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Sunday, January 4th, 2009 الأحد ، كانون الثاني / يناير 4th ، 2009

Listing countries where elections have been mixed with violence and repression, Human Rights Watch said western powers, especially the United States and European Union, have accepted elections in countries that don’t respect human rights, for political reasons and benefit. قائمة البلدان التي تكون فيها الانتخابات كانت مختلطة مع العنف والقمع ، ومرصد حقوق الإنسان وقالت القوى الغربية وخاصة الولايات المتحدة والاتحاد الاوروبي ، وافقت على إجراء الانتخابات في البلدان التي لا تحترم حقوق الإنسان ، لأسباب سياسية والاستفادة منها.

The group said the west has continued to prop up fragile democracies, or those that purport to be, such as Kenya, where waves of killings have followed a disputed election, and Pakistan, where elections are coming up after the assassination of opposition leader Benazir Bhutto. وقالت الجماعة الغرب استمر لدعم الديمقراطيات الهشة ، أو تلك التي ترمي إلى أن تكون ، مثل كينيا ، حيث موجات من أعمال القتل التي أعقبت انتخابات متنازع عليها ، وباكستان ، حيث تكون الانتخابات المقبلة بعد اغتيال زعيمة المعارضة بينظير بوتو . The group also said that countries including Bahrain, Jordan, Nigeria, Russia and Thailand have taken on the belief that elections are equal to democracy. المجموعة ايضا ان دولة من بينها البحرين والأردن ونيجيريا وروسيا وتايلاند قد اتخذت على الاعتقاد بأن الانتخابات على قدم المساواة والديمقراطية. In its annual report, the group said that Washington, Brussels and European capitals “play along” with the notion that a country can have democracy simply by holding elections. في تقريرها السنوي ، وقالت الجماعة ان واشنطن وبروكسل والعواصم الاوروبية "تلعب على طول" مع فكرة أن أي بلد يمكن أن يكون للديمقراطية لمجرد اجراء انتخابات. “It’s now easy for autocrats to get away with mounting a sham democracy,” said Kenneth Roth, the group’s executive director. "من السهل الان لالمستبدين الابتعاد مع تصاعد خدعة الديموقراطية" وقال كينيث روث ، المدير التنفيذي للمجموعة. “That’s because too many Western governments insist on elections and leave it at that.” “They don’t press governments on the key human rights issues that make democracy function - a free press, peaceful assembly, and a functioning civil society that can really challenge power,” Roth said. واضاف "هذا لأن حكومات غربية كثيرة تصر على الانتخابات ونترك الامر عند هذا الحد." وقال "انهم لا الصحافة الحكومات على قضايا حقوق الإنسان الأساسية التي تجعل الديمقراطية وظيفة -- حرية الصحافة ، والتجمع السلمي ، ووجود مجتمع مدني أن ويمكن في الحقيقة تحد السلطة "وقال روث. The report said grave human rights abuses have fueled humanitarian crises in Somalia and the Ogaden region in Eastern Ethiopia, where millions of people are suffering. وقال التقرير ان انتهاكات جسيمة لحقوق الإنسان سببا في الأزمات الإنسانية في الصومال ومنطقة أوغادين في شرق اثيوبيا حيث يعاني الملايين.

The report documented manipulations of elections. تقرير موثق من التلاعب في الانتخابات. It said Chad, Kazakhstan, Nigeria and Uzbekistan committed “outright fraud,” while governments controlled the electoral machinery in Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Malaysia, Thailand and Zimbabwe. وقالت تشاد ، وكازاخستان ، ونيجيريا وأوزبكستان ملتزمة "الغش صريح" ، في حين تسيطر الحكومات الآلية الانتخابية في أذربيجان ، والبحرين ، وماليزيا وتايلاند والهند. Belarus, Egypt, Cuba, Iran and Israel in the occupied Palestinian territories blocked or discouraged opposition candidates. روسيا البيضاء ومصر وكوبا وإيران وإسرائيل في الأراضي الفلسطينية المحتلة أو تثبيط منعت مرشحي المعارضة. Russia and Tunisia were cited for stifling the media, and China and Pakistan undermined the rule of law, the report said. روسيا وتونس ، وذكرت لخنق وسائل الإعلام ، والصين وباكستان وتقويض سيادة القانون ، حسبما ذكر التقرير. “Many of these tactics are illegal under domestic and international law, but rarely do outside powers call governments to account for it,” the report said. "العديد من هذه الأساليب غير قانونية بموجب القانون المحلي والقانون الدولي ، ولكنها نادرا ما تفعل القوى الخارجية دعوة الحكومات لمراعاة ذلك" كما ذكر التقرير.

“Established democracies are often unwilling to do so for fear of losing access to resources or commercial opportunities, or because of the perceived requirements of fighting terrorism.” “It seems Washington and European governments will accept even the most dubious election so long as the ‘victor’ is a strategic or commercial ally,” it said. "الديمقراطيات المستقرة في كثير من الأحيان غير راغبة في القيام بذلك خوفا من فقدان فرص الحصول على الموارد أو الفرص التجارية ، أو بسبب ما تراه من شروط مكافحة الارهاب" ، وقال "يبدو ان واشنطن والحكومات الأوروبية ستقبل حتى أكثر الانتخابات مشكوك فيها ما دامت' المنتصر 'هو حليف استراتيجي أو تجاري". In Kenya, rival political sides halted talks over disputed elections and vicious ethnic clashes after the killing of an opposition legislator, but said they would keep talking while would keep killing each other. في كينيا ، والأطراف السياسية المتناحرة توقفت المحادثات بشأن الانتخابات المتنازع عليها وشراسة الاشتباكات العرقية بعد مقتل احد اعضاء المعارضة فى البرلمان ، لكنه قال انهم سيواصلون الحديث في حين ستحتفظ قتل بعضهم بعضا.

The country remained tense and volatile and violence continued to reign while political parties have battled for more than a month over who won the presidential elections. البلاد لا تزال متوترة وغير مستقرة ، ويسود العنف واصلت الأحزاب السياسية في الوقت الذي تقاتل منذ اكثر من شهر أكثر من الذي فاز في الانتخابات الرئاسية. Nasser Ega-Musa, a United Nations spokesman, said both parties had “a general desire to continue the negotiations and a willingness not to be distracted and derailed,” by the shooting death of David Too. محول الجرافيك المحسن ناصر موسى ، وهو متحدث باسم الامم المتحدة ، وقال كل من الطرفين لديها "رغبة عامة لمواصلة المفاوضات ، ورغبة في عدم الانشغال وخرج عن مساره" واطلاق النار من جانب وفاة ديفيد جدا.

The human rights report also said China has clamped down on the media as it is preparing to hold the Summer Olympics Games in August. حقوق الإنسان في التقرير ايضا ان الصين حملة على وسائل الإعلام لأنها تستعد لعقد دورة الالعاب الاوليمبية الصيفية فى اغسطس. Foreign journalists who were given the right to interview Chinese have been harassed, detained or intimidated to prevent them from doing reports on the country’s poor human rights records. الصحفيين الأجانب الذين منحوا حق مقابلة الصينية قد تعرضوا للمضايقة وتخويف المحتجزين أو لمنعهم من القيام التقارير على الفقراء في البلاد في مجال حقوق الإنسان. It said the construction boom to prepare for the Olympic Games has involved an estimated one million construction workers under harsh and unsafe labour conditions, but that trade with China is more important to the US and the EU than human rights. وقال ان النهضة العمرانية للاعداد لدورة الالعاب الاولمبية وقد شمل ما يقدر بمليون عامل بناء قاسية وغير آمنة في ظل ظروف العمل ، ولكن التجارة مع الصين هو أكثر أهمية من الولايات المتحدة والاتحاد الأوروبي من حقوق الإنسان.

Have Your Say: EU and US said to favour elections over human rights قل كلمتك : الاتحاد الاوروبي والولايات المتحدة ان اكثر من الانتخابات لصالح حقوق الإنسان
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Saturday, January 3rd, 2009 السبت ، كانون الثاني / يناير 3rd ، 2009

Tens of thousands of protesters are due to voice their anger at the Gaza bombing blitz in a series of rallies across the UK. عشرات الآلاف من المتظاهرين ومن المقرر للتعبير عن غضبهم في حملة القصف في قطاع غزة سلسلة من المظاهرات فى جميع انحاء المملكة المتحدة.

