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:: ONU - XX Assemblea Generale (1965): |
La
XX Assemblea Generale dell’ONU (1965)
dichiara "la legittimità della
lotta da parte dei popoli sotto
oppressione coloniale, per esercitare il
loro diritto all' autodeter-
minazione e
all'indipendenza".
Inoltre, l'Assemblea invita "tutti
gli Stati a fornire assistenza morale e
materiale ai movimenti di liberazione
nazionale nei territori coloniali". |
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:: ONU
- Risoluzione 1514 |
"L'Assemblea
Generale dichiara che: la soggezione dei
popoli a dominio straniero, conquista e
asservimento costituisce una negazione
dei diritti umani fondamentali, è
contraria alla Carta delle Nazioni Unite
ed è un impedimento alla promozione
della pace e della cooperazione mondiali.
Tutti i popoli hanno diritto
all' autodeter-
minazione; in virtù di
tale diritto essi devono liberamente
determinare il loro status politico e
liberamente perseguire il loro sviluppo
economico, sociale e culturale". |
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:: Convenzione
di Ginevra, Protocollo Addizionale I
(1977): |
La lotta
armata può essere usata, come ultima
risorsa, come mezzo per esercitare il
diritto all' autodeter-
minazione. |
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:: Tribunale
penale internazionale |
In
base allo Statuto del Tribunale penale
internazionale, sono definiti “crimini
di guerra”:
(1) attacchi lanciati intenzionalmente
contro popolazione civili in quanto tali
o contro civili che non prendano
direttamente parte alle ostilità;
(4) attacchi lanciati intenzionalmente
nella consapevolezza che gli stessi
avranno come conseguenza la perdita di
vite umane tra la popolazione civile, e
lesioni a civili o danni a proprietà
civili ovvero danni diffusi duraturi e
gravi all’ambiente naturale che siano
manifestamente eccessivi rispetto all’insieme
dei concreti e diretti i vantaggi
militari previsti. |
:: Iraq anthem
(click to listen)
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Stolen Land
Israel, Settlements and Democracy
by ROBERT FANTINA
January 27, 2012 - As Israel continues to defy international law, including countless United Nations resolutions, and builds more and more settlement on land stolen from the Palestinians, its reputation as a model democracy is taking a well-deserved beating. Last year, Israel took a dramatic step in violating whatever semblance of democracy it ever had. On July 11, 2011, the New York Times reported this: "The Israeli Parliament on Monday passed contentious legislation that effectively bans any public call for a boycott against the state of Israel or its West Bank settlements, making such action a punishable offense." While opponents say that this law compromises the freedom of expression, its supporters, ironically, say that it is necessary to fight the 'global delegitimization’ of Israel...
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Without water, Palestine can forget about statehood
Elena Viola for the Alternative Information Center
January 27, 2012 - The recent French report denouncing Israel’s water apartheid confirmed what many Palestinians already knew—water resources in the Occupied Territories are controlled by Israel. Palestinians, unlike Israeli settlers, find their access to water severely restricted. While all the Palestinian communities in the West Bank face water shortages, some are more affected than others. The Bethlehem district – which is comprised of Bethlehem, Beit Jala, Beit Sahour, Ad Doha, Al Khader as well as Aida, Dheisheh and Al-Azza refugee camps – is on the top of the list...It has been estimated that Israel controls around 70% percent of the water resources in the West Bank. While Palestinians are denied access to an equitable share of water and are increasingly affected by the lack of adequate water supplies, Israeli settlers face no such challenges...
continua / continued [85196] [ 28-jan-2012 03:06 ECT ] |
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Palestinian home demolitions: the ethnic cleansing that dare not speak its name
Livia Bergmeijer |
January 27, 2012 - Last summer, I took part in a rebuilding camp with the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions(ICAHD). On the 24th July 2011, a group of Palestinians, Israelis and International peace activists finished rebuilding a demolished Palestinian home. Today, exactly six months later, Israeli occupation forces have, once again, demolished it. The home belonged to the Abu Omars, a large family of fifteen who, after having had their house demolished in 2005, and after living for six years in their neighbour’s house, were finally able to move back into their new house last summer. Today, they are once again homeless, displaced, distraught, and helpless....
