Feb 28, 2011 Support Your Own Illegal Israeli Settlement | Mantiq al-Tayr  The illegal town of Ariel ...Hey goys and girls, are you interested in supporting terrorism, violating international law, stealing other people’s property and being in general a smug narcissistic asshole and getting the US taxpayer to subsidize this behavior? Of course you are, who wouldn’t be?...Read more... The Promise: Political History, by Ronan Macfield | Palestine Telegraph ..When the Jewish state was created, hundreds of thousands of Palestinians were forced to flee to other Arab countries and to the Gaza Strip where they, and their descendants, have remained ever since. Many are stateless, still classified as refugees, not citizens of the countries which hosted them - a gesture by Arab governments to show that they do not accept the existence of Israel. The Palestinians became political pawns... Read more... Muammar Gaddafi - Zenga Zenga Song - Noy Alooshe Remix | YouTube (Ex?) Libyan leader Muammar Kadafi with his Auto Tuned version of "Hey Baby" by Pitbull & T pain. Remix by Noy Alooshe... Enjoy this music video made by an Israeli and immensely popular in the Arab world... Arab Uprisings: Time-Out For Israel Is Over | Veterans Today ...The Libyan leader has decided to show no leniency in dealing with this uprising – which he never saw coming his way- he relentlessly began to crack down on protesters allowing his paramilitary and mercenary forces to use live ammunition in a desperate attempt to crush the revolt leaving thousands wounded and dead so far... Read more... How The U.S. Radicalized Conservatism: An Analysis by Dr. Lawrence Davidson | Intifada Palestine If you have the stomach to listen to the likes of Glenn Beck or track the antics of people like Sarah Palin you might get the idea that today’s American political conservatives are a bunch of radicals and extremists. And, as we will see, you would be correct. But this is not how it always was... Read more... Hundreds back Facebook call for Saudi protest | Middle East Hundreds of people have backed a Facebook campaign calling for a "day of rage" across Saudi Arabia next month to demand an elected ruler, greater freedom for women and release of political prisoners... Read more... Gates: 'US cannot win conventional wars' | Rehmat's World Robert M. Gates, the outgoing US Secretary of Defense, in his last address at West Point on February 25, 2011 – admitted that based on Afghanistan and Iraqi experience, American ground forces cannot win future wars in Asia or Middle East or Africa... [What? A modicum of sanity emanating from within the Imperial heights of the US Gummint? How bizarre.] Read more...9/11 Haunts American Conscience | Opinion Maker Kevin Barrett speaks with intelligence community whistleblower Dmitri Khalezov and Veterans Today editor Gordon Duff. They discuss whether an infamous Mossad agent named Mike Harari bragged of organizing 9/11. Dmitri Khalezov, author of The Third Truth About 9/11, was arrested in Thailand along with Mike Harari. Khalezov says Harari was his friend at the time of 9/11, invited him to a party on 9/12/01 celebrating the successful operation, and subsequently let it be known, in so many words, that he, Harari, was an organizer of the 9/11 false-flag event... Listen... Neo-Con Hawks Take Flight over Libya | IPS In a distinct echo of the tactics they pursued to encourage U.S. intervention in the Balkans and Iraq, a familiar clutch of neo-conservatives appealed Friday for the United States and NATO to "immediately" prepare military action to help bring down the regime of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi... Read more... US intervention aims to control Libya oil | PressTV “The objective of US intervention in Libya is to contain the revolutionary upsurge of the masses and have a forward base for introducing troops,” says political commentator Ralph Shoenman. This also raises the question of whether the US and NATO are pushing for a civil war in Libya in order to justify a military intervention... Read more, watch video... Defending Education in Times of War and Occupation | The Brussells Tribunal ...It is important that all of us, especially those paying taxes in the United States to pay for this occupation, understand that our silence is complicity. Especially those of us associated with teaching and research in American universities bear an additional responsibility to exhibit even now our solidarity with those who have suffered and are suffering in Iraqi academic communities. We know that many faculty members have been murdered since 2003 (over 500 confirmed cases), particularly those who spoke out and acted against the occupation... Read more... Feb 27, 2011 Greek P.M.: Zionism and the IMF's Last Best Friend, by James Petras | Palestine Chronicle  Like Mubarak, Papandreou combines servility with arrogance In the midst of the Arab uprisings throughout the Middle East, at a time when even the European (EU) has publically condemned Israel's blockade of Gaza and its illegal land seizures in the West Bank and East Jerusalem, Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou promised a visiting delegation of American Jewish leaders, that he would do everything possible to undermine EU opposition and promote Israeli economic, diplomatic and political interests in Europe...Read more... In Re Barak, Bullahs, BlackWater, Bounties & the STL, by Franklin Lamb | Al Manar When the US marines were in and out of Lebanon in 1983-1984, some of those I met, when visiting their barracks with American journalist Janet Stevens to discuss Israel’s use of American cluster bombs against civilians, had the habit, as did sailors from the USS New Jersey, of referring to the Lebanese Capital simply as “Root.”.. Read more... The Guardian's Sleazeball Hacks and Plagiarists: Cable Cooking and the War on Assange, by Israel Shamir | Counterpunch The latest chapter in the quest for open government finds our embattled knight holed up within the grey brick Georgian walls of Ellingham Hall while the dark forces outside attempt a disorderly checkmate. The British courts have long debated whether to pack Julian Assange off to the star spangled torture chambers of Guantanamo, but have finally settled on simply extraditing him to the man-eating Nordic Amazons of Sweden... Read more... To Call A Spade A Spade: An Interview with Gilad Atzmon | Silvia Cattori Gilad Atzmon is an outstandingly charming man. He is often described by music critics as one of the finest contemporary jazz saxophonists. But Atzmon is more than just a musician: for those who follow events in the Middle East, he is considered to be one of the most credible voices amongst Israeli opponents. In the last decade he has relentlessly exposed and denounced barbarian Israeli policies... Read more... West meddling poison for revolutions | PressTV interview with Stephen Lendman Libya's beleaguered ruler Muammar Gaddafi has resorted to desperate measures in his violent clampdown on pro-democracy protests, further pushing Libya into chaos... Read more... The False Flag Space Shuttle, by Eric May | Veterans Today Thursday’s successful Discovery launch was a welcome diversion from a world of a pan-Arab uprising, soaring oil prices and mass labor protests. Because of these problems, Obama’s approval ratings are slipping again... Read more... Institutionalized Arab Inequality in Israel, by Stephen Lendman | OpEd News In December 2010, the Adalah Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel published a study titled, "Inequality Report: The Palestinian Arab Minority in Israel," saying:.. Read more... Revolution of the hungry next for Egypt? | YouTube The popular revolution in Egypt saw a President, in office for 3 decades, swept from power in a matter of weeks. But many observers say the transition from dictatorship to democracy is out of reach. RT's Peter Oliver reports from Cairo... Watch video... Economic Revolution vs. Political Reform: The Clash of Classes in Egypt and the USA, by Mary Lynn Cramer | Axis of Logic ...Ten million Egyptians earn less than $1.00 a day; 40 million, less than $2.00 a day... Read more... Feb 26, 2011 Under the Spell of Israel, by Tim King | Salem-News  ...The west has been under a spell for decades, dismissing the real history, meaning and implications of Israel; blindly accepting and funding and protecting what truly is a rogue government without question or delay... Read more... Truth in Stuttgart, by Gilad Atzmon | MWC News Three months ago, I briefly participated in a Palestinian solidarity conference in Stuttgart. The event was dedicated to the 'One State Solution'... Read more... Gaza in Plain Language Revisited: Honoring the March to Gaza | YouTube [A must see] Watch video... Hosni Mubarak Sings "I Did it My Way" | YouTube Hosni Mubarak sings his farewell to the people of Egypt and the rest of the world. "Mabarak's Way" was written and performed by the Capitol Steps... Watch video... Something Is Wrong With Chosen-ness | Gilad Atzmon Watch video... The Global Economic Crisis: The Great Depression of the XXI Century | Global Research ...Despite the diversity of viewpoints and perspectives presented within this volume, all of the contributors ultimately come to the same conclusion: humanity is at the crossroads of the most serious economic and social crisis in modern history... Read more... The Veto from Hell, by Philip Giraldi | Antiwar Last Friday’s American veto of the United Nations Security Council resolution that would have called Israeli settlement activity on the West Bank illegal was not only shameful, it was possibly the low point of the already foundering Obama presidency... Read more... The Middle East does not need stability, by Gideon Levy | Haaretz This so-called stability encompasses millions of Arabs living under criminal regimes and evil tyrannies... Read more... Kill a Palestinian and You Shall Enter Heaven | Mantiq al-Tayr Keeping track of the activities of the Zionist traitors to the US is sometimes time consuming, often very aggravating, but it can also be fun. The US government is so permeated with these traitors that they barely try to cover it up and at times they seem to not only be boasting about it, it is also like saying “Whatya gonna about it?”.. Read more... Dictators are "Disposable": The Rise and Fall of America's Military Henchmen, by Michel Chossudovsky | Global Research ...In Egypt, following Mubarak's demise, the military machine prevails. Field Marshal Mohamed Hussein Tantawi, Egypt’s defense minister, commander in chief of the Armed Forces and since February 11, 2011 head of the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces, is the de facto Head of State, the Vice presidency is held by Omar Suleiman. Both men are US appointees... Read more... Another Runaway General: Army Deploys Psy-Ops on U.S. Senators, by Michael Hastings | Rolling Stone ...The incident offers an indication of just how desperate the U.S. command in Afghanistan is to spin American civilian leaders into supporting an increasingly unpopular war. According to the Defense Department’s own definition, psy-ops – the use of propaganda and psychological tactics to influence emotions and behaviors – are supposed to be used exclusively on "hostile foreign groups.".. Read more... Democracy promotion: America's new regime change formula | Russia Today Washington’s formula for regime change underwent a makover in the 1980s. In a bid to ensure US political and economic interests were safeguarded, CIA backed coup d’états ousted democratically elected leaders from Iran to Chile... Read more... US Presidents: Actor, Chauffeur, Salesman, Puppet, by Douglas Herman | Rense ...Barack Obama impresses me as a limo driver, rather than the CEO. As chauffeur, he is suave. He greets the elites and is well-paid for his driving skill. But he is told where to go by people more powerful than him and how to get there... Read more... Our Race Will Rule Undisputed Over The World, by Rose Rabbinovich | Rense Hello Jeff, I would like to thank you in the name of many in the Jewish community here in Melbourne for opening our eyes to how all of us Jews have been manipulated by the Zionists. Unfortunately, the Zionist are controlling all our synagogues and Jewish organization and institutions, even though most of us are not Zionists... Read more... British Historian Details Mass Killings and Brutal Mistreatment of Germans, by Mark Weber | Institute for Historical Review Germany’s defeat in May 1945, and the end of World War II in Europe, did not bring an end to death and suffering for the vanquished German people. Instead the victorious Allies ushered in a horrible new era that, in many ways, was worse than the destruction wrought by war... Read more... George Soros: The 51st Jewish Messiah | Rehmat's World ...George Soros has the money, connections and he is interested in establishing ‘One World Government’ under Jewish domination. Jerry Rabow in his book entitled 50 Jewish Messiahs tells the stories of 50 Jews who had claimed to be the ‘promised Messiah’ and how they effected the Jewish, Christian and Muslim worlds. The most famous among them happened to be Sabbatai Zevi (born 1626), whose followers still hold important positions in modern Turkey... Read more... "Anti-Semitic, it's a trick we always use it": Amy Goodman interviews Shulamit Aloni | YouTube Amy Goodman interviews a former Israeli minister and she helps expose this trick used against dissidents, the defamation tactic of calling people "anti-Semitic.".. Watch video... Democracy US-style, by James Petras | Rebel News One of the least analysed aspects of the Egyptian pro-democracy movement and US policy towards it is the role of the influential Zionist power configuration (ZPC) including the leading umbrella organisation the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organisations (CPMAJO), Congressional Middle East committee members, officials occupying strategic positions in the Obama Administration's Middle East bureaus, as well as prominent editors, publicists and journalists who play a major role in the leading US newspapers and popular weekly magazines... Read more... Sudan's break-up: Bringing Nile water to Israel | Rehmat's World Two decades ago, when a military coup by a group of National Salvation Revolutionaries, lead by Brigadier General Omar Hassan Al- Basher took power in Khartoum by ending the pro-West regime of Mohammed Jaafar al-Nimeiri – Israeli leaders had felt much the same way as they show their great loss over the exit of Egyptian dictator Hosni Mubarak this month... Read more... Feb 25, 2011 Gaddafi has lost it, by Marwan Bishara | Al Jazeera English  Gaddafi has used bribes, blackmail and scare tactics, when necessary, to insure the tribes' loyalty to his regime The Libyan leader has lost all three pillars of his rule - tribal, military and diplomatic. Judging from his desperate speech last night, he seems to be losing his mind and perhaps his nerves. That's why it's only a question of time for his regime to break down...Read more... Global Coalition To Bring Tahrir For Gaza, Demand End To Gaza Blockade | Intifada Palestine Building on the momentum of the Egyptian revolution and the growing push for freedom and democracy by citizens throughout the region, a coalition of organizations and individuals from around the world are preparing for a march to Gaza... Read more... Is the West Bank next? by MJ Rosenberg | Al Jazeera English If Israel refuses to accept a viable peace deal, the revolt sweeping the Arab world will arrive in Palestine... Read more... The King Of Kings Doesn’t Blink, by Sami Moubayed | Intifada Palestine Colonel Muammar Gaddafi was new to the scene when he marched into the Arab summit in Cairo in September 1970, exactly one year after he had staged a successful coup in Libya, at the young age of 27, ousting his predecessor, the ailing King Idriss... Read more... Our Multiple Realities Mess: An Analysis by Dr. Lawrence Davidson | Intifada Palestine ...soon after Mubarak went into involuntary retirement at Sharm el-Sheik, Admiral Mike Mullen, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, was off to Israel and Jordan to confirm that foreign policy would immediately return to its normal pathway. What is the norm here? Well, it is one where U.S. foreign policy references domestic political reality, like the power of the Zionist lobbies, rather than anything that might serve objective national interests... Read more... Egypt/Turkey-Israel: 'A clean break', by Eric Walberg | Global Research It is not Israel backed by the distant US that inherits the Ottoman mantle of hegemony in the Middle East, but some combination of Turkey and Egypt... Read more... Anatomy of a Frame, by JB Campbell | Veterans Today ..the Pentagon was hit by a Soviet-era naval cruise missile called the Granit, known by the US government as the Shipwreck, because that’s what it does: wrecks big ships such as aircraft carriers. Unlike normal cruise missiles, it is made of steel and weighs 7.7 tons. It goes 2.5 Mach and cannot be stopped by any sort of anti-aircraft weapon. It hits ships right at the waterline, which is why the 12 foot holes in the six capital (structural outer) walls of the Pentagon began right above ground level without harming a blade of grass on the lawn out front... Read more... Gaddafi follows past dictators, by Emad Mekay | Al Jazeera English The brutal response by Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi against pro-democracy protestors in the country indicates his determination not to leave office without a bloody battle, but his moves follow the path that eventually led to ouster of two neighbouring dictators... Read more... The Clinton doctrine, by Maximilian Forte | Al Jazeera English A wall of US supported dictatorships across North Africa and the Middle East is beginning to crumble and collapse, and the US as an empire in recession is looking for ways to manage the chaos. Few Arabs wish to continue being sacrificed for the sake of American "counter-terrorism," in the name of US and Israeli national security, forced to protect American interests over, above and against their personal freedoms and feeding their families... Read more... Libya and the Dogmatism of the "left" abandons the people again, by Mary Rizzo | We Write What We Like If one, like myself, is raised with the love of “the worker” and “the people” which exceeds any love of a party, an ideology or even a nation, it is difficult to really fit in with any established left. While the left claims that it seeks power of the people, too many times its public statements make it clear that the people to protect are instead the people already in power, despite what they might actually have to do in order to maintain that power... Read more... US economics: One big Ponzi scheme, by Danny Schechter | Al Jazeera English While Bernie Madoff languishes in jail, bankers continue to profit as the poor lose their homes and hope... Read more... Jordanians demand change, by Lamis Andoni | Al Jazeera English Jordanians want change: They are not seeking regime change but fundamental changes in the regime. At the protests that have been taking place across the country every Friday for the past six weeks there is a near consensus that the Hashemite monarchy, which has ruled the country since 1921, must be reformed... Read more... Julian Assange and Raymond A. Davis | Redress Information & Analysis Christopher King considers the cases of two men the USA wants to extradite, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and CIA spy “Raymond A. David”, on remand in Pakistan for murder. He argues that the murky case of “Davis” underlines the need for whistleblowers like Assange... Read more... Feb 24, 2011 Israeli Army Uproots Over 230 Olive Trees Near Bethlehem | International Middle East Media Center  The Palestine News Network reports that the Israeli army uprooted over 230 olive trees near Bethlehem... [It happens every day in Israhell] Read more...Irish Journalist David Cronin Attempts Citizens Arrest On Lieberman In Brussels | Intifada Palestine Irish journalist David Cronin, correspondent for IPS and commentator for The Guardian, on Tuesday attempted a citizens arrest on Israel’s Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman in EU Council, he was quickly escorted from the conference room before the press meeting started... Read more, watch video... America Change Your Policies In The Mideast Or Lose It, by Mohamed Khodr | Intifada Palestine In a few days, or less, Libya will be free from the 42 year rule of the mentally unstable, psychotic, arrogant, divisive, condescending, megalomaniacal leader and self proclaimed “King of Africa.”