Jan 31, 2011 The Writing on the Wall: Al Jazeera Reports Mubarak's planning exile to Tel Aviv | Veterans Today  Al Jazeera reports Mubarak’s planning exile to Tel Aviv. According to sources in the Egyptian Embassy in Tel Aviv, Israel is making preparations to welcome Hosni Mubarak into exile after Saudi Arabia rejected overtures. Al Jazeera also reports Israeli diplomats have fled Egypt amid the unrest. CNN reports widespread rumors that Mubarak’s wife and other family members have already fled Egypt... El Baradei: No going back in Egypt | Al Jazeera Nobel laureate tells defiant Cairo crowd that he has a mandate to negotiate with Mubarak government... Read more... Rude Awakening!, by Soraya Sepahpour-Ulrich | The Vineyard of the Saker Eyes fixed on Egypt, the consensus is that we are witnessing a global awakening. Mesmerized by the crowds, mainstream media reports, and 'pundits' analysis, we have abandoned our ability to think critically -- we fail to ask the right question: Why is the mainstream media in the U.S., the propaganda apparatus of the State and interest groups, condemning the Egyptian leader -- America and Israel's most subservient ally?.. Read more... Without Egypt, Israel will be left with no friends in Mideast, by Aluf Benn | Haaretz The fading power of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak's government leaves Israel in a state of strategic distress. Without Mubarak, Israel is left with almost no friends in the Middle East; last year, Israel saw its alliance with Turkey collapse... Read more... The Palestine Papers: An Analysis by Dr. Lawrence Davidson | Intifada Palestine The Palestinians have always been a strong and determined people. You have to be so in order to defy a powerful and ruthless adversary, backed by the most of the world’s great powers, for close to one hundred years. The Palestinian leaders, both secular and religious, have likewise been strong and determined. A list of such people would run into the hundreds and so I shall just name a few... [The Palestinians will be remembered as the great heroes of our time, the ultimate Davids against the Goliaths.] Read more...Hariri Backed The Wrong Horse, by Sami Moubayed | Intifada Palestine ..The toppling of prime minister Saad al-Hariri was a brilliant game of power politics, carried out by the Hezbollah-led opposition. Hezbollah agreed to join the Hariri cabinet in 2009 on one condition: that it pledged to protect and maintain the arms of the Lebanese resistance... Read more... Egypt: U.S. Puppet Regime On Verge of Collapse, by Kurt Nimmo | Prison Planet In an interview with NPR, Joe Biden stumbles his way through soft ball questions about Egypt and the dictator Hosni Mubarak, who Biden identifies as a personal friend. In the process, Biden reveals the U.S. attitude toward dictators and client states... Read more, watch video... Moscow Airport Bombing: Prime Suspects are Chechen Networks Backed by NATO Intelligence Circles, by Webster G. Tarpley | Infowars Recent causes of US-UK animus towards Russia include the Khodorkhovsky verdict (the US position being that a finance oligarch that rich should of course be above the law), the inability of NATO to foment a gas crisis this winter, President Medvedev’s endorsement of a Palestinian state (re-affirming the 1988 decision by the USSR), and Afghan President Karzai’s visit to Moscow, where he created the premises for a long-term post-NATO strategic relationship with Russia... Read more... Salah Hamouri: One of Thousands of Israeli Political Prisoners, by Stephen Lendman | Indybay ...Based on secret Israeli intelligence, no proof, Hamouri was sentenced to seven years in prison after accepting a plea bargain. Over a two-year period, an Israeli military court convened over 20 times on his case. According to Claude Lefort, a pro-Palestinian activist and president of France's AFD support committee, judges told him to plead guilty or face 14 years in prison. Though innocent of all charges, his lawyer, Leah Tsemel, advised him to do it after he initially denied all charges... Read more... World Gripped By Anti-Government Riots; America Next?, by Paul Joseph Watson | Infowars The planet is in a never-ending cycle of anti-government revolt as riots that plagued Europe last year now spread like wildfire through the Middle East and beyond, threatening to accelerate bloody clashes and force the hand of authorities as the risk of a new Tiananmen Square-style massacre grows ever likelier. Is America next in line to experience unrest that has touched almost every corner of the globe?.. Read more, watch video... US lawmaker aims to protect tipsters on extremists | AFP ...A top US lawmaker unveiled legislation on Wednesday to protect individuals who tip off authorities to potential extremist threats from lawsuits, in the event that they turn out to finger innocents. House Homeland Security Chairman Pete King introduced the "See Something, Say Something Act" as a shield for those "acting in good faith" and with "objectively reasonable suspicion" that a plot may be unfolding... [One more brick in the developing edifice of a police state] Read more...US ammunition tells its own story in Egypt | Redress Information & Analysis Yvonne Ridley reminds us that it is US support, and US politicians putting Israel’s interests above those of their own country, that has allowed dictators such as Hosni Mubarak of Egypt to desecrate the Arab world with their existence for so long... Read more... Jan 29-30, 2011 Rise People Rise: The Global Revolution is Upon Us! | Ken O'Keefe  I have for many years lived with the knowledge that we, the masses, the working class, the poor, the white, the black, the brown, the immigrants, the Christians, the Muslims, the atheists, the soldiers/ex-soldiers, the peaceniks, the communists, the anarchists, the students, the people, across the spectrum, we all have a common cause. And yet, we have so tragically allowed ourselves to be duped, to be pitted against each other, fighting each other, finding a million ways to divide ourselves, or simply to be indifferent to each other. In this the tyrant’s smile, they laugh and they joke, about how complete their control over us is. They have been laughing for far too long... Read more... Kenneth O'Keefe Under Assault: In Defense Of A Hero, by Jonathan Azaziah | Mask of Zion It is an undeniable fact that the Zionist entity remains extraordinarily steadfast in its daily routine of illegality and criminality. It commits crimes against humanity, like shooting a 66-year old Palestinian man 13 times to death in his bed, keeping the people of Gaza under siege and starving them of basic living essentials like cooking gas, and ethnically cleansing Palestine of indigenous Palestinians, including issuing demolition notices to families who are already humiliatingly living in tents... Read more... State of Our Union reality check: US rhetoric and policy in the Middle East | Redress Information & Analysis Eileen Fleming compares President Barack Obama’s lofty words during his 2011 State of the Union address with the reality of Washington’s policy in the Middle East, where the USA underwrites with tax dollars and state-of-the arts weapons Israeli war crimes and crimes against humanity... Read more... Israeli Journalist Reports Death Threats Over Gaza War Film | NYT Nurit Kedar, an Israeli documentary filmmaker, told Channel 4 News of Britain on Thursday that she had received death threats following the broadcast of her latest film, a report on Israeli soldiers who expressed regrets over their own conduct during the war in Gaza two years ago... [Not surprisingly, since this is coming from the Zionist paper of record, the article is slanted and ends with a reiteration of the absurd and self-serving rationale for Israeli atrocities, but the basic story reflects the reality in fascist Israel.] Read more, watch video...A Welcome End to the Hariri Era, by Ranni Amiri | Counterpunch Parliamentary democracy is a tricky thing. Prime ministers come and go as alliances shift and majorities change. As this week’s uproar in Lebanon proved, it is a reality outgoing Prime Minister Saad Hariri has yet to grasp... Read more... Hezbollah is the New Government of Lebanon. Now What?, by Franklin Lamb | Counterpunch ..With a speed that surprised many here,and with equally surprising cross sectarian acquiescense this morning, Hezbollah controls the government of the Republic of Lebanon... Read more... Great Britain in the Middle East: Is the Empire Really Over?, by Graham MacPhee | Counterpunch Two recent news stories suggest that the question of the end of the British Empire is far from academic. The first is the astounding revelation from the leaked “Palestine Papers” that the British government has not only funded Palestinian security services widely accused of torture and human rights abuses, but also offered to take part in the illegal kidnapping of opponents of the Palestinian Authority... Read more... Building a police state in Palestine, by Aisling Byrne | Foreign Policy "If we are building a police state, what are we actually doing here?" So asked a European diplomat responding to allegations of torture by the Palestinian security forces. The diplomat might well ask. A police state is not a state. It is a form of larceny: of people's rights, aspirations and sacrifices, for the personal benefit of an élite... Read more... Palestine papers: Palestinian people betrayed, by Saree Makdisi | LA Times The leaked papers published by Al Jazeera show how craven Palestinian leaders are and how willing they were to sell out their people's rights. Yet all they had to offer wasn't enough for Israel... Read more... US ambassador's bid to get Richard Falk sacked from UN opens a can of worms | Redress Information & Analysis Stuart Littlewood exposes the US Israel lobby’s role in the campaign against the UN Human Rights Council's special rapporteur in the Palestinian territories, Richard Falk, and takes a look at the relationship between one of Falk’s leading detractors, US ambassador to the UN Susan Rice, and Israel... Read more... Richard Falk Reponds To The Lobby's Vilification | Foreign Policy Because my blog prompted by the Arizona shootings has attracted many comments pro and con, and more recently has been the object of a more selective public attack on me personally, I thought it appropriate to post a supplementary blog with the purpose of clarifying my actual position and re-focusing attention on the plight and suffering of the Palestinian people being held in captivity. In the background, are crucial issues of free speech, fairness in public discourse, and responsible media treatment of sensitive and controversial affairs of state. Read more... Arabs, Oh Arabs, Revolt Against America's Tyrants, by Mohamed Khodr | Intifada Palestine Mohamed Bouazizi, was a university graduate prevented by police from selling fruit and vegetables to make a living He committed suicide to protest the loss of his humanity under Ben Ali’s tyrannical rule. His death sparked a revolution in Tunis and awakened the minds and souls of oppressed Arabs across the region who sprang to the street to revolt against their own American owned and run tyrants... Read more... Israel Strikes Back, by Jeff Gates | Criminal State Timing is everything when waging war “by way of deception,” the motto that has long guided Israeli war-planners. Whenever Israel’s geopolitical goals are threatened, chaos is assured. In national security terminology, the January 24th bombing at Moscow’s busiest airport was “out of theater repositioning.”.. Read more... Oppressors and liars, and they call themselves a light upon the nations, by Khalid Amayreh | MCW News When Israeli President Shimon Peres was pressed by some human rights organizations to stop the practice of "administrative detention" of Palestinian intellectuals, he claimed that "Palestinians who don't hurl fire bombs and who don't shoot have nothing to fear." Peres was lying through his teeth as usual because nearly all victims of administrative detention have not indulged in any illegal activity... Read more... Breaking the Israel-Palestine Deadlock, by Noam Chomsky | truthout While intensively engaged in illegal settlement expansion, the government of Israel is also seeking to deal with two problems: a global campaign of what it perceives as “delegitimation” – that is, objections to its crimes and withdrawal of participation in them – and a parallel campaign of legitimation of Palestine... Read more... Where Liberals Go to Feel Good, by Chris Hedges | Common Dreams Barack Obama is another stock character in the cyclical political theater embraced by the liberal class. Act I is the burst of enthusiasm for a Democratic candidate who, through clever branding and public relations, appears finally to stand up for the interests of citizens rather than corporations. Act II is the flurry of euphoria and excitement. Act III begins with befuddled confusion and gnawing disappointment, humiliating appeals to the elected official to correct "mistakes," and pleading with the officeholder to return to his or her true self. Act IV is... Read more... 2011: Americans reclaim their country from psychopathic, Orwellian fascists, by Carl Herman | Examiner ...I use the terms “psychopathic” and “Orwellian” as the most accurate for what is factually and verifiably in front of all of us: US “leadership” with a veneer of socially-acceptable behavior thinly veiling acts of vicious destruction, and propagandistic language stating the opposite of what is being done... Read more... Fear and the Palestine Papers, by Mazin Qumsiyeh | Palestine Chronicle For me two things come out clearly from these painful documents (some of them have parallel data in the US embassy cables on Wikileaks). First it is not that the Palestinian officials are traitors but merely (and this is bad enough) mistakenly and passionately going through motions hoping against all odds that by talking and compromising more they could achieve a tiny fraction of what we are entitled to. The second observation is that Israel will not sign a peace deal regardless of how low and ridiculous the concessions on the Palestinian side:.. Read more... Tunisia: How We Got Here and the Task Ahead, by Ramzy Baroud | Palestine Chronicle Hunger strikes. These were the last resort for Tunisian activists as they fought against a brutal and highly oppressive regime. Prior to the ousting of Zineal-Abidine Ben Ali by an unprecedented people's uprising on January 14, there seemed to be no end in sight to the regime's wide-ranging human rights violations. Over time, these became a relegated segment of evening news across the Arab world. Even hunger strikes, shocking at first, became a routine event... Read more... Mass Street Protests in Egypt, by Stephen Lendman | Indybay ...Possibilities are, in fact, breathtaking and broad, embracing political, economic, and social demands "signifying the dead-end of a system that employed excessive political oppression to enforce destructive neoliberal economic policies. Privatizing the public sector essentially reversed the post independence economic achievements of these countries," creating inequality and intolerable conditions for most people. Now they're reacting, inspired by early Tunisia successes that continue demanding ouster of all former government officials... Read more... Liberating the American People | Gilad Atzmon In his latest Newsweek article Stephen Kinzer wonders who America is betting on to counter the popular rising forces in the Middle East : “The same friends it has been betting on for decades” he answers. “Mubarak’s pharaonic regime in Egypt, Mahmoud Abbas and his Palestinian Authority, the Saudi monarchy, and increasingly radical politicians in Israel. It is no wonder that Iran’s power is rising as the American-imposed order begins to crumble,” he concludes... Read more... Press TV: Egypt Uprising | YouTube ..ramzy baroud, an author and journalist in seattle says that elbaradei's return could be part of a contingency plan to oversee the post mubarak era... Watch video... The Protest Movement in Egypt: "Dictators" do not Dictate, They Obey Orders, by Michel Chossudovsky | Global Research ...The slogans in Egypt are "Down with Mubarak, Down with the Regime". No anti-American posters have been reported... The overriding and destructive influence of the USA in Egypt and throughout the Middle East remains unheralded. The foreign powers which operate behind the scenes are shielded from the protest movement. No significant political change will occur unless the issue of foreign interference is meaningfully addressed by the protest movement. The US embassy in Cairo is an important political entity, invariably overshadowing the national government. The Embassy is not a target of the protest movement... Read more... Are We Witnessing the Start of a Global Revolution? North Africa and the Global Political Awakening, by Andrew Gavin Marshall | Global Research For the first time in human history almost all of humanity is politically activated, politically conscious and politically interactive... The resulting global political activism is generating a surge in the quest for personal dignity, cultural respect and economic opportunity in a world painfully scarred by memories of centuries-long alien colonial or imperial domination... The worldwide yearning for human dignity is the central challenge inherent in the phenomenon of global political awakening... That awakening is socially massive and politically radicalizing... Read more... Jan 28, 2011 Rahm Emanuel's Father Specialized in Bus Bombings in Palestine, by Wayne Madsen | Salem-News  Irgun, the army of Rahm Emanuel's father, is short for Irgun Zvai Leumi - ..A well-placed British source informed WMR that Rahm Emanuel's father, Benjamin Emanuel, specialized in the terrorist bombings of buses carrying British troops and policemen during the British Mandate in Palestine..."National Military Organization" in Hebrew, was a terrorist Zionist group that operated in Palestine, killing innocent Palestinians and British soldiers; blowing up buildings Read more... Israeli Covert War Against Iran Is On, by Muriel Mirak-Weissbach | Intifada Palestine ...On the eve of talks between Iran and the West, the German weekly of record published a devastating expose’ of Israeli covert operations against the Islamic Republic, including targeted assassinations... Read more, watch video... The Palestine Papers (Day 3) If true, it is treason, by Khalid Amayreh | Voice of Palestine If al-Jazeera's Sunday night's revelations about the secrets of several years of negotiations between Israel and the Palestinian Authority (PA) are true (and I don't have the slightest doubt that they are) then we can't escape the conclusion that whoever made these startling concessions to the Zionist regime is a traitor... Diana Buttu On The Palestine Papers | Intifada Palestine In this special segment of Palestine Studies TV, Diana Buttu, a former member of the Palestine Liberation Organization’s Negotiations Support Unit, spoke about the recent leak of thousands of internal Palestinian documents concerning the ongoing negotiations with Israel. They were published and covered extensively by Al Jazeera and The Guardian... The Palestine Papers and Us | Gilad Atzmon ...more than anything else, the Papers prove beyond doubt that Israel is not a partner for peace - In spite of the weaknesses that have been shown by the PA since the 1990’s, Israel has failed to secure a peace deal, and has consistently failed to show any will to bring the conflict to an end. In short - Israel has always wanted more... The Palestine Papers | One Democracy The Palestine Papers have driven a stake through the heart of the Undead Peace Process. But where do we go from there?.. Palestine Papers confirm Israeli rejectionism, by Jonathan Cook | The Electronic Intifada This week, the first of hundreds of leaked confidential Palestinian documents confirmed the suspicions of a growing number of observers that the rejectionists in the peace process are to be found on the Israeli, not Palestinian, side... Jews against the King | Gilad Atzmon ...Apparently some Jews in Hollywood are not happy with the great cinematic success of The King’s Speech, the latest British film... Read more... Julian Assange and the Computer Conspiracy: "To destroy this invisible government" | zunguzungu “To radically shift regime behavior we must think clearly and boldly for if we have learned anything, it is that regimes do not want to be changed. We must think beyond those who have gone before us, and discover technological changes that embolden us with ways to act in which our forebears could not. Firstly we must understand what aspect of government or neocorporatist behavior we wish to change or remove. Secondly we must develop a way of thinking about this behavior that is strong enough carry us through the mire of politically distorted language, and into a position of clarity. Finally must use these insights to inspire within us and others a course of ennobling, and effective action.”