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”The colonial invasion of Iraq and the ugliest of lies of the lie machine that propagated and justified these barbarous acts will forever remain among the greatest and unpardonable crimes against humanity.”

- Jose Luis Zapatero, Prime Minister of Spain, 20 May 2005.

The resort to deception by governments and the mass media to manipulate the population has been an obsession of Western powers. The illegal invasion and occupation of Iraq by U.S. forces provides the best recent example murderous atrocities based on deception.

The alleged presence of Al-Zarqawi has two important purposes for the U.S. Occupation: it provides a way to distort the image of the legitimate Iraqi Resistance; and it allows the occupying forces to present the war of Occupation as a war against Al-Qaeda, the created enemy. Al-Qaeda has replaced Communism. “The primary aim of the Pentagon’s ‘Strategic Information’ program or propaganda is to distort the truth in a way that controls the storyline created by the media. Al-Zarqawi fits perfectly within this paradigm of intentional deception,” writes American author Mike Whitney.

Al-Qaeda (the ‘Base’ in Arabic) was the C.I.A.-sponsored training camp for the Afghan Mujahideen, including Osama bin Laden and the likes. The group was created and financed by the U.S. administration against the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan. They were called “freedom fighters” by former U.S. president Roland Reagan.

As a result of the invasion and occupation of Afghanistan, Al-Qaeda has disintegrated. Its members have been killed, imprisoned and some have melted away in the population of Afghanistan and Pakistan. However, in George Bush’s “war on terror”, today’s Al-Qaeda is alive and fighting on many fronts. In other words, Osama bin Laden is much more useful alive to U.S. imperialism and propaganda than his dead body. Al-Qaeda has become a convenient phantom to justify an ongoing war on defenceless peoples.

The continuing existence of Al-Qaeda is a very useful pretext for the Blair-Bush axis and allies. It provides the necessary tool to instil fear and manipulate domestic public opinion. A U.S. army conscientious objector from the 82nd Airborne Division told the Canadian Refugee Status Commission: “We were told to consider all Arabs as potential terrorists … and we were stimulated to encourage an attitude of hatred that gets your blood boiling.” The recent massacre of unarmed men women and children in Fallujah is a case in point.

Just before the destruction of the city of Fallujah, in which thousands of innocent men, women and children have been murdered, U.S. forces justified the assault as a necessary step to “enhance democracy” and “flush-out” Al-Zarqawi and his men. After Fallujah was destroyed, and a large number of its people were slaughtered by U.S. forces, Al-Zarqawi was not found — because he was dead a long time ago. Fallujah has since become the symbol of Iraqi Resistance.

During the U.S. attacks on Mosul, Ramadi and Al-Qaim, the phantom of Al-Zarqawi continues to play an important role in Western propaganda of deception. It was reported that Al-Zarqawi had survived the assault on Fallujah and is fighting the U.S. forces on many fronts. Nothing could be further from the truth. The attacks were directed primarily against members of the Iraqi Resistance and the Iraqi population at large. “Al-Zarqawi is nothing more than a weapon of mass deception in the hands of the US army, which enables the latter to hide its ‘black propaganda’ activities, used to mount the population against the Resistance,” said Mohamed Hassan, a former Ethiopian diplomat and Middle East specialist.

The U.S. attacks on the city of Tal Afar have also been justified as a “necessary operation against Al-Zarqawi and his groups of foreign fighters”. A sole journalist from the Iraqi daily Azzaman, who was the only journalist in town, refused to support the U.S. version. Most of the fighters were Iraqis fighting against foreign occupation forces. The attacks on the city of 300,000 people are described by complicit Western media as a “joint U.S. and Iraqi” operation. However, Azzaman reported: “Iraqi soldiers are too few to spot among the thousands of U.S. marines. U.S. troops now see all men able of carrying arms as suspects and many of those attempting to flee have been arrested.” Like Fallujah, a large number of innocent civilians have been killed and the fate of 400 Iraqi young male detainees is not known.

In contravention of the Geneva Convention and international law, water and electricity have been cut off, and the occupation forces are preventing any food and medical assistance to enter the city, increasing an even worse human disaster and enlarging the U.S. atrocity against the Iraqi people. Like Fallujah, the majority of Tal Afar’s population are now displaced refugees in their own country. “Some of these families live in deserted villages or in makeshift camps where they do not have access to basic essentials like food and water. We are in need of urgent relief to offer assistance to nearly 5,000 families who have fled the city and sought asylum in nearby poor villages,” said a statement by the Iraqi Red Crescent.

