Iraq 2013: Deadliest year since
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vendredi 8 novembre 2013
jeudi 17 octobre 2013
New Survey on Mortality in Iraq
Published in a prestigious Medical review*
* PLOS Medicine is the leading open-access medical journal, providing an influential venue for outstanding research and commentary on the major challenges to human health worldwide. We specifically seek to publish articles relevant to clinicians and policymakers across a range of settings that adhere to the highest standards of methodology, ethics and reporting and address the major biological, environmental, social, and political determinants of health.
Mortality in
Iraq Associated with the 2003–2011 War and Occupation: Findings from a National
Cluster Sample Survey by the University Collaborative Iraq Mortality Study.
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mardi 13 octobre 2009
British have covered up hundreds of Iraqi casualties, ex-officer says
By John Byrne
Monday, October 12th, 2009
http://rawstory.com/2009/10/british-have-covered-up-hundreds-of-iraqi-casualties-ex-officer-says/
The British military's chain of command has instructed the country's top investigators not to examine hundreds of incidents involving Iraqi deaths and serious injury, a former British military police officer told the BBC Sunday.
http://rawstory.com/2009/10/british-have-covered-up-hundreds-of-iraqi-casualties-ex-officer-says/
The British military's chain of command has instructed the country's top investigators not to examine hundreds of incidents involving Iraqi deaths and serious injury, a former British military police officer told the BBC Sunday.
"I've seen documentary evidence that there were incidents running into the hundreds involving death and serious injury to Iraqis where the chain of command of the Army had decided that the circumstances did not warrant a Royal Military Police investigation," the former British Army officer, whose face was obscured, told a BBC interviewer. "And if you look at the general picture that the media says, Afghanistan seems a lot quieter in terms of alleged misconduct of British troops, that to me is quite concerning, because it tells me that the Army hasn't suddenly gotten a lot better. It tells me that the Royal Military Police are very efficiently toeing the party line for the Army."
The BBC interview has received scant attention, meriting only a brief mention in the UK Guardian and little coverage by outlets cataloged in Google News. Video of the interview is available here.
"It is an extremely dark and sorry situation," the officer added. "I think that the vast majority of soldiers have served the country well and with distinction. It is the actions of a few that have been shown to be bad apples. But it is very fair to say that because the system is so structurally flawed, and some of the decision making has been so perverse, that I is fair to say that the barrel is probably rotten."
The Royal Military Police is charged with policing military personnel, service property and military operations.
In the interview, the officer said that he and others had brought their concerns to the military, but that few come forward because of the consequences to their careers. He didn't specifically spell out what the incidents that weren't investigated entailed.
"As soon as you raise concerns... life can be very easily made very difficult for anybody not toeing the party line," he said. "It's well known that if you don't toe the official party line... you won't get promoted."
Part of the problem, the officer suggested, was likely due to the fact that the police weren't used to such a magnitude of serious inquiries.
"The Iraq War... catapulted the Royal Military Police onto the world stage and took them out of a comfort zone where they'd previously be investigating quite routine lower level type crimes to investigating very serious allegations of alleged torture and murder," he remarked. "And if you look back at all the serious allegations arising out of all the operations in Iraq there's a catalog of blunders, mistakes, ineptitutde and the course of investigations being bent to serve the real or perceived interests of the chain of command of the army."
The military can stymie investigations without directly covering them up, he said -- pointing out that because the conflict zones remain dangerous, investigators need only be denied access to the scene.
"If its a hot operation environment," the officer said, "the chain of command can deny the use of helicopters, they can deny protection for the investigators to go to scenes... They can make it very difficult."
"I would say that it is definitely the case that the public and indeed international partners do not have any trust and confidence in the investigation of incidents involving alleged misconduct by British troops," he added.
samedi 7 février 2009
The Horrors in Iraq
Iraq's Shocking Human Toll: About 1 Million Killed, 4.5 Million Displaced, 1-2 Million Widows, 5 Million Orphans
02.02.2009 alternet.org By John Tirman, The Nation
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http://www.normanfinkelstein.com/article.php?pg=11&ar=2672
02.02.2009 alternet.org By John Tirman, The Nation
Please click on:
http://www.normanfinkelstein.com/article.php?pg=11&ar=2672
jeudi 6 novembre 2008
mardi 28 octobre 2008
The Washington Post undercounts Iraq Deaths
Action Alert
The Washington Post Undercounts Iraq Deaths
Paper's feature low-balls Iraqi casualties
www.fair.org/index.php?page=3636
10/27/08
The Washington Post's weekly Saturday feature on "Iraq War Casualties" has consistently listed a "maximum count" of Iraqi civilian deaths that is dramatically lower than the likely civilian death tolls assessed through surveys of the Iraqi public.