.. Read more... The Downfall of Mubarak of Egypt, by Dr. Ashraf Ezzat | Veterans Today What is happening now in Egypt is historic by all means and all parties involved should acknowledge that and deal with it as such... Read more... Jan 27, 2011 The Palestinian Right of Return under International Law, by Francis A. Boyle | Clarity Press  The just resolution of the Palestinian right of return is at the very heart of the Middle East peace process. Nonetheless, the Obama administration intends to impose a comprehensive peace settlement upon the Palestinians that will force them to give up their well-recognized right of return under United Nations General Assembly Resolution 194(III)) of 1948; accept a Bantustan of disjointed and surrounded chunks of territory on the West Bank in Gaza; and even expressly recognize Israel as “the Jewish State,” as newly demanded by Benjamin Netanyahu... Read more... Sign the Petition to Urge Obama to Support UN Action Against Israeli Settlements | AAPER On January 19, 2011, Lebanon introduced a resolution in the United Nations Security Council reaffirming that Israeli settlements are "illegal" and constitute "a major obstacle to the achievement of a just, lasting and comprehensive peace" in the Middle East. I strongly urge your Administration to support this resolution... Read more... Pres. Obama, We Know How to Help Cut the Deficit: End Aid to Israel | US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation ...As the President prepares to send his FY2012 budget request to Congress next month, we recommend that he cut the deficit by eliminating his anticipated, record-breaking request for $3,075,000,000 in military aid to Israel... Read more... Radio Interview: "An extraordinary book.. It is a breakthrough book!" - Jeff Blankfort | Radio4All My latest radio interview, this time with Jeff Blankfort, an advocate for human rights for four decades and producer of the first grassroots media project on the internet. We cover anti-Semitism, Alan Dershowitz and Norman Finkelstein, indoctrination into false ideas and beliefs and the power of Jewish lobbying groups. - Rich Forer <www.richardforer.com> Listen... Palestine Papers: Don't get mad, Palestinians. Get even | Redress Information & Analysis Stuart Littlewood reflects on the scandalous revelations of the leaked Palestine Papers, which exposed the willingness of the Palestinian National Authority to concede to Israel inalienable Palestinian rights. He says that what Palestinians need now are “incorruptible unity leadership, tactical courage, a bold communications strategy ... and resolute determination of the highest order”... Read more... The Stuttgart Declaration for a One-State Solution in Palestine | Redress Information & Analysis Lawrence Davidson views the inexorable march of history which underlines the Stuttgart Declaration for a One-State Solution in Palestine and which, he believes, will eventually end in the demise of Zionism and racism in Israel and lead to its replacement by a secular democratic state of all its citizens - Palestinian Arabs, Jews, Muslims and Christians... Read more... Sleeping giant wakes up in the Arab world | Redress Information & Analysis Yvonne Ridley argues that the tide has turned in the Arab world now that the people have breached the fear barrier, and predicts that oppressive and corrupt Arab regimes, which have been propped up by the US and its European allies, will begin to tumble like dominos... Read more... Four videos (recommended by Gilad Atzmon) Ken O'Keefe Interview With Jonathan Adams | Vimeo A thoughtful and revealing interview with one of our greatest heroes... Jewish extremists in France | YouTube Jewish radical extremist group in France. They physically attack people who dare to oppose Israel, zionism or the genocide of Palestinians performed by Jews... Totally Illogical: Israeli settler discusses survival, threats | YouTube Opinions in Jerusalem about the Settlements and Obama, by Antony Loewenstein | YouTube With all the current rhetoric out of Washington regarding an Israeli settlement freeze in the West Bank and East Jerusalem, we wanted to gauge public opinion on the streets of Jerusalem on a sunny, Sunday afternoon last weekend. What we found was shocking but unsurprising... Women Lead Latin America's Growing Anti-Militarization Movements, by Laura Carlsen | CIP Americas ..The commitment of women who organize against militarization arises from their particular consciences, experiences and roles in society. From Feminists in Resistance who joined to fight the coup in Honduras, to the mothers of Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, it’s the terrible violence sown by strategies of confrontation and militarism that has motivated women to mobilize on behalf of peace and democracy. Their own experiences compel them to act... Read more... Jan 26, 2011 The Palestine Papers  It is unclear how long the PA will continue to serve a purpose Offering Palestine, by Ramzy Baroud | Palestine Chronicle The Palestine Papers had damaged whatever little credibility the Ramallah-based authority still enjoyed among Palestinians The Palestine Papers, the 1,300 leaked documents that Aljazeera began publishing starting January 23, are the Palestinian response to the Israeli ‘generous offer’, an Israeli diplomatic ruse that was aimed at discrediting Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat following the collapse of the Camp David talks of July 25, 2000... Read more... Israel’s peacemakers unmasked | Redress Information & Analysis Jonathan Cook views some of the key revelations to emerge from the leaked confidential documents recording major, unreciprocated concessions made by Mahmoud Abbas’s team in talks with Israel, including relinquishing Palestinian sovereignty over Muslim holy places, selling out the Palestinian refugees’ fundamental rights and betraying Israel’s Arab citizens – all in return for nothing!.. Read more... Secret papers reveal slow death of Middle East peace process, by Seumas Milne and Ian Black | The Guardian The biggest leak of confidential documents in the history of the Middle East conflict has revealed that Palestinian negotiators secretly agreed to accept Israel's annexation of all but one of the settlements built illegally in occupied East Jerusalem. This unprecedented proposal was one of a string of concessions that will cause shockwaves among Palestinians and in the wider Arab world... Read more... The Al-Jazeera documents: what's next?, by Khalid Amayreh | Middle East Monitor Palestinian Authority (PA) officials have lashed out at the Al-Jazeera pan-Arab network for disclosing previously secret documents showing that PA negotiators had agreed to compromise over some cardinal issues of the Arab-Israeli conflict; these include the status of Jerusalem and the right of return for millions of refugees, uprooted from their homes when and since Israel was created in 1948... Read more... "The biggest Yerushalayim", by Gregg Carlstrom | Al Jazeera PA offered to concede almost all of East Jerusalem, an historic concession for which Israel offered nothing in return... Read more... Macy Gray, Performing in Israel is Already Political: Stand for Human Rights and Cancel! | Boycott Israel We are a group of Israeli citizens who support the Palestinian Call for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) on Israel, as a means of bringing to an end Israel's decades-long systematic oppression of the Palestinian people... Read more... Nigeria: Obama rescues Zionist Cheney | Rehmat's World In December 2010 – Nigerian prosecutors filed charges against the former ‘Israel-First’ US Vice-president Dick Cheney and Halliburton Co. of which he was CEO until 2000 – for bribery estimated to US$180 million to Nigerian officials between 1994 and 2004 to win a US$6 billion liquefied natural gas plant contract... Read more... Western media crusades against Islam, by Kourosh Ziabari | Opinion Maker As the Western governments add fuel to the fire of Islamophobic sentiments in their societies with inflammatory and rabble-rousing actions and statements, the Western media mischievously try their best to portray a lopsided, biased and prejudiced image of Muslims in an attempt which should be interpreted as an incontestable crusade against more than 25% of the world population... Read more... Listen to the Arab Street, by Aijaz Zaka Syed | Palestine Chronicle ...King warned injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. And why King alone? America’s founding fathers, from Thomas Jefferson to Benjamin Franklin to Abe Lincoln, subscribed to the same noble ideals and values such as freedom, human rights and justice and equality for all men. But America has always supported men who trample on these very values and beliefs... Read more... Blair's continuing thirst for war | Rebel News Looking sun-tanned and relaxed, the former prime minister strode into the hearing room that morning, taking his seat before the five-person panel led by an avuncular Lord Chilcot... Read more... Money, by Alain DeBenoist | The Occidental Observer Of course, everybody prefers to have a little bit more than a little bit less. “Money does not buy happiness, but it does contribute to happiness” — as the saying goes. We need to find out, however, what happiness means. Max Weber wrote in 1905: “A man by ‘his nature’ does not want to earn more money; he only wants to live as he is accustomed to live and earn as much as it is necessary for him.”.. Read more... Obama blackmails Lebanon for Israel | Rehmat's World On January 21, 2011, leader of the Druze sect, Walid Jumblatt announced his support for Hizbullah-led Opposition’s choice for the next Prime Minister of Lebanon... Read more... Barak's Deadly Blow To Labour | Intifada Palestine With the left in Israeli politics all but collapsing entirely, the neo-fascist right wing is virtually unopposed, reports Khaled Amayreh in occupied Jerusalem... Read more... US journalist says prison preferable to ditching her constitutional rights | Redress Information & Analysis Maureen Murphy explains why she prefers to risk imprisonment than testify before a grand jury in Chicago, USA, insisting that she will not be forced to account to the government for exercising her constitutionally protected freedoms of speech and association... Read more... Jan 25, 2011 A critique of Richard Falk's Article: On Jewish Identity, by Anthony Lawson | Intifada Palestine ...The only way that this situation will ever be resolved is for Israel to be prevented from treating the Palestinians as Goyim = cattle—in reality: stateless persons—with virtually no rights in the face of the bulldozers, and under the jackboots that the Israeli Defence Forces seems to have inherited from the worst Nazis of wartime Germany... Read more... More crocodile tears over the Shepherd Hotel, by Omar Radwan | Middle East Monitor ...Following the 1948 war the house, like the rest of East Jerusalem, was under Jordanian administration. It was then converted into a hotel, catering mostly to pilgrims. However, after the 1967 war, when Israel occupied East Jerusalem and the West Bank it was confiscated by the Israeli government under the infamous "Absentee Property Law". Under this law, which is simply a device for the theft of Palestinian land, the Israeli government gave itself the power to take over all land owned by Palestinians who were not present on their property at a certain date... Read more... No U-Turns on the Road to Serfdom? by Justin Raimondo | Antiwar ...What we are facing is the prospect of a regime such as has not been seen since the days of the Alien and Sedition Acts, or the Palmer raids of World War I: a new era of repression enhanced by modern technology. What is needed is a broad coalition of those on the right as well as the left who see the danger and are ready to unite in defense of basic constitutional liberties. Unless and until we build such a movement, the war on the Constitution will end in the unconditional surrender of our liberties by those who had neither the heart nor the nerve to fight... Read more... News for sad Jews, by Amira Hass | Haaretz ...What has brought me four or five times to Maghar and the neighboring villages since 1998 are the incidents of tree uprooting. One time the Israel Defense Forces uprooted a number of trees, for security reasons of course, and the remainder were uprooted by unidentified parties. Different perpetrators, yet the scene looked the same - large stretches of bare tree trunks, chopped close to their roots. Their nakedness was touching, and the mourning of the villagers, heartrending... Read more... Seattle activist Phil Mocek wins case against TSA | Examiner Phil Mocek, a Seattle activist has won a court case against the TSA. Without presenting any witnesses or testifying himself, a jury of 6 women found Phil not guilty of all charges against him... [The Gestapo has to punt this time] Read more... The rabbis of the devil, by Khalid Amayreh | Window Into Palestine Graffiti by extremist Jewish settlers in Hebron reads: “Gas the Arabs .. JDL”.. Read more... Valley of the Wolves | Gilad Atzmon Valley of the Wolves: Palestine is a new Turkish movie portraying the Mavi Marmara massacre as a premeditated Israeli attack that was set to kill innocent peace activists... If the International Holocaust Remembrance Day is there to remind us of crimes committed by a racist ethno-centric regime in the past, the Turkish film is there to awaken us to the colossal crimes that are committed by a racist ethno-centric regime in the present. If Germans are genuinely interested in the Nazi past, they better look closely at Israeli current brutality... Read more, watch video... 365 AM Documentary | Bidayat Project 365 AM is the raw story of Gaza and two journalists trying to reach the rest of the world from inside one of the most deeply divided and silenced places on the globe... Read more... Settlers attack Rabbi, from the Alternative Information Center | YouTube A group of Israeli settlers from the illegal West Bank settlement of Shilo demonstrated in front of the home of Rabbis for Human Rights Executive Director Arik Ascherman Wednesday afternoon. They were demonstrating against Ascherman's plan to plant trees with Palestinians in the West Bank in celebration of the Jewish holiday Tu Bishvat, "the New Year of the Trees.".. Watch video... Jan 24, 2011 The Methodical Shooting of Boys at Work in Gaza, by David S. Halpin | Palestine Chronicle  At the present rate it will take 78 years to rebuild Gaza The deliberate injury of the limbs of 23 boys by high velocity weapons has been logged and described by Defence for Children International – Palestine Branch (DCI-P) since March 2010. Some of the facts have been published in national newspapers. These barbarous acts contravene international and national law but there are no judicial responses...Read more... The problem with Israel's Jewish 'refugee' initiative, by Rachel Shabi | The Guardian While the US has given up pressing for a freeze on illegal settlement building, one Israeli minister has been cranking up the volume on an issue he apparently considers more pressing. The deputy foreign minister, Danny Ayalon, recently launched a new initiative to demand that Palestinians "recognise Jews who exiled from Arab lands as refugees".. Read more... Would the isolation of America persuade Obama not to veto? | Redress Information & Analysis Alan Hart argues that President Barack Obama has a choice: either to put the interests of the USA, justice and world peace first and support the UN Security Council resolution condemning Israeli settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories, or go down in history as the man who presided over the US’s international isolation and entry into the world’s club of pariahs... Read more... It's the Occupation, Stupid: video by Anthony Lawson | Vodpod ..a powerful short documentary on the inextricable relationship between Israel’s occupation of Palestine and America’s massive military budget. It’s the Occupation, Stupid features, in order of appearance, Eliot Spitzer, Ben Stein, Irving Kristol, Ron Paul, Michael Scheuer, Richard Curtiss, Eric Margolis, Loretta Alper, Scott Horton, Alison Weir, Glenn Greenwald, Paul Findley, Ilan Pappé, Osama bin Laden and George W. Bush... Read more, watch video... Lebanon Druze leader backs Hezbollah ahead of parliamentary talks | Haaretz Walid Jumblatt, who leads bloc of 11 parliamentarians, is crucial in deciding who will form Lebanon's new government, after Hezbollah toppled Hariri's regime two weeks ago... Read more... The threshold for anti-Semitism reaches a new low | The Occidental Observer Jennifer Rubin, the Washington Post’s neocon blogger, is very upset. According to Rubin, an article by the notoriously anti-Semitic Time Magazine claimed that “Jews only care about money.” Wow! To think a very mainstream liberal publication would publish such a thing. Surely concentration camps for Jews cannot be far behind. So I thought I would check the Time article just to actually comprehend the evil myself... Read more... The Disappearance of Keith Olbermann, by Robert Parry | Consortium News Keith Olbermann’s abrupt departure from MSNBC should be another wake-up call to American progressives about the fragile foothold that liberal-oriented fare now has for only a few hours on one corporate cable network... Read more... Israel: The ugly truth, by Mya Guarnieri | Al Jazeera As it slides further into open and violent racism, Israel offers the Western world a reflection of itself... Read more... Rabbis Call for Extermination Camps | International Middle East Media Center An article in the Israeli Jewish Orthodox publication "Fountains of Salvation", which purports to be a 'family magazine', suggests that Israel will create death camps for Palestinians in order to wipe them out like Amalek... Read more... Silencing the media in America | Redress Information & Analysis Paul J. Balles views the Zionist lobby's stranglehold over the mainstream media in the United States which has succeeded in bullying, threatening or bribing journalists into silence over Israel’s crimes... Read more... The Looting Of America, by Catherine Austin Fitts | Prison Planet Former Assistant Secretary of Housing under George H.W. Bush Catherine Austin Fitts blows the whistle on how the financial terrorists have deliberately imploded the US economy and transferred gargantuan amounts of wealth offshore as a means of sacrificing the American middle class. Fitts documents how trillions of dollars went missing from government coffers in the 90′s and how she was personally targeted for exposing the fraud... Read more... 9/11 Truth Is No "Parlor Game", by Prof Jim Fetzer | Global Research A disturbing article.. by Robert Parry, advances the indefensible theory that the shooting of Representative Gabrielle Giffords was affected by the shooters interest in 9/11 truth. While there are good reasons to suspect that the political climate nurtured by the right wing may have influenced him (by targeting a series of representatives using the cross-hairs of a telescopic site, for example), there is no reason to believe than anyone associated with the 9/11 truth movement has targeted any members of Congress—other than attempting to expose them to the evidence that research has unearthed, which has shown that virtually every claim the government has made about 9/11 is provably false... Read more... David Cole's 46 Questions About the Gas Chambers | CODOH Professor Deborah Lipstadt, author of Denying the Holocaust: The Growing Assault on Truth and Memory, is the leading voice on college campuses and in the media arguing against intellectual freedom with regard to the holocaust controversy. She is passionate -- well, obsessive -- about not wanting to exchange views with revisionists... Read more... Jan 23, 2011 Operation Cast Lead Is Over, but the Nightmare Continues, by Mohammed Omer | Gilad Atzmon  Abdullah and his little brother play “Arabs and Israelis” with their friends ..Researchers found that prolonged poverty, stress and other environmental factors—including war and the deprivation of basic needs—directly