Aug 31, 2011 The 75-year-old smoker who refuses to quit, by Sami Moubayed | Gulf News  Former Syrian President Adib Al Shishakli once said that countries are very much like human beings, and can be administered similarly. If brought up spoiled and dependent, they grow into weak and insecure nations. To shelter them from bad influences, for example, he made sure to pass strict laws preventing beggars and prostitutes from entering Syria. Based on this analogy we can safely say that Syria is like a 75-year-old who just suffered a massive heart attack — and miraculously survived... Read more... Abdul Hakim Belhadj: Military Leader in Tripoli and Victim of illegal American Rendition | New Civilisation ...The military commander who led the revolutionary forces into Tripoli, and took the iconic bab al-azizziya was Abdul Hakim Belhadj (alternatively spelled AbdelHakim Belhaj). He is now the military leader in Tripoli, who on the night of liberation drew parallels between the fight in Tripoli and the conquest of Mecca while surrounded by several others celebrating around him... [the invasion of libya represents 'a falling out among thieves'. but the US etal have got more than they bargained for. there is a potential good guy among the rebels, but not one that they will relish - Belhaj - he is not al-qaeda (this is western and gaddafi spin) but he is a very charismatic, devout muslim who will be hard to compromise short of killing him. Which is probably what they will do.] ~ Eric Wahlberg] Read more...Jerusalem Post Fires Columnist Over Comments Justifying Palestinian Terrorism | NYT In a brief “Note to Readers” published Tuesday on the front page of The Jerusalem Post, the newspaper announced that it had parted ways with a columnist who wrote last week on his blog that terrorist attacks on Israelis were “justified” because Palestinians living under Israeli occupation since 1967 “have a right to resist.”.. Read more... 'Bahraini king should seek forgiveness': Interview with Saeed Shehabi | PressTV I think he was daydreaming when he was uttering these words because first of all none of his victims would accept to be pardoned by him. Secondly, they would be asking - Who is the criminal here? Who should forgive whom? Is it the victim, if they wish who should forgive their torturer or is it the torturer who should forgive the victims?.. Read more... Does the Palestinian UN Bid Threaten Refugee Rights? | Palestine Chronicle As the leadership in Ramallah prepares to approach the UN for membership in September, it is also fighting back charges that its initiative is shortsighted and even a threat to Palestinian refugees. Last week Ma'an published for the first time findings by an international law expert that the gambit could alter the PLO's status as the sole representative of the Palestinian people... Read more... NATO's Orwellian Twist in Libya, by Craig Murray | Consortium News NATO has transformed the United Nations’ mandate “to protect civilians” in Libya into an excuse to remove Muammar Gaddafi from power and kill his supporters, both military and civilian. This Orwellian cynicism now justifies the crushing of the town of Sirte, the last Gaddafi stronghold, writes ex-British Ambassador Craig Murray... Read more... America's FBI goes rogue | Redress Information & Analysis Lawrence Davidson looks at the use of informants by the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation which, he argues, amounts to counselling, procuring and inciting crime. “[W]ithout the intervention of the informant, without his incitement, there is no evidence that any of [the] entrapped ‘criminals’ would have done anything wrong.”.. Read more... Popular Resistance in Palestine, by Mazin Qumsiyeh | Sharing the Land of Canaan "Qumsiyeh's inspiring accounts of both the everyday and the most extraordinary acts of Palestinian indigenous resistance to colonialism expose the misguided claims that Palestinians have never tried nonviolence; in fact, they are among the experts, whose courage, creativity, and resilience are an inspiration to people of conscience everywhere. Even with the arms of a military superpower, the Israeli government's failure to quell the Palestinians' spirit and insistence on human rights reminds us that the greatest strength of all belongs to those with justice on their side, who will ultimately triumph." ~ Anna Baltzer... Read more... NATO destroys yet another country, by M D Nalapat | Pakistan Observer Some years ago, in the Indian site www.bharat-rakshak.com, this columnist had written of the NATO militaries as resembling an army of simians. Such a force - if let loose within a confined space – can create immense damage, but are unable to clean up the resultant mess. This is precisely what the world has witnessed in Iraq. Despite more than a decade of sanctions that directly resulted in nearly a million extra deaths during that period ( because of shortages created by the UN-approved measures), the regime of Saddam Hussein was able to provide food, energy and housing to the people of Iraq, whereas eight years after “liberation” by key NATO members, the country and its population are worse off than before the 2003 invasion... Read more... The "Liberation" of Libya: NATO Special Forces and Al Qaeda Join Hands, by Michel Chossudovsky | Global Research The Western media constitutes a major instrument of war. NATO war crimes are obfuscated. Popular resistance to the NATO led invasion is not mentioned. A narrative of "liberation" and "opposition pro-democracy rebel forces" is instilled in the inner consciousness of millions of people. Its called the "NATO Consensus". "The NATO Consensus" which upholds the "humanitarian mandate" of the Atlantic alliance cannot be challenged. The bombings of civilian areas as well as the role of a terrorist militia are either trivialised or not mentioned. Killing the truth is an integral part of the military agenda... Read more... The Election March of the Trolls, by Chris Hedges | Truthdig  We have begun the election march of the trolls. They have crawled out of the sewers of public relations firms, polling organizations, the commercial media, the two corporate political parties and elected office to fill the airwaves with inanities and absurdities until the final inanity—the 2012 presidential election... Read more... War: Too Big to Fail, by William Rivers Pitt | Truthout America's war in Afghanistan began on October 7, 2001, more than ten years ago. America's war in Iraq began on March 20, 2003, almost nine years ago. Toss in the six months we have been engaged in the Libyan conflict, and what you have is the United States at war for a combined total of nineteen years...and now, according to reports, the Iraq withdrawal deadline has become thoroughly elastic, and the Afghanistan withdrawal timeline is about to be punted so far over the horizon as to become thoroughly meaningless... Read more... How Israel Takes Its Revenge on Children Suspected of Throwing Stones, by Catrina Stewart | AlterNet The boy, small and frail, is struggling to stay awake. His head lolls to the side, at one point slumping on to his chest. "Lift up your head! Lift it up!" shouts one of his interrogators, slapping him. But the boy by now is past caring, for he has been awake for at least 12 hours since he was separated at gunpoint from his parents at two that morning. "I wish you'd let me go," the boy whimpers, "just so I can get some sleep.".. Read more... Egypt Prevented Large-Scale Israeli Operation Against Gaza, by Dr.Ashraf Ezzat | Pyramidion “The Egyptian side has felt after the Eilat operation that Israel intends to [get] revenge,” so Egypt has sent a strong message to Israel saying it won’t allow an operation to take place. Israel did not launch a large-scale operation because they fear the Egyptian people’s reaction, Othman added... Read more... Indicted war criminal on payroll of UK Israel lobby, by David Cronin | The Electronic Intifada Michael Herzog, a retired Israeli brigadier general, is working for one of the most influential Zionist lobby outfits in London. After doing some more research, I realized that as well as being a “senior visiting fellow” with the Britain Israel Communications and Research Center (BICOM), Herzog is the subject of war crime proceedings in Spain. In January 2009, Spain’s national court decided to open an investigation into Herzog and six other Israeli political and military figures over their involvement in the 2002 bombing of a residential area in Gaza... Read more... Rothschild Reuters and Jerusalem Post pushing lies to justify killing of Palestinians, by Madison Ruppert | Activist Post In the past days, multiple news agencies have been deliberately pushing a false narrative in order to justify the most recent Israeli murder of Palestinians, including civilians and children. This deliberately falsified narrative surrounds a purported Hamas broadcast that declared an end to the ceasefire that was declared post-Cast Lead in 2009, the operation in which Israel systematically slaughtered Palestinian civilians... Read more... The soldier is a human being, isn't he? by Aya Kaniuk and Tamar Goldschmidt | Mondoweiss On Monday, August 1st, 2011, at dawn, the Occupation soldiers murdered Mu'tasem Udwan and Ali Khalifa and seriously wounded Ma’amun Awad. It was the first morning of Ramadan... [Not Israeli soldiers; they are "special," not bound by limits self-imposed on us run-of-the-mill human beings.] Read more...75 year old woman shot in Johr al-Dik | International Solidarity Movement Selma Al Sawarka, or Um Ahmad, is an active woman, a mother of seven, and a grandmother of 35, who has never quit working. August 10, 2011 dawned like most days do for her; she went out to graze her family’s goats. She took her neighbor with her, 15 year old Keefa Al Bahabsa. They went to the same land they usually go to. At 9:30 that morning they saw an Israeli tank and an Israeli jeep near the border. Not an uncommon sight. The tank and jeep left. About 30 minutes later, the jeep returned, three soldiers got out, and opened fire on Um Ahmed and Keefa. Um Ahmed was shot in the leg, Keefa fled to get help. The soldiers also shot ten of the families goats... Read more... Auschwitz: Myths and Facts, by Mark Weber | Institute for Historical Review Auschwitz is regarded as the most notorious Nazi extermination center. During World War II, we are told, hundreds of thousands of prisoners — most of them Jewish — were systematically killed there, especially in gas chambers. Auschwitz was unquestionably a place of horror, where many perished under terrible circumstances. And yet, much of what has been said about the camp is exaggerated or untrue. A close look at the facts calls into question at least some aspects of its reputation as a center of systematic mass extermination... Read more... Aug 30, 2011 Important study shows that a small network is fostering widespread hatred of Islam inside US politics and public opinion, by Philip Weiss | Mondoweiss  On Friday, the Center for American Progress published an important and excellent study, called Fear, Inc: The roots of the Islamophobia network in the US. The study shows that the wave of Islamophobia in the U.S. - Americans mistrust Muslims more than they did even after 9/11 - is the product of a few energized individuals. And they're polluting our political discourse... Read more... Gen'l Wesley Clark: America's Foreign Policy "Coup" | YouTube Retired four-star general and former Democratic Presidential candidate Wesley Clark criticizes the course of U.S. foreign policy in the wake of September 11, 2001... Read more, watch video... 9/11 Unveiled (part 2 of 10): Pretexts and Coverups, by Enver Masud | Veterans Today A brief review of pretexts, deceptions, and cover-ups may be useful in understanding how the Bush administration, the U.S. Congress, and a compliant media misled Americans, and got them to acquiesce in the wars on Iraq and Afghanistan... [And all on behalf of the criminal state of Israel] Read more...Gaza convoy foils Israeli blockade: Lauren Booth Interviews Sheikh Walid El Saadi | PressTV The Africa to Gaza Aid Convoy has bypassed the Israeli blockade and reached the Gaza Strip where they are giving aid and supplies to the oppressed Palestinians... Read transcript, watch video... Anna Hazare and the Idea of Gandhi, by Mitu Sengupta | Counterpunch  For the past two weeks, the world has been captivated by the bitter confrontation between the Indian government and a short, bespectacled, seventy-four-year old man called Anna Hazare, a self-styled anti-corruption crusader... Read more... The Apartheid of Identity: Lifting Zionism's Cloak, by Shafiq Morton | Palestine Chronicle ...This pathological distrust of Hamas – a key role player in the Middle East peace process whether Israel, the US or anybody else likes it or not – is, of course, hugely reminiscent of the apartheid era in the early 1980’s. This was when to mention dialogue with anti-apartheid movements such as the ANC, Azapo or the PAC would make the Afrikaner establishment choke on its sausage... Read more... Slaughter in Gaza Amid World Silence, by Richard Lightbown | Palestine Chronicle ..'civilians are once again being slaughtered by Israel in a blatant act of collective punishment for the Eilat crimes they did not even commit'. Indeed, as politicians and the military in Israel and Egypt seem unsure of how to react to the attacks of 18 August, they do at least seem confident in being able to turn the screws on the captive population of the Palestinian enclave... Read more... Welcome to Colonialism 2.0, by Rakesh Krishnan Simha | Global Research ..In the 18th and 19th centuries when the world was being colonized by the likes of Spain, Britain, France, Belgium, Portugal and the Dutch, India and China were the two richest countries in the world, together accounting for over 50 per cent of world GDP. And yet the two giant Asian nations ended up under colonial jackboots. If you think colonization happened when the East was decadent and the West was rising or that India and China neglected their militaries and ignored the foreign threats lurking at their shores, you couldn't be more wrong. Both countries had very powerful armies and naval flotillas led by able commanders... Read more... Campaign to end US aid to Israel expands to San Francisco cable cars, by Henry Norr | Mondoweiss  The new Bay Area ads feature ICAHD's Jeff Halper A new series of ads calling for an end to U.S. military aid to Israel now greets commuters, tourists, students, and shoppers traveling on the San Francisco Bay Area's public transit systems. The ads, part of a growing national campaign, went up this week on the Powell Street cable car, a popular tourist attraction in downtown San Francisco...and his Palestinian friend Salim Shawamreh Read more... Libya Destined to Become Failed State in Wake of Globalist Success, by Kurt Nimmo | Infowars ...Libya will soon have its own dictatorship – with the active involvement of al-Qaeda – and the status quo of want and misery will return to the north African country. The overthrow of the regime in Syria will not result in democracy. It will produce the sort of chaos previously witnessed in Iraq and now unfolding in Libya... Read more, watch videos... Dick Cheney's Heart of Evil, Psychopathic Political Systems, And The Correct Uses of Social Stigma, by Saman Mohammadi | The Excavator ...Holding the state terrorists in Washington and Israel behind the 9/11 attacks and the deceptive war on terror responsible for their crimes against the American people, Iraq, Afghanistan, Palestine, Israel, Lebanon, and humanity is a matter of human survival and global peace... Read more... Saving Sacred Spaces, by Randall Amster | Counterpunch ...Prioritizing the recreational desires of the leisure class over the spiritual and cultural needs of indigenous nations is a travesty of historical proportions. But it isn’t just native consciousness that suffers in this process; the exploiters eventually render their own habitat unlivable and, in the process, sow the seeds of their own destruction as well... Read more... Aug 29, 2011 US Palestinian Community Network's response to the Palestinian Authority September statehood bid | USPCN  ..We call on all Palestinian and Arab community associations, societies and committees, student organizations, solidarity campaigns, to reject fully and unequivocally the Statehood initiative as a distraction that unjustifiably and irresponsibly endangers Palestinian rights and institutions... Read more... Demo in Al-Walaja, September legal issue and more, by Mazin Qumsiyeh | Popular Resistance Yesterday for 3 hours, we had a standoff with the Israeli soldiers. This demonstration on Saturday was the first after the Israeli court ruling legitimizes the theft of Al-Walaja land... Read more... NATO Pursued Regime Change in Libya, by Dennis Kucinich | Information Clearing House ..if the U.S. had come to terms with Gaddafi’s past violence, why does the Obama Administration invoke it as justification for an attack on Libya? One conclusion could be that the reasons for the March 2011 attack were bogus. Once into the war, the Administration promptly passed off nominal responsibility for the war to NATO, after beginning the war without congressional authorization. NATO became the beneficiary of U.S. funds, U.S. war planes, U.S. drones, U.S. bombs, and U.S. intelligence assets... Read more... History repeats itself, with mistakes of Iraq rehearsed afresh, by Robert Fisk | The Independent Muammar Gaddafi vanishes after promising to fight to the death. Isn't that just what Saddam Hussein did? And of course, when Saddam disappeared and US troops suffered the very first losses from the Iraqi insurgency in 2003, we were told – by the US proconsul Paul Bremer, the generals, diplomats and the decaying television "experts" – that the gunmen of the resistance were "die-hards", "dead-enders" who didn't realise that the war was over... Read more... Israeli occupation detains lawmaker Anwar Zaboun | Occupied Palestine ...With the arrest of Zaboun, the number of Hamas lawmakers detained by the Israeli occupation rises to 19, including lawmaker Muhammad Abu Juhaisha who was arrested a few days ago in al-Khalil... Read more... Anti-Israel transit ads are back! | Rehmat's World  In December, a Seattle Metro Transit bus advertising campaign that accused Israel of committing war crimes in the Gaza Strip was rejected by King County Executive Dow Constantine under pressure from Jewish Lobby groups. The good-old ads have made a comeback and Jewish groups are furious... Read more... Exploding Middle East Myths: 15 Years of Fighting Zionist Propaganda, by Greg Felton | American Free Press Best-known as the author of the previous hard-hitting work, The Host and the Parasite - a panoramic survey of the intrigues of the Israeli lobby in Washington in collaboration with the Christian Zionist “New Right”—Felton has once again come through. In this myth-smashing collection of essays, Felton has targeted media cover-up and misinformation and misdirection about Israel and the problems of the Middle East and has laid bare the truth about the blunt political force, blackmail, intimidation, boycott and other perverse measures that Israel and its network of influence and intrigue use to achieve their aims... Read more... A Factual Appraisal Of The 'Holocaust' By The Red Cross | Rense There is one survey of the Jewish question in Europe during World War Two and the conditions of Germany's concentration camps which is almost unique in its honesty and objectivity, the three-volume Report of the International Committee of the Red Cross on its Activities during the Second World War, Geneva, 1948... Read more... Slave! | Centre for the National Interest on YouTube Our uniquely massive support for Israel has cost trillions of dollars and multitudes of lives. It has diminished our moral standing in the world, lessened our domestic freedoms, and exposed us to unnecessary and growing peril... Read more, watch video... Indy Journalist Franklin Lamb Shot; Others Shot at and Threatened by CNN | Russia Today .Independent Journalist Mahdi Nazemroaya threatened by CNN staff (producer) and fired on at Tripoli hotel by NATO backed terrorists and snipers. NATO has provided direct armed cover to these armed gangs, who have no political project, no dream for Libya and are filled with hatred. All they want is to destroy this beautiful city, especially the tribes, the families and the neighborhoods, that are well known for supporting the Leader of this country... Read more, watch video... The Fake Fall Of Tripoli And The Zionist Dragon's Butchery Across Palestine, by Jonathan Azaziah | Mask of Zion  This is the first of a two-part series dealing with the Zionist media's campaign of mass deception regarding events in Libya, which have in turn been used by the criminal Israeli dragon as a cover for its escalating aggression across occupied Palestine... Read more... From Libya to Palestine: tyranny to freedom | Redress Information & Analysis Aijaz Zaka Syed argues that dethroning Muammar Gaddafi was the easy part and that the real struggle to build a new Libya begins now... [In the last analysis, a revolt planned by the usual suspects and essentially won by NATO who now own Libya, is doomed to disappointment and failure.] Read more...Mr Wiesel, I Would Like To Ask You A Few Questions | Video Rebel's Blog You have made a living telling the world of your war time experiences. You have said many times that you had a tattoo number A7713 on your left arm. But we have photos of you in short sleeves without any tattoo. And this was long after you testified under penalty of perjury that you still had the tattoo. If you cannot show us that tattoo, why should we believe anything you say?.. Read more... The reason why the Egyptians hate us, by Gideon Levy | Haaretz ...People who ask why Egyptians hate us should think back to these two pivotal actions by Israel. Public memory may be short-lived, but hatred is not. Its flames have been fanned since then. People who want to understand why the Egyptians hate us should recall the scenes of Operations Cast Lead and Defensive Shield, the bombing of Beirut and the shelling of Rafah. If Israelis were exposed to scenes in which some country acted in the same way toward Jews, such hatred would burn within us toward that country as well. The Arab masses saw terrible pictures and its hatred increased... Read more... Lifting the Veil: Obama and the Failure of Capitalist Democracy | Global Research TV ..Sub-headed “Barack Obama and the failure of capitalist democracy”, this film explores the historical role of the Democratic Party as the “graveyard of social movements”, the massive influence of corporate finance in elections, the absurd disparities of wealth in the United States, the continuity and escalation of neocon policies under Obama, the insufficiency of mere voting as a path to reform, and differing conceptions of democracy itself... Watch film... 'World rallies against Israel's occupation': Interview with Kamel Wazni | PressTV People all around the world have held demonstrations on the international Quds day, to show their solidarity with the Palestinian resistance against the Israeli occupation... Read transcript, watch video... Jakarta: Mossad presence laughing it up after Bali bombing, by Wayne Madsen | Opinion Maker  Laughing it up at a horrific bombing scene on Bali in 2002. Israelis have a sordid history The reaction of the unknown celebrator of the Bali bombing is similar to the celebration of five known Mossad agents witnessed celebrating the first impact of an aircraft into the World Trade Center on September 11. 2001, from a location at Liberty State Park in Jersey City, immediately across the Hudson River from lower Manhattan...of relishing in terrorist bombings from New York and Beirut to Bali and Oslo Read more... Study shows powerful corporations really do control the world's finances | PhysOrg For many years conventional wisdom has said that the whole world is controlled by the monied elite, or more recently by the huge multi-national corporations that seem to sometime control the very air we breathe. Now, new research by a team based in ETH-Zurich, Switzerland, has shown that what we’ve suspected all along, is apparently true... Read more... Bye-bye Gaddafi, welcome Al-Qaeda? by Pepe Escobar | Russia Today While Tripoli is celebrating the end of a dictatorship, analysts are skeptical democracy is next in line for Libya. Journalist Pepe Escobar told RT, Al-Qaeda is already effectively in power in the capital... Read more... NATO to join al-Qaeda in Libya takeover | PressTV In an exclusive interview with Press TV, Webster Tarpley, author and historian, said that the new rebel commander of Tripoli is a top al-Qaeda leader who has worked for the Afghanis and fought against the United States... Read transcript, watch video... The Fruits of Elite Immunity, by Glenn Greenwald | Global Research Less than three years ago, Dick Cheney was presiding over policies that left hundreds of thousands of innocent people dead from a war of aggression, constructed a worldwide torture regime, and spied on thousands of Americans without the warrants required by law, all of which resulted in his leaving office as one of the most reviled political figures in decades. But thanks to the decision to block all legal investigations into his chronic criminality, those matters have been relegated to mere pedestrian partisan disputes, and Cheney is thus now preparing to be feted -- and further enriched -- as a Wise and Serious Statesman with the release of his memoirs this week: one in which he proudly boasts (yet again) of the very crimes for which he was immunized... Read more... Libya War is CIA Op 30 Years in the Making, by Tony Cartalucci | Prison Planet Alternative media activist David Icke, who has been warning about the false nature of the “Arab Spring” since it began over six months ago, has pointed out an astounding “flashback” regarding an August 3, 1981 Newsweek article titled, “A Plan to Overthrow Kaddafi.”