Up to 20,000 people - including the singer Annie Lennox and Respect MP George Galloway - are expected to march along the Embankment in London before walking to Trafalgar Square to call for an immediate end to the Israeli attacks. يصل الى 20000 شخصا -- بينهم المغنية آني لينوكس واحترام النائب جورج غالاوي -- من المتوقع أن طول مسيرة في لندن قبل الحاجز سيرا على الاقدام الى ساحة الطرف الاغر للدعوة الى وقف فوري للهجمات الاسرائيلية.

The demonstration is the biggest of at least 18 organised across the country. المظاهرة هي أكبر لا يقل عن 18 ونظمت في أنحاء البلاد.

Former model Bianca Jagger and singer Lennox have backed the protests, calling on American President-elect Barack Obama to speak up against the bombardment. عارضة أزياء سابقة ومغنية بيانكا جاجر ينوكس دعمت الاحتجاجات ، ودعا الرئيس الاميركي المنتخب باراك أوباما على الوقوف في وجه القصف.

Other rallies will take place at Blytheswood Square, Glasgow; Bedford Square, Exeter; Princes Street, Edinburgh; Bristol city centre; Bold Street, Liverpool; Norwich Forum; Portsmouth’s Guildhall Square; Queen Victoria Square, Hull; Tunbridge Wells town centre; Leeds Art Gallery; All Saints Park, Manchester; Grey’s Monument, Newcastle; Castle Square, Swansea; St Sampson’s Square, York; Morrisons, Caernarfon; Bradford city centre; and Sheffield town hall. مسيرات أخرى ستعقد في ساحة Blytheswood ، غلاسكو ؛ بدفورد ساحة اكستر ؛ شارع الأمراء ، أدنبره ، بريستول وكل وسط المدينة ؛ جريئة ستريت ، ليفربول ؛ نوريتش منتدى بورتسموث جولدهول ساحة ؛ ساحة الملكة فيكتوريا ، هال ؛ تانبردج يلز وسط المدينة ؛ ليدز معرض الفنون ؛ جميع القديسين بارك ، ومانشستر ؛ غراي 'sنصب نيوكاسل ؛ ساحة القلعة ، أبرتاو ؛ ساحة القديس سامبسون ، يورك ؛ Morrisons ، كايرنارفون ؛ برادفورد وسط المدينة ، وشيفيلد في دار البلدية.

Former mayor of London Ken Livingstone and comedian Alexei Sayle also added their support to the campaign to end the violence. الرئيس السابق لبلدية لندن كين ليفينجستون ، والكوميدي وأضاف ألكسي Sayle دعمها لحملة لانهاء العنف.

Speaking at a press conference in central London, Ms Jagger said: “I would like to make an appeal to President-elect Obama to speak up. وفى حديثه فى مؤتمر صحفى فى وسط لندن ، والسيدة جاغر وقال : "أود توجيه نداء إلى الرئيس المنتخب أوباما في الكلام.

“People throughout the world were hopeful when he was elected and we must appeal to him to ask for the immediate cessation of the bombardment of the civilian population in the Gaza Strip.” وقال "الناس في جميع أنحاء العالم تأمل عندما انتخب ويجب علينا أن أناشده لطلب الوقف الفوري لقصف السكان المدنيين في قطاع غزة".

Lennox spoke of her shock at watching scenes of the bombing on television. لينوكس وتحدث صدمتها في مشاهدة مشاهد القصف على التلفزيون. She said: “A few days after Christmas I came downstairs, put the television on, and saw smoke pyres coming from buildings and I was shocked to the core because I was thinking as a mother and as a human being.” وقالت : "بعد أيام قليلة من عيد الميلاد جئت الطابق السفلي ، وطرح على التلفزيون ، وشاهدوا دخانا pyres من المباني وصدمت الأساسية لأنني كنت أفكر باعتبارها الأم وبوصفه كائنا بشريا".

Comedian Sayle said he was speaking out because it was important for Jewish voices to be heard. وقال الممثل الكوميدي Sayle كان يتحدث بها لأنه من المهم لاسرائيل لإسماع أصواتهم. He said: “I want to feel proud of Israel, I want to be proud of my people but I am ashamed.” وقال : "أريد أن أشعر بالفخر لإسرائيل ، أريد أن أكون فخورا شعبي لكنني أشعر بالخجل".

Have Your Say: Rallies to protest Gaza bombing قل كلمتك : تظاهرات للاحتجاج على قصف غزة
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Saturday, January 3rd, 2009 السبت ، كانون الثاني / يناير 3rd ، 2009

Have Your Say: Guantanamo intake unacceptable, says Malcolm Turnbull قل كلمتك : جوانتانامو المدخول غير مقبول ، ويقول مالكوم تيرنبول
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Friday, January 2nd, 2009 الجمعة ، كانون الثاني / يناير 2nd ، 2009

By Francis A. Boyle فرانسيس بويل أ.

The United Nations General Assembly must immediately establish an International Criminal Tribunal for Israel (ICTI) as a “subsidiary organ” under UN Charter Article 22. الجمعية العامة للأمم المتحدة على الفور ويجب إنشاء المحكمة الجنائية الدولية لاسرائيل (ICTI) بأنه "جهاز فرعي" بموجب المادة 22 من ميثاق الامم المتحدة. The ICTI would be organized along the lines of the International Criminal Tribunal for Yugoslavia (ICTY), which was established by the Security Council. فإن ICTI سوف تنظم على غرار المحكمة الجنائية الدولية ليوغوسلافيا السابقة ، التي أنشئت من قبل مجلس الأمن.

The purpose of the ICTI would be to investigate and prosecute Israeli war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide against the Peoples of Lebanon and Palestine–just as the ICTY did for the victims of international crimes committed by Serbia and the Milosevic Regime throughout the Balkans. الغرض من ICTI سيكون التحقيق والمقاضاة في جرائم الحرب الإسرائيلية ، والجرائم ضد الإنسانية والإبادة الجماعية ضد شعوب لبنان وفلسطين وبين المحكمة الدولية ليوغوسلافيا السابقة تماما كما فعل بالنسبة لضحايا الجرائم الدولية المرتكبة من قبل صربيا ونظام ميلوسيفيتش في جميع أنحاء منطقة البلقان.

The establishment of ICTI would provide some small degree of justice to the victims of Israeli war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide against the Peoples of Lebanon and Palestine–just as the ICTY has done in the Balkans. إنشاء ICTI الصغيرة من شأنه أن يوفر بعض درجة من العدالة لضحايا جرائم الحرب الإسرائيلية ، والجرائم ضد الإنسانية والإبادة الجماعية ضد شعوب لبنان وفلسطين تماما كما فعلت المحكمة الجنائية الدولية ليوغوسلافيا في البلقان. Furthermore, the establishment of ICTI by the UN General Assembly would serve as a deterrent effect upon Israeli leaders such as Prime Minister Olmert, Foreign Minister Livni, Defense Minister Barak , Chief of Staff Ashkenazi and Israel’s other top generals that they will be prosecuted for their further infliction of international crimes upon the Lebanese and the Palestinians. وعلاوة على ذلك ، إنشاء ICTI من قبل الجمعية العامة للامم المتحدة من شأنه أن يشكل رادعا لدى القادة الاسرائيليين مثل رئيس الوزراء أولمرت ، وزيرة الخارجية ليفني ووزير الدفاع باراك ورئيس الاركان الاسرائيلي اشكنازي وغيره من كبار الجنرالات بانه ستتم محاكمة لإلحاق المزيد من جرائم دولية على اللبنانيين والفلسطينيين.

