bismi-lLahi-rRahmani-rRahiem In the Name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful
=== News Update === A letter to America Hello everyone: I have some thoughts and comments about the present state of our country. Over the last several months, I have read several books that have looked at, analyzed, and criticized the dictatorial oligarchy that is the Bush Administration and its powerful industrial, corporate, mining, and financial buddies. I have realized that the United States has been in dire straits after September 11, 2001, but the extent of the totalitarianism displayed by Bush and Company really gave me a sonic blast-like shock. http://wuamericaru.blogspot.com/2005/07/letter-to-america.html === France Invades the US (Part 8) - Satire - Former American President George W. Bush, you'll recall, was found cowering in a spider hole outside his ranch in Crawford, Texas, back in December 2003. Termed Operation American Freedom, French and German troops, cheered on by compliant embedded French journalists, invaded the US to overturn what Chirac called, again, the brutal, illegitimate regime of George W. Bush. Citing the dangers Bush's regime posed to the French people, and emphasizing that America had over the years attacked its neighbors in Grenada, Panama and Haiti as well as Vietnam, Korea, Iraq, Somalia, Serbia, and Afghanistan. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article9522.htm http://snipurl.com/gdv3 === Thank You, Mr. President: Last week, John Roberts wrote Bush a blank check. - The opinion says that Congress authorized the president to set up whatever military tribunal he deems appropriate when it authorized him to use "all necessary and appropriate force" to fight terrorism in response to 9/11. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article9525.htm http://snipurl.com/gdwg === Four articles on Bush's supreme court nomination Who is Bush's pick for Supreme Court Justice? http://www.alternet.org/story/23630/ Another Activist Judge http://www.thenation.com/blogs/thebeat?bid=1&pid=7456 Judge Dread: John Roberts and the "Enemy Combatants" http://www.counterpunch.org/floyd07202005.html John Roberts Is No Mainstream Judge," Critics Claim http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/072005I.shtml === A Viler Barbarism British politicians thought they could press buttons and make war in the Arab world and remain safe themselves. Now they had a reply. In the dominant culture of the West there is a deep-seated belief that the lives of Western civilians are somehow worth more than those living in other parts of the world - especially those parts being bombed and occupied by the West. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article9516.htm http://snipurl.com/gdv2 === Calif. Press Will Publish Controversial Book On Israel Legal wrangling and disputes over the author's claims plagued 'Beyond Chutzpah' The University of California Press announced this month that it would proceed with the publication of a controversial book by Norman G. Finkelstein, an assistant professor of political science at DePaul University, that attacks some pro-Israel scholarship on the continuing conflict between Israelis and Palestinians. http://chronicle.com/temp/email.php?id=4dgx6dybv7aga7b71vmbtvpdbuklvg04 for further background see also: http://www.normanfinkelstein.com/ === Two new Israeli documentaries explore the moral failure of Zionism Two new Israeli films that premiered at this month's Jerusalem Film Festival explore the moral failure that is inherent in Zionism. In the biographical documentary The Diaries of Yossef Nachmany, the Zionist leader largely responsible for the Judaization of the Galilee in the years leading up to the State of Israel is portrayed as conflicted by the ultimate consequence of Zionism -- the expulsion and suffering of the indigenous Palestinian population. And in the important documentary Dear Father, Quiet, We're Shooting , we see that the Zionist enterprise is spiralling so far out of control that Israeli citizens are being made to collectively pay for the ideology of the extreme minority. This was most keenly felt during Israel's twenty-year war with Lebanon during which hundreds of Israelis, and tens of thousands more Palestinians and Lebanese, perished -- meriting the war the epithet "Israel's Vietnam" and eliciting protests amongst Israelis that this is "not our war." http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article4018.shtml === Why White House v. Wilson/Plame Matters The Iraq-Niger lie was thus both the cornerstone of the Bush agenda for war and the key to unraveling how the "fixing" worked. Rove, master of the administration's strategy yet only two years out of Texas, joined by Cheneys chief of staff I. Lewis (Scooter) Libby spread red herrings to divert reporters off the scent and wound up triggering the eventual appointment of a special prosecutor and the convening of a grand jury. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article9515.htm http://snipurl.com/gdv4 === 25,000 Iraqi civilians killed since invasion : Four times as many died at the hands of US-led forces as from suicide bombers and other insurgents, according to a detailed study of the human cost of the conflict. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article9521.htm http://snipurl.com/gdv8 === Iraq : Fallujah Under Siege Again: US and Iraqi troops have launched another offensive on the city of Fallujah. This has sparked another mass exodus of civilians. Hundreds of families have already abandoned the city, they report, "further worsening the humanitarian emergency." http://snipurl.com/gdva === Draft Iraqi charter backs Islamic law : A working draft of a chapter of the new Iraq constitution has language that gives a strong role to Islamic law and could be used to curb women's rights, particularly in personal matters like divorce and family inheritance. http://www.iht.com/articles/2005/07/19/news/charter.php http://snipurl.com/gdvh === Dead suspect covered in bruises : BAHA Musa was rounded up with six other men during a night raid on suspected Ba'ath party activists in the southern Iraqi city of Basra in 2003. Four days after the sweep, his father, Dawood, was asked to identify his body at Camp Steven, one of a number of UK military detention centres around the city. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article9519.htm http://snipurl.com/gdvd === Iraq detainee mounts legal challenge : A terrorist suspect being held by British forces in Iraq without charge today asked the high court in London to rule his detention unlawful and a breach of human rights. http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,1532620,00.html http://snipurl.com/gdve === Iraqi Police Loose Control Over Mosul: Residents in the northern Iraqi city said police have stopped patrolling most of the city. http://www.menewsline.com/stories/2005/july/07_21_2.html http://snipurl.com/gdv9 === Britons face Iraq war crime trials : hree British soldiers are - for the first time - to stand trial for war crimes against Iraqi detainees under the jurisdiction of the international criminal court (ICC), the attorney general, Lord Goldsmith, said last night. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article9517.htm http://snipurl.com/gdvc === Most soldiers in Iraq report low unit morale: army study : More than half of US soldiers serving in Iraq reported low or very low unit morale in an army survey conducted last year, an army mental health advisory team reported. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article9526.htm http://snipurl.com/gdvg === Car bomb blast hits US patrol in northern Iraq : "A booby-trapped vehicle, parked on the side of a road in Toz-Khormatu, blew up early morning as a US military patrol passed by, destroying a US Hamvee killing or wounding all on board," a police source from the US-Iraqi Joint Coordination Center, told Xinhua. http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2005-07/20/content_3243756.htm http://snipurl.com/gdv7 === Financial Cost of Iraq War : As the Bush Administration continues to spend billions of dollars on the war in Iraq, it tells Americans , "Don't worry, be happy." http://snipurl.com/gdvn === Uncle Sam wants you even if youre 42 years old : The Defense Department quietly asked Congress on Monday to raise the maximum age for military recruits to 42 for all branches of the service. http://www.armytimes.com/story.php?f=1-292925-983408.php http://snipurl.com/gdk0 === Grandmother Ships Out To Iraq: One of the latest New Jersey National Guard soldiers to ship out for Iraq is a 50-year-old grandmother from Passaic. http://kyw.com/news/local_story_201143539.html === War Pimp Alert: Now America accuses Iran of complicity in World Trade Center attack: Iran gave free passage to up to 10 of the September 11 hijackers just months before the 2001 attacks and offered to co-operate with al-Qa'eda against the US, an American report will say this week. http://snipurl.com/gdvm === Charley Reese: Not Again: The state of Israel which, the last time I checked, was both a foreign and a sovereign nation wants the American taxpayers to cough up $2.2 billion in addition to our regular $3 billion-or-so annual subsidy to pay for the withdrawal from Gaza. Unless the American people raise hell about this, it's a done deal. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article9523.htm http://snipurl.com/gdvp === In case you missed it: Zionism's Useful Idiots : That's you and me, taxpaying US citizens. We're useful idiots for the Zionists in Washington and Tel Aviv. Useful because our hard-earned paychecks can be harvested to pay for war and mass murder in the Middle East, idiots because we don't do anything about it. http://www.dissidentvoice.org/Articles9/Nimmo_Zionisms-Idiots.htm http://snipurl.com/gdvq === In case you missed it: $3 Billion: U.S. Aid to Israel: The Subject No One Mentions: U.S. aid to Israel has always been a touchy subject. Members of Congress never mention the total, probably for two reasons. http://www.ameu.org/page.asp?iid=97&aid=134&pg=1 http://snipurl.com/gdvr === In case you missed it: A Conservative Total for U.S. Aid to Israel: $91 Billionand Counting : The common figure given for U.S. aid to Israel is $3 billion per year$1.2 billion in economic aid and $1.8 billion in military aid. As impressive as this figure is, however, since it represents about one-sixth of total U.S. foreign aid http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article5964.htm http://snipurl.com/du3w === Ministers warned of Iraq link to UK terror : A month before the July 7 London bombings, security and intelligence officials warned that "events in Iraq are continuing to act as motivation and a focus of a range of terrorist-related activity in the UK". http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article9518.htm http://snipurl.com/gdvx === The Iraq connection : Mr Straw sounded silly, roping in a weekend bomb attack on western tourists in Turkey as evidence of a global terrorist menace that justified the war. He might as well have thrown in the Real IRA or the Animal Liberation Front. http://www.guardian.co.uk/attackonlondon/comment/story/0,16141,1531902,00.html http://snipurl.com/gdvz === It's not only about Iraq : The animating ideology of the caliphate helps explain al-Qaida actions that otherwise make no sense http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1531997,00.html http://snipurl.com/gdw4 === Italy Seeks Arrest of 6 More CIA Agents in Cleric Kidnapping : Italian prosecutors today sought arrest warrants for six more people they say are U.S. Central Intelligence Agency operatives who helped kidnap an Egyptian Muslim preacher from a Milan street more than two years ago. http://snipurl.com/gdwa === Lawyer Argues Against Padilla Confinement : ``We are quite confident we will prevail,'' said Donna Newman, another attorney for Padilla, after the hearing. ``We've said all along if he's done something wrong, charge him. ... That is what has always worked.'' http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article9514.htm http://snipurl.com/gdwb === Memo Becomes Focus in CIA Leak Probe : A State Department memo that has caught the attention of prosecutors describes a CIA officer's role in sending her husband to Africa and disputes administration claims that Iraq was shopping for uranium, a retired department official said Tuesday. http://snipurl.com/gdwd === Ray Mc Govern: The Hand of Cheney: We warned President George W. Bush that the Iraq-seeking-uranium-in-Niger forgery was "a microcosm of a mischievous nexus of overarching problems" in his White House. We cited the remarks of then-presidential spokesman Ari Fleischer earlier that week, which set the tone for what has followed-right up to today. http://www.counterpunch.com/mcgovern07202005.html === Bernard Weiner: Rove-Plame Scandal Leading to Deeper White House Horrors? : Anything is possible as the Bush Administration paints itself further into the scandal corner, and, desperate to avoid criminal proceedings and/or impeachment, lashes out at its perceived enemies. http://www.crisispapers.org/essays-w/horrors.htm http://snipurl.com/gdwe === Follow the Documents: There's another Joe Wilsonrelated investigation that needs answers: Who forged the Niger memos in the first place? http://snipurl.com/gdwf === Roberts Has Backed Administration Policies: John G. Roberts has demonstrated strong backing for Bush administration policies, ruling against Geneva Conventions protections for detainees at Guantanamo Bay and in favor of keeping Vice President Dick Cheney's energy task force records secret. http://snipurl.com/gdwp === Juan Cole: The Roberts Nomination: Bush's War on Women : George W. Bush's nomination of John Roberts, Jr. is a setback for American women, just has his policies in Iraq have produced a setback for women's rights in the Arab world. Indeed, Bush has been bad for women all around the globe. http://www.juancole.com/2005/07/roberts-nomination-and-iraqi.html http://snipurl.com/gdwh === Another attack on the courts: Members of Congress like to throw their weight around, but what separates this incident from others is that Mr. Sensenbrenner, as head of the committee charged with judicial oversight, just might retaliate by cutting the court's budget or some such tactic. http://www.toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050720/OPINION02/507200305 http://snipurl.com/gdwm === -muslim voice- ___________________________________ BECAUSE YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO KNOW -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. 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