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Germs, Gas and A-Bombs of IsraelThe world's best-known and most efficient 'secret' manufacturer of weapons of mass destruction is not Iraq, not even North Korea [Syria or Iran], but Israel. Neil Sammonds looks at a nuclear, biological and chemical warfare program that even the Israeli Knesset cannot get access to, let alone the United Nations. In September 1986, Mordechai Vanunu, a technician at Israel's Dimona nuclear site, revealed to The Sunday Times that the nuclear military program based there had produced "over 200" nuclear warheads ...
Ariel Sharon Murders a White American WomanCorrie 23 from Olympia, Washington was a student at Evergreen College and was to graduate this year. She was protesting against Israeli operations and was trying to stop an Isreali bulldozer from tearing down a building in the Rafah refugee camp. She waved for bulldozer to stop and waved. She fell down but the bulldozer kept going and didn't stop at all. It had completely run over her and then it reversed and ran back over her. She was taken to Najar hospital in Rafah, where she died ...
Who is Richard Perle?Richard Perle is a Zionist. Now what exactly does this mean? It means Richard Perle -- and Paul Wolfowitz, Douglas Feith and others in the Bush Administration -- are Israeli nationalists. "Wolfowitz and fellow Jewish neo-cons Richard Perle and Douglas Feith have emerged as the Pentagon's Paladins," writes Ann Pettifer, "their aim being to subdue the Islamic world through decisive, pre-emptive use of American military superiority." Notice how Perle can jump from one TV news show to another and nobody mentions his spying for the Israelis or working for an Israeli arms manufacturer. Nobody mentions his "dual loyalties," which are common knowledge in Washington. Nobody calls him a traitor. Nobody in the corporate media dares -- that is if they want to keep their jobs ...
Impeachment Resolution Against President George W. BushResolved, That George Walker Bush, President of the United States is impeached for high crimes and misdemeanors, and that the following articles of impeachment be exhibited to the Senate. Articles of impeachment exhibited by the House of Representatives of the United States of America in the name of itself and of all of the people of the United States of America, against George Walker Bush, President of the United States of America, in maintenance and support of its impeachment against him for high crimes and misdemeanors ...
The Blood of the Advanced World will be Shed Once AgainIn an event that made me ashamed to be part of the human race, the world did absolutely nothing when 800,000 civilian men, women and children were hacked to death with machetes, all in a span of 100 days. Despite the significant amount of death, we refused to see this genocide; we allowed ourselves to become preoccupied in our day-to- day activities that are totally insignificant in the face of such a massive loss of life. Our governments could have so easily prevented the genocide, but they did nothing, and we remained silent. These few examples are only a drop in the bloody lake of our inhumanity. In all of these massacres, we remained silent when the only humane action would have been to speak out ...
Pakistani Diplomats Commit Crimes Against JounalistsA few vicious bureaucrats at the Embassy of Pakistan in Washington DC have launched a malicious campaign against all those veteran Pakistani-American journalists who have persistently exposed the corruption, incompetency, misconduct and gangsterism of corrupt and incompetent Pakistani diplomats. Khalid Hasan, a senior journalist and Washington Correspondent of the Lahore, Pakistan-based Daily Times newspaper, is the latest victim of the defamatory campaign led by individuals who have acted like gangsters of an evil, Tyrannical Mafia which has raped, looted and plundered Pakistan during the last 56 years of its independence from British and Hindu imperialists ...
Israeli Outlaws in AmericaOn August 16, Steinberg commented on Eitan's alleged resurfacing in the United States. "Eitan is making these high-risk journeys, U.S. and Israeli sources report, because he is directing plans for a major terrorist attack on American soil -- a new 9/11 -- to be blamed on either Muslim or Latin American terrorists... sources -- both Israeli and American -- have warned that Eitan is putting the finishing touches on such an operation, which coincides with Vice President Dick Cheney's aggressive promotion of the idea that the United States is facing an imminent new 9/11 attack. Cheney launched this propaganda offensive at his July 24, 2003 speech at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington, and he has been stumping the country, ever since, asserting an imminent terror attack." Regardless of the validity of Steinberg's terrorism claim, one has to ask why the FBI hasn't arrested Rafi Eitan. There is, after all, an outstanding federal warrant for his arrest, so why is he allowed to make road trips across America? ...
America, Where Are You Leading?Our leaders love to claim the moral high ground preaching to the rest of the world about such things as democracy, justice and peace. Yet, do we, in fact, practice what we preach? The U.S.A. demands that other countries dismantle their nuclear arsenals, yet is it the U.S. that has the largest nuclear arsenal in the world, that has the dubious distinction as being the only nation to have dropped nuclear bombs in wartime over populous civilian cities, and that currently refuses to ratify the Nuclear Test Ban Pact. It is the U.S. that is pushing for renewed research into so-called usable "mini-nukes," as if using the word "mini" makes the deadly radiation emitted by such bombs any less dangerous to humankind. It is the U.S. that has already deployed nuclear weapons on the battlefields in Yugoslavia and in two wars in Iraq in the form of very deadly depleted uranium weaponry, whose radioactive effects will continue to sicken and kill many innocent people ad infinitum, as the half-life of the uranium-238 released on impact is 4.5 billion years! ...
