Free Iraq

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OUR REAL MAN IN BAGHDAD:

CIA hangs on to control of Iraqi intelligence service
 

U.S. Military Bringing Equipment Home: [A]nalysts say that removing so much equipment now suggests commanders are laying the groundwork for an extensive reduction.
 

Video (5:37), Ron Suskind: US deliberately bombed Al-Jazeera
 

Video (9:50), Ralph Schoenman: The Category of Terror: An excerpt from Schoenman's talk "9/11 and Other False Flag Operations of the Terror State"

"Since 1964, every U.S. administration has prepared for direct seizure of Arab oil." ...
 

Tony Soldo, An Open Letter to A Truth Fighter on US Wars: The Troops are doing the dirty work for the globalists and the rich people that profit from war. Check it out: $290 BILLION in Iraq alone, $150 BILLION in Afghanistan, and that's just in the last three and a half years. www.informationclearinghouse.info/
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If a foreign nation invaded the U.S.A., then there would be a need for some people to stand up to the foreign invaders, like the movie; Red Dawn.

We would not need the military, we would just be a bunch of small units of civilians in every town, (here is where the 2nd Amendment of the Bill of Rights applies) we would be called insurgents, and we would take out the foreign invaders any way we could, and that is exactly what's going on in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Therefore, there is no need for any American citizen to join the military, and this should be the goal for all of us fighting the NWO and the globalists, to stop the military from recruiting in our hometowns and in our schools.
http://www.militaryfreezone.org/index.html

Anybody who is currently in the military should quit and after facing the wrath of the State, then they could take up a decent and moral way to make a living and provide for their families.

Peace,
Tony Soldo is a Christian Pacifist www.myspace.com/freeminder
 

Bill Van Auken, Washington escalates slaughter in Iraq: The killing of two American soldiers captured by insurgents at a roadblock south of Baghdad will be seized upon by Washington as justification for an intensified bloodbath against the Iraqi people.

Well before the discovery of the bodies of the young soldiers, reportedly bearing the marks of torture and mutilation, there were already mounting indications that the Bush White House and the Pentagon were implementing a shift in military tactics that spells a dramatic escalation of US violence in the occupied country.
 

Barbara Bibbo', Saddam lawyer's murder blamed on interior ministry
 

Norman Solomon, Their Barbarism, and Ours: When journalists maintain a flagrant double standard in their language -- allowing themselves appropriate moral outrage when Americans suffer but tiptoeing around what is suffered by victims of the U.S. military -- the media window on the world is tinted a dark red-white-and-blue, and the overall result is more flackery than journalism.

We hear that of course the U.S. tries to avoid killing civilians -- as if that makes killing them okay. But the slaughter from the air and from other U.S. military actions is a certain result of the occupiers' war. (What would we say if, in our own community, the police force killed shoppers every day by spraying blocks of stores with machine-gun fire -- while explaining that the action was justifiable because no innocents were targeted and their deaths were an unfortunate necessity in the war on crime?)

Meanwhile, routinely absent from the U.S. media's war coverage is the context: an invasion and occupation fundamentally based on deception.
 

Jacob G. Hornberger, Killing Iraqi Children: [A]ll too many Americans have yet to confront the moral implications of invading and occupying Iraq. U.S. officials continue to exhort the American people to judge the war and occupation on whether it proves to be “successful” in establishing “stability” and “democracy” in Iraq. If so, the idea will be that the deaths of tens of thousands of Iraqis, including countless Iraqi children, will have been worth it. It would be difficult to find a more morally repugnant position than that.
 

William Blum, The Anti-Empire Report - June 21, 2006: ... I was moved to compile a list of the many kinds of misfortune which have fallen upon the heads of the Iraqi people as a result of the American liberation of their homeland. It's depressing reading, and you may not want to read it all, but I think it's important to have it summarized in one place.
 