.. Read more... With settlement resolution veto, Obama has joined Likud, by Gideon Levy | Haaretz This weekend, a new member enrolled in Likud - and not just in the ruling party, but in its most hawkish wing. Located somewhere between Tzipi Hotovely and Danny Danon, U.S. President Barack Obama bypassed Dan Meridor and Michael Eitan on the right and weakened their position... Read more... World War III: A Class War between The people and Corpocracy, by Allen Rolan | Veterans Today World War III has already started. It is not a military war but instead an economic class war by the people against the corporate global elite whose puppet spoke person is President Obama... Read more... We the Forgotten People of the United States, by William Cook | My Catbird Seat Let’s admit it, the country has been stolen... Read more... Col. Robert Bowman Calls For Arrest Of Bush, 9/11 Investigation | Veterans Today In the video below, Colonel Bowman, an Air Force combat pilot and Vietnam veteran cuts through “the bull.” The video is 14 minutes. At least 6 of them are gold. Bowman tells us how the mess we have was planned, who did it and how to fix it... Watch video... USA Matriot Act | Cindy Sheehan ...Michael Moore’s film, Fahrenheit 911 was probably the first international, semi-mainstream exposure that highlighted the way the Patriot Act was passed. Congressman John Conyers (D-MI) recounts how each office got a copy of this massive bill and were given instructions to pass it without having time to analyze or even skim it. Sixty-six House Members and one Senator, Feingold from Wisconsin, were the only ones who did not commit treason on October 26, 2001 by voting to flush what remained of the US Constitution down the toilet of manufactured-mass hysteria... Read more... Next stop: The House of Saud, by Pepe Escobar | Asia Times ...What Bahrain's Shi'ites can certainly accomplish is to inspire Shi'ites in Saudi Arabia in terms of a long fight for greater social, economic and religious equality. It's wishful thinking to bet on the House of Saud reforming itself - not while enjoying extraordinary oil wealth and maintaining a vast repression apparatus, more than enough to buy or intimidate any form of dissent... Read more... Zionism, Militarism And The Decline Of US Power, by James Petras: Reviewed by Ken Freeland | My Catbird Seat ...While other critics considered themselves cutting-edge for attacking the “neo-conservatives” (neo-cons), this did not suffice for James Petras… after all, the roots of neo-conservatism are not conservative at all, but Zionist….and so he coined the term “Zion-con” to emphasize this analytic difference... Read more... Huffington's Plunder, by Chris Hedges | Truthdig ...The corporate state remunerates corporate management and public relations. It lavishes money on the celebrities who provide the fodder for our national mini-dramas. But those who deal with the bedrock virtues of truth, justice and beauty, who seek not to entertain but to transform, are discarded... Read more... Daniel Bell: The Empire Loses a Publicist: The Epitaph of an Ideologue, by Prof James Petras | Global Research ...Bell’s conceptual “contributions” reflected his uncanny ability to coin euphemisms useful for obfuscating the ascendency of a parasitic financial class and labeling its predatory behavior, “meritocratic”... Read more... Elie Wiesel and the Mossad, Part III, by Carolyn Yeager | Elie Wiesel Cons the World ... "The Holocaust" was built up over time. Interest in it was fanned, beginning in the late sixties and increasing in the seventies, by the media and Hollywood. Elie Wiesel played a major role in establishing memorial museums, especially in Washington, DC , funded by U.S. taxpayers, playing on his theme of "memory" with the help of influential newspapers with wide readership like the New York Times... Read more... Who Were The First Terrorists In The Middle East | Gilad Atzmon Watch video... Feb 23, 2011 American Held In Pakistan Is Acting CIA Station Chief | Intifada Palestine  A British and a Pakistani newspaper have confirmed that an American diplomat, who is being held in Pakistan for killing two armed men in Lahore, is in reality an employee of the Central Intelligence Agency... [They do their best to keep up with their mentors, the Mossad, even when it comes to screw-ups] Read more...Gold-pegged Yuan; Peso-pegged Dollar | Roy Tov To a large extent – at least in the short and mid terms – the fate of the State of Israel depends on the future of the USA. Last week we got a reminder of that when America vetoed a UN decision condemning the illegal Israeli settlements in the West Bank. Since even the USA doesn’t recognize these rat holes as legal, its veto shows again the strange double standards that are so identified worldwide with American-styled democracy... Read more... Comment Is Free But Freedom Is Slavery: An Exchange With The Guardian’s Economics Editor | Media Lens ...in his devastating book and documentary, The Corporation, Canadian law professor Joel Bakan explained how the business entity termed a ‘corporation’ was legally transformed into a ‘person’ possessing its ‘own identity, separate from the flesh and blood people who were its owners and managers’. Bakan found that corporate behaviour closely matched the clinical definition of a psychopath... Read more... The Corporation | YouTube The Corporation is a 2003 Canadian documentary film written by Joel Bakan.. The documentary is critical of the modern-day corporation, considering its legal status as a class of person and evaluating its behaviour towards society and the world at large as a psychiatrist might evaluate an ordinary person. This is explored through specific examples. The Corporation has been shown worldwide, on television, and via DVD, file sharing, and free download. Bakan wrote the book, The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power, during the filming of the documentary... [It's brilliant and a must see] Watch video...Take Action on March 30th: Join the 3rd Global BDS Day of Action | Democracy in Action As popular uprisings continue across the Middle East, boycott, divestment, and sanctions (BDS) organizing is heating up in the United States... Read more... The Price of Peace: Israeli Army Will Cash In on Egyptian Revolution, by Jonathan Cook | Counterpunch Israel has been indulging in a sustained bout of fear-mongering since the Egyptian dictator Hosni Mubarak was toppled earlier this month. The ostensible aim has been to warn the international community that the lengthy "cold peace" between the two countries is on the verge of collapse... Read more... Middle East Uprisings: Order Out of Chaos, by Kurt Nimmo | Prison Planet Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Sunday called on Muslims to “remove” the United States from the Islamic world... [not to mention Israhell] Read more...Game Over Brother Muammar, by Sami Moubayed | Intifada Palestine Muammar Gaddafi reportedly went into severe depression when his long-time friend and colleague, Saddam Hussain, was toppled by US troops in 2003... Read more... A Tale of Two Letters: One Palestinian, One Israeli, by Dallas Darling | Palestine Chronicle ...When President Barack Obama warned Palestinians they would face 'repercussions' if they voted against more Israeli settlement expansion at a United Nations Security Council meeting, even 'demanding' such democratic activity be stopped, it reminded me of a letter that Hanan Ashrawi wrote to President Bill Clinton during his final days in office:.. Read more... Onward Revolution: Ridding the Region of U.S. and Israeli Influence, by Tammy Obeidallah | Palestine Chronicle  Corrupt governments must be brought down Two dictators gone in less than a month. Mass protests from Yemen and Bahrain to Algeria and Libya. In Lebanon, Hezbollah—due to a broad coalition of Muslim, Christian and now Druze support—named the country's new Prime Minister. Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmedinejad hailed these recent developments as the start of "a new Middle East free from U.S. and Israeli interference." Somehow I doubt this 'new Middle East' is what then Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice envisioned when she was having her infamous 'birth pangs' in 2006... Read more... American Zionism against the Egyptian Pro-Democracy Movement, by Prof James Petras | Global Research One of the least analyzed aspects of the Egyptian pro-democracy movement and US policy toward it, is the role of the influential Zionist power configuration (ZPC) including the leading umbrella organization – the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations (CPMAJO) – Congressional Middle East committee members, officials occupying strategic positions in the Obama Administration’s Middle East bureaus, as well as prominent editors, publicists and journalists who play a major role in the prestigious newspapers and popular weekly magazines... Read more... From Tahrir Square To Shatila Camp: "Cry Hurriya!" (freedom!), by Franklin P. Lamb | The People's Voice The Tahrir Square “Hurriya!” tremors spreading across the Middle East may or may not be impacting today’s events in the historically liberal American state of Wisconsin and other areas of America, yet most of us would agree that the Tunisian-Egyptian revolutions are being felt far and wide and appear to be dramatically gaining steam... Read more... Tea Party Stooges Join Wisconsin Protests, by Stephen Lendman | OpEd News It was reminiscent of November 22, 2000 Florida, outside the Miami-Dade County Canvassing Board offices when dozens of imported Bush-Cheney ruffians rampaged through Miami's County Hall, disrupting the recount of about 10,000 undervotes, ballots with no presidential choice registered... Read more... Tunisian Revolution: Bread and Dignity, by Nassar Ibrahim | Alternative Information Center ... The Arab peoples have acted as though the revolution in Tunisia is their own revolution. This is, in some way, living proof of the potential mobility of the Arab public in the coming days. Whatever happens, the strongest messages, full of meaning and implications, have reached the Arab streets, where anger and criticism have hit their maximum capacity... Read more... Pak-US Relations: Time For Pakistan To Re Assertive, by Brig Samson S Sharaf | Opinion Maker ...This incidence is a tip of the proverbial iceberg and can be made a case study to convince the rulers that it is better for the nation to pass through a river of fire, than be plunged into an abyss where history is forlorn. It is time Pakistan uses this opportunity to reassert itself as a sovereign, stable and independent nation... Read more... Game over for iron-hand Gaddafi | PressTV Pro-democracy protests continue in Bahrain and other countries in the Arab world, mounting pressure on their authoritarian rulers. Human rights activist Husain Abdullah in Washington shares his views on the current situation in the region in an interview with Press TV... Watch video... Continued Middle East Uprisings and Violence | Stephen Lendman What began in Tunisia spread to Egypt, Yemen, Jordan, Algeria, Bahrain, and now Libya, Morocco, Iraq, Iran, Saudi Arabia and Kuwait. The entire region is erupting in protests, mischaracterized as revolutions. They're not, falling far short convulsive, violent, unstoppable tsunamis for change, removing old orders for new ones. So far, they're absent in the region, not even close despite popular passion for change... Read more... The renaissance of the Arab world? by Kourosh Ziabari | PressTV ...The Arab world uprising indisputably indicates that the people of the region are being awakened from their slumber of ignorance and indifference. They will no longer tolerate tyrannical governments, which confiscate and sequester their rights. They want freedom of expression, improved living conditions, expanded relations with the outside world and the right for self-determination. The Middle East revolution shows that the people in the region are no longer indifferent to their destiny... Read more... Turning against Mu'ammar Gaddafi of Libya, by Nureddin Sabir | Redress Information & Analysis Nureddin Sabir recounts a painful journey of hope, disappointment, betrayal, blood and murder that has seen him turn from loyal supporter to vehement opponent of Colonel Mu’ammar Gaddafi and his regime in Libya... Read more... Mind-sets and revolutions | Redress Information & Analysis Paul J. Balles considers the problem of mind-set in politics, arguing that “we need to understand that our beliefs do influence our ability to deal with facts that may not support our beliefs” and that we “need to look more closely at the facts that don’t support our beliefs”... Read more... New Arab World: The Genie is Out of the Bottle, by Uri Avnery | Palestine Chronicle This is a story right out of '1001 Nights'. The genie escaped from the bottle, and no power on earth can put it back... Read more... Craven US veto costs Washington its last shred of credibility | Redress Information & Analysis Stuart Littlewood argues that the latest US veto of a draft UN Security Council resolution condemning Israel’s squatter colonies in the occupied Palestinian territories ”has finally lifted the scales from the eyes of all those who unwisely invested high hopes” in President Obama... Read more... Feb 21, 2011 The Birth Of The New Egyptians, by Muriel Mirak-Weissbach | Intifada Palestine  The victory of the Egyptian revolution has not only forced out a hated regime but has ushered in a new culture for the nation and the region. Whatever develops now politically in the transition to democratic rule, it is important to examine the subjective factors in the process, to try to go inside the mind of those who organized the demonstrations nation-wide, and also penetrate the mindset of President Mubarak and his cohorts. In this way one can grasp the reason why there is no way of bridging the gap between the two, and can appreciate the profound revolution in thinking that has taken place... Read more... The veto and the case for impeaching President Obama | Redress Information & Analysis Alan Hart argues that the United States’s veto on 18 February of a UN Security Council resolution condemning Israel’s colonization of the occupied West Bank undermines US national interests and amounts to high treason for which President Obama ought to be impeached... Read more... 9/11 And The Two Stage "Khalezov Effect" by Gordon Duff | Veterans Today Two years ago, the 9/11 Truth movement was unheard of by most Americans. Reviled by the mainstream press, insulted by politicians and looked on as a fringe group by many, it lived in a virtual backwater, powerless, frustrated and brimming over with righteous indignation. That is no longer the case... Read more... David Horowitz: "Ron Paul Is A Vicious Anti-Semite", by Kevin MacDonald | The Occidental Observer A very encouraging development is that the Israel Lobby is increasingly on the defensive with the Republican base. Both Ron Paul and Rand Paul have proposed cutting the foreign budget. A letter from Ron Paul was headlined “Stop buying friends overseas, save $6 billion!”.. Read more... A Middle East Without America? by Patrick J. Buchanan | The American Conservative The fever sweeping the Middle East is now coursing through Libya, Yemen, Iran and Bahrain, where the U.S. Fifth Fleet is based. In all four nations, state violence is being used to crush the rebels, and regime survival hangs on whether security forces and the army stand behind the government or stand aside. A new Middle East is dawning. What will it look like?.. Read more... Divergent Views From Lebanon, But One Common Goal: Tawtin or Return, by Franklin Lamb | Counterpunch Lebanese opponents of civil rights for Palestinian Refugees often use less objective and more crude wording to define "tawtin" ("settlement") than is normally employed in civil society discussions. During last summer's debate in parliament, which failed to enact laws that would allow the world's oldest and largest refugee community the basic civil right to work and to own a home, the "tawtin or return" discussion took on strident and dark meanings, which were largely effective in frightening much of the Lebanese public from supporting even these modest humanitarian measures... Read more... Feb 20, 2011 After Long Exile, Sunni Cleric Takes Role in Egypt | NYT  More than a million Egyptians celebrated in Tahrir Square in Cairo on Friday, Sheik Yusuf al-Qaradawi, an influential Sunni cleric who is banned from the United States and Britain for supporting violence against Israel and American forces in Iraq, delivered his first public sermon here in 50 years on Friday, emerging as a powerful voice in the struggle to shape what kind of Egyptian state emerges from the uprising that toppled Hosni Mubarak... and honored those who had died in the revolution that toppled Hosni Mubarak Read more... “Democracy Uprising” in the U.S.A.?: Noam Chomsky on Wisconsin’s Resistance to Assault on Public Sector, the Obama-Sanctioned Crackdown on Activists, and the Distorted Legacy of Ronald Reagan: Amy Goodman Interviews Noam Chomsky | Democracy Now This month is the 15th anniversary of Democracy Now! on the air, and it’s a real privilege to have MIT professor, analyst, world-renowned political dissident, linguist, Noam Chomsky with us. I’m Amy Goodman, with Juan Gonzalez... Read more, watch video... The Palestine Papers: PA lobbying blocked Shalit swap, by Ali Abunimah | Al Jazeera English ...Analysis of secret minutes of meetings between top Israeli and Palestinian Authority (PA) officials revealed in The Palestine Papers shows that strenuous PA lobbying likely torpedoed the deal in mid-2008 with the result that far fewer Palestinian prisoners have been released by Israel... Read more... Obama's 'Change': More Tyranny and Oppression, by Nathan Janes | OpEd News ...In 1787, at the close of the Constitutional Convention, Benjamin Franklin was asked what type of government the Constitution was bringing into existence. Franklin replied, "A republic, if you can keep it." A republic, a form of government ruled by law, provides for the limitation of government and the protection of the rights of the people. Over the last 50 years, the government system of the US and several other countries has transformed into an oligarchy, rule by a small group of individuals who essentially obtain their power by buying it... Read more... America is a Military State, by Timothy Gatto | Dandelion Salad ...This country lives in an aura of fear. The government is constantly raising the threat level, telling us that a “terrorist” attack is imminent. This is hogwash. They have no more idea what the terrorists are planning than you or I. That is if there are any so-called “terrorists” left... Read more... Egyptian General says enemy agents in the White House, that Israel carried out 9/11 | YouTube Watch video... Twenty-five U.S. Military Officers Challenge Official Account of 9/11, by Alan Miller | Patriots Question 911 Twenty-five former U.S. military officers have severely criticized the official account of 9/11 and called for a new investigation. They include former commander of U.S. Army Intelligence, Major General Albert Stubblebine, former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense, Col. Ronald D. Ray, two former staff members of the Director of the National Security Agency; Lt. Col. Karen Kwiatkowski, PhD, and Major John M. Newman, PhD, and many others. They are among the rapidly growing number of military and intelligence service veterans, scientists, engineers, and architects challenging the government’s story. The officers’ statements appear below, listed alphabetically... Read more... Details of U.S. False Flag Attacks in Iraq Revealed and More, by Wayne Madsen | OpEd News ...for Fiscal 2010, the military was allotted some $56,000,000,000 dollars for programs that would also include the worst of these secretive agendas, Black Ops, black as in criminal, secret, unethical, dangerous or sinister, illegal, beyond the pale, murderous... Read more... Hostages to Zionism, by Mark Braverman | Mondoweiss ...I would suggest that preserving Zionism is not the challenge facing Jews today. Rather, our task is to rescue Judaism from an ideology that has hijacked the faith, continues to fuel global conflict, and has produced one of the most systematic and longstanding violations of human rights in the world today... Read more... The Junk Bond "Teflon Guy" Behind Egypt's Nonviolent Revolution, by Maidhc Ó Cathail | Intifada Palestine ...Ackerman, who chaired the board of Freedom House from September 2005 until January 2009, also indirectly funds CANVAS. Ackerman’s wealth derives mainly from his time at Drexel Burnham Lambert, the Wall Street investment bank that was forced into bankruptcy in February 1990 due to its involvement in illegal activities in the junk bond market. As special projects aide to junk bond king Michael Milken, Ackerman cleaned up... Read more... The Real Egyptian Revolution Is Yet To Come, by George Katsiaficas | Intifada Palestine ...People’s ecstasy in the aftermath of these great victories belies the fact that Mubarak’s authoritarian system remains intact—nay, strengthened—by the ascension of Suleiman and the military to supreme power in Cairo. While the world hails the Egyptian “revolution,” a more sober assessment of recent events would question the accuracy of that label... Read more... Why Isn't Wall Street in Jail? by Matt Taibbi | Rolling Stone Over drinks at a bar on a dreary, snowy night in Washington this past month, a former Senate investigator laughed as he polished off his beer. "Everything's fucked up, and nobody goes to jail," he said. "That's your whole story right there. Hell, you don't even have to write the rest of it. Just write that.".. Read more... 