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Antiwar.com Blog : The Infected Scalpel: An Exchange with Rocky Anderson On "Humanitarian" Intervention

Sat, 11 Feb 2012 08:49:09 +0000

Thanks for pressing Rocky Anderson on this issue. I can no longer consider voting for him. Hopefully the Green party candidate will be better on the issue of intervention than is Anderson. In the meantime, I'll be voting for Ron Paul in the Republican primary next month.

Antiwar.com Blog : Elliot Abrams is A Criminal

Wed, 8 Feb 2012 21:55:02 +0000

Elliott Abrams is truly a monster!

Antony Loewenstein : American drone killings leading to one thing; predictable blow-back

Wed, 4 Jan 2012 08:46:52 +0000

RE: "the essential The Exiled website has an amazing take-down of Foust" ~ A.L. MY COMMENT: Wunderbar! Better than a delicious seven course meal. "spite-fueled Waffentwerps" = LOL!!!

News From Antiwar.com : 'Saleh Played Us': US Sees 2010 Attack as Trick to Assassinate Rival

Fri, 30 Dec 2011 10:33:10 +0000

RE: " ‘Saleh Played Us’: US Sees 2010 Attack as Trick to Assassinate [Saleh's] Rival" MY COMMENT: Oops, as Rick Perry might say.

Antiwar.com Blog : Romney & Obama Agree on Iran: Keep Up Aggression, Impede Peace

Wed, 21 Dec 2011 08:22:19 +0000

RE: "This is the problem with the war hawks. They fail to see that there is another way." ~ Glaser FROM TED RALL, 07/22/10: …Umberto Eco’s 1995 essay Eternal Fascism describes the cult of action for its own sake under fascist regimes and movements: “Action being beautiful in itself, it must be taken before, or without, reflection. Thinking is a form of emasculation.”… SOURCE – http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/07/22-1

Antiwar.com Blog : Ron Paul's "Loyal Aides"?

Wed, 21 Dec 2011 08:12:17 +0000

RE: "It’s disturbing there appears to be a fifth column in the Paul campaign." ~ Raimondo MY COMMENT: Possibly, but appearances can be quite deceptive. I would not put it past members of the press (or someone feeding them) to falsely attribute "doubt" to "his most loyal aides" in an effort to both deprecate the candidate, and also to foment dissension within the campaign. A "twofer", so to speak.

Antiwar.com Blog : Journey to the Center of an Islamophobe's Mind

Tue, 13 Dec 2011 19:01:08 +0000

That Amboy Dukes video is a keeper. Thanks!

Antony Loewenstein : Australia and Israeli share the values of embracing occupation and racism?

Fri, 9 Dec 2011 21:56:42 +0000

RE: “We are two countries separated by distance, but united by values. Liberal democracies that seek freedom and peace,” Gillard said. ISRAEL AND AUSTRALIA'S LIBERAL DEMOCRATIC VALUES: "Israeli travel ban cuts studies short for Palestinians", By Sheera Frenkel, McClatchy Newspapers, 12/09/11

(excerpt) JERUSALEM — For more than a decade, Emal Abu Aisha has run a women's center in the Gaza Strip that provides women with training and classes to improve their education. But Abu Aisha, 42, said she'd been denied that opportunity herself. In 2000, a new Israeli policy that banned Palestinians from the Gaza Strip from studying in the West Bank cut short her own education, in gender studies in the West Bank's Birzeit University. "From that moment till now I wasn't allowed to continue my studies," Abu Aisha said. "As a women's activist I run a center to help women, to teach them. But I can't do the same for myself. I've gone as far as I can and I need more education for myself." Over the last decade, Israel has adopted a policy of what it calls "separationism" between the Palestinian territories of the Gaza Strip and the West Bank. Palestinians who live in Gaza are forbidden from moving to the West Bank, unless they have first-degree relatives suffering from severe illness or are orphans seeking to reunite with their families. The policy, which has been established through dozens of documents published by Israel's Defense Ministry, argues that allowing Palestinians to travel between the territories — separated by about 30 miles — poses a security risk to Israel. To many Palestinians, it means being cut off from family, employment or educational opportunities...

ENTIRE ARTICLE - http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2011/12/08/132561/isra...

Antony Loewenstein : Australia and Israeli share the values of embracing occupation and racism?

