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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, this [...]

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 individuals, thus demolishing forever the absurd contention [...]

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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 marked upsurge in [...]

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.
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BRITISH  MEDICAL DOCTOR  – SEVEN WEEKS WAIT AT RAFAH
BORDER, EGYPT, TO GET TO PATIENTS IN GAZA.
 
There are not many people (with the exception of the courageous [...]

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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 [http://www.freegaza.org] is a human activist
group [...]

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 Tuesday with selected reporters and [...]

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 to do the same [...]

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 Mark Regev said, [...]

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 on,” the American people [...]

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 Anthony Taguba concluded that “numerous incidents of [...]

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 testified that his [...]

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 show a male translator [...]

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 gruesome. War is [...]

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 that led to the [...]

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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 [...]

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
 
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Nukes ‘Politically Retarded’, says Ahmadinejad
 
By Press TV
 
As the West continues to press Iran on its nuclear program, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says the country considers developing nuclear weapons as “politically retarded”. 
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22706.htm
 
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Armageddon Now?
 
By Nadia [...]

Israeli forces attempts to legitimize pre-meditated murder and land annexation 
Eva Bartlett, In Gaza

“Life is hard for Palestinian farmers in the border region near Israel. The IOF shoot at us every day, any time. They shoot at the international volunteers (ISM) also.” This was Jaber Abu Rjila testifying some of what he has experienced in the [...]

The Human Rights Situation in Occupied Palestine 
Stephen Lendman

On March 15, 2006, the UN General Assembly voted overwhelmingly 170 to 4 (with only the US, Israel, the Marshall Islands and Palau against) “to establish the Human Rights Council (HRC), based in Geneva, in replacement of the Commission on Human Rights, as a subsidiary organ of the [...]

Dr. Joseph Meir. Brought young mothers the gospel of eugenics. 

Last update - 01:50 16/06/2004

`Do not have children if they won’t be healthy!’

By Tamara Traubmann   
 

A shocking new study reveals how key figures in the pre-state Zionist establishment proposed castrating the mentally ill, sterilizing the poor and doing everything possible to ensure reproduction only among the `best of people.’

Castrating [...]

Half of Israelis back immediate strike on Iran:
 

Fifty-one percent support an immediate Israeli strike on Iran’s nuclear sites, while 49 percent believe the Jewish state should await the outcome of efforts by the US administration to engage with the Islamic republic, said the survey published by Tel Aviv University.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090524/wl_mideast_afp/irannuclearpoliticsisraelus
 
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Russia urges dialogue with Hamas:
 

A statement from [...]

Hundreds ‘tortured’ in Iraqi prisons 25 May 2009 Iraq’s Ministry of Human Rights has declared in a report that hundreds of people were tortured in Iraqi prisons last year. According to the report published in Baghdad’s al-Sabbah newspaper Sunday, of the 306 cases of torture and abuse in Iraqi prisons, 107 took place in the semi-autonomous [...]

A family lost in white phosphorous shelling
Eman Mohammed writing from , Live from Palestine, 25 May 2009 

Umm Muhammad’s eldest son, Muhammad, holds a picture of his family. Everyone in the picture was killed except for him, Umm Muhammad and two younger brothers, Ahmad and Ali.

The Abu Halima family’s agony began when the family was taking shelter from [...]

U.S. prepares to withdraw, Iraqi resistance prepares for battle 
By Ned Parker

…The commander and another insurgent leader interviewed for this story belong to the secret world of Sunni tribesmen and old military officers who laid down their arms and helped bring relative peace to Iraq in the last two years. They decided to try to fight [...]

Insisting on Gaza access, Hope Convoy spends night at Rafah

Date: 25 / 05 / 2009  Time:  10:28

The Rafah Crossing [Ma'anImages]

Gaza – Ma’an – European solidarity activists with the Hope Convoy to Gaza spent Sunday night in the entryway of the Egyptian side of the Rafah crossing after Egypt refused to allow all of the participants to cross.
Ma’an [...]

Protest for UK Doctors Gaza Access
 
 

Pro Palestine activist picketed David Miliband MP house in Primrose Hill, London in solidarity with the two British surgeons who are on hunger strikes after being denied access to the Gaza strip.