.. Read more... Aug 28, 2011 Bantustans and the unilateral declaration of statehood, by Virginia Tilley | The Electronic Intifada  The PA leadership in Ramallah is leading the Palestinian movement of independence to a dead end ..it’s no exaggeration to propose that this idea, although well-meant by some, raises the clearest danger to the Palestinian national movement in its entire history, threatening to wall Palestinian aspirations into a political cul-de-sac from which it may never emerge. The irony is indeed that, through this maneuver, the PA is seizing — even declaring as a right — precisely the same dead-end formula that the African National Congress (ANC) fought so bitterly for decades because the ANC leadership rightly saw it as disastrous. That formula can be summed up in one word: Bantustan... Read more... Resolute Struggle: Russia steps up for Syria | RT on YouTube Fresh diplomatic efforts to end the ongoing violence in Syria have been made by Russia, as it's introduced its own draft UN resolution. Moscow is calling on both sides in the country to engage in dialogue, and for President Assad to speed up promised reforms... Read more... Who funds Muslim-baiting in the US? by MJ Rosenberg | Al Jazeera English A new report details how a small group of donors and 'intellectuals' have pushed Islamophobia into the mainstream... Read more... The Intifada - Palestine Website has been Attacked  The website suddenly crashed yesterday. That there are people who feel so threatened by a website on PALESTINE that they are prepared to sabotage it, only shows how much they fear the TRUTH. Indeed, only those protecting a LIE would need to resort to such cheap, tactics. It is not the first time this has happened. The Intifada-Palestine.com website has been a target before. However, we are not likely to lose the information as it has all been backed up, but it will take time to retrieve it and get everything up and running again. We apologise to everyone who has come to rely on the information provided by the website and we want to assure you that these attacks only strengthen our resolve to be a voice for Palestine again. We will let you know when the website is back in operation and we hope that you will continue to visit it as before. ~ Elias F. Harb, Editor and Administrator [The hasbara trolls are up to their usual tricks, but they will fail, because they are, after all, only trolls ~ Roger Tucker, Editor, One Democratic State] Looting Libya: Who's first for oil? | Russia Today The race for Libya's vast oil wealth is gathering momentum. States who worked together during massive NATO airstrikes, are now working against each other in the battle to secure lucrative energy contracts. But as RT's Sara Firth reports, it's led to fears that a new regime in Libya could easily slide into corruption... Watch video... Murdoch Press and the Fictional Jewish Chocolatier, by Samah Sabawi | Palestine Chronicle  BDS poses a great danger for Israel The Murdoch press in its zeal to attack the Palestinian Boycott Divestment Sanctions (BDS) campaign has misrepresented facts and even ran an entire article quoting a fictional character that simply does not exist. The invention of Max Brenner the Jewish chocolatier demonstrated the lack of integrity and journalistic ethics employed within the Murdoch press's campaign against the pro-Palestinian advocacy groups who have called for a boycott of the Israeli owned Max Brenner chocolate franchise...Read more... Amazing Determination of the Yemeni People, by Mohamed El Mokhtar | Palestine Chronicle ..the Yemeni people have shown a rare determination, in recent months, in continuing the peaceful fight for their human rights. Indeed, they have been able, owing to their courage, to show the whole world how they truly stand for their dignity. Their extraordinary poise and stunning patience have turned upside-down many deep-seated stereotypes and ill-conceived ideas about Arabs and Muslims... Read more... Manifesto of the Libyan Tribal Council | Voltaire Network  Hundreds of tribal leaders gathered under a giant tent to call for an end to an armed Speaking for Libya’s 2000 tribes, the Council issued a Proclamation signed by scores of tribal leaders from eastern Libya...uprising against Col. Muammar Gaddafi and to NATO aerial attacks on his forces Read more... Disaster capitalism swoops over Libya, by Pepe Escobar | Asia Times Online Think of the new Libya as the latest spectacular chapter in the Disaster Capitalism series. Instead of weapons of mass destruction, we had R2P ("responsibility to protect"). Instead of neo-conservatives, we had humanitarian imperialists. But the target is the same: regime change. And the project is the same: to completely dismantle and privatize a nation that was not integrated into turbo-capitalism... Read more... Aug 27, 2011 Libya  Kaddafi's Call, by Israel Shamir | shamireaders Here is the last (meaning: most recent) letter of Muammar Qaddafi to us. He is still fighting, though his fortress and palace was destroyed by NATO and looted. The battle for Tripoli is far from being over and the latest reports speak of green flags and pictures of Qaddafi being displayed again. It will be a miracle if Qaddafi will succeed to repulse the NATO invasion, but miracles happen... Read more... RT in Tripoli: It feels rebels only people left in Libya | YouTube British Tornado jets have fired cruise missiles at Colonel Gaddafi's command and control bunker in his hometown of Sirte, despite previous claims the coalition would not assist rebels in hunting him down. The colonel's whereabouts are still unknown... Watch video... NATO nations set to reap spoils of Libya war, by Rachel Shabi | Al Jazeera English It looks like the more telling news on Libya has migrated to the business pages. With jubilant reporting of Gaddafi's imminent downfall seizing headlines, it's the financial pages that have the clinical analysis. So, for instance, it is in this section that the Independent reports a "dash for profit in the post-war Libya carve up"... Read more... Understanding the opposition to NATO's intervention in Libya | Redress Information & Analysis Uri Avnery argues that opponents of military intervention in Libya are motivated more by hatred of the USA and NATO than by any concern for the people of Libya... Read more... Take Action: Open the Rafah Crossing Permanently and Unconditionally | USPCN  A deadly siege on 1.6 million people living in Gaza has been imposed by Israel since 2006. It was partially and momentarily lifted when the revolutionary Egyptian movement ousted Hosni Mubarak and made clear that emancipation and the freedom of Palestine were joint and connected goals. Yet today, and daily, approximately 35,000 people wait to cross the border. Meanwhile, Israeli air strikes last week on ‘the largest open air prison on earth’ killed at least 15 people, including 2 children, and injured at least 50 more... Read more... Stretching Charges of Anti-Semitism, by Lawrence Davidson | Consortium News Hard-line Israeli defenders have tried to shut down protests over how the Palestinians have been treated by accusing critics of “anti-Semitism” and by labeling dissenting Jews as “self-hating.” These intimidating tactics are now common on U.S. college campuses... Read more... Sarkozy cuts & runs: France 'riot-ready' | RussiaToday The richest sector of French society are pledging another 3 per cent of their annual income to help the country battle its deepening debt crisis. That's as the French Prime Minister announces some 12 billion Euro worth of cuts, alongside gloomy forecasts for growth. But as RT's Daniel Bushell explains, the move could be too little too late, with fears social unrest could follow... Watch video... 'Caging Israel restores world peace': Interview with Mark Glenn | PressTV The last Friday of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan has been named the International Quds Day, an occasion when millions of people worldwide rally in support of Palestinians. Press TV has interviewed Mark Glenn, author and political commentator from Idaho, on the significance of this day... Read transcript, watch video... Will Egypt be too busy to hate? by James Kirchick | Haaretz It is naive to think that Egyptians - or, as polls indicate, the Arab world writ large - will ever accept the presence of a Jewish state in their midst... [Ah, yes, the old bugaboo, "antisemitism," Israel's most prolific export] Read more... Palestine: arduous odyssey of statehood, by Ismail Salami and Kourosh Ziabari | PressTV  The plight of the Palestinian people is no closed book to anyone in the world; a subjugated nation which has been unjustifiably subjected to discrimination and violence for the past 6 decades... Read more... Quantum Note: West's New Middle East, by Dr. Muzaffar Iqbal | SHOAH ...The fall of Libyan dictator is important in the emergence of a new Middle East. One can now say with a degree of confidence that the Western strategy of a new Middle East has become a fully operational plan. What started over a year ago as a lack luster performance, has now been strategized. Tunisia and Egypt may have been surprises for the Western leadership, but it is to their credit that they have arisen to the need of the hour: they have now fully grasped the ground reality that a status quo is impossible in the Middle East and they are hard at work to change their colors, repackage their entire tool kit and re-establish a new order in the Middle East, one country at a time... Read more... America's Proxy "War on Terrorism" in Pakistan, by Tom Burghardt | Global Research Monday's brazen assault on a police academy in Lahore, Pakistan's second largest city and cultural capital, is a grim reminder that the "killing season" has begun in earnest across Central and South Asia... Read more... Giving up liberty in the pursuit of security, by Ramzi Kassem | Al Jazeera English ...Hosting a reception for members of New York City's Muslim communities in his mansion on Tuesday night, Mayor Michael Bloomberg eloquently described Muslims as an inalienable part of our great city's fabric. By Wednesday morning, however, many of us who attended that reception would have been forgiven for thinking that we actually lived in a nightmarish American avatar of Kim Jong-Il's Korea... ["They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." - Benjamin Franklin] Read more...London Riots Aftermath: UK Government Calls for Social Media Bans and Shutdowns | The Vigilant Citizen In the article entitled The London Riots and How They Will be Used to the Elite’s Advantage, it was stated that the riots would be used to justify a greater control, and surveillance censorship of social media such as Facebook, Twitter and Blackberry Messenger. Well the UK government has recently proposed several drastic measures aiming to control the flow of information through social networks, all of which can easily lead to abuse and state censorship such as: The interception and disclosure of messages by authorities, the deletion of pro-social unrest messages, the banning of suspected rioters from social networks and even the complete shut down of social networks during periods of unrest... Read more... Aug 26, 2011 The Flag And The Penis | Gilad Atzmon  For many of us, the blue & white flag stands for horrendous crimes against humanity, genocidal practices, white phosphorus, execution of peace activists in high seas and so on. For more and more people, Israelis are the Nazis of our time and showing contempt towards their national symbols is legitimate and doesn’t constitute any racial offense... Read more... On August 18, high noon, Arabs operating from Egyptian territory attacked, killed and wounded an unknown number of Israeli soldiers on a bus that the world was made to believe carried only civilians... Read more... Norway's Terror as Systemic Destabilization: Breivik, the Arms-for-Drugs Milieu, and Global Shadow Elites, by Prof. Peter Dale Scott | Global Research The most surprising aspect of the recent unexpected terrorist violence in Norway is that, in retrospect, it is not surprising. Our revived hopes after the end of the Cold War, that we might finally be emerging into a world of diminishing bloodshed, have been abundantly disabused. Events of seemingly random irrational violence, such as that which so shocked us when President Kennedy was assassinated, have become a predictable part of the world in which we live... Read more... Lauren Booth, Al Quds Day 2011, London 21th August 2011| InMinds on YouTube London Al Quds Day rally at Trafalgar Square 21st August 2011... [Sister-in-law of Tony Blair, with some kickass flair] Watch video...IDF's law enforcement is a joke of a justice system, by Gideon Levy | Haaretz The law enforcement mechanism of the Israel Defense Forces is nothing but a ridiculous simulacrum of a justice system... Read more... Israel's 'Nice Little War': Gaza, Egypt in the Range of Fire, by Ramzy Baroud | Palestine Chronicle ..The “social protest movement is gathering momentum,” wrote Avnery. “At that point, there will be a temptation – perhaps an irresistible temptation – to ‘warm up the borders’. To start a nice little war. Call on the youth of Israel, the same young people now manning…the tents, to go and defend the fatherland.” It was an unnerving warning, not only because it came from Avnery, a veteran well-versed in his understanding of the Israel ruling class, but also because it actualized in its entirety a few days later... Read more... Human rights irony for the US and Arab world, by Shadi Mokhtari | Al Jazeera English  John Yoo, have escaped prosecution Since September 11th, the United States and the Arab world have traveled a treacherous road together. Where they have arrived after ten years sets them apart. In the US, the embrace of human rights as a defining value and ideal worthy of considerable sacrifice is gradually fading, while the Arab world is in the midst of a rights revolution... Read more... Why Ron Paul Gets No Respect, by Ivan Eland | Consortium News ..the reason Paul has such resonance with a certain segment of the American people, despite the media’s derision, is because those people take the time to go beyond political slogans and conventional wisdom and listen to Paul’s facts, analysis and cogent explanations of and solutions to policy problems... Read more... The extreme Israeli right's alliance with lunatics | Haaretz Editorial In recent years, the extreme Israeli right has developed an alliance with heads of the evangelical movement, who define themselves as Christian Zionists, some of whom believe that another Holocaust of the Jews will ensure the resurrection of Jesus... Read more... 911 Danish scientist Niels Harrit, on nano-thermite in the WTC dust | YouTube Watch video... Thermite Cutting Steel - Validated - Experimentally Demonstrated | YouTube What's wrong with mainstream experts?... Watch video... 118 Witnesses: The Firefighters’ Testimony to Explosions in the Twin Towers, by Graeme MacQueen | Journal of 911 Studies One of the greatest mysteries of September 11, 2001 is the collapse of the Twin Towers. Claims that explosions contributed to the collapses were made on 9/11 and have persisted, but studies supportive of the U.S. government’s account of events have ignored or denied these claims. A great deal is at stake in this debate. If explosions were critical to the collapses, the official al Qaeda narrative may need to be radically altered or abandoned altogether... Watch video... Libya Qaddafi's Missing Legions: The Siege of Tripoli, by Franklin Lamb | Uprooted Palestinians  This observer’s tentative appraisal of Tuesday’s events along the north Tripoli port area as of late afternoon 8/23/11 is that the “65,000 well trained and well-armed troops” hyped Sunday by the Gaddafi government don’t in fact exist and that the pockets of government troops here in Tripoli and across Libya that do, will continue to resist what it views as NATO aggression designed to usurp the country’s oil and add Libya to Africom... Read more... Zionist Libya | Roy Tov Making accusations of a Zionist intervention in Libya could be easily classified as “another baseless conspiracy theory” and dismissed. Yet, the rebels spokesmen gave today (Aug 24) an incredible interview to the Israeli newspaper Haaretz. Let’s remember Libya has no diplomatic relations with Israel. Thus, Yossi Melman – the journalist to whom the interview was given – broke Israeli law. Since he has not been detained and the interview was published, we can safely deduce the event was sanctioned by the Shin Beth... Read more... 'Foreign boots in Libya will trigger Afghan-like Islamic surge' | RT on YouTube Libyan rebels are united by hatred towards the current leader. Once Colonel Gaddafi is out of the game, they will turn on each other and NATO, predicts Abdel Bari Atwan, editor of London-based pan-Arabic newspaper Al-Quds Al-Arabi... Read more... Libya War: It Ain't Over Till It's Over | Stephen Lendman Washington-led NATO is a rogue killing machine plunderer. It comes, sees, slaughters, ravages, and pillages all its surveys. In March, it arrived in Libya on cruise missiles, bombs, shells, other munitions, fifth column infiltrators, media liars, and other rogue elements, not white horses, not as liberators nor humanitarian interveners... Read more... Libya: The Bridgehead Into Africa, by Waqar Khan Kauravi | Opinion Maker  ...Is Libya the end of US led coalition operations in the region or the start of Chaos in Africa? This is a million dollar question. Libya is an ideal bridgehead into Africa as it sits on a piece of land with geostrategic significance. It allows the oil tap to remain open and the quantity manipulation against any oil related initiatives by Middle Eastern Arabs, Iran or Venezuela. It keeps the entire Middle East and their leadership guessing and perplexed with a hidden message, you may be next... Read more... 'Gaddafi idiotically embraced neo-liberalism' | RT on YouTube A spokesman for Colonel Gaddafi's regime has promised Libya will become a "volcano of fire". Loyalist forces have continually vowed to keep fighting, pointing to a prolonged civil war. RT gets more analysis from author and journalist Afshin Rattansi... Read more... NATO's Libya War: A Nuremberg Level Crime | Stephen Lendman The US/UK/French-led war on Libya will be remembered as one of history's greatest crimes. It violates the letter and spirit of international law and America's Constitution... Read more... Join The Anti-NATO Truth Movement | Video Rebel's Blog CNN correspondents have been threatening independent journalists with death. CNN has strong ties to the CIA just as Al Jazeera has with MI6. They do not want you to be told that NATO was carpet bombing Tripoli to install Al Qaeda in Libya... Read more... Aug 25, 2011 How Palestinian Authority's UN 'statehood' bid endangers Palestinian rights, by Ali Abunimah | Australians for Palestine  The Dear Leader, his American callgirl and the Palestinian Quisling The Western-backed Palestinian Authority’s (PA) effort to seek UN recognition of “statehood” unilaterally, without consulting the Palestinian people from which the PA has absolutely no mandate, has raised fears among Palestinians that the move could actually harm Palestinian rights. If the UN votes to admit the “State of Palestine,” it is likely that the unelected representatives of the Palestinian Authority would be seated in the General Assembly instead of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), which currently holds the Palestine observer seat at the UN...Read more... Architects & Engineers: Solving the Mystery of WTC 7 | YouTube ...This is AE911Truth's new 9/11 documentary on the mysterious destruction of World Trade Center Building #7, WTC 7 on 9/11/01. Join actor Ed Asner and Architect Richard Gage, AIA and Architects and Engineers as they narrate an unfolding story that decimates the official account ("collapse due to normal office fires") of this 47 story high-rise which was destroyed on the afternoon of 9/11 in record time: top to bottom in under 7 seconds - and at free-fall acceleration for a third of its fall... Watch video... US/Israel Can Respect Palestinian Rights, by Adil E. Shamoo | Consortium News ..As a primary issue among Arabs, the Palestinian-Israeli conflict remains a barometer that shows the willingness of the United States to grant Arabs equal respect. At this tenuous time in the Middle East, the killing of innocent Palestinian civilians by the Israeli military with U.S. acquiescence is explosive... Read more... Killing in Our Name, by John Feffer | Counterpunch ..democracy consistently attempts to obscure its relationship to violence. Wars are not put to a vote. Indeed, here in the United States, Congress has been largely shunted to the side when it comes to war, and it generally weighs in only after the fact. The militarism of the Bush administration required a concentration of power in the executive branch and a flouting of international law (such as the Geneva Conventions). The Obama administration, with its policies on drones and extrajudicial killing, has not relinquished much of that executive power or shown much greater sensitivity to international law... Read more... 9/11: A Conspiracy Beyond Theory, by Paul J Balles | Veterans Today  In Abrahamic godspeak, "Vengeance is mine and I shall repay; thus sayeth the Lord." In plain English "what goes around comes around." Read more... The Major Jewish American Organizations Defend Israel's Humiliation of America, by James Petras | All Voices When Israel announced a major new Jews-only building project of 1600 homes in occupied East Jerusalem, it was not only “spitting in the face” of visiting Vice President Biden, it was demonstrating its power to humiliate America and Americans. Netanyahu was sending a message to world: Israel backed by its billionaire-financed Presidents of the 51 Major American Jewish Organizations, leads the US by the nose. The Jewish State can make an agreement with the White House one day and revoke it the next (with characteristic arrogance), US public opinion be damned... Read more... Covering Up Wall Street Crimes: Matt Taibbi Exposes How SEC Shredded Thousands of Investigations | Democracy Now An explosive new report in Rolling Stone magazine exposes how the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission destroyed records of thousands of investigations, whitewashing the files of some of the nation’s largest banks and hedge funds, including AIG, Wells Fargo, Lehman Brothers, Goldman Sachs, Bank of America and top Wall Street broker Bernard Madoff. Last week, Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa said an agency whistleblower had sent him a letter detailing the unlawful destruction of records detailing more than 9,000 information investigations... Read transcript, watch video... Rick Perry, Glenn Beck and Alan Dershowitz: Meshugener or Shmucks? by Eileen Fleming | Veterans Today  Mishugener is a Yiddish word meaning insane or crazy. A Schmuck is Yiddish for a self-made fool- but it also refers to male only anatomy. Beck is a Mormon with close ties to the Tea Party and fundamentalist Christians. A fundamentalist is best understood as one who is so attached to their point of view that they have quit thinking!.. Read more... Big Brother Has Arrived, by Philip Giraldi | My Catbird Seat Leading neoconservative Richard Perle has said that one of the many reasons he admires the Israelis is the moral clarity that they exhibit on the issue of terrorism. What exactly that means is not itself clear, but it would appear to be a carte blanche for any and all Israeli punitive responses to groups that question Tel Aviv’s legitimacy. Perle has never criticized Israelis for disproportionality or for committing war crimes. He has only admonished them when, in his opinion, they have not gone far enough... Read more... An Interview With Josef Ginsburg, by Eric Thomson | The Whale ..Josef Ginsburg was exasperating, for he was an eyewitness to history, specifically the Zionist-National Socialist collaboration which Zionists have always exerted themselves so mightily to cover up. Yet, he would not reveal publicly how he had learned the truth about the Holohoax and the gas chamber lie. He would even quibble about his own identity and the political connections which caused him to be among the first Soviet inspectors of all the so-called death camps in Poland. Privately, he made no attempt to hide his Communist connections and sympathies. Yes, he had toured the concentration camps of Auschwitz, Birkenau, Maidanek, Treblinka, Sobibor and all the others in Poland, as a member of the official Soviet inspection team and he found no evidence whatsoever of any attempt on the part of the Germans to exterminate anyone and certainly not by means of lethal gas chambers!.. Read more... The holocaust, Israel's most powerful PsyOps weapon, by Earlaiman | Veterans Today  ...the monolithic structure of the ‘Holocaust “ memorial is in deep trouble and danger if this is what the ADL and the Zionist propaganda support forces have been forced to resort to in an attempt to resurrect the slowly dying and rotting corpse of the “holocaust Industry.” We just don’t have the time to deal much longer with a mob of insane and power crazed ethnics who pretend they are living in a world three millennia ago, and act like it... Read more... Libya The Strange Calm Over Tripoli: Whither Gaddafi and Libya? by Franklin Lamb | Uruknet ...The outpouring of support for Qaddafi’s departure by the same crowds who seemed to adore him at Green Square the past five months I have been monitoring them is surprising but perhaps reveal why all powerful despots are often more form than substance and can collapse quickly under certain conditions... Read more... NATO Go Home? 'Rebels fed up with West troops, want Libya back' | RT on YouTube Libya's rebel forces celebrate storming Colonel Gaddafi's compound in Tripoli and once again claim to have control of the city. But Gaddafi vows to fight to the death. Lyndsey German, a London-based activist from the Stop the War Coalition, believes the majority of Libyans don't want the West to tell them what to do... Watch video... State Terror: Deadly Libya strikes 'NATO policy, not mistake' | RT on YouTube Rebels have stormed and looted Colonel Gaddafi's compound in Tripoli after three days of fighting in the Libyan capital. Angry crowds vented their anger at the portraits and luxuries at the compound - while the location of Gaddafi himself is still not known. He made his second radio address in the space of 24 hours, calling on his supporters to cleanse the capital. He claims that his retreat from the compound was a tactical move and promised to fight to the death... Watch video... Israeli to join rebel Libyan regime | Rehmat's World The Chairman of the US-backed National Transitional Council (NTC) and Qaddafi’s former Justice minister, Mustafa Abdul Jalil, has invited British-Israeli dual citizen Jew, Raphael Luzon to return to Benghazi and participate in the post-Qaddafi government... Read more... Barrel per Bomb: Libya 'winners' & oil majors launch black gold grab | RT on YouTube The fight is not over in Tripoli but the carve-up of Libya's vast oil riches - the biggest in Africa - is already beginning. The Italian Foreign Minister fired the starting gun, saying Italy's ENI oil company will play the number one role in the region. And as RT's Laura Emmett reports, the service won't come cheap for the Libyan people... Watch video... MI6 spies paved rebel path to Tripoli battlefront | RT on YouTube British intelligence has reportedly played a key role in the latest push on Tripoli by rebels. According to a report in the UK daily, the Telegraph, MI6 officers advised the rebels on the strategy behind the operation, in a plan drawn up weeks ago... Read more... Libya: Obama's Pyrrhic Victory, by Justin Raimondo | Antiwar ..How long before the goals of the NATO-crats and the Islamist radicals they’ve unleashed explode in violence? How long before the rebels take out another one of their own top officials? How long before we get the real bill – not the measly $1 billion being touted as the cost... Read more... Aug 24, 2011 Famine in the Horn of Africa: Malthus beware, by William G. Moseley | Al Jazeera English  Somalia, devastated by war, is the country hardest hit by drought, with five areas declared to be experiencing famine In the Horn of Africa, population growth is not the main cause of famine...Read more... Al-Walaja Court Ruling and Last Friday in Ramadan, by Mazin Qumsiyeh | Popular Resistance It is indeed interesting to witness what is happening in Egypt, Tunisia, Yemen, Libya, Syria or in the social protests among Israelis. But hitting home more directly is the daily challenge of survival here as Israel gobbles up more land and people resist... Read more... Creating South Sudan: George Clooney, John Prendergast, And George Bush | AfrobeatRadio ...The U.S., Britain and Israel prosecuted this covert war through their key military proxies, the Sudan Peoples Liberation Army, which had nothing to do with “liberation,” and the Uganda People’s Defense Forces, which had nothing to do with the people... Read more... 