Tuesday, February 02, 2010, 09:38 AM.:
“We Can Make Him Disappear” - By Andrew Joad
Category: United States | Posted by: babagrr | Add comment
America’s Secret Prisons for Undocumented Immigrants
Originally published on February 01, 2010
"WSWS"
-- There are at least 186 secret detention centers maintained by the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency (ICE) within the borders of the US, according to an article published in the Nation magazine in December. Drawing on a report by Amnesty International (AI) entitled “Jailed without Justice,” it estimates that 415,000 people have been held at these facilities, which are operated under the authority of the Department of Homeland Security as so-called “sub-field offices” of the ICE. Their purpose is to deny undocumented immigrants due process and any means by which they can effectively lobby for their rights.
“If you don’t have enough evidence to charge someone criminally but you think he’s illegal, we can make him disappear,” explained ICE Executive Director for the Office of State and Local Coordination James Pendergraph at an August 2008 police and sheriffs’ conference, according to the AI report.
In October 2009 an assistant to Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano first revealed the existence of the secret prisons to the secretary, without making the locations public. The author of the December 16 article in the Nation, Jacqueline Stevens, obtained “a partial list” of the secret...
Originally published on February 01, 2010
"WSWS"
-- There are at least 186 secret detention centers maintained by the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency (ICE) within the borders of the US, according to an article published in the Nation magazine in December. Drawing on a report by Amnesty International (AI) entitled “Jailed without Justice,” it estimates that 415,000 people have been held at these facilities, which are operated under the authority of the Department of Homeland Security as so-called “sub-field offices” of the ICE. Their purpose is to deny undocumented immigrants due process and any means by which they can effectively lobby for their rights.
“If you don’t have enough evidence to charge someone criminally but you think he’s illegal, we can make him disappear,” explained ICE Executive Director for the Office of State and Local Coordination James Pendergraph at an August 2008 police and sheriffs’ conference, according to the AI report.
In October 2009 an assistant to Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano first revealed the existence of the secret prisons to the secretary, without making the locations public. The author of the December 16 article in the Nation, Jacqueline Stevens, obtained “a partial list” of the secret...
Tuesday, February 02, 2010, 09:35 AM.:
The US Game in Latin America - By Mark Weisbrot
Category: United States | Posted by: babagrr | Add comment
Originally published on February 01, 2010 "http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2010/jan/29/us-latin-america-haiti-honduras"
>The Guardian" Jan. 29, 2010 -- When I write about US foreign
policy in places such as http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2010/jan/20/haiti-water-us-occupation"
>Haiti or http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/12/opinion/12iht-edweisbrot.html?_r=1"
>Honduras, I often get responses from people who find it difficult to believe that the US government would care enough about these countries to try
and control or topple their governments. These are small, poor countries with little in the way of resources or markets. Why should Washington policymakers
care who runs them?
>The Guardian" Jan. 29, 2010 -- When I write about US foreign
policy in places such as http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2010/jan/20/haiti-water-us-occupation"
>Haiti or http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/12/opinion/12iht-edweisbrot.html?_r=1"
>Honduras, I often get responses from people who find it difficult to believe that the US government would care enough about these countries to try
and control or topple their governments. These are small, poor countries with little in the way of resources or markets. Why should Washington policymakers
care who runs them?
Unfortunately they do care. A lot. They care enough about Haiti to have overthrown the elected president
Jean-Bertrand Aristide not once, but twice. The first time, in 1991, it was done covertly. We only found out after the fact that the people who led the
coup were http://articles.latimes.com/1993-11-02/news/mn-52438_1_house-intelligence-committee"
>paid by the US Central Intelligence Agency. And then Emmanuel Constant, the leader of the most notorious death squad there – which killed thousands
of Aristide's supporters after the coup – told CBS News that he, too, was
href="
http://www.nytimes.com/1995/12/03/world/haitian-ex-paramilitary-leader-confirms-cia-relationship.html?pagewanted=1"
>funded by the CIA.
