Mar 31, 2011 War is a Racket, by Smedley Butler | Gilad Atzmon  War is a Racket, by Smedley Butler (1881-1940), is a famous speech denouncing the military industrial complex. This speech by two-time Congressional Medal of Honor recipient exposes war profits that benefit few at the expense of many... Read more, watch video... Major General Smedley Butler & The Fascist Takeover Of The USA: A Warning From History | YouTube Watch video... The Swastika and the Star of David, by Alvin Alexsi Currier | Free Palestine Movement ...even while watching with horror these last days of Zionism, I have a certain peace because I know that this hell is the beginning of the end. The era of arguing Hakenkreuz or Davidstern is over. The issue of my Holocaust verses your Nakba is passe. The Stars and Stripes, the Hammer and Sickle, the Swastika and even the Star of David no longer flies crisp in winds of zeal and allegiance. Again something beyond banners, nations, courts or creeds has been awakened. The human heart is on the move... Read more... FPM Defines Nonviolent Covenant for 2011 Spring Flotilla Delegation | Free Palestine Movement On December 6, 2010, as our representatives were getting ready to attend a planning meeting in Rome for the second Gaza Freedom Flotilla, we received an inquiry from one of our delegation, a prominent civil rights leader. "What is the covenant that participants commit to? Is it non-violence, even in defensive situations? Will there be some who do not commit to this covenant?".. Read more... Euro-US War on Libya: Official Lies and Misconceptions of Critics, by James Petras | Aletho News ...Following the lead of their imperial powers, most of what passes for the Left in the US and Europe, ranging from social democrats, Marxists, Trotskyists and other assorted progressives claim to see and support a revolutionary mass uprising and not a few call for active intervention by the imperial powers, or the same thing, the UN, to presumably help the “social revolution” defeat the Gaddafi dictatorship... Read more... Al Assad Deserves Benefit Of The Doubt, by Sami Moubayed | Intifada Palestine Syrians have two roads to choose from — both being calculated gambles. In the first, they would be betting on Al Assad — who remains immensely popular among young Syrians — and it requires giving him the benefit of the doubt. The second path would be betting on the unknown — a street movement that doesn’t have a clear command, vision, or agenda... Read more... Taking Deborah Lipstadt Apart | Gilad Atzmon ...for Lipstadt, ‘deniers’ are those who insist that our past must be revisited, scrutinized and be told from different perspectives. People who hold such views are usually called historical revisionists or simply historians. Yet, historical revisionists are clearly perceived by Lipstadt as anti Semites - I guess that for Lipstadt , those who dare touch or fiddle with the Jewish past are nothing less than enemies... [Devorah Lipshit, my darling, my kleine knaedle, High Priestess of the Holy Inquisition, you never call, you never write! What am I, chopped liver?] Read more...Obama Raises American Hypocrisy to Higher Level, by Paul Craig Roberts | Counterpunch ..Gadhafi has been a black hat for as long as I can remember. If we believe the adage that “where there is smoke there is fire,” Gadhafi is probably not a nice fellow. However, there is no doubt whatsoever that the current US president and the predecessor Bush/Cheney regime have murdered many times more people in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen and Somalia than Gadhafi has murdered in Libya... Read more... Killing Our Way To a Better America, by Daniel Larison | The American Conservative ...One of the most obnoxious arguments that interventionists have used over the last month is that “America is different” when it comes to intervening in other nations’ conflicts. If that is true, and I don’t accept that it is, this is a flaw to be repaired rather than a virtue to be praised... Read more... Libya and the Holy Triumvirate, by William Blum | Counterpunch Gaddafi's crime? He was never respectful enough of The Holy Triumvirate, which recognizes no higher power, and maneuvers the United Nations for its own purposes, depending on China and Russia to be as spineless and hypocritical as Barack Obama. The man the Triumvirate allows to replace Gaddafi will be more respectful... Read more... Obama and American exceptionalism, by Glenn Greenwald | Salon ...It's long been obvious that Obama deeply believes in American exceptionalism, and I agree entirely with these commentators who say that last night's speech left no doubt about that conviction (not because he says he believes it in a speech, but because his actions reflect that belief). But what none of them say.. is whether they believe this to be a good thing. Does the U.S. indeed occupy a special place in the world, entitling and even obligating us to undertake actions that no other country is entitled or obligated to undertake?.. Read more... The rise of Israel's military rabbis | BBC NEWS Israel's army is changing. Once proudly secular, its combat units are now filling with those who believe Israel's wars are "God's wars".. [It is now two years later, and the process is much further advanced, as Israel becomes increasingly genocidal and insane with each passing day] Read more...Zuckerberg, Ostrovsky and Mossad | Roy Tov ...Why is Facebook so important to Mossad? Because it makes life easier for them; Facebook is the accountant in the metaphor given at the beginning of this article. Facebook collects data from all its customers email accounts (the lawyers in the same metaphor). It shows many of the personal links ("ksharim") of its members and can make intelligent guesses on possible off-line links. This last characteristic is important because often we contact our most significant relations exclusively off-line. Thus, Facebook is an invaluable tool for an intelligence-terror organization... Read more... Depleted uranium: a strange way to protect Libyan civilians, by David Wilson | Global Research  In the first 24 hours of the Libyan attack, US B-2s dropped forty-five 2,000-pound bombs. These massive bombs, along with the Cruise missiles launched from British and French planes and ships, all contained depleted uranium (DU) warheads. DU is the waste product from the process of enriching uranium ore. It is used in nuclear weapons and reactors. Because it is a very heavy substance, 1.7 times denser than lead, it is highly valued by the military for its ability to punch through armored vehicles and buildings. When a weapon made with a DU tip strikes a solid object like the side of a tank, it goes straight through it, then erupts in a burning cloud of vapor. The vapor settles as dust, which is not only poisonous, but also radioactive... Read more... Tsunami In The Mid-East, by William Cook | Intifada Palestine ...The mid-east tsunami rushes from two directions, from Syria in the north and Morocco in the west, toward the state of Israel and the occupied territories of Palestine. The flow erupted from a revolution by the people against a Western imposed control, a veritable colonial complex of political tectonic plates... Read more... Who Will Protect the Freedom Flotilla to