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December, 2013


Dec 31, 2013

Fighting Zionist lobby defamation and oppression, by Rich Forer | Redress Information & Analysis
...By reflexively attacking groups and individuals, who yearn for equality and freedom for all peoples, including Jews, Israel’s defenders make it possible for Israel, in the name of the Jewish people, to carry out its inhumane agenda. In short, Israel and its defenders incite anti-Semitism and then claim that the world is anti-Semitic. The irony is that by supporting behaviour that brings the world’s anger down upon Israel, these defenders are reinforcing and perpetuating their very own self-created cycle of perceived victimhood...
 
New Interchange Bisecting West Bank Approved | Roi Tov
..E1 is the only unbuilt spot in the area. Once built, it will create Jewish contiguity between Jerusalem and the Dead Sea, where one of Israel's main industrial centers is located. Once this is achieved, the West Bank will be effectively bisected, splitting the State of Palestine in three non-contiguous zones (Gaza would be the third). If the West Bank is bisected, Palestine would not be viable...
 
RT's The Truthseeker: Leaked US Regime Change Manual, Admits Ukraine | Gilad Atzmon
  Happy Xmas Ukraine! Openly pro-Nazi rioters ripping up paving stones for weapons and driving bulldozers at people get sweets from America's Asst. Secretary of State, the surprisingly long list of countries where the US attempts regime change under cover of 'human rights'; and George Clooney becomes the Pentagon's sexy new weapon...
 
Gay Jews have 'higher souls' than gentiles, says deputy minister | Haaretz
  Homosexual Jews have "higher souls" than gentiles, gay or straight, the deputy minister for religious services told the Israeli daily Maariv in an article published on Friday. Even so, he would oppose any same-sex marriage bill, just as he would oppose marriage between a Jew and a gentile, said Rabbi Eli Ben Dahan, a member of the right-wing Habayit Hayehudi party...
 
Israeli ministers committee votes to annex Jordan Valley, by Annie Robbins | Mondoweiss
  In a move that would thwart the reported “security arrangements” in John Kerry’s draft peace proposal, a committee of Israeli government ministers today approved new legislation to annex the occupied Jordan Valley. Kerry’s proposal is said to include plans to imprison Palestinians behind another wall on the border with Jordan and  provide Israel control of the border with Jordan for a few years before switching to a coordinated arrangement with Palestinians. And then gradually, with Israel’s approval, Palestinians would assume control, 10 to 15 years down the road. Mahmoud Abbas has already rejected this idea...
[If even the Palestinian Quislings reject the idea, it must be well beyond what anyone but a fanatical ZioNazi could stomach. But Israel is full of such people.]
 
The Latest Bizarre Demand: On the Jewish State of Israel, by John Whitbeck | CounterPunch
...one of the primary roadblocks to any agreement in the current round of Israeli-Palestinian negotiations is the understandable Palestinian refusal to accept the Israeli demand that Palestine explicitly recognize Israel as a or the “Jewish State” – a legally and intellectually bizarre demand clearly intended to make any agreement impossible while facilitating Israel’s post-failure public relations campaign to assign to the occupied Palestinians responsibility for Israel’s latest success in producing failure...
 
Sunni Monarchs Back YouTube Hate Preachers, by Patrick Cockburn | CounterPunch
  Anti-Shia hate propaganda spread by Sunni religious figures sponsored by, or based in, Saudi Arabia and the Gulf monarchies, is creating the ingredients for a sectarian civil war engulfing the entire Muslim world. Iraq and Syria have seen the most violence, with the majority of the 766 civilian fatalities in Iraq this month being Shia pilgrims killed by suicide bombers from the al-Qa’ida umbrella group, the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (Isis). The anti-Shia hostility of this organisation, now operating from Baghdad to Beirut, is so extreme that last month it had to apologise for beheading one of its own wounded fighters in Aleppo...
 
Egypt’s National-Security State Rears Its Ugly Head, by Jacob G. Hornberger | Future of Freedom Foundation
  Of all the ironies, the Egyptian people today are experiencing the wisdom of an American military man who served as president more than 50 years ago. That president was Dwight Eisenhower, who, before being elected president, had served as the Supreme Commander of Allied Forces in World War II. In his 1961 Farewell Address, Ike delivered one of the most profound and disturbing warnings to the American people that any president has ever given. He told Americans to beware the growing influence and power of what he termed the “military-industrial complex"..
 
War Criminals by Default, by Alan Hart | My Catbird Seat
  My last thought for 2013 is that for their failure to co-operate and coordinate to make the United Nations work to stop the slaughter and destruction in Syria, the leaders of the five permanent and controlling members of the Security Council – the U.S, Britain, France, Russia and China – are war criminals by default...
 
A Revolutionary Tract: A Human Rights Manifesto, by Ron Jacobs | CounterPunch
...her book examines the UN Declaration of Human Rights and compares it to the current situation. In doing so, it is clear that we as a species have failed. While there is certainly plenty of blame to go around, from those activists who have resigned from the battle to those who have convinced themselves that the current political and economic systems are capable of remedying the daily violations of human rights, the bulk of the blame remains with the greatest violators of those rights. That means governments, their militaries and police officials, and their courts. The ultimate violator however, in every measurement Ms. Wark relates, is the current manifestation of the capitalist economy: neoliberalism...
http://www.counterpunch.org/2013/12/30/a-human-rights-manifesto/
 
US Universities of Shame | Stephen Lendman
...Opposing ASA's courageous stand endorses Israel's worst crimes. It supports occupation harshness. It supports militarism writ large. It opposes Palestinian liberation. It's against their right to live free on their own land in their own country. It supports longstanding Israeli crimes of war, against humanity, and slow-motion genocide. It shames their academic reputation in the process. It destroys their credibility...
 
US War of Terror: How will it End? by  Henry Kamens | Veterans Today
..World leaders are now lining up to condemn the government of Syria, laying at its door the blame for the civil war and insurgency there.. The comments made about Syria are merely recycled from previous attacks on Serbia, Iraq, Afghanistan and many other places. The reason leaders from all over the world are making them is because this is a tried and tested tactic used by all governments who don’t want people to look too far into things. How tried and tested? Let’s take a couple of seemingly unconnected examples...
 
Rising on the Shoulders of the Poor: Democrats’ Moral-Political Bankruptcy, by Norman Pollack | CounterPunch
...“Minimum Wage Key to Democrats’ 2014 Strategy,” enables one to foresee what the coming year will be like: deft, cautious appeal for votes on an obviously significant human issue, yet treated in isolation as meanwhile the surveillance-war machine-deregulation core of public policy grinds on, making a mockery, a study in the use of opportunistic cosmetics, of Democrats’ claims to represent the people, the people it spits on as it drains the national treasury to feed detestable Behemoth as part of a global vision of counterrevolution and commercial-financial supremacy...

Interview with Soraya Sepahpour Ulrich: ‘West wants to keep Syria in crisis’ | PressTV
...This is nothing short of an assault on humanity; it is by those very people that they feign a lot of humanity and rights. We know that the United States, France, Britain, they now have a base in Jordan, a command center, where they actually help these rebels. It is akin to the plague and in fact a plague is more readily acceptable, because it is a disease. What they are doing is not only they are destroying people and taking lives, but they are destroying the most historically parts of the Middle East...
 
Saudi ‘gift’ to hide its terror hand, by Finian Cunningham | PressTV
  Saudi largesse is throwing money again – in a bid to cover up its bloodstained hands in violence hitting the Middle East and beyond. The latest public relations gimmick is the “donation” of $3 billion to the Lebanese army made by Saudi King Abdullah at the weekend...
 
Bandar's Threat Comes True: Russia Will Respond | Moon of Alabama
  August 2013: Saudis offer Russia secret oil deal if it drops Syria.. As-Safir said Prince Bandar pledged to safeguard Russia’s naval base in Syria if the Assad regime is toppled, but he also hinted at Chechen terrorist attacks on Russia’s Winter Olympics in Sochi if there is no accord. “I can give you a guarantee to protect the Winter Olympics next year. The Chechen groups that threaten the security of the games are controlled by us,” he allegedly said.. One doesn't attack Stalingrad without receiving a blowback. The Russian security forces will have an immediate harsh response on the local level...



Dec 30, 2013


The Empathic Civilisation | YouTube
  Bestselling author, political adviser and social and ethical prophet Jeremy Rifkin investigates the evolution of empathy and the profound ways that it has shaped our development and our society...
["In separateness lies the world's great misery, in compassion lies the world's true strength."  ~ The Buddha. See also Us vs. Them: On the Meaning of Fascism]
 
Oligarchs, Demagogues and Mass Revolts … against Democracy, by Prof. James Petras | Global Research
...All the color-coded “mass revolts” in Eastern Europe and the ex-USSR featured popular leaders who exhorted the masses in the name of ‘independence and democracy’ but were pro-NATO, pro-(Western) imperialists and linked to neo-liberal elites. Upon the fall of communism, the new oligarchs privatized and sold off the most lucrative sectors of the economy throwing millions out of work, dismantled the welfare state and handed over their military bases to NATO for the stationing of foreign troops and the placement of missiles aimed at Russia...
 
Gas, Oil, and Trouble in the Levant, by Felicity Arbuthnot | Dissident Voice
...That the US in the guise of Vice President Joe Biden, as honest broker, acting peace negotiator in the maritime border dispute would be laughable, were it not potential for Israel to attack their neighbour again. In a visit to Israel in March 2010, Biden announced: “There is absolutely no space between the United States and Israel when it comes to Israel’s security — none at all”, also announcing on arrival in Israel: “It’s good to be home.” Given US decades of “peace brokering” between Israel and Palestine, this is already a road of pitfalls, one-sidedness and duplicity, well traveled. There is trouble ahead...
 
Israel’s recurring use of terror on civilians, by Bob Finch | Aletho News
  “The stated aim was, as always, to stop the launching of the rockets. The means: killing a maximum of Palestinians, in order to teach them a lesson. The decision was based on the traditional Israeli concept: hit the civilian population again and again, until it overthrows its leaders. This has been tried hundreds of times and has failed hundreds of times.” ~ Uri Avnery
[What’s particularly galling is that the (non-Zionist) Left in the West remains stupefied, utterly intimidated by ZioNazi pressure.]
 
More hard truths from David Duke: Jews and Race | Paul Eisen
...Towards the end of the clip Dr Duke says "I want to state clearly that I understand the Jews wanting to preserve their heritage. Every people has the human right to do so. But no-one has the right to ethnically cleanse, murder, torture and oppress another people from their own land, homes and businesses as the Jews are doing right now to the Palestinians." I'd agree with that one hundred per cent...
 
Israel Discriminates against Jews | Roi Tov
  Racists are such an inferior race! Invariably, they fail to understand that they will be hit by their own weapon. In December 2013, Israel was hit by its own racist laws. The best lawyers in the country are now tirelessly trying to figure out how to solve the conundrum while tending their hurting wounds. On July 5, 1950, the State of Israel defined itself as a racist state by legislating the Law of Return. It gives automatic and immediate citizenship to every Jew arriving in Israel; thus, it defines one group of people as privileged...
[Well, either it’s “the Jewish State” or it’s nothing. ‘Nothing’ would be far better.]
 
In The Memory of Dershowitz et Stossel | Gilad Atzmon
  I had no real interest in reading this until I came across Alan Dershowitz on the John Stossel show, in what seemed a totally inappropriate and uncharacteristic kind of segment. Generally Stossel is all about the Libertarian big ideas, and yet - here was this holder of an endowed chair at Harvard, shrieking like a little girl. He was ranting about how students at some school in Chicago should shun their teacher for him having asked them to read and comment on the book...
 
Beirut murder: Dirty tricks get dirtier, by Finian Cunningham | PressTV
  The latest deadly attack in Lebanon’s capital Beirut is yet another desperate attempt to destabilize not only that country, but the entire Middle East to precipitate all-out sectarian war. The murder of senior Lebanese Sunni political figure, Mohamad Shatah, on Friday in a massive bomb blast that hit his motorcade as it drove through downtown Beirut was aimed at implicating the Shia Hezbollah and closely allied Syrian and Iranian governments...
 
The Chosenites | YouTube
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Égalité et Réconciliation: An Interview With Gilad Atzmon by Alimuddin Usmani | Gilad Atzmon
...Jewish Identity Politics is a tribal operation. It is a dynamic form of identification that is fueled by Pre-Traumatic-Stress and.. it is also driven by negation (the capacity to evoke animosity in others). Once Jewish politics becomes a dominating factor, society would transformed into a fragmented structure shaped by a manifold of identity discourses. Rather than engaging in crucial priorities such as production, health or education, we would be concerned with marginal topics such as ‘gay marriage’, ‘anti Semitism’ etc. In short, the marginal becomes the centre...
 
Defence for Children Palestine: Living in Fear | YouTube 
  The Jewish settlement of Yitzhar is described by The New York Times as "an extremist bastion on the hilltops commanding the Palestinian city of Nablus in the northern West Bank." Its roughly 1,000 radical Jewish settlers terrorize 20,000 Palestinians from the surrounding villages of Burin, Madama, Asira al-Qibliya, Urif, Einabus, and Huwara...
 
The REAL truth about Palestine in response to Danny Ayalon | YouTube
  Israel's Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Danny Ayalon in a video titled "Israel Palestinian Conflict: The Truth About the West Bank" told lies and FALSE historical facts relating to the Israeli Palestinian conflict. Here 2 courageous Palestinian ladies responding with facts to all the lies he told in the video...
[I think I've linked to this before, but it's well worth another look - quite entertaining.]
 
New York Times DC correspondent covers up 9/11, by Kevin Barrett | Veterans Today
...whatever happened to the Towers, the destruction of Building 7 was the most obvious – and most perfect – controlled demolition in history. No smoother and more symmetrical near-free-fall implosion of a tall building has ever been recorded. Even Canadian scientist Frank Greening, the most prominent defender of NIST’s account of the destruction of the Twin Towers, has been forced to admit that NIST’s claim that Building 7 “just fell down from office fires” is ludicrous.. Sanger apparently has plenty of reasons for parsing “conspiracy theories” from “non-conspiracy theories” and pretending he doesn’t know that 9/11 was an inside job...
[Now Sanger wouldn’t happen to be Jewish, would he? Just asking.]
 
Fun with chronology: misreporting the Israeli assault on Gaza, by Belen Fernandez | Al Jazeera
  The New York Times' rendering of recent violence on the border between Gaza and Israel is a shining example of the chronological sleights of hand that have come to characterise mainstream reporting on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Isabel Kershner's December 24 dispatch, "Killing and Retaliation at Gaza-Israel Border Continue Violent Cycle", sets up the timeline as follows:..
[Not to put too fine a point on it, but what else would one expect from the JYT?]
 
Israeli court says nuclear hero Mordechai Vanunu must remain a virtual prisoner | Redress Information & Analysis
  As we predicted, Israel’s Supreme Court has dismissed a request by nuclear whistleblower Mordechai Vanunu to leave Israel. Vanunu, who served 18 years in prison for telling the world the truth about Israel’s nuclear secrets, was released from prison in 2004, but he is prohibited from leaving the apartheid state, visiting the occupied West Bank or approaching foreign embassies and speaking with foreign nationals. He also is not permitted to communicate with others online...
 
Reuters: "France may ban black comedian for anti-Semitic jibes" | Robert Faurisson
..Dieudonné, a fabulous comic actor and humourist, is rebuked above all for siding openly with historical revisionism, thus against the religion of "the Holocaust". Having become a friend of professor Robert Faurisson, on December 26, 2008 – exactly five years ago – he invited him to speak on stage at the Zénith theatre in Paris before 5,000 people and handed him "the Prize of infrequentability and insolence". In December 2010 he awarded him the "Quenelle of subversion"..
 
Own goal | Paul Eisen
  "We expect that the English Premier League officials as well as the police will give Anelka the appropriate punishment" said the European Jewish Congress when French West Bromwich Albion star Nicolas Anelka celebrated his goal by flashing the now-ubiquitous 'quenelle'. We foolish Jews. As any schoolteacher knows: the more you ban it, the more they'll do it...



Dec 29, 2013

Bequest of Cast Lead: Five Years of Brutality, by Ibrahim Vawda | Palestine Chronicle
  Many will spend the day recalling these moments in time five years ago that stunned the world. It is difficult to pinpoint exactly what sears these moments into the mind’s eye. Perhaps it was the corpses that piled up on the streets of Gaza as the mortuaries overflowed.. Perhaps it was the ferocity with which the might of the world's most sophisticated armaments were brought to bear on the souls of a defenseless civilian population. What remains without question is that Gaza was never the same after Operation Cast Lead and neither would the lives of the 1.8 million people that were subjected to the bombardment...
 
Reuters: $8.5 Trillion in Taxpayer Money to Pentagon Since 1996 Has Never Been Accounted For | LeakSource
  For two decades, the U.S. military has been unable to submit to an audit, flouting federal law and concealing waste and fraud totaling billions of dollars. At the DFAS offices that handle accounting for the Army, Navy, Air Force and other defense agencies, fudging the accounts with false entries is standard operating procedure, Reuters has found. And plugging (false numbers) isn’t confined to DFAS (pronounced DEE-fass). Former military service officials say record-keeping at the operational level throughout the services is rife with made-up numbers to cover lost or missing information...
[This sort of thing will stop only when the dollar is no longer the world’s reserve currency. In the meantime, the Treasury can just keep printing money without fear of inflation as long as the Chinese and the other creditors keep buying the debt, and the psychopaths inside the beltway will use it in pursuit of their imperial fantasies.]
 
Israeli soldier fires at Palestinian woman at close range, by Ali Abunimah | The Electronic Intifada
  This disturbing sight of soldiers firing on unarmed civilians occurred as occupation forces assaulted participants in the weekly demonstration against land theft and colonization in the West Bank village of Nabi Saleh today. The unarmed Tamimi can be seen walking towards the soldiers, apparently ordering them to leave the village. As she approaches, one of the soldiers fires at point-blank range. Tamimi was hit with four rubber-coated steel bullets in her knees and legs...
[Hardly worth recording - it happens almost every day]
 
The Voice of Syria in North America: a report on the Mother Agnes tour | Syria Solidarity Movement
  Mother Agnes Mariam of the Cross says that although she received a warm welcome everywhere during her visit to North America, she also encountered more hostility than even in some of the opposition-held areas in Syria. This may be an exaggeration, but it is certainly true that much of the battle for Syria takes place in the US and Canada.  This is because we are the countries that provide much of the arms, money and supplies to fighters seeking to overthrow the Damascus government, including as many as 150,000 foreign mercenaries and “volunteers”..
 
A Peres for a Pollard | Roi Tov
  How can one define "stagnation?" A concise way is by uttering the name "Shimon Peres." In 1952, he was appointed Deputy Director-General of the Ministry of Defense by David Ben Gurion. The following year he became Director-General and since then he is at the top echelon of Israeli politics, currently holding the position of President of Israel. In December 2013, at the age of 90, he is the world's oldest head of state. He is stagnation's grandfather...
 
Mazal Tov to Chomsky and Jews Voice for Peace | Gilad Atzmon
  JVP is moving from strength to strength. Though it didn’t liberate Palestine yet, it certainly managed to convince a few Jews that Jewishness is actually a good thing. Today we learned that the legendary activist and scholar Noam Chomsky appealed to the general public to donate to the Jews only Group...
[Gilad nails it - as usual]
 
Walled in by Zionist ugliness: The grim horror now surrounding our “Little Town of Bethlehem, by Stuart Littlewood | Redress Information & Analysis
  London’s Christmas was made gloomier this year – and rightly so – by the appearance in the courtyard of St James’s Church, Piccadilly, of a replica of the hated Israeli annexation wall that threads its thieving way around the Palestinian West Bank. It’s a life-size representation of the actual 8-metre high wall surrounding Bethlehem and imprisoning its inhabitants. The project, called Bethlehem Unwrapped, is a response to a call from the united churches of the Holy Land pleading with churches and communities around the world to “help us get our freedom back”..
 
Samer Issawi, Hunger Strikes, and the Palestinian Struggle, by Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century
  For the last three years Palestinian prisoners, mainly unlawfully detained in Israeli jails, have been engaged in a series of life threatening hunger strikes to protest administrative detention imprisonment (that is,without indictment, charges, and access to allegedly incriminating evidence), abusive arrest procedures (including nighttime arrests involving brutality in the presence of family members, detention for prolonged interrogations violating international standards, e.g. 22 hours at a time, sleep deprivation), and deplorable prison conditions (including unlawful transfer to Israeli prisons, denial of family visits, solitary confinement for prolonged periods)..
 
‘Mossad, Bush planned, executed 9/11’ by Gordon Duff | Veterans Today
  The story was simple, two American congressional representatives were allowed to read the Congressional 9/11 Investigation Report, this time including the areas President Bush had ordered removed. Both congressmen clearly state that the redacted pages of the report place full responsibility for the planning and execution of 9/11 on one or more foreign intelligence agencies, not “terrorists.” What is also clear is that President Bush’s personal role in covering this up protected the real perpetrators of 9/11 and pushed the US into, not just two insane wars but draconian moves against America’s government...
[There is only one obvious problem with this theory - George W. Bush is such a moron that he'd be incapable of planning anything more complex than washing the dishes, which he's probably never done anyway. However, it's likely that he was a willing, even enthusiastic, cheerleader for the actual perpetrators.]
 
The Age of the Billionaires, by Rodolfo Acuña | CounterPunch
  Every day I realize more how little we have progressed since the nineteenth century in terms of ideas. Our technological advances dwarf our ability to conceptualize new paradigms. It is as if we are trapped in a twilight zone...
 
How to defeat Big Brother, by Andrew Leonard | Salon
...Edward Snowden, whether one considers him a traitor or a hero, indisputably put the issue of government spying on the national table, and provoked a conversation that seems likely to have real political consequences. He used the technology available to him to turn the camera back on the watchers. It’s a model we should be following in every domain. Let’s turn a closer eye on our employers and our content providers and our advertisers. Maybe the full potential of the Panopticon will only be realized when everybody — the powerless and the powerful, the leaders and the led, the stalkers and the stalked — realizes that everyone is watching everything...
 
'Time is running out': The peace process and the fierce urgency of never, by Max Blumenthal | Mondoweiss
...The transformation of an ethnically exclusivist Jewish state into a multi-ethnic confederation or democratic bi-national state is absolutely unacceptable to all parties involved in the peace process. That includes the Palestinian Authority, whose legitimacy rests on the notion that it will eventually become the steward of an autocratic Arab state with the consent of Israel and support from the US and EU. So as the facts on the ground render Palestinian statehood a fantasy, the peace processors must continually wind back the alarm clock on apartheid, indefinitely postponing the date with destiny to preserve the status quo and secure their paychecks...
 
Of Hunters and Policemen, by Tamar Fleishman | Palestine Chronicle
...Perhaps it was the brightness of the snow or it was all in the eyes of the beholder, but it seemed that on that day, as the date of the release of Palestinian political prisoners was approaching, Barghouti’s face, a man who rots in prison and who once might have been the one to lead the Palestinian people towards independence, is starting to vanish, to fade away from our consciousness and perhaps even from history...
 
Six JFK Shooters, Three Tied To CIA, Named–Oswald not among them, by Sherwood Ross | Veterans Today
...As for the motivation to kill JFK, Fetzer noted that he was threatening to shatter the CIA into a thousand pieces, that the Joint Chiefs believed he was soft on communism, that the Mafia was unhappy because Attorney General Robert Kennedy was cracking down on organized crime, that he was going to abolish the FED and cut the oil depletion allowance. Fetzer said Vice President Johnson, who had forced his way onto the ticket with JFK in Los Angeles in order to succeed him when he would be taken out, “was a pivotal player” facilitating the assassination...
 
The NYT's and Boston Globe's "Path to Equality" by John Spritzler | New Democracy World
  Due in large measure to Occupy Wall Street, the wrongness and magnitude of extreme economic inequality is finally a non-ignorable issue, so much so that the establishment media feels it must deal with it in order to maintain some modicum of credibility in the eyes of the public. No longer is economic inequality the taboo subject it once was in papers like the New York Times and the Boston Globe. Knowing that the public is aware of the problem and wants it solved, the ruling elite's loyal pundits are writing about how to solve it, or at least how to make it appear that the ruling class is trying to solve it...
 
Stanford Study: It Is Trivially Easy to Identify People With Metadata, by John Glaser | Antiwar
  When the NSA’s bulk collection of every single American’s phone records was disclosed this past summer, defenders of the program argued it was not invasive surveillance because it’s only metadata (who you called, when, and for how long) and doesn’t include the identity of the callers or the content of the conversation. “There are no names, there’s no content in that database,” Obama said in June. A new study at Stanford University has just ripped that argument to shreds...



Dec 28, 2013


Stealing Palestine - The International Conspiracy to Rob Palestinians of their Freedom and Homeland: Richard Falk Interviewed by Stuart Littlewood | Al Jazeerah
  As the international conspiracy to rob Palestinians of their freedom and homeland is exposed a little more each day, observers and activists still puzzle over the duplicity of the United Nations in the decades-long illegal occupation and ethnic cleansing of the Palestinian territories, not to mention the true intent of Palestinian leaders. So when Richard Falk, Professor of International Law at Princeton and UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in Occupied Palestine, visited Norwich recently, I took the opportunity to put some questions to him...
 
USA: a powerless peace broker, by Jamal Kanj | Redress Information & Analysis
...Since Oslo, Palestinians have endorsed all of the US’s and Israel’s pre conditions, starting with UN Security Council Resolution 242, recognition of Israel and amending the Palestinian National Charter, but without any reciprocal recognition of their rights by Israel. Today, Israel is requesting to prequalify previous Palestinian recognition of it, not just as a nation of people, but as an ethnocentric “Jewish state”. It is also demanding that any future peace agreement must codify its occupation of parts of the West Bank –the Jordan River valley – under a euphemism called “security arrangements”..
 
Little Hala and the Herods of Israel, by Vacy Vlazna | Dissident Voice
...On Christmas Eve, while Christians knelt in churches to honour the birth of the eternal light of the Child of Bethlehem — the Child of peace, Israeli Herods struck Gaza and the life-light of little Hala haemorrhaged into eternal death. Hala Ahmed Abu Sbaikha, all of 3 years old, was, like all toddlers, both vivacious and shy, playful, affectionate with bright curious eyes and with a so soft cheek to rest a bedtime kiss. Why did the Herods of Israel attack Gaza? There are three possible answers — one false, one truly appalling, one heinous...
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Why Barack Obama Does not Want Iran to Take Part in Geneva-2 Conference, by Nikolay Bobkin | Strategic Culture Foundation
  Barack Obama summed up the results of the year at a White House conference. Talking about foreign policy he did not omit Iran. The President made a promise to veto any sanctions imposed against this country by Congress. At that Washington’s refusal to see Iran as a Geneva-2 conference participant sounds rather insulting for Tehran. The administration’s attempts to hinder the process of imposing sanctions against Iran in the Senate have led nowhere...
 
Bread and Puppet Theater Founder Peter Schumann on 50 Years of Art and Resistance | Democracy Now!
  This year marks the 50th anniversary of one of this country’s most beloved theater companies. Founded in New York City in 1963, the Bread and Puppet Theater’s first productions ranged from puppet shows for children to pieces opposing poor housing conditions. The group’s processions, involving monstrous puppets, some about 20 feet high, became a fixture of protests against the Vietnam War. "We don’t have playwrights in the theater. Our playwright is the daily news, is this — all this horror that happens," says theater founder Peter Schumann. "And it’s not so much that we want to do it, but we continuously get obliged to do it, because the goddamn media don’t say it...
 
Eritrean Pub, Muslim Synagogue and Netanyahu's Racism | Roi Tov
  The video below shows part of PM Netanyahu's message to IDF Christian conscripts for Christmas 2013. This year, it was leaked to YouTube due to an embarrassing error. Even if not understanding Hebrew, Netanyahu's stumbling is clear. While speaking to Christian Israelis, he said "our Jewish State." With the forceful will of a former commando, he mercilessly cut the awful error and added "our country." Christmas is spent in darkness in most of the Holy Land. Municipal regulations prohibit celebrations. In 2013, the Chief Censor illuminated the event with a bright lightning that illuminated his own racism...
 
The Bombing of Pearl Harbor: The Good War, Revisited, by Jeffrey St. Clair and Alexander Cockburn | CounterPunch
  Each Pearl Harbor day offers a fresh opportunity for those who correctly believe 
that Franklin Roosevelt knew of an impending attack by the Japanese and welcomed it as 
a way of snookering the isolationists and getting America into the war. And year by year the evidence continues to mount. The Naval 
Institute’s website  featured a detailed article by Daryl Borgquist to 
the effect that high Red Cross officials with close contacts to Roosevelt quietly
 ordered large quantities of medical supplies and experienced medical personnel 
shipped to Hawaii well before Dec. 7, 1941...
 
Hazards of Revolution, by Patrick Cockburn | LRB
...The uprisings of the Arab Spring have so far produced anarchy in Libya, a civil war in Syria, greater autocracy in Bahrain and resumed dictatorial rule in Egypt. In Syria, the uprising began in March 2011 with demonstrations against the brutality of Assad’s regime. ‘Peace! Peace!’ protesters chanted. But ‘if there was a fair election in Syria today,’ one commentator said, ‘Assad would probably win it.’ It isn’t only the protesters and insurgents of 2011 whose aspirations are being frustrated or crushed...
 
History of British Petroleum (Part II), by Dean Henderson | Veterans Today
  In 1928, Sir John Cadman of BP held a little meeting at his Achnacarry, Scotland castle.  In attendance were Sir Henry Deterding of Royal Dutch/Shell, later an avid supporter of Adolf Hitler; Walter Teagle of Exxon, who later shipped chemicals to the Nazis; and William Mellon of Gulf Oil, which is now part of the ChevronTexaco abomination. The Achnacarry Agreement divided the world’s oil reserves among the Four Horsemen.. British Petroleum, formerly known as first Anglo-Persian Oil and then Anglo-Iranian Oil, hatched Operation Ajax in 1953, employing CIA, Israeli Mossad and British M16 agents to overthrow the democratically elected government of Mohamed Mossadegh in Iran...
 
Asymmetric Warfare: The Killings Fields of Gaza, by Colin Green | CounterPunch
  Revelations from Israeli sources such as ‘Breaking the Silence’ and ‘Physicians for Human Rights-Israel’ that the Israeli assaults on Gaza in 2008/9 (Cast Lead) and 2012 (Pillars of Defence) were planned many months ahead pose many questions about the real motives for the seven year siege and these massive attacks on a helpless concentration of impoverished and imprisoned people.  Let us then pose just some of those questions and seek objective answers to:..
 
America's War on Humanity | Stephen Lendman
  On Christmas day it raged. Holidays are no exception. America's killing machine observes none. Mass slaughter and destruction continue. It's longstanding US policy. Historian Gabriel called the 20th century "the bloodiest in all history." Civilians suffered most. Wars ravage humanity. New millennium ones rage. America bears most responsibility. Its quest for global dominance takes millions of lives. US leaders consider it a small price to pay...
 
Spying Claus: Season's Greetings from Truthdig! | YouTube
  See Spying Claus make his rounds this holiday season. He sees you when you're sleeping, he knows what calls you make. Forget Santa, this season is about Spying Claus! A Truthdig holiday greeting by political animator Mark Fiore...
 
Sigmund Freud, Psychoanalysis, and the War on the West, by Jonas E. Alexis | Veterans Today
  Like Carl Jung, Sigmund Freud did not base psychoanalysis, which he championed to the entire Western world, on scientific premises. When psychoanalysis came to America, it was largely viewed as an unproven system of thought. Though no evidence was available, psychoanalysis began to dominate American culture for more than fifty years.. Freudian psychology slowly but surely began to dominate the classical psychology, which started with the Greeks and which was to a large extent based on reason. Psychology progressively began to be viewed as an academic exercise for smuggling in Jewish ideology...
 
