Iraqi Resistance-Fighters Bombs Baghdad
Bomb-laden vehicles exploded in Baghdad this week. One of the explosions left a crater in the street twenty feet deep and forty feet wide. Early reports indicate that at least ninety-five (95) people were killed, and between 300 and 400 were wounded.
US soldiers have been withdrawn to bases outside the cities, and turned over much of the police patrol duties to the Iraqi military. The US hope was that the fact of having US soldiers still within easy access would discourage any return to large-scale violence by the resistance fighters. The Baghdad bombings this week show that the US hope is not secure.
The explosions targeted the Foreign Ministry and the Ministry of Finance. This sends a clear signal that the objective is to attack the US-installed government. It also signals an attack on the foreign financial interests that are presently keeping that government in power.
After six years of war and occupation, residents of Baghdad still lack many basic services. Electricity is available only a few hours each day. Clean water is in short supply. In many places, raw sewage still flows into the street.
Aside from the larger political issues at stake, there is also a human crisis that demands attention. The many killed and the hundreds wounded in this week’s bombing are only news statistics in the US. But in Iraq, they are mothers, fathers, brothers, sisters, and children of Iraq citizens. They are people who were part of someone’s family.
For the Iraqi people and for much of the Muslim world, the significance of this invasion and occupation can not be reduced to the simple slogans used in US television news and US government statements. -- Long after the soldiers are gone, as they eventually must be gone, the wounds of Iraqi families will remain.
Saturday, August 22, 2009
Wednesday, August 5, 2009
DARAJA CASE FLYER -- Distribute--Post
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Extra-judicial Punishment of Political Dissent;
Involuntary Medical Experiments / Procedures;
Sponsored Abduction of Refugee Child to Conceal Human Rights Abuses.
The DARAJA Human Rights Case
http://www.folksense.com/
In 2001 James Daraja and his daughter Sarah fled the US and sought the protection of Refugee Status to escape government persecution because of political dissent as a university student and professor. -- In 2002 the US government arranged the abduction of Sarah Daraja (then nine years old) to prevent their claim for Refugee Status from coming to open court, and to discredit and conceal the human rights abuses that forced them to flee to Canada.
There is a blackout of our case in the US. No one will investigate or report our story. -- Ours is one of the "invisible" human rights cases in the US. -- It has been eight full years since we were forced to leave our home. --
We were and continue to be "excluded" from the protections of civil law.
* The persecution that we fled in 2001 included: federal “quality-of-life disruption”, placing harmful chemicals in our home, and manipulation of our medical care. -- By 2001, medical interference had already taken the life of one family member.
In 2002 an absentee parent was recruited to carry out the abduction, and later to provide false information about Sarah’s medical history. The US used NCMEC (Nat’l Center for Missing & Exploited Children) to issue a false report that I had fled to Canada to avoid a custody case.
-- I have been a single parent since my daughter was an infant, and her only legal custodial parent.
When we learned of the abduction plan we returned to the US (Buffalo, NY), so that the US could not deny involvement. -- Within weeks, a New York court presented a petition from Ohio (the state we had fled) to take custody of Sarah Daraja, without notice or hearing - even though we no longer lived in Ohio. They then "dismissed" the petition one week later, after she was illegally taken to yet another state, New Jersey. -- I have not seen my child since that time, five days after her ninth birthday.
Although child abduction is a federal crime, US courts and the FBI refuse to intervene. -- We remain “excluded” from the protections of civil law.
*** To help with the DARAJA Case:
Email President Barack Obama at www.whitehouse.gov/contact.
Demand investigation and open hearing of the DARAJA case. --
"Legitimate National Security does not require child abduction."
*** Join our "Cause" on Facebook :
"Demand Hearing for the DARAJA Human Rights Case".
(under International Causes)
Share our story with others: http://www.folksense.com/
Contact: FreeSince2001@gmail.com
Set top and bottom margins at 0.75"
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Extra-judicial Punishment of Political Dissent;
Involuntary Medical Experiments / Procedures;
Sponsored Abduction of Refugee Child to Conceal Human Rights Abuses.
The DARAJA Human Rights Case
http://www.folksense.com/
In 2001 James Daraja and his daughter Sarah fled the US and sought the protection of Refugee Status to escape government persecution because of political dissent as a university student and professor. -- In 2002 the US government arranged the abduction of Sarah Daraja (then nine years old) to prevent their claim for Refugee Status from coming to open court, and to discredit and conceal the human rights abuses that forced them to flee to Canada.
There is a blackout of our case in the US. No one will investigate or report our story. -- Ours is one of the "invisible" human rights cases in the US. -- It has been eight full years since we were forced to leave our home. --
We were and continue to be "excluded" from the protections of civil law.
* The persecution that we fled in 2001 included: federal “quality-of-life disruption”, placing harmful chemicals in our home, and manipulation of our medical care. -- By 2001, medical interference had already taken the life of one family member.
In 2002 an absentee parent was recruited to carry out the abduction, and later to provide false information about Sarah’s medical history. The US used NCMEC (Nat’l Center for Missing & Exploited Children) to issue a false report that I had fled to Canada to avoid a custody case.