In the most recent edition of this feature (10/25/08) which the Post has been publishing as a chart in the Saturday newspaper since August 2, the Post offers a "maximum count" of 96,719 Iraqi civilian deaths. Yet as the Post itself acknowledged in a footnote to its chart on June 15, 2007, there are studies that put the Iraqi death toll much higher: A 2006 survey by Iraqi physicians and overseen by the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health estimated over 600,000 killed at the time.
The source the Post cites for its "maximum count" of Iraqi civilian deaths is based on casualty reports from the group Iraq Body Count, which bases its figures on violent civilian deaths that are reported in media outlets and, when possible, by other NGO and official sources. While the group's figures represent a serious effort to document reported Iraq deaths, they are much lower than the death tolls assessed through surveys of the Iraqi public--the standard method for assessing casualties of large-scale wars or disasters.
Both the 2006 Johns Hopkins study and an earlier study conducted by Johns Hopkins (both published in the peer-reviewed British medical journal Lancet, 10/28/04, 10/11/06) estimated a death toll several times larger than that of Iraq Body Count; the more recent Lancet estimate found 601,027 "excess" deaths from violence in Iraq. A more recent survey conducted in August 2007 by the British polling firm Opinion Research Business (ORB) estimated 1.2 million excess violent deaths in Iraq since the U.S.-led invasion. And an investigation by the U.N.'s World Health Organization and the Iraqi Health Ministry found, as the Washington Post reported (1/10/08), that "151,000 Iraqis died from violence in the three years following the U.S.-led invasion of the country.
"These estimates do not distinguish between civilians and combatants, but given that the U.S. government estimated that the U.S. and its allies had killed 19,000 insurgents by September 2007 (USA Today, 9/27/07), it's clear that civilians make up the vast bulk of the deaths found in these surveys. And these surveys are all at least a year old; the WHO survey in particular was conducted before the most violent extended period of the war.
It's hard to see why you wouldn't include both civilian and combatant deaths when attempting to measure the effects of a war. But even if the Post wanted to count only civilians, the surveys indicate that 88,000-96,000 is almost certainly a very serious underestimation.
Why, then, does the Post opt to refer only to the lowest figures available for Iraq casualties? And why does the paper use the misleading label "maximum count" to refer to the 96,719 deaths recorded by Iraq Body Count? Iraq Body Count used to label the top of its range of reported deaths as its "maximum" number, but no longer seems to do so; its website notes, "Gaps in recording and reporting suggest that even our highest totals to date may be missing many civilian deaths from violence."Given that over a year ago, the Post mentioned the Lancet’s death toll estimate of over 600,000, it should stop referring to a figure six times lower as the “maximum count.”
If the Post insists on relying on the Iraq Body Count’s admitted underestimate of Iraq deaths, it should convey the statistical differences between the different estimates with a sentence to the effect of, "Household surveys in Iraq suggest likely Iraqi death tolls 2 to 10 times greater than this count." Instead, the paper seems to be opting to use the lowest range it can find.
ACTION:
Ask the Washington Post to clarify its "Iraq War Casualties" feature to convey the true range of estimates of Iraqi deaths since the invasion.
CONTACT:
Washington Post
Deborah Howell, Ombud202-334-7582
ombudsman@washpost.com
Scott Wilson, Foreign Editor
foreign@washpost.com
The Washington Post Undercounts Iraq Deaths
Paper's feature low-balls Iraqi casualties
www.fair.org/index.php?page=3636
10/27/08
The Washington Post's weekly Saturday feature on "Iraq War Casualties" has consistently listed a "maximum count" of Iraqi civilian deaths that is dramatically lower than the likely civilian death tolls assessed through surveys of the Iraqi public.
In the most recent edition of this feature (10/25/08) which the Post has been publishing as a chart in the Saturday newspaper since August 2, the Post offers a "maximum count" of 96,719 Iraqi civilian deaths. Yet as the Post itself acknowledged in a footnote to its chart on June 15, 2007, there are studies that put the Iraqi death toll much higher: A 2006 survey by Iraqi physicians and overseen by the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health estimated over 600,000 killed at the time.
