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Haditha, Iraq Katrina vanden Heuvel, The Nation As the Los Angeles Times reported on Saturday, this much is known to be true: On November 19, after a roadside bomb killed Lance Cpl. Miguel Terrazas, 15 Iraqi civilians – including seven women and three children – were allegedly shot and killed by a unit of US Marines operating in Haditha, Iraq. Then, this past Friday, a battalion commander and two company commanders from the same unit were relieved of their duties. We also know that the Marine Corps initially claim ed that the 15 Iraqi civilians were killed by a roadside bomb. But in January, after Time magazine presented the military with Iraqi accounts and video proof of the attack's aftermath, officials acknowledged that the civilians were killed by Marines but blamed insurgents nonetheless who had "placed noncombatants in the line of fire." However, video evidence shows that women and children were shot in their homes while still wearing nightclothes... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=22503 Silence kills and silence is complicity - email to Phyllis Bennis Gabriele Zamparini, The Cat's Dream Dear Phyllis Bennis, I hope you are well. I read with interest your article on ZNet "Thinking Strategically, Challenges Facing the Anti-War Movement". You write: "Additionally, the U.S. air war has escalated dramatically, again raising the spectre of Viet Nam, especially at the moment the U.S. is attempting to reduce the level of U.S. troop casualties, and instead move to "change the color of the corpses," as it was described in Indochina." (Thinking Strategically, Challenges Facing the Anti-War Movement, ZNet, April 06, 2006) I was surprised though that in your article there is no mention of the Iraqi civilians that have already been killed since the US-led invasion... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=22521 A Tale of Two Emails, from Ramadi and Capitol Hill Brian Conley So when I woke up this morning I had two emails of considerable note. One email came from a friend of a friend, Qasem Aldulaimy(Al’Dulaimi), who is Iraqi. He is apparently from Ramadi and has family there (...) hi all peace friends. I am Qasem from Iraq. at 10/ April 2006 during being in Amman …I got news about my people in Ramadi….I got news that there is big fighting when US troops start military operation ( as usual ) . I became sure later that fighting was closed to my house ( almost infront of my family house)…but…. I couldnot contact them at all to make sure if they are ok or not …all telphone lines and mobile had been already destroyed few monthes ago. I am scared and thinking to go back Iraq to my house now even I cant reaching them I will try strongly….. what happened to my family ??? what can be happened ??? killed ??? US bombing destroyed and killed my family my nephews ????... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=22504 The Al Qaeda Myth Tom Porteous We now know that Al Qaeda had nothing to do with the London bombings in July 2005. This is the conclusion of the British government's official inquiry report leaked to the British press on April 9. We now also know that the U.S. military is deliberately misleading Iraqis, Americans and the rest of the world about the extent of Al Qaeda's involvement in the Iraqi insurgency. This was reported in The Washington Post on April 10, on the basis of internal military documents seen by that newspaper. What do these revelations tell us about the arguments of President George W. Bush and Prime Minister Blair that in Al Qaeda the "Free World" faces a threat comparable to that of the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany, a world-wide terrorist network which seeks to build a radical Islamist empire over half the world?... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=22507 CURVEBALL AND THE TRUCKS Malcom Lagauche A couple of 15-year-old vehicles made world headlines in 2002. At first, the U.S. and British administrations heralded them as conclusive proof of Iraq concealing biological weapons. Today, Blair and Bush wish these trucks never existed. Making them a focal point for going to war against Iraq has backfired. We all heard of the "mobile germ factories" that Iraq had traveling the highways of the country to keep from getting discovered. Dick Cheney said that inside these vehic les the most devastating germs were being manufactured and the Iraqis were going to pelt the east coast of the U.S. with a deadly brew that would kill millions. Cheney maintained that these germ weapons would be carried by secret drone aircraft that Iraq was developing. There actually were a few drones being manufactured in Iraq. The Iraqis showed them to the world. They were made from balsa wood and had a range of about 25 miles and were to be used for mapping purposes. However, such a small fact that the U.S. east coast is thousands of miles out of range of these drones did not matter to Cheney... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=22511 DAILY WAR NEWS FOR WEDNESDAY, April 12, 2006 Today in Iraq U.S. soldier killed by roadside bomb in Baghdad, the eighth American soldier killed since Sunday. [According to ICC, in April 36 U.S. soldiers died in Iraq so far.]. "A Multi-National Division – Baghdad servicemember died at approximately 10 a.m. April 12 when he was struck by an improvised explosive device during a patrol east of Baghdad." (CENTCOM). "Two Multi-National Division – Baghdad Soldiers were killed when their vehicle struck a roadside bomb sou th of Baghdad at approximately 9:20 a.m. April 12." (CENTCOM. "Three Multi-National Division – Baghdad Soldiers died April 11 at 3:45 p.m. after the vehicle they were riding in was struck by a roadside-bomb north of Baghdad." (CENTCOM). Two rockets hit the British military base at the Basra airport complex about 3am local time, but there were no damages or casualties... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=22518 For quality of life, Baghdad ranks last in world, survey finds IRIN News Residents of the capital were not surprised by the results of a recent survey that ranked Baghdad as the worst city in the world in terms of the quality of living. "We have to admit, this city is getting worse everyday in regard to the quality of life," said Fadia Ibraheem, a senior official at the Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs. "As long as US troops remain, the city will continue to deteriorate." Zurich ranked first in the survey, c onducted by London-based Mercer Human Resource Consulting, with a total score of 108.2 points. In contrast, Baghdad was ranked as the least attractive city for expatriates, for a third consecutive year, with a total score of 14.5... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=22524 Lies, damn lies and George W. Bush Doug Thompson No doubt about it. George W. Bush's lying, rotten, putrid, soulless destruction of a once-great nation called America is now open for all to see. Bush is not just a liar. He's a serial liar who avoids truth at all costs because facts don't' support his perverted, twisted view of the world. Truth exposes his corrupt administration and lays bare his many crimes against the American people and the Constitution of the United States. Impeachment? Nah. Too good for this l owlife. Arrest the son-of-a-bitch, lead him from the White House in chains, parade him down Pennsylvania Avenue and then lock him in stocks on the Washington Mall so everyone can see what happens when anyone thinks they are above the law of the land... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=22523 Saddam was not an enemy of the Shiites Carsten Kofoed, Free Iraq Blog of Denmark At the illegitimate "court" of the occupying power, President Saddam Hussein is charged with the execution of 148 Shiites following an attempted murder of him in Dujail in 1982. In accordance with existing Iraqi law, they were sentenced to death after having admitted, according to the judge, that they were working for Iran, which Iraq was at war with at the time. Death sentence for treason and attempted murder of heads of state is not uncommon. The occupying power and the Shiites of the puppet regime, backed by and imported from Iran, are using the Dujail case as sectarian fuel. But Saddam did not persecute the Shiites as a group. They made up the majority of the governing Baath Party and held high civil and military positions in the state... