What Russia proposed in Istanbul in March 2022 (tags)
Sachs writes that Russia has proposed negotiating security arrangements with the US for the fifth time since 2008. NATO, led by the US, has steadily expanded its alliance to the east, which has contributed to the current crisis in Ukraine. Putin's fourth offer of negotiations came in March 2022, which led to Russia and Ukraine almost concluding a peace agreement.
Another imperialist scam by the USA (tags)
The United States has been the main sponsor of Israeli terrorism against the Palestinians since 1946, providing military, political, economic, financial, technical and propaganda support, which makes the United States complicit in Israeli genocide under Article III e of the 1948 Genocide Convention.
The issue is not whether and how Israel lets trucks with the much-needed supplies into Gaza; it is the nearly two-decade-long siege of the Strip, worsened by the most recent devastation. Both literally and figuratively, humanitarianism does not ameliorate the situation on the ground. On the contrary, humanitarian discourse strives to make the intolerable barely tolerable.
The difference between wanting to and being able to (tags)
The war has exacted an enormous price in terms of human lives, destruction, economic and political collateral damage in Ukraine, in the EU and worldwide. Its continuation would further increase the horrors.The war has changed shape: it has become a proxy war and a war of world order between the West and Russia.
The disease of concealment: An open letter to future historians (tags)
We are afflicted with what I would call the disease of silence. We are confronted with the results of decades of propaganda, and with the insidious power of language when it is cynically misused. We look, but we don't recognize it. We hear, but we don't listen. The effectiveness of propaganda is so great that most of us are not even aware of our complicity in the genocide of a people
What is literature for? (tags)
Since 1989 and the fall of the Berlin Wall, humankind has made a tremendous leap backward. We are witnessing the systematic dismantling of the welfare state, the atomization of the working class, the collapse of union membership, the abandonment of any attachment to republican principles. Mainstream discourse encourages us to resign.
For an Immediate Ceasefire (tags)
We are facing a severe risk of collapse of the humanitarian system. The situation is fast deteriorating into a catastrophe with potentially irreversible implications for Palestinians as a whole and for peace and security in the region. Such an outcome must be avoided at all cost.
The Jean Jaurès maxim, "Capitalism carries war like the cloud carries rain," is more relevant than ever. Only in another - post-capitalist, social-ecological - Europe, from the Atlantic to the Urals, can peace and justice become a reality. Whether this is a realistic scenario? That is up to each and every one of us.
The UN Charter must be the heart and coul of any new peace architecture (tags)
The Ukrainian war will also end one day, and we will have to strive again for a new peace order to "save future generations from the scourge of war." A peaceful and fair world for the soon to be 10 billion inhabitants of the earth, 9 billion from the 'Global South', must be built on the principles of the UN Charter. The UN Charter must therefore be at the center of every peace movement.
Covert wars in the shadow of international law (tags)
In the years between the end of the Cold War in 1991 and 2022, the United States has carried out at least 251 military interventions in almost every country on earth. Going back to 1789, there were a total of 469. In all of these interventions, the United States formally declared war 11 times.
Re-nationalizing Soviet History and Who breaks the international rules? (tags)
The construction of differentiated historical narratives that overcome one-dimensional perpetrator-victim polarizations in discourse with other affected nations and integrate one's own complicity step by step is an extremely laborious, painful process. It will probably take decades.
Ukraine will not win. Only a peace plan by the major powers can end the war (tags)
A genuine peace treaty would require agreement on a host of thorny issues (e.g., borders, reconstruction assistance, prisoner repatriation, accountability for war crimes, security guarantees, transit arrangements for the Black Sea and Sea of Azov, etc.),
As is well known, in war the truth is the first casualty, and so it is in the Ukraine war. Since the beginning of the war in Ukraine, politics and the mainstream in the press, radio and TV have been conducting an unprecedented game of confusion, combined with disinformation and agitation.
Ukraine has already lost much of its population since 1990, War casualties and flight would further obstruct the country's future prospects. It was against this backdrop that Gen. Mark Milley and Anthony Blinken, stressed that "recapture of the territories taken by Russia is unrealistic."
The sacred cow & The propaganda machine (tags)
These campaigns by politics & the media, which prescribe an extremely narrow framework of what can be said, narrow freedom of expression to the Western narrative. Those who dare to express dissent are grabbed by their livelihoods.
UN Charter: Negotiations! and Good wars, bad wars? (tags)
The seriousness of the escalating conflict over NATO's expansion to Russia's borders, which has now led to war, has been clear to all involved since at least 1994. Russia has repeatedly warned that admitting Ukraine and Georgia to NATO would violate its elementary security.
Journalism is in denial about itself & China's Mediation (tags)
If you live on a powder keg, you have to avoid sparks. Therefore, especially in crises, truthful, trustworthy communication and respectful communication in society is more important than ever. The fourth estate in the state is failing now - as it has in recent crises.
The Prince of Hell and Peace in Ukraine is possible (tags)
There is little truth in war. If you want to survive, any means must necessarily be acceptable. In this scenario, lying is not a sin, not something to be outlawed, but simply an option to achieve one's own goals. It is therefore normality.
Russia's war in the mirror of western international law nihilism and propaganda (tags)
With Russia's war of aggression on Ukraine and the Western response, the world may be headed in leaps and bounds toward the nuclear abyss: The escalation dynamic is gaining speed. More and more conventional weapons are being moved by the West to Ukraine.
The psychology of the warmongerers and The war cannot be won (tags)
We should strive quite fundamentally for a different Europe and a different Russia, namely each freed from capitalist, parasitic oligarchy. The Jaurès maxim, "Capitalism carries war like the cloud carries rain," is more relevant than ever.
In the Trap of NATO and The Collapse of US Hegemony (tags)
Even before the outbreak of the global Covid pandemic, it was widely recognized that U.S. hegemony was in irreversible decline. In August 2021, the Taliban captured Kabul as U.S. forces withdrew. Only about six months later, war broke out between Russia and Ukraine.
In the eye of the typhoon, Hardened fronts & The Nuclear War Bluff (tags)
Nuclear war is a big bluff & the last means of the cult to enforce its Great Reset to control & decimate humanity. Now is the time to recognize this & not be fooled again by the dilettantes in the Western governments. The growing worldwide resistance will end all plans of the globalists.
The attacks on Nord Stream and the elephant in the room (tags)
In an interview with Berliner Zeitung, U.S. economist Jeffrey Sachs said that destroying Nord Stream would be contrary to Russia's interests; the country would lose "income, financial assets & bargaining power." The U.S., would "benefit strategically and financially."
Economic war instead of climate policy and Russia is enemy (tags)
Sustainability and capitalism do not go together. Because capitalism needs growth and drives environmental destruction. The consequences: Species extinction, drought stress for trees, water scarcity. A consistent climate policy is overshadowed by the economic war.
NATO has propped up dictatorships in its own sphere of influence. It has covered up or condoned wars in which crimes against humanity have been committed. What is happening right now because of Russia has not changed my opinion about NATO there.
Negotiating at last and The Russian-American Friendship (tags)
Russia's war is a response to NATO's eastward expansion, long criticized by the peace movement,and to Western policies of rearmament and confrontation, by which Russia feels existentially threatened. It began as early as the 1990s with the expansion of NATO.
No fear of peace negotiations (tags)
For Ukraine, security means that a peace agreement will not be followed by renewed Russian threats or incursions. For Russia, security means that their withdrawal from Ukraine will not be followed by NATO's eastward expansion.
The cost of Trump’s chaos just keeps accumulating (tags)
On January 20, 2021, Donald Trump departed the White House on a helicopter that took him to Joint Base Andrews in Maryland, where he delivered the final remarks of his presidency to some of his supporters. Before boarding Air Force One for the flight to Mar-a-Lago, his gilded palace in Florida, Trump promised them, “We will be back in some form.”
The historic push of East Central Europe into Nato (tags)
What is the end of the war song? It is and was destruction, death, human suffering and traumatized populations. And in our time, in addition, it is the suspension of the necessary global and joint efforts of all nations in the fight against the threat of climate catastrophe.
We need a real debate on the Ukraine war (tags)
The longer the war in Ukraine continues, the greater the risk of a nuclear accident or incident. And given the strategy of U.S. President Joe Biden's administration to "weaken" Russia through large-scale arms shipments. The United States and NATO are in a proxy war with Russia.
Address at the Easter march in Berlin (tags)
1), we need to end the war in Ukraine as quickly as possible. The German government should stop adding fuel to the fire. 2): We must prevent "dark eagles" in Europe.3) We must become a broad movement that prevents the rearmament mania in this country.
It was the West that, immediately after the end of the East-West confrontation, once again made war a "normal means" of international politics. Russia is now following suit, more than twenty years behind.
Waging war or building bridges (tags)
"NATO is de facto at war with Russia and using Ukraine as a tool to do it." And further, "Everything about NATO is hypocrisy. They declare themselves the 'peace alliance,' but their history is nothing but war.
Ukraine: No to Putin's war! No to NATO's escalation! (tags)
Nato expansion to the east: an imperialist act Putin bears full responsibility for the current Ukraine war. However, Scholz's rearmament speech is a reminder that the foundation for the escalation that is now culminating in Russian aggression was laid by NATO and the EU.
Shooting resumes in the Donbass civil war (tags)
Not so long ago, Ukraine was committed to neutrality. If Ireland can be neutral, if Austria can be neutral, if Finland can be neutral, then why not Ukraine? After all, this was the official Ukrainian policy until the neo-nationalists came to power in 2014.
Peace policy instead of escalation (tags)
We call on the peace movement and all people interested in peace in Europe to participate in public actions, information booths, vigils, demonstrations and initiatives for these demands. to stop the march into the abyss.
It is long past time to finally bury the intervention doctrine, which has been marketed under the euphonious title "responsibility to protect"[5] since 2001, and to brand it for what it was from the beginning: a neocolonial project.
On the prohibition of the war of aggression (tags)
Happy Anti-War Day Sept 1, 2020! Peace is not everything but without peace, everything is nothing (Willy Brandt). The German Basic Law mentioned in this article is equivalent to our constitution.
Everything works, nothing has to Is it even conceivable that after the crisis everything will continue as before? 28 realistic-utopian proposals for a completely renewed society after Corona
The US Tramples on International Law (tags)
The US surprise attack on Iraq in March 2003 was a primal catastrophe. International law was eliminated and replaced by the imperial dictatorship of the US. Those who destroyed a whole people and have a million casualties on their conscience are not punished in any way.
Genesis, Rashi and the Land of Israel vs Canaan and Palestine (tags)
Israel is the Jewish Homeland, Period!
Sanctions and Double Standards (tags)
Sanctions are war with other means-and not an alternative to war. The civilian population pays the price with their bodies and their lives. Export restrictions on the most important revenues of a country cause immense suffering. That Iran has not attacked another country is unmentioned.
Venezuela and International Law (tags)
International law professors explain a US military incursion in Venezuela would violate the UN Charter. "All nations must desist from any threat or use of force in their international relations. The media and governments denounce violations of international law very selectively.
The US under President Trump: Gravedigger of International Law (tags)
The US collaboratively built international law and its institutions and had an authoritative influence for more than 100 years.The US shows an unparalleled contempt for international law by recognizing Israeli sovereignty over the Syrian Golan Heights.
The Shortwave Report 06/08/18 Listen Globally! (tags)
A weekly 30 minute review of international news and opinion, recorded from a shortwave radio and the internet. With times, frequencies, and websites for listening at home. 3 files- Highest quality broadcast, regular broadcast, and slow-modem streaming. Spanish National Radio, NHK Japan, and Sputnik Radio.
The Shortwave Report 05/18/18 Listen Globally! (tags)
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Hamas’s Theater of the Absurd: “Cannibals in Gaza” (tags)
This article looks at how Hamas abuses average Gazans in its struggle with Israel.
Systematic Lies and Disinformation From Above (tags)
"In Oct 1962, John F. Kennedy, a level-headed president, sat in the White House and spoke with the Soviet leader Khrushchev through a secret "back channel" behind the backs of his generals and secret services and prevented Cuba's bombing and invasion.
The Shortwave Report 04/06/18 Listen Globally! (tags)
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The Shortwave Report 02/16/18 Listen Globally! (tags)
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Sucesses of the 2017 BDS Plaestine Movement
The US Superpower is Dangerous (tags)
Wars and threats of war are violations of the UN Charter. The US is not afraid of threatening military force in Europe and at the border with Russia. We are not living in a new world since the election of the new president.
The Missile Attack Ordered by Trump is a Serious Crime (tags)
Assad's regime defends itself against an international alliance that seeks his overthrow in violation of international law. Whoever wants to see Assad overthrown should answer the question whether we would rather see the Nusra Front in power.
The Shortwave Report 02/17/17 Listen Globally! (tags)
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Lumumba Tribunal Weighs Obama Legacy (tags)
On the occasion of the looming presidency change in the Unitedstates facade of the current military-industrial complex, an African sovereignty group which formed after the assassination of Gaddafi has held a tribunal billing Unitedstates policy in the eight years period. It said that for an insight into the change this presidency period made, the assault against Libya was the main benchmark. Not only is it a showcase for its inferior motives, but it also produced considerable fallout upon the election campaign.
The Shortwave Report 10/14/16 Listen Globally! (tags)
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The Shortwave Report 09/23/16 Listen Globally! (tags)
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The Shortwave Report 09/16/16 Listen Globally! (tags)
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The Shortwave Report 08/26/16 Listen Globally! (tags)
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The Shortwave Report 03/04/16 Listen Globally! (tags)
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Why are the Lambs Silent? (tags)
Techniques-fragmentation and propaganda- make serious violations of moral norms by the ruling elites morally and cognitively invisible to the population. With many examples, professor Mausfeld gives insight in the management of our democracy and how people are kept in apathy.
Bombing Strengthens the Islamic State (tags)
The attempts to stop Islamic terror through military actions in Afghanistan and Iraq have brought about the opposite. These attempts destabilized societies in those countries, promoted terror and triggered great streams of refugees. So the policy of the West bears a joint responsibility.
New Book Rips Hillary Clinton (tags)
Hillary
Israel' Friday Bloodbath (tags)
Israel
Syria
Russia and Syria on the Offensive Against ISIS (tags)
Syria
Anti-Russian Propaganda War Rages (tags)
Syria
Straight Talk on Israeli Viciousness (tags)
Israel
Obama's Phony War on ISIS (tags)
ISIS
The Shortwave Report 10/02/15 Listen Globally! (tags)
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The Anti-Russian Lying Machine in Action (tags)
Syria
Dueling Ideologies in New York: Putin v. Obama (tags)
UN
Vladimir Putin: Peace Champion (tags)
Putin
Putin Was Always Right About Syria (tags)
Syria
Security Council Veto Power (tags)
anti-war
US Zionist Organizations Blast Muted UN Criticism of Israeli Violence (tags)
Israel
Republicans Again Fail to Block Iran Nuclear Deal (tags)
Iran
Irresponsible US China Bashing (tags)
China
Obama Talks Peace, Wages Endless Wars of Aggression (tags)
Syria
The Russians Are Coming, Again (tags)
Syria
False Reports of Russian Military Intervention in Syria (tags)
Syria
Dollar As World's Reserve Currency Threatened (tags)
dollar
More Lawless US Sanctions on Russia (tags)
sanctions
Yemen
Iran to Get Upgraded Russian S-300 Missiles (tags)
Iran
ISIS Using Chemical Weapons Against Kurds (tags)
ISIS
Obama and Putin to Address General Assembly in September (tags)
anti-war
Obama Heads for Full-Scale War on Syria (tags)
Syria
Iran Nuclear Deal: Binding Under International Law (tags)
Iran
Syria
More Illegal US Sanctions on Russia (tags)
Russia
Irresponsibly Bashing Russia Veto Against Establishing Kangaroo MH17 Tribunal (tags)
MH17
Russia to Veto UN Resolution for US-Controlled MH17 Tribunal (tags)
Ukraine
Illegitimate Show Trial Sentences Gaddafi's Son to Death (tags)
Libya
Balkanizing Syria Planned (tags)
Syria
Assad Vows to Defend Syria's Homeland (tags)
Syria
Britain Covertly Bombing Syria (tags)
Syria
Iran Nuclear Deal: The Real Battle Begins (tags)
Iran
Iran Nuclear Talks: Agreement in Vienna (tags)
Iran
Hillary Clinton Supports Illegal Israeli Settlements (tags)
Clinton
Irresponsibly Calling Argentina's President Kirchner Anti-Semitic (tags)
Argentina
Hillary Clinton Wants BDS Campaign Undermined (tags)
BDS
Russia Blasts Increased NATO Provocations (tags)
Russia
UN Report on Israel's 2014 Gaza War Postmortems (tags)
Gaza
Netanyahu's Latest Demagoguery (tags)
Israel
Yemen Peace Talks Deadlocked (tags)
Yemen
ICC Investigating Israeli War Crimes (tags)
Israel
UN Report Accuses Israel of Crimes Against Children (tags)
Israel
Is Washington Planning Barbarossa II? (tags)
anti-war
Poroshenko Hypes Nonexistent Russian Invasion Threat (tags)
Ukraine
Kiev Wants Foreign Troops Aiding Its War on Donbass (tags)
Ukraine
Russian Travel Blacklist: Critics Ignore Their Own Policies (tags)
Russia
Bernie Sanders: Populist or Opportunist? (tags)
politics
Sham Yemen Peace Conference Postponed (tags)
Yemen
Netanyahu: Hate-Mongering Racist, Mass Murderer, Serial Liar (tags)
Israel
US-Supported Islamic State Terrorists Seize Palmyra (tags)
Syria
Obama's War on Yemen Rages (tags)
Yemen
Israeli Defense Minister Threatens to Nuke Iran (tags)
Israel
Obama's Duplicitous V-Day Remarks (tags)
Obama
Obama to Recognize Palestinian Statehood? (tags)
Palestine
Press Freedom Banned in Ukraine (tags)
Ukraine
US-Saudi Illegal Blockade Compounds Naked Aggression Against Yemen (tags)
Yemen
Washington Blocks Security Council Action on Vital Yemeni Humanitarian Needs (tags)
Yemen
Bashing Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsiras's Moscow Visit (tags)
Greece
US-Sponsored Slow-Motion Genocide in Yemen (tags)
Yemen
Russa Urges Ressolving Yemen's Conflict Diplomatically (tags)
Yemen
Iranian Nuclear Program Framework Deal: Hold the Cheers (tags)
Iran
Iran Nuclear Deal: Getting Close, Hold the Cheers (tags)
Iran
Israeli Stooge Abbas Supports Obama's War on Yemen (tags)
anti-war
Phony US Support for Ending Palestime's Occupation (tags)
Israel
More US-Sponsored Middle East Aggression (tags)
Yemen
US-Created Violence and Chaos in Yemen (tags)
Yemen
US Provocations on Russia's Borders (tags)
anti-war
Obama Reevaluating US Position on Israel? Don't Bet On It (tags)
Israel
The New York Times War on Truth Revisited (tags)
NYT
Venezuelan Anti-Imperialist Enabling Law (tags)
Venezuela
Fascist Republican Senators Threaten Iran (tags)
Iran
Obama Declares Venezuelan Democracy a Threat to US National Security (tags)
Venezuela
Hawkish US Senator Charged with Corruption (tags)
corruption
War crimes alert: U.S. Foreign Minister: “Military pressure may be needed to remove Assad” (tags)
"Ultimately, a combination of diplomacy and pressure will be needed to bring about a political transition [in Syria]. Military pressure particularly may be necessary, given President Assad’s unwillingness to negotiate seriously." [U.S. Foreign Minister John Kerry, joint press conference with Saudi Foreign Minister Saud al-Faisal, Riyadh, 5 March 2015]
The Great American Lying Machne (tags)
anti-war
Nemtsov Wanted Color Revolution Change in Russia (tags)
Russia
BACKGROUNDER: The Palestinian Claim to a “Right of Return” (tags)
Do Palestinians who fled Israel in 1948, and their descendants, have a legal or moral right to return to their former homes in Israel?
Kiev Junta Ascendancy to Power Big Lies (tags)
Ukraine
anti-war
Deconstructing John Kerry's Big Lies in London (tags)
anti-war
Ukraine
Poroshenko Wants NATO Troops in Donbass (tags)
Ukraine
Charles W Freeman Jr Says the US Has Not Cauterized MidEast Problems But Metastasized Them (tags)
US policy toward Israeli leadership can be compared to giving car keys to a drunk.
Islamic State Recruiter Admits Getting Funds from America (tags)
anti-war
Russia Counters US Big Lies with Hard Truths (tags)
Ukraine
Putin's Message to Washington on Ukraine (tags)
Putin
America's War on Everything It Claims to Stand For (tags)
police state
Marupol Shelling: Kiev's Latest False Flag? (tags)
Ukraine
Proposed Congressional Legislative Sanctions on Iran (tags)
Iran
Baseless Accusations of Russian Troops in Ukraine (tags)
Ukraine
Waging Phony War on Terror (tags)
anti-war
Palestinians: On Their Own for Justice (tags)
Palestine
The Struggle for Palestine's Soul (tags)
Palestine
Palestine
Who'll Sanction the Sanctioner? (tags)
sanctions
Comments on Palestine's UN Failure (tags)
Palestine
US Vetoes Palestinian Statehood Resolution (tags)
Palestine
Paalestine: Between a Rock and a Hard Place (tags)
Palestine
America's War on Palestine (tags)
Palestine
The Shortwave Report 12/26/14 Listen Globally! (tags)
A weekly 30 minute review of international news and opinion, recorded from a shortwave radio and the internet. With times, frequencies, and websites for listening at home. 3 files- Highest quality broadcast, regular broadcast, and slow-modem streaming. Radio Havana Cuba, NHK World Radio Japan, Radio Deutsche-Welle, and Sputnik Radio.
G-77 Countries+China Rebuke America (tags)
anti-war
North Korea: Longstanding US Punching Bag (tags)
North Korea
Targeting Russia Escalates (tags)
Russia
US to Veto Palestinian Statehood Bid (tags)
Palestine
Torture in Israeli Prisons (tags)
Israel
EU Parliament Recognizes Palestinian Statehood (tags)
Palestine
PLO Security Council Statehood Bid (tags)
Palesrine
anti-war
Risking Possible Bloodbath in Palestine (tags)
Israel
Assad Affirms Syrian Sovereign Independence (tags)
Syria
US and Israel: Partners in High Crimes Against Peace (tags)
anti-war
Israel Attacks Gaza Border Areas (tags)
Israel
Trigger-Happy: Profile of State-Sponsored Terrorism (tags)
Israel
Afghanistan: War Without End, Permanent US Occupation (tags)
anti-war
Lavrov: West Wants Regime Change in Russia (tags)
Russia
Kiev Plans Full-Scale War (tags)
Ukraine
Kiev Imposes Economic Blockade on Donbas (tags)
Ukraine
Looming US Ground Wars in Iraq and Syria (tags)
anti-war
Putin: Sanctions Violate International Law (tags)
sanctions
NYT: Propaganda Bullhorn Rag Sheet (tags)
NYT
Recognizing Palestinian Self-Determination (tags)
Palestine
UN Gaza War Inquiry: Legitimate or Whitewash? (tags)
Gaza
Loretta Lynch for AG: Holder 2.0? (tags)
DOJ
Palestinian Solidarity Day of Rage (tags)
Israel
ICC Whitewashes Israeli Mass Murder (tags)
Israel
Blaming Victims: Official Israeli Policy (tags)
Israel
America
Russia: On the Right Side of History (tags)
Russia
Reinvented Scoundrel Media History (tags)
media
Momentum for Palestinian Statehood (tags)
Palestine
WJ Columnist Mary O'Grady: US Imperial Tool (tags)
WSJ
Biased Human Rights Report on Ukraine (tags)
Ukraine
Venezuela Poised to Win Security Council Seat (tags)
Venezuela
UN's Gross Deceit: ethical human rights needed (tags)
Desc UN's gross deceit omitting certain human rights to enable operation IMF (human rights free zone) which pursues elitist globalization. Activists serious lack of understand of political globalization which sees dominance of bureaucrats. Also, decimation animal population.
Syria
Sweden Recognizes Palestinian Statehood (tags)
Palestine
Lavrov Counters Irresponsible Western Policies (tags)
anti-war
MSM Support Brazen Lawlessness (tags)
anti-war
Britain: Washington's Convenient Pawn (tags)
anti-war
Holder
Reactiions to Obama's UN Address (tags)
Obama
Scoundrel Media Reactions to Obama's Syrian Aggression (tags)
Syria
Reactions to Obama's Naked Aggression Against Syria (tags)
Syria
Obama Launches Naked Aggression on Syria (tags)
anti-war
Dueling Ideologies: Lavrov v. Rasmussen (tags)
anti-war
Enlisting Support for Imperial War (tags)
anti-war
Fear-Mongering Ahead of Another US False Flag? (tags)
fear-mongering
Venezuela
Sergey Lavrov: World Class Peace Advocate (tags)
anti-war
War Winds Near Gale Force (tags)
anti-war
Washington Hawks Want Greater Middle East Spending (tags)
ani-war
MSM Ignore International and Constitutional Law (tags)
anti-war
Obama Declares Open-Ended Middle East War (tags)
anti-war
9/11: The Mother of All Big Lies (tags)
9/11
Obama Intends Escalating Middle East Aggression (tags)
anti-war
Kiev Fascists Murder Russian Journalist (tags)
Ukraine
Russia's Foreign Mnistry on Ukraine (tags)
Ukraine
Ravaging and Destroying Syria (tags)
Syria
Gaza
Big Lies Risk Confrontation with Russia (tags)
Ukraine
Syria
Obama Declares War on Syria (tags)
anti-war
Russian Humanitarian Aid Reaches Lugansk (tags)
Ukraine
Pro-Israeli Security Council Gaza Resolution (tags)
Gaza
Iraq
Gaza
Investigating Gaza War Crimes (tags)
Gaza
Flashback: President Assad: US seeks war on Iraq in order to redraw the map of Middle East (tags)
“We all know the masks that were used. At first the United States proposed the issue of the return of [weapons] inspectors [to Iraq]. Later, it spoke about the implementation of the UN and Security Council resolutions. It then spoke about the weapons of mass destruction. Later they said the problem lay in the regime itself. They then began to talk about democracy and human rights. Now they give the promise of development in Iraq and our region in general after this war. […] The [real] issue was that of taking control of the world and the region. The issue was one of oil and oil was one of the instruments used to control the world. The issue was one of re-drawing the map in the manner that suited them and, of course, suited Israel […]. The issue is one of destroying the infrastructure of Iraq” [Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, speech at the Arab League summit, Sharm el-Sheikh, 1 March 2003. This speech was delivered three weeks before the invasion of Iraq.]
American Exceptionalism Justifies War on Humanity (tags)
anti-war
Washington Wants Maduro Dead (tags)
Venezuela
Disgraceful Security Council Resolution on Syria (tags)
Syria
Irresponsible Syria Bashing (tags)
Syria
Israel
Kiev Wages War on Free Expression (tags)
police state
Putin's Diplomatic Gambit (tags)
Ukraine
Right Sector Thugs Attack Odessa Activists (tags)
Ukraine
Profile of a World Class Diplomat (tags)
Lavrov
Dissent within after article, Profound Arrogance at UN. (tags)
Repost (correction). Dissent within human rights groups grows after article Profound Arrogance at UN, the latter virtually seeing themselves as God when reinventing the UDHR to emphasize elite interests rather than individual rights.
Dissent within after article, Profound Arrogance at UN. (tags)
Dissent within human rights groups grows after article Profound Arrogance at UN, seeing themselves as God when reinventing the Universal Declaration of Human Rights to emphasize elite interests rather than individual rights.
Flashback to 2003: "Major combat in Iraq is over, U.S. warns rogue Syria" (tags)
Living in an age of dis-information, not many people do remember the deadly serious Anglo-American threats of war against Syria on the 26th day of the “shock and awe” genocide in Iraq.
Obama Heads for War in Ukraine (tags)
Ukraine
Ukraine
What Ukraine Propaganda Looks Like (tags)
Ukraine
US-Anti-Iranian Arrogance (tags)
Iran
NATO and Turkey’s genocidal war on Syria (tags)
Cem Ertür’s account of the crimes committed by Turkey and NATO in the ongoing war against Syria is laid out in meticulous detail and supported by a rich and credible bibliography. Much of this important information is from his reading of original reports published in the Turkish language which English readers would never otherwise hear. This report provides a convincing, up-to-date indictment of the governments of Turkey, other NATO countries and Israel for their savage, furtive war against the Syrian people and government. Cem’s spotlight illuminates a cross-border stage, exposing those hiding in the shadows of the media’s deceptive and confusing language.
