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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... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=20398 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... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=20413 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... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=20412 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... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=20411 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... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=20409 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.".. Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=20407 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... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=20406 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... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=20405 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... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=20404 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.) ... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=20401 "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. Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=20400 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... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=20414 www.uruknet.info: a site gathering daily information concerning occupied Iraq: news, analysis, documents and texts of iraqi resistance available in Italian and English.   You receive this newsletter because you subscribed it. If you think it was an abuse, or simply if you don't want to receive it any more,