Zundel Won't Fight Deportation Order
Zundel to be flown to Germany on Tuesday, letter from border agency says

"Holocaust denier" Ernst Zundel has conceded defeat in his two-year legal battle to avoid being deported to Germany.

Mr. Zundel, 65, will likely be flown out of Canada Tuesday, according to a letter he received yesterday from the Canada Border Services Agency.

Moving with lightning speed, the federal agency sent the letter hours after Federal Court of Canada Judge Pierre Blais had paved the way for Mr. Zundel to be deported as a danger to Canadian security.

"The purpose of this letter is to inform you that your removal to Germany is imminent. . . . Please note that you are entitled to a total of two suitcases with a maximum weight of 32 kilograms each," the letter said.

ADL Welcomes Canadian Court Ruling That "Racist" Holocaust Denier May Be Deported

In his ruling, Canadian Justice Pierre Blais labeled Zundel "a racist" whose "activities are not only a threat to Canada's national security, but also a threat to the international community of nations."  Zundel had been living in Toronto since 2003 [in solitary confinement, courtesy of the Canadian police state], after he was deported from the U.S. on supposed immigration violations.

The Anti-Conservatives
Who convinced the president that our democracy depends on a worldwide crusade?
Patrick J. Buchanan

...The president now plans to hector and badger foreign leaders on the progress each is making toward attaining U.S. standards of democracy. “We will persistently clarify the choice before every ruler and nation—the moral choice between oppression, which is always wrong, and freedom, which is eternally right.” This is a formula for “Bring-it-on!” collisions with every autocratic regime on earth, including virtually every African and Arab ruler, all the “outposts of tyranny” named by Secretary Rice, most of the nations of Central Asia, China, and Russia. This is a prescription for endless war. Yet as Madison warned, “No nation can preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.”

Who and what converted a president who came to office with no knowledge of the world to the idea that only a global crusade for democracy could keep us secure? Answer: 9/11 — and the neoconservatives.

World Council of Churches Gives Nod to Israeli Divestment Proposal
The World Council of Churches (WCC) on February 21 urged its members to consider economic measures to oppose Israeli occupation of Palestinian territory and praised the action of a U.S. denomination that has started a process of selective divestment from companies linked to the occupation.

"Multinational corporations have been involved in the demolition of Palestinian homes," the WCC's main governing body said in a statement adopted during a February 15-22 meeting in Geneva. They "are involved in the construction of settlements and settlement infrastructure on occupied territory, in building a dividing wall which is also largely inside occupied territory, and in other violations of international law."

Pope Labels Democracy 'Godless'

Entitled Memory and Identity: Conversations Between Millenniums, John Paul II's fifth book, printed first in Italian, blames the moral permisiveness of the West for undermining society with divorce, free love, abortion, euthanasia, and genetic manipulation.

"The nihilism of the West is disturbing to the Pope. His claim is that democratic parliaments are the carriers." Driven by "powerful economic forces," the Pope claims, the "anti-Gospel" is spreading the idea that "one must live life as if God does not exist."

A Non-Debatable Truth
For people who know about the horrors of the "Holocaust," it is hard to imagine there are people out there who claim it did not happen. Holocaust educator Sara Salzman (right) is devoted to combating Holocaust denial, and she took that combat to Colorado University Monday.

Salzman said in order to fight Holocaust denial, people must refute their ideas, not debate them. "Debate implies there are two valid sides to an argument, and in this case, there isn't," she said.

She also said to "address the lie, not the liar," because Holocaust deniers often make personal attacks when they run out of arguments. [Oh really? Listen to Mark Weber and Ted O'Keefe on KFI AM640 Los Angeles and note if it is they or the callers who hurl the insults.]

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Salzman mentioned a number of Holocaust deniers, such as British author David Irving, who came to speak on the CU campus in the fall.

Click Here for Report on Irving's Talk at CU in September. (At right, David Irving with Josh McNair, founder of Student Advocates for Free Expression, the sponsor of Irving's talk.)

CU senior Jamie Goodman, co-chair of the Holocaust Awareness Week planning committee, said Salzman's presentation effectively showed how ridiculous deniers' viewpoints are.

Anti-Israel Rhetoric is on the Rise at Carnegie Mellon
Anti-Israel rhetoric has been on the rise lately at Carnegie Mellon University, making some Jewish students feel uncomfortable on their own campus.

The university has funded two anti-Israel speakers at CMU and “facilitated” a third, last week’s black power speaker Malik Zulu Shabazz, said Aaron Weil, director of the Hillel Jewish University Center.

Some Jewish students are feeling intimidated and some parents are troubled by the activities, which include regular anti-Israel attacks in the school newspaper, the Tartan, and anti-Israel slogans painted on “the fence,” a real fence at the center of the campus that serves as a student billboard.