ASA Boycott: Harvard Should Talk! by Francis Boyle | MCW News
  I notice your condemnation of the ASA Boycott against Israel in today's New York Times. I note for the record that Harvard has never once apologized to those of us Harvard Alums who participated in good faith in the Harvard Divestment/Disinvestment Campaign against Israel when your predecessor Larry Summers accused us of being anti-Semitic-- a charge which he refused to defend against me as related below. As a matter of fact, Harvard is so notoriously anti-Palestinian that the late, great Edward Said refused to accept Harvard's top chair in Comparative Literature when Harvard offered it to him...
[Harvard has come a long way - down - since my father graduated in 1933. Then, he was one of a few swimming upstream against a bastion of the Boston Brahmins. Now, it is the intellectual capital of ZioNazism – not surprisingly, about 40% of the incoming classes are Jewish. It was the perfect sinecure for the despicable Dershowitz to defend his chosen country, treasonously, from culpability for genocide - not to mention his other crimes of plagiarism and spousal abuse.]
 
About goodies, baddies and two little girls, by Adam Keller | Crazy Country
  Communications media are an integral part of society. They reflect but also shape the common conceptions of their society. Societies at war cultivate the perception that we are the Good Guys.  It is this perception which facilitates the use of weapons, making it easier for the Good Guys to kill the Baddies facing them. Our fighters are heroic and humane soldiers, theirs are terrible monstrous terrorists. Our dead civilians were innocent victims of cruel  murder, theirs are unfortunate mistakes, collateral damages . And even our  children are sweeter and far more precious than theirs...
 
Israel Has Been “Singled Out” in the US for a Very Long Time, by Thomas S. Harrington | CounterPunch
...Is there another country that could purposely sink a US warship, the USS Liberty in 1967, and never suffer any sanction or recognizable alteration bilateral relations for doing so? Is there any other country that could assassinate an unarmed US citizen in an act of piracy on the high seas–Furkan Dogan in 2010–and not only not be called onto the carpet for it, but also have the operation–patently illegal under the international laws of the sea–that led to the death be met with virtual silence by US State Department spokespersons and praise from a considerable part  of the US Congress?..
 
From Freedom to Totalitarianism and Beyond: The End of Freedom in America? by Robert P. Abele | CounterPunch
  As must appear self-evident to both historians and astute observers by now, the United States, in its history, has had a rather facile and at times acrimonious relationship to the idea of domestic democracy (If this is not self-evident, see Noam Chomsky, Hegemony or Survival, along with Failed States. For a specific analysis of this observation applied to the USA Patriot Act, see my A User’s Guide to the USA Patriot Act). What is seldom noticed, however, is the speed with which the U.S. has moved from a liberal democracy to, at best, an authoritarian government...
 
Moments of Revelation, by Nebojsa Malic | Antiwar
..In the Balkans, the tone for 2013 was set in December 2012, when the Empire-installed regime in Belgrade pledged to break Serbia in exchange for lording over its ruins. But the understanding of Empire’s Balkans policy was much illuminated in late January, by longtime Balkans observer James Jatras, who offered two simple rules and a corollary. Not only have they explained events over the previous two decades, but everything that has happened since. The Empire’s conduct has been clueless as well as callous...
 
On WWI Centenary, Will Congress Repeat the Blunders of Russia and Germany? by Jim Lobe | LobeLog
  In just a week, 2014 will dawn upon us, and, as we approach the mid-year mark, the number of op-eds, retrospectives, and documentaries about the Great War that broke out 100 years before, will likely be overwhelming. The question is what, if any, lessons will be drawn and how they will be applied, if at all, to today. Hopefully, it won’t be too late by the time we mark the “Guns of August” to prevent the United States — and specifically, the U.S. Congress – from having embarked on a new “march of folly” — war with Iran...



Dec 27, 2013

Merry Xmas (Continued)
  The annual Christmas celebrations around the world conjure up a kaleidoscope of emotions, ranging from the sombre to the joyful, from pity to awe. One thing often missing though from the celebrations is a connection between the original historical event – some 2,000 years ago – and how this story relates to present reality. But a new billboard campaign in the US is giving the Christmas story a refreshing, but realistic, contemporary meaning...
 
  St. James’ Church in central London unveiled an eight-meter-high replica of the Israeli-built concrete wall that entirely surrounds the Palestinian city of Bethlehem in the occupied West Bank, the traditional birthplace of Jesus. It is an effort to bring to London some of the reality of what it is like to live in Bethlehem in 2013. The wall deliberately obscures the facade of the historic St. James’ Church “because that is what has happened to Bethlehem’s holy sites and historic places.”..
 
..Even non-fans of Fox don’t seem to know, or care, that Muslims love Jesus and the story of his miraculous conception and birth. My wife tells me her liberal and progressive friends don’t seem to want to hear about Surat Maryam – regarded by Muslims and non-Muslims alike as one of the Qur’an’s most beautiful passages. Nobody celebrating the birth of Jesus could possibly find a more succinct and moving description of the Christmas story. That’s right: The best short summary of the Christmas story is in the Qur’an. Christians might consider playing Surat Miryam – the most beautiful Christmas music imaginable – alongside “Silent Night” and the other classics...
 
How can there be with wars raging out-of control! Who's celebrating while mass slaughter and destruction persist? No Christmas cheer this year for billions. No Feliz Navidad. No happy holiday. No Wise Men spreading good will.  No silent, holy night. No decking the halls. No herald angels singing. None heard on high...
 
..This is not your typical major production flash mob video. Such events in the Holy Land today are always done on a shoestring budget. The Zios still have a very effective boycott on the Palestinians, including their even being there. The small crowd you will see here is representative of the Christian population of the Holy Land being reduced from 20% to 2% since the Nakba, compliments of the group that portrays itself as the most esteemed victim group in history...
 
Congress Must Not Cede Its War Power to Israel, by Sheldon Richman | Future of Freedom Foundation
  The American people should know that pending right now in Congress is a bipartisan bill that would virtually commit the United States to go to war against Iran if Israel attacks the Islamic Republic. “The bill outsources any decision about resort to military action to the government of Israel,” Columbia University Iran expert Gary Sick wrote to Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) in protest, one of the bill’s principal sponsors.The mind boggles at the thought that Congress would let a foreign government decide when America goes to war, so here is the language:..
 
Israel Replaces Names of Africans with Nazi-style Numbers | Roi Tov
...African workers are welcome by Israel but are defined illegal. They are allowed to work, otherwise who will tend Jewish gardens? However, if they give any signs that they are attempting to settle (like registering their children to a school) they are quickly imprisoned in special jails (Saharonim and Holot) and later on deported. The day after the fight in Court, a shocking revelation hit Israel. The Israeli treatment of Africans is closer to the treatment of Jews by Nazi Germany than anybody imagined. Israel stripped of names from these humans, innocent men and women who deserve identity and freedom. Like the Nazi tattoos, Israel replaced their names with numbers...
 
The artist and the house painter | Paul Eisen
  The Austrian government and the media believe that Nitsch can uplift one's spirit by his "touching creations" - naked girls, resting in the bloody guts of butchered sows. On the other hand an individual will go to prison for up to 15 years in Austria if he possesses and shows or exhibits a piece of an Adolf Hitler painting...
 
Remember Mordechai Vanunu, Israel’s heroic nuclear whistleblower | Redress Information & Analysis
  He should have received the Nobel Peace Prize. Instead, he spent 18 years in solitary confinement. He should be celebrated internationally as a man who has sacrificed his freedom for the truth and for the wellbeing of humanity. Instead, he has been stripped off his right to travel and prohibited from talking to foreigners. Today, Mordechai Vanunu, the Israeli nuclear whistleblower, is almost forgotten. But he has not given up the fight for freedom...
 
We Are All Joseph K.: Kafka in America, by William Manson | CounterPunch
  In his novel The Trial, Franz Kafka conjured up the nightmarish, surreal yet strangely familiar world of an ordinary person trapped in a web of bewildering government interventions. Inexplicably, the eponymous protagonist “Joseph K” suddenly finds himself under relentless observation—and is then arrested on charges which remain undisclosed. (“Is it political?” gasps Jeanne Moreau, in Orson Welles’ film version; or, as Orwell’s Winston Smith would say, “is it a thought-crime?”) Seeking to uncover why (and for what) he has become ensnared, Joseph K will take a labyrinthine journey through the intricate legalisms and self-perpetuating contradictions of courts and bureaucracies...
 
Challenges to international humanitarian law: Israel’s occupation policy, by Peter Maurer | International Committee of the Red Cross
...Perhaps the most protracted and entrenched humanitarian situation in the region is the continued alienation of the Palestinian population living under occupation in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, or displaced in refugee camps across the region. Their dire situation further demonstrates the need to find practical steps to rebuild basic human capital within Palestinian communities, which is sorely needed to generate hope and stability in the region as a whole...
 
President Rouhani: Iranian nation pioneering anti-extremism movement | Iran Project
  Iranian President Hassan Rouhani, whose proposal under the name of ‘World against Violent Extremism (WAVE) Act’ was recently approved at the UN General Assembly, underlined that Iran is a leading country in fighting extremism and violence. “Now that our great nation has raised the flag of fighting violence and extremism by the UN General Assembly’s approval, it wants to deliver the message of ethics, action and moderation to the whole world with the help of all followers of Abrahamic religions,”..
 
Israel Marks 5th Anniversary of Operation Cast Lead with Air Strikes on Gaza, by Julie Webb-Pullman | Palestine Chronicle
  On the fifth anniversary of its brutal Operation Cast Lead, Israel launched a series of attacks on the Gaza Strip on Thursday night, injuring at least two people.  One of the injured has been identified as Salem al-Asi, aged 41 years. The targets included the Al Nafaq area in Gaza City, which has barely recovered from being submerged by flood-waters during recent storms, adding further suffering for the already-reeling residents. Thursday’s attacks follow hard on the heels of Israel’s killing of three year old Hala Abu Sabikha whilst playing in her yard. Hala’s aunt and other relatives were also injured when an Israeli tank fired three shells at the family home...
 
Why Do So Many Jews Hate Black People? | The Bilzerian Report
  Dov Lior, a popular chief rabbi in Israel, recently called Obama a Kushi, which is Israel’s equivalent to nig*er. Most Americans are completely unaware of the general contempt that many Jewish people have towards blacks, as Max Blumenthal found out when he interviewed dozens of young people in Israel who reiterated the Rabbi’s sentiments about Obama. Blumenthal’s video titled Feeling the Hate in Israel was removed from YouTube, Vimeo, and the Huffington Post shortly after going viral...
 
Drone-spotting: Survival guide informs on new breed of aerial predators | RT News
...The US’ use of drones for surveillance as well as military strikes has drawn global recognition. Last week the Yemeni parliament passed an anti-drone motion because of the civilian lives lost in the US strikes on Al-Qaeda militants in the country. Pakistan has also condemned the US for its use of the craft, decrying the strikes as an affront to its sovereignty. Moreover, the Obama Administration has come into the firing line for increasing the amount of drones operating in American air space. By 2030 The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has estimated that around 30,000 craft will be operational in the US...
 
AIPAC’s Fed Candidate Stanley Fischer on a Warpath against Iran, by Grant F. Smith | Dissident Voice
  Dual-citizen nominee's lifetime benefit to Israel comes at a heavy cost to America.. The rushed campaign to insert Stanley Fischer straight from his position leading Israel’s central bank into the number two spot at the Federal Reserve has allowed little time for research into the appointee’s career or for informed public debate about his record. Like the failed recent Obama administration-Israel lobby pincer move to ram approval for U.S. military strikes on Syria through Congress, avoiding such due diligence through velocity may actually be the only means for successful Senate confirmation...
[They run it anyway, but this is so in your face]
 
Profile of a Racist Zionist State | Stephen Lendman
  Israel is no democracy. It deplores democratic values. It ignores rule of law principles. Non-Jews aren't wanted. Muslims are ruthlessly persecuted. They're terrorized. Praying to the wrong God is criminalized. Last week was like all others. Israeli soldiers murdered 29-year old Odeh Jihad Hamad in cold blood. He was well inside Israel's imposed border zone with Gaza. Soldiers shot him in the head.. In Jerusalem,.. Hadassah Ein Karem was on his donkey.. A settler ran him over...
 
Who is the Middle East Leader of the Year? The Bloody Rise of Abu D'ua, by Patrick Cockburn | CounterPunch
...there is one leader in the Middle East who can look back on the achievements of the past year with unmitigated satisfaction. He leads an organisation that was supposedly on its way to extinction or irrelevance three years ago, but today it is an ever more powerful force in the vast triangle of territory in Iraq and Syria between Mosul, Baghdad and the Mediterranean coast. Unfortunately, the most successful leader in the Middle East this year is surely Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, also known as Abu D’ua, the leader of al-Qa’ida in Iraq, which changed its name this year to the Islamic State of Iraq and Sham (Isis) and claims to be the sole al-Qaida affiliate in Syria as well as Iraq...
 
We’re The Good Guys, by Philip Giraldi | Antiwar
...What bothers me particularly is that the former intelligence officers are, generally speaking, not only well-educated but also experienced in living overseas and dealing with foreign languages and cultures. Many of them are practicing Catholics, some of whom take their religion very seriously indeed. So they are not Michelle Bachmann type ignorant bigots, which means that they should know better. I asked one, "Why do we have a constitution if the president can kill whomever he wants?" There was no response as if the question itself were irrelevant...
 
2013: Assessing the Conflict in Syria and Egypt – The War Continues, by Ramzy Baroud | Palestine Chronicle
...A major question however will continue to surface: even if the secular Syrian opposition agrees to a future arrangement with the current Syrian regime of Bashar al-Assad, will that have any bearings on other extremist forces fighting their own cause? Even with the most optimistic assessments, the Syrian conflict is unlikely to be settled in 2014. The same assessment is also relevant in the case of Egypt. In 2013, the conflict in Egypt has taken on a different dimension, although most media (Arab and international) are so saturated by half-truths and/or intentional misinformation. It is almost impossible to reach a level-headed understanding of what is transpiring...



Dec 26, 2013


Obama and the Legacy of American Capitalism, by Charles Sullivan | CounterPunch
...Most of the self-proclaimed liberals who castigated Bush and Cheney for their neoconservative polices are giving Obama, whose polices are no less regressive or extreme than those of his precursors, a free ride. This is because the president belongs to the Democratic Party, which continues to be associated with traditional liberalism in the minds of contemporary faux progressives and liberals, rather than the neoliberalism that defines its policies. Those who continue to support Obama and his backsliding pro-corporate regime obviously have no conception about what classical liberalism and progressivism are. They are at least half a century behind the times...
 
The War on Terror's Jedi Mind Trick, by Julian Sanchez | The Atlantic
...Since the disclosure of the NSA’s massive domestic phone-records database, authorized under a tortured reading of the Patriot Act’s Section 215 authority to obtain business records, intelligence officials and their allies in Congress have claimed it plays a vital role in protecting Americans from “dozens” of terror attacks. But as the expert panel Obama appointed to review the classified facts concluded, in a report released Wednesday, that just isn’t true...
 
To Keep Gaza on Brink of Disaster is Security Interest of Israel, by Iqbal Jassat | Palestine Chronicle
  A startling new revelation by Wikileaks claims that Israeli officials told their American counterparts of a secret policy to keep Gaza on brink of humanitarian crisis. Classified ‘Secret’ it is addressed from US Embassy in Israel to Department of the Treasury, Secretary of State as well as Egypt, Cairo. Though the revelation is 5 years old [dated November 3, 2008] the shocking decision to punish Palestinians in Gaza is as raw and brutal as today...
 
Albert Einstein: “A Foolish Faith In Authority Is The Worst Enemy Of The Truth” by Washington's Blog | Global Research
...Indeed, scientists have shown that people will go to absurd lengths - and engage in mental gymnastics – in order to cling to their belief in what those in authority have said. Part of the reason so many are so vulnerable to naive belief in authority is that we evolved in small tribes … and we assume that the super-elites are just like us. In reality, there are millions of psychopaths in the world … and they are largely running D.C. and on Wall Street. These people have no hesitation in lying to promote their goals...
 
Conditions of Apartheid, by Maria C. Khoury | CounterPunch
...This is the 46th year that Christians in Bethlehem will be celebrating Christmas under Israeli military occupation. It is important.. to pray for the peace that the “Prince of Peace” offers in a place that has turned into a big prison. As the local people are literally locked up behind a 26 foot concrete wall, the Christian community will continue to reflect the true Light of Christ no matter how small their numbers dwindle. Palestinian Christians will continue to announce the Good News from Bethlehem with their genuine witness, although more than twenty-two illegal Israeli settlements are closing in on the little town of Christ’s birth...
 
Snowden Offers a Christmas Message: Privacy Matters | NYT
..“The conversation occurring today will determine the amount of trust we can place both in the technology that surrounds us and the government that regulates it. Together we can find a better balance, end mass surveillance and remind the government that if it really wants to know how we feel, asking is always cheaper than spying,”..
 
Anti-Africans Protest Hits Israeli Supreme Court | Roi Tov
  "You don't understand what we are passing through. You [Supreme Court Justices] are causing this situation, this sin. We are afraid of walking on the street; our children cannot leave the house. If it happened to your children, you would behave differently." "They [Supreme Court Justices] reject our petitions but accept those of the self-beautifying [derogatory idiom] calling themselves human rights organizations. They do not know what does it means to live near the infiltrators."..
 
Stand up for hope, justice and peace in Palestine | Redress Information & Analysis
  Every Christmas Palestine celebrates the birth of one of its own, Jesus Christ. Palestinians, continue to yearn for justice and peace in the Holy Land and, this year, their hope is renewed as they prepare to receive his Pope Francis I. Let us hope that he does not disappoint them, as his predecessor Pope Benedict did, shamelessly...
 
Occupy Our Minds: To Empower Ourselves, We Need to Plug the 7 Holes In Our Heads | Washington's Blog
...Kouri, who’s a vice president of the National Assn. of Chiefs of Police, has assembled traits such as superficial charm, an exaggerated sense of self-worth, glibness, lying, lack of remorse and manipulation of others. These traits, Kouri points out in his analysis, are common to psychopathic serial killers. But — and here’s the part that may spark some controversy and defensive discussion — these traits are also common to American politicians. (Maybe you already suspected.)..
 
Rabbi Josef Antebi exposing Zionists, even after being tortured by them! | YouTube
  Most people don't know, that many orthodox jews oppose Israel and the occupation of Palestine. These orthodox jews believe Zionism endangers peace on earth. One of them is Rabbi Josef Antebi (born in Hebron), who was tortured by Zionists. This is an interview made in Amsterdam, the last day of Hanuka...
 
Bethlehem Unwrapped: St James's Church Piccadilly London
...The wall in our courtyard is a replica segment of the wall that surrounds Bethlehem. It is 8 metres tall because the real wall is 8 metres.  It obscures the view of this historic church because that is what has happened to Bethlehem’s holy sites and historic places. In 2009, Patriarchs and Heads of Churches in Jerusalem issued a joint appeal to Christians throughout the world to understand and help to alleviate the desperate hardship the wall has caused. It is a daily disaster for ordinary Palestinian families...
 
$1 Million Bet: "Jews Are Better Connected Than Blacks," by Alcibiades Blitzerian | Boldface  News
...The ADL, which is supposed to protect society from racism, is actually one of the most racist organizations on the planet. The ADL has spread Islamaphobia, Armenian holocaust denial, and lobbied for wars and sanctions in the Middle East which have cost millions of lives. But regardless of that, Kayne West’s “controversial” comment is a provable fact. The Bilzerian Report is willing to back up this claim by issuing a $1,000,000 challenge to the ADL in which the statement “black people don’t have the same levels of connections as Jewish people” is tested by an impartial jury...
 
Jewish News For Christmas: Bugs Bunny is a Jew | Gilad Atzmon
  On Christmas Eve the ultra Zionist Algemeiner decided to break out the news to the world - “Bugs Bunny might be Jewish.” The Jewish outlet reported today that, ‘a noted Jewish-British cinematic historian has claimed that the world’s most famous rabbit displays prominent Jewish characteristics.” According to the Jewish scholar David Yehuda Stern, Bugs Bunny was “created by a Jewish producer, lived in a Jewish neighbourhood, has a distinctly New York/Jewish accent and uses his wit and sense of humour to avoid all attempts to eliminate him.”..
 
The Empire Behind World’s Largest History Magazine Chain: How American History Magazine Censored Palestine, by Alison Weir | CounterPunch
...Although many Americans are unaware of this, Americans are closely connected to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. We give well over $8 million per day to Israel, a state smaller than New Jersey. On average, Israelis receive 10,000 times more U.S. foreign aid per capita than other people throughout the world. And this costs us significantly more – some analysts have placed the total cost at approximately $15 million per day. We feel that it is essential that Americans become thoroughly informed about this conflict, which has cost multitudes of lives and created potentially catastrophic instability in the Middle East for over 60 years...
 
Elie Wiesel's Anti-Iranian Agenda | Stephen Lendman
  On December 18, The New Times ran a full-page anti-Iranian ad. It did so disgracefully. On December 19, the Wall Street Journal published it. It's an Elie Wiesel rant. It's hateful. It's racist. It's malicious misinformation.. Wiesel is no humanitarian. He's a shameless self-promoter. He's a holocaust exploiter.. Norman Finklestein calls him the "resident clown" of the holocaust circus.. Chomsky calls him "one of the major frauds of our time." He's an apologist for Israel's worst crimes...


Dec 25, 2013

Immortalising the Myth Comparing Zionist Apartheid Israel to Nazi Germany, by Anthony Lawson | Intifada Palestine
  I get incensed when so many people—even intelligent commentators like Paul Craig Roberts and Man of the People, Roger Waters—insist on comparing Israel to Nazi Germany, when the comparison is quite absurd.  Israel’s policies are far worse than Nazi Germany’s ever were...
 
Congress cites 9/11 Bush cover-up, demands Obama act, by Gordon Duff | Veterans Today
...For nearly a decade, the US has maintained security policies, both domestic and international, based on threats now known to have been totally fabricated. The cost, trillions of dollars, thousands of Americans dead in wars against “enemies” long known to have never been involved in terror attacks on America, the phony “hunt for bin Laden,” all of it, nothing but utter hogwash. What has been made clear is that President Bush was fully aware that neither Afghanistan nor Iraq were involved in 9/11 and that military action against those two nations was done to cover involvement of his administration in 9/11, involvement that included support from foreign intelligence agencies...
 
9/11 truth vs. Takfiri terror, by Kevin Barrett | Veterans Today
...A new anti-terror alliance is shaping up in the Middle East. Its most powerful weapon: the suppressed truth about 9/11.. Governments in the region and around the world are re-orienting and re-aligning. Even the USA, the failed world hegemon, is on the brink of a 180-degree shift. Narwani explains: “The Americans are in an extremely difficult position: to tackle the spread of extremists, they will have to support military and security solutions from old foes in the region – Iran, Syria, Hezbollah. For starters, this means that 30-plus years of ‘policy’ will literally be flushed away and Washington risks alienating longtime regional allies...
 
“The Answer to BDS is Jewish Power” | Gilad Atzmon
  While the BDS and Electronic Abunimah make a continuous and relentless effort to stop us from talking about ‘Jewish Power', Ben Cohen and The Algemeiner stated today, in the open, that  “The Answer to BDS is Jewish Power.” While the Jewish Left proves to us again and again that Jewish Power is the capacity to stop us discussing Jewish power, Zionist Cohen is actually proud to discuss, explore and even brag about 'Jews' and their 'powers.'..
 
Snowden declares 'mission accomplished' | Al Jazeera
  Edward Snowden has declared his mission "accomplished" just six months after he first leaked National Security Agency (NSA) secrets that triggered a re-evaluation of US surveillance policies.. "I already won," said Snowden. "As soon as the journalists were able to work, everything that I had been trying to do was validated.. Because, remember, I didn't want to change society. I wanted to give society a chance to determine if it should change itself," Snowden added...
 
There’s no bigotry in the boycott of Israel, by Henry Siegman | Veterans News
...There is something particularly offensive about such attempts to give outrageously undemocratic behavior the gloss of democratic legitimacy. It is precisely such phony pretensions of democratic behavior that the BDS movement objects to. Countries that make no bones about their despotism and their contempt for human rights do not require that kind of exposure. They also do not require it because none is a beneficiary of the largess that the State of Israel receives, which makes the donors accessories to the beneficiary’s bad behavior...
 
Christmas 2013, by Mazin Qumsiyeh | Popular Resistance
  Christmas in Bethlehem (Beit Laham, Aramaic for House of Laham, the Canaanitic God of Sustenance) is still a very special and meaningful time even under the brutal Israeli apartheid occupation. We are not talking about the visual aspects and the unique religious services at the Church of Nativity. It is special because reflection here is special...
 
Khamenei is not Hitler and Geneva is not Munich, by Thomas Buonomo | The Hill
  Members of Congress have in recent months drawn frequent reference to Munich 1938 as an analogy for the Obama administration’s diplomatic engagement with Iran.  The historical reference has long been used to conjure the specter of a genocidal dictator devilishly manipulating the naïve leader of a war-weary democracy into concessions intended to appease but instead whetting his appetite for more...
 
Major Globalist Anti-American Bronfman Dies as Flat World Slams 20th Century Coffin Shut, by Johnny Punish | Veterans Today
...by all accounts, Canadian Bronfman was a very effective high-on-the-food-chain Psychotic Predator and a global drug dealer who operated with impunity. His tireless 20th century work for “Jews” only, while admirable in the narrowest of sense, confirms that he had Jaundice when it comes to world vision and human leadership and that’s being polite.. Maybe he did Not know better or maybe he was pure evil. It matters not because in our 21st century, we’re all human beings;’ not just some of us...
 
Making War, Not Peace, in Syria | Stephen Lendman
...Radicalized elements dominate anti-Assad forces. They reject peace. So does Washington. Syria is Obama's war. US-supported death squads wage it. Obama didn't target Syria to quit. He wants Assad ousted. He wants a pro-Western stooge replacing him. He bears full responsibility for what's happening. He's been ravaging and destroying Syria since March 2011.  He's not about to stop now. He's gone all out to perpetuate conflict.. His agenda is war without mercy...
 
Xmas greetings to the UK Government...and a reminder of the misery its inaction perpetuates across the Holy Land, by Stuart Littlewood | Intifada Palestine
  At this important time who can forget how the British government, after its eager support for the Iraq war and its antics in Afghanistan and Libya, was itching to unleash more death and destruction a few weeks ago, this time on the Syrians while simultaneously imposing relentless hardships on the citizens of Iran? And who can forget the British government’s backing for Saddam in the Iran-Iraq war and, earlier, the economic ruin it inflicted on Iran’s fledgling democracy in order to reinstate the dictatorship of the Shah?..
 
Five key questions – and answers – about Iran’s social media influence, by Henry Farrell | Washington Post
...The availability of high-visibility leadership via social media certainly provides a rallying point or frame for bridging claims and identities of concerned actors, such as Shiites in the region. In the past, national audiences could be effectively shielded from outside expressions of leadership. That’s very hard to do now. Should they be worried? I probably would be...
 
With your support, Gaza's Ark to sail in 2014 | Wanabidii
...Despite the Israeli Government maintaining its illegal blockade, and the decision of the Egyptian authorities to all but close the border crossings at Rafah, we have continued with our work. Last month we organized the sailing of mini Arks in Gaza, raising several thousand dollars, but more importantly it brought great joy and hope to many local children who sailed boats made in Gaza, sponsored by people like you from all around the world...
 
Knesset: Netanyahu Responsible for Temple Mount Destruction | Roi Tov
  On December 24, 2013, the Interior Committee of the Knesset held a meeting on the ongoing destruction of antiquities in the Temple Mount. Invited to the event were Israel Police, Israel Antiquities Authority, and other organizations. "The situation has never been better," was the untrue but expected claim of the police while Member of the Knesset Orit Strook blamed systemic destruction on PM Netanyahu...
 
Israel launches fresh air strikes on Gaza | Al Jazeera
  A three-year-old Palestinian girl was killed and at least six other people wounded in a series of Israeli air and tank strikes on the Gaza Strip, medical sources said. Medics named the girl as Hala Abu Sabikha from the central Gaza Strip, noting "three other members of her family were wounded" on Tuesday. Emergency services spokesman Ashraf al-Qudra said six people had been wounded in a series of strikes, which came in response to the shooting to death earlier of an Israeli repairing the security fence separating Gaza from Israel...
[So common it doesn’t even raise an eyebrow – Mordor must be defeated and wiped off the map. May Sauron never rise again.]
.. I'm not a Christian but, ahhh. the music ..
 
 
Masaaki Suzuki conducts the Bach Collegium Japan...


 



Dec 24, 2013


"Security Arc" forms amidst Mideast terror, by Sharmine Narwani | Al Akhbar
  Many observers are correct in noting that the Middle East is undergoing yet another seismic shift - that the Russian-brokered destruction of Syria’s chemical weapons arsenal, a US-Iranian rapprochement, the diminished strategic value of Saudi Arabia and Israel, and a US withdrawal from Afghanistan will all contribute to changing regional dynamics considerably.. It has now become clear that the new Mideast "direction" is guided primarily by the “security threat" posed by the proliferation of extremist, sectarian, Islamist fighters in numbers unseen even in Afghanistan or Iraq...
 
Spying for Apartheid, by Philip Giraldi | The Unz Review
  The death of Nelson Mandela and the refusal of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to attend the funeral serve as a reminder of the somewhat tortuous relationship between South Africa and Israel as well as a notorious but little known spying case involving both nations and the Israel Lobby’s Anti-Defamation League (ADL) in the 1990s. Israel’s reluctance to celebrate Mandela is not exactly surprising as he became a prominent critic of Tel Aviv’s repression of the Palestinians...
 
Is holocaust orthodoxy paving the way to genocide in Palestine? by Daniel McGowan | Aletho News
...putting aside the virulent hate directed against those who question the veracity of the typical Holocaust narrative, what is it that these people believe and say at the risk of imprisonment and bodily harm? For most Holocaust revisionists or deniers if you prefer, their arguments boil down to three simple contentions:.. Are these revisionist contentions so odious as to cause those who believe them to be reviled, beaten, and imprisoned? More importantly, is it possible that revisionist contentions are true, or even partially true, and that they are despised because they contradict the story of the Holocaust, a story which has been elevated to the level of a religion...
[For a long time I have been trying to popularize a name for this religion, which has become the default belief system in the West - "the Holycause." If it appeals to you, use it and pass it on. I want to see it in the OED. My offer to supply the definition is on the table.]
 
Israel lobby launches fierce counterattack against American Studies Association, by Ali Abunimah | The Electronic Intifada
  Israel lobby groups are marshaling their formidable forces for a fierce counterattack against the American Studies Association (ASA), including calls for repressive legislation, boycotts and other measures to punish and silence solidarity with Palestinians...
 
Gareth Porter: Mainstream Media Fails To Get Facts Straight on Iran's Nuclear Fatwa | Real News/YouTube
 
Bill Moyers: The Great American Class War: Plutocracy Versus Democracy | TomDispatch
  If you’ve heard the phrase “class war” in twenty-first-century America, the odds are that it’s been a curse spat from the mouths of Republican warriors castigating Democrats for engaging in high crimes and misdemeanors like trying to tax the rich.  Back in 2011, for example, President Obama’s modest proposal of a “millionaire tax” was typically labeled “class warfare” and he was accused by Congressman Paul Ryan, among others, of heading down the “class warfare path.”  Similarly, in 2012, Mitt Romney and other Republican presidential hopefuls blasted the president for encouraging “class warfare” by attacking entrepreneurial success...
 
Vitali Klitschko's American Coaches, by Alexander Savchenko | Strategic Culture Foundation
  It has become the custom in independent Ukraine that there is not a single government ministry or agency and not a single political party in parliament besides the communists where "quiet Americans", or Britons, or Germans, have not ensconced themselves in order to tell the Ukrainian politicians and officials how they should run the country. And this is not likely to change if Vitali Klitschko becomes the next president of Ukraine...
[Shades of the disaster that befell Russia after the collapse of the Soviet Union]
 
The Turning Tide: The ASA, scholarly responsibility and the call for academic boycott of Israel, by Sarah T. Roberts | Mondoweiss
...Given these recent unprecedented events and the public debate they have spurred, it would appear that the topic of the academic community’s engagement with Israel, long treated as a taboo and not to be discussed in polite scholarly company, is out of the closet and unlikely to go away...
 