'Libya = Iraq 2.0: boots on ground & turbo-capitalism next' | RT on YouTube Asia Times correspondent Pepe Escobar believes as soon as Western countries get Libyan oil contracts they'll want boots on the ground to secure them... Watch video... Guilty until proven innocent, by Yasmeen El Khoudary | Al Jazeera English  The Israeli military carried out air strikes in the Gaza Strip that killed six Palestinians following the shootout in Eilat ...Amidst the wild rumors, leaks and speculations, the constant Israeli threats, the rising toll of people killed and injured by Israel, Friday prayers around the Strip calmed people down. In times like these, mosques play a very important role, by reading soothing prayers, make urgent announcements, etc. Last Friday, however, and as Israel was bombing Gaza, the Imam leading the prayers in the mosque next to our house was concerned with something else. He dedicated his sermon and his prayers to Somalia and asked people to donate to it. That humanity, that beating human conscience and respect for human life are the qualities that are inseparable from Palestinians, even if the world might think otherwise...Read more... History in the Making: Egypt's Military for Democracy, by Hasan Afif El-Hasan | Palestine Chronicle ...Arab governments have been politically too weak to prevent the violation of the River Nile water agreement by many African states, the dismemberment of Sudan by the support and encouragement of foreign powers, the invasion, destruction and occupation of Iraq by the US, and the occupation and colonization of Palestine... Read more... It's time for all Palestinians to be heard, by Ahmed Moor | Al Jazeera English ...The benefits of holding PNC elections are obvious. The Palestinian issue, which is fundamentally about redressing a historical injustice (the ethnic cleansing of Palestine), cannot be properly settled without a deep understanding of what the Palestinian people want. Their voices everywhere must be heard if a just solution is to emerge. Moreover, any solution that does not accurately reflect the views of the Palestinians will unfurl; top-down decision-making won't work. Two Intifadas have shown us that... Read more... 'Second colonization of Africa begun, Libya to see sectarian war' | RT on YouTube For more view on the situation in Libya, RT talks to international consultant and former deputy speaker of the Belgian Parliament, Lode Vanoost... Watch video... Engdahl: Oil-field fight, tribal power-grab part of post-Gaddafi greed-fest | RT on YouTube F. William Engdahl, author of "Full Spectrum Dominance: Totalitarian Democracy in the New World Order", thinks the struggle for Libyan oil is the real bottom line of the whole NATO operation... Watch video... Libya: Too Early for Victory Parades, by Ali Younes | Palestine Chronicle  New Libyan leaders must not fall in love with NATO ...The new Libyan leaders, however, have no other choice but to feel indebted to NATO and Western powers for helping them reach where they are now. Those leaders, many of them are truly patriotic Libyans; realize that the West is only in love with the Libyan oil, not the Libyan people but feel that NATO is the only instrument they have at this point to undo the damage Qaddafi has done to the country for over 40 years...Read more... They Better Run For Their Lives | Gilad Atzmon ..There is no prospect of a future for the Jewish State in the region. Israel’s military might is proving to be dysfunctional, and unable to suitably deal with the conflict and its nature. All those aeroplanes, tanks and nuclear bombs, increasingly, appear as futile... Read more... "Minimal Collateral Damage": Israeli Video Games in Gaza, by Alison Weir | Counterpunch ..The missile was fired remotely by an Israeli sitting in front of a video screen and operating one of the many drones that periodically fly over Gaza and shoot Palestinians like fish in a fishbowl. The operators are usually female, the preferred group for this kind of desk job... Read more... Spain's pro-Palestine hint irks Israel | PressTV The Israeli regime expresses shock and despair over the Spanish foreign minister's call for a pan-European push towards the UN's recognition of an independent Palestinian state... Read more... Can Obama Ignore Anti-AQAP Protests? by James Gundun | Palestine Chronicle ..The administration in general remains silent on vicious human rights abuses committed by U.S.-trained security forces, now considered war crimes by Yemenis. At one point in Taiz’s Change Square, the Republican Guard’s gasoline-filled water cannons rolled over tents and torched protesters in their sleep. Neither the White House nor State Department has issued a reaction to any transitional council, months of bombardment against anti-government tribes or a government-induced humanitarian crisis... Read more... Aug 23, 2011 We are all Gazans, by Vera Macht | Intifada Palestine  Fifteen people were killed so far, and no end in sight. Tomorrow the foreigners will be evacuated, Israel threatens with a “massive military attack”, a “ground invasion” is not ruled out. Fifteen killed people, including two children. I can give their names, Malek, two years old, and Mahmoud, thirteen years. I can tell how Mahmoud’s teacher has described him as an intelligent, bright student, or I can show photos of the two. As if that would create an outcry , as if the Western media would care enough for the lives of Palestinian children. No, Israel was attacked. Israel must defend itself... Read more... War Propaganda: Libya and the End of Western Illusions, by Thierry Meyssan | Global Research Five months into the bombing campaign, it is no longer possible to believe the initial official version of the events and the massacres attributed to the "Gaddafi regime". Moreover, it is now essential to take into account Libya’s legal and diplomatic rebuttal, highlighting the crimes against peace committed by television propaganda, the war crimes perpetrated by NATO military forces, and the crimes against humanity sponsored by political leaders of the Atlantic Alliance... [It seems that after all the Libyan government (which the West now only calls "The Gaddafi regime") is being defeated and evicted by a NATO military campaign masquerading as a native rebellion. If so, the NATO Gang will be able to smother the judicial proceedings against them after appointing their own puppet regime in Tripoli and claiming that they restored the rule of law. That charade will go on until the Western powers are themselves overthrown, but that can probably only happen through domestic insurrections. In that case, London, Paris and Washington may find themselves under bombardment and sniper fire, like Tripoli. That is what they seem to be attracting upon themselves. Read more... ~ Come Carpentier] Dubious Evidence Israeli Bus Attackers Based in Gaza | Real News Following deadly terror attacks on Israel, Israeli Air Force attacks kill 9 in Gaza despite lack of evidence connecting attackers to the Strip... Read more, watch video... 'Oil not main goal in Libya: Control over all Middle East at stake', with John Rees | RT on YouTube To discuss what the future might hold for a post-Gaddafi Libya, and the interests that various factions have in it RT talks to John Rees from the Stop the War Colaition live from London... Watch video... Jenin's Third Intifada under Attack, by Richard Lightbown | Palestine Chronicle  A performance at the Freedom Theater 'The location of the Freedom Theatre [is] in the middle of the most attacked and poorest refugee camp in Palestine, the refugee camp of Jenin. We are talking about almost three thousand children under the age of 15 suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder. It means they pee in their pants when they are eleven. It means they cannot concentrate; they cannot deal with each other without violence...Read more... Israel doesn't respond to violence, it foments violence, by Ibrahim Hewitt | Middle East Monitor Yet more tragic loss of life, this time in Eilat and Gaza, and yet again Israel "responds" with "full force"; the bombs dropped on overcrowded Gaza City, and the resultant deaths, are testimony to that. However, this is nothing new for the Palestinians. The violence being unleashed on them by Israel now is not a response to what happened in Eilat, nor was the attack on Israeli soldiers and civilians in Eilat "the trigger", as the BBC has claimed, for Israel's disproportionate "response". It's just Israel being even more violent than usual... Read more... When Israeli arrogance meets Arab honor, by Akiva Eldar | Haaretz ...The protest by the hundreds of Egyptians who are surrounding the Israeli Embassy in Cairo was not born during this past week. For decades, they have been watching Jewish settlers stealing lands that belong to Arabs, with the permission and the blessing of the government of Israel... Read more... Libya Lies: 'False claims of Gaddafi crimes make war worse' | RT on YouTube Lizzie Pheelan is an independent journalist in Tripoli who says that false accounts of what's happening have served only to stir up the conflict... Watch video... Seeking Palestinian Statehood: Sovereignty or Paralysis? by Issa Khalaf | Palestine Chronicle ...The most vibrantly democratic and civil societies outside of Egypt has been effectively hobbled, even suffocated, by its own leaders; the Palestinian national movement, downhill since Oslo, has yet to free itself from its leaders and re-imagine and implement democratic politics free of the state/ institutional albatross... Read more... Renewed hostilities between Gaza and Israel | Redress Information & Analysis Richard Lightbown analyses the media reports on the background to current hostilities between Gaza and Israel and sees little cause for optimism... Read more... Aug 22, 2011 How Elie Wiesel Got the Nobel Peace Prize | Elie Wiesel Tattoo  The Weasel What has Mr. Wiesel ever done for “peace” or, even more to the point, “world peace?” He was a devoted Zionist even in his youth, working as a journalist for Zion in Kampf, a Yiddish newspaper in Paris. He had many contacts with the Irgun terrorist organization and cheered on their every action; he may well have been even more deeply involved with Irgun. He stated in his memoir that “I belonged to the Irgun.” He has supported every illegal military action in which Israel took over more land, homes and livelihoods of Palestinians, right up to his being an apologist for the latest unprovoked attack on Gaza in 2008-09 when the Jews used white phosphorous bombs on civilians...Read more... Monoculture's Multicultural Discontents, by Frank Scott | Legalienate The economic religion of Consumptive Inequality has entered what some of its parishioners call a Great Recession while non-believers see it as a recurring cycle, this time in perhaps more deadly fashion than any since the 1930s. The global economy is in turmoil with the only debate being whether it can survive with major reforms or needs to be radically transformed, or else. That we are in a state of crisis can only be denied by employees of ruling power who claim that capitalism is the will of the deity that governs the functioning of free markets. That these markets have as much to do with freedom as peace has to do with war is at the root of the problem... [A trenchant essay; a must read] Read more...Syria: Obama Threatens U.S. Military Intervention, by Sara Flounders | Global Research President Barack Obama on Aug. 18 demanded that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad step down, saying that the Syrian leader’s days are numbered. The governments of Britain, France and Germany joined in this demand. This statement is a blatant imperialist interference in Syria’s internal affairs. More than that, it is an open threat to intervene militarily in another country in that region, just as the U.S. and its European allies have done already in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya and Somalia, with rockets and bombs. It is a threat against the Syrian people of something like the last five months of slaughter of the Libyan people... Read more... Egypt to Withdraw Ambassador to Israel over Ambush | Intifada Palestine Egypt recalled its ambassador from Israel Saturday to protest the deaths of at least three Egyptian troops killed in a shootout between Israeli soldiers and Palestinian militants who had launched a deadly attack on Israel from Egyptian soil... Read more... Waiting for the Endgame in Libya, by Franklin Lamb | Counterpunch ..I got an ear full this week from sources familiar with John Kerry’s Senate Foreign Relations Committee activities about President Obama’s semi-private views on what is happening in Libya and the President's doubts about NATO’s role in bombing this unlucky country... Read more... Kafka at the Rafah border, by Diane Shammas | Al Jazeera English  Palestinians face a lengthy wait to cross the Rafah-Egypt border, with only 400 allowed to cross each day Any astute observer who has spent any substantial time in the Gaza Strip knows that Gazans desperately want and need freedom of movement and the right to export their products. This does not diminish the fact that eighty per cent of Gazans receive UN food aid, and despite the media hyperbole on Gaza's burgeoning economy, only one per cent of the population is able to indulge in the Strip's "luxury malls, hotels and restaurants"..Read more... Holocaust: 'How thee serve Israel' | Rehmat's World As the 11th anniversary of holy Ground Zero is approaching, the Zionist-controlled media has started its annual vicious propaganda compaign against Muslims lest the the Americans find out who the real terrorists were behind the September 11, 2001 tragedy. As my two cents worth – I thought may be it would not be a bad idea to revisit the greatest ‘holy story’ of the last century... Read more... National Association of Terror Operations, by Azartush Najjarian | PressTV ...After the masses are programmed to commit to the protocols the elite wish to impose, the chaos begins. Propaganda is the tool of indoctrination and it goes back to psychological programming as we have discussed before, which is also synonymous with synthetic realities. Synthetic realities could be defined as the intentional manipulation and distortion of what we perceive to be true in order to achieve a particular aim or goal. In essence it is the annihilation of compassion, rationale, logic, and sympathy. It works to rape and distort human beings from their humanity and mutual desire to assist each other... [I prefer the "North Atlantic Terrorist Organization"] Read more...Another Israeli False Flag? | Stephen Lendman Mossad and Shin Bet (Israel's Security Agency) have long, odious histories of committing them. At issue now is whether the August 18 bus and other attacks inside Israel were committed by external elements or Israel, and if so, why? Also at issue always is cui bono? In fact, Hamas and various Palestinian resistance groups have nothing to gain. Clearly Israel benefits greatly... Read more... AIPAC Paid 81 Congress' Vacations In Israel | RT on YouTube While the US continues to struggle with its economic issues Congress is on vacation. Many are upset at the news reports that 81 members of Congress have chosen to spend a week relaxing in Israel. These vacations are being paid for by AIPAC. Adam Shapiro, an activist, tells us his thoughts on the matter... Watch video... Declassified: Massive Israeli manipulation of US media exposed | RT on YouTube Files declassified in America have revealed covert public relations and lobbying activities of Israel in the U.S. The National Archive made the documents public following a Senate investigation. They suggest Israel has been trying to shape media coverage of issues it regards as important. You can download the files from the web-site of the Institute for Research on Middle Eastern policy... Watch video... Aug 21, 2011 Photo collage: Israeli warplanes continue to strike Gaza | Australians for Palestine  Is anyone going to do something about Israel’s flagrant disregard of human life? Children are being slaughtered and parents have nowhere to run to escape. Israel has the entire population of Gaza under siege and there is no safe haven for the Palestinians. Collective punishment directly contravenes Article 33 of the Fourth Geneva Convention, and is identified a war crime. How big must the numbers be before journalists will have the courage to write and editors to publish what Israel is doing again with impunity in violation of international law?.. See... North Atlantic Terrorist Organization (NATO) bombs civilians | YouTube An Apache Helicopter fired on innocent civilians celebrating the defeat of the rebels, they were in a central square of Zawia. Mousa Ibrahim, The Libyan Government Spokesman, said his brother was amongst those celebrating, and was killed by NATO... Read more... Architects and engineers challenge official story of World Trade Center Building 7 collapse | Natural News ...Scores of television and radio news outlets who had reporters on the scene, as well eyewitnesses and - perhaps most importantly - a number of architectural engineers all believe that WTC Building 7 buckled and fell not because of raging fires on the first floor that tore through office furniture and weakened the structure, as a government agency concluded, but because it had been rigged well in advance with explosives... Read more... Zionists and the Palestine Narrative, by Mohammed Bsiso | Palestine Chronicle ...Powerful sea faring European forces expanded their empire into Canaanite (ancient Arab) territory, occupying and expelling its original inhabitants and causing regional instability. Sound familiar to anyone? The history of the Philistine invasion and occupation of Arab lands might as well be the same narrative of the modern history of Palestine under British colonialism with the mere shuffling of names and players... Read more... Return of the Generals, by Uri Avnery | Palestine Chronicle  Gaza. Back to the morgue ...This week’s attack was also an answer to a prayer. Seems that God loves Netanyahu and the military establishment. The incident not only wiped the protest off the screen, it also put an end to any serious chance of taking billions off the huge military budget in order to strengthen the social services. On the contrary, the event proved that we need a sophisticated electronic fence along the 150 miles of our desert border with Sinai. More, not less, billions for the military. Before this miracle occurred, it looked as if the protest movement was unstoppable...Read more... WASP society is disintegrating, by Philip Weiss | Mondoweiss ...I wonder when people will begin to describe the new elite. We shy away from doing so because it engages issues of anti-semitism, but if you think of that self-contained WASP society, the only thing to contend with it, in term of social cohesion, is affluent Jewish society, the Jewish mandarins of New York and Washington. No one has given us a name-- the media industrial complex?.. Read more... Debate on Israeli crimes grow in West | PressTV Press TV talks with Sarah Colborne, Director of Palestinian Solidarity Campaign in London in a discussion that centers on a book entitled 'Gaza in Crisis' written jointly by Professors Noam Chomsky and Israeli historian Ilan Pappe... Read more... Carnage in Norway: Refreshing the Narrative, by Jeff Gates | Intifada Palestine  War-making storylines tend to lose their steam. Sustained warfare requires more than just a plausible Evil Doer. A credible narrative is also essential. To remind us who to hate, who better than a murderous Nordic Muslim-hater?.. Read more... Alan Duncan irks British Israel Lobby | Rehmat's World British Israel Lobby’s mouthpiece, Jewish Chronicle, has been running a campaign of character-assassination against British Minister of State for International Development, Alan Duncan for a while for speaking a few truths in public about the Zionist entity... Read more, watch video... Turkey plans diplomatic assault on Israel after its refusal to apologize for Gaza flotilla raid, by Barak Ravid | Haaretz Turkey plans to launch a diplomatic and legal assault on Israel after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu refused on Wednesday to issue an apology to Turkey for the raid on the Gaza aid flotilla last year in which nine Turkish pro-Palestinian activists were killed... Read more... Get ready for more stupid Mideast violence | Stephen M. Walt  If memory serves, one of the lessons of Roger Fisher's little book International Conflict for Beginners was "settle conflicts early and often." This isn't always possible, of course, but his basic insight was that unresolved conflicts are dangerous precisely because they provide opportunities that extremists can exploit, they harden perceptions and images on both sides, and most importantly, they can always get worse. So when a promising opportunity to settle a conflict arises, wise leaders should pursue them energetically... Read more... Judgment day for U.S. torture chiefs - Part I: Obama bans war criminals, except our own, by Nat Hentoff | The Star Democrat By executive order on Aug. 4, President Barack Obama refused entry to the United States of war criminals and human-rights violators. He ignored, as he often does, the deeply documented factual evidence of war crimes committed by the Bush-Cheney administration along with grim proof that the Obama administration also violates our anti-torture laws and the U.N. Convention Against Torture we signed... Read more... A prime aim of the growing Surveillance State, by Glenn Greenwald | Salon ...The free flow of information and communications enabled by new technologies - as protest movements in the Middle East and a wave of serious leaks over the last year have demonstrated - is a uniquely potent weapon in challenging entrenched government power and other powerful factions. And that is precisely why those in power - those devoted to preservation of the prevailing social order - are so increasingly fixated on seizing control of it and snuffing out its potential for subverting that order... Read more... Aug 20, 2011 From Arab Spring To Jobless Summers | Intifada Palestine  ...Look for more demonstrations in Europe like those in Greece (with 38.5pc unemployment) and by the jobless in countries facing financial crises like Spain (45.7pc unemployment), Italy (27.8pc unemployment) and Ireland (26.9pc unemployment). Who knows? Disastrous economics in America could usher in a riotous summer. There are already calls for a “Day of Rage” in the US... Read more... Israeli Persecution of Palestinian Children | Stephen Lendman ..Repeatedly in many ways, the real Israel belies the myth of a free, open, democratic state. In fact, the very notion is ludicrous even to growing numbers of fed up Israelis, voting with their feet and leaving. As a result, it's no exaggeration calling Israel a failed state, a topic Noam Chomsky addressed in one of his many books... Read more... How MEMRI doctored Finkelstein's interview to portray him as a Holocaust denier | Norman Finkelstein ...rational people, reasonable people, will not debate the factual question. But then there is a second question, the political question, namely, the use to which the Nazi holocaust has been put. Is the Nazi holocaust being used as a way of enlightening people about human suffering and about crimes committed against innocent people? Or is the Nazi holocaust being used to confuse people and to deny crimes which are being committed now by Jews? That’s a political question and we shouldn’t confuse the two... ["MEMRI is a main arm of Israeli propaganda. Although widely used in the mainstream media as a source of information on the Arab world, it is as trustworthy as Julius Streicher’s Der Sturmer was on the Jewish world" - NF] Read more...America, Israel and the New Holocaust, by Gordon Duff | Veterans Today ...The systematic control of all media, all history, all reporting, continual hate mongering, pulpits, the airwaves, TV dramas, the highly organized and sinister emails that do the rounds, the heavily financed “best sellers” are all attacks on the American people as much as any war. They are pure terrorism... Read more... Journalists who engage in war propaganda must be held accountable, by Thierry Meyssan | Voltaire Network The war propaganda has entered a new phase, involving the coordinated action of satellite TV stations. CNN, France24, the BBC and Al Jazeera have become instruments of disinformation used to demonize governments and justify armed aggressions. These practices are illegal under international law and the impunity of the perpetrators must be stopped... Read more... Did Tenet Hide Key 9/11 Info? by Ray McGovern | Consortium News With few exceptions – like some salacious rumor about the Kennedy family – the mainstream U.S. news media has little interest in historical stories. Such was the case when an ex-White House terrorism official accused a former CIA director of withholding information that might have prevented a 9/11 attack, Ray McGovern reports... Read more... The Myth of a Judeo-Christian Tradition, by New Dawn Magazine | ICH .."The current expression 'Judaeo-Christian' is an error which has altered the course of universal history by the confusion it has sown in men's minds, if by it one is meant to understand the Jewish origin of Christianity . . . If the term 'Judaeo-Christian' does point to a common origin, there is no doubt that it is a most dangerous idea. It is based on a 'contradictio in abjecto' which has set the path of history on the wrong track. It links in one breath two ideas which are completely irreconcileable, it seeks to demonstrate that there is no difference between day and night or hot and cold or black and white, and thus introduces a fatal element of confusion to a basis on which some, nevertheless, are endeavouring to construct a civilisation.".. Read more... RIP: America's Anti-War Movement | Stephen Lendman ..."