The source the Post cites for its "maximum count" of Iraqi civilian deaths is based on casualty reports from the group Iraq Body Count, which bases its figures on violent civilian deaths that are reported in media outlets and, when possible, by other NGO and official sources. While the group's figures represent a serious effort to document reported Iraq deaths, they are much lower than the death tolls assessed through surveys of the Iraqi public--the standard method for assessing casualties of large-scale wars or disasters.
Both the 2006 Johns Hopkins study and an earlier study conducted by Johns Hopkins (both published in the peer-reviewed British medical journal Lancet, 10/28/04, 10/11/06) estimated a death toll several times larger than that of Iraq Body Count; the more recent Lancet estimate found 601,027 "excess" deaths from violence in Iraq. A more recent survey conducted in August 2007 by the British polling firm Opinion Research Business (ORB) estimated 1.2 million excess violent deaths in Iraq since the U.S.-led invasion. And an investigation by the U.N.'s World Health Organization and the Iraqi Health Ministry found, as the Washington Post reported (1/10/08), that "151,000 Iraqis died from violence in the three years following the U.S.-led invasion of the country.
"These estimates do not distinguish between civilians and combatants, but given that the U.S. government estimated that the U.S. and its allies had killed 19,000 insurgents by September 2007 (USA Today, 9/27/07), it's clear that civilians make up the vast bulk of the deaths found in these surveys. And these surveys are all at least a year old; the WHO survey in particular was conducted before the most violent extended period of the war.
It's hard to see why you wouldn't include both civilian and combatant deaths when attempting to measure the effects of a war. But even if the Post wanted to count only civilians, the surveys indicate that 88,000-96,000 is almost certainly a very serious underestimation.
Why, then, does the Post opt to refer only to the lowest figures available for Iraq casualties? And why does the paper use the misleading label "maximum count" to refer to the 96,719 deaths recorded by Iraq Body Count? Iraq Body Count used to label the top of its range of reported deaths as its "maximum" number, but no longer seems to do so; its website notes, "Gaps in recording and reporting suggest that even our highest totals to date may be missing many civilian deaths from violence."Given that over a year ago, the Post mentioned the Lancet’s death toll estimate of over 600,000, it should stop referring to a figure six times lower as the “maximum count.”
If the Post insists on relying on the Iraq Body Count’s admitted underestimate of Iraq deaths, it should convey the statistical differences between the different estimates with a sentence to the effect of, "Household surveys in Iraq suggest likely Iraqi death tolls 2 to 10 times greater than this count." Instead, the paper seems to be opting to use the lowest range it can find.
ACTION:
Ask the Washington Post to clarify its "Iraq War Casualties" feature to convey the true range of estimates of Iraqi deaths since the invasion.
CONTACT:
Washington Post
Deborah Howell, Ombud202-334-7582
ombudsman@washpost.com
Scott Wilson, Foreign Editor
foreign@washpost.com
vendredi 21 septembre 2007
Dr. Gideon Polya: ORB Survey and 1.2 million Iraq Deaths ignored by Australian and Anglo-American Media
19 September, 2007
Countercurrents.org
In February 2007, as we approached the Fourth Anniversary of the US-UK-Australian invasion of Iraq, I published an article on Countercurrents entitled “US Iraqi Holocaust and 1 million Excess Deaths” (see: http://www.countercurrents.org/iraq-polya070207.htm ) ;
I detailed and documented the following horrendous circumstances in Occupied Iraq: “as of February 2007: (a) the accrual cost has been $2.3 TRILLION; (b) there are 3.7 million Iraqi refugees; (c) the post-invasion excess deaths (avoidable deaths, deaths that did not have to happen) total 1.0 million (ONE MILLION); (d) post-invasion under-5 infant deaths total 0.6 million; (e) there were 1.7 million excess Iraqi deaths associated with the Western-imposed 1990-2003 Sanctions War; (f) there were 1.2 million under-5 year old infant deaths in the 1990-2003 Sanctions War (see: http://mwcnews.net/content/view/12261/42/ ); and (g) Coalition deaths total about 3,360.”
It is now September 2007 and after a further SEVEN months of US-UK-Australian war and occupation the horrendous human and economic cost has inevitably increased.