Palestine to Join 15 UN Bodies and Treaties (tags)
Palestine
Another False Flag Chemical Weapons Attack Planned (tags)
Syria
One-Sided Human Rights Council Vote on Syria (tags)
Syria
Planned Turkish False Flag Exposed (tags)
Syria
Debunking Western Propaganda (tags)
Russia
BRICS: Support for Putin (tags)
Brazil, India, China and South Africa protested against Australia's proposal to exclude Putin from the upcoming G20 meeting. China was formally neutral in the vote on the Crimea resolution. India spoke of "legitimate Russian interests."
New York Times Editors Front for Power (tags)
NYT
Tymoshenko Caught in the Act (tags)
Ukraine
NATO's Rape of Yugoslavia (tags)
NATO
Cheerleading Potential Disaster (tags)
Ukraine
Anti-Russian Propaganda Rages (tags)
media
Crimeans Vote on Joining Russia (tags)
Crimea
Propaganda War on Russia Rages (tags)
Ukraine
Meet Obama's New Ukrainian Friends (tags)
Ukraine
NYT Editors Wage War on Truth (tags)
NYT
Dueling East/West Agendas (tags)
Ukraine
Israel Hypes Nonexistent Iranian Threat (tags)
Israel
Talking Peace While Waging War (tags)
Israel
Ukraine
Interview with Jose Maria Sison (tags)
Interview with Jose Maria Sison, Founding Chairman, Communist Party of the Philippines by New Culture Magazine, Communist Reconstruction Union of Brazil
The Damn Fool in the White House (tags)
Ukraine
Ukraine: Potential Flashpoint for Global War (tags)
Ukraine
Cheerleading Ukrainian Fascism (tags)
Ukraine
Obama Includes Iranian Missiles in Nuclear Talks (tags)
Iran
Unconditional Surrender in Ukraine (tags)
Ukraine
Syrian Opposition Regime Change Plans (tags)
Syria
murder
UN Report Unfairly Bashes Syria (tags)
Syria
Obama Shifts Closer to War on Syria (tags)
Syria
WMD Deception: Pretext for War on Syria (tags)
Syria
Obama Planning War on Syria? (tags)
Syria
'Reason Lost' at UN which crosses line to authoritarianism and its not working. (tags)
The UN by crossing a line to authoritarianism and creating ‘neoliberal absolutism’ means the Rule of Law they promote is not based on reason but rather elite interests.
Obama Sabotaging Syrian Peace (tags)
Syria
Kerrys Peace Plan: Worthless (tags)
Israel
Planned Israeli Jordan Valley Annexation? (tags)
Israel
Making War, Not Peace, in Syria (tags)
Syria
Western Officials Collaborating Against Ukraine's Government (tags)
Ukraine
Deal in Geneva: Hold the Cheers (tags)
Iran
Sabotaging Rapprochement with Iran (tags)
Iran
Israel
Palestine's Land Defense Coalition (tags)
Israel
Scuttling Middle East Peace (tags)
anti-war
Reported Iranian Nuclear Deal: Hold the Cheers (tags)
Iran
Israeli Settlements are War Crimes (tags)
Israel
Defeating Revisionism, Reformism and Opportunism (tags)
Defeating Revisionism, Reformism and Opportunism, second book of 5-book series by Jose Maria Sison under the general title Continuing the Revolution
Remembering Michael Mandel (tags)
a true hero
Iranian Nuclear Talks Continue (tags)
Iran
New Iranian Nuclear Talks (tags)
Iran
Palestinians' Right to Resist (tags)
resistance
Lies in Translation: Der Spiegel's Media Interview Attack on President Bashar al-Assad (tags)
Der Spiegel's combative interview with President Bashar al-Assad has received significant worldwide media attention. We published the original text of the interview as translated into English by SANA, the Syrian Arab News Agency. Since then we have received Spiegel's English translation and found some gross differences between the texts. The interview can not only be viewed as an effort to villainize President al-Assad in lock-step with the western media. It also serves an effort to gather intelligence. In the face of the many crass personal insults and dishonesty, disrespectful of a head of state by the Der Spiegel "interviewers," President Bashar al-Assad maintained an impressive amount of self-control with thoughtful, rational replies. His dignity exposed the weaknesses in Der Spiegel's western political positions. The primates who conducted this shameful attack were simply out of their league.
Obama's credibility - and that of his critics (tags)
Serge Halimi is an editor of Le Monde diplomatique.
Putin Nominated for Nobel Peace Prize (tags)
Putin
Netanyahu in Washington (tags)
Israel
Lavrov: Insurgents Have Chemical Weapons (tags)
Syria
Syrian Chemical Weapons Deal: What Follows? (tags)
Syria
Deal Reached on Syrian Chemical Weapons (tags)
Syria
US/Iranian Foreign Ministers Meet (tags)
Iran
Assad Fears US Aggression (tags)
Syria
Syria
Obama's General Assembly Address (tags)
Obama
Syria's Troubled Waters (tags)
Syria
Washington Pressures Russia for War Resolution on Syria (tags)
Syria
Fabricated US/Israeli Intelligence on Ghouta Gas Attack (tags)
Syria
Obama Intends War on Syria (tags)
Syria
Evidence Shows Insurgents Responsible for Gas Attack (tags)
Syria
Anti-Assad Death Squads Responsible for Gas Attack (tags)
Syria
Syria Gas Attack: Assad Wrongfully Blamed (tags)
Syria
Media Scoundrels Wrongfully Blame Assad for Gas Attack (tags)
Syria
UN Inspectors Gas Attack Report: A Manipulated Fraud (tags)
Syria
Washington and Israel Conspire to Oust Assad (tags)
Syria
East/West Cracks on Syria (tags)
Syria
Obama's War Plans on Syria Unchanged (tags)
Syria
Assad Pledges Full Cooperation for Peace (tags)
Syria
Obama's Hell Bent for War on Syria (tags)
Syria
Putin Challenges Obama Responsibly (tags)
Syria
Undermining Russian/Syrian Peace Deal (tags)
Syria
Obama's War on Syria Delayed, Not Deterred (tags)
Syria
Obama's Rage for War on Syria (tags)
Syria
Obama’s War Grows as Support Shrinks (tags)
Some careful listening has exposed the lie that a U.S. attack (war) against Syria would be, as Obama put it, “a shot across the bow,” i.e. a “tiny war.” But even before the first missile is launched the birth of Obama’s baby war began to grow, and when it’s eventually unleashed it will resemble any other fully matured war, complete with massive destruction, the death of untold innocents and yet another Middle Eastern nation torn to pieces.
New York Times Wants War on Syria (tags)
Syria
AIPAC Lobbies for War on Syria (tags)
Syria
Would Obama Open a Pandora's Box in a Strike on Syria? (tags)
"You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake" (Jeanette Rankin). "Every war has two losers (William Stafford). War is a horror and racket that has served as a profit-center and evasion. Orwell warned that war could become a domestic necessity to divert the people.
HOW DO WE ADDRESS ARGUMENTS IN FAVOR OF A US MILITARY STRIKE ON SYRIA? (tags)
In chatrooms and on blogs we may hear an argument like this: “Oh, I have friends in Syria, and I lived in Syria.” “I know that’s what the people want.” How does one address such an argument?
Obama Making More Enemies Than Friends (tags)
Obama
Obama
Obama Plans One of History's Great Crimes (tags)
Syria
Global Opposition to Attacking Syria (tags)
Syria
Spurious Anti-Iranian Accusations (tags)
Iran
Stop Obama's War on Humanity: A Personal Statement (tags)
Obama
Obama's Planned Lawless Aggression Based on Lies, Damn Lies and Big Lies (tags)
Syria
Russia on Syria: Alternative to Peace is Bloody Chaos (tags)
Syria
The War on Syria and Noam Chomsky (tags)
A careful reading of the “Left” liberals’ response to the Western-backed terror in Syria, reveals that the “Left” liberals have display a staggering level of complacency, complicity and outright hostility to the Syrian people. Representatives of the milieu of the “Left” liberals led by the like of Noam Chomsky have lost credibility. Their arguments are part of the standard propaganda talking points that serve Israel-U.S. Zionist ideology.
Israeli Lobby Urges War on Syria (tags)
Syria
Syria
Putin Says Kerry Lied About Al Nusra's Links to Al Qaeda (tags)
Russian Pres. Putin called out U.S. Sec of State John Kerry for lying about the known connections and support between Al Nusra and Al Qaeda. It is likely that the Syrian rebel groups are are by now hopelessly interwoven with the Al Nusra Front and thus any attacks on the legitimate Syrian government of Pres. Bashar Al Assad by the U.S. will encourage the growth of Al Nusra and then in time their attacks will turn on U.S. soldiers and civilians.
NATO Chief Urges War on Syria (tags)
Syria
Britain, France, Germany and Israel Lie for Obama (tags)
Syria
Israeli Lobby Targets Syria and Iran (tags)
anti-war
Obama Intends Lawless Aggression on Syria (tags)
Syria
US State Terror Targets Syria (tags)
Syria
Putin Speaks Out on Syria (tags)
Syria
The Lie of “Limited” War Against Syria (tags)
The rats are jumping ship. Obama’s strongest allies can’t stomach the stench of lies that are the foundation of the war effort against Syria. Even England, whose entire foreign policy is reduced to asking “how high?” when the U.S. says “jump,” opted to stay grounded for Obama’s war drive.
Nobel Peace Laureate Obama Plans War on Syria Based on Lies (tags)
Syria
Obama's War on Syria Based on Lies (tags)
Syria
John Kerry's Colin Powell's Moment (tags)
Syria
Syria
Syria
NSA Bugs UN Headquarters (tags)
NSA
Imminent US War on Syria? (tags)
Syria
Drumbeat for War on Syria (tags)
Syria
Egypt
Sham Peace Talks Resume (tags)
Israel
Israeli Occupation Harshness Prevents Peace (tags)
Israel
Temper Tantrum Politics (tags)
Russia bashing
The Shortwave Report 08/09/13 Listen Globally! (tags)
A weekly 30 minute review of international news and opinion, recorded from a shortwave radio and the internet. With times, frequencies, and websites for listening at home. 3 files- Highest quality broadcast, regular broadcast, and slow-modem streaming. Radio Deutsche-Welle, the Voice of Russia, Radio Havana Cuba, Spanish National Radio, and NHK World Radio Japan
IS-Backed Death Squads Massacre Hundreds of Syrian Kurds (tags)
Syria
Obama Plans Full-Scale War on Syria (tags)
Syria
Syria
Trafficking in Lies about Syria (tags)
Syria
Enemies of Syria Plan Escalated Aggression (tags)
Syria
Obama Ups the Stakes in Syria (tags)
Syria
Syria's Qusair Victory Matters (tags)
Syria
Hezbollah's Nasrallah: Syria's the "Linchpin of Resistance" (tags)
Syria
Turkey: US Imperial Tool (tags)
anti-war
False Flag Chemical Attack on Syria (tags)
Syria
Syria
US False Flag Pretext for War on Syria (tags)
anti-war
Creating a Pretext for War on Syria (tags)
Syria
The Tiger And The Dragon: 28 Things China Can Learn From India (tags)
Abolition of capital punishment, nonviolent diet, human rights, protection of primates, noncensorship and other things China can learn from India
Wrongheaded NYT Views When They're Right (tags)
anti-war
Syrian Death Squad Invaders Seize UN Peacekeepers (tags)
Syria
The Shortwave Report 03/08/13 Listen Globally! (tags)
A weekly 30 minute review of international news and opinion, recorded from a shortwave radio and the internet. With times, frequencies, and websites for listening at home. 3 files- Highest quality broadcast, regular broadcast, and slow-modem streaming. NHK World Radio Japan, Radio Deutsche-Welle, Radio Havana Cuba, Spanish National Radio, and the Voice of Russia.
Kerry Supports Anti-Syrian Government Terrorists (tags)
Syria
Israel
Washington Backs Syrian Anti-Government Terrorism (tags)
Syria
Israeli Gaza Airstrikes Violated Laws of War (tags)
Israel
The Shortwave Report 02/15/13 Listen Globally! (tags)
A weekly 30 minute review of international news and opinion, recorded from a shortwave radio and the internet. With times, frequencies, and websites for listening at home. 3 files- Highest quality broadcast, regular broadcast, and slow-modem streaming. NHK World Radio Japan, the Voice of Russia, Radio Deutsche-Welle, Radio Havana Cuba, and Spanish National Radio.
Beating Up on North Korea (tags)
anti-war
Impeach Obama: A National Imperative (tags)
Obama
New York Times Misinformation on Syria (tags)
Syria
Moscow to West: Hands Off Middle East/Africa (tags)
anti-war
Iran's Legal Right to Enrich Uranium Unchallenged (tags)
Iran
Ban Ki-moon Fails to Condemn Israeli Aggression (tags)
Israel
anti-war
Navi Pillay Targets Syria (tags)
Syria
Western Sponsored Aleppo Mass Murder (tags)
Syria
Foreign Terrorists Wage War on Syria (tags)
Syria
Syria
Syria
Scrambling for Africa's Resources (tags)
anti-war
Syria
Israel
The Shortwave Report 12/21/12 Listen Globally! (tags)
A weekly 30 minute review of international news and opinion, recorded from a shortwave radio and the internet. With times, frequencies, and websites for listening at home. 3 files- Highest quality broadcast, regular broadcast, and slow-modem streaming. China Radio International, NHK World Radio Japan, Radio Deutsche-Welle, Radio Havana Cuba, Spanish National Radio, and the Voice of Russia.
US and European Union rebuke Israel’s new settlement plans in East Jerusalem (tags)
The White House Tuesday rebuked Israel for officially endorsing 1,500 new Jewish residences in Arab East Jerusalem, saying the action makes suspicious Israel’s pledge to peace talks and an independent Palestinian state. A number of European Union countries also condemned the Israeli move.
Syria: Tightening the Noose (tags)
Syria
Obama Plans African Wars (tags)
anti-war
Middle East on the Boil (tags)
anti-war
U.N. Vote on Palestinian Recognition Blocked by U.S., Israel and Germany (tags)
The right wing government of Germany under Chancellor Angela Merkel has made the unfortunate choice to side with the U.S. and Israel in blocking Palestinian recognition in the upcoming United Nations vote. However France, Spain, U.K. and many other nations are going to act with ethics to support Palestinian statehood instead of caving in to the imperialist whims of U.S. and Israeli pressures to maintain their state sanctioned apartheid and discrimination against the Palestinian people.
Abbas Submits Weak UN Status Bid (tags)
Palestine
Why is Obama Silent Over the New Congo War (tags)
The last Congo war that ended in 2003 killed 5.4 million people, the worst humanitarian disaster since World War II. The killing was directly enabled by international silence over the issue; the war was ignored and the causes obscured because governments were backing groups involved in the fighting. Now a new Congo war has begun and the silence is, again, deafening.
Netanyahu Plans More War (tags)
Israel
Israel's War on Palestine (tags)
Gaza
Israeli Terror Attacks: Day 7 (tags)
Israel
Gaza
Targeting Civilians: Israel's Specialty (tags)
Israel
Naked Israeli Aggression (tags)
Israel
Syrian Opposition Unity Deal (tags)
Syria
New York Times Opposes Palestinian Self-Determination (tags)
Israel
Overreach: America's Imperial Waterloo? (tags)
anti-war
Obama Rejects Palestinian Statehood (tags)
Obama
genocide
Washington Plays Hardball with Russia on Syria (tags)
Syria
Israeli Crimes Without Punishment (tags)
Israel
Turkey's High Risk Game (tags)
anti-war
Pressure Building for More Middle East War (tags)
anti-war
"We struck Syria": Turkish press jubilant as Turkey marches to war (tags)
Apart from a few exceptions, the entire Turkish press is treacherously rejoicing over Turkey's march to war with Syria.
Palestine: One or Two State Solution (tags)
Israel
Pressure Builds for Full-Scale War on Syria (tags)
Syria
Atonement: Not in Israel's Vocabulary (tags)
Israel
Long Knives Target Iran (tags)
Iran
Syria's Divided Opposition (tags)
Syria
Democrats Throw Palestinians Under the Bus (tags)
Palestinians
Iran
Media Scoundrels Promote Permanent Wars (tags)
media
Washington Opposes Peace (tags)
anti-war
Risking Nuclear Armageddon (tags)
anti-war
Iran
Syrian False Flag Planned? (tags)
anti-war
War Without Mercy in Syria (tags)
Syria
Drumbeat for War on Iran (tags)
Iran
Obama's War on Humanity (tags)
anti-war
Jose Maria “Joma” Sison, is a jingoist, pseudo-democrat, pseudo-feminist Stalinist demagog (tags)
Like Stalin, Sison's understanding of Marxism is pseudo-scientific and quasi-religious
Day of Infamy at General Assembly (tags)
Syria
Illegitimate Sanctions on Iran (tags)
anti-war
Washington's Total War on Syria (tags)
Syria
Washington's Aleppo Strategy Failed (tags)
Syria
STOP Imperialist War against Syria (tags)
We, the International League of Peoples’ Struggle (ILPS), condermn in the strongest terms the duplicitous scheme of the US and NATO in instigating, funding and arming the so-called Syrian National Council and Free Syrian Army to seek the violent overthrow of the Assad government in Syria and at the same time pushing a “peace plan” and then a “transitional government” under the auspices of the UN in order to politically outmanuever the Assad government and the anti-imperialist and democratic forces.
Preventing More Middle East Wars Tops All Priorities (tags)
Syria
War Without Mercy in Syria (tags)
Syria
Syria
Washington's Plan B for Syria (tags)
Syria
Security Council Showdown Afternath (tags)
Syria
Syria
ICRC Supports Imperialism for Profit (tags)
anti-war
Nothing Civil About Washington's War on Syria (tags)
Syria
Strategically Timed Syrian Massacre (tags)
Syria
Pressure Building for More Middle East War (tags)
Syria
International Law Revisionism (tags)
Israel
Clinton: Assad's Days Are Numbered (tags)
Syria
Bullying, Bluster and Imperial Arrogance 101 (tags)
Syria
Support Negotiations, Not War on Iran (tags)
There is no basis in law or common sense for the United States to launch a war against Iran. We must all tell elected officials: Not another war! America needs to come home and defend America!
Syria
Duplicitous Human Rights Council Report on Syria (tags)
Syria
Advancing the Ball for War on Syria (tags)
Syria
Syria
Syria
G20
Washington's Imperial Brinksmanship (tags)
Syria
Stepped Up Russia Bashing (tags)
anti-war
Stepped Up Media War on Syria (tags)
Syria
More Syrian Blood on Obama's Hands (tags)
Syria
Heated Anti-Assad Rhetoric Promotes War (tags)
Syria
Russian Journalist Exposes Propaganda Lies about Houla Massacre (tags)
Syria
S
Syria
Anti-Syrian Propaganda Promotes War (tags)
Syria
Troops do NOT Protect Our Freedom (tags)
Our enemies are not several hundred thousand miles away. They are right here in front of us - Mike Prysner Right. We need to blame the politicians criminally responsible, that Alex Jones forbids his cult to fairly consider as empowered.
Iran Nuclear Talks in Baghdad (tags)
Iran
Pushing for War on Iran (tags)
Iran
Brookings: A Reliable Imperial Tool (tags)
anti-war
Afghanistan: Permanent Occupation Planned (tags)
anti-war
NGOs Promote Wars for Profit (tags)
anti-war
Media Scoundrels Promote War on Syria (tags)
Syria
Security Council Authorizes 300 Syrian Monitors (tags)
Syria
Israel Using Oslo Accords to Steal West Bank Land (tags)
Israel
anti-war
Beating Up on North Korea and Iran (tags)
Israel
Worrisome Security Council Syrian Resolution (tags)
Syria
Syrian Insurgents Violate Ceasefire (tags)
Syria
Iran
The Shortwave Report 04/13 Listen Globally! (tags)
A weekly 30 minute review of international news and opinion, recorded from a shortwave radio and the internet. With times, frequencies, and websites for listening at home. 3 files- Highest quality broadcast, regular broadcast, and slow-modem streaming. Free to rebroadcast. Spanish National Radio, Radio Havana Cuba, The Voice of Russia, Radio Deutsche-Welle, and NHK World Radio Japan
Media Scoundrels Promote War (tags)
anti-war
anti-war
Friends of Syria Subvert Peaceful Resolution (tags)
anti-war
US Belligerency Risks Global War (tags)
anti-war
ICC Absolves Israeli Lawlessness (tags)
Israel
Friends of Syria Declare War on Assad (tags)
class war
Syria
anti-war
Worrisome Security Council Presidential Statement on Syria (tags)
anti-war
New York Times Promotes War on Syria and Iran (tags)
media
Stepped-Up Pressure on Assad (tags)
Syria
Rape and Murder in Afghanistan (tags)
anti-war
Targeted Killings: US and Israeli Specialties (tags)
rogue states
Israel's Latest Ritual Slaughter (tags)
Israel
Washington Plans War on Syria (tags)
anti-war
Obama Plans More Middle East Wars (tags)
anti-war
Russia
Planned Regime Change in Syria (tags)
Syria
Soiling for War on Syria (tags)
Syria
Escalating Syrian Tensions (tags)
Syria
Wrongheaded UN Vote on Syria (tags)
Syria
Turkish daily: Turkey’s plan to finish off Assad (tags)
Launched in late May 2011, Turkey’s policy of naked aggression against its neighbour Syria reaches a new height after the veto of the UN Security Council resolution on Syria.
In new window Print all Turkish daily: Turkey’s plan to finish off Assad (tags)
Launched in late May 2011, Turkey’s policy of naked aggression against its neighbour Syria reaches a new height after the veto of the UN Security Council resolution on Syria.
Targeting Syria and Iran (tags)
anti-war
Heading for War on Syria (tags)
Syria
Russia and China Veto Syria Resolution (tags)
Syria
Security Council Showdown on Syria (tags)
Syria
New Syria Resolution: Better but Still Flawed (tags)
Syria
Israeli Settlements: An Obstacle to Peace (tags)
Israel
New York Times-Style Journalism (tags)
media
Iran
Washington's War on Syria (tags)
anti-war
Syria
Anti-Syrian Pack Journalism (tags)
media
Heading for More Middle East War (tags)
anti-war
Obama's New Military Strategy (tags)
anti-war
Libyan Violence and Instability (tags)
Libya
Ron Paul's Anti-Progressive Agenda (tags)
elections
Gaza: Remembering Cast Lead (tags)
Gaza
Obama Year Three: Continuing His Rogue Agenda (tags)
police state
Spoiling for a Fight with Syria and Iran (tags)
anti-war
EU Protests Israeli Occupation Policies (tags)
Palestine
America's Illegal Chemical Weapons Stockpile (tags)
chemical weapons
Syria
Arab League Pro-Western Despots (tags)
despotism
America's Media War on Iran (tags)
Iran
For a Human Revolution - MDS Statement on the Occupy Movement (tags)
Movement for a Democratic Society (MDS) issues statement of solidarity. Suggests demands that draw on the past, while looking to the future.
Iran
Washington and Israel v. Iran and Flotilla Activists (tags)
anti-war
Israel Called Biggest Threat to World Peace (tags)
Israel
Libya
Libya: Another Lost NATO War (tags)
Libya
Haitian Suffering Under Imperial Occupation (tags)
Haiti
Israeli Settlement Construction Jeopardizes Palestinian Statehood Plans (tags)
Palestine
Selected Writings of Jose Maria Sison (tags)
These are important writings of Jose Maria Sison, founder of the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) and New People’s Army (NPA) and current political consultant of the National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP) and Chairman of the International League of People’s Struggle (ILPS)
Lies, Damn Lies, and NATO Claiming Control Across Libya (tags)
Libya
imperialism
Abbas, UN Membership and Peace Talks (tags)
Palestine
Major Media Liars Report Fake NATO Victories (tags)
media
Israeli-Style Peace and Justice (tags)
Palestine
Syria
NATO Brussels Summit Claims Successful Afghan and Libyan Campaigns (tags)
anti-war
Anti-Defamation League Assails Palestinian UN Membership (tags)
Palestine
The Shortwave Report 10/07 Listen Globally! (tags)
A weekly 30 minute review of international news and opinion, recorded from a shortwave radio and the internet. With times, frequencies, and websites for listening at home. 3 files- HIGHEST QUALITY BROADCAST, regular broadcast, and slow-modem streaming. Free to rebroadcast. NHK World Radio Japan, China Radio International, Radio Deutsche-Welle, Radio Havana Cuba, and the Voice of Russia.
Abbas Feeling Heavy-Handed Pressure (tags)
Palestine
Palestinian UN Membership Roulette (tags)
Palestine
The Shortwave Report 09/30 Listen Globally! (tags)
A weekly 30 minute review of international news and opinion, recorded from a shortwave radio and the internet. With times, frequencies, and websites for listening at home. 3 files- HIGHEST QUALITY BROADCAST, regular broadcast, and slow-modem streaming. Free to rebroadcast. China Radio International, NHK World Radio Japan, Radio Deutsche-Welle, Radio Havana Cuba, and the Voice of Russia.
Israeli West Bank Annexation Bill (tags)
Palestine
Calls to Annex West Bank Settlements (tags)
Palestine
UK Prime Minister Cameron: We must not be afraid to use military force against tyrants (tags)
In complete denial of the genocides perpetrated by ten years of Anglo-American-led wars across the globe, Mr Cameron and Mr Obama would still have us believe that their aim is ?to spread peace, prosperity, democracy?.
Obstructing Palestinian Statehood Begins (tags)
Palestine
Russia
Quartet Anti-Palestinian Statehood Proposal (tags)
Palestine
Netanyahu and Obama Spurn Peace (tags)
anti-war
No Peace or Justice in Our Time with Netanyahu (tags)
Palestine
Resuming Peace Process Hypocrisy to Subvert Palestinian Statehood (tags)
Palestine
BTL:Palestinians Vow to Test Bid for Statehood at United Nations (tags)
Interview with Phyllis Bennis, director of the New Internationalism Project at the Institute for Policy Studies, conducted by Melinda Tuhus
Palestinian Statehood: If not Now, When? (tags)
Palestine
Full Court Press to Deny Palestinians Statehood (tags)
Palestine
Obama and Netanyahu to Palestinians on Statehood: Go to Hell (tags)
Palestine
Ban Ki-moon: A Record of Failure and Betrayal (tags)
UN
Abbas and Fayyad: Collaborationist Israeli Allies (tags)
Palestine
ILPS Condemns US, NATO and puppet forces for their barbaric attacks on the people of Libya (tags)
We, the International League of Peoples? Struggle (ILPS), condemn in the strongest terms the US, NATO and their puppet forces for their barbaric military campaign against the people in the whole of Libya since several months ago and in Tripoli currently. The combination of escalated NATO air bombardments and ground movement of Libyan puppet forces and NATO special forces against Tripoli since 20 August aims to deliver the final blow on the Gaddafi regime.
Imperial Arrogance and Hypocrisy (tags)
state terrorism
Abbas Speech Signals Capitulation (tags)
Palestine
Planned Peacekeeper Occupation of Libya (tags)
anti-war
Palestine's Rocky Road to Statehood (tags)
Palestine
Face-Off: Palestine v. Washington/Israel on Statehood (tags)
Palestine
New York Times: Railing Against Palestinian Statehood (tags)
media
Anti-Israeli Friction Helps Palestinians (tags)
Palestine
Implications of Palestinian Statehood (tags)
Palestine
Israeli/Turkish/Palestinian Tensions (tags)
Israel
anti-war
Allegedly Foiling Jerusalem Terrorist Attacks (tags)
state terror
regime change
Lawlessness and Injustice Define America and Israel (tags)
rogue states
NATO's Genocidal Rape of Libya (tags)
anti-war
Israel's Operation Summer Seeds (tags)
Palestine
Washington Threatens Palestinian Statehood Bid (tags)
Palestine
Follow-Up Comments on Palestinian Statehood Vote (tags)
Palestinian statehood
General Assembly Palestinian Statehood Vote (tags)
Palestine
NATO's Libya War: A Nuremberg Level Crime (tags)
anti-war
Libya: It Ain't Over Till It's Over (tags)
anti-war
New York Times: Lying about Libya and Palestine (tags)
media lies
Palestinian Right of Self-Defense (tags)
Palestine
New York Times Support for Imperial Wars (tags)
corrupt media
Imperial Plans for Libya Post-Gaddafi (tags)
anti-war
New York Times Opposition to Palestinian Self-Determination (tags)
Palestine
imperialism
Pack Journalism Anti-Gaddafi Propaganda (tags)
media lies
persecution
US-Led Terror Bombings Target Civilians (tags)
anti-war
Remote Control Killing Like Sport (tags)
imperialism
The Obama Doctrine: Lawless Imperial Aggression (Part II) (tags)
imperialism
The Obama Doctrine: Lawless Imperial Aggression (tags)
imperialism
Palestinian Divisions on Statehood (tags)
liberation
America's Addiction: Waging Illegal Wars (tags)
anti-war
Alleged Obama - Netanyahu Rift (tags)
imperialism
The International Criminal Court: An Imperial Tool (tags)
Libya
US Intervention in Syria (tags)
imperialism
Palestinian Unity Deal Announced (tags)
liberation
aggression
Palestinian Statehood and Other Political Issues (tags)
statehood
war
Declaring An Independent Palestinian State (tags)
independence
Richard Goldstone's Fall from Grace (tags)
betrayal
Revisiting Israel's Terror War on Gaza (tags)
terror war
A War is a War is a War and It Ain't Gonna Be Cheap (tags)
If you ask liberal talking heads like Ed Schultz and other Nattering Nabobs of Progressivism, who would support Dick Cheney if he was a Democrat, they'll tell you, "Well, this is a cheaper war, a Democrat war and besides, it's not a war."
