There has been comment that the High Court case involving the refugees turned on what has been said to be the weakness of the Minister’s affidavit. If the unelected government was in fact so highly prepared it may raise the question as to why such a document was to be relied on. As always it [...]
Israel PM’s wife faces new staff abuse allegations Published yesterday (updated) 31/08/2011 19:24 Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife Sarah seen at a polling station in Jerusalem 2007. [AFP/Gali Tibbon, File] JERUSALEM (AFP) — A Nepalese migrant worker has accused Sarah Netanyahu of assault in the latest allegation against the Israeli premier’s [...]
Don’t test us, Israel army chief warns Published yesterday 19:23 The Israeli military has raised the level of alert on the Israel-Egypt border and around Gaza.[AFP/File David Buimovitch] JERUSALEM (AFP) — Israel’s top military chief has warned Gaza militants not to “test” Israel’s strength as troops and police remained on high alert on Wednesday [...]
Steinitz: Palestinian UN bid ‘greater threat’ than Hamas Published yesterday (updated) 31/08/2011 12:31 A protester waves a Palestinian flag during clashes in the West Bank village of Nabi Saleh near Ramallah [Reuters/Mohamad Torokman, File] JERUSALEM (AFP) — The Palestinian campaign to secure full UN membership presents a greater threat to Israel than that posed [...]
Ralph Nader: 10 Painful Lessons of 9/11 By Ralph Nader The commemorative ceremonies that are planned for the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 massacre are those of pathos for the victims and their families, of praise for both the pursuit of the supporters of the attackers and the performance of first responders and our soldiers [...]
There is actually a conflict inside the mind of Bashar. (SANA) By Scott C. Davis The US and Europe have levied sanctions against Syria this past August. Although the US sanctions will not be a difference maker with Syria due to the limited amount of commerce between the two countries, the European sanctions could hurt [...]
Youngest London rioter – boy aged 11 – given youth rehabilitation order Police stand guard outside Debenhams in Clapham Junction during the riots. The retailer’s Romford store was the scene of the 11-year-old’s crime. Photograph: Neil Lancefield/PA Romford boy looted bin from smashed Debenhams storefront days after being convicted of damaging bus reddit this [...]
Research Shows Rich Getting Richer Makes Poor Poorer Jeff Thompson: New research shows that as wealth increases at the top, it does not lead to either greater equality or better living standards for the middle class Go to story | Go to homepage Related articles Research Shows Rich Getting Richer Makes Poor Poorer [...]
Us or the war machine To publish only with credit and link to The Cavalier Daily http://www.cavalierdaily.com/2011/08/31/us-or-the-war-machine An upcoming Charlottesville conference highlights the importance of whistleblowers when addressing the corruption present in military contracting By David Swanson, Guest Viewpoint on August 31, 2011 Bunnatine “Bunny” Greenhouse YOU MAY have heard something about a budget crisis in Washington [...]
Windfalls of War Windfalls of war: Pentagon buys choppers from Russia to equip Afghan, Iraqi militaries By Sharon Weinberger The Pentagon turned to Russia to buy Mi-17 helicopters, like these shown here, to equip the Afghan and Iraqi militaries, to the consternation of American companies. Department of Defense Pentagon contracts to Russian builders of helicopters confounds US [...]
Video:Noam Chomsky: it doesn’t matter to western leaders what Arab populations think (6min 48sec) Related articles American Decline: Causes and Consequences by Noam Chomsky (via Dandelion Salad) (richardemanuel.wordpress.com) A further Democracy Now! video with Chomsky. “The genie is out of the bottle” (ikners.com) Professor Noam Chomsky – Public lecture in Melbourne Australia 2011 (acc1048.wordpress.com) An [...]
THE ROVING EYE How al-Qaeda got to rule in Tripoli By Pepe Escobar His name is Abdelhakim Belhaj. Some in the Middle East might have, but few in the West and across the world would have heard of him. Time to catch up. Because the story of how an al-Qaeda asset turned out to be [...]
