Estonian National Units in the 2nd World War (German and Finnish Armed Forces)
Hannes Walter
During the World War 2nd, Estonian soldiers in the German and Finnish Armed Forces fought against the Soviets for the restoration of the Republic of Estonia and freedom for the Estonian nation.
http://www.laidoner.ee
Estonia Accused of Anti-Semitism After Memorial is Erected to 'SS Executioner'
By Andrew Osborn in Moscow
26 May 2004
Estonia has been accused of fuelling anti-Semitism and glorifying Nazism after a memorial was erected there to a colonel in the Waffen SS who is alleged to have the blood of thousands of people on his hands.
http://news.independent.co.uk
Jews Evaded Nazis by Living in Cave for Nearly 2 Years
Brian Handwerk
for National Geographic News
May 27, 2004
In October 1942, Jewish families were vanishing all over Nazi-occupied eastern Europe. There was little refuge to be found anywhere on that part of the Earthbut underneath the surface, one group found sanctuary.
http://news.nationalgeographic.com
Nazi Row as German President Appointed
By Tony Paterson in Berlin
24 May 2004
A former head of the International Monetary Fund was elected Germany's ninth post-war president yesterday, despite a campaign marred by a bitter political row over the choice of a Nazi-era judge who was selected to back his candidature.
http://news.independent.co.uk
Report: Putin Plans War on Oligarchs
By Simon Ostrovsky
Staff Writer
A little-known think tank said President Vladimir Putin will announce a "de-oligarchization campaign" as part of an anti-monopoly drive in his state of the nation address Wednesday. It singled out Mikhail Fridman's Alfa Group and its partners, which monopolize the telecoms, alcohol and cement sectors, as the Kremlin's first target.
http://www.moscowtimes.ru
Bush White House Checked with Rapture Christians Before Latest Israel Move
The Jesus Landing Pad
by Rick Perlstein
May 18th, 2004 10:00 AM
It was an e-mail we weren't meant to see. Not for our eyes were the notes that showed White House staffers taking two-hour meetings with Christian fundamentalists, where they passed off bogus social science on gay marriage as if it were holy writ and issued fiery warnings that "the Presidents [sic] Administration and current Government is engaged in cultural, economical, and social struggle on every level"this to a group whose representative in Israel believed herself to have been attacked by witchcraft unleashed by proximity to a volume of Harry Potter. Most of all, apparently, we're not supposed to know the National Security Council's top Middle East aide consults with apocalyptic Christians eager to ensure American policy on Israel conforms with their sectarian doomsday scenarios.
http://www.villagevoice.com
Bush Doctrine
BBC Interview
by Noam Chomsky and Jeremy Paxman; BBC News; May 21, 2004
If George Bush were to be judged by the standards of the Nuremberg Tribunals, he'd be hanged. So too, mind you, would every single American President since the end of the second world war, including Jimmy Carter.
http://www.zmag.org
Bush Told Geneva Convention 'Obsolete': Report
Memo from White House counsel suggested rules for prisoners were 'quaint'
WASHINGTON (AP) The Iraq prisoner abuse scandal shifted today to the question of whether the U.S. administration set up a legal foundation that opened the door for the mistreatment.
http://www.thestar.com
The Trail of Torture
The Things Bush Didn't Say in His Speech
By ROBERT FISK
The Independent
I can't wait to see Abu Ghraib prison reduced to rubble by the Americans--at the request of the new Iraqi government, of course. It will be turned to dust in order to destroy a symbol of Saddam's brutality. That's what President Bush tells us. So the re-writing of history still goes on.
http://www.counterpunch.com
The Nicholas Berg Execution
A working hypothesis and a resolution for the orange jumpsuit mystery
23 May 2004
This article aims to shed light on the apparent execution by beheading of Nicholas Berg . I believe that most of the available evidence surrounding the case suggests that it was a “black operation”by US psychological warfare specialists, the purpose of which was to provide the media with a “moral relativity” argument to counter the adverse publicity over torture at Abu Ghraib prison.
http://www.brushtail.com.au
Press Clips
by Richard Goldstein
Fit to Post From Sarin to the Berg beheading: why do the news media keep silent when rumors sweep the internet?
May 25th, 2004 12:00 PM
Aside from the usual imprecations, my e-mail has been bristling with messages urging me to investigate the circumstances of Nicholas Berg's beheading. I'm told to consider the white plastic chair he was sitting on and the orange prison suit he worenot the usual Al Qaeda gear. Then there's the lack of visible blood, and the soundtrack that records his screams before he was attacked. Are these the signs of a U.S. psy-op?
http://www.villagevoice.com
Dershowitz: U.S. Needs Improved Torture Tactics
Harvard Law Professor Alan Dershowitz, who urged that terrorists be tortured in a November 2001 column he wrote for the Los Angeles Times, isn't backing away from his position one bit in the wake of the Abu Ghraib prison scandal.
http://www.newsmax.com
Treatment by Coalition Forces of POWs
by The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC)
http://globalresearch.ca
Amnesty Slams 'Bankrupt' Vision of US in Damning Report
May 27, 2004
The United States has proved "bankrupt of vision and bereft of principle" in its fight against terrorism and invasion of Iraq, human rights group Amnesty International charged yesterday in a scathing report.
http://www.smh.com.au
The Finlandization of America
by Edgar J. Steele
May 23, 2005
"By defending the freedom and prosperity and security of Israel, you're also serving the cause of America...I know there are buses outside waiting to take you to Capitol Hill. I'm told -- Howard told me there's over 500 meetings scheduled with members of the Senate and the House. That is good news. I'm sure you're going to pass this message on to them: A free, prosperous and secure Israel is in this nation's national interest."
