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The Road to the Muslim Holocaust
Ghali Hassan, Globalresearch.ca
Tolerance is a falsehood often pronounced with difficulty in all of Western societies. Small countries such as Denmark, Belgium, the Netherlands, Austria, and Norway are leading the pack in the war on Muslims at home, and may be on the road to encouraging a new Holocaust against humanity. While these countries are part of the US-led coalition, which is responsible for the mass murder of Iraqis, they have also introduced discriminate and draconian immigration laws which are specifically directed against Muslims fleeing war and economic hardship. The pretexts are always the phantom of the “War on Terror”. Historically, Muslims have been at the receiving end of Western-Christian violence for centuries. Following the 9/11 attack on the USA, Western Europe joined the US in its anti-Muslim crusade: : “We are all Americans now” united against Muslims. Although, 9/11 stills a mystery, it is used to legitimise a new form of Western-Christian fascism…
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There’s Something Rotten Far Beyond the State of Denmark
NATO’s Caricature of “Freedom of Speech” and its Allies in the Peace Movement
Gary Zatzman, www.dissidentvoice.org
At the ideological level, the racism of those by-now-notorious Danish cartoons is clear enough. The denunciation of this racism is growing and this is positive. However, in terms of the forces actually organizing and mobilizing something quite dark by means of this allegedly light-hearted caricature of a “war” among caricaturists, it is seriously incumbent on all of us also to penetrate its political significance. What is being organized via Danish media, in some semi-respectable garb, is nothing less than a pole of public opinion that is not just religiously bigoted in its racism. This is a pole of public opinion that surpasses the Hitlerian dimension in its effort to justify the extermination of literally billions of other fellow human beings on this planet…
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Reporters without Borders Keeps silence about journalist tortured in Guantánamo
Salim Lamrani*
The silence kept by the “freedom-of-the-press” Reporters without border (RSF) organization about Sudanese journalist Sami al Hajj raises many questions on the impartiality of that association headed by Robert Menard. RSF, which is always willing to stigmatize- usually arbitrarily- those countries targeted by Washington such as Cuba, Venezuela and China, has fully ignored the torture suffered by Al Hajj, a journalist with Qatar‚s Al Jazeera TV chain…
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Democrats.com Offers $1,000 Reward to Any Reporter Who Will Ask Follow-Up Question to Bush
Democrats.com & afterdowningstreet.org
At a White House press conference on June 7, 2005, Steve Holland of Reuters asked President Bush and Prime Minister Blair the $1,000 question: “On Iraq, the so-called Downing Street Memo from July, 2002, says ‘Intelligence and facts were being fixed around the policy of removing Saddam through military actions.’ Is this an accurate reflection of what happened? Could both of you respond?” The responses that first Blair and then Bush gave were widely reported by the White House press corps. But a new “White House Memo,” reported in the British media on Feb. 2, 2006 (2), has now exposed both responses as lies…
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Bush Gets Deserved Dressing Down at King Funeral
Kurt Nimmo, Another day in the empire
It says something about our “democracy” when Bush can only face criticism in public as a side effect of his attendance at a funeral. Earlier today, the civil-rights leader Rev. Joseph Lowery managed to take Bush to task for his war crimes and pathological lies (or the lies programmed in his alcohol and coke damaged head by the Straussian neocons) during the funeral of Coretta Scott King. “We know now there were no weapons of mass destruction over there,” Lowery said, reading a poem. “But Coretta knew and we knew that there are weapons of misdirection right down here.” In response, Lowrey received a two minute standing ovation…
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U.S. Veterans to March Against DU (’Depleted’ Uranium)
UN Observer
Veterans from many wars and many parts of NY State, their familiies and allies will march in Albany on February 7th from the Legislative Office Building to the nearby Vietnam Memorial where they will speak in support of a bill which will benefit N Y National Guard soldiers returning today from Iraq and Afghanistan. The NY STATE DU TESTING AND HAZARDOUS CHEMICALS TASK FORCE BILL will take responsibility for addressing the mysterious symptoms suffered by our NY National Guard soldiers returning from war. These are often diagnosed as “undisclosed illnesses.”..