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=22522 Your Right to Privacy? Not in the War on Terror Nicholas von Hoffman, The New York Observer ...In times past, the American government’s attempts to spy on citizens have only been able to proceed with a lot of public support. What was done during Senator Joseph McCarthy’s ascendancy was done with vast approval by the members of what is now referred to as the Greatest Generation. During the time of the civil-rights and anti–Vietnam War struggles, the spying went on until the public turned against it. Then and only t hen was it stopped. It is an open question as to whether the spying will stop this time if and when the broad ... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=22520 An occupier's diplomatic transgression ... and ... servitude Imad Khadduri Samir Al-Sumaida'ie was appointed as Iraq's "ambassador" to the U.S. on March 10, 2006. On April 11, 2006, Secretary Condoleezza Rice proclaimed: "We are delighted that we have the opportunity to receive the credentials of an ambassador from a free Iraq". There are two points that are of note: 1- Why is the U.S. in such a hurry to officially install an ambassador, representing a transitional government, and before the formation of the 'elec ted' new Iraqi government?... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=22519 Iraqi Resistance Report for events of Wednesday, 12 April 2006 Translated and/or compiled by Muhammad Abu Nasr, member, editorial board, the Free Arab Voice. http://www.freearabvoice.org ...In a dispatch posted at 12:20pm Makkah time midday Wednesday, Mafkarat al-Islam reported that pro-American Shi'i sectarian militias backed up by puppet "Interior Ministry Shock Troops (Maghawir)" had killed a total of 68 residents of the south Baghdad suburb of ad-Durah. The Baghdad correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam reported local eyewitnesses in ad-Durah as saying that the puppet "Shock Troops" and sectarian militiamen carried out a series of raids on the al-Mikanik neighborhood and the 60 Street area of ad-Durah and arrested 68 citizens, four of them Christians and the rest Sunni Iraqis... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=22517 Imminent Decline of Empire? Ramzy Baroud The miscalculated policies of the US administration in the Middle East are quickly depleting the country’s ability to sustain its once unchallenged global position. Winds of change are blowing everywhere, and there is little that Washington’s ideologues can do to stop it. The above claim is increasingly finding its way into the realm of mainstream thinking, despite all attempts to mute or relegate its import. A recent speech by US Republican congressman and chairman of the House of international relations committee, Henry Hyde was the focal point of analysis by Martin Jacques in The Guardian... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=22515 Hawk-Tied Democrats Robert Dreyfuss As the Russian foreign minister correctly reminds us, there is a lot about the manufactured crisis over Iran that is déjà vu : the axis of evil again, attempts to tie Iran to Al Qaeda, accusations about WMD, U.S. government efforts to play footsie with Iranian exiles, and bluster about demanding action by the United Nations or else. One other thing looks familiar, too: just as the Democrats meekly got in line to support the invasion of Iraq, many (perhaps most) elected Democrats are demanding a confrontation with Iran, too. Some, such as Hillary Clinton, are even trying to out-Bush the president in demanding a showdown with Iran... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=22514 The Cheney conspiracy? David Corn Did special counsel Patrick Fitzgerald come close to hitting the vice president of the United States with a conspiracy charge? Consider these facts. * In the Scooter Libby indictment, Fitzgerald notes that Cheney informed Libby on June 12, 2003, that Valerie Wilson worked at the CIA's Counter-proliferation Division. The CPD is part of the operations directorate, the CIA's clandestine services. Many, if not most, of its employees are undercover. Certainly, their employment status a t the CIA is classified information. The indictment does not note exactly what Cheney told Libby about Valerie Wilson--whether he said she was an undercover operative or not. But he was passing on classified information to Libby... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=22513 Neocon: Iran will have Nuke in Sixteen Days Kurt Nimmo First it was ten years, then it was five or six, and now it is sixteen days. Iran will have a nuke in sixteen days and no doubt they will nuke Israel on the seventeenth day, if we are to believe the mendacious neocons. "Iran, which is defying United Nations Security Council demands to cease its nuclear program, may be capable of making a nuclear bomb within 16 days if it goes ahead with plans to install thousands of centrifuges at its Natanz plant, a U.S. Stat e Department official said," Bloomberg reports, or rather repeats verbatim, no questions asked, as corporate media hacks never ask questions and take every whopper dispensed by the neocons at face value... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=22512 End of story: Israel triumphant M K Bhadrakumar, Asia Times ... The support for Israel among the organized Christian groups in the US has increased dramatically in recent years. Christian evangelicals, who currently wield unprecedented influence in US politics, regard the return of the Jews to their ancient homelands as a prerequisite for the Second Coming. No serious politician in either the Republican or Democratic camp can ignore the resurgence of Zionism in US politics. Iran has been implanted in the US evange lical consciousness as Israel's Enemy No 1 (...) Many US evangelicals believe that God gave the land of Israel to the Jewish people and that the Palestinians who live in the West Bank and Gaza should be removed to another Arab country. Some evangelicals believe that God punished assassinated former prime minister Yitzhak Rabin for offering to trade land for peace with the Palestinians... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=22510 Bush's Crumbling "Coalition" in Iraq John Nichols, The Nation "We have won, and now we have to start working to implement our program and unify the country," Romano Prodi told Italians after the official count confirmed from that country's national elections confirmed exit polls showing Prodi's center-left coalition had deposed the government of Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, who had allied Italy with George W. Bush's foreign policies (...) If all goes as planned, one of the new prime minister's first m oves will be to pull Italy's contingent of 2,600 troops out of Iraq. That will deprive the Bush administration's "coalition of the willing" occupation force in Iraq of its fourth largest contingent... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=22506 SOS over Iraqi scientists Ahmed Janabi, Aljazeera.net Since the US-led invasion of Iraq in 2003, an alarming number of the country's leading academics have been killed. A human rights organisation puts the number at about a thousand and has a documented list of 105 cases. These professors, it says, were not random casualties - they were assassinated. The first documented case is that of Muhamad al-Rawi, the president of Baghdad University, who was killed on 27 July, 2003, when two men entered his private clinic, one of them feigned severe stomach pain and was doubled over. Concealed against his stomach was a gun with which he shot al-Rawi dead. Assassination incidents continued after al-Rawi's shooting... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=22505 Now Powell Tells Us Robert Scheer The president played the scoundrel -- even the best of his minions went along with the lies -- and when a former ambassador dared to tell the truth, the White House initiated what Special Prosecutor Patrick J. Fitzgerald calls "a plan to discredit, punish or seek revenge against Mr. Wilson." That is the important story line. If not for the whistle-blower, former Ambassador Joseph Wilson, President Bush's falsehoods about the Iraq nuclear threat probably would never have been expos ed. On Monday, former Secretary of State Colin Powell told me that he and his department's top experts never believed that Iraq posed an imminent nuclear threat, but that the president followed the misleading advice of Vice President Dick Cheney and the CIA in making the claim. Now he tells us... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=22502 US soldiers cry in frenzy as they come under attack Truth About Iraqis Click on picture, then register, takes a second and get ready to be shocked ... Will CNN show this? Thanks to Baghdad Dweller and her reader Keld Bach for this. I guess they weren't scared when they butchered the family in Haditha and then lied about it under investigation... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=22516 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, click here to unsubscribe from the newsletter.