Gaza?, by Stuart Littlewood | Palestine Chronicle ...The European Campaign to End the Siege on Gaza (ECESG) has issued a press release to remind everyone that what promises to be the largest flotilla yet, comprising 15 ships carrying passengers from 12 European states as well as Latin America, Africa, Asia, Canada and the United States, is due to sail for Gaza in late May... Read more... Uncomfortable Truths In Palestine: Indictment And Conundrum, by Dr. Alan Sabrosky | Intifada Palestine Far too often, what is not said, or cannot be said, publicly is more significant than the platitudes bandied about by assorted political leaders and pundits. Nowhere is this more apparent than in the ongoing Palestinian-Israeli matrix of death and disinformation... Read more... Israel's Fingerprints Are All Over 9/11, by Joshua Blakeney | Veterans Today Over the last week or so I’ve engaged in some vibrant email exchanges with some of the most prominent movers and shakers in the 9/11 skeptics community, most of whom are reluctant to emphasize the Israeli dimension of 9/11... Read more... The Zionists Wield Their Influence By Winning The Ongoing Propaganda War, by Stuart Littlewood | Intifada Palestine Iranian Journalist Kourosh Ziabari speaks with journalist and activist Stuart Littlewood about the enormous influence of Israeli lobby over the mass media in the West... Read more... Libya's Blood For Oil: The Vampire War, by Susan Lindauer | The People's Voice Who are we kidding? The United States, Britain and NATO don't care about bombing civilians to contain rebellion. Their militaries bomb civilians every day without mercy. They have destroyed most of the community infrastructure of Iraq and Afghanistan before turning their sights on Libya. So what's really going on here?.. Read more... Sarah Palin dines with Israel's Netanyahu | AFP Sarah Palin, darling of the US Republican right, joined Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for dinner at his Jerusalem residence on Monday on the second day of a "private visit" to Israel... [One would imagine that even the flies on the wall were embarrassed] Read more...We will not forgive the Jews for their silence; for turning Israel into a racist criminal state, by Sami Jadallah | Veterans Today The Jewish War on Gaza and its resultant destruction of the Gaza Strip and the horrible killings of innocent women and children in cold blood and as reported in series of articles in the Israeli newspaper Haaretz and in statements made by UN officials were not surprising since Jewish soldiers are educated and trained to do that, simply kill. And so the total silence of the Jewish community around the world and especially the US Jewish community should not come as a shocking surprise... [Not all of us are silent] Read more...Military officer's 9/11 case against Bush officials to be heard April 5 | The People's Voice A Top Secret Military Specialist, who was injured in the Pentagon explosion on September 11, 2001 and who sued Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld and Air Force General Richard Myers for conspiracy, terrorism, constitutional violations, and for personal injuries, will have her case heard by the United States Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit (Connecticut) on April 5... Read more... Creative Destruction: Libya in Washington's Greater Middle East Project, by F. William Engdahl | Global Research ...With Washington's exerting of enormous pressure on other NATO member states to take formal command of the US-led bombing of Libya, no matter under what name, in order to give Washington a fig leaf that would shift attention away from the Pentagon's central role via AFRICOM in coordinating the military operation, the entire upheaval sweeping across North African and Middle East Islamic countries is looking at this writing more like the early onset of a World War III, one that some NATO members hint is expected to last decades... Read more... The Collapse of Globalization, by Chris Hedges | Truthdig The uprisings in the Middle East, the unrest that is tearing apart nations such as the Ivory Coast, the bubbling discontent in Greece, Ireland and Britain and the labor disputes in states such as Wisconsin and Ohio presage the collapse of globalization... Read more... The Dangers for Syria, by Issa Khalaf | Palestine Chronicle ...As with Lebanon, one more neutralized, weak, parochially and geographically divided, dependent adversary leaves Israel the unchallenged occupier and regional hegemon for years to come. Given the historical record, I would never underestimate subversive Israeli acts to stir up sectarian and ethnic violence, regardless of US policies, and these policies I’m not sure about... Read more... Libya: The Zionist Dragon and The Drums of War, by Jonathan Azaziah | Mask of Zion ...War, classically defined, is a state of armed, hostile conflict between nations. But the war of the drummers is different. Their war, in their minds, is waged on children of a lesser God. Women of a lesser state of being. Men of a lesser right. Their war is mass murder of unarmed innocents, occupation, theft of land and resources, desecration and dehumanization. Their war is genocide... Read more... Mapping the disappearance of a nation: Interview by Adri Nieuwhof | The Electronic Intifada Malkit Shoshan's The Atlas of the Conflict -- Israel-Palestine won the annual book design competition in the "Best Books from all over the World" category at the Leipzig Book Fair in Germany on 18 March. To produce the book, Shoshan, an Israeli architect and designer who was brought up in a Zionist context, painstakingly mapped the creation of Israel, which erased Palestine in the process... Read more... Joe Lieberman: Let's Bomb Syria, by Kurt Nimmo | Infowars Joe Lieberman and the neocons will not be satisfied until the Muslim and Arab Middle East is reduced to a smoldering ruin like Iraq. The next target on the list following Libya is Syria... Read more, watch video... [This man's bloodthirsty viciousness, hiding behind his treacly insouciant manner, and stomach-turning hypocrisy are almost more than I can bear] Read more...What if Ahmadinejad had gone nuclear? | Rehmat's World On March 29 the WSJ published Michael Oren’s Op-Ed, entitled ‘What If Gadhafi Had Gone Nuclear’. In it, the paranoid Israeli ambassador to Washington ranted the usual Zionist crap to make the point that the US and EU countries should start bombing Iran as they are currently doing in Libya... Read more... Mar 29, 2011 Libya  We're gonna take out the Ghaddafi Family - it's just business Who are the Libyan Freedom Fighters and Their Patrons? by Peter Dale Scott | Asia-Pacific Journal ...The present article does not attempt to propose solutions or a course of action for the United States and its allies, or for the people of the Middle East. It attempts rather to examine the nature of the forces that have emerged in Libya over the last four decades that are presently being played out... Read more... 