Monday, July 02, 2012
The CIA is plotting to kill Nouri?
The hottest news in Iraq today? Citing an unnamed Cuban publication, Dar Addustour reports that their is as an assassination plot against Nouri al-Maliki. Who are the alleged would-be-killers? The CIA. And the reason? The US government has realized that Nouri has become a dicatator and that it is time to take him out. Well it's more entertaining than that story Al Rafidayn had two weeks ago about the over-80 year-old woman that had just died who the village swore had been kidnapped by an eagle when she was five or seven-years-old.
Moving back to the planet earth, Al Mada reports that an Iraqiya spokesperson says that the tolerance of nondemocratic moves by the government is hurting Iraq and that, when Nouri al-Maliki is questioned before Parliament,, this will become even more obvious. The spokesperson says when, not if. Alsumaria interviews State of Law MP Haitham al-Jubouri who insists taht the Sadr bloc has abandoned efforts for Nouri to appear before Parliament for questioning and that it wants to work with Nouri. The Sadr bloc is not part of State of Law and State of Law is Nouri's political slate so the announcements regarding the Sadr bloc will continue to come from Moqtada and his spokespersons, not from State of Law. Kitabat reports on Moqtada al-Sadr's statements which were that he worries this may not be the time for a no-confidence vote and where he says he would favor reforms. Of course, he would favor reforms. He's said that for how many months now? Does State of Law think no one pays attention? He wants the Erbil Agreement returned to. There's nothing new in his statements -- which were in reply to a follower online. Al Mada reports that Nouri is still pushing his recent interest: a national conference. He wasn't interested in it from December through most of June but, suddenly last week, he became interested. The newspaper reports he's pushing Ibrahim al-Jaafari to head it. Nouri knew this would cause conflict -- the Kurds and al-Jaafari have been publicly at odds since 2005. (At odds much longer but it went public in 2005. They began fighting against his receiving a second term as prime minister at that point.)
Meanwhile remember when Little Saddam (Nouri al-Maliki) forgot he was a puppet and thought he could demand that the White House get ExxonMobil to drop their deal with the Kurds? Silly puppet. Administrations dance for oil corporations. Dar Addustour reports that US Vice Presidetn Joe Biden phoned Nouri on Thursday to express the US government's belief that Nouri needs to stop trying to halt that deal and that Nouri was informed that the F-16s Iraq 'needs' will not be supplied if Nouri doesn't stop trying to halt he ExxonMobil deal. It's amazing. Torture cells didn't bother the White House. Killing gay men and men suspected of being gay didn't bother the White House. Attacking Iraqi youths didn't bother the White House. But when a billion dollar ExxonMobil deal was threatened, suddenly the White House is ready to pull the F-16s.
On this week's Law and Disorder Radio, an hour long program that airs Monday mornings at 9:00 a.m. EST on WBAI and around the country throughout the week, hosted by attorneys Heidi Boghosian, Michael S. Smith and Michael Ratner (Center for Constitutional Rights) and this week they address the Supreme Court immigration decision with attorney Cathy Albisa and Dr. Katherine Albrecht, author of Spychips: How Major Corporations and Government Plan To Track You Your Every Move with RFID, joins them to discuss the government's efforts to microchip everything -- including human flesh.
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Violence up and continuing while oil revenues fall
Alsumaria reports that a Baghdad roadside bombing today has claimed 1 life and left seven people injured. Al Rafidayn, citing police sources, reveals a man in his forties was found hanged in his Baghdad home last night. As violence increased in June (over 400 people killed -- 401 United Nations count, 472 IBC count and 544 Antiwar.com count), oil exporting decreased.
Hassan Hafidh (Dow Jones) reports that last month saw a two-percent drop in exports and that sources claim this was "due to an act of sabotage against pipelines and producing wells in the Bai Hassan oil field." Focusing on revenues, AP states that last month saw revenues fall "by 17.6 percent" (before anyone starts weeping, the revenues for June were still $6,453,000,000). AFP notes that Iraq hasn't seen such a low monthly total for oil revenues "since February 2011."
