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Create your free Blog. Report: U.S. trained terror group. When the U.S. wants to fund, train, arm or otherwise align itself with a Terrorist group or state sponsor of Terror — as it often does — it at least usually has the tact to first remove them from its formal terrorist list (as the U.S. did when it wanted to support Saddam in 1982 and work with Libya in 2006), or it just keeps them off the list altogether despite what former Council on Foreign Relations writer Lionel Beehner described as “mounds of evidence that [they] at one time or another abetted terrorists” (as it has done with close U.S. allies in Saudi Arabia and Pakistan, along with the El Salvadoran death squads and Nicaraguan contras armed and funded in the 1980s by the Reagan administration).
But according to a new, multi-sourced report from The New Yorker‘s Seymour Hersh, the U.S. did not even bother going through those motions when, during the Bush years, it trained the Iranian dissident group Mujahideen-e-Khalq (MEK) at a secretive Department of Energy site in Nevada: Israel's plan to attack Iran put on hold until next year at the earliest. Two Lumps. Two Lumps. Hans Blix: The Iranian threat - Talk to Al Jazeera. Few men have spent more time at the intersection of nuclear weapons and international politics than Swedish diplomat Hans Blix.
As the former head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and then chief United Nations weapons inspector, Blix was at the centre of events when he publicly contradicted claims from the administration of former US president George W Bush that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction (WMD). It was an assessment the US pushed aside. Blix also accused the British government of dramatising the threat of weapons in Iraq in order to strengthen its case for joining the 2003 war against Saddam Hussein.
No stockpiles of weapons of mass destruction were ever found. In his 2004 book Disarming Iraq, Blix gives an account of the events and inspections before the coalition began its invasion. "I am sorry for the way it went because we failed, and if we had persuaded the UN Security Council and persuaded the world, then there might not have been a war," he said. The View from Nowhere: Questions and Answers. Nov.10 “American journalism is dumber than most journalists, who often share my sense of absurdity about these practices.
A major reason we have a practice less intelligent than its practitioners is the prestige that the View from Nowhere still claims…” After dismissing Mr. Williams, who was one of its senior news analysts, NPR argued that he had violated the organization’s belief in impartiality, a core tenet of modern American journalism. By renewing Mr. Williams’s contract, Fox News showed its preference for point-of-view — rather than the view-from-nowhere — polemics. (This Q and A was conducted by Jay Rosen, solo. Q. A. Q. A. Q. A. Q. A. Q. A. But there are limits to this motion. Q. A. Q. A. Q. A. When MSNBC suspends Keith Olbermann for donating without company permission to candidates he supports– that’s dumb. In fact, American journalism is dumber than most journalists, who often share my sense of absurdity about these practices.
Q. A. Q. A. Q. A. Howard Zinn: "On Human Nature and Aggression." Ahmadinejad I Am Not Anti Semitic. Iran’s President Ahmadinezhad Holds New York News Conference 21 SepNews conference by Iran’s President Mahmud Ahmadinezhad at UN headquarters in New York — correspondents’ questions in English simultaneously translated into Persian — liveIslamic Republic of Iran News Network Television (IRINN)Friday, September 22, 2006 Regarding the issue of the invasion of Lebanon, you saw that everyone – of all religions, of all faiths – condemned it.
Because the nations have awakened. The nations hate aggression. . . Some people think that if they level accusations at Ahmadinezhad – saying: He is a terrorist, he is a murderer, he is anti-Semitic – the issue would be resolved. No. I am not anti-Semitic. Like all other human beings, Jews are respected. (David Pujadas) The fact that Iran’s position is disconcerting, one of the reasons is that Your Excellency’s statements are to a large extent threatening. (Ahmadinezhad) . . . (David Pujadas) Let us clarify everything. Left I on the News. The standard meme, repeated in the article I'm about to cite here, is that Iranian President Ahmadinejad has called for Israel "to be wiped off the map. " More than a year ago I wrote: A reading of Ahmadinejad's statement suggests quite clearly that the "wiped off the map" is to be taken literally (i.e., that the political boundaries of the region should be redrawn), and not figurately as meaning "wiped off the face of the earth.
" He explicitly denies that he is talking about "A fight between Judaism and other religions," and explicitly describes the endpoint of the struggle in the Middle East by saying: "It will be over the day a Palestinian government, which belongs to the Palestinian people, comes to power; the day that all refugees return to their homes; a democratic government elected by the people comes to power.
" Now along comes Ahmadinejad, not particularly attempting to clarify the remark, but doing so anyway: High Class Blogs: News and Media. McChrystal: We've Shot 'An Amazing Number' Of Innocent Afghans. As reported in the New York Times last week, a significant number of innocent Afghans continue to be killed by US and NATO forces despite new rules issued by Gen. Stanley McChrystal meant to help reduce civilian casualties. Indeed, the number of Afghans who have been killed or hurt by troop shootings at convoys and military checkpoints has basically remained the same since McChrystal announced his directives.
