Ravening Wolves in Sheep's Clothing:
How Many More Innocents Must Die Before the World Realizes that Israel is Gathering Thorns and Thistles?
JASON MILLERIn Gaza, the elephant has finally removed its foot from the mouse’s tail. Much to the dismay of the mouse, the behemoth is not done with him. Not this elephant. He has decided to bring his immense weight to bear on the mouse’s miniscule body, sadistically reveling at the sight of the blood oozing from the mouse’s bodily orifices as it is gradually reduces it to a mass of flattened pulp. I abandoned my neutrality long ago. My thoughts, prayers, support, and activist efforts as an essayist, small Internet publisher, and dissident against the American Empire are with the Palestinians. I am deeply sickened by fact that the United States government finances Israel’s genocide against the Palestinians with my tax dollars. It enrages me that AIPAC and bellicose supporters of Israel dictate so much of our foreign policy...
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Iraqi Resistance Report for events of Thursday, 29 June 2006
Translated and/or compiled by Muhammad Abu Nasr, member, editorial board, the Free Arab Voice. http://www.freearabvoice.org...In a dispatch posted at 8:05pm Makkah time Thursday evening, Mafkarat al-Islam reported that armed Shi'i sectarian militias in the southern Iraqi city of al-Basrah blew up and destroyed a Sabean temple in the al-'Ashshar district in the middle of the city. The correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam reported eyewitnesses as saying that the bombing caused very heavy damaged to the temple. The witnesses said that the Shi'i sectarian militias raided the temple late at night and then blew it up. Mafkarat al-Islam reported that Shi'i militias were believed to have blown up the Sabean temple as part of their effort to establish a Shi'i "Islamic State" in southern Iraq, to which end they wish to eliminate all "pagans." The community of Sabeans, an ancient religious group that predates Islam and Christianity, has about 75,000 members in Iraq...
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One-sided history in the Middle East
Eli Stephens, Left I on the NewsHere's the New York Times' take on why Israel has decided to move against Hamas, arresting dozens of its leaders: The Israelis cited Hamas's firing of Qassam rockets beginning this month, its public declaration that the cease-fire with Israel was over and its open involvement in the raid into Israeli territory early Sunday that resulted in the deaths of two Israeli soldiers and the capture of a wounded corporal, Gilad Shalit, 19. Any hint as to why Hamas declared an end to its 16-month self-imposed ceasefire, any mention of the Israeli firing of missiles and the murder of dozens of Palestinian civilians in the last few weeks, any hint about the thousands of Israeli shells fired into Gaza during the period which preceded the capture of Shalit, is totally, utterly, 100% missing from the New York Times account. Not a word...
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Iraq Sunnis Reject Maliki's Plan
IslamOnline.net & News AgenciesThe highest Sunni religious authority in Iraq rejected on Friday, June 30, Prime Minister Nuri Al-Maliki's reconciliation plan, denouncing it as incomplete and a part of a public relations campaign. "This initiative is a campaign of public relations for the government," Muthenna Hareth Al-Dari, spokesman for the Association of Muslim Scholars, told Agence France-Presse (AFP) on Friday. "What Maliki said is confirming that the initiative is meaningless because he has excluded everyone," he said referring to Maliki's statement that those who have killed occupation troops and Iraqis will not be eligible for amnesty under the peace plan...
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DAILY WAR NEWS FOR THURSDAY, June 29, 2006
Today in Iraq...Unidentified armed men killed Thursday a police officer in west Baghdad 24 hours after his kidnap. The body of Fox News photographer Osama Qadir was found Thursday, four days after being kidnapped in Al-Shaab district east of Baghdad. Reporters and photographers in the media gathering at Palestine Hotel said that Qadir's family told them of his death after being shoot in the head and chest. Gunmen on a motorcycle killed a policeman in Karbala. Attackers firing from a car shot to death a 34-year-old man working in a construction equipment shop in Karbala. Five bodies, including one of a woman and a child, were found in Karbala. Gunmen killed a former Baath Party and his wife as they were driving in the centre of Kut, 100 miles southeast of Baghdad. Four corpses were recovered from Kut. Five bodies, including two of women, were found in Hilla. Two of them were recovered from the Euphrates river. The bodies of seven men were found in the Tigris River south of Baghdad. All had gunshot wounds and showed signs of torture. The bodies of two men with gunshot wounds, and showing signs of torture, were found beside the river Euphrates in the town of Mussayab, about 60 km (40 miles) south of Baghdad...
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Insanity Defense: Power, Paranoia and Presidential Tyranny
Chris FloydThat the United States, once touted as the "world's greatest democracy," is now ruled by a presidential dictatorship is a fact beyond any serious dispute. Indeed, except for a bare majority on the Supreme Court -- which will disappear with the retirement or demise of the aging Justice John Paul Stevens, who wrote the Court's stinging rejection of Bush's kangaroo military tribunals -- the nation's political establishment seems to have accepted this revolutionary system with remarkable docility, even as its lineaments are further exposed week by week. The Bush Administration no longer bothers to hide the novel theory of government that undergirds its coup, but declares it openly, in court, in Congress, everywhere.
