Violence incorporated
Re-reporting, editing, brief comment by Carolyn Bennett
A character of violence pervasively violates. There’s no end to it.
When “religious” people rape women and impressionable young people with impunity; when military personnel rape women, men and the young (including
their colleagues); when military officers mutilate people in countries they have invaded, destroyed and occupied and do this publicly, on camera and with impunity; when Washington makes a practice of violating people at home and abroad — why feign shock
when mere sports figures commit acts to which we, by our silence, have sanctioned?
USA domestic
Soldiers
A United States military officer stationed in Afghanistan who gunned
down unarmed Afghan civilians for sport and dismembered them for trophies now
stands convicted of his crimes. His colleague criminals apparently said this
military officer “played with his victims' corpses as if they were “puppets.” The
so-called “Kill team” leader imprinted skulls on his leg keeping count of his
slaughter.
Teachers
Staff of one of the United States’ “distinguished” universities for
years allowed their colleagues to sexually abuse the young. A sports coach
covered up the crimes, in effect lending approval. Top administrators did
nothing. One boy was reportedly sexually assaulted at least 20 times. When the
coach and college president were finally called to account, though in a limited
way, thousands of students went “on a rampage” protesting the firing of an
entrenched coach who saw the crimes and let them happen.
Elders
In the U.S. State of Georgia, another group of American criminals
composed a “hit list” of Americans and U.S. cities and icons to destroy. These “elder
citizens” apparently plotted to spray deadly ricin over U.S. cities and kill
major political figures or government officials. They stand accused of “plotting
to produce toxin and buying machine gun parts.”
USA International
There is a permeating presence of violence — a Foreign Policy of Violence
AFRICA
SOMALIA
This week 79 more people died in U.S. assassination drone attacks in
southern Somalia. These deaths bring the death toll to 146 in two days.
Today’s aerial attacks follow U.S. terror drone strikes against Afmadow
city in the middle of the Juba region, 620 kilometers (385 miles) south of
Mogadishu. The earlier aerial assassination attacks reportedly killed at least
29 people and wounded 43 others.
Another 38 people died and more
than 66 others were wounded after U.S. remote-controlled terror drones launched
attacks on Tabataa town in the southern Lower Juba region of Somalia.
Somalia is the sixth country where the United States has used
assassination drones to launch deadly missile strikes. On October 28, the
United States admitted to flying the terror aircraft from a base in Ethiopia.
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| Horn of Africa including Somalia |
Somalia is strategically located in the Horn of Africa and generates the
highest number of refugees and internally displaced persons in the world.
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in September warned
that the humanitarian situation remains ‘highly critical’ in Somalia. Somali
doctors also warned that more than 1,479 people, mostly women and children, are
suffering from cholera and other waterborne diseases in Mogadishu and Afgooye
town.
Within a 24-hour period at the time of today’s news report, Press TV
said, cholera took the lives of 87 more people. “The victims died within the
past 24 hours in Mogadishu, and in Afgooye town in the Shabeellaha Hoose region
of southern Somalia about 25 kilometers (16 miles) west of Mogadishu.
Commenting this week on the Washington’s belligerence and failure to
advocate or actively cooperate for peace in the
Middle East, Iraq’s influential religious and political leader Muqtada
al-Sadr said that the United States plans to expand its occupation of Islamic
countries.
“Occupying Iraq means occupying what is around Iraq, and then to
control the Middle East.”
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| Oil rig in Persian Gulf off Kuwait |
ASIA
PERSIA - MIDDLE EAST
U.S. forces move from Iraq to Kuwait adding to the 23,000 soldiers
already deployed in the oil-rich Persian Gulf emirate.
The United States has reportedly decided to station a 4,000-soldier U.S.
army Brigade Combat Team in Kuwait after withdrawing them from neighboring Iraq
by the end of the year. Implementation of this deepening occupation reportedly
depends on a final decision by military planners and Kuwaiti leaders.
Commenting on the news of redeployment of U.S. troops, Muqtada al-Sadr
said last Thursday that the U.S. plans to station troops across the Middle East
region is a move that amounts to occupying other Islamic countries. “‘America
is not only occupying Iraq but also other Islamic countries.… Occupying Iraq
means occupying what is around Iraq, and then to control the Middle East.’”
In the face of incessant bullying from Washington together with what some have called a false IAEA report
on Iran’s nuclear capability, leaders in Iran let fire with their own
belligerence. The Iranian armed forces chief said, “Iran will not be bullied by
hegemonic regimes.”
