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PennForPalestine on Jan 28, 2011
Norman Finkelstein speaks at the University of Pennsylvania, Jan. 25, 2011
Massacres
Photos allege Sri Lanka massacre
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Al Jazeera English
10 Nov 2010
Al Jazeera has obtained photographs that appear to show Sri Lankan army soldiers abusing Tamil civilians in the final days of the Sri Lankan civil war.
The pictures show various graphic scenes, with dead bodies blindfolded and hands bound, shot through the head and mounds of bodies on the back of a farmer’s trailer.
Iraq: Toppling a country: From Statue to Legality Part II by Felicity Arbuthnot
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by Felicity Arbuthnot
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crossposted at Global Research
8 November, 2010
“The abused are only Iraqis”, a US General to General Antonio Taguba.
Perhaps the most surprising aspect of the latest, vast cache of documents from Wikileaks, is that anyone was surprised at the revelations. For Iraqis, Afghans and the region, and Iraq and Afghanistan watchers across the globe, countless millions of words have been written and eye witness reports sent since day one of the highly questionable legality of the Afghan invasion the absolute illegality of that of Iraq.
Norman Finkelstein: Israel and Palestine: Past, Present, Future
Dandelion Salad
October 31, 2010
replaced video Feb. 24, 2015
Peter Pan on Jun 29, 2011
Dr. Norman Finkelstein – Israel and Palestine: Past, Present, Future
Toronto, Ontario, Thursday, October 28.Dr. Norman Finkelstein speaks on the present situation in Gaza, the attack on the Gaza Aid Flotilla, the current stage of the peace process, and the prospect of another regional war.
Presented by Canadians for Justice and Peace in the Middle East (CJPME).
The Nightmare by Felicity Arbuthnot
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by Felicity Arbuthnot
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9 October, 2010
“Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.” François-Marie Arouet -“Voltaire” (1694-1778.)
I have a deeply held belief that the duty of a commentator is, to the best of one’s ability, to record, to shine light in often dark places, to act as a voice for those whose own voice, fears, plights might not be heard or known. To write about the emotions one sometimes feels when doing it, is an anathema and anyway a redundancy. The purpose is to attempt to draw attention to wrongs, not to whinge about the effects they can have – and any way, a private life should be just that. If politicians wish to strip themselves of their dignity and allude to everything from their sex life, to using private grief to gain sympathy votes, those with a shred of self-respect do not wish to emulate them. Here, I am breaking my taboo, for a reason.
Noam Chomsky: Fallujah and other war crimes
Noam Chomsky. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
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Chomskyan | October 06, 2010
The Justice For Fallujah Project Fundraiser, 9/16/2010
Paulist Center, Boston, MA
http://www.thefallujahproject.orgRecorded and edited by
Charngchi Way
Additional audio by
Jason Pramas
Fallujah, Tony Blair and a Man with a Mission by Felicity Arbuthnot
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by Felicity Arbuthnot
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27 September, 2010
“The reason governments have secrets is not because the public won’t understand, it’s because the public will.” (A friend.)
Dr Bill Wilson, knows a bit about duplicity and is not a man to give up, as a glance at his website shows. (1) Dr Wilson is a Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) in the Scottish National Party,for the West of Scotland. This week, he lodged a Parliamentary Motion (2) “highlighting the consequences of the US and UK’s use of weapons of mass destruction in Fallujah, in 2004.”
Book Review: The Politics Of Genocide by Rick Rozoff
by Rick Rozoff
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Stop NATO
Stop NATO-Opposition to global militarism September 1, 2010
Sept. 7, 2010
Image by babasteve via Flickr
The Politics of Genocide
Edward S. Herman and David Peterson
Monthly Review Press, 2010
U.S. $12.95*
In 1895 novelist Anatole France – who in the same decade took up cudgels in defense of persecuted Armenians in the Ottoman Empire while also entering the lists on behalf of Alfred Dreyfus – wrote an essay in which he maintained that words are like coins. When freshly minted the images and inscriptions on them are clear. But by dint of constant circulation they become effaced until the outlines are blurred and the words unintelligible.
The Lies Of Hiroshima Are The Lies Of Today by John Pilger
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by John Pilger
Global Research, August 8, 2010
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On the anniversary of the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, John Pilger describes the ‘progression of lies’ from the dust of that detonated city, to the wars of today – and the threatened attack on Iran.
