Saturday, December 11, 2021

Hasan Piker RAGES At Me For Calling Him Out Over Julian Assange Comments

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US troops remain in Iraq

October 10th, elections were held in Iraq.  There is still no new prime minister.  ALSUMARIA TV notes that Moqtada al-Sadr has yet to gather enough support to name a prime minister-designate.  The western press annointed Moqtada 'king maker' but a king maker isn't someone who takes over two months to make a move.  Moqtada, highly unpopular, still struggles to garner support.  


And as this takes place, notice how the western press works overtime to pretend that it's not at all strange that, two months after an election, there's no new prime minister.  

Iran's PRESS TV refuses to pretend when it comes to 'combat troops:'


The US military has claimed the end of its combat operations across Iraq under the terms of an earlier agreement with Baghdad, but added that thousands of its troops will remain in the Arab nation as “advisers.”

"This is the natural evolution," Pentagon spokesman John Kirby boasted recently after the purported change of the American military’s role was finalized at the conclusion of technical talks between officials of both countries.

Kirby insisted, however, that the change will not result in any immediate change to the laydown and number of US forces in Iraq, saying that nearly 2,500 American soldiers still remain in the country and will continue advising and training Iraqi security forces after the “transition” was completed in the past week.


Daniel DePetris (WASHINGTON EXAMINER) explains:

Hardly. The "new phase" looks a lot like the old phase.

In fact, it’s essentially identical. What the U.S. and Iraqi governments are trumpeting as progression toward the finish line is instead the military equivalent of running in place, where the allure of success is dangled in front of our eyes but just out of reach.

According to the Pentagon, the U.S. combat mission in Iraq has ended, replaced by a train, advise, and assist mission in support of Iraqi security forces. At first glance, it all sounds pretty good: U.S. troops are now offloading more responsibility onto the backs of their Iraqi counterparts.

There’s only a small problem: The U.S. military has been performing train, advise, and assist tasks even before ISIS lost its last stretch of territory in Iraq in December 2017. There is no "new mission," as Pentagon spokesman John Kirby claimed during a press briefing. It’s the same mission, with the same number of U.S. forces (approximately 2,500) performing the same jobs, likely on the same military bases. What Washington and Baghdad are actually engaging in a nifty public relations exercise. 


Actually, the US military has been carrying out 'train and advise' missions in Iraq since 2003.  On the topic of US troops, Anna Kaplan (DAILY BEAST) notes:


A platoon of Navy SEALs was sent home for drinking alcohol while deployed in Iraq, U.S. defense officials said Wednesday, The Washington Post reports. The U.S. Special Operations Command said in a statement the team was forced out early to San Diego by the commander of the task force, Maj. Gen. Eric T. Hill, “due to a perceived deterioration of good order and discipline within the team during non-operational periods” of their deployment. “The commander lost confidence in the team’s ability to accomplish the mission,” the statement said. “Commanders have worked to mitigate the operational impact as this SEAL platoon follows a deliberate redeployment.” The statement did not state what led to the decision, but two defense officials told The Post that the SEALs drinking alcohol prompted their return.


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Why the US Govt is Desperate to Keep Assange in a Cage: a Real Journalist


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MSNBC's 'Morning Joe' Spreads False Information On Assange After High Court Decision

 

Join Shadowproof's Kevin Gosztola as he goes through a segment from MSNBC's "Morning Joe" that aired immediately after the decision from the British High Court in the extradition case against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. The High Court overturned a district judge's decision, which blocked extradition to the United States

Join Shadowproof's Kevin Gosztola as he goes through a segment from MSNBC's "Morning Joe" that aired immediately after the decision from the British High Court in the extradition case against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. The High Court overturned a district judge's decision, which blocked extradition to the United States


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The Black Alliance for Peace Continues The Black Radical Human Rights Tradition

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Future of Peace and Human Rights in West Asia

 Future of Peace and Human Rights in West Asia

By David Swanson, World BEYOND War, December 9, 2021

Submission to conference organized by FODASUN ( https://fodasun.com ) on the future of peace and human rights in West Asia

https://worldbeyondwar.org/future-of-peace-and-human-rights-in-west-asia/

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dq3sMMDD1LU&feature=emb_imp_woyt