affect a child's intelligence and, therefore, his or her life prospects...in the southern Gaza Strip town of Rafah Read more... Why We Fail: An Analysis, by Dr. Lawrence Davidson | Intifada Palestine ...These are the people who the Obama administration is looking to for new thinking about the peace process. One is left simply amazed at this development. Almost, but not quite, speechless. For all these men, Berger, Hadley, Indyk and Ross are strongly biased in favor of Israel, and among the folks who have been running the U.S. side of the peace process at least since the 1980s. They are not “outside experts” at all. They are retreaded inside “experts” whose records, with very minor exceptions, in regard to the peace process, are ones of failure... Read more... Silencing The Media In America, by Paul Balles | Intifada Palestine ..Instead of celebrating journalistic integrity, the media - controlled by Zionists in America - refuses to condone any criticism of Israel... Read more... Arte TV interview with Gilad Atzmon ahead of OHE's European Tour in March | Gilad Atzmon Watch video... Silence is Complicity: The methodical shooting of boys at work in Gaza by snipers of the Israeli Occupation Force, by Dr. David Halpin | Global Research The deliberate injury of the limbs of 23 boys by high velocity weapons has been logged and described by Defence for Children International – Palestine Branch (DCI-P) since March 2010. Some of the facts have been published in national newspapers. These barbarous acts contravene international and national law but there are no judicial responses. The caring professions see the physical and mental pain of those who suffer and they should be in the vanguard in calling for this great cruelty to cease forthwith... Read more... Bizarre Developments in Haiti | Stephen Lendman ...In a January 21 email, Law Professor Francis Boyle commented on his arrival, saying: "No way Baby Doc could have returned without connivance/permission by Obama and Sarkozy. Obviously, they plan to reinstall (him) as Dictator and Front-Man. And Obama/Sarkozy have denied the right of President Aristide to return.".. Read more... Fatal Detraction? The Volatile Pre-Trial Phase of STL, by Franklin Lamb | Al-Manar ...It is possible that, before long, Le Liban Ancien may be gone with the wind. Indicted, convicted, condemned, dispatched and gifted to others by profoundly flawed American-Israel regional policies... Read more... Bilderberg Owned Publication The Economist: Yes, Powerful "Globocrat" Elites Are Running Things, It's Not A Conspiracy, by Steve Watson | Prison Planet Agenda for global centralized control system is public and out in the open... [The question is do they have the interests of humanity and the planet at heart, or merely their own interests? I'm afraid that the answer is all too clear.] Read more...Palestinians: The enemies within and outside | Rehmat's World ..Aisling Byrne, a Project Coordinator with the Beirut-based think tank, Conflict Forum under the heading “Building a police state in Palestine” – has confirmed that the only attraction the Zionist entity has in the so-called the TWO-State solution, is that “it would emerge simply because it was in Israel’s demographic interest to give it. On this false premise, the Abbas-led Ramallah leadership embraced security collusion comprehensively... Read more... London's Foreign Office might as well relocate to Tel Aviv | Redress Information & Analysis Stuart Littlewood takes a close look at the subterfuge, obfuscations and double talk of British Foreign Office minister Alistair Burt, a card-carrying Israeli stooge who on a recent visit to occupied Palestine deceitfully professed his commitment to justice in the Holy Land while pledging to stand by Israel and defend its war criminals... Read more... Jan 22, 2011 Prepping Minds for War Against China, by Shamus Cooke | Pakalert Press  You’d think the U.S. was already at war with China, given the immense amount of anti-China rhetoric spouting from the government and media. But selling wars takes time. The average American hasn’t bought in to this false advertising yet. So the big lie will be repeated until its roots are deeply sunk into the American psyche... Read more... Ed Miliband: A Possible Game Changer On British Policy Towards Israel? by Joshua Blakeney | Voltairenet Canadian-based scholar and journalist Joshua Blakeney is prepared to gamble on U.K. opposition leader Ed Miliband emerging as the first western political figure to resist the Zionist meat grinding machine. Ironically, Miliband is the first Labour Party leader of Jewish upbringing and the first one to publicly advocate for a foreign policy built on "values, not just alliances".. Read more... US trying to stop UN resolution against West Bank settlements | The Telegraph Washington is desperately trying to head off a United Nations resolution condemning Jewish settlements in Jerusalem and the disputed West Bank territories that is presenting Barack Obama with one of the most acute dilemmas of his presidency... Read more... The US-Israeli coup in Beirut, by Mike Whitney | Global Research ...The UN's Special Tribunal for Lebanon--or the STL, as it is called--is a US/Israeli invention designed to tarnish Hezbollah by leveling trumped up charges against its members. Tel Aviv and Washington want to connect Hezbollah to the murder of Rafik Hariri in order to brand the nationalist militia a "terrorist organization." Once the group is convicted on charges of terrorism, Israel will be able to conduct its cross-border attacks with impunity... Read more... Former NSA Chief Called CIA 'Out of Control', by Sharon Weinberger | Global Research The CIA is "out of control" and often refuses to cooperate with other parts of the national security community, even undermining their efforts, said former National Security Agency head William Odom, according to a recently released record of a 9/11 Commission interview. "The CIA currently doesn't work for anyone. It thinks it works for the president, but it doesn't and it's out of control," says a report summarizing remarks made by Odom, a retired three-star general who served as director of the NSA from 1985 to 1988... Read more... The Zionist Story, by Ronen Berelovich (Full Documentary) | YouTube ..."I have recently finished an independent documentary, The Zionist Story, in which I aim to present not just the history of the Israeli/Palestinian conflict, but also the core reason for it: the Zionist ideology, its goals (past and present) and its firm grip not only on Israeli society, but also, increasingly, on the perception of Middle East issues in Western democracies... Read more... The Rafik Hariri Assassination: Was Israel Involved? by Thierry Meyssan | Global Research ..All the conflicts rocking the Middle East today crystallize around the Special Tribunal for Lebanon (STL). Peace hinges on it, and so does war. For some, the STL should bring about the dissolution of the Hezbollah, quell the Resistance and establish a Pax Americana. Others consider that the STL is flouting the law and subverting the truth to ensure the takeover of a new colonial order in the region... Read more... The Logic of Imperial Insanity and the Road to World War III, by Andrew Gavin Marshall | Global Research In the late 1990s Brzezinski wrote up the design for America’s imperial project in the 21st century in his book, “The Grand Chessboard.” He stated bluntly that, “it is imperative that no Eurasian challenger emerges, capable of dominating Eurasia and thus of also challenging America,” and then made clear the imperial nature of his strategy:.. Read more... Preparing for War with Russia? Washington To Rearm Georgia For New Conflicts, by Rick Rozoff | Global Research Recent reports in the Russian news media have detailed plans by the U.S. to provide the Mikheil Saakashvili government in Georgia with tens of millions of dollars worth of anti-aircraft and anti-tank weapons... Read more... Seymour Hersh Unleashed: We're Gonna Change Mosques into Cathedrals, by Blake Hounshel | Foreign Policy .."What I'm really talking about is how eight or nine neoconservative, radicals if you will, overthrew the American government. Took it over," he said of his forthcoming book. "It's not only that the neocons took it over but how easily they did it -- how Congress disappeared, how the press became part of it, how the public acquiesced.".. Read more... Wall Street celebrates record profits, by Tom Eley | WSWS JPMorgan Chase’s profit report for 2010, released Friday, has become the occasion for a celebration by the American plutocracy of the return of the good old days before the Wall Street crash of 2008. Jamie Dimon, JPMorgan’s CEO, summed up the general mood of the financial elite when he declared the bank’s record profits to be evidence of a “broad-based economic recovery,” adding, “I think the future is extremely bright.”.. Read more... Pilgrims to site where Jesus was baptised risk landmines, by Jonathan Cook | The National Thousands of pilgrims flocked this week to Israel's latest tourist attraction, touted as the place where Jesus was baptised in the River Jordan... Read more... Why Obama's "new thinking" initiative on Middle East peace is doomed to fail | Redress Information & Analysis Lawrence Davidson says an Obama initiative to inject "new" thinking into the Palestinian-Israeli "peace process" is doomed to fail because Obama has judged it safer to “resurrect the dead” in the form of failed, pro-Israel advisers of previous administrations than to opt for genuinely new thinking, bypass the Zionist lobby and explain to the American people what he is doing and why... Read more... Why are UK and USA in Afghanistan? | Redress Information & Analysis Tim Coles argues that underlying the Anglo-American invasion and occupation of Afghanistan is the desire to acquire and secure energy sources in Central Asia and Iran as part of the strategy of full spectrum dominance... Read more... Prepping Minds for War Against China, by Shamus Cooke | Pakalert Press You’d think the U.S. was already at war with China, given the immense amount of anti-China rhetoric spouting from the government and media. But selling wars takes time. The average American hasn’t bought in to this false advertising yet. So the big lie will be repeated until its roots are deeply sunk into the American psyche... Read more... Ed Miliband: A Possible Game Changer On British Policy Towards Israel? by Joshua Blakeney | Voltairenet Canadian-based scholar and journalist Joshua Blakeney is prepared to gamble on U.K. opposition leader Ed Miliband emerging as the first western political figure to resist the Zionist meat grinding machine. Ironically, Miliband is the first Labour Party leader of Jewish upbringing and the first one to publicly advocate for a foreign policy built on "values, not just alliances".. Read more... US trying to stop UN resolution against West Bank settlements | The Telegraph Washington is desperately trying to head off a United Nations resolution condemning Jewish settlements in Jerusalem and the disputed West Bank territories that is presenting Barack Obama with one of the most acute dilemmas of his presidency... Read more... The US-Israeli coup in Beirut, by Mike Whitney | Global Research ...The UN's Special Tribunal for Lebanon--or the STL, as it is called--is a US/Israeli invention designed to tarnish Hezbollah by leveling trumped up charges against its members. Tel Aviv and Washington want to connect Hezbollah to the murder of Rafik Hariri in order to brand the nationalist militia a "terrorist organization." Once the group is convicted on charges of terrorism, Israel will be able to conduct its cross-border attacks with impunity... Read more... Former NSA Chief Called CIA 'Out of Control', by Sharon Weinberger | Global Research The CIA is "out of control" and often refuses to cooperate with other parts of the national security community, even undermining their efforts, said former National Security Agency head William Odom, according to a recently released record of a 9/11 Commission interview. "The CIA currently doesn't work for anyone. It thinks it works for the president, but it doesn't and it's out of control," says a report summarizing remarks made by Odom, a retired three-star general who served as director of the NSA from 1985 to 1988... Read more... The Zionist Story, by Ronen Berelovich (Full Documentary) | YouTube ..."I have recently finished an independent documentary, The Zionist Story, in which I aim to present not just the history of the Israeli/Palestinian conflict, but also the core reason for it: the Zionist ideology, its goals (past and present) and its firm grip not only on Israeli society, but also, increasingly, on the perception of Middle East issues in Western democracies... Read more... The Rafik Hariri Assassination: Was Israel Involved? by Thierry Meyssan | Global Research ..All the conflicts rocking the Middle East today crystallize around the Special Tribunal for Lebanon (STL). Peace hinges on it, and so does war. For some, the STL should bring about the dissolution of the Hezbollah, quell the Resistance and establish a Pax Americana. Others consider that the STL is flouting the law and subverting the truth to ensure the takeover of a new colonial order in the region... Read more... The Logic of Imperial Insanity and the Road to World War III, by Andrew Gavin Marshall | Global Research In the late 1990s Brzezinski wrote up the design for America’s imperial project in the 21st century in his book, “The Grand Chessboard.” He stated bluntly that, “it is imperative that no Eurasian challenger emerges, capable of dominating Eurasia and thus of also challenging America,” and then made clear the imperial nature of his strategy:.. Read more... Preparing for War with Russia? Washington To Rearm Georgia For New Conflicts, by Rick Rozoff | Global Research Recent reports in the Russian news media have detailed plans by the U.S. to provide the Mikheil Saakashvili government in Georgia with tens of millions of dollars worth of anti-aircraft and anti-tank weapons... Read more... Seymour Hersh Unleashed: We're Gonna Change Mosques into Cathedrals, by Blake Hounshel | Foreign Policy .."What I'm really talking about is how eight or nine neoconservative, radicals if you will, overthrew the American government. Took it over," he said of his forthcoming book. "It's not only that the neocons took it over but how easily they did it -- how Congress disappeared, how the press became part of it, how the public acquiesced.".. Read more... Wall Street celebrates record profits, by Tom Eley | WSWS JPMorgan Chase’s profit report for 2010, released Friday, has become the occasion for a celebration by the American plutocracy of the return of the good old days before the Wall Street crash of 2008. Jamie Dimon, JPMorgan’s CEO, summed up the general mood of the financial elite when he declared the bank’s record profits to be evidence of a “broad-based economic recovery,” adding, “I think the future is extremely bright.”.. Read more... Pilgrims to site where Jesus was baptised risk landmines, by Jonathan Cook | The National Thousands of pilgrims flocked this week to Israel's latest tourist attraction, touted as the place where Jesus was baptised in the River Jordan... Read more... Why Obama's "new thinking" initiative on Middle East peace is doomed to fail | Redress Information & Analysis Lawrence Davidson says an Obama initiative to inject "new" thinking into the Palestinian-Israeli "peace process" is doomed to fail because Obama has judged it safer to “resurrect the dead” in the form of failed, pro-Israel advisers of previous administrations than to opt for genuinely new thinking, bypass the Zionist lobby and explain to the American people what he is doing and why... Read more... Why are UK and USA in Afghanistan? | Redress Information & Analysis Tim Coles argues that underlying the Anglo-American invasion and occupation of Afghanistan is the desire to acquire and secure energy sources in Central Asia and Iran as part of the strategy of full spectrum dominance... Read more... Jan 21, 2011 Occupied Iraq: New Year, Same Zionism, by Jonathan Azaziah | Mask of Zion  The Zionist entity has annihilated the ancient nation of Iraq There are more than 2 million innocents dead due to the brutal aggression inflicted upon Iraq; again, 2 million innocent people, men, women and children, are dead due to the brutal aggression inflicted upon Iraq, an aggression exclusively designed by the Project For A New American Century, an exclusivist think tank comprised of Zionist war criminals...Read more... Wikileaks Cables on Israel's Gaza Onslaught | Counterpunch S E C R E T SECTION 01 OF 02 Read more...TEL AVIV 002864 SIPDIS E.O. 12958: DECL: 12/22/2018 TAGS: PREL, PTER, PHUM, MOPS, KWBG, IS SUBJECT: PREPARING FOR AN ISRAELI MILITARY OPERATION IN GAZA Classified By: Ambassador James B. Cunningham, Reason 1.4 (b) (d) 1. (S)... Melanie Philips: "Israeli Hasbara is a joke" | Gilad Atzmon It is almost amusing to hear Philips dismissing Hasbara (Israeli propaganda) in Britain. It is also very cheering to learn from rabid Zionist Philips that in spite of the Israeli Lobby, David Aaronovitch, Nick Cohen and herself, the Palestinians are winning the hearts and minds of British public... Watch video... Vera Macht Reports From Gaza: Amjad - The Next Victim in Gaza Buffer Zone | Gilad Atzmon ...It took eight days. Eight days since the last innocent was killed. You watch people die here one after another, getting killed one by one, without consequences, without justice, without an outcry in the media... Read more... Can A Criminal State Deal With War Criminals? | Gilad Atzmon Haaretz reported today that Israeli citizen Aleksander Cvetkovic, 42, is suspected of participating in the murder of at least 1,000 Bosnian Muslims at the Branjevo farm near the city of Zvornik... Read more... In the Crosshairs, by Tom Engelhardt | Antiwar ...Of course, we in the United States have few doubts about who the aliens on this planet are: Them! (the title of a classic 1954 sci-fi movie about monstrous mutant ants that infest the sewer system of Los Angeles). In my childhood, “them” was “the commies,” of course. Now, it’s certainly Muslims or jihadists or Islamo-fascists... Read more... What's Going on in Tunisia? by Justin Raimondo | Antiwar The dethronement of Tunisian strongman Ben Ali, and his flight to Saudi Arabia, has our media conjuring visions of a powerful upsurge of “democratic” populism in what was previously thought of as a minor backwater, famous for its beaches and little else. A friend of the West, Ben Ali was the spitting image of his predecessor, Habib Bourguiba, whom he overthrew in a bloodless coup... Read more... The Troubled History of the Hariri Probe, by Robert Parry | Consortium News ...the United States, Saudi Arabia and Israel view Lebanon as an important piece on the geopolitical chessboard in their competition with Iran and Syria. So, even Mehlis’s replacement, Belgian investigator Serge Brammertz, knew that he risked angering influential figures if his inquiry didn’t reach their desired conclusions... Read more... Jan 20, 2011 Jewish Support For Anti-Semitic Theology Dooms Israel To Endless Conflict | Richard Forer  A corpulent blend of evil, ignorance and insanity On January 11, Albuquerque played host to A Night to Honor Israel, an expression of solidarity between Christians United for Israel (CUFI) and the State of Israel. The event was co-sponsored by the Jewish Federation of New Mexico (JFNM). John Hagee, CUFI’s founder, was principal speaker...Read more... Good Manners in the Age of WikiLeaks, by Slavoj Zizek | LRB In one of the diplomatic cables released by WikiLeaks Putin and Medvedev are compared to Batman and Robin. It’s a useful analogy: isn’t Julian Assange, WikiLeaks’s organiser, a real-life counterpart to the Joker in Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight?.. Read more... On Jewish Identity, by Prof Richard Falk | Gilad Atzmon ... those who endorse the cruelties of Israel occupation policies are the real self-hating Jews as they have turned away from the moral clarity of Old Testament prophets, which is the shining light of the Old Testament overcoming the often bloody exploits of the ancient Israelites... Read more... Beirut edging to tribunal showdown, by Robert Grenier | Al Jazeera Hariri is obliged to support the assassination tribunal, yet clarify that his country will not enforce its mandate... Read more... Hariri: An Audio Tape Unveils Fabrication Of False Testimonies | Intifada Palestine On 15 January NewTV, an independent Lebanese television