Without such a deterrent, Israel might be emboldened to attack Syria with the full support of the Likhudnik Bush Jr. Neoconservatives, who have always viewed Syria as “low-hanging fruit” ready to be taken out by means of their joint aggression. بدون مثل هذا الردع ، قد شجع اسرائيل على مهاجمة سوريا مع الدعم الكامل من جانب المحافظين الجدد Likhudnik بوش الابن ، الذي ينظر إليه دائما على سوريا بانها "ثمرة المنخفضة شنقا" على استعداد لاتخاذها من قبل وسائل المشتركة العدوان. If Israel attacks Syria as it did when it invaded Lebanon in 1982, Iran has vowed to come to Syria’s defense. اذا هاجمت اسرائيل سوريا كما فعلت عندما غزت لبنان في عام 1982 ، وتعهدت ايران ان تأتي الى سوريا الدفاعية.

And of course Israel and the Bush Jr administration very much want a pretext to attack Iran. وطبعا اسرائيل وادارة بوش الابن كثيرا يريدون ذريعة لمهاجمة ايران. This scenario could readily degenerate into World War III هذا السيناريو يمكن بسهولة أن تتدهور إلى حرب عالمية ثالثة

For the UN General Assembly to establish ICTI could stop the further development of this momentum towards a regional if not global catastrophe. للجمعية العامة للامم المتحدة لإقامة ICTI قد تتوقف عن المضي في تطوير هذا الزخم من أجل التوصل إلى الإقليمية لم تكن كارثة عالمية.

Have Your Say: An Israeli War Crimes Tribunal قل كلمتك : اسرائيلي ان محكمة جرائم الحرب
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Friday, January 2nd, 2009 الجمعة ، كانون الثاني / يناير 2nd ، 2009

Strong voices for peace have left us this year, people who used their art for social change, often at a high personal price. أصوات قوية من أجل السلام قد ترك لنا هذا العام ، والناس الذين اعتادوا على الفن من أجل التغيير الاجتماعي ، وغالبا ما تكون مرتفعة الثمن الشخصي.

Odetta was a legendary folk singer of the civil rights movement. Odetta كان المغني الأسطورة الشعبية من حركة الحقوق المدنية.

Considered the “Queen of American Folk Music,” Odetta introduced audiences worldwide to African-American folk, blues and gospel music. نظرت "ملكة الموسيقى الشعبية الأمريكية ،" Odetta عرض على الجمهور في جميع أنحاء العالم من أصل إفريقي الشعبية ، موسيقى البلوز والإنجيل.

New Year’s Eve was her birthday. ليلة رأس السنة هو عيد ميلادها. She would have been 78. وقالت إنها كانت 78. When Rosa Parks was asked which songs meant the most to her, she replied, “All of the songs Odetta sings.” وعندما سئل روزا باركس التي تعني أكثر الأغاني لها ، فأجابت : "كل من الأغاني Odetta تغني".

Odetta sang “Oh, Freedom,” an African-American slave spiritual, at the 1963 March on Washington. Odetta غنت "يا حرية" ، وهو من أصل إفريقي الرقيق الروحية ، في آذار / مارس 1963 على واشنطن. Early on, she attracted the interest of Harry Belafonte and Pete Seeger. في وقت مبكر ، وأنها جذبت اهتمام هاري بيلافونت وبيت Seeger. Her voice, her talent with the guitar and the natural style in which she maintained her hair—later to be dubbed “afro”—set her as an icon of the civil rights movement. صوتها ، قالت إن الموهبة مع الغيتار والنمط الطبيعي الذي حافظ شعرها - في وقت لاحق من أن يطلق عليها اسم "الأفرو" مجموعة لها باعتباره رمزا للحركة الحقوق المدنية. She told an interviewer in 2003: وصرحت في مقابلة في عام 2003 :

“When I first started, I would sing these prison songs … it got to a point where doing the music actually healed me … it was music from those who went before. وقال "عندما بدأت لأول مرة ، أود أن يغني هذه الأغاني السجن... وصلت الى نقطة تكون فيها الموسيقى ويقومون فعلا تلتئم لي... كانت الموسيقى من الذين ذهبوا من قبل. The music gave them strength, and the music gave us strength to carry it on.” الموسيقى أعطاهم قوة ، والموسيقى أعطانا القوة لتنفيذه ".

She inspired Bernice Johnson Reagon, an early member of the SNCC (the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee) Freedom Singers. انها مستوحاة برنيس جونسون Reagon ، في وقت مبكر من الأعضاء SNCC (الطلاب سلمي لجنة التنسيق) حرية المغنون. She had been suspended from college in Albany, Ga., for civil rights protests, then went on to Spelman College, where historian Howard Zinn and his wife, Roz, took her to folk music concerts by Joan Baez and Odetta. وكانت قد علقت من الكليات في ألباني ، Ga. ، من أجل الحقوق المدنية الاحتجاجات ، ثم إلى كلية Spelman ، حيث مؤرخ Zinn هوارد وزوجته روز ، وأخذها إلى جانب حفلات الموسيقى الشعبية وجوان بايز Odetta.

Reagon recalls the first time she heard Odetta: وتشير Reagon أول مرة سمعت Odetta :

“In Georgia, where I grew up in the country, the roads were built by chain-gang labor. "في جورجيا ، حيث نشأت في البلد ، والطرق التي بناها سلسلة من عصابات العمالة. I knew the sound, because as the men worked, they sang. كنت اعرف الصوت ، لأن الرجال يعملون ، وهم ينشدون. But I never thought I’d hear it coming from a concert stage … when she sang prison songs or work songs. ولكن لم اعتقد ابدا ان كنت استماع اليه قادما من حفل موسيقي المرحلة... السجن عندما غنت أغنية أو أغنيات العمل. … She was just what I needed to begin my life as a freedom fighter and as a Freedom Singer.” ... وكانت للتو ما يلزم لبدء حياتي كمناضل في سبيل الحرية ، وحرية الفنان ".

Reagon later went on to found the women’sa cappella group Sweet Honey in the Rock. Reagon في وقت لاحق وتابع لتأسيس مجموعة كابيلا women'sa العسل الحلو في الصخرة.

Another great liberation singer we lost this year was Miriam Makeba of South Africa, known as “Mama Afrika.” She sang against apartheid, then went into exile for decades. آخر تحرير المطرب الكبير فقدنا هذا العام وميريام ماكيبا في جنوب أفريقيا ، المعروفة باسم "ماما أفريكا" ، مشيرة الى غنى ضد الفصل العنصري ، ومن ثم توجه الى المنفى لعدة عقود. Belafonte helped her, too, gain recognition. Belafonte ساعدها أيضا ، الحصول على الاعتراف.

In 1968, she married SNCC-leader-turned-Black-Panther Stokely Carmichael, for which she was blacklisted in the US until the 1980s. في عام 1968 ، تزوجت SNCC الزعيم تحول النمر الأسود Stokely كارمايكل ، والتي كانت على القائمة السوداء في الولايات المتحدة حتى 1980s.

Soon after her death, I asked the Nobel peace laureate Desmond Tutu about Makeba. بعد فترة وجيزة من وفاتها ، وسألت على جائزة نوبل للسلام ديزموند توتو عن Makeba. The South African archbishop smiled: “Her singing, her voice, helped many people to know a little bit more about the vicious apartheid system. اسقف جنوب افريقيا وابتسم : "وقالت والغناء ، وصوتها ، وساعدت الكثير من الناس لمعرفة ما قالته عن النظام الوحشي للفصل العنصري. She was just a tremendous human being, a great loss to us and to Africa.” إنها مجرد كائن بشري هائل ، خسارة كبيرة لنا وافريقيا ".

Also blacklisted in 1968 was singer and actress Eartha Kitt, who died at age 81 on Christmas Day. القائمة السوداء في عام 1968 كما كان المغني والممثلة وأرثا كث ، الذي توفي عن 81 عاما في يوم عيد الميلاد. In 1968, she was invited to a celebrity luncheon at the White House by Lady Bird Johnson, who asked Kitt about urban poverty. في عام 1968 ، كانت دعوة من المشاهير غداء في البيت الابيض من قبل ليدي بيرد جونسون ، الذي طلب كيت عن الفقر في المناطق الحضرية. Kitt replied: “You send the best of this country off to be shot and maimed. كيت : "أنت ترسل أفضل لهذا البلد الى اطلاق النار عليهم وتشويههم. They rebel in the street. انهم من المتمردين في الشارع. They don’t want to go to school because they’re going to be snatched off from their mothers to be shot in Vietnam.” The first lady reportedly burst into tears. انهم لا يريدون الذهاب الى المدرسة لانهم سيكون انتزع عن أمهاتهم لاطلاق النار في فيتنام. "السيدة الاولى ورد في البكاء. For years afterward, Kitt performed almost exclusively overseas and was investigated by the FBI and CIA. لسنوات بعد ذلك ، يقوم كيت بشكل حصري تقريبا في الخارج ، والتي حقق فيها مكتب التحقيقات الاتحادي ووكالة المخابرات المركزية.

