July 31, 2011 Rebel Son: "We want Muammar to come back! We want the green flag back!" by Marie Edwards | Mathaba  Abdel-Fattah Younis, killed in death blow to Libya's NATO-supported Al-Qaida terrorists ...The killing raises fear and uncertainty in Benghazi. Thousands marched behind Younis’ coffin, wrapped in the rebels' tricolor monarchist flag, to the graveyard for his burial, chanting that he was a martyr "beloved by God." Troops fired a military salute as the coffin arrived, and angry and grieving supporters fired wildly into the air with automatic weapons...[Let's hope that puts finis to the NATO/USraeli inspired "rebellion."] Read more... Norway's Monster and THE Question, by Alan Hart | Intifada Palestine ...There are two things we know for sure. One is that Breivik is fanatically anti Islam and pro Zionism. The other is that Zionism’s propaganda machine has been set to work at full speed, day and night, eight days and nights a week, to demonize, discredit and destroy all who are calling and campaigning for Israel to be boycotted... Read more... Ben-Gurion's Scandals: How the Haganah and the Mossad Eliminated Jews, by Naeim Giladi | Amazon Painful truths about the Zionist rape of Palestine and deliberate planting of anti-Semitism in Iraqi Jewish communities during David Ben-Gurion's political career to persuade Iraqi Jews to immigrate to Israel. The Zionists' goal was to import raw Jewish labor from the Middle East to farm the newly-vacated lands and fill the military ranks with conscripts, to defend the stolen lands... Read more... The War on Libya: An Imperialist Project to Create Three Libyas, by Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya | Global Research The NATO war launched against Libya in March 2011 was geared towards the breakup of the country into three separate entities. The NATO led war, however, is back firing. The Libyan people have united to save their country and Tripoli is exploring its strategic options... Read more... Gerald Celente on US debt insanity: Collapse inevitable | YouTube While the politicians battle it out over who would be to blame if the American economy hit a brick wall, Gerald Celente from the US-based Trends Journal says the political elite will not recognize simple solutions to curb America's deficit. "The country is going bankrupt -- just look at the numbers. The numbers do not lie - politicians lie,".. Watch video... Netanyahu stressed, may start war to get protesters off street | RT on YouTube A show of unrest is taking place in Israel. Thousands of young protesters pitched tent-camps across the country's cities, calling for social justice and voicing discontent at government policies. A mass rally is planned for Saturday, which will be attended by both students and professionals. RT talks to Stav Shaffir, one of the main protest organizers to get more on the story... Watch video... Israel and the "Jewish Spring" | Rehmat's World ...The protests are fuelled by the desperate situation facing millions of Israelis, while social inequality has reached unprecedented levels. The Jerusalem Post called the housing protest just a “drop in the sea of injustices” that also included rising food prices, the cost of living and the minimum wage... Read more... Jim Dean on Immigration | shamireaders ..The immigration monster is a two headed hydra. The conservative business elites like the Bilderbergers saw that the development of the undeveloped countries, with their huge supply of slave labor, was obviously going to undermine their competitiveness. I read a Chinese government mag once in the 90's describing how at any one time they had 100 million people 'in transit' looking or work/traveling'. That was their Home Depot day labor pool. The answer???...creating a big supply of cheap slave labor for themselves... Read more... New moves to curb criticism of Israel in US and Canada, by Kristin Szremski | The Electronic Intifada  A number of new initiatives to curtail freedom of speech by conflating opposition to Israeli crimes with anti-Semitism are underway in the United States and Canada. The Canadian Parliamentary Coalition to Combat Anti-Semitism (CPCCA) issued a report in early July recommending the adoption of strict new standards defining anti-Semitism and the types of speech and campus activities that would violate them... [They all dance to the paymaster's tune] Read more...Washington delusional as Hitler in his bunker | RT on YouTube ...In the U.S., the clock ticks towards Tuesday, but squabbling lawmakers still can't agree on how to stop America's massive debt from falling off a cliff and into default. And that's getting China angry. America's biggest lender thinks Washington's being 'dangerously irresponsible'.. Watch video... U.S. Treasury Pushes War Propaganda Claim al-Qaeda and Iran in Cahoots, by Kurt Nimmo | Prison Planet ...The Treasury claim that al-Qaeda and Iran have teamed up is a continuation of the propaganda invented by the Bush regime neocons. It reveals that nothing has changed since Bush left the Oval Office and the Obama administration is following the same script... Read more, watch video... How the Rich Won the Class War, by Michael Winship | Consortium News ...Over the past several decades, the Right has convinced millions of Americans that Government is the source of all problems, that Corporations must have near-total freedom, and that the Rich must enjoy low taxes. The consequence has been a devastated middle class and fiscal chaos... Read more... The Arab Awakening and the Western Media, by Ramzy Baroud When President Ali Abdullah Saleh tried desperately to quell Yemen's popular uprising, he appealed to tribalism, customs and traditions. All his efforts evidently failed, and the revolution continued unabated. When Saleh denounced women for joining men in demonstrations in Sana'a – playing on cultural sensitivities and a very selective interpretation of religion - the response was even more poignant. Thousands of women took to the streets, denouncing Saleh's regime and calling for its ouster... Read more... Former Intel Chief: Call Off The Drone War (And Maybe the Whole War on Terror), by Noah Shachtman | Wired Ground the U.S. drone war in Pakistan. Rethink the idea of spending billions of dollars to pursue al-Qaida. Forget chasing terrorists in Yemen and Somalia, unless the local governments are willing to join in the hunt. Those aren’t the words of some human rights activist, or some far-left Congressman. They’re from retired admiral and former Director of National Intelligence Dennis Blair — the man who was, until recently, nominally in charge of the entire American effort to find, track, and take out terrorists... [It makes entirely too much sense, so it'll never fly.] Read more, watch video...Jeffrey Goldberg, Five Years Ago Today | A Tiny Revolution ...the lesson is clear: as long you advocate war - any war, anywhere, anytime - and as long as you coat it with a certain brand of intellectual varnish, you literally cannot be wrong in the mainstream US media. Your views may diverge from reality so completely they are essentially psychotic, but as far as the people who own the media are concerned, it's reality that's mistaken... Read more... July 30, 2011 Yet More on the Norwegian terror attack The New Anti-Semitism, by Uri Avnery | Palestine Chronicle  The new Nazis love Israel, the Jewish State The Nazi Propaganda Minister, Dr. Joseph Goebbels, calls his boss, Adolf Hitler, by hell-phone. 'Mein Führer,' he exclaims excitedly. 'News from the world. It seems we were on the right track, after all. Anti-Semitism is conquering Europe!' “Good!” the Führer says, “That will be the end of the Jews!” “Hmmm…well…not exactly, mein Führer. It looks as though we chose the wrong Semites... Read more... Behind Norway's Kristallnacht, by Eric Walberg | Dissident Voice The massacre in peaceful Oslo was a replay of this earlier horror in reverse – no longer the Jews as victims but as the inspiration of terror against non-Jews – as Israel extends its wars not only to Greek ports and French airports but to Norwegian children’s camps, complete with rabbinical blessings for the murderers... Read more... 'US equates intl. terrorism with Islam': Interview with Philip Giraldi | PressTV ..in the US, there is an agenda to categorize different types of terrorism. Basically, they see international terrorism as an Islamic phenomenon and they like to put other labels on what they see as domestic terrorism or, as they refer to here in the US, home-grown terrorism. This is all a fiction basically... Read more, watch video... Is Iceland on Israeli radar after Norway? | Rehmat's World On March 9, 2011 the BBC reported that property tycoons Robert and Vincent Tchenguiz were arrested as part of an investigation into the collapse of Icelandic bank Kaupthing. However, it was not mentioned that the two brothers were Israeli citizens and their father, Victor Tchenguiz, was an Iranian Jew and the royal jeweller of King Reza Shah. According to The Telegraph Vincent Tchenguizs once dated Dorrit Moussaieff, the Israeli-born Jewish wife of Iceland’s President Dr. Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson... Read more... De-Zionification Now | Gilad Atzmon  ..Melanie Philips, a rabid Zionist and the author of “Londonistan: How Britain is Creating a Terror State Within” is not happy to be singled out by Andres Breivik in his 1500 pages manuscript. Are they suggesting that “my writing provoked the mass murder of some 93 Norwegians?” she wonders righteously on her blog. I guess that Phillips knows the answer... Read more... Daily NATO War Crimes in Libya, by Stephen Lendman | War Is A Crime Among them is waging war on truth, Western managed news calling lawless imperial wars liberating ones. No wonder John Pilger says journalism is the first casualty of war, adding: "Not only that: it has become a weapon of war, a virulent censorship (and deception) that goes unrecognised in the United States, Britain and other democracies; censorship by omission, whose power is such that, in war, it can mean the difference between life and death for people in faraway countries...." Read more... Glimmer of Hope for Afghan Peace, by Gareth Porter | Consortium News In a little-noticed policy shift, the Obama administration renounced “permanent” U.S. bases in Afghanistan, addressing a central demand of the Taliban. Its leaders have signaled that peace talks are possible if the United States agrees to pull out its troops... Read more... Malcolm X: Judged by a Christian and a Jew | Rehmat's World The Jewish FrontPage magazine published David Forsmark’s review of late Columbia University Professor Manning Marable’s best-seller Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention. David in his review, entitled ‘The Real Malcolm X?‘ could not hide his Talmudic hatred toward Afro-American Malcolm X. The FrontPage magazine is the brainchild of Islamophobe Israel-Firster David Horowitz who is also behind the notoriously anti-Islam ‘Jihad Watch’ project... Read more, watch video... The Other Side of the Berlin Wall, by William Blum | Consortium News The Berlin Wall became the iconic symbol of the Cold War, supposedly proving the superiority of capitalism over communism. However, there is another, little understood side to the story regarding why the wall was erected a half century ago... Read more... IMF and CFR Insider Recruited by Obama White House, by Kurt Nimmo | Prison Planet The Obama administration has recruited an IMF insider to be White House special assistant to the president for international economic affairs. On Thursday, Caroline Atkinson resigned from the globalist organization where she was director of external relations... Read more... Dershowitz's Continuum of Civilianality Turns Five, by Belen Fernandez Five years ago, Israel waged a 34-day war on Lebanon that resulted in the elimination of approximately 1200 persons in the targeted country, most of them civilians, as well as 43 Israeli civilians. In a July 2006 opinion piece for the Los Angeles Times, Harvard Law School’s resident piranha Alan Dershowitz placed the term “collective punishment” in quotation marks and announced the need for a “continuum of civilianality” to determine just how civilian Arab civilians were... [Clearly, Dershowitz is not a civilian according to his "continuum". Ergo, as an outspoken supporter of a terrorist group, he's fair game.] Read more...September's Hope? by Tamar Fleishman | Palestine Chronicle  There was no fear in their eyes or hearts ...Like an explosion of a volcano, an abscess that had been forming in the depth of these peoples' bodies, during the long years of occupation, the mutiny burst and flooded the place with blinding lava that lit that god forsaken place from the darkness of night, right in front of the overwhelmed soldiers and before us, who were dazzled by the event...Read more, watch video... Bishop of Syrian Orthodox Church in Lebanon: Jews Incite Unrest in the Arab World | YouTube It would have been interesting to hear all of his remarks, and to have them edited/translated by someone other than "MEMRI, Mossad's free misinterpretation service for Middle-Eastern languages." But, basically, he's right. Zionist agents provocateurs started creating communal chaos in all of the Muslim countries in the early 20th Century in order to scare the Jews in those places into emigrating to Israel. They invented and practised Middle Eastern terrorism, which they have never stopped inflicting on that region, or the rest of the world for that matter.. [the Editor] Watch video... Ex-CIA officer: 'Braindead' West wants Jihadists to rule Libya | RT on YouTube A suicide attack on a government compound in southern Afghanistan has left at least 19 dead and over 35 injured. It follows a string attacks and the killing of President Karzai's half-brother and comes as the U.S. withdraws its forces. RT talks to Michael Scheuer, a former CIA intelligence officer and historian in Washington DC... Read more... 'US on verge of economic breakdown': Interview with Jeff Steinberg | PressTV Press TV talks with Jeff Steinberg, senior editor for Executive Intelligence Review (EIR) magazine from Washington, about why America and its economy are on the verge of collapse and whether there is any solution to the crisis... Read transcript, watch video... Murdoch's Other Moral Crimes | Media Lens When Rupert and James Murdoch appeared before the House of Commons media select committee on July 19, not one of the MP inquisitors demanded accountability for News International’s biggest moral crime – its shameful role as a facilitator of war. Robin Beste, of the Stop the War Coalition, put it succinctly:.. Read more... Hardship, by Agron Belica | YouTube Watch music video... July 29, 2011 More on the Norwegian terror attack The rise of Knights Templar Europe, by Simon Lee | PressTV  An image from a right-wing extremist video posted on the internet by Anders Behring Breivik The ramifications of what the Norwegian anti-Muslim terrorist Anders Behring Breivik did are beginning to unravel to the horror of the international community... Read more... Who Commits Terrorism? by Robert Parry | Consortium News If the Fox News promoters of racial profiling had been in charge of investigating last Friday’s terror attack in Norway, they might well have encountered blond, blue-eyed Anders Behring Breivik and his two smoking-hot guns only long enough to ask if he’d seen any suspicious-looking Muslims around... Read more... Israelis Debate on the Web: Did Norway Get What It Deserved? by J.J. Goldberg | Jewish Daily Forward The Norway massacre has touched off a nasty war of words on the Israeli Internet over the meaning of the event and its implications for Israel. And I do mean nasty: Judging by the comments sections on the main Hebrew websites, the main questions under debate seem to be whether Norwegians deserve any sympathy from Israelis given the country’s pro-Palestinian policies, whether the killer deserves any sympathy given his self-declared intention of fighting Islamic extremism and, perhaps ironically, whether calling attention to this debate is in itself an anti-Israel or anti-Semitic act... Read more... Norway Manifesto Linked to US Muslim-Bashers | Plato on-line  Hatemonger Pamela Geller and Israeli Vice PM Moshe Ya'alon ‘The bomb attack and shooting spree that killed 76 people in Norway on Friday is refocusing attention on the threat from right-wing terrorist attacks in the U.S. inspired by anti-Islamic rhetoric... Read more... The Friday 22 Massacre (Part 1), by Israel Shamir | shamireaders The massacre was essentially a publicity stunt... Read more... The Friday 22 Massacre, Part 2: Breivik the Anti-communist, by Israel Shamir | shamireaders ...Breivik’s compendium arrives to unexpected conclusion that both EU and US are now “socialist” or even “communist” states, “EUSSR and USSR” organised in accordance with Marx’s teachings. I did not know that Karl Marx envisaged a society with hundreds of billionaires and millions of paupers... Read more... Death and Contradiction: The Case of Iran's Nuclear Scientists, by Dr. Lawrence Davidson | Intifada Palestine  Iranian men mourn over the flag-covered coffin of 35-year-old Rezaei-Nejad On 23 July 2011 it was announced that Dariush Rezai-Nejad was shot to death in Tehran by two men on motorbikes. The shooters also chased after his wife and shot her too. According to Al Jazeera Rezai-Nejad was doing research in the field of electronics and had connections to the Iranian Department of Defense. It is not known if he was associated with Iran’s nuclear program...Read more... "Obviously the Israelis didn't expect people like us": Elke Zwinge-Makamizile Interviewed by Gitta Düperthal | Palestinian Spring ..It already began on Friday in Frankfurt/Main: as the plane was to start on time at 11 am, it suddenly braked sharply. After hours we were unloaded onto another machine and we were only able to take off around 5 pm – apparently due to an uneven surface area on the runway! Whoever wishes to believe this can do so; I rather believe this was to give the Israeli authorities time. Therefore we landed in Ben-Gurion Aiport at 11 pm, where they immediately took away our passports. The Israeli security officials seemed to know exactly who belonged to our group... Read more... Censorship of war casualties in the US, by Ted Rall | Al Jazeera English Why is it so easy for political leaders in the US to convince ordinary citizens to support war? How is it that, after that initial enthusiasm has given away to fatigue and disgust, the reaction is mere disinterest rather than righteous rage? Even when the reasons given for taking the US to war were proven to have been not only wrong, but brazenly fraudulent - as in Iraq, which hadn't possessed chemical weapons since 1991 - no one is called to account... Read more... Israeli Soldiers Kidnap Non-Violent Palestinian and Israeli Activists in Al-Walaja, by Danny Johnes | International Middle East Media Center ..The Israeli army prevented activists and media from accessing the olive grove. They also prevented Israeli and International activist from leaving Al-Walaja. Among those kidnapped are Al-Walaja resident Shireen al-Araj and human rights activist Dr. Mazin Qumsiyeh... Read more... America's own Taliban, by Paul Rosenberg | Al Jazeera English  2012 presidential hopeful, Texas Governor Rick Perry (left), will be hosting a prayer meeting ...destruction of treasured artifacts isn't just limited to the Taliban. There's a right-wing politico-religious presence centered in the US, but with a global reach, engaging in similar practises, destroying religious and cultural artifacts as a key aspect of its ideology of "strategic level spiritual warfare"..called 'The Response' on August 6 with many sponsors from the New Apostolic Reformation Read more... Divided House: Spirit of separatism over Europe? | RT on YouTube Divisions between the Dutch and French speaking halves of Belgium, are threatening to turn one nation into two, permanently. Separatist movements are gaining momentum, in the political vacuum that has made forming a government impossible. And as RT's Daniel Bushell reports, some fear it could start a chain reaction spreading to other parts of Europe... Watch video... Going Beyond Left And Right To The Anti-Banker Party Platform | Video Rebel's Blog This is the fourth and I hope final essay in the Going Beyond Right And Left To An Anti-Banker Party. The response to this series has been overwhelming positive from different races and from all positions on the political spectrum. A few Jewish people wrote and tried to rewrite history. They obviously had not read Part II of this series and seen the videos I posted at the end of my satire White Christian Talmud. ... Read more... Long live Egypt's Supreme Council, by Joseph Massad | Al Jazeera English  Egyptians have been protesting against the country's military rulers continuing Mubarak-esque policies Many Egyptians are expressing concerns about the deployment by the ruling Egyptian Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) of the very same political rhetoric previously employed by the Mubarak regime, despite the SCAF's claim that it is maintaining "neutrality" between "popular" forces; a "neutrality" that it has failed to demonstrate on all fronts... Read more... The tent protesters must graduate to second grade, by Gideon Levy | Haaretz The tent protesters have learned to read and write, now it's time to change writing instruments and receive the book; now they must get down to writing their own bible - with a pen that does not get erased like a pencil... Read more... Nabil Shaath: We'll Never Accept "Two-States for Two Peoples" Solution | YouTube Edited/Translated by MEMRI, Mossad's free misinterpretation service for Middle-Eastern languages... [The honorable ones, like Shaath, are standing firm] Read more...Arrests, a Murder and a Visit to Jenin Camp, by Eileen Fleming | Veterans Today  At 3:30 AM this morning, heavily armed and masked Israeli Forces hurled blocks of stone into several windows of the Freedom Theatre in Jenin Refugee Camp and arrested Adnan Naghnaghiye the manager, and Bilal Saadi a board member and took them away to an unknown location... Read more... J Street: 'How to derail one Palestine solution' | Rehmat's World ...Gen. Dagan told US officials that if Israel abandons its inherently Jewish morals, “the state will not survive” Calling the current impasse in peace talks with the Palestinians untenable, Gen. Dagan went on to declare that he is prepared “to talk to Hamas today“.. [Good luck with that - I mean the first part. What Jewish morals? Like from the Talmud maybe?] Read more...UK releases $150 mln for Libya rebels, expels Gaddafi diplomats | RT on YouTube Britain has officially recognised Libya's rebels as the legitimate Government and expelled all Colonel Gaddafi's diplomats. It's also unfreezing 150 million dollars of Libyan oil assets to help fund rebels. RT speaks to Mark Almond, a professor of modern history at Oxford University... Watch video... 'Kosovo fake state & mistaken experiment' | RT on YouTube The EU and the U.S. have led international condemnation of Kosovo's decision to send special forces to seize crossings on its shared border with Serbia. NATO-led peacekeepers have been deployed to help control the situation which is stoking ethnic tensions... Read more, watch video... Israel is an Apartheid State, by Hasan Afif El-Hasan | Palestine Chronicle  Israel is a serious violator of human rights Western leaders and media label any Palestinian resistance to the Israeli occupation as terrorism, but it refuses to give Israel the same label when its military commits daily crimes against the Palestinians. Israel destroyed Gaza and committed massacres, starves the Palestinian population and bulldozes their houses in Jerusalem and the West Bank. It does not approve residency permits for Palestinians returning to their homes in the occupied lands and expels thousands of Palestinian families from Jerusalem...Read more... Israeli Home Demolition Terrorism | Stephen Lendman Co-founded (with Meir Marglit) and directed by Jeff Halper, the Israeli Committee Against Home Demolitions (ICAHD) "is a non-violent, direct-action organization established in 1998 to resist Israeli demolition of Palestinian houses in the Occupied Territories." ICAHD also helps rebuild homes... Read more... The Great Gulf Coast Holocaust, Part 3, by Dave Hodges | News with Views ...The sociopaths running the government-corporate-media-complex are simply ignoring the plight of an entire region of our country. To those who lack basic human empathy and falsely believe that this series is not news, but rather history, should consider that there is good evidence that the holocaust in the Gulf is just beginning and is now moving up the food chain and has already made its way into your local supermarket. And if you think you can dodge the obvious danger by merely avoiding the Gulf seafood, think again, as this catastrophe is permeating the full spectrum of our food supply... Read more... July 28, 2011 Picasso in Palestine, Israel and United States, by Dallas Darling | Palestine Chronicle  Read more... 'Tunisia may witness second revolution': Interview with Larib Sidiki | PressTV The protesters believe that the new government is made up of the remnants of the regime of the fugitive despot Zine El Abidine Ben Ali. A leader of Tunisia's opposition is also warned of a counterrevolution... Read transcript, watch video... America: Heading for Tyranny and Impoverishment | Stephen Lendman ..The current debt ceiling/budget cutting debate conceals a hidden issue - namely, that if resolution isn't achieved, Obama can use extrajudicial "presidential directives and executive orders in place, put there by (Bush to) declare a national emergency, suspend the debt ceiling limit, and continue to issue Treasury debt. This is exactly what would happen" to avoid default. If it occurs, it would create "a crisis beyond anything the world has ever seen.".. Read more... Lessons drawn from the blonde bomber, by Yousef Munayyer Al Jazeera English  Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh (along with Ted Kaczynski, Lucas John Helder, Jim Adkisson, ..Breivik's hatred of Muslims was central to his ideology, and he based much of his thinking and writing on prominent American Islamophobes. Characters like Robert Spencer, whom Breivik identifies as a leading "intellectual", along with others like Pamela Geller and outted fake Walid Shoebat, have been at the epicenter of the Islamophobic industry in the United States...Andrew Joseph Stack, Jared Lee Loughner, and others) is yet another example of a non-Muslim terrorist Read more... Fascist movements related to govt?: Interview with Ralph Schoenman | PressTV A leading US talk show host, Glen Beck, has compared most of the victims of the Norwegian massacre with the Hitler Youth... Watch video... 