network, released an audio tape of a secret meeting, held in Marbella (Spain) in 2005... During the meeting, the conspirators decided to frame four Lebanese generals and nine Syrian key figures for the murder of Rafik el-Hariri. They also discussed the payment and the protection of the false witness... Read more, watch video... Some videos recommend by Gilad Atzmon Poetry against Israeli Barbarism, by Rafeef Ziadeh From The Mouth of The Beast Israeli Troops Kill Innocent Man In His Sleep To the tyrants of the Arab world, by Lamis Andoni | Al Jazeera The Tunisian uprising, which succeeded in toppling Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, the Tunisian president, has brought down the walls of fear, erected by repression and marginalisation, thus restoring the Arab peoples' faith in their ability to demand social justice and end tyranny. It is a warning to all leaders, whether supported by international or regional powers, that they are no longer immune to popular outcries of fury... Read more... US was Cheerleader for Massacre: Wikileaks Cables on Israel's Gaza Onslaught, by Kathleen Christison | Counterpunch The cables make clear, were any further disclosure needed, exactly where the United States stands with respect to Israel’s unprovoked attacks on Palestinians and its other Arab neighbors. Although Operation Cast Lead took place in the last days of the Bush administration, ending two days before Barack Obama was inaugurated, every Obama policy in the succeeding two years – including the administration’s repudiation of the Goldstone Report detailing Israeli atrocities and war crimes during Cast Lead – has demonstrated a striking continuity of support for Israeli actions... Read more... Imperial Shooting Sprees: The Greatest Purveyor of Violence in the World Today, by Joe Mowrey | Counterpunch ...Ours is a nation which glorifies violence. It is taken for granted that our government has the right to kill with impunity. Our President has even declared he can assassinate anyone, including U.S. citizens, whenever he deems it necessary. Yet when a similar mindset results in violence more close to home, when it impacts us directly, we become outraged... Read more... Jan 19, 2011 Road Map to Peace Beginning with Justice, by William A. Cook | Palestine Chronicle  So what's to be done? ...My proposal at that time suggested that both Mahmoud Abbas and the Hamas leadership propose peace plans to the world that would engage the UN as principle broker for peace. Within two months Abbas had called for a Conference on Peace to be held in Oslo and Hamas representatives noted that the Saudi Prince’s Peace Plan proposed in 2002 could be a viable proposal. Neither Israel nor the U.S. responded to these initiatives. They were sent to the waste basket of lost opportunities...Read more... Ben Stein: America Is An Underarmed Country! by Maidhc Ó Cathail | Intifada Palestine Was Ben Stein channelling Irving Kristol when he told fellow Israel apologist Eliot Spitzer that $700 billion isn’t enough to defend America’s “vital interests”? Not once is Israel mentioned, but you can be sure that defending the Jewish state is never too far from Stein’s mind. After all, it was Stein who called Ron Paul anti-Semitic for merely arguing that terrorism was a response to America’s occupation of Muslim countries... Read more, watch video... Avi Shlaim on the Neo-conservative Middle East War Agenda, by Stephen J. Sniegoski | Middle East Monitor ..Phil Collier, is an avid student of and sometime writer on Middle East affairs (and a National Master in chess); he informed me that Avi Shlaim has one chapter in his book Israel and Palestine: Reappraisals, Revisions, Refutations, headed "Palestine and Iraq", which presents a thesis almost identical to what I have written in The Transparent Cabal. This encouraged me to obtain the book, and Collier's description turns out to be correct... Read more... Israel: A Renegade, Lawless and Murderous State, by Khalid Amayreh | Al Jazeera Israeli leaders, including Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu, have been complaining about the increasing "de-legitimization" of the Zionist state across the world. Netanyahu, who is a skilled media operator, said that Israel "needs to de-legitimize the de-legitimizers". However, a fleeting glance at recent Israeli actions shows that Israel is a nefarious, lawless and murderous entity whose representatives commit murder and terrorism knowingly and deliberately against innocent people. In doing so, it is they who "de-legitimize" the state of Israel... Read more... The Privatization of War: Is Blackwater Heading for the Holy Land?, by Spencer Ackerman | Global Research Jerusalem: a cauldron of nationalistic and religious acrimony, a persistent flashpoint for global crisis. Exactly where you want to put the world’s most notorious private security firm... Read more... Show Trials for American Muslims?: The New Radicals in Congress, by Lawrence Davidson | Counterpunch It is just about certain that the new Republican House will hold hearings on the "radicalization of the American Muslim Community." The hearings will be called by Peter King, the Republican representative for New York's 3rd district, who is now the Chairman of the Homeland Security Committee. This move on the part of Representative King will reveal more about him than it will about American Muslims... Read more... If Bishop Desmond Tutu is an anti-Semite - what hope for the rest of us?, by Imran Garda | Al Jazeera ...When the head of the South African Zionist Federation, David Hersch, initiates an online petition against “The Arch”, demanding he be removed as patron of the Holocaust memorial centres in Cape Town and Johannesburg for his “anti-Israel behaviour” and labels his criticism of the policies, (yes, policies) of the state of Israel “morally repugnant” based on “horrific and grotesquely false accusation against the Jewish people”, it’s pertinent to provide a brief reminder to Hersch, and anyone who might be swayed, of the man’s credentials... Read more... Hijacked Legacy: MLK's dream used & abused to push Pentagon agenda | YouTube When people across the globe joined together to honor Dr. Martin Luther King on his birthday, it showed the legacy of this moral crusader in America's race war - lives on. But as RT's Kristine Frazao discovered, some are also taking advantage of his name to gain support for U.S. wars abroad... Watch video... Israel's Actions Reflects the Arrogant Mentality of an Occupier, by Daoud Kuttab | Palestine News Network ...Sometime over the weekend and somewhere within the Israeli military’s decision making apparatus, a decision was taken. Thousands of decisions like this are taken daily. For sure no one thought much of it, after all, who cares about such insignificant decisions that affects the Palestinian population... Read more... Updates on Two Political Prisoners | Stephen Lendman ...the sentence was politically motivated. Not a shred of evidence justified it. It's the wrong time to be Muslim in Canada and America, with prosecutorial injustice in both countries engineered to convict, regardless of innocence. A Supreme Court appeal is planned, but given Canada's climate of fear and jihad against Islam, victims like Momin stand little chance for justice... Read more... Arab Awakening | YouTube Tunisia's political earthquake has shaken the cozy world of Arab rulers and the image of their military-backed regimes as immune to popular discontent and grievances, with many saying the Tunisian revolution may prove contagious... [See also parts II and III] Watch video...A Problem in Bumfuck, Idaho | Mantiq al-Tayr The photo above is of a true American hero who, while seriously wounded, guided his crippled ship by the North Star over the Mediterranean on the night of June 8th, 1967. The photo is from the website of the USS Liberty Veterans Association... Read more, watch video... A New Gaza War? | YouTube The escalation in Israel's air and drone attacks on the Gaza strip over the past months has raised the possibility of another offensive on the besieged area. According to many in the international media and also political circles, it is just a matter of time before Israel initiates another war on one of the most densely populated areas in the world... [See also parts II and III] Watch video...People vs Police State: Revolution rage to spread after Tunisia? | YouTube Tunisia has formed a new national unity government to prepare the country for elections - days after the former president went into exile following widespread violent protests. The new administration led by the Prime Minister marks the first time the opposition has been given a share in power. President Ben Ali was ousted after 23 years in office - and is now in Saudi Arabia. Tunisia remains tense, with some protestors demanding radical changes in government. Professor Hall Gardner from the American University of Paris says what used to be a relatively stable country could now bring instability to the whole region... Watch video... Zionist left writes its own obituary: Barak and Netanyahu kill off Israel's Labour party | Redress Information & Analysis Jonathan Cook argues that the Israeli Labour Party’s collapse may “free up the political landscape for a real left to emerge in Israel, one less tied to the onerous legacy of Labour Zionism and prepared to collaborate creatively with the Palestinian national movements”... Read more... PA Institutions Essential to Occupation Infrastructure, by Hasan Afif El-Hasan | Palestine Chronicle The accomplishments of the Palestinian Authority (PA) since the signing of the Oslo Accords agreements can only be described as a national tragedy... Read more... Hollywood, Israel and the Pursuit of Normalcy, by Basil Abdelkarim | Palestine Chronicle References to Israel in Hollywood, like references to Palestine or the Arab world, always demand close scrutiny, particularly given the entertainment industry’s shameful penchant for Arab/Muslim vilification and glorification of all things Israel, to say nothing of the fervent public devotion towards Israel shared by countless Hollywood luminaries. What this means is that in Hollywood, there’s really no such a thing as an “innocent” television or movie reference to Israel, no matter how tiny or inconsequential... Jan 18, 2011 Captain Israel: A Sickening Hasbara Magazine For Jewish Diaspora Youngsters | Gilad Atzmon  ..Israelis and Zionists are proud of their pathological, murderous intentions. They are a threat not just to their neighbors, but to humanism and humanity in general... [Hitler Youth redux] Read more...Turmoil in Lebanon, by Stephen Lendman | OpEd News Reportedly, 19th century Mexican dictator Porfirio Diaz once remarked: "Poor Mexico, So far from God, So close to the United States." His proximity comment applies to Lebanon. Bordering Israel, it experienced decades of belligerent interventions as early as 1954 when Israeli Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion proposed supporting the establishment of a Maronite-dominated Christian mini-state... Read more... Sayyed Nasrallah: Opposition Will Not Name Hariri; New Stage Has Begun | Al-Manar Hezbollah Secretary General Sayyed Hasan Nasrallah delivered a speech on Al-Manar TV Sunday night to tackle recent developments in Lebanon and draw a picture of the course of events “because it is the right of all the Lebanese to know and because facts can always uncover the schemes being prepared for our country.”.. Read more... Lebanese Hezbollah leader Nasrallah could be right | Redress Information & Analysis Alan Hart explains why we should not dismiss lightly Lebanese Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah’s assertion that the tribunal investigating the assassination of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri as “an American and Israeli tool”.. Read more... Tunisia: the people's revolution | Redress Information & Analysis Yvonne Ridley comments on the British media’s lopsided coverage of the uprising in Tunisia – devoting airtime to the inconvenience caused to UK tourists and focusing on the role of social media rather than the “revolutionaries who physically took to the streets and faced down live ammunition, baton charges and tear gas”.. Read more... A Salute to the People of Tunisia | US Palestinian Community Network ...Just as there is a need to end Israel’s settler colonialism and its ethnic cleansing of indigenous Palestinians, we must also confront a treacherous leadership that has undermined the Palestinian people’s political will. Indeed, all Arab regimes who terrorize and attempt to crush the will of their citizenry, must be vanquished, and held accountable for their crimes against our long-suffering people... Read more... Meeting With The Founders Of GYBO (Gaza Youth Breaks Out), by Vera Macht | Gilad Atzmon .."We want three things. We want to be free. We want to be able to live a normal life. We want peace. Is that too much to ask? We are a peace movement consistent of young people in Gaza and supporters elsewhere that will not rest until the truth about Gaza is known by everybody in this whole world and to such a degree that no more silent consent or loud indifference will be accepted.. " Read more... Jan 17, 2011 Three questions for Marwan Bishara | Al Jazeera  After 23 years of iron-fisted rule, Tunisia's president was driven from power by 29 days of violent protests Al Jazeera's senior political analyst comments on the timing, success and meaning of the Tunisian uprising...Paul Balles: Grains Of Sand, Part II | Intifada Palestine ...This week, I’d like to share my interest in writers who have brought important perspectives to one major issue: Israel and the role of America in the Middle East. Incidentally, six of my choice authors (three here) are Jewish... Read more... The Crown and the Coals, by Uri Avnery | Gush Shalom Lebanon is in crisis. And what is new? Since the founding of the state, 90 years ago, the word “crisis” has been inseparably linked with its name... Read more... Beware of the extremists, by Khalid Amayreh | Middle East Monitor A few weeks ago, a supposedly religious activist, probably from one of the Gulf States, suggested to me that Muslims shouldn't confine our attacks to Zionists; we ought, he said, to attack Jews as Jews, on the grounds that the vast majority of Jews support Israel... Read more... Ann Wright shares the stories of the youth resistance in Afghanistan and Gaza | Hawaii Independent One of Hawaii’s most outspoken peace activists recently made her return from abroad to bring a message of urgency and action to island residents... Read more... What now for Lebanon? by Franklin Lamb | Al-Manar Informed Congressional sources in Washington DC on 1/15/11 are confirming that the White House has informed Congressional Committee Chairpersons and American allies that the Special Tribunal for Lebanon (STL) will indict Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran’s Wali al Faqih (jurisconsult or Supreme Religious Leader) for issuing the order to assassinate Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri... Read more... Shot in the Head: Gabrielle Giffords, Tom Hurndall and Palestinian Children, by Alison Weir | Counterpunch ...In the past 10 years Israeli forces have killed at least 255 Palestinian minors by fire to the head, and the number may actually be greater, since in many instances the specific bodily location of the lethal trauma is unlisted. In addition, this statistic does not include the many more Palestinian youngsters shot in the head by Israeli soldiers who survived, in one form or another... Read more... The day after Zionism, by Hannah Mermelstein | Maan News Agency As we trudge through the terraced land, ducking under branches of olive trees and trying to avoid prickly bushes, I think about landscape, consciousness, and memory... Read more... The War on WikiLeaks, by John Pilger | Antiwar The attacks on WikiLeaks and its founder, Julian Assange, are a response to an information revolution that threatens old power orders, in politics and journalism. The incitement to murder trumpeted by public figures in the United States, together with attempts by the Obama administration to corrupt the law and send Assange to a hell hole prison for the rest of his life, are the reactions of a rapacious system exposed as never before... Read more... The war on WikiLeaks and why it matters, by Glenn Greenwald | Salon A newly leaked CIA report prepared earlier this month analyzes how the U.S. Government can best manipulate public opinion in Germany and France -- in order to ensure that those countries continue to fight in Afghanistan... Read more... The 'bin Laden' of marginalisation, by Larbi Sadiki | Al Jazeera The real terror eating away at the Arab world is socio-economic marginalisation... Read more... Israel's right-wing future | Redress Information & Analysis Lawrence Davidson analyses the growth of fascism in Israel, arguing that this process “did not begin ... with 1967 and the taking of the occupied territories. It did not even begin in 1917 and the Balfour Declaration. It began with the very inception of Zionism.”.. Jan 16, 2011 Israel's Man in Palestine, by Stephen Lendman | Palestine Chronicle  The traitors Salam Fayyad and Mahmoud Abbas In Palestine's 2006 legislative elections, his Third Way party got 2.4% of the votes, a clear renunciation. Yet after Fatah's coup d'etat co-opted the PLO, PA and West Bank, President Mahmoud Abbas illegitimately appointed him prime minister...Vera Macht Reports from Gaza | Gilad Atzmon The air is filled with the noise of the Israeli F-16s, which are flying so low that it's almost like the air is trembling. You can positively feel the bombs before they fall, before they explode with a horrendous bang, that is unmistakable, with a pressure wave that breaks the windows of the houses in the whole surrounding area, and makes the walls shake miles away... Read more... And What About the Sperm? | Gilad Atzmon The Jewish state has decided; we let you be a Jew as long as you are willing to kill for us... Read more... Are the Jews wising up? by Braveheart | Rebel News ...Jews have too much emotional capital invested in Israel to back off it now. They created Israel in original sin by expelling its rightful inhabitants and they are no more cognizant of their sins now than they were in 1948. Mick Davis and other sensible Jews will eventually pay the price for the folly of Zionism, their well reasoned objections notwithstanding... Read more... Today we are all Tunisians | Redress Information & Analysis Yvonne Ridley pays tribute to the courage of the Tunisian people and reminds us of the stark fact that all the time when the deposed Zine El Abidine Ben Ali was torturing and plundering his people, he had the full support of the USA and European governments... Read more... 4 Israeli Generals warned Bibi against attacking Iran | Rehmat's World According to Israeli columnist Aluf Benn – Lieutenant-General Gabi Ashkenazi, the retiring Chief of Israel Occupation Force (IOF) told the Defense Minister Ehud Barak that “initiating a war (with Iran) will only bring disaster upon Israel”... Read more... Anti-Defamation League Linked to Arizona Tragedy, by Michael Collins Piper | American Free Press ...Although it pains us to report Mrs. Giffords’ association with such a group, the fact is she served on the Arizona regional board of the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) of B’nai B’rith, a nasty outfit that has stirred up public unrest—and racial and religious strife—for nearly a century... Read more... Is Government Attempting Nixonesque Dirty Trick with Loughner? by Kurt Nimmo | Infowars ...Clinton’s remarks follow the same script used by other government officials and the corporate media. Even though there is scant evidence Loughner was driven to kill by politics, the media and government continue to push the line that he was some sort of political extremist. They are determined to exploit this tragic event for political reasons... Jan 15, 2011 Muslim Human Shields to Protect Egyptian Christians, by Dr. Ashraf Ezzat | Veterans Today  Egyptian Muslims raising the Bible & Quran side by side while forming human shields around a church The terrorist attack on Alexandria church was highly planned and professionally executed and the culprits seemed to have worked out a thoroughly detailed operation but they missed out on one vital detail, namely the culture and traditions of Egyptians...Read more... Israel's Unquenchable Thirst for Blood, by Ronan Macfield | Palestine Telegraph It only took 13 bullets to the head and a few