Peter Beinart’s colonial logic: Opponents of Israel boycott make anti-democratic arguments, by Steven Salaita | Salon
  Last week, members of the American Studies Association [ASA] voted overwhelmingly to affirm a resolution boycotting Israeli academic institutions.  The membership vote followed unanimous approval of the resolution by the ASA National Council.  Intense debate has followed the affirmation. Much of the reaction from the boycott’s opponents has been infantile:  threats of lawsuits, screams of anti-Semitism, vulgar trolling, ear-piercing hysteria, and various strategies of derailment borrowed from the Glenn Beck playbook.. More thoughtful responses have emerged, however, and provide opportunity for serious engagement.  One such response arrived from Peter Beinart...
 
Interview with Sirous Nasseri: US’ Political Nervousness in Facing Iran | IRDiplomacy
...what Iran has achieved in this agreement is very considerable compared to what it has given. Certainly, this agreement is to the benefit of Iran and Iran’s views have been regarded in it. What Iran has gained is a series of quality understandings and what it has given is a series of quantitative understandings which cannot be compared with each other. To describe this agreement more clearly, the main party to this dispute, meaning the US, has been forced to accept enrichment and the maintenance of enriched materials in Iran. This is while, during the past ten years, the US has strongly and completely opposed it...
 
Jewry 2014 Quo Vadis? | Roi Tov
...Israel is a very loose alliance between groups with different interests. The way it will play out depends on a myriad of variables. They may join forces to conquer the world or bitterly fight among themselves to death. Unjustified violence is the only certainty...
[The second scenario is optimistic, but plausible. Gilad Atxmon long ago predicted that Israel would implode from its internal contradictions long before the outside world could impose a solution.]
 
Not So Happy Christmas For Israeli Stooge Denis MacShane | Gilad Atzmon
  Shameless former Labour MP Denis MacShane, who infamously operated for more than a decade as the kosher police within the British parliament was thrown into jail today.. MacShane, 65, was a Labour MP for 18 years. During that time he has managed to chair the inquiry panel of the All-Party Parliamentary Group against Anti-Semitism.  In March 2009, he became chairman of a think-tank on anti-Semitism at the European Institute for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism...
 
Where’s the Anti-War Left on Iran? by Peter Beinart | The Daily Beast
  The American left is very good at turning ferociously on politicians who start ill-advised wars. In Lyndon Johnson’s final years in office, anti-war activists picketed the White House holding signs saying, “Lee Harvey Oswald, where are you now?” A poll found that by 2006, 76 percent of Democrats were open to impeaching George. W. Bush Where the American left is less effective is in preventing politicians from starting those wars in the first place...
[The left in general is hopelessly hamstrung by the Jewish gatekeepers, guarding the Zionist left flank. Folks like yourself, Mr. Beinart.]
 
Obama Run Amuck, by Norman Pollack | CounterPunch
...we can today begin looking ahead to the Winter of Our Discontents, except that now, there is no Richard III to bring the beauties of Spring, only the unrelieved march of Obama & Company toward the further militarization of market strategy, geopolitical thinking, planning, and execution, and, through cutting-edge surveillance, the inculcation of subtle fears intended to penetrate the psyche, inducing conformity to hegemonic goals, monopolization, and an habituation to social discipline through a political culture suffused by counterterrorism. Jump through hoops, as you exchange your identity for promises of safety, coming down finally to protection from the Unknown...
 
Made in Saudi Arabia: Salafist Radicalism in Africa, by Wayne Madsen | Strategic Culture Foundation
  Hardline Islamist radicalism, nurtured by Saudi Arabia’s vast oil wealth, is spreading through Africa at a rapid pace. Radical Salafist and Wahhabist groups with names like Boko Haram, Seleka, and Uamsho, unheard of a decade ago, are massacring Christians during church assemblies, razing Christian villages, and assassinating moderate Islamic clerics. Of course, this Saudi-made mayhem is a godsend for the U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM), which can point to the spread of «Al Qaeda»-linked terrorism to Africa as a reason to increase America’s military presence on the continent and add armed muscle behind Uncle Sam’s quest for Africa’s oil, natural gas, and mineral resources...

Two Men of Courage: Mandela and Vanunu, by Mairead Maguire | CounterPunch
  This week the World’s political leaders stood united in admiration at the Memorial service in South Africa to honour the memory of Nelson Mandela, Leader of his country, and a man of courage who gave inspiration to many  people around the world. Across the world in East Jerusalem in solitude sits another man of courage  Mordechai Vanunu.    In l986 Vanunu, the Israeli Nuclear whistle-blower, told  the world about Israel’s secret nuclear Weapons.   For this he served 18 years in an Israeli prison, 12 in solitary confinement, and since his release in 2004 he has  been forbidden to leave Israel, speak to foreigners, and is constantly under  surveillance...
 
UN Backs Iran Going to Syria Peace Conference, from AP | ABC News
  Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon says Iran is a very important regional power that can play a major role in helping end the Syrian conflict and should be allowed to participate in next month's peace conference in Switzerland. Lakhdar Brahimi, the U.N.-Arab League Syria envoy, said Friday the United States is blocking Iran's participation.. The U.N. chief said "negotiations will be difficult, but without them there is only bloodshed and despair on the horizon."..
 
Threats from the House of Saud: real or hot air? | The Vineyard of the Saker
...What can the Saudis really do?  Let's look at their options:.. (4) Attack Iran or let the Israelis use Saudi airfields for an attack on Iran: sounds crazy, doesn't it?.. if really "nothing is ruled out" then we should not rule out a sudden "strategic rapprochement" between the two crazy religious and racist regimes in the Middle East: the KSA and Israel. Neither should we rule out a possible joint action against Iran by these two rogue states who now make no secret that they feel that the Obama Administration is letting them down.  Scary though?  Yes, but considering the lunatics involved, one which we need to consider...
 
The Last Chance for Peace in Syria? by Shamus Cooke | CounterPunch
...The UN understands that Iran’s involvement in the peace talks is crucial, but Obama is exploiting U.S. power to pick and choose who participates, sabotaging the talks in the process. Why does Obama want Iran out of the picture? Because the U.S. wants to control the outcome of the talks, and Obama insists that Iran agree that the peace talks be conditional, the condition being that the goals of the talks be limited to creating a “transitional government,” i.e., the removal of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. Obama is essentially attempting to achieve via talks what he couldn’t achieve through a proxy war...
 
Amnesty Int’l: US-Backed Bahrain Dictatorship Targets, Tortures Children, by John Glaser | Antiwar
  One of America’s best friends and allies is torturing children, even as they continue to receive U.S. aid, weapons, training, and defense guarantees...
[Just like their staunch ally, Israel]
 
Steve Aftergood: Orgs ask DNI to Preserve Access to World News Connection | Public Intelligence Blog
  More than a dozen professional societies and public interest groups wrote to the Director of National Intelligence last week to ask him to preserve public access to foreign news reports gathered, translated and published by the Open Source Center and marketed to subscribers through the NTIS World News Connection. The CIA, which manages the Open Source Center for the intelligence community, intends to terminate public access to the World News Connection at the end of this month...



Dec 23, 2013

Iran Sanctions Bill a Big Test of Israel Lobby Power, by Jim Lobe | Antiwar
  This week’s introduction by a bipartisan group of 26 senators of a new sanctions bill against Iran could result in the biggest test of the political clout of the Israel lobby here in decades. The White House, which says the bill could well derail ongoing negotiations between Iran and the U.S. and five other powers over Tehran’s nuclear program and destroy the international coalition behind the existing sanctions regime, has already warned that it will veto the bill if it passes Congress in its present form...
 
Noam Chomsky and 'Left' Apologetics for Injustice in Palestine, by Noah Cohen | One Palestine
  It’s particularly interesting in the case of Palestine to see where US intellectuals and progressives decide that it’s necessary to be "realistic" and where "principled;" where they choose to accept more or less the general media consensus about "the boundaries of acceptable discourse" and where they reject it.. An interview with Noam Chomsky published on Znet.. is an exemplary contribution to this genre of left apologetics. Since it contains so many of the arguments generally advanced to legitimize some form of continued existence for an Israeli system of colonialism and Apartheid.. it is worth examining in full...
 
The Changing Contours of US Imperial Intervention in World Conflicts | James Petras
...The imperial military and ideological apparatus for direct intervention was firmly in place by 2000. It led to a prolonged series of wars in multiple geographical locations, involving long-term, large-scale commitments of economic resources, and military personnel and was completely unhampered by congressional or large-scale public opposition – at least in the beginning. The ‘objectives’ of these serial wars were defined by their principal Zionist and militarist architects as the following:..
 
Nitel Nacht Has a Theological Basis | Maurice Pinay
  5 years ago, the details of the hateful tradition of Hasidic Judaism observed on Christmas Eve called Nitel Nacht were revealed to a non-Judaic audience in this space. The writings on Nitel Nacht have since, predictably, taken on a more apologetic nature. It is being argued that this tradition has no theological basis, is derived solely out of fear of Christian persecution, and is no longer observed. I can assure readers that all three of these assertions are false...
 
The Myth of Turkish Secularism, by David Boyajian | Dissident Voice
  Turkey is a secular state. So claim its government and nearly all mainstream Western media. They are mistaken. In civilized, democratic countries, secularism means not only a respectful separation between church and state but also freedom of religion. As we shall demonstrate, Turkish policies have long been the antithesis of secularism...
 
Why Ukraine spurned the EU and embraced Russia, by Elizabeth Piper | Reuters
  On September 4, Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovich called a meeting of his political party for the first time in three years.. For three hours Yanukovich cajoled and bullied anyone who pushed for Ukraine to have closer ties to Russia. A handful of deputies from his Party of Regions complained that their businesses in Ukraine's Russian-speaking east would suffer if Yanukovich didn't agree to closer ties with Russia. That set him off. "Forget about it ... forever!" he shouted at them, according to people who attended the meeting. Instead the president argued for an agreement to deepen trade and other cooperation with the European Union...
 
Beyond Top Secret: Israel Thwarts NSA | Roi Tov
  Since October 2013, when the USA's NSA listening to the mobile phone of German Chancellor Angela Merkel was disclosed, the violations of America refuse to leave the headlines.. In November, Hebrew media disclosed that Benjamin Netanyahu, Ehud Olmert and Ehud Barak (PM and former PMs) were also being listened by the USA. Moreover, the USA rented a house next to Barak, who remains highly active in the weapons market. This affair was barely mentioned because everybody knew that this was the reality. On December 22, Israeli Intelligence hit back at the spies with a highly unusual article...
 
On British Fake Pluralism | Gilad Atzmon
  The following short article was written by a young foreign student. It provide us with an  astute criticism of British fake pluralism and tolerance.  It conveys a sad image  of the cynical method in which class-division and cultural segregation is maintained in this country...
 
The enduring power of Zionism’s propaganda lies, by Alan Hart | Redress Information & Analysis
  Alan Hart challenges BBC news chiefs to meet him so he can outline the need for historical truth in reporting the Palestine conflict but says fear of Zionism means this cannot happen...
 
Conversation with Ilan Pappe: We Don’t Have the Luxury to Wait Any Longer | Palestine Chronicle
...If I had to choose a formative event that really changed my point of view in dramatic way, it would be the attack of the Israelis on Lebanon in 1982.  For us who grew up in Israel, it was the first non-consensus war, the first war that obviously was a war of choice: Israel was not attacked, Israel attacked. Then the first Intifada happened. These events were eye openers in many ways for people like myself who already had some doubts about Zionism, about the historical version we learned at school...
 
Khalil Chahine: Le Mage | YouTube
 
Snow job about Israel-Palestine, by Lawrence Davidson | Redress Information & Analysis
  Lawrence Davidson looks at how, by omission, the New York Times’ coverage of the Palestine-Israel conflict portrays Israel in the best possible light while ignoring the Palestinian narrative...
 
A Glimpse into Washington’s Barbaric Crimes in Iraq since 2003 Illegal Invasion, by Amb. (Retd.) K. Gajendra Singh | Tarafits
  Since World War II and especially after the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 , the new bully on the international arena , America, with its poodle, instigator and third-rate power, UK and from time to time , with support from other European nations, is responsible for a trail of destruction around the world . In West Asia ,Israel in the background controls the U.S. Congress through Jews and their lobbyists who have the honourable lawmakers by their short hair...
 
Alan Dershowitz Retires From Harvard Law School, by Francis Boyle | Countercurrents
...Whatever kind of outright character assassination he has to apply to anyone, even Holocaust survivors like Judge Buergenthal, Professor Shahak, Norman Finkelstein's mother, it doesn't bother Dershowitz. Indeed, my understanding is, he's trying to run to become President of Israel, to take Peres's place. Well, fine, it would be great to get him out of Harvard Law School-my dis-alma mater!-and ship him over to Israel with all the other war criminals over there. "In fact, I say that, because Dershowitz admitted, publicly, that he is part of a Mossad committee that authorized the assassination of Palestinians..”
 
The War on Children, by Archie Kennedy | MCW News
  The impacts of Western military attacks on Afghanistan, Iraq, and Libya have been devastating. Aside from people directly killed in the attacks, the physical, economic and social infrastructure of these nations has been ruined.. It is imperative that we develop a means to strip authority away from politicians that kill and injure children...
 
Criticize Israel – Go to Jail! by Joshua Blakeney | Veterans Today
..According to Israel’s puppet regime in Ottawa questioning Israel’s right to exist is “inciting genocide” which is a crime in Canada. So if you support a one-state solution to the Israel-Palestine debacle rather than an ethnocentric two-state solution you are “willfully promoting genocide” according to John Baird, Israel’s man in the Canadian parliament. You don’t support a multi-cultural democracy if you promote the one-state solution, you want to “drive every Jew into the sea” according to the logic of Canada’s Foreign Affairs Minister...
 
Rajendra Prasanna: Marwa - Bansuri (Indian Bamboo flute) | YouTube
 
9/11 attacks carried out by US, Israel and Saudi Arabia | PressTV
  The September 11, 2001 attacks in the US were a “false flag” operation carried out jointly by the US, Israel and Saudi Arabia with “Zionists playing the lead role,” an analyst tells Press TV. On Thursday, a US federal court ruled that relatives of people who died in the 9/11 attacks can sue Saudi Arabia, reversing a lower court ruling in 2002 that had found the kingdom immune from lawsuits.. Dr. Kevin Barrett, a member of the Scientific Panel for the Investigation of 9/11, rejects the official narrative, saying Saudi Arabia is a “puppet of the US and other Western governments.”..
 
Fog Donkey: the only honest man in a stadium of fools | YouTube
  I knew that it would not be long before the industrial mourning machine delivered its ruling metaphor, its Neo, its Christ-figure. It took no time at all before we tumbled down the Cartesian rabbit hole, before we found ourselves in a netherworld governed by topsy-turvy nonsense verse, wherein the man flapping his hands meaninglessly was the only man making any sense at all. His name is Thamsanqa Jantjie. But for one glorious day, he was beyond the banality of names...
[Delicious surreal satire – how appropriate for these times]
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Dec 22, 2013


The Incredible, Shrinking Presidency of Barack Obama, by Mike Whitney | CounterPunch
  According to a new Washington Post-ABC poll, Barack Obama now ranks among the least popular presidents in the last century. In fact, his approval rating is lower than Bush’s was in his fifth year in office. Obama’s overall approval rating stands at a dismal 43 percent, with a full 55 percent of the public “disapproving of the way he is handling the economy”. The same percentage  of people “disapprove of the way he is handling his job as president”..
 
Israel Emerging as a Giant Energy Player, by F. William Engdahl | Veterans Today
  Little-noticed by the rest of the world amid the negotiations on Iran’s nuclear program and the collapse of the Free Syrian Army is the clear emergence of an entirely new global energy giant in the volatile Middle East. For the first time since the founding of the State of Israel in 1948, that country has discovered what seem to be huge reserves not only of natural gas but now also of oil. Not only does it appear that Israel no longer will need to depend on Saudi Arabia and other Arab oil suppliers. Israel seems set to be in direct competition with its Arab OPEC neighbors as well as Iran for world oil and gas markets. This is a huge new geopolitical complication few have even taken into account...
[The most disheartening news one could imagine. Who can stop the ZioNazis now?]
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Adra massacre: Militants show photos of those they beheaded | Al Alam
  Extremist militants have posted photos of people they have beheaded in Syria’s Adra, located near capital Damascus. Survivors have been describing unprecedented levels of atrocities committed by the extremist militants who attacked their town to kill. According to Arabic language al-Haghigha website, horrified people have been running away from Adra after witnessing militants attacking homes and executing people family by family...
[Uncle Shmuel is laughing. Warning: Graphic Content. See also: Survivors of Adra carnage speak about 'black Wednesday']
 
You Can’t Make Sound Policy by Disregarding Reality: Flynt Leverett on the Syria Conflict | Going to Tehran
  The U.S. posture toward the conflict in Syria exemplifies some of the worst aspects of America’s Middle East policy. In recent years, the limits on America’s ability to shape important outcomes in the region unilaterally have been dramatically underscored by strategically failed military interventions in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Libya.  Just this year, President Obama’s largely self-inflicted debacle over his publicly declared intention to attack Syria after chemical weapons were used there on August 21 made it abundantly clear that the United States can no longer credibly threaten the effective use of military force in the Middle East...
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Iran Sanctions Bill to Skip Committee: Hawks Promise Veto-Proof Majority, by Jason Ditz | Antiwar
  Yesterday’s open letter from Senate committee leaders warning against the Iran sanctions bill appears to have had the opposite effect, as Majority Leader Sen. Harry Reid (D – NV) is said to have decided to bypass the committees outright and could bring the bill to a vote as soon as January. The bill would impose yet more sanctions on Iran’s oil industry, violating the interim P5+1 deal with Iran and likely ruining ongoing diplomacy with the nation. President Obama has promised to veto the bill, warning it would sabotage the talks and might lead to a war...
[The inmates have taken over the asylum. Estimates of the number of ‘Christian’ Zionists in America average around 50 million. Combined with the power and influence of tribal Jewry, it is not all that surprising that the US has become the most lunatic, destructive rogue state in the world.]
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Bedouin Expulsion Law is Well and Drinking Tea | Roi Tov
  Hot tea hit the eyes of Palestinian Member of the Knesset Ahmad Tibi on December 19, 2013. The violent act was perpetrated by Tziyon Vaknin, a Jewish man who opposed the protest against the Bedouins+ Expulsion Prawer Law that was taking place in Beer Sheva. "This must be a fake, a Palestinian vicious lie. The Zionists cancelled the Prawer Law on December 13. There couldn't be a protest against it on Dec. 19! I read that everywhere," many readers would be exclaiming now...
 
And Now This Filthy Flood, by Mohammed Omer | Inter Press Service
...Beginning a week ago, Alexa crossed Syria, Palestine, Israel and some parts of Sinai. A thick blanket of snow covered the West Bank and some areas in Gaza too experienced snow – something that hasn’t occurred in years. The 1.8 million people of the Gaza Strip, who struggle every day under an Israeli blockade, were unprepared for a storm that has affected every aspect of their life. Low-lying areas are the hardest hit, with thousands of homes flooded...
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Saving the World Obama-Style, by Andrew Levine | CounterPunch
  When it comes to spying and killing, Barack Obama is Mr. Malevolent. But every now and then, he gets a notion to go high-minded.  Words come first.  Sometimes he backs up his words with gestures; sometimes he even puts people on the case – feckless people like John Kerry. It never comes to anything however, and sooner or later (usually sooner), the notion passes. He and Kerry have been at it for some time now with the Israel-Palestine “peace process,” and Obama is gearing up to take on inequality next...
 
The Peculiar Relationship: When Israel Was Apartheid’s Open Ally, by Lenni Brenner | CounterPunch
  Jimmy Carter’s book, Palestine Peace Not Apartheid, has opened up much of the American public to serious discussion of Israel’s realities. He’s no expert on Zionist history, but the Anti-Defamation League and other pro-Israel propagandists must now work 25 hours a day, 366 days a year, trying to discredit equating Israel and apartheid South Africa. Curiously, Carter only mentions South African apartheid 3 times...
 
Washington's Wedding Album From Hell, by Tom Engelhardt | TomDispatch
  The headline -- “Bride and Boom!” - was spectacular, if you think killing people in distant lands is a blast and a half.  Of course, you have to imagine that smirk line in giant black letters with a monstrous exclamation point covering most of the bottom third of the front page of the Murdoch-owned New York Post.  The reference was to a caravan of vehicles on its way to or from a wedding in Yemen that was eviscerated, evidently by a U.S. drone via one of those “surgical” strikes of which Washington is so proud.  As one report put it, “Scorched vehicles and body parts were left scattered on the road.”..
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CIA’s ‘Colossal Flop’ by Philip Giraldi | The American Conservative
...The latest intelligence failure being reported in the media is the Global Deployment Initiative, a multi-billion dollar effort to move CIA officers out of embassies and into the real world that began shortly after 9/11. It was characteristically headed by an officer with only limited overseas experience and is not surprisingly now being described as a “colossal flop” by insiders and outsiders alike...
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Edward Snowden is a Patriot, by Anthony D. Romero | American Civil Liberties Union
  As a whistleblower of illegal government activity that was sanctioned and kept secret by the legislative, executive, and judicial branches of government for years, he undertook great personal risk for the public good. And he has single-handedly reignited a global debate about the extent and nature of government surveillance and our most fundamental rights as individuals. Monday's court ruling declaring the NSA surveillance program unconstitutional highlights the irony of the government’s prosecution of Snowden...
 
Beit Sahour: Boycott is Historically Palestinian, by Ramzy Baroud | Palestine Chronicle
  As the Boycott, Sanctions and Divestment (BDS) movement continues to grow, and thus Israel’s international isolation, one must remember that the boycott is an authentically collective Palestinian strategy that is rooted in history. The BDS debate is at such an advanced stage that it has indeed surpassed all expectations. A few years ago, many of us were attempting to push the boundaries of the debate, but were faced by so much resistance, even from groups and movements that were viewed as progressive. The situation has now changed in such an evident way amid constant news of western governments, companies and academic institutions either joining the boycott or deliberating the possibility of doing so...
[Ramzy is one of those stubbornly optimistic types, but BDS, as compromised as it may be, is about the only positive thing going on right now.]
 
Jewish Subversion of Christmas and the Political Order, by Jonas E. Alexis | Veterans Today
...“the dirty little secret in America is that anti-Semitism is no longer a problem in society – it’s been replaced by a rampant anti-Christianity.. It is the ACLU, which is overwhelmingly Jewish in terms of membership and funding, that is leading the attack against Christianity in America.. “I am getting the idea that too many Jews won’t be happy until they pull off their own version of the Spanish Inquisition, forcing Christians to either deny their faith and convert to agnosticism or suffer the consequences.”..
[Alexis is a fervent Christian, which is bound to cloud his vision somewhat, but most of the points made in this piece are perfectly valid.]
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Dec 21, 2013

Israel opened the gates of two dams. Now Gaza is sinking, by Richard Forer | Redress Information & Analysis
  In November 2012, I was a member of an InterFaith Peace Builders delegation to the Gaza Strip, where I witnessed the hardships, including food deprivation, Gazans live with. Most are a direct consequence of Israel’s long-term blockade that limits supplies of building material, fuel and food and enervates agricultural and fishing yields. In 2006, Dov Weisglas, the chief adviser to Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, said “The idea is to put the Palestinians on a diet, but not to make them die of hunger.” At the time, many thought Weisglas was speaking in hyperbole...
 
UNRWA’s Bitter Winter Solstice…And Now Dershowitz! by Franklin Lamb | Countercurrents
...The winter solstice historically has been vitally important because communities were not certain of living through the winter, and had to prepare during the previous nine months for dramatic rises in starvation, communicable diseases, and infant deaths due to hypothermia.. which became known as "the famine months" in the northern hemisphere.. UNWRA was founded in 1949 and for more than 60 years it has been plagued by harassments, intimidation, and countless conspiracies to close it down waged by the international Zionist lobby increasingly trying to ‘put it out of its misery’ as Prime Minister Netanyahu recently demanded from the US Congress...
[If any one person embodies the evil that is Zionism it is Dershowitz, whose career has consisted of getting cold-blooded murderers off the hook. Now he's free to concentrate on the pinnacle of his vile career, exonerating Israel from its genocidal crimes.]
 
Angel Face, by Uri Avnery | Gush Shalom
  Ayelet Shaked may be the beauty queen of the present Knesset. Seeing her face on the TV screen, one is struck by her beauty. It is the face of an angel, pure and innocent. Then she opens her mouth, and what pours out is vile and ugly, the racist message of the extreme right. Like seeing a cherub parting its lips and revealing the teeth of a vampire...
 
Are 9/11 truthers anti-Israel or anti-Semites? Interview with Elias Davidsson, by Ludwig Watzal | MCW News
  More than twelve years have passed since 9/11 happened. Although the 9/11 Commission produced a voluminous “9/11 Commission Report”, it did not provide answers to central questions concerning the circumstances of this horrendous crime. Critical observers have noted numerous glaring omissions, contradictions, anomalies and misrepresentations in this report.. One of the reactions to this deficient report was the emergence of a “truth movement”, which consists of experts from different scientific fields, who question the official narrative and demand a truly independent investigation of the crime...
[He shrugs off the video made months later in Tel Aviv of the Dancing Israelis explaining that they were sent there to record the event as if that were somehow irrelevant. I don't get it.]
 
New Iran Bill Sets Stage for Obama-Senate Battle, by Jason Ditz | Antiwar
  Bill Endorses Any Future Israeli Attack on Iran - Setting the stage for the protracted recess battle for votes, 26 co-sponsors introduced the Nuclear Weapon Free Iran Act of 2013 today, aimed at derailing the ongoing diplomacy with Iran by imposing new sanctions in violation of the interim P5+1 deal...
 
Memories of Marash: The Legacy of a Lost Armenian Community | YouTube
  I guess some holocausts trump all the others - if you happen to be a tribal Jew. Oddly enough, I'm not aware of any effort in the Armenian diaspora to colonize Cilicia and drive out its indigenous population of "cockroaches," "beasts walking on two legs," "dogs" or "crocodiles" and establish Greater Armenia. What's wrong with them - are they wimps? Perhaps trying to ethnically cleanse the land of the Turks and the other inhabitants might be biting off more than they could chew, unlike the Zionist Jews, many of whom came with a terrorist agenda to replace the peaceful, unarmed, helpless Palestinians...[Editor]
 
The choice: abject poverty or domestic servitude, by Graham Peebles | Redress Information & Analysis
  They work as maids, housekeepers, cleaners. They take care of children, the elderly and the infirm for wealthy and middle class families in rich and upwardly mobile nations. They are found throughout the world: in the G20 countries and the Gulf states, Latin America (where they account for 60 per cent of internal and international migrants), and developing countries in Africa and Asia where vast numbers of poor and vulnerable live alongside the privileged few. They walk the dogs, iron the designer shirts, and collect the privately educated children from school in London and New York...
 
Alain Finkielkraut, Jews, and Immigration | Gilad Atzmon
  Along the second half of the 20th century many Jewish intellectuals, activists and artists positioned themselves at the forefront of Western advocacy of immigration and multiculturalism. Occasionally we were also expected to believe that immigration, tolerance, pluralism and multiculturalism are intrinsic to Jewish culture and thought. But as the West became gradually aware of the scale of Israeli racism and intolerance towards migrant communities, more than just a few intellectuals were courageous enough to point at a clear discrepancy between the progressive ideas Jews claim to represent and what their Jewish State happens to be...
 
“Reflections from Palestine: A Journey of Hope”: Book Review by Eileen Fleming | Veterans News
  The occupation “is a process of dehumanization and deprivation of freedom of all basic rights.. Violations of human rights marked every town, every family and every organization.” Samia writes about justice, truth, and peace for the Palestinian people, the relationships between people and the land, the context of Christian-Jewish-Muslim relationships in the Holy Land, and concerns for children in conflict...
 
Hot Off The Press: Mandela received weapons training from Mossad | Gilad Atzmon
  Haartez reported a few hours ago that, "Nelson Mandela was trained in weaponry and sabotage by Mossad operatives in 1962, a few months before he was arrested in South Africa. During his training, Mandela expressed interest in the methods of the Haganah pre-state underground and was viewed by the Mossad as leaning toward communism."..
[Interesting little tidbit]
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Spinning Iran's Centrifuges: A Quick Lesson in Alarmism, by Nima Shirazi | Wide Asleep in America
  On December 12, the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee held a hearing on last month's interim nuclear agreement between Iran and the P5+1, which means there was a tremendous amount of ignorant bluster, conventional wisdom, wishful thinking, staggering ignorance, and shameless posturing for lobbyist money on display. In other words, Congress members were speaking about Iran...
[I get so angry sometimes I shout (in my cave, where no one can hear me) “fuck those cowardly traitors and their ruthless, paranoid Zionist paymasters!” It doesn’t do any good, of course, but it’s kind of therapeutic to let it out.]
 
Putin scores a new victory in the Ukraine | Israel Shamir
  It is freezing cold in Kiev, legendary city of golden domes on the banks of Dnieper River – cradle of ancient Russian civilisation and the most charming of East European capitals. It is a comfortable and rather prosperous place, with hundreds of small and cosy restaurants, neat streets, sundry parks and that magnificent river. The girls are pretty and the men are sturdy. Kiev is more relaxed than Moscow, and easier on the wallet. Though statistics say the Ukraine is broke and its people should be as poor as Africans, in reality they aren't doing too badly, thanks to their fiscal imprudence...
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NSA Attacks US, the People | Roi Tov
  Among the minority of Americans that heard about the December 16, 2013 ruling of a Federal Court in the Klayman v. Obama lawsuit, the vast majority said "So what?" Judge Leon.. ordered the government to stop collecting data on the personal calls of the two plaintiffs in the case and to destroy the records of their calling history. "I cannot imagine a more indiscriminate and arbitrary invasion than this systematic and high-tech collection and retention of personal data on virtually every single citizen for purposes of querying and analyzing it without prior judicial approval, Surely, such a program infringes on 'that degree of privacy' that the founders enshrined in the Fourth Amendment"..
[Dollars to donuts it's overturned on appeal by the neocon/neolib/neolithic Supreme Court]
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Dec 20, 2013


BDS Campaign: The Palestinian National Movement Advances, by Richard Falk | Foreign Policy Journal
  The advocacy of a Legitimacy War approach to the Palestinian National Movement for self-determination and a just peace is basically committed to Hegelian categories of conflict, shifting its energies away from Marxist forms of encounter based on material assessments of the balance of forces. Put less obscurely, the Palestinian shift toward Legitimacy Wars is a recognition that in this kind of conflict, the decisive battles are generally not won by the side with the superior weaponry and technology but rather by the side that prevails in the realm of ideas and symbols of just cause, especially those bearing on nationalist claims of rights based on international law and universal standards of morality...
[Very well put, Mr. Falk, as usual]
 
Some Might Call It Treason, by Philip Giraldi | Antiwar
...The problem with the treason definition applicable in the United States is that it does not cover what we are seeing right now, something that the Founders could never have anticipated. I am referring to a concerted "betrayal of trust" by a group of American government elected officials in openly advancing policies that serve the interests of a foreign country, specifically the senators and congressmen who are lining up behind Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to oppose the White House’s attempt to negotiate an equitable solution to the thirty-five year confrontation with Iran...
 
AIPAC’s Exploding Christmas Gift To Obama, by MJ Rosenberg | Intifada Palestine
  Just when President Obama was starting to believe that it was safe to go back into the water, the lobby has come out with a new Iran sanctions bill designed to torpedo negotiations with Iran. And, once that is accomplished, it provides for automatic U.S military backing for Israel if Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu decides to bomb. This may be the lobby’s most brazen attempt yet at subverting negotiations and, in Andrew Sullivan’s words, “handing over American foreign policy on a matter as grave as war and peace to a foreign government..”
[I have often defined Zionism as the belief that the State of Israel is legitimate. Here is confirmation, in a back-ass sort of a way, from the horse’s mouth": “I believe that the notion that a Jewish organization should host a speaker or a group that explicitly defines itself as anti-Zionist, which is to say believes in the non-existence of the Jewish state..”]
 
Eyad El-Sarraj, Psychiatrist Who Fought for Palestinians’ Rights, Dies at 70 | NYT
  Eyad El-Sarraj, a Palestinian psychiatrist who pioneered mental health care in Gaza and became an internationally recognized human rights advocate, criticizing both the Israeli and Palestinian authorities, died on Tuesday in a hospital in Israel. He was 70...
 