'West losing the war on terror': Interview with Nihad Awad | PressTV The terrorist attack of Anders Behring Breivik in Norway is an example of how western governments have lost the war on terror because of their blind focus on the Muslim community... Watch video... Former Ambassador Links Tea Party to Norway Killer, by Kurt Nimmo | Prison Planet  Dupes for mass murder? Craig Murray, a former British ambassador to Uzbekistan, is attempting to link up Anders Behring Breivik and the American Tea Party. Murray notes the fact Breivik posted comments on the blog of the American neocon and Islamophobe Pamela Geller...Read more... Keiser Report: Mass Psychosis | YouTube This week Max Keiser and co-host, Stacy Herbert, look at the one in 66 Americans now classified as psychotic and the matter of 'selective default' as the over prescribed anti-psychotic medication for financial markets. In the second half of the show, Max talks to Adrian Salbuchi about the similarities between the financial attack on Greece and what happened to Argentina in 2001/2002. Watch video... UN Commission Flotilla Massacre Report | Stephen Lendman Despite irrefutable evidence, including the UN Human Rights Council (HRC) concluding last September that Israel committed serious "violations of international law, including international humanitarian law" by massacring nine Gaza Flotilla activists, injuring dozens more, in international waters, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon appeased Israel by appointing his own commission... Read more... Boycotting fascism? by Mark LeVine | Al Jazeera English  In Jaffa, Palestinians and left-wing Jewish supporters protest government plans to demolish illegally-built Arab houses ..The basic formula for fascism, that of a highly militarised, corporatist state that manages relations between labour and capital in the name of a mythically defined "people" to the exclusion of all those deemed outside the collective, well defines the kind of ethnonationalism that has long dominated Zionist ideology...Read more... No longer deniable: Under runaway debt burden, America's currency is headed for total collapse, by Mike Adams | Natural News ..while the government was promising it would pay back all the money it stole from workers, it was simultaneously conspiring with the Federal Reserve to devalue the dollar and thereby erode the actual purchasing power of the "benefit checks" people receive. Since the Federal Reserve took control of the U.S. money supply in 1913, the U.S. dollar has lost 97% of its value, didn't you know? And the remaining three percent is about to vanish in one final grand blowout of the world's greatest debtor nation known as the United States of America... Read more... U.S. Imperialism Abroad Creating Police State At Home, by Sherwood Ross | Veterans Today  As America’s empire spreads abroad, it becomes ever more the police state at home. The methods used for the suppression of foreigners by military force and violence are eventually mirrored in the “homeland.”.. Read more... Palestine, Palestinians and Our Way Forward, by Jamal Saad | Palestine Chronicle ..The point of my essay is to propose an initiative to my fellow Palestinians throughout the world: one that is not to create division between us as a people and our political representatives, but rather looks at the reality we are faced with and to take a pragmatic approach to achieving our goals. By mobilizing together and presenting the Palestinian cause as a united front, something our political leadership has consistently failed to do, we can reignite our common will as a people determined to achieve recognition and justice... Read more... Death and contradiction: the case of Iran's nuclear scientists | Redress Information & Analysis Lawrence Davidson considers two contradictions underlying US policy towards Iran: on the one hand an anti-Iranian, anti-Muslim and pro-Israel worldview manifested in, among other things, the murder of Iranian nuclear scientists on the pretext that Iran represents a nuclear threat, and on the other professional intelligence analysts who say that Iran poses no nuclear threat... Read more... July 27, 2011 Norway's Zionist Terrorist It's the Zionism, Stupid | Mantiq al-Tayr ...If you give a shit about what’s going on you must understand that Breivik is part and parcel of the whole zionist-inspired anti-Islam hate campaign that is orchestrated by Zionists like Geller, Spencer and the rest of the gang. That is why the media won’t delve into it. The effect of Israeli anti-Muslim propaganda is huge and the media knows to avoid looking at any of the real underlying causes in part because the media is one of those underlying causes... Read more... The Oslo Attacks: More False Flag Evidence | Stephen Lendman ...Washington wants to derail Palestinian independence and de jure UN membership, complicit with Israel, perhaps by any means, including intimidation and mass murder. Also as payback for Norway's planned ending its anti-Gaddafi coalition participation, a warning perhaps not to do it... Read more... Norway's monster and the poison of Zionist propaganda, by Alan Hart | Redress Information & Analysis How much was the mind of Norwegian mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik conditioned and warped by Zionist propaganda as peddled with the assistance of Christian fundamentalism by much of the Western mainstream media and many websites?.. Read more... Marxist-Multiculturalists for BDS: Palestine's Norwegians, by Vijay Prashad | Counterpunch ..Norway has a very advanced position on the international campaign against the Occupation of the Palestinian people. The Norwegian trade union federation (LO), which includes a fifth of the country's population, divested from a series of Israeli firms, such as Africa Israel Investments, Danya Cebus, and Elbit Systems. This is one of the largest sovereign funds in the world, and its move puts pressure on other funds. Norway also has an arms ban on Israel... Read more... 'Norway attack suspect had anti-Muslim, pro-Israel views', by Ben Hartman | Jerusalem Post 1,500 page manifesto credited to Breivik, accused of killing spree, lays out worldview including extreme screed of Islamophobia, far-right Zionism... Read more... Israel used an Imposter and a Belly Dancer to Counteract Flotilla II, by Dr. Ashraf Ezzat | Intifada Palestine  Read more... Thwarting Palestinian Non-Violence, by Ivan Eland | Consortium News The U.S. government talks about its preference for peaceful change in the world and rhetorically condemns violence. But in the Israeli-Palestinian dispute, Washington does all it can to stop non-violent actions by the Palestinians and their supporters seeking to challenge Israeli abuses... Read more... #f@ckyouwashington hashtag takes Twitter by storm, by Muriel Kane | The Raw Story Most suddenly-popular Twitter hashtags refer to events or celebrities that currently are in the news. But every once in a while, one erupts out of nowhere to capture the mood of the Twitterverse. The hashtag #fuckyouwashington is currently making the rounds in just that fashion... Read more... 'Israelis delegitimizing themselves': An interview with Ray McGovern | PressTV Israel has been successful this week in postponing, yet again, the report that shows them attacking the Gaza flotilla aid convoy which had killed eight Turkish and one US citizen... Read more... Palestine, Israel, Germany: The Boundaries of Open Discussion | Gilad Atzmon This is a very important conference!.. Read more... Lap Dog No More: Has Pakistan Declared Independence From US? by Shaukat Qadir | Counterpunch It does seem that Pakistan is done mating with the Praying Mantis.This will not be an amicable divorce. This is a pet dog that refuses to come to heel. Pakistan’s ‘declaration of independence’ may not be a written one, nor as powerfully moving as the one authored by founding fathers of the US, but it finally seems to have become visible... Read more... The Fed Audit: "U.S. provided a whopping $16 trillion in secret loans to bail out US and foreign banks", by Senator Bernie Sanders | Global Research  Senator Bernie Sanders The first top-to-bottom audit of the Federal Reserve uncovered eye-popping new details about how the U.S. provided a whopping $16 trillion in secret loans to bail out American and foreign banks and businesses during the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression. An amendment by Sen. Bernie Sanders to the Wall Street reform law passed one year ago this week directed the Government Accountability Office to conduct the study. "As a result of this audit, we now know that the Federal Reserve provided more than $16 trillion in total financial assistance to some of the largest financial institutions and corporations in the United States and throughout the world," said Sanders. "This is a clear case of socialism for the rich and rugged, you're-on-your-own individualism for everyone else."..Read more... Obama Puts Bombs Before Bread, by Kelley B. Vlahos | Antiwar Obama’s so-called empathy, which had won him extraordinary international support when he was first elected, is virtually absent from notice. He’s merely carried on with President Bush’s brute force War on Terror (GWOT), while failing to see that genuine compassion, when called for, would strengthen his hand in the world’s view, not weaken it... Read more... The Dirty Digger: Selected Articles on the Rupert Murdoch Eavesdropping Affair, by William Bowles | Global Research Read more... The Outsourcing of Influence-Peddling to the Israeli Lobby, by Wayne Madsen | Strategic Culture Foundation Something curious and practically unnoticed occurred in the South Pacific that calls to attention the immense power the Israel Lobby has over issues far removed from the Middle East. On June 1, the island nation of Vanuatu announced that it was the fifth nation to recognize the independence of the Republic of Abkhazia, a breakaway region of the Republic of Georgia... Read more... US Afghan Strategy: Senseless and Merciless | Global Research John Robles' Interview with Rick Rozoff, the manager of the Stop NATO website and a contributing writer to Global Research... Read more... Libya: Demonization and Self-determination, by Sara Flounders | Global Research If you went to a shopping center, a street corner or a graduate school of a top university in the U.S. and conducted a pop quiz asking who are the kings or crown princes of Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Morocco and Bahrain; the emir of Kuwait, Qatar or Dubai; and the sultan of Oman, most people would not be able to name any of them. These dictators and feudal monarchs hold absolute control in corrupt and brutal regimes. Their rule is kept in place by U.S. arms, troops and mercenaries, but they are anonymous to the U.S. population and to most of the world’s people... Read more... Big Pharma Pushes "Miracle Cure" For Holocaust Denial Syndrome, by Michael James | Free State Voice Governments, police services and prison authorities around the world are reportedly "overjoyed" by the launch of a new prescription drug that cures people who are suffering doubts about the veracity of the so-called Jewish Holocaust... Read more... July 26, 2011 Norway's Christian Zionist Terrorist Knights Templar 2083, by Anders Behring Breivik - Oslo killer | YouTube  Onward, Christian Soldiers! Yes men and more, by Mazin Qumsiyeh | Popular Resistance It is amazing how the spin media continues to spin. After the atrocity in Norway, they were quick to blame "Muslim terrorists". Then suddenly silence when it became clear that the attacker espoused Zionist and ultra-right views against Muslims, against Palestinians and against "multiculturalism". In fact hardly any mainstream bnewspaper reported that the Utoya Island youth camp targeted by this criminal had signs for "boycott Israel". No mainstream media used the language used when such a person happen to come from a Muslim background. We did not hear terms like "Christian Terrorist" or "Norwegian fanatic" or even "Zionist terrorist".. Read more... The Christian Right's Rigid Politics, by Richard L. Fricker | Consortium News Christian fundamentalism is in the news after a right-wing Norwegian justified his slaughter of scores of people as a protest against European tolerance of Muslims. But the attack was only the most extreme manifestation of how the Christian Right has injected rigidity into the workings of democracy... Read more... 'Neo-Nazi, masonic-lodge mindset: Norway's new brand of terror' | RT on YouTube Watch video... Link Between Breivik and Israeli Mossad, by Wayne Madsen | Prison Planet Anders Behring Breivik is suspect in massacre of over 80 at Labour Party Youth camp on Norwegian island and downtown Oslo bombing. Breivik is being called a Christian fundamentalist even though he was a Freemason and supporter of such vile Zionist Islamophobes as Pam Geller and Richard Pipes. Pipes and Geller are ciphers for Israeli intelligence and propaganda elements and provide a clear link between Breivik and Mossad... Read more... Massacre in Norway: More About the Jewish Right Wing Connection | Gilad Atzmon Thanks to respected anti-Zionist Jeff Blankfort (who provided me with a crucial link) I have now learned that, just one day before last Friday’s Massacre in Norway, former Trotsky-ite turned neo-con David Horowitz carried an article by Joseph Klein in his Front Page magazine, entitled "The Quislings of Norway," which might as well have provided mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik with all the motivation he needed to commit his crime... Read more... Gaza's Tunnels: An Inside Perspective, by Alexandra Robinson | Palestine Chronicle  Tunnels are double-edged sword 'Complimentary tour of the Rafah tunnels.' I received this offer a few weeks after arriving in Gaza. In a conversation I was having with my colleague, Joe Catron, it came up that a friend of ours from Gaza City had given an open invitation for us to tour the tunnels...Read more... Who Rules America? An Investment Manager Breaks Down the Economic Top 1%, Says 0.1% Controls Political and Legislative Process | AmpedStatus This article was written by an investment manager who works with very wealthy clients. I knew him from decades ago, but he recently e-mailed me with some concerns he had about what was happening with the economy. What he had to say was informative enough that I asked if he might fashion what he had told me into a document for the Who Rules America Web site. He agreed to do so, but only on the condition that the document be anonymous, because he does not want to jeopardize his relationships with his clients or other investment professionals... Read more... TSA introduces breast cancer screening procedure as new benefit of airport security pat-downs (satire), by Mike Adams | Natural News What's better than receiving a free groping by the TSA? How about getting your breasts checked for cancer at the same time? That's the new offering from the TSA, which says that squeezing and twisting your breasts during security pat-downs is now a "medical procedure" and that it's all being done "to protect the health of Americans." Men, meanwhile, will now receive a free prostate exam as part of their screening procedure... Read more... 25 Reasons To Absolutely Despise Bankers And Their Minions | Video Rebel's Blog Bankers, according to the London Times, launder about 400 billion dollars a year or more in illegal weapons sales. The next time you hear of an African war lord killing families so he can kidnap young boys to become child soldiers and young girls to become child sex slaves, please remember that this could not have happened without the active assistance and cooperation of the bankers and the politicians... Read more... July 25, 2011 The grumpy diplomats of the rogue state, by Ilan Pappe | The Electronic Intifada  The real reason for Israeli diplomats’ headaches The Israeli ambassador to Spain, Raphael Schutz, has just finished his term in Madrid. In an op-ed in Haaretz’s Hebrew edition he summarized what he termed as a very dismal stay and seemed genuinely relieved to leave...Read more... Zion as a Vision of Empire: Why Palestine is Important, by Israel Shamir | Intifada Palestine Palestine is important not because it is as beautiful as Tuscany, nor because the Palestinians are suffering, and not even because it is occupied by a Jewish state. What we need to understand is that the Jews have been handed Palestine not because they were so smart or so strong or so devoted, but by Imperial design... Read more... Hillary Cracks the Whip, by Philip Giraldi | Antiwar ..While it would seem that international conferencing and seeking to overthrow two regimes would make for a busy weekend for even the most peripatetic secretary of state, Hillary also decided to take on her host, Turkey... Read more... Was the Massacre in Norway a reaction to BDS? | Gilad Atzmon  Anders Behring Breivik’s victims supported boycott Israel campaign I learned last night from an Israeli online journal, that two days before the Utoya Island massacre, AUF’s (Labour Party's youth movement) leader Eskil Pedersen gave an interview to the Dagbladet, Norway's second largest tabloid newspaper, in which he unveiled what he thinks of Israel...Read more... 'Norway paid for being pro-Palestinian': Interview with Stephen Lendman | PressTV At least 92 people were killed and scores injured on Friday in the twin shooting and bomb attacks by a homegrown terrorist in the Norwegian capital, Oslo, and a nearby island... Read more... Faced with inhumanity, we must be more human, by Erik Abild | Al Jazeera English ...Oslo, my home, was bombed on Friday. July 22, 2011, at 15:26 in the afternoon. A powerful explosion in the middle of our capital, at the heart of Norway. Several people were killed, many more injured, the whole city wounded and marked for ever. An hour later, more than 80 people were brutally killed. They were gathered at a political youth camp on an island. There was nowhere to run, nothing to protect themselves with. They were young and had their lives in front of them. They were among the best of us, among those who wanted to make a difference, to work for what they believed in... Read more... Norway, Islam and the threat of the West, by Ibrahim Hewitt | Al Jazeera English  After Oslo was rocked by a deadly explosion and a shooting massacre A few years ago, the respected Cambridge scholar T J Winter, also known by his Muslim name of Abdal Hakim Murad, gave a fascinating lecture to Humanities staff and students at the University of Leicester. The title was "Islam and the threat of the West", turning on its head the more usual - then and now - "Islam and the threat to the West". It was a novel approach which, in a nutshell, illustrated that, historically, aggression has been directed more from Europe to the Muslim world than the other way round. His evidence for such a view was impeccably sourced...killed dozens on Utoya Island, initial speculation blamed 'Islamic terror groups' - revealing fears and prejudices inherent to many in the West Read more... 'Paranoid Israel sees Gaza flotilla as another attack' | YouTube Israel's military have taken control of the last ship from Freedom Flotilla 2 and are convoying it to Israel. Activist Itamar Shapiro, who took part in the last year's deadly flotilla attempt, told RT why Israel feels so threatened by such missions... Watch video... Settlers start fires across the West Bank | Maan News Agency Palestinian firefighters have been battling blazes across the West Bank as Israeli settlers set fire to land in multiple locations on Thursday night... Read more... Troops Uproot Olive Orchards Near Jerusalem | International Middle East Media Center  Israeli army bulldozers uprooted, on Thursday morning, Palestinian olive orchards that belong to residents of Beit Iksa village, in occupied East Jerusalem, in order to build a section of the illegal Annexation Wall, and to allow the expansion of Ramot illegal settlement... Read more... British Lords, Homeless Folks, and a Phony Bible: The Origins of Christian Zionism, by Charles E. Carlson | Wake Up From Your Slumber ...when you enter what is referred to generically as an evangelical church you are probably about to partake in a Zionist controlled religion as distant from traditional Christianity as is Pharisaism. British Lord Balfour provided a forged deed for the State of Israel to enter Arab land. And at almost the same hour he wrote his famous letter, the new dispensational church movement in America was being hijacked for the specific purpose of blessing world Zionism... Read more... Hagee: 'Mr. Ahmadinejad, don't threaten Israel' | Rehmat's World ...Pastor John Hagee [the most prominent US Christian Zionist] told his Christian sheep who were waving Israeli and American flags: “We gathered here with the message; Israel today, Israel tomorrow and Israel forever”. then he blended his rant with some ‘holy spirit’, saying: “The truth is not what you think that it is – it’s what the Bible says (no mention of the fact that the NT quotes Jesus cursing Jews in over 100 places). There are two ways to live your life – the Torah way and the wrong way”. Damn, what happened to Christian prophecy that Jesus will return to convert Jews to Christianity or else kill them!.. Read more... July 24, 2011 Alleged Norwegian Terrorist Is An Anti-Islam, Christian Nationalist, by Washington's Blog | Global Research  According to a Norwegian-language version of Associated Press, the terrorist who bombed downtown Oslo and shot numerous children at summer camp was an Anti-Islam nationalist:.. Read more... Omar Barghouti on the Moral Imperative to Boycott Israel | Intifada Palestine Omar Barghouti spoke at Socialism 2011 in Chicago on 3 July 2011, to explain why boycotting Israel is the right approach and a moral imperative for people who support justice and universal rights... Watch video... The Gaza Flotilla and the Blood-Dimmed Tide, by John Grant | This Can't Be Happening Lately, I find myself reading noir crime fiction and thinking about the genre as a way to explain the world. It may have something to do with the fact I’m an American critical of my government and losing hope that positive change is even possible. As hope evaporates, there seems less and less space between political reality and the criminal underworld... Read more... Eric Walberg on Post-Modern Imperialism: The Great Games, by Gilad Atzmon | Counterpunch Though the number of critical voices concerning Israel, Zionism and Jewish power is growing steadily, a clear distinction can be made on the one hand between contributors who operate within the discourse and are politically oriented, and others who transcend themselves above and beyond any given political paradigm... Read more... Pakistan vs the US: Moving on, by Eric Walberg | OpEdNews ..The new Great Game playing field in Eurasia is taking shape before our eyes. It can be glimpsed by noting China's vigorous courting of key players in the region Pakistan and Russia. And by India's commitment to work with Pakistan, and its improved relations with China, exemplified by its regular presence at SCO gatherings and yearly RIC summits with China and Russia. Even more telling are the good relations of all of the above with key neighbour Iran, possibly morphing RIC into RIIC sometime in the future... Read more... Kelly James Clark interviews Rami Elhanan | YouTube Rami Elhanan interviewed for the book "Abraham's Children." Kelly James Clark will be hosting the upcoming conference "Liberty and Tolerance in an Age of Religious Conflict" scheduled for the 10th anniversary of 9/11 in Washington DC... A Must Watch video... Ground Your Warplanes, Save the Horn of Africa, by Ramzy Baroud | Palestine Chronicle  'When you are hungry, cold is a killer, and the people here are starving and helpless.' Not many of us can relate to such a statement, but millions of ‘starving and helpless’ people throughout the Horn of Africa know fully the pain of elderly Somali mother, Batula Moalim... Read more... Puppets in Revolt: Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan and the United States, by Prof. James Petras | Global Research Empires are built through the promotion and backing of local collaborators who act at the behest of imperial rulers. They are rewarded with the outward symbols of authority and financial handouts, even as it is understood that they hold their position only at the tolerance of their imperial superiors. Imperial collaborators are referred to by the occupied people and the colonial resistance as “puppets” or “traitors”; by western journalists and critics as “clients”; by the imperial scribes and officials as “loyal allies” as long as they remain obedient to their sponsors and paymaster... Read more... Iran to block Israel's theft of Lebanese oil/gas | Rehmat's World Lebanese Christian President Michel Suleiman warned the Zionist entity against taking any unilateral measures to exploit Lebanon’s resources in the demarcation of disputed maritime borders, vowing that the country would defend its Sea and land boundaries and rights through all legitimate means. The warning came after the Zionist regime’s approval of its new map of Eretz Yisrael which includes some portion of Lebanon’s maritime border... Read more... Palestine's UN Membership and International Law, by Martin Waehlisch | Palestine Chronicle ..Palestine’s admission to the UN is not decisive for its statehood. Usually, four elements are needed to be considered as a state. Following the Montevideo Convention on Rights and Duties of States of 1933, a state requires a permanent population, a defined territory, a government and the capacity to enter into relations with other states. Purely following the treaty, most criteria appear fulfilled by Palestine, at least in parts of it. However, the case of Palestine is special... Read more... Former 'Antiwar' Leader Shills for Obama, by Justin Raimondo | Antiwar The last person we need to hear from on the state of the antiwar movement is surely Todd Gitlin, the has-been "New" Left leader now a college professor of something-or-other. After all, it was none other than Gitlin, in the run up to the invasion of Iraq – and the biggest antiwar demonstrations since his own heyday – who took to the pages of Mother Jones magazine and criticized the antiwar movement for not "rebuking" Saddam Hussein... Read more... Barack Obama is Gutting the Core Principles of the Democratic Party, by Glenn Greenwald | Common Dreams The president's attacks on America's social safety net are destroying the soul of the Democratic party's platform... Read more... Rupert Murdoch's intellectual terrorism | Redress Information & Analysis Paul J. Balles views the corrupting influence of Rupert Murdoch and his media empire on the politics, culture and media of the English-speaking world... Read more... Antisemitism as defined by Congress and the US State Dept | Window Into Palestine  On Oct 16, 2004 AD, President Bush signed into law the global anti-Semitism review act; which is quite interesting. The United States state Department list the following sets of beliefs as being anti-Semitic... [Gosh, I guess that would make me an anti-semite on multiple counts - if I weren't already a "self-hating Jew"] Read more...The Enemy is Washington: An Economy Destroyed, by Paul Craig Roberts | Counterpunch Recently, the bond rating agencies that gave junk derivatives triple-A ratings threatened to downgrade US Treasury bonds if the White House and Congress did not reach a deficit reduction deal and debt ceiling increase. The downgrade threat is not credible, and neither is the default threat. Both are make-believe crises that are being hyped in order to force cutbacks in Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security... Read more... Settlers attack Palestinians and international observers with clubs and rocks | Mondoweiss Three settlers from the illegal Havat Maon settlement south of Hebron attacked a group of internationals on Monday in the Meshakna valley, a Christian peace group said. "Around 6.35 p.m. three settlers attacked two members of Operation Dove and one member of the Christian Peacemaker Teams with clubs and stones in the Meshakha valley outside of At-Tuwani in the South Hebron Hills," a CPT statement said... Read more, watch video... Think tank that promoted war w/ Iraq (& now Iran) was funded by Steinhardt, Saban, Bronfman, Feith and Marcus | Mondoweiss This is fabulous. Eli Clifton at Think Progress has blown the lid off the funding for the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, the neocon shop that helped give us the Iraq war and that "has become one of the the premiere DC organizations promoting more aggressive actions against Iran." The people who underwrite this stuff have traditionally remained anonymous... Read more... This Time on "What White People Think About Iran" by Nima Shirazi | Wide Asleep in America During Bloggingheads' latest installment of "What Do White, Jewish Think-Tankers in Washington D.C. Think the U.S. Should Do About Iran?" [*], former AIPAC spokesman Josh Block, now a fellow at the bizarrely-named Progressive Policy Institute (given its penchant for espousing hawkish foreign policy views, especially on Iran), gave a veritable tutorial on how to cram every long-debunked fear-mongering talking point about the Islamic Republic into a mere 50-minute conversation... Read more... Somalia: the Real Causes of Famine, by Michel Chossudovsky | Global Research For the last twenty years, Somalia has been entangled in a "civil war" amidst the destruction of both its rural and urban economies. The country is now facing widespread famine. According to reports, tens of thousands of people have died from malnutrition in the last few months. The lives of several million people are threatened. The mainstream media casually attributes the famine to a severe drought without examining the broader causes. An atmosphere of "lawlessness, gang warfare and anarchy" is also upheld as one of the major causes behind the famine. But who is behind the lawlessness and armed gangs?.. Read more... July 23, 2011 More Trouble in Murdoch World, by Mike Whitney | Intifada Palestine  Roger Ailes with Rupert Murdoch ..On Friday, Labor leader Ed Miliband called for a break-up of the Murdoch empire saying, “I think he has too much power over British public life…We’ve got to look at the situation whereby one person can own more than 20 percent of the newspaper market... I think it’s unhealthy.”