In the land of facades, mark the first signs of an Indian spring 29 December 2011 When the early morning fog rises and drifting skeins from wood fires carry the sweet smell of India, the joggers arrive in Lodi Gardens. Past the tomb of Mohammed Shah, the 15th century Munghal ruler, [...]
Alan Dershowitz’s regular little performances are eminently ignorable, including the one reproduced below. But since I’ve been asked several times for comments on this one, a few follow. Dershowitz’s opens by writing that “Chomsky is circulating a letter which he got two naïve Nobel Prize winners–the playwright Harold Pinter and the [...]
Australian farmer Wendy Bowman (Photo: Jason Margolis) It’s not easy being a farmer in Australia these days. They had 12 years of drought. The government is threatening to cut water supplies. And if that weren’t enough, many farmers feel they’re second fiddle to the mining industry. Take the example of Wendy Bowman. “Next door to [...]
Obama Glad He’s Killing Lots of People But Prefers Not to Know Too Much About Who They Are By davidswanson - Posted on 30 December 2011 From The Atlantic: The enormous expansion of drone operations has been a success in the narrowest sense of killing some bad guys. But it has come at [...]
The memorial flier from Army Staff Sgt. Jared Hagemann’s funeral. He died of a gunshot wound to the head this year after eight combat tours in Iraq and Afghanistan, as another deployment to Afghanistan loomed. (Elaine Thompson, Associated Press / December 26, 2011) ALSO Comprehensive Soldier Fitness program aims to equip troops mentally [...]
A series of bombings claimed by Boko Haram hit cities around Nigeria on Christmas Day [Reuters] Nigeria’s President Goodluck Jonathan has declared a state of emergency in some northern and central parts of the country that have been hit hard by violence blamed on the radical sect, Boko Haram. Affected Areas: Borno State - Maidugiri [...]
US Sending Iraq $11 Billion in Arms, Despite Maliki’s Turn Towards Dictatorship John Glaser, December 29, 2011 Print This | Share This | Comment | Antiwar Forum Pointing out Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al Maliki’s turn towards dictatorship is no longer a fad for opposition members of parliament and voiceless Iraqi subjects. [...]
AFP Secular Israelis arguing with an ultra-Orthodox Jewish man in Beit Shemesh earlier this week. Ultra-Orthodox Jewish groups in Israel would like to see gender separation in public, and some have stooped to harassing women — and even children – to get their way. With thousands of Israelis protesting against the growing influence [...]
REUTERS A ceremony to mark the launch of the euro coins in Frankfurt in December 2001: The euro was always built on delusions. Since its inception, the euro zone has been built on lies, the most grievous of which is the idea that the common currency could work without political union. [...]
How the People Got Their Groove Back: What a Bunch of Farmers Can Teach a Bunch of Occupiers About How to Keep on Going By Ashley Sanders http://warisacrime.org/content/how-people-got-their-groove-back-what-bunch-farmers-can-teach-bunch-occupiers-about-how-keep Not so long ago, Americans witnessed the beginning of a mass democratic uprising. Thousands of average people, [...]
Officially the two Republican frontrunners are Newt “the Palestinians are an invented people” Gingrich andMitt ”Obama has pushed Israel under a bus” Romney. Both are political whores locked in a competition of their own as well as with President Obama for Zionist lobby organized campaign funds and American Jewishvotes. (In a very close election race the latter could determine who becomes president). The [...]
A Tale of Two Cities: Weimar and Washington by Philip Giraldi, December 29, 2011 | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum Mark Twain is credited with saying that “History doesn’t repeat itself, but it rhymes.” Today’s United States is often compared to other historic nations, whether at their prime or about to decline and fall depending on one’s [...]
Urging Obama to Stop Rush to Iran War A torrent of war propaganda against Iran is flooding the American political scene as U.S. neocons and Israeli hardliners see an opening for another war in the Middle East by Ray McGovern and Elizabeth Murray President Obama needs to put an abrupt halt to the game of Persian Roulette [...]
Perhaps the saying that fascism always begins at home is not so far fetched. But it is a little late to look at one aspect and then declare that this is the beginning. Unfortunately for the highly propagandized US population there has been a slow creep toward a fascist nation occurring for [...]
Click the image to enlarge or see more. If this does not work please go to the article at: http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=449088 George Ikners ikners.com (Reuters/Mohamad Torokman) Demonstrators clash with Israeli forces in Nabi Saleh near Ramallah on Friday at a weekly protest against Israel‘s confiscation of village land. On Dec. 9, an Israeli soldier fired a tear [...]
Worshipers are seen through an Iranian national flag as they attend Friday prayers in Tehran, Dec. 30. (Reuters/Morteza Nikoubazl) BRUSSELS (Reuters) — The European Union is open to meaningful talks with Tehran provided there are no preconditions on the Iranian side, an EU foreign policy spokesman said on Saturday. Earlier, Iran‘s semi-official Mehr news [...]
Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Salam Fayyad helps to rebuild a Bedouin makeshift house near Hebron a day after the Israeli army destroyed it. (MaanImages/Mustafa Abu Dayeh, Pool) By Sam Bahour It’s the end of the year and time to turn the page after a bit of reflecting. What better way to reflect [...]
