Dec 30, 2011 Free Syrian Army commanded by Military Governor of Tripoli, by Thierry Meyssan | Voltaire Network  Aldel Hakim Belhaj, historic leader of Al Qaeda in Libya, The UN Security Council members are at loggerheads over the interpretation of the events that are rocking Syria. On one hand, France, the United Kingdom and the United States claim that a revolution has swept the country, in the aftermath of the "Arab Spring", and suffering a bloody crackdown. On the other hand, Russia’s and China’s take is that Syria is having to cope with armed gangs from abroad, which it is fighting awkwardly thereby causing collateral victims among the civilian population it seeks to protect...Military Governor of Tripoli, chief of the Free Syrian Army [Although the theory remains speculative, there are sufficient grounds to believe that Al Qaeda, originally a CIA Op, has never ceased to be just that.] Read more...Israel: Rogue State or at the Height of Brinkmanship? by Amjad Yamein | Intifada Palestine Last night, Israel conducted two air strikes within hours and opened fire at Palestinians, killing three and injuring ten, in the second aerial attack against Gaza in the last Month. Israel Defense Forces Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Benny Gantz categorically stated that preparations for another offensive on Gaza is underway, calling Cast Lead, Israel’s 2008 war on Gaza that killed 1,417 Palestinians, including 926 civilians, an ‘excellent’ operation. Gantz said that another offensive must be initiated by Israel and must be “swift and painful,” and explained “[IDF] will attack when the conditions are right.”.. Read more... Obama Secretly Preparing for Syria Intervention, by Jason Ditz | Antiwar Members of the Obama Administration are confirming tonight that the National Security Council has been instructed to begin seeking options for US intervention in Syria, including what they call the “unlikely” option of setting up a no-fly zone... Read more... In the West Bank, a horror story, by Yousef Munayyer | The Jerusalem Fund  There is a famous scene in Mary Shelley's classic where Victor Frankenstein realises that he created a monster and that this monster might be the end of him. Such is the scene that comes to mind when thinking about the news emerging from the occupied West Bank in recent days. Israeli settlers, living in illegal colonies in Palestinian territory, rioted again. This time, however, they did not go after their usual target - Palestinian civilians - rather, they raided an Israeli military base where they injured an Israeli soldier... Read more... A National Deficit of Reason and Integrity: Why America Can't Afford Its Military, by Col (ret) Douglas Macgregor | Counterpunch ...nearly one-half of American voters now think the United States can make major cuts in defense spending without placing the country in danger. They see no risk in cutting way back on what America spends to defend other countries. The old notion that the United States should maintain expensive military bases in foreign countries, just to ensure troublesome foreigners do not get “out of hand,” is rapidly losing support... Read more... A Tale of Two Cities: Weimar and Washington, by Philip Giraldi | Antiwar Mark Twain is credited with saying that “History doesn’t repeat itself, but it rhymes.” Today’s United States is often compared to other historic nations, whether at their prime or about to decline and fall depending on one’s own political perspective... Read more... MK Danon Proposes Outlawing Sex Between 'Arabs,' Young Jewish Girls | Tikun Olam  In a development that harkens back to the Nuremberg Laws and the old racialist broadsides of Rabbi Meir Kahane, MK Danny Danon has proposed a solution for a problem that doesn’t exist: he’s claimed that over 1,000 Jewish women have complained about being kidnapped by Palestinians and forced to become sex slaves. The settler internet portal Arutz 7 reports on a Knesset hearing at which Danon deliberated on this imaginary social cataclysm.. A member of the committee, Danny Simon, asked a policewoman testifying whether she was aware of any such problems. The officer said she knew of none... Read more... Hope, Solidarity and Acupuncture, by Mark T. Harris | Counterpunch ...Introducing us to his Palestinian friends, Healing in Community reads less like a polished treatise on issues in health and society than what it is—one healthcare practitioner’s personal observations on the experience of living and working in a culture and community with a particularly complex and painful history. What Mateo Bernal has done is to remind us of the humanitarian spirit, of the solidarity and compassion, that remains alive and well in this otherwise troubled world... Read more... If you could see Israel naked, by Bradley Burston | Haaretz ..For the length of this corrosive 2011, you could feel something numbing, something comforting, being stripped away from us. The protective coloration - the start-up sheen, the silvery comb-over pretense of democracy and peace-seeking, of Jewish values and of membership in the community of modern nations - all of it has begun to wear thin and wear out... [Worth saving? Not. What it comes down to is Israel vs. Humanity. I choose the latter.] Read more...SNL Writer Who Committed Suicide (?) Was a Strong Critic of Israel and Fan of What Really Happened | Revolt of the Plebs  ...in addition to admitting to a long bout with alcoholism, Bodolai also expressed “an inability to cope with the doom-and-gloom vision of the future he saw for the coming year, including war with Iran and fascism and martial law in America.”.. Read more... Oath Keepers Launches National Effort to Recall and/or Remove Members of Congress Who Voted for NDAA Military Detention | Oath Keepers Oath Keepers has launched a national effort to recall (or remove by any other lawful means) all of the oath breaking members of Congress, in both the House and Senate, who voted for the National Defense Appropriations Act of 2012 (NDAA), which contains provisions that authorize indefinite military detention and trial by military commission of “any person” – including U.S. citizens and lawful residents – upon the mere say-so of the President or one of his subordinates in the Executive Branch, such as within the Department of Defense or CIA... Read more... Operation Free Palestine | YouTube We live in the most troubled times! Ravaged by debt, enslaved by greed, and trapped by media lies! Our lives have become such a burden, that we forgo the very basic instincts of our being - to care for our fellow brothers and sisters, We must dare to speak out in support of the Palestinian people who resist and endorse the horrific existence brought upon them through our blood thirsty imperial crusade... Read more, watch video... Israel, US Discuss Excuses for Attacking Iran, by Jason Ditz | Antiwar  A report today is claiming that the Obama Administration is in secret talks with the Israeli government to figure out exactly what would constitute a good excuse for launching an attack on Iran... Read more... 70,000 Palestinian Jerusalemites to be re-classified as West Bank citizens | Wadi Hilweh Information Center Jerusalem mayor Nir Barakat has announced that the city Municipality will now classify 70,000 citizens of Jerusalem as non-residents, furthering the right wing Israeli campaign to achieve a Jewish majority in East Jerusalem. Seventy thousand Palestinian residents already cut off from the rest of Jerusalem by Israel’s Apartheid Wall will now be cast out on paper as well, with their affairs turned over from the Municipality to the Israeli military’s West Bank civil administration... Read more... Just because you're an atheist doesn't make you rational, by Mark Steel | The Independent Once you make it your primary aim to refute the existence of God, you miss what's really fundamental... [As a buddhist, I usually just observe these discussions with detached amusement, as we just don't have a dog in this fight. Maybe at least a few peope will learn something from this brief article.] Read more...The sad, sad world of Israel's big-time liars | Redress Information & Analysis Stuart Littlewood views Israel’s propaganda minister, the self-confessed racist squatter Yuli Edelstein, and takes a close look at the manual to which Edelstein and other Zionist propagandists work, the “Global Language Dictionary”. Written by Frank Luntz, a US Republican political consultant and pollster, on behalf of the Israel Project, a US media advocacy group, the manual teaches Israel propagandists how to hoodwink people about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, how to silence critics and how to avoid making statements that produce negative reactions... Read more... Sheldon Adelson: The Deep Pockets Behind Newt Gingrich, by Eli Clifton | ThinkProgress  ...This week, McClatchy revealed that American Solutions footed the $8 million bill for private jet charters while Gingrich weighed whether to enter the 2008 and 2012 presidential races. Casino billionaire Sheldon Adelson was the biggest funder of American Solutions, contributing $7.65 million and rumored to have committed $20 million to a pro-Gingrich super PAC... Read more... U.S. and NATO are on the march worldwide, by Madison Ruppert | Stop NATO ...There is something big brewing across the globe and it does not look good. India, Japan and Australia are strengthening trilateral ties while the United States and NATO are looking to firm up alliances between them all along with Ukraine and Armenia... Read more... Ron Paul Publicly Names Neoconservatives | YouTube The original uncensored version, untouched by the ADL and the JIDF... [The pure, unadulterated truth. Does he have a chance? Let's hope so.] Watch video...'9/11 verdict on Iran mockery of justice' | PressTV  The US has resorted to “any possible means”, ranging from implicit to explicit acts of enmity, to undermine the Iranian nation and break its resistance to subjugation... Read more... Testimony of Amnon Neumann | YouTube Watch video... Is UK 'friends of IsraHell' group breaking law on political funding,? by Yousef Munayyer | SHOAH ...Proving that he is little different to his predecessors Gordon Brown and Tony Blair, Miliband is more eager to placate the LFI’s hawks than follow the good example shown by his mother Marion Kozak , who has declared her support for the principled organization Jews for Justice for Palestinians. If Akehurst’s transcript is accurate, Miliband used his LFIaddress to malign the Palestinian-led campaign for boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) against Israel by implying that it had an anti-Semitic motive... Read more... Complaint filed over secret donors to "friends of Israel," by David Cronin | The Electronic Intifada  Last week I wrote about how Labor Friends of Israel (LFI) – a lobby group within Britain’s largest opposition party – appears to be breaking a law on political donations. I am happy to report that the UK’s Electoral Commission has now received a formal request to investigate the LFI and similar organizations affiliated to the country’s ruling coalition. Jenny Tonge, a member of the House of Lords, has alerted the Commission to the lack of transparency over how Zionist support groups are funded... Read more... The Corporatization of California's Universities: Arise, Students of California, by Ralph Nader | Counterpunch Students of California, arise, you have nothing to lose but a crushing debt! The corporate state of California, ever ready to seize its ideological and commercial hour during a recession, has a chokehold on California’s public universities. With its tax-coddled plutocracy and a nod to further corporatization, the state government has taken the lid off tuition increases big time. [When I was a student at SF State and then Berkeley in the mid-60's, in-state tuition was about $300/yr. One could pay for that by flipping hamburgers part time. I drove a cab a few nights a week. In those days the Zionists had barely gotton started. By the mid-70's, they were in full harness, and America was a dream starting to turn into a nightmare.] Read more...Syria Update: US Government Gives Green Light to MSM | Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs Post This morning I woke up to the following news headlines. Let me correct myself: This morning I found the US media and their quasi extension reporting on stale, at least 6-month old US operations on Syria. Now, that’s much better. I think it is safe to assume that the media has been given a ‘green light’ by the White House and Pentagon to report on long-ongoing war preparations, aka ‘intervention’ plans, on Syria while making it sound as fresh-new-recent... Read more, watch video... Dec 29, 2011 Open Letter from Gaza: Three Years after the Massacre | Palestine Chronicle  We will never forget the hurt of 3 years ago We, Palestinians of Gaza, 3 years on from the 22-day long massacre in Israel's operation 'Cast Lead', are calling on international civil society to make 2012 the year when solidarity with us in Palestine captures the spark of the revolutions around the Arab world and never looks back. On this anniversary we demand an international liberation movement that eventually leads to just that, liberation for us Palestinians from 63 years of brutal military occupation and ethnic cleansing that pours shame on any organisation or government claiming to endorse universal human rights...Read more... 9/11 Whistleblower Susan Lindauer: 'Libyan Opposition Is Al-Qaeda' NATO Working With Al CIAda! | RT/YouTube ..Susan Lindauer, former CIA asset who covered Libya for nearly 10 years, is speaking to RT on what that exactly means... Watch video... Two Important Works On War Revisionism | Lew Rockwell John Denson, editor of The Costs of War, talks to Lew Rockwell about Nothing Less Than War and Freedom Betrayed... Listen to podcast... Confronting intimidation, working for justice in Palestine, by Ilan Pappe | The Electronic Intifada If we had a wish list for 2012 as Palestinians and friends of Palestine, one of the top items ought to be our hope that we can translate the dramatic shift in recent years in world public opinion into political action against Israeli policies on the ground. We know why this has not yet materialized: the political, intellectual and cultural elites of the West cower whenever they even contemplate acting according to their own consciences as well as the wishes of their societies... Read more... Assembly Time: Winter in Kabul, by Kathy Kelly | Palestine Chronicle  We are warmed by a sense of shared purpose Arab Spring, European Summer, American Autumn, and now the challenge of winter. Here in Kabul, the travelers of our small Voices for Creative Nonviolence delegation share an apartment with several of the creative and determined "Afghan Youth Peace Volunteers" who’ve risked so much for peace here and befriended us so warmly over the past two years...Read more... No Political System Can Function Without a Free Press: Kourosh Ziabari Interviews Mark Kingwell | Intifada Palestine ...Even the most elaborate theory of social justice or democratic procedure will need to address issues of motivation, fellow feeling, and shared vulnerability. There are numerous ways to do this—Adam Smith’s sympathy, Herder’s einfuhlen, Derrida’s hospitality—but they all make a similar point. Unless and until I see the other as someone to whom I am obliged in some profound way, there can be no political justice... Read more... J Street Jeremy: Being Pro-Israel Never Talking about Palestinian Rights, by Ira Glunts | Palestine Chronicle On a dreary, rainy evening in late November my friend Pat Carmeli and I were driving to Syracuse to hear Jeremy Ben-Ami speak. I smiled when Pat turned to me and said, 'I’m going to ask him a question about human rights and the Palestinians.' I responded enthusiastically: 'All right! That should liven things up.'.. Read more... Putin: Protesters Are Receiving Their Funding From The West, by Wayne Madsen | Veterans Today WMR has learned from an eastern European intelligence source that the CIA. Britain’s MI-6, and George Soros, who actually fronts for the Rothschild family, has been funneling money to Russian protest movements through the Republic of Georgia... Read more... Israel Cannot Wage a War against Iran without a "Green Light" from the US, by Michel Chossudovsky | Global Research  Read more... A Tale of Two Squares and Two Movements, by Franklin Lamb | Al Manar ...All the current Presidential candidates insist that American support for Israel with endless special arms programs and evermore cash and green lighting crimes against Palestine has nothing to do with the fact that the US is being driven out of the Middle East and that the American government has never been held in lower repute... Read more... 2011: The Year that Shook the World, by Eric Walberg | Dissident Voice ...After a century of scheming in the Middle East and Central Asia by first Britain and then the US, the tables turned much faster than anyone could have imagined. As the pivotal 2011 draws to a close, it is the perfect moment to look at how we got here. The roller coaster ride has been long and terrifying, and it is vital to understand where it is taking us... Read more... Israel, U.S. discuss triggers for military strike on Iran, by Barak Ravid | Haaretz The Daily Beast reports that the countries are discussing "red lines" in Iran's nuclear program, that if crossed would justify a preemptive strike on its nuclear facilities. According to the report, Israel's ambassador to the U.S., Michael Oren, filed an official complaint with the administration following a speech by U.S. Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta a few weeks ago, warning against a military strike on Iran... [[The vampires will curl up into the fetal position and die if they don't get their regular quota of blood] Read more... Cast Lead II Announced by Gen. Gantz | Roy Tov  Once a suitable stage was set, he attacked. He began by praising Operation Cast Lead: “an excellent operation that achieved deterrence for Israel vis-a-vis Hamas.”After this shocking statement, he declared his intentions. He warned that cracks have emerged in that deterrence over time, and that a second round of fighting in the Gaza Strip is not a matter of choice for Israel. “Such a round must be initiated by Israel and must be "swift and painful.” In other words, Benny Gantz declared a second Cast Lead Operation is in the planning, and that he would be glad to conduct it... Read more... Ron Paul loves Jews but hates Israel | Rehmat's World You got to love the Zionist propaganda creeps. They have put a new video on U-Tube showing a teenage girl getting upset by a passage from Rep. Dr. Ron Paul’s latest book ‘Liberty Defined‘ which she claims calls Israel an apartheid state... Read more... The Prison Life of Marwan Barghouti: One Thousand Nights in Solitude, by Joseph Dana | Counterpunch ...Marwan Barghouti, the jailed Fatah leader known by many Palestinians as the “prince of resistance”, remains behind bars in Israel despite promises from the Palestinian leadership that his freedom would be secured through the exchange of captive Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit. On the eve of the prisoner swap, Barghouti released a 255-page book, written secretly behind bars and smuggled out via lawyers and family members, detailing his experience in Israeli jails... Read more... Diaspora: Plight of Palestinian families in exile, with Lauren Booth | YouTube Since 1948, millions of Palestinians have been forced into exile from their own lands. In this series we seek to find out what happened to the refugees of the 1948 and how their families are coping with six decades in exile... Watch video... Iran, Israel and the US: who's threatening who? by David J. Franco | InPEC  In this interview, Iranian political analyst Shirin Shafaie answers questions on Iran following the IAEA’s November Report and the latest developments leading to an increase of tensions and failure of diplomacy between Iran and the West... Read more... The Dersh | YouTube Watch video... "When they rape you don't object": Israeli "satire" show incites hatred of Muslims, Europeans, by Ali Abunimah | The Electronic Intifada The popular Israeli web-based satirical show LatmaTV has released a musical video containing crude anti-Muslim stereotypes and mocking Europeans as “dummies” for supposedly allowing their countries to be taken over by Islam and turned into “Eurabia.” In one sequence, a Norwegian father tells his blonde daughter about Muslims: “When they rape you don’t object for that is politically incorrect.”.. Read more, watch video... Press TV's CEO response to Ofcom Britain's Office of Communications (Ofcom) has imposed a 100,000-pound fine on Press TV for what it calls the breach of the regulator's rule. Ofcom has also decided to remove the Iranian English-language news channel from the Sky platform under the pretext that Press TV made administrative errors in its application for a license in 2007. Following is the response of Press TV's CEO, Dr. Mohammad Sarafraz, to Ofcom:.. [One wonders if the instructions from the (Israeli) government, presumably passed along to Ofcon by the (Tory,Labour/Liberal) 'Friends of Israel' were written in Hebrew] Read more... America's Drive For Middle East Dominance Sets The Stage For Attacking Iran: Never Mind International Law (Or Even U.S. Interests) | The Race for Iran  ...Instead of dealing soberly and effectively with the Middle East’s complex political and security dynamics and defending its legitimate interests there, the United States has, for the past two decades, tried to coerce political outcomes across the region, with the goal of bringing it under a U.S.-led, highly militarized political and security “umbrella.”.. Read more... Playing Chess in Eurasia, by Pepe Escobar | Asia Times Online ...Pipelineistan. That’s the chessboard where the half-hidden twin of the Pentagon’s “long war” is played out. Virtually all current geopolitical developments are energy-related. So fasten your seat belts, it’s time to revisit Dr Zbigniew Brzezinski’s “grand chessboard” in Eurasia to find out who’s winning the Pipelineistan wars... Read more... Did FDR Provoke Pearl Harbor? by Pat Buchanan | Creators ...to friends, "the Chief" sent another message: "You and I know that this continuous putting pins in rattlesnakes finally got this country bit." Today, 70 years after Pearl Harbor, a remarkable secret history, written from 1943 to 1963, has come to light. It is Hoover's explanation of what happened before, during and after the world war that may prove yet the death knell of the West... Read more... Alexander Baron: Gilad Atzmon wipes Israel off the map | Gilad Atzmon ...Since the current troubles started in the Middle East if not considerably before that, they have relied on pulling wires behind the scenes, financial pressure on the press, smears against anti-Semites - real and imagined - and at times naked tyranny. The problem is that it doesn't work anymore, and the reason is there is such widespread opposition to Zionist Imperialism and Western complicity in it that calling people names is not enough... Read more... Dec 28, 2011  We'll be back for Syria, Iran et al - our cravings are insatiable "Tears of Gaza" | Australians for PalestineThis is a gut-wrenching full length promotional documentary (83mins) of the 2008-2009 bombing of Gaza by the Israeli military, three years ago to the day. It uses actual footage from local Palestinian crews of the bombs falling, the terror of the Palestinians targeted and the ensuing chaos of getting the wounded to overcrowded hospitals and overworked medical staff while Israel continued its relentless attack without mercy... [As a former Israeli government press adviser put it, in a wonderful bit of unintentional irony, "When you have a Palestinian kid facing an Israeli tank, how do you explain that the tank is actually David and the kid is Goliath?" ~ from the accompanying Guardian piece by Ben White] Read more, watch documentary... UK Archbishop - Britain in darkness: Interview with Chris Banbury | PressTV ...a government of bankers, a very rich government by the way, of rich individuals, put the interest of the city of London before everything else and the city of London has been responsible in large part for driving the world into recession. They do not pay the price - they are not paying the price. It is young people - one in five unemployed; it's the 70,000 children who this Christmas will not have a permanent place to live. 7,000 children in the UK are actually homeless at Christmas. These statistics are shocking, but these are the people who are being asked to pay... Read transcript, watch video... Netanyahu is fanning the flames of religious incitement, by Sefi Rachlevsky | Haaretz ...Israel only has a very brief time left while change can still take place. It must either stop feeding the fire that is consuming it, or the country will cease to exist... [Insh'allah] Read more...Protesters Worldwide Demand An End to Crony Capitalism | Washington's Blog Modern American conservatives and liberals both passionately hate crony capitalism – the malignant symbiotic relationship between governmental leaders and their cronies. The Boston Tea Party in 1773 was largely a protest against crony capitalism... Read more... President Ali Saleh: A Yemenie War Criminal in Obama's Court, by Mohamed Khodr | Intifada Palestine  Yemen's President Ali Abdullah Saleh Much like Gandhi’s Salt March in India in 1930 the “March of Life” in Yemen began in the besieged bombed southern city of Taiz with tens of thousands of men, women, and children, walking for five days to the northern capitol city of Sana to protest the illegal immunity given the blood and money thirsty tyrant, President Ali Abdullah Saleh by the U.S.–Saudi Plan...Read more... New Year Prediction: Israel and U.S. Will Attack Iran, by Kurt Nimmo | Prison Planet ...Last week the Chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff Martin Dempsey said that the United States can successfully attack Iran, if necessary. His biggest worry is that Iran will “miscalculate our resolve,”.. [What about the likelihood of the Evil Empire's miscalculating the resolve of the Iranians?] Read more...'US elite victimizing 99 percent': Interview with Paul Sheldon Foote | PressTV A distinguished professor says that the US government is trying to convince Americans to sacrifice basic living needs for the interests of the country's elite class who engage in perpetual wars... Read transcript, watch video... Doors of Perception, by Paul Balles | Intifada Palestine ...Obama was elected by voters who have no power other than the power to vote. He has been trying to please those in power only to be perceived as a weakling by both those in power and the voters... Read more... David Cameron: "Somalia is great threat to UK" | Rehmat's World After bombing oil-rich Muslim Libya into the stone-age, Israel-Firster UK prime minister, David Cameron, is aiming at military intervention in another war-torn African Muslim nation, Somalia. The country lies at the core of the Horn of Africa, the newly found oil/gas rich region. Somalia is located just miles away across the Red Sea from American assets – Saudi Arabia, Israel and Yemen... [David Cameron, and his buddies Barry Obomba and Unser Fuehrer Netanyahu, are great threats to hundreds of millions of people.] Read more...Politics at Christmas, by Maria C. Khoury | Palestine News Network  Fireworks accompany the lighting of the Beit Sahour municipality Christmas tree It’s that special time of year where you simply want to wish everyone a blessed holy Christmas celebration but I can’t help it that it’s the only chance I get to remind my friends of the horrors that are still happening where Christ was born. Every time I travel to Boston, I simply feel I am escaping from the day to day misery of Israeli occupation and take a break from seeing the new illegal Israeli settlement getting bigger in front of my kitchen window in Taybeh...Read more... Israel's Repressive Permit System | Stephen Lendman Under South African apartheid, pass laws segregated blacks from whites, restricted their movements, required pass books be carried at all times, and be produced on demand or face arrest and prosecution... Read more... Al-Sadr calls for a "non-sectarian" free Iraq | Uprooted Palestinians As the US occupation of Iraq comes to its end – the country is facing a significant rise in US-Israel sponsored sectarian terrorism. To counter this Zionist anti-Muslim plot, Muqtada al-Sadr, the leader of Islamic resistance has issued an appeal to all Iraqi religious and ethnic groups, urging them to respect each other and warned them against spilling Iraqi blood which will only benefit the anti-Muslim occupation forces... Read more... Red Lines and Ticking Clocks: U.S. War Plans Against Iran, by Tom Burghardt | Dissident Voice ...while elite Washington factions may disagree over tactical issues, they are in full agreement on the wider strategic goals: undisputed American hegemony over energy corridors in Central Asia and the Middle East. From the darkest days of the Cold War to the present moment, American policy is designed with one goal in mind: smash the competition, firstly China and Russia, but also the crisis-ridden European Union, whose main task is to keep quiet and fall in line... Read more... In the end, Kahane won, by Shaul Arieli | Haaretz ...Ruling another people, deprived of civil rights, is no longer considered contrary to the democratic regime and a threat to Israeli society's moral strength. The evil spirit that is blowing from the corridors of the Knesset and government is based on supra-state principles - the biblical promise to the Jewish people trumps the Palestinians' terrestrial rights, the land transcends the state when it comes to realizing the messianic destiny, halakhic rulings vanquish the rule of law, the Knesset's laws defeat the rights of the minority and the individual, and the power to silence defeats the right to protest... Read more... A Banking System is Supposed to Serve Society, Not the Other Way Around, by Joseph Stiglitz | Vanity Fair  The financial meltdown is the Depression parallel everyone notices. ...The real economy has been in a state of wrenching transition for decades, and its dislocations have never been squarely faced. A crisis of the real economy lies behind the Long Slump, just as it lay behind the Great Depression...The more frightening parallel is everything else Read more... A Doomsday View of 2012, by James Petras | Palestine Chronicle The economic, political and social outlook for 2012 is profoundly negative. The almost universal consensus, even among mainstream orthodox economists is pessimistic regarding the world economy. Though even here their predictions understate the scope and depth of the crises... Read more... Why the Establishment is Terrified of Ron Paul, by Dave Lindorff | Counterpunch ...With Ron Paul as president, at least we’d be done with all the wars, the people of the rest of the world would be finally free of US military interference, including attacks by US drones. The long-suffering Constitution and its Bill of Rights would mean something again. We might even get a Supreme Court justice or two who actually believed that Congress should declare any future wars before we could fight them, and that citizens who were arrested had an absolute right to a speedy trial by a jury of peers. And we’d be electing someone who appears, especially for a politician, to be that rare thing: an honest man who says what he means and means what he says — and who doesn’t seem to be owned by the banksters... Read more... 2012: Revolution or Devolution, by Kelley B. Vlahos | Antiwar ...As recent events in Egypt have demonstrated, revolution does not necessarily begin with resistance and end with an election. In the United States, Americans are facing decade two of a domestic war on terror that has expanded a vast security and surveillance apparatus that seems to be in perpetual confrontation with our Constitutional rights. The trouble is that every time the public cedes more control to the government, Washington just takes more... Read more... Dec 27, 2011 It's the right moment for churches to pay attention to Israel's occupation, by James M. Wall | The Electronic Intifada  The Kairos Palestine Document calls on churches to pay attention to Israel’s occupation In his book Kairos for Palestine, Rifat Odeh Kassis deals with a topic that is as fresh as the destruction of a Palestinian home by Israeli-driven, US-built bulldozers, and as ancient as the use of the term kairos, derived from an ancient Greek word which refers to a specific moment in time...Read more... "America's Chickens Are Coming Home to Roost," by William A. Cook | Intifada Palestine Prophets fare poorly in their own country, yet countries would do well to hearken to their prophets. Scorn, ridicule, and innuendo attend their pronouncements as the righteous defend their actions as logical, existential and necessary. Jeremiah Wright suffered such scorn and mockery because he understood the consequences of revenge on the innocent and the defenseless, justified by whatever inane discourse... Read more... Germany to compensate Jews who fled the Nazis in the Soviet Union | Haaretz Germany has agreed to grant one-time compensation to Jews who fled the Nazi onslaught in the Soviet Union during World War II, even if they ended up in regions that Nazis did not conquer, the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany announced on Sunday... [Few people are aware of the clever vacuum cleaner developed at the Weizman Institute. It was commissioned by Holocaust Industries, Ltd in the 1950's and efficiently sucks up vast sums of money from the German people, facilitating the longest running and biggest by far extortion racket ever conceived.] Read more... Christmas in Gaza, by Ruqaya Izzidien | Al Akhbar English  This Christmas marks the third anniversary of the 2008-2009 Israeli war on the Gaza Strip; a winter in which 19-year-old Ramy El Jelda saw his home bombed just two days after Christmas. He returned to the site a couple of days later to find his Christmas decorations scattered across the road. “The baubles and bells were on the floor. The tree had been blown out of the house and was in the street. We cried. That is how we celebrated Christmas in 2008.”