DailyOM: The Practice Of Serenity

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April 13, 2006

The Practice Of Serenity
Personal Peace

In our noisy world, we often find ourselves longing for peace and searching to find it somewhere else. While it's true that there are places we can visit where we can experience peace, such as sacred sites or buildings, we do not need to wait until we get to one of these places to feel at peace. Instead, we can learn to locate the seed of peace inside ourselves and cultivate it so that it grows into a reliable source of serenity that we can always access, no matter where we are.

We experience peace when we are in a state of mental calm and serenity. It might surprise you to notice how infrequently you allow yourself to be free from anxiety. Realizing this is the first step to inner peace. If you wait until all the details of your life are taken care of to allow yourself to experience peace, you will never feel peaceful because there is always something that your mind can grab onto to create anxiety. It is important to consciously set aside your worries and make time to cultivate inner peace.

Ideally, you could schedule time each day to meditate on peace and experience what it feels like to be calm and serene. It takes practice to learn how to let go of your worries, so give yourself some time. Inhale deeply, and feel your worries dissolve with every exhale. Remind yourself that soon enough you will be able to take care of everything you need to, but right now you are taking a break. As the clutter of your thoughts and concerns clear away, you will start to feel more serene. Allow yourself to move deeper into this state with each inhale. Realize that you have the power to free yourself from anxiety simply by deciding to do so. The more you practice feeling peaceful, the easier it will be for you to feel at peace.

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The U.S. Military is in DU Denialby Susu Jeffrey

