[Imc-cleveland] Arabian Sights== Imperial Sunset / Farrakhan Accuses Jews of Anti-Semitism on Al-Jazeera / Torture / Enabling Imus / Environmental racism

Wed Apr 18 15:34:09 UTC 2007

            Arabian Sights.... 

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            ...I wrote a piece entitled "Wars Yet to Come" (Frontline May 9, 2003), in which I predicted that

            "What the Americans have brought with them is not only the gift of colonization but all the paraphernalia of communalization and fragmentation of Iraqi society: dividing the Turkoman against the Kurd, the Kurd against the Arab, the Sunni against the Shia, and indeed one Shia faction against the other, Ba'athist against the non-Ba'athist, the clients against the patriots. ... [C]ollapse into fiefdoms of local power in the name of primordial loyalties is very probable, and the colonial power is likely to do all it can to accentuate these conflicts [so that] the presence of colonial authority, as keepers of the peace among communities, can be justified. ... A foretaste of the bloody nature of this communalization can be seen in the ethnic cleansing of Arabs that is already under way in northern Iraq at the hands of Kurdish zealots."... 

                        Imperial Sunset?  

                        Wednesday, 04 April 2007  
                        Aijaz Ahmad 

                        The sun is clearly setting on the American Empire - but that doesn't mean the would-be world rulers are going to give up easily. Although packing more arms than the rest of the planet, combined, the U.S. economic and political situation is in a dramatic spiral that cannot be reversed. Iraq, which was to have been the stepping stone to total global U.S. hegemony, has become the graveyard of American imperial dreams. Globalization, which U.S. corporations believed would inevitably ensure their supremacy, has turned on the master, creating new polarities of power. 

                        Read more...  

            http://www.blackagendareport.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=164&Itemid=36

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                  Farrakhan Accuses Jews of Anti-Semitism on Al-Jazeera 

            During an appearance on the Arabic-language television news network Al Jazeera, Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan made several statements testifying to the unchanging nature of his views toward Jews. 

            When asked about past accusations of anti-Semitism during the interview, which was broadcast on March 18, 2007, Farrakhan said, "The real anti-Semites are those who came out of Europe and settled in Palestine, and now they call themselves the true Jews, when in fact, they converted to Judaism."

            Addressing the situation in Iraq, Farrakhan denied that a practicing Muslim would ever destroy a place of religious worship and seemingly questioned the role of Mossad and the CIA in the violence.  Farrakhan then warned America that "the time for the chastisement of Allah is here." 

            Farrakhan also voiced support for Iran's nuclear program, charging that the U.S. motivation to thwart the program is self-serving and that the protection of Israel is "the cornerstone of America's foreign policy."

            http://www.adl.org/main_Nation_of_Islam/farrakhan_al_jazeera.htm

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            Meet the New Empire, Same as the Old Empire

            ( http://www.transformcolumbusday.org/pdf/Meet%20the%20New%20Empire%20Same%20as%20the%20Old%20Empire.pdf )

            Torture  

            Wednesday, 04 April 2007  
            Margaret Kimberley 

            The American show trials are showing the world the American ass. Nobody believes the volumes of confessions by Guantanamo and other CIA prisons confessions - the equivalent of street cops clearing every case in the book by piling on convictions of plea-bargainers. Having been forced by world opinion to show at least some vestige of respect for international law, the U.S. now makes a sham of the modalities of justice. Terrorists do exist, but they must be convicted by due process - not the end result of torture. 

            Read more...  

        http://www.blackagendareport.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=165&Itemid=36 

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      Enabling Imus
      Richard Muhammad 

      In a horrific display of racist solidarity, white media men have circled their wagons around Don Imus, the career broadcast bigot who called the Rutgers women's basketball team a bunch of "nappy headed hos." All is forgiven, because "Imus is us," say his defensemen. And they are right: Imus is them, irredeemably racist children of white privilege who believe their casual slandering of other races and genders are of no more concern than getting drunk at a frat party. The most important element of the tale is not Imus' putrid outbursts, but the reflexive defense of him by his co-racists, who have "outed" themselves in the process. 
      http://www.blackagendareport.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=177&Itemid=43

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            Wasted People: Environmental Racism, a 20-Year Saga  
            Wednesday, 04 April 2007  
            Dr. Robert D. Bullard 

             Back in 1987, the environmental racism movement won its first significant victory. Twenty years later, a cadre of Black and progressive scientists are calibrating the methodical harm that has been done to Black communities by a society that treats people of color as wasted human flesh. The Bush administration has done everything in its power to silence this growing environmental-racism resistance, cutting off funding to programs that could uncover crimes against whole communities perched on the cusp of disaster - chemical death. 

            Read more...  
        http://www.blackagendareport.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=166&Itemid=33 

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Rosie O'Donnell speaks out on Iran and 9/11?!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MiIyI6ugmUM

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