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April, 2014


Apr 30, 2014

War is a Force that Gives us Meaning, with Chris Hedges | YouTube
  Veteran New York Times correspondent Chris Hedges has covered conflicts in Bosnia, El Salvador and Israel. Tune in for this thought-provoking lecture based on his best selling book that argues life is lived most intensely in times of war, often with tragic consequences...
 
  What does Washington's "containment" policy mean? What threats does it pose? Will it work against today's Russia? And does this mean Washington has declared a new Cold War? CrossTalking with Stephen Cohen and John Mearsheimer...
[Two of America’s premier political historians lay it out – an antidote to the mindless hysteria flooding the MSM - this is a must watch]
 
  The people of Donetsk and Lugansk regions captured administrative buildings, got hold of arms and declared independence from Ukraine. They are fighting the Kiev regime. The world attention is focused on what is happening there. But there are other hotbeds in Ukraine. Unlike Donbass, the region of Odessa has no border with Russia and it’s not a homeport for the Russian Black Sea Fleet. But local people hit the streets with Russian flags and express their will to get separated from Ukraine...
 
  The F-35 Joint Strike Fighter—the jet that the Pentagon is counting on to be the stealthy future of its tactical aircraft—is having all sorts of shortcomings. But the most serious may be that the JSF is not, in fact, stealthy in the eyes of a growing number of Russian and Chinese radars. Nor is it particularly good at jamming enemy radar. Which means the Defense Department is committing hundreds of billions of dollars to a fighter that will need the help of specialized jamming aircraft that protect non-stealthy—“radar-shiny,” as some insiders call them—aircraft today...
 
...The calligraphic work was accompanied by a three-page statement, which, among other things, said: "I present this precious symbol - an expression of sympathy and care from me and on behalf of all my open-minded fellow citizens who respect others for their humanity and not for their religion or way of worship - to all the Baha'is of the world, particularly to the Baha'is of Iran who have suffered in manifold ways as a result of blind religious prejudice.."
 
  On Thursday, US Secretary of State John Kerry delivered a lying brief for war aimed at justifying the crackdown by the Western-backed Kiev regime on pro-Russian protests in eastern Ukraine and possible military action against Russia. Declaring confrontation with Russia to be all but inevitable, he turned reality on its head, blaming the crisis entirely on Russia and clearing Kiev of all responsibility...
 
  ABC News reports this morning - Secretary of State John Kerry did what for many of Israel’s supporters is the unthinkable and used the A-word: apartheid. Apparently for many Jewish groups, the suggestion that the Jews only State is, or even could be, an ‘Apartheid State’ is unthinkable.  But far more interesting is the fact that the Jewish Lobby in America believes that it can dictate to the Secretary of State what terms to use and what words to avoid...
 
..The fragile humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip, which worsened in July 2013 following the shutdown of the illegal tunnels with Egypt and the partial closure of the Rafah crossing, continues. The delivery of basic services remains severely impaired, mainly due to the shortage of fuel, previously smuggled at subsidized prices through the tunnels and now purchased from Israel at higher cost and in limited quantities. The situation is exacerbated by the import restrictions imposed by Israel in the context of the longstanding blockade...
 
 
...Holocaust imagery is duplicitous. It rationalizes occupation harshness. It ignores Israeli state terrorism. It turns a blind eye to its decades of crimes of war, against humanity and slow-motion genocide. It promotes unique Jewish suffering.. Vulgar dishonesty exploits Jewish suffering. Palestine's Nakba gets short shrift. Israel treats Palestinians like Hitler persecuted Jews. Slow-motion genocide is official Israeli policy. State-sponsored viciousness reflects it. Yad Vashem ceremonies ignored it...
 
  For the first time in history! after a worldwide tour...The Holocaust came to visit Yad Vashem - the Holocaust Museum in Jerusalem.. This is a must watch.. Israel is way ahead of us in its treatment of this bizarre non historical piece of history...
 
...The call by UNM graduate students to divest from apartheid Israel follows a similar move last week by the student senate at the University of California at Riverside calling on the university to pull its investments from US companies profiting from Israel’s occupation. The United States and its allies may wrestle with what choice of weasel words to use to describe Israeli apartheid, war crimes and crimes against humanity for fear of upsetting the Zionist lobby. But civil society has no such fears. Little by little, it will demolish Israel’s edifice of lies and break its network of liars. The truth will out and there’s no going back...
 
  The fool is John Kerry, who has looked bad in his rushing around between Washington and Tel Aviv trying to get in place a “framework” agreement between Israel and the Palestinians that would show progress in the efforts of the honest broker, assailing Nicholas Maduro of Venezuela for his “terror campaign against his own people,” and, of course, denouncing the Russians for their “aggression” against the coup-regime of Ukraine. His statement.. has to be regarded as an Orwellian classic and may be his signifier in future history books, in the unlikely event that he makes it at all...
 
..federal officials took into custody the reputed partner of gambling boss Sheldon Adelson, the chief financial backer for the American-Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) and primary financier for America’s GOP or Republican Party. Sources at the Department of Justice say Adelson is accused of laundering $364 million dollars, much of which went into the pockets of politicians in Washington “friendly” to Israel. If Adelson is indicted.. say this process is well underway, politicians around the US, all Republicans, will be required to return millions in what would then be not only illegal campaign contributions but clearly proof of ties between the GOP and organized crime...
 
  According to unconfirmed reports, Donald Sterling has traveled to Bunkerville, Nevada for a meeting with rancher Cliven Bundy. Their agenda: The creation of a new Racist/Jewish State on BLM land. The project would, for the first time in history, unite Jewish and goyish racists in a single apartheid state. “That thar BLM land is a land without people,” Bundy explained, “and us racists is a people without land. So let’s all of us who don’t like neegras and goys and such make aliyah. I’ll betchya we can make that gosh-durned desert bloom..”
 
...Despite its continuing denials, it is almost universally recognized that Israel possesses nuclear weapons, and there’s next to zero likelihood Israel will give them up. Does it matter how Israel got its nuclear materials half a century ago, and if so, why?..
 
  Horrifying  physical, emotional, intellectual  and/or sexual child abuse is variously inflicted by Zionists, by Apartheid Israel and by pro-Zionist US Alliance of the rogue state on 6 million exiled Palestinian children, 4.3 million Occupied Palestinian children, 0.9 million Palestinian-Israeli children, 2 million Jewish Israeli children, 5 million Jewish children in general worldwide, 750 million Muslim children, 3 billion Third World children and indeed potentially, through worsening climate genocide, all 3.5 billion children of the world...
 
  It would be difficult to find a better example of U.S. government double-dealing and hypocrisy than U.S. foreign policy toward Venezuela and Egypt. The U.S. government funnels millions of dollars in foreign aid into both countries — aid that has been forcibly taken from the pockets of the American people by the IRS. In Venezuela, this is accomplished by such U.S. agencies as USAID, which is reputed to oftentimes serve as one of the CIA’s many front organizations, and the NED.. U.S. officials say that they just want to promote “democracy.” Really? Then, why are they.. sending millions of dollars in U.S. foreign aid in the form of Apache helicopters to the Egyptian military dictatorship...
 
  Israel promoted plans or approved tenders for nearly 14,000 new settler homes on occupied Palestinian land during the nine months of peace talks, an Israeli monitor group said as the negotiation period formally ended. The Peace Now group said on Tuesday that the scale of the plans for East Jerusalem and the occupied West Bank was "unprecedented", with prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government approving the equivalent of about 50 new homes a day, or about 1,500 a month...
 
...In this little book Douglas Reed presents in a highly compressed form the story which emerges when this simple test of cui bono? is applied to all that has happened in the world since before the beginning of the 20th Century, right up to the present day. It is a simple, well written story which helps us to understand that changes in the world which disturb most ordinary people, leaving them confused and worried about the future, have been deliberately brought about and are part of a conspiratorial jig-saw puzzle which he has described as "The Grand Design"..
  In order to build a peaceful future, Palestinians must have full freedom of movement, to travel and trade freely, to and from the port of Gaza and throughout Palestine. A lasting peace can only be achieved by fully, permanently and unconditionally lifting the blockade imposed on Gaza and by restoring Palestinian rights under international law...
[The boat was sabotaged a couple of days ago, about a month before it was due to sail. But they’re hanging tough.]



Apr 29, 2014


Why Neocons Seek to Destabilize Russia, by Robert Parry | Consortium News
  Now that the demonization of Russia’s President Vladimir Putin is in full swing, one has to wonder when the neocons will unveil their plan for “regime change” in Moscow, despite the risks that overthrowing Putin and turning Russia into a super-sized version of Ukraine might entail for the survival of the planet. There is a “little-old-lady-who-swallowed-the-fly” quality to neocon thinking. When one of their schemes goes bad, they simply move to a bigger, more dangerous scheme...
 
  The overwhelming impression generated by Obama’s Asian sojourn is that the entire region is interlaced with numerous tripwires, any one of which could set off a major military conflict with the world’s most populous country. Underlying this sense of impending danger is the suspicion of US impotence, highlighted by the hollowness of Obama’s threat to go to war with Beijing over the Senkaku/Diaoyu islets. We have no more business deciding what goes on in the South China Sea than Beijing has in the Gulf of Mexico...
 
  Secretary of State John Kerry is framing the Ukraine narrative to make the U.S. side – despite neo-Nazis overthrowing an elected president – the good guys and Russians the bad guys. But Kerry’s strident propaganda is a sad ending to a career that began as a truth-teller...
 
  There is little reason for anyone to get very exercised, either with enthusiasm or with dismay, over the latest announced reconciliation between Hamas and the Fatah-dominated Palestine Liberation Organization. After all, such unity agreements between these two entities have been announced in the past and never went very far. Maybe something more will come from this one, but that prior record should put the possibilities into perspective...
 
  The Palestinian Authority (PA) must stop demeaning its people. One can understand being fooled once or even twice, but being fooled over and again every three to four years for the last 20 years is just going overboard...
[A quisling is a quisling, Ramallah is Vichy]
 
...We compared two genetic models for European Jewish ancestry depicting a mixed Khazarian–European–Middle Eastern and sole Middle Eastern origins. Contemporary populations were used as surrogates to the ancient Khazars and Judeans, and their relatedness to European Jews was compared over a comprehensive set of genetic analyses. Our findings support the Khazarian hypothesis...
 
  The “Ukraine crisis” repeats a script as old as the Cold War. The narrative features rising attacks by corporate states and media on the traditional whipping boy of Russia. As usual, “escalating the crisis” is US-led. As usual, alarm about “increasing lawless aggression” is projection of US policy itself. In fact, one more US-directed violent overthrow of an elected government has carved off the biggest country of Europe from next-door Russia. Yet Russia gets all the blame for “brute force” in reclaiming Crimea – although 96% of a voluntary turnout of 82% voted to rejoin its traditional mother country...
 
  Prior to 2012 Canadian officials took the position that Canada’s duty (under the Convention against Torture, the Criminal Code of Canada and the Crimes against Humanity and War Crimes Act) to arrest and prosecute OR to extradite for prosecution any foreign national suspected of torture upon entry to Canada, applied only to suspects living in Canada and not to those—such as G.W. Bush—visiting temporarily. In 2012 the Committee against Torture ruled that Canada has a duty to exercise its criminal jurisdiction over EVERY torture suspect including those temporarily in Canada...
 
...The mistake of Arafat and Abbas was to allow Israel to dictate to them. How can a thief have the right to negotiate for the properties he stole? We should ask the Jews why when their properties that were stolen during the Holocaust must be returned to the rightful owners and if they were dead it will automatically go to their kin. If that is the case then why can’t the stolen land of the Palestinians be returned and why is there no right of return for the Palestinians or their children since 1948. TELL ME WHY ARE THE JEWS ABOVE THE LAW!!
 
  Donald Tokowitz (Sterling) is the son of Jewish immigrants who lifted himself up by his bootstraps to become a major slumlord, defiant racist, miserable human being and sub-cheapskate sports team owner in my "city of second chances", Los Angeles. There's no point to my piling on with pious denunciations of this guy's racial dementia. As we used to say on the Chicago streets from which he came "a chazer bleibt a chazer", a pig is a pig even in a Hugo Boss suit...
[There seems to be an endless supply of this species of pond scum]
 
  It would seem that recurring exposure to Israel and its repulsive Zionist leaders over the past nine months is forcing the truth upon the US secretary of state, John Kerry. Speaking at a closed meeting of the Trilateral Commission on 25 April, he warned that if Israel doesn’t make peace soon, it could become “an apartheid state”, like the old South Africa...
 
  Citing a series of fatal malfunctions dating back to 1777, flag manufacturer Annin & Company announced Monday that it would be recalling all makes and models of its popular American flag from both foreign and domestic markets...
 
  Iran and Russia are negotiating a power deal worth up to $10 billion in the face of increasing US financial alienation. The construction of new thermal and hydroelectric plants and a transmission network are in the works.. Plans include the construction of hydroelectric and thermal generating plants and a new transmission network. The possibility of Russia exporting 500 megawatts of electricity to Iran is also on the cards, said Mehr...
 
  The «anti-terrorist operation» announced by the Kiev-based regime to quell the protests in the south-eastern parts of Ukraine is unpopular in the army. The local police units in the Donetsk, Lugansk, Kharkov and other south-eastern cities refused to take action after the administrative buildings were captured by Donbass protesters. In response acting Minister of Internal Affairs Arsen Avakov ordered to start the formation of new police units across the whole country. They should be trained for punitive actions. Billionaire Igor Kolomoisky, a citizen of Israel appointed governor of Dnepropetrovsk region by the Kiev interim regime, promised cash rewards for the capture of protesters...
 
  Below is the chronicle of actions by the Ukrainian nationalist forces during the crisis in Ukraine...
 
  “Capital in the Twenty-First Century,” the new book by the French economist Thomas Piketty, is a bona fide phenomenon. Other books on economics have been best sellers, but Mr. Piketty’s contribution is serious, discourse-changing scholarship in a way most best sellers aren’t. And conservatives are terrified. Thus James Pethokoukis of the American Enterprise Institute warns in National Review that Mr. Piketty’s work must be refuted, because otherwise it “will spread among the clerisy and reshape the political economic landscape on which all future policy battles will be waged..”
 
...the word “Holocaust” itself has progressively become a potent weapon in the ideological war. But the Holocaust establishment has worked tirelessly over the past few years to ensure that this weapon is spread across the world, including Asian countries.. the new doctrine is pretty straightforward: Thou shalt have no other gods before the Jewish “Holocaust”!..
[Another comprehensive and important piece from Mr. Alexis – a must read]
 
  On April 28, 2014, the Mayor of Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second largest city, was shot at noon while riding a bicycle in a park. A few hours later he is reported to be struggling for his life. A member of the Jewish community, Mayor Kernes is already mourned in Israel. The event was not surprising. On April 26, the synagogue of Mykolaiv in Ukraine was attacked with two Molotov Cocktails. As analyzed in Russia Will Save Ukrainian Jews, the event had clear characteristics of a psywar event, another step in the systematic split of Ukraine between Russia and the EU, with Israel playing on the Russian team...
 
...Just as we admire the powers of resistance of Europe’s conquered nations, the Partisans and the Resistance, we should be able to understand the Palestinian resistance to the Israeli occupation. It should be one of the lessons of the Holocaust, the opposite of the state’s brainwashing, which is now set to begin in kindergarten. Palestinian resistance is actually one of the feeblest in history. With the exception of the accursed years of the second intifada, when both sides bled, the 47 years of the occupation have been quite pleasant for the occupier...
 
 
 
  American living standards are plunging and it’s not simply because they are paid less, work longer (or shorter hours) under highly stressful workplace conditions and pay a higher percentage of their income for health and pension coverage. The ‘workplace’ is only one of several locations where American working people are experiencing a sharp decline in living standards. The new oligarchical Kleptocrats and political elites have elaborated new ways to fleece Americans. These include:..
 
...a large explosion rocked the boat causing extensive damage. The boat sank part way and is now sitting on the shallow sea floor...
[Par for the course when dealing with cowardly bullies, but the warning call to the guard was surprising. The Chosen Ones don’t usually show any signs of human decency, but they would have used a Palestinian collaborator for the job. Well, one never knows.]



Apr 28, 2014

Moving Closer To War | Paul Craig Roberts
  The Obama regime, wallowing in hubris and arrogance, has recklessly escalated the Ukrainian crisis into a crisis with Russia. Whether intentionally or stupidly, Washington’s propagandistic lies are driving the crisis to war. Unwilling to listen to any more of Washington’s senseless threats, Moscow no longer accepts telephone calls from Obama and US top officials. The crisis in Ukraine originated with Washington’s overthrow of the elected democratic government and its replacement with Washington’s hand-chosen stooges...
 
  RT is reporting that 3 officers of the most elite anti-terrorist unit in the Ukraine, they are called "A" or "Alpha", were caught in the city of Gorlovka, near Donetsk.. Now let me provide some context here. The Ukrainian SBU is a truly frightening secret service.  Ever since it's foundation following the independence of the Ukraine the SBU did some work arresting gangsters and criminals, but it's most feared mission was to be the "enforcement" service of whoever was in power.  The top of the top of the SBU forces were supposed to be the "A" or "Alpha" anti-terrorist forces...
 
  The Novokramatorsk Machine Building Plant (NKMZ) has provided to the people's self-defense forces of Kramatorsk military equipment "for clearance of minefields set by Ukrainian troops near the city during the so-called "antiterrorist operation.."
 
  Israel and America killed all chances for a two state solution. Mahmoud Abbas, the PLO, Fatah and Hamas should use the “unity agreement” reached last week in Gaza as a first step toward redeeming their sins and crimes committed against the Palestinian people for all those years of failing, incompetency, corruption and decadence and as a first step toward a One State Solution, the only way forward for a permanent solution...
 
  A new study from Princeton and Northwestern Universities has found that the United States’ government more closely resembles an Oligarchy or a Corporatocracy than a Republic or Democracy. Researchers examined nearly 2,000 policy changes in the United States between 1981 and 2002 and compared the changes to the preferences of average Americans, wealthy citizens, and interest and lobbying groups. The researchers sought to find the answers to who governs in America, who really rules, and to what extent are U.S. citizens sovereign or powerless...
 
  Washington’s foreign policy remains “dominated” by Israel, which is “not familiar with the notion of peace,” a political analyst and writer in London says. The Obama administration’s “disappointment” over a reconciliation pact between Hamas and the Palestinian Authority (PA) “is another evidence that, tragically enough, American foreign policy is still dominated by the [pro-Israel] Jewish lobby,” said Gilad Atzmon...
 
  In the oligarchy known as the United States of America, it is now commonplace for second-generation retired Foreign Service officers like Christopher R. Hill to rally behind the cause of the “New World Order.” Writing in the George Soros house organ, Project Syndicate, billed as the “world’s smartest op-ed page by The Washington Post’s Ezra Klein, Hill bemoaned the end of the post-Cold War “New World Order” brought about by the “annexation” of Crimea to the Russian Federation. In fact, the so-called “annexation” was a retrocession of the territory back to Russia, correcting a diktat made in 1954 by Soviet Communist Party General Secretary Nikita Khrushschev...
 
  Reza Nasri, an international lawyer and academic, is a Shelby Davis scholar in international law at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (HEI) in Geneva. His work examines the role of the United Nations Security Council in the Iranian nuclear enrichment program, the legality of extraterritorial and unilateral sanctions, the lawfulness of attacking nuclear facilities under laws of armed conflict, cyber-attacks as a use of force, and the legal effects of threatening a party during the course of negotiations. In this exclusive interview, he shares his thoughts and ideas about Iran’s relationship with international organizations...
 
...The proposed first MAGLEV in America will link Washington with Baltimore and then be extended to New York and Boston. Compared to the lines in China, Japan and Germany, which developed the technology, this is a baby-step. Instead of levitating skywards, the project is stuck in a Washingtonian swamp called "I don't have the technology.."
 
  While tensions are mounting in eastern Ukraine after U.S. Vice President Joe Biden had instructed Washington's puppet regime in Kiev to ignore the Geneva agreement and escalate the situation, the European Union sent two of its most notorious warmongers to another front in the new Cold War against Russia. The Foreign Ministers of Germany and France, Frank-Walter Steinmeier and Laurent Fabius, visited Georgia and affirmed plans to speed up the signing of the now infamous EU Association Agreement with Russia's southern neighbor:..
 
  In case you haven't noticed, I am not much of an optimist these days, not about the Middle East and more significantly not about the United States. The problem is the power of the right which, depending on the issue, is driven by greed, racism, stupidity and various combinations of those three...
 
 
With the Israeli-Palestinian peace negotiations floundering, it may, perhaps, be time to consider an entirely different kind of two-state solution. One that involves the State of Texas...
[Time for Mexico to go on full alert?]
 
  On the occasion of his conference in Geneva on March 20th, L’Armurerie met Gilad Atzmon to ask him some questions. Known as a musician, the British -former israeli- jazzman is not only a talentful saxophonist but also a radical thinker critical towards zionism and judaism in its « empirical essence ». We wanted to hear this outstanding citizen’s opinion about the recent « Dieudonné affair », about Hervé Ryssen‘s work and about many more topics...
 
  Federal authorities have been placed on alert as a Secret Federal Grand Jury has convened somewhere in the U.S. to consider charges that Sands CEO, Sheldon Alderson, has personal involvement of crimes admitted to by the Sands Corporation. Sands is a group of Nevada based, International gaming companies.. A little history concerning the Adelson Organization is appropriate here for those of you who are unaware of his empire...
 
...in today’s USA, a scholar who questions the sacred narrative of the Nazi holocaust is committing career suicide. Europe is even worse. Many European countries routinely prosecute and imprison historians who question the holy trinity of the new holocaust religion: Six million Jewish murder victims, millions killed in gas chambers, and an official Nazi policy aimed at exterminating all European Jews. Did the Germans really murder six million Jews, most of them in gas chambers, as part of an official policy of complete extermination? To even ask the question is heretical in the West...
 
...the armed opposition forces are regrouping, and recruiting and training fighters for the so-called “Free Syrian Army” (FSA). In addition to supplying them with new shipments of small arms and ammunition, the CIA is establishing channels to ship orders of anti-tank and anti-aircraft guided missiles (ATGMs and MANPADS, respectively) to the FSA. Ostensibly, the Syrian opposition has already been supplied with the first shipment of American BGM-71 Tow ATGMs and a small number of MANPADS through Jordan and Turkey. Thus, Washington anticipates that the ability of government forces to use tanks and aircraft will be substantially reduced, and a significant change in the course of hostilities will be effected..
 
  Anti-government protests in Venezuela that seek regime change have been led by several individuals and organizations with close ties to the US government. Leopoldo Lopez and Maria Corina Machado- two of the public leaders behind the violent protests that started in February – have long histories as collaborators, grantees and agents of Washington. The National Endowment for Democracy “NED” and the US Agency for International Development (USAID) have channeled multi-million dollar funding to Lopez’s political parties Primero Justicia and Voluntad Popular, and Machado’s NGO Sumate and her electoral campaigns...
 
  In countless interviews, in personal letters, in face-to-face discussions, the questions I keep being asked are becoming very similar: “Now that it is obvious that the West is ready and willing to destroy everything that stands in its way to the total domination of the planet, what can still be done..” if there is no determined resistance, or defense of the basic values on which humanity is based, there will soon be nothing except absolute slavery, market fundamentalism, in brief a society much more appalling than Orwell or Huxley could ever envision. The good news is, that there is resistance!..
 
  I am arguing that the historical argument should be put to rest, and that the issues that yet need to be resolved relate to the legal questions surrounding the applicability of genocide, as well as the related semiotic and political questions associated what should be called 'the politics of genocide..'
[If and when Abe Foxman gives them the OK, the great poobahs of the West will change their tune. After all, he’s the ‘decider’ in such matters. This almost happened when the Turks got troublesome about the Mavi Marmara.]
 
...Both the US government and the US “newspaper of record” refuse to act on their knowledge of Israel’s history of sabotage and call for punitive action against a nation that is hurting US national interests in an important part of the world. Their main concern is to avoid a confrontation with Zionist lobbyists and NYT advertisers whose devotion to Israel is wholly uncritical. This appears to still be the most favoured position even though standing firm over negotiations with Iran has proved the Zionists are not omnipotent...
[That horse left the barn a long time ago]
 
...Just days before the February coup, the Emperor was calling on the Ukrainian military not to get involved in the Maydan crisis. When it was Washington’s thugs seeking to overthrow an elected government by force, it was all about "dialogue." As soon as the deed was done, however, the US and EU started calling on Kiev to "establish the authority of the state." It’s not repression when our people do it. Yet the Imperial establishment can’t possibly be so stupid as to believe that the Maydan junta can actually crush the millions in the east of the country refusing to submit to its authority. What do they think this is, Krajina? Kosovo?..
 
  Philosophy of religion typically focuses on questions and disputes about the ideas and doctrines of monotheistic religions, with Christianity the primary model. How does the discussion change if we add Buddhism, which is neither monotheistic nor polytheistic, as a primary model of a religion?..
[Theists just can't quite get their heads around it. It seems counter-intuitive, but is actually counter-conditioning.]

  At approximately 7 am on April 23rd, Rami Rajabi, a six-year-old child, was 20 meters away from checkpoint 29 when he threw several pebbles in al-Khalil (Hebron). As Rami walked away towards his school, three Israeli soldiers burst out of an alleyway, grabbed his arm, and detained him in the street.. An ISM volunteer present said, “What happened today is part of an ongoing campaign to intimidate the local population: Israeli forces harass children here in Hebron all the time”. In a report issued by UNICEF.. they state: “the arrest, detention or imprisonment of a child shall be used only as a measure of last resort and for the shortest appropriate period of time..”



Apr 27, 2014


The Sickly Smell of Lies and Death, by John Chuckman | Dissident Voice
  Only the other day, Benjamin Netanyahu earned a small note of immortality when he said the peace talks were ended by the new arrangements between the Palestine Authority and Hamas: Netanyahu’s announcement bundled a record number of lies into one mouthful of words.  There, of course, never was anything properly called peace talks with Israel. There has been only a long series of closed-door personal, and security-scrambled telephonic, exchanges with America’s superbly ineffectual John Kerry, exchanges in which the Palestinians played virtually no role and in which Mr. Netanyahu had absolutely no interest...
 
  On this episode of The Martinez Perspective, host Brandon Martinez is joined by journalist and radio host Joshua Blakeney. The focus of this discussion was the dogmatism of the Left, how ideologues discard facts and truths that do not coincide with their ideology, Zionist militarism, neocon wars and the role of Vladimir Putin’s Russia in world affairs. Is Vladimir Putin a “hero” as some anti-Zionists view him to be? Is he a moral actor or a Machiavellian realist motivated purely by self-interest and economic considerations?..
 
 
  I cannot stay silent any longer. I watch the news on American TV and watch the BBC and I want to throw up. The reason for this is that I also read Op-Ed News and other so called "alternative" media. Most people don't take the time to read the media that isn't government branded and government sanctioned. They hear how the evil Russians are pushing around the poor Ukrainians that only want their "freedom". What a crock of shit...
 
  The futile exercise reviving peace talks between Mahmoud Abbas’s half-baked puppet administration and the Israelis comes to its scheduled climax in a few days, after which we wait with bated breath for US Secretary of State John Kerry’s much-trumpeted “framework” for even more lopsided peace talks. Seven weeks ago, in anticipation of this fateful moment in Palestinian history, I asked Dr Hanan Ashrawi of the Palestine Liberation Organization for an interview and sent her some draft questions.. I got no reply...
 
  The truth is simple, though likely hard — nay, nearly impossible — for most U.S. citizens to fathom living in the self-proclaimed “city upon a Hill.” Birthed during World War II and at the beginning of the Cold War, respectively, VOA and RFE/RL have Nazi-tied historical roots. More specifically, rewind to the State Department’s then-covert Operation Bloodstone, which began in 1948...
 
...The coup-government has labeled the protesters in eastern Ukraine as "terrorists" and only yesterday some of them were, allegedly, killed by Ukrainian troops. How would anybody with a sane mind send foreign military observers and Ukrainian officers into towns where those "terrorists" are having the upper hand? For what purpose if not to spy for the Ukrainian government which plans to recapture those towns by military force?..
 
...The suspicious attitude towards visitors is understandable, considering a number of fatal gun attacks on militia-held checkpoints the city witnessed in the past few days. Some of the attacks were carried out by Ukrainian troops acting in an ongoing “anti-terrorist operation” against Slavyansk. The perpetrators of some of the others remain unidentified, with the protesters laying the blame on Right Sector activists...
 
  US media coverage has been running hand in hand with the revolutionary ideology of Kiev's interim leaders. And brushing aside contradictions to its reasoning, the White House is relying on verified data. Or, as Anastasia Churkina finds out, their interpretation of that...
 
  Since the invasion of Crimea, President Vladimir Putin and President Barack Obama have had regular phone calls in an often half-hearted attempt to deescalate the ongoing crisis inside Ukraine. But as the U.S. and EU prepare to unveil new sanctions against Russia, Putin has decided the interactions should stop. The Kremlin has ended high-level contact with the Obama administration, according to diplomatic officials and sources close to the Russian leadership. The move signals an end to the diplomacy, for now...
 
...it’s odd that more people don’t take the time to acquaint themselves with the technical issues surrounding Iran’s alleged nuclear-weapons program. While the issues may be somewhat daunting to non-technical types such as this author – though certainly not beyond our capacity to understand with a little effort – they’re easy for the technically gifted. True, they’re on the dry side, but it can’t be any more tedious than trying to figure out how to draw more clicks to an ad...
 
...I wrote an article refuting any optimism or hope that may come out of resuming negotiations. I proposed that both Palestinians and Israeli must start looking for new political tools to coexist in one-state. This unfruitful process is robbing the Palestinians and illegitimating Israel on the long run. Let's admit it; Israel will not allow a viable and independent Palestinian state. What is on the ground is one state with two systems. Israel is commanding all means of life in the West Bank(including occupied Jerusalem) and the Gaza Strip...

  While Washington and western mainstream media go to great lengths to demonize Russia for everything happening in Ukraine, there is no denying the West is pulling the strings in Kiev. How does the West turn its forced regime change into an epic policy blunder? And why is Russia to blame?..
 
 
  Decades of failed peace talks have led nowhere; but do not lose hope just yet. Join Robert Foster as he attempts to host the first ever Middle East Peace Raps, using rhyme and reason to bring together Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin "Bibi" Netanyahu, and a representative of Hamas. We investigate the key arguments, counter-arguments and ad-hominems from both sides. But the picture would not be complete without a thorough discussion of "America's last taboo.."
 
  The following video is probably my most important talk to date. It is an attempt to deconstruct the notion of the ‘Jewish genius’. It elaborates on the building of Jewish cognitive elite. It equates between the Zionist and Israeli elite that is highly pragmatic as well as sinister and the Palestinian elite that is, to a certain extent, dysfunctional politically. The talk is an attempt to grasp Jewish intelligentsia from evolutionary perspectives...
 