Christmas Tree at the Knesset | Roi Tov
  Apocalypse is here and now. I could find no better explanation to the headline provided by Settler Channel 7 on December 19, 2013. "To Place a Christmas Tree in the Knesset," was the Zionist Religious channel's headline. That was enough for drawing attention, though just enough for browsing the piece. Failing to disappoint, its content was apocalyptic...
 
Iraq's battle to save its Christian souls: 'Christians are finished here,' by Colin Freeman | Telegraph
As the last remaining Christian priest in the Baghdad suburb of Doura, Archdeacon Temathius Esha no longer just puts his trust in God's all-seeing eye. Built into the wall of his vestry, amid pictures of Catholic saints, is a 16-screen CCTV monitor, keeping watch on every corner of his church in case of possible attack...
[The Pharisees have nearly accomplished an ancient goal - expelling the Christians from the Middle East]
 
Jewish State Issue Not Tactical Red Line for Palestinians, by Dr. Aaron Lerner | IMRA
  When PA leader Mahmoud Abbas recently took the position that recognition of Israel as the Jewish state was a red line I first suspected that it might be tactical move: exaggerating the importance of the issue in order to increase the pay-off for conceding the point. That was until I spoke with a leading Palestinian observer of the Palestinian street: "The Palestinians hold their position against recognition of a Jewish State with the same conviction as Israelis have against recognition of the right of return of Palestinian refugees," he told me...
[Without confirmation, one never knows when they’re making this stuff up, but in this case, I hope it’s true. I sent the following email to Dr. Lerner: “I suggest you make sure your foreign passport(s) are up to date. The world is fed up with the Jewish Nazi state and will soon insist that you go somewhere else, anywhere else. Your best hope is that you won't reap the full consequences of your actions, but karma is inexorable. The clock is ticking.” I should have added the suggestion that he take swimming lessons, just to tickle the paranoia even further. In the end, most of the Jews will have to leave, just as the Pied Noirs left Algeria. This will be a big step in the larger struggle to curb tribal Jewish power in the West, which is responsible for so much suffering and devastation in this world,]
 
Une hallucinante épidémie d'antisémitisme se propage aujourd'hui en France" | Paul Eisen
  The title accompanying this rather light-hearted video clip translates as "A staggering epidemic of anti-Semitism is spreading in France today" Alarmist? I don't think so. This is serious stuff. Why? Because when people start laughing they stop fearing and everyone knows that abusive Jewish power, like all abusive power, is based on fear...
 
Kirk-Menendez-Schumer Wag the Dog Act of 2014,  by Jim Lobe | LobeLog
  Copies of the bill that Sens. Kirk, Menendez, and Schumer hope to introduce in the Senate this week — presumably to be pressed for passage after the Christmas/New Year recess — are circulating today around Washington, and, as predicted, it is clearly designed to sabotage last month’s first-phase deal (the Joint Plan of Action) on Tehran’s nuclear program, as well as prospects for a final agreement. The bill is called the Iran Nuclear Weapon Free Act of 2013, although I would prefer to call it the Wag the Dog Act of 2014, given the implicit discretion it gives to Bibi Netanyahu to commit the U.S. to war with Iran...
 
Israelophobia by Fiamma Nirensteinn | Paul Eisen
  Not everyone will agree with me but I think this is worth a read...
[Projection is the most typical symptom of tribal Jewish psychopathology. Reverse the image and one gets reality - “In the [tribal Jewish] world the commitment to kill [the goyim] has a special religious character, as can be seen from [the Torah, the Talmud, and numerous pronouncements by Zionists [both Jewish and ‘Christian’]]
 
John Kerry's framework proposal sets the stage for the ‘Gazafication’ of the West Bank, by Jonathan Cook | Mondoweiss
..A sense of urgency looms because Washington is supposed to unveil next month its so-called “framework proposal” for the creation of a Palestinian state, in a last desperate effort to break the logjam in negotiations. For this reason, the outlines of the US vision of an agreement are finally coming into focus. And, as many expected, the picture looks bleak for the Palestinians...
 
Raul to Obama: 'Mr President, I am Castro' | Al Jazeera
  Fidel Castro has said his brother, Raul, introduced himself to US President Barack Obama in English at the funeral for former South African President Nelson Mandela, telling him, "Mr President, I am Castro". In an interview about Mandela in Cuban state media on Thursday, Castro congratulated his brother, who took over as president of Cuba in 2008, for his "steadfastness and dignity, when, with a friendly but firm gesture, he greeted the head of the US government and told him in English, 'Mr President, I am Castro'"..
 
Takfiris threaten Islam – and the world, by Kevin Barrett | Veterans Today
  Islam is a religion of moderation and inclusion. Today, it is threatened by a Takfiri ideology of extremism, fueled by fanatics with misplaced faith in their own exclusive access to ultimate truth. Yesterday, one of the Takfiri rebel groups in Syria, the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) executed the secretary general of the so-called Free Syrian Army (FSA), Ammar al-Wawi...
 
New York Times Editors Support Wrong Over Right | Stephen Lendman
  Longstanding Times policy is consistent. It promotes establishment values. It supports wealth, power and privilege. It endorses global US dominance. When America goes to war or plans one, Times editors march in lockstep. Propaganda substitutes for truth and full disclosure. Managed news misinformation is featured. Editorial policy defends the indefensible. It backs wrong over right. It justifies what demands condemnation...
[What else would one expect from a newspaper that many refer to – with good reason – as the Jew York Times. (Well, at least I do). Just do your own informal survey of NYT Op-Eds and count the number written by official spokespeople for Israel as compared to, say, officials of the USA.]
 
Washington Acts Like Government-in-exile for Ukraine, by Finian Cunningham | Strategic Culture Foundation
  Americans may be deluded with “God-given exceptionalism”, self-congratulating propaganda known euphemistically as independent journalism and news, and a massive brainwashing diet of syrupy entertainment that reinforces the vacuous vanity of supposed American values – but do they really think the rest of the world is likewise comatose? Apparently, their officials think so...
 
East – West battle for the Ukraine, by Jim W. Dean | Veterans Today
  The devolution of the former Cold War into the Neo-Economic War is writing another chapter this past week in the Ukraine. Once again we see powerful outside forces deeply involved in the domestic politics of smaller ones. The tactics may vary but trading block battles are wars all unto themselves. Opposition groups that are out of power are always easy prey for foreign intriguers. When the Israel Lobby began their assault on our Congress, they focused on Senatorial elections in states with small populations as large influxes of outside cash had a lot more leverage over the local effort.In effect, they bought senators first where they were cheapest to buy - no dummies they...


Dec 19, 2013

Richard Forer, Author, Breakthrough | YouTube
..In telling the story of how he himself went from being a diehard supporter of Israel, from someone raised in a Reform Jewish household who saw Israel as that plucky little democracy trying to provide a secure home for the long-beleaguered Jews to someone who now supports the Palestinians in their struggle for justice, he provides us with an inside look into the mind of a Zionist - his own - and how being confronted with the more grim reality changed his mind and the reality of the Palestinian struggle...
 
Open Christmas Letter to Pope Francis on Gaza, by Vacy Vlazna | Dissident Voice
  In desperation, in December a campaign was launched appealing to you to help release the suffering people of Gaza from the genocidal strangulation of the Israeli seven year blockade. There is no world leader other than yourself who possesses the moral strength, the political freedom and the spiritual imperative to help Gaza. There is no one of global influence to whom the Gazans can turn except Your Holiness. Through your words and actions, we see the same star that heralded the advent of Gandhi, of Mandela, of Jesus. It’s light — the spiritual simplicity of love for the human family, for the oppressed, for the poor, is again penetrating human hearts and consciences...
[This is the acid test – is Pope Francis, as he has appeared to be, a genuine Christian, or will he turn out to be just another calculating politician who genuflects before ZioNazi power?]

Boycott Israel, by Justin Raimondo | Antiwar
...the Israeli people, I argued, have a right to national self-determination, just like all other peoples. Why single them out, I averred, in a world where states routinely violate rights? Yet what happens when a state singles [i]itself out by engaging in behavior so egregiously oppressive, so repulsive to the civilized world, that dealing with it in any shape, form, or manner is morally problematic? Israel has reached that point.. as increasing numbers of people the world over reach that conclusion...
 
We shall overcome, by Yossi Gurvitz | Yesh Din
  Israel declares itself to be a light unto the nations. It also violates 15 of the articles of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.. As we mark Human Rights Day, we should examine whether Israel stands by the high rhetoric of its founders, and whether it fulfills the Declaration of Human Rights. As every person living in Israel knows, assuming their  eyes are open and their  hearts are not blocked, Israel and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights have a rocky relationship...
 
Identity and Exile | YouTube
  Al Jazeera's Matthew Cassel examines why so many American Jews defend Israeli policies regardless of the issue or cost...
 
The Risks of the EU's Geopolitics on the Cheap in Ukraine, by Vadim Nikitin | Agence Global
  A clear sense of déjà vu shrouds the Ukrainian protests. The demonstrators’ relentless calls for Western-style democracy evoke the idealism of the political rallies during the last years of the USSR, when thousands took to the streets of Moscow demanding freedom and opportunity. Then as now, citizens hungry to escape low living standards, a stagnant economy and a corrupt and cynical regime looked to Europe for hope. Yet that experience ended in bitter disappointment when the West took advantage of Russia’s liberalisation without delivering on the newly free Russian citizens’ hope for a better life...
 
Year four: The seasons turn on the Arab Spring, by Marwan Bishara | Al Jazeera
  Inasmuch as a revolution is a break with history, the Arab peoples' revolution broke with history three years ago this December. But inasmuch as a revolution is an evolutionary process, the revolution has entered its 4th year. The Arab revolution is a long time in the coming. It has been incredibly shocking, largely unpredictable but hardly surprising. There is no point, therefore, in trying retroactively to figure out why or how it was missed...
 
Beyond Syria: Collateral Damage and New Alliances, by Wayne White | LobeLog
  The reverberations of the desperate war inside Syria have increasingly radiated outward. In addition to the massive Syrian refugee exodus, Lebanon and Iraq in particular have been impacted adversely by heightened instability and violence. Yet actions associated with both have only increased their vulnerability. By contrast, the Turks and Iraq’s northern Kurdish Regional Government (KRG) have boldly ramped up their mutual cooperation, in part to form a common front to counter an unwelcome rival Kurdish alliance taking shape inside Syria...
 
What West Wants from Ukraine? Enthralled by Paradigm Offered by Brzezinski (II), by Dmitry Minin | Strategic Culture Foundation
  In its time Zbigniew Brzezinski offered a well-known but actually hollow formula - “Without Ukraine Russia ceases to be an empire”, naturally now he could not stay away from the on-going events in Ukraine.  He used Twitter to attack President Victor Yanukovych and the Ukrainian government for bowing to Russian pressure and suspending the process of association with the European Union. Then Brzezinski started to express support for protesters saying neither more nor less than, “Formally, Ukraine has a been a sovereign state since 1991, but its people are now on the barricades to make it genuinely independent”…At that, he has nothing to promise to the Ukrainian people...
 
Khamenei | Facebook
  The issue of Zionists is different from that of the Jews. Ayatollah #Khamenei in a meeting with Roger #Garaudy, the French #Muslim resistance fighter in 1998: Fighting the #Zionists and their supporters is a great spiritual and divine duty and your courage and tirelessness on the path of this resistance is admirable. #Iran’s enmity against the U.S. and #Zionism is based on logical and Islamic principles and there is no racial and religious fanaticism ruling over the Iranian nation’s anti-US and anti-Zionist struggle. That is to say if the U.S. were not arrogant and the Zionists didn’t commit such shameful crimes, we would not have taken such stances against them...
 
Sarraj, by Mazin Qumsiyeh | Popular Resistance
...the success of mass demonstrations against the Prawer-Begin plan to ethnically cleanse 40,000 Bedouins of the Naqab (Negev) forced the Israeli government to back down. This should give us pause to think about strategies of liberation (besides endless negotiations).  There are also other successes namely growth of the boycotts, divestment and sanctions (BDS) movement. And Palestinians continue to perform miracles with little resources in their own communities despite incredible odds...
 
Inshallah, the Jews won’t stop, by Ami Kaufman | +972 Magazine
  How the ‘worst video ever made’ can help clarify things for people who are yet undecided about Israeli policies. What you’re about to watch is, as Heeb Magazine correctly points out, the worst video ever made. It was apparently produced by Orit Arfa, who lives in the mega settlement of Ariel...
[Leni Riefenstahl, a real artist, she's not, but in terms of celebrating mindless tribal fascism, it’s the same deal. Moreover, the video reminds us that the criminally insane State of Israel must be dismantled before it claims more millions of victims.]
 
Gilad Atzmon speaks @ the 'Seek Speak Spread Truth' conference | YouTube
  Atzmon is talking about the 'open society' and its enemies and the continuum between Political correctness, Identity politics, Zionism and the New Left...
 
Is someone in Press TV covering for Israel? by Maidhc Ó Cathail | The Passionate Attachment
  Iran’s state-funded Press TV has just conducted an excellent interview with former American intelligence linguist Scott Rickard, in which he puts the self-destructive anti-Iran sanctions in their proper pro-Israel context, outlines John McCain’s intimate ties to the Jewish Zionist mafia, and points out the 19th century Zionist-sponsored subversion of evangelical Protestantism through the Scofield Reference Bible. But for whatever reason, whoever wrote the Press TV report’s title.. misrepresented Rickard’s searing exposé of the Israel Lobby’s occupation of U.S. policy...
 
The Autograph: Jeff Gates | Press TV/YouTube
  An exclusive interview with Jeff Gates, Author of Guilt by Association...
 
U.S. global source of poverty and war, by Finian Cunningham | Veterans News
  The U.S. spends more on its military than all other nations combined, including Russia and China. Yet deluded “American exceptionalism” labels everyone else a threat to world peace. The latest bilateral deal between House Republicans and Democrats on the US federal budget is a shocking reminder of the monstrous priorities for the American ruling class...
 
Let Saudi Arabia Go It Alone! by Ludwig Watzal | MCW News
  For the outside observer it seems bizarre that the last feudal and most fundamentalist Islamic regimes under the sun should complain about the alleged dangers, which the Assad regime and its supporter, Iran, pose to the Middle Eastern region. The Saudis were, after all, the first, after the US and Israel, who applauded the Egyptian military coup against the only democratic elected government of Egypt. This should tell something about the close cooperation between Western democracies and authoritarian...
 
Make Your Choice: Freedom or the National-Security State, by Jacob G. Hornberger | Future of Freedom Foundation
  In his July 4, 1821, address to Congress John Quincy Adams pointed out that America does not go abroad “in search of monsters to destroy.” His use of the term “monsters” encompassed brutal and tyrannical foreign dictators. While such monsters could always be found in nations all over the world, it would not be the responsibility of the U.S. government, Adams said, to send military and intelligence forces out to do something about them. Today, the world continues to be filled with brutal and tyrannical dictators. However, there is now a big difference between the U.S. government of Adams’ time and the U.S. government of our time...
 
More proof America has ‘gone rogue,’ by Gordon Duff | Veterans Today
  The recent Robert Levinson scandal, evidencing “rogue” CIA operations, is being quickly shoved under the rug.  Considering the CIA is an organization that openly runs “secret” prisons, assassination teams and a fleet of terror drones, that when they aren’t blowing up wedding parties in Yemen are running drugs out of Afghanistan, what can a “rogue” operation mean? Is there actually something worse than the pattern of unilateral lawlessness that the CIA and other US agencies admit to on a daily basis?..



Dec 18, 2013


Washington Drives the World Toward War | Paul Craig Roberts
  Washington has had the US at war for 12 years: Afghanistan, Iraq, Somalia, Libya, Pakistan, Yemen, and almost Syria, which could still happen, with Iran waiting in the wings. These wars have been expensive in terms of money, prestige, and deaths and injuries of both US soldiers and the attacked civilian populations. None of these wars appears to have any compelling reason or justifiable explanation. The wars have been important to the profits of the military/security complex. The wars have provided cover for the construction of a Stasi police state in America, and the wars have served Israel’s interest by removing obstacles to Israel’s annexation of the entire West Bank and southern Lebanon...
[And who drives Washington? It's not a riddle.]
 
World, Arab trade unions condemn terrorists' massacre in Adra | SANA
...Armed terrorist groups affiliated to Jabhat al-Nusra on Wednesday overran Adra, a city in Damascus Countryside that is home to housing compounds for workers, and committed a massacre against unarmed civilians. The World Federation of Trade Unions (WFTU) called in a statement upon all international and regional bodies to express condemnation of the acts of terrorism afflicted on the Syrian people and clearly voice support for the Syrians. It noted that the terrorist groups' acts are provoked and funded by foreign wahhabi takfiri forces that work for the interest of the Zionist enemy against Syria...
 
Podhoretz, Adelson: Bomb Iran! by Bob Dreyfuss | The Nation
  At least he’s consistent—crazy, yes, but consistent. Back in 2007, Norman Podhoretz, the wheezing, 76-year-old neoconservative warhorse wrote a piece for Commentary magazine called “The Case for Bombing Iran.” In that piece, widely scorned at the time, Podhoretz urged immediate bombing of Iran.. Podhoretz said, then, that George W. Bush.. might be the man to bomb Iran. “As an American and as a Jew, I pray with all my heart that he will,” concluded Podhoretz. As evidence, perhaps, that one’s prayers aren’t answered when directed toward Satan, Bush didn’t...
[If the Ziocons aren’t criminally insane, then what are they? Again, it's not a riddle.]
 
Three Months in Rouhani’s Iran, by Farideh Farhi | LobeLog
...From the receiving end of all the nuclear chatter, the whole American demeanor on Iran appears imperious, even outright uncivilized; like people speaking calmly about the taking of others’ lives and imposing further economic misery on them as options that are still very much on the table...
 
What West Wants from Ukraine? Enthralled by Paradigm Offered by Brzezinski, by Dmitry Minin | Strategic Culture Foundation
  The irrationality and absolute absence of logic startle when it comes to the emotions evoked in the West by the decision of Ukrainian government to postpone the signing of Association Agreement with the European Union.. it’s an open secret that the agreement gives nothing to Ukraine’s economy unlike the accession to the Customs Union where Russia is a member. Still the €610 million credit offered to Ukraine is painted as a lavish gift while the many billions loan to be granted to the country in case of its entry into the Customs Union is presented as a “bribe”. Western politicians welcome the chaos in the heart of Kiev. Nobody in Brussels thinks in terms of responsibility...
 
Churkin: US ‘manipulated public opinion,’ ignored appeals for Syria chem attack evidence | RT News
  While building up a case against the Syrian government, the US has relied on the sophisticated filtration of information and manipulation of public opinion through carefully weighted statements with no hard proof, Russian UN envoy Vitaly Churkin said...
 
New studies: ‘Conspiracy theorists’ sane; government dupes crazy, hostile | Veterans Today
...the new study by Wood and Douglas suggests that the negative stereotype of the conspiracy theorist – a hostile fanatic wedded to the truth of his own fringe theory – accurately describes the people who defend the official account of 9/11, not those who dispute it...
[No surprise to us, of course]
 
Right To Resist Oppression, by Paul Balles | IFC
...Referring to a meeting between Jews and Palestinians, Hugus points to progressives like Noam Chomsky. These progressives have spoken of "what is 'realistic', as if it's realistic to remove an entire people from their country by massacre and attrition, to jail inside 24-foot high walls any who remain, to shoot children in the street, to destroy farmland and water supplies, to drive people to starvation, to wage war on rock-throwers with F-16s, tanks and attack helicopters..."
 
An Awkward Silence: Burying The Hersh Revelations Of Obama’s Syrian Deceit | Media Lens
  'All governments lie', the US journalist I.F. Stone once noted, with Iraq the most blatant example in modern times. But Syria is another recent criminal example of Stone's dictum.. After the nerve gas attack at Ghouta, Obama had unequivocally pinned the blame on Syrian President Assad, a propaganda claim that was fervently disseminated around the world by a compliant corporate news media...
 
Yes, he did make the trains run on time | Paul Eisen
...he took a nation, broken and degraded beyond belief and in the six years from his accession to power in 1933 to the outbreak of the calamitous World War II in 1939, he restored German identity, prosperity and honour. Perhaps that's why they loved him so much...
 
Israel Condemns American Academic Boycott | Roi Tov
  On December 15, 2013, the American Studies Association (ASA) voted in favor of an academic boycott against Israel. Approved by an overwhelming majority of almost ⅔, the results were announced on this page of their website. Two days afterwards, Israel started to react, no less violently than it did after a similar event with the European Union, which deteriorated into a minor war. Is Israel about to attack the American organization in a similar fashion?..
 
Gaza drowning …and under power and media blackout, by Eva Bartlett | In Gaza
  Photos and updates from Gaza paint one of the most dire scenarios the Palestinians locked in the Strip have faced, Israeli bombing campaigns aside. For over a month Palestinians in Gaza have endured 18 or more hours/day power outages. Now, with unusually heavy rains, cold temperatures, Israeli-released torrents of water (suddenly opening of dams along the border with Gaza), and even snow, Gaza is under water, under siege, and people are suffering freezing conditions...
 
The Sycophantic Palestinian Solidarity Movement | Gilad Atzmon
  In the Palestinian Solidarity Movement we really love celebrities – those famous, rather special people who write great books, play musical instruments  (drums included) or even just think great thoughts. We like those people to stand up for Palestine and denounce ‘Zionism’, ‘Israeli Colonialism’ and ‘Apartheid.’  We love them  - as long as they don’t say what they really think...
 
Israel begins to worry as boycott movement makes inroads into USA | Redress Information & Analysis
...For the first time, Israel has begun to worry publicly about where the boycott might lead to. While dismissing the ASA as a “radical leftist group” with few links to academia in the Zionist state, Israeli Deputy Foreign Minister Ze’ev Elkin told Israel Radio “we need to prepare for the danger that it [the boycott call] will pass to other, more serious academic forums”, the Israeli news website Ynet reported. He said that Israeli diplomats and the Zionist lobby in the US were “intensively” trying to dissuade other US academics from following the American Studies Association’s lead.. But try as it may, there’s no doubt which way the wind is blowing...
[Swimming upstream may be tiring and seemingly futile, but if you hang in there, who knows...]
 
The New Great Game Round-Up #33 | Christoph Germann
...While Moscow is very concerned about future developments in Afghanistan, Washington is currently focused on ensuring that U.S. troops will play a central role in these developments. The US government pressures Afghan President Hamid Karzai by all available means into signing the bilateral security agreement, which will most importantly guarantee the immunity of U.S. soldiers: US halts 6 Afghan projects over security deal delay:. If Karzai asked the Afghan people what they think about the presence of foreign troops in their country, Washington would have to wait even longer for a signed deal:.. Survey finds majority of Afghans afraid of US troops...
 
Washington's Dirty Game in Ukraine | Stephen Lendman
  Weeks of Ukraine street protests continue. Washington's dirty hands are involved. They're manipulating things disruptively. Imperial ruthlessness operates this way. International law is clear and unequivocal. Meddling in the internal affairs of other countries is illegal. Doing so is longstanding US policy. It's to eliminate independent sovereign states. It's about replacing them with pro-Western vassal ones...
 
Big Government is now the GOP Platform, by Sartre | Veterans News
  Collectivism is alive and well within the party apparatus of the Republican jellyfish tax cutters. This loathsome game of surrender is the hallmark of phony conservatives. The article, Why the GOP are cowards, needs to be read again, since its application has proven once again that big government is in actuality, the default position of the party of double talk...   
[The Democrats may be traitorous, cowardly and hypocritical, but they aren't imbeciles like the Repubs.]
 
Jesus isn't Polish | Xymphora
..."The genetic truth, as best we know, is more complicated and interesting than Aslan suggests. Jesus might have looked like a Palestinian; he might also have looked like a Bedouin, or a Druze or a mizrachi Israeli, those Israelis descended from the Jewish communities of the greater Middle East. He might have even had the physical characteristics of Ashkenazi Jews, descendants of the Jews who found their way to Europe from the land of Israel. The reason Jesus could have looked like a member of any of these groups is simple: Today, they all share an enormous number of overlapping genetic characteristics." The sentence in red is an absolute lie, and we know it due to modern genetics...
 
Cameron: Afghanistan 'Mission accomplished' | Al Jazeera
  Prime Minister David Cameron said on Monday that British troops could leave Afghanistan next year with a sense of having accomplished their mission, despite worries about the ongoing Taliban insurgency, drug cultivation and human rights abuses.His comments were immediately compared to a banner bearing the words "Mission Accomplished" that was strung across the bridge of a US aircraft carrier in 2003 for a speech about the Iraq war by former US President George W Bush...
[Lies and absurdities are always so much more impressive when delivered with that posh British accent]



Dec 17, 2013

Stealing Palestine: Interview with Richard Falk, by Stuart Littlewood | Redress Information & Analysis
  As the international conspiracy to rob Palestinians of their freedom and homeland is exposed a little more each day, observers and activists still puzzle over the duplicity of the United Nations in the decades-long illegal occupation and ethnic cleansing of the Palestinian territories, not to mention the true intent of Palestinian leaders. So when Richard Falk, Professor of International Law at Princeton and UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in Occupied Palestine, visited Norwich recently, I took the opportunity to put some questions to him...
 
The World’s Longest Festering Truth: Israel is an Illegal Garrison State, by Allen L Roland | Veterans Today
  The Universal Declaration of human rights was adopted by the UN General Assembly of the United Nations 65 years ago this week. The solution to the Israel / Palestinian problem starts and ends, as it eventually did in South Africa, with the restoration of human rights. Now the world’s attention rightfully turns to the Garrison State of Israel where apartheid still rules and 650,000 Israel settlers are illegally living in Palestine territory...
[When push comes to shove in Palestine and the rightful owners recover their land, hopefully it won’t be like So. Africa now where the whites retain effective control and the black population is even worse off than before. The only way to prevent that is to kick the Jews out. Period. No discussion. Then, and only then, will it be possible for the Palestinians to create a just democratic State.]
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Is a new revolution quietly brewing in France? | The Vineyard of the Saker
 
‘Whole families murdered’: Syrian rebels execute over 80 civilians outside Damascus | RT
  Christian, Druze and Alawi members of families stuffed into live bakery ovens to burn them to death...
[Maybe it’s war propaganda, but given who we’re talking about, it’s likely to be true]

The Best of George Carlin: Exposing our government and fall of humanity one joke at a time | YouTube
  What a way to start the day - with a raw truth injection...
 
Ukraine: NATO’s Eastern Prize, by Wayne Madsen | Strategic Culture Foundation
  Ever since the democracy manipulation efforts of international hedge fund brigand George Soros were joined with the artificial street revolution tactics of CIA tactician Gene Sharp to form the core strategy of the U.S. neo-conservative goal of imposing a «New American Century» on the entire world, Ukraine has served as the prize of America’s interventionist foreign policy. And the neocons are still alive and active as ever inside Secretary of State John Kerry's State Department...
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Ukraine: Imagine Western Interference in Reverse.. That Would Be An Impossible European Dream, by Finian Cunningham | Strategic Culture Foundation
  Picture this: top aides of Russian President Vladimir Putin, along with Chinese and Iranian leaders Xi Xiping and Hassan Rouhani, are dispatched from their respective countries to join with anti-austerity protesters in New York, London, Paris or Brussels. These foreign dignitaries then go on to make public statements endorsing the violent occupation of government buildings on Washington’s Capitol Hill and the other Western capitals...
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The FBI files on being and nothingness, by Andy Martin | Prospect Magazine
  From 1945 onwards, J Edgar Hoover’s FBI spied on Camus and Sartre. The investigation soon turned into a philosophical inquiry...
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U.S. Hides Missile Threats To Russia, China Under Subterfuges, by Bruce Gagnon and John Robles | Stop NATO
  For the US/NATO Iran was the excuse for the missile shield that is being deployed to encircle Russia and North Korea is the pretense being used to encircle China. In both cases these are sheer fabrications and the recent agreement with Iran and NATO’s refusal to stop their missile installations with a new pretext of 30 countries that are a threat proves this fact. NATO’s claims are simply propaganda. NATO expansion into Ukraine, Finland, Georgia and other countries is clearly being done to encircle Russia with the end goal being destroying and Balkanizing Russia...
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The Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel | Adalah
  There are more than 50 Israeli laws that discriminate against Palestinian citizens of Israel in all areas of life, including their rights to political participation, access to land, education, state budget resources, and criminal procedures. Some of the laws also violate the rights of Palestinians living in the 1967 OPT and Palestinian refugees...
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Snow Storm Creates Tomato Crisis | Roi Tov
...The Jordan Valley kibbutz where I grew up was based on agriculture and in the forced work of children. We worked in the fields while the adults ate tomatoes. "Zionists flower the desert" was one of the favorite mantras we heard at school, next to "the entire world is against us," and "work is our life." Unknown to our teachers, we added to the latter "but not for us," implying that the benefits of our work went to others. In a place plagued with politruks—soviet political officers—this was the harshest critique we dared to utter...
[On the Romanian kibbutz where I nearly broke my back carrying bunches of bananas, one of the elders solemnly intoned - since German was our common language – “Arbeit Macht Frei.” This was the early 70's. I soon realized that we international volunteers were considered merely useful idiots. They made no attempt to hide their contempt for us.]
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♫  River Flows In You | YouTube
  Yiruma, a popular Korean pianist and composer released the album to commemorate the 10th Anniversary. His most popular pieces on the album include 'River Flows in You', 'Kiss the Rain' & 'May Be'. Also includes 3 new tracks- 'Infinia', 'Reminiscent' & 'Fairy Tale'...

Uncivilized State of America, by K.Gajendra Singh | MCW News
...USA; A people born with little culture and full of savagery. What else to expect from a people whose history is a narrative of landmarks like the Massacre at Wounded Knee, who have morphed from feudal savagery to high-tech savagery and gave to the last generation the Mi Lai massacre, and now Guantanamo, Abu Gharb, Fallujah. Nevertheless, instead of looking at themselves, they pontificate to the rest of the humanity, with their uncivilized discourse...
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Making the World Safe for War Profiteers | Stephen Lendman
  Adam Smith said governments are "instituted for the defense of the rich against the poor." Wars are waged to make them richer. Howard Zinn called war "terrorism magnified a hundred times." Make it many thousands of times. Michael Parenti said "the best way to win a Nobel Peace Prize (is) to wage war or support those who wage (it) instead of peace."..
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Morality and Conscience versus the CIA, by Jacob G. Hornberger | The Future of Freedom Foundation
...let’s face it: Even if the Times were to learn that a CIA agent was assassinating people or kidnapping and torturing them, the Times would likely sit on the story anyway, so as not to jeopardize the life or liberty of a CIA agent or endanger “national security.” What matters is getting the agent out of jail, presumably so that he can continue assassinating people or kidnapping and torturing them in order to “keep us safe” and protect “national security.”..
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Fighting terror with terror, by Belen Fernandez | Al Jazeera
...Apparently, the position of the US, as global superpower, confers upon the country and its executive the honour of determining which human lives are expendable and which are not. Even when civilian collateral damage is acknowledged by the administration, it is rendered less severe in the eyes of US public, thanks to the general demonisation in political and media discourse of certain nationalities and ethnic groups, which prevents civilians, therein, from being awarded the same sanctity of life that is accorded Americans. Drone strikes undeniably qualify as terrorism, instilling fear in various populations for political purposes...
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The Myth of Turkish Secularism, by David Boyajian | Veterans Today
...Turkish policies have long been the antithesis of secularism. The Turkish government massively supports and funds Islam – specifically Sunni Islam – inside the country. Turkey simultaneously represses religions such as Alevism, and bullies and persecutes indigenous Christians, most of whom it liquidated in 20th century genocides. Moreover, it uses Islam to project Turkish political power into Europe, Asia, and elsewhere. Turkey’s system is more properly termed State Islam...
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Iranian Children vs. American Children | Veterans Today
...I can’t help but think how much more we have in common with one another as humans and that the antiquated 20th century dogma and the dogs that still sell it are haunting the halls of power. It is dragging us all down. It short, it sucks! I mean our children simply don’t want what leaders of today are offering...
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Who has nukes in the Middle East? | RT
  Israel ruled guilty of genocide; the nuclear elephant in that region; and the "armies" recruited to doctor Wikipedia. Seek truth from facts with leading war crimes prosecutor Professor Francis Boyle, Asia Times correspondent Pepe Escobar, top saxophonist and former Israeli citizen Gilad Atzmon, and UN human rights rapporteur Professor Richard Falk...
 
