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This Day in History - July 1st

Tue, 01 Jul 2008 22:31:20 GMT

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July

July 1, 1917

8000 anti-war marchers demonstrated in Boston. Their banners read:
“ IS THIS A POPULAR WAR, WHY CONSCRIPTION?
WHO STOLE PANAMA? WHO CRUSHED HAITI?
WE DEMAND PEACE.”

The parade was attacked by soldiers and sailors, on orders from their officers.

1944

A massive general strike and nonviolent protest in Guatemala led to the resignation of dictator Jorge Ubico who had harshly ruled Guatemala for over a decade.

Dr. Juan José Arévalo Bermejo took office as the first popularly elected president of Guatemala

[see June 27, 1954]

United States exploded a 20-kiloton atomic bomb near Bikini Atoll

1968

Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) which set up systems to monitor use of nuclear technology

Israel, India and Pakistan remain outside the Treaty

text of the Treaty

1972

Ms. Magazine, founded by Gloria Steinem (“The truth will set you free. But first, it will piss you off”)

2000

Vermont's civil unions law went into effect

1,142 Vermont couples, and 6,424 from elsewhere,

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Just Who Are the TERRORISTS? Whose Regime needs CHANGING?

Mon, 30 Jun 2008 12:13:20 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Another secret undeclared war??? Is this one for the Zionists or the oil?

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Preparing the Battlefield

The Bush Administration steps up its secret moves against Iran.

L ate last year, Congress agreed to a request from President Bush to fund a major escalation of covert operations against Iran, according to current and former military, intelligence, and congressional sources.

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These operations, for which the President sought up to four hundred million dollars, were described in a Presidential Finding signed by Bush, and are designed to destabilize the country’s religious leadership.

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Clandestine operation

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al-Quds Brigades

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The covert activities involve support of the minority Ahwazi Arab and Baluchi groups and other dissident organizations

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Presidential finding

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Clandestine operations against Iran are not new

United States Special Operations Forces have been conducting cross-border operations from southern Iraq, with Presidential authorization, since last year

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Al Quds

Iranian Revolutionary Guard, and taking them to Iraq for interrogation,

may be captured or killed.

Gang of Eight

Tags: iran, usa, secret, document, war

Zionist Neocons Pushed Iraqi Invasion

Mon, 30 Jun 2008 00:44:45 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Joe Klein Suggests Jewish Neocons Pushed Iraq War to `Make World Safe for Israel`

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Joe Klein Suggests Jewish Neocons Pushed Iraq War to `Make World Safe for Israel`

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Now Joe Klein has raised the issue of dual loyalty around the neoconservatives' motivation for "plump"ing for the Iraq war:

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Beautiful. A war to make the world safe for Israel. (Though I'd note that Klein needs to paste on the figleaf of the oil men having dual loyalty too. Dubious.) And note why Klein is saying this now: the overheated rhetoric re Iran. The realist view of the Israel/Palestine issue is coming inside.

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Three of the five Israeli agents appeared on Israeli television in November 2001 and admitted that their purpose had been to document the 9-11 attacks.

The Israeli military intentionally attacked the USS Liberty in June 1967, killing 34 and wounding 171.

Ariel Sharon, Israel's prime minister in 2001, has a long history of committing large-scale terrorist crimes.

Yerucham Bzozowitch (a.k.a. Eitan Livni), chief terror planner for the Irgun. Livni,

went to Britain in the 1940s to kill British leaders.

Tags: israel, 9/11, neocons, iraq, invasion

Washington's War: From Independence to Iraq: an interview

Fri, 27 Jun 2008 03:49:37 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Great stuff here!

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Tags: war, u.s., history, iraq, conquest, empire

US SOLDIER ADMITS TO RAPE IN IRAQ!!

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 23:33:27 GMT

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clipper's remarks: This is some sick stuff. Laughing about torturing people etc. and yes rape.

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US SOLDIER ADMITS TO RAPE IN IRAQ!!

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Tags: war, war crimes

When the Penny Drops.

Tue, 24 Jun 2008 08:21:04 GMT

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clipper's remarks: A personal attack? Guess who? Oh, and god speaks to him! There's not many with that condition still free, are there?