Protesters attempted to deliver a letter to the Foreign Secretary house, calling on him to apply diplomatic pressure on [...]

Israel destroying Gaza’s farmlands 
Eva Bartlett, The Electronic Intifada, 22 May 2009 

A farmer holds crops destroyed by Israeli troops.

On the morning of 4 May 2009, Israeli troops set fire to Palestinian crops along Gaza’s eastern border with Israel. The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) reported that 200,000 square meters of crops were destroyed, including wheat and barley [...]

Did Bibi Box Obama in?
By Pat Buchanan

By setting a six-month deadline, Obama has given an incentive to Israel, AIPAC, the neocons and even al-Qaida, which wants Shia Iran bombed back to the stone age, to provoke collisions with Iran, until December, then demand that Obama keep his word, suspend talks, impose severe sanctions and start [...]

DECEPTION AND DEFIANCE FROM U.S. ADMINISTRATION, NOT SADDAM HUSSEIN 
Malcom Lagauche

On Sunday, May 16, 2004, Colin Powell, in an interview for NBC’s “Meet the Press,” actually came clean about the deceit used to prime the U.S. public for a war against Iraq. He acknowledged that information fed to him and the CIA by Iraqi defectors about [...]

 
Israeli toxic waste threatens Palestinian life
 
Fri, 22 May 2009 05:03:37 GMT
 
 

Israeli waste disposal companies send dozens of refuse-filled trucks to Palestinian villages every day.

 
Tel Aviv illegally dumps hazardous waste in the Palestinian West Bank, gifting cancer, sterility and mental disorders to the local population.   
In an exclusive interview with Press TV, Deputy Director of the Palestinian [...]

Obama’s Preventive Detention Plans Face Scrutiny 22 May 2009 The Obama administration’s efforts to craft what it calls a “preventive detention” plan for suspected terrorists will face constitutional challenges similar to those raised against the Bush regime’s policies. A White House task force reviewing detention policy is set to make recommendations in late July. The administration [...]

No, I Do Not Support “The Troops” 
Arthur Silber 

…On the occasion of this Memorial Day and on the days to come, all of which promise to be deeply tragic and murderously bloody so long as the goals of the American ruling class remain unchanged, the objects of your reverence must be severely restricted. That reverence must be reserved [...]

Torture and 9/11
By John S. Hatch

If Mr. Obama were to take a deep breath, look back and take a lesson from some of America’s darkest days, here’s what he would find: 
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article22684.htm

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Facts and Myths about Obama’s Preventive Detention Proposal
By Glenn Greenwald
In the wake of Obama’s speech yesterday, there are vast numbers of new converts who now [...]

“The next generation must continue our struggle” 
Rami Almeghari writing from the occupied Gaza Strip, Live from Palestine, 21 May 2009 

Dr. Abdullah al-Hourani is a Palestinian politician and researcher based in the Gaza Strip. He is the director of the Gaza-based Palestinian Center for National Studies in Gaza and chairman of the Palestinian Popular Committee for the Defense [...]

The Rape of Iraq’s Children. 
Layla Anwar, An Arab Woman Blues 

…Thousands of refugee children with no future…thousands of maimed children, thousands with NO MORE access to education, health care….thousands of cases of malnutrition, poverty, illness…thousands deeply traumatized for life… Okay so what about hundreds of dollars ? You can count hundreds of green bills. Hundreds trafficked, [...]

When will world leaders show “cruel racists” zero tolerance? 
Stuart Littlewood

…The news this week that three British medics are on hunger strike in Egypt makes the cruelty point clear enough to those who have so far been blind and deaf to it. They are protesting against being refused entry into Gaza for a humanitarian mission to [...]

Obama Endorses Indefinite Detention Without Trial 22 May 2009 President Obama acknowledged publicly for the first time yesterday that some prisoners at Guantanamo Bay may have to be held without trial indefinitely, siding with conservative national security advocates on one of the most contentious issues raised by the closing of the military prison in Cuba.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/05/21/AR2009052104045.html

Obama Is Said to [...]