...Not only does BDS accept the terms of the Zionists, it seems to spend most its time trying to “look innocent” according to Western and Zionist norms. Hence the people behind the movement spend more time condemning Palestinians for being “anti semitic” or “homophobic” than they do condemning Zionist policies – I remember one of the movement’s latest articles claiming that the struggle must be against homophobia within in the movement as much as it is against Israeli occupation!..
 
  Russian military aircraft have not breached any state borders, including those of Ukraine, Russia’s Defense Ministry has said. Ukraine’s acting defense minister has also retracted claims by Kiev that Russian jets “violated Ukrainian airspace seven times..” The Ukrainian coup-imposed acting defense minister, Mikhail Koval, on Saturday told journalists that no violations of state borders by the Russian aircraft or troops have been recorded...
 
  David Aaronovitch entered into a conspiracy with others to post fake 5 star reviews of his last shoddy book on Amazon.  He now lies about why.  He has attempted to defuse the row by coming clean and making light, courtesy of his Murdoch employer. But his explanation is a plain lie...
[Aaronovitch is just another ZioNazi creep – there are so many of them out there]
 
 
 
...RIA Novosti on Saturday published satellite images showing the buildup of troops near the eastern Ukrainian anti-government stronghold of Slavyansk. The photos, which are said to have been taken during the latest stage of the so-called “anti-terrorist operation” ordered by Kiev, are dated April 24-25. The images appear to show part of military hardware used for the current Ukrainian troops’ objective of “isolating” Slavyansk...
 
  Yes, I hold England fully responsible for the Belfour Declaration, for the death of hundreds of thousands of Jews and Palestinians and for the forced exile of more than 700,000 Palestinians, for 67 years of misery and wants, millions of Palestinians had to endure since 1948 and of course the millions of dead in Iraq. Too bad the Palestinian leadership does not see it that way. Rather than being behind bars or hanging from the end of the rope as war criminal, instead, Tony Blair, the former prime minister of England is the Quartet special representative to the Middle East...
 
  Abby Martin interviews Reza Aslan, historian and author of the best-selling book 'Zealot: the Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth', discussing how he arrived at the conclusion that Jesus was a revolutionary political leader rather than the peaceful prophet characterized by mainstream culture...



Apr 26, 2014

The Ukraine: Fur Flying in the Mosh Pit
 
  The U.S. mainstream news media is reaching a new professional low point as it covers the Ukraine crisis by brazenly touting Official Washington’s propaganda themes, blatantly ignoring contrary facts and leading the American public into another geopolitical blind alley...
 
  U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry deliver remarks on Ukraine at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, DC on April 24, 2014...
[How acutely embarrassing – nothing but a tissue of outrageous lies]
 
  The Russian President Vladimir Putin once famously called John Kerry a "liar". Kerry now again confirmed Putin's claim...
 
  Yes, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov is absolutely right when he states that Americans are running the show in Ukraine.  Well, in Kiev anyway! And no, this is not unusual, for American foreign policy has not wavered to any great extent since the end of World War II after Japan surrendered her place in the Pacific rising sun – Hiroshima and Nagasaki in thermonuclear ashes sealing the deal –  and America saw itself as the world’s benign empire.  Never mind that it became less and less benign as the years have passed...
 
  Russia's Foreign minister Sergey Lavrov has lashed out at US Secretary of State John Kerry over his 'prosecutorial' remarks about RT. "The US is trying to pervert everything that is going on in Ukraine. They accuse us of turning on - what was called by John Kerry in a prosecutorial tone - accuse us of switching on what they called the ‘Putin propaganda machine’ called RT..”
 
...This is not the first time reports from Ukraine hint at the poor state of the Ukrainian army, which has been sent to the south-east of the country to quell the anti-government protests. While Slavyansk activists told RT young soldiers were sent to shoot at them with no food supplies, some of the Ukrainian soldiers who surrendered to the locals told RIA Novosti they had to eat “a nettle soup,” which they gathered on the roadside...
 
  Yes, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov is absolutely right when he states that Americans are running the show in Ukraine.  Well, in Kiev anyway! And no, this is not unusual, for American foreign policy has not wavered to any great extent since the end of World War II after Japan surrendered her place in the Pacific rising sun – Hiroshima and Nagasaki in thermonuclear ashes sealing the deal –  and America saw itself as the world’s benign empire.  Never mind that it became less and less benign as the years have passed...
 
  Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has dismissed as “not serious” reports of Russian agents captured in Ukraine. He accused US politicians of distorting facts and wrongfully interpreting the Geneva agreement on de-escalation. Lavrov lashed out at western politicians while speaking at a young diplomats’ forum in Moscow. The minister accused his counterparts in the EU and the US of making unsubstantiated statements...
 
  The media war continues to see a showdown of some kind. Does the West want to provoke Russia into a military conflict? And will Russia back down? CrossTalking with Vladimir Suchan, Marcus Papadopoulos and Patrick Henningsen...
 
  Poles in the Zhitomir Region want to form autonomy with broad self-governance rights on the territory of Ukraine. According to the statements made by some representatives of that ethnic minority, "over the last decades they have been going through difficult times being prosecuted and discriminated against by the Ukrainian authorities". The Polish authorities support the idea to unite with their historic homeland. Over the past few years they have been freely handing out Polish passports on Ukrainian territory anyway...
 
...China has made known its intention to invest in large-scale ventures in Crimea after the region was reunited with Russia. The plans include two major Crimean projects: the «Power of Siberia» gas pipeline and a 25 meter deep Crimean deep water port...
 
  Alexander brings us more analysis from the Russian perspective at this critical time. The US seems to be rolling the dice in a desperate game to create instability on Russia's border, establish an offensive base in the Ukraine, threaten Russia gas markets in Europe, and give Putin some payback for his solid support of Syria...
 
Anna-Marie Slaughter demonstrates that you need not scratch a “humanitarian interventionist” much to uncover the warmongering neoconservative just below the surface. In an essay today, titled, “Stopping Russia Starts in Syria,” she argues that “the solution to the crisis in Ukraine lies in part in Syria.” President Obama must “demonstrate that he can order the offensive use of force in circumstances other than secret drone attacks or covert operations,” she writes. Translation: to get Putin back for his supposed actions in Ukraine, Slaughter calls for President Obama to bomb Syria...
[The pathetic demise of “the Left.”]
 
  The NYT pushed fabricated evidence in the run up to the Iraq war.   A year later, the newspaper apologized for its inaccurate, one-sided coverage. The U.S. and the NYT pretended that Syria’s government was responsible for the chemical weapons attack … but that claim was debunked, and even the NYT was forced to retract it several months later..  Then the U.S. and the NYT pretended that they had proof that Russian soldiers were the mysterious “masked men” seizing government buildings in Ukraine.  But a couple of days later, they were forced.. into retracting that claim...
[The good old JYT - gotta give 'em credit for trying]
 
  Deliberations about imposing costs on Russia for undesirable behavior in Ukraine quickly run into several snags, among which is that any sanctions that would significantly hurt Russia would also hurt countries that impose them. Potential sanctions that immediately come to mind involve energy, given that exports of oil and gas provide Russia with nearly two-thirds of its export earnings and about one-half of its government revenues. But interference with those exports would also interfere with the energy supply of countries of the European Union, which get about one-third of their oil and gas from Russia...
 
  (Mongolian) Singer: Daiqing Tana - music starts at 2:50...
 
  On April 11, by a vote of 12-5 with one abstention, the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee gave its approval to Resolution 410 that calls upon Turkey to acknowledge that the massacres of Armenians in 1915 constituted "genocide". It calls upon President Barack Obama to adjust US foreign policy by advocating an "equitable, constructive, stable and durable Armenian-Turkish relationship including full acknowledgement of 'the Armenian genocide'"..
 
  Today April 24th is considered Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day by Armenians throughout the world. Yesterday for the very first time in history on the eve of the 99th year anniversary of the Armenian genocide, the Turkish government abandoned its century long official wall of denial when  the Turkish Prime Minister Recap Tayyip Erdogan expressed his condolences to Armenians around the world who lost ancestors at the hands of Ottoman Turks. It was a historic gesture welcomed by many including a handful of prominent and outspoken Turkish historians who have been encouraging the government to change its longstanding policy of denying that Turks ever killed Armenians at all...
 
..No place is more emblematic of the Holocaust narrative than the camp at Bergen-Belsen - or more accurately, its liberation by the British in April 1945. We've all seen the pictures - the naked, emaciated bodies being bull-dozed into open pits by cigarette-smoking British Tommies - and these pictures themselves have become emblematic of the Holocaust. Yet Belsen never was an extermination camp. Well, there's nothing noteworthy about that - nor was anywhere else...
 
  Imagine a war breaking out between Israel and Jordan. Within two or three days the Israeli army occupies the entire territory of the Hashemite Kingdom. What will be the first act of the occupation authority?.. The very first thing will be to decree that the territory will henceforth be known as “Gilead and Moab”...
 
  This week the Fateh Party (secular Arab nationalist) of Palestine President Mahmoud Abbas met in Gaza with members of the Hamas Party (fundamentalist Muslim), seeking a reconciliation and a government of national unity.. The two sides agreed that in 5 weeks a government of national unity will be appointed by Mahmoud Abbas. There will then be new elections for a president and parliament, to be held no later than 6 months after the new government is sworn in...
 
  We all remember the schoolyard bully, the girl or boy who set the rules and forced the rest of us to play by those rules, enforced by threats of the loss of backpacks and lunch money. In the past few years I have found it impossible to look at the current Israeli government as anything other than that bully on the Middle East playground...
 
  A bit unexpectedly, in recent weeks the diplomatic initiative went over to the Palestinians. Every day, attention is riveted to the latest developments at the bureau of Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazen). Banner headlines in the morning tell of the newest initiative from Ramallah. Towards noon, a chorus of angry reactions is heard from Netanyahu and his ministers. In the evening, there come the rather confused reactions from Washington and Bruxelles. Quite a surprise, after a long time in which the Palestinians and their leaders were dragged into diplomatic pathways which were defined for them by others...
 
..The United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA) recently published a study prepared by nearly two dozen writers and intellectuals from the Arab world. The report, The Arab Integration: A 21st Century Development Imperative, addresses audaciously many of the social, economic and political ills of the Arab world. The more than 300-page report enumerates a litany of futile steps taken in the last 60 years to “integrate” countries in the region...
 
  I'm getting to like David Cole/Stein more and more so it's my pleasure to post his latest video offering about the Simon Wiesenthal Museum of Tolerance. It also allows me to refer you to one of my favourite posts on the same subject...
 
  Allegations that the Syrian government has been deploying toxic chemicals are false, the Russian Foreign Ministry said Friday. Moscow says that it has evidence to the contrary, adding that such claims could be a pretext for intervention...
 
...The postrevolutionary foreign policy of Iran has been based on a number of cherished ideals and objectives embedded in the country’s constitution. These include the preservation of Iran’s independence, territorial integrity, and national security and the achievement of long-term, sustainable national development. Beyond its borders, Iran seeks to enhance its regional and global stature; to promote its ideals, including Islamic democracy...



Apr 25, 2014


Former Australian foreign minister exposes Zionist lobby power | Brandon Martinez
...When asked by ABC (Australia) reporter Sarah Ferguson how such a small group of people could wield so much power, Carr mentioned the significant amount of political campaign donations stemming from Zionist sources as well as the Zionist lobby’s courting of Australian politicians and journalists by sponsoring all-expenses-paid-for trips to Israel. Carr accused Gillard of “subcontracting” Australia’s foreign policy vis-à-vis the Middle East to her wealthy Jewish backers. In 2013 Gillard received the Jerusalem Prize for her unwavering support of the Zionist apartheid state and its terroristic policies...
[And in the US? ditto; The UK? ditto; Canada, France etc.? ditto; C’mon, people, wake up!]
 
...Today our beautiful planet is infested by genocidal tyrants, corrupt leaders, bloodthirsty heads of state and power-crazed conglomerates, hankering for global domination, robbing us of our freedoms and wishing to keep the world in turmoil for their own grotesque purposes. How can ordinary people end the evil at the top when the wheels of justice are in the hands of the very people on our wanted lists? We can only pray that some of the “wanted” will meet their end at the hands of their own hunter-killers.. Think of it: a socially-responsible international service activated by ordinary citizens or civil society groups to rid us of the world’s tormentors...
[I have been having much the same daydream quite often recently. It could well be the only effective response. It takes money, though, lots of it. Is there one, just one, superrich person who would fund such a group, making history as the only one of them to ever get through the eye of the needle? I’ve also thought of kidnapping Adelson, Chaim Saban, Rupert Murdoch, one of the Koch brothers or some other ZioNazi oligarch and squeezing them for all they're worth. How delicious that would be!]
 
  Presentation at the National Summit to Reassess the U.S.-Israel "Special Relationship on March 7, 2014 at the National Press Club...
 
  Ukrainian propaganda had tried to portray talks with US Vice-President Joseph Biden as an expression of America’s categorical support of the self-proclaimed Kiev government, but examining the content of the visit more carefully reveals Washington’s growing irritation with its minions in Ukraine. While supporting them for geopolitical reasons, the US is burdened with having to prove the ‘democraticness’ and legitimacy of a regime which, in reality, is neither democratic nor legitimate...

  As the Ukraine situation has worsened, unconscionable misinformation and hype is being poured on Russia and Vladimir Putin. Journalists and pundits must scour the Internet and thesauruses to come up with fiendish new epithets to describe both. Wherever I make presentations across America, the first question ominously asked during Q&A is always,  "What about Putin?" It's time to share my thoughts which follow:..
 
  On April 24, 2014, four days before Holocaust Day, Israeli Minister of Education Shai Piron announced that Holocaust studies will start from kindergarten. Last year, he cancelled History. Indefatigable, Mr. Piron's is bringing Israel one step closer to Orwell's 1984, the memory holes he created last year are diffusing into the gullible minds of toddlers...
[The longer Israel continues to exist, the more likely it becomes that humanity, as a viable species, will cease to exist. That’s the equation.]
 
  Russian FM Sergey Lavrov is known as a consummate diplomat, one of the most capable in world politics. So when Sophie Shevardnadze asked him to pose for a selfie, few expected him to be up for it. Sophie was ready and spoke about Lavrov's selfie-readiness immediately after the interview...
 
  A major CIA conspiracy operation is currently playing out in Eastern Ukraine where, in an age of Photoshop and mail order credentials and military patches, photographs of the same bearded Russian "special forces" commando in Slavyansk and Kramatorsk in Ukraine this year and Georgia in 2008 are being successfully parlayed to the corporate media and by the Ukrainian ambassador to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) headquarters in Vienna. The conspiracy operation follows closely on the heels of CIA director John Brennan’s visit to Kiev where he provided intelligence advice to the unelected junta now governing the country...
 
  Spend a few days riding around the separatist badlands of eastern Ukraine, and you’d have a good chance of running into Alexander Mozhaev, the fighter suspected of being a Russian government operative. He’s hard to miss, and not just because photographs of him — or claiming to be of him — have been made available by the Ukrainian government in recent days. His beard, which juts out of his face like a spade, has made him something of a mascot for the local separatists...
 
  After starting a propaganda stampede – with a lead story about photos of Russian troops purportedly in Ukraine – the New York Times admits the pictures really don’t prove much, and one photo was labeled as snapped in Russia when it was really taken in Ukraine...
 
  The US, Kiev, their EU allies and their media echo chamber are up to their invariable game of rewriting last week’s Geneva Statement to mean not what it says but what they want it to say...
 
  Western-led sanctions will not deliver a fatal blow to Russia’s economy and may actually bring benefits, Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said Tuesday, adding Russians won’t be caught in the political crossfire in Ukraine. The Prime Minister brushed off sanctions from the West, which so far target Bank Rossiya, businessmen believed to be close to President Putin, and leading government officials...
 
  Profiting from Crisis is a story about how corporations, backed by lawyers, are using international investment agreements to scavenge for profits by suing governments from Europe’s crisis countries. It shows how the global investment regime thrives on economic crises, but is very uneven in who it benefits. While speculators making risky investments are protected, ordinary people have no such protection and – through harsh austerity policies – are being stripped of basic social rights...
 
...it was a secret that wasn’t really very well hidden but which the mainstream media wouldn’t touch with a barge pole because it revealed that the Obama Administration, just like the Bushies who preceded it, has been actively though clandestinely conspiring to overthrow yet another government in the Middle East. One might well conclude that the White House is like the Bourbon Kings of France in that it never forgets anything but never learns anything either...
 
...In 2014 alone, the Al-Aqsa Foundation and Heritage reported 1,720 Israelis invaded the mosque compound provocatively. Virtually daily they create one or more incidents. Most often they want to pray where they don't belong. They want to incite violence. They want Israeli security forces blaming Palestinians for their provocations. Extremist Israeli rabbis want full control over the entire area.. Palestinian worshipers remain inside the Al-Aksa Mosque compound to protect it. Israeli forces storm it belligerently all too often...
 
  When I was first began to understand the ultra-racist, supremacist ideology of Judaism and Zionism, I came into contact with the theory that present-day Jews are genetically unrelated to the historical Jewish community. The allegation, known as the “”Khazar theory”, claims that the Ashkenazim Jews of today are actually the descendants of the Khazar people, a Central Asiatic tribe who allegedly converted to Judaism in the 9th Century AD. It is claimed that these newly-minted Jews then migrated into what is now Russia, Eastern Europe and later Western and Northern Europe...
[I have to admit that I am one of those who favored the theory of Khazar origin, but Dr. Duke has marshaled some pretty compelling evidence otherwise. On the other hand, it's not all that important, biologically speaking, whether the Tribe is more like a Hive than a Colony. In either case it is a clear and present danger to the rest of humanity. HT to Paul Eisen for the link.]
 
..A little noticed 2011 book by academic Etan Bloom revealed that the father of Israeli sociology and a leading Zionist of the British Mandate named Arthur Ruppin, was a believer in eugenics. In 1919 he argued that the Jewish race should be “purified” and that it was “desirable that only the racially pure come to the land.” As head of the Palestine Office of the Zionist Executive (later the Jewish Agency for Israel), he put his purity schemes into practice, arguing that Ethiopian Jews should not be permitted to immigrate, because “they have no blood connection,” and arguing that Yemenite Jews should be brought only for menial labor...
 
  The head of the Holocaust Educational Trust, Karen Pollock, has once again succeeded in wringing an apology from a British MP for remarks about what happened to Jews in Nazi-occupied Europe and what is happening now to Palestinians in Israeli-occupied Gaza and the West Bank. During the same parliamentary debate in which Sir Gerald Kaufman gave Israel a severe rollicking, Yasmin Qureshi, MP for Bolton South East, told the House that the suffering in Gaza was intolerable. Let readers judge whether there’s anything to apologise for in what she said:..
 
  US President Barack Obama kicks off his East Asia tour this week with a threat of military aggression towards China at the same time that vice president Joe Biden was stepping up similar provocations to Russia over the Ukraine crisis...
 
  History has been made. But few Americans are aware of it or angry about it. I say: Wake up Americans. A war has been waged against US democracy, from the inside. Time to pick a side and fight back. If you are not totally brain dead, distracted by pain or pleasure, or consumed by narcissistic obsessions, face the ugly, painful truth...
 
  Oh dear, poor Israel. Poor Israel - the world’s 4th largest nuclear military power. Poor Israel - the serial war crimes, crimes against humanity, crimes of aggression violator. Poor barbaric Israel is being picked on by the non-violent Boycott Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement which champions, out of simple human decency, Palestinian inalienable rights under international law.. As BDS gradually gains moral momentum the Zionists, in desperate retaliation, shamefully exploit the spectre of the holocaust and tediously daub (over and over and over ad nauseum) the pro-Palestine BDS efforts with the slanderous smear of a Nazi menace...
 
  I've mentioned the American technique of regime change, which is to carpet bomb civilians in a country until the country's leader is forced to leave just to save lives. This has been applied in Serbia and Libya. Now we have the logical, if utterly psychopathic, conclusion, bomb Syria in order to force Putin to acquiesce to American plans for Ukraine:.. The psycho is the aptly named Anna-Marie Slaughter, and if I lived in her neighborhood I'd have the police keep an eye on her lest she try to poison my cat or strangle my children. This is simply one of the most insane things anybody has ever written...



Apr 24, 2014

Ukraine: The Plot Sickens
 
  Russia has insisted that Kiev pull back its troops from eastern Ukraine as it accused Washington of distorting an agreement to ease the most serious confrontation between Moscow and the West since the end of the Cold War. "The Russian side once again insists on the immediate de-escalation of the situation in Ukraine's southeast, the pullback of units of the Ukrainian army and the start of a genuine internal Ukrainian dialogue involving all of the country's regions and political formations," the foreign ministry said on Wednesday...
[They mean it. The arrogant little bullies from the West should pick up their toys and go play somewhere else.]
 
...Between the anti-Russian propaganda pouring forth from the Obama administration and the deeply biased coverage from the U.S. news media, the American people are being prepared to accept and perhaps even cheer a massacre of eastern Ukrainians who have risen up against the coup regime in Kiev...
 
...The United States is in the opening phase of a war on Russia. Policymakers in Washington have shifted their attention from the Middle East to Eurasia where they hope to achieve the most ambitious part of the imperial project; to establish forward-operating bases along Russia’s western flank, to stop further economic integration between Asia and Europe, and to begin the long-sought goal of dismembering the Russian Federation. These are the objectives of the current policy...
 
  Washington bears full responsibility for elevating illegitimate fascist putschists to power. Doing so reflects another sordid chapter in US history. For sure, it won't be the last. Bullying, bluster and threatening ultimatums define US policy...
 
...this option will make it look like Russia invaded the Eastern Ukraine and that the people there had no say about it.  It will also make the rest of the Ukraine rally around the flag.  The economic disaster will be blamed on Russia and the Presidential election of May 25th can be canceled due to the Russian "threat".  Not only that, but a war - no matter how silly - is the *perfect* pretext to introduce martial law which can be used to crack down on the Right Sector or anybody expressing views the junta does not like. That is an old trick - trigger a war and people will rally around the regime in power.  Create a panic, and people will forget the real issues...
[Perfectly reasonable, which is why it's probably not the case - the mental midgets in DC are nowhere near so rational]
 
...How many American parents would proudly send their sons and daughters off to kill or be killed in Slovyansk or Donetsk?  How many young men and women aspire to be the first American to fall in Kramatorsk? Those towns are in eastern Ukraine. President Obama says the “military option” — war, that is — is not on the table in his effort to oppose Russia in the Ukraine crisis, but can we trust him? As pressure mounts on him from America’s war hawks, what will he do when sanctions fail to persuade Russian President Vladimir Putin to acquiesce? Will the military option then find its way onto that infamous table?..
[Maybe we could have roaming loudspeakers in DC reciting Einstein’s definition of insanity. Or is it unfathomable stupidity?]
 
  Sopho "Sophie" Shevardnadze is a correspondent for RT. She is the granddaughter of former Georgian President and Soviet minister of foreign affairs Eduard Shevardnadze. A must watch...
 
...without the Soviets contesting us in every region on earth our poor, overworked, and completely clueless public servants are confronted with hard decisions on a daily basis, such as: which country do we invade next? And more importantly: how do we spin our regime changing campaign to make it look defensive rather than the unambiguous act of aggression it appears to be? Decisions, decisions! Kerry’s little moment of candid conversation gives us a clue as to why our foreign policy has suddenly reverted back to its cold war incarnation...
 
  Imperialism ad nauseam: If the new name of the game is liberal humanitarianism, the obfuscation is intentional, here, the militarization of advanced-capitalist expansion in pursuit of traditional objectives, from financial-commercial penetration to industrial outsourcing, raw-materials extraction, investment outlets, and good old-fashioned establishment of spheres of influence in the context of international power politics...
 
...That both the Israeli and Palestinian leaderships are pulling their punches suggests that their real priorities are not to genuinely threaten each other but to pander to domestic audiences, which expect tough measures. The truth is that Israel and the Palestinian leadership are so deeply enmeshed in an uncomfortable tango that neither has an easy way to extricate itself without leading to the demise of the body they both desperately cling to: the Palestinian Authority...
[Wiping Israel off the map – the most important task facing the international community – is a necessary but insufficient solution to the hammerlock that organized Jewry has on the Western world. It may well be, though, that their actions will bring about their demise, as well as that of the West as the dominant power in the world. The history of the Jews is replete with this suicidal pattern. Think about Icarus flying a little too close to the sun.]
 
  Forty years have passed since the Chilean president Salvador Allende died in La Moneda Palace in Santiago, attempting to defend himself with an AK-47 he had been given by Fidel Castro. Here, in a piece from the New Statesman published in March 1974, the Nobel Prize-winning novelist Gabriel García Márquez explores Allende’s record in Chile, his rivals’ dealings with the United States and the rise of his successor – the army general Augusto Pinochet...
 
  2 songs from "Migration", an imaginative tale of wandering through life and reincarnations ... with the fantastic Daiqing Tana.. ~ AS
 
...Holocaust promotion is gradually replacing the commemoration of the sacrifice of servicemen as the subject of community remembrance in Britain. It is a change for which the British political elite seems to have a driving enthusiasm. The annual government grant to the Holocaust Educational Trust (HET) is already a very generous £2.1 million. The extra £300,000 a year will not only pay for more school Holocaust propaganda, but will also pay to set up a new national Holocaust Commission to erect yet another permanent memorial...
[This process has proceeded apace with the establishment of the Holycause as the new de facto religion of the West, and the Jewish community as the dominant political and economic power. I don’t know about you, dear reader, but it makes me want to throw up. I was born and brought up as a member of the Tribe, but the actions of organized Jewry over the last 60 years or so have turned me into what they label an “antisemite.” Let the chips fall where they may.]
 
...Whatever did or did not happen to Muhammad al-Dura (or to anyone else for that matter) makes no difference whatsoever to the basic distinction between Palestinians the victims and Jews the perpetrators. Given the lies and distortions put about (largely by Jews) about Jewish victimhood and non-Jewish culpability, calling an alleged al-Dura hoax the 'Blood libel of the century' must rank as one of the great chutzpahs of world history...
 
...in 1948, Israel didn’t just declare a "homeland," but provocatively declared itself a "state," provoking a war with its Arab neighbors. And Israel’s claim to land was much broader than the international community’s plan for partitioning Palestine between Jews and Muslims. In all, Jews returning to Palestine before 1948 legitimately purchased seven percent of Israeli territory; the vast majority of Israel was taken by armed force before and during the 1948 war...
 
  A right-wing Israeli settlement group has been put in charge of two controversial new projects to develop the area around al-Haram al-Sharif, or Noble Sanctuary, the compound of holy sites that includes al-Aqsa mosque and the golden-topped Dome of the Rock...
 
...The event marked the end of a key stage in a strategic project. In 2010, the previous government of Netanyahu adopted an ambitious project to revive the Ottoman Railway, which over the years had shrunk, serving two main lines, passengers between Tel Aviv and Haifa and phosphates in the Negev Desert, with others left in various stages of misuse. Since then, the situation changed sharply, with the help of Germany, China, and Russia...
 
...The financier, who was a conduit between the Rothschild banking family’s European and American interests, complained famously that Tesla’s technological innovations were problematic because it was not clear how meters could be imposed for the buying and selling of energy. Morgan could easily see that Tesla’s main motivation was not to make money. Rather it was to emancipate humanity with new forms of technology that would liberate people from darkness, drudgery, and various forms of top-down oppression. Neither Morgan nor the class he represented shared Tesla’s goal of conducting research and development to make life easier and better...
 
...The Zionists declared that Jews were being killed daily in Nazi Germany, but then they turned around and flooded the Middle East with perpetual wars and esthetic terrorism, which end up liquidating Palestinians on a daily basis and literally sodomizing people. They declared that Jews were being tortured in Nazi Germany, but then they began to use torture right after the Iraq invasion, an immoral act that was completely foreign to America. They declared that Nazi Germany spied on Jews virtually everywhere, but then they turned around and spied on virtually the entire world through the NSA...
 
  Turkey's Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has offered condolences to the grandchildren of Armenians who were killed by Ottoman soldiers during World War I. Erdogan made the statement on Wednesday, on the eve of the 99th anniversary of the start of mass deportations of Armenians...
 
  As England celebrates the day of its patron saint, many Palestinians are gearing up for their own forthcoming celebrations of the figure they also regard as a hero. A familiar flag flaps in the wind above a Palestinian church in the West Bank village of al-Khadr...



Apr 23, 2014


Russia’s Petro-Ruble Challenges US Dollar Hegemony, by Peter Koenig | Global Research
  Russia has just dropped another bombshell, announcing not only the de-coupling of its trade from the dollar, but also that its hydrocarbon trade will in the future be carried out in rubles and local currencies of its trading partners – no longer in dollars.. Russia’s trade in hydrocarbons amounts to about a trillion dollars per year. Other countries, especially the BRICS and BRCIS-associates (BRICSA) may soon follow suit and join forces with Russia, abandoning the ‘petro-dollar’ as trading unit for oil and gas. This could amount to tens of trillions in loss for demand of petro-dollars per year (US GDP about 17 trillion dollars – December 2013) – leaving an important dent in the US economy would be an understatement...
[This could be the tipping point that brings down the Empire.]
 
  The Islamic Republic of Iran and the United States have now locked horns at the United Nations in the dispute over Iran’s next ambassador to UN, Hamid Aboutalebi, in light of the US refusal to issue a visa for him and Iran’s stern reaction of lodging a complaint with the relevant authorities at the UN. By all indications, the coming battle will be fought hard by both sides and may turn out to be time-consuming and involve a lengthy arbitration process. Objectively speaking, Iran’s chance of winning this battle is fair to excellent, because Iran has the weight of international law on its side...
 
...In recent years, talk about “energy independence” in the United States has taken on a more assertive, even triumphalist tone as American elites embrace the proposition that the so-called “shale revolution” will revive America as energy superpower and enable it to vanquish pesky, uncooperative hydrocarbon powers like Iran, Russia, and Venezuela...
 
  To understand how thoughtless the latest US “peace process” drive has become, one only needs to consider some of the characters involved in this political theatre. One in particular who stands out is Martin Indyk. Indyk, a former US ambassador to Israel, was last July selected by Secretary of State John Kerry as special envoy for negotiations between Israel and the Palestinian Authority (PA).. In fact, the US is not a third party at all, but was and remains steadfastly in the Israeli camp. It used its political and financial leverage as a platform that allowed it to advance Israeli interests first, and their own interests second. Indyk is an example of this...
 
...It is obvious that the new Ukrainian government introduced such antidemocratic measures out of fear that a large number of Ukrainian voters who did not agree with the rise to power of extreme nationalist forces would boycott the election. At the same time, Ukraine, which is a member of the Council of Europe, is bound by all the obligations provided for in the standards established by this organization for the holding of elections, in particular the «Code of Good Practice in Electoral Matters», approved by the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe during the first part of the 2003 session...
 
