Persicus Maximus

Senate Intelligence Committee's Report (USA) was permitted to published a 10% summary of its report on the CIA's torture program. To get a sense of the gravity of the abuses here are the "TOP 15",  detailed by this (90% censored) report. ! 1. CIA put hummus in detainees rectums  2. CIA forced detainees to stand on broken feet  3. CIA threatened to rape mothers of detainees   4. CIA waterboarded one detainee at least 183 times  5. CIA nearly drowned to death two detainees during their sessions   6.        A Detainee lost his left eye while in CIA custody  7.      CIA held torture sessions knowing they'd worsen detainees' injuries  8.CIA kept detainees awake for as long as 180 hours (over a week)  9. Verified CIA killing of at least one person under torture  10. Some CIA interrogators objected to the tortures (but were ordered to keep going b...

    Topic of discussion included the chances of success in the negotiations , the role of the hardliners in Iran, United States , Israel and Saudi Arabia. Furthermore, it was a question of whether the USA, in the face of the recent sudden emergence of the terror organization of DAEASH (ISIS)- would be willing to finally accept Iran as the regional power it apparently is- in hoping to stop this phenomenon (ISIS) that has been unleashed in the region.

 In a statement today (November 17, 2014 ) the group called “Jundallah”, a in Pakistan / Balochistan-based Sunni Islamist terror organization, announced that it is pledging loyalty to Daesh (ISIS), and will back “ Whatever plans they have” going forward. The move follows reports from the Associated Press last week that the group’s leadership was meeting with the Daesh (ISIS) members. Jundallah is primarily a Balochistan separatist/ Wahabi group, active in both Pakistan’s far west and on the southeastern border of Iran (mostly outside of Iran and inside of Pakistan). In recent years, the group’s attacks have mostly centered on Iran’s border guards or occasional killings of citizens inside Iran to maintain their claims of presence. However there is evidence they have been backed by Israel’s Mossad in doing so. Jundallah was originally an ally of al-Qaeda, but had a falling out with them in 2003. The group then started getting funding from what they claimed were CIA agents, and...

It is said…! In the beginning of it all and by that we mean for over 2000 years ago, there were the disciples of Jesus, whom if we contemplate their times never had any plans to establish a religion of any sort. The disciples were socially a group of  mixed Semite men and women. Most of them lived and observed their Jewish traditions and as far as it is known, not even their immediate neighbors had any reason to even consider them as peoples of a different set of beliefs… The only difference was a kind of Jesus additive, a touch of extra Jesus teachings or better said those virtues that moved everyone in his (Jesus) environment. There was no such thing as Christianity when Jesus disappeared. .. The whole movement really started when the Alpha elements of the Jewish hierarchy started making a fuss about these people undermining their absolute authority. What Jesus is concerned, the existence of so many interpretations of events with regard to him is more than unders...

Erich Fromm once said ; "The obsession with violence and destruction . . . are only further instances of the powerful attraction of necrophilia in the contemporary world." Keeping this in mind, in retrospect a Selvam Canagaratna interestingly concludes the following..... “One can’t teach old dogs new tricks, right? ……..   Dead right! Worth remembering that for close upon three decades between the end of the 20th Century and the dawn of the New Millennium the US has, if anything, stubbornly persisted only in re-learning all the wrong lessons in the Middle East. [There’s ‘American Exceptionalism’ for you!] A few random examples will suffice to make the point: * At a state dinner in Tehran on New Year’s Eve, 1977, US President Jimmy Carter toasted the Shah by describing him as "an island of stability in the troubled Middle East", and went on to pay glowing tribute " to your leadership and to the respect and the admiration and love which your peop...

George Galloway (born 1954) is a British politician, broadcaster, and writer. Since late 2012 he has been the Respect Party Member of Parliament (MP) for Bradford West. He has been respected for his   "renowned colourful rhetoric and combative debating style." He was awarded Debater of the Year prize by The Spectator in 2001— More is certainly not needed to introduce a man that is so highly respected by the weak and feared by the strong. In early August, Galloway went as far as to declare his constituency an “Israel-free zone.” The MP, whose constituency has one of the highest Asian populations in the UK, urged people not to buy Israeli goods or services and even to reject tourists. And so as it happens, the usual process of  physical intimidation or at least a warning took place which resulted in a broken rib next to other bruises----This incidentally happens to all who openly happen to give critical speeches about Israel. It is always the same process...

So you thought American militarism was a problem only foreign peoples had to deal with? Americans are appalled by the invasion and military occupation of Ferguson, Missouri – but, guess what? This is something the peoples of Iraq, Afghanistan, and Donetsk have had to live with every day . And now America’s war on the world has come home. As images of tanks rolling down American streets and "police" armored up like soldiers point their guns at peaceful demonstrators flash across US television screens and social media, the stark reality of American militarism is right in everyone’s faces. All those MRAPs and that body armor came directly from America’s wars abroad – straight into the streets of a small American town, to be used against rebellious dark-skinned people. There have certainly and tirelessly been chronicling of the militarization of US "law" enforcement for years – warnings of the domestic consequences of such foreign policy of unrestrained ...