Feb 28-29, 2012 Support Historic Methodist & Presbyterian Church Divestment Resolutions! by Anna Baltzer | US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation  ..After many years of hard work by activists in both denominations, the global United Methodist Church (UMC) and the Presbyterian Church (USA) are voting over the next six months on resolutions to divest from Caterpillar, Motorola Solutions, and Hewlett Packard due to their complicity in the Israeli occupation... Read more... The Mossad Has Long Given Marching Orders to AIPAC, by Grant Smith | Antiwar AIPAC’s Washington policy conference next month is drawing intense scrutiny and unprecedented resistance. AIPAC has worked quietly for years to tripwire the United States into war with Iran. Soon it will “ask” Congress and the president to define “nuclear weapons capability” as the threshold for war, essentially demanding an immediate attack. Because Iran presents no military threat to the United States, many Americans wonder exactly where such costly and potentially disastrous policies are formulated... Read more... What nasty surprises await our warmongers in the Gulf? | Redress Information & Analysis Stuart Littlewood looks at the tinderbox that is waiting to explode in the Persian Gulf as the USA and Britain contemplate doing Israel’s bidding and attacking Iran, and suggests that if Britain’s Israel flag wavers love Israel so much, then they should “don uniform and flak-jacket” and go play in the tinderbox themselves... Read more... The Non-Issue: Agonizing, Incremental Israeli Expansion & Occupation, by John Glaser | Antiwar  ...There has been considerable focus in recent weeks on the inordinate sway Israel has on U.S. foreign policy, especially towards Iran. Reckless Israeli policy and rhetoric on the Iran issue could get the U.S. into a war that Obama administration officials have repeatedly criticized as unnecessary. But almost no attention has been paid lately to how U.S. subservience to Israel works to continue the defunct peace process and how lavish U.S. support for Israel is actually support for illegal Israeli expansion and annexation of Palestinian land... Read more... Recent Events In Afghanistan | Moon of Alabama When you're wounded and left on Afghanistan's plains, And the women come out to cut up what remains, Jest roll to your rifle and blow out your brains Britain draws up battle plan against Iran | Economic Times Britain is reportedly drawing up a battle plan for a war with Iran as top defence officials believe London will be "sucked into" any new conflict with Tehran. Plans are being made to send hundreds of troops and an nuclear submarine to the Gulf region, The Sun reported. Defense officials believe it is just a matter of when the war breaks out - with the timescale set between 18 and 24 months... Russia's stance toward Syria, by Boris Dolgov | China.org  Russia vetoed the United Nations Security Council resolution, which sought to blame President Bashar al-Assad for the violence against civilians in Syria and urged him to step down, because it did not correspond to the real situation in Syria, where the majority of Syrian people, 60 percent, support his government. I saw for myself demonstrations by tens of thousands of people who support President al-Assad when I visited Syria in August 2011 and in January 2012. Many of the international media, such as CNN, Al Jazeera and Al Arabiya, are waging an information war against Syria. They portray al-Assad's regime as suppressing the people and shooting peaceful protestors. This is not true... Read more... Why it’s Time for Jews to Get Over the Holocaust, by Binyamin Weinreich | The Beacon The Holocaust is considered the seminal event of modern Jewish history. In fact, it is usually taken as the line which differentiates between modern and pre-modern Jewish history. It is portrayed as the inevitable end toward which millennia of Jewish history inexorably led, the sum total of all our years in Europe, and the ashes from which Jewish autonomy, in the form of the State of Israel, was reborn. Modern Jews have taken it upon themselves to make sure that the memory of the Holocaust remains forever fresh. It’s about time they stopped... [It will be interesting to see what the High Priesthood of the Holycause will do to him for uttering such heresy.] Read more...AIPAC: Anti-Iran, Interventionist, Warmongering, by Michael S. Rozeff | Lew Rockwell The American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) is an anti-Iran influence on U.S. foreign policy that cannot be ignored. In its words, AIPAC wants to "prevent Iranian nuclear weapons capability". Yet Israel has that capability and far beyond. Israel has actual nuclear weapons. Note the following four contrasts between Israel and Iran:.. Read more... Palestine, You Better Run! | Roy Tov  ...It is obvious from the map that the plan has been constructed modularly. It features eleven different railways; Israel would attempt to implement it in parts, beginning with the short line between Rosh Ha’ayin to the West Bank settlement of Ariel. “Divide and Conquer” is probably the best description of the Israeli policy towards the Arab world. In Hebrew, this is known as the “Salami System:” slice and eat, slice and eat; accordingly “eating it/him/her without salt” is a Hebrew euphemism for an easy target, which in English would be usually referred as “a piece of cake,” or “a breeze.” This would be Israel’s strategy: one short railway line at a time, until the West Bank is dissected... Read more... Harvard's 'one-state' conference spurs 'National Review Online' call to transfer Palestinians out of Jewish state, by Philip Weiss | Mondoweiss There's going to be a one-state conference at Harvard this weekend. One of the fascinations of my latest trip to Israel/Palestine was seeing how Palestinians have given up on the two-state solution because Israel has destroyed the possibility and the U.N. has pocket-vetoed Palestinian statehood, and people who are sick of occupation are desperately looking around for other ideas (including, inevitably, armed resistance)... Read more... Israeli Reactions to Oscar-Winning Iranian Film Reveal an Ignorant & Propagandized Population, by Nima Shirazi | Wide Asleep in America Last night, the brilliant Iranian film A Separation took the Best Foreign Film Oscar. This AP article, picked up by the Washington Post, about Israeli reactions to the film reveals the sheer amount of propaganda Israelis must be subject to regarding their perception of Iran. It's clear they are ignorant of what Iran is actually like...those interviewed are all shocked that the country is full of cars, home appliances, and real live human beings!.. Read more... ADL enlists city of Oakland to block Atzmon event, by Rick Sterling and Henry Norr | Mondoweiss  The Israel lobby in the San Francisco Bay Area has once again attempted to censor discussion of Zionism and the Palestine issue - this time by apparently pushing Oakland city officials to force a public event featuring the controversial Gilad Atzmon out of a city-run arts center... Read more... 10 Reasons Why the Israel Lobby AIPAC is So Dangerous, by Medea Benjamin | Dissident Voice The American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) is one of the most powerful lobby organizations in the country. AIPAC’s clout helps fuel a never-ending cycle of violence in the Middle East. Here are ten reasons why AIPAC is so dangerous... Read more... Dershowitz wants MJ Rosenberg fired for daring to stop Iran war push, by Philip Weiss | Mondoweiss This is awful. Alan Dershowitz has launched another headhunting/blacklisting campaign, this one aimed at journalist M.J. Rosenberg of the left-Dem shop, Media Matters. The underlying reason for Dershowitz's campaign is obvious: Rosenberg has had the guts to stick by his use of the term "Israel firster" as a means of calling out the Iran war-supporters despite a smear campaign by neoconservatives and Israel lobbyists... [“If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State” ~ Joseph Goebbels. That’s Dershowitz to a T, the free-lance propaganda minister for the Zionist fifth-column in America.] Read more...Israel will strike Iran without warning US - intelligence source | RT  Israeli officials say if they decide to launch a pre-emptive attack on Iranian nuclear facilities, they will do so without the prior consent or knowledge of the US, according to an AP report citing leaked US intelligence... [Maybe some day the world will get it together to strike Israel a devastating blow and the nightmare will be over.] Read more...Threats to You or Your Family?: Tales of the Israel Lobby, by James Abourezk | Counterpunch ...Dershowitz is neither a good lawyer nor a good liar. He is trying to slither out of what has become nearly a full time occupation–that of branding any criticism of Israel as coming from someone who hates Jews. That does not work on me, as I’m secure in my anti-racist feelings. I’ve had any number of Zionists who are devoid of any reasonable argument throw the anti-semitism charge at me. Sorry, but it doesn’t work, and Dershowitz is not clever enough to make the “shoe fit” no matter how hard he tries... [There’s a good old Yiddish word for people of Dershowitz’s ilk: scheister, If the shoe fits, wear it.] Read more...'Iran' as a weapon of subordination, by Vijay Prashad | Asia Times Online The United States has taken steps to pressure its allies outside Europe to move away from imports of Iranian oil. US State Department spokesperson Victoria Nuland specifically mentioned India and China when saying on February 21 that her government was "having talks with countries around the world about the implications of the [sanctions/embargo] legislation with regard to our expectation that countries will increasingly wean themselves of dependence on Iranian oil.".. Read more... Finkelstein, BDS and the destruction of Israel, by Ali Abunimah | Al Jazeera English  Contrary to Finkelstein's claim that the BDS movement would lead to the 'destruction' of Israel, one can simply look to Ireland as an example of a lasting two-state solution In a recent and highly controversial interview, Norman Finkelstein, long a scourge of Israel, turned his guns on Palestinians and their supporters. He accused the boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) movement of being a "cult", and claimed that its achievements were mostly exaggerated. But what exercised Finkelstein most was his conclusion that if implemented, the demands of the 2005 Palestinian civil society call for BDS, would amount to "the destruction of Israel"... Syriana redux: The Middle East fragments, by Brian M Downing | Asia Times Online National borders from the eastern Mediterranean to the Iranian border were made after the breakup of the Ottoman Empire in 1918. Britain and France, with little consideration for sectarian or ethnic realities, drew lines across the area and established the new countries of Iraq and Syria. As authoritarian regimes disappear under the weight of the 2003 US invasion of Iraq and the ongoing uprising in Syria, regional boundaries may be redrawn by indigenous peoples and regional powers... Read more... Obama, the Jewish lobby and the bomb, by Kaveh L Afrasiabi | Asia Times Online With the Iran war hysteria getting louder, United States President Barack Obama, due to address the Jewish lobby on Sunday ahead of his meeting with the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu next week, is facing one of the toughest choices of his presidency: whether to appease the pro-Israeli warmongers or, instead, to use his authority to put a break on the omnibus of another war in the Middle East?.. Read more... Feb 27, 2012 People's Struggle For Existence | YouTube  The film addresses the story of Israel's illegal appropriation of Palestinian land and water resources in the Jordan Valley since 1967 and how Israeli policies, historically and through the present day, seek to minimize the number of Palestinians in the area... For the release of our compatriots and colleagues held captive in Baba Amr, by Thierry Meyssan | Voltaire Network Several journalists are held in the sealed-off Baba Amr area. According to Atlanticist leaders, they are prevented from leaving by the constant pounding of the rebel stronghold by the Syrian Army. As an on-the-spot privileged witness of the negotiations, Thierry Meyssan gives an account of the situation: the journalists are kept as prisoners by the Free "Syrian" Army which uses them as human shields. Their evacuation by the Syrian Red Crescent has been obstructed by the rebels... Read more... List of Releases: The Global Intelligence Files | Wikileaks Today, Monday 27 February, WikiLeaks began publishing The Global Intelligence Files – more than five million emails from the Texas-headquartered "global intelligence" company Stratfor. The emails date from between July 2004 and late December 2011. They reveal the inner workings of a company that fronts as an intelligence publisher, but provides confidential intelligence services to large corporations, such as Bhopal’s Dow Chemical Co., Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, Raytheon and government agencies, including the US Department of Homeland Security, the US Marines and the US Defense Intelligence Agency. The emails show Stratfor’s web of informers, pay-off structure, payment-laundering techniques and psychological methods, for example... Read more... America’s U.N. Double Standard, by Sami Zaatari | Intifada Palestine After Russia and China’s veto at the UN Security Council American politicians were quick to condemn both countries. American ambassador to the UN Susan Rice called it disgusting, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton called it a travesty,.. [In the sweepstakes for most disgusting, even among female vampires, these two “ladies” have the inside track.] Read more...An Open Letter to International Public Opinion: The Truth About Greece, by Mikis Theodorakis | Spitha-Kap There is an international conspiracy whose target is the complete destruction of my country. They began in 1975 aiming at Modern Greek civilization, continued with the distortion of our modern history and our national identity and they are now trying to eliminate us biologically as well through unemployment, hunger and impoverishment. If Greek people don't rise as one in order to prevent them, the danger of Greece becoming extinct is evident. I place it within the next ten years. There will be nothing left of us but the memory of our civilization and our battles for freedom... [English follows the Greek] Pakistan Frees US Embassy Employee after Bullets Found in Luggage, by Debbie Menon | Intifada Palestine  Raymond Davis CIA Contractor held in custody for murder and later released after a "blood money" deal was made with the families of the two victims ...just what kind of “diplomacy” it is that the USA is engaging in which requires that US Diplomatic Officers, those who qualify for “Diplomatic Immunity,” to carry arms such as this man and Ray Davis did? Is US Foreign Policy that hard to sell that their “diplomats” need weapons to persuade or enforce it? I would think that this might be something which the American public might not know about, and perhaps ought to know about. Things like this used to be regarded as “News.”.. Read more... Exploding the myth of the Iranian Bomb, by Tim Black | Spiked ...Over the past few years, the international obsession with stopping Iran from building its very own nuclear weapon appears to have developed an almost internal dynamic quite apart from what the Iranian government may or may not be doing. In battling Iran’s aspiration towards nuclear warheads, real or not, Western leaders seem to have found a cause, a Good Fight. If Iran’s nuclear ambition didn’t exist, you get the feeling that Western governments would be only too happy to invent it. Which, in part, they may have done... Read more... Language Imperialism: (Mis)representing History and Culture | Global Research TV As China, Russia, and the other so-called BRICS nations rise in economic and geopolitical power, interest in these countries' language and culture is increasing in the West. Dr. Thorsten Pattberg of Peking University examines the ways that translation of certain key concepts misrepresents history and culture... Syria: the Middle East’s tipping point, by Nassar Ibrahim | Intifada Palestine The struggle for Syria isn’t just about Syria–it’s the struggle for a free, democratic Middle East versus one that lives under the yoke of American and Israeli hegemony... Read more... Two Peoples, One Hummus | Gilad Atzmon ... in spite of the fact Israel is an organic sovereign State - it is already recognised as a one State by the nations, it has a single sewage system, one electric grid, one pre-dial international code - many Western world leaders insist that it should actually be divided into two. But don’t you think that it is pretty unusual for the ‘international community’ to blindly follow the Zionist ideology and draw a racially inspired line between the two people on the land?.. Read more... Balochistan: CIA Carving Out New Role | Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs Post  ...Over the long term, the CIA has an interest in keeping the strategically important Port of Gwadar out of China’s influence. Over the short to medium term, the CIA also has an interest in supporting Jundallah, also known as People’s Resistance Movement of Iran (PRMI), a violent organization that claims to be “fighting for the rights of Sunni Muslims in Iran.”.. Read more... Faux-"Progressive" Holocaust Denier Gilad Atzmon Tours U.S. | Daily Kos ...Alan Dershowitz has recently noted what a dirtbag Atzmon is, and has said so in a few places, including a WSJ commentary. But Atzmon uses stuff like that to rally the troops: "You should come hear him talk, even if only because Dershowitz says you shouldn't.".. [The giveaway is that he cites the sage Dershowitz, a rabid ZioNazi if ever there was one. I have long wondered what this “Kos” stands for. Now I have a clue: "Kingdom of Satan" maybe?.] Read more...Return of the General's Son | YouTube Miko Peled is the son of General Matti Peled, who was a leader in the 1967 war who also fought in the War of Independence in 1948. Like his father, Peled is an advocate for an end to the occupation of Palestine. As an Israeli, he offers an insider's perspective on just how far Israel has strayed from its democratic principles, and how it has created a society marred by racism and indifference to the suffering of others... Read more... A Radioactive Situation, by Eric Margolis | The National Interest Not so very long ago, open discussions of a possible Israeli or American attacks on Iran’s nuclear military and civilian infrastructure would have seemed beyond the realm of reality. But in today’s super-heated climate of hysteria and fearmongering over Iran’s nuclear program, talk of launching a war that could engulf the region and create an ecological catastrophe is considered matter of fact... Read more... Scahill on MSNBC Debating Syria, Yemen, Iran, etc. | Antiwar Here’s a nice, raucous, Sunday morning debate between Jeremy Scahill and Ann-Marie Slaughter on Up with Chris Hayes... Popular Media Personality: The U.S. Has the Moral Authority to Annihilate Iran Because They’re Evil | Washingtons' Blog ..Quite a few evangelical Christians think that all Muslims are evil, and Islam is the work of the devil. And the war on terror has largely been a religious crusade (as well as a campaign to liberate Middle Eastern oil.) Moreover, there is a widespread myth repeated by American media and politicians that Iran’s President (Ahmadinejad) said that Israel should be “wiped off the map”... [An example of pure projection - as opposed to the plain and simple truth: “We have met the enemy and they are us” (Pogo, as transcribed by Walt Kelly)] Syria: Rogue Elements Rampant, by Felicity Arbuthnot | Global Research  ...no proposed invasion (sorry, “humanitarian intervention”) regime change and accompanying mass slayings would be complete without forces of a wicked tyrant switching off electricity to babies incubators. For anyone who has forgotten the details, the (1990-1991) Iraq model went like this: vast US government employed PR agency, Hill and Knowlton (“we create value by shaping conversations: we start them, we amplify them, we change them. We can connect seamlessly with all of your audiences…”)produced a fifteen year old girl called “Nayirah”, a “Kuwaiti with first hand knowledge of ... her tortured land.” “I volunteered (tears) at the Al Addan Hospital .. I saw the Iraqi soldiers ..with guns, they took fifteen babies out of incubators, left them on the cold floor and took the incubators.”.. Read more... Ron Paul says America is 'slipping into a fascist system' by J. D. Heyes | Natural News You may have grown weary of listening to the candidates vying for our nation's highest office in November, so I completely understand if you have all but tuned out the rhetoric and noise coming from the campaign trail. But sometimes those who seek to lead us say something so profound that it not only bears repeating, but is worth taking the time to pause and consider... Read more... There Never Was An American Empire Only A Machine That Consumed Us All | Video Rebel's Blog ...The purpose of war in the 20th and 21st centuries was to generate debts you can never possibly pay so you will become a Debt Slave owned by the New York and London banks. Now you understand why you are the enemy. A well known psychologist recently asked me why 75 American Senators voted to allow 30,000 drones not just to surveil Americans but to also actually shoot us in the streets. The majority of those 30,000 drones will be armed. No Judge. No jury. Just immediate and summary execution for any American who displeases someone somewhere. No matter if the person with a finger on the button to kill you is just a teenager who thinks he is playing a video game... These Are The World's Most Powerful Mercenary Armies | Business Insider With more than 625,000 employees, this listed security giant is the second-largest private employer in the world (behind Wal-Mart). While some of its business is focused on routine bank, prison and airport security, G4S also plays an important role in crisis-zones right around the world. [Click forward arrows to continue reading article] Israeli brutality menaces intl. rights campaigners | PressTV Even international activists in the occupied Palestinian territories are threatened by the presence there of the infamous Israeli Golani brigade... Feb 26, 2012 Humanitarian aid, codename for foreign intervention in Syria? | PressTV  The Bab Amr suburb of Homs Maybe the best definition for the “Friends of Syria” Conference is the one provided by the “Coordination Committee.” The representatives of the committee went to Tunisia but refused to attend the Qatar-led conference in the very last moments... Read more... Greece’s Fadeaway: Iran and Israel Battle over Cyprus | Roy Tov Today, February 26, 2012, an odd media battle took place in Iran. Different agencies reported and denied that Iran was blocking the shipment of 500,000 barrels of crude oil to Greece, in retaliation for European Union sanctions. After the initial report by the Fars news agency, the news item was denied by the Iranian Student’s News Agency, and then also by Greek officials. Was this an innocent error?.. Read more.. US creates chaos in ME to reap financial profits: Interview with Hayyan Haidar | PressTV A prominent political analyst insists that the US seeks a "creative chaos" situation in the Middle East in efforts to perpetually reap financial benefits from the weakened region... Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, Israel’s Sole ‘Responsible Adult,’ Publicly Opposes Iran Attack | Tikun Olam  Rabbi Ovadia Yoself gets cheeky with Bibi Netnayahu The titular head of the leading Mizrahi political party, Shas, has publicly stated his opposition to an Iran attack (Hebrew). Rabbi Ovadia Yosef is not just the spiritual leader of Orthodox Mizrahi Jews, he’s also the godfather of its political movement. His senior cabinet representative, Eli Yishai, will therefore oppose any effort to attack Iran... Read more... Asking Israel why it tortured my friend, by Joy Ellison | The Electronic Intifada On 7 January 2010, something happened that changed irrevocably the way I see the world. That day, my friend Musab Raba’i was tortured by the Israeli military. When I heard that Israeli Sergeant Benjamin Anthony would be speaking at DePaul University in Chicago yesterday, I had one question for him: why?.. [All the hasbara in the world won’t stop the truth from coming out.] US-led anti-Syria plots aim at defending Israel: Interview with Hesham Tillawi | PressTV A Syrian opposition source has told the international “Friends of Syria” meeting in Tunisia that armed groups are bringing weapons into Syria left and right including from Western countries... Palestinian activist faces Israeli administrative detention | Al Arabiya  Scores of Palestinian protestors have been detained by Israel under its policy of administrative detention which sees them being held without charges for an extended period of time Palestinian nonviolent youth activist, Fadi Quran was assaulted and arrested in Palestine on Friday as he demonstrated for the reopening of Shuhada Street to Palestinians. Quran’s crime? Israeli officials say Fadi “pushed” a soldier... Read more... Yemen designed for indefinite chaos: Interview with Dr. Webster Tarpley | PressTV Saudi Arabia and the US have praised Yemen for holding elections with only one candidate who has now been sworn in as president with the existing regime in place... Sean Ali Stone: West Lying about Iran's Nuclear Threat | Fars News Agency Sean Ali Stone, son of the renowned Oscar winning director Oliver Stone, who has recently converted to Islam in Iran underlined that the western countries' claims about the threat facing them from Iran's nuclear program are mere "lies".. Read more... Feb 25, 2012 The Slide to War, by Conn Hallinan | Counterpunch  Wars are fought because some people decide it is in their interests to fight them. World War I was not started over the Archduke Ferdinand’s assassination, nor was it triggered by the alliance system. An “incident” may set the stage for war, but no one keeps shooting unless they think it’s a good idea. The Great War started because the countries involved decided they would profit by it, delusional as that conclusion was. It is useful to keep this idea in mind when trying to figure out if there will be a war with Iran... Read more... Dignity triumphs over tyranny, by Jamal Kanj | Intifada Palestine Under Israel’s system of “Jewish democracy”, administrative detention allows the occupying power to arbitrarily hold any Palestinian civilian for up to six months, which can be renewed indefinitely, without trial or charge. Following his arrest, Sheik Adnan released a letter through his lawyers where he said: “I have been humiliated, beaten and harassed by interrogators for no reason, and thus I swore to God I would fight the policy of administrative detention to which I and hundreds of my fellow prisoners fell prey… The only thing I can do is offer my soul to God, as I believe righteousness and justice will eventually triumph over tyranny and oppression.”.. Read more... Argentine advice for Greece: ‘Default Now!’ | Adrian Salbuchi ...Greece today should do what Argentina did a decade ago: better to endure pain and hardship, and sort out the mess made by your politicians in connivance with international bankers on your own, wielding whatever shred of sovereignty you still have left than allowing the Banker Vultures sitting in Frankfurt, New York and London decide your future... Read more... It’s Time To Give Goldman Sachs Hell | Video Rebel's Blog America used to have two political parties. It is now obvious that the United States has become a one party dictatorship run by Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan, Bank of America N M Rothschild and their friends. It is past time to start an anti-Goldman Sachs political movement within the Republican and Democratic parties. In the future all candidates will oppose leniency for the soon to be indicted 10,000 plus Wall Street criminals... Read more... "The United States of Fear": Book Review by Hamed Aleaziz | Mother Jones  Tom Engelhardt, who founded and runs the popular website TomDispatch, is a politician's worst nightmare. In his new book, The United States of Fear, Engelhardt criticizes the right and the left in equal measure, challenging both former President George W. Bush and President Barack Obama for the wars they have engaged in and the costs associated with those wars... Read more.. . Gaza Gripped by Crisis | Stephen Lendman Punishing years under siege, Cast Lead's devastation, and regular IDF air, land and sea attacks took a terrible toll on Gazans physically, economically and emotionally. In 2010, Doctors Without Borders (Medicine Sans Frontiers) said over half of children under age 12 need mental health help. Moreover, one-third of cases are severe... Read more... Turkish Secret Agents Trained by the Mossad Captured in Syria | Global Research News ...The Turkish officers allegedly confessed to the Syrian authorities that they were trained by the Israeli Mossad and were instructed “to carry out bombings to undermine the country's security.” One officer purportedly admitted that the “Mossad also trains soldiers from the Free Syria Army” as well as al-Qaeda officials on Jordanian soil with a view to send them to Syria to conduct attacks. These testimonies corroborate information, including from Israeli intelligence sources, indicating the implication of the Mossad in the Syrian insurrection. Several reports also mention the involvement of the CIA and the British MI6, as well as European and American special forces... Read more... Irresponsible Anti-Iranian Fear-Mongering, by Stephen Lendman | OpEdNews Irresponsible anti-Iranian political and pack journalism rhetoric sound ominously like spurious Iraqi WMD threats in the run-up to the 2003 war.. In late January, Israel's Mossad connected DEBKAfile reported Obama ordering a "massive US military buildup around Iran: up to 100,000 troops by March." America's heaviest concentration of regional might matches its strength before invading Iraq in 2003. DEBKA suggested "May as (a) tentative date for clash(ing) with Iran.".. Read more... Look at the Facts: Who Is The REAL Nuclear Threat in the Middle East? by Larry Everest | Global Research  Nuclear weapons in anyone’s hands are dangerous. And Iran’s Islamic Republic is a repressive and reactionary theocracy driven by its own interests to increase its influence and standing (even while those aspirations are well within the operation of the current oppressive world order). But since the U.S. and Israel have raised the issue of nuclear weapons, it’s only fair to look at what the facts actually show about just who is the biggest nuclear threat to the planet by far... Read more... The Persecution of Judge Garzon, by Saul Landau | Counterpunch ...Because of the work Garzon and fellow human rights activists, like Garces, some sense of basic justice was restored to people who survived the wounds of military fascism. In 2006, Chilean judge Judge Juan Guzman ordered divers to search for evidence relating to missing bodies of Pinochet victims in Chile. Guzman accumulated evidence about the whereabouts of the 1200 “disappeared” people – euphemism for avoiding paper trails for murder. No arrest records. No corpse! No crime! Then the divers found evidence of human remains... Read more... Insinuation as War Propaganda, by Anthony Gregory | The Beacon ...Seventy-one percent of Americans—almost exactly the percentage that thought Saddam was behind 9/11—think that Iran has nuclear weapons. It’s a small sample, but it is consistent with polls over the last couple years, each one showing a majority believing Iran already has nukes, and almost nine out of ten Americans sure that Iran is seeking them. Indeed, talking with “respectable” liberals—the type who listen to NPR and watch Jon Stewart—I find repeatedly that even folks who don’t want to go to war assume that every reasonable American knows that Iran is on the brink of having nukes, if the regime doesn’t already have them... Read more... Humor Dept: USA Denies Visa to Jewish Knesset Member | Roy Tov  Rabbi Meir Kahane Member of the Knesset Michael Ben Ari scratched his withered beard in disbelief. In February, he was denied an entry visa to the USA on the basis of his membership in a terror organization. Shortly before that, he had submitted a request to the US consulate for a visa in order to take part in two conferences, one aimed at encouraging aliyah to Israel (i.e. to encourage US citizens to leave the US). He was told by the American embassy that he cannot be granted the visa based since the US State Department prohibits the entrance of people who were involved in terror activities or were members of a terror organization in a foreign country. The embassy didn’t specify which terror organization it was referring to... [These fanatics were rare in his day; now they're the norm in Israel.] Read more...U.S. does not believe Iran is trying to build nuclear bomb, by Ken Dilanian | Los Angeles Times As U.S. and Israeli officials talk publicly about the prospect of a military strike against Iran's nuclear program, one fact is often overlooked: U.S. intelligence agencies don't believe Iran is actively trying to build an atomic bomb... Read more... God rules all in 2012 Israel, even the state, by Gideon Levy | Haaretz God exists. Eighty percent of Israeli Jews can't be wrong. And it is precisely for that reason we must say: God protect us from the results of the poll (conducted by the Israel Democracy Institute's Guttman Center for Surveys and the Avi Chai Foundation ). While it is conceivably possible to deal with that burning, wholesale belief in the divine, what do we do with the "You chose us" part? Seventy percent of respondents said they also believed Jews are the Chosen People - and that frightening parameter is only on the rise... [The Jewish God is on a roll these days, but his days are numbered.] Read more..."UN must prosecute Israel for war crimes," says Bloody Sunday lawyer, by Adri Nieuwhof | The Electronic Intifada  Michael Mansfield addressing the Russell Tribunal on Palestine Israel was the focus of discussions by the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) earlier this month. Israel is obliged to submit a report to the Geneva-based committee on how it has implemented the rights enshrined in the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (ICERD) every two years. However, Israel waited until this year to submit a series of reports that were formally due in 2006, 2008 and 2010... Read more... Anonymous: Message to NSA | YouTube Your statement regarding the potential future sabotage of power grids by Anonymous, disgusts us to the core, as it is clearly an attempt at fear mongering. The idea that Anonymous would shut down one of the most vital resources for it to operate, is ludicrous. While security and intelligence organizations throughout the world attempt to depict Anonymous as a 'terrorist organization', many people understand that this same subset of Anonymous they speak of, is actually a movement for freedom... [“Something’s going on here, but you don’t know what it is, do you, Mr. Jones?” Hats off to these people, whoever they are.] US pays price in money and blood for Israel: Interview with James Morris | PressTV Press TV has interviewed James Morris, Editor of America-hijacked.com in Los Angeles about the desecration committed at US Bagram airbase in the US occupation of Afghanistan that has basically the entire population of Afghanistan outraged and how Americans are now paying the price of going to war for Israel.... Is Holocaust II (shorthand for another great turning against the Jews) inevitable? | Alan Hart The Gentile me believes this question needs to be addressed because there is a very real danger that the rising, global tide of anti-Israelism, which is being provoked by Israel’s terrifying arrogance of power and sickening self-righteousness, will be transformed into anti-Semitism unless two things happen... [“A word to the wise is sufficient.” Sadly, there is little wisdom in Israel, and none in Zionism. Probably, only action by ordinary Jews, large numbers of them calling for sanity and simple human decency, can prevent this prophecy from coming true.] Read more...Feb 24, 2012 What does the civil war in Syria really mean for Iran, Russia and China? | The Vineyard of the Saker  ...the Shia crescent is nothing else but the territories where the Western Empires have used local Sunni proxies to oppress and impoverish the majority population while stealing their natural wealth. This is what all this nonsense about the "terrorist Mullahs" and the "Shia threat" really is designed to conceal: that the Shia, inspired by Iran and Hezbollah, are engaged in a national liberation struggle which threatens all those billionaires which have been in bed with the British, the USA and the Israelis since day one... Read more... Gaza’s race car students “inspirational” | Redress Information & Analysis Stuart Littlewood tells the remarkable story of Palestinian students from Gaza who are competing in an international competition to design and build a racing car, which thanks to the medieval Israeli siege they are doing using domestic water pipes and parts scavenged from disused vehicles... Read more... Dershowitz employs new and comical tactic | Nicholas Urie ...The psychological profile of someone who employs this Hitlerian tactic was perfectly described by the OSS during the Second World War, and can be applied to Mr. Dershowitz and his plan of attack on not just Friends, but all of his philosophical/political rivals. The OSS wrote of Hitler that... Read more... The Arrival of the Warrior Corporation: How Drone War Became The American Way of Life, by Tom Engelhardt | TomDispatch ...When the first American drone assassins burst onto the global stage early in the last decade, they caught most of us by surprise, especially because they seemed to come out of nowhere or from some wild sci-fi novel. Ever since, they've been touted in the media as the shiniest presents under the American Christmas tree of war, the perfect weapons to solve our problems when it comes to evildoers lurking in the global badlands... Read more... The Myth of Israel's Liberal Supreme Court Exposed | Jonathan Cook ...the aura of hope that allowed observers at the time to interpret these rulings as revolutionary slowly faded through the years of the second intifada, which began in the fall of 2000. The nadir was reached in December and January as the Supreme Court issued two major decisions, again relating separately to the Palestinians in the Occupied Territories and to those inside Israel. In both, the judges showed that, far from seeking to refashion the Jewish state, the court had emphatically chosen the role of apologist for the very Zionism it had once looked set on eradicating... Read more... Al-Aqsa Mosque and its surrounding area attacked 100 times during 2011 | Middle East Monitor  There has also been an escalation in the frequency of incursions by Israeli intelligence officers and political and official figures into Al-Aqsa Mosque A study conducted by Al-Aqsa Foundation for Endowment and Heritage in Israel has revealed that Al-Aqsa Mosque and its surrounding area has been subjected to around 100 attacks and violations in 2011 alone. The study noted that the attacks varied between physical attacks and plots which pose threats to the sanctity and security of the mosque. The study also documented provocative statements constituting incitement by Israelis to damage the third holiest site in the Muslim world... Read more... Israel's nuclear weapons can now reach the UK | Al Jazeera/YouTube Israel refuses to allow inspections or sign the NPT which safeguards the sale of nuclear material. Is it safe to allow Israel to disregard UN laws especially after the Gaza Flotilla Massacre where they murdered humanitarian peace activists and the United States turns a blind eye?.. Read more, watch video... US preparing for military intervention in Syria? | RT The US and other NATO countries could soon launch a ground assault on Syria. The final decision will be made soon, following this week’s Tunis conference where allied countries will meet to discuss possible scenarios of military intervention. Sources in Washington tell Israeli news agency Debka that the Pentagon is currently drafting the approach they want America to take in the Syria ordeal, and once it is ready for the president, Obama could approve military action. Debka adds, however, that the decision will also depend on what US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton takes away from this week’s Tunis conference... Read more... Iran Holds Up Access to Parchin for Better IAEA Deal, by Gareth Porter | IPS The negotiations were focused on what cooperation the IAEA is demanding and what the agency is ready to offer in return for that cooperation. Judging from past negotiations between Iran and the IAEA, Iran is ready to offer access to Parchin as well as other sites requested by the agency as part of an agreement under which the IAEA would stop accusing Iran of carrying out covert nuclear weapons experiments... Read more... Interview with Hassan Danaeifar: Americans Want to Keep the MEK in Iraq | Iranian Diplomacy After months of tussles, the process of expelling from Iraq the Islamic Republic’s main militant opposition, the People’s Mujahedeen Organization (MEK/MKO), has reached an operative level. According to recent news, four hundred members of the Marxist cult have been moved to Camp Liberty, there awaiting their destiny after negotiations between representatives of the UN High Commissioner on Refugees (UNHCR) and the government of Iraq. Despite the Iraqi government’s insistence on expelling the MEK, several domestic and foreign pressure groups are impeding the procedure, against both Baghdad’s and Tehran’s will: Washington in particular wants to keep the MEK in Iraq as a pressure tool against Iran... Read more... Protecting the Rothschilds | Roy Tov  Baron Edmond Benjamin James de Rothschild | Israel’s 500 Shekel Banknote ...A few days ago, a club of friends met and decided to help some of their other friends while rejecting others. The State of Israel leadership took personal decisions based on personal affiliations while ignoring the voice of its people. I am neither defending the Ofer Brothers nor attacking Shari Arison. I am pointing out the fact that Israel is not a proper country. It is illegitimate due to its disregard of the founding conditions imposed on it, and the lack of a valid social contract with its citizens. It is criminally violent to the extent of having been declared “terror inflicting” by the UN. Neither law nor justice, the State of Israel provides its citizens the daily horror of a tyranny of self-appointed committees promoting the economic and financial interests of its privileged members, the Rothschild Class... Read more... 'Water occupation' of Palestine | Al-Ahram Weekly Stuart Littlewood exposes a British-Israel deal to further rob Palestinians of their most precious gift... Read more... The Syrian Uprising of 2011: Why the Asad Regime Is Likely to Survive to 2013, by Joshua Landis | Middle East Policy Council . .Despite his regime's rapid loss of legitimacy, its growing isolation and tanking economy, no countervailing force has yet emerged that can take it down. Many opposition and foreign leaders are predicting that the regime will fall within months. Syrian Muslim Brotherhood leader Mohammed Riad al-Shaqfa stated that Bashar would fall "in the next few months."1 The U.S. State Department has called President Asad a "dead man walking." Israel's defense minister has insisted that Asad will fall in a matter of weeks. Certainly, the revolutionary process that began to sweep the Middle East a year ago is powerful; most Syrians want change, and many are willing to fight for freedom and dignity. One cannot envision the Asad family retaining power in the long run; all the same, predictions of its rapid demise may be wishful thinking... [However bad Assad may be, and he is a ruthless dictator, his fall would be a grave blow to any hopes for peace or justice in the Middle East, as it would weaken Hezbollah and give the Empire a green light for attacking Iran.] Read more...Deconstructing Lieberman’s Iran Resolution, by Muhammad Sahimi | Antiwar Sen. Joseph Isadore “Joe” Lieberman, the “independent Democrat” from Connecticut, has been one of the most hawkish members of the Senate for years. He is in fact a turncoat who campaigned for John McCain in 2008, and in many ways he has been more Republican than Republicans. He supported the invasion of Iraq in 2003, and he has blindly supported and defended Israel to the point that he has been given an award for his support... Read more... Marie Colvin (1956-2012): Defined By Her Humanity, by Franklin Lamb | Eurasia Review Marie Colvin left Beirut on Valentine’s Day on a mission to illegally enter Syria from Lebanon’s Bekaa Valley en route to Homs, Syria. Her clear intention was to document the conditions of the civilian population in Homs who had been under heavy attack for the preceding two weeks. Marie, with more than a quarter century experience in the Middle East had made contact in Beirut with some smugglers who agreed to take her and her colleague, French photographer Remi Ochlik to a makeshift media center in the besieged flash point neighborhood of Baba Amr... Read more... Feb 23, 2012 An Open Letter to President Abbas, by John V. Whitbeck | Palestine Chronicle  There was visible and audible euphoria at the UN General Assembly in September when you announced Palestine's application for UN membership, at UNESCO's Paris headquarters in October when Palestine was admitted as a member state and at UNESCO again in December when the Palestinian flag was formally raised in your presence (and mine). Since then, nothing ... [Abbas will be in deep doodoo when the reckoning comes.] Read more...What Really Happened in the "Yom Kippur" War? by Israel Shamir | Counterpunch Here in Moscow I recently received a dark-blue folder dated 1975. It contains one of the most well-buried secrets of Middle Eastern and of US diplomacy. The secret file, written by the Soviet Ambassador in Cairo, Vladimir M. Vinogradov, apparently a draft for a memorandum addressed to the Soviet politbureau, describes the 1973 October War as a collusive enterprise between US, Egyptian and Israeli leaders, orchestrated by Henry Kissinger. If you are an Egyptian reader this revelation is likely to upset you. I, an Israeli who fought the Egyptians in the 1973 war, was equally upset and distressed, – yet still excited by the discovery. For an American it is likely to come as a shock... Read more... False Prophets of Peace: Book Review by Ludwig Watzal | Palestine Chronicle This book explores the Israeli Zionist Left’s discourse regarding the, Jewish and "democratic” State of Israel and all of its ramifications. Such undertaking was overdue because it exposes Zionist left-wing intellectuals as hypocrites. It was not the Israeli right that did the “dirty“ work of legitimizing colonization, oppression, expulsion, discrimination and dispossession of the original owners of the land, the Palestinians, but left-wing “liberal” intellectuals, especially those of the Zionist Labor movement... Read more... The Emperor's Messenger Has No Clothes: Belén Fernández Dresses Down Thomas Friedman | Truthout What's scary about Thomas Friedman is not his journalism, with its underinflated insights and twisted metaphors. Annoying as his second-rate thinking and third-rate writing may be, he's not the first - or the worst - hack journalist. What should unnerve us about Friedman is the acclaim he receives in political and professional circles.. Although his work is stunningly shallow and narcissistic, Friedman is celebrated as a big thinker... Read more... All Out for NO WAR ON IRAN during AIPAC Convention | Occupy AIPAC!  The drumbeat for war will reach a fever pitch when AIPAC, with 10,000 attendees, holds its annual policy conference on March 4. The bellicose stance of keynote speaker Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will push our nation closer to a catastrophic war... Read more... AIPAC Declares War. by Philip Giraldi | Antiwar The American people don’t particularly want a new war in the Middle East, but apparently Congress and Washington’s most powerful lobby do. Thirty-two senators have co-sponsored a resolution that will constrain the White House from adopting any policy vis-à-vis Iran’s “nuclear weapons capability” that amounts to “containment.” The senators include the familiar figures of Joe Lieberman of Connecticut and Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, both of whom have persistently called for military action... Read more... Panetta and other Pentagon officials are mad about metaphors, by Greg Jaffe | The Washington Post The Pentagon’s brass talks about killing in the most antiseptic terms imaginable. “Kinetic operations” are launched. Targets are “serviced.” Enemies are “removed from the battlefield.” But threaten the military’s budget, and the language becomes gory and apocalyptic. In the past six months, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta and other Pentagon officials have compared the arcane budget-cutting process known as sequestration, to:.. Read more... Khamenei Reconfirms Fatwa Against Nuclear Weapons | Moon of Alabama In a speech to nuclear scientists Ajatollah Ali Kahamenei today reconfirmed his Fatwa against nuclear weapons:.. Reading the whole speech and understanding the logic of Kahmenei's judgement may be worth your time... Read more... "Death to Christianity" spray-painted on Jerusalem church in "price tag" attack | The Electronic Intifada  Pastor Chuck Kopp examines a wall spray-painted with the hateful messages “Price tag,” “Jesus is the son of a whore,” “we will crucify you,” “Jesus is dead” and “death to Christianity” were the messages left behind by vandals who attacked the Baptist Narkis Street Congregation in West Jerusalem today. The tires of several cars parked in the compound were slashed as well.. The phrase “price tag” was spray-painted on the property several times, referring to “retribution settlers say they will exact for any attempt by the Israeli government to curb settlement in the occupied West Bank,”..“we will crucify you,” “Jesus is dead” and “death to Christianity.” Read more, see photos... Stop the JNF campaign makes steady gains as Israel charity goes "on the retreat" in UK, by Asa Winstanley | The Electronic Intifada Usama Uqbi, head of the Naqab Bedouin Committee, told The Electronic Intifada that the impression of an empty desert the JNF portrayed was “a big lie.” Palestinian Arabs have been living on their land in the Naqab for hundreds of years, he said. He mocked the JNF flyer giving the impression of an empty land as “empty words.” The JNF’s real goal is to demolish the homes of Palestinians who already live there, and bring Jewish settlers from the center of Israel to live on the expropriated land... Read more... Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts | Stop NATO A wonderful and extensive collection - hats off to Rick Rozoff! ~ The Editor Read more... Humor Dept: Pelosi Blames "Profiteering" for Skyrocketing Gas Prices, by Kurt Nimmo | Prison Planet  Democrat leader Nancy Pelosi has gone after Wall Street and profiteers for rapidly rising oil and gasoline prices. “Independent reports confirm that speculators are driving up the cost of oil, hurting consumers and potentially damaging the economic recovery. Wall Street profiteering, not oil shortages, is the cause of the price spike... [The political battles between Tweedledee and Tweedledum remind me of the Grand Guignol traditionally performed for children in France, or pugnacious kids acting out their utterly trivial disputes on a primary school playground.] Read more...ADL Condemns Anti-Semite's Upcoming Appearance in Oakland: Calls on Community Leaders to Do the Same | PRN The Anti-Defamation League today condemned the upcoming appearance of Gilad Atzmon, a London-based anti-Semitic author, writer and musician, in Oakland on February 25. Atzmon is scheduled to speak at the Malonga Casquelourd Center for the Arts, in conversation with KPFA's Dennis Bernstein. Nancy J. Appel, ADL's Associate Director, stated:.. [Atzmon's effectiveness as a truth teller can be measured by the amount of flak he gets from the ZioNazis] Read more...Scott Horton Interviews Hillary Mann Leverett | Antiwar Radio Hillary Mann Leverett, former State Department official and co-founder of The Race For Iran, discusses neoconservative Michael Rubin’s doubts about Iran’s 2003 “Grand Bargain” of diplomatic overtures to the US; how US and Iranian interests aligned against al-Qaeda and the Taliban in Afghanistan, creating an opportunity for an al-Qaeda/MEK prisoner swap that may have prevented future terrorist attacks; the pushback from the US intelligence community/military against Israel and the Obama administration (proudly “marching in lockstep” with Israel);.. Read more, listen... Iran and the Shape of Things to Come, by Michael S. Lofgren | Huffington Post This animal is very wicked; when you attack it, it defends itself ~ French proverb. It is hard not to think of that Gallic witticism when observing recent international events. Aside from almost daily threats from the governments of Israel and the United States to attack Iran -- a violation of the United Nations Charter -- Iran has been subject to sabotage, violations of its airspace by military drones, and assassinations of its citizens. Under the circumstances, it is not surprising to hear news of attempted attacks on Israeli embassies in Georgia, India, and Thailand. Iran may very well be behind them. Or perhaps all is not as it seems... Read more... My husband, Khadar Adnan, has shed light on Israel's disregard for human rights, by Randa Musa | The Guardian  Maali Adnan holds a picture of her hunger-striking father, Khadar Adnan The name of my husband, Khadar Adnan, has now become known across the world. Four months ago he was unknown outside our homeland, Palestine. His hunger strike of 66 days has transformed him into a global figure and a shining symbol of my people's struggle...Read more... US probe into Qur'an burning inconclusive: Interview with Ibrahim Hooper | PressTV ...you would think that after so many years in Afghanistan, military officials would understand the religious sensitivities and the cultural sensitivities and that prevent these kinds of incidents from happening but that does not seem to be the case... Read more, watch video... Posthumously Baptized: Anne Frank's Cult Backfires | Roy Tov On February 18, 2012, Annelies Marie (Anne) Frank, a German-born Jew who perished in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, was posthumously baptized by a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the Dominican Republic. This was disclosed by Helen Radkey, a former member of the church, who told the Huffington Post that she discovered Frank's name on a database open only to Mormons. Jewish rights advocate Simon Wiesenthal and his parents were similarly honored... Read more... Settler Extremists Provoke Violence, Threaten Muslim Sovereignty Over Temple Mount, Seeking Final Day of Reckoning | Tikun Olam It appears that a growing band of