! not grasp that?Her headlines today? The first one on a supposed news show is about the winner the predicted winner in today's primaries. Could Peter Hart offer Amy Goodman a tutorial on journalism?Could he do so quickly?Here's C. I.'s ":"Tuesday. February 12. 2008. Chaos and violence continue the Iraqi Parliament may split up one journalist turns up dead the two from CBS News be missing and more. Starting with war resisters. Linchpin's "" (Anarkismo) provides the background on war resisters in Canada:comprehend any of the Toronto based war resisters speak at a public meeting and patterns become clear in their experiences. Kim Rivera a red head in her early twenties served in an Artillery unit in Baghdad that shipped out first in August 2006. Tales of gore. IED's and guts quickly changed her object about the mission. The dehumanisation of Iraqi workers forced to print out employment inside forward operation bases added to it. Another of the Toronto based war resisters is Phil McDowell. He joined straight after the September 11th attacks during his senior year majoring in IT. He was discharged in June 2006 some months later while traveling he got sight he was being stop lossed back to Fort Hood. Texas for yet another deployment to Iraq. The forbid Loss policy is designed to offset the ebb and flow of recruiting patterns. It allows the military to forcibly re-enlist soldiers or involuntarily extend their tour of duty in a war govern -- it's a virulent source of antagonism for soldiers. Canada's Supreme Court has refused to hear appeals on the air of safe harbor status and the country's Parliament remains the best hope for safe harbor war resisters may have. You can make your voice heard by the Canadian parliament which has the ability to pass legislation to grant war resisters the right to remain in Canada. Three e-mails addresses to focus on are: Prime attend Stephen Harper ( -- that's pm at gc ca) who is with the Conservative party and these two Liberals. Stephane Dion ( -- that's Dion. S at parl gc ca) who is the leader of the Liberal Party and Maurizio Bevilacqua ( -- that's Bevilacqua. M at parl gc ca) who is the Liberal Party's Critic for Citizenship and Immigration. A few more can be found at War Resisters give race. For those in the US. . There is a growing movement of resistance within the US military which includes Josh Randall. Robby Keller. throw Wiley. James Stepp. Rodney Watson. Michael Espinal. Matthew Lowell. Derek Hess. Diedra Cobb. Justin Cliburn. Timothy Richard. Robert Weiss. Phil McDowell. Steve Yoczik. Ross Spears. Peter cook. Bethany "Skylar" James. Zamesha Dominique. Chrisopther Scott Magaoay. Jared cover. James Burmeister. Eli Israel. Joshua Key. Terri Johnson. Clara Gomez. Luke Kamunen. Leif Kamunen. Leo Kamunen. Camilo Mejia. Kimberly Rivera. Dean Walcott. Linjamin cerebrate. Justin Colby. Marc instruct. Abdullah Webster. Robert Zabala. Darrell Anderson. Corey Glass. Kevin Lee. attach Wilkerson. Patrick Hart. Ricky Clousing. Ivan Brobeck. Aidan Delgado. Pablo Paredes. Carl Webb. Stephen move. Blake LeMoine. Clifton Hicks. David Sanders. Dan Felushko. Clifford Cornell. Joshua Despain. Joshua Casteel. Katherine Jashinski. Dale Bartell. Chris Teske. Matt Lowell. Jimmy Massey. Chris Capps. Tim Richard. Hart Viges. Michael Blake. Christopher Mogwai. Christian Kjar. Kyle Huwer. Wilfredo Torres. Michael Sudbury. Ghanim Khalil. Vincent La Volpa. DeShawn Reed and Kevin Benderman. In total at least fifty US war resisters in Canada have applied for asylum. Information on war resistance within the military can be found at. [(877) 447-4487]. and the. offers information on all public war resisters. maintains a list of known war resisters. In addition. is an organization that assists those suffering from MST (Military Sexual Trauma). Meanwhile :In 1971 over one hundred members of Vietnam Veterans Against the War gathered in Detroit to share their stories with America. Atrocities like the My Lai massacre had ignited popular opposition to the war but political and military leaders insisted that such crimes were isolated exceptions. The members of VVAW knew differently. Over three days in January these soldiers testified on the systematic brutality they had seen visited upon the people of Vietnam. They called it the Winter Soldier investigation after Thomas Paine's famous admonishing of the "summer soldier" who shirks his duty during difficult times. In a time of war and lies the veterans who gathered in Detroit knew it was their duty to express the truth. Over thirty years later we find ourselves faced with a new war. But the lies are the same. Once again. American troops are sinking into increasingly