Israel's War with Iran - the unabridged version

The US has one congressman, unfortunately only one, who consistently rejects special interest money and sticks to the letter of the law in Constitution.  That is what all congressmen and senators are supposed to do, but Ron Paul is the only one who does.  Which is why when he speaks, we pay attention.  No agenda other than 'What is best for the American people?", just the facts. He's under Republican, but he's a traditional (small government, civil liberties, personal accountability) republican, something more often referred to as Libertarian today. Texas is lucky to have him, (and so are the rest of us.  He's what representatives used to be before lobbies, money, fame and politics got in the way).  Here's his latest...

The killer of 13-year old Iman Al Hams, a girl who was cowering behind a stone and positively identified as a child before she was shot, and then was shot multiple times to 'confirm the kill', according to the Israeli military transcript of the incident, has received 80,000 NIS (about $15,000) compensation for the 'trouble' of having gone to court.

For more details on this murder of a child, see our October 2004 article: The School Girl who needed to be killed

"Nowhere is the lack of self-criticism in the N.S.S. more striking than in the scant attention that the report pays to the operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, which are the test cases of the administration's security policies and will in great part determine the U.S. power position in the Middle East and Central Asia."

Parents being urged by schools to medicate their kids for ADHD had better think twice. Every time behavioral issues become a "medically treatable problem", you can bet that there's a pharmaceutical company out there pushing their product no matter what the risks.

The war continues to claim them among its main victims, while the health of the majority of the population also continues to deteriorate. In the 1980s, Iraq had one of the best health care systems in the region. Following the 2003 invasion by the coalition forces, an ongoing cycle of insurgent violence and occupation forces’ counter-attacks have significantly damaged the basic health infrastructure in the country. As a result, Iraq’s health system cannot respond to the most basic health needs of the population.

Of course this avoidance proves exactly what the report says: that the Israeli lobby is such a force, our media, government and policies will sacrifice the best interests of Americans, (in this case America's best interests are served by an open discussion about a foreign nation's documented attempts over 60 years to enforce its will on our foreign policy at the expense of American lives, money and reputation) and how our politicians, media, courts and other influencers will continue act in the best interests of a foreign nation rather than their own, basically protecting Israel's rice paper reputation from rain thus avoiding the wrath of their lobby. 

Actions speak louder than words.

What this article doesn't tell you: In 1840, before mandatory government schooling, the incidence of complex literacy in the United States was between 93 and 100 percent. According to the Connecticut census of 1840, only one citizen out of every 579 was illiterate.  What an eight year old reads today compared to what eight year old's read then,  philosophy, history, culture, manners, politics, geography, analysis of human motives and actions, all conveyed in data-rich periodic sentences so formidable only a determined and well-educated reader can handle it nowadays; in fact only 3% of Americans today read as well as eight year olds from the hicks in 1840.  Today's eight year olds and nearly 1/2 of high school graduates would be considered illiterate then. Could those simple folk have had more complex minds than our own?  Reading and most math was self-taught.  Most readers took about 30 hours to learn by themselves...that's it. 

By 1940, the literacy (defined by today's Dick and Jane standard rather than 1840's high level comprehension) figure for all states stood at 96 percent for whites, 80 percent for blacks. Notice that for all the disadvantages blacks labored under, four of five were nevertheless literate.

Six decades later, at the end of the twentieth century, the National Adult Literacy Survey and the National Assessment of Educational Progress say 40 percent of blacks and 17 percent of whites can't read at all. Put another way, black illiteracy doubled, white illiteracy quadrupled. We spend three to four times as much real money on schooling as we did sixty years ago, but sixty years ago virtually everyone, black or white, could read. --John Taylor Gatto

Veteran Middle East corre-spondent John Cooley, author of "An Alliance Against Babylon: US, Israel and Iraq," examines the history of Iraq-Israel relations and reasons why Israel wanted Iraq invaded as well as Israel's past ties to Iran.

Lew Rockwell, March 24, 2006
What Ever Happened to Congress?
An Interview with Chalmers Johnson

  "The right that controls all other rights is the right to get information.

If you don't have this, the others don't matter."
--James Madison,
Author, US Constitution

TD: You were discussing the lunacy of the 2007 Pentagon budget…

CJ: What I don't understand is that the current defense budget and the recent Quadrennial Defense Review (which has no strategy in it at all) are just continuations of everything we did before. Make sure that the couple of hundred military golf courses around the world are well groomed, that the Lear jets are ready to fly the admirals and generals to the Armed Forces ski resort in Garmisch in the Bavarian Alps or the military's two luxury hotels in downtown Seoul and Tokyo.