When I first went to Hiroshima in 1967, the shadow on the steps was still there. It was an almost perfect impression of a human being at ease: legs splayed, back bent, one hand by her side as she sat waiting for a bank to open. At a quarter past eight on the morning of August 6, 1945, she and her silhouette were burned into the granite. I stared at the shadow for an hour or more, then walked down to the river and met a man called Yukio, whose chest was still etched with the pattern of the shirt he was wearing when the atomic bomb was dropped.
On Refusing Apology for the Nuking of Civilians by Jeremy R. Hammond
by Jeremy R. Hammond
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Foreign Policy Journal
6 August, 2010
Japan on Friday marked the 65th anniversary of the nuclear bomb attack on Hiroshima. U.S. Ambassador John V. Roos attended the annual ceremony that marks the event. It was the first time a U.S. official had done so. The New York Times explains the reason:
Until Friday, American officials had always skipped the annual ceremony, fearing their presence would renew the debate over whether the United States should apologize for the World War II bombings, which together killed more than 200,000 people in explosions so intense that many victims were vaporized, leaving only ghostly shadows on walls, while others died in agony from burns and radiation sickness.
Afghanistan war logs: Massive leak of secret files exposes truth of occupation + Interviews with Julian Assange
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Afghan War Diary, 2004-2010
WikiLeaks
25th July 2010 5:00 PM EST
Summary
WikiLeaks has released a document set called the Afghan War Diary AWD, an extraordinary compendium of over 91,000 reports covering the war in Afghanistan from 2004 to 2010.
The reports, while written by soldiers and intelligence officers mainly describing lethal military actions involving the United States military, also include intelligence information, reports of meetings with political figures, and related detail.
Ireland’s Bloody Sunday: Why the Israeli State Must Not be Allowed to Hold its Own Inquiry into Bloody Monday by Finian Cunningham
by Finian Cunningham
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Finian.cunningham@gmail.com
9 June, 2010
THE long-awaited British public inquiry into Bloody Sunday is expected to the published later this month. [1]
This is the inquiry into the events of 30 January, 1972, in which members of the British Parachute Regiment opened fire on Irish civilians protesting for civil rights in the city of Derry. On that day, 13 civilians were shot dead and a fourteenth would later die from his wounds. Scores were also injured from gunshots in the bloodbath that shocked the world.
The British inquiry into Bloody Sunday should serve as a salutary lesson as to why such probes controlled by the state are inadequate to establish truth and justice. The lesson is particularly apposite in the light of events of Bloody Monday on 31 May, 2010, when Israeli commandos opened fire on humanitarian aid workers onboard the Gaza Freedom Flotilla, killing at least nine civilians and wounding several dozen.
Nuremberg: It’s Lessons For Today! + Nazi Concentration Camps
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Nuremberg: It’s Lessons For Today
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“Nuremberg: Its Lesson For Today”
The Simplicity of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict by Jeremy R. Hammond
by Jeremy R. Hammond
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Foreign Policy Journal
crossposted at Palestine Chronicle
25 May, 2010
Palestinian Loss of Land 1946 to 2005
Info-map orders: PIAG
There is a general perception that the reason the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has continued for so long is because it is extremely complex. Nothing could be further from the truth. Placed in historical context, understanding the root cause of the conflict is simple, and in doing so, the solution becomes apparent.
During the late 1800s, a movement known as Zionism arose to establish a Jewish state in Palestine, then a territory under the Ottoman Empire. As a result of World War I, the Ottoman Empire was dissolved and Great Britain and France conspired to divide the territorial spoils of war between themselves. The British became the occupying power of Palestine. The League of Nations issued a mandate effectively recognizing Great Britain as such.
Speaking to Israelis on the Nakba
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Every year on May 15, Palestinians the world over mourn what is known as Nakba Day. The Nakba is Arabic of catastrophe and represents the 1948 ethnic cleansing when nearly 800,000 Palestinians became refugees. In this segment, Lia Tarachansky of The Real News and Yossef(a) Mekyton of Zochrot speak to Israelis about what they know of this history and the war of 1948, the result of which was the establishment of the state of Israel.
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