Casualties of Civilians in Iraq WarAfter the ordeal of seeing their three other children killed when a US tank machine-gunned their car in Nasiriyah, Daham and Gufran Ibed Kassim and their wounded five-year-old daughter Mawra were taken for treatment at a US Army field hospital: "For two nights, the remains of the family slept in a bed. It appears that the story is reaching an end. 'Wait!' insists Kassim, his tears preparing themselves for what is to come, as if his trials could get any worse. 'Don't ask me questions. I will tell you what happened.' On the third night, that of 27 March, 'there were some Americans wounded that night, in the fighting. Maybe they needed the beds. So they told us we had to go outside. I heard the order--"put them out"-- and they carried us like dogs, out into the cold, without shelter, or a blanket. It was the days of the sandstorms and freezing at night. And I heard Zainab crying: "Papa, Papa, I am cold, I am cold." Then she went silent. Completely silent.' Kassim breaks off in anguish. His wife continues the story of the night. 'What could we do? She kept saying she was cold. My arms were broken, I could not lift or hold her. If they had given us even a blanket, we might have put it over her. We had to sit there, and listen to her die ...
Gujarat Massacre Cases Sabotaged in IndiaKhalid Noor Mohammed Sheikh lost nine family members including his pregnant thirty-year-old daughter Kauser Bano. Her belly was cut open and the fetus was pulled out and hacked to pieces before she was killed. He said: "I took [my daughter] Kauser to the hospital for delivery the day before the attack. She was ready to deliver. But the doctor said there was time and to come back in the morning. But there was no morning after. By then it was all over. And the tragedy is that the people who ripped my daughter's child out of her body and killed her are walking about freely. Why does it have to be this way? Please make every effort that the criminals get punished. Even if they don't get punished a lot, they should at least get punished a little.. They keep going on about Muslim terrorists, but who are the terrorists? Those who torture Muslims so much should be punished a bit. In a family of nine, I am the only survivor. Whom should I live for now?" ...
A Travesty of JusticeThe lawyers and prosecutors are often hostile to the victims. Yusufbhai, whose 11 family members were all killed by Hindu extremist mobs, explained to NDTV: "I am an illiterate man...The lawyer is supposed to guide me. But he has not spoken to us." He said that the district public prosecutor, Dilip Trivedi, was a VHP district leader ...
India Invites The Criminal Ariel SharonGovernment of India has extended an invitation to Ariel Sharon, Prime Minister of Israel, to pay an official visit to India. By extending an invitation to Ariel Sharon to visit India, the Indian Government has committed the cardinal sin of bestowing honour on a war-criminal, who is deeply detested by the vast majority of the global community because of his unsavoury reputation. It cannot be that the Government of India is unaware of the criminal record of Ariel Sharon or of the notorious Likud Party he has been leading. Therefore, the motives for inviting Ariel Sharon to India are highly suspicious ...
The Bush Administration's Top 40 Lies About War and TerrorismA truly collaborative effort from start to finish. It began with the notion of running a week-long marathon of Bush Administration lies at the online Bush Wars column (bushwarsblog.com). E-mails delivered a lot of research assistance. Loads of valuable information was obtained through Cursor.org and Buzzflash.com, the two news links pages on the Internet, and through research projects on the Bushmen posted at Cooperative Research (CooperativeResearch.org), Whiskey Bar (Billmon.org), and TvNewsLies.org. Heart of the effort was all the readers of Bush Wars who sent ideas and links that advanced the project ...
Why States Seek to Acquire Nuclear WeaponsWhen a state acquires nuclear weapons, the cost of invading that state increases, making it more difficult and expensive to gain a military edge over a nuclear-armed state. For example, in the early 1980s Iraq was developing a nuclear reactor for, at least in part, energy purposes; however, the only nuclear-armed state in the region, Israel, feared that Iraq's reactor would be used to develop nuclear weapons. Israel correctly assumed that if Iraq were to acquire nuclear weapons, Israel would lose its nuclear monopoly in the Middle East and thus likely lose foreign policy leverage with other countries in the region. Therefore, since Iraq did not yet have nuclear weapons, in 1981 Israel was able to launch a successful military strike on the Iraqi nuclear reactor without the fear of a powerful retaliation ...
U.S. Media Misleading Public on Iraq CasualtiesAs of July 21st, 233 U.S. soldiers have died and over 1000 have been injured since Operation Iraqi Freedom began. Yet the media focuses only on those killed by "hostile fire" as if those killed in other ways or those simply injured are less important. An Internet search will reveal a thousand stories about the numbers killed by "hostile fire" to every one that offers the complete details. About the injured who go unmentioned, it's hard to imagine a soldier claiming that his life was not changed forever because of the war, but many have had their lives changed in the most horrible ways. These soldiers are now paraplegics and cripples, blind and deaf, or learning to live with artificial limbs. Are not these victims part of the "cost of war" as well? ...