As of September 2007:
(a) the accrual cost of the Bush War on Terror stands at $2.5 trillion (as determined by US 2001 Economics Nobel Laureate Professor Joseph Stiglitz) ;
(b) there are 4 million Iraqi refugees;
(c) the post-invasion excess deaths (avoidable deaths, deaths that did not have to happen) total 1.1 million;
(d) post-invasion under-5 infant deaths total 0.5 million (a corrected estimate based on the latest UN data);
(e) there were 1.7 million excess Iraqi deaths associated with the Western-imposed 1990-2003 Sanctions War;
(f) there were 1.2 million under-5 year old infant deaths in the 1990-2003 Sanctions War; and
(g) Coalition military deaths now total about 4,086 (see: http://icasualties.org/oif/ ) .
For detailed analysis and documentation of these latest, updated estimates of the cost of the Iraq War see “The Cost of War”: http://mwcnews.net/content/view/13099/26/ and “US State Terrorism, Iraqi Genocide & Afghan Genocide - 6 years post-9/11 Bush War excess deaths total 4 million”: http://open.newmatilda.com/crosswire/?p=129%20).
These appalling realities have been largely IGNORED by racist, lying, holocaust-ignoring Australian and Anglo-American mainstream media.
In September 2007 a top UK polling organization ORB (Opinion Research Business) has estimated that 1.2 million Iraqis have died violently post-invasion (see: http://www.opinion.co.uk/Newsroom_details.aspx?NewsId=78 ), twice as many as the 0.6 million post-invasion Iraqi violent deaths estimated by the top US Johns Hopkins medical epidemiologists in their research paper published in the top medical journal The Lancet in October 2006 (see: http://web.mit.edu/CIS/pdf/Human_Cost_of_War.pdf%20).
ORB describes itself thus: “Established in 1994, ORB have grown to become one of the UK’s leading bespoke corporate and issues-led market research companies” (see: http://www.opinion.co.uk/who-we-are.aspx ). The head of ORB was the head of UK Gallup Poll from 1980-1994.
However, only a few Western newspapers (most notably the US Los Angeles Times and the UK Guardian) have carried a report of this important, professional survey. The cowardly, dishonest and unethical UK BBC has failed to report this ORB survey. There has been COMPREHENSIVE NON-REPORTAGE by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) and Australian Mainstream Media as a whole.
The UK ORB estimate of 1.2 million, violence-related, post-invasion Iraqi deaths is supported by 5 estimates from 4 independent data sets of about 1 million post-invasion Iraqi excess deaths (avoidable deaths, deaths that should not have happened) as of September 2007 (for details see: http://mwcnews.net/content/view/16802/42/ and http://open.newmatilda.com/crosswire/?p=129%20).
As of September 2007, excess deaths (avoidable deaths, deaths that should not have happened) in post-invasion Iraq total:
(1) 0.7 million (from conservatively UNDER-estimated UN Population Division data);
(2) 0.8 million (from estimating post-invasion under-5 infant deaths from UNICEF data and dividing by 0.7) (see “Layperson’s Guide to Counting Iraq Deaths”: http://mwcnews.net/content/view/5872/26/ );
(3) 1.0 million (using data from The Lancet published in 2004);
(4) 1.0 million (using data from The Lancet, published in 2006); and
(5) 1.1 million (the “best estimate”, from using data published in The Lancet in 2006 and using Iraq’s impoverished but peaceful neighbors Syria and Jordan for a comparative mortality baseline).
The following message has been sent to various branches of the Australian ABC, to major Australian Mainstream media and to international journalists and to decent Australian politicians whose Parties (the Australian Greens and the Australian Democrats) object to the carnage in Iraq and Afghanistan:
LETTER:
Dear Sir/Madam,
Last week the US Los Angeles Times and the UK Guardian reported the UK ORB survey indicating 1.2 million violence-linked, post-invasion Iraqi deaths, a figure consonant with 5 estimates of about 1 million post-invasion Iraqi excess deaths from 4 independent authoritative data sources (the UN Population Division 2006 Revision, UNICEF and top US medical epidemiologists published in the top medical journal The Lancet in 2004 and 2006) (for documented details see: http://open.newmatilda.com/crosswire/?p=129 ).
ORB is a top UK market research organization and its head was formerly Managing Director of UK Gallup Poll from 1980-1994. However as far as I can judge from the Web, this horrendous statistic has NOT been reported by ANY Australian Mainstream media, including the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC). Those resolutely NOT reporting the continuing Coalition mass murder of Iraqis must answer the obvious charge of being anti-Arab anti-Semitic holocaust deniers.
It would be a grievous insult to honest sex workers to apply the obvious descriptive to “Aunty” ABC in the light of its sustained, cowardly, contemptible and racist holocaust-ignoring.
