Isreal Gets More Aid Then Any Other Country in the World From The US

$3 Billion: U.S. Aid to Israel: The Subject No One Mentions: U.S. aid to Israel has always been a touchy subject. Members of Congress never mention the total, probably for two reasons.

A Conservative Total for U.S. Aid to Israel: $91 Billion—and Counting : The common figure given for U.S. aid to Israel is $3 billion per year—$1.2 billion in economic aid and $1.8 billion in military aid. As impressive as this figure is, however, since it represents about one-sixth of total U.S. foreign aid

Treaty gives CIA powers over Irish citizens  

By Dan Buckley
07/21/05 "Irish Examiner" - - US INVESTIGATORS, including CIA agents, will be allowed interrogate Irish citizens on Irish soil in total secrecy, under an agreement signed between Ireland and the US last week.

Suspects will also have to give testimony and allow property to be searched and seized even if what the suspect is accused of is not a crime in Ireland.

Under 'instruments of agreement' signed last week by Justice Minister Michael McDowell, Ireland and the US pledged mutual co-operation in the investigation of criminal activity. It is primarily designed to assist America's so-called 'war on terror' in the wake of the September 11 atrocities.

The deal was condemned yesterday by the Irish Council for Civil Liberties (ICCL) as "an appalling signal of how the rights of Irish citizens are considered by the minister when engaging in international relations".

Iraq: The War We Are Not Being Shown   <<There is a World of information you should know here. Take the time to learn the truth.

Operation Truth,  Is just one Link at this site. Find out what is really happening.

By Arianna Huffington
07/21/05 "Huffington Post" - - My vacation has been remarkably eye-opening. Now, when travelers say things like that, they usually are talking about being introduced to new cultures, different foods, singular settings… but in my case, I’m talking about war. Specifically, how shockingly different the coverage of the war in Iraq is here in Europe compared to what we get back home.

It’s like a pair of blinders has been removed and I’m suddenly seeing for myself what I’ve long known to be the case: just how sanitized a version of the war the American mainstream media are delivering, and how little of even this cleaned-up coverage we get.

This site has links to stories told by soldiers and their problems. If you want to know the truth check it out. It has some extremely sad stories.

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American Terror  By Chris Floyd
01/21/05 "Moscow Times" -- More than two years ago, we wrote here of a secret Pentagon plan to foment terrorism by sending covert agents to infiltrate terrorist groups and goad them into action -- in other words, committing acts of murder and destruction. The purpose was two-fold: first, to bring the terrorist groups into the open, where they could be counterattacked; and second, to justify U.S. military attacks on the countries where the terrorists were operating -- attacks which, in the Pentagon's words, would put those nations' "sovereignty at risk." It was a plan that countenanced -- indeed, encouraged -- the deliberate murder of innocent people and the imposition of U.S. military rule anywhere in the world that U.S. leaders desired. This plan is now being activated.

Convoy of Death   Why have US television stations refused to broadcast this documentary?

In Afghanistan, filmmaker Jamie Doran has uncovered evidence of a massacre: Taliban prisoners of war suffocated in containers, shot in the desert under the watch of American troops.

The film has been broadcast on national television in countries all over the world and has been screened by the European parliament. Human rights lawyers are calling for investigation into whether U.S. forces are guilty of war crimes. But no U.S. media outlet has broadcast the film.

Ordinary Fascism by William Bowles • Monday, 18 July 2005

Flashback
A millionaire Saudi businessman finances, with US support, a war of liberation from the Soviet occupiers of Afghanistan, but then one day we are led to believe, decides that US support for the regime that has made him and his family wealthy beyond measure, is all of a sudden, the enemy. Why?

The massacre of the poor that the world ignored  While No One Was Watching
The US cannot accept that the Haitian president it ousted still has support.
Naomi Klein 07/18/05 "The Guardian" - - When terror strikes western capitals, it doesn't just blast bodies and buildings, it also blasts other sites of suffering off the media map. A massacre of Iraqi children, blown up while taking sweets from US soldiers, is banished deep into the inside pages of our newspapers. The outpouring of compassion for the daily deaths of thousands from Aids in Africa is suddenly treated as a frivolous distraction.

