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June 30 رفض.. فأعدمربيع الحافظ : بتاريخ 29 - 6 - 2007
سلطان هاشم الذي صدر الحكم عليه بالإعدام هو رئيس أركان الجيش العراقي
إبان حرب السنوات الثماني مع إيران، وآخر وزير دفاع للدولة العراقية قبل
سقوطها بيد الاحتلال الأمريكي/الإيراني، كان قد عاد إلى مدينته ومسقط رأسه
الموصل بشكل علني في نيسان/أبريل بعد توقف القتال في حرب احتلال العراق
2003 . مع مطلع عام 2004 كانت المقاومة العراقية قد اشتدت وحمي وطيسها، ورجع الاحتلال الأمريكي على إثرها عن خطته الأولى لحكم العراق حكماً مباشراً لمدة خمسة أعوام على غرار ما جرى في اليابان، وشرع بالبحث عن متعاونين لتشكيل أول حكومة عميلة. كان سلطان هاشم هو الاسم الذي وقع عليه الاختيار الأمريكي ليكون رئيس جمهورية العراق، والأسباب المؤهلة ـ كما قيل حينها ـ هي شخصيته المحبوبة، والاحترام الذي يحظى به في أوساط الجيش، وما عرف عنه من تواضع ومهنية عاليتين، وعدم تورط في التهم الموجهة إلى النظام، ثم بعده الآيديولوجي عن حزب البعث. الأكراد الذين تمارس ميليشياتهم نفوذاً على بعد أمتار من دار سلطان هاشم، باركوا الاختيار الأمريكي، ومنحته عشائر كردية شهادة حسن سلوك وسيرة أكدت على أن سلطان شخصية نظيفة ومحبوبة في الوسطين: العربي والكردي، ولم يشترك بالجرائم التي يوجهها الأكراد إلى نظام صدام حسين. رفض سلطان هاشم العرض الأمريكي، وما هي سوى أشهر حتى
صدرت قائمة الـ 55 التي أعدها الجيش الأمريكي لملاحقة قيادات النظام
السابق. كان سلطان هاشم أحد هذه الأسماء للمزيد . June 27 ACLU: U.S. holds 19,000 terror suspectsWASHINGTON, June 25 (UPI) -- The United States currently is holding about 19,000 terror suspects, a human rights group said Monday.
"It is estimated that there are currently about 18,000 detainees held in Iraq, over 660 in Afghanistan, and about 375 at the U.S. prison in Guantanamo Bay," the American Civil Liberties Union said in a statement. Most of those detainees "do not have access to attorneys or family members, and, under terms of the Military Commissions Act eliminating habeas corpus protections, have been denied the right to challenge their detention in civilian courts," the ACLU said. "In addition, it has come to be known that the CIA is engaging in the unlawful practice of 'extraordinary rendition' -- the kidnapping of foreign nationals for detention and interrogation in secret overseas prisons in countries where it is known detainees are routinely tortured or abused," the human rights group said. The Democratic-controlled 110th Congress has launched a more
energetic oversight of the detainment programs in the war on terror.
But the Bush administration says the current policies are essential to
prevent terror groups reorganizing to carry out more deadly attacks. http://www.upi.com/Security_Terrorism/Briefing/2007/06/25/aclu_us_holds_19000_terror_suspects/8191/ How Can Bush Free Iraq
By Paul Craig Roberts 5-25-7
June 26 FBI to restrict student freedomsUS university students will not be able to work late at the campus, travel abroad, show interest in their colleagues' work, have friends outside the United States, engage in independent research, or make extra money without the prior consent of the authorities, according to a set of guidelines given to administrators by the FBI. Federal agents are visiting some of the New England's top universities, including MIT, Boston College, and the University of Massachusetts, to warn university heads about the dangers of foreign spies and terrorists stealing sensitive academic research. June 23 The democracy of BushismMany in the ME are turning a deaf ear towards such saber-rattling threats coming from a gov't that lost its credibility.