IRAN [U.S. allied against]
After the most recent U. S. and Israeli anti-Iran rhetoric threatening
a military strike on the pretext that Iran’s nuclear program may have a covert
military aspect, Iran’s Deputy Head of Armed Forces Joint Chiefs of Staff
Brigadier General Masoud Jazayeri issued a warning. On Friday, he said “that if
arrogant regimes do not learn anything from their past encounters with Iran,
Tehran ‘will have no choice but to adopt measures and respond in a way’ that
will teach the West to stop their wrongful behavior.”
Referencing U.S. and Israeli threats, an article in Pravda reported that Russia
and Germany have warned Israel against striking Iran.
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| Oil rig - Iran Second to Saudi Arabia in exports |
“Foreign ministers of Germany and Russia, Sergei Lavrov and Guido
Westerwelle, fear that striking a blow on Iran will not solve the problem.
Moreover, it will lead to considerable loss of life among civilians and will
endanger the security both in the region and in the rest of the world. The
ministers believe that there are diplomatic opportunities left to solve the
problem of the Iranian nuclear program peacefully.”
Iran holds the world’s third largest proven oil reserves and the
second-largest natural gas reserves. Of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting
Countries (OPEC), Iran is next to Saudi Arabia as the second major oil exporter.
Iran exports oil to Pakistan and this week an Iranian oil official said
Iran’s oil shipments to Pakistan continue as scheduled and a new contract on
oil sales to this country is to be finalized.
GULF
BAHRAIN [U.S. allied with dynasty here and in Saudi Arabia]
Since mid-February, thousands of anti-government protesters have been
holding regular demonstrations in Bahrain. They are calling for the U.S.-backed
Al Khalifa royal family to relinquish power. On March 14, troops from Saudi
Arabia and the United Arab Emirates invaded Bahrain to assist the ruling regime
in its brutal crackdown on peaceful protesters in the Persian Gulf Island, home
to a huge military base, the U.S. Navy’s fifth fleet.
This week thousands of Bahrainis attended an anti-government protest
rally in the capital, Manama, organized by the al-Wefaq opposition group, and
called for the release of hundreds of Bahrainis detained for supporting
anti-regime protests. The mass rally came one day after Saudi-back Bahraini
forces fired tear gas and rubber bullets at the house of Sheikh Ali Salman, the
top leader of the al-Wefaq party.
JORDAN [U.S. allied with repressive regime]
Since January, Jordanians have been holding street protests demanding
reforms, including the election of the prime minister by popular vote and an
end to government corruption. There have been no calls for the removal of the
king.
This week, hundreds took to the streets in the southern city of Tafila calling
for an end to corruption and the prosecution of dishonest officials.
TURKEY receives U.S.-operated drones
According to reports, Turkey has received four U.S. Predator drones now
stationed in Turkey’s southern Incirlik air base. A Press TV correspondent
reported on Friday, “Two of the drones arrived in Turkey on October 16; the
remaining ones were delivered on October 23.”
Citing reports, the correspondent said, “The U.S. will operate the
drones whenever it receives a request from Turkey to do so. Turkish military
personnel will not be allowed to operate the drones.”
The delivery of these drones comes after an agreement by Turkey and the
United States “to step up the fight against Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) ‘terrorists.’”
YEMEN [U.S. allied with repressive regime]
Also since January in Yemen, hundreds of thousands of Yemenis have been
holding anti-government demonstrations demanding an end to the rule of Ali
Abdullah Saleh.
Demonstrators have also called for his execution for the brutal
crackdown on popular demonstrations. Hundreds of peaceful protesters have died
and many more have been injured.
Today in the southern city of Taizz, Saleh’s Republican Guard troops
shelled residential areas. At least 15 Yemenis died and dozens suffered wounds.
Among the dead were three women and three children. Witnesses told the press, “Saleh
loyalists started shelling residential areas in Taizz shortly after midnight
(2100 GMT Thursday) and intensified their crackdown into the morning.”
ASIA
Central/South
AFGHANISTAN [under U.S. invasion, occupation]
Increasing numbers of military dead have given rise to rising anger in the U.S.
and in other NATO member states. Across Afghanistan, insecurity rises despite
or because of nearly 150,000 U.S.-led forces in this war-ravaged country. Civilian
casualties, already at record levels in the first six months of the year, according
to a September UN report, climbed by five percent between June and August 2011
compared with the same three-month period in 2010. People displaced by the
conflict in the first seven months of the year, according to estimates, are
130,000 — up nearly two-thirds from the same period last year.