continua / continued [85195] [ 28-jan-2012 02:49 ECT ] |
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Center for Constitutional Rights: New Videos Plus Support for the “Close Guantánamo” Petition to President Obama
Andy Worthington
January 27, 2012 - In the long struggle to close Guantánamo, protests took place in Washington D.C. and across America on the 10th anniversary of the opening of the prison on January 11, and the newly established "Close Guantánamo" campaign (of which I am a member of the steering committee) launched a petition on the White House’s "We the People" website, calling on President Obama to fulfill his promise to close the prison, which he made when he took office three years ago, and pointing out how fundamentally unjust it is that 89 of the remaining 171 prisoners have been cleared for release, and yet are still held. That petition needs to secure 25,000 signatures by February 6, to oblige the President to respond, and at the time of writing, over 4,300 people had signed it...
continua / continued [85187] [ 28-jan-2012 00:29 ECT ] |
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IS RABBI LERNER A ZIONIST?
By Gulamhusein Abba
January 26, 2012 - Rabbi Michael Lerner's book discussion event on January 22 for his new book, "Embracing Israel/Palestine" went horribly wrong when it took a completely unexpected and shocking turn near the end. Sponsored by Riverside Church Israel/PalestineTask Force, and Co-Sponsored by: Brooklyn For Peace, Jewish Voice For Peace,Tree of Life Education Fund, NY, Friends of Sabeel, North America, NY, and The Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions, USA, it was meant to be a dialogue between Rabbi Lerner and David Wildman, with a Special appearance by Rich Siegel, a former Zionist turned a peace activist, singing songs from his new CD "The Way to Peace". Everything went smoothly as planned. Rich sang one of his songs. Rabbi Lerner and David Wildman discussed the book and the topics it dealt with...
continua / continued [85178] [ 27-jan-2012 17:48 ECT ] |
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Obama's Failed State of the Union
by Stephen Lendman
January 26, 2012 - It was typical Obama, taking credit for what should be condemned. He's a fraud, a crime boss, a war criminal multiple times over, a moral coward, and serial liar. His State of the Union address was beginning-to-end doublespeak, duplicity, coverup, and denial of failed policies complicit with Wall Street crooks, war profiteers, and other corporate favorites while popular needs go begging....
continua / continued [85174] [ 27-jan-2012 16:20 ECT ] |
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Iraqis Voice Outrage as Haditha Massacre Trial Ends in No Jail Time for Accused U.S. Marines
Democracy Now!
January 26, 2012 - The last of the U.S. marines charged in the 2005 Haditha massacre of 24 Iraqi civilians, Staff Sergeant Frank Wuterich, received no jail time after he pleaded guilty to dereliction of duty and avoiding charges of involuntary manslaughter. Under his sentencing, Wuterich now faces a maximum penalty of a demotion to the rank of private. The victims, including women and children, were killed when the marines burst into their homes and shot them dead in their nightclothes. Wuterich allegedly led the Haditha massacre and was the last defendant to face charges. Six other marines have had their charges dropped or dismissed, while another soldier was acquitted. "[Iraqi] outrage is perfectly understandable," says Tim McGirk, the Time magazine reporter who broke the story on the Haditha massacre. "Here is a case where so many Iraqis were killed, women and children, old men, and yet, what’s happened? Most of the charges have been dismissed, and Wuterich was basically given a slap on the wrist."...
continua / continued [85172] [ 27-jan-2012 06:30 ECT ] |
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How the National Defense Authorization Act Allows the President to Release Prisoners from Guantánamo
Andy Worthington
January 26, 2012 - ... It is, I believe, extremely important for this to be noted by those who wish to see Guantánamo closed, because it provides a possibility that has been otherwise overlooked, and a means whereby campaigners can legitimately push for prisoners to be released. After all, as the "Close Guantánamo" campaign notes in its mission statement (signed by retired military personnel, a retired judge, lawyers and journalists), over half of the prisoners — 89 of the 171 men still held — have been cleared for release for more than two years, since the President’s own Guantánamo Review Task Force issued its recommendations about the disposition of the remaining prisoners, and some were first cleared for release under President Bush as long as as 2004. The campaign is also stressing that over half the prisoners have been cleared for release in a petition on the White House’s "We the People" website calling for President Obama to honor his promise to close the prison, for which 25,000 signatures are needed by February 6, to secure a response. Please read Tom’s analysis below, and then let’s start mobilizing for the release of these 89 men who have effectively spent the last two years as political prisoners...