Mike Whitney, Kicking Open the Gates of Hell: The prospect of an American defeat in Iraq grows greater with every passing day. A memo which was leaked to the Washington Post depicts a situation on the ground which is steadily deteriorating into chaos. The memo, which was written by Iraqi ambassador Zalmay Khalizad, contrasts dramatically with the confident "happy talk" of high-ranking officials in the Bush administration. ...

After 3 years, the administration still knows next to nothing about its adversary. So far, the resistance has succeeded in all its main aims; frustrating every attempt to establish security, rebuild infrastructure, or to transport oil. The administration has strengthened the resistances’ resolve and swelled their ranks by torturing prisoners, killing civilians, and decimating towns and cities. The vast majority of Iraqis now want the occupation to end and 46% believe that fighters are justified in killing American soldiers.

The United States is now fighting battle-hardened Iraqi nationalists who will not give up or give in until America is compelled to withdraw its troops. But, that is only a small part of the problem. As Khalizad’s memo indicates, the society has broken down into tribal units forming vast, fully-armed militias which have stepped up to fill the security vacuum. The militias have wormed there way into every area of Iraqi society and, now, are active even in the Green Zone; creating a viable threat to the American stronghold.

The country is controlled by the militias and the resistance. The United States controls nothing beyond the block-walls and gun-towers of the besieged Green Zone, and now, even that may be in jeopardy. ...

Months ago, author Robert Fisk said that he could foresee a dramatic event taking place in Iraq that would reshape the public’s attitude towards the war; something comparable to the TET Offensive in Vietnam, which was the turning point for America’s fortunes in that war.

Could the disparate Iraqi resistance actually mount an attack on the Green Zone, the last refuge for America’s puppet regime?

Khalizad’s frantic memo seems to indicate that such an assault is possible and that the occupants should prepare accordingly.

Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak anticipated the Iraqi debacle nearly two years ago when he cautioned Dick Cheney, "There’s no way to win an occupation. It’s just a matter of choosing the size of your humiliation."

That was good advice, but it was ignored.

Bush was also warned strenuously before he began his Iraqi crusade. He was told that he would be "kicking open the gates of hell".

We’ll soon find out whether he’s prepared to deal with the trouble inside.
 

Evelyn, a very interesting series of articles. You're doing great work. Keep it up!
 

Chris Floyd, The Alchemists: Turning Blood Into Gold: This week an interesting story appeared in the Washington Post – buried on page 16, of course, lest anyone think it was of the slightest importance. It revealed that documentary proof has now emerged confirming the fact that in the spring of 2003, the Bush Regime – flush with its illusory "victory" in Iraq – spurned a wide-ranging peace feeler from Iran which offered "full cooperation" on every issue that the Bushists claim to be concerned about in regard to Tehran: "nuclear programs, acceptance of Israel and the termination of Iranian support for Palestinian militant groups."

In other words, everything that George W. Bush says he wants from the Iranians now, he could have had for the asking – three years ago. What then can we conclude from the rejection of this extraordinary initiative? ...

... They may feign diplomacy for the moment, biding their time, profiting from chaos -- but as in Iraq, no offer of peace will deter them from the inevitable smash-and-grab.
 

Senate defeats Iraq withdrawal plans


Bush: Hungarian revolt should inspire Iraq: "Liberty can be delayed, but it cannot be denied." (Bravo! Inspiring words from his speech writer. Would that someone now were to make a similar stirring high appeal to Americans.)
 

Video (2:59), Ralph Schoenman: the Zarqawi Myth
(Indebtedness to Kurt Nimmo for producing these highly informative videos)
 

Is the NSA spying on U.S. Internet traffic? - Salon exclusive: Two former AT&T employees say the telecom giant has maintained a secret, highly secure room in St. Louis since 2002. Intelligence experts say it bears the earmarks of a National Security Agency operation.
 

