On Dignity...
Layla Anwar, An Arab Woman Blues...The epitome of Dignity for me is Saddam Hussein. The day he stood at the gallows bare faced, composed, full of assurance, full of life... I will never ever forget that day for as long as I live. Simply because that day for me, on a personal and am sure on a collective level, will remain as a mark, a stamp, a seal of the ultimate. Very difficult to put in words... For me Saddam Hussein's death is the epitome of everything I really need to learn in this life time. Something so crystal clear, so pure yet so vulnerable...Something that defies human understanding, human psychology and human fears...There was/is something so dignified about this man. Something that beats all human understanding...A certain form of manhood that is so rare, ever so rare.. A form of love that is so difficult to ever experience. A dignity so impossible to find...and so impossible to measure up to...
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Eleven members of same family killed by US fire in Iraq
DPAEleven people from one family were killed by US fire in the Iraqi city of Mosul, an official security source said on Sunday. "US troops killed 11 people from one family while conducting a dawn raid on a house in the 17 Tammuz neighborhood, western Mosul," the source told Voices of Iraq (VOI) news agency. "Iraqi army forces delivered the bodies, which had been placed in nylon bags by the US forces, to the morgue in Mosul city," the source explained. A morgue official told VOI that the dead included three women, three children and five men...
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Perverse Priorities in a World of Lies
Arthur Silber...Almost no one in national political life, and almost no writer of prominence, will acknowledge the full meaning of the U.S. invasion and occupation of Iraq: because Iraq never constituted a serious threat to the U.S., and because that fact was readily apparent in the winter and spring of 2002-2003 (even to an honest citizen with no "expert" specialized knowledge), the U.S. invasion was a criminal act of aggression, identical in principle to Nazi Germany's invasion of Poland. This foundational fact has many further implications, and one of them is critical in evaluating the two major presidential candidates: since the invasion was a criminal act of aggression, the U.S. occupation of Iraq is similarly an ongoing series of monstrous war crimes. To vote to fund the continuing occupation is to be an accomplice to genocide and to the destruction of an entire nation and its peoples, and thus to be a war criminal. Most Americans who vote this November, and probably many of you reading this, will vote for one of these war criminals...
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Why I FEAR Obama like no other, like no other
Ignorance Is Futile!... Nobody can possibly subdue the masses like Obama can. That’s why he’s the Ruling Establishment’s man. After 8 years of BushCo. over half the population aren’t just pissed, they’re in complete dustrust of the government in general. The control scheme to keep us ignorant and asleep is falling apart at the seams. And even more important than just having a pissed off political party the nations youth are waking up at an 'alarming’ rate. The youth are the ones who protest. And Black’s have a history of rioting... Let’s say you happen to be amongst the puppeteers who run the big show from behind the scenes. Like if you were one of the many deeply embedded in the Military Industrial Complex, the central banking scheme, the Big 5 Media, etc. You know, the people that steer (electioneer) and even rig the elections. The "Disaster Capitalists" whose portfolios are set to make profits off of any and nearly all disasters. The people who seek world government aka global domination, and who use the United States as the machine to make that a reality. Well if you’re one of these people then you face a serious problem: you can’t control a system when most of its population doesn’t trust you. Likewise, you can’t control an alert population. Most importantly: you can’t maintain a system of quiet domination when the youth of it are angry, and are making noise in the streets. Enter Obama...
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Iraq too dangerous for many professionals
Tina Susman, Los Angeles Times Staff WriterNaqi Shakir sits on a sagging mattress pushed against a wall. His wife and two daughters perch on tattered sofas and chairs crowded into the one room of the house with signs of family life: personal photographs tacked to the wall, a TV, books, and knickknacks on dusty shelves. Except for a folding table and chairs in the kitchen, nearly everything has been sold so the family can bolt as soon as someone rents the two-story home in a relatively safe Baghdad neighborhood. At a time when the Iraqi government is encouraging its citizens to return and the U.S. military is highlighting security gains across Iraq, the Shakirs want out. They see no future here for Iraqis such as themselves: well educated, affluent, secular or non-Muslim...