Forced to Maintain the Bush DoctrineThe most unnerving reality facing a new U.S. administration may be the fact that it could be too late to rollback the Bush administration's aggressive policy because now other countries are emulating that policy. How could a new administration withdraw from Central Asia knowing that locals who reject the U.S. presence would construe it as victory and that other regional powers, most notably Russia and China, would attempt to increase their military and economic influence there? How could an administration withdraw from Iraq with dozens of U.S. companies already having contracts valued in the billions of dollars? Most ominously, how could a new administration leave so many power vacuums around the globe? ...
Bush's Moral Message Losing LegitimacyThe Bush administration's supposed professionalism and prowess are really propped up by a vast network of lies, deception, and complicity on behalf of influential organizations. For example, the Center for Security Policy (CSP) recently said that critics of the Bush administration may be fueling resistance to American forces in Iraq and that to criticize Bush is petty and partisan. As the situations facing the Bush administration grow more complex and the presidential election and the campaigning filth it inherently brings draws nearer each week , it's unlikely that the CSP's wishes will be met. The idea that President Bush is literally beyond criticism is likely to offend more than it is to persuade -- especially if one is in disagreement ...
Enron-Style Management in a Dangerously Complex WorldThe more complex the world becomes, the more we need transparency and honest regulatory mechanisms in international relations. Greater complexity also increases the need for intelligent, educated, and accountable leadership. Old clichés and pat formulas that may have once served, especially on the part of the world's leading nation, become less useful daily and more dangerous for everyone. The Enron-style management we see in the White House is a formula for eventual catastrophe ...
Losing The Hearts and MindsAs shown through successive polls on attitudes toward the United States in this region, and in the world, the Bush administration has so far failed to win over the hearts and minds in not only the countries of their political opponents, but in allied countries as well. This failure will not bode well for U.S. interests. With the United States economy and society being so advanced, it is highly vulnerable to acts of terrorism. The Bush administration's argument that it will be able to militarily defeat "terrorism" against U.S. interests is not convincing, especially since the administration has done nothing to alleviate the very concerns that have spawned these terrorist acts in the first place ...
Take Back America, Topple Bush Now!You should leave, Mr. Bush. Dick Nixon had the honor and decency to leave over his lies, and his lies didn't murder thousands of people like yours did. Bill Clinton was impeached over his lies about sex with an intern. Do you really think you can escape impeachment over lies used to start a war with Iraq and destroy another nation? You are history, Mr. Bush, the blackest point of the history of the White House and of our nation ...
Blair's Secret WeaponIt was in the immediate aftermath of the first Gulf war and Britain knew even then that Saddam Hussein would one day have to be deposed. Allied forces had stopped short of ousting the Iraq dictator, but the British government was convinced it would one day have to finish the job. The problem was how to convince the world that even a defeated Iraq still posed a serious threat. The answer came in 1991, with the setting up of a secret military intelligence operation whose existence has only now been uncovered by the Sunday Herald in the wake of damaging claims that Tony Blair and George Bush exaggerated intelligence reports to justify their invasion of Iraq this year. The covert project was called "Operation Rockingham" ...
Further Fanning of The FlamesIf the Bush administration continues its current interventionist approach, there is no doubt that more radical groups will be created with the sole purpose of hurting the United States government and its people. As stated in a Defense Science Board report released in 1997, "historical data show a strong correlation between U.S. involvement in international situations and an increase in terrorist attacks against the United States." If this Defense Science Board analysis is correct, then Americans may be in for a longer battle with terrorism and anti-Americanism than they realize ...
The U.S. Government Lied To YouIf you believed the lie about the weapons of mass destruction, then congratulations, you have been made a total fool before the eyes of the rest of the world. Forget "Polock" jokes, the new fashion rage will be "dumb American" jokes. Like the dumb Americans who actually did tape up their houses with sheet plastic and duct tape and nearly suffocated to death. Or the dumb Americans who actually believed Iraq still had a credible military after a decade of crippling sanctions ...
Stop Grinding The Terrorism AxePeople in India -- government officials, politicians and journalists alike -- are forever grinding the same old axe: "cross-border terrorism... cross-border terrorism... cross-border terrorism. It is another matter that there can be no "cross-border terrorism" where there is no recognized border. As the very term implies, the Line of Control in Kashmir is not an international border. There has to be a border first before there can be any so-called "cross border terrorism." That's a sine qua no, though this is something the Indian government would like the world to forget, just as it would like the world to forget about its brutal suppression of the Muslim population of occupied Kashmir ...
Millions Donated by Pakistanis Overseas UntraceableThe three great causes for which Pakistanis opened their hearts, and their check books, were the Kashmir Fund started by Benazir Bhutto, Self-Reliance Fund launched by Nawaz Sharif and Drought Relief Fund initiated by present military ruler General Pervez Musharraf. When these fund-raising schemes were launched, patriotism of Pakistanis abroad was challenged and passionate appeals were made. In fact, Pakistanis rushed to contribute in hordes. Claims that millions had been collected by these governments were made at that time. Official media was used to the hilt to generate massive donations. The highest accounting officer of Pakistan, the Auditor General, has now reported to the [self-appointed] 'President' of Pakistan [General Pervez Musharraf] that there is no trace or record of these funds with either the Government, the Foreign Missions or the banks which transferred these funds ...