“I think Jews on this campus feel very singled out. All of a sudden, Zionism has become a dirty word,” said Rachel Svinkelstin, a CMU student and president of Tartans for Israel. “All of a sudden, Israel is easily attack-able. It’s almost indefensible. It’s almost as if there’s nothing anti-Zionists are afraid to do now.

“The debate isn’t about roadblocks and settlements,” she continued. “It’s about whether Israel should exist or not. It’s very upsetting.”

The Danger in President's Bush's Conviction He's Right
LBJ knew from long experience that Americans prefer to be comforted by what can later be shaded into the truths we would like to believe. And this is not unnatural. White House Chief of Staff Andy Card says President Bush "believes that leadership carries with it an obligation to think big and act big. And he does think big and act big."

The freedom we are supposedly spreading in Afghanistan and Iraq is proof of the president's big thinking and big doing. America is leading a "march of freedom" at home and abroad. The administration is puzzled, even annoyed, that many Europeans and Americans are skeptical about such claims. What is going on here?

Part of the answer can be found in the political reality of "positive illusions." All human beings and human societies need to construct myths to believe in and live by.  According to Dominic Johnson's recent book Overconfidence and War, it is a Darwinian fact that our leaders become our leaders because they have an extraordinary capacity for "positive illusions" and can inspire us to believe in these illusions and act upon them. The positive in this theory means optimism about how things will work out, not that things will or did turn out positively.  Johnson applies his theory convincingly to historical test cases: World War I; the Munich Pact before World War II; the Cuban Missile Crisis; and Vietnam.

Brits, Yanks, Asleep as Ancient Liberties Fade
Their history books, British and American alike, are filled with heroic tales of rebellion against tyrannical authorities over the issue of liberty. John Wilkes, a courageous political radical, is as much a legend to the Brits, as Sam Adams is to his fellow Americans. It was the activism of Adams and the Sons of Liberty, which contributed significantly to the consciousness of resistance and to the eventual success of the American Revolution, via the Gen. George Washington-led Continental Army. The latter’s recruits came mostly from the farming, working class and immigrant communities.

US Foreign Policy Dangerously Slanted Toward Israel
Bill Christison

To keep the discussion on the Israel-Palestine issue, the first point I want to make is that practically all U.S. foreign policies -- including those that concern areas other than Palestine -- are very significantly affected by U.S. actions and policies on Palestine itself. I believe it is a fact that a majority of the six and a half billion people in the world today literally hate most major U.S. foreign policies and that, while there are a number of reasons behind this hatred, one of the important reasons is the past 80 to 100 years of U.S. actions with respect to Palestine. When Noam Chomsky and Tariq Ali were recently in town, Chomsky commented that five years ago much of the world regarded the United States as a rogue state and the greatest threat to their existence. He then went on to say: "Since then, the situation has become far worse. It's now not much of the world . . . but most of the world. . . . George Bush has . . . succeeded in a few years in making the United States the most feared and often hated country in the world." Tariq Ali later made it clear that he agreed.

The Japanese Mistreatment of POW's — And Still They Don't Apologize
Max Hasstings

It is interesting to compare codes of massacre among the nastier participants in the Second World War. Throughout the struggle, the Soviets continued to kill their own people, as well as their enemies, in hundreds of thousands for supposed failures of courage or loyalty. The Germans murdered captive Russians, Poles, Jews and other "sub-humans" in millions, yet treated uniformed Western allied prisoners with relative humanity — only four per cent died.

The Japanese conferred "sub-human" status on all allied prisoners. More than a quarter perished in consequence, 12,000 of them while working on the Burma railway. The survivors suffered experiences matching those of inmates of Hitler's concentration camps.

Bashar Assad: The Syrian Sphinx
When Syria's young president, Bashar Assad, contemplates the forces ranged against him, he may recall that his father faced greater odds and won.

When Bush was elected in 2000, a group guided by, among others, Paul Wolfowitz, prime architect of the Iraq invasion, prepared a similar paper for America entitled: "Navigating through Turbulence: American and the Middle East in a New Century." It noted: "Maintaining a strong alliance with Israel [has not] prevented every state on Israel's border, except Syria, from accepting America as their principal source of military aid and material." Syria was clearly, as Iraq had been, a Bush administration target no matter what its government did. The reason in both cases had as much, if not more, to do with Israeli policy than American interests.

