tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8579803Thu, 24 Jul 2008 01:02:05 +0000http://www.thecatsdream.com/blog/index.htmnoreply@blogger.com (The Cat's Dream)Blogger926125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8579803.post-7801725187405488105Fri, 04 Jul 2008 13:28:00 +00002008-07-04T14:33:19.787+01:00 I read in New York Times: American Flags as Big as Fields On the field before the All-Star Game, Major League Baseball plans to assemble the largest gathering of Hall of Fame players in baseball history. And as fans salute their heroes, the former players will join the crowd in saluting the American flag — one that is roughly 75 feet by 150 feet, as long as a 15-story building is tall, spread http://www.thecatsdream.com/blog/2008/07/happy-independence-day-amerika.htmnoreply@blogger.com (The Cat's Dream)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8579803.post-1850273675542351333Mon, 23 Jun 2008 18:57:00 +00002008-06-23T20:15:08.172+01:00The British Medical Journal published a few days ago “Fifty years of violent war deaths from Vietnam to Bosnia: analysis of data from the world health survey programme” In the study’s abstract, the conclusions read: “War causes more deaths than previously estimated, and there is no evidence to support a recent decline in war deaths.” The lead researcher, Ziad Obermeyer, a research scientist athttp://www.thecatsdream.com/blog/2008/06/great-mirage.htmnoreply@blogger.com (The Cat's Dream)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8579803.post-2243933835941736286Mon, 23 Jun 2008 18:49:00 +00002008-06-23T19:57:14.195+01:00The Anti-war.com’s Midsummer Night's Dream To celebrate the summer solstice, Ivan Eland, the director of the Center on Peace & Liberty at the Independent Institute, wrote a romantic comedy published by Antiwar.com, titled “Lessons for Iraq from the Former Yugoslavia”. Eland writes: “Unfortunately, in the 1990s, violence during Yugoslavia's break up tended to be directly proportional to the http://www.thecatsdream.com/blog/2008/06/anti-warcoms-midsummer-nights-dream.htmnoreply@blogger.com (The Cat's Dream)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8579803.post-190612353067359380Wed, 11 Jun 2008 11:23:00 +00002008-06-11T15:16:56.989+01:00Part I - Human Rights Watch's Amnesia: An e-mail exchange with Human Rights Watch's John H. Biaggi - Acting Director Human Rights Watch International Film Festival Dear John Biaggi, I’m sure you’re very busy with the HRW Film Festival these days, but there is an urgent matter I’d kindly like you to consider. I’ve just read in the Village Voice an article that reads: The body count at the Humanhttp://www.thecatsdream.com/blog/2008/06/happy-days-part-i-human-rights-watchs.htmnoreply@blogger.com (The Cat's Dream)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8579803.post-5963021602225665095Sun, 01 Jun 2008 21:39:00 +00002008-06-05T18:32:34.249+01:00Dear Editors of CommonDreams, You have today reposted an article from the UK Independent by Robert Fisk Disgracefully, in his article Robert Fisk writes: “tens of thousands dead in Iraq”. I have no illusions whatsoever that the corporate Independent may consider to issue a correction and have no interest in speculating why Fisk keeps ignoring the Iraq’s reality and deceiving his readers. http://www.thecatsdream.com/blog/2008/06/robert-fisk-keeps-deceiving-you.htmnoreply@blogger.com (The Cat's Dream)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8579803.post-8185440287858932588Thu, 29 May 2008 18:08:00 +00002008-05-29T19:41:10.814+01:00“It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have” – James Baldwin "To initiate a war of aggression, therefore, is not only an international crime; it is the supreme international crime differing only from other war crimes in that it contains within itself the accumulated evil of the whole." - Judgment of the International Military http://www.thecatsdream.com/blog/2008/05/action-alert-support-george-monbiot.htmnoreply@blogger.com (The Cat's Dream)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8579803.post-4421970814947985403Wed, 28 May 2008 20:09:00 +00002008-05-28T21:44:59.794+01:00Four among the most prestigious US progressive media outlets (CommonDreams, CounterPunch, TruthOut and ZNet) published on Memorial Day (26-5-’08) an article titled “War Immemorial Day – No Peace for Militarized U.S.” penned by Bill Quigley. One paragraph in particular got my attention: 2003 to present Iraq. Operation Iraqi Freedom. 