Pakistan Officials Embezzle Donations of PakistanisMany former and current officials of the Government of Pakistan, including 'President' General Pervez Musharraf, PM Nawaz Sharif and PM Benazir Bhutto, received millions of dollars in donations from Pakistanis residing in the USA, UK, Saudi Arabia and other countries of the world for Musharraf's Drought Relief Fund, Sharif's National Self-Reliance Fund, Benazir's Kashmir Relief Fund, Prime Minister's Flood Relief Fund and other 'noble causes', but the crooks, con-artists and criminals never deposited the public money in Pakistan's national treasury or Pakistan Government's official bank accounts, according to four Pakistani banks and the Auditor General of Pakistan's Special Audit Report on Revenue Receipts of Pakistan Missions Abroad, 1997-1998 to 2000-2001. It is ironic that NAB/RAB have failed to recover the contributions of Pakistanis which have been embezzled by successive rulers, politicians, bureaucrats and diplomats of Pakistan ...
Weapons of Mass DeceptionA misleading term (Weapons of Mass Destruction) that has served to exaggerate and demonize certain kinds of weapons while others, the so-called "conventional" ones, are further legitimized even when those of, say, the United States, are capable of far more "mass destruction" than most other countries' WMD. So in the end, a small quantity of mustard gas capable of only killing a dozen people is classified as a WMD, but an air force capable of launching thousands of cluster bombs in minutes is not, simply because it is considered "conventional" (Though this is clearly just one of the reasons) ...
Extracts from the book " 9/11 The Big Lie "Several thousand people lost their lives on September 11 and a war was waged in Afghanistan to avenge them. Yet the events themselves remain mysterious. The accounts available are filled with oddities, uncertainties and contradictions. Despite the unease these anomalies provoke, public opinion has contented itself with the official version, accepting that national security imperatives prevent United States authorities from revealing the full story. But this official version does not stand up to critical analysis. We will demonstrate that it is nothing more than a coverup. In some instances, the elements that we have gathered allow the truth to be restored. In others, our questions remain for the moment unanswered, but this is no reason to go on believing the lies put forward by officials. In any case, the investigation that we have carried out is already sufficient to undermine the legitimacy of America's riposte in Afghanistan and its "War on the Evil Axis" ...
The Real Reason They Hate UsNo, it's not because they despise our free society or our women going around in skimpy clothing [half naked or almost nude]. And it's not because most of us are Christians, Jews, or secular unbelievers and therefore not Muslims. It started long ago well before the terrorists who came to our American shores were even born. They keep telling us the real reason, but we will not listen. To hear and to understand and to reply effectively, we would have to admit our nation's bias for over a half century against the Arab people and other Muslim nations. We created the reason for their hostility toward us. It is we and not they who started the grotesque "clash of civilizations" we now see facing us over the next generation or more ...
Mesopotamia, Babylon, The Tigris and EuphratesIn the fog of war - one thing's for sure - if Saddam 's regime indeed has weapons of mass destruction, it is showing an astonishing degree of responsibility and restraint in the teeth of extreme provocation. Under similar circumstances, (say if Iraqi troops were bombing New York and laying siege to Washington DC) could we expect the same of the Bush regime? Would it keep its thousands of nuclear warheads in their wrapping paper? What about its chemical and biological weapons? Its stocks of anthrax, smallpox and nerve gas? Would it? Excuse me while I laugh ...
The Pain of War Never Goes AwayDavid Antoon is a Vietnam Veteran and retired U.S. Air Force officer, who worries about what kind of world his children, and all children, will inherit. The damage to America's reputation and credibility, he fears, will not be repaired in his lifetime. He says that George W. Bush had often said that Iraq has repeatedly ignored U.N. Resolution 1441 and should, therefore, be brought to task, with or without the international community. Hypocritically, he fails to mention that the United States has used its veto 41 times in the last three decades to thwart attempts by the United Nations to sanction Israel for its violations against the Palestinian people. In particular, Israel's defiance of U.N. Resolution 242 has gone on for over thirty-five years. It is easy to understand why America is becoming the most hated country in the world. As a result of this foreign policy, nearly every country in the world is protesting in anger against the United States ...
Another Market Massacre in BaghdadBritish journalist Robert Fisk describes "appalling scenes of pain and suffering" in Iraq. He says: "A two-year-old girl, Saida Jaffar, swaddled in bandages, a tube into her nose, another into her stomach. All I could see of her was her forehead, two small eyes and a chin. Beside her, blood and flies covered a heap of old bandages and swabs. Not far away, lying on a dirty bed, was three-year-old Mohamed Amaid, his face, stomach, hands and feet all tied tightly in bandages. A great black mass of congealed blood lay at the bottom of his bed." Fisk refuted American and British claims that an Iraqi anti-aircraft missile was responsible for the carnage. Local residents said they had heard or seen the American jet that dropped the missile, in broad daylight and with perfect visibility in a clear sky ...
