Nazi Hunter Wiesenthal Given Knighthood
Sat 19 June, 2004 17:05
LONDON (Reuters) - Nazi hunter Simon Wiesenthal has been given a honorary knighthood to for a "lifetime of service to humanity" by helping bring Holocaust perpetrators to justice, the Foreign Office says.
http://www.reuters.co.uk
Simon Wiesenthal: Fraudulent 'Nazi Hunter'
by Mark Weber
For more than 40 years, Simon Wiesenthal has been tracking hundreds of "Nazi criminals" from his "Jewish Documentation Center" in Vienna. For his work as the world's most prominent "Nazi hunter," he has been awarded several honorary degrees and numerous medals, including Germany's highest decoration. In a formal White House ceremony in August 1980, a teary-eyed President Carter presented him with a special gold medal awarded by the US Congress. President Reagan praised him in November 1988 as one of the "true heroes" of this century.
http://www.ihr.org
Land of the What?
June 3, 2004
by Joe Sobran
I enjoy movies about World War II, especially those made during the war itself. I think it's silly to talk about the men who fought it as "the greatest generation," but they were my father's generation and I love the style of manhood they represent -- the unassuming masculinity of an older America, responsible rather than macho.
What the war movies don't show -- and what they wouldn't have been allowed to show if they'd wanted to -- was the deceit by which Franklin Roosevelt tried to bring on the war. The historian Robert Dallek writes, "In light of the national unwillingness to face up fully to the international dangers facing the country, it is difficult
to fault Roosevelt for building a consensus by devious means." This is the view of most older historians: We forced Roosevelt to lie to us for our own good.
http://www.sobran.com
WWII Bombs Unearthed in China
A team of Chinese and Japanese experts have found a cache of some 500 bombs from World War II buried in north-eastern China.
http://news.bbc.co.uk
Conservatives Under Fire for Holocaust Law
18 June 2004
BERLIN - Germany's ruling coalition parties have vowed to fight conservative opposition legislation that has come under fire from Jewish leaders for equating the Holocaust with crimes by the East German Communist regime.
http://www.expatica.com
French Nazi Hunter Encourages Jews to Leave France
By ETGAR LEFKOVITS
Six decades after the end of the Holocaust, the prominent French Nazi-hunter Serge Klarsfeld said this weekend that French Jews would be best off leaving the country.
http://www.jpost.com
Nazi Guard Must Leave the Country
By James DeWeese 06/17/2004
An 80-year-old Jackson Heights man who served as an armed guard at a slave-labor camp in Nazi-occupied Poland will have to return to Ukraine, a federal immigration judge ordered last week.
Basing his decision on an earlier proceeding that stripped Jakiw Palij of his citizenship, U.S. Immigration Court Judge Robert Owens in Manhattan found June 9 that Palij had worked as a guard at the Trawniki labor camp, where more than 6,000 Jews were exterminated over the course of two days in 1943. He also concluded that Palij later lied about his involvement on a visa application.
http://www.zwire.com
Brazening It Out
by Jim Lobe
"The reason I keep insisting that there was a relationship between Iraq and Saddam and al-Qaeda," U.S. President George W. Bush told reporters Thursday, is "because there was a relationship between Iraq and Al Qaeda."
http://www.lewrockwell.com
Reality Blurs Bush's Rosy Afghan Vision
- By David Brunnstrom
KABUL: Standing side by side with President Hamid Karzai in the balmy surrounds of the White House Rose Garden on Tuesday, President George W. Bush hailed Afghanistan as a model for the future of Iraq.
Afghanistan, Bush said, had risen "from the ashes of two decades of war and oppression". The stark realities on the ground are not so rosy amid resurgent Taliban violence that mean Afghanistan may not be able to hold September elections on schedule, thus dealing a blow to the image of success painted by Bush.
http://www.hipakistan.com
Bush Plans to Screen Whole US Population for Mental Illness
Jeanne Lenzer
New York
A sweeping mental health initiative will be unveiled by President George W Bush in July. The plan promises to integrate mentally ill patients fully into the community by providing "services in the community, rather than institutions," according to a March 2004 progress report entitled New Freedom Initiative
http://bmj.bmjjournals.com
Who Has the Moral Authority?
by Paul Hein
Between the TV news, although I generally avoid it, the newspapers, although I rarely do more than glance at them, the radio, which I use mainly to listen to music in the car, and the internet, I get so much information that I cannot remember where and when I heard what. So I cannot tell you exactly where I heard or read the claim that the reports of American GIs torturing Iraqi prisoners were tending to diminish the U.S.s "moral authority" in the world. But does it matter? It seems to be a fact that many expect the U.S. to exercise such authority, implying that the punishment of perceived wrongdoing, in any part of the world, is, in some certainly not Constitutional way the business of the American government.
http://www.lewrockwell.com
Dick Cheney and the $5 Million Man
by DOUG IRELAND
[posted online on June 18, 2004]
The Securities and Exchange Commission has finally opened a formal investigation into allegations that Halliburton (in partnership with French petro-engineering company Technip) funneled $180 million into a slush fund to pay bribes in the construction of a $6 billion Nigerian gas refinery--a scandal that French authorities have been probing for a year (for background, see Doug Ireland, "Will the French Indict Cheney?" December 29, 2003).