'Noble' War In Libya - Part 2 | Media Lens ...the media’s framework of understanding might best be described as irrationalist. Typically, the media does not look for rational causes or systemic motives. It does not explain how leaders clearly emerging from a corporate power base can so often agitate for ‘humanitarian intervention’, and so often in resource-rich countries... Read more... On President Obama and Libya; Japan and 9/11 Truth, by Cynthia McKinney | OpEd News In 2005 in the basement of the United States Capitol at a meeting convened by Congressman John Conyers on the subject of the "Downing Street Memo," Ray McGovern uttered the following truth: he testified that "the United States went to war in Iraq for oil, Israel, and military bases craved by administration neocons" so that "the United States and Israel could dominate that part of the world.".. Read more... Planned Regime Change in Libya | Stephen Lendman ...Imagine the hypocrisy. US-style "humanitarian intervention" reigns death and destruction "to protect the Libyan people." Recall how "shock and awe" protected Iraqis, how war on Afghanistan helps Afghans and neighboring Pakistanis from predatory drone and ground attacks. Libyans are now tasting imperial viciousness firsthand... Read more... Supporting, Fighting Tyrants: Logic of 'Stability', by Mats Svensson | Palestine Chronicle The year is 1974. It is my second Sunday in Brazzaville. I am for the first time invited home to a family in the district of Poto Poto. The house is made of sun-dried clay. The door is painted in green and red. The houses are lying tightly against each other. Red earth. A small child crawls into my lap... Read more... American Interventionism: Protecting the Profit Machine, by Richard William Posner | Activist Post America is the spawn of empire building and from the start has itself engaged heavily in that activity. In nearly all cases it has shown a preference for bribery, coercion, intimidation and force over diplomacy and cooperation. As a nation founded on invasion, occupation and genocide, America has maintained its empire by those means to this day... Read more... Celente: Would US target Libya if they had broccoli instead of oil? | YouTube NATO has agreed to take command of the Libyan no-fly zone, but stopped short of accepting full military control. Alliance chief, Anders Fogh Rasmussen, said the U.S. will hand over operational responsibility to NATO within days. Meanwhile, fresh air strikes have rocked the Libyan capital Tripoli, with reports of more civilian casualties. Gerald Celente from the Trends Research Institute says NATO is just a cover for the U.S. and the Libyan mission is about gaining control of the country's oil... Watch video... Libya And The CIA, The Unseen Partnership, by Gordon Duff | Veterans Today Today, Libya’s Colonel Gaddafi is fighting to stay in power, subject to renewed UN sanctions and a NATO air assault. Few know his checkered history and the decades of “cooperation” between Libya and the covert operations of the United States, Britain and Israel, assassinations, arms dealing and, most of all, drugs... Read more... The left's double standards on Libya | Redress Information & Analysis Jeffrey Blankfort highlights the hypocrisy of some leftists in Europe and the USA who, in the struggles they wage from their armchairs or behind their computers against the bogeyman of US imperialism, are happy to treat Libyan civilians as expendables and to support murderous Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi – as long as he appeared to be opposed by the West... Read more... BBC: Imperial US and UK Tool | Stephen Lendman ...Funding also buys influence, assuring US propaganda an influential global outlet, complementing its Voice of America (VOA), Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, Radio Free Asia, and Radio Marti (Radio y Television Marti), as well as America's mainstream media and other Western conduits, delivering managed, not real, news and information... Read more... Palestine and the power of civil society, by Ramzy Baroud | Al-Ahram Weekly The growing momentum behind civil society initiatives, like the boycott movement against Israel, shows that ordinary people are more powerful than brute force... Read more... JStreet or no JStreet, American Jewish leadership is obstacle to peace, by Sami Jadallah | Veterans Today Not taking away from the courageous efforts of JStreet in challenging AIPAC and the well-entrenched American Jewish leadership that has always been consistently anti-peace and pro-war, JStreet has a long way to go. The American Jewish leadership has been the main obstacle to any meaningful Middle East peace. Its undue if not toxic influence on the White House, the State Department and Congress is the real obstacle to solving the Arab/Palestinian-Israeli conflict... Read more... Impeach Barack Obama: A Challenge to Tea Partiers and Antiwar Liberals, by John V. Walsh | Antiwar ...President Barack Obama has violated the U.S. Constitution and employed the armed forces of the U.S. as a king’s army. The U.S. made its revolution to escape such a predicament, and if this usurper of Congressional authority is not stopped and punished, these crimes will continue under each succeeding executive. This must end and it must end now. Impeachment proceedings must begin at once... Read more... French Muslim Revolution: 'Made in USA' | Rehmat's World ..This post addresses the ‘Rivkin Project’, which is named after Ben-Obama’s Zionist Ambassador to Paris, Charles Rivkin. Rivkin is member of the Pacific Council on International Policy (PCIP) founded in 1995. It is a regional arm of the powerful Jewish think tank, Council on Foreign Relations (CFR)... Read more... Mar 28, 2011 Libya: popular uprising, civilian war or military attack ? by Michel Collon | Investig'Action  Over the last three weeks there have been confrontations between troops loyal to Colonel Gaddafi and opposition forces based in the east of the country. After Ben Ali and Mubarak, will Gaddafi be the next dictator to fall ? Can what is happening in Libya be compared to the popular uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt ? What can be made of the antics and u-turns we have seen from the Colonel ? Why is NATO preparing for war ? How do you tell the difference between a good Arab and a bad Arab ? In this latest chapter of our series ‘Understanding the Muslim world’, Mohammed Hassan replies to questions put by Investig’Action... Read more... NATO: America's Imperial Tool | Stephen Lendman In 1999, Nobel laureate Harold Pinter called America's bombing and dismemberment of Yugoslavia "barbaric (and despicable), another blatant and brutal assertion of US power using NATO as its missile (to consolidate) American domination of Europe.".. Read more... Dr. Bouthaina Shaaban: Syria ‘To Lift Emergency Law’ | Intifada Palestine Bouthaina Shaaban, an adviser to Bashar al-Assad, the Syrian president, told Al Jazeera’s Cal Perry in the capital, Damascus, on Sunday that the law would “absolutely” be lifted, but failed to give a timetable. The repeal of the emergency law, in place since the 1963 coup that brought the Baath Party to power, has been a key demand of protesters who have taken to the streets in recent days to demand greater political freedoms... Read more, watch video... Syria's 'Color Revolution' | Rehmat's World ...On Thursday, the US Secretary of Defense, Robert Gates, while in Israel – asked the Syrian military to depose President Bashar al-Assad and ‘enpower a revolution’. These remarks