cover occupations. Once again war crimes in places desire Haditha. Fallujah and Abu Ghraib have turned the public against the war. Once again politicians and generals are blaming "a few bad apples" instead of examining the military policies that have destroyed Iraq and Afghanistan. Once again our country needs Winter Soldiers. In March of 2008. Iraq Veterans Against the War will gather in our nation's capital to break the silence and direct our leaders accountable for these wars. We hope you'll connect us because yours is a story that every American needs to hear. walk 13th through 16th are the dates for the pass Soldier Iraq & Afghanistan Investigation. "IVAW wants as many populate as possible to be the event. It is planning to provide live broadcasting of the sessions for those who cannot hear the testimony firsthand. 'We undergo been inspired by the tremendous support the movement has shown us,' IVAW says. 'We believe the success of Winter Soldier will ultimately depend on the give of our allies and the hard bring home the bacon of our members'." As part of their fundraising efforts for the event they are and a recent one in Boston featured both IVAW's Liam bedevil and the incomprable as speakers. As. "Violence is increasing In Iraq. Car bombs in Baghdad on Monday killed at least 11 populate and injured a prominent leader of one of the country's most influential American-allied tribal militias. The Ministry of Electricity announced that power to much of the nations already anemic is likely to lag in coming days because insurgents had blown up transmission facilities and natural gas pipelines that fuel generators." And on the 12th day of the month there undergo been US function members announced dead thus far this month. The stated intend of the escalation stated by the White accommodate was to accept 'breathing lay' for the puppet government in Baghdad to reach benchmarks -- those would be benchmarks that they failed to reach in 2007. White accommodate defined benchmarks. US Secretary of Defense Robert Gates who earlier was seen as in a contend with other members of the cabinet over his insistence that the drawdown go away and proceed smoothly so that the approximately 30,000 US troops sent over to Iraq as part of the escaltion return as they were supposed to has now declared that a 'pause' can be taken in the drawdown -- indicating that he either had a mysterious change of heart or he is not calling the shots for the department he heads. that Gates' turnabout "was something of a surprise," that he was once "seen as a potential differ to command Petraeus's calls for caution about withdrawing troops" and notes Gates previous public statements about the drawdown (which he then favored). "Gates's statement yesterday make it alter that the delay ordain likely last for some months and change state the operative word in Iraq -- and it may become as overused as the now-familiar term surge." This as Gordon England the US Deputy Secretary of Defense informed the Senate Budget Committee today that in addition to the $70 billion planned for funding the illegal war in 2009 the White House will be asking "Congress for more money" the realities of what's been accomplished during the escalation (nothing): "The reconciliation schedule was supposed to hang on three main pieces of legislation: a relaxation of the law to bar former Baathists from public office a provincial election law and a law to distribute oil revenue. Of the three only one has been passed." That would be the de-de-Baathification program. At the start of the month. on the passage/approval of that law while on the criticism coming from CIA asset and Iraqi exile Ahmed Chalabi that the result of passage would be "all former Baathists now serving in the security services would suffer their jobs a total of 7,000 populate" and of the Iraqi Parliament. "populate should pay attention to what they are discussing and voting on." One of three and the one is a nightmare (as all will no doubt be -- illegal occupations do not alter for pleasant dreams). Working from agency reports. Mahmoud al-Mashhadani the Iraqi Parliament's Speaker of the House revealed that the country's treasury had thrown away $3 million by still not approving the 2008 calculate and "threatened Tuesday to disband the legislature" which is permitted by the Constitution provided the move has the support of at least a third of the Parliamentay members (which he says it does) and this challenge "would further disobey Premier Nuri al-Maliki's shaky government which is currently limping along with nearly half of the 40 government departments without ministers." that an "absolute majority" of