The United States has said it is not contemplating military action against Syria "at this time". "When the leaders curse war," Bertolt Brecht wrote, "the mobilisation order is already written out." If the time comes, will the regime survive? Syrian democrats have called on Bashar Assad to grant the people democratic freedoms so that they can band together and oppose American designs in Syria. Without their rights, they fear, no one will do anything to support the regime. If Syria is destabilised, Lebanon could revert to its familiar role as battleground for competing regional interests. If Syria becomes a mirror image of "liberated" Iraq, each community will fight for its survival and most of them will resist the occupiers.

Do Americans Even Care? Russia, Israel and Media Omissions
By Alison Weir

As is often the case with AP's coverage of news having to do with Israel, there's a serious omission in its reporting on the Russia-Israel connection even when it involves oil and the United States.

The day after the State of the Union Address, two Interpol fugitives attended the "National Prayer Breakfast" held in Washington DC. The day before that, these fugitives from the law were the guests of honor at an hour-long meeting of the International Relations Committee on Capitol Hill, invited by ranking Democrat Tom Lantos (Calif.)

You would think it would be hot news when wanted men being hunted by European police suddenly pop up in the US particularly on Capitol Hill and at events attended by the US president.

Yet, there was not a single AP story in the US on any of this. [1] Not a single national network television or radio news program even mentioned these facts. In fact, Google and LexisNexis searches four days after these events took place turned up only three newspaper articles on them anywhere in the entire country.

New Books by David Irving
Andrew Pierce, in the London Times

David Irving, the 'Holocaust denier,' is planning a new book to try to restore his reputation — on SS chief Heinrich Himmler.

Irving, speaking in a Mayfair coffee shop a week after the moving ceremonies to mark the 60th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, said: "I am not interested in survivors — survivors lie. People lie when money is involved."

The disgraced historian, who was bankrupted after being branded a Holocaust denier by a judge in a failed libel action, is now planning the biography of Himmler, who was an architect of the "Final Solution."

If an independent investigation points to Syrian complicity [in the recent assassination of ex-Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri of Lebanon], Assad must be held accountable. But President Bush would be wise to suspend judgment and take no rash action. For this atrocity has the look of a false-flag operation to goad a volatile president into an attack on Syria. And, indeed, the cries are coming from the predictable quarters for Bush to let the missiles fly.

Before following this counsel, President Bush should consult with his father about the greatest blunder of Reagan's first term.

Following the assassination of Lebanese President Bashir Gemayel and dozens of others by a bomb planted on the roof of his Phalange Party headquarters, Reagan was persuaded to send in the Marines. A massive truck bombing of their barracks followed, slaughtering 241. After U.S. air and naval strikes, America withdrew in humiliation. Today, the same voices that urged Reagan to go in – and condemn him still for pulling out – are whispering in Bush's ear that war on Syria is the way to win the war on Iraq.

The Christian Case For War

Let me underscore this important point. Christian supporters of the war have fancied themselves hardheaded realists. But Vance's sobering roll call of shame suggests that in trusting President Bush's case for a war with Iraq, his supporters have ignored the hard lessons of U.S. history for a naïve fantasy.

America Would Back Israel Attack on Iran

"Clearly, if I was the leader of Israel and I'd listened to some of the statements by the Iranian ayatollahs that regarded the security of my country, I'd be concerned about Iran having a nuclear weapon as well. And in that Israel is our ally, and in that we've made a very strong commitment to support Israel, we will support Israel if her security is threatened."

Targeting Civilians at Hiroshima and Nagasaki
The U.S. government has killed civilians for well over a century. During the Civil War, General William Tecumseh Sherman waged war on civilians in Atlanta. During the Philippine Insurrection at the turn of 20th century, U.S. forces killed about 200,000 civilians, and even had a policy to shoot anyone more than 10 years old who dared to resist the U.S. occupation of the Philippines. During World War II, the Allies ruthlessly firebombed Dresden and Tokyo and other cities in Germany and Japan, killing hundreds of thousands of innocent noncombatants.

But there was nevertheless something special about Hiroshima and its sequel of mass horror, Nagasaki.

People still defend Harry Truman’s atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on pragmatic grounds. Truman’s defenders say that the bombings saved far more lives than they extinguished. They concede that the bombing was an act of targeting civilians, but insist that it was for the worthy goal of ending the war.

Was Hiroshima Necessary?
Mark Weber

On August 6, 1945, the world dramatically entered the atomic age: without either warning or precedent, an American plane dropped a single nuclear bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. The explosion utterly destroyed more than four square miles of the city center. About about 90,000 people were killed immediately; another 40,000 were injured, many of whom died in protracted agony from radiation sickness. Three days later, a second atomic strike on the city of Nagasaki killed some 37,000 people and injured another 43,000. Together the two bombs eventually killed an estimated 200,000 Japanese civilians.

