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[PULSE] Breaking the great Australian silence - John Pilger « P U L S E: This time the UN blew a whistle on the so-called “intervention”, which began with the Howard government smearing Aboriginal communities in the Northern Territory with allegations of sex slavery and paedophile rings in “unthinkable numbers”, according to the minister for indigenous affairs.

[New Articles on frontpagemag.com] FrontPage Magazine - Barbarism in Syria: 'Abd Al-Baset Sayda, a Kurdish Syrian columnist who resides in Sweden, wrote on the oppositionist Syrian website Levant News that the Sidnaya prison incident mirrored the situation in Syria as a whole: "The difference between the crime that took place in Sidnaya prison and the crimes that occur in the numerous other prisons, either secret or non-secret, erected by the gang that rules Syria... is that the news of the crimes [in Sidnaya] reached the press after the jailors lost control and could no longer bully people into silence as they had always done.

[The Right Perspective] Democrat Congressman Gave Secrets To Israel: suppresses their culture, langauge and national aspirations. And then there is the matter of an independent Kurdish state and the rights of the Kurdish people to reclaim.

[AntiWar.com] Kurdistan: A Gangster State by Justin Raimondo -- Antiwar.com: Yes, the Kurdish gangster state resembles ours in that our rulers and their cronies shamelessly use the state for their own profit: in both cases, the system is based on bribery and corruption, the only difference being that, .It's no coincidence that RM&R was instrumental in the founding of "Move America Forward," the neocon front group running television ads proclaiming the "news" that WMD have been found in Iraq but the "mainstream media" is suppressing it.

[Jihad Watch] Iran arming Taliban - Jihad Watch: ...and then, Hugh would emerge to convince a traumatized American public that we could determine events in Iraq without boots on the ground when we couldn't with them there, that we could save the Iraqi Kurds with an airdrop here, an airdrop there, that we could prevail upon the Turks to betray their national interests not only by accepting an independent Kurdistan in northern Iraq, but by looking the other way while the Kurds engaged in an aggressive irredentism, incorporating Kurdish portions of Syria and Iran into their nascent state, so that the last great un-incorporated portion of the Kurdish homeland would be southeastern Turkey...but all this would be satisfactory to the Turks because, well, because Hugh says so.

[SWJ Blog] 29 October SWJ Roundup (SWJ Blog): A recent internal report on corruption by the inspector general of the Interior Ministry specifically mentions the bribery of checkpoint guards: The blast on Sunday at the Justice Ministry, surrounded by checkpoints, killed nearly 160 people, .Under Saddam Hussein's Arabization policy, thousands of Kurds were kicked out of Kirkuk, but returned after the US-led invasion in 2003.

[The Thunder Run] The Thunder Run: From the Front: 10/29/2009: Kurds Plan to Boycott Iraqi Vote On Kirkuk - Kurdish lawmakers said they will boycott an Iraqi parliament session on Thursday if members are asked to choose which voter-registration records to use to hold polls in the disputed area of Kirkuk.

[Informed Comment] Informed Comment: Iranian Border Closure Roils Kurdistan; <br> Is ...: Just as the Europeans used the ghetto and the pogrom to make the minorities compliant, just as the 'Israelites' employ almost identical tactics against the Palestinians, just as the Americans have sanctioned Cuber, just as the Myanmar militarists have suppressed their people, so will the games of empire and politics continue in efforts to oppress and suppress the otherwise unimpressed masses. This is something that the Vaticanians have employed for millennia now, ensuring that their religious adherents remain fruitful and exponentiate, causing overpopulations in various countries that are unable to sustain the populace at a comparable economic rate, forcing them into slum conditions and destitution while expecting bleeding heart organisations like the Christian Childrens' Fund to have the sympathetic send their 60 cents a day to some poor waifs for their maintenance, to be able to grow up only to perpetuate the cycle.

[AriRusila´s BalkanPerspective] AriRusila´s BalkanPerspective » Blog Archive » Afghanistan - to be ...: As much as one-third of Afghanistan’s GPD comes from growing poppy and illicit drugs including opium, morphine and heroin as well as hashish production. Proposed development project however can be difficult to implement politically as Ahmed Wali Karzai - The brother of Afghan President Hamid Karzai - is a suspected player in Afghanistan’s opium trade and has been paid by the CIA over the past eight years for services.

[blogfrommiddleeast.com] Iraq: Kurds Are Threat to Minorities, Rights Group Says: Members of the minority groups are being singled out by extremist insurgent groups and also are caught in the middle of a struggle for land and resources between Arabs and the central government on one hand and leaders of Iraq’s semiautonomous Kurdish region on the other, said the report, which was released in the Kurdish region’s capital, Erbil, and focused on Christians, Shabaks and Yazidis in Nineveh Province.

[Jontxe's Blog] Breaking the Australian Silence by John Pilger ”” Antiwar.com ...: The innocent people killed in the Twin Towers were worthy victims. The innocent people killed by Nato bombers in Afghanistan are unworthy victims.

[Jihad Watch] Fitzgerald: Sunnis, Shi'a, Kurds, and Infidels - Jihad Watch: When the Shi'a use the word "Iraq" they mean an "Iraq" where the Shi'a will rule, their power obtained through the ballot box, because they constitute between 60-65% of the population. Their notion of "democracy" is close to winner-take-all, and the American attempt to make them see things differently will run up against the resentments that have built up, not in the last few years, not in the last ten years, not in the last 30 years, not since 1932, when the British left, but over centuries in which the Sunnis have oppressed Shi'a, sometimes less and sometimes more (just as in India, the Hindus were oppressed by Muslim masters, sometimes less -- as under Akbar, an sometimes more, as under Aurangzeb).

[Small Wars Council] 29 October SWJ Roundup - Small Wars Council: A recent internal report on corruption by the inspector general of the Interior Ministry specifically mentions the bribery of checkpoint guards: The blast on Sunday at the Justice Ministry, surrounded by checkpoints, killed nearly 160 .Kurds Plan to Boycott Iraqi Vote On Kirkuk - Gina Chon, Wall Street Journal.

[Dr Nasir Khan] Pilger: Breaking The Great Australian Silence « Dr Nasir Khan: Kurds who rose against Saddam Hussein were worthy. But Kurds who rise against the Turkish regime are unworthy.

[At War] John Burns Q and A: Ending the War in Iraq - At War Blog - NYTimes.com: The New York Times’s award-winning team of correspondents, photographers, videographers and local interpreters provide insight ”” and try to answer your questions ”” about the combatants shaping events along political, military and religious faultlines, and the civilians caught in the middle.

[Global Guerrillas] Global Guerrillas: SIZING THE IRAQI INSURGENCY: Good question: In Iraq military service for 3 years is compulsory and includes training in all the standard Iraqi military weapons including assault rifles, rocket launchers, machineguns and mortars. In addition they get training in tactics, which has included - according to the manuals anyway - urban warfare.

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