Showing posts with label war criminal. Show all posts
Showing posts with label war criminal. Show all posts

Wednesday, 23 July 2014

Israel's side of the story (video)

Green: annihilating Palestine's right to exist
As if the Israeli propaganda machine did not already entirely drown out every other voice on the matter, with help from the figurehead capital of the U.S. Military-Industrial Complex known as the White House and its active press room, let's hear what it's like on the ground in Gaza through the eyes of a super-embedded super-soldier, armed with the latest, most high-tech U.S. weaponry capable of speeding up the "incremental genocide" on the neighboring and astonishingly peaceful Palestinians.

(Peaceful? They certainly can't be called "restive" when a population of 2,000,000 is blamed for every Israeli claim of self-defense and offense by an increasingly marginalized and demonized Hamas movement, which does amount to even 1% of the total Palestinian population).

Hooray for colonialism!
"Waltzing down the strip past the fence over fox holes and chunnels, It take not of the martyr's hip: Does it strut, does it offend? I pull my AK-, my way, '48, the newest thing and brandish it on my lip with the cadence of my automatic clip.

"'Nakba' says my friend as I take him down, him and all his hoodlum kids. Now words have I, none he'd understand. He's coming to that side to be re-arrested, not tried but traded for terrorist fiends.

"But if I could say to Bibi or to the Knesset entire, Give us free reign, messiah, give us free reign, would they smile? Livni winks. We're acting as she pleases. We're taking all their homes and the property seizes, she says, he says, NOBODY SAY A WORD!

"Operation Protected Edge glints from my sword, and I'll light up this whole block. You have exactly 57 seconds. Third Floor, jump! because you won't be making it to the door. How I adore the smell of falafel in the morning burning in the rubble like the faint ghosts that to Gaza go. And I, a masked soldier, lately return home."

NOTE: For the official Israeli party-line via the Knesset's [Israeli government's] direct line, refer to the White House, AP, BBC, UPI, AFP, CNN, FOX, NBC, ABC, CBS, NPR, and CIA.


Tuesday, 22 July 2014

Now let's hear from Israel (video)

Sheldon S., Ashley Wells, Pat Macpherson, Dhr. Seven, Pfc. Sandoval, Wisdom Quarterly
(Journeyman Pictures/Ubuntu Films) What is the "Roadmap to Apartheid"? It is a shocking revelation into the reasons behind Israel's invasion of a fully inhabited Palestine, its Western-backed military occupation, dispossession of Muslim lands ethnic cleansing,, its catastrophic and racist policies, its literal apartheid and what a Jewish professor has shown is its "incremental genocide." Who did it? England then America and the more or less independent CIA inserted its "final solution" into the Islamic Middle East, making a "Jewish state" a useful imperial tool all with "God's" backing or at least a trumped up biblical back story. If "Israel" really wanted a homeland, it already had one, but not a strategic one that serves Western powers trying to control the Middle East. More
 
Green: annihilating Palestine's right to exist
As if the Israeli propaganda machine did not already entirely drown out every other voice on the matter, with help from the figurehead capital of the U.S. Military-Industrial Complex known as the White House and its active press room, let's hear what it's like on the ground in Gaza through the eyes of a super-embedded super-soldier, armed with the latest, most high-tech U.S. weaponry capable of speeding up the "incremental genocide" on the neighboring and astonishingly peaceful Palestinians.

(Peaceful? They certainly can't be called "restive" when a population of 2,000,000 is blamed for every Israeli claim of self-defense and offense by an increasingly marginalized and demonized Hamas movement, which does amount to even 1% of the total Palestinian population).

NOTE: For the official Israeli party-line via the Knesset's [Israeli government's] direct line, refer to the White House, AP, BBC, UPI, AFP, CNN, FOX, NBC, ABC, CBS, NPR, and CIA. Thank you to our friend Sheldon for helping with the translation of this anonymous submission:

Hooray for colonialism!
"Waltzing down the strip past the fence over fox holes and chunnels, It take not of the martyr's hip: Does it strut, does it offend? I pull my AK-, my way, '48, the newest thing and brandish it on my lip with the cadence of my automatic clip.

"'Nakba' says my friend as I take him down, him and all his hoodlum kids. Now words have I, none he'd understand. He's coming to that side to be re-arrested, not tried but traded for terrorist fiends.

"But if I could say to Bibi or to the Knesset entire, Give us free reign, messiah, give us free reign, would they smile? Livni winks. We're acting as she pleases. We're taking all their homes and the property seizes, she says, he says, NOBODY SAY A WORD!

"Operation Protected Edge glints from my sword, and I'll light up this whole block. You have exactly 57 seconds. Third Floor, jump! because you won't be making it to the door. How I adore the smell of falafel in the morning burning in the rubble like the faint ghosts that to Gaza go. And I, a masked soldier, lately return home."

(Journeyman Pictures) Israel/Palestine: The War on Civilian Gaza From Ground Level
 
As Israel launches its "Palestinian only bus service," this film gives an in-depth look at the country's entire apparatus of segregation. Taking its parallel from Apartheid South Africa, it's a fascinating insight.