The Ultimate Repulsive Zionist Music Clip | Gilad Atzmon
  Repulsive is the mot juste for this exercise in political obscenity...

'Five Broken Cameras' as seen from outside Beth Israel | Paul Eisen
...The question this writer had going into the film was how could Jewish-dominated Hollywood support an Oscar nomination for a film depicting the illegal and violent Zionist takeover of Palestine, and the ethnic cleansing of its non-Jewish population? The answer was found in the lies of omission: neither the "J" word, nor even the "Z" word was mentioned, neither in the film itself, nor in the 4,400-word review published by PBS. Check it out for yourself...


Dec 16, 2013


The Real Cycle of Violence, by Roger Sheety | Palestine Chronicle
...a Palestinian teenager, Wajih Wajdi al-Ramahi, was murdered by the Israeli “defense” forces at al-Jalazun refugee camp near Ramallah.. “The teenager father’s said Israeli soldiers target youths and kill them, in order to amuse themselves.  He added that his son was shot by an Israeli soldier from a watchtower in Bet El with one bullet while he was walking near a school in the camp. He was hit directly in the back, and there were no clashes in the area, he added.”.. That same day, December 7, 2013, John Kerry, the current Secretary of State and mouthpiece of U.S. President Barack Obama, spoke at the Saban Center for Middle East Policy (a Zionist “think tank”) in Washington, D.C...
 
Shimon Peres' selective memory: Israeli prez wants to erase his support for South African apartheid, by Nima Shirazi | Mondoweiss
..Peres decided to leave out any mention of Israel’s close and abiding relationship with the Apartheid regime in South Africa, even when all other nations on Earth had cut ties and joined the international boycott. The Israel-South Africa alliance was not one of mere convenience; rather, it was one based on shared values. “The Jews took Israel from the Arabs after the Arabs had lived there for a thousand years. Israel, like South Africa, is an apartheid state,” South African Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd proudly declared back in 1961...
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The Lies of Power and the Powerful, by Ron Jacobs | CounterPunch
..Like their cousins in Afghanistan and Pakistan, the Iraqis continue to pay in blood and despair for the arrogance, hubris and wanton disregard for human life casually dismissed by those whose calculations perpetrated it. Instead of justice for the victims of those calculations, the bureaucrats, generals, industrialists, and politicians responsible collect retirement checks, dividends and accolades from their countrymen...
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Ukraine: The Myth of its Salvation through Western Investment, by Valentin Katasonov | Strategic Culture Foundation
  Attracting capital to a country is a double-edged sword, and foreign investment comes at a price. Firstly, because foreign investors establish control over individual businesses and entire industries, and little by little the country loses its economic sovereignty. Secondly, because after a while foreign investments turn into a pump that siphons off a country’s financial resources. The issue is the income of foreign investors, which is either reinvested in the country, tightening control over the country’s economy, or exported, worsening the state of the country’s balance of payments with all the negative consequences that come with it...
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Experts fear long delay in talks could derail Iran nuclear talks, by Taimur Khan | The National
  The Obama administration’s decision to expand its sanctions blacklist during talks with Tehran could lead to a protracted delay in implementing a landmark deal to curb Iran’s nuclear programme. The delay would make it more difficult for the White House to fend off new sanctions by a skeptical US Congress, which could in turn jeopardise any further negotiations. “These pauses become interminable at some point,”..
 
A Morgenthau Plan for Iran? by Col. W. Patrick Lang | Sic Semper Tyrannis
  "In January 1946 the Allied Control Council set the foundation of the future German economy by putting a cap on German steel production, the maximum allowed was set at about 25% of the prewar production level. Steel plants thus made redundant were dismantled.. Germany was to be reduced to the standard of life it had known in 1932..”
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Is America the Mother of Al Qaeda? by Gordon Duff | Veterans Today
  In the lead up to the Geneva peace conference, the world is now hearing of terrorist armies dedicated to turning Syria into an al-Qaeda state. The European Union is in panic; Jihadists returning from Syria are setting up terror cells in nation after nation, and those who now claim to have been “duped” into supplying and training al-Qaeda are throwing their hands in the air and screaming out, “How did this happen?” What they should be screaming out is, “How did we get caught?” Will the real “mother of al-Qaeda” please stand up?..
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Albannach: Scottish Pipes & Drums | YouTube   
 
Israel and Its U.S. Congress Demand Americans Pay and Die For A Third War — Against Iran, by Mohamed Khodr | Veterans Today
  Who Has Nuclear Bombs in the Middle East: Israel: 300, Iran: “0” How Many Countries Have Been Attacked By: Israel: 11 Iran: “0”.. It’s pure insanity to ever believe that Iran would ever attack Israel with a nuclear bomb that it does not even possess. It would invite a massive Israeli nuclear holocaust upon its people and would necessarily involve the U.S. whether it wants to or not...
 
"Quenelle panic" in the Israeli press | The Vineyard of the Saker
  Guys, this is too funny, I have to repost the full Ynet article below.  Thanks to "anonymous" for giving me the URL to this typical case of what Gilad Atzmon would call "pre-traumatic stress disorder" :-) Enjoy the hilarious article,..
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Do Elections Make Any Difference? by Andrew Levine | CounterPunch
...A vote for an Obama Democrat is a vote for playing fast and loose with Constitutional protections and for putting basic rights and liberties, especially privacy rights, in jeopardy.  It is a vote for perpetual war, and for continuing and even exacerbating the social, economic and environmental afflictions brought on by the neoliberal turn. Republicans are worse...
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Syria latest magnet for jihadist suicide bombers | SF Gate
...Over the past decade, the use of suicide bombers has evolved. In the 1980s and 1990s, the tactic was used mainly in nationalist causes — Palestinians, for example, unleashed it in their fight against Israel, as did mainly Hindu Tamils in their fight against Sri Lanka's government. But the wars in Afghanistan and especially Iraq transformed it. Suicide attacks became more central to militants' way of fighting and took on a transnational aspect. Militant groups used jihadi ideology honed by al-Qaida and other Islamic extremists to draw foreign recruits into the fight, in the name of defending both land and religion...
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NATO's War on Syria Just Got Dirtier, by Tony Cartalucci | Land Destroyer
...even with the West's capitulation in Syria, and months passing without a shred of credible evidence produced, hacks among Western media continue to perpetuate the original narrative. Among these are of course corporate-financier funded think-tanks and propaganda fronts like the Brookings Institution, Foreign Policy Magazine, the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies (FDD), and establishment papers like the Guardian...
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How History Will Remember Obama (Hint: Not Well), by William Pfaff | Truthdig
  Action begets reaction in foreign policy as in physics, and action unconsidered for its possible consequences has been responsible for many results for which statesmen (or their unqualified counterparts) are eventually sorry, as are multitudes (as it may be) who pay the price. That, sententious as it may be, is my holiday message to Barack Obama...
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Why Remain in Afghanistan? by Philip Giraldi | The Unz Review
  The White House is pushing hard to keep a significant number of American soldiers in Afghanistan contrary to President Barack Obama’s earlier pledge to have then all out by the end of 2014. As the United States President has demonstrated himself to be a habitual liar that failure to connect promises made in 2008 with promises broken in 2013 should surprise no one...
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The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict at the XXVII Guadalajara International Book Fair, by Malú Huacuja del Toro and Elliot Sperber | CounterPunch
  Considered the most important Book Fair in the Spanish-speaking world, and second in the world only to the Frankfurt Book Fair, the Guadalajara International Book Fair in Guadalajara, Mexico, concluded this Sunday, December 8th, under heavy security. The unusually high level of security resulted from the guest of honor of this year’s book fair, the State of Israel. For the past 20 years, the book fair has honored a city, country, or region as its guest. No earlier guests, however, have been as controversial, or have aroused as much protest and dissent, as has the State of Israel. Hence, the unprecedented levels of security...
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Dec 15, 2013

Last words on Mandela (maybe)
 
  As the world commemorates Nelson Mandela, it is unfortunate that so much of the public discussion is dominated by the pious bloviating of politicians whose own careers seem not just unspeakably trivial compared to Mandela’s, but run directly against so much of what Mandela worked so hard to accomplish in his life...
 
  From the razor sharp pen of the most exciting political pundit in Africa, Justice Malala...
[So sad to see the new So. Africa flush itself down the toilet]
 
...his release from prison back in 1994 could be interpreted as the tacit compromise demanded of Mandela by the white rulers. They knew that their vile game was up because of mounting international sanctions, and the white rulers were obliged to find a way of surviving. The survival of their class privileges and exploitation depended on making a compromise with their black opponents led by Mandela. That compromise was the superficial relinquishing of political power.. but in return Mandela would then steer the African National Congress (ANC) into accepting the capitalist economic system by which whites have dominated and continue to dominate South Africa...
 
..The policy of land expropriation in Mozambique leading to the establishment of White Afrikaner farms using indentured Mozambican farm workers had the support of the ANC government. It also had the the personal blessing of President Nelson Mandela.. The SACADA project was coordinated by the leader of the right wing Freedom Front and former South African Defense Force Chief General Constand Viljoen.. From the outset, international corporate agribusiness and the World Bank  were involved in this project...
 
  The death and funeral of Nelson Mandela have triggered a tsunami of commentary — an endless orgy of eulogies and tributes — from media talking heads, assorted scribes, and politicians. Beltway “conservatives,” such as Newt Gingrich and Ted Cruz, have praised Mandela. Bill O’Reilly even noted that Mandela was “a communist” before concluding that Mandela was a “great man.” The Daily Telegraph, a right-of-center newspaper, compared Mandela to Christ...
[It’s called “co-opting the enemy.” The Establishment has gotten very good at this.]
 
  This is from Haaretz (July 2001) and does the dirt on Winnie Mandela. Now, I'm as fed up of the current Mandela-worship as the next man but surely I'm the last person who should engage in this kind of guilt-by-association innuendo. On the other hand, when the man whose exalted name Winnie bears is described thus: "Few human beings can be compared to Jesus Christ. Nelson Mandela was one" ....well, how can I resist?..
[It’s quite a story]
 
How did Palestine come to this? by Ghada Karmi | Veterans News
  United Nations Resolution 194 continues to haunt the Palestinian-Israeli conflict 65 years after it was passed. “While for the Syrian refugees a possibility exists that a time could come when they might go back to their country, no such return is remotely in the cards for the Palestinians.”..
 
Ukraine: The Myth of its Salvation through Western Investment, by Valentin Katasonov | Strategic Culture Foundation
  Street demonstrations in small areas of central Kiev and the delicacy with which the authorities are dealing with the subject of who created this chaos in the country’s capital city at some point overshadowed the infinitely more serious situation, namely: considered objectively, and in view of existing trade links and cooperation ties, Ukraine is expanding to the East rather than the West. And the same applies to a financial and economic sphere like investment...
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The Islamists’ hijacking of Arab hope, by Jamal Kanj | Redress Information & Analysis
  Long before the self-righteous Islamists turned genuine street grievances into violent movements, Egypt was the crown of the Arab Spring and Syria was the second best hope to reap the flowers of the spring. Today, however, hope and optimism have been hijacked by pretentious religious demagogues and tunnel-visioned ideologues with a pedantic monopoly on God...
 
Cargill, Kissinger and the Arming of Iraq, by Dean Henderson | Veterans Today
  The US and their Western allies weren’t concerned with dual use items being shipped to Iraq during the 1980’s.  From 1985-1990, 771 licenses for dual-use exports from the US to Iraq were approved, as US defense contractors, not content with the Ayatollah’s money, armed Iraq, while the CIA passed intelligence to Saddam.  When Hussein gassed the Mossad-backed PUK Kurds in 1987, President Reagan opposed sanctioning Iraq.  Instead, Mossad agent Gerald Bull and his Space Research Corporation helped the Iraqis develop three “super guns” code-named Babylon...
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Gill Kaffash speaks @ the 'Seek Speak Spread Truth' conference | Gilad Atzmon
  What is Antisemitism: A deliberation on the Kosherification of Palestine and the solidarity movement...
 
Ar Ddim: Gwyneth Glyn | YouTube

From the Middle East to Lausanne: Arabic Thoughts amidst the Alps, by Ramzy Baroud | Palestine Chronicle
...It has been nearly a week since I embarked on a speaking tour in French-speaking countries of Europe. The trip was more difficult than I thought it would be, but also successful. I am here to talk about Gaza, to explain Arab revolutions and to remind many of their moral responsibility towards Palestine and Arab nations...
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Role of Jews in the Palestinian Solidarity Movement | Internet Archive
  Henry Herskovitz addressed elusive “Jewish Community Accountability.” He spoke at a Palestine Peace & Justice Salon in Seattle on February 1, 2011. Palestine has been a shunted topic by many Jewish activists. So-called “Left” Zionists still identify with Israel as homeland for the Jews. In organization after organization, “Left” Zionists have operated as gatekeepers - rather than confront glaring racism and its excesses...
[He's very articulate and well spoken]
 
In Ukraine, a Jewish Oligarch Is a Bridge to the West | Tablet Magazine
  One breezy evening last September, Viktor Pinchuk, Ukraine’s second-richest man, stepped onstage at the Livadia Palace in the Black Sea resort of Yalta to introduce the star speaker of the annual international conference he hosts to promote his country’s ties with the West: former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. Nearby, at a table set for an exquisite five-course meal, sat her husband; they were joined in the hall by Shimon Peres and Tony Blair...
[Who’s supporting the Ukrainian opposition - the usual suspects of course]
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Congress triples Obama's request on military aid to Israel | Intifada Palestine
  The bill, introduced jointly by the House of Representatives and Senate budget committees, includes $33.7 million to improve the Arrow Weapon System, $117 million for the Short-Range Ballistic Missile Defense Program and $22 million for development of the Arrow-3 upper-tier interceptor, according to Business Week.. Separately, the House on Wednesday passed 399-0 a bill that would enhance the US commitment to Israel’s “qualitative military edge” in the region, the JTA news agency reported. Additionally, the House Energy and Commerce Committee approved legislation that would create a strategic energy partnership between Israel and the United States, JTA said...
[One wonders what the appropriate public response should be – throw the Congress critters in prison for corruption? Hang them for treason? Commit them to the loony bin?]
 
Iran Quits Talks Over Latest US Sanctions, by Jason Ditz | Antiwar
...it is the administration itself that has put the deal in serious jeopardy, having imposed a series of new sanctions against Iran’s trading partners yesterday. Iran’s negotiating team is now leaving the Vienna talks and returning to Tehran, leaving open the question of whether or not the talks will resume...
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Peace for Germany: Ger. Lt. Col. Max Klaar, Major Merrit P. Drucker - US Army, and James Bacque | YouTube
  This is the only authentic video version of an historic meeting in October, 2011 in Washington entitled Peace For Germany. The participants at the meeting were Colonel Max Klaar, Bundeswehr, (retired); Major Merrit P. Drucker, United States Army, (retired) and James Bacque, author of Other Losses. Their sole interest is to publish the truth about the fate of Germans and Germany under Allied rule after World War Two...
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Israeli-American judge “settles” ludicrous 9/11 lawsuit, by Kevin Barrett | Veterans Today
...The New World Order financial elite’s death-grip on American government and media is exemplified by its total control of all 9/11 litigation – and of all mainstream news stories “reporting” that litigation. Virtually all 9/11 litigation has been funneled into the courtroom of Judge Hellerstein, whose many ties to Israel were exposed by Ellen Mariani’s lawsuit last year...
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Hardball US Geopolitics | Stephen Lendman
  America seeks unchallenged global dominance. No holds barred tactics pursue it. Rule of law principles don't matter. Means justify ends. Might makes right. Events are manipulated. Wars, economic disruption, financial terrorism, and other upheavals play out in real time. Grand schemes reflect them. Ongoing Ukrainian protests didn't erupt by chance. Washington's dirty hands manipulated them...
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Can Les Clintons Scupper Obama’s US-Iran Rapprochement? by Franklin Lamb | Al Manar
  They will if they can, and in league with the US Zionist lobby they well might. The latter is currently eager to fund and promote the Clintons new project, according to New Orleans sources close to political operative James Carville, a veteran of three Clinton and two Obama presidential campaigns. Carville has publicly sworn recently while out late with drinking buddies in his favorite French Quarter bar that he was finished “pimping for the Clintons.”  Plus he has come to “really admire the current President”. But Bill is not and does not...



Dec 14, 2013


Goliath: The Book That May Delegitimize Israel’s Apartheid State, by Justin Raimondo | Antiwar
...I confess I probably wouldn’t have read Goliath if not for the controversy it has generated: those squeals of pain coming from Israel’s apologists had to mean something, I figured. Either the book was egregiously unfair to the Jewish state or else a brilliant chronicle of its depredations against ordinary human decency. I had to read it in order to find out – and what I discovered both shocked and uplifted me, furthering my understanding not only of the Jewish state and its people but also of my own philosophy of libertarianism...
[Excellent piece. I am no libertarian – to me the idea of "absolute property rights” held up as the highest social value is dreadful. On the other hand, the insistence on individual rights of expression, movement, freedom etc., as well as the libertarian basic foreign policy of peacefully minding one’s own business are to be applauded and supported. Neither the Republicans nor the Democrats can hold a candle to them.]
 
Snow and subserviance, by Mazin Qumsiyeh | Popular Resistance
  It is snowing here in Palestine.  My visitors from Gaza (a child being treated and his father) wish to go back to their family even though their wife tells us that they have no water and no electricity and that parts of the refugee camp that they live in is flooded (in Rafah).  But we are all concerned for the even more precarious position of refugees from Syria (both Palestinians and Syrians who escaped the fighting and now live in tents in a snow blizzard)..
[The sins of the ZioNazis are so numerous, continuous and horrific that the negative consequences will be felt not for seven generations, but yea for seventy-seven generations. The long term outlook for the Jewish tribe is grim, but they have brought it on themselves. They will, of course, blame it on “antisemitism,” but by then no one will be listening to such self-serving PC hogwash.]
 
Israel boycott bites deeper as Dutch company cuts ties | Redress Information & Analysis
  It seems that hardly a day passes by without someone – a country, a firm, an individual – ends their relationship with Israel, which is increasingly becoming a serious reputational risk. The latest to see the light is the Dutch water supplier Vitens, which has ended a partnership with the Israeli water company Mekorot, Vitens announced on 11 December...
 
“The Jewish State”: What It Really Means and Why the Rest of the World Should be Terrified at the mere mention of it, by Mark Glenn | The Ugly Truth
...Mass murder, despoilment, displacement, the dehumanization of millions of innocent people in the Middle East and the total meltdown of all order–political, economic, military, social, et al – everywhere else, but as far as Israel and her supporters are concerned, these are just irrelevant details distracting us from the ‘real truth’ of the matter, which is— ..what ‘God’ wants…
 
Israeli To Officially Take Over as Vice Chairman of U.S. Federal Reserve Bank, by Johnny Punish | Veterans Today
  We all know the Zionist banksters control the world money supply. This is NOT news. What is news is that they used to try to hide their occupation of the U.S. American money system by pretending to be Americans. Now? Screw it! This time they are just blurting it out! The Vice-Chairman of the U.S. Federal Reserve is going to be an Israeli bankster who ran the Bank of Israel Bank; Stanley Fischer. Plain and Simple!  Screw You America!..
 
Self-Boycott, by Uri Avnery | Gush Shalom
  Can a country boycott itself? That may sound like a silly question. It is not. At the memorial service for Nelson Mandela, the “Giant of History” as Barack Obama called him, Israel was not represented by any of its leaders. The only dignitary who agreed to go was the speaker of the Knesset, Yuli Edelstein, a nice person, an immigrant from the Soviet Union and a settler, who is so anonymous that most Israelis would not recognize him. (“His own father would have trouble recognizing him in the street,” somebody joked.)..
 
Fatal air strike hits wedding convoy in Yemen | Al Jazeera
  At least 13 people have been killed on their way to a wedding in Yemen by a suspected United States drone strike, local officials have said. The air strike occurred on Thursday in the village of Qaifa, in Yemen's central al-Bayda province...
[Just in case anyone was under the impression there has been a letup in the favorite pastime of the American military – locating wedding celebrations and funerals and blasting them to smithereens with drones]
 
The New Norm: Must It Keep Getting Worse? by Andrew Levine | CounterPunch
  It must be hard for people who came of age politically during the past thirty-five years to appreciate how it used to be taken for granted that increasing productivity would bring increasing wellbeing to the vast majority – higher wages and salaries, better social insurance programs, better public education, better pensions, and the like. It was taken for granted too that national, state and local governments would be run efficiently on fiscally sound bases – that, when necessary, taxes would go up as well as down, and that the tax system would be generally progressive...
 
Israel opens 'de facto jail' for migrants | Al Jazeera
  Israel has begun moving African asylum seekers into a new detention facility in the country's southern desert, in a move that has been harshly criticised by human rights groups...
[What’s good for the goose is apparently not good for the gander – it’s the usual hypocritical double standard applied to nearly everything by the seriously screwed up tribal Jewish mind.]
 
Israel Drops Controversial Bedouin Relocation Plan | Palestine Chronicle
  Israel is scrapping a controversial draft law to relocate thousands of Bedouin residents of the Negev desert, an official said Thursday. Benny Begin, tasked with implementing the so-called Prawer Plan, said he had recommended to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to “end the debate on the law” in parliament. “The prime minister accepted this proposal,” he said at a Tel Aviv press conference, days after it emerged the governing coalition was divided on the proposed legislation...
 
From Mediator to Antagonist: Kerry’s Coup, by Nicola Nasser | CounterPunch
...the PLO chief negotiator Saeb Erakat, commenting on Kerry’s proposals, said that the Palestinian leadership “perhaps” committed a “strategic mistake” by agreeing to the resumption of negotiations with Israel instead of seeking first the membership of international organizations to build on the UN General Assembly’s recognition last year of Palestine as a non-member state...
[Gee, no kidding?]
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Iranian city picks Islamic republic's first female minority ethnic mayor | The Guardian
  Choice of Samieh Baluchzehi, a 26-year-old from Baluch minority, is even more notable as she is a Sunni Muslim in Shia-dominated Iran. A woman belonging to Iran's Baluch ethnic group has been chosen as the mayor of a provincial city, in a rare example of a minority politician being promoted in the Islamic republic...
 
Syria: U.S. Moving Towards Supporting Assad | Moon of Alabama
  The first open sign of a change of U.S. policy towards supporting the Assad government in Syria came from Ambassador Ryan C. Crocker who advised to talk to Assad. Now the former CIA chief General Hayden says that Assad winning would be the best geopolitical outcome of the conflict. The BBC, which so far acted as a reliable pro-insurgency propaganda outlet, is now asking if it is Time to rethink a future with Assad?..
 
Israel must give up its worst-kept secret: the bomb, by Neve Gordon | Al Jazeera
  The deal hammered out between Iran and the United States, France, Germany, Britain, China and Russia stipulates that Tehran will halt progress on enrichment capacity, stop developing its heavy water reactor at Arak, and open access to international weapons inspection. While this deal paves the way for Iran's reintegration into the family of Western nations, and can therefore be conceived as a real milestone, in terms of the Middle East nuclear problem, any robust agreement,however, will have to include Israel. Within Israel, speaking about the nuclear programme in Dimona is taboo. Mysteriously, however, there is also a broad-based agreement to keep silent about it in Washington...
 
The West's Alliance with «Jihad Warriors» in Syria: Sinister Fruits, by Dmitry Minin | Strategic Culture Foundation
  After suffering one military defeat after another, the Syrian radical opposition, backed by the support of the West and the monarchies of the Persian Gulf, are increasingly retaliating cruelly against the civilian population. The jihadists seize towns and cultural and religious sites which up to that point had remained outside the combat zone, loudly proclaiming their victories...
 
Sabotaging The Nuclear Deal: U.S. Adds New Sanctions On Iran | Moon of Alabama
  On November 24 the P5+1 and the Islamic Republic of Iran agreed on a temporary deal about the Iranian nuclear program and the sanctions against it. The agreed upon Joint Plan Of Action (pdf) includes this clause in the Elements of a first step which both sides are supposed to have by now implemented:.. Today the United States broke the deal by imposing additional sanctions on Iran...
 
During Mandela's Burial Israel Refused Black Lawmaker Blood Donation | Roi Tov
  "Wait," I said to myself after hearing about Nelson Mandela's death. "Wait," I repeated after Israeli Prime Minister announced that he won't participate at the memorial ceremony attended by many leaders. Israel being Israel, I had no doubt that it was about to commit an even more monumental gaffe. "Wait," I kept saying to myself after the Israeli most serious newspaper chose the occasion to thoroughly review the relations between Israel and South Africa during the Apartheid regime. I thank Haaretz for providing the shocking subtitle of this article. "Go ahead!" I exclaimed after that - while the funeral was still on, Israel refused to accept a blood donation of one of its lawmakers because she is black...
 
Iran Is More Than A Regime, by Ali Reza Eshraghi | LobeLog
  In the current debate over the November 24 interim deal with Iran on its nuclear program, an important lesson from Politics 101 is neglected: state and regime are two conceptually different terms. But when it comes to Iran, US foreign policy has systematically been incompetent in grasping this distinction. State refers to a sovereign political entity, which (at least in theory) is supposed to pursue the common good of its population. Regime, on the other hand, signifies an authoritarian form of governance and its ruling elites. However, the rhetorical use of this word can be biased and highly politically motivated...
 
Reality Check for American Tyrants, by Preston James | Veterans Today
...all those who are in high positions of illegitimate power inside the USG and the Secret Shadow Government (SSG) [more commonly referred to as the Deep State], you should realize that contrary to all your DHS and counter-terrorist training by the ADL and your all expenses-paid “koolaide-drinking” junkets to Israel for training from the world’s top terrorists (who are actually just pretending to be the top fighters of terrorists), you have been grossly misled and probably need a good dose of reality to wake you up. Unless America gets some new non-criminal leadership with serious integrity.. a civil war is probably imminent...
 
Israel approves the detention without charge of African migrants | Veterans Today
...Soviet era Jews who came here use the family tree loophole to bring retired parents to America as refugees. They also qualified for medicaid, and you guessed it, moved right into expensive senior housing here in Atlanta… the kind where the care runs $3000 a month. Their Atlanta relatives living in the suburbs with six figure incomes were rarely interested in providing housing for ‘refugees’ in their homes when luxury accommodations at taxpayer expense are available for Soviet Jews only. Christians or Muslims need not apply, another example of ‘special insiders’ gaming the system and crying ‘anti-semite’ at those who question any of it...
 
Anti-Iran plot: Scions of Zion at work, by Ismail Salami | PressTV
  There is no remission to Washington’s belligerence towards Iran and no deal seems to be an antidote to this venom of spite secreted out on the part of the US officials on a daily basis...
[What I want to know is whether these traitors are paid in dollars or shekels]
 
The Media's Hypocritical Oath: Mandela And Economic Apartheid, by David Edwards | Media Lens
  What does it mean when a notoriously profit-driven, warmongering, climate-killing media system mourns, with one impassioned voice, the death of a principled freedom fighter like Nelson Mandela? Does it mean that the corporate system has a heart, that it cares? Or does it mean that Mandela's politics, and the mythology surrounding them, are somehow serviceable to power?..



Dec 12-13, 2013

Following the Footprints of ZioNazism
 
There’s a common mistaken assumption that Israelis’ hostility towards Palestinians and Arabs is based on a justified / deluded (take your choice) sense of the danger they pose. Israelis’ insecurity, it is often believed, derives from centuries of persecution of Jews around the world. In reality, this is only a part of the story. There is also a deeply entrenched sense of separateness that comes both from the religion (the “chosen people” of Judaism) and from the lifestyle Jewish communities adopted in the face of persecution (e.g. the pales of settlement)..
 
...This discounting of violent and inhumane policies reflects a long tradition which asserts that if a state exists, that is, if it has a government that can exercise sovereignty over territory, it is automatically legitimate. In this way the idea of legitimacy has been separated from the fact of behaviour. If you think about it, this is the equivalent of saying a killer is a legitimate member of society simply because he of she is alive and occupying space. In both cases it is true that the state and the person exist, but can either really be judged legitimate members of their respective communities apart from their behaviour?..
 
  The content of the article is familiar and predictable, not worthy of remarks. But I wrote the following comment which will probably be automatically deleted. Little that is not kosher (complies with tribal Jewish mythology) is allowed. “It never seems to occur to those who write these articles and do such studies that there might actually be some truth to what these letter writers are saying. No, in knee-jerk fashion, they are simply classified as ‘antisemitic’ or ‘hate mail’ and then trashed. Maybe it's some kind of Jewish joke.”..
 
  The European Union’s agency for combating racism dropped its definition for anti-Semitism and now is unable to define the term, an agency spokeswoman said. “We are not aware of any official definition [of anti-Semitism],” Blanca Tapia of the EU’s Fundamental Rights Agency told JTA on Tuesday...
[Gotta love it. Once people realize that real “antisemitism,” properly defined, is a synonym for Islamophobia they will also realize that Israel is the most antisemitic country in the world]
 
  “This highlights once again the power of Zionism in the mainstream media (and why aren’t we hearing outrage in the MSM about the ethnic cleansing of the Bedouins to make room for housing for Jews?). Even if Slater is right that the book was excluded for its strident tone, one has the feeling that the main problem is simply the facts that it presents. (Even Eric Alterman agrees that the book is “mostly technically accurate.”)..
[I don’t buy the concept of “race.” It is an artifact of the 19th century attempt to create a structural set of categories to provide a basis for the infant academic disciplines of sociology and anthropology. Such categories are misleading because they have such fuzzy boundaries as to render them worse than useless. It’s the old but fundamental problem of the solidification (aka reification) of concepts into ‘things’ that are imputed to have some objective reality. Jewish culture in particular is replete with examples of this, which is also called ‘misplaced concreteness.’]
 
  Few, if any, historians have done more to unearth the truth about Israel than Ilan Pappe. His 2006 book The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine documents how the uprooting of more than 750,000 Palestinians was the direct consequence of a plan drawn up by Zionist leaders in 1947. It arguably remains the most serious study published yet of the Nakba (catastrophe), the violent expulsion of Palestinians leading to Israel’s formation the following year. Pappe’s outspoken criticisms of Israel have resulted in him being isolated by many of his Israeli peers...
 
  Iran on Tuesday dismissed an offer from Israel's president to meet his Iranian counterpart as a propaganda ploy to ease Israeli isolation over a nuclear accord between Tehran and world powers. "This propaganda to help the regime out of isolation will prove fruitless," foreign ministry spokeswoman Marzieh Afkham told reporters. She said President Shimon Peres's offer was aimed at helping Iran's arch-foe Israel out of its isolation after its outspoken opposition to the nuclear deal clinched last month in Geneva...
 
  On Dec. 2 the Wall Street Journal published an article entitled, What a Final Iran Deal Must Do. The authorship is ascribed to Henry Kissinger and George Shultz, but it is hard to believe that this piece is really the work of such distinguished statesmen, so striking are the misleading depictions of crucial facts and the shortcomings in their reasoning...
 
  In the wake of the preliminary nuclear deal with Iran, the Washington Post’s “Fact Checker,” Glenn Kessler, has questioned whether Obama administration officials should have taken the anti-nuclear fatwa by Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei seriously. But the column is less a disinterested investigation of the truth about the issue than a polemic that leans clearly toward the related position of Israel, AIPAC and their Congressional supporters...
 
  There is an odd sort of atmosphere today around the soon-to-fail Israel-Palestine talks. A dramatic gesture by the United States, presenting its own security plans to both Israel and the Palestinians, has engendered mostly yawns. Yet the events of recent days have clarified the likely results of these talks, despite the ongoing secrecy around them...
 
  Netanyahu couldn’t attend Mandela’s memorial. It was too expensive. I mean, with the cost of the Prawer Plan and dealing with those pesky Palestinians who just won’t shut up and die already, the Jewish state is strapped for cash. So, Israel’s prime minister sent a 37 second video. You can watch it here, then read the actual words behind his words...
 