Aussie Delegation Guards Kill Iraqi Official's Guard
 

Hamas agrees to recognize Israeli state
 

Eric Margolis, Massacre of Civilians Was Inevitable
 

U.S. spins Japan's withdrawal from Iraq as a "measure of progress"
 

Mahboob A. Khawaja, Terrorism Myth: Muslims Look for Responsible Journalism - The media games are not played by any definable rules. After the 9/11 attacks in the US, the sole victims are Muslims and Islamic civilization and nobody else. The recent arrests of the17 youngsters in Toronto, including five underage boys are a clear case in point. Immediately after their arrests, the synchronized statement issued by the new Canadian PM could be conveniently compared to the words of President Bush in thought and spirit. The media quickly eluded to the crimes unknown and unsubstantiated and identified them “ Muslim Terrorists.”
 

Former detainee paints harrowing portrait of life at Guantánamo Bay: Ex-detainee says suicide attempts were commonplace

Jailers at the US base in Guantánamo Bay have coerced confessions they knew to be false, beaten prisoners to the point of disability, and given detainees psychotropic drugs they believed were for common physical ailments, according to an account one former detainee gave RAW STORY.
 

"My Name is Rachel Corrie" will open in New York in October
 

A man of honour -
Lt. Watada refused Iraq deployment today; Under complete restriction and gag-order without charge
 

A man with power -
Netanyahu: IDF has operational capability to wipe out all of Gaza
 

At last !!! -
Senators Santorum and Lieberman Produce Iraqi Mustard Canister for Disbelieving Press
 

Bush freaks out over abysmal EU poll numbers; invokes 9/11
 

Video (90 min), Frontline: The Dark Side: (Links for Parts 1 - 10)

After 9/11, Vice President Richard Cheney seized the initiative. He pushed to expand executive power, transform America's intelligence agencies and bring the war on terror to Iraq. But first he had to take on George Tenet's CIA for control over intelligence.

The damning 90-minute exposé stops short of laying those bodies at Vice President Dick Cheney's feet. But it does finger Cheney and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld — through more than 40 interviews with CIA veterans, journalists, politicians and others — as the ones who ignored, suppressed and manipulated intelligence after the 9/11 attacks to lead us into war with a country that had nothing to do with our attackers.
 

Kidnappers free Iraqi Sunni hostages from mass abduction
 

Israel can no longer rely on the support of Europe's Jews
 

Ray McGovern, Next Victim: Iran or North Korea?: ... Rove may turn out to be the preeminent player in this, whether Iran or North Korea is chosen as the US target. For the synthetic urgency attached to these threats is a creature of the November election.
 

Frankly, we're being 'prepared' - -

- - Kurt Nimmo, Al-CIA-Duh DVD Hits Toronto Streets


- - Official: 7 arrested in Sears Tower plot: Residents living near the warehouse said the men taken into custody described themselves as Mulims and had tried to recruit young people to join their group, which seemed militaristic.

The men slept in the warehouse, said Tashawn Rose, 29. "They would come out late at night and exercise. It seemed like a military boot camp that they were working on there. They would come out and stand guard."

She talked to one of the men about a month ago: "They seemed brainwashed. They said they had given their lives to Allah."
 

Al Jazeera, Guantanamo detainees didn’t commit suicide - They were subject to torture
 

Haifa Zangana, The height of humiliation: Threatened, abused, raped and tortured: such is the fate of untold numbers of Iraqi women amid the barbarous practices of the occupation. Haifa Zangana examines the plight of Iraq's female security detainees
 

DOCTORS FOR IRAQ - BRussells Tribunal, Press Release: Talafar Hospital Equipment smashed by angry armed gunmen: Doctors and medical staff reported that on May 9tth 2006 there was an explosion in Talafar that caused many casualties and injuries to civilians who were brought into the hospital emergency room for treatment. Medical staff say that many of the injured were women and children who had sustained horrific injuries in the explosion. The twenty six doctors and medical staff working in the hospital rushed to treat the wounded and injured.

Doctors and medical staff report that a group of armed gunmen all carrying weapons that are usually associated with the Iraqi police ( glock pistol and AK rifles) entered the hospital in an aggressive and threatening manner. One doctor described how one of the armed men put a gun to his head demanding that he stop treating a wounded child and instead attend to a man with a minor shell wound in his leg that the doctor had treated earlier.
 