Every government in West Asia, as in the rest of the Earth, abuses human rights. Most of the governments in West Asia and the surrounding regions are enthusiastically supported, armed, trained, and funded by the U.S. government, which also keeps its own military bases in most of them. Governments armed with U.S. weapons, and which have their militaries trained by the U.S. military, in recent years include these 26: Afghanistan, Algeria, Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Djibouti, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Oman, Pakistan, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, United Arab Emirates, Uzbekistan, and Yemen. In fact, with the four exceptions of Eritrea, Kuwait, Qatar, and the UAE, the U.S. government has also given funding to the militaries of all of these nations in recent years — the very same U.S. government that denies its own citizens basic services that are routine in most wealthy countries on Earth. In fact, with the recent change in Afghanistan, and with the exceptions of Eritrea, Lebanon, Sudan, Yemen, and the nations north of Afghanistan, the U.S. military maintains its own bases in all of these countries.

Note that I’ve left out Syria, where the U.S. has switched in recent years from arming the government to arming an overthrow attempt. The status of Afghanistan as a U.S. weapons customer may also have changed, but perhaps not for as long as is generally assumed — we’ll see. The fate of Yemen is of course up in the air.

The U.S. government’s role as weapons supplier, advisor, and war partner is not a trivial one. Many of these nations manufacture virtually no weapons, and import their weapons from a very small number of countries, dominated by the United States. The U.S. partners with Israel in many ways, illegally keeps nuclear weapons in Turkey (even when fighting against Turkey in a proxy war in Syria), illegally shares nuclear technology with Saudi Arabia, and partners with Saudi Arabia in a war on Yemen (other partners including United Arab Emirates, Sudan, Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar, Egypt, Jordan, Morocco, Senegal, the United Kingdom, and Al Qaeda).

The provision of all of these weapons, trainers, bases, troops, and buckets of money is in no way contingent on human rights. The notion that it could be is ridiculous on its own terms, because one cannot use deadly weapons of war without abusing human rights. Nonetheless proposals are sometimes made and rejected in the U.S. government to provide weapons of war only to those governments that do not abuse human rights in major ways outside of wars. The notion is ridiculous even if we pretend that sense can be made of it, however, because the longstanding pattern for decades has been, if anything, the opposite of what is suggested. The very worst human rights abusers, both in war and outside of war, have been shipped the most weapons, the most funding, and the most troops by the U.S. government.

Can you imagine the outrage in the United States if U.S. mass shootings within U.S. borders were being committed with guns manufactured in Iran? But just try to find a war on the planet that doesn’t have U.S.-made weapons on both sides.

So there’s something tragically laughable about the fact that in the United States, where I live, a very few West Asian governments are sometimes severely criticized for their human rights abuses, those abuses exaggerated, and those exaggerated abuses used utterly nonsensically as justifications for military spending (including nuclear military spending), and for weapons sales, military deployments, illegal sanctions, illegal threats of war, and illegal wars. Of 39 nations currently facing lawless economic sanctions and blockades of one sort of another by the U.S. government, 11 of them are Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq, Kyrgyzstan, Lebanon, Libya, Palestine, Sudan, Syria, Tunisia, and Yemen.

Consider the insanity of starving Afghans with sanctions in the name of human rights, following 20 years of bombing people.

Some of the worst sanctions are imposed on Iran, also the nation in West Asia most lied about, demonized, and threatened with war. The lying about Iran has been so intense and long lasting that not only the U.S. public in general but even many U.S. academics view Iran as a top threat to the imaginary peace that they hallucinate has existed for the past 75 years. The lying has been so extreme that it has included planting nuclear bomb plans on Iran.

Of course, the U.S. government opposes a nuclear-free zone in Western Asia on behalf of Israel and itself. It tears up treaties and agreements that impact the region as recklessly as it did with the indigenous nations of North America. The U.S. is party to fewer human rights and disarmament treaties than almost any other nation on Earth, is the top user of the veto at the UN Security Council, is the top user of illegal sanctions, and is the top opponent of the World Court and International Criminal Court. U.S.-led wars, just in the past 20 years, just in West and Central Asia, have directly killed probably over 5 million people, with millions more injured, traumatized, made homeless, impoverished, and made subject to toxic pollution and disease. So, a “Rule-Based Order” is not a bad idea, if taken out of the hands of the U.S. government. The town drunk might nominate himself to teach a class on sobriety, but nobody would be obliged to attend.