Born out of the Deep South and South Africa, these women’s voices sang out, from concert halls to protest rallies. ولد من أعماق جنوب وجنوب افريقيا ، هذه أصوات النساء غنى ، وقاعات الحفلات الموسيقية من مظاهرات الاحتجاج. Another voice we just lost sang out from the written page. صوت اخر فقدت غنى لنا من الصفحات المكتوبة. Harold Pinter died on Christmas Eve in London. هارولد بنتر وتوفي ليلة عيد الميلاد في لندن. Though too sick to travel to Stockholm to collect his Nobel Prize for Literature in 2005, he sent a video address: “The majority of politicians … are interested not in truth but in power. وإن كان مريضا جدا من السفر الى ستوكهولم لجمع له جائزة نوبل للآداب في عام 2005 ، وجهها عبر دائرة تلفزيونية مغلقة : "... معظم السياسيين لا يهتمون بالحقيقة ولكن في السلطة. … To maintain that power it is essential that people remain in ignorance. ... وللحفاظ على السلطة أن من الضروري أن يبقى الناس في الجهل. … What surrounds us therefore is a vast tapestry of lies.” Pinter was referring to US policy from Guantanamo to Iraq. ... وما يحيط بنا هو نسيج واسعة من الأكاذيب. "بينتر في اشارة الى سياسة الولايات المتحدة من جوانتانامو الى العراق.

As these icons are laid to rest, their voices continue to inspire millions. حيث أن هذه الرموز هي ووري الثرى ، أصواتهم لا تزال مصدر إلهام الملايين. Barack Obama will soon take the reins of the most powerful nation on Earth, promising change. باراك أوباما قريبا من تولي زمام الامور من أقوى أمة على الأرض ، ووعد التغيير. But it will now take the actions of those millions, heeding these echoes of the past and transforming them into their own voices, to effect real change. لكنه الآن في أعمال تلك الملايين ، والالتفات لهذه أصداء من الماضي ، وتحويلها إلى أصوات خاصة بهم ، لإحداث تغيير حقيقي.

Denis Moynihan contributed research to this column. دينيس موينهان ساهمت البحوث في هذا العمود.

Amy Goodman is the host of “Democracy Now!,” a daily international TV/radio news hour airing on more than 700 stations in North America. آمي غودمان هو المضيف "الديمقراطية الآن!" اليومية الدولية تلفزيون / ساعة بث الأخبار الإذاعية على أكثر من 700 محطة في أمريكا الشمالية. She was awarded the 2008 Right Livelihood Award, dubbed the “Alternative Nobel” prize, and received the award in the Swedish Parliament in December. انها منحت الجائزة لعام 2008 الحق في سبل العيش ، والتى يطلق عليها اسم "نوبل البديلة" على الجائزة ، وحصل على الجائزة في البرلمان السويدي في كانون الاول / ديسمبر.

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Thursday, January 1st, 2009 الخميس ، كانون الثاني / يناير 1st ، 2009

Today I am deleting all the content from my Myspace account and leaving only this notice. اليوم وأنا على حذف كل محتوى من بلدي العاب فلاش الحساب فقط ، وترك هذا الإشعار. I’ve been inspired by the لقد استلهمت Franklin Street Statement فرانكلين ستريت بيان and و Identi.ca and I realize that a free/libre/open source internet is still possible, but it will require us to stop supporting corporate websites such as myspace. وأنا أدرك أن الحرة / الحرة / مفتوحة المصدر الإنترنت لا يزال ممكنا ، لكنها تتطلب منا التوقف عن دعم الشركات مواقع مثل ماي سبيس. Here are some good reasons to delete your Myspace page, and support alternatives not run by corporations. وإليك بعض أسباب وجيهة لحذف العاب فلاش الصفحة الخاصة بك ، ودعم بدائل لا تديرها الشركات.

1. I’m tired of being free labor for the Fox corporation. أنا تعبت من الحر ويجري العمل لشركة فوكس. The right wing Fox news corporation owns myspace, and I’m not going to support them any longer by giving them my content, my writing and images and information about who my friends are, for free. اليمين فوكس نيوز تمتلك شركة ماي سبيس ، وانا لن يعد أي دعم لهم من خلال منحهم بلدي المضمون ، لي الكتابة والصور والمعلومات عن الذين أصدقائي ، مجانا. I don’t support war, the way the Fox corporation has, and I don’t want to provide them with more money to spread more pro-war propaganda. أنا لست مع الحرب ، والطريقة التي فوكس الشركة ، وأنا لا أريد أن توفر لهم المزيد من المال لنشر المزيد من الدعاية المؤيدة للحرب. According to their license, Myspace has full rights to use my content things like advertisements for Myspace. وفقا لرخصة ، العاب فلاش كامل الحق في استخدام أشياء مثل بلدي محتوى الاعلانات في ماي سبيس.

2. (2). I actually care about my friends, and don’t want to screw them over my making them a “friend” on Myspace. أنا فعلا يهتمون أصدقائي ، ولا يريدون لهم المسمار بلادي جعلها أكثر من "صديق" عن العاب فلاش. By using myspace, I’m forcing my friends to sign up for a corporate owned, ad ridden, heteronormative web service if they want to stay in touch with me. عن طريق استخدام ماي سبيس ، أنا وأصدقائي اجبر على التوقيع على الشركات المملوكة لل، التي تعاني من الإعلانات ، heteronormative خدمة ويب اذا كانوا يريدون البقاء على اتصال معي. The way that we don’t want to delete our accounts because we want to stay in touch with friends or fans of our bands just shows how dependent we already are on Myspace’s corporate controlled environment. الطريقة التي لا نريد لحذف حساباتنا لاننا نريد ان تبقى على اتصال مع الأصدقاء أو من مشجعي الفرق التي تعتمد فقط يظهر لدينا بالفعل على الشركات التي تسيطر عليها) MySpace.com البيئة. We’re forced into a compulsory relationship we don’t want because we want to “keep in touch” with our friends? نحن يجبرن إلزامي العلاقة نحن لا نريد لأننا نريد أن "البقاء على اتصال" مع أصدقائنا؟

3. (3). I’m tired up updating so many websites because Myspace refuses to be interoperable with other websites. انا تعبت حتى وتحديث العديد من المواقع بسبب العاب فلاش ترفض أن تكون مشتركة مع غيرها من المواقع. Myspace and sites like it do not allow you to download your data or automatically send it to other social networking sites because they want to force you into the jail of their website. مواقع مثل ماي سبيس وأنها لا تسمح لك لتحميل البيانات أو إرسالها تلقائيا إلى مواقع الشبكات الاجتماعية الأخرى لأنهم يريدون أن القوة كنت في السجن من موقعه على الانترنت. Why? لماذا؟ Why don’t we demand open social networking standards and the ability to download our own content? لماذا لا نطالب المفتوحة معايير الشبكات الاجتماعية ، والقدرة على تحميل المحتوى الخاصة بنا؟

4. I have a good Free/Libre/Open Source alternative, my own blog. لقد جيدة الحرة / الحرة / مفتوحة المصدر البديل ، بلدي بلوق. You can read about what I’m up to at يمكنك أن تقرأ ما أنا حتى في http://technotrannyslut.com , free of ads for bad movies and music, free of binary gender choices and heteronormative options for your relationships. وخالية من الاعلانات لسوء الافلام والموسيقى ، وخالية من ثنائي بين الجنسين والخيارات والخيارات المتاحة لheteronormative علاقاتك. Sites like Identi.ca provide ethical, non-corporate controlled alternatives to sites like Twitter. مواقع مثل Identi.ca توفير الأخلاقية ، وعدم الشركات التي تسيطر عليها بدائل للمواقع مثل التغريد. You can keep up with my status on Identi.ca, and sign up for your own microblog, here: تستطيع مواكبة وضعي على Identi.ca ، والاشتراك الخاص بك microblog ، هنا : http://identi.ca/djlotu5 Help create a well known list of alternatives like Identi.ca/Twitter , Opensim/Secondlife, if you now of any, by المساعدة في خلق معروف قائمة من البدائل مثل Identi.ca / التغريد ، Opensim / Secondlife ، إذا كنت الآن من أي ، عن طريق posting a comment here نشر تعليق هنا :

Actually, even better than deleting your account, just delete all the content and post a notice like this one. في الواقع ، بل وأفضل من حذف حسابك ، فقط حذف كل محتوى وظيفة إشعار مثل هذه.