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Large Volume of F.B.I. Files Alarms U.S. Activist Groups: The Federal Bureau of Investigation has collected at least 3,500 pages of internal documents in the last several years on a handful of civil rights and antiwar protest groups in what the groups charge is an attempt to stifle political opposition to the Bush administration. 

 FBI Terrorism Unit Eyed Web Protest Sites: FBI agents monitored Web sites calling for protests against the 2004 political conventions in New York and Boston on behalf of the bureau's counterterrorism unit, according to FBI documents released under the Freedom of Information Act.

POLITICS-US:
Spy Agency Targets Bush Critics
William Fisher
NEW YORK, Jul 19 (IPS) - Those who remember recent history will not be surprised to learn that the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has been amassing files on the American Civil Liberties Union, Greenpeace and other critics of the George W. Bush administration.

Back in the 1960s and 1970s, the FBI, the Central Intelligence Agency, the Department of Defence and other intelligence agencies had all conspired to engage in widespread spying on ordinary U.S. citizens -- and illegal covert operations.

The targets back then were left-wing groups and individuals, civil rights and anti-Vietnam activists and, of course, Pres. Richard Nixon's "enemies list".

Saddam Could Call CIA in His Defence

Evidence offered by a top CIA man could confirm the testimony given by Saddam Hussein at the opening of his trial in Baghdad Thursday that he knew of the Halabja massacre only from the newspapers.

Sanjay Suri

LONDON, Jul 2 (IPS) - Thousands were reported killed in the gassing of Iraqi Kurds in Halabja in the north of Iraq in March 1988 towards the end of Iraq's eight-year war with Iran. The gassing of the Kurds has long been held to be the work of Ali Hassan al-Majid, named in the West because of that association as 'Chemical Ali'. Saddam Hussein is widely alleged to have ordered Ali to carry out the chemical attack.

US-backed groups organize regime change in Iran  By Trish Schuh
Online Journal Contributing Writer July 19, 2005—Like the color-coded terror alert system, the technicolor Velvet Invasions blink warning. Despite receiving an ugly bruise in Uzbekistan, the CIA and its NGO (non-governmental organization) regime change industry hope to stage another cardboard coup in Iran. But it could be a Black & Blue Revolution.

Citing a 'mission accomplished' in Iraq, President Bush told 25,000 soldiers in Fort Hood, Texas; "The establishment of a free Iraq is a watershed event in the global democratic revolution. That success is sending a message from Beirut to Tehran."

Harbouring A Terrorist The case of Luis Posada Carriles  We can imagine that the ties that Bush meant to invoke were his big campaign donors and organizers amongst the reactionary elites of Little Havana (a.k.a. the Miami Mafia), and not the criminalized and harassed Haitian refugees, fleeing either the economic violence of colonialism or the brutal physical repression that has accompanied the coup regime of Gerard Latortue. The human rights disaster in occupied Haiti is one of the unmentionables for the U.S. and its allies at the OAS.

Another unmentionable subject for Bush is the case of perhaps the hemisphere’s most notorious terrorist, Luis Posada Carriles, who was recently detained in Florida for illegally entering the country from Mexico. The septuagenarian anti-Castro zealot has spent decades organizing terrorist violence against Cuba, and his history of collaboration with U.S. officials – he is a former CIA ‘asset’ -- illustrates the extreme hypocrisy of the "War on Terror".

The Mapuche Struggle Today: An Interview With Vladimir Painemal Morales

O'Keefe: In 1973, Salvador Allende’s democratically-elected government was overthrown by elements of the army with the backing of U.S. imperialism – which wanted to maintain its hold on Chilean copper, among other resources. What are the multinationals after in Mapuche territories, what are the key industries and resources that they are aiming to control?

Painemal: In both Argentina and Chile we had dictatorships, and now a so-called democratic process, democracies. But the dictatorships put in place an economic model, a neo-liberal model that opens up our markets to multinational investors.

Cruel twist to a failed policy But The Americans Put A Prison There????????

Published July 16, 2005

Of the myriad sanctions imposed by the U.S. on Cuba for almost 50 years, few are as cruel, vindictive and un-American as those that sharply limit Cuban-Americans from visiting their relatives on the island. Last month the U.S. House voted to uphold those sanctions, even after a year's worth of evidence of the hardship they have caused to Cubans on both sides of the Florida Straits.

