33 years after his disappearance, you can still see images of Imam Musa as-Sadr plastered on the walls of Shi’i areas of Lebanon. He was instrumental in affecting change for Lebanon’s Shi’i community. Long engulfed in poverty and dispossession, Imam Musa as-Sadr taught them that their misery was not permanent and empowered them through a revolutionary understanding of Shi’ism to alleviate their plight. He continues to be the cornerstone of Shi’i activism in Lebanon today, and he is exalted by both Amal and Hizbullah, although he officially established the former.  We’ve long suspected Qaddafi of murdering the Imam. as-Sadr was sympathetic to the Palestinian cause but was very critical of the PLO’s strong-arm tactics in the south – Lebanon’s Shi’i heartland. The belief is that Qaddafi murdered the Imam as a favor to Arafat, who was always intolerant of criticism. Qaddafi and his entire clique should be held accountable for the Imam’s death and for all those who have died not just in this uprising but throughout his 41-year tyranny.  LebanonNow reports: A former Libyan envoy has said that Lebanese Shia leader Imam Moussa al-Sadr “was shot and killed during his visit to Libya in 1978.â€
In an interview with Al-Hayat newspaper to be published on Wednesday, Major Abdel Meneem al-Houni, who has resigned from his post as Libya’s Arab League envoy, confirmed Sadr’s death.
Houni, who was also Libyan leader Moammar Qaddafi’s ally during the country’s 1969 revolution, said that Sadr was buried in the Libyan region of Sebha.
The Lebanese Amal Movement – headed by Speaker Nabih Berri – has repeatedly said that Libya is responsible for Sadr’s disappearance in 1978.
“what so few people know is that in the last half century, United States adminstrations have overthrown 50 governments—many of them democracies. In the process, thirty countries have been attacked and bombed, with the loss of countless livesâ€
journalists ought to be agents of truth, not the courtiers of power.
Silences can be broken. In Britain the National Union of Journalists has undergone a radical change, and has called for a boycott of Israel.
The web site Medialens.org has single-handedly called the BBC to account.
In the United States wonderfully free rebellious spirits populate the web—I can’t mention them all here—from Tom Feeley’s International Clearing House, to Mike Albert’s ZNet, to Counterpunch online, and the splendid work of FAIR. The best reporting of Iraq appears on the web—Dahr Jamail’s courageous journalism; and citizen reporters like Joe Wilding, who reported the siege of Fallujah from inside the city.
The Invisible Government
In a speech in Chicago, John Pilger describes how propaganda has become such a potent force in our lives and, in the words of one of its founders, represents ‘an invisible government’.
Watch the video:
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17944.htm