Agent of a foreign power? by William Bowles

By William Bowles
featured writer
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Creative-i
31 December 2008

I’m compelled once more to put pen to paper, or precisely fingers to keyboard as I traverse the flood of news that isn’t being shown on the mass media about the ongoing destruction of an entire country and its identity as Palestine and our collective non-response to this outrageous crime against Humanity.

I also have an admission to make about the last piece I wrote ‘No place to run, no place to hide’, I just picked the very first BBC piece on the destruction of Gaza that I came across. It wasn’t difficult, believe me, any person with the right approach to life and a reasonable command of the English language could do it.

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Police fighting protesters in Reykjavik, Iceland

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Updated: Jan 1, 2009 added another video

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Today at around 13:30 one of the TV news channels hold every year on the last day, a TV broadcast live where they talk about the year with political party chairmen. But today the hotel which is located near the Parliament building was attacked by protesters.

TV equipment was destroyed so the broadcast could not be sent. Then the protesters tried to get into the hotel but police stopped them and later use gas to get them out.

Protesters were angry, shouting ” government out” and “fascists”.

Some of the TV people got minor injuries .

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Protesters and Police fighting -protest in Reykjavik December 31 2008

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Protests against Gaza violence in U.S. + Baltimore Stages Rally in Solidarity with Gazans + Iceland protests

Protesters glued inside BBC HQ

Israeli Slaughter, International Culpability: Gaza massacre points to urgent need for viable sanctions

Some Would Call It Genocide by Bruce Gagnon + Cynthia McKinney SLAMS Israeli Navy

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Fighting in Gaza continues

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RussiaToday

Violence is ongoing in Gaza as an Israeli aircraft is believed to have hit several Hamas positions in the area. Israeli forces are also reported to have targeted smuggling tunnels linking Gaza and Egypt. The fighting comes despite calls for Israel and Hamas to reach a ceasefire agreement.

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Protesters glued inside BBC HQ

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Protesters super-glued themselves to glass security gates inside BBC.They protested the lack of balanced reporting of the Israeli bombings on Gaza.
http://www.undercurrents.org

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Israeli Slaughter, International Culpability: Gaza massacre points to urgent need for viable sanctions

Some Would Call It Genocide by Bruce Gagnon + Cynthia McKinney SLAMS Israeli Navy

Protests against Gaza violence in U.S. + Baltimore Stages Rally in Solidarity with Gazans + Iceland protests

Jewish Peace News: More information about Gaza and actions you can take

Americans Should Act to End Violence Against Gaza By Jeremy R. Hammond

Israelis demonstrate against military action in the Gaza Strip

Protesters speak out against Gaza raids

Israeli Troops and Armor massed at Gaza border! Protests Worldwide!

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An Israeli War Crimes Tribunal (ICTI) May be the Only Deterrent to a Global War by Francis A. Boyle

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by Francis A. Boyle
Global Research, December 31, 2008

The United Nations General Assembly must immediately establish an International Criminal Tribunal for Israel (ICTI) as a “subsidiary organ” under U.N. Charter Article 22. The ICTI would be organized along the lines of the International Criminal Tribunal for Yugoslavia (ICTY), which was established by the Security Council.

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Another Massacre in the On-going Israeli-Palestinian Conflict by Prof. Rodrigue Tremblay

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by Prof. Rodrigue Tremblay
Global Research, December 31, 2008

“The liberty we prize is not America’s gift to the world, it is God’s gift to humanity.”  — George W. Bush, State of the Union speech, January 28, 2003 (N.B.: Bush’s primary speechwriter at the time was a theologian: Michael Gerson.)

“When it comes to the Israeli-Arab conflict, the terms of debate are so influenced by organized Jewish groups like AIPAC that to be critical of Israel is to deny oneself the ability to succeed in American politics.”  — Henry Siegman, former head of the American Jewish Congress

“I don’t think there is such a thing as an independent Israel doing anything, because I think no matter what they do its our [American] money, its our weapons, and they’re not going to do it without us approving it and if they get into trouble we’re going to bail them out, so there is no separation between the two.”  — Congressman Ron Paul (R-TX), Dec. 28, 2008

“The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing.” — Albert Einstein (1879-1955) Physicist and Professor, Nobel Prize 1921

The year 2008 was not a very good year by any account, either financially or politically. Chaos and immorality have prevailed.

Indeed, this was a year when fools and criminals in power proved again that we live in a very immoral world. First case in point: the insane Georgia-Russia war in which hundreds of people died because of the decisions of a few hotheads. Second case in point: the savage bombing of the Gaza Strip by Israeli warplanes, after the government of Israel had imposed a military blockade of the Palestinian territory. Here again, the world more or less stood still as fools, criminals and accomplices allowed for the killing of people on both sides.

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Al Qaeda Doesn’t Exist (Prologue)

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http://www.alqaedadoesntexist.com

This is the Prologue to the new documentary from The Corbett Report, Al Qaeda Doesn’t Exist. This documentary interrogates the notion that Osama Bin Laden single-handedly runs the pervasive Al Qaeda terrorist network by examining its inception, its links to Western intelligence, the double agents and fictitious characters that populate its ranks, and the fraudulent ways the Al Qaeda myth is propagated in the controlled corporate media. The documentary also offers ways that citizens can become involved in helping to spread understanding about the true government-sponsored terror paradigm.