merciless seconds at dawn to coldly end the life of a Palestinian elderly in his sleep in Hebron. If there ever needed to be one universal, conclusive definition for "state terrorism" then the brutal killing of 67 year old Omar Al-Qawasmi would definitely be it... Read more... Yes, I Can Dare to Dream in My Gaza, by Rana Shubair | Gilad Atzmon ...Over sixty years of hardships and abominable suffering of my people cannot in any way be underestimated and deemed as sixty years of failure. If the people of Palestine had minds only accustomed to physical and mortal needs, they would have been dead and defeated long ago. But, it is the life of the mind and soul which keeps them going... Read more... Muhannad Othman Alazzeh | Gilad Atzmon ...Alazzeh was arrested from his home by Israeli Occupation Forces for allegations of on-campus ‘student activism’. Although this period of his life remains a tough one, yet the experience has not put him down but enriched his artistic talent and made him more determined to express and utilise his ability for the benefit of the people of Palestine... Read more... Ecology and Islam: Review of Abdul-Matin's "Green Deen" by Eric Walberg | Dissident Voice Muslim Americans are slowly beginning to make their mark on their conflicted society. There are more Muslims than Jews in the US now — approximately 5 million. They are the most diverse of all American believers... Read more... Another Betrayal of Famed American Helen Thomas as Attackers Make 90 year old a Cautionary Tale | Veterans Today ..This time, she’s under attack from the Society of Professional Journalists [SPJ] which is preparing to retire a lifetime achievement award. War-all-the-time attacks waged by militaristic Zionists continue as the consequence of speaking truth to a war culture becomes clear... Read more... What's Next in Lebanon?: Why Hezbollah Walked, by Franklin Lamb | Counterpunch ...What was not considered at the time, but later became a godsend from the points of view of Israel and the Bush administration was leaked Tribunal information claiming that Hezbollah members might also be involved in the assassination. Hardly believing, one imagines, their good luck, Israel and the US abruptly changed directions and decided to use the newly formed Special Tribunal for Lebanon (STL) to rid themselves of Hezbollah once and for all... Read more... The Iranian Threat: Why Nuclear Weapons Would Undermine Iran's Security Interests, by Jennifer Loewenstein | Counterpunch ...Neither Israeli nor American political, military, or intelligence circles have so far proposed constructive engagement with the Middle East. Nevertheless we have to hope that there continue to be a few more semi-rational policy-makers than neocon extremists determining US foreign policy in Washington... Read more... Will Asia, Africa Follow Latin America on Palestine? by Thalif Deen | IPS With seven Latin American countries formally recognizing Palestine as an independent state, there is one question floating in the corridors of the United Nations: will Asia and Africa follow suit?.. Read more... Illegal Settlements: Canada's Money at Work, by Yves Engler | Palestine Chronicle Canada's tax system currently subsidizes Israeli settlements that Ottawa deems illegal, however, the Conservative government says there's nothing that can be done about it... Read more... Can O’Keefe lick the Palestinian campaign into shape? | Redress Information & Analysis Stuart Littlewood argues that the Palestinian cause is in desperate need of a marketing and public relations makeover, and of competent advocates to promote the Palestinian struggle in the West. He contrasts the complacency and ineptitude of the Palestinian Authority with media savvy internationals and Palestinian volunteers... Jan 14, 2011 The Last Days of the Jewish State | Gilad Atzmon  A few minutes ago, I came across a press release written by Left Israeli MK Nitzan Horowitz. Horowitz, a member of the Meretz Party, disclosed the new suggestions made by the McCarthyite Knesset Commission of Inquiry into Human Rights Organizations. According to Horowitz, the commission is now considering the following measures:.. Read more... What's the difference between Nazi and Zionist war criminals? | Redress Information & Analysis Alan Hart contrasts the huge international effort to bring Nazi war criminals to justice with the lack of will on the part of the world’s major powers to prosecute Zionist war criminals... Read more... Israel Negotiates with Bulldozer Blades and Hydraulic Jackhammers, by Khalid Amayreh | Intifada Palestine The demolition of the highly symbolic building was carried out despite objections from many quarters, including the European Union and Obama administration. The visibly helpless Palestinian Authority once again appealed to the international community to take a strong stand against Israel... Read more... The Tucson Massacre and Our Future: An Analysis by Dr. Lawrence Davidson There are two groups responsible for the January 8th tragedy in Tucson Arizona. One group is made up of right wing Republicans, Tea Party fanatics, and extremist conservative talk show personalities.. However, the situation would never have gotten to its present explosive level without the complementary behavior of the second group. And that is the country’s center/liberal establishment, including the Democratic Party leadership, all of whom have failed to treat the right wing threat seriously... Read more... Ken O'Keefe on Press TV's News Analysis | Salem-News This edition of Press TV’s News Analysis will be looking at Israel’s latest violation in the occupied territories... Read more, watch video... Lebanese government collapses | Al Jazeera Government falls after Hezbollah and allies withdraw from coalition in row over UN probe into murder of Rafiq al-Hariri... Read more... Kill the "Peace Game", by Sharmine Narwani | Huffington Post The Palestine-Israel conflict is no pesky regional skirmish. This century-long battle over territory threatens to draw the entire global community into its bowels if it is not dealt with soon, and the only way out of the current paralysis is to kill the "peace process" once and for all... Read more... Law and Disorder, by Philip Giraldi | Antiwar The record of the America’s law making body Congress and its judiciary since 9/11 has been nothing short of pathetic. The Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act of 2001 might well be described as one of history’s more spectacular euphemisms employed to gut a constitution, somewhat akin to Hitler’s "emergency act" in the wake of the Reichstag fire of 1933... Read more... Remove 'The Israeli Shackles' And Wrest Back America, by Rex Williams | Veterans Today ...The likes of Murdoch, with his shock-jocks, the trademark of Fox News, a perfect example of media manipulation, must accept some degree of responsibility for all the events in the US. It is really his entry into the US media ownership (and the apathy of the people) that has created such an angry political environment whipped along by easily purchased Congress members and perhaps the worst collection of Presidents since Jimmy Carter, who at least made an effort to right some of the wrongs... Read more... The bogus Hegelian Dialectic: Salman Taseer's Murder and Islamofascism, by Zahir Ebrahim | Project Humanbeingsfirst ...Murder is a crime. Period. Whether the pirate commits it, or the emperor orders it: so, both suicide bombings and trigger-pulling, as well as sanctioned assassinations, bombing nations under blaring trumpets, drone attacks on civilian populations, F-16s dropping munitions on civilian homes and infrastructures, are all crimes... Read more... The Last Step in the Liberation of Palestine and the Rest of Humanity: Developing a Winning Attitude, by Dr.Mazin Qumsiyeh | Palestine News Network After I finished my last book on popular resistance in Palestine over the past 130 years, I became 100% sure that political Zionism will fail and that Palestinian refugees will return to their homes and lands. My certainty is based on the lessons of history in Palestine and lessons from similar struggles like South Africa, Vietnam, and Algeria... [A must read, and I don't say that often] Read more...Marine LePen: A Unique Voice in the Rise of Anti-Muslim Political Parties in Europe, by Kevin MacDonald | The Occidental Observer Coming on the heels of visits to Israel by Geert Wilders and a delegation of other luminaries of the European anti-Muslim right, Adar Primor of Ha’aretz interviewed Marine LePen, the daughter of Jean Marie LePen and likely the next leader of the National Front.. Like the other European anti-Muslim politicians, Marine LePen claims no animosity toward Jews, but the interviewer, Adar Primor, is clearly suspicious—unwilling to remove the “mark of Cain” that all European nationalist politicians inherit as the result of the centrality of the Holocaust in the contemporary European political landscape... Read more... Shoah for Jews only! | Rehmat's World When Dr. Norman Finkelstein had quoted his mother in his famous book ‘The Holocaust Industry’, saying that Jews don’t have monopoly over Holocaust and that Palestinian people are currently going through their Holocaust – he was honored with several insulting titles including “a self-hating Jew’... Read more... Is peace "too much to ask" in 2011?, by Mark LeVine | Al Jazeera Gaza's youth lash out at the institutions maintaining the seeming status quo on the hopelessness in Gaza... Read more... The Samouni Family Children: Survivors of the Israeli Massacre, by Ken O'Keefe | Salem-News ..Words simply cannot describe the devastation wrought upon this family by a marauding band of Israeli psychopaths, otherwise known as the Givati Brigade of the Israeli Defense Forces... Jan 13, 2011 Occupation of Iraq destroys women's lives, by Serene Assir | The Electronic Intifada  A US soldier stands over an Iraqi woman in her home, May 2008 More than seven years after the US- and UK-led invasion of their country, Iraqis continue to endure an occupation that has systematically violated their rights to life, dignity, self-determination and economic development. The occupation has been and continues to be so destructive and so violent that one in four Iraqis are estimated to be dead or displaced. One in five Iraqis has been made a refugee or an internally displaced person...Read more... N-scientists hitmen trained by Mossad | PressTV Senior Iranian lawmaker Esmail Kowsari says the assassins of an Iranian nuclear scientist have confessed to being supported by the Israeli intelligence service... Read more... The Guardian edits and distorts the cables! | Israel Shamir Although the net tightens around Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, the contents of the US embassy cables have been doled out to us in spoonfuls. Worse, The Guardian edits and distorts the cables in order to protect their readers from unflattering remarks about how their corporations behave overseas. This is not a conjecture but a fact: The Guardian has deliberately excised portions of published cables to hide evidence of corruption... Read more... Roots of Arizona's Violence | Stephen Lendman As expected, America's major media won't explain it. Nation magazine editor Katrina vanden Heuvel ducked the issue, saying it's "a time for grief, not grievance." Blaming a "crazed act of a clearly unstable man," she called it "an assassination of democracy....shut(ting) down speech to slay those seeking its exercise," then added "we still don't know whether (violent rhetoric) was responsible for last weekend's horror.".. Read more... Israel Continues Targeting Palestinian Legislative Members | Alternative Information Center During the summer months the Israeli authorities heightened their attacks on PLC members in Jerusalem. Interior Minister Eli Yishai invalidated the Jerusalem residence permits of Palestinian Legislative Council members Mohammed Abu Teir, Ahmad Atwan, Muhammad Totah and Halid Abu-Arafa because of their political activity with the party Hamas... Read more... On Guarding the Public’s Right to Ignorance and Meeting With Julian Assange, by Charles Glass | Takimag I understand why the Pentagon, the State Department, and the White House hate Assange and WikiLeaks. He broke into their cozy little circle of lies and turned on the lights... Read more... The nation is behind you, Galant, by Amira Hass | Haaretz The seizure of public land, unauthorized road paving, misleading testimony, double standards in land allocation - all under the cover of an army uniform. Is this a precis of the history of Israeli colonialism? Not at all. These claims are the basis of the High Court of Justice petition by the Green Movement political party against Yoav Galant's appointment as the next Israel Defense Forces chief of staff... Read more... Israel's leaders walk in the footsteps of General Pinochet, by Tahir Al Udwan | Middle East Monitor ...What also continues unrelentingly are the Israelis' operations to kill, detain, torture and humiliate Palestinians on a daily basis. These operations no longer embarrass Israel's leadership and its civil society even though the brutality of the occupation is broadcast around the world... Read more... Jerusalem Shepherd Hotel demolition, on Press TV | Gilad Atzmon Listen to these incredible speakers talking on behalf of the Palestinian people:.. Read more, watch videos... Voices From Inside | Gilad Atzmon Listen to the last Israeli humanists... Read more, watch videos... Britain's War on Islam | Stephen Lendman ...Wrongfully vilified for their faith, they're considered fair game by hostile journalists and political opportunists, especially those on the far right. They've turned away from maligning Jews and Blacks to now focus on Muslims, but they're not alone. Mainstream politicians also made Islamophobia Britain's remaining socially respectable form of bigotry... Read more... French trial of Israeli boycott campaigners condemned as a "political measure" | Middle East Monitor ...the trial is intended to deter the people of France from joining the growing Palestinian solidarity campaign in the country. According to Mr. Mansour, the campaign is gaining credibility as it exposes illegal Israeli policies which violate international laws and conventions, and publicises the brutal crimes committed by the Israeli occupation army and illegal settlers... Read more... The Holocaust, Palestine and the Arab World: Gilbert Achcar interviewed by Arwa Aburawa | The Electronic Intifada ..Focusing on the Israeli occupation of Palestine, Achcar tackles the Zionist caricature of all Arabs as anti-Semitic Holocaust-deniers complicit in Nazi crimes by meticulously deconstructing the evidence put forward. Achcar also doesn't shy away from condemning the persistence of unacceptable attitudes towards the Holocaust across the region... Read more... Israel's assault on human rights | Redress Information & Analysis Neve Gordon considers the ongoing delegitimization of human rights watchdogs in Israel. He cites the blocking of human rights websites at Ben-Gurion airport and fears that the next step might be the shutting down of these groups altogether... Jan 12, 2011 Don't Like the TSA? Thank Israel, by Keith Johnson | Revolt of the Plebs  As controversy persists to swirl around the TSA’s latest intrusive screening procedures, finger pointers from both ends of the political spectrum are hard at work blaming each other for giving birth to the one federal bureaucracy that has become a poster child for the tyrannical apparatus known as the police state... Read more... In Defence of Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu | The Petition Site Tutu's life has been lived in the spirit of "never again" - the ultimate lesson of the Holocaust... Read more... Lauren Booth: go go go | MWC The previously secretive campaign to halt Press TV Ltd, the British production company, from making programs critical of Western Imperialism, is finally out in the open. Thanks to Wikileaks... Read more... Economic Hitmen | YouTube An animated interview of John Perkins, author of 'HoodWinked' and 'Confessions Of An Economic Hitman'.. See also Economic Hitman reveals shocking truths about the Government Watch video... Murder In Arizona: Moral Flexibility And Relativism, by Gordon Duff | My Catbird Seat ...Relativism and flexibility is how people the Nazi’s put into concentration camps can now, 65 years later, be running one ten times the size of anything Hitler imagined. Gifford is “right with that” and has stated it repeatedly. Won’t she be surprised if she learns she may not have been the victim of a “random act of violence.” Did we have a “little Mumbai” in Arizona?.. Read more... 'Shamocracy rules America': Interview with Anthony Lawson | Press TV ...when votes can be bought by the highest bidder, which is what is happening increasingly in all of the so-called developed nations, then there is bound to be an imbalance, and it looks as though the U.S. is really heading towards a shambolic state, being over-influenced by its absurd and damaging attachment to Israel, with many duel American-Israeli citizens in very powerful positions in the U.S. administration,” he went on to say... Read more... The Culture Of The Occupation, by Layla Anwar | Veterans Today ...Every time I attempt to write an overall picture of the Iraq of before and after, I need to take a break, a choking feeling grips me in my throat and the rage rises again, like some lava from a volcano unwilling to die down... Read more... Egypt's Muslims attend Coptic Christmas mass, serving as "human shields", by Yasmine El-Rashidi | Ahram Online Muslims turned up in droves for the Coptic Christmas mass Thursday night, offering their bodies, and lives, as “shields” to Egypt’s threatened Christian community... Read more... Idan Tal Wants To Burn My Family | Kawther Salam The E-mail below was sent from the so-called “Israel”, the Jewish Agency, the fraud “State” established by an illegal promise over the land of Palestine authored in 1917 by Arthur James Balfour, a rapacious British conservative politician and statesman. The sender of the e-mail is an IDF soldier... [The racial views of a typical Zionist would bring a blush to the cheeks of a typical member of the KKK] Read more... Undeniable facts about Zionism: Mossad Terrorizes Mumbai, by Jonathan Azaziah | Mask of Zion It has been called India’s 9/11. A savage attack perpetrated against the freedom and democracy loving people of India’s largest city. Nearly 200 people dead. Well over 300 others injured. Media accounts flowed like rivers from all parts of the globe, ‘revealing’ that a ragtag group of Islamic extremists had struck fear into the hearts of innocents once again... Read more... Here We Go Again: Obama Picks Big Bank, Big Telecom, and Big Pharma Lobbyist to Be Chief of Staff, by Ari Berman | | AlterNet Obama ushers a telecom lobbyist, chief architect of NAFTA and current Midwest chairman of JP Morgan Chase into the #2 job in the White House... Read more... Mossad accused over 1987 death of German politician | The Irish Times ...The toxicologist’s claim are backed up in a report by rogue Mossad agent Viktor Ostrovsky. In a 1994 book, he claimed that Mr Barschle was given drugged wine before a Mossad team pumped a cocktail of drugs via a tube into this stomach... Read more... "Israeli Spying Network" Uncovered in Egypt Days Before Church Blast, by Dr. Ashraf Ezzat | Veterans Today People in Egypt don`t have to waste their time suspecting and accusing al Qaeda, ..Egyptians know better, .. they know that al Qaeda is a joke, …they only point the finger at Israel, the one implacable enemy who happened to be the conspirator behind destabilizing Iraq and the whole region... Read more, watch video... ADL: Wikileaks Vital To Israel’s Intelligence Program, by Gordon Duff | Veterans Today ...Veterans Today has been informed by sources within the ADL that, in coordination with Julian Assange’s announcement, they were “tasked” by the Tel Aviv government to begin operations against journalists and online publications that had let to Wikileaks being discredited as an Israeli intelligence operation. Sources indicate that Tel Aviv values Wikileaks as a vital asset in molding public opinion and providing cover for high risk operations... Read more... In Money-Changers We Trust, by Robert Scheer | Truthdig Two years into the Obama presidency and the economic data is still looking grim. Don’t be fooled by the gyrations of the stock market, where optimism is mostly a reflection of the ability of financial corporations—thanks to massive government largesse—to