In 2004, the US involvement in the coup was much more open. Washington led a cut-off of almost all
international aid for four years, making the government's collapse inevitable. As the
href="
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/29/international/americas/29haiti.html"
>New York Times reported, while the US state department was telling...
Tuesday, February 02, 2010, 09:31 AM.:
The Creed of Objectivity Killed the News - By Chris Hedges
Category: Media | Posted by: babagrr | Add comment
Originally published on February 01, 2010
"Truthdig"
- Reporters who witness the worst of human suffering and return to newsrooms angry see their compassion washed out or severely muted by the layers of editors who stand between the reporter and the reader. The creed of objectivity and balance, formulated at the beginning of the 19th century by newspaper owners to generate greater profits from advertisers, disarms and cripples the press.
And the creed of objectivity becomes a convenient and profitable vehicle to avoid confronting unpleasant truths or angering a power structure on which news organizations depend for access and profits. This creed transforms reporters into neutral observers or voyeurs. It banishes empathy, passion and a quest for justice. Reporters are permitted to watch but not to feel or to speak in their own voices. They function as “professionals” and see themselves as dispassionate and disinterested social scientists. This vaunted lack of bias, enforced by bloodless hierarchies of bureaucrats, is the disease of American journalism.
“The very notion that on any given story all you have to do is report what both sides say and you’ve done a fine job of objective journalism debilitates the press,” the late columnist Molly Ivins once...
"Truthdig"
- Reporters who witness the worst of human suffering and return to newsrooms angry see their compassion washed out or severely muted by the layers of editors who stand between the reporter and the reader. The creed of objectivity and balance, formulated at the beginning of the 19th century by newspaper owners to generate greater profits from advertisers, disarms and cripples the press.
And the creed of objectivity becomes a convenient and profitable vehicle to avoid confronting unpleasant truths or angering a power structure on which news organizations depend for access and profits. This creed transforms reporters into neutral observers or voyeurs. It banishes empathy, passion and a quest for justice. Reporters are permitted to watch but not to feel or to speak in their own voices. They function as “professionals” and see themselves as dispassionate and disinterested social scientists. This vaunted lack of bias, enforced by bloodless hierarchies of bureaucrats, is the disease of American journalism.
“The very notion that on any given story all you have to do is report what both sides say and you’ve done a fine job of objective journalism debilitates the press,” the late columnist Molly Ivins once...
Tuesday, February 02, 2010, 07:11 AM.:
9/11, Deep Events, and the Curtailment of U.S. Freedoms - By Prof Peter Dale Scott
Category: 911 - wtc | Posted by: babagrr | Add comment
A talk delivered to the New England Antiwar Conference, MIT, January 30, 2010.
Originally published on February 01, 2010 "http://www.globalresearch.ca/"
>Global Research" -- Hello everyone! I’m honored
to be invited to this important anti-war conference. As I am in the final stages of editing my next book, The Road to
my friends and others in debunking the war on terror, the false justification for the Afghan-Pakistan war.
Originally published on February 01, 2010 "http://www.globalresearch.ca/"
>Global Research" -- Hello everyone! I’m honored
to be invited to this important anti-war conference. As I am in the final stages of editing my next book, The Road to
my friends and others in debunking the war on terror, the false justification for the Afghan-Pakistan war.
Let me make my own position clear at the outset. There are indeed people out there, including some Muslim extremists, who want to inflict terror
on
government have agreed, that it makes this problem worse, not better, when Washington sends large numbers of U.S. troops to yet another country where they
don ‘t belong.[1]
A war on terror is as inappropriate a cure as a
seen in
makes the drug problem worse, not better. The war on terror and the war on drugs have this in common: both are ideological attempts
to justify the needless killings of...
