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"Peace"keepers???: Aug 7, 7:21pm 4 reviews humanitarianism
http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/RANCHO/POLITICS/UN/peace.html; From the page: ""Perhaps our leaders should put the question to the people: what do we want the United Nations to be?" Schlesinger wrote. "Do we want it to avert more killing fields around the planet? Or do we want it to dwindle into impotence, leaving the world to the anarchy of nation-states?" Critics of the UN should eagerly embrace such a debate ā€" provided that a copy of the above photograph is made available to all participants. First published in the United States on the cover of the June 24th issue of the left-wing weekly Village Voice, the photograph depicts two Belgian paladins of the new world order giddily holding a Somali child over an open flame. Other series of photographs depict UN soldiers kicking and stabbing a Somali, and another soldier apparently urinating on the Somaliā€s dead body; yet another shows a Somali child being forced to drink salt water, vomit, and worms. A second group of photos published in the July 15th Village Voice shows the dead bodies of bound Somalis ā€" what appears to be the work of a death squad.

One atrocity not caught on camera involved the "punishment" of a Somali child by placing him in a metal container and withholding water from him for two days; predictably, the relentless African heat killed the child. One Belgian UN soldier testified that it was a regular practice to use metal boxes as prison cells, and that other Somalis probably died similarly gruesome deaths."

"As the Arabs see the Jews": Aug 7, 7:09pm 1 review israel
http://whatreallyhappened.com/WRHARTICLES/atastj.html; From the page: "
Summary

This fascinating essay, written by King Hussein's grandfather King Abdullah, appeared in the United States six months before the 1948 Arab-Israeli War. In the article, King Abdullah disputes the mistaken view that Arab opposition to Zionism (and later the state of Israel) is because of longstanding religious or ethnic hatred. He notes that Jews and Muslims enjoyed a long history of peaceful coexistence in the Middle East, and that Jews have historically suffered far more at the hands of Christian Europe.

Pointing to the tragedy of the holocaust that Jews suffered during World War II, the monarch asks why America and Europe are refusing to accept more than a token handful of Jewish immigrants and refugees. It is unfair, he argues, to make Palestine, which is innocent of anti-Semitism, pay for the crimes of Europe.
King Abdullah also asks how Jews can claim a historic right to Palestine, when Arabs have been the overwhelming majority there for nearly 1300 uninterrupted years? The essay ends on an ominous note, warning of dire consequences if a peaceful solution cannot be found to protect the rights of the indigenous Arabs of Palestine. "

Alex Jones' Prison Planet.com Anti-War Website Operator Threatened By Arm…: Aug 7, 5:17am 8 reviews dictatorship
http://www.prisonplanet.com/anti-war-website-operator-threatened-by-armed-thu...; From the page: "The operator of a leading alternative news and strongly anti-war website has become the target of nefarious thugs apparently in the employ of the U.S. government who have continually harassed him and ordered him to shut down his website.

Tom Feeley, owner and editor of InformationClearingHouse.info, has endured public harassment, home invasions, death threats and threats to his family simply for running a website."

UK Indymedia - You dont have the right to silence: Jul 30, 4:43pm 4 reviews liberties
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2008/04/396863.html; From the page: "
It is well known that the "right to silence" is a legal protection given to people undergoing police interrogation or trial. The right is recognised in many of the world's legal systems. In the UK, it was first codified in the Judges' Rules in 1912 (see Wikipedia's entry).

In 1996, the European Court of Human Rights held that "the right to remain silent under police questioning and the privilege against self-incrimination are generally recognised international standards which lie at the heart of the notion of a fair procedure under Article 6 [of the European Convention on Human Rights]." (see these interesting cases 1 | 2 ).

Under the Terrorism Act 2000, however, this right, along with many others, was eroded. Schedule 7 (Port and Border Controls) states that "a person who is questioned under paragraph 2 or 3 must give the examining officer any information in his possession which the officer requests." The purpose of this is supposed to be "determining whether he appears to be a person falling within section 40(1)(b)." That is, whether he "has been concerned in the commission, preparation or instigation of acts of terrorism." But Article 2.4. of the mentioned Schedule goes on to say that "an examining officer may exercise his powers under this paragraph whether or not he has grounds for suspecting that a person falls within section 40(1)(b).""

Thanks to Tigana / Bunty for sending me this.

Obama clinches Democratic presidential nomination: Jul 23, 2:16pm 2 reviews politics, obama, republicrats
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2008/jun2008/obam-j05.shtml; From the page: "Long before Obama became a household name, filling stadiums and attracting small contributions by the millions over the Internet, his candidacy had attracted the support of a significant section of the Democratic foreign policy establishment, including figures like former Carter national security adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski and former Clinton national security adviser Anthony Lake.

They were drawn to Obama not so much by his critique of the Bush administrationā€"which was not particularly vigorous, even by the toothless standards of the congressional Democratsā€"as by the symbolic effect that the election of the first African-American president would have in terms of reviving illusions, both internationally and within the United States, in the democratic pretensions of American capitalism.

With Obamaā€s nomination effectively secured, the American media has now gone into overdrive to peddle such illusions. The television networks have devoted endless hours to glorifying the great achievement of American democracy in nominating an African-American to lead the presidential ticket of one of the two major bourgeois parties for the first time in US history.

There is no doubt that such illusions are currently widespread, and not only among minority workers and young people of all racial backgrounds, who are genuinely appalled by the outgoing Bush-Cheney administrationā€s eight-year record of war, reaction and social decay.

But the significance of Obamaā€s nomination, as well as his election on November 4, should that occur, cannot be judged on the basis of such superficial considerations as skin color. Despite the incessant claims of the media and of their Democratic Party supporters and apologists, Obama no more represents the interests of black and minority people than Hillary Clinton represents the interests of all women.

Both Obama and Clinton are political representatives of the American ruling elite, the small financial aristocracy which controls all the economic and political levers within US society, including the two officially recognized ā€oemajorā€¯ parties and the mass media."

Alex Jones' Prison Planet.com Kucinich vs. The Establishment: Impeachment…: Jul 23, 12:32pm 8 reviews politics
http://www.prisonplanet.com/kucinich-vs-the-establishment-impeachment-hearing...; From the page: "Congressman Dennis Kucinich will this Friday present his single article of impeachment concerning the Bush administrationā€s deliberate and unconstitutional lies that led us to war in Iraq, putting him in tandem with the majority of the American people, yet in the cross hairs of both Neo-Cons and Democrats who have tried to block his efforts at every turn."

Finally! Although I'm skeptical of the outcome, it was about time that someone attempted to hold the Bush regime accountable.

Dan Hind: Wide-ranging conspiracies do take place | Comment is free | guardian.c…: Jul 21, 5:23am 5 reviews politics
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/jul/17/september11; From the page: "The conspiratorial world view does have its consolations. But so does Brooker's. There's a certain pleasure and drama in declaring that the world is driven by incompetence and error, and that things are more or less as they seem. You can preen yourself on how well-adjusted you are, how you haven't fallen for that stuff about lizards, or Illuminati. You have learned to live without magic. You're saying "I don't believe in 9/11 conspiracy theories", but you are signalling that you are sceptical and rational and that you don't have personal hygiene issues. There's a psychological pay-off for both the cock-up and the conspiracy theory of history. "