March 27, 2010

Who Are The Real Terrorists These Days

By Adel - PeaceMaker
March 27, 2010

John Patrick Bedell was angry at the U.S. federal government that had devastated public education, private property rights and monetary policy, so he shot two security guards at the Pentagon. He was not a terrorist.

Andrew Joseph Stack flew a small plane into the Internal Revenue Service building in Austin, Texas, killing one IRS worker and injuring 13 people. Earlier that day, Stack proclaimed on his Web page, “Violence not only is the answer,” he wrote, “it is the only answer.” Stack was not a terrorist.

Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, an Army psychiatrist of Palestinian origin, opened fire on fellow soldiers in Fort Hood, Texas, killing 13 and wounding 29. He strongly opposed U.S. military action in Afghanistan and Iraq. He is a terrorist.

The first two violent attacks were carried out as political protests by American conservatives angry at the federal government for taking over their rights. The third was carried out by an Arab-American Muslim angry at the federal government for taking over other people’s rights.

America’s Mainstream Media quickly explained that the first two cases were deranged individuals not part of any wider conspiracy. Three days after the Pentagon attack, The New York Times wrote that Bedell had been living with his parents and “seemed to slide into a deep paranoia.” The paper reassured us that “federal authorities said there was no indication that Mr. Bedell had a connection to any domestic or international terrorist group.”

On the day of the attack against the IRS, The Wall Street Journal conveyed the comforting news that federal workers had not been victims of terrorism. “I consider this a criminal act by a lone individual,” said Austin Police Chief Art Acevedo.

Fox News labeled Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan action as a terrorist attack. As Sen. Joe Lieberman pointed out on Fox, “There are very, very strong warning signs here that Dr. Hasan had become an Islamist extremist and therefore that this was a terrorist act.”

Lieberman conveying that extremism comes only from the Muslim world, not right-wing Americans with persecution complexes and semiautomatic weapons.

There seems to be similar confusion about international extremists. The extremists of al-Qaida intentionally kill civilians in an effort to win political goals. They are terrorists.

The US-funded Afghan mujahedeen fighting against the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan in the 1980s intentionally targeted university professors, movie theaters and cultural events. The US-trained Nicaraguan Contras intentionally killed teachers and health workers in order to overthrow the Sandinista government in the 1980s. Both these groups were freedom fighters.

Not long ago this country faced the communist menace. Remember when elementary school students hid under school desks to protect themselves from a Soviet nuclear attack and invasion? Today we face a far greater threat from Muslim terrorists. Thank goodness today’s children have much larger desks.

I hope this clears up the confusion about exactly who is a terrorist.

March 6, 2010

Iran Nabs Top US-NATO Sponsored Terrorist

By Adel - PeaceMaker
March 06, 2010

Leader of the assassination/terrorist group, Jundallah, Abdul-Malek Rigi, was captured by Iran’s government on February 23, 2010. Iran televised Rigi making a statement that the US funds Jundallah, provides weapons, and assists with logistical management. The capture of Rigi represents a serious setback for the US-NATO strategy of using false flag state-sponsored terrorism against Iran and Pakistan, and ultimately to sabotage China’s geopolitics of oil.

The US overthrow of democracies and any other form of government has a long history. Important evidence corroborate the conclusion that the US is engaged in state-sponsored terrorism to overthrow Iran’s government. Consider these facts:
  1. Jundallah’s history of killing people in various acts of terrorism and assassination is not refuted, yet the US does not list this group as “terrorist”.
  2. The US passed the “Iran Freedom and Support Act” to fund groups like Jundallah working to overthrow Iran’s government.
  3. The US Voice of America televised a phone interview with Rigi, introducing him as “leader of the Iranian people’s resistance movement”.
  4. The US overthrew Iran’s democratically-elected government in CIA Operation Ajax in 1953; installing the US-compliant dictator Shah Pahlavi who crushed democracy until he was deposed in 1979. The purpose of the US unlawful overthrow was Iran’s request to renegotiate existing oil contracts that provided Iran with only 15% of the profits.
  5. The Iraq’s unlawful War of Aggression and invasion of Iran from 1980 to 1988 was supported by the US, which provided loans, intelligence, the US Navy destroyed Iranian oil platforms, and the US gave political approval of this grossly unlawful attack in the UN Security Council.
  6. The US political-leaders and corporate media contrive that Iranian President Ahmadinejad threatened Israel. This is the same kind of lying propaganda that claimed to support the war with Iraq were not only false, but known to be false at the time they were told.
  7. US policy allows first-strike use of nuclear weapons against countries that could possibly threaten the US and/or our allies in the future. This policy is tailored to fit the above lying rhetoric of Iran threatening Israel.
  8. The US lies that Iran’s lawful and verified civilian nuclear program (guaranteed by its membership within the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons) is a threat of being a nuclear weapons program. The US takes all available evidence and constructs rhetoric in complete contradiction, and with no supporting evidence. 
The Jundullah organization has long infested the Iran-Pakistan border fomenting ethnic and religious civil war in both Iran and Pakistan, a key part of the US-NATO strategy. There is no doubt that Jundullah is on the US payroll. This fact has been confirmed by Brian Ross of ABC News, the London Daily Telegraph, and by the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Seymour Hersh in the New Yorker. Hersh, who broke the Mai Lai massacre story in Vietnam and Abu Ghraib torture scandal in Iraq, reports that the US dedicated $400 million to militant groups to overthrow Iran’s government, including Jundallah.