Israeli messianic settlers have banded together to orchestrate a crisis on the Temple Mount. Their ultimate goal seems to be taking Jewish control over the sacred ground, including two of the holiest sites in Islam, the Dome of the Rock and Al-Aqsa Mosque... [Richard's site was Out of Service for most of the day - yet another ZioNazi hacking attack most likely. Ho-hum. Those of us who fight the good fight are quite used to it, but evil triumphs only for a while, and then the sun comes out again.] Read more, watch video...Feb 21-22, 2012 Dershowitz strikes back - with lies (yawn) | The Hasbara Buster ...this BDS event was organized at UPenn and, as might be expected, lots of Israel firsters supporters rallied to organize counterevents that brought much larger attendances. This is not surprising since BDS is taking its first infant steps in the realm of mainstream discourse. One of the anti-BDS events was a speech by the ineffable Alan Dershowitz. Under the headline Dershowitz strikes back, the StandWithUs site provides a raving review of the Dersh's presentation which, as can be predicted, consists basically of a regurgitation of tired Hasbara points.. Read more... Israel's Levant Basin-a new geopolitical curse? by F. William Engdahl | Voltaire Network A recent major oil and gas find is bound to change dramatically the geopolitical equation in the Eastern Mediterranean region and beyond. To start with, it has sent Israel from rags to riches in terms of energy independence and security. However, Lebanon contends that part of the gas field lies within its territorial waters, and Washington happens to agree. Engdahl explores the implications of this key development, which have already rippled into the U.S. electoral scene, with Netanyahu betting on Republican race horses against Obama... Read more... Liberal Citizenship, not "Jewish Identity" by Harry Clark | Dissident Voice An abiding feature of the Palestine question in the United States since 1967 has been a "Jewish left," which combines Jewish affirmation with criticism of Israel's occupation of the territories it conquered in that war. A 1973 anthology of writings from the "Jewish radicalism" movement stated:.. Read more... "Responsibility to Protect" as Imperial Tool: The Case for a Non-Interventionist Foreign Policy, by Jean Bricmont | Counterpunch The events in Syria, after those in Libya last year, are accompanied by calls for a military intervention, in order to "protect civilians", claiming that it is our right or our duty to do so. And, just as last year, some of the loudest voices in favor of intervention are heard on the left or among the Greens, who have totally swallowed the concept of "humanitarian intervention". In fact, the rare voices staunchly opposed to such interventions are often associated with the right, either Ron Paul in the US or the National Front in France... Read more... Khader Adnan and now-normalized Western justice, by Glenn Greenwald | Salon Each year, the U.S. State Department, as required by law, issues a "Human Rights Report" which details abuses by other countries. To call it an exercise in hypocrisy is to understate the case: it is almost impossible to find any tyrannical power denounced by the State Department which the U.S. Government (and its closest allies) do not regularly exercise itself... Read more... Address by Seyyed Ali Khamenei: Nuclear weapons threat to humanity | PressTV  I wish to welcome the honorable guests that have gathered here for this conference. It is a source of pleasure for the Islamic Republic of Iran to be the host for this international disarmament conference. I hope this occasion will be an opportunity to yield enduring and important results from your dialogues and discussions for the whole humanity... Read more... The 10 Most Excellent Reasons to Attack Iran, by David Swanson | War Is A Crime One doesn't know whether to laugh or to cry... ~ the Editor Read more... The Best Solution For Palestine | RCIC We are citizens of Israel, yesterday's immigrants from the ex-USSR. When we moved to Israel, we dreamed to secure a safe future for us and for our children; we wanted a normal and decent life. We grew up on the ideals of patriotism; we educated our children to be loyal to Israel, which supposed to be their home. We thought that the Israeli government would use the first opportunity to achieve lasting peace with the neighbors. We thought we shall be treated as equals in the land of our forefathers. Apparently we were too optimistic... Read more... Press TV signals jammed in Europe | PressTV Jamming signals have been reportedly interrupting the broadcast of Press TV, Iran's 24-hour English-language news channel, in various locations across Europe... [Now I wonder who might be responsible for that. Gee, let me guess. Eenie, Meanie, Minie, Mo] Read more...Iran on the Move: Warships sail to Syria, by M K Bhadrakumar | Asia Times Online ...Iran's message to Turkey and its Arab allies (which are arming and supporting the Syrian opposition) will be: "Brothers, if you keep doing this, so can we." There is much food for thought here for these countries - especially the oil monarchies - as they gather in Tunis this coming Sunday for the first meeting of the "Friends of Syria"... Read more... Real cowards go to Tehran, by Pepe Escobar | Asia Times Online Imagine the classic United States neo-conservative wet dream; staring at Iran on a map and salivating about the crossroads between Europe and Asia, between the Arab world and the Indian subcontinent, between the Arabian Sea and Central Asia, with 10% of the world's proven oil reserves (over 150 billion barrels) and 15% of proven gas reserves - an energy complex bigger than Saudi Arabia and arbiter of the energy routes from the Persian Gulf to the West and Asia via the Strait of Hormuz... Read more... House of Commons' motion to rule out use of force: First crack in western hawkish alliance against Iran | Campaign Against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran The first major crack in the western alliance against Iran has now surfaced in the UK's House of Commons by a rebellious Conservative back bencher who has for the first time in a western country proposed a motion against the hawkish western Iran policy. The anti-war groups activists and peace activists all around the world will see this as a promising sign to build a strong lobbying and media campaign to successfully oppose the war drive on Iran... Read more... CBS on Syria: Annals of disinformation | Patrice Greanville  CBS, which for some time now has been veering ever more acutely to the right, in some embarrassing ways seeming these days a merely more refined version of Fox News, recently gave its early show a facelift, recruiting among others the uber urbane Charlie Rose to anchor its new flagship glitzier show, CBS This Morning. The idea here was to give the show more "class", and whack the competition in the process... Read more, watch video... The lobby in Europe and the dodgy definition | Jews sans frontieres ...we have a group that takes credit for an EU organisation supposedly charged with monitoring and presumably preventing racism actively promoting a state, the State of Israel, whose existence is predicated on colonial settlement, ethnic cleansing and segregationist laws and in its expanded form to include occupied Jerusalem. Supporting the State of Israel is bad enough, but to openly support it in its expanded form whilst bragging of the influence of its key supporters over an EU group supposedly opposed to racism is an absurdity... Read more... Obama's Jewish Mega-Bundlers, by Josh Nathan-Kazis | Jewish Daily Forward Disclosures released today by the Obama campaign cite more prominent Jews among Obama's top fundraisers. Prominent additions in the latest quarterly report include American Council for World Jewry chair Jack Rosen and former chair of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations Alan Solow. The Forward reported in December that Obama had lost no prominent Jewish fundraisers between 2008 and 2012... Read more... It hardly seems necessary to plant disinfo in the guardian | Niqnaq This story is so stupid I could almost believe it was planted by the Iranians in order to be ridiculed. You don't ask random import-export people 'where to find C-4 explosives in Bangkok.' You don't make C-4 at home. You don't use grenades as detonators. The two achieved targets (in Georgia and Bangkok) were not moving when attacked. The Iranians are not fixated on the anniversaries of Imad Mughniyeh's death, nor is Hezbollah; this is an annually recurrent Israeli propaganda meme... Read more... Antiwar.com's 'Alternative' Reality, by Maidhc Ó Cathail | The Passionate Attachment In response to Justin Raimondo's latest plea for more funds, a lively discussion is now taking place in the comments section. The highlight so far is this response to Sibel Edmonds:.. [The remarkable thing is that Zionists have insinuated themselves into control of every conceivable venue, including the British Palestine Solidarity Committee, not to mention Antiwar.com. Has anybody developed a rat poison specific to these creatures?] Read more...Terror War Cheerleader Gets Reality Check On Underwear Bomber Facts | Prison Planet ...The victim of this 'truth bomb' was Mickey McCarter, a prominent mouthpiece for the military-industrial complex that relies heavily on the manufactured 'war on terror' to the tune of billions of dollars every year. McCarter is a journalist specializing in "homeland security matters" and has also worked for government agencies like the US Navy's Bureau of Naval Personnel and the Defense Contract Management Agency... Read more, watch video... Hasbara for Dogs, by Gilad Atzmon | deLiberation  Apparently, dogs in California have a new source of entertainment: a TV channel run by a former Israeli Army propagandist. The Arab Digest reported today that an Israeli company launched a new TV Channel for Dogs in San Diego; the Executive chairman, Yossi Uzrad, was executive producer of the Channel 2 news company and the head of the news desk at the IDF radio station in Israel. In a nutshell, an Israeli army propagandist is running a Dog's TV channel... Read more... Popular protests in Bahrain continue as crackdowns intensify | PressTV Scores have been killed as fresh protests make their way to Pearl Square demanding freedom amid a violent crackdown on the popular uprising by imported security forces. Press TV has interviewed Medea Benjamin, Co-founder of Code Pink and political activist in Washington who has been in Bahrain witnessing and participating in the protests and recently expelled from there by authorities... Read more, watch video... The Financial Coup d'Etat (and How to Overcome It) | Catherine Austin Fitts on GRTV/YouTube In this GRTV Feature Interview, Catherine Austin Fitts of Solari.com explains how the debt bubble system has been designed to serve a small caste of elite (the "breakaway civilization"). She also discusses how we can invest our time, effort and energy building up an alternative system that fosters true wealth and prosperity... Watch video... Jodi Rudoren, Another Member of the Family: Meet the New York Times' New Israel-Palestine News Chief, by Alison Weir | Counterpunch ...In its early years the Times specifically avoided assigning Jewish reporters to cover Israel out of concern that such journalists would have an inherent conflict of interest. This policy was reversed in 1979 after Abe Rosenthal became the paper's executive editor and explicitly decided to choose Jewish journalists for the position. While his first attempt failed (he had thought his choice, David Shipler, was Jewish), the Columbia Journalism review reports that most of the journalists who succeeded Shipler, beginning with Thomas Friedman, have been of Jewish ethnicity. The article notes that "for a century [the Times] has served, in effect, as the hometown paper of American Jewry.".. [What? The Jew York Times employs Jews to cover Israel? I'm shocked, shocked!!] Read more...How Greece Could Take Down Wall Street, by Ellen Hodgson Brown | Dissident Voice ...The Houses of Morgan, Goldman and the other Big Five are justifiably worried right now, because an "event of default" declared on European sovereign debt could jeopardize their $32 trillion derivatives scheme. According to Rudy Avizius in an article on The Market Oracle (UK) on February 15th, that explains what happened at MF Global, and why the 50% Greek bond write-down was not declared an event of default. If you paid only 50% of your mortgage every month, these same banks would quickly declare you in default. But the rules are quite different when the banks are the insurers underwriting the deal... Read more... Over 10,000 Libyans Trained In Jordan For Syrian Invasion, by Rick Rozoff | Stop NATO Made in Jordan: Thousands of gunmen preparing to enter Syria? Over 10,000 Libyans are reportedly being trained in a closed-off zone in Jordan, before being snuck into Syria to fight for the opposition. These men are allegedly paid around US$1,000 a month, funded by Saudi Arabia and Qatar. Jordan-based AlBawaba news website says most of the gunmen who are being trained are actually part of the Libyan armed opposition, who have not had the chance to lay down arms following the toppling of Muammar Gaddafi's regime... Read more... Biology of Peace, by Mazin Qumsiyeh | Popular Resistance  ...How can we even begin to comprehend the sorrow that has engulfed the land of Canaan in the past few decades? The sorrows of the native inhabitants are so horrendous that it sometimes seems unreal. Of 11 million Palestinians in the world, 7 million are refugees or displaced people. The 5.5 million natives who remain inside the country (many displaced) are restricted now to shrinking concentration areas, amounting to only 8.3 percent of the historic land of Palestine... Read more... US-NATO Support Al Qaeda-Affiliated Rebels in Syria | Global Research TV ..Michel Chossudovsky, director for the Centre for Research on Globalization, joins us for more and gives us his thoughts... Watch video... The 2013 US budget: "difficult cuts" for Americans, gravy for Israel | Redress Information & Analysis Josh Ruebner argues that while the Obama administration is making budget cuts that are impoverishing and threatening the health and wellbeing of Americans, it is simultaneously increasing the US taxpayers' subsidy to the Israeli war machine, helping it retain and colonize illegally-occupied Palestinian territories and commit grievous violations of Palestinian human rights - all contrary to US foreign policy objectives... Read more... Reality and the Senate Intelligence Committee | Redress Information & Analysis Lawrence Davidson argues that by failing to participate in national politics, citizens abdicate their potential influence on those who do act politically and that these could be "thugs in suits" with hidden agendas and judgments that are skewed by interest lobbies that hold the purse strings to their political careers... Read more... The massacre of 1929 and the War of Narratives, by Aaron | ISM If you ask an Israeli settler in or around Al-Khalil (Hebron) what calls them to live on contested land, most will speak to a religious connection to the city and the Cave of the Machpelach ("patriarchs"), where Jews, Muslims, and Christians come to revere the biblical figures believed to be buried there. A series of signs posted nearby along Shuhada Street, the once-main road and market district now closed to Palestinians, tell a story of Hebronite Jewish habitation dating from biblical times, brought to a sharp and bloody end with a 1929 pogrom, which resulted in the deaths of 67 Jewish residents and the displacement of the survivors... Read more... One State Conference (March 3 & 4) | Harvard Kennedy School of Government To date, the only Israel/Palestine solution that has received a fair rehearsal in mainstream forums has been the two-state solution. Our conference will help to expand the range of academic debate on this issue. Thus, our main goal is to educate ourselves and others about the possible contours of a one-state solution and the challenges that stand in the way of its realization... Read more, register... Armageddon Approaches, Dr. Lasha Darkmoon | The Occidental Observer  Bombing Iran could be the final nail in the coffin of America-a decaying and morally bankrupt superpower where torture has been normalized and where the President is now free to kill anyone he chooses, anywhere in the world, who he happens to suspect is a terrorist. Right now, Iran appears to be the object of universal detestation, at least among those who control the mainstream media and who are anxious to persuade the easily duped masses that Iran is a major threat to civilization... [The truly terrifying thing is that the Christian Zionists, a primarily American doomsday cult, are salivating at this prospect. Maybe humanity as a whole is not wholly insane, but tens of millions are extremely dangerous lunatics.] Read more...Welcome to the global Judenrat | Jews sans frontieres From tragedy to farce, the colonialist practice of dividing indigenous people and dominating them through their own "elites" competes with the Cirque du Soleil for the best spectacle in town. Unfortunately for the clowns of Cirque du Soleil, despite being far more entertaining, they are paid far less than the clowns of the global Cirque des Indigenes. Canadian First Nations "grand Chief" David Harper visited the Israeli Knesset in one of those junket trips the Zionists are famous for... Read more... Welcome to the global Judenrat | Jews sans frontieres Read more, watch video... The Senate's 'Capability' Resolution: A Seething, Jingo Push for Iran War, by John Glaser | Antiwar ...These Senators are trying to outlaw diplomacy and make war inevitable. As Paul Pillar recently wrote, "the resolution calls for terms that are understandably nonstarters for Iran," like ruling out any Iranian nuclear program (even one that is under international supervision and inspection) and like calling for an end to Iran's ballistic missile programs. I kid you not... Read more... Sari Nusseibeh Embraces One-State Solution with Civil, But No Political Rights for West Bank Palestinians | Tikun Olam The Israeli-Palestinian conflict can do a "number" on intellectuals. It can whipsaw them from left to right and back again. Benny Morris is an example of an intellectual who was mugged by the disturbing realities of the conflict during the Intifada, and who lost any hope that the Palestinians could be reasoned with. As a result, he's turned into a caricature of his former self. Instead of a tough, probing, precise historian who marshaled facts and allowed them to dictate his rather disturbing conclusions when he was a founder of the New Historians, he's become a transferist who believes Ben Gurion didn't do a good enough job of ridding the new State of those who represent the seeds of its destruction... Read more... Silencing The Critics, by Dr. Paul Craig Roberts | Global Research ...Many suspect that the Israel Lobby used its clout with TV advertisers to silence critics of the Israeli government's efforts to lead Washington to war with Iran. Regardless, the point before us is that the voice of the mainstream media is now uniform. Americans hear one voice, one message, and the message is propaganda. Dissent is tolerated only on such issues as to whether employer-paid health benefits should pay for contraceptive devices. Constitutional rights have been replaced with rights to free condoms... Read more... Another Pretext To Wage War? The Fingerprints of False Flags Against Iran: Thailand, India, Georgia Terrorist Bomb Blasts, by Finian Cunningham | Global Research ...add it up. Bomb teams with proven US/Israeli assassination expertise and methodology; target countries that are major Iranian partners; desired effect of further isolating Iran internationally; and, to cap it all, a long sought-after pretext for Israel to attack Iran with America's blessing. When logic and facts coincide like this, it's usually more prudent to engage in reason than to indulge in lurid claims... Read more... Saving Khader Adnan's Life and Legacy | Richard Falk  It is a great relief to those millions around the world who were moved to prayer and action by Khader Adnan's extraordinary hunger strike of 66 days that has ended due to Israel's agreement to release him on April 17. We who were inspired by such a heroic refusal to accept humiliation and arbitrary arrest can only hope that for the sake of his family, for the cause of Palestinian resistance, and for the struggle to achieve a just peace that Mr. Adnan will fully recover to resume his personal and political life... Read more... The ongoing war against truth | Redress Information & Analysis Lawrence Davidson views the battle between truth-tellers and those who would suppress the truth, as reflected in the US-inspired prosecution of Spanish judge Baltasar Garzon for allegedly "abusing judicial powers" - a charge apparently prompted by his call for Spain to bring charges against six Bush Jr administration officials for clearing the way for the use of torture during the Iraq war... Read more... State University Hosts Israeli Historian Ilan Pappe: Says No to McCarthyite Campaign, by Cecilie Surasky | MuzzleWatch ...a good day for free speech: despite extensive efforts by the new Amcha Initiative to get Israeli historian Ilan Pappe booted from Cal State University campuses, where he is scheduled to speak next week, the presidents of Cal State Fresno, Cal State Northridge, and Cal Poly have taken a strong, unanimous stand in support of free speech on college campuses... Read more... Pundits Waiting for a Palestinian Gandhi? Meet Khader Adnan, by Peter Hart | Huffington Post For years prominent corporate media pundits have told us that the world -- and the media -- would embrace a dramatic, non-violent Palestinian resistance movement. If only such a movement -- perhaps led by a Gandhi-like figure -- were to finally emerge, we are told, the media coverage will come, and sympathy from across the world will strengthen support for the Palestinian cause. This is nonsense - there has been non-violent Palestinian resistance for years... Read more... Evangelical Christians Want to Start WWIII to Speed the "Second Coming".. and Atheist Neocons are Using Religion to Rile Them Up to Justify War Against Iran | Washington's Blog The Founding Fathers weren't particularly anti-Islam. But millions of Americans believe that Christ will not come again until Israel wipes out its competitors and there is widespread war in the Middle East. Some of these folks want to start a huge fire of war and death and destruction, so that Jesus comes quickly. According to French President Chirac, Bush told him that the Iraq war was needed to bring on the apocalypse... Read more... JINSA: Strengthening Israel by promoting Syrian 'Chalabi' | Maidhc Ó Cathail On February 17, subscribers to the mailing list of the Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs (JINSA) received a message entitled "Want to Know What's Going On in Syria?" inviting them to a special conference call briefing from Farid Ghadry, co-founder of The Reform Party of Syria. The invitation from the hawkish Israel lobby think tank - whose half-accurate motto is "Securing America, Strengthening Israel" - to the February 22 briefing reads... Read more... The men who own the GOP, by Robert Reich | Salon  Foster Freiss and Sheldon Adelson Have you heard of William Dore, Foster Friess, Sheldon Adelson, Harold Simmons, Peter Thiel or Bruce Kovner? If not, let me introduce them to you. They're running for the Republican nomination for president...Read more... Political Prisoners in America's Gulag | Stephen Lendman ...Based on numerous past false flags, be very suspicious about all Justice Department charges. Against El Khalifi, they look very much like entrapping an innocent/naive dupe into involvement in what he had no prior intent, desire, or willingness to do. Holder, however, defends entrapment. He calls it an "essential law enforcement tool in uncovering and preventing terror attacks." In fact, they're maliciously manufactured to manipulate fear and justify America's global war on terrorism. Nearly always, Muslims are charged. It's part of America's war on Islam... Read more... Killing Hope: US Military and CIA Interventions Since World War II, by William Blum | Google Books Read book... Torture, Assassination, and the American Way of Life, by Jacob G. Hornberger | Future of Freedom Foundation ...The system was almost in the nature of a secret, unannounced pact between the government and the people. As part of its job to protect "national security," the government would have the omnipotent authority to assassinate people, but it would keep its assassinations secret from the citizenry. In that way, the citizenry would be shielded from the unsavory things that government would be doing in the name of "national security," and citizens wouldn't have to concern themselves with things like conscience. The principle, of course, has been the same with respect to torture. For decades, the Pentagon was secretly teaching soldiers the principles of torture, including at its infamous School of the Americas... Read more... Peaceful Protest Can Free Palestine, by Mustafa Barghouthi | NYT ...Over the past 64 years, Palestinians have tried armed struggle; we have tried negotiations; and we have tried peace conferences. Yet all we have seen is more Israeli settlements, more loss of lives and resources, and the emergence of a horrifying system of segregation. Khader Adnan, a Palestinian held in an Israeli prison, pursued a different path... [You just never know what's going to show up in the pages of the Jew York Times] Read more...The kingmakers of democracy, by Jerry Mazza | Intrepid Report The kingmakers are businessmen who turn presidential and congressional members into puppets, lackeys, mouthpieces. Wall Streeters like Lloyd Blankfein and Jamie Dimon are the prototype kingmaker businessmen, and as businessmen, thanks in part to the permission granted them through Citizens United, thanks to the Supreme Court, their corporations are people and money is speech. And they can talk as much as they want, depending on how deep their pockets are... Read more... Beating the Drums of War, Again, by Ivan Eland | Consortium News The U.S. news media is in harness again, pulling the latest bandwagon for war, this time with Iran. So, Americans should expect soft coverage of U.S.-Israeli provocations of Iran and media outrage over any Iranian retaliation... Read more... Feb 16-20, 2012 Jordan Is Not Palestine, Neither Is Qatar, by Sam Bahour | Palestine Chronicle  Hamas, the Palestinian 'Islamic Resistance Movement,' is on the move. Hamas is leaving Syria, where it has been based until now, making a pit stop in Jordan to mend affairs with King Abdullah II, declaring non-violent resistance as the preferred mode of struggle against Israeli occupation, signing (yet another) reconciliation agreement with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, and lastly, planning to relocate its headquarters to the State of Qatar. All of this has happened in the span of a few weeks... Read more... Judge Napolitano Fired After This Broadcast of Freedom Watch | YouTube Michael Scheuer former Head of the CIA bin Laden Unit spills the beans regarding staged terror events. Americans need to know who they are really fighting for before attacking Iran Dr.Alan Sabrosky former director of studies at the US Army War College says that the military brass now know Israel's intelligence agency the Mossad did 9/11. 