This is just the beginning, I’m planning on getting off of Facebook and other web services as well, and I hope you do too. هذه هي البداية فقط ، وأنا على التخطيط هبوطه أمام وغيرها من الخدمات على الإنترنت أيضا ، وآمل أن لديك أيضا. We can have an internet that is Free/Libre/Open Source, but only if we stop supporting the corporate, locked down options we’ve been using all of these years. يمكننا أن الانترنت هي الحرة / الحرة / مفتوحة المصدر ، ولكن فقط اذا توقفنا عن دعم الشركات ، اغلاق خيارات كنا باستخدام كل هذه السنين. As these services become more a part of our lives and get into our phones and our everyday communications, it is critical that we fight for our freedom. كما تزداد هذه الخدمات جزءا من حياتنا ونحن ندخل في حياتنا اليومية والهواتف والاتصالات ، من المهم أن نكافح من أجل حريتنا. The Free/Libre/Open Source movement needs to expand from just writing software, into creating networks of servers and services, like Indymedia has done for so many years. الحرة / الحرة / مفتوحة المصدر الحركة بحاجة إلى توسيع للتو من كتابة البرمجيات ، لإنشاء شبكات من أجهزة الخادم والخدمات ، مثل Indymedia فعلت لسنوات عديدة. Software alone is not enough in a networked service ecology, where servers, cables, wireless networks, infrastructure that we all control is essential if we want freedom. البرمجيات وحدها ليست كافية في شبكات الخدمات والبيئة ، حيث لخدمة الشبكة ، والكابلات ، والشبكات اللاسلكية ، والبنية الأساسية التي لا بد من السيطرة على كل حال نحن نريد الحرية. I hope to see you back on the Free/Libre/Open Source internet. وآمل أن أراكم مرة أخرى على الحرة / الحرة / مفتوحة المصدر الانترنت. Bye. جانبي.

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Wednesday, December 31st, 2008 الأربعاء ، كانون الأول / ديسمبر 31st ، 2008

By بواسطة Hywel Trewyn Hywel Trewyn

CALLS to put Welsh on new ID cards are at last to be considered by the Government. يدعو إلى وضع الولزية على بطاقات الهوية الجديدة هي في نهاية المطاف يتعين النظر من جانب الحكومة.

The U-turn follows pressure from language campaigners who say it would be an insult if English-only cards were issued in Wales. فإن منعطف يلي ضغط من لغة دعاة الذين يقولون انها ستكون اهانة الإنكليزية فقط إذا تم إصدار بطاقات في ويلز.

The Welsh Language Board yesterday welcomed an announcement that UK Border Agency officials will at least review the idea of producing bilingual cards available for Wales. مجلس اللغة الويلزية ورحب الاعلان امس ان المسؤولين في وكالة الحدود في المملكة المتحدة على الأقل إعادة النظر في فكرة إصدار بطاقات بلغتين المتاحة لويلز.

It is a reversal on policy from earlier this year, when the Home Office said it had “no intention to include Welsh on identity cards”, arguing the language “was not an official language of the EU.” وهو على عكس سياسة في وقت سابق من هذا العام ، عندما وزارة الداخلية انه "لا توجد نية لتشمل الولزية على بطاقات الهوية" ، وتقول لغة "ليست لغة رسمية للاتحاد الأوروبي."

But the WLB has always argued including Welsh on cards issued in Wales was essential – the same as for driving licences and passports. ولكن WLB دائما بما يقال الولزية على البطاقات الصادرة في ويلز وكان من الضروري -- نفس لرخص قيادة السيارات وجوازات السفر.

And they are sending a clear message to the Government that Welsh people would see it as an insult if a Welsh option was excluded from the cards, which will eventually be distributed to every British citizen. وترسل رسالة واضحة لحكومة ويلز ان الناس يرون انها اهانة إذا كان الخيار الولزية استبعد من البطاقات ، والتي سوف توزع على كل مواطن بريطاني.

WLB chair Meri Huws said: “If the Welsh language does not appear on Identity Cards, I don’t believe they will reflect the true identity of the people of Wales, and their linguistic identity in particular. كرسي WLB ميري Huws وقال : "اذا كانت اللغة الويلزية لا يظهر على بطاقات الهوية ، ولا أعتقد أنها سوف تعكس الهوية الحقيقية للشعب ويلز ، والهوية اللغوية على وجه الخصوص.

“Therefore it is essential that all ID cards issued in Wales are fully bilingual, as is the case with driving licences. واضاف "لذلك فمن الضروري أن جميع بطاقات الهوية الصادرة في ويلز تماما بلغتين ، كما هو الحال مع رخص القيادة.

“I welcome the fact that the Home Office is now considering how to include the language on cards issued in the future, and look forward to hearing a statement on this issue soon.” "أرحب بحقيقة أن وزارة الداخلية حاليا على النظر في كيفية إدراج اللغة على البطاقات الصادرة في المستقبل ، ونتطلع إلى الاستماع إلى بيان حول هذه القضية قريبا".

And the WLB stance was supported by Caernarfon Plaid Cymru MP Hywel Williams: “The first drafts of the proposed ID cards had the Union Jack on them. وWLB موقف أيده النائب كايرنارفون Cymru منقوش Hywel ويليامز : "إن الأولى من بطاقات الهوية قد اقترح الاتحاد جاك عليهم. This would have been wholly unacceptable to people living in Wales. لقد كان هذا غير مقبول على الإطلاق للسكان الذين يعيشون في ويلز. I understand now there’s not going to be the Union flag.” أفهم الآن هناك لن يكون الاتحاد العلم. "

Mr Williams has tabled a number of questions asking the Government what steps have they taken to provide bilingual ID cards in Wales and the rest of the UK and for Welsh Secretary Paul Murphy about which steps he has taken to guarantee that Welsh will be on the cards. وقال وليامز طرح عدد من الأسئلة يطلب من الحكومة ما هي الخطوات التي اتخذتها لتوفير بطاقات هوية لغتين في ويلز وبقية المملكة المتحدة ويلز بول مورفي الأمين عن الخطوات التي اتخذت لضمان الولزية ستكون على بطاقات .

Now, following a consultation period, it seems there is a glimmer of hope that they will be bilingual. الآن ، وبعد فترة التشاور ، يبدو أن هناك بصيص أمل أن تكون ثنائية اللغة.

A UK Border Agency spokesperson said: “There will be no Welsh headings on the first wave of identity cards to be issued to workers in critical locations in Manchester and London City airports. الحدود في المملكة المتحدة ، وقال متحدث باسم الوكالة : "لن تكون هناك عناوين الولزية على الموجة الأولى من بطاقات الهوية التي ستصدر على العمال في المواقع الحيوية في لندن ومانشستر سيتي المطارات. International Civil Aviation Organisation rules state that travel documents must have headings written in English and French. منظمة الطيران المدني الدولي أن القواعد يجب أن تكون وثائق السفر العناوين المكتوبة باللغتين الانكليزية والفرنسية.

“As we roll out ID cards across England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland, we will review the inclusion of Welsh on the cards.” "ونحن إذ طرح بطاقات الهوية في انحاء انجلترا وويلز ، واسكتلندا وايرلندا الشمالية ، وسنعيد النظر في إدراج ويلز على البطاقات".