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The Occupation Commits another Murder; another Crime; another Horror :: media bureau::iraqi league :: No day goes by without a new horror is revealed; a new crime is committed by the forces of occupation against the people of Iraq. Iraqis witness these horrors day in day out whilst the forces of occupation hide behind the familiar web of lies of denial. This time it is different; this time the forces of occupation shamelessly admit to a distorted version of their crime. The crime scene is the town of Balad, some 7 0km to the north of Baghdad. On Monday 10/4/2006, the US forces of occupation began a two-hour shelling of various farms in the AlEshaaqi region, specifically near AlSaffa village, where the US forces of occupation had executed 11 members of AlHarrat family (...) Ask why she was murdered? and the US forces of occupation will say she was a 'terrorist’! She was 22 years of age, her name was Nahrain and she was a mother of two children, named Aayesha (3 years old) and Haydar (only 40 day old baby). Nahrain’s parents are both Shia, and her loving husband is Sunni making her a symbol of Iraq’s social harmony that stretches from the beginning of time... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=22482 The U.S. Military is in DU Denial Susu Jeffrey "My name is John Marshall. I was exposed to DU (depleted uranium). I am 100 percent disabled and I am pissed-off. In fact, I was advised by a couple of my counselors not to do this [interview] because I’m so angry with the government—at the VA system, at the way I’m treated and other veterans are treated. It’s very impersonal. They don’t give you any time. They ask us to go fight their wars, do the dirty work and then they can’t take care of you." Most people don’t be lieve the U.S. has been poisoning its own troops in Iraq and Afghanistan, or they’ve heard about uranium "tipped" bombs—like fingernail polish painted on the outside of a shell casing. On the contrary, these are solid uranium core projectiles... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=22490 America's Matrix, Revisited Robert Parry On June 1, 2003, I wrote an article entitled "America's Matrix," questioning claims by the Bush administration that the discovery of two specially equipped train cars was proof that Iraq was secretly manufacturing biological warfare agents. At the time, more than two months after the Iraq invasion, George W. Bush was getting edgy because the promised stockpiles of banned weapons hadn't materialized. So, on May 29, 2003, he hailed the discovery of the supposed mobile "biolog ical laboratories" as conclusive proof that "we have found the weapons of mass destruction," a claim that would be repeated by administration officials for the next several months... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=22492 US like Nazis in Iraq: UK refusenik Peter Graff, Reuters A British Air Force doctor being court-martialled for refusing a posting to Iraq said on Wednesday he believed the United States was the moral equivalent of Nazi Germany. Australian-born Flight Lieutenant Malcolm Kendall-Smith could face an unlimited jail sentence for disobeying an order to go to Iraq last year and four orders to prepare for his deployment. The case is the first of its kind in Britain over the war in Iraq. "As early as 2004 I regarded the U nited States to be on par with Nazi Germany as regards its activities in the Gulf," Kendall-Smith told the court amid a series of bitter exchanges with prosecutor David Perry. Perry asked: "Are you saying the U.S. is the moral equivalent of the Third Reich?" Kendall-Smith replied: "That's correct."... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=22491 Winnebagoes of lies Eli Stephens, Left I on the News George Bush, yesterday: "I wanted people to see the truth and thought it made sense for people to see the truth. And that's why I declassified the document." But, although it was at almost exactly the same time, strangely enough George's desire for people to "see the truth" didn't extend to another document: On May 29, 2003, 50 days after the fall of Baghdad, President Bush proclaimed a fresh victory for his administration in Iraq: Two small trailers captured by U.S. and Kurdish troops had turned out to be long-sought mobile "biological laboratories." He declared, "We have found the weapons of mass destruction." The claim, repeated by top administration officials for months afterward, was hailed at the time as a vindication of the decision to go to war. But even as Bush spoke, U.S. intelligence officials possessed powerful evidence that it was not true... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=22501 On "Preventive War," Kissinger Becomes Bush's "Useful Idiot" Walter C. Uhler Having recently revisited the international law governing the use of military force by reading Christine Gray's book, International Law and the Use of Force, I approached Henry Kissinger's April 9, 2006, Op-Ed in the Washington Post with eager interest. Unfortunately, as I waded through his Rules On Preventive Force, I found myself in the midst of a smoke and mirrors justification for "extending" international law to permit the type of il legal preventive war that should earn President George W. Bush impeachment and a subsequent trial by a War Crimes Tribunal. Like Mr. Bush in both editions of his National Security Strategy, Mr. Kissinger appears to intentionally confuse "preemption" with the actual type of illegal war that the Bush administration waged in Iraq and is contemplating against Iran. In fact, Mr. Kissinger devotes his first five paragraphs to preemption before actually turning to preventive war... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=22500 Beware of the Fox Xymphora I think it is important to point out the many concrete examples which conclusively prove the Israel Lobby thesis. The thesis is so obvious that this should hardly be necessary, but for the loud whining from the apologists for the Lobby and their Chomskeyite American-Empire-explains-everything fellow travelers. Here’s something to think about from Ira Glunts, a former IDF volunteer... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=22499 U.S. Death Toll in Iraq This Month Hits 35 VANESSA ARRINGTON, Associated Press Writer Four more American soldiers were killed in Iraq, the U.S. military said as the U.S. death toll for the month surpassed the total for all of March. More than 40 Iraqis also died, including at least 22 in a car bombing near a Shiite mosque northeast of Baghdad. Meanwhile Wednesday, key Shiite politicians cast doubt on a plan to convene parliament next week, saying they still have not decided whether to replace their candidate for p rime minister to break a deadlock over forming a new government... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=22497 Lacking Biolabs, Trailers Carried Case for War Administration Pushed Notion of Banned Iraqi Weapons Despite Evidence to Contrary Joby Warrick, Washington Post Staff Writer On May 29, 2003, 50 days after the fall of Baghdad, President Bush proclaimed a fresh victory for his administration in Iraq: Two small trailers captured by U.S. and Kurdish troops had turned out to be long-sought mobile "biological laboratories." He declared, "We have found the weapons of mass destruction." The claim, repeate d by top administration officials for months afterward, was hailed at the time as a vindication of the decision to go to war. But even as Bush spoke, U.S. intelligence officials possessed powerful evidence that it was not true... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=22495 NIGER-GATE: THE SCANDAL BEHIND THE SCANDAL Michael Rivero, WhatReallyHappened.com ...However, months before Joe Wilson's article appeared, the International Atomic Energy Agency had examined the documents which had surfaced in Italy purporting to document the sale of uranium to Iraq and determined that they were forgeries, and indeed, very clumsy ones. This is the scandal behind the scandal. The outing of Valerie Plame was not done out of revenge, or as the Washington Post reports, part of a feud between Karl Rove and the CIA. Joe Wilson's article started to focus attention on the fact that the documents used to claim that Iraq was buying uranium from Niger were fakes! The fact that the Niger documents were fake is hard proof that the lies that tricked this nation into war were not an accident, not "misinterpreted" or "bad" intelligence, but deliberate falsehood with malice aforethought.We The People were lied to intentionally to trick us into supporting a war of conquest against an innocent nation that had done us no wrong... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=22494 Strike Iran? US can't be serious Linda S. Heard, Online Journal Contributing Writer As occupied Iraq is now arguably in a state of civil war, the Taliban regroups in Afghanistan and Palestine is under a Western-led economic siege, a growing number of Washington insiders say Iran is next on the list of death and destruction.They say the Bush administration plans to take out underground Iranian nuclear sites using tactical bunker busting nuclear weapons. Have they lost their marbles? Could this possibly be true?...< br> Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=22488 The war on Iran Pepe Escobar The ominous signs are "on the table" for all to see. The Pentagon has its Long War, the rebranded "war on terror" that Vice President Dick Cheney swears will last for decades, a replay of the war between Eastasia and Oceania in George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four. President George W Bush issued a "wild speculation" non-denial denial that the US was planning strategic nuclear strikes against Iran, but Iran considerably upped the ante on Tuesday with President Mahmud Ahmadinejad's anno uncement that Iran had enriched uranium for the first time. In a nationally televised speech, Ahmadinejad urged the West to stop pressuring Tehran, saying that Iran was seeking to develop nuclear energy only for peaceful purposes... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=22487 GI Special 4D12: The Haditha Massacre - April 12, 2006 Thomas F. Barton In the middle of methodically recalling the day his brother's family was killed, Yaseen's monotone voice and stream of tears suddenly stopped. He looked up, paused and pleaded: "Please don't let me say anything that will get me killed by the Americans. My family can't handle any more." The story of what happened to Yaseen and his brother Younes' family has redefined Haditha's relationship with the Marines who patrol it. On Nov.19 , a roadsi de bomb struck a Humvee on Haditha's main road, killing one Marine and injuring two others. The Marines say they took heavy gunfire afterwards and thought it was coming from the area around Younes' house. They went to investigate, and 23 people were killed. Eight were from Younes' family. The only survivor, Younes'13 -year-old daughter, said her family wasn't shooting at Marines or harboring extremists that morning. They were sleeping when the bomb exploded. And when the Marines entered their house, she said, they shot at everyone inside... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=22486 Iraqi Resistance Report for events of Tuesday, 11April2006 Translated and/or compiled by Muhammad Abu Nasr, member, editorial board, the Free Arab Voice. In a dispatch posted at5 :30pm Makkah time Tuesday afternoon, Mafkarat al-Islam reported that fighting broke out between Iraqi Resistance forces and US occupation troops in the al-Mal'ab ("playing field") area of ar-Ramadi. The ar-Ramadi correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam reported eyewitnesses in al-Mal'ab as saying that the combat began when Resistance fighters armed with light and medium weapons ambushed an American military column in the area. The battle that ensued lasted about four hours and witnessed the destruction of two US armored vehicles and one Humvee... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=22485 Zarqawi-gate: More important than you think... Joseph Cannon Is the threat posed by Jordanian-born terror mastermind Abu Musab al-Zarqawi real? Is Zarqawi himself a fiction, as some maintain? The Washington Post's recent revelation that a Pentagon psyop unit hyped up the Zarqawi threat may turn into the next big scandal, especially since the leaked document specifices that the propaganda campaign targeted the "U.S. Home Audience." One segment of the Post story desrves special attention: One slide in the same b riefing, for example, noted that a "selective leak" about Zarqawi was made to Dexter Filkins, a New York Times reporter based in Baghdad. Filkins's resulting article, about a letter supposedly written by Zarqawi and boasting of suicide attacks in Iraq, ran on the Times front page on Feb. 9, 2004. Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=22484 Don't Attack Iran Cindy Sheehan Fresh from a resounding victory in Iraq, George Bush swaggered onto the deck of the USS Abraham Lincoln and boldly and confidentally declared victory. It was a pretty war, it was a clean war, it looked stunning in all of its shock and awe. Wow, never was there such a swift and amazing American victory and it all looked so damn glamorous on CNN! As fake as his codpiece was, so was his "cakewalk" of an invasion. Over 2000 thousand dead soldiers, billions of wasted dollars, thousands o f maimed young people, innocent Iraqis dead by the hundreds of thousands, still no consistent electricity or clean water in their country, later, and this swaggering imbecile of a "leaker in chief" has the nerve to be trying to sell all of us on a new war in Iran... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=22483 Mr. Bush, We Know What You Did That Summer! September 11th, 2001 Jesse - Editor, TvNewsLIES.org An Open Letter to: Mr. George W. Bush, Mr. Richard Cheney, Members of PNAC and your supporting cast: Guess what? WE KNOW WHAT YOU DID THAT SUMMER - that long ago time of innocence before the events of September 11th, 2001. We know what you did, and the game is over - even though you don’t yet know it.. The work of the independent 9/11 researchers is paying off. The evidence is steamrolling through the information super highway and is now creeping into the clogged arteries of the mainstream media. We may not know every detail and we may not agree on your individual motives, but two facts are now irrefutable: the official story of what happened on September 11th is not true and you were involved. Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=22480 DAILY WAR NEWS FOR TUESDAY, April 11 2006 Today in Iraq ...Armed insurgents and government forces on Monday engaged in fierce fighting in the town of Fallouja west of the Iraqi capital killing at least 10 people, a source of the interior ministry said. At least 60 people were wounded in the five-hour battle that ended at sundown, the source told KUNA. Hospital sources in Fallouja said 10 Iraqis including six army soldiers were killed in the clashes, and witnesses said policemen were seen involved in evacuation of casualties from the scenes of the fighting. Situation in the town turned calm after the gunmen withdrew, he said, adding that the fighting broke out when the armed men attacked an American Army patrol, inflicting casualties and knocking out one vehicle... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=22479 GI Special 4D11: "I've Lost Part Of My Son" - April 11, 2006 Thomas F. Barton ... President Bush says we will be in Iraq beyond his presidency. He tells us we will be there until victory is achieved but cannot tell us what victory is. My son is home on leave for the first time in 18 months. He has been to Afghanistan once and Iraq twice. He is 21 and has the empty, soulless eyes of someone who has seen too much. He talks vaguely of killing. He tells of recovering tanks and Humvees still drenched with his buddies ' blood. When he did guard duty, he told me, "Don't worry, Mom, we aim low with the kids." Nine in his unit have been medically discharged with post-traumatic stress syndrome – and these are mechanics. If you still believe in this president and this war, choose which of your children will be the next to go. I lost a part of my son over there. That's all you get, America... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=22477 A Markerless Grave in Vacaville Cindy Sheehan, t r u t h o u t I am so tired of the Rovian, heartless, and ignorant smear machine attacking me and my family at every turn of my back. The latest abomination in their scrutiny of my life is the fact that Casey has no "tombstone." As if it were anybody's business but Casey's family. I am sure every last person who has a problem with this has buried a child and they know what we are going through... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=22478 States of denial - states of terror William Bowles, I'n'I For those of you who still bother to read/listen to/watch the mainstream news, you might be forgiven for thinking that the events of the past couple of decades have been proof of the overwhelming success/superiority of 'Western civilisation’ in the battle with the heathen hordes hammering at the gates of Eden. I have to admit to going through bouts of extreme depression that lead me to stop listening to or reading the various and sundry mouthpieces of the s tate and big business, vowing to never again subject myself to the unending stream of crap that flows from the orifices of those tasked with smoothing over our deep-seated fears concerning the state of the planet driven as it is by the maxim that what the eye doesn’t see the heart won’t grieve... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=22476 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, click here to unsubscribe from the newsletter.