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Danish cartoons are latest in a campaign of racist abuse
Why Muslims are right to be angry
Socialist Worker
…The cartoons must be seen as part of the effort to justify anti-Islamism—not only in Denmark, but throughout the West. Far from examples of the value of “freedom of expression,” they should be filed alongside the anti-Semitic caricatures of Nazi-era Europe and the hateful stereotypes of African Americans in the segregation-era U.S. South. They are reminders of the urgency of the fight against anti-Arab and anti-Muslim racism today…
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The Show Must Go On
Mike (in Tokyo) Rogers and Elizabeth C. Gyllensvard
…Yes indeed, there is no business like show business. George W. Bush‚s illegal war in Iraq is evidence of that. For Bush and his neoconservative handlers, the truth remains: no matter how many fabrications and special prosecutors, regardless of the venue, whether it is Iraq, Afghanistan, South America, or Iran, the show must and will go on. The American spectator can tune in as US military might murders and decapitates. Televised war is paid for, sponsored by, and brought to you by the Bush administration for the entertainment and edification of anyone with a television. Any rebroadcast of this show without expressed, written permission is strictly forbidden. And, what a show it is too. The current debacle in Iraq, for example, is in many ways far worse than Vietnam…
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Former Reagan Treasury Secretary Questions Twin Towers Collapse
Paul Joseph Watson/Prison Planet.com
A former Wall Street Journal editor and a man credited with the success of ‘Reaganomics’ has finally broken ranks and brought into question the unexplained collapse of the twin towers and WTC building 7. Former Assistant of the Treasury in the Reagan administration Paul Craig Roberts questions why it is largely accepted that the Bush administration lied about Iraqi weapons of mass destruction and yet many still believe they told the truth about 9/11. Roberts’ columns have been a consistent source of expert analysis and no holds barred commentary but he is yet to go this far in addressing the real culprits behind 9/11…
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The Iran Crisis — “Diplomacy” as a Launch Pad for Missiles
Norman Solomon
The current flurry of Western diplomacy will probably turn out to be groundwork for launching missiles at Iran. Air attacks on targets in Iran are very likely. Yet many antiwar Americans seem eager to believe that won’t happen. Illusion 1: With the U.S. military bogged down in Iraq, the Pentagon is in no position to take on Iran. But what’s on the horizon is not an invasion — it’s a major air assault, which the American military can easily inflict on Iranian sites. (And if the task falls to the Israeli military, it is also well-equipped to bomb Iran.) …
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“Just As ‘Legal’ As Hitler was in 1933"
WhatReallyHappened.com
…The Bush “legal mouthpiece” has produced “Legalized Torture and Repression” – Just like Germany had in 1933. Alberto Gonzales is a lot like Franz Gurtner, another conservative nationalist lawyer and judge – who was appointed by Hitler to head the Reich Ministry of Justice, and who got along – very well – with the Nazis despite not being a Nazi himself. How did the German Legal system change as a result of Nazi ‘leadership’? Fear-mongering was the main tool used to change the law, and to undermine civil liberties. So, where the constitution was changed, the code of criminal procedure was also changed, extraordinary powers were vested in the Executive, including extensive police powers; and the powers of an independent judiciary were destroyed…
This was all done based on a “terrorist menace.” And exactly what the menace was, shifted from time to time during the Nazi period. It was a matter of opportunism, or convenience.
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WAR NEWS FOR TUESDAY, February 7, 2006
Today in Iraq
Three US Marines killed on Monday by roadside bomb in Hit, about 140 km (85 miles) west of Baghdad. US Marine dies of wounds after roadside bomb attack on Sunday in Anbar province, western Iraq (…) At least seven civilians and policemen killed and 23 wounded when two roadside bombs exploded in quick succession in a crowded district of the capital. Two people killed when a roadside bomb went off on a highway in Yusufiya, south of Baghdad. Four policemen wounded when a roadside bomb targeted their patrol in the city of Basra, 550 km (340 miles) south of Baghdad…
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Interview by Karen Button
An Interview with George Galloway
Karen Button
…Iraqis know that the imperial powers and Israel want to break Iraq, because they don‚t want to see any strong Arab country. An Arab country with a population with water, with oil, with gas, with educated people, with a sense of itself as a nation∑they don‚t want to see such an Arab country. They want to break Iraq and the Iraqis know this! If I have one message for the Iraqi people, it‚s to stay at one people! Don‚t allow the enemy to break Iraq!…
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The Denmark Cartoons
Anwaar Hussain, Fountainhead