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The Wounded Shark: 'Good War' Lost, But the Imperial Project Goes On
Chris FloydDon't tell Obama and McCain, but the war they are both counting on to make their bones as commander-in-chief -- the "good war" in Afghanistan, which both men have pledged to expand -- is already lost. Their joint strategy of pouring more troops, tanks, missiles and planes into the roaring fire -- not to mention their intention to spread the war into Pakistan -- will only lead to disaster. Who says so? America's biggest ally in the Afghan adventure: Great Britain. This week, two top figures in the British effort in Afghanistan -- Sir Sherard Cowper-Coles, UK ambassador to Kabul, and Brigadier Mark Carleton-Smith, the senior British military commander in Afghanistan -- both said that the war was "unwinnable," and that continuing the current level of military operations there, much less expanding it, was a strategy "doomed to fail."...
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West Bank and Gaza, Fatah and Hamas
Palestinians: divided we fall
Amira Hass, Le Monde |
Obama loves Israel so much...
Body on the LineObama loves Israel so much...
that i think he loves it more than the U.S. in the midst of a financial crisis he seems to think that one budget item we must preserve american military exports and donations to the zionist terrorist state: U.S. presidential candidate Barack Obama has promised not to cut foreign aid to Israel if he is elected in November, a spokeswoman for Obama has said. In a statement to the Israeli business daily Globes, a spokeswoman for Obama said he would honor existing agreements pertaining to foreign aid and as such was committed to "increasing aid to Israel to $30 billion over 10 years."...
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Mosul, the relentless slaughter of Iraqi Christians
AsiaNews |
Displaced Iraqis, now told to go home, fear for their lives
Leila Fadel | McClatchy Newspapers...Manal Ghaidan left the western neighborhood of Jihad in Baghdad when her three children and husband were killed two years ago. She fled with her son and lived in the streets for months before moving into the half-finished building given to the displaced by the Islamic Society in Fallujah. Now she holds the notice of eviction that may force her to return to the place she fears or find a new home to rent at highly inflated prices. Ghaidan remembers stepping over the bodies on her street and picking up the dead members of her family at the morgue"If we leave here where can we go?" she asked. "We can't even afford a car to rent to return. We can't go back there. We saw killing with our own eyes."..
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Olive Harvest Campaign 2008: Israeli forces prevent residents of Tell from harvesting their olives
International Solidarity MovementAfter the recent rain in Palestine, the 2008 Olive Harvest Campaign was launched today, ten days earlier than planned. On Sunday 5th October, approximately twenty farmers attempted to harvest olives from their lands adjacent to the notoriously violent Israeli settlement of Harvat Gilad. Whilst the Palestinian olive harvest does not officially begin until 10th October, farmers from Tell, a village near Nablus, felt compelled to start harvesting their olives early, due to the fact that settlers stole all olives from nearby lands the previous year...
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Israeli settlers attack olive harvesters near Tulkarem
Saed Bannoura - IMEMCAs the olive harvest season begins in full swing, Israeli settler attacks on Palestinians harvesting their olives are on the rise as well. After the attack two days ago in Hebron, another series of attacks has been reported in the Tulkarem area, in the northern part of the West Bank. The latest attacks were centered in two areas: Ar-Ras village in southern Tulkarem, and Kafr Qaddum, also south of Tulkarem. Other incidents of settler violence have been reported in Nil'in, near Ramallah...
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Daily Israeli invasions include digging up corpses, desecrating Qu'ran
Saed Bannoura - IMEMCAccording to eyewitness reports, recent Israeli invasions have included soldiers digging up graves in Jenin and desecrating copies of the Qu'ran, the Muslim holy book, by tearing it apart and throwing it in the toilet in several different cities. Israeli forces invade Palestinian towns and villages in the West Bank on a daily basis, allegedly in order to abduct Palestinians that they consider 'wanted' for various reasons. Often the 'tips' to the Israeli soldiers on who they should abduct come from Palestinian informants who give names of their personal enemies, or from Palestinian detainees under torture, who give their Israeli captors any names they can think of in order to stop the pain...
