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Israel Will Stay Forever in Areas They Stole in 1967 War

by | Jun 2, 2019 |

Not that you were so foolish as to believe the Israeli government would ever allow Palestinian independence.

But for the record, again: Israel has already de facto annexed the last of Palestine 52 years ago. It is an apartheid state, not a democracy, and is certainly no ally of the USA:

Israel liberated Jerusalem, Hebron, Judea and Samaria and the Golan Heights 52 years ago and will stay there forever, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday night at the traditional Jerusalem Day Celebration at the Mercaz Harav yeshiva in the capital.

Netanyahu, who began his speech to the cheering students at the yeshiva by saying he felt among “family,” said that politics and life demands compromises, but that “there are times when it is forbidden to compromise, not to bow our head.“

Leaders, Netanyahu said, need to know when to compromise, and when to be stubborn and stand upright against the whole world when needed.

Patrick Cockburn: America’s persecution of Julian Assange has everything to do with Yemen

by | Jun 1, 2019 |

Patrick Cockburn:  We have had two good examples of the lengths to which a government – in this case that of the US – will go to protect its own tainted version of events. 

The charging of Julian Assange for leaking government and military secrets and the denial of Yemeni reporter Maad al-Zikry a visa so he could attend the Pulitzer prize ceremony.

Maad al-Zikry, Maggie Michael and Nariman El-Mofty from AP reported on US drone strikes in Yemen, how the US is aiding al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula and about abuses in prisons maintained by the United Arab Emirates (UAE).

It was US government documents released by Wikileaks that showed the US government was well aware of how the Houthis were obtaining weapons, and it wasn’t from Iran.

“The US embassy in Sanaa may be closed today, but it was open on 9 December 2009 when Stephen Seche, the US ambassador, sent a detailed report to the State Department titled: “Who are the Houthis? How are they fighting?” Citing numerous sources, it says that the Houthis “obtain their weapons from the Yemeni black market” and by corrupt deals with government military commanders. A senior Yemeni intelligence officer is quoted as saying: “The Iranians are not arming the Houthis. The weapons they use are Yemeni.” Another senior official says that the anti-Houthi military “covers up its failures by saying that the weapons [of the Houthis] come from Iran.”

The US feels enraged by any revelation of what it really knows, by any alternative source of information. Such threats to its control of the news agenda must be suppressed where possible

Who Started the Israel Arab 1967 Six Day War?

by | Jun 1, 2019 |

In 1967, a war broke out, initially between Israel and Egypt.  However, Jordan, Syria, and Iraq quickly joined Egypt in a war that lasted but 6 days.  There is a lot of dispute over who caused the war and why it happened.   What’s the truth?  Tune in.

Rep. Duncan Hunter: Proud War Criminal

by | Jun 1, 2019 |

Hey, America is *exceptional. That means U.S.A. government employees can murder whoever they feel like. Everybody knows that:

Rep. Duncan Hunter, R-Alpine, said he probably killed “hundreds of civilians” while serving as an artillery officer in Fallujah. …

“I was an artillery officer, and we fired hundreds of rounds into Fallujah, killed probably hundreds of civilians,” he said. “Probably killed women and children if there were any left in the city when we invaded. So, do I get judged too?”

Hunter recalled this story in response to a question about the actions of Navy SEAL Edward R. Gallagher who is on trial in San Diego accused of war crimes including shooting at civilians. Gallagher has pleaded not guilty.

During the podcast, Hunter was asked specifically about one of the individuals Gallagher is accused of killing, a teenage ISIS fighter. According to prosecutors, the SEAL stabbed the teen who was brought in for medical treatment.

“I frankly don’t care if he was killed,” Hunter said. “I just don’t care.”

The Congressman added that he has seen photos and videos from the Gallagher case and has talked to other SEALS who served with him who say they don’t believe the charges. Hunter also said Gallagher should be given a break and that the ISIS fighter he is accused of killing was going to die anyway.

In a statement, Capt. Joseph Butterfield with the Marine Corps said the Marines are aware of Hunter’s comments, but it is too early to speculate on any future actions. [Heh. Yeah, right.]

According to the statement, “Marines are required to comply with the law of war during all military operations, however characterized. If mistreatment of the dead were committed intentionally, it could be considered a violation of the law of war. U.S. service members have been charged and punished under the Uniform Code of Military Justice for posing for pictures with human casualties. Generally, the statute of limitations under the UCMJ is five years.”

This is not the first time Hunter has defended Gallagher’s actions publicly. At a town hall meeting in Ramona on Saturday, he said he and a lot of his military peers have posed in photos with people they’ve killed.

“He did one bad thing, that I am guilty of too, taking a picture with a body and saying something stupid and then texting that,” Hunter said.

 

What Julian Assange and Howlin Wolf have in common

by | Jun 1, 2019 |

They were both tortured by the state

Howlin’ Wolf was locked up for two months in the Army psych ward. He was lashed to his bed, his body parts examined and measured: his head, his hands, his feet, his teeth, his penis. The shrinks wanted to know if he liked to have sex with men, if he tortured animals, if he hated his father. He was beaten, shocked and drugged when he resisted the barbarous treatment by the military doctors. Finally he was cut loose from the Army, discharged as being unfit for duty. He was probably lucky he wasn’t lobotomized or sterilized, as was the cruel fate of so many other encounters with the dehumanizing machinations of governmental psychiatry.

Melzer said. “Mr. Assange has been deliberately exposed, for a period of several years, to progressively severe forms of cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment, the cumulative effects of which can only be described as psychological torture.”

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