US: Saddam trial 'legitimate' despite attorneys' murders
 

the collection: amazing. thankyou for putting it in one place dr k.

the facts: one sees what one wants to see and one wants to see the Iraqi resistance triumph. which they will insha'allah. so yes one has seen only iraqi eyes under the keffiyeh and iraqi hands holding the guns. no question.
from india
 

Iraqi govt declares state of emergency after insurgents set up roadblocks in central Baghdad and opened fire on U.S. and Iraqi troops just north of the heavily fortified Green Zone


Iraq releases 500 detainees from Abu Ghraib prison
 

25 gunned down in gangland-style killings in Mosul
 

Officer says Iraq firms were slow to return passports: Getting contractors on U.S. military bases in Iraq to return the passports they seized from thousands of foreign workers imported to do menial labor in the war zone was "kind of like pulling teeth," even though the seizures violated U.S. laws against human trafficking, a senior contracting officer told Congress Wednesday.
 

Ahmed Janabi, Dismembering the body politic in Iraq: The US and British leaders may be getting domestic flak for their perceived mistakes in Iraq, but some observers in the Arab world see them as being quite successful - in carrying out a well-calculated plan to divide the country.

Dhafir al-Ani, a Sunni member of parliament and spokesman for the Iraqi Accordance Front, told Aljazeera.net: "I regret to say that it is unlikely we will be able to prevent the partition of Iraq. I think it is going to be the way they want."
 

ACLU to Seek Public Accountability in Haditha Investigations
 

Israeli firms probed for illegal dealings in Iraq: According to Ha'aretz, [they] are suspected of selling equipment, know-how and technology, as well as providing security advisers from Israel to groups and companies of Kurds operating in northern Iraq.
 

London: Cooked Terror Plot Recycles Politics Of Fear
 

Closing Gitmo Won't End Bushlag Archipelago: Token gesture is political stunt and a drop in the ocean
 

Former Mossad Chief: Iran Weakening, May Do Deal
 

10 Killed in Sunni Mosque Bombing in Iraq
 

Coalition Forces to Leave Southern Iraq by end July
 

US using space supremacy to wage combat in Iraq, Afghanistan (Who needs 'boots on the ground' to subjugate? Perhaps the 'occupation' can at last end.)
 

Kurt Nimmo, Feds Raid Patsy “Terror Cell” in Miami: In a transparent repeat of the paintball terrorist op in Ottawa (and the absurd bust of innocents in London) ... (See above June 22, 2006 9:41 PM)
 

The unfortunate invasion of Iraq has been, and still is very painful for those of us who tried, with extremely limited resources, very hard to prevent it.

Now, as in every war, we have become the prisoners of our own misguided policies. Those who serve in our military are the sacrificial lambs of a flawed foreign policy, as I was, when I served as advisory team leader in the Republic of Vietnam.

As in my case, the killing of the "enemy" can not, under any circumstances, be justified as the Will of God. As during my assignment in Vietnam, though I performed my assigned duties with efficiency, I weep for the victims of this war.

May God help us to find a way which is pleasing to Him!

Wolfgang P. May
Advisory Team Leader
Republic of Vietnam
 

Dahr Jamail and Ali Fadhil, Rebuilding Not Yet Reality for Fallujah: IPS found that the city remains under draconian biometric security, with retina scans, fingerprinting and X-raying required for anyone entering the city. Fallujah remains an island: not even the residents of the surrounding towns and villages like Karma, Habbaniya, Khalidiya, which fall under Fallujah's administrative jurisdiction, are allowed in.

Security badges are required for anyone wishing to enter the city. To obtain a badge, one has to be a Fallujah native from a certain class. ...


