Sifting Through Boiling Blood.
Layla Anwar, An Arab Woman Blues
Every time I want to start a new post about Iraq, I am at loss. I simply don’t know where to start. And this has been going on since I’ve started blogging… I want to write about deformed babies in Falluja. I want to write about the sectarian arrests in Ameriya. I want to write about the use of napalm in Mosul.
I want to write about the street children of Baghdad and the widows (…) I want to write about my memories, my homesickness, my anger, and my grief… And every single topic I want to write about, makes my blood boil. So I’ve devised a little mental trick to help me sift through all of this. I ask myself a simple question — Right now, right this minute, what is making your blood boil, the most ? And I pause and usually this is how a topic is chosen from the myriad of catastrophes that have assailed us, from the myriad of punishments that have been unjustly inflicted on us – us, true Iraqis. Hence, I’ve decided to write about a conversation I witnessed today between Sarah and some English female, an NGO worker here. A bit of background information is necessary. Sarah is a 52 years old Iraqi widow. She has no children, no parents and her only family is her brother who works abroad and sends her money whenever he can…

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For the sons and daughters of Palestine, olive oil until they’re free
Brian Wood
…It is for people like these, and many others, that Mountain High Imports was started. We seek to bring extra virgin Palestinian olive oil to US markets in the belief that it is one of the best olive oils produced around the world. At the same time, purchases of Palestinian olive oil are a way for people in the US to support Palestinian farmers and their unions or cooperatives without leaving home. To that end, Mountain High Imports donates 50 cents from every bottle of its Sumud brand olive oil to the Trees for Life Campaign, which gives individual farmers new olive saplings to replenish their decimated groves. Further, all profits from sales are used to make larger purchases from the farmers and increase our distribution network in the US….

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WHAT IS THE UK GOVERNMENT AND INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY DOING AS ISRAELI MILITARY TARGETS AND DESTROYS MUSLIM CHARITABLE INSTITUTIONS IN HEBRON?
Mairead Maguire (Nobel Peace Laureate)
On 5th June, 2008 whilst attending Conference in Bil’in on Nonviolence, I Was invited by friends, who are members of Christian Peacemakers’ team based in Hebron, to go with them to see what is happening in Hebron. On arrival in Hebron we met with the Administrator of the Hebron Orphanages. He explained that the Israeli army is threatening to close 14 schools and orphanages In the Hebron district. Eight of these schools and orphanages belong to the Islamic Charitable Society, while the remaining six belong to the Muslim Youth Society.(On 26th February the Israeli army forces handed over military orders of closures and confiscations of two bakeries, administrative buildings, a warehouse, three schools and two orphanages. All of these owned by the ICS.)…

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Iraq controls Afghanistan says British Secretary of State
Dizzy Thinks
From Hansard “Mr. Ellwood: To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what plans he has for the funding and operation of the Park for Women in Lashkar Gah, Helmand province in the next 12 months. Mr. Douglas Alexander: The Government of Iraq has responsibility for the funding and operation of the Bolan Park in Lashkar Gah”….

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REMEMBER ALLAWI?
Malcom Lagauche
With all the screw ups of Maliki, few people talk about his predecessor, Ayad Allawi. Talk has it that Allawi, between trips to his luxury homes in England and Jordan, is attempting to form a political alliance to eventually run the country of Iraq. When Ayad Allawi was named as interim Iraqi Prime Minister, most people asked, “Who?” Then, the U.S. propaganda machine went into full swing and depicted him as the perfect person for the job — an Iraqi exile who opposed the Saddam Hussein regime. With that snow job, many people assumed this was a good compromise choice that would appease everybody. They are right; the choice did appease everyone except the Iraqi people. Iraqis were not too keen on having a person with a British passport who lives in Wimbledon run their country…

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WHAT IS THE UK GOVERNMENT AND INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY DOING AS ISRAELI MILITARY TARGETS AND DESTROYS MUSLIM CHARITABLE INSTITUTIONS IN HEBRON?
Mairead Maguire (Nobel Peace Laureate)
On 5th June, 2008 whilst attending Conference in Bil’in on Nonviolence, I Was invited by friends, who are members of Christian Peacemakers’ team based in Hebron, to go with them to see what is happening in Hebron. On arrival in Hebron we met with the Administrator of the Hebron Orphanages. He explained that the Israeli army is threatening to close 14 schools and orphanages In the Hebron district. Eight of these schools and orphanages belong to the Islamic Charitable Society, while the remaining six belong to the Muslim Youth Society.(On 26th February the Israeli army forces handed over military orders of closures and confiscations of two bakeries, administrative buildings, a warehouse, three schools and two orphanages. All of these owned by the ICS.)…