continua / continued [85169] [ 27-jan-2012 05:06 ECT ] |
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The State of the Union address
Patrick Martin and Joseph Kishore
January 26, 2012 - Even by debased standards of the annual State of the Union address by the US president, Obama’s speech on Tuesday night was a remarkable collection of pro-business nostrums, militarist saber-rattling, and outright lies. The media, both right-wing and "left," has sought to present the speech as a populist appeal to working people, and a sharp shift in the tone of the administration. It was nothing of the sort. The administration’s goal is to achieve a deep and permanent cut in the living standards of the working class. In the face of mass social misery, Obama called for a minor measure—a jobs training program for the unemployed—along with a pro-corporate agenda of deregulation, education "reform," and cuts to social programs....
continua / continued [85166] [ 27-jan-2012 04:13 ECT ] |
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Libya: MSF suspends work in detention centres in Misrata
Detainees tortured and denied medical care
Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF)
January 26, 2012 - Detainees in the Libyan city of Misrata are being tortured and denied urgent medical care, leading the international medical humanitarian organisation Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) to suspend its operations in detention centres in Misrata, MSF announced today. MSF teams began working in Misrata’s detention centres in August, 2011, to treat war-wounded detainees. Since then, MSF doctors were increasingly confronted with patients who suffered injuries caused by torture during interrogation sessions. The interrogations were held outside the detention centres. In total, MSF treated 115 people who had torture-related wounds and reported all the cases to the relevant authorities in Misrata. Since January, several of the patients returned to interrogation centres have even been tortured again. "Some officials have sought to exploit and obstruct MSF’s medical work," said MSF General Director Christopher Stokes. "Patients were brought to us in the middle of interrogation for medical care, in order to make them fit for further interrogation. This is unacceptable. Our role is to provide medical care to war casualties and sick detainees, not to repeatedly treat the same patients between torture sessions."...
continua / continued [85159] [ 27-jan-2012 00:29 ECT ] |
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Narrated by an Invisible Thread.
Layla Anwar
January 26, 2012 - ...The very imperfect ordinary Iraqi, who has seen and experienced much, way too much...before 2003, after 2003 and until this very day... the hard times, the very hard times, the losses, the displacement, the separation, the abandonment, the neglect, the exile, the daily struggles, on all levels, plus the violence, an indescribable violence, an indescribable brutality, that has ripped through his being, and etched itself there, like some permanent sign post...yet she still manages, he still manages...to function, to interact, to create, to give, to receive... We are not talking here of a couple of years period, we are talking decades...and that ordinary Iraqi is no blank virgin slate, she also has her own personal story, way before you appeared in her life...he also has his own "baggage" as you call it in your jargon...suitcases upon suitcase, trunk upon trunk of accumulated life traumas, shocks, losses, bereavement... You take us for granted and we take ourselves for granted...none of you would have survived sane, none...
continua / continued [85156] [ 27-jan-2012 00:08 ECT ] |
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Syria News - January 25, 2012 (Warning: Graphic Videos)
Local Coordination Committees of Syria + Videos |
January 25, 2012 - The number of martyrs has risen to 27, among them 6 soldiers from the Free Syrian Army, 2 children, and 2 women. In addition,5 in Damascus Suburbs, 5 in each of Homs and Hama 3 in Idlib,2 in Daraa and 1 in Aleppo...Homs: Al-Qusair: Martyrdom of Hassan Mohammad Al-Ahmado, 5 years old, and his mother in Abo Hori town to the west of Qusair after trageting their home with an artilliery shell...Homs: Qusair: Martyrdom of Fatima Mohammad Ameen the mother of four little children, one of them is martyr Hassan... Hama: Arresting three brothers Mohammad Nour (11 years old), Bakir Nour (9 years old) and Riyadh Nour (13 years old) after raiding their home by security members who were looking for the kids' wanted father Ghassan Al-Shamy...Hama: Martyrdom of the priest Father Basilius Nassar when he attempted to rescue one of the wounded in the area of Jarajmeh. The martyred priest was born in 1982 and holds a Master's degree in theology from Balmand University...
