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The Department of Justice issued its report on the actions of the DoJ lawyers who authored the legal memos authorizing torture. The report from the DoJ’s Office of Professional Responsibility concluding that the attorneys, specifically John Yoo and Jay Bybee, engaged in “professional misconduct.” Associate Deputy Attorney General David Margolis found that the lawyers exercised “poor judgment.” The OPR finding would under normal circumstances require transmittal to the state bar for disciplinary proceedings. However, Mr. Margolis, a 17-year employee of the DoJ who was in a supervisory position when the legal memos were written, has specifically refused to allow the OPR report to be transmitted.

Our campaign attorney will file the DoJ/OPR findings with the various state bar disciplinary committees. These committees are already reviewing the complaints filed last summer against 15 of the most culpable torture lawyers as part of our work to ensure accountability for their heinous actions. We are asking that disbarment proceedings proceed quickly in light of these reports.

Our concerns are not limited to the lawyers in this case.Official & professional misconduct, is and has been for the last several years, ramped in federal, State, and local governments. Highly infiltrated by special interest groups, and foreign interest money. Nothing absolutely nothing is being done in the best interest of the American people.

With AIPAC at the helm, the Zionist organized crime syndicate influences all agencies, even to the point of controlling the think tanks officials take their orders from. If not cooperated with assassinations occur, sabotage, and attacks on both domestic and foreign assets & interest. Our primary threat is AIPAC, Israel, and mossad agents. Over the same period, international law and community is held at bay by USA officials who are corrupted by bribes, donations, and gratuities.

IF we have any official that has not been on a free vacation to Israel (Tel Aviv), that we call a brain washing tour. Then they will be going soon, or their career is over.

We all were filled with HOPE FOR CHANGE, but with the strong strangle-hold on congress, other officials and religious leaders we get nothing but more war. Even spiritual warfare.

Voters beware!! We need a third party to rebuild a democracy here in America.

-RonWal

Ehud Barak, Israel’s defense minister. In a speech to the annual national security conference in Herzliya, and then again in the U.S., he warned that if Israel did not make peace with the Palestinians, it would become an “apartheid” state.

Israel is already an apartheid state and has been for years. And will remain so until it removes the racist elements from its people.

Len Aldis

As the author accurately pointed out Iran has not attacked any country for 300 years. And the Islamic Republic of Iran since its formation in the past 31 years has not invaded any country either, while it has been attacked by the former dictator of Iraq Saddam Hussein. Natually, every country when attacked will defend itself against an aggressor and this is what Iran did. The former dictator of Iraq whose country is now under attack by the U.S. Gov. was in fact supported by the U.S., and other Western countries while some of the Arab countries namely Saudi Arabia and Kuwait provided the funding for the war. Not only was Iraq supported by the U.S. and European countries by providing state of the art military aircrafts and military arsenal, some of these countries also provided Iraq with chemical and biological weapons, which were used not only by Saddam against his own people but also against Iranian soldiers and civilians. Iran did not retaliate in kind. Furthermore when the U.S. invaded Iraq illegally in its now famous “Shock & Awe”, as it gathered the coalition of the willing, Iran was also invited to participate as a retalitory measure against Iraq’s war with Iran – Iran refused!!

Iran had nothing against the Iraqi people and was not willing to particicpate in an illegal war of aggression, while other countries did and some Arab countries even allowed their military bases and air spaces to be used against their Arab brothers.

Iran has been one of the staunchest supporters of the Palestinians especially under President Ahmadinejad. It has been the voice of the voiceless and in return has gained the wrath of the Zionist regime and the U.S.

MH

I don't think the Zionists are interested in dominating the Palestinians. They are only interested in Annihilating the Palestinians. All of these peace talks and cease fires are nothing but a show for Americans in the American media. It is only a distraction. Their goal is to cleanse Palestine of Palestinians. They have two methods to accomplish this goal.

A) Make life so miserable so Palestinians leave on their own accord.

B) Reduce the number of Palestinians via periodic Massacres.

It appears they are using both of these methods simultaneously these days.

The only hope and I repeat, the only hope for Palestinians is a victory for the Islamic Republic of Iran under the leadership of President Ahmadinejad over American imperialism and Israeli Zionism.

Also, you have to understand that a high majority of Iranians outside of Iran belong to that class of Iranians who were abusing that nation prior to the 1979 revolution and have no place inside of Iran any longer. This is a very important point to understand.

Here is more proof that these Arab nations with leaders who dance to the music of American government like street monkeys can not be relied upon when it comes to the future of Palestinians. I say it again, their only hope relies on a successful struggle of IRI under President Ahmadinejad against American/Zionist imperialism.

http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=119676&sectionid=351020502

- Sid Badaksh

Dear Ms. Menon,

Thank you for an excellent and well written article.