'Freedom of Speech': US vs Iran | Rehmat's World Ray McGovern 71, former CIA analyst for 27 years – staged a ‘silent protest’ during the Israel-Firster Hillary Clinton’s talk on the importance of freedom of speech in the internet age at George Washington University on February 15, 2011. Ray, who is an American war veteran, was left ‘bruised and bloodied’ after being violently dragged out of the hall while hypocrite Zionist Hillary Clinton was lecturing governments in the Middle East, especially the Islamic Republic, on how people should be allowed to protest in peace without fear of threat or violence... Read more... Settlers Out, Plain and Simple, by Joharah Baker | Media Monitors Network ..The question is why the international community – first and foremost the United States – has allowed Israel to continue with settlements for so long with such impunity? Why Israel embraces this policy is clear – settlements and their expansion is the primary tool for realizing Israel’s ultimate goal: capture of the land. But anyone with even a smidgen of common sense, let alone decency, will see that peace and settlements can never go together and that anyone who purports to want a serious peace deal must also support the dismantlement of settlements... [As you've probably already heard, the US, predictably, just vetoed an otherwise unanimous Security Council resolution condemning the continuing expansion of the settlements. Probably the only way to get rid of the settlements is to get rid of the Israelis. Inshallah.] Read more...Kosovo, Israel and the "Islamic threat" | Rehmat's World ...Kosovo Prime Minister, Hashim Thaci, in an interview with the Jewish Telegraph Agency (JT) had said: “I love Israel. What a great country. Kosovo is a friend of Israel. I met so many great leaders when I was there – Netanyahu, Sharon – I really admire them.”.. Read more... Empire at the End of Decadence, by Charles M. Blow | NYT It’s time for us to stop lying to ourselves about this country. America is great in many ways, but on a whole host of measures — some of which are shown in the accompanying chart — we have become the laggards of the industrialized world. Not only are we not No. 1 — “U.S.A.! U.S.A.!” — we are among the worst of the worst... [I've linked to 2 articles from the NYT in one day! A precedent shattering event. What is going on over there? Is the Left Zionist paper of record having its own little revolution?] Read more...Feb 19, 2011 Egypt (Cont'd} Zionism Contra Democracy, by Stephen J. Sniegoski | Opinion Maker  ...While one can only admire the courage and tenacity of the Egyptian people and take pleasure in their jubilation, it is also necessary to look at the ongoing realities, with the recognition that the process is only beginning, and that there are intelligent minds, cold, calculating, and totally unsympathetic to the aspirations of the common people of the Middle East, who are already developing sophisticated strategies to thwart its fruition... Learning from past revolutions? by Chris Arsenault | Al Jazeera English Egyptians are treading a well-worn historical path, walked in eastern Europe, Iran, Cuba and beyond... Read more... Middle East Protests Continue | Steven Lendman ...perhaps Celente is right expecting a much bigger eruption, engulfing Egypt and other regional countries in convulsive revolutionary revolts, exceeding far less threatening uprisings so far. If so, expect much harsher military responses, its friendly face replaced by iron-fisted toughness with full Washington support to crack down, restore order, and get Egypt back to business, including running the country despotically like always... Read more... Remi Kanazi & Laila El-Haddad on Grit TV: What Revolution Means For Palestine | Intifada Palestine ..What does regime change mean for the Palestinian people? And what effect will the wave of civil rights protests and activism across Bahrain, Jordan, Yemen, Iran and Libya have? Laila and Remi join us to discuss... Watch video... The Shame Of Being An American, by Paul Craig Roberts | Global Research The United States government has overestimated the amount of shame that it and American citizens can live down... Read more... Raymond Davis: US Blackmails Pakistan, by Sajjad Shaukat | Opinion Maker Controversial debate continues between Pakistan and the United States in connection with the arrest of American national, Raymond Davis who is an under-cover secret agent of American CIA, and has become a symbol of anti-American resentment in Pakistan because of the dreadful murder of two innocent Pakistanis in Lahore and subsequent suicide by the wife of one of his victims... Read more... Raymond A. Davis is not Raymond A. Davis: American terrorism is a plague on the world | Redress Information & Analysis Christopher King considers the case of “Raymond A. Davis”, the US citizen who murdered two Pakistanis in Lahore. He argues that Washington’s insistence that "Davis" should get away with the murders derives from its fear that he would expose illegal, undercover US activities in Pakistan... Read more... Important New Information on Aafia Siddiqui's Case, by Stephen Lendman | OpEd News ...The International Justice Network (IJN) is "a non-profit human rights organization that provides legal assistance to survivors of human rights abuses and their families." Representing Siddiqui's family, it conducted extensive research, revealing previously unknown or unconfirmed facts about her abduction, disappearance, and subsequent events. It's new report explains titled, "Aafia Siddiqui: Just the Facts," saying:.. Read more... New Truths For Those With Eyes To See: An Analysis By Dr. Lawrence Davidson | Intifada Palestine ...The sad thing is that Israel has almost no capacity to positively adjust to any of these changes much less meet them half way for the sake of real peace. They do not have the eyes to see the new truths in front of them because Israeli foreign policy does not reference foreign reality. Rather it is an expression of domestic pressures and ambitions, and those have long been shaped by a driving sense of manifest destiny... Read more... Persian Gulf's name is an eternal reality: Prof. Pirouz Mojtahedzadeh interviewed by Kourosh Ziabari | Eurasia Review ..What follows is the complete text of my exclusive interview with Prof. Mojtahedzadeh in which we discussed the scientific, historical authenticity of Persian Gulf’s name, the legality of Iran’s ownership of the three Persian Gulf islands of Lesser Tunb, Greater Tunb and Abu Musa and the futility of UAE and Bahrain’s claims over these islands... Read more... Declassified: Massive Israeli manipulation of US media exposed | YouTube Files declassified in America have revealed covert public relations and lobbying activities of Israel in the U.S. The National Archive made the documents public following a Senate investigation... Watch video... Geert Wilders: Europe's Most Dangerous Man? | YouTube He was once refused entry to Britain. He has called for the Qur'an to be banned and has proposed a tax on wearing headscarves. And he is also the first politician ever to stand trial on charges of 'incitement to hatred'. Geert Wilders, instantly recognisable for his quiff of platinum blond hair, is one of Holland's most controversial and well-known politicians and, some argue, Europe's most dangerous man... Read more, watch video... The Ranting Rabbi and Chums .. | YouTube Watch video... Justice For Palestine - Steve Biko Thomas | YouTube Spread the word, we demand Justice for Palestine... I guess the whole world is now " Anti-semitic" for Standing against Israel! POWER TO THE PEOPLE!.. Watch music video... Radicals for peace: anti-aggression domestic insurgents in USA | Redress Information & Analysis William T. Hathaway profiles the activities of domestic insurgents in the USA who are trying to stop American aggression overseas by resorting to drastic but peaceful direct action... Fragmenting the Land | westbankwalkabout  The below map, although created with humoristic intent, highlights the severity of the territorial infringement under which the Palestinian nation is suffering. Yes, it is an outcome of the Oslo Accords, and no, it is not politically sustainable... Read more... EU's "magic wand" diplomacy: The desperate race to cobble together a Palestinian state | Redress Information & Analysis Stuart Littlewood views British Foreign Secretary William Hague’s and EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton’s protestations in favour of an Israeli-Palestinian settlement based on a return to the 1967 borders, against the background of their unwillingness to force Israel to implement UN Security Council resolutions to that end... Read more... The Liars Who Took Us to War, by Christopher Bollyn | WarOnYou Colin Powell waves a fake vial of anthrax as he tells the United Nations a whole host of lies, which the Bush administration knew (or should have known) were nothing but complete fabrications, in order to take the U.S. to war against Iraq. The main target of this criminal deception was the citizenry of the United States, which would be asked to fight and fund a pre-planned war of aggression. Eight years later, hundreds of thousands of Americans and Iraqis have been killed or maimed and untold billions of dollars wasted in an utterly criminal war. At what point will those responsible for egregious war crimes be held accountable for their actions?.. Read more... Egypt (Cont'd) US-Egypt: Why? by Eric Walberg | Dissident Voice ...Egyptians, though just as nationalistic, were able to see through the facade of their pseudo-democracy and rise up to overthrow the guilty parties. They are the heroes of all true democrats in the world. The few people particularly in North America who see through their own quite transparent political facade can only look on wistfully... Read more... Voice of Freedom | YouTube Watch (music video in Arabic w/ English subtitles)... Shy U.S. Intellectual Created Playbook Used in a Revolution, by Sheryl Stolberg | NYT Halfway around the world from Tahrir Square in Cairo, an aging American intellectual shuffles about his cluttered brick row house in a working-class neighborhood here. His name is Gene Sharp. Stoop-shouldered and white-haired at 83, he grows orchids, has yet to master the Internet and hardly seems like a dangerous man... Read more... 'From the Gulf to the Ocean': The Middle East is Changing, by Ramzy Baroud Now that the Egyptian people have finally wrestled their freedom from the hands of a very stubborn regime, accolades to the revolution are pouring in from all directions. Even those who initially sided with Hosni Mubarak's regime, or favored a neutral position, have now changed their tune... Read more... Dershowitz Joins Legal Team for Wikileaks | The Harvard Crimson Harvard Law School Professor Alan M. Dershowitz will join Wikileaks founder Julian P. Assange’s legal defense team, according to a Wikileaks statement released yesterday... [The comments are worth a look] Read more...Israel coerces Gaza patients to spy | PressTV Data collected by al-Meezan Center for Human Rights and its international affiliates indicate a rise in the number of Palestinian patients interrogated and forced to provide information in return for a permission to leave the Gaza Strip for medical treatment... Read more... World urges Israel to lift blockade | PressTV Turkish President Abdullah Gul says world leaders are urging Israel to lift its blockade of the Gaza Strip, which has caused a serious humanitarian crisis there... Read more... U.S. Desperate For Iran Protests After Loss Of Mubarak | The Race for Iran Just when one might have thought that reality was slowly sinking in regarding the Green movement’s lack of political traction in Iran, political and media elites in the United States have decided, in the wake of recent developments in Egypt, to dust off all of their factually ungrounded and intellectually irresponsible narratives. Still reeling from the loss of a longstanding U.S. ally to the new wave of “people power” in the Arab world, the American establishment seems determined to even the score, by having displays of mass discontent bring down a U.S. adversary in the Islamic Republic of Iran... Read more... Egyptians Forced Anti-Muslim Bigots to Be Naked, by Ali Baghdadi | Veterans Today The majority of American politicians and corporate media make me sick to my stomach. In plain English, they make me want to vomit. All the problems of the world are blamed on Muslim “extremists”, “fundamentalists” and “radicals”. Soon, racist bigots may even claim that global warming, tsunamis, earthquakes, catastrophic forest fires, and maybe also the blizzard that recently hit Chicago and kept me under “house arrest” for almost a week, are all caused by Muslims... Read more... Feb 17, 2011 Egypt (Cont'd) The Road to Democracy, by George S. Hishmeh | Palestine Chronicle  The road to democracy in the Arab World will not be a smooth ride ...the ripple effect triggered by both the Tunisian “Jasmine Revolution”and later the Egyptian “Day of Rage” is bound to re-ignite the revival of Arab Nationalism across the Arab World – – a movement that saw its heyday during the leadership of Gamal Abdel Nasser who was instrumental in the overthrow of the Egyptian monarchy in 1952... Read more... Egypt's gifts to Palestine | One Democracy Lifting the siege, pride and joy, and an Election platform that could kill off the Palestine Authority... Read more... Egypt: Social Movements, the CIA and Mossad, by James Petras | The People's Voice ...On the other hand, lacking any national political leadership, the movements were not able to take political power and realize their demands, allowing the Mubarak military high command to seize power and define the “post-Mubarak” process, ensuring the continuation of Egypt’s subordination to the US, the protection of the illicit wealth of the Mubarak clan ($70 billion), and the military elite’s numerous corporations and the protection of the upper class... Read more... How to End US Reliance on Dictators, by Steve Breyman | Palestine Chronicle The Arab uprisings present US foreign policymakers with their greatest opportunity for a decisive shift in direction since 1989. Will they seize it?.. Read more... Winners and Losers of the Revolution, by Stephen M. Walt | Foreign Policy When Zhou Enlai was asked in the 1970s about the historical significance of the French Revolution, he famously responded that it was "too soon to tell." Given that wise caution, it is undoubtedly foolhardy for me to try to pick the winners and losers of the upheaval whose ultimate implications remain uncertain. But at the risk of looking silly in a few days (or weeks or months or years), I'm going to ignore the obvious pitfalls and forge ahead... Read more... Winners and losers, by Abdel Bari Atwan | Middle East Monitor ...American influence in the region is in rapid decline, which is a logical consequence of policies that embodied western hypocrisy at its worst. Just how could America, which claims to lead the free world and be the cheerleader for democracy, actually support Middle East despots under the pretence of ensuring "stability" and the illusion of fighting Islamic extremism?.. Read more... Neocon David Horowitz Blindsided by We Are Change, by Kurt Nimmo | Prison Planet In the We Are Change video below, Marxist converted into card-carrying neocon David Horowitz reveals something not really surprising – he knows very little about September 11, 2001, or at least claims to know very little... Read more, watch video... Does David Cameron really believe in universal human rights? by Ibrahim Hewitt | Middle East Monitor ...I'd like to suggest that the really "extremist ideology" behind foreign policy grievances is not Islamism but a distorted application of the democratic values that David Cameron wants to see everyone in Britain adopting, including Muslims. In practice, this distortion can be summed up in one word: hypocrisy... Read more... All Free Speech Systems Are Works in Progress: Prof. Craig LaMay Interviewed by Kourosh Ziabari | Salem-News When I work overseas I am always impressed by how little I know, how much I need to understand. I think, I hope, that makes me a better journalist, a better person... Read more... What Is Wrong With The U.S. Economy? Here Are 10 Economic Charts That Will Blow Your Mind | Economic Collapse The 10 economic charts that you are about to see are completely and totally shocking. If you know anyone that still does not believe that the United States is in the midst of a long-term economic decline, just show them these charts... Read more... The Palestine Papers: A matter of public interest, by Shazia Arshad | Middle East Monitor Following the leak of some 1600 documents a selection known as the Palestine Papers were released by Al Jazeera and the Guardian newspaper; they highlight previously unknown details relating to the peace negotiations between Israel and Palestine... Read more... Tea Party Caucus Leader Bachmann Votes for PATRIOT Act | Infowars Now that establishment Republicans have managed to steer the Tea Party into the political Borg Hive and run off the real patriots, it is time to get the neocon total war agenda back on track... Read more... Apartheid South Africa and Israel: two sides of the same coin? by Revd. David Haslam | Middle East Monitor ...For many who were active in campaigning against apartheid in the 1960s and 1970s there are many similarities with the present situation of Israel/Palestine; Archbishop Desmond Tutu has made the same observation. Let me mention seven in particular: the ideology of racism, the occupation of land, military power, economic strangulation, mockery of international law, divide and rule, and public relations... Read more... An Urgent Appeal for Gaza | Gilad Atzmon In the last month I circulated some invaluable reports by Vera Macht, an ISM (International Solidarity Movement) activist operating in Gaza. My friend Gabi Weber decided to launch an urgent appeal for Vera Macht and ISM in Gaza... Read more... Jerusalem: an Occupation Set in Stone? | Gilad Atzmon This is a tribute to the thousands of Palestinians living in East Jerusalem without access to life's most basic amenities. Filmmaker Marty Rosenbluth details the devastating effects of Israel's urban planning policies that, according to many, aim to uproot the Palestinian presence in the Holy City. It was made in 1995... Watch video... Children of Shatila | Gilad Atzmon Follow Israel’s murderous trail... Watch video... Cultural boycott of Israel taking hold in So. Africa | Palestine Video ..The South African Artists Against Apartheid's campaign is itself based on a drive launched in 1985 to isolate the white supremacist