60,000 American troops now dead or wounded, homeless, depressed, even suicidal... Watch video... Israel Better Forget about Attacking Iran, by Gilad Atzmon | Palestine Chronicle Israeli Ynet admitted today that an Israeli air force attack on Iran is unrealistic. The Israeli paper quoted a New York Times article that described such an attack as 'highly complex operation'. It would require at least 100 planes. Israeli jets would have to refuel in the air en route, fight off Iran’s air defenses and attack multiple underground sites simultaneously. American military experts seem to agree amongst themselves that Israel doesn’t necessarily have the means to accomplish such an operation... [That, obviously, is why they're desperate to get the dumb Americans to do it for them.] Read more... Thich Nhat Hanh interview with Jo Confino, an executive editor of the Guardian | Vimeo Moving beyond the idea of ‘environment’ and falling back in love with Mother Earth. Zen master Thich Nhat Hanh explains why mindfulness rather than economics is needed to protect nature and how a spiritual revolution is needed if civilization is to avoid being destroyed by climate change... [It may not be climate change, but it would certainly be anthropogenic. He speaks the truth about "Interbeing." We need a great deal more humbleness.] Watch video...A few comments on recent Norman Finkelstein interview with Frank Barat | Gilad Atzmon Norman Finkelstein has recently bought himself a few enemies within the Palestinian solidarity movement for openly and enthusiastically advocating the Two States Solution. In the last interview it seems as if Finkelstein defends Israel’s right to exist... [Of course he does - he's a Zionist, albeit a highly iconoclastic one. Damned good historian ,though.] Read more, watch video...Honoring Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah: An Advocate for the Deprived, by Franklin Lamb | Foreign Policy Journal  Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah Rushing to an appointment last Saturday I passed the Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah Hassaniyeh (Mosque), which for many in my immediate Dahiyeh neighborhood is the religious institution we feel most connected to because of its long and continuing history of social and religious work in our community...Read more... The Taxi Driver: Khader Adnan | YouTube Watch video... When Israeli Settlers Attack: A Report by Yousef Munayyer | YouTube In this episode of Palestine Studies TV, we talk to Yousef Munayyer, executive director of the Palestine Center, about their new report, "When Settlers Attack." It looks at patterns of Israeli settler violence since 2007, finding an upward trend... Watch video... Dying2Live | YouTube Khader Adnan has been held under Israeli administrative detention without charge or trial since December 17, 2011. He has been on hunger strike since that day as well, becoming the longest hunger striking Palestinian prisoner in history... Watch video... Special Ops, Global Tax, Zombie Voters | New World Next Week/YouTube Watch video... Israeli forces destroy "the only place for children in Silwan," by Josie Shields-Stromsness| The Electronic Intifada  Bulldozers razed the Madaa Creative Center to the ground Israeli forces arrived before sunrise on Monday, 13 February to demolish a newly completed community facility that residents refer to as a cultural café in the Wadi Hilweh area of Silwan in occupied East Jerusalem. The bulldozers arrived without any prior warning. The Israeli-controlled Jerusalem municipality and the National Parks Authority carried out the demolition with Israeli police officers closing off the street and even preventing some nearby families to leave their homes while the demolition was underway...Read more... Exposing The Irsraeli-Mossad False Flag Terror Attacks In New Delhi, Tbilisi And Bangkok, by Feroze Mithiborwala | Counter Currents The terror attacks in New Delhi & in Tbilisi (Georgia), Baku (Azerbaijan) & Bangkok (Thailand) are another round of false-flag terror being waged by the Israeli Mossad to achieve its strategic objectives by targeting Iran & the Hezbollah, which is a resistance movement. The timing of the false-flag terror attack is very interesting. It comes at the precise moment when India has refused to enforce the US-Israeli-EU sanctions against Iran & when Indo-Iran ties are witnessing a new strategic rethink in Delhi... Read more... Washington's Insouciance Has No Rival | Paul Craig Roberts Is Obama a hypocrite or merely insouciant? Or is he an idiot? According to news reports Obama’s White House meeting on Valentine’s day with China’s Vice President, Xi Jinping, provided an opportunity for Obama to raise “a sensitive human rights issue with the Chinese leader-in-waiting.” The brave and forthright Obama didn’t let etiquette or decorum get in his way. Afterwards, Obama declared that Washington would “continue to emphasize what we believe is the importance of realizing the aspirations and rights of all people.”.. Read more... Iran Crisis: 10 Questions Hague Won't Answer, by Stuart Littlewood | Palestine Chronicle In an interview with The Daily Telegraph Britain's Foreign Secretary, William Hague, claims that Iran is threatening to spark a nuclear arms race in the Middle East which could be more dangerous than the original East-West Cold War. "It is a crisis coming down the tracks,” he says. “Because they are clearly continuing their nuclear weapons programme… If they obtain nuclear weapons capability, then I think other nations across the Middle East will want to develop nuclear weapons... Read more... Buying Cyprus | Roy Tov  the white spots are UK Sovereign Base Areas of Akrotiri and Dhekelia Today, February 16, 2012, Israel’s Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, was welcomed by the Cypriot president, Dimitris Christofias in what has already been defined in Israel as an historic visit. During the event, which followed a dramatic announcement regarding newly found gas in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea, a surprising agreement was signed, and several others announced. After the rupture of the Israel-Turkey alliance last year, Israel is aiming to create a new regional axis, based on an alternative energy market...Read more... UN 'Travesty': Resolutions Of Mass Destruction | Media Lens ...the denunciations are mostly offered by people drowning in hypocrisy. The Times concluded that, ‘no veto can, in the end, save [the Syrian government] from the fury of a nation so humiliatingly brutalised’. Syrian government violence is real and horrific, but not a word in the article commented on the armed fighters in Syria that are reported to have killed many hundreds of Syrian troops and police... Read more... Why forget the Holocaust? | Paul Treanor At least until 11 September 2001, the Holocaust was the primary historical reference used to justify military intervention, by the US and its allies. Indirectly, it is also used to legitimise social injustice in liberal-democratic nations, and to imply a liberal-democratic entitlement to a monopoly of power. It is used to legitimise global inequality, as if it entitled opponents of the Holocaust to prosperity, while others starve. Remembering the Holocaust is not a moral imperative: the memory serves no good purpose, only evil purposes... Read more... Compassion, by Mazin Qumsiyeh | Popular Resistance ...I believe once you have true compassion for fellow human beings you can never tire of it; compassion here is defined as compassion for all human beings not selected members of your "tribe", "nation", "religion" or other concocted group identity (to me this is the opposite of compassion)... Read more... 'A level of racist violence I have never seen': UCLA professor Robin Kelley on Palestine and the BDS movement | Mondoweiss  Robin D. G. Kelley If there’s one thing the Palestine solidarity movement and Israel lobbyists can agree on, it’s this: American college campuses remain a potent battleground when it comes to the politics of Israel/Palestine. One group, the U.S. Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (USACBI), certainly recognizes this. And one way to advocate for Palestine on campus is to get professors on board the boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) movement... Read more... George Carlin: The Illusion of Liberty | YouTube Watch video... The Code of Hammurabi | Online Library of Liberty The Code of Hammurabi, King of Babylon about 2250 B.C... Read more... 'Hypocrisy against Syria overwhelming' | PressTV Press TV has interviewed Franklin Lamb, Director for Americans concerned for Middle East peace in Beirut about the UN General Assembly vote outcome, the process that was undertaken and the importance of the decision. The discussion focuses on hypocrisy of the stance on Bahrain and Saudi Arabia’s oppressive monarchies demanding democracy in Syria... Read transcript, watch video... Khader Adnan, Bobby Sands, by David Rovics | YouTube Khader Adnan's current hunger strike, presumably to the death, is more than a little reminiscent of the IRA hunger strikes of 1981. As, no doubt, the Israeli occupation of Palestine is more than a little reminiscent of the British occupation of Ireland, most particularly during the Troubles... Watch video... A State of ALL its Citizens | 1 not 2  Read more... Taxpayers slapped with $32 billion bill to pay for TSA molestation of their children and seniors, by Ethan A. Huff | Natural News The Obama Administration has proposed significantly hiking air travel fees to cover the costs associated with the U.S. Transportation Security Administration's (TSA) molestation of air travelers. Under the new plan, which would garner a whopping $32 billion in ten years, ticket fees that cover the costs of TSA security screenings would more than double for passengers, costing them at least $5 per one-way trip... Read more... United Methodist Resolution | Kairos Response Dear United Methodist Friends, We write to you as citizens and residents of Israel who support the United Methodist proposal to divest from companies involved with Israel’s occupation. Understanding that a decision to divest may sound harsh at first and that quite a few misconceptions exist concerning this initiative, we would like to offer our view... Read more, watch video... Shit Zionists Say (satire) | YouTube We asked some people "Say something a Zionist has said to you"... Watch video... Hatred Rules Jerusalem: "Decider of the Generation" is Dying | Roy Tov  Being a prophet is risky. Not only because you may be stoned by those disliking your prophecies, but also because you may err. Happily, I don’t need to be a prophet to claim Rabbi Yosef Shalom Eliashiv is going to die. He even may do so in the next few months. In February 2012, the Lithuanian Haredim in Jerusalem are already mourning his imminent death; these days he regularly enters and leaves the Hadassah Hospital in Jerusalem. At the age of almost 102, he is Posek HaDor, the Decider of the Generation... Read more... Would you buy a soiled dream from these media whores? | Niqnaq Here is my analysis of Jewish PR in general. Notice I say Jewish PR, not zionist PR. In my view, the situation could be compared to this instant Aesopean fable. One day, the skunk approached the parliament of the animals and asked to be admitted. The admissions secretary pointed out that the skunk almost constantly emitted a disagreeable odour. At this the skunk reared up as best it could and said, “How dare you say such a thing? You are a pathological anti-Skunkite!” Sadly the admissions secretary replied... Read more... Israel and the paths to national suicide | Redress Information & Analysis Uri Avnery argues that Israel, through its unwillingness to reach a just accommodation with the Palestinians, its ticking bomb of rapidly multiplying parasitic Orthodox Jews, who do not work and are not equipped for the modern age, and its growing unattractiveness as a place to live, may be heading for national suicide... [Great! So let's just say the Kaddish and get it over with.] Read more...Dispelling the Lies, Telling the Truth about Western Aggression in the Persian Gulf, by Finian Cunningham and Michel Chossudovsky | Global Research The year 2012 may become known as a watershed for humanity – the year when mankind was precipitated into a global conflagration involving nuclear weapons. The signs are indeed grimly ominous as formidable military forces converge on the Persian Gulf in the long-running stand-off between the United States and Iran. On side with the US are its European allies in NATO, primarily Britain, Washington’s Middle East client states: Israel and the Arab monarchies of the Persian Gulf – all bristling with weapons of mass destruction... Read more... False Flag Car Bombings - A Mossad Specialty | Public Intelligence Blog  Who? Mini-Me? Ed Lansdale specialized in false flag terrorism and false flag bombings for the CIA in the Philippines and then in Viet-Nam. Israel specializes in car bombings — mostly as primers (pun intended) to sell a lot of security to the paranoid, but sometimes, we speculate, to influence its “host” the USA...Read more... Secret 1969 White House Memo on `Dangers' of Israel Nuclear Weapons | Nixon Presidential Library ...Our problem is that Israel will not take us seriously on the nuclear issue unless they believe we are prepared to withhold something they very much need - the Phantoms or, even more, their whole military supply relationship with us. On the other hand, if we withhold the Phantoms and they make this fact public in the United States, enormous political pressure will be mounted on us. We will be in an indefensible position if we cannot state why we are withholding the planes... Read more... Washington & Al-Qaeda, United on Syria, by John Glaser | Antiwar Mere days after U.S. officials leaked intelligence that al-Qaeda’s branch in Iraq has been infiltrating Syria to conduct terrorism, arm the opposition, and take advantage of the uprising against President Bashar al-Assad, al-Qaeda’s #1 Ayman al-Zawahiri condemned the Assad regime and urged support for the opposition... Read more... Paris university pulls plug on "Israeli apartheid" talk | The Electronic Intifada  Sarkozy marvels at the “miracle” of Israeli “democracy” A Paris university has withdrawn permission for a Palestine solidarity conference at the behest of the Zionist lobby. In a statement issued today, the authorities at the University of Paris said that the title of the conference – “Israel: an apartheid state?” – was “of a strongly polemical character.” Because there had been strong reactions to its theme, the university predicted there could be a “serious risk posed to public order” if the event scheduled for 27 and 28 February went ahead...Read more... Despite Domestic Cuts, U.S. Aid To Israel Up By $25 Million In Proposed Budget, by Saed Bannoura | International Middle East Media Center An examination of the proposed U.S. budget submitted by President Barack Obama to the U.S. Congress this week shows that although billions of dollars will be cut from domestic programs and the U.S. military, annual aid to Israel remains intact, and includes an increase of $25 million from last year... Read more... Customer Review by D. Saykaly: The Host and The Parasite: How Israel's Fifth Column Consumed America | Amazon "The Host and the Parasite" is an extraordinarily important book that traces America's slide into fascism and subservience to a foreign power. Felton argues persuasively that 3 groups have converged and come to dominate American policy for the benefit of Israel. Those 3 groups are: the neo-conservatives; the Republican evangelicals (Christian Zionists); and Jewish Zionists. He backs up his analysis with over 800 footnoted references to government, scholarly and media sources... Read more... Veteran US Diplomat Questions Syria Storyline, by Sharmine Narwani | Al Akhbar English The problem with US policy in the Middle East is that it now operates almost entirely at the political level: gone are the days when area experts were the heavyweights in the command center, weaving historical context, relationships and nuance into vital policy decisions. Today you are more likely to have single-issue interest groups, commercial projects and election cycles impact key deliberations. It’s a short-term view: tactical more than strategic and black and white in its approach... Read more... Tribalism, Racism and Projection (Part 2) | Gilad Atzmon  Read more... Second Intl. Conference on Hollywoodism in Iran | PressTV/YouTube A number of international filmmakers, university and religious scholars, authors, peace activists and leaders of occupy movements are in Tehran. The reason: attending the Second International Conference on Hollywoodism and Cinema... Watch video... War Propaganda's Triumph: U.S. Public Opinion on Iran, by Ben Schreiner | Global Research A recent series of polls gauging U.S. public opinion on Iran and its nuclear program shed light on the enduring strength of the American propaganda machine. According to a recent YouGov survey, an astounding 64% of Americans currently believe Iran is most likely enriching uranium “to build a nuclear weapon.” Of course, despite the media distortions and deceits to the contrary, no evidence exists that they are... Read more... Behind the Assassination of Iranian Scientists: The Original Sin, by Ismael Hossein-zadeh | Payvand To avoid restating the obvious, or repeating what others have already established, I take these facts as givens: that the main perpetrator of the assassination of Iranian scientists has been the Israeli spy agency Mossad, assisted by various covert operations agencies of the United States and its allies; that the claim of Iran's possessing or pursuing a nuclear arms program is false; and that, therefore, the assertion that Iran poses an “existential” threat to Israel is, likewise, a fiction designed to justify plans of war and regime change in that country... Read more... West's poker face at Middle Eastern grand chessboard | RT The planned neo-colonial takeover of the Middle East is gearing up. As the heat rises, the West finds it increasingly difficult to proceed with its grab for dominance and maintain a brave face, says political analyst Adrian Salbuchi. Things are happening very fast in the Middle East. Tensions are mounting, threats are being made, and strange assassinations are taking place… Read more... War Propaganda: Corporate Media Steers World Toward Disaster, by Kurt Nimmo | Global Research  The establishment media has slipped into overdrive. It is determined to fan the flames of hysteria and set the stage for a devastating attack on Iran. On Thursday, CNN’s Erin Burnet interviewed New York’s Rep. Peter King who said Iran will unleash Hezbollah in America and the result will be worse than an attack with ballistic missiles. King and Burnet threw around a slew of lies and fabrications in order to fan the flames of hysteria... Read more, watch video... BDS interview fallout: Finkelstein 'showed his own fear of the paradigm shift in discourse on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict' by Adam Horowitz | Mondoweiss Here are three smart reactions to the Norman Finkelstein BDS interview. The first is from Maath Musleh, a Palestinian student in London, the second is former CPT volunteer Sean O'Neill writing for +972 and last is David Samel from the Mondo comment section... Read more... One State or Two? Neither: The Issue is Zionism, by Jonathan Cook | Counterpunch ...In the unimaginable event that the Israel were to divide the land, a Jewish state would not be able to live with the consequences of such a division for long. Eventually, the maintenance of an ethnic Israeli state would (and will) prove unsustainable: environmentally, demographically and ultimately physically. Division of the land simply “fast-forwards” the self-destructiveness inherent in a Jewish state... Read more... Another March to War? by Matt Taibbi | Rolling Stone As a journalist, there’s a buzz you can detect once the normal restraints in your business have been loosened, a smell of fresh chum in the waters, urging us down the road to war. Many years removed from the Iraq disaster, that smell is back, this time with Iran. You can just feel it: many of the same newspapers and TV stations we saw leading the charge in the Bush years have gone back to the attic and are dusting off their war pom-poms... Read more, watch video... Who Will The Israelis (Or Their Proxies) Attack During Purim? by Keith Johnson | Revolt of the Plebs  Read more... "(AIPAC) is attempting to block a brief filed by Director of the Institute for Research: Middle Eastern Policy Grant F. Smith" | Sic Semper Tyrannis The American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) is attempting to block a brief filed by Director of the Institute for Research: Middle Eastern Policy (IRmep) Grant F. Smith in the DC Court of Appeals on February 3, 2012. The 78-page IRmep filing asserts "AIPAC has never abandoned its original role as an arm of the Israeli government in the United States.".. Read more... High-Tech Trickery in Homs? by Sharmine Narwani | Al Akhbar English ...The “satellite photos,” says Ford, “have captured both the carnage and those causing it -- the artillery is clearly there, it is clearly bombing entire neighborhoods…We are intent on exposing the regime's brutal tactics for the world to see.” But within 24 hours, the blog Moon of Alabama had taken a hammer to the ambassador’s claims. A detailed examination of satellite imagery by the bloggers revealed numerous discrepancies in Washington’s allegations... Read more... Abolishing the Palestinian Authority an urgent prerequisite to liberation | Redress Information & Analysis Jeff Halper calls for the abolition of the Palestinian National Authority, which he argues is nothing but a smokescreen to enable Israel to ethnically cleanse itself while the world and Palestinian quislings are preoccupied with the pursuit of the mirage of a two-state solution, something in fact rendered utterly unachievable by Israel’s colonization of the Palestinian territories... Read more... Book identifies pressure points for boycott actions, by Asa Winstanley | The Electronic Intifada  The idea of boycotting Israel has gained more and more currency in the West over the last ten years or so, and one of the most frequent requests from new recruits to the boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) movement is for a “boycott list.” Just tell us the companies to avoid, they say... Read more... Iran Has a Nuclear Power, Not a Weapons Program: Interview with Clinton Bastin | 21st Century Science Tech As a nuclear scientist and chemical engineer, who for decades directed U.S. programs for production and processing of nuclear materials and components for weapons, you have asserted that there is no weapons threat from Iran. What is your assessment of Iran’s nuclear program?.. Read more... A Response to Norman Finkelstein, by Virginia Tilley | Unpetrified Opinion Responding to bizarre statements always risks magnifying their exposure and importance. Hence I wouldn’t normally respond to Norman Finkelstein’s startling 32-minute video attack on the movement for boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) against Israel, which was recently posted on YouTube to considerable fanfare by Zionist blogs. Some other good writers have taken him on, like Sean O'Neill, so I could leave it there. But... Read more... You can't get there from here: the need for 'collapse with agency' in Palestine, by Jeff Halper | ICAHD Even as I write this, the bulldozers have been busy throughout that one indivisible country known by the bifurcated term Israel/Palestine. Palestinian homes, community centers, livestock pens and other “structures” (as the Israel authorities dispassionately call them) have been demolished in the Old City, Silwan and various parts of “Area C” in the West Bank, as well among the Bedouin – Israeli citizens – in the Negev/Nakab. This is merely mopping up, herding the last of the Arabs into their prison cells... Read more... "Human Rights" Warriors for Empire, by Glen Ford | Black Agenda Report  The largest imperial offensive since the Iraq invasion of March, 2003, is in full swing, under the banner of “humanitarian” intervention – Barack Obama’s fiendishly clever upgrade of George Bush’s “dumb” wars. Having failed to obtain a Libyan-style United Nations Security Council fig leaf for a “humanitarian” military strike against Syria, the United States shifts effortlessly to a global campaign “outside the U.N. system” to expand its NATO/Persian Gulf royalty/Jihadi coalition. Next stop: Tunisia... Read more... Arthur Silber Destroys What The Brainwashed Left Calls "Dissent" by Saman Mohammadi | The Excavator In his latest article, "Hardhitting, Dissenting Journalism - Without the Hardhitting, Dissenting Part," Arthur Silber writes: "In a recent essay, I mentioned Matt Taibbi as one of the examples of a phenomenon I call "The Obedient Dissenter," and said I would be examining that phenomenon in further detail soon. This isn't that lengthier analysis, but more in the nature of a sneak preview... Read more... China moves to resolve Syrian conflict | PressTV China and Russia are proceeding down the diplomatic negotiation path to resolve the Syria conflict and derail US and its ally’s efforts to overthrow the government. Press TV has interviewed Issa al-Chaer of the Syrian Social club from London about the efforts China is making to bring both government and oppositions together for serious talks of reform and cooperation while at the same time US war factions abuse international law by invading Syrian air space with drones, set up military bases and train mercenaries inside Syria... Read transcript, watch video... Palestine: a story that needs retelling | Redress Information & Analysis Paul J. Balles retells the story of Palestine, reminding us in brief and simple terms of the the basic, undeniable facts of the world’s worst, most obdurate and premeditated injustice... Read more... Does AIPAC want war? by Robert Naiman | Al Jazeera English  Joseph Lieberman is pushing a bill that will delineate red lines' for Iran For all it has done to promote confrontation between the United States and Iran, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee has worked to avoid the public perception that AIPAC is openly promoting war. In AIPAC's public documents, the emphasis has always been on tougher sanctions. (If you make sanctions "tough" enough - an effective embargo - that is an act of war, but it is still at one remove from saying that the US should start bombing.)...