Nobel peace prize citation for Barack Obama – WHAT A DISGRAAAAAAACE!!!

Nobel peace prize citation for Barack Obama
Barack Obama presides over a UN security council meeting on nuclear weapons.
Barack Obama at a UN security council meeting on nuclear weapons: the Nobel peace prize committee singled out his work on disarmament for praise. Photograph: Emmanuel Dunand/AFP
“The Norwegian Nobel committee has decided that the [...]

ISRAHELL NEWs: Organ trafficking & war crimes (whatelse is new?)

Perspective on Gaza; knowledge carries responsibility! (Never say you didn´t know!!!)

Conditions in the Gaza Strip continue to worsen – 17 Mar 08

Exclusive Al Jazeera footage from Gaza – 25 May 07

Palestinians killed in Israeli raids into Gaza – 16 April 08

Gaza violence escalates – 17 Jan 08

Israeli air raids [...]

And so the Isreali bomb shoah of Gaza has begun… “an unprecedented massacre.”

Dozens Killed In Gaza Attacks
Hamas: Over 140 killed as Israel strikes police compounds (jpost) The only image in this online artical is an image of… a crying Israeli mother from Ashkelon. The shoah of palestines in numbers is apperently not even worth an image for Israelis. No, the victims are the israelis even when [...]

Can the First Gaza War be stopped before it starts?

Last update – 10:13 22/12/2008
Can the First Gaza War be stopped before it starts?
By Bradley Burston
Tags: Israel News, Hamas, IDF
Doing nothing is no longer an option.
The week began with Palestinian rockets slamming into the Negev an average of nearly once an hour, around the clock.
“There’s a moral problem here,” says Brigadier General (Res.) Shmuel [...]

How the U.S. Invited a War in South Ossetia + winners/loosers

Last week, Georgia launched a major military offensive against the rebel province South Ossetia, just hours after President Mikheil Saakashvili had announced a unilateral ceasefire. Close to 1,500 have been killed, Russian officials say. Thirty thousand refugees, mostly women and children, streamed across the border into the North Ossetian capital Vladikavkaz in Russia.
The timing — [...]

Abu Ghraib photos & “the freedom cowboys”

Shocking pictures have come to light revealing the extent of prisoner abuse at Abu Ghraib – and it’s much worse than anyone imaged.

Ref: journeymanpictures

The naive armchair warriors are fighting a delusional war

The French philosopher Michel Foucault notes that in all societies discourse is controlled – imperceptibly constrained, perhaps, but constrained nonetheless. We are not free to say exactly what we like. The norms set by institutions, convention and our need to keep within the boundaries of accepted behaviour and thought limit what may be touched upon. [...]

War Corrupts

War licenses destruction, breaking the bodies and land and will of the enemy. War is a condition that suspends human respect and care and authorizes destruction.

Americans accept the idea of war; we launch war on poverty and war on terror-invoking an abstraction seen as good to kill abstractions seen as bad. If poverty and terror [...]

Bush Calls on France for Help – War Without End

“We support the troops!” That’s the excuse the Democrats have given for continuing to fund Bush’s aggression against Iraq and Afghanistan. But, of course, war funding doesn’t support the troops. War funding supports an evil machine that chews up and spits out the lives and well being of the troops, along with that of hundreds [...]