government here. The performances which take place at a venue like this one are often inspired by vivid imagination and make-belief. But the scenes which play out in Palestine daily are often far more dramatic. And it's that reality that is inspiring a growing number of South African artists to add their voice to the campaign for a cultural boycott of Israel... Watch video... Urge U.S. to Support UN Resolution Against Israeli Settlements | AAPER Dear President Obama - On January 19, 2011, Lebanon introduced a resolution in the United Nations Security Council reaffirming that Israeli settlements are "illegal" and constitute "a major obstacle to the achievement of a just, lasting and comprehensive peace" in the Middle East. I strongly urge your Administration to support this resolution... Read more... Tell U.S. to Support UN Resolution on Israeli Settlements | US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation ..If more than 10,000 people sign our petition before the vote, we will hand-deliver it to the U.S. Mission to the UN. Add your voice and help us spread the word now!.. Read more... Feb 16, 2011 Egypt (Cont'd) Gaza celebrates fall of Mubarak, by Rami Almeghari | The Electronic Intifada  Gazans celebrate the overthrow of Hosni Mubarak "Masr, Masr, Masr, Masr" - the Arabic word for Egypt was the call from huge crowds on the streets of Gaza City on Friday night, as news came of the resignation of President Hosni Mubarak following eighteen days of protests all over Egypt... Read more... Insidious Israel vs. Emerging Egypt, by Capt. Eric H. May | Veterans Today ...Despite its forced congratulations, the Establishment of the Christian West (and its commanding Israeli interests) couldn’t be unhappier. Today Admiral Mike Mullen, Chairman of the U. S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, scurried to monarchical Jordan and apartheid Israel to reassure them that even the unwanted genie of democracy won’t deter the the Anglo-Jewish Axis (AJAX) Global War of Terror (GWOT) against the Evil Axis (EVAX)... Read more... Is the army tightening its grip on Egypt? by Robert Fisk | The Independent Two days after millions of Egyptians won their revolution against the regime of Hosni Mubarak, the country's army – led by Mubarak's lifelong friend, General Mohamed el-Tantawi – further consolidated its power over Egypt yesterday, dissolving parliament and suspending the constitution. As they did so, the prime minister appointed by Mubarak, ex-General Ahmed Shafiq, told Egyptians that his first priorities were "peace and security" to prevent "chaos and disorder" – the very slogan uttered so often by the despised ex-president. Plus ça change?.. Read more... Egypt at Dawn's Early Light, by Stephen Lendman | OpEd News What's unfolding looks different than what protesters demand. World headlines partly reflect it, mostly outside America, especially on US television reporting an illusion of change, when, in fact, coup d'etat rule is in charge, headed by authoritarian generals used to giving, not taking orders... Read more... The Egyptian army's weapons problem: Would you buy a missile from the United States? | Redress Information & Analysis Christopher King argues that there is a high probability that weapons supplied by the USA to Egypt, among others, contain trojans – hidden and malicious circuits in microchips or programs in software – that can be activated by the US or Israel at will to ensure that they will not work if used against Israel or other US protegé... Read more... Egypt's revolution and Israel: "Bad for the Jews", by Ilan Pappe | The Electronic Intifada The view from Israel is that if they indeed succeed, the Tunisian and Egyptian revolutions are bad, very bad. Educated Arabs -- not all of them dressed as "Islamists," quite a few of them speaking perfect English whose wish for democracy is articulated without resorting to "anti-Western" rhetoric -- are bad for Israel... Read more... Five Arab Countries That The 'Jasmine Revolution' May Spread To Next, by Zaid Jilani | Think Progress ...many are wondering if this pro-democracy movement that swept Tunisia and Egypt will spread throughout the rest of the Arab world. ThinkProgress has assembled a short list of other autocratic regimes in the region that are facing protests, particularly today, and which may soon be the next to go in the Middle East’s next “Jasmine Revolution”:. Read more... Washington: How Best to Shape the Middle East Playing Field? by Eric Walberg Any new government in Egypt will be anti-Israel... Read more... The Struggle for Self-Determination in the Arab World: The Alliance between Arab Dictators and Global Capital, by Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya | Global Research ...The Arab people grasp the fact that their ruling class and governments are not only corrupt regimes, but also comprador elites, namely the local representatives of foreign corporations, governments, and interests. The capitalist class that these local Arab comprador elites are subservient to are properly called parasite or parasitic elites, because they siphon off local wealth and resources on behalf of their neo-colonial masters... Read more... Neocons Target Ron Paul After CPAC Poll Win, by Kurt Nimmo | Infowars Establishment Republicans exploited a gullible Tea Party movement in order to get the neocon agenda of forever war against manufactured Muslim enemies back on track. Now they must purge Congress and the mainstream political landscape of those who would resist this agenda. The primary target of the effort is Rep. Ron Paul... Read more, watch video... Terrorist Who Trained London Bombers Was Working For US Government, by Paul Joseph Watson | Prison Planet While talking heads like Glenn Beck continue to invoke the threat of radical Islam, they habitually ignore the blindingly obvious, that radical Islam is a creature of the US military-industrial complex. Case in point – the terrorist who trained the London bombers was a US informant and has been freed after serving only four and a half years of a possible 70-year sentence... Read more... Standing against Israel's propaganda | Socialist Worker Mark Clinton, a professor of political science at Holyoke Community College, shares an open letter he sent to the interim president of Hampshire College about a recent protest of a speech given by a member of the Israel Defense Force... Read more... ZioLeaks: The Diaries of Yosef Nachmani | Gilad Atzmon The Diaries of Yosef Nachmani follows the story of the Jewish National Fund's main agent in the Tiberias region, as he played a key role in promoting and executing the policy of evicting Palestinians from their homes and land during the Nakba in 1948, demonstrating many of the methods that were used in this process... Watch video... Feb 15, 2011 Egypt (Cont'd)  Israel lost its most important Arab ally and ruthless partner Wherever Egypt Goes Most Arab Nations Go, by Hasan Afif El-Hasan | Palestine Chronicle The Egyptian people, the Israeli establishment, and the children of Gaza are the first to feel the impact of the change in Egypt. Israel lost its most important Arab ally and ruthless partner in the crippling siege of Gaza; and now, the children of Gaza can buy bread from Egypt across the border. For those who do not know or forgot, Israel and Mubarak’s regime placed Gaza under all-out siege with the blessing of the US since mid-June 2007, claiming it was preventing alleged dangers posed by the Palestinian resistance movement... Read more... The US and the last pharaoh, by Rashid Shahin | Maan News Agency ...The issue that worries the US is that when people are free, they try to be independent. They will not accept living in the custody of the US. They will be able to choose their allies according to their national interests, not according to orders from the White House... Read more... Welcome Back Egypt, by Sami Moubayed | Intifada Palestine With those three words, “Welcome back Egypt,” Internet hero Wael Ghonim, a Google executive and one of the champions of the Egyptian Revolution, expressed what is on the mind of every one of us throughout the Arab world... The Arab world as we knew it, where people were muscled down into blind adherence to totalitarian regimes that take orders from the West, is finished. It’s not coming back... Read more... Lessons Learned In The Streets Of Cairo, by William A. Cook | Intifada Palestine ...If the streets of Cairo have taught us anything, they have demonstrated that vigilance against those who would control out of arrogance, oppress with indifference, deceive with impunity, and humiliate without feeling, have abandoned all natural sympathies and become , in fact, non-human and must be exposed for all to see. Such vigilance unfortunately can never end... Read more... We Are the Arab Youth, We Know Not the Impossible, by Mohamed Khodr | Media Monitors Network Freedom!! How sweet its sound, how delicious its taste, how musical its voice, how fresh its air, how aromatic its scent, how bright its sun, how bright and full its moon, how green its pastures, how sparkling its water, how beautiful its heaven decorated with the canvas of clouds, how irreversible its path, how glorious the death under its presence... Read more... The Face(book)less Revolution: A Decade of Strikes by Millions of Egyptian Workers, by Mary Lynn Cramer | Open Media Boston ...Since the beginning of current events in Cairo, the reporters have rarely mentioned that at the same time as the uprising in Cairo was taking place, larger gatherings of demonstrators in Suez were under violent attack from police and army. Apparently there are fewer affluent, bilingual protesters in Suez, and the revolt there is made up of lower-income, working people. Why hasn't NPR, BBC, Democracy Now, Al Jazeera, and our maverick liberal independent reporters gotten into Suez to interview people participating in these larger, more violently repressed demonstrations of working class protesters?.. Read more... Dangerous Victims: Egyptian Revolution in Israeli Eyes, by Seraj Assi | Palestine Chronicle The Arab World is suffering and in its suffering it threatens Israel. 'Israeli citizens are frightened,' said Israeli opposition leader Tzipi Livni in a moment of deep confession. In fact, what Livni was saying, to paraphrase Franz Fanon, is this: "Mama America, see the Arab! I'm frightened! Frightened! Frightened!".. Read more... Analysis on Algeria and Yemen | YouTube So will governments in both Algeria and Yemen face the same sort of uprising as in Tunisia and Egypt?.. Watch video... It's time for those who hold the keys to their homes to rise up, by Dr. Salman Abu Sitta | Middle East Monitor ...the leaks revealed the true picture of the submissiveness of the negotiators, how low they could get, and the shameless way in which they begged the Israelis for little more than a mini-state with citizens gathered in isolated cages and Palestinian refugees abandoned along the "road map to peace". For this, the negotiators were rewarded with great jobs and villas in Abu Dis or Jericho; in the meantime, the question of Palestine, including Jerusalem and the right of return, could go to hell... Read more... Freedom And Democracy Now, by Jim Kirwan | Rense ...thanks to our protection and eternal material support, this rabid-dog of a place (Israel) is still there; still torturing and murdering people in the millions while they make war on babies and civilians instead of fighting armies or nations with real weapons... Read more... How Much Military Aid to Israel? | US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation From 2009-2018, the United States is scheduled to give Israel--the largest recipient of U.S. aid--$30 billion in military aid. Through its illegal 43-year military occupation of the Palestinian West Bank, East Jerusalem, and Gaza Strip, Israel misuses U.S. weapons in violation of U.S. law to kill and injure Palestinian civilians, destroy Palestinian civilian infrastructure, blockade the Gaza Strip, and build illegal settlements in West Bank and East Jerusalem... Read more... Maybe Gaza should paddle its own canoe | Redress Information & Analysis As the prospects of a two-state solution to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict vanishes thanks to Israel’s land grabs and willful failure to honour agreements it has signed up to, Stuart Littlewood considers the possibility of what is to many Palestinians currently unthinkable: a Palestinian statelet in Gaza and a West Bank that is part of a single Palestinian-Israeli state... [The Israelis wouldn't allow it; they are afraid of their own shadows, let alone an independent Palestinian political entity.] Read more...Universal Jurisdiction: a major tool for justice | Redress Information & Analysis Lawrence Davidson assesses the value of Universal Jurisdiction. He argues that it is “the best hope the world has to … hem in the criminal leaders of great power states who everyone had assumed were untouchable”, and urges citizens to protect it against attempts by Western leaders to undermine it in order to gain impunity for themselves and their allies... Read more... Egypt (Cont'd)  Egyptian Revolution 2011 Elbaradei: Soros's Man In Cairo, by Maidhc Ó Cathail | Intifada Palestine In a February 3 Washington Post op-ed piece titled “Why Obama has to get Egypt right,” George Soros wrote that the U.S. president had “much to gain by moving out in front and siding with the public demand for dignity and democracy.” Notwithstanding the reasonableness of his advice, past experience suggests that the Hungarian-born hedge fund manager has something to gain himself from regime change in Cairo... Read more... Dr. Ashraf Ezzat Reporting from Egypt: Free And Proud at Last | Veterans Today It is so inspiring and invigorating a scene to watch, you don’t have to be Egyptian to feel related to the roaring and jubilant people in Tahrir square, you only have to be alive... Read more... Cairo & Jerusalem | Gilad Atzmon ...Day after day, they stood in the streets demonstrating patience and determination; five times a day they joined mass prayers for goodness to prevail. They reminded us all that Islam is derived from the word Salaam. Islam is all about peace. It is inherently non violent... Read more... The West and the revolution, by Vera Macht in Gaza | Gilad Atzmon ...to believe in the success of a revolt against armies of police acting with an incredible brutality and ruthlessness, it requires a social networking that goes beyond online relationships. At the danger of ending up alone, you don’t risk your life. No, in Tunisia and Egypt a collective anger about the situation has grown over years, an anger which has emerged with a common act of courage and collective strength... Read more... Tales of Tyrants: Ben Ali, Mubarak & Suleiman: The inside story of Egyptian soldiers refusing orders to massacre people in Tahrir Square | Wikileaks Central ...note also something else that can be deduced from Robert Fisk's description of these events. Namely that it was the low level officers in the tanks, the ones that got their orders over headsets, that refused to carry out the mass murder in Tahrir Square. Had the top brass refused Mubarak, those orders never would have been heard over headsets... Read more... Will democracy in Egypt benefit the Palestinians? | Redress Information & Analysis Leaked memo: Netherlands could be safe haven for war criminals, by Adri Nieuwhof | The Electronic IntifadaAlan Hart considers how a truly representative, democratically-elected government in Egypt could redefine the political and strategic equation in the Middle East in a manner that would deliver peace with justice... Read more... Nations Should Consider Responding Non-Violently To Future U.S. Aggression, by Sherwood Ross | Veterans Today People the world over must find non-violent ways to oppose American military force lest they suffer the fate of the Vietnamese and the Iraqis. In response to the menace of the U.S. military-industrial complex, non-violent soul force needs to be considered in international conflicts just as it was used by Mahatma Gandhi in India and by the Reverend Martin Luther King in the U.S... Read more... Israel staggered by Egypt protests, social tensions at home, by Jean Shaoul | Global Research ...the conditions that led to the revolution in Egypt also prevail in Israel: youth unemployment and underemployment; spiraling prices; growing social polarization; and a corrupt and anti-democratic ruling elite personified by Netanyahu himself. Israel is a social powder keg, characterized by enormous social inequality and poverty, governed by a corrupt and reactionary kleptocracy... Read more... The Egyptian army's weapons problem: Would you buy a missile from the United States? | Redress Information & Analysis Christopher King argues that there is a high probability that weapons supplied by the USA to Egypt, among others, contain trojans – hidden and malicious circuits in microchips or programs in software – that can be activated by the US or Israel at will to ensure that they will not work if used against Israel or other US protegé... Read more... Egypt used Israeli technology to disable state's internet | Voice of Palestine Egypt used advanced Israeli technology to disable the internet across the nation during the first week of popular revolutionary protests that began January 25, the Israeli Yediot Ahronot newspaper said... Read more... The Emerging Counter-Revolutions in Tunisia and Egypt, by Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya | Global Research An arrogant pharaoh has fallen. Egyptians may be chanting that their country is free, but their struggle is far from over. The United Arab Republic of Egypt is not free yet. The old regime and its apparatus are still very much in place and waiting for the dust to settle. The Egyptian military is officially in control of Egypt and the counter-revolution is emerging. A new phase of the struggle for liberty has started. The so-called regime-desired "transitional phases" in Tunisia and Egypt are being used to buy time in order to do three things... Read more... To Mohammad El-Sayed Said, by Marwan Bishara | Al Jazeera English In much of the world's media, the story of the popular revolution that transformed Egypt goes like this: an oppressed people who had suffered bitterly in silence suddenly decided that enough was enough and spontaneously rose up to claim their freedom. Like most revolutions, however, this one was a long time coming. The historic takeover of Tahrir Square was the culmination of countless sit-ins, strikes, pickets and demonstrations over the last decade, by Egyptians who have risked and suffered repeated beatings, torture and imprisonment... Read more... Egypt through Iran's 1979 lens, by Robert H. Reid | Al Jazeera English Two very different Middle Eastern revolutions are examined by a journalist who covered both... Read more... America's Strategic Repression of the 'Arab Awakening', by Andrew Gavin Marshall | Global Research ...While the uprisings spreading across the Arab world have surprised many observers, the same could not be said for the American foreign policy and strategic establishment. A popular backlash against American-supported dictatorships and repressive regimes has been anticipated for a number of years, with arch-hawk geopolitical strategist Zbigniew Brzezinski articulating a broad conception of a ‘Global Political Awakening’ taking place, in which the masses of the world (predominantly the educated, exploited and impoverished youth of the ‘Third World’) have become acutely aware of their subjugation, inequality, exploitation and oppression... Read more... A leaked secret memorandum from the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs suggests the government is seeking to ensure Israeli and other foreign officials who may be pursued for war crimes can visit the Netherlands without fear of arrest or legal accountability... Read more... Israeli Espionage in America: A National Security Scandal, by Jim Dean | Veterans Today The biggest national security scandal story of our times is the extent that Israeli espionage has gone on here for decades. There is an aspect of the War on Terror on which our elite leadership refuses to level with the public…how terrified our defense, political, counter intelligence and legal institutions are when it comes to rooting them out and shutting it all down. All other terrors pale into insignificance. They treat this affliction with an age old cure…denial... Read more... Let's Go to Plan B, by Philip Giraldi | Antiwar Albert Einstein is often quoted as saying that doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results is a definition of insanity. He might have been describing the foreign policy of the United States of America... Read more... The Corpo-Political Scamming of America, by Eric L. Wattree | Veterans Today ...the fact is, this country is engaged in a struggle that has nothing to do with liberalism or conservatism. We’re engaged in a class war, the corporate class against the poor and the middle class. So while they have us busy fighting the last war - racism on the left, and communism on the right – the corporatists are busy cutting all of our throats... Read more... Can We Swap Obama for Chavez? by Mike Whitney | Information Clearing House While Obama has turned out to be the most disappointing president in the last century, Chavez continues to impress with his resolve to improve the lives of ordinary working people. For example, in just 12 years, Chavez has created a thriving national public health care system with 533 diagnostic centers and medical facilities spread throughout the capital. Health care is free and there have been over over 55 million medical consultations since Chavez launched the Misión Barrio Adentro program. Compare that to Obama's wretched cash-giveaway to the giant US HMO's which he has tried to promote as universal health care. What a joke... Read more... Imperial Jews and International Jews, by Matt Parrott | The Occidental Observer ...the Egyptian protests have blown that rift wide open, making it more apparent than ever. This dichotomy between Diaspora Jews and Israeli Jews is the single greatest fault line in the Jewish world. Given their out-sized leverage and influence, it’s perhaps the most consequential political fault line in the contemporary world... Read more... Fox News Insider: "Stuff Is Just Made Up" | Media Matters Asked what most viewers and observers of Fox News would be surprised to learn about the controversial cable channel, a former insider from the world of Rupert Murdoch was quick with a response: “I don’t think people would believe it’s as concocted as it is; that stuff is just made up.”