- lines Iran has already crossed [I would dearly love to put Joe in a pinyata and then grab a hefty piece of rebar and then...] Read more...Uncle Sam, Global Gangster, by Andrew Bacevich | TomDispatch If all goes as planned, it will be the happiest of wartimes in the U.S.A. Only the best of news, the killing of the baddest of the evildoers, will ever filter back to our world. After all, American war is heading for the “shadows” in a big way. As news articles have recently made clear, the tip of the Obama administration’s global spear will increasingly be shaped from the ever-growing ranks of U.S. special operations forces. They are so secretive that they don’t like their operatives to be named, so covert that they instruct their members.. Read more... The "Global Crises of Capitalism"; Whose Crises, Who Profits? | James Petras There is no doubt that, between 2008-2009, the capitalist system in Europe and the United States suffered a severe shock that shook the foundations of its financial system and threatened to bankrupt its ‘leading sectors’. However, I will argue the ‘crises of capitalism’ was turned into a ‘crises of labor’. Finance capital, the principle detonator of the crash and crises, recovered, the capitalist class as a whole was strengthened, and most important of all, it utilized the political, social, ideological conditions created... Read more... Envoys to fight Israel Apartheid Week on campus | Jpost The Public Diplomacy Ministry plans to send 100 Israelis from different sectors in society abroad to represent and defend the state during Israel Apartheid Week. The “Faces of Israel” mission, which leaves next weekend, includes settlers, Arabs, artists, experts in national security, gay people, and immigrants from Ethiopia. Actor Aki Avni will also join the group. The participants in the project have undergone several weeks of training in the Public Diplomacy Ministry, and will visit dozens of college campuses to battle the “apartheid” label... [Organized sophistry as the Masters of Discourse set out to do battle with the simple and obvious truth] Read more... Khaled Al Sabawi: A Different Kind of Underground Movement | Gilad Atzmon What is za purpose of your visit to Izrael?" This is the welcoming question that is asked by Israeli border security to anyone that travels to the Palestinian territories. For this Palestinian, it is to bring green energy to Palestine. Recognizing Palestine's grave energy crisis, Khaled Al Sabawi takes you on his quest to "keep Palestine cool" using geothermal energy... Watch video... Feb 12-15, 2012 Rothschilds Want Iran's Banks, by Pete Papaherakles | American Free Press  Could gaining control of the Central Bank of the Islamic Republic of Iran (CBI) be one of the main reasons that Iran is being targeted by Western and Israeli powers? As tensions are building up for an unthinkable war with Iran, it is worth exploring Iran’s banking system compared to its U.S., British and Israeli counterparts... Read more... Corruption vs Dignity, by Mazin Qumsiyeh | Popular Resistance A friend asked how activists keep going when so many people engage in corruption, stealing, lying, cheating, and harming others. Here in Palestine, there are plenty of people who do these things and they are both Israelis and Palestinians. Occasionally we also have the visiting Western politicians but that only adds marginally to these negative acidic waves that are destroying lives and livelihoods in their wake. We could write books about all these negative things... Read more... Tribalism, Racism and Projection | Gilad Atzmon It doesn’t take a genius to see that people who are identified as Zionist and Jews are, somehow, over represented in many blunders in today’s world affairs. The pro-war, Neocon think-tanks were overwhelmingly saturated with Zionist Jews, and the ‘moral interventionist’ advocates within the media are also largely Zionist Jews. The ‘brains’ behind the so-called Bush doctrine i.e. The ‘War Against Terror’, were Paul Wolfowitz and Scooter Libby, and if that were not enough, at the heart of the financial turmoil we also find Jewish persons, and financial institutions that are clearly recognizable as Jewish.. Read more... Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum's plans for America | Redress Information & Analysis Lawrence Davidson argues that Rick Santorum, a candidate for the Republican presidential nomination, represents “a dangerous, intolerant, noisy, in-your-face” trend in US politics and that if he and his followers are allowed to win, “the result will be ever greater divisiveness and decline at home, and war abroad”.. Read more... Benjamin Freedman's 1961 Speech at the Willard Hotel | YouTube Benjamin H. Freedman's excellent speech on how World War One and Two really started and why the U.S. was eventually drawn in... Watch video... Musical Interlude: Gwerz Kiev of Denez Prigent | Jukebox Why do 2 Celtic singers care 'bout the Ukrainian genocide of Holodomor? Aye, why does a mother care about her children?.. ~ Linguistic Research [See Holocaust and Holodomor] Watch video... Defeating Dependency, Creating a Resistance Economy, by Alaa Tartir, Sam Bahour & Samer Abdelnour | Al-Shabaka  In an important recent piece - Economic Hallucination - Ramallah-based Al-Shabaka policy advisor Sam Bahour exposed the charade played by both Western donors and the Palestinian Authority (PA) to cover up the occupied territory’s inexorable economic meltdown after decades of Israeli military occupation... Read more... Iran War: What Is AIPAC Planning? by MJ Rosenberg | Huffington Post These are strange times for those of us who follow the debate about a possible war with Iran. It is clear that the Israeli government and its neoconservative camp followers here in the United States are increasing pressure on President Obama to either attack Iran or let Israel do it (in which case, we would be forced to join in). But the idea of another Middle East war is so outlandish that it seems inconceivable it could actually occur... Read more... Special interest money is killing US democracy, by Jamal Kanj | Intifada Palestine When Newt Gingrich called Palestinians “invented people” last December, most did not realise it was his deep pockets, not his brain lateralisation, which transmitted the claptrap through his mouth... Read more... The World the Elites Remade? by Anthony Wile | Daily Bell ...there IS an elite, one that directly straddles at least three “countries” (Israel, Britain and the US) and somewhat more indirectly controls the EU, Middle East, Africa, etc., as well. It uses myriad economic and socio-political resources to build world government. This explains why the policies of so many nation-states significantly depart from the desires of the civilian populations. Search the Internet. Read up. There’s no mystery to it anymore. The ruling elites have set up economic, military and political systems that purport to represent the views and aspirations of “citizens” but actually realize the goals of the organizing elites – which is seemingly world governance, including a global central bank and global currency... Read more... The DHS Defends Globalism, Not America, by Brandon Smith | Prison Planet ...Throughout our history, it has been a rare occasion indeed when an attack falls upon American infrastructure or interests that was not influenced, directly or indirectly, by the actions of agencies which were supposedly employed to prevent such events from ever occurring. Whether through ‘blowback’, or through ‘false flag’, frankly, most of the harm that comes to our nation is perpetrated by the guiding hand of our inexorably corrupt government... Read more... An Embarrassment to Canada, by Murray Dobbin | Counterpunch It is hard to credit the latest statements and actions by Canada’s Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird. On both Iran and Israel Baird seems to almost deliberately seek to humiliate both himself and the country he is supposed to represent on the international stage. Taking an ultra-orthodox Rabbi (whose organization opposes any Palestinian state) with him on an official visit to Israel is not just bizarre but dangerous. And suggesting, essentially, that Iran has a first-strike policy against Israel (with non-existent nuclear weapons) while comparing its leader to Hitler, puts Baird firmly in the company of drunks in a bar room exchange of tough talk... Read more... Guerrilla 2012 | Roy Tov  “We were not involved in any way with regards to the assassination that took place there,” said US Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta, although he hinted that he had “some idea” of who was. Mr. Panetta made a false statement; the USA substantially supports Israeli military efforts with money and equipment, knowing that crimes would be perpetrated with them. After all, the US government is well aware of the Goldstone Report, which defined Israel as a terror inflicting organization. I am confident the report was read with interest by the Secretary of State and a few other Americans... Read more... Old Israel and the new Middle East, by Maged Kayali | Middle East Monitor Two opposing phenomena are interacting in the Middle East; the first is Israel, moving back to the past with its policies, laws and ideology, looking ever more like a "typical" Middle East country: closed, exclusive, violent, and culturally and religiously rigid. The second phenomenon is the effort made by some Arab countries to break away from the stereotypical image assigned to them for decades. They are shedding their unhappy past to move into a positive future, embracing modernity and democracy. That is the aim of the popular revolutions, despite the complexities and difficulties being faced... Read more... Former SEAL Team Six Commander: Israel Responsible for Global Terror, by Dave Gahary | American Free Press The recent raid by the U.S. Special Forces commando unit given worldwide recognition for the alleged raid and murder of Osama bin Laden in Pakistan has made headlines again, this time in Somalia, and the apparent success of both operations is paving the way for a new military strategy being promoted by the Obama White House which includes a much larger role for Special Operations forces in the leaned-down U.S. military... Read more... NATO-Israel Joint Operation: Access Codes | Roy Tov In recent days, two bits of information disclosed that Israel is intensifying its cooperation with NATO. One of them is quite trivial, the second implies an unprecedented level of cooperation and has already generated protests from Turkey, a former Israeli ally... Read more... The World Turned Upside Down, by Philip Giraldi | Antiwar ...There is a whole smorgasbord of things that Iran might do that are forbidden, including even having the knowledge of how to build a bomb. The negative press and commentary are being spun into a casus belli, something called the Iranian Threat writ large. The message is clear: even though Iran has a minuscule defense budget, has never attacked anyone, and is essentially a Third World country, it is nevertheless a global menace that must be dealt with by military means if all else fails. Oh yes, and brave little Israel will do the job if President Obama doesn’t have what it takes... Read more... US geo-political wars may lead to WWIII | PressTV ...Press TV has interviewed Don De Bar, prominent anti-war activist in New York, about how a covert attack and efforts to force regime change in Syria fits in with American geopolitical aims that has the US ultimately targeting Russian and Chinese military alliances and trade partners... Read transcript, watch video... The Origins of Imperial Israel: Organized Terror & Ethnic Cleansing in Palestine, by Andrew Gavin Marshall | Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs Post  The official Israeli government explanation for the ‘disappearance’ of 750,000 Palestinian Arabs from the land (roughly half the Arab population in Palestine in 1948) was that they left “voluntarily.” The “new history” of Israel emerged within the past couple decades due to declassified documents relating to the 1948 war and its origins, and with a number of Israeli historians recreating the history of Israel and challenging the official story... Read more... On Delegitimization and Anti Semitism, by Lillian Rosengarten | Palestine Chronicle ..Fanatics closed to discussion, believe in their moral superiority without having to justify their behavior and too often portray themselves as victims. Dissent in any form against Israel's crimes against Palestinians is squelched in a morally repulsive manner. Jews and human rights activists are labeled anti-Semites. This serves to focus away from a brutal occupation in the name of preserving the Jewish state. Israel hides behind its own label as "victim" in an effort to obscure the truth of its political mission to conquer and destroy... Read more... Storm over Hebron, by Uri Avnery | Media Monitors Network There seems to be no limit to the troubles caused by the town of Hebron. This time, the reason is as innocent as can be: the organized visits of schoolchildren to the Cave of Machpelah, where our patriarchs are supposed to be buried... Read more... Anonymous 2012: To The People We Must Unite | YouTube Watch video... US, Israel never tolerate free media | PressTV ..Ken O’Keefe: Well there is no question at all that telling the truth in this world is indeed a revolutionary act. And let us not confuse the journalists that work for what I consider to be ‘prostituted’ organizations posing as news agencies such as the BBC and others... Watch video... Bobby Kennedy's Speech for Humanity | YouTube Bobby Kennedy's Day of Affirmation speech set to the soundtrack of the Social Network & Gladiator. The Day of Affirmation speech was a speech given by Robert F. Kennedy to National Union of South African Students members at the University of Cape Town, South Africa, on June 6, 1966. Kennedy, who was then a U.S. Senator from New York, gave the speech two years before his 1968 presidential campaign, which came to an end when Kennedy was assassinated on June 5, 1968 in Los Angeles... [There is considerable circumstantial evidence that the Zionists were deeply involved in the assassinations of both Kennedy brothers.] Read more...Sheldon Adelson and the End of American Anti-Semitism, by Eric Alterman | The Nation  If a Jew-hater somewhere, inspired perhaps by The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, sought to invent an individual who symbolizes almost all the anti-Semitic clichés that have dogged the Jewish people throughout history, he could hardly come up with a character more perfect than Sheldon Adelson... Read more... Bahrain bans journalists, brutal force on protesters feared | PressTV Press TV has interviewed Sara Marusek, a political analyst in Beirut about the propping up of the brutal al-Khalifa regime and the banning of all journalists from entering the country on the anniversary of the revolution. The discussion highlights the hypocrisy of the international community’s support for oppression in Bahrain... Read transcript, watch video... Road to Damascus... and on to Armageddon? by Diana Johnstone | Counterpunch What if pollsters put this question to citizens of the United States and the European Union: “Which is more important, ensuring disgruntled Islamists freedom to overthrow the secular regime in Syria, or avoiding World War Three?”.. Read more... The constitutional crimes of Bush and Obama | Harvard Law School Ralph Nader ’58 and Bruce Fein ’72 visited Harvard Law School for a talk sponsored by the HLS Forum and the Harvard Law Record. At the event, “America's Lawless Empire: The Constitutional Crimes of Bush and Obama,” both men discussed what they called lawless, violent practices by the White House and its agencies that have become institutionalized by both political parties... Read more, watch video... The 8th Annual Israeli Apartheid Week 2012 | Israeli Apartheid Week  Feb - March 2012 Alan Dershowitz in a nutshell | YouTube I've been perplexed by Alan Dershowitz's ability to maintain his respectable status in spite of his extensive record of intellectual dishonesty, so I decided to create this video based on my original research into two of Dershowitz's books to expose him for the dishonest "intellectual" he is. ~ Omar Baddar Watch video... The Syrian Impasse, by Immanuel Wallerstein | Middle East Online ..The bottom line is that, however loud the rhetoric and however ugly the civil war, no one really, really wants Assad to go. So, in all probability, he will stay... Read more... The Pentagon's Lie Machine, by Justin Raimondo | Antiwar The publication of Lt. Col. Daniel L. Davis’s piece in the Armed Forces Journal, followed up by an interview in the New York Times and the posting of a longer piece by Rolling Stone, is a remarkable event in the sense that rarely has a more comprehensive debunking of official lies been written by an insider. Col. Davis has served in both the Iraq and Afghan campaigns, and recently was on a tour that took him to a number of Afghan outposts. His reports relate, in numbing detail, the complete disparity between the official pronouncements of our military spokespersons and the grim truth of what he saw on the ground in Afghanistan... Read more... Ongoing atrocities by NATO-installed Libyan regime, by Will Morrow | WSWS The Libyan Transitional National Council (TNC) regime installed by the US-NATO intervention in Libya last year is responsible for ongoing atrocities, particularly against black-skinned Libyans, detainees and alleged supporters of the previous Gaddafi government... Read more... Under Attack: the Golani Brigade's war on the Palestinian population of Al-Khali/Hebron | Christian Peacemaker Teams A newly released report submitted to the United Nations by international organizations working in Al Khalil documents a sharp increase in serious human rights violations against Palestinian civilians, particularly youth and children, living in the Old City and Tel Rumeida since the arrival of the Golani Brigade of the Israeli army on 27 December 2011. The report documents an increase in arrests and detentions of adults and children, serious physical injuries sustained while in military custody, home invasions, and an increase in the number and duration of arbitrary detentions of civilians at checkpoints. It also documents harassment of and attempts to silence international observers attempting to document these abuses... Read more... Active Duty Troops to March on White House, by Kurt Nimmo | Prison Planet  One thousand veterans and active duty troops will shatter the corporate media hoax that insists members of the American military do not support Ron Paul due to his opposition to the unconstitutional forever war agenda of the establishment... Read more... Orwellian Drones: "Eye in the Sky" Spying on Americans, by Stephen Lendman | Global Research ..Against targeted countries, it's America's newest sport. From distant command centers, operators kill by remote control. They use computer keyboards and multiple monitors. UAVs stand ready round-the-clock for missions. Predator drones perform sanitized killing on the cheap compared to manned aircraft. Independent experts believe militants are hit about 2% of the time. All others are noncombatants, despite official disclaimers... Read more... The Invention of Ancient Israel: The Silencing of Palestinian History, by Keith W. Whitelam | Amazon The Invention of Ancient Israel shows how the history of ancient Palestine has been obscured by the search for Israel. Keith W. Whitelam argues that ancient Israel has been invented by scholars in the image of a European nation state. He explores the theological and political assumptions which have shaped research into ancient Israel by Biblical scholars, and contributed to the vast network of scholarship which Said identified as 'Orientalist discourse'. Keith W. Whitelam's groundbreaking study argues that Biblical scholars, through their traditional view of this region, have contributed to dispossession of both a Palestinian land and a Palestinian past... Go to page... Interview: "Mark Weber on the Jewish Question Today" | Counter Currents ...whereas in the past, the Jewish Question was an issue or a tension or a problem that existed in a particular region, or a particular country, or a city, and was usually followed by expulsion from that place, and then later, I think in the 1930s and ’40s became a continental-wide Question; today it is a global Question. It’s a global issue. Because the power of the organized Jewish community: the Jewish Lobby, the Israel Lobby, whatever you call it, is one that has a particular grip here in the United States, the most powerful country in the world, certainly the one with the biggest military, and is fortified by having a base of support in a country of their own, Israel, that is supplemental in addition to the power that already exists here in the United States: the one feeds off the other... Read transcript, listen to podcast... Truth, History and Integrity | Gilad Atzmon ...Jewish history is a phantasmic tale that is there to make the Jews happy and the Goyim behave themselves. It is there to serve the interests of one tribe and that tribe only. In practice, from a Jewish perspective, the decision whether there was an Armenian genocide or not is subject to Jewish interests: is it good for the Jews or is it good for Israel... Read more... Many Americans gave up hope last year - 2012 will be worse, by Joseph Stiglitz | The Guardian  Middle-aged people who thought they would be unemployed for a few The year 2011 will be remembered as the time when many ever-optimistic Americans began to give up hope. President John F Kennedy once said that a rising tide lifts all boats. But now, in the receding tide, Americans are beginning to see not only that those with taller masts had been lifted far higher, but also that many of the smaller boats had been dashed to pieces in their wake...months have realised that they were, in fact, forcibly retired Read more... Challenge: Is America the New Axis of Evil, by Gordon Duff | Veterans Today ...We have met the enemy. It is stupidity. We can’t afford it anymore, no more fear, no more lies, no more greed. Eventually, the way we are going, do I have to finish this? There is going to be a price to pay for betraying America... Read more, watch videos... A Message to Obama from Anonymous | YouTube Dear President Obama. We welcomed you with open arms and now what do you do. You now threaten the very thing that we fight for and that is freedom of the internet. your fascist proposal to be able to control the internet and shut it down if you deem it necessary has caught the eye of Anonymous. You can now consider yourself an enemy along with the entire United States congress. Tell me Mister President, when has it become acceptable to rob the very freedoms that your forefathers set?.. Read more, watch video... US defense spending hits new record in 60 years | PressTV A prominent military analyst says the US is frivolously spending taxpayer money on exorbitant military projects instead of improving the ailing economy... Watch video... Syria and the UNO: Peaceful protests and "Crackdowns" | English Pravda It appears the United Nations Organization has joined the FUKUS-Axis in its choice of vocabulary to tarnish the image of a Government fraught with problems caused by foreign forces arming terrorists and to whitewash imperialistic attempts to invade and massacre its citizens. After Libya, centre stage belongs to Syria... Read more... What is a direct democracy? Learn how We the People can bypass Congress and restore liberty, by J. D. Heyes | Natural News "There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time has come." That quote is attributed to Victor M. Hugo, a French poet, playwright, novelist and advocate of the Romantic movement - an artistic and intellectual movement during the second half of the 18th century in Europe - who opposed the authoritarian rule of Napoleon. And it is the theme of a new Direct Democracy Now movement that is catching on in certain quarters around the world... Read more... End of game in the Middle East, by Thierry Meyssan | Voltaire Network  the hotchpotch commonly known as "Free Syrian Army" Although the armed clashes are not completely over in the beleaguered district of Homs and that the Syrian and Lebanese authorities have yet to inform public opinion of their recent actions, Thierry Meyssan appeared Monday night on the leading Russian television channel to make an initial assessment of the operations, providing first-hand information...Read more... Failure of 'Pro-Democracy' Wars | Consortium News A key justification for three recent U.S. military actions – in Afghanistan, Iraq and Libya – was to oust brutal dictators and pave the way for a more democratic future. But these violent strategies have fallen short on the pro-democracy front, writes the Independent Institute’s Ivan Eland... Read more... Is Western Democracy Real or a Facade?: The Divine Right of Money, by Paul Craig Roberts | Counterpunch The United States government and its NATO puppets have been killing Muslim men, women and children for a decade in the name of bringing them democracy. But is the West itself a bastion of democracy?.. Read more... "Losing" the World: Empire and Its Discontents, by Noam Chomsky | Counterpunch ...American decline is real, though the apocalyptic vision reflects the familiar ruling class perception that anything short of total control amounts to total disaster. Despite the piteous laments, the U.S. remains the world dominant power by a large margin, and no competitor is in sight, not only in the military dimension, in which of course the U.S. reigns supreme... Read more... The Corbett Report: Police State Gadgets & the Technology of Enslavement | Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs Post The popular conception of the police state, derived mainly from works of science fiction, revolves heavily around the deployment of exotic technologies for keeping the populace firmly under the thumb of an authoritarian government. Perhaps it is the frequency with which these devices are presented to us in fictionalized form that prevents many from noticing that this technology is not the stuff of sci-fi fantasy, but increasingly a part of our everyday lives... Read more, watch video... Feb 11, 2012 Western Shenanigans against Syria, Iran, by Dr. Ismail Salami | Intifada Palestine  British and Qatari troops are leading armed terror gangs in the Syrian city The volatile situation in Syria generated by the Saudi-Qatar-funded Wahhabi armed group known as the Free Syrian Army and backed by the West is now an accident waiting to happen. There is certainly one ulterior motive behind the US-friendly Syrian crisis extravagantly fuelled by the presstitute media which keep distorting the facts on the grounds..of Homs in their bloody battle against civilians and the Syrian army forces Read more... Independent Report Shows that Syrian Government Violence Has Been Exaggerated | Washington's Blog While the Western media act like the Syrian government is wantonly and indiscriminately killing its own people without provocation, an independent investigation has found a different reality on the ground. Specifically, over 160 monitors from the Arab League – comprised of both allies and mortal enemies of Syria – toured Syria and published a report on January 27th showing that the situation has been mischaracterized... Read more... Anonymous Message To The State of Israel | YouTube For too long we have tolerated your crimes against humanity and allowed your sins to go unpunished... Watch video (a must watch)... The Money Rules: Will Iran Be Attacked?, by Paul Craig Roberts | Counterpunch Washington has made tremendous preparations for a military assault on Iran. There is speculation that Washington has called off its two longest running wars – Iraq and Afghanistan – in order to deploy forces against Iran. Two of Washington’s fleets have been assigned to the Persian Gulf along with NATO warships. Missiles have been spread amongst Washington’s Oil Emirate and Middle Eastern puppet states. US troops have been deployed in Israel and Kuwait... Read more... Top US Government Insider: Bin Laden Died In 2001, 9/11 a False Flag, by Paul Joseph Watson | Prison Planet  ...Top US government insider Dr. Steve R. Pieczenik, a man who held numerous different influential positions under three different Presidents and still works with the Defense Department, shockingly told The Alex Jones Show yesterday that Osama Bin Laden died in 2001 and that he was prepared to testify in front of a grand jury how a top general told him directly that 9/11 was a false flag inside job. Pieczenik cannot be dismissed as a “conspiracy theorist”... Read more, watch video... How the Arab League Has Become a Tool of Western Imperialism, by Finian Cunningham | Global Research It’s an intrigue befitting the machinations of classical colonialism in past centuries, such as the Sykes-Picot carve-up of the Middle Eastern Levant territories, or the betrayal of the Arabs after World War I, or the theft of Mesopotamia’s oil by British capitalists. Only this time, it is Arabs who are helping the neocolonial powers to deceive and subjugate other Arabs. Enter the Arab League. Over the past year, the 22-member organization has emerged as a useful deceptive cover for Western powers as they seek to redraw the political contours of the Arab World, and beyond, for their own strategic interests... Read more... Syria: CIA-MI6 Intel Ops and Sabotage, by Felicity Arbuthnot | Global Research ...In late 2003, the year of the Iraq invasion, Matthew Jones, a Reader in International History, at London’s Royal Holloway College, discovered “frighteningly frank” documents:1957 plans between then UK Prime Minister, Harold Macmillan, and then President, Dwight Eisenhower, endorsing: “a CIA-MI6 plan to stage fake border incidents as an excuse for an invasion (of Syria) by Syria’s pro-western neighbours.” At the heart of the plan was the assassination of the perceived power behind then President Shukri al-Quwatli... [Yeah, there's nothing new about it, but it has become far more evil and dangerous since the Zionists assumed control over the Western governments.] Read more...NATO's Objective is to turn Syria into Another Iraq, a Quagmire of Ethnic and Sectarian Violence, by Prof. Igor Panarin | Global Research NATO’s ultimate objective is most likely turning Syria into another Iraq: a quagmire of ethnic and sectarian violence, locked in endless terrorist warfare among feuding communities. Similarly to Iraq, Syria is also a patchwork nation with its own Sunni, Shia and Christian communities. The chaos that is very likely to follow an illegitimate deposition of the Assad government may claim hundreds of thousands of civilian lives... Read more... Ethnic Cleansing in a Zionist Fairyland, by Vacy Vlazna | Palestine Chronicle  Silwan/Steadfastness are synonymous in the Palestinian soul De-Arabizing the history of Palestine is another crucial element of the ethnic cleansing. 