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[IslamCity] Very good report about peak oil

2005-02-09 Thread Wolfgang Geist





The article below was researched in association with ASPO.ASPO is a network of European institutions and universities with an interest in determining the date and impact of the peak and decline of world oil production, due to resource constraints which was founded in 2000.ASPO stands for "Association for the Study of Peak Oil" http://www.energyshortage.com
The article at http://www.energyshortage.com/articles/LBST_Countdown_2004-10-12.pdfis an excellent read concerning major issues about peak oil:1. What are the known facts. 2. What is a scientific projection about world oil supply amd demand using these facts.(Predicting Peak oil between now and 2010)3. What are the methods used and derived views by the most important (government) energy agencies..(Predicting Peak oilat 2040)
The last point is the most interesting, and it's conclusions are shocking yet not surprising concerning the forecasts which are widely quoted in the main stream press.The US government has two major organizations that survey world oil supply and demand, the USGS (US geological survey) and the Energy Information and Administration (EIA),both are part of the US departement of energy (that also funds nuclear weapons developement). There's also the international energy agency (IEA) in Paris.In the past, these agencies produced forecasts about peak oil to happen sometimearound 2040. These forecasts are taken as granted by many.However the following needs to be considered about these agencies and there reports need to be reexamined closely.They all work for governments which work with and for oil companies. If their reports suggest we are low on oil, it sends a message to their costumers to look for something new, somehwere
 else. Obviously, no company wants to publish such self destructive information.Also, governments have a problem of self interest concerning renewable energies.Imagine we would start using small scale renewable energies such as solar, wind,thermal etc.. Units that produce this kind of energy can be installed in indivdualhouseholds and make the consumer independent from government control.Again, this is in direct contrast to a government's agenda, namely having controlabout the political/economic process in the country and keeping powerful elitesin their places.
That's also a main reason why nuclear energy is promoted rather than renewable ones.You can also find a very interesting article (only in German though) athttp://www.energiekrise.de/ if you click on the German and then on the Uran button.It makes a convincing case that it is pretty much impossible and meaningless trying to switch to nuclear energy as an alternative.
Some exempts:In the history of oil production, which is now extending over more than 150 years, we can identify some fundamental trends:
· The world's largest oil fields were all discovered more than 50 years ago.· Since the 1960s, annual oil discoveries have decreased tendentially.· Since 1980, annual consumption has exceeded annual new discoveries.· Till this day more than 42,000 oil fields have been found, but the 400 largest oil fields (1per cent) contain more than 75 per cent of all oil ever discovered.· The historical maximum of oil discoveries has to be followed after some time by amaximum of oil production (the peak).
2.2. Countries outside OPEC and Former Soviet Union (FSU)Looking at the countries outside of the Former Soviet Union and OPEC, it can be noticedthat their total production increased until about the year 2000, but since then totalproduction has been declining. A detailed analysis of the individual countries within thisgroup shows that most of them have already reached their production peaks and that onlya very limited number of countries will still be able to expand production, particularly Braziland Angola.
2.3. Former Soviet Union (FSU)The oil production of the Former Soviet Union peaked reaching a production rate of morethan 12 Mb/day at the end of the 80's. Soon afterwards production collapsed by almost50% within 5 years. The production peak at the end of the 80's had been forecasted bywestern geologists based on the depletion patterns of the largest oil fields [7]. However,the following production collapse during the economic break down turned out to be muchsteeper than expected. For this reason, Russian companies were able to stop this declineafter the liberalisation of the oil market and to increase production levels again  in someyears at double-digit rates during the last 5 years - with the help of internationalcooperations and investments. However, this fast recovery now comes to an end as theeasily accessible fields have been developed and the financial and technological backlogis widely closed.Recently the director of
 the Russian energy agency, Sergej Oganesyan, conceded for thefirst time that the growth rates of the past few years can't be repeated anymore and that in2005 production will probably stagnate or even decline [8].
For some years Kazakhstan was

[IslamCity] Iraq Winners Allied With Iran Are the Opposite of U.S. Vision

2005-02-17 Thread Wolfgang Geist






Iraq Winners Allied With Iran Are the Opposite of U.S. Vision
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/021405A.shtml


After the Election
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The prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) said: By Allah, if Allah guides one person by you, it is better for you than the best types of camels. [al-Bukhaaree, Muslim] 

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[IslamCity] Peak oil facts

2005-02-18 Thread Wolfgang Geist

They cooked the books!Flaws in the analysisof reports from the leading government agencies.
Oil production might have already peaked.ASPO is a network of European institutions and universities with an interest in determining the date and impact of the peak and decline of world oil production, due to resource constraints which was founded in 2000.ASPO stands for "Association for the Study of Peak Oil" http://www.energyshortage.comhttp://www.energiekrise.de/e/articles/LBST_Countdown_2004-10-12.pdf
World oil and gas 'running out'http://edition.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/europe/10/02/global.warming/Oil production in declinehttp://www.energybulletin.net/85.htmlApril 8, 2004Oman's Oil Yield Long in Decline, Shell Data Showhttp://www.peaceredding.org/Oman's%20Oil%20Yield%20Long%20in%20Decline,%20Shell%20Data%20Show.htmRussias Oil Exports Reach Maximum, Decline to Start in 2 Years Officialhttp://www.mosnews.com/money/2004/11/09/oilproduction.shtmlIn 2005 Russias Oil Production May Fallhttp://www.mosnews.com/money/2004/06/07/oilproduction.shtmlNew study
raises doubts about Saudi oil reserves http://www.iags.org/n0331043.htm
Money cannot create energy The problem is not solved by throwing enough money at it.The wishful thinking that the market - supply and demand- will solve the problem, is nonsense.In order to compensate for the 3-6% production drop per year after the peak, a huge non existingalternative energy network needs to be built. In order to built this network, energy = oil is needed. The market will wait untildecline has started, however the necessary oil needed to invest in new energiesis then used to feed an eroding world market and energy system.

Our economic and financial system depends on growth

Our economic and financial system depends on growth = increase of consumption = increase of production = increase of energy demand.Banks give loans to people, people produce and sell, people pay back loans plus interest, banks make money, banks give more loans. Even if steady state is reached, the system doesn't work anymore. Banks don't give loans without making money through interests.Our industrial societies and our financial systems were built on the assumption of constant growth, growth based on ever more readily available cheap fossil fuels. Oil in particular is the most convenient and multi-purposed of these fossil fuels. Oil currently accounts for about 40% of the world's commercial energy, and about 90% of transportation energy. Oil is so important that the peak will have vast implications across the realms of geopolitics, lifestyle, agriculture and economic stability.http://www.energybulletin.net/primer.php

There's no time in history that the world society depended exclusively on one resourceAs geologist Dale Allen Pfeiffer points out in his article entitled, Eating Fossil Fuels, approximately 10 calories of fossil fuels are required to produce every 1 calorie of food eaten in the US. The size of this ratio stems from the fact that every step of modern food production is fossil fuel and petrochemical powered: 1. Pesticides are made from oil;2. Commercial fertilizers are made from ammonia, which is made from natural gas, which is also about to peak.3. Farming implements such as tractors and trailers are constructed and powered using oil;4. Food distribution networks are entirely dependant on oil. In the US, the average piece of food is transported 1,500 miles before it gets to your plate;
Actually, there is a parallel in history. Polynesians colonized the Easter Isands around 500AD.Over the next 1000 years the population grew between 7000-2.Polynesians depended on wood as the one resource for building, transportation and energy. Eventually the islanders started using more trees than grew back.They never bothered to figure out how much reserves were left.After the depletion of the island's wood resources, chaos became so widespread, the island is still spread with weopons used by the islanders.Food became so scarce, the islanders resorted to cannibalism.(Jared Diamond,http://www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/24/042.html)
Peak oil and the US economy-Historically, oil and most resources are traded in dollars. Revenues made from oilallows the US to print more dollars.
-The US is the world's largest consumer, 5% of the world population burn 25% of the world's oil.
-US has worlds largest trade deficit (The Nations international deficit in goods and services increased to $617.7 billion in 2004 from $496.5 billion in 2003. http://www.census.gov/indicator/www/ustrade.html)
-US is world's largest debtor, $2.8 trillion in 2002, or nearly 27% of total U.S. GDPhttp://www.epinet.org/content.cfm/webfeatures_snapshots_archive_01152003IMF alarmed by U.S. foreign debt http://www.iht.com/articles/123915.htmlThe difference in value between U.S. holdings of foreign assets (officially termed U.S. gross assets) and foreign holdings of U.S. assets (U.S. gross liabilities)$2.3 trillionis a measure of the U.S. net

[IslamCity] Scott Ritter: Plans to attack Iran in June

2005-02-24 Thread Wolfgang Geist

SCOTT RITTER SAYS U.S. PLANS JUNE ATTACK ON IRAN, COOKED JAN. 30 IRAQI ELECTION RESULTShttp://www.libertyforum.org/showflat.php?Cat=Board=iraq_warNumber=293393206

Uri Avnery19.2.05Beware of the Dog!It is not very flattering to be paraded like a Rottweiler on a leash, whose master threatens to let him loose on his enemies. But this is our situation now.Vice President Dick Cheney threatened a few weeks ago that if Iran continues to develop its nuclear capabilities, Israel might attack her.This week, President George Bush repeated this threat. If he were the leader of Israel, he declared, he would have been feeling threatened by Iran. He reminded those who are a little slow that the United States has undertaken to defend Israel if there is a threat to its
security.All this adds up to a clear warning: if Iran does not submit to the orders of the US (and, perhaps, even if it does) Israel will attack it with American help, much as it attacked the Iraqi nuclear reactor some 24 years ago.The same week, something quite unexpected happened: Ariel Sharon sent the Chief-of-Staff, Moshe Yaalon, packing. His successor will most probably be General Dan Halutz. Halutz is, of course, a pilot, and one who played his part in the 1981 attack on the Iraqi reactor. If he succeeds Yaalon, it will be the first time in the annals of the Israel Defense Forces that an airman is appointed Chief-of-Staff That is rather curious. In the coming year, the army will be called upon to carry out a very difficult operation on land: the evacuation of the Gaza Strip settlements. The appointment of an Air Force general as Chief-of-Staff may hint that the IDF is
planning something even more important in the air.(Entract: Nobody will shed a tear at the removal of Yaalon. As Chief-of-Staff, he bears responsibility for all the terrible things that happened in the army during the last three years, from the killing verification of a 13-year old girl to the neighbor practice compelling a Palestinian civilian to walk in front of soldiers on their way to kill a militant. But if Yaalon is succeeded by Halutz, it will confirm the pessimistic dictum that for every bad man removed there is an even worse one to succeed him.For those who have forgotten: Halutz (pioneer, in Hebrew) aroused a public storm after the Air Force dropped a one-ton bom on the house of a Hamas leader and killed him together with 15 civilians, including nine children. Asked what he feels when dropping such a bomb, he answered a slight bump, adding that he sleeps well afterwards. On the same
opportunity he vilified Gush Shalom for its actions against war crimes and demanded that we be put on trial for treason.) Back to Bush-Cheney and the Rottweiler.When Bush came to power for the first time, the Neo-Cons laid before him a coherent plan for the extension of the American Empire in the Middle East. It contained three chapters:One, to conquer Iraq in order to take control of its immense oil reserves and place an American garrison at the critical junction between the Caspian Sea oil and the Saudi resources.Two, to break the Iranian regime and return Iran to the American bloc.Three, to do the sme to Syria and Lebanon. It was not yet decided whether Iran would come before Syria, or the other way round.It might have been assumed that the experience of the
American adventure in Iraq would cancel the next chapters. The Iraqi people did not receive the occupying army with flowers. The pretext for the invasion Saddams weapons of mass destruction was exposed as a blatant lie. The armed insurrection continues. The future of the Iraqi state hangs in the balance, even after the recent elections. The country may well break up into three parts, creating shock waves all around the Middle East.Naive people believe that after all this, Bush would not risk more adventures of this kind. They are wrong.First, because a primitive and vain person like him never admits to failure. When one of his adventures fails, this just drives him on to even more ambitious ones.Second, the filure does indeed cost a lot of lives and destroys the infrastructure of life in Iraq, but that doesnt matter for the planners of the operation. The main aim
establishing a permanent garrison in the country - has been achieved. Outside of Iraq, nobody is demanding that the American soldiers leave. And, whatever the acts of sabotage, the Iraqi oil is controlled by the US. The oil barons, who are the patrons of the Bush family, can be well satisfied.The Europeans and Russian are trying to block Bushs path. He is now going to pay a state visit to the EU and NATO, trying to convince them by sweet talk and threats to cooperate in his adventures.Therefore, one must take seriously Bushs and Cheneys threats to unleash the Rottweiler. The moment they feel that the way is clear, they will give the sign to Sharon. Sharon will do his duty, in return for an American agreement to allow him to gobble up some more

[IslamCity] Daily news from Iraq. How Operation Iraqi Freedom is reported in The Middle East

2005-03-05 Thread Wolfgang Geist

5,000 YEARS OF CULTURE STOLEN FROM BAGHDAD Malcom Lagauche

Today, I was looking at some photos a friend of mine gave me of Baghdad in the late 1990s. Evidence of destruction by U.S. forces and degradation of the city because of the illegal embargo placed on Iraq were present, yet the city was still magnificent. Today, Baghdad resembles nothing of the city I saw in the photos. It is a destroyed city in which U.S. profiteers and mercenaries have set up a security area called "The Green Zone" where they can safely h! ide while reaping the benefits of murder and looting. Last April, I ran the following column, but it still is relevant today (...) Baghdad cries today. It has been defeated. Its soul no longer exists. It was destroyed by the real forces of evil in this world bigotry, xenophobia, ethnocentrism, and deceit not those entities whom the U.S. president has designated as evil. Bush throws around the word "evil" with ease and
frequency, but he is the number one practitioner of evil in the world. No one else comes close...

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Several Iraqis die in US attacks Aljazeera.net

US forces in Iraq have in the last few days killed several Iraqis - including a woman and her children - during the course of an extensive military operation in al-Anbar province. The situation is tense since the US forces launched Operation River Blitz on Tuesday, Aljazeera has learned. In the province's city of Ramadi, two Iraqis including a woman along with her children were killed in US fire...

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Saddam's lawyer seeks Japanese help Julian Ryall, Aljazeera.net

..."According to international law, Saddam Hussein and his government are still the legitimate leadership of Iraq and everything that has happened since the start of the occupation is illegal," al-Khasawna said. The reason behind the invasion of Iraq was the "Zionist way of thinking" that required the complete destruction of the country and its leader - including its museums, ministries, archives and treasures - in an effort to end a civilisation tha! t stretches back more than 8000 years to ensure there is no future threat to Israel (...) Despite being the head of Hussein's legal team, al-Khasawna has not been allowed by the US military authorities to meet his client, although a colleague met the deposed Iraqi leader in November last year. Hussein is reportedly in good health, despite being held in a small cell and not permitted to listen to the radio, watch television or read
newspapers. He also has not been allowed to receive personal items from his family and has only been given four "of the millions of letters" that have been sent to him. Yet, al-Khasawna's colleague says he remains in good spirits...

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115 die in a single blast today in Iraq and 30 U.S. Soldiers die in 13 days. BRING THE TROOPS HOME NOW. Les Blough, Editor, Axis of Logic

...As U.S. citizens we must lay responsibility for this hellish nightmare where it belongs - at the feet of George Walker Bush, Dick Cheney, the rest of the regime and the U.S. legislators and senators who have supported the war and occupation from the beginning. These mass killers must be brought to justice before the world spins further out of control. There is no end in sigh! t to the savagery and not a single reason to believe that their appetite for blood will be sated. They must be stopped because they will not stop on their own. But these killers are not only responsible for the deaths of so many Iraqi men, women and children. They are also responsibile for the growing number U.S. military men and women who have been killed in this war. Many if not most of these recruits also ended up in Iraq to avoid unemployment and economic hardship. Now there is reason to believe that
the U.S. government and the Pentagon have been lying about the numbers of their own soldiers who have been killed and wounded...

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US HR Report Disregards Abu Ghraib IslamOnline.net

Turning a blind eye to abuses of prisoners in Iraq, Afghanistan and Guantanamo at the hands of its own forces, the United States annual report on human rights rebuked its Mideast allies for their poor records in the field. The criticism was contained in the State Department's report on human rights progress in2004 , the first issued since US President George W. Bush was reelected for a second term in office, reported Agence France-Presse (AFP)...

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Baghdad base evacuated: army chief Max Blenkin, AAP

THE nation's 120-member security detachment in Baghdad SECDET are evacuating their former base next to the unoccupied Australian embassy and

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The prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) said: By Allah, if Allah guides one person by you, it is better for you than the best types of camels. [al-Bukhaaree, Muslim] 

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[IslamCity] US used mustard gas, nerve gas, napalm in Fallujah

2005-03-06 Thread Wolfgang Geist

U.S. used banned weapons in Fallujah Health ministry
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March 3, 2005An official in Iraqs health ministry said that the U.S. used banned weapons in FallujahDr. Khalid ash-Shaykhli, an official at Iraqs health ministry, said that the U.S. military used internationally banned weapons during its deadly offensive in the city of Fallujah.Dr. ash-Shaykhli was assigned by the ministry to assess the health conditions in Fallujah following the November assault there.He said that researches, prepared by his medical team, prove that U.S. occupation forces used internationally prohibited substances, including mustard gas, nerve gas, and other burning chemicals in their attacks in the war-torn city.The health official announced his findings at a news conference in the health ministry building in Baghdad.The press conference was attended by more than 20 Iraqi and foreign media networks, including the Iraqi ash-Sharqiyah TV network, the Iraqi as-Sabah
newspaper, the U.S. Washington Post and the Knight-Ridder service.Dr. ash-Shaykhli started the conference by reporting the current health conditions of the Fallujah residents. He said that the city is still suffering from the effects of chemical substances and other types of weapons that cause serious diseases over the long term.Asked whether limited nuclear weapons were also used by U.S. forces in Fallujah, Dr. ash-Shaykhli said; What I saw during our research in Fallujah leads me to me believe everything that has been said about that battle.I absolutely do not exclude their use of nuclear and chemical substances, since all forms of nature were wiped out in that city. I can even say that we found dozens, if not hundreds, of stray dogs, cats, and birds that had perished as a result of those gasses.Dr. ash-Shaykhli promised to send the findings of the researches to responsible bodies inside Iraq and abroad.Fallujah residents said napalm
gas was used During the U.S. offensive, Fallujah residents reported that they saw melted bodies in the city, which suggests that U.S. forces used napalm gas, a poisonous cocktail of polystyrene and jet fuel that makes the human body melt.In November, Labour MPs in the UK demanded Prime Minister Tony Blair to confront the Commons over the use of napalm gas in Fallujah.Furious critics have also demanded that Blair threatens the U.S. to pullout British forces from Iraq unless the U.S. stops using the worlds deadliest weapon.The United Nations banned the use of the napalm gas against civilians in 1980 after pictures of a naked wounded girl in Vietnam shocked the world.The United States, which didn't endorse the convention, is the only nation in the world still using the deadly weapon.:: Article nr. 10104 sent on 03-mar-2005
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(Holy Quran-16:125)

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The prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) said: By Allah, if Allah guides one person by you, it is better for you than the best types of camels. [al-Bukhaaree, Muslim]

The prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) also said, Whoever calls to guidance will have a reward similar to the reward of the one who follows him, without the reward of either of them being lessened at all.
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[IslamCity] They're Back, and Still Unworthy

2005-03-13 Thread Wolfgang Geist

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he Senate is preparing for a major showdown over the Democrats' use of the filibuster to block a handful of President Bush's judicial nominees. When the arguments about procedures are over, the key question will remain: Has Mr. Bush put up men and women who deserve lifetime appointments to the federal bench? The three nominees who had hearings this month - a mining and ranching industry flunky, a much-reversed judge with an antipathy for individual rights, and a lawyer with a bad habit of not following the rules for practicing law - show why Democrats should stand firm.
There have been widespread calls for the White House to sit down with Senate Democrats and come up with a list of nominees who would be acceptable to both sides. The previous three administrations, of both Republican and Democratic presidents, at least tried to work toward consensus candidates. But the Bush administration has refused to negotiate. It has begun its second term on a particularly controversial note by resubmitting seven nominees who failed to win approval last year after Democratic filibusters. It has also sent back several other nominations on which the Senate had failed to act.
William Myers III, one of the seven filibustered nominees, has built a career as an anti-environmental extremist. He was a longtime lobbyist for the mining and cattle industries. Then, as the Interior Department's top lawyer, he put those industries' interests ahead of the public interest. In one controversial legal opinion, he overturned a decision that would have protected American Indian sacred sites, clearing the way for a company to do extensive mining in the area. Mr. Myers has been nominated to a seat on the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, based in San Francisco. That court plays a major role in determining the environmental law that applies to the Western states.
Terrence Boyle, who has been nominated to the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, based in Richmond, is also a troubling choice. He has an extraordinarily high reversal rate for a district court judge. Many of the decisions that have been criticized by higher courts wrongly rejected claims involving civil rights, sex discrimination and disability rights. Mr. Boyle's record is particularly troubling because the court reversing him, the Fourth Circuit, is perhaps the most hostile to civil rights in the federal appellate system, and even it has regularly found his rulings objectionable.
Thomas Griffith, who has been nominated to the powerful Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, has the unfortunate distinction of having practiced law in two jurisdictions without the required licenses. While practicing law in Washington, D.C., he failed to renew his license for three years. Mr. Griffith blamed his law firm's staff for that omission, but the responsibility was his. When he later practiced law in Utah as general counsel at Brigham Young University, he never bothered to get a Utah license.
Mr. Myers, Mr. Boyle, and Mr. Griffith were chosen for their archconservative political views, not their qualifications for the bench. No impartial person interested in choosing only the best possible judges would have put them at the top of the list. The federal judiciary is one of the cornerstones of American government - one of the three branches the nation's founders created, and set against one another, to guide the nation and keep it free. Surely this vital institution deserves better.
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[IslamCity] With western economies generally expanding, demand soon could outstrip supply

2005-03-17 Thread Wolfgang Geist




Light crude futures briefly climbed to a new intraday high above $56 a barrel 

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[IslamCity] More than 200,000 US casualties from Gulf War 1

2005-03-25 Thread Wolfgang Geist

During Gulf War 1 more than 300 tons of depleted Uranium were discharged.During Gulf War 2 more than 1000 tons of depleted Uranium were discharged.

Norman Schwarzkopf asked Rokke to oversee the environmental clean up and medical care of soldiers injured in friendly fire incidents involving DU weapons. Rokke later wrote the DU safety rules adopted by the Army, but was relieved of subsequent duties after he criticized commanders for not following those rules and not treating exposed troops from NATO's war in Yugoslavia.