..Read more... Why Israel cannot be The Jewish State, by Rachel Lever | One Democracy ...The title “Israel as a Jewish state” sums up the obsession and entire philosophy of the separatist vision of Zionism, as taught in its schools, as the basis of all propaganda and belief, as the central operating system for all parties from “left” to “right” and all religious shades from atheist to bible-thumping fanatics. The uniting factor is not so much who the state includes (which allows for exceptions when it suits them), but who the state excludes, who it is against, who has to be hated and despised and feared and ethnically cleansed... Read more... Kelly James Clark interviews Nurit Peled-Elhanan | YouTube ...Dr. Nurit Peled-Elhanan is a Lecturer in Language Education at Hebrew University in Jerusalem specializing in discourse in Israeli education with emphasis on visual and verbal presentation of Palestinian and non-western Jews. Since the death of her 13 year-old daughter in a suicide bombing in Jerusalem, Israeli peace activist Peled-Elhanan has worked to promote dialogue between Israelis and Palestinians... Read more, watch video... The Death of Democracy, by William A. Cook | Intifada Palestine  Contrary to Fox News and Benjamin Netanyahu, Democracy is neither alive nor well in the United States or Israel; indeed it is dying a slow, agonizing death as each nation writhes in pain in adjoining beds unaware that the intravenous feeding tubes controlled by their respective Knessets drip poison into their life sustaining veins... Read more... 10 Reasons Why America Is A Failed Terrorist State | Infowars The erosion of the American republic has been a long historical process that has reached its final stages. The erosion didn’t begin with President Barack Obama, or George W. Bush, or Bill Clinton. We have to trace the growth of America’s totalitarian terrorist state back to the establishment of America’s private central bank in 1913... Read more... Washington's No-Friends Franchise, by Tom Engelhardt | TomDispatch ..According to Thom Shanker of the New York Times, the U.S. military has gathered biometric data - “digital scans of eyes, photographs of the face, and fingerprints” - on 2.2 million Iraqis and 1.5 million Afghans, with an emphasis on men of an age to become insurgents, and has saved all of it in the Automated Biometric Information System, a vast computerized database. Imagine: we’re talking about one of every 14 Iraqis and one of every 20 Afghans. Who says America’s a can’t-do nation?.. Read more... PCHR Condemns Punitive Measures against Palestinian Prisoners in Israeli Jails | Palestinian Center for Human Rights  The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) strongly condemns the decision taken by the Israeli Prisons Administration on Wednesday, 20 July 2011, to stop the higher education program provided to the Palestinian prisoners. PCHR calls on the international community to exert pressure on Israel and compel it to respect international law and put an end to the systematic and continued inhumane and degrading treatment of more than 6,000 Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails and detention centres... Read more... Turkey vs the US: A Kinder Hegemon, by Eric Walberg | Dissident Voice Turkey’s foreign policy has changed dramatically since the collapse of the Soviet Union and the unrivalled ascendance of the US, Turkey’s principal ally since its founding as a republic in 1923. Formerly, it acted as a proxy for US power in the region... Read more... A Palestinian woman's response to Naomi Chazan on BDS, by Samah Sabawi | Mondoweiss There are good things to be said about Professor Naomi Chazan, a scholar of contemporary Africa and a former member of the Israeli Knesset (on behalf of the center-left Meretz party). When an extreme right-wing and US funded Israeli student group like "Im Tirtzu" runs a venomous campaign against her, smearing her (in the Israeli public eye) as "Naomi Goldstone-Chazan", it is safe to assume she has been getting some things right... Read more... September's War | Roy Tov  Bik’aa Meeting Point Jerusalem is trembling and bracing its dingy foundations for what is already being called the “Black September.” This is the name usually given to September 1970, when King Hussein of Jordan destroyed Palestinian organizations in Jordan. Thousands of Palestinians died until next July, when the PLO was expelled to Lebanon. It was the first public – though quietly so – cooperation between Jordan and Israel. The IDF and the Jordanian army created a corridor along the Jordan Valley through which the Palestinians were allowed to move northwards to Lebanon...Read more... Rupert's Empire of Slime, Saul Landau | Counterpunch Rupert Murdoch finally got his you know what caught in the proverbial ringer – for his employees’ hacking, not for contributing to the prolonged murder of English-language journalism. Wars, revolutions, famines and disasters occurred and Murdoch’s “journalists” juxtaposed lurid “blood” photos with half naked “Zoozoos” who divorced “Googoos” to wed “HooHahs.” Stories on poverty, unemployment and foreclosures get dwarfed by reports of Lindsay and Britney making X-rated videos before going into rehab. And millions bought his newspapers and watched – and rely on – his TV “news.”.. Read more... Fears of rebel atrocities after Gaddafi troops found dead, mutilated | YouTube A mass-grave of alleged pro-Gaddafi soldiers has been discovered in a rebel-controlled area in Libya, according to British newspaper The Telegraph. The location was swiftly bulldozed after the discovery, suggesting an attempt to cover-up the killings. The bodies were reportedly mutilated, adding to the recent concerns of human rights abuses by rebels. Such crimes are being swept under the carpet to support NATO's cause in the region... Watch video... July 22, 2011 Israel and the Freedom Flotillas: "Clever Madman" by Eric Walberg | Global Research  The Flotilla, composed of well-meaning, perhaps naive peaceniks, was never intended to best the world’s most dangerous and highly militarised society. With virtually all the world’s governments in thrall to Israel, its sole purpose was first, to show Palestinians that they have the world’s people behind them and to encourage them to keep up their heroic resistance, and second, to highlight just how reprehensible Israel is as a state, how unprincipled and untrustworthy as a partner... Read more... TIAA-CREF Client Alert: Your funds invest in human rights abuses | YouTube Although TIAA-CREF provides socially responsible investment funds and has as its motto "Financial services for the greater good," it invests in companies that profit from Israel's illegal occupation of the Palestinian West Bank including the building of Jewish-only settlements, the diverting of 80% of the West Bank's water to Israeli-only uses, the uprooting of ancient olive groves and the attendant violence employed to impose these actions upon the indigenous population... Watch video... Jewish settlers are terrorising Palestinians, says Israeli general, by Catrina Stewart | The Independent A senior Israeli army commander has warned that unchecked "Jewish terror" against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank threatens to plunge the territory into another conflict... Read more... 1 Million Dead in Iraq? 6 Reasons the Media Hide the True Human Toll of War - And Why We Let Them, by John Tirman | AlterNet As the U.S. war in Iraq winds down, we are entering a familiar phase, the season of forgetting—forgetting the harsh realities of the war. Mostly we forget the victims of the war, the Iraqi civilians whose lives and society have been devastated by eight years of armed conflict. The act of forgetting is a social and political act, abetted by the American news media. Throughout the war, but especially now, the minimal news we get from Iraq consistently devalues the death toll of Iraqi civilians... [What's the problem? They're just goyim - or were.] Read more...Global Economic Crisis: Finance Is the New Mode of Warfare, by Prof. Michael Hudson | Global Research When I was in Norway earlier this year, one of its politicians sat next to me at a dinner and said, “You know, there’s one good thing that President Obama has done that we never anticipated in Europe. He’s shown the Europeans that we can never depend on America again. No matter how good he sounds, no matter what he promises, we’re never again going to believe the patter talk of an American President. Mr. Obama has cured us. Our problem is what to do about the American people that don’t realize this nightmare that they’ve created, this smooth-talking American Tony Blair in the White House... Read more... Bahrain: Washington and London Endorse Dialogue With Tyrants, War Criminals and Torturers, by Finian Cunningham | Global Research Efforts by the US and British-backed Bahraini regime to repair its international image over human rights violations are in tatters with the revelation that senior members of the oil kingdom’s royal family have been personally involved in torturing hundreds of civilian detainees, including doctors and nurses. One of the torturers-in-chief is Captain Nasser Al Khalifa, son of the king. He graduated this year “with honours” from the US Marine Corps University at Qantico, Washington... Read more... Israeli killed in New Zealand earthquake was Mossad agent, by Sefi Krupsky | Haaretz New Zealand security officials suspect Israeli Mossad agents were trying to obtain sensitive information from the state's databases, reported the local Southland Times newspaper on Tuesday. Authorities suspect that one of the agents was Ofer Mizrahi, one of three Israelis killed in the earthquake in the city of Christchurch last February... Read more... Neocons Fume Over US Boat to Gaza, by Ray McGovern | Antiwar My co-passengers and I of the U.S. boat to Gaza have now gone from “High-Seas Hippies,” according to the right-wing Washington Times, to participants in a flotilla full of “fools, knaves, hypocrites, bigots, and supporters of terrorism,” says Alan Dershowitz in his usual measured prose... [In a sane society people like Dershowitz would be locked up and cared for in an institution for the criminally insane.] Read more...Israel not even pretending to be a democracy anymore, by Uri Avnery | Veterans News Now  Uri Avnery Still Fighting in His 80's ...Fifty one years ago, on the eve of the Eichmann trial, I wrote a book about Nazi Germany. In the last chapter, I asked: “Can It Happen Here?” My answer still stands: yes, it can...[Actually, it was as inevitable as the coming dissolution of the Jewish State, which can no longer pretend even to be a State, rather than merely an ethnofascist fantasy. What is extraordinary is the extent to which the history of Israel and the US have paralleled one another for the last 50 years or so. Hardly coincidental.] Read more...More on the 'Most Incredible' Fox News Travesty, by James Fallows | The Atlantic Last night I mentioned the virtually impossible-to-believe Fox and Friends segment in which the News of the World was presented as another victim of a hacking episode, rather than as the perpetrator. If you haven't seen it yet, please: you owe it yourself to watch at least the first 90 seconds... Read more, watch video... America's Disappeared, by Chris Hedges | Truthdig Dr. Silvia Quintela was “disappeared” by the death squads in Argentina in 1977 when she was four months pregnant with her first child. She reportedly was kept alive at a military base until she gave birth to her son and then, like other victims of the military junta, most probably was drugged, stripped naked, chained to other unconscious victims and piled onto a cargo plane that was part of the “death flights” that disposed of the estimated 20,000 disappeared... Read more... Nuclear Weapons and Hypocrites in High Places, by Eileen Fleming | Veterans Today “Confidential: The Life of Secret Agent Turned Hollywood Tycoon Arnon Milchan,” is an unofficial biography about the Hollywood producer, longtime weapons dealer, Israeli intelligence agent and close friend of Israeli President Shimon Peres... Read more... Huseyin Oruç talks to Silvia Cattori: Whenever the Palestinians need it, the Mavi Marmara will go | Gilad Atzmon ...We did not withdraw from the coalition. We are part of the coalition. We officially are continuing to support the “Freedom flotilla”. IHH is one of the members of the Steering Committee of the “Flotilla 2”. I am the deputy of IHH (Humanitarian Relief Foundation) and a coordinator of the “Freedom flotilla.” The only thing is that the “Mavi Marmara” ship could not join the vessels in this second mission of the “Freedom Flotilla” since repair and maintenance works on the ship have not been completed... Read more... The US Congress is a whorehouse! A total puppet-parliament owned by a foreign and hostile power! | YouTube A puppet-parliament dominated by greed, corruption, self interest and a foreign power...It is sad and pathetic. ~ Gilad Atzmon Watch video... Ape With AK-47 | YouTube Note to the IDF: don't give a loaded weapon to a settler rabbinical student... Watch video... Feltman Visits Brandishing the Dahiyeh Doctrine and Neocon, by Dr. Franklin Lamb | Therearenosunglasses Libyan civilians have learned a thing or two from three decades of Lebanon’s experience with Israel’s five wars against that Levant country. Indeed NATO is using the same bombing, media, political and diplomatic strategy in Libya that Israel employed most recently in Lebanon during its 33 day July 2006 war... Read more... July 21, 2011 Jailed Palestinian leader Barghouti calls for mass rallies to back UN statehood bid | Haaretz  Jailed Palestinian leader Marwan Barghouti in August 2002 ..Jailed leader Marwan Barghouti has called on Palestinians to stage mass rallies in September in support of a diplomatic bid to gain UN membership for a state of Palestine. Barghouti, a figure widely respected among many Palestinians, said taking the statehood quest to the United Nations was part of a new strategy that would open the door to "peaceful, popular resistance"... Read more... 21st-century 'sanitized' killing - Deadly drones a video game for CIA officers: RT interviews Philip Giraldi | YouTube Watch video... The drama now playing out on the high seas off the coast of Gaza has captured the world’s hearts. The tiny Dignité/Karama, sailing under a French flag, left Corsica on 25 June, and has been chugged along for the past weeks mostly in Greek waters. Its last stop was the Greek island Kastellorizo on Saturday, after which it headed south. The 16 passengers onboard view themselves as representatives of the entire Freedom Flotilla II: Stay Human. The rest of the Flotilla’s ships have all been detained in Greek ports, some sabotaged, others on technicalities, and when that failed — the withdrawal of their flags... Read more... The Future Is Palestine, by Jeremy R. Hammond | Palestine Chronicle  There is hope The U.S. has long opposed any 'unilateral' action on the part of the Palestinians to seek fulfillment of their right to self-determination, and there is a very real threat that if the Palestinian Authority goes to the United Nations in September seeking international recognition of Palestinian statehood, the U.S. will respond by cutting or eliminating aid that the P.A. has come to depend on in order to function... Read more... Do these facts fit your paradigm? by John Spritzler | shamireaders Prince Walid bin Talal bin Abdelaziz Al-Saud, the second biggest shareholder in News Corporation after Murdoch, recently gave an interview, on his yacht, to the BBC flagship programme Newsnight. The Saudi prince declared himself "a good friend" of Rupert Murdoch and his son James Murdoch (probably the next executive to be charged by the police in the scandal). He defended both men briskly, but in doing so drew attention to the fact that he is the second biggest shareholder in the Murdoch empire, and that the Murdochs were major shareholders in his own Rotana media empire in the Middle East... Read more... The top marginal income tax rate: 100 years at a glance | shamireaders  Does anybody still believe in the paradigm that says President Obama or the Democratic Party is on the side of the middle or lower class, and standing up against the plutocracy?.. [And the brain dead TeaPartiers call him a "socialist"] ~ Also from John Spritzler's post to shamireaders Bad news for Murdoch can only be good news for Palestinians, by Omar Radwan | Middle East Monitor ...The effects of this scandal and of Murdoch's fall from grace will be felt all over the world. As far as the Palestinians are concerned, bad news for Murdoch can only be good news for them. Murdoch's deeply held sympathy for Israel and his enmity towards the Palestinians is clear for all to see. His tabloid press have a track record of Islamophobia and of stirring up hatred against Palestinians... Read more... A true American hero: Woman grabs, twists breasts of TSA agent in response to 'enhanced' screening protocols | Natural News The next time you are assaulted by TSA agents at the airport that try to force you through the naked body scanner or perform a full-body grope down on you, why not just grab them back? [Apparently there are a few Americans left who are not in a coma.] Read more...Boycott the state, not just the settlements, by Yousef Munayyer | Al Jazeera English  The West Bank settlement of Ariel thrives, but it is economically viable only due to the Israeli government's support Recent legislation passed in the Israeli Knesset, which many people call the "Anti-BDS" bill, has raised a number of questions about a rising tide of "fascism" in Israel. This language is not only used by Palestinian critics, who have long borne the brunt of Israel's undemocratic policies. Now, many Israeli and Jewish-American writers can no longer ignore the trend...Read more... US-Based Egyptian Scholar Mamoun Fandy Blames US Aid for "the Ruin of Egypt" | YouTube [Edited/Translated by MEMRI, Mossad's free misinterpretation service for Middle-Eastern languages] Watch video...Egyptian Presidential Candidate on America's "Gang-Like Political Assassination" of Bin Laden | YouTube [MEMRI again] Watch video... Postmodern Imperialism: Book Review by Jim Miles | Palestine Chronicle  The many stages of imperialism are often brought into debate about whether the current U.S. foreign policy, or any U.S. foreign policy, is an imperial project. Eric Walberg’s clear and concise presentation of the “great games” centred on the ancient Silk Road from China through to Eastern Europe presents a definition of imperialism that spans all of humanities’ empires... Read more... America's Open War Against Yemen's People, by James Gundun | Palestine Chronicle He may not be aware of it, but President Barack Obama recently received a letter from Yemen's Coordinating Council for the Youth Revolution of Change (CCYRC). One of the leading street coalitions demanding freedom and equality in a country divided by its ruler, the nebulous Ali Abdullah Saleh, CCYRC celebrated America’s Independence Day and wished prosperity on “his excellency” Obama. Yemen’s revolutionaries, CCYRC counseled, seek the same freedom that American revolutionaries fought and died so valiantly for... Read more... Turkish Democracy Gives Rise to Turkish Power, by Phyllis Bennis | Interlink Books ...It’s certainly possible that some time in the future the AKP’s almost 50% victory this year, its third and highest electoral win since coming to power in 2002, will be seen as consolidating a new and different kind of Turkish elite, but so far the prospects seem far brighter than that. In fact, Turkish democracy – which this year achieved an impressive 87% voter participation rate – appears far more vibrant, representative and creative than any of our flawed, struggling examples with which we in the U.S. may be more familiar... Read more... July 20, 2011 History Always Repeats With Government Oil Banking Fascists, by Tom Valentine | Veterans Today  The following Appeared in Newsreal Magazine in summer of 1977, and was taken from an earlier article in the Christian Science Monitor. This writer got to know Harlan Trott and therefore learned just how accurate was his reporting. Subsidies are simply corporate welfare; and the oil boys have been guzzling from the public trough since the first Rockefeller/Rothschild monopolies... Read more... Declassified: Massive Israeli Manipulation of US Media Exposed | Intifada Palestine Files declassified in America have revealed covert public relations and lobbying activities of Israel in the U.S. The National Archive made the documents public following a Senate investigation. They suggest Israel has been trying to shape media coverage of issues it regards as important... Watch video... The method in Netanyahu's madness: Israel rules out non-violence, by Jonathan Cook | Mondoweiss It was an Arab legislator who made the most telling comment to the Israeli parliament last week as it passed the boycott law, which outlaws calls to boycott Israel or its settlements in the occupied territories. Ahmed Tibi asked: “What is a peace activist or Palestinian allowed to do to oppose the occupation? Is there anything you agree to?”.. Read more... Aftermath of Israeli Anti-Free Speech Law Passage | Stephen Lendman Buoyed by passage of their anti-boycott bill, Knesset Yisrael Beitenu and Likud party extremists taste blood and want more. Most worrisome is a proposed measure to investigate leftist group activities, heading for a final vote next week... Read more... Welcome to Palestine: Nabi Salih | YouTube Every friday there is a peacefull demonstration in Nabih saleh. Last friday, it was a colourful children's day with clowns, spidermen, kites and... teargas. Watch video... Rahm Emanuel: Chicago's War Criminal/Anti-Labor Mayor | Stephen Lendman  Since taking office, however, Emanuel waged war on Chicago workers, implementing austerity like Obama's doing nationally at a time massive stimulus is needed. Sworn in on May 16, his 25-minute address mimicked Obama, calling for "shar(ing) the necessary sacrifices fairly and justly." In other words, make working Chicagoans sacrifice so corporate interests and city elites share, the same cancer metastasizing across America, destroying an earlier time long gone... Read more... Gaza Flotilla Blocked: IDF boards last aid ship | RT on YouTube The Israeli military have boarded a ship of pro-Palestinian activists en route to Gaza, which is subjected to a naval blockade. No resistance was apparently put up. Watch video... US not wavering from future Iran invasion: Interview with Mark Dankof | PressTV Enemies of Iran who profess to fight a war against terror are financing, protecting and steering major terrorist groups to create sectarian strife in Iran to pre-empt an intervention... Read transcript, watch video... Auschwitz: The Comedy | YouTube A comedy about holocaust denial [I have a friend who has suggested the most likely origin of the Gas Chamber story, which since then has become the central pillar of the Holycause. It seems that the guards at Auschwitz, employing typical peasant humor at the expense of those whom they had previously feared and hated but now controlled, told the arriving inmates that the shower building was actually a place where they gassed the Jews. Already in a state of shock at what had just happened to them, they fell victim to this cruel joke in the grip of group hysteria. Later on, the Zionists used this myth as the basis for its most powerful propaganda, which the Allies also found useful to justify what they had done, and were continuing to do to the Germans, and as partial recompense for doing nothing to help the Jews during the war. Perhaps some day the truth will out. One thing seems pretty certain though - there were no gas chambers.] Watch video... The Dark Truth About 9/11 Emerges From The Fog of Infowar | The Excavator Once the summer ends, we will hear more talk about another world war as Israel's delusional leaders begin to direct their brainwashed army towards Lebanon, Syria and Iran. Nuclear war is on the demented minds of Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Minister of Defense Ehud Barak. Peace was never an option for these two restless men whose minds are clouded by extreme hatred, and evil desires. They will do anything to stop a Palestinian state from coming into being, including starting world war three by bombing Iran... Read more... Tolerance and human dignity - Israeli style, by Zulaikha Abdullah | Middle East Monitor  After over half a decade of opposition, wrangling and controversy, the so-called 'Museum of Tolerance', sponsored by the US based Simon Wiesenthal Centre (SWC), last week received final authorisation for its construction over a 12th Century historic Muslim Cemetery in Jerusalem. The permit, we are told, was awarded by the Israeli Ministry of Interior's District Planning and Construction Committee, rather than the Jerusalem Municipality, due to 'the sensitivity of the site'. But surely, such an affront to the rights and dignity of Muslims in Jerusalem and beyond; and to the values of mutual respect and common decency, not to mention the violation of international law, is abhorrent regardless of whom the perpetrators are... [The ultimate oxymoron; See also Haaretz article Jews and Muslims unite against Jerusalem Museum of Tolerance] Read more...Ventura Threatens To Vacate US Over TSA Groping, by Paul Joseph Watson | Prison Planet Former Governor Jesse Ventura has promised to never fly again in the U.S. and could even seek Mexican citizenship if a lawsuit that charges the TSA with violating the Americans with Disabilities Act for touching the genitals of travelers is struck down by a federal judge this week... [C'mon down, amigo. We expat gringos will welcome you with open arms. No way you'll win your lawsuit; they've got all of America by the balls.] Read more, watch video...CIA veteran: Israel to attack Iran in fall | Al Jazeera A longtime CIA officer who spent 21 years in the Middle East is predicting that Israel will bomb Iran in the fall, dragging the United