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This is a conversation between a Livejournal member and his buddy (a marine) in Falluja. It gives you a good idea of the thought process some of these guys go through.
global action day
ciclonudista (world naked bike demonstration) saturday june 19, 2004 naked before the traffic! justice on the streets!
The corrosive nihilism at the heart of the enterprise ate through the gaudily-painted surface most tellingly in a single anecdote. Woodward asks George W. Bush how he thinks history will regard his adventure in Iraq. Bush, gazing out the window, shrugs and waves the question away. "History, we don't know," he says. "We'll all be dead." No fine, faith-filled talk here about God and Jesus and the immortal soul responsible for its actions throughout all eternity -- the kind of zealous patter Bush favors in public statements. This was just the cold, rotten, meaningless core of his grand vision -- "we'll all be dead." So who cares? Après moi, le deluge.
The set-up...
"The enormous gap between what US leaders do in the world and what Americans think their leaders are doing is one of the great propaganda accomplishments of the dominant political mythology. "~~Michael Parenti, political scientist and author.
What about the Iraqis? They get left out!
Camilo Mejia is the first US soldier serving in Iraq to proclaim himself a conscientious objector. But as disillusion with the war grows among the US army and public, he is unlikely to be the last, says Suzanne Goldenberg
The long-sought liberal talk radio hero isn't Air America's Al Franken, but that walking, talking wedge issue, Howard Stern.
Meanwhile, Stern's revamped website looks more like Mother Jones magazine than Maxim: It features articles about the administration's trade violations in Burma and includes a link to the contributions page of the John Kerry for President site. Indeed, Stern has become an ardent Kerry advocate. "I call on all fans of the show to vote against Bush," he said on a recent broadcast. "We're going to deliver the White House to John Kerry." Some might dismiss this as bluster, but Stern's words should send a shiver up Karl Rove's spine. Stern has a record of successful election-year activism; political observers in New York and New Jersey remember how his on-air endorsements delivered key votes to George Pataki and Christine Todd Whitman in past gubernatorial races.
Nation of Islam Minister Farrakhan: "Someone in the admin knew about 9/11"
The "mission" that you claim everyone is rooting for is the same one I protested against in Augusta Maine, in New York City and twice in Washington DC, before the invasion that you enabled; I was just one of millions who did so. We are still protesting against that misbegotten mission which, by the way, will never be accomplished.
Furthermore, I believe you know it will fail. You must; you are not stupid and, also unlike the Bush brigade, you experienced first-hand how such missions inevitably fail - when you fought in Vietnam and returned home to disclose the folly and the horror. But that was then. Now you're promising to send more kids like your former self to the same kind of made-in-USA disaster you escaped from and railed against thirty-three years ago. In your Westminster speech yesterday you also said, "This may be our last chance to get this right." I'm sorry, Senator, but this cannot be gotten right.
eastern views on how to help heal the mother
It may be years yet before the helicopters pluck the last Americans off the roof of the Baghdad embassy, but basically the game is up.
The siege of Fallujah in response to the killing and mutilation of four American "security contractors" (mercenaries) at the end of March was a blunder that will be studied in military colleges for decades, the lesson being: when there is no way that you can succeed, it is wiser not to reveal your weakness by trying and failing.
somebody out there must have the cartoon. please post.
1000 Mile Four Directional Run for "All Life Is Sacred" begins this month. Please join us in spreading peace.
Some Thoughts on Who Prevents Transparency,
Misplaces $3.3 Trillion and Profits from Prison Abuse in Iraq
The head of a U.S.-funded Iraqi newspaper quit and said Monday he was taking almost his entire staff with him because of American interference in the publication.
On a front-page editorial of the Al-Sabah newspaper, editor-in-chief Ismail Zayer said he and his staff were ''celebrating the end of a nightmare we have suffered from for months ... We want independence. They (the Americans) refuse.'' Al-Sabah was set up by U.S. officials with funding from the Pentagon soon after the fall of Saddam Hussein last year. Since its first issue in July, many Iraqis have considered it the mouthpiece of the U.S.-led coalition, along with the U.S.-funded television station Al-Iraqiya. Zayer said almost the entire staff left the paper along with him and that they were launching a new paper called Al-Sabah Al-Jedid (''The New Morning''), which would begin publishing Tuesday. Zayer had sought to break Al-Sabah away from the Iraqi Media Network, which groups the paper, Al-Iraqiya and a number of radio station and is run by Harris Inc., a Florida-based communications company that won a $96 million Pentagon contract in January to develop the media. ''We had a project to create a free media in Iraq,'' Zayer said of the founding of Al-Sabah. ''They are trying to control us. We are being suffocated.''
