Published on 29 Jan 2013 : In this episode of press TV's documentary program renowned American academic Noam Chomsky says the United States would be recognized as a leading terrorist state if international law is applied.
... for persecution is worse than slaughter..(part of 2:191)
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Thursday, January 31, 2013
Monday, January 28, 2013
UN probes drone assassination strikes
Published on Jan 27, 2013 :
The investigation was announced in London on Thursday by Ben Emmerson -- the Special Investigator for the UN Human Rights Council. The focus -- according to Emmerson -- will be on about 25 of drone strikes conducted over the past several years in Pakistan -- Yemen -- Somalia -- Afghanistan -- and Palestine. At the UN on Friday -- a spokesman for Secretary-General Ban-Ki Moon said the deadly strikes raise legitimate legal concerns. Haq added that Ban has urged relevant parties -- in this case the US -- UK -- and Israel -- to be transparent about the circumstances in which drones are used. The UK has said that it will comply -- but there are no such assurances from the US -- which has run its drone assassination program under deep secrecy -- mainly through the C.I.A. Much of the concern has to do with US strikes over Pakistani territory -- which have killed thousands -- including hundreds of civilians and nearly two hundred children. Pakistan's UN ambassador -- Masood Khan -- is the current Security Council president -- but he couldn't comment on the investigation in that capacity Friday because the Council has never taken up the subject of drone strikes.
Sunday, January 13, 2013
2 States Solution - RIV (Rest in Violence).
Palestian protesters evicted from E1, West Bank.
Published on 13 Jan 2013: Israeli police have evicted around a hundred Palestinian protesters from a geographically sensitive area of the West Bank known as E1.
The activists who set up the tent outpost fear that Israeli building in E1 will kill off the possibility of a contiguous Palestinian state in future.
But Israel has earmarked the area for a new settlement.
Israeli policeman Micky Rosenfeld says: "The operation took place after the government and court order was handed out and given to those that trespassed in the area telling them it was illegal place for them to be."
Many Palestinians have been up in arms about the decision since it was announced last November and several European diplomats have warned of the threat to a future Palestinian state.
Independent Palestinian legislator Mustafa Barghouti says:
"This is a system of apartheid. They allow Israeli settlers to stay here illegally on illegal stolen land and they are arresting us, the Palestinians, who are non-violently resisting occupation and resisting settlements."
Israel's Supreme Court had ruled on Friday that the tents could stay for six days while a solution was discussed, but Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu stepped in, ordering that all the people be evacuated.
Saturday, January 5, 2013
US drone kills senior Pakistan tribal leader
Published on 3 Jan 2013 : Aulvi Nazir has been killed by a US drone strike in South Waziristan.
Sunday, December 16, 2012
British Guantanamo detainee to sue UK for defamation.
Published on 14 Dec 2012 : The last British resident held in Guantanamo Bay detention centre is suing the UK intelligence services for defamation. Shaker Aamer has been held without charge or trial for nearly eleven years. He has been cleared for release by the U.S. administration but remains in prison.
Saturday, December 15, 2012
Beaten and sodomized: European human rights court finds CIA guilty of torture.
The European Court of Human Rights found the CIA guilty of torturing a terror suspect for the first time ever. A German citizen was illegally detained, tortured and sodomized by a CIA “rendition team’ after being mistaken for an al-Qaeda member.
Beaten & Sodomized: CIA found guilty of torture by European Court
Published on 15 Dec 2012 : The European Court of Human Rights found the CIA guilty of torturing a terror suspect for the first time ever.
Beaten & Sodomized: CIA found guilty of torture by European Court
Published on 15 Dec 2012 : The European Court of Human Rights found the CIA guilty of torturing a terror suspect for the first time ever.
The Strasbourg-based court has unanimously ruled that German citizen Khalid el-Masri was tortured by a CIA ‘rendition team’.
The court also found the state of Macedonia guilty of secretly imprisoning, abusing and torturing Khalid el-Masri, a German citizen of Lebanese origin, and ordered €60,000 in compensation to be paid to the former detainee. The Macedonian government denied any involvement in the kidnapping.
James Goldston, executive director of the Open Society Justice Initiative, told the Guardian that the ruling of the Grand Chamber of ECtHR should become a wake-up call for the Obama administration and US courts. For the US Congress to continue avoiding serious scrutiny of CIA activities is going to be "simply unacceptable", Goldston said.
Ben Emmerson, the UN special rapporteur on human rights and counter-terrorism, believes the ECtHR ruling is “a key milestone in the long struggle to secure accountability of public officials implicated in human rights violations committed by the Bush adminsitration CIA in its policy of secret detention, rendition and torture”.
