Buchanan
15 years after the Cold War’s end, to begin dissolving old
alliances and shedding commitments dating to a time when a
Soviet Empire bestrode Europe and Asia like a colossus?
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The Spoils of Corruption
By Charles Sullivan
The mainstream media, like organized religion, is used
to program public perceptions-to steer us away from truth and to
perpetuate fairy tales that extol the virtues of bribery,
violence, and greed. It makes useful idiots of those who cannot
think for themselves and persuades them to act like fools in the
eyes of the world.
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Iraq: More than 41 killed in another day of U.S.
occupation: A motorcycle bomb killed seven people
and wounded 45 when it exploded in a crowded market in Baghdad's
Shi'ite Sadr City district, an interior ministry source said.
Iraqi armed group in missile claim : Iraq's
Islamic Army has claimed that it has produced a
surface-to-surface missile: "The missile will allow the
resistance fighters to perform attacks miles away from the
target, which is safer for them.
U.S. Puppet :
Talabani wants US troops to stay in Iraq:
Iraqi President wants presence of US army on his country’s soil
for three more years, says Iraq is not in civil war.
In case you missed it:
John Pilger: Why Bush lies
about Iraq: US President George Bush's plans to
invade Iraq have nothing to do eliminating “weapons of mass
destruction”, preventing terrorism or ending human rights
abuses. An attack on Iraq will be the first phase of a
pre-existing strategy to increase US control of the world's oil
supplies.
With Iraq Driving Election, Voters Want New Approach:
A substantial majority of Americans expect Democrats to reduce
or end American military involvement in Iraq if they win control
of Congress next Tuesda
It's Iraq, Stupid : Johnstown is a small
working-class town, not the kind of place you would expect to
find an anti-war rally.
Bechtel ends Iraq rebuilding after a rough 3 years:
Instead of the nearly $3 billion originally budgeted, Bechtel
finally received about $2.3 billion, a figure that includes
money the company spent on projects as well as its undisclosed
profit.
Death toll rises to 13 as Israel presses occupied Gaza
attack: Israel continued an attack into Gaza which
has killed 12 Palestinians and a soldier in little over a day in
one of its largest operations since militants seized a soldier
in June.
Israeli killings resume in Gaza Strip:
Israeli occupation forces are reported to have killed four
Palestinians in northern Gaza, two of them civilians including a
75-year-old, in one of its biggest operations in the coastal
strip in months.
An international force in Gaza is long overdue:
The establishment of such a force has been requested several
times by Palestinian leaders in order to protect civilians from
various acts of violence carried out by the Israeli military.
U.S. trial: Israeli agent scoffs at Hamas defendant's
torture claims: An Israeli security agent scoffed
at a Chicago grocer's claim that he was deprived of sleep,
forced to wear a foul-smelling hood and otherwise tortured after
his arrest on charges of bankrolling terrorists.
Stranger than fiction?:
Christians: Here to serve Israel: "We as
Christians are living in a time in which we must wake up. We
must organize ourselves and become a lobby for these people.
That's why we are here," Ellssel added.
Israeli racism?: Ethiopians outraged over blood disposal:
Ethiopian communities respond with rage at Channel 2 report that
revealed blood donated by Ethiopians is frozen and disposed of.
Are Israelis gearing up to bomb Iran?: The
appointment of Israel’s new deputy PM raises fears of a new
catastrophe
Bush gives green light for Israeli attack on Iran:
Bush "would understand" Israeli strike on Iran
: President Bush reportedly said he would "understand" a
preemptive Israeli strike against Iran´s nuclear sites.
Iran test fires dozens of missiles after US Gulf
exercise: Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guards
test-fired dozen of missiles today, including some that are
capable of reaching Israeli and American forces in the Middle
East, at the start of ten days of war games.
Russia, China Won´t Back Iran Sanctions :
Russian and China indicated that they will not support a draft
U.N. resolution imposing tough sanctions on Iran for its refusal
to halt its nuclear enrichment program.