Military Attorney: Waterboarding is ‘Tip of the Iceberg’
By David Edwards and Muriel Kane

“They started this monthly treatment where they would come in with a scalpel or a razor type of instrument and they would slash his genitals, just with small cuts.”
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article22672.htm

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“Little Known Military Thug Squad Still Brutalizing Prisoners at Gitmo Under Obama”
Democracy Now!
Jeremy Scahill reports [...]

U.S. Officials Admitted that Boys Were Sodomized In Iraq Prison 
Washington’s Blog

Many people have heard Nobel prize winning reporter Seymour Hersh’s claim that boys were sodomized at Abu Ghraib and that the Pentagon has video of the rapes. Many people think that they’ll believe it when and if they ever see the video. But we don’t [...]

Gaza suffocation puts medics on hunger strike 20 May 2009 Nine medics seeking entry into the Gaza Strip on a humanitarian mission have gone on a hunger strike after being denied entry into the blockaded ghetto. Three of the medical doctors, all British nationals say they have been denied access to the Palestinian territory at the [...]

Committee Against Torture’s Findings Highlight International Community’s Inaction in the Face of Israel’s Widespread and Systematic Violations of International Law 
PCHR – Palestinian Centre for Human Rights

On 14 May, 2009, the United Nations Committee Against Torture published its concluding observations on Israel’s fourth periodic report. While the State of Israel was preparing its submission, other elements [...]

Exceptionally Awful 
Arthur Silber

A few words about “exceptionalism,” in two respects: with regard to America the Most Virtuous, the Uniquely Good, and the Highest Tippy-Top of Everything Possible in All the Universes; and with regard to the performance of the majority of liberals and progressives since the dawning of the Age of Obama. As long-time readers [...]

Obama Steers Toward Endless War With Islam
 
 By Michael Scheuer
 
In just over 100 days, President Obama is on the verge of ensuring that militant Islam’s war on America will be waged for decades to come and its forces will never suffer manpower or money shortages. How did he accomplish so much in some little time? He [...]

Living amongst the dead in Gaza 
Eman Mohammed writing from Gaza City, occupied Gaza Strip, Live from Palestine, 19 May 2009 

Four-year-old Mahmoud does his homework atop a grave in the al-Sheikh Shaban cemetery. (Eman Mohammed)

The scene of Mahmoud Jilu, four years old, rolling his ball with friends doesn’t seem weird at all until you see where he is [...]

A Call to Disarm
Inconvenient Truths of US Pakistan policy
By William A. Cohn

In our fervor to fight, we are facilitating the most likely scenario for nuclear devastation. 
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article22655.htm

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Obama’s Great Afghanistan Gamble
By Robert Dreyfuss
Everyone knows 17,000 more troops can’t win the war in Afghanistan. So what’s the exit strategy? 
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article22662.htm

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“If you can’t outbreed the enemy, cull `em.”
Terrorism Breeds Terrorism
By [...]

Israeli Tourism Adverts Wipe Palestine From the Map – Take action now! 
Palestine Solidarity Campaign (PSC)

Posters have recently appeared in London Underground tube stations advertising Israel as a tourist destination. The map on the advert depicts Israel as incorporating the West Bank and East Jerusalem, the Gaza Strip and the Golan Heights (see photo below). Please [...]

UN Committee Against Torture expresses ‘deep concern’ at Israel’s treatment of detained children 
Defence for Children International 

On 15 May 2009, the UN Committee Against Torture (the Committee) concluded its 42nd session in Geneva by issuing concluding observations and recommendations on periodic reports submitted by five states, including Israel….In its Concluding Observations and recommendations to Israel’s Fourth [...]

Suffocated Al-Quds 
Khalid Amayreh

Besieged by settlement blocs and strangled by a towering separation wall, Al-Quds (occupied East Jerusalem) is suffocating under the Israeli occupation that aims at isolating the holy city from its Palestinian context and displacing its people. “They want as few Arabs in Al-Quds as possibly,” Khalil Tufakji, an official of the Arab Cartography [...]

Condemning Torture, Condoning Mass Murder
By Charles Davis

The idea that war crimes and civil liberties violations are strictly conservative affairs is particularly comforting to wide-eyed Democrats in awe of America’s First Black President ™, and it affords the heirs to the same liberal establishment which brought us Vietnam and Hiroshima another opportunity to grandstand about their [...]

