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January 5, 2007
Keane/Kagan Plan for Iraq Means More Bloodshed
Paul Craig Roberts
http://www.antiwar. com/roberts/ ? articleid=10256
On Jan. 2, the BBC reported a leak from a “senior administration source” that President George W. Bush is going to give a speech, whose “central theme will be sacrifice,” announcing an increase in U.S. troops in Iraq for security purposes… the BBC reports that “already one senior Republican senator has called it Alice in Wonderland.” Bush’s proposal, if he makes it, is the work of retired army general Jack Keane and Frederick W. Kagan of the American Enterprise Institute. AEI is the second most important Israeli lobby in Washington after AIPAC.
Jews in Belgium Bring Suit Against Iran Conference Participants
Jewish Telegraphic Agency (USA)
http://jta.org/ page_view_ breaking_ story. asp?intid=6241
The Forum of Jewish Organizations in Antwerp has filed suit against participants in a recent Holocaust- denial conference in Tehran. The Belgian lawsuit includes anyone who gave a speech questioning the Holocaust at the conference sponsored this month by the Iranian Foreign Ministry. Holocaust denial is illegal in Belgium and is punishable by up to one year in jail and a $3,000 fine. The purpose of the lawsuit is to cause legal problems for attendees who might want to visit Belgium, according to a Forum source.
Siegfried Verbeke, Belgian Revisionist, Jailed Again
Focal Point
http://www.fpp. co.uk/online/ 06/12/Verbe ke_arrest_4. html
After his release without any charge or conviction after ten months’ jail in Germany, Belgian revisionist writer Siegfried Verbeke has been jailed for a second time by Belgium for twelve months concerning a conviction obtained two years ago.
Rings of War
Charley Reese
http://www.lewrockw ell.com/reese/ reese331. html
Think of a war as a violent center of a circle with concentric rings of people surrounding it… The seventh and final ring of people includes the majority of Americans, who have no direct interest in the war. They are not in the military, they have no loved ones in the military, and they don’t work in the arms industry. To these people, a war in a distant place is like a television show that they can watch in the comfort of their living room. If they get bored, they can make it go away with a flick of their remote control. The war has no effect on their lives, which go on as if there were no war – as indeed there isn’t, so far as they are concerned.
Slovak Archbishop Praises Wartime Tiso Regime
BBC News
http://news. bbc.co.uk/ 2/hi/europe/ 6231163.stm
There has been uproar in Slovakia after the archbishop of Bratislava described life in the fascist wartime Slovak state as “a time of well-being”. Tens of thousands of Jews, Roma Gypsies and communists were deported by the Slovak government during the war. Most of them ended up at the Auschwitz death camp. Roman Catholic Archbishop Jan Sokol refused to withdraw the comments, but issued a statement distancing himself from wartime human rights violations. But angry debate has erupted after the archbishop’s interview with the Slovak news channel TA3. Asked for his recollections of wartime Slovakia - a Nazi puppet state led by Roman Catholic priest Jozef Tiso - he said it was a time of well-being.
Hitler’s Germany: A Fusion of Ideology and Material Interest
Deutsche Welle (Germany)
http:// www.dw- world.de/dw/ article/0, 2144,2298234, 00.html
In 2005, Götz Aly landed a bestseller with a study of how ordinary Germans, in addition to bankers and industrialists, benefited under Nazism. Now his book is available in English as “Hitler’s Beneficiaries. ” … Götz Aly: “My book describes one aspect of National Socialism, namely the state’s generous social programs. It tries to answer the question of why most Germans were basically content under Hitler. The explanation is quite simple: Hitler pursued a massive wealth-redistributi on program to the benefit of ordinary people… A great many of today’s laws [in Gemany] originated in this period, whether we’re talking about legislation protecting the rights of workers and tenants, holiday and overtime pay, or state health insurance for pensioners.”
The Nazi Medical Welfare System
David Gordon
http://www.lewrockw ell.com/gordon/ gordon24. ht ml
…Many of the health campaigns we see today have precedents in Nazi policy. Women over thirty were urged to undergo screenings for cancer, and advertising campaigns warned against the dangers of tobacco. Just as today, regulations forbade smoking in certain public places and jobs. And, just as with us, smoking could not be banned completely: smoking was too popular, and the tobacco companies were too powerful.
Fanning the Flames: The Allies’ Holocaust
Stuart Jeffries — The Guardian (Britain)
http://www.guardian .co.uk/comment /story/0,,1977920, 00.html
Jorg Friedrich’s book, The Fire: The Bombing of Germany, 1940-1945, a bestseller in his homeland four years ago and which now appears in English, is thick with such horror stories. They were hard for him to avoid in meticulously detailing, over nearly 600 harrowing pages, how 635,000 Germans, mostly civilian, died and 7.5 million were made homeless when British and US bombs were dropped on 131 cities and towns. “For more than 50 years after the second world war,” wrote the war historian and journalist Max Hastings, “German writers remained remarkably muted about the issue of Allied bombing of their country.”
Bush Administration ‘Used’ Colin Powell, Says Wife
Daily News (New York)
http://www.nydailyn ews.com/news/ st ory/458966p- 386181c.html
Colin Powell fought the Viet Cong, but he was no match for the Bush administration hard-liners who “used” his prestige to sell the Iraq war to the American people, his wife says… Powell has called his prewar speech to the United Nations accusing Iraq of hiding weapons of mass destruction a “blot” on his record. DeYoung also writes that Powell believes Bush sees the Palestinian/ Israeli struggle in “black and white” terms and called Rumsfeld’s team “the JINSA crowd,” a reference to the neoconservative Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs.
Colin Powell Says US is Losing in Iraq
The Washington Post
http://www.washingt onpost.com/ wp- dyn/content/ article/2006/ 12/17/AR20061217 00494.ht ml
Former secretary of state Colin L. Powell says that the United States is losing what he described as a “civil war” in Iraq and that he is not persuaded that an increase in U.S. troops there would reverse the situation. Instead, he called for a new strategy that would relinquish responsibility for Iraqi security to the government in Baghdad sooner rather than later, with a U.S. drawdown to begin by the middle of next year. Powell’s comments broke his long public silence on the issue and placed him at odds with the administration.
New York Faces All-Day Rush Hour by 2030
Associated Press
http://www.cnn. com/2006/ US/12/ 13/nyc.population. ap/index. html
By the year 2030, New York City could have so many people straining its infrastructure that it won’t have enough electricity or housing to meet demand, and rush hour traffic will last all day. The city of 8.2 million people must start planning and building now for the expected growth of 1 million more over the next 25 years, Mayor Michael Bloomberg and a panel of experts warned.
A Lament for Lost Freedom
Paul Gottfried
http://www.lewrockw ell.com/gottfrie d/gottfri ed96.html
Reading a statement issued last week by the Simon Wiesenthal Center deploring the release from an Austrian prison after 13 months of solitary confinement of septuagenarian historian David Irving, I was reminded of the disintegration of intellectual freedom in today’s Western world… At the very time that Irving was condemned for slighting Hitler’s crimes, people who deny openly and even proudly the numerous mass murders of Stalin and Mao had been elevated to seats of power in “European democracies. ”
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