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Terrorists negotiator on educational panel!
Baghdad ConnectBack in the 80s the US government appointed Ms. Charito Kruvant (left, bowed to Ms. Rice) as the Contra terrorists negotiator to talk the US-financed Contra terrorists into laying their arms after waging an illegal warfare against Nicaragua, that cost thousands of innocent lives (...) Today Ms. Kurvant is helping the Ministry of Education of our country through her DC based Creative International Associates (60% her propriety) to run educational programs, which according to our source - senior Iraqi professors who are quite familiar with Ms. Kruvant’s educational methods - those programs are way below our educational standards. Also, the source adds that with reference to Iraq the concept of Creative International Associates in its totality is a scam meant for a good stash grab. One example is when Ms. Kurvant had implemented an education system in our provinces, the system turned out to be an equivalent to some forum of chat-line!..
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DIRTY SECRETS OF THE TEMPLE
Stephen LendmanYears ago I read William Greider's excellent book published in 1987 on how the US Federal Reserve System works. It was detailed and explicit and makes wonderful and informative reading, except for the solution he suggests to a huge problem. His was far too timid. This article proposes a much different one. Greider called his book Secrets of the Temple with a sub-title: How the Federal Reserve Runs the Country. A better sub-title might have been how the Fed (and other key central bankers) runs the world. This article attempts to summarize what it does, how it does it, for whose benefit and at whose expense. For those who don't know, prepare for some stunning information and commentary...
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Israel bombs Palestinian Interior Ministry, Second Power plant, Charitable
IMEMCAirstrikes from Israeli planes have destroyed the Interior Ministry in Gaza City as Israeli forces continue to destroy Palestinian infrastructure and civil installations in a bid to totally destroy the Palestinian economy and social institutions in what is being called 'Operation Summer Rain.' The Palestinian society for the speech impaired, the only center for speech-impaired residents of Gaza, was severely damaged when Israeli bombs destroyed its training workshops. The society serves hundreds of speech impaired Palestinian citizens, most being children...
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A Supreme Rebuke
Bush Loses Guantanamo Case
MARJORIE COHNIn the most significant rebuff to George W. Bush's assertion of executive power since he declared his "war on terror," the Supreme Court called a halt to Bush's kangaroo courts at Guantánamo Bay. Justice Stevens wrote for the 5-3 majority, "We conclude that the military commission convened to try Hamdan lacks power to proceed because its structure and procedures violate both the [Uniform Code of Military Justice] and the Geneva Conventions." Justices Ginsburg, Breyer, Souter and Kennedy joined Stevens in the majority opinion...
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US captures Iranians, engaged Militia; Iraqi sources report 300 Iraqis freed
Truth About IraqisIf you haven't heard by now, the US has arrested several Iranian fighters. Iranian? Yes, no spelling mistake here, Iranian (...) Then, three months ago, US forces said they arrested several Iranians illegally crossing into Iraq. No details were provided. The story was dropped. But today, something more concrete. Iraqi and U.S. troops battled Shi'ite militiamen in a village northeast of Baghdad on Thursday, and witnesses and police said U.S. helicopters bombed orchards to flush out gunmen hiding there. Iraqi security officials said Iranian fighters had been captured in the fighting, in which a sniper shot dead the commander of an Iraqi quick reaction force and two of his men. (...) The Iraqirabita site also quoted a US military communique that US troops rescued 300 Iraqis apprehended by Muqtada Sadr's Mehdi Army militia. The 300 were being held in houses and other areas throughout Sadr City...
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Fighting near Baquba
Conflicting versions
Who fought whom?
EDWARD WONG, NYTimes - ReutersNew York Times : One local resident, Abdul Hadi al-Dulaimi, said that the village, which is mostly Sunni Arab, was being raided by Shiite policemen working with militiamen to take revenge for a recent suicide bombing. American troops were siding with the Shiites and had deployed aircraft and ground troops, Mr. Dulaimi said. The fighting raged into the night (...) The fighting in the morning lasted for three hours, with Iraqi policemen aiding the militiamen, Mr. Dulaimi said in a telephone interview. Many of the villagers sent their wives and children outside the area during a pause in the fighting. The Shiite militiamen and Iraqi security forces returned in the evening with American forces and continued the attack, he said...
Reuters: Iraqi and U.S. troops battled Shi'ite militiamen in a village northeast of Baghdad on Thursday, and witnesses and police said U.S. helicopters bombed orchards to flush out gunmen hiding there. Iraqi security officials said Iranian fighters had been captured in the fighting (...) The fighting between Iraqi and U.S. troops and Shi'ite militias was taking place in the predominantly Shi'ite village of Khairnabat, outside Baquba, capital of Diyala province...
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Once again, defend Palestine!
EDITORIAL, Workers WorldOnce again, the high-tech Israeli military, bought and paid for with U.S. taxpayers’ money, has launched a murderous assault on the Palestinian people. On June 28 Israeli warplanes fired at least nine missiles at the only power station in Gaza, cutting electricity to 65 percent of the densely populated strip, and destroyed a major bridge. The power plant was left in flames, creating a humanitarian crisis by knocking out both the power and water supplies. This was followed by Israeli tanks, which blasted their way into Gaza for the first time since Tel Aviv made a big point of withdrawing from the impoverished area last August. Israeli planes also broke international law once again when they flew low over the house of Syrian President Bashar Assad in a gesture that threatened retaliation for any help Syria might give its Palestinian neighbors...
