“What was the result of Feb 26, 2003 besides imprisoning of innocent people? Scores of innocent elderly American cancer patients died needlessly, innumerable tens of thousands of Iraqi needy (children, women and men) died, and more than that suffered malnutrition and the humiliation of poverty. (more…)
September 2006
Tue 12 Sep 2006
Dr. Dhafir talking about the result of his arrest on Feb 26, 2003
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Mon 11 Sep 2006
[Editor’s note from original site: See also “A German Jew speaks out against the carnage”]
FAZ op-ed by prominent German member of European Jews for a Just PeaceEvelyn Hecht-Galinski, “Sich der Kritik stellen!”, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 8 September 2006. www.normanfinkelstein.com
Face up to the Criticism!
Especially since I am the daughter of the former president of the Central Council of Jews in Germany Heinz Galinski, who was also a survivor of the Nazi concentration camps (more…)
Mon 11 Sep 2006
Links to articles and information about Dr. Dhafir’s case
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Two articles by Katherine Hughes,Crime of Compassion, January 2006 and United States of America v Rafil A. Dhafir: Individual Responsibility and Complicity, November 2005.
A two-part article on the case by Jennifer Van Bergen, a journalist with a law degree (more…)
Mon 11 Sep 2006
War Criminal Celebrates Toronto Birthday Bash While Humanitarian Activist Jailed 22 Years
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By Matthew Behrens Toronto Action for Social Change 9/9/06
Imagine it is September 9, 2009. Toronto’s swank Royal York Hotel is hosting a birthday bash for a former U.S. President. Legions of Canadian artists and liberal film star types, however, boycott the event. (more…)
Mon 11 Sep 2006
9/11 – The inevitable consequence of our choices
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By Tom Feeley “Information Clearing House” 09/11/06
Originally published in 2002
America is a bully, or so it appears to those who live beyond our shores. Nobody likes a bully, whether he operates in the schoolyard or in the international arena. (more…)
Mon 11 Sep 2006
Embedded Reporting Influences War Coverage: Penn State University Study
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PSU August 11, 2006, a.m.
Montreal — A Penn State study shows that the use of embedded reporters by major newspapers did affect the number and the type of stories published (more…)
Sat 9 Sep 2006
Day of Reckoning; America’s Economic Meltdown
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By Mike Whitney ICH 9/9/06
There’s growing concern among economists and market-savvy pundits that the global financial system is hanging by a few well-worn threads that could snap at any time. (more…)
Sat 9 Sep 2006
“No Clowning Around Weapons of Mass Destruction!”
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Federal Judge: Priest and Two Veterans in WMD Protest Must Go to Trial
by Bill Quigley commondreams.org
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A federal judge cleared the way for a priest and two veterans to be tried before a federal jury on September 13, 2006 for damaging a Minuteman III intercontinental nuclear missile in North Dakota. (more…)