Emmerson suggested that the US government must issue an apology for its "central role in a web of systematic crimes and human rights violations by the Bush-era CIA” and pay voluntary compensation to Khalid el-Masri. In turn, Germany should seek the US officials involved in this case to be brought to trial.
Khaled el-Masri (AFP Photo/DDP/Sebastian Widmann)
Masri’s unexpected journey
Macedonian police arrested Khalid el-Masri in December 2003. In January 2004 he was taken to a hotel in the airport of the capital Skopje, where for 23 days he was interrogated about alleged ties with terrorist organizations. The questioning was conducted in English despite the fact that el-Masri has only a basic knowledge of the language.
Masri says he was refused any contacts with German diplomats and once his captors threatened to shoot him after he declared his intention to leave immediately.
Tuesday, December 4, 2012
New settlements means total destruction of peace process!
Published on 3 Dec 2012 by AlJazeeraEnglish : Israel intends to build 3,000 new settlements - Israel's plan to build thousands these new homes on Palestinian land means a total destruction of the peace process!
Sunday, November 25, 2012
Will Obama intensify the siege on Iran?
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama promised to launch a new diplomatic push to solve the longstanding crisis over Iran's disputed nuclear program, saying there was still a "window of time" to end the standoff.
He cited crippling sanctions imposed on Iran by the UN Security Council and unilateral Western restrictions on Tehran's oil sector and banks, calling them the "toughest sanctions in history."
Monday, November 19, 2012
Israel wants Gaza back to the Middle Ages & the siege !
Published on Nov 19, 2012 by aston79suara : Interior Ministry of Israel aims to send Gaza back to the Middle Ages. The meaning of occupation in theory & practice.
Courtesy RT : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSV176FaXG4
Courtesy TRNN : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2qoMyV3jzjA
Brave Israeli Soldier Speaks Against the Crimes of His Government...
On BBC Published on Nov 17, 2012 by Neo ie : Brave Israeli Soldier, Yonatan Shapira, speaks out about the Zionist Israeli governments crimes.
Click here to Read the blog "The Dark History of Modern Day Zionism" -
Sunday, November 18, 2012
Canada & those wanted for war crimes!
Published on Nov 17, 2012 by PressTVGlobalNews : Individuals who accuse the US government of torturing them filed a complaint against the Canadian government at the UN this week.
In the year 2000 Canada enshrined the Crimes Against Humanity and War Crimes Act which is ostensibly aimed at preventing Canada from becoming a safe haven for war criminals. However the law has never been enforced on credibly accused war criminals such as Benjamin Netanyahu and George W. Bush who are afforded police protection when they visit Canada.
Critics contend that the Harper government affords impunity to the protagonists of the "war on terror" because Canadian politicians themselves stand accused to complicity in torture and other war crimes. In late 2008 the Harper government amazed many when they shut down Canada's parliament, analysts believe, to avert discussion of the mounting evidence of Canadian complicity in torture.
Latest Slaughter of Gazans!
'Missiles fell so close to us, it was a targeted assassination'
Published on Nov 17, 2012 by RussiaToday : RT gets a first-hand account on violence in the Middle East from film-maker Greg Manahan, who's just returned from Gaza.
Thursday, November 15, 2012
"As the Arabs see the Jews"
Written : His Majesty King Abdullah,
The American Magazine
November, 1947
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In 1932, the year before Hitler came to power, only 9,500 Jews came to Palestine. We did not welcome them, but we were not afraid that, at that rate, our solid Arab majority would ever be in danger.
But the next year—the year of Hitler—it jumped to 30,000! In 1934 it was 42,000! In 1935 it reached 61,000!
It was no longer the orderly arrival of idealist Zionists. Rather, all Europe was pouring its frightened Jews upon us.
It is your press and political leadership, almost alone in the world, who press this demand. It is almost entirely American money which hires or buys the "refugee ships" that steam illegally toward Palestine: American money which pays their crews. The illegal immigration from Europe is arranged by the Jewish Agency, supported almost entirely by American funds. It is American dollars which support the terrorists, which buy the bullets and pistols that kill British soldiers—your allies—and Arab citizens—your friends.
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Tuesday, November 13, 2012
Israel attack Gaza, while American busy with the polls.
Published on Nov 12, 2012 by aston79suara : Another attack from the Zionist entity and it's escalating!
Monday, November 12, 2012
World must be responsible for Rohingyas.
Published on Nov 9, 2012 by PressTVGlobalNews : A political analyst tells Press TV that the responsibility of supporting the minority Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar has to be shared by the international community.
The comments come after Rohingya organizations and activists around the world declared Nov. 8 a global day of action to draw attention to the ongoing plight of Muslims in Myanmar.
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