For more information about the documentary, please visit:

http://www.alqaedadoesntexist.com

For more news and analysis from The Corbett Report, please visit:

http://www.corbettreport.com

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Constitutional Scholar by Guadamour

GUADAMOUR

by Guadamour
featured writer
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Guadamour’s blog post
Dec. 31, 2008

Dark clouds camouflage the sky
hiding the sapphire light

Snow threatens to fall
inside the office
in an avalanche of white forms

What do they mean
What can they possibly mean

The blue and gold macaw
feels shut in
and screams
to the astonishment of everyone

Fuck Off
I have my constitutional rights

Rampage in Gaza for a Bump in the Polls By Mike Whitney

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By Mike Whitney
December 31, 2008 “Information Clearinghouse

My Brilliant Career

Come and see the blood in the streets.
Come and see
the blood in the streets.
Come and see the blood
in the streets.
Poem by Pablo Neruda, “I’m Explaining a Few Things”

Barack Obama has passed his first test with flying colors. He’s made himself disappear so Israel can continue its killing spree in Gaza. The last time a president shrunk this small was when Ariel Sharon took his wrecking-ball through Jenin during the second intifada. Bush slipped down a mouse hole so Israel’s “Man of Peace” could finish his dirty work unopposed. Now Obama has taken refuge in that same dark hideaway. What a relief it must be for his critics at AIPAC and the far-right think tanks to know that the next Commander in Chief will be every bit as compliant as the last. That’s “continuity they can believe in”.

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Israeli Slaughter, International Culpability: Gaza massacre points to urgent need for viable sanctions

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Crossposted with permission from www.socialistproject.ca/bullet/

by Dan Freeman-Maloy
Socialist Project | The Bullet
December 29, 2008

There is every reason to be outraged. But despite the severity of Israeli atrocities in Gaza, we have little right to act surprised. Whatever else can be said, Israel has made it abundantly clear that until its actions are met with credible international sanctions, it will subject Palestinians (and very likely others in the region) to massive, recurring waves of violence.

This was clear when the Obama-Biden campaign helped to lay the political foundation for this assault. It was clear when, amidst threats of such an operation and ongoing colonization in the West Bank, the European Union voted to upgrade relations with Israel earlier this month. For those of us in Canada, it has been clear as the Harper government has sharpened its alignment with Israel in the absence of any sustained parliamentary opposition.

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Some Would Call It Genocide by Bruce Gagnon + Cynthia McKinney SLAMS Israeli Navy

by Bruce Gagnon
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Bruce’s blog post
space4peace.blogspot.com
Dec. 30, 2008

The Israeli attack on Gaza is getting personal for me.

In 1966 while visiting my mother’s family in Connecticut my Italian grandfather took me into the dining room and opened a chest of drawers. He took a bag from the chest and handed it to me and said, “These have been in the family for generations. I want you to have them.” Inside the bag were a bunch of old hand-knitted yarmulkes. It was then that I learned that his family, back in Italy, had been Jewish. At some point the family had hidden this fact and become “Northern Baptists” as a way to fit into American culture. Continue reading

Jewish Peace News: Analyses and update on Gaza

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Crossposted with permission from Jewish Peace News

Jewish Peace News

JPN Post: List of contents:

– Links to information about Israeli resistance from Rela Mazali

– 3 analyses:

1) “Has Israel Revived Hamas?” By Daoud Kuttab in the Washington Post

2) A briefing on the Gaza crisis by Phyllis Bennis from ZNet

3) “Palestine’s Guernica and the Myths of Israeli Victimhood” by Mustafa Barghouthi

– A report on the condition of the hospitals in Gaza

Rela Mazali writes:

Absent from Israeli and most other TV networks are the ongoing activism and protest inside Israel against Israel’s siege and, now, war on Gaza. Immediately below is a link to a televised report on two of many such actions. In Hebrew and Arabic with no English (or other) subtitles, they nevertheless offer glimpses of current activism in Israel. The first segment documents a demonstration in Tel Aviv and bits of the police reaction. The second was recorded at a public meeting, just hours before the demonstration, addressed jointly by Palestinian and Israeli members of Combatants for Peace. The reports were created by the alternative media group, Social TV (for details on the group see: http://www.tv.social.org.il/ful-profile-social-tv-eng.rtf):
http://www.tv.social.org.il/medini/stv-aza-oferet-27-12-08.htm

[DS editor’s note: English subtitles on second link]

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My Very Best Kwanzaa Ever

By Jim Ryerson
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(jim [at] travelingman [dot] net)
Dec. 30, 2008

I guess it’s appropriate that my best Kwanzaa celebration should start with Christmas. I had been raised celebrating the traditional holiday, although, in truth, I’d dropped out of the Catholic Church a few decades ago and the day held little for me but memories. But it wasn’t a search for a new holiday that brought me to Kwanzaa, it was Wal-Mart. My daughters in New Orleans had sent me a present (I had not given up that part of the celebration), and one of the items didn’t fit so on the Saturday following Christmas, I set off to exchange it.

My nearest Wal-Mart is in an upper middle class neighborhood of Los Angeles known as Leimert Park, home to a large African American population. As I got close, I noticed traffic starting to slow down, and finally stop. Anyone who lives in LA knows that a traffic jam is possible any time day or night, but this was ridiculous for a Saturday afternoon. Finally I got to where I could look ahead for a few blocks, and saw a parade. Why, I wondered, would they be holding the Christmas parade 2 days after Christmas? As it turned out, they were not holding a Christmas parade at all. It was a Kwanzaa parade, going right through the heart of the business district, in the middle of which sat Wal-Mart.

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