A previous linguistic battle was won after the census was forced to include a Welsh tick box for Welsh people. معركة سابقة لغوية وفاز بعد ان اضطر لتعداد تتضمن علامة في المربع للالولزية الولزية الناس.

The first identity cards were distributed to foreign residents living in the UK last month and will then be distributed to the general population of the UK in stages, dependent upon status, over the next three years. اول بطاقات هوية وزعت على المقيمين الأجانب الذين يعيشون في المملكة المتحدة في الشهر الماضي ، وسيتم بعد ذلك وزعت على السكان عموما من المملكة المتحدة على مراحل ، تعتمد على الوضع ، على مدى السنوات الثلاث المقبلة.

People working in “sensitive” jobs like at airport employees will be given the cards first, then young people who want them from 2010 and from 2011 they will be available to everyone. الناس الذين يعملون في "الحساسة" مثل وظائف العاملين في المطار وستمنح هذه البطاقات أولا ، ثم من الشباب الذين يريدون من عام 2010 والفترة من عام 2011 ستكون متاحة للجميع.

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Wednesday, December 31st, 2008 الأربعاء ، كانون الأول / ديسمبر 31st ، 2008

By Kaya Burgess من جانب كايا بورغيس

The Labour administration in 1978 believed the introduction of ID cards would be “unacceptable” and “objectionable” in the fight against illegal immigration, confidential documents released today show. إدارة العمل في عام 1978 ويعتقد إدخال بطاقات الهوية سيكون "غير مقبول" و "اعتراض" في مجال مكافحة الهجرة غير الشرعية ، والافراج عن وثائق سرية تظهر اليوم.

The comments were in a draft statement due to be given to the Commons by Merlyn Rees, the Home Secretary, who wrote that the introduction of identity cards “would require major changes in practices and powers reaching far beyond immigration control”. وكانت التعليقات في مشروع بيان من المقرر أن لجنة من قبل Merlyn ريس ، وزير الداخلية ، الذي كتب أن إدخال بطاقات الهوية "سوف يتطلب تغييرات كبيرة في الممارسات والتوصل إلى ما وراء سلطات الرقابة على الهجرة".

He added: “In the past such changes have been contemplated only in war: the Government does not believe they could be justified on immigration grounds alone.” واضاف : "في الماضي كانت مثل هذه التغييرات إلا في حرب : الحكومة لا تعتقد أنها يمكن أن تكون مبررا لأسباب الهجرة وحدها."

The comments were later edited out of the final speech he delivered to the House, as a struggling Labour Government tried to resist the calls from Opposition leader Margaret Thatcher for more draconian measures to tackle illegal immigration. التعليقات بعد تحرير البيان الختامي كلمة القاها امام مجلس العموم ، ومناضل حاولت الحكومة العمل على مقاومة دعوات زعيم المعارضة مارغريت تاتشر لمزيد من تدابير صارمة لمواجهة الهجرة غير الشرعية.

In a secret discussion between Prime Minister Callaghan and the Whips on March 8 1978, a Downing Street aide wrote: “It was claimed that many Asian immigrants were very frightened. في مناقشة سرية بين رئيس الوزراء كالاهان والسياط على 8 مارس 1978 ، وداوننغ ستريت وقال مساعد وكتب : "وزعم أن العديد من المهاجرين الآسيويين وكانت خائفة جدا.

“There was bitter opposition to the tactics adopted by Mrs Thatcher… and that resentment should be exploited by the Government.” "كان هناك معارضة لالتكتيكات التي اعتمدها السيدة تاتشر... وأنه ينبغي استغلال الاستياء من جانب الحكومة."

Ministers stuck by their pledge not to introduce quotas on immigration as they did not want the “objectionable” measure of requiring everyone to carry identification papers. تمسك وزراء تعهدهم بعدم إدخال نظام الحصص على الهجرة لأنها لا تريد "مرفوضة" والتي تحتاج إلى قدر من الجميع حمل أوراق هوية.

The confidential Government documents also discussed ways to expose “the fraudulent nature of Mrs Thatcher’s approach”, although a personal note written by Mr Callaghan warned that the Government’s response to Select Committee recommendations was too lacklustre. الوثائق السرية للحكومة كما ناقش طرق الكشف "الاحتيال طبيعة نهج السيدة تاتشر" ، على الرغم من ملاحظة شخصية كتبها السيد كالاهان حذر من أن رد الحكومة على توصيات لجنة اختيار باهتا جدا.

He said: “We seemed to be accepting few recommendations – mostly ones to do nothing.” وقال : "يبدو أن قبول توصيات قليلة -- في الغالب منها أن تفعل شيئا".

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Tuesday, December 30th, 2008 الثلاثاء ، كانون الأول / ديسمبر 30th ، 2008

• Unrest caused by bad economy may require military action, report says – ‘Pervasive public health emergencies’ may require call on military 29 Dec 2008 A US Army War College report warns an economic crisis in the United States could lead to massive civil unrest and the need to call on the military to restore order.
• Flu watchdog lab planned 29 Dec 2008 ‘The idea is to strengthen our surveillance against the dreaded bird flu and be ready with a disease control plan if it strikes.’
• Jakarta ends stand-off on bird flu vaccines – Indonesia’s health minister accused the US of trying to use bird flu samples to create a biological weapon . 24 Feb 2008
• DoD to carry out ‘military missions’ during pandemic, WMD attack 23 Oct 2007
• DoD to ‘augment civilian law’ during pandemic or bioterror attack 11 May 2007
• Scientists Recreate 1918 Flu and See Parallels to Bird Flu –In 2005, US Army scientists reconstructed Spanish flu virus by extracting genetic fragments from the bodies of victims exhumed from the Alaskan permafrost. 18 Jan 2007
• KBR awarded Homeland Security contract worth up to $385M 24 Jan 2006 KBR, the engineering and construction subsidiary of Halliburton Co., said Tuesday it has been awarded a contingency contract from the Department of Homeland Security to supports its Immigration and Customs Enforcement facilities in the event of an emergency.
• Rumsfeld’s growing stake in Tamiflu –Defense Secretary, ex-chairman of flu treatment rights holder, sees portfolio value growing . 31 Oct 2005 The prospect of a bird flu outbreak may be panicking people around the globe, but it’s proving to be very good news for Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and other politically connected investors in Gilead Sciences, the California biotech company that owns the rights to Tamiflu, the influenza remedy that’s now the most-sought after drug in the world. Rumsfeld served as Gilead (Research)’s chairman from 1997 until he joined the Bush administration in 2001, and he still holds a Gilead stake valued at between $5 million and $25 million , according to federal financial disclosures filed by Rumsfeld.
• Killer flu recreated in the lab 07 Oct 2004 Scientists have shown that tiny changes to modern flu viruses could render them as deadly as the 1918 strain which killed millions. A US team added two genes from a sample of the 1918 virus to a modern strain known to have no effect on mice.

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Tuesday, December 30th, 2008

The Independent - We’ve got so used to the carnage of the Middle East that we don’t care any more – providing we don’t offend the Israelis. It’s not clear how many of the Gaza dead are civilians, but the response of the Bush administration, not to mention the pusillanimous reaction of Gordon Brown, reaffirm for Arabs what they have known for decades: however they struggle against their antagonists, the West will take Israel’s side. As usual, the bloodbath was the fault of the Arabs – who, as we all know, only understand force.

Ever since 1948, we’ve been hearing this balderdash from the Israelis – just as Arab nationalists and then Arab Islamists have been peddling their own lies: that the Zionist “death wagon” will be overthrown, that all Jerusalem will be “liberated”. And always Mr Bush Snr or Mr Clinton or Mr Bush Jnr or Mr Blair or Mr Brown have called upon both sides to exercise “restraint” – as if the Palestinians and the Israelis both have F-18s and Merkava tanks and field artillery. Hamas’s home-made rockets have killed just 20 Israelis in eight years, but a day-long blitz by Israeli aircraft that kills almost 300 Palestinians is just par for the course.