Gulf War CasualtiesBy Dr. Doug RokkeThe upcoming battle Gulf War II will result in casualties that include: * killed in action * wounded in action * killed in accidents * and additional casualties that do not show up until after the completion of hostilities.During the Gulf War between 1990 and 1991 the United States military incurred: 467 individuals wounded in action, 148 killed in battle, and 145 killed in other than battle (i.e. accidents). Therefore, the total number of US Gulf War casualties was 760 at the time of redeployment. The United States Department of Veterans Affairs' Veterans Benefit Administration Office of Performance Analysis and Integrity Data and Information Services Gulf War Veterans Information System report that was just published (May 2002) states that as of May 2002: 696,778 individuals had served during the Gulf War with 572,833 individuals now eligible
for Department of Veterans Affairs benefits to include lifetime medical care, financial compensation, and a lifetime pension. The difference of 123,945 individuals includes Desert Storm veterans who are still on active duty, who already received a disability rating directly from the military, and those who are ineligible for benefits for various reasons. As of May 2002, 206,861 veterans had filed claims for benefits based on service-connectedinjuries and illnesses caused by Gulf War combat related duties http://www.rense.com/general29/gulf.htm
http://traprockpeace.org/depleteduranium.html
Former Maj. Douglas Rokke, who was director of the Army's depleted uranium project, spoke to 125 people at the Buffalo Erie County Historical Society. A U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs report says over 221,000 of our sons and daughters are on permanent disability and over 10,000 dead - one-third of our Gulf War I force. And they're coming back sick right now."http://traprockpeace.org/rokkedepleteduranium220703.html
But the casualty rate now for Gulf War veterans is approximately 30 percent. Of those stationed in the theater, including after the conflict, 221,000 have been awarded disability, according to a Veterans Affairs (VA) report issued September 10, 2002. http://traprockpeace.org/rokkesummerdutour03.html
Poisoned? Shocking report reveals local troops may be victims of america's high-tech weapons http://www.nydailynews.com/front/story/180333p-156685c.html
Briton sues US giant over 'uranium poison' Landmark court case could establish critical link for Gulf war veterans http://observer.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,6903,1258632,00.html
Iraq's cancer children overlooked in warhttp://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/2982609.stm
When the Dust Settles: Do Armor-Piercing Munitions Pose Threat Long After War? http://www.ccmep.org/2003_articles/Iraq/050503_when_the_dust_settles__do_armor.htm
Gulf War Syndrome, The SequelSoldiers now fighting in Iraq are being exposed to battlefield hazards that have been associated with the Gulf War Syndrome that afflicts a quarter-million veterans of the 1991 war, said a former Central Command Army officer in Operation Desert Storm.
In 1991, Desert Storm Commander Gen. Norman Schwarzkopf asked Rokke to oversee the environmental clean up and medical care of soldiers injured in friendly fire incidents involving DU weapons. Rokke later wrote the DU safety rules adopted by the Army, but was relieved of subsequent duties after he criticized commanders for not following those rules and not treating exposed troops from NATO's war in Yugoslavia.
What Rokke and other outspoken Desert Storm veterans fear is today's troops are being exposed to many of the same battlefield conditions that they believe are responsible for Gulf War Syndrome. These illnesses have left 221,000 veterans on medical disability and another 51,000 seeking that status from the Veterans Administration as of May 2002. http://www.tompaine.com/feature.cfm/ID/7570
The Real Casualty Rate from America's Iraq WarsEven more alarmingly, the VA revealed that 206,861 veterans, almost a third of General Schwarzkopf's entire army, had filed claims for medical care, compensation, and pension benefits based on injuries and illnesses caused by combat in 1991.http://www.refusingtokill.net/realcasualtyratefromamerica.htm
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[IslamCity] Economic Armageddon.

2005-04-01 Thread Wolfgang Geist

On November 23rd the Boston Herald reported on a shocking statement made by Stephen Roach, the chief economist for investment banking giant Morgan Stanley.

"Roach met selected groups of fund managers downtown last week, including a group at Fidelity. His prediction: America has no better than a 10 per cent chance of avoiding economic "Armageddon."
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[IslamCity] More peak oil news

2005-04-05 Thread Wolfgang Geist




Oil Tops $58, OPEC Discusses Output Rise
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=storyu=/nm/20050404/bs_nm/markets_oil_dc

If OPEC is trying to increase output, oil fields can get permanently damaged, further accelerating the decline in oil production.

World oil and gas 'running out'http://edition.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/europe/10/02/global.warming/Oil production in declinehttp://www.energybulletin.net/85.htmlApril 8, 2004Oman's Oil Yield Long in Decline, Shell Data Showhttp://www.peaceredding.org/Oman's%20Oil%20Yield%20Long%20in%20Decline,%20Shell%20Data%20Show.htmRussias Oil Exports Reach Maximum, Decline to Start in 2 Years  Officialhttp://www.mosnews.com/money/2004/11/09/oilproduction.shtmlIn 2005 Russias Oil Production May Fallhttp://www.mosnews.com/money/2004/06/07/oilproduction.shtmlNew study
 raises doubts about Saudi oil reserves http://www.iags.org/n0331043.htmExpert: Saudi oil may have peakedBy Adam Porter in Perpignan, France http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/80C89E7E-1DE9-42BC-920B-91E5850FB067.htmChinese demand set to push Opec to limithttp://news.ft.com/cms/s/77f2d8ee-8059-11d9-bd50-0e2511c8.htmlBut demand isn't the only factor at play. Simply put, the era of easy access to energy is over. In part, this is because we are experiencing the convergence of geological difficulty with geopolitical instability.http://www.chevrontexaco.com/news/speeches/2005/2005-02-15_oreilly.asp

Indonesia 2003 Oil Production Drops 8 Percent
http://www.usembassyjakarta.org/econ/oil-2003-drop.html
The Countdown for the Peak of Oil Production has Begun  but what are the Views of the Most Important International Energy Agencies
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[IslamCity] World Bank Warns U.S. to Cut Deficits

2005-04-09 Thread Wolfgang Geist




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Today, no catastrophe is anticipated in the coming six to nine months. So I am not yet totally pessimistic," Bourguignon added. 
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[IslamCity] Iraq's Oilworkers Will Defend the Country's Oil

2005-04-12 Thread Wolfgang Geist




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[IslamCity] Pro Consul of Iraq: Papers Illustrate Negroponte's Contra Role

2005-04-16 Thread Wolfgang Geist

John Dimitri Negroponte (born July 21, 1939) is the current United States ambassador to Iraq and the nominee as the first U.S. Director of National Intelligence. A career diplomat who served in the United States Foreign Service from 1960 to 1997, Negroponte served as the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations from September of 2001 until June 2004. As ambassador to Iraq, Negroponte oversees the largest American diplomatic facility in the world.He is a controversial figure partly because of his involvement in covert funding of the Contras in Nicaragua (see Iran-Contra Affair) and his alleged covering up of human rights abuses carried out by CIA-trained operatives in Honduras in the 1980s.

Ambassador to Death Squads
Who is John Negroponte?
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A44944-2005Apr11.html
Papers Illustrate Negroponte's Contra Role
Newly Released Documents Show Intelligence Nominee Was Active in U.S. Effort

By Michael Dobbs
Washington Post Staff WriterTuesday, April 12, 2005; Page A04

The day after the House voted to halt all aid to rebels fighting to overthrow the Sandinista government of Nicaragua, U.S. Ambassador to Honduras John D. Negroponte urged the president's national security adviser and the CIA director to hang tough.
The thrust of the envoy's "back channel" July 1983 message to the men running the contra war against Nicaragua was contained in a single cryptic sentence: "Hondurans believe special project is as important as ever."

_Negroponte Papers_ Official records from John D. Negroponte's years as U.S. Ambassador to Honduras. (Source: George Washington University's National Security Archives)

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"Special project" was code for the secret arming of contra rebels from bases in Honduras -- a cause championed by Negroponte, then a rising diplomatic star. In cables and memos, Negroponte made it clear that he saw the "special project" as key to the Reagan administration's strategy of rolling back communism in Central America.
As Negroponte prepares for his Senate confirmation hearing today for the new post of director of national intelligence, hundreds of previously secret cables and telegrams have become available that shed new light on the most controversial episode in his four-decade diplomatic career. The documents, drawn from Negroponte's personal records as ambassador to Honduras from 1981 to 1985, were released by the State Department in response to a Freedom of Information Act request from The Washington Post.
The documents were initially declassified and provided to Negroponte in 1998, after his retirement from the Foreign Service, but the vast majority have never been made public. A State Department FOIA official said yesterday that about 100 documents from the collection are still being "processed."
The documents offer revealing glimpses into the personality, leadership style and political attitudes of the man President Bush selected to shake up U.S. intelligence in the aftermath of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. Negroponte's determination to reverse the Sandinista revolution in Nicaragua occasionally put him at odds with fellow envoys and with more cautious State Department bureaucrats.
"I have my doubts about a dinner at the residence for a man who is in the business of overthrowing a neighboring government," cabled U.S. Ambassador to Nicaragua Anthony Quainton, after Negroponte played host to the political leader of the contra rebels, Adolfo Calero. Quainton made it clear that he was not a fan of Negroponte's "gastronomic diplomacy."
Overall, Negroponte comes across as an exceptionally energetic, action-oriented ambassador whose anti-communist convictions led him to play down human rights abuses in Honduras, the most reliable U.S. ally in the region. There is little in the documents the State Department has released so far to support his assertion that he used "quiet diplomacy" to persuade the Honduran authorities to investigate the most egregious violations, including the mysterious disappearance of dozens of government opponents.
The contrast with his immediate predecessor, Jack R. Binns, who was recalled to Washington in the fall of 1981 to make way for Negroponte, is striking. Before departing, Binns sent several cables to Washington warning of possible "death squad" activity linked to Honduran strongman Gen. Gustavo Alvarez. Negroponte dismissed the talk of death squads and, in an October

[IslamCity] The Rise of Disaster Capitalism

2005-04-18 Thread Wolfgang Geist




http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20050502s=klein





column | Posted April 14, 2005
LOOKOUT by Naomi Klein
The Rise of Disaster Capitalism







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Additional research was provided by Aaron Maté and Debra Levy.  ast summer, in the lull of the August media doze, the Bush Administration's doctrine of preventive war took a major leap forward. On August 5, 2004, the White House created the Office of the Coordinator for Reconstruction and Stabilization, headed by former US Ambassador to Ukraine Carlos Pascual. Its mandate is to draw up elaborate "post-conflict" plans for up to twenty-five countries that are not, as of yet, in conflict. According to Pascual, it will also be able to coordinate three full-scale reconstruction operations in different countries "at the same time," each lasting "five to seven years." 
Fittingly, a government devoted to perpetual pre-emptive deconstruction now has a standing office of perpetual pre-emptive reconstruction. 

ADVERTISEMENT Gone are the days of waiting for wars to break out and then drawing up ad hoc plans to pick up the pieces. In close cooperation with the National Intelligence Council, Pascual's office keeps "high risk" countries on a "watch list" and assembles rapid-response teams ready to engage in prewar planning and to "mobilize and deploy quickly" after a conflict has gone down. The teams are made up of private companies, nongovernmental organizations and members of think tanks--some, Pascual told an audience at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in October, will have "pre-completed" contracts to rebuild countries that are not yet broken. Doing this paperwork in advance could "cut off three to six
 months in your response time." 

The plans Pascual's teams have been drawing up in his little-known office in the State Department are about changing "the very social fabric of a nation," he told CSIS. The office's mandate is not to rebuild any old states, you see, but to create "democratic and market-oriented" ones. So, for instance (and he was just pulling this example out of his hat, no doubt), his fast-acting reconstructors might help sell off "state-owned enterprises that created a nonviable economy." Sometimes rebuilding, he explained, means "tearing apart the old." 
Few ideologues can resist the allure of a blank slate--that was colonialism's seductive promise: "discovering" wide-open new lands where utopia seemed possible. But colonialism is dead, or so we are told; there are no new places to discover, no terra nullius (there never was), no more blank pages on which, as Mao once said, "the newest and most beautiful words can be written." There is, however, plenty of destruction--countries smashed to rubble, whether by so-called Acts of God or by Acts of Bush (on orders from God). And where there is destruction there is reconstruction, a chance to grab hold of "the terrible barrenness," as a UN official recently described the devastation in Aceh, and fill it with the most perfect, beautiful plans. 
"We used to have vulgar colonialism," says Shalmali Guttal, a Bangalore-based researcher with Focus on the Global South. "Now we have sophisticated colonialism, and they call it 'reconstruction.'" 
It certainly seems that ever-larger portions of the globe are under active reconstruction: being rebuilt by a parallel government made up of a familiar cast of for-profit consulting firms, engineering companies, mega-NGOs, government and UN aid agencies and international financial institutions. And from the people living in these reconstruction sites--Iraq to Aceh, Afghanistan to Haiti--a similar chorus of complaints can be heard. The work is far too slow, if it is happening at all. Foreign consultants live high on cost-plus expense accounts and thousand- dollar-a-day salaries, while locals are shut out of much-needed jobs, training and decision-making. Expert "democracy builders" lecture governments on the importance of transparency and "good governance," yet most contractors and NGOs refuse to open their books to those same governments, let alone give them control over how their aid money is spent. 
Three months after the tsunami hit Aceh, the New York Times ran a distressing story reporting that "almost nothing seems to have been done to begin repairs and rebuilding." The dispatch could easily have come from Iraq, where, as the Los Angeles Times just reported, all of Bechtel's allegedly rebuilt water plants have started to break down, one more in an endless litany of reconstruction screw-ups. It could also have come from Afghanistan, where President Hamid Karzai recently blasted "corrupt, wasteful and unaccountable" foreign contractors for "squandering the precious resources that Afghanistan received in aid." Or from Sri Lanka, where 600,000 people who lost their homes in the tsunami are still languishing in temporary camps. One hundred days after the giant waves hit,

[IslamCity] C-span is breaking the 9/11 media blackout

2005-04-18 Thread Wolfgang Geist

C-span has shattered the major media blackout on 9/11 truth by planning a nationwide broadcast of David Griffin's U.W.-Madison lecture Monday night, 4/18/05, 7:30 p.m. in 272 Bascom Hall.
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[IslamCity] America's version of the colony is the military base

2005-04-23 Thread Wolfgang Geist

The spoils ofwarfor the US military are the establishment of newbases. Saudia Arabia, Kuweit after Gulf War 1, Kosovoafter the senselsess bombing of Serbia and now Iraq.
More than 700 bases are scattered all over the world, many of them in countries with the worst human rights violations, for example Uzbekistan (http://hrw.org/english/docs/2005/03/10/uzbeki10304.htm)andin such anti-democratic autocracies as Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar, Oman, and the United Arab Emirates.

President Bush's preventive war strategy against "rogue states," "bad guys," and "evil-doers." They have identified something they call the "arc of instability," which is said to run from the Andean region of South America (read: Colombia) through North Africa and then sweeps across the Middle East to the Philippines and Indonesia. This is, of course, more or less identical with what used to be called the Third World -- and perhaps no less crucially it covers the world's key oil reserves.

America's Empire of Bases

by Chalmers Johnson

As distinct from other peoples, most Americans do not recognize -- or do not want to recognize -- that the United States dominates the world through its military power. Due to government secrecy, our citizens are often ignorant of the fact that our garrisons encircle the planet. This vast network of American bases on every continent except Antarctica actually constitutes a new form of empire -- an empire of bases with its own geography not likely to be taught in any high school geography class. Without grasping the dimensions of this globe-girdling Baseworld, one can't begin to understand the size and nature of our imperial aspirations or the degree to which a new kind of militarism is undermining our constitutional order.
Our military deploys well over half a million soldiers, spies, technicians, teachers, dependents, and civilian contractors in other nations. To dominate the oceans and seas of the world, we are creating some thirteen naval task forces built around aircraft carriers whose names sum up our martial heritage -- Kitty Hawk, Constellation, Enterprise, John F. Kennedy, Nimitz, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Carl Vinson, Theodore Roosevelt, Abraham Lincoln, George Washington, John C. Stennis, Harry S. Truman, and Ronald Reagan. We operate numerous secret bases outside our territory to monitor what the people of the world, including our own citizens, are saying, faxing, or e-mailing to one another.
Our installations abroad bring profits to civilian industries, which design and manufacture weapons for the armed forces or, like the now well-publicized Kellogg, Brown Root company, a subsidiary of the Halliburton Corporation of Houston, undertake contract services to build and maintain our far-flung outposts. One task of such contractors is to keep uniformed members of the imperium housed in comfortable quarters, well fed, amused, and supplied with enjoyable, affordable vacation facilities. Whole sectors of the American economy have come to rely on the military for sales. On the eve of our second war on Iraq, for example, while the Defense Department was ordering up an extra ration of cruise missiles and depleted-uranium armor-piercing tank shells, it also acquired 273,000 bottles of Native Tan sunblock, almost triple its 1999 order and undoubtedly a boon to the supplier, Control Supply Company of Tulsa, Oklahoma, and its subcontractor, Sun Fun Products of Daytona Beach,
Florida.
At Least Seven Hundred Foreign Bases
It's not easy to assess the size or exact value of our empire of bases. Official records on these subjects are misleading, although instructive. According to the Defense Department's annual "Base Structure Report" for fiscal year 2003, which itemizes foreign and domestic U.S. military real estate, the Pentagon currently owns or rents 702 overseas bases in about 130 countries and HAS another 6,000 bases in the United States and its territories. Pentagon bureaucrats calculate that it would require at least $113.2 billion to replace just the foreign bases -- surely far too low a figure but still larger than the gross domestic product of most countries -- and an estimated $591,519.8 million to replace all of them. The military high command deploys to our overseas bases some 253,288 uniformed personnel, plus an equal number of dependents and Department of Defense civilian officials, and employs an additional 44,446 locally hired foreigners. The Pentagon claims that these bases contain
44,870 barracks, hangars, hospitals, and other buildings, which it owns, and that it leases 4,844 more.
These numbers, although staggeringly large, do not begin to cover all the actual bases we occupy globally. The 2003 Base Status Report fails to mention, for instance, any garrisons in Kosovo -- even though it is the site of the huge Camp Bondsteel, built in 1999 and maintained ever since by Kellogg, Brown Root. The Report similarly omits bases in Afghanistan, Iraq, Israel, Kuwait, Kyrgyzstan, Qatar,

[IslamCity] Moscow Times:Gut check

2005-04-28 Thread Wolfgang Geist

Gut Checkhttp://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article8614.htmBy Chris Floyd04/22/05 "Moscow Times" - - With fresh indictments last week, the UN oil-for-food scandal took an unexpected turn into the Labyrinth -- the tangled skein of war profiteering and state terrorism that has seen the Bush Family's lust for blood money emerge in three of the darkest criminal episodes in modern American history: Iran-Contra, Iraqgate and the BCCI affair.Texas oil baron David Chalmers of Bayoil and his partners were hit with criminal charges for allegedly cutting deals with Saddam Hussein in the notorious skim operation that outflanked UN sanctions and diverted funds intended for humanitarian relief. Prosecutors were shocked -- shocked! --
to find such collusion and corruption in the oil business.Of course, the fact that three U.S. presidents -- the two George Bushes and their new best pal, Bill Clinton -- actually brokered massive backroom oil deals for Saddam that dwarfed Bayoil's petty chiseling, plus the fact that Saddam's nation-strangling thievery has since been eclipsed by the epic rapine of Bush II's Babylonian Conquest, in no way mitigates the seriousness of the Chalmers indictment. But somehow we doubt you'll be seeing those august statesmen sharing leg irons with old Davy anytime soon.Chalmers is a longtime denizen of the Labyrinth. In the mid-1980s, he joined up with Chilean gun-runner Carlos Cardoen, the Financial Times reported. Cardoen was a CIA frontman used by Presidents Ronald Reagan and Bush I to funnel cluster bombs and other weapons secretly to Saddam Hussein during the Iran-Iraq War. At Reagan's direct order, Saddam received U.S. military intelligence, billions of dollars in
credits and a steady supply of covert "third-country" arms to sustain his war effort, even though the White House was fully aware of Saddam's "almost daily use" of illegal chemical weapons, The Washington Post reported. Later, Bush I, as president, would also mandate the sale of WMD material to Saddam, including anthrax -- long after Saddam notoriously "gassed his own people" at Halabja.As in the present UN scandal, Saddam paid for his covert cluster bombs with oil. Chalmers would move the actual black stuff and broker its sale for the CIA and Cardoen, taking a cut in the process. Since 1999, Chalmers has been doing the same thing on behalf of Italtech, owned by another crony in the old Cardoen gun-running scheme. The Texas baron must be aghast to find himself in hot water for an activity that was once blessed at the highest levels. Perhaps he neglected to cross the requisite Bushist palms with sufficient silver -- or else, as with many a Bush minion, he's just been tossed
overboard as chum for the sharks when he's no longer of any use.But let's be fair. Helping Saddam kill people with chemical gas was not the only reason why Reagan and Bush I aided their favorite dictator. They had bigger fish to fry -- using the Constitution as kindling for the feast.In 1986, George Bush I visited the Middle East with a secret message to be passed to Saddam via Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak: "Drop more bombs on Iran's cities." How do we know this? From the sworn testimony of Howard Teicher, the National Security Council official who accompanied Bush and wrote the official "talking points" for the trip. Ostensibly, Bush urged this mass killing of civilians as a strategy to halt Iran's gains at the front. But as The New Yorker reported -- 13 years ago -- there was another layer to this covert plot.A fierce aerial offensive by Saddam would force Iran to seek more spare parts for its U.S.-made planes and anti-aircraft weapons, inherited from
the ousted Shah. Bush was already waist-deep in the Iran-Contra scam, which involved selling Tehran U.S. military goods through back channels, then funneling the secret profits to the Contras, the gang of right-wing insurgents and CIA-trained terrorists in Nicaragua. Congress had forbidden U.S. aid to the Contras, so Reagan and Bush used the mullahs (and Central American drug lords) to run their illegal terrorist war. More innocent deaths in Iran meant more backdoor cash for the Contras. A win-win situation!When Bush I became president, he clasped Saddam even closer, sending him billions in U.S.-backed "agricultural credits" through BNL, an Italian bank tied up with BCCI -- the international "financial consortium" that was actually "one of the largest criminal enterprises in history," according to the U.S. Senate. BCCI laundered money and financed arms dealing, terrorism, smuggling and prostitution, while corrupting government officials worldwide with bribes and
extortion.As Bush well knew, Saddam was using the BNL cash for arms, not food; indeed, that was the point of the exercise. When some honest U.S. officials threatened to unravel the BNL gun-running scam, Bush appointed Cardoen's own lawyer to a top Justice Department post -- overseeing the investigation of his former boss. Under heavy

[IslamCity] Venezuela flexes oil muscle

2005-04-28 Thread Wolfgang Geist





Amazing, how the world's last super power completely depends on 3'rd world countries. 
15% of its oil comes from Venezuela and Hugo Chavez could ruin the US simply by cutting off the oil.
http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/0420/dailyUpdate.html
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[IslamCity] They Were Young Once, and Fit

2005-04-30 Thread Wolfgang Geist

They Were Young Once, and Fit
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article8646.htmThe empire of the Romans filled the world, and when that empire fell into the hands of a single person, the world became a safe and dreary prison for his enemies. The slave of Imperial despotism . . . expected his fate in silent despair. To resist was fatal, and it was impossible to fly. On every side he was encompassed with a vast extent of sea and land, which he could never hope to traverse without being discovered, seized, and restored to his irritated master. Beyond the frontiers, his anxious view could discover nothing, except the ocean, inhospitable deserts, hostile tribes of barbarians of fierce manners and unknown language. . . "Wherever you are," said Cicero to the exiled Marcellus, "remember that you are equally within the power of the conqueror." ~~Historian Edward GibbonBy Sheila
Samples04/25/05 "ICH" - - My dad always responded to anything that was patently obvious with, "Well, yea-ah. Anybody with half sense and one eye knows that," which was his way of saying don't go with the flow, but look at facts and come to your own conclusions. He also said, "If you're determined to show your ass, make sure it's a clean 'un," or -- get those facts straight before you jump out there and start concluding...Well, I've looked at heaps and piles of facts about what the deranged leaders of this nation are willing to do to the men and women who wear the US military uniform, and I've come to two conclusions. This country's most expendable commodity is its children and, with few exceptions, Americans appear to be both senseless and blind.Give Us Your Young, Your Poor...Of course there's going to be a draft, if for no other reason than
George Bush has steadfastly promised there wouldn't be one.They're coming after our children -- sweeping them all up -- bullying them at schools, stalking them, offering them big bucks to join the military. And there's no one to stop them. Servile Americans, even those who can still see, feel helpless. When faced with the decision to stand up and speak up, or give up their children, they are bombarded from all sides with strident demands for patriotism so, like their counterparts of empirical Rome, Americans await their fate -- their children's fate -- in silent despair.There is nowhere to hide -- no one to turn to. The mainstream media has dropped all pretense of objectivity and has become a worthless tool of the state. The media's once envied "public service" to the people has become little more than applauding each new atrocity of this warmongering administration in the hopes of earning a share of the spoils. Vigilant no longer, the watchdog media has
become, in the words of Czech novelist Milan Kundera, "a parade of people marching by with raised fists . . . shouting identical syllables in unison."We can forget the Congress suddenly realizing it has a Constitutional mandate for oversight and restraint. Ain't gonna happen. The elected members of both parties are far too busy struggling under the weight of their own corruption to worry about the relentless dismantling of the republic or the worldwide chaos their lack of attention is causing. There's no indication that the injury, maiming or death of thousands of US servicemembers, or as Henry Kissenger describes them, "dumb, stupid animals" will appear on their radar as long as the media can prevent it from appearing on ours. They're not only cold, they're evil. Rotten to the core. Rotten from the core -- on in...On February 8, President George Bush proudly bragged to Tim Russert on Meet the Press, "I'm a war president. I make decisions here in the Oval
Office in foreign policy matters with war on my mind."Do you hear that, moms and dads? If your president's juvenile, paranoid announcement doesn't cross your minds whenever you're loading up your sons and daughters and sending them off to Iraq -- perhaps it will as you unload their flag-draped coffins at your cemeteries when they return home...Many foolishly believed Bush's signature legislation, the No Child Left Behind Act, meant that all children in this country -- all children -- would have equal opportunity for education. However, it didn't take long for those paying attention to realize that, as with anything Bush tells us, the opposite is true. The No Child Left Behind Act is little more than an increasingly harsh and punitive testing apparatus, the funding of which has been pushed off on states in a Catch-22 requirement -- either fund the program and meet the testing standards or face sanctions and, ultimately, closure.Other than
underfunding it, putting sanctions on schools, and wreaking havoc throughout the public school system, Bush has mostly ignored the Act's provisions -- with one exception. Buried deep within its 670 pages is a requirement that secondary school officials must provide provide contact information for every student as well as allow military recruiters

[IslamCity] This Saturday: Iraq war veteran speaking at Georgia Tech

2005-05-06 Thread Wolfgang Geist

Iraq War veteran and now conscientious objector Kevin Benderman will speak this Saturday at Georgia Tech. His court martial begins next Wednesday at Fort Stewart. Let us gather together to offer Kevin and Monica the support of the Atlanta peace and justice community.

