Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZV3p5KyEi0&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Edagbladet%2Eno%2F2009%2F06%2F18%2Fnyheter%2Futenriks%2Firan%2Fdemonstrasjon%2Fvalg%2F6790651%2F&feature=player_embedded

Tehran, Meidune Emam, 5pm , 5shanbeh 28 khordad , Hozoore Mousavi dar jamiat. Times Online: "Death to the Dictator!" Mousavi supporters gather for Iran rebellion.

Link: http://jnoubiyeh.blogspot.com:80/2009/06/these-are-obamas-wars-now-democrat.html

It’s time to toss those Obama t-shirts in the trash. On Monday the Democrat controlled House voted 226-202 to approve a rushed $106 billion dollar war spending bill, guaranteeing more carnage in Iraq and Afghanistan (and lately Pakistan) until September 30, 2009, which marks the end of the budget year. The Senate voted overwhelmingly in favor of the bill’s first draft last month, with the final vote on a compromised version to occur in the Senate sometime in the next couple of weeks.

Link: http://socialistworker.org/2009/06/18/real-reform-off-the-table

The Democrats say that single-payer is "unrealistic," but the real pipe dream is the idea that concessions and half-measures will do anything to solve the health care crisis. THE HEALTH care industry is determined to strangle any proposal in Washington for real reform--and the Democrats are acting as accomplices.

Link: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/iraqi-oil-minister-accused-of-mother-of-all-sellouts-1707906.html

To public fury, the country is handing over control of its fields to foreign companies, the Iraqi government's controversial plan to give international oil companies a stake in its giant oilfields in a desperate effort to raise declining oil production and revenues.

Link: http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=viewArticle&code=BRO20090618&articleId=14011

While contrarians are screaming “hyperinflation!”, the money supply is actually shrinking. This is because most money today comes into existence as bank loans, and lending has shrunk substantially. That means the Fed needs to “monetize” debt just to fill the breach. On June 3, 2009, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke assured Congress, “The Federal Reserve will not monetize the debt.”

Link: http://desertpeace.wordpress.com:80/2009/06/18/reality-check-bibis-two-state-solution-one-for-jews-one-for-jewish-settlers/

Two eloquent speeches…. calling for a Two State Solution. In one speech, Bibi declared that no new settlements would be built and no extra land would be confiscated from Palestinians for settlement development….. but the settlers responded with plans to construct 30 new outposts in the West Bank. That’s just the beginning…..

Link: http://features.csmonitor.com/discoveries/2009/06/17/ancient-lake-shore-on-mars-primo-spot-for-hunting-signs-of-past-life/

Turn the clock back 3.4 billion years, transplant North America’s Lake Champlain to the floor of Mars’ Shalbatana Vallis, and you have a pretty good idea of what a team of scientists says it has uncovered on the red planet. The find suggests that substantial amounts of water pooled and persisted on the martian surface hundreds of millions of years later than many planetary scientists currently estimate, the team says. Moreover, the images the steam studies bear witness to a vast delta that would have formed when water gushed into the valley to form the lake. This would have been prime real estate for microbes, based on what biologists have learned about microbial ecosystems buried within Earth’s river deltas. Images from NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter’s HiRISE camera and topographical data from the Mars Global Surveyor orbiter’s laser altimeter sealed the deal, according to team leader Gaetano Di Achille. He’s a planetary scientist at the University of Colorado at Boulder. The data, he says, provided “the first unambiguous evidence of shorelines on the surface of Mars.”

Link: http://www.palestine-info.co.uk/en/default.aspx?xyz=U6Qq7k%2bcOd87MDI46m9rUxJEpMO%2bi1s7xy6C2nc9HhGrlYpfUpng2WuF%2fvFIRbTA8D1XzlxDHRCO%2fGznVguJbR5YXSyResd6AqBR1eBWQicBLdirmgVd605RDxS4HFZXtYkgeCZvdKA%3d

Palestinian Authority (PA) officials have been quite reticent over the death of Haitham Amr, a 28-year-old nurse, in PA custody in Hebron earlier this week. Amr, a father of two children, was arrested on Thursday, 11 June at his home, at the village of Beit al-Rush el-Fouga, 20 km south-west of al-Khalil, by a combined force of the Preventive Security (PSF) and General Intelligence (GI) or (Mukhabarat).

Link: http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2009/jun/18/tony-blair-secret-torture-policy

Blair indicated his awareness of the existence of the policy in the middle of 2004, a few weeks after publication of photographs depicting the abuse of detainees at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq. The policy offered ­guidance to MI5 and MI6 officers questioning detainees in Afghanistan whom they knew were being mistreated by the US military. British intelligence officers were given written instructions that they could not "be seen to condone" torture and that they must not "engage in any activity yourself that involves inhumane or degrading treatment of prisoners". But they were also told they were not under any obligation to intervene to prevent detainees from being mistreated.

Link: http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2009/06/america-like-iran-is-run-by-religious.html

But - you might say - Iran is totally different from the U.S. because it is run by a bunch of religious fanatics. Yes, that's true. The Mullahs are religious fanatics. Indeed, most of the people of Iran hate the heavy-handed influence of the Mullahs on their country. But America's war in Iraq is also a crusade. And torture is largely driven by Christian fundamentalism. Indeed, much of America's policy in the middle east is largely driven by Christian zionism and Jewish zionism.

Link: http://www.redress.cc:80/palestine/jcook20090618

Jonathan Cook reports on how Israeli soldiers routinely, and as a matter of policy, practise torture against Palestinian children, hundreds of whom are “convicted in Israel’s military courts each year, with children older than 12 denied access to lawyers in interrogation”. “He broke his hand here at the wrist. Broke his hand at the wrist, broke his leg here. And started to stomp on his stomach, three times, and left… The next day I go out with him on another patrol, and the soldiers are already starting to do the same thing.” – Israeli soldier describing assault by his commander on four-year-old Palestinian boy, 2007

Link: http://vigilantcitizen.com/?p=1160

Big corporations pay millions in public relations to make customers associate their brand with a warm and fuzzy feeling. It is imperative that the soulless and inherently greedy nature of the corporation be hidden behind a family-friendly facade. But some companies just don’t give a hoot. They hate you, your family and especially your cat and they don’t care if you know it. They even display their evilness right on their logo because they’re proud of it. Here is my top 5 of most sinister logos.