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On 25 April, 2009, in Current events, by joe

Ahmadinejad’s Webster speech canceled:

President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s speech at a Swiss university has been canceled due to apparent pressure from pro-Israeli lobbying.
http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=92052&sectionid=351020101

Let’s skip Gaza: Pope’s PR blunder :

If the Pope arrives in Palestine he must visit Gaza or it’ll look as if he doesn’t give a damn about the human condition in the very land where Christianity was born
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/articles/39/Lets_skip_Gaza_Popes_PR_blunder.html

US court: Ex-Israeli cabinet member cannot be sued:

A federal appeals court says a former Israeli security chief cannot be sued in the United States for 15 deaths in a Gaza City bombing.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090416/ap_on_re_us/bombing_lawsuit

Neturei Karta protest during moment of silence:

Members of radical anti-Zionist stream hold protest in Jerusalem during moment of silence for Holocaust victims, saying ‘Zionists cynically abuse the Holocaust for their own purposes’
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3704327,00.html

A Basic History of Zionism and its Relation to Judaism:

Zionism has now assumed the all-embracing mantle of righteousness. It claims to represent and to speak for all Jews and has adopted the slogan of “my country right or wrong.” The West tolerates Israel’s continuous breaches of human rights–violations that it would not tolerate if perpetrated by any other country
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article4549.htm

The Holocaust Industry: Video:

Norman Finkelstein talks about his book, The Holocaust Industry, and on the on the Israel Palestine Conflict on CSpan
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19996.htm

How many soldiers died in World War 2?:

Soviet 14,500,000 dead, Germany 2,800,000 dead, U.S.A. 406,000 dead, Britain 400,000 dead. More
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/How_many_soldiers_died_in_World_War_2

How many Russians and people in the USSR died in World War 2?:

Most historians believe that the Soviet Union was quite literally decimated, losing a full 10% of its population which was about 17-18 million total people lost.
http://snipurl.com/ge5lk

World War II: Combatants and Casualties (1937 – 45):

Estimates of the death toll attributable to the war for military and civilian losses have ranged upward to 60 million, with civilian losses at or more than 50 percent of that total (a stark contrast with the losses of WWI, in which such losses were no more than five percent).
http://web.jjay.cuny.edu/~jobrien/reference/ob62.html

Obama reassures CIA no prosecutions planned:

Obama held a private meeting with CIA Director Leon Panetta and about 50 agents, assuring them once again that there will be no prosecutions or investigations directed at CIA officials.
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2009/apr2009/tort-a21.shtml

Spanish judge keeps Guantanamo probe alive:

A Spanish judge considering possible criminal action against six former Bush administration officials for torture at the U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay defied pressure to drop the case Friday
http://www.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUSTRE53G3V620090418

Psychologists Helped Guide Interrogations: .

According to newly released Justice Department documents, the psychologist provided ideas, practical advice and even legal justification for interrogation methods that would break Abu Zubaida, physically and mentally. Extreme sleep deprivation, waterboarding, the use of insects to provoke fear — all were deemed acceptable, in part because the psychologist said so.
http://snipurl.com/ge5py

What?

Torture case lawyers may face jail for letter:

A former Guantanamo Bay prisoner who accused a Bay Area company of flying him to foreign torture chambers for the CIA is at the center of a bizarre new case, in which his lawyers face possible jail sentences for writing a letter that asked President Obama to disclose how brutally he was treated.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/04/19/BA68172JDM.DTL

Goldman Sachs Shook Tens of Billions Out of Tax-Payers –

Now They’re Whining All the Way to the Bank
http://www.alternet.org/workplace/137561

Bush Torture Memos

Revealing the Secrets in Room 101

By Scott Horton

In the first of the four memos, we learn that one prisoner has been the subject of a careful psychoanalysis that had revealed a strong fear of insects, particularly stinging insects. The sudden onset of a phobia can produce automatic, uncontrollable reactions-the fear grips total control of the subject’s mind.
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22473.htm

Harsh Tactics Readied Before Their Approval

Senate Report Describes Secret Memos

By Joby Warrick and Peter Finn

Intelligence and military officials under the Bush administration began preparing to conduct harsh interrogations long before they were granted legal approval to use such methods — and weeks before the CIA captured its first high-ranking terrorism suspect, Senate investigators have concluded.
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22475.htm

Torturers Should Be Punished

By Amy Goodman

According to the American Civil Liberties Union, the OLC under Bush “became a facilitator for illegal government conduct, issuing dozens of memos meant to permit gross violations of domestic and international law.”http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22478.htm

Army officer: Report cites Abu Ghraib ‘scapegoats’:

