Video Report : Shooting At Tehran Protest Read the full article / Leggi l’articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.de/?p=55185 Neo-Nazis are in the Army now Why the U.S. military is ignoring its own regulations and permitting white supremacists to join its ranks. Matt Kennard On a muggy Florida evening in 2008, I meet Iraq War veteran Forrest Fogarty in the Winghouse, a little bar-restaurant on the outskirts of Tampa, his favorite hangout. He told me on the phone I would recognize him by his skinhead. Sure enough, when I spot a white guy at a table by the door with a shaved head, white tank top and bulging muscles, I know it can only be him. Over a plate of chicken wings, he tells me about his path into the white-power movement. “I was 14 when I decided I wanted to be a Nazi,” he says. At his first high school, near Los Angeles, he was bullied by black and Latino kids. That’s when he first heard Skrewdriver, a band he calls “the godfather of the white power movement.” “I became obsessed,” he says… Read the full article / Leggi l’articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.de/?p=55170 The Latest from Mullahstan and its proxies… Layla Anwar, An Arab Woman Blues After watching the despicable racist jew netanyahu delivering his racist nazi speech, I held on despite my intense indigestion and watched another program on Al-Arabiya regarding the elections in Mullahstan – Iran. It seems that a few media outlets have been banned in Iran and one of them is Al-Arabiya’s bureau that has been ordered to close down a week ago until further notice…[...] Meanwhile in Iraq, Talabani (and he is not the only one) wa rmly congratulated Ahmadinejad, and looked forward for more “fruitful cooperation” between the two countries. By the way the puppet Karzai from Afghanistan did the same… Read the full article / Leggi l’articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.de/?p=55167 Skewed and in secret, this Iraq inquiry is a scandal Jonathan Steele Gordon Brown’s announcement of a secret inquiry into the runup to and conduct of Britain’s invasion and occupation of Iraq (not the nouns he used, of course) is scandalous. First, the manner of his decision. Just last week the prime minister committed himself to a new spirit of public accountability, cross-party consultation on electoral and parliamentary reform, as well as a greater and more independent role for backbenchers and select committees. Now he promptly goes against all that when it comes to looking into the most important foreign policy decision of the last decade… Read the full article / Leggi l’articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.de/?p=55194 Barghouthi: Netanyahu’s speech proved the absence of a peace partner in Israel Palestinian Information Center MP Mustafa Al-Barghouthi, the secretary-general of the Palestinian national initiative, said on Monday that Israeli premier Benjamin Netanyahu proved in his speech on Sunday that there is no peace partner in Israel and his willingness to entrench the apartheid system against the Palestinians. MP Barghouthi added that Netanyahu practiced deception and misinformation in his speech and wanted to replace the idea of a Palestinian state with the same system of ghettoes or bantustans that used to exist in the past in South Africa… Read the full article / Leggi l’articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.de/?p=55176 Video: Former Gitmo detainee describes prison ordeal france24english THE FRANCE 24 INTERVIEW: Former Guantanamo inmate Lakdhar Boumediene told FRANCE 24 in an exclusive interview about his seven-year ordeal in the US prison camp, where his protestations of innocence were met with escalating brutality from interrogators… Read the full article / Leggi l’articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.de/?p=55177 Taliban raids increase, plan to disrupt Afghan poll: government By Sayed Salahuddin, Reuters Afghanistan’s interior minister said on Sunday the Taliban have stepped up their attacks in many parts of the country and warned the Islamist militants would attempt to sabotage an August 20 presidential election. Hanif Atmar’s comments mirror those of U.S. and NATO military commanders who said insurgent attacks soared 59 percent in the first five months of 2009 compared with the same period last year to reach the highest level si nce the Taliban’s overthrow in 2001. Like U.S. Central Command chief General David Petraeus, who is responsible for U.S. military strategy in the Middle East and Central Asia, Atmar also warned worse was to come as more U.S. and Afghan troops pursue Taliban fighters in their strongholds… Read the full article / Leggi l’articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.de/?p=55181 The meaning of the Tehran