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'war crimes conference' to convene in Mass., plan prosecution of admin. officials

"He is a former drunk, was a serial failure in business who had to repeatedly be bailed out by daddy's friends and wanna-be-friends, was unable to speak articulately despite the finest education(s) that money and influence can buy, has a dislike of reading, so that 100-page memos have to be boiled down to one page for him, is heedless of facts and evidence, and appears not even to know the meaning of truth."

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Law School Dean Calls Conference to Plan Bush War Crimes Prosecution

“The man ultimately responsible for the torture had a unique preparation and persona for the presidency:

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False flag

False flag operations are covert operations conducted by governments, corporations, or other organizations, which are designed to appear like they are being carried out by other entities.

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9/11

A variety of conspiracy theories question the mainstream account of the September 11, 2001 attacks in the United States.

Tags: war, crimes, torture, evidence, false flag, 9/11

Polish WW2 War Criminal Escapes to Israel

Mon, 23 Jun 2008 14:25:35 GMT

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clipper's remarks: He was a member of the State Security and the commandant of the Stalinist-era concentration camp Zgoda in Świętochłowice, Poland.

Of 6,000 inmates that he was responsible for, that 1,695 people died under him "by deliberately giving low food rations, systematically torturing and mistreating prisoners, and failing to take sanitary precautions."

Zgoda camp was set up by the Soviet NKVD, the forerunner of the KGB, after the Red Army entered southern Poland. The camp was later handed over to the Communist Polish secret service, the notorious Urząd Bezpieczeństwa. In March 1945, Morel became a chief of the labour camp.

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War crime suspect stays in Israel

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Israel has refused to extradite a Polish-born Jew accused of war crimes against Germans in World War II.

Solomon Morel, an 86-year-old Holocaust survivor, is said to be responsible for the deaths of up to 1,500 prisoners.

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The camp held political prisoners, German nationals and Poles from Silesia. Most of the inmates were civilians, including women and some children. Up to 1,695 people

died, most due to ill treatment and outright torture and murder. Morel was accused of causing these deaths by deliberately giving low food rations, systematically torturing and mistreating prisoners, and failing to take sanitary precautions

In 1992, he fled to Israel from Katowice, Poland after the Polish media had begun to publicize his case. He refused to return to Poland, where he was accused of war crimes and crimes against humanity, for his trial which began in 1996. Israel rejected several Polish requests for extradition, the last one in July 2005

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7 July, 2005

Tags: ww2, history, atrocity, isreal, poland, russia

Canadian Wins Major International Book Prize

Mon, 23 Jun 2008 11:46:09 GMT

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clipper's remarks: De Niro's Game, which follows characters caught in the civil war in Beirut in the 1980s, is "a magnificent achievement for a writer writing in a third language," the five-member international jury said in its citation.

"Its originality, its power, its lyricism, as well as its humane appeal all mark De Niro's Game as the work of a major literary talent and make Rawi Hage a truly deserving winner."

The Beirut-born writer, who lived through nine years of civil war in the Lebanese capital before his family emigrated to Canada, called himself "a fortunate man.

"After a long journey of war, displacement and separation, I feel that I am one of the few wanderers who is privileged enough to have been rewarded, and for that I am very grateful."

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Montreal's Rawi Hage scoops lucrative Dublin book prize

Beirut-born author wins $158,000 Cdn for 1st novel, De Niro's Game

Montreal writer Rawi Hage is the latest winner of the world's richest writing prize for his debut novel, De Niro's Game, organizers of the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award announced on Thursday.

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International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award

The International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award is the largest and most international prize of its kind for a single work of fiction published in English. It is open to novels written in any language and by authors of any nationality, provided the work has been published in English or English translation. The Award is a joint initiative of the Dublin City Council, the Municipal Government of Dublin, Ireland, and the productivity improvement company IMPAC. The prize is €100,000.

The award is administered by Dublin City Public Libraries who seek nominations from public libraries from major cities across the world.