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WIKAIPACIA
Desertpeace
I posted a birthday tribute to my Associate and friend Ben Heine this morning…. in it was a link to find out more information about Ben at Wikipedia (Wikipedia has a page dedicated to him. It has some interesting tidbits about him that you can read HERE.) Well…. if you click on my link…. the following is what you will find; Ben Heine. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name The Lobby zapped him!…

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Blast in Falluja Damages Sunni Party’s Main Office
ALISSA J. RUBIN, NYTimes
A leading Sunni political party’s headquarters in western Iraq was blown up early Thursday morning, while in southern Iraq, where Shiite factions have been fighting one another, a powerful bomb was discovered on the road to an important Shiite shrine. Both episodes pointed to probable tensions in the months ahead of provincial elections in which factions are fighting hard to ensure that they have a place at the political table. The explosion of the headquarters of the Iraqi Islamic Party in Falluja, west of Baghdad, happened about 6 a.m., according to witnesses, who said the American military had been near the site of the bombing until about an hour before the detonation. The Falluja City Council blamed the Americans for the blast, saying it had also damaged a health center next door…

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Four killed among them a child as an explosion rips a Gazan home
Ghassan Bannoura – IMEMC News
Four Palestinian civilians, among them a baby were killed on Thursday midday as an explosion ripped a house in Beit Lahyia town located in the northern part of the Gaza Strip. Witnesses said that the explosion left a house comprised of their apartments totally destroyed. Medical sources said that four were killed, among them Nur Hamudah, four months old and another three men; 40 other civilians were injured at least among them 6 in critical condition, Dr. Mo’awiah Hassanen, of the Palestinian Ministry of health in Gaza reported…

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Iraqi troops deploy to Amarah for new southern operation against Shiite militias
AP
Iraqi reinforcement troops deployed to the oil-producing southern city of Amarah on Thursday as the military geared up for another crackdown against Shiite militiamen, officials said. U.S. and Iraqi commanders say many militia chiefs have fled to Amarah and Iran after security operations in Basra and Baghdad’s Sadr City district. …

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How Much Was Fox Paid to Shill Bush’s War Crime in Iraq?
Len Hart
The many lies told by Fox and Bill O’Reilly are probable cause to suspect Fox of criminal complicity with the Bush regime. It is reasonable to suspect that Fox is called Bush’s ‘propaganda ministry’ because it is Bush’s propaganda ministry. Bush may yet stand trial for war crimes and mass murder. But what of his enablers inside his ‘propaganda ministry’? It is reasonable to ask how many members of the Fox board, how many executives, how many on-camera shills share Bush’s guilt for having perpetrated a murderous lie upon the American people and the world…

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A Secret Love Affair
Layla Anwar, An Arab Woman Blues
This article is an absolute MUST READ…A new report by the U.S. Senate suggests that Iranian intelligence used Ledeen and Ghorbanifar to feed disinformation to neoconservatives in the administration of President George W. Bush in a bid to encourage a U.S. invasion of Iraq in order to defeat Saddam Hussein, Iran’s arch-enemy I am sure more secret stories along the same lines will be revealed in the future… But what is secret to you is no secret to Iraqis --- Without Iran’s generous help and full collaboration, U.S occupation of Iraq would have not taken place…

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Friday, Amara military campaign
Roads to Iraq
I think Jordanian government gave instructions to their media to write positive article about Maliki and his government. That shows the level of the economic desperation in Jordan, waiting for Maliki as their last hope. Jordanian newspapers are full of articles painting Maliki as a hero, who managed to escape from the Iranian pressure, and wants retake Iraq back to the Arab nations….