Meanwhile Mark Bentley (Bloomberg News) reports that the Turkish government is stating that its war planes have bombed "three positions of the Kurdistan Workers' Party, or PKK, in northern Iraq." AP adds, "It was the latest Turkish air campaign against the rebels in Iraq since the killing of eight Turkish soldiers along the border around mid-June." AFP notes the announcement here. Aaron Hess (International Socialist Review) described the PKK in 2008, "The PKK emerged in 1984 as a major force in response to Turkey's oppression of its Kurdish population. Since the late 1970s, Turkey has waged a relentless war of attrition that has killed tens of thousands of Kurds and driven millions from their homes. The Kurds are the world's largest stateless population -- whose main population concentration straddles Turkey, Iraq, Iran, and Syria -- and have been the victims of imperialist wars and manipulation since the colonial period. While Turkey has granted limited rights to the Kurds in recent years in order to accommodate the European Union, which it seeks to join, even these are now at risk."
On this week's Law and Disorder Radio, an hour long program that airs Monday mornings at 9:00 a.m. EST on WBAI and around the country throughout the week, hosted by attorneys Heidi Boghosian, Michael S. Smith and Michael Ratner (Center for Constitutional Rights) and this week they address the Supreme Court immigration decision with attorney Cathy Albisa and Dr. Katherine Albrecht, author of Spychips: How Major Corporations and Government Plan To Track You Your Every Move with RFID, joins them to discuss the government's efforts to microchip everything -- including human flesh.
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Hassan Hafidh (Dow Jones) reports that last month saw a two-percent drop in exports and that sources claim this was "due to an act of sabotage against pipelines and producing wells in the Bai Hassan oil field." Focusing on revenues, AP states that last month saw revenues fall "by 17.6 percent" (before anyone starts weeping, the revenues for June were still $6,453,000,000). AFP notes that Iraq hasn't seen such a low monthly total for oil revenues "since February 2011."
Meanwhile Mark Bentley (Bloomberg News) reports that the Turkish government is stating that its war planes have bombed "three positions of the Kurdistan Workers' Party, or PKK, in northern Iraq." AP adds, "It was the latest Turkish air campaign against the rebels in Iraq since the killing of eight Turkish soldiers along the border around mid-June." AFP notes the announcement here. Aaron Hess (International Socialist Review) described the PKK in 2008, "The PKK emerged in 1984 as a major force in response to Turkey's oppression of its Kurdish population. Since the late 1970s, Turkey has waged a relentless war of attrition that has killed tens of thousands of Kurds and driven millions from their homes. The Kurds are the world's largest stateless population -- whose main population concentration straddles Turkey, Iraq, Iran, and Syria -- and have been the victims of imperialist wars and manipulation since the colonial period. While Turkey has granted limited rights to the Kurds in recent years in order to accommodate the European Union, which it seeks to join, even these are now at risk."
On this week's Law and Disorder Radio, an hour long program that airs Monday mornings at 9:00 a.m. EST on WBAI and around the country throughout the week, hosted by attorneys Heidi Boghosian, Michael S. Smith and Michael Ratner (Center for Constitutional Rights) and this week they address the Supreme Court immigration decision with attorney Cathy Albisa and Dr. Katherine Albrecht, author of Spychips: How Major Corporations and Government Plan To Track You Your Every Move with RFID, joins them to discuss the government's efforts to microchip everything -- including human flesh.
In the US, Senator Patty Murray, Chair of the Senate Veterans Affairs Committee, speaks in Seattle this morning:
MONDAY: VETERANS: Murray in Seattle to Unveil New Mental Health Legislation
Iraq and Afghanistan veteran will share his story of having his PTSD diagnosis overturned
(Washington, D.C.) -- On Monday, July 2, 2012, U.S. Senator Patty Murray, Chairman of the
Senate Veterans' Affairs Committee, will hold a press conference at the Seattle Nisei
Veterans Center to discuss her new service members and veterans mental health
legislation, the Mental Health ACCESS Act of 2012. This legislation comes as the Pentagon begins a comprehensive military-wide review, which Senator Murray urged [Defense]
Secretary [Leon] Panetta to conduct on diagnoses for the invisible wounds of war dating
back to 2001.