"We have shot an amazing number of people, but to my knowledge, none has ever proven to be a threat," said McChrystal during a recent video-conference with troops, the Times reported. Talking Points Memo has obtained a longer transcript of McChrystal's statements, which you can read in full here. From McChrystal's remarks: We really ask a lot of our young service people out on the checkpoints because there's danger, they're asked to make very rapid decisions in often very unclear situations. And yet the numbers remain essentially the same year over year: From the Times: Why Bombing Iran Would Mean Invading Iran - Robert Wright - International. Mitt Romney is tired of hearing President Obama threaten Iran in only vague terms. Enough of this "all options are on the table" stuff. Obama, Romney says, should declare that "we are considering military options" and "they're not just on the table--they are in our hand.
" According to the Israeli newspaper Haaretz, Romney will get some support next week when Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visits Washington: Netanyahu will ask Obama to say publicly that "the United States is preparing for a military operation in the event that Iran crosses certain 'red lines'. " Before signing on to this mission, could we get some clarity on what exactly this "military operation" will ultimately entail? There are two main schools of thought about how air strikes on Iran would work out. Most Americans seem to envision something cleanly surgical--a few days of bombing runs and then we get that "mission accomplished" banner out of the closet. Would we actually do that? But why take my word for any of this?
Inbox. Slanting the Case on Iran’s Nukes. From the Archive: As the International Atomic Energy Agency clashes with Iran over access to a military site, the U.S. government and mainstream news media are denouncing Iran. But no one recalls the WikiLeaks documents that exposed the bias of the new IAEA leaders, as Robert Parry reported in 2011. By Robert Parry (Originally published November 21, 2011) As Washington’s political/media class rises up in arms over new WMD allegations against Iran, it might be worth recalling how a similar process played out nearly a decade ago when the U.S. public was drawn into a war with Iraq. It wasn’t just that George W. Bush told some lies; it was more complicated than that.
In 2002-2003, Official Washington professed a deep faith in the professionalism of the CIA’s analytical division, which accepted enough of the bogus intelligence being pushed by neocon war hawks to create a basis for Bush’s invasion of Iraq. ‘Constructive Ambiguity’ The U.K. Troubling Parallel The History Media Hype The ‘Sources’ How the Media got the Parchin Access Story Wrong. News media reported last week that Iran had flatly refused the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) access to its Parchin military test facility, based on a statement to reporters by IAEA Deputy Director General, Herman Nackaerts, that “We could not get access”. Now, however, explicit statements on the issue by the Iranian Ambassador to the IAEA and the language of the new IAEA report indicate that Iran did not reject an IAEA visit to the base per se but was only refusing access as long as no agreement had been reached with the IAEA governing the modalities of cooperation.
That new and clarifying information confirms what I reported February 23. In an email to me and in interviews with Russia Today, Reuters, and the Fars News Agency, the Iranian Permanent Representative to the IAEA, Ali Asghar Soltanieh, said Iran told the high-level IAEA mission that it would allow access to Parchin once modalities of Iran-IAEA cooperation had been agreed on. About the Author. 23 incredible new technologies you’ll see by 2021. Free Web Development Tools for Windows | Microsoft WebMatrix. The Energy Lie (Suppression of Technological Evolution) - Home - StumbleUpon.
How to Write a Novel Using the Snowflake Method | eHow.com - StumbleUpon. Congo research - Red rubber : the story of the rubber slave trad... Congo research - Helvette på Utøya (utoyahelvete) Har valgt å opprette denne bloggen, egentlig mest for min egen del. trenger å ha en plass å skrive. Jeg kommer til å skrive fra det minuttet jævelen begynte å skyte til det minuttet jeg var trygg. Jeg kommer til å forklare vonde hendelser som kan være tungt å lese. Bildene i hodet mitt er enda uklare, ting har ikke enda kommet på plass. Vi var alle samlet i storsalen, vi skulle snakke om Oslo tragedien, eksplosjonen.
En halvtime seinere, jeg sendte melding til min venninne Åse, "kan du komme i kantinen? " hun kom og vi planla å gå ned til teltene for å hente min mobil lader. Så hørte jeg noe som liknet på raketter og tenkte hvem i helvettes navn er det som tuller med dette nå. Jeg løp først alene, så oppdaget jeg Åse, tok tak i henne og løp. Det føltes ut som flere timer, men det var minutter. Jeg samlet mine hender og snakket til Gud, jeg prøvde samtidig å holde de andre rolige.