States into another major war and endangering US military and civilian personnel (and other interests) throughout the Middle East and beyond. Earlier this week, Robert Baer appeared on the provocative KPFK Los Angeles show Background Briefing, hosted by Ian Masters. It was there that he predicted that Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu is likely to ignite a war with Iran in the very near future... Read more... Murdoch is not the only maggot in the rotten apple | Redress Information & Analysis Stuart Littlewood argues that the rot in the British body politic goes much deeper than those whose reputations have been tarnished through complicity with Rupert Murdoch's empire, and that the British people must mobilize to reclaim their institutions that have been hijacked by Israel’s stooges and agents of influence... Read more... Deadly NZ Quake Uncovers Israeli Spy Ring | NYT Three Israelis died in the quake that killed 181 people. Other Israelis escaped the quake. The Fairfax newspaper group, which didn't state how it obtained the information, said one of the Israelis who died was carrying at least five passports... Read more... July 19, 2011 Facing the World and Facing Ourselves, by Dr. Lawrence Davidson | Intifada Palestine  There are also powerful lobbies in the area of foreign policy and their influence allows them to skew policy formulation away from any objective national interest toward the fulfillment of their particular parochial interestsIn terms of the Middle East, the Zionist lobby, surely commands the political field. And that means that ultimately, it commands Obama too”.. Read more... Debtocracy | YouTube For the first time in Greece a documentary produced by the audience. "Debtocracy" seeks the causes of the debt crisis and proposes solutions, hidden by the government and the dominant media... [For the sake of simplicity and putting things in a larger context, I call it Jewish economics. If that bothers someone, I can't say that I'm sorry but I can suggest, though, that they read up a little bit on Jewish cultural history, particularly as it bears on the tribal practices, attitudes and norms relating with money. At one time I tried to avoid "giving offense" but have since decided not to be cowed by politiical correctness (yes, a largely Jewish intellectual innovation due to obvious although probably unconscious motivations) and just tell it like it is.] Read more...Congress Blesses Israel's Matrix of Control, by James M. Wall | Intifada Palestine ..To be trapped in a colonial mindset is to be linked to a a matrix of mind control that deadens our hearts, our minds, and yes, our souls. Not convinced? You still believe that our political leaders, our church leaders, and our media controllers tell us the truth about Israel?... Read more... Israeli Leaders Understand the Futility of Military Adventure Against Iran: Interview with Abolghasem Bayyenat by Kourosh Ziabari | Intifada Palestine What follows is the complete text of my in-depth interview with Mr. Bayyenat in which we discussed the standoff over Iran’s nuclear program, the prospect of Iran-West relations and the politics of Israel’s nuclear activities... Read more... 9/11 and Israel: Alan Sabrosky's Shocking Press TV Interview, by Gordon Duff | Veterans Today ..Sabrosky’s case, presented with much clarity, plants responsibility for 9/11 at the feet of Israel and Americans whose loyalties, if we can call them that, are certainly not to the United States. That these “Americans” now believed to be complicit in the planning and execution of the 9/11 terror attacks are, for the most part, officials of the government, is telling. Their complicity couldn’t be more obvious if they were caught standing with the detonation switches in their hands... Read more, watch video... The United States Needs a Broad-Based Anti-War Movement | Voters For Peace ..For the last decade, with President Bush in office the peace movement has been politically left and Democratic leaning. The right wing has been kept off the stage as a result the anti-war movement does not reflect the breadth of American opposition to war. For too long the peace movement has been like a bird with only a left wing. It can barely fly and when it does it seems to go in circles. Perhaps a bird with two wings will fly better?.. [It needs to be an "Alliance" party, consisting of those who see the elephant in the room, or revolution.] Read more... Jewish Democracy for Dummies | Gilad Atzmon  In the 'Jews Only State', democratically elected politicians are suspended from the Parliament for basically being Palestinians and representing Palestinian interests. I can only guess that this is what the Israelis mean when they insist upon being called the ‘Only Democracy in the Middle East’... Read more... Gender racism in 'ME's only Democracy' | Rehmat's World Imagine Hillary Clinton’s reaction to an International Project Management conference held in Tehran, addressed by Iran’s finance minister Dr. Shamseddin Hosseini and Tehran’s Mayor Mohammed Baqer Qalibaf – but women are not allowed to participate! I bet Dr. Susan Rice may call for UNSC meeting to discuss this violation of women’s rights in a country ruled by fanatic Muslim cleric... Read more... Human Trafficking in the Jewish State | Gilad Atzmon A shocking Israeli TV documentary. We are dealing here with the ultimate corrupted society... [It is commonly reported that there are at least 200 such brothels in Tel Aviv alone. The girls are mostly trafficked from Eastern Europe; they do love their shiksas, preferably helpless. I've read that the Rabbis sometimes don't even remove their hats.] Watch video...What would you say to Jews who don't believe Israel should exist? | YouTube [The hive mind is alive and well. The insects are equipped with a lethal venom and will continue to wreak havoc on the rest of humanity unless we take action. Israel must be wiped off the map and all Zionists - of whatever religious or ideological persuasion - either be prosecuted for their crimes or treated for mental illness, or, as Atzmon puts it, pre-traumatic stress disorder.] Watch video...'Murdoch behind 9 11, Iraq, Afghan wars and financial meltdown' | PressTV on YouTube Veterans Today Senior Editor, Gordon Duff, on Press TV. The subject is Rupert Murdoch, Fox News, Israel and the recent spy and bribery scandal... Watch video... How they define anti-Semitism | Rehmat's World ..The Israeli establishment tries to present itself as the legitimate representative of the entire Jewish people, a proclamation that is all too often accepted without any criticism in Germany and throughout Europe... [And in No. America, but they sure don't represent me or thousands of other Jews who utterly reject this pernicious tribalism, accurately expressed as "zionazism."] Read more...Israeli Math, by Wayne Madsen | Opinion Maker Amiram Magid, who resides in Jerusalem at the Israeli Foreign Ministry, has been promising the Caribbean states security and intelligence assistance in return for their votes in the UN General Assembly against recognition of Palestine's sovereignty... Read more... Oh Danny (Shapiro) Boy | Mantiq al-Tayr  Israeli Vice President for American Affairs (IVPFAA) Barack Obama put his 2012 election campaign into high gear recently by nominating a “Middle East Specialist” who just happens to “love” Israel, whose sister works for an organization whose job it is to get American Jews to love Israel, and whose only real Middle East expertise is about how great and wonderful Israel is, to be the next US ambassador to Israel. Jewish organizations seem to love the selection as much as the selectee loves Israel. Yup, Daniel B. Shapiro will soon be “your” representative in the Jewish State... Read more... Ignorance today, by Massimo Pigliucci | Al Jazeera English ..Education has increasingly been transformed into a commodity system, in which the "customers" (formerly students) are kept happy with personalized curricula while being prepared for the job market (rather than being prepared to be responsible human beings and citizens)... Read more... Jewry's shrinkage vis-a-vis Palestinians, by Mohyeddin Sajedi | PressTV ..The Israelis face a big problem to keep their demographic superiority. The Israelis currently have a 75-percent superiority but the ratio is getting lower due to their low reproduction rate and the high rate of reverse migration. However, the population of the Palestinians is increasing, and Israelis will lose the majority in a few decades. In 1957, the ratio of the Israelis' population to Palestinians was 89 percent because they displaced a large number of Palestinians and attracted many immigrants, but this ratio will reduce to about 30 percent by 2050... [Maybe the problem will solve itself. Viva Palestina!] Read more...Ernst Zundel: Jewish Voraciousness Will Create Weimar Like Conditions In America And A Final Solution For the Jews In The US | Video Rebel's Blog The following video was made by Ernst Zundel in 2000. It is rather long. It is an interview with an Israeli reporter. Early into the interview he tells the reporter that voracious Jewish appetites will create Weimar like conditions in America. And this will lead to A Final Solution of the Jewish problem in the United States... Read more, watch video... Tables turn on Murdoch as scandal rocks his empire | SFGate To his many enemies, Rupert Murdoch is getting his comeuppance. Read more... Israeli Spying on the US: A Long History, by Sam Husseini | Counterpunch The Washington Post reported in a front-page story on May 7th, 1997 that US intelligence had intercepted a conversation in which two Israeli officials had discussed the possibility of getting a confidential letter that then-Secretary of State Warren Christopher had written to Palestinian leader Yasir Arafat. One of the Israelis had commented that they may get the letter from "Mega" - apparently a codename for an Israeli agent within the US government... Read more... NATO and the ungratefulness of the Libyan people, by Thierry Meyssan | Voltaire Network The Coalition of the Willing had come to Libya to spare civilians from Gaddafi’s murderous madness. Four months later, the Libyan crowds have deserted "Liberated Benghazi" and are staging gigantic anti-NATO demonstrations. Confronted with an unexpected political reality, the Atlantic armada has been left without a strategy. The Italians have started to pull out while the French are seeking an exit... Read more... Experts Warn of al-Qaeda Attack If Debt Ceiling Not Raised, by Kurt Nimmo | Infowars  Let the bankers crank up the debt even more It’s not enough to frighten Americans with personal financial disaster if the massive debt scam is not perpetuated. In order to send the message, the government has decided to stoke up the al-Qaeda threat...or this cave dweller and his operatives will get you Read more... Trained for Pain: Get your Torture Degree from School of Americas | RT on YouTube .."I was very much in favor of the School of the Americas during the Cold War era," Major Blair said. But Major Blair said he was horrified to learn of what his former students did with their anti-communist training in their own countries. "The classified manuals that the Army School of the Americas used had the words interrogate, extortion, assassinate, neutralize — in common layman's terms, it all equates to torture," Blair said... Watch video... In/Dependence Day: Foreign Intervention Behind Creation of South Sudan | Corbett Report on YouTube The world welcomed a new nation to the international community last week as South Sudan officially became its own country. Obtaining independence from Sudan on July 9th, the Republic of South Sudan became the 193rd member state of the United Nations in a general assembly vote earlier this week and Africa's first new country since Eritrea became an independent state in 1993... Read more, watch video... Remember, there's no point in saving the world if we don't cherish what makes the world worth saving, by Andrew Steele | America20xy These are scary times we live in. Often when we think about the false flag event of 9/11 and the wars based on lies that followed in association with the word “tragedy” we think about violence, death, the loss of civil liberties, and the loss of freedom around the world. Given the magnitude of these realities it’s easy for activists fighting this enormous monster to lose sight of the more seldom noticed tragedy– the divisions that were created in our country, and their impact on the relationships between individuals... Read more... Upcoming Holy Land Foundation Appeal for Justice | Stephen Lendman On September 1, the US 5th Circuit Appeals Court will hear arguments on behalf of five wrongly convicted Holy Land Foundation (HLF) principals... Read more... From Aloni to Zuabi: Flotilla Attacks | Roy Tov “Divide and Rule” is probably the best description of the Israeli policy towards the Arab world. It is also known as the “Salami System:” slice and eat, slice and eat; “eating it/him/her without salt” is a Hebrew euphemism for an easy target. The best example of this policy was the generous Israeli help – in a variety of ways - to the long animosity between Hamas and PLO; the recent reconciliation of the last two marked the Day Palestine was Born, regardless our still waiting for the formal declaration. However, this is the outwards implementation of Israeli violence, inwards it takes a different shape... Read more... The method in Netanyahu's madness: Israel rules out non-violence | Redress Information & Analysis Jonathan Cook argues that by outlawing non-violent protest against the Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories and the siege of Gaza and leaving only violence as a mode of resistance, Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and his supporters believe that they can "safeguard the legitimacy of the Jewish state - and destroy any hope of a Palestinian state being created"... Read more... July 18, 2011 Israeli Press Mum on Murdoch, by Marsha B. Cohen | Veterans Today  On July 10, Anshel Pfeffer, a columnist for Israel’s reputedly most liberal news site, Haaretz, wrote a straightforward, if scathing, news article about the accusations being levied against media mogul Rupert Murdoch. Pfeffer’s acerbic piece, aptly headlined “Shameful Journalism Puts Murdoch’s U.K. Empire at Risk,” like others making the front pages of newspapers and websites around the world, criticized the shady news gathering techniques engaged in by News of the World, a British division of Murdoch’s News International:.. Read more... Murdoch's Deeply Hidden Jewish Roots - A Biography, by Christopher Bollyn | Veterans Today ...While Murdoch may have “tried to hide” his Jewish roots, he has been quite forthright about his support for extreme right-wing Zionists, such as Benjamin Netanyahu and Ariel Sharon. Netanyahu, who wrote a book entitled The War on Terror: How the West Can Win in 1986, is a frequent commentator on Murdoch’s Fox News. Murdoch’s support for Zionism extremists is well known and a matter of record. As New York Governor George Pataki said, “There is no newspaper in the U.S. more supportive of Israel than the [Murdoch’s] New York Post.”.. Read more... We Can't Say This | Jewish Forward We could get in trouble for this. Not in New York City, where this editorial is being written, because legitimate comment is protected under the First Amendment. But our editorials, along with many other stories and columns in the Forward, also appear every Sunday in the English edition of the Haaretz newspaper in Israel. And now, with a new anti-boycott law approved by the Knesset and due to take effect in less than 90 days, the boundaries of free speech and legitimate expression have grown unpredictably and suffocatingly tight... Read more... 'US picks wrong allies again, cannot accept defeat in Libya': RT interviews Dr. Franklin Lamb | YouTube The U.S., along with more than 30 other nations, has decided to recognize Libya's rebels as the legitimate government of the country... Watch video... U.S. Trade Union Statement in Support of Palestinian Call for Full and Immediate Arms Embargo Against Apartheid Israel | Labor for Palestine (U.S.) Whereas, on May 4, 2011, the Palestinian Trade Union Coalition for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (PTUC-BDS) specifically called “on trade unions around the world to actively show solidarity with the Palestinian people by... divesting from Israel Bonds and all Israeli and international companies and institutions complicit in Israel’s occupation, colonization and apartheid”; and... Read more... Syria: Zionist Mobilization Kicks Into High Gear, by Jonathan Azaziah | Mask of Zion  ..The hasbara (propaganda) that is spread throughout the Zionist-owned mainstream media is identical in nature to a house of cards. No matter how imposing the house may be, remove one card from the structure, and it shall immediately collapse in an almost glorious fashion... Read more... Murdoch's World: Demagoguery, Propaganda, Scandal, Sleaze and Warmongering | Stephen Lendman Australian journalist Bruce Page authored a book on Murdock titled, "The Murdoch Archipelago," calling him: "one of the world's leading villains (and) global pirate(s)," rampaging the mediasphere, telling world leaders what he expects from them and what he'll offer in return. It's "let's make a deal," Murdoch-style that's uncompromisingly hardball, some on the receiving end calling it an offer they can't refuse... Read more... Israel is fulfilling settlers' expansionist dream, by Zvi Bar'el | Haaretz ...We should therefore take off our hats to that same exiled minority who dwell on rocky hills and in subsidized housing - who, from their place of exile, managed to bend the mother country to their will, to shape its image, to determine its laws, its budget and its foreign policy, and to fence in its citizens with the barbed wire of fascism... Read more... Dr Finkelstein in Defamation | YouTube This is a clip of Norman Finkelstein's two appearances in Yoav Shamir's documentary "Defamation". Also featured is Abraham Foxman, chairman of the Anti-Defamation League... Read more... Let's just suppose... by Ibrahim Hewitt | Middle East Monitor Let's just suppose that it was a Palestinian state holding 1.5 million Israeli Jews under siege to the point that their health sector was on the verge of collapsing, the economy was in tatters and almost 50% of adults were unemployed... Read more... July 17, 2011 The Israeli Jewish Theocracy Stomps on Democracy With a Ban on Boycotts, by Bob Johnson | Veterans Today  Less than two months after Adolf Hitler was made German chancellor the international When Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu on May 24th spoke to the "U.S." Congress which Israel has bought and paid for through the Israeli lobby, he bragged about how Israel is a democracy. Yesterday the Israeli Knesset has given the world yet another example of the lie that Israel is a democracy when it passed a new law which makes boycotts against the Jewish state and its illegal settlements on Palestinian lands illegal...Jewish community started a boycott of all German goods as part of their "war on Germany Read more... US Congress Loves Being Lied to about the Israel-Palestine Conflict, by Stuart Littlewood | Intifada Palestine ...why should Hamas or any other Palestinian party renounce violence against a foreign power that violently occupies their homeland, bulldozes their homes at gun-point, uproots their beautiful olive groves, sets up hundreds of armed checkpoints to disrupt normal life, batters down villagers' front doors in the dead of night, builds an illegal 'separation' wall to annex their territory, divide families, steal their water and isolate their communities, and blockades exports and imports to cause economic ruin. and now plans to steal Gaza's offshore gas?.. Read more... Enough Jihad by Email: When Will We March for Palestine, by Mohamed Khodr | Intifada Palestine ...Our modern era is acutely and tragically defined by dumb politicians, smart bombs, and an apathetic world detached from the machinations of corrupt, greedy, selfish and cruel elites who view the world as their playground for power and the entitled theft of nations and their resources... Read more... Palestinians report dramatic rise in attacks by Jewish settlers | The Raw Story  Attacks by Jewish settlers on Palestinian farmland and crops increased "dramatically" in June, a report released by the Palestinian Authority has shown... Read more... The railroading of Richard Falk, by Cecilie Surasky | MuzzleWatch Professor Richard Falk is a distinguished academic expert on international law with some 40 books under his belt and a lifetime of learning and teaching that has taken him on a journey through some of the best universities in the United States. Naturally, he was not on the radar of what Jewish feminist Letty Cottin Pogrebin calls the "Pro-Israel Mafia" until he was appointed to several high level UN Palestine-related posts including the U.N. Human Rights Council's Special Rapporteur on human rights in the Palestinian territories... Read more... Ex-CIA Agent Explains How Bloggers Can "Dump Congress On Its Ass" | YouTube Robert D. Steele, former spy, the son of an oil man, blows the cover off all the mess that is going on... Read more... NATO will be Defeated in Libya: A Defining Moment for Africa, by Gerald A. Perreira | Libya 360 The argument in Libya has been won by the Al Fateh revolution. There is now a glaring truth confronting the North Atlantic Terrorist Organization (NATO) - Muammar Qaddafi has handed out over one million kalashnikovs to the Libyan people. If he was the brutal dictator that NATO would have us believe him to be, then the armed population could have turned their guns on him and the revolutionary armed forces by now, especially as they would have NATO's full backing if they did so... Read more... USS Liberty Song 'Please Can You Tell Me', by Debbie Menon | My Catbird Seat  This is a Song Dedicated to the 34 Men Killed, and to the Survivors of the USS Liberty, Attacked by the Israelis on June 8, 1967... Read more... Leaving Afghanistan, by Gwynne Dyer | Common Dreams ...The United States stumbled into this civil war under the delusion that it was fighting Islamist terrorists, but in fact it has simply ended up on the side of the Tajiks, Uzbeks and Hazaras. That's who mans the "Afghan National Army" that the Western powers have been trying to build up with so little success: only three percent of its soldiers are Pashtuns, although Pashtuns account for 42 percent of the population... Read more... The Herem Law in the context of Jewish Past and Present | Gilad Atzmon ...Israel and Zionism then, has proved to be a short lived dream. It was initiated to civilise Jewish life, and to dismantle the Jewish self-destructive mode. It was there to move the Jew into the post herem phase. It vowed to make the Jew into a productive being. But as things turned out, neither the Zionists nor the 'anti Zionists' managed to drift away from the disastrous herem culture... Read more... 'Murdoch behind 9/11, Iraq, Afghan wars and financial meltdown': Gordon Duff interviewed by Press TV | Veterans Today  Read more, watch video... Crackdowns, Torture and Intimidation in Bahrain, by Stephen Lendman | OpEdNews Largely ignored by Washington, Western governments, and America's media, the ruling Al Khalifa monarchy continues cracking down brutally against nonviolent protesters since civil resistance began last February... Read more... US Recognizes Al-Qaeda War Criminals As Libya's Official Government, Tony Cartalucci | Infowars ...In an act of utter desperation as the brutal, though entirely ineffective, Libyan rebels flounder in their NATO-backed offensives against Libya's ruling government in Tripoli, the US has now recognized the Libyan rebels as the country's "legitimate government" allowing the US to directly fund, arm, and support with US troops, the Al-Qaeda tied war criminals operating out of Benghazi... [And why shouldn't the American war criminals give them the $30 billion they stole from the Libyan government? After all, they steal far more from the American people and they can thereby finance the "rebels" to do their dirty work for them.] Read more...Israeli thugs: organized criminals | Redress Information & Analysis Paul J. Balles compares Israel to a thug who knows he has protection and asks: "How long can Israel's thugs keep getting away with the travesty of justice that's no better than organized crime in America?".. Read more... July 16, 2011 Flotilla organisers consider sailing from Egyptian ports | Gulf News  Protesters denounce Greek President Karolos Papoulias ahead of his meeting with ...Pro-Palestinian activists in Egypt have taken up the flotilla's cause, inviting organisers to launch the fleet from Egypt after Greece made it clear that it would not allow the Freedom Flotilla 2 to launch from its ports...Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in Ramallah, the West Bank, on Tuesday Read more... Holocaust, Hate Speech & Were the Germans so Stupid?: Video by Anthony Lawson | My Catbird Seat Suppressing free and open discussion on any subject is as bad as telling lies, and knowingly suppressing the truth is the biggest lie of all, because it is based, not on a mistake or a genuine error, but on a deliberate intention to deceive... Read more, watch this superb video... A Normal Day in Palestine | Gilad Atzmon Watch video... http://www.gilad.co.uk/writings/a-normal-day-in-palestine.html#entry12124764 Hilarious: Islam-hating pseudo-Christian "terror expert" exposed by CNN | The Vineyard of the Saker Watch video... Arab Jews In Israel Start to Understand It All | Gilad Atzmon  In spite of being the majority amongst the Israeli Jewish population, Arab Jews are heavily discriminated in Israel, both culturally and economically. Due to Zio-centric pressure and Euro-centric culture, Arab Jews have been reluctant to openly explore their heritage... Read more, watch video... Zionism's favorite Iranian terrorists | Rehmat's World Early this month, a Congressional hearing was held on Capitol Hill to make a recommendation to Israel-Firster Hillary Clinton to take the Iranian terrorist group Mujahideen-e-Khalq (MEK) off the US terrorist list... Read more... Greenspan: Dumb Americans Deserve Unemployment, by Kurt Nimmo | Prison Planet The former boss of the Federal Reserve, Alan Greenspan, said the reason Gen-Xers are unemployed and suffering from a lower standard of living is because they are lazy, stupid, and unproductive. U.S. companies would be better off hiring immigrants... Read more... NATO's Debacle in Libya, by Alexander Cockburn | Counterpunch After three and a half months of bombing and arms supply to various rebel factions, NATO's failure in its efforts to promote "regime change" in Libya is now glaring... Read more... Culture is Resistance! | AIC  Held under the auspices of the Beit Sahour Municipality and the Palestinian Ministry of Culture, Culture is Resistance! featured interactive panel discussions and art performances in the fields of theatre, poetry, music, art and film... Watch video... The Blood on Murdoch's Hands, by David Swanson | Counterpunch Nailing Rupert Murdoch for his employees' phone tapping or bribery would be a little like bringing down Al Capone for tax fraud, or George W. Bush for torture. I'd be glad to see it happen but there'd still be something perverse about it... Read more... The Banksters and American Foreign Policy, by Justin Raimondo | Antiwar ...Conservatives and lefties may have different solutions, but they have, I would argue, a common enemy: the banksters. This characterization of the banking industry as the moral equivalent of gangsters has its proponents on both sides of the political spectrum, and today that ideological convergence is all but complete, with only "centrists" and self-described pragmatists dissenting. What rightists and leftists have in common, in short, is a very powerful enemy – and that’s all a mass political movement needs to get going... [Yes, if America is to survive as a democratic Republic, we need an 'Alliance' Party to unseat the execrable Republicrats.] Read more...Unfolding the Syrian paradox, by Alastair Crooke | Asia Times Can Syria properly be understood as an example of a "pure" Arab popular revolution, an uprising of non-violent, liberal protest against tyranny that has been met only by repression? I believe this narrative to be a complete misreading, deliberately contrived to serve quite separate ambitions. The consequences of turning a blind eye to the reality of what is happening in Syria entails huge risk: the potential of sectarian conflict that would not be confined to Syria alone... Read more... July 15, 2011 A Murdoch Produced Scandal, by Kourosh Ziabari | Intifada Palestine  The “News of the World” was voluntarily closed down on July 10, 2011 after it was revealed that the staff and workers at the magazine had been clandestinely hacking the phone conversations of a number of high-ranking public figures in the UK including politicians, members of Royal Household and also ordinary citizens for many years. This unprecedented incident hugely damaged the reputation of the Zionist media mogul Rupert Murdoch and his News Corporation and stirred a widespread controversy all over the UK... Read more... Will the U.S. Really Leave Iraq? by Dr. Lawrence Davidson | Intifada Palestine The time for U.S. withdrawal from Iraq is coming closer. In 2008 the United States and Iraq agreed to a Status of Forces Agreement that set a deadline of the end of 2011 for all American troops to leave the country. However, just like someone who starts to beg off a promise when the time for action approaches, U.S. officials are now expressing second thoughts... Read more... A Murdoch Note: A Word Or Two on What Isn't Being Said, by Gordon Duff | Veterans Today Today the British papers not owned by Rupert Murdoch “rumored” that he might be jailed. Americans, even Brits, have little or no idea what is at risk here. There is simply no one who can report it when the individual who, not only controls the world’s largest news organization turns out to be, well, what?.. Read more... 