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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.

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.

Holocaust remembrance is a boon for Israeli propaganda

By Gideon Levy | 01.28.2010 | Haaretz
 

Zionists and government officials conjure a surreal world of spin, lies and propaganda. It makes one wonder if reality exists at all in this cruel and beautiful land...

Israel’s bigwigs attacked at dawn on a wide front. The president in Germany, the prime minister with a giant entourage in Poland, the foreign minister in Hungary, his deputy in Slovakia, the culture minister in France, the information minister at the United Nations, and even the Likud party’s Druze Knesset member, Ayoob Kara, in Italy. They were all out there to make florid speeches about the Holocaust.

Yesterday was International Holocaust Remembrance Day, and an Israeli public relations drive like this hasn’t been seen for ages. The timing of the unusual effort - never have so many ministers deployed across the globe - is not coincidental: When the world is talking Goldstone, we talk Holocaust, as if out to blur the impression. When the world talks occupation, we’ll talk Iran as if we wanted them to forget.

It won’t help much. International Holocaust Remembrance Day has passed, the speeches will soon be forgotten, and the depressing everyday reality will remain. Israel will not come out looking good, even after the PR campaign.

On the eve of his departure, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke at Yad Vashem. “There is evil in the world,” he said. “Evil must be stamped out at the beginning.” Some people are “trying to deny the truth.” Lofty words, said by the same person who only the day before, not quite in the same breath, uttered very different words, words of true evil, evil that should be extinguished at the start, evil that Israel is trying to hide.

Netanyahu spoke of a new “migration policy,” one that is evil through and through. He malevolently lumped together migrant workers and wretched refugees - warning that they all endanger Israel, lower our wages, harm our security, make us into a third-world country and bring in drugs. He zealously supported our racist interior minister, Eli Yishai, who has spoken of the migrants as the spreaders of diseases such as hepatitis, tuberculosis, AIDS and God knows what else.

No Holocaust speech will erase these words of incitement and slander against migrants. No remembrance speech will obliterate the xenophobia that has reared its head in Israel, not only on the extreme right, as in Europe, but throughout government.

We have a prime minister who speaks about evil but is building a fence to prevent war refugees from knocking at Israel’s door. A prime minister who speaks about evil but shares the crime of the Gaza blockade, now in its fourth year, leaving 1.5 million people in disgraceful conditions. A prime minister in whose country settlers perpetrate pogroms against innocent Palestinians under the slogan “price tag,” which also has horrific historical connotations, but against whom the state does virtually nothing.

This is the prime minister of a state that arrests hundreds of left-wing protesters against the injustices of the occupation and the war in Gaza, while time grants mass pardons to the right-wingers who demonstrated against the disengagement. In his speech yesterday, Netanyahu’s equating Nazi Germany with fundamentalist Iran was no more than cheap propaganda. Talk about “degrading the Holocaust.” Iran isn’t Germany, Ahmedinejad isn’t Hitler and equating them is no less spurious than equating Israeli soldiers with Nazis.

The Holocaust must not be forgotten, and there is no need to compare it with anything. Israel must take part in the efforts to keep its memory alive, but in doing so it must show up with clean hands, clean of evil of their own doing. And it must not arouse suspicion that it is cynically using the memory of the Holocaust to obliterate and blur other things. Regrettably, this is not the case.

How beautiful it would have been if on this international day of remembrance Israel had taken the time to examine itself, look inward and ask, for example, how it is that anti-Semitism has reared its head in the world precisely in the past year, the year after we dropped white-phosphorous bombs on Gaza. How beautiful it would have been if on this International Holocaust Remembrance Day, Netanyahu had declared a new policy for integrating refugees instead of expulsion, or lifted the Gaza blockade.

A thousand speeches against anti-Semitism will not extinguish the flames ignited by Operation Cast Lead, flames that threaten not only Israel but the entire Jewish world. As long as Gaza is under blockade and Israel sinks into its institutionalized xenophobia, Holocaust speeches will remain hollow. As long as evil is rampant here at home, neither the world nor we will be able to accept our preaching to others, even if they deserve it.