Monday, July 31, 2006
How Do we Sleep While Beirut is Burning?
Hamid Dabashi, Live from Lebanon, 29 July 2006
"Lebanon could have been a model of productive ideological conflicts, of civil discourse, progressive politics, foreign investments, domestic contestations, intellectual diversity, moral variations. Beirut was civil, civilizing, cosmopolitan."
In part one of a two-part series, Professor Hamid Dabashi reflects on the beauty of a country reduced to rubble by the Israelis and into two dimensions by the news media.
Hamid Dabashi, Live from Lebanon, 29 July 2006
"Lebanon could have been a model of productive ideological conflicts, of civil discourse, progressive politics, foreign investments, domestic contestations, intellectual diversity, moral variations. Beirut was civil, civilizing, cosmopolitan."
In part one of a two-part series, Professor Hamid Dabashi reflects on the beauty of a country reduced to rubble by the Israelis and into two dimensions by the news media.
Friday, July 21, 2006
U.S. threatened with more isolation
WASHINGTON - President Bush's uncompromising support for Israel in its battle with Hezbollah, a stance now backed by Congress, is threatening to isolate the United States even further from the international community.
It is also putting the administration at odds with fragile democratic governments in the Middle East that it is simultaneously trying to prop up, and sowing increasing anger across the Arab world. (more)
WASHINGTON - President Bush's uncompromising support for Israel in its battle with Hezbollah, a stance now backed by Congress, is threatening to isolate the United States even further from the international community.
It is also putting the administration at odds with fragile democratic governments in the Middle East that it is simultaneously trying to prop up, and sowing increasing anger across the Arab world. (more)
Tuesday, July 11, 2006
LAST STAND
The military’s problem with the President’s Iran policy.
by SEYMOUR M. HERSH
the New Yorker Issue of 2006-07-10
Posted 2006-07-03
On May 31st, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice announced what appeared to be a major change in U.S. foreign policy. The Bush Administration, she said, would be willing to join Russia, China, and its European allies in direct talks with Iran about its nuclear program. There was a condition, however: the negotiations would not begin until, as the President put it in a June 19th speech at the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy, "the Iranian regime fully and verifiably suspends its uranium enrichment and reprocessing activities." Iran, which has insisted on its right to enrich uranium, was being asked to concede the main point of the negotiations before they started. The question was whether the Administration expected the Iranians to agree, or was laying the diplomatic groundwork for future military action. In his speech, Bush also talked about "freedom for the Iranian people," and he added, "Iran’s leaders have a clear choice." There was an unspoken threat: the U.S. Strategic Command, supported by the Air Force, has been drawing up plans, at the President’s direction, for a major bombing campaign in Iran.
Inside the Pentagon, senior commanders have increasingly challenged the President’s plans, according to active-duty and retired officers and officials. The generals and admirals have told the Administration that the bombing campaign will probably not succeed in destroying Iran’s nuclear program. They have also warned that an attack could lead to serious economic, political, and military consequences for the United States.
A crucial issue in the military’s dissent, the officers said, is the fact that American and European intelligence agencies have not found specific evidence of clandestine activities or hidden facilities; the war planners are not sure what to hit. "The target array in Iran is huge, but it’s amorphous," a high-ranking general told me. "The question we face is, When does innocent infrastructure evolve into something nefarious?" The high-ranking general added that the military’s experience in Iraq, where intelligence on weapons of mass destruction was deeply flawed, has affected its approach to Iran. "We built this big monster with Iraq, and there was nothing there. This is son of Iraq," he said. (more)
Nagasaki University
Photo of a Nagasaki youth
... more ... Terror of the Atomic Bomb
The military’s problem with the President’s Iran policy.
by SEYMOUR M. HERSH
the New Yorker Issue of 2006-07-10
Posted 2006-07-03
On May 31st, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice announced what appeared to be a major change in U.S. foreign policy. The Bush Administration, she said, would be willing to join Russia, China, and its European allies in direct talks with Iran about its nuclear program. There was a condition, however: the negotiations would not begin until, as the President put it in a June 19th speech at the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy, "the Iranian regime fully and verifiably suspends its uranium enrichment and reprocessing activities." Iran, which has insisted on its right to enrich uranium, was being asked to concede the main point of the negotiations before they started. The question was whether the Administration expected the Iranians to agree, or was laying the diplomatic groundwork for future military action. In his speech, Bush also talked about "freedom for the Iranian people," and he added, "Iran’s leaders have a clear choice." There was an unspoken threat: the U.S. Strategic Command, supported by the Air Force, has been drawing up plans, at the President’s direction, for a major bombing campaign in Iran.
Inside the Pentagon, senior commanders have increasingly challenged the President’s plans, according to active-duty and retired officers and officials. The generals and admirals have told the Administration that the bombing campaign will probably not succeed in destroying Iran’s nuclear program. They have also warned that an attack could lead to serious economic, political, and military consequences for the United States.
A crucial issue in the military’s dissent, the officers said, is the fact that American and European intelligence agencies have not found specific evidence of clandestine activities or hidden facilities; the war planners are not sure what to hit. "The target array in Iran is huge, but it’s amorphous," a high-ranking general told me. "The question we face is, When does innocent infrastructure evolve into something nefarious?" The high-ranking general added that the military’s experience in Iraq, where intelligence on weapons of mass destruction was deeply flawed, has affected its approach to Iran. "We built this big monster with Iraq, and there was nothing there. This is son of Iraq," he said. (more)
Nagasaki University
Photo of a Nagasaki youth
... more ... Terror of the Atomic Bomb
Sunday, July 09, 2006
HERE IS A LIST OF MY BRAVE FRIENDS
LYNNE STEWART
New York's famous fighter for the poor in court has been mercilessly persued by Patriot Act cowboys (lunatics) John Ashcroft and Alberto "torturer" Gonzalez.
