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.