US, Australia Plotted to Oust IAEA Chief, Cables Reveal US attempted to scheme against re-election of Mohamed ElBaradei as head of IAEA for not pushing Iran by John Glaser, August 30, 2011 Email This | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum The US and Australia schemed unsuccessfully in 2005 to block Egyptian Mohamed ElBaradei’s election to [...]
US has wasted $30bn on Iraq and Afghanistan contracts, report finds An Iraqi worker cleans raw sewage at Rustumiya ruined sewage plant. Photograph: Marwan Naamani/AFP/Getty Images Commission on Wartime Contracting in Iraq and Afghanistan says change needed to avoid similar waste in future reddit this Peter Walker guardian.co.uk, Tuesday 30 August 2011 11.52 [...]
Cheney Lauds Iraq War, Waterboarding as ‘Right’ Former VP a ‘Big Advocate’ of Simulated Drowning by Jason Ditz, August 30, 2011 Email This | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum In his latest interview promoting his new book, former Vice President Dick Cheney championed the Iraq War as the “right policy,” insisting the 2003 occupation was a [...]
Obama Cheers ‘Successes’ of a Decade of War Praises ’9/11 Generation’ for ‘Extraordinary Decade of Service’ by Jason Ditz, August 30, 2011 Email This | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum Speaking today to the American Legion, President Barack Obama praised what he dubbed the “9/11 generation,” insisting that they had provided an “extraordinary decade of service” [...]
August: Deadliest Month for US in Afghanistan Civilian Deaths Go Uncounted as Ever by Jeremy Sapienza, August 30, 2011 Email This | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum We thought July was deadly in Afghanistan. But August was already showing its deadly side by mid-month, after the Taliban shot down a US helicopter and bombings, shootings, and [...]
Afghan Taliban Predict Imminent Victory In Statement NATO Isn’t the Only One That Thinks They’re About to Win by Jason Ditz, August 30, 2011 Email This | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum A new formal statement released Monday and signed by former Afghan ruler Mullah Omar predicts “imminent victory” for the Taliban inside Afghanistan, insisting that [...]
What Libya’s Collapse May Look Like by Jason Ditz, August 30, 2011 Email This | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum Most of the Western media is still savoring what parody site The Onion termed the “month or so of Libya seeming like a symbol of freedom,” but Deutsche Welle is one of the first to give serious [...]
Libya Rebels: 50,000 Killed Since Uprising Began Commander Says All Those Missing Are Assumed Dead by Jason Ditz, August 30, 2011 Email This | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum As Libya’s new interim ruler Mustafa Jalil gave the last areas not under his control a surrender or die ultimatum, the rebel council he commands announced that [...]
UN Envoy: Libyan Council Rejects Military ‘Observers’ Insists Rebels Don’t Want Outside Forces on the Ground by Jason Ditz, August 30, 2011 Email This | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum According to a post-meeting press conference, UN envoy to Libya Ian Martin informed the UN Security Council that the rebels have rejected the deployment of military [...]
Mullah Omar Admits Taliban Are Negotiating With US Dropping a long-held precondition that troop withdrawals precede talks, Omar signals potential for political settlement by John Glaser, August 30, 2011 Email This | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum Taliban leader Mullah Mohammed Omar has confirmed that negotiations with the U.S. are taking place, disproving the long-held [...]
Murky Anti-Semitism (Zionist Style) by LAWRENCE DAVIDSON on AUGUST 29, 2011 By Lawrence Davidson * | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz Part I – Stretching the Definition of Anti-Semitism Can criticism of Israel, particularly a) criticism of Israel’s treatment of the Palestinian people and b) criticism of the state ideology of Zionism that justifies that treatment, be labeled anti-Semitic? [...]
Bruce Levine 3 Things That Must Happen for Us To Rise Up and Defeat the Corporatocracy Most Americans oppose rule by the corporatocracy but don’t have the tools to fight back. Here are three things we need to create a real people’s movement. August 25, 2011 | Transforming the United States into something closer to [...]
