Operation Enduring Pipeline

June 22, 2008

If asked, Canada would help the Afghan army defend a proposed $7.6-billion U.S.-backed natural
gas pipeline running from Turkmenistan, through Afghanistan, to Pakistan and India.

We've heard about this pipeline before. U.S. Unocal and Bridas of Argentina were both bidding
on it with the Taliban when the Taliban pulled out of the negotiations just one month before
the U.S. invaded...

Prominent Calls for Diplomacy with Iran
(source: Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation)
Monday, June 9, 2008

Only liberal peaceniks support direct diplomacy with Iran, right? Wrong. This collection of
quotes highlights prominent calls by military officials, elected officials, and international
civil society for diplomacy with Iran.

U.S. MILITARY OFFICIALS

"Iran is not a suicide nation...I doubt that the Iranians intend to attack us with a nuclear
weapon. I believe that we have the power to deter Iran, should it become nuclear. War, in the
state-to-state sense, in that part of the region would be devastating for everybody, and we
should avoid it -- in my mind -- to every extent that we can."
Retired Army General John Abizaid, former head of U.S. Central Command, Associated Press
(September 17, 2007)

There is an astonishing amount of ignorance about the basic facts of the so-called Arab-Israeli
conflict.This video was shot in the late 1940s to educate the public about the plight of
hundreds of thousands of Palestinians who had been made homeless as a result of the violence
and intimidation that accompanied the founding of the state of Israel.

What most Palestinians thought would be a temporary dislocation lasting only a few weeks at
most became permanent. Homeless with just the clothes on their backs, they were left in the
desert without food, water, and medical care to die.

As Israel celebrates its 60th birthday,
let’s take a look at what kind of a country
Israel really is.This is an old black and white film, made
before the Israeli War Party succeeded in
subverting US politics and news media.

When you hear the phrase “Palestinian
refugee camps”, this is what it meant
in the years after hundreds of thousands
of Palestinians were illegally evicted
from their lands by “newly born” Israel.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQ6lIsl-pHU

Lawmaker takes 9/11 doubts global

By JOHN SPIRI - Tuesday, June 17, 2008 - Special to The Japan Times

In a September 2003 article for The Guardian newspaper, Michael Meacher, who served as Tony
Blair's environment minister from May 1997 to June 2003, shocked the establishment by calling
the global war on terrorism "bogus." Even more controversially, he implied that the U.S.
government either allowed 9/11 to happen, or played some role in the destruction wrought that
day. Besides Meacher, few politicians have publicly questioned America's official 9/11
narrative — until Diet member Yukihisa Fujita.

In January 2008 Fujita, a member of the Democratic Party of Japan, asked the Japanese
Parliament and Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda to explain gaping holes in the official 9/11 story
that various groups — including those who call themselves the "911 Truth Movement" — claim to
have exposed.

Fujita, along with a growing number of individuals — including European and American
politicians — are leading a charge to conduct a thorough, independent investigation of what
happened on Sept. 11, 2001.

"Three or four years ago I saw some Internet videos like 'Loose Change' and '911 In Plane Site'
and I began to ask questions," Fujita said in an interview, "but I still couldn't believe this
was done by anyone but al-Qaida.

Israel’s own version of Holocaust denial
By Bradley Burston

13/06/2008

Imagine, if you will, a Jewish state founded as a refuge and last resort, that one day declares
the act of seeking refuge a felony.Imagine, if you can, a law that would allow the expulsion,
without any judicial process, of refugees so desperate to reach that state, that they would
hazard their very lives and those of their children to do so. Imagine, impossible as it may be,
that a Jewish state that is home to hundreds of thousands of Holocaust survivors, could decide
not only to imprison African refugees for five years, but to make those fleeing genocide in
Sudan subject to prison sentences of at least seven years.

Such are the outlines of a bill that has already sailed through a preliminary Knesset vote. So
callous is the language of the bill, so cruel its provisions toward Africans now fleeing a host
of dangers, that the Prevention of Infiltration Act of 2008 may be said to constitute a whole
new form of Holocaust denial. It is a denial grounded in the belief of many Israeli Jews that
we are so well versed in the lessons of the Holocaust - and so often ingenuously compared to
the Nazis - that we are incapable of treating others the way the wartime world acted toward its
doomed Jews.