Obama on Libya: Defending the Indefensible (tags)
naked aggression
No to imperialist military intervention in Libya! (tags)
Since Saturday, March 19, a US-led military coalition, including, besides English and French Forces, participation by Canadian, Italian, Spanish, and other countries, commenced the bombardment of military installations and concentrations of troops loyal to the Gaddafi government. The stated purpose of this military intervention which has been endorsed by the Security Council of the UN and the Arab League, is to get government forces off the offensive against the rebels, in order to avoid a “massacre of the civilian population”.
BTL:Critics Question Motivation Behind U.S. and Western Europe's Military Intervention in (tags)
Interview with Michael Mandel, professor of law, conducted by Scott Harris
Military actions against Libya/Libyan resistance must rely on own strength (tags)
By applauding the Western military actions against Libya, the Libyan resistance doesn't rely on their own strength, but will be bound to either a Western occupation, or a far going Western influence, when Gaddafi is defeated
Western Aggression on Libya (tags)
naked aggression
Begrudgingly for Freedom (tags)
This past week the leaders from ten member nations of the UN Security Council finally went ahead and voted to approve helping the Libyan rebels by imposing a no-fly zone over Libya. Gadhafi’s planes, ant-aircraft systems and some of his ground troops “posing a risk to civilians” are being targeted and that is a good thing as it is a measure of help and good faith with the size forces we currently have in the region we can easily provide. It is the least our nation can do (and in Libya the most we should do) as we made such a mess of Iraq, due to one administration basing everything on the say so of one person from Iraq and ignoring reams of evidence from multiple experts warning there was no justification for such action. (http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/03/13/60minutes/main20042166.shtml?tag=contentMain;contentBody) Saddam Hussein is gone and that’s good, but due to that administration we were shamed as a nation on not just a national stage but in front of the globe.
Support Middle Eastern democracy struggles! No Intervention! (tags)
No to imperialist intervention in the Libya! Saudi, UAE troops out of Bahrain! Support Middle Eastern democracy struggles! End imperialist wars in Iraq, Afghanistan!
Lies, Damn Lies and Humanitarian Intervention (tags)
naked aggression
Washington's UN War Resolution on Libya (tags)
war
Remember Saddam Hussain? (tags)
"The capture of numerous British military and intelligence operatives—six SAS men and an MI5 agent—by rebel forces in Benghazi made clear that the powers that be are already hard at work to this end. It has since been revealed by the Daily Mail that ministers have approved “a presence on the ground” of the SAS and MI6, who “will link up with Special Forces already in Libya to provide protection and give informal military advice to the Libyan opposition.”
Pack Journalism Promotes War on Libya (tags)
war
War, Prisons, and Torture in the US & UK --An interview with Richard Haley (tags)
We launched "Stop Isolation" because the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) is considering the appeals of four British citizens--Babar Ahmad, Syed Tahla Ahsan, Haroon Rashid Aswat, and Abu Hamza--against extradition to the US to face terrorism charges. The court's long-delayed judgment is expected in the next few months. It will be a landmark in the development of human rights law.
Imperialist Hands off Libya (tags)
""The "lap dog presses" in western nations will not assist in revealing the horrific imperial grab now shaping up in North Africa. The western powers are on the "counter attack" as naval might is now poised to "intervene" in Libya to "save the day," read still the victory, after the people themselves have deposed the dictator and begun to set up their own government. That is the west's' worst nightmare. Normal human beings, peacefully governing themselves? That would be a disaster and the most feared example from the "great white mans" perspective. And of course they want the oil and a potential launch pad for attacks (remember the contra war against revolutionary Nicaragua) on the new governments in Tunisia and Egypt should they deem to be too independent from the dictates of capital. Eh gads! They might decide to meet the needs of their citizens! The people of Libya will need to state to the entire world that they will defend they're independence and sovereignty with the force of arms from all invaders. Only then will the imperialist consider backing off. Expose the imperialist plan! "
Middle East Protests Continue for Unmet Demands (tags)
protests
Mubarak Toppled by CIA Because He Opposed US Plans for War with Iran? (tags)
"In terms of imperialist mentality, not all that much has changed since the days of 1956, when British Prime Minister Anthony Eden would become apoplectic at the mere sight of Colonel Amal abd-el Nasser, the gallant Egyptian leader who successfully nationalized the Suez Canal in defiance of the British and the French. When the imperialists look across the northern edge of Africa, the valuable assets they see are the oil of Algeria and Libya, and above all the Suez Canal, one of the classical naval choke points of the world, through which 8% of world maritime trade currently passes. The Anglo Americans are acutely aware of the endless possibilities for mischief against countries like Iran, China, and Russia that could be derived from a reassertion of the old imperialist control of Suez. If some pretext could be found for banning Chinese ships from the Suez Canal, China’s entire trade with Europe would be severely disrupted. However, in order to make a grab for Suez politically feasible, Egypt would have to descend into chaos. This may in fact be one of the prime motivations of what is currently going on. If the national states collapse, then the empire is free to step in and seize what it wants."
The Afghanistan War and International Law (tags)
From the standpoint of the invaded, this war was and is a brutal violation against the basic principle of international law in Art 2 of the UN Charter which strictly prohibits the threat and use of force in international relations. This war was and is a war of aggression and a crime against peace.
Obama on Palestinian Rights: Nyet (tags)
resolution veto
Alan Dershowitz Supporting Tyranny? (tags)
tyranny
The "Palestine Papers" Revealed (tags)
treachery revealed
Israel Hardens Repression as Palestinian Recognition Increases (tags)
holiday season state terrorism
promoting war
Beware of Wikileaks: Or at least those leaks chosen by western “imperialist press" (tags)
"What is interesting here is the suggestion that the remarks are deep and valuable due to the author’s so-called ‘knowledge’ of the Euro-Asian mafia. The inclusion of Belarus in this ‘leak’ is particularly puzzling. Belarus has one of the lowest crime rates in Europe. The President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko has been continuously re-elected since 1994, due to his progressive social policies and no one denies his obvious popularity. Yet he is consistently slandered as a ‘dictator’. While Belarus does have close connections with Russia, relations between the two countries have soured recently over energy disputes, geopolitical differences and Belarus’s refusal to pursue free-market policies. Belarus and Alexander Lukashenko in particular, has been indefatigably demonised in the international press for his refusal to privatise the Belarusian economy, opening up publicly owned industries to international, finance capital mafia. President Lukashenko’s refusal to indebt his country through IMF loans together with the robust performance of the Belarusian economy since the outbreak of the global economic crisis, have won the Belarusian leader the praise and close friendship of Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez, who has described Belarus as model socialist economy. Yet Wikileaks considers a flippant and mendacious comment by a Spanish prosecutor to be ‘deep and valuable’? Here we can see ideology masquerading as objective truth. A flippant opinion by a Spanish prosecutor is considered ‘deep and valuable’ because he should know such things. The Wikileak is in reality not a revelation at all. It is simply the publication of a highly dubious statement with an ideological assumption appended. Here the Wikileak serves to bolster the negative view of the country engineered by the acolytes of the corporate media to demonise a respectable socialist democracy. Far from undermining US imperialism, this Wikileaks ‘revelation’ slanders a law-abiding country by associating it with criminality and terrorism."
International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People (tags)
a day to observe and honor
Imperial America's End Time (tags)
not imminent but coming
Exposing Israel's Fraudulent Third Periodic Report to the UN (tags)
exposing Israeli lies
trying to buy the findings
STOLEN BOATLOADS OF OIL FROM IRAQ LEAVE FOR UNKNOWN PORTS AROUND THE WORLD EVERYDAY !!! (tags)
GREAT ACTORS LIKE GEORGE BUSH JR & KARL ROVE HAVE THE GOD GIVEN TALENT OF ORATING LINES LIKE WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION......
Earthquake Stricken Haitians Victimized by World Indifference (tags)
Haitians are slowly starving
The Israeli Lobby: Declassified Documents Expose Its Influence (tags)
Israeli Lobby exposed
From Goldstone to Uribe (tags)
The fix is in.
Recent Israeli Provocations (tags)
recent Israeli violence
Preparing for World War III, Targeting Iran and Israel Mental (tags)
"The Israeli elite miscalculated utterly, and no mad scramble to control the damage will undo the deed or erase its consequences. Like the South African apartheid regime of the time, and segregation in the U.S., Israel’s 60-plus-year-old policy of discrimination, oppression, and ethnic cleansing of Palestinians is finally being acknowledged worldwide as a moral obscenity that can no longer be tolerated."
WikiLeaks "Afghan War Diaries" (tags)
a powerful indictment of all wars
Obama Preparing to Attack Iran (tags)
f"Obama campaigned for the presidency quite explicitly as a warmonger in regards to Afghanistan, although his constant claim to have opposed the Iraq war left many voters with the false impression that he was less bellicose than Bush. In reality, Obama was always adamant about his desire to bomb and invade Pakistan in pursuit of the phantomatic “Osama bin Laden.” Barone comments: ‘It would be ironic if the professorial Barack Obama launches a military attack when his supposedly cowboy predecessor George W. Bush declined to do so….But I take it seriously when … nonhawks Joe Klein and Walter Russell Meade say Obama might bomb Iran."
Stop the Wall: People v. Oppression (tags)
Part II of earlier article.
Deteriorating Conditions for Israeli Arab Citizens (tags)
Israel wants the city exclusively Jewish
Israel's aim - make all Jerusalem exclusively Jewish
Palestinian Centre for Human Rights 2009 Annual Report (tags)
another year of Israeli crimes
Brazil’s 2010 Elections, Part 2: Dilma Rousseff (tags)
"If elected, Dilma would likely carry on many of the same policies that Lula has advanced. This means a strong role in the economy for state companies and the continued development of Brazil’s social programs. Dilma would also be likely to maintain Lula’s foreign policy strategy of creating alliances with other developing nations, especially China, India, and Russia, as well as the friendly outreach to bordering countries that has made Brazil the leading nation in South America. Dilma, like Lula, would probably be generally friendly towards the US and the rest of the first world, but she would probably also be unafraid to take an independent stance on many key issues. Brazil’s continued opposition to US plans for renewed sanctions against Iran is an example of the type of independent stance that Dilma would likely continue. She is also likely to continue Brazil’s push for a permanent seat on the UN Security Council."
Democratic Party Defends Israeli Attack on Freedom Flotilla (tags)
Are you still registered Democrat instead of the pro-Palestinian Peace & Freedom Party or Green Party? The Democratic Party has come out in full force in support of the massacre of 15 members of the Freedom Flotilla, with 9 officially dead and 6 missing, reported thrown overboard by Israel's military, at US taxpayer expense. Here are the statements of the latest Democrats, defending Israel, after Democratic Vice President Joe Biden did the same, and the Republicans also do the same as both are 100% pro-Israel at all levels of office. And Critical Resistance's smuggled video is also here, showing the peaceful nature of the flotilla members.
State Terrorism and massacres: constant characteristics of the policy of the Israeli bourgeoisie (tags)
The Israeli attack on the “Freedom Flotilla” of pacifist organizations under the guidance of the Turkish NGO Insani Vafki Yardim, which wanted to break the blockade to bring medicine and food to the people of Gaza, starving and subjected to terrible imprisonment since June 16, 2007, is another demonstration of the military and repressive nature of the “only democratic country in the Middle East.”
They're Coming: Freedom Flotilla Two and Others Planned (tags)
They're coming until the Gaza siege ends
The Flotilla Aftermath: Historical Perspective, Aftermath and Implications (tags)
Commandos had names and photos of activists to be assassinated
North Korean Ship Sinking: Another False Flag? (tags)
Washington, not N. Korea the likely suspect
US Media's Pro-Israeli Bias: Response to the Freedom Flotilla Slaughter (tags)
appalling major media coverage
Irish Free Gaza ship heading toward Gaza coast and... (tags)
"Despite the tears and sobbing at Istanbul's Fatih Mosque on Thursday, many of the people gathered for the activists' funeral called this week a "victory," because it brought international attention to Israel's 3-year blockade of Gaza. Turkey, once Israel's closest Muslim ally in the Middle East, has accused Israel of committing an act of international piracy." and " It has also been reported that the angle of some of the entry wounds indicates that the victims were shot from above. This suggests the Israelis did shoot from the helicopters as the activists have stated and as Israel has denied."
Solidarity with the Freedom Flotilla to Gaza (tags)
STATEMENT OF SOLIDARITY from the STOP the War Coalition Philippines
Israel's New Initiative: Barbarism and Piracy at Sea (tags)
more Israeli crimes against humanity
Complete Interview Transcript with Richard Falk from May 31st 2010 (tags)
DB "The Israelis say that these commandos who they say were armed with hand guns and paint guns were only defending themselves from armed and dangerous attacks by people on the boat. Your response to that? RF: There are two lines of response, and this is an area where the facts are contested and difficult to disentangle at this stage. The witnesses on the boats themselves, particularly the Turkish boats where most of the violence took place, claim that the commandos landed shooting, and that it was only after the initiation of that violence that there was some attempt at defense on the basis of very contrived and primitive weapons, as opposed to the kind of weaponry that the Israeli commandos were carrying. Beyond that, it’s fairly clear if unlawful attack of a vessel on the high seas is occurring, the passengers on that ship have some sort of right to self defense. So that’s one aspect of it. The second aspect is that even if there was some kind of defensive violence on the ship, that’s no excuse for an unprovoked attack carried out in this manner. If Israel didn’t want the ships to go to Gaza, they could have diverted them, and if they did what the other boats did in the Freedom Flotilla, except for the larger Turkish one, it seems pretty clear that this was a deliberate attack designed, I suppose, to punish the effort to carry out this humanitarian mission, which would obviously have disclosed the brutality of the blockade of the Gaza Strip, which has gone on now for almost three years. The Israeli arguments are not really seriously plausible. Given the overall circumstances it’s very difficult to give them any kind of serious credibility, and this seems to me to be as clear a violation of international humanitarian law, international law of the seas, and international criminal law, as we’re likely to see in the early part of the twenty-first century." RF
RP rebels use child soldiers—UN (tags)
MANILA, Philippines—Three of the country’s rebel groups—Muslim extremist Abu Sayyaf, communist New People’s Army, and secessionist Moro Islamic Liberation Front—are among the world’s “persistent violators of children in armed conflicts,” the United Nations said.
Vilifying Justice Goldstone (tags)
Israel attacks truth
Attac's Bank Tribunal: The Jury's Verdict (tags)
This crisis did not break out over society like a force of nature. Financial managers spread the legend that financial crises belong to capitalism as water belongs to the ocean and that euphoric phases of bubble formation and the bursting of bubbles come and go like the seasons.
Who is the Enemy in the Afghanistan "War"? (tags)
In 1994 the US brought to power the Taliban, Koran students raised in Pakistan's refugee camps. Attacking Afghanistan on account of Al Qaida would be like bombing Germany on account of skinheads. Do German soldiers only defend the US' superpower claim, not our security?
Obama’s Lies About Iran or What he was "hired" to do. (tags)
"Iran’s nuclear power capability is used to keep us frightened beyond all reason. That nation’s domestic turmoil wrought by last year’s disputed presidential election has also been used as proof that Iran is a terrorist state, or a “state sponsor of terror” or whatever new terms can be invented to make Americans believe that war is a necessity."
Afghanistan: Nothing is Good (tags)
The Security Council did not give Americans any blank check. The strongest military alliance of the world threatens to break down after eight years of war in Afghanistan.
Preparations for a Hit against Iran: Stopping Israel’s Next War (tags)
"Subjectively, the time could not be more propitious for a concerted international drive to force a transformation in Tel Aviv. Israel’s standing in the world has been vanishing like snow under a hot spring sun, as even President Peres was forced to recognize. Israeli diplomats no longer feel free to travel abroad, fearing that international arrest warrants might be slapped on them as perpetrators of war crimes committed during the Gaza war. As reported in the March 15 Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, the Israeli government has launched a desperate public relations campaign, through a website for “Public Diplomacy and the Diaspora,” aimed at preparing Israelis to project a positive image of their country while travelling abroad. If citizens have to study government-issued brochures handed out at the airport, to learn how to defend the reputation of Israel, then the moral crisis the country has entered is quicksand."
The Lawfare Project's Anti-Democratic Agenda (tags)
LP is a guardian of Washingto-Israeli power
Peace Process Hypocrisy: Stillborn from Inception (tags)
The peace process is a charade
Palestinian Dispossession in East Jerusalem (tags)
Israeli ethnic cleansing to make E. Jerusalem exclusively Jewish
The Russell Tribunal on Palestine: Barcelona Session (tags)
Explaining Israeli crimes
Obama Provokes War Against Iran and China (tags)
The possibility of yet another U.S. war became more real last week, when the Obama administration sharply confronted both China and Iran. The first aggressive act was performed by Obama’s Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, who “warned” China that it must support serious economic sanctions against Iran (an act of war). Clinton said: “China will be under a lot of pressure to recognize the destabilizing effect that a nuclear-armed Iran would have, from which they receive a significant percentage of their oil supply.” The implication here is that China will be cut off from a major energy source if they do not support U.S. foreign policy — this, too, would equal an act of war.
AJLPP Condemns the Mercenary US Philippine Force Under the UN (tags)
The Alliance-Philippines (AJLPP) express disgust in the mercenary tradition of the AFP and the supposed Filipino pride in the appointment of a Filipino general in the United Nations forces serving under the direction of US Imperialism. General Ecarma of the Philipine Marines was formally appointed on Monday by UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon as force commander and head of mission for the United Nations Disengagement Observer Force (UNDOF) in what was once the battleground of the 1967 Six-Day War between Israel and Syria.
Focus on Haiti: Washington's Militarized Takeover (tags)
Washington plans exploitation, not humanitarian aid
Iranian Scientist Assassinated as US Steps Up War Threats (tags)
"In the absence of Security Council approval, Washington will likely impose its own unilateral sanctions, with the support of Britain and other allies. Legislation now pending in the US Congress would give the Obama administration the power to enforce an embargo on Iran’s importation of refined petroleum. With Iran dependent on imports for 40 percent of its refined petroleum, such a measure would have a crippling effect and would be tantamount to the launching of a war."
occupied under siege and oppressed
Israel to be put back in its box at pre ’67 borders. (tags)
About time, too.
Israeli Occupation, Colonialism and Apartheid (tags)
Israeli oppression continues
Obamathink on Afghanistan: Escalate to Exit (tags)
Obama's plan for permanent war
Dahr Jamail Celebrates U.S. Military’s “Will to Resist” in Iraq, Afghanistan (tags)
Dahr Jamail, the independent journalist who broke the monopoly on Iraq war coverage by “embedded reporters” and reported honestly on the war for his own blog, has tackled a subject equally taboo in the corporate media: the growing number of U.S. servicemembers who are resisting the wars of occupation in Iraq and Afghanistan. The resistance takes many forms, from so-called “search and avoid” missions in the war zones to absences without leave (AWOL), conscientious objector filings and outright refusals to obey orders to deploy. While the movement hasn't reached the heights it did during the Viet Nam war — mainly because there isn't as large a mass civilian anti-war movement as there was then — it's significant for the courage and heroism of the resisters and as an index of the toll two long, grueling wars have taken on the U.S. military.
The Israelis should have made peace (tags)
while they had the complaint Abbas in charge
Iran: Peking gives Washington the Cold Shoulder (tags)
China's veto power signals its geo-political interests will not be sacrificed on the altar of the UN Security Cou9ncil. In the last five years, China has pumped $120 billion into development of Iranian oil and gas fields and refineries.
Israel accused of war crimes by UN body (tags)
Netanyahu decides to cut his losses and hang Barak and Livni after a quick investigation and fair trial.
Goldstone is a terrorist (tags)
And his report is a terrorist report that endangers peace
Noam Chomsky on the Cuban 5 (tags)
Chomsky was interviewed by Radio Havana Cuba on the eve of the 11th anniversary of the arbitrary arrest and detention in Miami of Cubans Antonio Guerrero, Ramón Labañino, Gerardo Hernandez, Fernando Gonzalez and Rene Gonzalez, who after a legally flawed trial in Miami District Court, are incarcerated in US prisons for infiltrating anti-Cuba Miami based groups of terrorists with the aim of defending Cuba against US based terrorism. As Professor Chomsky says in this interview "They weren't criminals. They were heroes". He points out "that the only way to remedy the injustice is to withdraw the charges completely".
October Surprise - Peace Prize to a War Criminal (tags)
The IgNobel tradition continues
The Gaza War's Effect on Women (tags)
they suffered terribly
Reviewing Project Censored's Latest Top 25 Censored Stories (tags)
Project Censored's fabulous new book.
Honduran Coup Regime Mocks UN Security Council with Embassy Attacks (tags)
"These evidences and the eye-witness testimonies, including that of the doctor and the priest, demonstrate convincingly that while the Honduran coup regime issues emphatic denials of such attacks on the sovereign embassy of Brazil, it is clearly engaging in them nonetheless. The UN Security Council should not need any high tech apparatus of its own to be able to see and hear what is really going on at ground level, and respond accordingly to the coup regime's mockery of it."
Seven Million Hondurans Under House Arrest as Micheletti Writes of "Democracy" (tags)
"This has caused a generalized phenomenon throughout the metropolitan area: People have come en masse out of their homes, chased the police out of many of those neighborhoods, and erected barricades to keep them out. They are now organizing to maintain those barricades. The coup regime thus, overnight, has lost any semblance of control of considerable tracts of urban Honduras."
Goldstone Commission Gaza Conflict Findings and Reactions (tags)
Goldstone accuses Israel of war crimes
Release of Lockerbie convict according to humanitarian values (tags)
With the release on humanitarian grounds, of the Lockerbie convict, Mr Megrahi, the Scottish goverment has acted according to the universal humanitarian values and fundamental principles of civilisation The objections of certain American political circles not only testify of lack of respect for humanitarian values, but are also highly hypocritical and based on double standards.
Global Depression and Regional Wars - Part II (tags)
continued imperial plunder
War, Occupation and Collision Course with Russia (tags)
Through civil-military cooperation, civil-actors are degraded to integral components of western military deployments and thus enemies for large parts of the local population.. "Global NATO," a competitive organization to the UN, is being created to counter Russia's and China's veto.
Reviewing Marjorie Cohn and Kathleen Gilberd's "Rules of Disengagement" (tags)
Right of GIs to refuse to fight in illegal wars
Color Revolutions, Old and New (tags)
Imperial America's ugly agenda
The Shortwave Report 06/12 Listen Globally! (tags)
A weekly 30 minute review of news and opinion, recorded from a shortwave radio. With times and freqs for listening at home. 2 files- broadcast and slow-modem streaming. Free to rebroadcast. China, Netherlands, Cuba, and Russia.
Human Rights Situation in Occupied Palestine (tags)
Israel's continued reign of terror against a civilian population
The Shortwave Report 04/17 Listen Globally! (tags)
A weekly 30 minute review of news and opinion, recorded from a shortwave radio. With times and freqs for listening at home. 2 files- broadcast and slow-modem streaming. Free to rebroadcast. China, Netherlands, Cuba, and Russia.
Investigating Israeli War Crimes in Gaza (tags)
evidence of Israeli war crimes
The Shortwave Report 04/10 Listen Globally! (tags)
A weekly 30 minute review of news and opinion, recorded from a shortwave radio. With times and freqs for listening at home. 2 files- broadcast and slow-modem streaming. Free to rebroadcast. China, Netherlands, Cuba, and Russia.
Stiglitz Calls for Global Solutions to Crisis (tags)
Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz argues that the only way to fix the world's economic crisis is to act globally. Speaking at the Development Policy Forum in Berlin on Monday he said the reform of the world's financial institutions wasn't going fast enough.
Clinton lays down the law (tags)
For Israel
Netanyahu- palestinians have the right to self determination (tags)
Bibi- palestinians have the right to self determination
Targeting Israel with Boycotts, Divestment, Sanctions and Prosecutions (tags)
It's time to hold Israel accountable.
Between Russophobia and Russophilia (tags)
The neoconservative revolutionaries wanted to make the export of democracy into the absolute military hit and harvested bloody noses. Western values and western democracy cannot be simply exported for forced on foreign countries.
Israel Killed Everything but the Will to Resist (tags)
Palestinians are unbowed.
Help us stop Sweden's Tennis match with Israel (tags)
Latin Americans living i Sweden demand in a statement i that the Swedish Tennis Association suspends a Davis Cup match with Israel scheduled for march 6th trough 8th. You can sign it too.
Peace Group Demands Shutdown of Israeli Embassy (tags)
‘SEVER TIES WITH WAR CRIMINALS’ SAYS GROUP 13 January 2008: Carrying a giant eviction order and a mock padlock, the broad anti-war group, Stop the War Coalition-Philippines, went to the Israeli embassy today to symbolically order its closure.
Today in Solidarity We're All Palestinians (tags)
World outrage condemns Israeli war crimes
1/17 Palestine Watch:Latest News from Israel Invasion of Gaza, Over 1,200 Killed (tags)
The death toll from the now more than three weeks of assault stands at 1,199 Palestinians killed, including more than 400 children according to UN and Palestinian medical sources....
The Blame Game in Gaza: Covering for Israel, Concealing War Crimes (tags)
Israeli war crimes in Gaza
1/14: Palestine Watch:Latest News/Videos from Israeli Invasion & Killings in Gaza (tags)
The Israeli army continued its offensive against the Gaza Strip for the seventeenth day on Monday, killed twenty-six Palestinians, including 23 civilians, and wounded dozens of residents. At least 917 Palestinians were killed and more than 4260 were injured since the army initiated its attack....
Remember Gaza - One of History's Terror Bombing Victims (tags)
a historical account
127 Australian Jews Speak Out on Gaza Assault (tags)
Members of Independent Australian Jewish Voices condemn the current war as "inhuman, superfluous" and "abominable"
Israeli attacks on Gaza/Dirty war against the Palestinian civilian population (tags)
By their unlawful and systematic character,combined with the blockade of Gaza, housedemolitions and extrajudicial executions, the Israeli attacks on Gaza are a dirty war against the Palestinian civilian population
1/9: Palestine Watch: Israeli War on Gaza Continues Despite UN Truce Call (tags)
Latest Updates from Israel Invade Gaza: Israeli War and Massacre on Gaza Continues Despite UN Truce Call, Senate Pass Pro-Israel Legislation!
Israel’s claims of self-defense are clearly refuted by the disproportionate consequences of its aggression. With the death toll rising to 599, including 133 children, 33 women, and 6 medics, Israel can no longer hide the fact that its actions are tantamount to genocide, as Richard Falk, the United Nations special rapporteur on human rights in the Palestinian Territories, has pointed out.
The Quartet's Hypocrisy and Failure in Occupied Palestine (tags)
Quartet's complicity in Israeli war crimes
Global Human Rights Groups Protest Slaughter in Gaza (tags)
Israeli genocide
1/3: Latest Updates from Israel Invade Gaza, Worldwide Protest Against Invasion (tags)
Latest Updates from Israel Invade Gaza: Worldwide Protest Against Israeli Invasion and Killing at Gaza
Blaming the Victims - The Dominant Media Vilify Hamas (tags)
the blame game
Israel's Wanton Aggression On Gaza (tags)
Israel's crimes of war and against humanity
12/28: Latest Videos from Israel Attack Gaza at ActivistVideo.org (tags)
Latest Videos from Israel Attack Gaza at ActivistVideo.org
12/28: Israel launches new wave of Gaza attacks, facing international condemnation (tags)
12/28: Israel launches new wave of Gaza attacks, facing international condemnation, UN call to halt attack
Financial Crisis and the Poor (tags)
The financial market crisis has long spilled over on the real economy. Therefore politics is called to do everything so the economy starts up again and unemployment is prevented. Without strong pressure, frauds will continue unchanged in the global financial casino after losses are socialized
plan for continued wars
After the Bankruptcy (Jurgen Habermas) (tags)
The privatization mania has ended. Politics is necessary for the public interest, not the market. A tension always exists between capitalism and democracy because the market and politics are based on opposite principles.