Jundullah functions as an arm of NATO, a kind of irregular warfare asset similar in some ways to the KLA of Kosovo. Rigi has been reported to have met with Jop de Hoop Scheffer when he was NATO Secretary General, met with various NATO generals operating in Afghanistan, and he may have met with McChrystal himself, a covert ops veteran from Iraq.

Now that Abdul-Malek Rigi has joined his brother Abdulhamed Rigi in Iranian jails, Jundullah has been decapitated, and the NATO strategy has consequently been undermined. Iran has bagged a dangerous terrorist foe. The coming Iranian trial of Rigi may go far towards exposing the real mechanism of terrorism in today’s world, with the US-NATO sitting in the dock next to Rigi.

March 2, 2010

Haiti Needs 12,000 Doctors, Obama Sent 12,000 Troops

After the Earthquake, Haiti Can't Get a Break
By Ezili Danto, March 2010

I want the U.S. military invasion of Haiti to stop now. Soldiers are trained to kill, not provide humanitarian relief. And the U.S. military is about domination and conquest, as Haitians know too well.

We lived through a brutal U.S. military occupation from 1915 to 1934. We endured the U.S.-supported Duvalier dictatorships that followed. We saw the hands of the U.S. government in the regime changes of 1991 and 2004 that forced President Aristide from office.

The strong-arm tactics of the U.S. are on display again. Soldiers took over the airport the day after they arrived, over the objections of the Haitians working in the damaged control tower, who were pushed aside like trash.

The U.S. military is using the airport for important things, don’t you see? Those buried under the rubble—hundreds of thousands of homeless Haitians who have not eaten or found clean water to drink when the mountains crumbled on them—can wait.

First, the Americans, Canadians, and Europeans who have been stuck in Haiti for two interminable days must be rescued immediately. Haitians, with nowhere to go, can wait.

The United States has blocked lifesaving first responders from landing, including Haitian doctors and nurses and other rescue teams. It is exploiting this disaster to direct Haiti’s priorities and impose its own agenda.

Right now you need U.S. government clearance to land in Haiti. This is not independence. This is not self-rule.

Haitians are heartbroken and in unspeakable pain. But we are not idiots or under so much duress as to not object to the United States, Canada, and France speeding up their proxy U.N. occupation plans for taking Haitian lands and divvying up Haiti’s oil, gold, iridium, and other mineral resources behind the veil of this emergency relief. The earthquake’s depopulation of the coastal areas of Port-au-Prince may make that acquisition all the easier.

Haiti needs 12,000 doctors. Obama sent 12,000 troops to help us to death.

Haiti is not in conflict or at war with anyone. Haitians are not a violent people. In fact, there’s more violence in Jamaica, the Dominican Republic, Brazil, Mexico, and Colombia than there is in Haiti.

And as much as the U.S media and the Pentagon wanted footage of U.S. soldiers rescuing Haitians, the people that could get saved got saved mostly by Haitians frantically using their bare hands to dig through the rubble and lift pulverized concrete in the immediate forty-eight hours after the earthquake. They did what they could to save themselves, as they have been doing since 1503 when the white settlers’ “New World” began.

Go home, U.S. troops. Please.