implied Obama administration’s frustration (on behalf the Zionist entity) over Bashar’s friendly relations with Iran, Hamas, Hizbullah, Turkey and Venezuela... Read more... Venezuela's New Social Responsibility Law | Stephen Lendman On December 20, Venezuela's National Assembly (AN) passed a new Law of Social Responsibility in Radio, Television and Digital Media. Contrary to harsh criticism, it doesn't impose censorship. It expands on existing legislation to promote responsible programming, including online... Read more... Libya: In revolution or allied war? by Jerry Mazza | Intrepid Report In an earlier article, Libya: Another revolution or special op? I answered my own question about the present color revolution. Yes, it is headed by Washington, Israel, The City of London, the Vatican and their Merry Pranksters of the CIA, with all the bells and whistles, protest signs and revolutionary Libyan flags, for a news movie for Western Media... Read more... Inside What Job?: A film review | Gilad Atzmon ...In the long term, America has managed to shoot itself in the foot - It has produced generations of scholars who lack the necessary means to think theoretically and critically, let alone bring about change. America’s young economists, for instance, are more than likely to be indoctrinated by the liberal ideologies that were planted initially by the likes of Milton Friedmann, Alan Greenspan, Larry Summers and Martin Feldstein. These four were adamant supporters of zero Governmental intervention and excessive deregulation... Read more... Israel adopts laws targeting Arab citizens and criminalizing boycott of Jewish settlements | Redress Information & Analysis Uri Avnery views three laws recently adopted by the Israeli parliament: "two obnoxious racist laws... clearly directed against Israel’s Arab citizens", and a third law that will punish "any person or association publicly calling for a boycott of Israel" or the illegal Jewish settlements... Read more... Libya rebels: Gaddafi could be right about al-Qaeda, by Alexander Cockburn | The First Post ...As I wrote here a few weeks ago, "It sure looks like Osama bin Laden is winning the Great War on Terror". But I did not dream then that he would have a coalition of the US, Great Britain and France bleeding themselves dry to assist him in this enterprise... Read more... False Symmetry: Teaching Holocaust in Gaza Schools, by Seraj Assi | The Palestine Chronicle Spring has turned red in Gaza with a new Israeli massacre. Late Monday night Israeli combat planes pounded Northern Gaza and murdered two children and three adults whose only crime was playing football in front of their house. At the same day Haaretz published a report complaining that Hamas protests UN plans to teach Gazans about the Holocaust. It was also the very day that the Knesset in Israel approved the Nakaba Law, an absurd legislation that bans Palestinian citizens from commemorating the Nakba... Read more... America’s “Moderate” Regimes Killing Their Innocent Youth, by Mohamed Khodr | Intifada Palestine Israeli democracy is the most lethal oxymoron to describe a rogue, racist, apartheid, military and terroristic state. A democracy that commits ethnic cleansing, daily massacres, destroys entire villages and homes, and herds the innocent indigenous populations into concentrations camps to make easy their daily murders and assassinations, and besiege and starve 1.5 million Palestinians in Gaza... Read more... Majority of Palestinian Voices Still Being Ignored | The Palestine Chronicle ...Ilan Pappe’s widely acclaimed book ‘The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine’ detailed Plan Dalet from de-classified sources amongst its proof that al-Nakba was a planned process of ethnic cleansing, yet some 45 years earlier Walid Khalidi published his comparatively unknown paper ‘Plan Dalet: The Zionist Masterplan for the Conquest of Palestine’. In reality, the literature of the New Historians was unique not in its convictions, but simply in the fact that these ideas were at last being written about by Israelis which gave it much greater credence in the Western world... Read more... Riz Khan interviews Tariq Ali on what's happening in the Arab world | Al Jazeera/YouTube Watch video... Mar 27, 2011 Time for Nassrallah and Obama to talk? by Dr. Franklin Lamb | Intifada Palestine  An experienced Washington Post columnist, David Ignatius, to his credit not among the most biased Israeli Hasbara spewers from the Zionist daily, dropped by our Hezbollah neighborhood known as Dahiyeh the other day... Read more... Globalists - Through UN - Force U.S. Into Libyan War, by James P. Tucker Jr. | American Free Press The United States, under Bilderberg-Trilateral Commission orders, is now engaged in not two, but three wars in the Middle East where America has no legitimate national interest. But the world’s entrenched international financiers do have a huge interest in war profits, purchased at the cost of soldiers’ blood. These powerful globalists also perceive maverick rulers like Libya’s Muammar Qadaffi as roadblocks in their push for establishing a world regime... Read more... The Meaningless Concept Of Ethical War: The Case Against Intervention, by John Chuckman | Intifada Palestine ...There are many reports, not carried in the mainline press, about Israel supplying the African mercenaries who have been doing most of the bloody work in Libya. They are said to have been supplied by an Israeli military contracting firm connected to Mossad at the kind of high per diem rates which Gaddafi’s oil wealth allows. One of Gaddafi’s sons also made a visit for private talks in Israel in the early days of the rebellion’s repression. Such events, we can be absolutely sure, also do not happen without approval from Washington... Read more... Gates Instructs Syrian Military to Impose Color Revolution, by Kurt Nimmo | Infowars As we have documented, the so-called popular revolutions spreading across the Middle East are orchestrated affairs unleashed by the globalists, their NGOs, and agencies of the U.S. government... Read more, watch video... The ‘Jewish influence’ on ME Revolutions | Rehmat's World ...Unknown to the public, Gene Sharp formulated a theory on non violence as a political weapon. Also he first helped NATO and then CIA train the leaders of the soft coups of the last 15 years. Gene Sharp tried to form a dissident group within PLO so that Palestinian nationalists would stop terrorism (he made the necessary arrangements with Colonel Reuven Gal, director of the Psychological Action division of the Israeli armed forces, to train them secretly in the American Embassy in Tel Aviv)... Read more... Israel, right or wrong | Redress Information & Analysis Paul J. Balles explains why Zionist scaremongering and distorting of history, as manifested in the writing of Israel apologists such as the Washington Post’s Richard Cohen, only increases fear by Jews and disdain by others... Read more... Who Is Embarrassing The UN?, by Dr. Lawrence Davidson | Intifada Palestine ...Now, just who is an embarrassment to the United Nations, an organization which began its life back in the late 1940s by, among other things, the issuance of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights? Is it Richard Falk, a