The Shortwave Report 10/24 Listen Globally! (tags)
A weekly 30 minute review of news and opinion, recorded from a shortwave radio. With times and freqs for listening at home. 2 files- broadcast and slow-modem streaming. Free to rebroadcast. China, Netherlands, Cuba, and Russia.
Reviewing Zionism, Militarism and the Decline of US Power (tags)
The destructive nexus between Zionism and militarism.
The President of the United States, George Bush, enters today his last 100 days in power overshadowed by very high unpopularity rates and one of the worst economic crises in recent decades.
The Shortwave Report 10/3 Listen Globally! (tags)
A weekly 30 minute review of news and opinion, recorded from a shortwave radio. With times and freqs for listening at home. 2 files- broadcast and slow-modem streaming. Free to rebroadcast. China, Netherlands, Cuba, and Russia.
War crimes in Darfur: The Arab League criticism on the ICC charges is rejectable (tags)
Regarding her criticism on the possible ICC charges against the Sudanese president Mr Bashir,in respect with Darfurian war crimes, the Arab League is showing a morally rejectable point of view and is measuring the double standard
Reinventing the Evil Empire (tags)
The risk of serious confrontation looms.
Washington threatens a naval blockade against iran.
Negative Image: Robert Mugabe through the Lens of Western Propaganda (tags)
If you ever wondered how you came to know what you know about Zimbabwe, here is your chance to find out.
Cannon fodder for the market (tags)
The government of Georgia would never have launched its armed forces against the capital of the Autonomous Republic of South Ossetia in the dawn of August 8, engaged in what it called the re-establishing of constitutional order, without previous coordination with Bush
Using Georgia to Target Russia (tags)
Welcome to the new Cold War and Great Game
War with Iran On, Off or Undecided? (tags)
Strong crosscurrents both ways.
Continuation of one of the world's greatest crimes.
The Shortwave Report 8/1 Listen Globally! (tags)
A weekly 30 minute review of news and opinion, recorded from a shortwave radio. With times and freqs for listening at home. 2 files- broadcast and slow-modem streaming. Free to rebroadcast. China, Netherlands, Cuba, and Russia.
Francis Boyle's "Palestine Palestinians and International Law" (tags)
Boyle's powerful case for Palestinian self-determination.
Legitimizing Permanent Occupation of Iraq (tags)
Washington plans to stay
Deconstructing the Anti-Iran Resolutions (tags)
A blockade IS an act of war under international law. Since both sides of the RepubliCrat Party are collaborating in this, it will take a lot more than marching in a circle with a sign in your hand to reclaim this country from them, and stop this disaster.
Commentary: Guns of August spiked? (tags)
Commentary: Guns of August spiked?
Barack Obama Is Taking On a Lot of Bum Advice (tags)
It’s painful to watch Sen. Barack Obama slide over to the Right on so many important issues, as the presidential election heats up in ‘08. FISA, NAFTA and Israel are a few. He’s also met with Colin Powell and suggested that he might keep Robert Gates on as his Secretary of Defense. What’s next? Irv “Scooter” Libby as head of his Justice Department? If Obama doesn’t want to flop, like Sen. John Kerry did in ‘04, he better ponder changing his ways.
Anti-Zim western media hysterical (tags)
AS Zimbabweans exercised their sovereign right to vote, the anti-Zimbabwe Western media heightened its frenzy. Threats and condemnations were issued. First with the threats was MDC leader Mr Morgan Tsvangirai who gave a 24-hour ultimatum that he would not agree to talks if the run-off went ahead. The run off went ahead. And yesterday he was still pressing for talks.
Analysis: Hizbullah Won't Stop at Shaba (tags)
Israel's announcement of a willingness for peace talks with Lebanon is one of the early fruits of US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice's recent visit to the region and her unexpected visit to Lebanon. French President Nicolas Sarkozy's recent visit to Lebanon and upcoming visit to Israel is also crucial here.
Zimbabwe: Run-off: Numbers favour President (tags)
IF George W. Bush could lie 237 times over Iraq in two years, what are the chances he would tell the truth about Zimbabwe even once in seven years? If the MDC-T leadership could lie about the outcome of the elections on March 29, lies they knew could be easily exposed by collation of figures, to what extent would they go over claims of violence they know cannot be easily verified and which are gobbled in toto by the Western media to deodorise claims of Government repression?
Bush Resurrects a Whopper (tags)
Where have we heard this before? War in the Ruins of Diplomacy Published: March 18, 2003 America is on its way to war. President Bush has told Saddam Hussein to depart or face attack. For Mr. Hussein, getting rid of weapons of mass destruction is no longer an option. Diplomacy has been dismissed. Arms inspectors, journalists and other civilians have been advised to leave Iraq. http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C01EFDA1431F93BA25750C0A9659C8B63 Oh yeah. The last time these War Criminals engineered a phony crisis about a fake threat, and used it to start another illegal war.
McCain's Speech to AIPAC (tags)
Count the LIES.
SAVE THIS DATE: Iraq Forum at CSULA Thursday May 29, with KPFK's Sonali Kolhatkar (tags)
On Thursday, May 29 at 7:30 PM, Sonali Kolhatkar of KPFK's morning show "Uprising" will moderate a forum on Iraq and Middle East Peace with Iraqi reconstruction activist Raed Jarrar, former US diplomat Col. (Ret.) Ann Wright, and Edgar Cuevas, a member of Iraqi Veterans Against the War. Col. Wright will also be selling copies of her book, "Dissent: Voices of Conscience," about government insiders who have risked their careers to oppose the Iraq War. At 7:30 PM, 3rd floor Golden Eagle ballroom, CSULA.
Israel Calls for US Blockade of Iran (tags)
The antiwar voices that brought Pelosi to power need to pay very close attention to this.
Ramzy Baroud's "The Second Palestinian Intifada" (tags)
The agony continues.
Peter Hallward's "Damming the Flood" - Part II (tags)
Part II of Hallward's superb book on Haiti.
World Food Crisis Threatens Rich Nations (That's Us), Too (tags)
Unless we act fast for a global consensus on the price spiral, the social unrest induced by food prices in several countries will conflagrate into a price contagion, leaving no country-developed or otherwise-unscathed.
Wouldn't it be nice, for once, to hear a politician not so removed from Reality saying "There will be peace" ... ? Be wary of Electronic Vote-rigging ... And get those "Neo-Conservative" War Criminals behind bars and away from the halls of power.
TODAY: Internet Forum by Cuban Students about the Cuban Five (tags)
The main purpose of the forum will be to discuss what Cuban university students and those in the rest of the world could do to help the release of the Five Cuban men, who were arrested for having infiltrated Miami- based anti-Cuba groups and trying to prevent criminal actions against the island.
Israeli Policies Endanger Jews (tags)
A sampling of history for the rising wail of grief and pain in the winds and tides of power.
UN's Assessment of Human Rights Violations in Occupied Palestine (tags)
Israel's continued oppression in Occupied Palestine.
Crisis Over Teheran's Alleged Nuclear Plans Nearing Climax (tags)
Crisis Over Teheran's Alleged Nuclear Plans Nearing Climax
Francis A. Boyle's "Protesting Power - War, Resistance and Law (tags)
International law supports the right to resist state crimes.
How the spooks took over the news (tags)
In his controversial new book, Nick Davies argues that shadowy intelligence agencies are pumping out black propaganda to manipulate public opinion – and that the media simply swallow it wholesale
Middle East Nuclear Holocaust to Defend "The Western Way of Life" (tags)
The Western media is involved in a diabolical disinformation campaign, the purpose of which is to persuade public opinion that the only way to "create a nuclear free World" is to use nuclear weapons on a preemptive basis, against countries which "threaten our Western Way of Life." We are a dangerous crossroads: military planners believe their own propaganda. The military manuals state that this new generation of nuclear weapons are "safe" for use in the battlefield. They are no longer a weapon of last resort. There are no impediments or political obstacles to their use.
No to French Military Intervention in Chad! (tags)
While the devastating rebel offensive marks time, the French government is showing its teeth. The sending a few days ago of several hundred soldiers to Chad to reinforce the thousand military already in place had been presented as intended to help expatriates (those local agents of imperialism which, it seems, still haven’t been bothered by anybody), the French military authorities said, without laughing, that they observed an attitude of neutrality vis-à-vis the internal affairs of the country. This so-called "neutrality" was reflected, however, by “logistical, medical and intelligence assistance” to the army of Chadian dictator Déby.
Jonathan Cook's "Israel and the Clash of Civilisations" (tags)
Israel, Iran, Iraq and the plan to remake the Middle East.
The current Gaza crisis reviewed.
Israeli Oppression in Hebron (tags)
A case history.
The United States' Selfish Solicitude (tags)
Interference with another country's internal affairs violates international law. In contrast to this, the neo-conservatives' revolutionary way of thinking preaches "democratic inter-ference" with all the consequences we are now observing in Afghanistan and Iraq.
WHEN GOD BECAME THE TERRORIST: Traces of the Authoritarian Personality in the Three Abrah (tags)
Arguably, this work is as controversial as it is timely. Such an intelligence estimate, if you will, would not have been written had it not related to many important and critical political issues and crises of our day (particularly as related to dominant “cultural clashes” as so framed by various think-tanks). But this work also significantly relates to political theory, history, criminal justice, jurisprudence, as well as social and political psychology etc. It has something of interest to many inquiring minds. Ideas here will not likely be easily dismissed—irrespective of one’s stance.
ISRAEL AND TOP ZIONIST LEADERS ATTACK INTELLIGENCE (tags)
ISRAEL AND TOP ZIONIST LEADERS ATTACK INTELLIGENCE
A new book riles the AIPAC crowd, but makes it to the bestseller list anyway. by Scott McConnell
When God Became the Terrorist (tags)
Arguably, this work is as controversial as it is timely. Such an intelligence estimate, if you will, would not have been written had it not related to many important and critical political issues and crises of our day (particularly as related to dominant “cultural clashes” as so framed by various think-tanks). But this work also significantly relates to political theory, history, criminal justice, jurisprudence, as well as social and political psychology etc. It has something of interest to many inquiring minds.
Tragedy and Travesty at Annapolis (tags)
The latest chapter in the sham Middle East peace process.
US dismisses IAEA report of “progress” over Iran’s nuclear programs (tags)
The Bush administration has rapidly rejected the findings of an International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) report finalised on Thursday, which found that Iran had made “substantial progress” towards clarifying outstanding questions about its nuclear programs. The US confirmed its intention to press ahead with another UN Security Council resolution demanding that Iran halt its uranium enrichment and other nuclear programs. The US ambassador to the UN, Zalmay Khalilzad, declared that Washington would like to see more “biting” sanctions against Tehran than those imposed under UN resolutions passed last December and in March. The debate surrounding the latest IAEA report is not simply a rerun of previous arguments. Behind Washington’s demands for tougher UN sanctions is the barely concealed threat of a unilateral US military strike on Iran’s nuclear facilities. In response to a declaration last month by Russian President Vladimir Putin that there was “no objective evidence” that Iran was building nuclear weapons, US President Bush warned that Iran should be prevented from having the knowledge to make a bomb “if you’re interested in avoiding World War III”.
The Shortwave Report 11/16/07 ¡Listen Globally! (tags)
A weekly 30 minute review of news and opinion, recorded from a shortwave radio. With times and freqs for listening at home. 2 files- broadcast and slow-modem streaming. Free to rebroadcast. Netherlands, Cuba, and Russia.
Congressional Shame and Duplicity (tags)
Congress again betrays the public trust.
Torture, Paramilitarism, Occupation and Genocide (tags)
The ugly face of US imperialism
The shameful awarding of the Peace Prize to a war criminal
Early CIA Involvement in Darfur Has Gone Unreported (tags)
There has been a glaring omission in the U.S. media presentation of the Darfur tragedy. The compassion demonstrated, mostly in words, until recently, has not been accompanied by a recognition of U.S. complicity, or at least involvement, in the war which has led to the enormous suffering and loss of life that has been taking place in Darfur for many years. In 1978 oil was discovered in Southern Sudan. Rebellious war began five years later and was led by John Garang, who had taken military training at infamous Fort Benning, Georgia.
America's tradition of war and violence
for trying to get nuclear weapons
"Unrecognized" Palestinians (tags)
How Israel discriminates against its non-Jewish citizens.
America Used UN Veto to Protect Israeli War Crimes – 24 Times! (tags)
Since the sixties, Israeli Jews have ruthlessly raped, butchered and murdered their way through large chunks of Palestine and the Lebanon; have acquired thousands of weapons of mass destruction, and openly shown their utter contempt for international law, by openly bragging about the “New Israel” planned to stretch eastwards to the Euphrates and thus encompass Iraq’s oilfields. Because of immunity from international prosecution afforded by perpetual American vetos at the United Nations Security Council, Israeli Jewish terrorists have become emboldened in their attacks, to the point where their excesses have sickened most of the civilized world.
Reviewing Marjorie Cohn's "Cowboy Republic" (tags)
An incisive review of Bush administration crimes.
The Shortwave Report 8/10/07 ¡Listen Globally! (tags)
A weekly 30 minute review of news and opinion, recorded from a shortwave radio. With times and freqs for listening at home. 2 files- broadcast and slow-modem streaming. Free to rebroadcast. China, Netherlands, Cuba, and Russia.
The Shortwave Report 8/3/07 ¡Listen Globally! (tags)
A weekly 30 minute review of news and opinion, recorded from a shortwave radio. With times and freqs for listening at home. 2 files- broadcast and slow-modem streaming. Free to rebroadcast. China, Netherlands, Cuba, and Russia.
More war ahead to save a criminal president
US Senate unanimously passes threatening measure against Iran (tags)
A little publicised amendment to the defence spending bill denouncing Iran for the “murder” of US soldiers in Iraq was proposed by Independent Democrat Joseph Lieberman and passed unanimously in the US Senate on Wednesday. Republicans and Democrats all lined up to support the White House’s unsubstantiated accusations that Tehran is funding, training and arming Iraqi militias, “who are contributing to the destabilisation of Iraq and are responsible for the murder of members of the United States Armed Forces”. For all their antiwar posturing, not a single Democrat, including the leading presidential contenders Hilary Clinton, Barrack Obama and Joseph Biden, opposed the amendment. Having supported the Bush administration’s crimes in Iraq, the Democrats are lending credibility to another campaign of lies, half-truths and disinformation aimed at justifying a new military adventure.
The Shortwave Report 7/6/07 ¡Listen Globally! (tags)
A weekly 30 minute review of news and opinion, recorded from a shortwave radio. With times and freqs for listening at home. 2 files- broadcast and slow-modem streaming. Free to rebroadcast. China, Netherlands, Cuba, and Russia.
"Demonstration" Government in Palestine (tags)
IS-Israeli led coup against the democratically elected Hamas government
Imperial Multilateralism in Crisis (tags)
For half a millenium, the West-first Spain and Portugal, then England and lastly the US-ruled the world. This position is now seriously put in question by the newcomers.. In reality the IMF and the World Bank are dominated by the US.
U.N. Still Looking for Iraq's Weapons of Mass Destruction (tags)
More than four years after the fall of Baghdad, the United Nations is spending millions of dollars in Iraqi oil money to continue the hunt for Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction.
The real meaning of terrorism.
Cuba Protests at UN over Washington’s Terror Policy (tags)
Cuba accused the United States of maintaining a double standard policy on the fight against terrorism, in a letter sent Thursday to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon.
Tomorrow! Worldwide demonstrations against the terrorist Posada (tags)
The people's mobilization is important to expose not only the U.S. government's hypocrisy of its "war on terror" but its active role in backing the Miami terrorists like Posada for over 45 years. More important than ever is the need for us to raise high the demand of immediate freedom for the Cuban Five Heroes...
George W Bush: Flight from Reality (tags)
The doctrine of answering every defeat in Iraq with a new offensive is a grave mistake, worse than in Vietnam.. The battle between the executive and the legislture has begun.
What has happened to the 5 iranians kidnapped by US? (tags)
- As the Western media turns its attention to the fate of 15 Britons detained for allegedly trespassing into Iranian waters over the weekend, the status of five Iranian officials captured in a U.S. military raid on a liaison office in northern Iraq on Jan. 11 remains a mystery.
The US military attack on Iran is now on track for 4 AM on April6,writes the well-known Russian journalist Andrei Uglanov in the Moscow weekly "Argumenty Nedeli." Uglanov cites Russian military experts close to the Russian General Staff for his account.
Fake Congressional Opposition to War (tags)
Congress again betrays the electorate
George Bush's Samson Option (tags)
George Bush's reckless agenda to plunge the Middle East in total war
(Jewish) Groups Fear Public Backlash Over Iran (tags)
Jewish Groups Fearing Backlash When Iran is Attacked Next for Israel
Blackwater brass forms intel company (tags)
Blackwater brass forms intel company
UN Peacekeeping Paramilitarism (tags)
How UN peacekeepers are used as thuggish paramilitaries for empire.
Escalation will not finish the "job" that president George W Bush charged admiral William Fallon. The language of bombs is too simple for a complex matter like the Middle East.
Israel's Extremists Plotting Nuclear Strike (tags)
Israel leaks it’s plan to nuke Iran (tags)
A report in yesterday’s London-based Sunday Times revealed that the Israeli military has been training to use tactical nuclear weapons against Iran’s uranium enrichment plant at Natanz and other nuclear facilities. Based on several Israeli military sources, the article said two air force squadrons were involved, with the preparations being overseen by air force commander Major General Eliezer Shkedi. Israeli officials were quick to disparage the report. Foreign ministry spokesman Mark Regev “formally denied” the claim and restated the official stance that Israeli was committed to a diplomatic solution and supported last month’s UN Security Council resolution imposing sanctions on Iran. Top government and military figures have repeatedly warned, however, that Israel would not allow Tehran to develop nuclear weapons.
BTL:US Iran Tensions Arise as Second American Aircraft Carrier Heads to... (tags)
...Persian Gulf~Interview with Trita Parsi, president of the National Iranian- American Council, conducted by Between the Lines' Scott Harris
BTL: US Can Do More to Pressure Sudan to Allow UN Protective Force in Darfur (tags)
Interview with Nii Akuetteh, executive director of Africa Action, conducted by Between the Lines' Scott Harris
DURING ISRAELS SUMMER WAR WITH LEBANON, WHICH WAS CLEARLY SEEN AS AN AMERICAN SUPPORTED PROXY WAR IN BUSH'S DOMINATION OF THE MIDDLE EAST, PEOPLE ALL OVER THE WORLD DEMONSTRATED AGAINST THE ISRAELI ATTACKS. ETHIOPIAN FORCES WITH THE FULL SUPPORT OF WASHINGTON ARE NOW POUNDING SOMALIA IN A BRUTAL INVASION TO DEFEAT ISLAMISTS.
Intimidation and double standards are destabilizing and make global peace problematic.
Omissions in the Iraq Study Group Report (tags)
Omissions in the ISG Report are more important than what's in it.
Iranian President’s Letter to the American People (tags)
President Ahmadinejad Blasts Bush’s Israel First Policy in Letter
The End of the Bush Dynasty (tags)
How George Bush hastened the demise of the Bush family political dynasty.
Exporting Values: On the Religious Aspect of the US War (tags)
When the institutions fail, a superhero arises out of the American people who can wage the just battle without regard for laws or institutions. Does George W Bush under-stand himself as the incarnation of this American myth?
NOAM CHOMSKY AND GILBERT ACHCAR'S NEW BOOK - PERILOUS POWER (tags)
AN ACCOUNT OF THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION'S DISASTROUS POLICIES IN THE MIDDLE EAST
Palestine unites us: Towards the first Palestinian Popular Conference in the US (tags)
Palestine unites us: Towards the first Palestinian Popular Conference in the US Statement, Preparatory Committee, US Popular Palestinian National Conference, 17 November 2006
Call it What it Is: A Massacre (tags)
THE FIRST revolutionary act is to call things by their true names, Rosa Luxemburg said. So how to call what happened in Beit Hanoun?
Bolton tells Olmert it's OK to slaughter babies
The SHORTWAVE REPORT 11/10/06 ¡LISTEN GLOBALLY! (tags)
A weekly 30 minute review of news and opinion, recorded from a shortwave radio. With times and freqs for listening at home. 2 files- broadcast and slow-modem streaming. Free to rebroadcast. Netherlands, Spain, Cuba, and Russia.
For the Globalization of Sustainability (tags)
The euphoria of Rio was based on the certainty that these visions could be realized thanks to a peace dividend.. Consumption is till the first civic duty in industrial countries.
Freed from International Law: Book Review (tags)
With deep conviction of self-righteousness, the United States demands observance of international law from other countries but dems it irrelevant for itself.. Being an intellectual is a calling for everyone. (Noam Chomsky)
Bush's War Course against Iran Leads to Ruin (tags)
That a war of aggression of the US against Iran makes no sense is understood in Europe but not in the Bush administration.. No military solution is possible for the problems with Iran. Diplomacy is the only possibility.
The Rise and Fall of the UN (tags)
One’s opinion of the United Nations reveals a lot about political consciousness; and because perception is usually based on experience, it’s only natural that people from different countries have opposing views about the UN and its pillar institutions— the International Monetary Fund (IMF), World Bank, and the World Trade Organization (WTO). In the United States, familiarity of the UN is limited to vague notions of ‘international democracy’ and ‘peacekeeping’, words that inspire the noblest of intentions; the World Bank and IMF on the other hand are institutions that invoke little reaction among the US public. How and by whom the UN was formed, whose interests it serves, and the actual history of its ‘peacekeeping’ missions are all things rarely examined. It is the purpose of this essay to look at the formation and development of the UN, and in so doing, attempt to show the evolution of the capitalistic system itself, which was ‘reborn’ upon the back of these hardly-neutral organizations.
The SHORTWAVE REPORT 10/27/06 ¡LISTEN GLOBALLY! (tags)
A weekly 30 minute review of news and opinion, recorded from a shortwave radio. With times and freqs for listening at home. 2 files- broadcast and slow-modem streaming. Free to rebroadcast. Netherlands, Cuba, and Russia.
Twenty-eight Palestinians killed this week in OPT (tags)
Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) Escalate Attacks on Palestinian Civilians and Property in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT)
The SHORTWAVE REPORT 10/20/06 ¡LISTEN GLOBALLY! (tags)
A weekly 30 minute review of news and opinion, recorded from a shortwave radio. With times and freqs for listening at home. 2 files- broadcast and slow-modem streaming. Free to rebroadcast. China, Netherlands, Cuba, and Russia.
THE METTLE OF A UN SECRETARY-GENERAL (tags)
THE TAINTED LEGACY OF KOFI ANNAN
To cover the Bush sex and corruption scandals
Against the Decadent Empire (tags)
The block free movement under Cuban leadership may develop into the crystallization point for globalization critics. "A Better World Is Possible." "Terrorism may not be equated witht he legitimater struggle of the people for national liberation against foreign rule and occupation."
The SHORTWAVE REPORT 10/13/06 ¡LISTEN GLOBALLY! (tags)
A weekly 30 minute review of news and opinion, recorded from a shortwave radio. With times and freqs for listening at home. 2 files- broadcast and slow-modem streaming. Free to rebroadcast. China, Netherlands, Cuba, and Russia.
Civilians as ''legitimate'' military targets, Israeli attacks on Lebanon (tags)
In the july-war on Lebanon, as well as Israel as Hizbollah have committed serious human rights viollations and warcrimes against as well the Lebanese civilian population as the Israeli civilian population. Despite the ''justifications'' by both parties, they are both subjective to International Humanitarian Law, which forbids, under all circumstances, military attacks on civilians
The US, Israel and Lebanon: Historical Roots and Patterns of Conflict (tags)
The destructive and lethal forces unleashed this past summer by the United States and Israel upon Lebanon are not surprising in light of their historical roots in at least four patterns of conflict:
ALVARO VARGAS LLOSA SENDS HUGO CHAVEZ TO DANTE'S INFERNO (tags)
CONSERVATIVE THINK TANK WRITER SAVAGES HUGO CHAVEZ
Democrats defend “our president” against international criticism (tags)
The pretense that the Democratic Party represents some sort of opposition to the Bush administration was punctured again last week when leading Democrats vociferously condemned the anti-Bush speech given by Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez to the United Nations General Assembly.
Two Kinds of International Law (tags)
In an absurd way, president Bush also justified the Iraq war as "self-defense." Lebanon has the same right to security, territorial integrity and inviolable borders..Israel's right to exist is not a reason for violating the rights of others.
HUGO CHAVEZ'S NEW WORLD VISION (tags)
THE SPIRIT OF THE BOLIVARIAN REVOLUTION
A COURAGEOUS MAN SPEAKS OUT - HUGO CHAVEZ WAS IN RARE FORM AT THE UN (tags)
HUGO CHAVEZ'S TOUR DE FORCE AT THE UN
RISE UP AGAINST THE EMPIRE (tags)
ADDRESS TO THE UNITED NATIONS
President Bush is "the devil" and a "world dictator" (tags)
Something many Americans have known for a long time - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez came to the United Nations and denounced President Bush as "the devil" and a "world dictator"
IMperialism 101 - The US Addiction to War, Mayhem and Madness - Part II (tags)
HOW THE US PURSUES ITS IMPERIAL AGENDA
The Evil Conspiracy of the Peacemongers! (tags)
THE ARAB peace initiative could be successful if it puts in front of the Israeli public the straight and unequivocal choice: peace without the occupied territories - or the occupied territories without peace.
Bush's Speech Translation (tags)
what Bush didn't say yesterday
BTL:Iran Defies UN on Uranium Enrichment, as US Pushes for Sanctions &... (tags)
...Contemplates "Other Consequences" ~ Interview with Arang Keshavarzian, assistant professor of government at Connecticut College, conducted by Between the Lines' Scott Harris
The First Post-Zionist War (tags)
The great lapse, then, is a function of the fact that Israel is caught between two worlds. Still guided by the Zionist model, it refuses to resolve the conflicts with its neighbors. But guided by post-Zionism, it refuses to maintain the welfare state, which aimed for the kind of Jewish solidarity that was needed to wage those conflicts.
Putting Words in Ahmadinejad's Mouth (tags)
n this frightening mess in the Middle East, let's get one thing straight. Iran is not threatening Israel with destruction. Iran's president has not threatened any action against Israel. Over and over, we hear that Iran is clearly "committed to annihilating Israel" because the "mad" or "reckless" or "hard-line" President Ahmadinejad has repeatedly threatened to destroy Israel But every supposed quote, every supposed instance of his doing so, is wrong.
You don't need a Weatherman to know which way the wind is blowing. (tags)
And you don't need The UN to impose sanctions.
An Interview with Noam Chomsky: The Strong Do as They Can (tags)
The maxim of Thucydides again. But it is worth bearing in mind that Israel can go just as far as its protector in Washington permits and supports.
US administration rejects Iran’s offer of “serious negotiations” (tags)
The Bush administration yesterday signalled its rejection of Iran’s offer of “serious negotiations,” setting the stage for punitive economic sanctions and an escalating confrontation with Tehran.
WALL STREET JOURNAL RHAPSODIZES OVER SHAM UN RESOLUTION TO END LEBANON WAR (tags)
ANALYSIS OF WALL STREET JOURNAL ARTICLE PRAISING SHAM UN RESOLUTION
VENEZUELA LEADING THE RACE FOR THE UN SECURITY COUNCIL SEAT (tags)
VENEZUELA AHEAD IN RACE FOR UN LATIN AMERICAN SECURITY COUNCIL SEAT
Neocon Chickenhawks: A Small Tightly-Knit Clan Part 1 (tags)
This list of intricate, overlapping connections is hardly exhaustive or perhaps even surprising. But it helps reveal an important fact. Contrary to appearances, the neocons do not constitute a powerful mass political movement. They are instead a small, tightly-knit clan whose incestuous familial and personal connections, both within and outside the Bush administration, have allowed them grab control of the future of American foreign policy.
SHAM UN RESOLUTION GUARANTEES NO END TO ISRAEL'S WAR OF ILLEGAL AGGRESSION (tags)
IN RESOLUTION 1701 GUARANTEES NO END TO THE CONFLICT
Rogue Israeli State Protested at White House Rally (tags)
What are people of conscience suppose to do in response to the unspeakable acts of barbarism being perpetrated daily by Israel? In America, they can still go out on the streets and protest. This is what happened on Sat., Aug. 12, 2006, in Washington, D.C. A rally at Lafayette Park, near the White House, organized by Arab-Americans, protested the relentless terror bombing of innocent civilians in Gaza and Lebanon by the Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF).