.. Read more... "Huwaida Arraf on Palestine": Interview by Yousef M. Aljamal | He who is brave is free ...We [the ISM] focus on providing support for the Palestinian unarmed resistance, not because we take a hostile view to the armed resistance, but rather because we believe that unarmed resistance is strategically more advantageous to Palestinians. Seeing as Israel is superior to us militarily, it’s better not to fight them in that arena, but rather in an arena where we are stronger, or at least where we have the possibility of building up our strength. This arena is that of the popular struggle, or the strategic unarmed resistance... Read more... The Snow Fronde | Israel Shamir ..The big demo confirmed a new Fronde in the heart of Russia. The original Fronde was a series of anti-absolutist uprisings caused by the personal ambitions of discontented nobles; and by the grievances of the people against the financial burdens in France that lasted from 1648 to 1653. The Frondeurs came from various social strata and at times pursued divergent goals, says the encyclopaedia, and this definition fits Russia's new Snow Fronde to a tee... Read more... Armenian Genocide as Political Payback Against Turkey | Tikun Olam ...The Israeli Knesset is poised to exploit a different Holocaust in precisely the same way it would take to task any other country engaging in such cheap theatrics. For years, as long as it enjoyed a healthy relationship with Turkey, Israel has refused to acknowledge the Armenian genocide. This is nothing short of Holocaust denial (though of a slightly different vintage, since it isn’t JEWISH Holocaust denial). The ADL too, in accord with Israel’s approach, refused to recognize this historic tragedy. This, despite the fact that the national group features Holocaust education as one of its core missions... Read more... The Warped Morality of a Warmonger: Why Alan Dershowitz is Wrong on Israel's 'Rights,' by Nima Shirazi | Foreign Policy Journal  One of the ugliest of Dr. Strangelove's numerous progeny Renowned torture enthusiast and perennial Israel apologist Alan Dershowitz was in Tel Aviv this month attending an annual business conference sponsored by Globes and, as usual, took the opportunity to equivocate for Israeli espionage, defend war criminals, and warmonger about Iran...Read more... Bradley Manning: Hero, or Traitor? by Prof. Marjorie Cohn | Global Research The end of U.S. military involvement in Iraq coincided with Bradley Manning’s military hearing to determine whether he will face court-martial for exposing U.S. war crimes by leaking hundreds of thousands of pages of classified documents to Wikileaks. In fact, there is a connection between the leaks and U.S. military withdrawal from Iraq. When he announced that the last U.S. troops would leave Iraq by year’s end, President Barack Obama declared the nine-year war a “success” and “an extraordinary achievement.”.. Read more... Does the US need war to survive?: Interview with Rodney Shakespeare | PressTV A record number of Americans are poor as hunger and homelessness are reportedly on the rise in the country. The government's response has been to cut spending on essential social services... Read transcript, watch video... Obama Year Three: Continuing His Rogue Agenda | Stephen Lendman ..Across the board on domestic and foreign issues, he governed to the right of George Bush. He's waged multiple imperial wars, plans others, looted the nation's wealth, wrecked the economy, consigned growing millions to impoverishment without jobs, and institutionalized tyranny to target dissenters challenging political corruption, corporate crooks, or abuse of power lawlessness... Read more... Jews 4: Goyim 0: New Year's Eve in Israel | Roy Tov  Israel can claim it is a democratic state all over Western media, the UN committees and publications, in synagogues all over the world, at Masonic lodges, and whatever other organizations it considers as having enough weight to be of importance. It doesn’t matter. When one checks out the banal details of evil, an image of ugly discrimination arises. New Year’s Eve is not different... Read more... O, Damn Ye Wall St. Gentlemen, by Carl Herman | Washington's Blog Art is in the brilliant video from ovaria; following are the independently verifiable facts that the “99%” are embezzled by the “1%” for over a trillion of our dollars every year. How does the 1% do this? They purchased corporate media to cover their assets, that’s how... Read more, enjoy the video... Syrian NGOs Working Directly With British Government, by Tony Cartalucci | Activist Post ...It is quite clear that the "Syrian Observatory for Human Rights" based in London and receiving the entirety of their reports via "phone" & YouTube videos from Syria, is working in coordination with both US-funded NGOs and the British Foreign Minister. Considering that Hague similarly coddled Libyan opposition leaders in London while playing a key role in promoting the NATO attack on Libya and the subsequent installation of a BP oilman as "prime minister," Abdelrahman's consorting signifies a verbatim repeat of the now openly fraudulent and genocidal NATO campaign in Libya... Read more... Syria Under Fire: Zionist Destabilization Hits Critical Mass, by Jonathan Azaziah | Mask of Zion  Read more... Patriot Missiles Seized, Sold To China by Israel, by Gordon Duff | Veterans Today During a routine search of the MS Thor Liberty, a ship flagged by the Isle of Man, at the Finnish port of Kotka, authorities found 69 Patriot missiles of a type capable of intercepting ICBMs, the most modern available and America’s most sensitive military technology... Read more... Zionist Washington Ensuring End of America, by Mike Stathis | Veterans Today ...Perhaps if Obama opened his platform to non-Jewish candidates, he might be able to receive some guidance that actually benefits working-class Americans instead of corporate oligarchs and Wall Street scum. But this is not possible due to the tremendous power held by AIPAC and some 300 Israeli lobbies, all of which have bought off Washington... Read more... What Iraq Tells Us About Ourselves, by Col. W. Patrick Lang, Jr. | Foreign Policy ...how did the highly educated, wealthy, and powerful American people make such a horrendous, catastrophic series of blunders? As Pogo, the cartoon opossum, once famously said, We have met the enemy and he is us! Yes, that's right: We, the American people, not the Bush administration, nor the hapless Iraqis, nor the meddlesome Iranians (the new scapegoat) are the root of the problem... Read more... Dec 26, 2011 Page by page: Marwan Barghouti's anti-war tome walked out of prison | Australians for Palestine  A Palestinian artist finishes a portrait of jailed Palestinian Fatah leader Marwan Barghuti Palestinians across the West Bank and Gaza celebrated the return of their loved ones last Sunday as the final wave of prisoners were released in an exchange between Hamas and Israel. However, one prisoner was notably absent. Marwan Barghouti, the jailed Fatah leader known by many Palestinians as the "prince of resistance"..on a cement barrier near the Israeli-controlled Qalandia checkpoint Read more... US blaming Iran for 9/11, unbelievable: Interview with Joshua Blakeney | PressTV ...A New York judge has signed a judgment that finds Iran, along with the Taliban and al-Qaida, liable in the Sept. 11 2001 terrorist attacks... [OK, I'm just gonna come clean about this whole thing -my gramma did it] Read more... The US ' Homeland Battlefield | Redress Information & Analysis The US Congress has ended the year 2011 by assaulting the constitution. The attack came in the form of the 2012 National Defence Appropriations Act (NDAA), which passed both the House of Representatives (14 December) and the Senate (15 December) by large margins despite having an attached provision (the "Homeland Battlefield Bill") that allows the United States military to take into custody and hold indefinitely without trial any American citizen designated a "terrorist suspect"... Read more... Now it's your turn, by Avraham Burg | Haaretz  There is a very reasonable chance that there will be only one state between the Jordan and the sea... [The only Israeli (resident) able and willing to say the obvious...] Read more... 'US, al-Qaeda unite to terrorize Syria' | PressTV A prominent political analyst says that the US is in negotiations with al-Qaeda to deliberately create a deteriorating situation in Syria by terrorizing civilians in the country... Read more, watch video... The Christmas Truce | First World War  You are standing up to your knees in the slime of a waterlogged trench. It is the evening of 24 December 1914 and you are on the dreaded Western Front... Read more... World must interfere in Israel's internal affairs, by Gideon Levy | Haaretz The new world will eventually tell Israel: Stay in the occupied territories, but give all its residents equal rights and justice. What will Israel say then? Interference in its internal affairs? Foreign intervention? You've got to be kidding... Read more... Dec 25, 2011 None of the Above Should Be On Voter Ballots | Nobody for President  Curtis Spangler & Wavy Gravy October 12, 1976 Nobody is another way of saying "None of the Above" which should be included on voter ballots. If a majority of people voted for "None of the Above" rather than, "the lesser of evils," it might force a situation where Voters would have to find someone competent to lead them...Read more... Israel's UK slaves: Board of Deputies of British Jews and Community Security Trust | Redress Information & Analysis Laura Stuart views two of Israel’s hasbara stooge organizations in Britain – the Board of Deputies of British Jews and the “Community Security Trust” – which brazenly flaunt the spirit of Israel: Jewish supremacism and contempt for the “other”... Read more... 'Saudi protests are growing weekly' | PressTV Press TV talks with Ali al-Ahmad, director of the Institute for (Persian) Gulf Affairs (IGA) in Washington about the daring progress of public protests against the ruling regime and the role Crown Prince Nayef is inadvertently playing in speeding up the spreading of protests. What follows is an approximate transcript of the interview... Read transcript, watch video... Mark Steyn: Ron Paul's Support of Constitution is "Stunted Parochialism" by Kurt Nimmo | Prison Planet ...Like his neocon fellow travelers, Steyn has a few fantasist dreams of his own – for instance, that Muslims will convert Europe into “Eurabia” (sic). In Steyn’s world, a 4 percent European Muslim population will dominate the continent by 2020, a statistical impossibility. But then statistics and factuality have nothing to do with it. The neocons are notorious fabricators and outright liars, as Steyn’s comment about Paul being a “truther” reveals. Neocon lies about Iraq resulted in the murder of 1.5 million Iraqis... Read more, watch video... Israel's New House Rules: Deepening Authoritarianism, by Jonathan Cook | Al Akhbar English  That's a photo of Vladimir Jabotinsky, the founder of political (aka revisionist) zionism and father of the terrorist groups the Irgun As the Arab world rids itself of autocrats one after the other, a series of legal and political moves by Benjamin Netanyahu’s rightwing government to stifle criticism of its policies have prompted warnings that Israel is rapidly heading towards a system of authoritarian rule... and the Stern Gang, now embodied as the Likud party, which has been the dominant Israeli ideology since it declared itself a State Read more... Inside Iran: Rick Steves' Travel Journal | ICH We produced the TV show to understand and humanize Iran. I've written this to share my personal experiences, lessons learned, and opinions that were shaped by my trip. And it's your chance to wander with me behind-the-scenes in this rich, perplexing society... Read more, watch video... Secret Wars and the Rule of Law, by Tim Kelly | Future of Freedom Foundation The president of the United States now wages secret wars virtually independent of Congress and in direct violation of the United States Constitution. Earlier this month, the White House issued several findings authorizing U.S. intelligence services to carry out covert actions against Iran and Syria. A presidential finding is a directive similar to an executive order; it instructs a government agency, usually the Central Intelligence Agency, to carry out clandestine operations against a foreign government or foreign entity... [In effect, this means that the Zionist fifth column has direct control over American foreign policy, without congressional interference, not that there is any.] Read more...Next Year in Jerusalem, by Jonathan Cook | Adbusters  If there was a moment defining the shift in Israel’s strategic position over the past year, it occurred in September when the Israeli embassy in Cairo was overrun by hundreds of Egyptian protesters, some armed with sledgehammers. A military plane, waiting across town, smuggled the ambassador and his family back to Israel... Read more... US Judge Rules Iran Responsible for 9/11, by Jason Ditz | Antiwar A ruling issued today by Manhattan Judge George Daniels insists that Iran is “responsible for 9/11,” and that families of those slain during the 2001 terrorist attack can sue the Iranian government for compensatory and punitive damages... [Yup, it definitely was them and their nefarious partners, the Martian-Venusian Alliance] Read more...Protecting God's Ancient People, by Shalom Goldman | H-Net Reviews ...Readers in search of a thorough and considered history of British Christian support for “the restoration of the Jews to their land” now have Donald Lewis’s The Origins of Christian Zionism to turn to. Lewis situates Christian Zionism within the context of Protestant theology and evangelical philosemitism, and that philosemitism is further contextualized by Lewis in this manner: “Central to the argument of this book is the thesis that British evangelical interest in the Jews was part and parcel of a wider process of evangelical identity construction.. Read more... Hamas' Meshal Affirms Support for Palestinian State Within 1967 Borders and "Popular Resistance" | Tikun Olam  An image that makes Israeli hardliners cringe: Mahmoud Abbas and Khaled Meshal making nice ...the Islamist movement’s chief leader refused to renounce violence as a tool in the fight for Palestinian rights, he made clear that violence was a tactical, and not a strategic choice; and that his first choice would be the types of “popular resistance” exhibited during the Arab Spring uprisings and the first Palestinian Intifada in 1987...Read more... The Question Of The Jews - Imam Khomeini | InMinds ...Imam Khomeini's Islamic constitution guaranteed Iranian Jews, who form less than 0.05% of the population, a place in Iran's 290 seat parliament (article 64). And the position is not as a stooge of a political party (like we see in the UK where Muslim MPs represent Labour or Tory interests) but rather, they are given a platform to specifically voice the concerns of Iran's Jewish minority in the halls of power... Read more... The NGOs that Stole Christmas: Church Groups Manipulate Christmas Spirit to Delegitimize Israel and Promote BDS | NGO Monitor The Christmas season is being exploited by non-governmental organizations (NGOs) to advance anti-peace agendas and to delegitimize Israel, says NGO Monitor, a Jerusalem-based research institution. By manipulating traditional Christmas songs, images, and messages, NGOs such as Sabeel, War on Want (UK), Amos Trust, and Adalah-NY continue to demonize Israel with crude, antisemitic rhetoric... [Getting a tad nervous are we? The criminal state is skating on very thin ice, and it's global warming time.] Read more...Dec 24, 2011 Happy Christmas, O prisoners of the Little Town of Bethlehem, by Stuart Littlewood | Intifada Palestine  While carving the turkey for your family and merrily quaffing mulled wine ‘midst happy laughter, remember that the romantic Little Town of Bethlehem at the centre of our childhood Christmases is now “an immense prison” in the words of Michel Sabbah, former Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem, and entirely surrounded by Israel’s ugly 8-metre separation wall bristling with machine-gun towers... Read more... The Wandering Herzl | Gilad Atzmon Herzl on Jewishness and Jewish Identity Politics... [Longish but well worth watching, at least the first half] Watch video...Western-Backed Terrorists Kill 30 In Syria Attacks, by Paul Joseph Watson | Prison Planet ...The plausibility of terrorists targeting the Syrian regime is perfectly viable given the fact that hundreds of Libyan rebels, commanded by Abdulhakim Belhadj, a committed jihadist who fought with the Taliban against U.S. troops in Afghanistan, were airlifted into Syria last month to aid the opposition in carrying out attacks against government forces... Read more, watch video... Ron Paul's Support in the Military, by Timothy Egan | NYT  In 2005, Ron Paul attended a news conference with Representatives Walter Jones and ...Representative Ron Paul, the congressman who favors the most minimalist American combat role of any major presidential candidate and who said all of the above quotes, has more financial support from active duty members of the service than any other politician...Dennis Kucinich calling on President George W. Bush to phase out U.S. troops in Iraq [I rarely link to articles from the NYT, the Liberal Jewish Establishment's flagship paper, but occasionally they print the truth (along with the de rigeur Zionist hasbara pieces) - who, what, when, where and why it matters. Recently, in fact, they've gotten downright uppity. Credit where credit is due.] Read more... The Two Faces of the United Nations, by Mohamed Khodr | Intifada Palestine ...sadly it became an institution of the powerful, for the powerful, at the expense of the lives of billions of people around the world. Since its inception the U.N. has served the political, economic, military, and social whims of the oligarchy of five Security Council nations each with a vote or veto that can preserve lives and peace, or commit wanton genocides allegedly acting in self defense and in the national interests... Read more... Tel Aviv's Black Christmas: On Religious Intolerance in Israel | Roy Tov Few foreigners can realize the reality of a Christmas in Israel. Most would interpret the dark streets and the overwhelming quiet as a sign there are no Christians around. They would pay no attention to the fact the Christmas night is darker and quieter than those immediately before or after. "After all there aren't any laws prohibiting Christmas," they would foolishly whisper over the phone to their friends abroad, showing off their vast knowledge of Israeli legislation and their complete misunderstanding of how the Israeli society works... Read more... French clothing firm Lacoste censors, expels Palestinian artist Larissa Sansour from prestigious contest, by Ali Abunimah | The Electronic Intifada  ...Sansour was among eight finalists shortlisted for the 2011 prize. According to a press release issued by Sansour, “Lacoste stated their refusal to support Sansour’s work, labeling it ‘too pro-Palestinian.’”.. [Lacoste wouldn't happen to be a Jewish owned firm, or would it. I'll bet you my last shekel.] Read more, view photos and video...Embellishing the Iraq War, by Ramzy Baroud | Counterpunch ...Hundreds of thousands of Iraqis have also been killed as a result of the unwarranted US invasion, and many more have been wounded and/or forever maimed. Chances are, all of these Iraq war victims would still be alive today were it not for former President George W. Bush and his band of neoconservatives. Demonstrating a bizarre mix of evangelical ambition, cowboy bravado and the pathological desire to ‘keep Israel secure’, Iraq was destroyed over and over again... Read more... Donor Opium: the impact of international aid to Palestine | YouTube ...Peace and the establishment of a Palestinian state have been the declared goals of all the support. But actual results are the fragmentation and pacification of the Palestinian people. This documentary film, directed by Mariam Shahin and George Azar, and funded by the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation, features Palestinian criticism of this externally funded "development"... Watch video... Dec 23, 2011 Brides Boycott Ahava And Sodastream | Intifada Palestine  Flash mob, brides and all, boycott AHAVA and SodaStream at a Bed Bath and Beyond store in Marin County, CA... [Gotta love watching the Manager vainly trying to assert his authority...] Watch video... Empire and the Lies of the Corporate Media: Are we Living in a Fool's Paradise? by William Bowles | Global Research Well, 2011 has been nothing if not eventful but frankly, in spite of all the #Occupy this and #Occupy that, it's not been a good year for us progressives or the planet. The Empire acts with increasing, not decreasing impunity, desperate now to try and keep ahead of events lest events take control of it... Read more... Constitutional Expert: "President Obama .. Says That He Can Kill Any American Citizen Without Any Charge and On His Own Discretion | Washington's Blog Government Says It Can Assassinate or Indefinitely Detain Americans on American Soil Without Any Due Process of Law... [Karmically speaking, Obama is now shark bait, the worst kind of traitor imaginable] Read more...America's Orwellian Police State Goes Live: US Citizen Convicted of Providing 'Material Support' to Terrorists, by John Glaser | Global Research An American citizen from Boston suburb was convicted on Tuesday on terrorism charges, but the charges were loosely defined and the verdict may represent a significant blow to free speech rights... Read more... Britain may be a Christian country - But its Government Marches to the Beat of Another Drum, by Stuart Littlewood | Intifada Palestine  ...It’s painful to be reminded that while Israel was planning its murderous 3-week assault on the people of Gaza (including the Christian community there), which it launched three Christmases ago, the Archbishop of Canterbury was visiting the former Nazi camps of Auschwitz-Birkenau in Poland with the Chief Rabbi to show joint solidarity against genocide... Read more... US media silent on US and NATO training Syrian opposition in Turkey | The Passionate Attachment Watch video... Sanctioning Syria: Who is the Real Loser? by Dr. Elias Akleh | Intifada Palestine Economic sanctions are arrogant open acts of war against other nations. Their goal is to devastate the lower and middle classes and to weaken the country. The regime of the imposing country believes that its economy is superior and is so influential that other countries are so dependent on it and could not survive without it... Read more... Tomgram: Occupy Your Heart, by Rebecca Solnit | TomDispatch ...The breadth of this movement is one thing, its depth another. It has rejected not just the particulars of our economic system, but the whole set of moral and emotional assumptions on which it’s based. Take the pair shown in a photograph from Occupy Austin in Texas. The amiable-looking elderly woman is holding a sign whose computer-printed words say, “Money has stolen our vote.” The older man next to her with the baseball cap is holding a sign handwritten on cardboard that states, “We are our brothers’ keeper.”.. Read more, watch video ... Wall Street Propagandists Scramble To Cover US Ties to Russian Protesters, by Tony Cartalucci | Global Research As the evidence begins to mount pointing the accusing finger at the increasingly illegitimate corporate-financier occupiers of the West's governments as having built up Russian opposition movements and being behind the current unrest filling Russia's streets, the corporate media has already started to rewrite events as they unfold... Read more... Shas Sets Up Shop in U.S., by Nathan Guttman | Jewish Daily Forward  Rabbi Ovadia Yossef, right, wants to raise the profile of Sephardic Jews In its 30 years of existence, Shas has evolved from a marginal ethnic political group to Israel’s fourth largest party in the Knesset and is today the unchallenged kingmaker of Israeli politics...[If more Jews don't start waking up, they will soon find themselves in an all too familiar historical trap. That time is approaching must faster than people think.] Read more...Four Psychologists at the Gates of Hell, by Roy Eidelson | Counterpunch This is a story of four siblings with improbable names: Safe, Legal, Ethical, and Effective. Just as improbably, they all grew up to become psychologists, each with a different area of professional focus. Over many years of independent practice, the four gained considerable recognition for their expertise. Eventually, they joined together to form a high-profile, all-in-one firm in which each sibling’s specialized contributions complemented the others.’.. Read more... Obama Takes Money From Americans, Gives it to Israel and Brags About It! by Bob Johnson | Veterans Today Speaking to a convention of Reform Jews on Friday, Barack Obama bragged openly about talking money from American tax payers and giving it to the terrorist Jewish state of Israel! Obama said in his speech to the Jewish organization, the Union of Reform Judaism, “So America’s commitment — America’s commitment and my commitment to Israel and Israel’s security is unshakeable. It is unshakeable. (Applause.).. Read more... US Blocks UN From Condemning Israeli Settlement Expansion, by Jason Ditz | Antiwar  In a move Russian Ambassador Vitaly Churkin termed “historic,” all 14 other members of the United Nations Security Council united today to offer statements slamming the United States for its decision to block a UN Security Council resolution on Israel’s settlement expansion... The Bush/Obama War Against Truth, by Melvin A. Goodman | Consortium News The harsh treatment of alleged leaker Bradley Manning is part of a broader campaign to silence government whistleblowers, a pattern that began with Vice President Dick Cheney’s outing of CIA officer Valerie Plame but has expanded under President Obama... Read more... Majority of Syrians support al-Assad | PressTV ...the Arabs and the Americans and the Europeans should know that the majority of the Syrians are pro Bashar al-Assad and pro his regime and his reforms and his suggestions to reunite the feelings and emotions of the nationality of the Syrians... [A little known fact is that the majority of Iranians supported their government at the time of the recent elections. A reputable polling organization took the political pulse of the nation just prior to the event, and the level of support for Ahmadinejad was within 2% of the eventual results - around 62%.] Read transcript, watch video...The Nightmare is Now Israel's Too, by Joharah Baker | MIFTAH There is a hint of poetic justice in the events of the last week. It may not be politically correct to relish in this justice, but it is only natural. Extremist Israeli settlers have recently turned some of their manic wrath on their own government alongside the ever escalating violence against the Palestinians... In the meantime, we Palestinians are shedding no tears over Frankenstein’s creation turning on its master... [Nature has its own way of bringing things back into balance.] Read more...Destruction of Waqf: The Grave Offenses of the Israeli State, by Mya Guarnieri | Al Akhbar English  Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has denounced the recent rash of desecration and vandalism of mosques and Muslim cemeteries. But the destruction of Muslim religious properties in Israel is in fact institutionalized and has a long history... Read more... Thanks a lot to all who sacrificed their lives for the corporate crime families, by Missy Comley Beattie | Uruknet ...Thanks for your sacrifice, Iraq. Perhaps, if you’d had serious armaments, five or six nukes instead of frogs, snails, puppy-dogs’ tails, nails, shrapnel, and something to make them BOOM, we wouldn’t have used your landscape, airspace, and people for our WMD testing. Kudos, though, to you, because during nine years, you mounted a valiant an impressive fight against the U.S. military/industrial/security complex... Read more... Growing Hunger and Homelessness in America | Stephen Lendman Millions of Americans now endure protracted Depression conditions at a time half the population is either poor or low income. Long-term unemployment is unprecedented, and federal aid is being cut, not increased. Two new reports highlight enormous deprivation levels and human suffering, getting little or no major media attention... Read more... Local Cops Ready for War With Homeland Security-Funded Military Weapons, by Andrew Becker and G.W. Schulz | The Daily Beast A decade of billions in spending in the name of homeland security has armed local police departments with military-style equipment and a new commando mentality... Read more... Christopher Hitchens: RIP | Richard Falk  I knew Christopher Hitchens casually, envied his rhetorical fluency, abhorred his interventionist cheerleading, and was offended by his arrogantly dismissive manner toward those he deemed his inferiors in debate or discussion... Read more... Catch a Glimpse of the Human Costs of the Drone War in Pakistan, by John Glaser | Antiwar As the presidential campaign drifts into its most petty and superficial, here is a reminder of what is important, of what Washington is all about and is likely to continue being all about unless Americans wake up and understand what U.S. terrorism around the world really is... Read more, watch video... Hamas continues to ply a difficult course, by Ali Badwan | Middle East Monitor ...where is Hamas now, after two decades of profound change and bitter experience? It has not been plain-sailing for the movement. Almost since its foundation, Israel and its supporters have conducted campaigns against Hamas, accusing it of propagating a deviant version of political Islam and even of being the "Taliban" of Palestine. It has lost a lot of leaders to the cause, including founding members such as Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, Abdel Aziz Rantisi, Salah Shehadeh and Ibrahim Makadmeh; all were killed for their opposition to Israel's illegal occupation and colonisation of Palestine... Read more... Outsourced from the Law: Do Private Military Contractors Have Impunity to Torture? by Laura Raymond | Counterpunch Unbelievably, in 2011 this question has not yet been settled in the courts of the United States. Human rights attorneys are headed back to court in the coming month to argue that, yes, victims of war crimes and torture by contractors should have a path to justice... Read more... The 'Arab spring' and the west: seven lessons from history, by Seumas Milne | The Guardian  Drawing on the British Pathé archive, Seumas Milne picks out the recurrent themes of imperial efforts to control the Middle East... Read more... The media consensus on Israel is collapsing, by Jordan Michael Smith | Salon With Hamas and Fatah meeting this week in Cairo, reconciliation between the rival Palestinian political parties is likely only a matter of time. Official U.S. policy holds that Hamas is only a terrorist entity, and any agreement between the two factions jeopardizes continued U.S. aid. There is reason to believe, however, that more flexible, productive positions will be expressed in the U.S. media. Slowly but unmistakably, space is opening up among the commentariat for new, critical ideas about Israel and its relationship to the United States... Read more... US Troops Guarded Terrorist Camp in Iraq, by Tony Cartalucci | Prison Planet In a move that almost defies belief, is so brazen and hypocritical many will not believe it no matter how many State Department officials confirm it, the US has been guarding a terrorist training camp inside Iraq with US troops and is planning to relocate them, possibly to a freshly abandoned US military base in Iraq while D.C. lobbyists work feverishly to have them de-listed, armed, and sent to conduct terrorist operations in Iran... Read more... "Bickering" Britain accommodates Israeli settlements, by David Cronin | The Electronic Intifada ...It [The Political Economy of Israel’s Occupation] shows how claims that the occupation is of negligible importance to