4082 U.S. military killed. British medical journal Lancet http://www.thecatsdream.com/blog/2008/05/immemorial-day-for-progressive-media.htmnoreply@blogger.com (The Cat's Dream)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8579803.post-4548240037565466460Tue, 27 May 2008 08:57:00 +00002008-05-29T20:27:46.115+01:00Dear Bill Quigley, Thanks for your article “War Immemorial Day” published on CounterPunch on 26 may 2008. You write: 2003 to present Iraq. Operation Iraqi Freedom. 4082 U.S. military killed. British medical journal Lancet estimates over 90,000 civilian deaths. Iraq Body Count estimates over 84,000 civilians killed. I’d like to bring to your attention two grave errors and kindly ask you to http://www.thecatsdream.com/blog/2008/05/giant-mistakes-on-counterpunch-re-iraq.htmnoreply@blogger.com (The Cat's Dream)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8579803.post-1376703220722887633Thu, 22 May 2008 13:40:00 +00002008-05-23T01:11:45.989+01:00Yesterday’s question was: Is Patrick Cockburn repeating US and Iraqi Government's propaganda? Today’s question is: Is Patrick Cockburn repeating US and Iraqi Government's propaganda? A few weeks ago, in an article titled “The Most Important Questions to Ask About the Trial of Tariq Aziz”, Patrick Cockburn, to describe the assassinated Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, used the following words: http://www.thecatsdream.com/blog/2008/05/most-important-question-to-ask-about.htmnoreply@blogger.com (The Cat's Dream)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8579803.post-3360642096275393728Wed, 21 May 2008 17:07:00 +00002008-05-21T18:21:26.563+01:00Today’s question is: Is Patrick Cockburn repeating US and Iraqi Government's propaganda? "The Iraqi government is increasingly confident that it has the upper-hand over its enemies in both the Shia and Sunni communities. It launched a further operation, called "the Roar of the Lion", against al-Qa'ida in the northern city of Mosul on Saturday, deploying 15,000 troops to seal off the city, and http://www.thecatsdream.com/blog/2008/05/is-patrick-cockburn-repeating-us-and.htmnoreply@blogger.com (The Cat's Dream)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8579803.post-8836883230898950001Thu, 15 May 2008 18:01:00 +00002008-05-15T19:22:10.189+01:00Dear friends, After my e-mail exchange with Graham Watson MEP - Leader of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe in the European Parliament - Mr. Watson replied again today: Dear Mr Zamparini, I write further to my Caseworker James Sully’s holding reply of 8 May regarding events in Iraq. I have written to the European Parliament’s Chairman of the Foreign Affairs, Jacek http://www.thecatsdream.com/blog/2008/05/action-alert-ask-european-parliament-to.htmnoreply@blogger.com (The Cat's Dream)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8579803.post-448309939849265463Tue, 06 May 2008 09:07:00 +00002008-05-06T23:46:36.187+01:00Google's censorship against Uruknet.info [see below, Google: Kiss Freedom Goodbye] and other anti-Zionist blogs and websites may better be understood by reading the following: 1) Israel News Agency Creates Israel 60 Birthday Website Resource Center "In addition to illustrating the latest news and events listed on this Israel 60 mother of all blogs, we are optimizing this news and event blog http://www.thecatsdream.com/blog/2008/05/google-kiss-freedom-goodbye.htmnoreply@blogger.com (The Cat's Dream)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8579803.post-5854342429114305199Fri, 02 May 2008 09:38:00 +00002008-05-02T10:50:59.181+01:00Getcha popcorn ready! The Green Zone Puppet Theatre in Baghdad is putting on a