Iran is neither a threat to the U.S., to Israel, to its neighbours, or any other nation. These are all propaganda and disinformation used by the US Gov. by Israel, and the Zionist Lobby to once again create another bogus enemy to do what has been done to Iraq, and now Afghanistan, Pakistan and of course let's not forget Palestine.

Why Iran? It's because Iran is the only country who has stood up to the bullying powers, something which is simply unacceptable by the super-power and the dominating force in the Middle East Israel. An independent Iran is a threat to US/Israeli hegemony of this oil rich region.

All of this talk about Iran's intent of building a nuclear bomb is nothing but political games played by the West and Israel. Iran has a right to enrich uranium as a signatory to the NPT for civilian purposes.

Alternative sources of energy are a must for the entire world including the countries in the Middle East.

The ME cannot rely solely on their oil and gas, a depleting resource to provide the fuel needed for domestic consumption and the major source of revenue for these countries. Iran has gained this know-how on its own without the help of any other country. It will be willing to share this know-how with its neighbours in the region. This will break the dominance of the U.S. in the ME. This is why Iran is a threat.

Ariana

cataurocubano

Superb analysis of what happened in Dubai. Am I the only person who thinks that the Israelis are utter cowards...sending 18 Mossad agents to murder one unarmed Palestinian?

Truegreta

This is definitely not the first time something like this, and worse, has happened. Everyone wants to ignore the murder of American soldiers on the U.S.S Liberty back in the 1960's.

Israel's excuse was "oops" and American officials' response was "it happens, no problem". I don't of know all the atrocities allowed by that "state" but I would hope that someone could stand up and do something about it, instead of continuing to sweep it under the rug

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Erin

Hmmm...This seemingly hard-hitting commentary has just lost a helluva lot of credibiity in my view. To wit: after reading it word for word and then scanning it again, I am disquieted, and suspicious, that not one utterance of the word "Israel" or of the role played by that rogue, psychotically criminal Zionist bastion in the Middle East escaped Mr. Floyd's keyboard.

Why is that, Mr. Floyd? Are you a PEP -- "Progressive Except for Palestine?" How can you fail to recognize that the Zionist Lobby exercises absolute control over the workings of our Congress, Oval Office, State, Defense, Treasury, NSC, etc.; that it has a chokehold on the media, thinktanks, etc.? Cheney, Mr. Floyd, is a mere willing, power-mad puppet for the Zionist horde (remember Feith; Wurmser?), just as was the now-in-hiding dry-drunk Dubya...just as are HClinton and Joe "Zionist" Biden and Barack Hussein Obama, whose Chief of Staff just happens to be one Rahm Israel Emanuel.

Radiating outward from ZioIsrael's genocidal urges against the Palestinians are the endless, psychotic machinations against Lebanon, and Syria...oh, Yes, Mr. Floyd, remember Iraq, circa the runup to war for ZioIsrael in 2002?...oh, yes, Mr. Floyd, aren't you observing the very same machinations against Iran in 2010 and ever since Iraq was wrecked as a viable state? I am disturbed, and suspicious, and outraged....

Robert H. Stiver

Thank you, Mr. Alan Hart, for writing this very nice open letter to Mr. Roger Cohn of the New York Times. I agree with what you have written here. Mr. Cohn deserves to be congratulated for writing “Hard Mideast Truths”. It took a lot of courage on his part. If anyone else had written the same article, I do not think that The NYT would have published it.

I was so impressed with Mr. Roger Cohn’s article that I wrote a comment and sent it, and to my great astonishment, the Times did indeed publish it. I must say that in the past it censored a few of my comments because I suppose I was too critical of Israel for their taste, even though I never used abusive language in my comments. Here is the comment I wrote:

Thank you very much, Mr. Cohn, for writing this column. May I say that you have reached the 95 meters mark, and stopped abruptly just before reaching the goal. I wish you stated clearly and boldly that after saying the right things in Egypt regarding the Israel-Palestine conflict, President Obama returned to Washington only to buckle under pressure from the AIPAC lobby and the "Israel First" congressmen and senators. He wavered regarding his demand that Israel refrain from building more settlements, and then sent Secretary of State Clinton to Jerusalem only to praise Netanyahu’s intransigence, calling his promise to slow down the expansion of settlements "unprecedented" and praise-worthy. He has already assured Netanyahu that he will not cut off military aid and foreign aid to Israel, so Netanyahu knows that he could ignore Obama completely and do whatever he wishes in the West Bank, and especially in East Jerusalem.