Israel’s economy are made habitually by mainstream analysts. Hever demolishes those claims by highlighting how the territories that Israel occupies comprise its second largest export market and how Israel has built a lucrative military and “homeland security” industry around the occupation... Read more... Dec 22, 2011  America's growing isolation | Redress Information & Analysis Alan Hart views the growing international isolation of the United States due to its unconditional support of Israel, as manifested in the recent condemnation by “all the regional and political groupings on the UN Security Council” of Israeli settlement activities and settler violence... Read more... Ilan Pappe: The Secular Dimensions of the Zionist Project in Palestine | YouTube This lecture of Ilan Pappe will present two dimensions that most affected the Zionist movement and later on the state of Israel ever since the late 19th century: geography and demography. The talk will survey the changes in these two dimensions and will claim that the geographical issue has long been resolved and is irrelevant and the main issue in the conflict between Israelis and Palestinians is demographic... [Pappe is always a delight, and very informative.] Watch video...NATO vs. Syria, by Philip Giraldi | The American Conservative Americans should be concerned about what is happening in Syria, if only because it threatens to become another undeclared war like Libya but much, much worse... Read more... Ethnic Cleansing of Invented People, by Miko Peled | Intifada Palestine  Mourners carry the body of Palestinian activist Mustafa al-Tamimi ...The Zionist ethnic cleansing of Palestine is not a thing of the past but an ongoing campaign that is executed by three arms of the State of Israel: The education system, a dedicated bureaucracy and the security forces. The education system is dedicated to indoctrinating and producing soldiers and bureaucrats who will execute and enforce the ethnic cleansing. The bureaucracy is charged with making rules that make life unlivable for Palestinians...Read more... Israeli Delegitimization, by Stephen Lendman | War Is A Crime ...At issue isn't its legal nation state legitimacy. Its lawless ideology is illegitimate. It's corrosive, destructive, racist, extremist, undemocratic and hateful. It claims Jewish supremacy, specialness and uniqueness as God's "chosen people." It espouses violence, not peaceful coexistence. It chooses confrontation over diplomacy. It employs strength through militarism, intimidation, and naked aggression. It's contemptuous of moral values and ethical principles... Read more... Panetta: "Iran will have nuclear bomb in 2012" | Rehmat's World Last year when British Prime Minister David Cameron claimed that Tehran already had a nuclear bomb – the Opposition Labour Party called Cameron a foreign policy klutz. On Monday, in an interview with Scott Pelley of CBS, US secretary of defense Leon Panetta claimed that Iran could have a nuclear bomb within a year or less. He did not back-up his prediction by any new intelligence discovery. His claim was so ridiculous that even a Pentagon spokesperson called Panetta's rant “hypothetical“... [Let's hope they do get one before the people of Iran are fried, broiled or fricasseed, depending on the tastes of the Imperial kooks in charge.] Read more...Empire Celebrates Hanukkah | Roy Tov  Brandenburg Gate, Berlin | Hanukkah 2011 ...In the Jewish tradition, Hanukkah is special because it doesn’t appear in the Bible; i.e. it isn’t a holiday commanded by God (the same applies to Purim). Hence, it offers an extraordinary insight into the transition of the Judaic culture from being based in the Bible to one based in the blasphemous Talmud. Moreover, it has a distinctive imperial touch. The most similar Jewish holiday is Pesach, which celebrates the transition from slavery in Egypt to liberty. The transition then was from empire to stateless desert. Hanukkah celebrates a different type of freedom...Read more... The Manas Question: Drugs, Revolution & Terrorism on the Road to Afghanistan | Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs Post The Manas Air Base, situated near the Kyrgyz capital of Bishkek, has played a key role in the increasingly important Central Asian region since its inception. First opened in December 2001 to support the US-led invasion of Afghanistan, the Manas Air Base plays host to the US Ninth Air Force and serves primarily as a transit point for US goods and personnel coming and going from Afghanistan. As part of the so-called Northern Distribution Network, a key supply route for NATO troops in Afghanistan that bypasses the now-blockaded Pakistani borders, Manas continues to be a strategically vital asset for the US... Read more, watch video... Destroying the American Dream | Stephen Lendman Corporate greed and profits over people priorities launched nationwide OWS protests in hundreds of US cities for change. Mindless of growing public rage, political Washington keeps cutting vital social benefits needing increases during hard times... Read more... Palestinians are heroes, braving Israeli dictatorship, by Amira Hass | Haaretz The Palestinians are heroes, and that's the only fact that's relevant after the slight shock of the hilltop thugs. The hands are the hands of thugs, and the head? The head is the head of the hostile regime under which the Palestinians live and which harasses them every moment of every day, week after week for decades. To live this way and remain sane - that's heroism. "And who says we're sane?" Palestinians answer me. Well, here's the proof: self-irony... Read more... Christopher Bollyn: A Cup of Coffee with Roy Tov  Christ Carrying the Cross | Hieronymus Bosch, 1480 Americans are generally quite naïve about Israel and how the Zionist state really functions. The general ignorance about Israel is primarily due to the fact that most people are woefully misinformed about the Middle East having grown up consuming news and entertainment products provided by Hollywood and the Zionist-controlled media. This has resulted in a very significant part of the American population suffering from an extremely distorted point-of-view. Prior to 9/11 this may not have been a matter of great concern, but with the U.S. involved in at least two long-term wars in the Middle East, Americans can no longer afford to be blissfully ignorant about the Zionist state of Israel and its criminal network that are the root of the conflict in the region...(Just another Palestinian murdered by the Sanhedrin) Read more... Inequality Was One of the Main Reasons for the Fall of the Roman Empire, and Inequality in America Is MUCH WORSE than In Ancient Rome | Washington's Blog ...the widening gap between rich and poor and the disappearance of a middle class is widely accepted as one of the prime explanations for the fall of the Roman Empire... Read more... "Somehow We Missed It": America's Silent Collapse, by Sam Smith | Counterpunch ...The most important development in our nation’s history since the Civil War crept into the room like a shy new guest. And somewhere in between, radical conjecture transformed itself into the norm. We have moved into a time in which the Bill of Rights is being routinely trashed, the true unemployment rate is higher than anything we’ve seen since the thirties, our corporations are out of control, no one in power seems to care about climate change, and the only presidential candidate in either major party who won’t send you to Gitmo without an indictment and trial is Ron Paul... Read more... Enter Tea Party Sarah, Ron Paul Spoiler, by Kurt Nimmo | Infowars  ...even if Palin, Bush or any of the above do not throw their hats in the ring at this late hour, Republican establishment types are now murmuring about a brokered convention next year to negate the Paul Factor. The neocon war pigs are especially vocal about getting rid of Ron Paul and continuing the cycle of never-ending war and destruction. William Kristol over at The Weekly Standard is calling for a brokered convention – he calls it a “deliberative convention” – to defeat the will of the American people... Read more, watch video... [I would suggest that the Republicans consider Alfred E. Neuman as their candidate. He was an early neoconservative, went to Harvard and has an upbeat personality. Let's hear it for Alfred.] Read more... How to Force President Obama to Debate Endless War, Indefinite Detention, SOPA and Other Assaults on Our Freedom | Washington's Blog We voted for Obama because we wanted change. We voted for Obama because he promised to end Bush’s perpetual wars, clean up the mess which Bush’s financial tzars made, and restore the freedom and liberty which Bush attacked. Instead... [Why? It's simple, obvious and very politically incorrect to point it out, but our country is effectively run by Zionists. Obama is just their house nigger.] Read more...The few, the proud, the very rich, by Sylvia Allegretto | The Berkeley Blog Much of the current political and popular discourse has focused on inequalities that exist in the U.S. In particular the Occupy movement has brought the huge disparities in wealth to the forefront. There are a few questions floating around about wealth. First, how skewed is the distribution? Second, it is true that the rich have gotten much richer over time? —a statement I often heard my Grandma make... Read more... Oliver Goldsmith Look Out! | Salem News  Jamal believes Ken O'Keefe's belief: that truth must come first, after which justice The song is an expression of Jamal’s wish to encourage others to join with him and the whole TJP movement to work to build a more truthful, more just, and more peaceful world. It is a big step for a man, an even bigger step for a boy... is possible; a point where peace can realistically exist and persevere Read more... No War for Oil: US Dependency and the Middle East, by Ivan Eland | Antiwar ...Dependence on foreign oil is not the problem that conventional wisdom makes it out to be. As a corollary, all the wars we have fought over oil — for example, two with Iraq and the threat of such with Iran — have been largely unnecessary and immensely expensive... Read more... It's a Win-Win Situation! | Gilad Atzmon It was a few years ago that I grasped that Zionism was just one manifestation of Jewish political power in the West. But at the time, hardly anyone was either brave or stupid enough to tackle the topic. In spite of Israel defining itself as the ‘Jewish State’, despite the fact that the warplanes that dropped their bombs on Palestinian civilians were covered in Jewish symbols, still no one was willing to openly ask exactly what Jewishness was all about or what it stood for – and those few who did dare to raise the question were subject to total abuse until they took cover or just faded away... Read more... Dec 21, 2011 Season's Greetings! well, it ain't all bad Hallelujah - Choir of King's College, Cambridge - live performance of Handel's Messiah J. S. Bach - Gloria in Excelsis Deo Carlson School of Management Flash Mob, Deck the Halls Jewish Extremists Attack Christmas Carolers | Intifada Palestine  Bethlehem Bible college choir performs next to Israel's separation wall Settlers attacked a Palestinian choir bus returning from a carol concert in Nablus on Saturday evening, choristers told Ma’an. The singers, from Bethlehem Bible college, said five men attacked them on a quiet road outside of the northern West Bank city...Read more... 'US, Israel inciting tensions in ME': Interview with Mark Glenn | PressTV A prominent political activist says that the US and Israeli regime are raising conflicts in Middle Eastern countries in order to draw criticism away from its own social and economic unrest... Read more, watch video... A summary of Alain Gresh's 'Reflections on the meaning of Palestine' | Middle East Monitor ..."Reflections on the meaning of Palestine" is adapted from a chapter of Dr Gresh's latest book, "De quoi la Palestine est-elle le nom?", and published in the Journal of Palestine Studies. It is a compelling, succinct and candid essay analysing the intricacies of the Palestine question within a European context. It addresses such topical issues as why Palestine has become a "universal cause"; and the amplified significance of the Jewish question, in its dual aspects of anti-Semitism and philo-semitism, to the conflict. Finally it reflects on how lessons from the South African experience may be applied to the situation in Israel-Palestine... Read more... Propagandizing for Perpetual War, by Mike Lofgren | Counterpunch ...In view of the crippling costs both human and financial as well as the strategic and moral disaster the invasion of Iraq precipitated, what sort of verdict do you think our leaders – leaders representing a presidential administration ostensibly opposed to the invasion and promising hope and change – bother to offer us?.. Read more... Christmas in the Holy Land, by Jamal Kanj | Intifada Palestine  Native Palestinian Christians, the likely descendents of the first Christians who witnessed the star on the eve of December 25; represent the only lasting Christian presence in Palestine for over 2000 years. Now and for the first time in recorded history, Christian presence in the city of Nativity is under serious threat by Israeli military occupation and racial economic strangulation... Read more... AFRICOM and the Recolonization of Africa: Cynthia McKinney on GRTV | YouTube Watch video... USA to do away with another regime | English Pravda ...News agencies said that the protests were organized by employees of oil companies. The people reportedly protested against the violation of their rights, including delayed salaries. Some Kazakh bloggers say that the payment delays were not the main reason behind the protests. Moreover, they said that the average salary for an employee of local oil enterprises made up more than $1,500 a month. Some sources in the law-enforcement structures of the country said that the riots were plotted by Islamists... Read more... Israeli leaders are also advocates of 'Greater Israel', by Aner Shalev | Haaretz ...To recognize terror's message, we must examine what ignites it. This terror is portrayed as revenge for attempts to evacuate illegal outposts. If such outposts, located in the heart of Palestinian population centers, cannot be evacuated even on orders from the High Court of Justice, then no evacuation or withdrawal at all is possible. So the message is the "Greater Land of Israel." But is this message coming only from the hilltop youth?.. Read more... How Zionism infiltrated the US | PressTV  Mark Bruzonsky, a Jewish American Scholar and Journalist, has been a key member behind the scenes of the Israeli Palestinian peace initiative in the 1980s, meeting with Former Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and with Palestinian officials... Read transcript, watch video... Egyptian cops go berserk on demonstrators | The Vineyard of the Saker Watch videos... Getting Worse: 40 Undeniable Pieces Of Evidence That Show That America Is In Decline ...The pieces of evidence compiled below are undeniable. Our economy is deathly ill and is rapidly getting worse. We were handed the keys to the greatest economic machine in the history of the world and we have wrecked it. But until we are willing to look in the mirror and admit how bad things have gotten, we won't be ready for the solutions that are necessary... Read more... A Petition to Support the Saving American Democracy Amendment | Bernie Sanders, U.S. Senator for Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders has proposed a constitutional amendment that would overturn the Supreme Court decision in a case called Citizens United vs. FEC... [to the effect that corporations are not people, etc.] Read more... Dec 20, 2011  An old Cherokee is teaching his grandson about life. "A fight is going on inside me," he said to the boy... [from Mazin Qumsiyeh's latest newsletter. Mazin is a true warrior, patient and immensely courageous. A Palestinian Christian who had a cushy job as a Professor of Genetics at Yale, he returned to Bethlehem to stand by his people in the 62-year long struggle against genocide. He was the instigator and a participant in the recent Freedom Ride in the West Bank. Season's Greetings to one and all.] Read more...Catering to Caustic Comments, by Paul Balles | Intifada Palestine ...Author John le Carré wrote in the London Times, “God appointed America to save the world in any way that suits America. God appointed Israel to be the nexus of America’s Middle Eastern policy and anyone who wants to mess with that idea is a) anti-Semitic, b) anti-American, c) with the enemy, and d) a terrorist.” That disgusting example of combined American and Israeli exceptionalism should make any thinking critic respond with disdain... Read more... Terrorizing Palestinians and Israeli Arabs | Stephen Lendman ...Life in Palestine is harsh and intolerable. Imagine being repressively occupied under a system of institutionalized racist persecution. As a result, Palestinians have no power over their daily lives. They live in constant fear. They're collectively punished and economically exploited. Free expression, assembly, movement and other basic rights are denied... Read more... The Globalization of War: The "Military Roadmap" to World War III, by Michel Chossudovsky and Finian Cunningham | Global Research  Nagasaki, August 9, 1945 The Pentagon’s global military design is one of world conquest. The military deployment of US-NATO forces is occurring in several regions of the world simultaneously. The concept of the “Long War” has characterized US military doctrine since the end of World War II. The broader objective of global military dominance in support of an imperial project was first formulated under the Truman administration in the late 1940s at the outset of the Cold War...Read more... All "reasons" for war on Iran are "emperor has no clothes" obvious lies, by Carl Herman | Washington's Blog ...the obvious conclusion any rational citizen must make is that the US has planned and is considering a false flag attack to use a dirty or nuclear bomb, blame Iran, and finalize their Middle East tyrannical policy of domination. The solution is to arrest and prosecute the obvious criminals in areas of war policy and corporate media that lie in provable commission and omission to continue US criminal wars... Read more... Israel can be Jewish without being racist, by Akiva Eldar | Haaretz ...in the initial years after the Six-Day War, it was in fact the religious Gush Emunim movement that spread the settlement plague, but there is no wall separating the religious from the secular. Jewish ethnocentrism - and the desire to erase the collective identity of the Palestinians and take control of their land - have been a thread linking religious and secular over the past 44 years... [The "good" Israelis, well represented at Haaretz, still believe that the Jewish State can be redeemed, but they ignore the fundamentally fascist nature of such a state.] Read more... Israel's War on Mosques | Roy Tov  Hasan Bek Mosque | Tel Aviv ...Israel lacks a constitution. A recent system of Basic Laws was legislated by the Knesset to function as a quasi-constitution, but it doesn’t assure the respect of human rights by the Zionist state. Even worse, these laws can be exchanged as per the coalition needs, since these laws do not need to be approved by the people as constitutions should. Nevertheless, Israel's sovereignty was conditioned by the UN on its being respectful of human rights...Read more... British Propaganda Aims at Triggering Syrian Genocide, by Tony Cartalucci | Prison Planet With the UN’s recent “human rights” report falling flat, for lack of evidence and being compiled by Karen Koning AbuZayd, a director of the US Washington-based corporate think-tank, Middle East Policy Council, that includes Exxon men, CIA agents, US military and government representatives, and even the president of the US-Qatar Business Council, the corporate-media has stepped in to give faces and screams to the alleged victims of Wall Street and London’s premeditated implosion of Syrian society... Read more... The head Nazi-hunter's trail of lies | What Really Happened Since the early 1960s Simon Wiesenthal’s name has become synonymous with Nazi hunting. His standing is that of a secular saint. Nominated four times for the Nobel peace prize, the recipient of a British honorary knighthood, the US Presidential Medal of Freedom, the French Légion d’honneur and at least 53 other distinctions, he was often credited with some 1,100 Nazi “scalps”. He is remembered, above all, for his efforts to track down Adolf Eichmann, one of the most notorious war criminals. His reputation is built on sand, however. He was a liar... [Wiesenthal and Wiesel, the twin con artists who greatly facilitated the Zionist takeover of American and the West] Read more...Israel Wants Prison For Those Recognizing the Palestinian Holocaust: Jewish Groups Remain Silent | The Ugly Truth  ...In the latest coughing fit laying bare the sickness of soul infecting and guiding the very existence of the Jewish state, one of Israel’s largest political parties has introduced a bill in the Knesset outlawing freedom of speech when it comes to commemorating the other Holocaust about which no one seems to know anything, meaning what was done to the Palestinians 60+ years ago by the Jews in an event known as “al Nakbah”.. Read more... The Way to Occupy a Bank is to Own One, by Ellen Brown | Web of Debt The campaign to "move your money" has gotten a groundswell of support. Having greater impact would be to "move our money" - move our local government revenues out of Wall Street banks into our own publicly-owned banks... Read more... Egypt: The military's revenge, by Sarah Mousa | Al Jazeera English Egyptian military and police have lashed out at young protesters over the past several days with vengeance. The clashes began on Friday in front of the Ministry Building, which is visible from Tahrir Square. Protesters have been camped in front of the building since the Tahrir protests of November, which left dozens dead and ended with what many of the protesters saw as the unsatisfactory appointment of Kamal Ganzouri as Prime Minister, not only because Ganzouri - who was already Prime Minister from 1996 to1999 - is associated with the Mubarak regime, but also because the Ministry still has no real powers and is in essence, a puppet government for the Supreme Council of Armed Forces (SCAF)... Read more... Revisionism for Our Time, by Murray N. Rothbard | Mises Daily  Revisionism as applied to World War II and its origins (as also for previous wars) has the general function of bringing historical truth to an American and a world public that had been drugged by wartime lies and propaganda. This, in itself, is a virtue. But some truths of history, of course, may be largely of antiquarian interest, with little relevance to present-day concerns. This is not true of World War II revisionism, which has much critical significance for today's world... Read more... The Leaders Who Push the Buttons Won't See the Costs: Big Shoulders in Chicago and Kabul, by Kathy Kelly | Counterpunch NATO/G8 meetings are scheduled to take place from May 19-21 next year in Chicago. Plans are ramping up everywhere. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and NATO Secretary General Anders Rasmussen exulted over bringing NATO and the G8 to Chicago, and Clinton promised to call Chicago mayor Rahm Emanuel and convey Rasmussen’s glowing opinion that Chicago, built upon diversity and determination, shares values that underpin NATO. Activists on the ground, envisioning a different kind of Chicago, and bracing themselves for the crushing, militarized police response that in recent years has consistently met protesters at these events, can only hope that this is not the case... Read more... When the Bubble Bursts, by Justin Raimondo | Antiwar ...the real “enemy” here isn’t the Taliban, it isn’t al-Qaeda (or what’s left of it), nor is it any foreign government or entity: it’s the American people. That’s who the US government lives in deathly fear of – the fear that if only Americans knew and understood what was being done all over the world in their name, they’d put a stop to it once and for all... Read more... Mayor of Bethlehem: Why we're celebrating hope this Christmas | Annie's New Letters  A Palestinian girl lights a candle in the Church of the Nativity, It all started in Bethlehem. From here, the Christmas message was revealed to mankind; a message of joy, love and peace. And here we are today, after more than 2,000 years, reviving this eternal remembrance in faith and love, happily cheering and singing songs of joy and triumph...the site revered as the birthplace of Jesus Read more... When the Bubble Bursts, by Justin Raimondo | Antiwar ...the real “enemy” here isn’t the Taliban, it isn’t al-Qaeda (or what’s left of it), nor is it any foreign government or entity: it’s the American people. That’s who the US government lives in deathly fear of – the fear that if only Americans knew and understood what was being done all over the world in their name, they’d put a stop to it once and for all... Read more... As the US leaves Iraq, it is blind to the price for intervention paid by Iraqis, by Gary Younge | The Guardian On 19 November 2005 a US marine squad was struck by a roadside bomb in Haditha, in Iraq's Anbar province, killing one soldier and seriously injuring two others. According to civilians they then went on the rampage, slaughtering 24 people. They included a 76-year-old man in a wheelchair and a three-year-old child. It was a massacre. "I think they were just blinded by hate … and they just lost control," said James Crossan, one of the injured marines... Read more... Dec 19, 2011 Kristallnacht in Palestine, by Stephen Lendman | Veterans Today  Virtually daily, Israeli security forces attack, kill, or injure Palestinian civilians with impunity. They also destroy their property by bombing, shelling, bulldozing and uprooting it. At the same time, Israeli authorities wink and nod, occasionally decry, yet do nothing to deter extremist settler crimes against Palestinian civilians... Read more... A Musical Gift for Your Solstice Celebrations Ubi Caritas sung by Connie Dover (in Latin) | YouTube There where loving-kindness and love are, there is God Christ’s love has gathered us all together in one (company), Let us rejoice and take delight in Him, now and forever, Let us now without any reserve or deception love one another. Where love and loving-kindness are together, God is always there, Therefore, whenever we are together, Let us not be divided from each other in our feelings; Let spite, quarreling and strife cease among us, and may Christ, who is God, be in our midst. Where love and loving-kindness are together, God is always there Bring us, in the company of the blessed, to behold Your great beauty, To see Your face in glory, Christ our God, There to possess heaven’s peace and joy, Your truth and love, Happiness of immeasurable excellence, Through unending ages of ages, world without end. Anonymous, ca.9th Century Watch video... Christmas Food Court Flash Mob, Hallelujah Chorus | YouTube On Nov.13 2010 unsuspecting shoppers got a big surprise while enjoying their lunch. Over 100 participants in this awesome Christmas Flash Mob... Watch video... Anatomy of a NATO war crime: Return to Sorman, by Franklin Lamb | Al Manar  ...The authority for NATO’s bombing, which far exceeded earlier estimates ,killing or wounding of between 90,000-120,000 Libyans and foreigners, and the displacement of more than two million Libyans and foreign workers... Read more... Why Euro Plan Is Doomed to Fail, by Gabriel Kolko | Counterpunch ...today the world economies are in a crisis, nominally involving the “euro” nations but even more the nature and future of world economic power. This crisis involves the United States—which was crucial in the interwar period—but also China, India, Brazil, and other nations which had no economic clout whatsoever in the world economy between the two wars... Read more... Washington's Greater Middle East Agenda: War | Stephen Lendman Targeting the Middle East's rich oil and gas resources, Washington plans waring against the region one country at a time to replace independent regimes with client ones. At issue is achieving total dominance over MENA (Middle East/North Africa) countries and Central Asia to Russia and China's borders. Another key objective is removing or marginalizing their regional influence... Read more... Ugly Israeli Realities Emerge | Stephen Lendman ...Since releasing 477 Palestinian political prisoners on October 18 in exchange for Gilad Shalit, a near identical number have been imprisoned. It "reveals that the exchange deal has not deterred Israel's policy of" detaining Palestinians. Moreover, even released prisoners aren't safe. They're being harassed and threatened with rearrest for the slightest provocation or none at all... Read more... Has the Israel Lobby Gone Too Far? by Joshua Holland | AlterNet  When Josh Block, a former communications director for the American Israeli Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), sent an “oppo dump” about a group of progressive journalists and bloggers at the Center for American Progress (CAP) and Media Matters to a list-serv of conservative journalists and asked them to push the narrative that the writers were echoing “the words of anti-Semites,” he probably didn't think much of it. After all, this is how self-identified “pro-Israel” activists have long policed the discourse surrounding the Middle East conflict and the “special relationship” that exists between the United States and Israel... Read more... The "Pro-Israel" Right Loses It, by MJ Rosenberg | Huffington Post It has been over a week since the lobby that deems itself "pro-Israel" began its recent effort to suppress the views of those of us it considers Israel haters, self-hating Jews or - in a most ridiculous twist given that most of us are Jews -- "anti-Semites.".. Read more... The End Game Approaches, by Tony Cartalucci | Prison Planet ...Now more than ever, “we the people” must steel ourselves against this immense corporate-fascist empire as it sprawls death, destruction, and domination, militarily and economically, across the planet. We must, our very survival depends on it, boycott and replace entirely the corporate-financier interests that drive this dark, expansive agenda. It has been literally spawned of our apathy, complicity, and ignorance, fueled by us – the very source of corporate fascism’s power – and it must be our activism, resistance, and intellect that brings it to an end... Read more, watch video... Leading Settler Rabbi, Owner of Major Internet Portal, Incited Price Tag Violence, Vigilantism, Genocide, Insurrection Against State | Tikun Olam  Rabbi Yeshaiyahu Rotter Rabbi Yeshayahu Rotter, the founder of Rotter.net, Israel’s major news and gossip portal, wrote a column in HaKol Hayehudi, a website maintained by the extremist Yitzhar yeshiva run by Rabbi Yitzhak Ginsburg (co-author of Torat HaMelech, which advocates murdering Palestinian children since they’ll grow up to murder Jews). In the column published last March, he foreshadows (and incites) some of the most incendiary acts of violence in the entire history of price tag activities...Read more... Board of Deputies of British Jews versus freedom of expression | Redress Information & Analysis Laura Stuart considers the use of defamation and disinformation by the Board of Deputies of British Jews – Britain’s leading Israel lobby group – as tools in its rear-guard defense of Zionism and the apartheid state of Israel... Read more... Ron Paul grassroots supporters release video on US foreign policy | Digital Journal ...Republican presidential candidate and former Congressman Ron Paul released a video on his campaign web site on Saturday that explores American history in the Middle East from the perspective of a militarized foreign policy agenda. Paul's rejection of American militarism is one of his key political platforms and is likely his most striking contrast with his fellow Republican presidential contenders... Read more, watch video... Dec 18, 2011 The daily ordeal of getting to school in Hebron, by Ben Lorber | The Electronic Intifada  The Qurduba School in the occupied West Bank city of Hebron is once again a target for harassment by Israeli occupation forces, as new restrictions on freedom of movement bring a wave of settler attacks and soldier violence... Read more... Message to Dershowitz: the Saxophonist is not that 'Obscure' | Leftwing-Christian ...Clutching a copy of Gilad Atzmon’s The Wandering Who, Professor Alan Dershowitz recently did an interview with the abundantly-respected Fox News in which he referred to the book’s author as “some obscure saxophonist from England who nobody takes particularly seriously.” In fact, not once but twice during the interview we see a visibly upset Dershowitz classifying Atzmon as an “obscure saxophonist” while attacking two American professors who gave favorable comments about his book... Read more... Top Holocaust scholar blasts 'Holocaust-abuse' by U.S., Israeli politicians | Haaretz ...Deborah Lipstadt lambasts 'unhealthy and embarrassing' pandering of Republican presidential candidates; says U.S. envoy Gutman’s comments on Muslim anti-Semitism were 'stupid.'