...Bedouin leaders, who were ignored in the plan’s drafting, say they will oppose it to the bitter end. The villages, though treated as illegal by the state, are the last places where the Bedouin cling to their land and a traditional pastoral life.
But the Israeli government is equally insistent that the Bedouin must be “concentrated” – a revealing term employed by Benny Begin, a former minister who helped to formulate the plan. In the place of the villages, a handful of Jewish towns will be erected...
 
  The media usually weren't interested. "So the Bedouins are demonstrating again? Against the Prawer Law? You mean this law of Minister Begin? And also Jews will demonstrate with them? A few leftists perhaps. How do you call this village where they demonstrate? I never heard of such a place. An unrecognized village? Well then, who can recognize it. Twenty kilometers from Beershebah?..
 
  Until now, nobody knew the extent of the Prawer-Begin Plan. No government official or statement has detailed how many Bedouin citizens will be displaced, how many unrecognized villages razed and how much land will be expropriated by the state. MK Dov Khenin (Hadash) on Monday published a copy of a map distributed to members of the Knesset Interior Affairs Committee. The map was prepared by the Prime Minister’s Office for Housing Minister Uri Ariel of the Jewish Home party in an attempt to assuage his party’s fears that too much land would be given to the Bedouin...
 
  Morocco is often described as the Arab country with the closest relations with Israel. Closer than Jordan and Egypt, which have diplomatic relations with the Zionists. Closer than Tunis,+ which is home to a yearly Jewish festival. Close despite legislation proposed to parliament in Rabat that would make even private dealings between Moroccans and Israelis punishable by imprisonment. The latter probably was a warning flag that led to the odd announcement on December 10, that the King's Muezzin will visit Israel and sing in a synagogue. The news was accompanied by a chilling warning from an Israeli...
 
  The answer to my headline question is that he, Marwan Barghouti, is in an Israeli jail where he has been since his arrest in Ramallah by an IDF unit in 2002, after which, in 2004, he was sentenced to five life terms in prison. Some months before his arrest one of Israel’s security agencies tried and failed to assassinate him. A missile was fired at his bodyguard’s car and killed the bodyguard. (If the attempt on Barghouti’s life had succeeded, his killers would not have been brought to justice because as well as bulldozing Palestinian homes and stealing Palestinian land and water, Israel kills, murders, with impunity)..
 
...What’s actually happened is that the rebels played their trump card in August with a false flag chemical weapons event in al-Rawda that was intended to be blamed on the Assad government. The problem was, as in the case of many false flag events, they didn’t do a very good job of pinning the blame on the intended patsy...
 
..We've successfully fought back a malicious campaign by an "Israel first" politician that shut down our credit card processing. Several months ago, Dov Hikind, a New York politician with a well-documented record of bigotry and support for Zionist terrorism, launched a public campaign to shut down credit card processing by the IHR and several other organizations he calls "hate groups." MasterCard, a global credit card company, joined Hikind in this campaign, and the IHR was put on a blacklist that ended all credit card processing...
 
  A must watch...
 
Syrian Opposition is not United and Cohesive, by Sharmine Narwani | Fars News
  Syria is entrapped in a mesmerizing and unusual conflict these days. Fighters from more than 80 countries, mostly the European and Arab allies of the United States, have taken up arms against the Syrian government and persistently push for the removal of President Bashar al-Assad from power. Opinion polls, however, show that the majority of Syrians support President Assad and want him to remain in power...
 
Turkey and the Politics of Genocide | AINA
  Victims of genocide die twice: first in the killing fields and then in the texts of denialists who insist that "nothing happened" or that what happened was something "different". On the eve of two centennial anniversaries in 2015 -- the Gallipoli landings, and the start of the genocide of long-settled Armenians, Assyrians and Hellenes in Ottoman Turkey -- the Turkish denial of events evokes serious political debate here. The Ottoman Empire and, later, the Republic of Turkey, implemented a plan of unprecedented forced demographic change from 1914 to 1924, It sought the physical elimination of the indigenous non-Muslim populations as the only way of securing their territorial, cultural, religious and linguistic integrity...
 
Checkbook Journalism & Leaking to the Highest Bidders, by Sibel Edmonds | Boiling Frogs Post
  Imagine a major government whistleblower who leaks his evidence and obtained documents to the highest bidders in the mainstream media and mega corporations. Does that sound awful, disgraceful and despicable? Okay. Now, imagine a pseudo journalist who obtains over 50,000 documents from a government whistleblower, and then takes some of this information and puts it out for bid, reserves a certain portion for a lucrative book deal, and saves the rest for a mega corporation that has a record of screwing whistleblowers. How does that sound?..
 
Hersh On Obama's Lies About Syrian Chemical Weapons | Moon of Alabama
  A month ago Philip Giraldi, a former CIA officer, wrote about CIA analysts who threatened to resign over the Obama administration allegations about the use of chemical weapons in Syria by the Syrian government: “With all evidence considered, the intelligence community found itself with numerous skeptics in the ranks, leading to sharp exchanges.. A number of analysts threatened to resign as a group if their strong dissent was not noted in any report released to the public, forcing both Brennan and Clapper to back down.”..
 
Kerry raises doubts over Iran nuclear deal | Al Jazeera
  US Secretary of State John Kerry has raised doubts over whether Iran is prepared to conclude a final deal with Western powers on dismantling its disputed nuclear programme, but has urged US lawmakers not to impose new sanctions on the country. "I came away from our preliminary negotiations with serious questions about whether or not they're ready and willing to make some of the choices that have to be made," Kerry told the US House of Representatives foreign affairs committee on Tuesday. "Has Iran changed its nuclear calculus? I honestly don't think we can say for sure yet...
[One shouldn’t be fooled – regime change is still the name of the game]
 
How Absurd Can It Get? US-UK Defending Dictatorships, by Finian Cunningham | Dandelion Salad
  In a breathtaking display of absurdity, US secretary of defense Chuck Hagel and Britain’s Foreign Minister William Hague were among senior Western delegates to address the annual conference on “regional security” held in Bahrain at the weekend. These officials pontificated about regional threats, conflict, international law, human rights and so on; meanwhile out on the streets of Bahrain, not far from the venue, peaceful protesters calling for democratic freedom were being bludgeoned by regime police thugs...
 
Only four shooters at Kenya mall and they may have escaped alive, says NYPD, by Tom Winter | NBC News
...The NYPD report also said the attackers carried only light weapons, and that there is no evidence any of them tried to take hostages or remained in the mall after 12:15 a.m. on Sept. 22. It also said the female British jihadi known as the “White Widow” was probably never in the mall, despite tabloid rumors, and that the Kenyan military looted the high-end shopping complex...



Dec 11, 2013


Nelson Mandela’s Inspiration | Richard Falk
...It was above all Mandela’s spiritual presence that created such a strong impression of moral radiance on the part of all of us fortunate enough to be in the room. I was reinforced in my guiding belief that political greatness presupposes a spiritual orientation toward the meaning of life, not necessarily expressed by way of a formal religious commitment, but always implies living with an unconditional dedication to values and faith that transcend the practical, the immediate, and the material...
 
Time to bomb Israel – with truth, by Jim W. Dean | Veterans Today
  Israel has six months for their stage two attempt of wrecking the Mideast peace process. They have lost no time launching their counter attack. Like the pros they are, they had their B-Team preparing for the expected loss at Geneva Two. They have used their traditional route for seeding the public’s mind with new fears, using our ever ready Congressmen and Senators to front their subversion of the American democracy...
 
As Bedouin villages are destroyed, so too are hopes for Palestinian peace deal, by Jonathan Cook | The View from Nazareth
..In what was billed as a “day of rage”, thousands of Palestinians took to the streets to protest against a plan to uproot tens of thousands of Bedouin from their ancestral lands inside Israel, in the Negev. The stakes are high, not least because Israel views this battle as a continuation of the 1948 war that established a Jewish state on the ruins of Palestine. The roots of the so-called Prawer Plan can be traced to one of Zionism’s earliest and most sinister principles: “Judaisation”..
 
Madiba in Palestine, by Robin Kelley and Erica Williams | CounterPunch
...Rather than participate in this mythmaking and what Cornel West calls the “Santa Claus-ification” of the man who was only removed from the U.S. Terrorist Watch list in 2008, let us reflect on Mandela’s transition as an occasion to remember not only his understanding and advocacy of boycotts as a strategy of resistance, but also his unwavering support of the Palestinian right to self-determination...
 
“World Trade Center” Scam Exposed, by Kevin Barrett | Veterans Today
  The more we learn about the World Trade Center, the more it appears that the whole project – from its creation by New World Order chieftain David Rockefeller, to its explosive demolition on 9/11, to its current resurrection by insurance-fraud suspect Larry Silverstein – has been one gigantic scam...
 
Israeli Newspaper: Israel is the Evil Kingdom | Roi Tov
  Outsiders will define them as one monolithic bloc of people dressed alike, speaking alike, moving alike. Some outsiders would be tempted to use George Orwell's words in 1984: ...a nation of warriors and fanatics, marching forward in perfect unity, all thinking the same thoughts and shouting the same slogans, perpetually working, fighting, triumphing, persecuting... Yet, despite the Zionist attempt to conscript them, they are not warriors in the military sense. Neither are they "in perfect unity." Those knowing them a little will laugh at such a description; after all, any two of them are divided in at least three political camps...
 
Stop Funding Human Rights Violations: Stop the Blank Check to Israel, by Casey Stinemetz | CounterPunch
  December 10 is Human Rights Day.  This day is an opportunity for all of us to reflect on the importance of human rights in our increasingly interconnected world. Human Rights are basic freedoms to which all humans are entitled: the right to life, the freedom of thought and expression, and equality before the law.  But are these rights applied equally, regardless of race, ethnicity, religion, gender, and other differences?..
 
Mass murder in the Middle East is funded by our friends the Saudis, by Patrick Cockburn | The Unz Review
  Donors in Saudi Arabia have notoriously played a pivotal role in creating and maintaining Sunni jihadist groups over the past 30 years. But, for all the supposed determination of the United States and its allies since 9/11 to fight “the war on terror”, they have showed astonishing restraint when it comes to pressuring Saudi Arabia and the Gulf monarchies to turn off the financial tap that keeps the jihadists in business...
 
Top 10 errors in Netanyahu's Speech Demanding Iran give up 'Genocidal' Policies, by Juan Cole | Informed Comment
  Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu demanded on Sunday that the world community constrain Iran to change its “genocidal policy” toward Israel, in the course of a speech in which he attacked President Obama’s current round of negotiations with Iran over its civilian nuclear enrichment program. The rhetoric Netanyahu uses is not just sprinkled with falsehoods, it is pure propaganda, every word of it...
 
In which I apply for Jewish status, by Kevin Barrett | Veterans Today
  The Palestinians are second-class citizens in their own homeland. I’m starting to understand how they feel. If I were Jewish, I would dominate the media, largely control the US Congress, and completely own Hollywood. If I were Jewish, nobody could criticize me – or my tribal settler colony in Occupied Palestine – without being labeled anti-Semitic and forced to wear a “never work in this town again” yellow star...
[I don't want to sound smug, but I’m on the Masada site S.H.I.T list. I was really pissed off when I went there and couldn’t find my name. So I wrote to them to complain and they were obliging enough to add me. They even gave me a special tribute, posting my snapshot (taken from my site) saying that I looked just like their leader Adolf. Actually, that was kind of flattering, as he was revered by millions of people. But I think it was just my mustache. One wonders if those ZioNazi sociopaths ever look in the mirror – and if they do, what do they see?]
 
Peace Without Occupation | Stephen Lendman
  For millions of occupied Palestinians, diaspora ones, and legions of global supporters, it remains a distant unfulfilled dream. It's been this way for decades. Rogue Israeli governance prevents responsible change. So does one-sided Washington support for its worst crimes...
 
Obama and Kerry drop Palestinian state for 'state institutions' and 'transition' period, by Allison Deger | Mondoweiss
  Secretary of State John Kerry said Saturday that Palestinian citizens of Israel are a “demographic threat” to the Jewish state, and the West Bank Palestinian population deserves “state institutions” of its own. This was the secretary’s first indication that Palestinian statehood is not on the table in the current round of peace talks, as he carefully avoided any promise of immediate Palestinian sovereignty. “After waiting so long for statehood, the Palestinian people deserve effective state institutions,” said Secretary Kerry.  “Israel and Jordan must know that they will have a reliable and responsible neighbor – not a failed state – living between them,”..
[The US Pres and VP sucking up to the likes of Chaim Saban – how utterly shameful and revolting]
 
Will Obama Step Up?: Truly Honoring Mandela, by Carol Murry | CounterPunch
...Many see parallels between the S African and Israeli apartheid and genocide against Palestinians in the W Bank and Gaza, but South African anti-apartheid leaders have called the Israeli-imposed apartheid worse than they experienced in South Africa, since white S Africans did not wish to eliminate black S Africans, there was no apartheid wall limiting movement and economic development, and the world has not risen up against the injustice. It has been recognized by many that Israel could not continue to carry out an occupation of apartheid without US support...
 
Good, Better, Best Vibrations, by J. Speer-Williams | Veterans Today
...The faster one’s vibrations, the higher and more pleasant are their realities, and the more life prospers. Additionally, those with high vibrations resonate with truth, as truth has a quick vibration such people can sense. In our material world of relatively low vibrational frequencies, the International Monetary/Banking Cartel seems to rule through a narrow band of low frequencies, which have trapped most people. This entrapment has been done, and is being done, by the Cartel using all manner and means at their disposal, largely through fear, ignorance, revenge, and hate...
[This sort of thing was common knowledge in the 60’s (although the part played by the tribal Jewish elite was largely unknown). Now it has mostly been forgotten or shoved under the rug. Too much Kosher Kool-Aid has been consumed since then.]
 
Israel’s isolation grows as it falls out with Romania and the Netherlands | Redress Information & Analysis
  It’s been yet another bad week for Israel. First, its loyal poodle Britain fired its first-ever warning shot, signalling that it may have just about had enough of the apartheid state’s deceptions and violations of international law. And now, the Zionist entity has got into a diplomatic row with Romania, which has told Tel Aviv that it will not allow Romanian construction workers to be employed in the illegal, Jews-only colonies in the occupied West Bank, Israel’s military radio reported on 10 December...
[Bibi’s reign may soon be over, but Israel isn’t likely to change – not unless we apply a great deal more pressure.]



Dec 10, 2013


An obsessive’s documenting of Israeli war crimes in Lebanon can show us how the West lost respect for international law, by Robert Fisk | The Independent
  Odd Karsten Tveit was always a very obsessional chap. Every story he covered, he always wanted to dig deeper, study further, hear one more tale of horror, one more joke, one more historical fact. We all covered the story of Israel’s wars in Lebanon, in 1978, in 1982, in 1996, in 2006. Over the years, I covered the story of Israel’s torturers in Khiam jail in southern Lebanon, the massive Ansar prison camp in 1982, the frightful interrogation of Lebanese and Palestinian inmates. But Karsten has put together a book of immense research which will remain the volume on Israel’s shame in Lebanon and its historical defeat...
[A full accounting of Israel's crimes against humanity and war crimes, going back 100 years, would vastly outweigh a full set of the Encyclopedia Britannica]
 
One of these Dayz: Palestine Will Be Free, by Team TJP | Vimeo
 
Credibility of the Ruling Elite is Being Shredded: Chris Hedges on Reality Asserts Itself | YouTube
  On RAI with Paul Jay, Chris Hedges says that while people are disgusted with the centers of power, unless there is a constructive alternative, any eruption will be nihilistic and could be fascist...
[All too true]
 
Roger Waters Tells The Truth Against All Odds | Gilad Atzmon
  The Jewish hate-site algemeiner.com's latest target is veteran rocker Roger Waters. His crime? He has told the truth about Jewish power and has compared Israel with Nazi Germany. Specifically, in a recent interview Waters dared to refer to the mighty Jewish Lobby and its impact silencing opposition to the Jewish State. It goes without saying that the Israelis and their tribal operators are not happy with Waters exercising his freedom to think and to speak but I have a feeling that BDS movement, now totally dominated by liberal Zionists and funded by George Soros’ Open Society, is also slightly embarrassed by Waters’ frankness...
 
Did Iran Have to Give Up So Much to Get So Little? by Ismael Hossein-zadeh | CounterPunch
  The underlying logic for the Iran nuclear negotiations was (and continues to be) altogether preposterous: on one side of the negotiating table sat major nuclear powers who are all in violation of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT), which requires them to have either dismantled or drastically reduced their nuclear arsenal; on the other side, an NPT–compliant country (Iran) that neither possesses nor pursues nuclear weapons—a fact that is testified to both by the U.S. and Israeli intelligence agencies. Yet, in an ironically perverse way, the culprits have assumed the role of the police, the prosecutor and the judge, shamelessly persecuting and prosecuting the innocent...
 
Saudi prince Bandar led attacks on Syria Christians | Al Alam
   Saudi Prince Bandar Bin Sultan, Director General of the Saudi Intelligence Agency has commanded thousands of militants to prepare to attack the Christian city of Saidnaya in the war-torn Syria. According to militant sources, several Wahhabi and al-Qaeda-linked groups, including the Ahrar al-Sham Brigade and the Free Syrian Army's Tahrir al-Sham brigade, backed by al-Qaeda-linked al-Nusra Front terrorists among others, have mobilized 3,000 armed men to storm the Christian city of Saidnaya in the north of Damascus...
 
Seymour Hersh: US deceived us on Syria | Jonathan Cook
  There are two important conclusions to be drawn from this story, in addition to the obvious one: that our governments keep lying to us to further their (not our) geopolitical interests and they invariably do so under the pretence of “humanitarianism”..
[See Hersh's piece in the London Review of Books]
 
The Hollywood Spy, by Philip Giraldi | The American Conservative
  If a man living in America were to go on television and admit that he spent years stealing U.S. defense secrets on behalf of another country, and was proud of what he had done, Attorney General Eric Holder would immediately fly into a rage and call for arrest and prosecution under the Espionage Act, wouldn’t he? Well, maybe not, if the recent revelations made by Hollywood producer Arnon Milchan regarding his spying for Israel are anything to go by...
 
Rouhani responds to Basiji chants at Students’ day speech, by Arash Karami | Iran Pulse
  Iranian President Hassan Rouhani’s speech today, Dec. 7, at Shahid Beheshti University in honor of Students’ Day, became heated after Basiji students chanted against the Green Movement. At Tehran University, Kayhan editor Hossein Shariatmadari had a heated exchange with Reformist students after they chanted in favor of Green Movement leaders Mir Hossein Mousavi and Mehdi Karroubi. Demonstrations also broke out across several universities in what appears to be the first Students’ Day without conflict with security forces in many years...
 
Walter Pincus' spin on Parchin in the Washington Post | Iran Affairs
  Oh the gall to title this article "Iran and the nuclear reality"!.. Get this bullshit: "Hecker is talking about Parchin, a military complex 18 miles southeast of Tehran where, according to a 2011 International Atomic Energy Agency report, there were high-explosive and hydrodynamic tests that could have been related to nuclear weapons. IAEA inspectors haven’t had access to Parchin over the past two years." So what's left out? Lets count just some of the facts that have been eliminated from "the reality" by Pincus here:..
[Just the usual lies from the Zionized mainstream media]
 
Iran-US Interim Agreement: Historic Breakthrough or Historic Sellout? by James Petras | Dissident Voice
  The recent interim accord between the six world powers and Iran has been hailed as an “historic breakthrough”, a “significant accomplishment” by most leading politicians, editorialists and columnists (Financial Times, (FT) 11/26/13, p. 2), the exceptions being notably Israeli leaders and the Zionist power brokers in North America and Western Europe. What constitutes this “historic breakthrough”? Who got what? Did the agreement provide for symmetrical concessions? Does the interim agreement strengthen or weaken the prospects for peace and prosperity in the Gulf and the Middle East? To address these and other questions, one also has to include the powerful influence wielded by Israel...
 
Bacevich and Chomsky on the Iran Nuclear Deal | Going to Tehran
  This week, Andrew Bacevich and Noam Chomsky—two public intellectuals whose work on American foreign policy we greatly admire - published important commentaries on the recent Iran nuclear deal.  In contrast to the overwhelming bulk of the voluminous drivel that has appeared on the subject in mainstream op-ed pages and online venues, the pieces by Chomsky and Bacevich are truly provocative, in the best sense of the word.  We want to highlight them here...
 
Britain edges towards boycotting Israel | Redress Information & Analysis
  For the first time, the British government has issued guidelines warning businesses of the risks of trading with Jewish colonies in the occupied Palestinian territories, including potential damage to a company’s reputation. New guidance, published on 3 December by UK Trade & Investment, a government body that works with British businesses in international markets, warns there are “clear risks related to economic and financial activities in the settlements, and we do not encourage or offer support to such activity.”..
 
From Bahrain to Ukraine: Hail the Western Salesmen of Subversion and Deception, by Finian Cunningham | Strategic Culture Foundation
  The Manama Dialogue held in Bahrain at the weekend – attended by US Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel and Britain’s Foreign Secretary William Hague, among other senior Western officials – is presented with gravitas and self-importance as a forum to «earnestly» discuss «security issues» in the Middle East and beyond. In reality, the event – held in the Bahraini capital, Manama – is nothing but a talking shop of fake concepts, hollow posturing and boilerplate verbosity. A talking shop, complete with garish window dressing and manikins, to hide the gruesome nature of the real Western political business that goes on in the basement of the oil-rich region...
 
Here is why deconstructing Zionism is important, by Michael Marder | Al Jazeera
  The final sequence of Eran Riklis' poignant 2008 film Lemon Tree, based on actual events, is symptomatic of the hidden dynamics of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Israel's defense minister, who moves with his family to a new house on the occupied West Bank, deems the neighbouring lemon grove of a Palestinian widow Salma Zidane, a security threat. His legal team files a motion to uproot Zidane's lemon trees in a case that reaches Israel's Supreme Court. The Court's decision is truly Kafkaesque: The trees are to be "pruned" to a height that would not exceed fifty centimetres off the ground...
 
Red-Dead is Running | Roi Tov
  Following the approval by the World Bank last January, today, December 9, 2013, Israel, Jordan, and the Palestinian Authority will sign at the headquarters of the World Bank in Washington, an agreement allowing the Red-Dead Project to start running. Essentially, this is a British Empire project that is being partially implemented, but for different reasons. The original idea to create a maritime shortcut to India avoiding Suez is not relevant anymore. Saving the bromine-related industry while providing fresh water to the thirsty south is what convinced this unlikely coalition to resurrect the Dead Sea...
 
John Kerry's Anti-Palestinian Agenda | Stephen Lendman
  He's no peacemaker. He never was throughout 30 years in state and federal government service. He's one of America's privileged. He's super-rich. His record shows exclusive support for wealth and power. He spurns popular interests. He's been conducting Middle East shuttle diplomacy for months. He's Israel's man at State. He's no honest broker. He never was. He's not now. His dirty hands are manipulating dead on arrival Israeli/Palestinian peace talks...
 
Whitewashing Human Atrocities in the Middle East and Africa | RT/YouTube
  Abby Martin speaks with former genocide investigator Keith Harmon Snow, about the whitewashing of human atrocities in the Middle East and Africa and how western powers profit from genocide...
 
The Federal Republic of Germany: A Rothschild-ian Financial Agency, translated by James Damon | Sabbah Report
  The idea is prevalent that the Federal Republic of Germany is not a nation state but rather a corporation, a purely financial undertaking in the form of a legal personality.. In actual fact, however, the Federal Republic itself is a financial agency, a branch of the global Jewish financial conglomerate Rothschild-Goldman-Sachs-American Federal Reserve Bank. In actual fact Rothschild manages all of these as the mother corporation...



Dec 9, 2013

More on Mandela
 
..As I listened on the radio, I couldn’t help thinking of the common human frailty which sees us caught up in gasping over and memorializing what is past while ignoring much the same thing that is present.. No matter what past abuse by the former apartheid government the newsmen and commentators may mention, there is an equal, or in some cases an even greater one not mentioned, for Israel...
 
...one cannot but agree with Said and other activists that Mandela’s moral strength inspired a global movement that delegitimized apartheid all over the world. Mandela’s commitment to rally South Africa in pursuit of a free Palestine is embodied in many of his speeches. And I am certain that he was as profoundly disturbed as many ordinary Palestinians would have been and still are that their ideal of justice and equality had been recklessly squandered due to the corruption and authoritarianism of the Palestinian Authority...
 
...During Mandela's tenure, more South Africans died from malnutrition and preventable diseases than under apartheid. Concentrated wealth is more extreme than ever. White farmers control over 80% of agricultural land. They dominate choicest areas. Pilger said about one-fourth of South Africa's budget goes for interest on odious debt. He explained how five major corporations control over three-fourths of business interests. They dominate South African life...
 
  Tributes to Nelson Mandela fill the media, with stories of his lengthy prison term and his “willingness to forgive” his oppressors. Nowhere in sight is the real story of Nelson Mandela and the African National Congress that he headed, a story best told by Naomi Klein in her wonderful book, The Shock Doctrine.. Mandela’s government fell victim to a process pioneered in Chile before the government was taken over by the democratically elected Salvador Allende: democracy-proofing capitalism...
 
Jailed-for-life Palestinian leader Marwan Barghouti (dubbed the “Palestinian Mandela”) in an open letter to Mandela sent from Cell 28 of Hadarim prison in Israel, which was published by the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) a day after the South African liberation leader's death: “You said: “We know too well that our freedom is incomplete without the freedom of the Palestinians” And from within my prison cell, I tell you our freedom seems possible because you reached yours”..
 
Canadian Protestant church joins boycott Israel campaign | Redress Information & Analysis
  From the Zionist cesspit that is Canada’s political elite, a voice of reason has emerged. According to the Jewish Telegraphic Agency (JTA), Canada’s largest Protestant church has launched a campaign to boycott goods made in the occupied West Bank...
 
Israel Minister: Annex West Bank Settlements | Palestine Chronicle
  Economy Minister Naftali Bennett has proposed that Israel annex parts of the occupied West Bank where most Jewish settlers live. The area is already under its full military control. “I favor implementation of Israeli sovereignty over the zone where 400,000 [settlers] live and only 70,000 Arabs,” said the head of the far-right Jewish Home religious party on Sunday. The settlements, in occupied Palestinian territory, are deemed illegal under international law...
 
Military Madness, The TPP and The Empire, by Timothy V. Gatto | MCW News
...after watching history unfold in my lifetime, and my knowledge of the military, I have come to some conclusions about how we as a nation could rectify some of the harm that American Presidents, Congress critters and foreign policy "experts" as well as some military people have wrought. Maybe rectify is the wrong word. Maybe I should use the word "prevent". These are some basic policy changes that could be made to prevent illegal and unnecessary wars:..
[Excellent ideas. Likelihood of adoption by the Zionist Power Configuration (ZPG) that runs the show: zippo]
 
Where the Torture Never Stops, by Jeffrey St. Clair | CounterPunch
  It was shortly after five o’clock on a Saturday morning last April. The prisoners in the communal cellblock at Camp 6 in Guantanamo Bay Prison had just gathered for morning prayers. Suddenly the overhead lights went out, the cell doors slammed shut and tear gas canisters exploded in the room...
 
Destroyers Threaten Eastern Mediterranean Gas Fields | Roi Tov
..According to the data known in 2013, Israel claims to have at least 950 billion cubic meters of gas beneath adjacent waters, enough for domestic use during decades while exporting most of it. Attacking the South Korean drilling platforms and the pipes connecting them with the shore is easy and could have devastating economic consequences. Thus, Israel needs now destroyers; corvettes are not sturdy enough for the new task...
 
Zionism in Service of Fossil Fuel Extraction, by Dan Fischer | Palestine Chronicle
  With Israel branding itself as a model of environmental sustainability, many overlook the Zionist lobby’s support for extreme fossil fuel extraction in North America, from fracking to offshore drilling...
 
Terrorism 101, by Philip Giraldi | The Unz Review
  When President George W. Bush launched his global war on terror, which was quickly adopted by the media through its acronym GWOT, the American public rallied around a new Crusade to rid the world of Islamic terrorism even as the president kept reminding anyone who would listen that Islam is a religion of peace. Initially there were few dissidents brave enough to challenge Washington’s burning desire to obtain revenge on the perpetrators of 9/11, but critics eventually did emerge, noting that a war on terror was itself a contradiction in terms as terror is a tactic, not an enemy...
 
How Whites Took Over America (2) | Gilad Atzmon
  The Right Wing clip above presents a cynical criticism of multi-culturalism and the genocidal crime committed in the name of 'Human Rights' and 'equality'.  You may also note the role of controlled opposition and the Zionised tone employed by the foreign invader. Terminological hegemony and 'correctness' are clearly  progressive disciplines and they are lethal...
 
International Politics: Does It Hurt To Tell Truth? by  Henry Kamens | NEO
...Western Europe, NATO and its ally the United States, insist that there are rules to the game of international and interstate conduct and these civilised rules must be abided by, at least when they serve the interests of American hegemonic desires. The implication is that the West always abides by these rules itself. Russia and the “Eastern” countries, and political and business figures with them, do what they see fit and try to extend their real world power and influence...
 
Pigs! | Snordster/YouTube
  The printing press was at first mistaken for an engine of immortality by everybody except the Brothers Grimm. Isn't it amusing to watch the commercials between the news and the sports section? Drink this! Drive that! Fuck you! They don't care. If those in charge of our society - politicians, corporate executives, the owners of press and television - can dominate our ideas, they will be secure in their power. They will not need soldiers patrolling the streets. We will control ourselves. The mainstream media use language as a tool for concealing the truth...
 
FBI Investigated Anti-Defamation League for Espionage, by Grant Smith | IRmep
  2013 marks the 20th anniversary of the infamous “Anti-Defamation League (ADL) files controversy” in which the ADL was discovered infiltrating, spying on and otherwise violating the privacy rights of a large number of anti-Apartheid, civil-rights and peace groups through the unlawful acquisition of private data from corrupt local law enforcement officials...
 
Short update on the events in the Ukraine and a better option for Russia | The Vineyard of the Saker
  The opposition is currently headed by four people: Vladimir Klichko, Arsenii Iatseniuk, Oleg Tsiagnibok and, of course, Yulia Timoshenko (in jail, of all things, for signing a gas deal with Putin).  There are a number of smaller parties also participating on the opposition movement, but these four politicians are clearly in charge.  Well, by now, all four of them have officially declared that they goal is not to get the government to reverse its decision or to renegotiate anything.  By now all four have openly and officially declared that they goal is to overthrow the current government.  This is now the official goal of the opposition: regime change...
 
The Top 10 Comedic News Stories of 2013, by Will Durst | Huffington Post
...It is pivotal to understand that the Top Ten Comedic News Stories of 2013 are in no way to be confused with the Top Ten Legitimate News Stories of 2013. No. No. No. They are as different as soy beans and lug nuts. Bluetooth and dental floss. Palm fronds and those weird cone- shaped collars that dogs wear to keep from chewing their butts...
 
Choosing Sides on Iran Deal, by M.J. Rosenberg | MCW News
  It didn’t take one prominent neocon long to figure out that that the Iran deal – and the prospect of ending the stalemate with Iran without recourse to war – has put the Democrats in a box...
 
Is a Syrian "domino effect" being used in a power struggle in the US deep state? | The Vineyard of the Saker
..it is worth looking again at the official narrative explaining this "sudden breakthrough".  It goes something like that: "Iran was ruled by President Ahmadinejad, a notorious anti-Semite and Holocaust denier, who did everything in his power to deny the international community the monitoring rights it demanded and to keep the Iranian nuclear program unimpeded in its progress. Then the people of Iran elected Hassan Rouhani, a moderate, who accepted the terms of the P5+1 countries and a deal was finally signed." That is pretty much the official version. Of course, every sentence in the above paragraph is absolute nonsense... 



Dec 8, 2013

More on Mandela
 
...We live in small and snide times, but there is something that must be said about this man: the deadliest weapon in his revolutionary arsenal was not the gun. In the end, it turned out to be love, and the ability to inspire love in others, even us. We were lucky to have had such a noble and worthy adversary...
[There are lessons here for the Palestinians. Could Marwan Barghouthi be the Mandela of Palestine?]
 