The US role against militants in Pakistan :
Monday's aerial attack on a seminary in Pakistan's tribal area
of Bajaur that killed 80 people has again triggered a debate
about who is actually carrying out such attacks
Big Brother Britain 2006: 'We are waking up
to a surveillance society all around us'
Britain condoning torture: Since Sept. 11,
2001, Blair's government has at least once sought to use
evidence extracted under torture in legal proceedings, has
signed agreements to deport prisoners to countries where they
may be tortured, and has turned a blind eye to U.S. mistreatment
of prisoners and secret movement of suspects to countries where
they could be abused, Human Rights Watch states.
Kidnapping of Egyptian in Italy shines light on U.S.
"extraordinary renditions": Some think a trial in
the abduction could uncover high-level collusion between the
Italian government of Silvio Berlusconi, then in power, and the
U.S. administration.
Don't Look Too Closely: Bush's Record on
Anti-Terrorism
Swiss Find Evidence of CIA Spy Attempt:
Swiss authorities have found enough evidence to seek a full
investigation into allegations the CIA was trying to obtain
personal details of about 500 labor union members, most of them
Arabs, officials said Friday.
U.S. Near The Bottom In Privacy Study: U.S.
privacy protections rank among the worst in the democratic
world, a London-based privacy organization said Wednesday.
There is something terribly wrong with this country:
An interesting edit of some scenes from the movie V For Vendetta
How to hack the vote: : Professor Avi Rubin
demonstrates how electronic vote machines can be hacked
A way to restore confidence:
Voters in the United States are denied the one powerful
technique that might restore confidence in election results --
an independent exit poll.
Civil rights groups ‘outraged’ by absentee voting
problems: Civil rights groups say they are
distressed that officials will not be able to supply absentee
ballots for all residents who want them.
11/01/06
“There has
never been an American army as violent and murderous as the one
in Iraq”
Pulitzer-winning investigative journalist
Seymour Hersh slams Bush at McGill address
By Martin Lukacs
Hersh described video footage depicting U.S. atrocities in Iraq,
which he had viewed, but not yet published a story about. He
described one video in which American soldiers massacre a group
of people playing soccer.
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Baghdad is under siege
By Patrick Cockburn in Arbil, Northern Iraq
Sunni insurgents have cut the roads linking the city to the
rest of Iraq. The country is being partitioned as militiamen
fight bloody battles for control of towns and villages north and
south of the capital.
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Saudi study:
Iraq a ‘lost battle’:
By Stephen Collinson
Damning analysis says all indications point to current
state of civil war, disintegration of Iraqi state.
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Military Charts Movement of Conflict in Iraq Toward
Chaos
By MICHAEL R. GORDON
The slide shows Iraq as moving sharply away from
“peace,” an ideal on the far left side of the chart, to a point
much closer to the right side of the spectrum, a red zone marked
“chaos.”
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In the US Empire "Truth is Treason"
The Fear Merchants - An
audio essay by Mumia Abu-Jamal
Must listen
- Two minute audio
"Starving The Beast."
By Thom Hartmann
How the Corporatocracy Sets the Rules of the "Game" To Create
Peons.
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"American Blackout"
Video Documentary - Directed by Ian Inaba
Kicking off with the detailed argument that black voters in
Florida were systematically disenfranchised in the 2000
presidential election, the film then pulls double duty: It’s a
fine-tooth examination of both the continued, unconstitutional
marginalization of black voters in America and the attempts by
various political and media machines to crush McKinney in
retaliation for her outspokenness on that subject and on the
illegality of the war in Iraq.
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US-Latin American Relations
By James Petras
Measuring The Rise or Fall of US Power : A realistic
analysis demonstrates that political interventions, class
conflict and international markets play a major role in shaping
US-Latin American relations and more particularly the ascent and
decline of US imperial power, social revolutionary forces and
the other political variants in between.
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The
Enlightenment of Resistance
By Manuel Valenzuela
. Resistance will begin when
the many begin the healing of civilization and the planet, when
a massive movement commences to purge warmongering leadership
from our midst, when a tidal wave of humanity floods the
concrete jungles and steel canyons we live in, marching to the
drumbeats of peace, non-violence and universal harmony. That is
Revolution at the dawn of the 21st century.
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