By Tariq A. Al-Maeena Increasingly many in the Middl East are turning a deaf ear towards theses saber-rattling threats coming from a government that has lost most of its credibility world-wide. In
a State of the Union address back in 1993, Mr. Bush told of how
Americans are a free people, who know that freedom is the right of
every person and the future of every nation. The liberty we prize is
not America's gift to the world; it is God's gift to humanity.’ And following the invasion and occupation of Iraq under deceptive circumstances, Mr. Bush appeared before the UN General Assembly in September 2004 and had this to say: For too long, many nations, including my own, tolerated, even excused, oppression in the Middle East in the name of stability. Oppression became common, but stability never arrived. We must take a different approach. We must help the reformers of the Middle East as they work for freedom, and strive to build a community of peaceful, democratic nations.’ Abu Ghraib Cover-up About to Explode (Brent Budowsky)Gen. Antonio Taguba is one of America’s most respected senior
officers, was put in charge of the Abu Ghraib investigation, and has
now leveled a series of powerful public Gen. Taguba went public early this week in long on-the-record interviews with Sy Hersh reported in his New Yorker piece now on newsstands. Among other things, Taguba says: 1. He was ordered not to investigate higher-ups in the chain of command, which means 2. Early in his investigation he was threatened with career retribution if he dared to seek the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. 3. After his investigation he was punished by being forced into early retirement. 4. He suggests that Don Rumsfeld might have lied when he testified before Congress, which would be a criminal offense. 5. He details meetings in which Rumsfeld spoke to him in terms that were sarcastic, 6. He reveals specific acts of torture that are beyond what was publicly known, and videos of Abu Ghraib torture have not been released that provide strong evidence that the crimes of Abu Ghraib were known earlier and far higher up than previously reported. 7. He expresses serious concern that the same forms of torture used at Abu At some point Gen. Taguba will be called to testify publicly and will prove one of the most explosive witnesses in six years, while investigative reporters and almost certainly congressional committees are currently looking into Abu Ghraib. The implications of this are enormous because they go to potential perjury and giving false testimony to Congress and investigators, and lead outward throughout the dark side of the Bush years. There is a high probability that investigation of the Abu Ghraib
crimes and cover-up will lead upward to Donald Rumsfeld and his coterie
of neoconservative aides and their There is a substantial possibility this leads to the role of Alberto Gonzales on the range of torture issues at the Department of Justice and during his years as White House Counsel. There is significant possibility this leads to Vice President Cheney, the most aggressive Gen. Taguba should be awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom for his honor, integrity and courage throughout this shameful episode and for having the honor to speak out publicly, visibly and unequivocally now. The stakes are high and the storm clouds are gathering for those who committed, ordered or covered up crimes of torture.
http://pundits.thehill.com/2007/06/21/abu-ghraib-cover-up-about-to-explode/ The Palestinians' choiceBy Saree Makdisi
Originally published June 22, 2007
In the West, there's a huge sense of relief. The
Hamas-led government that has been causing everyone so much trouble has
been isolated in Gaza, and a new government has been appointed in the
West Bank by the "moderate," peace-loving Palestinian Authority
president, Mahmoud Abbas.So why, then, do Palestinians not share in the relief? Well, for one thing, the old government had been democratically elected; now it has been dismissed out of hand by presidential fiat. There's also the fact that the new prime minister appointed by Mr. Abbas - Salam Fayyad - has the support of the West, but his election list won only 2 percent of the votes in the same election that swept Hamas to victory. Mr. Fayyad and Mr. Abbas have the support of Israel, but it is no secret that they lack the backing of their own people. Probe: W. Bank settlers uproot 300 Palestinian olive trees
Dozens of mature olive trees bearing signs of having been uprooted were planted in Adei Ad, located near the settlement of Shvut Rachel. Pinchas Wallerstein, chair of the Benjamin Regional Council, said the trees are from an olive orchard that "has been worked for years by employees and relatives of the recently deceased Yossi Schoker." Since the orchard did not bear fruit this year, he said, it was decided to uproot and replant it. "Residents of Adei Ad asked for and received permission to use the uprooted tree to landscape their community. Any other version is utter nonsense," said Wallerstein. "That orchard was worked by Jews for years. Olives from that orchard were in last year's Olive Festival with Civil Administration permission, and the military prohibited Palestinians from coming close to that land, because they knew that Jews worked it." http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/873850.html June 19 US destroying Iraq with impunity
June 19, 2007 The 117-page War and Occupation in Iraq reveals that the US has established broad legal immunity in Iraq for its military forces, for private security personnel, for foreign military and civilian contractors, and even for the oil companies doing business with Iraq and that no matter what crimes the Coalition commits, Iraqis now or in the future face legal barriers if they seek accountability.