spring By Pepe Escobar … The trillion-dollar-question regarding this new “revolutionary” situation is that as things stand, no pacifying solution can be found within the institutional framework of the Islamic Republic. In a nutshell, Ahmadinejad has made his power play against Mousavi and Rafsanjani. The Supreme Leader fully supported him. Mousavi and Rafsanjani, plus Khatami, need an urgent counterpunch. And their only possible play is to go after Khamenei…. Read the full article / Leggi l’articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.de/?p=55190 Israel jails journalists for Gaza invasion report Reuters An Israeli court has jailed two journalists for two months for reporting troop movements in Israel in the hour before Israeli forces entered the Gaza Strip at the start of an invasion in January. The two men, both Palestinian residents of Israeli-occupied East Jerusalem, were convicted on Sunday of breaching military censorship regulations in their reports on troop movements for Iranian media from the Israeli side of Gaza’s border on Jan. 3… Read the full article / Leggi l’articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.de/?p=55180 Pentagon ‘Reconsidering’ Promise to Make Afghanistan Civilian Killings Probe Public Alleged Video Vindicating Troops May Never See Light of Day Jason Ditz In early May, a series of US air strikes in multiple villages in the Farah Province of Afghanistan killed 140 civilians, by far the single deadliest incident since the 2001 invasion. The official story of the US military changed several times. Initially, they went with the claim that the entire incident was made up by the Taliban, who had kidnapped hundreds o f civilians, killed them with hand grenade, then left them in empty houses which they tricked the US into bombing… Read the full article / Leggi l’articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.de/?p=55179 Netanyahu Offer a ‘Big Zero’ By Mel Frykberg Yasser Abed Rabbo, secretary of the Palestine Liberation Organisation’s executive committee, and a close confidant of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, has dismissed Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s foreign policy speech Sunday night as a big zero. Abed Rabbo said the speech was empty of content, and pointless. “Netanyahu is a swindler…who makes up tricks about the achievement of peace,” he was reported as saying by the Palestinian news agency Maan… Read the full article / Leggi l’articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.de/?p=55166 Iran vote and protests LENIN’S TOMB … So, the first question that occurs is, why should the ballots be rigged? This is skated over in a lot of the commentary as if the answer were obvious – Mousavi advocated reform, duh! However, Mousavi is hardly a dangerous candidate for the Iranian ruling class: rather, he represents a powerful faction of it. True, he was once on the ‘Islamic Left’ back in the 1980s, and it was due to the support of the left-leaning majles that he was made prime minister against Khomeini’s preferences . Today, however, he is a centrist allied to the ‘Modern Right’. His solutions to Iran’s problems of accumulation and development are impeccably neoliberal. This is why he got the backing of the old crook, cynic, capitalist and Iran-Contra arms dealer, Hashem Rafsanjani….Why should he have suddenly become so dangerous that the Iranian state, or powerful sectors within it, would risk a stupid fix? The answer could only be that by tapping a popular demands for reforms, the candidacy might have unleashed a movement that seriously frightened some factions in the ruling class…. Read the full article / Leggi l’articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.de/?p=55178 Iran: 12 students reported killed in crackdown after violent clashes Robert Tait and Saeed Kamali Dehghan in Tehran At least 12 people may have died in violent clashes with Iran’s security forces following President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s disputed re-election, according to reports from the country. The reported fatalities have come amid a brutal crackdown on students, apparently aimed at quelling a wave of campus rebellions that authorities fear could spill over to the wider population… Read the full article / Leggi l’articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.de/?p=55187 Obama: it’s up to Iran to determine own leaders AP President Barack Obama says it’s up to Iran to determine its own leaders. But he also says he’s troubled by the situation in Iran and that it would be wrong to stay silent. Obama says any investigation into Iranian election results must not result in bloodshed. It was the U.S. president’s first comments following the disputed outcome of Iran’s presidential