....it's hard to mobilize people under Obama. We have the same anti-war movement (but) not the same passion," though it's hard believing its comatose state resembles impressive past efforts. Yet it's critical for that passion to be revived and sustained until America's addiction to war ends. Freedom and planet earth's fate depend on it... Read more... Franklin Lamb: Tripoli On The Cusp | Intifada Palestine Truth be told, some foreign observers, and certainly this one, having been based in Tripoli the past nearly eight weeks, have not taken very seriously occasional media predictions that Tripoli might soon be invaded by “NATO rebels” and certainly not by NATO country forces putting their boots on the ground. The reasons include observations that the Libyan population is increasingly expressing anger over members of their families and tribes being killed by NATO sorties claiming to be “protecting civilians.”.. Read more... Eretz Yisrael: Lawless, Corrupt and Dysfunctional | Stephen Lendman What do you call a country that persecutes occupied people and one-fifth of its own population for not being Jewish? An illegal occupier for over 44 years, suffocating over 1.6 million Gazans under siege! A nation practicing torture, persecution, and racism as official policies! A modern day Sparta, glorifying wars and violence!.. Read more... Libya and the end of Western illusions, by Thierry Meyssan | Voltaire Network Five months into the bombing campaign, it is no longer possible to believe the initial official version of the events and the massacres attributed to the "Gaddafi regime". Moreover, it is now essential to take into account Libya’s legal and diplomatic rebuttal, highlighting the crimes against peace committed by television propaganda, the war crimes perpetrated by NATO military forces, and the crimes against humanity sponsored by political leaders of the Atlantic Alliance... Read more... Rense & Susan Lindauer: NATOs Libyan War Crimes | YouTube "In Libya, the Rebels are called "Terrorists." That's not Gadhaffi talking. That's ordinary people. From the LIbyan vantage point, NATO is backing "Terrorists." And they are not going to tolerate it.".. Watch video... USA's myopic extremists take the lead | Redress Information & Analysis Lawrence Davidson considers the worldview and political “philosophy” of America’s myopic extremists, such as Michelle Bachmann and others in the Republican and Tea parties, who seem to be capturing the imagination of a significant minority of the US electorate that is essentially parochial and hostile to the notion of a broad community that requires public financial support and regulatory guidance... Read more... Aug 19, 2011 Israeli air strikes hit Gaza Strip | Al Jazeera English  An injured woman is wheeled into a Gaza City hospital following Israeli air strikes early on Tuesday One person has been killed and five others have been wounded in Israeli air strikes on the Gaza Strip, according to Palestinian medical sources...[Netanyahu's response to the protests - it seems to have had the desired effect - the good little Zionist boys and girls are folding up their tents.] Read more... Robbing Peter to Pay Israel, by Josh Ruebner | FPIF ...these congressional delegations are not all fun and games. Members of Congress will be expected to sing for their lavish dinners by honoring President Bush’s 2007 pledge to provide the Israeli military with $30 billion of tax-payer-funded weapons between 2009 and 2018. So far, proposed increases in military aid to Israel have been spared from the budgetary chopping block by President Obama and a compliant Congress that treats Israeli militarism as more sacrosanct than medical care for seniors. This despite the fact that Israel misuses the funds, in violation of the Arms Export Control Act, to commit human rights abuses against Palestinians living under its illegal 44-year military occupation of the West Bank, East Jerusalem, and Gaza Strip... Read more... Islam and Europe: An Equal and Opposite Reaction, by Eric Walberg | Dissident Voice Ramadan exemplifies the powerful spiritual calling of Islam. Dry fasting is more a test of the spirit, the will, proof of devotion, than just some health gimmick. And it is precisely this cultivation of mass “mind over matter” that frustrates Western secularists, so used to indulging every consumer fetish on a whim... Read more... A Holocaust Expert Moves from Moral Certainty toward Open Debate: A review of The Case for Auschwitz, by Samuel Crowell | IHR ...this is an important book. First, because it represents the first serious attempt to discuss the arguments of revisionists; second, because the treatment of the arguments, while incomplete, is thorough, civil, and touches upon the writings of a number of prominent researchers, including Faurisson, Butz, Stäglich, Rudolf, and this reviewer. (A significant omission is that of Carlo Mattogno, perhaps because Mattogno's authoritative analyses of crematories operation are not easily refuted.).. Read more... Arabic under fire, by Brian Whitaker | The Guardian ...Memri, the "research institute" which specialises in translating portions of the Arabic media into English, has issued a video clip from a children's programme on Hamas TV in which it claims that a Palestinian girl talked of becoming a suicide bomber and annihilating the Jews. Memri - described by New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman as "invaluable" - supplies translations free of charge to journalists, politicians and others, particularly in the US. Though Memri claims to be "independent" and maintains that it does not "advocate causes or take sides", it is run by Yigal Carmon, a former colonel in Israeli military intelligence... Read more... Maxim Shevchenko: "I will advocate for the Palestinian cause until I die." | Middle East Monitor  I will advocate for the Palestinian cause until justice comes to Palestine or until I die ..Palestinians have a great deal of support from Muslims in Russia - which is heading towards 20% of the Russian population. Parties on the Left also support Palestinians including the Communist party - it is about 25% of Russians. These are activists. I think that on the whole more than 90% of Russian people support Palestinians...Read more... State Department beneficiary, MEMRI, is dedicated to bringing Israeli ideas about Arab world and Iran into U.S. establishment, by Phillip Weiss | Mondoweiss Yesterday's $200,000 grant from the State Department to the Middle East Media Research Institute, or MEMRI, whose boards are loaded with Bush-era neocons, including Elliott Abrams, John Bolton and Bernard Lewis, is shocking news... Read more... Haven't the post-Oslo years taught Mahmoud Abbas anything? by Ibrahim Hewitt | Middle East Monitor The Jewish Chronicle's Martin Bright has revealed details of "a secret meeting between Israeli President Shimon Peres and Mahmoud Abbas, the President of the Palestinian Authority" alleged to have taken place in London earlier this year. Alarmingly, given the history of the end-result of such discussions between Israelis and Palestinians, Bright claims that the meeting is "part of a series of back-channel negotiations to reach a peace agreement in the Middle East". It was hosted, says the JC, "by UK businessman Poju Zabludowicz at his north London home". Zabludowicz is no neutral, well-meaning third-party... Read more... Hold Israel accountable with Leahy law, by Josh Ruebner | The Hill ..The “Leahy Law,” as it is commonly known, prohibits the United States from providing any weapons or training to “any unit of the security forces of a foreign country if the Secretary of State has credible evidence that such unit has committed gross violations of human rights.” In the past, this law has been invoked to curtail military aid to countries as diverse as Indonesia, Colombia, Pakistan, and the Philippines. Along with other provisions in the Foreign Assistance Act, of which it is a part, and the Arms Export Control Act, it forms the basis of an across-the-board policy that is supposed to ensure that U.S. assistance does not contribute to human rights abuses... Read more... Rick Perry: Extremist White America's Evangelical Hope | Stephen Lendman ..Texas-based commentator Molly Ivins (1944 - 2007) called him "despicable" and much more. Ridiculing him as "Gov. Goodhair," she compared him to George Bush, saying, "O Please, Dear God, Not Another One," quoting a country song... Read more... US-Arab Disconnect: Revolutions Restate Region's Priorities, by Ramzy Baroud | Palestine Chronicle  There is now no turning back As the Arab Spring continues to challenge dictators, demolish old structures and ponder roadmaps for a better future, the US remains committed to its failed policies, misconceptions and selfish interests. Arabs may disagree on many things, but few disagree on the fact that there is now no turning back. The age of the dictator, the Mubaraks and Ben Alis is fading. A new dawn with a whole new set of challenges is upon us. Debates in the region are now concerned with democracy, civil society and citizenship... Read more... Israel dictates US policies: Interview with Hesham Tillawi | PressTV ...Israel is in control of the United States, you know why we don't see NATO planes bombing Israel, because they can't, they only go to places that they can bomb and flex their muscles. So it is not that Israel thinks that they can, Israel knows they can get away with it because Israel has the biggest supporters in the world, the super powers in the world are under its control. People think that the United States helps Israel, no, Israel is in control of the United State's policies... Read more... What Would Happen To You If You Said That Out Loud? | Video Rebel's Blog Imagine you are a journalist who is allowed to ask President Obama a real question. You say that Matt Taibbi of Rolling Stone has revealed that the SEC has violated American law and shredded all of the evidence in 18,000 cases. Mr President, with all respect why have you not already demanded the resignations of the entire SEC after learning Harry Markoplolos had given hundreds of pages of documentation detailing the Bernie Madoff fraud which was ignored?.. Read more... Syria Under Fire: Zionist Destabilization Hits Critical Mass, by Jonathan Azaziah | Mask of Zion ..An operations team was assembled by the House of Saud and the usurping Israeli regime, working together with a closeness most would have never imagined to be possible, and an HQ was established in Brussels with various satellites inaugurated in America and Britain just prior to the inception of the ‘Syrian Revolution.’ Leading this team are Zionists US Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs Jeffery Feltman and US Ambassador to Israel Dan Shapiro, former Lebanese Prime Minister Sa’ad Hariri, influential, US-based Zionist Syrian exiles Farid al-Ghadry and Ammar Abdulhamid, the well-connected ex-Syrian VP, Abdel-Halim Khaddam and of course, the powerful Syrian Muslim Brotherhood... Read more... Israel's swinish Zionism ought to be stopped, by Gideon Levy | Haaretz There's a remarkable resemblance in Israel between Zionism and wealth: Both have not known when to stop. These days we're talking about "swinish capitalism," a term coined by President Shimon Peres back when he was an MK; he was referring in particular to Benjamin Netanyahu, who was finance minister at the time and is now prime minister. It's worth remembering that there is also swinish Zionism... Read more... Aug 18, 2011 Donors help keep Palestinians in cages, by Charlotte Silver | The Electronic Intifada  Development aid to the Palestinian Authority has only entrenched Israel’s occupation and colonization “Israel besieges us, puts us in cantons — in cages — and the international community is feeding us in these cages. It’s anything but developmental and it’s helping Israel’s colonization, ethnic cleansing and dispossession,”..Read more... Daily Rogue State Israeli Lawlessness | Stephen Lendman ...Since the 1980s, destructive neoliberalism plagued Israel like the West. A race to the bottom followed, producing social injustice, inequality, and growing human need. Israelis finally reacted, demanding change, at the same time showing a hint of solidarity with Arab citizens, far more gravely impacted than themselves... Read more... Middle East Policy: A zero-sum game? by Michael Hudson | Al Jazeera English Washington is enjoying a mostly pleasant summer. The Atlantic seashore two hours away is packed with carefree beach-goers of all ages. Looking at them you wouldn't think that US politics had sunk to the lowest level of dysfunction in the memory of veteran Washingtonians... Read more... Look Who Is In The Super Congress | Video Rebel's Blog ...This Super Congress is designed to grab all power in a few hands. It is not designed to ever balance the budget. That will never happen until we seize the FED, arrest every criminal in Washington and on Wall Street, stop the wars and cut off all aid to Israel... Read more... From Iran to Somalia - With Love | Rehmat's World A 40-ton second aid consignment from Iran’s Red Crescent Society flown in Mogadishu on Thursday, was distributed among femine-striken Somali refugees on Saturday to help save people’s lives in one of Africa’s poorest countries. The shipment, consisted of rice, legumes, canned food, sugar, and medication, was flown to the capital Mogadishu and handed over to the Somali Red Crescent on Thursday. The Iranian Red Crescent Society says it will soon send its third batch of aid to Somalia... Read more... First Lady Now Requires 26 Servants, by Dr. Paul L. Williams | Canada Free Press ...Michelle Obama, as we reported on July 7, is not served by twenty-two attendants who stand by to cater to her every whim. She is served by twenty-six attendants, including a hair dresser and make-up artist. The annual cost to taxpayers for such unprecedented attention is approximately $1,750,000 without taking into account the expense of the lavish benefit packages afforded to every attendant... Read more... NATO planning military attack on Iran | PressTV Russia's envoy to NATO Dmitry Rogozin says the NATO is planning a military strike against the Islamic Republic to overthrow the Iranian government... Read more... Radical Zionists Encourage the Murder of Millions of Innocent People with Nuclear Weapons just because they are Arabs or Muslims | Loonwatch Nuclear weapons are the most terrible weapons ever invented. The initial explosion is as hot as the sun, capable of instantly vaporizing an entire city. Afterward, the survivors are certain to suffer from the fall-out and die from radiation poisoning. Generations to come will experience genetic mutations, not to mention the tremendous damage done to the environment itself. Innocent people are guaranteed to be victims for many years after the blast. But none of these horrors are too much for the radically Islamophobic wing of Zionism... Read more... Islamophobia, Zionism and the Norway massacre, by Ali Abunimah | Al Jazeera English ...In order for Israel and the United States to have the same enemy, the enemy could not just be the Palestinians, who never threatened the United States in any way. It had to be something bigger and even more menacing - and Islam fit the bill. The hyped-up narrative of an all-encompassing Islamic threat allowed Israel to be presented as the bastion of "western" and "Judeo-Christian" civilisation facing down encroaching Muslim barbarity. No audience was more receptive than politically influential, white, right-wing Christian evangelical pastors and their flocks... Read more... How We Got Here: The Economics of Islamophobia, by Lawrence Swaim | Counterpunch Under President Ronald Reagan in the 1980s, the corporate upper class started exporting basic industry offshore, where wages were lower. That was a staggering blow to the middle class in the American rust belt. The same corporate CEOs likewise used globalization to sell goods and services abroad, rather than in the US. Ominously, among them arose a dangerous new breed of multi-billionaires who were rightwing extremists and completely without scruple. These super-rich individuals, such as Rupert Murdoch and the Koch brothers, began to use their wealth to attack American democracy and disenfranchise the middle class, because their income no longer depended on American workers and consumers... Read more... Ginzberg: The Interpreter Of Jewish Aims | I Am the Witness ...The Protocols are sometimes criticized as containing nothing that had not been said previously by philosophers or statesmen; but even if that were true, it would detract little from their interest. For their importance does not lie in the aim, world domination, nor in the theory by which it is attained, exploitation of man's baser instincts, but in the extraordinary astuteness with which the practical application of the plan has been suited to existing conditions... Read more... The Gas Chamber of Sherlock Holmes, by Samuel Crowell | Nine-Banded Books Among scholars and the general public, the prevailing consensus holds that millions of European Jews were sent to death in gas chambers as part of an official Nazi policy of mass extermination during the Second World War. So entrenched is this consensus that throughout the Western world those who publicly question its accuracy are now routinely subject to censorship, academic censure, and even criminal prosecution. In contemporary society, no other species of dissident scholarship is met with comparably illiberal reaction... Read more... Israel fears legitimacy of Palestine: Interview with Daoud Khairallah | PressTV ..the president of the US, in his speech to the Arab world and to the Muslim world, tells them that he considers the settlements illegal. But when the international community decides to condemn or blame the Israelis for doing something illegal the US goes in and vetoes such a resolution. So the Israelis are behaving as the spoiled outlaws of the world and are continuing to do this as long as they feel that the gains outweigh the losses -- so they are going to continue this process as long as the US protects them... Read transcript, watch video... Beware Hezbollah: Fears Israel has Lebanon strike on cards | RT on YouTube Peace activists in Tel Aviv believe a new Israeli-Lebanon war is now inevitable. They say now is the perfect time for a new conflict to shift international attention from social protests within Israel, as well as the possibility a new Palestinian state could be recognized... Read transcript, watch video... New York Times Disinformation, Denial and Suppressing Vital Truths | Stephen Lendman America's "newspaper of record" makes painful reading for alternative media consumers, knowledgeable about what Times correspondents, opinion contributors and editorial writers misreport, conceal, or lie outrageously about... Read more... Oslo's Other Tragedy, by Dallas Darling | Palestine Chronicle Oslo's 'other' tragedy had nothing to do with a homegrown killer, one who had became mesmerized with extremist views and images shown in the global mass media, and one who had internalized a fearful, manipulative, impulsive, and militant “market place” of reactionary ideas. Instead, Oslo’s other tragedy had to do with Norway’s Fafo Foundation, a group of researchers and human rights activists concerned for, and involved in, international peace, particularly in the Middle East... Read more... Rumsfeld & Co. should be jailed - torture trial a good start | RT on YouTube A U.S. court has ruled that two American contractors, who worked for a private security firm in Iraq, can sue Donald Rumsfeld over their alleged illegal imprisonment and torture. If proven guilty, the former Pentagon chief would be held personally accountable. While in Iraq, the two men made claims that their firm was engaged in corruption. It's believed that they were then detained for nine months at a military facility, before being released without explanation or charge... Watch video... NATO's ultimate War Crime: Destroying Libya's water supply, by Timothy Bancroft-Hinchey | Global Research A NATO terrorist attack has hit a water pipes factory in al-Brega, murdering six guards, this being the factory which makes pipes for the great man-made irrigation system across the desert which brings water to seventy per cent of Libyan homes, according to sources in Libya. The factory was hit after the water supply network was destroyed on Friday, July 22 2011. A date for humanity to remember. NATO hit the Libyan water supply pipeline. It will take months to repair. Then on Saturday they hit the pipeline factory producing pipes to repair it... Read more... The fall of the last Superpower in the trillion dollar war, by Hugo Odiogor | Vanguard Nigeria ...when former President George W. Bush returned to the bellicose ways of his father, American played down social and financial implications of embarking on military campaigns in Afghanistan and Iraq. His spin doctors told Americans that the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq were going to be fast, decisive and less expensive. His military advisers said they expected a quick and inexpensive conflict, but “we have a war that is costing more than anyone could have imagined”.. Read more... Western media lie about Syria: eyewitness reports, by Nadezhda Kevorkova and Anhar Kochneva | Global Research ...Not even once did I come across anyone who would in any way support these riots; and mind you, in the line of my job, I deal with all sorts of people. There are many vehicles with the president’s portraits driving the streets throughout the country – ranging from old, barely moving crankers to brand new Porsches and Hummers. You can't force people into hanging up portraits. It means that people, irrespective of their status and income, support the president rather than the rebellion. I saw quite a number of young people walking or driving around with Syrian flags. How can you force a young person hanging out with friends to wave flags?.. Read more... NATO and Turkey Support Armed Rebels in Syria: Campaign to Recruit Muslim "Freedom Fighters", by Michel Chossudovsky | Global Research The Western media has played a central role in obfuscating the nature of foreign interference in Syria including outside support to armed insurgents. In chorus they have described recent events in Syria as a "peaceful protest movement" directed against the government of Bashar Al Assad. Recent developments in Syria point to a full-fledged armed insurgency, integrated by Islamist "freedom fighters", supported, trained and equipped by NATO and Turkey's High Command... Read more... Analysis of Financial Terrorism in America, by David DeGraw | Global Research Over 1 Million Deaths Annually, 62 Million People With Zero Net Worth, As the Economic Elite Make Off With $46 Trillion Despite increasing personal financial hardship, most Americans remain unaware of the economic world war currently unfolding. An all-pervasive corporate and government propaganda campaign has effectively obscured this blatant reality. After extensive analysis, it is evident that World War III is a war between the richest one-tenth of one percent of the global population and 99.9 percent of humanity. Or, as I have called it, The Economic Elite Vs. The People. This war has been a one-sided attack thus far. However, as we have seen throughout the world in recent months, the people are beginning to fight back. The following report is a statistical analysis of the systemic economic attacks against the American people...Read more... As America's Economy Collapses, "New Normal" Police State Takes Shape, by Tom Burghardt | Prison Planet Forget your rights. As corporate overlords position themselves to seize what little remains of a tattered social net (adieu Medicare and Medicaid! Social Security? Au revoir!), the Obama administration is moving at break-neck speed to expand police state programs first stood-up by the Bush government. After all, with world share prices gyrating wildly, employment and wages in a death spiral, and retirement funds and publicly-owned assets swallowed whole by speculators and rentier scum, the state better dust-off contingency plans lest the Greek, Spanish or British “contagion” spread beyond the fabled shores of “old Europe” and infect God-fearin’ folk here in the heimat... Read more... Neighbor: "That's Not Osama, It's all a fake, nothing happened" | Global Research ...Out of the 50 Abbottobad residents interviewed by the BBC, only one believed that Osama bin Laden was in their town. Others claimed the pictures and video of bin Laden in his home are fakes made with a computer... Read more, watch video... Bailouts Serve the Creditors; Enslave the Debtors, by John Perkins | Information Clearing House News As I write this, I am watching the economic chaos in Greece. I’m sure we’re all sharing the feelings of fear of economic collapse that is rampant among the other European countries – and in fact, around the world. These events are classic cases of what I detail in my books – “Confesssions of An Economic Hit Man” and “Hoodwinked.” Greece has been struck by economic hit men... Read more... 30 Years Ago Today: The Day the Middle Class Died | Michael Moore From time to time, someone under 30 will ask me, "When did this all begin, America's downward slide?" They say they've heard of a time when working people could raise a family and send the kids to college on just one parent's income (and that college in states like California and New York was almost free). That anyone who wanted a decent paying job could get one. That people only worked five days a week, eight hours a day, got the whole weekend off and had a paid vacation every summer. That many jobs were union jobs, from baggers at the grocery store to the guy painting your house, and this meant that no matter how "lowly" your job was you had guarantees of a pension, occasional raises, health insurance and someone to stick up for you if you were unfairly treated... Read more... Aug 16, 2011 The Holycause: Walking the Third Rail, by the Editor | One Democratic State ...the noblest and most crucial human rights struggle of our time, against the apartheid, settler-colonialist, fascist State of Israel, can only be successful if we are able to debunk both of the twin pillars of the mytho-historical Zionist narrative. Creating doubt in the public mind about just one won't cut the mustard – the Hydra has two heads. The case against the historical right of Jewry to dispossess the Palestinians has been exhaustively made and most of the world is on board, at least outside of the English speaking countries, but doubting the dogma of the Holycause remains too subversive, too dangerous for “prudent” people to acknowledge... Read more... IDF forces arrest 12 people protesting for social justice in West Bank, by Amira Hass | Haaretz  ...When construction is completed, the village and its 2,500 residents will be surrounded on all sides by an eight-meter high concrete wall. The only access to the road connecting them to Beit Jala will probably be through a gate manned by soldiers... Read more... Israel in a global community, by Mazin Qumsiyeh | Nonviolent Action Network During a recent visit to Al-Walaja to stand in solidarity with farmers whose trees were being bulldozed, I asked an Israeli officer what he was doing there, and he stated that he was defending Israel. I asked him how uprooting 400 year old olive trees in front of Ata’s house makes Israel safer, and he changed the subject to say that he was obeying orders... Read more... Nurit Peled-Elhanan's new book, exposing the racism of Israel's education system | Jewish Peace News Nurit Peled-Elhanan, a long time peace activist and an academic, has just got her book "Palestine in Israeli School Books: Ideology and Propaganda in Education" published by I.B. Tauris. Part of the publisher's description of the book: "She analyzes the presentation of images, maps, layouts and use of language in History, Geography and Civic Studies textbooks, and reveals how the books might be seen to marginalize Palestinians, legitimize Israeli military action and reinforce Jewish-Israeli territorial identity... Read more... A "Humanitarian War" on Syria?: Military Escalation, by Michel Chossudovsky | Global Research An extended Middle East Central Asian war has been on the Pentagon's drawing board since the mid-1990s. As part of this extended war scenario, the US-NATO alliance plans to wage a military campaign against Syria under a UN sponsored "humanitarian mandate". Escalation is an integral part of the military agenda. Destabilization of sovereign states through "regime change" is closely coordinated with military planning. There is a military roadmap characterised by a sequence of US-NATO war theaters... [The question is, who is willing and able to stop these maniacs from destroying much if not most of the world?] Read more...Banksters Without Borders: Russian runaway banker steals billions, lands on UK's rich list | RT on YouTube The case of former Russian senator Sergey Pugachev, whose bank owes the state more than $1 billion, has grown into one of the biggest financial scandals in Russian history, exposing drastic drawbacks in the country's banking regulations... Read more... Israeli Social Justice Protests Continue | Stephen Lendman What US print and broadcast media won't report, Israeli and other sources cover extensively, because what's ongoing is too significant to ignore. Happening at the same time across the Middle East, Europe, and elsewhere, it's just a matter of time before it erupts in America, most often a late bloomer. However, when intolerable conditions reach a breaking point, people react, and without redress, do it violently... Read more... U.S. and NATO Arming Syrian Opposition, Plan Military Strike, by Kurt Nimmo | Infowars ...Israeli intelligence, through Debka, confirms Turkish involvement in the effort to overthrow the Syrian government. Debka’s “military sources disclose that for the past two weeks, at least, Syrian protest leaders and army deserters have been training in the use of the new weapons with Turkish military officers at makeshift installations in Turkish bases near the Syrian border.”