1500 years of Arab and Muslim rule and culture in Palestine are trivialized, evidence of its existence is being destroyed and all this is done to make the absurd connection between the ancient Hebrew civilization and today's Israel. The most glaring example of this today is in Silwan (Wadi Hilwe), a town adjacent to the Old City of Jerusalem with some 50,000 residents...Read more... Lebanon Seizes Suspicious Guns and Intel. Loaded Cargo plane from US, Brazil | News Rescue Lebanon’s security officials say a suspicious cargo containing huge amounts of US dollars, guns, special passports and credit cards have been seized upon arrival in the Lebanese capital, Beirut, from the US and Brazil. The items, packed in a number of chests and delivered via airmail, were discovered at Beirut’s airport, the Lebanese security officials said. The chests also contained a list of both well-known and ordinary Lebanese citizens including a figure related to Salafi extremist groups... Read more... AIPAC Obtained Missile Secrets, by Grant Smith | Antiwar ...The chairman of the American Palestine Committee and close confidant of “Rabbi Outcast” Elmer Berger nearly succeeded in having American Israel Public Affairs (AIPAC) Director Morris Amitay prosecuted for trafficking classified national defense information in the mid-1970s... Read more... Kosher Terrorists to be Delisted | Gilad Atzmon ...Iranian, Israeli and Western commentators tend to believe that Israel and the People’s Mujahedin of Iran, known as the MEK are behind the terror campaign. In 1997, the State Department listed the MEK as a terrorist group, justifying it with an unclassified 40-page summary of the organization’s activities going back more than 25 years. But in the last few weeks the Jewish Lobby in the USA is going out of its way to support the terrorist MEK. Watch Zionist Alan Dershowitz advocating the immediate delisting of an active terror organisation... Read more, watch video... Feb 10, 2012 Syria: 5 Minutes in Homs | | Intifada Palestine  Armed Terrorist Groups also know in the Westen World as Peaceful Protesters are killing everyday innocent Civilians and Army Members. Schools are burning everyday. This is School number 1951 that has been burned by them... Read translation, watch video... Russia's White Revolution, by Eric Walberg | Palestine Chronicle ...Russian fears of Western interference are hardly naïve. Russia was sucked into the horrendous WWI by the British empire, suffered devastating invasions in 1919 and 1941, and another half century of the West’s Cold War against it. Further dismemberment of the Russian Federation is indeed a Western goal, which would benefit no one but a tiny comprador elite, Western multinationals and the Pentagon... Read more... The Arab Revolt and the Imperialist Counterattack / James Petras | Clarity Press When the popular uprisings in Egypt and Tunisia overthrew the public faces of the imperial-backed regimes in the region, it inspired supporters of popular democracy worldwide. However, as the Arab revolt spread from North Africa to the Gulf and deepened its demands, the Empire struck back. The ruling military junta in Egypt cracked down on the prodemocracy movement as its autocratic “partners”in the Gulf and the Arabian Peninsula drowned the civil society movements in blood... Read more... Confronting intimidation, working for justice in Palestine | The Electronic Intifada  Demonstration in commemoration of the killing of Mustafa Tamimi If we had a wish list for 2012 as Palestinians and friends of Palestine, one of the top items ought to be our hope that we can translate the dramatic shift in recent years in world public opinion into political action against Israeli policies on the ground. We know why this has not yet materialized: the political, intellectual and cultural elites of the West cower whenever they even contemplate acting according to their own consciences as well as the wishes of their societies...Read more... Nasrallah: There is Arab, US and Israeli Decision, Represented by so-Called Moderate States to Overthrow Syria | Intifada Palestine Hezbollah Secretary General Hassan Nasserallah on Tuesday said that there is an Arab, Israeli and US decision, represented by the so-called the Arab moderate states to overthrow the regime in Syria, adding that the aim is not democracy or reform, but it is the head of resistance in Lebanon and Palestine... Read more... Western Blueprint: the incessant search for the perfect enemy | Roy Tov  First Zionist Congress | 1897 Beyond the thick iron curtain of Western censorship, Zionism is often regarded as the epitome of Western imperial movements. There is a good reason for that. However, this is not the result of the size of the territories gained by the Zionists. However, this is not the result of the number of people enslaved, tortured, or even killed by the Zionist army. Several European countries have outperformed Zionism by orders of magnitude on every imaginable parameter, except for one. Zionists were the only ones to begin with no territory at all...Read more... Britain helps Israeli water thieves | Redress Information & Analysis Stuart Littlewood exposes British Water’s complicity with the Israeli occupation authorities who are not only stealing Palestinian water, but also overseeing the flooding of Palestinian fields and villages with untreated sewage from hilltop Jewish settlements... [What could be more despicable?] Read more...Feb 9, 2012 Shabak tortures and ill-treats Palestinian detainees with impunity, by Adri Nieuwhof | The Electronic Intifada  The Public Committee against Torture in Israel (PCATI) has released a paper on its efforts to hold the Israel Security Agency (ISA) - or Shabak - to account for its practices of torture and ill-treatment of Palestinian detainees. In Accountability Still Denied, PCATI reveals how Israel has evaded criminal investigations into all 701 complaints of torture and ill-treatment... Read more... Wars For Israel: A Reminder Of Who Is Giving The Marching Orders | Damian Lataan As the West prepares to march off to yet another war in the Middle East, we should perhaps remind ourselves of who is giving the West their marching orders. In February 2003, just weeks before the US and their allies launched their attack on Iraq and her peoples, a delegation of US congressmen, together with the US Ambassador to the United Nations, John Bolton, a well known pro-Zionist and neoconservative war-hawk, were in Israel at the invitation of the Israeli government then led by Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon... Read more... Occupying Corporations: How to Cut Corporate Power, by Bill Quigley | Information Clearing House Corporations are obviously not people. But Romney is accurate in the sense that corporations have hijacked most of the rights of people while evading the responsibilities. An important part of the social justice agenda is democratizing corporations. This means we must radically change the laws so people can be in charge of corporations. We must strip them of corporate personhood and cut them down to size so democracy can work. People are taking action so democracy can regulate the size, scope and actions of corporations... Read more... Showdown in Syria: All roads lead to Tehran | Global Research While Israel believes that the road to Tehran is a straight “pre-emptive” military attack super-highway, the US and UK seem to believe that the road to Tehran runs through Damascus. This might explain the growing turmoil in Syria that’s being used to try to promote a Libya-like UN Security Council resolution which, if passed, would certainly have Libya-like results… Read more... After Russia's UN veto, US talks of "coalition of the willing" against Syria, by Jean Shaoul and Chris Marsden | WSWS The veto by Russia and China of a United Nations Security Council resolution will not halt ongoing preparations for Western-backed intervention against Syria. The discussion on the resolution was a political manoeuvre from the outset, designed either to force Moscow and Beijing into agreeing to a UN cover for a Libya-style operation against the regime of President Bashar al-Assad, or justify a predetermined alternative route to regime-change... Read more... Jewish Roots of Islam's Extremism, by Dr. Ashraf Ezzat | Veterans Today  Salafi/Haredi ...A lot of westerners are not to be reproached for associating Muslims with violence, racism, intolerance and discrimination, after all, this kind of anti-Muslim propaganda is what they have been fed over the last decade and specifically following 9/11, and ironically by a Jewish-controlled mainstream media. And if they haven’t been told different, how can we expect them to know better .. or even refrain from subscribing to the impending and irreparable Israeli/American folly in Iran?..Read more... Targetting Iran: The Dogs of War are off the Leash, by Tom Burghardt | Global Research In meeting rooms in London, Tel Aviv and Washington the dice have been thrown: snake eyes. Flashback, 1963: When John F. Kennedy decided not to escalate the soon-to-be disastrous Vietnam war and issued National Security Action Memorandum 263 (NSAM 263), he signed his death warrant. Scarcely six weeks after vowing to pull all American forces out of South Vietnam by 1965, Kennedy was dead, the target of an "executive action" orchestrated by the CIA, a coup d'état on behalf of America's corporatist masters--the military-industrial cabal of hardline cold warriors who stood to lose billions if Kennedy lived... NATO vs. Syria, by Philip Giraldi | The American Conservative ...NATO is already clandestinely engaged in the Syrian conflict, with Turkey taking the lead as U.S. proxy. Ankara’s foreign minister, Ahmet Davitoglu, has openly admitted that his country is prepared to invade as soon as there is agreement among the Western allies to do so. The intervention would be based on humanitarian principles, to defend the civilian population based on the “responsibility to protect” doctrine that was invoked to justify Libya. Turkish sources suggest that intervention would start with creation of a buffer zone along the Turkish-Syrian border and then be expanded... Read more... Armed Groups Inside Syria: Prelude to a US-NATO Intervention? by Michel Chossudovsky | Global Research ...neither Washington nor the Arab League, which commissioned the Observer Mission to Syria in the first place, have accepted the interim report presented by the AL Mission. Why? Because the Mission -integrated by independent observers from Arab League countries - provides a balanced and objective assessment of what is happening on the ground inside Syria. It does not serve as a mouthpiece for Washington and the governments of Arab states. It points to the existence of an "Armed Entity"; it acknowledges that "armed opposition groups" including the Syria Free Army are involved in criminal and terrorist acts... Read more... Lies and Double Standards: Crimes against Humanity: Syria or the US? by Stephen Lendman | Global Research ...Since 1991 alone, Obama, Bush I and II, as well as Clinton, murdered millions of Iraqis, Serbians, Kosovars, Afghans, Libyans, Somalis, Yemenis, and many others ruthlessly and maliciously. Today, Obama supports atrocities in Bahrain, Yemen, Somalia, Colombia, Saudi Arabia, and elsewhere, as well as Israel's decades-long war on Palestine. Major media scoundrels ignore them. Instead, they cheerlead imperial US wars. Power takes precedence over truth and full disclosure... Read more... Why Did Palestinian Refugees Come to Lebanon? | Intifada Palestine  Lebanon's Palestinian refugees cannot return home, but are treated with disdain in Lebanon ...The current fate of Palestinian refugees in Lebanon, living for decades in inhumane conditions worse that any refugees on earth, is primarily the fault and responsibility of those who stole their lands and ethnically cleaned them during the 1948 Nakba. Additionally, the Palestinian refugees’ abject existence is the responsibility of those who have egregiously nurtured the nineteenth century Zionist colonial enterprise with aid and weapons while averting their eyes from the Palestinians Right of Return and the international responsibility to implement international law including many UN Security Council Resolutions 242, 338 and UNGAR 194. In addition to the United States and Europe, responsibility attaches to much of the World community...Read more... Targeting Syria and Iran | Stephen Lendman Slowed but not derailed by Russia and China vetoing its Security Council resolution, America's regime change/war plans remain on track. In 1999, Washington circumvented the Security Council, UN Charter, and US Constitution to wage aggressive war against nonbelligerent Serbia/Kosovo. According to former Nuremberg prosecutor Walter Rockler, it "constitute(d) the most brazen international aggression since the Nazis attacked Poland to prevent (nonexistent) 'Polish atrocities' against Germans. The United States has discarded pretensions to international legality and decency, and embarked on a course of raw imperialism run amok.".. Read more... Gas, Oil. Uranium | Roy Tov On Sunday, February 5, 2012, Israel’s Channel 2 reported the finding of another major gas field along the disputed border between Israel and Lebanon. The new field has been named “Tanin I” (“Alligator 1” in Hebrew) and is north of “Tamar.” Between 2009 and 2011, four major fields of natural gas have been found between Israel and Lebanon, in the Mediterranean Sea. Their names are Leviathan, Tamar, Sarah and Myra; several smaller fields were also found in the area. Worldwide, they form one of the largest gas reserves found in the last decade... Read more... Articles on AIPAC | Occupy AIPAC Read more... The Economics of Incarceration, by Nile Bowie | Information Clearing House ...The United States of America has long held the highest incarceration rate in the world, far surpassing any other nation. For every 100,000 Americans, 743 citizens sit behind bars. Presently, the prison population in America consists of more than six million people, a number exceeding the amount of prisoners held in the gulags of the former Soviet Union at any point in its history... Read more... Feb 8, 2012 Two Front International Struggle For Palestine, by Dr. Lawrence Davidson | Intifada Palestine  In January 2011, I wrote an analysis in support of a one-state solution to the on-going Israeli-Palestinian struggle. It is the Israelis themselves who have made the one-state solution the only practicable approach, because their incessant and illegal colonization of the West Bank has simply eliminated all possibility of a viable and truly independent Palestinian state... Read more... Democracy and the quality of our state, by Vladimir Putin | RT Society cannot have sustainable development without a viable state, and, conversely, genuine democracy is an indispensable condition for building a state that serves the interests of society. Genuine democracy cannot be produced overnight. You cannot just copy it by reproducing somebody else’s model. Society has to be ready for democratic mechanisms. Most of the people should consider themselves citizens, meaning they should be willing, on a regular basis, to give their attention, their time and their energy to participate in administrative work. In other words, democracy only works when people are willing to invest something in it... Read more... Good day for Russia | The Vineyard of the Saker This has been a good day for Russia. First, Russia and China both vetoed the US/NATO UNSC demanding regime change in Syria. Second, the various demonstrations which took place in Moscow showed that no "Orange Revolution" is likely to take place in Russia, at least not in the foreseeable future... Read more, watch video... Stealing Palestine's resources is illegal, despite Israeli court ruling, by Charlotte Silver | The Electronic Intifada  Israel claims its exploitation of West Bank land benefits the Palestinian population Pillage: for some the word conjures up lawless warfare, a time before the order of nation states or the rule of international law. Indeed, in its petition to the Israeli high court, the Israeli human rights group Yesh Din argues that “pillage” belongs to “ancient times,” when justice was determined by might and the victors of war were entitled to the fruits of the conquered land. But in today’s world, pillage continues. Obscured in the thick mire of economic agreements or obfuscations of law, pillage remains part of the modern world...Read more... Can Democrats Landslide Republicans? by Ralph Nader | Palestine Chronicle ...There are answers that are more specific to account for the large election losses in 2010, the loss of the House of Representatives to John Boehner and Eric Cantor, and the prospect of losing the House and the Senate this November. Chief among them is that the two parties are vigorously dialing for the same commercial dollars to finance their campaigns. The resultant inhibitions and self-censorships bring the parties' real agendas closer together, erasing the bright lines that make elections clearer choices for voters... Read more... Media Distortions: Ignoring Truth about Syria, by Richard Lightbown | Palestine Chronicle The British media was full of sound bites last weekend from politicians expressing outrage against Russia and China for blocking a UN Security Council resolution based on an Arab League proposal for the Syrian crisis. This is the same Arab League that called for the no-fly zone in Libya which precipitated events leading to a death toll five times higher than the current total in Syria... Read more... The Price Tag of Israel's Doublethink | Roy Tov ...On February 7, 2012, the Hand in Hand’s Max Rayne Hebrew-Arabic bilingual school in Jerusalem and the Greek Monastery of the Cross overlooking the Knesset were defaced with insulting graffiti signed by Price Tag. “Death to Arabs” and “Kahane was right” was written on a wall outside the school; “Price tag” and “Greeks out” was written on cars outside the monastery, and “Death to Christians” was written on its walls. The tires of two cars outside the monastery were punctured... Read more... Yet another War for Israel, by William A. Cook | Intifada Palestine  ...How just is it for AIPAC’s mouthpiece to declare that America should “devastate” Iran because it has “vastly more firepower” than Israel and could “do a better job” and “do it properly,” as though this were a clean-up “job” of a waste dump and not an illegal invasion of a member country of the United Nations that has done nothing under international law to threaten the U.S. much less attack it, while the Israeli government and its IDF look on happily content that it is American boys and girls suffering the consequences of the unwarranted attacks and not Jewish boys and girls? Has it come to this, that unnamed Israeli spokespeople, voicing AIPAC’s policies, determine what nation the U.S. should invade without consultation with the representatives of the American people?.. Read more... How about an international award for hypocrisy for UK and US? | Redress Information & Analysis Alan Hart views US and British hypocrisy in condemning Russia’s and China’s veto of the Security Council resolution to end the killing in Syria while at the same time supporting “Israel right or wrong – unending occupation, ongoing ethnic cleansing and all”.. Read more... Le Cote Mediterranee in NYC | Gilad Atzmon Here is the first footage from the MLK Birthday Concert 2012. The Concert took place at the Friends Meeting House, Lower Manhattan... Watch video... Who says Palestinian resistance is dead? by Nour Joudah | The Electronic Intifada  Tahrir Square, Cairo, May 2011 For decades, Palestine was the focus of nearly every protest in the Arab world. It was the acceptable outlet of frustration for almost every regime in the region, the bone they would throw their frustrated masses. But it was also the vehicle for mobilization and a training ground for political organizing that became useful for activists later on...Read more... Liberals Stunned by Huge Counter-Demo: The Tug of War in Moscow, by Israel Shamir | Counterpunch For a month, Moscow was bracing itself for the February 4 Rally. It was pre-planned and prepared by the anti-Putin pro-Western liberal opposition. Despite sub-zero Fahrenheit (minus 20 degrees Centigrade) arctic frost, the organizers hoped to break their pre-Christmas record and gather a huge crowd and a procession to shatter the will of the government supporters. They had bought up all the thermal underwear in the city stores, joined forces with anti-Muslim nationalists of Pym Fortuyn kind, and marched in strength probably exceeding the previous rallies. Police counted them at 38,000; by their own calculation they were up at 60,000... Read more... Abbas to head Palestinian unity government | Al Jazeera English Mahmoud Abbas, the president of the Palestinian Authority (PA), has agreed to lead an interim national consensus government to prepare for upcoming elections, under an agreement signed in the Qatari capital. The "Doha Declaration" was signed in the Gulf state on Monday by Abbas and Hamas chief Khaled Meshaal in the presence of Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani, Qatar's emir. The agreement states that the new Palestinian government will comprise "independent technocrats," and will also be responsible for overseeing reconstruction efforts in the Gaza Strip... Read more... PennBDS: Hate-fest or Human Rights Conference | IMEU Blog Talk Radio I just returned from an exhilarating National BDS Conference at the University of Pennsylvania this past weekend. Kicking off with a video of support from the Archbishop Desmond Tutu, hundreds of activists and academics gathered for two days of workshops, analysis, and entertainment, undeterred by a barrage of attacks by BDS opponents who attempted to smear organizers and speakers alike. Here is a press briefing that I did with keynote speaker Ali Abunimah, refuting the bogus charges. ~ Anna Balzer Listen... Eliot Cohen and the Return of the Neocons, by Max Blumenthal | Al-Akhbar English  Should Mitt Romney make it to the White House, his Middle East policy and plan for Iran may be as hawkish as that of Bush Junior, thanks to Eliot Cohen... [What is it with these people; have they have no shame, no conscience, no awareness? Or is it that they are simply genocidally psychotic.] Read more...Rocky Anderson: "Overthrow the Dictatorship of Money" by Steven Higgs | Counterpunch Rocky Anderson is always deferential to Occupy Wall Street when asked about the movement, most recently in a Jan. 31 interview with the online environmental magazine Grist. Occupy has been a “very healthy thing in this country,” and there’s an “enormous convergence” between its concerns and his. But for inspiration, the Justice Party candidate points to Tahrir Square, not Zucotti Park... Read more... Exposed: The Arab agenda in Syria, by Pepe Escobar | Asia Times Online Here's a crash course on the "democratic" machinations of the Arab League - rather the GCC League, as real power in this pan-Arab organization is wielded by two of the six Persian Gulf monarchies composing the Gulf Cooperation Council, also known as Gulf Counter-revolution Club; Qatar and the House of Saud... Read more... Tenth Anniversary of Executive Memo on Al Qaeda Detainees, by Andrew Rosenthal | NYT ..Ten years ago policies were established that led to Abu Ghraib, the secret C.I.A. prisons, the Guantanamo Bay detention camp and torture; that led, in other words, to a period that ranks among the worst in American history for the abuse of executive power, the shredding of civil liberties and the undermining of the judicial system. At the time, we didn’t know it was happening, because it was done in secret... Read more... Feb 6-7, 2012 Iran in the crosshairs of the axis of evil An attack on Iran must be stopped, by Andrew Murray | The Guardian  Today’s anti-war campaign must break the parliamentary consensus for war which proved so calamitous in 2003 The Anglo-American aggression addicts haven't kicked the habit. The team that brought you shock and awe and Operation Infinite Justice is gearing up for yet another crack at winning a senseless war in the Middle East. This time the target is Iran, the pretense the regime's imminent possession of nuclear weapons. But some things will remain the same – it will lead to slaughter and end in disaster... Read more... Scott Horton Interviews Flynt Leverett | Antiwar Radio Flynt Leverett, former Senior Director for Middle East Affairs at the National Security Council, discusses his article “Hype or Reality: Will Israel Attack Iran Before the U.S. Presidential Election;” Israel’s inability to cripple Iran’s nuclear enrichment facilities without putting boots on the ground; why the US may not join the fight if Iran’s response is limited and doesn’t result in American casualties; how Obama’s “feckless” style of leadership is failing to dissuade Bibi Netanyahu from attacking Iran; indications that Mossad accepts the 2007 Iran NIE’s conclusions, and isn’t eager to start a war; Israel’s policy choices in response to the Arab Spring; and the lost opportunity in 2003 to engage Iran in talks, which could have converted Hamas and Hezbollah into demilitarized political organizations... Read more, listen... 'No Decision' on War Yet, But Obama Vows 'Lockstep' Support for Israel, by Jason Ditz | Antiwar In a high profile pre-Super Bowl interview on NBC, President Barack Obama attempted to calm fears of an impending war with Iran, saying that Israel hadn’t yet decided on whether to attack Iran, but assuring that the US was committed to remaining “in lockstep” with Israel whatever it decides and describing Israel’s security as his “top priority.”