Human Rights Investigator, Attorney John Sifton: Torture Investigation Should Focus on Estimated 100 Prisoner Deaths 
Democracy Now!

We get reaction to the Senate hearing on torture from private investigator and attorney John Sifton, executive director of One World Research, which carries out research for law firms and human rights groups. Sifton has conducted extensive investigations into the [...]

Giving Some Love to the Inquisition 
Robert Parry

At a Senate hearing this past week, Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-South Carolina, rallied to the defense of ex-President George W. Bush’s torture techniques by implicitly endorsing the Spanish Inquisition’s brutal treatment of Jews, Muslims, Protestants and other alleged heretics from the 15th to 17th centuries. “One of the reasons [...]

ENVIRONMENT: West Bank Becomes Waste Land
By Mel Frykberg*

Palestinian territories fast becoming a wasteland. 

 
RAMALLAH, May 15 (IPS/IFEJ) – Israel has found a cheap and easy way to get rid of its waste, much of it hazardous: dump it into the West Bank. A few Palestinians can be bought, the rest are in no position to complain.
“Israel has [...]

Turkey Shoot At Abu Ghraib
Tales of Murder and Torture
Video

I wanted to find out what had turned ordinary American soldiers into the apparent monsters revealed in the photographs. 
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article12258.htm

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Aipac’s Hidden Persuaders
By Richard Silverstein
The Israel lobby is aiming to soften up US public opinion for an attack on Iran. Americans should resist its propaganda. 
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22636.htm

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“We Are Escalating War – [...]

‘You can’t authorise murder’: Hersh 12 May 2009 Pulitzer prize-winning American investigative journalist Seymour Hersh recently said that former US vice-president [sic] Dick Cheney headed a secret assassination wing that targeted America’s enemies abroad. SEYMOUR HERSH: In Cheney’s view this isn’t murder, but carrying out the “war on terror”. And in the view of me [...]

Barack Obama, Murderer and War Criminal-in-Chief 
Arthur Silber

I will be blunt, for certain conclusions are now inescapable, even this early in the miraculous, transcendent Age of Obama. Insofar as those who regularly follow political matters are concerned, and especially with regard to those people who write about politics and foreign policy — which is to say, [...]

New ‘Prisoner Abuse’ Photographs Emerge Despite US Bid to Block Publication
 
By Alex Spillius in Washington
 

Graphic photographs of alleged prisoner abuse, thought to be among up to 2,000 images Barack Obama is trying to prevent from being released, emerged yesterday. 
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22624.htm
 
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In Case You Missed It
 
Abu Ghraib – The Sequel
 
This is a must watch video
 
These are the photos [...]

White Phosphorus Lies 
Moon of Alabama

Two days ago the U.S. military again denied the use of white phosphorus grenades in directly targeting enemy positions in Afghanistan. In today’s NYT, a reporter embedded with U.S. front troops again confirms such use… The U.S. denies any use of white phosphorus grenades and bombs in direct combat and in [...]

Breaking: US House backs $96.7 bln bill for Iraq, Afghan, Pakistan wars 14 May 2009 The U.S. House of Representatives on Thursday approved a $96.7 billion measure to fund the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan through Sept. 30 as well as rush critical economic and security aid [?] to Pakistan. The biggest chunk is $47.7 billion to [...]

Who Rules America?
 
By Paul Craig Roberts
 

What do you suppose it is like to be elected president of the United States only to find that your power is restricted to the service of powerful interest groups? 
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22611.htm
 
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Lawrence Wilkerson Drops an Iraq-Torture Bombshell
 
By Bob Fertik
 

What I have learned is that as the administration authorized harsh interrogation in April [...]

Afghan Resistance Statement
Statement on the use of white phosphorus 
Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan

…As operations by the Mujahideen have currently increased in various parts of the country and as the enemy suffers heavy casualties on a daily basis, they carry out revenge attacks and bombings and target civilians every day, destroy villages and homes and ruthlessly martyr [...]

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Viva Palestine and Free gaza movement on press tv. 