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Israeli occupation navy boats fire at Palestinian fishermen, wound one of them
Palestinian Information CenterA Palestinian fisherman was wounded Sunday morning when an Israel occupation navy boat opened fire at a group of fishermen on the Rafah seashore. The PA ministry of agriculture stated that Muhammad al-Badrasawi (19 years) was moderately wounded in his foot when an Israeli occupation gunboat opened fire towards Palestinian fishing boats on the shore of Rafah. Dr. Hasan Azzam, director of fisheries in the ministry of agriculture, said that the boats which were fired on were small rowing boats which are used for fishing just off the seashore...
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Turkish Military Accuses Iraqi Kurds of Aiding Rebels
Jason Ditz, Antiwar.com |
Time to quit Afghanistan
ERIC MARGOLIS...Last week, the U.S.-installed Afghan president, Hamid Karzai, revealed he had asked Saudi Arabia to broker peace talks with the alliance of tribal and political groups resisting western occupation collectively known as the Taliban. Taliban leader Mullah Omar quickly rejected Karzai's offer and claimed the U.S. was headed toward the same kind of catastrophic defeat in Afghanistan that the Soviet Union met. The ongoing financial panic in North America lent a certain credence to his words. Meanwhile, the U.S. commander in Afghanistan, Gen. David McKiernan, urgently called for at least 10,000 more troops but, significantly, also proposed political talks with the Taliban. Though Karzai's olive branch was rejected, the fact he made it public is very important. By doing so, he broke the simple-minded western taboo against negotiations with the Taliban and its allies...
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Changing the Conventional Wisdom About Iran
By Bruce Crumley/Paris and Tony Karon/New York, Time... The failure of punitive diplomacy and prohibitive consequences of military action have prompted a growing number of experts in France, a key U.S. ally on the Iran issue, to argue for an entirely new approach, based on a diplomatic approach that treats Iran less like pariah, and more like a partner. "The opportunity is there to move past the 30 year-old images of a defiant and frightening revolutionary Iran, and start encouraging cooperative behavior by engaging with Iran as the swiftly-developing nation and regional power it is," says Bernard Hourcade, an Iran specialist at France's National Center for Scientific Research. "The key is direct American involvement in relations, because renewed ties with the U.S. is what Iran wants most."....
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Dana Gas, Hilal embark on gas supply in Kurdistan
Voices of IraqAswat al-Iraq: Dana Gas and al-Hilal Company announced on Saturday that they started producing initial natural gas supplies within their joint mega venture in the Iraqi Kurdistan region, according to a joint statement by the two companies. Al-Hilal CEO, Hameed Diaa Jaafar, had said in statements that the two companies would soon start producing natural gas from the Cormol oilfield in Sulaimaniya province at an initial amount of 75 million cubic feet per day, to gradually grow to 300 million cubic feet per day by the beginning of 2009...
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Envoy: Iran Won’t Ever Stop Domestic Enrichment
Cernig, Crooks and Liars...Iran isn’t going to stop enriching uranium to reactor fuel standards. Both Iran’s UN Envoy, Ali Asghar Soltanieh and Foreign Minister Mottaki have now said earlier reports that Iran would consider a halt to domestic enrichment if a "legally-binding instrument for assurance of supply" was available were based upon a misunderstanding. Talking to Iran’s FARS news agency, Soltanieh said he had only talked about how, in the past, other nations broke their promises to supply Iran with enriched uranium. He said he rejects "whatever is reflected otherwise."...
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American terrorism inside Pakistan continues martyring more children and Women under the pretext of targeting Mujahideen
By Mushtaq Yusufzai, TheUnjustMedia.Com21 people, including women and a child, were martyred and several others injured in two different attacks by US pilotless spy plane and jet fighters on villages in North Waziristan Agency (NWA) on Friday. Official and tribal sources said a US spy plane, also known as drone or Predator, fired two Hellfire missiles on Mohammad Khel village, about 20 kilometres west of Miramshah, headquarters of the NWA, in which 15 people were killed and several others injured...
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October 5, 2008: 26 Iraqis Killed, 13 Wounded
Margaret Griffis, Antiwar.comAt least 26 Iraqis were killed and 13 more were wounded in the latest round of violence. Reports resumed out of Mosul after several days of relative quiet, but now Baghdad appears unusually peaceful. Meanwhile, a Turkish general accused local authorities in northern Iraq of tolerating Kurdish separatists. In Mosul, eleven people were killed, including women and children, during a U.S.-led raid on a building...
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