The rules, issued by the Treasury Department, went into effect a year ago. They prohibit anyone residing in the U.S. from visiting relatives on the island. But the targets obviously are Cuban-Americans in the U.S., be they permanent residents or naturalized American citizens. Now they can visit Cuba only if they have immediate relatives--parents, siblings or children--there and for only 14 days, once every three years. Those who only have uncles, aunts, cousins or more distant relatives cannot visit at all.

When we kill them in droves, some of them will strike back. By Eric Margolis We are horrified that anyone would attack innocent civilians packed in subway cars. But the extremists and fanatics who do so say they are exacting revenge for the 500,000 Iraqi civilians who died, (confirmed by the UN), from the ten year US-British embargo of Iraq. For the criminal destruction in 1991 of Iraq’s water and sewage treatment plants that cause massive cholera and typhoid. Or for the occupation of Iraq and destruction of the city of Falluja that killed tens of thousands more civilians, and, of course, for Palestine.

Some morons still believe them  President George W. Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld have all gone out of their way in recent weeks to tell us we're "winning" the war in Iraq. - Some morons still believe them.

Video: Mosaic  World News Reports from Middle East TV For 07/11/05: The nation's only uncensored compilation of daily television news reports from more than 15 countries in the Middle East. QuickTime Video.  Dahr Jamail on Iraqi Hospitals Under Occupation, War Profiteering and the "Brain Drain" Out of Iraq  Video and transcript.

Love Me Tender Money and power, grabbed through violence and deceit: that's the real point -- the only point -- of Bush's "war on terror By Chris Floyd Some of the loot will be skimmed by Bushist-favored bagmen in the new Baghdad regime. Some will be siphoned off to fund the death-dealing, torture-happy goon squads now operating on behalf of various factions in the government. Some will be kicked back to the oil barons. And some will be smuggled into slush funds for covert ops, mercenaries, campaign hijinks in the Homeland and "retirement packages" for good and faithful servants of the Bush war machine.

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Kenyans are fleeing the area where a massacre was carried out in the north-east village of Turbi in which 76 people died, fearing further attacks.

Hundreds of armed men surrounded Turbi primary school and nearby houses and opened fire as children were making their way to school early on Tuesday. Kenyans say the killers have fled north, towards Ethiopia. Of the 76 people killed in the frenzy of violence, 22 were children. Ten bandits are said to have died.

Dozens of villages have been abandoned as their hungry former residents go to towns or neighbouring countries, such as Benin or Nigeria in search of food.  "The situation is terrible," said Abdoulye Adamou, who has come to the city of Tahoua.

Angola witchcraft's child victims The conviction in Britain of three Angolans for the abuse of a girl they accused of being a witch has turned the spotlight on customs in Angola.  Angus Stickler of the BBC Radio 4 Today programme went to Angola to investigate the links between witchcraft, poverty and the rapid growth of churches preaching a powerful blend of traditional African beliefs and evangelical Christianity.

Stepping inside Mr Kitoko's "clinic" was like entering Bedlam. Many of the so-called patients were chained to the walls and floor.  A boy of 15 had been shackled here since January. There were nursing mothers, women and children. Many, we were told, had mental health problems - "sickness" caused by evil spirits.

The Investigation London Bombings  CTV.ca News Staff  Time Line Of Events Read a detailed chronology, view images and pinpoint locations of the blasts. British authorities know who detonated the bombs in London on July 7. Now they must find the guiding hands behind the attacks. "These foot soldiers who have done this are only one element of an organization that is bringing about this kind of mayhem in our society," Home Secretary Charles Clarke told the BBC on Wednesday. "We are looking very, very closely at the relationship between the people who may have committed the offences and the wider network around them."