.. Read more... Democracy: Humanity's Profit System, by Frank Scott | Legalienate Demands for social change are accelerating throughout capital’s global empire. Once limited to armed insurrection, now nations like Bolivia and Venezuela elect governments to replace capitalism with democratically controlled socialism. While their approach is not followed everywhere, more people are demanding democratic power with those demands reaching new peaks in the Middle East... Read more... Feb 13, 2011 Egypt (Cont'd) President Mubarakobama: The Emperor of Hypocrisy | The Vineyard of the Saker  Mubarakobama-Pinocchio continues a proud American tradition: "declare victory and leave".. [So whaddaya want from the house nigger?; he's just doin' his job, tho Massa's not very happy these days. Go Egypt!] Read more... Ken O'Keefe: Tunisia Egypt Global Revolution Tribute - Gaza Celebrates | YouTube Made on February 11, 2011, Ken O'Keefe pays tribute to the revolutionaries of Tunisia, Egypt, along with the global revolutionaries yet to be identified. "Governments should fear their people!".. Watch video... Egypt: One Down, Two to Go, by John Spritzler | Turn the World Upside Down One down: the people of Egypt have overthrown the hated dictator Mubarak. Wild cheers for this! Two to go:.. Read more... On the wrong side of history: Obama's wavering on Egypt | Redress Information & Analysis Uri Avnery argues that US President Barack Obama should have trusted his instinct and placed the US on the right side of history by supporting the people’s revolution in Egypt, rather than give in to the “small people” – politicians, generals, “security experts”, diplomats, pundits, lobbyists, business leaders and. the hugely powerful Israel lobby... Read more... Anti-Muslim brainwashing | Redress Information & Analysis Paul J. Balles looks at how key opinion formers in the United States, from the media to politicians, are brainwashing the public into anti-Muslim hysteria by labelling as “Muslim or Islamic extremists” anyone who refuses to cow-tow to Israel, America or their stooges... Read more... Egypt's Joy: Toppling the Autocrat, by Tariq Ali | Counterpunch ...Arab history, despite appearances, is not static. Soon after the Israeli victory of 1967 that marked the defeat of secular Arab nationalism, one of the great Arab poets, Nizar Qabbani wrote:.. Read more... When the Dust Settles, US Policies Will Remain the Same: Politics and Nonsense on Egypt, by James Zogby | Counterpunch When US politicians are forced to discuss critical Middle East matters, more often than not their remarks either display an ignorance of facts, are shaped more by political needs than reality, or are just plain dumb. Commentary about the popular revolt in Egypt provides a case in point... Read more... Hurriya is Arabic for Freedom: Just Listen to Egypt Roar, by Ramzy Baroud | Global Research The times are changing, and British MP George Galloway’s comment about the Arab lion roaring again seems truer by the day. The Egyptians have revolted in style, and their revolution will go down in history books with such adjectives as “great”, “noble” and “historic”... Read more... Feb 12, 2011 Egypt (Cont'd) Israel's Fission Field Warfare: Pakistan, Iraq and Egypt, by Jonathan Azaziah | Mask of Zion  Once the nucleus is split, the energy released is that which resembles misunderstanding, enmity, frustration and even hatred. Since the fission itself is controlled ‘very carefully,’ the manipulators must also induce the bombardment... US-Egypt: Cookie-cutter Cuisine, by Eric Walberg | Dissident Voice ...By all rights, Egypt is the most important player in the Middle East, but since president Anwar Sadat signed the Camp David accord in 1979, Egypt has been intimately tied to the US as the only Arab country, along with Jordan, to sign a peace treaty and recognise Israel and thus was sidelined. The revolution of January 2011 has suddenly thrust Egypt back into the Middle East’s “great game”, much as the ascendancy of Nasser in 1952 in reaction to British domination made it a key player in that era’s great game... Read more... The Muslim Brotherhood is Kosher | Gilad Atzmon Ynet reported today that US Director of National Intelligence James Clapper said during a House Intelligence Committee hearing Thursday that Egypt’s branch of the Muslim Brotherhood movement was "a very heterogeneous group, largely secular, which has eschewed violence and has decried al-Qaeda as a perversion of Islam.".. Read more... Freedom dawns in Egypt | Redress Information & Analysis Christopher King salutes the people of Egypt on this historic day which has seen them depose the despot Hosni Mubarak, and yearns for the peoples of Europe and the USA to learn something from the Egyptians... Read more... William Cook: Caught In The Crossfire | Intifada Palestine Caught in the crossfire of contradictions between this government’s stated principles of adherence to the rule of law, the Constitution and nonviolence and its absolute, unquestioned support for the state of Israel, forces President Obama to confront allegiance to our founding principles or allegiance to a state that accepts no responsibilities to international law... [The dilemma today for Obama remains the same, even with Mubarak gone.] Read more... President Obama: Israel, Please Tell Me What To Do About Egypt, by Mohamed Khodr | Intifada Palestine ...You, President Barack Obama, the most powerful man in the world, the leader of the free world, a Gentile, have been transformed from the “yes we can” candidate” to the “no, I can’t without Israel’s approval” President. Like every President before you who dared suggest a policy that in any way contradicts the chosen people’s demands, the long arm of Israel’s power stretches quickly across the Mediterranean Sea and Atlantic Ocean to deliver a wake up slap to the leader of the “land of the brave”.. Read more... Israeli and PA Forces Suppress Solidarity with Egyptians, by Stephen Lendman | OpEd News Despite Palestinian Authority (PA) officials banning anti-Mubarak demonstrations, hundreds rallied in support. On February 5, Jerusalem Post writer Khaled Abu Toameh headlined, "100s demonstrate in Ramallah in support of Egyptians,".. Read more... Ken O'Keefe in Gaza: Israel Bombs Medical Supply Building | YouTube ...The Israelis are again demonstrating that the welfare and health of the people of Gaza mean absolutely nothing to them. They will probably come up with some excuse that rubbing alcohol can be used in bombs or rockets. Is there no end to their viciousness?.. Read more, watch video... DisreGuardian: UK press hunts Assange after printing cash | YouTube Wikileaks founder, Julian Assange may be in a legal fight against being sent to Sweden over sexual assault accusations, but he is also set for another UK court battle. He is threatening to bring a libel action against the Guardian newspaper, which helped release American war logs and secret diplomatic cables obtained by Wikileaks... Read more, watch video... WikiLeaks and Israel: Assange chose not to publish cables | The Examiner AV: Have you more fear of Israel or the U.S.? Read more...JA :It is the union of the two countries that scares me the most. Exclusive Interview with Ayman Qwaider | Intifada Palestine Please describe what life is like for a Palestinian from Nuseirat, a refugee camp situated in the middle of the Gaza Strip... Read more... Feb 11, 2011 World to observe Israeli Apartheid Week | PressTV  Activists across the world are preparing to hold “Israeli Apartheid Week” (IAW) next month, amid growing international outrage against Israeli actions... Read more... Egypt (Cont'd) Left and Islam | Gilad Atzmon In front of our eyes, a gigantic regional Arab uprising is taking place. It is evident that until the last few days Western Left had very little to say about it all. It seems as if the Left has reached a rock bottom state of detachment. It has lost contact with the people, social reality, and humanity in general... [No doubt about it; the Left has been co-opted by the Empire] Read more... Egypt: Creative Destruction For A ‘Greater Middle East’? The Promised Land? by F. William Engdahl | Pakalert Press Fast on the heels of the regime change in Tunisia came a popular-based protest movement launched on January 25 against the entrenched order of Egypt’s Hosni Mubarak. Contrary to the carefully-cultivated impression that the Obama Administration is trying to retain the present regime of Mubarak, Washington in fact is orchestrating the Egyptian as well as other regional regime changes from Syria to Yemen to Jordan and well beyond in a process some refer to as “creative destruction.”.. Read more, watch video... Dr. Frederick Toben: Oppression Breeds Revolution | Veterans Today ...Barack Obama is praying for a peaceful outcome, and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has condemned outright any violent uprisings, but what the Al Jazeera news service is transmitting live to the world, in particular battle scenes around Cairo’s Tahrir Square, is disquieting because here we have the development of a possible tragic Egyptian civil war... [My prediction, for what it's worth, is that the General Staff and most of the field-grade military officers will duke it out with the Young Turks and the ordinary soldiers, who will side with the people. Outcome uncertain, but it will determine the course of the revolution, and modern history.] Read more... The Egypt protests have exposed the hypocrisy of mealy-mouthed Western commentators, by Brendan O'Neill | The Telegraph A Holocaust "historian" and former Israeli kibbutznik, Professor David Cesarani, floated the idea of there being a Tiananmen Square-style massacre in Egypt as a way of quelling potential post-Mubarak anarchy. And there has been no outrage. No Twitterstorm, no blog-based apoplexy, no heated radio phone-ins. Perhaps talking about the massacre of Egyptians is normal these days... Read more... Egypt: Washington's Covert Intelligence Operation, by Michel Chossudovsky | Global Research Obama's Envoy to Egypt Frank G. Wisner II is a member of a well known CIA family, son of one of America's most notorious spies, the late Frank Gardiner Wisner (1909- 1965), the mastermind behind the CIA sponsored coup which toppled the government of Mohammed Mossadegh in Iran in 1953... Read more... Unlike Egyptians, Israelis support restricting expression, by Akiva Eldar | Haaretz Nearly 40 percent of Israelis believe there is too much freedom of expression in Israel... Read more... Israel supports democracy - except in the case of Egypt, by Roy Arad | Haaretz There is a clear consensus in Israel about the necessity of democracy, but when it comes to Egypt, suddenly Israelis are shaking... Read more... Egypt Protests Signal an End to the Post-9/11 Era, by Lieven De Cauter | FPIF A spectre is roaming the Middle East: the spectre of the multitude. The beauty and in a sense the world historical importance of this Jasmine Revolution (or whatever it will be called in the annals of humanity) is that it has no leadership. It might also prove its fatal weakness, but that does not contradict its beauty and importance. It was the people rising up. Of course youngsters and schooled people – doctors, engineers, etc. took the lead, but it was from the beginning in Tunisia the multitude at work... Read more... Washington's Support for Another Military Leader in Egypt Will Only Firm up Protesters' Resolve, by Bonnie Bricker and Adil E. Shamoo | FPIF Stability or freedom? This is the false choice presented by political analysts and government officials as Egyptians protest day after day in their quest for freedom. On the one hand Egypt is described as our valued, strategic pro-Western ally, aligned with our anti-terrorist and Israeli policies. On the other hand, the Mubarak government’s record of corruption, restriction of freedoms, imprisonment of political opponents, torture, and abject poverty for tens of millions of Egyptians is in blatant opposition to our American ideals. The conclusion of the wise men is that the U.S. is in a dilemma, walking a tightrope, and in a delicate balance for our diplomacy. So what is the choice for us?.. Read more... Sending Pharaoh Mubarak packing, by Jerry Mazza | Online Journal The pharaoh-like president of Egypt, Hosni Mubarak, seems reluctant to pack his bags for his journey through the netherworld to his final resting place, even under escalating pressure for his resignation—even as he has entered into not so surprisingly, American-approved “negotiations” to end the uprising... Read more... From Brunei to Washington: Kleptocrats at Work, by Paul Craig Roberts | Counterpunch Kleptocracy is as old as government. Exotic car broker Michael Sheehan discovered an amazing case nine years ago when he was invited to purchase rare Ferraris and McLaren F1s from a Brunei collection. He writes about it in the current issue of Sports Car Market.. The finance minister had a collection of 2,500 exotic cars, 500 properties, five yachts, and nine world-class aircraft. He had managed to spend $900,000,000 in the London jeweler Asprey, apparently guaranteeing the old age retirements of a number of attractive women who consort with kleptocrats... [Jared Diamond in his seminal work "Guns, Germs and Steel" makes the same point, that all governments are by nature kleptocracies, and they are doomed when they fail to spread enough of the wealth around to keep the people mollified. In the Imperial heartland this is no longer the case.] Read more...British Intelligence Report: Mossad ran 9/11 Arab "hijacker" terrorist operation, by Wayne Madsen | Opinion Maker British intelligence reported in February 2002 that the Israeli Mossad ran the Arab hijacker cells that were later blamed by the U.S. government's 9/11 Commission for carrying out the aerial attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon. WMR has received details of the British intelligence report which was suppressed by the government of then-Prime Minister Tony Blair... Read more... Settlers kill 2 Palestinian teens, soldiers attack funeral | The Electronic Intifada The Electronic Intifada brings you this special news brief on events related to Israeli violence against Palestinians... Read more... Holocaust Porn: I Know it When I see It | Smoking Mirrors ...I’m still waiting for someone to explain to me how Dwight Eisenhower, Winston Churchill and Charles de Gaulle could write tens of thousands of post war memoirs and never mention death camps and crematoriums. I’m waiting for someone to explain how taking over three million from the death count at Auschwitz does not affect the number of six million as the official tally. There are a lot of statistics I would love to have explained to me but no one seems able to. I’m especially interested in how the world population for a certain demographic actually went up during the war years... [Walter Sanning, says that no less than 2,200,000 Jews had emigrated out of Europe leaving 2,847,000 Jews residing there at the height of the German occupation in June 1941. After the war, 3,375,000 Jews, according to the Red Cross, applied for holocaust reparations. This figure included many of the emigrants. Thus, the actual number of those who died at the camps from all causes ranges between 150,000 and 300,000. - Dr. Edward.R. Fields] Read more...How Zionism infiltrated the US | PressTV ...The US has prevented a settlement of the Arab-Israeli conflict because the Israelis set up such powerful institutions, lobbies, publications, personalities and control in various ways of political parties and of the media making it impossible for American leaders to do what they knew they should do to solve this cancer; and it goes way back to General Marshall the secretary of state. When President Truman told Marshall that he was going to accept a Jewish state, Marshall was going to resign saying it's not in the interests of the US it is going to be war, which we won't be able to end; it's going to get worse; it's going to unleash forces we won't be able to control - he was exactly right... Read more, watch video... Mossad Losing its Reputation of Invincibility, by Richard Walker | American Free Press There was a time when the very mention of Mossad, Israel’s premier spy agency, sent shivers through its friends and enemies alike. It had an almost mythical status and its highly trained assassins were the stuff of Hollywood legend. Mossad agents, both men and women, would be parachuted into a country or would arrive on its coastline from a submarine or fishing trawler. Teams providing technical back-up and other logistical support, including vehicles and escape routes, would already be in place... Read more... Mossad Comes to America: Death Squads by Invitation, by James Petras | The People's Voice The principle propaganda mouthpiece of the Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations (PMAJO), the Daily Alert (DA), has come out in full support for Israel’s practice of extra-judicial, extra-territorial assassination... Read more... Justice in the Holy Land first, Mr Hague, then peace | Redress Information & Analysis Stuart Littlewood views the weasel words of William Hague, British Foreign Secretary and life-long member of the ruling Conservative Party’s Israel lobby, who has voiced fears over the non-existent Israeli-Palestinian “peace process” while studiously avoiding any mention of the need for justice for the people of Palestine... Read more... Feb 10, 2011 Egypt (Cont'd)  Power To The People Of Historic Egypt, by Dr. Ashraf Ezzat | Veterans Today ...what a lot of people are not aware of is the fact that the fall of this once mighty kingdom had been due to a relentless political turmoil during which ancient Egyptians protested over social and economic grievances in what most Egyptologists now view as one of the first political upheavals in history... Read more... The Voice Of The Masses, by Dr. Bouthaina Shaaban | Intifada Palestine ...It is interesting that the American reactions to demonstrations in Egypt exceeded by far the interest in what happened in Tunisia, Jordan or Yemen, which is