The Conquest of Iraq – Appropriating the Body
Layla Anwar, An Arab Woman Blues
…A sexualized Occupation. A “hot”, “beefed up”, “sexed up”, Occupation. How can an occupation be sexualized ? you may wonder… I ask you how can this occupation not be sexualized ? An occupation is NOT an abstract phenomena. To occupy something or someone involves matter, the physical realm first…the physical realm is a delineated space, with boundaries. It can be – land, cities, villages, neighborhoods, buildings and homes right down to t he body, the physical body. There can be no occupation without occupying the physical body. The body becomes the first and last frontier… From thereafter that point, one can talk of more abstract ideas pertaining to the Occupation. I actually find the word occupation too weak. In the case of Iraq it is not an occupation only – it is an appropriation/possession. The act of possessing by force…
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Iran Khodro Auto Workers Begin Work Slowdown to Protest the Regime
Al Giordano
The workers of the Khodro automobile company in Iran today issued the following declaration (translated for The Field from the original Farsi by Iraj Omidvar): Strike in Iran Khodro: We declare our solidarity with the movement of the people of Iran. Autoworker, Fellow Laborers (Laborer Friends): What we witness today, is an insult to the intelligence of the people, and disregard for their votes, the trampling of the principles of the Constit ution by the government. It is our duty to join this people’s movement. We the workers of Iran Khodro, Thursday 28/3/1388 (18 june 2009) in each working shift will stop working for half an hour to protest the suppression of students, workers, women, and the Constitution and declare our solidarity with the movement of the people of Iran. The morning and afternoon shifts from 10 to 10:30. The night shift from 3 to 3:30.…
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Hiding In Plain Sight: Israel’s Clean Break From America is in Progress
By Hesham Tillawi, PhD
…The strangest reaction though is from those organizations calling themselves Arabs, Muslims, or advocating for the Palestinian cause. These people–like some fish who thinks himself clever because he just swam off with a mouth-full of worm–are eating the bait big time. Where are their cries to Obama’s speech, a speech that did not have any substance but yet is being hailed by them as a “turning point” in American policy? Where are their cries to Obama as he describes Netanyahu’s speech as “an important step forward” just because it had one sentence in this whispering of a Palestinian state for the Palestinian Authority, the only thing which sounded good to Obama’s ears. Remember what the Godfathers of the “clean break” document said in “formulating language familiar to the Americans?” If Netanyahu’s speech was “a step forward”, what would Obama call Netanyahu’s comments about the refugees, Jerusalem and the Right of Return? A declaration of War on the World? A “Clean Break” not just from the U.S. but from the World?…
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Jewish Chabad’s Genocidal Morality
The Fanatical US-based Organization Exposed
Khalid Amayreh
“The only way to fight a moral war is the Jewish way. Destroy their holy sites; kill their men, women, children, and even cattle. “These are not the words of a loony Jewish terrorist, marauding through the hills of the West Bank in search for an elderly Arab peasant or shepherd to kill. In fact, these words were uttered last week by Manis Friedman, a prominent and highly-respected Chabad-lubavitch rabbi who is widely admired among many Orthodox Jews, especially in the United States…
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Through a Glass Darkly: Sifting Myth and Fact on Iran
Chris Floyd
Iranian academic Ali Alizadeh points out an important fact missed by many who see nothing but sinister American manipulation behind the post-election protests in Iran: that Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s economic policies — touted as a possible reason that he expanded his vote total by 10 million over the last election, a bounty ostensibly harvested from the grateful rural poor — are actually much more in line with his old nemesis, George W. Bush…The trope of a singular American hand guiding a million-headed puppet in the streets of Iran seems a bit odd anyway. There is of course little doubt that the imperial security apparat will try to make hay from the turmoil; but the American militarists have already made it clear that they prefer a victory for the incumbent Ahmadinejad…The corporate media’s portrayal of the Iranian uprising is indeed a lazy slotting of chaotic reality into neatly defined, “color revolution” stereotypes; but their misjudgment needn’t be compounded a comparable stereotyping the other way…
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Loyalty to racism
Israel’s attempt to legislate loyalty to the Jewish state is proof of the failure of the Zionist/colonial project of Israelification,
Azmi Bishara
What is behind the latest wave of legislative proposals flooding the Knesset agenda? I refer specifically to those intended to curb manifestations of Palestinian patriotism and to restrict the political activity of Arab Israelis. The aim of these laws is to impose the Israeli nationalist creed by coercion. It’s really that simple. Over the last deca de, the Knesset has experienced several bursts of legislative activity seeking to restrict freedom of opinion and expression on the questions of the Jewishness of the state and the right to resist occupation. The advocates of these laws are indefatigable. If the proposals fail to pass through any of the necessary stages, they are resubmitted over and over again in the hope of wearing out their opponents…
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Netanyahu’s hoax
Ayman El-Amir
Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has finally brought himself to pronounce the two-word anathema of “Palestinian state”, restricted by numerous caveats. As he was addressing two audiences, the Obama administration and his ultra right-wing colonial settlement partners, he had to walk a tightrope. To Obama he popped the magic word of Palestinian state, to his extremist Likud partners and religious party zealots he elaborately outlined what this state could not do and would not be. He o ffered some peace slogans to the Arabs and warned against the global threat of a nuclear Iran. To the Arabs, both those defined as moderates as well as radicals, Netanyahu’s peace charade was patently a non-starter…
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Israel war on Gaza: Share Album – Get Embed Code When Netanyahu Invalidated Camp David and Wadi Araba
Ahmad Barqawi
“The simple truth is that the root of the conflict has been and remains – the refusal to recognize the right of the Jewish People to its own state on its historical homeland”. Never have I heard the entire Arab-Israeli conflict summed up so concisely yet so deceptively. Of course those were the words of Benjamin Netanyahu during his latest speech which was delivered –ever so eloquently- last Sunday; the 30-m inute Israeli foreign policy speech that laid more damage to an already frail and worn out peace process, was a clear demonstration of Tel Aviv’s right winged government’s profound sense of political tyranny and down right immaturity; and what astounds me the most is this seemingly inexhaustible ability of Israel’s successive governments to sensationalize the opinions of a bunch of right winged religious fanatics and Zionist nationalists and easily get away with it appearing rather praiseworthy in the eyes of western leaders…
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Iran’s Karroubi calls for election re-run
Xinhua
Iran’s defeated presidential candidate Mehdi Karroubi on Friday called on the Guardian Council to nullify the June 12 election and arrange a re-run, the satellite channel Press TV reported. “We expect that you (the Guardian Council) accept the will of the nation by nullifying the election and holding a re-run,” Karroubi said in an open letter to the council. The letter was posted on the website of his party, the National Confidence Party (Hezb-e Etemad-e Melli), and is expe cted to be circulated in his newspaper’s Saturday edition…
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GI Special 7F11: Slime [ 19 June 2009 ]
Thomas F. Barton
Democrat Congressional Slime Vote $106 Billion For Imperial Wars: Murderous Rats Vote To Give Obama All The Money He Wants To Kill More U.S. Troops, Iraqis & Afghans: “What Once Democrats Could Argue Was ‘Bush’s War,’ They Now Officially Own”.
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