Col. Janis Karpinski said Tuesday that “from the beginning, I’ve been saying these soldiers did not design these techniques on their own.” She told CBS’s The Early Showthat servicemen and women stationed in Iraq “were following orders.”
http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2009-04-22-abu-ghraib-report_N.htm

Major Charles Burney Confirms Torture Was Carried Out to Get False Iraq-al Qaeda Link:

The Senate Armed Services Committee report does a very good job of describing the process by which Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld drove prisoner interrogation techniques into the realm of torture.
http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/node/41949

Ahmadinejad: Haul Israel off to court:

Ahmadinejad called for the formation of a special court at the UN General Assembly and urged the International Criminal Court’s chief prosecutor to investigate the crimes committed in Gaza.
http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=92184&sectionid=351020101

Signs of worsening malnutrition among children:

UN World Health Organization (WHO) officials are concerned by the warning signs, including rising malnutrition indicators – like increased cases of stunting, wasting and underweight children – and continuing high rates of anaemia among children and pregnant women.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportId=84018

Dozens of Prisoners Held by CIA Still Missing, Fates Unknown:

We pointed out that one of the newly released Bush-era memos inadvertently confirmed that the CIA held an al-Qaeda suspect [1] named Hassan Ghul in a secret prison and subjected him to what Bush administration lawyers called “enhanced interrogation techniques.” The CIA has never acknowledged holding Ghul, and his whereabouts today are secret.
http://snipurl.com/ghd7t

Torture orders ‘came from the top’:

TOP US officials, not a “few bad apples” of low rank, were behind harsh military interrogation tactics that spread from Guantanamo Bay to Afghanistan to Iraq, a new Senate report says.
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,27574,25370033-401,00.html

Report: Bush policies led to prisoner abuses:

Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich., the committee’s chairman, said the report shows that abuse of prisoners was sweeping and not, as former Bush administration defense official Paul Wolfowitz once said, the result of “a few bad apples.” As the No. 2 defense official, Wolfowitz was a major architect of the Iraq war.
http://snipurl.com/ghd9b

‘Top Bush hawks fed on torture’:

It brought into attention the former defense secretary Donald Rumsfeld’s reported decision on December 2002 to give carte blanche to military interrogators to administer ‘enhanced interrogation techniques’ – a euphemism for torture used by the Bush administratio
http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=92219&sectionid=3510203

Adviser says Bush admin collected, destroyed dissenting views on torture:

A onetime senior adviser to former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice says that the Bush Administration collected and destroyed memos by top officials arguing that torture methods used on detainees were wrong.
http://snipurl.com/ghdas

Justice Department Memos on Interrogation Techniques:

View Original Memos:

The Justice Department on Thursday released detailed memos describing harsh interrogation techniques used by the Central Intelligence Agency. President Obama said that C.I.A. operatives who carried out the techniques would not be prosecuted
http://snipurl.com/ghdbp

Europeans may investigate Bush officials:

European prosecutors are likely to investigate CIA and Bush administration officials on suspicion of violating an international ban on torture if they are not held legally accountable at home, according to U.N. officials and human rights lawyers.
http://www.denverpost.com/headlines/ci_12196651

Bush legal adviser met with cries of ‘war criminal’ at debate:

John Yoo, one of the legal architects of the Bush Administration’s “torture policies,” was met with outrage at a talk given at Chapman University in California Tuesday, where he reportedly faced cries of “war criminal” as he approached the stage.
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Bush_legal_adviser_met_with_cries_0422.html

Harman’s Wiretap Woes and the AIPAC Cabal

By Marcy Winograd

Who else has AIPAC colluded with on the Hill? If the tapes are out there, Harman got caught, but isn’t this a much larger story than just one woman bedazzled by men with money in their pockets and nuclear warheads in their backyards. It is time AIPAC register as a foreign lobbyist.
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22486.htm

Why Did The Harman Case Break Now?

By Philip Weiss

The lobby has won through White House access of the sort Harman allegedly boasted of in the wiretapped call; and those who are critical of a Jewish state or its policies have been excluded and smeared, as antisemites.
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22488.htm

Freedom…. What Freedom?