Kevin and Monica Benderman
Saturday, May 7, 3-5 pm
Georgia Tech
Clary Theater in Moore Student Success Center
The Success Center is built into the west side of the football stadium on North Ave.
Burge parking across North Avenue.
Benderman, a 40 year-old Army mechanic with 10 years in the military, spent eight months in Iraq in 2003. After notifying his commanders Dec. 28, 2004 that he was seeking a discharge as a conscientious objector, he refused to deploy to Iraq for the second time on Jan. 8. The Army refused his application for conscientious objector status on April 27 and now his trial will begin on May 11. He faces seven years in prison on charges of Desertion
and Missing a Movement under Articles 85 and 87 of the Uniform Code of Military Justice. He and his wife have an informative web site where you can also make donations: www.bendermandefense.org.
Sponsored by: Georgia Tech Chapter of Amnesty International, Military Families Speak Out, Veterans for Peace, Gold Star Families for Peace, Georgia Peace and Justice Coalition/Atlanta, Atlanta International Action Center, Georgia Department of Peace Campaign

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[IslamCity] Our Presidents New Best Friend Boils People Alive

2005-05-17 Thread Wolfgang Geist

Our Presidents New Best Friend Boils People Alive

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article3943.htm

NEWS YOU WON'T FIND ON CNN

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Our Presidents New Best Friend Boils People Alive

See Also: Just Who Is Our New Best Friend This 29 minute video explores the reality of life in Uzbekistan
06/26/03: Let me introduce you to our presidents new best friend, President Karimov of Uzbekistan.
President Karimov government was awarded $500m in aid from the Bush administration in 2002. The SNB (Uzbekistan's security service) received $79m of this sum.
The U.S. State Department web site states "Uzbekistan is not a democracy and does not have a free press. Many opponents of the government have fled, and others have been arrested." and "The police force and the intelligence service use torture as a routine investigation technique."
Now I would like to introduce you to Muzafar Avazov, a 35-year old father of four. Mr Avazov had a visit from our presidents friends security force (SNB), the photographs below detail the brutality and inhuman treatment our tax dollars subsidize, with the full knowledge of our president and his administration.

Muzafar Avazov, body showed signs of burns on the legs, buttocks, lower back and arms. Sixty to seventy percent of the body was burnt, according to official sources. Doctors who saw the body reported that such burns could only have been caused by immersing Avazov in boiling water. Those who saw the body also reported that there was a large, bloody wound on the back of the head, heavy bruising on the forehead and side of the neck, and that his hands had no fingernails.
WARNING
The pictures of Mr. Avazov's body are horrific and should only be viewed by a mature audience

HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH:
Deaths Reveal "Horror" of Uzbek Prisons
(New York, August 10, 2002) Two suspicious deaths with apparent signs of torture highlight Uzbekistan's brutal ongoing crackdown against independent Muslims, Human Rights Watch said today. The bodies of Muzafar Avazov and Husnidin Alimov, both religious prisoners at Jaslyk Prison, were returned to family members for burial in Tashkent Thursday.
Individuals who had seen one of the bodies told Human Rights Watch that it showed clear signs of torture. The authorities reportedly restricted viewing of the second body. Both men had been imprisoned at Jaslyk Prison, well-known for its harsh conditions and ill-treatment and torture of religious prisoners.
Human Rights Watch has learned that the body of Muzafar Avazov, a 35-year old father of four, showed signs of burns on the legs, buttocks, lower back and arms. Sixty to seventy percent of the body was burnt, according to official sources. Doctors who saw the body reported that such burns could only have been caused by immersing Avazov in boiling water. Those who saw the body also reported that there was a large, bloody wound on the back of the head, heavy bruising on the forehead and side of the neck, and that his hands had no fingernails.
"These deaths reveal the horror of Uzbek prisons," said Elizabeth Andersen, executive director of Human Rights Watch's Europe and Central Asia Division. "It seems the small signs of progress on torture we had seen were mere window-dressing, intended to hide Uzbekistan's persistent problem and placate international critics."
These latest incidents of serious human rights violations could complicate Uzbekistan's relations with the United States. The United States has allied itself closely with Uzbekistan in the war against terrorism, but U.S. government officials have expressed concern that Uzbekistan's harsh treatment of independent Muslims could be counterproductive to the anti-terror effort. The U.S. government recently adopted a law requiring that before delivering aid to the Uzbek government, the Bush administration must determine that Uzbekistan is making "substantial and continuing progress" in meeting the human rights commitments contained in a U.S.-Uzbekistan March 2002 joint declaration.
Uzbek authorities, including numerous police officers, brought the body of Muzafar Avazov, to the family home at about 3:30 p.m. on August 8. Police cars surrounded the area and checked visitors who approached the house, preventing some from entering. When the burial occurred at 6:00 p.m. that evening, police closed the road to traffic. Authorities from the office of General Prosecutor Rashidjon Kodirov reportedly threatened the family not to talk to the media or give interviews to others about the circumstances surrounding Avazov's death. In May 2002, Human Rights Watch received reports that prison authorities had beaten Muzafar Avazov and put him in a punishment cell for stating that nothing could stop him from performing his prayers.
The authorities also returned the body of 34-year old Husnidin Alimov to his family in Tashkent on August 8, but they reportedly restricted viewing of the body. Prior to the

[IslamCity] British MP and lawmaker about Iraq war and peak oil

2005-05-27 Thread Wolfgang Geist

http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/AC9B68BD-9853-494D-AB7D-A5EF74C46694.htm
British lawmaker: Iraq war was for oil

By Adam Porter in Lisbon
Saturday 21 May 2005, 1:37 Makka Time, 22:37 GMT

Meacher believed the Iraq war was fought to control supplies

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Labourpolitician and former UK environment minister Michael Meacher has slammed Prime Minister Tony Blair and US President George Bush for starting a war, he says, to secure oil interests.

Speaking on Friday on the sidelines of the fourth International Workshop on Oil and Gas Depletion in Lisbon, Portugal, Meacher, a member of the British parliament,said: "The reason they attacked Iraq is nothing to do with weapons of mass destruction, it was nothing to do with democracy in Iraq, it was nothing to do with the human rights abuses of Saddam Hussein."

When asked by Aljazeera.net whether the war in Iraq was about oil he said: "The connection is 100%. It is absolutely overwhelming."

Meacher connected the wars in Iraq with a desire by US and UK interests to dominate oil supplies in times of increasing market volatility. He also thought the war was designed to pressure Saudi Arabia, the world's biggest oil supplier.

Middle East control?

"It was principally, totally and comprehensively to do with oil," Meacher continued. "This was about assuming control over the Middle East and over Iraq, the second largest producer and also over Saudi Arabia next door.

Meacher criticised Bush and Blairfor going to war for oil interests
"It was about securing as much as possible of the remaining supplies of oil and also over the Caspian basin, which of course is Afghanistan."

Meacher also said the US had poor environmental standards.

"American power plants waste more energy than is needed to run the whole Japanese economy," he said. "They have set their face against the Kyoto protocol."

He thenwent on to talk of "apocalyptic" energy problems facing the world, including the possibilities of serious shortages in the world oil supply due to ongoing field depletion.

Meacher painted a picture of spiralling oil costs as high as "$100 or $150 a barrel" creating massive social dislocation. These difficulties could cause "war, revolutions and migration on a scale we have never before seen", he said.
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[IslamCity] IMPORTANT: 88 Congressmen need 100,000 Signatures on Downing Street Letter

2005-06-01 Thread Wolfgang Geist





http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/052905B.shtml
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http://www.dailykos.com/story/2005/5/27/164317/949

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[IslamCity] RAF Bombing Raids Tried to Goad Saddam into War

2005-06-01 Thread Wolfgang Geist




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(Holy Quran-16:125)

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[IslamCity] US military asking for pre-emptive nuclear strikes

2005-06-04 Thread Wolfgang Geist




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[IslamCity] Be part of history, help impeach Bush

2005-06-08 Thread Wolfgang Geist





Distribute widely

DOWNING STREET MEMOSign Conyers Petition Concerning "Downing Street Memo http://johnconyers.campaignoffice.com/index.asp?Type=SUPERFORMSSEC=%7B120FBD30-EC95-47B0-84FA-E2FFC022265C%7D

http://www.impeachcentral.com/ 

What are the top reasons for impeaching Bush?
Iraq

Invading Iraq without any threat to the U.S. 
Lying about Iraqi WMD's to Congress and the American people 
Causing the deaths of over 1,600 U.S. troops and the maiming of over 10,000 more 
Failing to provide adequate equipment and armor to U.S. troops 
Allowing illegal torture and murder of prisoners 
Causing the deaths of 100,000 Iraqi civilians 
Spending $300 billion in just two years for an occupation that could last for decades 
Letting Halliburton steal billions through no-bid contracts
September 11

Ignoring countless warnings of an attack in the U.S. 
Reading "My Pet Goat" during the attack 
Letting Osama Bin Laden escape from Afghanistan 
Holding no bureaucrat accountable for ignoring warnings 
Delaying and obstructing the 911 Commission investigation 
Turning Afghanistan into the world's largest opium producer
Terrorism


Allowing international terrorism incidents to quadruple and trying to cover up the facts 
Failing to secure our borders and ports to prevent terrorism 
Creating a new generation of terrorists through the invasion of Iraq and the killing of 100,000 civilians 
Letting terrorists buy high-powered weapons inside the U.S. 
Letting North Korea build nuclear bombs and missiles that can cross the Pacific Ocean 
Refusing to shut down Pakistan's nuclear weapons exports 
Foreign relations

Turning the world against the United States 
Preparing for another war with Iran 
Signing treaties that cost America jobs and undermine American laws
Economy

Letting gasoline prices double at devastating cost to the economy while oil companies make record profits 
Letting corrupt companies like Enron steal billions from consumers and employees 
Cutting taxes for the rich and turning a $5 trillion budget surplus into a $5 trillion budget deficit 
Adding trillions to the national debt, which our children and grandchildren will have to pay off with interest 
Letting millions of American jobs go overseas
Freedom

Letting bureaucrats wiretap Americans without a court order 
Locking up suspects for years without charges or trials 
Arresting nonviolent protesters at Bush events 
Packing the courts with right-wing judges to outlaw abortion 
Ordering federal courts to interfere in the Terri Schiavo tragedy 
Taking away our right to sue corporations through class actions 
Taking away our right to declare bankruptcy under Chapter 7 and forcing middle-class Americans into debt slavery
Democracy

Stealing the Presidential elections of 2000 and 2004 
Refusing to investigate the disenfranchisement of tens of thousands of voters in Florida and Ohio 
Promoting black-box electronic voting machines without paper trails 
Embracing dictators in Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Russia, and China 
Overthrowing democratically-elected leaders in Haiti and Venezuela
Environment

Allowing global warming, which will cause massive environmental damage 
Allowing more toxic mercury in the air and water 
Allowing oil drilling in wilderness areas
Scandals

Illegally "outing" CIA agent Valerie Plame, an important anti-terrorism official 
Letting a gay male prostitute (Jeff Gannon) roam free in the White House 
Paying journalists to give favorable coverage to the administration 
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[IslamCity] The war against Iran has begun

2005-06-25 Thread Wolfgang Geist

by Scott Ritter
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article9199.htm
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/7896BBD4-28AB-48BA-A949-2096A02F864D.htm

The reasons for war against Iran
http://www.energybulletin.net/2913.html

World trade under dollar hegemony is a game in which
the US produces paper dollars and the rest of the
world produces real things that paper dollars can buy.

In March 2006 Iran will switch to the Euro for trading
oil threatening dollar hegemony.

The coming trade war and global depression
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[IslamCity] Sign the petetion: Help get the U.S. out of Iraq!

2005-06-26 Thread Wolfgang Geist


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[IslamCity] Why we need wars

2005-06-30 Thread Wolfgang Geist




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[IslamCity] The World Tribunal on Iraq

2005-06-30 Thread Wolfgang Geist




FOCUS | Is This What They Call Democracy?http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/062705Z.shtml The World Tribunal on Iraq is in session in Istanbul, Turkey. For truthout's special coverage of this event go to http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/wti.shtml.
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[IslamCity] Inside the mind of an Iraqi suicide bomber

2005-07-02 Thread Wolfgang Geist




Marwan joined the insurgency in April 2003 when U.S. soldiers fired on a crowd of demonstrators at a school, killing 12 and wounding many more.
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[IslamCity] Senate approves CAFTA

2005-07-04 Thread Wolfgang Geist

The free trade agreement between the US and its client states.
Eachcountry suffered tremendously from US interventions
and now CAFTA signs the deal to squeeze out the remains.
Behind each free trade agreement there's the military to enforce it.

Nicaragua was destabilized through the US run Contra war which finally lead to the
defeat of the Sandinistas.
El Salvadorhas beenrun by a military Junta using US trained death squads to oppress and kill any opposition.
The Dominican Republic's first democracy under Juan Bosch was overthrown by a US coup.
Honduras'US backed military Junta killed and tortured thousands.
Guatemala's first democracy under Joseph Arbenz was overthrown and replaced by a militray Junta and death squads (100.000 - 200.000 killed).

"Mr. Bush and his supporters also say the pact would provide crucial support to fragile democracies that have close economic and political ties to the United States. "
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[IslamCity] UK aid funds Iraqi torture units

2005-07-06 Thread Wolfgang Geist

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/070305X.shtml

UK Aid Funds Iraqi Torture UnitsBy Peter Beaumont and Martin BrightThe Observer UK
Sunday 03 July 2005
British and American aid intended for Iraq's hard-pressed police service is being diverted to paramilitary commando units accused of widespread human rights abuses, including torture and extra-judicial killings, The Observer can reveal.
Iraqi Police Service officers said that ammunition, weapons and vehicles earmarked for the IPS are being taken by shock troops at the forefront of Iraq's new dirty counter-insurgency war.
The allegations follow a wide-ranging investigation by this paper into serious human rights abuses being conducted by anti-insurgency forces in Iraq. The Observer has seen photographic evidence of post-mortem and hospital examinations of alleged terror suspects from Baghdad and the Sunni Triangle which demonstrate serious abuse of suspects including burnings, strangulation, the breaking of limbs and - in one case - the apparent use of an electric drill to perform a knee-capping.
The investigation revealed:

A 'ghost' network of secret detention centres across the country, inaccessible to human rights organisations, where torture is taking place.
Compelling evidence of widespread use of violent interrogation methods including hanging by the arms, burnings, beatings, the use of electric shocks and sexual abuse.
Claims that serious abuse has taken place within the walls of the Iraqi government's own Ministry of the Interior.
Apparent co-operation between unofficial and official detention facilities, and evidence of extra-judicial executions by the police.
The issue of increasing human rights abuses has been raised with the new Iraqi government by the Foreign Office, the US State Department and the United Nations. British Embassy officials in Baghdad have been briefed on the crisis by concerned senior Iraqi officials on several occasions.
The Ministry of Defence confirmed that it has spent £27 million in gift aid on the Iraqi security services, which provided guns, ammunition, and public order equipment such as protective vests and armoured Land Rovers. An MoD source said the majority of this material went to the police. A further £20m went to the police from the government's Global Conflict Prevention Pool, jointly funded by the MoD, the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and the Department for International Development.
Despite that, the British government has, until now, remained silent in public on the issue of the country's widening human rights crisis.
Liberal Democrat defence spokesman Michael Moore called on ministers to make an immediate statement in the House of Commons: 'These are serious reports that go to the heart of the question of the coalition's oversight of the security situation in Iraq. The Foreign Office and the Ministry of Defence must urgently inform Parliament about the scope of their investigation into these allegations,' he said.
The Foreign Office said last night that it was taking the reports of abuse 'very seriously'. It issued detailed responses to the claims: 'We are aware and deeply concerned by reports of detainee abuse by Iraqi police officers and of men in police uniforms committing serious crimes, whether these men are genuine policemen or not. Any abuse of detainees is unacceptable.'
An MoD spokesman told The Observer: 'We are aware of the allegations. We have raised this with the Iraqi government at the highest levels in Baghdad and Basra.'
Privately, there is a growing belief that complaints are being stonewalled.
The investigation raises questions about the British government's commitment to denying aid to governments that tolerate or encourage human rights abuses.
International and Iraqi officials claim the use of torture has become more extensive since the country's first democratically-elected government was sworn in.
Steve Crawshaw of Human Rights Watch,said: 'There has been the attempt to suggest that because Saddam's regime is over now everything is rosy in Iraq. What is happening in official places in Iraq is simply horrific and must be stopped.'
The Foreign Office stressed: 'Any abuse of detainees is unacceptable. As soon as we become aware of any allegations of abuse we raise them at the highest levels in Basra and Baghdad.
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[IslamCity] Some good thoughts on Blair-Bono-Bush's make poverty a history scam

2005-07-06 Thread Wolfgang Geist

I felt dizzy when I read about Bono and World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz talking about poverty in Africa. But the worst had still to happen.I wanted to laugh but I couldnt when I heard George W. Bush talking about the great generosity of US Government to help the developing countries. But the worst had still to happen.I felt sick when I saw Tony Blair and Sir Bob Geldof flirting and preaching on TV about Make Poverty History. But the worst had still to happen. I thought of Afghanistan and Iraq when I heard UN Secretary General Kofi Annan saying: "On behalf of the poor, the voiceless and the weak I say thank you." But the worst had still to happen.Then I saw Bill Gates on the stage of Live 8 in London, calling for generosity. But even that wasnt the worst. The worst would be let these clowns blind us on the real causes of the problem, in Africa as anywhere else. The worst would be falling in this propaganda trap orchestrated by war
criminals and their friends. The worst would be let them win.This morning I read an open letter by Sir Bob Geldof to the leaders of the G8. Toward the end, he writes: Today there will be noise and music and joy, the joy of exuberant possibility. On Friday there will be a great silence as the world awaits your verdict. Lets not be silent, neither on Friday, nor on Saturday or on any other day. Lets not be silent against this clan of gangsters who arrogate to themselves the right to decide the life and death of millions of people and our very survival on this planet. To keep my sanity I collected a few articles about all this. Take a look!
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[IslamCity] How US Atrocities Sparked The Iraqi Resistance

2005-07-16 Thread Wolfgang Geist

TURNING POINT FALLUJAH
How US Atrocities Sparked The Iraqi Resistance
30 April 2005
http://www.j-n-v.org/AW_briefings/JNV_briefing081.htm

Posted: 30 April 2005


IGNITION POINT FOR THE RESISTANCE
Two years ago today (30 April 2005), reports appeared
in Western newspapers of a major incident in the
Western Iraqi city of Fallujah. On the very day that
these reports were published, more shootings by US
soldiers occurred, cementing the hatred of local
people for the occupation forces, and marking the
beginning of a spriral of violence which made Fallujah
the epicentre of the growing Iraqi insurgency.


THE GROZNY OPTION
Fallujah, a city of 300,000 citizens, has been the
scene of several major turning points in the
post-invasion period. The last crisis was in November
2004, with a full-scale invasion by Marines and
others, which left much of Fallujah looking like the
Chechen city of Grozny.


Dr Hafid al-Dulaimi, head of Fallujah's compensation
commission, reports that 36,000 homes were destroyed,
along with 8,400 shops. Quoting this estimate,
Jonathan Steele and Dhar Jamail draw comparisons with
Guernica and Grozny: 'This decade's unforgettable
monument to brutality and overkill is Falluja, a
textbook case of how not to handle an insurgency, and
a reminder that unpopular occupations will always
degenerate into desperation and atrocity.' (Guardian,
27 April 2005, p. 25)


THE NONVIOLENT ALTERNATIVE
One justification offered for the November assault was
the need to break the hold of the terrorists in
Fallujah, and restore the authority of the interim
Iraqi government.