Today, another soldier serving with the U.S.-led International Security
Assistance Force (ISAF) died in a “militant” attack in southern Afghanistan.
In cold blood — Early last year in Afghanistan’s Kandahar province U.S.
Staff Sergeant Calvin Gibbs and four other soldiers during patrols killed unarmed Afghan men.
Prosecutors said Gibbs and his co-defendants knew the victims posed no
danger. However, to make the victims appear to have been combatants, Gibbs and
his co-criminals had dropped weapons by the bodies of the men they killed.
Gibbs admitted, “Cutting fingers off corpses and yanking out a victim’s
tooth to keep as war trophies — ‘like keeping the antlers off a deer you’d
shoot.’”
On Thursday, a U.S. military jury brought in a verdict of guilty for
the head of an army unit that killed three Afghan civilians for sport and
collected body parts as war trophies. The sergeant was convicted of murder,
conspiracy and other charges. The maximum sentence given was life in a military
prison.
PAKISTAN [under U.S. drone attacks]
Thousands of people have died in incidents of violence across Pakistan
since 2007.
Yesterday in the troubled northwest Pakistani tribal areas where
government troops are fighting militants, unknown assailants destroyed a
state-run school. Detonated explosives severely damaged the school building in
the Shabqadar village situated in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province 136
kilometers (85 miles) northwest of the capital Islamabad. The school was empty
at the time and no casualties were reported.
AMERICAS
USA
Suicide, shootouts
Two men died Thursday night on separate U.S. coasts after shots were
fired in or close to Occupy Oakland and Occupy Burlington encampments.
In Burlington, Vermont, a preliminary police investigation has shown
that a 35-year-old former U.S. soldier killed himself yesterday at an “Occupy
Wall Street encampment.” The same day close to an Occupy Oakland, California,
camp, “six shots were fired in a gunfight” that left one person dead.
Protesters in both states had encountered resistance from police and local
government officials.
MURDEROUS intent, implementation
The United States has consistently refused to sign the Convention on
Cluster Munitions so far having been signed by 111 countries. The Convention
prohibits cluster munitions and requires the destruction of stockpiles within
eight years. Cluster bombs are highly imprecise weapons that work by dispersing
hundreds of smaller sub-munitions — often referred to as bomblets or grenades —
which do not explode immediately but later when civilians are about, often
children at play.
The United States used cluster bombs in the initial phases of its wars
against Afghanistan and Iraq. Israel dropped more than four million bomblets on
southern Lebanon in July 2006, some of which were M85s. Norwegian experts
discovered that on the field of battle the M85 had a failure rate close to 10
percent. The world’s major cluster bomb manufacturers — that include the U.S.,
Israel, Russia, China, South Korea, India and Pakistan — have all refused to
sign the Convention on Cluster Munitions.
Now, U.S. officials are leading an effort to water down an
international ban on cluster bombs, weapons that kill long after they are
dropped and without regard for enemy or ally, whether innocent child or
entrenched combatant.
“Within days,” Pravda reports, “the U.S. could approve a new law allowing
the use of cluster bombs — a banned lethal weapon that kills children in
playgrounds years after wars have ended. However, if we build a mass campaign
now, we can convince other governments to stop the U.S. from using these
weapons.”
HAITI
Cleansing with Cholera
The cholera started in Haiti nine months after a 2010 earthquake
wrecked the capital Port-au-Prince, killing tens of thousands and leaving many
more homeless. The cholera outbreak did not remain within the borders of Haiti;
it has spread to Dominican Republic, the neighboring country on the island of
La Hispaniola. Several studies including one carried out by the U.S. Centers
for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) found that the contamination was
spread from a pipe discharging refuse from a Nepalese military camp.
After numerous investigations suggested that the cholera, which has
killed 6,600 Haitian people and infected about 475,000 others, was brought to the quake-hit island by Nepalese peacekeepers, Haitians have taken legal action
against the UN seeking hundreds of millions of dollars compensation for the
cholera outbreak in the Caribbean country.
In their petition, Haitians argued that the UN peacekeepers caused the
deaths by throwing untreated waste infected with cholera into the main river of
the country.