…Has it all happened innocuously and accidentally or is it a deliberate attempt towards an ulterior motive? To answer this question let us go back in time to May 2005. Only four months before the crisis, between May 5 to May 8, 2005, a group of powerful men from today‚s finance, industry and politics huddled together in the warm and cozy rooms of the 5-star Dorint Sofitel Seehotel Überfahrt in Rottach-Egern, Germany. Outside the hotel, private and state guards patrolled with automatic weapons and sniffer dogs. The gray Bavarian skies rained on. This secretive cabal of powerful men otherwise goes by the name of Bilderberg Group (a simple Google query will throw up thousands of results). The Bilderberg Group is the only private international organization that Time magazine rated 10 for secrecy on a scale of 1 to 10 (10 being most secret). So what do the defamatory cartoons have to do with the Bilderbergs?…
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Attempting to Defraud the Nation Into War
Congressman John Conyers
…In sum, a new Downing Street Memo exists — which my staff was chasing down but was unable to obtain for inclusion in “The Constitution in Crisis.” The Memo says the following, according to the Guardian: “Mr Bush told the Mr Blair that the US was so worried about the failure to find hard evidence against Saddam that it thought of ‘flying U2 reconnaissance aircraft planes with fighter cover over Iraq, painted in UN colours’. Mr Bush added: ‘If Saddam fired on them, he would be in breach [of UN resolutions]’.” What was really going on here? If Saddam shot down a U.S. spy plane, was the President set to claim that he had actually shot down a U.N. plane in an effort to gain world support? Is there any other reasonable explanation than that? If so, it shows that — at the highest levels on the United States government — previously undisclosed attempts to deceive the American people, the Congress, and the entire world into war…
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The Hillary and George Show
Partners in War
Joshua Frank
There aren‚t many elected officials in Washington who want to throw the gantlet down on Iran more than Hillary Clinton. The New York Senator believes the president has been too soft on the militant Islamic country, claiming that Bush has played down the threat of a nuclear-armed Tehran. “I believe we lost critical time in dealing with Iran because the White House chose to downplay the threats and to outsource the negotiations,” Clinton told an audience at Princeton University on January 18…
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IRAQ: Children’s mental health affected by insecurity, say specialists
IRIN
The Association of Psychologists of Iraq (API) has released a report stating that the US-led invasion and occupation of the country have greatly affected the psychological development of many Iraqi children (…) More than 1,000 children were interviewed countrywide over the past four months for the study, the findings of which were released on 5 February. According to Abdullah, the survey was undertaken after a noticeable increase in the number of children seeking psychological counselling, many of whom were found to have learning difficulties. “It was incredible how strong the results were,” said Abdullah. “The only things they have on their minds are guns, bullets, death and a fear of the US occupation.”…
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Cities and State Parties Pass Impeachment Resolutions
David Swanson, AfterDowningStreet.org
The past month has seen a burst of resolutions supporting impeachment in city councils, state democratic parties, and even chapters of Democrats Abroad. On January 6, the City Council of Arcata, Calif., passed a resolution demanding the impeachment or resignation of President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney, citing violations of international and constitutional law. On January 15, the Executive Committee of Democrats Abroad France unanimously passed a resolution calling upon Congress to determine whether impeachable offenses have been committed by the Bush/Cheney Administration and if necessary to immediately begin impeachment proceedings against Bush and Cheney…
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Ex-U.N. Inspector: Decision Already Made To Attack Iran
Brandon Garcia
The former U.N. weapons inspector who said Iraq disarmed long before the U.S. invasion in 2003 is warning Americans to prepare for a war with Iran. “We just don’t know when, but it’s going to happen,” Scott Ritter said to a crowd of about 150 at the James A. Little Theater on Sunday night. Ritter described how the U.S. government might justify war with Iran in a scenario similar to the buildup to the Iraq invasion. He also argued that Iran wants a nuclear energy program, and not nuclear weapons. But the Bush administration, he said, refuses to believe Iran is telling the truth…
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Interview with Samir Khader, Program Editor for Al-Jazeera
Dahr Jamail
On 1 February 2006 in Doha, Qatar, I interviewed Mr. Samir Khader, Program Editor for Al-Jazeera Channel. Mr. Khader was a key personality in the highly acclaimed documentary “Control Room” about Al-Jazeera. I asked him questions about his channel, Bush‚s plans to bomb Al-Jazeera, present and future goals of Al-Jazeera, Iraq and the state of journalism…