new show, The Trial of Tareq Aziz. The charges against the former deputy premier of Iraq – when Iraq was still free and a country – are related to the execution of 42 Baghdad merchants in 1992. At the time Iraq was under the genocidal embargo imposed by the United States and its British vassal through the United http://www.thecatsdream.com/blog/2008/05/popcorn-and-champagne-trial-of-tareq.htmnoreply@blogger.com (The Cat's Dream)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8579803.post-5732752035569226319Thu, 01 May 2008 09:21:00 +00002008-05-01T10:38:00.721+01:00After more than five years of this war of aggression, the Nuremberg supreme international crime, the BBC continues its genocide denial business. "Another website run by academics and peace activists, iraqbodycount.net, estimates up to 90,782 Iraqi civilians have been killed in the same period."After more than five years of this war of aggression, the Nuremberg supreme international crime, Iraq http://www.thecatsdream.com/blog/2008/05/after-more-than-five-years.htmnoreply@blogger.com (The Cat's Dream)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8579803.post-6653525736900727515Thu, 24 Apr 2008 17:14:00 +00002008-04-24T18:35:17.240+01:00An e-mail exchange with Graham Watson MEP, Member of the European Parliament for South West England and Gibraltar and Leader of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe in the European Parliament Dear Graham, I hope all is well. Please find below an e-mail I sent to your colleagues Edward Davey and Nick Clegg. I kindly invite you too to highlight the human cost of the Iraq war. http://www.thecatsdream.com/blog/2008/04/exchange-with-graham-watson-mep-leader.htmnoreply@blogger.com (The Cat's Dream)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8579803.post-8797731963009220798Fri, 18 Apr 2008 16:35:00 +00002008-04-18T17:40:59.290+01:00The Institute for National Strategic Studies - a policy research and strategic gaming organization within National Defense University serving the U.S. Department of Defense, its components, and interagency partners - published a report called “Choosing War: The Decision to Invade Iraq and Its Aftermath” REPORT - PDF LINK Written by Joseph Collins, a retired colonel and former senior adviser to http://www.thecatsdream.com/blog/2008/04/colonels-numbers.htmnoreply@blogger.com (The Cat's Dream)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8579803.post-8059192081518698184Thu, 17 Apr 2008 22:53:00 +00002008-04-18T03:09:41.233+01:00Finally the notorious Iraqi mass graves are being unearthed. There is only one problem: they are the product of Liberated Iraq Az-Zaman (London; Iraq): Largest mass grave found in Mahmoudiya – Iraqis were shocked yesterday by the discovery of the largest mass grave in their modern history, with 4,020 bodies of mostly women, youth and men from Mahmoudiya and its surroundings. Local residents saidhttp://www.thecatsdream.com/blog/2008/04/mass-graves-in-iraq-whose-mass-graves.htmnoreply@blogger.com (The Cat's Dream)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8579803.post-8618031582692317041Thu, 17 Apr 2008 09:52:00 +00002008-04-17T10:57:54.371+01:00Dear Edward Davey MP, Liberal Democrat Shadow Foreign Secretary CC Dear Nick Clegg MP, Thank you for your recent comments on the Iraq war. "Five years after the invasion of Iraq, the death and destruction wrought by this disastrous war ought to compel even the most diehard supporters of the original decision to revise their position. Gordon Brown and David Cameron should now apologise for http://www.thecatsdream.com/blog/2008/04/email-to-liberal-democrats-mps-edward.htmnoreply@blogger.com (The Cat's Dream)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8579803.post-5456789618804956054Sun, 13 Apr 2008 14:59:00 +00002008-04-14T11:09:43.879+01:00In his latest column for the British Independent, Robert Fisk writes: “By chance, as Bush was speaking this week, my mail bag flopped open to reveal a letter from my old American military analyst friend, George W Appenzeller. He gently (and rightly) corrects some