For decades, Israeli leaders, frightened of opening a Pandora’s box holding millions of
Palestinian refugees, ducked and deferred policymaking on the larger issues of non-Jewish
refugee asylum. They allowed...

Israeli Government: "Immoral, Unethical And Illegal"

By Eileen Fleming

15 June, 2008

On June 5, 2008, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate from Northern Ireland, Maried Corrigan-Maguire a
keynote speaker at the third annual Bil'in conference on nonviolence traveled to Hebron. Maried
had been invited by friends who volunteer with Christian Peacemaker Team's based there.

Maried wrote:

On arrival in Hebron we met with the Administrator of the Hebron Orphanages. He explained that
the Israeli army is threatening to close 14 schools and orphanages in the Hebron district.

Eight of these schools and orphanages belong to the Islamic Charitable Society, while the
remaining six belong to the Muslim Youth Society.(On 26th February the Israeli army forces
handed over military orders of closures and confiscations of two bakeries, administrative
buildings, a warehouse, three schools and two orphanages. All of these owned by the ICS.)

He took us to see a newly built school owned by ICS , (cost of one million) which was due to be
opened in August, but is now closed. The Israeli Military has welded the gates of the school
closed and the...

BBC's Pro-Israeli Bias - by Stephen Lendman

In its near 86 year history, BBC has a long, unbroken and dubious distinction. Today it's
little different from its corporate-run counterparts in America, Britain and throughout the
world. In fact, on its tailored for a US BBC America audience, what passes for news matches
stride for stride what people here see every day - mind-numbing commercialism, shoddy
reporting, pseudo-journalism, celebrity and sports features, and other diverting and
distracting non-news that should embarrass correspondents and presenters delivering it. It
offends viewers and treats them like mushrooms - well-watered, in the dark, and uninformed
about the most important world and national issues affecting their lives and welfare.

That's the idea, of course, and has been since BBC's inception. John Reith was its founder and
first general manager. Reassuring the powerful, he set the standard adhered to thereafter:
"(You) know (you) can trust us not to be really impartial." BBC never was and never is.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3r6DK_jTVcA

New Democratic Party Deputy House Leader Libby Davies delivers a Parliamentary Petition signed
by over 500 Canadians demanding a new 9/11 investigation, in Canada's House of Commons during
Routine Proceedings at 1:10 pm on June 10, 2008

Here is the full text of the petition, available to sign at
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3r6DK_jTVcA

Zionist terror 1946 to 2001
By Jerry Mazza
Online Journal Associate Editor
http://onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/article_3351.shtml

Jun 9, 2008, 00:23

Why would we think that some portion of the Jewish people would not end as hardened by history
as their oppressors? After all, they were a people who had been chased, derided, expelled
through the centuries from country to country, only to land in the horrors of Nazi Germany, the
camps, the ovens, the first industrial-strength genocide.

In fact, as various Jews landed in the 1930s and '40s as refugees in Palestine, and while the
Holocaust was in full bloom, sure enough the intensely Zionist Irgun, Stern Gang and Haganah
terrorist gangs emerged there as well. In 1946, two years before the partitioning, as Israel
was being birthed from Palestine, the Zionist terror bombing of the King David Hotel shook the
Middle East. The brutal bombing was ordered by no less than Menachem Begin, who led the Irgun,
and who one day would be Israel’s Prime Minister.

U.N. experts rap U.S. "cruelty" to child prisoners

Robert Evans
Reuters North American News Service

Jun 06, 2008 11:35 EST

GENEVA, June 6 (Reuters) - United Nations experts on child rights criticised the United States
on Friday over detention of juveniles at Guantanamo, in Afghanistan and Iraq, and voiced
concern that some may have suffered cruel treatment.

They also called for an end to recruitment of under-18s into the U.S. armed forces and for a
halt to enlistment campaigns aimed specifically at young people from minority groups and poor
or single-parent families.

The strictures were issued in a report from the 18-member Committee on the Rights of the Child,
which monitors performance under U.N. pacts, including two signed by Washington on children and
armed conflict and on child prostitution.

On under-18s -- defined by the U.N. as children -- held in U.S.-run prisons in Iraq and
Afghanistan, the Committee said it was "concerned over reports indicating the use of cruel,
inhumane and degrading treatment."

The 18 experts, nominated by governments but expected to be independent of them, said they had
similar reports on abuse of young prisoners held for several years at the U.S. naval base in
Cuba's Guantanamo Bay.