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Iraqi Resistance Report for events of Tuesday, 7 February 2006
Translated and/or compiled by Muhammad Abu Nasr, member, editorial board, the Free Arab Voice
n a dispatch posted at 11:25am Mecca time Tuesday morning, Mafkarat al-Islam reported that fighting had been raging for about half an hour between Iraqi Resistance fighters and US troops in the al-Mu’allimin neighborhood in the middle of ar-Ramadi, some 110km west of Baghdad. The correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam reported that the Resistance fighters were armed with shoulder fired rocket launchers and locally upgraded S5K and RPG7 rockets and rocket propelled grenades in addition to light and medium weapons. The Mafkarat al-Islam correspondent reported a member of the Resistance in the rear lines supplying the Resistance fighters in the al-Mal’ab neighborhood as saying that the Resistance had damaged an American Apache helicopter that was attempting to rocket a group of fighters…
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Yet Another Bush Lie
Robert Parry, Consortium News
George W. Bush has assured Americans that they can relax about his warrantless wiretapping because the program is reviewed by lots of lawyers and intelligence professionals. What he doesn‚t say is that officials who object too much find themselves isolated, ridiculed and pushed out of their jobs. For instance, when Deputy Attorney General James Comey refused to recertify the spying program in March 2004 ˆ while Attorney General John Ashcroft was in the hospital ˆ Bush gave Comey a derisive nickname, as “Cuomey” or “Cuomo” after New York‚s former liberal Democratic Gov. Mario Cuomo, Newsweek has reported…
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Flemming Rose and the Straussian Art of Provocation
Kurt Nimmo, Another day in the empire
As suspected, and claimed on this blog over the weekend, the inflammatory anti-Muslim cartoons published in the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten were a deliberate provocation designed to outrage and incite Muslims and thus engender support in Europe and America for the manufactured “clash of civilizations” engineered by the Straussian neocons. As Christopher Bollyn writes for the American Free Press, the neocon operative behind the cartoon scheme is Flemming Rose, cultural editor of Jyllands-Posten, who has “has clear ties to the Zionist Neo-Cons.” Rose “traveled to Philadelphia in October 2004 to visit Daniel Pipes, the Neo-Con ideologue who says the only path to Middle East peace will come through a total Israeli military victory. Rose then penned a positive article about Pipes, who compares ‘militant Islam‚ with fascism and communism,” Bollyn reveals…
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Following Orders is No Excuse
Colin Powell’s Career as a “Yes Man”
PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS
“A hoax on the American people, the international community, and the United Nations Security Council.” That is how Secretary of State General Colin Powell’s February 2003 Iraq WMD speech to the UN was described last Friday (Feb. 3) on PBS by one who ought to know, Col. Lawrence Wilkerson, chief of staff to Secretary Powell. In a February 2005 interview with Barbara Walters on ABC News “20/20" program, Powell himself declared his UN Iraq speech to be a blot on his reputation…
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Cartoonish conspiracies
Xymphora
You know that it has hit the fan when you start to see alternative conspiracy theories in an attempt to deflect attention from the real conspiracy. There are at least two: 1. the Saudis stirred up the cartoon issue in the Muslim world in an attempt to deflect attention away from the deaths that occurred during the Hajj; and 2. Danish Imams created the controversy by spreading the cartoons to the Middle East. Juan Cole takes care of the Saudi conspiracy by considering the timing issues in how the protests arose. In fact, if we look at the timing issues, we can see how the real conspirators, who were all non-Muslim Europeans, worked. The intention was to provoke the kind of response in the Middle East that we are seeing now…
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Bush proposes $2.8 trillion budget to boost military spending and slash social programs
Kate Randall, WSWS
President Bush sent a $2.77 trillion budget plan to Congress on Monday that includes record spending for the military and cuts funding for a wide range of social programs. Included is $65 billion in cuts to entitlement programs over the next five years, more than half of this from Medicare. Bush is also seeking to make his first-term tax cuts permanent. The plan is in line with the agenda set forth by the president in his State of the Union address last week˜to boost funds for the “war on terror” and domestic policing and slash federal spending on programs relied on by working Americans, retirees and the poor…
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An American tragedy˜the plight of the US war wounded
James Cogan, WSWS