Bush The Congenital Liar!20 Big Lies of George Bush (the congenital liar) have been exposed in this article. Monday night's 15-minute speech by President Bush, setting a 48-hour deadline for war against Iraq, went beyond the usual distortions, half-truths, and appeals to fear and backwardness to include a remarkable number of barefaced, easily refuted lies. The enormous scale of the lying suggests two political conclusions: the Bush administration is going to war against Iraq with utter contempt for democracy and public opinion, and its war propaganda counts heavily on the support of the American media, which not only fails to challenge the lies, but repeats and reinforces them endlessly ...
British Crime Minister Tony BlairTam Dalyell, Labour MP for Linlithgow, UK, since 1962, is the longest continuously serving Member of the British House of Commons. He says: I believe that since Mr. Blair is going ahead with his support of a US attack without unambiguous UN authorisation, he should be branded as a war criminal and sent to The Hague. I have served in the House of Commons as a member of the Labour Party for 41 years, and I would never have dreamed of saying this about any one of my previous leaders. But Blair is a man who has disdain for both the House of Commons and international law. This is a grave thing to say about my party leader. But it is far less serious than the results of a war that could set Western Christendom against Islam ...
Lies With a PurposeA campaign of deceit, lies, demagoguery, arm- twisting and bribery is currently being committed by so-called political leaders who are responsible to their people to provide truthful information, but in recent months have refrained from doing so. There have been thousands upon thousands of lies about Iraq, Palestine, Israel, Islam and the Middle East, lies about the intentions of France, Germany, Russia and anyone who dares raise a voice in protest. Lies about 9-11, about Osama bin Laden, about Pakistan, Malaysia, Indonesia. Lies in Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States. Lies to justify a war, false hope for peace to justify a war, crocodile tears for Iraqi civilians. All to justify war ...
Why I Had to Leave The CabinetRobin Cook was, until yesterday, leader of the House of Commons. He says, I have resigned from the cabinet because I believe that a fundamental principle of Labour's foreign policy has been violated. If we believe in an international community based on binding rules and institutions, we cannot simply set them aside when they produce results that are inconvenient to us ...
Shut Down for Publishing The TruthHere, at YellowTimes.org, we did not want these stories (about war on Iraq) to go untold. We wanted to bring the horrors of war inflicted on all sides. We condemn killing, we condemn war, and we certainly condemn persecution and torture. We also condemn the intentional absence of truth ...
After Bombing The U.N.Another New York landmark is in ruins. The UN building no longer stands on the East River. The stench of death arises from its rubble. The flags of the UN's member nations no longer flutter proudly on their poles. They've been burnt to cinders. A triumphant George W. Bush has just appeared at the press conference in Washington. My fellow Americans! , we have won another major battle in the war against terrorism ...
U.S.A. Steals Iraq's AssetsWashington has stolen $1,740,000,000 of Iraqi assets held in the United States of America in 18 banks, claiming that it will be used for the reconstruction of Iraq after the removal of Saddam Hussein's regime. The Bush Administration and its allies [Blair, Howard, Aznar and Gotha juntas] have added thievery to their growing list of criminal actions, after three days of terrorist and murderous activities in Iraq have left hundreds of civilians injured and dead. These are war crimes. Bush, Rumsfeld, Blair, Hoon and their administrations are terrorists, murderers and war criminals ...
A Shameful Day in American HistoryThe U.S. bombardment of Baghdad, which began in earnest Friday, is a horrific, brutal and cowardly attack. It is being carried out for predatory imperialist aims--above all, the seizure and control of oil wealth--against the defenseless population of a nation that represents no threat to the American people. March 21, 2003 is a shameful day in U.S. history. The assault on Baghdad, whatever its immediate outcome, will (Insha Allah) prove a political disaster for the Bush Administration and American capitalism. No regime can long survive such a horrendous crime. Tragically, American civilians may also pay a price, as the bombing will inflame public opinion in the Middle East and encourage more terrorist attacks...
Will ICC Prosecute Bush & Blair?In general, America is unaware of the dead children of Iraq -- children killed in our name by Bush and Blair and other war criminals. "Look closely at their images on these pages," Pilger advises, "they are the faces of a stricken nation of whom 42 percent are children. When Blair speaks about the 'moral case' for sending hundreds of missiles against this nation of so many children, as well as new types of cluster bombs and bunker bombs and microwave bombs, and shells tipped with pure uranium, a form of nuclear weapon, the images of the two sisters provide an eloquent commentary on the Prime Minister's Christian 'morality'..."
U.S. Government Objectives in IraqIn removing the Saddam Hussein government, the U.S. will be projecting its power further into the Middle East. Following the ouster of Saddam, Washington will find it necessary to construct military bases in Iraq in order to handle U.S. military activity in the post-war phase. This will follow the model successfully implemented in Afghanistan. With Iraq as a new military launching point, the U.S. will find itself in an incredibly strategic location. Bordering six critical states, Iraq is located at the heart of the Middle East ...