understandable. Most American analyses and reactions focused on price rises, poverty, unemployment and corruption. No American official said anything about the factor of humiliating wars which infuriated people time and again and prevented the Egyptians from standing with their brothers in Gaza, Lebanon, Palestine and Iraq... Read more... The Division of Egypt: Threats of US, Israeli, and NATO Military Intervention? by Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya | Global Research ...Tel Aviv is far less coy than the U.S. about the situation in Egypt. Out of fear of losing Cairo, Tel Aviv has been encouraging the Mubarak regime to unleash the full force of the Egyptian military on the civilian protesters. It has also been defending Mubarak internationally. In this regard, the Egyptian military's primary role has always been to police the Egyptian people and to keep the Mubarak regime in power. U.S. military aid to Egypt is solely intended for this purpose... Read more... Captive Nation: Egypt And The West | Media Lens ...What an extraordinary spectacle it is - a dictatorship behaving as though an entire people were its personal property. Henchmen aside, the people have spoken, almost as one, and their demands are very clear. The blunt government response, in effect: We react as we want. If we don’t want to, we don’t have to. Why? Because we have a monopoly of violence... Read more... Day of Departure, Day of Reckoning, by Jeremy Salt | Palestine Chronicle The news that Omar Sulaiman had a hot line to the Israeli government, that he was Israel's choice as president, even over Mubarak, and that he invited Israel to invade Sinai if it thought it could stop arms smuggling to Gaza, should surprise noone, but these revelations from the Wikileaks cables underline the rottenness of the Egyptian regime and the need to replace it without delay and without qualification... Read more... Washington Faces the Arab Revolts, by James Petras | Palestine Chronicle To understand the Obama regime's policy toward Egypt, the Mubarak dictatorship and the popular uprising it is essential to locate it in an historical context. The essential point is that Washington, after several decades of being deeply embedded in the state structures of the Arab dictatorships, from Tunisia through Morocco, Egypt, Yemen, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia and the Palestinian Authority, is attempting to re-orient its policies to incorporate and/or graft liberal-electoral politicians onto the existing power configurations... Read more... Dark Side of Ban Ki-moon And The United Nations Shines Through As They Condemn Richard Falk For His Views on 9/11 | The Excavator ...Rice's demonization of Falk came as no surprise. Falk's courage and boldness is obviously rattling the power elite in the United States who are profiting from the country's illegal terrorist regime which saw its big opening on September 11, 2001, after being secretly built-up behind the scenes for many decades... Read more... Obama Launches Total Takeover of Media System, by Kurt Nimmo | Global Research Even the Washington Post describes it like something out of Orwell’s 1984. The FCC has approved a presidential alert system. Obama may soon appear on your television or call your cell phone to warn you about the next specious al-Qaeda underwear bombing event... Read more... Change comes to Tunisia, slowly, by Yasmine Ryan | Al Jazeera English Did the fall of Zine El Abidine Ben Ali amount to a genuine revolution? Three weeks after Tunisia's president of 23 years, facing public protests, fled to Saudi Arabia, this is a question that ordinary people are still grappling with... Read more, watch video... A Call to Jihad, by Kevin Barrett | truthjihad ...today's world seems to be divided between the followers of Leo Strauss - aptly described by Shadia Drury as a "teacher of evil" - and Sayyid Qutb. Strauss, the world's leading apologist for tyranny, taught that those who are strong enough to know that there is no such thing as truth or goodness, and that therefore lies and evil rule, must seize power and use lies, murder, and any other available means to perpetuate their tyranny. Qutb's call to the everlasting struggle against tyranny does indeed make him a sort of anti-Strauss... [I am not the first to point out that Strauss was the model for "Dr. Strangelove" in Stanley Kubrick's film of that name.] Read more...Looking Before You Leap, by Joharah Baker | MIFTAH This is getting too close for comfort. Palestinians may very well be experiencing déjà vu today as they listen attentively to the news coming from Egypt... Read more... US-Israel: The Odd Couple | Rehmat's World ...Israel operates its largest espionage network in United States, the very country which has donated trillions of dollars to the Zionist entity since 1960s and has shielded its crimes against humanity at international forums since 1948. In addition to Katya (Jewish spies), Israel also maintains over one million Sayanin (local Jewish collaborators who works for Israeli espionage network) around the world... Read more... New Attacks In Gaza, Censored From Western Press, by Ken O'Keefe and Gordon Duff | Veterans Today Last night, Israeli planes bombed a medical supply center in Gaza. The bombing attack lasted only 20 minutes or so, short when compared to the “London blitz” during World War II but similar in other way. Israeli planes were still overhead while film crews were on the scene.. The systematic destruction of necessary support services, health care, water, sewage, electric, schools continue. Were our film team not to have been on the scene, media would likely have reported this as a poison gas plant or a rocket factory... Read more, watch video... Dimitri Khalezov on 9-11, by J. Bruce Campbell | Veterans Today ...I have been fortunate to be in contact with Dimitri Khalezov, whose blockbuster revelations about 9-11 are about to change our perception of reality for the better just as profoundly as 9-11 changed them for the worse. He has revealed from first-hand knowledge that Mike Harari organized the 9-11 massacre. First-hand means, in this case, Mike Harari told him... Read more... 'Never Again For Anyone' tour irks ADL | Rehmat's World The International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network (IJAN) is currently running a 12-city Never Again For Anyone tour, which has been blasted by the ADL as anti-Israel campaign to delegitimize the Zionist state for its exploitation of the Holocaust. “It’s a blatant attempt to exploit the memory of the Holocaust as a tool to demonize Israel”.. [There's Zionist logic for you] Read more, watch video...The big bluff: false claims to the Holy Land | Redress Information & Analysis Paul J. Balles explains why the 60 million right-wing Christians in the USA who expect a “second coming” of Jesus Christ into the Holy Land are in for a shock... Read more... Feb 9, 2011 Egypt (Cont'd)  The Arab Freedom Epic, by Rami G. Khouri | Agence Global What a supreme irony it was for me to be in London and Paris between Saturday and Tuesday this week, as the popular revolt against the Hosni Mubarak regime reached its peak in Cairo, Alexandria and other Egyptian cities. To appreciate what is taking place in the Arab world today you have to grasp the historical significance of the events that have started changing rulers and regimes in Tunisia and Egypt, with others sure to follow. What we are witnessing is the unraveling of the post-colonial order that the British and French created in the Arab world in the 1920s and 30s and then sustained - with American and Soviet assistance - for most of the last half century... Read more... Egypt's State Media Turns on Mubarak, by Jason Ditz | Antiwar After 30 years of championing President Hosni Mubarak on all issues, one of the strongest voices in Egypt’s state-run media, the al-Ahram newspaper, has led its Monday issue with a front page editorial reversing that stance... Read more... Suleiman: The CIA's man in Cairo, by Lisa Hajjar | Al Jazeera English On January 29, Omar Suleiman, Egypt’s top spy chief, was anointed vice president by tottering dictator, Hosni Mubarak. By appointing Suleiman, part of a shake-up of the cabinet in an attempt to appease the masses of protesters and retain his own grip on the presidency, Mubarak has once again shown his knack for devilish shrewdness. Suleiman has long been favoured by the US government for his ardent anti-Islamism, his willingness to talk and act tough on Iran - and he has long been the CIA’s main man in Cairo... Read more... How Foreign Aid Creates Instability and Isolates America, by Rep. Ron Paul | Daily Paul ...much of the blame for the unrest in Egypt and the resulting instability in the region rests with U.S. foreign policy over the past several decades. The U.S. government has sent more than $60 billion to the Egyptian regime since the Camp David Accords in 1978 to purchase stability, including more security for the state of Israel. We see now the folly of our interventionist foreign policy: not only has that stability fallen to pieces with the current unrest, but the years of propping up the corrupt regime in Egypt has led the people to increase their resentment of both America and Israel... Read more... Washington Faces the Arab Revolts: Sacrificing Dictators to Save the State, by Prof James Petras | Global Research To understand the Obama regime’s policy toward Egypt, the Mubarak dictatorship and the popular uprising it is essential to locate it in an historical context. The essential point is that Washington, after several decades of being deeply embedded in the state structures of the Arab dictatorships, from Tunisia through Morocco, Egypt, Yemen, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia and the Palestinian Authority, is attempting to re-orient its policies to incorporate and/or graft liberal-electoral politicians onto the existing power configurations... Read more... Hey, Arabs: You Vote, We Decide, by Mohamed Khodr | Intifada Palestine ...Young Egyptians continue their quest for freedom from Mubarak’s regime. They have shed their blood and are risking their lives and livelihood to achieve their aims of a Mubarak free zone including from his spymaster torturer treasonous Vice President Omar Suleiman and the other military junta of a Prime Minister and Minister of Defense. Only in America and Europe does freedom for Egypt mean replacing a murderous brutal military dictator with his similarly murderous military lapdogs... Read more... Egypt: Wrestling With 'The Dream Of Reason', by Jim Kirwan | Rense Goya's Dream of Reason is where Egypt finds herself today. A nation that has stood against the nightmare for fourteen days now, with limited physical support from the outside world: Except for that clearly overwhelming support of the human spirit that has finally condemned what is still happening to Egyptians now... Read more... US doubling down on Mideast horses, by Fadi Elsalameen | Al Jazeera English A wave of popular uprisings in the Middle East is sending a clear message to those in power − and those who aspire to be in power − in the Arab world. Together with the release of several sets of leaked secret documents, they are making it clear that one should never bet on America’s horse. "America's horse" is the Arab leader who is backed by the United States and given a license to rule however he deems appropriate, as long as he doesn’t threaten Israel's security or other American interests in the region. In return, he is allowed to abuse human rights and deny his people economic and political rights. With America’s sanction, and under the banner of fighting Islamic fundamentalism, he can crush any opposition that arises... Read more... US can blame itself for anger in the Middle East, and start making peace, by Graham E. Fuller | CSMonitor ...Today the Middle East is the last redoubt in the world of regimes bought, maintained, and guided by Washington. Is it any wonder that this region is now the cauldron of numerous rebellions and anti-American expression?.. Read more... Pox Americana, by Tom Engelhardt | Antiwar ...In 1991, when the Soviet Union disappeared and the United States found itself the last superpower standing, Washington mistook that for a victory most rare. In the years that followed, in a paroxysm of self-satisfaction and amid clouds of self-congratulation, its leaders would attempt nothing less than to establish a global Pax Americana. Their breathtaking ambitions would leave hubris in the shade... Read more... Can Afghanistan Afford to Survive? by Juan Cole | The Diplomat Despite the Obama administration’s claims of success, Afghanistan is in a guerrilla war that might be too expensive for the country to win... Read more... How We Got Where We Are, by Gordon Duff | Veterans Today ...The son would kill more, millions in fact, rig two elections and run up more national debt in a single month than Jimmy Carter did in four years. America would have its own GESTAPO, called “Homeland Security” but managed by his good friends in Israel, cementing their partnership with what was once the party of Reagan, now running America into the ground, from “triple crown winner” to “glue factory nag” in 8 long and painful years... Read more... Field Notes on American-Style Democracy, by Stephen Lendman | OpEd News Perhaps George Bernard Shaw was thinking of Obama's administration when he said, "Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment of the corrupt few." Obama upholds the tradition and then some, doing more harm globally in two years than most of history's tinpot despots in decades... Read more... DHS Seizes Websites for Merely LINKING to Copyrighted Material, by Eric Blair | Activist Post ...These new actions by the DHS and the courts seem to be motivated more by private corporate profits than by actual copyright law. Nonetheless, the agenda seems to be to make nearly every website that links to copyrighted material guilty of criminal infringement, thus justifying arbitrarily blacklisting domains deemed to be in violation of such a broad precedent. This is yet another Napoleonic guilty-until-proven-innocent action, apparently displaying the corporate state’s lack of concern for the rights of individuals and small businesses. What’s more, it is also another tyrannical tool being used to control the flow of information... [I was trying to watch the Superbowl in Mexico. Did I ever freak out when I saw that Gestapo poster appear on the screen, then played cat and mouse along with the streaming outfit's techies, switching to alternative sites, which they must have had ready, just in case, as they duelled with the government trolls. The people won, barely, by a field goal (I got to see about 60% of the game) but there was blood all over the Internet. In some ways it was more exciting than the football game. Soon enough, I imagine, the blood will be all over the streets of America, when the in-your-face repression really begins and the oligarchy, corpocracy, plutocracy, Ziocracy - whatever you want to call it - lets loose its mercenaries on you and me. But the chickens will come home to roost, as Mubarak is finally discovering, followed soon, one would hope, by the terrorist elite of Israel.] Read more...Israel's whitewash report into the Mavi Marmara massacre | Redress Information & Analysis Richard Lightbown examines the flawed evidence considered by the Turkel Commission, the phoney inquiry set up by the Israeli government to investigate the Gaza flotilla raid and the blockade of Gaza, which exonerated the Israeli military of the murder of nine humanitarian aid workers aboard the Gaza-bound Turkish aid ship Mavi Marmara... Read more... Feb 8, 2011 Egypt (Cont'd)  US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton meets with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak in Sharm al-Sheikh, Egypt, on 14 September 2010 (the whore and the tyrant) Obama envoy Wisner works for Egypt military, business lobbyists, by Pratap Chatterjee | The Electronic Intifada When Major General Mohamed Said Elassar, assistant to Mohammed Hussein Tantawi, the Egyptian minister of defence, came to the US capital last April, he was given the equivalent of a red carpet welcome. The delegation of high-ranking Egyptian military officials that he was leading was ushered from one Congressional office to the next, from the Pentagon to the State Department... Read more... Exposed: Obama's Duplicity in Egypt, by Christopher Bollyn | Rebel News ...President Barack Obama sent Frank Wisner of the C.I.A. (Vice Chairman of A.I.G. and director of Enron) to Egypt on January 31 to advise the besieged dictator Hosni Mubarak, who is quickly losing control of the nation. Shortly after Obama's "special envoy" arrived in Cairo, broadcasting equipment was confiscated from foreign journalists (including the BBC) and all roads and rail links to the capital were cut. This is a very dangerous game and reveals the two-faced nature of the Zionist-controlled Obama administration. While Obama talks about supporting "democratic change", he sends a "dirty tricks" man in a last-ditch effort to prevent the U.S.-funded dictatorship from falling... Read more... Humor Dept: Mubarak Calls on Obama To Step Down as President | Mantiq al-Tayr In a breathtaking move to seize the initiative in Cairo, Egyptian President Mohamed Hosni Mubarak appeared on the podium in Tahrir Square today and addressed not only the Egyptian people but also the entire world. The crowd of over a quarter of a million onlookers looked up in stunned silence as Mubarak appeared on the podium, picked up the microphone and began his address. The address was as shocking and dramatic as it was unexpected... [Antic Mantiq; gotta love the guy] Read more... Humor Lite Dept: The Daily Show: Let's Go Exile! - Hosni Mubarak | YouTube Watch video... The danger to Egypt's revolution comes from Washington, by Ali Abunimah | The Electronic Intifada The greatest danger to the Egyptian revolution and the prospects for a free and independent Egypt emanates not from the "baltagiyya" -- the mercenaries and thugs the regime sent to beat, stone, stab, shoot and kill protestors in Cairo, Alexandria and other cities last week -- but from Washington... Read more... Israeli Economy For Beginners | Gilad Atzmon We learn from the press and political analysts that, against all odds and in spite of the global financial turmoil, Israel’s economy is booming. Some even suggest that Israel is one of the strongest economies around. ‘How come?’ you may ask... Read more... The circles in the sky over Gaza, by Yasmeen El Khoudary | The Electronic Intifada People keep talking of a new war. They tell you about their neighbors -- they're probably too shy to admit that its their family, not their neighbors -- who already started stocking up on food items and candles in preparation for the upcoming war. "People are really scared," they tell you, using "people" instead of "we." Everyone -- groundless news reports and loud rumors -- is saying that they can hear the war drums, can't you?!.. Read more... Islamophobia: The Ideological Campaign Against Muslims | Clarity Press Islamophobia: The Ideological Campaign Against Muslims examines the rise of anti-Muslim and anti-Arab sentiments in the West following the end of the Cold War through GW Bush’s War on Terror to the Age of Obama. Using “Operation Desert Storm” as a watershed moment, Stephen Sheehi examines the increased mainstreaming of Muslim-bating rhetoric and explicitly racist legislation, police surveillance, witch-trials and discriminatory policies towards Muslims in North America and abroad... Read more... The heretics dilemma: Attack or not attack the Zionist Achilles heel | Rebel News ...What our fellow dissidents fail to consider though is that without the 'Holocaust' narrative there wouldn't be a Jews-only state on stolen Palestinian land. There wouldn't be a Jewish stranglehold on Western politics. There wouldn't be U.S. vetoes in the U.N. Security Council whenever world opinion just can't take any more of Israel's bestialities. Yes, the 'Holocaust' is the Jewish miracle weapon that makes them seemingly invincible, but it is also their Achilles heel. You take the 'Holocaust' narrative away from them and their whole card house of lies and threats will collapse... "If the Holocaust can be shown to be a Zionist myth, the strongest of all weapons in Israel's propaganda