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Indefinite Detention Weighed 14 May 2009 The Obama administration [soon to be dubbed 'regime' by the CLG] is weighing plans to detain some terror suspects on U.S. soil – indefinitely and without trial – as part of a plan to retool military tribunal trials that were conducted for prisoners held in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. The proposal is being floated [...]

“Sadistic . . . violent . . . inhuman.” 
Mike Malloy

…At today’s White House press briefing, press secretary Robert Gibbs told reporters that the president was concerned that the photos’ release would pose a national security threat. In other words, these unreleased photos and videos show acts of degeneracy so vile there is no way they [...]

The Man Who Knew Too Much? A Convenient Suicide in a Libyan Prison 
Benjamin Davis

Little noted thusfar by the newspapers of record in the United States, Ibn al-Shaykh al-Libi, the al-Qaeda operative tortured for the United States by the Egyptian secret police, died in a Libyan prison this past weekend of what has been called a [...]

Obama U-turn on abuse photographs 13 May 2009 US President Barack Obama has changed his mind and will now attempt to block the publication of photographs showing the abuse of prisoners by US soldiers. The US government had previously said it would not fight a court ruling ordering the release of the pictures. Mr Obama now [...]

Ban Ki-moon’s Moral Failure

 
By Hasan Abu Nimah
 

This is but one of the many sad stories of how the UN top leadership has betrayed and failed its mission. The UN does not exist only to protect its personnel and installations. The UN flag alone ought to provide that kind of real protection — immunity which no [...]

After Afghan massacre, Washington says airstrikes will go on 
Bill Van Auken

In the final days of his trip to Washington, President Hamid Karzai demanded an end to US airstrikes in Afghanistan. In response, US National Security Adviser Gen. James Jones (ret.) insisted that the bombing of Afghan villages will continue, whether the country’s supposed sovereign government [...]

The Children’s Crusade 
Chris Floyd

Day after day, week after week, Barack Obama’s “Overseas Contingency Operations” keep churning through the bodies of children: sometimes with chemical weapons that sear their flesh and leave them maimed and disfigured for life; sometimes with carefully aimed bullets ripping through their organs and leaving them dead right on the spot. And [...]

Deja Vu: White Phosphorus in Afghanistan 
al-falasteenyia

Tonight the US military denied using phosphorus, saying if it had been used, the Taliban were to blame. Nader Nadery, of the Afghan Independent Human Rights Commission, said: ‘Our teams have met with patients. They are investigating the cause of the injuries and the use of white phosphorus.’ ….Marc Garlasco, [...]

Hamas political chief rejects two-state solution 
DPA

The Palestinian Islamic movement Hamas will not accept a two-state solution as a means to end the conflict with Israel, the movement’s Damascus-based politburo chief said Saturday. Khaled Meshaal said that Hamas rejects the two-state solution but could still be part of a national unity government if a Palestinian state [...]

UN’s Ban Ki Moon comes to the defence of Israel 
By Jean Shaoul

A United Nations inquiry concluded that Israel’s military forces carried out direct and intentional strikes on its premises during the assault on Gaza earlier this year. Israel was therefore responsible for the deaths and injuries of UN personnel and civilians, as well as extensive [...]

Afghan Resistance Statement
Statement by Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan on the mass martyrdom of the innocent people of Farah Province 
Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan

Those who pretend to promote peace and development have once again drenched some of our defenceless and innocent compatriots, most of them women, children and old people, in their own innocent blood in Ganjabad [...]

Government Could Destroy Records in Hundreds of Guantanamo Cases 
Chisun Lee

A stockpile of documents about hundreds of Guantanamo Bay detainees, some written by the prisoners themselves, could be destroyed under a little-known provision of a federal court order the Bush administration obtained in 2004. For four years, records in the prisoners’ habeas corpus lawsuits challenging the [...]

Video: Scores dead after US strike in Afghanistan 
AljaeeraEnglish

The Afghan president is in Washington DC for high level talks, but back in Afghanistan a deadly airstrike has once again killed scores of civilians. The local governor of a small community in Western Afghanistan claims that more than 100 civilians have been killed in a US led [...]