‘Now Pakistan and America have some problems. So they’re taking it out on me’ Binosche Barrett, Matthew’s wife, with their two children. Photograph: Declan Walsh for the Guardian ‘Now Pakistan and America have some problems. So they’re taking it out on me’ Tensions between Pakistan and the US often made life tricky for [...]
Muammar Gaddafi‘s wife Safiya, along with three of his children, have reportedly escaped to Algeria. Photograph: Ramzi Haidar/AFP/Getty Images Efforts by Libya‘s new rulers to bring the Gaddafi clan to justice received a blow on Monday night as it emerged that several family members had managed to flee the country for neighbouring Algeria. The Algerian foreign ministry [...]
Blair and Bush planned Iraq war without second UN vote, letter shows Five months before invasion, pair agreed to go ahead if weapons breach was revealed, according to newly released letter George Bush and Tony Blair in April 2003. A letter shows they had agreed five months before to invade Iraq without a second UN [...]
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MURDOCH LOSES $27 MILLION CONTRACT WITH N.Y. SCHOOLS Flickr / World Economic Forum Murdoch acquired 90 percent of Brooklyn-based Wireless Generation for about $360 million last November. In the long wake of the News of the World phone hacking scandal, New York state has scrapped a controversial $27 million deal between Rupert Murdoch’s Wireless Generation and [...]
The Election March of the Trolls 18 Illustration by Mr. Fish By Chris Hedges We have begun the election march of the trolls. They have crawled out of the sewers of public relations firms, polling organizations, the commercial media, the two corporate political parties and elected office to fill the airwaves with inanities and absurdities [...]
Where Have Libya’s Children Gone? by Franklin Lamb Image by The Stop the War Coalition via Flickr Posted on August 9, 2011 by dandelionsalad by Franklin Lamb Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Tripoli, Libya August 8, 2011 The quality of life continues to degrade in certain areas of western Libya while public anxiety noticeably rises over missing Libyan children [...]
A small step toward literacy in Lebanon Published Wednesday 24/08/2011 02:30 WADI AL-JAMOUS (IRIN) — Seven years ago, Khadija Assaad began teaching the Koran to girls in the remote Lebanese village of Wadi al-Jamous but had no idea how much impact the initiative would eventually have on her poor community. “I used to do [...]
Ornithologists make homes for owls in Israel Published Thursday 25/08/2011 (updated) 27/08/2011 11:49 A Jordanian farmer holding a barn owl during a joint seminar in Kibbutz Sde Eliyahu on June 13, 2010. [MaanImages/Hagai Aharon] BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — An ornithologist in Israel has overcome superstitions to help owls settle in Arab villages in the lower [...]
Gaza factional fighting scars taint reconciliation efforts Published Thursday 18/08/2011 (updated) 20/08/2011 13:15 A local resident is seen at a gate strewn with posters of killed Palestinians during a rally against the factional fighting between the ruling-Hamas movement and the secular Fatah party outside of the parliament building in Gaza City, in January 2007. [...]
Does the Palestinian UN Bid Threaten Refugee Rights? PA president Mahmoud Abbas speaks at the UNGA last year. (UN/file) By Ma’an News – Bethlehem As the leadership in Ramallah prepares to approach the UN for membership in September, it is also fighting back charges that its initiative is shortsighted and even a threat to Palestinian [...]
You can always substitute “State Department employee” for NY Times reporter. The NY Times forms an important role in keeping the people ignorant of what the US and its Political Psychopaths are doing at any given time. The following article goes a long way to demonstrating this. Here in Australia several if not all the [...]
Night Raids and War Crimes John Glaser, August 29, 2011 Email This | Print This | Share This | Comment | Antiwar Forum Just wanted to quickly draw attention to this WikiLeaks State Department diplomatic cable which details a horrible war crime committed by the US in Iraq in 2006. The cable excerpts a letter written by Philip Alston, [...]