Anti-gay vandals suspects in church arson Anti-gay graffiti and a fire at a Virginia church may be linked to the United Church of Christ's recent vote affirming same-sex marriage.
St. John's Reformed UCC in Middlebrook in western Virginia was vandalized Friday with anti-gay graffiti and the church was set on fire, but the blaze did not spread, according to the Rev. John Deckenback, United Church of Christ Central Atlantic Conference minister.
Police and church leaders said the arson likely was because of a July 4 vote by the denomination's General Synod supporting same-sex marriage.
"The violation of sacred space is traumatic for a congregation, particularly with a message of hate targets a church's efforts to reach out in the spirit of Christ's love of all people," UCC President the Rev. John Thomas said in a release.
Thomas said he knew the same-sex marriage vote would be controversial but "it sadden me that, for a few, disagreement has moved to acts of violence."
Two other churches in Virginia's Shenandoah Valley were vandalized about the time the United Church of Christ ran television ads welcoming all people, including homosexuals.

By Abid Ullah Jan The corporate terrorist of the Multinationals have invisibly joined hands with the religious zealots who have a mission to transform the Muslim world in their own image.

128,000 Iraqi civilian casualties An Iraqi humanitarian organization is reporting that 128,000 Iraqis have been killed since the U.S. invasion began in March 2003.

100,000 Iraqi Civilian Deaths in 28 Months  An international research organization in Switzerland said US troops killed 39,000 civilians since the beginning of the war

Tortured bodies of 11 Sunni Arabs found in Baghdad The tortured bodies of 11 Sunni Arabs, who had been killed execution-style with a bullet to the head, were found in Baghdad Tuesday after having been arrested by police commandos two days earlier.

When Lies Become Truth Weekend Video Orwell Rolls In His Grave A Must Watch Documentary "Could a media system, controlled by a few global corporations with the ability to overwhelm all competing voices, be able to turn lies into truth?..." Real Video

We Were Right, They Lied: Flash presentation.

And Then There Was A Knock . There are two, maybe three, uniformed officers from the Department of Homeland Security. They tell the boy they want to take his parents in for questioning. Have them back in two to three hours. The father, Gokal Kapoor, is 71, his wife, Sheila Kapoor, 69. Old people. Hindus from Afghanistan. Two hours, they'll be back, see ya.

Paymasters Of Carnage The ghost at Gleneagles
By John Pilger
"New Statesman" - - In the orgy of summit coverage something has been overlooked: the two men at the heart of it, telling us how the world should be run, are the men responsible for ...............?????????

Afghan alarms News from Iraq is so disturbing that it is easy to overlook the increasingly grim reports about Afghanistan.But that would be a mistake. Violence is increasing rapidly in Afghanistan, and the Taliban and other radicals are getting stronger. According to a report last week in The New York Times, Afghans are increasingly fearful for their future and uncertain about America's commitment to their welfare.

Bush policy of arrogance: More foes, few friends
It is not just the US that has changed irrevocably after the most horrendous attack on America on September 11, 2001. The whole world has changed since then, and yet many in the West have little idea about how much the change has been. A potentially bigger change

Video : Democracy Hypocrisy : Iraq In The Name Of Freedom : - Warning - Video contains images depicting the reality and horror of war and should be viewed by a mature audience.

 London Underground Bombing 'Exercises' Took Place at Same Time as Real Attack: Culpability cover scenario echoes 9/11 wargames

Former Blair Minister Points Out Al-Qaeda Cia Ties Robin Cook/London Guardian |  I have rarely seen the Commons so full and so silent as when it met yesterday to hear of the London bombings. A forum that often is raucous and rowdy was solemn and grave. A chamber that normally is a bear pit of partisan emotions was united in shock and sorrow. Even Ian Paisley made a humane plea to the press not to repeat the offence that occurred in Northern Ireland when journalists demanded comment from relatives before they were informed that their loved ones were dead.

Bin Laden was, though, a product of a monumental miscalculation by western security agencies. Throughout the 80s he was armed by the CIA and funded by the Saudis to wage jihad against the Russian occupation of Afghanistan. Al-Qaida, literally "the database", was originally the computer file of the thousands of mujahideen who were recruited and trained with help from the CIA to defeat the Russians. Inexplicably, and with disastrous consequences, it never appears to have occurred to Washington that once Russia was out of the way, Bin Laden's organisation would turn its attention to the west.

What's Behind the London Attacks? The bombing of the London Underground was a false-flag operation designed to keep the West mired in war. Don't believe otherwise.