US interrogators may have killed dozens, human rights researcher and rights group say 
John Byrne, Raw Story

United States interrogators killed nearly four dozen detainees during or after their interrogations, according a report published by a human rights researcher based on a Human Rights First report and followup investigations. In all, 98 detainees have died while in [...]

Afghan Taliban spokesman: We will win the war 
Nic Robertson, CNN

…The man in front of me is Zabiullah Mujahid — one of two spokesmen for the Afghan Taliban leader Mullah Mohammed Omar. He is around 30, maybe a little younger, bearded, but not heavily so. He is slight but not weak and close to my height [...]

British Torture of Germans in World War II 
The Guardian (Britain)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2005/nov/12/secondworldwar.world 
Beatings, sleep deprivation and starvation used on SS and Gestapo men / POW camp in Kensington kept secret and hidden from Red Cross / …The London Cage was used partly as a torture centre, inside which large numbers of German officers and soldiers were subjected to [...]

 
America: Zionist Colony
 
WRITTEN BY WWW.DAILY.PK
 
 
MONDAY, 04 MAY 2009 18:47
Throughout history countries have exerted their utmost to avoid losing their independence and becoming a surrogate or puppet at the hand of another country or countries. This has resulted in unwanted wars and conflicts which have led to colonialism and exploitation of weaker states. Yet, the colonized [...]

What is the Unites States preparing in Pakistan? 
Keith Jones

Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari will undoubtedly come under renewed pressure to allow US military forces to wage war within Pakistan when he visits Washington this week for a trilateral summit meeting with President Obama and Afghanistan’s Hamid Karzai. For weeks, the US political and military establishment [...]

 
http://www.thewe.cc/contents/more/archive/circus_torture.html
http://www.thewe.cc/weplanet/news/middle_east/israel/torture_techniques_no_surprise.htm

The Jerusalem municipality hands out more demolishing orders to Palestinian-owned homes 
Ghassan Bannoura – IMEMC

The Israeli municipality handed out a new wave of demolishing orders on Monday to Palestinian families in Jerusalem old city and around it. Hatim Abdul-Qader, Jerusalem Affairs Advisor to the Palestinian Prime Minister, told reporters that the orders include homes inside Jerusalem’s [...]

UN demands access to secret Israeli ‘torture’ jail –Document: “Allegations of torture, ill-treatment and poor detention conditions in this facility have been reported to the committee.” 05 May 2009 The United Nations anti-torture committee has demanded access to an Israeli secret prison where torture is allegedly being practiced. The UN Committee Against Torture in Geneva prepared a [...]

No, the savagery against Gaza did not end 
Marcy Newman, body on the line

Last night Palestinians in Gaza were shot at by Israeli terrorists in uniform: Palestinian medical sources reported that one Palestinian man was moderately wounded on Sunday at night by Israeli military fire targeting an open area east of Khan Younis, in the southern part [...]

Obama Returns to Bush Era on Guantánamo
 
By Andy Worthington
 

Two distressing pieces of news emerged last week regarding the Obama administration’s plans to close Guantánamo, and both were delivered by Defense Secretary Robert Gates in testimony to the Senate Appropriations Committee. 
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22549.htm
 
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The Torturer’s Apprentice
 
Australia’s role in the American Inquisition.
 
By Richard Neville
 
In the panicky aftermath of 9/11, the [...]

DEMISE OF THE DIGNITY
May 4, 2009 by irishingaza (http://irishingaza.wordpress.com/author/irishingaza/)
 

We, Derek and I, were woken at 7.15 a.m. this morning by a phone call informing us the DIGNITY was damaged in the marina in larnaca after heavy winds and seas in a storm in Cyprus last night. Derek immediately got in to the car and reached larnaca in [...]

Obama Administration Seeks Extraordinary Military Powers in Pakistan
 
By Bill Van Auken
 

This was the main message delivered by Pentagon officials on Capitol Hill over the last few days, together with increasingly dire warnings that without immediate and unconditional US military funding for Pakistan, the government could collapse. 
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22537.htm
 
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The Myth of Talibanistan
 
By Pepe Escobar
 
Apocalypse Now. Run for cover. [...]

