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*GENOCIDE PLANNED FOR SYRIA * ** *Gareth Porter has a piece this morning <http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/10/13-3> showing that Israel is spreading misinformation about an Iranian ICBM program in order to convince The Empire that Iran plans to drop nuclear weapons on the USA, thus drawing the US into war with Iran. Problem is, Prime Minister Netanyahu is lying again, Iran has no ICBM or nuclear weapon. * *Israel was involved in the misinformation about "weapons of mass destruction" enticing the US into war with Iraq. Israel perceives Arabs as its enemy, ironically an anti-Semitic expression, since most Arabs are Semites (don't expect our mainstream press to discover this elephant in the living room as they accuse Arabs of anti-Semitism). * *Another massive irony in all of this is that Israel works closely with the royal family of Saudi Arabia in plots against regional Muslims. Pepe Escobar goes deep into this <http://www.atimes.com/atimes/World/WOR-02-111013.html> in a piece out this morning, showing how both Israel and Saudi Arabia are united in overthrowing the government of Syria as part of their campaign against Iran. The Saudis would replace Syria's President Assad with genocidal religious fanatics who've already massacred Shiahs, Christians and Kurds in Syria using financial and political support from Prince Bandar of Saudi Arabia. * ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *HATS OFF TO BANGLADESHI WORKERS * ** *This morning, workers at a Bangladeshi garment factory freed a boss <http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/10/14/us-bangladesh-garments-idUSBRE99D06120131014> they had held captive in his office for more than 18 hours after he paid a promised bonus. Such a working class victory would unlikely happen in the Land of the Free, where merely occupying space led to an Obama-organized national crackdown resulting in peaceful protesters of the Occupy movement being tear gassed, jailed, beaten and pepper sprayed, with their belongings destroyed or confiscated by police. * *Imagine what would have happened to them if Occupy protesters had captured a corporate CEO and asked the scumbag to give back medical coverage, pensions, or other benefits stolen from any of millions of American workers in recent decades. Still, one may dream it could happen here.* ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *HAPPY NATIVE AMERICAN DAY! * ** *Today the establishment celebrates Columbus Day, but since we began /LUV News/ over fifteen years ago we have celebrated Native American day in its place. To say that Columbus discovered a land occupied by Native Americans, who have been here over 30,000 years according to recent evidence discovered in Brazil, is as racist and inconsiderate as anything we can imagine. * *Columbus committed a great many human rights violations against Native Americans, and after wiping them out in the Caribbean, began the African slave trade in the New World to replace previously enslaved Native Americans. It is an abomination that such a person is honored anywhere.* ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **I get angry when I think of President Obama going over his Tuesday morning drone kill list. Obama doesn't need a trial-- even a few words from the defendant-- he knows who must die. We've learned that after the drone bombing of these unfortunates, any who come to aid the wounded are then drone bombed, and later those who attend the funeral, assuming they must be somehow evil by association, are drone bombed. ** **This is illustrative of a god complex to which emperors traditionally have succumbed. As Obama's predecessor put it, "If you are not with us, you are against us." Those who bow down to corporate greed at any cost need not worry-- if they are American they have access to the treasury, if they are foreign they get economic, political and military assistance. ** **One of the recent horrors our empire has subjected the world to is religious fundamentalism. In Afghanistan, The Empire released Osama bin Laden and al Qaeda on the population during the Carter/Reagan years. Under Obama in Libya it was al Qaeda again (in part), likely many of whom had killed American troops in Afghanistan and Iraq. In Syria we are again unleashing al Qaeda troops, this time almost certainly guilty of killing American troops in Iraq, since they are closely affiliated with al Qaeda in Iraq and many come from that neighboring state, although officially Obama says he only supports moderates within the Syrian opposition that are all good and deserving of all our love. ** **One consequence of this foreign policy is that religious fanatics have been enabled to rise up throughout the region, from Southwest Asia across the Middle East, in defiance of Western influence, and cracking down on those who stray from the faith as they imagine it. Such was the fate of ***Malala Yousafzai, who was shot for her defense of female rights. * *In the following piece, Dave Lindorff, who voted for President Obama and is now opposed, tells us