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Georgia has won the PR war
On the Press, Peter Wilby: Saakashvili's government has won the press over with a skillfully deployed PR campaign
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Acts of War
The war between the United States and Iran is on. American taxpayer dollars are being used, with the permission of Congress, to fund activities that result in Iranians being killed and wounded, and Iranian property destroyed. This wanton violation of a nation’s sovereignty would not be tolerated if the tables were turned and Americans were being subjected to Iranian-funded covert actions that took the lives of Americans, on American soil, and destroyed American property and livelihood
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The MEK traces its roots back to the CIA-orchestrated overthrow of the democratically elected Prime Minister Mohammed Mossadeg.
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its overall value as an intelligence resource is negatively impacted by the fact that it is the sole source of human intelligence in Iran. As such, the group has taken to exaggerating and fabricating reports to serve its own political agenda. In this way, there is little to differentiate the MEK from another Middle Eastern expatriate opposition group, the Iraqi National Congress, or INC, which infamously supplied inaccurate intelligence to the United States and other governments and helped influence the U.S. decision to invade Iraq and overthrow Saddam Hussein.
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UK Report Predicts Brain Implants, Revolution
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Add Sticky Note
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Water scarcity will be a major issue,
economic crisis is likely, a
pandemic may happen, and
the global financial system may
fail;
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B’Tselem: “Palestinian child abused during arrest, tortured during interrogation” - International Middle East Media Center - IMEMC
The Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories (B’Tselem) reported that a Palestinian child was tortured by Israeli soldiers while arresting him and was also tortured in an Israeli prison during interrogation.
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And now a white European Al Qaeda threat?
This story could represent a very strange twist in the 'war on terror', and a terrifying view of 'things to come'.\n\nThink of all those 'behavior detection officers' at airports examining passengers for "body language and facial cues ... for signs of bad intentions"... with the assistance of 3D Airport Scanners.
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Q&A: 'Occupiers Cannot Also Be Liberal'
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The situation in the Gaza Strip is worse, there the 'prison' is already in place, and because of the resistance by the Palestinians to the imprisonment, Israel launches an escalating policy of massive killings. The world seems indifferent, and the Arab world uninterested.
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A society that endorses a 40-year occupation of another people cannot be a liberal one. A society that discriminates against 20 percent of its population because they are not Jews cannot be described as progressive. The problem in Israel is not the role of religion or tradition; it is the role of Zionism, a very clear ideology of exclusion, racism and expulsion. This ideology allows the army to play a significant role in most of the domestic and foreign policies, and it is probably right to say that Israel is not a state with an army, but an army with a state.
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Global War Deaths Have Been Substantially Underestimated, Study Shows
Globally, war has killed three times more people than previously estimated, and there is no evidence to support claims of a recent decline in war deaths
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Retired General Accuses Bush Of War Crimes - News Story - WPXI Pittsburgh
The Bush administration is guilty of committing "war crimes" and ought to be held to account, according to retired Maj. Gen. Antonio Taguba in a new report on medical evidence of torture at U.S. facilities around the world.
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"After years of disclosures by government investigations, media accounts, and reports from human rights organizations, there is no longer any doubt as to whether the current administration has committed war crimes. The only question is whether those who ordered the use of torture will be held to account.
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U.S. and Europe Near Accord on Privacy - NYTimes.com
Washington - The United States and the European Union are nearing completion of an agreement allowing law enforcement and security agencies to obtain private information - like credit card transactions, travel histories and Internet browsing habits - about people on the other side of the Atlantic Ocean. The potential agreement, as outlined in an internal report obtained by The New York Times, would represent a diplomatic breakthrough for American counterterrorism officials, who have clashed with the European Union over demands for personal data. Europe generally has more stringent laws restricting how governments and businesses can collect and transfer such information. Negotiators, who have been meeting since February 2007, have largely agreed on draft language for 12 major issues central to a "binding international agreement," the report said. The pact would make clear that it is lawful for European governments and companies to transfer personal information to the United States, and vice versa.