Da: Ramzi Kysia
Data: 04 maggio 2009 16:41:05 GMT+02:00
A: GazaFriends
Oggetto: [GazaFriends] AN URGENT APPEAL TO HELP BREAK THE SIEGE OF GAZA
 

04 May 2009
AN URGENT APPEAL TO HELP BREAK THE SIEGE OF GAZA
“From the groundbreaking work of Gandhi and King to the ongoing example of the Free Gaza Movement, we can discern the transforming power of nonviolence [...]

When, Where the Pope Inspires No Hope 
Nicola Nasser

…the Holy See is determined to rule out Gaza from the Pope’s itinerary. In a recent letter to the Vatican 40 prominent Christians from the occupied Palestinian territories appealed to the Holy See to add Gaza to his itinerary. They could not understand how the Pope has been [...]

American Exceptionalism
 
Torture Whitewash from The Dark Side
 
By Pepe Escobar
 

Without accepting full responsibility for torture – and illegal, pre-emptive wars – and without accountability, there can be no catharsis in America. Obama is enough of a smart operator to know that if his “going forward” is perceived like “look the other way”, this whole thing will [...]

Torture?
It Probably Killed More Americans Than 9/11
 
By Patrick Cockburn
 

A US major reveals the inside story of military interrogation in Iraq. 
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22497.htm
 
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Straight to the Top
 
The torture trail starts and ends in the White House.
 
By Scott Horton
 

The big open question is whether we have an attorney general who enforces the law, or a Democratic version of Alberto Gonzales. [...]

Report: Two Psychologists Responsible for Devising CIA Torture Methods –Former military officers were paid by the CIA to oversee the waterboarding techniques used against high-profile prisoners 30 Apr 2009 Two psychologists are responsible for designing the CIA’s program of waterboarding suspected terrorists and for assuring the government the program was safe, according to an ABC News report. Former [...]

 
Israel’s Racist in Chief
Posted on Apr 13, 2009 By Chris Hedges
 
It was unthinkable, when I was based as a correspondent in Jerusalem two decades ago, that an Israeli politician who openly advocated ethnically cleansing the Palestinians from Israeli-controlled territory, as well as forcing Arabs in Israel to take loyalty oaths or be forcibly relocated to [...]

60 anti-torture activists arrested at White House

BY ASSOCIATED PRESS
 
 

WASHINGTON – U.S. Park Police have arrested about 60 anti-torture activists in front of the White House.
Sgt. David Schlosser says the protesters violated a permit regulation that required them to remain in motion on the center portion of a sidewalk. The protesters, wearing orange jumpsuits to represent Guantánamo [...]

President Obama Won’t Rule Out Torture 
Doug Giebel

During his April 29, 2009, press conference, President Obama was asked if he would ever authorize or resort to torture. His answer more than implied an acceptance of torture, and true to form it was ignored in conference recaps by the main stream media. The question was asked by [...]

On the crimes of apartheid 
Marcy Newman, body on the line

…If we want to talk about Israel as an apartheid regime what we have to show is there is one group that has institutionalized discrimination against another group for the purposes of establishing and maintaining domination. With the case of Israel it’s actually what they call [...]

Half Life of a Toxic War 
Iraq’s Wrecked Environment 
By JEFFREY ST. CLAIR and JOSHUA FRANK

The ecological effects of war, like its horrific toll on human life, are exponential. When the Bush administration (parts one and two) and its congressional allies sent troops to Iraq to topple Saddam Hussein’s regime, they not only ordered these men and [...]

Gaza citizens at risk from rubbish, rubble, unexploded ordnance 
IRIN news

Unexploded ordnance (UXO) and the uncontrolled dumping of rubbish pose the greatest environmental and public health risks to residents of the Gaza Strip, according to the UN Development Programme (UNDP). A further study is planned by the UN Environment Programme (UNEP). Increased discharges of raw sewage, [...]

Get up, stand up for Palestinian Rights on May Day and Every Day 
Reham Alhelsi

…On the 1st of May we remember Zionist massacres committed against Palestinian labourers. We remember the massacre of Oyoun Qara (Rishon Lezion), when on 20.5.1990 an Israeli soldier lined up some 100 Palestinian labourers who were on their way to work, and [...]