Yours sincerely,
Dr Gideon Polya
Melbourne, Australia
END LETTER
What we continue to see is sustained, remorseless, simultaneous Holocaust Commission and Holocaust Denial by the racist US-UK-Australian Coalition,
Peace is the only way but silence kills and silence is complicity. What can decent people do? In short, vote with your feet, oppose Anglo-American “democratic Nazism”. There must be ZERO TOLERANCE for mass murder, racism, genocide, media lying, politician lying and holocaust denial. Don’t vote for the racist liars and mass murderers, don’t buy their newspapers, don’t watch their TV, don’t listen to their radio stations and don’t buy the goods and services of their racist supporters.
Decent people are obliged to:
(a) inform others about horrendous human rights abuses (such as the Iraqi Holocaust, the Iraqi Genocide) and
(b) to act ethically in all their dealings with individuals, corporations and countries complicit in such atrocities (e.g. through individual and collective, inter-national and intra-national Sanctions and Boycotts).
Of course, you can do YOUR bit in the Bush War on Terra and Humanity - the Bush War on Asian, Arab, Muslim and Non-European Women and Children - by simply transmitting this message to everyone you know.
Dr Gideon Polya published some 130 works in a 4 decade scientific career, most recently a huge pharmacological reference text "Biochemical Targets of Plant Bioactive Compounds" (CRC Press/Taylor & Francis, New York & London, 2003). He has just published “Body Count. Global avoidable mortality since 1950” (G.M. Polya, Melbourne, 2007: http://mwcnews.net/content/view/1375/247/%20).
Countercurrents.org
In February 2007, as we approached the Fourth Anniversary of the US-UK-Australian invasion of Iraq, I published an article on Countercurrents entitled “US Iraqi Holocaust and 1 million Excess Deaths” (see: http://www.countercurrents.org/iraq-polya070207.htm ) ;
I detailed and documented the following horrendous circumstances in Occupied Iraq: “as of February 2007: (a) the accrual cost has been $2.3 TRILLION; (b) there are 3.7 million Iraqi refugees; (c) the post-invasion excess deaths (avoidable deaths, deaths that did not have to happen) total 1.0 million (ONE MILLION); (d) post-invasion under-5 infant deaths total 0.6 million; (e) there were 1.7 million excess Iraqi deaths associated with the Western-imposed 1990-2003 Sanctions War; (f) there were 1.2 million under-5 year old infant deaths in the 1990-2003 Sanctions War (see: http://mwcnews.net/content/view/12261/42/ ); and (g) Coalition deaths total about 3,360.”
It is now September 2007 and after a further SEVEN months of US-UK-Australian war and occupation the horrendous human and economic cost has inevitably increased.
As of September 2007:
(a) the accrual cost of the Bush War on Terror stands at $2.5 trillion (as determined by US 2001 Economics Nobel Laureate Professor Joseph Stiglitz) ;
(b) there are 4 million Iraqi refugees;
(c) the post-invasion excess deaths (avoidable deaths, deaths that did not have to happen) total 1.1 million;
(d) post-invasion under-5 infant deaths total 0.5 million (a corrected estimate based on the latest UN data);
(e) there were 1.7 million excess Iraqi deaths associated with the Western-imposed 1990-2003 Sanctions War;
(f) there were 1.2 million under-5 year old infant deaths in the 1990-2003 Sanctions War; and
(g) Coalition military deaths now total about 4,086 (see: http://icasualties.org/oif/ ) .
For detailed analysis and documentation of these latest, updated estimates of the cost of the Iraq War see “The Cost of War”: http://mwcnews.net/content/view/13099/26/ and “US State Terrorism, Iraqi Genocide & Afghan Genocide - 6 years post-9/11 Bush War excess deaths total 4 million”: http://open.newmatilda.com/crosswire/?p=129%20).
These appalling realities have been largely IGNORED by racist, lying, holocaust-ignoring Australian and Anglo-American mainstream media.
In September 2007 a top UK polling organization ORB (Opinion Research Business) has estimated that 1.2 million Iraqis have died violently post-invasion (see: http://www.opinion.co.uk/Newsroom_details.aspx?NewsId=78 ), twice as many as the 0.6 million post-invasion Iraqi violent deaths estimated by the top US Johns Hopkins medical epidemiologists in their research paper published in the top medical journal The Lancet in October 2006 (see: http://web.mit.edu/CIS/pdf/Human_Cost_of_War.pdf%20).
