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Has The Lebanon Tribunal Drama Become Farce?
Franklin Lamb
Zahle, Lebanon
This observer had a wild day in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley yesterday. Then again, for one reason or another, it seems that every time I go to the Bekaa it turns into a wild day.
It was to be a quick trip to the city of Zahle to attend a trial of a friend in the Mahkama Genaeya (Criminal Court). All I had to do was make a brief appearance to testify as a character witness for a member of the Bekaa Valley's largest tribe. The defendant is a sometime journalist who has done plenty of favors for visiting Americans over the past few years at my request. When delegations of Yanks arrive in Lebanon I am sometimes asked if I could help arrange meetings with political leaders, a visit to a Palestinian refugee camp, perhaps a trip to the south or to the amazing Bekaa Valley. It's a fact that I don't think much of US government policy and actions in this region, but frankly I do like fellow Americans quite a lot and try to assist them with contacts whenever I can.
Extrajudicial Assassinations: Official Israeli Policy
by Stephen Lendman
Extrajudicial assassinations are willful, premeditated, cold-blooded murder. Nonetheless, they're official Israeli policy. Killers get impunity. Investigations rarely happen. Occasional ones absolve crimes, letting new ones repeat freely. Israel's Turkel commission sanctioned the Mavi Marmara massacre. A previous article discussed it, accessed through the following link:
http://sjlendman.blogspot.com/2011/01/gaza-flotilla-massacre-whitewash.html
Israel's internal 2008 - 2009 Cast Lead investigation absolved brazen Gaza crimes of war and against humanity, explained through the following link:
"Bail-out: There's a hole in the bucket" (OpEdNews 404 – Repost)
By Robert Singer
Click here to read why “this article is not currently available” at OpEdNews.
September 29, 2008
Bail-out: There's a hole in the bucket
We can postpone the inevitable with the bail-out, but we can't avoid the financial reckoning that awaits us. Drastic changes in our way of life are about to become a reality, but maybe that won't be so bad. Today we have more stuff than we need, but we have less time for the things that really matter, such as family, friends and leisure time.
I put my betting money on Congress coming through and supporting the landmark bail- out of imperiled financial markets. But I can’t help wondering if things aren't a whole lot worse in Washington than we have been told. A press release from the Army Times reports that for the first time in American history, a president has mobilized regular combat troops to quell the potential domestic unrest that his administration fears might erupt over the greatest economic emergency and financial disaster since the Great Depression.
Its hard to imagine the 4,000 soldiers that make up the 1st Brigade Combat Team could do much to subdue angry American citizens who go shopping and find that local businesses will no longer take their devalued dollars. However, the threat of unrest is enough to convince Congress that it better go through with the bail-out.
For at least six decades, we Americans enjoyed the highest standard of living in the Western world based on our ability to import cheap raw materials (thanks to the CIA) and ship refrigerators, cars, airplanes and military hardware to the rest of the world. Soon the rest of the world caught on, and the refrigerators, cars, airplanes and even our socks started to be produced elsewhere. But we still had one more product to ship offshore, and beginning in 1980’s the Reagan administration embarked upon the greatest export of all: OUR DEBT. We got away with it for 28 years, but the ability of the rest of the world to finance our outsized standard of living has come to an end. And maybe the outcome won’t be as bad we fear; after all, in the 50’s our national happiness peaked just before we embarked on this mania for consumption.
As Bush’s father put it in 1992, "The American way of life is not negotiable”--a statement unthinkingly endorsed by nearly all Americans. For 30 years we have lived the motto: ”It is our God-given right to spend ourselves out of house and home” in a world where Americans have 5 percent of the world’s population but consume 30 percent of the world’s resources and create 30 percent of the world’s waste. Well, the American way of life is going to change and, unfortunately, there is nothing to negotiate.
Again, we can postpone the inevitable with the bail-out, but we can’t avoid the financial reckoning that awaits us. Drastic changes in our way of life are about to become a reality, but maybe that won’t be so bad. Today we have more stuff than we need, but we have less time for the things that really matter, such as family, friends and leisure time.
What matters most is how we as Americans work to change this old-school consumption mindset. There’s a new school of thinking on how much ”stuff” we need, and it’s based on sustainability and equity. I am willing to make one more bet: We will work together to get through this troubling period in history and make the U.S. and the world a better place to live.
Out-of-Control Human Rights Abuses in Iraq
by Stephen Lendman
On February 21, a Human Rights Watch (HRW) press release headlined, "Iraq: Vulnerable Citizens at Risk," announcing its new report titled, "At a Crossroads: Human Rights in Iraq Eight Years After the US-Led Invasion." Besides many others, two previous articles discuss more, accessed through the following links:
http://sjlendman.blogspot.com/2010/09/one-of-historys-greatest-crimes_7099.html
http://sjlendman.blogspot.com/2010/10/us-war-crimes-in-fallujah.html
The top link explains that over the past two decades, America devastated Iraq by genocide, vast destruction, terror, occupation, and contamination - a monstrous combination of unspeakable ongoing crimes.