[political-research] Bloglines - Doing the splits

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Doing the splits By Antony Loewenstein on General While a US State Department official confirms why the US government should not be believed on Iran’s nuclear “threat” - Stephen Rademaker, U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for International Security and Nonproliferation, says that Iran may be capable of making nuclear weapons within 16 days (!) - a former Israeli diplomat, who worked on the Iraqi desk in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Jerusalem, has a solution for Iraq - split the country in three: America needs an alternative policy that will ensure a legacy of peace and stability in Iraq, leaving behind democratic institutions while enabling a timely and honourable exit for allied troops. This goal may not be attainable if Iraq is to be maintained by force as a single unified republic. In fact, Iraq has for the past few years been de-facto partitioned between an increasingly autonomous and flourishing Kurdistan and the Arab (Sunni and Shi’ite) parts of the country. To seek a solution one must look outside the Middle East. The American diplomatic precedent to focus on is not Vietnam, but the Balkans. Has this always been Israel’s goal? Comments

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[political-research] MSM Willfully Ignores Charlie Sheen's Challenge

 

 

 

MSM Willfully Ignores Charlie Sheen's Challenge
But some balanced reports get squashed by censors

 

Paul Joseph Watson & Alex Jones/Prison Planet.com | April 13 2006http://prisonplanet.com/articles/april2006/130406willfullyignores.htm

 

 

 

The London Observer carried an article in this week's edition by movie critic Mark Kermode which again wholesale refused to address any of the evidence that Charlie Sheen had raised to clarify his stance on 9/11.

Charlie Sheen is an actor who has exhaustively researched 9/11. Mark Kermode is a movie critic who, judging from his pathetic hit piece, has swallowed without question what the US government told him happened on 9/11 without one iota of independent investigation.

 

 

Kermode alludes to the tired old argument that believing the government was involved in the attack enables people to sleep better at night because it brings a sense of order to a chaotic world.

 

 

This echoes syndicated columnist Betsy Hart's ravings, who said that people who think anyone else but Al-Qaeda was involved are just afraid to face the frightening reality of Muslim hordes who want to kill us.

 

 

Both hit pieces completely miss the boat on two fronts.

 

a) Charlie Sheen never claimed to know who was behind the attack, he simply raised unanswered questions brought about as a result of researching the official version of events and discovering that it was an impossibility.

 

 

b) Neither piece addresses one single shred of evidence that Charlie Sheen raised in either his first or second interview on The Alex Jones Show, even after Charlie Sheen issued an invitation that the establishment media challenge him on the facts.

 

 

Kermode (pictured) resorts to eye-rolling psychological gymnastics in an attempt to avoid talking about a topic of which he obviously has very limited knowledge.

 

 

 

 

 

 

"The real reason people believe in such wild conspiracies is simple - it's more reassuring. In the case of 9/11, there is something perversely comforting about the idea that, behind all the chaos, the American government was always in control, carefully orchestrating the events of that terrible day."

 

 

Let's flip this around.