What I can't explain is what has happened to Congress. Is it just that they're corrupt? That's certainly part of it. I'm sitting here in California's 50th district. This past December, our congressman Randy Cunningham confessed to the largest single bribery case in the history of the U.S. Congress: $2.4 million in trinkets – a Rolls Royce, some French antiques –

The author Irving Hall an award winning writer, teacher and activist is one of a kind and takes our current international stage orchestrating it to The Wizard of Oz.  Politically correct he is not. If you like your information with a bite, his satire and whimsical look at politics through the Wizard's eyes will teach and entertain.

Thirty-five years ago today, a group of anonymous activists broke into the small, two-man office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation in Media, Pa., and stole more than 1,000 FBI documents that revealed years of systematic wiretapping, infiltration and media manipulation designed to suppress dissent...

When you don't know history, you're destine to repeat it, which is why we teach 'Social Studies', (facts, figures and future prospects) rather than History: the study of why, strategy, philosophy, cause and effect.

From the Ha'aretz article today: "An aide to a member of Congress told the Jewish weekly Forward that apparently the penny has finally dropped for the elected representatives of the American public. They have started to realize that the constant harassment of Arabs is liable to damage American interests in the Middle East, especially in Iraq.

The group of neo-conservatives that pushed President George W. Bush into this swamp has become the punching bag of U.S. academia and media, and it was only a question of time before it became Israel's turn to pay the price of the battle waged by Richard Perle, Paul Wolfowitz and their colleagues in the pro-Israel lobby and its allies on the Christian right."

What this article doesn't tell you: Attempts are being made to punish, smear and discredit Professors Walt (Harvard) and Mearsheimer (U of Chicago) for publishing their report on the Israeli Lobby's influence on US Policy last Thursday. 

The report is well done, well researched and well documented, leaving smearing the professors and attempting to paint them as fanatics the sole defense. We've read it including all the footnotes.   What it says is well known on The Hill and internationally as is the price professionally and personally paid for bringing it up. What is that price? Defamation, charges of fanaticism, withdrawal of advancement or funds, charges of anti-Semitism, sloppy research and errant conclusions all stated without examples (thou eluded to and never provided) since none exist. 

The idea is to cast doubt on the research and researchers so you don't read it and others do not support it lest they too be attacked, an effective propaganda ploy if you don't know that is what those exposed by the report are doing.

If the lobby's defenders' accusations were truth, they'd set out a point by point dispute and show what is truth. They would want to discuss it on national television, in magazines and the papers and they'd want to confront the writers in public.  That's what people falsely accused do with truth on their side. The lobby cannot and their actions show public discussion is the last thing they want. Instead they've managed to keep it out of the American mainstream press (by stating the only sites and periodicals publishing it are 'hate sites' and 'anti-Israel'...discredit the source remember...) Without truth on their side, their only option, try to cast doubt before the American people read it and start to ask the hard questions. That should tell you something...like you might want to read the report and judge for yourself.

Israel started the whole 'pre-emptive strike' game in 1967 but we've taken it to a whole new level by violating our own constitution. In this Minority Report scenario where we punish for what people may do rather than follow our constitution and only prosecute what they did, we set the precedence. No country needs a reason to attack us anymore. All attacks may be justified under pre-emption. Given our conduct over the past four years...pre-emption against us becomes a valid argument. Cause and effect.

Democracy Now, March 22, 2006
Helen Thomas Asks President Bush Why He Went to War

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Thomas is a forty-year veteran White House correspondent (and highly honored Arab American.  Her first typewriter is on display at the Arab American Museum in Michigan) for Hearst Publications. From the beginning she's pummeled the President on his Iraq motivations. This snippet from yesterday's press conference shows we still have one reporter who does her job...Enjoy!

Israeli attitudes and racism are the primary obstacles to peace in the Middle East. Change the attitudes underlying Zionism, which this article articulates and peace becomes possible.  Laws on the books enforce this racism but they're usually hidden. For example state marriages between gentiles and Jews are not legal or recognized. This law is hidden by stating only marriages by Orthodox Rabbis are recognized and they will not marry non-Jews to Jews or each other. 

Because Orthodox extremists currently control Israeli policy, to be legally recognized by the state, Reform and Conservative Jews must be married by Orthodox rabbis as well, even if they do not agree with the doctrine.  This is like requiring a Protestant be married by a Catholic priest (or vis versa) or the state would not recognize the marriage as legal.

Neighborhoods and 93% of the nation is off limits to non-Jewish citizens. Non-Jews cannot work, live and often enter these areas because of their faith, (Christian, Muslim and others).  Reading this article, you'll think your in 1930's Mississippi.  You're not. You're in 2006 Israel and what it describes, these racist attitudes is the fundamental obstacle to peace on the Israeli side.  Polls done of Arab views consistently show only extremists, less than 15%, share this radical view of their Jewish neighbors. In any society you will always find an extremist minority (defined as less than 20%) for any issue.  The overwhelming majority of Israelis approving of blatant racism is what makes this attitude a major impediment to peace.