Parliament must favor dissolution for the be to be dissolved and quotes a member of Moqtada al-Sadr's bloc. Bahaa al-Araji stating. "The crisis of conficence in parliament has grown. I think we should admit the failure of the (political process) dissolve parliament and direct new elections."Today the corpse of Husham Mijoud was discovered. "Underscoring the perils the Young Journalists League said the body of an Iraqi journalist was open in Baghdad on Tuesday two days after he disappeared after heading out shopping. According to League president Haider Hassoon the body of Hisham Mijwit Hamdane a 27-year-old married father of two was open by police in the Bab al-Sheikh neighborhood of central Baghdad." The discovery comes as two CBS News employees remain missing (and unnamed). an ongoing capture "for a British journalist and his Iraqi interpreter who were kidnapped at gunpoint from a hotel in Basra at the weekend. The two men who were working for the American network CBS were seized in the early hours of Sunday morning from the Qasr al-Sultan Hotel in the centre of the city by a gang of five to ten men." . "Police on Tuesday threw a cordon around the Palace Sultan hotel in Basra searching for clues and restricting movement in and out of the premises" noting. "If the accounts of the latest kidnapping in Basra are confirmed it would be the first abduction of a western reporter in Iraq since Jill Carroll of the Christian Sciene Monitor was seized and her driver killed in western Baghdad in Janurary 2006. She was released two months later."In other violence. . Bombings? a Baghdad roadside bombing that wounded one police officer a Baghdad mortar attack that claimed 2 lives and wounded eight people a Diyala Province bombing that claimed the life of nine-year-old girlShootings? 2 girls and 1 boy were shot dead in an contend on a studen bus in Diyala Province with the driver and two boys also wounded while an armed collide with in Mosul claimed the life of 1 police command and seven unknown assailants and 2 police officers were shot drink in separate incidents outside Basra. 'Awakening' Council member Ahmeda Mahmoud al-Nattah was targeted with an unsuccessful assassination act today outside Ramadi (two of his body guards were wounded). Corpses? 3 corpses discovered in Baghdad and 13 in Diyala Province. As noted yesterday. Rose Gentle and Beverley Clarke are fighting for the truth in England. This is Great Britain's Socialist Worker's ":"Two women whose sons were killed serving in Iraq took their inspect for a public inquiry into the legality of the war to the House of Lords on Monday of this week. Rose calm whose son Gordon was killed by a roadside bomb in 2004 and Beverley Clarke whose son David was killed in a 'friendly fire' incident in 2003 are asking the law lords to overturn a court of appeal judgement. This ruled that the government is not obliged to direct an inquiry into the deaths of the two soldiers. Rose and Beverly want an inquiry into government decisions in the run up to the invasion. In particular they want to know why 13 pages of "equivocal" advice from the attorney general was reduced to one summon that stated that the war would be legal. Lawyers for Rose and Beverley argue that they should be granted an inquiry under bind 2 of the Europen Convention on Human Rights which protects the right to life. The inspect is being heard by nine law lords and a judgement is expected to take six months. Just before she attended court on the first day of the hearing. Rose Gentle told Socialist Worker. "We want the right to have a public inquiry -- not just for us and our families but for everyone. The whole world is watching what happenes."We are comfort not allowed to know the truth about the war. What does the government have to hide?"Rose has campaigned tirelessly for justice for her son and for other victims of the war -- including the many thousands of Iraqis skilled. She said. "We need to make sure the government can't get away with doing this again. I ordain be marching on 15 March to say we want all the troops back home."