Charles Sullivan, War is Still a Racket: Nations that have not adopted capitalism as their religion traditionally refuse to allow their resources or their people to be exploited for profit. These nations nationalize their assets and rather than invading and occupying other nations, they provide free health care, unlimited education and other programs of social and spiritual uplift to their citizens. These are the dangers of socialism and communism that we were indoctrinated against since birth; the greatest scourge of evil the world has ever known. This is what they teach us in school and it is ingrained in our psyche to the grave.

Using the tax base for the public good, to create a prosperous peace time economy for all, of course, is positively un-American and anti-capitalist. It is a dangerous ideology that must not be allowed to spread, lest it result in eruptions of democracy, prolonged outbursts of peace and the equitable distribution of goods and wealth. If allowed to flourish, socialism would mean the abolition of Plutocracy and the end of socioeconomic class divisions. It would mean the emancipation of the working class from their Plutocratic rulers.

War is comprised of roughly equal parts racism, fervent nationalism, propaganda and lies, herd mentality, religion, and the private ownership of materials and labor. War is the sum of humankind’s worst attributes, bought and paid for in blood.

As terrible as war is, perhaps it exacts its greatest toll on the combatants themselves—the soldiers. ...

The lies espoused by our so called leaders do not matter on the battlefield. They do not matter when the bodies come home in oversized cardboard boxes, hauled by fork lifts to airport curbs and deposited at the feet of grief-stricken families like a commodity. In a sense, that is what they are. This is war’s assembly line, where the bodies are packaged and sent home like a parcel, with the flag as a corporate logo printed on a box with the stamp “Made in America”; where lives are converted into cash for the global elite, a gift from the Plutocracy.
 

Scott Ritter, Three Iraq Myths That Won't Quit [sovereignty, Zarqawi & WMD]
 

Bombs kill at least 40 in 2 Iraqi cities
 

White House confirms Iraq troop-cut option
 

Iraq Christians flee Baghdad for peace and hardship in Kurdistan
 

European rights court agrees to hear Tareq Aziz case


Iraqi Sunni group backs reconciliation
 

Abdul Ilah Al Bayaty, About Maliki's reconciliation plan: There is no doubt that the Maliki's project of 'national reconciliation' is a political manoeuvre planned by the Pentagon and the State Department's circles in order to pretend, before the American congressionnal elections taking place in November, that there is some progress taking place in the so-called Iraqi "political process ", whose aim is to implement the US project for Iraq.

The essence of this initiative is to give the impression that the danger overshadowing Iraq is Iran and the death squads controlled by it directly or indirectly. And, as a consequence, that the Arab resistance should cooperate with the US and the occupation's government to stand against this danger.

No patriotic sane and conscious individual can fall into this trap, whether he is involved in the armed national resistance or outside it. ...
 

Dr. Salam T. Ismael, THOUSANDS OF DISPLACED FAMILIES FLEE RAMADI AS HOSPITALS RUN OUT OF MEDICINE: CITY IS THREATENED BY MASSIVE US / IRAQI MILITARY ATTACK: All entrances and exists to the city have been sealed off by the US/ Iraqi military with reports of only one passage remaining open through the Al Warar bridge that provides a route out of Ramadi.

Local shops and markets have remained closed for the past seven days causing a shortage in food as people are unable to buy provisions because the city is under an ongoing military curfew.

Eyewitness describes a large number of US military units surrounding the city with the formation of two US military bases towards the east and west of the city. Residents have told Doctors for Iraq that the main government building has been occupied by the US military.

Reports have been received of a large number of snipers in the centre of Ramadi impacting on the movement of civilians trying to escape the city and restricting the movement of doctors and medical units. Doctors for Iraq have received reports of casualties caused by sniper fire.
 

Dahr Jamail, An Iraqi Withdrawal From Iraq
 

IslamOnline, Iraq Sunnis Reject Maliki's Plan
 

Eric Ruder, The Pentagon uses “Falluja model” in assault on Ramadi; U.S. terror from the skies: U.S. TROOPS, backed up by helicopter gunships and air strikes by American warplanes, are picking their way through Ramadi, neighborhood by neighborhood.
 

Haaretz.com, The Israeli government is losing its reason: [A]rresting people to use as bargaining chips is the act of a gang, not of a state.
 