'ICC has lost legitimacy': Interview with Deepak Tripathi | PressTV Former US President George W. Bush has been called up, once again, to face prosecution by the Human Rights Watch (HRW) for the war crimes committed during his terms... Read more, watch video... Israeli legislators eye crackdown on High Court of Justice | Redress Information & Analysis  The onslaught on democracy has been incremental Neve Gordon argues that the adoption by the Israeli parliament of a law criminalizing calls for the boycott of Israel or the illegal Jewish settlements, and the expected passage of laws targeting human rights organizations, are precursors to the real prize for Israel’s MPs: crippling the High Court of Justice by making it impossible for judges to cancel unconstitutional laws...Read more... NATO and Rebel Atrocities in Libya | Stephen Lendman ...Like Obama and Britain's David Cameron, Sarkozy remains committed to press on despite low approval ratings ahead of next May's presidential election. The three main co-belligerents began hostilities to incite rebellion against Gaddafi or kill him. Instead, Libyans strongly support him the way populations usually respond when attacked by foreign powers, rallying behind leaders against them... Read more... Why Israelis must fight against the boycott law, by Gideon Levy | Haaretz ..we call not only on those who consider the damage caused by the settlements to be decisive, but also those who fear for the character of the country and the society in which they live - to boycott.To boycott, boycott and boycott. Not only the products of injustice, but the unjust regime as well. This law must now be boycotted... [It's quaint that Levy and Avnery and other brave souls who I much admire still think that Israel can be "reformed." The day will come when they realize that the only "reform" that matters is the dissolution of the inherently fascist state of Israel.] Read more...Murder of Arrigoni Still Shrouded in Mystery, by Nicola LoFoco | Palestine Chronicle ...not only was the life of a courageous and honest human being lost, but we also lost one of the few free voices that we can count on during such a dramatic time in the Arab world and Middle East... Read more... The real axis of evil, by Asif Haroon Raja | Asian Tribune ...Both Israel and India harbor ambitions of becoming world powers and are pathologically anti-Muslims. Despite being militarily strong and economically sound and enjoying full patronage of sole super power, the two keep raising specter of security threat and remain in a state of constant fear. Israel keeps bellowing that it has been constantly threatened to be pushed into the sea. Under the garb of security it keeps expanding its borders at the cost of neighbors... Read more... Confused Strategy: How the PA Sold Out Palestinian Unity, by Ramzy Baroud | Palestine Chronicle  Palestinians chanting for unity ...The PA is of course very vulnerable to threats, despite their insistence to the contrary. Once the US and others start to wave the withholding-of-funds card, any solid PA political program usually falters into perplexing and even self-defeating political babble. The lack of certainty in the PA’s political language could be attributed to fear that a single decision to withhold funds coupled with an Israeli decision to hold taxes collected on behalf of the PA, the government would not last for more than mere weeks... Read more... 14,931 NATO Sorties and for What?: Libyan Rebels Ambushed, by Patrick Cockburn | Counterpunch Pro-Gaddafi forces ambushed rebels advancing towards the capital Tripoli yesterday and recaptured lost territory, undermining US intelligence claims that the rebels are gaining the upper hand in the fighting... Read more... Israel Has Taken Leave of Its Senses: The Gaza Flotilla and the Blood-Dimmed Tide, by John Grant | Counterpunch ...Israel seems these days to many people, me included, to be determined to become a righteous international rogue state relying for legitimacy on a small pack of post-colonial western allies in gradual decline and led by men and women whose main challenge seems to be to hold onto a glorious, dominant past... Read more... From Dishwasher to Drug Kingpin: The Killing of Ahmad Wali Karzai, by Eric Walberg | Dissident Voice Afghan President Hamid Karzai's younger half-brother, Ahmad Wali Karzai, was killed in Kandahar on 12 July during a gathering in his house, according to Kandahar's Canadian Governor Tooryali Wesa. He was shot in the head and chest with a AK-47 fired by Sardar Mohammad, a former bodyguard to another Karzai brother Qayyoum... Read more... "Dignity" ship remains destined for Gaza, by Begoña Astigarraga | The Electronic Intifada  The Spanish hunger strikers in Athens The French vessel Dignité-al Karama is the only boat from the Freedom Flotilla II now sailing for Gaza in an attempt to break the maritime siege imposed by Israel. At the same time, six Spanish members of the humanitarian aid mission have undertaken a hunger strike in the Greek capital...Read more... The Military Industrial Complex: The Enemy from Within, by John W. Whitehead | New Jersey Today If there is any absolute maxim by which the federal government seems to operate, it is that the American taxpayer always gets ripped off, and Americans would do well to keep that in mind as Congress and the White House debate whether or not to raise the debt ceiling from its current high of $14.3 trillion... Read more... Obama's Secret Wars: How Our Shady Counter-Terrorism Policies Are More Dangerous Than Terrorism, by Fred Branfman | Alternet ...President Obama, a former constitutional law lecturer, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate and rhetorical advocate of the Rule of Law cannot possibly reconcile his previously stated beliefs with his creation of an "industrial-size killing machine" that sees U.S. leaders unilaterally hunt, kidnap and murder any person anywhere on earth -- including "the Homeland" -- whenever they feel like it, without outside oversight or their victims enjoying any legal or human rights whatsoever... Read more... Libya Campaign Was Staged To Reshape Africa: RT Interviews Thierry Meyssan | Intifada Palestine What is called public uprising of the free-loving people are actually coup attempts staged by the Western nations, Maysan says. The operation in Libya in particular is marked by an astounding number of lies fed to the public... Read more, watch video... France Says NATO Bombing Has Failed, by Franklin Lamb | Intifada Palestine ..“Our leader does this”, one young lady informed me first with a wide smile and then growing serious, “because the NATO bombing of Libyan civilians, which the US/NATO axis claims Qaddafi is doing, has caused his popularity to skyrocket among our proud and nationalist tribal people... Read more... July 14, 2011 Saudi Arabia, Zionism, Peace and the Palestinian Cause, by Haytham A. K. Radwan | Intifada Palestine  The attempts to destroy the Palestinian Cause have been on the drawing board of the Al Saud’s alliance with Zionism and the West for at least 63 years. Today, not only are they fighting against the legitimate rights of the Palestinian people to resist occupation, they are doing everything in their power to prevent them from returning to their indigenous land in favour of Israel... Read more... Rupert Murdoch: Anthony Blair's bagman | Redress Information & Analysis Christopher King considers whether the unravelling of Rupert Murdoch’s power in the UK will serve as a wake up call to British politicians whom for years he has targeted on behalf of the US and Israel... Read more... Slavoj Zizek and the Freedom Flotilla, by Israel Shamir | shamireaders ...Never has Jewish stock climbed to such dizzy heights; it has surpassed its historical limits, ascending to loony peaks that bespeak the Dotcom madness of 2000. Perhaps we could create a new index of political capital (the Dow Jews?) that rates the obsequious suck-ups coming from members of the US Congress. How high can it climb? How long can it defeat the law of gravity before the inevitable crash?.. Read more... Freedom Flotilla II: No to a Kinder, Gentler Siege, by Nadia Hijab | Intifada Palestine  It was never about aid. Freedom Flotilla II is, like its assaulted predecessor of a year ago, a political act. The passengers came together in shared determination to challenge Israel’s five-year siege of Gaza and to exercise their right to travel through international waters to Palestinian shores and, by so doing, support the Palestinian right to freedom... Read more... The fall of the house of Murdoch, by Jonathan Schell | Al Jazeera English ...The Murdochs call News Corporation a journalistic enterprise. In fact, it is, first, an entertainment company, with the bulk of its revenue coming from its film and television holdings. Second, and more importantly, it is a propaganda machine for right-wing causes and political figures... [If only this presaged the fall of the House of Rothschild - then the world might stop spiraling down the toilet.] Read more...Freedom Flotilla II: Final Thoughts - Another World Is Possible, by Stephen Lendman | AWIP ...Israel is a lawless, rogue state. "In the name of freedom, equality, justice and peace," it must be held fully accountable, starting with a full embargo, followed perhaps by UN expulsion for violating its charter principles and dozens of resolutions... Read more... Yes, I'll dare call it treason, by Cliff Schecter | Al Jazeera English  US infrastructure has been decaying over the past decade. Once upon a time, in a land that now seems to have been populated by tooth fairies and unicorns, there was a political party that had a set of core beliefs to which they actually adhered. Among them was that actually balancing the budget, as opposed to just talking about it, was sacrosanct. Slow change, while necessary, had to be balanced against the traditions of the United States, ones that had mostly served us well over two centuries...Nevertheless, Republicans are pushing for deep budget cuts Read more... Israelis, Palestinians must unite to end occupation, by Yitzhak Laor | Haaretz "The will of Israel" does not derive from civilian, minority-majority norms, nor is it based on a constitution that guarantees minority rights and defines when a minority has the option to rise up against the government. Instead, "the will of Israel" derives from an ultra-nationalist version of the Jewish religion... Read more... The boycott law is fascist, by Alon Idan | Haaretz The widely held view that the slew of anti-democratic laws legislated by the 18th Knesset is a slippery slope to Fascism in the future is disingenuous. The Boycott Law is Fascism: it is a categorically anti-democratic law whose goal is to annul any possibility of legitimate protest... Read more... The emperor has no economy, by Ted Rall | Al Jazeera English  Anger rises alongside increases in the real unemployment rate in the US, where the economy is not coming out of recession ...On its face the official narrative is false to a laughably Orwellian extreme. The recession is over; the recovery is well underway, they say. However, as The Wall Street Journal reports, the recovery is slow and mainly benefiting big business. "While the US economy staggers through one of its slowest recoveries since the Great Recession," the paper wrote July 5th, "American companies are poised to report strong earnings for the second quarter - exposing a dichotomy between corporate performance and the overall health of the economy."..Read more... Stupid Libya war doomed to fail as EU falling apart itself | RT on YouTube ... John Laughland - Director of the Institute of Democracy and Cooperation in Paris says France now realises it has to find a way out of Libya to avoid losing face... Read more, watch video... 'US is an example of a totalitarian state': Interview with Edward Corrigan | PressTV The US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) is running a secret facility and a prison in Somalia for 'counterterrorism' purposes... Read transcript, watch video... July 13, 2011 "Hysterical" Israeli reaction to Palestine solidarity fly-in, by Mel Frykberg | The Electronic Intifada  Six Israeli activists were arrested at Ben Gurion airport on 8 July Hundreds of armed soldiers and police spread throughout Ben Gurion airport in Tel Aviv on 8 July, arresting six Israeli activists for unfurling flags and chanting slogans in solidarity with the Palestinians. As well as arresting the activists, police had to physically protect them from a mob of their Israeli compatriots in the airport who punched, cursed and spat at them...Read more... UK staring into the abyss of a new Dark Age: Battle of Britain II is about to begin | Redress Information & Analysis Stuart Littlewood argues that the cancer in the British body politic exposed by the crisis engulfing Rupert Murdoch’s media empire and ignited by the gutter tabloid News of the World’s phone hacking and police bribery scandal, is only the tip of the iceberg and that the British people must now wake up to the Zionist lobby’s deadly stranglehold on the UK... Read more... Obama chains himself to Bush terror policies, by Ramzi Kassem | Al Jazeera English When Ahmed Warsame was captured by US forces in April, he didn't know that he would be interrogated on a ship at sea, then rendered to trial in New York City nearly three months later. It also probably didn't occur to the twenty-four-year-old Somali that he was to become a political football of national proportions... Read more... Israel's Knesset Passes Boycott Prohibition Bill | Stephen Lendman Israeli outrages never quit. Besides lawlessly stealing Palestine, slaughtering and dispossessing its people, occupying its remaining 22% for over 44 years, blockading Gaza, committing high-seas piracy and murder to keep out humanitarian aid, and arresting European and other human rights advocates showing up to protest, another example highlights Israel's rogue state status... Read more... Ottawa: '42% increase in anti-Semitism' | Rehmat's World ..It’s hillarious to read that Harper’s government in Ottawa which has for years claimed that “criticism of Israel amounts to old-fashined anti-Semitism” – and which banned British MP George Galloway, American Jewish academic Dr. Norman Finkelstein, Muslim scholar from India Dr. Zakir Naik and many others to speak at Canadian Campuses – is claiming that Canada is facing “unprecedented increase in anti-Semitic incidents especially on University Campuses... Read more, watch video... Israel's boycott law: The quiet sound of going fascist, by Bradley Burston | Haaretz This is the one. This is where the slope turns nowhere but down. When the Knesset passed the boycott law, it changed the history of the state of Israel... Read more... General Wesley Clark | YouTube [Just in case you missed this] Watch video...Why can't the ''rebels'' take Tripoli? by Basem Tajeldine | Pravda ...The despicable NATO "allies" weren't expecting to find such popular resistance in Libya. Many people are confused. How is it possible that the supposed "monster and mass murderer" - as the western corporate media describes Gaddafi - has endured various attacks on several fronts, while still commanding the courage and support of most Libyans? Why couldn't these terrorist "rebels" by land, sweep out "the tyrant most hated" by his people? Where does Gaddafi's strength reside?.. Read more... Zionists Won't Let You See This On Your TV | YouTube Here is the truth behind the middle east conflict. ask yourself: Why aren't Americans shown these honest facts on any of the over 1,700 major media outlets?.. Watch video... Organized Jewry has always been fascist, by Chris Moore | Judeofascism ...the problem with Jewry is that it is the most intricately and complexly tribalistic of them all. And its tribalism (aka nationalism, which, as Jewry practices it, morphs quickly into fascism) transcends all Jewish secular politics, from Left to Right... [See my essay Us vs. Them: On the Meaning of Fascism] Read more...Propaganda, Fear, Distractions & Interests: The Deadening Silence, by Joan Roelofs | Counterpunch ...why is there so much acceptance and so little protest against our government's illegal and immoral foreign policy?.. Read more... Born at a Checkpoint, by IRIN | Palestine Chronicle ..Last year the Lancet’s collaborators described vividly the terror of women waiting to give birth during Israeli bombing raids on Gaza in early 2009: They knew they might need urgent medical care at a time when they were trapped in their homes during the attacks. This year another of their researchers has looked at what happens to women already in labour who are caught at OPT checkpoints... Read more... Frank Rich Blasts Obama For Letting Wall Street Off the Hook, by Matt Taibbi | Rolling Stone ..I asked people in Washington why Wall Street would be throwing money at a guy who was out there on the stump pledging to reach into their pockets: Sadly, the answer to that question increasingly appears to be that Obama is, well, full of shit... Read more... The Case of Rachel Corrie: Colonel Pinky's Last Stand, by Hatim Kanaaneh | Palestine Chronicle The last session of the Rachel Corrie court case in Haifa had been repeatedly postponed on account of the weightiness of the witness. Colonel Pinhas Zuaretz, better known by his nickname, Pinky, was the commanding officer of the Gaza Division’s Southern Brigade at the time the late peace activist was killed. I decided to display my solidarity with my fellow countryman, to wear my heart on my sleeve so to speak. Lacking pink in my wardrobe I donned the loudest Aloha shirt I had with large off-pink flowery pattern... Read more... July 12, 2011 Counting the cost of a Palestinian state, by Yousef Munayyer | Al Jazeera English  Jerusalem remains contested as the desired capital of a future Palestinian state, Since the Palestine Liberation Organisation led by Yasser Arafat recognised the state of Israel over 20 years ago, the general framework for a claims-ending solution accepted by the Israeli and Palestinian leadership has been a deal that would create a Palestinian state in the West Bank and Gaza. But now, two decades later, that framework has been completely exposed as a sham, and the number of people who believe such a solution is achievable, let alone worthwhile, is consistently dwindling...yet divisive West Bank barriers have made this a further challenge Read more... Letter from Rich Forer My book Breakthrough: Transforming Fear into Compassion is now ranked number 7 in the "Palestine" category at Amazon. Four of the top six ranked books are the paperback and Kindle editions of Alan Dershowitz and Jimmy Carter's books. Number six on the list is Daniel Pipes' right wing treatise on Fatah and Hamas. If my book were to reach number one, in addition to replacing Dershowitz and Pipes, Amazon would make my book more available at other pages on their site regarding the Middle East. The book is now available in Kindle for only $5.99 (for other electronic formats it is available at my site for $5.99). Please consider purchasing the book for friends, relatives or anyone who you think might be open to learning about the core foreign policy issue of our time. Finally, here is a link to my TV interview in four parts. It has gotten a great deal of praise from people in Israel, the West Bank, Gaza and the U.S. Many Israelis thanked me for clarifying so many issues and for being the first Jew who had been very pro-Israel to explain in such clear terms how his transformation had taken place and the lessons learned. Again, please pass this on. Thanks, Rich Watch video... Roger Waters endorses BDS and speaks against Israeli anti-boycott law | YouTube Roger Waters supports those who will publicly declare their disregard of new Israeli anti-boycott law... Watch video... 'America: land of injustice': Interview with Ken O'Keefe | PressTV The number of the Americans behind bars has more than quadrupled in the past thirty years, indicating that more than 2 million people are in US prisons... Read transcript, watch video... The PLO is to "liberate" not to legalize partition, by Salman Abu Sitta | MEMO  "The artificial division between Areas A, B and C was supposed to be If political wisdom does not prevail, if no crucial decisions are taken in which ALL Palestinians are represented, and if we do not learn from the mistakes of the past by changing the previous policies and methods and those who made them, then we are embarking on a disaster greater and more catastrophic than that of Oslo. If today's relentless pursuit for the recognition of an "independent State of Palestine" had existed before 1947, we would have applauded it with enthusiasm, and sacrificed our lives for it, as did our people from 1920 onwards...erased from the map, and dropped from the discourse, in 1999. Instead, Israel has sanctified and perpetuated it." Amira Hass Read more... Palestinian civil society calls for military embargo of Israel | BDS Movement The largest Palestinian coalition encompassing all Palestinian political parties, trade unions, NGOs and mass organisations, the Palestinian BDS National Committee (BNC), today called for an immediate and comprehensive military embargo on Israel... Read more... Zionism & Multiculturalism, by Israel Shamir | Red Ice Radio To conclude our series on Zionism and multiculturalism, Israel Shamir joins us from Russia to share his perspective. Israel Shamir is an internationally acclaimed radical spiritual and political thinker, Internet columnist and writer. He is a champion of the "One Man, One Vote, One State" solution seeking to unite Palestine & Israel in one democratic state. Shamir's work and that of his contributors speaks to the aspirations of both the Israelis and the Palestinians seeking an end to the bloodshed... Listen, watch videos... Murdoch's dirty tricks against Palestinians, by Robert Lambert | Al Jazeera English  Perhaps someone will do us all a favor and put a stake through his heart Safe in the knowledge that Murdoch's News International phone hacking scandal will now be subject to forensic examination and extensive analysis, I will delve instead into the News of the World toolbox of dirty tricks to see what dark arts of the modern hacks' trade have been deployed against supporters of the Palestinian cause in recent years. In doing so I believe I will get closer to the heart of Murdoch politics - an important topic that will almost certainly remain untouched by any official inquiry into the criminality and immorality that has dramatically engulfed his media business in Britain...Read more... British Police Intelligence Analyst Tony Farrell: 9/11 And 7/7 Are Acts of Internal Tyranny | OpEdNews ...Farrell was expected to write an intelligence report by July 8, 2010, outlining the different types of terrorism threats to Britain's national security. But he was not able to carry out his mission because he found out that the government was carrying out terror attacks and falsely blaming Islamic groups for strategic and political gain. Farrell explained to Hall: "I felt sick as I was going through my work because all of a sudden I had that paradigm shift, whereby I could not in my conscience go along with this... Read more... Netanyahu Panics: American and European activists Flytilla, by James Wall | Intifada Palestine ...When the Israeli government discovered that a large contingent of American and European activists were coming to visit Palestine, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu went into his full military stance. He made one huge mistake. He forgot to ask: What is the enemy’s goal?.. Read more... America's Dirty War on Islam | Stephen Lendman ...America's media ignore how unjustly it harms millions of disadvantaged people. Instead, they regurgitate spurious high-profile case accusations, always when Muslims are affected. Most often they're men, occasionally women, bogusly charged with terrorism or conspiracy to commit it, when, in fact, they're guilty only of being targets of choice and/or being in America at the wrong time... Read more... Richard Falk, Cartoon and the Lobby | Rehmat's World  ..the cartoon was meant to show Washington’s double standards related to the International Criminal Court’s arrest warrants for Libyan President Qaddafi and his son. In all practical sense, ICC is a ZOG Judicial setup. A few years ago, it issued an arrest warrant for another sitting Muslim President of Sudan. However, it refuses to prosecute the US and Israeli mass killers... Read more... Netanyahu, the purveyor of hatred, by Akiva Eldar | Haaretz ...The well-orchestrated campaign to promote the idea that the Palestinians and their international supporters are delegitimizing "the very existence of the State of Israel" has turned all critics of the most right-wing government Israel has ever had into Israel-haters... Netanyahu prefers to sell hatred of gentiles. He knows that Israelis feel warm and cozy in the bunker, as long as it includes cheap cottage cheese... Read more... Flotilla, Flytilla and the prospect of "Civil Society Action" | Gilad Atzmon ...it seems that eight old yachts and a few hundred Easyjet passengers have managed to shake the entire Israeli society. Now try to imagine the potential impact of hundred of thousands of Palestinian refugees marching to their homes in Jaffa , Acre, Lod, Ramle, Haifa, Beer Shiva and Al Quds... Read more... Drone Wars: US Ramping Up Unmanned Air Strikes and Domestic Surveillance | The Corbett Report on YouTube Unmanned aerial vehicles are once again grabbing headlines as the UK government was forced to admit last week that an RAF drone killed four Afghan civilians and injured two others in an air strike in Helmsland earlier this year... Watch video... Who killed the Middle East peace process? by Stephen M. Walt | Foreign Policy  In case you missed it, veteran Israeli journalist Akiva Eldar has written a scathing denunciation of U.S. Middle East policy - and long-time Middle East advisor Dennis Ross - in Ha'aretz. His bottom line is that Oslo is over, yet the United States is still trying to convince the Palestinian leadership to buy into a diplomatic process that has been a cover for continued settlement building and has manifestly failed to bring them a state... Read more... BBC Bombast: Propaganda, Complaints And Black Holes of Silence | Media Lens On the BBC television news, the pulsing theme tune sets the tone: the world is a serious place and we, the BBC, are here to give it to you straight. The computer-animated intro, featuring the Earth encompassed by transmitted signals, together with the high-tech news studio, proclaims impeccable credentials. The newscaster.. looks directly into the camera with the requisite degree of gravitas. The message is clear: ‘You can trust us. We have no agenda. This is the BBC. This is The News.'