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June 12, 2008

Tags: canada, book, irish, lebanon

Maryland Plantation Attic Holds 400 Years of Documents

Mon, 23 Jun 2008 09:19:47 GMT

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Md. Plantation Attic Holds 400 Years of Documents

CENTREVILLE, Md. June 22, 2008 (AP)

For four centuries, they were the ultimate pack rats. Now a Maryland family's massive collection of letters, maps and printed bills has surfaced in the attic of a former plantation, providing a firsthand account of life from the 1660s through World War II.

Goodheart is working with state archivists and a crew of four student interns to collect the documents, which were found stuffed into boxes, barrels and peach baskets.

The documents include maps, letters, financial records, political posters, even a lock of hair from a letter dated Valentine's Day, 1801. There's a love poem from the 1830s (in which a young man graphically tells his sweetheart what he'd do if he sneaked into her room on a winter's night), along with war accounts and bills of sale from slaves and crops.

The papers come from several generations of the Emory family

The former Poplar Grove plantation is still in family hands

Tags: centreville, maryland, plantation, centuries, emory-family, documents, slaves, attic, historical, american-history

Descent into Chaos: How the War Against Islamic Extremism Is Being Lost

Sun, 22 Jun 2008 20:37:32 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Descent into Chaos: How the War Against Islamic Extremism Is Being Lost in Pakistan, Afghanistan and Central Asia by Ahmed Rashid

The Sunday Times review by Max Hastings: where the West has gone wrong in the war in Central Asia

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Ahmed Rashid, a Pakistani journalist of the highest narrative and analytical gifts, is baffled by the West’s almost demented indifference and folly towards Afghanistan and his own country. The stakes are huge. If either state fails, as is highly plausible, global stability will be rocked. The United Nations, Nato, the European Union and, of course, America will see their purposes and credibility set at naught.

Yet, as Rashid writes: “The international community’s lukewarm commitment to Afghanistan after 9/11 has been matched only by its incompetence, incoherence and conflicting strategies — all led by the United States.” Meanwhile, in Pakistan, Washington’s commitment, since 2001, to support President Pervez Musharraf’s military dictatorship rather than to promote the interests of the Pakistani people, “has created immense hatred for the US army and America, hatred that penetrates all classes of society”.

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US General Accuses Bush Admin of War Crimes

Fri, 20 Jun 2008 04:28:31 GMT

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clipper's remarks: 2-Star Army General indicts about Abu Ghraib that the White House "authorized" it:

the Commander-in-Chief and those under him authorized a systematic regime of torture.

Alot of things have come down on the Bush administration in the last month, i.e. McClellan's book, Bugliosi's book, now this.

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General Accuses WH of War Crimes

The two-star general who led an Army investigation into the horrific detainee abuse at Abu Ghraib has accused the Bush administration of war crimes and is calling for accountability.

In his 2004 report on Abu Ghraib, then-Major General Anthony Taguba concluded that "numerous incidents of sadistic, blatant, and wanton criminal abuses were inflicted on several detainees." He called the abuse "systemic and illegal." And, as Seymour M. Hersh reported in the New Yorker, he was rewarded for his honesty by being forced into retirement.

Now, in a preface to a Physicians for Human Rights report based on medical examinations of former detainees, Taguba adds an epilogue to his own investigation.

he writes, "tells the largely untold human story of what happened to detainees in our custody when the Commander-in-Chief and those under him authorized a systematic regime of torture.

Tags: war crimes, bush, cheney, iraq war, torture

HRW accuse Ethiopia of War Crimes

Sat, 14 Jun 2008 21:23:58 GMT

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clipper's remarks: "We don't like to rank abuses in different parts of the world, but what is happening in the Ogaden is up there with the worst," said Georgette Gagnon, Africa director at Human Rights Watch. "We are talking about village elders being strangled, and women raped until the point of unconsciousness. And it is being done with complete impunity, and with a blind eye from the international community."

A small-scale rebellion in the Ogaden region, populated mainly by ethnic Somalis, had been simmering for decades before the ONLF attacked an oil installation in April last year. More than 70 Chinese and Ethiopian workers were killed.