While Westerners watching their favourite TV shows, the U.S. and its collaborators are waging full scale war against the Iraqi people. After the massacre of Tal Afar, U.S. occupation forces are moving into the Euphrates valley, to destroy more Iraqi towns and cities, and at the same time commit more war crimes against the people of Iraq. The “international community” has failed to condemn the violence perpetuated by U.S. occupying forces, and also failed to provide the minimum assistance to a nation considered to be a founding member of the “international community”. The Iraqi people are left at the mercy of a new form of Western terrorism. The aim is not to fight the Resistance, but to kill Iraqis en masse and destroy their nation, with the blessing of a puppet government constituted of criminals and conmen.

In its recent meeting attended by world’s leaders, the UN was unable to define terrorism, because, according to the U.S., terrorism has no definition. Any act of violence not practised by the U.S. and its allies is defined as terrorism. We know who is waging a war of terror on the defenceless people of Iraq. It isn’t Al-Qaeda or Al-Zarqawi: it is the U.S. and Britain who are terrorising the Iraqi people on a daily basis. Iraq is not the frontline of terrorism; the Iraqi people are defending themselves and their country against terrorism.

Meanwhile, in Baghdad, the car bombings which targeted civilians were the work of Al-Zarqawi “suicide bombers” against Shiites to “foment civil war”, we are told . There was no evidence to substantiate the allegations, and Iraqis have a different idea. Although most of the bombings were timed and remote-controlled bombs, the majority were premeditated attacks. Furthermore, Iraqis acknowledge that there were few attacks executed by “suicide bombers”. However, in the West, “suicide bombing” is becoming everything Muslim, fabricated and promoted by the mainstream mass media, including the Arab CNN, Al-jazeera.

As I wrote earlier, Iraqi sources argued rightly that the U.S. forces and their collaborators are behind every major sectarian killing and kidnapping in the country. The promotion of Shiite-Sunni conflict is the creation of U.S. forces. The attacks on specific religious groups, such as on Shiites, were aimed at provoking sectarian strife among Iraqis. After every large killing of civilians, the U.S. and mainstream media are deliberately blaming the Iraqi Resistance for the violence. The main aim is to distort the image of the Resistance and weaken its popular support in Iraq and abroad.

The fact that Iraqi Police in Basra were able to arrest two British soldiers (the SAS) working under cover, whom Iraqi police accused of planting bombs against civilians, was a case in point. Furthermore, thousands of prominent Iraqi scientists including doctors, intellectuals and politicians have been murdered by Israeli Mossad and C.I.A. agents. Similar patterns of Western terrorism against civilians have its history in the British occupation of Kenya and India, and in the Israeli occupation of Palestine. The U.S. plan to divide Iraq – on ethnic and religious lines – and control its wealth was prepared several years before the war. It was no secret. One only needs to read the New York Times to get an idea about the U.S. Zionist ideology. In addition, the U.S. is promoting religious fundamentalism against Iraqi nationalism.

U.S. forces and their collaborators are the only benefactors of ongoing violence in Iraq. The U.S. is deliberately destroying the fabric of the Iraqi society. Since March 2003, more than 200,000 have been killed – based on the estimation of the Lancet report in November 2004. The majority of these war crimes were committed by U.S. and British forces against innocent men women and children. The war is one of most cowardly fought wars in the history of mankind. Iraq was forced to disarm – by the tool of U.S. foreign policy, the UN – before Iraq was massively attacked by the most modern WMD. It was a one-sided war of large armies against the defenceless people of Iraq. It was nothing to do with WMD, ‘democracy’ or human rights. It was a war to control Iraq oil resources, enhance U.S. hegemonic domination, and promote Israel’s Zionist expansionism.

Since the invasion of their country by U.S. forces, Iraqis have only known mayhem, all forms of human rights abuses, including torture, and a culture of corruption not seen in Iraq’s history. The U.S. is continuing the process of the complete destruction of Iraq. U.S. corporations are not building Iraq, they are busy building prisons to incarcerate Iraqis, and military bases in order to continue the colonial occupation of Iraq. The imperial deception is so efficient that even well-educated people in the West, and Americans in particular, have been manipulated to the extent that they were unable to differentiate between the destruction of a society by violent military forces and the promotion of ‘democracy’ and ‘freedom’.

The invasion and occupation of Iraq was a premeditated murderous act of aggression. It was the result of the Anglo-American power resort to deception to manipulate the population into accepting a criminal attack on a defenceless nation. A campaign of fabricated deception continues to justify the violent occupation of Iraq by U.S. forces. The only effective remedy for the crimes committed against the Iraqi people is the immediate and full withdrawal of U.S. forces from Iraq.

I just received an email from a reader that sums it up better than I did…

“I spent about thirty years working in commercial agribusiness.

My main job was to purchase ingredients, mainly grain, for flour mills and animal feed mills.

As a part of my job, I was forced to understand the US food supply system, its strengths and weaknesses. Over the years, I became aware of some things that nearly all Americans are completely unaware of. I am going to make a list of statements and then you will see where I’m going.