.. Read more, watch video with Webster Tarpley... Strange Death of American Revolution, by Jada Thacker | Consortium News At the heart of the American experiment was always a tension between oligarchy and democracy, with the oligarchs usually holding the upper hand. However, in recent decades, the struggle has taken a curious turn with the oligarchs largely obliterating the people’s memory of the true democratic cause... Read more... Russian journalist receives "death threats" for supporting Palestinians, by Dr. Hanan Chehata | Middle East Monitor "I have received anonymous death threats threatening to 'break my skull Shevchenko, one of Russia's leading journalists, has a wealth of experience behind him, and over the years he has been very open in his condemnation of Israel for its repeated violations of international law in its dealings with the Palestinians. This has, inevitably, led to him becoming a prime target of Russia's Zionists...so that shrapnel from it will take out both eyes of my wife Read more... Israel's social protesters mustn't forget the occupation, by Alon Idan | Haaretz ...During his first term, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu used phrases that exposed his tendency to divide parts of the population to bolster his authority. ("Leftists have forgotten what it means to be Jews," "They are afraid," and so on ). Since then, he has learned an important Machiavellian lesson: Do what you think, but say whatever the public wants to hear. This has made his current term far more destructive... Read more... Does Israel Teach Anti-Arab Bigotry? by Lawrence Davidson | Consortium News ...Arabs are collectively presented as “vile and deviant and criminal, people who do not pay taxes, people who live off the state, who don’t want to develop. … You never see [in the textbooks] a Palestinian child or doctor or teacher or engineer or modern farmer.” In contrast, she finds that Palestinian textbooks, even while telling history from a Palestinian point of view, “distinguish between Zionists and Jews”; they tend to take a stand “against Zionists, not against Jews.” Peled-Elhanan makes a link between what Israeli children are taught and how they later behave when drafted into the country’s military services... [Does a bear piss in the woods?] Read more...Women victims of Israeli occupation: Interview with Dr. Maria Holt | PressTV A prominent female author has written a book exposing impact of the Israeli occupation on the lives of Palestinian women... Read transcript, watch video... "A Congregation of Pain": Pakistan at 64, by Tariq Ali | Counterpunch ...There have been three constants in Pakistan's political life: the United States, the Pakistani army and a corrupt, uncaring elite, currently symbolised by President Asif Ali Zardari, known throughout the world as someone whose interest in making money and accumulating property transcends all else. The last opinion polls in the towns showed him on 2 per cent... Read more... Special Ops and the Spectre of Terrorism: The New Face of War, by John Grant | Counterpunch How do you assure the security of a nation of human beings who consume a disproportionate amount of the world's resources, habitually live beyond their means and are addicted to all forms of fantasy from Bible-based delusion, to patriotism-based arrogance, to movie special effects that make ordinary human drama seem boring?.. Read more... Guns Of Brixton | Jimmy Cliff Music Listen... Why the Syrian regime won't fall, by Pepe Escobar | Asia Times Online ...The Assad regime has done the math and realized it won't fall as long as the protests don't reach the capital Damascus and the major city of Aleppo - that is, convulse the urban middle class. The security/military apparatus is fully behind Assad. All Syrian religious minorities make up at least 25% of the population; they are extremely fearful of Sunni fundamentalists. Secular Sunnis for their part fear a regime change that would lead to either an Islamist takeover or chaos. So it's fair to argue the majority of Syrians are indeed behind their government - as inept and heavy-handed as it may be... Read more... The Truth About al Qaeda, by John Mueller | Foreign Affairs ...In the wake of the killing of Osama bin Laden, officials now have more al Qaeda computers, which reportedly contain a wealth of information about the workings of the organization in the intervening decade. A multi-agency task force has completed its assessment, and according to first reports, it has found that al Qaeda members have primarily been engaged in dodging drone strikes and complaining about how cash-strapped they are. Some reports suggest they've also been looking at quite a bit of pornography... Read more... Aug 15, 2011 "Last Man Out" Makes Shocking 9/11 Disclosure | Before It's News  William “Willy” Rodriguez is the 9/11 hero who helped save hundreds of lives, and the last person to escape alive from the World Trade Center (WTC) Towers. Inasmuch as the thrust of this narrative is meant to be about the honor, nobleness, and benevolence of heroism, be forewarned. In its effort to reveal the essential goodness that resides in the hearts of most human beings, it also inexorably exposes the vilest evil that festers in the minds of a few... [This is actually old news, yet it's a big nail in the coffin of the vast lie that is "9/11" as well as the vile protection racket that is the USraeli Empire, if only we could get people to come to the funeral.] Read more...US Congress Moves to Israel in Deficit-Reduction Effort: A Credible Conspiracy, by Abu Fadi | Disassociated Press In the wake of the announcement that 81 US Congressmen are leaving on an AIPAC-sponsored junket to Israel, the new SuperCongress announced today that the entire legislative branch of the US government will be moved to Tel Aviv. The reason, according to informed sources, is to save on travel junket expenses to reduce the national deficit... Read more... London Riots and the Big Picture | Gilad Atzmon It is astonishing to find that the British press that is so quick to tell us about the ‘true’ nature and motivations behind each mass protest in the Arab world, is somehow intellectually lame in its attempt to grasp their own huge scale riots at home. Until now, I have failed to see even a single worthy analytical attempt to understand the full meaning or significance of the current violent events taking place on the streets of cities all over the UK... Read more... Free Palestine Movement announces flotilla with AIM representative | Censored News  The Free Palestine Movement announces the Nour al-Haqiqa (Light of Truth) Flotilla vessel and its goal of reaching Gaza. American Indian Movement representative Jimbo Simmons, Choctaw, is among those making plans to be on the vessel. During a recent interview broadcast at the Protecting Mother Earth Gathering in North Dakota, Simmons said he is making plans to be on the vessel. The Free Palestine Movement made a public announcement of plans for the Nour al-Haqiqa Flotilla vessel today... Read more... Open letter to the Israeli security apparatus | The Freedom Theatre ...By acting the way that you act you have once again proved to the residents of Jenin refugee camp as well as to the outside world that the only methods you know are the ones involving violence, terror and fear... Read more... European Unrest: Entirely Staged Political Theatre, by Gordon Duff | Veterans Today The current civil unrest in Britain has been carefully staged by the government and security services working in concert with news media, and Israeli intelligence... Read more, watch video... Why boycott Israel?: Mark LeVine and Lisa Taraki | Australians for Palestine  ..The BDS movement can be summed up as the struggle against Israeli colonisation, occupation and apartheid. BDS is a rights-based strategy to be pursued until Israel meets its obligation to recognise the Palestinian people’s inalienable right to self-determination and complies with the requirements of international law... Read more... NATO'S Massacre at Majer, Libya, by Franklin Lamb | Intifada Palestine Located about 20 miles east of the ancient Roman city of Leptis Magna, six miles south of Zliten, and off Libya’s southern coast across the Mediterranean from Rome, Majer was a picturesque village known for the fine quality of its dates and is claimed by locals to produce the best tarbuni (date juice) in Libya... Read more... The Invisible Dead and "The Last Word": Lawrence O'Donnell 'Rewrites' the Occupation of Afghanistan, by Nima Shirazi | Wide Asleep in America  "It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is ...To mourn only fallen soldiers of one's own country and not even notice the civilians they are trained to kill in their own country is to rewrite the history of war and violence and further entrenches the vile ideology of "us vs. them", inverts aggressor and victim, and praises invasion and empire. Lawrence O'Donnell, by deliberately ignoring the thousands of Afghan dead during his encomium for the dead American soldiers, has proven that, as far as the mainstream media is concerned, justice will never have the last word... nothing but an act of murder." - Albert Einstein Read more... London Riots now in Bern, Switzerland | YouTube Watch thisvideo; a work of genius (happy 100th, Albert Camus)... Slash and Burn as the New Normal: Feral Capitalism Hits the Streets, by David Harvey | Counterpunch ...we live in a society where capitalism itself has become rampantly feral. Feral politicians cheat on their expenses, feral bankers plunder the public purse for all its worth, CEOs, hedge fund operators and private equity geniuses loot the world of wealth, telephone and credit card companies load mysterious charges on everyone's bills, shopkeepers price gouge, and, at the drop of a hat swindlers and scam artists get to practice three-card monte... Read more... Aug 14, 2011 The greatest elected body that money can buy: Why is Congress Going to Israel? | Stephen M. Walt  Abbot and Costello Just when you think your contempt for Congress could not get any higher, our elected representatives manage to do something to ratchet it up another notch. After congressional shenanigans helped spark a major market sell-off and sparked fears of a double-dip recession, you'd think every single one of them would be heading back to their districts to figure out what their constituents wanted and to try to explain how they were going to help make things better. Or maybe a few of them would even spend the recess taking a crash course in macroeconomics and public finance, so that they could start exercising their public duties more responsibly. But what did 81 of them decide to do instead?..Read more... Ron Paul Gives Rick Santorum a History Lesson on Iran, by Kurt Nimmo | Infowars ..After Paul said there is no evidence the Iranians are developing nuclear weapons and the United States should mind its own business, Santorum launched into the standard establishment narrative... Read more, watch video... The 'Wailing Wall' is not Jewish | Rehmat's World American archaeologist and author, Professor Dr. Ernest L. Martin (1932-2002) had conducted archaeology work in East jerusalem. In his controversial book ‘The Temples that Jerusalem Forgot’, published in 1999 – Dr. Martin claimed that Muslim sacred places, Al-Aqsa Mosque and the Dome of Rock are not built on top of the Temple Mount ruins... Read more... America: "A Parasite On The World" by Dr. Paul Craig Roberts | Global Research If Russian prime minister Putin’s recent description of America as “a parasite on the world” were reported by the US media, little doubt that most Americans would be infuriated. We are the virtuous people. Without us good guys to police the world there would be mayhem and wars everywhere, not merely the ones we started in the Middle East, Asia, and North Africa. Without the American white hats people everywhere would be starving and dying from natural disasters. It is us chosen ones who provide the rescue operations and good deeds. How dare the former KGB monster to slander our country!.. Read more... As Libyan rebels are falling apart at the seams, Gaddafi regime remains unfazed by NATO campaign, by Madison Ruppert | End the Lie The notion that an unelected body who declares itself the sole legitimate representation for an entire nation could be remotely legitimate is laughable at best. The fact is, the Libyan people never voted for these rebels and many do not support them. If the people of Libya were actually behind these self-declared rulers, how could they assemble such a massive pro-Gaddafi demonstration in the Libyan capital of Tripoli?.. Read more... NATO Massacres of Civilians Aimed at "Cleansing" the Libyan People's Resistance | Global Research  Destroyed farm house in Majer, near Zliten ...Areas in Zliten and Majer (Mager) were bombed by NATO for strategic reasons. The bombing of civilian areas is tied to the planning of NATO’s offensive against Tripoli. The Libyan clans in these areas have made it clear that they would fight the Transitional Council should its forces try to move westward against Tripoli from their position in Misurata. NATO deliberately bombed these areas “to clear the way” towards Tripoli... Read more... Education and behaviour in Israel and Palestine | Redress Information & Analysis Lawrence Davidson argues that while leveling charges of incitement at the Palestinian educational system, Israelis themselves have been practicing on their own children a form of indoctrination that vilifies Palestinians and Arabs... Read more... Humanity Lives On: From Gaza to Somalia, by Ramzy Baroud | Counterpunch ...During a recent Al Jazeera interview, the head of a Somalia-based charity mission decried the lack of support his people were receiving. He lambasted the world, particularly Arabs and Muslims. He seemed puzzled by the fact that little support is reaching the victims even during the holiest of Muslim periods. Then he spoke of the aid arriving from Gaza. The news anchor cut him off quickly at this point, and moved on to a 'related topic': aid sent by the Qatari government. I wondered about it myself. Could Israel-besieged Gaza really be sending aid to famine-besieged Somalia? Indeed... Read more... High-Stakes Blackmail: "Malefactors of Great Wealth" by Jeff Klein | Counterpunch ...why can't a Democratic President talk about the "Malefactors of Great Wealth" who are responsible for the economic catastrophe we face today? Could it have something to do with the fact that wealthy individuals and corporations fund the expensive electoral campaigns of both political parties, and so ensure that the solutions supported by the majority of people - raising taxes on the wealthy and the corporations, putting people to work, ending the wars, protecting Social Security and Medicare - are simply off the agenda?.. Read more... Refusing to be Enemies: Book Review by Jim Miles | Scoop News Israel has always indicated that there is no partner for peace in its relationships with the Palestinian people. Refusing to be Enemies refutes that idea solidly through its investigation into the non-violent resistance movement taking place in Palestine and in Israel. It also clarifies the nature of the Palestinian resistance and the nature of what non-violence truly stands for. As cited from Mohammed Khatib, “what the state of Israel fears most of all is the hope that people can live together based on justice and equality for all.”.. Read more... Aug 13, 2011 What can we do about the great American lie? by Michael Lewis | PressTV  I. F. Stone told us many years ago that All Governments Lie. Daniel Ellsberg, in Secrets: A Memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers, told us why governments, including Presidents, always lie, and must continue to lie about what they know to be true, but about which they cannot talk under constraints of "National Security." The lies place an impermeable barrier between Those Who Know and Those Who Cannot Be Told, a barrier that trickles downhill, forever separating the citizenry of the United States from their government... Read more... Truth About the Israeli Economy, by Gilad Atzmon | Al Jazeerah ...Increasingly, Israel seems to be nothing more than a humongous money laundering haven for Jewish oligarchs, swindlers, weapons dealers, organ traffickers, organised crime and blood diamond traders. Such a realization can certainly explain why Israel is totally impervious to social equality within its borders... Read more... It's Still Occupied Territory, by Philip Giraldi | America Hijacked ...Americans who really like Israel and everything that pertains to it are certainly free to express their views, but there is something unseemly and even grotesque about the continuous promotion of foreign and ethnic group interests ahead of those of the United States and other American citizens... Read more... Barbara Ehrenreich: On Americans (Not) Getting By (Again) | Tom Dispatch ...In defiance of all reason and compassion, the criminalization of poverty has actually intensified as the weakened economy generates ever more poverty. So concludes a recent study from the National Law Center on Poverty and Homelessness, which finds that the number of ordinances against the publicly poor has been rising since 2006, along with the harassment of the poor for more “neutral” infractions like jaywalking, littering, or carrying an open container... Read more... Public Education Under Massive Corporate Assault: What's Next? by Noam Chomsky | Alter Net A couple of months ago, I went to Mexico to give talks at the National University in Mexico, UNAM. It's quite an impressive university — hundreds of thousands of students, high-quality and engaged students, excellent faculty. It's free. And the city — Mexico City — actually, the government ten years ago did try to add a little tuition, but there was a national student strike, and the government backed off. And, in fact, there's still an administrative building on campus that is still occupied by students and used as a center for activism throughout the city... Read more... War Inc.: Pentagon using fun to find new guns for hire | RT on YouTube The Pentagon's still spending huge amounts of dollars to convince young Americans to sign up for the Army. Its close ties with Hollywood and the video games industry is helping turn military service into an attractive deal with the economic crisis and unemployment working alongside... Watch video... Repression in Israel and Bahrain | Stephen Lendman ...It's indeed severe when an establishment publication like the Guardian highlights it through firsthand observations on the ground. So does the Bahrain Center for Human Rights, saying over 1,400 have been arrested (including doctors, lawyers and human rights activists), more than 180 sentenced by military courts, 35 killed, 68 journalists either suspended or arrested, and around two dozen activists arrested, tortured and subjected to other abuses, along with many others for wanting democratic change... Read more... New York Times Support for US Imperial Wars | Stephen Lendman The Times never met a US imperial war it didn't endorse or designated enemy it didn't vilify. Nor are concerns ever raised about constitutional and international law issues, crimes of war and against humanity, or mass slaughter and destruction... [No coincidence that they call it the Jew York Times. Lendman and I are both Jewish, from different Jewish suburbs of Boston. This gives us Red Sox fans a somewhat skeptical perspective on all things New Yorkish.] Read more...Israel's "Jews first, democracy second" law and its racist authors | Redress Information & Analysis Uri Avnery considers Israel’s latest racist law, which gives primacy to Jews of any nationality over indigenous non-Jewish citizens, and views some of the unsavoury characters behind this law, from war crimes suspect Avi Dichter to members of the Kadima party, a "haphazard collection of frustrated politicians" that are "deeply steeped in Likud ideology".. [Avnery ignores the fact that for the political, or "revisionist," Zionists the "democracy" bit was always just window dressing] Read more...The Fight for Equality in Israel's J14 Movement | The Real News Hundreds of thousands of Israelis protest rising prices while Israeli Palestinian citizens organize for equality... Watch video... Aug 12, 2011 What is really happening in Europe? | The Vineyard of the Saker  London's burning! ...I was one in the hall of a UN conference where the representatives of the West were congratulating each other on "winning the Cold War". And then, the Representative of Pakistan took the floor and with his unique Paki accent said: "has anybody here ever considered that the West did not win the Cold War, but that the internal contradictions of Communism did catch up with the Communist system before the internal contradictions of Capitalism will catch up with Capitalist nations?". His statement was greeted in total silence, and then rapidly forgotten, of course. But he was right, this is exactly what we are seeing today. Class warfare not so much between the haves and have-nots, as between the rulers and their alienated subjects...Read more... 81 congressmen to visit Israel in coming weeks | Jerusalem Post Eighty-one congressmen, or about 20 percent of the US House of Representatives, will visit Israel over the next three weeks during Congress’s summer recess, with the first group of 26 Democrats scheduled to arrive on Monday. The Democratic delegation will be followed by two Republican ones, bringing a total of 55 Republicans... [These aren't your classy whores, in spite of the haircuts - they're streetwalkers, bending over for the world's most vicious dictators and thugs as well as the ZioNazi Israelis.] Read more... Cultivating Violence, by Dr. Lawrence Davidson | Intifada Palestine By now the world is aware that, despite the ardent wishful thinking of the Western media, the terrorism that struck Oslo on 22 July 2011 was not perpetrated by a Muslim individual or organization. It was done by a local Norwegian named Anders Behring Breivik. The object of his terror was the Norwegian government and its cultural and foreign policies. The government’s sins seem to have been being too much in favor of multiculturalism, too little opposed to Muslims and, not being an ally of Israel... Read more... Sustaining Protest Energy in Israel | Stephen Lendman ...one in four Israelis are impoverished, including one in three children. Moreover, over a fourth more are in danger of becoming one of the country's poor. It's a shocking indictment of an unequal, uncaring society, concerned only about wealth, power and military might, a small scale replica of America, throwing its citizens overboard for the same reasons... Read more... "The Raids Come Every Night": More Lost by the Second, by Kathy Kelly | Counterpunch  Refugee Camp ...People in an Afghan village pass sleepless nights, anxious that their home might be targeted by a U.S. led night raid. Villagers are enraged when they hear stories of elders and imams being roughed up and detained, of wives and children being killed, of belongings stolen and property destroyed. Increasingly, the U.S. military battles against the so-called insurgency are creating a stronger resistance as more Afghans grow determined to fight back...Read more... Imperial Plans for Libya Post-Gaddafi | Stephen Lendman ...Despite clear evidence of war crimes, NATO claims civilians and civilian targets aren't struck. In fact, they're targeted deliberately and repeatedly, killing hundreds and injuring many more as part of a campaign to cow targeted populations into submission... Read more... The Israel Lobby's Return to