The misdiagnosis of behavioral health conditions has been a constant
problem for soldiers at Madigan Army Medical Center, where to date over 100 soldiers
and counting have had their correct PTSD diagnosis restored following reevaluation.
Stephen Davis, an Iraq and Afghanistan war veteran who had his initial diagnosis of PTSD overturned, will speak at the press conference with his his wife to share his experience.
Senate Veterans' Affairs Committee, will hold a press conference at the Seattle Nisei
Veterans Center to discuss her new service members and veterans mental health
legislation, the Mental Health ACCESS Act of 2012. This legislation comes as the Pentagon begins a comprehensive military-wide review, which Senator Murray urged [Defense]
Secretary [Leon] Panetta to conduct on diagnoses for the invisible wounds of war dating
back to 2001.
The misdiagnosis of behavioral health conditions has been a constant
problem for soldiers at Madigan Army Medical Center, where to date over 100 soldiers
and counting have had their correct PTSD diagnosis restored following reevaluation.
Stephen Davis, an Iraq and Afghanistan war veteran who had his initial diagnosis of PTSD overturned, will speak at the press conference with his his wife to share his experience.
The legislation seeks to address problems with DOD and VA mental
health care identified during multiple hearings of Senator Murray's
Veterans Affairs Committee. Specifically,
Senator Murray's Mental Health ACCESS Act of 2012 would require DOD to create a comprehensive, standardized suicide prevention program, expand eligibility for a
variety of VA mental health services to family members, improve training and
education for our health care providers, create more peer to peer counseling
opportunities, and require VA to establish accurate and reliable measures for mental
health services. More about Senator Murray's bill HERE.
Senator Murray's Mental Health ACCESS Act of 2012 would require DOD to create a comprehensive, standardized suicide prevention program, expand eligibility for a
variety of VA mental health services to family members, improve training and
education for our health care providers, create more peer to peer counseling
opportunities, and require VA to establish accurate and reliable measures for mental
health services. More about Senator Murray's bill HERE.
WHO: U.S. Senator Patty Murray
Sergeant David Leavitt
Sergeant First Class Stephen Davis and his wife Kim Davis
Michele Smith, wife of Sergeant Shannon Smith
WHAT: Press conference to unveil the Mental Health ACCESS Act of 2012
WHEN: Monday, July 2, 2012
1:30 PM PT
WHERE: Seattle Nisei Veterans Center
1212 South King Street
Seattle, WA 98144
Map
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Specialty Media Coordinator
Specialty Media Coordinator
Office of U.S. Senator Patty Murray
448 Russell Senate Office Building
Washington D.C. 20510
202-224-2834
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Sunday, July 01, 2012
Hejira
W.G. Dunlop (AFP) reports, "Iraqi women face court-ordered virginity tests that often show they were
virgins until marriage but shame them nonetheless, doctors at an
institute that carries out the tests and a lawyer said." You read that correctly: Court-ordered virginity tests.
At what point does the US government start taking responsibility for the hell they created for Iraqi women?
Not just with the Iraq War. It was an illegal war. It never should have happened. But had the bombings and shootings and counter-insurgency ended instead of been integrated into the occupation (the ongoing occupation) Iraqi women might have stood a chance. Instead it was install fundamentalist thugs who would scare the Iraqi people into submission while the US government could pursue the greed and desire for control. And that didn't end with Bully Boy Bush.
In 2010, Iraq could have been so different. The Iraqi people said no the terror tactics Nouri al-Maliki used in the campaign and in spite of violence and other road blocks turned out to vote in the parliamentary elections and Nouri didn't win. Bush wasn't in the White House then, Barack Obama was. It was his decision to back Nouri over the will of the Iraqi people and it was his decision to sell the other political blocs on the Erbil Agreement which gave Nouri a second term as prime minister. And the decision of Barack's not to enforce the Erbil Agreement after Nouri got his second term.
