Thursday, April 10, 2003
-We Said It Would Be a Nightmare. And Yes, That’s Exactly What It Is
Dismembered bodies, victims of the liberating army, hospitals tht can’t so anything for the thousands lying in pain, waiting for death. Meanwhile, “The future? Most assuredly, the continuation of existing nightmare for ordinary Iraqis for years to come. For a sense of perspective read the grand speeches of the British who entered Mesopotamia in 1917, only to face a concerted uprising by Shi’a, Sunni and Kurds three years later. “
-The Images They Choose, and Choose to Ignore
The presence of U.S. troops in the streets of Baghdad means the end of the shooting war is near, for which virtually everyone in Iraq will be grateful. It also means the end of a dozen years of harsh U.S.-led economic sanctions that have impoverished the majority of Iraqis and killed as many as a half million children, according to U.N. studies, another reason for Iraqi celebration. And no doubt the vast majority of Iraqis are glad to be rid of Hussein, even if they remember that it was U.S. support for Hussein throughout the 1980s that allowed his regime to consolidate power despite a disastrous invasion of Iran.
But that does not mean all Iraqis will be happy about the ongoing presence of U.S. troops. Perhaps they are aware of how little the U.S. government has cared about democracy or the welfare of Iraqis in the past. Perhaps they watch Afghanistan and see how quickly U.S. policymakers abandoned the commitment to “not walk away” from the suffering of the Afghan people. Perhaps we should be cautious about what we infer from the pictures of celebration that we are seeing; joy over the removal of Hussein does not mean joy over an American occupation; joy over the removal of Hussein does not mean joy over an American occupation. MORE...
-Will US Fabricate WMD Evidence?
-Protests Build Over Journalists Murder in Iraq
Protests at U.S. Embassies by Journalists.....
-Press Watchdogs, Amnesty International Protest U.S. Killings of Journalists in Baghdad
Amnesty says U.S. in Violation of International Law...
-Fisk: Does The US Military Want To Kill Journalists
Far more disturbing, however, is the fact that the al-Jazeera network ?Ethe freest Arab television station, which has incurred the fury of both the Americans and the Iraqi authorities for its live coverage of the war ?Egave the Pentagon the co-ordinates of its Baghdad office two months ago and received assurances that the bureau would not be attacked.
Then on Monday, the US State Department’s spokesman in Doha, an Arab-American called Nabil Khouri, visited al-Jazeera’s offices in the city and, according to a source within the Qatari satellite channel, repeated the Pentagon’s assurances. Within 24 hours, the Americans had fired their missile into the Baghdad office.....
-Michael Moore: Dissent Works
It appears that the Bush administration will have succeeded in colonizing Iraq sometime in the next few days. This is a blunder of such magnitude—and we will pay for it for years to come. It was not worth the life of one single American kid in uniform, let alone the thousands of Iraqis who have died, and my condolences and prayers go out to all of them......
Wednesday, April 09, 2003
-U.S. said to execute two Iraqi POWs by Belgian Dr
We have this report from Finland about a Belgian medical team’s claim.
The group itself is here:
http://www.m3m.be/index.php?langId=1
The Finnish correspondent who sent it to us writes:
Please, see the brand new report from 7.4 , from the Belgium Doctors in
Baghdad.
The US has again executed 2 surrended Iraqi soldiers.
Remember the earlier photos 2 weeks ago, where you also saw executed,
surrended Iraqi soldiers.
So: It seems to be, that US is executing a lot of Surrended Iraqi soldiers.
These 2 cases surely are not the only ones.
There is a total genocide going on at the moment against Iraq.
The Al-Jazeerah TV just reported about 100 patients per hour, arriving just
to Baghdad Hospital.
In Hilla city there has been a huge genocide (Several separate cases), part
of which have been reported also by International Red Cross Members. Several
hundreds of victims.
Also from Hilla we have heard of an execution of Iraqi civilians in in a
buss,in US Check point (This is different case, what you have heard
earlier).The execution was possibly made by a Rocket launcher, with a
Thermobaric warhead,
because no shrapnels at all (Again so called “Strange” victims).
To your knowledge: The Swiss minister of Foreign Affairs is collecting data
about US +UK Warcrimes in Iraq.
Please, send them ALL RELEVANT DATA of Civilian victims, killed POW, etc..
With best regards,
Dr. Stig Froberg/Finland.
We have this report from Finland about a Belgian medical team’s claim.