ISRAEL MUST BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE FOR ITS INTERNATION LAW VIOLATIONS (tags)
ISRAEL'S WAR OF ILLEGAL AGGRESSION AGAINST PALESTINE AND LEBANON
Israeli Ambassador Caught Lying (tags)
Israel's ambassador to the United States, Daniel Ayalon, was questioned last Sunday in Washington DC as part of a press stakeout. Sam Husseini of the Institute for Public Accuracy was there to ask the tough questions. He grilled Ayalon on Israel's targeting of civilians and use of cluster bombs in Lebanon, Israel's nuclear arsenal and its lack of adherence to United Nations Security Council resolutions. [includes rush transcript] Israel's cabinet authorized an expanded ground offensive into Lebanon on Wednesday, backing a push towards the Litani river which lies 18 miles from the border. The decision came on a day of fierce fighting in southern Lebanon. Fifteen Israeli soldiers were killed in action - the highest number in a single day since the conflict began almost a month ago.
Petition: International Criminal Tribunal for Israel (tags)
We, the undersigned, demand that The United Nations General Assembly immediately establish an International Criminal Tribunal for Israel (ICTI) as a ‘subsidiary organ’ under U.N. Charter Article 22 to prosecute the Israeli Prime Minister Olmert, Defense Minister Peretz, Chief of Staff Halutz and Israel’s other top generals and war criminals for their infliction of international war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide against the Peoples of Lebanon and Palestine.
On the August 12 International Mobiizations Against US-Israel Agression in Lebanon and Pa (tags)
We, the International League of Peoples' Struggle (ILPS), strongly condemn the ongoing barbaric attacks of the Israeli military on the people of Lebanon and Palestine. Under the pretext of rescuing Israeli soldiers captured by Hamas and Hezbollah, the Zionist Israeli government has unleashed wave upon wave of air, naval and ground attacks on the civilian populations of Lebanon and Palestine. These unbridled acts of international terrorism are emboldened and supported by US imperialism.
Power and Powerlessness (tags)
Many fear Israel's terror machine encouraged by the pathological, indictable George W Bush. Might does not make right. Military logic is helpless in solving political conflicts. How sad the UN is instrumentalized to legitimate aggression!
Israeli war crimes aimed at “cleansing” south Lebanon (tags)
On Tuesday, Israeli warplanes struck the southern Lebanese town of Ghaziyeh, killing at least 14 people. Missiles demolished civilian homes just as some 1,500 mourners were participating in a procession to bury 15 of their relatives and neighbors slain just the day before. The explosions sent the crowd running in panic, dropping shrouded corpses in the street.
UN resolution on Lebanon: blueprint for intensified war and colonial occupation (tags)
The US-French resolution that is to be voted on by the United Nations Security Council early this week represents an imperialist diktat to the people of Lebanon and an attempt by Washington to legitimize and consummate the geo-strategic goals pursued in the last month of US-Israeli war of aggression.
Impeachment as a System Remedy (tags)
The thief came to steal, kill and destroy, the Son came that we might have life in abundance.. If faith can move mountains, it can move an accidental president to retirement and save the planet.
Israel is drunk on it's power
WHAT THE MEDIA HOPES YOU NEVER LEARN ABOUT THE APARTHIED TERROR STATE OF ISRAEL (tags)
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Germany joins US, British, Israeli axis of aggression (tags)
Last Sunday, German government spokesman Ulrich William spoke on behalf of the chancellor, Angela Merkel (Christian Democratic Union—CDU), and expressed Merkel’s “great regret and deep sadness over the consequences of the Israeli air raid on Qana.” Two days later, German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier (Social Democratic Party—SPD) began an interview in the Süddeutsche Zeitung with the words: “What took place on Sunday in Qana was appalling. The large number of civilian victims of the Israeli air raid is terrible and unacceptable.”
Cease-Fire Now! Take Emergency Action (tags)
A Joint Call from United for Peace and Justice & the US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation Qana Victims Killed by Israel with U.S. Weapons Demand that Congress Support Cease-Fire Resolutions and End Weapons Deliveries to Israel Now! THIS WEEK: Call Congress and the White House Every Day NEXT WEEK: Emergency Week of Action, Aug. 7-11
What way forward in the struggle against war? (tags)
As the brutal US-Israeli war against the Lebanese people enters its fourth week, there is no sign that the massacre of innocent civilians is about to end. On the contrary, the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF), backed by air strikes and artillery fire, are pressing deeper into Lebanon, with the apparent aim of advancing 18 miles to the Litani River, either killing or driving out the entire population between it and the Israeli border.
US-ISRAELI UN RESOLUTION HYPOCRISY (tags)
HOW THE US AND ISRAEL SUBVERT UN RESOLUTIONS
Israel's war crimes continue unhindered in Lebanon and Gaza (tags)
In this moment, the want for international action is dire; at stake are not only the lives of innocent civilians but also the credibility of humanitarian morals and international values that have been held ransom by the belligerent forces of international politics and war machines.
Operation "Save Israel's High Command" (tags)
"Israeli propaganda, except in the United States where there isn't any other kind, doesn't work its old magic."
German Peace Movement Demands Israeli Withdrawal (tags)
Both the occupation of the Gaza strip and the arrest of members of the Palestinian government are clear breaches of international law.
The Lies Israel Tells Itself (And We Tell On Its Behalf) (tags)
And how many of us believe that deliberate barbarity, at least when we do it, is only "apparently" a crime against humanity?
Lebanese towns desolated by the bombings of Israel. (tags)
I THROW, 28 of julio..La Israeli aviation bombarded 130 targets in the dawn of this Friday, while the night it was marked by the attacks of the marine one and the Zionist artillery, in a destruction combination and death that it desolated whole towns.
THE CRIME OF LEBANON AND PALESTINE - ARE IRAN AND SYRIA NEXT? (tags)
ISRAEL'S US FUNDED AND SUPPORTED WAR ON LEBANON AND PALESTINE
"We're Obviously Very Sorry" (tags)
A U.N. observer post was hit by an Israeli airstrike in south Lebanon Tuesday, killing four peacekeepers, U.N. officials said.
Israel and International Law (tags)
The use of military force without approval of the UN Security Council is prohibited in inter-national law.. Humanitarian international law is in effect during an armed conflict.
Lies, Double Standards, and Culpable Fallacies (tags)
"Lebanon is being sold for the price of a word: Terrorism. What a bad joke!" by Beirut artist and blogger Mazen Kerbaj. View more of his work. The following is a list - by no means exhaustive - of lies, double standards, and culpable fallacies perpetrated by US and Israeli officials.
The New York Times and the war in Lebanon: A cynical defense of US-Israeli war crimes (tags)
In an editorial published Friday, the New York Times weighs in as the liberal voice of American imperialism on the US-backed Israeli war against Lebanon. Under the headline “More Than a Cease-Fire Needed,” the Times repeats the propaganda line of Washington and Jerusalem that Israel is the victim and Hezbollah the aggressor. It lines up with the US and Israel in opposing demands that Israel halt its bombing campaign—an assault so flagrantly in breach of international law and so nakedly directed against civilians that Louise Arbour, the United Nations high commissioner for human rights, was moved to declare on Wednesday that those “in a position of command and control” could be held personally responsible for war crimes.
Will Americans Join Iraqis, Lebanese and Palestinians as Neocon Victims? (tags)
The Unfolding Horror Show
Open Letter to The Middle East Quartet (tags)
An Open Letter to The Middle East Quartet by the Beijing International Peace Vigil
National Emergency Marches on Washington, LA & SF, Sat. Aug 12: Defend Palestine & Lebanon (tags)
Saturday, August 12, 12 Noon, at the White House: NATIONAL EMERGENCY MARCH ON WASHINGTON! Defend the People of Palestine and Lebanon! Stop the U.S.-Israeli War! From Iraq to Lebanon to Palestine, Occupation is a Crime! Stop U.S. Aid to Israel! Support the Palestinian People's Right to Return! Money for Jobs and Education, Not for War and Occupation!
Women, Autonomy & Creating a Caring Economy in Venezuela (tags)
Support for the Bolivarian Revolution in Venezuela continues to grow, including in Los Angeles where grassroots communities gathered June 24 for a public event on Women, Autonomy & Creating a Caring Economy in Venezuela.
Nazis and Neo-Cons: compare and contrast (tags)
It’s not uncommon to hear a left-leaning person denounce the Bush administration with a barrage of Nazi-related epithets. The slurs are typically blurted out in anger with little thought to evidence or validity. In fact, whenever analogies are made linking a person or current event to either the Nazis or Holocaust, accusatory responses of “exaggeration” and “slander” are usually justified; it is indeed immature to randomly compare anything to the machine of Nazism that took the innocent lives of so many. While taking this into full consideration, the following is nevertheless an attempt to make some unpleasant connections.
CHERYL SEAL REPORTS: WEEK IN REVIEW (tags)
Commentaries and news from Cheryl Seal Reports, June 23-29
Becky Johnson gets trashed by the JTR (tags)
copied from http://jewishtribalreview.org/johnson2.htm
THE WALL STREET JOURNAL CALLS HUGO CHAVEZ A THREAT TO WORLD PEACE (tags)
RESPONSE TO WALL STREET JOURNAL LIES ABOUT HUGO CHAVEZ
New Zealand joins Australia’s military occupation of East Timor (tags)
The New Zealand Labour government last month dispatched nearly 200 troops to support the Australian-led military occupation of East Timor. Underlining the close Australian and New Zealand collaboration in neo-colonial exercises throughout the region, the contingent includes soldiers who were deployed in the initial 1999 intervention in East Timor, some who had recently served in the Solomon Islands, and a group of military police just returned from Afghanistan.
Washington recognizes India as a nuclear power in the middle of the Iran negotiations over its nuclear program. That is a fatal sig-nal. Governments in the third world ask why India's disdain of disarmament is given priority.
Iran, Towards a War Pretext Incident? (tags)
Former CIA analyst and Presidential advisor Ray McGovern, fresh from his heated public confrontation with Donald Rumsfeld, fears that staged terror attacks across Europe and the US are probable in order to justify the Bush administration's plan to launch a military strike against Iran, which he thinks will take place in June or July. -Paul Joseph Watson
Unilateralism is Over. Resistance Grows. (tags)
The US government saw itself forced to climb down in two central foreign policy questions. Washington's efforts to completely cut off Palestinian authority's money supply were stopped. In the Iraq question, Bush was manoevered offside in the Security Council.
SHAM US PROPOSAL TO IRAN EVOKES MEMORIES OF PAST SIMILIAR ONES (tags)
US PROPOSAL TO IRAN IS A SHAMELESS HOAX
Worldwide Wars and Anti-Military Options (tags)
The author suggersts three reasons for the nerve-wracking calm in Germany: 1) objective and very cruel mass unemployment, 2) self-stigmatization and 3) people don't think there is anything to share. At the end he urgers: Be IMI-Instinctively Mainstream Ignoring.
Weekly Report: On Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (tags)
Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) Escalate Attacks on Palestinian Civilians and Property in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT) 25 - 31 May 2006
Hizbullah draws massive crowd to mark Israeli withdrawal (tags)
A quarter of a million Hizbullah supporters packed a square in the southern port city of Tyre Friday to mark the anniversary of Israel's withdrawal from South Lebanon in 2000. A day earlier, the Islamic resistance group had launched a 10-day campaign to collect funds for Palestine, which is facing a crippling Western aid boycott after the election of Hamas.
The violent actions of the West ultimately gave birth to more suicide assassins, not peace.. In 1953, the US overthrew the iranian Prime Minister Mossadegh in a military coup because he insisted on nationalizing Iranian oil. Decades of the Shah dictatorship followed
The US still needs Iran as a stabilizer in the Shiite sector of Iraq.. The most important war objective in this first phase is maximization of the acceptance of war.. Be skeptical toward all war reports. Go the distance. Keep away from all war hysteria.
The main characteristic of the hairspliter is reversal of the burden of proof.. We are at the next stage of the suspension of international law created after 1945 and its replacement by the right of the stronger.
Christopher Cox,SEC,Makram Majid Chams,Titan Corp,9/11,Abhu Ghraib,etc. (tags)
Makram Chams,although Lebanese,is more connected to the U.S. military - industrial complex as well as to elite Saudis and to Titan Corp whose employees raped and tortured innocent Iraqis than anything.In other words he is a George W Bush kind of guy first and a Lebanese last,he just happened to be born in Lebanon. While he owned a convenience store in Venice,Florida and was a friend to Mohamed Atta he disappeared immediately after 9/11 or so we thought.As it turned out he did NOT seek refuge in the enemy states of Afghanistan under the Taliban or in Saddam's Iraq.No.Although of Lebanese birth,he took refuge with W Bush's allies in Saudi Arabia where he was and presumeably is protected and was employed by the U.S. military-industrial corp whore Titan, presumably using his 'good works' in Venice,Florida with Mohamed Atta et.al.,as part of his resume..
English Translation of Iran's Letter (tags)
The unanswered and unusual letter of the Iranian president to US president Bush raises many questions and enigmas. Is it provocation, propaganda, criticism or invitation?
Weekly Report: On Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (tags)
Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) Escalate Attacks on Palestinian Civilians and Property in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT) · IOF shot dead a Palestinian woman the West Bank and extra-judicially executed a Palestinian activist in the Gaza Strip. · Two Palestinians were extra-judicially executed by IOF in Bethlehem. · 17 Palestinian civilians, including 7 children, were wounded by IOF gunfire. ·
COMMENTS ON NOAM CHOMSKY'S NEW BOOK - FAILED STATES (tags)
CHOMSKY SHOWS HOW THE US HAS THE CHARACTERISTICS OF A FAILED STATE
No Nuclear Attack on Iran! (tags)
Wars are waged against people and not for social justice..There are more than two alter-natives: friend or enemy, victim or murderer.. All member states are obliged to a strict pro-hibition of force.
THE CHOMSKY/BLANKFORT POLEMIC - Interview (tags)
Tel-Aviv and Washington are linked in the Middle East. That's a fact. But the importance of this link in Washington's colonial politics is being debated in the anti-imperialist movement. For the US, Jewish, anti-Zionist journalist Jeffrey Blankfort, Israeli influence is central to US policy and the anti-war movement has failed because of its inability to understand the importance of this lobby. Having developed a radical approach to this question, going so far as to deny the energy factor in the war in Iraq, Mr. Blankfort nonetheless opens interesting paths on Zionist influence in the United States. We reproduce an interview he gave to journalist Silvia Cattori.
Iran's strategic position today is better than ever. The EU was the first to feel this. America now feels this and wisely renounces on military strikes.. What lessons must America draw from this strategic fiasco?
Declaration of Jury of Conscience (tags)
The jury in the World Tribunal in Istanbul concluded that the invasion of Iraq together with the continuing occupation of iraq constitutes a violation of the core obligation of the UN Charter.
An Immoral War Coalition (tags)
Waging a new war that would exceed all the wars since the Vietnam War with the reason that Iran could produce nuclear bombs in ten years is even more absurd than the lie of weapons of mass destruction with which the Iraq war was justified.
BRITAIN BREAKS WITH THE US OVER IRAN (tags)
BRITAIN BREAKS WITH THE US OVER IRAN
For a Worldwide Network against War (tags)
The recent deluge of expressions of “concern” about Iran by Cheney, Bolton, Blair, Rumsfeld et al should be setting alarm bells ringing throughout the world.
Scott's News Blog (3/15/06) (tags)
DynCorp may replace cops in St. Bernard parish
A World Lit by Energy Warfare (tags)
...What "Mission Accomplished" in reality achieved was an intractable quagmire of bloodletting and a nightmarish prospect of global conflict...
Iran and the US: A Fictional Dialogue (tags)
Who threatens who is clear. In 1953, the CIA overthrew our democratically elected Prime Minister Mossadegh only because he dared to nationalize the oil industry.
The Fear of the Islamic Bomb (tags)
Iran's president provokes in order to divert. the message seems directed outwards and yet primarily has a domestic political nature. A face-saving solution is crucial. Megaloma-nia, arrogance and invulnerability are sicknesses in the US and Iran.
US Vice-President Threatens Iran Militarily (tags)
The UN was founded to remove the scourge of war. The UN Charter severely limits war to an absolute last means, to self-defense and approval of Security Council. Self-determina-tion and reparations are pillars of internation-al law. There is no alternative to diplomacy.
General Michel Aoun to ‘Monday Morning’: (tags)
He has the gift of facilitating matters. With him formalities and ceremonial go by the board. The conversation is quickly under way with the “General” at his residence in Rabiyé, which was thronged with young people and retired Army officers who remain devoted to him. There, one found those who had remained faithful to him, who had waited patiently for 15 years for his return from exile. I saw myself propelled back 16 years to Baabda Palace, with the same images and sensations. But that was another time and place. The general himself seemed unchanged: as feisty as ever, the eternal resistance fighter. He has changed in one way, as he himself said: he has learned to be patient, to move slowly, which for him, unfortunately, is a waste of time. He has great aspirations for Lebanon, which still has much to learn in terms of democracy, human rights and the building of nations.
Europe Failed Temporarily in Iran (tags)
Iran will need at least 3 to 5 years for producing highly enriched uranium for its first bombs and much longer to produce the necessary centrifuges. Whoevrer threatens with a preventive attack should not be surprised about proliferation.
Israeli influence in Washington: Jeffrey Blankfort interview (a MUST read) (tags)
Tel-Aviv and Washington are linked in the Middle East. That's a fact. But the importance of this link in Washington's colonial politics is being debated in the anti-imperialist movement. For the US, Jewish, anti-Zionist journalist Jeffrey Blankfort, Israeli influence is central to US policy and the anti-war movement has failed because of its inability to understand the importance of this lobby. Having developed a radical approach to this question, going so far as to deny the energy factor in the war in Iraq, Mr. Blankfort nonetheless opens interesting paths on Zionist influence in the United States. We reproduce an interview he gave to journalist Silvia Cattori.
Bush regime seizing prescriptions ordered by US citizens (tags)
Bush regime seizing prescriptions ordered by US citizens
The SHORTWAVE REPORT 2/24/06 ¡LISTEN GLOBALLY! (tags)
A weekly 30 minute review of news and opinion, recorded from a shortwave radio. With times and freqs for listening at home. 2 files- broadcast and slow-modem streaming. Free to rebroadcast. China, Netherlands, Cuba, and Russia.
5 REASONS to Stop US Military Aid to Israel (tags)
"You must end the illegal occupation." -Kofi Annan, addressing Israel in a meeting of the UN Security Council, March 12, 2002 "I am a black South African, and if I were to change the names, a description of what is happening in the Gaza Strip and West Bank could describe events in South Africa." -Archbishop Desmond Tutu
Calls for Dialogue in the Iran Crisis (tags)
Renunciation on force and non-aggression guarantees are crucial for de-activating the crisis along with convening a UN mediation commission. All military options must be excluded.
A moratorium and a UN mediation commis-sion are vital to prevent escalation in the Iran nuclear conflict.. Since 1968, the nuclear weapon states have refused negotiations on total nuclear disarmament.
On the Expanded Security Concept (tags)
As the term social security contributed to undergirding public security against private life risks as a legal claim of individuals visavis society, the new international securiity discourse upgrades civil conflict resolution.
LIFE IN OCCUPIED PALESTINE (tags)
An account of Israeli oppression against the Palestinian people
News Junkie Scott's Blog (2/6/06) (tags)
Homeland Security Contracts for Vast New Detention camps.
UN to consider sanctions on Israel. (tags)
Israel has a shed load of Nuclear Bombs.
The SHORTWAVE REPORT 2/3/06 ¡LISTEN GLOBALLY! (tags)
A weekly 30 minute review of news and opinion, recorded from a shortwave radio. With times and freqs for listening at home. 2 files- broadcast and slow-modem streaming. Free to rebroadcast. Netherlands, China, Cuba, and Russia.
The SHORTWAVE REPORT 1/27/06 ¡LISTEN GLOBALLY! (tags)
A weekly 30 minute review of news and opinion, recorded from a shortwave radio. With times and freqs for listening at home. 2 files- broadcast and slow-modem streaming. Free to rebroadcast. Netherlands, China, Cuba, and Russia.
The Iranian Security Dilemma and US-European Warmongering (tags)
Preventing a potential nuclear power like Iran is conceivable if Israel simulaniously makes concessions.
When is a War Justified? (tags)
What is the future of the United Nations when its most powerful member treats it with contempt? The law is still the law even when it is broken.. The conflict over anticipatory self-defense is the real reason for the crisis of the UN, not the skirmish over reform.
BTL:Washington and Europe Increase Pressure on Iran to Halt Nuclear Research (tags)
Interview with Dr. James Jennings, president of Conscience International, conducted by Between the Lines' Scott Harris
The Double Standards of the West (tags)
While the West works on developing ver-new nuclear weapons, should Iran be barred from the peaceful use to which it is entitled according to international law?
New York Times sees the US in a Cul-de-Sac (tags)
The leading paper of world capital discovers that the West depends on imported energy.. Gas-saving cars and bio-diesel are ways out.. Sunday's editorial could be a sign of a shift in opinion in the ruling class of the US.
The SHORTWAVE REPORT 1/13/06 ¡LISTEN GLOBALLY! (tags)
A weekly 30 minute review of news and opinion, recorded from a shortwave radio. With times and freqs for listening at home. 2 files- broadcast and slow-modem streaming. Free to rebroadcast. China, Netherlands, Spain, Cuba, and Russia.
"Superpower without Leadership" (tags)
The arrogance and hubris of this administration was responsible. A glance at the region would have made that judgment impossible. We in the State Department never believed our soldiers in Iraq would be greeted as liberators with flowers.
What are Social Human Rights? (tags)
Who prosecutes those responsible that more than a billion people must live from a dollar a day while wealth constantly grows?
Funeral for Lebanese Journalist Turns Into Anti-Syrian Demonstration (tags)
BEIRUT - Tens of thousands of Lebanese bid farewell on Wednesday to anti-Syrian publisher and lawmaker Gebran Tueni, turning his funeral into an outpouring of anger against Damascus, which they blame for his murder.
Gebran Tueni Perishes in Massive Car Bomb Explosion Near Beirut (tags)
Gebran Tueni, a fiery critic of Syria, was assassinated in a car-bomb explosion in Mkalles, east of Beirut Monday. He was 48. Tueni was An Nahar's general manager and Beirut legislator. "God have mercy on Gebran and An-Nahar will remain the beacon for freedom," Druze leader Walid Jumblat told LBCI.
WEEKLY REPORT ON ISRAELI HUMAN RIGHTS VIOATIONS IN THE OCCUPIED PALESTINIAN TERRITORY FOR (tags)
Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) Launch More Attacks on Palestinian Civilians and Property in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT) Palestinian Centre for Human Rights http://www.pchrgaza.org/
Rice delivers a tortured 'Rendition' (tags)
The Bushed Cabal has raised its level of outlandish lies to an "Extraordinary Rendition." The latest song by Ms. 'Chevron' Rice before a European audience was so contrived even the Imperial apologists are gasping for air.
Ex-Rep. Findley: “It’s Time to Exit Iraq!” (tags)
On Dec. 1, 2005, at a public forum, on Capitol Hill, ex-Rep. Paul Findley (R-IL), urged President George W. Bush to pull U.S. troops out of Iraq-promptly. He offered a four point plan to that end. Findley said that his greatest fear is that Bush “will persist in his quest for a military victory.” He praised Rep. John Murtha (D-PA) for demanding an “early and complete exit from Iraq.” Findley called for ending the U.S.’ “ugly role in the killing fields of Iraq.”
Lebanese information department denies Houssam allegations (tags)
Syrian President Bashar Assad's brother-in-law and Syria's overall intelligence chief Assef Shawkat was not among the five Syrian officials interrogated Tuesday by German prosecutor Detlev Mehlis in Vienna, a source close to the probe into the murder of former Premier Rafik Hariri said:
Syrian Witness in U.N. Inquiry on Beirut Killing Reports Bribes (tags)
BEIRUT, Lebanon- A man claiming to be a former Syrian intelligence agent in Lebanon has said on Syrian state television that Lebanese officials tortured him and offered bribes to persuade him to present false testimony against Syria to a United Nations commission investigating the assassination of Rafik Hariri, the former Lebanese prime minister.
US Taxdollar Aid to Israel (tags)
United States diplomats like to say that when it comes to the conflict between Israel and Palestinians the US plays the role of "an honest broker." But the US' massive financial and military support for Israel means that, in fact, the US is taking sides. Israel is the largest recipient of US foreign aid, receiving more than $3 billion annually [1] -- or about $8 million every day. If a level diplomatic playing field is to be created, the US' unfair and biased support of Israel must end. Until the US stops lending its weight to Israel, a truly just peace will remain elusive
The Lies and theTruth About the U.S. War on Iraq
"The Days of the US Empire are Numbered" (tags)
"I love the US but I hate the American empire.. The US cou9ld escape a sudden downfall if it recognizes economic equality, appears as one country among others and abandons its military presence in the 140 countries where it presently stations troops.:"
Hypocrisy at the Union-Tribune (tags)
The hounds at said paper, in their seemingly santimonious, blue nose, Puritanal zeal, apparently feel there is something particularly egregious about a sex scandal that denies the claustrophobic mores of the Judeo-Christian church. Who is it that really gives much of a rip whether strippers and nightclub owners make more money off sexually starved “adults” that “voluntarily” frequent such places?
Brazilian Consulate Talks to Pro-Aristide Demonstrators in Los Angeles (transcript) (tags)
Transcript of dialog between human rights activists and Brazilian Consulate Henrique Jenne regarding events in Haiti. Jenne eventually admitted that Aristide belongs in Haiti.
Violating International Law (tags)
The war of the US government against iraq is based on a legal model without precedent.. In the past, thr threatened party had to prove that an attack on it was unjustified..The US uses the "three strikes" maxim, cumulative crimes, to change international law.
The SHORTWAVE REPORT 11/4/05 ¡LISTEN GLOBALLY! (tags)
A weekly 30 minute review of news and opinion, recorded from a shortwave radio. With times and freqs for listening at home. 2 files- broadcast and slow-modem streaming. Free to rebroadcast. Netherlands, China, Russia, and Cuba.
The Federal Reserve is Privately owned (tags)
The secret to enslaving a nation.
Syria resolution will be ready for UN vote on Monday (tags)
A revised Franco-US draft resolution demanding full cooperation from Damascus with the probe into the murder of Lebanon's ex-premier is likely to be readied for a vote by the UN Security Council on Monday, diplomats said.
Man sought by Hariri probe reportedly in Syrian custody (tags)
BEIRUT - The best friend of a missing Islamist who recorded a videotaped claim to have assassinated five-time Lebanese prime minister Rafiq Hariri has been detained in Syria for the past two months, a human rights activist said Tuesday.
America's "War against Terror" (Part I) (tags)
?Beginning an offensive war is the most serious international crime," the 1948 Interna-tional War Crimes Tribunal declared.. The model of a peaceful world of law changes into a Hobbesian world of lawlessness in which only power conquers.
MT Karthik, former KPFK news director, interview (tags)
Embracing the Gadfly Interview with MT Karthik by Marc Herbst From the new Issue of the Journal of Aesthetics and Protest
Learn about the financial fraud that has enslaved you your whole life!
UN cannot be reformed: Chavez tells people of US to fight for socialism (tags)
Bolivarian Revolution
The SHORTWAVE REPORT 9/30/05 ¡LISTEN GLOBALLY! (tags)
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A History of Concealment and Deception (tags)
Washington hasn't the faintest idea about the kind of adversary it faces.. If Iran makes the Euro the oil trade currency, a greater flight from the dollar to the Euro and a catastrophe for the US could occur. The dollar will be weakened and imports more expensive.
Venezuela's Chavez Says UN Needs a Revolution (tags)
Bolivarian Revolution
The SHORTWAVE REPORT 9/9/05 ¡LISTEN GLOBALLY! (tags)
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The UN as Stopgap by Eric Chauvistre (tags)
"First of all, the question must be raised whether Iraq is actually a military problem that could be solved with more troops. This is assumed by Bush and others.."
World Tribunal on Iraq : Final Declaration of the Jury of Conscience (tags)
The World Tribunal on Iraq met in Istanbul from 24-26 June 2005. The principal objective of the WTI is to tell and disseminate the truth about the Iraq War, underscoring the accountability of those responsible and underlining the significance of justice for the Iraqi people. Here is the final declaration of the jury of conscience :
Free Speach? Not on Conyors' blog this week. (tags)
I got suspened for a week writingabout historical facts that affect National Security. I think its only fair to let me reply! http://www.conyersblog.us/archives/00000174.htm#comments
Iraqi leaders demand Exit Strategy (tags)
Iraqi leaders demand Exit Strategy
The SHORTWAVE REPORT 7/8/05 ¡LISTEN GLOBALLY! (tags)
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Reactionary terror continues in Lebanon (tags)
Bombings and assassinations continue in Lebanon. The latest victim of this wave of terror was the 67-year old George Hawi, who was killed when a bomb detonated in his car; the former leader of the Lebanese Communist Party lost his life on June 21st, only a day after the so-called “anti-Syrian bloc” claimed victory in the parliamentary elections.
