Process Philosophy: Immorality and Imbecility in the Torture Memo Mess Chris Floyd Let’s do something we rarely do around these parts. Let’s do a “process story,” looking at an issue from the standpoint of how it plays out in the political game. As a rule, we prefer to focus much less on political [...]
Crumbs… Layla Anwar, An Arab Woman Blues Some of you are already familiar with my dear relative Radhee. Radhee who lives in an all sooooooneee ghetto, in a ghetto where to cross to the other side requires huge detours and being searched through endless checkpoints, and there is no guarantee that he can make [...]
Fake Faith and Epic Crimes By John Pilger April 02, 2009 “Information Clearing House” — These are extraordinary times. With the United States and Britain on the verge of bankruptcy and committing to an endless colonial war, pressure is building for their crimes to be prosecuted at a tribunal similar to that which tried the [...]
‘Israel killed 437 kids in blockaded Gaza’ Sat, 11 Apr 2009 09:27:24 GMT Israel’s three-week war on the Gaza Strip left 437 children dead and 1872 more wounded, the Ministry of Social Affairs in Gaza has said. Ahmad Al Kurd, Minister of Social Affairs, said on Friday that the Israeli army targeted women and children, [...]
More Than 20 Types Of War Crimes Against Children Monday, 23 March 2009, 12:53 pm Press Release: Sherwood Ross More Than 20 Types Of War Crimes Against Children Ascribed To /Ex-President Bush In Iraq And Afghanistan Torture has received the most attention among the many war crimes of the Bush administration. But those [...]
Were Democrats Aware About the CIA’s Torture Program? By Jason Leopold One day after the Obama administration released four gruesome Bush-era legal opinions that described in shocking detail the torturous methods CIA interrogators were permitted to use to extract information from alleged “high-value” detainees, a majority of Democrats have remained collectively silent on whether [...]
CIA fears torture prosecutions Only some of the secrets of US ‘ghost’ prisons have been revealed http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article6122483.ece Divisions Arose on Rough Tactics for Qaeda Figure http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/18/world/middleeast/18zubaydah.html?_r=1 From insects to waterboarding: 10 ‘torture’ techniques blessed by Bush http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/18/world/middleeast/18zubaydah.html?_r=1 Psychologists Helped Guide Interrogations Extent of Health Professionals’ Role [...]
Palestinian Prisoners: Imprisoned for their Love of Freedom Reham Alhelsi Every year, on April 17, Palestinians commemorate the Palestinian Political Prisoners Day. On 17.4.1974 the first Palestinian political prisoner, Mahmoud Baker Hijazi, was released from Israeli prisons in the first prisoner exchange deal with Israel. That same year, the Palestinian National Council declared the [...]
Israel moving towards either apartheid OR expelling the Palestinians – Mearsheimer http://walt.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2009/03/26/please_tell_me_where_is_israel_headed Gaza war changed Middle East; Israel wanted its troops out before Obama was sworn in http://mondediplo.com/2009/02/02gazawar Hollywood features Israeli Actresses http://forward.com/articles/104680/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=Email+marketing+software&utm_content=70948438&utm_campaign=April+17%2c+2009+_+tylkdd&utm_term=Hollywood%e2%80%99s+Spring+Fling+With+Blooming+Israeli+Actresses+ US Jews becoming less Secular, more Religious, as Converts, Intermarriage & Orthodoxy [...]
Bishop Tutu to Speak at Michigan University Despite Zionist Protests Lansing State Journal (Michigan) http://www.lansingstatejournal.com/article/20090410/NEWS06/904100317/1102/NEWS06 Michigan State University announced last week that retired South African Archbishop Desmond Tutu would give this year’s commencement address. Two days later, the Anti-Defamation League, a Jewish advocacy organization, filed a protest … Professors and students interviewed Thursday were unanimous [...]
Law and Justice first, Mr Mitchell. Peace comes later.st STUART LITTLEWOOD So they sent you to the Holy Land, Mr Mitchell, for talks. So many before you have gone to talk. They failed because polite talk isn’t enough. What will you say about the subjugation of Palestine’s people and Israel’s defilement of this once-lovely [...]
Tortured Logic: Obama Writes Off Old Crimes While Promoting New Outrages Chris Floyd …Barack Obama is being given great credit for releasing the memos, although as the president himself points out in his statement, their release was actually required by law. I suppose it’s true that the United States government has become so degraded that [...]
The rhetoric of “peace” Ziyaad Lunat The Israelis have offered the Palestinians many types of “peace.” Their first attempt to reach out to the Palestinians was in 1948 with an offer of a “racist peace.” Ethnic cleansing was the basis of a “racist peace” where Zionist terrorists drove out two thirds of the Palestinian [...]
Investigating Israeli War Crimes in Gaza by Stephen Lendman Independent investigations and convincing testimonies, on both sides, provide compelling evidence of Israeli war crimes in Gaza. It’s time to hold the guilty accountable. In February, the Adalah Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights showed conclusively how Israel violated core international law principles by indiscriminately [...]
NUCLEAR HYPOCRISY Malcom Lagauche North Korea has had enough. For six years, the nation has been talking to the world in an attempt to stop its nuclear program. The Koreans promised to halt its program and other nations, including the U.S., promised food, fuel and an easing of diplomatic isolation. North Korea has done [...]
America’s Afghan War: The Real World versus Obama’s Marketed Imagery First Bush then Obama and their NATO allies have been killing twice as many civilian women and children than civilian men in America’s Afghan war Prof. Marc Herold On March 31, 2009, Jon Stewart in his “Daily Show” announced Commander-in-Chief Obama’s mission of “Redefinition [...]
Da: iristulip Oggetto: [GazaFriends] Why did you shoot at us, on the sands and in the small boats, you killed us Data: 06 aprile 2009 15:44:59 GMT+02:00 A: gazafriends Gazan fishermen abducted by Israeli forces ISM Gaza Strip http://fishingunderfire.blogspot.com/ Since Friday 13th March 2009, 16 fishermen from the Gaza [...]
Israel’s Racist in Chief By Chris Hedges Israel has changed. And the racist virus spread by Kahane, whose thugs were charged with the murders and beatings of dozens of unarmed Palestinians and whose members held rallies in Jerusalem where they chanted “Death to Arabs!” has returned to Israel in the figure of Israel’s powerful new [...]
Arab European League (AEL) interviews Dr. Ibrahim Alloush, Palestinian activist and professor of Economics in Jordan. By Brahim Harchaoui …Regarding the Iraqi resistance, we must keep in mind that it helped coax the Americans into a major strategic, military, economical, financial, and political quagmire (along with the Afghani resistance). Yet the Iraqi resistance is [...]
U.S. shipped 989 munitions containers to Israel week before Gaza invasion http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/488322/cs/1/ ********* Peres on Ahmadinejad: We’ll strike him http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=91241§ionid=351020101 ********* IRAN: New Israeli government reignites war talk http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/babylonbeyond/2009/04/iran-new-israeli-government-reignites-war-talk.html ********* Gaza boat explodes near Israel Navy vessel http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1078203.html ********* War-shocked Gaza children ‘want to die’ http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/04/13/2541280.htm