MEXICO
Since President Felipe Calderon deployed security forces to the streets
to fight the drug cartels, drug violence in the past four years has killed more
than 40,000 people in Mexico. Mexican government findings show that 2010 was
the bloodiest year so far — with 15,273 drug-related murders.
In late September in several locations in the municipality of Boca del
Rio, Mexican police found 46 bodies.
This week, Mexican police found victims whose dead bodies bore signs of
violence. The dead were seven men and women in a village outside the country’s
northern city of Durango.
[U.S] NATO
An idea whose time has come [an opinion excerpted in part from Pravda]
ACCUSED
“Case of the century: Indictment against North Atlantic Treaty
Organization [NATO] military and political leaders
An Indictment of NATO
For breach of international law in the
Great Socialist People’s Libyan Arab
Jamahiriya
“Understanding that international law exists and that with impunity it
has been systematically broken by certain powers
“Understanding that such a situation is unacceptable and that the same
set of laws should apply to all, equally, with the same sets of weights and
measures employed in upholding it —
“The military and political leaders of NATO are hereby accused of the
following crimes committed in the Libyan campaign of 2011 in which the
systematic breaches of international law are underlined.
“I hereby accuse NATO and the below-mentioned individuals, party to its
acts in the Great Socialist People’s Libyan Arab Jamahiriya from February to
September (ongoing) 2011, of breach of international law.”
Accusation:
“NATO war crimes, crimes against humanity, breach of UN Charter, Breach
of UNSC Resolutions, breach of Geneva Conventions, occasioning murder,
attempted murder, actions occasioning grievous and actual bodily harm,
destruction of private and public property.”
The
Accused:
“Anders Fogh Rasmussen (Denmark) NATO Secretary-General;
Charles Bouchard (Canada), Commander of Operations;
Nicolas Sarkozy, Édouard Guillaud (France);
Rinaldo Veri, Commander Allied Maritime Command (Italy);
David Cameron, Sir Stuart Peach (UK);
Barack Obama, Carter Ham, Sam Locklear (USA);
Harald Sunde (Norway),
Abdullah II (Jordan);
Hamad bin Khalifa al Thani (Qatar),
Khalifa bin Zayed al Nahyan (UAE);
Sverker Goranson (Sweden);
Defense Ministers Pieter de Crem (Belgium),
Anuy Angelov (Bulgaria),
Gitte Lillelund Bech (Denmark);
Panos Beglitis (Greece);
Hans Hillen (Netherlands);
Gabriel Oprea (Romania);
Carme Chacón Piqueras (Spain);
Ismet Yilmaz (Turkey),
Liam Fox (UK),
Ignazio La Russa (Italy),
Gérard Longuet (France).
Foreign Minister William Hague (UK),
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton (USA)
Italian Foreign Minister Franco Frattini”
U.S. foreign relations
Arming and bankrolling to create domestic and regional pressure • assassination with impunity • direct aggression • direct/indirect threat/intimidation • displacement/destabilization • economic/financial sanctions • failing nations • failure to negotiate with words or nonviolent diplomacy • provocation/incitement to protracted violence • occupation • unlawful search and detention • torture…
The United States is at WAR
with the world’s peoples and their countries —
1.
Afghanistan
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2.
Bahrain
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3.
Cuba
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4.
Djibouti
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5.
Eritrea
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6.
Ethiopia
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7.
Haiti
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8.
Honduras
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9.
Iran
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10.
Iraq
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11.
Japan (Okinawa)
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Kenya
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13.
Libya
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14.
Mexico
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Nigeria
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North Korea
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Pakistan
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18.
Palestine
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Russia
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Saudi Arabia
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21.
Somalia
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South Korea
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24.
Turkey
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25.
Uganda [dominoes
The Sudan, South Sudan, Central African Republic, Republic of the Congo (Brazzaville), Democratic Republic of
the Congo (Kinshasa)]
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26.