Is U.N. Irrelevant with regard to Israel?What the Bush administration and their promoters are really saying is that the U.N. is "irrelevant" only when it does not hold countries accountable that the United States wants held accountable -- only when not in agreement with the U.S.' selective application of the rules. Countries that the U.S. has no interest in holding accountable like, say, Israel can cross and dismiss the Security Council at will. The U.S. is not concerned with the integrity of the United Nations in general or of the Security Council's resolutions specifically. The Bush administration is only concerned with whether the U.N. dutifully follows its every wish. If they don't, then they are "irrelevant"; if they do, then they are "meeting a great challenge " ...
Conservatives Reject Bush War Against IraqCharley Reese, a staunch conservative, who was selected a couple of years ago as the favorite columnist of C-SPAN viewers, wrote that a U.S. attack on Iraq "is a prescription for the decline and fall of the American empire. Overextension--urged on by a bunch of rabid intellectuals who wouldn't know one end of a gun from another--has doomed many an empire. Just let the United States try to occupy the Middle East, which will be the practical result of a war against Iraq, and Americans will be bled dry by the costs in both blood and treasure ..."
The Kashmir IssueThe people of the former Princely State of Jammu and Kashmir have for the past 55 years been subjected to documented and unspeakable human rights abuses, including the execution of civilians, the rape and burning of women, the immolation and mutilation of children, the deliberate shelling of civilians by Indian military artillery, and the torture and murder of political detainees. During January 1989 and January 31, 2003, Indian-Hindu rulers, military and police have murdered 85,065 Kashmiris, according to the Kashmir Media Service ...
Inside Iraq: The tragedy of a people betrayedThe hypocrisy behind all the moral and humanitarian arguments for Blair & Bush's criminal designs in an attempt to liberate the Iraqi People continues to be exposed. This article makes tough reading. Denis Halliday is a courtly Irishman who spent 34 years with the UN, latterly as Assistant Secretary-General. When he resigned in 1998 as the UN's Humanitarian Co-ordinator for Iraq in protest at the effects of the embargo on the civilian population, he wrote, "Because the policy of economic sanctions is totally bankrupt. We are in the process of destroying an entire society. It is as simple as that. Five thousand children are dying every month. I don't want to administer a programme that results in figures like these" ...
Are The People Blind?Some eye opening questions and answers ...
It is the Oil, Stupid!Mr. Joseph Clifford contributed this article to Media Monitors Network (MMN) from James Town, Rhode Island. According to him the war against Afghanistan was for oil and not terrorism! ...
Who Are The Terrorists?Raff Ellis lives in the United States and is a retired former strategic planner and computer industry executive. In his article he says that recently, Israel's Defense Forces (IDF) killed Ian Hook, a British U.N. official along with two other Palestinian United Nations workers, in the West Bank. A U.N. resolution condemning this act was vetoed by the United States. Well, you may ask, isn't this a violation of our own rules governing terrorist activity? Clearly it was but not only does our State Department turn a blind eye, it tells its ambassador to veto the resolution condemning it! ...
American War Crimes in AfghanistanThe US State Department has reacted angrily to the showing of a documentary on German television alleging that US soldiers were involved in war crimes in Afghanistan. The film, Massacre in Afghanistan--Did the Americans Look On?, was produced by Irish filmmaker Jamie Doran. It was shown December 18 on one of the main German public channels--ARD. The 45-minute documentary had previously been shown by the British Channel 5 and the Italian station RAI. Doran is determined to ensure the fullest distribution for his film. An additional 11 countries have bought the documentary and Doran is determined to push for a showing in America ...
The Arabs, Jews and The PalestineThis fascinating essay, written by King Hussein’s grandfather King Abdullah, appeared in the United States six months before the 1948 Arab-Israeli War. In the article, King Abdullah disputes the mistaken view that Arab opposition to Zionism (and later the state of Israel) is because of longstanding religious or ethnic hatred. He notes that Jews and Muslims enjoyed a long history of peaceful coexistence in the Middle East, and that Jews have historically suffered far more at the hands of Christian Europe. Pointing to the tragedy of the holocaust that Jews suffered during World War II, the monarch asks why America and Europe are refusing to accept more than a token handful of Jewish immigrants and refugees. It is unfair, he argues, to make Palestine, which is innocent of anti-Semitism, pay for the crimes of Europe. King Abdullah also asks how Jews can claim a historic right to Palestine, when Arabs have been the overwhelming majority there for nearly 1300 uninterrupted years? The essay ends on an ominous note, warning of dire consequences if a peaceful solution cannot be found to protect the rights of the indigenous Arabs of Palestine ...
The Price of IsraelStauffer made his speech in a lecture commissioned by the U.S. Army War College for a conference at the University of Maine. He has converted past aid into 2001 dollars and counts this cost and says that Israel has been given $240 billion, while Egypt has been given $117 billion and Jordan $22 billion as bribes for signing a peace treaty with Israel. United States has already guaranteed $10 billion in commercial loans to Israel and $600 billion in housing loans ...