The Independent, (UK)
March 20, 2006
Death squads on the prowl in a nation paralysed by fear

The US Government continues to support this targeting of civilians by the occupying force, actions under International Law defined as war crimes.  Also see: Israeli Closure Catastrophic for Gaza Economy: US AID

Nancy Snow in her 2003 book Information Wars details how in 2001 and 2002 the US Mainstream Media deliberately buried the majority of reader letters against going to war and printed the minority for the war to bolster support. 70% of opinion letters published were for war though less than 35% of those received reflected this position. This is why in 2002 - 2003 if you were against the war and it seemed everyone you knew was too, the constant insistence of the press you were in the minority never made sense. You weren't misreading the true feelings of Americans.  It just looked that way.  It's nice to see the tables turn.  Enjoy these pictures from Australia.

The one issue the anti-war movement keeps ignoring is how the Israeli lobby is a primary factor in the pro-war movement.  It's one thing to say a politician must be against the war, but if that politician, (and unfortunately the majority in today's US government fit this description) is an anti-war, Israeli firster, nothing is going to change.  The politician needs to be anti-war, pro-US Constitution. His or her focus must be on the US and our needs, only the US and our needs.  By being pro-US Constitution, passionate attachments to foreign nations and the ability to be manipulated by lobbies disappears. Measured against our founding documents, the politicians have a bedrock of values, much like the Bible works for its followers. This war is unconstitutional.  The strange relationship we have with Israel is unconstitutional and the laws creating negative freedoms, (lose freedoms to keep freedom) are also unconstitutional.   That's why requiring the politician adhere to the Constitution rather than a cause makes more sense long term.  If the anti-war movement wants to end wars for conquest, the core issue, deviation from the constitution needs to be addressed.  Currently, that is not occurring. Otherwise in a few years, history will repeat yet again.

Ha'aretz (Israel) March 17, 2006
Study:
U.S. Middle East policy motivated by
pro-Israel lobby

"No lobby (AIPAC) has managed to divert U.S. foreign policy as far from what the American national interest would otherwise suggest, while simultaneously convincing Americans that U.S. and Israeli interests are essentially identical."

Harvard/ U of Chicago joint Study on The Israeli Lobby & US Foreign Policy

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FULL REPORT (39 pages of info and the rest is footnotes and sources. 83 Pages total)

Wouldn't it be nice if the US Media would let the American people in on this little reality?  See our March 15, 2006 article on "Where American Lives do Not Count" for the civilian/non-combat death toll attached to this Elephant in the Middle of the Room.

Excuse me Mr. President, but if we're so broke, why do you keep advocating we invade more countries? Obviously we have money for that.  What a minute.  That deficit wasn't there when you started your job.  How come our soldiers have to pay for your lies, misdirection and manhandling of our nation, defenses and budget? Haven't they already paid enough?  Here's an idea. Begin auctioning off YOUR fortune along with others who got us in this mess and see how far we can knock that deficit down.  Throw in all the profits you and your buddies have accumulated through these wars as well.  You say we all must sacrifice for 'freedom'? What sacrifice have you made Mr. President?  Paper cuts don't count.

Christian Radio Host Fired For Criticizing Israel

20 Year Host Dale Crowley Told 'You Can't Talk About That'

Brocktown News, March 13, 2006
Feingold Draws Little Support for Censure

This is an important article for two reasons. 
First the Senators attempting to dismiss it, including Lieberman are the primary hawks that pushed us into war.  Second because Senator Feingold was the ONLY Senator refusing to sign the Patriot Act. The Patriot Act destroys and undermines several of our constitutional rights.  When a Senator takes his oath of office, he pledges to support, uphold and protect THE CONSTITUTION of the United States from all enemies foreign and domestic; this includes the President and others using national emergencies to take power away from the American people.  Feingold is the only Senator who did his job that day in 2001. We know nobody read it.  He refused to sign something he didn't understand / read. His 99 colleagues approved an Act without reading it.

What is Censure?
It means to express official disapproval of the President's activities.  Basically to go on record that the Senate does not approve of something Bush is doing: abuse of power, stripping rights, going to war on false pretense...  Considering what we now know, why would any Senator be opposed to an inquiry in censuring Bush?  Unless....they are afraid it might bring up their own actions perhaps?

"What you can say right now is Iran has taken a number of steps that are preparatory to having a nuclear weapon. You cannot say that in fact they definitively made that decision to go ahead with that weapons programme."