Yemen
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Sources and notes
“Gibbs convicted of murder in one of the most gruesome cases of Afghan
war” (Daily Mail UK Reporter), November 11, 2011,
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2060230/US-Army-sergeant-Calvin-Gibbs-murdered-3-Afghan-civilians-jailed-life.html
“‘We want Joe back!’” (Laurie Whitwell), November 10, 2011, http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2059571/Joe-Paterno-fired-amid-Penn-State-scandal-President-Graham-Spanier.html
“Men discussed ‘murder, theft, and making toxic agents’— had a ‘murder
bucket list’; one man in group ‘wanted to use plot of fictional novel Absolved
as model for attacks on government officials’, another suspect described a plan
to ‘blow ricin out of a moving car on the freeway’”
(Daily Mail Reporter), November 2, 2011, http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2056517/The-geriatric-terrorists-Four-pensioners-busted-terror-plot-involving-toxin-ricin.html#ixzz1dQDq43XO
ri·cin \'rī-sən, 'ri-\ n [L ricinus castor-oil plant] (1896) : a
poisonous protein in the castor bean
AFRICA
“U.S. terror drones kill 146 in two days,” November 11, 2011,
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/209503.html
ALSO: “Al-Shabab ambush kills 30
Kenyan troops — Somalia’s al-Shabab fighters say they have killed at least 30
foreign soldiers in an attack in the country’s south, as violence rages on the
Horn of Africa nation” (Press TV reports), November 11, 2011, .
“Pirates demand $8 million for UAE vessel — Somali pirates have
demanded a ransom payment of millions of dollars for the release of a UAE-owned
vessel that they hijacked last year” (Press TV reported), November 11, 2011,
CAPTION
Somalia displaced
Geediyo Mohamed Abdi, a displaced Somali mother, sits next to her sick
children in Banadir hospital in Mogadishu on August 14, 2011. (file photo)
Also: Near Somalia’s Southern port city of Kismayo, a French helicopter
crashes. Ten people are believed to have died in the crash. Nov ember 11, 2011,
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/209558.html
“Cholera claims 87 more lives in Somalia,” November 11, 2011,
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/209506.html
ASIA
ASIA MIDDLE EAST
Kuwait
“‘U.S. to shift troops from Iraq to Kuwait,’” November 11, 2011, http://www.presstv.ir/detail/209448.html
CAPTION
Oil rig in the Persian Gulf off Kuwait – Britannica
KUWAIT
A former British protectorate (1899 until 1961) of the Arabian
Peninsula located in the northwestern corner of the Persian Gulf, Kuwait (slightly
larger in area than the U.S. state of Hawaii) is a small emirate bounded to the
west and north by Iraq, to the east by the Persian Gulf, and to the south by
Saudi Arabia.
Kuwait is situated in a section of one of the driest, least-hospitable
deserts on earth. Its shore, however, includes Kuwait Bay, a deep harbor on the
Persian Gulf; at the western end of Kuwait Bay, and a few fertile patches in
the southeastern and coastal areas. Kuwaiti territory includes nine offshore
islands, the largest of which are the uninhabited Būbiyān and Al-Warbah. The
island of Faylakah, which is located near the entrance of Kuwait Bay, has been
populated since prehistoric times.
KUWAITI OIL and GAS
Kuwait has nearly one-tenth of the world’s proven oil reserves.
Kuwait’s proven recoverable reserves are thought to be enough to
sustain current production levels for some 150 years, and, though the oil
industry sustained severe damage during the Iraqi invasion, most of that was
repaired by the mid-1990s.
Kuwait also has considerable natural gas reserves, almost all in the
form of associated gas (gas produced together with crude oil).
Iran
“U.S. must stop using hostile tone: Iran,” November 11, 2011,
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/209544.html
“Will USA and Israel join efforts for splendid little war against
Iran?” November 10, 2011,
http://english.pravda.ru/world/asia/10-11-2011/119581-israel_iran_war-0/
“‘Iran continues oil export to Pakistan,’” November 11, 2011,
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/209499.html
Also on foreign relations, Iran, Israel, U.S. reports November 11,
2011:
“Ban Ki-moon highlights diplomacy in Iran Nuclear case — UN Secretary
General Ban Ki-moon has underscored the role of diplomacy as the sole approach
to settle Iran’s nuclear issue, rejecting any military options as repeatedly
boasted by the U.S. and the Israeli regime”
“Iran, Russia ink strategic security pact — Iran and Russia have
finalized a strategic security agreement aimed at further enhancing ties
between the two countries”
“‘UN inept over silence on Israeli threat’ — UN’s silence over Israel’s
recent military threats against Iran is indicative of the organization’s
ineptitude (political analyst tells Press TV)
IAEA FRAUD
Pravda reports, “According to reliable sources quoted in Russia, the
so-called nuclear weapons scientist cited as helping Iran’s weapons program is
NOT a nuclear weapons scientist at all. The Ukrainian, Vyacheslav Danilenko,
has NEVER worked on nuclear weapons; he is one of the top specialists in the
world in the production of nanodiamonds. Danilenko worked in an Institute that
specialized in the synthesis of diamonds. Iran has a program to develop its
nanotechnology sector, with one major focus being nanodiamonds.