.. Read more... Iranian blogger helpfully lays out detailed plan to destroy israel | Niqnaq This article is credited in the western press to one Alireza Forghani. The only person of that name that I can locate is this one. While a pre-emptive destruction of Israel’s offensive missile capability might be a plausible Iranian goal, I think I can say with some assurance that the annihilation of Israel’s Jewish population is not... Read more... The growing Iranian military behemoth, by Glenn Greenwald | Salon  ...Sociopathic calls for aggressive attacks on other nations and cheap invocations of Hitler are not worth commenting on: neocons churn those out reflexively. But what is worth noting is the event Goldman is flagging as proof of Iran’s aggressive intentions: “Iran is planning to double its defense budget even though its currency is collapsing,” he warns. A doubling of its defense budget! Who among us can remain calm in the face of such naked militarism?.. Read more... Wall Street's Secret Spy Center, Run for the 1% by NYPD, by Pam Martens | Counterpunch On September 25, 2011, just eight days after the Occupy Wall Street protests began in Zuccotti Park in lower Manhattan, the much acclaimed CBS News program, 60 Minutes, aired a fawning look at the thousands of surveillance cameras affixed to buildings and lampposts throughout New York City. The cameras feed live images of people going about their everyday lives to a $150 million computer center equipped with artificial intelligence to integrate and analyze the daily habits of what are, for the most part, law-abiding Americans... Read more... "Have You No Sense of Decency," Mr. Dershowitz? Alan Dershowitz, neo-McCarthyite | Nicholas Urie The publication of Alan Dershowitz’s latest article, A Victory Over Bigotry at Friends Seminary, from The Algemeiner on February 2 has me frothing with confusion once again over the charge that New York’s Quaker Friends Seminary is a harbor of anti-Semitism and bigotry. This time, the article is dedicated to Dershowitz’s conquest of the school, a kind of published victory lap reminding everyone of the undeniable power of ‘The Dersh.’.. Read more, watch video... Rudolf Steiner: Philosophy Of Freedom | YouTube Our mission: To protect & defend mankind - To ensure its survival by liberating it from materialism towards mature spirituality incl. the wisdom of karma - To help it on its tortured way to develop further into an all encompassing family ~ AS Watch video... Is Honesty Dead? by Keith Goetzman | Utne Reader Honesty has ceased to be seen as a virtue, and with its decline “our society risks a future of moral numbness,” writes William Damon in Defining Ideas, a journal published by the Hoover Institution at Harvard University. Damon is well aware that the little deception is sometimes morally justifiable, but he posits that “a basic intent to be truthful, along with an assumption that people can be generally taken at their word, is required for all sustained civilized dealings.”.. Read more... Reviving Burma Road | Roy Tov  Hejaz Railway | Ottoman Empire Achievement ...In recent years, the 1,000km long system has been expanding. That means mainly the addition of a light rail in Jerusalem and the construction of a fast railway connecting Jerusalem with Tel Aviv. In 2017, the first passengers are expected to reach the underground Jerusalem Railway Station, deep below downtown Jerusalem. Elevators and escalators will help them to ascend the eighty meters separating the railway from the surface. This sounds similar to the soviet nuclear bunkers disguised as metro stations in Moscow. In fact, this is another Israeli attempt to camouflage Jerusalem and prepare it against a possible answer to an Israeli attack on Iran. Israel still lives the Burma Road trauma...Read more... Democracy, Utopia or Opiate? by Paul Balles | Intifada Palestine After a few hours of following the current debates between the Republican candidates for the presidency in America, I couldn’t resist the thought that “democracy” had become much less than promoted. The U.S. is touted as having a great democracy. Everything good–either real or imagined—is supposedly due to their principles of democracy. Seldom do American politicians or members of the public define or clarify what those principles include... Read more... The American Dilemma | Gilad Atzmon ...The Zionist parents, in collaboration with warmonger Dershowitz, are now insisting that the school give up on its Quaker principles and start to operate as a Yeshiva. They openly lobby against tolerance, freedom of expression and relentlessly suppress freedom of speech. As we always knew - in the ‘land of the free’ money can buy everything... Read more... Rich Siegel: The Way to Peace | Gilad Atzmon Rich was brought up as a Zionist but in the last decade he has been reawakening to the Palestinian plight. Like a few other Israeli and Jewish artists, he decided to transform guilt into responsibility.This album is his way to peace... Read more... TV Satellites of Instigation Partners with Armed Terrorist Groups, by Al-Ibrahim /H. Said | SANA  The ongoing distortion, falsification and instigation media campaigns by some satellite channels are but to cover the crimes and aggressions of the armed terrorist groups in Syria, an information source underscored. Some satellite channels earlier Saturday aired footage for a group of corpses with hands in chains claiming them to be killed by Army bombardment, while they in fact are the corpses of the innocent citizens kidnapped, tortured and slaughtered by the armed terrorist groups... Read more... Youth Conference and more, by Mazin Qumsiyeh | Popular Resistance Video of the event today at Al-Walaja (three arrested but subsequently released), Comments on the just concluded Herzliya conference, action item to do for Brussels Air, Youth Conference in Palestine in July... Read more... Two-front international struggle for Palestine | Redress Information & Analysis Lawrence Davidson argues that Israel is intent on ethnically cleansing its own Arab citizens and that, to prevent this, it is imperative to intensify the international boycott, divestment and sanctions campaign against the Zionist state and, equally, to redouble popular pressure in the United States that forces a change in foreign policy toward Israel... Read more... Musical Interlude: Nolwenn Leroy - Clip "Tri Martolod" | YouTube My Celtic friend AS likes to send his list these wonderful videos of Welsh music. And I pass them along to readers of my site. Enjoy! Watch video... Feb 5, 2012 What Is Really Going On In Syria: Insider Update, by Boris Dolgov | Voltaire Network  "Free" Syrian Army elements ...Professor Dolgov confirms that, far from a contrived "Arab Spring" scenario, Syria is undeniably grappling with the threat of foreign occupation. He observes that while the offensive is inordinately violent, the population will not be intimidated. Aware of the disaster wrought by NATO "humanitarian" operations in Yugoslavia and Libya, the Syrians refuse to be drawn into a sectarian ambush...Read more... Cynicism and black propaganda: the left's reaction to the Libyan and Syrian uprisings | Redress Information & Analysis Nureddin Sabir argues that the reaction of a large section of the so-called “left” and “anti-imperialist” camp to the uprisings in Libya and Syria are motivated not by some high-minded principle or anything to do with progressive ideology but by cynicism, petty personal agendas and ignorance... [Although I have great respect for Nureddin and acknowledge that he makes a powerful argument in this piece, I don't agree with him on this issue, nor do I entirely disagree with him. I think the issues here are more complex than he makes out. On the one hand there appears to be a powerful striving for freedom, justice and democracy among a great many Arabs and an unwillingness to further put up with ruthless dictatorships, whatever their ideologies or alliances might be. On the other hand, he's understating the roles being played in these countries by the Empire, which is thoroughly and ruthlessly committed to its own Realpolitik and is skilled at inserting provocateurs and inciting sectarian strife. The Israelis are masters of this tactic. The mess that the Middle East finds itself in is not due to particular obnoxious local regimes but is the result of hundreds of years of overt and covert European warfare against the Muslim world, now spearheaded by the USraeli axis of evil. I think this is the larger context which McKinney, Lamb, Lendman, and I and many others, are keeping our focus on. It is well worth debating, though, and I salute Nureddin for his courage in expressing his views so incisively and forthrightly.] Read more...Text Of Leaked Arab League Mission Report Reveals Media Lies Regarding Syria, by Michel Chossudovsky | Global Research ..The report acknowledges the existence of "an armed entity" involved in the killings of civilians and police as well as the conduct of terrorist acts, which in turn have contributed to triggering actions by government forces. The Report refers to "armed opposition groups" as well as to the "Free Syrian Army", both of which, according to the AL Mission, are involved in the deliberate killing of innocent civilians: "In some zones, this armed entity reacted by attacking Syrian security forces and citizens, causing the Government to respond with further violence. In the end, innocent citizens pay the price for those actions with life and limb... Read more... In the Assange case we are all suspects now, by John Pilger | New Statesman Washington's enemy is not "terrorism" but the principle of free speech and voices of conscience within its militarist state. This month's Supreme Court hearing in the Julian Assange case has profound meaning for the preservation of basic freedoms in western democracies. This is Assange's final appeal against his extradition to Sweden to face allegations of sexual misconduct that were originally dismissed by the chief prosecutor in Stockholm and constitute no crime in Britain... Read more... America's Origins of Terror: An Often Unspoken History, by Solomon Comissiong | Your World News  ...Mass racially motivated propaganda has juxtaposed the word “terrorist” next to that of a Muslim person of color. Unfortunately for countless Indigenous people and Africans, who were mass murdered on “American” soil—they came to fully understand terror in some of the worst possible ways. The face of their terror was white and originated throughout Europe... Read more... Israel's War On Democracy (and why Americans should care), by Conn M. Hallinan | Dispatches From The Edge From its birth more than 60 years ago, Israel has always presented itself as “an oasis of democracy in a sea of despotism,” an outpost of pluralism surrounded by tyranny. While that equality never fully applied to the country’s Arab citizens, Israel was, for the most part an open society. But today political rights are under siege by right-wing legislators, militant settlers, and a growing religious divide in the Israeli army, all of which threaten to silence internal opposition to the policies of the government of Benjamin Netanyahu... Read more... Iran, Gold and Oil: The Next Banksters War, by Sartre Batr | Veterans Today ...Where is gets so confusing for the casual observer is that any discussion that deems to be critical of Israel is a taboo discussion in polite company. Well, when it comes to addressing the impending prospects of a major conflict in the Middle East, the linkage between the deciding influences in American policy that coincide with a greater Israel objective, is silenced in the old-line press and media. Therefore, the key element to explore is the relationship of Zionist interests with the fundamental preservation of the paper currency imperium of Federal Reserve notes as the medium of payment for oil... Read more... Why The Holocaust Must Be Questioned | Rense ...This "noise" seems to reach a crescendo when the Israelis need another "inoculation" or "special absolution" for the latest atrocity committed against the Arabs. But, to be brutally frank, the screaming from the "amen lobby" is beginning to wear thin, and people throughout the world think it is time to put up or shut up. That includes the so-called revisionists. That is why It is time for an international debate... [The Holycause has taken the form of a modern version of the Holy Inquisition. Its purpose is to prop up the criminal state of Israel, and the entire Western world has been converted to this preposterous cult. It comes replete with a High Priesthood, Cathedrals (the Holocaust museums), their contents of sacred relics, and a draconian enforcement apparatus (heretics are subject to criminal penalties in 12 European countries, not to mention the dire consequences anywhere in the West for being labeled a "Holocaust Denier). But the truth will out eventually, just like the sun.] Read more...Leon Panetta's explicitly authoritarian decree, by Glenn Greenwald | Salon  CBS News‘ Scott Pelley appears to be one of the very few American journalists bothered by, or even interested in, the fact that President Obama has asserted and exercised the power to target U.S. citizens for execution-by-CIA without a shred of due process and far from any battlefield... Read more... Fact Checking the Media: Iran, by Rep. Dennis Kucinich | Huffington Post During an interview last month on CBS' Face the Nation, Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta set the record straight on Iran: "Are they trying to develop a nuclear weapon? No." But if you read recent news reports lately, you'd think otherwise. The media coverage on Iran is mirroring the coverage in the lead-up to the Iraq war: grand claims about a smoking gun that doesn't exist... Read more... From the Temple To the Talmud: Exploring Judaic Origins, History, Folklore and Tribal Traditions | The Barnes Review ...Going back to primary and ancient sources, while also including research from scholars (many of whom are now considered too politically incorrect to cite by mainstream academicians), Rhome covers this expansive history in a lively and easy to read style, accompanied by many illustrations and a lengthy list of sources for future research. No doubt, after reading From the Temple to the Talmud, you will be well-versed in this fascinating and vitally important subject which Rhome refers to as “the curiously camouflaged and conveniently convoluted chronicle of the people called the Jews.”.. Read more... The Vexing 'Jewish Question': A Nineteenth-Century Scholar's View, by Goldwin Smith | Institute for Historical Research Although today it is considered tactless if not hateful to speak openly of a "Jewish question," the often thorny matter of relations between Jews and non-Jews in society is a real issue that has bedeviled countless governments and scholars for centuries. In the following essay, a prominent British scholar tackles this issue with a forthrightness, perceptiveness and courage that is all too rare among academics in our own day... Read more... War on Iran Propaganda: The Lord High Almighty Pooh-Bah of Threats, by William Blum | Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs Post  Read more... Two Rebuttals to Uri Avnery's Bed of Sodom, by Virginia Tilley and John Spritzler | Uruknet ...Avnery has opposed a one-state solution from the very beginning; his first strong statement against it was issued immediately after the PLO issued its formal support of a democratic unified state, in 1968. Over the decades he has used every argument to defeat calls for democracy and he knows exactly why: he has never escaped his early romance with and loyalty to Jewish statehood or his nostalgic memories of his own fighting with Zionist forces in 1948 [Virginia Tilley]... [Avnery is a sad case - a basically good person, good heart and good mind trapped in a fascist narrative] Read more...Lawmakers, "Experts" Spin Tales of Iranian Terror in Latin America, by Charles Davis | Antiwar Through its ties with Venezuela and other nations in Latin America, Iran is building an anti-US alliance in the Western Hemisphere that poses a direct, imminent threat to the United States, an influential US lawmaker said Thursday. The remark from House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairwoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, author of sanctions legislation targeting Iran that was recently passed by a near-unanimous vote, comes amid an increasingly visible campaign by right-wing politicians and allied institutions to build the case for further sanctions and other acts of economic warfare against the Islamic Republic – and, perhaps, set the stage for military action... Read more... Letter from Faysal to US Senators: Is Israel a Democratic or Theocratic State? Part I | One Democratic State Faysal has been writing a long series of letters to the members of the US Senate for some years now. There have been upwards of 60 of them. These efforts of a former diplomat from the Middle East are touching, as if that pack of hypocrites, toadies, prostitutes and traitors would even consider reading anything from such a source - there's no money in it, only truth. ~ the Editor Read letter #57... Feb 4, 2012 Israel Ramps Up Push for Attack on Iran, by John Glaser | Antiwar  Israeli officials have apparently been engaged in an aggressive public relations offensive to broaden support for a military attack on Iran, with particular emphasis on American audiences. Israel’s strategy conference this week in Herzliya, a Tel Aviv suburb, has featured highly publicized speeches by many Israeli officials. Specifically, they have claimed that Iran currently possesses long range missiles that could reach the United States and enough the material to build four nuclear weapons... Read more... Israeli Apartheid Week: Call it as it is | Gilad Atzmon ...Calling the Israeli regime as one of apartheid is not rhetoric, nor is it an exaggeration or a propaganda tool. This is the reality in modern day Palestine, where the Israeli regime is based on discrimination, through laws, practices, education and most aspects of life. This apartheid regime not only imposed on the people in Palestine, but also on millions of Palestinian refugees denied their right to return home because they are of the wrong religion... Read more, watch video... Are American Politicians Really This Stupid? | YouTube [Yup, although the accurate word is ignorant, not stupid. When it comes to feathering their nests, they can be very smart.] Watch video... The Case Of Uri Avnery I: "Shukran, Israel" Analyzed and Refuted | Mask of Zion  Yasser Arafat began selling Palestine down the river long before The PLO began undermining itself when it turned away from its founding principles and began making backroom deals with the Zionist entity, culminating in the collaborationist disaster of the Oslo Accords...this horrific, treasonous moment [I have long thought that Arafat fancied himself the Palestinian Fidel Castro and was quite willing to sacrifice his people in exchange for a personal fiefdom.] Read more...Why Won't the Media Give Peace a Chance?: The War Drums of the New York Times, by Richard Schiffman | Counterpunch Once again, we are being presented with war as a fait accompli. But does such reporting function as a self-fulfilling prophecy? Who can forget Judith Miller, the New York Times reporter whose stories, claiming falsely that Iraq had developed weapons of mass destruction, were used by the Bush administration as a pretext for invading that country in 2003 to topple the regime of Saddam Hussein. The failure of the news media to investigate the truth of these allegations is often cited as a key factor in leading our nation into a dubious war, which has claimed hundreds of thousands of Iraqi and American casualties, and cost more in dollars (even after factoring in inflation) than World War II... Read more... European Parliament official denounces ACTA for secrecy, dishonesty, by J. D. Heyes | Natural News ..."Negotiated in secret, ACTA bypassed checks and balances of existing international IP norm-setting bodies, without any meaningful input from national parliaments, policymakers, or their citizens," said the post. "Worse still, the agreement creates a new global institution, an 'ACTA Committee' to oversee its implementation and interpretation that will be made up of unelected members with no legal obligation to be transparent in their proceedings. Both in substance and in process, ACTA embodies an outdated top-down, arbitrary approach to government that is out of step with modern notions of participatory democracy.".. Read more... The 'Jewish Indiana Jones' | Gilad Atzmon  Youlus claimed to have found a Torah at Bergen Belsen. Occasionally we learn about Rabbi fraudsters being charged of some serious unlawful activities. Two years ago we read about 'Organ trafficking Rabbis’ being arrested in New Jersey. Seemingly, the rabbinical price tag extends far beyond kidneys and organ trafficking... [Sometimes I think that Jesus was not only the first and last Christian, but also the last genuine Jewish Rabbi.] Read more..."In Lybia now the truth is coming out": Lizzie Phelan's interview with NYT reporter | Silvia Cattori ...my impressions are actually shared by the majority of people of this world, from those countries outside of NATO and the GCC and particularly those which are victims of these powers. But because they do not own a powerful media their voices are drowned out by the impressions of the minority reflected in the mainstream media of the NATO and GCC countries... Read more... Promoting War, Spurning Peace | Stephen Lendman US and Israeli agendas need enemies. Both pursue rogue state policies. They defy international laws and conventions, applying rule of law standards to others, not themselves. Their interests alone matter, no matter the toll on others. When enemies don't exist, they're invented. Fear stirs public angst. Major media scoundrels spread it. Propaganda substitutes for truth and full disclosure... Read more... Anti-Semitism and Israel's Inherent Contradictions, by Ramzy Baroud | Palestine Chronicle  Hanin Zoabi, a well-known Palestinian civil rights leader In a recent article, columnist Yaniv Halili described British author Ben White as 'anti-Semitic'. He also denounced Arab Knesset member Hanin Zoabi for writing a forward to White's latest book, Palestinians in Israel: Segregation, Discrimination and Democracy. Those of us who can see through such distorted thinking know that White is a principled writer who has never displayed a shred of racism in his work. Zoabi is very well-known civil rights leader with a long-standing reputation of courage and poise... Read more... 27 of 35 Bush Articles of Impeachment Apply to Obama | Washington's Blog ...There is no quantitative way to measure whether Obama’s additions to the presidential powers accumulated by Bush and Bush’s predecessors equals or exceeds those added by Bush. But measured against the pre-Bush baseline, or against the written rule of law, Obama’s power abuses far outstrip Bush’s, while in the category of immediate death count Bush retains a significant lead... Read more... 'US police uses heavy-handed tactics to suppress OWS protests' | PressTV A noteworthy author says the US Occupy movements are facing “more sophisticated methods of suppression than most other states in the world”... [Not surprising since the US gets its techniques of suppression and marching orders from the ZioNazi state of Israel] Read more, watch video... The Case Of Uri Avnery II: Hasbara, Supremacism And The Future Of Solidarity | Mask of Zion  Palestine is the heartbeat of the struggle for humanity’s ...The primacy of Jewish suffering culminating in Nazi judeocide is mythical; it is an idolatrous religion. And the historical narrative surrounding it is overloaded, I repeat, overloaded with deception after deception after deception, from the Zionist-Allied propaganda about homicidal gas chambers to the vastly inaccurate, Kabbalistic “6 million victims of anti-Semitic atrocities” figure that has been repeated by Jewish media sources since 1890...liberation from global tyranny Read more... What is the IRI Really Doing in Egypt?: The Problem With 'Pro Democracy' Groups, by Mark Weisbrot | Counterpunch I have to laugh when I see the International Republican Institute (IRI) described by the international media as an organization that “promote[s] democracy” (NPR). The IRI is in the news lately because Egypt’s military government has put some of its members on a “no-fly” list and thereby trapped them in the country, facing investigation and possible trial. I am wondering just how credulous these journalists and editors are... Read more... 