Congress, by Alison Weir | Counterpunch ...A staff member of one representative participating in this month’s junkets said the representative had no choice. If the Congressional rep didn’t go on the trip, the rep would be targeted by AIPAC, large quantities of money, including massive out-of-state money, would be raised for the opponent in the next election, and quite likely the representative would be defeated. The staffer said that the Israel Lobby is far too powerful to ignore and that American voters have no knowledge of what’s going on... Read more... Roadmap to Apartheid | Kickstarter Ana Nogueira is a white South African and Eron Davidson a Jewish Israeli. Drawing on their first-hand knowledge of the issues, the producers take a close look at the apartheid comparison often used to describe the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Narrated by author and activist Alice Walker, the film breaks down the rhetorical analogy into a fact-based comparison, noting where the analogy is useful and appropriate, and where it is not... Read more, watch trailer... Irish activists plan protest aimed at Riverdance's upcoming performances in Israel | The Electronic Intifada  Since Riverdance’s management seems determined to tour Israel, we now call upon the musicians and dancers who make up the Riverdance Company to refuse to participate in this tour, following the example of Riverdance set designer Robert Ballagh and the 208 Irish artists who have pledged to boycott Israel. We call upon them to inform Riverdance’s management that they will not be party to a breach of the boycott call from Palestinian victims of Israel’s crimes. We call upon them, as cultural ambassadors, to refuse to besmirch Ireland’s good name by lending themselves to exploitation by those who would whitewash Israel’s crimes against the Palestinian people... Read more... How Palestinian Authority's UN "statehood" bid endangers Palestinian rights, by Ali Abunimah | The Electronic Intifada The Palestinian Boycott National Committee (BNC), the steering group of the international boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) campaign, has issued further guidance in the run up to the Palestinian Authority’s effort to gain UN membership for a “State of Palestine” in September. The BNC statement today implicitly warns that recognition of any “state” that did not include full recognition of all Palestinian rights and the right of all Palestinians everywhere to be represented, could violate or negate those rights... Read more... Bosnia, Kosovo, and Now Libya: The Human Costs of Washington's On-Going Collusion with Terrorists, by Peter Dale Scott | Asia-Pacific Journal ...The pattern of U.S. collaboration with Muslim fundamentalists against more secular enemies is not new. It dates back to at least 1953, when the CIA recruited right-wing mullahs to overthrow Prime Minister Mossadeq in Iran, and also began to cooperate with the Sunni Muslim Brotherhood. But in Libya in 2011 we see a more complex marriage of convenience between US and al-Qaeda elements: one which repeats a pattern seen in Bosnia in 1992-95, and Kosovo in 1997-98. In those countries America responded to a local conflict in the name of a humanitarian intervention to restrain the side committing atrocities. But in all three cases both sides committed atrocities, and American intervention in fact favored the side allied with al-Qaeda... Read more... Aug 11, 2011 Rim Banna - A time to cry | YouTube  Rim al-Banna is a well-known Palestinian singer who lives in Nazereth. Well-known for her revival of Palestinian children’s songs, Ms. Banna is also dedicated to preserving Palestinian culture... [Yet another wonderful female Palestinian singer - there's a slew of 'em. They have so much to teach us, somewhat like the Native Americans, but Palestinian culture is thoroughly modern and ancient at the same time. They are wise, patient and indomitable.] Watch video...Israel sinking into religious-fundamentalist swamp, by Salman Masalha | Haaretz ...Jewish tradition, like all other monotheistic traditions, includes a number of laws that can be described as moral abominations that completely oppose the universal declaration on human rights... Read more... Killing civilians part of NATO war strategy in Libya | RT on YouTube ...Officials in Tripoli claim 85 people have been killed in airstrikes in the west of the country. Stephen Lendman, author and blogger says it's obvious there's no agreement in the rebel government, and NATO is losing the war in the country... Read transcript, watch video... The Tent Protests in Israel: Can They Break Out of the Zionist/Security/Neo-Liberal Box? by Jeff Halper | ICAHD The demonstrations currently roiling Israel constitute a grassroots challenge to Israel’s neo-liberal regime. Beginning as an uprising of the middle classes – especially young people who have trouble finding affordable housing – it has spread to the working class, the poor, and the Arab communities as well, though not the religious as yet. Many of the working sectors have joined the three-week protest: doctors, single mothers, parents demanding free education, taxi drivers upset with the price of petrol, even the police. The Histadrut, Israel’s general trade federation, and many municipalities have joined as well. Last night’s protests brought some 320,000 people into the streets... Read more... Israeli Soldiers Cross into Lebanon | Palestine Chronicle ..The violation of Lebanon's airspace, territorial waters, and border by the Israeli Military occurs on an almost daily basis... [If the Lebanese react then Netanyahu and Lieberman will have their prayed for casus belli for another nice little war, which would preempt the tent protests in a typical orgy of paranoid aggression] Read more... Monsters in Tel Aviv | Roy Tov  Tel Aviv August 2011 | "Fighting for Home" reads the red sign ...Some time ago, I reported on wild protests following a sharp rise in the price of cottage cheese - a key ingredient in local cuisine – where I claimed the social protests would deteriorate to the extent of endangering the Israeli Administration. It seemed a bit exaggerated at the time, but less than two months later, we see the current tsunami of protests. Fukushima looks suddenly an appealing event to Netanyahu. Reality is simple: once the mental barrier forbidding protests against the government was broken, nothing could stop the tsunami. The comical cheese protests caused just that...Read more... Bankers, Listen To This: Your Final Warning | Video Rebel's Blog Today’s bankers are the equivalent of Joe Stalin. They need to listen to us. We have reached the absolute limit of our tolerance. If you are a banker, consider this our final warning to you. If you are a spy working on their behalf at MI6-CIA-Mossad, then you need to forward this message to them before it is too late. The world will always need the police and the armies, but we neither need nor want bankers and other pond scum... Watch video by Les Visible... Massacre In Norway: Mossad Strikes Again Under 'Lone Gunman' Cover, by Jonathan Azaziah | Intifada Palestine The everyday murderous behavior of the world’s hegemonic powers, led by the exponentially powerful Zionist entity that has illegally occupied Palestine for 63 years, has split humanity right down the middle into two reactionary groups when a catastrophic event shakes the geopolitical sphere. The first group can be classified as “the sheep;” the oblivious, ignorant masses that believe anything and everything that the talking heads on the ‘fiction box’ known as the television tell them... Read more... What would UN recognition of a Palestinian state mean? by Amtul Q Farhat | Muslim Times There is no doubt about the importance of the UN recognising Palestine as a state, and more importantly its acceptance as a full member state. If such recognition is given in September, it will confirm the importance of activating the option of international legitimacy. However, we should not get too excited about possible UN recognition; it would not mean an end to Israel’s occupation of Palestinian territory, for example, but it could be the start of a long political process... Read more... Obama straining every nerve against UN membership for Palestine | Redress Information & Analysis Josh Ruebner argues that Obama administration statements justifying the US position against Palestinian membership in the UN “are so illogical that they can be seen only as pretexts for clinging to the crumbling façade of Israeli occupation and apartheid”.. [Let's hope they are successful. Recognition of a separate Palestinian State would bring with it recognition of the State of Israel as a legitimate political entity. The world cannot, must not, allow this to happen, or our collective goose is cooked.] Read more...UK entangled in unsolvable dilemma, by Kourosh Ziabari | PressTV  ...the political analysts and media personalities around the world say the death of the black citizen of Tottenham is a primary excuse for the outburst of unrest and violence in the UK. They believe factors such as high unemployment and cuts in public service, dissatisfaction with the performance of the metropolitan police, poverty and growing gap between the rich and the poor especially in the black communities and deplorable situation of the prisons have underpinned the unprecedented situation in the country... Read more, watch video... US responsible for markets turmoil: Interview with James Bovard | PressTV ...I think what is happening right now is people are recognizing that governments do not have a magic wand. Does not matter what the politicians say, the government and the Federal Reserve runs out of ammunition. Perhaps the clearance measure of the loss of confidence in US government is the rising price of gold. People simply don't trust the dollar anymore, and they are fleeing into hard assets... Read more... Al Qaeda is CIA Arab legion | RT ..The group that claimed responsibility for the attacks is a Sunni separatist group called Jundallah, or Soldiers of God. Reports say they have links to Al Qaeda. How in the world could the US be linked to them? Tarpley doesn’t regard it confusing... Watch video... Growing Israeli Tyranny | Stephen Lendman For years, America and Israel followed similar paths toward full-blown tyranny, threatening all their citizens. Believing either is democratic and egalitarian is ludicrous and nonsensical, especially now under right-wing neoliberal governments, cracking down hard against challenges to their authority... Read more... Call from Gaza: Open Rafah Crossing Permanently, by Rafah Crossing Campaign | Palestine Chronicle Today, a call demanding the re-opening of the Rafah Crossing between Egypt and Palestine has come from Gaza. It is propelled by support from Egypt and has been endorsed by dozens of organizations, citizens' groups, associations and coalitions in many countries, as well as by distinguished international personalities... Read more... Aug 10, 2011 The global uprising takes shape | Middle East Monitor  Professor Mazin Qumsiyeh teaches and does research at Bethlehem Watching the tragic events unfolding around the world, from starvation in Somalia to rioting in London, we are not feeling vindicated, merely sad and angry. For a long time many of us have said that the increasing chasm between the rich and the poor (the haves and the have nots) has grown to obscene levels. The Soviet Union had in many ways replaced the chasm between workers and owners of capital to a chasm between elites of the communist system and millions of impoverished people. But the cold war had reined-in unrestrained privatization and capitalism in the third world. Once the Soviet Union collapsed, a vacuum was created and the greedy capitalists moved in...and Birzeit Universities in occupied Palestine Read more... Palestinian Nonviolence: Muslims, Not Christians, Are the Leaders, by Sami Awad | Huffington Post Whenever I give talks on the effects of the Israeli occupation on Palestinian livelihood, the status of nonviolence as a means to resisting the occupation, and how I believe nonviolence is the only way to move forward to resolve the conflict and create a lasting peace between Israelis and Palestinians, one of the first and immediate questions I get from foreign visitors to my office in Bethlehem is, "What you said is good, but what about the Muslims? Do they also believe in nonviolence? Do they understand it?".. Read more... Throwing America Overboard, by Ralph Nader | Counterpunch The Boston Tea Party in December 1773 threw the East India Company's tea overboard. The Republican Tea Party in August 2011 threw America overboard. Only in Congress, with its rules for minority rule, can a minority of the Republican Party in the House of Representatives impose its havoc on the American people there, then on the Senate side and on Obama's wilting White House... Read more... Muhammad's Story: "Recently I Was Someone, Now I'm Nobody" by Mats Svensson | Counterpunch I have visited Muhammad around sixty times. But it is only now that we begin to really talk to each other. Seven years ago, I met Muhammad for the first time. I was then out on one of my long weekend walks. Muhammad came towards me, pointed towards the olive grove and presented me to the long gray dragon that was approaching his house. At the time he did not know whether the wall would go east of the house and let him belong to Jerusalem with all the practical benefits, or if it would go west of the house, and forever shut him out of Jerusalem... Read more... Tripoli says NATO strike kills dozens of civilians | Yahoo! News Libyan officials said on Tuesday dozens of civilians had been killed in a NATO strike on a cluster of farmhouses east of Tripoli, but the alliance said it hit a legitimate military target. A strike causing large numbers of civilian casualties could undermine support in some NATO nations for a campaign to oust Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi that has already proved much longer, bloodier and more costly than its backers had anticipated... Read more... The Only Hope: A Palestinian Revolution, by Gulamhusein A. Abba | Defying Silence  From what has appeared so far in the media and on blogs, it appears that all that the Palestinian leadership intends to do in September is approach the UN for recognition of a Palestinian State with 1967 borders and give it full membership. Such recognition and membership, important though they are, are at best purely symbolic. In and by themselves, they cannot advance the cause of the Palestinian people, much less end Israel's illegal occupation... Read more... Sorry Neocons, Adam Smith Was Not One of You, by Shikha Dalmia | Reason Magazine Defense hawks seem to be hitting Adam Smith’s Wealth of Nations like sophomores cramming for an exam. In the last few days, three separate hawks have invoked Smith three separate times to excoriate the potential defense cuts in the phony debt deal... Read more... CNN Allows Fantasy Novelist to Seriously Blame Iran for Afghanistan Chopper Shootdown, by Jeremy Sapienza | Antiwar Imperial cheerleaders have a habit of blaming Iran for everything bad that happens to a US occupation, so I have come to accept they will pull that boogeyman out any chance they get. And yet I was still surprised when CNN contributor and Bush regime mouthpiece Frances Townshend and Brad Thor, a political thriller novel author, started saying Iran was probably responsible for this weekend’s shootdown of a US chopper that killed 30 American military personnel... [Are they trying to outfox Fox?] Read more...We Shoot Children Too: A Poem by Dan Almagor | Arab World Books The following is an excerpt from a poem that caused a sensation when it was read at a Tel Aviv event marking the first year of the Intifada. The poet is an Israeli professor of Hebrew literature and he is famous throughout Occupied Palestine as a lyricist and TV show host. He was commissioned by the Israeli government to write many of its military songs... Read more... Lieberman: 'We need more wars for Israel' | Rehmat's World On Tuesday, dual citizen and Israel-firster Orthodox Jew, Senator Joe Lieberman, announced on the Senate floor: “Bottom line, we can’t protect these (social security) entitlements and also have the national defense we need to protect us in a dangerous world, while we’re at war with Islamist extremists who attacked us on 9/11 and will be for a long time to come”.. Read more, watch video... Open Letter To Israel's Prime Minister, from Lenni Brenner | MWC News  ..As an 11 year old, I remember the creation of Israel in 1948 and the race between the USA and the USSR to recognize the new state. But, as I became a historian, I realized that the American public’s support for Israel was based on sympathy for the survivors of the holocaust, and the Biblical notion that God had given Israel to his chosen people. Few American Jews, fewer gentiles, had an in-depth knowledge of Zionism’s history. That remains true to this day... [You might care to read my comment] Read more...Potent mix of cuts, unemployment could fuel more UK riots | Reuters ...she painted a telling picture of an area in which services face more and more cuts, with summer activities for young people like cooking, music and sports all slashed. "Especially during the summer we have nothing to do... It feels like they've taken away the things that matter," she said. Britain has embarked on an unprecedented level of spending cuts in an effort to drive down its budget deficit, with local councils slashing a host of services from elderly care to libraries... Read more... Israel's image in West slowly sinking: Interview with Mick Napier | PressTV Western public opinion has become skeptical of any media spin defending Israel after the country has been caught in several lies attempting to cover up despicable acts... Read more... New York Times Opposition to Palestinian Self-Determination | Stephen Lendman ...Even optimistic Israelis "are deeply pessimistic and see Israel as an isolated, right-wing country with no hope for negotiations." In fact, some long-time citizens "said if they knew what Israel has become, they would never have made aliyah (immigrated)... Read more... Washington to fund 'Children of Shoah' | Rehmat's World ...a son of Shoah survivors, Dr. Norman Finkelstein, has claimed that the numbers of Shoah survivors keep increasing instead of decreasing with the passage of time. Dr. Norman Finkelstein stresses in his important book, The Holocaust Industry that Israel, the World Jewish Congress, and other major Jewish organizations, all of which demand and collect billions in the name of “Holocaust survivors,” have an interest in inflating figures both of wartime victims and of postwar survivors... Read more... Europe treads path of fascism, again! by Porya Mohajer Soltani | PressTV  At a time when the comments of world leaders reflect a horror of the past many have long tried to escape from, one wonders 'how incapable must Europe be of learning from experience!'.. [And what about the Jews? They have been repeating the same mistakes for thousands of years - except this time they've really blown it.] Read more... While in Gaza: The Other Gilad Shalits, by Johnny Barber | Palestine Chronicle ...Since 1967, 700,000 Palestinians have been “detained” by Israel. Currently 7000 people are imprisoned. 37 of them are women; over 300 of them are children. When I visited the Ministry of Detainees in Gaza City I was challenged by the minister to name another region of the world where such a ministry was needed. The minister explained that this was an issue particular to Palestine because Israel imprisons so many people without charges and through military courts where evidence is hidden and trials are rigged. Many are convicted on coerced confessions. The minister’s position was that all prisoners, including Shalit, be treated with respect and dignity... Read more... The Bankers Want America To Lose World War III | Video Rebel's Blog ..The number of billionaire bankers in the world is miniscule. They only get what they want from our governments because millions of people in government, in the police, in the intelligence services, in the military and in the media go along to maintain their position. But, what if they saw the world on the brink of economic chaos and World war III? What if they knew Israel did 911 with the help of Zionist traitors inside the American government?.. Read more... Pakistan TV Report Contradicts US Claim of Bin Laden's Death, by Dr. Paul Craig Roberts | Global Research In my recent article, “Creating Evidence Where There Is None,” about the alleged killing of Osama bin Laden by a commando team of US Seals in Abbottabad, Pakistan, I provided a link to a Pakistani National TV interview with Muhammad Bashir, who lives next door to the alleged “compound” of Osama bin Laden. I described the story that Bashir gave of the “attack” and its enormous difference from the one told by the US government. In Bashair’s account, every member of the landing party and anyone brought from the house died when the helicopter exploded on lift-off. I wrote that a qualified person could easily provide a translation of the interview, but that no American print or TV news organization had investigated Bashir’s account... Read more... Who is Barry H. Landau? | Mantiq al-Tayr ...the insane hatred of Islam in the United States is almost entirely the creation of the Israeli Lobby, is aided and abetted by Lobby-infiltrated violent Christians and that this witch’s brew of treason has representatives at all levels of this country’s federal, state and local governments and permeates the military. One result of this Zionist hemlock has been the mass murder of God only knows how many thousands or millions of brown people, the vast majority of them Muslims, all over the fucking planet. This endless slaughter is supported by the Zionist-infested general population as well as by key players throughout the Zionist-dominated political spectrum... Read more, watch videos... (including one of Gov. Rick Perry's Prayer Fest, guaranteed to curdle your blood, unless you go in for the whole Elmer Gantry thing) Aug 9, 2011 Could Arab (Palestinian) staying power ultimately defeat Zionism? | Redress Information & Analysis Alan Hart considers the scenarios which could result from the Palestinian steadfastness that has confounded Zionist and Arab regime hopes that the Palestine file would close after the dispossession of Palestinians in 1948, and argues that the world should be prepared for an Israeli false flag operation designed to create the pretext for a “final solution” to the Palestinian question... Read more... Destabilizing Syria, by Stephen Lendman | War Is A Crime What began in January escalated to an uprising in March. Ever since, it's been violent, disruptive and widespread, killing hundreds, and injuring many more. The stakes are high. The entire region is affected. It's very similar to what began in Libya, pitting imperial powers against ruling governments for destabilization and control. In Libya, it's by war for regime change, colonization and plunder. In Syria, it's to establish another client state, no matter who heads it... Read more... Escalating Israeli Street Protest, by Stephen Lendman | The People's Voice ...after years of quiescence, there it was, resonating powerfully without letup, demanding what politicians won't do anywhere without pressure too strong to contest, provided participants stay the course, retain their energy and won't quit, come hell or high water... Read more... Zionist terror targets Muslim Xinjiang | Rehmat's World ...ETIM was listed as a ‘terrorist organization’ in 2002 by the world’s greatest terrorist state (the US). ETIM is one of several native Turkic-speaking Uighur groups who are seeking to liberate their native land from Chinese occupation. Muslim-majority East Turkistan was occupied by China’s communist army on the orders of Mao Zedong on August 27, 1949. As Washington has called every native group which has put up resistance to Israel or the US occupation, ‘a terrorist organization’ – China, too, calls Muslim Uighurs and Tibetan Buddhist resistance groups terrorists... Read more... The Israeli protest has turned into a revolution | Haaretz Editorial Following decades in which the public has curled up in its indifference and allowed a handful of politicians to run the country as they wished, the rules of the political game have changed... Read more... Israel's Arab citizens must join the social struggle, by Oudeh Basharat | Haaretz ...The Arab citizens and their leadership must now join the general struggle and insist that the government treat them as equal citizens. This integration will be a worthy opening shot in a process that will lead to deeper understanding of the civil essence of their struggle... Read more... Israel Protests: Over 250,000 join biggest anti-govt rally in Tel Aviv | RT on YouTube ...On Saturday night, more than a quarter-of-a-million people took to the streets in Israel in the latest show of discontent with the government. That's after three weeks of protests over the soaring cost of living with activists demanding the Prime Minister steps down... Read more... Anti-Israel protest by Jews | RT on YouTube Watch video... Is Israel officially giving up on democracy? by MJ Rosenberg | Al Jazeera English It is hard to believe that anyone would give credence to reports of the supposed moderating of Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu's terms for negotiating an agreement with the Palestinians. But, incredibly, some people actually take him seriously. Quite rightly, however, the Palestinians don't... Read more... Israeli Hasbara Revises Timor-Leste's History, by Dr. Vacy Vlazna | Palestine Chronicle ...Just as Timor was systematically shut off from the world, the West Bank and to a worse degree, Gaza are vast prisons where Israelis control Palestinian land and sea borders and airspace and within Palestinians survive in desperation, trauma and poverty. To remind the world of Timor-Leste's resistance to the illegal Indonesian occupation, its intrepid Falantil guerrillas maintained a 24 year armed struggle for independence. Similarly poorly armed Hamas and Fatah resistance fighters face off one of the largest best-equipped armies in the world... Read more... Israel's Black Sunday | Roy Tov ...Yesterday’s market collapse was triggered Friday night by Standard & Poor's downgrading of the U.S. credit rating from AAA to AA+. As of 2011, Israel is completely dependent on the American economy and goodwill; even down to the level of getting enough wheat to feed its population. If America is heading for another recession – almost a certainty - then it would be harder and more expensive for Israel to continue receiving cheap loans and gifts from Uncle Sam... Read more... They Died in Vain (Deal With It), by Ray McGovern | Counterpunch ...Should we fault the preachers as they reach for words designed to give comfort to those in their congregations mourning