survive the mess they created. The basics are dismal:.. Read more... German is beaten for daring to question a "Holocaust survivor", by Michael Hoffman | On the Contrary ...Here we see how the religion of Holocaustianity has as its most perverse component the racist defamation of the "despicable, sadistic" German people. It is illegal in Germany to refer to the Judaic nation in these terms but vile anti-German hatred is licensed as a form of human rights education under the rubric of "Holocaustianity.".. Read more... Empowering the Body Snatchers: Washington’s Appalling Kosovo Policy, by Ted Galen Carpenter | The National Interest The revelations just keep coming, and the evidence mounts that Washington’s policy since the mid-1990s regarding Kosovo has been stubbornly obtuse... Read more... Chilean Senator calls local Jews 'Israeli agents' | Rehmat's World ..Israeli daily ‘YNet’ had boasted that “following the Israeli government, the newly elected Chilean cabinet is the most Jewish government in the world with three Jewish ministers and one deputy minister serving in government”. There are 15,000 Jews among country’s total population of 17 million... Read more... Israel begrudges Palestine its fragile tourism | Redress Information & Analysis Stuart Littlewood exposes the hypocrisy of Britain’s Israel lobby, which has been mounting a campaign to get the UK's advertising watchdog to force the removal of an advertisement for tourism in Palestine while endorsing Israel’s illegal occupation of Palestinian territories and annexation of Arab East Jerusalem... Read more... Grains of sand: highlights from the alternative media | Redress Information & Analysis Paul J. Balles highlights “the brilliance and integrity of the alternative press” – characteristics that are often lacking in the mainstream media – with selected quotes on current events from active writers in the alternative media... [All but two of these writers are regulars on this site] Jan 11, 2011 U.S. TO GAZA IS PLEASED TO ANNOUNCE:  The Application Process Is Now Open For Those Who Wish To Apply To Sail On The U.S. Boat To Gaza, The Audacity Of Hope... The Iraq War: When Destruction Sickens, by Ron Jacobs | Counterpunch ...The destruction, death and suffering wreaked upon the people and nation of Iraq by the United States stands as one of history's most infamous crimes. Yet, no one has had to answer for it. Instead, many of those most responsible for this crime are presented as decent, even moral humans. They are given awards and positions of honor... Read more... Press TV Interviews James Morris On ‘Mossad In Iraq’ | Veterans Today ..Rizvi asks Morris: Did the US attack Iraq solely for Israel? To which Morris responds distinctly; listen in…. Read more, watch video... Nuclear Iran A Falsehood, by Clinton Bastin | Veterans Today The United States makes false claims of nuclear weapon threats in other nations because US government officials and others do not understand nuclear materials’ and weapons’ production technology and are unwilling to rely on information from those who do. They also do not appreciate the importance of nuclear power to reduce use of fossil fuels. Virtually all information about nuclear weapons from US officials, news media and others is wrong... Read more... Shoah Backfires | Gilad Atzmon ...it is now an accepted fact that the Palestinians are the last victims of Hitler. It is also becoming accepted that the Israelis are the Nazis of our time. And tragically enough, the crimes in Palestine carried out by the Jewish state are also being committed in the name of the Jewish people... Read more... Israeli Propaganda: Make the Lie Big | YouTube ..."make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it and eventually they will believe it" - the Israeli version - guess who the original quote came from!.. Watch video... Shameless and Deluded in Palestine | YouTube The Israeli Regime has been selling nothing but lies and delusions to the its people, as well as the rest of the world... Watch video... EU stance on East Jerusalem reflects negative turn toward Israel, by Akiva Eldar | Haaretz Document recommends that European Union begin to treat eastern part of city as the capital of Palestine... Read more... Afghan report 2010: Deluding ourselves from one failure to another, by Col. Douglas Macgregor | Washington Times American forces invaded Afghanistan more than nine years ago, and we still don't know whom we're fighting. It's hard to know who did the better job of playing us for fools a few weeks ago - the Afghan who passed himself off as the "moderate" Taliban leader, who was rewarded with American cash for his performance, or Hamid Karzai. All we can know at this point is that 150,000 U.S. and allied troops along with an equal number of civilian contractors are propping up a narco state in Kabul flush with cash from the opium trade and U.S. taxpayers... Read more... British Zionists' hypocritical view of suffering and the Holocaust, by Gilad Atzmon | Redress Information & Analysis Gilad Atzmon considers why British Zionists, notably, Israel’s mouthpiece, the Jewish Chronicle, the Board of Deputies of British Jews and the Community Security Trust, insist on acknowledging only Jewish suffering and deny the suffering of the Palestinians at the hand of Israel... Read more... The radicals in US Congress: Representative Peter King and his ilk | Redress Information & Analysis Lawrence Davidson considers the impending US congressional hearings on the "radicalization of the American Muslim community", focusing on Representative Peter King, the man behind the hearings, and the historical context – the "cyclically recurring American phenomenon" of self-abuse which "entails one group of citizens attacking another with the charge that the latter are undermining American security and values".. Jan 10, 2011 Race War Video, Who Made It?, by Gordon Duff and Jim W. Dean | Veterans Today  Video unfit for viewing, racist disinformation propaganda, genuinely objectionable material. How can a pro-Zionist message be inside what is presented as an Antisemitic video? Welcome to the world of “game theory warfare... Dreams From Milwaukee: Palestinian Refugees and Lebanon's Disgrace, by Franklin Lamb | Counterpunch Maybe it was the really loud celebratory Ak-47 Kalashnikov and small arms gunfire and fireworks in my South Beirut neighborhood that triggered the intense New Years eve nightmare. Or I guess it could have been, just below my bedroom window, the seemingly launched RPG-7’s which followed minutes past midnight on January 1, 2011... Read more... Rand, Israel & Greenspan | Gilad Atzmon ...Alan Greenspan, the man who managed to dismantle America’s economy was one of her followers. Greenspan began his association with the famed novelist and philosopher in the 1950’s. It lasted until her death in 1982. Rand stood beside Greenspan at his 1974 swearing-in as Chair of the Council Of Economic Advisers... Read more, watch video... Israel's Violence Against Separation Wall Protests: Along the Road of State Terrorism | Richard Falk ..When this lethal violence is directed against unarmed civilians seeking to uphold fundamental rights to land, routine mobility, and self-determination it dramatizes just how lawless a state Israel has become and how justifiable and necessary is the growing world campaign of delegitimation centered upon the boycott, disvestment, and sanctions movement (BDS)... Read more... The Seduction of the Knowledge-Based Society, by Jeff Gates | Criminal State ..Mental and emotional exploitation lie at the heart of how knowledge is corrupted to catalyze conflicts, manipulate behavior and influence affairs from afar. With a solid grasp of the methodology of deceit, the Knowledge Society can expose and, by design, displace those complicit in this cunning form of combat. In preparing for the 21st Century, Arab nations have an opportunity to free their citizens from the exploitation of those who for centuries have abused knowledge for their selfish ends... Read more... Waging War on American Workers, by Stephen Lendman | Dissident Voice ...As constitutional freedoms and middle class prosperity erode, America is slowly dying. Like Rome, two empires share a remarkably common history. Both rose and prospered, then overextended, “rushed to the abyss,” and couldn’t turn back. America is on its edge. Its belligerence exceeds Rome’s. Its excesses are unsustainable. Its middle class is dying, its democracy a mere figure of speech... Read more... Tunisian Unrest Stirs Arab World, by Emad Mekay | IPS ..Tunisia, like other non-oil producing Arab countries has implemented a Western-inspired privatization programme and gradual cut to state subsidies to staple goods without offering alternative sources of income. Yet as the Tunisians waited impatiently, the fruits of the alleged economic reforms never came. Pictures and video on social media showed protestors holding bread loaves, a sign of hunger and poverty... Read more... Will 2011 Become 1848? by Philip Giraldi | Antiwar ...In the United States, support for the wars being fought by the White House and Congress is both low and sinking, but no voters had a chance to express dissatisfaction in the November elections because war was not on the ballot and few candidates even bothered to mention it. The media, which should be exposing the lemming-like march over a cliff, is instead a cheerleader for the catastrophe, fully embracing the concept that the United States has some kind of God-given obligation to intervene everywhere in the world and at any time for the good of mankind... Read more... The Dream Of Democracy, by Ralph J Dolan | Global Research ...Democratic governments do not exist. Not in this world. Many attempts have been made, many faltering half-measures. All ultimately have failed to live up to the dream. But the people hold the dream of democracy close to their hearts. The people understand that systems of justice are a sham without democracy. Governments lie in order to create the illusion of democracy so that the people are more willing to comply. Governments create an illusion and then act in ways that advance the political and economic interests of a small group... Read more... The IDF uses propaganda like an authoritarian regime, by Gideon Levy | Haaretz Jawaher Abu Ramah died young. She stood facing the demonstrators against the separation fence in her village, inhaled very large quantities of the gas that Israel Defense Forces soldiers fired that day, collapsed and died several hours later at a Ramallah hospital... Read more... America's Gulf: New Report Says it's Dying, by Stephen Lendman | OpEd News ...The Gulf of Mexico is dying, but government and industry officials don't report it. Moreover, what happens there affects adjacent waters, including the Atlantic Ocean and beyond. All planetary waters are interconnected and potentially at risk, meaning the entire global ecosystem is endangered... Read more... Setting the Record Straight on Venezuela and Hugo Chavez, by Eva Golinger | Postcards from the Revolution With so much misinformation circulating in different media outlets around the world about Venezuela and President Hugo Chavez, it's time to set the record straight. Venezuela is not a dictatorship and President Chavez is no dictator... Jan 9, 2011 Mossad behind Egypt church blast, by Hassan Hanizadeh | PressTV  The explosion at a church in the Egyptian city of Alexandria, which left 21 people killed and another 80 Muslims and Christians wounded, raises one question: Who was behind the blast?.. Read more... Another feeble argument against One State, by Alex Pushkin | One Democracy ...At last, I thought, there was going to be a decent, well argued rebuttal of One State that I could get my teeth into, instead of the Hasbara-troll vision of the “single Arab state” that would be bound to overwhelm and obliterate Israel and any remaining virtues it might have. But I was to be sadly disappointed... Read more... Recognition of Palestine: closing in on Israel but reviving the Undead Two State con-trick | One Democracy Four South American countries have now added their voices to recognise a notional Palestinian state. Five others are tipped to follow, including Chile which has the largest Palestinian population outside the Arab world. What is this about, and how does it impact on the fight for a single state?.. Read more... Palestinian Women And Children Treated Like Cattle | Intifada Palestine Does this remind you of the Holocaust?? Residents of the West Bank have to go through the Qalandia checkpoint to get to El Aksa. On the Fridays during the Ramadan women over the age of 45 and men over the age of 50 are allowed through... Read more, watch video... Richard Falk in London: Palestine now has the high moral ground | One Democracy ..The Palestinian issue, Dr. Falk told his audience, has risen to the status of the pre-eminent moral struggle of our time. And for the first time, the Palestinians have the high moral ground and are now seen around the world as the victims... Read more... Tell Combined Systems Inc. to stop selling tear gas to Israel | Electronic Intifada ...On 1 January 2011, 36-year-old Palestinian Jawaher Abu Rahmah from the West Bank village of Bilin died at a hospital from the effects of tear gas inhalation suffered at a protest the previous day against Israel's construction of a wall and settlements on Bilin's land. Jawaher is only the most recent protester killed or seriously injured by tear gas fired by the Israeli military... Read more... Mossad Terrorizes Mumbai, by Jonathan Azaziah | Veterans Today ...Veer Savarkar, the founder of the beastly Hindutva school of thought, was a Zionist; he demanded the international community to grant ‘the entire restoration of Palestine as a Jewish holy land and fatherland’ to the Zionists. It would be perfectly reasonable to hypothesize that these strong pro-Zionist opinions held by Savarkar were instrumental in his composition of Hindutva, further explaining the likenesses between the two genocidal ideologies... Read more... One More Year of Inhumanity Coming to a Close: What Happens Next?, by Pablo Ouziel | The Peoples Voice This year the list of atrocities committed under the guise of representative democracy is extensive, as anyone concerned in analyzing the actions of governments in the West can ascertain... Read more... Of course, Israel is Egypt's enemy, by Khalid Amayreh | Voice of Palestine Some Israeli officials have voiced surprise at revelations published by Wikileaks showing that the Egyptian military continues to view the apartheid Israeli regime as the primary strategic threat facing Egypt... Read more... Israeli parliament launches McCarthyist witch-hunt against human rights groups | Redress Information & Analysis Uri Avnery views the alliance of racists and fascists behind a bill, recently adopted by the Israeli parliament, the Knesset, to investigate the funding sources of human rights and civil liberties groups but not the settler organizations that are financed by US evangelical sects and Russian mafiosi... Jan 8, 2011 Life on hold: A Poem | Uprooted Palestinians  With my roots uprooted Swinging like a pendulum Exile…home… exile… home…exile… Where my culture is not celebrated But threatened with extinction... An Assassination, Or A Declaration Of War? by Dr. Bouthaina Shaaban | Intifada Palestine ...A report drafted by the human rights division at the US State Department (March 3, 2009) revealed that Mossad, in coordination with US forces in Iraq managed to assassinate 350 Iraqi nuclear scientists, 300 university professors, in addition to hundreds of army officers, pilots and experts in designing and launching missiles... Read more... Children of Catastrophe: Journey from a Palestinian Refugee Camp to America | Jamal Kanj ...why is the West suddenly concerned with the well being of Christians in the Arab world? Why weren’t they concerned with the interests of Palestinian Christians for the last 62 years? Today, a Palestinian Christian from Gaza can’t drive less than 50 miles to visit the Church of Nativity on Christmas Eve, or a Christian from Bethlehem can’t drive less than 10 miles to visit the Church of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem... Read more... Ready or not, all secrets will be revealed, by Hamza Yusuf | Sandala Productions ...Julian Assange was arrested for what may end up being trumped up sexual charges in an obvious attempt at distracting people from the real story. The U.S. Attorney General is seeking excuses to bring charges against Assange for what the American media does routinely. Clearly, the war is on. Luke Skywalker-like hackers are whittling away with Wikileaks at the Empire, and the Empire is striking back... Read more... One Family in Gaza, by Jen Marlowe | Vimeo ...Palestinians in Gaza are depicted either as violent terrorists or as helpless victims. The Awajah family challenges both portrayals. Through one family’s story, the larger tragedy of Gaza is exposed, and the courage and resilience of its people shines through... Read more, watch video... Tenacity: The Forgotten Power, by Jim Kirwan | Rebel News ...ordinary people need to learn to trust themselves, and to find the proofs that are needed to confirm that trust which can and should be placed in what you discover: Instead of just following that unending stream of lies which is the only thing this government knows how to do - in any situation... Read more... Declaring Palestine: Revisiting Hope and Failure | Ramzy Baroud ...At first Arafat seemed to have a strategy: get some and demand more. But the concessions never stopped, and Arafat was constantly paraded following US demands. In return, he received very little, aside from, 6 years later, a Palestinian Authority that was merely responsible for managing small, disconnected, ‘autonomous’ areas in the West Bank and Gaza. The once glorious moment of independence was left at only that - a fleeting moment. Its political potential was prematurely and cleverly co-opted by US ‘engagement’, which yielded the Oslo agreement. Oslo, in turn, led to many disasters, which we are still witnessing today... Read more... Obama's reign of terror in Afghanistan, by James Cogan | Opinion Maker ...Still justified with threadbare rhetoric about fighting terrorism, the occupation is in fact a neo-colonial and criminal enterprise. Its motive is to crush resistance and transform Afghanistan into a US client state in the oil and gas-rich Central Asian region. It is part of a geo-political struggle for dominance over territory and lucrative resources, both in Afghanistan itself and in surrounding states, against US rivals such as China, Russia and Iran... Read more... Pentagon And NATO Apply Afghanistan-Pakistan War Model To Africa | Global Research ...Washington’s self-designated global war on terror (sometimes capitalized), in recent years more politely and antiseptically called overseas contingency operations, has not diminished in intensity but rather escalated in breadth and aggressiveness from West Africa to East Asia and against targets not remotely related to al-Qaeda, which has proven as nebulous and evasive as the West portrays it being ubiquitous... Read more... The ugliness of Zionist ideology: Israel is a mischievous human concoction, by Hassan Al-Haifi | Yemen Times ...observers throughout the world are not at all at a loss at explaining the misconceptions on which the Zionist misfits like Avigdor Lieberman believe they can defy all human moral assertions and destroy anything that stands in the way of their arrogant project. The not so agreeable fact is that the United States has succumbed in total to the designs of this monstrous machine that has not left one stone unturned to unleash its poisonous venom, wherever there is a sign that there is hope for the world that Zionism simply cannot prevail above all beliefs and inclinations of human conscientiousness... Read more... The Worst of the Worst: Supermax Torture in America, Lance Tapley | Boston Review ...James’s story illustrates an irony in the negative reaction of many Americans to the mistreatment of “war on terrorism” prisoners at Guantánamo. To little public outcry, tens of thousands of American citizens are being held in equivalent or worse conditions in this country’s super-harsh, super-maximum security, solitary-confinement prisons, or in comparable units of traditional prisons. The Obama administration— somewhat unsteadily—plans to shut down the Guantánamo detention center and ship its inmates to one or more supermaxes in the United States, as though this would mark a substantive change... Read more... Almost Everything Is A Crime In America Now: 14 Of The Most Ridiculous Things That Americans Are Being Arrested For | Economic Collapse ...We are throwing anyone and everyone in prison these days. It is getting absolutely ridiculous. Today, the United States leads the world in the number of prisoners and in the percentage of the population in prison. The United States has 5% of the world's population, but approximately 25% of the world's incarcerated population... Read more... Wikileaks: Israel Plans Total War on Lebanon, Gaza, by Juan Cole | Informed Comment ...The new, major war will be a total war on civilians, Ashkenazi boasted: “In the next war Israel cannot accept any restrictions on warfare in urban areas.”