So stop blaming Bush for everything. George W. Bush's rap sheet is lengthy enough, filled with crimes. Don't risk losing the jury of public opinion on that by tacking Barack's crimes onto those Bush committed.
There's a reason a number of Americans have advocated for the US to name a woman as Ambassador to Iraq. It has to do with the message it would send. Granted, at this late date -- three nominees -- all men -- two confirmed and one withdrawan -- Barack finally getting off his ass and nominating a woman would hardly have the impact it would have in 2009 or 2010. But it might mean something. And it could have meant something if he'd done it in 2009.
The end of 2010 and the start of 2011 saw some elements of Iraq try to get a female vice president. This was in addition to the two men who already held the post. They were going to have three vice presidents. The argument against the woman was that Iraq didn't need three vice presidents. But, of course, once the push for the woman ceased, Iraq ended up naming three vice presidents and they were all men. (It's dropped back down to two due to a resignation in May of 2011.)
Where are the female ambassadors from Iraq?
Can't really complain to loudly about the lack of them when the US has had six US Ambassador to Iraq since the start of the Iraq War. All have been men:
James Jeffrey
Chris Hill
Ryan Crocker
Zalmay Khalilzad
John Negroponte
Paul Bremer
Some don't consider 'viceroy' Bremer to have been an ambassador, some do. We will. Six men and Brett McGurk nominated but nomination withdrawn. In what modern world does that make sense?
None of the men, including McGurk, were known for their efforts on behalf of women.
Barack Obama didn't change a damn thing. He rode the world to success with the world as it was and he'll leave it as it is. No lives have been improved by his actions or policies. He's done nothing for women which isn't surprising. You don't run the sexist campaign he did in 2008 if you give a damn about women. In 2008, you don't refuse to pick Hillary Clinton as your running mate if you give a damn about women. You don't reward your staff for sexist comments and actions if you give a damn about women. You don't play all male golf games and basketball games after you enter the White House if you give a damn about women.
He's never given a damn about women and he's like George McGovern in that regard -- flocked by a bunch of overgrown girls who protect him from the needed criticism he should be receiving. And it's the same crowd that protected McGovern for the most part. And it's women, if you didn't catch that. It's women hurting women's interest in order to soothe the brow of some man.
Molly Yard may have been the last feminist leader we had who put women first. These days it's all about supporting the male politician.
Picute an office where a prince works at a job he can't handle. And all the women under him spend forever propping him up and soothing him. And when he's finally out of the job because he's retired or fired, a man is installed. Why? Because women spent all their time -- wasted all their time -- propping up a man.
Remember that when you look at the low number of women in the House and Senate still. Remember that as the US continues to elect men as president but not women.
Sexism exists and it is very real and it is very dangerous.
But don't fail to factor in the 'leaders' who refuse to lead as they instead rush to turn themselves into handmaidens for the figure head of the patriarchy.
I'm traveling in some vehicle
I'm sitting in some cafe
A defector from the petty wars
That shell shock love away
-- "Hejira," written by Joni Mitchell, first appears on her album of the same name
The number of US military people killed in the Iraq War stands at 4488. Bushra Juhi (AP) reports 3 Tikrit bombings left 1 person dead and two more injured and, Saturday night for the rest, 1 Samarra suicide car bombing and 3 roadside bombings at a security checkpoint claimed the lives of 3 police officers while, in Mosul, a judge was shot dead.
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At what point does the US government start taking responsibility for the hell they created for Iraqi women?
Not just with the Iraq War. It was an illegal war. It never should have happened. But had the bombings and shootings and counter-insurgency ended instead of been integrated into the occupation (the ongoing occupation) Iraqi women might have stood a chance. Instead it was install fundamentalist thugs who would scare the Iraqi people into submission while the US government could pursue the greed and desire for control. And that didn't end with Bully Boy Bush.