However, in October 2004, local insurgent leaders
voted overwhelmingly to accept broad conditions set by
the Iraqi government, including demands that they
eject foreign fighters from the city, turn over all
heavy weapons, dismantle illegal checkpoints and allow
the Iraqi National Guard to enter the city. In turn,
the insurgents set their own conditions, which
included a halt to U.S. attacks on the city and
acknowledgment by the military that women and children
have been among the casualties in U.S. strikes.
(Washington Post, 28 Oct. 2004, p. A21)

A later offer was put forward by a (mainly Sunni)
coalition, including the Muslim Clerics Association,
for a plan to establish the rule of law in those
areas through peaceful means, on the basis of six
measures, including a demand that U.S. forces remain
confined to bases in the month before balloting. This
was described as a dramatic shift by Sunni groups
which had previously insisted that no election would
be legitimate until Western troops left Iraq.


This initiative is very significant, said an
official involved in establishing the transitional
government. Theyre no longer saying, Were not
participating because the country is occupied.
Theyre saying, The government is not right. The only
way we can make it right is by elections. If you look
at their demands, theyre not impossible. They are
things that can be discussed.


Larry Diamond, who served in the U.S.-led occupation
authority, said If theres a chance that this could
be the beginning of political transformation that
could change the situation on the ground, I think
weve got to take it. (Washington Post, 6 Nov. 2004,
p. A01)


These offers were brushed aside and erased from the
record. They might not have worked, but they were not
tried, and they were not even part of the mainstream
debate over the invasion. The US was not prepared to
accept a non-military solution that would have
hampered its operational freedom in Iraq.


It was better that tens of thousands of homes be
destroyed, thousands of families be driven out as
refugees, and an unknown number of civilians be killed
by artillery fire, phosphorus shells, and explosive
charges in the US onslaught.


ORIGINS: 28 APRIL 2003
But how did Fallujah become the heart of the Iraqi
insurgency? For the answer we must turn back to the
events of April 2003, when US troops entered the
peaceful city of Fallujah and occupied the local
secondary school.


Local people angry about the US occupation, and
demanding the re-opening of the school, demonstrated
outside the school on the evening of 28 April, nearly
three weeks after the fall of the regime. US soldiers
fired on the crowd, killing 13 civilians immediately.


This is the same number of civilians as was killed by
British soldiers in Derry in Northern Ireland on
Bloody Sunday in 1972. The Fallujah massacre was
Iraq's Bloody Sunday, a similarly potent injustice
sparking armed resistance.


THE FIRST MASSACRE
The official US account was that 25 armed civilians,
mixed in with the crowd and also positioned on nearby
rooftops, fired on the soldiers of the 82nd Airborne,
leading to a fire-fight. (BBC News Online, 29 April
2003) Phil Reeves, a reporter for the Independent on
Sunday, conducted a careful independent investigation
and concluded that the official story was a highly
implausible version of events.


Witnesses

[IslamCity] Fwd: US tortures kids too (some as young as 8 years old)

2005-07-16 Thread Wolfgang Geist



 
   Just when you think the Bush clique has reached
 rock bottom, you 
 discover that they are sinking to ever-lower depths
 of moral depravity. 
 Here's what these self-appointed guardians of our
 moral values are 
 doing to child prisoners as young as 8 who fall into
 their clutches in 
 Iraq and Afghanistan. This goes a long way to
 explain why the US is one 
 of only two nations which has refused to ratify the
 Convention on the 
 Rights of the Child (as well as other humanitarian
 conventions adopted 
 by the civilized world).
 
  * * * * * * * * * *
  June 29, 2005
  Arrested Development By ARLIE HOCHSCHILD
   Berkeley, Calif.
 
   LAST month John Miller, director of the State
 Department's Office to 
 Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons, said that
 half the victims 
 of human trafficking may be children under 18.
 Children are at the 
 center of the problem of trafficking, which, Mr.
 Miller noted, is one 
 of the great human rights issues of the 21st
 century. Yes, children 
 should be at the heart of our concern for human
 rights. But that 
 concern should start with the children detained in
 American prisons in 
 Afghanistan, Iraq and Guantánamo Bay.
 
   Under international law, the line between
 childhood and maturity is 
 18. In communications with Amnesty International and
 Human Rights 
 Watch, the Pentagon has lowered the cutoff to 16.
 For this reason among 
 others, we don't know exactly how many Iraqi
 children are in American 
 custody. But before the transfer of sovereignty from
 the Coalition 
 Provisional Authority to an Iraqi interim government
 a year ago, the 
 International Committee of the Red Cross reported
 registering 107 
 detainees under 18 during visits to six prisons
 controlled by coalition 
 troops. Some detainees were as young as 8.
 
   Since that time, Human Rights Watch reports that
 the number has risen. 
 The figures from Afghanistan are still more
 alarming: the journalist 
 Seymour Hersh wrote last month in the British
 newspaper The Guardian 
 that a memo addressed to Defense Secretary Donald
 Rumsfeld shortly 
 after the 2001 invasion reported 800-900 Pakistani
 boys 13-15 years of 
 age in custody.
 
   Juvenile detainees in American facilities like Abu
 Ghraib and Bagram 
 Air Base have been subject to the same mistreatment
 as adults. The 
 International Red Cross, Amnesty International and
 the Pentagon itself 
 have gathered substantial testimony of torture of
 children, bolstered 
 by accounts from soldiers who witnessed or
 participated in the abuse.
 
   According to Amnesty International, 13-year-old
 Mohammed Ismail Agha 
 was arrested in Afghanistan in late 2002 and
 detained without charge or 
 trial for over a year, first at Bagram and then at
 Guantánamo Bay. He 
 was held in solitary confinement and subjected to
 sleep deprivation. 
 Whenever I started to fall asleep, they would kick
 at my door and yell 
 at me to wake up, he told an Amnesty researcher.
 They made me stand 
 partway, with my knees bent, for one or two hours.
 
   A Canadian, Omar Khadr, was 15 in 2002 when he was
 captured in 
 Afghanistan and interned at Guantánamo. For 2½
 years, he was allowed no 
 contact with a lawyer or with his family.
 Seventeen-year-old Akhtar 
 Mohammed told Amnesty that he was kept in solitary
 confinement in a 
 shipping container for eight days in Afghanistan in
 January 2002.
 
   A Pentagon investigation last year by Maj. Gen.
 George Fay reported 
 that in January 2004, a leashed but unmuzzled
 military guard dog was 
 allowed into a cell holding two children. The
 intention was for the dog 
 to  'go nuts on the kids,' barking and scaring
 them. The children 
 were screaming and the smaller one tried to hide
 behind the larger, the 
 report said, as a soldier allowed the dog to get
 within about one foot 
 of them. A girl named Juda Hafez Ahmad told Amnesty
 International that 
 when she was held in Abu Ghraib she saw one of the
 guards allow his 
 dog to bite a 14-year-old boy on the leg.
 
   Brig. Gen. Janis Karpinski, formerly in charge of
 Abu Ghraib, told 
 Maj. General Fay about visiting a weeping
 11-year-old detainee in the 
 prison's notorious Cellblock 1B, which housed
 prisoners designated high 
 risk. He told me he was almost 12, General
 Karpinski recalled, and 
 that he really wanted to see his mother, could he
 please call his 
 mother.
 
   Children like this 11 year old held at Abu Ghraib
 have been denied the 
 right to see their parents, a lawyer, or anyone
 else. They were not 
 told why they were detained, let alone for how long.
 A Pentagon 
 spokesman told Mr. Hersh that juveniles received
 some special care, but 
 added, Age is not a determining factor in
 detention. The United 
 States has found, the spokesman said, that age does
 not necessarily 
 diminish threat potential.
 
   It's true that some of these children may have
 picked up a stone or a 
 gun. But coalition intelligence officers told the
 Red

[IslamCity] The Speech the President Should Give

2005-07-17 Thread Wolfgang Geist

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Published: July 13, 2005

A couple of weeks ago, on this very page of this here newspaper, Senator John Kerry wrote an Op-Ed article imagining "The Speech the President Should Give," about that night's televised presidential address on the war in Iraq. Of course, Kerry had about as much chance of George W. Bush's following his advice as the producers of "MTV Cribs" have of getting the president's mother to show them around Kennebunkport.

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Still, Kerry stunned me, not because his ideas were sane, but because he was actually able to fantasize that President Bush would give a speech offering just and concrete solutions for that black hole. Because I don't even remember being able to dream that big.
The only possible presidential speech fantasy in my wildest of daydreams, my oratorical castle in the air, is that one day, for just one measly speech, the president - the man of "mission accomplished," the man who was once asked at a press conference to discuss one of his mistakes and couldn't think of any, the man who is surely the sunniest looker-on-the-bright-side east of Drew Barrymore - would sit behind his Oval Office desk, stare into a TV camera and say: "My fellow Americans, good evening. As if that's possible."
He continues, "We are a divided people, but let us celebrate what we have in common. We don't all worship the same god. Some of us do not believe in a god at all. But the good news is that, thanks to me, we all now believe in the Apocalypse. You're welcome."
Then he would address the worried Western states - which are afraid of going up in flames because so many copters and National Guardsmen, the region's usual summertime firefighters, are deployed to Iraq - adding, "Oops." This will remind him to remind us that his "Healthy Forests" initiative has at least reduced the fear of forest fires by making it easier to chop down those deadly trees.
"Which is what I'd like to do for the state of Florida," he says.
He continues: "In the future, you folks won't have to worry about all this hurricane damage anymore because of my inability to address, much less accept, the scientific consensus on the alarming consequences of global warming according to groups ranging from the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change to Mrs. Atkinson's eighth graders at Theodore Roosevelt Junior High. This means more hurricanes in the short term, but rest assured that icebergs melting from the greenhouse gases of unchecked American factories will flood Florida off the map eventually, so you'll no longer have homes to worry about."
The speech goes on for hours, pre-empting Conan. There are long tangents about mercury levels, under-armored military vehicles and war profiteering. Finally, losing his voice, he hoarsely ends his diatribe in the middle of the night, whispering "sweet dreams" while putting air quotes around the word "sweet."
Then I realized I was picturing George W. Bush giving this presidential bummer speech while wearing a cardigan sweater. Which is when it hit me. I was fantasizing about Jimmy Carter. I can stop whiling away the hours writing forlorn presidential speeches in my head and look up Carter's forlorn presidential speeches instead.
Of course, my favorite is the famous "malaise" speech of 1979 (it deals with the energy crisis - but never actually uses the word malaise). Considered by some to be the worst presidential speech in history, the address asserted that our problems are "deeper than gasoline lines." And: "This is not a message of happiness or reassurance, but it is the truth and it is a warning." Then: "There is simply no way to avoid sacrifice."
Those frank words, coming out of a presidential mouth, are shocking. It will be difficult, but think back and try to remember an America dependent on foreign oil, an America with high gasoline prices, an America consumed with crises in the Middle East. And imagine you feel there is nothing you, the average American, can do. Then your president goes on TV and instead of saying you can do something vague like "stay the course," he tells you that there is something small and practical you can do. You can carpool!
These days, there's just something refreshing about reading through Carter's clear-eyed political suicide. Daydreamer though I am, I have never expected a president to solve our chaos. It's just nice to know that once, one of them acknowledged it.

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[IslamCity] Must read: A war between normal human people and savages

2005-07-17 Thread Wolfgang Geist

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article9463.htm

A war between normal human people and savages
The corporate terrorist of the Multinationals have invisibly joined hands with the religious zealots who have a mission to transform the Muslim world in their own image.By Abid Ullah Jan07/13/05 "ICH" - - It is time to talk a little bit more than about just what is happening in Palestine, Kashmir, Chechnya, Afghanistan and Iraq. Muslims situation is very bad. There is an obvious attempt to wipe Muslims out of the map if they do not agree to live by what has been repeatedly mentioned by Bush, Blair. Martin, and others as our way of life and our values. No other way of life and no other value matters.Terrible crimes are being committed to impose a way of life on Muslims. These are the crimes which no one would even feel like describing; not accidentally but with a purpose aimed at creating societies which submit to the will and way of life
prescribed by the modern day fascists. The aim is to keep Muslims away from Islam in accordance with the ideologists of the Washington regime and that aim is to be fulfilled by any means and at all costs.Briefly there are 150,000 dead people in Afghanistan and Iraq until now. The rest of the populations are subjected to a life which is hardly better than death. Economies and infrastructures are totally shattered and the only job available are working as collaborators for consolidation of occupations.Besides the concentration camps, there are areas, both in Afghanistan and Iraq, where no body knows what is going on, because there are no journalists and no monitors allowed. We fear that the death toll is much higher. There are reports of concentration camps even on ships in the international waters. The extent of the crimes against humanity has crossed all limits of comprehension.The question is: How come this is going on before the eyes of
the civilized world and there is no one who can hold the culprits accountable? Some people argue this is a war against terrorism and the extremists. In fact all those who died are ordinary Muslims, not even knowing the complex classification which the war lords have invented to divide Muslims. Yet the civilized world world is mum over Afghanistan occupation and there is no way it can deal with the occupation of Iraq and Palestine. Similarly, there is no "collateral damage." Every damage is intentional from day one to break the back of resistance in Muslim populations as a whole.This is total indifference and complacency and this is confusion between values and interests; principles and interests. This is what is serious because no civilization, or no man, can live without principles, values and dreams. That's what happened to the Roman Empire. That is what happened to the Muslim empires, to the Turkish empire and the British empire and that is what is happening to the
West right now. But then that is not a black and white situation.We have a situation where we have almost undivided sympathies of the public, most of the press, and yet in the democratic societies this is not reflected in the policies of the governments and the media. This is another question mark. Although in the United States, the general public is moved much more easily than in Europe. Why is this happening in Afghanistan and Iraq and Palestine? Did these places deserve this kind of treatment by the US, Israel and UK?What is happening now are condemnations, _expression_ of concerns but not actions by the concerned quarters. Hallow claims of democracy and freedom and liberation are to deceive their own people and their own self: to assuage the conscience of the West with lies and self-deceptions. This is not to question the goodwill of those who expose the truth. Not at all! This is not to question the courage of those who risk their lives to bring the
reality before our eyes, but the overall attitude is that 'we have been attacked so you must pay for the terrorism that emanates from your part of the world'. Or, try and blame all sides; a not very intelligent construction is used, 'No one is blameless'. Whatever it may mean, it is very much used when it comes to dealing with the US and Israeli occupations..'No one is blameless' is true in itself but it 'says nothing. It makes it easy not to act and easier to overlook what is happening: That there is an aggression! That there is a victim!!There is total confusion despite the overwhelming and incontestable evidence of the lies upon lies of the aggressors. The attempt to equate the two, the aggressor and the victims, is almost pathetic. And this is the most painful of all. It is much more human to say, well, we can not help or we are not willing to help and you are on your own, than to sit and watch the slaughtering of innocent women and children and to pretend
to be fair to both the killers and the killed.This is not a war on terrorism. This is a war to make and then break terrorists to terrorize

[IslamCity] That's why they can't leave Iraq: War looting

2005-07-17 Thread Wolfgang Geist

The US military uses Iraqi children for their propaganda purposes. Handing out candy
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/15/international/middleeast/15cnd-iraq.html
andbehind their backs,
corporate America is lootingtheir country.
Global Eye
http://context.themoscowtimes.com/story/143969/
Love Me Tender
By Chris FloydPublished: July 15, 2005
They were still scraping body parts out of the blasted carriages in the London Underground last week when the terrorists brazenly announced a harvest of blood fruits from their murderous campaign. The declaration -- bone-chilling in its moral nullity, its brutal cynicism -- was made in the fearsome name of Jihad. That would be Asim Jihad, of course, spokesman for the Iraqi Oil Ministry. Yes, just one day after London's agony, the state terrorists who perpetrated the ongoing mass atrocity of aggressive war in Iraq celebrated an important victory in their campaign of violence and fear: 11 juicy oil fields are being put up for tender to international investors, AdnKronos International reports.The corporate cornucopia of these fertile fields in oil-laden southern Iraq -- 3 million barrels per day, said Jihad -- will surpass the nation's entire current output of 2.2 million bpd: rich pickings for the oil barons whose branch office in the White House has
done such outstanding advance work for them. With oil prices soaring past $60 per barrel -- on their way to the $100 mark in the near future, some experts say -- the $25 billion ante that the Iraqis are seeking will be a small price to pay for a seat at this game.

But goodness gracious me -- as Pentagon pump-jockey Don Rumsfeld would say, in that prim spinster patois he likes to affect when wiping blood off his hands -- nobody in their right mind believes all that money will actually go to the Oil Ministry, which will maintain ostensible control of the sold-off fields for the alleged benefit of the Iraqi people. Heavens to Betsy, no!Some of the loot will be skimmed by Bushist-favored bagmen in the new Baghdad regime.
Some will be siphoned off to fund the death-dealing, torture-happy goon squads now operating on behalf of various factions in the government. Some will be kicked back to the oil barons. And some will be smuggled into slush funds for covert ops, mercenaries, campaign hijinks in the Homeland and "retirement packages" for good and faithful servants of the Bush war machine.How do we know this will happen? Because it has already happened to Iraqi oil money that fell into the hands of the profiteer-in-chief, President George W. Bush. According to detailed audits and investigations by Congress, the Pentagon, the General Accountability Office, the International Advisory and Monitoring Board, and the Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction, more than $8.8 billion in Iraqi money under Bush's control simply went walking between October 2003 and July 2004, the London Review of Books reports. These were revenues supposedly earmarked for the Iraqi government -- but no one knows
where they actually went, except for a few dollops that investigators found were bankrolling many of the worthy endeavors outlined above. And this epic rapine -- looting on a scale not seen since the days of the Mongol Horde -- is just a single rivulet in the vast delta of corruption draining the conquered land. Christian Aid estimates that an additional $4 billion in unmetered oil export revenue was sold off under the counter, Saddam-style, to coalition cronies. Then there were the planeloads of cold cash spread around by Bush's "Provisional Authority" -- off the books, natch -- to "couriers," brokers, Western contractors, tribal leaders, "intelligence assets" and anyone else who had the moxie to put their hands out at the right time. All of this money was stolen from the Iraqi people. In fact, every bit of Iraq's oil money was seized by Bush and transferred to New York's Federal Reserve Bank in May 2003. Perhaps this was the operation Bush was referring to in his
ballyhooed "Mission Accomplished" declaration that same month. (He certainly couldn't have been talking about the military mission -- not with "major combat operations" still being launched even as we speak.) And oil revenues kept flowing to Bush's bank account after the conquest. All told, by the time Bush's personal viceroy, Jerry Bremer, did his "last days of Saigon" bug-out from Baghdad last year, the Crawford Caligula had run through $20 billion of Iraq's oil money.

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[IslamCity] Resort To Fear, By Noam Chomsky

2005-07-30 Thread Wolfgang Geist

Resort To Fear

By Noam Chomsky 
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article9549.htm
07/23/05 ZNet - - The resort to fear by systems of
power to discipline the domestic population has left a
long and terrible trail of bloodshed and suffering
which we ignore at our peril. Recent history provides
many shocking illustrations.

The mid-twentieth century witnessed perhaps the most
awful crimes since the Mongol invasions. The most
savage were carried out where western civilisation had
achieved its greatest splendours. Germany was a
leading centre of the sciences, the arts and
literature, humanistic scholarship, and other
memorable achievements. Prior to World War I, before
anti-German hysteria was fanned in the West, Germany
had been regarded by American political scientists as
a model democracy as well, to be emulated by the West.
In the mid-1930s, Germany was driven within a few
years to a level of barbarism that has few historical
counterparts. That was true, most notably, among the
most educated and civilised sectors of the population.


In his remarkable diaries of his life as a Jew under
Nazism  escaping the gas chambers by a near miracle 
Victor Klemperer writes these words about a German
professor friend whom he had much admired, but who had
finally joined the pack: If one day the situation
were reversed and the fate of the vanquished lay in my
hands, then I would let all the ordinary folk go and
even some of the leaders, who might perhaps after all
have had honourable intentions and not known what they
were doing. But I would have all the intellectuals
strung up, and the professors three feet higher than
the rest; they would be left hanging from the lamp
posts for as long as was compatible with hygiene.

Klemperers reactions were merited, and generalised to
a large part of recorded history.

Complex historical events always have many causes. One
crucial factor in this case was skillful manipulation
of fear. The ordinary folk were driven to fear of a
Jewish-Bolshevik conspiracy to take over the world,
placing the very survival of the people of Germany at
risk. Extreme measures were therefore necessary, in
self-defence. Revered intellectuals went far beyond.


As the Nazi storm clouds settled over the country in
1935, Martin Heidegger depicted Germany as the most
endangered nation in the world, gripped in the great
pincers of an onslaught against civilisation itself,
led in its crudest form by Russia and America. Not
only was Germany the prime victim of this awesome and
barbaric force, but it was also the responsibility of
Germany, the most metaphysical of nations, to lead
the resistance to it. Germany stood in the centre of
the western world, and must protect the great
heritage of classical Greece from annihilation,
relying on the new spiritual energies unfolding
historically from out of the centre. The spiritual
energies continued to unfold in ways that were
evident enough when he delivered that message, to
which he and other leading intellectuals continued to
adhere.

The paroxysm of slaughter and annihilation did not end
with the use of weapons that may very well bring the
species to a bitter end. We should also not forget
that these species-terminating weapons were created by
the most brilliant, humane, and highly educated
figures of modern civilisation, working in isolation,
and so entranced by the beauty of the work in which
they were engaged that they apparently paid little
attention to the consequences: significant scientific
protests against nuclear weapons began in the labs in
Chicago, after the termination of their role in
creation of the bomb, not in Los Alamos, where the
work went on until the grim end. Not quite the end. 

The official US Air Force history relates that after
the bombing of Nagasaki, when Japans submission to
unconditional surrender was certain, General Hap
Arnold wanted as big a finale as possible, a
1,000-plane daylight raid on defenceless Japanese
cities. The last bomber returned to its base just as
the agreement to unconditional surrender was formally
received. The Air Force chief, General Carl Spaatz,
had preferred that the grand finale be a third nuclear
attack on Tokyo, but was dissuaded. Tokyo was a poor
target having already been incinerated in the
carefully-executed firestorm in March, leaving perhaps
100,000 charred corpses in one of historys worst
crimes.

Such matters are excluded from war crimes tribunals,
and largely expunged from history. By now they are
hardly known beyond circles of activists and
specialists. At the time they were publicly hailed as
a legitimate exercise of self-defence against a
vicious enemy that had reached the ultimate level of
infamy by bombing US military bases in its Hawaiian
and Philippine colonies.

It is perhaps worth bearing in mind that Japans
December 1941 bombings  the date which will live in
infamy, in FDRs (Franklin D. Roosevelt) ringing
words  were more than justified under the

[IslamCity] Operation Iranian freedom???

2005-08-13 Thread Wolfgang Geist

The mainstream is dutyfully reporting about
a non-existing nuclear weapons program in Iran
in order to prepare the US population for operation
Iranian freedom.
At the same time the US government is not signing the
nuclear weapons non-proliferation treaty and turning
Iraq into a depleted Uranium wasteland.

Petrodollar Warfare: Dollars, Euros and the Upcoming
Iranian Oil Bourse
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[IslamCity] Amnesty International Appeal for kevin Benderman

2005-08-16 Thread Wolfgang Geist




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[IslamCity] The disaster is Bushes fault

2005-09-05 Thread Wolfgang Geist

Funneling every cent into Iraq and homeland security
drained the New Orleans budget.

http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4200/is_20050606/ai_n14657367

In fiscal year 2006, the New Orleans district of the
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is bracing for a record
$71.2 million reduction in federal funding.

It would be the largest single-year funding loss ever
for the New Orleans district, Corps officials said.