http://www.thenation.com
Anti-Semitism When It's Not
Zionists are seeing anti-Semitism everywhere, even when it's not there. Emad Gad reports on the phenomenon
Virtually not a day passes without some Zionist organisation working in a major world capital accusing an Arab figure or an official authority of writing "racist" material, perpetrating some "racist" act, inciting to hatred, or any other of the terms used to wave the weapon of anti-Semitism in the face of the targeted individual. Over the last few months, many Zionist organisations have accused several Arab organisations and figures of anti-Semitism, and they have succeeded in portraying them as engaging in racist practices against Judaism and inciting hatred against Jews. From here, the confrontation reaches another level, as Zionist organisations take the matter to court or ask the US State Department or European capitals to act to prevent this phenomenon, which they claim may lead to a repeat of the Jewish tragedy that occurred in Europe over various historical eras.
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg
US and Europe Clash Over Online Hate
By Lucy Sherriff
Published Friday 18th June 2004 14:53 GMT
Europe and the US clashed head-on over how to tackle xenophobic material found online, with the European tendency towards tough regulations at odds with US constitutional protection of free speech.
http://www.theregister.co.uk
French Throw Out Money-Laundering Case Against Leumi
By The Associated Press
PARIS - A French appeals court on Friday overruled criminal indictments against eight banks and 130 people accused of involvement in an alleged money-laundering scheme operating between France and Israel.
http://www.haaretz.com
Israel May Deploy Remote Armed Buggy on Border with Gaza
By Eric Silver in Jerusalem
19 June 2004
The Israeli army is considering a plan to patrol the Gaza border with remote-controlled buggies fitted with night-vision television cameras and machine guns that could spot and kill infiltrators before they crossed into Israel.
http://news.independent.co.uk
Nowhere to Hide —
City Surveillance
16 June 2004
By JARROD BOOKER and SUE ALLEN
FEATURE
Whether you are taking a stroll through the central city, shopping, filling up your car or riding on a bus, big brother is watching.
Surveillance cameras are now as much a part of everyday New Zealand life as computers and cellphones.
http://www.stuff.co.nz
Pentagon Seeks U.S. Spy Powers
By Ryan Singel
02:00 AM Jun. 19, 2004 PT
A Pentagon effort to persuade Congress to allow military intelligence agents to work undercover in the United States met with resistance in the House Wednesday when the provision was left out of the highly secretive intelligence funding bill.
http://www.wired.com
Librarian's Stand Against Federal Law
By Humphrey Hawksley
BBC Correspondent, America
As America gears up for the presidential elections more and more attention is being focussed on the so-called USA Patriot Act, which in the wake of 9/11, gave the intelligence agencies new powers to keep watch on American citizens.
Jacky Griffin is not the sort of person you want to cross.
http://news.bbc.co.uk
Maybe We Do Need a Draft
by Al Lorentz
With all this talk about a draft, I thought that, as a professional soldier, I'd throw my two cents worth in.
http://www.antiwar.com
US Paranoid and Isolated as Green Zone Policy Fails
By Patrick Cockburn in Baghdad
19 June 2004
An Iraqi friend, who feared for his life because he was close to the Americans, used to live inside the Green Zone, the heavily protected area in central Baghdad where the US-led Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA) has its headquarters. One day he fell into conversation with an American soldier guarding one of the gates. The soldier said he was of Iraqi origin and could speak Arabic. He added that security was not quite as tight as it looked since prostitutes were regular visitors to the zone.
http://news.independent.co.uk
GPS Cellphones Blank Out During 911 Calls
17:38 18 June 04
NewScientist.com news service
Some emergency calls made from GPS-enabled Verizon Wireless cellphones in the US are being disrupted because of a glitch in the way the phones divide their processor time between GPS-location calculations and voice transmission.
http://www.newscientist.com
Dying to See Their Kids
In the Wilderness
By KATHY KELLY
Pekin Federal Prison. Peoria, IL
Its going to get worse before it gets better, said the Pekin Federal Prison Camp (FPC) administrator, commenting about overcrowding. We have about 40 more transports in the pipeline.
http://www.counterpunch.com
The Madness of St George
By Quentin Letts
(Filed: 13/06/2004)
From flags to face paint, bunting to bed covers, England has been engulfed by a wave of patriotism - and it's not just the Euro 2004 football fans. Quentin Letts reports on a red and white revolution
http://www.telegraph.co.uk
Superbugs Resist 'Last Resort' Antibiotics
13:57 18 June 04
NewScientist.com news service
Hospital superbugs with resistance to a "last resort" antibiotic have emerged independently in at least eight different countries, reveals a new study.
http://www.newscientist.com
Caesareans Delayed to Cash in on Baby Bonus
By Mary FitzSimons
19 June 2004
Pregnant women in Australia who are planning Caesarean births are trying to delay their operations until 1 July to cash in on the government's A$3,000 (£1,125) "baby bonus" beginning in the new fiscal year.
http://news.independent.co.uk
Ukraine Drive to Keep Russian Off Buses
By Helen Fawkes
BBC, Ukraine
Weaving his bus through the busy streets of Lviv in Western Ukraine, Andriy likes to listen to Russian pop music.
But his music choice could soon see him banned from the roads.
http://news.bbc.co.uk
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