Ann Wright on the Follies of Bush’s War (tags)
One of the unsung heroes of the opposition to the Iraqi War is Ann Wright. Rather than support the war, she resigned her position with the State Dept. on March 19, 2003. Ms. Wright, a career diplomat for over 16 years, who had also served in the military, believes the Downing Street Memos have plenty of ammunition in them to support impeachment proceeding against President George W. Bush and criminal charges against others in his administration.
TWICE FOOLED – SHAME ON US: THE CASE FOR IMPEACHMENT (tags)
George W. Bush stole the 2000 election and we let him get away with it. While the Democrats cried because Al Gore had won the vote, the Republicans counted their loot and planned the next heist. Crime does pay when the Justices of the Supreme Court are in on the caper, and they can’t be impeached if the crooks control the Congress.
the un isn't to be trusted.
The SHORTWAVE REPORT 5/13/05 ¡LISTEN GLOBALLY! (tags)
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Block this Man! Protest against John Bolton (tags)
John Bolton said repeatedly that the United Nations only has value when it serves the interests of the US and that the most effective Security Council would be one in which only the US would be a permanent member.
The SHORTWAVE REPORT 4/8/05 ¡LISTEN GLOBALLY! (tags)
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The Interest of Power in Brainwashing the Masses: Noam Chomsky (tags)
In a world full of potential danger, the risk for the global order and the norm of non-intervention on which this order rests is simply too great to accept unilateral actions against the collective interest. Allowing one means allowing everyone. (UN General Assembly 2004)
The moral short-sightedness of prime-minister Balkenende and the EU regarding Israel (tags)
Although it is of main importance the Dutch prime-minister Balkenende has referred to the universal values in respect of the holocaust, it is striking that is lacking in moral indignation with respect to the Palestinian victims of the Israeli occupation.
The SHORTWAVE REPORT 4/1/05 ¡LISTEN GLOBALLY! (tags)
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The SHORTWAVE REPORT 3/25/05 ¡LISTEN GLOBALLY! (tags)
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America's Preventive War as Ultimate Risk (tags)
Never before has a democratic state threatened so openly to repudiate the basic norm of all law, the prohibition of violence.. Apart from self-defense, no war is legal.. The American government does not feel bound to the fundamental norms of law and ethics.
Al-Asad: Withdrawal to Bakaa Valley (tags)
Syrian President Bashar al-Asad has addressed parliament and said his country's troops will first withdraw to the Bakaa Valley before redeploying along the border with Lebanon.
Bush vs Putin - Adults only... (tags)
Extra: below you will find FPF's Secret audio - 'For Your Ears Only' - 55 seconds soundtrack - (adults only) :-) - * A Bushwhackers sound bite of 'bringing democracy'.
Bush vs Putin - Adults only... (tags)
Extra: FPF's Secret audio - 'For Your Ears Only' - 55 seconds soundtrack - (adults only) :-) - * Bushwhackers soundbite of 'bringing democracy'.
UN sets April deadline for Syrian pullout (tags)
U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan has warned Syria it must withdraw all its forces from Lebanon by April in the latest escalation of tension between the international community and Damascus. The hardening of attitude comes as Syria said it will "redeploy" all of the 15,000 troops it has stationed in Lebanon to the country's eastern border with Syria in a last ditch attempt to defuse increasing international pressure against it.
Hundreds of Thousands rally in Beirut against Syria one week after Hariri murder (tags)
BEIRUT - Thousands of Lebanese massed on the Beirut seafront chanting "Syria out" as pressure mounted on the government and its backers in Damascus a week after the killing of ex-prime minister Rafiq Hariri.
Since 1945 the US has intervened 67 times in foreign countries and caused twelve million dead, half through public overt actions (Pentagon) and the other half through secret covert actions (CIA). This is practically unknown to most Americans..
Reports of violence still coming out of Sudan's Darfur region – UN (tags)
31 January 2005 – Reports of violence continue to come out of Sudan's western Darfur region and several routes in South Darfur state are currently closed for United Nations movement because of ongoing insecurity, the UN Advance Mission in Sudan (UNAMIS) said today.
Rice again lies about 'UN mandate' for US war in Iraq (tags)
Like all people in the US 'Coalition of the Killing', we in the Netherlands also have been made guilty* - by our collaborating industry and it's government - of the present US-zionist war crimes in Afganistan and Iraq.
Some view the election of George W. Bush as providing him with a mandate to pursue his reactionary policies at home and abroad.
THE SON OF MAN / / Anybody who supports George W. Bush is my ENEMY. George W. Bush committed 9/11 with his buddy, General Ahmad who funded the mastermind ring leader. That's according to the FBI. Any bushite who gets in my way, who says that isn't the case, I WILL KILL. \ \ / / Mr. Sattler, if you don't want US to arrest those responsible for 9/11, don't you thing we Americans should kill you? \ \
A special broadcast for the bushite nazi grunts (tags)
The reasons why, US true Christ like Patriot Warriors kill the enemy bushite for God and Freedom in America.
BTL:Charges of Corruption at UN's Oil for Food Program Ignore Washington's Role (tags)
Joy Gordon, lawyer and professor of philosophy, conducted by Between the Lines' Melinda Tuhus
REUTERS up to their old nazi tricks again. Jotiar Nafaa, "coordinator", should surely know, that it is 175 families that had requested for the help of Red Crescent totaled several days previous, (without phones, nor abilities to leave their homes (150?)), NOT, "left in the city". [THINK: how could they possibly know? (nazi bushite whores were ordered to murder innocents indiscriminately as enemies to God)]
Dream job. The future now looks like something worth fighting for. Please, pass this recording to our news agencies. I do not have the ability to do this job of ours all by myself, I need Your help. Please do US this small favor, and I'm sure this Universe will thank you for it. Word on high is, "Dream-Job", is the doorway to miracles. Wow! The beginning has begun!
A person accused in our name(s) of a criminal offence, needs to be established somehow to be as such, and the only way to do that, is to present evidence that formed your/our conclusion. Without evidence our accused is ourselves as the innocent, being falsely imprisoned, tortured, or murdered.
The Secret Wars of The CIA (tags)
John Stockwell is the highest-ranking CIA official ever to leave the agency and go public
Wizard War - Live recording broadcast - The Mission Statement of Earth - (tags)
This is your World that I wish to play servant of. As my subject; I promise a fight to return Justice through freedom for all. How? By believing in you to do as you should, demanding the immediate arrest or execution of bush, rumsfeld, and condi for the crimes of 9/11. Demanding the return of all stolen Iraqi assets, made by those who personally profited off the criminal transactions. Demand the arrest or execution of Allawi for the bombing campaign of Samara, along with bushite military commanders who organized the satanic attack.
/ / Rumsfeld replied to a direct question yesterday as to whether he knew Zarqawi was in Fallujah with the answer: ``I have no idea if he is there.'' \ \ So, America! there is your reason for dying America's sons and daughters, Johnny's brothers and sisters. "No idea" rumsfeld states while his private partners cash in the blood checks for everything but the funeral services.
The Politics of Imperialism (tags)
Latin America provides a powerful reference point for the toilers of the world suffering from the imperial re-division of their countries.
/ / Rumsfeld replied to a direct question yesterday as to whether he knew Zarqawi was in Fallujah with the answer: ``I have no idea if he is there.'' \ \ So, America! there is your reason for dying America's sons and daughters, Johnny's brothers and sisters. "No idea" rumsfeld states while his private partners cash in the blood checks for everything but the funeral services.
Yet, it was rummy and tommy franks who TREASONOUSLY threw out the State Department's semi-thought through ORHA plan of, securing the weapon sites and preventing anarchy, and, it was the IAEA that had tabs on the weapons before the bush demon kicked them out irrationally.
Iran: A Bridge too Far? (tags)
The weapon that could defeat the US in the Gulf A word to the reader: The following paper is so shocking that, after preparing the initial draft, I didn’t want to believe it myself, and resolved to disprove it with more research. However, I only succeeded in turning up more evidence in support of my thesis. And I repeated this cycle of discovery and denial several more times before finally deciding to go with the article. I believe that a serious writer must follow the trail of evidence, no matter where it leads, and report back. So here is my story. Don’t be surprised if it causes you to squirm. Its purpose is not to make predictions –– history makes fools of those who claim to know the future –– but simply to describe the peril that awaits us in the Persian Gulf. By awakening to the extent of that danger, perhaps we can still find a way to save our nation and the world from disaster. If we are very lucky, we might even create an alternative future that holds some promise of resolving the monumental conflicts of our time. MG
One key to stabilizing Iraq isn't even in the country, but next door in Syria.
Open letter to the citizens of the United States of America. Never in the history of humankind has an election had so much at stake.
The SHORTWAVE REPORT 10/15/04 ¡LISTEN GLOBALLY! (tags)
A weekly 30 minute review of news and opinion recorded from a shortwave radio. 2 files- broadcast quality (13.3MB) and quick download (3.2MB). With times and freqs for listening at home. Free to rebroadcast. China, Netherlands, Cuba, and Russia,
Is john batiste going to sit with the loyal troops in the carnage he ordered, and bite the bullets for the team? Hell no, he's probably commanding from Florida, basking in the sun with his personal cut of that two billion with buford blount's two timing nazi whore of a wife.
"APARTHEID ISRAEL" – A Dr. Uri Davis Interview! (tags)
Uri Davis is a scholar and Jewish citizen of Israel, but prefers to describe himself as a Palestinian Jew. He was born in Jerusalem in 1943, when Palestine was still undivided. Dr. Davis’ research interests focus on questions of citizenship, democracy and human rights in Israel and Palestine.
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Yeah?.. but what about the comments made by the bushite child killer phil smith? Maybe he'll tell us again why innocent children were targeted for murder to get rightly killed loyal enemy bushite nazi brethren?
Despite the ways Kerry and his supporters might want to spin it, the Democratic nominee--like President Bush--is a militarist and a unilateralist quite willing to undermine the authority of the United Nations in order to assert American hegemony in that oil-rich region.
US To Veto UN Resolution Condemning Israel (tags)
SNAFU http://contact-us.state.gov/
I don't know about you, but I hate bushite rapists and torturers celebrated by corporate American Talk Radio news censors. As enemies of God and all that is great with this world, the bushite bombers should be called out for a man to man fight for their core beliefs, or be rightly killed as better dead than allowed to continue in our names.
The SHORTWAVE REPORT 9/24/04 ¡LISTEN GLOBALLY! (tags)
Destroying enemy bushite is a gift to Humanity, it is saying you care for the lives of the innocent a bush bitch nazi grunt freely confesses to targeting for murder. Liars are the bushite, who steal Iraqi resources, allow racists and rapists to commit their demon crimes in America's name un-challenged, and who absent mindedly bomb the innocent without just reason given.
Destroying enemy bushite is a gift to Humanity, it is saying you care for the lives of the innocent a bush bitch nazi grunt freely confesses to targeting for murder. Liars are the bushite, who steal Iraqi resources, allow racists and rapists to commit their demon crimes in America's name un-challenged, and who absent mindedly bomb the innocent without just reason given.
Anniversary of the Assassination of Folke Bernadotte af Wisborg: September 17 1948 (tags)
Count Folke Bernadotte, special UN Mediator to Mid East ...responsibile for saving 20,000 Jews from Himmler was assassinated this day, September 17 1948. The man directly responsible for his death, Nathan Friedman-Yellin was sentenced, pardoned after 5 months and was allowed to serve on Knesset
September brings back memories of atrocities ranging from 9/11/01, to the CIA's involvement in the coup that installed General Pinochet in Chile (9/11/73), and to the massacre of Sabra and Shatila on 9/15/82. These tragedies are demonstrably intertwined beyond the coincidences of date and that they claimed similar numbers of civilian victims.
The US Iraq Policy and Combating Terrorism (tags)
"America has the duty of the superpower to combat terrorism with political wisdom, not only with military superiority. Terrorism's causes must be understood and tackled.."
Beware of Tabloid Journalism! (tags)
John Kerry and John Edwards were interviewed by Leslie Stahl on 60 Minutes, Sunday July 11. She asked Edwards whether he made a deal with Kerry. Then she asked Kerry whether Edwards is a better cam-paigner. Small talk ignored the vital issues.
Up Against The Wall ! Israel ! (tags)
People who attack the World Court for its July 9 Ruling on the Israeli wall in the Occupied Territories should beware.
Help me Daddy!!! (by Latuff) (tags)
Copyright-free artwork by Brazilian cartoonist Latuff, on behalf of the brave Palestinian people and their struggle against U.S. backed IsraHell's terror.
Deception: When Facts Aren't Real (tags)
Peanuts, French Fries, Broccoli, Homeland Security, Ho Hos, Weapons of Mass Destruction, Saddam and Al Qaeda, When Facts Aren't Real and Real Things Aren't Facts
The Hague: Israel Wall Violates International Law, Must Be Dismantled (tags)
13 out of 14 of the justices believed that in building the fence, Israel violated international humanitarian law, by infringing on Palestinians' freedom of movement, freedom to seek employment, education and health. Israel violated international treaties it had signed which deal with these topics, the ruling states.
U.S. should face court, Annan says (tags)
"UN Secretary General Kofi Annan is leading the charge agaisnt Washington's call for the UN Security Council to renew its special exemption for U.S. forces from prosecution by the UN war crimes court."
New extremist terrorist group born in Lebanon (tags)
A new extremist terrorist group was born in Syrian-occupied Lebanon. The group made its debut in Lebanese territories where the Lebanese security forces are “banned” form entering, while the Lebanese authorities are paralyzed by the Syrian occupation troops. Here are the details per Nahar newspaper (the most renowned newspaper in Lebanon):
The SHORTWAVE REPORT 6/18/04 ¡LISTEN GLOBALLY! (tags)
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""Our security has been weakened" (tags)
General Merrill McPeak, Air Force chief of staff under the first President Bush, says, until recently, he considered himself a loyal Republican -- “in 2000 I was a veteran for Bush. This administration has gone away from me [departed from my beliefs], not vice-versa"
Pope fears Bush is antichrist (tags)
Pope fears Bush is antichrist, journalist contends - Church - journalist Wayne Madsden - Brief Article
"On Tuesday morning, a piece was torn out of our world. A patch of blue sky that should not have been there opened up in the New York skyline. In my neighborhood -- I live six blocks from the World Trade Center -- the heavens were raining human beings. Our city was changed forever. Our country was changed forever. Our world was changed forever."
Security is Indivisible (tags)
The policy of preventive war has brought only chaos and disaster. The failure of this policy of Washington can be referred back to two errors. The first concerns the assumption that terrorism is the real sickness. The second is in overrating military weapons.
Racial Discrimination by and in the State of Israel (tags)
Perhaps those who suffer the heaviest discrimination are those Palestinians who were ejected from their homeland in 1948 and again in 1967, dispossessed of their homes and land, and rendered stateless.
Why Iraq Governing Council failed (tags)
The people are suffering and they're worried about the flag. The Governing Council is supposed to be fixing the security situation and creating jobs. But this seems to be all they're up to. -- Wissam al-Ekabi, Baghdad University
Cuba Denounces Terrorism of State by Israel (tags)
United Nations.-
Sent the American Army in Fron of the International Criminal Court as War Criminals! (tags)
Posted by the Iraqi Resistance Solidarity Network
BTL:Israeli Assassination of Hamas Leader Occurs as... (tags)
...Ariel Sharon Withdraws from Gaza Strip* Interview with Phyllis Bennis, fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies, conducted Between the Lines' Scott Harris
The fallacy of the 'anybody but Bush' movement (tags)
Just because Bush is a reactionary, that does not make Kerry a progressive. In fact Kerry, or whoever might have been chosen by the Democratic Party as a candidate to take over the running of the capitalist state, would be a solid representative of U.S. imperialism whose goal would be to strengthen and expand its domination on the world arena.
Madrid: UN's credibility critically wounded (tags)
With the UN's quick condemnation of the Basque group ETA for Madrid's carnage, a sad new triumph of politics over truth was born. And a lot of UN credibility died in its birth.
ISRAEL SHOULD SUPPORT THE KURDS AGAINST SYRIA (tags)
Israel's Foreign Policy toward Syria should be built on the demands that it leave Lebanon unconditionally, end it's support for Hezbollah and "Palestinian" terror groups, dismantle it's Weapons of Mass Destruction, and keep it's hands off the Kurds. Israel's greater regional policy should be based on supporting the rights of minorities in the area. Only that way, based on democratization, liberation from oppressive regimes, and encouraging freedom, will the Middle East and North Africa be transformed into a region worthy its millennia old history.
Kerry’s Support of Iraq Invasion & Bush Doctrine Still Unexplained (tags)
Back in October 2002, when Senator Kerry voted to grant President Bush a blank check to make war, he tried to scare the American public into thinking that such an invasion was essential to the defense of the United States. Despite a lack of credible evidence, Kerry categorically declared that “Iraq has chemical and biological weapons” and even claimed that most elements of Iraq’s chemical and biological weapons programs were “larger and more advanced than they were before the Gulf War.” Furthermore, Kerry asserted that Iraq was “attempting to develop nuclear weapons,” backing up this accusation by claiming that “all U.S. intelligence experts agree” with such an assessment. He also alleged that “Iraq is developing unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) capable of delivering chemical and biological warfare agents, which could threaten Iraq’s neighbors as well as American forces in the Persian Gulf.” Every single one of these claims, no less than similar claims by President Bush, was false.
A WALL AS A WEAPON By Noam Chomsky New York Times, Opinion February 23, 2004
U.S. Sees Al-Qaeda Everywhere (tags)
Bush Administration twisting nature of Iraq violence to legitimate the War Hawks and mislead the public, while concurrently hiding their own shortcomings.
'GO FIND A WAY FO ME TO DO IT' (tags)
by William Rivers Pitt on the lies that led to war
Why Some Men And Women Refuse (tags)
Ethnic cleansing without a concentration camp.
Corp. Media Bias,Polls,Waffling,VoteBuying SPARKS New Dynamic of Self-Publishing (tags)
The candidates believing the assessment by the weapons-manufacturer-owned-media and their ridiculous polls, because they get coverage fall into trap of having to accept and be defined by it. Later finding out their dependence on orchestrated reality control and conventional wisdom, causes the rug to be pulled out from under them> as events, time and the fluidity of the new info-sharing environment made possible by real peoples participation with self-publishing, pushes the envelope to more accurate and genuine picture, actual portrayal of the environment, Here on the ground in 2004.The truth, morality and validity of the progressive message is that powerful. NPR DEBATE OBSERVATIONS
Camejo on Green approach to 2004 election (tags)
[The following statement was initiated by Peter Miguel Camejo. He is a life-long fighter for social justice who was the Green candidate for Governor in California in the 2002 general elections and in the 2003 recall election.]
Peter Camejo: The Avocado Declaration (tags)
A statement on third parties in the US political system.
Libya Opens Gateway for Weapons Inspection (tags)
It is now left up to Libya to disclose data on what weapons programmes they have underway to the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).
Iraqi Resistance Solidarity Network Dec. 19 Updates (tags)
1.Iraqi Resistance Report Dec. 15-17 2003 2.Statement of the Arab Cause Solidarity Committee: The apprehension and incarceration of Saddam Hussein will not bring about the end of the Iraqi resistance 3.Pro-Saddam Riots Rock the World 4. Message to US Security Council: AMERICA IS WORTH NOTHING...AMERICANS ARE PIGS ON TWO LEGS 5. Iraqi town takes pride in battling U.S. army 6.Iraqi Resistance front to be proclaimed soon After the arrest of Saddam resistance will intensify and unite even more, says Jabbar al Kubaysi 7. Offical State Paper of Cuba on Resistance in Iraq 8.Rally in S. Korea against Additional Troop Dispatch to Iraq 9.U.S. Moves to Stifle Syria Accused 10."Message to the GI Mercenaries on the Further Deployment of US Troops" Published
"Howard is not a liberal. He's a pro-business, Rockefeller Republican."
Governor, You're No George McGovern (tags)
Dean favored an alternative war resolution (sponsored by Sens. Joseph Biden, D-Del., and Richard Lugar, R-Ind.) that differed little from the one that passed. True, Biden-Lugar called on Bush to seek a United Nations Security Council resolution authorizing the war, but it did not require Bush to obtain such a resolution, if the Security Council balked. In other words, Dean favored a congressional resolution authorizing exactly the course that Bush took.
The Democrats don’t deserve our support (tags)
There is no reason to assume, as many do, that a Gore presidency would have avoided war after September 11. Clinton oversaw UN-sponsored sanctions against Iraq that led to the deaths of more than 1 million Iraqis, and U.S. warplanes dropped bombs on Iraq almost daily during his time in office. And Clinton signed the Iraq Liberation Act in 1998, calling for the U.S. "to seek to remove the regime headed by Saddam Hussein." Clinton’s Secretary of State Madeleine Albright admits in a recent Foreign Affairs article, "I personally felt [Bush’s new Iraq] war was justified on the basis of Saddam’s decade-long refusal to comply with UN Security Council resolutions on weapons of mass destruction."
If You Don't Want War: Why Don't You? (tags)
Scrawled on cardboard stuck to the telephone pole it said: "Fuck Bush!" ... that day in April when the US announced there would be no 2nd UN resolution on Iraq. The First Picture is Bush hiding you from me with his crimesof war. Or who is hiding who?
Lebanese Peaceful Revolution Against Syrian Occupation (tags)
The Lebanese universities youth, engineers, physicians, lawyers, workers and all society members are leading a peaceful revolution to implement the UN Security Council resolution 52O that calls for Syrian pullout of Lebanon. Hundreds are being arrested, tortured, imprisoned and even killed.
Does Syria sponsor terrorism? (tags)
Syria, a secular dictatorship with one of the worldâ??s worst human rights records, has been on the State Department list of countries sponsoring terrorism since the listâ??s inception in 1979
The SHORTWAVE REPORT 11/21/03 ¡Listen Globally! (tags)
A weekly 30 minute review of news and opinion recorded from a shortwave radio. 2 files- broadcast quality (13.2MB) and quick download (3.2MB). With times and freqs for listening at home. Free to rebroadcast. Netherlands, Spain, China, and Cuba.
Imperialism Starts at Home (tags)
Rich frat boys like George Bush often don't do military service because they have more options. The lack of options is a real thing that can't be erased with a lot of abstracted, two-dimensional, libertarian, we-are-all-free-agents nonsense.
You know what is right, though you still may be blind, it's never too late to change your mind, we're all in agreement, in truth we rise, evil is just the deceived disguised
An Inspector Calls: (Bush hoist by own Petard) (tags)
But we were wrong. Far from being a whitewash, Kay's report has turned out to be one of the most devastating and unflinching exposes of war crimes in world history. In damning detail, Kay has revealed the torturous machinations and evil practices of a ruthless tyrant seeking to thwart the clear will of the UN Security Council and the international community, using false declarations and crude propaganda to mask his secret plans to abet terrorism, wage aggressive war and threaten the entire world with weapons of mass destruction. Those apologists for tyranny, who for months doubted the veracity of these charges, have now been shown to be nothing more than knaves, fools, lickspittles and dupes.
Those who seek ''the death of the United Nations'' (tags)
While the United Nations is seen by many as merely a talk shop that gets little done, the truth lies elsewhere. For example, UNESCO has done a great deal for education and the work of UNICEF has been phenomenal.
'Israelization' of U.S. Middle East policy proceeds apace (tags)
'Israelization' of U.S. Middle East policy proceeds apace
Protecting U.S. Oil Interests in Iraq. (tags)
In the short term, through the Development Fund and the Export-Import Bank programs, the Iraqi peoples’ oil will finance U.S. corporate entrees into Iraq. In the long term, Executive Order 13303 protects anything those corporations do.
Info War on USA Public
The SHORTWAVE REPORT 10/17/03 ¡Listen Globally! (tags)
A weekly 30 minute review of news and opinion recorded from a shortwave radio. 2 files- broadcast quality (13.1MB) and quick download (3.2MB). With times and freqs for listening at home. Free to rebroadcast. Netherlands, Russia, China, Germany, and Cuba.
The SHORTWAVE REPORT 10/10/03 ¡Listen Globally! (tags)
A weekly 30 minute review of news and opinion recorded from a shortwave radio. 2 files- broadcast quality (13.3MB) and quick download (3.3MB). With times and freqs for listening at home. Free to rebroadcast. Netherlands, Russia, China, Spain, and Cuba.
Award Winning Journalist Robert Fisk in California Tonight and Tomorrow (tags)
Award Winning Journalist Robert Fisk in California Tonight and Tomorrow
In response to the pseudo "David Kay" report in the Global News below
Overtime at Headquarters: Ray McGovern on CIA Manipulation (tags)
"Congress was deceived with the warning that Saddam Hussein would soon possess nuclear weapons. People shouldn't wait until a mushroom cloud provided the proof. In this atmosphere, representatives renounced on their constitutional rights."Trans from German
Soldiers’ dad to Bush: Stop playing with lives (tags)
WASHINGTON – Larry Syverson, father of two combat soldiers deployed in Iraq, told a National Press Club news conference Sept. 24 that George W. Bush is “playing with my sons’ lives” to secure control of Iraqi oil.
The president lays an egg at the U.N. (tags)
The Dimwit in Chief fails again to convince anyone with any intelligence that he is not a congenital liar.
People as soldiers too, are actually, for real dying, no longer laughing, for no known reason but to criminally profit the demon bush gang on hopes for the next fixed election cycle, at the further victimization of Humanity suffering today. Falling US all for continuing with bush's embarrassing blunders, silly hijinx, and silently condoned murder rampages
Israel-Palestine the threats to Arafats life in the end the USA always backs the Zionists (tags)
Israel- Palestine
BOMBSHELL!" - General Garner is said to be 'livid' - "BOMBSHELL!" (tags)
The story. Jay, with the ORHA, prior to the irrational, unneeded criminal invasion of Iraq to murder untold thousands of God's children for generations with toxic, radio-active depleted uranium, submitted the "official" American war strategy to ALL involved war generals.
The SHORTWAVE REPORT 9/12/03 ¡Listen Globally! (tags)
A weekly 30 minute review of news and opinion recorded from a shortwave radio. 2 files- broadcast quality (13.3MB) and quick download (3.3MB). With times and freqs for listening at home. Free to rebroadcast. Netherlands, China, Russia, Germany, Spain, and Cuba.
Misery likes company George Bush has second thoughts on Irag (tags)
Irag
US Has No Idea When Troops Will Pull Out Of Iraq (tags)
Oh, they know when they will pull out - when all of the Oil is exhausted or firmly under the control of Bush Family Cronies. This is the Mob - and this is your Country run by the Mob.
Silence is Deadly. Anti-War Day Sept 1, 2003 (tags)
"The US wages a pure imperial war of conquest with the admitted lies that its own country and the world had to be preventively defended against the threat of weapons of mass destruction.. God is with us on the way to the Americanization of all cultures.."
Bush Cries Help: Just Say NO (tags)
When the leaders of Europe and the UN meet to discuss sending troops to Iraq they must remember that the hands of the clock have been turned back to Munich 1938. It is understood that behind the scenes the leaders of Europe are facing extreme pressure and are being offered incredible bribes to comply with the request. However, they must realize they are dealing with a madman and a regime full of lunatics that are willing to risk nuclear war for their own personal gain.
Gulliver Calls and the Dwarfs Follow (tags)
"Imperial overreach threatens Europe's economic resources and military arsenals already strained to the limit.. The emperor and his people should quickly understand that the Imperium Americanum cannot subjugate the globe." Translated fr German
Preventive War or Preemptive War (tags)
"The preemptive war against Iraq broke the norms of the community of states. Internation-al law was degraded in its importance..This disempowerment of international law is a unique dangerous mega-political experiment withunforeseeable consequences."
BTL:Bombing of U.N. Office in Baghdad Provokes Reassessment of... (tags)
...International Organization's Role in Occupied Iraq. Interview with Nathaniel Hurd, independent consultant to the United Nations, conducted by Between the Lines' Scott Harris.
A bushite soldier, to be proud of committing senseless murder for the American cop killer, the Iraqi bank robber, the demon bush Jr., along with WorldCom, Dutch-Shell, and Halliburton, is not only a cowardly traitor to victimized American families, but to all People our World over.
Annan sees World Order in Crisis (tags)
"The United Nations was forced to an outsider role by the Iraq war, Annan grieved. `What are the rules when we consider allowing preventive strikes or wars? Who makes the decision? Was Iraq only an exception or is it a precedent?'"
40 lies of Bush the Bastard (tags)
Look at what I found @ Portland IMC.
what israel hope yu dont learn
Bush Deserves To Be Impeached (tags)
Thanks to Bush's blundering, nearly 50% of U.S. Army combat units are now stuck in a spreading guerrilla war in Iraq , costing $4 billion US monthly, that is becoming the biggest, most expensive, and bloodiest foreign mess since Vietnam. This when the U.S. is threatening military action against North Korea.