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Putin Orders Special Services to Get “al-Qaeda in Iraq”
Kurt NimmoIf we are to believe the line fed to us by the corporate media, "al-Qaeda" abducted and killed Russian embassy staff in Iraq earlier this month, never mind that if this is true Osama’s branch of the "insurgency" consists of political retards, as killing the Russians does absolutely nothing to further the resistance against U.S. occupation. "Four Russian embassy workers were abducted June 3 after an attack on their car in Baghdad’s Mansour neighborhood," reports MosNews. "A fifth Russian was killed in the incident. The captives include the embassy’s third secretary, Fyodor Zaitsev, and three other staffers: Rinat Agliulin, Anatoly Smirnov and Oleg Fedoseyev." In response to this senseless attack, "Vladimir Putin has ordered Russian special services to find and kill the criminals" responsible, in other words "al-Qaeda in Iraq," a documented Pentagon black op pseudo-gang designed to discredit the legitimate resistance and deluge Americans with scary images of al-Zarqawi terrorists determined to chop off heads and blow up Shia mosques...
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The Pentagon uses “Falluja model” in assault on Ramadi
U.S. terror from the skies
ERIC RUDER, Socialist WorkerU.S. TROOPS, backed up by helicopter gunships and air strikes by American warplanes, are picking their way through Ramadi, neighborhood by neighborhood. Ramadi, the capital of Anbar province and predominantly Sunni, is normally home to some 400,000 residents. Today, only 150,000 people remain. The rest have fled because of a suffocating U.S. siege. "Whole city blocks here look like a scene from some post-apocalyptic world: row after row of buildings shot up, boarded up, caved in, tumbled down," according to the New York Times. Beginning weeks ago, the U.S. closed all but one of the roads into and out of the city and began cutting water and electricity supplies, imposing tight curfews, stationing snipers on rooftops, limiting medical aid and--most terrifying of all--carrying out random air strikes. "They’re using the Falluja model," said Beau Grosscup, a professor of international politics at California State University-Chico, referring to methods used by the U.S. in its two assaults on the nearby city of Falluja in April and November 2004...
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Connecting the dots
William Bowles, I'n'IShortly after the invasion of Iraq, I quoted from a piece in the Independent that attempted to discredit opposition to the invasion with the following "Conspiracy theories abound … Others claim it was inspired by oil … [This] theor[y is] largely nonsense." – The Independent, April 16, 2003. 'AHMED CHALABI – OIL MAN IN BAGHDAD’ William Bowles (18/04/03) One has to ask the question why the media feels it necessary to ridicule the idea of a conspiracy, especially a government-inspired one. Could it be because it’s just too close to home? The problem with applying the notion of conspiracy to an entire government—for example, the 'neo-con cabal’—is that the conspiracy, should one exist, takes place within a much larger framework, that of government policies that are, on the surface at least, very much in the public view. This doesn’t mean that governments don’t concoct specific conspiracies, contemporary history is littered with examples; the Bay of Pigs, the Tonkin Gulf Incident, Iran-contra and so on. The real issue is what the conspiracies mask...
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On the Fourth, Read the Declaration of Impeachment
David SwansonVeterans for Peace has drafted a Declaration of Impeachment using nothing but excerpts from the Declaration of Independence (plus a few words in parentheses). It reads as follows, and should be read at picnics and protests on the Fourth of July: ...whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. ...all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations...design(s) to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security...
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Watch Us, Wiretap Us, Search Us, Jail Us ...
The High Price of American Gullibility
PAUL CRAIG ROBERTSWhat explains the gullibility of Americans, a gullibility that has mired the US in disastrous wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and which promises war with Iran, North Korea and a variety of other targets if neoconservatives continue to have their way? Part of the explanation is that millions of conservatives are thrilled at the opportunity to display their patriotism and to show their support for their country. Bush's rhetoric is perfectly designed to appeal to this desire. "You are with us or against us" elicits a blind and unquestioning response from people determined to wear their patriotism on their sleeves. "You are with us or against us" vaccinates Americans against factual reality and guarantees public acceptance of administration propaganda...
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Iraqi Resistance Report for events of Wednesday, 28 June 2006
Translated and/or compiled by Muhammad Abu Nasr, member, editorial board, the Free Arab Voice. http://www.freearabvoice.org...In a dispatch posted at 11:50am Makkah time Wednesday morning, Mafkarat al-Islam reported that an Iraqi Resistance bomb exploded by a US military patrol on a farm road in the south of the 'Amiriyat al-Fallujah area, about 7km southwest of al-Fallujah. The al-Fallujah correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam reported eyewitnesses in 'Amiriyat al-Fallujah as saying that the bomb went off by an American patrol that was moving along al-Bu Yusuf Road. The blast disabled an American vehicle, killing or wounding the four US soldiers who were aboard it...
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