It's Time to Get Tough with IsraelJames J. David a retired Brigadier General and a graduate of the U.S. Army's Command says: During the past 27 months the Palestinian resistance from the brutal and illegal Israeli occupation has resulted in more than 2,000 Palestinians and 670 Israelis killed. When Israelis are killed or injured by Palestinian suicide bombers the White House wastes not a second to harshly condemn these brutal acts, and it does so in an understandable manner. But when Israelis drop a one-ton bomb in the center of a Gaza City apartment complex and kill 15 innocent Palestinians, including 9 small children, the U.S. issues a diplomatic statement criticizing the attack only as using "excessive force." Other times when Palestinian children are slaughtered for throwing stones at tanks the United States remains silent ....
Put up or Shut up!Charley Reese says that President George Bush has to put up or shut up. If his administration has hard evidence that Iraq has weapons of mass destruction, he has to put that evidence on the table for everyone to see. Otherwise his credibility and the credibility of the United States will be zilch ...
The Lure of EmpireThe official story on Iraq has never made sense. The connection that the Bush administration has tried to draw between Iraq and al-Qaida has always seemed contrived and artificial. In fact, it was hard to believe that smart people in the Bush administration would start a major war based on such flimsy evidence. This war, should it come, is intended to mark the official emergence of the United States as a full-fledged global empire, seizing sole responsibility and authority as planetary policeman. It would be the culmination of a plan 10 years or more in the making, carried out by those who believe the United States must seize the opportunity for global domination, even if it means becoming the American Imperialists ...
War on Terrorism - The Biggest Fraud of 21st CenturyStop the U.S. War Against All Arabs, All Muslims and Islam The 'war on terrorism' is the biggest fraud of the 21st century. It is 10 months since 11 September, and still the great charade plays as the West prepares for an assault on Iraq, John Pilger argues that 'war on terror' is a smokescreen created by the ultimate terrorist ... America itself ...
A Message to The Un-Civilized WorldI an American want to set the record straight and lay some facts and truth why America is a truly civilized nation and why countries other than US, UK and some other European states are uncivilized nations ...
Unbelievable Account of Indian Cruelty!An Indian Administrative Officer writes that, what can you say about a woman eight months pregnant who begged to be spared. Her assailants instead slit open her stomach, pulled out her foetus and slaughtered it before her eyes. What can you say about a family of nineteen being killed by flooding their house with water and then electrocuting them with high-tension electricity. What can you say? There is much that the murdering mobs in Gujrat have robbed from me. One of them is a song I often sang with pride and conviction. The words of the song are "Sare Jahan se Achha hay Hindustan Hamara". It is a song I will never be able to sing again ...
The Design for Provoking A Global ClashThis very brief exposition is meant to make the people aware that it is the Zionist International Jewry that has thrust the deceived American nation into the so-called war on terrorism. It was to bring that otherwise impossible situation about, as also for other objectives, that the benumbing sudden cataclysm of September 11 was engineered by Mossad with the help of Israelis in America. A study of the Zionist Protocols and its related literature shows that what has been happening in the contemporary world, the direction of current developments, and exercise of international power by a consortium of the United States, the European Union and International Bankers, is in accordance with the Zionist World Order (ZWO) that the document seeks to establish ...
American MassacreThe Mazar-e-Sharif massacre of POW's is yet another example of America's genocide in Afghanistan. Even this heinous massacre did not merit much TV coverage. From the few pictures that CNN and SKY showed it was clear that the prisoners had been shot in the back. Many of the dead were seen lying face down and there were no weapons by their sides either. Robert Fisk, the veteran journalist and one of the few who is reporting the Afghan genocide from a humanitarian point of view says in a report in UK's Independent Newspaper that some of the dead prisoners had their hands tied behind their backs ...
America on The BrinkAmerica is on the brink of a global war that may well lead to utter ruin. Cheered on by the Jewish media and the Jewish Lobby, the White House has already launched a series of devastating attacks on Afghanistan. The ultra-powerful Jewish lobby now screams for a much wider war, a global war to supposedly protect from terrorism. If the war is widened, it will not save from terrorism; it will make certain that Americans suffer from it. It would radicalize and motivate millions of people around the world to support terrorism against America. Only Israel would benefit from this war. The Zionist warmongers in media and government seek to use America's guns and money to strike devastating blows at Israel's enemies. They also know that the ensuing war fever will shift attention away from Israel's brutal terrorism and suppression against the Palestinian people. Here are a few things a wider war would accomplish ...
The Big Lie About September 11We have been told that the attackers were simply crazy, cowardly men who committed an unprovoked attack. Media and government spokesmen repeatedly assured us that these attacks had "nothing to do with America's support of Israel." The official view, as expressed by the President to the U.S. Congress was that the terrorists attacked us because they hate our freedom! But what he said is so ridiculous that even this intellectually-challenged President cannot really believe it. Does Bush really think that a bunch of young men would give up their families, their homes, and immolate themselves in a huge ball of fire simply because they hate American democracy! Right on Mr. President! Next week, we will hear about Islamic kamikazes crashing planes into Iceland, the oldest enduring democracy on earth ...
