The War, the Truth, and the New York Times

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Now that every one and Charlie’s aunt knows of the crimes of America’s ruling cabal, how about finally asking to bring out the hangman’s ropes?

By Anwaar Hussain

media_monkeys.jpgSo finally the truth is acknowledged by the mother of all main stream media, the New York Times.

The June 6 editorial, ‘The Truth About the War’ of the media giant begins with these words, “It took just a few months after the United States’ invasion of Iraq for the world to find out that Saddam Hussein had long abandoned his nuclear, biological and chemical weapons programs. He was not training terrorists or colluding with Al Qaeda. The only real threat he posed was to his own countrymen.” That it took more than five years for the leading light of a servile American media to finally find it out, is a fact glossed over most shamelessly.

Truth told late is worse than a murderous lie, is all that one can say to the NYT. It is a dishonest admission coming rather late for a million plus human beings. The icing on this deceitful piece of reporting is the ending of the Op-Ed. It says, “We cannot say with certainty whether Mr. Bush lied about Iraq. But when the president withholds vital information from the public - or leads them to believe things that he knows are not true - to justify the invasion of another country, that is bad enough.”

BAD ENOUGH! Did I read it right? That’s it? BAD ENOUGH! Would you believe it? A million murdered Iraqis, 4000 dead US soldiers, obliterated Iraqi cities, DU shot-up environment, countless crippled and maimed human beings, innumerable shattered lives and how does the NYT express its outrage; by calling it ‘bad enough’? “Sorry mommy, I just killed a million people.” “That’s bad. Don’t do that again, now eat your spinach” eh? Bad enough!? Someone hand me the sick bag please.

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The Makh-Dooms of Pakistan

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By Anwaar Hussain

jaljal.jpgAccording to a little heard news, the current Prime Minister of Pakistan, Syed Yousuf Raza Gillani has reportedly decided to drop the family prefix of Makhdoom from his name saying he wants to serve people and not be served by them. Gillani said the honorific “Makhdoom”, which means “one who is served” is no longer appropriate as he believes in serving the people.

Though the apparent unconditional sincerity in the Prime Minister’s resolve to ‘serve’ the Pakistani people is heart warming, yet a leopard can not change his spots. The scribe begs to explain the Makh-Doom phenomenon to the gullible Pakistani masses first. By the end of this piece, the readers would know why the scribe spells Makhdoom as Makh-Doom.

A little review of history is in order first.

Jallianwala Bagh is a garden in the northern Indian city of Amritsar. On April 13, 1919, British Indian Army soldiers under the command of Brigadier-General Reginald Dyer opened fire on an unarmed gathering of men, women and children. The firing lasted for about 10 minutes. Shots were fired at the rate of 33 rounds per soldier. Official British Raj sources placed the fatalities at 379. According to private sources, however, there were over 1000 deaths, with more than 2000 wounded. Civil Surgeon Dr. Smith indicated that there were over 1800 casualties.

Back in his headquarters, Dyer reported to his superiors that he had been “confronted by a revolutionary army,” and had been obliged “to teach a moral lesson to the Punjab.” In a telegram sent to Dyer, the then British Lieutenant-Governor of Punjab, the author of the said massacre, Sir Michael O’Dwyer wrote: “Your action is correct. Lieutenant Governor approves.”

Nigel Collett, the writer of a new biography of Reginald Dyer, The Butcher of Amritsar said of Dyer: “As an Englishman, I cannot help but feel sorrow and shame at what he did…The massacre was the worst atrocity by a British officer ever recorded”.

Such was the sentiment of a British author about the gory crime carried out by the British soldiers. Given below is an old document to refresh the memories of the readers regarding the sentiments of the sons of the soil of Punjab, the Makh-Dooms. Taken from an Urdu column written by one Khalid Masood Khan, the referred document belongs to the beginning of the previous century.

The translation of this flowery text from Urdu language, marked by elaborate rhetoric and decorative details as it is, was a difficult task. The omissions and commissions, therefore, can safely be attributed to the scribe. More or less, though, this is how the text of the supplication goes;

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That We Dare Once Again!

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An Essay On The Indictment Movement

By Bruce R. Marshall

us-v-bush.gif“If the American people really knew what we had done, we would be chased down the street and lynched.” — President George H.W.Bush to White House correspondent Sara McClendon, 1992

The call initiated by patriotic citizens in Brattleboro Vermont for the indictment of Bush and Cheney for crimes against our Constitution, which has now passed not only in Brattleboro but also in Marlboro, Vermont. A similar call by Laurie Dobson, US Senate candidate and resident of Kennebunkport Maine, where the Bush,s summer, reflects the very spirit of defiance embedded in our nation,s Declaration of Independence so desperately needed. Thank God for brave people, every day American,s who recognize that the truth provides the path to live a life of dignity and human decency, but only if we understand that our freedom is not free if we are unwilling to stand for the truth.

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Rest In Peace, Neoconservatism

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TS Admin : Is Neoconservatism dying?

By Ethan Porter

 

neocons_group_.jpgThey Knew They Were Right documents the rise and fall of the neoconservatives, and offers progressives an important foreign policy lesson.

In the fall of 2006, I attended a curious question and answer session with a group of political candidates in upstate New York. You know how these things work: Voters can ask anything, and the candidates reply in the hope of winning their support. One middle-aged woman well known for her liberal sympathies stood up and asked, in the most passionate of tones, how the candidates were going to prevent the “neocons” from wreaking further havoc upon the outside world. The catch, of course, is that the assembled candidates were all running for local office, and neoconservatism has very little to say about zoning ordinances and bicycle trails. But as the woman’s red face and the audience’s applause made clear, in the liberal imagination, nothing looms as a larger villain.

By writing They Knew They Were Right: The Rise of the Neocons, Jacob Heilbrunn, a senior editor at National Interest-a magazine founded by neoconservative grandfather Irving Kristol-has performed an invaluable service. He has brought the left’s phantom menace down to size. In readable, highly compelling prose, Heilbrunn dives into the wreckage of what was once a vastly influential political-intellectual movement but today is widely derided by all comers, including former proud members. He comes back with an epic story and a useful lesson for progressives today.

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Bush’s Holocaust Of Iraq - Operation Desert Slaughter

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Thoughts On Holocaust Memorial Day

By Felicity Arbuthnot

usa.jpgIt is seventeen years since America and Britain embarked on their ‘Final Solution’ for the population of Iraq. 

The forty two day carpet bombing, enjoined by thirty two other countries, against a country of just twenty five million souls, with a youthful, conscript army, with broadly half the population under sixteen, and no air force, was just the beginning of a United Nations led, global siege of near mediaeval ferocity. Having, as James Baker boasted they would, reduced ‘Iraq to a pre-industrial age’, the country was denied all normality : trade, aid, telecommunications, power, sanitation, water repairs, seeds, foods, pharmaceuticals, medical equipment.

As I write, seventeen years ago, Iraq would be entering the second week of a barbaric, near twenty four hour a day, carpet bombing, which, then, as now (lest we forget - yet again) scrupulously ignored Protocol 1, Additional to the Geneva Convention of 1977: ’It is prohibited to attack, destroy, remove or render useless objects indispensable to the survival of the civilian population, such as foodstuffs, agricultural areas for the production of foodstuffs, crops, livestock, drinking water installations and supplies such as irrigation works (denying them) to the civilian population or to the adverse Party … for any motive.’

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Anwaar’s articles appear simultaneously here at Truth Spring and at Soul Vibes in The Pakistan Tribune.


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