"Apartheid is a separation of populations in which one group institutionally dominates another." Israel has always been nervous about comparisons with apartheid South Africa, with good reason. The South African system became the most hated symbol of apartheid.

(Journeyman) "Roadmap to Apartheid" (extended trailer)

Today it's emulated in the West Bank [and the Gaza Strip open-air Prison with 2 million prisoners], Palestinians restricted by 600 Israeli-military check-points, Jewish-only roads, and a massive WALL separating a section near Jerusalem dubbed "the West Bank" from the rest of the country. For Ali Abunimah there is only one path: "Let 100% of the people live on 100% of the land."

The issue demands a "one-state" solution rather than the setting up of un-viable states set up to fail, as in South Africa: "It wasn't only blacks who were freed when Apartheid ended. We were all freed."

There are many lessons to draw from the South African experience of apartheid relevant to conflicts all over the world. "Roadmap to Apartheid" explores in detail the apartheid comparison as it is used in the enduring Israeli conflict with Palestine.

As much a historical document of the rise and fall of apartheid, the film shows us why many Palestinians feel they are living in an apartheid system today and why an increasing number of people around the world see what's happening and agree with them.

Tuesday, 6 May 2014

Saying no to our U.S. "War Criminals" (video)

Ashley Wells, Pfc. Sandoval, Wisdom Quarterly; Amy Goodman (DemocracyNow.org)

In yer face, killer, war criminal! (Code Pink)
Former U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice -- a war criminal and unindicted co-conspirator along with Dick Cheney, Karl "the Architect" Rove, both George Bush(es), Donald Rumsfeld, and John Ashcroft -- was forced to withdraw as commencement speaker at Rutgers University following protests by faculty and students over her role in the 2003 American (U.S.)-led invasion of Iraq and our torture of captives.
 
Abughraibphoto
Seeking justice with a torture lawsuit
Rutgers faculty circulated a petition decrying the role Rice played in "efforts to mislead the American people about the presence of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq." 
 
G.W. Bush, Condi Rice on way to jail (CP)
Last week, Rutgers students occupied a campus building in a call for the invitation (and its $35,000 stipend) to be withdrawn. In a statement this weekend, Rice said her appearance "has become a distraction."

The "No Rice Campaign" at Rutgers is discussed by student protester Carmelo Cintrón Vivas and Baher Azmy, legal director of the Center for Constitutional Rights. More
 
PEACE ON EARTH! WOMEN FOR JUSTICE, CODE PINK FOR PEACE (codepink.org)
Cecilymcmillancase
Occupy Wall Street on Trial: Cecily McMillan convicted of assaulting cop, faces seven years

New York’s new Mayor Bill de Blasio has announced the city will drop its appeal of a ruling by a U.S. district court that found the NYPD’s controversial "stop-and-frisk" program unconstitutional and settle an ongoing lawsuit.
 
Guantanamo-1Saying he would close Guantánamo years after it opened, Pres. Obama has signed the National Defense Authorization Act, barring the use of federal funds to transfer detainees from the notorious American torture prison in Cuba to U.S. soil. Of the 166 prisoners remaining, 86 have been cleared for release...

Thursday, 27 March 2014

Known Unknowns: How we got into Iraq (video)

Ashley Wells, CC Liu, Wisdom Quarterly; Amy Goodman (democracynow.org, 3-27-14)

Bush felt by John (cracked.com)
"The Unknown Known" is based on 33 hours of interviews with former U.S. Defense Secretary [apparent madman and unrepentant "war criminal," who trained his assistant, the young Dick Cheney] Donald Rumsfeld, who once lost 2.3 trillion dollars. That was the day before 9/11 distracted everyone's attention, and it's still missing.

Errol Morris, an Academy Award winning documentary filmmaker (executive producer of the fantastic Oscar-nominated film "The Act of Killing"), visited Democracy Now! today to talk about his newest film. The title refers to an infamous press briefing in 2002 when Rumsfeld faced questions from reporters about the lack of evidence of Iraqi weapons of mass destruction.


We loved Don "Rummy" Rumsfeld in his first movie, "Get
This Woman Away From Me!" with Medea Benjamin

"The Unknown Known" is Morris’ tenth documentary feature. He won a Best Documentary Oscar for his film "The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara." His other films include "Standard Operating Procedure," about alleged U.S. torture of terror suspects in Abu Ghraib Prison, and "The Thin Blue Line," about the wrongful conviction of Randall Adams for the murder of a Dallas policeman.

The release of "The Unknown Known" comes in a month marking 11 years since the U.S. illegally invaded Iraq (as Russia's Pres. Putin reminds us and Pres. Obama does a bad job revisiting and lying about). The U.S. military-industrial complex left an estimated half a million Iraqis dead (in addition to the million children starved by the U.S. through crushing sanctions that did nothing to former Dictator-Friendly-to-the-West Saddam Hussein), along with the needless death of at least 4,400 American troops. More

Errol Morris, director of the documentary "The Unknown Known," won an Oscar for Best Documentary for his film The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara. His other films include Standard Operating Procedure and The Thin Blue Line, executive co-producer of the Oscar-nominated "The Act of Killing." He is a regular contributor to The New York Times opinion pages, where he is currently in the middle of a four-part series, "The Certainty of Donald Rumsfeld."