A BIG thank you and many blessings to all who participated in Mondays Mobilization to demand that the North Fraser Jail end it's attempt to starve Tre: WE WON!!!
One of my grandmothers was a black sharecropper who picked cotton in the south as a child. She moved up north and was very poor living in detroit. There was never a law against black child labor, just white child labor. My whole family gathers to talk about her good cooking. In her memories as a child she may had only had half a can o' peaches for a week to eat.
Disagreement about HIV's role in causing AIDS has been curiously absent from public and scientific debate, even though many of the 700 M.D.'s and/or Ph.D.'s of The Group for the Scientific Reappraisal of the HIV/AIDS Hypothesis have published their reasons for their concern (Philpott 1999). Members of this group include current and former professors of molecular and cell biology at Harvard, Berkeley, and other prestigious universities, as well as two Nobel Prize winners in chemistry, Walter Gilbert and Kary Mullis. HIV is a "retrovirus", and Peter Duesberg, one of the earliest people to call for reappraisal, has been called the "father of retrovirology". David Rasnick, the president of the Society for the Scientific Reappraisal of AIDS, holds nine patents on protease inhibitors, the drugs claimed to have saved many people from the brink of death. And yet, Dr. Rasnick adamantly maintains that these drugs are contributing to, or directly causing their deaths rather than helping them. For a topic which has become so entrenched in the national and world-wide mindset, such a large number of dissenting voices among people with the highest credentials in their fields is unusual, to say the least, and yet researchers, health professionals, and the public have not been informed about the magnitude of the debate, or about the reasons why these dissenting scientists are questioning conventional dogma.
fuck....
the draft is coming SOON for women and men up to their 30s
Was this a Psych-op by the US and British, or truly tourture, or both?
Written after the second world war, this poem still speaks to the present. When I see pictures of hooded Iraqi prisoners, taunted and tortured by Americans, I wonder when, as Jeffers says, our turn will come.
Electric Liberation: US army electrically liberates detainees nervous system but unable to liberate rest of body.
From my book of poetry (I later integrated poetry into my instrumental musical composition (March3 1994, I still remember when I did it) and put pieces in with my writing - like instead of writing a boring chapter in, say, fiction, just write a poem to move the action on instead and, POOF! Fun-ness!).
Happy belated MAYDAY
FOR the first time, a majority of Australians believe the country should not have supported the war in Iraq to topple Saddam Hussein, according to a new poll.
In 1995 the Baltimore Sun published a series of articles, called "Fatal Secrets", that exposed the widespread kidnapping, torture, and murder by the Honduran government of the early '80s -- and the complicity in those crimes of the US government and Ambassador Negroponte in particular. Here is the third of those articles . . .
"In the 20th century, all Latin American militaries had to do was call someone a communist, and that person became fair game," Shaiken said. With revitalized militaries, "terrorism could become the communism of the 21st century that puts someone under a death sentence."
CLCB presents a rare opportunity to hear from Brian Concannon, Jr., who is an attorney representing ousted Haitian President Aristide, on democratic rule, regime change, and human rights in Haiti.
In Iraq it's not a question to believe in US phrases of pseudo democracy, it's more the essential question to be a slave or not!
Tre Arrow's Admissibility Hearing was ajourned and set for May 11th, also, a big show of support is needed to get him an appropriate diet.
Clicking on the Avakian article, on this "selection 2004" page, gets me the spinning ball everytime and I can't get out of it except by manually turning off my Mac (OS X) and rebooting. Tried about 10 times.
North Fraser jail in Vancouver BC Canada is denieing food to political prisoner Tre Arrow in a deliberate attempt to breake hi,. Please join the phone and fax camplaign to demand justice for this committed local activist.
Several interesting items from this article: Tillman served in Iraq before Afganistan. "Security [will be] tight for the service, which is expected to attract an array of sports stars as well as military officials" "[M]edia were instructed before the memorial Monday not to photograph or talk to the family." Also, live video of the 3pm PDT memorial will be at  http://www.azcentral.com
Herr Bushenstein and Dr Cheney at work. Leaked transcript of Bush and Cheneys testimony with the 911 commission.