.. [Hilarious. Even the High Priestess of the Holycause is lambasting the whores (oops, I mean the Vestal Virgins) for going down on the Aipacis too vigorously...] Read more... The Jews Go To War (With Themselves), by Dr. Lawrence Davidson | Intifada Palestine  At the Kusra mosque, "Mohammed is a pig" was spray-painted on the wall On 12 December 2011 hundreds of Israeli settler fanatics besieged a West Bank IDF army base. They destroyed equipment, set fires, and even stoned the base soldiers. This was the second such attack in a month. The cause? Anger over the army’s dismantlement of a small number of isolated, unauthorized settler outposts. The Chief of the Central Command of the Israel “Defense” Forces, Major General Avi Misrahi, is quoted as saying “I have not seen such hatred of Jews towards soldiers during my 30 years of service.” He must not have been looking...Read more... Iran's Alleged Drone Hack: Tough, but Possible, by Adam Rawnsley | Wired Take everything that Iran says about its captured U.S. drone with a grain of salt. But its new claim that it spoofed the drone’s navigational controls isn’t implausible. Although it’s way harder to do than the Iranian boast suggests, it points to yet another flaw with America’s fleet of robot warplanes... Read more, watch video... Democracy in 2012, by Frank Scott | Dissident Voice “Accumulation of wealth at one pole is at the same time accumulation of misery, torment, slavery, brutalization and moral degradation at the other…”Karl Marx may not have referred to the 1% and the 99% when he wrote of those extremes in the 19th century, but they certainly capture this moment in the 21st. Americans appalled at minority domination of national wealth as they pay for endless wars, increasing inequality and vanishing public services have joined a rising global movement for democracy... Read more... Netanyahu for President of (America), by Alan Hart | Intifada Palestine  ...The probability is that Romney will emerge as the winner and be the one to take on Obama. So what Romney said in the last debate with the other Republican candidates is of critical importance. He said: “If I was president I’d get on the ‘phone to Bibi and say ‘Would it help if I said this?’” In other words, if Romney becomes president, Netanyahu will the one determining American foreign policy for Israel-Palestine... Read more... Interview with Rick Rozoff on Kyrgyzstan and global war threats | Stop NATO Rick Rozoff of Stop NATO International joins us to discuss the scandal of the Manas Air Base, a facility in Kyrgyzstan that has been strategically important for the US in staging and transportation to supply its decade-long occupation of Afghanistan. We discuss the history of US-Kyrgyz relations, years-long rumblings from the Kyrgyz political establishment to kick the US out of Manas, its possible use as a drug-smuggling facility, and more... Listen... Farewell to C.H., by Alexander Cockburn | Counterpunch I can’t count the times, down the years, that after some new outraged friends would call me and ask, “What happened to Christopher Hitchens?” – the inquiry premised on some supposed change in Hitchens, often presumed to have started in the period he tried to put his close friend Blumenthal behind bars for imputed perjury. My answer was that Christopher had been pretty much the same package since the beginning... Read more... Cameron Argues that Britain is actually Christian | Gilad Atzmon  ...Cameron failed to explain the bizarre fact that 80% of his Tory MPs are actually Conservative Friends of Israel (CFOI). Cameron also failed to explain why a ‘Christian country’ abolishes its precious universal jurisdiction law just to appease the Jewish lobby. Cameron also should open our eyes and explain to us why exactly a Christian country followed orders from a Jewish Lobby group and arrested Sheikh Raed Salah... Read more... German cabaret artist on Islamophobia (w/ english subs) | YouTube German cabaret artist Hagen Rether talking about Islamophobia in German media & public discourse... Read more... Christopher Hitchens RIP | Craig Murray The Iraq War killed hundreds of thousands and maimed millions. Dead or wounded included over a million children. Those who planned the Iraq war, including those who used media positions to propagandise for it, have lost entitlement to the signs of society’s respect. The world will undoubtedly be a duller place without Christopher Hitchens. Oh, and a better one too. British journalism is full of people of the same generation who have lurched from the Trotskyist far left to a crazed neo-con agenda with no intervening period of sanity... Read more... Last Post in Iraq: this is the death knell of the American empire, by George Galloway | The Guardian  What was intended to be a demonstration of power turned into the most costly boomerang in history, in both blood and treasure... [And with it the Zionist Empire, with America as its strategic and economic puppet.] Read more...How Maliki and Iran Outsmarted the U.S. on Troop Withdrawal, by Gareth Porter | Dissident Voice ...The real story behind the U.S. withdrawal is how a clever strategy of deception and diplomacy adopted by Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki in cooperation with Iran outmanoeuvered Bush and the U.S. military leadership and got the United States to sign the U.S.-Iraq withdrawal agreement... Read more... Iran Hits American Satellite | Roy Tov Today, December 17, 2011, the largest Hebrew newspaper brought the scoop of the year. According to the newspaper, Iran blinded a CIA spy satellite. The paper added that a European intelligence source claimed Iran stunned the West by accurately aiming a laser burst at an American satellite in a never before reported incident... Read more... Dec 17, 2011  One picture is worth... At Last, a Progressive Alternative to Obama, by Steven Higgs | Counterpunch Americans who feel betrayed by timid, capitulatory leadership from Democrats like President Barack Obama now have a candidate to consider at the presidential level. On Dec. 12, 2011, former Salt Lake City Mayor Rocky Anderson announced his candidacy on the Justice Party ticket and the next day laid out a cogent progressive agenda on Democracy Now!.. Read more... Christopher Hitchens' 'Fundamentalist' Exemption for Zionism, by Saifedean Ammous | Antiwar ...The over-riding directive of his life was to make money by pleasing American right-wingers by dressing up their idiotic nationalism, chauvinism, and jingoism with Big Words and an English accent. It was a highly rewarding career, because he sold to morons who watch Sean Hannity the illusion that they are not complete cretins, and they pay top dime for that sort of intellectual deceit. Clearly, it was not part of the New Hitchens act to include material critical of Israel, since the awful Islamo-Fascist-Satan-Beast had to be defeated at all costs... Read more... Newt Gingrich: ignoramus, cheat, cynic or all three? | Redress Information & Analysis Uri Avnery views Newt Gingrich's parroting of the old Zionist propaganda line that there is no such a thing as a Palestinian people – a line now discarded by most Zionists – and argues that the US Republican presidential aspirant is not only being provocative, but is also doing immense damage to US national interests... Read more... Obama Approves Draconian Police State Law | Stephen Lendman Obama supports draconian FY 2012 National Defense Authorization Act provisions. Justification given is national security and war on terror hokum. Henceforth, anyone anywhere, including US citizens, may be indefinitely held without charge or trial, based solely on suspicions, spurious allegations or none at all... Read more... Israelis say: "A Good Arab is a Dead Arab" | Roy Tov  “aravi tov u aravi met” | “A Good Arab is a Dead Arab” ...As recently as October 3, 2011, I analyzed in Jewish Terror Hits Tuba the burning of the mosque in Tuba-Zangariyye. The last is a Bedouin village between Safed and the Golan Heights. This is well within the Green Line, well within what is recognized as Israel by several countries, including the USA. Many of this village’s denizens serve in the IDF. In this attack, the entire interior of the mosque went up in flames, causing heavy damage also to holy books. Graffiti with the words “Price Tag” were found on the wall of the mosque...Read more... The Goldman Saching of Europe, by Mike Carey | Australian Broadcasting Corporation I don't want to sound alarmist but it looks like Goldman Sachs has taken over Europe. The continent has succumbed to the dictates of global finance, there was no choice. The bankers are holding us all to ransom and have done since the beginning of the GFC in 2008... Read more... Sleeping on Stones | Gilad Atzmon A Palestinian dramatic feature film set in Hebron... View trailer... Moscow optimizes its military grouping in the south, by Sergey Konovalov | RT ..The geopolitical situation unfolding around Syria and Iran is prompting Russia to make its military structures in the South Caucasus, on the Caspian, Mediterranean and Black Sea regions more efficient. Nezavisimaya Gazeta’s (NG) Defense Ministry sources are saying that the Kremlin has been informed about an upcoming US-supported Israeli strike against Iran’s nuclear facilities. The strike will be sudden and take place on “day X” in the near future. One could assume Iran’s reaction will not be delayed. A full-scale war is possible... Read more... Rich Siegel: The Way to Peace | Gilad Atzmon  I took part in the production of Rich's new album and I highly recommend it to music lovers and people who care about justice and Palestine.. Combining jazz/cabaret music with social justice, this anti-Zionist activist sings about Palestine, peace and justice, and a better world for our children. Includes the hit “In Palestine”.. Read more... 'Bought-and-paid-for Congress' passes Iran sanctions, by Philip Weiss | Mondoweiss It's a new world! I get to say bought and paid for by the Israel lobby every other minute now without being accused of being a conspiracist because Tom Friedman said so in the New York Times! Well, here's another bought-and-paid-for group. United Against Nuclear Iran, started by Dennis Ross, the Israel lobbyist who then went into the Obama administration at a high level. And Gary Samore, who is still at Obama's right hand as his czar on weapons of mass destruction... Read more... The "New Anti-Semitism" Smear Is Getting Old, by Max Blumenthal | Al Akhbar English Last week began with former AIPAC flack Josh Block accusing writers at two progressive think tanks in Washington of advancing the "new" anti-Semitism, conflating their criticisms of Israeli policies with straightforward Jew-hatred. "Either they can allow people to say borderline anti-Semitic stuff,” Block told Politico, “and to say things that are antithetical to the fundamental values of the Democratic party, or they can fire them and stop it." By the end of the week, Block was feverishly denying ever accusing anyone of anti-Semitism... Read more... NATO dreams of civil war in Syria, by Pepe Escobar | Silvia Cattori Every grain of sand in the Syrian desert now knows there won’t be a “responsibility to protect”-enabled North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) “humanitarian” intervention to provoke regime change in Damascus. A protracted war like in Libya is not feasible – even though those faultless democratic practitioners, the House of Saud, have offered to pay for it, lavishly...\ Read more... Grab a Pen Mr. Gingrich, it's Time for your History Lesson, by Dr. Ashraf Ezzat | Pyramidion  Shlomo Sand ...It is ironic to see the millions of patriotic Americans rallying on the streets and literally occupying the country in protest over what they called corporate greed and at the same time we find candidates like Gingrich so sick and blinded with greed they can’t feel the danger nor the shame in sleeping in the same bed with the real enemy. How did America end up in that humiliating situation, where its presidential frontrunners are but a bunch of clowns who are always willing to dance to Israel’s favorite tune?..Read more... 'Finest fighting forces in world history' literally destroyed Iraq, by Sergei Balmasov | English Pravda The USA announced the completion of the army operation in Iraq, which began in the country in 2003. US President Obama said that US servicemen would leave Iraq before December 31, 2011. Obama did not declare it either a victory or a triumph, like his predecessor George W. Bush did. However, Obama preferred not to say anything negative about the Iraqi operation, which he previously described as silly. Nevertheless, Obama said that US soldiers were leaving Baghdad "with heads held high.".. Read more... Ron Paul's Constitutionalist, Anti-War Stance Supported By U.S. Troops, by Paul Joseph Watson | Prison Planet Following Ron Paul’s clash with Michele Bachmann over foreign policy during last night’s Republican debate in Iowa, the establishment media characterized Paul’s views as an “outburst” that could cost him votes, when in reality the majority of Republican voters now want U.S. troops brought home, troops who themselves support Paul over every other GOP candidate. Ron Paul has has received more money in donations from active duty military personnel than all of the other Republican candidates combined and more than Barack Obama himself... Read more, watch video... Saudi Arabia executes 73rd victim of Sharia laws | English Pravda In Saudi Arabia, Sharia court sentenced a woman accused of engaging in witchcraft to beheading by a sword. There are some unpleasant details: before dying, the "witch", apparently, suffered as the beheading was performed gradually, in three steps. Thus, she became the 73rd person executed this year in the country living under Sharia... [Our staunchest ally in the Middle East shows everybody how it's done when law-abiding, red-blooded Saudis follow the path of freedom and democracy. Go get 'em, boys!] Read more...Dec 16, 2011 Reflections on the Meaning of Palestine, by Alain Gresh | Institute for Palestine Studies  This essay addresses the Palestine question within a European context. After reflecting on why Palestine has been widely embraced as a “universal cause,” the author explores its relationship to the “Jewish question” in the changed context following World War II: Whereas prior to the war it was the Jews who were perceived as a threat to European civilization, today it is the Muslim immigrants who have the scapegoat role. Also discussed are philosemitism (and its manifestations in the West) and anti-Semitism (as it relates to the Arab world), and how these phenomena have been impacted by the ongoing Palestinian-Israeli conflict... Read more... The Inevitable War With Iran, by Philip Giraldi | Antiwar One might regard the pledges made to Israel and its friends in the United States by aspiring presidential candidates as pro forma and vaguely amusing, but that would be a mistake. Policy commitments, even if they are lightly entered into, are a serious matter with real-world consequences... [War is the life blood of the Evil Empire] Read more...Obama's U-Turn On Indefinite Detention Bill a "Historic Tragedy" For Rights, by Paul Joseph Watson | Prison Planet Human Rights Watch has labeled President Obama’s U-turn on his decision to veto the NDAA bill, which empowers the government to indefinitely detain Americans without trial, a “historic tragedy for rights,” but should we really be surprised given the fact that it was Obama’s White House which ensured language that would have protected U.S. citizens was removed from the bill in the first place?.. Read more... The Secret, Coordinated Effort To Smear ThinkProgress As Anti-Semitic And Anti-Israel, by Ben Armbruster | ThinkProgress Yesterday, Politico published an article written by Ben Smith purporting to highlight a divide on the left on Middle East policy. The story quoted sources — including former AIPAC spokesman Josh Block — saying that bloggers here at the Center for American Progress are “borderline anti-Semitic” and “anti-Israel.”.. ["The true anti-semites are those who encourage with their unequivocal support Israel's refusal to comply with international law and make peace with all of its citizens and its neighbors. When the west fails, and sooner or later it will, an angry east will destroy Israel if it stays its current suicidal course." ~ Comment by Mitch Beales] Read more...A call to Christians at Christmas, by Virginia Tilley | Australians for Palestine  The Archbishop of Canterbury has warned that the Arab Spring is threatening the safety of Christian communities in the Middle East. He did not realise it, but this public warning—much as President Obama’s UN speech in September struck the death knell for US credibility in the Middle East... Read more... Liberating America's Worldview, by Phil Rockstroh | Consortium News Occupy Wall Street protesters appealed to the broader U.S. population – and even the police – as fellow members of the 99 percent, but Phil Rockstroh observes that many Americans still fear breaking with the oppressive status quo and most police will follow orders in harsh crackdowns... Read more... Menachem Mendel Schneerson: The Expedient Messiah, (Part 4) by Trudie Pert | The Occidental Observer ...an important Orthodox Israeli philosopher, Yeshayahu Leibowitz, was asked what he thought of the Rebbe’s messianism. Leibowitz’s response was characteristically sarcastic: “There is only one thing that I cannot figure out about this man , and that is whether he is a psychopath or a charlatan. This is the only thing I just cannot decide—this kind of degeneracy, of phony prophets and false messiahs, is as ancient as Israel itself.”.. Read more... Israel has never been so ugly, by Ari Shavit | Haaretz Netanyahu's weak leadership and moral laxity are what unleashed this frenzy. The fact that he has not put a stop to the dark forces that have always oozed from our depths is what brought us to this situation, but it is not yet too late... [Actually, Ari, it's been too late for the last 64 years, ever since the establishment of Israel. The Jewish State is irredeemable, by its very nature.] Read more...Iraq Invasion Mastermind Antes Up On Iran Attack, by Kurt Nimmo | Prison Planet  Richard Perle, aka the Prince of Darkness, is back. “I am willing to accuse Iran of building nuclear weapons,” Perle told RT on Wednesday. “I do not think there is any question about it,” despite the fact there is no definitive evidence Iran is using its nuclear energy program to build weapons... Read more... Closing the Strait of Hormuz: What the Iranian threat really means, by J. D. Heyes | Natural News Many of you may already know that an Iranian lawmaker on Tuesday said his nation's military was set to practice closing the strategic Strait of Hormuz as part of upcoming military exercises. What you may not know is why that matters to Americans, even though the U.S. doesn't import a drop of oil from Iran... Read more... A Nightmare Scenario for America, by Lisa Karpova | English Pravda ...No missle defense could prevent it. It is commonly referred to as EMP, electromagnetic pulse explosion. The energy released by such a weapon "would interact with the Earth's magnetic field, producing an extremely fast and powerful electromagnetic burst that rushes to the ground at 94% the speed of light, slamming everything on the ground with as much as 50,000 volts per square meter at high amps." Simple to do with a nuclear device, it's almost a given that some power or group might get put out with the behavior of the U.S.A. and decide to go this route... [Something like this is bound to happen if the Empire continues to run amok. It's simple cause and effect, aka karma - Nature always seeks balance.] Read more...'US, Israel greatest security threat': An interview with Dahlia Wasfi | PressTV A political activist says that the United States and Israeli governments are the greatest security threat in the world, inflicting wholesale slaughter and massive human displacement... Read transcript, watch video... Yaalon: Iran Has Choice to "Have Bomb or Survive" | Tikun Olam  Moshe 'Bogie' Yaalon with settler extremist Moshe Feiglin ..It was a briefing that was filled with lies, fantasies, with even a smidgen of fact thrown in. I found it fascinating. Fascinating, because it gives you entré into a certain strategic vision shared by Israel’s most hawkish, most delusional policymakers...Read more... Simon Wiesenthal Center's Top Ten list of Anti-Israel and Anti-Semitic slurs in 2011 | EJP ...According to the Los Angeles-based Center, the list “continues to reflect the growing global anti-Semitism and delegitimization of Israel coming from mainstream voices, including world leaders, politicians, religious leaders, a musician, film director, fashion designer...” [So what do I have to do to get on that list? I could go the Wailing Wall and unfurl a banner that reads "the Jewish State is Nazi Germany all over again," but some newshound with a camera would have to pick it up.] Read more...Fight continues for academic freedom in the US, by Nora Barrows-Friedman | The Electronic Intifada A professor at North Carolina State University is fighting the university and the state government over what seems to be a clear-cut case of discrimination and censorship due to her outspoken criticism of Israeli policy in Palestine... ["We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender" ~ Winston Churchill, 1940. And we must fight them everywhere, whatever the cost. It's much harder for us now than it was for the English. The enemy has already invaded and taken over all of the major political, economic, media and academic institutions, but we must resist. It is better to die than to lose our humanity.] Read more... Center Begins Project Focused on Finding and Prosecuting Nazis | NYT The Simon Wiesenthal Center has begun “Operation Last Chance II,” focused on finding and prosecuting remaining World War II Nazi war criminals who are still at large, the organization’s chief Nazi hunter, Efraim Zuroff, said at a news conference in Berlin... [The ghouls never stop - they are, after all, flesh-eating zombies .] Read more...Dec 15, 2011 Masked in Gaza: The Untold History of Palestinian 'Militancy' by Ramzy Baroud | Palestine Chronicle  ...The phenomenon quickly registered among Palestinian youth in Gaza - not due to any inexplicable desire for violence, but because they saw in the fedayeen a heroic escape from their own humiliating lives. Indeed, the fedayeen movement was the antithesis of the perceived submissiveness experienced by refugees. It was a manifestation of all the anger and frustration they felt. They simply wanted to go home, and freedom-fighting seemed the only practical way of fulfilling this wish... Read more... Newt Unleashes His Tetrodotoxin at the Palestinians, by William A. Cook | Intifada Palestine ...Many “Newts” produce toxins, the rough skinned Taricha, for example, produces enough to kill an adult human, and while all “Newts” go through a metamorphosis from tadpole to lizard, few expected that metamorphosis to reach human form in the person of the front running Republican candidate for President, Newt Gingrich... Read more... Making Repression Our Business: Did the Pentagon Help Strangle the Arab Spring? by Nick Turse | Tom Dispatch ...As state security forces across the region cracked down on democratic dissent, the Pentagon also repeatedly dispatched American troops on training missions to allied militaries there. During more than 40 such operations with names like Eager Lion and Friendship Two that sometimes lasted for weeks or months at a time, they taught Middle Eastern security forces the finer points of counterinsurgency, small unit tactics, intelligence gathering, and information operations - skills crucial to defeating popular uprisings... Read more... Thousands of US personnel to stay in Iraq | PressTV Press TV talks with Saleh al-Obeidi, Sadr movement spokesperson in Baghdad who denounces US spokesperson Mr. Michael McClellan's publicly released statement that the Iraqi government has approved US embassy personnel to a number of 15,000. The Sadr party restates its warning that such a number will not be tolerated and would be seen as a humiliation to the people of Iraq. The interview expands into US confusion over what it thinks it has achieved after a decade of war imposed on the country... Read more... Obama, Israel's houseboy, names Elie Wiesel to U.S. Holocaust Council, by Carolyn Yeager | Elie Wiesel's Tattoo  ...The United States Holocaust Memorial Council is the governing body of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Did you know that the USHMM, as it’s known, is a project of the U.S. Government? That’s important to know. The Council alone consists of 55 presidential appointees, in addition to ten Congressional representatives and three ex-officio members from the Departments of Education, Interior, and State. That adds up to 68 high-level persons who all get paid by the taxpayers, in one way or another, for “serving” on this Council... Read more... What do Holocaust Deniers believe? | YouTube The Holocaust hoax - a short video for Holocaust Believers... Watch video... A courageous Palestinian has died, shrouded in stones, by Jonathan Pollak | Haaretz Mustafa Tamimi threw stones. Unapologetically and sometimes fearlessly. Not on that day alone, but nearly every Friday. He also concealed his face. Not for fear of the prison cell, which he had already come to know intimately, but in order to preserve his freedom, so he could continue to throw stones and resist the theft of his land. He continued to do this until the moment of his death... Read more... US capitalism leads to moral bankruptcy: An interview with Jeff Gates | PressTV A prominent political author says that the Occupy movement exposes the flaw in the pro-capitalist American system which trades moral values for huge returns on wealth... Read transcript, watch video... US culture breeds dehumanization: Interview with John Dwyer | PressTV An activist highlights the disconnection between the wealthiest one percent and the rest of society has led to de-humanized and irresponsible treatment of people... [I can attest to that. I live in Mexico, where people are still people, instead of ignorant, confused and angry "consumers".] Read more...Jewish Wars Heat Up Jerusalem's Winter: War Declared on Barak | Roy Tov  A few readers approached me with a similar complaint. According to them, several of my analyses on Israel emphasize inner Jewish Wars, while barely mentioning players abroad. “Where is David Cameron’s position on this,” they would ask, eager to know what the UK is about to do about Israel’s eternal transgressions. Henry Kissinger probably is not among my readers; but if he was, he would probably agree with me. Many years ago he said that Israeli politics are almost exclusively internal. Everything must be analyzed through the magnifying lenses of the Jewish Wars, other things have little influence... Read more... Biden Relocates Baku in Iraq!: Wars Without Victory; America Without Influence, by Patrick Cockburn | Counterpunch The last American troops will withdraw from Iraq in the next three weeks. President Obama and Iraq’s Prime Minister, Nouri al-Maliki, will meet tomorrow in Washington so they can claim that the US emerges from the conflict unweakened and leaves behind an increasingly stable, democratic and prosperous Iraq... [Biden, a blissfully ignorant bumpkin from the outskirts of Oz, is the poster boy for our bull-in-a-chinashop government. Sadly, those are human beings we're murdering all over the place, not crockery.] Read more...Pop quiz: Is Israel more like Egypt than you think? by Patrick Martin | The Globe and Mail In which Middle Eastern country will you find:.. Read more... Norman Finkelstein and Mouin Rabbani at Boston University Q&A | YouTube Finkelstein and Rabbani take questions after their talk at Boston University... Watch video... BDS Unites East and West, by Eric Walberg | Palestine Chronicle  Just in case there was an iota of doubt left in your mind, Israel was officially declared an apartheid state during a session of the Russell Tribunal on Palestine in Cape Town on 7 November... Read more... The Vengeance of History, by Israel Shamir | The Truthseeker Moscow saw its biggest demo in a decade last Saturday. It was a feel-good peaceful manifestation of youthful Facebook users, and it was already nicknamed the Likes Parade, as the prospective participants had clicked on “like” in response to the call to demonstrate. The predictions were dire: some expected clashes and bloody martyrdom, others hoped for a conquest of the Kremlin and revolution. However things went smoothly. Police were friendly too; riot police were stationed far away near Kremlin gates so as not to annoy the people... Read more... AIPAC Economic Warfare Also Targets US, by Grant Smith | Antiwar The American Israel Public Affairs Committee is trumpeting tough new sanctions against Iran’s Central Bank. This financial blockade will likely drive up global energy prices as Iran struggles to sell petroleum to wholesalers fearful of secondary boycotts. That the sources of this latest step toward US military action against Iran are mainly Israel lobbying groups or beneficiaries of their campaign finance network has been well-established... Read more... Fed Chairman: War is Bad for the Economy | Washington's Blog Alan Greenspan Admitted in 1999 that War Is Bad for the Economy... Read more... When the Sky Was Turned into a Christmas Tree: Xmas in Baghdad, by Nesreen Melek | Counterpunch ...It has been twenty years, but Xmas still reminds me of the death of the Iraqi people who did nothing to the Americans who celebrated that Xmas in the nineties and others after that. Xmas reminds me of the thousands of Iraqi kids who don’t go to school because they have to support their families. Xmas reminds me of the suffering of my own people because of the wars which were launched on them by killers who claimed that they would spread democracy in Iraq... [Next on the Xmas presents list: Iran] Read more...US fear and loathing over spy drone, by Dr. Ismail Salami | PressTV  [The Evil Empire (the real one) takes it on the chin.] Read more...Ron Paul: Defense Bill Establishes Martial Law In America, by Paul Joseph Watson | Prison Planet Top tier presidential candidate Ron Paul has decried the ‘indefinite detention’ provision of the National Defense Authorization Act, warning that it represents an arrogant, bold and dangerous attempt to establish martial law in America... Read more, watch video... Syrian opposition: Dying for foreign intervention? | RT Watch video... Israel Fails International Religious Rights Survey: Parents Demand Purifying School After Moslem Wedding | Tikun Olam One of the aspects of Israeli life which pro-Israel advocates trumpet is freedom of religion: that Jews, Muslims and Christians worship freely and without the interference or hindrance of state authorities. This, of course, isn’t true as there are enormous limitations placed on non-Jewish worship in Israel... [What else would one expect from the flagship of the Evil Empire] Read more...Hebrew U hosts talk on religious laws outlining killing of gentiles | +972 After Haifa University canceled a lecture on the book “King’s Torah” (Torat HaMelech)–which discusses religious regulations on killing non-Jews–the event was held yesterday at Jerusalem’s Hebrew University. The head of the Department of Jewish Philosophy, Avinoam Rosenak, spoke at the event as did Rabbi Israel Ariel of the Dorshei Yehudcha yeshiva, which was recently shut down on the advice of Israeli General Security Services (Shin Bet or Shabak). According to the Shin Bet, students of the yeshiva, which was located in the West Bank settlement of Yitzhar, “are involved in illegal and violent activities against Palestinians and the security forces.”.. Read more... Dec 14, 2011 Major Escalation In U.S. Covert Operations In The Middle East Being Reported | War News Updates  U.S. bases and installations in the region The top American commander in the Middle East has ordered a broad expansion of clandestine military activity in an effort to disrupt militant groups or counter threats in Iran, Saudi Arabia, Somalia and other countries in the region, according to defense officials and military documents...[Now listen up! - this is Captain America speaking - we gotcha surrounded!] Global March, by Mazin Qumsiyeh | Popular Resistance With some other activist Palestinian friends, I took two days to go to Amman to attend a conference for the Global March to Jerusalem. We met great people from around the world including Palestinians in exile. But every time we leave Palestine even for a very short time we feel like fish out of the water... Read more... Wall Street Propagandists Scramble To Cover US Ties to Russian Protesters, by Tony Cartalucci | Global Research As the evidence begins to mount pointing the accusing finger at the increasingly illegitimate corporate-financier occupiers of the West's governments as having built up Russian opposition movements and being behind the current unrest filling Russia's streets, the corporate media has already started to rewrite events as they unfold. Wall Street and London's media machine claims Russia's protests are "leaderless" and not being organized by political opposition movements - even as it interviews protest organizers such as the above pictured opposition leader, Boris Nemtsov, who takes to stages build amidst supposedly "spontaneous" protests with a troupe of US NED-funded NGO leaders and opposition parties cheerleading what is clearly yet another Western-funded color revolution... Read more... 