The blood-splattering has its own routine. Yes, Hamas provoked Israel’s anger, just as Israel provoked Hamas’s anger, which was provoked by Israel, which was provoked by Hamas, which … See what I mean? Hamas fires rockets at Israel, Israel bombs Hamas, Hamas fires more rockets and Israel bombs again and … Got it? And we demand security for Israel – rightly – but overlook this massive and utterly disproportionate slaughter by Israel. It was Madeleine Albright who once said that Israel was “under siege” – as if Palestinian tanks were in the streets of Tel Aviv.

By last night, the exchange rate stood at 296 Palestinians dead for one dead Israeli. Back in 2006, it was 10 Lebanese dead for one Israeli dead. This weekend was the most inflationary exchange rate in a single day since – the 1973 Middle East War? The 1967 Six Day War? The 1956 Suez War? The 1948 Independence/Nakba War? It’s obscene, a gruesome game – which Ehud Barak, the Israeli Defence Minister, unconsciously admitted when he spoke this weekend to Fox TV. “Our intention is to totally change the rules of the game,” Barak said.

Exactly. Only the “rules” of the game don’t change. This is a further slippage on the Arab-Israeli exchanges, a percentage slide more awesome than Wall Street’s crashing shares, though of not much interest in the US which – let us remember – made the F-18s and the Hellfire missiles which the Bush administration pleads with Israel to use sparingly.

Quite a lot of the dead this weekend appear to have been Hamas members, but what is it supposed to solve? Is Hamas going to say: “Wow, this blitz is awesome – we’d better recognise the state of Israel, fall in line with the Palestinian Authority, lay down our weapons and pray we are taken prisoner and locked up indefinitely and support a new American ‘peace process’ in the Middle East!” Is that what the Israelis and the Americans and Gordon Brown think Hamas is going to do?

Yes, let’s remember Hamas’s cynicism, the cynicism of all armed Islamist groups. Their need for Muslim martyrs is as crucial to them as Israel’s need to create them. The lesson Israel thinks it is teaching – come to heel or we will crush you – is not the lesson Hamas is learning. Hamas needs violence to emphasise the oppression of the Palestinians – and relies on Israel to provide it. A few rockets into Israel and Israel obliges.

Not a whimper from Tony Blair, the peace envoy to the Middle East who’s never been to Gaza in his current incarnation. Not a bloody word.

We hear the usual Israeli line. General Yaakov Amidror, the former head of the Israeli army’s “research and assessment division” announced that “no country in the world would allow its citizens to be made the target of rocket attacks without taking vigorous steps to defend them”. Quite so. But when the IRA were firing mortars over the border into Northern Ireland, when their guerrillas were crossing from the Republic to attack police stations and Protestants, did Britain unleash the RAF on the Irish Republic? Did the RAF bomb churches and tankers and police stations and zap 300 civilians to teach the Irish a lesson? No, it did not. Because the world would have seen it as criminal behaviour. We didn’t want to lower ourselves to the IRA’s level.

Yes, Israel deserves security. But these bloodbaths will not bring it. Not since 1948 have air raids protected Israel. Israel has bombed Lebanon thousands of times since 1975 and not one has eliminated “terrorism”. So what was the reaction last night? The Israelis threaten ground attacks. Hamas waits for another battle. Our Western politicians crouch in their funk holes. And somewhere to the east – in a cave? a basement? on a mountainside? – a well-known man in a turban smiles.

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Tuesday, December 30th, 2008

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I warned you months ago: the magic word is ‘Sderot’ . Any amount of barbarism can be justified by the frankly risible rocket attacks on southern Israel. The Israeli propaganda line, repeated with dogged fanaticism by its apologists everywhere, is that Israel performed an immense act of goodness in withdrawing its colonies from Gaza, and the native ingrates actually responded by sending a spray of Qassam rockets aloft in celebration. To add insult to injury, the bleeders even used former ’settlement’ buildings to launch the rockets from. Such beliefs have to be encouraged to justify such outrageous proposals as the levelling of Gaza . Before this gets out of hand and people start using the rockets to justify some sort of “holocaust” , let us at least bear the facts in mind for a while.

The Qassam rockets were being used as one component of an array of military tactics deployed by Gazan groups before the pull-out, the Gush Katif colonies being the prominent target. This was a response to a wave of violence and expulsions in which, for example, 13,350 residents of Rafah had their homes and life belongings destroyed in the year preceding the withdrawal, courtesy of Israeli tanks and Caterpillar bulldozers. Parts of Gaza came to resemble Grozny. The Israelis frequently attacked ambulances, at one point using the argument that UNRWA had allowed Qassam rockets to be loaded on board one such vehicle (this turned out to be a lie, but it is still repeated on many a media outlet and website). The vast majority of casualties from their use date back to the period of formal colonialism. After the withdrawal, the rate at which these were used diminished dramatically. Their use has spiked in response to serial atrocities against Palestinians, such as the slaughter of the Ghaliya family on the Gaza beach, (in which Hamas broke an eighteen month unilateral ceasefire ).

There were few such rockets fired during the six-month ceasefire, even though Israel didn’t respect its terms, but their use was increased again as Israel broke the truce on November 4th (burn that date into your brain and remember it next time someone tells you that those nasty Hamas thugs wouldn’t renew the ceasefire). Now, there are legitimate arguments about both the efficacy and ethics of using such weapons. To my mind, they have very little going for them as a tactic of resistance. But the apparently widespread belief that Qassam rockets are the vindictive and jubilant response of sneering Palestinian jihadists to Israeli mushiness is not justified by any evidence. In fact, if the aim were truly to end Qassam rocket fire, the logical option would to be engage in a unilateral ceasefire and invite Hamas to enter into a process of dialogue. But that brings us to another myth, the myth of Hamas rejectionism, which is for another post.

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Monday, December 29th, 2008

By NORM KENT

He picked for Vice President one of the major architects of the Drug War.

He picked for Chief of Staff one of the chief opponents of medical marijuana.

He is talking about picking for the Drug Czar spot a conservative candidate who has been a congressional leader fighting drug reform.

He has promised to put an end to raids on medical dispensaries in California, but he has not said he will broadly support the Hinchey-Rohrbacher Amendment which would let states decide the issue.

He has moved from once supporting marijuana decriminalization to publishing comments that he cannot overuse ‘political capital’ on the issue.

He has now appointed for Attorney General a candidate who has a long history of opposing drug policy reforms and who has in court supported mandatory minimum sentencing and civil forfeiture.

Allen St. Pierre, the Executive Director of NORML, summed it up best about Mr. Obama’s appointments thus far: “So Far, Not So Good:” His thought-provoking article appears on the NORML.com website at its blog.

From summarizing why the selection of Joe Biden as Vice President caused him ‘digestive tumult’ to tracing Rahm Emanuel’s anti-drug policies for the past decade, the article captures a snapshot of what was routine politics as usual for the players soon to be in power.

When it comes to our 44th President, some of his positions on marijuana were once encouraging. But as Mr. Obama has moved towards the national limelight, there is a new found frustration for reformers. It seems the President to be is moving from the left to the middle. And as Loudon Wainwright once wrote in a popular song, the only things you see in the middle of the road are dead skunks and yellow lines. Still, I am not alarmed yet. It is way too early, and there is still room and reason for optimism.

Commencing your administration in the face of a national economic crisis at home while American soldiers are at war abroad can focus your priorities on other issues outside the need for weed. We have seen what happened to Bill Clinton when he tried, too early in his administration, to advance the cause of gay rights by banning discrimination against homosexuals in the military. He started a firestorm which burnt up valuable first months of his presidency.

We do know this though, and it is a challenging start. Rather decisively, on the official administration website, at www.change.gov , the following statement appears:  President-elect Obama is not in favor of the legalization of marijuana.

What can we then expect of Mr. Obama once he becomes President?

I think there are many encouraging things.

First, in his past he has acknowledged the broad failures of the drug war, declaring in 2004 that it was an “utter failure” which needs to be rethought.

Second, as an African-American in an urban community, few people will be as sensitive as Mr. Obama to the exhaustive legal toll this drug war exacts on minority communities. The arrests come quicker, the prosecutions are more frequent, and the sentences are longer. Drug arrests have been tools to deny poor people driver’s licenses, scholarships and federal welfare benefits, causing innocuous conduct to endure catastrophic consequences for otherwise decent people.