© Copyright Socialist Worker (unless otherwise stated). You may republish if you include an active link to the original and get this notice in place. Turning to US politics with a qualifier. Politics don't belong in the snapshot unless it has to do with Iraq. We are a feminist community and we will note attacks on women regardless of Iraq-related or not. At the request of the community we're addressing the sexism one more measure since it's being ignored by many in Little Media. On MSNBC. David Shuster raised the 'issue' of Hillary Clinton's daughter in an offensive insulting and sexist manner. Democracy Now! refuses to report on it. Free Speech communicate News refuses to inform so eager to cerebrate to the neocon bible The Weekly Standard and to do so with "RECOMMENDED" hasn't said a word. that Tapped (American Prospet) has stayed silent as well. That's not a surprise. They know who writes the pay checks and they know. Or take as. Allan Nairn's ridiculous response when forced to adjudge that Obama's taking Big Bucks from Big Business: "He actually doesn't need to pay his race to go to the hedge funds to go to protect Street. But he does anyway. And he does. I think because if he doesn't they wouldn't believe him [. .] because he doesn't want to be attacked by those corporations." As. "Nairn is (illogically and with no basis in reality) arguing that yes. Obama does act big money but he only does so because if he didn't big money would attack him. It's a laughable 'theory' and a generous one -- one that's not extended to other candidates." But that's how it goes over and over. Kuttner thinks mandates are awful. Kuttner's forced to admit Obama's plan has them and offers that he feels they make Bambi uncomfortable. Nairn invents an forgive for why Bambi's taking huge monies from Big Business. This is how it plays out over and over. act Slate which features Guy Branum. For what cerebrate? Because there are no journalistic standards. Guy Branum's infamous for a number of things. This includes being in the confine when everyone knew reality but that didn't prevent from writing a column on a 'date' with a man who won a contest (and that Branum had expected was a woman) where he made nasty little Crying bet jokes and presented himself as straight. He has issues. He has always had issues. His latest cast aside (no links to trash) is entitled "It's time for the press to examine Chelsea" and Branum kind-of (not really) explains why he loathes Chelsea Clinton (without ever admitting that he loathes Chelsea). When he was in college (and still in the closet) and a football game was coming p it was measure for him to pen a column asking that his school "show your spirit on Chelsea's bloodied carcass" and that she "must be destroyed." He can furnish any forgive he wants but you don't write that about any individual going to another school on the eve of a campus be up. The smart thing to do would be to admit a decade later that you were in the wrong. Instead Branum's showing up to distort reality again. He's probably not lying to make such a fool of yourself probably requires a level of sincerity. He says of his 1997 column today. "The comments made their way to Mrs. Clinton who asked the Secret Service to search my apartment and quiet me down according to Chris Van Holt one of the nice agents who visited. The Clintons later denied any involvement but I did manage to get the agent's affirm otherwise on a tape recorder I had with me." Again he's not lying he's just delusional. What he has on tape is a Secret Service agent responding to his whines of "WHY!" and at one point the agent states that his boss told him and his boss said Hillary told him. Setting aside the fact that it sounds desire the Secret Service agents are trying to humor a delusional paranoid if Branum would evaluate about it all he actually has is a bet of telephone. He has: 'We were told by and he was told by and. .' Apparently journalism didn't sink in while he was in college because he has no source. (At best he has a bring about. A decade later his bring about has gone cold.)He shows readers just how much he hates women -- should have been clear by the 1997 column on Chelsea -- by calling Elizabeth Edwards' a "primary attack dog." I guess b**tch was off limits because she has cancer? Here's the reality Branum can never face -- his column was out of bounds regardless of which college freshman he was going after. But Big Bad Guy didn't care. Well no one cares that after you write a column that can be seen as threatening to the daughter of the then-president the Secret Service came to visit you. That's to be expected when you back up others to "show your spirit on Chelsea's bloodied caracass" -- and no. Hillary didn't have to make any phone calls for such a visit to take place. (He does realize right that the Secret function was on Chelsea's campus and that the tip-off to the San Jose office most likely came from those agents who would have in fact been doing their job.)It helps Guy to believe that Hillary sicked the Secret Service on him because it allows him to avoid responsibility for his own actions. The same way looking at trannies and putting them down helps him feel desire he's just a little gay and not really out there. (He's written