election in which President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad retained his post… Read the full article / Leggi l’articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.de/?p=55173 An Appeal to Save an Important Palestinian Home from Demolition ICAHD Urgent action required: The Israeli Supreme Court has just ruled that the home of Salim and Arabiya Shawamreh in Anata, which has already been demolished by the Israeli authorities four times, can be demolished yet again. The Shawamreh home has become a symbol of resistance to Israel’s house demolition policies and deserves our support. Please forward this to your lists and raise this issue in your advocacy campaigns. Contact your political representati ves and the Israeli embassies and consulates in your country. Tell them that the Shawamreh home (Beit Arabiya) cannot be demolished again. Indeed, tell them that NO Palestinian home should ever be demolished again!… Read the full article / Leggi l’articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.de/?p=55168 Iran closes Al Jazeera bureau Chris Forrester Iran has “suspended the work” of the Al Jazeera news channel’s bureau in Tehran. BBC Monitoring carried the report. The closure took place on Sunday morning. Al Jazeera’s local correspondent. Diya al-Nasiri, told viewers T”he Iranian authorities informed us of the need to suspend the work of our bureau here in Tehran for a week. Work suspension does not mean shutting down the bureau, as they put it. However, we are not authorized to carry on with our job; accordingly, this liv e linkup might be our last live appearance as Al-Arabiya correspondents for a whole week.”… Read the full article / Leggi l’articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.de/?p=55172 EU “disturbed” by Iraq executions, calls for freeze Reuters The European Union protested against reported executions in Iraq on Monday and called on Baghdad to resume a moratorium on the death penalty. “The European Union is deeply disturbed at reports that in recent days further death sentences were carried out in Iraq, probably totalling number 20,” the Czech EU presidency said. “Moreover, the European Union is severely alarmed about indications that further mass executions might be imminent,” the EU said in a statement … Read the full article / Leggi l’articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.de/?p=55171 Turkish President And Premier Congratulate Iranian President Turkish Press Turkish President Abdullah Gul and Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan congratulated Mahmoud Ahmadinejad who was elected the president of Iran for the second time. They called Ahmadinejad on the phone and congratulated him for his success in the election… Read the full article / Leggi l’articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.de/?p=55165 Detainee Dies in the GIS Prison in Hebron PCHR – Palestinian Centre for Human Rights The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) calls for an investigation into the death of Haitham ‘Amru, 33, from Upper Beit al-Roush village southwest of Hebron. ‘Amru died while in the custody of the General Intelligence Service (GIS); it is suspected that he was subject to torture, which may have caused his death. PCHR’s investigations indicate that at approximately 20:00 on Thursday, 11 June 2009, a joint force of approximately 50 members of the Palestinian security forces, stormed a house belonging to the family of Haitham ‘Abdullah ‘Abdul Rahman ‘Amru, 33, in Upper Beit al-Roush village, southwest of Hebron… Read the full article / Leggi l’articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.de/?p=55189 GI Special 7F9: Nazi [ 14 June 2009 ] Thomas F. Barton Obama Address Gets Cool Afghan Reception: “I Listened To All Of It, But It Was For The Americans And Their Interests. We Afghans Are Just Onlookers”. “No One Believes That The Americans Will Leave Afghanistan”. “The U.S. Is Pursuing An Overarching Regional Goal In Asia, And Using The Conflict With The Taleban To Establish And Justify An Armed Presence There”. Read the full article / Leggi l’articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.de/?p=55192 GI Special 7F8: “Machine Gun Fire’ [ 12 June 2009 ] Thomas F. Barton “We’ve Had More Injuries From Machine Gun Fire Than From IEDs”. “Reports Of Insurgents Displaying Unusually Good Marksmanship And Other Tactical Skills”. “Insurgents Wore Body Armor And ‘Kevlar Helmets’ And Used Smoke Grenades To Conceal Their Movement As They Broke”. “Insurgents Displaying Improved Shooting Skills With AK-Series Assault Rifles”. “Insurgents Using ‘Very Accurate PKM Fire’ At A Range Of 600 To 800 Meters”. Read the full article / Leggi l’articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.de/?p=55191