June 30, 2011 Demystifying 9/11: Israel And The Tactics Of Mistake, by Dr. Alan Sabrosky | Intifada Palestine  Many years ago I read a fascinating discussion of the “tactics of mistake.” This essentially entailed using a target’s prejudices and preconceptions to mislead them as to the origin and intent of the attack, entrapping them in a tactical situation that later worked to the attacker’s strategic advantage... Read more... Netanyahu Owns the US Congress; Soon We Will Know if He Also Owns Gaza and the UN | Wallwritings We need look no further than the politics of the state of Israel to see what extremist religion can do with power. The Tea Party in the US, which will determine the winner of the presidential Republican nominating process, is ready to show the world that God wants a final say in US political decision-making... Read more... "After you Brother!" Qadaffi Stays and Obama Leaves?, by Dr. Franklin Lamb | Intifada Palestine The White House is reportedly becoming reconciled to the fact that Qaddafi may remain in the Libyan leadership... Read more... Michele Bachmann's Holy War, by Matt Taibbi | Rolling Stone Politics  Close your eyes, take a deep breath, and, as you consider the career and future presidential prospects of an incredible American phenomenon named Michele Bachmann, do one more thing. Don't laugh... Read more... Israeli Anti-Freedom Flotilla II Propaganda | Stephen Lendman On June 27, A US Boat to Gaza Audacity of Hope press conference reiterated a determination to sail despite threats, pressure and other measures used to stop it. Participants on board all 10 ships haven't come this far to turn back or let imperial viciousness deter them, especially when their mission is vital and just... Read more... Self Reflection in Mondoweiss | Gilad Atzmon I would like to draw your attention to an interesting thread on Mondoweiss, discussing my interview with Philip Weiss... Read more... And What About Jewish Anti-Gentile Studies? | Gilad Atzmon  Read more... Audacity Invites Media to Inspect Boat and Passengers | USTOGAZA Passengers on the U.S. Boat to Gaza, The Audacity of Hope, invite Greek and international media to inspect The Audacity of Hope at 3 pm Athens time on Thursday, June 30, in the town of Perama (next to Piraeus), 42 Democratis. The entire boat will be open for view, photography, and video. The captain, crew, and passengers on the boat will be available for interviews and inspection... Read more... Rape, Mercenaries, And Bloodbaths On The Scale Of Yemen? The Media Blank Amnesty's Failure To Find Evidence In Libya | Media Lens It ought to be surprising that Amnesty and Human Rights Watch exposed US-UK propaganda in a way that the entire pack of Western media hounds was unable or unwilling to do. But as we have described many times, with rare exceptions, journalists function as stenographers to power. Arguably, as democracy has rapidly eroded in Britain – with all main political parties increasingly serving the same privileged interests – journalists have become even less inclined to challenge the powerful... Read more... June 29, 2011 The Sanitized Version of Neoconservatism, by Stephen Sniegoski | Intifada Palestine  [It is for this reason that I have suggested that the prefix "neo" in the terms neo-conservatism and neo-liberalism be replaced by the prefix "zio". Then there would be no confusion.] Read more, watch video...Nabih Saleh Clownistan! | Gilad Atzmon Every Friday there is a peaceful demonstration in Nabih Saleh. Last Friday, it was a colourful chrildren's day with clowns, spidermens, kites and... teargas. Watch video... The Portland BDS Coalition: They Are Young and Determined | Gilad Atzmon The Portland BDS Coalition Mobs New Seasons Grocery demanding a total Boycott of Israeli Products... Watch video... Israel's "pinkwash" makes cynical use of gays & gay rights, by Yossi Gurvitz | +972 ...This schtick ought not to be surprising: After all, the Foreign Ministry decided more than a year ago to outsource hasbara, since official Israeli sources are burned and considered unreliable. Israel is conducting a dirty tricks campaign against the flotilla, trying to poison the minds of people in the West, by dispensing lies through people allegedly unrelated to it... Read more, watch video... People Power is Stronger than any Occupation, by Joharah Baker | MIFTAH It struck me the other day just how mind-blowing people power really is. In Palestine, people have the opportunity each and every day to prove this in the face of Israel’s unrelenting measures of occupation... Read more... Gaza boat: Three questions for Marwan Bishara | Al Jazeera English  The reasons fo the Mavi Marmara's absence from the current aid flotilla headed to Gaza might be political Our senior political analyst on the international significance of the Gaza-bound aid flotilla...Read more... Engdahl: Libya intervention absurd, NATO criminal | Russia Today/YouTube For more on attempts by the International criminal court to prosecute Colonel Gaddafi, RT is joined by William Engdahl, author of Full Spectrum Dominance: Totalitarian Democracy in the New World Order... Watch video... Message to Congress: Take a Slow Boat to Gaza | Mantiq al-Tayr Unless you live in the United States you are probably aware of a new Gaza Flotilla initiative named “The Audacity of Hope” that is preparing to go from Greece to Gaza to break Israel’s illegal and immoral blockade. (Note to Shas Party Members, the name of the ship is a reference to a book supposed to have been written by the Israeli Vice-President for American Affairs Barack Obama.).. [Gotta love the guy - he doesn't mince words.] Read more... Goldman Vet Named Euro Central Bank Chief, by Matt Taibbi | Rolling Stone ...The former Bank of Italy governor has just the experience needed to become the overlord of Europe’s treasure:.. Read more... Not Even Good Propaganda Anymore: Sacred Mantras, by Uri Avnery | Gush Shalom The Palestinians are planning something thoroughly obnoxious: they intend to apply to the UN for statehood... Read more... Criminalising Palestinian solidarity, by Maureen Murphy | Al Jazeera English  Palestinian solidarity activists making their voices heard are alleged to be supporting 'terrorism', The United States government has criminalised the Palestinian people, and now it is increasingly treating US citizens who stand in solidarity with Palestine as criminals as well - including those courageously putting their lives on the line to break the siege on Gaza...as if an entire nation of people can be generalised as criminals Read more... Assassination Bloodlust: Idolizing Absolute Power, by James Bovard | Counterpunch ...the primary difference between some assassination advocates and Washington apologists for targeted killing is that the latter use spellcheckers. For both groups, “due process” is an anachronism - if not a terrorist ploy. And for both groups, boundless groveling to the Commander-in-Chief is the new trademark of a good American. Anything less is national suicide... [Well, we've come a long way - backwards.] Read more...The Demonization of Gaddafi, by Patrick Cockburn | Counterpunch In the first months of the Arab Spring, foreign journalists got well-merited credit for helping to foment and publicize popular uprisings against the region's despots. Satellite TV stations such as Al Jazeera Arabic, in particular, struck at the roots of power in Arab police states, by making official censorship irrelevant and by competing successfully against government propaganda... Read more... Neocons Return to War Debate With a Vengeance, by Kelley B. Vlahos | Antiwar Up until now, the neoconservatives within the national security establishment had been almost demure and decorous, content like cats to paw at the growing number of “isolationists” among the GOP coming out against the U.S. intervention in Libya and for a more rapid withdrawal of forces from Afghanistan... Read more... Confrontation Begins Before Gaza Flotilla Sets Sail, by Apostolis Fotiadis | Antiwar Activists are engaged in a harsh confrontation with Israeli authorities days before the international “Freedom Flotilla II — Stay Human” sets sail toward the Gaza strip in an attempt to break the naval blockade Israel has imposed since 2007... Read more... The diamond industry's double-standard on Israel | The Electronic Intifada  All too aware of how bad association with war crimes is for business, the diamond industry has taken pains to evade questions about its connections with Israel’s human rights abuses — and so far has escaped scrutiny from watchdog organizations... [Unless things have changed in the last year or two, blood diamonds remain Israel's top export industry. Second only to mass murder, of course, if that's an "industry."] Read more...Gaza-bound: From Aborigine to Palestinian rights, by Amira Hass | Haaretz This is not the first time that Sylvia Hale, 69, has been asked why she is so active for the Palestinian cause. What about the discrimination against the Aborigines in her own country, Australia, for example?.. Read more... U.S. Boat Rejects Israeli Army Allegation of Violence | USTOGAZA Passengers on the U.S. boat to Gaza rejected as ludicrous and provocative an unsubstantiated accusation by the Israeli Army that passengers in the Gaza Freedom Flotilla plan to kill IDF soldiers with chemical weapons. The Jerusalem Post reported on Tuesday an Israeli Defense Forces allegation that some passengers on the flotilla had prepared sacks of sulfur which they planned to pour on Israeli soldiers... [And, it would appear, tens of millions of people swallow this BS] Read more...Thank You, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar! | US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation Weeks before Kareem Abdul-Jabbar's scheduled visit to Israel, the Jerusalem Film Festival foreign office confirmed that the legendary basketball star and actor had canceled his planned July 2011 trip, due to concerns arising “after the Nakba Day violence” (referring to May 15, 2011). Abdul-Jabbar's visit was coordinated with the Israeli Foreign Ministry and the Israeli Consulate of New York and he was slated to present his film, “On the Shoulders Of Giants,” at the Jerusalem Film Festival... Read more... June 28, 2011 Netanyahu "Piddling" on Congress: Can You Blame Him? We All Want to Do It But We'd Be Arrested, by Gordon Duff | Veterans Today  Anointing Congress ..What Netanyahu actually did was drag it out of his pants and hose them down. Why did he do it? The answer is simple, because he could! Was it wrong? Caligula put his horse in the Roman senate. American’s never get the whole horse, just the horse’s ass...Read more, watch video... U.S. Boat to Gaza Responds to Reports Israeli "Lawfare" Group Filed Complaint Delaying Departure of U.S. Boat | USTOGAZA Passengers on the U.S. Boat to Gaza, The Audacity of Hope, said news reports that an Israeli “lawfare” group, Shurat HaDin, is behind the complaint delaying the departure of the U.S. boat from Greece substantiate the Americans’ assertions that the complaint is frivolous. The passengers expressed confidence that Greek authorities will now quickly dispense with the complaint and allow The Audacity of Hope to sail... Read more... Spirits of Justice Going to Gaza, by Ray McGovern | Consortium News “The Audacity of Hope” is a boat that will carry Americans through the Mediterranean Sea as part of a small flotilla challenging the Israeli blockade of Gaza, where 1.5 million Palestinians live largely cut off from the world. One of the Americans aboard the ship is former CIA analyst Ray McGovern, who describes some of his motivations and those of his shipmates... Read more... Hillary Clinton Channels the Neocons, by Kurt Nimmo | Infowars It’s another example that there isn’t a lick of difference between the Obama Democrats and the Bush neocons. Both are warmongers determined to kick off the next world war... Read more... 'Banksters in control of economy': Interview with Gerald Celente | PressTV The “banksters” of the global banking syndicates are the reason behind the decline of the global economy and a population remaining as chained slaves to the system... [Celente says what's needed is "direct democracy" - let's not beat around the bush; it's going to take a revolution.] Read more...The Palestinian Authority's Historic Mistake - and Opportunity, by Jeff Halper | ICAHD No one knows the precise plans of the Palestinian Authority vis-a-vis September: will Mahmoud Abbas declare a Palestinian state within recognized borders and ask that it be admitted as a full member of the UN – or not? Perhaps Abbas himself does not know... Read more... Greece Deputy PM Warns Of Tanks In The Streets, Mass Suicides, If Second Bailout Voted Down By Greek Parliament. by Tyler Durden | Zero Hedge With just days left until the crucial vote on passing the Greek mid-term austerity package, the assured destruction rhetoric used by the Greek status quo has hit fever pitch. Just to make sure the message is not lost on the broader population that Europe's banks will not admit defeat in a vote that could end the kleptocratic cartel's hegemony for ever, Greece's Deputy Prime Minister Theodoros Pangalos has blasted suggestions that it would be better for his country to abandon the euro and return to the drachma as an "immense stupidity"... Read more... State Terrorism US Speciality, by Brig Asif Haroon Raja | Opinion Maker  ...Prejudice, fanaticism, extremism, intolerance and cruelty are some of the characteristics deeply ingrained in the minds of US officials and elites. With such hideous traits and black track record, on what basis the is the US voicing its concerns about terrorism when it is the biggest terrorist state of the world?.. Read more... NATO must prevail, by Christopher R Hill | Al Jazeera English US Secretary of Defense Robert Gates's recent prognosis of a "dim" and "dismal" future for NATO has triggered much debate, but it could well prove optimistic. June, it turns out, marks another milestone on the alliance's uncertain path: its operation in Libya has now surpassed in length the one in Kosovo 12 years ago. After 78 days in 1999, Serbia's Slobodan Milosevic gave up, while Libya's Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi has yet to get the message - and may in fact be getting the wrong message... Read more... 9/11, Bolton and Ahmadinejad | Rehmat's World Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, US-Cuban Jewish Chairwoman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee says she loves John Bolton for trying to convince the White House for the last three and half year to bomb Islamic Iran before it get its first nuclear bomb. John Bolton also received a standing ovation from the American lawmakers on the Jewish Lobby’s payroll... Read more... Brainwashing the polite and professional way | John Pilger ...Children are naturally curious, but along the way to becoming a professional they learn that curiosity is a series of tasks assigned by others. On entering training, students are optimistic and idealistic. On leaving, they are “pressured and troubled” because they realise that “the primary goal for many is getting compensated sufficiently for sidelining their original goals”. I have met many young people, especially budding journalists, who would recognise themselves in this description. For no matter how indirect its effect, the primary influence of professional managers is the extreme political cult of money worship and inequality known as neoliberalism... Read more... 11 Settlers Armed with Knives, Stones Attack Palestinian Shepherds in South Hebron Hills | AIC  Israeli soldiers watch as settlers attack Palestinian shepherds in the South Hebron Hills Around 10 am on Saturday 25 June, Palestinian shepherds were grazing their sheep and goats in the Meshakha Valley when they were attacked by 11 settlers who came over the hill from the nearby illegal outpost of Havat Ma’on, armed with stones and knives...[So what else is new] Read more...The Liberation Anthem: A Poem, by Samah Sabwai | Palestine Chronicle To the people of Israel who fear our freedom: Don’t be afraid, we will liberate you too... Read more... The Kosher Tax racket and Israel | Rehmat's World According to the Wall Street Journal (April 18, 2011), the Kosher market is worth $12.5 billion per year. The Organized Kashrut Laboratories (Brooklyn), listed as a non-profit organization, has rabbis in China, Japan, India, Israel and Belgium who certify nearly 500,000 products from about 3,000 companies... Read more, watch video... Bethlehemites Are Palestinian Christians, by Fadi F Kattan | PalestineChronicle ...the Archbishop never mentions the situation of the Bethlehemites as Palestinian Christians, nor does he even use the word Palestine to talk about our country. What we have here is a clear speech of certain foreign churches that like to look at themselves as protectors of the Christian presence in the Holy Land, but are not the local Christians the righteous guardians of this long established tradition in Palestine?.. Read more... June 27, 2011 The US Empire throws in the towel | Vineyard of the Saker  This is a great American tradition: declare victory and leave. And that is what Obama did yesterday when he announced that 10'000+23'000 troops will be withdrawn from Afghanistan. The French immediately announced that they are withdrawing another 4'000 of their own. Yes, I know, 68'000+ troops will remain. Make no mistake, that is a fig leaf, also a security and a way to pretend that this is not what is really is: a total retreat following a strategic defeat... Read more... Hillary Clinton gives green light for Israeli attack on Gaza flotilla, by Ali Abunimah | The Electronic Intifada ..Israel...is engaging in military drills to intercept this unarmed civilian flotilla. In light of Clinton’s statements, if any blood is spilled it will not only be on Israeli, but also American hands... Read more... Of Course The Flotilla Is A Political Provocation, by Joe Catron | Intifada Palestine ...The Freedom Flotilla is indeed “a political provocation.” Why shouldn’t it be? And when has it pretended to be anything else? Like its predecessors, from the successful Free Gaza boats of 2008 to the Freedom Flotilla that suffered lethal violence by Israeli commandos in international waters last year, this Flotilla is an unabashed act of solidarity with a people fighting colonialism, ethnic cleansing, and apartheid... Read more... NATO's Pretexts Take a Beating: Amnesty Questions Claim That Gaddafi Ordered Rape as Weapon of War, by Patrick Cockburn | Counterpunch ...An investigation by Amnesty International has failed to find evidence for these human rights violations and in many cases has discredited or cast doubt on them. It also found indications that on several occasions the rebels in Benghazi appeared to have knowingly made false claims or manufactured evidence... Read more... The Challenge of Gaza Flotilla: Radical Political Agenda, by Richard Irvine | Palestine Chronicle Recently I often think I have entered a parallel universe. One where the illegal is legal; the victim the criminal; where Goliath defends himself from David. Palestinians have of course endured this experience for the last 100 years, but in recent weeks Israel’s denunciations of the upcoming Gaza Flotilla, coming on the heels of its pious condemnation of the dead refugees on the Golan Heights have stretched incredulity to breaking point... Read more... The Political Compass  US Primaries 2008 There's abundant evidence for the need of it. The old one-dimensional categories of 'right' and 'left', established for the seating arrangement of the French National Assembly of 1789, are overly simplistic for today's complex political landscape. For example, who are the 'conservatives' in today's Russia? Are they the unreconstructed Stalinists, or the reformers who have adopted the right-wing views of conservatives like Margaret Thatcher ? On the standard left-right scale, how do you distinguish leftists like Stalin and Gandhi? It's not sufficient to say that Stalin was simply more left than Gandhi. There are fundamental political differences between them that the old categories on their own can't explain. Similarly, we generally describe social reactionaries as 'right-wingers', yet that leaves left-wing reactionaries like Robert Mugabe and Pol Pot off the hook...Take the test... Bankers Gear Up for the Rape of Greece, as Social Democrats Vote for National Suicide, by Michael Hudson | Counterpunch The fight for Europe’s future is being waged in Athens and other Greek cities to resist financial demands that are the 21st century’s version of an outright military attack. The threat of bank overlordship is not the kind of economy-killing policy that affords opportunities for heroism in armed battle, to be sure. Destructive financial policies are more like an exercise in the banality of evil – in this case, the pro-creditor assumptions of the European Central Bank (ECB), EU and IMF (egged on by the U.S. Treasury)... Read more... The Unchanging Imperial Paradigm, by Sheldon Richman | Future of Freedom Foundation ..The main issue is the empire. If all combat troops were removed from Afghanistan tomorrow, the U.S. government would continue to treat that country like a protectorate, ready to send troops back if events are not to the policy elite’s liking. It’s the paradigm of empire that must be rejected. But Obama’s drawdown and disavowal of empire notwithstanding, the U.S. policy elite have no intention of reconsidering America’s hegemonic role in the world. To be sure, fiscal difficulties have forced a reconsideration of tactics, but the imperial framework remains. It was compactly summed up by President George H.W. Bush in 1991 as he prepared to move against Iraq’s Saddam Hussein after the invasion of Kuwait: “What we say goes.”