Abandoned… Layla Anwar, An Arab Woman Blues …Someone has abandoned the Feminine…someone has cut the umbilical cord, radically severed it from the Feminine…in Iraq. What is the Feminine traditionally associated with ? Nurture, Warmth, Attachment, Wholeness, Desire, Compassion, Love, Nourishment, Creativity, Matter – The Body, Sensuality, Life Giving, Protection, Tranquility, Sakinah… And these Iraqi women, [...]
April 18, 10:35 PM, 2009 Revealing the Secrets in Room 101 By Scott Horton On Thursday the spirit of George Orwell visited America, three times. The first visit can be found in four memoranda prepared by Bush Administration lawyers which gave the actual go-ahead for the use of specific torture techniques on specific [...]
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MoD admits use of controversial ‘enhanced blast’ weapons in Afghanistan –The missile’s warhead is made with a mixture of chemicals rather than a simple blast mechanism. 28 May 2009 British pilots in Afghanistan are firing an increasing number of “enhanced blast” thermobaric weapons, designed to kill everyone in buildings they strike, the Ministry of Defence has [...]
Amnesty International Annual Report on Israel and the Occupied Territories 2009 AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL Israeli forces launched a military offensive on an unprecedented scale – code-named “Operation Cast Lead” – on 27 December in the Gaza Strip, killing many civilians and destroying homes and other civilian property. Earlier in the year there had been a [...]
PRESS RELEASE - PRESIDENT OBAMA – VISIT GAZA AND END USA FUNDING OF ISRAELI SIEGE OF GAZA AND OCCUPATION OF PALESTINE – AN ISRAELI POLICY OF GENOCIDE AGAINST THE PALESTINIAN PEOPLE. ————————————————————————————————– BRITISH MEDICAL DOCTOR – SEVEN WEEKS WAIT AT RAFAH BORDER, EGYPT, TO GET TO PATIENTS IN GAZA. There are not many people [...]
Da: Andrea FreeGaza Web Oggetto: [GazaFriends] FreeGaza Newsletter May 2009 Data: 30 maggio 2009 1:46:41 GMT+02:00 A: gazafriends This newsletter is also available in French, German, Italian, Spanish, Arabic and Hebrew at: http://www.freegaza.org/en/home/newsletter/885-freegaza-newsletter-may-2009 just follow the link and choose your language on the top right corner. —–>Introduction The Free Gaza Movement [...]
US Army chief sees Iraq, Afghanistan occupations continuing for a decade By Bill Van Auken The chief of staff of the US Army, Gen. George Casey, said this week that the American military is preparing to continue its interventions in Iraq and Afghanistan for at least another decade. In an invitation-only interview [...]
Why The Photos Probably Do Show Detainees Sodomized and Raped By Naomi Wolf Well, America? Do you want to live with this? Remember: history shows categorically that once the state can lock `them’ up without a fair trial, torture, rape them or sodomize them – well; sooner or later it will be able [...]
Israel Defies US On Settlement Freeze Agence France Presse http://ph.news.yahoo.com/afp/20090528/twl-mideast-diplomacy-israel-us-7e07afd.html Israel has dismissed a blunt US call for a halt to all Jewish settlement building on occupied Palestinian land, the latest sign Washington is hardening its tone towards its close ally. “Normal life” will be allowed in settlements in the occupied West Bank, government spokesman [...]
Do Americans Have a Moral Conscience? By Paul Craig Roberts If the Obama regime does not hold the Bush regime accountable for violating US and international law, then the Obama regime is complicit in the Bush regime’s crimes. If the American people permit Obama to look the other way in order “to move [...]
GENERAL ACCUSES WH OF WAR CRIMES By Dan Froomkin Special to washingtonpost.com Wednesday, June 18, 2008; 12:44 PM The two-star general who led an Army investigation into the horrific detainee abuse at Abu Ghraib has accused the Bush administration of war crimes and is calling for accountability. In his 2004 report on Abu Ghraib, then-Major General [...]
FLASHBACK: The Pentagon’s Secret Stash Why we’ll never see the second round of Abu Ghraib photos. Matt Welch April 2005: The images, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld told Congress, depict “acts that can only be described as blatantly sadistic, cruel, and inhuman.” After Sen. Saxby Chambliss (R-Ga.) viewed some of them in a classified briefing, he [...]
Abu Ghraib abuse photos ‘show rape’ Photographs of alleged prisoner abuse which Barack Obama is attempting to censor include images of apparent rape and sexual abuse, it has emerged. By Duncan Gardham, and Paul Cruickshank, Telegraph At least one picture shows an American soldier apparently raping a female prisoner while another is said to [...]
War is Unsuitable for Children: Another YouTube outrage by Cindy Sheehan …. The video was just yanked off of You Tube because it “violates the terms of service” but even before it was yanked, it had a warning: “This video is unsuitable for children.” The pictures of the dead and maimed Iraqi children were [...]
Occupations you can believe in: US Army prepared to stay in Iraq for a decade 27 May 2009 The Pentagon is prepared to remain in Iraq for as long as a decade despite an agreement between Washington and Baghdad that would bring all American troops home by 2012, according to the US army chief of staff. Gen George [...]
Nuremberg Set a Valid Precedent for Trials of War-crime Suspects in Iraq’s Destruction By Cesar Chelala The Nuremberg Principles, a set of guidelines established after World War II to try Nazi Party members, were developed to determine what constitutes a war crime. The principles can also be applied today when considering the conditions [...]
Da: iristulip Oggetto: [GazaFriends] Our boats will sail again to Gaza Data: 26 maggio 2009 5:24:29 GMT+02:00 A: gazafriends By Mary Hughes Thompson In August 2008 history was made when our two little boats, FREE GAZA and LIBERTY, sailed to Gaza to break Israel’s occupation and blockade that had condemned 1.5 [...]
Israel’s Nuclear Hysteria Contrasts with Korean Calm By Gwynne Dyer Why are Koreans so much braver than Israelis when faced with the threat of nuclear weapons? http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22707.htm === Nukes ‘Politically Retarded’, says Ahmadinejad By Press TV As the West continues to press Iran on its nuclear program, President Mahmoud [...]