I've been here over 30 years and I've never seen this
level of reduction, said Al Naomi, project manager for
the New Orleans district. I think part of the problem
is it's not so much the reduction, it's the drastic
reduction in one fiscal year. It's the immediacy of
the reduction that I think is the hardest thing to
adapt to.

There is an economic ripple effect, too. The cuts mean
major hurricane and flood protection projects will not
be awarded to local engineering firms. Also, a study
to determine ways to protect the region from a
Category 5 hurricane has been shelved for now.

Money is so tight the New Orleans district, which
employs 1,300 people, instituted a hiring freeze last
month on all positions. The freeze is the first of its
kind in about 10 years, said Marcia Demma, chief of
the Corps' Programs Management Branch.

Stephen Jeselink, interim commander of the New Orleans
Corps district, told employees in an internal e-mail
dated May 25 that the district is experiencing
financial challenges. Execution of our available funds
must be dealt with through prudent districtwide
management decisions. In addition to a hiring freeze,
Jeselink canceled the annual Corps picnic held every
June.

 Congress is setting the Corps budget.

The House of Representatives wants to cut the New
Orleans district budget 21 percent to $272.4 million
in 2006, down from $343.5 million in 2005. The House
figure is about $20 million lower than the president's
suggested $290.7 million budget.

It's now up to the Senate. Sen. Mary Landrieu, D-New
Orleans, is making no promises.

It's going to be very tough, Landrieu said. The House
was not able to add back this money ... but hopefully
we can rally in the Senate and get some of this money
back.

Landrieu said the Bush administration is not making
Corps of Engineers funding a priority.

I think it's extremely shortsighted, Landrieu said.
When the Corps of Engineers' budget is cut, Louisiana
bleeds. These projects are literally life-and-death
projects to the people of south Louisiana and they are
(of) vital economic interest to the entire nation.

The Corps' budget could still be beefed up, as it is
every year, through congressional additions. Last
year, Congress added $20 million to the overall budget
of the New Orleans district but a similar increase
this year would still leave a $50 million shortfall.

One of the hardest-hit areas of the New Orleans
district's budget is the Southeast Louisiana Urban
Flood Control Project, which was created after the May
1995 flood to improve drainage in Jefferson, Orleans
and St. Tammany parishes. SELA's budget is being
drained from $36.5 million awarded in 2005 to $10.4
million suggested for 2006 by the House of
Representatives and the president.

The project manager said there would be no contracts
awarded with this $10.4 million, Demma said.

The construction portion of the Corps' budget would
suffer if Congress doesn't add money. In 2005, the
district received $94.3 million in federal dollars
dedicated to construction. In 2006, the proposal is
for $56 million.

It would be critical to this city if we had a $50
million construction budget compared with the past
years, Demma said. It would be horrible for the city,
it would be horrible for contractors and for flood
protection if this were the final number compared to
recent years and what the city needs.

Construction generally has been on the decline for
several years and focus has been on other projects in
the Corps.

The district has identified $35 million in projects to
build and improve levees, floodwalls and pumping
stations in St. Bernard, Orleans, Jefferson and St.
Charles parishes. Those projects are included in a
Corps line item called Lake Pontchartrain, where
funding is scheduled to be cut from $5.7 million this
year to $2.9 million in 2006. Naomi said it's enough
to pay salaries but little else.

We'll do some design work. We'll design the contracts
and get them ready to go if we get the money. But we
don't have the money to put the work in the field, and
that's the problem, Naomi said.

The Appropriations Committee in Congress will
ultimately decide how much the New Orleans district
will receive, he said.

Obviously, the decisions are being made up there that
are not beneficial to the state, in my opinion, Naomi
said. Let's put it this way: When (former Rep.) Bob
Livingston (R-Metairie) was chairman of the
Appropriations Committee, we didn't have a monetary
problem. Our problem was how do we spend all the money
we were getting.

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[IslamCity] Why The Levee Broke

2005-09-05 Thread Wolfgang Geist

Why The Levee Broke
by Will Bunch, Alternet
Washington diverted federal funding for Louisiana
flood control
projects to pay for the war in Iraq.
http://alternet.org/story/24871/
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am one of the Muslims.} (Holy Quran-41:33)
 
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Allah guides one person by you, it is better for you than the best types of 
camels. [al-Bukhaaree, Muslim] 

The prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him)  also said, Whoever 
calls to guidance will have a reward similar to the reward of the one who 
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[IslamCity] Don't give a penny to FEMA, Pat Robertson is cashing in

2005-09-11 Thread Wolfgang Geist

This article can be found on the web at
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20050919/blumenthal
Pat Robertson's Katrina Cash

by MAX BLUMENTHAL

[posted online on September 7, 2005]

Every cloud has a silver lining. Hurricane Katrina has
devastated New Orleans, leaving thousands dead and
hundreds of thousands homeless, and plunging the
entire city into chaos. In the hurricane's wake, the
Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and its
director, Michael Brown, forced out of his former job
at the International Arabian Horse Association, with
no credentials in disaster relief, have become targets
of withering criticism. Yet FEMA's relief efforts have
brought considerable assistance to at least one man
who stands to benefit from Hurricane Katrina perhaps
more than any other individual: Pat Robertson.

With the Bush Administration's approval, Robertson's
$66 million relief organization, Operation Blessing,
has been prominently featured on FEMA's list of
charitable groups accepting donations for hurricane
relief. Dozens of media outlets, including the New
York Times, CNN and the Associated Press, duly
reprinted FEMA's list, unwittingly acting as agents
soliciting cash for Robertson. How in the heck did
that happen? Richard Walden, president of the
disaster-relief group Operation USA, asked of
Operation Blessing's inclusion on FEMA's list. That
gives Pat Robertson millions of extra dollars.

Though Operation USA has conducted disaster relief for
more than twenty-five years on five continents, like
scores of other secular relief groups currently
helping victims of Hurricane Katrina, it was omitted
from FEMA's list. In fact, only two non-faith-based
organizations were included. (One of them, the
American Red Cross, is being blocked from entering New
Orleans by FEMA's parent agency, the Department of
Homeland Security.) FEMA, meanwhile, has reportedly
turned away Wal-Mart trucks carrying food and water to
the stricken city, teams of firemen from Maryland and
Texas, volunteer morticians and a convoy of 1,000 boat
owners offering to help rescue stranded flood victims.
While relief efforts falter in the face of colossal
bureaucratic incompetence, the Bush Administration's
promotion of Operation Blessing has ensured that the
floodwaters swallowing New Orleans will be a rising
tide lifting Robertson's boat.

Robertson recently ignited a media firestorm when he
called for the assassination of Venezuelan president
Hugo Chávez during a broadcast of The 700 Club. He has
also blamed the 9/11 attacks on America's tolerance of
abortion and homosexuality and declared the Supreme
Court a greater threat to the United States than Al
Qaeda. Robertson assiduously cultivates his celebrity
with remarks like these, casting himself as a divisive
bigot to his foes and a righteous prophet to his
allies in Christian right circles. But there is much
more to Robertson than the headline-grabbing hothead
he plays on TV.

Far from the media's gaze, Robertson has used the
tax-exempt, nonprofit Operation Blessing as a front
for his shadowy financial schemes, while exerting his
influence within the GOP to cover his tracks. In 1994
he made an emotional plea on The 700 Club for cash
donations to Operation Blessing to support airlifts of
refugees from the Rwandan civil war to Zaire (now
Congo). Reporter Bill Sizemore of The Virginian Pilot
later discovered that Operation Blessing's planes were
transporting diamond-mining equipment for the African
Development Corporation, a Robertson-owned venture
initiated with the cooperation of Zaire's
then-dictator Mobutu Sese Seko.

After a lengthy investigation, Virginia's Office of
Consumer Affairs determined that Robertson willfully
induced contributions from the public through the use
of misleading statements and other implications. Yet
when the office called for legal action against
Robertson in 1999, Virginia Attorney General Mark
Earley, a Republican, intervened with his own report,
agreeing that Robertson had made deceptive appeals but
overruling the recommendation for his prosecution. Two
years earlier, while Virginia's investigation was
gathering steam, Robertson donated $35,000 to Earley's
campaign--Earley's largest contribution. With Earley's
report came a sense of vindication. From the very
beginning, Robertson claimed, we were trying to
provide help and assistance to those who were facing
disease and death in the war-torn, chaotic nation of
Zaire.

(Earley is now president of Prison Fellowship
Ministries, an evangelical social-work organization
founded by born-again, former Nixon dirty-trickster
Charles Colson. PFM has accepted White House
faith-based-initiative money and is currently engaged
in hurricane relief efforts in Louisiana. Earley
remains a close ally of Robertson.)

Absolved of his sins, Robertson dug his heels back in
African soil. In 1999 he signed an $8 million
agreement with Liberian tyrant Charles Taylor that
guaranteed Robertson's Freedom Gold Ltd.--an offshore
company registered to the

[IslamCity] Mobilize for Nov. 2: Drive out the Bush regime

2005-10-25 Thread Wolfgang Geist

The World Can't Wait - Drive Out the Bush Regime!

Mobilize for November 2nd

 

It's 12 days till November 2nd, the beginning of the
end of the Bush Regime. From the Call:  November 2
must be a massive and public proclamation that WE
REFUSE TO BE RULED IN THIS WAY. November 2 must call
out to the tens of millions more who are now agonizing
and disgusted. November 2 will be the beginning  a
giant first step in forcing Bush to step down, and a
powerful announcement that we will not stop until he
does so -- and it will
join with and give support and heart to people all
over the globe who so urgently need and want this
regime to be stopped.

 

New national developments in this movement:

 

1. Howard Zinn calls on students to join in -
November 2nd could be a turning point... Listen to
his statement at www.worldcantwait.org/media

2. New statement from the Black Law Students
Association at Columbia University at
www.worldcantwait.org/youthandstudents

 

3. Students at West Point military academy were
ordered, by email, not to participate in actions on
November 2nd.

 

4. The International Commission of Inquiry On Crimes
Against Humanity Committed by the Bush Administration
opens Friday in NYC. More info: 
www.bushcommission.org

 

5. Recent endorsers of the World Can't Wait Call
include Cindy Sheehan, After Downing Street Coalition,
Tom Morello, Code Pink, Ron Kovic, Cornel West, Howard
Zinn...you can see the whole list and endorse the Call
at www.worldcantwait.org

 

6. The encampment in front of the White House
continues:   http://encampmenttodriveout.blogspot.com

7. Ads on Air America have generated a tremendous
response, but much money is needed to pay for these as
well as plans to get ads on Hip Hop radio stations, as
well as TV ads on Comedy Central's The Daily Show and
Chappelle's Show. How much would you give to drive out
the Bush Regime? Donate now and get everyone you know
to at www.worldcantwait.org

 

In Atlanta:

 

November 2nd Plans include school walkouts at 11 AM
and a city-wide convergence at 1 PM in Woodruff Park
for a permitted rally, then taking the message
throughout downtown, calling on others to join in.

 

3 working committees you can join:

 

- Youth and Students, doing outreach at high schools
and college campuses and helping organize for the
walkouts.

- General Outreach, flyering in neighborhoods and
events, postering, getting on local radio stations and
other media.

- Program, developing the program for the rally in
Woodruff Park to include music, poetry and speakers.

 

Next organizing meeting tomorrow, Saturday, 3 PM to 5
PM at Java Monkey Coffee on Church St. in downtown
Decatur. Then go with us to Little 5 Points to get the
word out at the Halloween Festival.

 

Next drop-in meeting to meet organizers and pick up
materials:  Wednesday, 7 PM to 9 PM, Java Monkey
Coffee.

 



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[IslamCity] Counter recruitement materials and events

2005-11-08 Thread Wolfgang Geist

This site has plenty of counter recruitement materials
http://www.warresisters.org/youth/materials2.html
http://www.warresisters.org/youth/materials.html

The Georgia Inst. of Technology has military recruiters on Campus from 11/7-11/10.
The Amnesty International Chapter of Tech will have a counter recruitement table
on the walkway between the student center and the library.
Who hasexperience and/ormaterials, for exampleyellow jumpsuits with electrodes?
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[IslamCity] Help the Iraq war veterans for peace

2005-11-11 Thread Wolfgang Geist

Friends, 
 
This is an appeal from Stan Goff on behalf of Iraq
Veterans Against the War. It is an appeal for money,
so let me get that right out front. 
 
I am asking you to go to www.ivaw.net, to click on
Donate Online, and to become a recurring
supporter, by providing an automatic monthly deduction
transfered to IVAW of as much as you can afford --
$10, $100, $500... as much as you can afford. 
 
No group of women and men has more credibility with
the public in its opposition to the war than the
people who participated in it, and who are now
speaking out against it. IVAW's membership includes
hundreds of highly-motivated, talented young people,
who have shown a special character. They are now
students, workers, musicians, philosophers,
geographers, playwrights, public speakers, writers,
film-makers, and several have spent time in prison for
their beliefs. People like Camilo Mejia, Stephen Funk,
Kevin Benderman, Charlie Anderson, Mike Hoffman, Kelly
Dougherty, Pablo Paredes, Tim Goodrich, Pat Resta,
Jimmy Massey, Jose Vasquez, Ivan Medina, Tina
Garnanez, Alex Ryabov, Garret Reppenhagen, and many
others. These are the people whose voices are
amplified by contributions to IVAW. 
 
IVAW has never had a lot, but after the expenses
incurred to support Cindy Sheehan, the Crawford to DC
Bus Tour, and the September 24 antiwar demonstration,
there is not enough money in the bank right now to
even make payroll for the part-time staff that keeps
the organization afloat. 
 
The organization needs around $10,000 a month cash
flow to support its recent expansion in membership and
the next year's organizational development and
objectives. Those objectives include organizer
training for members, chapter concentration to develop
local self-sustaining nuclei, Katrina survivor
self-determination support work, and
counter-recruitment initiatives. These are the IVAW
priorities for the next year, in addition to the
primary mission -- to stop the war against Iraq. 
 
IVAW is the only organization of its kind, with its
membership drawn from armed services veterans who were
on duty after September 11, 2001, the day of the event
upoon which the Bush administration built it's
so-called Global War on Terror. IVAW could seek a lot
of foundation money if it were to change one thing in
its mission statement, and that is the demand for
immediate and unilateral withdrawal of all American
forces from Iraq. Calls for indefinite plans of
phased withdrawal are much more popular with
foundations who are reluctant to endanger quietly
favored elected officials who have been less than
sterling on the war by confronting them with their
complicity in letting the Bush administration have its
way. IVAW could change that mission and have access to
more money. But it will not. 
 
IVAW will not take money that has these kinds of
unstated strings attached. So it needs the support of
independent antiwar activists who share IVAW's core
beliefs that the occupaiton must leave as a moral
imperative and that the Iraqis will be better off
without the occupation -- that the occupation itself
is the catalyst for most of the violence there,
including attacks by Iraqis against other Iraqis. 
 
The way this movement becomes independent and stays
independent is through the support of people who share
its core mission and values. 
 
Please, please help us build a sustianing financial
floor under this extremely important organization.
They need to be focused on their work, not on
finances. 
 
Thanks so much for your support of my work, and for
whatever you can commit to IVAW. 
 
Yours very sincerely, 
 
Stan Goff 
http://stangoff.com 
 
Stan 
http://stangoff.com 
 
When the missionaries arrived, the Africans had the
land and the 
missionaries had the Bible. They taught us to pray
with our eyes closed. 
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[IslamCity] Must see: Iraq Veterans Against the War Forum at GA Tech, Nov. 18

2005-11-16 Thread Wolfgang Geist





The Georgia Tech Chapter of Amnesty International, Veterans For Peace Chapter 125,and the Georgia Coalition of Peace  Justice/Atlanta PresentIraq Veterans Against the War IRAQ VETERANS FORUM:VETS SAY NO TO WARFriday, Nov. 18, 2005, 8 pmGEORGIA TECHStamps Student
 CenterStudent Center Complex Stage - Commons350 Ferst Drive NW, Atlanta, GA, on the Georgia Tech campus(See Directions posted below)
IRAQ VETERAN SPEAKERS:


MICHAEL HOFFMANMarine lance corporal who served honorablyin the initial invasion of Iraq and laterco-founded Iraq Veterans Against the War.
ADAM REUTERTrained in military intelligence andsent to Iraq 3 days after his son was born;served in the cavalry with no training for his job.Was injured in war and medically discharged.JUSTIN GORDONWest Point graduate who served honorablyas a field artillery captain in Iraq andsubsequently concluded that the war andoccupation of Iraq is counter-productive tokeeping America safe from terrorism.
CAMILO MEJIAOne of the first Iraq war resisters imprisoned -former infantry Staff Sergeant who served in Iraqand refused to return. Subsequently served9 months in prison, released in Feb. 2005.
ALSO SPEAKING: Evelyn Allen, mother of Sgt. Jonathan R. Shields,killed in action (KIA) in Fallujah, Iraq 11/12/04.
"People join the military to defend their country, not lies"  - Adam Reuter, former Army specialist and Iraq veteran"As a nation, we have to ask ourselves if what we're doing is right.Are we having a positive impact in Iraq? Is our presence thereprotecting American citizens? The answers are overwhelminglyno, and this is why I cannot support the war."  - Captain Justin Gordon, West Point officer and Iraq veteran
DIRECTIONS TO THE STAMPS STUDENT CENTER ON THE GEORGIA TECH CAMPUS: Coming from the South: Take I-75 North to Exit 250, turn left onto 10th St., left onto State Ave., right onto Ferst Ave., and go straight. Go over some speed bumps, then turn left into a pay parking lot at the Stamps Student Center at 350 Ferst Ave.The Commons Stage is located on the 1st floor of the Stamps Student Center. If coming from the North: Take I-75 South to Exit 250, turn right onto 10th St., then continue as above.

This forum on the Iraq war is sponsored by:
Georgia Tech Chapter of Amnesty International,Veterans For Peace, Atlanta Chapter 125, http://www.veteransforpeace.orgIraq Veterans Against the War, http://www.ivaw.netand the Georgia Peace  Justice Coalition/Atlanta, http://www.georgiapeace.org

Media contact: Debbie Clark, Veterans For Peace, Greater Atlanta Chapter 125, 770-855-6163, [EMAIL PROTECTED].
LINKS TO ARTICLES:MICHAEL HOFFMAN:http://www.motherjones.com/news/feature/2004/11/10_400.htmlhttp://www.indybay.org/news/2005/03/1728893.phphttp://www.thenation.com/doc/20050328/houppert
ADAM REUTER:
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0508/17/acd.01.htmlhttp://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/24/AR2005092401615_2.htmlhttp://www.commondreams.org/cgi-bin/print.cgi?file=/headlines05/0924-06.htmhttp://news.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=64439
JUSTIN GORDON:http://www.antiwar.com/orig/jgordon.php?articleid=7277http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/_/id/7683877CAMILO MEJIA:http://www.freecamilo.org/http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/03/29/60II/main609216.shtmlhttp://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=05/03/28/1434222http://www.globalexchange.org/getInvolved/speakers/132.htmlhttp://www.antiwar.com/orig/ellsberg.php?articleid=2597http://traprockpeace.org/camilo_mejia_28july05.html
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(Holy Quran-16:125)

{And who is better in speech than he who [says: My Lord is Allah (believes in His Oneness), and then stands straight (acts upon His Order), and] invites (men) to Allah's (Islamic Monotheism), and does righteous deeds, and says: I am one of the Muslims.} (Holy Quran-41:33)
 
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The prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) also said, Whoever calls to guidance will have a reward similar to the reward of the one who follows him, without the reward of either of them being lessened at all. 
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[IslamCity] The decline of the US news media since the Watergate glory days

2005-11-22 Thread Wolfgang Geist

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Front_Page/GK19Aa01.html




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(Holy Quran-16:125)

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His Oneness), and then stands straight (acts upon His Order), and] invites 
(men) to Allah's (Islamic Monotheism), and does righteous deeds, and says: I 
am one of the Muslims.} (Holy Quran-41:33)
 
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camels. [al-Bukhaaree, Muslim] 

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calls to guidance will have a reward similar to the reward of the one who 
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[IslamCity] Nobel price lecture about US foreign policy

2005-12-17 Thread Wolfgang Geist


http://nobelprize.org/literature/laureates/2005/pinter-lecture-e.html

Hundreds of thousands of deaths took place throughout
these countries. Did they take place? And are they in
all cases attributable to US foreign policy? The
answer is yes they did take place and they are
attributable to American foreign policy. But you
wouldn't know it.

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astray from His Path, and He is the Best Aware of those who are guided.} 
(Holy Quran-16:125)

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His Oneness), and then stands straight (acts upon His Order), and] invites 
(men) to Allah's (Islamic Monotheism), and does righteous deeds, and says: I 
am one of the Muslims.} (Holy Quran-41:33)
 
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camels. [al-Bukhaaree, Muslim] 

The prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him)  also said, Whoever 
calls to guidance will have a reward similar to the reward of the one who 
follows him, without the reward of either of them being lessened at all. 
[Muslim, Ahmad, Aboo Daawood, an-Nasaa'ee, at-Tirmidhee, Ibn Maajah] 
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[IslamCity] Attack on Iran: A Looming Folly

2006-01-12 Thread Wolfgang Geist

As crazy as it sounds, the crazies in the white house
are preparing an attack.
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/010906I.shtml

  Attack on Iran: A Looming Folly
By William Rivers Pitt
t r u t h o u t | Perspective

Monday 09 January 2006

The wires have been humming since before the New
Year with reports that the Bush administration is
planning an attack on Iran. The Bush administration
is preparing its NATO allies for a possible military
strike against suspected nuclear sites in Iran in the
New Year, according to German media reports,
reinforcing similar earlier suggestions in the Turkish
media, reported UPI on December 30th.

The Berlin daily Der Tagesspiegel this week,
continued UPI, quoted 'NATO intelligence sources' who
claimed that the NATO allies had been informed that
the United States is currently investigating all
possibilities of bringing the mullah-led regime into
line, including military options. This 'all options
are open' line has been President George W Bush's
publicly stated policy throughout the past 18 months.

An examination of the ramifications of such an
attack is desperately in order.

1.  Blowback in Iraq

The recent elections in Iraq were dominated by an
amalgam of religiously fundamentalist Shi'ite
organizations, principally the Dawa Party and the
Supreme Council for Islamic Revolution in Iraq
(SCIRI). Both Dawa and SCIRI have umbilical
connections to the fundamentalist Shi'ite leadership
in Iran that go back decades. In essence, Iran now
owns a significant portion of the Iraqi government.

Should the United States undertake military action
against Iran, the ramifications in Iraq would be
immediate and extreme.

In the first eight days of January, eighteen US
troops have been killed in Iraq, compounded by another
twelve deaths from a Black Hawk helicopter crash on
Saturday. Much of the violence aimed at American
forces is coming from disgruntled Sunni factions that
have their own militias, believe the last elections
were a sham, and hold little political power in the
government.

If the US attacks Iran, it is probable that
American forces - already taxed by attacks from Sunni
factions - will also face reprisal attacks in Iraq
from Shi'ite factions loyal to Iran. The result will
be a dramatic escalation in US and civilian
casualties, US forces will be required to bunker
themselves further into their bases, and US forces
will find themselves required to fight the very
government they just finished helping into power.
Iraq, already a seething cauldron, will sink further
into chaos.