about the meeting between Malala and the President-- the part the White House did not release --Jack Balkwill*** ** Profiles in Courage, and in the Lack of Courage Profiles in Courage, and in the Lack of Courage <http://thiscantbehappening.net/print/2001> *Malala tells it like it is to the 'World's Most Powerful Man'** ** ** ** * by Dave Lindorff *After that courageous Pakistani advocate of girls' right to an education, Malala Yousafzai, had her meeting with President Obama and his wife Michelle and older daugher Malia in the White House, the White House issued a press release and a photo, saying that the presidential couple had invited this youngest ever Nobel Peace Prize nominee to visit "to thank her for her inspiring and passionate work on behalf of girls' education in Pakistan."** ** **It hardly did justice to the courage of a young girl who, for publicly demanding that girls be allowed to study in a society where many Muslim fundamentalists consider the education of women a dangerous threat, continues her advocacy even after she was nearly killed on her way to school by a nearly fatal shot to the head by a Taliban death squad . ** ** **But the White House press release was worse than just dismissive of this brave girl.** ** **It further diminished the import of he visit, and her remarkable courage, by failing to note that she had taken the opportunity of her visit to tell the president directly to his face that he should halt the drone attacks that he has been ordering on suspected Taliban "leaders" in western Pakistan -- drone attacks that have often been calculated to kill not just targeted individuals but many innocent men, women and children in the vicinity of the blasts.** ** **As Malala recalls the moment in a statement she released herself after her meeting with the commander in chief of the most powerful war machine the world has ever known (as reported in McClatchy Newspapers [1]): ** ** ** "I thanked President Obama for the United States' work in supporting education in Pakistan and Afghanistan and for Syrian refugees. I also expressed my concerns that drone attacks are fueling terrorism. Innocent victims are killed in these acts, and they lead to resentment among the Pakistani people. If we refocus efforts on education it will make a big impact."** * *Wow! Sitting just feet away from the president of the United States, and as his invited guest, that had to take guts.* *And wow! Not reporting that remarkable act of courage by a young girl who is still a target of Muslim zealots, was an appalling act of cowardice on the part of the president and his press secretary. It's actually worse than that, as by making that appeal to the president Malala was demonstrating that she was no tool of the US. Had the White House acknowledged her effrontery, it might have provided her with a bit of life insurance. * *Instead the gutless president sought to just use this brave young woman as a photo op to boost his own standing, not wanting to note that she was openly critical of his "executive kill" policies in her native country.* *One has to hope that Malala's courage to stand up to the president resonated with his daughter Malia. Perhaps she will now start pressing her father about why he is killing so many civilians, including young children, in Pakistan with his drone strikes, including those "double tap" ones where a second Hellfire missile is inconscionably launched once people have come the site of an initial strike to look for and help the wounded.* ** http://thiscantbehappening.net/print/2001 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *If you wish to be removed from this list, please let us know* ** *To join the Liberty Underground news service go here: http://luvnews.info/Join.htm* ** *You may also join our talk group athttp://groups.yahoo.com/group/libertyundergroundtalk/ <http://groups.yahoo.com/group/libertyundergroundtalk/>if you would like to participate * **or join our Facebook group here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/461619557192964/ * email: libert...@hotmail.com* ** *Tell your friends about /LUV News/ because some people just don't get it* [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ --------------------------------------------------------------------------- LAAMN: Los Angeles Alternative Media Network --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe: <mailto:laamn-unsubscr...@egroups.com> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe: <mailto:laamn-subscr...@egroups.com> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Digest: <mailto:laamn-dig...@egroups.com> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Help: <mailto:laamn-ow...@egroups.com?subject=laamn> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Post: <mailto:la...@egroups.com> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Archive1: <http://www.egroups.com/messages/laamn> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Archive2: <http://www.mail-archive.com/laamn@egroups.com> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Yahoo! 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