One of Flotilla dead was U.S. citizen Furkan Dogan

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Thursday June 03, 2010 · 12:17 PM PDT

2010/06/03 · 12:17

This is a very short diary because I hadn't seen anyone else note this story yet and I just wanted to get the news out there.

Turns out one of the victims on board the Mavi Marmara was U.S. citizen Furkan Dogan, all of 19 years old. Will this news change the Obama administration's position that Israel is capable of conducting its own "fair and impartial" investigation? Rachel Corrie was also a U.S. citizen and the Bush administration sat by while Israel conducted a whitewash regarding her murder. I call on the Obama administration to change its tune and not let history repeat itself. There is no reason to trust Israel to conduct a full, fair investigation into the murder of U.S. citizen Furkan Dogan and the other victims of the flotilla.

[update] As Costello7 notes below, Dogan was killed by four shots to the head and one to the chest.

Rojo

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Tuesday April 28, 2009 · 5:32 PM PDT

2009/04/28 · 17:32

I can't believe that this has merited so little attention in the US media or the blogosphere. The brother of the Royal Prince of the UAE, one Sheikh Issa, was caught on a tape, which was smuggled out by an American businessman, brutally torturing a dude with the aid of a cop.

Please follow me over the fold.

[Edit]and a hat-tip to Eli over at Left I, where I first saw the story, I originally wrote this as a comment elsewhere and so only mentioned him at the end.

Rojo

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Tuesday November 07, 2006 · 5:47 PM PST

2006/11/07 · 17:47

Short Diary, just because I hadn't seen it anywhere else in the diaries.

US-backed candidate Eduardo Montealegre has conceded to FSLN leader Daniel Ortega, according to AP.

This following a near-unprecedented intervention into the Nicaraguan elections by the Bush administration, with very explicit threats of sanctions and possibly worse coming from numerous State Department flacks.

Former Pentagon statistician: 183,000 Iraqi Dead

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Monday January 09, 2006 · 10:51 PM PST

2006/01/09 · 22:51

The Lancet study estimating nearly 100,000 Iraqi deaths, when it wasn't being ignored, was derided by the American press of being of flawed methodology and, therefore, inaccurate. This despite the fact that when the exact same method was used in the year 2000 by epidemiologist Les Roberts, also the leader of the Iraq study, to estimate some 1.7 million deaths in the ongoing Congolese war, the number was given respectful treatment by CNN, ABC, and the BBC.

In fact, as journalist Andrew Cockburn found out, the charges of a flawed methodology may indeed have been true, just not in the way US corporate media outlets would ever tell you. Read More

The looting of Iraq's oil (w/ Chalabi cameo!)

Rojo

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Monday November 28, 2005 · 2:13 AM PST

2005/11/28 · 02:13

The recent trip to Washington by conman extraordinaire Ahmed Chalabi, in which he was embraced (although not on camera) by Vice President Cheney, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, and Secretary of State Condi Rice, has been greeted by bewilderment by many across the blogosphere, wondering what the Bush administration could have to gain from still associating with a man blamed for conning the US into war (a lie, he merely provided the lies that the Bush administration was eagerly looking for) and being a cat's paw for Iran. The answer to this puzzle is quite simple and unsurprising. Disavowal of the appellation of Operation Iraqi Liberation notwithstanding, it is still spelled O.I.L. just like the war itself and relates directly to Chalabi's position as the head of the Iraq Energy Council.

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Attn: Cindy Sheehan. Can you help this student defend his first amendment rights?

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Sunday October 02, 2005 · 9:29 AM PDT

2005/10/02 · 09:29

I was over visiting the Web site Information Clearing House,which is a great source of information for those capable of individual evaluation of sources, when I came across this appeal to Cindy Sheehan:

Cindy Sheehan is scheduled to visit [Holyoke Community College]in November. We will be trying to contact her to notify her of the recent police brutality and to ask her to make a statement in support of students. If anyone reading this can help us get in touch with her, please let us know.