. Read more... Israel's fifth columnists silence Sheikh Raed Salah, by Ibrahim Hewitt | MEMO Thousands of words have been written about the scandalous arrest of Sheikh Raed Salah by the British government in what is being seen as an attempt to silence him at the insistence of the pro-Israel Lobby. Supporters of the Sheikh from all sides of the political and religious divide in Palestine and beyond have stepped forward to condemn Britain's action; Home Secretary Theresa May should hang her head in shame that she has been prepared to sacrifice goodwill for Britain across the Middle East to please the right-wing media and lobbyists for Israel... Read more... Only Mass Arrests Can Shut Down 'Government By Corporate Dictatorship', by Gordon Duff | Veterans Today Republicans, using their control of the House of Representatives and Supreme Court are blackmailing America. Their threat? They say they will collapse our economy, shut it down and throw America into a total depression if we don’t agree to end Medicare and give the rich a tax free existence. They have more demands too, ones we haven’t seen yet. I suspect nuking Iran is on their list. There are a few lakes and streams not polluted yet... Read more... Multi-Billion-Dollar Terrorists and the Disappearing Middle Class, by Prof. James Petras | Intifada Palestine  ...The US government (White House and Congress) spends $10 billion dollars a month, or $120 billion a year, to fight an estimated “50 -75 ‘Al Qaeda types’ in Afghanistan”, according to the CIA... During the past 30 months of the Obama presidency, Washington has spent $300 billion dollars in Afghanistan, which adds up to $4 billion dollars for each alleged ‘Al Queda type’. If we multiply this by the two dozen or so sites and countries where the White House claims ‘Al Qaeda’ terrorists have been spotted, we begin to understand why the US budget deficit has grown astronomically to over $1.6 trillion for the current fiscal year... Read more... Hasbara Psychosis | Gilad Atzmon I cannot make up my mind whether this Hasbara clip is funny or stupid. What is absolutely clear is that, once again, the abuser and the murderer considers itself (herself) to be the 'victim'. Do they now admit being a psychotic collective? And who is the shrink? Is he the rest of us? Is he the gaze of the world?.. Read more, watch video... A Bishop, a Pope, and a Sheeple, by Dr. Ingrid Zundel | Veterans Today ...As Judge Ulrich Meinerzhagen shrieked at the conclusion of a recent Stalinist show trial that cost Ernst Zundel five years, it doesn’t even matter if there was a Holocaust or not, Herr Zundel! The law says you can’t question it! And, furthermore, not only can’t you question it, you good-for-nothing rogue, your own defense team cannot, either! Off with their heads, the whole lot! Words to that effect were actually spoken in Mannheim, believe it or not. That so-called German judge delivered himself of an Old-Testament curse in broad daylight. Even a bird will refuse to fly over your grave, Herr Zundel! In a courtroom in 2007. On behalf of Germany’s Zionist masters... Read more, watch video... July 11, 2011 The evils of unregulated capitalism, by Joseph E Stiglitz | Al Jazeera English  Looking at austerity measures implemented in the past, it becomes clear that they only leave those countries poorer and more vulnerable Just a few years ago, a powerful ideology - the belief in free and unfettered markets - brought the world to the brink of ruin. Even in its hey-day, from the early 1980s until 2007, US-style deregulated capitalism brought greater material well-being only to the very richest in the richest country of the world. Indeed, over the course of this ideology's 30-year ascendance, most Americans saw their incomes decline or stagnate year after year...Read more... Against All Odds: The Revolt in Yemen, by Ramzy Baroud | Counterpunch The Yemeni people are unrelenting in their demands for democracy. Millions continue to stage rallies across their country in a display of will that is proving the most robust out of all the Arab revolutions. The Yemenis face great challenges, however, including the political vacillation of their country's opposition, and the US' military and strategic interests in Yemen... Read more... Gaza and a Liturgy for Justice, by Ray McGovern | Antiwar We passengers on the U.S. Boat to Gaza represent a cross-section of America. Yet, if there is an emblematic trait that sets us apart from "mainstream" America, it is a common, radical determination to take risks to bring Justice for the oppressed — in this case, the 1.6 million people locked in an open-air prison on a narrow strip of land called Gaza... Read more... Start of the Season, by Kathy Kelly | Antiwar ...A grand drama is unfolding here in Greece, in Egypt, in Gaza, and throughout the world, which may end in sorrow or in jubilation largely depending on whether people of the United States are watching, and themselves getting ready to take the stage... Read more... Once More to Tahrir, by Max Strasser | Foreign Policy  Under a baking hot Egyptian afternoon sun, old women in full face veils mingle with teenage boys in designer jeans. Coptic Christians stand next to conservative Muslims, chanting together that they want freedom. Factory workers from the Nile Delta sit in tents, reading pamphlets passed out by web-savvy activists. The whole country is watching. On a Friday 147 days after Hosni Mubarak resigned from Egypt's presidency, tens of thousands of Egyptians are again taking to downtown Cairo's Tahrir Square to pressure their government to listen to their demands for change... Read more... The Eight Outrageous Costs Of The War On Terror | 24/7 Wall St. For the first time in U.S. history, America is fighting wars — in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan — funded almost entirely by U.S. government borrowing... Read more... Reagan mythology is leading US off a cliff, by Paul Rosenberg | Al Jazeera English As things stand today, the US is hurtling toward a budget showdown in less than a month. Either President Obama will once again capitulate to extreme Republican budget-slashing demands, making Democrats seem as much of a threat to Medicare as Republicans, and virtually ensuring a GOP electoral sweep in 2012, or the US will default on its debt for the first time in its history, most likely plunging the world economy back into another five-continent recession, also costing Democrats the 2012 elections. These are the options left for a president and a political class completely divorced both from reality, and its own history of how one of the three greatest US presidents of all time steered the country from the brink of collapse eight decades ago... Read more... Franklin Lamb in Tripoli: Libyans ask "Why Now?" | YouTube A fresh report from Tripoli on the mood and situation on the ground. Franklin Lamb is a well known International lawyer who provides regular updates from the Arab world... Read more... The Great Unravelling, by Stephen Lendman | OpEdNews Friday's jobs report threw more cold water on so-called recovery. Since 2008, Main Street America's been in Depression... Read more... Risk-Free And Above The Law: U.S. Globalizes Drone Warfare, by Rick Rozoff | Stop NATO  ...This September is the moment of truth for the United Nations Security Council and the U.N. General Assembly, despite the threatened U.S. veto. Members of both the Security Council and General Assembly are presented with a most unique of historical opportunities that rarely resurrect themselves to right a historical wrong and tragedy inflicted upon the Palestinian people living in refugee camps in the most deplorable misery in and out of their native land... Read more... 'US prisons system highly lucrative': Interview with Stephen Lendman | PressTV The United States government is jailing various ethnic groups in order to keep them “off the street and fill prison beds,”.. Read more... Audaciously Sailing On, With Hope! by Hagit Borer | Palestine Chronicle ...On August 23, 2008, Liberty, the first ship of the Free Gaza movement, sailed to Gaza, and its 41 activists were the first internationals to enter Gaza by sea in 41 years. Less than three years later, more than 500,000 people volunteered to sail with the Stay Human Flotilla. How many more this week? Next month? Next year? How many more coming by sea, landing in airports, marching at borders? Assembling in city squares and along boulevards? Challenging governments and corporations? Pushing against blockade after blockade? How many more rivers merging to flow to Gaza and beyond?.. Read more... Israelis can tell the whole story of Sudan's division - they wrote the script and trained the actors, by Fahmi Howeidi | Middle East Monitor ...Zionism adopted the principle of divide and conquer, and saw that the most effective way to fragment the Arab world was to create secessionist movements within it. In doing so, it sought the redistribution of power in the region in such a manner to make a group of marginal countries lacking unity and sovereignty, all the easier for Israel, in cooperation with non-Arab countries to control them one after the other later... Read more... Protests in Israel are not only legitimate, they're vital, by Gideon Levy | Haaretz The common perception of protests in Israel is that of an irritating public nuisance. Only rarely can Israel stomach a demonstration, provided it's a properly organized popular rally, a cultural gathering on a square, obviously with a license from the police... Read more... Sheila Bair's Exit Interview | NYT  It was midmorning on a crisp June day, and Bair, the 57-year-old outgoing chairwoman of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation — the federal agency that insures bank deposits and winds down failing banks — was sitting on a couch, sipping a Starbucks latte. We were in the first hour of several lengthy on-the-record interviews. She seemed ever-so-slightly nervous... [How did a real human being slip through the cracks and join the power elite?] Read more... Induced Fraud, by Jeff Gates | Intifada Palestine Even as the Berlin Wall was being reduced to rubble, the forces that have since dismantled the US economy were gaining power. Driven by the all-pervasive force of a consensus mindset, US firms embraced financial returns as their sole metric of success... Read more... Multi-Billion-Dollar Terrorists and the Disappearing Middle Class, by James Petras | Global Research The US government spends $10 billion dollars a month, or $120 billion a year, to fight an estimated “50 -75 ‘Al Qaeda types’ in Afghanistan ”, according to the CIA and quoted in the Financial Times of London (6/25 -26/11, p. 5). During the past 30 months of the Obama presidency, Washington has spent $300 billion dollars in Afghanistan , which adds up to $4 billion dollars for each alleged ‘Al Queda type’. If we multiply this by the two dozen or so sites and countries where the White House claims ‘Al Qaeda’ terrorists have been spotted, we begin to understand why the US budget deficit has grown astronomically to over $1.6 trillion for the current fiscal year... Read more... July 10, 2011 One Third of Libya Turns Out to Support Qaddafi in World Largest March Ever | Mathaba News  ...It has now taken an entire one third of the population of Libya, exasperated by the lack of truthful media coverage of the events in their country where the only murders that have taken place have been by the NATO-supported rebels which took over Benghazi, to take to the streets to prove the lie that they are being attacked by Qaddafi... Read more... 'US must deal with root of fiscal problem': Interview with Edward Spannaus | PressTV Press TV talks with Edward Spannaus who suggests that President Obama is fully in play with the wishes of the Wall Street elite and that he is ignoring key solutions that have forged recovery in past recessions... Read more, watch video... Spot the difference: Israel's Prussian heritage - and destiny? (A History Lesson) | Redress Information & Analysis Uri Avnery views the similarities between Prussia and Israel – and the Prussian heritage of Israel – and wonders whether the Jews-only state is destined for a similar fate to Prussia's... Read more... 'Wars to blame for US debt crisis': Interview with Paul Sheldon Foote | PressTV The prospect of a default looms ever larger as August 2, the designated deadline for debt limit increase, draws nearer and US congressmen fail to reach a compromise on the debt ceiling... Read transcript, watch video... Bradley Manning, American Hero, by Tom Engelhardt | Antiwar Four Reasons Why Pfc. Bradley Manning Deserves the Presidential Medal of Freedom, Not a Prison Cell... Read more... Egyptians Again Rally for Change | Stephen Lendman Before and after Mubarak was ousted, Egypt's military arrested, imprisoned, tortured, and disappeared thousands, a practice continuing to ruthlessly stay in power and prevent change... Read more... 'US wants chaos in Yemen': Interview with Hesham Tillawi | PressTV Tens of thousands of Yemenis have taken to the streets in the capital, demanding an end to US and Saudi interference in their country's internal affairs... Read more... Kiss Of 'Democratic' Death: Israel's Plot To Take Down Syria II, by Jonathan Azaziah | Mask of Zion  Read more... Rampant Unemployment = The Death Of The Middle Class: 40 Facts That Prove The Working Class Is Being Systematically Wiped Out | The Economic Collapse ..Thousands of our factories and millions of our jobs have been shipped overseas and they aren't coming back. The big corporations are thriving while tens of millions of ordinary Americans are deeply suffering. Almost all of the wealth being produced by our economy is going to a very centralized group of people at the very top of the food chain... Read more... Israel under attack from Flytilla | Rehmat's World After successfully sabotaging two ships and blackmailing Athens to stop other aid flotillas sailing to the Gaza Strip – now Benji Netanyahu is faced with the problem of how to get rid of the ‘flytilla’ passengers arriving from several western countries at the Ben Gurion Airport... Read more... Dispatch From Tripoli: NATO's War Against Libya's Civilians, by Franklin Lamb Briefly noted below are five recent instances of undisputed NATO bombings on Libyan civilians selected because they still among the most discussed by residents of Tripoli... Read more... Syria: Libya 2.0? It Looks More Likely By The Day, by Madison Ruppert | The Intel Hub I have been covering the possible invasion of Syria in a lot of detail here at EndtheLie, starting with my article in April in which I laid out the case for Syria being the next globalist-imperialist target. Unfortunately, the evidence has only grown since that first article with the massive amounts of propaganda being pumped out of the Western mainstream media. It is not just the media, this is being promoted from all fronts including so-called activist groups, human rights groups (multiple, in fact) and even U.S. politicians... Read more, watch video... Israelis' afflictions: instilled memory and paranoia vera, by Uri Avnery | Redress Information & Analysis For several weeks now, our army and navy have been in a state of high alert, bravely facing a deadly threat to our very existence: ten little boats trying to reach Gaza. These vessels are carrying a dangerous gang of vicious terrorists, in the form of elderly veterans of peace campaigns.... Read more... US Independence Day reflections | Redress Information & Analysis Paul J. Balles reflects on the US Independence Day and asks: if, as the American Declaration of Independence says, "all men are created equal", then why do Americans act as if that fundamental principle applies only to citizens of the USA?.. Read more... July 9, 2011 Kiss Of "Democratic" Death: Israel's Plot To Take Down Syria, by Jonathan Azaziah | Mask of Zion  The Zionist entity and its criminal network of allies have initiated operations to destroy Syria This is the first of a 2-part series that exposes the 'Syrian Revolution' as a destabilization operation commanded by the usurping regime of Israel and assisted by its allies in Washington D.C., Paris, London, Riyadh and other faces hiding behind masks of friendship and neutrality..."Report From Tripoli" with Webster Griffin Tarpley | KPFA . Eyewitness report on bombing targets in Tripoli and environs, the port; the rebels in Bengazi; government defectors; large-scale building projects in Libya; Italy's involvement; indictment by International Criminal Court; the Lockerbie bombing; analysis of the US/NATO attack... Listen... On Flotillas and the Law: Civil Society Movements vs. Corrupt Politics, by Dr. Lawrence Davidson | Intifada Palestine ...The ships, loaded with humanitarian supplies for the one and half million people of the Gaza strip, are instruments of a civil society campaign against the inhumanity of the Israeli state. The forces that hold them back are the instruments of governments corrupted by special interest influence and political bribery... Read more... Egypt vs IMF: Time to Default? by Eric Walberg | Global Research It is no secret that Egypt has put all its faith in the US and Western international institutions since the days of Egyptian president Anwar Sadat, contracting a huge foreign debt, a process that was increasingly corrupt, despite being careful watched over by those very agencies. This debt is financed by foreign banks, and must be repaid in dollars -- with interest. If much of the money they create and then “lend” is siphoned off into Swiss bank accounts, that is Egypt’s problem. No one is trying to charge the people who gave Mubarak or his henchmen their money and then let them re-deposit it with them, but it takes two to tango... Read more... Mysterious West Bank Shootings: Random Murders Or Assassinations? by Jonathan Azaziah | Mask of Zion The occupied West Bank is run like a ghetto prison, identical to the besieged Gaza Strip excluding the all-out Israeli siege. It is governed by the dictator-like regime of ‘President’ of the Palestinian Authority (PA) Mahmoud Abbas, whose presidency ended in January 2009 (1), and ‘Prime Minister’ Salam Fayyad, who is unelected and totally backed by the Zionist-occupied governments of the Western world for his mythical (as in myth, for it doesn’t exist) ‘state building,’.. Read more... Gaza 'Flytilla' activists arrested for chanting 'Free Palestine' in Tel Aviv airport | YouTube RT crew filmed the arrest of pro-Gaza activists, who were detained for chanting "Free Palestine". Police in Israel detained several activists who arrived at Tel Aviv's international airport on Friday to show their support for activists arriving from abroad to take part in pro-Palestinian demonstrations... Watch video... Perpetual War, Corporate Greed, & Austerity for the Masses, by Larry Pinkney | The People's Voice As the corporate/military U.S. Empire, headed by the nominally black Barack Obama, with the complicity of his Democratic and Republican party political pimps, rumbles along, crushing the economic needs, human rights, and aspirations of everyday Black, White, Brown, Red, and Yellow people in this nation and around the world, conditions for just plain ordinary people are worsening and deteriorating at lightning speed. Only the avaricious, blood-sucking, bloated rich are financially benefiting from the increasing misery of the masses of ordinary people... Read more... Propaganda, The News, What People Believe & Why, by Debbie Menon | Veterans Today  I believe perhaps the running of the two articles on the same theme below as natural companions might alert or illuminate the hard core believers of Mainstream Media propaganda and/or so-called official stories, to what is being done to them on a daily basis, and on why people believe what they do and how hard facts belying fundamental beliefs usually seem to reinforce them in the gullible and thoughtless... Read more... 'Zionism an embarrassment to Jews': Interview with Rabbi Dovid Feldman | PressTV A Jewish rabbi insists that Zionism is a political movement that does not reflect the Jewish religion but rather serves as an embarrassment to Jewish people and the religion in general... Read more... We Will Return to Gaza until Palestine is Free, by Richard Levy | The Palestine Chronicle ...Israel's claim that its blockade is for security only is utterly belied by the fact that it blocks building materials (much needed since thousands of homes and hundreds of schools were destroyed during the "Operation Cast Lead" bombardment two years ago), it refuses to allow students to study abroad, people to visit families outside of the zone, to seek medical services outside or to export their goods. Plainly, this is not about security. It is the collective punishment of 1.6 million Gazans because some voted for Hamas... Read more... Concerning Bill Moyers and 9/11, by Bill Willers | Veterans Today ...There is a vast and growing global network of honorable and informed men and women intent on exposing the conspicuous fabrications associated with the 9/11 attack. Included are figures in academe, government, intelligence, the military and every profession you can think of. Bill Moyers has, in public forum, called them liars, and a number of them have published an open letter requesting an apology... [Being such a nice guy, a real Christian one might say, I think he just can't accept that his beloved country could be ruled by such vile and depraved people. Well, Bill, think again.] Read more... Murdoch's Hackers National Security Threat, by Gordon Duff | Veterans Today ...The case in Britain, reported by the criminals themselves, yes, that’s right, the newspapers that were caught also own the news agencies that report the news. It goes further, the newspapers and news agencies responsible for the “not so innocent” and “not so limited” spying activities aren’t simply independent companies. They are owned by Rupert Murdoch and operated as part of the intelligence agencies of the State of Israel. Murdoch, an Israeli, a fact not known to many, is the most powerful media mogul in the world. His corporations own, not just Fox News, but networks, magazines, websites and newspapers around the world, the biggest, the most scandalous, the most biased and the most politically extreme... Read more... Jewish Self-Reflection is Overdue | Gilad Atzmon ...it is surely about time for Jewish academics and scholars to launch a true enterprise, driven by inward looking and genuine self-reflection. Rather than repeatedly suggesting ‘what is wrong’ with the Gentiles, again and again, they would surely be better advised to at least begin to consider the notion, once and for all, that something may actually be slightly problematic with Jewish ideology and culture itself... Read more... 7th anniversary of ICJ advisory opinion on illegality of The Wall | Australians for Palestinian Seven years ago on this day, the International Court of Justice handed down its advisory opinion saying that Israel’s wall is illegal - that construction should cease, that all structures supporting the Wall should be dismantled and that reparations should be made for all the damage caused. Australians for Palestine’s briefing paper giving the background and today’s reality is set out below... [Israel, the world's premier scofflaw, could care less. They have total impunity, which comes, ultimately, from the American public. How long are we going to let these psychopaths get away with murder?] Read more... Barghouti: Israeli 'hysteria' not stopping solidarity | Maan News Agency International peace activists "will try to reach us, whether on ground or by air, to participate in the actions of the Palestinian popular resistance," Barghouti said. The Israeli government has been "hit with hysteria because of the wide success of the solidarity movement with the struggle of our people," he said... [The Israelis may control the governments and media of the Western world, but they can't control ordinary people. Damn the torpedoes and full steam ahaid!] July 8, 2011 Welcome to Palestine Challenging Israeli apartheid - by plane | The Electronic Intifada  The Palestinian people are sustained by their long history of steadfastness This week, hundreds of activists plan on challenging Israel’s apartheid apartheid by flying in to Ben Gurion airport near Tel Aviv as part of the “Welcome to Palestine” initiative. Heraclitis once stated that “There is nothing permanent except change,” and indeed human history is a chronicle of change — and the Welcome to Palestine project follows that tradition... Read more... Globalized Direct Action, by Meg Walsh | MIFTAH ...As most nonviolent movements of the past have shown, change does not often come from the top-down. It comes from below when masses of people realize the need for it. The only difference is that now these people are physically coming on boats and planes to demand change as part of a universal struggle for human rights that connects all people... Read more... Activists Wish to Pass Peacefully Through Airport | Palestinian Spring ...Apparently the Israeli authorities are threatened because these visitors plan to tell the truth. But telling the truth is what is required under the “Entry into Israel Law. Article 12 (2) of the law states that giving “false information” to obtain a visa is “liable to imprisonment”.”