Thank you Justice O'Connor.  We know.  The US fulfilled all 14 points of Fascism in January 2003 with the passage of CAPPS

Information Clearing House: Originally ran February 13, 2006
American Bar Association-accuses President Bush, of violating both the Constitution and federal law

Note: Robert Fisk called this one right further down

Well...if we can't take it, we shouldn't be dishing it out!  Guess our little imperial club isn't fooling anyone.

Chavez like Ahmadinejad does not like being told what to do by the US and is attempting to switch oil negotiating to euros rather than dollars...This would seriously undermine US  dollar value internationally but it would allow Venezuela, Ahmadinejad of Iran and other countries to begin to shed the yolk of compliance the US insists upon, (Read John Perkin's 'Confessions of an Economic Hit Man' to understand what is really going on here). Iran, Venezuela, Iraq, this is about money and control..  Saddam tried this too, switching to the Euro. It always starts with comparing the leaders to Hitler, which all three have been in the past year by our leaders.  Blair, the US's favorite lap dog is behind this 100%.

Radio 4 All, Recorded March 8, 2006
Chesa Boudin on the Venezuelan Revolution
Chesa Boudin, who with Gabriel Gonzalez and Wilmer Rumbos, co-authored an important new book, The Venezuelan Revolution: 100 Questions--100 Answers.  Download MP3, or Listen Now: 36 minutes

This article is a good laundry list of Norton's anti-environmental past as our nation's top environmentalist.  What this article doesn't tell you is that under her, Americans have lost more natural resources to corporate greed, including National Park assets (Article in March 8 group on this) than under any Administration throughout our history.

Long live the conspiracy theorists!:)

This article points out several disturbing realities about allowing foreign nations to handle our telecommunications technology and ties to espionage against the US

A treat for our readers today.  Since this is a new feature we've posted several very important stories from the last 12 months under
'Posted March 8, 2006'  
most people never saw!

SATIRE
Capital Hill Blue, March 8, 2006
Telling the
'approved' story
Need a good laugh...
read this short piece!

Expansion on article facts: Lincoln attempted to replace foreign loans with the constitutionally sanctioned greenback and was assassinated by Booth, who had strong ties to the International money machine pressing for centralized banking in the US.  Saddam in Iraq and Chavez in Venezuela both began the process of switching the currency used for oil from US to Euro. Iran is attempting the same...follow the money.  WMD's or $$$, which makes more sense?

Candid's Notebook, March 8, 2006
A Veteran’s Letter to the President:  
“I Return Enclosed the Symbols of My Years of Service”

Reuters, March 8, 2006
Israel will have to act on Iran if UN can't:  "If the U.N. Security Council is incapable of taking action to stop Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons, Israel will have no choice but to defend itself", Israel's defense minister said on Wednesday.

Iran has never attacked Israel though Israel has attacked Iran several times AND boasts over 600 WMD's. Who is the threat to whom again? This statement by Israel's Defense Minister should make it clear to anyone with an IQ over 60 who wants Iran invaded and for whom such a 'pre-emptive' strike would benefit. 

CONSIDER THIS SCARY TRUTH: The only way for a Middle East country to be safe from an Israeli or US pre-emptive attack, is to have nuclear weapons. Israel won't attack nuclear nations, nor will the US.  Bullies don't attack equally armed opponents. They can bite back! By abandoning our values and following the Israeli Talmudic policy of pre-emption, the United States has insured every nation on the planet will enter the nuclear race.  They have to.  Without a bomb, we (The US) might decide to attack them too.  It's called self-preservation and we've demonstrated we have no respect for laws and treaties.  We only respect the bomb. Israel is the Middle East's problem but we are the World's problem. Given that, the story below should really scare you.

Free-Market News: March 6, 2006
14,000 DETAINED
 WITHOUT TRIAL
US and UK forces in Iraq have detained thousands of people without charge or trial for long periods and there is growing evidence of Iraqi security forces torturing detainees, Amnesty International said today.... (AND WE SAID WE'RE EXPORTING DEMOCRACY.  So much for the Bill of Rights)

Associated Press, March 6, 2006
More blacks deciding not to serve
Defense Department statistics show that the number of black active-duty enlisted personnel has declined 14 percent since 2000.

March 3, 2006
Robert Fisk:
Somebody is trying to provoke a civil war in Iraq.
Robert Fisk is considered one of the greatest war correspondents of all time. In this interview he shares his Middle East knowledge. You can read the transcript or download the MP3 file.

Former BBC Middle East Correspondent of Thirty Years Reveals Why You Don't Get the Real News About the Middle East. This is a must read, long but very accurate.  These same tactics are happening in the US as well. Former Congressman Paul Findley details them in his book, "They Dare To Speak Out". If you want to understand the core issue behind terrorism without the propaganda veneer, read this essay.

Category: Middle East, Media, Foreign Policy, Israel

Category: Opinion, Constitution, Citizen Responsibility

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