.. Read more... Why Does the War Go On? by Eugene Robinson | Truthdig Some heard a declaration of victory, others an admission of defeat. The many contradictions in President Obama’s speech about Afghanistan Wednesday night were perhaps intended to obscure the bottom line: Tens of thousands of American troops will remain for at least three more years, some of them will be maimed or killed, and Obama offered no good reason why... Read more... Economy Alone Fails to Explain Turkey's Success, by Ramzy Baroud | Palestine Chronicle ...a discussion of Turkey’s success cannot be reduced to one decade of economic growth and political stability. More, ‘modern Turkey’ cannot be reduced to the palpable successes of the AKP. It goes back to earlier generations, starting with Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, the founder of the Republic of Turkey... Read more... June 26, 2011 Israel lobby group outlines dirty tricks against campus Palestine activists, by Ali Abunimah | The Electronic Intifada  What is the best way to smear Palestinians and Palestine solidarity activists and get away with it? That is the question David Bernstein, Executive Director of the pro-Israel propaganda group, The David Project, asks in a surprisingly frank article titled “How to ‘Name-And-Shame’ Without Looking Like a Jerk” posted on Israel Campus Beat, a website sponsored by the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations... Read more... Sabrosky Responds: On Palestine, Israel And America: A Strategic Void | Intifada Palestine ...To Israel and its supporters, there are three essential benchmarks of their status and success: (1) their military power, (2) the number of settlements and settlers in East Jerusalem and the West Bank, and (3) the extent and durability of their control (or leverage) over the US Government. All else is detail. Now, no matter what anyone thinks of justice for the Palestinians or the efforts to date to help them, or actions to counter Zionist activity in Palestine and Washington, or anything else along these lines, just look hard at those benchmarks and ask yourselves if any single one has been weakened even slightly by our efforts over the years. The answer is no, without any qualification whatsoever... Read more... Theater of the absurd, by Mazin Qumsiyeh | Popular Resistance ...It is difficult to know though what is happening behind the scenes: my feeling is that the growing civil society participation and pressure on all these governments and quasi-governments is putting them in a very difficult spot. But more needs to be done by us to tip the balance and uthorities still resist doing what is right. Perhaps that is why the US government, instead of demanding Israel comply with international humanitarian law, had to send three outwardly threatening statements to its own citizen about joining the freedom flotilla... Read more... Aljazeera's Al Nakba Parts | Australians for Palestine The video below should be compulsory viewing for everyone who thinks he or she knows their history of the Israel/Palestine conflict or who deigns to comment at all on the issues whether in support of Zionism and Israel or the tragic Palestinian struggle for justice. Rare footage is shown of the events that took place well before the creation of Israel – the dastardly plan of European Zionists and British imperialists unashamedly working to strip the Palestinian population of their homes and homeland – and much much more that is little known. It is well worth the 3.5 hours of watching if you want to know the truth from the mouths of the perpetrators themselves... Read more, watch video... 'No Afghan peace before US withdrawal': Interview with Garth Porter | PressTV The withdrawal plan that President Barack Obama has talked about, to bring home the “surge” troops from Afghanistan, is in fact part of a political attempt that also includes talks with the Taliban... Read transcript, watch video... The Death of American Democracy, by Anthony Lawson | YouTube The collapses of the Twin Towers of the World Trade Centre, on September 11, 2001, were the most frightening images that I have ever seen, up until May 24th, 2011, when Binyamin Netanyahu addressed a joint session of the United States Congress and received 29 standing ovations, along with many other outbursts of sycophantic applause... Read more, watch video... Overcoming injustice together: A new US movement seeks to unite citizens in overcoming corruption, war, and social injustice, by Kevin Zeese | Al Jazeera English  The October 2011 Movement pledges that if any US troops remain in Afghanistan on October 6, 2011, ..Inspired by the courageous, nonviolent uprisings in Tunisia, Egypt, Bahrain, Yemen, Greece, Spain and elsewhere, people in the United States have come together to form the October 2011 Movement. This fusion of peace, social justice, environmental, student, and immigrant rights organisations is in solidarity with all who seek a peaceful, just, and sustainable future and stands ready to engage in its own campaign of nonviolent resistance - beginning in Washington, DC, this October. We recognise that your revolution is our revolution, that the US empire prevents you from achieving self-determination and economic justice, and that only together can we achieve our shared goals... a huge rally will be held in Freedom Plaza in Washington, DC Read more... Breaching Gaza's Siege | Stephen Lendman Suffocating besieged Gazans, Israel is committing slow-motion genocide. Global activists are determined to stop it and hold Israeli officials accountable for decades of crimes of war and against humanity - unspeakable atrocities financed by criminal co-conspirators in Washington... Read more... Paranoid Bibi hides from Iranian nuclear attack | Rehmat's World On Sunday, the Israeli Jewish population began their annual ritual aka ‘Turning Point 5′. They’re participating in this drill to prepare themselves how to protect themselves from Hizbullah and Hamas rockets during Israel’s future military adventures in its neighboring countries. The Zionist-regime, as usual, has been scaring the hell out of its illegal Jewish settlers population by telling them that during the ‘next round’ – they could be receiving thousands of missile from Iran and Syria... [Bullies always turn out to be cowards] Read more...Permanent US Iraq and Afghanistan Occupations Planned | Stephen Lendman Nothing reveals Washington's imperial agenda better than its global empire of bases. Sixty-six years post-WW II, America maintains dozens in Germany, Japan, Italy, and South Korea alone. In total, known Pentagon bases way exceed 1,000, as well as perhaps hundreds of other shared and secret ones in about 150 countries on every continent despite no enemies anywhere justifying them... Read more... A "responsible end" in Afghanistan? | Redress Information & Analysis As the USA begins its gradual troop withdrawal from Afghanistan, Lawrence Davidson reflects on how the failure to learn the lessons of history, and an absence of executive and legislative accountability rooted in the American public’s disinterest in politics and foreign policy, have led to more than a decade of futile and bankrupting military intervention in Afghanistan... Read more... June 25, 2011 It's Netanyahu who is delegitimizing Israel, by MJ Rosenberg | Al Jazeera English  Israel's reaction to any protest against the occupation is often violent and overly defensive The "pro-Israel" lobby's latest hobbyhorse is "delegitimisation". Those who criticise Israeli policies are accused of trying to "delegitimise" Israel, which supposedly means denying Israel's right to exist. Even President Obama has gotten into the act, stating in his May 19 speech that "for the Palestinians, efforts to delegitimise Israel will end in failure". Obama seemed to be referring to the Palestinians' plan to seek recognition of their state at the United Nations this autumn, although it's hard to imagine just how that would delegitimise Israel...Read more... The Freedom Ride of Our Era: Destination Gaza, by Medea Benjamin | Counterpunch "I refuse to accept the idea that man is mere flotsam and jetsam in the river of life, unable to influence the unfolding events which surround him,” said Dr. Martin Luther King as he accepted the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964. These words will guide me and other passengers aboard the Gaza Freedom Flotilla, a fleet of nine boats scheduled to set sail for Gaza on June 25 from various Mediterranean ports. While the Israelis try to label us provocateurs, terrorists and Hamas supporters, we are simply nonviolent advocates following the teachings of Dr. King. We refuse to sit at the docks of history and watch the people of Gaza suffer... Read more... Revolution in their eyes | Al-Ahram Weekly Amira Howeidy listens to Azmi Bishara, the Arab world's leading political analyst, talk about the Egyptian revolution in Cairo... Read more... Islam not the real problem for Palestinian Christians, by Craig Nielsen | Israel-Palestine ..."As Palestinian Christians, we perceive ourselves as an integral part of the Palestinian people. We might be a very small religious community nowadays but due to our long rootedness in our land, we do not refer to ourselves as a minority. Moreover, as Palestinians, whether Christian or Muslim, we equally live under the oppression of the illegal Israeli occupation of our country. As Palestinians – Christians and Muslims – we share the same hopes and aspirations and we struggle for freedom and human dignity together"... Read more... Israel & Palestine in the New Middle East | Sydney Opera House Media Portal Have current events in the Middle East made a solution more or less likely? Hear both sides of the debate when International and Australian speakers Ghassan Hage, Naomi Chazan, Saree Makdisi and Peter Hartcher discussed recent events in Israel and Palestine and what they meant for the future... Watch video... BDS Update: Fighting Apartheid on Land and Sea, by Eric Walberg | Dissident Voice Earlier this month, 100 activists from nine countries gathered in Montpellier, France for the first European Forum Against Agrexco to strengthen the boycott campaign against Israel’s largest fresh produce exporter, which exports under the brand Carmel primarily to European markets. Up to 70 per cent of the fruit and vegetables grown in the illegal Israeli settlements in the West Bank are marketed by Agrexco, making it a prime strategic target for BDS... Read more... Bilderberg's Lust for War, by James P. Tucker Jr. | American Free Press “Americans buy war like children gobble candy,” laughed Henry Kissinger, longtime Bilderberg luminary. “Of course, Baracky [President Obama] has to be publicly reluctant to go to war, but we can depend on him.”... Read more... Al-Jazeera: Pro-Israel Arab Network | Rehmat's World “I wish all Arab media were like Al-Jazeera,” – Gideon Ezra, former deputy head of Israeli General Security Service, quoted in ‘Foreign Policy (FP)’, July/August 2006 issue... Read more... Netherlands embraces Israel tighter, squeezing out human rights, by Adri Nieuwhof | The Electronic Intifada  Dutch Deputy Prime Minister Maxime Verhagen with Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman While Israel continues its ruthless occupation and oppression in the West Bank, the Gaza Strip and Syria’s Golan Heights, the right-wing government of the Netherlands plans to deepen its economic collaboration with Israel instead of holding it accountable for its violations of international law...Read more... Obama's Drawdown Speech: More Orwellian Lies, by Kurt Nimmo | Infowars ...Rex Tomb, Chief of Investigative Publicity for the FBI, admitted years ago that there is no evidence connecting the Saudi to September 11. “The reason why 9/11 is not mentioned on Osama bin Laden’s Most Wanted page is because the FBI has no hard evidence connecting bin Laden to 9/11.” Tomb said in 2006. “Bin Laden has not been formally charged in connection to 9/11.”.. Read more... Malalai Joya: US acts like Rambo killing already dead Bin Laden | Russia Today/YouTube RT sits down with a former Afghan MP-turned human rights champion. Malalai Joya braves death threats and assassination attempts to expose what she calls the dark side of life in her country. Joya claims the NATO occupation has only brought more suffering to the people of Afghanistan. She says her country is suffering from three evils at the moment: overwhelming corruption of the regime, indiscriminate violence of the occupational force and regional warlords whose actions differ little from those of the Taliban... Watch video... US-Led Terror Bombings Target Civilians | Stephen Lendman US air and ground operations strategically target civilians, Pentagon (and NATO) denials notwithstanding. They lie despite clear evidence refuting them. Their latest crime claimed 19 Libyans, all civilians, including women and eight children, apologies not forthcoming and deceitful when they do... Read more... Glenn Beck and Zionists to Rally in Jerusalem, by Bob Johnson | Veterans Today Religious zealot and religious/political con-man Glenn Beck will hold a rally to support Israel’s illegal occupation of the entire city of Jerusalem on August 24, 2011... Read more... Eisenhower's worst fears came true. We invent enemies to buy the bombs, by Simon Jenkins | The Guardian Britain faces no serious threat, yet keeps waging war. While big defense exists, glory-hungry politicians will use it... Read more... Ret'd CIA Official Alleges Bush White House Used Agency to "Get" Cole | Informed Comment Eminent National Security correspondent at the New York Times James Risen has been told by a retired former official of the Central Intelligence Agency that the Bush White House repeatedly asked the CIA to spy on me with a view to discovering “damaging” information with which to discredit my reputation. Glenn Carle says he was called into the office of his superior, David Low, in 2005 and was asked of me, “ ‘What do you think we might know about him, or could find out that could discredit him?’ ”.. Read more... The Gun and the Olive Branch: How Israel Bombed Iraqi Jews Into Leaving Iraq, by David Hirst | Rense ...It was not long before a bombshell of a different kind hit the pathetic remnants of Iraqi Jewry. They learned that the three explosions were the work not of Arab extremists, but of the very people who sought to rescue them; of a clandestine organization called 'The Movement', whose leader, 'commander of the Jewish ghettoes in Iraq', had received this letter from Yigal Allon, chief of the Palmach commandos, and subsequently Foreign Minister of Israel:.. Read more... June 24, 2011 The right to remain and the right to return: spotlight on Palestinian refugees, by Samah Sabawi | Australians for Palestine  I was 12 years old when for the first time in my life I became a citizen of a country – Australia. Before that, I was a stateless Palestinian refugee. There were two laments my parents always repeated whenever they spoke of their place of origin Palestine: if only we could have stayed and if only we could return... Read more... ''The West Is Terrified of Arabic Democracies'', by Noam Chomsky | Information Clearing House ...There are constant democratic uprisings. They are crushed by the dictators we – mainly the US, Britain, and France – support. So sure, there is no democracy because you crush it all. You could have said the same about Latin America: a long series of dictators, brutal murderers. As long as the US controls the hemisphere, or Europe before it, there is no democracy, because it gets crushed... Read more... Federal Reserve Shipped Billions to Iraq Which Were Then Stolen | Washington's Blog The New York Fed is refusing to tell investigators how many billions of dollars it shipped to Iraq during the early days of the US invasion there, the special inspector general for Iraq reconstruction told CNBC Tuesday. The Fed's lack of disclosure is making it difficult for the inspector general to follow the paper trail of billions of dollars that went missing in the chaotic rush to finance the Iraq occupation, and to determine how much of that money was stolen... Read more... Rense & Celente: The American Dream is Gone | YouTube Inevitable collapse, Police Brutality, Crummy Politicians - and a little George Carlin... Watch video... Something Rotten This Way Comes, by Philip Giraldi | Antiwar The issue of Israel is of critical importance to the antiwar movement, as frequenters of this website are surely aware. This is because Israel and its lobby in the United States have succeeded in so intertwining their interests with those of the United States that whenever Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sneezes four hundred congressmen say “Gesundheit!”.. Read more... Israeli democracy exploits its weakest citizens, by Gideon Levy | Haaretz So long as democratic consciousness is so lax, and social discrimination is so egregious, this corrupt dance will continue... Read more... Rape in Libya: America's recent major wars have all been accompanied by memorable falsehoods, by Peter Dale Scott | Voltaire Network As Peter Dale Scott’s article substantiates, history is repeating itself in Libya. The only difference is the enormity of the fabrications, which appear to escalate and reach new levels of outrageousness with each new war and new Administration... Read more... Meir Dagan: From 'hero' to 'traitor' | Rehmat's World General (Aluf) Meir Dagan (born 1945), the former head of one of the world’s top state-terrorist agencies, Mossad, has been asked to surrender his diplomatic passport immediately after his criticism of Benji Netanyahu and Ehud Barak’s suicidal policy on Iran’s non-existent nuclear bomb... Read more... National Debt | The Economic Collapse It really is hard to find the words to describe the true horror of the national debt. The U.S. government has been on the greatest debt binge in all of human history, and a day of reckoning is coming that is going to be so painful that it is going to shock America to the core. We have lived so far above our means for so long that none of us really has any concept of what "normal" is like anymore... [I tend to think of it as a giant Ponzi scheme] Read more...Tens of Thousands Gather in Support of Syrian Government | Intifada Palestine  Huge crowds gathered waving flags and holding pictures of President Bashar al-Assad in several cities and towns across Syria on Tuesday. Thousands gathered in Damascus, Aleppo, Idleb, Hasakeh, Lattakia and the southern city of Dera’a, in an apparent show of support for Syrian President Assad and the government... Read more... Fear of Terror Makes People Stupid | Washington's Blog As I've repeatedly noted, FBI agents and CIA intelligence officials, constitutional law expert professor Jonathan Turley, Time Magazine, and the Washington Post have all said that U.S. government officials "were trying to create an atmosphere of fear in which the American people would give them more power".. Read more... How much longer will the West allow this inhuman, illegal and immoral siege to continue? by Ibrahim Hewitt | Middle East Monitor The sun is shining, the beach is filling up and the squeal of car tyres and screech of car horns is pervasive. I could be in Beirut or any one of a number of Levantine Mediterranean coastal cities, but I'm in Gaza City and this is not a normal seaside scenario; how many places have Israeli gunboats patrolling within sight of the shore in order to prevent local fishermen operating in their own territorial waters?.. Read more... Sudan: 'America's new war for Israel' | Rehmat's World Several American Jewish groups have been demonizing Muslim-majority government in Khartoum for decades to serve Israeli interests in Africa. They used the Zionist-controlled mainstream media to spread their propaganda lies about human rights abuses in Sudan just like they did in case of Iraq, Afghanistan, Iran, Libya and Nigeria. On the other hand, Israel armed and trained rebels fighting against Khartoum. The Jewish Lobby also used the International Criminal Court to convict Sudanese President for war crimes while the ICC had refused to prosecute Israeli mass-murderers... Read more... Three Little Words: WikiLeaks, Libya, Oil | Media Lens 'Libya has some of the biggest and most proven oil reserves — 43.6 billion barrels — outside Saudi Arabia, and some of the best drilling prospects.' So reported the Washington Post on June 11, in a rare mainstream article which, as we will see, revealed how WikiLeaks exposed the real motives behind the war on Libya... Read more... Israel's contempt for Law of the Seas | Redress Information & Analysis Stuart Littlewood highlights the European Union’s willful failure to protect the citizens of its member states in the face of Israel’s explicit threat to murder humanitarian workers planning to take part in the upcoming aid flotilla to Gaza... Read more... The Zionist Story | Gilad Atzmon The Zionist Story is an independent film by Ronen Berelovich. It tells the story of the ethnic cleansing of the indigenous Palestinians and the creation of the Jews Only State. This is an incredible documentary. You want to find the time to watch it from beginning to end... Watch film... Allison in Zionist Wonderland | Rehmat's World ...It’s the story of Allison Benedikt, a film editor at the Village Voice. She was raised by her American Jewish parents living in Youngstown (Ohio) to love Israel more than her country of birth. She tells her shocking experience in her recent article entitled Life After Zionist Summer Camp. Her experience, though, is not as bad as the experience of another American Jew, Jack Bernstein, who made Aliya to the Holy Land and married an Israeli Sephardim Jewess... Read more... Addressing Some Typical Zionist Questions | Gilad Atzmon A Zionist blitzed me this morning with a few questions. I thought they were pretty interesting and decided to share my answers with my readers... Read more... June 23, 2011 A New Web Site: Movement for One Democratic state (ODS) | Gilad Atzmon  Dear Friends, I am happy to introduce you to the new site... Please visit the site and get acquainted with its sections. Our aim is to create a premier functional site to promote the ideals of one democratic state in historic Palestine for all its citizens including all those who live there and all those who were expelled over the past century and their descendants... Read more... The battle lines are drawn, by Mazin Qumsiyeh | Popular Resistance Israel's UN ambassador met with major American Jewish organizations telling them to work hard to ensure there will not be passage of any votes on Palestine at the UN. Presidernt Obama met with 80 influential Jewish donors (who each gave $25-35,000 to attend the private dinner with the President) and Obama assured them that the US has iron-clad commitment to Israel. He stated to them that any differences with the current Israeli government are not about goals and strategies but merely minor tactical differences among close friends and allies. Money and weapons will keep flowing and American lives will continue to be threatened and shed for this Zionist cash... Read more... Pro-Israeli warmongers press GOP to back "America's fifth war of Muslim liberation" | The Passionate Attachment Three prominent conservative foreign policy hands are circulating a letter to House Republicans today urging them not to cut off funding for the conflict in Libya. The draft letter, being circulated by Weekly Standard Editor Bill Kristol, former Bush aide Elliott Abrams, and Brookings’s Robert Kagan, warns that cutting off funding would be “an abdication of our responsibilities as an ally and as the leader of the Western alliance... Read more... There Was No Libyan Peaceful Protest, Just Murderous Gangs and Nic Robertson, by Jay Janson | Countercurrents Nic Robertson and Anderson Cooper are surely aware of their achievement in promoting the human carnage of civil war and the destruction of a beautifully well-kept and prosperous nation, the 53rd highest developed country in the world with free health care and education. A standard of living that was higher than nine European nations, including Russia, is no more, thanks to their having daily led our entertainment with their war mongering of purposely distorted reporting, misreporting, disinformation, and blacking out of information that would have made this massive loss of human life impossible. They'll not be able to wash this off their conscience... Read more... SCO vs Bilderberg: Where are Real Decisions Being Made? by Eric Walberg | Dissident Voice Last week’s 10th Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit in the Kazakh capital Astana highlighted how the major rivals to empire, led by Russia and China — themselves rivals, are trying to fashion an alternative to US hegemony... Read more... Hezbollah and the Arab revolution, by Larbi Sadiki | Al Jazeera  Heralded by millions of fans as 'the mastermind of the resistance' - and demonised by the US and Israel as a 'terrorist', Is there something amiss within Hezbollah? It rose from the ignominy of oblivion, feudal exploitation, sectarian bias, and overall marginalisation to occupy political centre stage. In fewer than thirty years it converted Shia socio-political weightlessness into a counterbalancing political gravity...Sayyid Hassan Nasrallah's rhetoric towards Syria is equally divisive Read more... Turkish Actions Designed To Trigger NATO Confrontation With Syria? by Rick Rozoff | Voltaire Network Betrayed by NATO after Israel’s high seas attack on the Mavi Marmara just over one year ago, Turkey may be on its way to becoming a military launch pad for the Alliance’s operations against its erstwhile ally, Syria. Rick Rozoff fleshes out Turkey’s sinister role in the US-led counter revolutionary charge in the Middle East... Read more... The Real War vs The Illusions, by Peter Chamberlin | Opinion Maker ...the bin Laden psyop is having the unintended consequence of undermining support for continuing the war and increasing the public uproar to find an end to this war that now has no adversary, in the absence of a terrorist mastermind. It is slowly winding-down to total defeat for the United States, absent another earth-shattering unifying, “Pearl Harbor-like event” in the near future. What will the American administration do to sustain this unpopular war? How far will they go to keep the Afghan/Pakistan war going?.. Read more... 