.. Read more... Israel prepares for 'fly-in' activists | Al Jazeera English  Israeli police said they would deal with activists trying to set themselves on fire or to attack airport officials Israel has deployed hundreds of extra police at its already heavily guarded international airport and asked European airlines to bar potential troublemakers from Tel Aviv-bound flights in anticipation of the arrival of hundreds of pro-Palestinian activists. The "Welcome to Palestine" movement includes an estimated 600 people and around half of the activists destined for the West Bank town of Bethlehem are reportedly French nationals... [and there are those who contend that the Israelis are not paranoid schizophrenics?] US caught off-guard by Iran sanctions, by Kourosh Ziabari | PressTV The decision by Iran's Parliament (Majlis) to impose sanctions on and indict 26 US officials who have perpetrated war crimes and violated human rights has come as a great surprise to the US government that has always accused independent nations such as Iran of violating human rights and supporting terrorism... Read more... Cruise missiles with depleted uranium on Libya, by Prof. Massimo Zucchetti | Global Research The issues regarding depleted uranium (DU) and its toxicity have sometimes, in recent years, gone beyond the scope of science. The writer [1] has dealt with radiation protection for twenty years and depleted uranium since 1999. After an experience of publishing scientific papers in journals, conference proceedings and international conferences on DU, this article attempts to estimate the possible environmental and health impact of the use of depleted uranium in the war of Libya... Read more... The 'War On Terror' Is A $6 Trillion Racket, Exceeding The Total Cost Of World War II, by David DeGraw | Global Research When Obama launched his re-election propaganda campaign to trick the American public into thinking that he intends to end the Af-Pak War, he said that the “War on Terror” has cost $1 trillion over the past decade. While that is a staggering amount of money, he was being deceitful once again... Read more... Zionists Chair Syrian Opposition Meeting in France | Al-Manar Key Zionist philosopher Bernard-Henri Levy; former French Minister of Foreign Affairs, and major advocate of the war against Iraq Bernard Kouchner; member of the youth movement in the Israeli right wing Likud party Frederick Ansel; and former Knesset member and Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak’s advisor Alex Goldfarb who was not questioned by anyone for claiming to be a Syrian opposition member and spokesman of “Democratic change in Syria” assembly; were basic participants in the Syrian opposition conference in Saint-Germain in France... Read more... US wages wars to build empire: Interview with Mike Prysner, Iraq War veteran | PressTV ...These wars are in pursuit of an empire, an empire dominated by Western Business interests and this is what it is about and these are the people that are responsible for it. These recent civilian deaths that were mentioned in these reports but really the hundreds of thousands of civilians, there are really more than a million this past decade in the Middle East and Southeast Asia... Read transcript, watch video... Why was Salah muzzled for preaching peace in London? by Jonathan Cook | The Electronic Intifada  Sheikh Raed Salah at a Jerusalem court in 2007 ...Many Palestinians, like millions of Muslims in the Middle East, revere Salah for his campaign to protect Muslim and Christian holy places from Israel’s neglectful, and more often abusive, policies. They struggle to recognize the British media’s characterization of him as an Osama Bin Laden-like figure... Read more... In dealing with flotilla, Israel is anything but smart, by Amira Hass | Haaretz Outsourcing, aggressive and vocal diplomacy and ridiculous lies thwarted the flotilla, but they have not taken Gaza off the international agenda... Read more... The strange silencing of liberal America, by John Pilger | New Statesman Obama's greatest achievement is having seduced, co-opted and silenced much of liberal opinion in the US... Read more... America's Empire of Bases, by Chalmers Johnson | Common Dreams As distinct from other peoples, most Americans do not recognize -- or do not want to recognize -- that the United States dominates the world through its military power. Due to government secrecy, our citizens are often ignorant of the fact that our garrisons encircle the planet. This vast network of American bases on every continent except Antarctica actually constitutes a new form of empire - an empire of bases with its own geography... [A certified classic, but not showing at your local theater] Read more...Starving Gaza is not cricket -" nor is stopping the aid flotilla sailing | Redress Information & Analysis Stuart Littlewood argues that the lack of civilized conduct, fair play and proper respect for others in international affairs has been highlighted by the conspiracy between Greece and Israel – and behind them, the USA and Britain – to abort the Gaza humanitarian flotilla, and the aiding and abetting of crimes against the Palestinians in Gaza and the occupied territories... Read more... July 7, 2011 Riposte Against Zionism: Go Tell It To The People, by Dr. Alan Sabrosky | Intifada Palestine Dr. Sabrosky has a down to earth, workable plan, let's go for it. I intend to. Write me if you'd like to be part of this. Yes, We Can  AIPAC rules America ...we must focus our attention on the edifice of Zionist influence and control in the US, and not be mesmerized by events in and around Palestine. Another is that our efforts to date, with the partial exception of the BDS campaign, have been ineffectual at best and counterproductive at worst. And the third, most critical point is that the gate to containing Zionism is in the US; the lock to the gate is in the heartland of the US and not Washington; and the key to that lock is the Israeli orchestration of 9/11 and its spin-off wars... Freedom Flotilla II The Israelis - clever, but stupid | Vineyard of the Saker Netanyahu looked very happy the other day: he got Papandreou to do Israel's bidding and the outrageous sight of Greek Coast Guard commandos intercepting the Audacity of Hope in the Mediterranean waters clearly made the Israelis very happy. The Greeks also let the Israelis sabotage several ships in port without so much as opening an investigation. Besides, I can assure you that the Greeks knew about the Israeli sabotage teams. These boats were too high-visibility for the Greek counter-intelligence service not to keep a very close eye on them and the Israelis would never have gone ahead with several sabotage operations without Greek acquiescence. So it is quite clear that the Israelis got their Greek shabbos-goy Papandreou to do their dirty work for them, so why not rejoice?.. Read more... July 6th Update from the U.S. Boat to Gaza | USTOGAZA The presence of the U.S. Boat to Gaza in Athens is winding down. For more than 2 weeks the 37 passengers (someone was added at the last moment), 4 crew members and about 12 people in the support team there worked hard to make sure our boat – The Audacity of Hope – could sail as part of the international Freedom Flotilla 2 to Gaza. The Greek government’s willingness to serve as the enforcer of Israeli’s naval blockade of Gaza made it impossible for this journey to happen... Read more... French flotilla boat sets sail for Gaza | Al Jazeera English The Dignite al Karama, which slipped past Greek authorities overnight is, thus far, the only boat in a flotilla organised by pro-Palestinian activists to successfully sail for Gaza, with most confined to ports in Greece. The vessel's passengers include Olivier Besancenot, head of the New Left Party in France, French politician and member of the European Parliament Nicole Kiil-Nilsen, and other well-known French personalities... Read more... There are too many headwinds to take to sea but the struggle continues | Silvia Cattori The Canadian boat, called ’Tahrir’ with 22 Canadians on board, as well as contingents from Australia, Belgium, Denmark and Turkey, was boarded by local port police ..We knew that our project would face obstacles but having almost all major governments against us, as also the UN and the Quartet? No, we did not expect our project to have such a honour, we must have stepped on a really big toe... Read more... Ray McGovern: Israel Extends Territorial Waters, Greece Bends Over, Gaza Suffers! | AlJazeera on YouTube Watch video... Let Us Sail to Gaza, by Stephen Lendman | Indybay ...Whether or not flotillas reach Gaza, Israel lost the war. The whole world knows what America's media won't report, and what growing numbers of Jews condemn. Many, in fact, express disgust about a lawless nation in their name. Sooner or later perhaps every Jew will know, including fed up Israelis deciding to leave and renounce what no one should tolerate... Read more... South African Media Watchdog rules that Israel can be called an 'apartheid' state | Australians for Palestine  This afternoon, in a bold ruling defending the right to freedom of expression and political speech, the South African media watchdog, the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA), unequivocally dismissed all complaints relating to a radio advert that calls for the boycott of Israel and compares Israel to Apartheid South Africa... Read more... PASOK: Pan Hellenic Socialist Kleptocrats, by James Petras | Global Research Greece’s Great Leap Backward has taken place under the leadership of a “socialist” Prime Minister (George Papandreou) backed by the vast majority (97%) of “socialist” Parliamentarians and the entire “Socialist” Cabinet, with less than 4% defections. While the parliament debates and votes to debase the country’s sovereignty and degrade the people, hundreds of thousands demonstrate in the streets and plazas... Read more... A Beautiful Old Interview With Juliano Mer-Khamis | YouTube Juliano Mer-Khamis was an Israeli actor, director, filmmaker and political activist of Jewish and Christian Arab parentage. On 4 April 2011, he was assassinated by a masked gunman in the Palestinian city of Jenin, where he established the Freedom Theatre... Watch video... Libya: Flashpoint for Global Conflict | Stephen Lendman ...Scott told Progressive Radio News Hour listeners that he's warned for months about Libya being a flashpoint for escalated general war, similar to how WW I began. Global Research founder/editor Michel Chossudovsky has similar concerns, including in his new E-book titled, "Towards a World War III Scenario," calling today's world "at a critical crossroads.".. Read more... Iran is singled out because it defies Washington: Kourosh Ziabari Interviews Jeremy R. Hammond | Veterans Today ..What follows is the complete text of my interview with Jeremy R. Hammond, political journalist and the editor of Foreign Policy Journal... Read more... Obama Has Finally Become Dick Cheney, by Conor Friedersdorf | The Atlantic  Uncle Tom taking his daily constitutional In Barack Obama's rise to national prominence, when he criticized the Bush Administration for its false claims about WMDs in Iraq, its torture of detainees, and its illegal program of spying on American citizens without warrants, he owed a particular debt of gratitude to a New York Times national security reporter...[or, to really piss off the PC types, the house nigger has to use the outhouse] Read more... Israel: Irrationality of 'Everything Necessary' by Dallas Darling | The Palestine Chronicle ..The phrase “everything necessary” is extremely irrational. It is one that often leads to illogical and self-destructive behaviors. Self- and national-destructive behaviors, that is, that were observed when the United States Congress gave President Lyndon B. Johnson “everything necessary” to fight a war against Vietnam, and when President George W. Bush said he would do “everything necessary” to strike back at those who attacked the Pentagon and World Trade Centers on Sept. 11, 2001. Whereas the U.S.-Vietnam War led to the deaths of seven million people, President Bush’s preemptive wars and military occupations have now lasted more than eleven years. They have killed hundreds of thousands of people, produced millions of refugees, and have cost four trillion dollars... [viz: Hillary's favorite - "All options are on the table."] Read more...Paul Joseph Watson: 2011 - World In Crisis | Prison Planet Paul Joseph Watson, writer and webmaster for Infowars.com and Prisonplanet.com, talks to WeAreChange Birmingham about the staggering amount of crises to hit the globe so far in 2011, including the Arab spring and the bombardment and invasion of Libya. Also discussed is the fallout from this year’s Bilderberg meeting and the future agenda for the globalists, as well as the latest vaccine research and the Fukushima disaster cover-up... Watch video... Palestinian people power - could it be a game-changer? | Alan Hart Because Israel’s leaders prefer land to peace and there’s nothing any American president can do about that so long as the Zionist lobby and its stooges in Congress call the shots on U.S. policy for Israel/Palestine, it’s obvious that the Palestinians have nothing to gain, only more to lose, from politics and diplomacy. So what, really, can they do themselves to press their claim for an acceptable minimum amount of justice?.. Read more... Challenging Israeli apartheid, starting at Ben Gurion Airport, by Laura Durkay | Mondoweiss From July 8-16, I will join hundreds of internationals for a week of solidarity actions in coordination with 15 Palestinian civil resistance organizations in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem. To my knowledge, this will be the first attempt to bring such a large number of internationals—already over 500, according to organizers—to the West Bank and East Jerusalem in a coordinated manner. While Freedom Flotilla 2, sailing in the coming days, rightly puts the spotlight on Israel’s cruel blockade of Gaza, we intend to show that Israeli repression in the rest of historic Palestine—the West Bank, Jerusalem, and what is now Israel—is no less important and is part of the same project of ethnic cleansing and colonization... Read more... Why the Palestinians should never recognize Israel as a Jewish state, by Khalid Amayreh | Middle East Monitor One of the obsessive demands Israel keeps invoking these days is that the Palestinians must recognize Israel as a Jewish state as a precondition for a possible peace settlement of the conflict in the Middle East... [If they have any historical perspective, like Hamas they won't recognize it as a state at all. Recognition by the Palestinians of Israel as a state of any kind would give it the legitimacy it's desperately afraid of losing, but which it never had in the first place.] Read more...July 6, 2011 Game Not Yet Over: Flotilla Considers Next Moves, by Richard Lightbown | Palestine Chronicle  Specter of Israeli PR disaster may not yet be over ...With ships threatening to run for the high seas (possibly aided by sympathetic harbour masters),the possibility of a legal challenge, and one French boat already on the high seas, destination Gaza, the game of chess may not yet be over. Mr. Netanyahu may have won the first round, but his government faces determined opponents who are not only convinced of the righteousness of their cause, but also backed by an increasing body of public opinion that is likely to favour the courageous underdog...Thirty 'Captains' On Intercepted Canadian Boat For Gaza, by Ella Ide | Intifada Palestine Thirty pro-Palestinian activists on a Canadian boat bound for Gaza that was stopped out of a Greek port Monday for breaking a ban, defied authorities by claiming they had all captained the ship... Read more... A Greek Tragedy: Seizing the Gaza Flotilla on Israel's Orders, by Mohamed Khodr | Intifada Palestine ..the Prime Minister of Greece, George Papandreou, in total economic desperation and with few friends in Europe jumped on the Israeli bandwagon and surrendered all the noble work of his famous father, Andreas Papandreou, Greece’s most beloved politician, on issues such as freedom, self determination, human rights, peace and justice. Andreas Papandreou strongly supported the cause of Palestinian liberation, met repeatedly with PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat and condemned Israeli policies in the occupied territories. What would the father think of a son who betrays his ideals and principles for a few shekels and an opportunity to temporarily lift a collapsing economy with western loans that come with very stringent and painful strings that will only further inflame the suffering Greek population... Read more... Gaza convoys to inspire future aid: Interview with Paul Larudee | PressTV ..We think that every time they stop us by one means or another such as, for example, the Gaza Freedom March in 2009, it seems that we get bigger and more motivated to continue. The Israelis, generally speaking, have decided that force is the [only] way to get what they want. And when it doesn't work, they use more force. But the result is that when they escalate their use of violence, we escalate our use of non-violence and we bring more people into the movement. This is ultimately what will succeed in changing things... Read more, watch video... Reagan's Cold War Dream: Outrage over US surveillance base in UK | RT on YouTube First, an Independence Day march with a difference - this time it's the British trying to drive the Americans out of a major military facility. It's due to become part of a missile defence shield similar to the 80s 'Star Wars' project. As Laura Emmett reports, activists demanding the base be taken off British soil accuse the U.S. of following Cold War criteria... Watch video... Jews against Jews at Campuses | Rehmat's World Currently, University of Toronto, Jewish professor Rupaleem Bhuyan PhD is under media fire lead by Canadian Jewish Congress. Her crime is she refuses to shut-up her students who claim that ‘Jews have too much power’ in Canada and America. Last year she made a political incorrect statement by calling Israel as “a satellite of the United States, unworthy of distinction as a separate country“. Personally, I think she was wrong. The fact is it’s Israel which controls the US through Ziocons and Jewish lobby groups... Read more, watch video... Criticize Israel And Lose Your Career: Kourosh Ziabari Interviews Alison Weir | Intifada Palestine  Alison Weir If you’ve ever tried to search for reliable information and analyses which expose the concealed and obscured side of the Israeli – Palestinian conflict, you’ve surely come across to the website “If Americans Knew.”.. [which] publishes commentaries and articles that the American mainstream media pusillanimously shun and reject because of their fear of the influential Zionist lobby which predominantly rules the U.S. administration and Congress...Siege of Gaza has become a moral blockade of Israel, by Yitzhak Laor | Haaretz ...the Israeli occupation is the longest military occupation of modern times. The subjects of the occupation in its two forms - the West Bank and the Gaza Strip - live under a brutal regime that few other occupations allowed themselves, without any law - the blockade and the morbidity rate among children, the roadblocks and the arbitrariness of the soldiers, breaking in to people's homes (imagine your children being awakened at night by the shouting of armed men, breaking down doors and blinding them with flashlights; imagine living without any protection ), the prolonged occupation, a disaster for us and for the Palestinians - because Israel enjoys the support of the West... Read more... Ground Invasion of Libya Within Two Weeks, by Paul Joseph Watson | Infowars A hawkish Jerusalem-based news outlet with reported links to Israeli intelligence that has proven accurate in its forecast of future geopolitical events claims that the war in Libya is approaching a “coup de grace” and that French, British and American troops will land on Libyan soil within the next two weeks to spearhead a full ground invasion... Read more... US, UK war vultures installed a cuckoo zionist identity | RT on YouTube British anti-war activist Dr. David Halpin in an interview with RT said he hopes that British, American and Israeli politicians responsible for war crimes will be held accountable in his lifetime. Dr. Halpin became prominent when he joined a group of doctors who questioned the official position on the death of the British Defense Ministry weapons scientist David Kelly. Kelly told a journalist he doubted Iraq had any biological weapons of mass destruction and was later found with his wrists slit... Watch video... Palestine's "last village" faces the bulldozers | Redress Information & Analysis Jonathan Cook reports on plans by Israel to demolish the Palestinian village of Lifta, near Jerusalem, in order to build holiday homes for wealthy foreign Jews and to erase for Israelis “all troubling reminders of an earlier Palestinian presence”... Read more... July 5, 2011 Countdown to Invasion: Libya's Neighborhoods Prepare for NATO's Boots, by Franklin Lamb | Intifada Palestine  The government is handing out weapons to the people anticipating an invasion by NATO forces ...Libyans are anxious to explain their points of views, a common one of which is that they are not all about Qaddafi but about protecting the family, homes, and neighborhoods from foreign invaders. A majority does support the Qaddafi leadership which is what they received with their mother’s milk, but nearly all emphasize that for them and their friends it is very much about defending their revolution and country first... Read more... Interview with Richard Forer: Israel-Palestine Conflict (Part 1 of 4) | YouTube Richard Forer, author of "Breakthrough: Transforming Fear Into Compassion - A New Perspective on the Israel-Palestine Conflict", being interviewed by Jack Dresser of the al-Nakba Awareness Project, discusses anti-Semitism, the roots and history of the Israel-Palestine Conflict and the differences in opinion between the "pro-Israeli" and pro-Palestinian positions. "Breakthrough" is available at Amazon.com and at www.richardforer.com... Watch video... Zionism Is Nobody's Friend | Judy Andreas .."I have chiefly had men's views confided to me privately. Some of the biggest men in the U.S., in the field of commerce and manufacturing, are afraid of something. They know that there is a power somewhere so organized, so subtle, so watchful, so interlocked, so complete, so pervasive, that they had better not speak above their breath when they speak in condemnation of it." (The New Freedom. Woodrow Wilson, 1913.) What was this power to which Wilson referred? Why was it talked about in hushed tones and behind closed doors?... Read more... A preacher's arrest shows the UK can be led by the nose, by Jonathan Cook | The National ...The humiliation of Sheikh Salah at the hands of the British legal system - supposedly in the interests of promoting "decency and respect" - will serve only to remind Muslims of the hypocrisy so often evident in Western policy... Read more... Crisis by consensus, by Jeff Gates | Arab News ...Strategic duplicity induced the world's strongest economy to freely embrace the very financial forces that now threaten the capacity of Americans to defend their freedom. Did we freely choose to squander and now endanger our “full faith and credit”? Or were we induced? Was post-World War II America the target of a trans-generational fraud?.. Read more... Killing Goyim and Beyond | Gilad Atzmon Israeli Police are now arresting leading Rabbis for endorsing and supporting 'Torat Hamelech' (The King's Torah), the Jewish religious book that justifies the killing of Gentiles... [The secular Israeli elite trying to control the monster they created. This threat is more potent than all the imaginary ones.] Read more...The FBI's synagogue bomb plot, by Karen Greenberg | The Guardian  James Cromitie in police custody in May 2009, after his arrest by the FBI The ethics of a sting operation to foment a terror plot are dubious enough, but its government-sponsored antisemitism is revolting...in a sting operation involving a bomb plot against a Jewish community centre [They do this routinely.] Read more...Independence Day Hypocrisy | Stephen Lendman In fact, America's revolution wasn't "a simple affair of all of us against all of them," any more than today, sending young men and women abroad to "liberate" countries for capital, slaughtering people to save them, ruining the lives, welfare and futures of thousands of US forces at the same time whose minds and bodies are irreparably harmed by the experience... Read more... Israel afraid of the truth | YouTube In an interview with Press TV, Dr. Paul Larudee, Co-Founder of Free Palestine Movement in Greece, explains the latest news from the flotilla in Athens... Watch video... NATO runs out of bombs for Libya: German shells 'to the resque' | RT/YouTube The Alliance is running short on bombs. And its Germany which has agreed to make up the shortfall for the controversial airstrikes. The move comes despite Berlin never originally backing the operation, and some suggest peer pressure has caused the shift in position. As RT's Irina Galushko reports Berlin's attempt to have its cake and eat it too may not be proving succesful.... Watch video... US wants to control Iraq indefinitely: Interview with Sabah Jawad | PressTV Press TV talks with Sabah Jawad, director of Iraqi Democrats against occupation from London who highlights doubts about US intentions in Iraq where US actions imply indefinite occupation and interference... Read transcript, watch video... Rabbi Lior's racism is not his fault, by Salman Masalha | Haaretz As a descendant of one of the Sons of Noah who has violated all manners of prohibitions, I am doomed to any number of odd and sundry deaths. The choice offered to those of my ilk is one of the following three: death by sword, death by stoning or death by strangulation. In his "Law of Kings," Moses Maimonides (the Rambam) specifies that for violating the Noahide laws I am sentenced to death by the sword, unless I have sex with a Jewish maiden who is engaged to be married, in which case I shall be stoned to death; alternatively, if she is already married, then I am to be strangled to death... Read more... Another Face of The Zionist Lobby Is The Middle East Quartet | Kawther Salam  Tony Blair, envoy for the Middle East Quartet, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Russian Foreign Minister The so called “Middle East diplomatic Quartet” issued today a statement supporting the inhumane treatment of Palestinians and fully supporting the continuous Zionist genocide and blockade imposed on Gaza Strip since 2006. The “Quartet” considered the illegitimate Greece prevention of the Flotilla ships from sailing into the Gaza Strip as a “positive step”, asserting that “the Quartet has the right to work with Israel to prevent arms trafficking from entry into the Gaza Strip”..Sergei Lavrov, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, and EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton [You could call them the official pimps of the Political Prostitutes Union.] Read more...Gazan reality faces political spin as flotilla considers its next moves | Redress Information & Analysis Richard Lightbown describes the reality of extreme hardship in the Gaza Strip, “denied by world political leaders who know the facts better than anyone”, that has led to the formation of yet another flotilla for Gaza, and chronicles the Israeli, US and European dirty tricks aimed at aborting the humanitarian mission to the Strip... Read more... A July Fourth Shame on the Founders, by Ray McGovern | Antiwar ...Indignities experienced by me and my co-guests on The Audacity of Hope, the American boat to Gaza, over the past 10 days in Athens leave no doubt in my mind that Barack Obama’s administration has forfeited the right to claim any lineage to the brave Americans who declared independence from the king of England 235 years ago... Read more... Passengers on US boat to Gaza call for US Declaration of Independence from Israel | Redress Information & Analysis Henry Norr reports on a “Declaration of Independence from Israel” written by the passengers of the US boat to Gaza, The Audacity of Hope, and handed to the US Embassy in Athens, in protest at Israel's use of its powerful influence inside the US to secure Washington's backing for its illegal policies and the use of US taxpayer money in military aid for Israel... Read more... A Real Pullout Or A Shell Game? | Eric Margolis War is waged to achieve political objectives, not to kill enemies. In this sense, the United States has lost the ten-year Afghan conflict, its longest war. Afghanistan remains the “graveyard of empires.” The US has failed to install an obedient regime in Kabul that controls Afghanistan. It has made foes of the Pashtun