Times Online, US troops 'raped mother and killed family in Iraq'
 

UN Schedules Emergency Debate On Israeli Gaza Offensive
 

Irish MP: Israel an "abhorrent and despicable" regime
 

While you were away . . . ! ! !
Wayne Madsen, June 30, 2006 -- As much as the White House wants the story of President Bush's tryst with Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Laura Bush's disgust with the relationship to go away, . . .
 

(A note on some of the foreigners fighting the Iraqi people)
Wayne Madsen, June 30, 2006 -- : A spokesman for the Vietnam Veterans Against the War (VVAW) confirmed our report yesterday* about U.S. troops in Iraq being forced to take Prozac and Seroquel in dealing with anxiety and depression. The VVAW spokesman also stated that as many as 40,000 veterans who have returned from Iraq are suffering from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and that the Veterans Affairs Department and Pentagon are engaged in an intentional cover-up of PTSD problems among Iraq war vets.
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* [Madsen 29 June 06] U.S. military personnel in Iraq are caught in a dangerous and nightmarish vise created by neo-con politicians in Washington. U.S. troops are being forced to take drugs like Prozac and Seroquel for anxiety and depression. Troops cannot refuse to take the drugs without consequences from their superiors. Resistance by U.S. troops to their orders is also running high. Some U.S. military patrols decline to carry out their "search and kill" missions and, instead, return to their bases claiming they carried out their orders.

Incidents of suicide among U.S. troops in Iraq is also reaching troubling levels. There are also reports of defections by U.S. troops to neighboring Turkey, Iran, and Syria, where they can get passage to Europe and Russia.

Incidents of fighting between regular U.S. military personnel and private military contractors, who wear uniforms similar to those worn by regular U.S. soldiers and Marines, is also increasing. U.S. troops are frustrated that they come under attack for atrocities carried out by private contractors who receive triple and quadruple the salaries U.S. military personnel receive. This situation has created a tinderbox between U.S. troops and private contractors.

Visit http://www.veteransforamerica.org/ for more information on the plight of our troops in Iraq and veterans of the quagmire into which the neo-cons have plunged our military.
 

Max Fuller, US Collusion with Iraqi Death Squads; Diyala - A Laboratory of Civil War?: A recent case study in the dynamics of occupation and sectarianism

If we want to make sense of what is happening in Iraq we need to recognize that words like SCIRI, Badr and Mahdi, together with phrases like civil war, sectarian violence, revenge killings and tit-for-tat murders all serve to deemphasize the centrality of the occupation and mystify what is a very real and deadly counterinsurgency war.

From an external perspective, it is extremely difficult to discern whether the Resistance has seized control of Diyala or whether a genuine civil war along sectarian lines has broken out. What we must suspect, though, based on concrete reasoning, is that the security forces trained, armed and guided by the British and Americans will be committing terrible crimes against humanity in their role as attack dogs for the occupation.

This is not to try to say that every single killing is carried out by the security forces, but it is to say that the security forces are so obviously involved in a great many cases that the Western media and other apologists for the occupation and abettors of genocide have been forced to resort to claiming that the security forces have been infiltrated by various militias. If there are militias in the Ministry of Interior, you can be sure that they are militias that stand to attention whenever a US colonel enters the room. And if there are masked gunmen claiming to be from Badr of Mahdi or anywhere else, the first question we should all be asking is where did they get their lists of victims from? For my money, they will have come straight out of the Intelligence Office of the Operations Directorate at the US-run Ministry of the Interior.
 

Sunni female legislator & 7 bodyguards kidnapped in Iraq


Car bombing in Baghdad market kills 66
 

xymphora, Israeli math - From an article by R.J. Rummel (there are footnotes in the original):

“In some occupied areas in which the Nazis had to contend with well organized and active guerrilla units, they applied a simple rule: they would massacre one hundred nearby civilians for every German soldier killed; fifty for every one wounded. Often this was a minimum that might be doubled or tripled. ..."