'Voice of the Voiceless' under UK fire, by Porya Mohajer Soltani | PressTV For a country that boasts enjoying freedom of opinion and expression, the UK seems to have problem with Press TV exercising freedom within its borders... Read more... Israeli undercover agents boast of killing Palestinians on TV | Maan News Agency Undercover Israeli intelligence officers appeared on national television Saturday to talk about assassinating Palestinians in a program broadcast on Israel's Channel 10... Read more... Global War Racketeering, by Mahboob A. Khawaja | Opinion Maker  ..During the first Gulf war in 1991, Halliburton under Dick Cheney rebuilt the Iraqi oil terminals and destroyed infrastructures and profited two billion dollars. The US encouraged Saddam Hussein to attack and occupy Kuwait and Saudi Arabia. The act created huge sum opportunities for rebuilding the Arabian economic infrastructures making Saudi Arabia and Kuwait to pay approximately two hundred billion dollars to the US consortium leading the Gulf War efforts. This was a dream come true for the war racketeering pimps in Europe and America... Read more... 9/11 and the Orwellian Redefinition of "Conspiracy Theory" by Paul Craig Roberts | Global Research A “conspiracy theory” no longer means an event explained by a conspiracy. Instead, it now means any explanation, or even a fact, that is out of step with the government’s explanation and that of its media pimps... Read more... 'John McCain, Imperialist' by Tony Cartalucci | Infowars Ireland “Senator” John McCain is a traitor in every sense of the word. He is a man who has overtly divorced himself from the US Constitution (see also: McCain’s support for the Patriot Act) he has sworn an oath to defend, first as a Navy pilot, then as a Senator. He consorts with, lobbies for, and procures money and resources for real terrorists while citing battalions of fictitious bearded men to justify his numerous transgressions against America’s Bill of Rights. When John McCain isn’t literally shaking the hands of terrorists in Benghazi, fresh back from Iraq and Afghanistan with American blood on their hands, he is berating Americans who believe US imperialism must end... Read more... NATO, the ultimate transformer, by Pepe Escobar | Asia Times Forget about the Hollywood Transformer franchise; as facts on the ground go, the ultimate transformer in real life is the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. NATO has just admitted it was "probably" responsible for the humanitarian liberation of nine Libyan civilians, plus 18 injured, via an early morning strike against an apartment building in a densely populated Tripoli neighborhood... Read more... Psychopathic Leaders: Are Obama and Netanyahu any better than Assad and Mubarek? by Kathleen Barry | Daily Censored ...we cannot find Assad and Mubarek ridiculous, heartless leaders who are contemptuous of their people without recognizing it in our own President of the U.S. and the Prime Minister of Israel. Lets expose them now before the best of our human rights advocates are exposed to their psychopathic wrath. Let them know we see through them just as we see through their kind in Assad, Mubarak... Read more... The end of monarchical exceptionalism, by Jillian Schwedler Al Jazeera  The monarchs are clearly panicking, as they should be. The Gulf Cooperation Council (of Sunni monarchies) is seeking to expand its membership to the non-Gulf monarchies of Morocco and Jordan. The idea that Arab monarchies enjoy greater legitimacy and stability than their neighbours should finally be put to rest... Read more... New Arrests, Guilty Pleas in $50 Milllion Claims Conference Fraud, by Paul Berger | Forward New arrests, fresh guilty pleas and a growing number of witnesses co-operating with the FBI have bolstered an investigation into a multimillion dollar fraud at the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany... [The question arises: have their been any claims that were NOT fraudulent?] Read more...Holocaust Remembrance: What's Behind the Campaign? by Mark Weber | Institute for Historical Review Since the late 1970s “Holocaust Remembrance” has become ever more important in the United States and many other countries. The campaign to remember the Holocaust -- often defined as the genocidal killing of six million Jews in Europe during the Second World War – includes numerous commemorative events, education courses in many schools, and a stream of motion pictures, television specials, books and magazine articles... Read more... Killing Iraqis Like Flies In Fallujah ~ Oh Dude! | YouTube Dropping A 500 Lb.Bomb On Iraqi Civilians On The Street... [The neocons and neolibs must have really enjoyed that - a guaranteed orgasm. "neo" in this context means "zio".] Read more... Jewish Conspiracy Theory, the Eichmann Testimony and the Holocaust: Deborah Lipstadt's Contribution to Holocaust Revisionism | Inconvenient History ...Lipstadt is considered by many to be an important Holocaust scholar; she served as a consultant to the team planning the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, and authored three books dealing with the Jewish experience during the Second World War. Since the early 1990s, this pro-Zionist academic who delights in her Jewish identity has been recognized as the most prominent opponent of “Holocaust denial,” a pejorative term meant to demonize Holocaust revisionism, the historical movement contending there was no Nazi plan to exterminate the Jews during the Second World War, the “Nazi gas chambers” never existed, and the claim of six million murdered Jews is a gross exaggeration... Read more... Pimping the Holocaust's Memory, by Meir Stieglitz | Information Clearing House Never was the memory of the Holocaust's victims subjected to such an abhorrent use and moral abuses as in Israel today. And no one is more proficient in submitting the abysmal sufferings of the European Jews to the highest bidder than Israel's current Prime Minster, Netanyahu. In this sense, as in other aspects, Netanyahu is truly a democratic leader -- the embodiment of the Israeli collective spirit... Read more... June 22, 2011 Decadence of Mainstream Media in North America, by Roger Sheety | Palestine Chronicle  Palestinian shot by Israel soldiers during Nakba protests in Gaza ...Since journalism is an art, it seems that William Hazlitt was right after all, that the arts are not progressive. Indeed, so regressive and backwards has mainstream journalism become in North America, especially when it comes to reporting on the Arab peoples, that it can no longer distinguish between right and wrong, between occupier and occupied, between colonizer and colonized, between state propaganda and historical truth....Read more... Archbishop Tutu endorses 'Freedom for Palestine' single by OneWorld | Australians for Palestine What a wonderful, compassionate and wise man. In just a few words, Archbishop Desmond Tutu's simple message brings hope and clarity to the spin that has wrought such terrible injustices and calamity on the Palestinian people and shamelessly influenced our leaders to abandon the common human values of decency, compassion and honour to condemn them to a life of unforgiving occupation and apartheid... Read more, watch video... An American Jew Sails to Gaza: How Could I Not Go? by Jane Hirschmann | Palestine Chronicle People often ask me why I am part of a team to organize a U.S. Boat to Gaza that will be sailing this month with the next International Flotilla to break the siege of Gaza. They often make clear they are asking because I am an American Jew, whose family survived the Holocaust with some surviving family members ending up in Israel. And my only answer is: How could I not?.. Read more... Massive Hitler Youth Project Rolls Right Along: The Romance of Birthright Israel | The Nation The seekers are young, just beginning to face the disappointments of adulthood. Their journey is often marked by tears. They may weep while praying at the Western Wall, their heads pressed against the weathered stone, or at the Holocaust Museum, as they pass the piles of shoes of the dead. Others tear up in Jerusalem's Mount Herzl military cemetery, while embracing a handsome IDF soldier in the late afternoon light. But at some point during their all-expenses-paid ten-day trip to a land where, as they are constantly reminded, every mountain and valley is inscribed with 5,000 years of their people's history, the moment almost always comes... [Goebbels must be twisting in his grave with envy - or would it be pride?] Read more...Waging Another Unconstitutional War, by Ralph Nader | Common Dreams The meticulous Harvard Law Review editors should be rolling over in their footnotes. The recidivist violations of constitutional and statutory requirements by their celebrated predecessor at that journal - Barack Obama has reached Orwellian dimensions in the war against Libya... Read more... Marching through Tel Aviv for a Palestinian state | Gush Shalom  On Saturday night June 4, the evening before June 5, we marked for the 44th time the anniversary of the Occupation. But at least we are now not anymore alone with the idea as to what the solution should look like. The demonstration was rather than looking back to 1967 anticipating the Palestinian request for UN recognition in September... Read more... The Saudi Arabian Moment, by Dr. Lawrence Davidson | Intifada Palestine ...The second way the Saudis have shown their frustration is by pointing a finger at U.S. hypocrisy. This was done in a sharp, no-nonsense op-ed by Saudi Prince Turki al-Faisal in the Washington Post of 10 June 2011. Turki has strong credentials. He has been the Saudi ambassador to both the U.S. and the U.K. He has been his country's chief of intelligence. And while he presently holds no government office (which is probably why he was the one who authored this op-ed) his sentiments undoubtedly reflect those of the Saudi government. So what did the prince say?.. Read more... NATO's Terror Over Tripoli, by Tony Cartalucci | Land Destroyer ...The key to Qaddafi's long reign, his survival and resistance in the face of NATO's relentless attacks is the support he garners from his own people. While the mainstream media preys on the ignorance of its audience, those who took the time to examine the demographics of Libya would realize the current fighting is split along traditional tribal lines where animosity has existed, and in fact been funded and fostered by the West for at least three decades. With NATO incapable of handing their inept terrorist stooges on the ground the country with airstrikes alone, it appears they are attempting the same terroristic "shock and awe" tactics used against Iraq to break the will of the population with overwhelming violence... Read more... Barack Obama is the wrong target, by Alan Hart | Voltaire Network ...Some members of Congress who applauded Netanyahu in a scene that reminded me of the enthusiasm for Hitler at Nazi rallies accused Obama of betraying Israel. There has indeed been a betrayal, but what has been betrayed is democracy in America. The many members of Congress who read from Zionism's script and dance to its tune in order to secure election campaign funds and organized Jewish votes in tight races are not merely stooges. Because they are putting the interests of a foreign power above those of their own country, it's time to call them what they really are: traitors... Read more... Today's Pentagon Papers Warning, by Daniel Ellsberg | Consortium News The U.S. government has finally released the full Pentagon Papers describing how the American people were misled into the Vietnam War. The declassification comes four decades after most of the document was leaked by Pentagon insider Daniel Ellsberg, who today says similar deceptions are enabling wars in Afghanistan and elsewhere... Read more... Archbishop of Canterbury reprimanded by angry Holy Land Christians | Redress Information & Analysis Stuart Littlewood views Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams's failure to acknowledge the role played by Israel's occupation in the hemorrhaging of Christian populations from the Holy Land and recalls previous occasions where the archbishop behaved as if he were "a closet Zionist like so many other so-called Christians".. [So Canterbury joins the Vatican as a satellite of the Zionist Reich - Sieg Heil!] Read more..June 21, 2011 Palestine, Israel And America: The Strategic Void, by Dr. Alan Sabrosky | My Catbird Seat  Let us admit it to ourselves, once and for all. The battle of Palestine for the Palestinians has been lost. The odds against them and their scattered network of supporters have been great. The last possible chance to at least stave off defeat was stillborn last year, when the Goldstone Report on Gaza was endorsed by the UN Human Rights Commission and the UN General Assembly, and then — simply stopped. Only if some country or countries had fought to bring UNGA 377A (the Uniting for Peace Resolution) before the General Assembly then to force a vote censuring Israel and, if necessary, the US and activating the punitive aspects of that resolution, did the Palestinians have some hope... Read more... Return of the One-State Solution?: A Realist's Utopia, by Landon Frim | Counterpunch ...What is needed now is a rational assessment of the situation in light of the given facts. When this is carried through, all signs point to a One State Solution. What was once the utopian dream of Jewish intellectuals like Martin Buber, Gershom Scholem, and Albert Einstein, has now become the banner of hard-nosed realists... Read more... Why Google Earth Can't Show You Israel, by Hamed Aleaziz | Mother Jones ...in 1997, Congress passed the National Defense Authorization Act, one section of which is titled, "Prohibition on collection and release of detailed satellite imagery relating to Israel." The amendment, known as the Kyl-Bingaman Amendment, calls for a federal agency, the NOAA's Commercial Remote Sensing Regulatory Affairs, to regulate the dissemination of zoomed-in images of Israel... Read more... Gaza Island | YouTube The Freedom Flotilla 2, with 12+ boats carrying humanitarian aid and 1000+ peace activists, is sailing to Gaza in late June. Alice Walker, who's sailing with us, calls this the Freedom Ride of our generation... Read more, watch video... Peres: Israel is doomed as 'Jewish state' | Rehmat's World  “I’m concerned about the continued freeze in the peace talks. I’m concerned that Israel will become a binational state. What is happening now is total foot-dragging. We’re about to crash into the wall. We’re galloping at full speed toward a situation where Israel will cease to exist as a Jewish state,".. [Damn the torpedoes, full steam ahead!] Read more...Will Iran Explode?: Turmoil at the Top, by Conn Hallinan | CounterPunch ...So far, the government has managed to drive a wedge between the more affluent and middle class Green opposition and the urban and rural poor. But if the economy worsens and living standards continue to plummet, that wedge may give way, as it did in 2009 when the urban working class made common cause with Teheran's middle class. Ultimately "Things are going to get out of hand,".. Read more... ICAHD Denounces Israeli Demolitions (and American Enabling) ...Despite claims that Palestinian houses, reservoirs and other buildings are “illegal,” demolition is merely another face of ethnic cleansing, since the Jerusalem municipality, the Ministry of Interior and the Civil Administration of the West Bank all deny Palestinians the right to build homes on their own property. Although the pressure to demolish is constant – the Israeli authorities have demolished 24,000 Palestinian homes since 1967 and new orders are issued daily – the current wave of demolitions can only be explained only on the background of Prime minister Netanyahu’s visit to Washington a few weeks ago... Read more... Why Regime Change in Libya?: The Perils of Insubordination, by Ismael Hossein-Zadeh | Counterpunch ...There is undeniable evidence that contrary to the spontaneous, unarmed and peaceful protest demonstrations in Egypt, Tunisia and Bahrain, the rebellion in Libya has been nurtured, armed and orchestrated largely from abroad, in collaboration with expat opposition groups and their local allies at home. Indeed, evidence shows that plans of "regime change" in Libya were drawn long before the insurgency actually started in Benghazi... A must read... Let the Dog See the Rabbi | Gilad Atzmon  We are used to reading about Israelis and Jews bragging about the inherent bond between Israel, enlightenment, modernity, science and technology. Hence, it may take us by surprise to find out that in the Jewish State, a dog was ‘sentenced to death by stoning’ by a Rabbinical court... Read more... Al Hiwar TV Interview with Brian Haw | YouTube Brian Haw, founder of the Parliament Square Peace Campaign, interviewed by Anas Altikriti for Al Hiwar TV in 2010... [He says all the right things, but I wish he'd lose the hat] Watch video... Lies, Damn Lies, and Liberating Wars | Stephen Lendman America's imperial wars are for wealth, power, and unchallenged dominance, never for humanitarian concerns or liberation, notions Washington contemptuously spurns... Read more... Obama, Afghanistan, and the wages of sin, by Robert Grenier | Al Jazeera Faced with unrealistic targets for post-war peace and stability, "good enough" becomes the new goal of US policy... Read more... 'Dr. Mossad' commits suicide | Rehmat's World  Dr. Yonah Elian 88, committed suicide in his Ramat Aviv apartment (Tel Aviv) on Friday. Elian had worked for Israeli Mossad for two decades. He took part in many Mossad operations as an anesthesiologist to sedate victims who were to be kidnapped or otherwise incapacitated... [Rat poison I imagine] Read more...The operations conducted against Libya and Syria involve the same actors and strategies. However, their respective outcomes will differ since the situations in these countries are not comparable. Thierry Meyssan analyzes the semi-failure experienced by the colonial and counter-revolutionary forces, and predicts a pendulum reversal in the Arab world... Read more... Entrapping Innocent Muslims | Stephen Lendman ..Post-9/11, Muslims have been ruthlessly targeted. Paid informants have infested mosques and their communities to entrap them. As a result, over 200 were persecuted on bogus terrorism related charges. Despite "tout(ing) these cases as successes in the so-called war against terrorism....former (FBI) agents, local lawmakers," and many others "have begun questioning the legitimacy and efficacy" of entrapping innocent victims for political advantage... Read more... Israel has no right to stop Gaza aid flotillas, by Gideon Levy | Haaretz Israel cannot be hurt by any imaginary danger the ships pose. Here from Sweden comes a final appeal to those who would block the flotilla: Please, just once, act with prudence, and abide by international law and simple justice... Read more... June 20, 2011 The Proper Place for Americans, by Jim W. Dean | Veterans Today  ...I hear a growing discourse developing among Americans who feel their country has slipped away from them. Some of the military people describe it as living under a scenario where we had been conquered in a war, and the victor imposes a Quisling government to rule in their place... Read more... Netanyahu says there's no solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, by Etgar Keret | Haaretz The flight to Rome leaves in the middle of the night. When I finish packing my small travel suitcase, my wife gives me a scrap of orange notepaper. It isn’t meant for me; it’s for the prime minister. It reads: “Mr. Benjamin Netanyahu, I beg you do everything in your power to bring peace, for the sake of the future of our children and yours. Thank you, Shira.”