2.  Iran's Armaments

Unlike Iraq, Iran has not spent the last fifteen
years having its conventional forces worn down by
grueling sanctions, repeated attacks, and two
American-led wars. While Iran's conventional army is
not what it was during the heyday of the Iran-Iraq war
- their armaments have deteriorated and the veterans
of that last war have retired - the nation enjoys
substantial military strength nonetheless.

According to a report issued by the Center for
Strategic and International Studies in December of
2004, Iran has some 540,000 men under arms and over
350,000 reserves. They include 120,000 Iranian
Revolutionary Guards trained for land and naval
asymmetrical warfare. Iran's military also includes
holdings of 1,613 main battle tanks, 21,600 other
armored fighting vehicles, 3,200 artillery weapons,
306 combat aircraft, 60 attack helicopters, 3
submarines, 59 surface combatants, and 10 amphibious
ships.

Iran is now the only regional military power that
poses a significant conventional military threat to
Gulf stability, continued the CSIS report. Iran has
significant capabilities for asymmetric warfare, and
poses the additional threat of proliferation. There is
considerable evidence that it is developing both a
long-range missile force and a range of weapons of
mass destruction. It has never properly declared its
holdings of chemical weapons, and the status of its
biological weapons programs is unknown.

A MILNET brief issued in February 2005 reports,
Due to its position astride the Persian Gulf, Iran
has constantly been a threat to the Gulf. The so
called 'Tanker' wars in the late 1980s put Iran
squarely in the bullseye of all nations seeking to
transport oil out of the region. Even the small navy
that Iran puts to sea is capable enough to harass
shipping, and several cases of small boat operations
against oil well heads in the Gulf during that period
made it clear small asymmetrical tactics of the
Iranian Navy could be quite effective.

More concerning, continued the MILNET brief, is
the priority placed on expanding and modernizing its
Navy. The CSIS report cites numerous areas where Iran
has funded modernization including the most
troublesome aspect, anti-shipping cruise missiles:
'Iran has obtained new anti-ship missiles and missile
patrol craft from China, midget submarines from North
Korea, submarines from Russia, and

[IslamCity] Costs of Iraq war now 1-2 trillion

2006-01-16 Thread Wolfgang Geist

Columbia University economist Joseph E. Stiglitz and Harvard lecturer Linda Bilmes estimate costs to be 1-2trillion (compared to 70 billion estimated by the CEO in chief before the invasion)Economists say cost of war could top $2 trillion http://www.boston.com/news/world/middleeast/articles/2006/01/08/economists_say_cost_of_war_could_top_2_trillion/ Iraq, themother of all budget bustersBy David Isenberg "If Bush had come to the American people with a request to spend several hundred billion dollars and several thousand American lives in order to bring democracy to Iraq, he would have been laughed out of court."- noted
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[IslamCity] Must read:Iran press conference

2006-01-19 Thread Wolfgang Geist

Saturday Jan 14
Iran-Press Conference
President of Iran Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Saturday
that Iran's peaceful
nuclear activities are more crystal clear than any
other countries adding
the Western countries should allow inspection of
their nuclear facilities.

Speaking at a press conference, the president posed
the question whether
those Western countries would allow their nuclear
facilities to be inspected
or not.

What type of literature do they use to address our
nation? asked the
president adding that their words would only discredit
the IAEA as well as
the UN Security Council.

In response to a question by a Japanese reporters on
Iran's nuclear issues,
he said We have announced time and again that the
claims raised by
Westerners have no legal base and I would like to
advise them not to isolate
themselves. Adopting a bullying policy will only
spread hatred among their
nations.
Leaders of the Western negotiating teams are among the
most hated heads of
states among others as well as among their own
nations, he said.

The Middle Ages era is over and they should quit
using the language of
force and bullying, Ahmadinejad said, adding If you
are in search of a
role to play in global equations, you should avoid
discrediting the
international organizations.

We have always called for negotiations but advise
them (the
Europeans) to get to know the revolutionary nation of
Iran and its
government, said the president.

You assume that by insulting others on your TV and
confirming each other's
words you will be able to get a right for yourselves
in the world. Can you
call your behavior as a civilized one? he questioned.

Our nation is an independent nation which is taking
action under
international regulations and is to pursue its own
path, said the
president, he said.

Iran asks International Atomic Energy Agency to
install its cameras on
nuclear sites of certain Western states which are
accusing Iran of violating
Safeguards Agreement of the Agency, President Mahmoud
Ahmadinejad said on
Saturday.

He told a press conference that Iran has never
violated Safeguards Agreement
of the UN nuclear agency and cameras of the nuclear
watchdog have been
installed on all Iranian nuclear sites to monitor
them.

Iran asks the UN nuclear agency to install its
cameras on nuclear sites of
the Western states which have embarked on propaganda
campaign against
Iranian nuclear program. We know they will not allow
the UN nuclear agency
to do so. They don't believe in international
conventions. The world public
opinion knows that they are making mockery of
themselves, President
Ahmadinejad said.

He said that Iranian nuclear program is transparent
and in line with
Safeguards Agreement of the IAEA, but, none of the
Western states accusing
Iran of violating Safeguards Agreement of the UN
nuclear agency respects
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[IslamCity] Why the West will attack Iran

2006-01-24 Thread Wolfgang Geist

Why the West will attack Iran   
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/HA24Ak01.html

The Proposed Iranian Oil Bourse
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article11613.htm

The approaching war with Iran
How real is the Iran nuclear threat to the United
States?
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article11616.htm

Iran and Israel: The Ambiguous Nuclear Weapons
http://www.palestinechronicle.com/story.php?sid=012006234222

Egypt: West ignores Israeli nukes
http://www.ynetnews.com/Ext/Comp/ArticleLayout/CdaArticlePrintPreview/1,2506,L-3201906,00.html

Italy Min Warns Against Any Israeli Retaliation Vs
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[IslamCity] Washington's geostrategic shift

2006-02-05 Thread Wolfgang Geist




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[IslamCity] Annexing Khuzestan; battle-plans for Iran

2006-02-06 Thread Wolfgang Geist

Annexing Khuzestan; battle-plans for Iran

By Mike Whitney 

Step by step, Iran is being set up for war. What
difference does the provocation 
make? The determination to consolidate the oil
reserves in the Caspian Basin was 
made more than a decade ago and is clearly articulated
in the policy papers 
produced by the Project for the New American Century
(PNAC) 
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article11743.htm


SPEAKING FREELY
Iran and the jaws of a trap
By Paul Levian 
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/HB03Ak02.html
Mass mobilization in Iraq against US-British forces
will be at most a nuisance - easily suppressed by the
ruthless employment of massive firepower. And Israel
will use the opportunity to deal with Syria and South
Lebanon, and possibly with its Palestinian problem.

The character of this war will be completely different
from the Iraq war. No show-casing of democracy, no
nation-building, no journalists, no Red Cross - but
the kind of war the United States would have fought in
North Vietnam if it had not had to reckon with the
Soviet Union and China.

Paul Levian is a former German intelligence officer. 

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[IslamCity] British soldiers abuse Iraqi teenagers

2006-02-15 Thread Wolfgang Geist

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[IslamCity] A permanent basis for staying in Iraq

2006-02-17 Thread Wolfgang Geist

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/HB16Ak01.html

A permanent basis for staying in Iraq
By Tom Engelhardt

We're in a new period in the war in Iraq - one that
brings to mind the Nixonian era of Vietnamization: a
president presiding over an increasingly unpopular war
that won't end; an election bearing down; the need to
placate a restive American public; and an army under
so much strain that it seems to be running off the
rails.

So it's not surprising that the media are now
reporting on administration plans for, or
speculation about, or signs of or hints of
major drawdowns or withdrawals of American troops.
The figure regularly cited these days is less than
100,000 troops in Iraq by the end of 2006. With about
136,000 American troops



there now, that figure would represent just over
one-quarter of all in-country US forces, which means,
of course, that the term major certainly rests in
the eye of the beholder.

In addition, these withdrawals are - we know this
thanks to a Seymour Hersh piece, Up in the air, in
the December 5 New Yorker - to be accompanied, as in
South Vietnam in the Richard Nixon era, by an
unleashing of the US Air Force. The added air power is
meant to compensate for any lost punch on the ground
(and will undoubtedly lead to more collateral damage
- that is, Iraqi deaths).

It is important to note that all promises of drawdowns
or withdrawals are invariably linked to the dubious
proposition that the administration of President
George W Bush can stand up an effective Iraqi army
and police force (think Vietnamization again),
capable of circumscribing the Sunni insurgency and so
allowing American troops to pull back to bases outside
major urban areas, as well as to Kuwait and points as
far west as the United States.

Further, all administration or military withdrawal
promises prove to be well hedged with caveats and
obvious loopholes, phrases like if all goes according
to plan and security improves ... or it also depends
on the ability of the Iraqis to ...

Since guerrilla attacks have actually been on the rise
and the delivery of the basic amenities of modern
civilization (electrical power, potable water, gas for
cars, functional sewage systems, working traffic
lights, and so on) on the decline, since the very
establishment of a government inside the heavily
fortified Green Zone has proved immensely difficult,
and since US reconstruction funds (those that haven't
already disappeared down one clogged drain or another)
are drying up, such partial withdrawals may prove more
complicated to pull off than imagined.

It's clear, nonetheless, that withdrawal is on the
propaganda agenda of an administration heading into
mid-term elections with an increasingly skittish
Republican Party in tow and congressional candidates
worried about defending the president's
mission-unaccomplished war of choice.

Under the circumstances, we can expect more hints of,
followed by promises of, followed by announcements of
major withdrawals, possibly including news in the
fall election season of even more massive
withdrawals slated for the end of 2006 or early 2007,
all hedged with conditional clauses and only ifs -
withdrawal promises that, once the election is over,
this administration would undoubtedly feel under no
particular obligation to fulfill.

Assuming, then, a near year to come of withdrawal
buzz, speculation and even a media blitz of withdrawal
announcements, the question is: how can anybody tell
if the Bush administration is actually withdrawing
from Iraq or not?

Sometimes, when trying to cut through a veritable fog
of misinformation and disinformation, it helps to
focus on something concrete. In the case of Iraq,
nothing could be more concrete - though less generally
discussed in our media - than the set of enormous
bases the Pentagon has long been building in that
country.

Quite literally, multibillions of dollars have gone
into them. In a prestigious engineering magazine in
late 2003, Lieutenant-Colonel David Holt, the army
engineer tasked with facilities development in Iraq,
was already speaking proudly of several billion
dollars being sunk into base construction (the
numbers are staggering). Since then, the
base-building has been massive and ongoing.

In a country in such startling disarray, these bases,
with some of the most expensive and advanced
communications systems on the planet, are like vast
spaceships that have landed from another solar system.
Representing a staggering investment of resources,
effort and geostrategic dreaming, they are the
unlikeliest places for the Bush administration to hand
over willingly to even the friendliest of Iraqi
governments.

If, as just about every expert agrees, Bush-style
reconstruction has failed dismally in Iraq, thanks to
thievery, knavery and sheer incompetence, and is now
essentially ending, it has been a raging success in
Iraq's Little America. For the first time, we have
actual descriptions of a couple of the super-bases
built in Iraq

[IslamCity] WWIII or Bust: Implications of a US Attack on Iran

2006-02-21 Thread Wolfgang Geist




http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article11980.htm NEWS YOU WON'T FIND ON CNN  WWIII or Bust: Implications of a US Attack on Iran"This notion that the United States is getting ready to attack Iran is simply ridiculous... Having said that, all options are on the table." George W. Bush, February 2005  By Heather Wokusch  02/19/06 "ICH" -- --
 Witnessing the Bush administration's drive for an attack on Iran is like being a passenger in a car with a raving drunk at the wheel. Reports of impending doom surfaced a year ago, but now it's official: under orders from Vice President Cheney's office, the Pentagon has developed "last resort" aerial-assault plans using long-distance B2 bombers and submarine-launched ballistic missiles with both conventional and nuclear weapons.How ironic that the Pentagon proposes using nuclear weapons on the pretext of protecting the world from nuclear weapons. Ironic also that Iran has complied with its obligations under the Non-Proliferation Treaty, allowing inspectors to "go anywhere and see anything," yet those pushing for an attack, the USA and Israel, have not.The nuclear threat from Iran is hardly urgent. As the Washington Post reported in August 2005, the latest consensus among U.S. intelligence agencies is that "Iran is about a decade away from manufacturing the key ingredient for a nuclear weapon, roughly doubling the previous estimate of five years." The Institute for Science and International Security estimated that while Iran could have a bomb by 2009 at the earliest, the US intelligence community assumed technical difficulties would cause "significantly delay." The director of Middle East Studies at Brown University and a specialist in Middle Eastern energy economics both called the State Department's claims of a proliferation threat from Iran's Bushehr reactor "demonstrably false," concluding that "the physical evidence for a nuclear weapons program in Iran simply does not exist."So there's no urgency - just a bad case of déjà vu all over again. The Bush administration is recycling its hype over Hussein's supposed WMD threat into rhetoric about Iran, but look where the charade got us last time: tens of thousands of dead Iraqi civilians, a country teetering on civil war and increased global terrorism.Yet the stakes in Iran are arguably much higher.Consider that many in the US and Iran seek religious salvation through a Middle Eastern blowout. "End times" Christian fundamentalists believe a cataclysmic Armageddon will enable the Messiah to reappear and transport them to heaven, leaving behind Muslims and other non-believers to face plagues and violent death. Iran's new Shia Islam president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, subscribes to a competing version of the messianic comeback,
 whereby the skies turn to flames and blood flows in a final showdown of good and evil. The Hidden Imam returns, bringing world peace by establishing Islam as the global religion.Both the US and Iran have presidents who arguably see themselves as divinely chosen and who covet their own country's apocalypse-seeking fundamentalist voters. And into this tinderbox Bush proposes bringing nuclear weapons.As expected, the usual suspects press for a US attack on Iran. Neo-cons who brought us the "cakewalk" of Iraq want to bomb the country. There's also Defense Secretary Rumsfeld, busy coordinating the action plan against Iran, who just released the Pentagon's Quadrennial Defense Review calling for US forces to "operate around the globe" in an infinite "long war." One can assume Rumsfeld wants to bomb a lot of countries.There's also Israel, keen that no other country in the region gains access to nuclear
 weapons. In late 2002, former Prime Minister Ariel Sharon said Iran should be targeted "the day after" Iraq was subdued, and Benjamin Netanyahu, leader of the Likud Party, recently warned that if he wins the presidential race in March 2006, Israel will "do what we did in the past against Saddam's reactor," an obvious reference to the 1981 bombing of the Osirak nuclear facility in Iraq. It doesn't help that Iran's Ahmadinejad has called the Holocaust a myth and said that Israel should be "wiped off the map."In the eyes of the Bush administration, however, Iran's worst transgression has less to do with nuclear ambitions or anti-Semitism than with the petro-euro oil bourse Tehran is slated to open in March 2006. Iran's plan to allow oil trading in euros threatens to break the dollar's monopoly as the global reserve currency, and since the greenback is
 severely overvalued due to huge trade deficits, the move could be devastating for the US economy.So we remain pedal to the metal with Bush for an attack on Iran.But what if the US does go ahead and launch an assault in the coming months? The Pentagon has already identified 450 strategic targets, some of which are underground and would require the use of nuclear weapons to destroy. What happens then?You

[IslamCity] The ministry of truth is reclassifying documents

2006-02-23 Thread Wolfgang Geist

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/21/politics/21reclassify.html?_r=1themc=thoref=slogin

War is peace
Freedom is slavery
Ignorance is strength

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His Oneness), and then stands straight (acts upon His Order), and] invites 
(men) to Allah's (Islamic Monotheism), and does righteous deeds, and says: I 
am one of the Muslims.} (Holy Quran-41:33)
 
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[IslamCity] Buchanan and Ron Paul about Iran

2006-02-23 Thread Wolfgang Geist

Silence the War Drums
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article11995.htm

Churchill, Hitler, and Newt
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[IslamCity] Hamas lists Israel recognition terms

2006-03-01 Thread Wolfgang Geist




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[IslamCity] Iran's turn for a 'coalition of the willing'

2006-03-11 Thread Wolfgang Geist

And interestingly, UN. Russian Foreign MinisterLavrov said the discussions of how to deal with Iran's nuclear ambitions reminded him of the run-up to the 2003 US-led invasion of Iraq. "It looks so deja vu, you know," he said. "I don't believe we should engage in something which might become self-fulfilling prophecy." http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/HC10Ak04.html More about the Iranian oil bourse http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/HC10Ak01.htmlThe argument against the end of dollar hegemony due to an oil bourse is "As anyone familiar with the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries will know, the denomination of oil sales in currencies other than the dollar is not a
new subject, and as anyone familiar with economics will tell you, the denomination of oil sales is merely a transactional issue: what matters is in what assets (or, in the case of the United States, liabilities ) these proceeds are then invested."Dollar hegemony is also based on the recycling of petrodollars by giving loans to other countries like Brazile, Chile, Argentine which caused the debt crisis. Dollar hegemony is also based on its role as sole reserve currency.Since the US trade deficit and foreign debt is steadily growing, it seems like the assets are primarly invested in US dollars.What happens if countries don't need to trade their products inUSdollars since they don't need to fill their reserves anymore. And then slowly get away from the dollar to avoid a collapse.
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[IslamCity] Brzezinski architect of radical Islam and balkanisation of the Middle East

2006-03-14 Thread Wolfgang Geist




What Really Happed to the Shah of Iran   http://www.payvand.com/news/06/mar/1090.htmlThe Afghan traphttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zbigniew_Brzezinskihttp://www.tenc.net/interviews/brz.htm
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[IslamCity] Another US proxy war in the Philippines

2006-03-22 Thread Wolfgang Geist

Stop All Military Aid to the Philippines, Uphold Human Rights and Freedoms of the Filipino People!http://www.realityofaid.org/statementshow.php?id=30Go to Original Philippines: The Killing Fields of AsiaBy James Petras and Robin Eastman-AbayaCounterpunch.org Friday 17 March 2006http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/032006D.shtml US-backed repression soars under President Gloria Macapagal. Since President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo joined the US global "War on Terrorism", the Philippines has become the site of an on-going undeclared war against peasant and union activists, progressive political dissidents and lawmakers, human rights lawyers and activists, women leaders and a wide range of print and broadcast journalists. Because of the links between the Army, the regime and the death squads, political assassinations take place in an atmosphere of absolute impunity. The vast majority of the attacks occur in the countryside and provincial towns. The reign of terror in the Philippines is of similar scope and depth as in Colombia. Unlike Colombia, the rampaging state terrorism has not drawn sufficient attention, le3t alone outcry, from
international public opinion. Between 2001 and 2006 hundreds of killings, disappearances, death threats and cases of torture have been documented by the independent human rights center, KARAPATAN , and the church-linked Ecumenical Institute for Labor Education and Research. Since Macapagal Arroyo came to power in 2001 there have been 400 documented extrajudicial killings. In 2004, 63 were killed and in 2005, 179 were assassinated and another 46 disappeared and presumed dead. So far in the first two months of 2006 there have been 26 documented political assassinations. An analysis of the class and social background of the victims of this systematic state terror in 2005 demonstrates that the largest sector, about 70, have been peasants and peasant leaders involved in land and farm labor disputes. The military has invariably accused the murdered and disappeared peasants of links to or sympathy with the communist
guerrillas or Muslim separatists. The victims include members of the national farmers' association, Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas (KMP), as well as Igorot, Agta and Moro indigenous minority peasant leaders involved in protecting their lands. One notorious massacre occurred in late November 2005 when 47 peasants and their legal representatives held an open, public meeting over a land dispute in Palo, Leyte in the Visayas. A large force of soldiers surrounded and attacked the meeting killing 9 peasants outright and arresting over a dozen. An additional 18 'disappeared' and are presumed dead. The 'Palo Massacre' of the members of the San Agustin Farmers Beneficiaries Cooperative and Alang-Alang Small Farmers Association was at first presented by the armed forces as a military encounter with the New Peoples Army and a few homemade weapons were planted on the victims. In this, as in all other cases, none of the perpetrators have been punished and there has been no official
investigation. Workers and labor leaders form the next largest group of victims of assassination (at least 18) not including the disappeared and presumed dead. Members of a national labor federation, Kilusan Mayo Uno (May First Movement), Nestle's Worker's Union, Central Azucareara de Tarlac, Negros Federation of Sugar Workers, a leader of the Department of Agrarian Reform Employee Association, regional college employee union leaders and various militants in both the electrical company and bus company employee unions were murdered in 2005. Earlier in 2005, 26 unarmed Muslim detainees in a military prison in Manila were shot protesting against their prolonged and arbitrary detention, lack of a trial date and horrific prison conditions. These men were mostly vendors and displaced peasants and fishermen living with their families in Manila. They were accused , but never convicted, of membership in the 'Abu Sayaf'
kidnapping gang. Seven print and radio journalists and writers were killed in 2005 as well as seven attorneys and judges involved in human rights, labor and land dispute cases. Among the religious community, there were 3 targeted assassinations of clergy and 7 church workers, all involved in advocacy work with the poor, peasants, workers and national minorities. This listing of killings in 2005 doesn't included attempted assassinations, illegal detention and torture and unreported disappearances. The victims were killed by death squads controlled by the military with the aim of protecting the power of the large landowners and land grabbers, timber and mining barons and company bosses with the connivance of the regime. Another important group of victims, which overlaps with peasants and workers associations, are the 83 leaders and members of the popular left political party,
Bayan Muna (The People First) and its 'party list' affiliates. Most were systematically murdered in the

[IslamCity] Chalmer Johnson: The military industriell complex is ruining America

2006-03-23 Thread Wolfgang Geist

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Front_Page/HC23Aa01.html

PART 1: Cold warrior in a strange land
By Tom Engelhardt

As he and his wife Sheila drive me through downtown
San Diego in the glare of midday, he suddenly
exclaims, Look at that structure! I glance over and
just across the blue expanse of the harbor is an
enormous aircraft carrier. It's the USS Ronald
Reagan, he says, the newest carrier in the fleet.
It's a floating Chernobyl and it sits a proverbial six
inches off the bottom with two huge atomic reactors.
You make a wrong move and there goes the country's
seventh-largest city.

Soon, we're heading toward their home just up the
coast in one of those fabled highway traffic jams that
every description of



southern California must include. We feel we're far
enough north, he adds in the kind of amused tone that
makes his company both alarming and thoroughly
entertaining, so we could see the glow, get the cat,
pack up, and head for Quartzsite, Arizona.

Chalmers Johnson, who served in the US Navy and now is
a historian of US militarism, lives cheek-by-jowl with
his former service. San Diego is the headquarters of
the 11th Naval District. It's wall-to-wall military
bases right up the coast, he comments. By the way,
this summer the Pentagon's planning the largest naval
concentration in the Pacific in the post-World War II
period! Four aircraft-carrier task forces - two from
the Atlantic, and that's almost unprecedented - doing
military exercises off the coast of China.

That afternoon, we seat ourselves at his dining-room
table. He's 74 years old, crippled by rheumatoid
arthritis and bad knees. He walks with a cane, but his
is one of the spriest minds in town. Out the window I
can see a plethora of strange, oversized succulents.
In the distance, the Pacific Ocean gleams.