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it is lawful for European governments and companies to transfer personal information to the United States, and vice versa
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race, religion, political opinion, health or “sexual life” may not be used by a government “unless domestic law provides appropriate safeguards.
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4th Amendment: Rest in Peace : Information Clearing House - ICH
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with the
new law granting
immunity to
telecom
companies and
granting the
federal
government wide
discretionary
powers in spying
on our
communications
(which has
become far
simpler in this
electronic day
and age), the
Imperial rubber
stamp arm of the
federal
government has
brutally
murdered another
of our precious
rights: the 4th
Amendment which
states: "The
right of the
people to be
secure in their
persons, houses,
papers, and
effects, against
unreasonable
searches and
seizures, shall
not be violated,
and no Warrants
shall issue, but
upon probable
cause, supported
by Oath or
affirmation, and
particularly
describing the
place to be
searched, and
the persons or
things to be
seized."
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McGovern: Iran war drawing closer
Former CIA officer Ray McGovern says President Bush and his ally, Israel, will likely attack Iran in 'late summer or early fall'.
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A perfect storm seems to be gathering in late summer or early fall,
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YouTube - The Israel Lobby (Marije Meerman, VPRO Backlight 2007)
For many years now the American foreign policy has been characterized by the strong tie between the United States and Israel. Does the United States in fact keep Israel on its feet? And how long will it continue to do so?
In March 2006 the American political scientists John Mearsheimer (University of Chicago) and Steve Walt (Harvard) published the controversial article 'The Israel Lobby and US foreign policy'. In it they state that it is not, or no longer, expedient for the US to support and protect present-day Israel. The documentary sheds light on both parties involved in the discussion: those who wish to maintain the strong tie between the US and Israel, and those who were critical of it and not infrequently became 'victims' of the lobby. The question arises to what extend the pro-Israel lobby ultimately determines the military and political importance of Israel itself. Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson (Colin Powell's former chief-of-staff) explains how the lobby's influence affects the decision-making structure in the White House.
With political scientist John Mearsheimer, neocon Richard Perle, lobby organization AIPAC, televangelist John Hagee, historian Tony Judt, Human Rights Watch director Kenneth Roth, colonel Lawrence Wilkerson, Democrat Earl Hilliard, Israeli peace negotiator Daniel Levy and investigative journalist Michael Massing. -
William Pfaff - Jewish Israel's Ongoing Suicide
William Pfaff is worth listening to. He was one of the only journalists who predicted the fall of the Soviet Union back around 1980. He also predicted pretty well how the fall would unfold.\nNow he is predicting the end of Israel. \n
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Medical Consequences of a Nuclear Attack on Iran
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In the immediate area of the two attacks, our calculations show that within 48 hours, an estimated 2.6 million people would die.
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Over 1,000,000 people would suffer immediate injuries including thermal and flash burns, radiation sickness, broken limbs, lacerations, blindness, crush injuries, burst eardrums and other traumas. In the wider region, over 10.5 million people would be exposed to significant radiation from fallout (those in the light green to pink zones on the map above), leading to radiation sickness, future excess cancer deaths, genetic abnormalities in future generations, as well as high rates of stillbirths, miscarriages, malignancies and hypothyroidism. Most if not all medical facilities near the two attack sites would be destroyed, or located within the radiation "hot zone" and thus unusable. Little or no medical care would be available to the injured in the aftermath of an attack, leading to many avoidable deaths.
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Shadow of war looms as Israel flexes its muscle | World news | The Observer
Israeli fighter jets flew 1,500 kms across the Mediterranean this month, in a dry run for an attack on Iran's nuclear facilities. Tehran has threatened to treat such a raid as a declaration of war. As the Middle East braces itself for a stand-off of epic proportions, how close is the region to that nightmare scenario?
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