I think President Obama should admit that he has failed, and ask the United Nations to take over the problem, and ask the EU and Russia and the Muslim nations in the Middle East to work with the UN and bring about a peace agreement. In the absence of an UN initiative, the "boycott Israel" movement will gather momentum, and an economic boycott of Israel will finally bring down the Israeli apartheid regime just as it brought down the apartheid regime of South Africa on March 26, 1998. The current situation in Palestine, especially the devastated region of Gaza can not prevail much longer.

Yesh Prabhu, Plainsboro, NJ

Cynthia McKinney for President in 2012! This is a great, inspiring speech, which Ms. McKinney must tailor (without removing a smidgen of the passion and principle) for U.S. audiences.

Our country has indeed been hijacked, and there's not a Democrat or Republican in sight who is patriot enough, who cares enough about AMERICA's core national-security interests, to take on the hijackers. I'm convinced that Cynthia McKinney has the patriotism and courage to

Robert Stiver

I do not believe the First Amendment of the US Constitution, which guarantees the Freedom of Speech and Association, was intended to support and protect apologists, spokesmen, defenders and supporters of perpetrators of International Crimes against Humanity.

The function of a free and open University is to hear both sides of controversial argument; both sides were heard!

The most vocal and popular voices won, and the losers had them arrested and hauled off to jail, just like they do in any petty Banana Republic Police State where "Freedom of Speech " is nothing more than a figure of speech.

Earlaiman

Mr. Elton John,

cancel your concert in israel! do the right thing! go to gaza

claudia karas,

frankfurt, germany

Greetings and aloha, Mr. John, from Hawaii, where just weeks ago you presented a concert.

I didn't go to it, but the reviews were of the rave variety; my son-in-law reported that it was vintage(-plus) Elton John.

I am horrified, and saddened, and angered, by the brutal colonial occupation of the Palestinians' rightful homeland by Israel.

This occupation is decades long and continues before our very eyes, with no prospect for near-term surcease for the Christian and Muslim Palestinians.

I have learned that you plan to present a concert in Tel Aviv in June. Mr. John, that would be the wrong signal, in a place of centrality to the continuation of the sadistic occupation, at a time when principled opposition to Israel's reign of state terror and racist exclusivity is building across the globe.

I ask that you respond, with equal principle and the humanity I know you possess, to the need to let Israel know that "not now, not tomorrow, not ever again" applies most particularly and urgently to the land of Palestine and its suffering children, women, and men.

Please reflect deeply and make the right decision: cancel the planned concert in Israel!

Thank you, Sir Elton, for your time and attention;

I am

Robert H. Stiver

Hawai, USA

Hope that many more will follow suit and stand up against the arrogance of Israel may this just be the beginning .

THANK YOU CARLOS.

Margaret Buyukkurt

Thank You Carlos for not visiting the racist zionist rogue state of Israel. I know that your action will inspire other artists.

Patrick Golden

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Dear Carlos Santa,

Thank you for supporting our cause, the Palestinian people in their strugle, and cancelling the concert in Israel (The State That committed crimes against humanity a year ago in the GAZA STRIP) and still occupying the land of Palestine.

Nawal

www.jerusalemites.org/

Dear Carlos Santana,

As a German fan of you I'm so happy that you canceled your concert you had planned in Zionist Israel.

Annette Klepzig

Great work getting Santana to cancel if it's true. It's already an injustice that Israel's allowed to play in European soccer championships and Eurovision Song Contest.

The world must rise in protest against the growing Obama-Netanyahu plan to bomb Iran. It's time the world knew that Israel has far more nuclear weapons than Iran will ever have. And has ignored (is ignoring) more UN resolutions. And the US has more nukes than the rest of the world put together. Axis of Evil? Axis of hypocrisy!

Dave Needham

Thank you for cancelling your concert in Israel!

Sonja Zimmermann

Muchisimas gracias por su cancelacion. Tiene mucha corazon.

Frances

Thank you for cancelling the concert in Israel.

Leah Levane

Thank you Carlos Santana for canceling your scheduled performance in Zionist Israel.

Great artists lead their times artistically.

Great PEOPLE lead their times ethically and politically.

You will be remembered forever as both.

Dave Kersting

Thank you for your courage in cancelling your concert in Israel

Jeanne Jensen

Thank you for standing in solidarity with Palestine.

Robert Doane

Dear Carlos,

Thanks for cancelling your concert in Israel.

James Ray

Carlos Santana cancels Israel concert???

We have received a report that guitar legend Carlos Santana has cancelled the scheduled June 3rd concert in Zionist Israel. We are in the process of verifying the report and will be reporting on further developments

The report says that Carlos Santana has promised a full refund to the thousands of Israelis who had already purchased tickets. Zionist promoter Shuki Weiss, the Israeli behind nearly all of the big-name concerts in Israel, was surprised and disappointed to hear of the news, the report said.

