War on America

Definition of CHANGE: Global War on Terror, Fake Nukes In Iran, and Comprehensive Immigration Reform

by Scott Creighton Obama and Perez of Israel both made a video message for the people of Iran attempting to reach out to them while still falsely accusing Iranian leadership of attempting to make nuclear weapons.  Sounds a little like Bush’s message to the people of Iraq, now doesn’t it?

SFPD Attacks Protesters Like it Was Gaza or Something

by Scott Creighton There is a very disturbing video out now of the San Francisco police Department rushing demonstrators in front of the Israeli Consulate in San Francisco with no apparent motive except to harm the protesters. I would post it here, and I will, but I can’t post anything but YouTube and Google Video [...]

Dupes? No, we were telling the truth

by Johann Hari, from The Independent For months, the opponents of Operation Cast Lead – the assault on Gaza that killed 1,434 Palestinians – have been told we are “dupes for Islamic fundamentalists”, or even anti-Semitic. The defenders of Israel’s war claimed you could only believe the reports that Israeli troops were deliberately firing on [...]

France: Millions strike and march against austerity

by Antoine Lerougetel, WSWS Defend public health – Hospitals in danger Several million workers and youth took to the streets in 213 cities and towns throughout France yesterday in opposition to rising poverty, rapidly growing unemployment and government austerity policies involving cuts in the social services.

Ex-Bush Admin Official: Many at Gitmo Are Innocent

(Let’s see; does this fall under the “No shit” category, or  “Duh”?) Many detainees locked up at Guantanamo were innocent men swept up by U.S. forces unable to distinguish enemies from noncombatants, a former Bush administration official said Thursday. “There are still innocent people there,” Lawrence B. Wilkerson, a Republican who was chief of staff [...]

Israeli soldiers admit to deliberate killing of Gaza civilians

(What could I add to this?) The Israeli army has been forced to open an investigation into the conduct of its troops in Gaza after damning testimony from its own front line soldiers revealed the killing of civilians and rules of engagement so lax that one combatant said that they amounted on occasion to “cold-blooded [...]

Ensuring maximum casualties in Gaza

Eva Bartlett, The Electronic Intifada, 16 March 2009 Darts released from a flechette bomb. “We were still young and in love. We had all of our dreams,” Muhammad Abu Jerrad said, holding a photo of his wife by the sea. Wafa Abu Jerrad was one of at least six killed by three flechette bombs fired [...]

Happy Anniversary Amerika

by Scott Creighton While marking this 6th anniversary of the illegal invasion and occupation of Iraq a.k.a. “Shock and Awe”, I am looking back on one of the most successful presidential terms in history. The most successful, in some horrific ways.

US Army Confirms Israeli Nukes

by Scott Creighton Remember when Obama skirted Helen Thomas’ question about whether or not he knows of a Middle East country that already had nuclear weapons? Well, there was a reason for that. By law, the U.S. would have to cease providing billions of dollars in foreign aid to Israel if it determined the country [...]

“Change”….. the name….. New Deal for Blackwater

Days after the Baghdad government decided it no longer wanted the company then known as Blackwater in Iraq, the State Department signed a $22.2 million deal in February to keep the embattled contractor working there through most of the summer, contract records show. The decision keeps Blackwater – since renamed Xe – in Iraq months [...]

Obama defends Wall Street as anger grows over bonuses, bailouts

(“The public response to this was so hostile that the president himself had to go before the press Monday to declare his outrage, although the emotion was so obviously feigned that Obama, after coughing, made a cynical joke about how he was “choked up” with anger…”….. “The first assertion—the declaration of loyalty to the capitalist [...]

Palestinian workers exploited at West Bank settlement factories

(Part of the story of the illegal settlements in the West Bank, the part you rarely ever hear about, is the fact that Israeli companies have set up “industrial parks” in lands adjacent to the “settlements”. In these “parks” they exploit Palestinian workers so they can turn a profit. With all the road-blocks and check-points [...]

UK economic links with Israeli settlements

by ludek, from Pulse A new comprehensive report by the Dutch research group Profundo – prepared for the Sir Joseph Hotung Programme for Law, Human Rights and Peace Building in the Middle East, SOAS – details the economic ties of a long list of British companies to Israeli settlements and other breaches of international law [...]

John Perry Online: The U.S. of A.I.G.

John Perry Online