.. Mind you, the civilian deaths deriving from this massive and unrestricted bombing campaign on targets in the midst of civilian urban populations will be “unintentional.” Planning to bomb civilian areas with foreknowledge that you will thereby kill large numbers of civilians is a war crime... Read more... The Left Has Nowhere to Go, by Chris Hedges | Truthdig ...Nader fears a repeat of the left’s cowardice in the next election, a cowardice that has further empowered the lunatic fringe of the Republican Party, maintained the role of the Democratic Party as a lackey for corporations, and accelerated the reconfiguration of the country into a neo-feudalist state. Either we begin to practice a fierce moral autonomy and rise up in multiple acts of physical defiance that have no discernable short-term benefit, or we accept the inevitability of corporate slavery. The choice is that grim... Read more... Kosovo "Freedom Fighters" Financed by Organised Crime, by Michel Chossudovsky | Global Research ...This article was published almost 12 years ago, at the height of the NATO bombings of Yugoslavia. Deafening silence of the Western corporate media. The links of the KLA to organizeed crime, which are now being revealed by the European Parliament's investigation were known and documented by Interpol and the US Congress prior to the onslaught of the 1999 war on Yugoslavia. The KLA insurgency was an initiative of NATO. The KLA killings were directed against Albanian, Serbian and Roma civilians. These killings were ordered by NATO. Blamed on the Serbian police and armed forces, the killings of civilians were used as a pretext and justification to wage a "humanitarian war" on Yugoslavia... Read more... The Long Struggle for Peace, Which Began with Carter, Starts Over in 2011, by James M. Wall | Wallwritings  a genuine Christian and a politician to boot On May 17, 1977, four months after Jimmy Carter was sworn in as US president, Israeli voters elected a right wing government for the first time in modern political history. Menachen Begin, a former Israeli underground “terrorist” leader, became prime minister...Gazan youth issue manifesto to vent their anger with all sides in the conflict | The Observer An anonymous group of students has created a document to express their frustration born of Hamas's violent crackdowns on 'western decadence', the destruction wreaked by Israel's attacks and the political games played by Fatah and the UN... Read more... AIPAC Protests Disclosure of Its Secret Files by Grant Smith | Antiwar ...AIPAC is determined to treat the Rosen defamation lawsuit as that of a “disgruntled former employee” while dodging more relevant questions about its own handling of government classified information. Rosen has continually introduced highly sensitive AIPAC documents into court filings while threatening to put more about AIPAC’s most sensitive operations into the public domain... Read more... Smashing Plato's Cave: Unlocking Uncle Sam's House of Horrors, by Richard Neville | Counterpunch The secrecy-busting by Wiki-leakers may take years to play out in the corridors of power, but there are signs on the ground that citizens are finally rubbing the sleep from their eyes. It’s an Aha moment: “They’ve been lying to us all this time”. And so they have... Read more... The Real Heroism of Gen. Smedley Butler: The Pentagon and the Ultimate Con Game, by David Macaray | Counterpunch Smedley Butler is one of America’s most distinguished yet least remembered war heroes. At the time of his death, in 1940, Butler was the most decorated U.S. Marine in history, having won 16 medals in a career spanning 34 years, with five of those medals being for conspicuous heroism. Butler is one of only 19 men to have won the Congressional Medal of Honor….twice... Read more... Law and Disorder by Philip Giraldi | Antiwar ...one might well ask why the Clintons and Obamas of this world feel themselves empowered to criticize legal procedures in another country involving a citizen of that country while failing to protect actual American citizens like Rachel Corrie, but it is quite likely a question not worth exploring... Read more... The Tyranny of Defense Inc., by Andrew J. Bacevich | The Atlantic In 1961, Dwight Eisenhower famously identified the military-industrial complex, warning that the growing fusion between corporations and the armed forces posed a threat to democracy. Judged 50 years later, Ike’s frightening prophecy actually understates the scope of our modern system—and the dangers of the perpetual march to war it has put us on... Read more... John Burns' "ministering angels" and "liberators", by Glenn Greenwald | Salon ...The reason there's so little government censorship of the press in America is because it's totally unnecessary; why would the government even want to censor a media this compliant and subservient?.. Read more... Israel Announces Probe of Antiwar NGOs, by Jason Ditz | Antiwar Faced with growing domestic criticism from left wing human rights groups, the far-right Israeli coalition government today pushed through the creation of a parliamentary panel of inquiry that will “probe” such organizations on a number of fronts... Read more... How to make a martyr, from al-Durrah to Abu Rahmah, Dahlia Scheindlin | +972 Mohammed al-Durrah and Jawaher Abu Rahmah were both Palestinians who lost their lives to the conflict. Both deaths – 12-year old al-Durrah in 2000, and Jawaher Abu Rahmah this past Friday – came to symbolize the Palestinian struggle against occupation. And in both cases, those who are desperate to prove Israel’s innocence at all costs feverishly sought to discredit accounts of their deaths... Read more... Breaking the Israel-Palestine Deadlock, by Noam Chomsky | truthout While intensively engaged in illegal settlement expansion, the government of Israel is also seeking to deal with two problems: a global campaign of what it perceives as “delegitimation” – that is, objections to its crimes and withdrawal of participation in them – and a parallel campaign of legitimation of Palestine... Read more... Seminars on the sand in support of the Bil'in movement | Australians for Palestine Israeli military oppression reaches its zenith in the Palestinian village of Bi’lin with arbitrary arrests for peaceful protest, incarceration with no fixed release date, torture, abuse of children, loss of homes, orchards & olive groves to Israeli bulldozers and, of course, the massive Apartheid Wall which fractures the village. Simple journeys to school, relatives or shops now take hours thanks to ubiquitous military check-points and the Wall itself... Read more, watch video... Naeim Giladi | YouTube ...Naeim Giladi is an Anti-Zionist, and author of an autobiographical article and historical analysis entitled The Jews of Iraq. The article later formed the basis for his originally self-published book Ben Gurion's Scandals: How the Haganah and the Mossad Eliminated Jews. Giladi was born in 1929 to an Iraqi Jewish family and later lived in Israel and the United States... Read more, watch video... Iraq Was Heaven Says The Last Jew in Iraq | Gilad Atzmon Watch videos... This is Genius: Hasbara for the young | Gilad Atzmon [The bizarre Israeli narrative, usually repeated verbatim in the Western mainstream media] Watch video...Hopes of Gaza cast in lead, by Richard Falk | Al Jazeera  It is mainly through civil society acts of defiance, like the Mavi Marmara and the Freedom Flotilla, It is dismaying that during this dark anniversary period two years after the launch of the deadly attacks on the people of Gaza - code-named Operation Cast Lead by the Israelis - that there should be warnings of a new massive attack on the beleaguered people of Gaza...that offer the appropriate responses to the injustices occurring in Gaza No "Regime Change" in Belarus. 2010 Election: a crushing defeat for Western policy, by Hillary Keenan | Global Research ...The relatively friendly Western signals towards Belarus during the election campaign did not come out of the blue. They had been preceded during the previous two years by the beginnings of a gradual rapprochement, whose motivation on the EU and NATO side was the aim of reasserting Western influence, and countering Russian influence, in former Soviet Eastern Europe. The policy of isolating Belarus and imposing sanctions against it- aligned to the Western promotion of 'colour revolutions' in countries seen as being influenced by Russia, and explicit Western support of virulently anti-Russian governments, such as that in Georgia- was beginning to come unstuck... Read more... Why Washington Hates Hugo Chavez, by Mike Whitney | Global Research ...Washington despises Chavez because he is unwilling to hand over Venezuela's vast resources to corporate elites and bankers. That's why the Bush administration tried to depose Chavez in a failed coup attempt in 2002, and that's why the smooth-talking Obama continues to launch covert attacks on Chavez today. Washington wants regime change so it can install a puppet who will hand over Venezuela's reserves to big oil while making life hell for working people... Read more... The Nazi & Jewish Affair to Remember, by Katherine Smith | The People's Voice The following informed-opinion essay puts forth the premise that WW I, WW II and the Holocaust can be understood if you realize that 70 million people died in order for the Jews to settle in Palestine in 1948... Read more... The Modern State of Israel: Providence, Miracle, or What Really Happened | The People's Voice ..The following Glossary, abbreviations and essay will help the reader understand how Theodor Herzl on August 29, 1897 predicted that within fifty years there would be a Jewish state... Read more... The return of the Mavi Marmara, by Faiz Ahmed | The Electronic Intifada ...Less inspiring has been the foreign news coverage outside the region. US news coverage on the reception was minimal, or nonexistent. CNN failed to post even a single report of the reception on its webpage. Incredibly, the BBC's lone relevant headline the day of the reception read: "Turkey wants to repair ties with Israel," thereby marginalizing Ankara's staunch demands for an apology and compensation, and its unwavering call to lift the inhumane siege of Gaza... Read more... Facts contradict Israel's assertions in Bilin death | Popular Struggle Coordination Committee Since yesterday, the Israeli army has been promoting in the Israeli media a mendacious version regarding the events that led to the death of Jawaher Abu Rahmah of Bilin on Friday, 31 December 2010. According to the army's version, Jawaher was not injured by tear gas and was possibly not even present at the demonstration... Read more... The Secrets of Wikileaks: Julian Assange's Deal With the Devil, by Israel Shamir | Counterpunch In Part One of my report last weekend here on the CounterPunch site I showed that the US was secretly funneling money into Belarus to fund the unelected opposition. Previously, the claim had been routinely denied. Now we have sterling proof. It is engraved in a confidential cable from a US Embassy to the State Department. It is undeniable... Read more... Never Again for Anyone | NIFA During the 2011 international Holocaust Remembrance Day, join Dr. Hajo Meyer in sharing the lesson of his experience in Auschwitz: Never Again for Anyone. Dr. Meyer will be joined by Dr. Hatem Bazian and other social justice and Palestinian activists to discuss the urgency of this message in the US and Canada... Read more... We Will Not Go Down, For The Gaza Tonight, by Kourosh Ziabari | Intifada Palestine On the eve of New Gregorian Year, the international community commemorates the second anniversary of Israel’s deadly offensive in the Gaza Strip in the wake of the continuous blockade of the coastal sliver which has paralyzed the lives of more than 1.5 million impoverished Palestinians living there... Read more... Our Story, by Dr Mustafa Barghouti | YouTube ..“if those who suffered during the Holocaust and died would come back to life, I am sure they would be today supportive of the Palestinian rights, because they would not accept injustice that they were also subjected to.”.. Watch video... Sacking "Dangerous Dahlan": a blow to Israel and a step towards Palestinian reconciliation | Redress Information & Analysis Rod Cox argues that Palestinian National Authority (PNA) Chairman Mahmoud Abbas’s decision to suspended Mohammed Dahlan from a key body of the ruling Fatah faction pending an investigation into allegations that he was plotting a coup deprives Israel of a principal tool and removes a stumbling block to reconciliation with Hamas... Read more... The Obama administration's double standards | Redress Information & Analysis Lawrence Davidson views a prime case of US double standards: the failure of the Obama administration to prosecute prominent US Republicans for lending support to an Iranian group that is on the State Department’s list of terrorist organizations, while simultaneously prosecuting Americans with connections to Palestinian and Colombian resistance organizations... U.S. Prepares For New Decade Of War In Asia, by Rick Rozoff | Voltaire Net  Using the staged September 11, 2001 attacks as a pretext to invade Afghanistan, Washington is about to enter the eleventh year of its longest war in history. After Indochina, this war unequivocally designates Asia as the center of U.S. geopolitical strategy and the Pentagon’s main 21st century war front... Read more... Handwritten letter from President Saddam Hussein to the American people, by Saddam Hussein | Uruknet I address you in this letter from the place of my confinement, as my attempt on the basis of my moral, human, and constitutional responsibility so that no one among you might say that no one came to us with a message of peace after the war began, refuting the arguments for it and desiring peace for you and for our upright, loyal, heroic people... Read more... Milton Friedman's 'Capitalism and the Jews' Revisited | Gilad Atzmon ...The transforming of the West into a service economy driven by relentless greed, a process that followed Friedman’s economic precepts, is now proving to be a disaster. It means poverty and global depression... Read more... Last Month in Israel: Bagellnacht Rising? by Jim Goad | Taki's Magazine ...on the other side of this treacherous 50/50 split among Israel’s Jews, many rabbis don’t seem to care. “Racism originated in the Torah,” boasted an unapologetic Rabbi Yosef Scheinen from the Israeli port town of Ashdod. “The land of Israel belongs to the people of Israel. This is what the Holy One, blessed be he, intended.”.. Read more... Henry Kissinger's Fakepolitik, by Charles Glass | Taki's Magazine Trying to force Ebenezer Scrooge into confronting his past and contemplating his future, Old Marley’s Ghost “floated out upon the bleak, dark night” to remind Scrooge of his misdeeds. Old Marley’s Ghost needs to pay a visit to Henry Kissinger... Read more... Commonsense Money, by Jeff Gates | Criminal State Since 1913, debt has been the only way that we in the U.S. have known to create money. Choking on debt yet short on money, Americans are reeling from too much monetary theory and too little commonsense... Read more... Nudge, nudge, wink wink... How the Government wants to change the way we think | The Independent Martin Hickman lifts the lid on the secret Whitehall policy unit dreaming up psychological tricks to alter our behaviour... Read more... Mossad Bombs Alexandria Church | Rehmat's World While the pro-Israel western leaders, Egyptian puppet government and mass-media are blaming the non-existent Al-Qaeda, the Egyptian Bar Association and country’s former Foreign Minister Abdallah al-Ashal have accused Israeli intelligence services for terrorist attack on the Coptic church in Alexandria on the New Year Eve mass... Read more... Israel's Barbaric Solitary Confinement | Stephen Lendman Social psychologist Hans Toch coined the term "isolation panic" to describe symptoms he observed in men he interviewed, including panic, rage, a sense of total loss of control, emotional breakdown, regressive behavior, and self-mutiliation. He distinguished between difficult but tolerable incarceration and intolerable long-term isolation, how America and Israel treat thousands, subjecting them to barbaric torture. If sustained long enough, it destroys the human spirit, psyche, mind and body... Read more... Israeli War Crimes: From the U.S. Liberty to the Humanitarian Flotilla, by James Petras | Dissident Voice ...Just as the entire leadership of the 51 principle American Jewish organizations defended every Israeli war crime in the past, from the bombing of the US Liberty, to the Occupation of the West Bank and the blockade of Gaza so too did these most honorable apologists repeat verbatim the lies of the Israeli state regarding the assault of the humanitarian flotilla... Read more... Veterans Today Bans Wikipedia References From Site | Veterans Today The government of Israel, part of a well organized and funded intelligence operation, has designated millions of dollars to undermine the integrity of Wikileaks and to systematically attack, through hacking, spam, server overloads and “pressure” on journalists, all internet content that isn’t biased in favor of Israel... Read more... America's Gulf Disaster: Accidental or Deliberate? by Stephen Lendman | Dissident Voice ...In fact, Deepwater Horizon’s disaster shouldn’t have happened, yet it did. Why suggests willful malfeasance, given the huge profit potential involved, as explained above. Eleven lost lives, many injuries, billions in cost affecting one quarter only, a contaminated Gulf, and potentially millions of harmed coastal residents are inconsequential by comparison... Global Thinkers vs. Non: A Chat with Gideon Levy, by Belén Fernández | Palestine Chronicle ...Haaretz journalist Gideon Levy noted the ironic application of the term 'war'—defined by the Even-Shoshan dictionary as "an armed clash between armies, a conflict between state bodies (nations, states) in battle operations with the use of weapons and by force of arms"—to a situation in which only one of the sides possesses a state, an army, and a senior military officer who describes the conflict as "a superb call-up and training exercise".. Read more... "Passing US Secrets to Israel Routine" for the Israel Lobby | Wake Up From Your Slumber Former top AIPAC official claims to have “about 180” documents that demonstrate that classified information was regularly collected by AIPAC and given to the Israeli Embassy with full knowledge of the organization’s Director Kohr and other senior officials... Read more... Weapons of mass deception: time to turn to alternative media | Redress Information & Analysis Paul J. Balles looks at the hazards of relying on the mainstream media, which are increasingly concentrated in the hands of a small number of conglomerates and moguls, such as Rupert Murdoch, and suggests some websites and commentators in alternative media... Read more... Hope in 2011: Peoples, Civil Society Stand Tall, by Ramzy Baroud | Palestine Chronicle ...nearly eight years after the start of a war intended to shock and awe a whole population into submission, the Iraqi people continue to stand tall. They have confronted and rejected foreign occupations, held their own against sectarianism, and challenged random militancy and senseless acts of terrorism... Read more... Palestinian psychiatrist wins Olaf Palme Prize | Jordan Times Palestinian psychiatrist Eyad Al Sarraj on Tuesday won the 2010 Olaf Palme Prize for his "self-sacrificing and indefatigable struggle for common sense, reconciliation, and peace" in the Middle East, the Swedish jury said... Jan 4, 2011 Next Time on the High Seas: Netanyahu's Options, by Richard Lightbown | Palestine Chronicle  Mavi Marmara arrives back in Istanbul on December 26 ...An unstoppable force seems to have been unleashed here. As