armory collapses." Professor W D Rubenstein (Quadrant, September 1979) Ashley's Tragic Story: A Heartbreaking Example Of How The Economic Collapse Of America Is Destroying Lives | The Economic Collapse What you are about to read is perhaps the most heartbreaking story that I have ever come across. It is so tragic that I am not even quite sure how to introduce it... Read more... Bush “Blood Money” Tour Cancelled, by Gordon Duff | Veterans Today Former President George “W” Bush has been forced to cancel a highly paid speaking engagement to an Israeli group in Switzerland. Bush was going to be arrested as a war criminal. He is now fighting extradition. This will not be reported in any American mainstream media... Read more... Feb 7, 2011 Egypt (Cont'd)  Courtesy Al-Quds al-Arabi Israeli spy detained in Egypt amid unrest | PressTV A member of Israeli General Staff Reconnaissance Unit, Sayeret Matkal, has been arrested in Egypt amid massive anti-government protests. The unnamed official was detained on Thursday as Egyptian protesters are keeping up the pressure on President Hosni Mubarak to step down, a video obtained by Press TV's website showed... Read more... World Revolution Made in America: The Biggest Battlefield yet to come will be in the USA, by Finian Cunningham | Global Research Overnight, the death toll among Egypt’s masses protesting for the overthrow of US-backed dictator Hosni Mubarak has risen to over 150 and thousands injured. With telecommunication services blacked out by the authorities (and willingly obliged by the telecoms corporations), it is hard to verify the exact casualty figures. But it is undeniable that a massacre is occurring. And it is a massacre made in the US. The US public needs to be very clear about this. The armed forces of the Mubarak regime are now killing and maiming civilians with weapons that are made in the US and supplied by the US at the rate of $1.5 billion a year – for the last 30 years... Read more... PA Violently Suppresses Palestinian Rally in Support of Egyptian People | AIC For the second time this week, the Palestinian Authority security forces prevented a peaceful demonstration from taking place... Read more... Mubarak's net worth estimated at USD 40 to 70 billion | The Hindu ...The wealth of the Egypt’s first family was built largely from military contracts during his days as an air force officer... [The only thing the Egyptian military seemsto be good at] Read more...The Egypt protests have exposed the hypocrisy of mealy-mouthed Western commentators, by Brendan O'Neill | The Telegraph ...This is one of the brilliant things about the inspiring uprising in Egypt: it has not only exposed the illegitimacy of the Mubarak regime, but also the BS behind recent Western campaigns to “deliver democracy” to the Middle East. Because the very same politicians and commentators who talked about “democratising” Iraq now stare in horror, mouths agape, at the Egyptian masses demanding their democratic rights... Read more... Things Have To Change In Order To Remain The Same, by Paul Craig Roberts | OpEd News The hypocrisy of the US government is yet again demonstrated in full-bore force. The US government invaded Iraq and Afghanistan, laid waste to much of the countries including entire villages and towns, and massacred untold numbers of civilians in order "to bring democracy" to Iraq and Afghanistan. Now after days of Egyptians in the streets demanding "Mubarak must go," the US government remains aligned with its puppet Egyptian ruler, even suggesting that Mubarak -- after running a police state for three decades -- is the appropriate person to implement democracy in Egypt... Read more... The Egyptian Tinderbox: How Banks and Investors Are Starving the Third World, by Ellen Brown | truthout Underlying the sudden, volatile uprising in Egypt and Tunisia is a growing global crisis sparked by soaring food prices and unemployment... Read more... Dr. Ashraf Ezzat Reporting from Egypt: The Uprising, the Treason and Israel | Veterans Today ... I myself have been a living witness to many years of corruption by that dictatorship but what Egyptians have actually lived and endured during the last days in Egypt was beyond anybody’s imagination. What the whole world is witnessing now in Egypt is not only a regime crumbling down but a whole age of authoritarianism in the Arab world fading away... Read more... Israel, Thy Name is Arrogance, by Joharah Baker | MIFTAH ...or Israel, when the Mubarak regime falls, it will leave a gaping hole of uncertainty in terms of the new relationship the two countries will have to forge. Mubarak – Israel's holy cow in the Arab world – has been one of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's closest allies in the region, with the two meeting in closed quarters in Sharm Al Sheikh as recent as two weeks ago. Amazing what a few days and a million people can change... [Israel (an organized crime syndicate masquerading as a state) will pull out all the stops to snuff out the Egyptian revolution] Read more...Egypt: the groupthink problem | Redress Information & Analysis Lawrence Davidson argues that unless Egyptian ruler Hosni Mubarak and his deputy, Omar Suleiman, are made to bridge the gap between their parallel universe and the reality of life in Egypt, and draw the right conclusion and go, Egypt could embark on a ruinously dangerous path... Read more... To the Egyptian army | Redress Information & Analysis Christopher King reminds the Egyptian army that the world is watching it, and asks: “Will you choose repression or freedom for your people?”.. [My guess is that when push comes to shove they'll choose repression, to protect their ill-gotten gains, but they may not get away with it] Britain: Incipient Fascist State, by Derek Martin | Global Research ...To begin with, it seemed to me that we need some criteria to justify taking such a view, and I thought it would be sensible to start from Tony Benn’s catechism of questions for prospective candidates for power, and, to paraphrase, we might assert that the essential feature of any system which claims to be a democracy, is that the people who form the government are elected by the people they govern and serve their interests, and that the system of election allows also for the services of those who lose the confidence of the electorate to be disposed of... [The Empire - the US and its satellite states - are all in the same boat, with Captain Ahab at the helm - not much hope there - he's dead] Read more...We Are So Good Even Our Enemies Believe Our Lies, by William Blum | FPJ I’ve devoted a lot of time and effort to the question of how to reach the American mind concerning US foreign policy. To a large extent what this comes down to is trying to counterbalance the lifetime of indoctrination someone raised in the United States receives. It comes in news stories every day... Read more... "War Without Borders": Washington Intensifies Push Into Central Asia, by Rick Rozoff | Global Research ...The U.S. has assiduously worked to ensure that Chinese, Russian and Iranian influence in Central Asia and Afghanistan is blocked and instead promotes the economic, transportation and security integration of the region through the Pentagon-NATO Northern Distribution Network. The U.S. and NATO intend the NDN to supplant the SCO as the engine of economic and security integration in Central Asia. To date eleven of the fifteen former federal republics of the Soviet Union - all except for Armenia, Belarus, Moldova and Ukraine - have been incorporated into the NDN grid originating in the Baltic and Black Seas... Read more... Reagan's 'Tear Down This Wall' Myth', by Robert Parry | Consortium News ...As the United States celebrates Ronald Reagan’s centennial birthday, the defining proof of his greatness as president will be represented by two sequential film clips – Reagan in Berlin ordering Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev to “tear down this wall,” followed by scenes of the Berlin Wall coming down... [This is when the hyperventilating whackos took over - it's been downhill ever since] Read more...UN human rights expert Richard Falk under fire for 9/11 comments, by Anthony J. Hall | Voltairenet ..Professor Falk earned the ire of his critics for his forthright reporting on the human rights catastrophe facing those Palestinians most subject to Israel’s repressions... Read more... Americans Are Oppressed, Too, by Paul Craig Roberts | FPJ ...The Amerikan police state is closely allied with police states all over the world – Egypt, Yemen, Jordan, Saudi Arabia and Israel in the Middle East and former constituent parts of the Soviet Empire in Central Asia. The U.S. government never lifts a finger in behalf of democracy anywhere. In fact, the U.S. government quickly moves to overthrow democracy wherever it rears its head, as the U.S. recently did in Honduras. Before Honduras, it was Palestine where the U.S. overturned the election that brought Hamas to power. Now Washington is targeting Lebanon where Hezbollah has gained... Read more... Feb 6, 2011 Egypt (Cont'd) Tahrir: Shock and awe Mubarak style| Al Jazeera English  Pro-Mubarak activists clashed with pro-democracy supporters yesterday, with many in the pro-Mubarak camp accused of working for government ministries, including police forces Between the Monday of January 31 until Hosni Mubarak's quaint speech late in the night night (1 February), the pro-democracy protest in Tahrir Square was the most diverse gathering that I have ever witnessed in Egypt... Read more... Neocons' Tepid Reaction To The Egyptian Democratic Revolution, by Stephen J. Sniegoski | Intifada Palestine The uprisings currently taking place against the autocratic regimes in the Middle East would seem to be in line with the neoconservatives’ advocacy of radical democratic change in the region. But there is one significant difference. The neocons had sought to use democratic revolutions to overthrow the enemies of Israel... Read more... Egypt Emerges From Hibernation: the Sleeper Awakens, by Rannie Amiri | Counterpunch ...The deep slumber is now over. The reign of Hosni Mubarak will end, sooner or later, as a rejuvenated population sheds apathy’s blanket. After Israel, Egypt is the second-largest recipient of United States foreign aid. Other than what was embezzled, the $1.5 billion in annual assistance has been spent entirely on the military and bolstering Mubarak’s internal security apparatus. It ultimately ensured the Camp David state remained complaint with the diktats coming out of Tel Aviv and Washington... Read more... Why Egyptians are Calling Obama the "Black Bush", by Suzy Kassem | Counterpunch ...As an American of Egyptian heritage who left the U.S in 2006 to live in Egypt, I quickly discovered that the grievances I heard from my colleagues and the youth of America were no different than those of Egyptians. The common complaint amongst all voices was that of suffocation. Both regimes have the same review cards amongst the general population in both countries. However, the social , economic, and political landscapes of Egypt are more accelerated. What is happening in Egypt now, is an excellent forecaster of what is about to hit America... Read more... Egyptian Uprising Must Address U.S Interference and the Role of Israel in the Region, by Ghada Chehade | Global Research As an analyst and observer of the recent rebellions in the Middle East, specifically Egypt, I want to make three developing observations. First, the Egyptian people cannot confront local despots and “regime change” without addressing the patron of Mubarak’s regime - the United States. Second, because of the U.S’ influence and because Egypt is so strategically important to the U.S-Israel agenda for the Middle East, the U.S will attempt to control their investments and their interests by regaining control and maintaining patronage. In other words it will attempt (or may have already attempted) to co-opt the public uprising and manage it at some level and continue to do so. Last, in order to adequately address foreign meddlers within the context of the local region and its politics, one must also eventually address the role of Israel... Read more... America Is Egypt, by Gordon Duff | Veterans Today Egypt is a lesson for America, teaching us to look at ourselves, at how free we really are. We are not so different, Egypt under Mubarak and America under what ever gang of financial criminals and foreign thugs is controlling the government today. Egyptians have known thousands of years of slavery. They recognize it when they see it. Slavery, for most Americans, is something new... Read more... As Tahrir Square goes so goes the Middle East? by Franklin Lamb | My Catbird Seat Both Washington and Tel Aviv are were reported shocked by the speed of the Egyptian revolt and their intelligences agencies admit not seeing it coming. Much of the American reaction is being scripted by AIPAC and other Israel lobby agents… Read more... Anger in Egypt: Egypt's 'co-ordinated' transition, by Marwan Bishara | Al Jazeera English Al Jazeera's senior political analyst says those hoping for a quick Mubarak resignation have been disappointed... Read more... The US arms industry and the people's revolt in Egypt | Redress Information & Analysis Paul J. Balles comments on the USA’s ambivalent line on the people’s revolution in Egypt. He argues that although the administration has a growing fear that a government hostile to Washington could gain control Egypt, “the unspoken fear is that American arms manufacturers will lose a reliable customer".. Read more... Mubarak's Last Gasps, by Esam Al-Amin | Counterpunch According to the CIA's declassified documents and records, senior CIA operative, Kermit Roosevelt, paid $100,000 to mobsters in Tehran, in early August 1953, to hire the most feared thugs to stage pro-Shah riots. Other CIA-paid men were brought weeks later, on August 19, into Tehran in buses and trucks to take over the streets, topple the democratically elected Iranian government, and restore Shah Reza Pahlavi to his thrown. It took the people of Iran 26 years, enormous sacrifices, and a popular revolution to overthrow the imposed, corrupt and repressive rule of the Shah... Read more... Soaring Prices, Growing Destabilization: Food, Egypt and Wall Street, by Robert Alvarez | Counterpunch The dramatic rise in food prices is fueling a great deal of discontent in Tunisia, Egypt and elsewhere. It's a deep undercurrent propelling many of the poor, who face prospects of starvation to resort to the streets and to violence. According to the United Nation's Food Agency (Food and Agriculture Organization -- FAO) world food prices are up for the 7th month in a row and are likely to surpass the record high reached in December 2010... Read more... Documents reveal PA-Israel collaboration to target resistance | The Electronic Intifada Details on the growing security cooperation between the Ramallah-based Palestinian Authority, the United States and the United Kingdom were revealed yesterday, the third day of Al Jazeera network's release of more than 1,600 internal documents and secret correspondence from the last decade of negotiations between the Israeli government, the Palestinian Authority and the United States... Read more... Interview with Rachid Ghannouchi | Al Jazeera English Al Jazeera's Nazanine Moshiri sat down with the leader of Tunisia's al-Nahda - a pro-democracy Islamist party which remains illegal, even in post-Ben Ali Tunisia - to discuss his party's ambitions for the future... Read more... Feb 5, 2011 Egypt (Cont'd) All the President's Men in Egypt, by Dr. Ashraf Ezzat | Veterans Today  One picture is worth a thousand words Only a criminal regime could allow such criminal acts to dominate and terrorize innocent people with impunity... Read more... Israel places resources at Suleiman's disposal "to protect the Egyptian regime" | Middle East Monitor Well-placed Israeli sources have disclosed that the Zionist state has offered to place "all its capabilities" at the disposal of General Omar Suleiman, the recently appointed Vice President of Egypt, for the "protection of the regime in Egypt". This offer includes the implementation of "various operations to end the popular revolution".. Read more... Egypt After Mubarak: A Broader Perspective, by Jamal Kanj | Intifada Palestine ... Israeli inspired Americans have expressed concerns with the new Egypt turning into another Iran. Indeed, it might be the case if the Egyptian people concluded, as Iranians did 32 years ago, that America chose the side of the dictatorship... Read more... The spirit of Egypt's Tahrir Square: Mubarak's day of departure is his day of delay, by Christopher King | Redress Information & Analysis The people of Egypt restore one’s faith in humanity’s spirit and its aspirations. Despite vicious attacks by government thugs the demonstrators have remained peaceful while defending themselves. They long for democracy; so they should and their high spirits on the prospect of achieving it are justified. We see in Tahrir Square an inspirational spirit of cooperation in a people’s desire for freedom.... Read more... A Villa in the Jungle? by Uri Avnery | Palestine Chronicle The turmoil in Egypt was caused by economic factors: the rising cost of living, the poverty, the unemployment, the hopelessness of the educated young. But let there be no mistake: the underlying causes are far more profound. They can be summed up in one word: Palestine. In Arab culture, nothing is more important than honor. People can suffer deprivation, but they will not stand humiliation... Read more... Egypt, the US and the Israel Lobby, by Alison Weir | Counterpunch Minimally explored in all the coverage of the momentous Egyptian uprising taking place over the last 10 days are the Israeli connections. A central and critical reality is that it is US tax money that has propped up Hosni Mubarak’s despotic regime over the past 30 years, and that this money has flowed, from the beginning, largely on behalf of Israel... Read more... We Are All Egypt! by Susan Abulhawa | Palestine Chronicle The culture that is a pillar of history itself is, once again, unfurling a new era and, as one revolutionary protestor said, “the world before January 25th is not the same after January 25th”. With such spectacular passion, courage, endurance, and undaunted will, the people of Egypt are ushering in a new world order in the Middle East. Everyone, apparently except Hosni Mubarak, knows that Hosni Mubarak is finished... Read more... Israel's Fear of Arab Movement, by Robin Yassin-Kassab | Palestine Chronicle Tony Blair, with the blood of Iraq, Lebanon and Palestine dripping from his fingers, says Egyptian dictator Husni Mubarak is “immensely courageous and a force for good.” The opinion is based on working “with him on the Middle East peace process.” Mubarak’s record on the pacification process involves helping the Palestinian Authority transform itself into a (stateless) police state apparatus, obstructing Fatah-Hamas reconciliation, and constructing, in concert with US army engineers, a metal wall underneath the Gaza border... Read more... $5 million lawsuit targets Jimmy Carter for 'attacking Israel' by Sahil Kapur | Raw Story Former President Jimmy Carter has become the target of a class action lawsuit over ostensibly mean things he said about Israel in his best-selling 2006 book, Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid... [Carter is one of a very rare breed, at least in America, a genuine Christian] Read more...Out with the collaborators: in with honest unity | Redress Information & Analysis Stuart Littlewood views the deceitfulness, double-talk, vacuousness and lack of transparency that pervade the statements and actions of the United States, Israel, the UK and their quisling outfit in the occupied Palestinian territories, Fatah... Read more... Feb 4, 2011 Obama Announces He is Not Running for Another Term as Egyptian President | Mantiq al-Tayr  Image courtesy of Skulz Fontaine whose offices in Cairo were shut down by the authorities in Israel last week... Blood and fear in Cairo's streets as Mubarak's men crack down on protests, by Robert Fisk | The Independent "President" Hosni Mubarak's counter-revolution smashed into his opponents yesterday in a barrage of stones, cudgels, iron bars and clubs, an all-day battle in the very centre of the capital he claims to rule between tens of thousands of young men, both – and here lies the most dangerous of all weapons – brandishing in each other's faces the banner of Egypt... Read more... The Man With The White Yarmulke | Gilad Atzmon Three days ago Jerusalem urged its ‘Western allies’ to support Mubarak. Yesterday war criminal Tony Blair complied submissively suggesting that “Mubarak is immensely courageous and a force for good.”