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September 18 أحزان المثقف في العالم المتخلف (1)وإذا كان الهروب لكتب السلف لا ينجي، فهل أصبح الهرب للثقافة الغربية ملجأ آمنا من الكذب العربي؟! لا ليس كذلك؛ لأنك عندما تقرأ لمن تتوقعهم صادقين من الغربيين، فإننا نقرف من تلك الحقائق ومن تلك الثقافة التي يتحدثون عنها؛ ولأنهم يتحدثون بمرارة بالغة عن شعوبهم، وكيف أغرقها المبتزون باسم الدين وباسم الحرب وباسم الاقتصاد والشركات الخاصة وباسم المصالح الوطنية، حتى أصبحت الحقيقة وهما، وأصبحت الأوهام أقرب للحقيقة
بقلم د. محمد الأحمري
2 أحرف الجر والكلام العجين من بروق الشاعر الشجاع ـ أحيانا ـ نزار قباني، نقرأ هذا النص: علمينا الأفعالَ قد ذبحتنا أحرفُ الجر و الكلامُ العجين علمينا قراءة البرق و الرعد فنصف اللغات وحل و طين علمينا التفكير ...لا نصر يرجى حينما الشعب كله سردين إن أقصى ما يغضب الله ..فكر دجّنوه...وكاتب عنين. للمزيد............ September 03 Vital Lockerbie evidence was tampered withFragments of bomb
timer that helped to convict a Libyan ex-agent were 'practically
carbonised' before the trial, says bankrupt Swiss businessman
Alex Duval Smith, Europe correspondent Sunday September 2, 2007 The Observer The key piece of material evidence used by prosecutors to implicate Libya in the Lockerbie bombing has emerged as a probable fake. Nearly two decades after Pan Am flight 103 exploded over Scotland on 21 December, 1988, allegations of international political intrigue and shoddy investigative work are being levelled at the British government, the FBI and the Scottish police as one of the crucial witnesses, Swiss engineer Ulrich Lumpert, has apparently confessed that he lied about the origins of a crucial 'timer' - evidence that helped tie the man convicted of the bombing to the crime. Nearly All the War Crimes Were Israel'sThe Second Lebanon War, A Year Later By JONATHAN
COOK - Counterpunch - August 16,
2007 Discovery Channel scoops CNN on TWA 800 story
Discovery Channel’s recent program examining the cause of the TWA 800
disaster not only scoops CNN’s previously aired ”No Survivors” program
on the same subject, but is a far superior investigative report.
Discovery’s ”Best Evidence” takes a critical look at the available hard
evidence and the government’s conclusions pertaining to the jetliner’s
demise. By contrast, CNN’s ”No Survivors” contained a number of factual
inaccuracies, the result of CNN’s producers relying too heavily on
official sources and failing to verify the information those sources
provided. For example, CNN based their crash sequence animation that showed Flight 800 climbing sharply after exploding on government simulation data. But the government admitted that the simulations were ”steered,” and outside experts have shown that they do not match the hard radar evidence. The government used the climb scenario based on their steered simulation data to explain eyewitness accounts of a missile. At a major FBI press conference in 1997, the CIA released an animation showing TWA 800 climbing and said the aircraft ”may have looked like a missile”. More.......... Walt & Mearsheimer's Proof That 'Tail Wagged the Dog' Points American Jews to a Universalist EthosEveryone in my community (opponents of the Iraq war who seek a more balanced American policy toward the Palestinians) has only one question about Walt and Mearsheimer's forthcoming book: Will it be ignored? For instance, James Morris, who I believe I once saw explode in the audience at an American Enterprise Institute program on Israel's secure borders (led by Richard Perle and Dore Gold), has been sending out emails about his efforts to get the book covered by '60 Minutes'. No dice. I am a cockeyed optimist; I don't think it will be ignored. I don't think it can be. One fear we've have is that the LRB paper was such a tremendous sensation that the big media, having only grudgingly covered that, would now say, Oh well this is just an expansion of the paper; old news. One mainstream editor said as much to me a few weeks back in shooting down a proposal I made for an article about Stephen Walt's Jewish milieu (more about that later...). "Oh I think that moment is over," the editor said. Class dismissed. I no longer fear as much. Making my way slowly to the end of the actual book (it's a dense read, esp. for someone who cares deeply about every issue they raise), I don't think anyone can argue that the book recapitulates the paper. The book expands the paper by a factor of 4 in pure numbers of words, and the book's tone is more exalted than the paper's. The authors are less tentative, and less emotional, qualities I remember in the original. The manner of the book is amazingly calm. The arguments are more solid, and go much further. As for solidity, I am simply awed by the field of reference. W&M have read every comment ever made by an Israeli official about U.S. policy, they have found every neoconservative crackpot comment about remaking the Middle East. They did this in little over a year. God bless the internet (or the coolie system in academic research!). But the main reason the book cannot be ignored is that the arguments go much further, and are devastating. Simply put, the book proves that the tail has wagged the dog on the greatest foreign policy mistake of the last 40 years, a mistake that has caused incredible suffering in Iraq and the U.S., and blasted my country's image. The evidence the authors marshal is so compelling that it leaves me, as a progressive Jew, weeping with distress over what the fervid particularist imagination of rightwing Jews has done to my country. I applaud the authors for being cold. They don't seem to have any of my feeling. They leave it to the readers, and they trust educated Americans to be able to discuss these issues without setting loose the cossacks. Again I say, it is progressive American Jews who as much as anyone ought to be morally and spiritually engaged by this book. I hope that the JJ Goldbergs and Dan Fleshlers and Seymour Hershes and Glenn Greenwalds and Jerrold Nadlers of the world (none of whom supported this war) will at last turn on the neocons openly and say, Your wrongheaded policies about Israel are a big reason our country is in Iraq, how do you answer? Progressive Jews must do this, a political/moral cleansing for the sake of the United States and Jewish tradition. And they will do it. The only question is how many of us there will be. I would point to one sentence in the book that I found