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“There is no shortage of stories these days suggesting that the North Korean regime is coming apart at the seams. There's even talk of the "A" word - not "assassination", but rather "asylum" or "amnesty." It would free the oppressed Korean people, but it also would free Dear Leader Kim-Jong-il from the justice he has denied to his subjects.

Exlusive Pictorial Series from David Irving:
The Sixtieth Anniversary of the British Fire Raid on Dresden which Killed a Hundred Thousand Civilians in Two Hours

David Irving spoke about the bombing of Dresden and the bestselling book he wrote about it at an IHR meeting in October 2004.

Irving says: From the briefing instructions given to the British air crews prior to the Dresden bombing raid: "The most important reason why we are attacking Dresden is to show the Russians what we are capable of."

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Neo-Nazis March as Dresden Remembers War Dead

Before the march Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder pledged to stop far-right groups exploiting the anniversary and portraying Germany as a war victim while ignoring Nazi atrocities.

Police said at least 3,000 people joined the march in the eastern German city, making it one of the biggest far-right demonstrations since the war. Before the march, police said 5,000 attended a neo-Nazi rally.

Too Late! Schröder Races to Halt Neo-Nazi 'Funeral March' in Dresden

How Germans Remember World War II
Max Hastings

...more than a few Germans were hanged in 1945 for killing prisoners. Such behavior was not uncommon among Allied personnel, yet it seldom, if ever, provoked disciplinary action. New Zealanders massacred medical staff and wounded men at a German aid station in North Africa in June 1942. No one was ever called to account, though the episode is well documented. The British submarine commander "Skip" Miers systematically machine-gunned German survivors after sinking their ships in the Mediterranean in 1941. Any captured Nazi U-boat commander would have been executed in 1945 for such action. Miers, by contrast, received the Victoria Cross and became an admiral.

Simon Wiesenthal Center: Berchtesgaden Not 'A Treat'

Samuels continued, "unfortunately, Berchtesgaden holds a rather more sinister significance than a 'treat', 'ski piste', 'thigh-slapping local dancing' and 'yodelling.'

He added that "it was the seat of evil, where Adolf Hitler, Hermann Goering, Joseph Goebbels and the Nazi leadership took most of the decisions that cost the world 70 million lives."

ADL, Shoah Foundation and Yad Vashem Join To Create Innovative Classroom Project
The Anti-Defamation League (ADL), the Shoah Foundation and Yad Vashem today  announced a partnership that will promote Holocaust studies as well as bring innovative anti-bias education to American classrooms.

The multi-media educational product, now in development, will combine the pedagogical experience of all three organizations and will incorporate the historical expertise of Yad Vashem, the national outreach network of the Anti-Defamation League, and the unmatched visual history resources of the Shoah Foundation.  Designed to create a multi-layered, engaging learning experience for American secondary school students, this collaboration aims to provide instruction on the history of the Holocaust within the context of contemporary issues of cultural diversity, intolerance, and genocide.

Americans Rally for Zundel’s Freedom
IHR Demonstration in Los Angeles Generates Unprecedented Media Attention, Provokes Jewish Counter-Rally

Defenders of free speech rallied in coordinated demonstrations at Canadian diplomatic offices in Los Angeles, Seattle, San Francisco, and other cities on Friday and Saturday, Feb. 3 and 4, 2005, to protest the incarceration for nearly two years in Canada of Ernst Zundel, and to demand his release.

The most important demonstration, organized by the Institute for Historical Review, was at the Canadian consulate in downtown Los Angeles, where about 30 men and women, including Zundel’s wife, Ingrid Rimland, gathered on Friday at noon. They carried signs reading “Shame on Canada!”  and “Free Zundel.” One man held up a large color poster of Zundel. IHR flyers headed “Free Ernst Zundel!: Canada’s Number One 'Thought Criminal’,” were handed out to passersby.

Across the street, about 40 men and women staged a counter-demonstration organized by the Jewish Defense League. Dozens of Los Angeles police stood between the two contending groups to prevent violence. Click here for full report.

Mark Weber on American Dissident Voices (Part II)
On today's program, Mr. Strom interviews leading historian Mark Weber on the uses of Holocaust propaganda as an instrument of Jewish power. Well known figures such as Elie Wiesel are not humanitarians: They use the Holocaust tale strictly to promote Israel and the Jewish/Zionist agenda.

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Is 'Holocaust Remembrance' tied to Jewish supremacist domination of the United States? Is it an honest commemoration of a terrible ordeal, or a tool used to dominate others? Why does 'The Holocaust' apparently become more significant and receive even greater attention as it recedes into the past, contrary to most such events? Today historian Mark Weber, of the Institute for Historical Review, discusses these and other questions with host Kevin Strom.

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