02/25/13

Permalink When they came for the Raw Milk drinkers…

While I oppose most gun control proposals, there is one group of Americans I do believe should be disarmed: federal agents. The use of force by federal agents to enforce unjust and unconstitutional laws is one of the major, albeit overlooked, threats to liberty. Too often Americans are victimized by government force simply for engaging in commercial transactions disproved of by Congress and the federal bureaucracy. For example, the offices of Rawesome Foods in Venice, California, have been repeatedly raided by armed federal and state agents, and Rawesome’s founder, 65-year old James Stewart, has been imprisoned. What heinous crime justified this action? Rawesome sold unpasteurized (raw) milk and cheese to willing customers – in a state where raw milk is legal! You cannot even drink milk from a cow without a federal permit!


Permalink Dead French Photographer was State Department-Funded - Embedded With Al Qaeda

Further indication of the depraved nature of the West's campaign against Syria, and the depraved nature of its institutions, methods, and faux-NGOs, vindicating a growing trend of ejecting Western "journalists" and NGO's from an ever increasing number of nations, it is revealed that a French photographer recently killed in Syria was embedded with terrorist militants in Idlib, northern Syria, and was working on behalf of the US State Department's National Endowment for Democracy (NED) funded "Reporters Without Borders."

Daily Mail: French photographer killed by flying shrapnel in Syria as rebels launch fresh offensive on police academy in Aleppo


Permalink Eutelsat Israeli chief behind attack on Iran channels

The Franco-Israeli head of Eutelsat, Michel de Rosen, has begun a new wave of attacks against Iranian TV channels. - In a letter to Asian and European satellite companies, de Rosen has threatened the companies to drop Iranian entertainment and news channels. In the letter obtained by Press TV, the Franco-Israeli Eutelsat chief has warned satellite companies to remove Iranian channels or prepare to face the consequences of defying his order. He stated the sanctions imposed by the European Union (EU) and the United States against the Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB) chief, Ezzatollah Zarqami, as the reason for the push to stop broadcasting Iranian channels. De Rosen has threatened satellite companies that failing to comply with his orders will result in their assets being frozen, according to the new sanctions imposed against Iran by Washington, and their executives will no longer be allowed to travel to the US. He has also warned satellite companies that failing to comply with his orders will also have consequences for them in the EU.

Permalink 'Foreign powers' send heavy weapons to 'moderate' 'Syrian' 'rebels' - report

'Outside powers' have reportedly supplied heavy weapons to 'moderate' Free Syrian Army fighters, The Washington Post reports. Allegedly the arms have been delivered to Syria to counterweight radical Islamists high-jacking the rebel movement [war on Syria]. - The armaments are said to include anti-tank weapons and recoilless rifles and are thought to be the first such heavy weapons have been supplied from outside since the uprising against President Assad started two years ago, the newspaper reports. Its sources say the weapons have been delivered to FSA groups in the Syrian province of Daraa in the south of the country across the border with Jordan. The Jordanian government denied any role.

Washington Post: In Syria, new influx of weapons to rebels tilts the battle against Assad


Permalink US Drone Strikes Soaring in Afghanistan

As US troop levels are reduced and troops are actually now banned from at least one province, the occupation of Afghanistan is said to be “transitioning.” But to what, exactly? - The figures on 2012 attacks suggest that increasingly, Afghanistan is becoming a “drone war,” with a 72 percent increase in the number of drone strikes inside Afghanistan from 2011 to 2012, meaning drones now account for 12 percent of all air strikes in the occupied nation. Officials attributed the growth in the number of drone strikes to an increase in the number of armed drones in Afghanistan, which suggests that so long as they have the weapons they’re going to find a way to use them. Though still a small number overall, drone strikes are killing several times more civilian bystanders than in recent years as well.


Permalink Karzai orders US Special Forces out of two provinces, citing torture and murder - Video

The Afghan government has demanded the withdrawal of all US Special Forces on Sunday from the Wardak and Logar provinces within two weeks, accusing them of “harassing, torturing and murdering innocent civilians.” - A further statement released by the Afghan president’s office said that the decision to expel them was made by the National Security Council. “After a thorough discussion, it became clear that armed individuals named as US Special Force[s] stationed in Wardak province engage in harassing, annoying, torturing and even murdering innocent people," it said.

