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Signs of the Times for Wed, 04 Oct 2006

Child Abuse: Christopher Bollyn Shows His True Colours

Henry See Signs of the Times 04/10/2006

It will be very interesting to see who comes to his defence and who refuses to get involved, preferring to sit on the fence. The attack of Christopher Bollyn on Lisa Guliani will be a litmus test for the ponerization of the so-called 9/11 truth [sic] movement and the individuals within it.

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Not My Son in Video, Declares Atta Senior

October 03rd 2006
Kurt Nimmo

In fairness, you'd think the corporate media would hear out Muhammad al-Amir al-Sayd Atta, father of patsy hijacker Mohammed Atta, who has told the Saudi daily al-Watan the latest intelligence video fabrication, allegedly showing Mohammed and Ziad Jarrah, is a crass fake. "The video-testament of my son is false and I continue to believe he is innocent," Atta said. "There is a big difference between this photo and the images shown by the Americans-that one is not my boy.... "The Americans tampered with and falsified that video ... they want to change the truth in order to achieve their goals in the Middle East."

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Murder For Sport - The Israel Army In Palestine

Ellis Sharp
29/06/2006

[...] The plight of Palestinian children arrested by the Israeli army has long been one of the neglected aspects of Israeli occupation, involving some 600 minors a year since the outbreak of the second Intifada in September 2000. Nearly all are held without access to legal support during questioning, often compelled to sign confessions in Hebrew, a language they don't understand, while subjected to intimidation and mistreatment as a matter of routine course.

It starts with the arrest itself, which can take place during night-time incursions or mass arrest campaigns, or alternatively at the military checkpoints which have played such a part in curtailing the economic and social life of the West Bank.

After a night or two behind bars, some minors are released without charge, while the unfortunate ones, around 300 a year, start their passage through the Israeli military justice system which stands as the rule of law in the Occupied Palestinian Territories.

This system allows no special provisions for minors, despite the fact that Israel is a signatory of numerous international treaties which demand due consideration for age in the legal process, not least of which is the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. Those considerations are, by contrast, applied to Israeli minors, including those living cheek by jowl with the Palestinians in illegal West Bank settlements.

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Bad faith and the destruction of Palestine

Jonathan Cook
The Electronic Intifada
29 September 2006

Palestinian electricity workers extinguish a fire inside the headquarters of the main electricity company in the Gaza Strip after it was attacked by an Israeli missile during air strikes over the city, June 28, 2006. (MaanImages/Wesam Saleh)

A mistake too often made by those examining Israel's behaviour in the occupied territories - or when analysing its treatment of Arabs in general, or interpreting its view of Iran - is to assume that Israel is acting in good faith. Even its most trenchant critics can fall into this trap.

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A Political Culture of Lies and War

Rodrigue Tremblay
October 2, 2006
The New American Empire

"The President's [George W. Bush's] decision to ignore intelligence community assessments prior to the Iraq war and to make repeated public statements that gave the misleading impression that Saddam Hussein's regime was connected to the terrorists who attacked us on 9/11 cost him any credibility he may have had on this issue."
Carl Levin, U. S. Senator (D, MI)

"When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty, and there is nothing to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader."
Plato (427-347 B.C.)

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American Narcissism and Iraq

By NORMAN SOLOMON
October 2, 2006

The uproar over Bob Woodward's new book, State of Denial, has intensified the media focus on a basic controversy that's summed up this way: Is Iraq a quagmire?

Like many other debates that flourish in American mass media, the standard answers on both sides are wrong -- because the question bypasses human realities.

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