Jeg ser alle begynner å kle av seg, alle vet det er tungt å svømme med tøy. Jeg er så sliten. Congo research - "The West Is Terrified of Arabic Democracies", Noam Chomsky interviewed by Qantara. Mr. Chomsky, many people claim that the Arab world is incompatible with democracy. Would you say that the recent developments falsify this thesis? Noam Chomsky: The thesis never had any basis whatsoever. The Arab-Islamic world has a long history of democracy.
In internal discussions in 1958, which have since been declassified, President Eisenhower spoke about a campaign of hatred against us in the Arab world. That means that western democracies prevented the emergence of democracies in the Arab world? Chomsky: I won't run through the details, but yes, it continues that way to the present. So you were not surprised at all by the Arab Spring? Chomsky: Well, I didn't really expect it. But in Egypt they remember, and that's only one in a long series of militant strike actions. Obama's predecessor, George W. Chomsky: The main theme of modern post-war history is the domino effect: Cuba, Brazil, Vietnam… Henry Kissinger compared it to a virus that might spread contagion. Today it's similar. Congo research - chaos.pdf (application/pdf Object) Congo research - Michel Foucault: Truth and Power. Michel Foucault: Truth and Power In "Truth and Power" Michel Foucault revisits the major theoretical trends and questions of his career.
He is a thinker who knows no bounds of subject or field. His ideas stretch from literature to science, from psychology to labor. He deals in a currency that is accepted everywhere: truth and power. Foucault spends much of his career tracing the threads of truth and power as they intertwine with the history of human experience. He especially loves to study asylums and prisons because they are close to an encapsulated power structure.
Using techniques culled from psychology, politics, anthropology, sociology, and archaeology, Foucault presents a highly politicized analysis of the flow of power and power relations. "Truth and Power" is an excerpted version of an interview with Alesandro Fontana and Pasquale Pasquino that initially appeared as "Intervista a Miche Foucault" in Microfiseca del Poetere in 1977. Congo research - 2581_001.pdf (application/pdf Object) Congo research - Congo elections: Why is our revolution not being televised? | The Multicultural Politic. Congo research - You Have No Idea What High Quality Video Is | 1.0 - StumbleUpon. Congo research - PFU-behandlingen. Congo research - Scirus - for scientific information - StumbleUpon.
Congo research - Sci-Fi-Superfan-Reference-Manual.jpg from geektyrant.com - StumbleUpon. Congo research - The Missing Value in British Politics. In this taster of his forthcoming book, Why Voice Matters: Culture and Politics After Neoliberalism, Nick Couldry argues for the importance of voice in challenging the dominance market values hold over political and social life. With an approaching general election, we will get used to dissecting the rival claims of political parties. But what if the real lack in British politics is not being addressed at all? I mean the failure of major political actors to develop values that challenge the dominance of market discourse which has gripped politics since the late 1970s. 'Neoliberalism', as such discourse is usually known, is much more than the championing of market forces.
This transformation is now so embedded in how we think that it needs a “counter-rationality” to challenge it. Today many countries, and perhaps particularly Britain, face just such a crisis. Politically, the UK shows what happens when neoliberal doctrine becomes embedded within established democratic systems. References. Congo research - Nick Couldry. The wealth of responses to the horrific events of 11 September in openDemocracy is only one index of their global impact.
Among the contributors, Brendan O’Leary and Tom Nairn each underline the significance of the ‘silence’ that surrounded them, the absence of any expression of wider purpose from their perpetrators. Brendan O’Leary suggests one explanation for this chilling silence. If those responsible considered their actions ‘self-evidently right’, the latter would be ‘value rational’ rather than ‘instrumentally rational’. A religious motive, rather than (for example) a political or territorial one, is a matter for true believers, beyond rational discussion; for them, it needs no wider justification. But what if these acts were also instrumentally rational? This, I would suggest, is another, perhaps even more disturbing layer of meaning that might emerge from the wreckage. The global media landscape The point is not a rhetorical one. No exit from the endgame? Where does this leave us? Congo research - The Skyrim Marathon [Pic] Congo research - 8 Things Everybody Ought to Know About Concentrating.
“Music helps me concentrate,” Mike said to me glancing briefly over his shoulder. Mike was in his room writing a paper for his U.S. History class. On his desk next to his computer sat crunched Red Bulls, empty Gatorade bottles, some extra pocket change and scattered pieces of paper. In the pocket of his sweat pants rested a blaring iPod with a chord that dangled near the floor, almost touching against his Adidas sandals. On his computer sat even more stray objects than his surrounding environment. There must have been twenty browser tabs open. Mike made a shift about every thirty seconds between all of the above. Do you know a person like this? The Science Behind Concentration In the above account, Mike’s obviously stuck in a routine that many of us may have found ourselves in, yet in the moment we feel it’s almost an impossible routine to get out of.
When we constantly multitask to get things done, we’re not multitasking, we’re rapidly shifting our attention. Phase 1: Blood Rush Alert.
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