continua / continued [85155] [ 26-jan-2012 23:08 ECT ] |
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Military Resistance 10A21: Knocking on the Door
Thomas F Barton
January 25, 2012 - Afghanistan’s east has emerged as the new focus of attention as worries mount over a narrow strip of land that the United States has dubbed the most dangerous place in the world. But officials in the U.S. military and Afghan government are increasingly concerned by the challenge of securing the 2,640 km (1,610 mile) border that many frontline soldiers believe is too rugged to hold. Failing to do so would allow more militants to cross over.Drug use, hastily trained ranks and widespread corruption are hindering the Afghan police and army nationally, some Afghan and U.S. officials say... Further north, not far from the Pakistan border in Jalalabad, the capital of Nangarhar province, local officials and ordinary Afghans bemoaned what they said is their country’s inability to secure the rugged border districts. "Security here in the city is good but they won’t be able to protect the remote areas further east," said shopkeeper Houmayin in the city from where U.S. commandos launched the raid that killed Osama bin Laden in Pakistan... "They are Taliban land," Houmayin said...
continua / continued [85153] [ 26-jan-2012 20:04 ECT ] |
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In Bahrain, Worries Grow of Violent Shiite-Sunni Confrontation
SOUAD MEKHENNET
January 25, 2012 - Mr. Ibrahim belongs to the 14th of February movement, a group that started with peaceful protests but that in recent weeks has seen some members calling on the Internet for violent protests to overthrow the government — and especially the ruling family... "We have to become strong, like some groups in Iraq who are defending the rights of Shiites," said his friend Salah, 22, who would only give his first name... Each Friday, before heading to protests, Mr. Ibrahim, like many other young Shiites, drives to Diraz, a village on the northwest coast, to listen to the kingdom’s most influential Shiite cleric, Ayatollah Issa Qassim. On a Friday this month, the mosque was packed to overflowing with worshipers. Nearby hung a large banner portraying Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. Until recently, Ayatollah Qassim preached peaceful protest, but last Friday his language changed....Jawad Fairooz, secretary general of Wefaq and a former member of Parliament in Bahrain, acknowledged that there had been contacts with Ahmed. Chalabi. "Mr Chalabi has helped us with contacts in Washington like other people have done and we thank them," Mr. Fairooz said. ...
continua / continued [85150] [ 26-jan-2012 19:26 ECT ] |
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State won’t prosecute officer responsible for shooting of Firas Qasqas
B'Tselem
January 25, 2012 - Firas Qasqas, an unarmed Palestinian civilian, was killed on 2 February 2007 by soldiers' gunfire, in Ramallah District. On 18 August 2011, in response to a petition filed by B'Tselem, the State Attorney's Office informed the High Court of Justice that the officer responsible for the shooting would be prosecuted, pending a hearing. In mid-January 2012, the State informed the Court that, following the hearing given the officer, no indictment would be filed against him...
continua / continued [85140] [ 26-jan-2012 17:21 ECT ] |
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No prison time for Marine charged in Haditha massacre
By Naomi Spencer
January 25, 2012 - ...Documents found in an Iraqi dump, retrieved by the New York Times last month as they were being burned, bear out Bargewell’s findings. Among the papers were statements given by military personnel on the Haditha massacre. "I mean, whether it’s a result of our action or other action, you know, discovering 20 bodies, throats slit, 20 bodies, you know, beheaded, 20 bodies here, 20 bodies there," Col. Thomas Cariker, a commander in Anbar Province told investigators, describing the scope of the carnage. Major General Steve Johnson, who was commander of US forces in Anbar Province at the time, stated dismissively that "it happened all the time … it was just the cost of doing business on that particular engagement." Civilians were routinely shot down at checkpoints, other officers explained, when the men stationed as guards got edgy or confused. "I had Marines shoot children in cars and deal with the Marines individually one on one about it because they have a hard time dealing with that," one officer testified....
continua / continued [85135] [ 26-jan-2012 05:47 ECT ] |
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Activists resisting Palestinian home demolitions face ‘IDF Price Tag’ attack
Jeff Halper |
January 25, 2012 - It has become commonplace among violent West Bank settlers to randomly attack Palestinian mosques, homes, olive orchards and individuals in order to send a message to other Israelis. They are called "Price Tag" attacks, after the "signature" the settlers leave scrawled on the walls of the burnt-out buildings. In the dark of night this past Monday, January 23, the IDF carried out its own Price Tag assault on ICAHD, the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions. At 11:30 p.m. on that cold, rainy night, I got a panicky phone call from Salim Shawamreh, a Palestinian man from the West Bank town of Anata whose home has been demolished by the Israeli authorities four times and rebuilt as an act of resistance each time by ICAHD. "Army bulldozers are approaching my home," he cried. "Now they’re beginning to demolish it!"