Alex Lantier: Afghan regime accuses US forces of torturing, murdering civilians
Washington Post: Karzai orders U.S. Special Operations forces out of key Afghan province


Permalink ‘Palestinian detainee tortured before death’

The Palestinian Authority’s minister for prisoners’ affairs has said Palestinian prisoner Arafat Jaradat was tortured before he died in an Israeli jail. - Late on Sunday, Issa Qaraqea revealed the results of autopsy at a press conference in the city of Ramallah in West Bank, The Guardian reported. Qaraqaa dismissed Israeli prison officials’ claims that Jaradat had died of "cardiac arrest" in Israel’s Magiddo prison. The Palestinian minister said Jaradat’s autopsy showed torture that caused fractures in his body and skull, while his heart was in good condition.

Stephen Lendman: Israeli Murder by Torture
Yahoo: Palestinians call for probe of Israeli prisons
UFreeNet:Israel tortures a Palestinian detainee to death
XinhuaNet: Autopsy shows Palestinian prisoner died of torture in Israeli jail
Russia Today: Israel demands Palestinian leaders quell unrest following prisoner death
Russia Today: Stun grenades and rubber bullets: IDF and Palestinians clash following prisoner's funeral


Permalink Galloway: I don't recognize Israel

British MP George Galloway has walked out of a debate at Oxford University upon finding out that his opposite side is an Israeli. - According to Thursday reports, Galloway immediately left the discussion session at the university's Christ Church College, after Eylon Aslan-Levy, accidentally revealed his Israeli origins. The British lawmaker was arguing that the Israeli regime should immediately withdraw from the occupied West Bank when Aslan-Levy used the word "we" to describe Israel's stance on the issue. "You said 'we'," said Galloway. "Are you an Israeli?" "I am, yes," Aslan-Levy replied. Galloway then said, "I don't debate with Israelis. I have been misled, sorry," reiterating as he walked out that, "I don't recognize Israel and I don't debate with Israelis." "I never debate with Israelis nor speak to their media. If they want to speak about Palestine - the address is the PLO [Palestine Liberation Organization]," Galloway later said on his Facebook page. He also stated the Christ Church College had never informed him that the debate would be with an Israeli.

Paul Larudee: George Galloway speaks for BDS as much as anyone - There is no single standard for BDS, no single person who speaks for the entire movement, no wrong way to practice BDS. No one can be excommunicated or found in violation of the movement's principles. All may participate in their own way. The error is to think that there is a formal apparatus or coalition that speaks for everyone.

Gilad Atzmon: BDS Against George Galloway - Anti-racism is certainly important except that Galloway did not once refer to Jews or to race. He referred to Israel and refused to debate an Israeli national. Now, I happen to think that Galloway was wrong but still, his decision, a purely political one, was entirely legitimate. Let me be clear. I believe that BDS is a force for good but BDS leadership had better reflect a little and start to focus on the real enemies of justice and of Palestine rather than harassing the most dedicated voices in this discourse.


Permalink Germany arms the Persian Gulf monarchies

The massive stepping-up of arms supplies to the Gulf States by Germany reflects the geo-strategic interests of German imperialism, which is increasingly acting with military aggression to satisfy its hunger for raw materials and to impose its own interests against those of its rivals. Last week, the financial daily Handelsblatt published an article headlined “Expedition raw materials: Germany's new course”, which laid out German imperialism’s new doctrine. The article states that German industry and government agree that the “securing of raw materials” is a “strategic theme for German foreign policy”. Securing them must also involve the use of “instruments of security and military policy”, the paper wrote. Handelsblatt placed the arms sales to Saudi Arabia, which has the world’s largest oil reserves, in this context.

The return of German imperialism
German industry, government planning for resource wars
German government decides on long-term military deployment in Mali


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