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The
Courage to Resist - US Lieutenant Refuses Deployment to Iraq - Ehren Watada is a 27-year-old
First Lieutenant in the United States Army. He joined the Army in 2003 during
the run-up to the Iraq war. He turned in his resignation to protest the war in
Iraq in January 2006. He expects to receive orders to deploy in late June and
will become the first Lieutenant to refuse orders to deploy to Iraq, setting the
stage for what could be the biggest movement of GI resistance since the Vietnam
War. He faces a court-martial, up to two years in prison for missing movement by
design, a dishonorable discharge, and other possible charges. He says speaking
against an illegal and immoral war is worth all of this and more.
Former
CIA Analyst says Iran Strike set for June or July - Staged
terror attacks across Europe, US "probable" in order to justify invasion says
Ray McGovern
Prison Planet, Paul Joseph Watson
Former CIA analyst and Presidential advisor Ray McGovern,
fresh from his heated public
confrontation with
Donald Rumsfeld, fears that staged terror attacks across Europe and the US are
probable in order to justify the Bush administration's plan to launch a military
strike against Iran, which he thinks will take place in June or
July.
Totally
personal post: Grant McLennan, Rest in Peace - Grant McLennan was part of a group that
I've loved for a quarter of a century, The Go-Betweens. Often, I've read that
his song "Cattle and Cane" has been considered to be one ten most beautiful
Australian songs. I have no doubt about it, even if I don't know what the other
songs in the running were, because Cattle and Cane is simply the most beautiful
song ever.
To all
commenters - Comments feature, RIP (spoiled
by people who can't control themselves, on ALL sides... if only people could be
NICE.)
The
School where Jews and Palestinians learn peace - Even and
Moustapha attend Hand in Hand, the multicultural and bilingual school which in
Israel is becoming an extraordinary reality. It is built on a very simple
concept: peace between Arabs and Jews is before all else made at school, by
teaching the two national languages of Israel, Arabic and Hebrew, to everyone.
And by learning to respect and know the three monotheistic religions: Islam,
Judaism and Christianity.
Conversation,
the what-ifs of the Holocaust and Israel -
If Israel (and the diaspora Jews) does not wise up, mature and
becomes capable of putting the holocaust in the past where it belongs, with one
remembrance and mourning day a year, and continues to use and abuse it on all
levels of thought ideology action and inaction, the future cannot be better than
the past and possibly actually be worse.
Pain
Ray, US Torture Weapon used against civilians - “Star Wars
in Iraq” is a new investigative report by Maurizio Torrealta and Sigfrido
Ranucci. The document takes off from the disturbing eyewitness report from Majid
Al Ghezali, first violinist of the Baghdad Orchestra, who had witnessed the
conquest of the airport by the US Armed Forces. Al Ghezali tells that he had
seen the victims of the battle with their bodies shrunken and to have heard talk
about the use of laser weapons.
Even
the chief surgeon of the General Hospital of Hilla, Saad al Falluji, speaks of
an episode involving the horrible mutilations that had occurred to the
passengers of a bus that had been hit at an American checkpoint with a
mysterious and silent weapon. The Iraqi physician was shocked at the absence of
bullets or bullet wounds upon the dead and wounded. The journalists of Rai News
24 had requested information from the Pentagon about the possible use of lethal
laser weapons, on their effects and on their usage in war zones, but as of
today, they still have not obtained any replies. Taking off precisely from these
eyewitness accounts, the Rai News 24 investigation analyses the current use of a
new typology of weapons, destined to signal the epochal passage from “kinetic”
weapons to those run by energy.
The
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