I thought to myself that DailyKOS might very well be a place to get in touch with Ms. Sheehan and that if she didn't know about this already, she certainly would want to. It also seemed that other DailyKOS users would also want to know about a student anti-war protestor being assaulted by a thug who wears the twin hats of campus police officer and adviser to the college Republicans.

A little more information below the fold (or in even more detail at the link above) Read More

Breaking News: Haitian Lavalas Prime Minister dead?

Rojo

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Monday May 02, 2005 · 6:22 PM PDT

2005/05/02 · 18:22

Yvon Neptune, still recognized by the CARICOM (Caribbean) countries as the legitimate Prime Minister of Haiti, is reported to have died while imprisoned without charges by the US/French/Canadian -sponsored puppet government of Gerard LaTortue. The news arrives in the United States via KPFA's Flashpoints Radio. In the midst of a interview with reporter/activist Kevin Pina and US Representative Maxine Waters, Pina was informed that two Haitian radio stations were reporting that Neptune had died. Neptune was in the second week of a hunger strike against his political imprisonment, but Waters said that, due to reports that Neptune had been beaten and tortured, it is impossible to know if he has succumbed to the hunger strike or if violence was involved.

The news is still unconfirmed at this time.

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Iraqi elections: less than 1% registration so far. Is this another "turning point"?

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Tuesday December 14, 2004 · 5:40 AM PST

2004/12/14 · 05:40

The Bush administration and much of the media remains publicly fixated on the scheduled January elections in Iraq, suggesting that the "insurgency" is steadfast on disrupting the elections because it will mark a significant transition point that will lead to a legitimate government accepted by Iraqis.

That this is a fool's goal is perhaps no better illustrated than by the reports that, six weeks before the elections, less than one percent of Iraqis voters have been registered to vote. Read More

Conyers Hearings Open Thread

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Wednesday December 08, 2004 · 7:23 AM PST

2004/12/08 · 07:23

KPFA (Bay Area Pacifica affiliate) is beginning coverage of the Conyers hearings now, you can listen online. I'd be curious to see running commentary by the many folks that have been following this issue.

Also available at C-SPAN

Am I at 300 words yet?

Nope.

Words and more words (oh God! Conyers is already starting) more words and more words and more words and more words and more words etc.

Note: Someone posted to the original diary saying there were already three open threads doing this. I promptly deleted and then couldn't find them. So I'm re-diarying. To that poster: show me the threads devoted to the hearings, and I'll delete again.

Astroturf in Ukraine? The NED and American Empire

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Tuesday November 30, 2004 · 11:18 PM PST

2004/11/30 · 23:18

The standard narrative of the Ukraine election tumult portrays recent events there as being a spontaneous outburst of grassroots support for "liberal" Yuschenko agains the Russian-backed Yanukovich. This script seems to have been largely accepted by the denizens of DailyKos, perhaps eager to see a parallel world where the possibilities of fraudulent elections are vigorously contested. But is this story so simple? A Nov. 26 Guardian article by Ian Traynor discussing the role of the National Endowment for Democracy suggests not. Read More

CIA purge, Mao, McCarthyism, and Vietnam

Rojo

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Sunday November 14, 2004 · 9:26 PM PST

2004/11/14 · 21:26

With all the talk of Nazi and Communist purges in reaction to the story of Porter Goss being ordered to clear out the "disloyal," I wonder if we're missing the one of the most applicable historical analogies we could be making here: McCarthyism and Vietnam.

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One of Flotilla dead was U.S. citizen Furkan Dogan

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Former Pentagon statistician: 183,000 Iraqi Dead

The looting of Iraq's oil (w/ Chalabi cameo!)

Attn: Cindy Sheehan. Can you help this student defend his first amendment rights?

Breaking News: Haitian Lavalas Prime Minister dead?

Iraqi elections: less than 1% registration so far. Is this another "turning point"?

Conyers Hearings Open Thread

Astroturf in Ukraine? The NED and American Empire

CIA purge, Mao, McCarthyism, and Vietnam