majority, and, in pursuing this war, gravely undermined Pakistan. Claims that US forces were in Afghanistan to hunt the late Osama bin Laden were widely disbelieved... Read more... Torture crimes officially, permanently shielded, by Glenn Greenwald | Salon In August, 2009, Attorney General Eric Holder -- under continuous, aggressive prodding by the Obama White House - announced that three categories of individuals responsible for Bush-era torture crimes would be fully immunized from any form of criminal investigation and prosecution:.. Read more... Michele Bachmann Loves Israel, by Kevin MacDonald | The Occidental Observer ..There is simply no other civilized country in the world where a member of the political elite would claim-proudly and in public-to base her policy on an ancient religious text... Read more... July 4, 2011 Sabotaging Freedom Flotilla II, by Richard Falk | Al Jazeera English  The rights of millions of displaced Palestinians are inalienable and do not lapse because of their long suppression, this is what the Flotilla II encounter is really about and this is also why Israel finds it so dangerous It stretches the imagination to suppose that a sophisticated cutting of the propeller shafts of both ships is a coincidence with no involvement by Israel's Mossad, long infamous for its overseas criminal acts in support of contested Israeli national interests. Recalling the lethal encounter in international waters with Freedom Flotilla I that took place on May 31, 2010 and the frantic diplomatic campaign by Tel Aviv to prevent this second challenge to the Gaza blockade by peace activists and humanitarian aid workers, such conduct by a state against this latest civil society initiative, if further validated by incriminating evidence, should be formally condemned as a form of 'state terrorism' or even as an act of war by a state against global civil society... Join the One State Initiative | Palestine Justice Network Many people of good faith yearn for a future that is a joint democratic pluralistic state that encompasses all of the historic land of Palestine (currently the political entities of the apartheid State of Israel and the post-1967 Israeli occupied Palestinian Territories). It is time to put our beliefs into practice by bringing together all these people to effect the needed transformation socially and politically. We call on you to join us to formulate all the needed mechanisms for this transformation...Read more... Israeli Freedom Flotilla II Terrorism, by Stephen Lendman | OpEd News Daily, Israel keeps proving its lawless rogue credentials, notably by blocking humanitarian aid to Gaza. As a result, it finds new ways to show contempt for human rights, rule of law standards, civility, fundamental Judaic tenets, and its very legitimacy as a nation state, established by mass slaughter and displacement of indigenous Palestinians from their homeland...Read more... Dancing in a Palestinian Bubble, by Mel Frykberg | IPS It’s Thursday night, the beginning of the weekend in the Muslim world, and time to party and let one’s hair down in Ramallah, the occupied West Bank’s isolated bubble and de facto capital...Read more... On Israel's Mythic History, by George Polley | Palestine Chronicle From the beginning the official Israeli narrative has followed a very simple script: A homeless and persecuted people, the victims of pogroms and genocide, asked for and were granted a homeland in the land that was taken from them nearly two thousand years ago... Read more... Israeli right-wingers, you're in control, so stop whining, by Gideon Levy | Haaretz A foreigner who heard Israel's (very shallow ) political debate would surely conclude that the left has been ruling the country unchallenged for many years. All aspects of government are in its hands, and it runs them as it sees fit. The legal system is left-wing, the army is left-wing, the police are left-wing, the prosecutors are left-wing, the education system is left-wing and the media is horrifyingly left-wing...Read more... An Israeli trap for Britain, by Haneen Zoabi | The Guardian  Sheikh Raed Salah, the leader of the Islamic Movement in Israel, has been arrested in Britain The decision to ban the Palestinian leader Sheikh Raed Salah from entering Britain, and then to arrest him, was transparently not based on any serious examination of his political activities. It was an ugly kneejerk response to the growing hostility of the Israeli establishment and its supporters abroad towards anyone opposing its racist policies – and a rising tide of Islamophobia in Europe... Read more... The Day of Victory: Bil'in Celebrates the Removal of the Wall | IMEMC News For the first time after nearly seven years of resistance and struggle by the residents of Bil'in, the people of the village and a large number of participants from neighboring villages could hold the Friday prayer on the land that has been retrieved 2 days ago...Read more... Rabbi Lior: Unrelenting Extremism, by Uri Avnery | Palestine Chronicle The archbishop of New York announces that any Catholic who rents out an apartment to a Jew commits a mortal sin and runs the risk of excommunication. A protestant priest in Berlin decrees that a Christian who employs a Jew will be banished from his parish. Impossible? Indeed. Except in Israel – in reverse, of course...Read more... Are These GOP Candidates Running For President of the U.S. - or Israel? by Keith Johnson | American Free Press ..Aside from Ron Paul, the current lineup of pseudo-conservative presidential wannabes has demonstrated a biased affection for Israel at the expense of all other international relationships, and even over the best interests of the United States. These Christian politicians even wear Israeli flag pins, yarmulkas and stars of David—whatever they can to convince Jewish voters and Christian Zionists they are on the side of Israel and “the chosen ones.”..Read more... Rep. Kucinich steps on Lobby's toe, again! | Rehmat's World Last night Ziocon CNN blasted eight-term Congressman Dennis Kucinich for praising Syrian President Bashar Assad whom he met in Damascus on June 28, 2011. The CNN ‘expert’ wondered who paid for Dennis’ visit to Damascus? Certainly, it could not be paid by one of 50 Jewish lobby groups campaigning for Israeli interests in the US. The Congressman along with his wife and a small delegate went to Syria on behalf of his Ohio Arab-American constituents to find the facts on the ground in the Middle East...Read more... Islamophobia on the rise in USA | Redress Information & Analysis Paul J. Balles argues that Islamophobia is growing and spreading prejudice against Muslims in the US, a fact that is underlined by a recent report by the Council on American-Islamic Relations, which has collected and relayed the facts and identified both vilifiers and supporters of Islam and Muslims...Read more... July 3, 2011 Operation Mozart | Ramallah Cafe  Tuning on the bus: Mahmoud Karzoun, 18, and members of the Al Kamandjati youth orchestra, The operation was planned well in advance, and down to the last detail. Target: Passenger terminal at Israel’s Qalandia military checkpoint, near the entry cage where every day, hundreds of Palestinians cross to Jerusalem. Time of day: High noon, June 23rd, 2011. Operatives: More than two dozen Palestinian children. Weapons: molded wood, metal string, curved brass. Known co-conspirators: Georges Bizet, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. ”This is a musical intifada,” declared Ramzi Aburedwan, founder of the Ramallah-based Al Kamandjati (The Violinist, in Arabic)...moments before they played at the Qalandia military checkpoint Read more... Press Conference: Latest update on all the ships in the flotilla and the current state of play Watch video... Apartheid in duplicate, by Ronnie Kasrils | Middle East Monitor In a peculiar twist of history both Zionist Israel and Apartheid South Africa came into existence in May 1948; they went on to become something of a grim double act. The architect of Apartheid, Dr. Hendrik Verwoerd, liked to equate the history and doctrine of the two countries in an attempt to neutralise Western condemnation of South Africa, and did so by declaring infamously:.. Read more... US BOAT TO GAZA: The Audacity To Love | YouTube In 2010, the Freedom Flotilla took sail, sparking an unprecedented international human rights mission, dedicated to ending Israel's blockade on Gaza... Watch video... Greece halts Canadian ship in Gaza flotilla | The Star  Banners hang from the Tahrir, a Canadian boat participating in Freedom Flotilla II to Gaza. After months of remaining secret, the location of the Canadian ship participating in Freedom Flotilla II to Gaza was outed in this Greek seaside town when authorities boarded it — on Canada Day — and tried to seize the ship’s transit log, which is need to sail...Greek officials have placed the boat under surveillance and won't let if leave Agio Nikolaos, a town on Crete Read more... Audacity Stopped at Sea | YouTube The Audacity of Hope was stopped at sea by the Greek Coast Guard 20 minutes after leaving the port. Our captain refused to turn back irregardless of the pleas of the Coast guard captain. After about 2 hours, Greek commandos joined the Coast guard vessel and the decision was made to turn back. We are currently at a military dock in Athens, unable to proceed. Johnny Barber, a passenger, on the Audacity of Hope, I was able to record this as it happened... [Background: NYT article Europe Agrees to Give Billions to Greece - Israel has ordered its satellites, the US and its NATO vassals, to stop the Flotilla.] Watch video...Feeding the brave flotilla to Israel's slavering attack-dogs | Redress Information & Analysis Stuart Littlewood views the British government’s unwillingness – as evident from the statements of its ministers in Parliament – to support its citizens' right to go about their lawful business delivering humanitarian aid to besieged Gaza and to protect them from Israeli threats to slaughter them on the high seas... Read more... Israel and the issue of delegitimization | Redress Information & Analysis Lawrence Davidson argues that it is not enough simply to oppose Israel’s occupation of Palestinian territories and that it is Israel’s discriminatory ethno-religious structure – its Zionist ideology – that makes it illegitimate and must be the focus of international opposition... [As they like to say in DC, all options are on the table.] Read more...U.S. Boat to Gaza Seized by Greek Authorities and Captain Jailed | USTOGAZA  After a two hour stand off at sea, the U.S. Boat to Gaza – The Audacity of Hope – was seized by the Greek Coast Guard and forced to return to the port of Piraeus under military escort. The boat’s captain has been put in jail, charged with disturbing sea traffic–which includes endangering the lives of those on the ships– and disobeying a police order to remain at dock. The crew is being detained on the boat, which is being held at a military dock just outside Athens... Read more... Making the World Safe for Hypocrisy, by Michael Parenti | Global Research Why has the United States government supported counterinsurgency in Colombia, Guatemala, El Salvador, and many other places around the world, at such a loss of human life to the populations of those nations? Why did it invade tiny Grenada and then Panama? Why did it support mercenary wars against progressive governments in Nicaragua, Mozambique, Angola, Ethiopia, Afghanistan, Indonesia, East Timor, Western Sahara, South Yemen, and elsewhere? Is it because our leaders want to save democracy? Are they concerned about the well-being of these defenseless peoples? Is our national security threatened?.. Read more... African Union Opposes Warrant for Qaddafi | AP/NYT ...The African Union’s chairman, Jean Ping, told reporters that the court was “discriminatory” and focused on crimes committed in Africa but ignored those committed by Western powers, including in Afghanistan, Iraq and Pakistan. “With this in mind, we recommend that the member states do not cooperate with the execution of this arrest warrant,” the motion said... Read more... Gaza Mobilizes For Freedom Flotilla, by Joe Catron | Intifada Palestine An international flotilla of nine ships and hundreds of crew and passengers is a huge undertaking, in Gaza as much as anywhere. Mahmoud Elmadhoun knows this better than most. A member of Gaza’s Higher Government Committee, as well as the Governmental Committee for Breaking the Siege and Receiving Delegations (GCBS), which is tasked with welcoming solidarity missions to Gaza, he just finished hosting the Miles of Smiles convoy of 55 European dentists. Now he could face one of the most daunting challenges in the GCBS’ history: Freedom Flotilla – Stay Human... Read more... July 2, 2011 Israel and the Issue of Delegitimization, by Dr. Lawrence Davidson | Intifada Palestine  Israel [is] not being isolated because it is a Jewish state and hence illegitimate, On 24 June 2011 MJ Rosenberg published an interesting piece entitled “Netanyahu Is the One ‘Delegitimizing’ Israel.” Deligitimization as used here is, according to Israel’s Haaretz newspaper, a “buzzword in the world of pro-Israel activism.” Rosenberg tries to turn the concept back on the Zionists by claiming it is their own actions that are actually eroding Israel’s legitimacy. He is correct but there is more to be said on this topic...but because of how it treat[s] the Palestinians Read more... Stealing Success Tel Aviv Style, by Philip Giraldi | My Catbird Seat By act of Congress, Israeli businesses can even bid on most American Federal and State government contracts just as if they were US companies.… so let’s take some steps to protect our economy from the information thieves from Tel Aviv and keep our money and jobs over here... Read more... Abbas: A September Palestinian State or Lose World Support | Intifada Palestine ...The Palestinian Authority, under Mahmoud Abbas, must immediately stop the limping and lackluster effort and present their resolution this September to the U.N. General Assembly to recognize a Palestinian State. This will be the only worthy initiative that the PA has ever adopted since its founding in which the far majority of the world is supportive... Read more... United States Knesset Resolution 185 Reconsidered: To be or Not To Be American, by William A. Cook | Intifada Palestine  Read more... Afghanistan: Victory in Defeat? by Eric Walberg | Counterpunch In Baltimore, the nation's mayors debated and passed a War Dollars Home Resolution at their annual meeting, the first time they have taken a stand on war since they passed a similar resolution in 1971, during the Vietnam war. The anti-war resolution even made the TV news, which has downplayed the fact that the majority of Americans have wanted an end to their illegal wars for years... Read more... Isolating ourselves to death, by Yoel Marcus | Haaretz ...If Bibi has reached such a low with regard to isolation in the world, which also finds expression in the hysterical preparations for flotilla number 2, there's a danger he has lost his political mind... Read more... Silent no longer, by Claude Kandiyoti | Haaretz ...More and more Jews outside Israel have ceased to understand what the government in Jerusalem stands for and where it is leading its nation and the whole Jewish people... Read more... Monster Rabbi | Roy Tov  Deformed dwarves are the everlasting evil archetype in cartoons and comics. Of course, this stereotype has no base in reality; though in the case of the Rav Dov Lior we find a sad reminder of it. “If you call yourself a Christian, why do you make such an ugly comment on him,” some readers may be thinking now. But, what can one do? If I was to use the same type of rhetoric he uses, I would for sure be jailed in ever worse conditions I face now. Thus, let me state the “deformed dwarf” beginning this paragraph doesn’t refer to his bodily description, but to the size and shape of his moral beliefs. Rav Dov Lior is a monster... Read more... Irish ship will not sail to Gaza after 'sabotage' | The Irish Times “This was the type of sabotage that endangered human life,” Mr Lane said last night. “They put divers under the boat who cut a piece out of the propeller shaft. That means that the damage would have happened gradually and what would have happened eventually is that the propeller would have come up through the bottom of the boat, caused a flood in the engine room and would have caused the boat to sink.”.. [The Zionist elite are psychopaths - criminally insane - in case there's anyone who hasn't noticed.] Read more...American Indian "Jimbo" Simmons Gaza Flotilla Interview | Gilad Atzmon Jimbo Simmons is a member of the Choctaw Nation and of the Governing Council of the American Indian Movement, which resists colonization, respects traditional knowledge and self-determination, and raises awareness on issues that concern Indians of the Americas, from racism to protection of sacred sites, the rights of the child, treaties, political prisoners, police brutality, immigration and militarization, climate change and the United Nations General Assembly "Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples... Read more... Israeli forces confiscate Palestinian olive orchards near Ramallah, by Saed Bannoura | International Middle East Media Center  Hundreds of acres of olive orchards in Al Mazra’a al Gharbiya village were taken over by Israeli troops on Tuesday, who claimed that the area was a 'closed military zone' and that the land was being confiscated for military use... Read more... 'The Audacity Of Hope' waits to sail for Gaza, by Mark Weisbrot | Al Jazeera English One of the most important foreign policy statements of the year came from Ehud Barak, Israel's Defense Minister, on May 16. Responding to non-violent protests at Israeli borders and military posts, he said: "The Palestinians' transition from terrorism and suicide bombings to deliberately unarmed mass demonstrations is a transition that will present us with difficult challenges.".. Read more... Israel passes draft law requiring Palestinians to pay for their own home demolitions | International Middle East Media Center  ..Since 1967, Israeli forces have demolished 24,813 Palestinian homes. 90% of these homes were destroyed for 'administrative' reasons – because they either lacked a permit or were in an area designated for expansion by the Israeli military. No permits have been issued by Israeli authorities for Palestinian construction in the Occupied Territories since 1967... Read more... Let's make money - John Perkins | YouTube John Perkins calls himself a former "economic hit man" and describes US politics in developing countries based on economic interests... Watch video... Arthur Billy: Requiem for the Dead of Gaza | Gilad Atzmon This is a pretty extensive and devastating presentation of the Israeli crime in Gaza. I met Arthur Billy last month in San Francisco. Billy, born in pre 1948 Palestine is a nuclear scientist and an incredibly kind human being... Read more, watch video... Gaddafi's son: Libya like McDonald's for NATO - fast war as fast food | Russia Today on YouTube With the war in Libya at the focal point of international relations, RT's gained access to Colonel Gaddafi's son in NATO-targeted Tripoli. Saif al-Islam thinks his country's wanted for its riches, but says the people won't let Libya fall under foreign control... Watch video... Gaza Flotilla vs. Diaspora Jewry, by Gilad Atzmon | Veterans Today  The Israelis are preparing themselves for another massacre on the high seas. This should not take us by surprise: after all, people who are detached from a true notion of history, and driven by a continuous fantasy of destruction, would be the last to draw a lesson from their past... Read more... Challenging Racism by Israelis on Every Front, by Gulamhusein A. Abba | Dissident Voice The pressure on Israel is building. Non violent protests by the Palestinians are increasing in numbers and size. As predicted by me in an earlier article, they will soon escalate and go one notch further, adopting Gandhi’s concept of not mere passive protest but active non-violent civil disobedience... Read more... Pakistan in Pieces, Part II: Punishing Pakistan and Challenging China, by by Andrew Gavin Marshall | Global Research ...It must be remembered that during the Afghan-Soviet war in the 1980s when the CIA was funding, arming and training the Afghan Mujahideen to fight the Soviets – late to become known as ‘al-Qaeda’ – they were, at the time, referred to as “freedom fighters,” just as the terrorist death squads were referred to in Nicaragua. Thus, the nomenclature of “paramilitary force” must be viewed with suspicion as to what the group is actually doing: covert operations, surveillance, assassinations, etc., which by many definitions would make them a terrorist outfit... Read more... July 1, 2011 Tripoli bombed but steadfast, by Thierry Meyssan | Voltaire Network  Muammar Gaddafi’s bedroom after a NATO bombing. Two other rooms in the building As the Libyan bombing campaign entered the 100th day, NATO announced its imminent success. However, since the aims of the war were never clearly defined, it is difficult to know what is meant by success. Simultaneously, the International Criminal Court issued an arrest warrant against Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, his son Seif al-Islam and the Libyan regime’s intelligence chief Abjullah al-Sanoussi for "crimes against humanity."..were also destroyed, those of his son and grandchildren all of whom were killed Read more... Staying Human | Al Jazeera English The situation in Gaza told from beyond the grave. This film follows Italian human rights activist Vittorio Arrigoni as he campaigns for the fishermen of Gaza. Arrigoni was a member of the International Solidarity Movement (ISM) committed to resisting the Israeli occupation of Palestinian land using non-violent methods... Read more, watch film... Israel Lobby Prepares America for War With Pakistan, by Maidhc Ó Cathail | Intifada Palestine No doubt taking their cue from Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman, who has said that Pakistan poses the biggest strategic threat to Israel, three of the Israel lobby’s loudest mouthpieces used a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing — convened to advance Senate approval of President Barack Obama’s decision to promote Vice Adm. William McRaven to become commander of the U.S. Special Forces Command — to mentally prepare Americans for what will most likely be dubbed another “war of Muslim liberation.”.. Read more... France exposed for breaking NATO ranks arming Libya rebels | Russia Today on YouTube The African Union has condemned France for supplying weapons to Libyan rebels. Its chief said the move threatens to put the entire region at risk. On Wednesday, France became the first NATO country to openly admit to arming tribal fighters, who are striving to topple Colonel Gaddafi. Rebels have recently been making gains and hope to advance on Tripoli... Read more... Athens on Fire: Video of night clashes, Greek capital smoked | Russia Today on YouTube Greece is picking up the pieces from the latest bout of civil unrest, when thousands of angry protestors flooded the streets. That's after Parliament gave the green light to tough new cuts, in order to secure a further financial lifeline from the EU. European officials welcomed the move. But Greeks could not have been less happy with the pending austerity, as they gathered in the centre of Athens on the second day of a general strike... Watch video... Yemen: Thinking outside the AQAP box, by Ibrahim Mothana | Al Jazeera English  Protests led by young people are challenging both al-Qaeda and traditional Arab rulers Young protesters taking to the streets of Yemen have caused al-Qaeda more damage than Ali Abdullah Saleh's government, with all its counter-terrorism allies, has ever managed. The notion that change can only be achieved through force, power and violence has been refuted once and for all. With peaceful protest, the youth of Yemen has reunited the shattered streams of Yemeni society in a brave and determined call for democracy...Read more... 21 June: massive demonstrations in Syria | Voltaire Network Several million Syrians throughout the country took to the streets on Tuesday, 21 June 2011. The crowds were particularly dense and impressive in Damascus Alep, Tartous and Homs... Read more, watch videos... 'Al Khalifa, essence of Bahrain problem': Interview with Saeed al-Shehabi | PressTV Bahrain's special security tribunal handling the appeals of 21 opposition leaders convicted of 'plotting against the state' has adjourned the hearing until September. Meanwhile, Bahrain's regime says it is going to launch reconciliation talks with the opposition but most opposition leaders have rejected to join the talks... Read transcript, watch video... Israel must put an end to human trafficking | Haaretz Editorial A U.S. State Department report released this week found that Israel is not complying with U.S. standards for combating human trafficking. This is a shameful testimony to Israel's deterioration in the realm of human rights in general and the rights of aliens and labor migrants in particular... Read more... An Israeli trap for Britain, by Haneen Zoabi | The Guardian  Sheikh Raed Salah, the leader of the Islamic Movement in Israel, has been arrested in Britain The decision to ban the Palestinian leader Sheikh Raed Salah from entering Britain, and then to arrest him, was transparently not based on any serious examination of his political activities. It was an ugly kneejerk response to the growing hostility of the Israeli establishment and its supporters abroad towards anyone opposing its racist policies – and a rising tide of Islamophobia in Europe...Read more... Israel has become a society of force and violence, by Gideon Levy | Haaretz What will Israelis think about when they are spoon-fed scary stories about the flotilla, if not about the use of force? Those activists want to kill IDF soldiers? We'll arise and kill them first... Read more... CrossTalk on Gaza, with Peter Lavelle: Flotilla 2.0 | Russia Today on YouTube Will we see a repeat of the last year's deadly raid? In some Israeli circles passengers of the current freedom flotilla are regarded as infiltrators carrying weapons and chemicals to Hamas. About 30 international journalists who have boarded "The Audacity of Hope" say their aim is to deliver humanitarian aid to Palestinians... Watch video... Ron Paul: Obama's Libya War Power Grab Impeachable, by Kurt Nimmo | Infowars On Friday, the U.S. House overwhelmingly rejected two unconstitutional resolutions pertaining to Obama’s attack on Libya. The first would have authorized the attack for a period of a year. The second was peddled as a war limitation measure. It would have given Obama authority to continue not only the Libya attack, but other kinetic military actions currently underway... Read more, watch videos... STL indictments most likely to turn into political boomerangs | The Vineyard of the Saker Since the threat of at STL indictment did not prevent Hezbollah from toppling the Hariri government, the US-Israeli run "Special Tribunal" has finally issued four indictments.. Needless to say, the Hariri and Gemayel clans are ecstatic and have already expressed their support for the decision. This is not surprising considering that the Israeli-lead murder of Rafik Hariri made it possible to expel Syria from Lebanon and now the Lebanese Fascists are hoping that the STL operation will result in a major political embarrassment for Hezbollah: this decision to target a top Hezbollah official is a transparent US/Israeli/Saudi/Phalangist attempt at de-legitimizing the Hezbollah-lead Lebanese government, and a retaliation for Hezbollah's rise to power... Read more... |
Archives >