Tuesday, February 02, 2010, 06:50 AM.:
Imam Killed In FBI Sting Was Shot 21 Times: Report - By Daniel Tencer
Category: United States | Posted by: babagrr | Add comment
Originally published on February 01, 2010 "http://rawstory.com/2010/02/imam-killed-fbi-shooting-handcuffed/"
>Raw Story" -- A Detroit-area imam who died in a shootout
with the FBI in October was shot 21 times -- at least once in the back -- and found by police lying down with his wrists in handcuffs behind him, says
a local Detroit news report.
>Raw Story" -- A Detroit-area imam who died in a shootout
with the FBI in October was shot 21 times -- at least once in the back -- and found by police lying down with his wrists in handcuffs behind him, says
a local Detroit news report.
The FBI has described Abdullah, whose mosque served some 25 families, as "a separatist
Muslim intent on overthrowing the United States government," http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/31/us/31dearborn.html?_r=1"
>according to the New York Times, but the bureau has not alleged any terrorist activity against him, and has charged that Abdullah was involved
in fencing stolen goods. Federal authorities had been monitoring Abdullah "for years," the Times reported.
Now a medical examiner's report, http://www.myfoxdetroit.com/dpp/news/brads_edge/first-on-fox-2:-shocking-details-of-slain-imam's-autopsy"
>obtained by Fox Channel 2 in Detroit, shows the imam had been shot 21 times, including at least once in the back, and his body was found on the ground
with his wrists handcuffed behind his back.
The medical examiner's report is scheduled to be released this week, but had been delayed for months
after Dearborn police, who are investigating the FBI in the matter, filed a court affidavit requesting the document be kept sealed, Fox 2 reported.
Informed of the circumstances of Abdullah's death, a visibly stunned member of the...
Monday, February 01, 2010, 11:45 AM.:
Thousands in Tokyo Protest Against US Troops in Japan - by Mike "Mish" Shedlock
Category: Japan | Posted by: babagrr | Add comment
Enquiring minds are noting increasing resentment against US militarism in places some might least expect.
Thousands of protesters from across Japan marched today in Tokyo to protest against U.S. military presence on Okinawa, while a Cabinet minister said she would fight to get rid of a marine base Washington considers crucial.
Some 47,000 U.S. troops are stationed in Japan, with more than half on the southern island of Okinawa. Residents have complained for years about noise, pollution and crime around the bases.
Japan and the U.S. signed a pact in 2006 that called for the realignment of American troops in the country and for a Marine base on the island to be moved to a less populated area.
But the new Tokyo government is re-examining the deal, caught between public opposition to American troops and its crucial military alliance with Washington.
On Saturday, labor unionists, pacifists, environmentalists and students marched through central Tokyo, yelling slogans and calling for an end to the U.S. troop presence.
They gathered for a rally at a park - under a banner that read 'Change! Japan-U.S. Relations' - for speeches by civil leaders and politicians.
Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama has repeatedly postponed his decision on the pact, with members of his own...
Thousands of protesters from across Japan marched today in Tokyo to protest against U.S. military presence on Okinawa, while a Cabinet minister said she would fight to get rid of a marine base Washington considers crucial.
Some 47,000 U.S. troops are stationed in Japan, with more than half on the southern island of Okinawa. Residents have complained for years about noise, pollution and crime around the bases.
Japan and the U.S. signed a pact in 2006 that called for the realignment of American troops in the country and for a Marine base on the island to be moved to a less populated area.
But the new Tokyo government is re-examining the deal, caught between public opposition to American troops and its crucial military alliance with Washington.
On Saturday, labor unionists, pacifists, environmentalists and students marched through central Tokyo, yelling slogans and calling for an end to the U.S. troop presence.
They gathered for a rally at a park - under a banner that read 'Change! Japan-U.S. Relations' - for speeches by civil leaders and politicians.
Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama has repeatedly postponed his decision on the pact, with members of his own...