'Iran to reverse-engineer, mass produce US drone' | Jerusalem Post Senior Iranian official says Iran will soon be able to reproduce and upgrade the US RQ-170 Sentinel. Iran will reverse-engineer the US drone it captured on December 4, Iran's Press TV quoted a senior Iranian official as saying Sunday... [What a hoot. There's nothing like a shot of Israeli paranoia to maintain their high blood-pressure. "The Martians have landed, and they all speak Arabic!" (or Farsi, as the case may be). And it's so unfair to the professional victims to steal a page from their patented spy book! LOL.] Overview: Israeli Spying, by Alison Weir | Veterans Today  One senior American diplomat explains that inside the State Department “everybody knows that Israel spies on us. When someone is caught, they’re ‘punished’ by being promoted.”.. Read more... America's Covert War Against Iran: Do 'All Options' Mean Nukes? by Tom Burghardt | Global Research Legendary investigative journalist I.F. Stone famously observed: "All governments lie, but disaster lies in wait for countries whose officials smoke the same hashish they give out." Amongst Washington elites and the courtier press, it appears that more than a pipe or two has been passed around of late as the political and psychological ground is prepared for a military attack on Iran... Read more... Newt Gingrich's Invented History of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, by Jeremy R. Hammond | Global Research The Republican presidential candidates are falling all over themselves competing for who can be the most “pro-Israel”, with Newt Gingrich taking the game to a whole new level last week when he said in an interview with The Jewish Channel that Palestinians were an “invented” people. When asked whether he considered himself a Zionist, Gingrich responded... The Great Chinese-Iranian Stealth Reconnaissance Drone Theft Caper, by Mike Harris | Veterans Today  The national insecurity stakes just went up once again. Being in the armed forces of any country, at any time, has always been a hazardous occupation. But thanks to the gross incompetence, malfeasance and short sightedness of our current and former elected officials it just became much, much, deadlier... Read more... Libya on the verge of chaos and civil war - experts, by Alexander Vatutin | Voice of Russia Warnings from many experts are coming true: Libya is being pulled into a civil war. Now anti-Gaddafists are carving up power and Libya’s capital of Tripoli is already seeing clashes as the rebels are fighting for the local airport. Libya that was united by one goal - to topple Gaddafi, is now on the verge of chaos... [As was predicted from the beginning by several astute observers, the likely outcome is a breakup of the country into its historical parts, Tripolitania and Cyrenaica. It's a perfect example of the divide and conquer strategy being pursued in the Middle East by the USraeli Empire, but there may be unforeseen consequences. There always are.] Read more... Hundreds of US-NATO Soldiers Arrive & Begin Operations on the Jordan-Syria Border | Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs Post ...during the last few hours foreign military groups, estimated at hundreds of individuals, began to spread near the villages of the north-Jordan city of “Al-Mafraq”, which is adjacent to the Jordanian and Syrian border. According to one Jordanian military officer who asked to remain anonymous, hundreds of soldiers who speak languages other than Arabic were seen during the past two days in those areas moving back and forth in military vehicles between the King Hussein Air Base of al-Mafraq (10 km from the Syrian border), and the vicinity of Jordanian villages adjacent to the Syrian border... [Must be the Lone Ranger and Tonto, or more likely, it's the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse] No miracle yesterday in Nabi Saleh: Mustafa Tamimi murdered, by Linah Alsaafin | The Electronic Intifada  Mustafa Tamimi ...My humanity is only human. I hate my enemy. A deep vigorous hatred that courses through my veins whenever I come into contact with them or any form of their system. My humanity is limited. I cannot write a book titled I Shall Not Hate especially if my three daughters and one niece were murdered by my enemy. My humanity is faulty. I dream of my enemy choking on tear gas fired through the windows of their houses, of having their fathers arrested on trumped-up charges, of them wounded by rubber-coated steel bullets, of them being woken up in the middle of the night and dragged away for interrogations that are spliced with bouts of torture...Read more... Israeli Jewish hate rally against Africans in Tel Aviv caught on video as Haaretz deletes article about it, by Ali Abunimah | The Electronic Intifada The Israeli newspaper Haaretz mysteriously removed from its website an article exposing atrocious Israeli racism against black people just hours after it was published. The article by David Sheen – a copy of which was made by The Electronic Intifada before Haaretz deleted it – reported on a rally by Israeli Jews on Sunday in Tel Aviv against African immigrants, demanding that they be sent home because Israel is a “Jewish state.”.. Read more, watch video... The Globalists' Worst Nightmare | Land Destroyer ...While people understand something is wrong and recognize the necessity to do "something," figuring out what that "something" should be becomes incredibly difficult when so few understand how power really works and how to strip it away from the oligarchs that have criminally consolidated it... Volunteer in Gaza with the ISM | International Solidarity Movement  [Volunteer for the front line if you've got what it takes - we are all Palestinians.] Read more... Media Lies: Syria's President Bashar Al Assad Sets ABC News Senior Propagandist Barbra Walters Straight, by Tony Cartalucci | Global Research ...The unrest in Syria from the beginning was entirely backed by Western corporate-financier interests and part of a long-planned agenda for region-wide regime change. Syria has been slated for regime change since as early as 1991. In 2002, then US Under Secretary of State John Bolton added Syria to the growing "Axis of Evil." It would be later revealed that Bolton's threats against Syria manifested themselves as covert funding and support for opposition groups inside of Syria spanning both the Bush and Obama administrations... Read more... Treating Palestinians Lawlessly | Stephen Lendman December 11 marks the 63rd anniversary of UN Resolution 194, mandating that: "the (Palestinian) refugees wishing to return to their homes and live at peace with their neighbors should be permitted to do so at the earliest practicable date, and that compensation should be paid for the property of those choosing not to return and for loss of or damage to property which, under principles of international law or in equity, should be made good by the Governments or authorities responsible.".. Read more... 'NYT' continues to fiddle with the Nakba, by Allison Deger | Mondoweiss ...the NYT censored coverage of the Palestinian Nakba, due to "reader comments." The NYT removed the word "expelled" and other words from the description, altering the narrative of events--implying that Palestinian refugees fled, and were not driven out of their homes/villages by pre-state para-military groups. The article also made alterations suggesting Arab armies invaded before the Zionist para-military attacks, rather than "soon" after, as originally reported... [Well, that's why they call it the Jew York Times.] New Pappe book highlights plight of forgotten Palestinians, by Asa Winstanley | The Electronic Intifada  Thanks partly to the growing international notoriety of their representatives and activists (such as current and former members of the Knesset Haneen Zoabi and the exiled Azmi Bishara) in recent years there has been more attention paid to the situation of these Palestinians. But in the western solidarity movement, there is still a learning process to be had of understanding that “the Palestinians” includes more than the people of the West Bank and Gaza... Read more... Israeli forces killed 19 Palestinian children in Gaza in 2011 | Voice of Palestine The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) have killed 19 Palestinian children and wounded 200 others during attacks on the Gaza Strip in the course of 2011, medical sources said on Saturday. Adham Abu Salmiya, the spokesman for the ambulance and emergency department, said in a statement that the youngest of those killed was two-year-old Malek Shaat followed by three-year-old Islam Quraqai. He said that one third of the wounded in IOF attacks on Gaza in 2011 were children, noting that one of them, ten-year-old Yousef Al-Za’lan, was still in intensive care after the Israeli raid on Friday in which his father and younger brother were killed... Read more... UN General Assembly Passes Nine Resolutions On Israel-Palestine, by Saed Bannoura | International Middle East Media Center On Friday, the United Nations General Assembly passed nine resolutions related to Palestine as part of a set of 24 resolutions and two texts related to human rights and decolonization... [The USraeli Empire can continue to defy the rest of the world for only so long. They long ago ran out of credibility, and now they're running out of credit.] Read more... The Face of the Killer Who Is Your President | Once Upon a Time ...this is a murderer so used to killing that he talks of his past and future victims interchangeably, and in terms of approximation. Just "whoever's left out there." He wants to be sure you know he'll order all of them killed in time. His face is expressionless, the eyes dead. This is a man without a soul in any healthy, positive sense. He murders -- and he's proud of it... The Great War Tour: America's "Repositioning" of Military Forces, by Manlio Dinucci | Global Research  At the Pentagon, it is call it "repositioning" of military forces. In fact, this is the great war tour, whose choice spots are in Asia and Africa. There are U.S. troops departing from Iraq. Immanuel Wallerstein qualifies this departure as a "defeat comparable to that suffered in Vietnam," because "Iraqi political leaders forced the U.S. to withdraw its troops" and "their withdrawal represents a victory for Iraqi nationalism." According to him, after two wars, a crippling embargo and eight years of an occupation that caused millions of deaths and inestimable destruction, Iraq comes out stronger and more independent, since it succeeded in imposing its will on the world’s largest power... Read more... The Corrupting Influence of the NED: The AFL-CIO's Covert Ops in Venezuela, by Alberto C. Ruiz | Counterpunch ...I write this article with the hope that the AFL-CIO might take a good hard look at itself and its role in the world; that it might re-evaluate the corrupting influence of taking millions of dollars from the NED and U.S. State Department – money which inevitably makes them captive to U.S. foreign policy interests even while the AFL-CIO, in the height of irony and hypocrisy, purports to fight what it perceives to be “government-dominated” unions in such countries as China and Cuba... Read more... Washington's Alliance with "Moderate Islam": Containing Rebellion, Defending Empire, by Prof. James Petras | Global Research The dynamic of democratic, nationalist and class struggles throughout the Muslim world has set in motion a new constellation of alliances between the imperial West (US and European Union) and Islamist parties, leaders and regimes, dubbed “moderate” by US officials, propagandists and academics. This essay analyzes the changing contemporary context of imperial domination, especially the demise of longstanding client regimes. It then examines the previous significant ties between western imperial powers and Islamist movements and regimes and the basis of ‘historical collaboration’... Read more... The growing menace of domestic drones, by Glenn Greenwald | Salon  ...There is always a large segment of the population that reflexively supports the use of greater government and police power — it’s usually the same segment that has little objection to Endless War — and it’s grounded in a mix of standard authoritarianism (I side with authority over those they accused of being Bad and want authorities increasingly empowered to stop the Bad people) along with naiveté (I don’t really worry that new weapons and powers will be abused by those in power, especially when — like now — those in power are Good). This mindset manifests in the domestic drone context specifically by dismissing their use as nothing more than the functional equivalent of police helicopters. This is a view grounded in pure ignorance... Read more... Defamation - Anti-Semitism: The Movie (7/7) | YouTube What is anti-Semitism today, two generations after the Holocaust? In his continuing exploration of modern Israeli life, director Yoav Shamir (Checkpoint, 5 Days, Flipping Out) travels the world in search of the most modern manifestations of the "oldest hatred", and comes up with some startling answers. In this irreverent quest, he follows American Jewish leaders to the capitals of Europe, as they warn government officials of the growing threat of anti-Semitism, and he tacks on to a class of Israeli high school students on a pilgrimage to Auschwitz... Read more, watch video... Racism, Genocide and Business as Usual: The Republicans and the Palestinians, by Robert Fantina | Counterpunch As each election approaches, few candidates miss making a trek to worship at the altar of the American Israel Political Affairs Committee (AIPAC). There they pay homage, hoping to be anointed with the generous largess that that organization dispenses, mainly through its many fallen angels. The most recent pilgrim to this unholy site is Republican presidential candidate wannabe Newt Gingrich, serial adulterer, egomaniac and blowhard extraordinaire... Read more... Row over UK lawmaker's "Jewish" comments a reminder that Zionism is anti-Semitism, by Ali Abunimah | The Electronic Intifada  Read more... The no nonsense guide to the CIA in Lebanon! | The Arab Digest ...The most important bit of the disclosure is the fact that the CIA was Israel's consultancy in Lebanon. They were collecting information on behalf of the Israelis. During the July 2006 bloody Israeli war on Lebanon, the CIA used the U.S. embassy and its Lebanon network to monitor Hezbollah's movements. They were giving the Israelis all the on-the-ground information available to the CIA. Some of this information led to targeting civilian buildings and other installations by Israeli aircraft. The CIA also requested detailed information on all Hezbollah's institutions including their health, social and financial establishments. The CIA has also linked some of its sources/agents to the Israel's Mossad agency to fully serve Israel's security agenda... Report From Egypt, by Eric Margolis | Lew Rockwell ...Tahrir Square, epicenter of the earthquake that ousted Egypt’s western-backed dictator, Husni Mubarak, is quiet – for the moment. Banner-wavers, speakers, and scruffy youngsters mill about. But the by now world-famous square has a forlorn, leftover look, with more street people than revolutionaries. But violence still crackles like static electricity. The government’s notoriously brutal, heavily armed security police and their armored vehicles are massed nearby... Read more... Cheney calls for air strike on Iran over captured drone, by David Edwards | The Raw Story  Former Vice President Dick Cheney said on Monday that President Barack Obama should have ordered an “air strike” on Iran after they recently captured a U.S. drone. Earlier on Monday, President Barack Obama had explained that U.S. officials asked Iran to return the RQ-170 Sentinel surveillance drone. “The right response to that would have been to go in immediately after it had gone down and destroy it,” Cheney told CNN’s Erin Burnett. “You can do that from the air. You can do that with a quick air strike, and in effect make it impossible for them to benefit from having captured that drone.”.. [And I thought he was in a padded cell at Fort Leavenworth. Must've been dreaming.] Read more... Stewart on the Daily Show: "Gingrich is a life support for bad ideas" | The Raw Story [Hilarious] Read more, watch video...Zionist denials | WikiSpooks Zionist Denials are cases in which Israel itself has deliberately and falsely denied actions which Israel or others have later admitted. In some of these cases the state of Israel has denied culpability but then later admitted liability. In other cases Israel has paid compensation despite denying intent eg the USS Liberty Incident, widely and predominantly reported by "reliable sources" as being a case of the Israelis deliberately attacking a US ship... Dec 13, 2011 How Low Can US Candidates Go Pandering for Money, by Jamal Kanj | Intifada Palestine  Like America’s national interest, Palestinians are sacrificed by the average voter’s indifference and the utter moral impotency at the highest elected political office in the face of the strongest US foreign interest lobby... Read more... Shaping the Popular Psyche in America's Post-Information Era: Why the US & Israel May Agree to Bombing Iran, by Franklin Spinney | Counterpunch The arguments for attacking Iran are crazy, like those for attacking Iraq in response to 9-11. But that does not mean such an attack by the American and/or the Israelis will not occur.b Indeed, I think the political pressure for such an attack is increasing... Read more... Iran may now rank first in world in natural gas reserves | Haaretz Iran may rank first in the world in terms of gas reserves following the discovery of a new reservoir in the Caspian Sea, Iranian Oil Minister Rostam Qasemi said Sunday. Also, the European Union "definitely" will not impose sanctions on OPEC member Iran's oil exports because such a measure would harm the global crude market, said Qasemi... Read more... The pro-Israel NGO behind NATO's war on Libya is targeting Syria: Who will Watch the Watchdog? by Maidhc Ó Cathail | Intifada Palestine  Founding Chairman, UN Watch, Morris B. Abram Europe's Deadly Transition From Social Democracy to Oligarchy, by Michael Hudson | Counterpunch The easiest way to understand Europe’s financial crisis is to look at the solutions being proposed to resolve it. They are a banker’s dream, a grab bag of giveaways that few voters would be likely to approve in a democratic referendum. Bank strategists learned not to risk submitting their plans to democratic vote after Icelanders twice refused in 2010-11 to approve their government’s capitulation to pay Britain and the Netherlands for losses run up by badly regulated Icelandic banks operating abroad... Read more... Richard Falk chased by pro-Israel UN Watch | Rehmat's World On November 10, 2011, the UN Watch website blasted Richard Falk for posting a hilarious poem in response to Israel-Firster Alan Dershowitz’s slanderous article in the neoconservative mouthpiece, New Republic. Alan Dershowitz had criticized both Richard Falk and John J. Mearsheimer for endorsing Israel-born British author Gilad Atzmon’s book The Wondering Who... Read more... Appalling Ignorance of Americans, by Tomasz Zalewski | Watching America  ... anti-intellectualism has a long tradition in America. Since the beginning of its existence, the acquisition of knowledge — both abstract and impractical — has not been highly esteemed... Read more... Obama: Trilateral Commission Endgame, by Patrick Wood | Voltaire Network The US oligarchy US defends its class interests and maintains its grip on political power domestically by leaning on secret societies such as Skull & Bones or think tanks like the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR). At the international level, it uses elitist clubs, such as the Bilderberg Group, to co-opt foreign oligarchies to its project for a new global governance. Our colleague Patrick Wood explains the workings of the Trilateral Commission, one more cog in this complex machine... Read more... The real definition of Terrorism, by Glenn Greenwald | Salon ...Is that not exactly the mindset that more or less anyone in the world would have: if a foreign army invades your country and proceeds to brutally occupy it for the next eight years, then it’s your solemn duty to fight them? Indeed, isn’t that exactly the mentality that caused some young Americans to enlist after the 9/11 attack and be hailed as heroes: they attacked us on our soil, and so now I want to fight them? Yet when it’s the U.S. that is doing the invading and attacking, then we’re all supposed to look upon this very common reaction with mockery, horror, and disgust– look at these primitive religious fanatic Terrorists who have no regard for human life... Read more... US outed, and far from drawn down, by M K Bhadrakumar | Asia Times Online The United States-Pakistan relationship has reached a turning point reminiscent of the run-up to October 1958, when Washington encouraged General Ayub Khan's coup, apprehending the coming into power of an elected government in Pakistan that might have refused to collaborate as the US's Cold War ally against the Soviet Union. An innocuous-looking thing happened on Sunday - Pakistan regained possession of the Shamsi air base in Balochistan near the border with Iran after evicting the US military presence... Read more... Occupy protests shut down 2 Portland terminals, spread to Seattle | LA Times  Occupy protests targeting ports in California spread up through the Pacific Northwest on Monday, shutting down two main shipping terminals at the Port of Portland before leading to a boisterous march on the Port of Seattle... Tolstoy on War and State, by Vasko Kohlmayer | Lew Rockwell ...Already during his lifetime it was said that Tolstoy was a brilliant novelist but only an average philosopher. The latter part of this conventional wisdom is wrong. The truth is that in addition to being a genius story teller Lev Tolstoy was also a superb political theorist and philosopher... Read more... Dec 12, 2011 Aggression is closing in on Syria, by Ghali Hassan | Axis of Logic  The U.S. and its allies are preparing for aggression against Syria as part of the U.S.-Israel destabilisation agenda in the region. The pretext is, as usual, the “protection of civilians” and installing of Western-style “democracy”. In reality, nothing could be further from the truth. The aim is to topple the current Syrian government and replace it with a puppet government subservient to U.S.-Israel Zionist interests... Philip Giraldi: Antiwar Radio with Scott Horton | Antiwar Former CIA officer Philip Giraldi discusses his article “Washington’s Secret Wars;” Obama’s newly signed “findings,” authorizing covert operations to destabilize the Iranian and Syrian governments; how the US and Israel use the Baluch Jundallah, Kurdish PJAK and MEK groups to commit terrorism-by-proxy; the MEK’s energetic and well funded campaign to get de-listed as a terrorist group (in order to more easily commit terrorist acts); and how the 1996 neoconservative policy document “A Clean Break: A New Strategy for Securing the Realm” is going according to plan... Read more... Danielle Pletka: 'The Biggest Problem' For The U.S. Is Iran Not Using Nukes, by Eli Clifton | Think Progress The hawks on the American Enterprise Institute’s foreign policy team are usually quick to hype the threat of a nuclear Iran and warn anyone who will listen that a nuclear armed Iran would spell doomsday for Israel and regional stability in the Middle East. But Danielle Pletka, the vice president for foreign and defense policy studies at AEI now says that the problem with a nuclear weapons possessing Iran is that the world might accept it as a responsible, nuclear weapons possessing state... Read more... MEK: Washngton's Beloved Terrorists | YouTube [Actually, numero uno is Israel, but the MEK is a wannabe along the same lines. An utterly ruthless, malevolent cult.] Read more, watch video... Jeff Feltman Delivers his Annual Yuletide Gifts to Lebanon, by Franklin Lamb | Intifada Palestine  U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs Jeffrey Feltman Over the past few years, U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs Jeffrey Feltman has sledded into Lebanon bearing gifts during the Yuletide season more regularly than Santa Clause. Yet, as happened yesterday, he somehow manages to finish his gift giving and lift off to continue his rounds as The Grinch Who Stole Christmas...Newt Gingrich's Brilliant Insight about Palestinians | John Spritzler ...The solution to the Middle East conflict lies in applying Gingrich's brilliant insight to New Englanders inside the United States. Is New England a nation? Of course not. It never was. The phrase "New England" is just an invention, an informal way of referring to those Americans who happen to live in the so-called "New England" states of Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Connecticut. Just as "Palestinians" were merely subjects of the Ottoman Empire and never a real people called "Palestinians," New Englanders are really just Americans and were never a real people called "New Englanders." So-called "Palestinians" don't speak "Palestinianese"; they speak Arabic, like all other Arabs. Likewise so-called "New Englanders" don't speak "New Englandese"; they speak English, like virtually all other Americans... [Then the New Englanders could go to the UN and demand admission as a member state. Hey, I like this idea. It would correct a number of unfortunate compromises that were made during the Constitutional Convention that favored the slave-holding South and the states with small populations. John was being satirical, but he may have hit on something. Bring it on!] Read more... Mission in Afghanistan Failing on Every Front, by John Glaser | Antiwar ...This is a commendable job by al Jazeera journalist Sami Zeidan interviewing U.S. Army Lieutenant General and Commander of the NATO Training Mission William Caldwell. The Lt. Gen. stumbled and bumbled over the embarrassing hard facts Zeidan puts forth, and had no answers for most of the interview. The whole thing is well worth a watch, but what’s most notable about it is that I don’t know of a single established American journalist on network news that would ask such tough questions of a military commander... Read more... The choice for US voters in November 2012: ruin the Republican Party or the USA | Redress Information & Analysis ...Lawrence Davidson views the participants in the freak show of ignoramuses and bigots contending the US Republican presidential nomination and argues that the stark choice facing American voters in next year’s presidential election is either to ruin the Republican Party or their own country... Slavoj Zizek On OWS, Capitalism, Western Culture & Global Politics: The Charlie Rose Show | YouTube Watch video... The United States of Denial | Gilad Atzmon  ...Gingrich’s approach can be applied to every people in the region and beyond. The Libyans, Syrians, Egyptians, Pakistanis and Afghanis are all invented and should look for a new place to accommodate them. But it can also be applied to the current Western financial turmoil and ethical crisis. All we have to do is just to agree that the current crisis is ‘invented’. We should then close our eyes and hope that once we open them again, peace and prosperity would flourish... [If Gingrich were elected we might be laughed out of all the international organizations. Our allies would slink away out of disgust and humiliation. Hey, another good idea!] Netanyahu boasting about Manipulating America and derailing Oslo peace process | Gilad Atzmon In 2001 Netanyahu was talking to a family in the West Bank settlement of Ofra. While he thought the cameras weren't running he let his true colours really shine through and boasted about derailing the Oslo peace process, described American foreign policy as easily manipulated and said the only way to deal with the Palestinians was "beat them up, not once but repeatedly, beat them up so it hurts so badly, until it's unbearable".. Read more, watch video... Nakba Day: Return to Palestine | YouTube On the 15th of May of every year, Palestinians and the whole world remember how it all started. How the Israelis' ethnic cleansing of a people and the destruction of a society - the Nakba - was met with global indifference. Many factors made it so, but among them was a Zionist propaganda machine that presented the crime committed in Palestine in 1948 as a war of independence against aggressive Arabs and Palestinians... Read more, watch video... Dec 11, 2011 How about an Israeli destruction freeze? by Yousef Munayyer | Al Jazeera English  Many Palestinians have been left homeless after occupying ...The idea of a settlement freeze, which was wrongly attributed to the now-resigned special envoy George Mitchell, was actually stipulated in the Bush administration's Road Map and accepted by the parties in 2003. A freeze on all settlement activity was a first-phase Israeli obligation - not to mention an obligation under international law. It should go without saying that the Israelis failed to fulfill this obligation, and instead the Israeli government, then led by Ariel Sharon, presided over the single largest and most aggressive period of settlement activity in the West Bank since the Menachem Begin government in 1977-83...Israeli forces demolished their homes Read more... AIPAC Economic Warfare Also Targets US, by Grant Smith | Antiwar The American Israel Public Affairs Committee is trumpeting tough new sanctions against Iran’s Central Bank. This financial blockade will likely drive up global energy prices as Iran struggles to sell petroleum to wholesalers fearful of secondary boycotts. That the sources of this latest step toward US military action against Iran are mainly Israel lobbying groups or beneficiaries of their campaign finance network has been well-established... Read more... Bear nettles the eagle, dragon smiles, by M K Bhadrakumar | Asia Times Online From an apparently impromptu remark on Monday, the United States has elevated the Russian parliamentary election held on December 5 to a core issue of US-Russia ties. The dramatic escalation of rhetoric scatters the continued pretences over the Barack Obama administration's "reset" of relations. In a swift move, Beijing has also stepped forward to express understanding for Moscow. The faultlines will impact on the regional and international situation on a host of issues in the coming period... Read more... Obama Raises the Military Stakes: Confrontation on the Frontiers of China and Russia | James Petras After suffering major military and political defeats in bloody ground wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and failing to buttress long-standing clients in Yemen, Egypt and Tunisia and witnessing the disintegration of puppet regimes in Somalia and South Sudan, the Obama regime has learned nothing: instead he has turned toward greater military confrontation with global powers, namely Russia and China. Obama has adopted a provocative offensive military strategy on the very frontiers of both China and Russia... Read more... Latin America's message to the Arab world, by Pepe Escobar | Al Jazeera English  Dilma Rousseff was tortured in 1970 by the country's military junta The 22-year-old woman in the photo is about to be examined by a bunch of subtropical inquisitors. She has just been tortured, electrocuted and waterboarded - what Dick Cheney dismisses as "enhanced interrogation" - for 22 days. Yet she didn't break down.Today this woman, Dilma Rousseff, is the President of Brazil - the perennial "country of the future", the world's seventh-largest economy by purchasing power parity (ahead of the UK, France and Italy), a member of the BRICS, and exercising a soft power way beyond music, football and joy of living... Read more... Soft Spot: Afghan supply route reveals US frailty | YouTube NATO's recent deadly air attack on Pakistan has put the US mission in Afghanistan in danger with supplies cut-off, meaning Washington will soon have to turn to other transit states to keep its military effort going... Watch video... As if "the measure of a man is who we kill in the world" | Antiwar Col. Lawrence Wilkerson the former Chief of Staff to Colin Powell had a great interview on RT’s Alyona Show:.. Watch video (a Must Watch)... Who are they kidding? When Americans struggle to close the plausibility gap with Iran, by Paul Woodward | War in Context ...the Iranians clearly had an interest in giving U.S. officials and analysts plenty of time to make statements that could later be shown to be false. Given the difficulty that officials and experts have in uttering these simple words — I don’t know — it was predictable that the longer the Iranians kept quiet, the more often an American would say something stupid... Read more... Judonia Rising: What the Israel Lobby Really Is, by Joachim Martillo | EAAZI Joachim Martillo has written an important paper called Judonia Rising: The Israel Lobby and American Society, purporting to explain, "What the Israel Lobby Really Is". He spoke with Stephen Walt, of Walt and Mearsheimer fame, he followed the discussions of Philip Weiss, he corresponded with Noam Chomsky and Joseph Massad, he had read Israel Shamir's Pardes as well as James Petras' The Power of Israel in the United States, and he has had email exchanges with Kevin MacDonald. An American scholar, Martlllo has some Polish background, and he reads German, Yiddish, Hebrew, and Polish as well as some Arabic. In his view, understanding the Israel Lobby can be based only on a thorough hard-nosed ("non-exceptionalist") analysis of Eastern European Jewish history. This is a heretical view, very close to ours... ~ Israel Shamir Read more... Bankers are the dictators of the West, by Robert Fisk | The Independent  Writing from the very region that produces more clichés per square foot than any other "story" – the Middle East – I should perhaps pause before I say I have never read so much garbage, so much utter drivel, as I have about the world financial crisis... Read more... Obama the Provoker: America's Compulsive Need for War | Roy Tov Reading reports of current affairs on American and Western media is amusing. In typical arrogance, they present themselves as a professional body committed to balanced reports of the truth. Of course, this is utterly false. Can you remember the Taliban being allowed to insert just one line of their interpretation of the conflict in Western media? Western media have sold out to the Pentagon, the CIA, MI5, MI6, the Mossad, and similar terror organizations... Read more... #USConstitution: USA Rolling Update | Public Intelligence Blog Our veterans in particular, but all citizens generally, are beginning to realize that the US Government as well as State and local governments, are in violation of their constitutional charters more often than might be imagined. Today we begin a new Rolling Update focused on the Constitution of the United States of America, and also start a new Twitter tag. It is our view that respect for the Constitution, and the demand for Electoral Reform, go together... Read more... US Covert Operations Threaten War with Iran: Redrawing the Political Map of the entire Middle East, by Chris Marsden | Global Research Media reports are warning that the present covert conflict with Iran could end in a full-scale war, with devastating consequences for the Middle East and the world. Many have pointed to the obvious parallels with the campaign over “weapons of mass destruction” that paved the way for war with Iraq in 2003. Britain’s Daily Mail asked bluntly, “Has the West's war with Iran already begun? Mystery explosions at nuke sites, ‘assassinated’ scientists and downed drones fuel fears covert conflict is under way.” Writing in the Guardian, Seamus Milne was less equivocal. “War on Iran has already begun. Act before it threatens all of us,” ran his comment. “For months the evidence has been growing that a US-Israeli stealth war against Iran has already begun, backed by Britain and France.” Paul Vallely, in the Independent, was equally blunt, declaring, “War on Iran has begun. And it is madness.”