Johnson is wearing a black T-shirt that, he tells me,
a former military officer and friend brought back from
Russia. The shirt sports an illustration of an AK-47
on its front with the inscription Mikhail
Kalashnikov in Cyrillic script, and underneath, The
freedom fighter's friend, a product of the Soviet
Union. On the back in English, it says World
Massacre Tour with the following list: The Gulf War,
Afghanistan, Vietnam, Angola, Laos, Nicaragua,
Salvador, Lebanon, Gaza Strip, Karabakh, Chechnya ...
To be continued.

Johnson, who served as a lieutenant junior grade in
the US Navy in the early 1950s and from 1967-73 was a
consultant for the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA),
ran the Center for Chinese Studies at the University
of California, Berkeley for years. He defended the
Vietnam War (In that I was distinctly a man of my
times ...), but is probably the only person of his
generation to have written, in the years since,
anything like this passage from the introduction to
his book Blowback:

The problem was that I knew too much about the
international communist movement and not enough about
the United States government and its Department of
Defense ... In retrospect, I wish I had stood with the
anti-war protest movement. For all its naivete and
unruliness, it was right and American policy wrong. 

Retired, after a long, provocative career as a Japan
specialist, he is the author of the prophetic
Blowback: The Costs and Consequences of American
Empire, published in 2000 to little attention. After
September 11, 2001, it became a best-seller, putting
the word blowback, a CIA term for retaliation for US
covert actions, into common usage. He has since
written The Sorrows of Empire, Militarism, Secrecy,
and the End of the Republic. He is just now completing
the final volume of his Blowback Trilogy. It will be
titled Nemesis.

Sharp as a tack, energetic and high-spirited, by turns
genuinely alarmed and thoroughly sardonic, he's a
talker by nature. Our encounter is an interview in
name only. No one has ever needed an interviewer less.
I do begin with a question that has been on my mind,
but it's hardly necessary.

Tomdispatch: Let's start with a telltale moment in
your life, the moment when the Cold War ended. What
did it mean to you?

Chalmers Johnson: I was a Cold Warrior. There's no
doubt about that. I believed the Soviet Union was a
genuine menace. I still think so.

There's no doubt that, in some ways, the Soviet Union
inspired a degree of idealism. There are grown men I
admire who can't but stand up if they hear the
Internationale being played, even though they split
with the communists ages ago because of the NKVD
[Soviet secret police agency, a forerunner of the KGB]
and the gulag. I thought we needed to protect
ourselves from the Soviets.

As I saw it, the only justification for our monster
military apparatus, its size, the amounts spent on it,
the growth of the military-industrial complex that
[president Dwight] Eisenhower identified for us, was
the existence of the Soviet Union and its
determination to match us. The fact that the Soviet
Union was global, that it was extremely powerful,
mattered, but none of us fully anticipated

[IslamCity] What the US could learn from Thailand

2006-04-10 Thread Wolfgang Geist




http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Southeast_Asia/HD08Ae01.htmlCOMMENTARYWhat the US could learn from ThailandBy Shawn W Crispin BANGKOK - The similarities between the Thaksin and Bush administrations in Thailand and the US respectively were always striking as the two erstwhile allies drew closer in recent years. It's all the more so now that Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra has been
 bumped from power by a people-power movement that complained about his government's moral bankruptcy. Both Thaksin and President George W Bush rose to power under legally
 dubious circumstances: while the US leader muscled his way to the top through a Supreme Court intervention, the Thai premier won a landslide victory two weeks after being convicted of concealing his assets by an anti-corruption agency. Both tough-talking leaders professed themselves to be "CEO-style" leaders, a reference to their business backgrounds before entering politics. That has often entailed running roughshod over the law in pursuit of controversial policies, not the least state-sponsored killing sprees. Thaksin's "war on drugs" campaign in 2003 witnessed the extrajudicial killing of more than 2,200 drug suspects; the death toll of Iraqis related to the US invasion now runs into the tens of thousands. Thaksin's bloody counter-insurgency campaign against Thai Muslims, where more than 1,000 people have been killed since 2004, jibed nicely with Bush's global campaign to ferret out extremists among Muslim populations - seemingly at any human or moral
 cost. Ralph "Skip" Boyce, the garrulous US ambassador to Thailand, has maintained that Washington has in no way assisted Thaksin's controversial counter-insurgency efforts, which, similar to US military operations in Iraq, have been attended by allegations of torture and abuse of Muslim detainees. Bangkok-based European and Asian diplomats, however, beg to differ, claiming that the United States' behind-the-scenes role in the conflict is an open secret in diplomatic circles. US officials first pushed Thaksin to shore up security in Thailand's then-peaceful majority-Muslim southernmost provinces after a group of alleged al-Qaeda-linked operatives took refuge in the area in January 2002 from crackdowns in Singapore and Malaysia, according to senior Thai intelligence officials. It's still unclear what role US persuasion played in tipping the historically tumultuous region back into conflict. Thaksin signed up early on to Bush's "war on terror", offering Thai
 troops to both Iraq and Afghanistan in a quid pro quo exchange for a bilateral free-trade agreement. But pressured by US officials, Thailand agreed not to sign on to the International Criminal Court, which conceivably would have the authority to convict US political and military leaders for bald violations of the Geneva Conventions. Bangkok-based US diplomats, who lambasted Thaksin for cracking down on press freedom in 2001 and early 2002, drastically changed their tune later in 2002, referring to Thaksin in glowing terms as a "strong leader" and a "good ally". The Bush administration has since manipulated and intimidated the US press, including the imprisonment of journalists, in a manner strikingly similar to Thaksin's hard-knocks campaign against the Thai media. Partners in crimeUnfortunately, that relationship often pushed Thaksin and Thai security forces into violating their own constitution. Thaksin's Thailand plays host to a joint
 top-secret US Central Intelligence Agency-run counter-terrorism center, charged with managing covert operations throughout Southeast Asia, according to a senior Thai intelligence official attached to the National IntelligenceAgency. Those ties appear to have paved the way for the CIA to establish a secret prison in Thailand, where abducted terror suspects were allegedly held and interrogated. Ambassador Boyce has repeatedly declined to comment on the specifics of the secret detention center. (The facility was closed down in 2003, according to the Washington Post.) Thailand-based CIA agents apprehended and extradited to an undisclosed location alleged al-Qaeda operative Hambali in August 2003. Thai legal experts said Hambali's extradition violated habeas corpus provisions outlined in Thailand's 1997 constitution because he was not formally charged or convicted of a crime. When pressed about the legality of Hambali's capture and subsequent detention, then US
 homeland-security chief Tom Ridge said at a Bangkok press conference in 2004 that he wasn't aware of Thai law. During a 2004 Bangkok visit where he ceremoniously promoted Thailand to ally status, Bush referred to Police Major-General Tritos Ranaridhvichai as "my hero" for his personal role in Hambali's commando-style abduction. The US has consistently supported Thai authorities' efforts in prosecuting counter-terror operations, even when legally dubious. Former US ambassador Darryl Johnson applauded Thai authorities in 2003 for

[IslamCity] Sign the petition: Stop the war on Iran before it starts

2006-04-16 Thread Wolfgang Geist

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am one of the Muslims.} (Holy Quran-41:33)
 
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[IslamCity] What you can do to avoid war with Iran

2006-04-17 Thread Wolfgang Geist

Meet with your representatives during spring recess. Tell this know-nothing congress what's at stake. The FCNL has some guidelines how to organize a delegation: http://www.fcnl.org/iraq/index.htm The Bushistas made up their minds andour democratic saviors are now to the right of the right wingers: http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/HD13Ak03.html
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[IslamCity] Preparing for war with China

2006-04-25 Thread Wolfgang Geist

Preparing for war with China, in other words, is to be
the future cash cow for the giant U.S. weapons-making
corporations in the military-industrial complex.
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/041906P.shtml

Containing China: The US's real objective
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/China/HD20Ad01.html

If it comes to a shooting war ...
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/China/HD20Ad03.html
Our first objective is to prevent the re-emergence of
a new rival. This is a dominant consideration
underlying the new regional defense strategy and
requires that we endeavor to prevent any hostile power
from dominating a region whose resources would, under
consolidated control, be sufficient to generate global
power. These regions include Western Europe, East
Asia, the territory of the former Soviet Union and
Southwest Asia.
Paul Wolfowitz, former US deputy secretary of defense
and currently president of the World Bank

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[IslamCity] Spread the word: Demonstrate against Rumsfeld this Thursday

2006-04-30 Thread Wolfgang Geist

Donald Rumsfeld is Coming to Atlanta!

Thursday, May 4th

Demonstration 12:30 PM - 3:30 PM

(Come for any time you can, bring signs, banners, etc)

If you can come for only one hour, please come from 1
to 2 pm

when we need our largest numbers for the media!

Atlanta History Center

130 West Paces Ferry Road in Buckhead

www.atlhist.org for directions/public transportation

The Southern Center for International Studies is
bringing Rumsfeld to Atlanta for a program at the
Atlanta History Center. We need to have a visual and
vocal presence of opposition outside. Tickets are also
available to go inside, for $40: Call the Southern
Center at 404-261-5763 or with your credit card at
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programs, and June calendar will appear, click on
either event to purchase tickets and you will reach a
list of events including Rumsfeld. His presentation
will be followed by Q and A.

Donald Rumsfeld is responsible for waging the illegal
and murderous war in Iraq and is threatening a nuclear
war on Iran. He personally approved of specific forms
of torture of one Guantanamo detainee, and was in
weekly contact with Maj. Gen. Geoffrey Miller, the man
in charge of the Guantánamo Bay detention center.
Miller was sent to help set up the notorious Abu
Ghraib torture chamber, which indicates that torture
is in fact systematic government policy ordered from
the highest levels. We cannot allow this war criminal
to come to town without massive opposition.

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[IslamCity] Watch CIA analyst McGovern frying Scumsfeld in Atlanta

2006-05-09 Thread Wolfgang Geist

Go to
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Right now it's on www.cnn.com but that will change.

This was inside. More was outside.
After the 3 protesters are taken out, Ray McGovern,
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[IslamCity] Ray MGovern versus Rummi in the Asia times

2006-05-11 Thread Wolfgang Geist

Very good article
The US's geopolitical nightmare
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/China/HE09Ad01.html

Ray McGovern, a 27-year CIA veteran who once gave
then-president George H W Bush his morning
intelligence briefings, engaged in an extended debate
with Rumsfeld. He asked why Rumsfeld had insisted
before the Iraq invasion that there was bulletproof
evidence linking Saddam to al-Qaeda.

Was that a lie, Mr Rumsfeld, or was that manufactured
somewhere else? Because all of my CIA colleagues
disputed that and so did the 9-11 Commission,
McGovern said to a startled Rumsfeld. Why did you lie
to get us into a war that was not necessary?

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[IslamCity] How high oil prices finance US wars

2006-05-25 Thread Wolfgang Geist




http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Asian_Economy/GD09Dk01.html

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[IslamCity] Playstations and genocide in Congo

2006-05-28 Thread Wolfgang Geist




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[IslamCity] US and Israel gov. want more war in the Midle East

2006-06-15 Thread Wolfgang Geist

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article13588.htm
Nuking Iran

By Paul Craig Roberts

06/12/06 Information Clearing House -- -- John
Bolton, a notorious neocon warmonger who could not be
confirmed as America's ambassador to the UN by even
the compliant and corrupt US Senate, got the job as a
recess appointment. He is using the platform to push
America into war with Iran.

Bolton told the Financial Times (June 9) that the Bush
Regime has no intention of reaching an agreement with
Iran. Time is running out for diplomacy, Bolton told
the Financial Times. Iran has a short time remaining
in which it can give up its right under the
non-proliferation treaty to enrich uranium for nuclear
energy or be attacked. Bolton said that US security
guarantees for Iran were not on the table.

There is no evidence that Iran has a nuclear weapons
program. Every physicist knows that the enrichment
requirement for weapons is many times greater than for
nuclear energy and that Iran can barely achieve the
latter. Despite the facts, Bolton told the Financial
Times: They've [Iran] got both feet on the
accelerator, which is why we have a sense of urgency.
Each day that goes by gives Iran more time to continue
to perfect its efforts for mass production.

Bolton is lying through his teeth. Bush Regime lies
about Iraqi weapons of mass destruction and
propagandistic references to mushroom clouds convinced
the befuddled American public to accept an illegal
invasion of Iraq. The same collection of neocon war
criminals is again deceiving the American public about
Iran.

In his remarks to the Financial Times, Bolton shows
himself to be extremely disturbed by the prospect that
the diplomatic efforts of Europe, Russia, and China
could undermine the Bush Regime's plan to attack Iran.
Bolton is doing everything possible to make certain
that there is no diplomatic solution.

To help undermine any prospect for peace in the Middle
East, Israeli gunboats shelled a public beach and
killed or wounded 50 Palestinians. This was done in
order to provoke Hamas into abandoning the
long-established cease-fire that Hamas had imposed in
the interest of negotiating a Palestinian settlement.

The Israeli government succeeded, and now there will a
resurgence of Hamas terrorism that Bolton and his
neocon compatriots can use to build a frightening
spectacle of Muslim terrorism.

The Bush/Olmert axis-of-evil have made it clear that
we don't want no stinking peace.

Writing in Antiwar.com (June 10), University of
California Professor Jorge Hirsch explains the
tripwire that the Bush Regime has laid for Iran in
order to have an excuse to launch an attack on that
country.

Just as the Bush Regime planned to attack Iraq and
then orchestrated a case based on lies, the Bush
Regime has already planned to attack Iran. Only this
time nuclear weapons will be used.

Nuking Iran is an essential part of the attack plan.
The US lacks the necessary conventional military force
to invade and occupy Iran, but the use of nuclear
weapons against Iran has a wider purpose. The neocons
are determined not to have any more embarrassments,
such as the Iraqi insurgency. By nuking Iran they
intend to send a wider message that the US will use
every means at its disposal to ensure its hegemony.
The neocons believe that the use of nukes will
convince Arabs and the wider world that there is no
recourse to accepting America's will.

The neoconservatives could not care less about public
opinion. Neocons are contemptuous of the American
people. Leo Strauss taught neocons that it was their
duty to deceive the clueless American people in order
to implement their agenda of global domination. The
neocons believe that they have a perfect right, even
the obligation, to manipulate the public through
propaganda and black ops in order to create acceptance
and support for their wars of aggression.

The neocons are the epitome of evil, and they have
succumbed to hubris. Like Hitler when he attacked the
Soviet Union, neocons believe that their manipulative
skills and use of military power will carry the day
for their agenda. Hitler's hubris doomed Germany to
destruction. What price will America pay for neocon
hubris?

When the neocon nazis nuke Iran it will revive
memories in Japan and break the US-Japanese alliance.
Japan owns enough US Treasury bonds to be able to
destroy both the US dollar and the market for
Washington's endless red ink. Russia, China, India,
and even our European lackeys will have it forcefully
brought home to them that the US is an out-of-control
rogue nation. They will unify against us. Most likely
our bought and paid for puppets in the MIddle East
will fall, and Islamic leaders will gain Pakistan's
nuclear weapons. Al Qaeda will gain tens of millions
of recruits.

Francis Fukuyama's phrase, the end of history takes
on new meaning.

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[IslamCity] Will tema Bush steal Mexico elections?

2006-07-02 Thread Wolfgang Geist

STEALING MEXICO: Bush Team Helps Ruling Party "Floridize" Mexican Presidential ElectionBy Greg PalastGreg Palast is the author of the New York Times bestseller, "ARMED MADHOUSE: Who's Afraid of Osama Wolf?, China Floats Bush Sinks, the Scheme to Steal '08, No Child's Behind Left and other Dispatches from the Front Lines of the Class War." Friday, June 30, 2006 -- GEORGE Bush's operatives have plans to jigger with the upcoming elections. I'm not talking about the November '06 vote in the USA (though they have plans for that, too). I'm talking about the election this Sunday in Mexico
for their Presidency.It begins with an FBI document marked, "Counterterrorism" and "Foreign Intelligence Collection" and "Secret." Date: "9/17/2001," six days after the attack on the World Trade towers. It's nice to know the feds got right on the ball, if a little late. What does this have to do with jiggering Mexico's election? Hold that thought.This document is what's called a "guidance" memo for using a private contractor to provide databases on dangerous foreigners. Good idea. We know the 19 hijackers came from Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and the Persian Gulf Emirates. So you'd think the "Intelligence Collection" would be aimed at getting info on the guys in the Gulf. No so. When we received the document, we obtained as well its classified appendix. The target nations for "foreign counterterrorism investigation" were nowhere
near the Persian Gulf. Every one was in Latin America -- Argentina, Venezuela, Mexico and a handful of others. See one of the documents yourself.Latin America?! Was there a terror cell about to cross into San Diego with exploding enchiladas? All the target nations had one thing in common besides a lack of terrorists: each had a left-leaning presidential candidate or a left-leaning president in office. In Venezuela, President Hugo Chavez, bete noir of the Bush Administration, was facing a recall vote. In Mexico, the anti-Bush Mayor of Mexico City, Andres
Manuel Lopez Obrador was (and is) leading the race for the Presidency.Most provocative is the contractor to whom this no-bid contract was handed: ChoicePoint Inc. of Alpharetta, Georgia. ChoicePoint is the database company that created a list for Governor Jeb Bush of Florida of voters to scrub from voter rolls before the 2000 election. ChoicePoint's list (94,000 names in all) contained few felons. Most of those on the list were guilty of no crime except Voting While Black. The disenfranchisement of these voters cost Al Gore the presidency.Having chosen our President for us, our President's men chose ChoicePoint for this sweet War on Terror database gathering. The use of the Venezuela's and Mexico's voter registry files to fight terror is not visible -- but the use of the lists to manipulate elections is as obvious as the make-up on Katherine Harris' cheeks.In Venezuela,
leading up to the August 2004 vote on whether to re-call President Chavez, I saw his opposition pouring over the voter rolls in laptops, claiming the right to challenge voters as Jeb's crew did to voters in Florida. It turns out this operation was partly funded by the International Republican Institute of Washington, an arm of the GOP. Where did they get the voter info?In that case, access to Venezuela's voter rolls didn't help the Republican-assisted drive against Chavez, who won by a crushing plurality. In Mexico this Sunday, we can expect to see the same: challenges of Obrador voters in a race, the polls say, is too close to call. Not that Mexico's rulers need lessons from the Bush Administration on how to mess with elections. In 1988, the candidate for Obrador's Party of the Democratic Revolution (PDR), who opinion polls showed as a certain winner, somehow came up
short against the incumbent party of the ruling elite. Some of the electoral tricks were far from subtle. In the state of Guerrero, the PDR was leading on official tally sheets by 359,369. Oddly, the official final count was 309,202 for the ruling party, only182,874 for the PDR. Challenging the vote would have been dangerous. Two top officials of Obrador's party were assassinated during the campaign.Crucial to the surprise victory of the ruling party was the introduction of computer voting machines and the centralization of voter databases. Observer Andrew Reding of the Council on Hemispheric Affairs reported that ruling party operatives had special access codes denied the opposition.Whether the US "War on Terror" lists will find a use in Sunday's election, we cannot know. But the use of American government resources to interfere in south-of-the-border campaigns is an open secret.
The GOP's International Republican Institute has run training sessions for the PAN youth wing, funded by US taxpayers through the "National Endowment for Democracy."Foreign -- that is, American -- interference in political campaigns is a crime. That didn't stop Team Bush. However, when the theft of its citizen files was discovered, Argentina

[IslamCity] Netscape, the people's media

2006-07-04 Thread Wolfgang Geist

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Boycott Israel [IslamCity] Why they hate us picture album

2006-07-30 Thread Wolfgang Geist

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article14137.htm

Write your local newspaper the war in Lebanon did not
start on July 25'th with the kidnapping of two Israeli
soldiers.

Israelis are kidnapping Palestinians in Gaza
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=viewArticlecode=COO20060720articleId=2767

June 9'th:
Israeli shell kills 7, woudning 14 on Gaza beach:
http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/06/09/mideast/

 Lebanese Doctor Says Israel Using 'Phosphorus
Weapons'
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article14181.htm


Israeli Missiles Rip Into Medics' Esprit de Corps
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article14182.htm

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Boycott Israel [IslamCity] LEBANON: Behind the rise of Hezbollah: Two decades of Israeli occupation

2006-08-03 Thread Wolfgang Geist

http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2006/676/676p12b.htm

LEBANON: Behind the rise of Hezbollah: Two decades of
Israeli occupation

Michael Karadjis

Israel and its apologists claim that Israels brutal
terrorisation of the Lebanese people is an act of
self-defence following a cross-border raid by the
Lebanese organisation Hezbollah, which captured two
Israeli soldiers. However, Israeli aggression against
Lebanon goes back many years.

In the 1970s, the Palestine Liberation Organisation
(PLO) set up bases in Lebanon, where hundreds of
thousands of Palestinian refugees lived. Israel began
relentlessly bombing Palestinian refugee camps and
south Lebanon towns and villages from 1968 on. In the
March 7, 1975 New Times, US journalist Judith Coburn
reported that scores of Lebanese villages, bombed
since 1968, were being attacked almost daily in
recent months by ... airplane, artillery, tanks and
gunboats... the Israelis are using the full range of
sophisticated savagery known to our own military in
Indochina: shells, bombs, phosphorus, incendiary
bombs, CBU's [cluster bombs] and napalm.

In March 1978, Israel launched an full-scale invasion
of southern Lebanon, driving hundreds of thousands
from their homes and leading the UN Security Council
to adopt Resolution 425 calling for Israel to withdraw
it troops and establishing an international
peacekeeping force in southern Lebanon, the United
Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL). When it
pulled its troops back in June 1978, Israel remained
in occupation of a part of Lebanon south of the Litani
River.
Israels 1982-2000 occupation

On June 3, 1982, the Israeli ambassador in London was
killed by an assassin connected to the extreme
anti-PLO Palestinian group headed by Abu Nidal, who
had also ordered the killing of numerous PLO leaders.
Three days later, Israel used the ambassadors
assassination as a pretext to launch another
full-scale invasion of Lebanon. The death toll in the
following three months was estimated at 19,085, with
30,000 wounded.

Yet earlier, in July 1981, the PLO had declared a
ceasefire in cross-border raids and stuck to it. This
absence of cross-border attacks was worrying Israel,
as this was enhancing the PLO's international
diplomatic position. Israel was losing its ability to
paint the PLO as a group of terrorists.

After three months of heroic resistance, the PLO's
condition for leaving Lebanon was that Palestinian
non-combatants in the refugee camps be assured of
safety. The US agreed to this, and a multi-national
force, consisting of US, French and Italian troops,
was authorised to oversee the evacuation of the PLO
leadership and guerrilla units. The PLO withdrew from
Lebanon in August 1982.

The Arab countries and the PLO then jointly accepted a
peace plan calling for Israeli withdrawal from the
Palestinian territories occupied by Israel in 1967
(the West Bank and Gaza) and the formation of an
independent Palestinian state in these territories
with its capital in East Jerusalem, and guarantees for
peace among all states in the region.

Israel and the US rejected this. On September 3,
Israeli forces advanced towards the Palestinian
refugee camps of Sabra and Shatila in west Beirut,
clearing minefields that had been laid to protect the
camps. The multi-national force had withdrawn ahead of
schedule.

On September 15, Israeli tanks surrounded the camps.
The following day, the commander of the Israeli
forces, General Amos Yaron, authorised units of the
ultra-right Christian Phalangist militia to enter the
camps to clean out the terrorists, with the full
approval of Israeli war minister Ariel Sharon. For 42
hours, Israeli units surrounded the camps while their
Lebanese neo-Nazi allies slaughtered 3000 defenceless
Palestinian men, women and children.