...Our oligarchs must be praised: "Look, oh look, at their benevolence, look at their concern for us! Look how they let a black person speak in public! Look how they want to buy politicians for us! Look how they want to fund dissident journalism in the system that has made them wealthy and powerful! Are their goals not noble? Should we not encourage our overlords to be merciful toward us? Should we not work with them - and for them - to reform the system that they control and manipulate for their own benefit? Praise them, tweet them, for the system is good. Oligarchy is good." This is what we are seeing now from Glenn Greenwald, with these tweets aimed at exalting the good works of oligarchs...
 
  According to Stephen Aftergood at Secrecy News, a new intelligence directive forbids any official from talking with the media and threatens “termination of employment” or “criminal prosecution” for any violators.. In the aftermath of Snowden’s leaks, this is an assertive attempt to crack down on leakers and enforce absolutely secrecy. It reminds one of the Obama administration’s government-wide crack down on talking to the media, dubbed the “Insider Threat Program..”
 
  On Thursday President Vladimir Putin described NATO missile batteries aimed at Russia’s Black Sea coastline as threatening the nuclear defences of southwestern Russia. It was the first time the president or Russian defence officials have put Crimea into Russian strategic survival doctrine. US Navy deployment in the Black Sea of ships armed with Aegis missiles is one of the concrete threats Putin was referring to. This has made the current Black Sea cruise of the USS Donald Cook, an Aegis-armed destroyer, of special importance. It is the reason a Russian military aircraft buzzed the Cook as it steamed towards Constanta port, in Romania...
 
  The efforts to end the Israeli-Palestinian conflict have ground to a halt.The Netanyahu government clearly has no interest in any agreement that would require it to give up the West Bank.The Palestinian Authority has no interest in negotiating until the Israeli government demonstrates willingness to negotiate seriously over the West Bank. And the Obama administration has no interest in doing anything that would offend those donors to the Democratic party who, in theory at least, would cut off campaign donations, if Netanyahu is pressured in any way. In short, it's a stalemate, one that shows no sign of ending...
 
...News that General Wesley Clark, USA (Ret.) visited the Ukraine at the behest of the National Security Advisor there-and also a senior member of Ukraine’s parliament—should be a cause for alarm. A nonprofit foundation was involved in this exercise. There is a sense of open, almost joyful viciousness in all this pro-war, anti-Russian sentiments on opinion pages and television broadcasts. It is certainly racist and demeaning in tone. Such is the first step in convincing the public that the “transgressor” is equivalent to a retrovirus...
 
..The expansion of the US Empire throughout North Africa and the Middle East has been built around arming and financing vassal states to serve as military outposts of the empire.  These vassal regimes, ruled by dictatorial monarchies, and authoritarian military and civilian rulers, rely on force and violence to sustain their rule.  The US has supplied the weapons, advisers, and financing allowing them to rule.  The US arc of imperial military bases stretching from Egypt through Israel, Turkey, Jordan, Yemen, Iraq , Bahrain and Saudi Arabia, is protected by a chain of prison camps containing tens of thousands of political prisoners....
 
  Even though it was a major exporter of crude oil and held some of the world's largest natural gas reserves, Iran made a compelling case over half-a-century ago that it needed, almost immediately, to produce an additional 20,000 megawatts of electricity by constructing 23 nuclear power plants. At the same time, Iran's government made the case that the country needed to acquire the capacity to enrich uranium in order to fabricate the reactor fuel for such an ambitious programme. Western governments eagerly endorsed these arguments, praising Iran's then Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi's ambition to rapidly modernise Iran while overlooking the reality that he was presiding over a ruthless dictatorship...
 
  The Palestinians have relaunched efforts to reconcile their rival leaderships in the West Bank and Gaza Strip as US-brokered peace talks with Israel teeter on the edge of collapse. A week before a nine-month target originally set for an Israeli-Palestinian deal, a Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) delegation was expected in Gaza City on Tuesday to try to revive long-stagnant unity efforts...
 
  Lies have shorter and shorter legs. Two months after the change of regime in Kiev, the Polish press has disclosed the role of Donald Tusk’s government in preparing the coup. The new revelations belie Western discourse and demonstrate that the current interim government of Oleksandr Tourtchynov was imposed by NATO in violation of international law...
 
  In May 2004, he was lawlessly convicted of three attacks killing five people. A three-judge panel admitted he had no involvement. It didn't matter. Weeks later, he got five life sentences plus 40 years imprisonment. He's a prisoner of conscience. He calls himself "a political leader, a member of the Palestinian Legislative Council, elected by my people. Israel has no right to try me, to accuse me, to judge me. This is a violation of international law. I have a (legal) right to resist occupation.."
 
  America has found itself in an untenable situation in the Ukraine.  As the second day of military incursions by the coup backed Kiev government proceed in the East, the Obama administration has begun to realize that it has been “blindsided.” A presidential candidate is beaten in the streets by neo-Nazi thugs and nothing is done. A government responsible for murdering over 100 of the protestors that backed their takeover is now moving military forces across their country to attack the “babushka's resistance,” the heart of the resistance to the Kiev cabal, led by Russian speaking grandmothers...
 
...The US pillar of Saudi security now seems to be in doubt as the United States stands unable to meet Saudi expectations on almost all the most critical issues in the Middle East, from the Arab-Israeli conflict to the Saudi-Iran conflict and the ongoing bloody conflict in Syria, let alone the conflict with the MBI, especially in Egypt.. Regionally, the kingdom is not faring better. The US-promoted and Saudi–advocated anti-Iran “front” of regional “moderates,” with Israel as an undercover partner, seems now a forgone endeavor. The Saudi call for converting the GCC “council” into a “union” is now dead...
 
  Carbon dioxide (CO2) emitted into the atmosphere and absorbed by the ocean may be invisible to the naked eye, but it is extraordinarily visible in its effect, as will be chronicled herein, and it shows up in the weirdest places. Burning oil, gas, and coal spews tons upon tons upon tons of CO2 into the atmosphere, and similar to blowing up a balloon too much, the earth’s atmosphere can only hold so much before bad things start popping. Are you sitting?..
 
  Over the Easter holidays the UK’s prime minister, David Cameron, was on his knees “doing God” in the run-up to European elections. And he sparked a great commotion in the media by claiming Britain is “a Christian country”. Cameron wrote in the Church Times: “I believe we should be more confident about our status as a Christian country.. more evangelical about a faith that compels us to get out there and make a difference to people’s lives.” Belief in Christianity, he said, could inspire us to change people’s lives and improve both the spiritual, physical, and moral state of the world. He has certainly helped make a big difference to people’s lives across the globe...
[Methinks that all the politicians in the Judaized West wound up in politics after flunking out of clown school.]



Apr 22, 2014

Unconditional Palestinian surrender, by Zeev Sternhell | Haaretz
  The demand that the Palestinians recognize a Jewish state is no coincidence; it’s not to be taken lightly. It’s the way to demand that the Palestinians admit their historic defeat and recognize the Jews’ exclusive ownership of the country. In the eyes of the ruling majority there is no difference between Arabs who are Israeli citizens and Arabs who are residents of the territories, because citizenship is seen as a legal fiction that can be annulled...
 
...it's the secularist Jews who don't necessarily identify themselves as Jewish per se, that have adopted the most uncompromising and moral position on Palestinian rights.  Agree with them or not, these courageous "universalists" identify with the Palestinians as victims of dispossession and oppression, unconditionally. They see the cause of Palestine as an extension of the struggle for freedom from colonialism and war. Their compass is truly universal and their prism is ethical not ethnic...
 
..In his new book, “The Invention Of The Land of Israel”, Israeli academic Shlomo Sand, manages to present conclusive evidence of the far fetched nature of the Zionist historical narrative - that the Jewish Exile is a myth as is the Jewish people and even the Land of Israel. Yet, Sand and many others fail to address the most important question: If Zionism is based on myth, how do the Zionists manage to get a way with their lies, and for so long?..
 
.."Before giving us ultimatums, demanding that we fulfill demands within two or three days with the threat of sanctions, we would urgently call on our American partners to fully accept responsibility for those who they brought to power”.. Meanwhile, the Russian FM also criticized statements from Western countries and Kiev’s authorities, which “invent possible and impossible arguments against Russia,” claiming that a large amount of Russian arms in the conflict zones proves Russian interference in Ukrainian affairs. He called the statements absurd as Ukraine has traditionally used Russian-made arms...
 
...How could an American democracy revolution begin?.. the first order of business would be to smash the “mighty Wurlitzer” propaganda machine and jail the criminals who currently run the mainstream media. Every politician who has ever taken a bribe.. should also be jailed. And the Supreme Court, which has just removed the last limits on political bribery, should be tried for treason. The private Federal Reserve cartel should be seized, and the ill-gotten wealth of the international banking cabal returned to the people. The military-industrial complex and the intelligence complex should be smashed to pieces and scattered to the winds...
 
...The near-death beating of Oleg Tsarev and the intimidation of Mikhail Dobkin, both Eastern Ukrainian presidential candidates, are proof, if any more were even needed, that the upcoming “elections” in Ukraine will be neither honest nor representative of the population at large. On top of that, the Kiev junta’s military operations against the pro-reform activists in the east accentuate the violent oppression that has become characteristic of EuroMaidan and its coup plotters...
 
  On Friday, April 18, President Obama voiced his righteous indignation over anti-Semitic fliers pasted on synagogue walls in the pro-Russian eastern Ukrainian city of Donetsk.. When John Kerry denounces this document before the ink is dry, when President Obama and Susan Rice publicly endorse this forgery after it has been amply exposed in world media as disinformation, we must logically conclude that this propaganda morsel was a deliberate part of the US strategy to destabilize Ukraine by slandering pro-Russian anti-fascists as anti-Semitic...
 
  The US State Department.. said that reports of CIA Director John Brennan telling regime changers in Kiev to "conduct tactical operations" - or an "anti-terrorist" offensive - in eastern Ukraine are "completely false". This means Brennan did issue his marching orders. And by now the "anti-terrorist" campaign - with its nice little Dubya rhetorical touch - has degenerated into farce. Now couple that with NATO secretary general, Danish retriever Anders Fogh Rasmussen, yapping about the strengthening of military footprint along NATO's eastern border: "We will have more planes in the air, mores ships on the water and more readiness on the land." Welcome to the Two Stooges doctrine of post-modern warfare...
 
...Iraq was no threat to the U.S., had no weapons of mass destruction, and was the mortal enemy of al-Qaeda. Nonetheless, George W. Bush – of the self-styled “kick-ass” Bush clan – dispatched “shock and awe” against a defenseless population and replaced the dictator, Hussein, with brutal warfare, death squads and sectarian conflict, which has resulted in over a million lives lost, and millions of refugees (many of them children), amounting to a sociocide in that ancient land...
 
...there is but one crime for which anyone in America’s national security state can be held accountable in a court of law, and that’s leaking information that might put those in it in a bad light or simply let the American public know something more about what its government is really doing. If this weren't Washington 2014, but rather George Orwell’s novel 1984, then the sign emblazoned on the front of the Ministry of Truth - “War is Peace, Freedom is Slavery, Ignorance is Strength” - would have to be amended to add a fourth slogan: Knowledge is Crime...
 
  ‘In the little moment that remains to us between the crisis and the catastrophe, we may as well drink a glass of champagne,” said Paul Claudel, the French poet, dramatist and ambassador to the United States in the early 1930s. He was downplaying hopes of averting financial disaster, but his words felt like good, if despairing, advice for Ukraine in the past few days as it approached its “champagne moment”. Catastrophe in the shape of civil war, Russian invasion and partition are not yet inevitable, but they are just around the corner...
 
  The situation in the Ukraine continues to be characterized by complete chaos and a gradual and steady strengthening of the resistance in the East.. One could argue that this attack was decided by the Right Sector (that is the conclusion that the Russian-speakers have come to based on the weapons and documents they seized) and that [Kiev] cannot control them.. whether the regime does not want to enforce the terms of the agreement or whether it cannot do so make very little difference to the Russian-speakers in the East: they still have to bury the same number of people and they still face the same threat...
 
  As the world’s attention turns to events in eastern Europe, rising tensions between the world’s nuclear superpowers is once again raising the specter of the cold war. The Obama administration has simply reaffirmed and even extended the existing US nuclear policy allowing for a first-strike, offensive nuclear war against its enemies. And just as in the cold war, this conflict, too, brings with it the prospect of nuclear warfare...
[“Its enemies,” yes. America’s enemies, no. The American political and economic elite, and its craven sycophants, have created a national security state that considers its own population "the enemy."]
 
  There is now a pattern to New York Times “investigative” stories that seek to pin the blame on some nefarious foreign enemy, as in the 2002 article on Iraq buying aluminum tubes for nuclear centrifuges; the 2013 “vector analysis” tracing sarin-laden rockets to a Syrian military base; and now a photographic analysis proving that Russian soldiers are behind unrest in eastern Ukraine. All these stories draw hard conclusions from very murky evidence while ignoring or brushing aside alternative explanations. They also pile up supportive acclamations for their conclusions from self-interested sources while treating any doubters as rubes...
 
  There are many potentially worrying signs in the ‘de-escalation’ process in theory agreed by the US, Russia, EU and Ukraine this Thursday in Geneva.. Arguably, the US State Department is bound to interpret ‘de-escalation’ as a sort of ultimatum to every anti-fascist, pro-autonomy and pro-Russia group in eastern Ukraine, as in ‘disarm or else’. That’s the same logic behind the nefarious March 2011 UN approval of a no-fly zone over Libya...
 
  The Anglo-Saxon Empire is based on a century of propaganda. It managed to convince us that the United States is "the land of the free" and that it engaged in wars to defend its ideals. But the current crisis over Ukraine has changed the rules of the game. Now Washington and its allies are not the only speakers. Their lies are openly challenged by the government and media of another major state, Russia. In the era of satellites and the Internet, Anglo-Saxon propaganda no longer works...
 
...The challenge for our guardians is to provide sufficient bread and circuses for the masses to prevent widespread civil unrest and, at the moment, this appears to be working well. Collateral strategy creates dissent, confusion, trauma, fear, and distraction through bizarre psyop or false-flag reports such as 9/11, Sandy Hook, Boston Marathon, and digital toys, celebrity pop culture, and huge lies surrounding world events. Younger lives are increasingly devoted to struggling for economic survival and repayment of debts incurred for education...
 
  On March 13, 2013, my client, an Iraqi single mother and refugee now living in Jordan, filed a class action lawsuit against George W. Bush, Richard Cheney, Colin Powell, Condoleezza Rice, Donald Rumsfeld and Paul Wolfowitz in a federal court in California. She alleges that these six defendants planned and waged the Iraq War in violation of international law by waging a “war of aggression,” as defined by the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg, more than sixty years ago...
 
  This week on SOTT Talk Radio we're talking with Gilad Atzmon.. an outspoken critic of Israel's policies, not least towards the Palestinians and neighbouring countries. Born in Israel and grandson to an early Zionist 'freedom fighter', to say that Atzmon's insights about Israel and 'The Jewish Question' have raised a few hackles would be an understatement!.. Accused of being 'anti-semitic' and a 'self-hating Jew', Atzmon counters his critics by continuing to shed light on the strong taboo against questioning Israel or the involvement of high-profile Jewish figures in global 'big power games'..
 
...No one seriously claims that the man who was exhaustively debriefed by the Sunday Times nearly 30 years ago has any secrets up his sleeve. The decision to restrict his movements seems to be based more on a desire to inflict punishment on an unrepentant man than for security concerns. A pacifist who has urged the Palestinians to pursue their aims by non-violent means, he was not a spy but was driven to his actions by a horror of Hiroshima and the possibility of a nuclear war in the Middle East...
 
  Imagine that an elected president is ousted by the military. That the president’s party is declared a “terrorist” organization. That dozens of protesters are shot in the streets, thousands of people imprisoned and hundreds sentenced to death.How should a liberal democracy respond? Presumably, by condemning the coup, denouncing the violence and defending the rights of the political opposition. But not, it seems, if you are the British government...
 
...The attack is almost criminal in its eschewing of the truth and if you dear reader ever entertained the idea that Boston was a bastion of liberal truth and that the first black American president was some sort of Martin Luther King, you may now group Boston with the vilest redneck burgs in Alabama and the president to the right of the farthest right of the neo-conservative war profiteers. Rarely does an article deserve to be taken apart at the seams but this one does as the outright lies and vitriol are so blatant that there is a danger if even a small portion of the masses believe even 10% of it...



Apr 21, 2014


Corruption in Government Starts at the Bottom, by Philip Giraldi | The Unz Review
  I recently had an interesting lunch with a foreign academic who is in the US on a one year sabbatical to study how the political process in Washington shapes foreign policy. She asked me why the United States has a foreign policy that does not appear to serve actual US interests, citing the recent drive to revive the Cold War and to bomb Iran over a weapons program that it does not actually have. The question led to a discussion of how corruption works in the world’s oldest constitutional republic...
 
  In an interview with journalist Bill Moyers set to air Friday, Nobel laureate and NYT columnist Paul Krugman celebrates both the insights and warnings of French economist Thomas Piketty whose new ground-breaking book, Capital in the Twenty-First Century, argues that modern capitalism has put the world "on the road not just to a highly unequal society, but to a society of an oligarchy—a society of inherited wealth." The conclusions that Piketty puts forth in the book, Krugman tells Moyers, are revelatory because they show that even people who are now employing the rhetoric of the "1% versus the 99%" do not fully appreciate the disaster that global wealth inequality is causing...
 
  The US government does not represent the interests of the majority of the country's citizens, but is instead ruled by those of the rich and powerful, a new study from Princeton and Northwestern has concluded. The report, entitled Testing Theories of American Politics: Elites, Interest Groups, and Average Citizens, used extensive policy data collected from between the years of 1981 and 2002 to empirically determine the state of the US political system. After sifting through nearly 1,800 US policies enacted in that period.. researchers concluded that the United States is dominated by its economic elite...
[When what has long been obvious to the few becomes obvious to the many, things could change.]

  Charles and David Koch are modern-day robber barons. They're multi-billionaires. Forbes estimates their April 2014 net worth at $40.3 billion each.. They make money the old fashioned way. Behind every fortune lies a great crime, said Balzac...

  Thomas Jefferson and Andrew Jackson understood "The Monster". But to most Americans today, "Federal Reserve" is just a name on the dollar bill. They have no idea of what the central bank does to the economy, or to their own economic lives; of how and why it was founded and operates; or of the sound money and banking that could end the statism, inflation, and business cycles that the Fed generates...

  Is it really possible that the European public has no clue what was done to Ukraine? Are the men and women of the continent that lives in hallucination, that it is well educated and well informed, really unaware how its own governments have created and supported that ‘opposition movement’ in Kiev; a movement full of fascists and bigots? Unfortunately, it is possible, and it is to be expected!..

  Saddam Hussein has already been executed, and so has Osama bin Laden. But all is not lost for the enlightened West. There is a new devil, and his name is Vladimir Putin. He hates gay people, so the leaders of the enlightenment did not go to Sochi. Now he is occupying land, so sanctions and boycotts will be imposed upon him. The West is screaming bloody murder from wall to wall: How dare he annex territory in Crimea?..
 
..The genius of Stanley Kubrick’s film is that it accurately represents the cold war’s lunacy and dangers.  Most of the characters are based on real people and real maniacs. There is no equivalent to Strangelove today, because popular culture is directed almost entirely at our interior lives, as if identity is the moral zeitgeist and true satire is redundant; yet the dangers are the same. The nuclear clock has remained at five minutes to midnight...
 
  "We journalists.. have to be brave enough to defy those who seek our collusion in selling their latest bloody adventure in someone else's country.. That means always challenging the official story, however patriotic that story may appear, however seductive and insidious it is. For propaganda relies on us in the media to aim its deceptions not at a far away country but at you at home.. In this age of endless imperial war, the lives of countless men, women and children depend on the truth or their blood is on us.. Those whose job it is to keep the record straight ought to be the voice of people, not power.."
 
  The bombshell report by Pulitzer Prize-winning veteran journalist Seymour Hersh titled, “The Red Line and the Rat Line,” contains many shocking revelations for those following the West’s version of reality regarding the Syrian conflict. It particularly sheds new light on the August 2013 chemical attack that left over a thousand dead (US estimates) and thousands more affected. It reveals that not only was the Syrian government not behind the attack, but that it was a false flag operation designed specifically to serve as an impetus for Western military intervention...
 
...the Congress in January fully funded production of a new B61 thermonuclear gravity bomb, a program dubbed “Life Extension.” This year’s $537 million is the down payment on the 12th version of the B61 that the millionaires in DC agreed should get $11 billion over the next few years.. The program to replace today’s B61s with a new “mod12,” is being condemned by our allies in NATO, by Congressional budget hawks and of course by the entire arms control community. Even former Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. James Cartwright has said the bombs are “practically nil” in military value...
 
  The United States government has never given any credence to whatever appears in the alternate media – be it about 9/11 and the wars since, color revolutions, spying, torture, Syrian sarin gas attack, failed economy, jobs, growing domestic poverty and public anger, and so on. It always promotes its own narrative however contrary the facts may be or however impeccable the credentials of the contrary camp. One of the rather persistent themes highlighted by the alternate media over the past many years has been the decline in the US imperial power...
 
...The video  bonds the naïve Christian believer to  Jewish suffering by providing a bridge between the Passion of Christ and Jewish suffering. The intent is  to plant the holocaust Zionist orthodoxy into the heart of the Christian naïve soul.  And it  also serves to defuse, once and for all, the supposed common Christian  belief that it was Jews who killed Christ. At least on YouTube this week it is actually the Nazis who gassed Christ. At last the Jews are free from responsibility...
 
  The invasion had various objectives. To help remove a dictator who had seized power in a coup d’état, to channel and direct the radical groups that opposed him, to safeguard the interests of the oil companies active in the area, to forestall interference from other national powers, and to teach the citizens of an unfortunate country about the virtues of democracy. Baghdad in 2003? No. The Mexican port of Veracruz, on April 21, 1914...
[The Mexican-American War of 1846-1848 can arguably be seen as the inauguration of the Empire, in all its ruthlessness and arrogance – signaling as well the end of the Great Experiment as conceived by the Founding Fathers.]
 
...I have been struck by a defining encounter between those who are dogmatically opposed to intervention per se and those who rarely confront a call for intervention that they do not feel persuaded by. The traditional focus of policy discussion proceeds on the assumption that what is controversial concerns the forcible character of a proposed intervention by governmental actors to coerce some kind of major change in the regime or policies of a foreign sovereign state...



Apr 20, 2014

The Dangerous Neocon-R2P Alliance, by Robert Parry | Consortium News
  After U.S. neocons helped stir up a crisis in Ukraine—with a big assist from the biased American press corps – the Obama administration looked for a diplomatic off-ramp, but this pattern of hyped outrage and belated reconciliation is a risky way to make foreign policy.. The American mainstream news media has rarely bought in so thoroughly to a U.S. government propaganda campaign as it has in taking sides in support of the post-coup government in Ukraine and against Russia and pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine...
 
  Last month the Interagency Security Classification Appeals Panel (ISCAP), the nation’s highest classification authority, released a number of top-level government memoranda that shed additional light on the so-called NUMEC affair, "the story that won't go away—the possibility that in the 1960s, Israel stole bomb-grade uranium from a US nuclear fuel-processing plant.”..
[It’s one of the unknown knowns, so characteristic of American cover-ups of the Criminal State's behavior over the decades – like the story of the USS Liberty. And those are just the tip of the iceberg.]
 
  The Kremlin is preparing a new culture policy for Russia focusing on its distinctive civilisation and traditional values, which observers say has political ends amid Moscow's standoff with the West. At the end of four hours of questions Thursday in his annual call-in, President Vladimir Putin waxed philosophical on what it means to be Russian...
 
...In recent weeks, an intense and polemical debate has been waged between those tending to sympathize with Russia and those championing a harder line against Moscow. The positions have been extreme, with one controversy breaking out after the other. The louder the voices on the one side are in condemning Russia's actions in Ukraine, the louder those become in arguing for a deeper understanding of a humbled and embattled Russia; as the number of voices pillorying Russia for violating international law in Crimea grows, so do those of Germans raising allegations against the West...
 
  Demonstrators were being shot at in the port city of Mariupol as a quadripartite meeting between representatives of Russia, the US the EU and Ukraine on settling the internal political crisis in Ukraine proceeded in Geneva. That’s why the final statement which envisions de-escalation of the situation is an undisputed success. Will the Ukraine’s interim government carry out its obligations?..
 
  I have a lot in common with David Rovics. We are both artists- he is an American singer/songwriter, I am a Jazz artist, we are outspoken, we both oppose imperialist  wars and we also believe that ethics and aesthetics are somehow related and can bring a change. For many years I’ve been overwhelmed by the simplicity, the honesty and the directness with which David delivers his message...
 
 
  Once again we see a steady stream of evidence coming out of Iran as to how our wonderfully unbrilliant threatening foreign policy has forced them into a "Manhattan Project" level commitment to increase its domestically manufactured defensive weapons systems.. Our military has been morphed into an offensive one, but they have not told that to the troops, and I doubt they will. They have been reduced to being the muscle for the mega business elites...mercenaries with very nice wrapping paper. They will eventually figure this out, but many won't mind as long as the checks don't bounce...
 
  Of course not, but the late Richard Nixon was not the only crook. There are tens of thousands of politicians, certainly members of Congress, federal regulators, lobbyist, banking and financial executives, doctors, lawyers, chief executive officers, and board members of major US corporations who shamefully join Nixon as inductees in the shameful “American Crooks Club”..
[It’s a direct result of America’s ‘me first’ culture, in which morality is barely an afterthought.]
 
  The outgoing Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967, Richard A. Falk, submitted in accordance with Human Rights Council (HRC) resolution 5/1 his last report on the dire conditions under which the Palestinian people have to live.  Falk’s final presentation addresses Israeli settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem.. and considers Israel’s policies and practices in Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPT) in light of the prohibition on segregation and apartheid. It also addresses concern in relation to the deterioration of the human rights situation of Palestinians living under the Israeli blockade in the Gaza Strip...
 
  John Kerry does not come over any more, but he still sends his personal representative Martin Indyk. Once again a meeting was convened between the representatives of the Government of Israel and the Palestinian Authority, again an effort to achieve at least an extension of the negotiations, and again it failed, and again an American announcement  that efforts will continue. It was not easy to locate this information - the editors in much of the electronic and printed media did not really consider it a newsworthy item, and they can hardly be blamed...
[My answer to Keller’s question is simple – echoing the incomparable Helen Thomas, back to wherever in Hell the Israelis came from.]
 
...Member of the Knesset Jamal Zahalka, who heads the Balad party in the parliament, said "I blame the government who does nothing to stop Price Tag... I can imagine the Government's reaction if a synagogue was burnt in France... [if the denizens would have caught the perpetrators] What would have happened here? I think they would not have left them alive. What MK Zahalka and the others could not say openly is that the government is behind the Price Tag provocations and attacks. That is why the police never investigate. That is why PM Netanyahu refused to define them a terror organization. The day the provocateurs are caught and answered, the Government will wake up and attack the victims...
 
  The 36-story tower on Manhattan's Fifth Avenue has well-known neighbors, like Rockefeller Center and St. Patrick's Cathedral. It has upscale tenants, including a Godiva chocolate store. And its ownership is linked to Iran — which could now bring the 382,500-square-foot Midtown site a for-sale sign from the U.S. Marshals Service...



Apr 19, 2014

On the Front Burner
 
..What is happening today before our eyes is the end of one international system and the birth of a qualitatively different one.. Then Syria happened: for the first time since the end of WWII the USA had decided to do something and was stopped by an outside power in the most humiliating way possible.. The Russian stance on Syria was an overt challenge to US world hegemony.. So this is the real stake of the civil war in the Ukraine: for the USA it is to punish Russia for daring to challenge the world hegemon; for Russia it is to unseat this hegemon and replace him by a multi-polar international system...
 
  Very soon, the IMF will cease to be the world's only organization capable of rendering international financial assistance. The BRICS countries are setting up alternative institutions, including a currency reserve pool and a development bank...
 
  There is no large Russian military presence in East Ukraine, head of EU intelligence, Commodore Georgij Alafuzoff, has said. The spy chief has dismissed multiple accusations from the West alleging Russian involvement in the unrest in the region. In an interview with Finnish national news broadcaster, Yle, Alafuzoff said the Russian military had nothing to do with the seizing of government buildings in eastern Ukraine. “In my opinion, it’s mostly people who live in the region who are not satisfied with the current state of affairs..”
 
  On 14 April 2014 NATO issued a “fact sheet” titled, “Russia’s Accusations – setting the record straight.” In the course of setting the record straight, the NATO fact sheet made the following false assertion: “Russian officials claim that US and German officials promised in 1990 that NATO would not expand into Eastern and Central Europe, build military infrastructure near Russia’s borders or permanently deploy troops there. - No such pledge was made, and no evidence to back up Russia’s claims has ever been produced.” We know that this assertion by NATO is false...
 
  In the last days, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization made some publications, including the document “Russia’s accusations – setting the record straight”, in which NATO attempts to present the causes of the crisis situation in Europe in a biased manner, traditionally shifting the blame to Russia, like it was used to. To be noted, in its current wire-pulling rhetoric NATO has exceeded its propaganda of the times of aggression against Yugoslavia. We will not do as NATO does. We will state facts...
 
  The media refers to the document that emerged out of today’s four party talks as an “agreement”. This is not strictly correct.. As its text makes clear what this document is in reality is not an an agreement to settle the Ukrainian crisis or even an outline of such an agreement but rather a statement of basic principles around which an agreement should be negotiated. The real agreement (if it comes about) will emerge from negotiations based on the principles set out in this document. A number of points:..
 
  As the post-coup regime in Ukraine sends troops and paramilitaries to crack down on ethnic Russian protesters in the east, the U.S. news media continues to feed the American public a steady dose of anti-Russian propaganda, often wrapped in accusations of “Russian propaganda..” The acting president of the coup regime in Kiev announces that he is ordering an “anti-terrorist” operation against pro-Russian protesters in eastern Ukraine, while his national security chief says he has dispatched right-wing ultranationalist fighters who spearheaded the Feb. 22 coup that ousted elected President Viktor Yanukovych...
 
  Today is Good Friday.. It's also just a few days after we have finished our Deir Yassin Day 2014 annual commemorations. Today Deir Yassin, the site of probably the most important event in modern Palestinian history, stands unnamed and unmarked in clear sight of the most famous Holocaust memorial in the world. Deir Yassin Day also falls typically at the same time as the eight-day festival of Pesach.. April 9th is also the day in 1945 when Dietrich Bonhoeffer was executed in Flossenburg concentration camp. What would Bonhoeffer, who spoke up for Jews when so few others did, have made of the massacre of Deir Yassin and its proximity to Yad Vashem?..
 