-- I have been a single parent since my daughter was an infant, and her only legal custodial parent.
When we learned of the abduction plan we returned to the US (Buffalo, NY), so that the US could not deny involvement. -- Within weeks, a New York court presented a petition from Ohio (the state we had fled) to take custody of Sarah Daraja, without notice or hearing - even though we no longer lived in Ohio. They then "dismissed" the petition one week later, after she was illegally taken to yet another state, New Jersey. -- I have not seen my child since that time, five days after her ninth birthday.
Although child abduction is a federal crime, US courts and the FBI refuse to intervene. -- We remain “excluded” from the protections of civil law.
*** To help with the DARAJA Case:
Email President Barack Obama at www.whitehouse.gov/contact.
Demand investigation and open hearing of the DARAJA case. --
"Legitimate National Security does not require child abduction."
*** Join our "Cause" on Facebook :
"Demand Hearing for the DARAJA Human Rights Case".
(under International Causes)
Share our story with others: http://www.folksense.com/
Contact: FreeSince2001@gmail.com
Preparing To Take Iran, Again
As part of its continuing strategy to re-colonize the Middle East, the US is preparing its next attempt to re-take Iran.
Israel has already been given permission to attack Iran. The only question is when the attack will happen. That US-supported attack is supposedly about Iran's development of nuclear weapons (which Israel already has in its own arsenal).
Actually, the attack on Iran is meant to fulfill two other US goals. First, the US wants to destroy the Iranian religious leadership currently in power. It was that same leadership that effectively organized Iran to overthrown the US-installed Shah Reza Palevi in 1979. Second, the US has reasoned that attacking Iran will give it an excuse to keep US soldiers in both Iraq and Afghanistan - both wars that the US is currently losing to resistance fighters.
--more on this story soon --
Israel has already been given permission to attack Iran. The only question is when the attack will happen. That US-supported attack is supposedly about Iran's development of nuclear weapons (which Israel already has in its own arsenal).
Actually, the attack on Iran is meant to fulfill two other US goals. First, the US wants to destroy the Iranian religious leadership currently in power. It was that same leadership that effectively organized Iran to overthrown the US-installed Shah Reza Palevi in 1979. Second, the US has reasoned that attacking Iran will give it an excuse to keep US soldiers in both Iraq and Afghanistan - both wars that the US is currently losing to resistance fighters.
--more on this story soon --
Thursday, July 16, 2009
Cheney's Secret Program - Not About Al Qaeda
The federal government and the US news media are busy trying to sell the idea that former Vice President Dick Cheney was secretly targeting Al Qaeda -- which is ridiculous. Everyone on the planet knew that the US was trying "to capture or kill Al Qaeda leaders". There would be absolutely no reason for Cheney to have any special program to do that.
What is more reasonable and also more frightening is the likelihood that the true targets of Cheney's secret program were US citizens. The Pentagon and CIA had gone well beyond the Constitution in designing new covert programs for domestic use. It is that secret that the federal government is desperate to keep from the US public.
Cheney and the architects of the Bush Doctrine were committed to the idea that they could "exclude" persons and themselves from the Constitution. Thus, captives in Guantanamo became "enemy combatants", or persons without any legal rights whatever. That same concept was applied to domestic programs.
The federal government is tring to avoid revealing the actual scope of the "domestic surveillance program". They also need to keep the US public from discovering the "other practices" that were used by the intelligence agencies. -- These practices are well outside any common concept of surveillance. Those "other practices" are the ones Cheney needed to keep from Congress. --jd
What is more reasonable and also more frightening is the likelihood that the true targets of Cheney's secret program were US citizens. The Pentagon and CIA had gone well beyond the Constitution in designing new covert programs for domestic use. It is that secret that the federal government is desperate to keep from the US public.
Cheney and the architects of the Bush Doctrine were committed to the idea that they could "exclude" persons and themselves from the Constitution. Thus, captives in Guantanamo became "enemy combatants", or persons without any legal rights whatever. That same concept was applied to domestic programs.
The federal government is tring to avoid revealing the actual scope of the "domestic surveillance program". They also need to keep the US public from discovering the "other practices" that were used by the intelligence agencies. -- These practices are well outside any common concept of surveillance. Those "other practices" are the ones Cheney needed to keep from Congress. --jd
Monday, June 29, 2009
Update 2009
The Daraja Report is back online!! --
Since January 2007, we have devoted our energies to the development of FolkSense.com, available of course at www.FolkSense.com.
FolkSense features the DARAJA Human Rights Case, and offers a more in-depth look at human rights and social justice issues. But we thought it might be good also to share information in a more immediate forum.
Please feel free to comment and to begin discussion of issues that affect us all. Social justice is not an "optional protocol" for humanity. It is a necessity.
Still-
james daraja
Since January 2007, we have devoted our energies to the development of FolkSense.com, available of course at www.FolkSense.com.
FolkSense features the DARAJA Human Rights Case, and offers a more in-depth look at human rights and social justice issues. But we thought it might be good also to share information in a more immediate forum.
Please feel free to comment and to begin discussion of issues that affect us all. Social justice is not an "optional protocol" for humanity. It is a necessity.
Still-
james daraja
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