This is the latest to come out exposing the utter fabrication that the
IAEA report is. If they talk about this report a thousand times, are people
going to hear all of the evidence pointing to all the holes in this obvious lie
or will they believe it because it has been beaten to death by the western
corporate media?
“The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) reports accusing Tehran
of having planned nuclear weapons, something the country’s government
vehemently denies.
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said, “‘The U.S. administration
looks for prosperity by driving other countries to poverty, plundering their
riches.’”
“IAEA report on Iran exposed as a BIG fraud,” November 10, 2011,
http://english.pravda.ru/hotspots/crimes/10-11-2011/119583-IAEA_report_on_Iran_BIG_fraud-0/
GULF
“Bahrainis rally upon opposition’s call,” November 11, 2011,
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/209549.html
“Jordanians rally for real reforms,” November 11, 2011,
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/209569.html
“U.S. predator drones arrive in Turkey,” November 11, 2011,
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/209511.html
“Saleh loyalists kill 15 in Taizz,” November 11, 2011, http://www.presstv.ir/detail/209528.html
ASIA
Central/South
AFGHANISTAN
“U.S.-led soldier killed in Afghan war,” November 11, 2011,
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/209484.html
“U.S. soldier convicted in Afghans killings,” November 11, 2011,
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/209445.html
Also “Germany to cut Afghan force contingent— Germany says it is
planning to withdraw its military forces from Afghanistan at the beginning of
next year amid growing public opposition to the U.S.-led Afghan war,” November
11, 2011
PAKISTAN
“Militants destroy school in NW Pakistan,” November 11, 2011, http://www.presstv.ir/detail/209472.html
AMERICAS
United States
“Veteran commits suicide in Occupy Burlington, second man dies in
Oakland,” November 11, 2011, http://www.presstv.ir/usdetail/209545.html
“U.S. moves to overturn ban on cluster bombs,” November 11, 2011,
http://www.presstv.ir/usdetail/209555.html
Also — “Cluster bombs, unsafe for living things,” http://english.pravda.ru/world/americas/11-11-2011/119596-Cluster_bombs_unsafe_for_iving_things-0/
http://www.avaaz.org/po/cluster_bombs_ii_b/?vl
AVAAZ on cluster bombs and the Convention,
Sign the urgent petition to save our children now!
“Thousands of people - many of them children - were killed or maimed by these bombs. When they are released, they are divided into many ‘small bombs’ across a wide area, many of which do not explode. Years later, people find these devices in fields or on playgrounds of schools without knowing what they are. They are disturbed, picked up and then they explode.
In 2008, more than half of world governments banned these weapons by signing the Convention on Cluster Munitions. Now, surprisingly, countries like France, Germany, Italy, Sweden and the UK, who signed the Convention, are under pressure from the U.S., China and Russia to carry out signing a separate agreement that would allow the use of cluster bombs. Only Norway, Mexico, Austria and a few others are fighting this horror.
Negotiators for the Convention on Conventional Weapons will meet in Geneva next week. Most governments do not really want this protocol and did not say how they will vote, but are under strong U.S. pressure. They will object only if the global public does something to convince them.
No time to lose; the conference starts on Monday. We will ask our governments to reject this cynical and deadly U.S. campaign to legalize killing with cluster bombs.
Cluster bombs and landmines were banned because citizens sounded the alarm to the world — with victims and survivors leading the way. Because of them, and to ensure no more lives are lost, we will not allow these cruel weapons to be allowed. Let us unite now to demand a more peaceful world.
HAITI
“Haitians seek UN compensation,” November 9, 2011, http://www.presstv.ir/detail/209208.html
MEXICO
“Seven found dead in north Mexico,” November 10, 2011,
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/209282.html
Also November 11— Mexican Interior Secretary Francisco Blake Mora and
seven others died in a helicopter crash near Mexico City,
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/209589.html
[U.S.-led] NATO ACCUSED
“The law case of the century: Indictment against NATO military and
political leaders,” November 6, 2011,
http://english.pravda.ru/opinion/columnists/06-11-2011/119534-indictment_nato-0/
http://english.pravda.ru/opinion/columnists/06-11-2011/119534-indictment_nato-0/
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