the deaths of so many young troops? As hard as it might seem, I believe we can do no other than fault — and confront — them. However well meaning their intentions, their negligence and timidity in confronting basic war issues merely help to perpetuate unnecessary killing. It is high time to hold preachers accountable... Read more... Cultivating violence: the Zionists and the US Islamophobes behind Norwegian killer Breivik | Redress Information & Analysis Lawrence Davidson views the Israelis and Americans responsible for cultivating the environment in which Norwegian mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik thrived and found encouragement... Read more... Aug 8, 2011 The Tent Protests in Israel The Landlord Wannabe Protest | Gilad Atzmon  It is almost amusing to find out that some of the most clichéd Marxists around are so taken by the current Israeli popular protest, which they foolishly interpret as a manifestation of the ‘Israeli revolutionary spirit’. They are convinced that now that the Israeli ‘working class’ are rising, peace will necessarily prevail... Read more... 300,000 Israelis pour into streets for unprecedented protests, by AFP | The Raw Story ...The movement has since mushroomed into a full-blown social uprising calling for across-the-board reforms to ease the cost of living and reduce Israel's income disparity... [See also One State is Not Snake Oil] Read more...The miracle of the rebellion, by Gideon Levy | Haaretz The protest came from a generation we believed was raised on materialism, designer labels, trends and gadgets, united in the church of escapism. A generation comprised partly of drunks and druggies, some of them violent, a generation that had partly also become racist and nationalist... Read more... A Dark American Turning Point, by Gary G. Kohls | Consortium News  Illustration by Brian McFadden ...It might be too late to successfully bring down the arrogant and greedy ruling elites who are selfishly dragging our world down the road to our destruction. The rolling coup d’etat of what I call “friendly American fascism” may have already accomplished its goals. But there may still be some hope...Read more... Vilifying Muslims in America | Stephen Lendman Judge nations by how they treat all people, whether equally, or advantaging some over others. Judge them harshly if they persecute some for political advantage. In America, people of color and Muslims are fair game. It's longstanding policy based on prejudicial attitudes, stereotypes, deep-seated racism, and notions of corrupted Western values, high-mindedness, and moral superiority... Read more... Jewish sharia, by Zvi Bar'el | Haaretz ...The Jewish sharia bill, which the MKs introduced furtively before fleeing for their long recess, will only make the existing situation official. It will make clear to any Jew in the world that a blend of democracy and Judaism is only possible in the Diaspora... Read more... US, EU finance flawed and corrupt: Interview with Rodney Shakespeare | PressTV ...there is the world of the real economy of people making things, providing goods and services, and then consuming things, and consuming goods and services. And what has happened is that the world of finance, thoroughly corrupt dominating everything now, is leading the world to disaster... Read more, watch video... Americans eyeing legal immunity in Iraq, by Mahmoud Rasouli | PressTV ...It now appears that not only are the Americans unwilling to leave Iraq but they are looking for excuses to continue their presence in the oil-rich country and to obtain permits to go on with their crimes there... Read more... The 'Taliban Surge' | Rehmat's World  ...Since early 2010, Obama administration has been in contact with the ‘moderate’ Taliban leaders to negotiate an exit strategy while keeping some of its interests in place for which Afghanistan was occupied in the first place, i.e. the gas pipeline from Caspian Sea and uninterrupted supply of heroin – Israel being the main beneficiary in both cases. The US-Taliban contacts were kept secret until the outgoing US Secretary of State, Robert Gates (an AIPAC appointee), admitted it in June 2011... Read more... Pain vs Gain: UK torture probe shockingly secret | RT on YouTube British intelligence services have allegedly been violating international law for almost a decade. A leaked top-secret document suggests agents were permitted to use information taken from prisoners tortured overseas. Officers were asked to 'balance' how much they expected detainees to suffer against the value of the information they could get. They were also given political protection from prosecution. Human rights activists are demanding an open and fair inquiry, but fear their questions will be met with a wall of silence... Watch video... Court Filing Reveals How 2004 Ohio Presidential Election was Hacked: "Unexpected Shift in Votes For George W." by Bob Fitrakis | Global Research A new filing in the King Lincoln Bronzeville v. Blackwell case includes a copy of the Ohio Secretary of State election production system configuration that was in use in Ohio's 2004 presidential election when there was a sudden and unexpected shift in votes for George W. Bush... Read more... The US-Al Qaeda Alliance: Bosnia, Kosovo and Now Libya: Washington's On-Going Collusion with Terrorists, by Prof. Peter Dale Scott | Global Research Twice in the last two decades, significant cuts in U.S. and western military spending were foreseen: first after the fall of the Berlin Wall, and then in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis. But both times military spending soon increased, and among the factors contributing to the increase were America’s interventions in new areas: the Balkans in the 1990s, and Libya today. Hidden from public view in both cases was the extent to which al-Qaeda was a covert U.S. ally in both interventions, rather than its foe... Read more... Putin says U.S. is parasite on global economy | Reuters Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin accused the United States Monday of living beyond its means "like a parasite" on the global economy and said dollar dominance was a threat to the financial markets... Read more... Aug 7, 2011 Obama totally defeated by Israel Lobby | Rehmat's World  Any politically-aware person will tell you that US President Barack Obama is totally defeated and humiliated by the Zionist-regime and its supporters in the Congress, Senate, Wall Street and Zionist-controlled mainstream media in almost every field especially in Washington’s dealing with the Muslim world... Read more... Gilad Atzmon: Alan Dershowitz - You're Not Welcome Here | Republic Broadcasting Network Listen... From Posada to Gaddafi: The Good, the Bad and the Crazy, by Saul Landau | Counterpunch ...Max Lesnik, a magazine publisher and writer who disagreed with the violent exiles, got repeatedly bombed, but miraculously survived. He never grasped the logic of those whose aim was to bring down the Cuban government exploding bombs in US cities. Often times, the good terrorists’ methods seem to defy ordinary human reason and seem to be nothing more than insane acts or means of extorting money. But the media and key Florida politicians always explain that these well-meaning bombers are passionate and will do anything for freedom... Read more... Anders Breivik and the Antichrist Virus, by Richard Edmondson | Left Wing Christian ...In Christian Zionism, Christ is reduced to a minor, almost inconsequential figure. CZs are quick to point out that Jesus was Jewish, and that’s certainly a point in his favor where they are concerned, but the vast majority of his teachings are discarded. For CZs, the real object of worship is the Jewish people in a collective sense. Let me repeat that: CZs do not worship Christ; they worship Jews... Read more... The Debate on US Debt Ceiling Limit and US Subsidies to Israeli Colonies, by Jamal Kanj | Intifada Palestine  ...The US can contribute to peace in the Middle East and save more than $50 billion in ten years if it cuts its superfluous aid granted to the non taxpaying state of Israel. US tax payers are certainly more deserving of the money than the subsidized illegal Israeli colonies over Palestinian land... Read more... NATO's Terror Marshals | Roy Tov ...NATO is attacking civilians, schools, houses and apparently everything on Libya, in sharp contradiction to its mandate. The terrorist attacks are so large that bringing a list of NATO’s violations is impossible in this format. The summary tells the story of an emerging genocide in the name of cheap oil for the west: 1600 civilian targets and 1118 people hit until August 5. There are no signs NATO is about to stop the massacre... Read more... Rally Rage: 'Israeli Tahrir' gears up for protest of 150,000 | RT on YouTube Israel is bracing itself for a fresh wave of massive anti-government protests. Activists are planning a third weekend of rallies across the country. One Tel Aviv street has already been renamed by some as 'Israeli Tahrir', after the square where the Egypt uprising took place... Watch video... Bahrainis fight torture with hunger strike: Interview with Nabeel Rajab | PressTV Dozens of Bahraini political activists and civil workers have gone on hunger strike in a bid to protest the ongoing brutal crackdown in the tiny Persian Gulf sheikhdom... Read transcript, watch video... Supermax prisons: 21st century asylums, by Helen Redmond | Al Jazeera English  Lucy Flores, whose husband spent four years in Pelican Bay, "People walked by and asked: 'How are you doing?' I answered: 'How am I supposed to be doing? That’s the craziest question I ever heard.' The mental health people asked: 'Are you having any suicidal ideation? What are you thinking right now?' I said: 'Where the f*** am I? That’s what I'm thinking. Ain't this America?'"..at a rally in support of inmates on hunger strike Read more... War on error: how Israel bankrupted America, by Paul J. Balles | Redress Information & Analysis ...The King David Hotel bombing was an act of terrorism widely-considered to be the first real incidence of 20th century terrorism. Since that time, Zionists, with the complicit intelligence gathering and plots of Mossad, have engaged in more terrorist acts against Israel's perceived enemies than those committed by the world's celebrated terrorists combined... Read more... Who Are These People? Where Will They Go From Here?: "How Godly Are Thy Tents?" by Uri Avnery | Counterpunch Tent cities are springing up all over Israel. A social protest movement is gathering momentum. At some point in the near future, it may endanger the right-wing government. At that point, there will be a temptation – perhaps an irresistible temptation – to “warm up the borders”. To start a nice little war... Read more... Bumps and Borders: Peddling Foolishness on Afghanistan, by Conn Hallinan | Counterpunch ...Pashtuns are among the most hospitable people in the world, but they don't like being invaded or occupied, which no one has successfully managed to do, although many have tried. A 19th century British general remarked that when one gets ready to invade the area, the first thing to do is plan a line of retreat, the inevitable course followed by all militaries... Read more... Liberal Zionists can oppose boycott only by blinding themselves to decades of discrimination, by Samah Sabawi | Mondoweiss  ...Israel’s left continues to have a blind spot when it comes to Israel’s foundations – a state built on the ruins of a people’s rights and freedoms. This blind spot is evident in the Israeli left’s insistence that boycotts against the settlements are justified but a general boycott of Israel demonizes and delegitimizes the state. Are Israelis not aware that the settlements do not exist in a vacuum and that if it were not for state funding and protection they would not be there?.. Read more... Subversion Through Art: Empire of the Mind, by Ron Jacobs | Counterpunch ...Even within the greater market of mainstream culture there exists artists and other creators of potentially subversive art. The trick is to find them... Read more... Sharia Brouhaha in London, by Richard Edmondson | Left Wing Christian These Muslim men in London are every bit as silly and misguided, perhaps even more so, than certain far-right Christians and Christian Zionists here in America. Imposing your beliefs on others never has been, and never will be, a way to lead people to the light of God. In fact, it accomplishes just the opposite. I can't help sensing a lot of the same political opportunism at work here as one sees in certain Christian Zionist leaders in the U.S. Watch video... Five Scriptures You Won't Hear About at Rick Perry's Prayer Fest, by Jim Rigby | Counterpunch ...as a Presbyterian minister and community organizer, it's part of my job to stand up for my neighbors. The use of the governor's office to promote one religion in a country with such rich religious diversity is obviously unhealthy politics, but - if one takes the Christian and Jewish scriptures seriously - it is also unhealthy religion. Here are five rather important verses of scripture you aren't likely to hear at "The Response":.. [One can still find a breath of sanity left in Christianity, even in the US, but, like Gaza, it is under siege] Read more...Aug 6, 2011 Could Arab staying power ultimately defeat Zionism? by David Hearst | The Guardian  'Sumud', meaning steadfastness, or staying put, has become There is an Arabic word you come across a lot when Palestinians talk about their future. Sumud means steadfastness, and it has turned into a strategy: when the imbalance of power is so pronounced, the most important thing to do is to stay put. Staying put against overwhelming odds is regarded as a victory...a strategy for many Palestinians living inside Israel Read more... Self-Hatred vs. Self-Love: An Interview with Eric Walberg | Gilad Atzmon ...We have entered a revolutionary period again, which a country like Egypt shows in spades. To throw off US-Israeli hegemony and the domestic neoliberalism that complements this requires subsuming our egos behind a movement that represents the popular will. No more “me” generation. “We must all become self-deniers now.”.. Read more... Legislating fascism in Israel, by Khalid Amayreh | Middle East Monitor The latest news from the apartheid state of Israel speaks of a new bill submitted before the Knesset or Parliament, which would make Israel more Jewish and less democratic. As many as 40 lawmakers representing major political parties subscribed to the fundamentally racist proposal which in the words of the Ha'aretz newspaper would make democratic rule subservient to the Jewish character of the state... Read more... The Israeli Lobby Controls America But The Jewish State Is Falling Apart | Gilad Atzmon Watch video... Israeli Street Protests: Suppressed by US Media | Stephen Lendman ...What's been paralyzing Israel since mid-July is major breaking news, but you'd never know it from US major media sources, turning a blind eye for the most part. They also ignore extreme social injustice in America, about to worsen from greater forced austerity. It's another story begging to be told, but won't be by major media scoundrels, prostituting themselves for America's aristocracy wanting things their way. As a result, print and broadcast journalists salute and go along, despite enormous harm to millions. It's why "America the beautiful" exists only for the privileged few, no one else, and the worst is yet to come... Read more... Tarpley on Syria: Beware of fraud and fabrications! | RT on YouTube Despite backing the united statement on Syria, the U.S. is now calling for new, tougher sanctions against Damascus. Assad's regime is already under a set of American and EU penalties. Investigative journalist Webster Tarpley told RT, the West wants a Syrian regime change to cement its influence in the Arab world... Watch video... To die for... Failed female suicide bomber speaks out | RT on YouTube There's a worrying rise in the number of suicide attacks carried out by women around the world. And it's gaining momentum among Palestinians, bent on revenge against Israel. But the lethal choice to die for a cause took a surprising twist for one Palestinian woman who was captured before she detonated her device... Watch video... Aug 5, 2011 The Norway Manifesto: A New Bin Laden Is Born, by Dr. Ashraf Ezzat | Intifada Palestine  Oslo Bombing and old shadows of 9/11 Is it a coincidence that the Norway attacks came after almost ten years have passed since the similarly horrific attacks on the towers of the world trade center in new York back in 2001 or what has been known in contemporary history as the 9/11 attacks...Read more... Netanyahu's Trial | Roy Tov Netanyau was on the deck of a small boat floating somewhere on the eastern Mediterranean Sea. Hours before, the Sixth Fleet evacuation of the Zionist leadership had been intercepted by an undisclosed party. As soon as the American vessel was hit, the Americans had moved Netanyahu and a few others into a small boat which was now moving as fast as possible away from the unexpected battlefield... Read more... The US Dictatorship and its White House Servant 'President', by Finian Cunningham | Global Research ...Obama’s presence in the White House indulges a superficial moral/political correctness while the masters whip us all into austere servitude. The US “war on terror” is another illustration of America’s dictatorship of the elite – and Obama’s pathetic servile role of carrying out the masters’ orders in defiance of the will of the people... [Which is why I've taken to referring to him as the House nigger] Read more... Might Makes Wrong: Postmodern Imperialism: Geopolitics And The Great Games, by Richard Wilcox | Dissident Voice If modern universities were honest institutions instead of overpriced degree mills, Imperialism 101 would be a required course for all undergraduate students and political science majors. Eric Walberg draws from a wide and relevant variety of sources to tell the story which stretches throughout what he calls the three periods of imperialism: Great Game I (classical imperialism); GGII (Capitalism vs Communism); and GGIII The US-Israel Post Modern Imperialism, our very frightening present day era... Read more... Dahlan and Abbas on the path of self-destruction, by Omar Radwan | Middle East Monitor Last week, on the orders of President Mahmoud Abbas, Palestinian security forces raided the home of their former leader, Mohammed Dahlan. They said that they seized a large cache of weapons, as well as three armoured cars, and arrested ten of Dahlan's bodyguards. Dahlan himself was not arrested but fled to Jordan immediately afterwards, promising revenge against Abbas... Read more... NATO's Libya War Unraveling | Stephen Lendman On August 1, Ramadan began. Nonetheless, fighting continues. The good news is Libyans are winning. The bad news is NATO knows it but keeps bombing, averaging 52 daily strike sorties in the past week alone... Read more... How the US media marginalises dissent, by Ted Rall | Al Jazeera English  In 2000, Green Party candidate Ralph Nader was not invited to participate in the presidential debates The American media deploys a deep and varied arsenal of rhetorical devices in order to marginalise opinions, people and organisations as "outside the mainstream" and therefore not worth listening to. For the most part the people and groups being declaimed belong to the political Left...Read more... Anti-Muslim bigotry rampant in US: Interview with Paul Magno | PressTV Norway's anti-Islam terrorist listed numerous parties like neo-Nazi parties as allies because of their anti-immigrant, anti-Muslim stance, and anti-Islam personalities from the US in his writings to justify his killings... Read transcript, watch video... Former British MP George Galloway Accuses Israel of Al-Hariri's Assassination | YouTube Watch video... Hate for Muslims on rise in US: Interview with Ibrahim Hooper | PressTV ..It is having an impact when you have people constantly trying to demonize Islam and marginalize the American Muslims' community; it has an impact over time. We did not even see this kind of feeling immediately after the nine -eleven terrorist attacks. It's really a phenomenon of last two years or so... Read more, watch video... Spinwatch exposes links between pro-Israeli groups and Islamophobic British think-tanks, Dr. Hanan Chehata | Middle East Monitor ...The Spinwatch Report "The Cold War on British Muslims" focuses on two such groups; Britain's influential Centre for Social Cohesion (CSC) and the group Policy Exchange. The report looks at the motivational ethos behind these organisations; traces some of the funding sources behind them; as well as looking at the background of some of its staff members drawing connections between them and other anti-Islamic and pro-Israeli organisations. It also looks at some of the more controversial reports compiled by these organisations which clearly demonstrate the anti-Islamic agenda driving them... Read more... Israel's Malaise: Prepare for the Next Diaspora? by Peter Stuyvesant | The Occidental Observer ...The ones who are leaving are those with prospect of employment somewhere else, leaving the poor behind. If this trend continues, Israel will end up in a downward spiral which can lead to the implosion of the settler-state: The remaining Jews will increasingly be the relatively low-IQ religious fanatics prone to economic and military parasitism—clearly a recipe for political instability and economic malaise... Read more... Palestinians will soon come full circle, by Sam Bahour | Australians for Palestine  "To the Unknown" by Ismail Shammout Years have been wasted making concessions to their colonisers. Palestinians were right to call for a secular state at the outset... Read more... Rick Perry Abuses His Office for Israel, by Philip Giraldi | Antiwar ...I have to question how a man of so little moral character as Rick Perry gets to be governor of a large state in the first place, but that is perhaps a discussion for another place and another time. If the people of Texas were seriously concerned about the Constitution and civil liberties, they would remove him from office for his attempt to criminalize the actions of a group of innocent citizens. When a government believes itself to be empowered to go after its own people on trumped-up charges, watch out... Read more... When Did the American Empire Start to Decline? | Stephen M. Walt ..Not only did "Mission Accomplished" soon become a costly quagmire, but wrecking Iraq -- which is what we did -- destroyed the balance of power in the Gulf and improved Iran's geopolitical position. The invasion of Iraq also diverted resources away from the war in Afghanistan, which allowed the Taliban to re-emerge as a formidable fighting force. Thus, Bush's decision to topple Saddam in 2003 led directly to two losing wars, not just one... Read more... September, by Mazin Qumsiyeh | Popular Resistance ..Some of my friends in Fatah and others will not like some of what I have to say here. Others will respect and even appreciate it including some members of Fatah central committee. The situation is becoming intolerable and some of us feel we cannot remain silent... Read more... Statehood: Palestinians must show they mean business | Redress Information & Analysis Stuart Littlewood calls on the Palestinians to pursue a two-pronged strategy: on the one hand bid for UN recognition of their statehood because they must have “equal rank to Israelis within the international community and a level playing field”, while developing and expanding boycott, divestment and sanctions to neutralize the "enemy within" our Western parliamentary structures and media... Read more... T. Greenstein: Obsessions & Dark Criminal Past | Shoah This is an long exchange e-mail between Gilad Atzmon and Tony Greenstein before you read it I copied an e-mail sent by Dr Gabi Weber her e-mail shed the light on the Greenstein true nature... Read more... Aug 4, 2011 End Game for Benghazi Rebels as Libyan Tribes Prepare to Weigh in? by Franklin Lamb | Al Manar  ...The force that is rapidly entering into this conflict is the leadership of Libya’s more than 2000 tribes. In a series of meetings in Libya, Tunisia and elsewhere, the Tribal Council is speaking out forcefully and forging a political block that is demanding an end to Libyans killing Libyans... Read more... Obama on the Backs of the Poor, by Ray McGovern | Consortium News ..What are we to make of the Obama-brokered deal on debt and spending? It was certainly what the Germans call eine schwere Geburt (a difficult birth); it was one of the few times I would have favored abortion. I am reminded of a sermon that Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. gave during the turbulent 1950s, in which he peered into the future and issued a prescient warning: “A nation or a civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on an installment plan.”