'We are above the law': interview with richard butler: (tags)
It's this - this administration has a view of the special character of the United States, the singular and exclusive character that is new. I've talked to them about it and they make this plain. They say "We are the sole super power, we're therefore the exceptional country, we're outside of international law. Others have to obey the law and obey the rules, but we don't."
Bush Faced Dwindling Data on Iraq Nuclear Bid (tags)
A review of speeches and reports, plus interviews with present and former administration officials and intelligence analysts, suggests that between Oct. 7, when President Bush made a speech laying out the case for military action against Hussein, and Jan. 28, when he gave his State of the Union address, almost all the other evidence had either been undercut or disproved by U.N. inspectors in Iraq.
Ex-U.N. inspector says Bush Lied. (tags)
UNITED NATIONS-- Time has shown that the United Nations did a good job disarming Iraq while President Bush went to war based on "a lie," former U.N. arms inspector Scott Ritter said on Monday.
Agence France Press- In the name of saving them.
"The US attacked Iraq. The US dictated this war to the whole world. They showed they considered nothing but their national security and their national interests.. This war dictatorship is the dictatorship of arbitrariness and unpredictability."
Death By Slow Burn - How America Nukes Its Own Troops (tags)
On March 30, an AP photo featured an American pro-war activist holding a sign: "Nuke the evil scum, it worked in 1945!" That's exactly what George Bush has done. America's mega-billion dollar war in Iraq has been indeed a NUCLEAR WAR.
I thought this looked like an interesting reference for those wishing to develop arguments counter to the Spin and PsyOps coming from the Mainstream NewsWhores.
Poignant and moving. The utter callousness of this documented war crime, the premeditated character of the Israeli driver's acts; and also of the by-standing Israeli security troops who couldn't be bothered for 10 seconds of pepper spray to move Rachel and friends aside, all of this defies our comprehension.
for those who havent seen the BBC documentary that has israels govt in anti-semitic hysterics, here is the transcript
"The US attacked Iraq. The US dictated this war to the whole world. They showed they considered nothing but their national security and their national interests.." Translated from the German in Utopie kreativ, May 2003
Ten Appalling Lies We Were Told About Iraq (tags)
Today, more than three months after Bush's stirring declaration of war and nearly two months since he declared victory, no chemical, biological or nuclear weapons have been found, nor any documentation of their existence, nor any sign they were deployed in the field.
Byrd Shreds Bush Over Iraq Lies, Coverups (tags)
The business of intelligence is secretive by necessity, but our government is open by design. We must be straight with the American people. Congress has the obligation to investigate the use of intelligence information by the Administration, in the open, so that the American people can see that those who exercise power, especially the awesome power of preemptive war, must be held accountable. We must not go down the road of cover-up. That is the road to ruin.
The Voices in Bush's Head (tags)
Burning Bush? Our President Claims That He Is Gods Messenger: Bush said: "God told me to strike at al Qaida and I struck them, and then he instructed me to strike at Saddam, which I did"
U.N. Panel Reports No al-Qaida-Iraq Ties (tags)
Another Shill argument bites the dust. No proven link from Hussein to Al-Qaida. Shockeroonie!
The Road to Coverup Is the Road to Ruin (tags)
US Senate Floor Remarks - June 24, 2003 Mr. President, last fall, the White House released a national security strategy that called for an end to the doctrines of deterrence and containment that have been a hallmark of American foreign policy for more than half a century....
Democrats helped Bush lie about Iraq's (tags)
Key Democrats joined along with the Bush to help him spread the lies about Iraq's "WMD" capabilities
John Kerry was 'misled' (tags)
John Kerry says he and "every one of us" was misled by President Bush concerning Iraq having weapons of mass destruction. And he says the deception is one reason he is running for President. If he was misled, what do we make of his 156 Congressional colleagues who voted against the war resolution in October, 2002?
Howard Dean supporters, stop sleep walking. He's not a true progressive (tags)
repost from Portland IMC noting must-read articles about Dean -- and his limitations. Kucinich is a true progressive that doesn't simply make stuff up along the way in accord to political winds -- and even if you don't think he's electable, supporting him now through early primaries can really push the debate into areas we want to have sunshine
What's Happening? Boron Interviews Chomsky (tags)
So one day, Bush and Powell would claim that "the single question," as they put it, is whether Iraq would disarm and the next day they would say it doesn´t matter whether Iraq disarms because they will go on and invade anyway. And the next day would be that if Saddam and his group get out then the problem will be solved; ... When people give you contradictory reasons every time they speak, all they are saying is: "don't believe a word I say" . So we can dismiss the official reasons.
U.S. Gets War Crimes Tribunal Exemption (tags)
The final deal dented the court's underlying principle that no one should be exempt from punishment for war crimes, and it angered court supporters and human rights groups.
US Losses Mount Two Months After The Fall Of Baghdad (tags)
The US death brought to 29 the number of American servicemen who have died in fighting or accidents in Iraq since US President George W. Bush declared the war effectively over on May 1, according to an AFP toll.
US Faces Growing Charges of War Crimes (tags)
Several human rights groups are calling for the creation of either a war crimes tribunal or an international commission of justice. Additionally, several non-governmental organizations (NGOs) say they will pressure Washington to pay compensation for the killings of innocent civilians -- a common practice in U.S. law courts.
WMD just a convenient excuse for war, admits Wolfowitz (tags)
The Bush administration focused on alleged weapons of mass destruction as the primary justification for toppling Saddam Hussein by force because it was politically convenient, a top-level official at the Pentagon has acknowledged.
The masters of the universe (tags)
"Depending on the ideological prism applied, the Bilderberg club may be considered an ultra-VIP international lobby of the power elite of Europe and America, capable of steering international policy from behind closed doors; a harmless "discussion group" of politicians, academics and business tycoons; or a capitalist secret society operating entirely through self interest and plotting world domination. "
A PNAC Primer: How We Got Into This Mess (tags)
In the early-1990s, there was a group of ideologues and power-politicians on the fringe of the Republican Party's far-right. The members of this group in 1997 would found The Project for the New American Century (PNAC); their aim was to prepare for the day when the Republicans regained control of the White House -- and, it was hoped, the other two branches of government as well -- so that their vision of how the U.S. should move in the world would be in place and ready to go, straight off-the-shelf into official policy.
After the War is Before the War (tags)
The Marburg professor of political science gave this address at the union conference "After the Kosovo War" on Sept 4, 1999. Translated from the German
Iraq War: Lies the Government Told Us (tags)
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Lessons of the Irag War (tags)
Irag War
Wars yet to come - a fascinating Story (tags)
These two paragraphs from the full article are intro enough. The myth of easy American victory will be used in the worst possible ways for years to come and you'll need this for future reference and discussion.
Public Order and Market Laws (tags)
This essay focuses on the erosion of international law in international relations and the undermining of democratic and social standards in the nation states of the First world. The author urges reflection on the ideas and values of civil society as weapons..
UN rubber stamps US-UK occupation of Irag (tags)
Occupation of Irag
The War Is Not Over Until The U.S. Leaves Iraq (tags)
The U.S. and Britain have declared victory in their war against Iraq and a despicable imperialist occupation is underway. A U.S.-occupied Iraq can never be a "liberated" Iraq. The Iraqi people can only be free to forge their own future when the U.S. and all foreign invaders get out of their country
Gee I guess it was Blood for Oil after all! (tags)
The scope and duration of U.S. control over Iraq's oil outlined in the resolution goes well beyond previous administration statements, which largely have been confined to affirmations that the oil was the property of the Iraqi people. Testifying on Capitol Hill in March, Secretary of State Colin L. Powell said, "The oil of Iraq belongs to the people of Iraq. It's the source of revenue to run the country."
Demands regarding the invasion, occupation and 'reconstruction' of Iraq (tags)
This statement will be presented to the "Iraq and the Global Peace Movement: What next?" conference in Jakarta, Indonesia, 19-21 May and at the peace and anti-war movements events during the G8 in late May.
Congratulations. We've just won the wrong war.
"Without approval by the Security Council, no state may use force against another state except in the case of self-defense as an answer to an armed attack..On the eve of March 20, the Security Council declared that Iraq did not represent an immediate threat.."
The Mirage of Iraq's Weapons of Mass Destruction (tags)
"I was always telling the truth. Iraq does not have chemical and biological weapons of mass destruction. Time will bear me out, " says Amer Al Saadi......
Iraqi "intelligence documents" likely planted (tags)
The problem with these documents is that they are being provided by the U.S. military to a few reporters working for a very suspect newspaper, London's Daily Telegraph (affectionately known as the Daily Torygraph" by those who understand the paper's right-wing slant).
Would the US Plant WMD’s – A Stroll Down Memory Lane (tags)
This article by ex-CIA officials discusses the question of US vs UN inspection teams looking for the notorious weapons of mass destruction. Also addresses the question of 'would the US plant evidence?......
The Cruise Missile Left: Helping the Establishment Attack the Peace Movement (tags)
Marc Cooper, Eric Alterman, Christopher Hitchens and Todd Gitlin, to name a few, paint the authentic Left with false assumptions, unsupported statements and incomplete reporting. Their progressive credentials are eagerly used by the Bush Admin to discredit the Peace Movement.
Revealed: How the road to war was paved with lies (tags)
On nuclear weapons, the British Government claimed that the former regime sought uranium feed material from the government of Niger in west Africa. This was based on letters later described by the International Atomic Energy Agency as crude forgeries.
The SHORTWAVE REPORT 4/25/03 ¡Listen Globally! (tags)
A weekly 30 minute review of news and opinion recorded from a shortwave radio. 2 files- broadcast quality (13.4MB) and quick download (3.3MB). With times and freqs for listening at home. Free to rebroadcast. Spain, China, Russia, Netherlands, and Cuba.
GREECE: VIOLENCE ERUPTS NEAR EU SUMMIT,Militant Anti-War Demonstrations at EU Su (tags)
ANARCHISTS AND OTHER LEFT-WING ANTIWAR PROTESTERS CLASHED WITH THE POLICE IN AN ATTEMPT TO REACH THE SUMMIT
Blame the US. . . Further Instructions: Quickly denounce this article as the work of the Corporate Media. . . preferrably Foxnews. Carry on.
Death By Slow Burn - How America Nukes Its Own Troops (tags)
DU munitions are classified by a United Nations resolution as illegal weapons of mass destruction. Their use breaches all international laws, treaties and conventions forbidding poisoned weapons calculated to cause unnecessary suffering.
The Unthinkable Is Becoming Normal (tags)
"The Pentagon's deliberate destruction of Iraq's civilian infrastructure, such as power sources and water and sewage plants, together with the imposition of an embargo as barbaric as a medieval siege, produced a degree of suffering never fully comprehended in the West. Documented evidence was available, volumes of it; by the late 1990s, more than 6,000 infants were dying every month..."
So where are they, Mr Blair? (tags)
Not one illegal warhead. Not one drum of chemicals. Not one incriminating document. Not one shred of evidence that Iraq has weapons of mass destruction in more than a month of war and occupation
U.S. corporations set to profit off Iraq (tags)
The Bush administration’s attempt to fashion for itself the sole role of ruler and victor in post-war Iraq is meeting growing domestic and international opposition.
THE IRAQ WAR'S TRASHIEST PIECE OF PROPAGANDA (tags)
Incomparable trash...
US wants to impose sanctions on Syria! Call your Rep!!!! (tags)
US wants to impose sanctions on Syria with new legislation! Tell the US that they can't traffic the world with their unilateral actions! Write, call, etc... your congressman!!!
Noam Chomsky Appearance 4/6/03: "Freedom is not a right, it's a legacy" (tags)
Ask a group of politicos on any side of the spectrum, and love or hate him, one would be hard pressed to find someone who doesn't know the name Noam Chomsky. Some call him an "America-hater." Some call him "Saint Noam." At Agape last Sunday, he was welcomed like a movie star. And in his unassuming yet unequivocably rich oral tradition, Noam Chomsky spoke of the American legacy
Experts:US "Discovery" Of Nuclear Materials Already Known (tags)
But an expert familiar with U.N. nuclear inspections told The Associated Press that it was implausible to believe that U.S. forces had uncovered anything new at the site. Instead, the official said, the Marines apparently broke U.N. seals designed to ensure the materials aren't diverted for weapons use - or end up in the wrong hands.
Why the Left will never put its hands up (tags)
Being a leftist means you never have to say you're sorry.
The Winning of a Just War (tags)
The Europeans, and our own left, have put forth arguments that seem so manifestly false.
Russian Spy Daily War Reports (tags)
Get the real scoop at http://www.aeronautics.ru
Oil for White People! Woohoo, Dead Iraqi Children Now! (tags)
It seems that the corporate press cabal of CNN, NBC, ABC, CBS, Regime controlled NPR and just about every major newspaper in America sets policy for press coverage week to week
War Crimes - Interviews Available (tags)
* Aggressive War * U.N. Charter * Geneva Conventions * Water, Electricity and Food. Is a biased media Culpable and Liable ? Send this to your media.
War Crimes Info. - Interviews available (tags)
* Aggressive War * U.N. Charter * Geneva Conventions * Water, Electricity and Food (send this to your local media)
Total war: resistance, humanitarian aid and the media (tags)
2003 is a year to live dangerously: of crimes against humanity and of heroic resistance; it is a time to reject the war and to extend our solidarity with the Iraqi people in this their moment of truth.
CONTRADICTIONS AND ABSURDITIES (tags)
DOES IT MAKE SENSE TO YOU?
Robert Byrd, 85, the oldest and longest-serving man in the US Congress, last week (March 19, 2003) denounced his nation's march to war. Byrd, a Democrat from West Virginia, was first elected to the Senate in 1958 after six years in the House of Representatives. This is an edited version of his speech.
Questions for you anti-war leftists (tags)
This ought to shut you up!!!
Questions for you anti-war leftists (tags)
This ought to shut you up!!!
A quiz for the neo-con thugs
Humanitarian Aid - what is the US responsibility in Iraq? (tags)
Excellent analysis. Especially issue #3 where she explains that the companies getting rich on war & rebuilding - Halliburton, Bechtel, etc - should pay for humanitarian aid to Iraq through a special 50% Excess Profit/Windfall for War tax.
Americans say NO to preemptive war (tags)
WASHINGTON – Rep. Barbara Lee (D-Calif.) told a protest rally in San Francisco a few weeks ago that George W. Bush has “awakened a sleeping giant,” the worldwide movement to stop his doctrine of unilateral, preemptive war on Iraq.
BTL:Dissent is Essential when Governments Engage in Illegal Conflict and... (tags)
...Impose Repressive Measures. Interview with Joy Gordon, Fairfield University philosophy professor conducted by Between the Lines' Scott Harris
The clash between Great Powers ("Old Europe" versus and the Anglo-American military axis) broadly pertains to: 1 Defense and the military-industrial complex, 2. Control over Oil and Gas Reserves, 3. Money and currency systems: clash between the Euro and the Dollar.
found this on http://www.zmag.org $$$ take the quiz and rate yourself below. $$$ sources are listed next to the answers $$$
106 Reasons why BUSH MUST GO!!! (tags)
Posted by "Dave" on the Radio Left site
TAKE THE IRAQI WAR QUIZ (tags)
How much do you know about Iraq War II and our great government?found this on http://www.zmag.org
URGENT: UN Debating Stopping War TODAY! Please CALL and/or FAX them NOW! (tags)
An Emergency Session of the Security Council has been called today Wed, March 26th, 3 p.m. They will invite testimony from all UN 191 members, and could vote on a resolution demanding immediate withdrawal of foreign forces from Iraq. If they Invoke Res. 377, "Uniting For Peace" they may be able to stop war--which was done in Suez Crises in the 50's. Please Email and/or Fax NOW UN countries now!
Not sure if this is true but reads like it.
From the Folha de Sao Paolo newspaper
The war is not the responsibility of Bush alone, but deeply rooted in the capitalist-colonial nature of the US system.
KCNA Warns of Possible Nuclear War on Korean Peninsula (tags)
The Critical News being kept from us all as the U.S. invades Iraq. The end of humanity could be near as U.S. continues to threaten world peace: KCNA Warns of Possible Nuclear War on Korean Peninsula.
Even more rightwing hypocrisy (tags)
The Freeper hero Dick Cheney. Saddam appeaser and criminal.
Rebuttal to a fighter pilot (tags)
A co-worker forwarded to me a letter written by a fighter pilot stationed in Turkey. I added my comments and sent it back to her.
Expose the Links between Al Qaeda and the Bush Adminastration (tags)
The truth is Al Qaeda is a creation of the CIA, and they have closer links to the Bush adminastration than they do iraq!!!
See Warmongers Gone Wild! Live on your TV screen tonight!!! XXX Rated action. Hot (well actually incinerated) bodies in unusual contortions (yours would be too if a bomb hit it).
BTL:A U.S. War on Iraq Violates U.N. Charter 'Uniting for peace' resolution... (tags)
...may be last option to stop conflict. Interview with Michael Ratner, president of the Center for Constitutional Rights conducted by Between the Lines' Scott Harris
Ever have this itching feeling in the back of your mind that what the warmongers are saying is not terribly well thought out?
Iraq Crisis Hour By Hour (tags)
Notice in particular 1743. This is basically an admission that the war has nothing to do with Saddam Hussein or Weapons of Mass Destruction® (The White House 2001).
Into the Darkness - "Above all, do not succumb to despair" (tags)
This article is by William Rivers Pitt of the New York Times Syndicate. This, I think, reflects the fear all of us have over the ramifications of this war. But also, in the last paragraphs, reflects the need in our hearts and consciences to resist and not "succumb to despair." We owe America that much. Read on...
HelpUSA in Suicide: Bush Sr. and Sons-48 Hours to Leave Planet (tags)
THE GREAT INTENTIONAL WATERS FULL OF REVENGE AND THE WORLD WILL ONLY BE HEAL WHEN CLEANSED OF DISEASE KNOWN AS THE USA. Make the fire burn beneath their feet. Allah be Praised.Bless Palestinians- A. Roy, 'GW Bush is insane!"
CONTACT UN GENERAL ASSEMBLY NOW ! (tags)
The UN GENERAL ASSEMBLY also has SECURITY COUNCIL power to make an Anti War resolution (with no VETO provision) CONTACT UN GENERAL ASSEMBLY NOW !
Uniting for Peace - UN RES 377 (tags)
At the Three Hundred and Second Plenary Meeting on 3 November 1950 the UN General Assembly adopted A/RES/377 (V) "Uniting for Peace" UN resolution 377 allows the General Assembly to recommend collective action "if the Security Council, because of lack of unanimity of the permanent members, fails to exercise its primary responsibility for the maintenance of international peace and security".
Spying, Lying, Coercion and Bribery (tags)
The dirty tricks that the United States has been using to influence public opinion and obtain a vote for war in the United Nations
RW: An Unjust and Illegitimate War (tags)
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EMERGENCY POLITICAL ACTION !! CONTACT POPE JOHN PAUL II (tags)
Pope John Paul II can STOP THE WAR Ask John Paul II to go to BAGHDAD as a HUMAN SHIELD
U.N. Resolution Violations other than Iraq (tags)
This is an interesting list and summary of U.N. Security Council Resolutions which are being violated by countries other than Iraq.
The Rot at the Center of the Empire (tags)
Of course, given the administration’s almost desperate attempt to find a “smoking gun” that will convince people to support the killing of tens of thousands more innocent Iraqi people in order to effect a “regime change” in Iraq, one possibility is that U.S. officials simply didn’t look too hard or too closely at the fake evidence before citing it as another excuse to invade Iraq.
BUSH IS WARNED ABOUT ILLEGALITY OF UNILATERAL WAR. (tags)
Articles have appeared during the past week -- including one on German television -- warning that an attack on Iraq carried out without UN Security Council authorization would be in violation of the UN Charter and international law, and that President Bush and Defense Secretary Rumsfeld could eventually find themselves charged with war crimes before the newly-inaugurated International Criminal Court (ICC).
Blair could face a maximum 30 years jail for war crimes (tags)
Mr Blair could face a maximum 30 years jail for war crimes if he launches war on Iraq without UN backing, international law expert Professor Nick Grief said.
Why Americans Tune in to Canada (tags)
My e-mail inbox overfloweth with missives from our neighbours to the south as, I expect, those of many of my Star colleagues do. Many Americans seem pathetically grateful for offshore, online sources for news and views of the world. Not that the Canadian media are perfect. We make our mistakes. We have our biases. But here, at least, there's a vigorous and wide-ranging debate on the looming war. So who can blame skeptical Americans for resorting to Canadians when their "most trusted" and "most watched'' media are marching in lockstep to the drums of war?
War is not the Path to Peace (tags)
American jurists see a breach of international law in a preventive war.. Aggressive war is one of the most serious transgressions of international law..There is no exception..Global Action Prevent WarLCNP http://www.lcnp.org/global/IRAQLetter.pdf
John Pilger: "Blair is a Coward" (tags)
William Russell, the great correspondent who reported the carnage of imperial wars, may have first used the expression "blood on his hands" to describe impeccable politicians who, at a safe distance, order the mass killing of ordinary people.
The SHORTWAVE REPORT 3/14/03 ¡Listen Globally! (tags)
A weekly 30 minute review of news and opinion recorded from a shortwave radio. 2 files- broadcast quality (13.1MB) and quick download (3.3MB). With times and freqs for listening at home. Free to rebroadcast. Netherlands, Germany, China, Russia, Cuba.
Israel Forges Papers To Frame Iraq (tags)
The FBI is investigating recent Israeli Mossad attempts to forge documents framing Iraq for acquisition of nuclear materials.
Growing opposition to a U.S. war against Iraq was clearly in evidence on March 10 when MoveOn.org, Win Without War, the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) and Artists United to Win Without War delivered petitions bearing more than a million names from 200 countries to the United Nations Security Council.
Now is Not the Time to Stay Home (tags)
With the George Bush ceding defeat of his gangster politick in the Security Council for another week, with Tony Blair backing away from the last resolution submitted by Britain and the U.S. now is not the time to stay home
More anti-american pinkos for peace (tags)
"Military men are dumb, stupid animals to be used as pawns for foreign policy." ~ Henry Kissinger ~ January-February 2003 edition of Eagle Newsletter
UN Authorization Can't Mke Rank Imperialism Just (tags)
If a war without UN authorization would be wrong, does that mean that a war with UN authorization would be right? http://www3.sympatico.ca/sr.gowans/unbacking.html
BTL:Resignations and Leaks in U.S. State Department Signal... (tags)
...Growing Dissent Against Iraq War. Interview with Daniel Ellsberg, former U.S. government military analyst who released the "Pentagon Papers," conducted by Between the Lines' Scott Harris
Recovering the Power of the Global Grass Roots in the Antiwar Movement (tags)
Feel free to reprint this essay
ACTION ALERT: CANDLELIGHT VIGILS FOR PEACE 3/16/03 (tags)
From MoveOn.org, a candlelight call for peace.
British labor unions threaten Tony Blair with "regime change" (tags)
Union leaders yesterday warned Tony Blair that he will be deserted by the labour movement if he goes ahead with a war in Iraq without a second security council resolution.
BREAKING - BRITAIN BACKING OUT OF IRAQ WAR (tags)
It looks like the Protests have forced Phony Tony into an advance to the rear. A million protesters might have had a little to do with it.
Debate on How Nice USA IS: Arundati Roy Article (tags)
Nagging guy tries to defend USA with insincere attacks on trivia and history. We need to set record straight and make the US War Crimes the main issue around the world. Please join in and earn/learn... How about A. Roy and Shakespear?
SCOTT RITTER @ CHAPMAN COLLEGE ON TUES. (tags)
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MORE THAN A MILLION SIGN UN PETITION !!! (tags)
More than a MILLION signed a petition to the UN against Bush's war. MORE THAN A MILLION !!!!
Farm Labor Leaders Slam Bush over Mexico Pressures at UN (tags)
Dolores Huerta, co-founder of the United Farm Workers of America; Arturo Rodriguez, president of the UFW; and Baldemar Velasquez, president of the Farm Labor Organizing Committee, tell Bush to stop pressuring the Mexican government to vote at the UN for a war the Mexican people overwhelmingly oppose.
Weapons of Mass Destruction and Terrorist Links Found! (tags)
An open letter submitted to select United Nations officials, Security Council members, US congressmen and senators, and members of the media.
Lawrence 'Ari' Fleisher Wants To 'Liberate' People With Arial Weapons Of Mass Destruction (tags)
Ari Fleisher defends Bush's 3,000 Weapons of Mass Destruction to be rained on Iraq in 48 hours. A UN report claims up to 100,000 Iraqi people will lose their lives. Is there sufficient reason for us to be killing this many people? And to maim a few 100,000 more?
This war came from a think tank (tags)
As far back as 1998, ultra right US think tanks had developed and published plans for an era of US world domination, sidelining the UN and attacking Iraq
UK Minister Clare Short Threatens to Resign Over Iraq War (tags)
BREAKING NEWS! Labour Party Secretary for Internat'l Dev'ment Clare Short has publicly threatened to resign over Blair's "extraordinarily reckless" stance on Iraq
"The fact that the United Nations might be irreparably weakened would not much bother his conservative po0litical base at home, nor would the outcry abroad..When the purpose is fuzzy, or based on questionable presuppositions, it's time to stop.."
Bush lies, lies, lies about WMD (tags)
Some Evidence on Iraq Called Fake U.N. Nuclear Inspector Says Documents on Purchases Were Forged By Joby Warrick Washington Post Staff Writer
Quite rightly
More UN shennanigans
Who Supports President Bush? (tags)
Detailed analysis, with sources.
30 Years Of U.S. UN Vetoes. (tags)
Look how we have Voted // Vetoed- see any bias? 1972-2002 Vetoes from the USA
The SHORTWAVE REPORT 3/7/03 ¡Listen Globally! (tags)
A weekly 30 minute review of news and opinion recorded from a shortwave radio. 2 files- broadcast quality (13.3MB) and quick download (3.3MB). With times and freqs for listening at home. Free to rebroadcast. China, Netherlands, Russia, Germany, Cuba
Advisors Warn Bush He Faces "Humiliating" Defeat on UN Resolution (tags)
(publisher's comment) Even the hawks are getting nervous, while the Bush junta consider doing it anyway. Hitler had the Treaty of Munich behind him when he invaded Czechoslovakia. It seems to me that if Bush goes it alone, this action would be unprecedented. Historians?
13 myths about war in Iraq (tags)
This piece was created by the entire 13myths.org team, using an online collaborative process. Email: info@13myths.org. 13myths.org is a project of Organizers' Collaborative; for more information, visit organizenow.net.
MoveOn.org launcehes emergency petition to Security Council (tags)
Please spread far and wide Dear friends, We've launched an emergency petition from citizens around the world to the U.N. Security Council. We'll be delivering the list of signers and your comments to the 15 member states of the Security Council on THURSDAY, MARCH 6.
KEY EMBASSIES, UN MISSIONS, and CONSULATES CONTACT INFO (tags)
You can make a difference from your home! Take email/phone action now!
EMAIL/PHONE ACTION! Contact Consulates/Embassies! (tags)
You can make a difference from your home! Take email/phone action now!
March 5th! The War on Iraq and the People's Determination to Stop It (tags)
We are in the rapids. Powerful forces in Washington are clearly determined to launch this war. And this moment demands that millions of people respond with an even more powerful determination to resist. The Revolutionary Worker salutes all those who manifest bold resistance to this war on the National Moratorium to Stop the War on March 5 and in the days ahead.
Bush turns the corner in response to demands from the left.
EMAIL: leveraging Indy to stop the war (tags)
We are in the final days. The Washington Post is reporting that U.S. and British forces are ready to fight. Take collective action now!
Why isn't the Bush dirty tricks campaign story in today's LA Times? (tags)
Are they reporters or stenographers? Actual impeachable offenses by the baby Bush admin.
Bush Admininstration Making Steady Progress Against Terror (tags)
There has been steady progress by the Bush Administration in the War Against Terror. This is another major arrest. We didn't see this sort of event under Clinton, and it's doubtful that we would have seen it under an Al Gore Presidency. Let's face it, Bush and his team are getting the job done.
leaked document proves US surveilance against UN (tags)
a document, leaked to the observer, proves that the US is conducting surveilance against all UN security council members except for GBR. ed. note: wasn't this what got Nixion out of office?
Bush Admin dirty tricks campaign to bug UN Security Council member phones & email (tags)
A leaked memo reveals the US is bugging work & home communications of UN Security Council members. Nixon did this sort of thing, and he was forced to leave office or face impeachment.
It's about Oil, according to U.S. officials (tags)
Two articles reveal the true meaning of "security" - please copy/paste into an email and get the word out!
"National defense is one of the cardinal duties of a statesman." --John Adams
PLEASE take a minute to CONTACT THE UN (tags)
PLEASE take a minute to CONTACT THE UN It is extremely important that the UN security council hears from Americans who are AGAINST the war. COMPLETE SECURITY COUNCIL CONTACT INFO at: http://sf.indymedia.org/news/2003/02/1573568.php
Full text of Bush speech, with comments (tags)
Full text of Bush’s Feb. 26 speech to the American Enterprise Institute (comments in parentheses).