.. Read more... The Destabilization of Syria and the Broader Middle East War, by Michel Chossudovsky | Global Research What is unfolding in Syria is an armed insurrection supported covertly by foreign powers including the US, Turkey and Israel. Armed insurgents belonging to Islamist organizations have crossed the border from Turkey, Lebanon and Jordan. The US State Department has confirmed that it is supporting the insurgency... Read more... NATO Incorporates Libyan Experience For Global War Template, by Rick Rozoff | OpEd News As the West's war against Libya has entered its fourth month and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization has flown more than 11,000 missions, including 4,300 strike sorties, over the small nation, the world's only military bloc is already integrating lessons learned from the conflict into its international model of military intervention based on earlier wars in the Balkans, Afghanistan and Iraq... Read more... U.S. Boat to Gaza: Emergency Response Plans | USTOGAZA ...The U.S. Boat to Gaza organizing committee urges people throughout this country to plan now for Emergency Response actions. The power of such actions will be the number of cities they are held in and the numbers of people who participate. Now is the time to start planning... Read more... IsraHell Comes To Realise Its End | Gilad Atzmon At least they laugh about it all... Watch video... Deny! Deny! Israel as a theocratic state, by Uri Avnery | Redress Information & Analysis Uri Avnery views the origins and implications of the notion of Israel as a “Jewish state”, arguing that, in effect, it places Israel in the same category as another theocratic state, the Islamic Republic of Pakistan... Read more... The Palestinian Authority's historic mistake - and opportunity | Redress Information & Analysis Jeff Halper calls on Palestinian Authority leaders, foremost Mahmoud Abbas, to honour their historic national responsibility, mobilize the immense resources of Palestinian and world civil society and push for UN recognition of Palestinian independence in September “as the head of a national unity government with the support of the world’s peoples, Mandela-like” and thereby “decisively change the course of events forever”... Read more... Libya: Connect the Dots-You Get a Giant Dollar Sign, by Russ Baker | WhoWhatWhy  Qaddafi plus Goldman plus oil equals war It’s true that Arab Spring is a good thing. It’s true Qaddafi is a bad guy. But connect the dots, and you will see that he is being set up. The evidence points to a plan to create an “Arab Spring” for the Good Old Boys—CIA, banks, oil companies. Read and see if you don’t agree...Read more... Why the NATO powers are trying to assassinate Moammar Gaddafi, by Brian Becker | Global Research ...Libya has the largest oil reserves in Africa and the ninth largest in the world with 41.5 billion barrels as of 2007. The U.S. government and oil industry surveys conclude that Libya has 63 years of reserves at current production rates if no new reserves were to be found. But Libya is considered to have many unexplored reserves. Libya has been a big prize for the western oil giants both because of the quantity of oil and of the particularly high quality of Libyan oil... Read more... US talks peace and prepares for war in Sudan, by Susan Garth | Global Research ...President Barack Obama has called for a ceasefire, presenting himself as an honest broker in a conflict that is largely of US making. The humanitarian disaster threatens to become a pretext for yet another US military adventure in Africa. Washington has intervened in Libya with bombing raids aimed at overthrowing the Gaddafi regime. Now it has Sudan in his sights... Read more... Lebanon's Sarah Palin Meets Captain America: Xenophobic Dynamic Duo Defeat Freedom, by Franklin Lamb | Veterans Today Hanan is the Islamophobic Lebanese woman, Hanan Qahwaji who as a child lived in the South Lebanon village of Maryoun overlooking the Lebanon-Palestine border during three years of the on again off again Lebanese Civil War before she became an Israeli collaborator and fled to Israel. Hanan, repackaged as “Rachael”, soon quickly landed a job with Israeli TV and specialized in telling stories about how Muslims terrorized her and her Christian neighbors... Read more... FBI to Expand Domestic Surveillance Powers as Details Emerge of Its Spy Campaign Targeting Activists | Democracy Now Civil liberties advocates are raising alarm over news the FBI is giving agents more leeway to conduct domestic surveillance. According to the New York Times, new guidelines will allow FBI agents to investigate people and organizations “proactively” without firm evidence for suspecting criminal activity. We speak to former FBI agent Mike German, who now works at the American Civil Liberties Union, and Texas activist Scott Crow, who has been the focus of intense FBI surveillance from 2001 until at least 2008... Read transcript, watch interview by Amy Goodman... A Walk On the Dark Side Of Israeli-Dominated American Politics | Wallwritings ...Weiner might eventually emerge as a Fox (where else?) television commentator, realizing a childhood ambition to perform on TV. Lord knows he has the qualifications. He is able to simplify complex issues into incoherence with remarkable glibness and a degree of reptilian charm. With his texting bad conduct behind him, Weiner is now free to join the Glenn Beck team. Beck is Weiner’s exact political opposite on everything but Israel, where they share a common right-wing Zionist extremism... [They could do a tag team show dressed up as ZioNazi thugs beating up Palestinian women and children. No doubt it would be popular, at least among Fox fans.] Read more...Jews, Zionism, and the Stupidity of Bigotry | Wattree's Blog ...I try to avoid addressing the same issue in consecutive columns - that's my only defense against my natural tendency to be tedious and predictable. But this past weekend a young man, let's call him Rob, came up to me and said, "Brother, I got to give you props - you really stuck it to those damn Jews last week." As soon as the words came out of his mouth I knew I had to clarify my message by revisiting the issue of Zionism... Read more... Zionists Financed Hitler's Regime and Condemned Jews to the Holocaust | Veterans Today ...The facts are clear that Zionists made Hitler’s 3rd Reich possible and ultimately spawned the Zio-Fascist and terrorist State that Israel has now become. Israeli Zionist leaders continue to indulge in the persecution of Jews by falsely claiming that Zionism is a goal of Judaism. It’s time to make a clear distinction between Judaism and Zionism, aka: Zio-Fascism... [Gee, yet another anti-Zionist video pulled from YouTube... I just can't imagine what's going on...] Read more...U.S. Mayors Challenge Deaf Federal Mafia | Johnny Punish For months, the country’s mayors have bemoaned reduced federal spending and planned cuts for programs that they hold dear: Community Development Block Grants, homeland security programs, transportation spending, among others. Now, they’ve heightened the rhetoric. Today in a press conference, they called for the federal government to end the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and to invest the money spend on those wars at home... [Good luck with that...] Read more..."Transparent Cabal" Rejected for Anti-AIPAC Conference, by Stephen Sniegoski | Veterans Today ...the underlying fear of being smeared as anti-Semitic limits the criticism of Israel and its American supporters–in terms of who can make it, where it can be presented, and what can be said–to such an extent that it becomes largely ineffective. In fact, it becomes something akin to the official opposition that is often allowed to exist in authoritarian, and even totalitarian, states. The existence of such an official opposition allows critics to blow off steam without having any real impact; it creates the pretense of freedom without the reality... Read more... June 19, 2011 Freedom Flotilla II sets sail for Gaza, by Debbie Menon | Intifada Palestine  Read more... Palestinian statehood and bypassing Israel, by Lamis Andoni | Al Jazeera ..Israel has been relying on unchallenged US support and its military supremacy to create facts on the ground to prevent the foundation of an independent Palestinian state, and for that matter, any alternative solution based on equality and justice... Read more... One on One: Tariq Ali | Al Jazeera The British-Pakistani historian and writer has influenced the international left and public policy for decades... Watch episode... Lining the chessboard against the Resistance Bloc: war with Syria, Iran, and Lebanon in the works? by Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya | Voltaire Network In their counter-revolutionary push to roll back any democratic changes arising from the Arab Spring, the US/Israeli/Saudi troika is out to destabilize the countries in the region that refuse to abandon their national sovereignty. In this game, Turkey is emerging as a key, albeit ominous, player... Read more... Globalists call for 'big war' by James P. Tucker Jr. | American Free Press ..“It will have to be a big war involving several countries to advance our goals of a global economy,” said Keith Alexander, director of the U.S. National Security Agency. “But the pressure to end the war in Libya is non-stop, mostly because of that damn Kucinich.” He was referring to Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio), whose bill to end the invasion of Libya was defeated just before Congress adjourned for a week on June 3... Read more... What's behind the global bankers' austerity programs: Seizure of public property for corporations, by Wayne Madsen | Intrepid Report What lies in store for Greece, Portugal, Spain, Ireland, Italy, and, in short order, the United States, is the wholesale sell-off of public property to private corporations at bargain basement prices. What the despots who gather in their secretive lairs at Davos, Cernobbio, Bilderberg, and G8/G20 are bringing about is a world where no property is owned by the state, which by default means the people. Total corporate control over every facet of life equals extreme fascism... [A slight semantic quibble; fascism actually means this. Madsen is using the definition that considers fascism to be a political phenomenon that arose ad novo in the 20th Century. Actually, it is as old as the earliest tribal societies, if not older .] Read more... Israel: 'Beirut got Hizbullah-dominated regime' | Rehmat's World  Last week, the US, British and Canadian Zionist-dominated mainstream press plus hundreds of Israel hasbara internet websites had headline “Lebanon got Hezbollah dominated government”. I was so excited by the good news and wanted to find out how many Hizbullah ministers were in the billionaire Prime Minister Najib Miqati’s new 30-member cabinet... Read more... US Naval and Troop Movements Toward North Africa, Middle East Reported As Syrian Destabilization Escalates | Webster Tarpley US Special Forces units based at Fort Hood, Texas, have been told to prepare for deployment to Libya no later than July, according to a US military source. The Special Forces would then be followed in September or October by heavy armored units of the First Cavalry Division, currently located in Iraq and Afghanistan, along with other components of the US III Corps... Read more... Israeli dog sentenced to death by stoning | Rehmat's World Israel daily YNet reported on June 16, 2011 that a Jerusalem rabbinical court recently sentenced a wandering dog (considered an impure animal by Halacha) to death by stoning. The cruel sentence stemmed from the suspicion that the spirit of a famous secular lawyer, who insulted the court’s judges 20 years ago, had been transferred into the dog’s body... [No doubt the Islamophobes will raise a great hue and cry against such primitive barbarity.] Read more...Working America's Dismal State | Stephen Lendman ..From 2007 - 2009, private sector wages and salaries declined sharply, while unemployment, underemployment, and their median and mean durations skyrocketed... Read more... Attacking Libya, Sparing Syria | Roy Tov Three countries, three different outcomes. In Egypt, Mubarak was removed from office peacefully. In Libya, a civil war is still on; while in Syria the regime violently controls the cities. Are the differences the result of internal conditions, or are we indirectly watching the results of the New Great Game?.. Read more... Jews & Their Self Interest: An Interview with Philip Weiss | Gilad Atzmon ...Openly and bluntly, Weiss confirmed what many of us have been saying for a very long time: it is not solely ‘altruism’ or concern for Palestinians victims that motivates some of the most prominent Jewish campaigners and organisations, but it is also, as Weiss freely admits, ‘Jewish self-interest.’.. [An important piece - the universal vs tribal distinction is an essential insight that Atzmon frequently and correctly stresses. See essay on fascism as above.] Read more...Israel vs. Israel | YouTube Documentary about Israeli peace activists... Watch (new) trailer... Why does Britain tolerate its leaders?: The power of lies, deception and self-delusion | Redress Information & Analysis Christopher King considers the bubble of deception and lies that underpins the British political establishment and the ignorance and self-delusion that sustain public support for this establishment... Read more... June 18, 2011 The Mossad Angle: All-Out Infilration (Part 3), by Jonathan Azaziah | Opinion Maker  Read more... AIPAC Pushes Hard for War with Iran.. but doesn't want the blame, by Grant F. Smith | Intifada Palestine AIPAC has long brushed its footprints away from trapping pits into which it has successfully lured American taxpayers... Read more... Keiser Report: Army of New Mubaraks | Information Clearing House This week Max Keiser and co-host, Stacy Herbert, report on the Times Square hustlers of today, hawking wars and the weapons you need to fight those wars. In the second half of the show, Max talks to Saifedean Ammous about the economics behind the Arab Spring and how the IMF and World Bank loans will just create new Mubaraks and Ben Alis... [With their patented gallows humor] Watch video... The confrontation to come, by Mazin Qumsiyeh | Popular Resistance Israel reported a record $7.2 billion in weapons exports solidifying its position in the top four countries profiting from war and destruction. The other two main official sources of income for Israel (foreign aid and its pillaging of the Palestinian economy) are also at a record high. A fourth source of income that is less publicized but certainly is in the billions is money laundering and other criminal activities... Read more... Hail Caesar! The Default Specter as Political Theater, by Paul Craig Roberts | Counterpunch Although the financial press speculates about a downgrade of the US government’s credit rating and default if political impasse prevents the debt ceiling from being raised in time, I doubt anyone really believes that the debt ceiling will not be raised. It is just all a part of the political theater of the next couple of months... Read more... Israeli forces demolish 5 wells in Hebron | Arabs Today Israeli forces demolished five water wells in the southern West Bank city of Hebron on Tuesday morning, targeting a neighborhood in the city's south... [Just some details of the ongoing, everyday slow-motion genocide] Read more...Army Kidnaps Palestinian Legislator In Hebron, by Saed Bannoura | International Middle East Media Center Israeli soldiers kidnapped on Thursday at dawn legislator Dr. Samir Al Qadi, 55, after breaking into his home in Surif town, north of the southern West Bank city of Hebron, and took him to an unknown destination... Read more... DHS partners with Jewish organizations | The Hill The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced its first faith-based security partnership on Friday, as it joined ranks with two major Jewish organizations... [All In The Family] Read more... The Mark Weber Report | Voice of Reason The Voice of Reason Broadcast Network is pleased to announce a new program, The Mark Weber Report, which will bring you analysis and commentary by Mark Weber of current affairs and historical issues... Read more, listen to podcasts... The Persecution of Juan Cole, by Justin Raimondo | Antiwar ...Granted near absolute power to operate with impunity – to collect information on us, through fair means or foul – this vast army of spies, stool pigeons, and “analysts” is bound to do precisely what they were doing to Professor Cole because that’s their job... Read more... Investment bankers salivate over North Africa | Aletho News Investment banking is usually thought of as a field that values stability. Yet the greatest rewards are often attained through destabilization... Read more... On the demonization of Saddam Hussein and Manuel Noriega | Aletho News In December 2003, we all saw the photos of a disheveled Saddam Hussein after he was pulled out of a “spider hole” in a town near Tikrit. The administration laughed and the U.S. public made jokes about him and his hiding place. The room was dirty. There was an empty can of Spam. The story was that he was holed up there and was totally irrelevant to Iraq. His day was done and he was now in the hands of Iraq’s liberators. What you saw wasn’t real. Nothing of this scenario was true... [Alice in Wonderland: Through the Boob Tube] Read more...Don't Look Away: The Siege of Gaza Must End, by Kathy Kelly | Antiwar ...There is some risk involved in this flotilla. The Israeli government threatens to board each ship in the flotilla with snipers and attack dogs. A year ago the Israeli Navy fired on the Turkish ship, the Mavi Marmara, from the air, then documented its passengers’ panicked response as their justification for executing nine activists, including one young U.S. citizen, Furkhan Dogan, shot several times in the back and head at close range. It then refused to cooperate with an international investigation... Read more... Israel woos China on Iran | Rehmat's World After humiliating Barack Obama during his visit to Washington last month, Benji Netanyahu has decided to sell American military technology to China... Read more... Netanyahu is dooming Israel to live eternally by the sword | Haaretz Editorial By declaring the conflict insoluble, Netanyahu is leaving no opening for reconciliation and understanding with the Palestinians and the Arab and Muslim world... Read more... US Warships Moved To Syrian Coast, by Paul Joseph Watson | Infowars Even as the Obama administration prepares to launch a full ground war in Libya while expanding its drone attacks inside Yemen and Pakistan, US warships are being moved towards the Mediterranean coast of Syria, precisely in line with forecasts that the Bilderberg Group intended to launch a massive new war in the Middle East, with Syria being its prime target... Read more... La Nation Building du Jour, by Philip Giraldi | Antiwar Critics of Washington politics have often noted that there is a huge disconnect between the thinking on Capitol Hill and what is clear to most Americans who live in the rest of the country. Many Americans, most particularly those who do not work for the federal government and who therefore do not benefit from inflated salaries, solid-gold benefit packages and the option to return as contractors earning even more, are in serious financial trouble... Read more... Gilad Atzmon's Talk: The War Against Terror Within | Gilad Atzmon Watch video... What a Joker... | Gilad Atzmon His name is Glenn Beck and he is pathetic beyond belief! Watch videos (if your stomach is strong enough)... New GOP Ad For 2012 Election | YouTube Time to come on back to the Grand Old Party... Watch video... How the Monsters at Goldman Sachs Caused a Greek Tragedy, by Jim Hightower | AlterNet ...In 2006, Goldman's CEO was considered such a whiz that he was elevated to treasury secretary and soon was handed the task of fixing the very economic mess he had helped create. His "fix" was the cockamamie, self-serving, multi-trillion-dollar taxpayer bailout that did save Wall Street ... but has left our economy in shambles... Read more... June 17, 2011 Forthcoming Gaza Flotilla: Heroism vs Violent Intransigence? by Richard Lightbown | Palestine Chronicle  The heroism and sacrifice of the flotilla will not be in vain After he returned from his ordeal on the Gaza Freedom Flotilla, Fiachra O'Luain, the mate on the Challenger I, was asked if he would go again to break the siege of Gaza. He replied 'yes...and again, and again'. Many of the survivors of the flotilla will be on the next one due to sail for Gaza towards the end of June...Read more... Turkey and the Arab spring: Learning to walk again, by Eric Walberg | OpEd News Turkey 's ruling Justice and Development Party's (AKP) renewed mandate puts the electoral seal of approval on its shift towards the Middle East, even as its importance to Europe increases. Now Turkey itself is being courted by both NATO countries and, increasingly, the Arab world... Read more... Gaza Border 'Opening' is Just Rhetoric, by Ramzy Baroud | Palestine Chronicle For most Palestinians, leaving Gaza through Egypt is as exasperating a process as entering it. Governed by political and cultural sensitivities, most Palestinian officials and public figures refrain from criticising the way Palestinians are treated at the Rafah border... Read more... Hypocrisy and Western-centric Human Rights, by Jamal Kanj | Intifada Palestine  ...Palestinian human rights have been denied for more than 60 years with complete inaudible Western silence; one and a half million Palestinian have been under economic siege in Gaza for more than five years; Israel has continued to violate the Western own driven “road map” for peace by building Jewish only settlements on occupied Palestinian lands. Nevertheless, the same Western chorus defending Arab human rights in Syria and Libya has conspicuously ignored the same for Palestinian Arabs... Read more... U.S. Invasion of Libya Set for October, by Aaron Dykes | Infowars Infowars has received alarming reports from within the ranks of military stationed at Ft. Hood, Texas confirming plans to initiate a full-scale U.S.-led ground invasion in Libya and deploy troops by October... Read more... Judea declares war on Scotch whisky | Rehmat's World According to Israel daily, Ha’aretz, the Federation of Jewish Men’s Clubs (FJMC) – a partnership of 250 Jewish men’s clubs with more than 25,000 members in the US and Canada – has joined with many Synagogues in Israel, US and Canada to boycott Kiddush-favorite whisky brewed in West Dunbartonshire Council in Scotland... [Make them drink Manischewitz, that'll serve 'em right.] Read more...USA vs Al-Arian | SnagFilms  [Sami Al-Arian is one of a handful of the most prominent (and totally innocent) American political prisoners. It is a harrowing cautionary tale - anyone who is politically active on behalf of human beings vs. the ZPG (Zionist Power Configuration) might be looking at their own future. And things have gotten even worse for Prof. Al Arian since this documentary was made in 2007. They came close to killing him once and may yet do so.] Watch the film...2010 State Department Human Rights Report on Bahrain | Stephen Lendman ...America spurns human rights, civil liberties, peace, justice, and democratic values as the world's leading rogue state, lawlessly terrorizing millions, making the world safe for capital. Shameless rhetoric changes nothing, including downplaying the worst of Bahrain's human rights practices in its 2010 report... Read more... Why Is Congress Threatening Palestinians with Sanctions? | US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation ..It's hardly surprising that Members of Congress - who last month gave Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu 29 standing ovations during his address to Congress in which he denied Israel is engaged in a military occupation - would now consider sanctioning Palestinians for taking their case to the UN... Read more... June 16, 2011 New 9/11 Poll: Half Of New Yorkers Support New Investigation Into WTC7 Collapse, by Steve Watson | Prison Planet  A new scientific poll reveals that almost half of all New Yorkers would support a new investigation into the collapse of World Trade Center building 7, which fell at free fall speed into its own footprint on the afternoon of September 11, 2001, after suffering only relatively minor fire damage... Read more... Reasonable Conjecture on Israel's Changing Demographics, by Dr. Lawrence Davidon | Intifada Palestine If the historical goal of the state of Israel is to provide the world’s Jews a secure national home, a place of refugee in a world of real or potential anti-Semitism, it seems to have failed. It has failed not because this writer says so, but because an increasing number of its own Jewish citizens say so. There have been studies originating both in Israel and abroad that show “as many as half of the Jews living in Israel will consider leaving …if in the next few years the current political and social trends continue.”