on the Indian subcontinent, in southern Africa and in the American south, this movement for civil rights is not going to be frightened off. It is not going to go away. It is not going to wither and die. That the vast majority of Israeli citizens were misguided enough to have supported the terrorism against the last flotilla only underlines the corrupting influence on Israeli society of the illegal occupation of Palestinian lands...Read more... Islamophobia in Western Media | Stephen Lendman Post-9/11, Western media, especially in America and Britain, describe Muslims as fundamentalists, extremists, terrorists, and fanatics. Throughout the West, Islam is identified with violence, when, in fact it has common roots with Christianity and Judaism. Their tenets are based on love, not hate; peace, not violence; charity, not exploitation; and a just, fair society for people of all faiths. You'd never know it from Islamophobic media reports... Read more... Why Wikileaks Died, by Gordon Duff | Veterans Today ...When CFR Director, Zbigniew Brzezinski, one of the most feared power brokers in Washington or anywhere else, openly attacked Wikileaks as an intelligence operation, siding with Jeff Gates, Dr. Alan Sabrosky, William Engdahl, Lila Rajiva, Gordon Duff and so many others of the independent alternative media, Wikileak’s days were numbered... Read more... Constitution Has "No Binding Power On Anything", by Kurt Nimmo | Infowars ...Establishment Republicans, of course, have the same amount of contempt for the Constitution as establishment Democrats. As dedicated worshipers of state power over the individual, Republicans and their ideological twins the Democrats hate the founding principles of this country... Read more, watch videos... Bradley Manning, Solitary Confinement and Selective Outrage, by Jean Casella and James Ridgeway | Counterpunch ...we've been receiving calls and emails from our modest band of readers, all of them saying more or less the same thing: We're glad Bradley Manning's treatment is getting some attention, but what about the tens of thousands of others who are languishing in solitary confinement in U.S. prisons and jails? According to available data, there are some 25,000 inmates in long-term isolation in the nation's supermax prisons, and as many as 80,000 more in solitary in other prisons and jails... Read more... Arab TV and the Return of the Mavi Marmara, by Bouthaina Shaaban | Counterpunch ...This episode was not broadcast on a single Arab satellite station despite the fact that it represented the spirit of Christian-Muslim brotherhood and constitutes a model for joint action between religions against occupation and injustice... Read more... Musical Interlude: John Sinclair - "Monks Dream" | YouTube It would be impossible to overstate the impact that John Sinclair has made on the city of Detroit. Initially gaining notoriety as a poet and de-facto leader of the local counter-culture movement, John became notorious as the head of The White Panther Party and as the manager/political strategist of the MC5. He became an international symbol of Revolution when John Lennon rose to his defense after he was sentenced to 10 years in state prison for possession of two joints... Watch, listen to video... Running Cover for Israel: The US Congress's Pet Pariah, by Franklin Lamb | Counterpunch ...“ Israel will remain a pariah state as long as its laws and its policies continue to violate the basic human rights of Palestinians. Israel has no right to exist as an exclusively Jewish State, any more than Hitler’s Reich had a ‘right to exist’ for Aryans only. We Palestinians will return. Liberty and justice will be achieved. Jews and Arabs can again live together in peace.”.. Read more... How Afghanistan Became a War for NATO, by Gareth Porter | IPS ..."NATO's role in Afghanistan is more about NATO than it is about Afghanistan," the officer, who insisted on anonymity because of the political sensitivity of the subject.. The alliance would never have been given such a prominent role in Afghanistan but for the fact that the George W. Bush administration wanted no significant U.S. military role there that could interfere with their plans to take control of Iraq... Read more... Israel's racial courts: the imprisonment of human rights defender Nuri al-Oqbi | Redress Information & Analysis ..Nasser Rego views the case of Palestinian civil liberties activist Nuri al-Oqbi to highlight the racist underpinnings of the Israeli judicial system and draw attention to the use of the courts as instruments of ethnic cleansing and delegitimization of a section of Israeli society, the Bedouin citizens... Read more... Hail to the Thief: The New York Times Defends Mikhail Khodorkovsky | Stephen Lendman ...No broadsheet is more hypocritical than The Times, tainted by decades of supporting wealth, corporate interests, and imperial wars. Daily, its agenda is visible, arrogantly supporting power over popular interests, even mega-criminals deserving condemnation. Indeed, truth and fairness were never NYT long suits. Nor America's... Read more... Cementing citizenship in the Arab world, by Dr. Bouthaina Shaaban | The Daily Star ...Our enemies have declared they are determined not only to continue their traditional wars to achieve their objectives – particularly that these wars have cost them dearly and have brought them deep into quagmires – but, as revealed by their think tanks, find it necessary to shift toward an old-new method based on assassination, espionage and limited operations inside targeted Muslim countries... Read more... Why Britain must rip up US extradition treaty, by Yvonne Ridley | Redress Information & Analysis Yvonne Ridley considers the appalling state of the USA’s penal institutions and judicial system, where “the accused are often judged by the colour of their skin, religion and class”, and urges UK Prime Minister David Cameron “to tear up the 2003 extradition treaty now” and “tell Obama to get stuffed”.. Jan 3, 2011 Book Review by Sarah Irving: Europe's Alliance with Israel | The Electronic Intifada  Wikileaks, the United States, Sweden, and Devil's Island, by William Blum | Global Research ...through it all, the good, hard-working, righteous people of America have believed mightily that their country always means well; some even believe to this day that we never started a war, certainly nothing deserving of the appellation "war of aggression"... Read more... Incipient Fascist State: America Has Gone Away, by Paul Craig Roberts | Global Research Anyone who doesn’t believe that the US is an incipient fascist state needs only to consult the latest assault on civil liberty by Fox News (sic). Instead of informing citizens, Fox News (sic) informs on citizens. Jason Ditz reports that Fox News (sic) “no longer content to simply shill for a growing police state,” turned in a grandmother to the Department of Homeland Security for making “anti-American comments.”.. Read more... Monitoring America | Washington Post Nine years after the terrorist attacks of 2001, the United States is assembling a vast domestic intelligence apparatus to collect information about Americans, using the FBI, local police, state homeland security offices and military criminal investigators... Read more... Israel's top Reform rabbi: Israeli society falling into deep pit of racism, by Chaim Levinson | Haaretz The head of Israel's Reform Judaism movement on Tuesday harshly criticized a letter by 30 rabbis' wives calling on Jewish girls not to date Arabs, work with them or perform national service in the same places where they work... Read more... Kosovo: Europe's Mafia State and the Rule of Law. by Anna Filimonova | Global Research ...While the infantile EU propaganda is touting the “multi-ethnic and democratic Kosovo”, Interpol reports reflect the penetration of EU countries by the Albanian organized crime, Kosovo's emergence as the key drug trafficking hub, and the increasing seizure of the European drug market by the Albanian mafia... Read more... Coup d'état: The Historical Framework of Globalization, by Dr. James Polk | Global Research Our era is largely defined by two highly interlinked concepts: globalization and the so-called “war on terrorism.” As geopolitical-economic operatives, both concepts complement each other as significant means to specific ends; both shape important aspects of our daily lives and determine form and content of much that passes for public discourse... Read more... 2011: A Brave New Dystopia, by Chris Hedges | Truthdig The two greatest visions of a future dystopia were George Orwell’s “1984” and Aldous Huxley’s “Brave New World.” The debate, between those who watched our descent towards corporate totalitarianism, was who was right... Read more... Maidhc Ó Cathail: Anti-Semitism - Zionism's Indispensable Alibi | Gilad Atzmon Although Zionism typically represents itself as the solution to anti-Semitism, the truth is less flattering. In fact, hostility toward Jews is indispensable to the cause of Jewish nationalism. If anti-Semitism didn't exist, Zionists would have to invent it... Watch video... Pressing for the Truth on 9/11, by William F. Jasper | Rebel News ...Henry Kissinger "nearly fell off the couch." He spilled his coffee on himself. He was visibly shaken. The next day he announced that he was stepping down as chairman of the 9/11 Commission, the post to which President Bush had named him a couple of weeks earlier. What had caused the always poised and famously unflappable "Dr. K" to come unhinged? Why the abrupt resignation from the chairmanship he had so recently accepted amidst such fanfare?.. Read more... Bradley Manning: One Soldier Who Really Did 'Defend Our Freedom', by Kevin Carson | Antiwar When I hear someone say that soldiers "defend our freedom," my immediate response is to gag. I think the last time American soldiers actually fought for the freedom of Americans was probably the Revolutionary War — or maybe the War of 1812, if you want to be generous. Every war since then has been for nothing but to uphold a system of power, and to make the rich folks even richer... Read more... The collapsing hegemony of the West, by Kourosh Ziabari | Baltimore Chronicle ...Iran's nuclear program is in line with the country's long-term objectives for becoming a scientific superpower in the world and this is what the Western countries cannot tolerate. Nuclear energy is the only arena in which the bullying powers can employ political leverages to pressure an independent nation such as Iran to hinder its scientific progress... Read more... Networks of Empire and Realignments of World Power, by Prof James Petras | Global Research Imperial states build networks which link economic, military and political activities into a coherent mutually reinforcing system. This task is largely performed by the various institutions of the imperial state. Thus imperial action is not always directly economic, as military action in one country or region is necessary to open or protect economic zones. Nor are all military actions decided by economic interests if the leading sector of the imperial state is decidedly militarist... Read more... The Palestinian and Zionist causes through the eyes of their spokespersons | Redress Information & Analysis Lawrence Davidson views the Palestinian-Israeli conflict through the prism of the spokespersons of the Palestinian and Israeli causes: Susan Abulhawa on the one hand, and Alan Dershowitz and Bernard-Henri Levy on the other... Jan 2, 2011 Any Respect For International Law Left In The US Congress? by Dr. Franklin Lamb | Intifada Palestine  Americans foot the bill for ruthless madness and carnage in Palestine… Rove Might Be Trying To "Pull A Siegelman" With Julian Assange, by Roger Shuler | OpEd News Is Karl Rove helping to export American-style political prosecutions to Scandinavia? Is "Bush's brain" trying to fashion a bogus criminal case in Sweden against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, much like the one he helped build against former Alabama Governor Don Siegelman?.. Read more... What options exist for Netanyahu next time on the high seas? | Redress Information & Analysis Richard Lightbown argues that whatever Israel does when the Mavi Marmara sets sail for Gaza on the first anniversary of the murder of aid workers by Israeli commandos aboard the same ship, the movement to break the illegal siege of Gaza “is not going to be frightened off. It is not going to go away. It is not going to wither and die.".. Read more... Israelis Resist Their Own Arabs, by Mel Frykberg | IPS .. "Israel’s democracy is under threat as an increasingly large racist element raises its collective head. A number of racist occurrences have taken place in a climate conducive to racism. This wouldn’t have happened prior to the current right-wing Israeli government,".. Read more... Party On! All is Well | The Agonist The consensus is in and there is strong agreement: the US economy is on the path to a sustained recovery. 2011 will be a year of surprises on the upside, and 2012 will be even better. Among a list of the top 25 economists surveyed, not one of them predicts a recession in 2011... Read more... Birth of Pakistan's Islamic Extremism, by Alvaro Vargas Llosa | Consortium News Thanks in part to the iconic status of Ronald Reagan – and the “Charlie Wilson’s War” lionizing of the anti-Soviet jihad in Afghanistan – Americans have little understanding of how Reagan’s Cold War obsessions contributed to today’s “war on terror” and the danger from a nuclear-armed Pakistan... Read more... Free Jonathan Pollard | Mantiq al-Tayr ..The Pollard affair is such an incredible story that I plan to relate parts of it in most of my upcoming posts. You literally will not know whether to laugh or cry... Read more... Russia, Realism, and the WikiLeaks Factor, by Justin Raimondo | Antiwar The WikiLeaks cables continue to bear fruit, and what a golden harvest it is: the US spying on the world’s diplomats (and even collecting their bank card numbers!); the US hiding behind the rather thin skirts of the Yemeni "air force" as we bomb and strafe their citizens; the US letting the Israeli Mafia into the country without so much as a by-your-leave; the US standing passively by as their Iraqi sock puppets torture and murder detainees... Read more... The US Media Hit on Helen Thomas, by Danny Schechter | Consortium News Last June when the mainstream Washington press corps rode the 89-year-old journalistic icon Helen Thomas out of the news business on a rail, a key count in the professional “indictment” against her was that she lacked “objectivity” with her impertinent questions to U.S. presidents and in her criticism of Israel... Read more... Moments of Revelation, by Nebojsa Malic | Antiwar ...The world is at a fork in the road; there is no option to continue straight ahead. Those who have invested everything into the Empire refuse to see this. Instead, they work even harder to chase the end of history, unaware that the only end they run towards is their own... Read more... America's Slide toward Totalitarianism, by Abby Martin | Consortium News The chance of an American getting killed by a terrorist remains miniscule, especially compared to other possible causes of mortality, like not getting timely medical attention because of the wasteful and costly health-care system. But Americans continue to surrender freedoms (and spend a fortune) to add a tiny bit of protection from terrorism... Jan 1, 2011 The struggle for East Jerusalem, by Jesse Rosenfeld | Al Jazeera  ...Although the Jewish dominated Hebrew University has expanded onto Issawiya's land, the picture of Jerusalem from both places couldn't be more different. While Israeli students attend classes oblivious to life beyond the 'dead end', Israeli security forces have orchestrated a campaign of regular night time arrest raids against Issawiya residents in an effort to halt growing popular resistance to segregation, home demolition and land confiscation... Read more... 2010 News round-up, profiles, quotes: Troubled times | Eric Walberg 2010 was a tough one overall. Public discontent with governments and economic policy brought people out on the streets to protest. US wars, occupation and threat of war in the Middle East and Asia were never far from the headlines. Elections around the world led in most cases to further tensions. There were few outright winners and many more losers, with most developments a mixed bag... Read more... Oligarch Khodorkovsky conviction exposes links with Soros & Rothschild, by Peter Myers | Rebel News ..In more recent years, both Soros and Sachs have turned against the "Washington Consensus". Soros comes across as a chivalrous knight with a Robin Hood agenda; to the extent that even I have been in two minds about him... Read more... Tunisian Unrest Stirs Arab World, by Emad Mekay | IPS As Western countries were busy celebrating Christmas and dealing with air traffic holiday delays because of snow blizzards, the tranquil North African country of Tunisia was going through events that would have been thought unthinkable just three weeks ago - public unrest that saw thousands demonstrate against the regime of President Zine el Abidine Ben Ali... Read more... The Enemy Within, by Jeff Gates | Veterans Today ..Israeli duplicity often operates through what U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates describes as “the people in between.” When waging unconventional warfare, those people are the most dangerous combatants, particularly those operatives in mainstream media... Read more... Where will it end? by Kevin Barrett | truthjihad How could the folks who storyboarded 9/11 and the "war on terror" possibly storyboard their way out of it? How can you end a war against an abstract noun?.. Read more... The year of truth, by Gideon Levy | Haaretz This was (also) a good year - the year of truth. The year that concludes tonight with a kiss was the year the Israeli masquerade party ended, the year the costumes were torn off and the truth came out. The true face was revealed. This was the year we finally came out of the closet - no more saccharine phrases and hollow talk about justice and equality, no more flowery and superficial words about peace and two states... Read more... Paranoid vicious circles, by Carlo Strenger | Haaretz The rise of racism and xenophobia in Israel has been a favorite topic among pundits over the last few weeks, and for good reason, because the phenomenon is worrying. The causes have been well-analyzed: the fragmentation of Israeli society, the lack of a common culture and ethos, and of course Israel's growing international isolation... Read more... Royal Hunt of Julian Assange, by Israel Shamir | shamireaders ...Because of this careful sabotage, more and more people are saying that Wikileaks is just a tool of the State Department, or CIA, or Mossad. Perhaps that is what The Guardian wants. Perhaps The Guardian thinks it has outclassed, outmanoeuvred, and outsmarted the Wikileaks crew. I would rather place my bet on Julian Assange. He is smart, and he has a mind of a first-class chess player.... Read more... Paradigm in Belarus: The Minsk Election in a Wikileaks Mirror, by Israel Shamir | Counterpunch Wikileaks once again has provided the proof positive to unlock a mystery. It’s not the stuff of attention-grabbing headlines and retweets, but it does illustrate how the US State Department can orchestrate riots in a quiet Eastern European country... Read more... Zionist spy satellite over Sudan | Rehmat's World ...The situation in South Sudan and Darfur is tragic but it’s not genocide if one compare its with native Muslims and Christians under Jewish occupation.. Read more... A blink of Israeli pride amid our anti-democratic fest, by Gideon Levy | Haaretz One could breathe a sigh of relief after Moshe Katsav was convicted; the prosecution did not frame, the media did not tell tales and the public did not lynch; the judges carried out their task... Read more... Israel Hardens Repression As Palestinian Recognition Increases, by Stephen Lendman | Intifada Palestine ...Israel is now so extremist that Haaretz writer Zeev Sternhell described Netanyahu’s Knesset as “an assembly line of legislation that is dragging Israel down to the bottom of the list of civilized countries,” amounting to might makes right... Read more... A Commonsense Solar Defense, by Jeff Gates | Intifada Palestine ...What is the best long-term defense against those who view us as The Other? Answer: a strategy that demonstrates U.S. sincerity in enhancing the capacity of others to flourish... |
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