...In Mandelas’ better world, there are no white or black people. There are no Muslim, Christian or Jewish people. There is no such thing as exclusion. We’re all human beings! In the new Middle East Union as proposed by the new MiddleEastUnionCongress.org, there will be no white, no black, no Jewish, no Muslim, and no Christian people. There will only be people with the rights to live in peace as one with respect and honor for one another...
[A love and lighty wish-fulfillment fantasy? Perhaps. On the other hand, it could be taken seriously. The first task would be to end the ludicrous sectarian squabble between the muslim sects. United, the Middle East, with the support of most of the world, could then tackle the problem of the Jewish State. Why not?]
 
  The U.S. Glorifies Nelson Mandela in death. But treated him as a terrorist while alive. Nelson Mandela was a freedom fighter. The western glorification of Mandela today, despite years of supporting the Apartheid regime that imprisoned him and subjugated his people, is not so much an attempt to cleanse Mandela’s history but rather an attempt to cleanse their own history of support for Apartheid. This means that despite everything, Western governments do feel shame for the stance they took...
 
..“I was called a terrorist yesterday, but when I came out of jail, many people embraced me, including my enemies, and that is what I normally tell other people who say those who are struggling for liberation in their country are terrorists.” It is telling that the US government waited until July 2008 to remove Mandela and the ANC from its official “terrorist watch” list.. “We know too well that our freedom is incomplete without the freedom of the Palestinians,”..
 
.."We know too well that our freedom is incomplete without the freedom of the Palestinians" ~ Nelson Mandela..Watch what Nelson Mandela had to say in 1990 about the PLO, Yasser Arafat, and attack on him from Henry Siegman (the immoral Executive director of the “American Jewish Congress”)..
 
...Of all African countries, South Africa was an exceptional case. A country ruled by centuries old settlers and European colonizer who resisting post Calvinist Europe decided centuries ago to escape liberalism in Europe and set up their own “settler’s colonies” in what is now South Africa, and subsequently using a combination of religion and racial superiority not much different from “religious Zionism” decided on a system of “Apartheid” separation of the races...
 
Who Are The Terrorists? by Dr. Paul Balles | Intifada Palestine
  When Helen Thomas told a Rabbi that the Jews should go back to where they came from, he asked where that would be. Her response was as honest and appropriate as it was direct: “Poland, Germany, America…” For that she lost her job as the best White House reporter America has had. Her response was also deserved, for the land theft from the Palestinians has been as massive and undeserved as that of any empire of thieves...
 
Jewish Defenses against Criticism, by Kevin MacDonald | The Occidental Observer
...a “siege mentality” goes a long way to explain Jewish political behavior in the U.S. as well as Israel — their fear of and loathing toward an America dominated by White Christians. As Elliott Abrams has stated, the American Jewish community “clings to what is at bottom a dark vision of America, as a land permeated with anti-Semitism and always on the verge of anti-Semitic outbursts”.. When you feel you are under siege, anything is justified, and it is impossible to think critically about your behavior...
 
Interview with Dr. Haidar Eid: 'The Palestinian struggle is not about independence - it is about liberation' | Sabbah Report
...The two-state solution is a racist dogma that cannot guarantee all the rights demanded by the 2005 BDS call around which we have a Palestinian consensus: withdrawal of Israeli troops from the Arab lands occupied in 1967; implementation of UN resolution 194, which calls for the right of return of *all* Palestinian refugees and their descendants; and an end to Israel’s apartheid policies against Palestinian citizens of the state of Israel...
 
Palestinians Lose Again, by Philip Giraldi | Antiwar
..The Barack Obama administration’s foreign policy has been characterized by numerous errors caused by vacillating perceptions of what national interests are actually at play in any developing situation. That dysfunction is largely a result of differing visions of America’s place in the world, whether it is to serve as a last resort instrument to make people behave, however that is defined, or as a realistically driven force that does what it needs to do to support its own interests, however they are defined. Both realism and idealism are represented within the cabinet in the persons of Kerry and Hagel versus Rice and Powers...
 
Bibi and Bandar Badger Obama, by Franklin Lamb | CounterPunch
  The Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) member states, Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates, along with certain Arab League countries, plus Turkey and Israel, have this past week reportedly committed themselves to raising nearly $6 billion to “beef up” the just hatched seven member Islamic Front (IF) in Syria. These ‘ best friends of America” want the Obama Administration to sign onto a scheme to oust the Syrian government by funding, arming, training, and facilitating  movement and generally choreographing fighters of the Islamic Front...
[Makes sense. After all, as red-blooded Americans we’re duty bound to give Al Quaeda all the support we can. Right?]
 
An Interview with Roger Waters | CounterPunch
...The situation in Israel/ Palestine, with the occupation, the ethnic cleansing and the systematic racist apartheid Israeli regime is unacceptable. So for an artist to go and play in a country that occupies other people’s land and oppresses them the way Israel does, is plain wrong. They should say no.. The parallels with what went on in the 30’s in Germany are so crushingly obvious that it doesn’t surprise me that the movement that both you and I are involved in is growing every day...
 
Life After a Drone Strike, by Charles Davis | LobeLog
...If the people of Waziristan wish to tell their side of the story, they generally need to leave Waziristan. But disputing official accounts can be dangerous: In 2011, 16-year-old Tariq Khan traveled to Islamabad to brief human rights activists on what life was like in a place where unmanned military aircraft are omnipresent (he reported seeing more than 10 a day). After pledging to go back home and gather evidence proving wrong the official account of the drone war — that only evil people need fear the US president’s unilateral execution orders — he and his 12-year-old cousin were promptly killed in a CIA drone strike...
 
How to Tell When the N.S.A. Is Lying, by Amy Davidson | The New Yorker
  If the National Security Agency says that it is not “intentionally” doing something—say, collecting records of the locations of Americans’ cell phones—then it is almost certainly taking that very action. If it says it is doing so “incidentally,” it’s probably doing so on a large scale. If it adds that said effort does not “target” Americans or isn’t “directed” at them, that means it doesn’t believe those Americans—or Congress, or the courts—should mind, because the N.S.A. analyst who entered a search term or tapped into a mobile-network cable had first closed his eyes and thought about terrorists...
 
CrossTalk: Dividing Ukraine | YouTube
  Are we witnessing a second Orange Revolution in Ukraine? Is it a zero-sum game for all parties involved? Is it possible to work out a deal that the EU, Ukraine and Russia can be satisfied with? And is 'going West or East' too simplistic for a Ukraine divided? CrossTalking with Mark Sleboda, Jan Techau and Alexander Mercouris...
 
Orange Revolution 2.0? | Stephen Lendman
  Ongoing Ukrainian protests bear its earmarks. Whether it succeeds remains to be seen. Ordinary Ukrainians are being manipulated. Internal street thugs are involved. They're militants. They've been recruited to cause trouble. They're mostly young. They're Western oriented. Washington's dirty hands are involved. Color revolutions are a US specialty. At issue is eliminating independent sovereign states...

With Leaders Like These: Yet a New Threshold for Gaza’s Misery, by Ramzy Baroud | Palestine Chronicle
  It is impossible to predict the future. But one can state with a degree of certainty that little good can possibly be awaiting Palestinians when their political leadership seems to value their ties with Israel more than the fate of Gaza and all of its inhabitants. An exaggeration? Hardly...
 
Interview with Abayomi Azikiwe: France Doesn’t Want to be Left Out of “New Scramble for Africa” | Global Research
...France is only pursuing its own national interests. It’s also competing with the role of the United States on the African continent. The US has intervened extensively over the last several years in Africa in numerous countries. There is the United States Africa Command (AFRICOM) that has thousands of troops right now involved in operations all over the continent and even off the coast of both East and West Africa...
 
Summary Report On Human Rights Violations In the Occupied Palestine in 2013 | Sabbah Report
  This year is one of the worst in regards to the human rights situation in the occupied Palestinian territory and there is not yet an end in sight. Rather, day- by-day the situation continues to worsen with civilians paying the price. The summary report for 2013 outlines the human rights violations committed by Israel as well as by the Palestinian security services and the two governments in Gaza and Ramallah. The report also includes information about ongoing settlement expansion and related violence and the ongoing closure of the Gaza Strip...
 
Mossad: Bibi Blocks Peace with Iran | Roi Tov
  Mossad assassinations are a readers' magnet. If one can add an unpublished detail, attention is assured. Almost four years afterward, my report on the assassination of Mahmoud al-Mabhouh remains this website most viewed page in its first day, probably due to the wider context I provided to Mossad actions. Alas, Mossad is more than an assassins' club. Beyond the coffee, cookies, and 9mm hollow point bullets, they are the formal organization in charge of Israel foreign affairs with countries with which Israel has no diplomatic relations...



Dec 7, 2013


Nelson Mandela, RIP
 
..."Palestinians are not struggling for a 'state' but for freedom, liberation and equality, just like we were struggling for freedom in South Africa. Let me quote my own words during my trial. They are true today as they were then: “I have fought against white domination and I have fought against black domination. I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in harmony and with equal opportunities.."
 
  During the long years of my own struggle, I had the occasion to think many times of you, dear Nelson Mandela. Even more since my arrest in 2002. I think of a man who spent 27 years in a prison cell, only to demonstrate that freedom was within him before becoming a reality his people could enjoy. I think of his capacity to defy oppression and apartheid, but also to defy hatred and to choose justice over vengeance...
 
...When the Ghandi route of non-violent civil disobedience brought only violence from the state, Mandela declared “The time comes in the life of any nation when there remain only two choices – submit or fight.That time has now come to South Africa. We shall not submit and we have no choice but to hit back by all means in our power in defence of our people, our future, and our freedom”..
 
  Accusing politicians or former politicians of “breathtaking hypocrisy” is not just over used, it is inadequacy of spectacular proportions. Sadly, searches in various thesaurus’ fail in meaningful improvement. The death of Nelson Mandela, however, provides tributes resembling duplicity on a mind altering substance...
 
  The death of Nelson Mandela, the world’s most revered fighter for freedom, justice and dignity, has been met with genuine, spontaneous sadness all over the world.. But there are also the hypocrites and vultures seeking to feed off the outpouring of emotion unleashed by Mandela’s death. At the top of the list of these scoundrels are, as one would expect, Israeli, US and British politicians...
 
...it is an indication of what Mandela was up against that the man who fought so hard and long against a brutal apartheid regime was so completely defeated when he took power in South Africa. That was because he was no longer struggling against a rogue regime but against the existing order, a global corporate system of power that he had no hope of challenging alone.. The very outpouring of grief from our leaders for Mandela’s loss helps to feed our slumber...
 
The Pathology of the Rich: Chris Hedges on Reality Asserts Itself | Real News/YouTube
  On RAI with Paul Jay, Chris Hedges discusses the psychology of the super rich; their sense of entitlement, the dehumanization of workers, and mistaken belief that their wealth will insulate them from the coming storms.. We've been saturated with cultural images and a kind of cultural deification of wealth and those who have wealth. The fact is, the people who created the economic mess that we're in were the best-educated people in the country - Larry Summers, a former president of Harvard, and others. The issue is not education. The issue is greed...
[The dominant group now within the American Plutocracy is Jewish, which makes them the world's most powerful people. So it's no wonder that Israel is untouchable.]
 
US academics seeking to boycott Israel universities | Al Alam
  The American Studies Association leadership has endorsed a boycott of Israeli universities over what it describes as the Israeli regime’s violation of international law and ethical codes. The decision posted Wednesday follows a contentious debate at the group’s annual meeting last month and 10 days of deliberations that were supposed to last a morning. The boycott resolution was approved unanimously by the 20-member national council...
[These little victories add up and eventually help to tilt the scales, as Nelson Mandela knew so well]
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Archives for Jewish attitudes in Israel versus the Diaspora, by Kevin MacDonald | The Occidental Observer
..A theme at TOO is Jewish hypocrisy and double standards on various issues, particularly immigration (43 articles and counting). So it’s nice to see others noticing this rather large 800 lb. gorilla. The Irish Savant, “Ethics for me but not for thee”: The heading and sub-heading from The Jewish Forward say it all. ‘Jews Unite’..
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Iran opposes US-Afghan security pact, by M K Bhadrakumar | Indian Punchline
...The MFA statement openly acknowledged that Tehran has made a demarche with Karzai. Indeed, Iran’s deputy foreign minister Ebrahim Rahimpour visited Kabul a fortnight ago and was received by Karzai. It is conceivable that Tehran decided to take an open stance after assessing that Karzai is coming under immense American pressure. The Iranian statement comes on the eve of a crucial meeting of the NATO foreign ministers at Brussels later today...
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Israel Aims to Sabotage the Geneva Agreement with Iran, by Dmitry Minin | Strategic Culture Foundation
...Israel is stepping up its efforts to sabotage the agreements reached in Geneva on the issue of Iran's nuclear program. On December 1 the head of the Israeli military intelligence agency AMAN, Amos Yadlin, and former CIA director Michael Hayden simultaneously and in unison, although in different parts of the world, stated that Iran has already crossed the nuclear threshold and is ready to «build several nuclear bombs in a matter of weeks». In their opinion, requirements for the further denuclearization of Iran should be made significantly stricter...
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Ukraine and the Bigger Picture of US and European Assault on Russia’s Sphere of Influence, by Finian Cunningham | Strategic Culture Foundation
  Kerry sets himself up as a benevolent arbiter on the internal affairs of a sovereign country. In effect, in that statement Kerry is de-legitimizing the authority of the Kiev government, which took the sovereign decision recently not to go ahead with a proposed trade agreement with the European Union. And despite Kerry’s caution against a bidding war over the Ukraine, that is exactly what the EU and the US have been waging, and waging aggressively for at least two decades – albeit in low-key fashion...
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Keeping Secrets: Pierre Omidyar, Glenn Greenwald and the privatization of Snowden’s leaks | PandoDaily
  Who “owns” the NSA secrets leaked by Edward Snowden to reporters Glenn Greenwald and Laura Poitras? Given that eBay founder Pierre Omidyar just invested a quarter of a billion dollars to personally hire Greenwald and Poitras for his new for-profit media venture, it’s a question worth asking. It’s especially worth asking since it became clear that Greenwald and Poitras are now the only two people with full access to the complete cache of NSA files, which are said to number anywhere from 50,000 to as many as 200,000 files. That’s right: Snowden doesn’t have the files any more...
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Israeli Pentagon Bunkers Up | Roi Tov
  Roughly one year after Operation Pillar of Cloud, the IDF is slowly exposing the reorganization of the Israeli Pentagon (HaKirya, "The Town" in downtown Tel Aviv) after two almost hits during the operation. In October 2013, two events reminded us of the importance of the issue. On October 11, 2013, the IDF Chief of Staff surprised us with what has already been categorized as "the most important public speech of his term."..
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Cameron bound in servitude to Israel, by Stuart Littlewood | PressTV
  Whenever a Western leader expresses adoration and undying support for the Zionist regime, the Jewish Chronicle can be relied on to make the most of it. This week it reports on UK Prime Minister David Cameron’s Chanucah/Hanukkah reception in Downing Street when he lit a menorah (that elegant 9-branch candlestick) with the Chief Rabbi...
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US aims to stay in Afghanistan for heroin business, by Gordon Duff | PressTV
  “The only reason the United States would stay there frankly is to keep its multi-hundred-billion-dollar heroin business going. The business of Afghanistan has always been heroin. There’s no other reason the US was involved,”.. “The people of Afghanistan have made it very clear they don’t want the United States there,” he added.. “When the United States went into Afghanistan in 2001, Afghanistan had ended almost every aspect of narcotics production,”..
[So reminiscent of the Opium Wars carried out by the Empire while it was still in British hands]
 
Escaping The Abusive State: After Snowden, by Richard Falk | Foreign Policy Journal
  The more contact one has with the modern state, even in those societies that have long constitutional traditions entrenching civil liberties, the more grounds there are for deep and growing concern. I suppose that the most dramatic exhibition of the dangers being posed as 2014 approaches, and we are reminded that this will be 30 years after 1984, are associated with Edward Snowden’s extraordinary disclosures of the global network of surveillance being operated by the NSA in the United States...
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Israel and the United States are the real rogue actors in the Middle East, by Noam Chomsky | Sabbah Report
...in 2010, the NPT members called for an international conference to carry forward a long-standing Arab initiative to establish a zone free of weapons of mass destruction in the region, to be held in Helsinki in December 2012. Israel refused to attend. Iran agreed to do so, unconditionally. The U.S. then announced that the conference was canceled, reiterating Israel’s objections. The Arab states, the European Parliament and Russia called for a rapid reconvening of the conference, while the U.N. General Assembly voted 174-6 to call on Israel to join the NPT and open its facilities to inspection. Voting “no” were the United States, Israel, Canada, Marshall Islands, Micronesia and Palau...
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Geneva-Iran, Geneva-Syria: Why not a Geneva Conference for Palestine? by Dr. Muhammad Shtayyeh | Palestine News Network
..The decision to accept the two-state solution was not easy for the people of Palestine. Our declaration of independence in 1988 - the acceptance of a State of Palestine on the 1967 border - was a huge and painful concession for the sake of achieving peace with Israel. To this day, we have not seen any such process of compromise on the Israeli side - quite the opposite, in fact. And unfortunately we have seen little in the way of international intervention...
[Why should Israel take the Palestinians seriously when all they have to deal with is the compromised PA, helpless refugees imprisoned in Gaza and a complicit Western Empire?]
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Hilariously Predictable: Watch A West Bank Settler Run Away | Gilad Atzmon
  2nd segment of a a debate between Jewish Settler politician David Rubin and jazz artist Gilad Atzmon on the Richie Allen Show. It doesn't take too long before the settler runs away. All it takes is jus a bit of 'in your face' truth...
 
(Un)holy River, by Uri Avnery | Gush Shalom
  So here comes John Kerry again, for the umpteenth time (but who is counting?) to make peace between us and the Palestinians. It is a highly laudable effort. Unfortunately, it is based on a false premise. To wit: that the Israeli government wants peace based on the two-state solution...



Dec 6, 2013

Gaza Returns to Donkey Days, by Mohammed Omer | Sabbah Report
...The smell of rotting garbage is getting worse and worse. The people in Gaza attempt to burn the garbage to reduce the quantity and minimise the risk of infection, so the air is filled with black smoke too. Right now, breathing fresh air is not an option for most people in Gaza, whether children or adults. The municipality, administered by Gaza’s de facto government, is stuck between the ongoing Israeli siege, the ruling Hamas’ rival Fatah, and Egypt’s new military regime...
[There is a law of nature called karma (in Sanskrit). In English it is rendered as “what goes around comes around.” The Zionists will pay for this, and pay dearly. But so will we all unless we put a stop to it.]
 
Bibi and Francis, an odd couple | Sic Semper Tyrannis
"Accompanied by his wife Sara, Netanyahu gave the Pope a copy of a book about the Spanish inquisition written by his father, a prominent historian, bearing the inscription: “To His Holiness Pope Francis, great guardian of our common heritage.” Francis presented Netanyahu with a carved panel of Saint Paul, Haaretz reports.. IMO Bibi's "gift" is truly representative of his attitude towards the larger world and toward gentiles in general...
 
Netanyahu Gifts Pope with his Racial Supremacist Father's Race War Book | Maurice Pinay
  Benzion Netanyahu's middle name should have been Purimspiel. The poor man, a descendant of a long line of rabbis, was haunted by Judaism-fueled mental illness; racial supremacist megalomania, paranoia and impending race-war delusion.. The book that needs to be written and given to the Pope is one that explains how the religion of rabbinic Judaism caused Benzion Netanyahu's paranoid megalomania which so clearly has been passed on to his son Benjamin Netanyahu.. and how this sick ideology is causing the other 7 billion of us to experience increasing hell on earth...
 
Benjamin Netanyahu: Like Father, Like Son, by Kevin MacDonald | The Occidental Observer
  The War Party is beating the drums again.. Jeffrey Goldberg, whose article for the New Yorker was an important part of the disinformation campaign that was so central to the successful neocon push for the Iraq war, is leading the charge once again. His recent Atlantic article.. is a brief for another war, this time with Iran. Rather than present his own doubtless warmongering views, he slants his article as objective reportage on the mindset of Israel’s leaders, particularly Benjamin Netanayahu’s “belief … that Iran is not Israel’s problem alone; it is the world’s problem, and the world, led by the United States, is duty-bound to grapple with it...
 
The Next Boogeymen: Defeated by the Taliban, Washington Decides to Take On Russia and China, by Paul Craig Roberts | CounterPunch
...With the collapse of the Soviet Union, Washington quickly stepped into the place of Russia. The new countries were all broke, as was Russia at the time and, thus, helpless.  Washington used NGOs funded by Washington and its EU puppets to create anti-Russian, pro-American, pro-EU movements in the former constituent parts of Soviet Russia. The gullible peoples were so happy to have escaped the Soviet thumb that they did not realize that they now had new masters...
 
The Yes is dead, long live the No! | Roi Tov
  The scene was macabre; this is rare for a comedian's memorial. Prime Minister Netanyahu was the one to transform the moment into macabre saying "Be in Peace, Sefi, be in peace, beloved friend." 18 Years before that, I was having a mid-morning coffee at the Weizmann Institute chemical physics cafeteria with David, a Shin Beth informant. It was shortly after the assassination of PM Yitzhak Rabin and everything was covered with stickers saying "Peace Friend."..
 
20 Years of Talks: Keeping Palestinians Occupied, by Haitham Sabbah | Sabbah Report
  Remembering the destruction of yet another Palestinian family’s home in the West Bank yesterday, which adds to the 15,000 destroyed since 1993, the infographic 20 Years of Talks: Keeping Palestinians Occupied focuses on the reality of ongoing demolitions and settlements behind the peace talks...
 
Les Visible speaks @ the 'Seek Speak Spread Truth' conference | Gilad Atzmon
[kinda the real deal]
 
Eat the Rich! by Dean Henderson | Veterans Today
  For decades the American middle class bought into a plethora of Ayn Rand-inspired notions regarding their economic strategy.  Keep your head down, plow money into your 401K and get to work on time.  If you did these things, you could count on Wall Street money shufflers and their corporate “job creator” tentacles to lift your little life raft with their graft-ridden blood-soaked tide. It was a formula predicated on endless resource wars in faraway lands, a necessary scorn for the poor, an infatuation with the wealthy and the shutting down of one’s humanity...
 
The Colonel, the Veteran and the Caregiver, by Ann Jones | The Nation
...Dr. [ML] King cited another extraordinary book, historian Kenneth M. Stampp’s study of slavery in America, The Peculiar Institution. Stampp had used manuals and other documents produced by slave owners to spell out their surefire techniques for remaking a man or woman as a slave. King cited many of Stampp’s examples in a long paragraph impossible to read without recognizing the very model of modern military basic training. He summed up the methodology this way: “Here, then, was the way to produce a perfect slave...
 
Johnny, I Hardly Knew Ye: Live at The Canny Man | YouTube
  A traditional Irish anti-recruiting song, obviously related to the popular American song "When Johnny Comes Marching Home Again."..

Interview with Alan Hart: Convicted of genocide, Israel prepares new holocaust, by Kevin Barrett | Veterans Today
..Hart: “I think there will be a final Zionist ethnic cleansing of Palestine. Because the whole Zionist game plan has been to make life hell for the Palestinians of the Occupied Territories. But they’ve nowhere to go and they aren’t going to pack up and go. So when it dawns on Israel’s leaders, as it will, that the demographic time bomb is ticking, and they can’t bring on-stream a puppet Palestinian government that will accept crumbs from Zionism’s table, then there will be the final ethnic cleansing. And it can happen very easily. You get six Mossad agents dressed as Palestinian terrorists and kill thirty, forty, fifty Jews or whatever. And that’s it. Away you go…an internal Israel-Palestine false-flag operation.”..
 
The Question of Enrichment: Iran and the Non-Proliferation Treaty, by Conn Hallinan | CounterPunch
  There are any number of obstacles that could trip up the nuclear negotiations between Iran and the “P5+1”—the U.S., Britain, France, Russia, China and Germany— but the right to “enrich” nuclear fuel should not be one of them. Any close reading of the 1968 “Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons” (NPT) clearly indicates that, even though the word “enrichment” is not used in the text, all signers have the right to the “peaceful applications of nuclear technology.”..



Dec 5, 2013

Sixty Years Later Global Support for a Palestine Grows: The Dreadful Legacy of UN Resolution 181, by Franklin Lamb | CounterPunch
  In Damascus this week,  despite many hardships, Palestinians in all of Syria’s ten official camp and three unofficial ones, paused to recall and reflect on the 1947  UN Resolution 181 and its progeny, the 1948 Nakba. In point of fact, every year on November 29 approximately three quarters of a million Palestinian refugees, offspring of the families who were forced into Syria and Lebanon during both the 1948 Nakba (catastrophe) and the 1967 Naksa (setback), along with their countrymen in more than 130 countries where they have sought refuge following their ethnic cleansing from their land join, in various ways,  in this annual commemoration...
 
The Real Reason Hawks Are Trying To Kill the Deal With Iran, by Ivan Eland | Antiwar
  Why are Israel, Saudi Arabia, and their congressional allies in both American political parties trying to kill an interim nuclear deal with Iran that effectively freezes (and in some instances rolls back) the Iranian nuclear program until a comprehensive deal can be reached to permanently limit the program so that Iran cannot build a nuclear bomb? In the lead up to the interim deal, if one wanted to be charitable, one could have assumed that these hawks were acting as the "bad cop," using the threat of even more economic sanctions to strengthen the Obama administration’s "good cop" hand to exert maximum pressure on Iran to limit its nuclear program...
 
Zionism has created 'rivers of blood': Rabbi Yisrael Dovid WeissTalk to Al Jazeera
...”Israel must reserve the right to defend itself. And after all that’s the very purpose of the Jewish state. To restore to the Jewish people control over our destiny,” Netanyahu said.. "This is against the will of the Almighty and this is not what it means to be a Jew," says Jewish religious scholar Rabbi Yisroel Dovid Weiss, a spokesman for "Jews against Zionism", who believes that Israel as a state is not legitimate. He says that Zionism has created "rivers of blood" and he opposes the occupation of Palestine...
 
After Lakkis Assassination Israel Threatens Sheikh Nasrallah | Roi Tov
  Why bother checking out Hebrew media? After all, it is partisan and heavily censored. Yet, it often bypasses the military censor by quoting "foreign sources." Sometimes it leaks the data to the foreign sources in order to publish a sensitive item. On December 4, 2013, Hebrew media had an overdose of foreign sources quotes, most of them related to the assassination in Beirut of Hassan Lakkis a military leader of the Hezbollah...
 
Long Live ‘Isolationism’! by Justin Raimondo | Antiwar
  How many times has the Pew Research Center for People and the Press come out with a poll showing that the American people are going "isolationist"? I’ve lost count. The latest poll results show that: "The public’s skepticism about U.S. international engagement – evident in America’s Place in the World surveys four and eight years ago – has increased. Currently, 52% say the United States ‘should mind its own business internationally and let other countries get along the best they can on their own.’ Just 38% disagree with the statement. This is the most lopsided balance in favor of the US ‘minding its own business’ in the nearly 50-year history of the measure..”
 
1984 Was an Instruction Manual, by Peter Van Buren | TomDispatch
  What if Edward Snowden was made to disappear? No, I’m not suggesting some future CIA rendition effort or a who-killed-Snowden conspiracy theory of a disappearance, but a more ominous kind. What if everything a whistleblower had ever exposed could simply be made to go away? What if every National Security Agency (NSA) document Snowden released, every interview he gave, every documented trace of a national security state careening out of control could be made to disappear in real-time? What if the very posting of such revelations could be turned into a fruitless, record-less endeavor?..
 
House 'Improves' TSA Instead of Ending It, by Adam Dick | Ron Paul Institute
  Following another Thanksgiving travel period with the Transportation Security Administration subjecting travelers to infuriating harassment, the House of Representatives leadership has scheduled for House floor consideration Tuesday three bills that will tinker with the TSA while allowing the harassment to continue. The three bills are the TSA Loose Change Act (HR 1095), the Transportation Security Acquisition Reform Act (HR 2719), and the Aviation Security Stakeholder Participation Act (HR 1204). All three bills are scheduled for consideration under suspension of the rules—a process generally reserved for noncontroversial legislation...
 
‘Peaceful rise’ will meet US containment | Global Times
J  ohn Mearsheimer, professor of political science at the University of Chicago, is best known in China for his book The Tragedy of Great Power Politics, in which he predicts, based on his pessimistic view of the anarchic world order, that China's rise will inevitably be "unpeaceful." Has anything changed this position? What will China's efforts at "peaceful rise" bring to the Asia-Pacific region? Global Times reporter Chen Chenchen interviewed Mearsheimer exclusively during his recent trip to Beijing...
[The question is, how does the rest of the world contain the Empire?]
 
The Almond Tree and pseudo-solidarity | Jonathan Cook
  I hadn’t heard of the novel The Almond Tree and I shall now avoid it, having read Susan Abulhawa’s review. There is an insufferable cultural arrogance to Israelis and Jews who think they can create a Palestinian protagonist not only as the vehicle for their “art” but as a way to heal wounds between Israelis and Palestinians, as Abulhawa documents here...
 
Netanyahu’s Flawed Vatican Charm Offensive, by by James M. Wall | Wallwritings
  With the U.S. Congress safely in his back pocket, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has turned his charm offensive on the Vatican. How is that working out for him? It does not look promising. The Prime Minister forgot the first rule of charm school: Target your prey gently. Avoid all punches to the mid-section...
 
Will the Pope insist on seeing Gaza this time? by Stuart Littlewood | Intifada Palestine
  After the humiliation of the last papal visit.  Will the Pope insist on seeing Gaza this time? Or should he, too, boycott Israel until Jerusalem and the Christian and Muslim communities are freed from occupation?..
[This Pope just might - by all appearances he's actually a Christian - although the Vatican is just as much in Israel’s pocket as the Western democracies are.]
 
In Rome, Netanyahu says Iran "threat" to Italy | Al Akhbar
  Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu repeated his opposition to a nuclear deal with Iran during a visit to Rome in which he was set to meet Pope Francis and Prime Minister Enrico Letta on Monday, saying the Islamic republic poses a threat to Italy and the world...
["We possess several hundred atomic warheads and rockets and can launch them at targets in all directions, perhaps even at Rome. Most European capitals are targets for our air force. Let me quote General Moshe Dayan: 'Israel must be like a mad dog, too dangerous to bother.' I consider it all hopeless at this point. We shall have to try to prevent things from coming to that, if at all possible. Our armed forces, however, are not the thirtieth strongest in the world, but rather the second or third. We have the capability to take the world down with us. And I can assure you that that will happen before Israel goes under" ~ Martin van Creveld, Israeli military historian]
 
France Lies for Israel | Stephen Lendman
  Overall French/Israeli ties are longstanding. France's ambassador to Israel, Patrick Maisonneuve, said President Francois Hollande "is a close friend of the State of Israel.".. The relationship includes supporting the worst crimes both countries commit. Their rap sheets are long and loathesome.. France claims otherwise. Coverup and denial is longstanding official policy..



Dec 4, 2013


Israel’s Veto, by Sami Jamil Jadallah | Veterans Today
  Israel, a terrorist, illegitimate state from day one, a constant threat to world peace, a nuclear power that is a threat to its safety and that of the world including the US is the last country that can talk about the rights of other countries to have nuclear technology even nuclear weapons. No one, not God, not the UN, certainly not the US or Europe endowed Israel with a “veto’ over war and peace in the world. Israel, unlike Iran, has been engaged in acts of terrorism and been in constant wars before, during and after its creation in 1948 and continues today...
[Quite, and there is no possibility of that changing, which is why Israel must be wiped off the map, one way or another – all options are on the table, as the bought and paid for hypocrites in Washington, DC like to put it.]
 
Israel Increases Annexation Pace | Roi Tov
  For the second time in a few days, Israel's Available Government Policy hit back at Israel. This time, a request by Peace Now forced the State to disclose its construction efforts of Jewish settlements in the West Bank on December 3, 2013...
 