man who has dedicated his entire professional life to the fight for a better world, governed by humane laws? Or is it Aharon LeshnoYaar and the political establishment he represents? For anyone beyond childhood, and with accurate information, the answer ought to be obvious... Read more... Zionism and the Holycause After all I am a Proper Zionist Jew | Gilad Atzmon Yes, I am a survivor, for I have managed to survive all the scary accounts of the Holocaust: the one about the soap (1), the one about the lamp shades, the one about the camps, the mass shooting, the one about the gas (2) and the one about the death march (3). I just managed to survive them all... Read more... Is The Holocaust A New 'Religion' w/10 Commandments? | Rense According to the Israeli philosophy professor Yeshayahu Leibowitz, the 'Holocaust' is a new religion. Leibowitz' countrymen Shraga Elam, Gilad Atzmon, Yoshua Shalev and others have further developed this concept, reasoning like this: Most Jews today are either atheists or shun the religion of Judaism. Therefore, the Jewish people had to adopt belief in the 'Holocaust' as their new religion. They have spread this religion all over the world... Read more... Holocaust is new Jewish religion | Rehmat's World I believe that when the Israeli professor Yeshyahu Leibowictz defined holocaust as the new Jewish religion – he was trying to be modest – as in practice it has long passed the threshold of ‘religion’ since Israel’s 1967 invasion of its Arab neighbors during which it occupied the entire pre-1947 Palestine. One can insult the Bible or ridicule the Biblical prophets – but one must not be blasphemous about the “Six Million Died” doctrine... Read more... Canadians reject separate Holocaust Exhibit | Rehmat's World ...The poll results show that 83% of Canadian are in favor of a single exhibition for every genocide or ‘Holocaust’, whatever one wants to call it... Read more... Mar 26, 2011 The Crusaders are back: What Bush started is furthered by Obama; all in the name of peace, by Dr. Muzaffar Iqbal | Opinion Maker  Read more... Western Déjà vu: 'Liberating Libya' | Rehmat's World American proxy Crusaders (Britain, France, Germany and Canada) have liberated over 1,000 Libyan civilians from their lives and pushed over 300,000 Libyans to take refuge in the neighboring Arab countries, in order to escape the western carpet-bombing of Libyan cities since they started the ‘no fly-zone’ (humanitarian) operation aka Odyssey Dawn aka Mission Creep on March 19, 2011... Read more... Liberated Libya Rejects US Intervention | TRNN/YouTube On the streets of liberated Benghazi people say no to McCain, Lieberman and any US intervention... Watch video... Neocon Foreign Policy, by Philip Giraldi | Antiwar One of the enduring mysteries is why neoconservative foreign policy continues to dominate the Republican Party and also large parts of the Democratic Party even though that policy has been disastrous for the United States. No one – not even Secretary of Defense Robert Gates – is willing to call the two land wars currently underway in Asia successful and the hemorrhage of more than $12 billion a month to support the conflicts does nothing whatsoever for a struggling US economy unless one is a defense contractor... Read more... I am Israel (Documentary Film) | Intifada Palestine Written by Hashem Said on Feb.25.2002. Video made by Jihane Al Quds on Sept.4.2009. Hashem Said is an officer in the UW Palestinian student group Hayaat... Watch video... Special UNHR Watchdog for Iran | Rehmat's World Yesterday, Washington finally succeeded in diverting world’s attention from Israel’s human rights violations by blackmailing (US pays 22% of the UN’s annual budget of $1.18 billion) the 47-members UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) to appoint a Special Rapporteur on Human Rights for Iran... Read more... To Call Zimmerman a Zimmerman | Gilad Atzmon Singer-songwriter and harmonica owner Bob Dylan (born Robert Allen Zimmerman) will perform at Israel's Ramat Gan Stadium in June... [How pathetic - the once great Bob Dylan reverts to Bob Zimmerman - just another tribal putz serving the devil] Read more...How Killing Libyans Became a Moral Imperative, by Pat Buchanan | Creators "Who would be free themselves must strike the blow." So wrote the poet Byron, who would himself die just days after landing in Greece to join the war for independence from the Turks. But in that time, Americans followed the dictum of Washington, Adams and Jefferson: Stay out of foreign wars... Read more... Revolutionary Egyptian youth refuse Clinton meeting, by Adam Morrow and Khaled Moussa al-Omrani | The Electronic Intifada US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton last week paid a highly-publicized visit to Cairo's Tahrir Square, the epicenter of Egypt's recent popular uprising. But young leaders of the revolution declined an invitation to meet with her, citing Washington's tepid support for anti-government protesters over the course of the 18-day rebellion... Read more... Libya: The Objective of "Humanitarian Bombing" is Death and Destruction, by Prof. Michel Chossudovsky | Global Research ...The objective of the media disinformation campaign is to blatantly obfuscate the loss of life of civilians. Western media reports on casualties are heavily convoluted. Tomahawk missiles and aerial bombings are upheld as instruments of peace and democracy. They do not result in civilian deaths. Without media disinformation, the legitimacy of the military operation under R2P would collapse like a deck of card... Read more, watch video... Egyptian-international coalition to enter Gaza Strip via Rafah Border Crossing with ten tons of building materials, by Adam Morrow | Veterans Today ...Along with being a legitimate commercial transaction, this project also represents a people-to-people initiative; a gesture of support and good will from the free people of Egypt — following their liberation from the autocratic rule of the Mubarak regime — to the Palestinian people of Gaza... Read more... Koch And Native-American Reservation Oil Theft | Sott Just what is this Koch Industries? Should it be called a "company?" If so we need to re-think the idea of what a company and a business is supposed to be. Even the brother of Koch Industries owners David and Charles Koch called the company an "organized crime" operation... Read more... Demand for the Restoration of Rule of Law and Accountability for War Crimes | War Is A Crime ...Since its founding three years ago, High Road has vigorously advocated for the restoration of the rule of law in the U.S. – for an end to torture, an end to felonious surveillance of U.S. citizens, accountability for illegal conduct by administration officials, and a commitment to a constitutional balance of power, where the courts once again provide a check on abuses of power by the other branches of government... Read more... Citizens United: Corporate free speech and working class decimation | Dailycensored A few days over a year ago, or to be more precise on January 21, 2010, the US Supreme Court handed over what little was left of this nation’s pretensions to democracy on a silver platter to the Big Banks and the US Chamber of Commerce. The case was titled Citizens United v. Federal