An Afghan girl who was tortured for months after refusing prostitution lies on a hospital bed in Kabul Dec. 31. (Reuters/Omar Sobhani) By Hamid Shalizi KABUL (Reuters) — A 15-year-old Afghan girl was brutally tortured, beaten and locked in a toilet by her husband’s family for months after she refused to become a prostitute, officials [...]
Medics treat a boy injured in Israel‘s air strike in An-Nasser Hospital in Gaza City. (MaanImages/Hatem Omar, File) GAZA CITY (Ma’an) — As 2011 draws to an end, medical shortages in the Gaza Strip have reached their highest levels, a spokesman for Gaza’s Health Ministry said Saturday. Ashraf al-Qidra told Ma’an that medics in the [...]
Iran’s top nuclear negotiator Saeed Jalili says his country is ready to return to the table. Photograph: Olivier Hoslet/EPA Iran proposes to reopen nuclear talks Islamic republic says it has notified UN of its intention to resume negotiations amid confusion over reported missile tests Iran has proposed to reopen negotiations about its controversial nuclear [...]
A new study of the dangers posed by PIP’s breast implants is to be conducted by the British authorities. Photograph: Boris Horvat/AFP/Getty Images Breast implants scandal: Andrew Lansley orders new review of dangers Health secretary asks for study of risks posed by faulty French implants after new information leaves him ‘worried’ The government is to [...]
White House Rejects Calls for Oversight on Drone Killings Officials Insist Congress Doesn’t Need Details by Jason Ditz, December 30, 2011 | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum For quite some time this site has been warning about the use of drones and the [...]
Mossad Chief: Iranian Nuclear Weapon Wouldn’t Be Existential Threat Says Term Being ‘Used Too Freely’ by Jason Ditz, December 30, 2011 | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum Speaking at a meeting of top Israeli ambassadors in Jerusalem, Mossad chief Tamir Pardo [...]
Crackpot Anti-Islam Activists, ‘Serial Fabricators,’ and the Tale of Iran and 9/11 by Gareth Porter, December 31, 2011 | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum Behind a mysterious Dec. 22 Associated Press story about “finding of fact” by a district judge in Manhattan Friday that Iran assisted al-Qaeda in the planning of the 9/11 attacks is a tapestry [...]
We here in Australia carry the same shame when it comes to the killing and murder. The cost although still large in money terms only highlights how little the elites and their stooge politicians and fake intellectuals care about the people. George Ikners ikners.com gikners@gmail.com Cost Of war Number Of Iraqis Slaughtered [...]
We here in Australia carry the same shame when it comes to the killing and murder. The cost although still large in money terms only highlights how little the elites and their stooge politicians and fake intellectuals care about the people. George Ikners ikners.com gikners@gmail.com Cost Of war Number Of Iraqis Slaughtered [...]
U.S. Doubts Intelligence That Led to Yemen Strike By ADAM ENTOUS and JULIAN E. BARNES in Washington and MARGARET COKER in Abu Dhabi Top U.S. military leaders who oversaw missile strikes last year against al Qaeda targets in Yemen suspect they were fed misleading intelligence by the country’s government and were duped into killing a local [...]
UAE Said to Sign Lockheed Thaad Pact Valued to $3.49 Billion December 30, 2011, 11:19 AM EST Lockheed Gets $1.96 Billion UAE Order for Missile Interceptors FAA Pilot Oversight ‘Lacks Rigor,’ U.S. Investigator Says ‘Cool’ Bus Trips Surge as Wi-Fi Beats Driving, Study Shows U.S., Saudi Sign Boeing F-15 Fighter Deal Proposed [...]
REUTERS/Stringer Locals carry a victim, killed in air strikes, to the morgue of a hospital in Uludere, of the Sirnak province December 29, 2011. Turkish warplanes launched air strikes against suspected Kurdish militants in northern Iraq near the Turkish border overnight, the military said on Thursday, but local officials said the attack killed 35 smugglers [...]
“Only reason can convince us of those three fundamental truths: without a recognition of which there can be no effective liberty: That what we believe is not necessarily true; that what we like is not necessarily good; and that all questions are open.” - – Clive Bell - (1881-1964) – Source: Civilization, 1928 [...]
Senator Saxby Chambliss, who says the detainees would ‘likely continue to pose a threat to the United States’. Photograph: Tami Chappell/Reuters The Obama administration is considering transferring to Afghan custody a senior Taliban official suspected of major human rights abuses as part of a remote bid to improve the prospects of a peace deal in Afghanistan, Reuters has learned. The [...]
Testimony of a Palmach fighter who expelled Palestinians During the Nakba Video and Transcript view video at: http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30116.htm December 30, 2011 “Information Clearing House” - The Israeli group Zochrot has posted a video testimony from Amnon Neumann, a man who fought with the Palmach during the Nakba of 1948. According to their web site, “Zochrot (‘Remembering’) [...]
U.S. Behind Deliberate Murder Of Qadhafi: Russia By Vladimir Radyuhin December 30, 2011 “The Hindu” –Russia has accused the United States and NATO of large-scale violations of human rights during the military operation in Libya, including the deliberate murder of its leader Muammar Gaddafi and the killing of hundreds of [...]
How Many U.S. Soldiers Were Wounded in Iraq? Guess Again. By Dan Froomkin December 30, 2011 “Information Clearing House” - Reports about the end of the war in Iraq routinely describe the toll on the U.S. military the way the Pentagon does: 4,487 dead, and 32,226 wounded. The death count is accurate. But the [...]
