Pat Macpherson, Pfc. Sandoval, E. Landau, Wisdom Quarterly
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| Don't you dare criticize Israel, and god help you if you say the US backs war crimes! |
The world has spoken, through the UN, recognizing unconscionable Israeli war crimes. It runs the largest open-air prison called Gaza and the West Bank, holding a 1.2 million-plus stateless population hostage without a means of support, sufficient food or means of providing for itself, without freedom to govern itself, to control its own borders, airspace, or access to the sea.
The population is systematically dislocated (forced relocation), bombed, terrorized, given a collective case of PTSD, told to fight back and secretly supported to do so so that it can then illegally be collectively retaliated against. Where is the American military-government? Behind Israel. Where are fundamentalist Christians? Behind Israeli atrocities in the name of God and the Bible. Where is Obama and many presidents before them? Where else could they be? Israel is worth ten CIAs.
But now the UN has spoken and given Palestine "observer state" status, thereby recognizing it as a state, its population as citizens, and a providing a rare first step toward survival against Israel's genocidal activities (mass killings, blockades, arrests, indefinite detentions, etc.)
The UN voted in favor of Palestinians regardless of the threats and blow back already being imposed on member states. The US objects, but more telling is Israel's declaration that this will not change anything: Israel won't let it, announcing 3,000 illegal settlements being built on more stolen land. It does so with impunity, with US backing, and with the whole world becoming aware of what has been going on as these two actors manipulate the UN Security Council.
Why does the MIC (military-industrial complex) continue to allow the US to be brought down by Israel? Is it because its objectives are aligned in the region against human rights or the long-term survival of either country? The US has a fiscal cliff to fall off of and a currency to finish destroying. So it can't really be bothered with answering allegations of joint crimes against humanity. We've got great lawyers to work out a deal. And poor Obama has
dictators to appease and entertain.
UN vote recognizes Palestine; US objects
Edith M. Lederer (Associated Press, Nov. 30, 2012)
The United Nations voted overwhelmingly Thursday to recognize a Palestinian state, a victory decades in the making for the Palestinians after years of occupation and war. It was a sharp rebuke for Israel and the United States.
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Selma James coming to The Last Bookstore, LA
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| The new Freedom of Information Act |
Saturday, Dec
. 1, see noted women’s activist
Selma James
talk about grassroots efforts to eliminate child poverty in the Age of Obama and to stress
the importance of caregiving.
Meanwhile, the US keeps torturing
accused Army whistle blower Pfc. Bradley Manning (after
Obama extra-judicially convicted him in the court of public opinion because, like, who needs due process?)
and makes certain Julian Assange, author of a new book, remains a embassy-captive political prisoner...
WikiLeak's Manning speaks for first time
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| Hero imprisoned, tortured for whistle blowing |
FORT MEADE, Maryland - Private First Class Bradley Manning, the American soldier accused of leaking hundreds of thousands of classified and confidential military and diplomatic documents [showing US complicity in war crimes and their concealment as well as the day to day activity of diplomats kept illegally secret by abusing the classification process marking even mundane items "top secret" to avoid transparency and/or judicial review] to the anti-secrecy website WikiLeaks, took the stand in a military court today to make his first public statements since his arrest in 2010. Manning appeared confident and animated at a pre-trial hearing at Fort Meade in...
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