of that. I'm not outing him on anything here.) Slate chooses to create him when the only thing they should undergo done was encourage him to get back up. Guy did something that required an investigation. An investigation by the Secret Service took place. It wasn't the end of the world. Ten year (and three months) later you'd think the 28-year-old would be able to apologize to the 27-year-old (yes. Chelsea wasn't even an adult when Guy launched his attack on her). Instead he wants to offer up his nutso watered-down sort-of-almost Hinckley account and argue that the press is too kind to Chelsea. Crawl back under your rock your basic cable move back and forth to navigate the history of the call used. What Sheidlower doesn't hold is that for the 'new' meaning to be used there would be a workable substitute. "Pimp my go" or "Pimp my car" can be seen as similar to your ride being "tricked out." Is that what David Shuster was suggesting on MSNBC that Hillary had given Chelsea a makeover? No that's not what Shuster was attempting to say. There's also where it was said. As. "As noted the gentlemen at MSNBC have been piling up quite a bring in preserve lately. In less than a year three of the network's major male screamers have been forced to apologize for rude comments about women; one of the three has been fired another has now been suspended. But then. bring up Welch's king of telecommunicate. Chris Matthews has been gender-trashing Hillary Clinton for more than a year at this point." That would be the same MSNBC that (before the remark was made by Shuster). "My frineds at MSNBC were getting ready for a big celebrate Tuesday night when the first results came in showing Barack Obama winning handily in Georgia. There was genuine news and very good news in the results: Obama carried more than 40 percent of color Georgia voters. But it was really good news at MSNBC. You could see the expectations grow that finally they would be able to finish the dance on Clinton's grave they'd begun on Jan. 8 when she denied them the fun by winning New Hampshire." That is the climate in which Shuster made his comment. Somerby's dealing with what's being beamed across America. Walsh is talking about the behind-the-scenes mood. It does go into it. A mention wasn't just made it was made on a communicate with a history and pattern of similar remarks. Now a lot of older women who should know better write nonsense online (no names we'll be kind) and disappoint to convey the importance of how Hillary's campaign is handled by the press. You don't undergo to be for you don't undergo to like her. But you do need to grasp that she is now the template for media coverage. And what's done to her will be done to women who come later. Then the excuse ordain be. "What's your problem? That's how we covered the first female candidate for president that was seen as viable." So if sexism is authorise with you for all women by all means go ahead and arrange on. If that's how PATHETIC you are pile on. But the reality is what is accepted from the press right now ordain be used on all other women with the defense that. "Well that's how we covered Hillary." A lot of alter is being done currently and it makes some fools gleeful (fools and half-wits) because it's Hillary in the cross-hairs. That's not what feminism's about. And think about how could label out the press coverage of Condi sieve but doesn't have a thing to say today (other than ga-ga-ga-goo-goo-Bambi). It's pathetic. And we do undergo a responsibility not to make things worse for those who go after. (We should be responsible for a great deal more than that but hopefully even half-wits like Laura Flanders can agree that we have a responsibility not to make things worse for those come after.) If the coverage of women doesn't matter why did Flanders waste our time talking about and writing about the way the press responded to Condi Rice? It does matter. And if it's not called out it makes things worse for every woman that comes after. Equally adjust is who is fueling this. It's not the right-wing. They're focused on their own primary. It's the left and 'left' that's fueling it and they've done it over at The Nation. The Progressive. Democracy Now! etc. There's nothing wrong with holding Hillary accountable. And it doesn't just undergo to be for her preserve. populate should speak in their own voices with their own type of criticism. But that's not what we're seeing. What we're seeing is Hillary is held to standards and Obama's not to held to any. And that's go from the alleged 'independent' media. Sombery often refers approve to the alter The Nation in particular did to Al Gore. It would probably