News stories August 28, 2011 How Dangerous is This Moment? Jeff Madrick, author of the Age of Greed, says with wages flat austerity measures and the domination of finance we face a very dangerous situation Go to story | Go to homepage Activists Plan Oct 6th Occupation in DC David Swanson: Occupation of Freedom Plaza [...]
25 years later, how ‘Top Gun’ made America love warby David Sirota, Published: August 27 Americans are souring on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. The military budget is under siege as Congress looks for spending to cut. And the Army is reporting record suicide rates among soldiers. So who does the Pentagon enlist [...]
The Left’s Antiwar Movement in Monterey: Down but Not Out by David R. Henderson, July 25, 2011 Email This | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum There’s no doubt that antiwar activism among the left has declined substantially since Barack Obama became president. That has led many people to claim that the apparent antiwar views of many [...]
Noam Sayin’? The High Times Interview with Noam Chomsky Noam Chomsky interviewed by T.A. Sedlak High Times, July 29, 2011 Q: You’ve spoken out against the War on Drugs, explaining that it’s essentially a means to lock up poor people, that it actually increases drug use, and that it serves as an excuse to control [...]
By Michael Georgy – Sat Aug 27, 11:48 pm ET KARACHI (Reuters) – Imran Ali’s kidnappers jabbed pistols into his sides and led him down a quiet street as fresh ethnic carnage spread fear in Pakistan’s biggest city, Karachi. Two other people blindfolded and held with the construction worker had just been shot at point-blank range. It was his turn. [...]
The big issue: Malcolm Caldwell, A carefully redesigned version of history Noam Chomsky The Observer, January 17, 2010 Andrew Anthony‘s reason for his bitter denunciation of Malcolm Caldwell over 30 years after he was murdered in Cambodia, he explains, is to ensure “that we don’t forget history”. (“Lost in Cambodia”, Magazine) A certain version of [...]
dick be in chains Cheney: Bush Leaked Iraq Strategy Debate Slams Bush for Doing ‘Disservice’ to Troops by Jason Ditz, August 28, 2011 Email This | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum The latest in a number of revelations coming out of his new book, former Vice President Dick Cheney revealed that a 2007 leak to [...]
Ron Paul’s Best Week by Kelley B. Vlahos, August 23, 2011 Email This | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum Campaign season’s here and the time is right, for bombast in the street. Right here on Main Street, USA, every day, they’re bloviating in the street. Invoking Martha & the Vandellas might be fun, but the prospect of [...]
The economy, and its poor performance, is a major concern for average Iranians [GALLO/GETTY] Iranians’ displeasure with their government is palpable and transcends demographics. Before the contested 2009 presidential election, few were satisfied with the government’s performance. Since then, this displeasure has only increased – but not for the reasons that many assume. More than politics, [...]
The Return of the Smear Brigade Neocon takes aim at Ron Paul – and misses by Justin Raimondo, August 29, 2011 Email This | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum As the crisis of the American empire lurches into its final stages, and conservatives begin to question the costs of imperialism, the neoconservative counterattack is going into overdrive. When prominent [...]
Yoshihiko Noda is elected new leader of the Democratic party of Japan in Tokyo, paving the way for him to be the next prime minister. Photograph: Shizuo Kambayashi/AP Yoshihiko Noda, Japan‘s finance minister, is almost certain to become the country’s seventh prime minister in six years on Tuesday after winning the race to succeed Naoto Kan [...]
Palestinians see progress in EU stance on UN bid Published yesterday (updated) 29/08/2011 09:29 A Palestinian man displays a map showing flags of countries that have recognized the Palestinian state. [AFP/File Abbas Momani] RAMALLAH (AFP) — The Palestinian leadership sees “progress” in the European Union’s position on its plan to seek UN membership next [...]
CHARLESTON, W.Va. –America is the most militaristic nation on Earth, spending $1 trillion of taxpayer money yearly for warmaking — outstripping all other nations combined. Why? What’s the point of trying to police the entire planet, when other democracies don’t feel this compulsion? Especially when the policing doesn’t really work? Col. Andrew Bacevich knows war [...]