continua / continued [85133] [ 26-jan-2012 05:29 ECT ] |
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Video: Tunisian Freed from Guantánamo Calls for the Return of His Compatriots
Andy Worthington
January 25, 2012 - To mark the 10th anniversary of the opening of the "war on terror" prison at Guantánamo Bay, both Al-Jazeera and the Guardian turned their attention to the fate of the five Tunisians still held in Guantánamo, who I wrote about almost exactly a year ago, after the unexpected fall of the dictator Zine El-Abidine Ben Ali, and the beginning of the revolutionary movements in the Middle East. At the time, seven Tunisians had left Guantánamo, to face a variety of fates. Two had been repatriated in 2007, although both had then been imprisoned following show trials, two others were in Italy, where they had been delivered from Guantánamo to face trials in November 2009, and three others had been resettled in early 2010 in three other countries — namely, Slovakia, Albania and Georgia....
continua / continued [85123] [ 25-jan-2012 20:58 ECT ] |
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ICAHD Peace Center ‘Beit Arabiya’ Demolished for the Fifth Time
ICAHD - Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions
January 24, 2012 - Israeli authorities demolished Beit Arabiya ("Arabiya’s House") last night (Monday, January 23rd) for the fifth time, along with structures in the East Anata Bedouin compound. Beit Arabiya, Located in the West Bank town of Anata (Area C) just to the northeast of Jerusalem, is a living symbol of resistance to Occupation and the desire for justice and peace. As its name suggests, Beit Arabiya is a home belonging to Arabiya Shawamreh, her husband Salim and their seven children, a Palestinian family whose home has been demolished four times by the Israeli authorities and rebuilt each time by ICAHD's Palestinian, Israeli and international peace activists, before being demolished again last night...
continua / continued [85113] [ 25-jan-2012 17:54 ECT ] |
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US steps outside the law as the war on terror drones on
Justin Randle
January 24, 2012 - The CIA recently launched its first drone attack of 2012. Three people in North Waziristan were killed. If you haven't yet heard of these Terminator-style US drones, it is likely you will soon. Their usage in surveillance, modern warfare and covert ''counter-terrorism'' measures is rapidly expanding. Drones, or unmanned aerial vehicles, are the new face of the war on terror and the latest attempt by the United States to circumvent international law in pursuit of its alleged enemies. After failing to fulfil his promise to close the military prison at Guantanamo Bay, President Barack Obama spent New Year's Eve signing the National Defense Authorisation Act (NDAA). The NDAA codifies the indefinite detention, without trial, of US citizens. The third part of this trinity is the increase in a multi-agency network of drones carrying out secret extrajudicial assassinations of suspected militants. In his inauguration speech, Obama said: ''As for our common defence, we reject as false the choice between our safety and our ideals.'' Yet these policies enshrine just such a false dichotomy...
continua / continued [85112] [ 25-jan-2012 17:35 ECT ] |
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Rules of American justice: a tale of three cases
Glenn Greenwald |
January 24, 2012 - Developments in three legal cases, just from the last 24 hours, potently illuminate the Rules of American Justice. First, the Justice Department yesterday charged a former CIA agent, John Kiriakou, with four felony counts for having allegedly disclosed classified information to reporters about the CIA’s interrogation program. Included among those charges are two counts under the Espionage Act of 1917, based on the allegation that he disclosed information which he "had reason to believe could be used to the injury of the United States and to the advantage of any foreign nation." Kiriakou made news in 2007 when he told ABC News that he led the team that captured accused Terrorist Abu Zubaydah and that the techniques to which Zubaydah was subjected, including waterboarding, clearly constituted "torture," though he claimed they were effective and arguably justifiable. He’s also accused of being the source for a 2008 New York Times article that disclosed the name of one of Zubaydah’s CIA interrogators. What’s most notable here is that this is now the sixth prosecution by the Obama administration of an accused leaker, and all six have been charged under the draconian, World-War-I era Espionage Act...