We should also remember the massacre of the Czech town of Lidice. This kind of massive over-retaliation isn’t politically possible any longer, but the Israelis have found that a similar result can be obtained by removing access to electricity, creating terror through sonic booms and bombs, and kidnapping a large portion of a democratically-elected government. The critical point is that they continue to use the same racist mathematics as the Nazis: since a Palestinian is only worth a tiny percentage of a Jew, the taking of one Jewish prisoner of war rates the terrorizing of a million Gazans. The deafening silence of the world to this kind of calculation means that the world apparently approves of the higher Nazi/Jewish math.

From an article by Virginia Tilley:

“Israel has done many things argued to be war crimes: mass house demolitions, closing whole cities for weeks, indefinite ‘preventative’ detentions, massive land confiscation, the razing of thousands of square miles of Palestinian olive groves and agriculture, systematic physical and mental torture of prisoners, extrajudicial killings, aerial bombardment of civilian areas, collective punishment of every description in defiance of the Geneva Conventions – not to mention the general humiliation and ruin of the indigenous people under its military control. But destroying the only power source for a trapped and defenseless civilian population is an unprecedented step toward barbarity. It reeks, ironically, of the Warsaw Ghetto. As we flutter our hands about tectonic political change, we must take pause: in the eyes of history, what is happening in Gaza may come to eclipse them all.”

The barbarity is even worse as Israel, not having relinquished de facto control of Gaza and its borders, has an obligation under international law as an occupying country to protect the civilian population of Gaza.
 

On the 4th of July -
That to secure these Rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just Powers from the Consent of the Governed, that whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these Ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its Foundation on such Principles, and organizing its Powers in such Form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.

Prudence indeed, will dictate, that Governments long established, should not be changed for light and transient Causes; and accordingly all Experience hath shewn, that Mankind are more disposed to suffer, while Evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the Forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long Train of Abuses and Usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object, evinces a Design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their Right, it is their Duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future Security.
 

Looks like the US just posted a $5 reward for the new "leader" of al qaeda in Iraq, Abu Ayyub al-Masri. Making him the new bad guy probably won't work so well. First, his name sounds too much like the old guy, so Americans will get them confused. Second, his picture is far too pleasant. I mean, he doesn't even have a beard. Gentle readers, please send in some scary looking photos of al-Masri. The Bush PR machine needs you.
 

Greg Palast, Stealing Mexico: 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.

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.
 

Haaretz, FBI and Western Union helped Israel With targeted assassinations: From the spring of 2003 until autumn 2004, the Shin Bet security service tracked down Palestinian terror cells in the West Bank thanks to information from the Western Union money transfer service, which was passed on by the FBI.

This fact was disclosed in a book published this week about America's war on terror after September 11, 2001. In "The One Percent Doctrine," author Ron Suskind connects the transfer of intelligence from the FBI to the Shin Bet with several targeted assassinations carried out by Israel during this period.
 

Mike Whitney, Is this the beginning of "Transfer" in Gaza?: "It is the duty of Israeli leaders to explain to public opinion, clearly and courageously, a certain number of facts that are forgotten with time. The first of these is that there is no Zionism, colonialization, or Jewish State without the eviction of the Arabs and the expropriation of their lands." -- Ariel Sharon, Agence France Presse, November 15, 1998.

"What's driving the conflict is the radical inequality between the Jewish minority, that rules all of the territory between the Mediterranean Sea and the Jordan River, and the disenfranchised Palestinian majority, who are paying the price for the luxury that Israel lives in...But what pays for that normality for Israelis is the total dispossession of the majority population. And Israel believes that it can hide them behind walls, in ghettos, as was done to Jews in Europe in the 1930s and '40s". - Ali Abunimah "Electronic Intifada"
 

Jason Miller, Ravening Wolves in Sheep's Clothing : How Many More Innocents Must Die Before the World Realizes that Israel is Gathering Thorns and Thistles?

“If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality.” - - Bishop Desmond Tutu