.. Read more... More Humor Dept: Wit and Wisdom of Mark Regev | YouTube Mark Regev talks backwards about Gaza... [Read the comments] Watch video...ADL covering up for crimes of financial elites, by Robert Stark | Los Angeles Examiner The ADL is accusing the New York Times Maureen Dowd of anti-semitism over a recent op-ed titled "Virtuous Bankers? Really!?!" The article about corruption on Wall Street specifically involving Goldman Sachs... Read more... Egyptian Army Pledges Not to Resort to Violence [Satire] | Sabbah Report ...More importantly though, this shows that key elements of the Israeli lobby have long been aware that Mubarak was basically finished and they are now trying to make sure US policy is steered in a direction that places Israeli interests first and foremost, all the while telling the world how much they just love the Egyptians by putting out statements that look like they were drafted by the National Council of Little Old Ladies in Tennis Shoes (NCLOLTS)... Read more... Israel sides with its loyal ally in Cairo | Redress Information & Analysis Lawrence Davidson considers the partnership in crime that unites Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and his loyal ally, Egyptian ruler Hosni Mubarak. He urges the Obama administration to wash its hands off the “Mussolini-style fascists, Nazi-style brown shirts, and Israeli fanatics” in Cairo and Tel Aviv... Read more... Netanyahu and company must be proud of Mubarak and his thugs | Alan Hart ...The Mubarak regime’s strategy was (and at the time of writing still is) to discredit the pro-democracy campaigners by causing Egyptians to have an overwhelming fear of insecurity, and thus an inclination to side with the regime on the grounds that ending the anti-Mubarak protests is essential if stability is to return and be maintained... Read more... Feb 3, 2011 Egypt (Cont'd)  Road to al-Quds passes through Cairo, Baghdad and Riyadh | Rehmat's World The Leader of Islamic Revolution (1979), Imam Khomeini is quoted as saying that road to Jerusalem passes through Cairo, Baghdad and Riyadh. What he meant was that Muslims cannot recover their third most sacred city of Al-Quds without getting rid of the pro-USraeli regimes in Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Iraq, which are maintained there by the West as Israel’s ‘first line of defense’ against the Islamic forces... Read more... Egypt's Revolution: Obama Backing Regime Change? by Stephen Lendman | Indybay In July 2003, a USAF Institute for National Security Studies report titled, "Egypt as a Failing State: Implications for US National Security" suggested "Mubarak's traditionally autocratic and oppressive short-term fixes" weren't working. As a result, "the possibility of unrest is real; with the correct confluence of domestic, regional, and international events, Egypt can quickly be added to the list of failed states....This paper (thus) contends that (the appearance of) democracy is a security imperative for the post-9/11 world.".. [Israel is #54; here's the link] Read more... Egypt - America's favourite torture destination, by Christopher King | Redress Information & Analysis ...There is no doubt that the violence is organized by the police and the security services. Some of their attackers have been captured by the pro-democracy demonstrators and they have been found to be carrying police identification cards. The police and the security services, as well as an elite who have enriched themselves as friends of Mubarak, have a great deal to lose if he should fall... Read more... The Arab world's 1989 revolution? by Jacqueline Head | Al Jazeera As protests sweep Arab nations and reach fever pitch in Egypt, are we seeing a revolution of Soviet bloc proportions?.. Read more... Pass the Onions: In Egypt a Demonstration is a Riot, by Ahmed Amr | Palestine Chronicle The Egyptian uprising came to my front door last Friday and I ended up getting my fair share of America's foreign aid budget by inhaling an unhealthy dose of tear jerking fumes, courtesy of Combined Tactical Systems. The American ‘aid’ that I inhaled came from surprisingly attractive tear gas canisters with the company’s logo and a description of the contents - ‘6230 Riot CS Smoke’. I’m not sure what the occasion was because I wasn’t rioting. The only thing I did to deserve being tear-gassed was join a peaceful march to demand some basic democratic changes in Egypt starting with the removal of Hosni Mubarak... Read more... The Intriguing Alliance, by George S. Hishmeh | Palestine Chronicle ...What has been intriguing here has been the intimate relationship between the U.S. and its all-important Egyptian ally and his ties with Israel. Indeed, President Barack Obama had to walk a thin line ever since the historic Egyptian uprising and some shocking statements by his vice president, Joe Biden, who refused to describe Mubarak as a dictator and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton who was, for example, criticized in a Washington Post editorial for making “foolish” statements in defense of the Mubarak regime... Read more... Unraveling the Illusion: the Democracy that Never Was, by William A. Cook | Palestine Chronicle The Egyptian peoples’ revolution against their government forces to the fore the unfortunate reality that America’s friendship is an illusion created for its own benefit, a strategy, if you will, that creates a mirage of trust, compassion, and good will for the people while it disfranchises them from power, enriches the “inner circle,” establishes a brutal police force to control them, providing thereby a resident dictator that will do the bidding of America’s military-industrial complex to sustain its enormous need for on-going wars and a budget that saps the wealth of the nation itself... Read more... Egypt Revolution Traps Washington, by James Gundun | Palestine Chronicle The video phones are ringing off the hook. Crumbling and nervous allies, observing foreign governments, journalists, activists, maybe an opposition figure or two. All wanting to know how the White House will respond to the revolutionary furor sweeping the Middle East - all wanting to know what President Barack Obama will do next... Read more... Rights NGO claims that Israeli planes carrying crowd dispersal weapons have arrived in Egypt | Middle East Monitor Three Israeli planes landed at Cairo’s Mina International Airport on Saturday carrying hazardous equipment for use in dispersing and suppressing large crowds... Read more... Israeli Death Squads to Infiltrate Egyptian Protests | Kawther Salam The office of israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu offered their counterpart in the Egyptian government, Omar Suleiman, also head of Egyptian intelligence, to send death squad units, the groups of militant zionist murderers who wear Arab civilian clothes also known as “mistaaravim”, to infiltrate the protesters in Egypt in order to assassinate the leaders of the opposition and the revolutionary movement who take part in the protests against the dictatorial regime of Hosni Mubarak and his thugs... Read more... Does Egypt Matter to the US Public? You Better Believe it Does! by Joe Clifford | Salem-News So far we have given Egypt about 70 billion dollars to cover for Israel. We attempted to purchase with our money, security for Israel, and Mubarak has proven himself a loyal puppet and has maintained a false peace... Read more... To the Members of the Eugene Human Rights Commission, by Rich Forer | One Democratic State On July 20, 2010 the Eugene Human Rights Commission (EHRC) approved a request by the al-Nakba Project to write a letter of condemnation of Israel’s lethal attack upon the Gaza Freedom Flotilla on May 31, 2010. The letter was to be sent to the Eugene City Council as well as Congressional leaders. The Jewish Federation of Lane County and Jewish Community Relations Council (JCRC), accusing the al-Nakba Project of being a “virulently anti-Israel” group, strongly objected to the statement. When I heard about this controversy I looked at the statements that members of the Jewish Federation made to convince the EHRC not to issue the statement and decided to write to the EHRC myself... Read more... Revolutions & Manipulations | Ken O'Keefe If there is one thing we must do in order to understand the way in which our world functions, it is to look at it through the eyes of pure evil and insanity. Looking at the world as a human with a conscience will only make things very confusing. You need to think like a tyrant, drunk on power, and totally insane. OK, get into that mode, let’s take a walk down the path of insanity... Read more... Churchill: More Myth Than Legend, by Patrick Foy | Taki's Magazine ...The “good war” resulted in approximately fifty million fatalities worldwide, left Europe a starved and blasted continent, destroyed the far-flung British and French empires, brought the Soviets into Europe’s heart for more than forty years, and handed China over to Mao Tse-tung... Read more... Somebody please hand Abbas the revolver on the silver tray | Redress Information & Analysis Stuart Littlewood views Mahmoud Abbas’s despicable record since he became chairman of the Palestinian Authority in suspect elections: in addition to his illegitimacy, there is his treasonous behaviour, his role as Israel’s thug in the occupied territories and his lying under oath, to name but a few... Read more... Feb 2, 2011 Vive l'Egypte!  Tunisia And Egypt: Why Now?, by Dr. Lawrence Davidson | Intifada Palestine If the recent events in Tunisia and Egypt tell us anything it is that predicting the beginning of mass unrest is very difficult. Indeed, it is probably easier to predict the stock market. What one can do, however, is describe conditions that are likely to create a context conducive to such unrest. What might those be?.. Read more... The Hosni Mubarak Fan Club, by Justin Raimondo | Antiwar A long-oppressed people finally rises up and braves tanks, secret police thugs, and the inertia of routine humiliation to say: “Enough”! Who could fail to sympathize? Well, Rep. Thaddeus McCotter (R-Michigan), for one:.. Read more... Global Intifada | Gilad Atzmon Over the weekend Israel called on the United States and a number of European countries to restrain their condemnation of President Hosni Mubarak to “preserve stability in the region.”.. as far as Israelis are concerned, ‘stability in the region’ means a few million Jews living in ‘safety’ on Palestinian land, at the expense of one billion Muslims. But I guess that this Zionist militant expansionist fantasy is crumbling in front of our eyes now... Read more... Tunisia Egypt Global Revolution Tribute | YouTube Made on January 31, 2011, Ken O'Keefe pays tribute to the revolutionaries of Tunisia, Egypt, along with the global revolutionaries yet to be identified. "Governments should fear their people.!".. Watch video... U.S. Media and the Mighty Uprising in Egypt, by Massoud Nayeri | Uprooted Palestinians ...We, the American people have a huge responsibility to makes sure that Egyptians will freely and without interference from the U.S. government decide for themselves as our ancestors did in the American Revolution. We need to support our brothers and sisters in Egypt, unconditionally. This is the right thing to do and it will benefit us in long run. In this equation, the only losers will be the dictators and the Apartheid State of Israel... Read more... Egyptian Workers Hold Key to Uprising, New Union Association Issues Call for General Strike, by Jeff Kaye | Uruknet While much analysis has focused on the youth-social network driven aspects of the recent uprising in Egypt, or on diplomatic and political maneuvers that thus far have left President Mubarak in office, and given even more power to the state repressive apparatus through the appointment of Intelligence Chief Omar Suleiman to the Vice Presidency, it is the Egyptian working class that holds the future of its country in its hands... Read more... People Power in Action: The Making of Egypt's Revolution, by Esam Al-Amin | Counterpunch ...despite this massive indictment of the Egyptian regime by the U.S. government, the U.S. continued to support the Mubarak regime, providing it with almost $2 billion annually, the second largest foreign aid recipient after Israel. According to the Congressional Research Report submitted to Congress in September 2009, the U.S. had subsidized the Egyptian regime with over $64 billion since it signed the peace treaty with Israel in 1979, including $40 billion in military hardware and security gear... Read more... Crunch time coming for America in the Middle East?, by Alan Hart | My Catbird Seat ..If more and more Arabs breach the wall of fear that has prevented them for decades from demanding their rights, expressing their rage at the corruption and repression of their governments and at regime impotence in the face of Israel’s arrogance of power, there’s one question above all others America’s policy makers will have to ask themselves. Who do we need most if America’s own real interests are to be best protected – the Arabs or Israel? And that, of course, begs the mother and father of all questions for them: Is Israel our most valuable ally in the region or our biggest liability?.. Read more... The Tunisian example and Britain: Britain's street riots lie ahead | Redress Information & Analysis Christopher King views the structurally-corrupt British political and financial systems. He argues that the upheavals in the Arab world should be instructive to British politicians and the British public because the “same factors underlying the desire for reform in the Arab world are operating in Britain”... Read more... Heroism In Palestinian Culture, by Ayman Qwaider | Intifada Palestine Among the Arab world, the Palestinian people have become icons and heroes in a particular way. Listening to some Palestinian national songs generates intense reminiscence of Gaza and the ongoing Israeli’s government violence in that territory. It also paints a portrait of the Palestinian struggle and how this contributes to the culture of resistance... Read more... BBC Joins Smear Campaign Against Assange and Wikileaks, by Israel Shamir | Counterpunch ...Looking back, the signs of danger were easy to see. They were producing a program about Wikileaks, but they had no plans to interview Julian Assange. Perhaps he is too busy? Furthermore, the questions began to take on a sinister tone. I shrugged off the feeling as a by-product of all the dirty politics we were discussing, but a few telephone conversations later my ill feelings finally seeped into my swelled head and it dawned on me what was going on. These nice chaps from the BBC were actually collecting dirt to use against Wikileaks! I was being played for a sucker. Suddenly I felt like Julian Assange, face to face with the honey trap... Read more... Blaming and (Killing) the Messenger: A Wikileak on the US and Al- Jazeera, by Kathleen Christison | Counterpunch The United States has had it in for al-Jazeera at least since 2000, when the Qatar-based news network began reporting on Israel’s harsh treatment of Palestinians during the intifada and, a year later, covered the start of U.S. war-making in the Middle East, revealing to the Arab world a graphic picture of U.S. and Israeli brutality. During the Iraq war, U.S. planes bombed the al-Jazeera station in Baghdad and killed one of its correspondents, in what clearly appeared to be an attempt to silence the network... Read more... Palestine Papers: Uncovering The Well-Known, by Dr. Elias Akleh | Intifada Palestine ..The Palestinians had not gained any positive results through these negotiations. On the contrary they have been witnessing their land being gradually snatched from under them few meters at a time, more of their rights being continuously violated, and more and more of them being routinely murdered by Israeli army and extremist colonizers (settlers)... Read more... Israel Actually Does Not Yet Exist! by Jim Kirwan | Window Into Palestine  You would think that after all the time that has passed since Israel declared itself to be a state among the community of nations that, by now, it would be at least an accepted fact in the world. However you would not be correct. Israel is a place that has yet to finish claiming what 'it' sees as its own border rights... 'Tomorrow we'll trample you with our shoes! Leave with honor, you disgusting bunch!', by Philip Weiss | Mondoweiss I wish the American media were reflecting more of the pure democratic joy of the Egyptian revolution... Read more, watch video... George Galloway Slams Hosni Mubarak | Intifada Palestine Watch video... The road to Jerusalem runs through Tunis and Cairo, by Philip Weiss | Salon ..The lesson of Tunisia and Egypt for American foreign policy is that the United States is the most conservative force in the world, in this region. It didn't see democracy coming because it didn't want to see it coming to the Arab world and to the palaces we supported. And when democracy did come, the U.S. creditably reversed field in Tunisia, but has stuck by its dictator in Egypt... Read more... As the Dominoes Flow Toward Israel, by Prof. William A. Cook | Intifada Palestine While the people of the mid-east rise in protest against their respective American supported dictators in Tunisia and Egypt, with the American-Israeli attempts to control Lebanon on the brink of chaos and collapse, and the “peace negotiations” between the Palestinians and the Israelis torpedoed by both Netanyahu and Abbas, the confusion at the State Department could be eased if it spent some time reviewing the United States’ prior efforts to control the people of the mid-east... Read more... Jewish Power Is Falling Apart | Gilad Atzmon ...The Jewish site claims that much of Latuff’s work “expresses anti-Semitic themes. Some of his caricatures seem to suggest that Israel is a unique and immutable evil in the world.” I am afraid to disappoint the Zionist watchdog; the Jewish State is uniquely evil, and this fact has been exposed numerous times in the last years by UN fact finding missions... [see also Carlos Latuff's Deviant Art Gallery] US Ambassador's Bid to Get Richard Falk Sacked from UN Opens a Can of Worms, by Stuart Littlewood | Intifada Palestine Mention Richard Falk and you think of an honourable man who cares deeply about injustice, particularly the trampled rights of Palestinians under the evil jackboot. Mention Susan Rice, US Ambassador to the United Nations, and what comes to mind?.. [Just another one of Israel's whores; they run a humongous bordello] Read more... Palestinian Authority's back to wall after Al Jazeera revelations, by Jonathan Cook | The National Is the Palestinian Authority finished and, with it, 18 years of the Middle East peace process? That is the question increasingly being asked by Palestinians in the wake of a week of damaging revelations that Palestinian negotiators secretly made major concessions to Israel in talks on Jerusalem, refugees and borders... Read more... Gilad Atzmon: 'American foreign policy a total mess' | PressTV ...In regards to American policy in the Middle East, Atzmon attributes U.S.' failed approach to a foreign policy that is shaped by Israeli interest and exploited by such Zionist lobbies as the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC). If Washington persists in this path, Atzmon says, "America is doomed to fail in its foreign policy.".. Read more... US' Egypt policy under fire as uprising gains momentum | YouTube ..As anti-government protests continue to rock the streets of Egypt, a close ally of the U.S., the White House's policy towards the developments there comes under scrutiny... Watch video... Selling the people short: the US economy and the military-industrial complex | Redress Information & Analysis Paul J. Balles views the growing dependence of the US economy on the military-industrial complex, including arms exports and foreign wars that feeds those exports... |
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