 

The real reason people believe whatever the government says is simple - it's more reassuring. In the case of 9/11, there is something comforting about the idea that, behind all the chaos, Muslims from other countries that our government can find and destroy were carefully orchestrating the events of that terrible day.

 

 

Which is more frightening? The enemy that you can see or an unknown enemy lurking in the darkness?

 

 

Which is more frightening? A rag tag group of Muslims from a far away land? Or a huge, hulking, powerful military-industrial complex with the world's most potent army behind it?

 

 

 

He laughs at 'conspiracy theorists' for associating the 1962 film The Manchurian Candidate with fact of any kind, blissfully unaware that Senate Hearings took place and Bill Clinton later apologized for that fact that the CIA did create MK Ultra, a project designed to create a Manchurian Candidate.

 

 

He turns to United 93 film maker Paul Greengrass, now the apparent authority on anything Flight 93, who confidently informs Kermode that, "The stuff about the plane being shot down is simply not true."

 

 

Perhaps Paul can explain to us how a plane that is supposedly intact before it hits the ground after the "let's roll" scenario causes debris to be spread over an 8 mile radius?

 

 

 

Kermode then mixes in Elvis and faked moon landings to try and frame the entire debate in a context of frivolousness and incredulity.

 

 

"I had to abandon my adolescent fantasies. Others should do the same. It is chaos, rather than conspiracy, which really rules the world, " concludes Kermode, a pretty broad statement considering he has just claimed to put his finger on how the planet operates without citing a single slither of proof.

 

 

When Charlie Sheen sent his email statement to the London Guardian in response to their shoddy hit-piece on his recent questions about the official 9/11 story, we expected the prestigious newspaper to follow-up by taking his challenge to cover the facts.

 

 

We should have known better than to think the mainstream media (MSM) would take up such a challenge. The Guardian's response was to mock his serious comments and take more jabs at Sheen's character and oeuvre.

 

 

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Although Sheen has helped to bring questions about 9/11 to a larger audience than ever, the mainstream media seems to be willfully pushing the news about a growing 9/11 Truth Movement to the back of the arts & entertainment sections. As ever, recent reports about the 9/11 Truth Movement in the Guardian's sister publication, the London Observer are little more than skewed comedy routines on those wacky conspiracy-types.

 

 

So while the MSM continues the strategy of deny and conquer, the blogosphere has championed the story of the Sheen's questions (as well as the growing number of other high profile skeptics), the MSM backlash, and the growing 9/11 Truth Movement.

 

 

Sites like Bravocharlie911.com and others have sprung up to spread the word and remind people that despite the MSM's attempt to convince us that we are alone in our "speculations" the numbers of people that are unconvinced by the government's official story of what happened on 9/11 is growing exponentially every day. For a site in existence for only a few weeks to have received thousands of votes on their polls questioning if 9/11 was an inside job is no small thing.

 

 

 

Charlie Sheen and his brave step into the spotlight for 9/11 Truth has opened the floodgates for people everywhere who have questions about 9/11 but up until this point have been too afraid to voice them. He has done what no one has until now, he has begun to make it acceptable to offer dissent about the official line and as more like him begin to publicly ask questions we will overwhelm the whitewash and the people who perpetrated it.

 

 

One such individual who viewed Charlie Sheen's courageousness as an inspiration was Winnipeg Free Press columnist Dallas Hansen from whom we received the following e mail.

 

 

"As a regular op-ed columnist for the *Winnipeg Free Press* since October, 2004, I have had only two submissions refused by my editor, both of which concerned the Bush administration and information first discovered on your websites."

 

 

 

In one of the columns, entitled Sept. 11 is my generation's Nov. 22, Hansen addressed points that Sheen had actually raised as evidence for his doubts on 9/11, something which every MSM hit piece has thus far failed to do.

 

 

 

 

 

Appearing Wednesday on the Alex Jones show, Hansen (pictured) made it clear that his column was just editorializing on the cultural phenomenon of a major Hollywood actor discussing a major modern day event. Yet his editor was vehement in stating that the column would not run under any circumstances, despite the fact that, as we saw in the case of CNN's Showbiz Tonight, interest in the subject is at an all time high and it boost viewership and readership figures.

 

 

This mirrors other examples where higher powers have acted to squash any coverage of this issue despite its rampant popularity.

 

Alex Jones' appearance on Fox News and Ed Asner's appearance on CNN to discuss Charlie Sheen's position on 9/11 were both cancelled at the last minute after pressure from above.

 

 

The lapdog establishment press have failed to address Charlie Sheen's challenge across the board. They have continued to idly gossip about Sheen's private life, his immature behavior from 20 years ago, and performed catch-all meandering mental somersaults in order to avoid the one thing they fear.

 

Having a real debate on 9/11 in which the evidence is laid out in the open.

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