continua / continued [85108] [ 25-jan-2012 16:26 ECT ] |
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The Torture of Mumia Abu-Jamal Continues off Death Row
Supporters Demand Transfer to General Population
Hans Bennett
January 24, 2012 - On December 7, following the U.S. Supreme Court's refusal to consider the Philadelphia District Attorney's final avenue of appeal, current DA Seth Williams announced that he would no longer be seeking a death sentence for the world-renowned death row journalist Mumia Abu-Jamal – on death row following his conviction at a 1982 trial deemed unfair by Amnesty International, the European Parliament, the Japanese Diet, Nelson Mandela, and many others. Abu-Jamal's sentence of execution was first "overturned" by a federal court in December 2001, and during the next ten years, he was never transferred from death row at the level five supermax prison, SCI Greene, in rural western Pennsylvania. Shortly after the DA's announcement in early December, Mumia Abu-Jamal, now 57 years old, was transferred to SCI Mahanoy in Frackville, PA, 100 miles from Philadelphia. Once there, it was expected that he would be released from solitary confinement and transferred into general population where he would finally have contact visits and generally less onerous conditions. However, he was immediately placed in "Administrative Custody," in SCI Mahanoy's "Restrictive Housing Unit" where his conditions of isolation and repression are now in many ways more extreme than they were on death row....
continua / continued [85107] [ 25-jan-2012 16:09 ECT ] |
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Confessions of a Recovering Weapons Addict
Tom Engelhardt & William Astore
January 24, 2012 - ... Of course, in any situation there are always winners and losers, but it is striking that our losing wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have proven a gold mine for a small set of crony corporations and weapon-makers, producing a group of real winners at home with names like Lockheed Martin, KBR, and General Dynamics. TomDispatch regular and retired Air Force Lieutenant Colonel William Astore points, for instance, to the end results of our debacle in Iraq: the new Iraqi government is planning to purchase $11 billion in American weapons (and training), including F-16 fighter jets. A little history of American dreams for the Iraqi Air Force might be in order. When the Bush administration launched its invasion in 2003, it imagined an American-garrisoned Iraq for decades to come and a reconstituted Iraqi military "lite," a force of perhaps 40,000 lightly armed troops "without an air force," who would patrol the borders of their part of an American-dominated Middle East. In those halcyon days, there were no plans to recreate an Iraqi Air Force (though Saddam Hussein’s had once been one of the biggest in the world). Or rather, U.S. planners saw no need to do so because the "Iraqi Air Force" already existed and was settling into Balad Air Base north of Baghdad. It was, of course, the U.S. Air Force...
continua / continued [85106] [ 25-jan-2012 15:53 ECT ] |
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Egypt : One Year On, Labor Revolution Stalling
by Jano Charbel |
January 24, 2012 - On 30 January 2011, only five days into the revolution, the Egyptian Federation of Independent Trade Unions was born, the first such federation to be established in since the union movement was monopolized by the state-controlled Egyptian Trade Union Federation in 1957. Since then, some three hundred independent unions have been established nationwide, with a reported membership of nearly two million workers. But nearly one year later, these unions remain unrecognized by the interim government. Many workers say they have yet to see conditions change, despite their critical role in the protests that forced former President Hosni Mubarak from office. "Workers continue to feel marginalized, just like they did under the Mubarak regime," says Mahmoud Rihan, a leading organizer of the recently established Federation of Transport Workers....
continua / continued [85105] [ 25-jan-2012 15:44 ECT ] |
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Tale of Sodomy and Torture in Occupation Prison
Richard Silverstein
January 24, 2012 - Haaretz this week noted that the Public Committee Against Torture in Israel has brought suit before the Israeli Supreme Court on behalf of a Palestinian torture victim. Two police officers allegedly brutally abused their client in a prolonged police interrogation in 2007. After arresting him early one morning near al-Izarwiya, they stripped him naked, repeatedly beat him on every part of his body, kicked him, deafened him by firing a gun next to his ear, shoved a metal key into his eye, pushed his face into a substance smelling like insecticide, urinated on his face and the rest of his body, and for the torture piece de la resistance–sodomized him not once, but twice with a blunt instrument...
continua / continued [85103] [ 25-jan-2012 14:39 ECT ] |
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Eyewitness to Israel's ethnic cleansing
Bill Mullen |
January 24, 2012 - AT 4:45 a.m. on the morning of August 2, 2009, the family of Miraym Al-Ghawi was awakened by pounding on the door of their home in Sheikh Jarrah, East Jerusalem. A small bomb was detonated, throwing open the door. Through it walked masked and armed Israeli commandoes, who dragged the Al-Ghawis, including the six Al-Ghawi children, into the night. They collected the family's belongings in trucks and dumped them outside the United Nations Relief and Works Agency, where they were ransacked. The Al-Ghawi's youngest child, age 4, stood and watched as commandoes set fire to her bed and her playthings. The daughter still cannot sleep without her mother. Medical experts have diagnosed her ailment as "settler trauma."....
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