.. Read more... In Gaza, Young Palestinians Lead a Global Movement, by Joe Catron | Intifada Palestine ..BDS has grown into a formidable global movement with an impressive record of victories... Read more... Chavez's Right Turn: State Realism versus International Solidarity, by Prof. James Petras | Global Research The radical “Bolivarian Socialist” government of Hugo Chavez has arrested a number of Colombian guerrilla leaders and a radical journalist with Swedish citizenship and handed them over to the right-wing regime of President Juan Manuel Santos, earning the Colombian government’s praise and gratitude. The close on-going collaboration between a leftist President with a regime with a notorious history of human rights violations, torture and disappearance of political prisoners has led to widespread protests among civil liberty advocates, leftists and populists throughout Latin America and Europe , while pleasing the Euro-American imperial establishment... Read more... Valley Of The Wolves Palestine 2011 | Gilad Atzmon Polat Alemdar and his men comprise a Turkish commando team going to Palestine to get revenge for the aid workers who were killed by Israeli commandos in the Flotilla bound to Gaza... [All the Hollywood style Rambo carnage you could ask for, but this time the bad guys are actually the bad guys, not "the usual suspects."] Watch the movie (English subtitles)...'Libya war driven by O.I.L.: Oil, Israel & Logistics' | McKinney to RT on YouTube As NATO attacks continue in Libya, ex US Congresswoman and former presidential candidate Cynthia McKinney went to the country on a non-governmental fact-finding mission to see what exactly is going on in the war-torn country. Cynthia McKinney believes the bombardments of Libyan cities and other measures taken by NATO, causing civilian casualties, represent the idea of "collective punishment"... Watch video... American-Jewish young man is being arrested in Jerusalem | Gilad Atzmon It is fascinating to look at the symbolism and fetishism that is attached to the Jewish political discourse. While the Israeli settlers in the video above wave their blue and white flags and seem to march in total uniformity, the young single dissident American Jew, is also subject to symbolism... [He does look a little bit like identity politics in drag] Read more, watch video...The Revolution Business | Gilad Atzmon I am troubled with the film above. It somehow suggests that it is, once again, the White man behind the Arab revolution. I do not buy it myself... [Well, maybe it's a little of this and a little of that] Watch video...'Jordan reform has no real content': Interview with Ralph Schoenman | PressTV Jordan's King Abdullah II says it may take two to three years to replace the government appointed by him with a democratically elected one... The Jordanian people have been pressuring King Abdullah to institute reforms and relinquish his extensive powers, which include the right to appoint cabinet ministers and dissolve the parliament... Read transcript, watch interview... Israel: an impediment to nuclear-free ME, by Kourosh Ziabari | Another World Is Possible You might have frequently heard of the Western mainstream media's claims that Iran is pursuing a military nuclear program which is aimed at developing atomic weapons. Actually, spreading falsehood and untruth about the nature of Iran's peaceful nuclear program has been a constant, unchanging and recurring theme of the Western corporate media's coverage of Iran's events... Read more... India wants to 'discuss' Kashmir - Really! | Rehmat's World Under American drone attacks for years and the recent theatrical murder of Osama Bin Laden in Abbottabad – has proven beyond doubt that Pakistan is on US-Israel hit list. Contrary to that, India is being pampered by the powerful American Jewish Lobby for New Delhi’s close relation with Tel Aviv... Read more... Raed Salah: Israel preparing to complete the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians | Middle East Monitor In an exclusive interview with the Middle East Monitor, the head of the Islamic movement in Israel, Shaykh Raed Salah, has warned that, "The Israelis are laying the foundations so that the prevailing atmosphere will be "right" for the completion of the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians which started in 1948 and has been on-going ever since.".. Read more... Diplomat: I Helped Lose Hearts and Minds in Iraq, by Kelley B. Vlahos | Antiwar Peter Van Buren is not your typical American bureaucrat. As a foreign service officer with the U.S. State Department, he does not put his head down, he does not keep his mouth closed, and he doesn’t put his 23-year career in front of the good of the country... Read more... Overcoming Despair as the Republicans Take Over: A Conversation with Noam Chomsky | Tikkun Magazine ...it’s no big secret that in the past thirty years there has been enormous concentration of wealth in a very tiny part of the population, 1 percent or even one-tenth of 1 percent, and that has conferred extraordinary political power on a very tiny minority, primarily [those who control] financial capital... Read more... High-Level US Officials Admit that the United States Uses False Flag Terror .. And Warn of Future Attacks, by Washington's Blog | Global Research ...As admitted by the U.S. government, recently declassified documents show that in the 1960's, the American Joint Chiefs of Staff signed off on a plan to blow up AMERICAN airplanes (using an elaborate plan involving the switching of airplanes), and also to commit terrorist acts on American soil, and then to blame it on the Cubans in order to justify an invasion of Cuba... Read more... Gaza: A View From the Ground: A South African Perspective, by Prof. Patrick Bond | Global Research ...Along with the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions non-violent struggle against Israeli power, this Satyagraha-style movement, adopting strategies and tactics pioneered in Durban, South Africa by Mahatma Gandhi a century ago, must strike fear in the hearts of Tel Aviv securocrats. No longer can they portray their enemies as rocket-launching Islamic fundamentalists who worship Osama bin Laden... Read more... Even Bill Clinton Knows It's Over! by Butler Shaffer | Lew Rockwell Bill Clinton – the exemplar of truth in modern America – has proposed the establishment of a government "ministry of truth" – to be run by either the United States government or the United Nations – that would supervise the content of the Internet, requiring individuals and websites to conform to agency factual standards. Such a proposal is consistent with Hillary Clinton’s long-standing interest in establishing a government "gatekeeper" for the Internet; one that would prevent just anyone from putting their opinions out into the world... Read more... June 15, 2011 Shaikh Raed Salah: The Gandhi of Palestine | Middle East Monitor  ..Shaikh Raed is famous for his tireless and peaceful protests against the Israeli occupation and its continued violations. His reliance on non-violent means has earned him the sobriquet "the Gandhi of Palestine". In addition to the social programmes and the humanitarian and educational projects he stands behind, in 1998 Raed Salah launched the "self-reliant community" initiative which aimed to achieve Palestinian self-development and economical independence from the Israeli occupation... 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... Read more... Media War Against Pakistan, by Brig Asif Haroon Raja | Opinion Maker Our suspicions about ill-designs of USA and its strategic allies Israel and India concerning Pakistan’s nuclear program are now turning into reality. President Ahmadinejad’s recent statement that USA has evil designs against our nuclear program has further heightened our anxieties. Psychological war on our nuclear program was ignited by US government and Jewish controlled think tanks and media sometime in 2004 and became more and more vicious with each passing year. Pakistan’s nuclear program was made to look unsafe after overplaying threat of terrorism, which was also inflamed by USA and its allies by occupying Afghanistan and then pushing terrorism into Pakistan... Read more... NATO Reportedly Bombs Libyan University, by Kurt Nimmo | Infowars  A NATO air strike in Tripoli, a city of 2 million people. NATO and the New York Times Press TV reports that NATO has bombed a university in Tripoli, killing students and staff. “New images have emerged showing the aftermath of an alleged NATO air raid targeting Tripoli’s Nasser University. The attack reportedly left many university staff and students dead,” reports the Iranian state-funded network...would have you believe civilians do not die in such raids Read more... 'Hidden agenda in Syria to show itself after Bilderberg meeting' | RT interviews Adrian Salbuchi on YouTube Watch video... A Palestinian state and the prospects for September, by Ali Badwan | Middle East Monitor The Palestinian Authority is banking on its diplomatic campaign, and the promises of support it has received from many countries, in order to achieve UN recognition of a Palestinian state at a meeting of the General Assembly in September. That would be a hugely significant result if it comes to pass... Read more... Tell Me Again, Who Made The Desert Bloom? | Lawrence of Cyberia  In December 1945 and January 1946, the British Mandate authorities carried out an extensive survey of Palestine, in support of the work of the United Nations Special Committee on Palestine. The results were published in the Survey of Palestine, which has been scanned and made available online by Palestine Remembered... Read more... People Argue Just to Win, Scholars Assert | NYT [Required reading for Understanding Zionism 101] Read more...Bilderberg Elite Just Want to Help, by Kurt Nimmo | Infowars The Bilderbergers are not a secret society, insists Andrew Kakabadse, a professor at Cranfield University School of Management. The meeting is just a get-together of bankers and business magnates who understand how capitalism works and are trying to help... Read more, watch video... Zionist Zealots Demand Denial, by Captain Eric May | Veterans Today  Read more... TIAA-CREF Censors Shareholders.. We Flash-Mob! by Anna Baltzer | US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation Traveling through Palestine during the past few weeks, co-leading a delegation organized by Interfaith Peace-Builders, a US Campaign member group, I witnessed firsthand the destruction wrought by corporations profiting from Israeli occupation and apartheid... Read more... Remote Control Killing Like Sport | Stephen Lendman ..It's America's newest sport. From distant command centers, far from target sights, sounds, and smells, operators dismissively ignore human carnage showing up as computer screen blips little different from video game images. The difference, of course, is people die, mostly noncombatants... [Welcome to Zionist occupied America] Read more...Control Credit Control the World, by Tom Valentine | Veterans Today  ..Nothing else, save Satan himself, can lay claim to the woes of today’s anxiety-ridden world more than the issue of Zionism. Anyone who reads man’s history with a reasonable lens can determine what in the hell has gone on and is still snowballing down the hills of history, virtually unchecked... Read more... Nuremberg: The Crime That Will Not Die (Part II), by Ernst Zundel | Veterans Today ..The injustice of the Nuremberg Trials was testified to not only by Harlan Fiske Stone, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, but also by Iowa Supreme Court Justice Charles F. Wennerstrum, a man of the Midwest, who sat on one of the tribunals trying lesser alleged Nazi war criminals after the war... Read more... Mainstream Media Is Establishment Tool | Allen L Roland There is a reason I do not have a television set and seldom read the Mainstream Media. The reason is I’m a truth seeker and truth teller and I, and millions of Americans, now realize that we cannot find the truth in the establishment controlled mainstream media... Read more... June 14, 2011 Awareness of Bilderberg Cabal Explodes in 2011, by Alex Newman | New American  The amount of publicity garnered by the secretive Bilderberg conference this year in St. Moritz, Switzerland, far surpassed the coverage afforded to past gatherings of the elite cabal, with major media outlets and international news wires finally reporting on the yearly event after refusing to do so for over five decades... Read more... In 2012, Don't Get Fooled Again, by John V. Walsh | Antiwar ..Obama promised change, but he gave us more of the same. He intimated an era of peace, but he gave us war. He promised to respect the right of Congress to declare war, but he dropped bombs on Libya in a brazen assault on the Constitution, not even bothering to lie to Congress as did Bush... Read more... Arab Spring ... Is It Fall Already?: Hopes for Democracy Fade as Civil Wars Grip the Arab World, by Patrick Cockburn | Counterpunch The Arab awakening is turning into the Arab nightmare. Instead of ushering in democracy, the uprisings in at least three Arab states are fast becoming vicious civil wars. In the past 10 days, crucial developments in Syria, Libya and Yemen have set these countries spiraling into violent and intractable struggles for power... Read more... US activists prepare to break Israel's blockade on Gaza, by Alex Kane | The Electronic Intifada  Activists across the United States have organized to raise funds for the US Boat to Gaza ...final preparations are underway for the next big flotilla to Gaza, which is scheduled to occur in late June. The US Boat to Gaza will take part in the largest planned fleet yet, with an estimated 1,000 passengers from an array of countries collaborating to break Israel’s blockade. Solidarity activists say that because the US is Israel’s chief economic, military and diplomatic backer, it’s crucial to have US citizens challenge the blockade...Read more... Will the Gaza flotilla be safe from Israel's murderous threats? | Redress Information & Analysis Stuart Littlewood highlights the British government’s willful failure to take measures to protect UK nationals intending to take part in the upcoming humanitarian flotilla to Gaza, and laments the failure of the various flotilla organizers to engage the mainstream media or even to answer emails... [How much longer will we (you and I) allow Israel to commit any and every crime imaginable, and with total impunity?] Read more... 90% of Petraeus's Captured 'Taliban' Were Civilians, by Gareth Porter | Antiwar ...The deliberate confusion sowed by Petraeus by referring to anyone picked up for interrogation as a captured rank-and-file Taliban was a key element of a carefully considered strategy for creating a more favorable image of the war... Read more... For The Sake Of Jewish Sensitivities | Gilad Atzmon  ...here is a question that I must address to righteous Jews and fellow Palestinian supporters around the world: do you really believe that the discourse of the struggle against the Jewish State should be shaped by ‘Jewish sensitivities’?.. Read more... The Silk Route Alliance: Rising Anti-Americanism in Pakistan, by Liaquat Ali Khan | Counterpunch On May 14, after deliberations of over 10 hours, the democratically-elected Pakistan Parliament in a joint session of both houses passed a unanimous resolution to reclaim Pakistan’s sovereignty, territorial integrity, and national security against U.S. military actions... Read more... Col Muammar Gaddafi's letter to U.S. Congress | Voltaire Network Dear Sirs/Madam, The Government of Libya Jamahiriya reviewed with great interest the deliberations of the Congress on the issue of the participation of the United States of America in NATO’s aggression against Libya, and I want express my sincere gratitude for your thoughtful discussion of the issues... Read more... June 13, 2011 Foundation Myths, by Joseph Dana | Tablet Magazine  Arab families leaving Jaffa, 1948 ...My first experience with the history of the Nakba came as a young Jewish Studies student at the University of Maryland. One graduate seminar I attended was led by Benny Morris, the prominent Israeli historian responsible for revolutionizing his country’s historiography pertaining to the founding period. The subject of the seminar was 1948, and the course material—army reports from the field, personal letters, radio transcripts—came directly from Morris’ influential first book, The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem...Read more... Why the Jewish State Now?, by Raef Zreik | Institute for Palestine Studies ...the mandate of the new state was not to act as the guardian of its citizens, both Arab and Jewish, but to safeguard the interests of the Jewish people wherever they were. This fact, a priori, determined the moral and political duties of the state. Consequently, one could say that Israeli citizenship was deformed at birth, genetically flawed as it were, since Israeli citizenship per se was almost irrelevant. What determined the lives and fortunes of those residing in the country was not citizenship but ethnic-national affiliation... Read more... America's Next War Theater: Syria and Lebanon?, by Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya | Global Research  Washington and its allies, Israel and the Al-Sauds, are taking advantage of the upheavals in the Arab World. They are now working to dismantle the Resistance Bloc and weaken any drive for democracy in the Arab World. The geo-political chessboard is now being prepared for a broader confrontation that will target Tehran and include Syria, Lebanon, Iraq, and the Palestinians... Read more... Building a museum on top of the dead is clear Zionist racism | Palestine Information Centre Najeh Bekeirat, the head of planning section in the Aqsa Mosque, has strongly condemned Thursday the Israeli decision of constructing the "tolerance" museum on the Mamanullah Muslim cemetery, and described it as clear "racism"... Read more... International ship sets sail to monitor Israeli 'pirates' | Middle East Monitor A ship carrying a number of international peace activists set sail from Gaza on Wednesday to monitor maritime aggression by the Israeli navy against Palestinian fishermen, who are subjected to daily attacks, intimidation and arrests... Read more... Bilderberg Expected to Push More War at 2011 Confab | AFP  As Bilderberg luminaries began gathering in this quaint, posh resort community, they were hopeful of pushing their agenda but wary that public exposure would continue to stifle their efforts. Even before departing for St. Moritz, luminaries were reportedly grumpy, according to a source within Bilderberg who has been proven correct in reports for more than two decades. “It gets tougher to accomplish anything every year,” Henry Kissinger was heard saying. “In fact, what have we accomplished in recent years?”.. Read more... Bilderberg 2011: Background, Preview and Predictions | YouTube Watch video... Bilderberg, Kissinger and 'Jewish hatred' | Rehmat's World The Israel lobbying group, Anti-Defamation League (ADL), defines Bilderberg as “a legitimate business entity with ties to Europe and America”. It also raises the hoax of ‘Jewish hatred’ against people who consider Bilderberg as world’s most powerful economical and political secret society... Read more... Dear Israel, It is you who is the provocateur, not us | Freegaza Regarding statements of government officials in Israel (echoed by officials in other countries) about diplomatic initiatives to impede the “Freedom Flotilla II- Stay Human” mission to Gaza, Palestine, we say: Proper diplomacy does not exclude humanitarian action; Instead of seeking to prevent an international community of concerned citizens from taking nonviolent action in defense of liberty and human rights, diplomacy must pursue such actions and encourage them... Read more... Sweet (USS) Liberty | Mantiq al-Tayr  What do you get your poor old Dad for Father’s day this year? Your Dad deserves the best in the world, after all for years he’s worked his ass off to pay for Israel’s wars, he may have even fought in one or two of them. Hell, he might have even been on the USS Liberty on June 8th 1967 and witnessed first hand what his taxes actually pay for... Read more... Pro-Zionism: Defending the Indefensible, by Stephen Lendman ...Supporting Zionism is repugnant, indefensible, and equivalent to defending cancer, a malignancy relentlessly destroying its host. It must be exposed, denounced, and once and for all expunged from the body politic. A CIA study suggested the alternative - that beyond 20 years, Israel won't survive in its present form. The Agency predicts "an inexorable movement away from a two-state to a one-state solution, as the most viable model based on democratic principles of full equality that sheds the looming specter of colonial Apartheid while allowing for the return of the 1947/1948 and 1967 (Palestinian) refugees. The latter (is) the precondition for sustainable peace in the region.".. Read more... Pope appoints Israeli Zionist to Vatican's highest court | Rehmat's World Once again, Pope Benedict XVI has proved his loyalty to Zionism. He has installed David Maria Jaeger 56, an Israel-born Zionist Jew converted to Catholism, as a prelate auditor of the Roman Rota, a papal law court that serves as the chief appellate court of the Catholic Church... Read more... Iran's nuclear warhead test is aimed at Israel | Rehmat's World  Kenneth Timmerman (‘I’m not Jewish’), the Israel-First founder of 'Foundation for Democracy in Iran‘ in his latest anti-Iran crap published in one of Neocons’ (mostly Jewish) propaganda outlets, Newsmax, entitled ‘Iran Test Nuclear Warhead Design‘, has claimed: “Iran has built and tested all the elements of a nuclear weapon design similar to the bomb dropped on Nagasaki, Japan, in 1945, and is actively working to fit it onto a ballistic missile capable of reaching Israel, nuclear experts told Newsmax this week”... Read more... So Much Zionist Bullshit, So Little Time | Mantiq al-Tayr ...Hoping to put up a special Father’s Day edition in a couple of days. Have been traveling and have not had much time to blog about all the Zionist Bullshit that’s going down... Read more... Media falsifiers: censorship by mainstream liberal media | Redress Information & Analysis Paul J. Balles argues that the media lie of the moment reverberates through liberal TV channels pretending to report the news from all angles and from all points of view but in reality exercising censorship through omission and emphasis... [I suppose it's very gentlemanly of him not to mention the puppet masters behind the manipulation, but we all know who they are.] Read more...June 12, 2011 Pro-Israelis Turning U.S. into Islamophobic Police State, by Maidhc Ó Cathail | Intifada Palestine  ...In an interview last year with a Jewish radio talk show in New York, Senator Schumer said he believed that HaShem (an Orthodox Jewish term for “God”) gave him the name “Schumer” — which means “guardian” — so that he could fulfill his “very important” role in the U.S. Senate as a “guardian of Israel.” Presumably, Schumer’s God-given role also includes turning the country he is actually paid to represent — the United States — into an Islamophobic police state... Read more... Jewish draculas back in business | Norman G. Finkelstein Jewish Heir Fights Restitution, Wants Museum to Keep Art... [I guess they want it all. That shouldn't come as a surprise to anybody.] Read more...Israel and the Two-State Solution: The Bully is a Coward, by Andrew Levine | Counterpunch ...Contrary to what our political class assumes, and contrary to what our media would have us believe, AIPAC is very likely a paper tiger. But until someone in a position to do so – an American president with cojones, for example – calls their bluff, they might just as well be as omnipotent as they seem. Netanyahu discovered even before Mitch McConnell and John Boehner did that we don't have a president like that now... Read more... The Caucasus, Libya, Egypt, Syria, Hezbollah and an appeal to my Muslim readers | The Vineyard of the Saker Back from my short trip I want to share with you a hodge-podge of observations and thoughts. Let's begin with the Caucasus... Read more, watch video... Ofergate: The Latest Zionist Propaganda Blitz Against Iran, by Jonathan Azaziah | Mask of Zion  The greater Israeli strategy is to split Sunni