At issue is:
Western Journalists Fail to Report the Facts about Libya Objectively
By Timothy V. Gatto
I wrote an article that ran on a few different websites entitled “Another Corporate-Inspired War?”. I received some information about Libya and some facts about Col. Gadhafi from a few of my readers. I have no way of completely fact-checking all of this information and so initially I wasn’t going to write about all of the information I received. After I watched a number of news shows about Libya and saw that very few of them were trying to show an objective outlook on Gadhafi or on Libya, I decided that another perspective really needed to be presented to the American people. I have decided to write on the information presented to me and let the readers of this article make their own judgment on the information presented.
Britain cherry-picks which war criminals to prosecute and where to impose no-fly zones
Stuart Littlewood
After maintaining a deafening silence about Israel’s atrocities against civilians, Britain suddenly wants a “day of reckoning” for war criminals – as long as they are Libyan.
While protestors’ attempts to oust Gaddafi and his scum continued, the UK’s Permanent Representative to the UN in Geneva, Peter Gooderham, called on the UN Human Rights Council Special Session on Libya to take whatever steps were necessary “to ensure that those responsible for the awful human rights violations that are currently occurring in Libya are held to account”.
He said the Libyan Government was trying to stop the world seeing what was happening. “We are appalled by the levels of violence… The use of military force against civilians and the attacks on funeral processions have caused deep anger throughout the country and across the world… We join the High Commissioner in calling for an international inquiry into the violence… The United Kingdom will do everything we can to make sure those responsible in the Libyan regime are held accountable for their actions…"
The Walls in Bethlehem, Baghdad and Afghanistan
Eileen Fleming
Eileen Fleming at THE WALL in
Bethlehem, Photo by Meir Vanunu
Pink Floyd's Roger Waters speaks about his passionate campaign for the rights of the Palestinian people and why, more than 30 years after he wrote the globally-acclaimed album 'The Wall', he is focusing on another wall - the Israeli separation barrier in the West Bank:
Ann Jones, humanitarian aid worker and author of Kabul in Winter
"I've come back to the Afghan capital again, after an absence of two years, to find it ruined in a new way. Not by bombs this time, but by security.The heart of the city is now hidden behind piles of Hescos giant, grey sandbags produced somewhere in Great Britain. They're stacked against the walls of government buildings, U.N. agencies, embassies, NGO offices, and army camps (of which there are a lot) -- and they only seem to grow and multiply…What's called security generates fear.
Warning: BDS success answered by ‘Boycott Arab goods’ smear
Stuart Littlewood
Congratulations, BDS campaigners.
Your global Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions effort is hurting Israel so much that panic-stricken propaganda bosses are casting about in desperation for something to hit back with… for example, the libelous press release which portrays yours truly and other Palestine freedom campaigners as promoters of a new movement boycotting Arab goods.
This tissue of lies arrived the same day as news that Israel is spending $1.6 million to train "new media warriors" in the use of social media tools for disseminating the regime's endless stream of disinformation. Of course, it’s nothing new. Israel's Ministry of Dirty Tricks launched a revised training manual eighteen months ago to serve as a communications primer for the army of cyber-scribblers it was then recruiting to spread Zionism's poison across the internet.
LOCKERBIE DIARY: GADHAFFI, FALL GUY FOR CIA DRUG RUNNING
By Susan Lindauer, Former U.S. Asset covering Iraq and Libya
For years I was told the terrorist who placed the bomb on board Pan Am 103, known as the Lockerbie bombing, lives about 8 miles from my house, in Fairfax County, Virginia.
His life-time of privilege and protection, gratis of high flyers in U.S. Intelligence, has been a reward for silence on the CIA's involvement in drug trafficking in Lebanon during the 1980s.
As sources go, I was more than a casual observer. From May 1995 until March 2003, I performed as a back channel to Tripoli and Baghdad, supervised by my CIA handler, Dr. Richard Fuisz, who claimed from day one to know the origins of the Lockerbie conspiracy and the identity of the terrorists. http://issuepedia.org/1998-12-04_Susan_Lindauer _Deposition He swore that no Libyan participated in the attack.
“I Get It Now”- A beginners guide to investing in physical silver
By Silver Shield
The Silver Bullet and the Silver Shield has started to cause some waves out there. This massive article covers all of the reasons why you should sell every asset you have right now and buy silver. It has been named “Article of the Week” at Silver Bear Cafe. It started a minor skirmish between 321Gold and me. It has even been translated into 6 languages in less than a week. The most important thing I personally got from the article was a call I got from a friend that I have literally been begging to buy silver for 6 years. He read the article and simply said, “I get it now.”
I have had a lot of questions emailed to me about what to do next. I will try to answer the questions the best I can in this article. If there is something not covered, please ask it in the comment section below.
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