Rebel Newsflash: T Minus Two Years (plus 9 more items) |  |
- T Minus Two Years
- Ahmad Sa'adat: A Palestinian Prisoner of Conscience
- Bill Keller's self-defense on "torture"
- Israel Suspected in Bogus Claim Iran Developing Nuclear Trigger
- The War That's Not a War
- New Yorkers protest Tzipi Livni despite hidden location
- Flotilla fallout: What exactly was the U.S. role?
- Newspapers waffle on 'torture' and 'occupation'
- Petraeus emails show general scheming with journalist to get out pro-Israel storyline
- 'What kind of America'? Hate-filled rally to stop mosque
| Posted: 04 Jul 2010 03:58 AM PDT  Last veterans day, Barack Obama and Gen. David Petraeus had a polite but pointed exchange in the White House Situation Room. The president wanted to know why the Pentagon needed 21 months to send 40,000 troops to Afghanistan when it had taken only six months to send a similar number to Iraq in 2007. When Petraeus began to explain—saying that the Afghanistan escalation wasn't modeled on his surge in Iraq—Obama cut in with a wry reminder that, yes, in at least one sense, the two missions were the same. Petraeus was expected to work his magic in each, and in roughly the same amount of time.  |
| Ahmad Sa'adat: A Palestinian Prisoner of Conscience Posted: 03 Jul 2010 10:01 PM PDT  Detailed information about him can be accessed through the following link: http://www.freeahmadsaadat.org/bg.html He's the 1967-founded Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine's (PFLP) General Secretary, one of thousands of Palestinian political prisoners, sentenced in 2002 to 30 years in prison "for a range of 'security-related' political offenses,' " including his prominence in a prohibited organization, a 1993 document stating that:  |
| Bill Keller's self-defense on "torture" Posted: 02 Jul 2010 11:04 PM PDT  In response to the Harvard study documenting how newspapers labeled waterboarding as "torture" for almost 100 years until the Bush administration told them not to, The New York Times issued a statement justifying this behavior on the ground that it did not want to take sides in the debate. Andrew Sullivan, Greg Sargent and Adam Serwer all pointed out that "taking a side" is precisely what the NYT did: by dutifully complying with the Bush script and ceasing to use the term (replacing it with cleansing euphemisms), it endorsed the demonstrably false proposition that waterboarding was something other than torture. Yesterday, the NYT's own Brian Stelter examined this controversy and included a justifying quote from the paper's Executive Editor, Bill Keller, that is one of the more demented and reprehensible statements I've seen from a high-level media executive in some time (h/t Jay Rosen):  |
| Israel Suspected in Bogus Claim Iran Developing Nuclear Trigger Posted: 02 Jul 2010 10:14 PM PDT  Back in December, 2009, a story published by The Sunday Times warned that Iran was in the process of developing a neutron initiator, the component of a nuclear bomb that triggers an explosion. "Foreign intelligence agencies date them to early 2007, four years after Iran was thought to have suspended its weapons programme," Catherine Philp wrote for the British newspaper. "An Asian intelligence source last week confirmed to The Times that his country also believed that weapons work was being carried out as recently as 2007."  |
| Posted: 02 Jul 2010 06:00 PM PDT  Statement in the House by Rep. Ron Paul of Texas on funding the war in Afghanistan. In January 1991, we went to war in the Middle East against Saddam Hussein, Iraq's dictator who was our ally during the Iran-Iraq war. A border dispute between Kuwait and Iraq broke out after our State Department gave a green light to Hussein's invasion.  |
| New Yorkers protest Tzipi Livni despite hidden location Posted: 02 Jul 2010 10:17 AM PDT  About 50 protesters picketed outside the Russian Tea Room yesterday as Tzipi Livni spoke inside. The protest was organized by Jews Say No!, American Jews for a Just Peace, and Adalah-NY: The New York Coalition for the Boycott of Israel. Livni was giving a speech as part of a two-day conference on "Peace and Security" hosted by the International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation and Political Violence. Livni was being protested because of her role in Israel's 2006 attack on Lebanon and the winter 2009 attack on Gaza. Activists highlighted a 2009 Der Spiegel quote that would seem to indicate Livni doesn't feel much remorse about the Gaza attack, "Naturally I regret every civilian casualty, but what happened at the UN school was not a mistake." With quotes like these, no wonder Livni has been targeted for war crimes prosecution.  |
| Flotilla fallout: What exactly was the U.S. role? Posted: 02 Jul 2010 05:32 AM PDT  The Center for Constitutional Rights has filed a Freedom of Information Act request regarding the United States government's knowledge of, and actions related to, Israel's attack on the freedom flotilla. CCR attorney Katherine Gallagher explains in a press release: One U.S. citizen was killed, others were injured, detained and had their property taken, and a U.S.-registered vessel seized by Israel during its attack in international waters last month. Serious questions remain unanswered about the U.S. response to the attack, its actions and policies, particularly in the context of the blockade of Gaza, internationally condemned as illegal and unjust. Citizens need to know their government will protect their rights under U.S. and international law vis-à-vis a foreign government, including Israel—the biggest recipient of U.S. aid over the last fifty years.  |
| Newspapers waffle on 'torture' and 'occupation' Posted: 02 Jul 2010 03:45 AM PDT Many people, including me, get exercised about the New York Times' bias in its coverage of the question of Palestine. An article reporting the findings of a recent Kennedy School study, which showed that American newspapers essentially stopped calling water boarding torture during the War on Terror, contains this apologia from a NYT spokesman:  |
| Petraeus emails show general scheming with journalist to get out pro-Israel storyline Posted: 02 Jul 2010 02:46 AM PDT Last March General David Petraeus, then head of Central Command, sought to undercut his own testimony before the Senate Armed Services Committee that was critical of Israel by intriguing with a rightwing writer to put out a different story, in emails obtained by Mondoweiss. The emails show Petraeus encouraging Max Boot of Commentary to write a story-- and offering the neoconservative writer choice details about his views on the Holocaust:  |
| 'What kind of America'? Hate-filled rally to stop mosque Posted: 02 Jul 2010 02:37 AM PDT  If they build it, they will bomb. Angry Sheepshead Bay residents came out in a show of force on Sunday to protest a planned mosque and Muslim community center in their neighborhood. "If they build a mosque there, I'm going to bomb the mosque," said one outraged resident who lives across the street from the proposed house of worship between East 28th and East 29th streets on Voorhies Avenue. The resident, who refused to give his name, identified himself as a former Israeli soldier who had lived on Voorhies Avenue for eight years.  |
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