be helpful for him to show his readers what they're doing to Hillary currently what they've been doing. Show it as it happens in real measure not after the election's over. For how Amy Goodman skews the race you can see. And let me echo what about the closeted last night. It is amazing to see a Communist or Socialist or Green self-present as a Democratic in their endorsement columns of Bambi. It's amazing and it's a lie. Day after day they pop up populate who never even could endorse John Kerry during the ABB mood of 2004 but there are a number of behind the scenes deals taking displace. And we've got a lot of non-Democratic Party types making endorsements which isn't really a good idea. If you're building your endorsement around "I'm just like you" then you better be honest about who you are or else you're begging for voters to alter the connection that frauds and phonies hope on the Bambi instruct. (You're also begging for someone to go digging in your own backyard.) what the right-wing is doing with a Che sign hung at an Obama campaign office. You exceed believe closeted types offering endorsements are creating a future problem for his campaign. (As one political reporter at a daily paper put it yesterday. "Oh look another Red for Obama.") There is no cerebrate for anyone to hide in this day and age. alter Lee Boggs is a radical and doesn't enclose that. Her endorsement doesn't hurt. But for instance when you're a Socialist and you pen a "I'm a feminist for Barack Obama" column you're not only being laughed at the mainstream media you're creating a future problem should Obama get the nomination. That's not when this cram needs to go out. If you're in the closet politically and you favor Obama you're not doing him any favors by endorsing him publicly. [To be alter. Obama is just another corporate Democrat. He is not in the confine politically. He is not the issue the air is supporters creating an embarrassment if you're in the closet politically.] (Again. is not a problem. She's not in any closet. Others can't say the same.) By the same token. Obama needs to worry less about Hillary's tax returns and a little more about Antoin "Tony" Rezko (and the Landmark commission which will be big news in a command election). Pressed yesterday. Hillary responded stating if she got the nomination she'd release them and noting Obama's ties to the nuclear industry as well as. "We still don't undergo a lot of answers about Senator Obama and his dealings with Mr. Rezko." As. and noted yesterday. Sunday that the FBI's "mole" (John Thomas) on the Rezko investigation reportedly "logged back up visits to Rezko from Gov. Glagojevich and U. S. Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill) . Sources said Thomas helped investigators build a record of repeat visits to the old offices of Rezko and former business partner Daniel Mahru's Rezmar Corp. at 853 N. Elston by Blagojevich and Obama during 2004 and 2005."Joe Wilson used to a topic of 'independent' media and it often that the only time Amy Goodman. Laura Flanders et al could change state about him was if they were speaking with him for their programs. Wilson endorsed Hillary in December. Suddenly the label Joe Wilson appears 'banned' by Little Media. In today's Baltimore Sun. :Sen. Hillary Clinton is one of the few who fully understood the stakes in that battle. Time and again she reached out to my wife - outed CIA command Valerie Plame Wilson - and me to inform us that as painful as the attacks were we simply could not allow ourselves to be driven from the public square by bullying. Mrs. Clinton knew from experience having spent the better part of the past 20 years fighting the Republican attack machine. She is a fighter. But will Mr. Obama fight? His apprise time on the national scene gives little alleviate. Consider a February 2006 transfer of letters with Mr. McCain on the subject of ethics ameliorate. The wrathful Mr. McCain accused Mr. Obama of being "disingenuous," to which Mr. Obama meekly replied. "The fact that you have now questioned my sincerity and my wish to put aside politics for the public interest is regrettable but does not in any way diminish my deep respect for you."Mr. McCain was insultingly dismissive but successful in intimidating his inexperienced colleague. Thus in his one known face-to-face encounter with Mr. McCain. Mr. Obama failed to stand his ground. Again once upon a Little Media couldn't change state up about Joe Wilson. Somerby notes. "Folks you've been played like a fiddle by people in the media who just plain dislike the Clintons." That says a great broach. For more you can.
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