Alright time for another Grrrl Riot mix, short explanation: these are some straight up good songs by great female fronted or all-female bands, fact. I even threw in an old 60s girl group track by Terry & The Tunisians which has been an all time favourite of mine since I was 16 (I’m also…
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Juan Gonzalez: We begin today’s show in Iraq. On Thursday, the United States military announced a formal end to almost nine years of war in Iraq. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta presided over a modest flag-lowering ceremony in Baghdad that was witnessed by few Iraqis due to security concerns. The U.S. media was invited to attend the ceremony, but the Iraqi media was shut out.
Defense Secretary Leon Panetta: After a great deal of blood has been spilled by both Iraqis and Americans, the mission of an Iraq that could finally govern and secure itself has become real. The Iraqi army and police have been rebuilt, and they are capable of responding to threats. Violence levels are down. Al-Qaeda has been weakened. The rule of law has been strengthened. Iraq will be tested in the days ahead, by terrorism, by those who would seek to divide, by economic and social issues, by the demands of democracy itself.
Juan Gonzalez: On Wednesday night, President Obama spoke at a ceremony at Fort Bragg, North Carolina.
President Barack Obama: Fort Bragg, we’re here to mark a historic moment in the life of our country and our military. For nearly nine years, our nation has been at war in Iraq. And you, the incredible men and women of Fort Bragg, have been there every step of the way, serving with honor, sacrificing greatly, from the first waves of the invasion to some of the last troops to come home. So as your commander-in-chief and on behalf of a grateful nation, I’m proud to finally say these two words, and I know your families agree: welcome home. Welcome home. Welcome home.
Amy Goodman: During the same address, President Obama told soldiers, quote, “Because you sacrificed so much for a people that you had never met, Iraqis have a chance to forge their own destiny. That’s part of what makes us special as Americans. Unlike the old empires, we don’t make these sacrifices for territory or for resources. We do it because it’s right,” President Obama said.
Over the past nine years, the U.S. invasion has left a bloody toll on Iraqi civilians and foreign troops. Nearly 4,500 U.S. troops died. Another 32,000 were wounded. An accurate toll of Iraqis killed may never be known. According to Iraq Body Count, at least 104,000 Iraqi civilians have died. In 2006, the British medical journal Lancet estimated 600,000 Iraqis had already been killed. Other studies put the death toll over a million. Hundreds of thousands of more Iraqis died due to the crippling sanctions in the years between the 1991 Gulf War and the 2003 U.S. invasion. After 20 years of war and sanctions, Iraq’s infrastructure has been devastated.
Hussein Al Najjar: [translated] Obama’s speech hailed the U.S. invasion, but we were against the American invasion. In my opinion, what has happened and is still happening in Iraq, including terrorist acts and devastation, were the outcome of the U.S. presence in Iraq. The situation in Iraq is still unstable because of the U.S. presence, in my opinion. The U.S. forces also helped terrorism to enter Iraq.
Amy Goodman: While the U.S. military is largely leaving Iraq, the United States is not. The U.S. will operate the largest embassy in the world in Baghdad. The diplomatic effort will be run by the State Department, staffed with thousands of private contractors. It’s estimated more than 16,000 contractors will remain in Iraq.
ISLAMIC APARTHIED IN IRAN RALLY SUPPORT MOJAHEDIN (by ASAD1COM)
#ICRR GENOCIDE On its way to Camp#Ashraf 13 daysSounding the alarm on Camp Ashraf
While the world prepares to celebrate the beginning of the New Year, the people of Camp Ashraf, Iraq, live in imminent peril. At the camp — set up by American forces — 3,400 Iranian refugees are facing prospective massacre at the hands of the Iraqi government. The majority of residents have survived until now because of U.S. protection, but with American forces leaving by the end of the year, the Iraqi government has imposed an arbitrary deadline of Dec. 31 for residents to leave. Those who have nowhere to go will likely be attacked and killed; yet, the international community has been largely silent to their plight.
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees has designated residents of Camp Ashraf as asylum seekers, and decries its lack of access to them. We know that the residents of Camp Ashraf have faced ongoing harassment and intimidation by both the Iraqi and Iranian governments. Indeed, twice this year alone residents of the camp have been indiscriminately killed and wounded.
Camp Ashraf “massacre” must be stopped
America’s involvement in the second Gulf War in Iraq – whether you were in favour of it or opposed it – is about to end. The Prime Minister of the “new” Iraq was in Washington this week as the guest of President Obama.
Most people assumed that any future government would abide by the principles of human rights and democracy. But there is an inconvenient truth that is hard to understand for the families of our soldiers who died there and the troops themselves who were wounded. It is hard for the families of unknown number of Iraqi civilians who died there, and for the Iranian dissidents stranded there at Camp Ashraf in Iraq.
The truth is that Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, has apparently turned out to be a stooge of the Iranian regime who seems to have a disregard for basic human rights and international law. Camp Ashraf has become the barometer for his disregard of the world community and those who died to bring him to office.Iraq’s Maliki Unleashes Moqtada Sadr’s Hired Mob against Iranian Exiles in Camp Ashraf
Sunday, 18 December 2011 08:53 | Written by Amir Naderi
According to reports from Iraq, Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, directed by the Iranian government, has unleashed the Moqtada Sadr’s hired mobs against the Iranian dissidents in Camp Ashraf.
Faced with increasing opposition from various political circles in Iraq to his stance toward the Iranian opposition Mujahedin-e Khalq whose members reside in Camp Ashraf, Maliki is intends to use Moqtada Sadr’s followers who are paid with Iranian money to pressure the camp’s residents.
Since Maliki entered the Iranian-arranged alliance with Moqtada Sadr in order to secure his position as prime minister, he has increasingly used Sadr’s loyalists as street shock troops to attack Iraqis protesting Maliki’s affiliation with Iran rulers. Use of state-sponsored mobs for fulfilling state’s political and suppressive objectives has its roots in the post-1979 Iran where the government unleashed them to attack opposition rallies and storm foreign embassies.
According to a report by the Associated Press from Iraq, several hundred Iraqi followers of Moqtada Sadr (out of seven million strong population of Baghdad) took part in a gathering on Friday, hoisting his large size pictures and shouting slogan against the MEK. They repeated the Iranian government’s demand for the closing of Camp Ashraf and the group’s forcible relocation to an Iraqi-run detention center. Other reports from Baghdad indicate the heavy presence of the Iranian embassy staff in the state-run rally and Farsi speaking individuals who were organizing the mob.
US urges Iranian dissidents to accept closure of Camp Ashraf and its relocation
By Associated Press
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration on Monday urged Iranian dissidents at a camp in Iraq to accept a U.N.-brokered deal to move to another location to avoid a possible violent standoff with Iraqi authorities who have vowed to close the facility by year’s end.
With the Iraqi government’s Dec. 31 deadline to close Camp Ashraf looming, senior U.S. officials said that about 3,000 members of the People’s Mujahedeen Organization of Iran should leave and go to a new, temporary site near the Baghdad airport — likely Camp Liberty, the recently vacated former U.S. military base — where they could be processed for resettlement in other countries.