All she would have to do to save herself is give up on the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, the legacy of courageous women lawyers, and common decency. But she stuck to her belief that the accused, in an American court of law, deserves the right to legal counsel. And she foolishly believed the accused sentanced to prison by a jury should not also be tortured in a seperate non-sence, non-sentancing non-procedure by Patriot Act cowboys. She will be sentanced in Federal Court in September.
http://www.lynnestewart.org
ANN SHIRAZNY , Grannies Peace Brigade
Ann and her husband, Ahmad are everywhere peace action is called for. She's not only on the front lines of peace actions, counter recruiting and general grannie mayhem, she's a tireless educator about the Occupation of Palestine. A tireless jailbird and court wart to boot! And, no, she will not be silent about the Iraq War, the threats against Iran, Gitmo or Gaza.
FATHER CASTLE, (ret.) St. Mary's Episcopal Church, the historic first 'free' pew church in New York City
Father Castle was supposed to preside over a seminary student graduation at the end of the Gulf War. He kept his obligation to that duty. He shamelessly stayed in the main santuary of the Cathedral of St. John the Divine with 7 others when it was known fuel-air explosives champion and war criminal General Norman Schwartzkov was set to speak there as part of the AT&T sponsored 'festivities' marking the end of hostilities.
I am proud to have gone to jail with him.
REV. COOPER-CAMP, St. Mary's Episcopal Church, the historic first 'free' pew church in New York City
He is everywhere and at every trial I attend on behalf of slews of illegal arrestees in the fight against wars for profit or the fight for free speech in New York. And he is a champion for Harlem, my Harlem.
"LOTUS" of myspace in L.A. County who keeps tabs on the South Central farmers collective and broadcasts news to the world about it on her radio show on kpfk.
http://www.myspace.com/2esmewithlove
KYLE HENCE
A Connecticut mariner who stopped what he thought was important on 9-11 and began to delve into the facts of that day. He began Unanswered Questions website and he hosted many informative seminars to address basic questions on what the hell is going on with our government.
http://www.unansweredquestions.org
REV. BILLY
Performance artist and lower eastside radical and community preservationist, Rev. Billy helped keep box-store Goliath, Wal-Mart, from many small towns. He is champion of the not-ready-for-Rolex crowd and has developed a stunningly successful ritual for casting out consumer desires from the psyche of possessed suplicants.
http://www.revbilly.com
DANIEL McGOWAN
Very dangerous Dan, who had the nerve - the NERVE - to help run a website for anti-RNC activists in 2004. Why on earth would normal New Yorkers, still reeling from the devestation of September 11th, 2000, be at all concerned about an unelected president from a party universally rejected by those here coming to exploit that day of sorrow? An asshat who never skipped an opportunity to gas off about that day - except when called to give unsworn "testimony" to the 9-11 Commission. Then he sure dug in his heels.
So dangerous Dan, Mr. Mischief, helped strangers communcate about how to get to New York, where to stay and how to artistically state objections what they feel about this criminal, war mongering, sadistic, creatian, G. Bush Jr..
And the FBI has the NERVE to call him a threat to America. They have brought the whole Patriot Act down around his ears (with the help of sleezy paid informants). That'll teach these damn tree-huggers! Communication with un-bush-worshipping crazies. And so many of them! Tens, hundreds of thousands of them! Where did they all come from? It must be those pesky internets!
http://www.supportdaniel.org
THE ANTI-RNC EVERYONE
see above
Honorable Mention:
NICOLA, JAMES BLUNT, the DIXIE CHICKS
Good musicians against the bland.
Wednesday, July 05, 2006
The connection between the 'kidnapped soldier' and the Israeli military operation exists only in the realm of propaganda.
By Uri Avnery
PalestineChronicle.com
"Israel has declared war on the Palestinian people! The Palestinian people will answer in kind! The Palestinian rebellion will go on! The Palestinian fighters are steadfast in the service of the nation! Down with the Nazi-Zionist occupation! Out with the unclean infidels from the Holy Land! Destroyed Rafah - we shall build you anew! Long live the Palestinian revolution! Long live the State of Palestine!"
A Hamas leaflet of last week? Not exactly. With appropriate changes, this leaflet was published on July 2, 1946 - sixty years ago almost to the day - by the Haganah, after "Black Saturday". (more)
By Uri Avnery
PalestineChronicle.com
"Israel has declared war on the Palestinian people! The Palestinian people will answer in kind! The Palestinian rebellion will go on! The Palestinian fighters are steadfast in the service of the nation! Down with the Nazi-Zionist occupation! Out with the unclean infidels from the Holy Land! Destroyed Rafah - we shall build you anew! Long live the Palestinian revolution! Long live the State of Palestine!"
A Hamas leaflet of last week? Not exactly. With appropriate changes, this leaflet was published on July 2, 1946 - sixty years ago almost to the day - by the Haganah, after "Black Saturday". (more)
Tuesday, July 04, 2006
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