...Guardian

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Ethiopia accused of war crimes to quell insurgency

Ethiopia's government has committed extensive war crimes and crimes against humanity during a brutal counterinsurgency campaign in the remote Ogaden region, a report says today.

Human Rights Watch accuses the Ethiopian military of extrajudicial killings, rape, torture, forcibly displacing thousands of civilians and using food as a weapon of war in its attempts over the past year to defeat the Ogaden National Liberation Front, which claims to seek self-determination for the eastern region.

Satellite images published in the 130-page report show how villages have been burnt down to deny the rebels a support base - a tactic more often associated with the Darfur region of neighbouring Sudan.

The watchdog accuses the US, UK and other EU countries, who give Ethiopia £1bn a year in aid, of ignoring the abuses, thereby increasing the risk of further "devastation, famine and impoverishment in a region that already knows these trends too well".

Tags: ethiopia, hrw, africa, war, crimes, rape, torture, sudan

Senate report exposes key role of the Israel lobby in fomenting war with Iran

Fri, 13 Jun 2008 01:51:39 GMT

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Jun

'Faster, Please!'
Senate report exposes key role of the Israel lobby in fomenting war with Iran

For years, I've been saying that the only way to understand the Iraq war – a war that hurt, rather than advanced, American interests – is to see it as a successful covert action carried out by the Israelis

The "Clean Break" scenario, launched by American "advisers" to

Netanyahu, laid it all out in 1996. That was the theory, the practice of which is revealed in second section of the Senate intelligence report

Our invasion of Iraq has led directly to a looming confrontation with Iran, just as the war-planners knew it would. What the second portion of the Senate report shows, however, is that we are also prisoners of the Israel lobby, which is inexorably pushing us into war with Iran. That l

activity, relentless in pursuit of its goals – and its enemies

activity, relentless in pursuit of its goals

there is growing resistance to the Lobby's hegemony

within intelligence, counter-intelligence

Pollard

Tags: congress, report, israel, lobby, iraq, war, iran

WAR PROFITEERS being Protected by GAG ORDERS?

Thu, 12 Jun 2008 21:41:50 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Whistleblowers are the ones in danger of being criminalised while the REAL criminals are protected by the law! US contractors screwed the American and Iraqi people for BILLIONS, with White House blessing.

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Select

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$23 Billion Gag Order

Whistle blower lawsuits are automatically sealed for a couple of weeks after they are filed in order to give the DOJ a chance to decide whether to pursue the matter.

reporters think they know where $23 billion missing and misspent Iraq war dollars went, but they can't tell us:

US gagging order is preventing discussion of the allegations

The order applies to 70 court cases against some of the top US companies

A lot of war profiteering scandals come to light through whistle blower lawsuits

If the article is literally accurate, and a single gag order covers 70 cases, a whistle blower might have brought a very big case

It's not clear whether that's what's going on with the 70 cases the BBC alludes to

I interviewed an attorney who specializes in representing whistle blowers. He told me that it's not unusual for gag orders to be imposed in these cases

$23bn (£11.75bn) may have

been lost, stolen or just not properly accounted for in Iraq.

Tags: whistleblowers, gag, court, usa, iraq, oil, contractors

War Profiteering

Tue, 10 Jun 2008 20:45:06 GMT

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clipper's remarks: What a surprise

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BBC uncovers lost Iraq billions

A BBC investigation estimates that around $23bn (£11.75bn) may have been lost, stolen or just not properly accounted for in Iraq.

For the first time, the extent to which some private contractors have profited from the conflict and rebuilding has been researched by the BBC's Panorama using US and Iraqi government sources.

A US gagging order is preventing discussion of the allegations.

The order applies to 70 court cases against some of the top US companies.

War profiteering

While George Bush remains in the White House, it is unlikely the gagging orders will be lifted.

To date, no major US contractor faces trial for fraud or mismanagement in Iraq.

The president's Democrat opponents are keeping up the pressure over war profiteering in Iraq.

Henry Waxman who chairs the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform said: "The money that's gone into waste, fraud and abuse under these contracts is just so outrageous, its egregious.

Tags: iraq, profiteering, money mismanagement, war