recent comparative figures I used on US casualties in Korea, Vietnam and Iraq.”After making several good points, toward the end Fisk http://www.thecatsdream.com/blog/2008/04/robert-fisks-mail-bag.htmnoreply@blogger.com (The Cat's Dream)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8579803.post-4586496785704071890Thu, 03 Apr 2008 13:21:00 +00002008-04-03T15:06:45.636+01:00Tony Blair's biographer and opinion-maker at the Independent John Rentoul wrote another interesting piece on the death toll in Iraq. Before reading his latest fatigue though it would be instructive to read the following few paragraphs written by the same author on the same issue on the same newspaper in 2004 and 2005: “However, this number is only the central point of a range that extends from http://www.thecatsdream.com/blog/2008/04/enjoy-responsibly-truth-and-myth-on.htmnoreply@blogger.com (The Cat's Dream)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8579803.post-1695128746944468220Fri, 28 Mar 2008 12:40:00 +00002008-03-28T12:53:51.234ZDear Mr Zamparini As explained by Andrew Martin in his email of March 3rd, your complaint about Jeremy Paxman’s connection with the British American Project has been escalated to divisional level for a Stage 2 response. If I may summarize your concerns, you believe that Mr Paxman’s association with the BAP gives rise to a conflict of interest and “casts serious concerns about his ability – as ahttp://www.thecatsdream.com/blog/2008/03/bbc-news-director-helen-boadens-reply.htmnoreply@blogger.com (The Cat's Dream)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8579803.post-5453504729962852636Thu, 27 Mar 2008 09:44:00 +00002008-03-31T14:23:00.501+01:00Michael White - assistant editor of the Guardian and its political editor from 1990-2006 - replied to my piece When life doesn't count. The Iraq Body Count's genocide denial and the grave responsibility of the anti-war movement From: michael.white@guardian.co.uk Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2008 To: info@thecatsdream.com Subject: Re: When life doesn't count. The Iraq Body Count's genocide denial and the http://www.thecatsdream.com/blog/2008/03/exchange-with-assistant-guardian-editor.htmnoreply@blogger.com (The Cat's Dream)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8579803.post-4748105593460393766Wed, 26 Mar 2008 11:43:00 +00002008-03-26T12:28:33.832ZKim Sengupta is the Defence and Diplomatic Correspondent of The Independent. On 14 March 2008 he authored the second part of an article which curiously had only the signature of his colleague Richard Garner, Education Editor at The Independent. On that article, Sengupta wrote: “Conservative estimates of the number of Iraqi civilians killed since the beginning of the invasion stand at around http://www.thecatsdream.com/blog/2008/03/how-big-is-animal-farm.htmnoreply@blogger.com (The Cat's Dream)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8579803.post-8283686575694279220Tue, 25 Mar 2008 13:27:00 +00002008-03-26T17:57:42.754Z"Twelve voices were shouting in anger, and they were all alike. No question, now, what had happened to the faces of the pigs. The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which." - George Orwell, Animal FarmThe state-corporate media in the West, including Robert Fisk and Patrick Cockburn’s Independent,http://www.thecatsdream.com/blog/2008/03/when-life-doesnt-count-iraq-body-counts.htmnoreply@blogger.com (The Cat's Dream)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8579803.post-3943808330665221002Sun, 16 Mar 2008 08:03:00 +00002008-03-17T11:03:18.840ZThe state-corporate media keep deceiving you. While celebrating five years of media failure with books, articles, comments, TV and radio shows and happy birthday cakes, the same media are hiding the Iraq genocide in the most dreadful way. Here is today's Independent: Iraq: Who won the war? Not the 90,000 Iraqi civilians or the 4,200 US and UK troops killed since 2003. The big winners are the http://www.thecatsdream.com/blog/2008/03/how-can-robert-fisk-patrick-cockburn.htmnoreply@blogger.com (The Cat's Dream)