Anonymous Comrade writes:

"Seven Questions on Haiti"
Anthony Fenton with Derrick O'Keefe, Seven Oaks

1. We hear so little about Haiti in the mainstream media. Most networks don't even have correspondents there right now. What is the reality on the ground in occupied Haiti?

Tragically, the reality in Haiti is very much like the reality of Haiti in 1915, the Dominican Republic in 1965, and is similar in many ways to the long list of military interventions in the hemisphere since the U.S. became the dominant force. What’s being heavily suppressed is that, far from ‘bringing stability’ to Haiti, the imperialist intervention and subsequent installment and propping up of an illegitimate regime is having dire consequences for Haiti’s mostly impoverished masses. Continued political persecution of anyone, and specifically leaders, known to be associated with the Lavalas political party, or of those who are pro-Constitutionalist generally, is the norm. It has been reported that Haiti’s jails and penitentiaries are full of these types of political prisoners.

gnat writes:

Take a look at your calendars. Does September 11th say anything? Several calander printers have started printing 'Patriot Day' in the standard holiday font for September 11th.



It turns out that September 11th is officially called 'Patriot Day.'



It seems we all missed it when the proclomation was made by George W. himself on December, 18 2001

CIA Checking If Life Imitates Art

Tabassum Zakaria, Reuters

WASHINGTON — When the plot thickens, the CIA calls in the professionals — Hollywood screenwriters.

Addressing what the September 11 commission said was one of the main failures of government — imagination — a senior CIA official said on Wednesday the spy agency was willing to "push beyond the traditional boundaries of intelligence".

"We had our terrorism and counternarcotics analysts meet with Hollywood directors, screenwriters and producers. People who are known for developing the summer blockbusters or the hit TV show that often have a terrorism theme," said Jami Miscik, CIA's deputy director for intelligence.

Orion Anderson writes:
"Richard Koenigsberg’s paper on the logic of war and genocide is available for the first time as an on-line publication."

"Dying For One's Country:
The Logic of War and Genocide"

Richard Konigsberg

As the Final Solution began, Hitler professed to be undisturbed by the extermination of men, women, and children. He explained: “If I don’t mind sending the pick of the German people into the hell of war without regret for the shedding of valuable German blood, then I have naturally the right to destroy millions of men of inferior races who increase like vermin.” If he was permitted as national leader to send his own soldiers to die in war, why should he have compunction about sending the mortal enemies of the German people — Jews — to their deaths?

If we understand war as a sacrificial ritual that requires shedding the blood of one’s own people, then the Holocaust is no longer “incomprehensible.” Genocide represents an extension of the logic of war, enlarging the pool of sacrificial victims. If German soldiers were required to “die for the country,” why should Jews be exempt?"

The whole article is

here"