Elections Commission and the Court’s decision removed all limits on corporate campaign contributions... Read more... Outrage over Holocaust-denying Norwegian lawmaker | Jerusalem Post Labor Party lawmaker Anders Mathisen tells newspaper the Holocaust never happened and challenges readers to prove him wrong... [As the old saying has it, "the truth will out." Sooner or later] Read more...USPCN Condemns Attacks on Gaza and Calls for Action The US Palestinian Community Network strongly condemns the ongoing Israeli massacres against the civilian population of the Gaza Strip, which have today killed 8 Palestinians and wounded scores more. USPCN expresses its deepest solidarity and mourning for our sisters and brothers in Gaza struggling to survive Israel’s brutal siege. Today’s aggression is a part of the ongoing Israeli war against the Palestinian people... Read more... BDS Day of Action: March 30, 2011 The BDS National Committee (BNC) is calling on you to unite in your different capacities and struggles to join the Global BDS Day of Action on Land Day, 30 March 2011, in solidarity with the Palestinian people’s right to self determination on their ancestral land... Read more... Knesset Passes Bill Prohibiting Nakba Commemoration | Uruknet The Israeli legislature has passed a bill that will require the state to fine local authorities or state funded bodies that commemorate the Palestinian Nakba Day... [As Dave Stratman of newdemocracyworld.org put it, "Now the Israelis have made it illegal for Palestinians to commemorate their own Disaster, their banishment from their own homes and villages suffered at the hands of the Zionists. There seem to be no limits to Zionist hypocrisy."] Read more... Mar 25, 2011 Crusaders bomb Libya, says Tripoli; Putin agrees, by K.Gajendra Singh | Pakistan Observer  I Have Seen This Military-Porno-Movie Before... Read more... Turkey group plans new Gaza flotilla with at least 15 ships, by Barak Ravid | Haaretz Israel will launch a public campaign on Tuesday against a plan by the Turkish organization IHH and several left-wing European groups to send a flotilla to the Gaza Strip this May, a year after another IHH flotilla resulted in bloodshed that prompted widespread international condemnation of Israel... [Oy vey, so many problems the poor Israelis have...] Read more...Billionaires Flourish, Inequalities Deepen as Economies "Recover", by James Petras | Dissident Voice The bailouts of banks, speculators and manufacturers served their real purposes: the multi-millionaires became billionaires and the later became multi-billionaires. According to the annual report of the business magazine Forbes there are 1,210 individuals – and in many cases family clans – with a net value of $1 billion dollars (or more). There total net worth is $4 trillion, 500 billion dollars, greater than the combined worth of 4 billion people in the world. The current concentration of wealth exceeds any previous period in history; from King Midas, the Maharajahs, and the Robber Barons to the recent Silicon Valley – Wall Street moguls of the present decade... Read more... Naming Names: Your Real Government, by Tony Cartalucci | Infowars This is your real government; they transcend elected administrations, they permeate every political party, and they are responsible for nearly every aspect of the average American and European’s way of life. When the “left” is carrying the torch for two “Neo-Con” wars, starting yet another based on the same lies, peddled by the same media outlets that told of Iraqi WMD’s, the world has no choice, beyond profound cognitive dissonance, but to realize something is wrong... Read more... Quote of the Day: Alan Dershowitz on Anti-Semitism, by Kevin MacDonald | The Occidental Observer ...according to Dershowitz, anti-Semites may be found among “people of every race, religion, and geographic area, political leaning, gender, and age.” And his theory is that people in all these different categories are suffering from some kind of abnormal psychology (!). The normal as abnormal. Thereby absolving him from having to find a rational explanation... [There must be a special place in Hell already prepared for Dershowitz, no doubt furnished (in poor taste) with padded walls] Read more...Cheerleading for War, by Stephen Lendman | OpEd News When America goes to war, managed news goes with it spreading rumors, half-truths, misinformation, and willful deception about targeted nations, regimes and leaders, whether despots or democrats. Whoever first said it, the first casualty of war is truth, and then some as John Pilger once observed saying:.. Read more... Turkey and the Middle East: Carpe diem | Eric Walberg Recent initiatives by its government attest to Turkey’s determination to bring a new realism to world politics, and events in the Arab world provide an opportunity to reshape regional relations.. As Turkey gears up to parliamentary elections in June, recent pronouncements by Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu confirmed the importance that the Turkish leadership places in defining a more dynamic role for Turkey in the Middle East as a bridge between East and West... Read more... The anti-democratic racism of Israel must end, by Sefi Rachlevsky | Haaretz If the regime that encourages incitement, racism and anti-democracy is not toppled soon, we will find that the future is already here... Read more... Jordan protesters attacked in capital | PressTV ..Around 2,000 Jordanians gathered for a protest camp at the Interior Circle of Jamal Abdul Nasser Square in Amman, following demonstrations held in the city on Thursday. At least 35 people were injured when security forces and supporters of King Abdullah II cracked down on the crowd. Thursday's protest saw the most violence since the demonstrations began three months ago... Read more... Richard Falk: '9/11, Ahmadinejad and the Lobby' | Rehmat's World ..Last week, Dr. Kevin Barrett interviewed Dr. Richard Falk at the Truth Jihad Show on American Freedom Radio. Here is a summary of the interview:.. Read more... Mar 24, 2011 Israel Bombs Residential Area Of Gaza City, with Ken O’Keefe | Intifada Palestine  The American taxpayer continues to pay for Israel to terrorise children by dropping bombs on residential areas of Gaza. Women and children were injured in Israel’s latest bombing... Watch video... US Boat To Gaza Responds To IDF Spying On Internationals | USTOGAZA According to the Israeli newspaper Haaretz, the Israeli government is “launching a public campaign” today, March 22, 2011 aimed at stopping the planned International Freedom Flotilla set to sail this spring. This news comes on the heels of information that the Israeli Defense Force (IDF) announced it has formed a special unit to “monitor” foreign nationals opposed to its policies, including the flotilla... Read more... Disappeared On A Ukraine Train: Mossad snatches Gaza's power plant boss | Jonathan Cook Israel admitted this week that it was behind the abduction of a Gazan engineer who went missing more than a month ago while travelling on a train in the Ukraine. Israeli officials confirmed that Dirar Abu Sisi, 42, was being held in Israel’s Shikma prison, near Ashkelon, after a judge partially lifted reporting restrictions late on Sunday. However, the