.. [If there's anyone left who hasn't noticed, our "leaders" are mentally ill , and they caught this contagious disease from Tribal Jewry.] Read more...US Drug War Against Russia Waged From the Asian Foothold, by Nil Nikandrov | Strategic Culture Foundation The US intelligence community launched its first drug attacks against Russia in the early 1990ies, an epoch when drastic reforms were bleeding Russia's law enforcement agencies and the borders of the formerly insulated country became easy to cross for envoys of Western drug cartels. The Russian customs and border-guard services which inherited from the Soviet era a very limited experience of dealing with the drug threat were completely unprepared to face the challenge, and the shipments of cocaine and heroin started flowing easily into Russia from a distant continent. Weakening the country regarded as a potential enemy by spreading substance abuse among its population – the younger people, the military, the intellectuals – is a priority of the Empire which seeks to reduce Russia's human potential... [Needless to say, they have been doing this in Iran big time, ever since they've occupied Afghanistan.] Read more... Did a German Officer Prevent the Massacre of the Jews of Eretz Yisrael during World War I? | Israel Daily Picture  German General Falkenhayn on the Temple Mt with Jamal Pasha, "Falkenhayn and the German Staff need to be credited with having prevented an Ottoman genocide towards Christians and Jews in Palestine similar to the Armenian suffering. Wikipedia: 'His positive legacy is his conduct during the war in Palestine in 1917. As his biographer Afflerbach claims, "An inhuman excess against the Jews in Palestine was only prevented by Falkenhayn's conduct, which against the background of the German history of the 20th century has a special meaning, and one that distinguishes Falkenhayn."'"..Turkish governor of Syria and Palestine, 1916 Read more... Pakistani Editorial Says Nuclear War with India "Inevitable" as Water Dispute Continues, by John Daly | Dissident Voice Every now and again, one reads an editorial that stops the reader in his tracks. On 8 December, with the headline “War Inevitable To Tackle Indian Water Aggression,” Pakistan’s Urdu-language Nawa-e Waqt, issued such a screed. Nawa-e Waqt bluntly commented on India’s Kashmiri water polices and Islamabad’s failure up to now to stop New Delhi’s efforts to construct hydroelectric dams in Kashmir, “India should be forcibly prevented from constructing these dams. If it fails to constrain itself, we should not hesitate in launching nuclear war because there is no solution except this.”.. Read more... The Daily Show: The Republican Freak Show on Israel | Jews sans frontieres Watch video... Venezuela Responds to "Slanderous" Accusations Made by Israel's Vice Prime Minister | Venezuela Analysis The Venezuelan Government released an official communication yesterday denouncing accusations made against Venezuela by Israeli Vice Prime Minister Moshe Yaalon as “slanderous” and “abusive”. Yaalon accused Venezuela of working with Iran to create a “terrorist infrastructure” in Latin America that could “attack the interests of the United States or in the United States,” during his visit to Uruguay this week. The Venezuelan Government published the below statement regarding the comments... [Without any doubt, we shall overcome. Venceremos! ] Read more...Gingrich and Adelson Forge Alliance | Jewish Daily Forward  In the battle for the Republican pro-Israel vote, Newt Gingrich lacks Mitt Romney’s broad base of prominent Jewish donors. But he has something potentially more powerful: the support of one of Benjamin Netanyahu’s most significant American backers, and a relationship with the Israeli prime minister himself that stretches back decades. Billionaire casino mogul Sheldon Adelson, one of the wealthiest men in the world and a major donor to Jewish and conservative causes, is widely known as a Netanyahu stalwart. Less well known are his equally close ties to Gingrich, to whom he has been a major giver in recent years... [The Prince of Whoredom Wooing the Prince of Darkness] Read more...Lying for The Lobby, by Kim Petersen | Dissident Voice To gain political power, many politicians will say and promise whatever is necessary to — first — woo financial supporters and — second — woo voters (without alienating financial backers). United States president Barack Obama has promised “hope,” “change,” comprehensive healthcare reform, shutting down the Guantánamo gulag, the redeployment of US troops in Iraq, to take on the “fat cats” of Wall Street, and a host of other unfulfilled, ignored, insincere utterances.1 Obama is just one of many politicians throughout history who have learned that lies can sway masses of people... Read more... The West Aims to Turn the Entire Global South into a Failed State, by Dan Glazebrook | Dissident Voice The economic collapse that began in 2008, that was duly declared unpredictable and thoroughly unforeseen across the entire Western media, was, in fact, anything but. Indeed, the capitalist cycle of expansion and collapse has repeated itself so often, over hundreds of years, that its existence is openly accepted across the whole spectrum of economic thought, including in the mainstream – which refers to it, in deliberately understated terms, as the “business cycle”. Only those who profit from our ignorance of this dynamic – the billionaire profiteers and their paid stooges in media and government – try to deny it... Read more... How to solve the Israel-Palestine conflict | Norman G. Finkelstein Dr. Finkelstein’s 2011 UK lecture tour on solving the Israel-Palestine conflict... [Being a soft Zionist, he still doesn't advocate One State. But he'll get there yet.] Watch videos...Dec 10, 2011 Conceiving of a One-State Solution | Rabbibrian's Blog  ...If, as many are claiming, the two-state solution for Israelis and Palestinians is becoming less and less viable, what are the realistic prospects for one state where Jews and Palestinians live together as equal citizens?.. Read more... Romney Sells Out US Citizens and Jobs at Home in Favor of Israel, by Johnny Punish | Veterans Today Today Mitt Romney rapped President Obama before a group of Jewish Republicans on the issue of the U.S. relationship with Israel. Romney, who’s been sharply critical throughout the primary campaign of Obama’s handling of Israel, fired up attendees of the Republican Jewish Coalition at the group’s conference this morning in D.C. “I don’t think he understands America,” Romney said, and promised, as he did in the most recent debate: “I will travel to Israel on my first foreign trip. I will reaffirm as a vital national interest Israel’s existence as a Jewish state.”.. [Actually, he's not running for President of the US; he's seeking the presidency of the Prostitute's Union. But he has really stiff competition on both sides of the aisle.] Read more, watch video...Emails expose watchdog's dollar deals | RT Russian news website Life News has published emails it claims show correspondence between the US State Dept. and the Russian election watchdog Golos discussing payments for work done to discredit the results of Russia’s parliamentary vote... Read more... The Saudi Arab Spring Nobody Noticed, by Russ Baker | WhoWhatWhy Hear the one about the Arab Spring in Saudi Arabia that nobody noticed? No, this is not a joke. It is a real situation—and a cautionary example of what happens when Western governments and their media are more favorable to some “revolutions” than others... Read more... U.S not in a position to criticize Russian elections-expert: Interview with Rick Rozoff | Voice of Russia ...like [Hillary's] commander-in-chief, Barack Obama, who is from Chicago and is a product of the Chicago political machine. They are hardly in a position to complain about electoral fraud, and manipulation, and ballot box stuffing. They are products of the political machine that all but invented the process... Read more... Here Is The Drone | Moon of Alabama To bring down the most sophisticated U.S. stealth drone known nearly completely intact is something very few other countries would be able to achieve. A real technical feat... Read more, watch video... Is America's Military Prepared For The Israeli Threat? by Gordon Duff | Veterans Today  The American people are afraid, they see disaster coming. Everyone is waiting to see what city is chosen to be sacrificed. Will it be Phoenix or Sacramento or perhaps Atlanta? This is the real fear, the “not so secret” fear in the heart of every American... Read more... A Union is Born: Latin America in Revolution, by Eva Golinger | Global Research ...On December 2-3, 2011, the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) was born and the overwhelming force of a continent nearly 600 million strong, achieved a 200-year dream of unity. The 33 member nations of CELAC all agree on the unquestionable necessity to build a regional organization that represents their interests, and that excludes the overbearing presence of the US and Canada. While CELAC will take time to consolidate, the exceptional commitment evidenced by the 33 states present at its launching in Caracas, Venezuela, cannot be underestimated... Read more... Assyrians hold major meeting in Iran | PressTV The 28th Assyrian Universal Alliance Congress kicked off in Tehran on October 6th. Assyrian Christians from more than twenty countries participated in the event. High ranking government officials attended this six day event. Central office of the International Union of Assyrians was transferred from the United States to Iran on October, 2008. Iranian officials believe that this is good news. The Assyrians are happy with Iran as well... Read more, watch video... Nullification: The Rightful Remedy | YouTube ...Thomas Jefferson and James Madison warned us that if the feds ever became sole and exclusive arbiter of the extent of their own powers, those powers would always grow. They were right. The time is now - for the states to stand up and say NO!.. Read more, watch video... Be a Good Republican and Support Occupy Wall Street, by John Spritzler | Turn the World Upside Down ...By getting the government to bail them out of their bad debts, the bankers did what the OWS folks are accused of: "expect others to pay for their own foolish decisions." And boy did they! The combined Bush and Obama bailouts were estimated in July 2009 by Neil Barofsky, Special Inspector General of the Troubled Asset Relief Program, at $23.7 trillion dollars. The audacity of this mother of all freeloading is made even more evident by the fact that there was never any justification for it except the bankers' greed... Read more... Russian Foreign Minister: 'We won't let Syria become 2nd Libya' | Mathaba Russia will not allow the repetition of the Libyan scenario in Syria, Russian Foreign Minister, Sergey Lavrov, has said after a meeting with the Co-operation Council for the Arab States of the Gulf in Abu-Dhabi... Read more... Pakistan: Gateway to the Zionist Endgame, by Martin Iqbal | Empire Strikes Black Israel’s plan to eviscerate the Arab and Muslim states, eyes nuclear Pakistan as the final hurdle. In the wake of NATO’s deadly November 26 attack on Pakistan, the S.I.T.E. Intelligence Group rears its head to carry forward the Zionist deceptions... Read more... Are Neocons, Zionists Protesting Too Much? by Tom Valentine | Veterans Today  Evil radio power burst forth yesterday with what seemed to be a coordinated attack against Ron Paul. The hatred was as thick as the stupidity. Why? Rush Limbaugh was particularly vehement, and he is considered the Alpha dog of this Ilk... Read more... U.S. Politicians' Priority is Israel, by Bob Johnson | Veterans Today Actions speak louder than words. The actions of U.S. politicians let us know their number one concern is not their constituents. And it’s not America. Their number one concern is pleasing the very powerful Israel lobby... Read more... Human rights paper exposes Israeli violence against detained children | Aletho News Physicians for Human Rights (PHR)-Israel, Adalah center and Al-Mizan center for human rights issued a joint position paper against the extraction of false confessions under torture and extortion from Palestinian children and adolescents... Read more... Israel Behind Much Of Militarized Brutality Of US Police, by Muriel Kane | Free State Voice The extreme militarization of American police forces has been brought to public attention by the tactics employed against Occupy protesters, which often appear more appropriate to counter-terrorism operations than to the control of non-violent protest. According to investigative journalist Max Blumenthal, however, the proper term for this ruthless suppression of dissent should be "Israelification.".. Read more... What Israel's War Against Iran Would Look Like, by Richard Sale | Truthout For months, there have been rumors of a strike by Israel on Iran's nuclear facilities. The propaganda build-up is very similar to that directed against Saddam Hussein's Iraq in 2002. In both cases, an isolated state with limited military and physical resources is depicted as a horror that threatens to end the survival of the world, except, of course, that Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction (WMD) didn't exist... Read more... Shepherds' nights and more, by Mazin Qumsiyeh | Popular Resistance ...below you will find news article about Israeli soldiers harassing the family of our friend Saher Alsous, invitation to join us for Shepherds' nights, a video of the repression in Nebi Saleh demonstration last week (a friend was injured today also in Nebi Saleh with a canister shot at his head from close range), follow-up on US police brutality linked to Israeli apartheid police tactics, good news on boycotts, articles etc... Read more... Where's my friend? by Sam Bahour | Richard Forer ...Prime Minister Netanyahu, what kind of image of Israel and the Jewish people are you attempting to send to the world? Are you aware that the behavior of your government incites anti-Semitism throughout the world, just as the behavior of Islamic extremist groups incites Islamophobia? Are you aware that many of your fellow Jews are becoming more and more disgusted with policies that are designed to treat the Palestinian people as subhuman?.. Read more... Dec 9, 2011 George W. Bush cancels Switzerland visit over fears of arrest on torture charges | Mail Online  Former U.S. President George W. Bush has cancelled a visit to Switzerland over fears he could have been arrested on torture charges. Mr Bush was due to be the keynote speaker at a Jewish charity gala in Geneva on February 12... Read more... Making sense of the Russian elections | Israel Shamir ...The parliamentary elections were deemed in advance as a futile and vain exercise of no practical importance. “It does not matter how you vote, what matters is how they count”, pundits said. But the results were quite impressive and they point to great changes ahead. The Russians have said to communism: “Come back, all is forgiven.” They effectively voted to restore the Soviet Union, in one form or another. Perhaps this vote will not be acted upon, but now we know – the people are disappointed with capitalism, with the low place of post-Soviet Russia in the world and with the marriage of big business and government... Read more... War on Iran has already begun: Act before it threatens all of us, by Seumas Milne | The Guardian They don't give up. After a decade of blood-drenched failure in Afghanistan and Iraq, violent destabilisation of Pakistan and Yemen, the devastation of Lebanon and slaughter in Libya, you might hope the US and its friends had had their fill of invasion and intervention in the Muslim world. It seems not... Read more... Diskotel | Roy Tov  Mughrabi Bridge | Temple Mount, Jerusalem ...The word “diskotel” was coined by Yeshayahu Leibowitz by merging “kotel” with “discotheque.” In Hebrew, “kotel” means “wall,” and is the short referral form to the Western Wall in Jerusalem. “HaKotel HaMaaravi” – the Western Wall – is the full name. Using this phrase, Professor Leibowitz, an Orthodox Jew, made fun of the Jewish veneration of old stones in that site. According to his view, the orthodox Jews swaying in front of the Western Wall in pretentious prayer are nothing but dancing to a pagan idol...Read more... Washington's Secret Wars, by Philip Giraldi | Antiwar Following the widely reported Iranian government plot to assassinate the Saudi ambassador in Washington and alarming new reports of civilian deaths in Syria, the White House has issued several findings to the intelligence community authorizing stepped-up covert action against both Damascus and Tehran... Read more... Russia United, for the Time Being, by Eric Walberg | Palestine Chronicle ...With this election, the Communists have now recovered, almost doubling their vote to 20 per cent, an underestimate of their real support, given who has the money and who controls media and election procedures. “The Communists are the only real party out there,” admitted one Western banker in Moscow, and are now attracting even liberals disillusioned with UR... Read more... Why Our Wars of Choice May Prove Fatal, by William J. Astore | Counterpunch America’s wars are remote. They’re remote from us geographically, remote from us emotionally (unless you’re serving in the military or have a close relative or friend who serves), and remote from our major media outlets, which have given us no compelling narrative about them, except that they’re being fought by “America’s heroes” against foreign terrorists and evil-doers... Read more... World War III: The Launching of a Preemptive Nuclear War against Iran, by Michel Chossudovsky | Global Research  The launching of an outright war using nuclear warheads against Iran has been on the active drawing board of the Pentagon since 2005. If such a war were to be launched, the entire Middle East Central Asia region would flare up. Humanity would be precipitated into a World War III Scenario. World War III is not front-page news. The mainstream media has excluded in-depth analysis and debate on the implications of these war plans... Read more... Can British M.P.'s Withstand the Zionist Lobby, by Laura Stuart | Gilad Atzmon It came as no surprise today that Paul Flynn M.P. apologised for doubting the British Ambassador to Israel Matthew Gould's loyalty to Britain. It was also nothing new that Zionist blog comments stated that the apology was "forced and not genuine" or "not enough" or "not sincere", no one can ever satisfy the total submission to Israel demanded by Zionists... Read more... Militarizing the Borders: Drones Are Coming to a Theater Near You, by Tom Barry | Counterpunch “The UAVs, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles, are coming.” So says Candice Miller, the Republican congresswoman from northern Michigan borderlands. She should know. Miller chairs the Border and Maritime Security of the House Committee on Homeland Security, which oversees the Department of Homeland Security’s rush to deploy drones to keep the homeland secure... Read more... Dec 8, 2011  Here's the Key Question in the Libyan War, by Diana Johnstone | Counterpunch These days the humanitarian warriors are riding high, thanks to their proclaimed victory in Libya. The world’s only superpower, with moral, military and mercenary support from the democracy-loving emirate of Qatar and the historic imperialist powers, Britain and France, was unsurprisingly able to smash the existing government of a sparsely populated North African state in a mere seven months. The country has been violently “liberated” and left up for grabs... Read more... On the Avoidability of World War One, by Nicholas Kollerstrom | Inconvenient History On August 1, 1914, as dreadful war was breaking out in Europe, the German ambassador Prince Lichnowsky paid a visit to Britain’s Foreign Secretary Sir Edward Grey. Dr Rudolf Steiner commented as follows upon this meeting – in a 1916 lecture which he gave in Switzerland: ‘A single sentence and the war in the West would not have taken place.’.. Read more... A Revolution Against Resistance? by Ibrahim al-Amin | Al Akhbar English The foreign powers intervening in Syria to bring down President Bashar Assad want to speed things up. This has compelled oppositionists to show their hand, stripping them of yet more cards. It has long been clear that the most influential bloc in the Syrian offshore opposition had effectively joined forces with an American-led western alliance that is hostile to Arab resistance aimed at liberating occupied territory – whether from Israeli or American occupation... Read more... Former General: We'll Have to Bulldoze Gaza | Arutz Sheva Former IDF Major General Yoav Galant says Israel's negligence vis-a-vis Gaza will eventually force it to undertake a major ground offensive... [After Gaza... the world. After all, they have all the power and wealth of America at their disposal, and their paranoia is boundless.] Read more... An idiot's overview of why Western capitalism is crashing | Redress Information & Analysis Alan Hart argues that neglect of the impoverished 80 per cent of the world’s population – potentially a huge market for the West's consumer capitalism – by the richest nations, coupled with the shortsightedness, greed and stupidity of banking chiefs and deregulation of the banks and financial markets by Western politicians, are at the root of the crash of Western capitalism... [They may eventually plead insanity, but I don't think the Judge is going to buy it.] Read more...Prepare for War: The Insane Plan to Outlaw Diplomacy with Iran, by Dominic Tierney | The Atlantic  A woman walks past an anti U.S. mural at the former U.S. embassy in Tehran Working its way through the congressional digestive tract like a poison pill is one of the worst ideas in modern legislative history: a bill that would make it illegal to conduct diplomacy with Iran...Read more... Where Were You When They Crucified My Lord? by Chris Hedges | Truthdig The Occupy movement is the force that will revitalize traditional Christianity in the United States or signal its moral, social and political irrelevance. The mainstream church, battered by declining numbers and a failure to defiantly condemn the crimes and cruelty of the corporate state, as well as a refusal to vigorously attack the charlatans of the Christian right, whose misuse of the Gospel to champion unfettered capitalism, bigotry and imperialism is heretical, has become a marginal force in the life of most Americans, especially the young. Outside the doors of churches, many of which have trouble filling a quarter of the pews on Sundays, struggles a movement, driven largely by young men and women... Read more... The Apocalyptic Rabbi | Gilad Atzmon In the following video, popular Jewish preacher Rabbi Amnon Levy, warns world Jewry about the forthcoming apocalyptic war (Gog and Magog). You can hear all the necessary ingredients: The ‘Arabs want to throw us into the sea', Antisemitism will rise and Jews will be chased wherever they are... [These creatures from the dark past keep turning up like an army of orcs.] Read more, watch video...Disengaging from Zionism, by Kristoffer Larsson | Dissident Voice ...For most Jews, criticising Israel comes at a price – relatives and Jewish friends regard it as treason, they are accused of being self-hating, and in some cases even of paving the way for another Holocaust. But these stories are not mainly about the price they have to pay for their activism; it’s about their personal journeys that led them from being (in many cases) completely uncritical supporters of Israel and Zionism into defenders of Palestinian rights... Read more... Israel isn't good for the Jews anymore, by Philip Weiss | Mondoweiss It happened in the last week, or the last two years. A feeling has taken root deep in the American Jewish community that Israel is hurting us, hurting our standing in the world and our future. The restrictions on democracy, the curbs on women, the intransigence vis-a-vis the Palestinians when Obama has demanded movement, the indifference to the Arab Spring-- Israel is a society we no longer recognize as Jewish like we're Jewish, and worst of all, its militarism is exposing American Jews to the accusation that we are dually loyal. And we don't like that: We're Americans... Read more... War drums are beating for Iran. But who's playing them? by Terry Jones | The Guardian  Dwight D Eisenhower n the 14th century there were two pandemics. One was the Black Death, the other was the commercialisation of warfare. Mercenaries had always existed, but under Edward III they became the mainstay of the English army for the first 20 years of what became the Hundred Years war...Read more... Shocking Clip: Israeli Checkpoint Cruelty | YouTube "All of Ramallah is a jungle. There are monkeys, dogs, gorillas. The problem is that the animals are locked they can't come out. We're humans. They're animals. They aren't humans we are." - Israeli border police... [Shocking only to those who are unaware of what Israel really is; not shocking at all to our fearless leaders, whose principal allegiance, willingly or just pragmatically, is to that criminal state.] Read more, watch video...Israel's myth of invincibility drives a dangerous idea - attacking Iran, by by Annie Robbins | Mondoweiss ...fear of attack is not why Israel is so obsessed with Iran. The reason it pressures for an attack is to prop up 'national morale' because Israelis believe that their own safety is dependent on an iron wall... [The ghetto psychosis in just a few words] Read more... Declaration of Swiss Artists | bds-info When Israel, through the Culturescapes festival, conducts a wide public relations campaign in Switzerland, when the program Swiss Season invites Swiss artists to present their works in prestigious venues in Israel, the undersigned artists and cultural actors hereby express their rejection of the politics of the Israeli state, policies which, for over 60 years, violate the rights of the Palestinian people... Read more... Protesters Reflect Vast Majority on 99 Percent of Major Issues: America's Conscience is on the Streets, by Mark Weisbrot | Counterpunch The Occupy Wall Street movement that has spread to scores of cities claims to represent “the 99 percent.” Do they? Ninety-nine percent is perhaps too high a bar for public opinion. But the movement does represent the vast majority – who theoretically should be an important constituency in a democracy. And on many issues, they really do represent the interests of the 99 percent... Read more... Solzhenitsyn in Jerusalem, by Shlomo Avineri | Haaretz When a cabinet minister from Yisrael Beiteinu calls human rights groups 'terror organizations,' he is using the language of the Communist regime against dissidents, refuseniks and human rights campaigners... [Western liberals, who include the Ashkenazi Israelis, don't understand Solzhenitzyn, a Russian with deep spiritual roots, like Tolstoi. They are fundamentally anti-materialistic.] Read more...Israel stole uranium from U.S., report will show, by Kristin Dailey | Daily Star  A general view of the Solar Energy Development Center A U.S.-based research institute will soon publish what it says is “indisputable” evidence that Israel stole weapons-grade uranium for its still-undeclared atomic weapons program from a nuclear reprocessing plant in western Pennsylvania. The Institute for Research: Middle Eastern Policy (IRmep) will release this month a 300-page report detailing the initial findings of a multi-year research project investigating the disappearance of highly enriched uranium from the Nuclear Materials and Equipment Corporation (Numec) in Apollo, Pennsylvania in the 1950s and 1960s...Read more... OWS seeks genuine revolution in US: Interview with Paul Street | PressTV A prominent author says that the US Occupy movements are seeking to create a government that is independent of corporate and financial power- a new American Revolution... Read transcript, watch video... Clinton Turns to Naked Corporate-Fascism, by Tony Cartalucci | Prison Planet The Washington Post has recently reported in an article titled, “Hillary Clinton turns to think tankers for new Foreign Affairs Policy Board,” that the US State Department will from now on depend on permanent advisory drawn from the ranks of what it calls “think tank scholars.” The article also notes that this move is similar to the already existing Defense Policy Board at the Pentagon, and that this is an effort to make the US State Department more like the Defense Department... Read more... US rich dragging society into poverty: Interview with Jeff Gates | PressTV ...People notice something is intuitively wrong. And in the same way that the Civil Rights movement resulted in legislation, this will in time manifest into something more concrete. But it's important to remember this is what we call a “Mame” - an idea or a behavior that spreads from person to person in that mental environment. So shedding this down is going to be very difficult because people know when they're right something is fundamentally wrong... Read more, watch video... Iran attack to shake pillars of Israel | PressTV Press TV has interviewed Omar Nashabi, a judicial affairs expert from Beirut, to discuss how serious the Israel threats against Iran really are. The video offers the opinions of two additional guests: Mark Dankof, a political commentator and Philip Giraldi, who is a former CIA officer. What follows is the transcription of the interview... Read transcript, watch video... Dec 7, 2011  "Shadow War" Heating Up: War With Iran - A Provocation Away? by Tom Burghardt | Global Research ...Despite clear evidence that Israel and the United States have stepped-up their shadow war against the Islamic Republic, Defense Minister Ehud Barak "played down speculation on Saturday that Israel and U.S.