Tribunal Issues Landmark Verdict against Israel for Genocide, by Yoichi Shimatsu | Global Research
  To a crowded courtroom on the late afternoon of November 25, presiding Judge Lamin Mohd Yunus announced the verdict by an international panel of seven jurists: “The Tribunal is satisfied, beyond reasonable doubt, that the first defendant, (General) Amos Yaron, is guilty of crimes against humanity and genocide, and the second defendant, the State of Israel, is guilty of genocide.” The landmark ruling against Israel for its genocide against the Palestinian people rendered by the Kuala Lumpur War Crimes Tribunal is significant for several reasons:..
 
Israel Supplies Weapons to Al Qaeda Mercenaries in Syria: Government Forces Seize Israeli-made Arms | Global Research
  The Syrian army says it has confiscated Israeli-made weapons in its latest operations against foreign-backed militants. A military source told the Syrian news agency SANA on Sunday that Israeli weaponry — including missiles — were seized in an operation in the central city of Tadmur in Homs province. A headquarters of militants was also destroyed in the suburbs of the capital Damascus...
 
Prawer, by Mazin Qumsiyeh | Popular Resistance
  On Friday, all demonstrations in many Palestinian villages had the theme against the Prawer Plan. On Saturday in 30 countries, events were held to counter the Prawer plan to ethnically cleanse 40,000 Palestinians from the Negev in the 65 year colonial Zionist program to make Palestine a “Jewish state”..
 
Sunni, Shi’a, Salafi, Sufi, Shariah: A guide for the perplexed, by Kevin Barrett | Veterans Today
  What’s with all these Islamic S-words? Who are the Sunni, Shi’a, Salafi and Sufi Muslims? And what is this “Shariah” they follow? I used to get paid to explain this stuff to students at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. But when I tried to devote one week of a sixteen-week course to a discussion of the “war on terror” – and proposed that the Muslim-majority opinion that 9/11 was an inside job should at least be mentioned – I got run out of town by Karl Rove, Lynn Cheney, Fox News, and sixty Republican state legislators...
 
Gilad Atzmon: Israeli lobby a ‘threat’ to Western politics | PressTV
  Israel and its powerful lobby in Washington D.C. are considered a risk to “our Western politics,” said a London-based political activist on Monday, in a reference to Tel Aviv’s opposition to a newly-reached nuclear deal between Iran and the P5+1 - the five permanent members of the UN Security council plus Germany. People around the world start to realize that the price we are paying "for the Jewish lobby’s interfering with our Western politics is severe,”..
 
Palestinian lost opportunities, by Jamal Kanj | Redress Information & Analysis
...To paraphrase Israeli diplomat Abba Eban, the Palestinian leadership has never lost an opportunity to lose an opportunity to hold Israel accountable for its flagrant violations of international law...
[I guess it needs to be pointed out over and over that the PA is a Vichy-style collaborationist entity, and does not represent the Palestinian people]
 
French whore gives Zionism a blow job, by Alan Hart | Redress Information & Analysis
  I don’t wish to offend readers other than perhaps those of the parties of my headline, but I have to say that it, the headline, was the first thought that came into my mind when I learned from the BBC that, according to leaks to the French media, a team of French scientists do not believe Arafat was poisoned and that he died of a “generalized infection”. And I have to ask, if he really did die of a generalized infection, why the hell did the doctors at the French military hospital fail to detect it before he died?..
 
Israel, the Nuclear Bomb and the “Jewish Question,” Israel’s Veto, by Sami Jamil Jadallah | Veterans Today
  Michael Lofgren, a former defense budget analyst on Capitol Hill for more than thirty years, declared that the neoconservatives are “kind of like the terminator, they just don’t die. You would think they would be so discredited they would be shamed, but they have no shame.” It is the same thing with Benjamin Netanyahu. You would think that he would be a little cautious with his political maneuvering, but he is not. He has been an interesting fellow since the time he ascended to the Zionist throne in Israel...
 
Jewish suffering, Palestinian suffering, by Joseph Massad | Al Jazeera
  The late French scholar Pierre Bourdieu once said that the tragedy of the Palestinians is that their oppressors are the victims of Europe, which led him to call the Palestinians "the victims of the victims". . the "tragic question" is "how to choose between the victims of racist violence par excellence and the victims of these victims?" The answer, of course, should be simple, namely that one should always stand with Jews as victims of European anti-Semitic violence and stand with Palestinians as victims of Jewish racist violence. There is no choice to be made between the two: The first position must lead to the second. Alas, many find this point difficult to grasp...
[There is another point to be made. To a large extent, “European anti-Semitic violence” was the direct result of the behaviour of many Jews in Europe over the centuries. The Palestinians did nothing to incur the wrath of the Jews other than residing in their homeland (the Palestinian homeland, that is, not the mythical Jewish homeland), The two situations are not comparable.]
 
A narcissistic US, an anxious Saudi Arabia and a hysterical Israel, by Amal Saad-Ghorayeb | Al Jazeera
..members of the Resistance Axis (Iran, Syria, Hezbollah and Hamas) have been the objects of the West's psychopathologising gaze, as I have documented on my blog, ASG's Counter-Hegemony Unit. While the Syrian government has been pathologised as "delusional" and "detached from reality", Iran has similarly been anthromorphised and classified as an "irrational" actor whose foreign policy behaviour closely resembles a person suffering from Anti-Social Personality disorder. Dubbed a "rogue state" by successive US administrations, official statements and political analyses of Iran's political behaviour have drawn extensively from criteria and symptomology contained in the various editions of the DSM...
 
Europe rights court hearing on secret CIA prisons, by Greg Keller | Huffington Post
  Europe's human rights court shone a rare public light Tuesday on the secret network of European prisons that the CIA used to interrogate terror suspects, reviving memories and questions about the "extraordinary renditions" that angered many on this continent. At Tuesday's hearing, lawyers for two terror suspects currently held by the U.S. in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, accused Poland of human rights abuses. The lawyers say the suspects fell victim to the CIA's program to kidnap terror suspects and transfer them to third countries, and allege they were tortured in a remote Polish prison...
 
Five Arab states top the most corrupt list | Al Jazeera
...Syria, Iraq, Libya, Somalia and Sudan all scored less than 20, as their governments deal with massive instability in the face of civil war and armed groups, or nations where the lead researcher of the study said the regime is not "functioning effectively". "Corruption is very much linked to countries that fall apart, as you see in Libya, Syria, two of the countries that deteriorated the most,"..
 
Syria: Islamist Rebels Abduct 12 Nuns from Orthodox Monastery in Maaloula | Intifada Palestine
...Islamist Rebels from the Free Syrian Army (FSA) had invaded the small town on 5 September after driving out regime troops with the support of al-Qaeda-linked al-Nusra Brigades. After taking control of the city, they went on a rampage against Christian buildings, killing three young Catholic men. More than 3,000 people, the town’s entire Christian population, fled their homes seeking refuge in Bab Touma, the Christian quarter of Damascus. Some found shelter with relatives in Lebanon or in local Greek-Catholic convents...
 
Syria UN Rep: Saudi Arabia Gets Rid of its Imprisoned Terrorists by Sending them to Kill Syrians | YouTube
  Syria's UN representative, Bashar al-Jaafari, has stated in a press conference at the United Nations headquarters in New York that all Saudis fighting in Syria came to Syria with the knowledge and facilitation of Saudi authorities. Jaafari also said that most of them are members of extremist terrorist organizations such as al-Qaeda; they were prisoners who either received death sentence or imprisonment for long periods, but they were later released by the Saudi authorities in a pardon initiative in exchange for them conducting "Jihad" in Syria by killing Syrians through car bombings, beheadings, kidnappings, and forcing people to get displaced...



Dec 3, 2013

Israhell's New Best Friends: Saudi Arabia and its Minions
 
  Reports from across Syria, and increasing coming in from many areas including Aleppo, Qalamoun and Reqaa lay bare massive crimes being perpetrated against the Syrian people in the name of Islam from areas under takfiri control...
[Takfiri, Salafi, Jihadi and Wahhabi are not synonyms exactly, but they are all very close family primarily of Saudi origin]
 
  This video shows Syrian rebels slaughtering three people in the countryside of Edlib, including the Metropolitan “François Murad”, who was patron of Sumaan al-Amoudi Monastery, under the charge of dealing with the government and the Syrian Army;the video shows people who speak Arabic with a broken accent, saying that through this act, they are applying the law of God...
[Israel’s new allies, replacing the cowardly Americans, whom the Israelis have always held in contempt. After all, the Takfiris and the Israelis speak the same biblical language {as does the US, but not to the same extent.]
 
  Tomorrow, December 3, 2013, The Israel Democracy Institute (IDI) will publish its monthly Peace Index; this time, its shocking headlines were reported ahead of the event. In its twenty years of existence, this research project mattered little, yet in November 2013, Israeli citizens backed their recently restored Minister of Foreign Affairs Avigdor Lieberman in rejecting the USA as Israel's main ally...
 
  American national security journalist Jeremy Scahill and leftist British columnist Owen Jones announced recently that they would not share a platform with a Palestinian-Lebanese nun at the Stop The War Coalition’s November 30 UK conference. Neither Scahill nor Jones provided any reason for their harsh “indictment” of Mother Agnes Mariam, who has worked tirelessly for the past few years on reconciliation in war-torn Syria, where she has lived for two decades...
 
  One of the problems for the left is the desperate need of too many of its best and brightest to maintain legitimacy “in the mainstream”. In practice, those who could be advancing radical new agendas or ways of thinking to deal with the catastrophic problems we face end up spending too much time watching their backs, toning down their message and trying to promote their careers...
 
  According to the BBC, the UN bureaucrats are now trying to implicate Syrian President Assad in war crimes. According to UN Commissioner Navi Pillay "the scale of viciousness of the abuses being perpetrated by elements on both sides almost defies belief" and evidence indicated responsibility "at the highest level of government, including the head of state".. As soon as we think about that it becomes quite obvious that what Mrs Pillay has is nothing or, more accurately, all she has is the usual mix of rumors, assumptions, and the usual assortment of testimonies amounting to little more than simple hearsay...
 
Brand Israel: silence the truth by blinding the messengers of truth | Redress Information & Analysis
  If the messengers of truth threaten to expose you, shoot them. That is the modus operandi of the Israeli army. According to the Foreign Press Association (FPA), during an incident at the Qalandiya crossing, in the occupied West Bank, on 29 November Israeli troops fired rubber bullets at journalists at eye-level – rather than at the lower body – which could have resulted in a fatality...
 
Gilad Atzmon on Ken O'keefe's Middle East | YouTube
  Atzmon and O'keefe scrutinize the role of language in political discussion and Palestine solidarity discourse in particular. In this segment they examine Zionism, Israel, Jewish tribalism and the usage of the 'J word'..
 
Media Dictionary: Arab-Israeli Conflict, by Mazin Qumsiyeh | Aletho News
  A handy dictionary/rules book for anyone writing on the Middle East issues in the mainstream media. To get published as a news journalist, it seems you have to follow these rules...
 
Gaza Need Not Be a Sewer, by Alon Tal and Yousef Abu-Mayla | NYT
  For two decades, Palestinian and Israeli environmentalists set aside their differences to call for urgent measures to address the impending water crisis in the Gaza Strip. These calls went unheeded. The price of inaction, protracted conflict and unsustainable policies is being paid today by the 1.7 million residents of Gaza, who face catastrophic conditions thanks to the collapse of Gaza’s sewage system...
 
Confessions of NWO Jewish Zionists | YouTube
  Shocking video of New World Order Zionist Jews admitting they want to destroy every none jew, and even start world war 3 to achieve their goal...
 
American jihadi: How a Muslim adventurer from Colorado wrote – and lived – a great adventure story,  by Kevin Barrett | Veterans Today
...Kamal’s description covers only a small portion of the genocide against Central Asian Muslims conducted by the 20th-century Communists. According to the best estimates, tens of millions of Muslims were exterminated – a holocaust that dwarfs anything dreamed of by the Nazis. And Islam itself was nearly erased from the Turcic-dominated lands in what may have been the biggest act of cultural genocide in history...
 
Islam without Extremes: A Muslim Case for Liberty, by Johnny Punish | Veterans Today
  As the Arab Spring threatens to give way to authoritarianism in Egypt and reports from Afghanistan detail widespread violence against U.S. troops and women, news from the Muslim world raises the question: Is Islam incompatible with freedom? In Islam without Extremes: A Muslim Case for Liberty, Turkish columnist Mustafa Akyol answers this question by revealing the little-understood roots of political Islam, which originally included both rationalist, flexible strains and more dogmatic, rigid ones...
 
Palestinian Day of Rage, by Elias Akleh | MCW News
  In its on-going implementation of the Zionist scheme of ethnic cleansing of Palestinians, the Israeli Knesset had approved, last June 2013, what is known as the Prawer-Begin Bill (known as Prawer Plan) calling for the mass expulsion of the Palestinian Bedouin communities in the Naqab (Negev) area south of occupied Palestine. When fully implemented the Prawer Plan will result in the destruction of 35 Palestinian Bedouin villages, the forced evacuation of up to 70,000 Palestinian Bedouins; citizens of Israel, and the confiscation of their land for the purpose of building 15 new Jewish only colonies...
 
The CIA is running America, by Mike Palecek | The Tap
  Who really runs America? One way to answer that question is to see if there is any person, group or organization that is above the law. One entity's name that comes up immediately is the Central Intelligence Agency(CIA), which breaks laws all over the world. In recent years, it appears that the influence of this Agency has grown to epic proportions inside the White House...
[The piece is accurate as far as it goes but ignores tribal Jewish power– maybe he’ll do a followup called “Rome’s principal intelligence agency coordinates policy with the Sanhedrin.” Let's not forget that O'Bomber was hand-picked and groomed by the Chicago Jewish political mafia.]
 
Killing Unnamed Children in Afghanistan, by Jacob G. Hornberger | The Future of Freedom Foundation
...For 12 years, the U.S. government has had carte blanche to kill as many people as it wanted in Afghanistan. Whenever U.S. forces have dropped bombs and fired missiles at suspected “terrorists,” “militants,” or “insurgents,” there has been no second-guessing on the part of U.S. officials, no matter how many non-terrorists, non-militants, and non-insurgents have been killed in the process. Oh sure, apologies are oftentimes rendered and nominal payments of money are made to aggrieved families, but nothing has stopped the onslaught of death for 12 long years...


Dec 2, 2013

Iran: The Current Outlook
 
  The first four years of the Obama Administration were marked by imposing an unprecedented set of sanctions and military threats against Iran. However, since July 2013 fewer sanctions have been imposed and less military threats issued. Indeed, the Obama Administration—along with some of the other four members of the United Nations Security Council and Germany, commonly known as the P5+1—appeared to be sincere in trying to resolve the nuclear dispute with Iran...
 
  Washington has reportedly begun secret talks with Hezbollah, the Lebanese Shia militia closely allied with Iran, and whose fighters have helped Syria’s government withstand a US- and Saudi-backed Sunni Islamist insurgency. Britain is reportedly facilitating the negotiations. According to stories in the Kuwaiti press that were subsequently confirmed by the Jerusalem Post, British diplomats are meeting with Hezbollah representatives to apprise them of the Obama administration’s demands and deliver their responses to Washington. This roundabout method has supposedly been adopted because the US officially designates both Hezbollah’s military and political wings as terrorist organizations...
 
...The West has no intention of striking any lasting deal with Iran, as nuclear capabilities, even the acquirement of nuclear weapons by Iran was never truly an existential threat to Western nations or their regional partners. The West's issue with Iran is its sovereignty and its ability to project its interests into spheres traditionally monopolized by the US and UK across the Middle East. Unless Iran plans on turning over its sovereignty and regional influence along with its right to develop and use nuclear technology, betrayal of any "nuclear deal" is all but inevitable, as is the war that is to shortly follow...
 
...Either skimmed over or skipped altogether are those things the P5+1 have to do for Iran. Here is a brief synopsis of the agreement:..
 
  Dark forces run both countries. They want Geneva agreed on terms subverted. On November 30, Fars News headlined "Riyadh, Tel Aviv Cooperating to Sabotage Iran's (Nuclear) Program." They're cooperating on a new computer worm. They want one more destructive than Stuxnet. In 2010, it infected Iran's Bushehr nuclear facility. Operations were halted. Israel was blamed. So was Washington. Had the facility gone online infected, Iran's entire electrical power grid could have been shut down. Experts say Flame malware is 20 times more harmful than Stuxnet. Perhaps Israeli and Saudi dark forces want something even more destructive...
 
The Zionists are panicking. According to Israeli Likudnik parliamentarian Tzachi Hanegbi, after the G5+1 reached a deal with Iran, Netanyahu called Obama and “made it clear to the most powerful man on Earth that if he intends to stay the most powerful man on Earth” he had better stop making peace with Iran. That sounds like a threat to remove Obama from his job as the president of the United States of America. But how could the Zionists do that?..
 
...The difficulty will not come from any lack of a basis, consistent with both Western and Iranian interests, for reaching a final agreement. The outlines of such an agreement have been clear for some time, and the Joint Plan of Action has made them even clearer. The chief difficulty will instead consist of continued resistance from those opposed to any agreement and to any reduction in estrangement between the United States and Iran. Those opponents, and American politicians who follow their lead, will strive to inhibit the negotiations and prevent a final deal, no matter what the terms...
 
The War of the Narratives | Alternative Insights
...Despite their more compelling narrative, the Palestinians have been unable to successfully articulate their experiences or implement a powerful rebuttal to Israel's narrations, and Israel has prevailed in the war of narratives, a feat that defies the possible. Adding to the failure is the perplexing manner by which Palestinian institutions and persons unknowingly validate portions of the Zionist narrative and its falsifications of history...
[The world is made of stories, not atoms ~ Muriel Rukeyser]
 
Anti-Prawer ‘day of rage’: Chronicle of a violent confrontation foretold, by Haggai Matar | +972 Magazine
  “Can you please explain what it is you’re so angry about?” That was the question an Israeli reporter with a camera crew posed to several Bedouin at the Hura anti-Prawer “day of rage” demonstration Saturday evening.. Watching the scene and noticing in particular the many journalists who were trying to make heads or tails of what the protest was all about (or worse: not even trying but simply ignoring it in their reports, focusing solely and without any context on the clashes taking place), I wanted to help the TV reporter and suggest that one of the reasons for the protestors’ anger might be the question itself...
 
Best Military in the World, Really? by John LaForge | CounterPunch
  In response to regular reports of atrocities by US soldiers, drone controllers, pilots and interrogators, the White House routinely tries to help. Every president promises to honor our armed forces and says ours is the finest military of all, etc. At last year’s Veterans’ Day ceremony, president fill-in-the-blank boasted, “America is and always will be the greatest nation on Earth.” This Nov. 11th, Mr. Obama said that since 9/11 the US is “defining one of the greatest generations of military service this country has ever produced,” and, of course,“[W]e have the best-led, best-trained, best-equipped military in the world.”..
 
NSA SEXINT is the Abuse You’ve All Been Waiting For, by Jennifer Granick | Just Security
  In the latest news report based on documents revealed by Edward Snowden, we’ve learned that the NSA creates profiles of porn viewing, online sexual activity and more from its vast database of Internet content and transactional data as part of a plan to harm the reputations of those whom the agency believes are radicalizing others through speeches promoting disfavored—but not necessarily violent—political views. The report—by Glenn Greenwald, Ryan Gallagher and Ryan Grim in the Huffington Post—shows how the NSA proposes to use personal information gleaned from electronic surveillance to blackmail, silence and otherwise marginalize people for advocating “radical” beliefs...
 
The bloody disaster of Libya, Iraq and Afghanistan is laid bare, by Simon Jenkins  | The Guardian
  Forty-three people died on Friday in clashes between militias in Libya, as did 22 on Sunday from bombs in Iraq. In Helmand, a return of the Taliban to power is now confidently expected. Why should we care? Why should it feature on our news? The answer is that we helped to bring it about. Britain's three foreign wars in the past decade were uninvited military interventions to topple installed governments. All have ended in disaster...
 
‘I Love Papa’: Israel’s identity crisis and the plight of divided Palestinian families | Green Number Plate
  Going through Israeli Checkpoint 300 a few days ago I noticed a young man carefully balancing a cardboard  box through the turnstiles. ‘Sabah ilkher’ (Good morning) I greeted him, ‘ Do you have cakes in the box?’ He beamed and told me he was going to visit his wife in East Jerusalem. When my team-mate and I reached the Jerusalem side of the checkpoint he was waiting to speak to us again and asked if we could do anything to help him. When we met him again this week, the man, who I will call Mohamed, was too frightened to allow us to use his  name or photograph in this blog...
[So many stories of vile ZioNazi oppression; so little mainstream media coverage]
 
BFP Roundtable: Guantanamo, Iran | Open source/YouTube
  BoilingFrogsPost.com present the latest BFP series, the BFP Roundtable. In this pilot edition of the series the panel discusses the latest "reporting" on Guantanamo by 60 Minutes, the truth about the Iranian nuclear deal, and the importance of open source journalism...
 
French court fines boycott-Israel activists for discrimination | The Times of Israel
  Judge imposes $1,300-penalty, and a suspended jail sentence, on 12 members of BDS group...
[Political correctness runs amok.. again]
 
The Debacle, by Uri Avnery | Gush Shalom
  The greatest danger to Israel is not the putative Iranian nuclear bomb. The greatest danger is the stupidity of our leaders. This is not a uniquely Israeli phenomenon. A great many of the world’s leaders are plain stupid, and always have been. Enough to look at what happened in Europe in July 1914, when an incredible accumulation of stupid politicians and incompetent generals plunged humanity into World War I. But lately, Binyamin Netanyahu and almost the entire Israeli political establishment have achieved a new record in foolishness...
 
Nationalism: A Dying Institution, by Johnny Punish | Veterans Today
...around the world, globalists are investing everywhere, moving through borders with ease while they go on domestic media shows wearing national flags pretending to care about local workers when in fact, they are NOT nationalists at all but global carpetbaggers motivated by profits to, as Machiavelli once said, to stay in power by any means necessary. In fact, the government officials that once represented the peoples of their nation are being purchased by these globalists causing all kinds of disconnections...
 
GAZA: The Unfolding Tragedy, by Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century
...It hardly needs to be observed that the silence of the United Nations and the global media is a continuing disgrace, particularly given the pomp and circumstance of those mighty statesmen who self-righteously proclaim a new doctrine: ‘the responsibility to protect’ (R2P) those whose survival and dignity is at stake due to crimes of state or as a result of natural catastrophe...



Dec 1, 2013


Light unto the Nations: Anno 2013, by Adam Keller | Crazy Country
..."Light unto the Nations" is a ancient expression first used by the biblical prophets. It conveys a vision of World Peace, "They shall beat their swords into ploughshares and their spears into pruning hooks". The days of  "Light unto the Nations" were supposed to be an Utopian future in which Jews will set an example of sublime moral and peace-seeking behaviour. Not exactly what is reflected in the real existing state of the Jews.. Nowadays, "Light unto the Nations" means the blazing fire of a big war which the State of Israel will initiate and into which it will drag the rest of the world. Indeed, an innovative interpretation of the ancient term for which Benyamin Netanyahu deserves all the credit...
 
Netanyahu at Chanukah Candle Lighting Ceremony at Western Wall | IMRA
..”We have come to banish the darkness and the greatest darkness that threatens the world today is that of a nuclear Iran. We are committed to doing whatever we can to prevent this darkness. If possible, it would be preferable to do so by diplomatic means and if not we will serve as a light to the nations..”
[The psychological term for what the Zionists do all the time is projection. It is accompanied by self-deception, denial and tortuous sophistry. Try this experiment. Take any assertion they make about the 'other' and turn it around into its opposite, its mirror image – et voila! – one has a true statement. It works like a charm most of the time.]
 
Netanyahu: Crying wolf again, by Akbar Ganji | Al Jazeera
  Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu claims that Iran is after the physical destruction of Israel and wants to create a new Holocaust. This is a false claim. The meaning of the statements by Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and former President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is that the Islamic Republic seeks a referendum in which all the Palestinians, as well as Jews and Christians of the historical Palestine, would participate, and through which the "government" of Israel would be de-established. The reality is that Iran does not present an existential threat to the people of Israel. It is, in fact, Israel that is a serious threat to Iran...
 
Will Israel ‘come to terms’ with Iran deal? by Jonathan Cook | The View from Nazareth
  The recent agreement in Geneva between the world’s major powers and Iran over its nuclear programme is a bitter pill that Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, has spent much of the past week choking on. For much of the past decade, Netanyahu has been leading the chorus of doom about Iran, warning of the imminent threat posed by its supposed pursuit of a nuclear bomb...

Nakba II: Israel is Testing The Water | Gilad Atzmon
  Simultaneous protests took place on Saturday in Haifa, Tayibe and Jerusalem over the Praver Bill -a plan to evict Bedouin communities in the Negev. The Bill has provoked a storm not only amid the Arab MKs who voted against it, but mainly among those it is aimed against, the Bedouin residents of southern Israel. It seems as if Israel is testing the water examining the reaction to another mass expulsion of Palestinians. Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman said today "Nothing has changed since the Tower and Stockade days. We are fighting for the lands of the Jewish people and there are those who intentionally try to rob and seize them."..
 
Arrests at protest over Israel's Bedouin plan | Al Jazeera
  Hundreds of protesters have demonstrated - some clashing with police - in Israel, the West Bank and Gaza Strip against an Israeli draft law seeking to evict Bedouin residents from the southern Negev desert. The government in January approved a bill calling for the relocation of 30,000-40,000 Bedouins, the demolition of about 40 villages and the confiscation of more than 700,000 dunams (70,000 hectares) of Negev land.. Israeli police said clashes broke out at the main demonstration on Saturday in the Negev village of Houra where around 1,000 protesters had gathered as part of a campaign of "rage" against the bill...

9/11 in the Academic Community, by Ludwig Watzal | MCW News
  This documentary on the role of the Academia concerning 9/11 by the producer and filmmaker Adnan Zuberi was bestowed with the “Documentary Achievement Award” at this year’s University of Toronto Film Festival. The documentary focuses on the surprising reluctance of the academic community to examine the events of September 11, 2001. Virtually the entire academic community adopted immediately and uncritically the official narrative about these events. Academics did not ask some of the most elementary questions: What happened on that day? Who planned and executed this complex operation? And who benefited from it?..
 
Noam Chomsky and the Willful Ignorance of 9/11, by Kevin Ryan  | Dig Within
..Noam Chomsky claimed that there were only “a miniscule number of architects and engineers” who felt that the official account of WTC Building 7 should be treated with skepticism.  Chomsky followed-up by saying, “a tiny number—a couple of them—are perfectly serious.” If signing your name and credentials to a public petition on the subject means being serious, then Noam Chomsky’s tiny number begins at 2,100, not counting scientists and other professionals. Why would Chomsky make such an obvious exaggeration when he has been presented with contradictory facts many times?..
[Underneath that urbane intellectual brilliance there’s a tribal Jew – one who’s certainly aware that the Israelis were at the very least complicit. He would rather indulge in denial and self-deception than go there.]
 
Iran's FM: No Nuclear Talks with 'Zionists' | Israel National News
...Zarif described Israel as the “biggest threat to the region and the world” and called on the world powers to throw their weight behind facilitating the disarmament of the Middle East instead of exerting pressure on Iran. “Currently, the Zionist regime, which has both chemical and nuclear weapons, is the only obstacle” to turning the Middle East into a region free of weapons of mass destruction, claimed the Foreign Minister...
[The Persians are nobody’s fools – they’ve been around for thousands of years - unlike the jumped up Israelis, whose contrived identity was created about 100 years ago.]
 
Aipac’s Tortured Role in Iran Nuclear Talks: Tear Down Deal, While Appearing to Support It | Tikun Olam
  The Israel Lobby likes to say (and hear members of Congress saying it as well) that there isn’t an inch of daylight between Israel and U.S. political leaders.  And that’s generally so.  But I’ve just read a memo produced by Aipac which diverges from the Israeli government’s absolutist approach to Iranian nukes.  Netanyahu’s position is that Iran must not have any enrichment capacity.  Essentially, it must renounce its entire nuclear program. This memo takes a different view:..
 
Black Friday shopping in US marred by violence | BBC News
  Several outbreaks of violence have marred the US Black Friday shopping frenzy, as bargain-hunters besieged malls across the US. In Chicago police shot an alleged shoplifter; a robber shot a shopper in Las Vegas; and a California police officer was injured in a fight.. Pointing at the mobbed department store, Brazilian tourist Luis Figueiro told Reuters news agency: "This is madness. There are so many people here, you can't see any of the things on sale."..
[ “Shop ‘til you drop.” Consumerism is America’s national “charismatic” religion. So glad I live in Mexico.]
 
Foreign Minister Zarif on Iran and Its Persian Gulf Neighbors | Going to Tehran
  Last week, as nuclear diplomacy between Iran and the P5+1 dominated international headlines, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif published a very important and substantive Op Ed, “Our Neighbors Are Our Priority,” in Ash-Sharq Al-Awsat.  The most fundamental message of Zarif’s Op Ed—that Tehran wants positive-sum, mutually beneficial relations with its Gulf Arab neighbors—is, strictly speaking, not a new theme in  the Islamic Republic’s foreign policy:..
 
Interview with Alexandr Dugin: "Occupation is Occupation!" | Manuel Ochsenreiter
...After the collapse of the communist block there was no reason anymore for Western occupation of Germany. Germany didn´t need any more US-American military to defend it, because the threat was gone. Post-Soviet Russia was too weak to present any type of challenge or danger for Germany. There was no need at all for the presence of US-American military on German soil. The pure and naked fact that they didn´t leave Germany after 1990 shows that it is still an occupied country. The spying scandal against the German population, the German economy and the German political leaders just exposes this fact again...
 
Greenwald in jaw-dropping BBC interview | Jonathan Cook
  Glenn Greenwald on sharp form, as ever, and the BBC interviewer, on this occasion Stephen Sackur, on woeful form, as ever. The last five-minute exchange, starting at about 19.20 mins, when Sackur ends up defending Britain’s security services against Greenwald’s charge that they lied during the Iraq war, is simply jaw-dropping in its asinine, dangerous complacency. How do these BBC mouthpieces have the nerve to call themselves journalists?..
[Maybe they take their cues from Fox News, America's right wing tabloid "news" channel]
 
Patrick Cockburn: An Interview With Muqtada al-Sadr | CounterPunch
  In an interview  in the holy city of Najaf, 100 miles south-west of Baghdad – the first interview Mr Sadr has given face-to-face with a Western journalist for almost 10 years – he expressed pessimism about the immediate prospects for Iraq, saying: “The near future is dark.” Mr Sadr said he is most worried about sectarianism affecting Iraqis at street level, believing that “if it spreads among the people it will be difficult to fight”. He says he believes that standing against sectarianism has made him lose support among his followers...
 
Fear of the People’s History, by John Pilger | CounterPunch
...When I read recently that 600,000 Greater Manchester residents were “experiencing the effects of extreme poverty” and that 1.6 million were slipping into penury, I was reminded how the political consensus was unchanged. Now led by the southern squirearchy of David Cameron, George Osborne and their fellow Etonians, the only change is the rise of Labour’s corporate management class, exemplified by Ed Miliband’s support for “austerity” – the new jargon for imposed poverty...
[It’s much the same throughout the Empire]
 
The Real Nuclear Option, by Micah Zenko | Foreign Policy
...What never ceases to amaze in these discussions is the total omission of Israel's nuclear weapons in U.S. policy debates about confronting Iran. There is an unspoken understanding that Israel's bombs are an option best left off the table, even as Israeli officials routinely hint at missions where they would be used - specifically for deterrence or to threaten deeply buried targets in Iran. This tacit agreement within Washington policy circles of focusing on Iran's nonexistent nuclear bombs, while consciously ignoring Israel's actual nuclear arsenal (which is itself directly pertinent to discussions about Iran), should be retired...
 
Underneath the Washed White Wall of Cynicism and Hope, by Ramzy Baroud | Palestine Chronicle
  The houses in my old refugee camp felt enormous. My neighbors’ homes had grown into strange dimensions because they had to make use of every inch of available space out of desperation. My old house stood still and unbending, vacant of glory and burdened with memories. It was no longer mine – my father had sold it shortly before he passed away. He had grown to be very poor and obsessively worried about the future...