Carter: Stop favoring Fatah over HamasThe United States, Israel and the European Union must end their policy of favoring Fatah over Hamas, or they will doom the Palestinian people to deepening conflict between the rival movements, former US President Jimmy Carter said Tuesday. Carter, a Nobel Peace Prize laureate who was addressing a
conference of Irish human rights officials, said the Bush
administration's refusal to accept the 2006 election victory of Hamas
was "criminal." June 18 The twilight zone / 'Now you are paralyzed, as we promised'By Gideon Levy "We have to make you do a little sports," the Shin Bet interrogator said, launching four successive days of questioning accompanied by brutal physical torture. The result: Luwaii Ashqar can no longer stand on his feet. He sits in his wheelchair, dressed in a fashionable quasi-military suit, super-elegant, new Caterpillar-brand shoes on his paralyzed feet. "I love this color," he says about his uniform. "It's the color of the soldiers who came to arrest me for the interrogation that did all this to me." His smile is captivating, his Hebrew rich and incisive. He is a young man whose world fell apart. He entered prison sound of body and mind and emerged a broken man. For four days and four nights nonstop, he says, he was interrogated and subjected to torture of the most brutal kind. The result is the person we see before us in the wheelchair, in the elegant home high in the village of Saida, north of Tul Karm, which was placed at his disposal by a friend after he was released from Israeli prison a month ago. More..... June 10 REALITY CHECK: Is Imperial Liquidation Possible For America?In
politics, as in medicine, a cure based on a false diagnosis is almost
always worthless, often worsening the condition that is supposed to be
healed. The United States, today, suffers from a plethora of public
ills. Most of them can be traced to the militarism and imperialism that
have led to the near-collapse of our Constitutional system of checks
and balances. Unfortunately, none of the remedies proposed so far by
American politicians or analysts addresses the root causes of the
problem. According to an NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll, released on April 26, 2007, some 78% of Americans believe their country to be headed in the wrong direction. Only 22% think the Bush administration’s policies make sense, the lowest number on this question since October 1992, when George H. W. Bush was running for a second term — and lost. What people don’t agree on are the reasons for their doubts and, above all, what the remedy — or remedies — ought to be. The
range of opinions on this is immense. Even though large numbers of
voters vaguely suspect that the failings of the political system itself
led the country into its current crisis, most evidently expect the
system to perform a course correction more or less automatically. As
Adam Nagourney of the New York Times reported, by the end of March
2007, at least 280,000 American citizens had already contributed some
$113.6 million to the presidential campaigns of Hillary Rodham Clinton,
Barack Obama, John Edwards, Mitt Romney, Rudolph Giuliani, or John
McCain. More.......... June 09 THE MUSLIM/ARAB BOOGYMAN 
Few
things strike more fear and hatred into the hearts of the American
public than the image of the Big Bad Arab or Muslim "terrorist". Tell
the truth - what's the first thought that pops into your mind when you
hear the word "Muslim" , or "Arab"? Come on . admit it. The conditioned
reaction is to visualize a fanatic with a bomb strapped to his chest,
eager to blow up innocent Israelis or Americans so that he can go to
heavan and be with Allah. Try as you might, this conditioned response
is involuntary, even if you know the truth about anti-Arab propaganda.
But there is a reason why we feel this way. It's the result of many
years of media conditioning from our mental masters who control
Hollywood and the news media. How many movies or TV shows have you seen
where some Muslim is portrayed as a murderous fanatic. Never mind that
you may never actually have met a Muslim family, or visited an Arab
country. If you did, you'd soon see that they are people just like us,
and your fear of them would melt away. The reason why so many of us so
gullibly swallowed the ridiculous fairy tale of 9/11 is because we had
already been pre-conditioned - BRAINWASHED - to believe such nonsense.