Monday, February 01, 2010, 11:30 AM.:
Israeli Confessions
Category: palestine | Posted by: babagrr | Add comment
If one wants to know why and how the conflict started in Palestine more than 60 years ago, the "confessions" of Israeli and Zionist leaders should make it very clear
Sources for Quotes in the "Israeli Confessions" Video
Tuesday, November 24, 2009 at 6:18am
One of the criticisms that we had on this video is that the sources of quotes were not disclosed. Of course the Israelis and the supporters claim that they were taken out of context. Here is the list of quotes used in the video, their sources and the context:
1. “There is a country which happens to be called Palestine. A country without people”
Chaim Weismann, 1914
In Context:
"In its initial stage, Zionism was conceived by its pioneers as a movement wholly depending on mechanical factors: there is a country which happens to be called Palestine, a country without people, and, on the other hand, there exists the Jewish people, and it has no country.
Source: Nur Masalha, Expulsion Of The Palestinians, p. 6
2. “… we have come to conquer a country from people inhabiting it”
Moshe Sharett, 1914
In Context:
“We have forgotten that we have not come to an empty land to inherit it, but we have come to conquer a country from...
Sources for Quotes in the "Israeli Confessions" Video
Tuesday, November 24, 2009 at 6:18am
One of the criticisms that we had on this video is that the sources of quotes were not disclosed. Of course the Israelis and the supporters claim that they were taken out of context. Here is the list of quotes used in the video, their sources and the context:
1. “There is a country which happens to be called Palestine. A country without people”
Chaim Weismann, 1914
In Context:
"In its initial stage, Zionism was conceived by its pioneers as a movement wholly depending on mechanical factors: there is a country which happens to be called Palestine, a country without people, and, on the other hand, there exists the Jewish people, and it has no country.
Source: Nur Masalha, Expulsion Of The Palestinians, p. 6
2. “… we have come to conquer a country from people inhabiting it”
Moshe Sharett, 1914
In Context:
“We have forgotten that we have not come to an empty land to inherit it, but we have come to conquer a country from...
Monday, February 01, 2010, 11:19 AM.:
Hamas Accepts Existence of Israel Within 1967 Borders'' - By Mel Frykberg
Category: palestine | Posted by: babagrr | Add comment
Mel Frykberg interviews Mahmoud1 Ramahi, secretary-general of the Palestinian Legislative Council
Originally published on Jan 29
(IPS)
- Palestinian politics are at an impasse. The four-year term of the Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC) ended on Jan. 25 with no new elections planned. Presidential elections, meant to be held last year, were also postponed indefinitely.
IPS spoke with Dr. Mahmoud Ramahi, a neurosurgeon and secretary-general of the PLC, on the political deadlock.
Q: You spent three years in an Israel jail and were released last year. What were you held for?
A: I, together with 47 other Hamas members and elected parliamentarians of the PLC, were arrested by the Israelis following Hamas taking control of Gaza in June 2007 and the capture of an Israeli soldier by Gaza-based fighters. We were not charged with anything specific other than being Hamas members.
Q: The PLC's four-year term expired on Jan. 25 with no new elections in the pipeline despite the activities of the PLC being frozen since Hamas' takeover of Gaza. How do you assess the current situation and what happened when you tried to hold a press conference several days ago addressing the issue?
A: Local media outlets were pressured by the Palestinian...
Originally published on Jan 29
(IPS)
- Palestinian politics are at an impasse. The four-year term of the Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC) ended on Jan. 25 with no new elections planned. Presidential elections, meant to be held last year, were also postponed indefinitely.
IPS spoke with Dr. Mahmoud Ramahi, a neurosurgeon and secretary-general of the PLC, on the political deadlock.
Q: You spent three years in an Israel jail and were released last year. What were you held for?
A: I, together with 47 other Hamas members and elected parliamentarians of the PLC, were arrested by the Israelis following Hamas taking control of Gaza in June 2007 and the capture of an Israeli soldier by Gaza-based fighters. We were not charged with anything specific other than being Hamas members.
Q: The PLC's four-year term expired on Jan. 25 with no new elections in the pipeline despite the activities of the PLC being frozen since Hamas' takeover of Gaza. How do you assess the current situation and what happened when you tried to hold a press conference several days ago addressing the issue?