heartbreaking. The authors describe in detail the neocon vision of
transforming the Middle East as democracies by starting with Iraq. The
dream that peace in Jerusalem would begin with war in Baghdad, which
has ended in such a miserable failure, grew out of the conviction that
Israel was a great democracy and that its treatment of the Palestinians
would be overlooked once the U.S. changed Arab societies. It is a
complete delusion; and yet its power over Jews of even liberal stripe
can be glimpsed this week in The New Republic, where, in further
evidence that the prowar coalition is delaminating, Jonathan Chait
turns on Bill Kristol and at one point cries out, Oh where is that
dreamy neocon philosophy of yesteryear. "[T]here was something
inspiring in their vision of America as a different kind of
superpower--a liberal hegemon deploying its might on behalf of
subjugated peoples, rather than mere self interest." I.e., we will
decide who among you Arabs are subjugated, and then destroy that
society... That sentence is devastating because (while it refers to Israel's
leaders) it describes American neoconservatism, accurately, as an
expression of a great Jewish attribute, the prophetic ability to cast a
vision of the future into the world and gain adherents for that vision.
(Communism, Freudianism, globalism all have drawn on dreamy Jewish
brains). As I have argued on this site before, this is why anti-Zionism
is the new Zionism. American Jewish universalists (including
assimilationists) must help to chart a different vision for Israel's
future and the U.S.'s too, away from the militarized isms this book
anatomizes so calmly and convincingly. We must accept our new status as
principals in the U.S., and find a spiritual/political raison-d'etre
that takes greater account of other peoples, for instance Arab
societies and the American communities that have produced the foot
soldiers of this war. MondoweissSeptember 02 Padilla: Literally Tortured Until He Lost His MindDr. Angela Hegarty, director of forensic psychiatry at the Creedmoor Psychiatric Center in Queens, N.Y., spent 22 hours with Padilla, evaluating the state of his mental health. She determined that the interrogation techniques that were used against him had destroyed his mind. Amy Goodman (who is coming to Stanford) interviewed Dr. Hegarty regarding her session with Padilla. The following is a portion of this interview. Goodman: What was the effect of over three-and-a-half years of isolation on Jose Padilla? Dr. Hegarty: I think there's two things, really. Number one, his family, more than anything, and his friends, who had a chance to see him by the time I spoke with them, said he was changed. There was something wrong. There was something very "weird" -- was the word one of his siblings used -- something weird about him. There was something not right. He was a different man. And the second thing was his absolute state of terror, terror alternating with numbness, largely. It was as though the interrogators were in the room with us. He was like -- perhaps like a trauma victim who knew that they were going to be sent back to the person who hurt them and that he would, as I said earlier, he would subsequently pay a price if he revealed what happened. So I think those would be the two main things. "Also he had developed, actually, a third thing. He had developed really a
tremendous identification with the goals and interests of the government. I
really considered a diagnosis of Stockholm syndrome. For example, at one point
in the proceedings, his attorneys had, you know, done well at cross-examining an
FBI agent, and instead of feeling happy about it like all the other defendants
I've seen over the years, he was actually very angry with them. He was very
angry that the civil proceedings were "unfair to the commander-in-chief,"
quote/unquote. And in fact, one of the things that happened that disturbed me
particularly was when he saw his mother. He wanted her to contact President Bush
to help him, help him out of his dilemma. He expected that the government might
help him, if he was "good," quote/unquote." More............... Israeli Control of the Mass Media & the 9-11 Cover-UpArnon Milchan - Mossad's Man in the Middle
The government and controlled media have lied to the public about 9-11 for 6 years. Those who have discerned and exposed the lies about the "false flag" terror attacks and the fraudulent "War on Terror" have been treated like madmen and criminals. It's time for this criminal nightmare to end. Who
controls the "hidden hand" in the U.S. mass media that censors and
suppresses the crucial 9-11 evidence? What is the nexus connecting the
architects of 9-11 with the mass media moguls who are covering up the
truth? The
on-going cover-up of the evidence of Israeli involvement in 9-11 and
explosions in the World Trade Center by the U.S. mass media is
indicative of a high-level connection between the architects of the
"false flag" terror attacks and the media moguls who control the major
news networks in the United States. As
a longtime observer of Israel and the Middle East, I have watched how
the U.S. mass media has increasingly become an instrument of Israeli
propaganda. As Zionists have extended their grip on American media
networks the major television, radio, film and print media outlets have
effectively become propaganda tools of a foreign state - Israel - and
are used to manipulate U.S. public opinion to support the Zionist
agenda. The painfully obvious anti-Arab and anti-Islamic bias of
Hollywood films and news-related programs has become ever more extreme
as pro-Israel Zionists have achieved near total control of the U.S.
mass media. |
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