La Voz de Aztlan had previously reported on the "Concert of Shame" and many people responded by asking Carlos to cancel the concert considering the war crimes and massacre of over 300 Palestinian children that the Zionist regime committed about a year ago. See http://www.aztlan.net/santana_concert_of_shame.htm

This is great news if the report is true. All reports coming out of Israel have to be verified because Zionists are notorious deceivers.

Gilbert

Very good, the story of the USS Liberty needs to be spread far and wide. It has been suppressed by the US Gov't for 40 years. I correspond with one of the survivors on a semi-regular basis, and what happened to them is high crime by a complicit gov't. Israel is NOT a friend of the US.

More (Americans) need to be aware of the stranglehold that Israel and the Zionists of AIPAC have on our foreign policy. They are literally sucking the life out of this country and the rest of the world.

Thank you for keeping this story alive. We owe it to the 34 who perished, and the survivors who took care of them, and the wounded.

kstewskis

Dear Cynthia,

I’m sure all the words will fail to reflect my gratitude to you, may God protect you from the Israelis, I’m a Palestinian living a broad, I can’t even visit Palestine.

I hope one day Palestine will be liberated from the Israeli occupation in order to invite you to Palestine together with all people who voiced or expressed opposition to this unjust occupation.

May God protect you and take care of you .

Noman

The Viva Palestina convoy, led by George Galloway, is about to leave Gaza after having been permitted to enter for a period of 24 hours after waiting 11 days in Cairo for permission to enter Gaza. That in and of itself is a major story when expanded to include the inability of Gazans to exit The Strip--even if only to enter another part of their country, the West Bank or to move about freely in the fictional "Palestinian State."

I say fictional because it continues to dwindle even while peace talks are underway. Fictional, because Palestinian elections deemed by international observers to be free and fair, don't count if the US- and Israel-approved party loses, and the winners get to sit for years in an Israeli jail. Fictional, because they use Israel's currency here, the shekel, and the international roaming on our US cell phones indicates calls are from Israel.

Gaza is beautiful. Gaza is full of life, despite Israel's Operation Cast Lead. And now, I have seen, Gaza has been bombed to smithereens. I think I've mastered my video camera enough to share some images with you. I'll post them on the sites below when I return.

In the meantime, my fellow Americans and citizens of the world, we have a lot to do to put right all the wrong things done in our name. Much love to all of you who helped me, guided me, prayed for me, to make this successful entry into Gaza happen. Viva Palestina!!Free Gaza!!--

Everyone said it couldn't be done, that we were insane, that we would never get into Gaza. But we did, and we got in four more times before Israel began to stop us. But we will go again and again. Never underestimate the power of determined people, especially those people working for justice for the Palestinians.

Greta Berlin,

an American human rights activist

and co-founder of the Free Gaza Movement

Dreams … Aspirations,

Love … Laughter,

Tears … Sorrow,

All in you, yet unrealized,

O Palestine, My Bride …

Your Silwan … screams,

Your Gaza … gagged,

Your Hebron … horrified,

Your Ramallah … wrenching,

All in you, yet in tears,

O Palestine, My Bride …

Your green gardens … brown,

Your flowing rivers … dried,

Your mighty mountains … humbled,

Your dreamy deserts … ruined,

All in you, yet you smile,

O Palestine, My Bride …

O Palestine, My Bride …

You measure yourself not in miles … but in

Checkpoints and Roadblocks,

You name your cities & towns - not by name …

but by Walls, Fences & Barriers,

You visit your Villages and Hamlets … but through

Trenches and over Boulders,

All in you – keep smiling and

All of me - keep dreaming

for your Love & Laughter,

for my Tears & Sorrow,

One Day – O Palestine

You Will Be My Bride

end

Shakeel – You have captured so much emotion in so few words – sign of a great poem! I know it is difficult to keep heart when so much seems heartless, but the beating of your own drum will be heard!!

Glenna Kay Plitt

For Gaza and the Palestinian People

‘Spirit of humanity'

As long as

The people of Palestine

Have no liberty, no freedom

Those of us with a voice to speak

Must speak

As long as

The children of Gaza

Live in fear of Israeli

Bombs and occupation

Those of us with a voice to speak

Must speak

As long as

Six million Palestinian refugees

Are deportees around the world

Those of us with a voice to speak

Must speak

As long as

Millions of god's children

Are hungry, imprisoned, and without hope

Those of us with a voice to speak

Must speak

Because it is in speaking

We find our liberty, our freedom

And no prison bars can take away

Our peace, our love

Which is the true spirit of humanity

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(for Gaza and the Palestinian people)

Mairead maguire - Nobel Peace Laureate (in Ramle - Israeli prison) 3lst june, 2009

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