In 2010, Iraq could have been so different. The Iraqi people said no the terror tactics Nouri al-Maliki used in the campaign and in spite of violence and other road blocks turned out to vote in the parliamentary elections and Nouri didn't win. Bush wasn't in the White House then, Barack Obama was. It was his decision to back Nouri over the will of the Iraqi people and it was his decision to sell the other political blocs on the Erbil Agreement which gave Nouri a second term as prime minister. And the decision of Barack's not to enforce the Erbil Agreement after Nouri got his second term.
So stop blaming Bush for everything. George W. Bush's rap sheet is lengthy enough, filled with crimes. Don't risk losing the jury of public opinion on that by tacking Barack's crimes onto those Bush committed.
There's a reason a number of Americans have advocated for the US to name a woman as Ambassador to Iraq. It has to do with the message it would send. Granted, at this late date -- three nominees -- all men -- two confirmed and one withdrawan -- Barack finally getting off his ass and nominating a woman would hardly have the impact it would have in 2009 or 2010. But it might mean something. And it could have meant something if he'd done it in 2009.
The end of 2010 and the start of 2011 saw some elements of Iraq try to get a female vice president. This was in addition to the two men who already held the post. They were going to have three vice presidents. The argument against the woman was that Iraq didn't need three vice presidents. But, of course, once the push for the woman ceased, Iraq ended up naming three vice presidents and they were all men. (It's dropped back down to two due to a resignation in May of 2011.)
Where are the female ambassadors from Iraq?
Can't really complain to loudly about the lack of them when the US has had six US Ambassador to Iraq since the start of the Iraq War. All have been men:
James Jeffrey
Chris Hill
Ryan Crocker
Zalmay Khalilzad
John Negroponte
Paul Bremer
Some don't consider 'viceroy' Bremer to have been an ambassador, some do. We will. Six men and Brett McGurk nominated but nomination withdrawn. In what modern world does that make sense?
None of the men, including McGurk, were known for their efforts on behalf of women.
Barack Obama didn't change a damn thing. He rode the world to success with the world as it was and he'll leave it as it is. No lives have been improved by his actions or policies. He's done nothing for women which isn't surprising. You don't run the sexist campaign he did in 2008 if you give a damn about women. In 2008, you don't refuse to pick Hillary Clinton as your running mate if you give a damn about women. You don't reward your staff for sexist comments and actions if you give a damn about women. You don't play all male golf games and basketball games after you enter the White House if you give a damn about women.
He's never given a damn about women and he's like George McGovern in that regard -- flocked by a bunch of overgrown girls who protect him from the needed criticism he should be receiving. And it's the same crowd that protected McGovern for the most part. And it's women, if you didn't catch that. It's women hurting women's interest in order to soothe the brow of some man.
Molly Yard may have been the last feminist leader we had who put women first. These days it's all about supporting the male politician.
Picute an office where a prince works at a job he can't handle. And all the women under him spend forever propping him up and soothing him. And when he's finally out of the job because he's retired or fired, a man is installed. Why? Because women spent all their time -- wasted all their time -- propping up a man.
Remember that when you look at the low number of women in the House and Senate still. Remember that as the US continues to elect men as president but not women.
Sexism exists and it is very real and it is very dangerous.
But don't fail to factor in the 'leaders' who refuse to lead as they instead rush to turn themselves into handmaidens for the figure head of the patriarchy.
I'm traveling in some vehicle
I'm sitting in some cafe
A defector from the petty wars
That shell shock love away
-- "Hejira," written by Joni Mitchell, first appears on her album of the same name
The number of US military people killed in the Iraq War stands at 4488. Bushra Juhi (AP) reports 3 Tikrit bombings left 1 person dead and two more injured and, Saturday night for the rest, 1 Samarra suicide car bombing and 3 roadside bombings at a security checkpoint claimed the lives of 3 police officers while, in Mosul, a judge was shot dead.
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