reasons for Abu Sisi’s abduction are still covered by the gag order... [The world's most outrageous criminals, supported by the West] Read more..."Operation Odyssey Dawn" breaking for Washington, by Thierry Meyssan | Voltaire The French strikes against Libya are not a French operation, but a subcontracting component of Odyssey Dawn Operation under the authority of U.S. AfriCom. Their objective is not to rescue Libyan civilians, but to serve as a pretext to pave the way for the landing of U.S. forces on the Black continent... Read more... On Land Day, March 30, 2011, join international efforts to Stop the Jewish National Fund | Stop the JNF Campaign ..A key pillar of the colonization of Palestine - from the founding of the State of Israel to the present - has been the Keren Kayemet LeIsrael (KKL), commonly known in English as the Jewish National Fund (JNF). The JNF enjoys charity status in over 50 countries. This is despite its role in the on-going displacement of indigenous Palestinians from their land, the theft of their property, the funding of historic and present-day colonies, and the destruction of the natural environment... Read more... United Against the Anti Israeli Goyim | Gilad Atzmon Haaretz reported today that Israeli Military Intelligence is collecting information about left-wing organizations abroad that the army sees as aiming to delegitimize Israel. However, some Israelis seem to be confused about it all... Read more, watch video... Gilad Atzmon @ Cafe Palestine, Freiburg, Germany Jews, Judaism, Jewish Ideology and Zionism, here is the entire talk... Watch videos... The return of colonial theology, by Yitzhak Laor | Haaretz Our political map, with its constant shift to the right, reflects precisely this colonial logic, which has become the logic of our lives: The West is allowed what the natives are not... Read more... An Anthony Lawson Video: Holocaust, Hate Speech & Were the Germans so Stupid? | YouTube Suppressing free and open discussion on any subject is as bad as telling lies, and knowingly suppressing the truth is the biggest lie of all, because it is based, not on a mistake or a genuine error, but on a deliberate intention to deceive... Read more, watch video... Aid industry doing no harm in Palestine? by Samer Abdelnour | The Electronic Intifada The "Palestine Papers" reveal fully the extent to which Palestinians have neither genuine leadership nor a partner for peace. At the foreground is an unrepresentative "authority" prepared to compromise the most fundamental of Palestinian aspirations for an unrelenting colonizer and its imperious supporter. In the background lies a key mechanism enabling Palestinian deprivation: the aid industry... Read more... Restoring Democracy in America, by Christopher Bollyn | Rebel News ...The United States supports brutal dictatorships and undemocratic regimes across the Middle East. Israel portrays itself as a democracy although full rights and the democratic franchise is reserved only for Jews. A Jewish settler on the West Bank, for example, is enfranchised to vote while his Christian or Muslim neighbor is not. Why would a democracy like America support a dictatorship or an exclusive tribal state like Israel or Saudi Arabia? It simply doesn't make sense unless one considers that the U.S. political system is controlled by Zionists... Read more... A Foolish and Unconstitutional War, by Patrick J. Buchanan | Antiwar “The president does not have power under the Constitution to unilaterally authorize a military attack in a situation that does not involve stopping an actual or imminent threat to the nation.” So said constitutional scholar and Sen. Barack Obama in December 2007—the same man who, this weekend, ordered U.S. air and missile strikes on Libya without any authorization from Congress... Read more... Fox News Contrives "Human Shield" Hoax To Sell Libya War, by Paul Joseph Watson | Prison Planet “Exclusive” story about Gaddafi using western journalists as human shields is “nuts, “outrageous,” “ridiculous,” and “absolutely hypocritical,” states CNN reporter involved in tour... Read more... A Video from Anthony Lawson: Gaza in Plain Language: Revisited. Honoring the March to Gaza | YouTube Watch video... Obama's Bay of Pigs in Libya: Imperialist Aggression Shreds UN Charter, by Dr. Webster G. Tarpley | Global Research ...The alleged purpose of the bombing was to establish a no-fly zone and to protect a force of CIA-sponsored Libyan rebels composed of the Moslem Brotherhood, elements of the Libyan government and army subverted by the CIA (including such sinister figures as former Justice Minister Mustafa Abdel-Jalil and former Interior Minister Fattah Younis), and monarchist Senussi tribesmen holding the cities of Benghazi and Tobruk. But twin Friday ultimatums by President Obama and British premier Cameron, plus a speech by Harper, made clear that the goal was the ouster of Colonel Muammar Qaddafi and regime change in the North African oil-producing nation, whose proven reserves of crude are the largest on that continent... Read more... 'Noble' War In Libya | Media Lens One can hardly fail to be impressed by the corporate media’s faith in humanity. Or at least that part of humanity with its finger on the cruise missile button. Last week, the Independent's Patrick Cockburn predicted that ‘Western nations will soon be engaged in a war in Libya with the noble aim of protecting civilians.’.. Read more... Mar 23, 2011 What Price Palestine?, by Mikail Jubran | Intifada Palestine  Popular revolt has transformed Tunisia. A budding revolution takes hold in Egypt. Civil war is raging in Libya. Social unrest intensifies in Yemen, and sectarian strife heightens in Bahrain. What does this all mean for the Palestinians?.. Read more... The Quest to Dominate the Arab World, by Brenda Heard | Moqawama Shock and Awe - the phrase is back in the headlines. As we have watched the bombs bursting onto Libya over the past two days, we cannot help but recall the ‘Shock and Awe' bombing of Iraq eight years ago this week. The phrase that defined that assault was launched into popular usage in January 2003 with the pre-invasion tremors from America. Now, eight years later, the media is divided over whether we are witnessing another blast of ‘shock and awe'. Having lost much of its original meaning, the phrase has taken on two identities. When used by political-military pundits, it euphemistically suggests a quick and clean campaign to eliminate evil forces. When used by the general public, it has settled into a synonym for ‘wow'... Read more... Corporations Serve the State: Sanction Policies and the Zionist Power Structure, by James Petras | The People's Voice One of the key distinctions between a capitalist and a non-capitalist (socialist, feudal, absolutist state) economy is the separation of state and private enterprise. In a capitalist state, economic enterprises are supposed to operate according to market principles, seeking to maximize profits and expand market shares. The state is supposed to act on behalf of capitalist enterprises, ensuring their protection and furthering their pursuit of profits and markets... Read more... Henry Kissinger: 'I'm Back!' | Rehmat's World On March 3, 2011, former US Secretary of State (1973-77) Henry (Heinz) Kissinger