A: Local media outlets were pressured by the Palestinian...
Monday, February 01, 2010, 11:10 AM.:
Is Iran Next? - by dingxiaoyi
Category: Iran | Posted by: babagrr | Add comment
The threat of military action against Iran over its nuclear program has hung over the Middle East for a number of years. Does Iran pose a “clear and present danger” to US or global interests? What would be the basis for a military strike and what would be the consequences? Today asks the experts.
Ambassador Hua Liming, fmr Chinese Ambassador to Iran
Patrick Chovanec, Associate Professor at Tsinghua University
Soraya Ulrich - Independent researcher on US foreign policy and writer
Stephen Sniegoski - Author of 'The Transparent Cabal - The Neoconservative Agenda, War in the Middle East, and the National Interest of Israel."
hour 1
Listen(wma) | mms://webcast.cri.cn/en/magazine/today/2010/01/100128today1.wma
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hour 2
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Source URL = http://english.cri.cn/7146/2010/01/28/481s546118.htm
Ambassador Hua Liming, fmr Chinese Ambassador to Iran
Patrick Chovanec, Associate Professor at Tsinghua University
Soraya Ulrich - Independent researcher on US foreign policy and writer
Stephen Sniegoski - Author of 'The Transparent Cabal - The Neoconservative Agenda, War in the Middle East, and the National Interest of Israel."
hour 1
Listen(wma) | mms://webcast.cri.cn/en/magazine/today/2010/01/100128today1.wma
Download(mp3) http://media.iphone.cri.cn/magazine/today/2010/01/100128today1.mp3
hour 2
Listen(wma) | mms://webcast.cri.cn/en/magazine/today/2010/01/100128today2.wma
Download(mp3) http://media.iphone.cri.cn/magazine/today/2010/01/100128today2.mp3
Source URL = http://english.cri.cn/7146/2010/01/28/481s546118.htm
Monday, February 01, 2010, 10:09 AM.:
The Terror Card - Fear is the Key to Obedience - By Rev. Richard Skaff
Category: General | Posted by: babagrr | Add comment
The Terrorism Industrial Complex (TIC)
Originally published on January 31, 2010
"Global Research"
-- - Webster’s dictionary defines terrorism as the systematic use of terror especially as a means of coercion. [1].
However, the United States code defined terrorism as “(An) act of terrorism means an activity that (A) involves a violent act or an act dangerous to human life that is a violation of the criminal laws of the United States or any State, or that would be a criminal violation if committed within the jurisdiction of the United States or of any state, and (B) appears to be intended (i) to intimidate or coerce a civilian population: (ii) to influence the policy of a government by intimidation or coercion; or (iii) to affect the conduct of a government by assassination or kidnapping.” [2].
This is an official congressional definition of terrorism that applies only to other nations. However, the psychological end results of terror, is always fear that eventually leads to resignation and submission. Fear and terrorism are interconnected, therefore, we should discuss their connection in order to understand their impact on our behavior, and their use to control people. Fear has been the glue that has kept people attached to...
Originally published on January 31, 2010
"Global Research"
-- - Webster’s dictionary defines terrorism as the systematic use of terror especially as a means of coercion. [1].
However, the United States code defined terrorism as “(An) act of terrorism means an activity that (A) involves a violent act or an act dangerous to human life that is a violation of the criminal laws of the United States or any State, or that would be a criminal violation if committed within the jurisdiction of the United States or of any state, and (B) appears to be intended (i) to intimidate or coerce a civilian population: (ii) to influence the policy of a government by intimidation or coercion; or (iii) to affect the conduct of a government by assassination or kidnapping.” [2].
This is an official congressional definition of terrorism that applies only to other nations. However, the psychological end results of terror, is always fear that eventually leads to resignation and submission. Fear and terrorism are interconnected, therefore, we should discuss their connection in order to understand their impact on our behavior, and their use to control people. Fear has been the glue that has kept people attached to...
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