Fri, 9 Dec 2011 21:40:06 +0000

RE: “We are two countries separated by distance, but united by values. Liberal democracies that seek freedom and peace,” Gillard said. MORE OF P.M. GILLARD'S LIBERAL DEMOCRATIC VALUES: "70-year-old Palestinian professor is now a political prisoner", by Philip Weiss, Mondoweiss, 12/09/11 

(excerpt) Imagine if an Israeli or Jewish professor, aged 70, was arrested on political grounds. Imagine our State Department's outrage. We related the arrest of Yousef Abdel Haq, a PFLP leader, in an earlier news roundup. I received this photograph and message from Saed Abu-Hijleh, a poet and lecturer in geography in Nablus: "The arrest of Professor Abdel Haq, on Wednesday, December 7, 2011, aims to silence the voices of Palestinian intellectuals and academics who are struggling to expose the continuous crimes of the Zionist state and who are active on the local and international levels to build solidarity networks that struggle to end Israeli Apartheid in Palestine. Professor Abdel Haq is a lawyer and lecturer of Political Economy at An-Najah National University. He is also one of the main founders and former President of the Palestinian Enlightenment Cultural Center (Tanweer). Professor Abdel Haq is 70 years old and suffers from several chronic illnesses...

SOURCE - http://mondoweiss.net/2011/12/70-year-old-palesti...

Antony Loewenstein : Australia and Israeli share the values of embracing occupation and racism?

Fri, 9 Dec 2011 04:57:46 +0000

RE: “We are two countries separated by distance, but united by values. Liberal democracies that seek freedom and peace,” Gillard said. GILLARD'S LIBERAL DEMOCRATIC VALUES: "MK Danny Danon: Latest in Racist Legislative Fashion" ~ by Richard Silverstein, Tikun Olam, 12/05/11

(excerpt) If you want to check on the pulse of Israeli fashion–that is the “fashion” of Israeli racism–you can do no better than study MK Danny Danon’s legislative agenda. I don’t usually write about individual bills since there are so many far-right imbeciles who must have their say and they come up with more nonsense than you can shake a stick at. But for MK Danon, for whom Matan Lurey has developed an apt moniker, ‘MKKK,’ I make an exception. His new bill would demand that any Israeli seeking any sort of government ID whether a driver’s license, passport, graduation certificate, would have to sign a loyalty oath. The provision is designed to disenfranchise Palestinian Israelis who, Danon presumes, would not do so...

ENTIRE ARTICLE - http://www.richardsilverstein.com/tikun_olam/2011...

Antony Loewenstein : Australia and Israeli share the values of embracing occupation and racism?

Fri, 9 Dec 2011 04:22:56 +0000

RE: “We are two countries separated by distance, but united by values. Liberal democracies that seek freedom and peace,” Gillard said. GILLARD'S LIBERAL DEMOCRATIC VALUES: "Israel’s bizarre decision to give up on education – and its future", by Ami Kaufman, 972 Magazine, 12/03/11

(excerpts) Last week I came across a disturbing story, one of many recently, where Haredi school boys threw stones at secular Jewish school girls. [because] The schoolgirls were singing. . . . . . what bothered me more about this particular incident was the age of the perpetrators. These were young boys or teenagers, already well versed on the issues of female singing and its dangers. What this incident shows more than anything else, is the education factor and how it will change this country. And it shows how incidents like the one above are going to happen again, and again and again. Much has been said on the demographics of the Haredi community and the pace at which it grows. But not many know of how huge an impact Haredi education already has on this state. These Haredi rock-throwing boys learn in a Haredi school. That’s because there are four sectors to the Israeli education system: State, State-Religious, Arab, and ultra-Orthodox (Haredi)...

ENTIRE ARTICLE - http://972mag.com/israel’s-bizarre-decisi.....

Antiwar.com Blog : "Attacking Iran Makes No Strategic Sense"

Mon, 7 Nov 2011 09:44:33 +0000

Israelis will never, ever sleep more easily at night. If they ever did sleep easily at night, then they would no longer be Israelis!

Antiwar.com Blog : "Attacking Iran Makes No Strategic Sense"

Mon, 7 Nov 2011 09:31:08 +0000

RE: “Attacking Iran Makes No Strategic Sense” FROM TED RALL, 07/22/10: …Umberto Eco’s 1995 essay Eternal Fascism describes the cult of action for its own sake under fascist regimes and movements: “Action being beautiful in itself, it must be taken before, or without, reflection. Thinking is a form of emasculation.”… SOURCE – http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/07/22-1 P.S. Triumph of the Will - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triumph_of_the_Will JPEG IMAGE - http://mmimageslarge.moviemail-online.co.uk/Trium...

Antony Loewenstein : Of course #occupy is justified, here's why

Fri, 28 Oct 2011 03:16:32 +0000

BRANDEIS QUOTE: "We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can’t have both." - Justice Louis D. Brandeis

Antiwar.com Blog : NTC Fighters Commit Mass Execution of 53 Gadhafi Supporters

Tue, 25 Oct 2011 15:11:29 +0000

RE: "NTC Fighters Commit Mass Execution of 53 Gadhafi Supporters" THANK GOODNESS FOR THE "OBAMA DOCTRINE": Let's look forward, and not worry about what has happened in the past.