One of the terrible legacies of the criminal wars in Afghanistan and Iraq is the number of maimed, sick or traumatised former US soldiers˜many of them just in their twenties˜who will require medical assistance for the rest of their lives. For political reasons, the scope of the tragedy is barely being reported despite the impact it is having on a significant layer of young men and women, their families and communities. Due to improvements in surgical techniques, medicine, body armour and transportation, only nine percent of American casualties in Iraq die from their wounds, compared with 17 percent in Vietnam and 23 percent during World War II. The official US death toll since November 2001 stood at 2,513 as of February 7˜261 deaths in Afghanistan and 2,252 deaths in Iraq. The official wounded number stood at 17,096˜676 in Afghanistan and 16,420 in Iraq…
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GI Special 4B6: “My Brother’s Body Was Left To Rot” – Febraury 7, 2006
Thomas F. Barton
…On August 15th, 2005, my brother, Sgt. Paul A. Saylor of the 48th Brigade, 108th Scout Division lost his life while fighting for our country in Iraq. A HUMVEE he was in accidentally rolled off the road and fell down an embankment into a canal. He was knocked unconscious and drowned. Paul was 21. He was, is, and always will be a hero like every other soldier fighting for America. Upon his return home my family was told that my brother’s body would not be viewable. We were told he was non-viewable due to injuries sustained from the accident. This was not true. We asked our funeral director to open Paul’s casket and see if there was any way we could view him to say our last goodbyes. He notified us that there was no way he could repair or cover the damage done to Paul due to neglect and no refrigeration. Paul was non-viewable not because of injuries he sustained, but because our United States Army failed to care for his body…
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Four Camp Lejeune Marines killed in two bomb attacks
Associated Press
Four Marines with units based at Camp Lejeune were killed by roadside bombings in western Iraq’s volatile Anbar province, the military said Tuesday. Three Marines were killed by a bomb blast Monday in Hit, 85 miles west of Baghdad, according to a military statement. The victims were assigned to the 22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit that has operated in Anbar province since mid-December with an Iraqi Army battalion…
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Bush and Blair’s Secret Pact
Peter Rothberg, The Nation
A new memo leaked to the British media last week asserts that George Bush and Tony Blair agreed in January 2003 to go to war in Iraq—not March 2003, as they insist. It also suggests that the leaders knew there was no legitimate case for war, and that Blair told Bush that he was “solidly” behind US plans to invade Iraq before he sought advice about the invasion’s legality. Most shocking, it reveals that Bush was so desperate to provoke a war that he proposed painting US planes to look like UN aircrafts and flying them low over Iraq in hopes of inciting an Iraqi attack (…) As with the Downing Street Minutes last spring, international media are covering this story thoroughly, while US counterparts are sitting on their hands. Public education and outrage have forced the US media to pay attention before. Let’s do it again!…
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The Secret World of Stephen Cambone
Rumsfeld’s Enforcer
JEFFREY ST. CLAIR
The grave fellow in the business suit sitting between two uniformed generals at the witness table during the senate hearings about the abuse of Iraqi prisoners of war at Abu Ghraib was Dr. Stephen Cambone, the undersecretary of defense for intelligence, known throughout the Pentagon as Donald Rumsfeld’s “chief henchman”. In his testimony before the committee, Cambone was unapologetic and almost as dismissive as the ridiculous Sen. James Inhofe about the global disgust which erupted over the abuse and murder of Iraqi prisoners of war. Cambone, an apex neo-con and veteran of the Project for the New American Century, evinced disdain not only for the senatorial inquiry but also at a squeamish Lieutenant General Antonio Taguba, who sat next him, looking as if he suspected that he might well be the next one leashed to Cambone’s bureaucratic pillory…
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Soldier pays for armor
# Army demanded $700 from city man who was wounded
Eric Eyre
The last time 1st Lt. William “Eddie” Rebrook IV saw his body armor, he was lying on a stretcher in Iraq, his arm shattered and covered in blood. A field medic tied a tourniquet around Rebrook‚s right arm to stanch the bleeding from shrapnel wounds. Soldiers yanked off his blood-soaked body armor. He never saw it again. But last week, Rebrook was forced to pay $700 for that body armor, blown up by a roadside bomb more than a year ago…
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The Muhammad caricatures: Freedom of suppression
Jan Oberg, transnational.org
Jyllands-Posten’s drawings are caricatures with a tendency. They associate the Prophet with terrorism, criminality and repression of women. None of them could possibly serve dialogue, mutual understanding or much needed public education between Danes and the Muslims anywhere. They are ill-willed. The intensity of the negative reaction may be surprising. But seen in the context of our contemporary, globalizing world, their publication was both thoughtless and purposeless. It reveals a mind-boggling deficit in general education and good (journalistic) manners…
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