--- President George W. Bush, Address to the AIPAC Policy Conference, May 18, 2004
"You can fool some of the people all of the time, and those are the ones you want to concentrate on."
--- President George W. Bush, speaking at a Gridiron Club dinner, Washington, D.C., March 2001
Finally, Senator Ernest "Fritz" Hollings has come clean. He dared to say what everybody else in Washington already knew: America dances to Israel's tune, as dispensed through its Washington lobby, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC). "You can't have an Israel policy other than what AIPAC gives you around here," said Mr. Hollings from the floor of the Senate just two days ago. Of course, now it's safe for him to do so, since he is retiring in a few months.
http://www.conspiracypenpal.com
Who is Ahmed Chalabi?
by Michel Chossudovsky
On the 20th of May, US forces raided the Baghdad home of the head of the Iraqi National Congress (INC) Ahmed Chalabi. The media in chorus, without further investigation, described the raid as an effort to silence Chalabi's condemnation of the US-led occupation:
http://globalresearch.ca
To Look Again - Part Two
Dave's Diatribe - Unfair and Unbalanced
David Mullenax
The Holocaust has become one of the most widely accepted events in all of human history. Nearly everyone has seen countless films, historical documentaries and tear-jerking testimonies of concentration-camp atrocities. Today, many students are taught about it in school - some as early as kindergarten - and if you are fortunate to live near Washington, D.C., you can expect field trips to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.
http://www.augustafreepress.com
Back to Drawing Board for Gestapo Museum
BERLIN (Reuters)- Germany says it is seeking a new architect to develop the site of the former power centre of the Third Reich's reviled Gestapo secret police because previous plans were likely to become too expensive.
http://sg.news.yahoo.com
Pentagon's Feith Again at Center of Disaster
by Jim Lobe
WASHINGTON - Although it will take weeks, if not months, to sort out precisely who was responsible for what increasingly appears to have been the systemic abuse by U.S. soldiers of Iraqi detainees, it should be no surprise if Undersecretary of Defense for Policy Douglas Feith is found to have played an important role.
http://www.commondreams.org
U.S. War Policy 'Grave Error'
Ex-Rumsfeld aide admits occupation of Iraq a failure
Britain, U.S. at odds over interim government's role
SANDRO CONTENTA
EUROPEAN BUREAU
LONDON, EnglandOne of the ideological architects of the Iraq war has criticized the U.S.-led occupation of the country as "a grave error."
http://www.thestar.com
Voting With Their Feet
By David H. Hackworth
Top military managers insist that our all-volunteer Army isn’t stretched too thin from this country’s heavy and hazardous commitment to hot spots like
Iraq and Afghanistan and cooler places in another 131 countries around Planet Earth. They spout positive numbers like carnival hucksters, hyping enlistment and re-enlistment rates they keep insisting are at an all-time high.
http://www.sftt.org
Senator Hollings Is Right
It's all about Israel
by Justin Raimondo
Isn't it funny how politicians have to wait until just before going into retirement to say what they really think about Israel and its influence over Washington policymakers?
http://www.antiwar.com
Senator Spoke for Many on Hill When he Blamed Israel for War
SPECIAL TO WORLD TRIBUNE.COM
Thursday, May 20, 2004
A U.S. senator's charge that Israel is behind the Bush administrations's decision to invade Iraq has rattled American Jewish leaders.
http://www.worldtribune.com
Zinni: Criticism of Iraq War Not Spurred by Anti-Semitism
By Nathan Guttman
WASHINGTON - Retired General Anthony Zinni, the Bush administration's former envoy to the Middle East, charged this week that the administration launched the war in Iraq partly for Israel's sake.
http://www.haaretz.com
The Jewish Faction
by Joe Sobran
Jews in America are often spoken of as a "minority." So they are, in more than a numerical sense, as I will explain. But despite their small numbers they are also a powerful faction, though the term "faction" is rarely applied to them.
http://www.sobran.com
Far Right or Far Wrong?