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A MEETING WITH CHE GUEVARA
K Gajendra Singh
1965 was a very eventful year in Algeria. Jammu and Kashmir leader Sheikh Abdullah , who had been released from prison in India ,under the pretext of seeing Algerian Revolutionary leader and President Ben Bella turned up in Algiers and met with Chinese Prime Minister Chou en Lai , also visiting Algeria. Soon after, President Ben Bella himself, residing at the Peoples Palace , just across my flat on Rue Franklin Roosevelt ,was overthrown in a peaceful coup d’etat by Houari Boumeddienne ,the military chief of the Algerian Liberation Army . Twice, preparatory meetings for the Second Afro Asian Summit failed to agree on an agenda or the date or even the venue. But it is the 80th anniversary of Che Guevara’s birth on 14 June and the upcoming 50th anniversary of the Cuban Revolution which Che helped plan and execute with Fidel Castro , which brought back memories of the visit to Algeria of that legendry revolutionary icon of 1960s and beyond…

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Awkaf warns of Zio-American systematic scheme to judaize Jerusalem
Palestinian Information Center
The Awkaf (endowments) ministry in the PA caretaker government in Gaza has warned of an accelerating Zionist scheme to judaize the holy city of Jerusalem with full American backing. In a press release on Wednesday, the Quds committee in the Awkaf ministry said that the new Israeli settlement drive on Mount of Olives in Ras Al-Amod suburb poses “grave danger” on occupied Jerusalem and the Aqsa Mosque, where the new project overlooks the Aqsa…

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Anti-siege committee: Israel’s decision of not allowing in foodstuff war crime
Palestinian Information Center
The European campaign against the siege strongly denounced the IOA for taking Wednesday a decision to suspend the passage of trucks loaded with curtailed quantities of foodstuff through the Sufa crossing into the Gaza Strip, describing it as a war crime. The campaign said that the IOA is working according to a carefully-prepared plan to turn Gaza into an area of destitution and mass death, a repository of pain and graveyard for patients…

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What Do Critics of Israel Have to Fear?
J. Lorand Mator
At what point do imbalances in access to money, media, and society’s administrative apparatuses constitute the censorship of dissent? Recent events at Harvard provide an exhaustive example. At the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) meeting on Nov. 13, 2007, I moved “that this faculty commits itself to fostering a civil dialogue in which people with a broad range of perspectives feel safe and are encouraged to express their reasoned and evidence-based ideas.” Expressing the fear that voting down so self-evidently reasonable a proposition would be embarrassing, my colleagues voted massively (74-27) to “table” the motion — that is, to end discussion of it and to avoid a vote….

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Gaza hospitals in need of care
Nora Barrows-Friedman
In the brightly painted new intensive care unit wing of al-Awda, northern Gaza’s only emergency medical facility in the massive Jabaliya refugee camp, doctors, nurses, aides and administrators are ready to provide emergency surgery services for the area’s 300,000 people. But the metal bed frames remain empty of patients — and of mattresses, and IV bags, and heart monitors, and other basic supplies needed at any medical facility. The equipment has been purchased, but remains in the occupied West Bank city Ramallah, prevented by Israel from being taken into Gaza.,,

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Aya Masoud a Young Heroine From Gaza Strip
Hiyam Noir, PalestineFreeVoice
On Gaza Strip, lives a young heroine, her name is Aya Masoud, she is 8 years old. Aya was born without arms.She is a fantastic girl, with a strong will and determination to survive in the most difficult situation,the hardship which for decades, has formed the lives of the Palestinian society on Gaza Strip. Born without arms, Aya have learned to use here both feats and her toes,to make it possible to manage her every day routines.Aya is very good in school, one of the best in her class. Despite codified international laws about the rights of the children, including the “Convention of the Rights of the Child”,the Palestinian children are still paying a high price, being the innocent victims of the Israelis occupation…

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Remember! Remember!
Hussein Al-alak, the Iraq Solidarity Campaign
So have you decided whose side your on, when asked in the article Action for Iraqi children if you are with us or against us? When in knowledge of the fact that 1.5 million children died under the US/UK backed UN Sanctions, the “cabinet of war criminals”, have further destroyed the lives of millions of Iraq’s young, through “the supreme international crime”, which was and still remains the invasion and occupation of Iraq. Dare you ask how many children have vanished since that day, when the invasion was launched in 2003, as a consequence of Prime Minister Tony Blair’s lies about Weapons of Mass Destruction. When those now dead British soldiers were mobilised for the American’s false claims about Saddam Hussain working in collaboration with Osama Bin Laden….

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