This lameness is what passes for corporate journalism in 2004.
FEAR and FRAUD: Who Stole the Salvadoran Elections?
CISPES ACTION ALERT
April 30, 2004 Salvadoran Union Leaders and Protestors Still Detained, Attorney General Accuses STISSS Union of "Terrorism"
April 29, 2004
Check out this analysis on the Iraq War and the War on Terrorism. This is from the same Russian website that was providing the inside intelligence on the war during the invasion itself. Some of the analyses made below are mind blowing--particularly concerning Who Really Did the Madrid 3-11 bombings and the various "terrorist" attacks in Iraq, as well as what might happen this Summer and Fall.
Three of the terrorist gunmen who killed an Australian and four of his colleagues had been working with their victims at the same company in Saudi Arabia - and used their security passes to launch the gun attack.
The three "inside" assailants and a fourth terrorist burst into the offices of ABB Lummus, where Mr Anthony Mason worked as a construction manager, Saudi officials said. Two American and two British employees working with him on an oil refinery upgrade were also killed by the militants, as was a Saudi National Guard soldier. An oil executive said the gunmen targeted the top three officials involved in an upgrading project at the Saudi petrochemical firm Yanpet, jointly owned by US Exxon Mobil and Saudi Basic Industries Corporation. "They killed the three most senior people at the site - the project manager, construction manager and office manager as well as two others with less senior roles," he said. He confirmed the gunmen dragged one of the five Westerners' dead bodies behind their car through the streets of Yanbu. The three insiders used their key cards to enter the building and sneak another attacker through an emergency gate, according to an Interior Ministry source quoted by the official Saudi Press Agency. All four gunmen died later in clashes with police.
As a flood of civilians returned home after four weeks of a ferocious assault on the city of Fallujah by American marines, Major General Jasim Mohammed Saleh said the US had provoked a backlash from ordinary Iraqis.
"The reasons for the resistance go back to the American provocations, the raids and abolishing the army, which made Iraqis join the resistance," he said. American commanders say 200 foreign fighters are holed up in Falluja and have demanded that the city hands them over. But Gen Saleh, an ex-Republican Guard officer who has been mooted to run a 1,000-strong local security force, has refused. "There are no foreign fighters in Falluja and the local tribal leaders have told me the same," he said. His remarks have put him at odds with the US-led coalition.
Reports show that one of the Iraqi inmates was sodomised with a chemical light and perhaps a broomstick.
A torturer's tool with limitless possibilities, now available for your very own cell.
Sodomizing female prisoners, documented on camera, was ordered and condoned by the intelligence agencies, not only to defile and humiliate the prisoners - and defile the soldiers themselves - but to severely tarnish the reputation of America (even more than it already was) with the help of 60 Minutes, and all involved in now suddenly exposing it.
Hillary is not benign. And she is not your friend.
In the last few months, several students have been attacked and beaten by undercover infiltrators for trying to have a voice in the university councils and the center of activism at UNAM - Okupa Che Guevara - is under threat of eviction. The current situation with Pavel (see below) has had very little coverage outside of the university and has continued to be declared by the media as a suicide. Pavel was very active and participated in a lot of events at Che and was a dedicated volunteer of Smaliyel.
In 1995 the Baltimore Sun published a series of articles, called "Fatal Secrets", that exposed the widespread kidnapping, torture, and murder by the Honduran government of the early '80s -- and the complicity in those crimes of the US government and Ambassador Negroponte in particular. Here are those articles . . .
This is a letter prompted by having seen the pictures of the torturing of Iraqui prisoners by American Army personnel. The false posturing by our diabolical president and the falsehoods of the generals notwithstanding, this is NOT atypical of the America they have been ushering in for over 2 decades. The majority of the soldiers in Iraq (and anywhere in the world) are like the ones in the pictures because the leaders are like the ones in the pictures: perverted psychopaths
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez Frias prohibited genetically modified crops in genetically modified crops enezuela
Each week I search Indymedia Websites looking for stories about people acting courageously to change the world for the best. I look for people who can teach us how to make the world better despite great obstacles and oppression. These acts are like water flowing under, around and over oppression...soon the wall of hatred, war and oppression will tumble. We can all learn if only we will- read on.
Why is the UK sleepwalking into an ID scheme that has not been discussed, but that is nevertheless somehow moving ahead at full steam? And, for that matter, why is Europe doing so? The United States? The world?
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