  The thousands of people who arrive at Qalandiya checkpoint and its surroundings each day didn’t hold their breaths when they heard Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s announcement that “unilateral actions by the Palestinians will be responded by unilateral actions”. What other unilateral actions could the Israeli government take against the Palestinians in a reality in which millions of human beings, from the moment of their birth and until their death, are victims of commands, regulations and laws that enable theft and torture?..
 
  As the main London event for the 9th Israeli Apartheid Week in 2014, Palestine societies from across London presented “Voices from Palestine: Resisting Racism and Apartheid”..
 
...Washington needs to be more like the Dalai Lama. Without abandoning principles, we need practical policies based on moral empathy. Tackling these issues may offend entrenched interests, but this is immaterial. It must be done. And temporary political discomfort pales in comparison with the suffering that vulnerable people bear every day...
[Even the president of the American Enterprise Institute is vulnerable to wisdom, though it takes no less than the Dalai Lama to point it out to him.]
 
  One of the common assertions one finds in Zionist propaganda is that there “was never any Palestine.” This odd allegation is simply not true. Palestine has been used for a very long time to refer to the geographical area south of Sidon and north of the Sinai...
 
  International participants of the Palestine Festival of Literature are shown around al Khalil / Hebron, where Israel’s apartheid system is at its most explicit...
 
  The Palestinian Authority (PA) is experiencing a multi-faceted crisis at all levels these days. There is, of course, the chronic deadlock in the so-called peace-talks with Israel. Indeed, after more than 20 years of futile and fruitless talks, the PA leadership in Ramallah should have realized a long time ago the utter pointlessness of “negotiating peace” with the Zionist entity while the latter continues rather frantically to pursue the policy of lebensraum at the expense of Palestinians...
 
...the most important, vital, and critical secessionist movement with the greatest impact on world history, the future of humanity, and on world peace, especially peace in Palestine and the achievement of an independent State of Palestine, is America’s secession from Israel’s and Jewish Power’s “Illegal Foreign Occupation” of the entire U.S. Government, especially of the submissive Zionist doormat called Congress.Far from hiding their enormous power over the U.S. Government, their ownership of Wall Street Banks, Investment Firms.. Jewish Americans are proud that they run and manipulate this sole superpower to do Israel’s bidding...
 
...the special relationship is still intact. We still give generous economic and military assistance, even though Israel is a wealthy country and has clear military superiority over its neighbors. And we give this aid unconditionally. There's no hint we might reduce our assistance to get Israel to stop building settlements or to allow creation of a viable Palestinian state...
[The rotten apple in the barrel – and it stinks up the whole place, infecting the whole world]
 
  David Frost confronts Mosely, Frost is very sharp, funny at times. But Mosely, former head of the British Union of Fascists, stands firm. He holds his position and presents his rationale. They discuss the alliance with Hitler, racism and anti Semitism. Around 14 minutes in, the Jewish mob attacks...
 
  “UK’s Labour’s first Jewish leader Milband signs ex-Obama advisor Axelrod – also Jewish – as senior strategic adviser,” reads the strapline of a story published in the Israeli news website Ynet. The story is about Ed Miliband recruiting David Axelrod to the opposition Labour Party’s election team...
 
  Depending on who you listen to and how it is defined, worldwide income and wealth inequality is either more acute than it has ever been, or the gap between the rich and the rest is narrowing. The numbers may be distorted by conflicting statistics but what is indisputable is the shadow of extreme poverty that billions are living under, the economic induced anxiety millions more face every day, and the fact that the rich continue to get richer. Of the 7.2 billion people in the world, around half are living on less than $2.00 a day ̶ that’s the official barrier to the land of poverty set by the World Bank...
 
  The BP executive was explaining to me how the CIA, MI6 and British Petroleum engineered a coup d'état, overthrowing an elected president of a nation who was “not favorable to BP.” The corporation's former Vice-President, Leslie Abrahams, is pictured here, holding an AK-47 in front of BP headquarters in Baku, Azerbaijan.  Like most of the other BP executives I spoke with, he proudly added that while he was working for BP, he was also an operative for MI6, British intelligence. The conversation was far from the weirdest I had in my four-continent investigation of the real story of the Deepwater Horizon...
 
  When the Obama administration refused to grant a visa to Iran’s designated ambassador to the United Nations, Hamid Aboutalebi, it was continuing a long-running hostile U.S. policy toward the Islamic Republic. After the 1979 Islamic revolution in Iran, a group of Iranians held 52 Americans hostage in the former U.S. embassy for more than a year. Aboutalebi served as an occasional translator for the hostage-takers, but this hardly makes him “an acknowledged terrorist,” as anti-Iran hawk Sen. Ted Cruz has alleged...
 


Apr 18, 2014

The Empire Slouches Towards the East
and gets stuck in the mud again

  One commenter wrote “No American President has done this, and he does this every year. Wake up please, people!” See also Putin’s annual Q&A: 10 most compelling quotes  
 
  Russia, the US, the EU and Ukraine have adopted a joint document on the de-escalation of the Ukraine crisis, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said, after talks in Geneva. It calls for all illegal armed groups to lay down arms and a wide amnesty. The document calls for an “immediate start of a nationwide national dialogue.. which must be inclusive and accountable..” The most important agreement reached during the talks, according to Lavrov, states that the Ukrainian crisis “must be resolved by the Ukrainians themselves concerning an end to the conflict” including those related to “detaining protesters, occupying buildings” and, in the long run “the start of true constitutional reform..”
 
  Here is the joint statement issued by the foreign ministers of the U.S., Russia, Ukraine and European Union after seven hours of talks Thursday in Geneva:..
[The Empire pays lip service to diplomacy, but they almost always wind up relying on subversion and/or brute force to get what they want - hegemony.]
 
  On April 17, Russian, US, EU and Ukrainian foreign ministers met in Geneva. Discussion focused on deescalating Ukrainian crisis conditions. A joint document was agreed on. It's not worth the paper it's written on. Washington's word isn't its bond. Its history reflects one broken promise after another. Don't expect this time to be different...
 
  Ukraine’s eastern invasion is still just getting started, but seems to be stalling just two cities in, as troops withdrew from Slovyansk before nightfall, and many surrendered outright to locals. The Tuesday offensives against Kramatorsk also saw the fighting end before nightfall, but today’s had a decidedly more defeated tone, with no real gains in Slovyansk and some very high profile losses.
 
  Despite calls for a peaceful dialogue in the document on Ukraine adopted in Geneva, the coup-imposed Ukrainian Foreign Minister said it will not affect the “anti-terrorist” operation in the East of the country and the troops will remain there. Soon after the Geneva document, adopted at a four-side meeting between Ukraine, the US, the EU and Russia, was published, Ukraine’s acting Foreign Minister Andrey Deshchytsa said Kiev is not bound by its recommendations...
 
.."The United States right now, from my point of view and the point of view from observers from around the world, is on suicide watch. It's a country that is going to self-destruct at some point in the near future.."
 
  A notice ordering all Jews in the eastern Ukraine city of Donetsk to register with the pro-Russian separatists or face deportation has been pasted near the local synagogue, according to the Novosti Donbassa news agency. According to the report, the notice was distributed by "three unidentified men wearing balaclavas and carrying the flag of the Russian Federation." The notice was reported by members of the Jewish community of Donetsk...
 
  Determined not to let a good piece of rhetoric go to waste just because it was untrue and discredited nearly 24 hours ago, Western media outlets are running frenzied stories about Jews in the protester-held Eastern Ukraine cities being forced to register, providing a new chance to make World War 2 comparisons, and advancing the US narrative that the Russians, and not the “pro-West” protesters with swastika stickers on their helmets, are the “real anti-semites..”
 
  Polish media outlet Nie has published a bombshell account about direct Polish involvement in Ukraine’s destabilization. Its source alleges that the Polish Foreign Ministry had invited Ukrainian militants into the country and trained them outside of Warsaw in September 2013. Considering the destructive actions and fatalities they would later be responsible for during the EuroMaidan riots, such a connection would directly link Warsaw to the pandemonium...
 
  A pro-Kiev oligarch offered a $10,000 (£6,000) bounty on Thursday for the capture of any Russian "saboteur" and promised another half-million hryvnia (£27,000) to the national guardsmen who successfully repelled an attack by pro-Russian militia last night, killing three...
[Something the journalist left out, which I found in Wikipedia: (Kolomoyskyi) “is a Ukrainian-Israeli business oligarch of Jewish descent.. A multibillionaire, Kolomoyskyi is rated as the second or third richest person in Ukraine.. and 377th richest person in the world.. the co-founder of the PrivatBank.. Other fields of activity include: ferroalloys, finance, oil products, mass media, metal and petroleum industries...]
 
  The signing of 15 UN multilateral treaties and conventions by the Palestinian Authority signifies the end of its collaborative role as Israel’s proxy police force and consequently is the first step towards Palestinian unity and the long overdue Palestinian Spring...
 
  Palestinian Christians are calling on Pope Francis to take initiative for justice as Israeli authorities prevent worshippers’ access to the Via Dolorosa, the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, and the vicinity of the Christian Quarter. Palestinians call on the head of the Roman Catholic Church, who will visit the Holy Land next month, to take a strong stand. In 2005, Israeli authorities began implementing the systematic Judaization and destruction of holy Christian and Muslim sites...
 
  On April 17, 2014, the headlines of Hebrew media mimicked Egyptian tabloids. "Israeli Spies Arrested" is a frequent Egyptian newspapers' headline, which appears more commonly and in more variations than frogs during Biblical plagues. More often than not, the arrested are not frogs. They are not even sardines. A neighbor misinterpreted an innocent remark, reported to the secret police and an innocent is arrested. Why would Israel recruit a fava beans farmer?..
 
  April 17 marks Palestinian Prisoners’ Day, a day of international action and solidarity with the over 5,100 Palestinian political prisoners held in Israeli jails. This year – the 40th anniversary of the liberation of Palestinian prisoner Mahmoud Hijazi in a prisoner exchange – Palestinian organizations are calling for action to demand that the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation end its investments in G4S...
 
  As Israel continues its unlawful siege of the Gaza Strip, the health situation for the Palestinians continues to be critical. In a comprehensive report, B’Tselem, the Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories, described the health situation in Gaza on January 1st, 2014. According to B’Tselem, the siege that Israel has imposed on Gaza since Hamas took control of Gaza’s security apparatus in June 2007 has greatly damaged Gaza’s health system, which already had considerable shortcomings...
 
...It should be obvious that the insistence of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government on the indefinite expansion of unlawful Israeli settlements, including in East Jerusalem, even while the negotiations are taking place is a clear signal that it has no intention to respect even the inviolability of Palestinian territory, let alone basic Palestinian rights. Almost as telling is Netanyahu’s continuing insistence that no progress can be made without a formal declaration by the Palestinian Authority that accepts Israel as “the nation-state of the Jewish people..”
 
...Israel, as a state that only embraces Jews from around the globe, is an incubator of religious extremism. Unfortunately it is not merely a local danger, but it has a spillover effect that caused the whole Arab world to be engulfed by the same extremism. The apparent antagonism of the two religions is merely political, but as far as theology is concerned they are in total harmony.  For both religions have emerged from a nomadic/Bedouin background (devoid of any cultural depth and rampant in belligerence and extremism)..
 
  Libertarian ideology favors privatization. However, in practice privatization is usually very different in result than libertarian ideology postulates. Almost always, privatization becomes a way for well-connected private interests to loot both the public purse and the general welfare. Most privatizations, such as those that have occurred in France and UK during the neoliberal era, and in Greece today and Ukraine tomorrow, are lootings of public assets by politically-connected private interests...
 
...The exploding rates of suicide among Iraq and Afghanistan veterans, the escalating numbers of soldiers turning their weapons on each other as well as themselves, and the spread of PTSD all are linked to the wars themselves. Wars of aggression and occupation have an enormous, terrible effect on the young women and men ordered to fight them. And that’s just on the US side. We also have a moral and legal responsibility to respond to the wars’ even more devastating impact on millions of Afghans and Iraqis...
 
  The one idea interventionists have to solve the Syrian conflict is to eliminate the Assad regime. Regime change is the solution to the humanitarian calamity, they reason, because the Assad is the one doing all the killing. As Sen. John McCain has repeatedly yelped, “The fact is Bashar Assad has massacred 100,000 people.” Actually, he hasn’t. According to SOHR data cited by Micah Zenko and Amelia M. Wolf of the Council on Foreign Relations, “most of the reported deaths in Syria have not been committed by forces under Bashar al-Assad’s command..”
 
  The International Conference on Shakespeare is scheduled to be held in Iran for the first time ever.  Dubbed “Not of an Age but for All Ages: First International Conference in Iran on Shakespeare Studies (ICISS)”, the conference will explore themes such as ‘Shakespeare and Political Discourse’, ‘Shakespeare under the Iranian Eye’ ‘Shakespeare and Adaptation’, ‘Radical Shakespeare’, ‘Shakespeare and Mysticism’ and ‘Shakespeare and Popular Culture’..
 
...Though the richest among us may be touted as beneficent “job creators” by ideologues and the obsequious mass media who revere them, the rich, in fact, are actually the major source of the harms and evils facing our society. Their vast industrial and corporate enterprises directly and indirectly contribute to the majority of all fossil fuel emissions, toxic pollution, worker exploitation, and income inequality. Contrary to popular opinion, the rich do not gain their wealth because they work harder or possess more skills and intellect than the rest of us; they amass profligate fortunes because they are more selfish, narcissistic, and sociopathic than others...
[Makes sense to me...]
 
...the West Bank is an occupied Palestinian territory. Its population is held at gunpoint; they have no freedom, and enjoy no rights. Their land is seized by force to make room for more settlements and illegal Jewish settlers, now numbering well passed the half million mark.. Palestinians are not rebelling. Many factors are holding them back, one of which is the very Palestinian Authority in Ramallah. Its troops are in constant ‘security coordinations’ with Israel. Its ‘elite forces’ are trained by US generals and Arab armies. The PA mission is not to liberate Palestine, but to ensure the subservience of the Palestinians while Israel carries on with a colonial project that has extended for decades...
 
...Snowden says that in his days as an analyst, he could sit at his computer and tap into any American's Internet activity – even the President's. The sheer volume of information sucked up by the agency is so large that as of 2008, it maintained 150 data processing sites around the world. NSA's budget is an official secret, but a Snowden document shows that it gets about $11 billion a year in direct appropriations, with more support funneled through the Pentagon and other agencies...
[And it’s all shared with the Mossad]



Apr 17, 2014

Who will stop Leviathan?
 
  We’ve seen enough to know that the US is on track to push structural-ideological tyranny to a new level, not so much the reproduction of 20th century fascism (although that historical experience has created an indelible mark on the mindset of present-day geopolitical strategists in defining what might be possible in violating international law without thoroughly antagonizing the world community) as, instead, using a cloak of liberal humanitarianism to assert military power in pursuit of traditional imperialism. The same goals, different label...
 
  The CIA director was sent to Kiev to launch a military suppression of the Russian separatists in the eastern and southern portions of Ukraine, former Russian territories for the most part that were foolishly attached to the Ukraine in the early years of Soviet rule. Washington’s plan to grab Ukraine overlooked that the Russian and Russian-speaking parts of Ukraine were not likely to go along with their insertion into the EU and NATO while submitting to the persecution of Russian speaking peoples. Washington has lost Crimea, from which Washington intended to eject Russia from its Black Sea naval base...

The Obama Game: Is Putin Being Lured Into a Trap? by Mike Whitney | ICH
  Russia is not responsible for the crisis in Ukraine. The US State Department engineered the fascist-backed coup that toppled Ukraine’s democratically-elected president Viktor Yanukovych and replaced him with the American puppet Arseniy Yatsenyuk, a former banker. Hacked phone calls reveal the critical role that Washington played in orchestrating the putsch and selecting the coup’s leaders. Moscow was not involved in any of these activities. Vladimir Putin, whatever one may think of him, has not done anything to fuel the violence and chaos that has spread across the country...
 
  It is aggravating to see our little banty Rooster chicken-hawk Harper strut his stuff while he spouts the false corporatist philosophy about freedom and democracy in the Ukraine. What it is really about.. is US hegemonic control of global finances and corporate control of a country’s resources in order to harvest the wealth for the empire’s center...
 
..In this video, the reporter talks about missile defense, and the reaction of Putin has to be seen. ~ Interviewer: "NATO claims that the missile shield was not built against you but against Iran". ~ Putin: "You really make me laugh. God bless you, because it's almost time to finish the day, indeed it is already time to go to sleep. At least I get home in good humor"..
 
  Former Australian Foreign Minister Bob Carr’s exposure of the Zionist lobby’s stranglehold on Australia’s body politic could be the beginning of the end of the lobby in that country, but that will happen only if we make sure that his message is kept alive and translated into political action. Writing in Britain’s Guardian newspaper, Australian journalist Antony Loewenstein reminds us of the significance of Carr’s revelations...
 
  Australians have been witness to a remarkable conflict in recent days in which their former Foreign Minister Bob Carr denounced the Jewish Lobby and his former Prime Minister Julia Gillard, over the whole series of questions re Australian policy and the demands of Israel and the local Jewish Lobby. Nothing quite like it has ever been seen or heard before in Australia...
 
...For many years, the US government and mainstream media reported that at least fifteen cell phone calls had been placed from the allegedly hijacked airliners flying at over 30,000 feet. These reports began with the claims of Bush administration Solicitor General Ted Olson, who told CNN that his wife, right-wing commentator Barbara Olson, had “called twice on a cell phone” from allegedly-hijacked Flight 77 – the flight that supposedly hit the Pentagon. Olson said the first call from his wife lasted “about one minute” and the second call “two or three or four minutes..”
 
...Close cooperation in the international arena is the most important aspect of the Chinese-Russian strategic partnership. Our countries advocate a more just and democratic polycentric world order based on fundamental principles of international law and the central coordinating role of the UN. It is pivotal that in today's complex and unpredictable global context we understand and respect each other's interests and concerns. Russia and China attach great importance to cooperation within multilateral formats, including the UN, G20, BRICS, the SCO and the Russia-India-China trilateral format (RIC)..
 
  Pro-Russian armed men have taken control of Ukrainian troop carriers that were driven into the eastern Ukrainian city of Slovyansk, Reuters news agency reports. A soldier manning one of the carriers now under the control of pro-Russian separatists said on Wednesday, that he was a member of Ukraine's 25th paratrooper division from Dnipropetrovsk, and that they had switched support to Russia. "All the soldiers and the officers are here," he said. "We are all boys who won't shoot our own people.."
 
  When you're ready to wake up, you're going to wake up, and if you're not ready you're going to stay pretending that you're just a 'poor little me..'
[This is the real nitty-gritty]
 
..Here are a few photos from a reading I did on April 9. I read my poem "50 Years On", in commemoration of Deir Yassin. I prefaced the poem with some historical context about Deir Yassin. I was reading with Tina Adamidou, a Greek Cypriot writer, and Aydin Mehmet Ali, a Turkish Cypriot writer...
[See also Writings]
 
  More and more people are coming to realise that the previously unassailable Holocaust narrative is in fact, gravely flawed, and among those people are that tight little band of professional Holocaust worshippers - those that make a living (in both money and prestige) out of the Holocaust - and their followers...
 
 
...Michael Santomauro sends out a daily e-mail digest of what are, for his neighborhood, some unusual views on Judaism. Among them: questions on the Holocaust’s veracity, excoriation of every aspect of Israel’s behavior and questions on the morality of Judaism itself. Santomauro, 50, says he is not an antisemite. But this week, his messages, which he claims reach about 144,000 subscribers, caught some unwanted attention. The Jewish Defense Organization, a militant group known for its sharp-tongued rhetoric, called for his eviction from the apartment in which he lives and assembles his “Reporter’s Notebook” Web site...
 
T  he late Christopher Hitchens wrote way back in 2001 in the LA Times that “The Holocaust has become a secular religion, with state support in the form of a national museum.” In a similar vein, Israel Shamir writes that “the cult of the Holocaust” is actually “an adaptation of the Jewish spiritual rule of Christian minds, as it replaces Christ with Israel, Golgotha with Auschwitz, and the Resurrection with the creation of the Jewish state. “People who argue with the dogma of the Holocaust are met with treatment the heretics were given in the days of yore. They are excommunicated and excluded from society..”
 
  On April 15, 2014, the NYT published an article entitled "New York Drops Unit That Spied on Muslims," written by Matt Apuzzo and Joseph Goldstein. "The New York Police Department has abandoned a secretive program that dispatched plainclothes detectives into Muslim neighborhoods to eavesdrop on conversations and built detailed files on where people ate, prayed and shopped," the authors claimed. Filled with names of officials and agencies of the USA Government, there is no doubt that their claims are true...
 
  My Top Ten differences between White Terrorists and Others, judging by the Facebook shares, must be among the more popular pieces I have ever written. It keeps being proven correct by American journalism every day. I get hot under the collar thinking about all the effort the US government is expending to monitor who we call and where we are when we do it–in the hundreds of millions!– and about all the surveillance of innocent American citizens of Muslim faith and of mosques, when the American fascists receive much less focus. If a group is armed and announces its purpose is to spread hate of another group, wouldn’t that warrant some surveillance?..
 
...There is no doubt amongst scholars that Jews, as a group, derive from multiple ethnic origins and are far from a homogenous race. There is no racial continuum between a Polish Jew and a Yemenite one. But it is also obvious that Jewish political culture, whether Zionist or ‘anti’ is ethno-centric and, to a large extent, racially driven. Just like Israel, the Jews-only State, Israel’s Jewish opponents too often prefer to operate within Jews-only organisations such as ‘Jewish Voices For Peace,’ ‘ Jews for Justice,‘ etc’. In short, whether they are Zionist or ‘anti,’ Jews somehow prefer to operate in ethnically segregated racially oriented political cells.. though Jews are not a race, Jewish identity politics is racist to the core...

  On Saturday, Israel’s Shin Bet secret police arrested the journalist Majd Kayyal, a Palestinian citizen of Israel, and is holding him incommunicado and without access to lawyers. Kayyal’s arrest followed his return from a visit to Lebanon where he participated in the fortieth anniversary celebrations for As-Safir newspaper, for which he writes...



Apr 16, 2014

Hurtling Into Darkness: America’s Great Leap Towards Global Tyranny, by John Chuckman | Intifada Palestine
  The darkness to which I refer is something largely unanticipated in political studies and even in science fiction, a field which definitely enters this discussion, as readers will see. There have been many examples of national tyrannies and even stories of global autocracies, but the Hitler-Stalin-Mussolini type of tyranny is an antiquated model for advanced states despite its applying still to many third-world places. A unique set of circumstances now works towards a dystopian future in advanced states with no need for jackboots or brutal faces on posters...
 
  Russian president says neighbour is on verge of civil war after Kiev launches operations against separatists in east...
 
  US-EU legitimacy is crippled as their Kiev regime uses overt, systematic violence and intimidation to consolidate its hold over Ukraine. Ukrainian presidential candidate Oleg Tsarev was savagely beaten outside a TV studio after an interview for the Ukrainian talk show, ‘Svoboda Slova.’ The studio was apparently surrounded by armed men in masks earlier, preventing Tsarev from leaving after the interview. When he did finally emerge, masked men with Svoboda Neo-Nazi “Wolfsangel” armbands began throwing objects at, choking, and physically beating Tsarev...
[Their ‘legitimacy’ was lost quite some time ago, going back at least as far as the unprovoked aggression against Iraq.]
 
  The way to beat Vladimir Putin is to flood the European market with fracked-in-the-USA natural gas, or so the industry would have us believe. As part of escalating anti-Russian hysteria, two bills have been introduced into the US Congress.. that attempt to fast-track liquefied natural gas (LNG) exports, all in the name of helping Europe to wean itself from Putin's fossil fuels, and enhancing US national security.. "opposing this legislation is like hanging up on a 911 call from our friends and allies". And that might be true – as long as your friends and allies work at Chevron and Shell...
 
  Most people recognize that the apartheid wall Israel has been building for the past twelve years will one day be removed.  But few have given serious consideration to how best to recycle hundreds of miles of this "separation barrier." The idea of offering an annual prize for the best proposal of how to recycle Israel's apartheid wall was conceived at the One Democratic State Conference in Munich in 2012.. The RAW Prize is unique within Palestinian/Israeli activism.  It changes the narrative from separation to reunification, from racism to universal human rights, from two states to one with equal civil rights for all... 
 
  Writing in Mein Kampf, Adolf Hitler perfectly summarized the central theme of the twentieth century, a century which amounted to a total Jewish triumph over and destruction of Western civilization. Hitler wrote, "The ignorance of the broad masses as regards the inner character of the Jew, and the lack of instinct and insight displayed by our upper classes, are among the reasons which explain how it is that so many people fall an easy prey to the systematic campaign of falsehood which the Jew carries on."  Of course, Hitler was specifically describing the German nation, but his statement equally applies to all of Western civilization...
 
On May 31, 2010, a group of ships attempted to reach the Gaza Strip but were prevented from reaching their destination when members of the Israeli military attacked them in international waters in what was believed to have been a highly coordinated military action. Nine civilians were left dead and scores seriously injured. It is clear that such acts constitute crimes under international law. To this day, the Israeli government has not been held accountable, but that may be about to change...
 
  Cultural appropriation is at least inappropriate. Israel has colonized Palestinian indigenous land and displaced and dispossessed Palestinians. Now it is claiming Palestinian traditions as its own...
[So what’s the big deal – they’ve stolen everything else, pretty much everywhere they've been. It’s what parasites do.]
 
  Central Intelligence Agency director John O. Brennan has been cooking up a storm in Ukraine and «Brennan Kiev» is the entrée on the menu. Brennan recently paid a secret visit to the Ukrainian capital to discuss with coup leaders their response to the insurgency sweeping eastern Ukraine. It has been reported by various European news agencies that Brennan landed on April 12 in Kiev with a diplomatic passport under a false identity...
 
  The first-ever scientific study that analyzes whether the US is a democracy, rather than an oligarchy, found the majority of the American public has a “minuscule, near-zero, statistically non-significant impact upon public policy” compared to the wealthy. The study, due out in the Fall 2014 issue of the academic journal Perspectives on Politics, sets out to answer elusive questions about who really rules in the United States...
 
...They were on their way to sign the 30-year, mega-contract deal to supply China with Siberian natural gas "as soon as possible". Probably on May 20, when Putin goes to Beijing. Now this is the genuine article. Pipelineistan meets the strategic partnership Russia-China, as solidified in the BRICS and the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, with the tantalizing prospect of pricing/payment bypassing the petrodollar, otherwise known as the "thermonuclear option". Ukraine, compared to this, is a mere sideshow...
 
  In this edition of the BFP Roundtable, Peter B. Collins, Guillermo Jimenez, James Corbett and Sibel Edmonds discuss the latest moves in the formation of a so-called “new cold war” between NATO and Russia. We also tackle Seymour Hersh and his recent article in the London Review of Books examining Turkish involvement in the Syrian chemical weapons attack in Ghouta last year...
 
The Scottish government's plan to evict Britain's nuclear submarine base if it wins a vote for independence would cost billions of pounds, cut thousands of jobs and create resentment internationally, former defence chiefs said on Monday.. Scotland is home to four submarines armed with Trident nuclear warheads at the Faslane naval base.. It wants to seek NATO membership as a non-nuclear state if it becomes independent, ending a 307-year tie to England. The future of the nuclear submarines are seen by many as one of Scotland's main bargaining chips in getting what it wants in the 18 months of negotiations that would follow any Yes vote in September in working out how it leaves the United Kingdom...
[I’ll bet on the canny Scots to land on their feet]
 
...The situation in Ukraine and the related threat of uncontrolled proliferation of missile technology becomes a universal problem. The Kiev-based regime is ready to sell the weapons and delivery means to anyone.. The goal to make Ukraine a nuclear state is stated in the program of neo-Nazi Svoboda Party, which has representation within the ranks of the Kiev-based ruling group. In fact it means a rogue state may appear on the European map ready to proliferate strategic missile technology throughout the whole world. Ukraine-produced missiles and nuclear warheads may not be targeted against Russia only – the technology may spread to the Middle and Far East...
[Way to go, Uncle Shmuel! You won’t be happy until billions of goyim are slaughtered, will you? That'll show 'em who's the boss.]
 
The University of Haifa has launched an academic course to combat the online "delegitimization of Israel", in what it claims to be a "first" for academia. In a press release dated 30 March, the University proudly describes the four credit course, offered by the Department of Multi-Disciplinary Studies, as preparing "students to be unofficial 'ambassadors' for Israel on the Internet". In the University press release, programme instructor Prof. Eli Avraram cites Israeli Apartheid Week as an example of the kind of "phenomenon" students are taught to "fight", describing the annual, globally-observed event "an expression of pure anti-Semitism.."
 
...Sham peace talks continue. They mock legitimate ones. Israel threatens world peace and security. War on Palestine continues. It's ongoing. It's unabated. It rages daily. Collaborationist PA negotiators turn a blind eye. Israeli crimes are ignored. On Sunday, its security forces stormed the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound. It's Islam's third holiest site. Worshipers were attacked with stun grenades, rubber-coated steel bullet and pepper spray. Israeli thugs operate this way...
 
  For as long as the word has been used to describe a type of political theory and practice, philosophers have been quibbling over precisely what liberalism is.  As one would expect after more than two hundred years, suggestions abound.  However there is general agreement on at least one point: its core doctrines are universalistic; they apply to human beings generally.. Liberalism is universalistic, Zionism is not; its ideals pertain to Jews only, not to people generally. There is therefore something oxymoronic in the very idea of liberal Zionism...
[Succinct and to the point]
 
  Histrionic is the leading tone in secular-Zionist politics, from the crying Shimon Peres, eternally blaming, to the thundering Benjamin Netanyahu, eternally threatening. This is surprising. More traditional, religious Jews do not speak like that. They blame and threat, but without the humanists' hysteria. Politicians are often unreliable people, but seldom they are complete fools. Yet, right and left, Israeli-Jewish-Zionist secular parties preach hysteria...
[Hysteria is as Jewish as matzo balls. The entire culture is based on paranoia, and for good reason. What they fear most is justice.]
 
  Full statement by Alexei Pushkov at the PACE with subtitles in English...
 
  I just did two Syria interviews on Press TV. Together, I think they sum up one of the biggest stories of this strange new century. In the first interview, “US plots new wave of chemical attacks in Syria,” I go over the failed false flags – especially the big one in August at al-Ghouta – that led to the impending defeat of the foreign-backed insurgents…and pass on Gordon Duff’s information about the made-in-Georgia sarin and the possibility of new, last-ditch false flag efforts by the rebels and their foreign supporters:..
 
  While governments around the world are told to “tighten their belts”, economies contract and the myth of scarcity (root word: scare) encourages a race to the bottom for the global masses. Alongside these calls for austerity, an historical concentration of power continues among the well-fed and fueled global elite. The Rockefeller/Rothschild energy cartel and tax-dodger oil traders in Zug, Switzerland have spread well the lie of peak oil...
 