US Jails Man over Hezbollah Channel

By Al Jazeera

A Pakistani man has been jailed by a US court for broadcasting Hezbollah’s television channel and selling it to customers in the US.
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22485.htm

On Torture, the Pressure Builds

By Ray McGovern

Until now, Bush has managed to escape blame for his outrageous inactivity before 9/11 because his subordinates – first and foremost, Tenet – have covered up for him. Faustian bargain? Call it mutual blackmail, if you prefer the vernacular.
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22479.htm

The Cancerous Rot at the Center of the Empire

By Jacob G. Hornberger

My question is: Why limit torture to suspected terrorists? Why not expand it to suspected murderers, drug dealers, robbers, and kidnappers? After all, can’t those types of people commit just as heinous an act as terrorists?
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22480.htm

CIA death squads killing with “impunity” in Afghanistan:

A United Nations investigator released a preliminary report last week citing widespread civilian deaths in Afghanistan, often at the hands of unaccountable units led by the CIA or other foreign intelligence agencies.
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2008/may2008/afgh-m19.shtml

Israeli army Gaza “probe” lacks credibility : Amnesty:

There is a strikingly large gap between the “very small number” of mistakes referred to in the IDF’s briefing paper and the killing by Israeli forces of some 300 Palestinian children and hundreds of other unarmed civilians.
http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGUSA20090424001〈=e

Manufacturing Consent For Attack On Iran:

Israeli foreign minister sees Iran as obstacle to Mideast peace:

Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman sees Iran as the biggest obstacle to peace in the Middle East, he told the newspaper Jerusalem Post on Friday. He said it would not be possible to resolve a single problem in the region without first settling the issue of Iran’s controversial nuclear programme.
http://snipurl.com/gn7gq

The tortured Iraq-al-Qaida connection:

The Bush administration used torture, not to defuse ticking time bombs, but to generate a false justification for the Iraq war
http://snipurl.com/gn7kv

Rice ‘approved torture methods’:

A US senate intelligence committee report said on Wednesday that Rice, then national security adviser, verbally gave the green light to the CIA in July 2002 to use waterboarding on Abu Zubaydah, an al-Qaeda suspect held in Guantanamo Bay in Cuba.
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/americas/2009/04/2009423145748353446.html

Right wing threatens Obama over torture charges:

Denouncing Obama’s half-hearted criticism of the Bush administration’s torture policy as “Presidential Poison,” the leading right-wing voice of the American financial aristocracy warns, “His invitation to indict Bush officials will haunt Obama’s Presidency.
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2009/apr2009/pers-a24.shtml

The Consequences of Torture:

With this week’s myriad revelations on torture, the prospective targets of prosecution and impeachment have suddenly grown from the so-called Bush 6 to potentially dozens of officials, lawyers, and interrogators who brought us waterboarding, sleep deprivation, stress positions, and “walling,” Here’s a look at the odds each group involved, from President Bush himself to mid-level lawyers, face of court proceedings.
http://snipurl.com/gn7nh

Obama legal team wants to limit defendants’ rights:

Supreme Court case is stark example of the White House seeking to limit rights.
http://snipurl.com/gn7p5

War criminal says:

Force must be an option – Blair:

Tony Blair has said the case for using military force to topple oppressive regimes is as strong as it ever was – despite events in Iraq and Afghanistan
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/8013827.stm

Tony Blair Calls on World to Wage War on Militant Islam:

Mr Blair was speaking almost ten years to the day since he gave an address in Chicago at the height of the Kosovo crisis when he set out what he described as a “doctrine of international community” that sought to justify intervention, including military intervention, not only when a nation’s interests are directly engaged but also where there exists a humanitarian crisis or gross oppression of a civilian population.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/faith/article6153607.ece

Israel defies US and destroys Palestinian home:

Brushing aside international criticism, Israel demolished a Palestinian house in East Jerusalem in the latest in a series of actions that critics say is racheting up tensions in the city, harming chances for a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
http://snipurl.com/gn88q

Norwegian lawyers file complaint accusing 10 Israelis of Gaza war crimes:

Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, Defense Minister Ehud Barak and opposition leader Tzipi Livni were among those named in the complaint, the lawyers said.
http://www.courant.com/news/nationworld/sns-ap-eu-norway-israel-gaza-complaint,0,3819943.story

CIA first proposed waterboarding in May 2002:

The document released Wednesday by the Senate Intelligence Committee provides the most detailed timeline yet for how the CIA’s harsh interrogation program was conceived and approved.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/04/22/AR2009042202666.html

Document: Cheney, Rice signed off on interrogation techniques:

A newly declassified narrative of the Bush administration’s advice to the CIA on harsh interrogations shows that the small group of Justice Department lawyers who wrote memos authorizing harsh interrogation techniques were operating not on their own but with direction from top administration officials, including then-Vice President Dick Cheney and National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice.
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/227/story/66727.html

US senators urge no prosecutions for ‘torture’ memo writers:

“In the interest of national security, it is the future, rather than the past, on which we believe America?s gaze must be fixed,” said Republicans John McCain and Lindsey Graham, as well as Joseph Lieberman
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090422/pl_afp/usattacksmilitaryjusticecongressletter

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