Third, the President is ‘with it’. His telling comments to a group of students when asked whether he ‘inhaled’ marijuana were “Of course, I thought that was the whole purpose.”

Those remarks are a reflection of the candor and commitment of Mr. Obama to address the issue in a new light. He did not play a game of Clintonian holier-than-thou cover-up. With the same self-deprecating qualities that he shared with the nation when he called himself a ‘mutt,’ Mr. Obama implied in tone and substance that marijuana may not be as bad as we have been hearing from the government for too many decades.

Last week, the website Change.gov asked the public to provide them with a list of the top public policy questions facing America. Visitors to the site were then asked to vote on which questions should take priority for the incoming administration.

After receiving nearly 100,000 total votes on more than 10,000 separate public policy issues, the most widely voted on question for Obama is:

“Will you consider legalizing marijuana so that the government can regulate it, tax it, put age limits on it, and create millions of new jobs and create a billion dollar industry right here in the US”

Maybe Rahm Emanuel has turned a corner as well. Rahm is politically smart if nothing else, so I hope that he’ll follow his boss’ lead in the area of criminal justice reforms. Also, to his credit, after voting years against Hinchey-Rohrbacher Amendment in 2007, as member of Congress from Illinois, Rahm voted in favor of holding back federal funding from law enforcement (read DEA) to raid or harass medical marijuana cultivators and dispensaries.

I know I have been unsuccessful in getting my own liberal Congresswoman from South Florida, Debbie Wasserman-Schulz, to even support this effort. Maybe Mr. Emanuel will influence her and dozens of others. It will take leadership from the oval office. That can only happen when the people in office are looked upon as enlightened reformers rather than being weak on crime.

Politically, I know such polls as the one the administration inaugurated here are instrumental in turning mindsets. If we can show politicians that it is ‘safe’ to support drug reform, even popular, we can suddenly find them on our side. To their credit, outstanding philanthropists like Peter Lewis and George Soros have been national leaders in helping bring public opinion out of the closet. These are men whose voices may be heard by the new administration. And I am here for them too if they need me. My number is listed. So too is Barney Frank, the influential Massachusetts congressman who has long supported decriminalization legislation.

The truth is that people who support decriminalization have always been a silent majority afraid to speak out. But give them a secret ballot box, and in state after state, you see massive support for medical marijuana and a more enlightened approach to marijuana reform. Perhaps the President, in his own unique disarming way, can lead a new path. He has surrounded himself with educated leaders who also have been willing to speak candidly in favor of decriminalization including new Cabinet nominee Bill Richardson.

We do not need a new Drug Czar, either. This is America. Czars are for Russia. What we need is the appointment of an educator, a scientist, a doctor, a constitutional rights lawyer to pave the way to a new era of drug enlightenment.

At the last NORML Board of Directors meeting, one issue we raised was one many of us within the drug reform movement can support. It has been three decades since the Shafer Commission released its national study on marijuana, which Nixon immediately trashed. Perhaps a new Blue Ribbon Commission, with decades more research behind it, and years of medical marijuana evidence, can look into new recommendations for the 21st century.

On one hand, such a Presidential panel would buy time for the new administration to get settled in with more pressing priorities. But it would also give drug reformers a national platform to address so many issues that have been, forgive me, cultivated- since the Shafer Commission, from forfeiture laws to raids on dispensaries, from the THC content of marijuana to medicinal initiatives. It is time to look again at marijuana with a scholarly and clinical eye instead of with SWAT teams and law enforcement raids.

Correspondingly, it is also time for the national drug reform organizations to speak with a singular voice and work together for a common purpose. There needs to be a unity of purpose, and leaders from the Marijuana Policy Project, the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws, the Drug Policy Alliance, Students for a Sensible Drug Policy, and a host of other respected reform organizations, too many to mention here, should hold their own meeting to develop a common theme with a collective initiative. We need to work together to send a message that is enlightened and progressive, convincing legislators and the executive branch that we are responsible and right..

The drug reform movement needs to act in a way that President-elect Obama has asked all of us to move towards: not to be tied to the politics of the past and the way things have always been done, but to engage hope by broadening our constituency and reaching out to others. Within the drug reform movement, fratricide must come to an end. We must bury the hatchet on our own rivalries, and move forward with a common purpose. We defeat ourselves by ourselves when we do not.

Our cause is just, and our goals have always been righteous. We may have only ourselves to blame if we cannot achieve now what we have fought so long for. I would say our time is now, but I thought that in 1976 when the Attorney General of the United States, then Ramsey Clark, said we should see an end to unjust marijuana laws before the end of the decade. I think we are overdue. Together, let us do better than we have already done.

We have a President who is willing to listen, a Congress that is willing to learn, and a public that is salivating for a better solution.

Norm Kent is a criminal defense lawyer from Fort Lauderdale who serves on the Board of Directors for NORML www.norml.com He can be reached at Norm@normkent.com , and his law office website is www.normkent.com

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Monday, December 29th, 2008

By Venezolana de Televisión

“The Kingdom of Heaven is not a kingdom or life in the clouds. Either it exists here or else it exists nowhere,” President Chávez issued a wake-up call during the last Sunday program of 2008. “It’s on earth, and that is why Christ came here and was born among the poor, in the manger.”

The head of state in Venezuela noted that the capitalist system throughout its history has distorted Jesus’s message to the poor about the Kingdom of Heaven, with the sole purpose of exploiting the impoverished majorities in favor of the minorities who enjoy the wealth of the world.

The Christ child was born on earth, poor and human, to fight and make this planet truly the kingdom of heaven, of equality and justice, not to be poor in life and to win glory in the afterlife, Comandante Chávez said during the last Aló Presidente broadcast of the year, speaking from El Valle where he inaugurated a new People’s Clinic.

“The message of Christ, who said the Kingdom of Heaven is that of the poor, has been very often manipulated. In this way they have for centuries manipulated the poor of the world, to make them quietly accept exploitation.”

“Christ was born to call on us to create, here on earth, the Kingdom of Love,” Chávez explained, adding that this kingdom has no other name than socialism.

The president reminded the audience that socialism comes from what is social, as capitalism proceeds from capital.

“Socialism is the doctrine, science, of development of what is social. Capitalism is the immoral art, science, and technology of development of capital or growth of capital — (for capitalism) what matters is that even while people die of hunger capitalists accumulate capital.”

The president stressed that therein lies the key to understanding the confrontation that began again, in which Venezuela has become the center of the battle between socialists and capitalists, “between people becoming more politically conscious every day and those who exploited them forever.” He said that that is why the issue of the constitutional amendment is of vital importance as it will allow Venezuela to go farther on the socialist path, the truly human and democratic path, for the happiness of the Venezuelan people.

To conclude the last Aló Presidente of the year, the president wished the best for Venezuelan families, urging them to enjoy Christmas and New Year’s Eve with love, moderation, and simplicity so they can continue in 2009 the work of making Venezuela a great nation of justice and equality.

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Monday, December 29th, 2008

The first day of what Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak assures us will be a “long and difficult” war in the Gaza Strip has come and gone, leaving at least 300 Gazans dead , over 700 wounded, and one Israeli civilian killed and four wounded in retaliatory strikes . The number of Gaza civilians dead is not currently known, but the attacks centered around police stations and killed a large number of Palestinian security forces.

Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak hit out at calls to cease the attacks and renew the ceasefire, saying “ for us to be asked to have a ceasefire with Hamas is like asking you to have a ceasefire with al-Qaeda .” Except of course that up until a week ago Israel did have a six month long ceasefire with Hamas which Minister Barak repeatedly defended from the more hawkish opposition members.

But the time for an unpopular peace is over in Israel, and police are being dispatched to crack down on those protesting against the unpopular war that has followed.

Meanwhile, as Gazans count their dead and tend to their wounded in a chaotic scene , Hamas and the assorted militant factions that reside in the strip are vowing revenge. Hamas says “ all options are open ” in responding to the attacks, while Islamic Jihad is ordering all its fighters to respond to “ the Israeli slaughter .”

Those still calling for peace between the belligerent factions appear for now to have little traction, and the war is liable to continue to escalate.

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