There was quite likely more actual democratic self-rule in some cities of West Asia 6,000 years ago, or even in various parts of North America in past millennia, than in Washington D.C. right now. I believe democracy and nonviolent activism are the best tools that can be recommended to anyone, including the people of West Asia, even though I live in a corrupt oligarchy, and despite the fact that the misrepresentatives making up the U.S. government talk about democracy so much. The governments of West Asia and the rest of the world ought to avoid falling for the militarism ploy and behaving as lawlessly and violently as the U.S. government. In fact, they ought to embrace many of the things that the U.S. government talks about instead of the things it actually does. International law, as Gandhi said of Western civilization, would be a good idea. It’s only law if it applies to everyone. It’s only international or global if you can live outside of Africa and still be subject to it.

Human rights is a wonderful idea even if its noisiest proponents for centuries have been among its busiest abusers. But we need to get wars included in human rights, just as we need to get militaries included in climate agreements, and military budgets noticed in budget discussions. The right to publish a newspaper is of limited value without the right not to be blown up by a missile from a robot airplane. We need to get human rights abuses by permanent members of the UN Security Council included in human rights. We need to get everyone subject to international courts or to universal jurisdiction exercised in other courts. We need one standard, so that if the people of Kosovo or South Sudan or Czechoslovakia or Taiwan should have the right to self-determination, then so should the people of Crimea or Palestine. And so should people forced to flee military and climate devastation.

We need to recognize and use the power of communicating atrocities to distant people whose government commits them far from home without their knowledge. We need to unite as human beings and global citizens, across borders, in serious and risky and disruptive nonviolent action against war and all injustice. We need to unite in educating each other and getting to know each other.

As parts of the world grow too hot to live in, we don’t need the parts of the world that have been shipping weapons there and demonizing the inhabitants to react with fear and greed, but with brotherhood, sisterhood, reparations, and solidarity.

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David Swanson is an author, activist, journalist, and radio host. He is executive director of WorldBeyondWar.org and campaign coordinator for RootsAction.org. Swanson's books include War Is A Lie. He blogs at DavidSwanson.org and WarIsACrime.org. He hosts Talk Nation Radio. He is a 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019 Nobel Peace Prize Nominee.

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IAVA Statement on Reports that Military Justice Reform to be Removed from Defense Bill

 From IAVA:

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
December 6, 2021
CONTACT: press@iava.org

Washington, D.C. – In response to reports that House and Senate Armed Service Committee leaders are on the verge of removing the IAVA-backed Military Justice Improvement and Increasing Prevention Act (MJIIPA) from the final defense bill, IAVA released the following statement:

“For years, servicemembers and advocates have witnessed the Department of Defense and Congress take a failed approach to the sexual assault problem within the military justice system. This year, many anxiously awaited a justice overhaul as MJIIPA received majority support in both chambers, including two-thirds of the Senate, and was included in the Senate-passed National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA),” stated IAVA CEO Jeremy Butler. “IAVA finds it abhorrent that even though the provision  is so popular in Congress that the Armed Services leaders would still consider stripping it from the final bill behind closed doors. We implore Chairmen Reed and Smith, and Ranking Members Inhofe and Rogers, include MJIIPA in the final conference NDAA. 

Our servicemembers consistently put their lives on the line to keep our country safe. Year after year the tales of sexual assault, retaliation as a direct result of reporting, and many other injustices surface and dwindle the confidence they have in our military justice system. It is time that Congress stops the backroom dealings and does what is right for those who serve our country. MJIIPA is the only reform that will provide true independence for prosecutors in the military justice system and is essential to ensure that victims, the accused, and the public all have full faith and confidence in the military justice process.”

IAVA is the voice for the post-9/11 veteran generation. With over 425,000 veterans and allies nationwide, IAVA is the leader in non-partisan veteran advocacy and public awareness. We drive historic impacts for veterans and IAVA’s programs are second to none. Any veteran or family member in need can reach out to IAVA’s Quick Reaction Force at quickreactionforce.org or 855-91RAPID (855-917-2743) to be connected promptly with a veteran care manager who will assist. IAVA’s The Vote Hub is a free tool to register to vote and find polling information. IAVA’s membership is always growing. Join the movement at iava.org/membership.

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Julian Assange Extradited, Maxwell Trial Comes To A Close

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