'US ruling system doomed to failure' | PressTV Police have made over 6.5 thousand arrests across the country. This has failed to deter the protesters who say their movement against corporate greed, social and political injustices have just started. Press TV has conducted an interview with Eliane Schleiffer, organizer of Occupy Columbus Movement, to further explore the issue... Read more, watch video... Globalist Insiders Push Iran Attack, by Kurt Nimmo | Infowars  ...The insiders and the neocon faction are using the latest intelligence report on Iran as a catalyst to call for attacks. On Tuesday, former IRS lawyer, now chief counsel for the American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ), Jay Sekulow called for action on the supposed Iranian threat outlined by Clapper and CIA director David Petraeus. The ACLJ was founded in 1990 by the Christian Zionist globalist Pat Robertson... Read more, watch video... Cameron Fleeing America To Escape Collapse? by Paul Joseph Watson & Alex Jones | Prison Planet ...Growing concern that economic stagnation could lead to widespread civil unrest, allied to crippling tax hikes, is causing many members of the super-rich to abandon the United States in pursuit of more stable countries with friendlier financial conditions for those with wealth... Read more... The Iran Crisis and Israeli Nukes, by Barry M. Lando | Counterpunch One of the most uncommented on ironies today is that Israel is threatening military action to prevent Iran from continuing the same clandestine route to nuclear weapons that Israel took; just as Israeli planes destroyed nuclear reactors in Syria and Iraq to prevent those countries from following Israel’s lead. A parallel irony: ..Obama champions an economic embargo to force Iran to back off its nuclear program. Yet, for more than half a century one American president after another declined to sound any alarums over Israel’s secret drive for nukes... Read more... Murder in Nabi Saleh: Israel Gasses to Death | Roy Tov  Nabi Saleh | Heroic Opposition to Israeli Crimes ...Today’s brutal attack is related to a Jewish settlement built nearby. Halamish (“flint” in Hebrew, the official name), also known as Neve Tzuf (“oasis of nectar,” the name used by the settlers), belongs to Mateh Binyamin Regional Council, one of the most extremist Jewish organizations in the West Bank. This is a mixed settlement, housing both orthodox and secular Jews, and is closely related to the IDF. Testimony of the latter is the religious pre-army Mechina Elisha, a school preparing Orthodox Jews for service in the IDF.. The prophet buried nearby is shunned by the settlers...Read more... Engineering War on Iran: All Options on the Table? by Adrian Salbuchi | RT How do you convince the world that – even though you’re armed to the teeth and have a bad track record of invading countries – you really have “no choice” but make a “pre-emptive military strike” against another country you don’t like? This must be the question over which the political, military and psychological warfare planners are wracking their brains in the key global power elite decision-making centres in New York, London, Tel-Aviv and Washington. No, I’m not referring to the State Department, Pentagon, White House, Congress and their counterparts in Britain and Europe. Those folks just take their orders and execute them... Read more... Occupy's main point: Where is the Love? by Carl Herman | Nonpartisan Examiner What’s wrong with the world, mama, is the 1%’s criminal wars and rapacious looting. Occupy exposes the 1% that allows a million children to die every month from preventable poverty when just 1% of our income saves their lives while reducing population growth. Occupy documents and proves the 1%‘s fear-mongered, unlawful, lie-started wars in nation after nation that kill millions, and now legislated with NDAA to “disappear” Americans who stand-up to their crimes. Occupy demands ending debt-damned economics and trillions of the 99%’s dollars transferred to the 1% banksters... Read more, watch video... Feb 3, 2012 The 8th Annual Israeli Apartheid Week 2012 (Feb - March) | Israeli Apartheid Week  ...Palestinian students wrote “we hope you put BDS at the forefront of your campaigns and join together for Israeli Apartheid Week, the pinnacle of action across universities worldwide”. In response, organizers across the globe are gearing up for the 8th annual Israeli Apartheid Week in support of Palestinian Civil Society's call for Boycotts, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS). Last year’s IAW was incredibly successful with 97 cities participating. To accommodate various university schedules across regions, IAW will take place at slightly different times between February and March. Here is a list of dates..confirmed so far:... Read more... Welcome to Palestine 2012 | Palestine Justice Network Hundreds responded to the call to come to Palestine and join us for a week of activities April 15-21. Welcome to Palestine/Bienvenue en Palestine . PROGRAM now available here:.. Read more... Canada's 'Honor Killings': Where Is the Sense of Honor? by Eric Walberg | Palestine Chronicle ...The shameful, very noisy trial of the Shafias distorts the real news about Canada's relations with Afghans, a perfect metaphor for the high-tech imperial centre presenting itself (through the embedded media) as the world’s sole source of progress and reason, even as it drags that world down into chaos and destruction. The colonial periphery is depicted as savage and cruel, whereas it is in fact the victim of immeasurable violence at the hands of the empire... Read more... Bogie's Bad Timing: Israel Bluffs Iran | Roy Tov Today, February 2, 2012, Israel’s Vice Prime Minister and Minister of Strategic Affairs, Moshe “Bogie” Ya’alon was sent out to issue another war warning against Iran. Aviv Kochavi, Head of AMAN (IDF Military Intelligence Corps) issued a strengthening statement on the issue. Unluckily for both, something unexpected happened this time… Read more... http://www.roytov.com/articles/yaalon.htm 30 years after the Massacre at Sabra-Shatilla Lebanese politicians still block Palestinian rights, by Franklin Lamb | Intifada Palestine  We all know it is not just American and Lebanese politicians who use Palestinian refugees as political footballs during electoral campaigns. But they are currently the two most egregious apart from most Zionist politicians in temporarily occupied Palestine... Read more... Democratic Elections in the Middle East: Why the Islamists Win, by Dr. Lawrence Davidson | Intifada Palestine ...the biggest surprise was the good showing of the liberals in Tunisia, and not the fact that relatively fair elections put the Islamists in positions of power. No one should be surprised at this result. Why? It has to do with history. While what I describe below is simplified for the sake of brevity, it gives a basically accurate picture of how the past has given us the present we now witness... Read more... Made it to the Wall Street Journal | Gilad Atzmon ...In spite of his relentless attempts, Zionist mouthpiece Dershowitz didn’t manage to cancel the fundraiser concert. In the last two weeks, he has been mounting pressure on the school and NYC papers. By now I would expect Dershowitz to acknowledge that growing familiarity with my writing doesn’t serve his cause, for my writing is humanist as opposed to his own tribal supremacist materials... [Dershowitz reminds me of a particularly nasty little mama's boy who wets his bed and takes out his shame and rage on the "other."] Read more...US, Israel plot to topple al-Assad Govt | PressTV Russia and China have rejected a UN Security Council (UNSC) draft resolution against Syria backed by a number of Western and Arab countries. Both countries have for the second time called for dialog to defuse the months-long unrest in the Middle Eastern nation. Press TV has conducted an interview with Mark Dankoff, political commentator, to share his opinion on this issue... Read transcript, watch video... The Soft Side of Regime Change (Trita Parsi, Iran), by Flynt and Hillary Mann Leverett | Boston Review  A mural on the wall of the former U.S. Embassy, Tehran ...U.S. diplomacy with Tehran will only work if it is based on the same foundations as America’s opening to China in the early 1970s: acceptance of the other nation as an enduring entity with legitimate interests and pursuit of real rapprochement through the reciprocal accommodation of each side’s core interests. This is something no U.S. president, even Barack Obama, has been prepared to do—which is why the Obama administration still cannot face reality on enrichment. Such an approach is impossible so long as Washington demands surrender or indulges fantasies of remaking the Islamic Republic into something more palatable to U.S. constituencies... Read more... CFR and Neocons Work Together to Hype al-Qaeda Iran Link, by Kurt Nimmo | Prison Planet ...The CFR report – while mentioning Iran’s detention of al-Qaeda suspects and also the unlikelihood of Shi’a Iran and militant Sunni Wahhabists collaborating – bases its assumptions on a deeply flawed 9/11 narrative and a number of historically inaccurate (or at best omissive) “facts” about the CIA created and nurtured terror group... Read more... Snow, White And The Two Daves: The Guardian Responds | Media Lens Our most recent media alert, Silence Of The Lambs, created a small ripple in the Guardian universe. We had asked why even the paper’s most radical journalists, Seumas Milne and George Monbiot, are silent on the propaganda role of the liberal media, particularly the Guardian, in propping up power... Read more... Drones for Peace, Scary Charts, Morality Pills | New World Next Week/YouTube Watch video... Palestinians urge international community to join Global March to Jerusalem (March 30, 2012) | International Solidarity Movement  ...It is very important that a strong contingent of American activists participate in the GMJ. In the United States, American tax dollars are endlessly being funneled into war, military occupation, and dictatorship throughout the Middle East. In addition to financing and arming oppressive regimes that have already been challenged by the Arab uprisings, U.S. tax dollars also continue to finance Israeli settlement expansion in Jerusalem and other such crimes against the Palestinian people. This is why it is essential for Americans to remain active in the push for a free Palestine through non-violent means... Read more, watch video... Former US Policymakers Promote War on Iran | Stephen Lendman BPC's new report "argues that to prevent a nuclear Iran, the US must demonstrate its resolve to do whatever is necessary, including taking military action." Despite no Iranian threat whatever, BPC promotes war. At issue is replacing its independent leaders with servile pro-Western ones. As a result, anything ahead's possible, including intervention against Syria... Read more... FAQ: What about the Jews? | Land Destroyer I don't see any value in obsessing over the religious trappings the global elite adorn their public appearance with. I am interested in what they are doing, and how to stop them. Whether they claim they are Jewish, Christian, Muslim, atheist, Satanist - they are still using these tactics (as countless tyrants have throughout history) to subvert and overthrow nations around the world - and the solution to stopping them is withdrawing all support we give daily to these corporations that fund their activities and form the foundation of their strength... [Amen] Read more...Two Modest Proposals for the Middle East, by Michael Teitelman | Counterpunch ...The acute problem in the Middle East is that Israel has nuclear weapons and Iran does not. Iran cannot leap from zero bombs to twenty (or whatever number establishes strategic parity) in one fell swoop. If Iran were supplied with a small arsenal, an attack of either nation on the other would be as unthinkable as it was for the United States to threaten an attack on the Soviet Union... [A clever idea - but it ain't gonna happen] Read more...Feb 2, 2012 Blame NATO for the Mess in Libya, by Ramzy Baroud | Palestine Chronicle  Situation in Libya is promising a multi-layered conflict The British Foreign Office and the US State Department are seriously concerned. Human rights officers in the United Nations are angry. Canada, for some reason, seems particularly enraged. The target of all this fury is Libya's National Transitional Council (NTC), which is berated for failing to curtail widespread human rights violations throughout the country...Read more... Peres: Iran's 'evil' leaders must not be allowed to gain nuclear weapons | Haaretz ...President Shimon Peres said on Tuesday, calling the Islamic Republic's nuclear ambitions the world's single most important issue.. Referring to Iran's contentious nuclear program, the president called the issue "ours and the world's central problem at this time, accusing Iran of attempting to achieve regional and "even global hegemony.".. [On this side of the looking glass Israel is "the world's central problem at this time" and it clearly seeks to achieve regional and "even global hegemony."] Read more... Israeli Film Depicts Iranian First-Strike Nuke Attack on Israel | Tikun Olam The Israeli power of delusion is evident in this short film, called The Last Day, which purports to film the last moments of an Israeli family before Iran drops a nuclear bomb on Israel and obliterates it. The film, created by Ronen Barany, is shot in faux-documentary style with lots of shots of Israelis in extremis including suitably shaky, off kilter camera angles proclaiming it a product of ersatz cinema verite... [As Gilad Atzmon puts it, Israelis suffer from a severe case of pre-traumatic stress syndrome.] Read more, watch trailer...Israel: 'UN textbooks teach Jew-hatred' | Rehmat's World Last week, the Israel-Firster at the Capitol Hill demanded Obama administration to stop funding the United Nations Refugee and Works Agency (UNRWA) because it provides textbooks to Palestinian children which contains “explosively anti-Semitic, anti-American and anti-Israel” texts. Watch a video of one of UNRWA projects below... [The situation is, of course, quite the opposite. The Israelis are virulently anti-semitic (the Arabs are semites while only a small minority of Jews are). Their textbooks teach hatred while the ones used by the Palestinians are similar to those in the US and most of the world.] Read more, watch video...Jewish settlements in the rulings of the European Court of Justice, by Abdulrahman Muhammad Ali | Middle East Monitor ...The occupying authority has to fulfil its legal responsibilities towards the Geneva Conventions of 1949, as whatever an "occupying authority" does regarding the confiscation of Palestinian land is a clear violation of all common humanitarian law. The occupying authority in this case (Israel) violates article 23 of the Convention of The Hague for example, and article 147 of the Fourth Geneva Conventions of 1949 which considers seizure and confiscation of land through armed conflict to be illegal and to constitute seriously grave breaches... Read more... Maybe THIS Is What the Mayans Were Talking About | Washington's Blog  The Mayans didn’t predict the end of the world this December. But constitutional expert Jonathan Turley says that the indefinite detention of Americans authorized by the NDAA is the real Mayan apocalypse. Here’s another take … on ACTA and the other web censorship bills:. Read more... Personal Stories of Jewish Peace Activists: Book Review by Jim Miles | Palestine Chronicle In her closing remarks Avigail Abarbanel discusses what the central theme of the various stories presented could be, arriving at the idea that it is about “emotional resilience.” Having just finished the book, as would be logical for reading the “Afterword” last, this at first struck me as inappropriate. On second consideration she is correct, all the writers demonstrated an emotional resilience that allowed them to work through the process of self-discovery that determined their involvement with peace activism in Palestine/Israel... Read more... Khader Adnan Mohammad Musa: Israeli Prisoner of Conscience | Stephen Lendman An entire people suffer. Collective punishment is official policy. So are torture, violence, land theft, apartheid, injustice, and other forms of state-sponsored terror. They include imprisoning Palestinians for wanting to live free on their own land in their own country. As a result, since June 1967, over 750,000 Palestinians have been imprisoned... Read more... Drug war hypocrisy: drug trafficking's big money benefits Big Brother and corrupt banksters, by PF Louis | Natural News The hypocrisy of the war on drugs is outrageous when compared to the amount of drug trafficking that benefits the CIA and international banking system. The son of a convicted notorious mobster, John Gotti Jr, when asked in court if the family still dealt drugs cracked, "No, we can't compete with the government.".. Read more... Israel's never-ending Holocaust, by Merav Michaeli | Haaretz The issue that should have sparked panic in last week's poll on religion is the total consensus among Israeli Jews that the 'guiding principle' for the country is 'to remember the Holocaust.'.. [Silly me; I thought the 'guiding principle' was to perpetrate a holocaust.] Read more... America's War Kills over A Million Iraqis, by Danny Lucia | Palestine Chronicle 'Over a million Iraqis are dead from America's war.' That sentence is a cognitive litmus test. Some people's immediate reaction is, 'That can't be right,' because the United States couldn't do that. Or because crimes on that scale don't still happen. Or because they do happen, but only in horrible places that the United States hasn't rescued... Read more... Some Nazi leaders betrayed by Zionists | Rehmat's World  ...Towards the end of World War II Adolf Eichmann (on behalf of Heinrich Himmler) offered Rezso Kasztner, a Zionist Hungarian leader, the freedom of up to one million Jews in return for 10,000 trucks. Surprisingly enough, this offer was ignored by the Zionist organizations that had realized by then that the annihilation of European Jewry would help generate enough support among the nations for the future establishment of the Zionist entity... [See Wikipedia entry on von Mildenstein as well as my essay Zionism and Nazism: Is there a difference that makes a difference?] Read more...BDS Update: Cyber Blitzkreig, Counterattacks, by Eric Walberg | Palestine Chronicle The Third Annual BDS Conference opened 17 December at Hebron's Children's Happiness Centre, 'to expand Palestinian civil society's active implementation of BDS that is deeply rooted in the Palestinian struggle.' European BNC coordinator Michael Deas affirmed, 'BDS is now the main framework for solidarity. We are very close to closing the European market to Israel.'.. Read more... World Peace Hanging by a Thread | Reflections of Fidel ...we hardly spoke about the topic of war. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was focused on the ideas he had presented at the Main Hall of the University of Havana during his conference on the struggle of humankind: “Moving towards reaching and achieving peace, security, respect and human dignity as a fundamental desire of all human beings throughout history.” I am convinced that Iran will not commit any rash actions that might contribute to setting off a war. If a war were to be unleashed, it would inevitably be completely as a result of the recklessness and congenital irresponsibility of the Yankee Empire... [Can't argue with that] Read more...US Intel Director Prepares Public for False Flag Event, by Tony Cartalucci | Prison Planet ...Considering that the Gulf of Tonkin incident was a deliberate fabrication to escalate the Vietnam War, one many members in Congress are shown to have acknowledged and debated even at the time, or the more recent Iraqi WMD hoax, there is certainly a historical precedence to create such provocations when targeted nations refuse to provide them... Read more... US ruling elites want to control planet | YouTube A court in the US State of New York has issued a subpoena to social networking service giant, Twitter, ordering the online company to surrender all relevant data of an Occupy Wall Street activist... Read more, watch video... Israel's Eugenics Program: Dr. Mengele Blues | Roy Tov  Dr. Mengele ...every single aspect of the modern State of Israel seems to be related to the Nazi regime, be it identification techniques or the self-direction of Zionist evolution, as it is to be described below...Read more... US war-murders end when US War Criminals arrested | Washington's Blog Dr. Dahlia Wasfi’s 4-minute speech powerfully communicates what US wars are: criminal Wars of Aggression. The US mass-murders of millions of our brothers and sisters ends when a critical mass of Americans understand and demand the arrests and removal from power of US War Criminals. The wars of today are all based on lies. The wars of yesterday were all based on lies. They are not close to lawful... Read more, watch video... No Justice for Iraqis: The Haditha Massacre, by Marjorie Cohn | Counterpunch ...What was the Haditha Massacre? On November 19, 2005, US Marines from Kilo Company, Third Battalion, First Marine Division killed 24 unarmed civilians in Haditha, Iraq, execution-style, in a three to five hour rampage. One victim was a 76-year-old amputee in a wheelchair holding a Koran. A mother and child bent over as if in prayer were also among the fallen. “I pretended that I was dead when my brother’s body fell on me and he was bleeding like a faucet,” said Safa Younis Salim, a 13-year-old girl who survived by faking her death... Read more... Attacking Iran for All the "Right" Reasons: Rationalizing Idiocy, by Ron Jacobs | Counterpunch Unlike a couple years ago, when the consensus was split, there recently seems to be a growing consensus among pundits and certain politicians that Washington will be launching a military attack on Iran. While pundits do not have the power to make war, politicians in Congress certainly do. Furthermore, pundits convinced that this is an advisable route will do their best to bend the ears of those politicians so that there wishes can be filled, especially if those pundits are representing interests that believe they would benefit from such an attack... [As Gen'l Smedley Butler put it, "war is a racket." Between the Zionist ghouls and the military machine that eats flesh and drinks blood, things don't look so good.] Read more...Palestinians need high calibre leaders - urgently | Redress Information & Analysis Stuart Littlewood singles out Palestinian “President” Mahmoud Abbas’s recent visit to Britain as another example of his administration’s public relations incompetence and argues: “If Palestinians are to retain worldwide sympathy and support, build additional strength and galvanize the whole movement into action against the corrupt political class, they will have to find leaders of a much higher calibre – and fast.”.. Read more... The BBC censors its own report on Tunisia's Jews saying "No" to Israel! | Redress Information & Analysis Alan Hart views an instance where, as a result either of pro-Zionist bias, Israeli pressure or cowardice, BBC television censored a report by one of its own correspondents, originally broadcast on BBC World Service radio, cutting out from an audio clip a passage in which a Tunisian Jew stated that it would be crazy of him to emigrate to Israel... Read more... Feb 1, 2012 The Wannsee Conference: Truth and Myth | Gilad Atzmon  Last week, as Jewish Lobbies continue to invest enormous efforts in dictating and imposing a rigid and unquestionable Holocaust narrative, Israeli Haaretz published a short, succinct and courageous report challenging the validity of the Wannsee Conference as proof of the Nazi ‘final solution’... [The three shaky pillars of the Holycause: six million murdered, the gas chambers and the "Final Solution"] Read more...How Ron Paul Could Win, by Dr. Paul Craig Roberts | Global Research ...Both Republicans and Democrats have demonstrated disregard for the civil liberty protections guaranteed by the US Constitution. Among the visible candidates for president, only Ron Paul has respect for the Constitution. As it is now possible for the executive branch to take away the life and liberty of a US citizen without due process of law, the Constitution is for all practical purposes lost. Tyranny looms, and Ron Paul is the only candidate who stands against tyranny... [It's more than a 100/1 longshot, but sometimes they do come in.] Read more...A Web of Financial Fraud and Criminality: America's Shadow Banking System, by Ellen Brown | Global Research ...countries with strong public sector banking systems largely escaped the 2008 credit crisis. These include the BRIC countries—Brazil Russia, India, and China—which contain 40% of the global population and are today’s fastest growing economies. They escaped because their public sector banks do not need to rely on repos and securitizations to back their loans. The banks are owned and operated by the ultimate guarantor—the government itself. The public sector banking model deserves further study... Read more... War Crimes In Gaza and the Zionist Fifth Column In America by James Petras | The People's Voice ...Here is the great political and moral challenge. How do we explain the US governments’ sustained complicity with Israeli war crimes in the face of worldwide reprobation? How do we explain the utterly depraved conduct of the Obama White House and nearly 90% of the US Congress in denouncing the Goldstone Report? These and other related questions are addressed in the chapters discussing the political, economic and cultural power of the Presidents of the Major American Jewish organizations, including but not confined to AIPAC... Read more... I Hate Israel | YouTube  [What's not to hate - Israel is the Nazi Germany of our time] Watch video...The downside of unbridled support for Israel, by Mairav Zonszein | Haaretz ...GOP candidates and mainstream American Jewish groups - bolstered by what is arguably the most rigid right-wing government Israel has ever had - have attacked Obama regularly for what they deem to be his deficient "pro-Israel" record, simply because he has condemned settlement construction. Obama has capitulated under the pressure and reasserted his strong "pro-Israel" (read: Israel right or wrong ) stance, for fear of losing the political and economic support he needs to win another term... Read more... What is the GCC up to in Syria? by Pepe Escobar | Asia Times Online So the Arab League has a new draft United Nations Security Council resolution to "solve" the Syrian saga. World public opinion may be fooled into believing this is an altruistic Arab solution to an Arab problem. Not really. First of all this is a draft resolution of NATOGCC - that symbiosis between selected North Atlantic Treaty Organization members and selected petromonarchies of the Gulf Cooperation Council... Read more... National Security Letters: Eviscerating the constitution since 1978 | The Corbett Report The passage of the Patriot Act in October 2001 is by now an all-too-familiar story. The American people, already suffering from the trauma of 9/11, were pushed into outright panic by the anthrax attacks, a series of anthrax-laced mailings that killed five, injured 17 and shut down congress for the first time in modern history. The Act itself was introduced on a Tuesday and signed into law on Friday, before anyone had read let alone understood the sweeping changes it would introduce to American law... Read more, watch video... Is Israel on the road to self-destruction | Alan Hart  One very well informed and courageous Israeli who thinks the answer is “Yes” is Merav Michaeli, a radio and television presenter who also writes for Ha’aretz. She is completely without fear when it comes to telling it like it is... [Well, birth is the cause of death. But in this case they've kept a morbid fetus on life-support for far too long.] Read more...Consensus 9/11: Seeking Truth, Dispelling Lies | Stephen Lendman Lt. Col. Shelton F. Lankford, US Marine Corps (ret.) calls 9/11 "the watershed event of our lives and the greatest test for our democracy in our lifetimes." Calling the official explanation "impossible," he cited "evidence of government complicity in the lead-up to the event, the failure to respond during the event, and the astounding lack of any meaningful investigation afterwards, as well as the ignoring of" subsequent evidence perhaps causing "the end of the American experiment....(O)ur republic and our Constitution remain in the gravest danger.".. Read more... Anti-Israel Ken may become London Mayor | Rehmat's World According to a recent poll, former Mayor Ken Livingstone has overtaken the Conservative incumbent Mayor Boris Johnson, a Crypto Jew for the coming London Mayoral election on May 3. The Labour candidate secured an impressive five-point swing since June and leads by 51% to 49%... [Go Ken!] Read more...Science vs. Lies: Imagining a "Clean Break" with Israel Over Iran, by Gary Leupp | Counterpunch ...U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta and even Israel’s Defense Minister Ehud Barak have both recently stated or let it slip that Iran is not currently attempting to build nuclear weapons. But then there is the political world of systematic disinformation. The world of big, bold lies which, as they are constantly repeated, acquire a certain life of their own... Read more... What makes the holocaust so damned important? by Paul Barrow | deLiberation  Apocalypse in Gaza ...A far greater crime than being a holocaust denier is to be a Palestinian genocide denier, a Palestinian genocide ignorer, of which Jews as a lot are guilty. There is no massive outcry. You see far more wealthy Jews funding AIPAC than funding the Palestinian cause, and funding other criminal agencies that have fundamentally taken over the American government and made us all, Jews and non Jews alike, a party to perhaps the greatest tragedy ever recorded in history of massive slaughter of Arabs and Muslims across the globe...Read more... Nuclear Free Middle East: Desirable, Necessary, and Impossible | Richard Falk Finally, there is some argumentation in the West supportive of a nuclear free zone for the Middle East. Such thinking is still treated as politically marginal, and hardly audible above the beat of the war drums... Read more... Wall Street Pentagon Papers Part III: Are The Federal Reserve's Crimes Still Too Big To Comprehend? | David DeGraw ...Those of us paying attention over the past three years have had Fed crony-capitalism on steroids fatigue for awhile now. Nonetheless, this is deja vu all over again as another mindbogglingly huge story that must be covered comes to light... Read more... NATO's Grisly Crimes in Libya: Extensive Evidence that NATO Deliberately Targetted Civilians, by Farirai Chubvu | Global Research A report released last week by human rights groups in the Middle East presents extensive evidence of war crimes carried out in Libya by the United States, NATO and their proxy "rebel" forces during last year's invasion, that culminated in the murder of Colonel Muammar Gaddafi... Read more... |
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