Chris Hedges: US & Israel should change policies in Middle East

Chris Hedges, standing to the right of Daniel Ellsberg at the demonstration that didn't happen. Probably the most important news in recent times, because it  involved people, who were once in government, the CIA, and the media. They were here at the White House to give us a message and it was not to be found in the main stream media, not even in the NY Times, where Hedges was once the Middle East bureau chief. In 2002, Hedges was part of the team of reporters at The New York Times awarded the Pulitzer Prize for the paper's coverage of global terrorism, and was a  foreign correspondent for fifteen years (1990–2005).

This was reported in OpEdNews

Dec 16, 2010 ... Today, 131 rebels were arrested for civil disobedience at the snow covered ... Ray McGovern, Chris Hedges, Daniel Ellsberg, Margaret Flowers, Coleen Rowley.

What Corruption and Force Have Wrought in Egypt



truthdig Posted on Jan 30, 2011

By Chris Hedges

The uprising in Egypt, although united around the nearly universal desire to rid the country of the military dictator Hosni Mubarak, also presages the inevitable shift within the Arab world away from secular regimes toward an embrace of Islamic rule. Don’t be fooled by the glib sloganeering about democracy or the facile reporting by Western reporters—few of whom speak Arabic or have experience in the region. Egyptians are not Americans. They have their own culture, their own sets of grievances and their own history. And it is not ours. They want, as we do, to have a say in their own governance, but that say will include widespread support—especially among Egypt’s poor, who make up more than half the country and live on about two dollars a day—for the Muslim Brotherhood and Islamic parties. Any real opening of the political system in the Arab world’s most populated nation will see an empowering of these Islamic movements. And any attempt to close the system further—say a replacement of Mubarak with another military dictator—will ensure a deeper radicalization in Egypt and the wider Arab world.

The only way opposition to the U.S.-backed regime of Mubarak could be expressed for the past three decades was through Islamic movements, from the Muslim Brotherhood to more radical Islamic groups, some of which embrace violence. And any replacement of Mubarak (which now seems almost certain) while it may initially be dominated by moderate, secular leaders will, once elections are held and popular will is expressed, have an Islamic coloring. A new government, to maintain credibility with the Egyptian population, will have to more actively defy demands from Washington and be more openly antagonistic to Israel. What is happening in Egypt, like what happened in Tunisia, tightens the noose that will—unless Israel and Washington radically change their policies toward the Palestinians and the Muslim world—threaten to strangle the Jewish state as well as dramatically curtail American influence in the Middle East.

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John Bolton: "The truth is so important that it should be surrounded by a bodyguard of lies"

The Walrus and The Carpenter
Lewis Carroll
(from Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There, 1872)


"The time has come," the Walrus said,
"To talk of many things:
Of shoes--and ships--and sealing-wax--
Of cabbages--and kings--
And why the sea is boiling hot--
And whether pigs have wings."

poem @ jabberwocky.com

wordgeezer Dec. 20, 2010...In these times it requires exceptional and dedicated people, with clarity of vision, to provide guidance in our efforts to reclaim our constitutional rights. Coleen Rowly, ex CIA anlyst sees, through the smoke, what is on the other side of the mirror.

These demonstrations were not reported by the main stream media, as pointed out by thiscantbehappening.net , and there is very little coverage to date. The Wikileaks connnection probably adds to their paranoia  just like fresh air and light does to the vampires of old. 



There were demonstrations across the nation on Dec.16th including...


131 Arrested at Veteran-led Civil Resistance Against Wars Dec. 16


GRANNIES & VETS ARRESTED IN NYC SOLIDARITY ACTION

SAN FRANCISCO—Organizers of an anti-war demonstration in front of a federal building in San Francisco say authorities cited 26 protesters on obstruction charge

GRANNIES & VETS ARRESTED IN NYC SOLIDARITY ACTION

STOP THESE WARS

stopthesewars.org

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26 protesters cited during anti-war demonstrations

SAN FRANCISCO-Organizers of an anti-war demonstration in front of a federal building in San Francisco say authorities cited 26 protesters on obstruction charges.

Lee Thorn of Veterans for Peace says Federal Protective Service officials issued the citations after demonstrators laid in front of the San Francisco Federal Building and refused orders to disperse. Thorn says he was among those receiving a citation.

Media blackout: Arrests of War & CIA Vets at White House demonstrations

Daniel Ellsberg, age 78, claims that this is his 80th arrest as he gives the peace sign behind his back. Among those arrested were Ray McGovern, Chris Hedges, Margaret Flowers, Coleen Rowley, Medea Benjamin, Jodie Evans and scores of veterans and supporters from WWII, Viet Nam, Iraq, Afghanistan... The message chanted in the freezing, 22 degree F snowy day was "Obama, Troops Out. End the War."

Coming soon to a theatre near you

Blacked-Out in DC: Pay No Attention to those Veterans Chained to the White House Fence

OpEdNews December 18, 2010 at 11:38:20

By Dave Lindorff (about the author)

There was a black-out and a white-out Thursday and Friday as over a hundred US veterans opposed to US wars in Afghanistan and elsewhere around the world, and their civilian supporters, chained and tied themselves to the White House fence during an early snowstorm to say enough is enough.

Washington Police arrested 135 of the protesters, in what is being called the largest mass detention in recent years. Among those arrested were Ray McGovern, a former CIA analyst who used to provide the president's daily briefings, Daniel Ellsberg, who released the government's Pentagon Papers during the Nixon administration, and Chris Hedges, former war correspondent for the New York Times .

No major US news media reported on the demonstration or the arrests. It was blacked out of the New York Times , blacked out of the Philadelphia Inquirer , blacked out in the Los Angeles Times , blacked out of the Wall Street Journal , and even blacked out of the capital's local daily, the Washington Post .

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A google search shows about 280.000 articles on the web, while doing a news search shows only 114 articles.

Real News coverage of senior arrests at White House demonstrations

If you wonder why there is no coverage by the main stream media, try googling, first, the web, then, the news. You will see that there is a lot on the internet, but that the news sources that you are finding don't represent the corporate media, such as Fox, MSNBC, CNN, PBS, etc. They have obviously been instructed not to give this any play because there are some influential people involved, and also because it would draw more attention to the Wikileaks situation.