One of the LIES commonly spread by Trolls is that everybody who supports peace is a Wacko. What do you say to a Medal of Honor Winner against Bush's war? What do you say to two of them? Veterans For Peace has sent an open letter to fifteen generals and admirals in the top ranks of the US Military advising them of their possible liabilities, under international law, to criminal prosecution for being part of a pre-emptive war against Iraq. Veterans For Peace, headquartered in St. Louis, MO, is an organization of men and women who have served in peacetime and in most of the wars of the last century, with 92 chapters nationwide.
You Can't 'Contain' Saddam (tags)
Cold War doctrine doesn't apply in the age of terror. Wednesday, February 26, 2003 12:01 a.m. EST
American Conservative magazine indicts Bu$h's Madness of Empire (tags)
The cover story of the most recent issue of "The American Conservative" magazine is entitled, "The Madness of Empire" and is a searing indictment of the Bush administration's plans for attacking Iraq. http://www.amconmag.com/02_24_03/cover.html
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More Bush lies - US and UK hid evidence Iraq WMD stocks were already destroyed (tags)
Newsweek has obtained documents proving the US, UK, and UN knew in 1995 that Iraq had destroyed its WMD stocks. This new information needs to become part of the international debate, together with all the other "evidence" against Iraq that has proven false.
US TELLS UN COUNCIL MEMBERS; IT’S GOING TO WAR!! UN VOTE OR NOT (tags)
"You are not going to decide whether there is war in Iraq or not," the diplomat said U.S. officials told him. "That decision is ours, and we have already made it. It is already final. The only question now is whether the council will go along with it or not."
American Conservative magazine indicts Bu$h's Madness of Empire (tags)
The cover story of the most recent issue of "The American Conservative" magazine is entitled, "The Madness of Empire" and is a searing indictment of the Bush administration's plans for attacking Iraq. web link http://www.amconmag.com/02_24_03/cover.html
Breaking News! US, UK, UN Covered up evidence that Iraq destroyed its WMD! (tags)
The Bush administration has quoted extensively from the debriefings of Iraq's most famous defector, but neglected to reveal that those debriefings confirmed that Iraq had in fact destroyed all its WMD stocks. This could totally destroy the US case for war against Iraq!
War in Iraq: Selected Articles (tags)
The following is a selection of relevant and poignant articles that I have found, or that have been recommended to me while researching the history and motivations of US involvement with Iraq. I have tried to highlight articles that refer directly to primary sources or first hand experience, while representing a solid alternative to the mainstream understanding.
White House advisors looking for 'way out' of IraqWar (tags)
Some strategists within the Bush Administration are urging the President to look for an "exit strategy" on Iraq, warning the tough stance on war with the Arab country has left the country in a "no win" situation. In addition, Republican leaders in both the House and Senate are telling the Presidently privately that he is losing support in Congress for a "go it alone war" against Iraq. web link http://www.capitolhillblue.com/artman/publish/article_1796.shtml
PLEASE Contact UN Security Council Members (tags)
PLEASE take the time to contact UN Security Council members NOW. It's VERY important that they hear from us NOW!
Contact UN Security Members Now! (tags)
take time to contact UN Security Council Members now: tell them to vote NO for any second resolution that calls for war. Thank Germany and France. Tell France, Russia, and China to use their UN veto. SECURITY COUNCIL CONTACT INFO at: http://sf.indymedia.org/news/2003/02/1573568.php
Millions march against war: At home (tags)
NEW YORK – Braving frigid cold, hundreds of thousands of demonstrators rallied near the United Nations, Feb. 15, to protest George W. Bush’s threatened war on Iraq and to support UN efforts to stop the war. The rally here was part of a coordinated one-day protest in 600 cities across the nation and around the world. According to Indymedia estimates, 11 million people marched and rallied against the Bush war plans, making it the largest peace outpouring in world history. Over 1 million rallied in U.S. cities and towns. About 300,000 marched in San Francisco, Feb. 16, the largest anti-war mobilization ever in the Bay Area.
SUPPORT ELECTRONICIRAQ.NET! (tags)
NEW INDY NEWS WIRE LAUNCHES FROM IRAQ!
PLEASE Take a minute To Thank FRANCE and GERMANY ! (tags)
The very same country that gave us the STATUE OF LIBERTY is now trying to stop bush's war. Please THANK them (MERCI !) and Germany too ( DANKE !). And while you're at it, contact the other members of the Security council; encourage France, Russia, and China to use their UN VETO against any resolution that calls for war. COMPLETE SECURITY COUNCIL CONTACT INFO at: http://sf.indymedia.org/news/2003/02/1573568.php . .
France's UN office inundated with fan mail (tags)
If you haven't already sent 'em a thank-you, please do so now...it makes a difference!
Bush: Anti-war protests no deterrent (tags)
GW says that anti-war protesters are allowed to express their opinion, but it is of no importance to him.
Bush Calls Protests "Irrelevant" (tags)
Dubya tells millions worldwide to get stuffed.
The World Says No to War in Iraq (tags)
http://rwor.org - Revolutionary Worker Online http://rwor.org/resistance -RW resource page on resisting the juggernaut of war and repression http://2changetheworld.info - Discuss revolutionary strategy and the RCP's Draft Programme
Staggering London Demo versus staggering hypocrisy (tags)
Tonto Blairs expensive education may have taught him how to spell the words hypocrisy and Morality but he sure as hell does not what they mean.
PLEASE, Take Time To Conatact UN Leaders Re: Iraq War (tags)
The UN is meeting to tomorrow to decide between war and peace. Take time to let them know how you feel. you might want to especially THANK France and Germany, as well as ask China and Russia, and France to use their VETO. Contact INFO below:
The SHORTWAVE REPORT 2/14/03 ¡Listen Globally! (tags)
A weekly 30 minute review of news and opinion recorded from a shortwave radio. 2 files- broadcast quality (13.2MB) and quick download (3.3MB). With times and freqs for listening at home. Free to rebroadcast. Russia, Germany, Netherlands, and Cuba .
If you do not want this war, if you think that your government would tilt Rather for the conflict to the Security Council of the UNO, or the pacifism, would be tempted of Change opinion, by giving in to the pressures, Let know by writing, by faxing by mail, your peace wish beside Of your elected members, and representing your state.
FLOOD THE UN WITH LETTERS! (tags)
I just spoke with France's UN office. They are BEGGING us to flood their offices and the other UN offices with emails to STOP the WAR. France needs to know that Americans are with them on this. PLEASE forward this to everyone you can. The UN email addresses are below for the Security Council.
Take Time To Thank France And Germany (tags)
The UN is meeting to tomorrow to decide between war and peace. Take time to let them know how you feel. Contact INFO below:
A preventive war unleashed without evidence would be a disaster for the rule of law consciousness of the West and a grievous setback for the further development of a radical right to international peace..The military option in no way solves challenges.
Flashpoints Feb 11: Tony Benn just back from Iraq; Iran the next target? (tags)
KPFA Flashpoints Radio Feb 11. 2003 - Famous British Labor MP Tony Benn just back from Iraq, interviewed Saddam.. a wide-ranging Bernstein interview with Benn, a survivor of WWII, who tells how Churchill ordered poison gas dropped on the 'uncivilized' Kurds of Iraq - Is Iran the next Britain/ US/ Israeli target?
INTERNET 10 - WARMONGERS 0 (tags)
You are making a difference people. Keep pushing the truth. The lies will fold.
Secret project 'MIRAGE' (tags)
The secret plan to block out and to thwart the abnormal war ambitions of the Bush administrations
A peace and love message from townhall.com
Iraq was not condemned to be without rights or outlawed for all time. An authorization for the use of force cannot be read from resolution 1441. A right to preventive self-defense may exist in an extreme situation when enemy missiles are ready for launch..
Mandela, Carter, lawmakers: ‘Let UN inspectors work’ (tags)
Former presidents Nelson Mandela of South Africa and Jimmy Carter of the United States added their voices to the millions demanding that George W. Bush halt his drive toward war against Iraq and give the UN inspectors time to complete their work.
Manifetso on the Imperialist War against Irag (tags)
Irag
Critics Charge Control of Oil Behind Bush Drive for War with Iraq (tags)
Interview with Michael Klare,professor of peace and world security studies at Hampshire College,conducted by Between The Lines'Scott Harris
January 27 at the UN--Not In Our Name (tags)
Protests at the UN during the Security Council. Artists and others read the Statement of Conscience
These Democrats want to have it both ways. If the war goes well -- a lot of them voted for war with Iraq, didn't they? But if the war does not go well, many of the very Democrats who voted for the war resolution will have emerged as leading spokesmen for the anti-war position. A vote for the war, surrounded by Neville Chamberlain foot-dragging, is a fraud.
New evidence implicates Iraq in terror conspiracy (tags)
Late breaking news:
War, Ignorance, and Disinformation (tags)
To what degree do people actually make their decision to support or oppose Bush's War based on actual facts? How many base their conclusions on propaganda perpetuated by the PressWhores?
Topanga Peace Alliance Meets with Representative Henry Waxman’s Office (tags)
January 29, ‘03 LOS ANGELES CA --- TPA members presented a position letter calling for the repeal of H. J. RES.114 (backed by petition) to congressman Waxman’s spokesperson. Waxman, who represents Topanga in the 30th Congressional District has been criticized for ignoring the interests of his constituents by voting for resolution H. J. 114. A copy of the TPA’s letter is attached.
Full Text of Speech by Sen. Ted Kennedy on 1/29/03 (tags)
Full text of speech by Sen. Ted Kennedy (D.Mass) on 1/29/03
UN will sink into irrelevance -- Good! (tags)
The United Nations is on the verge of demonstrating finally and fatally its moral bankruptcy and its strategic irrelevance: moral bankruptcy, because it will have made a mockery of the very resolution on whose sanctity it insists; strategic irrelevance, because the United States is going to disarm Iraq anyway.
Bush policies blasted At UN (tags)
Faced with growing international skepticism, George W. Bush used much of his State of the Union Address in an attempt to build support for his drive to war with Iraq.
Tomorrow...Tommorrow... (tags)
A very wryly humorous perspective on the Deserter In Chief's State of the Union.
Bush's state of the union speech-The die is cast (tags)
War Speech
BBC: US Senators Question Iraq Evidence (tags)
"However, the surprising mood of scepticism evident in the committee room was an indication that President Bush and Mr Powell still have work to do if they are to gain bipartisan support for their Iraq policy."
Europe and America must stand united (tags)
A declaration in support of the United States by the heads of eight European countries.
Bush Concealing Illegal WMDs In Netherlands: Report (tags)
New York - Brussels, September 27 2003 - Coinciding with the much anticipated U.N. report on weapons inspections in Iraq, this morning an international group of Citizens Inspectors faxed a startling report to all members of the U.N. Security Council in New York. The report http://www.motherearth.org/nuke/info/volkelreport.doc gives very clear evidence of the secret and illegal deployment of Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) in The Netherlands. It condemns the blatant use of double standards by the UN Security Council concerning WMD.
Thw war aims of the Graet Powers and the consequences of the coming invasion of Irag (tags)
Imperialism
Top Cop in Nepal killed (tags)
Shrestha is the first top-ranking official to have been targeted by the rebels and was the first Inspector General of Police (IGP) of the 15,000-member APF raised about one-and-half-year ago to combat insurgents.
The Split in the Western Alliance-Can Europe's opposition prevent war ? (tags)
Imperialism
The Mud is Up To Our Necks (tags)
The Bush administration firmly believes in its dreams of solving deeply rooted long-term problems in coups d'etats. When the dreamers awake, they will see that the mud is up to our necks..Washington sees international organizations as impairment..
The SHORTWAVE REPORT 1/24/03 ¡Listen Globally! (tags)
A weekly 30 minute review of news and opinion recorded from a shortwave radio. 2 files- broadcast quality (13.2MB) and quick download (3.3MB). With times and freqs for listening at home. Free to rebroadcast. Germany, Netherlands, Spain, China, Russia, and Cuba.
Make love, not war resounded..at the time of the Vietnam war. Make law, not war is proclaimed by Europe at the threshold to the Iraq war. Bush acts according to the slogan: Make war, not law. The brave new world of military security replaces the logic of treaty..
BTL:As International Peace Movement Gains Momentum, Bush Prepares to... (tags)
...Launch War Against Iraq. Interview with Phyllis Bennis, fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies, conducted by Scott Harris
Five simple things you can do to prevent war with Iraq . . . and one difficult thing (tags)
Got this in my inbox and wanted to share.
5 Reasons to Stop US Military Aid to Israel (tags)
"I am a black South African, and if I were to change the names, a description of what is happening in the Gaza Strip and West Bank could describe events in South Africa." - Archbishop Desmond Tutu
Assessing the Humanitarian Tragedy in Iraq (tags)
No modern humanitarian emergency has been as intensely examined as the humanitarian crisis in Iraq in this decade. Since 1990, more than thirty major studies have been conducted on the impact of the war and the continuing economic sanctions
The SHORTWAVE REPORT 1/10/03 ¡Listen Globally! (tags)
A weekly 30 minute review of news and opinion recorded from a shortwave radio. 2 files- broadcast quality (13.4MB) and quick download (3.3MB). With times and freqs for listening at home. Free to rebroadcast. Netherlands, Germany, Russia, China, Spain, and Cuba.
12/30: AmericasWatch - Looking Back 2002 to Look Forward 2003 (tags)
Occational News Services from PeaceNoWar.net URL: www.PeaceNoWar.net **2002 PeaceNoWar/ActionLA Suggests Holiday Reading/Film/Music Lists URL: http://www.actionla.org/ActionLA/2002list.htm
Baltimore Report Back from Bogota (tags)
What we learned during this trip was shocking, moving, and inspiring. Let us dedicate ourselves to the same fight whether it is stopping the Iraq war fighting racism fighting against State budget cuts or building solidarity for our sisters and brothers in Colombia. Stop plan Colombia! End U.S. imperialism! Justice for the Colombian workers!
BTL:Critical Weeks Ahead for U.S. Peace Movement's Effort to... (tags)
...Derail Bush War Plan. Interview with Joanne Landy, co-director of the Campaign for Peace and Democracy, conducted by Between The Lines' Scott Harris
USA CENSORS IRAQ REPORT again and again
America tore out 8000 pages of Iraq dossier (tags)
THE United States edited out more than 8000 crucial pages of Iraq's 11,800-page dossier on weapons, before passing on a sanitised version to the 10 non-permanent members of the United Nations security council.
The Corporations That Supplied Iraq's Weapons Program (tags)
Even before Iraq released its weapons-program dossier on 7 December 2002, it was said that the report would name the corporations that supplied Iraq with the equipment and other material it needed to develop biological, chemical, and nuclear weapons. Soon after the report was released, those suspicions were confirmed.
IMPORTANT NEWSFLASH FROM WHITEHOUSE (tags)
NEWSFLASH Mr. Bush's new criminal edict now states Americans can rise up for America to kill him as a terrorist and be thought Just and God Worthy. I Agree with bush finally.
"Violently shattering the cartel of OPEC is discussed openly in the US..This calculation is irrational and can only accelerate the crash Less peace will be brought to Iraq..The US creates a qualitatively new state of emergency through its attack as defense."
The SHORTWAVE REPORT 12/13/02 ¡Listen Globally! (tags)
A weekly 30 minute review of news and opinion recorded from a shortwave radio. 2 files- broadcast quality (13.5MB) and quick download (3.4MB). With times and freqs for listening at home. Free to rebroadcast. Netherlands, Germany, Russia, Spain, and Cuba.
Ed Koch's New Years Resolutions (tags)
The former NYC mayor's resolutions for the coming year
The SHORTWAVE REPORT 12/6/02 ¡Listen Globally! (tags)
A weekly 30 minute review of news and opinion recorded from a shortwave radio. 2 files- broadcast quality (13.6MB) and quick download (3.4MB). With times and freqs for listening at home. Free to rebroadcast. China, Netherlands,Germany, Russia, and Cuba.
Iraq under U.S. Occupation? (tags)
From the White House, reports leak out about plans for an Iraq after the Ba’th (the ruling party of Iraq). The main scenarios do not allow for the development of democracy in Iraq. Each of them is built on a racist assumption: that the Iraqis either need a military dictator or else a monarch – any form of democracy is impossible to imagine.
The SHORTWAVE REPORT 11/29/02 ¡Listen Globally! (tags)
A weekly 30 minute review of news and opinion recorded from a shortwave radio. 2 files- broadcast quality (13.3MB) and quick download (3.3MB). With times and freqs for listening at home. Free to rebroadcast. Netherlands, Germany, Spain, China, and Cuba.
Holy Jesus Man! Johnny Wizard is staying for snacks! Holy Jesus Man! (tags)
Holy Jesus Man! Have you heard the Revelations from India's government to the FBI now made public?, regarding the principle terrorist funder of Mohammad Atta being, the ISI's, General Ahmad? The bush administration's personal confidant, and top secret military strategist? See, it was Jim at MSNBC that informed US of bush's terrorist plan existing as once top secret presidential documents, and, that this same general, was also responsible for, according to several members of the Senate Intelligence Committee, ...
Israeli army attacks Christian worshipers outside Church of the Nativity (tags)
Israeli occupation soldiers on Sunday pushed, beat and dragged to the ground Christian worshipers who were on their way to the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem.
ramsey clark on american militarism
BTL:U.S. Peace Movement is the One Force that Can Deter War with Iraq (tags)
Interview with Geov Parrish, a journalist with the Seattle Weekly conducted by Between The Lines' Scott Harris.
Does empire encourage untruthfulness, the rewriting of history and the crisis of language and community? Can the unipolar moment annul the multipolar reality? Does denial of interdependence plunge a cnation into paralysis? Translated from the German
Red-baiting. "The Anti-War Movement and Its Critics. (tags)
"Do we have an antiwar movement? We're getting there. We must be, because we're catching flak from the anti-anti war movement, Light Infantry division, staffed by Marc Cooper, Todd Gitlin, David Corn, and Christopher Hitchens."
Iraq okays UN terms, Bush pushes war (tags)
Iraq has accepted a United Nations Security Council Resolution giving weapons inspectors sweeping new rights but allows many pretexts for the Bush administration to provoke a war. The resolution warns Iraq of “serious consequences” if it doesn’t comply – and the White House has made clear that anything it defines as a material breach will almost certainly mean a new war.
BTL:Economic Sanctions on Iraq Continue to Exact Deadly Toll on... (tags)
...Civilian Population. Interview with Joy Gordon, professor of philosophy at Fairfield University conducted by Between the Lines'Melinda Tuhus.
BTL:UN Security Council Approves Resolution Renewing Iraq Weapons Inspections (tags)
U.S. interpets wording of document as authority to wage war against Baghdad for any future violations. Interview with James Paul, executive director of the Global Policy Forum conducted by Between the Lines' Scott Harris.
BTL:Language in UN Resolution on Iraq Critical in Legitimizing a Future U.S. War (tags)
Interview with Phyllis Bennis,with the Institute for Policy Studies conducted by Scott Harris
Weapons Inspection: another pretext for regime change? (tags)
(this article about the previous round of inspections show that the US manipulated inspections to suite its own ends and however much Hussein cooperated, they kept moving the goal posts making the whole process futile. With Hans Blix, the current chief inspector, supporting the US resolution, I wouldn't discount a replay of this travesty. It's clear, contrary to what many liberals are arguing, that inspections can just as easily be used as a pretext for war rather than as an alternative to it.) Is there a way to ensure that they are not used that way?
Christ I'm Actually Rising! (tags)
Chirst has like, actually come to take out the evil bushmob single handedly! He walks and talks like he's just human... Wow! Don't miss this incredible revelation!!
Action Alert: Write the UN Security Council to Stop the Rush to War! (tags)
The United States Congress has voted for going to war with Iraq— failing in its duty to represent a deeply divided American public. For people around the world who are troubled by what this conflict could bring, the vote in Congress is distressing since US military action now seems all but inevitable. There are still ways, however, to express your opposition to a war on Iraq and stop this invasion.
"Important" Bush address not so important after all (tags)
AP: "Bush's address drew little interest from the television networks. ABC, NBC and CBS said they would not cover it live. The White House did not ask the networks to interrupt their normal programs for his speech."
Confronting the Warmongers (tags)
Challenging the justifications for war.
SUNDAY HERALD DISCOVERS 'SMOKING GUN' DOCUMENT ABOUT AMERICA'S ATTACK ON IRAQ (tags)
The Sunday Herald, which broke the story about the Project for a New American Century document advocating a global American Empire, now uncovers a document which is another SMOKING GUN revealing the real reasons for the proposed US attack on Iraq. This reason--in case anybody still believes the lies about 'Weapons of Mass Destruction,' Terrorism, or 'Saddam as a new Hitler'--can be spelled O-I-L.
Oc 4: Latest News From Iraq--US Hijack UN Resolutions? More US Air Attacks, More Dirty Sec (tags)
By: PeaceNoWar.net At the recent report done by the congressional budget office (CBO) in Washington DC., CBO estimates that the incremental costs of deploying a force to the Persian Gulf would be between $9 billion and $13 billion. Prosecuting a war would cost between $6 billion and $9 billion a month-although how long such a war may last cannot be estimated. After hostilities end, the costs to return U.S. forces to their home bases would range between $5 billion and $7 billion, CBO estimates.
The SHORTWAVE REPORT 10/4/02 ¡Listen Globally! (tags)
A weekly 30 minute review of news and opinion recorded from a shortwave radio. 2 files- broadcast quality (13.2MB) and quick download (3.3MB). With times and freqs for listening at home. Free to rebroadcast. China, Russia, Germany, Netherlands, Cuba.
ACTION ALERT: Tell UN to stop US sabotage of Weapons Inspections in Iraq! (tags)
Contact UNMOVIC, IAEA, the Secretary-General, and the permanent members of the UN Security Council! Complete contact information included! Suggested points to make: 1. Get the inspectors back in Iraq as soon as possible and REJECT US attempts to STOP Iraq weapons inspections! 2..Reject US attempts to turn Iraqi inspections into a "poison pill" with new UN resolutions that Iraq can't accept, giving US an excuse to invade Iraq.
US to oppose Iraq weapons inspections (tags)
Im sure you all saw this, but woah, this is fucking hillarious.
ACTION ALERT!! Cong. Resolution 473!!! Call NOW!!! (tags)
Call your Congressional Delegation NOW to tell them: NO IRAQ RESOLUTION OTHER THAN CONG. RESOLUTION 473!!!! Rep. Barbara Lee of California introduces alternative to Imperial Pre-emption!!! Call NOW!!!!
september 11: Thierrry Meyssan's view (tags)
Thierry Meyssan has suffered such abuse on the intenet. Lets hear what he has to say. Here is his speech in abu dhabi
Bush's UN Non-Sequiturs (tags)
UN speech dissected
Nelson Mandela says U.S. a threat to world peace (tags)
Mandela is one of the only true "statesmen" in the world - a real leader.
Is September 11 driving you nuts? (tags)
The people of the United States should rightly remember, and so should the people of the entire world. But the events of the 11th of September 2001 were so powerful, so disturbing, that it would be catastrophic if they were remembered for the wrong reasons.
Sludge Report #140 - Thou Shalt Not Steal (tags)
In This Edition: Thou Shalt Not Steal - This Is Not About Persuasion, It Is About PR For A Decision Already Taken - The Countdown To War Has Begun - Poppy’s Friends Run Interference For Junior - The Prize – Cui Bono – Commanders In Thief - There Is Always An Alternative
Important Information on What *YOU* Can Do to Stop the War on Iraq! (tags)
"As a guy who was part of the first Gulf War," said Ritter, who indeed served under Schwarzkopf in that conflict, "when you deploy that much military power forward - disrupting their training cycles, disrupting their operational cycles, disrupting everything, spending a lot of money - it is very difficult to pull them back without using them." "You got 20,000 Marines forward deployed in October," said Ritter, "you better expect war in October."
Flashpoints Radio July 11: Inglewood videographer arrested; Jenin hit again; mo (tags)
KPFA Flashpoints Radio July 11, 2002: -Inglewood cop videographer arrested/ live screaming audio, Robert Knight report (4 min) -Vieques protests continue under charges Vieques crew helped Venezualan coup attempt (16 min) -ISM Cleva Butterly from Jenin where crazed Israelis open fire on marketplace once again, hitting a ten year old and two journalists (18 min) -Network Against Disinformation (NAD) action tomorrow Friday, noon, at the SF Chronicle building at 901 Mission Street cross street Fifth... PLEASE SHOW UP! -end of show (12 min
The BUSHARON Global War - by Dr. Lev Grinberg (tags)
Dr. Lev Grinberg is a political analyst, senior lecturer at Ben-Gurion University, Israel, says, President George Bush's speech intensified the plight of the peace supporters in Israel, and in the entire Middle East.
Stop Israeli Genocide against the Palestinians! (tags)
Of course I have great respect for Palestinian negotiators. They have done the very best they can negotiating in good faith with the Israeli government that has been invariably backed up by the United States. But there has never been any good faith on the part of the Israeli government either before, during, or after Oslo. The same is true for the United States.
First the Carrot, Then the Stick: Behind the Carnage in Palestine (tags)
A MUST READ!, by Prof. Finkelstein, a jew whose parents were extermination camps survivors
Human rights protest in Salt Lake City (tags)
The Committee for War Criminal Prosecution held its third annual spring gathering in Salt Lake City, Utah to focus attention on human rights abuses and war crimes committed by members of the U.N.'s Security Council.
Human rights protest in Salt Lake City (tags)
The Committee for War Criminal Prosecution held its third annual spring gathering in Salt Lake City, Utah to focus attention on human rights abuses and war crimes committed by members of the U.N.'s Security Council.
Hundreds of Israeli Army Reservists Refuse to Serve in Occupied Territories (tags)
Lt. Noam Wiener is a 27-year-old lieutenant in the Israeli Army Reserves and a law student who has signed the Courage to Refuse declaration. Between The Lines' Scott Harris spoke with Lt. Wiener about why he has refused to serve in the occupied territories and in so doing, risk imprisonment.
Sharon :: already 508.804 signatures online (tags)
there are needed 1.000.000 last 24h more than 30.000 signatures let's put Sharon on the just started international court!!! let's see if that court is a joke or not
Urge the Nobel Institute to reject the Bush/Blair Peace Prize Nomination! (tags)
They say that satire died when Henry Kissinger was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, but if a Right-wing Norwegian MP has his way, the Nobel committee will be spitting on its grave. Norwegian MP Harald Tom Nesvik nominated Tony Blair and George W. Bush for the Nobel Peace Prize for "decisive action against terrorism, something I believe in the future will be the greatest threat to peace."
'The US is an indicted terrorist state' (tags)
"The United States is an indicted terrorist state," Chomsky said. It had committed several acts of aggression against other nations and frequently violated all canons of international law. He said it had no moral right to be a critic of terrorism, having committed the same crimes.
The Shortwave Report 11/16/01 ¡LISTEN GLOBALLY! (tags)
A 30 minute review of news and opinions recorded from a shortwave radio. 2 files- broadcast quality 13.6MB/ quickdownload & streaming 3.4MB. Free to rebroadcast upon notification. Times and freqs for listening at home. China, Netherflands, Cuba, Germany
DFLP: Demonstrators mark 84 years since Balfour Declaration, 2 Nov. 01 (tags)
The DFLP and other Palestinian organizations staged a rally at the Ain al-Hilweh refugee camp and another in front of the UN House in downtown Beirut to protest the creation of the State of Israel after British promises for a Jewish homeland during World War I.
U.S. to U.N.: We May Have To Attack Other Countries (tags)
So when will we bomb Florida?
IPA: As Bombing Proceeds: Now What? (tags)
AS'AD ABUKHALIL: "Both Bin Laden and Bush say that you are either with them or against them; yet much of the Middle East stands in opposition to both." JOHN QUIGLEY: "Military action should have been done through the Security Council at the United Nations. As it is -- a U.S. and U.K. military action -- it is illegal under international law." MORE...
Bombing Afghanistan: Alternative Viewpoints From IPA (tags)
Alternative views from John Quigley, Rahul Mahajan, Lamis Andoni, Anita Weiss, As'ad Abukhalil, Rania Masri, Kevin Danaher, Beau Grosscup.
The Shortwave Report 2/9/01 Listen to the world! (tags)
30 minutes of news and opinion pieces recorded from a shortwave radio. New show every 2 weeks. (13.6mb) This edition features Radio Netherlands, Deutsche Welle, Radio Havana Cuba, Radio Spain, China Radio Int, and the Voice of Russia. Free to rebroadcast, please notify. Also times and frequencies for listening on your own. LISTEN GLOBALLY!