By the end of 1982, Israel remained in occupation of
all of southern Lebanon, leading to a resistance
movement by Lebanese organisations, including the
Communist parties and the Shiite-based organisations
Amal and Hezbollah. PLO forces returned to Lebanon to
help the Lebanese resistance. In 1985, Israel was
forced to withdraw from most of Lebanon, but again
remained in occupation of a security zone south of
the Litani.

The Shiites, who mostly reside in southern Lebanon,
are the largest and poorest of the countrys three
major religious communities, the Christians being the
smallest and richest. The Shiites had been largely
excluded from the sectarian Lebanese political system,
which mandated that the Christian minority have most
seats in parliament, followed by the Sunni Muslim
community. However, the brutality of the post 1982
Israeli occupation radicalised the Shiites.

Amal was the main Shiite organisation fighting for
greater Shiite inclusion in the countrys sectarian
political system, established in 1943 before the
country gained its independence from France. However,
Amal had been prepared to deal with the Lebanese
right-wing and with the Syrian Baathist regime of
Hafez al Assad,

Boycott Israel [IslamCity] Israel planned the conflict a year ago:

2006-08-07 Thread Wolfgang Geist

Republican Paul Findley speaks out against Israeli
lobby
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3252642434022358005q=isreal

Israel planned the conflict a year ago:
http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/israeli_solders.html

Israel backed by army of cyber-soldiers
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspaper/0,,174-2289232,00.html

NATIONAL EXCLUSIVE: Hezbollah Leader Hassan Nasrallah
Talks With Former US Diplomats on Israel, Prisoners
and Hezbollahs Founding
http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=06/07/28/1440244

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Boycott Israel [IslamCity] It's about annexation (of water), stupid!

2006-08-09 Thread Wolfgang Geist

It's about annexation (of water), stupid!
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/HH05Ak01.html

Human Rights Watch Accuses Israel of War Crimes 
By Jim Lobe 
The 50-page report, Fatal Strikes: Israel's
Indiscriminate Attacks Against 
Civilians in Lebanon, detailed nearly two dozen cases
of IDF attacks in which a 
total of 153 civilians, including 63 children, were
killed in homes or motor 
vehicles. 
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article14343.htm

What International Law? 

Ambulances hit by Israeli forces

Another challenging report from ITN, this time on ITV.
This one on the Israeli 
attack on ambulances in Tyre Lebanon. 

Click here to view
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article14352.htm

===
War crimes and Lebanon 

By Professor Steve Trevillion

The deliberate and systematic destruction of Lebanon's
social infrastructure by 
the Israeli air force was also a war crime, designed
to reduce that country to 
the status of an Israeli-US protectorate. The attempt
has backfired. 
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article14355.htm

===
Illogical, illegal and ill-fated 

By Nasim Zehra 

The Arab hostility towards Israel was inevitable given
that its creation was at 
the cost of the Palestinian homeland. But instead of
neutralising the Arab 
hostility by working for a Palestinian homeland
Washington has sought to wean 
away the Arab regimes from the Palestinian cause. With
a festering Palestinian 
wound, the undying resistance and an aggressive and
insecure Israeli state, a 
stable Middle East will be an illusion. 
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article14340.htm

The neocons' next war By Sidney Blumenthal By 
secretly providing NSA intelligence to Israel and
undermining the hapless Condi Rice, 
hardliners in the Bush administration are trying to
widen the Middle East conflict to 
Iran and Syria, not stop it. 
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Boycott Israel [IslamCity] Israel's water wars

2006-08-10 Thread Wolfgang Geist

Israel warns of war over water
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/2249599.stm

The new bufferzone captures the Litani river:

IDF carving out buffer zone in south Lebanon
(includes map)
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/746085.html

Now Israel wants to create a buffer zone in south
Lebanon, pushing back Hezbollah at 
least 20 miles northward to the Litani River.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2006/07/20/international/i134809D39.DTL

THE LITANI RIVER OF LEBANON
http://web.macam.ac.il/~arnon/Int-ME/water/THE%20LITANI%20RIVER.htm

Israel wants the Litani River water
http://www.nsm88.com/articles/litani_river.html
http://www.rense.com/general72/plan.htm

The Westbank
Bantu states in the form of South Africa's apartheid
regime, and the annexation of the Jordan river
(includes map)
http://stopthewall.org/analysisandfeatures/1157.shtml


and of course oil
The War on Lebanon and the Battle for Oil
http://www.energybulletin.net/18656.html


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Boycott Israel [IslamCity] Clearing the path for US war on Iran

2006-08-14 Thread Wolfgang Geist

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/HH10Ak05.html

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His Oneness), and then stands straight (acts upon His Order), and] invites 
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am one of the Muslims.} (Holy Quran-41:33)
 
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Allah guides one person by you, it is better for you than the best types of 
camels. [al-Bukhaaree, Muslim] 

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calls to guidance will have a reward similar to the reward of the one who 
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Boycott Israel [IslamCity] Must read: New Facts Surface

2006-08-16 Thread Wolfgang Geist

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article14496.htm

Vote on Fissile Material Treaty
http://www.un.org/News/Press/docs/2004/gadis3291.doc.htm
( at the bottom)
Against:  United States.
Abstain:  Israel, United Kingdom.
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Boycott Israel [IslamCity] Either you take down Iran, Mr. Bush, or you are a failed president.

2006-08-20 Thread Wolfgang Geist

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article14555.htm



Olmert's war  and the next one

By Patrick J. Buchanan

08/15/06 WND -- -- When Israel answered the
Hezbollah raid that captured two soldiers with air
strikes on Lebanon's airport, runways, gas stations,
lighthouses, bridges, buses, apartment houses and
power plants, we who questioned the wisdom and
morality of what Israel was doing were denounced as
anti-Israel or anti-Semitic.

Turns out we were right. In private, even Israeli army
generals were raging that Israel was fighting a
stupid, losing war.

Ehud Olmert, who gave Chief of Staff Dan Halutz the
green light to launch the shock-and-awe air campaign,
cannot survive the moral, political and strategic
disaster his country has suffered.

While the Israeli Air Force was hammering Lebanon,
Hezbollah rained down 3,000 rockets on Israel and
fought off pinprick raids. When the Israeli army,
after a month, moved in force against the real enemy,
Hezbollah, Israel had already suffered irreparable
damage to its reputation as a fighting nation and a
moral country.


As the war began, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Jordan and
Bahrain all condemned Hezbollah, as did the Beirut
government, for inciting the war. But with Hezbollah's
defiant resistance, as Israel smashed up Lebanon, the
Arab street rallied to Nasrallah. Arab regimes
followed.

The losers?

Lebanon, which suffered 800 dead, thousands injured
and 1 million made refugees, saw its infrastructure
destroyed and nation set back 20 years. If the
government falls or Lebanon becomes a failed state, it
will be an even greater calamity for the Lebanese, and
for Israel and the Middle East. For the mightiest
political and military force in Lebanon, and likely
heir apparent to power slipping away from Prime
Minister Siniora, is now Hezbollah and Hassan
Nasrallah.

Says Walid Jumblatt, savage critic of Hezbollah and
its Syrian alliance, Hassan Nasrallah has won
militarily and politically, and has become a new
leader like Nasser.

Another loser is Israel, and Olmert, who seized on the
border skirmish to launch his Lebanon war. Writes Ari
Shavit of Haaretz:

Chutzpah has its limits. You cannot lead an entire
nation to war promising victory, produce humiliating
defeats and remain in power. You cannot bury 120
Israelis in cemeteries, keep a million Israelis in
shelters for a month, wear down deterrent power, bring
the next war very close and then say, oops, I made a
mistake.

Olmert and Halutz are history. The Kadima Party regime
will fall. Left and right are already tearing at its
flanks.

What does this mean? The Sharon-Olmert policy of
unilateral withdrawal from the territories is dead.
The Hamas-led Palestinian authority, the creation of
the freest and fairest elections ever held in
Palestine, is on a death watch, after Israel's
starvation blockade and ravaging of the Gaza Strip,
which has left 150 Palestinians dead.

A new Israeli regime will not withdraw from any more
land, nor shut down any more settlements, nor vacate
any part of Jerusalem, nor negotiate with a
Palestinian Authority led by Hamas or by a PLO that is
unable to disarm Hamas. We are at dead end, as George
W. Bush will not push the Israelis to do anything, nor
will Congress.

America is another loser.

The United States knew in advance Israel planned to
attack and, if possible, destroy Hezbollah. And
America approved.

But when Olmert launched an air war on Lebanon,
instead, Bush cheered him on, refused to rein in
attacks on civilian targets, sent smart bombs and used
U.S. influence at the United Nations to block an early
cease-fire. Bush-Cheney are thus morally and
politically culpable for what was done to Lebanon and
the democratic government there that was born of a
Cedar Revolution George Bush himself had championed.

Congress poodled alone with Bush, so Bush will not be
called to account, as he would be were any other
nation but Israel involved. From Morocco to the Gulf,
there is probably not a country today that would
welcome Bush, or where he would be safe on a state
visit.

Where does this leave us? With Israel's failure to
achieve its strategic objectives in Lebanon and
America having failed to attain its strategic
objectives in Iraq, Nasrallah emerges triumphant, and
Syria and Iran emerge unscathed and gloating.

What comes next? That is obvious.

With our War Party discredited by the failed policies
it cheered on in Lebanon and Iraq, there will come a
clamor that Bush must go to the source of all our
difficultly  Iran. Only thus can the War Party redeem
itself for having pushed us and Israel into two
unnecessary and ruinous wars. And the drumbeat for war
on Iran has already begun.

(T)he dangers continue to mount abroad, wails the
Weekly Standard in its lead editorial. How Bush deals
with Ahmadinejad's terror-supporting and
nuclear-weapons pursuing Iran will be the test of his
administration. Yes, the supreme test.

Bush is on notice from the neocons and War Party that
have all but

Boycott Israel [IslamCity] Bush pushed Israel to expand the war beyond Lebanon and attack Syria

2006-08-25 Thread Wolfgang Geist

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/HH23Ak03.html
On July 30, the Jerusalem Post reported that Bush
pushed Israel to expand the war beyond Lebanon and
attack Syria. 

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Boycott Israel [IslamCity] US Army Contemplates Redrawing Middle East Map to Stave-off Looming Global Meltdown

2006-09-05 Thread Wolfgang Geist

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article14810.htm
US Army Contemplates Redrawing Middle East Map to
Stave-off Looming Global Meltdown

By Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed

09/02/06 Dissidentvoice In a little-noted article
printed in early August in the Armed Forces Journal, a
monthly magazine for officers and leaders in the
United States military community, early retired Major
Ralph Peters sets out the latest ideas in current US
strategic thinking. And they are extremely disturbing.

Ethnically Cleansing the Entire Middle East

Maj. Peters, formerly assigned to the Office of the
Deputy Chief of Staff for Intelligence where he was
responsible for future warfare, candidly outlines how
the map of the Middle East should be fundamentally
re-drawn, in a new imperial endeavour designed to
correct past errors. Without such major boundary
revisions, we shall never see a more peaceful Middle
East, he observes, but then adds wryly: Oh, and one
other dirty little secret from 5,000 years of history:
Ethnic cleansing works.

Thus, acknowledging that the sweeping reconfiguration
of borders he proposes would necessarily involve
massive ethnic cleansing and accompanying bloodshed on
perhaps a genocidal scale, he insists that unless it
is implemented, we may take it as an article of faith
that a portion of the bloodshed in the region will
continue to be our own. Among his proposals are the
need to establish an independent Kurdish state to
guarantee the long-denied right to Kurdish
self-determination. But behind the humanitarian
sentiments, Maj. Peters declares that: A Free
Kurdistan, stretching from Diyarbakir through Tabriz,
would be the most pro-Western state between Bulgaria
and Japan.

He chastises the United States and its coalition
partners for missing a glorious chance to fracture
Iraq, which should have been divided into three
smaller states immediately. This would leave Iraq's
three Sunni-majority provinces as a truncated state
that might eventually choose to unify with a Syria
that loses its littoral to a Mediterranean-oriented
Greater Lebanon: Phoenecia reborn. Meanwhile, the
Shia south of old Iraq would form the basis of an
Arab Shia State rimming much of the Persian Gulf.
Jordan, a US-Israeli friend in the region, would
retain its current territory, with some southward
expansion at Saudi expense. For its part, the
unnatural state of Saudi Arabia would suffer as great
a dismantling as Pakistan. Iran too would lose a
great deal of territory to Unified Azerbaijan, Free
Kurdistan, the Arab Shia State and Free Baluchistan,
but would gain the provinces around Herat in today's
Afghanistan. Although this vast imperial programme
could be impossible to implement now, with time, new
and natural borders will emerge, driven by the
inevitable attendant bloodshed.

As for the goals of this plan, Maj. Peters is equally
candid. While including the necessary caveats about
fighting for security from terrorism, for the
prospect of democracy, he also mentions the third
important issue -- and for access to oil supplies in
a region that is destined to fight itself.

The whole thing sounds disturbingly familiar,
especially to those who have read the musings of then
Israeli Foreign Ministry official Oded Yinon.


Keeping the World Safe... for Our Economy

Despite trying to dress up his vision as an exercise
in attempting to selflessly democratize the Middle
East, in a contribution to the quarterly US Army War
College journal Parameters almost a decade ago, he
acknowledged with some jubilation that: Those of us
who can sort, digest, synthesize, and apply relevant
knowledge soar--professionally, financially,
politically, militarily, and socially. We, the
winners, are a minority. This minority will
inevitably conflict with the vast majority of the
world's population. For the world masses, devastated
by information they cannot manage or effectively
interpret, life is 'nasty, brutish . . . and
short-circuited.' In every country and region,
these masses who can neither understand the new
world, nor profit from its uncertainties... will
become the violent enemies of their inadequate
governments, of their more fortunate neighbors, and
ultimately of the United States. The coming clash,
then, is not really about blood, faith, ethnicity, at
all. It is about the gap between the haves and the
have-nots. We are entering a new American century,
he says, in a veiled reference to the Bush
administration Project of the same name founded in the
same year he was writing. In the new century, we will
become still wealthier, culturally more lethal, and
increasingly powerful. We will excite hatreds without
precedent.

In predicting the future course for the US Army, Maj.
Peters argues that: We will see countries and
continents divide between rich and poor in a reversal
of 20th-century economic trends. In this context, he
says, we in the United States will continue to be
perceived as the ultimate haves, and therefore,
terrorism will be the most common form of

Boycott Israel [IslamCity] The American conservative: The Enemy of My Enemy

2006-09-07 Thread Wolfgang Geist

http://www.amconmag.com/2006/2006_09_11/feature.html September 11, 2006 IssueCopyright © 2006 The American Conservative The Enemy of My Enemy The U.S.-Israeli fixation on Hezbollah and Hamas undermines our pursuit of al-Qaeda. by Anders Strindberg For the past several years, the primary bulwarks against the spread of al-Qaedas brand of Salafi Islamism into Lebanon and the Palestinian territories have been Hezbollah and Hamas, respectively. While it may not fit well with the black-and-white worldview that provides the backdrop for the war against terrorism, the fact is
that these two movements have been far more successful at limiting the influence of Salafism within their respective jurisdictions than any of the regional friends and allies of the United States. Even so, as fierce fighting is reducing Lebanon and the Gaza Strip to rubble, the United States has underwritten the Israeli governments policy that any acceptable political solution must entail the military destruction of Hezbollah and Hamas. Consequently, both movements find themselves the principal targets in the war against terrorism. Given Hezbollah and Hamass willingness and ability to stem the rising tide of Salafist militancy, targeting these two movements means that the war against terrorism itself threatens to enable the infiltration and entrenchment of al-Qaeda and its fellow travelers in countries so far denied them. The priorities of the administration seem not only to miss the mark in the fight against
terrorism but to constitute a grievous strategic error. The enmity between Hezbollah and Hamas, on the one hand, and the Salafist trend on the other is in part a matter of practical politics. The former two have been well aware that the emergence of al-Qaeda affiliates in either of their respective territories would serve as a pretext for harsher U.S. and Israeli actions against them and their constituents. Indeed, Israeli military intelligence has repeatedly floated information linking Hamas and al-Qaeda with a view to more firmly incorporating Israels fight against its enemies into the U.S.-led global war on terror. Moreover, Hezbollah and Hamas are well established political movements that simply do not want to share their local power bases with Islamist groups of a different ideological hue. Yet it is the nature of this ideological difference that is crucial to understanding the
depth of their enmity towards the Salafist project While Hezbollah/Hamasand al-Qaeda and its affiliates are engaged in what they see as a resistance project, they are not engaged in the same resistance project. The struggles of the former two are territorial, directed against a specific enemyIsraeland rooted in the needs and aspirations of specific peoples. Through modern institutions these movements aim to empower their constituents, to whom they also stand directly accountable in democratic elections as well as in terms of a more general approval of their actions. Importantly, they form part of, and co-operate within, a pluralistic spectrum of ideologies and creeds within their respective arenas. While it may not sit well with the U.S. public discourse, neither Hezbollah nor Hamas are enemies of the U.S. other than by inferred extension of their enmity with Israel. In sharp
contrast, al-Qaedas struggle is rooted in Wahhabi theology, the tribal legacies of Saudi Arabia, and the military experiences of Afghanistan, the Balkans, and Somalia. It wages a cosmic war against the impure values of the West and stands accountable to no specific constituency because it limits its struggle to no specific territory. It seeks to create alternatives to the modern institutions imported from the West. It rejects, other than on tactical grounds, political and religious pluralism because it views everyone outside the Salafist sphere as infidels or apostates. It is important to understand that even Hezbollah and Hamas are seen as part of this circle of apostates: the former on account of its Shia theology, the latter due to its co-operation with Hezbollah and the various secular Palestinian militant groups and movements. Al-Qaeda is a direct sworn enemy of the U.S. and appears to care little for confrontation with Israel. Otherwise, as one Palestinian
official remarked, the bastards would have driven those planes [on 9/11] into buildings in Israel, not New York and Washington. Hezbollah, which operates an effective intelligence apparatus, has carefully monitored Salafist movements for the past several years. It has used a combination of carrots and sticks, most often discreetly, to curb the spread of the new ideology among its constituents. Sometimes it has come to blows. For instance, in response to an uprising linked to al-Qaeda affiliates in the northern coastal town of Tripoli in late 2001, Hezbollah provided intelligence support for a successful joint Syrian and Lebanese army counterterrorist operation. In the Palestinian

Boycott Israel [IslamCity] The Israel Lobby Works Its Magic, Again

2006-09-08 Thread Wolfgang Geist

http://www.counterpunch.org/
How Human Rights Watch Lost Its Way in Lebanon
The Israel Lobby Works Its Magic, Again

By JONATHAN COOK

Nazareth.

The measure of a human rights organisation is to be
found not just in the strides it takes to seek justice
for the oppressed and victimised but also in the
compromises it makes to keep itself out of trouble.
Because of the business that human rights defenders
are in, they must be held to a standard higher than we
demand of others.

Unfortunately, one of the best -- Human Rights Watch
-- has failed that test during the war in Lebanon this
summer.

To its credit, HRW has risked much opprobrium for
taking Israel to task for systematically breaking
international law during its assault on Lebanon. That
has culminated in a predictable campaign of harassment
by pro-Israel organisations in the US -- as well as by
the usual suspects like Alan Dershowitz -- that have
accused its researchers of libelling Israel and being
anti-Semitic.

Such attacks reached an obscene pitch after HRW's
executive director, Kenneth Roth, observed in
publicity material accompanying a recent report that
Israel appeared to have treated south Lebanon as a
free-fire zone and that its strikes had failed to
distinguish between civilians and Hizbullah fighters.

Roth, a Jew whose father fled Nazi Germany, was
accused in typical hyperbolic fashion of engaging in
the de-legitimization of Judaism, the basis of much
anti-Semitism (New York Sun), being an ally of the
barbarians and reflexive Israel basher (David
Horowitz), and resorting to a slur about primitive
Jewish bloodlust (Jonathan Rosenblum).

I do not underestimate the damage that such criticism
risks doing to the reputations of HRW and Roth. But I
also know that no concession to such intimidation can
be justified, not if we are to search for the truth or
hope to defend the principal victims of violations of
international law, the civilian populations of poor
and weak nations.

Name-calling, however distasteful, cannot justify HRW
distorting its findings to placate the Israel lobby.
But that seems to be just what is happening.

The most egregious example is to be found in a
post-war interview between the New York Times and a
senior HRW researcher, Peter Bouckaert, about a recent
report, Fatal strikes, in which the organisation
provides evidence that Israel fired indiscriminately
on Lebanese civilians during the fighting.

Rather than concentrating on HRW's findings of war
crimes in Lebanon -- the focus of the research --
Bouckaert digresses: I mean, it's perfectly clear
that Hezbollah is directly targeting civilians, and
that their aim is to kill Israeli civilians. We don't
accuse the Israeli army of deliberately trying to kill
civilians. Our accusation, clearly stated in the
report, is that the Israeli army is not taking the
necessary precautions to distinguish between civilian
and military targets. So, there is a difference in
intent between the two sides. At the same time, they
are both violating the Geneva Convention.

After an observation like that -- stuffed in a brief
space with so many double standrads -- HRW should not
complain if one day it finds itself short of friends
prepared to come to its aid when next the likes of
Dershowitz batter it with the anti-Semitism canard.
Those who indulge in slurs (against Arabs) can hardly
call on our sympathy when they themselves are victims
of the same kind of innuendo.

First, how does Bouckaert know that Israel's failure
to distinguish between civilian and military targets
was simply a technical failure, a failure to take
precautions, and not intentional? Was he or another
HRW researcher sitting in one of the military bunkers
in northern Israel when army planners pressed the
button to unleash the missiles from their spy drones?
Was he sitting alongside the air force pilots as they
circled over Lebanon dropping their US-made bombs or
tens of thousands of cluster munitions, tiny land
mines that are now sprinkled over a vast area of south
Lebanon? Did he have intimate conversations with the
Israeli chiefs of staff about their war strategy?

Of course not. He has no more idea than you or I what
Israel's military planners and its politicians decided
was necessary to achieve their war goals. In fact, he
does not even know what those goals were. So why make
a statement suggesting he does?

Similarly, just as Bouckaert is apparently sure that
he can divine Israel's intentions in the war, and that
they were essentially benign, he is equally convinced
that he knows Hizbullah's intentions, and that they
were malign. Whatever the evidence suggests -- in a
war in which Israel overwhelmingly killed Lebanese
civilians and is still doing so, and in which
Hizbullah overwhelmingly killed Israeli soldiers --
Bouckaert knows better. He admits that both violated
the Geneva Conventions, a failure he makes sound
little more than a technicality, but apparently only
Hizbullah had evil designs.

How is it perfectly clear to

Boycott Israel [IslamCity] Why oil prices are falling

2006-09-18 Thread Wolfgang Geist

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2003257679_oilconsumers14.html

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Boycott Israel [IslamCity] US prepares for war against Iran

2006-09-21 Thread Wolfgang Geist

Retired U.S. Col. Says U.S. Are Conducting Military
Operations Inside Iran
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article15022.htm
Time: This is how US will attack Iran 
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article15010.htm

Simple people have a simple logic. 
Iran needs to be stopped at any costs from becoming
the dominant power in the Middle East.

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