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The U.S. Seeks The Proliferation Of Nuclear Weapons In The Middle East

January 12, 2015 By Matt Peppe 2 Comments

When Condoleeza Rice argued for a U.S. invasion of Iraq by claiming that “we don’t want the smoking gun to be a mushroom cloud,” she touched on a real threat of nuclear war that could wipe out entire countries and destroy civilization as we know it.

Rice and the rest of the Bush administration knew that Iraq didn’t have nuclear weapons and never presented such a threat. They also knew that there was one country in the Middle East who did: a nuclear-armed rogue nation who has proven throughout its history to be possibly the most lawless and bellicose country of modern times.

That country, of course, is Israel.

Filed Under: Foreign Affairs, National News Tagged With: Africa, Ali Abunimah, American imperialism, Angola, apartheid, Benjamin Netanyahu, Canada, chemical weapons, Condoleeza Rice, Cuba, Electronic Intifada, endless war, Fidel Castro, George W. Bush, history, imperialism, India, International Atomic Energy Agency, Iraq, Israel, Lebanon, MENA, Micronesia, Middle East, Netanyahu, Non-Proliferation Treaty, nuclear, Pakistan, Robert Wood, Ronald Reagan, Saddam Hussein, Sasha Polakow-Suransky, South Africa, South African Defense Force, South Sudan, Soviet Union, Sudan, The Guardian, United Nations, uranium, US imperialism, USS Liberty, War, weapons of mass destruction, WMD, yellow cake Uranium, yellowcake uranium

Refugee Rights in the Mother of the World: Sudanese Refugees and Civil Rights in Egypt

December 26, 2014 By Matt Hanson 1 Comment

With respect to international attention directed towards Darfur, the Huffington Post reported, “Darfur: The Genocide the World Got Tired of” in August of this year. One day prior to publishing the article, tens of thousands of displaced civilians, largely women and children, were attacked by military and security forces of the dominant national regime of Sudan, the National Congress Party (NCP) led by President Omar Al-Bashir. Those who were not arrested, and threatened with torture were beaten, and robbed. The humiliation is enough to writhe the stomachs of any thinking person, all the more so the immediate relations of the survived forced to live abroad, without the means to help their people. Truly, the appalling neglect of Darfur in diaspora, especially in Egypt, where so many have fled since the beginning of the conflict, is part of the genocide, albeit in a slower, while equally torturous form.

Imagine 140 heavily armed vehicles rolling into El Salam camp, where on August 5th countless people were unprotected by the UN/African Union (UNAMID), which has vowed, principally, to protect civilians. Ironically, the UNAMID headquarters was only a few miles away from El Salam, in Nyala, the capital of Darfur. UNAMID has often been restricted from accessing scenes where atrocities have been committed by the state, adding to terrifying lack of security for so many tens of thousands of innocents. Silence, and impunity is, in such contexts, a prerequisite to the stability of UN, and NGO missions. While the UN looks to UNAMID for field knowledge, the indigenous Radio Dabanga is often the only reliable, and consistent source of awareness for outsiders.

Filed Under: Civil Liberties, Foreign Affairs Tagged With: Africa, Cairo, Darfur, Egypt, El-Wafaa Refugee Culture Center, foreign aid, Geneva Convention, genocide, Huffington Post, Human Rights, Human Rights Watch, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, MENA, Middle East, Mohammed Hussein Bahnas, Nick Turse, Omar Al-Bashir, Palestine, refugees, Sudan, Syria, Wikileaks

Israel’s Worst Fear Is A Political Settlement

December 4, 2014 By Matt Peppe 1 Comment

The recent murder of four Jewish worshipers in a Jerusalem synagogue has drawn intense media coverage, with the situation being described as “tense” and the country as “shaken.” U.S. officials decry the violence and call for both sides to “seek a path forwards toward peace.”

Yet the Israeli government’s reaction and history demonstrate that Israel is not concerned with creating peace, but rather maintaining the status quo. If the government cared about stopping violence and protecting its population, it would immediately end the occupation and accept a political settlement that guarantees everyone in Greater Israel their right to self-determination. Instead they are exploiting the violence to tighten their control of the West Bank and Gaza and crush Palestinian aspirations for an end to the 66-year dispossession and conquest.

The grisly murder of four worshipers at a Jerusalem synagogue was carried out last month by two Palestinian cousins, who did not belong to any political or resistance factions. But Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was quick to cast blame on all Palestinian political parties who would be a partner in a peaceful settlement to the conflict.

Filed Under: Civil Liberties, Foreign Affairs, Media & Culture Tagged With: Abu Mazen, Al Aqsa Mosque, and the Palestinians, Beirut, Benjamin Netanyahu, Danny Rubenstein, East Jerusalem, Electronic Intifada, Fatah, Fateful Triangle: The United States, Gaza, Hamas, Human Rights, Israel, Jerusalem, Lebanon, Mahmoud Abbas, mainstream media, media, Noam Chomsky, Palestine, Palestinian Authority, PLO, propaganda, Rania Khalek, River Jordan, Temple Mount, terrorism, The Washington Post, War, Yehoshua Porath, Yehuda Glick

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