  On Wednesday, 2 April 2014, the U.S. Supreme Court took another step toward the destruction of campaign finance reform with a five-to-four decision known as McCutcheon v. Federal Elections Commission. One gets the feeling that this is part of a general campaign, waged by class-biased, ideologically committed conservatives, against government regulation, which they see as somehow a violation of their constitutional rights. As if to suggest that this is so, the Court majority rationalized their decision in the name of "free speech.."
 
  Given that most Americans living today were born and raised under a massive military establishment, the CIA, and the NSA, a large number of Americans very likely believe that the United States has always had this type of government. Not so, as Michael Swanson shows in a new book, The War State. Swanson points out that America’s warfare state didn’t come into existence until more than 150 years after the country’s inception. More important, he shows how the warfare state has not only altered our constitutional order in fundamental ways but also how it continues to pose a grave threat to the freedom and well-being of the American people...



Apr 15, 2014

Update: Ukraine
 
  To the casual consumer of McMedia happy meals, the Ukrainian crisis is a consequence of Russia’s yearning for empire lost, a Nazi-style Anschluss that began with Crimea and will end, judging by the big-font hysteria, somewhere near Alaska. For the more sober-minded observer, however, whose worldview has not been vandalized by misguided Russophobic inclinations, the reality of the situation is a bit more complicated...
 
  It appears that the next 24 hours will be absolutely crucial for the future of the Ukraine.. The following cities have seen uprisings taking place over the week-end: Kharkov, Slaviansk, Krasnyi Liman, Kramatorsk, Lugansk, Enakievo, Gorlovka, Donetsk, Khartsyzk, Ilovaisk, Mariupol.. The second big development is the clear increase in the quality of the forces opposing the takeover of the eastern Ukraine by the revolutionary regime in Kiev...
 
  Pro-Russian separatists ignored an ultimatum to leave occupied government buildings in eastern Ukraine and instead seized more buildings as Kiev failed to follow through on a threatened military crackdown. The armed separatists on Tuesday remained in control of government offices in at least nine eastern towns Ukraine, and stormed a police station in Horlivka despite warnings from Kiev of a military response if they did not withdraw before 6am GMT on Monday...
 
  Russia desperately needs to create its own ratings agency, independent of the so-called western ‘Big three’ – Moody’s, S&P and Fitch, Russia’s First Deputy Prime Minister Igor Shuvalov has said. “There is a dream, and there is an extreme need. When you face an ultimate need, it becomes a reality. This project [Russia’s own rating agency] is necessary in any case to avoid speculation that somebody depends on eastern countries and others – on western..”
 
  Western and especially the American mass media never gives objective coverage of events in Russia and never give an unbiased account of the aims or basis of Russia’s domestic and foreign policy. They “control” or “censor” what the public read. President Putin and Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov are proving to be rational leaders and true statesmen compared to their pathetic counterparts in the US, France, Germany and Britain. US Foreign Policy is irrational.They want countries to be subservient to them and they don’t want Israel’s actions or ambitions questioned in the Middle East...
[Vladimir is a patient man trying to deal with a flock of rabid ferrets. For all our sakes I wish him luck.]
 
  The international community must demand that those who are in power in Kiev stop war on their own citizens in south-eastern Ukraine, Russia’s UN envoy Vitaly Churkin told the UN Security Council.“The international community must demand the stooges of Maidan stop the war against their own people".. Churkin stressed that “reckless actions” of the Kiev government are “threatening to rip apart the delicate garment of Ukrainian mosaic society..”
 
...Attention has focussed on whether the Syrian jihadi group, Jabhat al-Nusra, aided by Turkish intelligence, could have been behind the sarin gas attacks in Damascus last 21 August, in an attempt to provoke the US into full-scale military intervention to overthrow President Bashar al-Assad. "We now know it was a covert action planned by [Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip] Erdogan's people to push Obama over the red line," a former senior US intelligence officer is quoted as saying.. A second and little-regarded theme of Hersh's article is what the CIA called the rat line, the supply chain for the Syrian rebels overseen by the US in covert cooperation with Turkey, Saudi Arabia and Qatar...
 
..The Boston Marathon Bombing (BMB) appears to be the usual alarmist message from the likes of the FBI and CIA to remind us that Islamic terrorists are still lurking in the shadows and that we need to keep spending hundreds of billions of dollars and give up further civil liberties and privacy so the US national security apparatus can “keep us safe”. This paper presents an in-depth investigation into the many BMB intelligence failures and will help expose the many lies, cover-ups, and apparent complicity by US intelligence...
[Thorough analysis – a must read]
 
...Jewish influence also extends to the determination of Australia’s foreign policy. Former Australian Foreign Minister Bob Carr recently confirmed that this is indeed the case, observing that Australia’s foreign policy (particularly with regard to the Middle East) was being virtually dictated by organized Jewry...
 
  A balance sheet can not be used to decide Scottish Independence. The most important things in our life have no scientific measure or monetary value. Pride, patriotism, Freedom, love, loyalty, trust, feeling, friendship, joy, peace...
 
  The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) welcomes the State of Palestine’s accessions to 12 international conventions related to the international humanitarian law and human rights, but calls upon the Palestinian leadership not to surrender to the Israeli and international pressure and immediately accede to the 1998 Rome Statute of the International Criminal Law...
 
...Nearly 700 Palestinian children aged 12 to 17 are detained annually. They're held under horrific conditions. They are isolated.. threatened.. terrorized. They're harshly interrogated. They're forced to confess to crimes they didn't commit.. In February, 230 children below age 18 languished in Israel's gulag. Israeli security forces murdered others in cold blood. Some are shot in the back. None posed threats. Cruel and inhuman treatment defines official Israeli policy. Young children suffer most of all. Many become traumatized...
 
...Hitler and the National Socialist movement were most definitely “anti-Semites”, and used “anti-Semitism” in their political propaganda and messaging. After all, even critics of Hitler and the NSDAP recognize that their propaganda was based on truth, and in our ass-backwards, Jew-run world, the truth is fundamentally “anti-Semitic”. So let’s not get caught up in this childish meme of “Hitler and the Nazis were evil, racist anti-Semites’” nonsense, and simply refuse to investigate objectively what they stood for. Look at what they said, did, wrote about, and represented, and you will come to the obvious conclusion that I have...
[And as I have.. this is a must read, if you have an open mind.]
 
  Life is freedom even if the oppressor is the State of Israel. Life is freedom even if the entire Israeli government, the Israeli lawmakers, and the complete civil servants machinery of state violence and terror say otherwise. Israel should know that, but it never studied history. It perpetrates the same crimes it claims that its people had escaped. It violates people, its own and others, with the joy of corrupt leaders who know that they own lawmakers, police, and judges. It violates with the wild joy of those owning the media. It violates with the wild unrepentance of savages believing that they are the law...
 
...The fault lines in Nazareth are even more complex than for much of the rest of the Palestinian minority, which comprises a fifth of Israel’s population. Although the city has the largest concentration of Christians in Israel and serves thousands more in surrounding villages, it also has a two-thirds Muslim majority. The rise in sectarian sentiment, most local analysts agree, can be understood only in the context of a wider political climate being fomented by the government of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu...
 
  AIPAC is celebrating President Barack Obama's decision to deny a visa to Iran's ambassador to the United Nations.. Iran's UN ambassador nominee, Hamid Abutalebi, has been accused of playing a role in the 1979 takeover of the U.S. embassy in Tehran. Rushed legislation crafted and promoted by Israel's supporters to block Abutalebi easily passed the House and Senate and await the president's signature. Until now, the United States has automatically granted visas to heads of state and diplomats from around the world to conduct business at the UN headquarters in New York City...
 
  The lifeblood of Tribal Jewry is money, much of it made from war. The very last thing they want is to prevent war. WaPo is one of the major Zionist rags, the other two being the NYT and the WSJ. They don’t call them the Masters of Deceit for nothing [Editor’s Note]...
 
...Turchinov declared it a “war which the Russian Federation is waging against Ukraine,” continuing the claims that the protests are entirely manufactured by Russia and not representative of real opposition among the locals to the new pro-West government.. Russian officials have warned that they reserve the right to use military force to protect ethnic Russians elsewhere in the world, and with ethnic Russians dominating the East Ukraine protests, the crackdown seems to be testing that threat, and pushing Russia in a direction of intervention...
 
  Knapp and Spector have written a superb introduction to Marxist thought, a much-needed one, since reading Marx can be a daunting task. The grand old man’s prose is often ponderous, abstract, and complex, so many readers can’t discern his full meaning. Crisis and Change Today is a lucid presentation of Marx’s ideas, explaining his views on history, economics, politics, and philosophy in a way that makes them understandable and also does justice to their complexity. The book’s clear, well-organized prose conveys the sweep of Marx’s vision, the efforts his followers have made to actualize it, and the resistance they have encountered...
 
  What exactly did the NSDAP (National Socialist German Worker's Party) represent and who were its founding members? Why and how did Adolf Hitler transform the party from an unimpressive proletariat workers’ party to a full-fledged political machine that obtained absolute power in Germany? Perhaps more important, how was it funded? We answer these questions in this introduction...
 


Apr 14, 2014

  For the first time, six former senior American officials issued a statement candidly accusing Israel of breaching international law and undermining peace talks. The statement came after a speech by the US secretary of state in Congress, in which he blamed Israel for delaying and meddling with negotiations because of its retreat from the release of the fourth batch of veteran Palestinian prisoners...
[Read the full statement here]
 
...The U.S. has truly lost the initiative, in the Middle East region and beyond it. The neocons’ drunkenness with military power led to costly wars that have overwhelmed the empire beyond salvation. And now, the U.S. foreign policy makers are mere diplomatic firefighters, from Palestine, to Syria to the Ukraine. For the Americans, the last few years have been more than a ‘reality check’, but the new reality itself...
 
  An international group of peace activists, including the Irish Nobel peace laureate Mairead Maguire, visited Syria’s Lattakia province on Friday. The group was received by Lattakia governor Abdul-Qader and visited displaced Armenian Syrians from the city of Kessab, which fell into the hands of Turkish-backed Jabhat al-Nusrah mercenaries when thousands of fighters swarmed across the Turkish border on March 21...
 
  Intifada Palestine is republishing this article in remembrance of the late Patrick Seale who passed away yesterday April 11, 2014 at the age of 83 after suffering from brain cancer.  He had many skills – as author, journalist, broadcaster, Middle East historian, arts aficionado and dealer and literary agent. But most notably he was the English-speaking world’s foremost chronicler and interpreter of Syria, its troubled modern history and its leadership during the past 44 years that of the al-Assad family, father Hafez and son Bashar.
 
...You are either for Adelson and the Koch Brothers, for their wars, for the neocons, for torture, for a police state which is already here and they want one worse, or you actually pay attention - they hate it, you should love it.  Then why do so many of you out there believe the utter fiction?  Health insurance companies have been bilking Americans for generations with phony policies, denied coverage, very real “death panels” and skyrocketing rates...
 
...
On 19 March, a 14-year-old Palestinian child, Yussef Shawamreh, was shot in the back and hip by Israeli soldiers as he foraged for edible wild thistles on his family’s land in the occupied West Bank. The child bled to death. His two friends, aged 12 and 17, were seized by soldiers dressed in black fatigues and wearing black face masks, and taken to a nearby illegal settlement, in handcuffs and blindfolds. There they were beaten for failing to answer questions in Hebrew, a language neither understands...
[The ZBC would do that? How shocking!]
 
...Jewish propagandists and their puppets controlling the major governments and international institutions around the world use alleged "Holocaust survivors" in an on-going psychological and information warfare campaign designed to emotionally exploit mass audiences with horror stories of sadistic "Nazi crimes" - which, as we know now, are entirely fabricated in the minds of Jewish propagandists and public relations specialists. "Holocaust survivors" providing fabricated or embellished testimony is one of the primary means in which the fake "Holocaust" narrative of WWII is instilled and perpetuated in the minds of the masses...
 
..following "FR"'s translation of the Open Letter to Putin from German into English, I have just received the translation from Russian into English of what I consider a truly historical statement made by Alexei Pushkov, head of the foreign affairs committee of Russia's lower house of parliament to the press corps (which, of course, never bothered translating a word of it) following the PACE's disgusting vote on Russia.. “I think that one should think about those governments who regularly in the past 20 years violated international law -- bombing Belgrade, bombing Libya, occupying Iraq -- do not have any moral right to make any decisions about the Russian delegation..”
 
...we know that Putin did not write it all himself, but despite the staff work the clarity and sincerity are just oozing out of it.  Nowhere is there a word of the blustering and bravado which has become so commonplace in Western, particularly the US, diplomatic statements...
 
  While contemplating potential locations for a Jewish homeland over a century ago, Theodor Herzl - the father of modern political Zionism - proposed Uganda as a temporary refuge for persecuted Jews. Ironically, Uganda is now on the receiving end of other persecuted peoples, this time African refugees who have sought asylum in Israel only to be imprisoned in detention facilities and then returned to the African continent...
 
  For a couple of days now, Lt. Gen. David Deptula, USAF (ret.) is making the rounds with JINSA's Makovski. Both are promoting the idea of the transfer of MOPs and B-52s to Israel.. The advocates of such equipment transfers want the US to put Israel in a position to flout US policy preferences by making them independent strategically by giving Israel a conventional strategic strike option.The desire to do this demonstrates Israel's current inability to successfully hit Iran...
[I guess the general doesn’t consider his retirement pay sufficient. They’re so easy to buy, these days.]
 
  One of the many strange paradoxes promoted for decades in the Western narrative on the Islamic Republic of Iran.. is that Iran is growing increasingly unstable and unpopular (if not imploding), yet simultaneously it is on the rise and its "menacing" influence can be felt throughout the region and beyond.  Of course, the internal contradictions of this discourse are linked to Orientalist stereotypes and attitudes prevalent in the West among mainstream secular liberals, pseudo-progressives, and neo-conservatives alike, who cannot grasp the possibility of a stable and legitimate political order that is not based on Western "values"..
 
..The head of government was replaced on 31 March as the World Jewish Congress (WJC), which calls itself the «diplomatic arm of the Jewish people», began in Paris.. The Congress’ leadership, which includes the Frenchmen David René de Rothschild and Representative Council of French Jewish Institutions (CRIF). President Roger Cukierman, announced in its press release that it welcomes new Prime Minister Valls’ fight against anti-Semitism, and considers legitimate the measures they have adopted to restrict freedom of speech...
 
..The reason why this period in history is important is because it delivered to us and into the political arena, Vladimir Putin, the now Russian President, and the antidote to President Obama who's serving on behalf of Zionist Jewry and their total control of the United States of America. Had this not taken place, the world we live in would now have been very different with possibly more wars and conflicts and we would be further in the grip of International Jewry...
 
  Israeli Minister of Defense Moshe Ya'alon approved on April 13, 2014 the entrance of settlers to the Brown House in Hebron as a goodwill step ahead of Passover. Breaking all earlier records of irony, settlers refer to it now as "Beit Shalom," "House of Peace." The most extremist Jewish settlement in the West Bank is located at the heart of its largest city, al-Khalil. "War is peace," wrote George Orwell on the London Regime; "Amen!" answered Jewish settlers on the burning coals of the British Mandate of Palestine...
 
..”We are waiting for explanations about what they want to do at this meeting. Our position is simple: this is an internal Ukrainian crisis, and those who are in power in Kiev now must invite all the regions and political forces to a dialogue on the constitution, language and all other aspects. When a leader of one of the parliamentary parties in the Verkhovna Rada is pushed down from the rostrum, as you saw yesterday, but the West remains silent, considering that this is a manifestation of democracy and that everything is correct, it is hard to act..”
 
  Foreign diplomats believe Scotland is likely to vote for independence after a series of opinion polls have shown an increase in support for a yes vote in September's referendum. Sources in the diplomatic corps in Edinburgh, which is home to nearly 50 consulates and diplomatic missions, have told the Guardian they think the tide of opinion has shifted significantly in recent months, after a noticeable swing against David Cameron's government and the no campaign...
 
  The tumult we’re seeing in Ukraine isn’t simply a recent tension over Crimea. Its roots go back to the defining event of Ukraine’s modern history: the Holodomor or "hunger-extermination" of the 1930s, in which as many as eight million people died...
[See also Bolshevik Jews Plotted The Ukrainian Holocaust. Brother Nathanael may seem a bit bizarre, but he gets lots of things right, including this.]
 


Apr 13, 2014

A chemical attack by mercenary terroristic forces targeted Syrian territory | Syrian Free Press
  Syria’s official TV said a few hours ago that the al-Qaida-linked Nusra Front used toxic gas in the central province of Hama, killing at least two people and causing suffocation to hundred others. The TV said the Nusra Front fighters used the Chlorine gas against the town of Kafr Zaita in the northern countryside of Hama, adding that Nusra Front was also planning to use the toxic gas against the Wadi al-Daif area in the countryside of Idlib province in northwestern Syria and the town of Mork in Hama countryside...
 
  Miko Peled was born in Jerusalem into a famous and influential Israeli Zionist family. His father was a famous General in the Israeli Army, in which Miko also served his time. When Miko's niece was killed by Palestinian suicide bombers, you may have expected the family to put Palestinians at fault, but surprisingly they blamed the state of Israel, and their violent torturing and persecution for driving people to such sadness that they would take their own lives...
 
...after months of studying the political, social, military, and economic situation in Yarmouk camp, and based on some insightful meetings with former camp residents and PLO stalwarts who have been active in the cause of Palestine going back to the 1980’s or earlier, Yarmouks survival prospects appear fatally bleak. If one follows where the facts of the past three years lead, it is difficult to escape the increasingly heard conclusion from Palestinians themselves. Yarmouk, as with four other Palestinian camps in Syria, is deeply wounded by the civil war and unlikely to survive the current crisis whether it ends in months or continues for decades...
 
...The video shows a police officer forcing Talhami into the police van with blows and then walking over to Majdi Dabah, who was standing nearby, before throwing him at the vehicle. Talhami was subjected to the acts of violence for refusing to pay up a heavy fine imposed on him by an inspector for leaving a refrigerator outside his store in East al-Quds (Jerusalem)..
[See also This was what happened to me. I could fill the page every day with such reports – it’s depressingly “normal” in Israel and the OPT and has been for 65 years.]
 
...I’m obviously going to have to remind everyone that the formula we use to calculate the gas price was agreed in the official contract the Russia’s Gazprom signed with Ukraine’s Naftogaz in 2009. The people currently responsible for the energy sector in today’s government in Kiev held the same office back then too and took part in signing that contract. No changes have been made to the formula since that moment...
 
  There is obviously a somewhat coordinated operation going on in Donetsk oblast in east Ukraine. The province is famous for its mines and heavy industry. With some 4.7 million inhabitants it constitutes 10% of the Ukrainian population. Some action by anti coup-government groups were also seen in the neighboring Luhansk (Donbas) and Kharkiv oblast but Donetsk oblast is for now the schwerpunkt...
 
  The U.S. denies a visa to the new Iranian ambassador to the United Nations Hamid Aboutalebi. Mr. Aboutalebi was ambassador to several European countries and to the EU and he had on earlier occasions received U.S. visa and visited the United states.. The U.S. is not allowed to decide who UN members nominate and send as UN ambassadors. This visa rejection is clearly illegal under the Headquarters Agreement between the UN and the United States:..
 
..What a decade it has been for assassinations, liquidations, exterminations — for State terrorism led by the Land of the Free. Summary executions include Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. On 5th February 2003, General Colin Powell stated that he headed a deadly terrorist network within Iraq – just six weeks before the US headed a deadly terrorist network, in an illegal invasion, which entirely destroyed Iraq. On 7th June 2006, at Hibhib, near Baquba, al-Zarqawi was killed by two five hundred-pound bombs, dropped by USAF F-16 jets, killing five others including his wife and child. Legality, trying in law those accused of wrong doing, is, seemingly, so yesterday...
 
  When U.S. Attorney for Massachusetts Carmen M. Ortiz unsealed the indictment of a Chinese citizen in the UK for violating the embargo against Iran, she made what appeared to be a new U.S. accusation of an Iran nuclear weapons programme.. Reuters, Bloomberg, the Boston Globe, the Chicago Tribune and The Independent all reported that claim as fact. But the U.S. intelligence community, since its well-known November 2007 National Intelligence Estimate, has continued to be very clear on the pubic record about its conclusion that Iran has not had a nuclear weapons programme since 2003...
 
  Strange days in Jerusalem; African refugees celebrate the Jewish Passover with matza unleavened bread given to them by survivors of WWII who opposed the Zionist attempts to throw them back to the hell they escaped in Eritrea and Sudan. They read the Hagaddah translated into Arabic and Tigrinya.. No less strange is a story at the margins of the news' most remote fringes. A secret inauguration ceremony took place in "Beit HaMa'ayan," "The Spring House" over the Gihon Spring in the City of David. The secrecy avoided Palestinian protests in the site that both Palestine and Israel will not compromise on it...
 
  Nothing illustrates the bottomless hypocrisy of the West’s alleged principles more than its stance on two simultaneously unfolding political conflicts – one raging in Eastern Europe’s Ukraine, the other in Southeast Asia’s Thailand. Not only is the West’s rhetorical stance on each protest hypocritical, but the support they have demonstrably lent to players in each conflict illustrates a troubling pattern of foreign special interests meddling in, and shaping the future of nations around the world. Such meddling is divergent of any principle it is generally done in the name of, with such principles serving merely as a facade behind which the West advances its hegemonic designs...
 
  Labour leader Ed Miliband will travel to the Israeli town of Sderot today as he continues his tour of the country. Mr Miliband described Israel as "the homeland for the Jewish people" during a meeting with Hebrew University of Jerusalem students on Thursday...
[See also UK opposition leader falls for Zionist propaganda. The Anglosphere is chockablock with these Israel-first traitors – they are fifth columns providing Israel with the means to dominate the Western world and terrorize the Middle East.]
 
  The United States has always tried to do its best to weaken Russia. Driving a wedge between Russia and the European Union is a priority mission. But Crimea and Ukraine frustrate the plans. Entangled in the Ukrainian crisis, Europe starts to doubt the expediency of following the US policy and displays its unwillingness to escalate the confrontation with Russia. As they say «Mutiny on the Bounty» is getting ripe, though most likely the revolt will go no further than undermining some US initiatives...
 
  “Extreme right-wing” pro-Israel lobbyists wield “extraordinary” and “unhealthy” influence on Australia’s policy towards Israel and the Palestinians.. It is heartening to think that, behind the scenes and unbeknown to us, there are people of principle arguing the case for justice even in the darkest dens of power...
 
...In purely technical terms, I have to say that this operation is another masterpiece maybe not as flashy as the storming of the Tajbeg Palace in Afghanistan during "Operation Storm-333", but in a way at least as remarkable. There were at least 30'000 fully armed Ukrainian troops in Crimea (a lot them from the western Ukraine) and an overall population of over 2'000'000 people, and yet not a single person was killed (a few shots were fired during the operation).  I don't think that there is anything like it in modern history...
 
  Read this so-called "primer" on Iran's nuclear talk over at Jim Lobe's website.. Note that there's no mention whatsoever that the US had until now demanded that Iran first give up enrichment, and had used that demand to prevent any talks from moving forward? Yes, that's a bit of fact that they would rather you forget. Just like how they'd rather you forget precisely why the Iranians restarted enrichment - notice no references to the "empty box in pretty wrapping" that killed the EU3 negotiations with Iran under the Paris Agreement...
 
  I had two revelations recently as I was reading Mill's revolutionary "Essay on Utilitarianism". An amazing prodigy, Mill was one of the greatest philosophers in history, and arguably the greatest philosopher in history of ethics and its relationship to happiness.. as a lifelong peace activist constantly struggling against the death of innocents these 30 years, and always gravitating to the most intractable conflicts, I have constantly veered between the exultations of episodic victories and the firestorms of war that wipe away all progress...
 
  As someone who has  written chapters on Jewish apologia and self-deception, I have to say that Caroline Glick may be the most extreme case I have ever encountered. One struggles for words to describe her rabid ethnocentrism and how it blinds her to the most obvious realities.. It is typical of hyper-ethnocentric Jewish activists like Glick to divide humanity into two groups — the inherently moral and righteous Jews on the on the one hand, and the inherently immoral and wicked non-Jews on the other — completely ignoring the ethical double standard that is absolutely central to Judaism...
[A revealing look at the ZioNazi mind]
 
  The situation of human rights in Ukraine has deteriorated markedly since the pro-NATO coup. While the Western media turn a blind eye to this everyday reality, Oriental Review highlights thirty particularly significant incidents, revealing that the street is in the hands of Nazi thugs who beat up and kill people with complete impunity...
 
  People around the world are noticing that our planet's weather is dramatically changing. They are also beginning to notice the long lingering trails left behind airplanes that have lead millions to accept the reality of chemtrail/geoengineering programs. Could there be a connection between the trails and our severe weather? While there are many agendas associated with these damaging programs, evidence is now abundant which proves that geoengineering can be used to control weather. In this documentary you will learn how the aerosols being sprayed into our sky are used in conjunction with other technologies to control our weather...



Apr 12, 2014

The Myth of Human Progress and the Collapse of Complex Societies, by Chris Hedges | Truthdig
  The most prescient portrait of the American character and our ultimate fate as a species is found in Herman Melville’s “Moby Dick.” Melville makes our murderous obsessions, our hubris, violent impulses, moral weakness and inevitable self-destruction visible in his chronicle of a whaling voyage. He is our foremost oracle. He is to us what William Shakespeare was to Elizabethan England or Fyodor Dostoyevsky to Czarist Russia...
 
  Sorry for the headline if it got you hoping for a quick 1-step guide on how to bomb a country without breaking a sweat. I didn't actually mean that I could teach a dummy to wage a war. I meant that only dummies want to wage wars. Need proof? Check out a recent Washington Post report. Now there I go misleading you again.  While it's true that the editors of the Washington Post are often dummies and often want wars to be waged, that's not what I mean right now.  I think members of the U.S. government and its obedient media constitute an important but tiny exception to the rule this report points to...
 
  Supporters of Palestinian rights were stunned to hear that the Canadian rocker Neil Young and his band Crazy Horse plan to go to Tel Aviv for a concert in July. Young has a good reputation in human rights and anti-war circles. Why would he go to a country infamous for stealing the land of its native people and defy the activist call for boycott?
 
  This is not an assessment of the impact of the Oslo Accords that began to be signed in 1993. It was never the kind of “process” that could lend itself to a balance sheet type of analysis that would show the positives and negatives of what transpired. The accords were destructive from the start. As the late Edward Said brilliantly put it, “The fashion-show vulgarities of the White House ceremony […] only temporarily obscure the truly astonishing proportions of the Palestinian capitulation. So […] let us call the agreement by its real name: an instrument of Palestinian surrender, a Palestinian Versailles..”
 
...The largest share of donor dollars ends up with organizations that focus on Israel. Of the $3.7 billion in donations that the functional agencies of the communal apparatus receive in a year, 38% goes to Israel-focused groups. That’s more than any other category, including education, which gets just 20% of donations...
 
  While the Haganah was battling to recapture Castel on 9 April 1948, eighty men of the Irgun, on orders from Menachem Begin, attacked the tiny village of Deir Yassin (shown here) in the western suburbs of Jerusalem, about three miles east of Castel and next to the Jewish neighborhood of Givat Sha'ul. One month earlier, Deir Yassin had asked for and signed a nonaggression pact with Givat Sha'ul. Nevertheless, it was from Givat Sha'ul that the Irgun attackers emerged, together with forty armed men of the Stern Gang (one of whose three top leaders was Yitzhak Shamir, current prime minister of Israel)..
[The victims haven’t forgotten the origins of the terrorist state in their homeland, nor will they. They pass down the keys from generation to generation. Usually, it's all they have.]]
 
  NATO military commanders have been bandying about a handful of satellite images of Russian troops near the Ukrainian border, claiming they are proof of an imminent military invasion of their western neighbor. Russian officials have confirmed the photos are authentic, but the narrative is not, saying the images were actually taken back in August of 2013 during the Combat Commonwealth military drills...
 
  Beyond the policy issue of what to do now to bring the crisis with Russia over Ukraine to as much of a satisfactory conclusion as may be possible, we ought to reflect on our own role—the role of the West and especially the United States—in paving the road toward this crisis. To do so is not to minimize the direct responsibility of Vladimir Putin's government for what Russian armed force has done, and for the disingenuous aspects of what that government has said. Nor does it negate the role of dysfunction in the Ukrainian political system. But a significant part of this story is how the West cornered the Russian bear before the bear bit back...
 
  Russian state-controlled oil producer Gazprom Neft said it had received positive responses from Asian clients about the possibility of using euros as a settlement currency instead of the dollar...
 
  When asked about the foundational purpose of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, its first Secretary General, Britain’s Lord Ismay, famously said: “To keep the Russians out, the Americans in, and the Germans down”. Ismay, the military advisor to Britain’s World War II leader Winston Churchill, was like his pugnacious boss an ardent imperialist, anti-communist and pro-American. His refreshing, if distasteful, candor about the strategic purpose of NATO has since been varnished over down through the decades. The US-dominated military pact has been reinvented as a humanitarian mission with faux political correctness and spurious lofty claims of maintaining world peace...
 
  Ukraine’s economy in the past several months has been plummeting. Its industrial and construction sectors have also been declining sharply. Its budget deficit is mounting. The condition of its currency system is becoming more and more deplorable. The negative trade balance is accompanied by the flight of capital from the country. Ukraine’s economy is steadfastly heading towards a default, a halt in production and skyrocketing unemployment. Russia and the EU member states are Ukraine’s major trading partners...
[Putin talking to the Western leaders is like someone trying to teach math to kids with learning disabilities and an attitude.]
 
  Graham Hancock is one of today's most researched anthropologists and philosophers. This is Graham's controversial TED Talk that was banned shortly after release. The lecture The War on Consciousness covers shamanic plant medicines and nature's vital message to the human race...
 