-War Crimes of George Bush and company (Marc W. Herold)
What you DON’t see on CNN, NHK or the BBC
-International Criminal Court petition: Indict Bush as War Criminal
We are requesting that the International Criminal Court indict and prosecute our own President as a war criminal, for he leads our government in the rush to a particularly brutal war. We do not take such a stance lightly, but the Administration’s action is a moral outrage, not a matter of opinion or misjudgment.
-Daily News from the Middle East
The Fellowship of Reconciliation believes with Hiram Johnson that “truth is the first casualty in war.” In wartime, all nations at war want news that shows their cause is just and that they will ultimately win. In our country, media sources mainly depend upon reporters who are “embedded” with the US forces, a relationship that the Pentagon calls a huge success.
Martin Luther King, Jr. said that the first step for the truth-seeking citizen is to get the facts in order to make an informed judgment on what is happening. To help the public get the facts we are providing (through the diligent work of our two Arabic-speaking staff members) daily translations, photos, and graphics from news sources in the Middle East.
We do not necessarily agree with what we translate. We simply provide our readers with access to the way the war in Iraq is being reported elsewhere. By comparing this news with what is available in the US media, we hope the public will be more likely to discern propaganda generated by both sides and develop a clearer view of events.
- Iraq: Truth and Lies (See Breaking News below)
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Colin Powell on My Lai and Other Liberating Experiences
Japan Uses Iraq Invasion by U.S. to Revive Militarism
By the time Calley and men sat down to lunch, they had rounded up and slaughtered around 500 unarmed civilians. Within those few hours, members of Charlie Company had ‘fooled around’ and laughed as they sodomized and raped women, ripped vaginas open with knives, bayoneted civilians, scalped corpses, and carved “C Company” or the ace of spades onto their chests, slaughtered animals, and torched hooches. Other soldiers had wept openly as they fired on crowds of unresisting old men, women, children, and babies.”
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Ito: Violence, Women, War April 2, 2003
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-Japanese Police Arrest Peace Protestors: Please Sign Statement
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-Warning from history (And Japan Occupation)
-Our Streets, Their Telescreens
-The Courage of Their Convictions
-On NPR, Please Follow the Script
-Anti-War Protestors Target Coca Cola as Demonstrations Grip Asia
- Egypt Torturing Anti-War Activists, Group says
- Marines Losing the Battle for Hearts and Minds
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Baseball Hall of Fame Attacks Stars Sarandon and Robbins of the film Bull Durham over their criticism of Bush’s war.
http://commondreams.org/headlines03/0409-10.htm
Japanese baseball fans are urged to send letters of protest to Hall of Fame president Dale Petroskey. Please use this form:
http://www.baseballhalloffame.org/contact/email_info.htm
Or call INTERNATIONAL CALL---1-607-547-7200
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An Independent Japanese Media
I would like to mention that IndyMedia Japan is alive and doing well on the road to becoming a useful site for social activists and concerned individuals to present information not available in the mainstream media as well as to organize and collaborate.
In my opinion, there is a need for those of us involved in the IndyMedia project (which means the collective as well as those who visit and contribute articles) to continue to develop alternative sources of information. There is an understandable need to publicize events and actions, particularly in this time of military insanity, but one problem that Japan shares with the U.S. is a compliant corporate media. The articles above, compiled on the TokyoProgressive site, are from a number of important websites such as ZNet and ZNet Japan, FAIR, the Institue for Public Accuracy and CommonDreams.
Most people in the U.S. that I have met accept what they get from CNN and other corporate media stations without question and are generally unaware that there are alternative sources of information. Yet there is still a faint undercurrect of distrust amomg many people--perhaps a cultural trait, and when they do become aware of these other sources, they are surprised to see that many of the claims made on CNN about the nature of the war, about the supposed nobility of the war are boldfaced lies and distortions. They begin to see how the mainstream media is simply a propaganda arm for the U.S. and British governments.
The problem is that most of these sources are in English, and so the very same need for the Japanese public for alternnative sources of information must be met by sites like IndyMedia Japan. Without such access, we will be talking to ourselves when we announce actions to protest the war and other social injustices. I hope that all of us involved with IndyMedia work to develop the same sort of infomation sources that have provided the articles presented above. For one thing it means that all of us involved in progressive activities need to work harder to bring much needed information to one another and to the public which is not yet aware of them. We need to develop other alternative media institutions and not expect IndyMedia Japan to be the ONLY source. Translation of the sort that is provided by ZNet Japan is one way, but we also need to make more information available on what is going on in Japan and Asia.
Please continue therefore, to contribute not only notices on actions but also to research, write about and/or summarize what you know about the social and political issues that the mainsteam media refuses to touch.
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