.. Read more... Yemen, shooting target for West: Interview with Ali Al-Ahmed | PressTV ...Yemen is the only country in the Middle East right now that is bombing its own revolutionaries. They are using airplanes that are supported by the United States. Some of this ammunition and support, logistical support came from the United States. In a very simple way, the United States has supported Ali Abdullah Saleh's efforts against the revolution in Yemen... Read transcript, watch video... Hard Right Extremism in America and Europe, by Stephen Lendman | Indybay ...hardline extremists mostly attracted middle income Americans facing lost jobs, homes, and economic uncertainty at a time they should have shifted left, not right. Instead of blaming big government, a groundswell for addressing popular needs should be demanded. It didn't. Demagogues took advantage and aroused millions, aided by daily Fox News support and its lunatic fringe hosts. Among them, Glenn Beck (now gone), Bill O'Reilly, and others rage against big government, hyping an extremist agenda. Maliciously, they spread fear effectively enough to attract growing numbers of adherents, largely mindless that their best interests are compromised, not helped... Read more... Bosnia: The movie the UN doesn't want you to see | Rehmat's World ..The movie is based on the eye-witness story of Kathryn Bolkovac, 50, which details the wide-scale child sex slave and human-trafficking scandal involving US military contractors and United Nations peacekeepers in detail... Read more... The fatal legacy of two empires, by Diako Hosseini | PressTV  A historical comparison reveals that the position of the United States in the world order of the 21st century is not unlike that of Great Britain at the outset of the twentieth century... Read more... A 'sign of weakness' in the propaganda of war, by H.D.S. Greenway | Boston Globe ...The entire American house of cards in Afghanistan is built on an illusion of progress. Progress is slow, and reversible, but “we are winning’’ is the line emanating from headquarters. Our Pashtun adversaries’ job is to lower government morale. In that cause, one might concede that the Taliban assassinating three top government officials in one month is a considerable achievement... Read more... Libya, Western intervention and the left's great betrayal | Redress Information & Analysis Redress Information & Analysis looks back at the Libyan uprising as it unfolded, from the eruption of the peaceful civil and political rights protests and the Gaddafi regime’s hyper-violent response, to the UN Security Council’s authorization of the use of force to protect Libyan civilians. We pay special attention to the so-called “anti-imperialist” camp’s great betrayal of the Libyan people and how, through ignorance, stupidity, dogmatism, naivety and greed for Gaddafi’s money, these faux “leftists” turned their backs on the Libyan people and supported the murderous Gaddafi regime... Read more... Pogroms and Purges in Bahrain, by Patrick Cockburn | Counterpunch ...The simple explanation for the human disaster that is consuming Bahraini society is that the government panicked and over-reacted. The al-Khalifas felt that their rule was under serious threat as long established despots across the Arab world were overthrown or under threat. They treated moderate reformers as if they were professional revolutionaries. Without any evidence, the authorities demonized Iran as the hidden hand behind the demand by the majority Shia for an end to discrimination and lack of civil rights... Read more... The Mass Murderer's Manifesto, by Israel Shamir | Counterpunch ...Breivik’s 2083 is heavily influenced by far-right Neocon writing. As is often the case with copy-paste compilations, it is difficult to assign an accurate lineage to the conglomeration of words and those of compiled authors. However, if 2083 is ever published, the copyrights of David Horowitz and Bat Yeor, Daniel Pipes and Andrew Bostom should be given pride of place. These are the writers who inspired Breivik to commit mass murder... Read more... Palestinians fear for ancient West Bank water source, by Tom Perry | Reuters Hewn from rock, the cavernous cisterns which dot the desert beyond Bethlehem have for centuries harvested winter rain to provide shepherds and their flocks with water through summer... Read more... Hope springs eternal for veteran Israeli peacenik, by Marius Schattner | Yahoo News  Uri Avnery, Israeli writer and founder of the Gush Shalom peace movement For Uri Avnery, seen by some as the backbone of Israel's dwindling peace movement, hope for peace with the Palestinians springs eternal, despite stalled talks and the rising power of the Israeli right wing. At 87, he can recount decades of experience pushing his fellow Israelis towards a lasting peace deal with the Palestinians, and has no time for those who say an accord is as far away now as ever...Read more... US Muslims More Tolerant, Opposed to Violence Than Other Faiths, by Jim Lobe | Antiwar Muslims in the United States express greater tolerance for members of other faiths than any other major religious group, according to a major new survey and report released Thursday by the Abu Dhabi Gallup Center. They are also more likely than any other religious group to oppose violent or military attacks against civilians, according to the survey, “Muslim Americans: Faith, Freedom, and the Future.”.. Read more... Hawks Upset With Debt Deal, by Jim Lobe | Antiwar As both houses of Congress began debating the 11th-hour debt-limit deal hashed out Sunday night by senior lawmakers and the White House, neoconservatives and other national security hawks complained bitterly Monday that the final package may force major cuts in defense spending in the coming years. “If this deal governs policy for the next decade, it will be hard for the U.S. to remain a sole superpower,” warned Weekly Standard editor and leading neoconservative ideologue William Kristol... [Kristol the Pistol misfires again] Read more...The Debt Ceiling Debate That Didn't Happen: War and Debt, by Michael Hudson | Counterpunch ..Throughout modern history, war has been the major cause of a rising national debt. Most governments operate in fiscal balance during peacetime, financing their spending and investment by levying taxes and charging user fees. War emergencies push this balance into deficit – sometimes for defensive wars, sometimes for aggression... Read more... When Fanatics Don't Blink, by Ralph Nader | Counterpunch ...Obama fumbled the ball day after day, and with the August 2 debt ceiling deadline looming, he fell to the extortionists. Unlike Presidents Roosevelt, Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan, Bush, Clinton and Bush II, who routinely expected and got debt ceilings raised without conditions... Read more... Aug 3, 2011 Museum of Tolerance: Israel's Blindness, by Lillian Rosengarten | Palestine Chronicle  ...Jew against Jew has created a deeply disturbing divide that pits Jews against one another and seriously questions what it means to be Jewish within a context of compassion or as a fear response to having once been dehumanized and thoroughly victimized. How can this justify the continuous role of Israel as victimizer in the form of an obscene collective punishment, an entire population marginalized, hated, left war torn and homeless without freedom. What is the message to the world after decades of this occupied prison?.. Read more... US & Israel masterminds behind Syria proxy war | YouTube Bashar Assad's main headache now is the unseen coalition of the US, Saudi Arabia and Israel, which sees the Syrian regime as one of Iran's major Middle East partners. That's according to former Pentagon officer Michael Maloof, who gave his insight into the situation in the protest-torn country... Read more... Heads in Sand: Israel's biggest anti-govt protests ignored by media | YouTube In Israel, mainstream media are being accused of burying their heads in the sand over coverage of the biggest anti-government protests the country has seen in decades. Tens of thousands of people, fed up with deteriorating living standards, are staging demonstrations calling for Prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu to stand down... Read more... Zionism incompatible with Israelis: Interview with Ralph Schoenman | PressTV ...what it represents is a profound understanding and shift on the part of large sections of the population, that this government and this Zionist state is pitting the population against the survival interests of hundreds of millions of people in the region, at the cost of their own day to day survival and wellbeing... Read transcript, watch video... Bipartisan Debt Deal Betrayal | Stephen Lendman ...Obama is rock-hard conservative, a pro-war, pro-corporate, anti-human/civil rights ideologue neocon, pretending to be populist. His legacy's now written, exposing him as the president who reversed a century of social progress. Write it down, remember it, and get mad enough to resist... Read more... The Silent Steel Resistance of Nabi Samuel, by Joharah Baker | MIFTAH  Maqam Al Nabi Samwail (The Tomb of the Prophet Samuel) used to be one of our favorite hiking destinations when we were children. From our nearby village of Bir Nabala, the hike up the mountain to the site of the tomb of the prophet was the perfect pastime for a bunch of children who enjoyed the outdoors. At the time, we children were oblivious to the fate of the 250 or so inhabitants of the village of Nabi Samuel, only concerned with ensuring that the fried chicken and potato salad we lugged up the mountain would reach the top intact... Read more... Israel: Rogue State Land of Inequality | Stephen Lendman ...What's ongoing in Israel bears watching, including whether it will inspire Palestinians to rally for their rights. Activists have been calling for a third Intifada to demand peace, equal rights, social justice, independence, and an end to Israel's occupation... Read more... Seven startling things most people still don't know about the national debt, banking and the money supply, by Mike Adams | Natural News ...Most people, even smart people, know surprisingly little about the way money really works in Big Government. With the debt ceiling fiasco suddenly raising awareness of the possibility of a total global financial blowout, now seems like a good time to remind people of seven disturbing facts about money that are almost never acknowledge in the old media... Read more... Lebanese celebrate July 2006 victory over Israel | Rehmat's World ...Lebanese celebrated 5th anniversary of their victory over the Jewish army in 34-day war in July 2006. The occasion is known as ‘Dignity and Victory’ festival. Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah, leader of Lebanese Islamic Resitance, Hizbullah addressed a huge gathering at Ar-Raya Stadium in Beirut’s Southern Suburbs... Read more... There will be no 1948 war, by Judd Neeman | Haaretz As we approach the UN September vote on Palestinian statehood, our leaders are promising a political tsunami. With failing leadership on both sides, the protest movement must hold a demonstration of solidarity between the two peoples... Read more... Fear of Peace: The Israeli Motivator, by Jim Miles | Palestine Chronicle ...The worst fear for Israel is not terror or suicide bombers, but that in spite of all their rhetoric, aided and abetted by the U.S., there is a partner for peace. The very existence of a people who call themselves Palestinians, who are recognized by the majority of the world - at least at the street level if not the elite political level - is the biggest threat to the state of Israel, the non-violent everyday existence of a people struggling to survive under occupation and oppression... Read more... Norway: Muslims and metaphors, by Hamid Dabashi | Al Jazeera English  US congressman Peter King has been holding hearings on the 'radicalisation' of the American Muslim community, ...The frightful mass murder in Norway on July 22, 2011 and the instant, knee-jerk reaction of a number of leading European and American news organisations - including the BBC, The Financial Times, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post and a wide range of television and radio stations, website, blogs, etc. - to assume and in fact globally to publicise their assumption that the heinous crime was perpetrated by Muslim terrorists (before a single fact was officially known or announced about the suspect or suspects) has once again invoked the largely repressed memories of the Oklahoma Bombing of 1995, in which yet another white, blonde, terrorist had gone on a rampage murdering hundreds of people and injuring even more and terrorising an entire nation...and has refused to widen the hearings' scope to include other, non-Muslim terrorism threats Read more... LOL!! I Stole 3.5 Trillion Dollars From You. I Dare You To Do Something. | Video Rebel's Blog ...We own the Congress. We have owned every President since we killed Kennedy. We own both political parties. We own the News Media. We own the Foundations. We own the courts. We sent your jobs overseas when we closed 50,000 American factories. If you have a house, we will soon foreclose on it and kick you and your family out into the streets. You will have nothing left. To escape the misery we inflicted on you, you might gladly die in the next war so we can exterminate the Muslims, take their oil and double the price of gasoline... Read more, watch video... God, Palin and Politics | Consortium News Pentecostalism, a non-rational form of Christianity whose adherents believe they speak directly to God and favor apocalyptic prophecies, is adding to the polarization of American politics behind the movement’s champion, Sarah Palin. Rev. Howard Bess explains the emergence of this distinctive brand of Christianity... Read more... Palestine: Conditions of Statehood and Reality of Compromise, by Samah Sabawi | Palestine Chronicle ...without US support and without sufficient international will, none of this matters. The PA knows that it faces a veto by the US: it has been subjected to immense pressure – its funding has been cut off and now it is two months behind in meeting its PA salaries. Now, they have begun hinting that they may no longer ask for recognition at the UN to avoid upsetting the US too much; rather, they may opt for only an upgrade from observer status which they currently hold... Read more... Syria: Tired Slogans and a Looming Dawn, by Ramzy Baroud | Palestine Chronicle There is no linear narrative capable of explaining the multifarious happenings that have gripped Syrian society in recent months... Read more... Jim Fetzer interviews Rich Forer | American Freedom Radio Rich is the author of the best selling Breakthrough: Transforming Fear into Compassion. See article... [the Editor] Listen (2hrs)... Aug 2, 2011 The Palestinian bid for UN statehood recognition, by Lawrence Davidson | Australians for Palestine  ..As global momentum swings behind the Palestinian statehood bid, voices warning that all is not what it seems, are being drowned out by the rising euphoria. No one wants to listen when flag, anthem and recognition promise something, anything after the years of nothing. But it is all a charade. Rescuing a post-1967 Bantustan from Israeli occupation is morally and politically bankrupt... Read more... Follow the Oil and the Money: Why the West is Committed to the Murderous Rebels in Libya, by Patrick Cockburn | Counterpunch In keeping with the British Government's well-established record of comical ineptitude in dealing with Libya, foreign secretary William Hague chose to recognize the rebel leaders in Benghazi as the legitimate government of the country at the very moment some of them may have been shooting or torturing to death their chief military commander... Read more... After Oslo: Time to Crack Down On Mossad Terrorism, by Wayne Madsen | Strategic Culture Foundation Israel’s most secret and tried-and-true weapon is the “false flag” terrorist attack. State-sponsored terrorism is defined by Encyclopedia Britannica as the “systematic use of violence to create a general climate of fear in a population and thereby to bring about a particular political objective [and] is employed by governments - or more often by factions within governments - against that government's citizens, against factions within the government, or against foreign governments or groups.”.. Read more... Exclusive interview with Carlos Latuff, by Dr. Hanan Chehata | Middle East Monitor  Carlos Latuff Carlos Latuff is a Brazilian artist whose vibrant political cartoons have made him an inspirational advocate for the people of Palestine, Iraq, Afghanistan and beyond. He uses his expressive art to expose injustices around the world including war crimes, apartheid, imperialism, exploitation, the dark underbelly of capitalism and other forms of oppression around the world. The most frequent targets for his derision are the governments of the USA and Israel...Read more... Libya: What America's Media Won't Report | Stephen Lendman America's media staunchly back all US imperial wars, regurgitating officials lies as truths. Moreover, they never explain their illegality or daily crimes of war and against humanity against civilians, as well as non-military related infrastructure and other sites... Read more... War and politics from a left-Christian perspective: Anders Breivik and the Antichrist Virus, by Richard Edmondson | Left Wing Christian ...it was Eileen Fleming who first drew an analogy between Christian Zionism and the Antichrist, writing: “The cult of ‘Christian’ Zionism is what the concept of the Anti-Christ is all about. This heretical theology of Premillenial Dispensation worships a god of Armageddon and not the God of love, forgiveness and compassion that Jesus/AKA The Prince of Peace taught.” Christian Zionism has indeed become an “Antichrist virus” (for lack of a better metaphor) that has caught hold of Christianity and spread to near epidemic proportions... [See also Part 2] Read more... The Curse of Canaan: A Demonology of History, by Eustace Mullins | bibliotecapleyades This is the entire book in .pdf format - the Editor Read more... September '11: D-Day | Roy Tov  Al Aqsa | Jerusalem Benjamin Netanyahu was walking back and forth along the safest underground bunker of the Israeli Administration. The previous evening, Palestine had declared independence. 160 countries had supported the vote at the United Nations General Assembly. A few Pacific and Caribbean islands had voted against after having been heavily bribed by the Zionists. A 195:0 vote would have been too humiliating for Ben Gurion’s descendants; 160:10 and a few abstentions looked slightly better. Yet, the Jewish weakness was evident. The West Bank and Gaza had celebrated the unquestionable victory during the whole night, knowingly delaying the inevitable for a few hours...Read more... Obama's Big Payback to Wall Street: The Worst Deal in American History? by Mike Whitney | Counterpunch ..liberal pundits everywhere are moaning that Obama was "mugged" or worse, that he was "blackmailed". What nonsense. This is the plan that Obama wanted from the very beginning, liberals were just unwilling to listen until now. They were too caught up with his lofty oratory and his personal history as if that was surefire proof of a kind heart and a progressive outlook. Well, guess what? It's not. The man is not who he pretends to be... Read more... More War!: The Road to Armageddon, by Paul Craig Roberts | Counterpunch ..This measure, seldom reported by the media, stood at 16.2 percent in June, 2011. Statistician John Williams continues to count also the long-term discouraged workers according to the way it was officially done in 1980. In June, 2011, this full measure of the US unemployment rate was 22.7 percent. In other words, by 2011 between one-fifth and one-fourth of the US work force were without jobs... Read more... Aug 1, 2011 More on Norwegian Terror Attack Oslo Terror Attacks: Zionism Rears Its Ugly Head Again, by Niall Bradley | Veterans Today  ...Zionism is the ideology of psychopaths, their clarion call to fulfilling what they see as their rightful place as the Master Race. Participatory democracy, as Norwegians teach and live it, is humanitarian, inclusive and just. In this lies the true ‘clash of civilizations’. It is not about one race or one religion against another. It is a clash of ideologies which by and large orbit around two poles of existence... [The most extensive reporting on the subject that I've seen yet] A Timeline of Terror, by Paul J. Balles | Intifada Palestine Reporters simply refuse to give up their idea that Islamic terrorists had something to do with the attacks. Journalists had the same initial reaction in 1995 after the Oklahoma City bombing by Timothy McVeigh... Read more... Organized Political Terrorism: The Norwegian Massacre, the State, the Media and Israel, by Prof. James Petras | Global Research The July 22, 2011, bombing of the office of the Norwegian Prime Minister, Labor Party Jen Stoltenberg, which killed 8 civilians, and the subsequent political assassination of 68 unarmed activists of the Labor Party Youth on Utoeya Island, just 20 minutes from Oslo, by militant neo-fascist Christian-Zionists, raises fundamental questions about the growing links between the legal Far-Right, the ‘mainstream media’, the Norwegian police, Israel and rightwing terrorism... Read more... Norway Shooter Anders Breivik's Zionism in Line With Pro-Israel European Right, by Michelle Goldberg | The Daily Beast Anders Breivik’s embrace of Israel is the latest sign of a shift among reactionaries in Europe - with fascism and Zionism going hand in hand, fueled by Islamophobia... Read more... Israel's Tahrir Square Israel uprising: Beginning of an end, by Mike Jennings | PressTV  Israeli protesters have set up tents like protesters in Bahrain and Egypt When Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stood before the US Congress and said Israel - a regime set up by stealing land and which survives off charity - is “what's right about the Middle East” and received 29 standing ovations from American lawmakers, he neglected the fact that the uprising against autocratic regimes were never meant to be restricted to the Arab world... Read more, watch video... 'Future is up to us': Israel protest gathers 150,000 | RT on YouTube Thousands of demonstrators have taken to the streets in seven cities across Israel, and their social slogans are rapidly being replaced by the calls for the government to step down. The biggest rally is underway in Tel Aviv with around 150,000 people having gathered at the "Tahrir Square of Israel." Police have arrested several activists who were blocking roads in the centre of Tel Aviv, calling for Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu to quit over government policies... Watch video... 'Israel's position weakening globally': Interview with Dr. E. Michael Jones | PressTV ..I don't think we are talking about economic issues here. I think that the economic issue has remained the same there. But I think what we are talking about is [that] Israel's position is weakening across the board, and they no longer have a defensible perimeter in terms of their foreign policy... Read more... From Cairo to Jerusalem, a call for direct democracy, by Zvi Bar'el | Haaretz The revolution in Egypt was a realization of the regime's nightmare. It revived direct democracy, which doesn't require a parliament. The public decides what's good for it and keeps on demonstrating until its demands are met or it is wiped out by the regime. Direct democracy has also awakened on Tel Aviv's Rothschild Boulevard and in the Hatikva neighborhood, in Be'er Sheva and on the highway to Jerusalem... Read more... Israeli Commandos Raid "Freedom Theater" in West Bank, by Dr. Ashraf Ezzat | Intifada Palestine  Juliano Mer Khamis and Palestinian youth perform at the ..Juliano Mer Khamis was a fearless artist, and a fearless human being. Arna’s Children and The Freedom Theater are only the two most visible parts of his legacy, a legacy that bespeaks the role artistic creation can play even amidst the most horrible depths of injustice and suffering...Freedom Theatre in Jenin refugee camp Read more, watch videos... Zionists, Psychopaths and 9/11 | Wake Up From Your Slumber The strong Zionist involvement in 9/11 has been well documented for years. More recently, it has become increasingly apparent that thermite was used to demolish the World Trade Center, and that our so-called "democracies" are actually pathocracies - regimes in which a small pathological minority takes control over a society of normal people... [An unusually well-sourced piece for a blog post] Read more...Dozens killed as govt tanks storm volatile Hama city in Syria | RT on YouTube Activists say Syrian forces have killed sixty-two people in raids across the country, mostly in Hama. It comes after government tanks stormed the volatile city, reportedly leaving dozens dead. On Friday, another violent crackdown is said to have claimed a further twenty-two lives across the country. Since the anti-government uprising swept Syria in March, activists say police violence has killed more than a thousand demonstrators... Read more, watch video... West and MKO: a murderous alliance, by Kourosh Ziabari | PressTV  Despite their boastful claims of being opposed to terrorism, the United States and its European cronies have long been the staunch supporters of criminal organizations such as MKO which brutally slaughtered hundreds of Iranians during the 8-year war with Iraq and introduced itself as a murderous terrorist entity and the number one enemy of the Iranian nation... Read more... 'Blockade on Gaza root cause of crisis': Interview with Ken O'Keefe | Press TV Israel has imposed a blockade on the Gaza strip since the democratically elected Hamas government took control of the territory in 2007. The crippling blockade on the territory has triggered a humanitarian crisis... Read transcript, watch video... Genocidal politics and the Somali famine, by Abdi Ismail Samatar | Al Jazeera English ...Somalis despised this alliance and their patron, and ultimately turned against them under the leadership of the Union of Islamic Courts (UIC) in 2006. The UIC defeated the warlords, restored peace to Mogadishu for the first time in 15 years, and brought most of southern Somalia under its ambit. Consequently, the US and its Ethiopian ally claimed that these Islamists were terrorists and therefore a menace to the region. In contrast, the vast majority of Somalis supported the UIC and pleaded with the international community to engage them peacefully... Read more... Rights group outlines torture in Israeli detention | Maan News Agency  Palestinian detainees face torture and inhumane treatment in Israeli jails, a report by the Al-Mezan Center for Human Rights said Thursday. In a publication documenting violations of human rights against Palestinians by the Israeli army over two years, the Gaza-based rights group outlined 85 cases of Palestinians tortured in Israeli prisons... Read more... Peter Schiff: Problem is the debt, not the ceiling | RT on YouTube The country which holds more U.S. debt than any other, has hit out at the failure of Congress to reach a deal over its debt ceiling. China says the political deadlock in Washington threatens the entire global economy... Read more, watch video... Video of 14 July Israeli attack on CPSGaza | Civil Peace Service Gaza Footage of the second water-cannon attack by the Israeli navy against the Civil Peace Service Gaza boat "Oliva" on Thursday, July 14, 2011. The camera used was lost in the sea when the crew evacuated the "Oliva," recovered in a fishing net, and returned on Wednesday, July 20... Watch video... Call to arms, by Thanassis Cambanis | The Boston Globe  Egyptian protesters threw stones at riot police during violent clashes in Tahrir Square ...As time passes and revolutionary momentum fades in the broader public, a new current of thought is arising among the protesters who still occupy Tahrir Square, demanding civilian rule and accountability for former regime figures. Many are now asking an unsettling question: What if nonviolence isn’t the solution? What if it’s the problem?..Read more... Community Leader: Israel is Hunting down International Supporters | Palestine News Network ...Awad said that Israel is taking advantage of the silence policy some countries implement towards Israel’s crimes against those international activists. Awad warned that the Israeli targeted deportation and denied entry campaign will soon include international human rights and aid NGOs working in the region... Read more... Israel and the American Jewish voter | Redress Information & Analysis Lawrence Davidson analyses the bizarre phenomenon of a Democratic and a Republican candidate fighting a congressional election in a New York district not over national or local issues, but over which of the two is more loyal to Israel... Read more... |
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