ORB describes itself thus: “Established in 1994, ORB have grown to become one of the UK’s leading bespoke corporate and issues-led market research companies” (see: http://www.opinion.co.uk/who-we-are.aspx ). The head of ORB was the head of UK Gallup Poll from 1980-1994.
However, only a few Western newspapers (most notably the US Los Angeles Times and the UK Guardian) have carried a report of this important, professional survey. The cowardly, dishonest and unethical UK BBC has failed to report this ORB survey. There has been COMPREHENSIVE NON-REPORTAGE by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) and Australian Mainstream Media as a whole.
The UK ORB estimate of 1.2 million, violence-related, post-invasion Iraqi deaths is supported by 5 estimates from 4 independent data sets of about 1 million post-invasion Iraqi excess deaths (avoidable deaths, deaths that should not have happened) as of September 2007 (for details see: http://mwcnews.net/content/view/16802/42/ and http://open.newmatilda.com/crosswire/?p=129%20).
As of September 2007, excess deaths (avoidable deaths, deaths that should not have happened) in post-invasion Iraq total:
(1) 0.7 million (from conservatively UNDER-estimated UN Population Division data);
(2) 0.8 million (from estimating post-invasion under-5 infant deaths from UNICEF data and dividing by 0.7) (see “Layperson’s Guide to Counting Iraq Deaths”: http://mwcnews.net/content/view/5872/26/ );
(3) 1.0 million (using data from The Lancet published in 2004);
(4) 1.0 million (using data from The Lancet, published in 2006); and
(5) 1.1 million (the “best estimate”, from using data published in The Lancet in 2006 and using Iraq’s impoverished but peaceful neighbors Syria and Jordan for a comparative mortality baseline).
The following message has been sent to various branches of the Australian ABC, to major Australian Mainstream media and to international journalists and to decent Australian politicians whose Parties (the Australian Greens and the Australian Democrats) object to the carnage in Iraq and Afghanistan:
LETTER:
Dear Sir/Madam,
Last week the US Los Angeles Times and the UK Guardian reported the UK ORB survey indicating 1.2 million violence-linked, post-invasion Iraqi deaths, a figure consonant with 5 estimates of about 1 million post-invasion Iraqi excess deaths from 4 independent authoritative data sources (the UN Population Division 2006 Revision, UNICEF and top US medical epidemiologists published in the top medical journal The Lancet in 2004 and 2006) (for documented details see: http://open.newmatilda.com/crosswire/?p=129 ).
ORB is a top UK market research organization and its head was formerly Managing Director of UK Gallup Poll from 1980-1994. However as far as I can judge from the Web, this horrendous statistic has NOT been reported by ANY Australian Mainstream media, including the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC). Those resolutely NOT reporting the continuing Coalition mass murder of Iraqis must answer the obvious charge of being anti-Arab anti-Semitic holocaust deniers.
It would be a grievous insult to honest sex workers to apply the obvious descriptive to “Aunty” ABC in the light of its sustained, cowardly, contemptible and racist holocaust-ignoring.
Yours sincerely,
Dr Gideon Polya
Melbourne, Australia
END LETTER
What we continue to see is sustained, remorseless, simultaneous Holocaust Commission and Holocaust Denial by the racist US-UK-Australian Coalition,
Peace is the only way but silence kills and silence is complicity. What can decent people do? In short, vote with your feet, oppose Anglo-American “democratic Nazism”. There must be ZERO TOLERANCE for mass murder, racism, genocide, media lying, politician lying and holocaust denial. Don’t vote for the racist liars and mass murderers, don’t buy their newspapers, don’t watch their TV, don’t listen to their radio stations and don’t buy the goods and services of their racist supporters.
Decent people are obliged to:
(a) inform others about horrendous human rights abuses (such as the Iraqi Holocaust, the Iraqi Genocide) and
(b) to act ethically in all their dealings with individuals, corporations and countries complicit in such atrocities (e.g. through individual and collective, inter-national and intra-national Sanctions and Boycotts).
Of course, you can do YOUR bit in the Bush War on Terra and Humanity - the Bush War on Asian, Arab, Muslim and Non-European Women and Children - by simply transmitting this message to everyone you know.
Dr Gideon Polya published some 130 works in a 4 decade scientific career, most recently a huge pharmacological reference text "Biochemical Targets of Plant Bioactive Compounds" (CRC Press/Taylor & Francis, New York & London, 2003). He has just published “Body Count. Global avoidable mortality since 1950” (G.M. Polya, Melbourne, 2007: http://mwcnews.net/content/view/1375/247/%20).
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