Illegal immigrants swamping Europe, turning churches into mosques - it's the perfect plot for a neo-nazi bestseller
John Sutherland
Monday May 24, 2004
The Guardian
The bestseller list was invented in 1895. Nowadays (so many novels, so little time) we couldn't live without them. Most tastes are catered for, but I don't recall a neo-nazi chart, or "these you have loved, skinhead".
http://www.guardian.co.uk
'Civil Rights' Group Condemns Work of CSULB Professor
By Karl Peterson
On-line Forty-Niner
The Southern Poverty Law Center, a civil rights group based in Montgomery, Ala., recently condemned the work of a Cal State Long Beach professor and the Web site on which he publishes as being anti-Semitic and anti-immigration.
http://www.csulb.edu
Advance Australia Card
A high-tech national identity card, originally shelved over public concern on privacy, is back on the government's agenda, given new impetus by fears about terrorism. Anthony Hoy reports.
The ghost of the doomed Australia Card is alive and well. The federal government is considering the introduction of a compulsory national identification card after the next election, according to a former Liberal Party powerbroker.
http://bulletin.ninemsn.com.au
Is Congress Aiding A Massive Israeli Deception?
Terrell E. Arnold
5-7-4
On April 28, 2004, with little or no fanfare, members of the House Committee on International Relations introduced a bill, H.R. 4230 to make the United States Department of State responsible to "Monitor and Combat Anti-Semitism" everywhere in the world. The bill cites several examples: (a) the speech of Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad of Malaysia; (b) car bombings outside synagogues in Instanbul, Turkey; (c) anti-Semitic slogans (unspecified) burned into the lawn of Parliament House in Tasmania; (d) desecration by vandals of gravestones in a Jewish cemetery in Russia; (e) attack on a Jewish school by vandals in Toronto, Canada; and (f) a fire of unknown origin at a synagogue in Toulon, France. Narrowly construed, this bill would not only have a special office in the State Department to monitor such activities and make an annual report to the Congress of them. State would also be expected in any country where anti-Semitic acts occurred to "combat" those acts.
http://rense.com
Under the Rubble
ISRAEL CHARGED FOR WAR CRIMES
From Amnesty International
LONDON, England--May 20, 2004-- More than 3,000 homes, vast areas of agricultural land and hundreds of other properties have been destroyed by the Israeli army and security forces in Israel and the Occupied Territories in the past three and a half years. Tens of thousands of men, women and children have been made homeless or have lost their livelihood. Thousands of other houses have been damaged, and tens of thousands of others are under threat of demolition, their occupants living in fear of homelessness. House demolitions are usually carried out without warning, often at night, and the occupants are forcibly evicted with no time to salvage their belongings. Often the only warning is the rumbling of the Israeli army's US-made Caterpillar bulldozers beginning to tear down the walls of their homes.
http://www.oasistv.com
Israel Lays Claim to Palestine's Water
Exclusive from New Scientist
Israel has drawn up a secret plan for a giant desalination plant to supply drinking water to the Palestinian territory on the West Bank. It hopes the project will diminish pressure for it to grant any future Palestinian state greater access to the region's scarce supplies of fresh water.
http://www.newscientist.com
Israel Spy Agency Recruits Staff on Web
Tue May 25, 9:35 AM ET
By AARON KEITH HARRIS, Associated Press Writer
JERUSALEM - Israel's normally secretive Mossad spy agency came in from the cold this week, launching a Web site aimed at recruiting staff ranging from computer security specialists to English-speaking waiters and agents for "special tasks."
http://story.news.yahoo.com
Movers Who Prompt Kings Bay Lockdown To Be Deported
POSTED: 1:44 pm EDT May 25, 2004
ST. MARYS, Ga. -- Two Israeli men working for a moving-and-storage company who attempted Kings Bay Submarine Base Friday are being held for deportation.
http://www.news4jax.com
FBI Abducts Artist; Seizes Art
Feds Unable to Distinguish Art from Bioterrorism
By CounterPunch Wire
Steve Kurtz was already suffering from one tragedy when he called 911 early in the morning to tell them his wife had suffered a cardiac arrest and died in her sleep. The police arrived and, cranked up on the rhetoric of the "War on Terror," decided Kurtz's art supplies were actually bioterrorism weapons.
http://www.counterpunch.com
GAO: Fed Data Mining Extensive
By Kim Zetter
10:28 AM May. 27, 2004 PT
Just as the General Accounting Office released a report Thursday surveying the extensive amount of data mining conducted by federal agencies on individuals, a government watchdog group released its own report suggesting three steps the government could take to limit the invasiveness of such activity.
http://www.wired.com
Genes Protect Kids from Poverty
Finding helps explain why some children "turn lemons into lemonade"
By Gabe Romain
Betterhumans Staff
5/27/2004 4:43 PM
Genes can explain as much as 70% of the difference between children who climb out of poverty and children who don't.
http://www.betterhumans.com
The Franchise is Such a Bother
E-Vote Printers' High-Stakes Test
By Kim Zetter
02:00 AM May. 27, 2004 PT
Some outside election officials are hoping the new e-voting system that Nevada will be using this year -- a touch-screen machine that produces a voter-verified paper trail -- will cause the state many problems. If it does, it will prove their point that adding a paper trail to touch-screen machines is a bad idea.
http://www.wired.com
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