and Shia, From the moment that the Islamic Revolution of Ayatollah Sayyed Ruhollah Khomeini and tens of millions of Iranians toppled the Israeli-US-UK-backed Shah and defeated the CIA’s counterrevolution, there has been a sustained campaign of violence, propaganda and subversion against the Islamic Republic of Iran...Persian and Arab, and pit them against one another Read more... Iran and the issue of nuclear weapons | Redress Information & Analysis Lawrence Davidson considers the roles of Israel, the Israeli lobby in the USA and the conservative Arab Gulf rulers in creating and sustaining the fantasy of an Iranian nuclear threat, and highlights the failure – through cowardice, expediency and duplicity – of politicians who know better and the media to challenge this fantasy... Read more... What the American Public Shouldn't Know, by Kourosh Ziabari | Intifada Palestine ..It’s a bitter reality that many of us have been defeated and overwhelmed by the propaganda of the U.S. mainstream media who incessantly attempt to make their audiences believe that democracy and freedom are originally American values and cannot be found anywhere else in the world, that all of the world nations need the United States to achieve these values and that the United States must resort to every instrument to export these home-made values to the rest of the world, including frequent military expeditions... Read more... Bashar Assad's Missed Opportunity: Syria's Pandoran Box, by Elaine C. Hagopian | Counterpunch ...There is and has been in Syria an authentic desire for real democracy, for real economic opportunity, for elimination of the vast corruption and privilege given to Alawites and particular co-opted segments of the population, for a better quality of life, and above all for dignity. Interestingly enough, the protesters were not calling initially for Bashar's removal, but for vast reforms, for real elections, for removal of the emergency laws, for release of human rights prisoners, for a multi—party system, etc. etc... Read more... Prevent: A Totally Illiberal Strategy | Craig Murray I have now ploughed through all 120 pages odd of the Government’s new Prevent Strategy, which manages to be even more illiberal and more turgid than the original. It claims that the last Prevent Strategy was misguided – but for all the wrong reasons. Rather amusingly, it starts with a message of endorsement from Lord Carlile – who also endorsed the last strategy which it criticises so strongly. The truth is, Carlile will endorse anything for any government which gives him status – he loves status – “It has my considered and strong support” he concludes his endorsement – you have to imagine saying it with marbles in your mouth and a degree of insufferable pomposity... [I'll lay you 10/1 that Lord Carlile is a "Friend of Israel."] Read more...US commits economic suicide: Interview with Dr. Paul Craig Roberts | PressTV The biggest Federal budget shortfall in US history of 1.65 trillion dollars predicted for 2011 will pressure the US dollar as the world exchange currency... Read transcript, watch video... Operation Phantasmagoria III: Juliano Mer-Khamis, Assassinated Hope | Mask of Zion It was a typical Monday morning in the Jenin refugee camp, located in the north of the Zionist-occupied West Bank. Warm weather was accentuated by the breathtaking geographics, the gorgeous Jordan Valley to the east, the stunning Marj Ibn Amr to the north and the beautiful Samarah mountains in the south. But this beauty, is nothing more than a mere veil. The very fabric of Jenin is stained with blood; scarred with agony the likes of which will never be known by the majority of the world’s dwellers... Read more... Iran and the Issue of Nuclear Weapons: An Analysis by Dr. Lawrence Davidson | Intifada Palestine  On Friday 3 June 2011 the investigative reporter Seymour Hersh gave an interview to Amy Goodman for the radio program Democracy Now! The topic was Iran and whether or not it is developing nuclear weapons. Hersh answered this question definitively for Goodman as he did shortly thereafter in an comprehensive piece for the New Yorker magazine (6 June 2011 ) entitled “Iran and the Bomb: How Real is the Threat? His answer: there is no Iranian nuclear weapons program. There is no threat... Read more... Elite at Bilderberg Confab: War is Solution for Over-population, by Kurt Nimmo | Infowars ...The elite are outraged at the presence of activists outside the gates of the exclusive resort where they are cloistered in St. Moritz, Switzerland... Read more, watch video... Bilderberg Security Assaults EU Members of Parliament, by Kurt Nimmo | Infowars ...Remarkably, Borghezio’s maltreatment went unreported in the United States. This would be analogous to the beating of a member of Congress going unreported by the media... Read more... The Obama Doctrine: Lawless Imperial Aggression | Stephen Lendman ...Unmentioned was Obama's belligerent lawlessness, waging four imperial wars and numerous proxy ones, spending record amounts on militarism while homeland needs go begging. In fact, former White House chief of staff (now Chicago mayor) Rahm Emanuel calls it being "cold-blooded about the self-interests of your nation," no matter the death, destruction, and misery toll taken to achieve them... [And which nation would that be, Rahm?] Read more...Palestinian Divisions on Statehood | Stephen Lendman ...It's now the PA's choice whether to seek it, as well as a two-thirds General Assembly majority affirming their supportive pledge, refusing to let illegal Washington/Israeli bullying stop them... Read more... Target: Iran, by Philip Giraldi | Antiwar Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s recent and successful excoriation of the Palestinians before a receptive American audience made it easy to miss the subplot, which was the alleged threat posed by Iran... Read more... June 11, 2011 Unraveling the Emperor's Speech to Write Our Own Story, by Susan Abulhawa | Palestine Chronicle  Palestinians have not forgotten, nor will we Anger was my first reaction after listening to Obama's two speeches, one to the world and another to AIPAC – the powerful Israeli lobby in the US. I went around to my friends with phrases like 'who does he think he is, presuming to tell Palestinians how they may or may not achieve freedom?', or 'what makes him think his vision for Palestinian dignity actually trumps the vision of Palestinians themselves?' or 'how dare he talk to us like a parent chastising a small child?' or 'when will we have a president who can and will tell the truth?' or 'I think AIPAC wrote his speech for him.'..Read more... I Am A Radical Antisemite And Am Proud Of It, by Elias Davidsson | Gilad Atzmon ...Today the term "antisemite" is used by the ruling elite to lambast human rights activists who advocate equal rights between Jews, Christians and Muslims, the right of return of Palestinian refugees to their homeland and the vision of a common, democratic state for both Palestinians and Israelis... Read more... Beyond Words - Al Haq | Vimeo On the occasion of Human Rights Day, which also marks the 62nd Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Al-Haq is pleased to launch its short documentary film entitled “Beyond Words: Palestinian Voices in Search of Justice”. Through this documentary, Al-Haq is giving voice to Palestinians living under Israeli occupation. Their stories are but an example of the human rights violations committed in the Occupied Palestinian Territory on a daily basis and remain unpunished... Watch video... Holding the President Accountable on Libya, by Ron Paul | Lew Rockwell Last week, more than 70 days after President Obama sent our military to attack Libya without a congressional declaration of war, the House of Representatives finally voted on two resolutions attempting to rein in the president. This debate was long overdue, as polls show Americans increasingly are frustrated by congressional inaction... Read more... Kucinich Announces Blueprint for Libyan Peace Plan | War Is A Crime Congressman Dennis Kucinich, whose pivotal involvement in the House of Representatives has resulted in bi-partisan efforts to impose Constitutional restraints upon the President’s exercise of war power in Libya, today put forth an 10 point plan for peace with the intention of beginning a discussion among the diplomatic community and interested parties. The plan, a result of more than a month of consultations, would provide the principles for a blueprint that includes an immediate cease-fire and transition to a stable, democratic Libya... Read more... The coming American Nakba | Uprooted Palestinians  Settlers and Palestinian Woman ...When this obscene photo came to light, one of our Jewish supporters wrote to me to assert that these aggressive gangsters "must be Americans"and "not israelis", never mind the caps they are wearing, never mind that the photo was taken in occupied Palestine and never mind that such hostility had become a trade mark for Jewish settlers in Palestine; our friends simply and desperately wanted to deflect away from the fact that these gangsters are primarily Jewish...Read more... Shavuot 2011: obscenities as words of Torah, by Yossi Sarid | Haaretz Go to your computer right now and watch the frightening video clip posted on YouTube as a memento of Jerusalem Day. Not a handful, but hundreds of young people high on hard-core nationalism wave blue-and-white flags; may their eyes grow dim... [Jewish Hitler Youth in "the only democracy in the Middle East" (sic)] Read more, watch video... Israel: A Choice To Kill, by Chris Floyd | Information Clearing House I watched them marching toward the border. Row upon row of them in the hot, bright sun. They marched without guns, without tanks and missiles -- although some, like the shepherd boy David, did pick up a few rocks to hurl into the impossible distance. I watched them stream down the green hill toward the heaps of dirt and wire. I saw them, old and young, walk toward the occupied land. I saw them come closer -- close enough for the heavily-armed occupying force to have them in range... Read more... The Tie that Binds, by Philip Giraldi | Antiwar The recent visit of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was a personal triumph for him and a disaster for the United States. Since the 1960s, if not before, Israel has sought to bind the United States to her by maintaining that the two countries have identical interests worldwide. In reality, this has never been true, even during the cold war when the Soviets were actively engaged in a number of Arab states, but it is a lie that has been assiduously promoted by Israel’s friends in Washington... Read more... Busting the myth of the West Bank "economic boom", by Ali Abunimah | The Electronic Intifada One of the big lies that the peace process industry has been telling for the past few years is of an economic boom in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, brought about by the supposedly competent, technocratic rule of the handpicked, US-backed “prime minister” Salam Fayyad and the Palestinian Authority... Read more... Palin Dons Star of David Necklace | MSNBC  You couldn't miss it, the big Star of David hanging around Sarah Palin's neck as she toured the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island on Wednesday. NBC New York asked Palin about the significance just as she boarded her bus outside Fox News to head off to Boston. "Today is the 44th anniversary of Jerusalem being reunited," she said. "We want to call attention to that.".. Read more... Antony Loewenstein on Palestine's struggle in Australia: Interview by Sarah Irving | The Electronic Intifada ...Loewenstein has written widely about the recent furor over the vote by Marrickville Council in Sydney to observe a full boycott, divestment & sanctions (BDS) strategy on Israeli products... Read more... How the youth in Israel is taught hatred of Non-Jews | YouTube Watch [A reprise of a great video]... President Obama, the Audacity to Recognize a Palestinian State is Now, by Dr. Mohamed Khodr | Intifada Palestine ...it is our opportunity as human beings, Americans and international citizens, to overcome the political power of one nation, Israel, upon the United States government forcing it to oppose such a U.N. recognition against a supportive world. All of us as organizations, activists, solidarity movements, human rights organizations, student movements, religious leaders and organizations, and all who are committed to world peace, equality, human rights, and the freedom and dignity for all of humanity must support this petition... Read more... Palestine/Israel: Where Do We Go From Here?, by Jeff Halper | ICAHD ...Mobilization should climax at the UN in an enormous “sideshow” accompanying the application for membership, a demonstration of support held at the UN Headquarters in New York attended by tens of thousands of people from the world over. This would generate coverage and anticipation that would make it hard for the US and Europe to defy. Time is extremely short, but the infrastructure exists to make this happen – if we move quickly... Read more... June 10, 2011 The Golan Heights, Zionism and Resistance, by Haytham A K. Radwan | Intifada Palestine  This year marks the 44nd anniversary of the June War that led to Israel?s illegal occupation of the Syrian Golan Heights. It is a myth not to believe that Zionism had provoked the June War in 1967 against Syria in order to capture the Golan Heights. Imperial Zionist created a myth stating that the Syrians used their positions on the Golan Heights overlooking Israel?s illegal settlements on the plain of the Galilee to rain indiscriminate fire on those settlements at whim and without provocation... Read more... Libya: a deafening silence, by Jody McIntyre | The Independent So now we are sending Apache jets to bomb Libyan civilians. An escalation in yet another bloody NATO war. Or, in the words of Colonel Jason Etherington, "it just brings something else to the party.".. Read more... Ska-p: Intifada (English Subs) | YouTube Free Palestine! Watch video... Lethal Ambiguity | YouTube Israeli Soldiers Talk about the Rules of Engagement Watch video... Turner Classic Movies to Debut Arabs in Cinema Program, with Dr. Jack Shaheen | Interlink Books Turner Classic Movies is preparing to launch Race & Hollywood: Arab Images on Film, a month-long movie event that focuses on the diverse portrayals of Arabs in cinema. Tuesday and Thursday nights in July, TCM host Robert Osborne will be joined by internationally acclaimed professor, author and Middle East media consultant Dr. Jack G. Shaheen to introduce a wide range of films and provide extensive insight into Hollywood's ever-changing attitude toward Arab people... Read more... Afghanistan: Why Civilians are Killed, by Prof. James Petras | Veterans Today  The recent rash of civilian killings by NATO forces in occupied Afghanistan raises several basic questions: Why do US - NATO air and ground forces kill so many civilians, so persistently, over such long stretches of time, in regions throughout the country? Why have the number of civilians killed, increased in the course of the conflict? Why do NATO-US airplanes continue to bomb civilian housing and village gatherings and ground troops indiscriminately assault homes and workshops? Why are the pleas of NATO collaborator President Karzai to desist in home bombings go unheeded? Finally, knowing that the killing of civilians, entire families including children, mothers and the elderly alienates the local population and breeds widespread and profound hostility, why do the NATO-US military refuse to alter their tactics and strategy?.. Read more... Uncivilized Relations: "Israel" Confronts its Neighbours, by Brenda Heard | Moqawama The turmoil that has beleaguered the Middle East for decades has been described many ways. On the 5th of June, however, the terminology turned vulgar. This enduring conflict was publically characterised as a 'war between the civilized man and the savage'. Boldly announced with a plea to 'support "Israel"/defeat Jihad', the full page advertisement ran in the New York Post's special section covering the city's 'Celebrate Israel' parade... Read more... Operation Rheinübung: Our Problem With Mainstream Dissidents | Media Lens Working on Media Lens has given us ten years of first-hand experience of just how tightly discussion can be controlled in an ostensibly democratic society. No matter how carefully we have formulated our questions, no matter how politely we have delivered them, we have been branded angry, irrational, unworthy of attention... Read more... NATO's terror bombing of Libya, by Bill Van Auken | WSWS ...These wars are being carried out by a ruling financial elite in an attempt to offset the catastrophic consequences of the economic crisis gripping global, and above all US, capitalism. Militarism abroad is combined with a relentless war against the living standards and basic social rights of working people in every country... Read more... Phil Giraldi Spills Beans on Israeli Espionage in America, by Jim W. Dean | Veterans Today Phil Giraldi stepped out today to do his country a great service and save some honor for the American counter intelligence community. He put the spotlight on America's greatest national security scandal, the decades old investment that Israeli Intelligence has made in attacking its so called America ally by stealing everything it can get it's hands on... Read more, watch video... The Federal Reserve Cartel: Freemasons and The House of Rothschild, by Dean Henderson  ...Thomas Jefferson argued that the United States needed a publicly-owned central bank so that European monarchs and aristocrats could not use the printing of money to control the affairs of the new nation. Jefferson extolled, "A country which expects to remain ignorant and free...expects that which has never been and that which will never be. There is scarcely a King in a hundred who would not, if he could, follow the example of Pharaoh - get first all the people's money, then all their lands and then make them and their children servants forever...banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies. Already they have raised up a money aristocracy.".. Read more... Towards a World War III Scenario, by Michel Chossudovsky | Global Research The World is at a critical crossroads. The Fukushima disaster in Japan has brought to the forefront the dangers of Worldwide nuclear radiation. Coinciding with the onset of the nuclear crisis in Japan, a new regional war theater has opened up in North Africa, under the disguise of a UN sponsored "humanitarian operation" with the mandate to "protect civilian lives". These two seemingly unrelated events are of crucial importance in understanding both the nuclear issue as well as the ongoing US-NATO sponsored war, which has now extended its grip into Libya... Read more... Chicago Red Dragon Six-Day Warning, by Captain Eric H. May | Veterans Today ...Wednesday, the first day of Red Dragon, will be the 44th anniversary of Israel's 1967 sneak attack against the USS Liberty. It was a textbook false flag operation, in which they tried to sink the ship, shoot the survivors, then blame it on Egypt, against whom they had just launched the Six-Day War. The Liberty fought bravely and survived at a cost of 34 dead and 171 wounded crewmen. LBJ's willingness to sacrifice the Liberty as a pawn on the geostrategic chessboard wasn't unusual. Five years earlier the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff had proposed Operation Northwoods to JFK, a plan to hijack planes, blow up a U.S. ship, and stage terror attacks in U.S. cities, then blame it on Cuba... Read more... Bahrain campaign to humiliate Shiites goes beyond politics, by Caryle Murphy | CS Monitor Ayat Al Gormezi penned a naughty poem about Bahrain's prime minister last February, questioning his parentage. In another poem, she imagined a conversation between Bahrain's king and the devil. Then she read her rhymes in public, which got posted on YouTube in the early days of Bahrain's uprising when the country was electric with hope and excitement... Read more... New York Times Concealed Ukrainian Genocide | YouTube Watch video... June 9, 2011 One-Staters and BNC support UN recognition campaign | One Democracy  The clock is ticking towards September, when the PA leaders will mark 20 years of fruitless “two state peace process” by going to the UN and demanding that a Palestine state is recognised NOW, with the borders as they stood before Israel’s June 1967 invasion. That so many countries have promised their support is a sign that they, too, think that enough is enough... Read more... Muddle and mixed messages precede Palestinian bid for UN recognition | Redress Information & Analysis With the date for the purported Palestinian bid for UN recognition fast approaching, Stuart Littlewood views the mixed messages emanating from the Palestinian Authority, the inept messengers and the absence of a competent and credible public relations campaign ahead of the bid... Read more... How Twisted American Exceptionalism Leads to Criminal Behavior on a Global Scale, by Lawrence Davidson | AlterNet ...as so many presidents have told us time and again, the free expression and expansion of the American way of life is best for the world. God has decreed it so. This is extraordinary hubris in action and it is why so much of the rest of the world have, at best, a love-hate relationship with the U.S. and what it claims to stand for... Read more... Palestinians: Last Victims of the Holocaust, by Lillian Rosengarten | Palestine Chronicle ...what insanity could possibly justify decades of brutalization, humiliation, the rape of land, the endless faces of the IDF with a mission to kill the other, to hate the other, to suppress ”the animals” who do not count as human beings. The young soldiers who have bought the racist lies follow orders and have lost their humanity... Read more... Seymour Hersh: Despite Intelligence Rejecting Iran as Nuclear Threat, U.S. Could Be Headed for Iraq Redux | Democracy Now In his latest article for The New Yorker magazine, Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist Seymour Hersh says the United States might attack Iran based on distorted estimates of Iran’s nuclear and military threat—just like it did with Saddam Hussein’s government in Iraq... Read transcript, watch video... Congressional Grifters Scam U.S. Taxpayers: U.S. Taxpayers Raked Over The Fake War Coals Again and Again, by Debbie Menon | My Catbird Seat  The $1,202,614,324,202 dollar cost to date and counting, for the wars in Iraq & Afghanistan is the low estimate, or rather the literal cost. This does not include the cost of borrowing that money, or the cost of 5 or 6 decades of medical care and disability pensions for several hundred thousand American soldiers... Read more... Going Rogue: NATO War Crimes in Libya, by Susan Lindauer | Dissident Voice It’s a story CNN won’t report. Late at night there’s a pounding on the door in Misurata. Armed soldiers force young Libyan women out of their beds at gun-point. Hustling the women and teenagers into trucks, the soldiers rush the women to gang bang parties for NATO rebels or else rape them in front of their husbands or fathers. When NATO rebels finish their rape sport, the soldiers cut the women’s throats... Read more... Senator Schumer Turning US into Islamophobic Police State | Intifada Palestine Middle East Analyst Maidhc ‘O Cathail, accuses New York Senator Charles Schumer of turning the United States into “an Islamophobic police state”. He told Press TV’s U.S. Desk in a phone interview on Thursday that Schumer is “yet another reminder of who is stoking fear of Muslims in America.”