– 1% of the US population grows all of the food for all Americans.

– Nearly all Americans know essentially nothing about where the food they eat every day comes from. How it gets from the ground to them. And they don’t want to know about it. It’s cheap, as close as their local store, and of high quality. So no worries.

– The bulk of the food we eat comes from grain.

Although they raise a lot of fruits and vegetables in California, Arizona, Florida, Oregon and Washington, those things don’t compose the main part of the average diet. Half of what a meat animal is raised on is grain so when you eat meat you are really eating grain. And, of course, we eat grain directly as bread, bagels, doughnuts, pasta, etc. Milk (and milk products like cheese) comes from cows that eat grain. A lot of grain. And the grain they eat is not produced where the cows are located.

– The lion’s share of grain produced in the US is done in a concentrated part of the US Midwest (Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri is the center of this area). The grain is moved to the coasts (where 70% of the population live) by only TWO (2) railroads.

– Nothing is stored for very long in a supermarket. One day grain travels (by rail) from Kansas to Seattle to a flour mill.

The next day the flour mill makes the flour and sends it to a bakery. The next day the bakery makes it into bread (and other baked things) and the next day it is at the store where it is purchased that day. Nobody stores anything. The grain is produced and stored in the Midwest and shipped daily in a single railroad pipeline to the rest of America where the people live.

– Up until the 1980s there was a system that stored a lot of grain in elevators around the country. At one time, a whole year’s harvest of grain was stored that way.

But since taxpayers were paying to store it, certain urban politicians engineered the movement of that money from providing a safety net or backup for their own food supply in order to give the money to various other social welfare things. So now, nothing is stored. We produce what we consume each year and store practically none of it. There is no contingency plan.

Now for my take on what this means for us and what it has to do with the topic you are publicizing.

– If a drought such as has lingered over other parts of the US where little grain is grown were to move over the grain-producing states in the Midwest where few people live, it 

would seriously damage the food supply of the country and the apples of Washington, the lettuce of California, the grapefruit of Florida and the peanuts of Georgia won’t make up the difference because grain is the staff of life and most of it is grown in the Midwest.

– Americans are armed to the teeth. In LA people burned down their own neighborhoods to protest a court case.

– In order for riots to break out the whole food supply doesn’t have to be wiped out. It just has to be threatened sufficiently. 

When people realize their vulnerability and the fact that there is no short term solution to a severe enough drought in the Midwest they will have no clue as to what they should do.  

Other nations can’t make up the difference because no other nation has a surplus of grain in good times let alone in times when they are having droughts and floods also. It takes two or three months to raise grain, yet people have to eat usually at least once a day, usually more than that.

–So, basically, we have in place a recipe for a disaster that will dwarf any other localized disasters imaginable.

The important thing to note is that there is no solution for this event. There is no contingency plan for this.

People living in certain parts of the US will fare better than others (which is another story) but those who live in big cities,

where most of the US population live, are done for.

Anyway, I have no agenda of my own concerning this.

I just thought I’d share it with someone who appears to have an idea of what might likely cause this scenario to occur. The only people who know about this are those who are involved in the production and distribution of the food supply and there are very, very few of them number-wise. And most of them haven’t put two and two together yet, either.

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When I asked the reader for permission to publish this, 

I received this reply:

I’m not interested in notoriety about this.

It’s just something I know about.

It’s likely too late for the government to do anything to prepare for such an event, so it probably won’t do any good to try to lobby them for a solution. I guess if they hopped right on it they could store up enough grain to be ready but they won’t.

They’re more concerned with urban political issues and helping

 (or invading -ed) other countries than they are about preserving the security of their own food supply.

I guess the people who could make it happen have bunkers or something they can hide in when the ’s’ hits the fan.

Rense.com

IceAgeNow.com

23 october 2007

​​​​De nouvelles recherches suggèrent que les femmes qui mangent des aliments génétiquement modifiés pendant la grossesse risquent de mettre en danger leurs bébés à naître.

​​​​L’étude, réalisée par une chercheuse à l‘Académie des Sciences de Russie, a constaté que plus de la moitié de la progéniture des rates nourries au soja modifié est morte dans les trois premières semaines de vie, six fois plus nombreuse que celle née de mères ayant une alimentation normale. Elle était aussi six fois plus nombreuse à avoir un poids gravement insuffisant.

​​​​La recherche, qui est en cours de préparation pour publication, n’est que l’une d’un groupe d’études récentes qui ont relancé la peur que l’alimentation génétiquement modifiée endommage la santé humaine. Une recherche italienne a constaté que le soja modifié affectait le foie et le pancréas des souris. L’Australie a dû abandonner une tentative d’une durée de dix ans pour développer des pois modifiés quand l’étude a révélé qu’ils provoquaient des dommages aux poumons.