-led allies were waging clandestine war on Iran, saying sanctions and the threat of military strikes were still the way to curb its nuclear program," Reuters reported. Proverbial "facts on the ground" however, tell a different tale. The latest attack on Iran's civilian nuclear program followed a blast two weeks ago at the sprawling Bid Ganeh missile base 25 miles west of Tehran... Read more... Crippling Iran: questions for UK Foreign Secretary William Hague | Redress Information & Analysis Stuart Littlewood asks British Foreign Secretary William Hague pertinent questions about his inexplicable hostility to Iran, and argues that if Hague's aim “is to help preserve the balance of power in the Middle East so that a lawless, racist regime – Israel – remains the dominant threatening military force, he must be called to explain the wisdom of it”.. Read more... Arab League Action Reflects Regional Rivalry, by Ramzy Baroud | Palestine Chronicle ...Gaddafi, on the other hand, had one of his freest platforms to express ideas almost never communicated on a stage defined by tedious formalities and little action. In addition to criticising the Arabs for doing nothing as the US invaded and destroyed Iraq, Gaddafi asked: “Where is the Arabs’ dignity, their future, their very existence? Everything has disappeared … Our blood and our language may be one, but there is nothing that can unite us … We hate each other, we wish ill of each other and our intelligence services conspire against each other. We are our own enemy”.. Read more... The Obama Regime Has No Constitutional Scruples, by Paul Craig Roberts | Lew Rockwell ...the US Constitution had been shredded by the failure of the US Senate to protect American citizens from the detainee amendment sponsored by Republican John McCain and Democrat Carl Levin to the Defense Authorization Bill. The amendment permits indefinite detention of US citizens by the US military. I also gave my opinion that the fact that all but two Republican members of the Senate had voted to strip American citizens of their constitutional protections and of the protection of the Posse Comitatus Act indicated that the Republican Party had degenerated into a Gestapo Party. These conclusions are self-evident, and I stand by them... Read more... 64th Anniversary: War, Ethnic Cleaning Unleashed, by William James Martin | We Hold These Truths  Imagine the terror and horror they must have felt as they were pushed to the sea November 29, 1947 was the date the UN passed the Partition Resolution partitioning Palestine, more or less equally, into a Jewish and an Arab state. In fact, the ethnic cleansing commenced the very next morning when the 75,000 Arab citizens of Haifa were subjected to a campaign of terror jointly by the terrorist group, the Irgun, under Manachem Begin, and the Haganah, the regular militia under David Ben Gurion. The Jewish settlers who had arrived during the previous decade had built their homes higher up the mountain and thus occupied a higher topographical space. From the superior height, they could snipe at the villagers at will. They began doing this while the Jewish troops rolled barrels of burning oil down their roads and then ignited them. When the terrified residents came out to try to extinguish the rivers of fire, they were sprayed with machine gun fire...[I am always appalled when an Israeli Prime Minister complains about "tewowism," as Sharon and Peres used to call it. Netanyahu, of course, lies in perfect American English, Hahvad educated and all...] Read more...The Great Famine and Genocide in Persia, 1917-1919, by Mohammad Gholi Majd | Amazon Using recently declassified U.S. State Department archives, Mohammad Gholi Majd describes the rampant tyranny and destruction of Iran in the decades between the two world wars in a sensational yet thoroughly scholarly study that will rewrite the political and economic history of the country. The book begins with the British invasion of Iran in April 1918 and ends with the Anglo-Russian invasion in August 1941. Though historians are aware of the events that ensued, until now they have had no written evidence of the dreadful magnitude of the activities... [Then the US replaced Great Britain as the aptly named Great Satan] Read more...American Jews shocked as essence of Zionism is exposed | +972 There was nothing particularly new about the ads which so shocked American Jewry. They simply exposed a face of Zionism most American Jews would rather not see... [It's about time American (and British and Canadian and Australian Jews, et al) woke up, at least just a little bit.] Read more...Open Debate: Their Deadliest Enemy! | Uprooted Palestinians ...The above article is only but one example that shows clearly that the deadliest enemy of Zionists is and has always been: open debate. But who would fear open debate, unless facts pose threat to them? Who would want to work in secrecy, unless transparency causes them harm and damage? Scrutinizing for example an organization such as the Anti Defamation League, (ADL) exposes that one of it's major roles (under the pretext of fighting anti-semitism) is to prevent open debate and block intellectual discussion... Read more... Israel Camouflages Jerusalem | Roy Tov ...Jerusalem's city council member, Meretz's Meir Margalit (a “kosher” Jew), publicly said on this issue: "This national park is a farce. There's nothing there but rocks and thorns, certainly nothing to justify a national park. The only reason for such a plan is to seize lands and hold them as a reserve for a future settlement, while suffocating the Palestinian neighborhoods." Probably, one of the few things Jews and Palestinians agree at this stage is on the purpose of this evil project. Israel is camouflaging Jerusalem. “The entire world is against us!” said Netanyahu at this stage. “Bring me another execution order, I’ll sign it now!”.. Read more... Confessions of a "modern anti-Semite" | Truth Jihad  ...we anti-Zionists, who are of course anti-Semites in disguise, strongly support EVERY ethnic and/or religious group that wants to travel thousands of miles to genocidally invade and occupy someplace that their ancient mythology tells them is their "original homeland." But for some reason we don't want to let the Jews do it. Why not? Because we hate Jews, of course... [Shalom, m-fs.] Read more...Iran Reportedly Prepares for Attack, by Kurt Nimmo | Prison Planet “There is deep concern within the senior leadership of the Iranian regime that they will be the target of a surprise military strike by either Israel or the US.,” a senior Western intelligence official told the newspaper. The developments follow the destruction of a missile base outside of Tehran last month. It was reported that Israeli intelligence was responsible for the attack that almost completely destroyed the base and crippled Iran’s ballistic missile program... Read more... 'Israel knows it can drag US into war': Interview with Phillip Giraldi | PressTV A former CIA officer believes the White House has no interest in a war with Iran and so Israel is now marketing a 'mindset change' to the American people... [So what is Jehovah waiting for? According to the Prophets, He has always threatened the Jews with destruction when they switched their allegiance to Satan. Maybe he's giving them a little more rope?] New Report on Israel Restricting Free Expression and Assembly | Stephen Lendman The Association for Civil Rights in Israel assesses Israel's human and civil rights record annually. Its newly released 2011 report cites increasing crackdowns on basic freedoms... Read more... Five things you can do right now to help stop the economic plundering of our world, by Mike Adams | Natural News The economic plundering of our world is well under way, with the Goldman Sachs "white shoe boyz" taking over entire national economies as they confiscate the wealth of the working class. They aren't the only evildoers wreaking havoc across the world, of course: A cabal of powerful and criminally-insane corporations are destroying the future of food, plotting to keep citizens suffering from disease, and even perpetuating war so they can earn obscene profits from selling more bullets, bombs and missiles... Read more... Unmasking Gershom Gorenberg, historian and apologist for ethnic cleansing, by Stephen Maher | The Electronic Intifada  The expulsion of Palestinians for the benefit of Jewish settlement is still ongoing ...By relentlessly placing the blame on a few “crazed” right-wing groups and the whims of fate, Gorenberg exculpates Zionism as such from responsibility for its brutal colonial history and leaves room for some “good Zionists,” who can doubtless count him among their number. In Gorenberg’s version of events one can detect the revenge of the “old historians,” mediated through several decades of the revisionists...Read more... 'Occupy' Protesters Listed As Domestic Terrorists, by Paul Joseph Watson | Prison Planet Occupy London demonstrators have been listed as domestic terrorists by the City of London Police, who characterized them in the same context as Al-Qaeda, the Colombian FARC and Belarusian terrorists who bombed the Minsk underground... Read more... Do Jews live with "animal fear in Muslim states"? | Rehmat's World ...Yuri’s claim of “persecution and pogroms” was best answered by Iraqi-born Jewish author Naeim Giladi (died 2010), an Israel-US citizen in his article ‘The Jews Of Iraq‘. In the article, as a former member of an underground Zionist terrorist group in Iraq, he says that “the Jews from Islamic lands did not emigrate willingly to Israel; that, to force them to leave, Jews killed Jews; and that, to buy time to confiscate ever more Arab lands, Jews on numerous occasions rejected genuine peace initiatives from their Arab neighbors. I write about what the first prime minister of Israel called “cruel Zionism“. I write about it because I was part of it“... Read more... Unequal under the law: Interview with Ilan Pappé | Socialist Worker For decades, Israel has waged war against Palestinians with the blessing of the world's chief powers in Western Europe and North America. Though the issues involved and the names of the players changed over the years, little else seemed to - until recently... Read more... Is the war on terror a complete hoax? Paul Craig Roberts reveals how social engineers infected America with mass paranoia, by Mike Adams | Natural News What if there weren't any real terrorists threatening America and the whole thing was just made up to justify a military agenda? A rational person might say that if we're all going to give up our rights, and our Fourth Amendment, and have U.S. troops in the streets running checkpoints, then logically there should at least be some evidence that America has been infiltrated with terrorists, right? Or, more specifically, evidence from a reliable source that has not already been caught lying about terrorism, which would exclude the federal government, of course... [The simple answer: You betcha!] Read more...Israel's war of attrition, waged on non-Jews | AIC  The East Jerusalem neighborhood of Silwan ...There is something torturous about living with uncertainty, with a sword dangling over one's head. Whether that sword be eviction from one's home or deportation from the country--it's a reminder that one is not the master of his fate, that his life is in someone else's hands. It's a psychological war of attrition...Read more... Iran is not Iraq, by Yvonne Ridley | Information Clearing House I felt quite uneasy when our man in Tehran, Dominick Chilcott, said the attack on the British Embassy was state-supported. What doesn't he understand about people power? Surely he should have learned a lesson from the Arab Spring that when angry people rebel it's impossible to stop them. To say the Iranian police stood by and did nothing when our embassy was attacked is a bit like accusing the London Metropolitan Police of deliberately looking the other way while students trashed the Tory Party’s HQ. It’s not that easy to control rampaging masses who are hell bent on venting their anger... Read more... 'Human Rights' and the Road to Hell: Libya and Now Syria? by Jeremy Salt | Palestine Chronicle ...if there is anything that characterizes this document, it is the lack of attention to fact. The report is based on accusations, allegations and claims against the Syrian government which it does not even attempt to verify. It repeats the claim that the Syrian government's security forces are responsible for the deaths of 3500 people - the figure usually given - when there is strong prima facie evidence that a large number of the dead, civilians as well as soldiers, have been the victims of armed gangs operating across the country... Read more... Extremist settlers hurl blocks at Hebron's Old Market, by Andrew Michaels | International Solidarity Movement Settlers from Avraham Avino targeted Palestinians in the Old Souq in Hebron during the Saturday market on December 3rd 2011. At approximately 11 AM Five unmasked settlers, aged around 20-30, threw concrete blocks down from a roof above the Old City at the booths outside of the shops, and at the people passing. The blocks were of considerable size – each weighing around 5-10 kilos. As they were thrown from a height of eight meters, anyone hit would be severely maimed or killed. Some of the blocks became lodged in the roof above the shops while some landed in the street... Read more... 'Racist Discourse' in Israeli Text Books | Aletho News Alternate Focus interviews Nurit Peled-Elhanan, author of the forthcoming book Palestine in Israeli School Books: Ideology and Propaganda in Education. Nurit Peled-Elhanan argues that the textbooks used in the school system are laced with a pro-Israel ideology, and that they play a part in priming Israeli children for military service. 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... Dec 6, 2011 George Orwell on the Evil Iranian Menace, by Glenn Greenwald | Salon The U.S. has long had Iran virtually encircled as a result of the American occupation of Afghanistan on Iran's Eastern border, its invasion of Iraq on its Western border, its NATO ally Turkey hovering on Iran's Northwestern border, some degree of military relationship with Turkmenistan on Iran's Northeastern border, and multiple U.S. client states sitting right across the Persian Gulf (Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, the UAE, and Bahrain, where the massive U.S. Fifth Fleet is stationed). Additionally, some combination of the U.S. and Israel has bombarded Iran with multiple acts of war over the last year.. Read more... War With Iran: A Provocation Away? by Tom Burghardt | Dissident Voice Amid conflicting reports that a huge explosion at Iran's uranium conversion facility in Isfahan occurred last week, speculation was rife that Israel and the United States were stepping-up covert attacks against defense and nuclear installations. The Isfahan complex transforms mined uranium into uranium fluoride gas which is then "spun" by centrifuges that enrich it into usable products for medical research and for Iran's civilian nuclear energy program... Read more... Once again, war is prime time and journalism's role is taboo | John Pilger On 22 May 2007, the Guardian's front page announced: "Iran's secret plan for summer offensive to force US out of Iraq." The writer, Simon Tisdall, claimed that Iran had secret plans to defeat American troops in Iraq, which included "forging ties with al-Qaida elements". The coming "showdown" was an Iranian plot to influence a vote in the US Congress. Based entirely on briefings by anonymous US officials, Tisdall's "exclusive" rippled with lurid tales of Iran's "murder cells" and "daily acts of war against US and British forces". His 1,200 words included just 20 for Iran's flat denial... Read more... War on Iran has begun. And it is madness, by Paul Vallely | The Independent ...There is something deeply disquieting about the deterioration in relationships between the West and Iran in recent days. William Hague was well within existing protocol to expel all Iran's diplomats from Britain after a mob sacked the British embassy in Tehran. But what is proper is not always wise... Read more... Panetta: Israel & Palestine must 'Get to the Damn Bed', by Dr Ashraf Ezzat | Intifada Palestine  In remarks made at the Brookings Institution in Washington on Friday, Panetta said: "The problem right now is we can't get them [Israel's leaders] to the damn table to at least sit down and begin to discuss their differences... [Q: Which one of them is Judas? A: Neither of them is the slightest bit Christlike; they're both servants of the other guy] Read more...Desperate Dershowitz | Gilad Atzmon In a recent TV appearance, in a mere seven minutes the notorious Zionist mouthpiece, manages to exhibit just about every single ugly Hasbara symptom... Read more, watch video... Holocaust Denial and Anti-Semitism, by Richard A. Widmann | Inconvenient History ...The article concludes with the statement that Rosenthal managed to get from the imams bearing witness to the tragedy of the Holocaust. It all sounds neat and tidy, except of course that anyone who has bothered to look into the Holocaust story at all understands that millions were not systematically murdered at Dachau and Auschwitz. No historians of the revisionist or orthodox schools have made this claim for decades. Ultimately it is exactly such distortions and anti-German statements that motivate many who seek to revise the history of the Holocaust in light of the facts.. Read more.... Donald Trump Dismisses Ron Paul as "Joke Candidate", by Kurt Nimmo | Prison Planet  ...Ron Paul has consistently opposed foreign aid - not just to Israel, but all foreign countries. "No foreign aid should exist. Foreign aid is taking money from poor people in rich countries and giving it to rich people in poor countries," he said during the CBS establishment media event last month... Read more, watch video... 'US makes money by waging wars': Interview with Linh Dinh | PressTV A political observer believes that one of the main objectives of the United States in waging wars around the world and especially in the Middle East region is to do business and make money... Read transcript, watch video... When Peace is Not in the Vocabulary: Endless Needless Deaths, by Linh Dinh | Counterpunch Bush started shooting into Pakistan in 2004, and Obama has continued this bloody practice, culminating recently in the massacre of 24 Pakistani soldiers, with 13 more wounded. The attack lasted for hours, yet afterward, the US claimed it was all an accident. Hillary Clinton expressed regrets, Obama offered condolences, but no American official apologized, since the US doesn't do apologies. Accusing Pakistan of supporting terrorists who are killing Americans, McCain threatened to cut back aid. As for those Pakistani soldiers, they were regrettably killed in "the fog of war.".. Read more... Is Israel guilty of the crime of apartheid? by Richard Falk | Al Jazeera English  It is my belief that the recent finding of the Russell Tribunal on Palestine (RToP) that the state of Israel is guilty of the crime of apartheid in relation to the Palestine people should be taken with the utmost seriousness by all those who affirm human solidarity and care about making visible the long ordeal of a suffering and vulnerable people... Read more... Jewish groups demand Obama action over Belgium envoy's anti-Semitism remarks | Haaretz Some Jewish groups and others were demanding Sunday that United States President Barak Obama take action against his ambassador to Belgium, following comments the envoy made to the effect that Israel's political positions serve as some sort of explanation for anti-Semitism amongst Muslims... [Duh?] Read more...US Meddling in Russia: In Their Own Words, by Tony Cartalucci | Activist Post Before reading the following "interests" the United States government (with US tax money) is pursing within the sovereign Russian Federation, it may be instructive to know just who constitutes the National Endowment for Democracy, the umbrella organization that funds a literal army of global sedition... Read more, watch video... The Pentagon Is Offering Free Military Hardware To Every Police Department In The US, by Robert Johnson | Business Insider  The US military has some of the most advanced killing equipment in the world that allows it to invade almost wherever it likes at will. We produce so much military equipment that inventories of military robots, M-16 assault rifles, helicopters, armored vehicles, and grenade launchers eventually start to pile up and it turns a lot of these weapons are going straight to American police forces to be used against US citizens... Read more... Fun Ways to Kill Palestinians | Mantiq al-Tayr Let's start off with a video. Being a Zionist means never having to say you are sorry... Read more, watch videos... In Bed With Lola and Gulnara | Craig Murray The Afghanistan conference in Bonn is a farce. There are no representatives of the Afghan resistance to the occupation, so it is not negotiating peace. Karzai's corrupt and effete presidency, obtained by massive electoral fraud, expires in 2014. It is no coincidence that immediately after that the NATO troops will leave. Be guaranteed that none of the Karzai family will remain in Afghanistan, but will rather retire to Switzerland with the many billions of dollars they have looted from UK and US taxpayers' funds, and made from the heroin trade... Read more... Black Humor Dept: Afghans Say They Need Aid for at Least Another Decade | NYT  As dozens of nations and organizations met here on Monday to plan a transition beyond the withdrawal of American and other international forces from Afghanistan in 2014, the Afghan government had a new deadline in mind: 2024... [Well, somebody has to protect the heroin trade and launder the profits.] Read more...The other Israel [full documentary] | YouTube Ted Pikes excellent documentary that exposes Israel for what it truly is... Watch video... Humor Dept: After Jailhouse Bar Mitzvah, Rabbi Is Fined for Accepting a Gift | NYT If you can't bring the father to the bar mitzvah boy, then bring the bar mitzvah boy to the father. That was the thinking behind the plan to hold a jailhouse celebration for the son of Tuvia Stern. Mr. Stern was being held on fraud charges, and his bid for a furlough to attend the 2008 party had been denied. (His stint as a fugitive from the case - in South America, no less - apparently gave a judge pause.).. Read more... Dec 5, 2011 The "Free Syria Army": Placard-Waving Protesters are Actually Machine Gun-Wielding Terrorists, by Tony Cartalucci | Intifada Palestine  The “Free Syria Army” is literally an army of militant extremists, many drawn not from Syria’s military ranks, but from the Muslim Brotherhood, carrying heavy weapons back and forth over the Turkish and Lebanese borders, funded, supported, and armed by the United States, Israel, and Turkey. The latest evidence confirming this comes in the form of a report out of the International Institute for Strategic Studies which clearly states that Syria’s opposition is armed and prepared to drag Syria into more violence... Read more... Zionist lobbies demonizing Ron Paul: Interview with Mark Dankof | PressTV Press TV talks with Mark Dankof, former US Senate candidate in San Antonio who compares Ron Paul's rising popularity and clear and principled rhetoric to 1990s presidential candidate Pat Buchanan, also against the Israeli lobby, who was systematically attacked and brought down by Zionist-controlled US media... Read transcript, watch video... Prepping Americans for an Iran War, by William Blum | Consortium News There’s no letup, is there? The preparation of the American mind, the world mind, for the next gala performance of D&D — Death and Destruction. The Bunker Buster bombs are now 30,000 pounds each one, six times as heavy as the previous delightful model. But the Masters of War still want to be loved; they need for you to believe them when they say they have no choice, that Iran is the latest threat to life as we know it, no time to waste... Read more... A Tireless Advocate of Justice for Palestinians | Al Manar  he encirclement of Syria and Lebanon has long been in the works. Since 2001, Washington and NATO have started the process of cordoning off Lebanon and Syria.The permanent NATO presence in the Eastern Mediterranean and the Syrian Accountability Act are part of this initiative. It appears that this roadmap is based on a 1996 Israeli document aimed at controlling Syria.The documents name is A Clean Break: A New Strategy for Securing the Realm... Read more... The whistleblower as hero | Redress Information & Analysis Lawrence Davidson argues that in the contemporary environment where editors and reporters value the prestige of being associated with important centres of power more than the truth and where media enterprises put profit ahead of factual accuracy, the role of the whistleblower has become essential... Read more... Gilad Atzmon on Mark Glenn's Radio Show This is a very interesting podcast. We spoke about the ideology that drives the Jewish Lobby, the tribal continum between hard core Zionism and the so-called Jewish anti Zionism, anti Semitism and more... Listen... From Occupation to "Occupy": The Israelification of American Domestic Security, by Max Blumenthal | Al Akhbar English  A University of California Davis police officer pepper-sprays students ...The Israelification of America’s security apparatus, recently unleashed in full force against the Occupy Wall Street Movement, has taken place at every level of law enforcement, and in areas that have yet to be exposed. The phenomenon has been documented in bits and pieces, through occasional news reports that typically highlight Israel’s national security prowess without examining the problematic nature of working with a country accused of grave human rights abuses. But it has never been the subject of a national discussion. And collaboration between American and Israeli cops is just the tip of the iceberg...Read more... Rense & Texe Marrs: Kosher Candidates Put Israel First | YouTube A six minute excerpt about the despicable candidates... Watch video... Kristol accuses Obama of wanting the Jewish state to disappear, by Philip Weiss | Mondoweiss Right after sundown this evening, the neoconservative Emergency Committee for Israel issued a strident attack on DefSec Leon Panetta for his statement at the Saban Forum yesterday that Israel has to "get to the damn table." Bill Kristol said that Obama blames Israel for all the problems of the Middle East: "The Obama message is loud and clear: the world would be a safer, simpler, and more peaceful place if not for the troublesome Jewish state.".. [If he ever actually said anything like that - the truth, that is - I would urgently warn him to avoid any and all grassy knolls. But it ain't gonna happen.] Read more...Dec 4, 2011 Obama and Israel's Security, by Alan Hart | Intifada Palestine  If American election campaign funders who support Israel right or wrong formed a circle and demanded that President Obama stand naked in the middle of it while they sang Hava Nagila (“Let us rejoice”), I am sure he would agree to do so... Read more... Israeli settlers harass released prisoners, threaten them with death, by Brendan Work | The Electronic Intifada When olive season came to the northern West Bank village of Tell, the Ramadan family could be found spreading tarps underneath trees and thwacking down the high-hanging fruits with sticks. The talk was of cousins Khwaylid and Nizar Ramadan, two native sons freed from Israeli military prison as part of mid-October’s prisoner swap deal and exiled to the Gaza Strip and Qatar, respectively. Then, the day after the swap, a group of Israeli settlers put up wanted posters of the Ramadan cousins on Facebook: $100,000 would be paid for information leading to the death or capture of each... Read more... American Enterprise Institute Admits The Problem With Iran Is Not That It Would Use Nukes, by MJ Rosenberg | Political Correction Suddenly the struggle to stop Iran is not about saving Israel from nuclear annihilation. After a decade of scare-mongering about the second coming of Nazi Germany, the Iran hawks are admitting that they have other reasons for wanting to take out Iran, and saving Israeli lives may not be one of them. Suddenly the neoconservatives have discovered the concept of truth-telling, although, no doubt, the shift will be ephemeral... Read more... Lobby: 'Attacking Federal Reserve is anti-Semitism' | Rehmat's World Both Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas) and Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) have angered Jewish groups for calling for audits of the privately-owned Frederal Reserve, formed by an act of Congress in 1913 as a way of stabilizing the banking industry. Now, Rep. Dennis Kucinich has tabled the NEED Act 2011 which will place the Federal Reserve under control of US Treasury. It will also implement new rules for the financial industry to narrow-down the gap between the 1% vs 99% American population... Read more, watch video... Egypt: El Baradei Outed by Own Movement as Western Stooge, by Tony Cartalucci | Land Destroyer Now almost a year after the US-engineered "Arab Spring" began, it seems protest leader Mohamed ElBaradei has predictably outlived his usefulness, albeit much sooner than expected. According to Egypt's Almasry Alyoum, a member of El Baradei's own National Front for Change, Mamdouh Hamza, has outed him as "having strong ties to Zionist institutions" and sitting directly on the board of trustees of George Soros' International Crisis Group. El Baradei, who has been fighting similar (and true) accusations for months, is now facing perhaps an irrevocable setback emanating from within his own movement... Read more... It's Pentagon/NATO versus the BRICS, by Pepe Escobar | Al Jazeera English  BRICS countries have become increasingly wary of NATO interventions Few may have noticed when, last week, US State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland cryptically announced that Washington "would cease carrying out certain obligations under the Conventional Armed Forces in Europe Treaty with regard to Russia". Translation: Washington will not inform Russia from now on about the redeployment of its global armada. The Pentagon's worldwide "repositioning" strategy is now supposed to be a secret. Some essential background is in order...Read more... Suddenly It's Newt, by Alexander Cockburn | Counterpunch Slapstick depends on repetition. The clown always slips in the pile of elephant crap, inevitably walks into the ladder. By such standards Mitt Romney is now the undisputed slapstick king of America. About every four to six weeks the pundits shout out in unison, “That’s it. Finally. It’s a wrap for Romney!” But then, a week later here’s the pile of elephant crap, there’s the ladder, and down goes Mitt... Read more... Jon Stewart on Secret Federal Reserve Bailout of Big Banks | Washington's Blog Not a Laughing Matter: Fed Throws Trillions at U.S. and Foreign Banks in Secret … Hides from Congress... Read more, watch video... The American Liberty League vs. Gen. Smedley Butler: Wall Street's Failed 1934 Coup, by Michael Donnelly | Counterpunch ...FDR was never able to bring any of the plotters to justice. He wasn’t even able to rein in Prescott Bush until 1942 when the government seized the assets of Bush’s pro-Nazi enterprises – garnering Bush a $1.5 million windfall once the assets were returned in 1951! It’s obvious that the fascist mindset of the “economic royalists” has never gone away and is the driving force behind the modern-day ascent (and the ultimate demise of) of the American Empire, the attacks on worker’s rights and pensions, the attacks on our minimal safety nets... Read more... We Are All Palestinians | Gilad Atzmon  ...Dominated by a Zionist power structure and ideology, with 80% of our leading party’s MPs being Conservative Friends of Israel (CFOI), our media editorials being controlled by BICOM, and our country having been involved in criminal wars to serve Israeli interests - we are indeed, all Palestinians. So, like Palestinians, we also need to be liberated... Read more... The ACLU and Occupy Wall Street, by PeterWhite | Counterpunch ...Whatever the differences between the 99%ers and the ACLU lawyers who are defending them in court, it is clear they both need each other now and they probably will continue to work together whatever lies ahead... Read more... US Constitution repealed by traitorous Senators: 'Republican party now the Gestapo party', by Mike Adams | Natural News ...Yesterday as part of the National Defense Authorization Act, the U.S. Senate voted to repeal the Constitution and its Bill of Rights by authorizing the U.S. military to operate on U.S. soil, conduct secret kidnappings of American citizens and throw them in secret military prisons where they will be "legally" tortured, interrogated and murdered... Read more... The Shadow War in Syria, by Pepe Escobar | Dissident Voice Target Syria — the strategic prize that outstrips Libya. The stage is set. The stakes couldn’t be higher. Libya 2.0 equals Syria? It’s more like Libya 2.0 remix. With the same R2P (“responsibility to protect”) rationale — starring civilians bombed into “democracy.” But with no UN Security Council resolution (Russia and China will veto it). Instead, Turkey shines, fanning the flames of civil war... Read more... UK lawmaker under fire For Telling The Truth | Gilad Atzmon ...MP Paul Flynn has been accused of making anti-Semitic remarks after questioning whether the British ambassador to Israel should be Jewish. Flynn added: “I do not normally fall for conspiracy theories, but the ambassador has proclaimed himself to be a Zionist.”