TORTURE

In the West, the Ministry of Propaganda continues to talk about the “Syrian revolt.” There is no revolt. What has happened is that the US and Israel have equipped with weapons and sent into Syria Islamists who wish to overthrow the secular Syrian government. Washington knows that if the Syrian government can be destroyed, the country will dissolve into warring factions like Iraq and Libya.

China says it supports a Palestinian plan to seek full membership in the United Nations next month.

Sleep-deprived and suffering from a broken leg, 16-year-old Muhammad Halabiyeh endured days of torture at the hands of Israeli soldiers and police officers, who punched him repeatedly in the face and abdomen, shoved needles into his hand and leg and threatened the Palestinian teenager with sexual abuse.

Whenever I've complained about my country's torturings, renderings, detentions, etc., there's always been some smug bastard ready to respond that these measures are what guarantee smart-alecky writers like myself our freedom of speech. Well, we had a government so vicious and impenetrably stupid that it managed to take my freedom of speech and turn it into someone else's living hell.

In March 2003, Dr. Aafia and her three children, Ahmad (boy), six years old and an American citizen, Maryum (girl), four years old and also an American citizen, and Suleman (boy), six months old, kidnapped by unknown authorities in Karachi, Pakistan. On March 31, 2003 it was reported by the Pakistani media that Dr. Aafia had been arrested and turned over to representatives of the United States. In early April, this was confirmed on NBC Nightly News, among other media outlets. There was communication to the mother of Dr. Aafia from purported “agencies” that the family members should be quiet if they want to see Aafia returned alive. By the year 2008, many believed that after five years of being disappeared Dr. Aafia and her three children were most likely dead.

George W. Bush was forced to cancel a trip to Switzerland this week over concerns of protests linked to the Bush adminstration's treatment of detainees.  Bush was to address a Jewish charity in Switzerland.

Bush spokesman David Sherzer said the former president was informed Friday by the United Israel Appeal that his Feb. 12 dinner speech in Geneva had been called off. Saturday's edition of the Tribune de Geneve quoted the Jewish charity's lawyer, Robert Equey, as saying the visit was canceled because of the risk that protests by left-wing groups could result in violence.

Walid Muhammad Hajj: The psychologist would come and say: "You want to kill yourself." I never said that I wanted to kill myself. The psychologist would say: "You want to kill yourself, so you must undergo psychiatric treatment." I didn't do anything. I don't want to kill myself. He'd say: "You want to kill yourself, and that's why we have taken your clothes, and we will give you pills."

The road to World Government over the last one hundred and fifty years has been a bloody one, peppered with assassinations. To name a few: Abraham Lincoln, Alexander II, the Hapsburg Emperor, the Romanov family, President Kennedy, and not counting the anonymous millions who have died in wars and revolutions.

Lulled by the illusion of Equality, Democracy and Freedom, the rest of humanity is being herded into a bondage more dangerous than any that existed before.

Does anyone really believe that men of the calibre of Bush and Blair wield the real power?

The perpetrators of this plot (call it plot, conspiracy or what you will) lurk in the background, their strength, a fixation of purpose, not of ten years, or fifty, but of generations of intent, with money its driving power.