.. [As a Jew I hate to say it, but electing Zionist Jews to high office is the fastest and surest path to the destruction of America, a process already well under way.] Read more...Israelis Say to Obama "Yes We Ken", by Dr. Ashraf Ezzat | Intifada Palestine ...Last week the Israeli defense forces (IDF) braced for possible Palestinian marches on the Israeli borders commemorating the 1967 Israeli aggressive war but this year’s Naksa day came a little different than what Mr. Netanyahu expected, not that hundreds of Palestinians didn’t march on the borders with Israel but because thousands of Israelis unexpectedly and on the evening of Naksa day marched in Tel Aviv itself and loudly called for the realization of the two-state solution now and before it is too late... Read more... Palestine Vs. Solidarity Movement | Gilad Atzmon  The press release ahead of the “Tahrir Square to Jerusalem” event in Logan Hall London promised to be an “imaginative production that will transport us from Tahrir Square through Jenin and to the heart of the new Jasmine Revolution sweeping the Arab world”.. Read more... Two videos of Amal Murkus performing on stage | YouTube Countering Iran the major factor behind US support for Bahrain: Deepak Tripathi interviewed by Kourosh Ziabari| Intifada Palestine ...What follows is the complete text of my in-depth interview with Deepak Tripathi on the recent revolutions in the Middle East and North Africa, the civil war in Libya and the popular uprising in Bahrain... Read more... Naksa Day Commemorates Decades of Israeli State Terror | Stephen Lendman Supported, funded and armed by Washington, Israelis terrorize Palestinians daily. From late May to early June alone, the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR), Palestine News Network, and others reported:.. Read more... Gates outlines aggressive agenda for US imperialism in Asia, by Joseph Santolan | WSWS In a speech given in Singapore on June 4, US Defense Secretary Robert Gates laid out plans for American military expansion in the Asian region and for heightened confrontation with China. His remarks, delivered at the 10th International Institute for Security Studies (IISS), Asia Security Summit, came amid rapidly rising tensions between China and other claimants to the South China Sea... Read more... Al Naksa 05/06/11: Kalandia Checkpoint | YouTube Al Naksa demonstration in Ramallah on the way to Kalandia Checkpoint. A glimpse into Israeli Brutality... you can watch an IDF soldier hitting a Palestinian young woman half his size... Watch video... June 8, 2011 Military Escalation: "Phase Two" of the War on Libya. by Prof. Michel Chossudovsky | Global Research  The USS George H W Bush supercarrier A new phase of the war is unfolding leading to a process of military escalation as well as the eventual landing of US-NATO commandos on Libya's shores. An unprecedented deployment of naval power in the Mediterranean is occurring... Read more... A State for Jews, by William James Martin | Palestine Chronicle ...According to the Arab Association for Human Rights, there are about 100 Palestinian villages in Israel that the government does not officially recognize. These villages, containing over 700,000 Palestinian Arabs Israeli citizens, are constantly threatened with destruction. They are not shown on any map and their residents are prevented from development of their property or any new building. They are not provided with public schools, or drinking water, or a health clinic. Sometimes whole villages are fenced off... Read more... Zionism: The Killing Isn't Over Yet, by Curt Maynard | Rense ...Zionist control of our media today is so obviously evident that to deny it means that one must either be completely stupid, delusional and/or complicit... Read more... The Elite, the 'Great Game' and World War III, by Prof. Mujahid Kamran | Global Research The control of the US, and of global politics, by the wealthiest families of the planet is exercised in a powerful, profound and clandestine manner. This control began in Europe and has a continuity that can be traced back to the time when the bankers discovered it was more profitable to give loans to governments than to needy individuals. These banking families and their subservient beneficiaries have come to own most major businesses over the two centuries during which they have secretly and increasingly organised themselves as controllers of governments worldwide and as arbiters of war and peace... [An excellent summation; a Must Read] Read more... Zionist Savagery at Jenin Recalled, by William Hughes | Media Monitors Network ...On April 3, 2002, the invasion of Jenin by the Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) began. It lasted for nearly two horror filled weeks. If you’re Irish, think of the sacking of Drogheda, in 1649, at the hands of Oliver Cromwell. The pretext by the Ariel Sharon Gang for the collective punishment of Jenin, itself a War Crime under the Geneva Convention, was that the IOF was looking for suicide bombers... Read more... Shadow Aspects Of This Society, by Jim Kirwan | Rense  ...The purpose of the Jewish homeland was to arrange for a sovereign state that could operate a criminal banking cartel with the impunity of a nation... Read more... How the Empire will Prevail: Will Washington Foment War Between China and India? by Dr. Paul Craig Roberts | Global Research ...Raza Rumi reported in the Pakistan Tribune (June 4) that at a recent lecture at Pakistan’s National Defense University, Husain Haqqani, Pakistan’s ambassador to the US, asked the military officers whether the biggest threat to Pakistan came from within, from India, or from the US. A majority of the officers said that the US was the biggest threat to Pakistan... Read more... Triumph Of The Will: Jewish Cultural Hegemony, by Simon Jones | Rense For the past century, Zionism has been instrumental in shaping world politics - from tipping the balance in WWI, through ensuring the success of the Bolshevik revolution, the Western alliance with the Soviet Union in WWII, the growing alienation and humiliation of the Islamic world, the hotting up of the Cold War and gradual undermining the SU, right up to the still mysterious collapse of the WTC, and the subsequent devastation of Afghanistan and Iraq. Such zeal, such fanaticism demands one's awe, if not respect. How can such a small group gain such immense power?.. Read more... Breaches of international law lay behind unrest on Israeli-occupied Syrian Golan Heights | Redress Information & Analysis While much of the Western media have ignored the recent bloodshed on the Golan Heights, the limited reports that have been released appear to misunderstand the background to the present confrontation. Richard Lightbown explains the history... Read more... 58 Years Of Zionist Cruelty And Terror: It's Time To Put America First, by Hassan El-Najjar | Rense On May 15 1948, world Zionists claimed their state, which they called Israel. It was not good news to the world in general, and the Palestinian people in particular... Read more... Crushed Ice in Nuseirat: My Gaza Refugee Camp Revisited, by Ramzy Baroud | Palestine Chronicle  Kids in Nuseirat ...It has been many years since I last stood here, in the Red Square. Named after the many people who were killed at the hands of Israeli soldiers during the First Uprising of 1987, the once open area has shrunk, like many other spaces in and around the refugee camp. The population of the Gaza Strip has grown significantly, as has poverty. Surrounded and besieged by Israel, 1.6 million people living in 360 square kilometers (139 square miles) are now exploiting every inch of this tiny and continually shrinking space. Still, Gaza persists...Read more... Zionist Jews: Godfathers Of Terrorism, by Latheef Farook | Rense Palestine, the land of Palestinians, is located in the heart of the Middle East and Jerusalem where Masjid Al Aqsa, Islam's first Qibla is located, has been its capital since time immemorial. At the turn of last century Palestine was a province of Turkey's Ottoman Empire. It was a place where violence was unknown and one seldom heard people speak loud leave alone using a bad .Violence raised its ugly head in all its fury, with the advent of Jewish migrants to set up under the combined conspiracy of Jews and European colonial powers a Jewish racist state in Palestine to destabilise the Muslim Middle East... Read more... Palestine's 'Amandla!' Moment: Music and Palestine, by Doc Jazz | Palestine Chronicle ..A vision of coexistence and equality is one giant step ahead of the tribalist 'Uebermensch' ideology of Zionism, and can therefore be seen as an inevitable endpoint of this struggle. However, moving from an institutionalized racist system towards a system of citizenship based on equality will not happen spontaneously, especially when this system maintains itself through its economic and military superiority... Read more... Archbishop Tutu Supports Marrickville's Stance On BDS, by Sonja Karkar | AFP With all the calls on Archbishop Tutu’s time and counsel, it seemed just too much to hope that he would bother himself with a small but valiant struggle against Apartheid Israel in Marrickville, Australia. But Archbishop Tutu knows better than most how an apartheid regime can blind others to the suffering it institutes against another people and the vitriol its apologists mete out to those who support them... Read letter... Israeli Doctor Operates On Palestinian With No Anaesthesia, by Suleiman Besharat | Rense It would not be an exaggeration to equate Zionist practices with that of the Nazis. I have an impression from the following article that the methods of the Nazis truly serve as useful models for the Israelis. However, when it comes to their "Holocaust", they push it down everyone's throat. Seeing the practices of Zionists, Hitler must be really happy in his grave!.. Read more... June 7, 2011 Thousands of Israeli Youth Chant "Mohammad is Dead" | Intifada Palestine  On Jerusalem Day, celebrating Israeli occupation of the city in 1967, thousands of youth marched through the Palestinian neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah Doctors on Israel's Forty-Four Year Occupation, by Stephen Lendman | War Is A Crime ...In neglected gray streets, donkeys and horses substitute for cars because of cost and scarce gas. People also "were wandering in the streets without purpose, desperate, not in a hurry to get anywhere." Israel prevents import of construction materials, and high unemployment contributes to despair for many... Read more... Germany: Still Under Control of Foreign Powers, by Dr. Ingrid Rimland Zundel | Veterans Today I remember clearly the first time I learned that the Third Reich, at least on paper that is scrupulously kept from eyes beneath raised eyebrows, still exists. You didn’t know that – did you? I didn’t – until fairly recently... Read more... The Rise of the Second-String Psychopaths, by David Schwartz | Common Dreams The great writer Kurt Vonnegut titled his final book A Man without a Country. He was the man; the country was the United States of America. Vonnegut felt that his country had disappeared right under his – and the Constitution’s – feet, through what he called “the sleaziest, low-comedy Keystone Cops-style coup d’état imaginable.” He was talking about the Bush administration. Were Vonnegut still alive in the post-Bush era, he would not have felt that his country had returned... Read more... Empire or Republic: From Joplin, Missouri to Kabul, Afghanistan, by James Petras | Dissident Voice ...The reason is clear: ‘Homeland Security’ (HS) is an Orwellian misnomer. The agency is not concerned with domestic, civilian, American security. HS is part of a military-police response to imagined overseas threats, which have not materialized or at least have not produced deaths comparable to tornadoes and floods in the last 11 years... Read more... The Morgenthau Plan for Israel, by J.B. Campbell | Veterans Today  Henry Morgenthau and President Roosevelt ...Israel must perish. It is a cancer eating up the world. Cancer is killing so many people because the ones we have trusted to fight cancer have deliberately made the disease more widespread by using cancer-causing but lucrative quack remedies such as radiation and poisonous chemicals. Surgery often spreads cancer but sometimes there’s no other way to get rid of a tumor. That is what is called for in the case of Israel. This malignant tumor must be cut out. Or starved out, the way Germany was starved out...Read more... Wiesenthal Center Determined to Go Down in Flames, by Daniel Luban | LobeLog Amid the array of hysterical reactions to President Obama’s Middle East speech — notable examples include Benjamin Netanyahu and Mitt Romney — one under-reported response came from the Simon Wiesenthal Center, which blasted Obama for calling for Israel to return to the 1967 “Auschwitz borders”.. Read more... The Simon Wiesenthal Center: A Bastion of Jewish-Zionist Power, by Mark Weber | IHR Since its founding in 1977, the Simon Wiesenthal Center has grown to become one of the most important and influential Jewish organizations in the world. Headquartered in Los Angeles, with offices in New York, Jerusalem, Paris, Miami, Toronto and Buenos Aires, it reports a membership of more than 300,000 and an annual income of some $30 million... Read more... Marching In Step with AIPAC | YouTube Interviews with participants of AIPAC's annual policy conference in DC, May 2011... [Don't watch if your stomach is sensitive and you, like me, are allergic to fascism.] Watch video...Jewish Voice for Peace? Really?? by Nahida | Poetry for Palestine It appears that, yet again, Anti-zionist Jewish organizations are trying to silence Palestine’s supporters, to frame the debate, to secure the future of their brethren in occupied Palestine and to steer the course of Liberation of our Homeland. I would invite people to hear a Palestinian voice, here:.. Read more... Casus Belli | Roy Tov  Israeli soldiers taking aim next to the Syrian-Israeli The IDF, Syria and the UN agree that Israeli soldiers shot Syrian citizens demonstrating on the Syrian side of the border. Period. This is a Casus Belli event, i.e. a formal reason for the Syrians opening a legitimate war on Israel. The UN Charter prohibits signatory countries from engaging in war except as a means of defending themselves against aggression, or unless the UN as a body has given prior approval to the operation...border fence near Majdal Shams, June 5, 2011 Read more... Israel fires on 'Naksa' protesters | Al Jazeera English Sunday's protests were designed to draw attention to the plight of Palestinian refugees who fled or were expelled from their homes during Israel's war of independence in 1948. Now, around half a million Palestinian refugees live across 13 camps in Syria... Read more... Jewish life more valuable than Palestinians | YouTube This brief exchange took place across from the Washington DC convention center on May 23, 2011, where the American-Israel Political Affairs Com. (AIPAC) was holding its annual convention which attracted more than 10,000 members and guests including 3/4 of both houses of Congress. As the video opens, the man, an attendee at the conference, has just been told that a young Palestinian (to her right and not shown) has just described how three members of his family had been murdered by the Israelis in Gaza. The woman, who was part of the Move Over AIPAC protest across from the convention center, asks him what he thinks about that. What do you think?.. Watch video... I'm Setting Sail for Gaza Again & You Can Help, by Huwaida Arraf | US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation One year ago today, as Israeli naval commandoes attacked the Gaza Freedom Flotilla in international waters, I was on board The Challenger, a U.S.-flagged ship that was part of this international effort to break Israel's illegal blockade of the Palestinian Gaza Strip... Read more... June 6, 2011 Hemorrhoid to be named after Rep. Michele Bachmann, says AMA | Goon Squad  The American Medical Association today announced they were naming a newly found hemorrhoid after Minnesota Republican Congresswoman Michele Bachmann... Read more... Global War On Drugs Has Failed | NPR ...The global war on drugs has failed, with devastating consequences for individuals and societies around the world. Fifty years after the initiation of the UN Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs, and 40 years after President Nixon launched the US government’s war on drugs, fundamental reforms in national and global drug control policies are urgently needed... Read more... Obama's Foreign Policy Objectives: The Geopolitical Middle East, North Africa, Central Asia Mosaic, by Jack A. Smith | Global Research ...Washington's superpower influence has convinced most Arab governments to mute their criticisms of Israel's mistreatment of the Palestinians, (Syria and Libya have been exceptions), but the Arab masses have always supported the cause of the Palestinian people and denounce both Israel and its American enabler. Now that these masses are beginning to speak for themselves the Palestine question is more important than ever. The oppression of the Palestinian people is the main cause of anti-American attitudes throughout the Islamic world of about 1.4 billion people, mostly in 47 countries with majority Muslim populations. This number will grow to 2 billion by 2030... Read more... Political Prisoner Geronimo Pratt Dies | Stephen Lendman "What happened to him is the horror story of the United States. This became a microcosm of when the government decides what's politically right or wrong. The COINTELPRO program was awful. He became a symbol for what they did.".. Read more... Settlers Drown Palestinians' Land with Wastewater in Bethlehem | Occupied Palestine ..Jewish settlers from ‘Beitar Illit’ settlement Sunday drowned Palestinians’ lands with wastewater in Nahhalin, a village southwest of Bethlehem... [Ho hum, just another genocidal day in Palestine] Read more... Evil Is Unrelenting, by Jim Kirwan | Rense Uniformed-official-Evil is unrelenting in all of its pursuits. The Key to any great story is not about "Who" or "Where" or "When" but "WHY"!.. Read more... Rabbi Dov Zakheim and the Missing Trillions | Smoking Mirrors What is the most outrageous piece of news that isn’t being discussed? I would venture to say it is the strange tale of Dov Zakheim and the missing trillions. I hear all kinds of numbers. I hear 2.3 trillion from Rumsfield and I hear about one trillion that Zakheim can’t explain. Still, you’ll need to check the dates of Zakheim’s days in the saddle as Pentagon Comptroller and then you can wonder to your hearts content... Read more... World Bank Former Chief Economist's Amazing Accusations, by Greg Palast | Rense The World Bank's former Chief Economist's accusations are eye-popping - including how the IMF and US Treasury fixed the Russian elections. "It has condemned people to death," the former apparatchik told me. This was like a scene out of Le Carre. The brilliant old agent comes in from the cold, crosses to our side, and in hours of debriefing, empties his memory of horrors committed in the name of a political ideology he now realizes has gone rotten... Read more... Barack Obama's betrayal of Abraham Lincoln's ideals | Redress Information & Analysis Paul J. Balles argues that US President Barack Obama has defiled the ideals of his idol, Abraham Lincoln, and instead of working to bring about government “of the people, by the people, for the people”, he has presided over government “controlled by corporate barons, lobbies and Wall Street”.. Read more... Mazin Qumsiyeh in Sweden | Popular Resistance I get up too early for my talk about popular resistance in Palestine. I could not sleep well. I kept thinking about the upcoming demonstrations Today (Sunday) with family and friends participating. How many will be killed and how many will be injured. Only later in the day will I find that out (5 murdered, many injured, several friends arrested). But for this Sunday, I am sadly not with them... Read more... Carter Reveals Begin Viewed Jews As The Master Race: All Hail The Jewish Master Race | Rense ...Begin, Carter recalled, believed the Jews were a Master Race, a holy people superior to Egyptians and Arabs. Begin also believed that God wanted the Jews to own the land, so there was absolutely no basis for peace. The Jews lusted after the land and intended to have it. Period... Read more... International law and the problem of enforcement | Redress Information & Analysis Lawrence Davidson traces the flaws built into the International Criminal Court that allow some states to get away with crimes to the exceptionalism and superiority complexes afflicting countries such as Russia, China and the US, which is also “tied so closely to the criminal behaviour of the Israelis that it has dedicated itself to protecting Israeli nationals as well”.. Read more... June 5, 2011 Move Over AIPAC challenges business-as-usual in Washington, by Linda Khoury | The Electronic Intifada  Hundreds of activists across the US converged in the capital Late last month AIPAC, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, held its 2011 annual policy conference in Washington, DC. Just across the street hundreds of social justice activists from all corners of the United States, in addition to a handful of internationals, met with the formidable goal of building a counter-force to AIPAC. The atmostphere of the Move Over AIPAC meeting, held 21-24 May, was excited and lively, drawing its energy and inspiration from the democratic uprisings currently raging in the Middle East...for the Move Over AIPAC conference last month Read more... It started with a Lie: Nato Aggression against Serbia 1999 | YouTube German Documentary about the Lies of Western Officials during the NATO Aggression against Serbia in 1999. How the Western constructed Lies about slaughter of Albanians by the Serbian Security Forces... Watch video... I Have Zero Respect For The Mainstream Media: Interview by Silvia Cattori | Gilad Atzmon ...For many years I have not bought newspapers. I am interested in the Middle East, and the mainstream media has very little to offer on that front. Probably the only expert within the British or even English-speaking media press is Robert Fisk. If I want to know what is happening in the Middle East I go to “Counterpunch”, “Information Clearing House”, “Veterans Today”, “Rense.com”, “Uprooted Palestinian”, “PalestineTelegraph”, “Palestine Chronicle”, “Dissident Voice”, “Uruknet”, and other reliable websites... Read more... NeoCon/Zionist Policy Introducing Fascism Into This World | YouTube/Press TV ..The US, the UK and Israel are behind the death sentence handed to four anti-government protesters in Bahrain, a political expert says... Read more, watch video... Budrus Trailer | YouTube ..Budrus is an award-winning feature documentary film about a Palestinian community organizer, Ayed Morrar, who unites local Fatah and Hamas members along with Israeli supporters in an unarmed movement to save his village of Budrus from destruction by Israel's Separation Barrier... Watch video... U.S. student responds to Condoleezza Rice in the auditorium and accuses her of being a war criminal | YouTube Watch video... Julian Assange wins Martha Gellhorn Prize for