.. Read more... 9 Final Ways The Bankster Occupied U.S. Government Is Waging War Against America, by Saman Mohammadi | The Excavator  There is a dictatorship of the mind and spirit in America. The official ideology of the U.S. totalitarian state is counter-terrorism and national security. All domestic and foreign crimes are justified under the umbrella of security and defense. The false flag September 11 attacks served as the catalyst that brought this totalitarian ideology into being on a world stage... Read more... America Lurches Toward Full-Blown Tryanny | Stephen Lendman Post-9/11, America's moved steadily toward eroding democracy entirely. Justification given is war on terror hokum. Incrementally, international, constitutional and statute laws have been trashed. Equity, justice and other democratic values long ago were abandoned to advance America's imperium. On May 26, the House voted to abolish freedom entirely... Read more... New report suggests Israel linked to Irangate scandal, by Yitzhak Benhorin | Israel News (Ynet) New documents regarding the Iran–Contra affair revealed a possible Israeli link to the political scandal that rocked Washington in 1986... Read more... Globalists created Wahhabi Terrorism to Destroy Islam and Justify a Global State, by David Livingstone | Global Research ...the Globalists have had a hand in shaping and financing all the terrorist organizations of the twentieth century, including the Muslim Brotherhood of Egypt, Hamas of Palestine and the Afghan Mujahideen. But the history of their duplicity dates farther back still, to the 18th Century, when British Freemasons created the Wahhabi sect of Saudi Arabia itself, to further their imperialistic objectives... Read more... The West's Decline In Courage, by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1978) | Rumor Mill A decline in courage may be the most striking feature which an outside observer notices in the West in our days. The Western world has lost its civic courage, both as a whole and separately, in each country, each government, each political party, and of course in the United Nations. Such a decline in courage is particularly noticeable among the ruling groups and the intellectual elite, causing an impression that the loss of courage extends to the entire society... Read more... IAEA Exposed as Israeli Spy Front, by Gordon Duff | Veterans Today  ...The IAEA (International Atomic Energy Agency), a “quasi-official” group is, in fact, an Israeli intelligence organization, long infiltrated, long engulfed, long ago a force for propaganda and, primarily, an organization tasked with helping Israel “hide” its nuclear arsenal “in plain sight” while fabricating evidence... Read more... The Guardian Protects Gould-Werritty | Craig Murray ...The importance of the Fox-Gould-Werritty scandal is that it lifts the lid on the fact that the move to war with Iran is not a reaction to any street attack or any nuclear agency report. It is a long nurtured plan, designed to keep feeding the huge military industrial war machine that has become a huge part of the UK and US economies, and whose sucking up of trillions of dollars has contributed massively to the financial crisis, and which forms a keystone in the whole South Sea Bubble corporate finance system for servicing the ultra-rich. They need constant, regenerative war. They feed on the shattered bodies of small children... Read more... Culture Wars: Exposing Alan, Review by Stephen J. Sniegoski | Culture Wars ...In Dershowitz’s eyes, Israel, though not without (largely undiscussed) flaws, is a paragon of virtue and benefactor to all of humanity. He gushes that “over the last sixty years, no nation in the world has contributed more per capital to the general welfare of the people of this planet than Israel.” Yet, despite Israel’s unparalleled goodness, “no nation is hated as much as the Jewish nation.” This brings to mind Bush the Younger’s similar claim that the “terrorists” hate the United States because it is so good... [Dershowitz's professional specialty is getting murderers off the hook. His devotion to evil is quite impressive. I think that's why defending Israel is such an obsession with him - it's "the Big One."] Read more...An America that's never wrong | Redress Information & Analysis Paul J. Balles argues that “not only do Americans display a belief in their superiority over other countries, but their leaders’ actions reveal an arrogant pre-eminence over the masses of the American public”.. Read more... Dec 3, 2011 World bodies must act now to save Lifta, by Antoine Raffoul | The Electronic Intifada  Palestinians attend Friday prayers on the remains of an old mosque in the village of Lifta ...Despite the WMF’s refusal to include Lifta on its watch list, the village’s fate appears directly relevant to the organization’s work. This can be seen from a comment made by Bonnie Burnham, the WMF’s president, in a 2006 interview with the National Trust for Historic Preservation: “Time, war, and politics are destroyers of monuments. Which is the biggest threat? In a global context, unquestionably, the biggest is war. In addition to destroying buildings, armed conflict destroys the entire national capacity to deal with heritage”..Read more... Obama and Israel's security | Redress Information & Analysis Alan Hart wonders whether President Barack Obama “is aware that Israel’s existence has never been in danger and chooses to ignore the truth of history for self-serving political reasons, or whether he is ignorant”.. Read more... To Attack or Not To Attack: The Israeli Dilemma on Iran | YouTube For the past two weeks, something unprecedented has been occurring in Israel: an open public debate on the Israeli dilemma about Iran: to attack or not to attack... Watch video... The Lost Truth: The Killing of Gaddafi and Bin Laden, by Jamal Kanj | Intifada Palestine  ...the killing of Gaddafi was a cold blooded murder. Much like the crimes he was accused of committing against his people. While indirectly criticizing the way in which Gaddafi was handled by his captors, the US President was quoted recently on John Leno TV Show“… there’s a certain decorum with which you treat the dead even if it’s somebody who has done terrible things.” I fully agree with the President: captives, even the presumed guilty, should be treated with a level of civility. But wasn’t the President being cynical in criticizing the rebels of Libya when he took a front row seat watching the murder of Osama Bin Laden in what appeared to have been a similar cold blooded execution of a captive person?.. Read more... It's Not Corruption, It's Just Politics: Dying to Corrupt Afghanistan, by James Bovard | Counterpunch American soldiers are dying so that Afghan politicians can continue looting U.S. tax dollars. Foreign aid has long been notorious for creating kleptocracies — governments of thieves. The $50+ billion foreign aid that the United States has dumped on Afghanistan over the past decade is a textbook case of how foreign handouts drag a nation down. Corruption has been a huge issue ever since the United States installed a puppet government in Afghanistan... Read more... The King's Speech, by Uri Avnery | Media With Conscience ...The Israeli Right has never really given up the idea of a Greater Israel (which in Hebrew is called “the whole of Eretz-Israel”). This means the total rejection of the Two-State solution in all its forms and the creation of a Jewish state from the Mediterranean Sea to the Jordan River... [Many of them still dream of the original concept, from the Euphrates to the Nile. These are the Uber-Nazis. Your run-of-the-mill Zio-fascist will settle for "from the River to the Sea." The 'soft' Zionists, like Avnery, would be very happy with the "Two State Solution," consisting of the Jewish State and a dozen or so isolated and helpless Bantustans populated by a pacified population providing cheap labor - sort of Israel's Mexico, but without a military.] Read more...Humor Dept: Bachmann claims she would close non-existent U.S. embassy in Iran | The Raw Story  ...Speaking to an audience in Iowa on Wednesday, Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) claimed that if she were president, the U.S. would not have an embassy in Iran. She was responding to news of the British embassy in Iran being overrun by hardline students, who trashed the place and set it on fire, as a reaction to new British sanctions against the country. The comment might have gone unnoticed, had NBC’s James Novogrod not been present. He noted the gaffe in a post to Twitter and political media quickly picked it up, mostly because there’s a huge problem with her statement: The U.S. does not have an embassy in Iran, and hasn’t since 1980... [She is such an out to lunch twit. It's a race between her and Perry for the honor of being 'supreme idiot." How many decades has it been since a Republican candidate knew how to tie their own shoelaces? Bush couldn't do it. Most Democrats appear to have mastered that skill, but their abilities diminish rapidly from there on. And Sarah Palin is still trying to find Russia on the map.] Read more...Occupy Planet Earth, by Dr. Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed | Counterpunch The Occupy Movement is currently the most vocal manifestation of public resistance and civil disobedience to hit the West since the 60s. In turn, it has elicited a concerted and in some ways unprecedented militarisation of state violence. In the US, the deployment of tear gas, pepper-spray and rubber bullets has deliberately brutalised peaceful, civilian protestors – purely in the name of restoring ‘civil order’. More than ever, the insistence by people on reclaiming public spaces in the name of opposing the injustice and inequality meted out by the proverbial “1 per cent” is unpeeling the mask of the democratic state, to reveal the unrestrained monopoly of wealth and weapons on which its power is premised... Read more... Hebron: Occupation and Sterilization, by Markus Balázs Göransson | Palestine Chronicle The center of Hebron is surreal and terrifying. It is strange and overwhelming to see this schizophrenic place with my own eyes. As I walk along the streets, my senses are heightened yet I cannot fully process what I see. It feels like I am walking in a dream or on an empty movie set. The legacy of violence is stark and in your face and I am reminded of the ruins and craters that I saw when visiting Srebrenica in Bosnia several years ago. Yet, unlike Srebrenica, there has been no attempt to move past the divisions in Hebron. Instead, the divisions have been frozen and institutionalized and today Hebron is relatively quiet only because people are kept physically apart... Read more... Dec 2, 2011 Grand Hypocrisy: Netanyahu Slams 'Anti-liberal' Arab Spring, by Jonathan Cook | Palestine Chronicle  The genie is out the bottle As protests raged again across the Middle East, Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel’s prime minister, offered his assessment of the Arab Spring last week. It was, he said, an “Islamic, anti-western, anti-liberal, anti-Israeli, undemocratic wave”, adding that Israel’s Arab neighbours were “moving not forwards, but backwards”. It takes some chutzpah – or, at least, epic self-delusion – for Israel’s prime minister to be lecturing the Arab world on liberalism and democracy...Read more... "Why Syria Matters: Prabir Purkayastha Interviews Aijaz Ahmad" | Monthly Review ...Syria is the last remaining representative of Arab nationalism as it used to be understood historically. It still calls itself socialist. Even though it has implemented a great deal of neoliberal reform, the state sector is still dominant. It bans, literally bans, religion from politics. It will not recognize the existence of religious political parties. It is the historic opponent of Israel for a variety of reasons... If you remove Syria, the cordon sanitaire around Israel is complete... Read more, watch video... PCHR Strongly Condemns WHO's Decision to Conduct a Conference in Jerusalem | International Middle East Media Center The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) condemns in the strongest possible terms the decision of WHO Europe to conduct an official conference in Jerusalem, hosted by Israel... [what a world - it's like a malignant tumor hosting a medical conference on cancer] Read more...Noam Chomsky and The Manufacture of Consent, Dan Glazebrook | Global Civilians For Peace In Libya By whitewashing the Libyan rebels and demonising the Gaddafi regime did the leading US intellectual Noam Chomsky help facilitate an imperialist invasion? In a wide-ranging interview with Chomsky, Dan Glazebrook asks him... [It's not a mystery; Chomsky is the softest of Zionists, but a Zionist nonetheless.] Read more...When Will Pakistan's Spring Arrive? by Eric Walberg | Palestine Chronicle It's hard to imagine a greater provocation than your bosom buddy killing 28 of your own soldiers. NATO helicopters violated the airspace of Pakistan from Afghanistan on Friday and opened unprovoked fire on a check post in Mohmand, northwest Pakistan at midnight. Presumably the pilots got the wrong coordinates from MacDill Air Force Central Command in Florida or took too many army-prescribed uppers. The attack continued even after Pakistani commanders pleaded with coalition forces to stop... Read more... Chinese Government Official: 'US Threat To Pakistan Is Threat To China', by Paul Joseph Watson & Yi Han | Prison Planet  The Chinese military has staged a massive wargame exercise near Pakistan in response to a build-up of U.S. troops in the region as a top Chinese government official warned that any threat to Pakistan would be taken as a direct threat to China... Read more... Egypt's parliamentary elections in perspective, by Sara Khorshid | Middle East Monitor It is sad that Egypt's first post-Mubarak elections - in which millions of Egyptians have cast their votes, reportedly with a 70% turnout - are being held under the continued rule of the military council, in order to choose a parliament with very limited powers... Read more... Time for outrage against academic support for Israel, by David Cronin | Middle East Monitor ...The Israeli Institute for Technology in Haifa - generally known as the Technion - believes that innovation should aid Zionism. It has boasted of developing a remote-controlled bulldozer, explicitly intended for use in destroying Palestinian homes so that the land on which they are situated can be handed over to Israeli settlers. The Technion is a significant player in the EU's research programme. Considering its determination to wreck Palestinian houses, it is perverse that the Technion is involved in a €4.4 million scheme called Responsible Infrastructure and Building Security (RIBS)... Read more... Chinese General Threatens "Third World War" To Protect Iran, by Paul Joseph Watson | Prison Planet A military General from the Chinese National Defense University says that China should not hesitate to protect Iran, even if it means launching world war three, as more US warships are dispatched to the region amidst heightening tensions... Read more, watch video... Man, God and Secession at Yale, by Thomas H. Naylor | Counterpunch When I team taught a course on corporate strategy back in 1980 at the Yale School of Management.. I never dreamed I would be invited back to Yale thirty years later to be the keynote speaker for a debate on, of all things, secession. Yet on the evening of November 9th, the Yale Political Union, the largest student organization on campus, held such a debate to consider the resolution, “Be it resolved that the United States of America be peacefully dissolved.”.. Read more... War in Syria inevitable, by Vadim Trukhachev | English Pravda The situation in Syria and around it is becoming increasingly volatile. Following the sanctions imposed by the U.S., EU, Turkey and the League of Arab States (LAS), the armed detachments of mercenaries from Libya have been put to use. The troops of the former Libyan rebels are ready to join the armed rebels of the "Free Syrian Army.".. Read more... Nobel Peace Laureate Mairead Maguire speaks to MEMO about Palestine, political prisoners and nuclear weapons, by Dr. Hanan Chehata | Middle East Monitor  The Palestinian voice has been silenced and that the Israeli narrative has been predominant Israel started the nuclear arms race in the Middle East, it's the only country that has them, and we all know they have them. Israel has the power to start the whole movement for Middle East nuclear disarmament. The choice is between nuclear disarmament or nuclear proliferation. If we have nuclear proliferation we will never turn the clock back. Every Tom, Dick and Harry and everyone with a back garden will want a nuclear bomb! It's absolutely crazy. So I think that we need to challenge those who are in power, who can make decisions...Read more... The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly: The Senate Just Voted Against The Afghanistan War, by David Swanson | Washington's Blog ...Three more years of a campaign of mass murder is not an acceptable policy. The Senate has merely asked for something better than the current plan. And the emphasis is on “merely asked.” The Senate is funding the war in the same bill in which it is asking its executive to do its job. The constitutional role of Congress is to make decisions and enforce them with the power of the purse. Here the Senate is asking the President to decide what to do, but to decide something not quite as bad as his current plan... Read more... Israel is a third-world country in denial, by Gideon Levy | Haaretz It should have been a headline long ago, or at least the talk of the day Wednesday: Every fifth Israeli lives in fear of hunger, every 10th suffers from hunger. But this almost-African statistic, the kind that comes from the darkness of the third world... Read more... U.S. Journalist denounces spy agency activity in Syria | English Pravda Western countries are doing everything possible to disrupt civil peace in Syria, denounced the writer and American journalist, Webster Tarpley in Damascus, the Syrian capital to TV RT. According to him, Syrian civilians have to deal daily with death squads and blind terrorism, which is typical of covert actions of sabotage and destabilization used by the CIA... Read more... Syrian Revolution Hijacked, by Peter Lee | Counterpunch The Syrian revolution—a broad-based, non-sectarian, democratic anti-despot national movement—has failed. Mass demonstrations never materialized in Damascus and Aleppo. The military and security forces didn’t crack. The Alawite on Sunni crackdown (Alawites form the backbone of the army/security forces/irregular goon squads) fomented sectarian divisions, with most non-Sunnis minorities cleaving desperately to the Assad regime. Prosperous Sunnis have presumably been hedging their bets by donating to the anti-government cause in recent days but have not explicitly abandoned the regime... Read more... Dec 1, 2011 IRAN still at the top of the Empire's agenda (via Syria)  Once Upon A Time In Iran: The Full Movie | YouTube The 2007 documentary by Channel 4 about the ideology behind Iranian Shiism. The role of Imam Hussein and Islam among the Iranian people, the struggle between good and evil in contemporary politics and society viewed through the historical glasses of the tragic Karbala incident... Watch film... Iran delivers major blow to the CIA, by Mahan Abedin | Asia Times Online Iran's claim last week to have arrested 12 spies working for the United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) is potentially a major blow to American intelligence-gathering efforts in Iran and to American intelligence generally. The arrests come on the heels of the arrest of 30 alleged CIA spies in late May and are indicative of steadily improving counter-intelligence capabilities... Read more... How Iran Can Collapse All of the Bilderberg Banks and Governments | Video Rebel's Blog Not just Iran but any nation state with twenty billion dollars can quadruple their money and bring down all banker controlled governments. All the Iranians have to do is to announce the purchase of ten billion dollars in silver and ten billion dollars in gold over the next 90 days. This announcement is to be made only after they had purchased a billion dollars in silver bullion and a billion dollars in gold... [Well, something is going to bring the Ponzi scheme to a screeching halt.] Read more... Sanctions are only a small part of the history that makes Iranians hate the UK, by Robert Fisk | The Independent It's a weird irony that Iranians know the history of Anglo-Persian relations better than the Brits. When the newly installed Ministry of Islamic Guidance asked Harvey Morris, Reuters' man in post-revolutionary Iran, for a history of his news agency, he asked his London office to send him a biography of Baron von Reuter – and was appalled to discover the founder of the world's greatest news agency had built Persia's railways at an immense profit. "How can I show this to the ministry?" he shouted. "It turns out that the Baron was worse than the fucking Shah!" Of which, of course, the ministry was well aware... Read more... Wahhabis Weave Web of Plot in Syria, by Ismail Salami | Intifada Palestine  Several mass graves have been found in Syria believed to contain the “Reports reveal that the US and Israel have hired Saudi elements and the Saudi-backed Lebanese March 14 forces in order to foment tension in the country, thereby creating a rift between the Syrian people and the government.”..dead bodies of Syrian soldiers killed by Wahhabi insurgents [See also 600 Libyans 'already fighting in Syria' ] Read more...Military Industrial Complex: Full Fruition, by Kathleen Wallace Peine | Dissident Voice This week Congress is expected to vote on a bill advanced by John McCain and Carl Levin, a Republican and Democrat who united to bring us the foundation needed to propel us fully into a militarized nightmare state similar to what we have been exporting these last few years. It is the Enemy Belligerent, Interrogation, Detention and Prosecution Act... Read more... Glenn Greenwald: Is Obama Fulfilling the Neocon Dream of Mass Regime Change in Muslim World? | Democracy Now Political blogger Glenn Greenwald recently wrote about retired General Wesley Clark’s recollection of an officer telling him in the weeks after the Sept. 11 attacks that the then U.S. Secretary of Defense had issued a memo outlining a plan for regime change within five years in Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and Iran. We play an excerpt of Clark’s comments and ask Greenwald to respond... Read transcript, watch video... Preparing the Chessboard for the "Clash of Civilizations": Divide, Conquer and Rule the "New Middle East", by Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya | Global Research The name "Arab Spring" is a catch phrase concocted in distant offices in Washington, London, Paris, and Brussels by individuals and groups who, other than having some superficial knowledge of the region, know very little about the Arabs. What is unfolding amongst the Arab peoples is naturally a mixed package. Insurgency is part of this package as is opportunism. Where there is revolution, there is always counter-revolution... Read more... How Palestine Became Israel | Pyramidion  Jerusalem 1839 In the late 1800s a small, fanatic movement called “political Zionism” began in Europe. Its goal was to create a Jewish state somewhere in the world. Its leaders settled on the ancient and long-inhabited land of Palestine for the location of this state...[A small quibble: "political Zionism" was largely the doing of Vladimir Zabotinsky, and that wasn't until the early 20th Century.] Read more...Kadima's Black Flags and Israel's Image Problem, by Dan Freeman-Maloy | Dissident Voice Israel is currently experiencing an internationally visible collapse of its ‘liberal democratic’ camp, raising significant problems for a state whose underlying theocratic and apartheid features have historically been partially covered from international view by liberal democratic pretenses... Read more... Unknown Snipers and Western backed "Regime Change", by Gearóid Ó Colmáin | Global Research The Russian investigative journalist Nikolay Starikov has written a book which discusses the role of unknown snipers in the destabilization of countries targeted for regime change by the United States and its allies. The following article attempts to elucidate some historical examples of this technique with a view to providing a background within which to understand the current covert war on the people of Syria by death squads in the service of Western intelligence... Read more... Darwinian Stupidity, by Richard Schwartzman | Future of Freedom Foundation One has to question the mindset of the current administration in Washington. The country is $15 trillion in debt due to the ever-increasing welfare-warfare state. The warfare side of the equation is imperialistic to the point of crippling stupidity. Not only do we already have as many as 900 military bases, and military personnel in an estimated 130 different countries, and not only did we just establish a drone base in Ethiopia and commit troops to Uganda, but President Obama has just announced a new base for 2,500 U.S. Marines in Darwin, Australia... [The question is.. is it stupidity, insanity or an eruption of pure evil. Then again, the question is purely academic.] Read more... George Orwell's guide to the news, by Adrian Salbuchi | RT  George Orwell’s '1984' wasn't meant to be a guide The Western mainstream media falsifies the news resorting to euphemisms, half-truths and lies in the best (worst) style of George Orwell’s novel 1984. We all live in the unreal world of “Newspeak” used by the Global Power Elite to control our minds...Read more... Would Jesus Join the Occupy Protests? by Rev. Howard Bess | Consortium News ...The significance of this latest public protest movement, erupting all over the country, may eventually rival the impact of the civil rights movement of the 1960s, yet when comparing the two movements, there is one glaring difference: priests, pastors and clergy of every stripe are rarely in the forefront of Occupy protests. Instead, secular young people are doing the very work that Jesus from Nazareth would urge us to do... Read more... The Rosenbaum Kidney Trafficking Gang, by Nancy-Scheper Hughes | Counterpunch "The crime was … the theft of life, defrauding the wretched of the earth of their spare kidneys, stealing from the poor to supplement the bodies of the well-insured and well advantaged.”.. [A classic Israeli enterprise, to go along with their largest export, blood diamonds; ecstasy production and trafficking; white slavery and prostitution; state-sanctioned extortion, via the guilt-ridden Germans and the idiot Americans; theft of military intelligence from the US and resale to China, and the applied paranoia (security) businesses. They sure know how to make a buck in the slimiest possible ways.] Read more...Deepak Chopra: "If Next Week They Evict Us, Move Somewhere Else Close By And Occupy! | Washington's Blog Given that police are – at this very moment – moving in to clear the Occupy Los Angeles camp, Deepak Chopra’s advice to Occupy L.A. from last week is timely:.. Read more... On the 64th Anniversary of UN Resolution 181 Lebanon's Palestinians Continue Their Descent, by Franklin Lamb | Intifada Palestine  Nakba remembrance Day, Palestinians crossing border: ” We are going back to Palestine.”.. Read more...Researcher of Zionism Tamer Mustafa Calls the Holocaust "Lies" and Says: The "Spirit of Racism" Has "Spread Like a Germ in the Minds of Every Jew" Over the Ages | MEMRI This is brought to us courtesy of the very well funded (by the Mossad) free mistranslation "service" MEMRI. The funny thing is that, blinded by their zio-fascist belief system, they don't recognize the truth when they see or hear it, so it turns out to be a valuable source. BTW, the Talmud is even far worse than the Torah; that's why all copies were burnt during several of the expulsions from Europe... Watch video... 1% "leaders" allow a million children to die a month from preventable poverty, by Carl Herman | Nonpartisan Examiner Despite the investment to save a million children’s lives from preventable poverty being just 0.7% of our gross national income, despite that every historical case of ending poverty reduces population growth rates, and despite US promises to make that investment at global summits, the 1% “leadership” in government and corporate media renege on all promises and allow this crushing torture, these excruciating and prolonged death spirals of children... Read more... Tens Of Millions Of American Families Are Living On The Edge Of Desperation - And The Economy Is About To Get A Whole Lot Worse | Economic Collapse Have you ever been so poor that you had to live in your car? Have you ever been so low on funds that the only place you could afford to live was a rat-infested motel? Have you ever spent a night living in a tent city or sleeping in the streets? If not, you should consider yourself to be very fortunate... Read more, watch video... The Zionist ultra-Orthodox are cashing in their I.O.U., by Amira Hass | Haaretz  The ultra-Orthodox nationalists, or Hardalim, have a lust Those spending their Saturdays having fun rather than defending shepherds and farmers should not be surprised if the day after, Jewish fundamentalism even invades their bedrooms...for battle and a willingness to 'die for our country.' Read more... Senate Considers Bill Authorizing More Torture | Washington's Blog ..The same Senate which today passed a bill allowing indefinite detention of American citizens on American soil for suspicion of being terrorists is now considering a bill to repeal the prohibitions against torture:.. Read more... Deciphering The Rothschild Game Plan, by Dick Eastman | Rense The Economist is a Rothschild organ, it speaks the Rothschild view presented to the world, but the view is always in the "passive voice." When Rothschild family leadership speaks in the active imperative - agenda, policy, operational strategies - it is behind closed doors... [Ditto the New York Times] Read more... Syria: NATO Genocide Approaches, by Tony Cartalucci | Land Destroyer Blatant lies told by alleged "human rights activists" led to ignominious NATO-sanctioned brutality and ultimately brought BP, Shell, Total-sponsored Petroleum Institute representative, Abdurrahim el-Keib, into power in Libya. Now, these same corporate-financier interests, through their same networks of propaganda, duplicity and deception, are laying the ground work for a repeat performance in Syria... Read more... Gigantic Fraud Carried Out for Wiesel Nobel Prize | Inconvenient History  ...The only document that connects Elie Wiesel to the Auschwitz-Birkenau and Buchenwald experience he claims to have - in other words, his claim to be an authentic “Holocaust survivor” - is the famous Buchenwald liberation photograph. There are no records with his name and birth date for either camp. His books do not support his presence there very well. That’s why the Wiesel promoters, who wanted to anchor their man’s claim to be the unchallenged spokesman for the world’s greatest victims - which winning a Nobel prize would surely do - decided that they could pawn that unknown face off as the face of Wiesel... [And this con-artist is still strutting around like a peacock, the Patron Saint of the Holycause religion and a missionary for the Holocaust Industry] Read more...Since Egypt became a State Army, by Edward Febbro | English Pravda The Egyptian army has symbolic powers, historical, political and economic powers with an unusual reach, became the backbone of the country in a state within a state and in a group of major economic powers in the world. Egypt is in fact a State Army. Among industries, banking, tourism, agriculture, new technologies and building stock, the Egyptian army controls 25% of the GDP of the country... [Just in case there's anyone who still doesn't understand why the Military Junta is reluctant to cede power to the people] Read more...Our leaders deserve to be jailed, by John Kaminski | Polskawalczaca ...People all over the world are simultaneously waking up to the fact that all of their authority structures are corrupt control mechanisms of the very rich, who do not allow us to participate in their schemes. These insiders run our plantation planet and are about a hundred years ahead of us. Small wonder we can't figure anything out. But what we can figure out is exactly what they're doing. And stop them... Read more... Why is Charlie Rose hugging Seth Klarman? by Philip Weiss | Mondoweiss Check out this video from November 1 in New York. Seth Klarman is a big hedge fund manager and philanthropist. He's never been on the actual Charlie Rose show, but Rose interviews him at an event for Klarman's organization that fights anti-Semitism, called Facing History. At the end of the interview, Charlie Rose hugs Klarman. And that hug is the heart of the problem in our liberal media culture... Read more, watch video... |
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