​​​​Et en mai dernier, ce journal-ci révélait un rapport secret du géant de la biotechnologie Monsanto, qui montrait que les rats nourris avec un régime alimentaire riche en OGM de maïs avaient les reins plus petits et un nombre plus grand de globules sanguins — ce qui suggère de possibles dommages au système immunitaire –, que ceux qui mangeait de manière similaire de la nourriture conventionnelle.

​​​​L’Organisation de la Nourriture et de l’Agriculture des Nations Unies tenait un atelier sur la sécurité des aliments génétiquement modifiés à son siège de Rome à la fin de l’année dernière. L’atelier s’adressait aux scientifiques dont les recherches suscitaient de l’inquiétude sur les dangers de santé. Mais l’Organisation Mondiale du Commerce est attendue le mois prochain en soutien d’une tentative de l’administration Bush pour forcer les pays européens à accepter les aliments génétiquement modifiés [c'était en 2006, NDT].

​​​​La recherche russes menace d’avoir un effet explosif sur l’opinion publique déjà hostile. Effectuée par la Dr Irina Ermakova, à l’Institut Supérieur de l’Activité Nerveuse et de Neurophysiologie de l’Académie des Sciences Russe, c’est certainement la première à examiner les effets des aliments génétiquement modifiés sur la progéniture à naître.

​​​​La scientifique a rajouté de la farine de haricots de soja génétiquement modifiés — produits par Monsanto pour résister à son pesticide Roundup — à la nourriture des femelles, commençant deux semaines avant la conception, continuant pendant la grossesse, l’accouchement et l’allaitement. D’autres rates ont reçu du soja naturel, et un troisième groupe n’a pas du tout reçu de soja.

​​​​Elle a trouvé que 36% des jeunes des rates nourries au soja modifié avaient un poids gravement insuffisant, comparés aux 6% de la progéniture des autres groupes. Plus alarmant encore, un atterrant 55,6% de ceux nés des mères au régime OGM ont péri trois semaines après la naissance, comparés aux 9% de la progéniture de celles nourries au soja naturel, et aux 6,8% des jeunes de celles nourries sans soja.

​​​​« La morphologie et la biochimie des structures des rats sont très semblables à celles des hommes, ce qui rend les résultats très inquiétants, » a déclaré la Dr Ermakova. « Cela indique un risque pour les mères et leurs bébés. »

​​​​Les écologistes disent que bien que les résultats sont préliminaires, ils sont potentiellement si graves qu’ils doivent être poursuivis. L’Académie de Médecine Environnementale US a demandé à l’Institut de la Santé US de sponsoriser immédiatement un examen indépendant de contrôle de longue durée.

​​​​Le soja de Monsanto est largement consommés par les étasuniens. Il y a peu ou aucune récolte OGM dans les aliments britanniques, bien qu’on en importe pour nourrir les animaux d’élevage pour la viande.

​​​​Tony Coombes, directeur des affaires générales de Monsanto au Royaume-Uni, a déclaré: « Le poids écrasant des preuves publiées, soumises à un comité de relecture, des études scientifiques menées indépendamment, démontrent que le soja Roundup Ready peut être consommé sans danger par les rats, ainsi que par toutes les autres espèces animales étudiées . »

​​​​Les scientifiques russes ont rajouté de la farine de soja GM à l’alimentation des rates, deux semaines avant l’accouplement, et ont continué cette alimentation pendant la grossesse, l’accouchement et l’allaitement. D’autres rates ont reçu du soja naturel ou pas du tout de soja. Six fois plus de la progéniture des rates nourries au soja avait une grave insuffisance pondérale par rapport à celle née des rates nourries avec un régime normal. En trois semaines, 55,6% des jeunes des mère nourries au soja modifié étaient morts, contre 9% de la progéniture de celles nourris au soja conventionnel.

Original : http://www.commondreams.org/headlines06/0108-01.htm
Traduction de Pétrus Lombard pour Alter Info

Le président de la République islamique est reparti en Iran mardi matin. M. Ahmadinejad prévoyait notamment de visiter le monument de Tsitsernakaberd à la mémoire des victimes du génocide arménien de 1915, ainsi que la Mosquée bleue d’Erevan. Le président devait en outre prononcer un discours devant l’Assemblée nationale.

Le président iranien était arrivé lundi à Erevan à la tête d’une délégation représentative constituée du vice-président Parviz Davoudi, du ministre de la Défense, le général Mostafa Mohammad Najjar, du ministre iranien du Pétrole par intérim, Gholam-Hossein Nozari, ainsi que d’autres personnalités officielles de la République islamique.

M. Ahmadinejad s’est penché avec son homologue arménien Robert Kotcharian sur les perspectives de développement de la coopération économique et politique. Une rencontre des deux délégations officielles en comité élargi ainsi qu’une conférence de presse commune des deux présidents ont ensuite eu lieu.