The Afghanistan War - "A Rational View"When U.S.A. disputes the civilian causalities they are only losing morally. Lesser the casualty, higher the average cost of securing a dead body of an innocent Afghan. If 400 are accepted dead with 400 cruise missiles the average cost of killing a civilian is not less than $3 Million. Accounting for the overall operation and mobilization, the cost is likely to cross $10 Million a piece (an Afghan dead body). What a colossal waist of Tax payers' money? Do Americans know how they are being impoverished in a mad act of aggression? There were other better options to resolve the issue of Bin Laden ...
The Real Evil Behind The Global TurmoilIsrael has committed a number of acts of war against the United States. In 1954, the Israel government plotted to blow up American installations in Cairo and Alexandria and blame it on Egyptian nationals. By chance the plot failed and was uncovered. It was named the Lavon Affair after the man who supposedly set up the terrorism, Pinhas Lavon, the Israeli Defense Chief. He resigned in 1955 over the incident.
In 1967, Israel purposefully attacked with unmarked jet fighters and torpedo boats, the U.S.S. Liberty, an American Navy vessel of the Sinai Peninsula, even machine gunning the deployed life rafts of the ship. The attack killed 31 American servicemen and wounded over 170. They sought to sink the ship, kill all the Americans and blame it on the Egyptians so they could have American support to conquer larger areas of the Arab world.
The Mossad planted a transmitter in Tripoli, Libya and then broadcast terrorist messages in Libyan code indicating Libyan responsibility for killing two Americans in the bombing of the La Belle discothèque in Germany. (It was later proven that Libya had nothing to do with the bombing) By use of this fraud, Israel induced the American bombing of Libya ...
Israel Must Sign NPT Before PakistanIsrael has about 200 Nuclear Weapons and U.S. supports Israel's Nuclear Arms. NPT (Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty) is Discriminatory and Fraudulent ...
USA's Double StandardsUS democratic standards have double yardsticks. For instance one for Timor and the other for Bosnia, Kosovo, Grorzeny and Kashmir. As if the human blood that is shed profusely in Kashmir, Bosnia, Kosovo, and Grorzeny is different and cheaper than that of Timor ...
Comparison of The Ruling RegimesWhen you listen to the Jewish rulers today talking, in the memory of the Nazi 'massacres', they declare that there should be no Jew without a home. But we Muslims will stay homeless as long as our current ruling system continues to exist. We will stay refugees in tents because our current ruling authorities have sold us for a miserable price.
Interests of The Muslim Ummah "Overlooked"The Muslim lives agitated and worried about his provision and funds, fearing for the future of his children. On the other hand, the submission of the ruling authorities to the will of America and their surrender before her orders and their acceptance of the price set for them, serve the interest of American companies, it reduces energy costs for American factories, helps American citizens to get cheap fuel, and protect the continuation of American economic growth ...
Chechnya War - Islam vs Christianity?The Western Governments are supporting Russia 100% in her ethnic cleansing of the Muslims of Chechnya. Proof of this is that the United Nations has yet to make any statements, let alone resolutions, about the War in Chechnya. As Muslim' extremists' are being fought, there is a convenient silence from the Western countries ...
The War of IdeologiesOh Muslims wherever you are! America and other Kuffar states have made Islam the number one enemy, especially after the fall of Communism. They have begun to depict the " Complete Islam", which will rule all affairs of life and look after the affairs of people, as fundamentalism and terrorism. They have started to fight Islam explicitly under the name of terrorism. Their agents are implementing the plans of these disbelieving states and suppressing those calling to Islam, under the slogan of fighting terrorism. But, do not fear them and be strong and firm in facing them and be with Allah (swt) who will destroy the tyrants (Insha Allah) ...
Never will The Jews or The Christians be Satisfied with IslamIt's up to us; either we stick to our Islam and work diligently to establish this deen on earth or we stay gasping for the imperialist infidels and their agents, chanting after political initiatives cooked up by the imperialist infidels and their agents in the Islamic world. Its time for this Ummah to wake up and lean towards Allah Almighty ...
Nabbing the InnocentMuslim activists are being seized with a mighty onslaught. These authorities think that they are far from the punishment of Allah. Their guards break into the homes of innocent people, under the cover of darkness, across Syria and Lebanon to arrest men, women, and old men. They torture them. They arrest their mothers, their children, and their relatives in order to force them to turn themselves in. They are arresting them not because these men were trying to prepare for a coup, not because these men had killed anyone, but because they spoke up against the new treason that the Syrian regime is committing with Israel ...
The Existing Ruling SystemThe colonial powers were cautious not to disclose their agents, until the day came when the agents would stand beside their masters in broad daylight. The agents confronted the real Islamic da'wah carriers, who were, and still remain, the only real threat to Western influences in Muslim lands ...
Political Analysis of SyriaIndeed, the withdrawal of the Israeli army from the Golan will not mean that the Golan will come under Syrian control. Rather its place will be taken by American forces to pursue its arrogant dominance against anyone who attempts to go outside her control. This will be an additional burden on the Ummah which is on the path of revival, and it will be an additional burden on those who are working to liberate the Ummah. The liberation of the Golan Heights does not justify making peace with Israel ...
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