..The Talmudic Seven Noahide Laws were established by Congress as part of public law with the enactment of “Education Day USA” every year on the anniversary of the birth of Grand Rabbi Schneerson. These laws have nothing to do with the Noah of the Bible. They reference the fantasy Noah of the Talmud. One key aspect of the Noahide Laws is the death penalty for “idolatry.".. Grand Rabbi Schneerson regarded Judaics who abandoned the Talmud to be grave sinners, and that against these sinners God sent an avenging angel by the name of Adolf Hitler. “...the Holocaust was divine punishment for Jewish assimilation, intermarriage and the emergence of liberal streams of Judaism...
[I fully agree with General Washington, that we must protect this young nation from an insidious influence and impenetration. The menace, gentlemen, is the Jews. In whatever country Jews have settled in any great numbers, they have lowered its moral tone; depreciated its commercial integrity; have segregated themselves and have not been assimilated; have sneered at and tried to undermine the Christian religion upon which that nation is founded by objecting to its restrictions; have built up a state within a state; and when opposed have tried to strangle that country to death financially.. they are a menace to this country if permitted entrance and should be excluded by this Constitution...
~ Benjamin Franklin, as transcribed by Charles Pinckney of So.Carolina during the Constitutional Convention of 1787]
 
  At 5:00AM of April 11, 2014, IDF and Israel Police forces under the command of a Druze officer conquered a Jewish religious college, the Od Yosef Hai Yeshiva in Yitzhar. "Fifty years from now nobody will remember Netanyahu," Rabbi Israel Ariel from the Temple Institute of the Yeshiva reacted. It was the first time in its short history that Israel sent its army against a Jewish college, in an unjustified act of aggression usually kept for attacking Palestinians. The State of Israel pogrom against Ultra-Orthodox Jews led to unprecedented declarations against the State of Israel and to a widening of the developing rift between religious Jews and secular Zionists...
[It is entirely possible that Gilad Atzmon was right and that Israel will implode from to its internal contradictions.]
 
..He took the whole thing seriously. He is an earnest politician, who tried very very hard to make peace between Israel and Palestine. We should be grateful for his efforts. The trouble is that Kerry had not the slightest idea of what he was getting himself into. The entire “peace process” revolves around a basic misconception. Some would say: a basic lie...
 
.."President Obama clearly doesn't believe a word he's saying [on Israel-Palestine], and that's probably the most troubling or disconcerting thing about listening to him ... [When] he says we have Israel's back, what he actually means is rich American Jews have me, Obama, in their pocket and I have my hands in their pocket." Known as one of Israel's most prominent critics, Finkelstein says the goal of the Boycott, Divest and Sanctions campaign and the broader movement for Middle East peace should be to mobilize public opinion on what most already support: a two-state solution rooted in international law...
[A highly intelligent and courageous, ‘progressive’ Zionist – in Atzmon’s terminology, an AZZ (anti-zionist Zionist) – he’s still pushing for two states, although he certainly must know better.]
 
I  f you’re like me, you probably find the technological complexity of 9-11 Truth debates pretty daunting. This is what makes the following video by Barbara Honneger particularly valuable. Honneger breaks the scientific evidence down into discrete, easily digestible bites, which she illustrates with contemporaneous media footage, video interviews and simple coherent graphic displays.  Honneger was a research analyst in the Reagan administration...
 
...the Final Solution thesis is incompatible with archival documents and diaries. For example, in the Goebbels diaries, we see Hitler saying in 1935 that “there should be no excesses against the Jews and no persecutions of ‘non-Aryans.’” Goring likewise wrote, “I have discussed this with the Führer himself now; we have been able to use one Jew two years longer in Vienna, and another in photographic research, because they have certain things that we need and that can be of the utmost benefit to us at the present. It would be utter madness for us to say now: ‘He’ll have to go..”
 
  Sooner or later it had to happen; the West’s CIA imperial fingers had been playing with Pandora’s Box carelessly in Ukraine and the lid gave way: the box has been opened and the Un-Evil Empire is left buck naked internationally to face the truth. And the truth is clear, raw and simple no matter what machinated twists and turns of propaganda come out of the hawks’ nests in Washington to keep Americans brainwashed, ready to accept the warmongering ways of the nation’s powerful elite...



Apr 11, 2014


Deir Yassin: April 10, 1948
 
...The following text is being circulated on change.org. It will also be sent to the Jerusalem Mayor and Municipality:.. there are few memorials for the Palestinians who died or were dispossessed in 1948. In fact, their history, in which the massacre at Deir Yassin is a very significant event, has been largely buried and forgotten. And yet, like the descendants of the victims in Armenia (1915-17), in the Soviet Union (1929-53), in Nazi Germany (1933-45), in China (1949-52, 1957-60, and 1966-76), and in Cambodia (1975-79), the descendants of Palestinians want the world to remember what they suffered, what they lost and why they died...
 
  On Thursday, April 10, we will commemorate the 66th anniversary of the Dayr Yassin massacre. We will walk along the main street of the village (now Kanfey Nesharim Street), learn about the village and its Nakba, and pass some of the Palestinian buildings that are still standing along the road - people were massacred in some of them - as well as the Kfar Shaul mental hospital, whose buildings were once the core of the village.  We'll stop at the remains of the Palestinian cemetery and end the tour in the grove behind the hospital. We will carry signs bearing the names of the victims of the massacre...
 
  Anonymous vandals spray painted “Death to Arabs” on two graves in the former Palestinian village of Deir Yassin near Jerusalem on Monday. The incident took place just one day before Palestinians commemorate the 66th anniversary of the Deir Yassin massacre – the most infamous massacre of the 1948 War – in which two Zionist militia groups killed between 100-200 villagers. The massacre is considered by historians to be a pivotal point in the war, and led to Palestinians abandoning towns and villages for fear of meeting the same fate...
 
  The headline over a presentation by Jews for Justice for Palestinians of the text of a talk given by Norman Finkelstein to a number of British universities in mid-March was The End of Palestine? It’s time to sound an alarm. The purpose of this article is to do just that. In his talk which analysed U.S. Secretary of State Kerry’s peace initiative (“a sham”), Finkelstein explained at length that the Palestinians are on their own because the powers that be in the Western and Arab worlds want them to accept crumbs from Zionism’s table and effectively surrender to Zionism’s will...
[If Israel is to survive, the whole world must “surrender to Zionism’s will.” The West has already done so. Will the rest of the world follow? Are things that bad, that hopeless - all decency, truth and justice crushed under the heel of ZioNazism? If I thought so, I wouldn’t bother maintaining this website. No, it is against all the laws of nature, against all that is sacred, and the wind will shift.]
 
  The ideology of Zionism, which calls for the establishment of a Jewish state, has dictated Israeli politics for decades. But is it compatible with a democratic Israel? And can a state exclusively for Jews be a genuine democracy? Palestinians argue that Zionism has become a byword for racism and colonial expansion. In this episode, Mehdi Hasan challenges Shlomo Ben Ami , the former Israeli foreign minister and avowed liberal Zionist, on the challenges of Zionism and the failures of the Israeli peace camp...
 
  Long gone the days when the U.S.-led so-called "Friends of Syria" could plausibly claim that two thirds of Syria was controlled by rebel forces, that Syrian capital Damascus was under siege and its fall was just a matter of time and that the days of President Bashar al-Assad were numbered and accordingly he "should step down." The war on Syria has taken a U-turn during the past year. Assad now firmly holds the military initiative. The long awaited foreign military intervention could not take off; it was prevented by the emerging multi-polar world order. Syrian and non-Syrian insurgents are now on the run...
 
  On 10 March 2014, Raed Zuayter, a distinguished judge and PhD holder, was killed by Israeli soldiers while crossing the border between Jordan and the West Bank of Palestine. Raed was a Jordanian citizen of Palestinian origin. His family is part of the Palestinian diaspora—refugees who had fled ethnic cleansing in 1948, war in 1967, and the Israeli invasion of Lebanon in 1982. A friend of mine, Carrie Schwartz, stays in Jordan and the Zuayter family asked her to record their story, “to express the truth in English”:..
[And they ask, as they have for millennia, “why do they hate us?”]
 
  Is the Obama Administration telling the American people the truth over what is happening in Iraq and Crimea? A growing number of international observers are starting to question the chronicle of events being released by the White House. In Brussels, the President recently stated "But even in Iraq, America sought to work within the international system. We did not claim or annex Iraq's territory. We did not grab its resources for our own gain. Instead, we ended our war and left Iraq to its people in a fully sovereign Iraqi state that can make decisions about its own future." Some political observers are not so sure about those statements...
[Exquisite professorial understatement]
 
.."Do the Jews Really Control America?" asked one Chinese newsweekly headline in 2009. The factoids doled out in such articles and in books about Jews in China---for example: "The world's wealth is in Americans' pockets; Americans are in Jews' pockets"---would rightly be seen to be alarming in other contexts. But in China, where Jews are widely perceived as clever and accomplished, they are meant as compliments. Scan the shelves in any bookstore in China and you are likely to find best-selling self-help books based on Jewish knowledge. Most focus on how to make cash...
[The Tablet is one of the prominent tribal Jewish propaganda rags]
 
  Moscow has slammed NATO’s Secretary General for using the political crisis in Ukraine to mobilize the alliance’s member states against an imaginary Russian threat and justify the very existence of the bloc in the 21st century...
 
..It is three and a half years since the FBI raided seven homes and subpoenaed 23 anti-war and international solidarity activists to a grand jury in Chicago. Through federal court filings, we recently obtained the unsealed FBI raid documents that detail the U.S. government spying and lies about the Antiwar 23 and their groups. Still, Assistant U.S. Attorney Barry Jonas says there is an “ongoing investigation” and refuses to return the belongings of Palestinian-American leader Hatem Abudayyeh of Chicago.. In addition we ask you to organize and stand with Arab American women’s leader Rasmea Odeh, heading to trial in Detroit on June 10, 2014...
[As it is in Israel, so it is in the ZioNazi occupied US]
 
  Over the past three years not many victories in Syria have been witnessed by this observer. Indeed some developments have even brought to mind Plutarch’s description of the Greek King Pyrrhus’ defeat of the Roman legions some while back. But an achievement by the Syrian government and its people on 4/3/14 in an auction house in London is neither Pyrrhic, nor of the 'Another such victory and I am undone’ variety...
 
  Pro-Russian separatists, who have besieged a number of government buildings in Ukraine's eastern districts, have turned down an amnesty offer handed by the government, stocking fear that a 48-hour ultimatum may end with violence. The government said it would not prosecute pro-Russian separatists if they surrender their weapons, but the armed men said they would not leave...
 
  He's a world class thug. He represents the worst of rogue state leadership. He exceeds Sharonian evil. Why Israelis put up with him they'll have to explain. He's militantly racist. He deplores peace. He thrives on violence and instability. He blames Palestinians for Israeli crimes.. Palestinians have no legitimate peace partner. They never did...
 
  “We are the only people on Earth asked to guarantee the security of our occupier - while Israel is the only country that calls for defense from its victims” ~ Hanan Ashrawi, an Indigenous Human Being.. As the John Kerry Obama peace talks get magically caught up again in failure, I am again reminded that this charade has been going on for 60 plus years and still most don’t get the strategem deployed by the ambitious Euro settlers. First, let me say that it is so sad that the indigenous culture and peoples are being systematically exterminated by the Euro settlers; step by step, inch by inch in a mission creep for the ages...
 
...instead of reproducing the same failures all over again, Kerry and the Obama administration ought to devote some time to vigorously and honesty study the reasons for the chronic failure of the so-called America peace efforts in Occupied Palestine. But, given the huge subservience of the US government to Jewish pressure groups such as AIPAC, I am not sure any American administration would be able to objectively re-assess American policy in the Middle East. Such a feat would probably trigger a no-holds-barred war with Israel’s powerful supporters in the U.S. arena, a war any U.S. administration would probably lose given current political balances in Washington...
[There is only one solution for the Palestinian problem and it is political. It is obvious and incontrovertible and inevitable. All the Jewish money and power in the world can't stop it - all it can do is to continue to delay it.]
 
  Dismissing the event as an irrelevant distraction would have been easy. It was not the first spy satellite launched by Israel. Yet, something was different this time. Yesterday I commented on the increasing isolation of Israel. Roughly at the same time of the publication, Israel launched Ofek 10, its sixth spy satellite from the Palmachim Air Base, south of Tel Aviv. Two characteristics of the contraption are reminders of Israel's situation. In the days before the launching, Palmachim had been occupied by people from the Ministry of Defense, specifically from Israel's Space Agency...
 
...The main subject of the discussion included the situation around Ukraine, possible joint steps to decrease energy prices, in order to weaken Russia’s economy, promotion of Iran’s moving to a more pro-Western position, to weaken Tehran’s cooperation with Moscow, and only then about Syria and the situation in the GCC. Obama’s support of the coup in Ukraine and the tough American opposition towards Russia in Ukrainian affairs, led to Washington developing the idea of urgent mobilization of the resources of its rich Arab allies – to oppose Moscow. This is because it turned out that the U.S. and its allies in NATO and the EU had no financial or political leverage, for exerting pressure on Russia...
 
  As the unelected Kiev junta sends armed balaclava-clad paramilitaries to quell protests in Ukraine’s eastern cities it declares the operation «anti-terrorism». The acting (sic) president in Kiev Oleksandr Turchynov has labeled all those seeking political autonomy in Kharkov, Donetsk, Lugansk and other pro-Russian cities in the east of the country as «terrorists and criminals»; a new set of laws cobbled together by the junta – two months before scheduled official elections have taken place and therefore of dubious legality – gives the self-appointed politicians in Kiev the power to prosecute anyone that does not recognize their self-imposed authority...
 
  There are initial signs that the silliness on steroids pendulum might start swinging back to sanity with this news of a sit-down meeting. The coup-meisters have had a month to enjoy what ruling over chaos and insanity is like, and the EU and US, whether they admit it or not, have instigated a disaster here and are now in damage control mode. Russian diplomacy is flanking them at every move. All the silly invasion charges, disproved almost as quickly as they were made, has put US credibility into the elevator shaft...
 
  Al Jazeera has published a brilliant op-ed—”Iran, Orientalism and Western Illusions about Syria”—by our Iranian colleague, Seyed Mohammad Marandi, Dean of the University of Tehran’s Faculty of World Studies.  It is powerfully insightful on the ways in which orientalist stereotypes about the Muslim world warp Western views of the Islamic Republic of Iran, the conflict in Syria, and the demands of Arab populations for more participatory politics...
 
  Journalist Joshua Blakeney interviewed Professor Kevin MacDonald, author of Culture of Critique, for this episode of The Real Deal. Topics discussed and debated include Jewish ethnocentric biases in the Social Sciences, theories of racial difference, The Frankfurt School and cultural relativism...



Apr 10, 2014

Look at the World from Behind the Wall, by William A. Cook | Dissident Voice
..see how the wall blinds the Jews to the plight of the people they drove from their land, see the barren landscape on the other side rubble strewn, savaged by bulldozers and missiles, see the people caught in a maelstrom of poverty and deprivation, listen to the mothers and wives weep for their husbands and sons jailed without charge in Israel’s Gulag where escape comes by self-starvation as the only defense against indefinite torture and lives lost to family and friends, listen to the cries of the people of the world who have condemned this barbaric behavior only to run into the President’s own wall – the veto in the UN Security Council that effectively denies the justice he so righteously exalts...
 
  As U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry shuttles from one country to another in a (seemingly) desperate, last-minute attempt to save the latest round of fake “peace” talks between Israelis and Palestinians from collapsing, mainstream media journalists are dutifully following him around, reporting on his every utterance as if the fate of the world depended on it.. based on these and literally hundreds of such articles over several decades in mainstream media, I have created a guide for aspiring corporate stenographers, excuse me, journalists; particularly those who wish to write on Palestine and the so-called “Israeli/Palestinian conflict..”
 
  Violence surged in the streets of Tel Aviv as a 1000-strong protest against African immigrants seeking asylum in Israel turned violent. Residents of a low-income Tel Aviv neighbourhood descended to the streets, waving Israeli flags and chanting “Deport the Sudanese” and “Infiltrators get out of our homes” to protest against the increase of African migrants moving into the area and the country...
 
  Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu demands Palestinians recognise Israel as "a Jewish state" and US President Barack Obama, who used this language in his state of the union address, signalled US support for this position. This is disastrous for the prospects for peace and not something the Palestinians can or should ever accept. Here is why...
 
  American Cold War propaganda had little, if anything, to do with the collapse of the Soviet Union. However, by dramatizing Soviet mendacity it made the world blind to Washington’s mendacity. When Soviet authorities refused to publish prominent Soviet writer Boris Pasternak’s masterpiece, Dr. Zhivago, the CIA turned it into a propaganda coup.. What strikes me about the CIA memos is how similar the United States government is today to the Soviet government of 1958.
 
  Is there an emotional connection between the oceans and the pursuit of peace? For whatever reason, peace ships have been increasing in number over the past century..  Much of this this maritime assault upon nuclear testing and nuclear war was inspired by an American peace ship, the Golden Rule. The remarkable story of the Golden Rule began with Albert Bigelow, a retired World War II U.S. naval commander. Appalled by the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, he became a Quaker and, in 1955, working with the American Friends Service Committee, sought to deliver a petition against nuclear testing to the White House...
 
  Ukraine’s military takeover of the city of Kharkiv was quick and bloodless, with only a handful of reports of any shooting, and no reports of any deaths. It served as a wake-up call for the separatists in Luhansk and Donetsk. Luhansk government buildings are now surrounded with barricades and barbed wire. The protesters have also taken an armory in the city and taken automatic rifles, preparing to fight back if Ukraine’s troops come. Donetsk, the base of the secessionist movement in the east, is also fortifying in anticipation of an offensive...
 
  In 2011 Barack Obama led an allied military intervention in Libya without consulting the US Congress. Last August, after the sarin attack on the Damascus suburb of Ghouta, he was ready to launch an allied air strike, this time to punish the Syrian government for allegedly crossing the ‘red line’ he had set in 2012 on the use of chemical weapons.​ Then with less than two days to go before the planned strike, he announced that he would seek congressional approval for the intervention.. Why did Obama delay and then relent on Syria when he was not shy about rushing into Libya?..
 
  A sapling grown from the tree that Holocaust victim Anne Frank wrote about while in hiding will be planted this month on the US Capitol grounds, congressional leaders announced Tuesday...
[Not to mention the Palestinian olive tree.. But it's only the Judeocentic narrative that matters of course.]

  The Russian delegation to the United Nations said the Security Council refused to take a stand on the attack perpetrated against Kassab, thereby unveiling the support of several of its members for the actions of Al-Qaeda...
 
  Members of German civil society have written an open letter to Russian President Vladimir Putin, condemning Russophobia in mass media and German political establishment while showing support for Moscow's actions in the ongoing Ukrainian crisis. Retired German Air Force Lieutenant Colonel Jochen Scholz wrote an open letter to the Russian leader in response to the speech Putin made on March 18, 2014 at the reunification of Crimea with Russia. The letter was cosigned by hundreds of Germans including lawyers, journalists, doctors, servicemen, scholars, scientists, diplomats and historians...
 
...while Nineteen Eighty-Four is commonly taken as a comment on mass surveillance, its fundamental concern is not technological, but linguistic. For all that Orwell’s “telescreens” recalled Bentham’s panopticon, he trained his broader narrative on the state’s willful manipulation of language in the service of vast, secret power and control...
 
...I don't know why so many folks are under the impression that Jews, especially Ashkenazim, are so smart. They strike me as completely delusional and their actions bordering on suicidal. What is certain is that organized Jewry certainly does not give a damn about the well-being or safety of the average non-politicized Jew. In fact, the more Jews get assaulted or killed as a direct results of the criminally reckless policies of the leaders of organized Jewry - the better for the latter, as that just fuels their favorite myth about Gentiles being inherently and mysteriously anti-Jewish...
 
  Governments and major corporations control or, at least, try to manipulate public opinion and discursive processes through mass media communication. They also wage information wars through the use of mass media communication. Like other geopolitical events, this is the case concerning the Ukrainian anti-government protests and the proceeding February 2014 coup in Kiev. This information war is a contest where the international news networks and major newspapers act as armies, the weapons being used are the media, and the frontline is the interactive space known as the public sphere...
 
  A new investigation by the Associated Press into a U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) project to create a Twitter-style social media network in Cuba has received a lot of attention this week, with the news trending on the actual Twitter for much of the day yesterday when the story broke, and eliciting comment from various members of Congress and other policy makers. The “ZunZuneo” project, which AP reports was “aimed at undermining Cuba’s communist government,” was overseen by USAID’s Office of Transition Initiatives (OTI)..
 
...Snowden, 30, said last month in testimony delivered to the European Parliament that he spoke up to "more than 10 distinct officials” about his concerns regarding the NSA’s activities, but was eventually driven to leak documents about those programs due to the lack of response he received. He is currently in Russia after being granted asylum there, and is wanted in the US for disclosing classified documents. Top-brass at the NSA responded by disputing Snowden’s accusations, but to Vanity Fair he now says that he could verify his claims with the help of archived emails...
 
...For over twenty years process has trumped outcome, but it is now in danger of being out-trumped itself by the total collapse of the only internationally recognized paradigm for a solution to the conflict. A new international strategy urgently needs to be devised and made ready as an alternative to the prospect of failed bilateral negotiations. Any such strategy should be rooted in a vision of the endgame, based on the principles of a rapid end to the Israeli occupation and equality between Palestinians and Israelis...
 
...The headline over a presentation by Jews for Justice for Palestinians of the text of a talk given by Norman Finkelstein to a number of British universities in mid-March was The End of Palestine? It’s time to sound an alarm. The purpose of this article is to do just that. In his talk which analysed U.S. Secretary of State Kerry’s peace initiative (“a sham”), Finkelstein explained at length that the Palestinians are on their own because the powers that be in the Western and Arab worlds want them to accept crumbs from Zionism’s table and effectively surrender to Zionism’s will...
 
  On April 8, 2014, Netanyahu cut relations with Palestine. It was not the step of a powerful leader standing in front of the people and announcing a policy that he considers right no matter how difficult its path is. He is not Churchill facing Hitler. He is not Hitler attacking Stalin scared that the Red Horror would attack him first...
 
  The 2011 putsch in Libya will be remembered by history in two ways.  First, that it marked the usurpation and infiltration of the Arab Spring by Western & Gulf Cooperation Council intelligence agencies.  Second, and more egregiously, that it represented the takedown of Africa’s most modern and successful nation - known since 1977 to its people as Great Socialist People’s Libyan Arab Jamahiriya...
 
  A high-ranking Israeli official on Sunday slammed a statement from Catholic bishops, who called for international organizations to lead the cause of Palestinian statehood. Greek-Melchite Archbishop Cyrille Bustros sparked an interreligious firestorm when he suggested that Israel was “using Scripture” to continue its occupation of Palestinian territory. "The Holy Scriptures cannot be used to justify the return of Jews to Israel and the displacement of the Palestinians,” Bustros said at the close of a two-week conference in Rome, Italy, “to justify the occupation by Israel of Palestinian lands..”



Apr 9, 2014


The Toxic Charade of the "Peace Talks" is fast approaching its Ignominious End
 
...Continuing sham peace talks perpetuates the Big Lie. Current ones began last July. ZERO results were achieved. Nor will any ahead short of unconditional Palestinian surrender. Don't bet against it not happening. It did multiple times before. Odds favor more of the same. Longtime Israeli collaborators represent Palestinians. They lack legitimacy. What they plan this time remains to be seen...
 
  Right wing Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu on Sunday blamed the Palestinians for the collapse of peace negotiations that began last August under the auspices of Secretary of State John Kerry. In fact, the Palestinians took no Israeli land whatsoever since August, whereas the Israelis doubled their pace of building squatter settlements on Palestinian territory, territory over which they said they were negotiating! It is like discussing with someone sharing a piece of pie and then looking down and seeing that the other person had snarfed up half of it already. Here are the top ten things Israel did to cause the negotiations to falter:..
 
  John Kerry’s April 29 deadline for a negotiated framework between Israel and the Palestinian Authority, is only a few weeks away. Without waiting for what is still a “flexible” end point for this round of “peace talks”, the two negotiating parties have entered the “blame game” utilizing the weapons they have at hand...
 
  I remember standing outside the White House lawn on March 26 1979, protesting the signing of Camp David accord between Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and the ex-wanted British terrorist turned Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin.  An Egyptian speaker addressed his president across the street “If You Feel No Shame Then Do As You Wish..”

  Just like Sheldon Adelson, Thomas Friedman wants a racist, ethnocentric Jewish state, but the only solution is a state where Jews, Moslems, and Christians of all denominations live together as one nation...
 
  If things proceed normally, President Barak Obama will soon proclaim April 11, 2014 “Education and Sharing Day, U.S.A.” Despite the innocuous name, this day honors the memory of a religious leader whose lesser-known teachings help fuel some of the most violent attacks against Palestinians by extremist Israeli settlers and soldiers...
 
  The Obama regime has issued simultaneous threats to the enemy it is making out of Russia and to its European NATO allies on which Washington is relying to support sanctions on Russia. This cannot end well. As even Americans living in a controlled media environment are aware, Europeans, South Americans, and Chinese are infuriated that the National Stasi Agency is spying on their communications. NSA’s affront to legality, the US Constitution, and international diplomatic norms is unprecedented. Yet, the spying continues, while Congress sits sucking its thumb and betraying its oath to defend the Constitution of the United States...
 
...government does not really control the shots. It is an instrument of the puppet masters namely the US, NATO, and to a lesser extent the EU. They obey orders and we have seen the position, they’ve taken with regard to the IMF reforms. They simply stated, we will accept whatever reforms are proposed to us by the IMF. And essentially what they have accepted is the impoverishment of the entire population, from West to East, because that reform package is going to create a further process of impoverishment of a country which has already been impoverished in the course of the last 20 years...
 
  Since 2011 the Syrian people have been fighting against a long-planned foreign conspiracy to violently reorder their nation. Fighting off tens of thousands of foreign-backed sectarian militants for 3 years, the Syrian people are finally beginning to see the light at the end of the tunnel. For those that have stood with Syria these last 3 years, we must keep standing strong...
 
...When I was in Palestine this summer, my grandmother pointed to the stone home in Deir Yassin where she was born 76 years ago — and my eyes caught a glimpse of a pale scar on her arm. The nostalgia in her voice was so strong, I could almost see the barbaric scenes of terror as if they were being projected from a movie reel onto a screen in front of us.. By sunrise on 9 April, the Zionist terrorist organizations known as the Irgun and Stern Gang had raided the village and stormed homes, slaughtering as many people as possible. The victims included unarmed elderly men, pregnant women and children...
 
  Frank Barat talks to Leila Khaled, Palestinian icon and Chief of the Department of Refugees and Right of return in the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP)...
 
  Here is a fascinating interview with many insights from a national security whistleblower: Brendon O'Connell.. With a special Introduction from Stopfundingisraels' Steve Johnson, the interview touches on Brendons' three year jail term for racial vilification. It also exposes the inside machinations of the State Security Intelligence Group (SSIG) , the false promises and the pressure applied externally...
[Part 2 here]
 
  "IDF Shocked," and "We did not expect Jews to attack soldiers" were the most quoted phrases after West Bank settlers attacked and destroyed a military stronghold near Yitzhar, a Jewish settlement placed atop a hill with a control position on the Palestinian city of Nablus on April 8, 2014. The name refers to the finest olive oil. Established in 1984 and with just over 1,000 settlers, Yitzhar is an Ultra-Orthodox Jews settlement and among the most extremist, comparable almost to Kiryat Arba in Hebron. Their presence and activities were one of the reasons that forced the evacuation of the few Samaritans left out of Nablus...
 
  Vigiller M accepted the road assignment from HQ to visit the memorial to Rachel Corrie at The Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington. M was to observe if there was any explanation for the death of this young woman on the memorial erected last fall, because the photo merely says: "Reflecting on Peace and Justice In Memory of Rachel Corrie 1979-2003"..
 
  Ukraine's acting President Oleksandr Turchynov has called an emergency meeting of security services as pro-Russian demonstrators take to the streets of several cities demanding referendum and autonomy. The meeting was held in the capital Kiev after protesters stormed into government buildings in the eastern cities of Donetsk and Lugansk in on Sunday...
 
...According to the UN envoy, “the anti-Russian rhetoric that Moscow’s Western partners are practicing hides their confusion, their disappointment, to put it mildly, at what has happened as a result of their rash actions in Ukraine.” At the same time, Churkin stressed that recognition of Crimea’s new status by the international community is just a matter of time and requires no additional efforts from Moscow...
 
  The much admired American Western, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) contains an insightful scene. The main characters are trying to escape and are considering a very dangerous jump from the cliff: Butch Cassidy: They’ll never follow us. Sundance Kid: How do you know? Cassidy: Would you jump if you didn’t have to? Indeed, they jump while their pursuers stay. One is ready to gamble with one’s limb or even life only if one has to. The recent Russian actions in Ukraine might be explained through the same prism...
 
  Washington and Tehran are again at odds after the United States Senate voted this week to ban the Iranian diplomat nominated to serve as his country’s ambassador to the United Nations from entering the US. The Senate overwhelmingly agreed on Monday this week that Iran’s pick for UN envoy, Hamid Aboutalebi, shouldn’t be allowed to step foot in the US due to his alleged role in the 1979 hostage crisis at the American Embassy in Tehran...
 
  It has become increasingly clear that speculators, and the financial elite more broadly, have been making a concerted effort in recent years to acquire as much fertile land as possible, intending to use it as a major revenue source against the backdrop of global economic crisis.. “An estimated 500 million acres…was reported bought or leased across the developing world between 2000 and 2011, often at the expense of local food security and land rights. When the price of food spiked in 2008, pushing the number of hungry people in the world to over one billion, the interests of investors spiked as well, and within a year foreign land deals in the developing world rose by a staggering 200 percent...

  The headlines and TV screens scream about the latest killing by an Iraq or Afghanistan veteran, like the army major who managed to murder nineteen others or the lowly soldier who recently killed himself and three others at Fort Hood. We keep asking ourselves Why, knowing we will either never really know or even if we come close to a truth, find it too hard to accept. The only time I ever asked Why was as a draftee in basic training in Fort Dix. A boy I barely knew who slept in the top bunk above me tried to hang himself, before someone mercifully cut him down. He was, one guy said, related to some big shot politician and we all assumed it must have had some connection...
 
  Who told a Berlin audience in March 1912 that "each country can absorb only a limited number of Jews, if she doesn't want disorders in her stomach. Germany already has too many Jews"? No, not Adolf Hitler but Chaim Weizmann, later president of the World Zionist Organization and later still the first president of the state of Israel.. It is true that only an extreme lunatic fringe of Zionism went so far as to offer to join the war on Germany's side in 1941, in the hope of establishing "the historical Jewish state on a national and totalitarian basis, and bound by a treaty with the German Reich." Unfortunately this was the group which the present Prime Minister of Israel chose to join...
[And is once again at the helm of the ZioNazi State of Israel. 'Zionism in the Age of the Dictators' has just been republished  ]



Apr 8, 2014

As peace talks falter, Israel’s intentions become clearer, by Jonathan Cook | The View from Nazareth
  There was a mad scramble by Washington last week to prevent the seemingly inevitable – an implosion of the Middle East peace talks. In a last-ditch effort to stop Israel reneging on a promise to release a final batch of Palestinian prisoners, the US briefly threw in possibly the biggest bargaining chip in its hand: the release of Israeli spy Jonathan Pollard. With Israel still dragging its feet, an infuriated Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas submitted applications to join 15 United Nations conventions, thereby reviving a campaign to win international recognition of Palestinian statehood...
 
