Gabriele Zamparini, The Cat’s Dream
May 2, 2008
Getcha popcorn ready! The Green Zone Puppet Theatre in Baghdad is putting on a new show, The Trial of Tareq Aziz.
The charges against the former deputy premier of Iraq – when Iraq was still free and a country – are related to the execution of 42 Baghdad merchants in 1992. At the time Iraq was under the genocidal embargo imposed by the United States and its British vassal through the United Nations.
Democrats Okay Funds for Covert Ops
By ANDREW COCKBURN
Six weeks ago, President Bush signed a secret finding authorizing a covert offensive against the Iranian regime that, according to those familiar with its contents, “unprecedented in its scope.”
Bush’s secret directive covers actions across a huge geographic area – from Lebanon to Afghanistan – but is also far more sweeping in the type of actions permitted under its guidelines – up to and including the assassination of targeted officials. This widened scope clears the way, for example, for full support for the military arm of Mujahedin-e Khalq, the cultish Iranian opposition group, despite its enduring position on the State Department’s list of terrorist groups.
Similarly, covert funds can now flow without restriction to Jundullah, or “army of god,” the militant Sunni group in Iranian Baluchistan – just across the Afghan border — whose leader was featured not long ago on Dan Rather Reports cutting his brother in law’s throat.
Other elements that will benefit from U.S. largesse and advice include Iranian Kurdish nationalists, as well the Ahwazi arabs of south west Iran. Further afield, operations against Iran’s Hezbollah allies in Lebanon will be stepped up, along with efforts to destabilize the Syrian regime.
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My comment : This is why I do not believe the israeli “peace” ouvertures are genuine
As we inched through the airport security line, I seemed to be the only one grinding my teeth. Would anyone have defended me if I’d spoken up to the shirts?
By Garrison Keillor
April 30, 2008 | A cabdriver picked me up outside the Waffle House in Little Rock, Ark., last Sunday and said so sweetly, “I hope you enjoyed your breakfast” — elongating the “joy” slightly and slurring the k in “breakfast” — and I said yes, but honestly, I don’t really associate breakfast with enjoyment. It’s chow. It’s a standardized meal meant to fortify you for the day’s maneuvers and you square your shoulders and sit down and eat it. This particular breakfast was grits, eggs over easy, country ham, and biscuits with gravy, a meal that will fuel you right through 5 o’clock, but enjoyment?
In my parents’ home we sat down to our Cheerios and toast and ate it and conversed in small declarative sentence fragments and jumped up and out the door, and I still do, and that’s why I don’t intend to retire: What do you do after breakfast? Do you have to hang out for hours with other geezers and geezerettes and reminisce about the days when it was fun to fly from place to place — remember? When you walked through the airport and out the door onto the tarmac and up the stairs to the plane, just like Ingrid Bergman in “Casablanca”? I don’t care to.
Israel’s lockdown on Gaza has virtually stopped the flow of vital supplies, the economy is in tatters and even black market goods are becoming hard to find.
Fuel supplies are in danger of drying up completely forcing Palestinians to resort to desperate measures.
David Chater reports.
Watch it while it lasts and watch the following ones
To celebrate 60 years of 
independence, Israel is
planning a large-scale
birthday bash with events
taking place in many
different countries around the
world.
In Jerusalem, a 3-day
conference, under the title
“Facing Tomorrow” is
planned from May 13 – 15,
to which many world leaders,
such as U.S. President Bush,
and French President Sarkozy,
and celebrities such as Barbara Streisand and Steven Spielberg
have been invited and plan to attend.
It is wrong to celebrate and we need to do something BIG
to make the world, and those gathered to celebrate Israel,
see and hear us. We* have this idea and we need your
help to make it happen! On May 15, we will launch 21,915
(365 days x 60 years) black balloons over the skies of
Jerusalem. We aim to turn the skies over Israel’s
celebrations black to let people know that there is
another side of the story, a side of heartache, suffering and
dispossession. At the same time, each balloon will carry a
letter from a Palestinian child expressing his/her hope
for the future, to let the world know that we believe in
and dream of justice.
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