Antiwar.com Blog : R2P's Problem From Hell

Tue, 25 Oct 2011 15:00:34 +0000

NATO is becoming the neocon's favorite wet dream of a 'League of (so-called) Democracies'. NATO's armed forces "intervene" under the guise of R2P, but in furtherance of Western hegemony. Of course, they wound never intervene to protect disfavored populations like the Palestinians from favored populations like the Israelis.

Antiwar.com Blog : The Cherry-Picking Fantasy Land of Elliot Abrams

Wed, 17 Aug 2011 04:08:11 +0000

RE: "The Cherry-Picking Fantasy Land of Elliot Abrams" FROM ELLIOTT ABRAMS, 04/08/09: (excerpt)…Is current and recent settlement construction creating insurmountable barriers to peace? A simple test shows that it is not. Ten years ago, in the Camp David talks, Prime Minister Ehud Barak offered Yasser Arafat approximately 94 percent of the West Bank, with a land swap to make up half of the 6 percent Israel would keep. According to news reports, just three months ago, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert offered 93 percent, with a one-to-one land swap. In the end, under the January 2009 offer, Palestinians would have received an area equal to 98 to 98.5 percent of the West Bank (depending on which press report you read), while 10 years ago they were offered 97 percent. Ten years of settlement activity would have resulted in a larger area for the Palestinian state… SOURCE – http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/arti... P.S. Ergo, the ‘Abrams Principle’ stands for the proposition that more Israeli settlement activity in the West Bank will result in a larger area for the Palestinian state. That’s why I say, “Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead” with the settlement actvity; so as to result in the largest Palestinian state possible (from the Mediterranean Sea to the Jordan River)! “Let Right Be Done.”

Antiwar Radio with Scott Horton and Charles Goyette : Philip Giraldi

Fri, 22 Jul 2011 08:16:09 +0000

RE: Is Bibi Netanyahu crazy enough to launch an attack on Iran? FROM JUSTIN ELLIOTT, 07/01/11:

(excerpts)…Reached by phone at the Aspen Ideas Festival, [Jeffrey] Goldberg told me that he believes the article [by him in the The Atlantic last August] captured the “high level of anxiety” about Iran he encountered during a month reporting in Israel last summer… …Goldberg still believes that in certain circumstances the current Israeli government would attack Iran’s nuclear sites. “Meir Dagan is doing what he’s doing now because he’s scared of an Israeli attack,” he said. “If you don’t think Bibi Netanyahu is crazy enough to launch an attack on Iran, you don’t understand this prime minister.”…

SOURCE – http://www.salon.com/news/politics/war_room/2011/... P.S. ALSO SEE: Israeli Nuclear Strike On Iran Turned Back, By William Thomas (Jan. 11/07) - http://www.willthomasonline.net/Israeli_Nuclear_S...

Antiwar.com Blog : For All Their Money Troubles, Greeks Prevent Flotilla

Mon, 4 Jul 2011 01:26:31 +0000

MY SNARK: Greece is probably trying to curry favor with its best supplier of desperately needed tear gas! SEE: Greece asks Israel for teargas grenades, Ynet News, 12/14/08 (excerpts) Greek authorities contacted Israel this weekend with an urgent request for teargas grenades to be used against the wave of riots that broke out in the country last week, Athens police reported on Sunday... ...Israeli sources said the request was understandable due to the geographical proximity of the two countries and the fact that the Greek government is aware of Israel's large stock of crowd dispersal means including teargas grenades. SOURCE - http://www.ynet.co.il/english/articles/0,7340,L-3... AND SEE: Greece is out of tear gas; turns to allies for more, World Tribune, 12/16/08 (excerpts) ATHENS — Greece, engulfed by civil unrest, is urgently seeking to procure tear gas from neighboring countries... ...Israeli officials said the government in Athens has requested that Israeli companies send tear gas grenades to help police battle the massive riots in Athens. They said Greece has already exhausted its tear gas supply. Officials said Athens has turned to Israel, Germany and other European Union members for non-lethal, anti-riot equipment. They said Israel has a huge arsenal of tear gas for military and police operations in the West Bank.... ...Greece and Israel have increased their military and security cooperation over the last five years. The two countries have conducted military exercises as well as counter-insurgency training... SOURCE - http://www.worldtribune.com/worldtribune/WTARC/20...

Antiwar.com Blog : Costs of War, Was It Worth It?

Wed, 29 Jun 2011 16:39:05 +0000

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