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Toxic legacy of US assault on Fallujah ‘worse than Hiroshima’

Aug 25, ’10 7:39 PM

Amer­ica, kick­ing ass:

Dra­matic increases in infant mor­tal­ity, can­cer and leuk­aemia in the Iraqi city of Fal­lu­jah, which was bom­barded by US Mar­ines in 2004, exceed those repor­ted by sur­viv­ors of the atomic bombs that were dropped on Hiroshima and Naga­saki in 1945, accord­ing to a new study.

Dr Busby says that while he can­not identify the type of arma­ments used by the Mar­ines, the extent of genetic dam­age suffered by inhab­it­ants sug­gests the use of uranium in some form. He said: “My guess is that they used a new weapon against build­ings to break through walls and kill those inside.”

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Hero: Inbar Michelzon

Aug 22, ’10 11:45 PM

Inbar Michelzon:

I felt very alone in the army. I couldn’t talk about the things I felt were mis­placed … I didn’t have strong views but I felt uncom­fort­able about the talk, about sol­diers hit­ting Arabs and laugh­ing. I thought every­one else was nor­mal and I was the one who wasn’t. I felt an out­sider to the group experience.

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Chomsky: why the U.S. enables Israeli crimes and atrocities

Aug 21, ’10 12:43 PM

Kath­leen Wells of Race Talk inter­views Noam Chom­sky on Israel.

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War, what is it good for?

Aug 12, ’10 8:41 PM

The arms trade, and you, dear UK tax­payer, are pay­ing to set up the deals:

Brit­ish tax­pay­ers are pay­ing a secret­ive lob­by­ing firm $10,000 (£6,354) a month to push Amer­ican politi­cians to award con­tracts to Brit­ish defence companies.

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65 years since America’s nuclear terrorist attack on Japan

Aug 6, ’10 9:20 PM

It’s the 65th anniversary of the worst ter­ror­ist attack in his­tory today.

Let’s hope the U.S. and Israel do not try to trump it as some have been sug­gest­ing they might.

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The Ghosts of WWII

Aug 4, ’10 8:21 PM

The Ghosts of World War II.

Mash up of modern Europe with old WWII photos

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Hero: Mike Prysner

Jul 30, ’10 9:57 PM

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My mate the terrorist

Jul 3, ’10 2:13 AM

While I was party­ing at Sun­rise Cel­eb­ra­tion in Somer­set recently my good friend Ken O’Keefe was sail­ing off to Gaza on the Mavi Mar­mara, as part of the Gaza Free­dom Flo­tilla.

The flo­tilla was car­ry­ing human­it­arian aid, med­ical sup­plies, and con­struc­tion mater­i­als, intent on break­ing the Gaza Strip block­ade being per­pet­rated by the apartheid state of Israel against the people of Palestine.

In the middle of the night on 30 May, while in inter­na­tional waters, they were for­cibly boarded by armed Israeli com­mandos. The pas­sen­gers defen­ded their ship against the invaders and nine of them were murdered, most shot at close range in the back of the head.

Ken helped over­power two com­mandos and man­aged to dis­arm one of his pis­tol and empty it’s ammuni­tion. The com­mandos even­tu­ally over­powered the flo­tilla, then promptly kid­napped every­one, tow­ing the ships to a deten­tion camp. After steal­ing everyone’s pos­ses­sions and gen­er­ally treat­ing them like dogs the kid­nap­pers relen­ted to inter­na­tional pres­sure, releas­ing and deport­ing most of those they had kid­napped. Ken wanted to appeal his deport­a­tion to Ire­land and instead go to Gaza, but, hav­ing already been ser­i­ously beaten twice by Israeli sol­diers while cap­tive, his soli­citor advised him that for his own safety he should leave Israel.

For his troubles Ken was laugh­ably lis­ted on the IDF’s offi­cial pro­pa­ganda web­log — IDF Spokes­per­son — as “known to be involved in ter­ror­ist activ­ity,” and con­tinu­ing with:

Ken O’Keefe (Born 1969), an Amer­ican and Brit­ish cit­izen, is a rad­ical anti-Israel act­iv­ist and oper­at­ive of the Hamas Ter­ror organ­iz­a­tion. He attemp­ted to enter the Gaza Strip in order to form and train a com­mando unit for the Palestinian ter­ror organization.

To form and train a com­mando unit? I’ve had some heated argu­ments with Ken over the years but ‘ter­ror­ist com­mando’? Someone in the IDF pro­pa­ganda unit’s been telling porkies. (Note to IDF: when you’re falsely accus­ing someone of being a ter­ror­ist try not to get their nation­al­ity wrong. Kind of makes you look like you don’t know what you’re talk­ing about.)

So let’s get this straight. They kid­nap Ken (whose life story hap­pens to be an open book). Then they deport him. And then they tell us he’s a known ter­ror­ist? Wouldn’t it per­haps be a little more prudent to hold onto a terrorist?

Someone in the IDF pro­pa­ganda unit doesn’t know how to tell porkies.

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HARDtalk: Ken O’Keefe on the Gaza Freedom Flotilla

Jul 3, ’10 1:53 AM

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Israel’s greatest loss: its moral imagination

Jun 13, ’10 10:40 AM

Henry Sieg­man, writ­ing for Haaretz:

When I man­aged to get over the shock of that exchange, it struck me that the invoc­a­tion of the Hitler era was actu­ally a fright­en­ingly apt and sear­ing ana­logy, although not the one my friend inten­ded. A mil­lion and a half civil­ians have been forced to live in an open-air prison in inhu­man con­di­tions for over three years now, but unlike the Hitler years, they are not Jews but Palestini­ans. Their jail­ers, incred­ibly, are sur­viv­ors of the Holo­caust, or their des­cend­ants. Of course, the inmates of Gaza are not destined for gas cham­bers, as the Jews were, but they have been reduced to a debased and hope­less existence.

Fully 80% of Gaza’s pop­u­la­tion lives on the edge of mal­nu­tri­tion, depend­ing on inter­na­tional char­it­ies for their daily nour­ish­ment. Accord­ing to the UN and World Health author­it­ies, Gaza’s chil­dren suf­fer from dra­mat­ic­ally increased mor­bid­ity that will affect and shorten the lives of many of them. This obscen­ity is a con­sequence of a delib­er­ate and care­fully cal­cu­lated Israeli policy aimed at de-developing Gaza by des­troy­ing not only its eco­nomy but its phys­ical and social infra­struc­ture while seal­ing it her­mit­ic­ally from the out­side world.

Par­tic­u­larly appalling is that this policy has been the source of amuse­ment for some Israeli lead­ers, who accord­ing to Israeli press reports have jok­ingly described it as “put­ting Palestini­ans on a diet.” That, too, is remin­is­cent of the Hitler years, when Jew­ish suf­fer­ing amused the Nazis.

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