  US-brokered negotiations with Israel, which started on 29 July 2013 and were to last nine months, are nearing their ignominious end. And Israel, the serial defaulter that it is, has reneged on the agreed release of 104 pre-Oslo prisoners in exchange for Palestine’s postponing joining international organizations to help achieve their long-overdue freedom. Three phases of the agreed release had taken place, and the final batch of 30 prisoners were due to be handed over on 29 March. When the Israeli government refused to release them the Palestinian embassy in London, on 2 April, announced that President Mahmoud Abbas had signed letters of accession to 15 international conventions and treaties...
 
  Dr. Allen Roland is a Truther with a capital T. Sure, he knows that 9/11 was an inside job. But he’s on the trail of a deeper truth: The Unified Field. “The basic underlying and uniting force of the universe is a psychic energy field of love and soul consciousness (the Unified Field) which lies not only beyond time and space but ALSO beneath our deepest fears and whose principal property is the universal urge to unite..”
 
  Israel is attacking American universities with data shared to them by the National Security Agency, and “busy” professors are responsible for the degradation of Occupy Wall Street, author and journalist Chris Hedges said. Hedges said while he and Dr. Cornel West were having dinner, the two of them lambasted lazy journalism professors and other intellectuals of being “too busy” to support free speech. During a speech to Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts, Hedges revealed a sinister Zionist plot to undermine American efforts at free dialog...
[As many of us know, the NSA is ZioNazi occupied territory - as is the State Dept. and most of the rest of the government.]
 
  Disinformation succeeds because so many people and interest groups across the political spectrum find that it serves their agendas as well as the agenda of the government. Consider for example the explanation of 9/11 that blamed Muslim terrorists for the attack. This served the interests of the neoconservatives, the private armaments companies, the US military, the private security companies, government security agencies such as the CIA, the left-wing, the right-wing, the Israel Lobby, and the print and TV media...
 
  Occasionally the chutzpah of the Americans, and even of the Israelis, believe it or not, reaches still newer heights. This can be seen in the threats of both countries to impose sanctions on the Palestinian Authority. Israel threatens to withhold taxes collected on behalf of Palestinians and has even made threats against their wireless carrier. The United States threatens to suspend aid to the PA; Europe, Washington’s thrall, is next. It’s unbelievable that the occupier is imposing (more) sanctions on the occupied...
 
  Israel‘s obsession with Jewish ethnic purity has led to the enactment of open ethnic cleansing by the current Netanyahu government. Aside from Israel’s genocidal policies towards Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza, new legislation affects 60,000 African refugees and 100,000 Bedouin living within Israel proper. The latter are, by law, Israeli citizens and many have served in the Israeli Defense Force. Officials in the Netanyahu government justify their racial purity laws as essential to prevent “demographic” problems...
 
...Cousin Bern and I stayed up reminiscing late into the night, and, of course, the Middle East crisis came into our conversation. "You know, I have never been a Zionist," he said. "But something had to be done to provide a home for Jewish refugees. That is why I have always supported the State of Israel, given substantially to the UJA, and even headed the Hartford drive." This reasoning, so typical of thousands of other Jews, has been responsible for the Zionist takeover of the American Jewish community - lock, stock and barrel...
[Lilienthal is one of the original charter members, at least in our time, of a small but revered group, the Righteous Jews.]
 
  Is there anyone out there who still believes that Barack Obama, when he’s speaking about American foreign policy, is capable of being anything like an honest man? In a March 26 talk in Belgium to “European youth”, the president fed his audience one falsehood, half-truth, blatant omission, or hypocrisy after another. If George W. Bush had made some of these statements, Obama supporters would not hesitate to shake their head, roll their eyes, or smirk. Here’s a sample:..
 
  The profound and pervasive crisis in Ukraine is a matter of grave concern for Russia. We understand perfectly well the position of a country which became independent just over 20 years ago and still faces complex tasks in constructing a sovereign state. Among them is the search for a balance of interests among its various regions, the peoples of which have different historical and cultural roots, speak different languages and have different perspectives on their past and present, and their country's future place in the world. Given these circumstances, the role of external forces should have been to help Ukrainians protect the foundations of civil peace and sustainable development, which are still fragile...
 
  "Poverty is not Fate's punishment," wrote retired Judge Yosef Shapira, Israel's State Comptroller, in his Report on Government Activities about Food Security. Published on April 7, 2014, the report contains sharp criticism on Netanyahu's government disclosing that it consciously starves a significant percentage of the population, mainly Palestinians with Israeli citizenship...
[Par for the course in the most revolting, evil polity on the planet]
 
  The 5,000-member American Studies Association voted last December to join the academic boycott of Israel, the third scholarly group in the United States to do so in 2013. Its decision was both reasonable and commendable. The call for boycott, divestment and sanctions - or BDS - against Israel was first issued in 2005 by more than 170 Palestinian non-governmental organizations, representing all facets of Palestinian society.. Israel has subjected Palestinians to torture, assassinations, lengthy detentions without trial, home demolitions, banishments, curfews, school closures, restrictions on freedom of movement and other violations of human rights...
 
  Sofia Pale brings us the beginning of what I am sure is going to be a long series of articles by many writers on the Western sanctions follies being renamed the Two Musketeers (the EU and US), or the  "Three Amigos follies" by adding in the banksters. If the sanctions on Iran did not pour fuel on the fire of the West's enjoying them as its new weapon of choice, (remember the Hiroshima demo), then the Asia Pivot was confirmation that America was in a total financial war situation that justified using its forward-deployed military for its real intended purpose... offense, not defense...
 
..Oleksander Turchinov, in a televised appeal on Monday, said that the action in the cities of Kharkiv, Donetsk and Luhansk showed that Russia was "playing out the Crimean scenario".. on Monday, pro-Moscow protesters occupying a regional administration building in Donetsk declared the creation of the "Donetsk People's Republic" as an independent state. "In the event of aggressive action from the illegitimate Kiev authorities, we will appeal to the Russian Federation to bring in a peacekeeping contingent," said the proclamation, voiced by an unidentified bearded man...
 
  A Dutch Jesuit priest was beaten and shot dead by unidentified gunmen at his monastery in the besieged Syrian city of Homs on Monday.. Van der Lugt warned of the humanitarian suffering of the population in Homs in a video appeal earlier this year, saying people in Homs were living in misery and starvation. “It’s impossible that we suffer and the world does nothing,” the Catholic priest said, speaking in Arabic...



Apr 7, 2014


Seymour Hersh unearths more lies on Syria | Jonathan Cook

  Investigative journalist Seymour Hersh has a second fascinating essay that rewrites the official record of the sarin gas attack on Ghouta, near Damascus, in August last year. As usual, Hersh uses his sources in the US security establishment to throw light on what really took place. The bottom line: Turkey was almost certainly the party responsible for the attack, hoping it would force Obama to honour his threatened “red line” if Assad used chemical weapons. Was the Assad regime to be brought down by a US military campaign, Turkey assumed it would be able to turn Syria into a client state...
 
  This conference seeks to analyse the challenge posed to international law by the Jewish State of Israel and the whole of historic Palestine – the area to the west side of River Jordan that includes both what is now the State of Israel and the Palestinian territories occupied in 1967. For its initial existence, the State of Israel has depended on a unilateral declaration of statehood in addition to both the expulsion (some would say the ethnic cleansing) of large numbers of non-Jewish Palestinian Arabs in 1947-49 and the prevention of their return...
 
  John Pilger's 'The War You Don't See' is a powerful and timely investigation into the media's role in war, tracing the history of 'embedded' and independent reporting from the carnage of World War One to the destruction of Hiroshima, and from the invasion of Vietnam to the current war in Afghanistan and disaster in Iraq. As weapons and propaganda become even more sophisticated, the nature of war is developing into an 'electronic battlefield' in which journalists play a key role, and civilians are the victims. But who is the real enemy?..
 
  US President Barack Obama’s recent visit to Saudi Arabia confirms what many even causal political observers have begun to suspect regarding recent US political history, that Washington’s values aren’t just nonpartisan, driven entirely by special interests permeating both sides of the political aisle, but are altogether non-existent. To understand why requires an understanding of both US-Saudi relations, not just during the Obama administration, but over the past several decades, as well as a basic understanding of Saudi Arabia itself...
 
  Alimuddin Usmani interviews Gilad Atzmon...
 
...Adelson is accused of lots of things but with personal wealth beyond estimate, certainly more than $50 billion dollars, Adelson writes his own history. What is different about Adelson, what makes him different from the Koch Brothers or other “super-villains” is that he buys and sells politicians openly.  He never makes an attempt to hide the fact that he is in the United States on behalf of Zionist extremists, buying every crooked politician he can find in order to push America into a world war on behalf of Israel. He brags about it.  This is a man with chutzpah or “impudence,” in the real language of the Jewish world, Yiddish...
[America has become the Land of the Pussies, the Lunatics and the Slaves]
 
  “On April 7, 2014, we call upon our brothers and sisters to hack, deface, hijack, database leak, admin takeover, and DNS terminate the Israeli Cyberspace by any means necessary.. The further assault on the people of Gaza, who have been flooded by your sewage, terrorized by your military apparatus, and left to die at the border while waiting for medical attention will NOT be tolerated anymore,” the statement read. “We will not stop until the police state becomes a free state and Palestine is free..”
 
 
 
 
 
 
..Abraham Henry Foxman is the National Director of the Anti-Defamation League. Do not get fooled for his having been born in the Soviet Union and being an American citizen. His main allegiance is Israel. On April 4, 2014, he met an Israeli delegation of six Members of the Knesset in New York, as part of the Ruderman Knesset Fellows activities. Foxman commented on the lengthy sentence Pollard is serving, saying "the only explanation I now have is that it borders on anti-Semitism. There is no reasonable, rational explanation as to why he's still being kept."..
 
  Ukraine's acting President Oleksander Turchinov has called an emergency meeting with the heads of security services as pro-Russian protesters stormed government buildings in a number of major cities in eastern part of the country, calling for referenda on joining Russia...
 
  The prospect of a new gas war between Russia and Ukraine drew closer at the weekend as the government in Kiev said it would refuse to pay for gas at a new, inflated price set by Gazprom last week. The dispute comes as tensions in eastern Ukraine remain high, with pro-Russian protesters in two cities storming government buildings on Sunday...
[Be careful what you ask for]
 
  According to a new UN report, there’s good news and bad news about global warming. The good news is- it’s worse than we thought. Yeah. That’s the good news. The bad news- you don’t want to know. Because then there’s worse news and ultimately, “holy moly, is that an asteroid the size of a mini- mall crushing my house” news...
 
  Today’s Athens talks saw European Union foreign ministers meeting to discuss Russia sanctions. While we saw the typical push for more confrontational measures from Western members, the broad consensus seems to be for a rethink of the policy...
 
  I am no romantic poet. Yet Susan Abulhawa’s first published collection of poems, My Voice Sought The Wind, slices directly to my heart. Like her, I once wrote poetry in Arabic. A group of us, high school friends in Nazareth some of whom went on to become ‘real poets,’ put out an occasional handwritten pamphlet of poetry. And like Susan, my cultural exile robbed me of the finesse and flare of my mother’s tongue. I must admit though that, unlike her, I don’t suffer any phantom pains where it once sprouted in my heart. It was too long ago...
 
...“Give me control of a nation’s money, and I care not who makes the laws.” ~ Mayer Amschel Bauer, aka Rothschild. We cannot think of any sentence that has had, and continues to have a more pervasive, as well as perverse, influence over mankind than this one, the key to the Rothschild dynasty in its quest for world dominance.  Nor is there any more corrupt and criminal enterprise than that led by the elites with their absolute control over the Western financial world and the entire Western political landscape. The subtext to the Rothschild formula of control is, “If you do not comply with our rules, you will be destroyed..” 



Apr 6, 2014

Nonviolent Geopolitics: Law, Politics, and 21st Century Security, by Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century

  In this short essay, my attempt will be to articulate a conception of a world order premised on nonviolent geopolitics, as well as to consider some obstacles to its realization. By focusing on the interplay of “law” and “geopolitics” the intention is to consider the role played both by normative traditions of law and morality and the “geopolitical” orientation that continue to guide dominant political actors on the global stage. Such an approach challenges the major premise of realism that security, leadership, stability, and influence in the 21st century continue to rest primarily on military power, or what is sometimes described as “hard power” capabilities...
 
  Stupidity and ignorance rule the world. The trouble is that the stupid and the ignorant think that they are clever and well-informed. Take Mrs Hillary Clinton, next President of the United States and former chief of American foreign policy. She has directly compared Russia’s Vladimir Putin to Hitler. And she has compared events in Crimea to the Czech crisis of 1938. Dozens of other politicians and grandiose journalists are currently doing the same...
 
  He lays it out soberly and convincingly, at least for anyone not hopelessly brainwashed [Editor]
 
..This reserve currency battle is like the battle of Britain in a way, most of it going on high above the heads of those whose fates hang in the balance as the fighter planes and bombers battle it out at 30,000 feet. We have only to look back at WWII and the Axis powers beginning to trade via barter to get free from our banking settlement system to see the trouble that can bring...
 
  Strange, isn’t it, that the system supposedly representing the apex of human development — even the end of history — has no place for ethics or morality. Perhaps this becomes inevitable when an ideology develops to the point where the economy is considered to be outside the environment. From that dubious — to put it overly modestly — vantage point, the journey to seeing the environment, and the natural resources and life it contains, as nothing more than a cow to be milked at will is not a long one...
 
  A recording has surfaced online purporting to be a leaked conversation between two Russian ambassadors discussing which parts of the world they would like to annex after Crimea.. "We've got Crimea, but that's not fucking all folks. In the future we'll damn well take your Catalonia and Venice, and also Scotland and Alaska," says the voice labelled as Chubarov, interspersing his speech with laughter and punning the word for Scotland in Russian so it sounds like "Cattleland"..
[And please take Texas too. It might be the only chance we have. Pretty please!]
 
  It is difficult to assess the extent of historical understanding of PM Netanyahu. He recently purchased a newspaper, thus his knowledge may improve. However, the ongoing state-violence he commanded against African refugees proves that he must still study a lot. On the other hand, one may seriously claim that he had carefully studied Israeli history books about Nazi Germany and now is adapting them to the reality of his fiefdom...
 
  Iran may become Moscow's number one choice in Russia's impending search for a new "reliable partner" in global defense and security affairs amid worsening ties with the West, a Russian military expert said on Friday...
 
  Americans are waiting to see if President Obama will order prosecutions based on the most recent report on CIA torture. Sections leaked from the least classified portions of the report outline fraud and incompetence on a massive sale, that and criminal abuses. Americans may well have to wait forever.  Even during Obama’s second “lame duck” term, he is unlikely to proceed against those clearly cited as criminals in this most recent report. Torture advocate John Brennan, Obama’s current CIA Director, would be one of the first arrested...
 
  A midterm election is coming; the media are gearing up.   The electoral circus will soon be in everybody’s face again, making a mockery of every democratic ideal. With our duopoly party system as entrenched as ever, and with our Supreme Court devoted to the bizarre idea that “campaign contributions” from plutocrats, bribes, are protected by the First Amendment, our elections nowadays function mainly to neutralize energies that might otherwise disquiet the American ruling class...
 
  The world is witnessing terracidal climate change inaction both from explicit, anti-science, corporate-fostered climate change denialism and from craven effective climate change denialism. The world is facing a worsening climate emergency but remains committed to an ever-expanding carbon economy and is unable to take requisite effective climate change action...
 
  Again, for anyone just returning from another planet, Crimea with a turn out of 83.1%, voted, in a referendum, by nearly ninety seven percent, to rejoin Russia. Not only was not a shot fired (apart from a couple in the air and one by a sniper suspiciously mirroring actions by the far right in Kiev) but incredibly, Russia is now contemplating returning some of the arms from the bases it has taken over, to Kiev. Reportedly two thirds of Ukrainian armed forces stationed in Crimea are so underwhelmed by those who, backed by the US, illegally overthrew the government in Kiev, that they have opted to stay in Crimea and/or join Russia’s defense forces...
 
  Ukraine has rejected Russia's latest gas price hike and is threatening to take its neighbour to arbitration court over a dispute that could imperil deliveries to Western Europe. Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk said Russia's two rate increases in three days were a form of "economic aggression" aimed at punishing Ukraine's new leaders for overthrowing a Moscow-backed regime last month...
[Hey, Kiev, good luck with that. And do study up on the law of cause and effect.]
 
  The definition of torture has been in some dispute since ancient times. Julius Caesar had the Illyrian pirates who kidnapped him executed before they were crucified. "Caesar is merciful," he supposedly said, "you did not torture me and I will not torture you." But the erstwhile conqueror of Gaul’s abductors didn’t see it that way. During the captivity Caesar recited his poetry to the pirates who described the experience as a grisly ordeal. No historic record exists casting aspersions on Illyrian literary judgment. Caesar’s cruelty, both as a military commander and a versifier, is well established. So whose word should we take on the matter?..
 
  Okay, I admit it, when I first saw this one I thought that this might be an April's Fool. Not because I disagree with the results, oh no, but because I am amazed that so many people in the UK (of all places!!!) would feel likewise.  But this is for real. The Independent posted a piece about Nigel Farage saying that Putin's was the world leader he most admired. Nice, but coming from Farage, not really surprising. But then the Independent asked its readers who their favorite world leader was. And here are the results as of April 5th, 16:33 (EST):..
 
  In early February 2014, The Economist noted that BDS “is turning mainstream,” and former Israeli Knesset Speaker Avraham Burg wrote in Haaretz that the “BDS movement is gaining momentum and is approaching the turning point [.... at which] sanctions against Israel will become a fait accompli.” .. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu made a point of indicating that he and his allies would respond vigorously to this trend. Some of the reports about a cabinet meeting where “tactics” were discussed revealed more about internecine divisions than about the substance of the meeting: “Netanyahu convenes strategy meeting to fight boycotts”—but he deliberately excluded some senior ministers:
 
  The following is a transcript of our interview with Sergey Kirichuk of the Borotba Party, a left-wing, antifascist Ukrainian political party fighting for the solidarity of Ukrainians. We discuss the oligarchical forces and right-wing groups operating in Kyiv such as Svoboda, Euromaidan, and Right Sector, go over the players and pawns of the current Ukrainian Parliament (Rada), and discuss the possible outcomes of the crisis...



Apr 5, 2014


The real story of the UN Human Rights Council: Europe slams Israeli crimes, by Ben White | MEMO
  Last week, Israel found itself isolated and condemned in Geneva, as the United Nations Human Rights Council passed four damning resolutions, each by 46-1. The resolutions testify to grave violations of international law, including the Geneva Conventions, as well as systematic discrimination and wide-scale human rights abuses.. And who condemned Israeli policies in these terms? 46 of 47 members of the UN Human Rights Council - everyone, in other words, bar the USA...
 
  I am writing today to express grave concern about a wave of legislative measures in the United States aimed at punishing and intimidating those who speak their conscience and challenge the human rights violations endured by the Palestinian people. In legislatures in Maryland, New York, Illinois, Florida, and even the United States Congress, bills have been proposed that would either bar funding to academic associations or seek to malign those who have taken a stand against the Israeli Occupation of Palestine...
 
 
  LBC radio in London hosts the first of two debates on Europe between Liberal Democrat deputy PM Nick Clegg, and UKIP leader Nigel Farage. Nick Clegg badly loses the debate, trying his tactic of staring into the camera when he knows he's losing, and using "facts" like the NHS needs immigrants or it will collapse - a classic line Labour use to justify Open Borders immigration...
 
  I think that it is time for me to directly address the issue of today's Europe role in world affairs.  In this blog I have often voiced very harsh criticisms of both "old Europe" and "new Europe" - to use Rumsfeld's classification - but I have never addressed this issue head-on, and this is what I propose to do now...
 
  Regarding the alleged violations of Russia’s obligations under the Budapest Memorandum of 1994, we should like to make the following statements. The current “government” in Kiev, which came to power as a result of an anti-constitutional coup, by their policy, primarily with regard to national minorities, has in fact itself broken the unity of Ukraine and literally pushed an entire region out...
 
  The stationing of NATO troops in Latvia, which is being advocated by some politicians, would be a foreign invasion similar to the invitation of Soviet troops in 1940, which led to the eventual takeover of the country, a popular Latvian politician says. “If NATO troops move in, it practically means a foreign occupation,” Aivars Lembergs, Mayor of Ventspils, stated as cited by the local media. “It’s the same thing that happened in 1940, when the Soviet army came to Latvia at the invitation of [President and Prime Minister] Karlis Ulmanis..”
 
  Contrary to Professor Robert Reich, America is already an Oligarchy and is moving fast toward Monarchy. The shameful and degrading events in Last Vegas last week, is an insult to every American voter and to America.. Sheldon Adelson, the King of Las Vegas and Macau, a die hard Zionist billionaire worth some $37 billions made from selling ‘dreams” to fools who believe they can win against the house.. The man does not care one bit about America; he only cares about Israel, where his heart, his money and loyalty lie. He contributed over $100 millions to an American/Israeli campaign to lure young Jews to Israel called “Birthright” that instill loyalty to Israel in the hearts and minds of young American Jews...
 
  One can write endlessly about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, as I do, and never feel one has conveyed a proper sense of a peculiar pathology that has taken hold of many in Israeli society and makes them so impervious to any kind of self-reflection and self-criticism. We are all susceptible to this kind of unreason, of course, but Israel seems to privilege it to a disturbing degree...
 
  Under the daily bombardment of militaristic rhetoric arriving from Tel Aviv and its colonies it is easy to forget that the basic organization of Israel as a country is communist. Within the Green Line, most settlements are kibbutzim and moshavim, two forms of communes designed in the early 20th century. The new colonies in the West Bank formally abandoned set ideologies, but they are run by a central secretariat ("mazkirut") and bear many signs of a controlled, manipulated society...
[I think of it as a hive of venomous stinging wasps who made a really bad choice when they relocated, but I know what he means.]
 
  While Israel’s apologists withdraw into a parallel universe of make belief, the boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) train is gathering pace. Just days after Zionist fantasist Michael Rosenberg declared that the “BDS movement is irrelevant”, students at Toronto’s Ryerson University voted at their annual meeting on 2 April to join the ever growing boycott Israel movement. As even the ultra-right-wing Israeli news website Arutz Sheva 7 admits...
 
  Ukraine is burning, it is going to the dogs; it has been taken over by an illegitimate government engorged with fascists, neo-Nazis and simple pro-Western opportunists, as well as countless EU and US-sponsored members of various NGO’s. The West has destabilized an entire nation, supporting right-wingers and fascists. Then it began spreading anti-Russian propaganda, even before Crimea had voted to join its historic homeland. Everything was well planned, with Machiavellian precision...
 
  It's hardly a match between equals - as one is playing Monopoly while the other plays chess. It's as if Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has been postponing his checkmate, while US Secretary of State John Kerry increasingly realizes he's facing the inevitable...
 
  If anyone had any illusions about American politics, they were dispelled this week. The casino mogul, Sheldon Adelson, organized a public display of his power. He summoned to his Las Vegas betting paradise the four most probable Republican candidates for the next presidential elections, in order to choose one of them. All the invitees heeded the summons, of course. It was a shameless exhibition...
 
“It would be my greatest sadness to see Zionists (Jews) do to Palestinian Arabs much of what Nazis did to Jews.” ~ Albert Einstein
"Palestine belongs to the Arabs in the same sense that England belongs to the English or France to the French. It is wrong and inhuman to impose the Jews on the Arabs" ~ Mahatma Gandhi
 
...the winners in our American world are exactly those who have repeatedly been playing the losing hands.  Their reward for one self-defined disaster after another has been yet more money, yet wider areas of everyday life to control, and yet more power.  No matter how inept they may prove as imperial players on a world stage, they can essentially do no wrong domestically when it comes to embedding themselves ever more deeply in our lives in the name of our "security" and our "safety."  It’s a remarkable tale...
 
Interview with a Palestinian Law student: Israel Apartheid Week, by Jonathan Woodrow Martin | CounterPunch
...There are moments in modern history when particular struggles galvanise millions around the world to act in solidarity. This occurred during the Spanish Civil War, the struggle of the Vietnamese people against US imperialism and the liberation struggles of Southern Africa. The time has now come for progressive humanity to cut through the obfuscations, canards and calumnies and meaningfully support the resistance of the Palestinian people...
 
..“America has the most advanced satellites in the world…it can detect an object the size of a coin, look at bunkers buried deep underground. NROL 39 (the US National Reconnaissance Office) uses the octopus emblem. It states clearly that enemies of America cannot hide because ‘nothing is beyond our reach.’ The octopus’s tentacles encompass the whole globe. I find it very odd that America has been reticent, conspicuously silent, about what their satellites have shown, if anything..”
 
  When a country’s military has been turned into nothing more than a criminal killing and torture machine we should not be surprised when its own ranks in turn become seized with all sorts of psychosis and pathology.. An army is supposed to be an honorable institution of the state tasked with defending the nation. In America’s case, the military is a sick entity that reflects the deeper national decay caused by its criminal ruling class...
 
  The US Senate Intelligence Committee has voted on to declassify its long-awaited report on the CIA's use of brutal interrogation methods that critics say amount to torture..
[Since Feinstein is a loyal agent of Israel, there may be more to this than meets the eye – perhaps time will tell.]
 
  Russia has detained 25 Ukrainians it suspected of preparing attacks in the southern and central part of the country, hours after it was accused by the former soviet member of contributing to the killing of anti-government protesters in Kiev. Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) said in a statement on Thursday that the detained, who were reported as being members of ultra-nationalist movements, were planning attacks between March 14 and 17 in Russia's Rostov, Volgograd, Tver, Orel, Belgorod, Kalmykia and Tatarstan regions...
[The plot sickens – and this is only the beginning. The US/EU/NATO intention is to foment a civil war as a means to weaken Russia, whom the neocons et al view as a dangerous rival power, and they will probably get it.]



Apr 4, 2014

A Century of Deceit: Iraq, the World Wars, Holocaust Mythology and Zionist Militarism, by Brandon Martinez | Intifada Palestine
  Some studies estimate that close to 1.5 million Iraqis have lost their lives as a result of the brutal American invasion and occupation of their country in 2003. Millions more Iraqis have become refugees and orphans with no future prospects for prosperity, sanctity or stability.. [it] was the brainchild of the neoconservative conspirators behind the Project for the New American Century (PNAC), the Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs (JINSA), the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) and other Zionist-oriented think tanks that dominated the Washington Beltway...
[I am very impressed by this young man. If there are more like him we just might get through this without the USraeli Empire destroying the world.]
 
  It's Petras at his best. It's important reading. It covers vital topics. Petras tells readers what they need to know. His analysis is masterful. Below is an account of what he said. Washington and Israel are longstanding imperial partners. Petras does some of his best analysis explaining it...
 
...Since the Jews are from many different homelands, with very few of them having any biological connection to the ancient Hebrews, how could they, all Jews everywhere, have had a “right” to self-determination IN PALESTINE (the right claimed by Zionism and given substance by ethnically cleansing the land of Palestine of about three-quarters of its indigenous Arab inhabitants)? The argument that the UN partition plan gave Jews a right to self-determination in a part of Palestine is easily dismissed for the nonsense it is...
 
...Most of those who organize and participate in the movement to boycott Israel know that the two-state solution is dead in the water. Even if the present negotiations led by Secretary of State John Kerry produce some pale imitation of a Palestinian state, it is hard to see it amounting to anything but a Bantustan. The fact is, even now, there is only one state between the Mediterranean Sea and the Jordan River, and that is Zionist Israel. Having realized this, the boycotters have two choices: to give up the cause or to pressure for the transformation of Zionist Israel into a democratic, religiously and ethnically egalitarian state – a new Israel. This is what Mr. Rosenberg calls “dismantling Israel..”

...These absurd political maneuverings only serve to obscure the fundamental reality. In trying to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Kerry’s task is impossible to realize. This is not, as is often misleadingly asserted, because the issues are complex or because “painful compromises” are needed from both sides. The issues, in fact, are so embarrassingly simple it is an insult to the intelligence to have to set them down. In plain English, one side has stolen land and resources belonging to the other and refuses to give them up...
 
...The pundits of the foreign policy establishment continuously poison public opinion and litter the public landscape with nonsense about a divine US mission in the world. In response to Obama's rather temperate statement: "The United States does not view Europe as a battleground between East and West, nor do we see the situation in Ukraine as a zero-sum game," the smug Washington pundit contends, "That's the kind of sentiment you expect from a Miss America contestant asked to name her fondest wish, not from the leader of the free world explaining his foreign policy.."
 
  Turkish local elections are now over. The ruling party, Justice and Development Party (AKP), won about 45 percent of the votes cast, while the rest was divided across three major parties in the parliament. The results are hardly a surprise. As I said on these pages about two months ago, no one really expected that Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan's party would lose or suffer a major blow...
 
  Obama seemed so traumatized by his Middle East blunders he decided to take a break, giving Ukraine a try instead. The distraction was just what the president needed. And the U.S. media followed obediently, while barely glancing at the flames in the rear-view mirror — until another explosion piqued their interest. The predictable break down of peace talks between the Israelis and Palestinians occurred when the Palestinian Authority backed out of a “peace process” they had zero to gain from...
 
  Jerusalem and Athens are the two roots of Western civilization, with Jerusalem representing biblical revelation and Athens representing philosophical rationality. Their relationship is one of “fundamental opposition,” an opposition that constitutes the vitality of western civilization. According to Leo Strauss, to choose between Jerusalem and Athens is to choose between “life in obedience to divine law or life in freedom.”  Martin Heiddeger seemed to express the same philosophy...
 
  I am delighted to see the dichotomy between Athens and Jerusalem being discussed and I am very happy to see my writing at the centre of that debate.  However,  I do not agree with the opinion of Schulman and others that Athens and Jerusalem are the ‘two roots of Western civilization’. I see Jerusalem as a corrosive force that is there to castrate the Athenian West by means of ‘correctness’ (law and righteousness).  However, Schulman is spot on, The Guardian of Judea is a mere symptom and far from being alone...
 
  “Entrenchment” is the word that best describes the Middle East in March. In Egypt, coup leader Gen. Abdel Fattah el-Sisi “hung up” his military fatigues to announce his candidacy for president. Meanwhile, those opposed to Sisi and the coup continued to face the bloody consequences, as an Egyptian court sentenced 529 Muslim Brotherhood sympathizers to death. In Turkey, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan continued his authoritarian trend by blocking access to Twitter, where his opponents had been releasing damning audio recordings that apparently revealed corruption in his inner circle.. In Syria, the killing continued and little progress was made on a diplomatic solution to the civil war...
 
  You can share in the voyage to challenge the blockade by purchasing Palestinian export goods from Gaza. Now that the refurbishment of Gaza’s Ark is almost complete, our focus is shifting towards facilitating sales contracts for Palestinian products that will be exported when we sail against the blockade. By purchasing Palestinian exports from Gaza, buyers around the world can bring critically-needed public attention to the blockade while supporting Palestinian producers in Gaza...
 