But it's all lies. Osama and Al-Qaeda are nothing more than "boogymen"
that our masters wave around in order to frighten us into submission. More.......... Jewish worshippers desecrate Muslim cemetery in West BankBy Amos Harel, Haaretz Correspondent A Muslim graveyard in a village near the West Bank settlement of Ariel was desecrated by a group of Jewish worshippers visiting the area on Friday morning. A group of some 1,300 Jews visited the tomb of Joshua Ben Nun on Thursday night, in full coordination with the Israel Defense Forces. On Friday morning, after the Jewish worshippers had left, Palestinians informed leftist groups that several tombstones in the local Muslim graveyard had been vandalized. Some were smashed; others were sprayed with slogans reading "death to Arabs." The Civil Administration filed a complaint with police. IDF representatives met with the organizers of the excursion, who promised to repair the damages next week. Posted by CRIMES AND CORRUPTION OF THE NEW WORLD ORDER NEWS To boycott or not - the new Israeli questionPressure for sanctions
on Israeli goods is widening. Forty years after the Six-Day War,
unions, academics and journalists are locked in furious debate about
the tactic. Peter Beaumont, foreign affairs editor, reports
Sunday June 10, 2007 The Observer Every Friday Gila Svirsky is to be found dressed in black jeans and T-shirt at one of Israel's major road junctions, in a silent vigil, carrying a placard that says simply: 'Stop the occupation.' Those in her group - Women in Black - have been abused, sometimes violently, since they began their protests almost 20 years ago. Her activism against the occupation touches all areas of her life. She does not drink wine or buy food or other goods produced by Jewish settlers on land under Israeli occupation. Article continues
Viewers get whitewashed version of historyun 08, 2007 04:30 AM
Antonia Zerbisias
There are moments – when U.S. president John F. Kennedy was shot or when the World Trade Center fell – you never forget. The end of the 1967 Six-Day War, which resulted in Israel's lightning strike takeover of the Sinai Peninsula, Gaza Strip, West Bank, East Jerusalem and the Golan Heights, was one for me. There was little Israel, the land of milk, honey and orange-picking kibbutzim, whose very existence was threatened by her bigger Arab neighbours. Egypt's president, Gamal Abdel Nasser, boasted of having the country for lunch. In my predominantly Jewish neighbourhood in Montreal, where Holocaust survivors and their children still live, the fear was palpable. So it is with crystal clarity that I can recall when, 40 years ago this Sunday, just as the lunch rush began, my father held a portable radio up to the intercom in his restaurant and blasted the news of victory all the way from the deli counter to the grill to the soda fountain to the waitresses' station. People tossed rye bread in the air. Now, depending on your politics, and how you get your news and history, that was either a very good moment ... or a very bad one. No question that it changed the Middle East, and the world. It also changed journalism, as anybody who covers that tinderbox painfully learns. The perfect illustration is a stunning $1.2 million Canada-Israel-France co-production, Six Days in June. Fast-paced and rich with archival footage, its stories are told not by "experts," nor pundits, nor academics. The people who we see are witnesses – as fighters, journalists, politicians, diplomats, refugees or survivors. Two not-so-subtly different versions have already aired this week. Both about two hours in length, one ran in French, on CBC's sister networks Radio-Canada and the all-news RDI, the other in English on PBS. (A three-hour edition also aired to rave reviews in Israel.) The PBS version repeats Sunday at 3 a.m.on WNED. The French edition is what Montreal-based producer Ina Fichman calls the "international version," which was sold to Italy's RAI, Australia's SBS and elsewhere. It depicts, among other historical facts, the expulsion of thousands of Palestinians by the Israeli army, a move the narrator delicately describes as "the first change to the demographics of the West Bank." It shows, through the eyes of a former Arab resident and an Israeli who photographed the event, that, where large villages stood, now are forests (many planted with Canadian charitable donations). There is also a sequence, as related by the American-born Abdullah Schleifer, editor of Palestine News, as well as an Arab whose home was destroyed, about the overnight razing of a 700-year-old Palestinian neighbourhood in Jerusalem by the triumphant Israeli defence minister, General Moshe Dayan. "When I saw this destruction, there was a part of me that felt tremendous dread, that a whole new problem was going to be created,'' says Schleifer. He says this in the PBS version as well, but the horrifying context is stripped away for American sensibilities. "PBS is really not a liberal left-wing broadcaster," says Fichman. "It's subscription and sponsor-based, with members of the Jewish community among its supporters." Fichman said that PBS demanded entire scenes and sequences come out, and others be softened. The sad part is that, unless the feature-length "director's cut" by Israeli-born filmmaker Ilan Ziv gets distribution, Canadians will not get to view what the rest of the world, including Israel, has. CBC-TV, for example, did not buy it because PBS already had North American rights. The film also did not fit with its focus on "contemporary political and social issues." And so, we get the whitewashed version of history. Not surprising. As the narrator says, "The Six-Day War will prove to be an unfinished war, just one battle in a conflict that has never ended." Remembering the USS Liberty: Four Decades Later On June 8, 1967, the Israelis attacked the USS
Liberty killing 34 Americans. They insist it was an “accident.” Lt.
