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Monthly Archives: June 2009

Eyewitnesses denied the Basij Involvement in Neda’s assasination-video

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Very informative: Iran and Washington’s Hidden Hand

Has the CIA Been Caught in Iran’s Cookie Jar, Again? By ESAM AL-AMIN, counter punch Only weeks after the September 11, 2001, attacks, Charles Krauthammer, the Washington Post columnist and mouthpiece of the neoconservatives, revealed the target list of the Bush administration as it set out on its post-9/11 war footing. The list included six [...]

Obama faces a Persian rebuff

By M K Bhadrakumar, atimes Twitter can now revert to its plan to shut down its Iran services and attend to maintenance work. Twitter goes into recess pleased that it probably embarrassed a resurgent regional power. The United States government owes Twitter a grand salute for having done something where all other stratagems of war [...]

Israeli doctors accused of flouting ethics

by Jonathan Cook, source June 29. 2009 NAZARETH// Israel’s watchdog body on medical ethics has failed to investigate evidence that doctors working in detention facilities are turning a blind eye to cases of torture, Israeli human rights groups claim. The Israeli Medical Association (IMA) has ignored repeated requests to examine such evidence, the rights groups [...]

No surprise: Spain shelves probe into Israeli crimes in Gaza

Tue, 30 Jun 2009, Press TV Spain’s National Court has turned down a request by The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights to investigate a 2002 bombing by Israel in the Gaza Strip. The report on Tuesday comes a day after court papers announced that the country’s highest court would try seven Israelis, including a former [...]

Withdrawal of US troops from Iraqi cities, after what?- cartoon

The settlers defying Obama and repeated attacks on Palestinians

The settlers defying Obama Despite Obama’s anti-settlement stance, the West Bank settlers’ determination to go on with their land-grabs is palpable by Seth Freedman, guardian.co.uk, Monday 29 June 2009 At first glance, the dusty dunes of the South Hebron hills appear splendidly frozen in time. Small encampments of nomadic farmers are dotted across the landscape, [...]

Ahmadinejad orders probe into Neda’s ‘suspicious’ death/Police, Basij ‘imposters’ arrested in Iran

Ahmadinejad orders probe into Neda’s ‘suspicious’ death Mon, 29 Jun 2009, Press TV Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has asked the Judiciary chief to conduct a through investigation into the death of Neda Aqa-Soltan, an Iranian woman who was shot dead in Tehran’s post-vote protests. In a letter to Iran’s Judiciary chief Ayatollah Mahmoud Hashemi-Shahroudi on [...]

LIAR, LIAR, PANTS ON FIRE, I TOLD THEM EVERYTHING BUT THE TRUTH

by William C. Carlotti, source In one of his verbose obfuscations of reality, President Obama declared on June 23, 2009; “The United States respects the sovereignty of the Islamic Republic of Iran, and is not interfering with Iran’s affairs. Some in Iran — some in the Iranian government, in particular, are trying to avoid that [...]

Israeli ill-treatment and torture of Palestinian children: a report

By Haitham Sabbah, Palestinian think tank DCI-Palestine* released a report which documents the widespread ill-treatment and torture of Palestinian children at the hands of the Israeli army and police force – Palestinian Child Prisoners: The systematic and institutionalized ill-treatment and torture of Palestinian children by Israeli authorities. The release of the report came just days [...]

Israeli authorities threaten demolition of 500 church buildings in Jerusalem

Sunday June 28, 2009, by Saed Bannoura – IMEMC News The Greek Orthodox and Catholic churches in Jerusalem released a statement Saturday that the Israeli authorities have threatened to force the demolition of 500 buildings owned by the churches in the Old City of Jerusalem. Israeli forces have recently stepped up demolitions in the Old [...]

PCDP: 98% of Palestinian prisoners in IOA jails subjected to torture

27/06/2009 GAZA, (PIC)– The Palestinian center for the defense of prisoners (PCDP) has charged that Israel was among the few countries in the world to exercise excruciating torture in its prisons in a bid to extract confessions from detainees. The PCDP report said that the Israeli occupation authority’s (IOA) practices were in blatant violation of [...]

The waste of “Israel’s” Gaza war

By Sherine Tadros, Al Jazeera’s correspondent in Gaza, source June 27, 2009 Exactly six months ago – minutes before Israel launched its war – I was sitting in a coffee shop in Gaza City’s main square. Six months later, here I am again. At the same table, ordering the same drink from the same waiter [...]

America’s ‘Bases of Empire’

By Stephen Lendman – Chicago, source Besides waging perpetual wars, nothing better reveals America’s imperial agenda than its hundreds of global bases – for offense, not defense at a time the US hasn’t had an enemy since the Japanese surrendered in August 1945. So when they don’t exist, they’re invented as former US ambassador to [...]

Even Palestinian deams are not allowed-cartoon

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