  Russia’s deputy foreign minister accused the U.S. of having "childish tantrums” in response to the annexation of Crimea and joked Thursday that Americans should “practice yoga” and watch sitcoms in order to help them chill out. Sergey Ryabkov said the decision to end all military cooperation with Russia and remove it from the G-8 group of nations showed that Washington was opposed “to the free will of the population of Crimea..”
[As I am fond of saying of late, the Russians appear to be the only adults in the room. Being a buddhist I would suggest that they practice meditation (Rajah Yoga) after doing Hatha Yoga, as it was prescribed in the classical days.]
 
  Have you ever noticed how all the Jewish supremacist outfits that suppress our thought and expression have such cuddly names like Southern Poverty Law Centre and Anti-Defamation League? Well this is Nick Lowles of the equally perversely named  'Hope Not Hate' getting his comeuppance in London's East End - a place known for dealing directly with such problems...
["When the Hebrew vermin crawls on his knees and begs for forgiveness, show these ruthless monsters no mercy. The path towards peace will be a bloody one, but there is no other way (Taken from Facebook and probably written by one of my 'friends' ~ Paul Eisen)]
 
  No pictures. Can you imagine politicians skipping the opportunity of a positive image that for sure will reach the headlines? That was the most serious sign that things got awry in the nine hours emergency meeting that took place in the night between April 2 and 3, 2014. Martin Indyk represented the USA. Saeb Erekat represented Palestine. Justice Minister Tzipi Livni represented Israel, but she brought a Netanyahu spy to watch her. Attorney Yitzhak Molcho filled this odd job. Formally Israel's Chief Negotiator, he apparently got the job after giving Netanyahu's cousin a place in the law office established by his father in law, the country's second State Attorney. In Israel, nepotism rules...
 
..Chances are the Americans knew well that peace under the current circumstances is simply not attainable. The Israeli government’s coalition is so adamantly anti-Arab, anti-peace and anti any kind of agreement that would fall short of endorsing the Israeli apartheid-like occupation, predicated on colonial expansion, annexations of borders, land confiscation, control of holy places and much more. Ideally for Benjamin Netanyahu and his allies in the right, far-right and ultranationalists, Palestinians would need to be crammed in disjointed communities, separated from each other by walls, Jewish settlements, Jewish-only bypass roads, checkpoints, security fences...
 
..It is often said that the winners write the histories. But that has changed over the last few decades. Even the winners in 1948 – or their offspring – have begun to tell the stories of those who did not prevail and were thrown off their land. And, of course, the “losers” have more opportunities to tell their own stories. The Israeli government and organizations like COPMA might try to keep the Nakba buried in history or offer only a sanitized, Thanksgiving-like version of this original sin of ethnic cleansing. But the historical works of Ilan Pappe, the plays of Motti Lerner, and the questions raised by many American Jews who refuse to toe the AIPAC line keep unearthing the bones...
 
...In The Education of an Anti-Imperialist, he describes La Follette’s transformation from an unreflective supporter of U.S. foreign policy into an ardent opponent of American imperialism. In effect, Drake traces the impact of critical ideas on one formidable politician’s understanding of statecraft. La Follette seems to have possessed a quality rare among politicians in our own day: He was educable...
 
On April 1, Abbas signed documents to do so. He'll submit them to UN authorities. It's high time he did so. He should have years ago. It's Palestine's legal right. It's able to join all UN bodies and treaties. It can ratify the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court. It can file a formal state to state complaint against Israeli past and current officials. It can ask they be held responsible for crimes of war and against humanity...
 
  Yesterday the New York Times published one of its patented three-headed monsters faulting Palestinians for their manners: ”Abbas Takes Defiant Step, and Mideast Talks Falter,” penned by Jodi Rudoren, Mark Landler and Michael Gordon. The three wrote: “The Middle East peace talks verged on a breakdown Tuesday night, after President Mahmoud Abbas of the Palestinian Authority defied the United States and Israel by taking concrete steps to join 15 international agencies — a move to gain the benefits of statehood outside the negotiations process.” The miracle of the internet is that Rudoren, Landler and Gordon don’t have the last word anymore...
[More and more people are beginning to realize that the NYT is the semi-official Zionist Rag of Record.]
 
  Late last week, a conversation between high-ranking Turkish officials was leaked online purporting to expose a plan that had been devised to use a staged attack on a Turkish target in Aleppo as a pretext to start a war with Syria. Many questions about the recording and where it came from, why it was released now, and what it means for the future of the NATO agenda in Ukraine, Syria and for the Turkish government...
 
 
  A first step for world peace is for the American people to rein in their reckless government from the international stage and to stop it making misery for so many. Americans need democratic government like the rest of the world needs rid of Washington’s thuggish global policeman. This may come as a shock to many ordinary Americans who tend to think that their country is already the beacon of democratic light unto the world, bestowing all sorts of benevolence to others. Such delusional “American exceptionalism” has to stop. America is only special in a very negative meaning. It plays a central part in fomenting conflict in almost every scenario we care to look at...



Apr 3, 2014


A British Jew warns US Jewish orgs to heed rapidly-shifting world opinion, by Philip Weiss | Mondoweiss
  How do you describe the feeling that your life has been a lie? I think that the reason Jews are so reluctant to acknowledge what is clearly in front of them, is that shifting from ‘Israel is never wrong’ to ‘we have created a monster’ is such a terrifying realisation, self delusion is the easier path. Please hold my hand. I need you to talk me ‘down from the ledge’ because as I finally see the horror in front of us, I am petrified...
[Yes, waking up can at first seem like a nightmare, particularly if your daytime reality resembles hell – but the romantic, self-indulgent fascistic daydream is much worse, particularly if it involves being complicit in the most horrific crimes that humans are capable of.]
 
  Two-state, one-state, “peace process,” “path to peace” – whatever words one chooses to use, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is about one very simple thing: dispossession. It is about a population of newcomers taking the land, homes and possessions of the indigenous Palestinian people and expelling them. That is the essence of the conflict...
[The criminals must be brought to justice and the land returned to its rightful owners, or the world will continue to fall further into madness and chaos.]
 
  Norman Finkelstein is a well-known critic of Israel and he had to pay for his efforts. In 2007 he was denied tenure by DePaul University.  Recently he generated opposition within the Palestine solidarity camp by denouncing the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement as a  “hypocritical, dishonest cult” seeking to replace Israel with a democratic secular binational state. Given his success at attracting attention, potential readers must be warned that his latest opus, Knowing Too Much: Why the American Jewish Romance with Israel is Coming to an End, is the ultimate in pedantry. Reading it is an ordeal...
[Comment from a member of the shamireaders list: “Imagine what benefit would come to all and themselves if these two giants learned to work together.”]
 
...Pollard was the most damaging spy bar none since the Rosenberg espionage ring betrayed US nuclear secrets to the Soviets in the 1940s; that Pollard exposed entire intelligence collection systems that had to be recreated at a cost of billions of dollars; and that Pollard, who has never shown any genuine remorse for what he did, should never be released from prison...
[America’s political elite long ago gave the keys of America to the ZioNazis in Tel Aviv. Might as well release Pollard and make him President – then it would be clear even to the mind-numbed American public who actually runs the show. The rest of the world figured it out years ago.]
 
  The current Kiev 'government', which came to power in the wake of an unconstitutional coup, carried out policies, especially in relation to ethnic minorities, that in essence undermined Ukraine's unity and pushed a whole region out of the country,the ministry said in a statement. Russia is strictly following its obligations under the 1994 Budapest memorandum on respecting Ukraine’s sovereignty, including during several months of internal political standoff in Kiev, the statement said. "The same cannot be applied to the policies conducted by western countries, which blatantly ignored Ukraine’s sovereignty during the events on Maidan.."
 
  What do most of us really know about the Iranian nuclear program? After a decade of hearing that Iran is just one year from getting the bomb, and that its leaders are radically bent on the destruction of Israel and its Western allies, no one could be blamed for thinking that Iran really wants (or already has) atomic weapons. Gareth Porter knows the narrative. He has worked tirelessly to pursue the truth of the matter. His conclusion: Iran never had a nuclear weapons program and, frankly, it doesn’t want one...
 
  Pridnestrovie aka Transdniestria – also known as Transnistria aka Pridnestrovskaia Moldavskaia Respublica (PMR/TMR) – is a new and emerging country in South Eastern Europe, sandwiched between Moldova and Ukraine. The official language of Transdniestria is Russian, not Moldovan, while the vast majority of schools teach the Cyrillic alphabet instead of the Roman alphabet used in the rest of the country. Recently  Pridnestrovie adopted Russian legislation, a clear signal of the region’s preference for joining Moscow’s customs union...
 
  A political analyst says Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Yukiya Amano’s “praise” for Israel will undermine the “legitimacy and credibility” of the UN nuclear agency. In a meeting with Israeli President Shimon Peres on Monday, the IAEA chief turned a blind eye to international concerns about Tel Aviv’s nuclear arsenal, saying that Israel is a “valued partner” for the agency.. Kaveh Afrasiabi, a political analyst, said he strongly believes that “this is double standard run amok because the praise that Mr. Amano had for… Israel is totally uncalled for..”
[So much for the long lost credibility of the UN, an institution that is part of the problem, not the solution.]
 
  "Even Hamas was impressed," was the most serious Hebrew-media reaction to President of the Palestinian Authority Mahmoud Abbas successful foiling of the Israeli-American delay game. On April 2, 2014, Abbas signed and submitted applications to join 15 international agencies. By breaking one of the conditions of the current round of negotiations, he refused to the attempt of Israel and the USA to continue the talks beyond their deadline on April 28...
 
..America, you have a very short time to contact President Obama and let him know immediately that you oppose Pollard’s release, this unbelievable surrender of our honor, dignity, and national interests to Israel. And for what? Nothing, Israel will not abide by one word it gave...
 
  What maddens Zionists most is that they cannot control civil society like they can pull the strings of the spineless political élite. They fear BDS (boycott, divestment and sanctions) action will derail their precious project for Greater Israel. So they now sneer at civil society and try to discourage further BDS efforts. This tactic comes across loud and clear in Michael Rosenberg’s article, “The goal of the BDS movement is dismantling Israel, not the ’67 occupation”. Actually, Israel is well on the way to dismantling itself through its own vile and unsustainable behaviour. BDS is simply giving it a helping hand...
 
  The Israelis have failed to release Palestinian prisoners and essentially renege on the commitment they had made with US Secretary of State John Kerry, throwing the agreement into a tailspin.. ”This is just symptomatic of the larger problem [which] is really the role that the United States is playing and the failure of Washington to get Israel to abide by commitments that it has made and obligations that it has. You see Israel is using this bargaining chip of prisoners not once, not twice, but three times..”
 
  Footballers Sagbo and Assou-Ekotto face FA bans for 'quenelle' sign. Hull's Yannick Sagbo and QPR loanee Benoit Assou-Ekotto are facing possible bans after they were charged with improper conduct for social media posts relating to the 'quenelle' gesture...
[Let’s toast the Quenelle! A good, dry French wine would make an excellent accompaniment. Vive la Quenelle!]
 
  The Zionist-owned-and-operated lamestream media is clamoring for the release of Israeli spy Jonathan Pollard. The usual suspects are suggesting that releasing Pollard could bring us peace in the Middle East. Indeed it could…if we release Pollard – and shoot the estimated 300,000 other members of what professor James Petras calls the Zionist Power Configuration (ZPC)...
[All in favor say Aye! The vote is getting closer. My advice to the tribal Jews: batten down the hatches, there’s one helluva storm coming.]
 
...Deploying Manpads to the Jihadis would have been a huge escalation of the Syrian war and would have unleashed these weapons into all the other areas being “destabilized.” Any Jihadi having one of these could sell it and be able to retire. And so far they have not shown themselves to be very concerned about negative public opinion. In that regard, they are ideological soul mates of our own 2-bit warmongers in Congress who have been calling for further escalation in Syria with total disregard that it could set the whole region ablaze...
 
  A first step for world peace is for the American people to rein in their reckless government from the international stage and to stop it making misery for so many. Americans need democratic government like the rest of the world needs rid of Washington's thuggish global policeman. This may come as a shock to many ordinary Americans who tend to think that their country is already the beacon of democratic light unto the world, bestowing all sorts of benevolence to others. Such delusional "American exceptionalism" has to stop. America is only special in a very negative meaning. It plays a central part in fomenting conflict in almost every scenario we care to look at...
 
  For decades, America has used its armed strength to enforce the use of the dollar as the world’s reserve currency, effectively making the US military the armed wing of the international banking cartel (IBC). Since 1971 when President Richard Nixon stopped paying US debt obligations with gold, America has increasingly used its military might to prop up the value of the dollar and enforce a global financial structure whose primary beneficiary is the US itself, and whose central bank, the Federal Reserve, serves as the IBC’s supervisory authority.. War is extremely profitable for the IBC...
 
I  n an op-ed in the New York Times today, Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro calls for peace in Venezuela. The socialist president has been besieged by demonstrations in which several protestors have been killed. The protesters focus on horrendous economic conditions brought about by Maduro’s socialist economic policies. Maduro is issuing a call for domestic peace. The problem is that whenever a ruler who is independent of the U.S. Empire is in power, the U.S. national-security state apparatus, especially the CIA, oftentimes gets involved in the process, stirring up trouble and doing whatever it can to achieve the ouster of the ruler and his replacement with a pro-U.S. stooge...



Apr 2, 2014

  Believe it or not, something like this is where we need to go and what we need to do. If you perceive it as New Age mush, then that’s what it will be. As my teacher said, “what you see is what you get.” If you take the trip through the Looking Glass, leaving your ego-centered consciousness behind, then you will be in the world that all of the great masters have experienced and talked about. The ability to do this is within all of us – as my teacher also said, it is everyone’s birthright. But at the same time we can’t ignore the ill-begotten mess the world is currently in as a consequence of the confused actions of those who mistakenly attempt to control everything while understanding nothing. Without becoming aware of the basic nature of things, “things as they are,” we will fall off the tightrope, either on the left side or the right side, just like our dear leaders, who remain in a state of infantile, impulse-driven consciousness.
Here's a short video for you to enjoy and possibly learn from...
 
  Ukrainian nationalists have been entertaining the idea of lustration since the first days of Ukraine's independence. For some time it went no further than declarations, but after V. Yushchenko came to power they burst forth with two bills at once; their authors were former Komsomol task unit commander Vasily Chervony and former a Soviet Communist Party district committee propagandist from the Lvov region, Levko Lukyanenko...
 
  Tensions around the situation in Transdniestria are being whipped up deliberately to divert attention of the international community from the situation in Ukraine, Russian Permanent Representative at the European Union Vladimir Chizhov said on Monday, adding that such tactics were fraught with unpredictable consequences...
 
  Robert Einhorn, a former senior U.S. official who is well regarded by Barack Obama’s administration and retains close ties to its top nuclear negotiator, has proposed parameters for a long-term nuclear agreement with Iran that would allow it to continue enriching uranium at low levels and would ask Congress to preauthorize military action if Iran violates the accord. Einhorn’s proposal — unveiled Monday at the Brookings Institution, where he is a senior fellow — seeks to marry Iran’s limited need for nuclear fuel to the scope of its nuclear infrastructure and provide confidence that Iran will not develop nuclear weapons...
[Signaling the end of the blockbuster 'Saga of the Red Herring'? To be followed shortly by the sequel, no doubt.]
 
  The Barack Obama administration appears to have rejected a deal-breaking demand by Israel for an Iranian confession to having had a covert nuclear weapons programme as a condition for completing the comprehensive nuclear agreement. Pro-Israeli commentators have openly criticised the Obama administration for failing to explicitly demand that Iran confess to charges by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) of a covert nuclear weapons programme. Demanding such a confession would be an obvious deal-breaker, because Iran has consistently denied those past charges and denounced the documents and intelligence reports on which they were based as fraudulent...
[I’ll bet they’re really pissed off. They were so sure they could just play that game forever, at least until Eretz Yisroel was a fait accompli. But they will never achieve their ambition for the simple reason that you can’t get there from here.]
 
  This a must watch...
 
  The world’s news media have long accepted without question the charge that Iran had for many years used its civilian nuclear program as a cover for a nuclear weapons program. That narrative has rested on intelligence documents and reports that were accepted as credible by the International Atomic Energy Agency.  The IAEA in turn has been treated in the news media as a non-political authority without any axe to grind. But, as I document in detail in Manufactured Crisis, the intelligence documents at the heart of this narrative were fabrications created by the state with most obvious interest in promoting such a narrative—Israel...
 
...His words were irrelevant. His insult was not. He visited the bakery when it was preparing the bread of freedom shortly after Ultra-Orthodox were sent to jail for refusing to accept the illegitimate new Conscription Law. He visited the bakery.. shortly after Ultra-Orthodox started to leave Israel towards New York due to fear of the Israeli Military Police. [During] the last decade secular governments cut the social services childrens allowances. Three quarters of a million children in Israel are poor; the bakery he visited is known for giving free bread to the children hungry due to Netanyahu's antisocial policies...
 
  A list of high-priority intelligence targets published over the weekend includes the names of over a hundred current and former heads of state, who were systematically targeted by the United States National Security Agency (NSA). The list appears to be part of a wider “Target Knowledge Base” assembled by the NSA in order to help produce “complete profiles” of what the NSA calls “high-priority intelligence targets”. The list is contained in a classified top-secret briefing created by the NSA in 2009. It was published by German newsmagazine Der Spiegel, which said it acquired it from American intelligence defector Edward Snowden...
[What an interesting fantasy world the NSA inhabits. Lewis Carroll would have felt right at home. So would Jonathan Swift.]
 
  A new Hitler Satire Tops Germany’s Best-Seller List. Have you ever wondered what would happen if Adolf Hitler woke up and found himself in modern-day, vibrant, multicultural, metropolitan Berlin?  Well, this is the precise theme of a new bestseller by German journalist Timur Vermes. The Germans love the book but the Brits and the Jews are a bit confused. After all, no one ever expects the Germans to crack jokes and certainly not about  the war, the Holocaust or Hitler... 
 
...In this part I attempt to tell the truth about Jewish controlled opposition, BDS, the anti Semitic hoax. George Soros & the Palestinian NGOs and more...
 
 
  The almost simultaneous rise to power of Arseniy Yatsenyuk as the acting prime minister of Ukraine and Andrej Kiska as president of Slovakia has prompted fears that the secretive U.S.-based Church of Scientology is making a power grab in Central and Eastern Europe...
[I’ve known those people for many years – it’s a seriously scary cult]
 
..Gareth Porter’s new book Manufactured Crisis: the Untold Story of the Iran Nuclear Scare is possibly the most important expose of political corruption and government malfeasance to appear in the past ten years. Investigative reporter Porter’s meticulously documented account tells the tale of how the government lied again and again to make a fabricated from full cloth case, which he describes as a "false narrative," against Iran. While the tale was being spun, the US and Israeli governments both knew that the entire process was completely bogus and that Iran had no nuclear weapons program but they continued to engage in the deception in spite of the fact that it created a crisis where none existed...
 
  Media hysteria, fueled by US hawks and Ukrainian ultranationalists, had forwarded the narrative that the Russian invasion was imminent, with claims of a military buildup of historic proportions, and Ukrainian officials claiming at times as many as 100,000 Russian troops waiting to roll into Donetsk. The portrait of the Russian military as a Lord of the Rings-style army of evil, bloodthirsty troops just waiting for marching orders, took a major blow when NBC took the unusual step of actually going to the border and looking around...
 
  NATO has seen no sign that Russia is withdrawing troops from the Ukraine border and will look at all options to boost the alliance's defences, its secretary-general said. "Unfortunately, I cannot confirm that Russia is withdrawing its troops. This is not what we are seeing," Anders Fogh Rasmussen told reporters at a meeting of NATO's members in Brussels, according to the Reuters news agency...
[Rasmussen appears to include in his job description being chief propagandist and warmonger. Then again, he’s most likely just following orders as he interprets them.]
 
  International Law must always be respected. National independence, national borders and national sovereignty are sacrosanct according to the UN Charter, and Russia under President Vladimir Putin has violated international law through the incorporation of Crimea into the Russia Federation. However in mitigation one cannot ignore the following realities:..
 
  I wonder what it is that other people see about Secretary of State John Kerry's Israeli-Palestinian breakthrough that I'm missing. The fundamentals haven't changed. The Palestinian Authority's goal is to achieve a peace agreement with Israel in which it (yet again) recognizes Israel and Israel agrees to the establishment of a Palestinian state in the occupied territories of the West Bank (including east Jerusalem) and Gaza. This has been the Palestinian position since the Oslo agreement of 1993, the one that produced the famous handshake between Yitzhak Rabin and Yasir Arafat. The Palestinians have never changed their position...
 
  Justice and legitimacy are one and inexorably linked to the Charters and Declarations of the United Nations. This is a truth that Michael J. Rosenberg does not address as he castigates the supporters of the BDS movement in his recent article: “The Goal of the BDS Movement is the Dismantling of Israel..”
[As I see it, BDS, unbeknownst to itself, has come along as a very useful tool to do just  that – to dismantle the Jewish State. Therefore, I’m an ardent supporter. Rosenberg, one of the best anti-zionist Zionists, is perceptive enough to see that. This goal is shared by all people who can see clearly and embody, to a greater or lesser extent, the inseparability of wisdom and compassion. Interestingly, such people include a disproportionate number of Righteous Jews.]

Russian energy giant Gazprom has announced a more than 40 percent increase in the price of gas exports to Ukraine, scrapping a previous discount amid mounting strains between the two countries.. The previous discount was part of a financial lifeline Russian President Vladimir Putin offered to former Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovich after his decision to ditch a pact with the European Union in favour of closer ties with Moscow...
 
  The New York Times promises “all the news that’s fit to print.” Until now, the Times apparently believed the controlled demolitions of three World Trade Center skyscrapers on 9/11 was news that was unfit to print. But today, on April 1st, 2014, the Times has finally published an apparent reference to World Trade Center owner Larry Silverstein’s mother-of-all-insurance-scams. And no, that is not an April Fool’s joke. Today’s Times exposé of Silverstein’s boundless greed and chutzpah is headlined: For a Ground Zero Developer Seeking Subsidies, More Is Never Enough...
 
  Former US Senator Bob Graham, who served as chair of the congressional joint committee on 9/11, says a committee’s report on the role of Saudi Arabia in the attacks and its financial support has been kept secret. “There were 28 pages in the final report, out of over 800 total, which were totally censored from--that were one to the end of that chapter. That was the chapter that largely dealt with the financing of 9/11, who paid for these very complex and in many instances expensive activities that were the predicate for 9/11.. I am sad to report that today, some 12 years after we submitted our report, that those 28 pages continue to be withheld from the public,” he said...
[Well, let me see – then there were at least four principal perpetrators, including Bin Laden’s role as the patsy. Whoever set it up, they didn’t miss a trick. But in the end, the Death Star will blow up, no matter how many Jedi Knights succumb to the wiles of The Tempter.]



Apr 1, 2014


An April Fool's Joke? Not
 
  Deir Yassin was the Palestinian village at which, on April 9th 1948, a massacre took place. Deir Yassin was not the only massacre to take place - on either side - nor was it by any means the worst. But because more than any other single event, the massacre at Deir Yassin signaled the flight of the Palestinian people which led to their eventual dispossession and exile, Deir Yassin has come to occupy a special place in the Palestinian collective memory. So what happened at Deir Yassin?..
 
  The 2014 Annual Congress of the University and College Union Scotland has voted unanimously to condemn the planned visit by Israel’s Tzipi Livni, wanted for war crimes, says Stop The JNF. In 2009 Livni cancelled a visit to London when she discovered an arrest warrant had been issued against her, along with Defence Minister Ehud Barak and retired general Doron Almog, on the grounds that she had been a member of the Israeli war cabinet which organized the slaughter of more than 1,400 Palestinians. And in 2011 she was given a rare diplomatic passport by the UK government to protect her from further risk of arrest and prosecution...
 
  Which is worse, accidental pointless manslaughter or premeditated murder? Which is more heinous, pointless killing as a result of mistaken identity, or pointless murder without mistaken identity? The Israel Defense Forces has definitive answers to these questions, attesting to its order of principles...
 
  The language of the military and Shin Bet spokespersons hypnotizes us, as always, with its objective-professional imitation. So the Shin Bet security service found another reason for us why Muataz Washaha deserved to die. He was allegedly a lookout in an “armed terror attack” against an IDF position in the West Bank...
[It is not difficult to make the argument that any Israeli, anywhere, is a legitimate target. Unless they are on record as opposing at the very least the Occupation, then they are complicit in mass murder and virtually every major crime in the books. Since the vested authorities are among the guilty parties, they can’t be counted on to take action - it must be left to ordinary people. However, if anyone decides to carry out such operations, they should only target those who are the most prominent and responsible. The same argument applies to leading Zionists wherever they are. It's called cutting off the head of the snake. It may be the only way to prevent them from killing many millions more, and the least costly in terms of human lives and suffering. Yes, they can be killed.]
 
  Ted Pike has been a long time loyal American fighting the penetration of our government and its security organizations by the ADL and SPLC...subverting them into harassing their own ideological opponents through a myriad of methods. One of the main ones has been creating new laws to do such, so that tax payers actually fund the process, forever. The Jewish Lobby folks actually take great pride in being smart enough to pull this off. And if any other Americans don't like it, they just, of course, call them Jew haters. We all know the drill...
 
  Does Obama realize that he is leading the US and its puppet states to war with Russia and China, or is Obama being manipulated into this disaster by his neoconservative speech writers and government officials? World War 1 (and World War 2) was the result of the ambitions and mistakes of a very small number of people. Only one head of state was actually involved–the President of France. In The genesis of the World War, Harry Elmer Barnes shows that World War 1 was the product of 4 or 5 people. Three stand out:..
 
  The following is a press release from the German Network for Reporting on Eastern Europea and SCOOP, the Danish project to support investigative journalism in Eastern Europe...
 
  Rep. Mike Rogers, a Michigan Republican and the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, told Fox News today Russian President Vladimir Putin is preparing to invade Ukraine and other nations in Eastern Europe. Rogers made the claim despite a complete lack of evidence...
[The Republikans never fail to entertain. I guess you need a membership card from the booby hatch to join the party.]
 
..The Crimean crisis has been the main issue in newspaper editorials and the topic of discussion on talk shows for weeks now. On websites, Crimea is leading in clicks and has emerged as the dominant issue in Internet forum discussions. Nothing, it seems, is as polarizing as the question of whether Moscow's annexation of Crimea was a justifiable reaction to NATO's expansion into Eastern Europe or if it was acting in violation of international law, thus making any sympathy for the move unacceptable. Those expressing understanding for Russia's move are clearly dominating the Internet forums and talk shows...
 
  There is no intention in Moscow to send its troops into eastern Ukraine, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said. Hopefully, the growing understanding in the West of Russia’s position will allow for a de-escalation of the tension, he added. In an interview with Rossiya 24 TV channel, Lavrov spoke on the futile western attempts to isolate Russia diplomatically, the growing acceptance of the need for constitutional reform, which Moscow proposes, the prospects of NATO’s expansion into Ukraine and the potential for global presence of the Russian Navy...
 
  New Jersey governor and presidential hopeful Chris Christie used the term “Occupied Territories” to refer to Gaza and the West Bank in his talk this weekend to Sheldon Adelson’s “Republican Jewish Coalition” in Las Vegas. He was forced to apologize to the uber right wing Adelson. Now the far right billionaires want to buy language itself! And this, on Palestine Land Day! Here are the top 5 signs Palestine might be occupied:..
 
  Failure in the peace process is against the Israeli plan being implemented on the West Bank. Israel needs Palestine. Not on the West Bank, but sitting around the negotiation table. The West Bank is experiencing its final countdown these days. Massive construction projects by Israel are bisecting the territory by creating two new corridors connecting Jerusalem and Tel Aviv; the northern one through Road 60 and Ariel, and the southern one, through Gush Etzion. This and the construction of settlements connecting Jerusalem with the Dead Sea will transform Palestine into a non-viable state. Netanyahu needs time...
 
...The US-Saudi relationship is a peculiar one in that it is between a reactionary theocratic monarchy – it is the only place in the world where women are not allowed to drive – and a republic that claims to be the chief exponent of secular democracy. The linkage is so solid that it was scarcely affected by 9/11, though al-Qa’ida and the hijackers had demonstrably close connections to Saudi Arabia...
 
  The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs – Occupied Palestinian Territory, has issued it March 2014 report on the “Humanitarian Impact of Gaza’s Electricity and Fuel Crisis.” As you can imagine, the situation in besieged Gaza is disastrous...
 
...Western-supported Syrian violence claimed tens of thousands of lives. Many more were injured. Mostly civilians are affected. Death squad invaders target Assad loyalists. Dozens die daily. Obama's war on Syria entered its fourth year. He bears full responsibility for mass slaughter and destruction. He's waging multiple direct and proxy wars. He's ravaging one country after another lawlessly...
 
  The US secretary of state, John Kerry, has returned to the Middle East to try to salvage peace talks brought to the brink of collapse due to a dispute over the release of Palestinian prisoners by Israel. Kerry was holding late-night talks with the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, in Jerusalem on Monday evening...
[How could he be so clueless? Well, that’s the US gummint for ya – a pack of morons, warmongers, cowards, fascists, hypocrites, whores, sycophants etc. – all led by a pack of ZioNazis. Guess that about covers it.]
 
...the real story for taxpayers and depositors is the heightened threat to their pocketbooks of a deal that now authorizes both bailouts and “bail-ins” – the confiscation of depositor funds. The deal involves multiple concessions to different countries and may be illegal under the rules of the EU Parliament; but it is being rushed through to lock taxpayer and depositor liability into place before the dire state of Eurozone banks is exposed. Only after the taxpayers – and the depositors – are stuck with the tab will the curtain be lifted and the crippling insolvency of the banks be revealed. Predictably, panic will then set in, credit will freeze, and the banks will collapse...
 
...She pointed out that everybody sees how and why Syria is being targeted, “So we move back to the same equation which is clinging to the land, the principle and the value of sacrifice. All those who launch assaults on Syria will be repelled…hundreds of invaders had come to this land throughout thousands of years, but they were repelled and we have remained here because we believe in our land..”
 
  I have sent an ‘open letter’ to Margaret Sullivan, the Public Editor of The New York Times, requesting that her newspaper issue an apology in print to its readers, especially its Palestinian readers for publishing the following sentence which was contained in a letter to The Sunday Book Review:  “The ‘conflict’ exists because, by word and deed, Palestinian Arabs have avowed as their goal the killing of all Jews..” This slanderous statement is racist, patently false and thus should have no place in The New York Times...
[The NYT is the Jewish “Paper of Record,” so it shouldn’t be surprising that this Islamophobic hate speech was considered acceptable. It's just the way tribal Jews think.]