James M. Ennes, Jr., a Liberty veteran and an author, said it was
“deliberate.” A book, “Operation Cyanide,” claims the attack was a set
up to blame the Egyptians and bring the U.S. into the 1967 Six Day War
on the side of Israel. Will the U.S. Congress do the Liberty justice?
Lt. Ennes doubts it, but he adds: “We can’t stop asking for it.”
 Remembering the USS Liberty: Four Decades Later TortureJoseph Cannon, Cannonfire
June 8, 2007 OK, the 911 issue is settled - by a complete idiotI just came across this article 'debunking' the 911 Truth movement-
amazingly dismissive, uninformed, and evident of conclusions written
inside the bubble of the United States propaganda machine. Mr Hawkins says none of the sources in first paragraph concluded there is any sort of "grand conspiracy going on." May I remind him that there are other credible sources on record stating that the official story doesn't explain the evidence from that day See Patriots Questioin 911 where many, many credible and proven Americans put themselves on record stating we've not got the whole story - which is what the 911 Truth movement is all about. What about the collapse of WTC7? - None of the agencies listed in the first paragraph during his illogical appeal to authority have an explanation for that. The 911 comission omitted it entirely. What should we do - forget about it? Then Mr Hawkins starts about conspiracy theorists claiming that a truck bomb blasted the Pentagon. I thought the conspiracy theorists said it was hit with a cruise missile, at least that's what the Hearst Publications Popular Mechanics investigators gather from 'Loose Change" - check out the debate on YouTube He needs to understand that there are hypotheses that will either be supported by the evidence or not. By the way, since when has a supermarket rag like Popular Mechanics been good for anything? I don't read that piece of sh*t unless I'm in the dentist's office and the other choices are Good Housekeeping, Highlight, and whatever else is stacked up on the "I was gonna' throw it away so let's put it in the waiting room" pile. Who is saying Bush is a "puppet of the Freemasons?" This is a Straw Man - another logical fallacy. Attribute some ridiculous claim to the opposition then knock it down. Mr Hawkins hasn't studied the 911 Truth movement so simply repeats generalizations aimed at making those posing questions look foolish. As more facts reveal the truth we will see who looks foolish. More...... Is There a ‘Foxification’ Underway at Al Jazeera Television?Danny Schechter MediaChannel.org
June 9, 2007 Sources inside Al Jazeera who are in a position to know what is going on now confirm to MediaChannel.org that there is an internal struggle underway that may dilute Al Jazeera’s independence and steer it in a more pro-western, pro-US direction. "There is already a change of tone and focus in the news," a veteran insider reveals. He blames the shift on a reorganization of the network’s governing structure a month ago that has put a former Ambassador from Qatar to the USA in a commanding position. Al Jazeera broadcasts from a state of the art facility in Doha, the capital of Qatar, a wealthy independent state run by an Emir who has, until this point, remained close friends with the US while allowing Al Jazeera its independence. "Nobody is talking about it
publicly and nothing is quite clear yet but it looks like there is new
pressure from the government of Qatar [the oil and natural gas rich
Gulf state that bankrolled Al Jazeera], as well as a political battle
over how to manage the channel inside its government with the US and
its supporters, including the editor of the Arabic edition of Newsweek,
lobbying in the shadows." More......... |
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