Journalism | Journalism  The prize is awarded annually to a journalist whose work has "penetrated the established version of events and told and unpalatable truth that exposes establishment propaganda, or 'official drivel', as Martha Gellhorn called it.".. Read more... Stuart Littlewood shares the concern of pro-Palestinian activists worldwide at the failure so far of the Palestinian Authority, including its lacklustre and PR-inept London "embassy", to start mobilizing world public opinion for the planned bid this September for UN membership and recognition of Palestinian independence... [Careful - you may get what you're asking for, a group of powerless bantustans under Israel's thumb, but with no longer any hope of real liberation or return of refugees to their homes.] Read more...The ruined village Palestinians will never forget, by Harriet Sherwood | The Guardian The ruins of Lifta are the final remains of the Palestinian hamlets that fringed Jerusalem until 1948. Now plans to bulldoze them are causing outrage.. Read more, watch video... Americans Joining Flotilla to Protest Gaza Blockade | NYT When an international flotilla sails for Gaza this month to challenge Israel’s naval blockade of the Palestinian territory, among the boats will be an American ship with 34 passengers, including the writer Alice Walker and an 86-year-old whose parents died in the Holocaust... Read more... Israelis Prepare to Emigrate, Palestinians to Return, by Franklin Lamb | Al Manar ...Today it is estimated that 70% of Israelis had approached or intended to approach a foreign embassy to inquire about or apply for citizenship and a passport... [As Helen Thomas put it, let them go back to wherever in hell they came from.] Read more...June 4, 2011 The US is Losing Pakistan, by Patrick Seale | The Diplomat  The US and Pakistani governments seem to be heading for a divorce full of recriminations. So great are the divergent objectives and lack of trust between them that Pakistan seems to be contemplating moving out of the United States’ orbit altogether and into China’s embrace... Read more... Fears of a corporate police state, by David Sirota | Salon From private prisons to warrantless searches, the government is working with corporations to trample your rights... Read more... Hail Caesar!: The Default Specter as Political Theater, by Paul Craig Roberts | Counterpunch Although the financial press speculates about a downgrade of the US government’s credit rating and default if political impasse prevents the debt ceiling from being raised in time, I doubt anyone really believes that the debt ceiling will not be raised. It is just all a part of the political theater of the next couple of months... Read more... The Arab World Views the American President With Contempt: Who Cares What Obama Says? by Robert Fisk | The Independent This month, in the Middle East, has seen the unmaking of the President of the United States. More than that, it has witnessed the lowest prestige of America in the region since Roosevelt met King Abdul Aziz on the USS Quincy in the Great Bitter Lake in 1945... Read more... The war in Libya growing more illegal by the day, by Glenn Greenwald | Salon To the extent that the War Powers Resolution (WPR) authorized President Obama to fight a war in Libya for 60 days without Congressional approval -- and, for reasons I described here, it did not -- that 60-day period expired 12 days ago. Since that date, the war has been unquestionably illegal even under the original justifications of Obama defenders... Read more... Will The Jewish State Destroy the World? by Willis A. Carto | America First Books Let there be no doubt that Israel's nuclear weapons of mass destruction are the cornerstone of Israel's national defense policy and that this is founded on a deep-rooted, underlying religious (even racist) fanaticism. It is upon this basis that it can be rightly said that the world has some very real fears knowing that Israel maintains this dangerous arsenal. Also bear in mind the vital point that Israel's founding father, David Ben-Gurion, attached a fervent, even mystical, religious significance to his nation's nuclear weapons development program... Read more... June 3, 2011 Defanging the serpent: Final Solution for World Peace, by Ian V. Macdonald | The Radical Press  The erasure of Israel is the obvious prerequisite for restoration of a stable world peace but for some reason politicians and journalists stay away from the subject, or at least are never quoted. Perhaps because they know they would face permanent unemployment, or worse, should they attempt even mention of the idea, let alone support it. Publication of this letter might stiffen a few journalistic backbones in cases where the individuals choose early retirement from the profession, but unfortunately it will not be published... [My sentiments exactly] Read more...Obama's new security staff may approve attack on Iran, by Amir Oren | Haaretz ...between the end of June and Gates' retirement, and the end of September and Mullen's retirement, the danger that Netanyahu and Barak will aim at a surprise in Iran is especially great, especially since this would divert attention from the Palestinian issue. As the Supreme Court explained to Moshe Katsav's lawyers, some plans for summer vacations might be canceled... Read more... We Are The Terrorists, by Dahlia Wasfi | Information Clearing House We have an obligation to every last victim of this illegal aggression because all of this carnage has been done in our name. Since World War II, 90% of the casualties of war are unarmed civilians. 1/3 of them children. Our victims have done nothing to us. From Palestine to Afghanistan to Iraq to Somalia to wherever our next target may be, their murders are not collateral damage, they are the nature of modern warfare. They don't hate us because of our freedoms. They hate us because every day we are funding and committing crimes against humanity. The so-called "war on terror" is a cover for our military aggression to gain control of the resources of western Asia... ["We have met the enemy and they are us." - Pogo] Read more...Egyptian banker charged with sexual assault is granted bail | The Guardian The former head of one of Egypt's biggest banks has been granted bail after being arrested and charged with sexually assaulting a maid at a luxury hotel in New York... [No, I didn't make this up] Read more...The U.S.-Israeli Train Wreck, by Jeff Gates | Intifada Palestine  Today’s train wreck should have been foreseen when Weizman lied to Truman about Zionist intentions. As with every U.S. president since, Truman was deceived... Read more... Mladic and international justice: Age of deception. Who are the War Criminals? by Eric Walberg | Global Research ...Even ignoring the criticism that these trials are in effect show trials by the victors, if the ICTY is truly impartial, the fact remains that charges similar to the ones against Mladic and Karadzic can be levelled word-for-word at US president George W Bush for “violations of laws and practices of warfare” in undertaking an illegal war against Iraq. Egypt’s Mohamed ElBaradei has done precisely that, both in his memoirs The Age of Deception: Nuclear Diplomacy in Treacherous Times and on US television, where he bravely charged that Bush administration officials should face international criminal investigation for the “shame of a needless war” in Iraq... Read more... Ras al-Amud, by David Shulman | The Only Democracy We gather at 4:00 outside the settlers’ multi-story stone building opposite the old police station at Ras al-Amud, on the Mount of Olives. This was the week of Netanyahu’s speech before Congress; if, utterly unlikely as this may be, there is anyone in the world who failed to notice that he was lying through his teeth, then Wednesday’s official ceremony unveiling the new settlement here in East Jerusalem should be enough to remove the veil. He used the word “peace” many times, in most cases meaning “war.”.. Read more, watch video... Towards an Alternative Israeli-Palestinian Discourse, by As'ad Ghanem and Sarah Ozacky-Lazar | Palestine-Israel Journal Instead of "two states for two peoples," a civil state shared by the two communities is proposed... [Well, it's creative, but is no more likely to be acceptable to the Israelis, is fraught with problems, and - the deal breaker - it leaves the refugees out in the cold. Best to keep it simple.] Read more... Yemen: The Forgotten Tyrant and His Daily Bloodbath, by Mohamed Khodr | Intifada Palestine  To America, the gullible, Oil and fighting Al Qaeda is more valuable than the spilled blood of innocent masses crying for freedom... Read more... What Bibi Didn't Say in His Congress Speech, by Dr. Ashraf Ezzat | Intifada Palestine “I intend to speak the unvarnished truth because now more than ever what we need is peace” Netanyahu... Read more, watch video... AIPAC Lobbying Strategy Goes Global: Entire Countries, NOT Just Members of US Congress, Now Feel the Jack Boot of Israeli Pressure | My Catbird Seat ...UN and Middle East sources have told WMR that Israeli government representatives are now fanning out across the world, in some cases with bags of cash, in an effort to bribe small nations into voting against a Palestine recognition resolution in the General Assembly... Read more... Netanyahu's War on Gaza, by Stephen Lendman | Veterans Today ...Israel violated the 1958 Geneva Convention on the High Seas and 1982 UN Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS). Under UNCLOS’ Article 101, maritime piracy includes “any illegal acts of violence or detention, or any act of depredation….against a ship, aircraft, persons or property in a place outside the jurisdiction of any State (and) any act of inciting or of intentionally facilitating (such) an act.”.. Read more... June 2, 2011 10 Facts That Prove The Bin Laden Fable Is a Contrived Hoax, by Paul Joseph Watson | Prison Planet  Merely a week after President Obama announced the death of Osama Bin Laden, there is literally a deluge of evidence that clearly indicates the whole episode has been manufactured for political gain and to return Americans to a state of post-9/11 intellectual castration so that they can be easily manipulated in the run up to the 2012 election... Read more... Why June 5 Matters, by Joe Catron | Intifada Palestine ...The Israeli response came quickly. Bullet after bullet penetrated the crowd of unarmed demonstrators, each one finding its target. Artillery shells pounded the sandy dunes around us, and after several hours, tear gas canisters hissed through the air. Over a hundred people were hospitalized with serious injuries, while elsewhere on the border, a 17-year old boy was killed by artillery fire. The rest of us escaped with tear gas inhalation, cuts from exploding concrete and shrapnel, and bloodstains from the limbs, torsos, and faces shattering around us. Yet the demonstrators kept coming... Read more... Humanitarian Ship To Gaza: "Prison Ship" Of The "International Community" In Egypt Territorial Waters, by Matthias Chang | Global Research Below is the latest communique from the Spirit of Rachel Corrie, stranded in Egyptian territorial waters since May 16th... Read more... Hannah Arendt and Eichmann's 'show trial' | Rehmat's World ...Hannah Arendt’s vision of Palestine was a federated secular and democratic state for both the foreign Jews and the native Muslim-Christian Palestinians without a state religion. She was labeled an ‘Enemy of Israel’ and a ‘Self-Hating Jew’ not for her vision, but for writing the truth in her book:.. Read more... Circumcising the Truth in the Valley of the Shadow of Death | Smoking Mirrors ‘May your noses always be cold and wet’... Read more... The Zionist Terror Network: Background and Operation of the Jewish Defense League and other Criminal Zionist Groups | The Whale ...Over the years, Zionist militants have carried out hundreds of illegal actions against real or imagined "enemies," including many acts of vandalism and harassment, and countless threatening phone calls. What follows here, though, are details about some particularly spectacular criminal operations... Read more... CIA Treachery in Texas, by JB Campbell | Veterans Today ...the only reason we have TSA in the airports is because of Israel. Because of our support of Israel. We’re in fear of Israel-hating Moslems who want to kill us all. No one in his right mind has this fear, but there could never have been the so-called threat of terrorism if it weren’t for Israel. This fake fear has produced the nastiest agency in the constellation of nasty agencies. Employing the abusive low-lifes of American society, the Transportation Security Administration is something that only the American government could produce... Read more... Ron Paul: We Are Enabling A Future American Dictatorship, by Steve Watson | Prison Planet 2012 Presidential candidate Ron Paul has warned that a lack of oversight from Congress, the media and the American people is enabling the rise of a dictatorship in the US... Read more... Glimpses of Palestine | YouTube This is a slideshow of photographs I took in the West Bank and Jerusalem in late 2006. The intent is to give a glimpse of life in an occupied, conflicted land, with a focus on the human face... Watch video... The Zionist lobby toppled the Baker-Hamilton policy | Voltaire Network ...The truth is that the American empire is a mere Israeli colony whose major decisions are controlled by the Zionist lobby. Consequently, the Arab people and the powers of resistance and independence in the Arab countries must deal with the occupation of the land and the violation of the rights via popular and armed resistance which has already proven its efficiency and will prove it even further in the near future in Palestine, Iraq, Syria and Lebanon... Read more... Footage of Western Troops Confirms Criminality of War on Libya, by Paul Joseph Watson | Prison Planet Proof that armed western forces are on the ground in Libya advising rebels confirms that the entire legal premise behind the NATO-led intervention has been shattered and the campaign is now a criminal act of warfare that has nothing whatsoever to do with the original justification of protecting civilians... Read more, watch video... Gaza Reels | YouTube Watch video... Former Head Of CIA Bin Laden Unit: "Main Recruitment Sergeant For Al Qaida Is Barack Obama", by Steve Watson | Prison Planet Ex CIA intelligence officer turned whistleblower and activist, Michael Scheuer, has launched a blistering attack on the political establishment, over its handing of the so called war on terror, asserting that the entire rationale behind it is based on outright lies and deception... Read more... June 1, 2011 The Six-Day War and a Possible Resolution, by Ron Forthofer | Palestine Chronicle  Israel was the clear aggressor in the 1967 war President Obama's recent statements about using the 1967 borders as the basis for a settlement of the Israeli/Palestinian conflict sparked strong reactions. These reactions also show that many people are terribly misinformed about who started the Six Day War... Read more... Netanyahu Addresses Adoring Congress | The Real News [It's 1941: Adolf Hitler has been invited to address the Whorehouse on the Hill (a joint session of Congress). He is interrupted 42 times by the entire assemblage, which jumps to its feet each time with a hearty "Sieg Heil!" and a snappy Nazi salute. Afterwards they all do an obligatory genuflection to the Zionist swastika, the paired triangles. A few friends of mine and I find this spectacle bizarre, horrific, beyond surreal, but we appear to be only a tiny minority, at least in the Western "democracies."] Read transcript, watch video...Working Around America: A New Strategy on Israel/Palestine, by Jeff Halper | ICAHD Last Friday’s vote in the UN in which the US refused to follow the other 14 members of the Security Council in condemning Israel’s ongoing settlement project – including, it should be noted, such traditionally pro-Israel stalwarts as Britain, France, and even Germany and India (for whom Israel is the #2 supplier of arms, as it is with China) – revealed the international isolation into which the US has fallen... Read more... U.S.-Israeli Train Wreck, by Jeff Gates | Dissident Voice President Obama hopes to head off a train wreck in September at the U.N. General Assembly. That’s when member nations plan to press for an independent Palestine. The Israel lobby is furious... Read more... Obama Sends More Troops to Iraq as Deadline Nears, by Kurt Nimmo | Infowars ...The establishment never intended to pull the troops out of Iraq. They didn’t build permanent bases and a whopping embassy there for nothing. This will be a non-issue as we head into the 2012 dog and pony race to select the next teleprompter reader... Read more... Public Banking: An Idea Whose Time Has Come | Stephen Lendman The 1913 Federal Reserve Act let powerful bankers usurp America's money system in violation of the Constitution's Article I, Section 8, giving only Congress the power to "coin Money (and) regulate the Value thereof...." Thereafter, powerful bankers victimized working Americans, using money, credit and debt for private self-enrichment by bankrolling and colluding with Congress and administrations to implement laws favoring them... Read more... Pakistan gets Chinese military aid in the face of US threats, by Webster Tarpley | Voltaire Network By multiplying its military attacks on Pakistani territory and accusing Islamabad of having harbored Osama Bin Laden, the Obama Administration aims to encroach into China’s sphere of influence. However, Beijing promptly supplied Islamabad with an air arsenal and delivered an ultimatum to Washington: any attack on Pakistan would be considered as an unfriendly act against China... Read more... Donor Bread (Money) and Congressional Circuses, by Lawrence Davidson | Media With Conscience  According to a 19 May report by the Wall Street Journal, the American Zionists are starting to turn the screws on President Obama and the Democratic Party. “Jewish donors and fund raisers are warning the Obama re-election campaign that the president is at risk of losing financial support because of concerns about his handling of Israel.” If you doubt that this tactic can work just watch the video of Prime Minister Netanyahu’s address to Congress... Read more... Palestine and the 'Parallel states' | Rehmat's World ...both the ‘Two states’ and the ‘Parallel states’ options are to legitimize the Jewish occupation of Palestine. The current verbal shooting between the US and Israel is more of a tactical controversy than a strategic one. The reason behind this latest Obama-Benji charade is to hijack the Hamas-Fatah unity government’s possible move to ask United Nations General Assembly to recognize an independent sovereign Palestine based on 1967 borders. The request is sure to be approved by a majority vote – but the UN membership will certainly get Washington’s veto at the UN Security Council... Read more... Encircling Russia with US Bases, by Stephen Lendman | OpEdNews In 1991, after the Soviet Union dissolved, everything changed but stayed the same. As a result, today's stakes are far greater, presenting much larger threats to world peace. In America, neocons are still dominant. Obama is more belligerent than Bush, waging four wars and various proxy ones. The Israeli Lobby, Christian Right, and other extremist elements drive them. Conflict is preferred over diplomacy... Read more... Support the Freedom Flotilla II to Gaza | US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation ...Solidarity activists from around the world, including US Campaign member group U.S. Boat to Gaza, are preparing "Freedom Flotilla II--Stay Human," to break Israel's blockade in June. Tell President Obama that his administration must ensure the flotilla's safe passage and prevent Israel from perpetrating another bloody attack... Read more... UN: 'Iran humiliates US-Canada' | Rehmat's World On May 26, 2011 the Islamic Republic was re-elected to the 47-member United Nations’ Commission on Population and Development with a majority vote for the next four-year-term despite a feverish anti-Iran campaign at United Nations by Washington and Ottawa. The two pro-Israel governments lead by Barack Obama and Stephen Harper used a number of diplomatic maneuvers to try to persuade the member states of the UN Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) to vote the Islamic Republic out of the commission but failed miserably as was the case last time... Read more... Imperial Eye on Pakistan: Pakistan in Pieces, Part 1, by Andrew Gavin Marshall | Global Research As the purported assassination of Osama bin Laden has placed the focus on Pakistan, it is vital to assess the changing role of Pakistan in broad geostrategic terms, and in particular, of the changing American strategy toward Pakistan. The recently reported assassination was a propaganda ploy aimed at targeting Pakistan. To understand this, it is necessary to examine how America has, in recent years, altered its strategy in Pakistan in the direction of destabilization. In short, Pakistan is an American target... Read more... Former Foreign Minister of France Now in Libya, Preparing Case Against NATO | Mathaba  Read more... US Congress Backs America's "Eternal Worldwide War", by David Swanson | Global Research On Thursday, the U.S. House of Representatives backed eternal worldwide war and imprisonment powers for all future presidents, but blocked any ground troops in Libya (except for the ones already there, since the measure included no consequences for its violation). The House also unanimously created a new national holiday to celebrate the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars. It defunded the US Institute for Peace (saving the cost of 5 hours in Afghanistan). And it required that all suspected foreign terrorists be tried by the military and not in courts (unless bullets are put in their heads first)... Read more... Washington's War on Chavez, by Stephen Lendman | Mathaba Since George Bush took office in January 2001, efforts to oust Chavez failed three times: in April 2002 for two days, aborted by mass street protests and support from Venezuela's military, notably its middle-ranked officer corps; the 2002 - 2003 general strike and oil management lockout, causing severe economic disruptions; and the failed August 2004 national recall referendum, Chavez prevailing with a 59% majority... Read more... Why is the UN secretary-general trying to scupper latest flotilla plans for Gaza? | Redress Information & Analysis Stuart Littlewood challenges UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon to explain why he is trying to scupper plans for a humanitarian flotilla to the besieged Gaza Strip instead of taking effective action to protect the flotilla and compel Israel to end its illegal blockade of the Strip... Read more... Kidnapped in Gaza, by Vittorio Arrigoni | Palestine Chronicle ...When we got to the port of Ashkelon, myself, Darlene and Andrew were marched out of the Israeli war ship and were met by a scenario reminiscent of the Holocaust. It was something that reminded me of Schindler’s List, or the horror-imbued prose of Primo Levi. All the fishermen were made to kneel, stark naked, chained at the ankles and handcuffed with their arms behind their backs, blindfolded. These were the conditions they had been made to travel in, on an open deck for 50 nautical kilometers... Read more... |
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