sent a letter to US President Barack Obama asking him to pardon the convicted Jewish-American spy, Jonathan Pollard. Pollard is in prison since 1985... Read more... Arabs Winning their Freedom: Americans, Rise Up for Your Freedom from Israel, by Mohamed Khodr | Intifada Palestine ...If Americans only knew what Israel has done to this nation’s credibility and standing in the entire world there would be a call of outrage from coast to coast. To the world America’s image is impacted so negatively, as revealed by several polls, because of its subservience, cowardice, and blind support of the rogue nation of Israel... Read more... "Why We Fight", by Eugene Jarecki | YouTube Why We Fight describes the rise and maintenance of the United States military-industrial complex and its fifty-year involvement with the wars led by the United States to date, especially its 2003 Invasion of Iraq. The documentary asserts that in every decade since World War II, the American public was told a lie, so that the Government (incumbent Administration) could take them to war and fuel the military-industrial economy maintaining American political dominance in the world... Watch video... Benghazi and Gaza: A Tale of Two Different Cities, by Dr. Alan Sabrosky | Veterans Today I have no brief for Libya’s government, and it doesn’t seem to make much sense at this point to debate whether or not the military action now taking place against it is, or is not, justified. It is a fact, and like the earlier onslaughts against Yugoslavia (read: Serbia) and Iraq, it’ll simply play itself out, putting a gross imbalance of military power favoring the attackers against whatever intransigence and resistance Libya’s government can muster, accompanied by pious and pompous speeches from Washington, London and other capitals of the attackers. As for Muammar Gaddafi, he is certainly certifiable, probably somewhere in the middle range of global dictators and close to the mayor-elect of Chicago, so if his psychosis is a basis for external military intervention, we had all better be prepared for a lot of military interventions in different parts of the world, perhaps starting with Chicago... Read more... Nowruz: the feast of peace and purity, by Kourosh Ziabari | Media Monitors Network Ornamented with precious values of the ancient Persian civilization, Nowruz is an Iranian festivity which marks the beginning of the new solar year on the first day of spring and vernal equinox. Today, more than 300 million people around the world celebrate Nowruz and hold festivals and ceremonies to glorify this invaluable historical tradition... Read more... Total War and interventionism's Sacred cow, WWII and the H word Broken | Whaler News Watch video... Hillary Faced Black Flags, Anti-US Chants in Tunisia | Kawther Salam Black flags, demos and “go away” chants was what the US foreign minister faced on Thursday March 17 2011 during her visit to Tunisia. The International media did not pick up and reveal the news about Hillary’s visit and how the Tunisian journalist shouted at the minister’s security and forced them to retreat from their abusive and arbitrary security checks, such as searches with dogs, which were seen by the Tunisian journalists an insult to their homeland Tunisia. All journalists shouted at the inhuman paranoia of the American security staff accompanying the Minister... Read more... Israel and milking America, by Sami Jamil Jadallah | Veterans Today One has to wonder how Obama will review the new Israeli demand and how he will weigh his chance of re-election if he refuses to do so?.. Read more... Libya and the conspiratorial veil of Western racism | Redress Information & Analysis Gordon Duff views the unholy alliance of veiled racists, cranks, naive academics and Gaddafi propagandists who have lined up in opposition to the UN-authorized military intervention to protect the Libyan people from their dictator’s murderous thugs and mercenaries... Read more... Israel's 'legitimization squad' | Rehmat's World The Israeli daily Ha’aretz reported on March 21, 2011 that Israel Occupation Force (IOF) has created a new department within its military intelligence (MI) research division to monitor the local and western groups involved in boycotting Israel, divesting from it or imposing sanctions BDS) on it. The unit will also collect information about groups that attempt to bring war crime or other charges against high-ranking Israeli officials, and examine possible links between such organizations and terror groups... Read more... Mar 22, 2011 Washington And The Civilians Of Libya, by Dr. Lawrence Davidson | Intifada Palestine  ...there is one thing that all objective observers should be able to agree on. All should agree that the rationale put forth by the United States government for supporting the impending NATO intervention, that this action is to be taken to bring about an immediate end to attacks on civilians, is one of the biggest acts of hypocrisy in a modern era ridden with hypocrisy... Read more... Sovereignty concept severely undermined again | Israel Shamir on Voice of Russia ...People that until now would hate Gaddafi, now say: “Well, if it is either Gaddafi or reoccupation by European colonizers, let it be Gaddafi.” So, that’s something that we are familiar with, in many countries, in the face of foreign invasion, people say: “Let’s forget about our internal dissension, let us kind of present a single united front. So, it’s very possible, and I see that this view is shared by many observers - that, actually the attack would strengthen Gaddafi rather than bring him down... Read more... '47% of Germans think Israel exterminating Palestinians' | Jerusalem Post Study shows a strong presence of “anti-Semitism that is linked with Israel and is hidden behind criticism of Israel" in Europe... [Whenever the charge of "anti-semitism" is hurled it is more than likely that someone has uttered the Inconvenient Truth] Read more...Worldwide Sanctions Can Erode Israel's Fanaticism: Kourosh Ziabari Interviews Dr. Lawrence Davidson | Intifada Palestine Dr. Davidson joined me in an exclusive interview to discuss the latest developments in the Middle East, the collective uprising of the Arab world, Egyptian and Tunisian revolutions of 2011, the humanitarian crisis in Libya, the prospect of anti-government protests in Saudi Arabia and the fate of Israeli regime in the wake of growing international isolation... Read more... Beware of The NY Jewish Militia | YouTube Watch video... DEAR MR TZABAR: a short documentary about a remarkable man and his conscience | YouTube A short film about the late, celebrated Israeli journalist, poet, artist and satirist SHIMON TZABAR, and his last public protest against the Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza, made shortly before his death in 2007 after forty years of self-imposed exile in London... Watch video... Playing the sectarian card: the Arab dinosaurs | Redress Information & Analysis Yvonne Ridley argues that the desperate super-rich dinosaur rulers of Bahrain, Saudi Arabia and elsewhere in the Arab world are prepared to go to any length, including fomenting sectarianism and discord, in order to maintain their grip on power... Read more... Libya: Western war for greed and occupation | Rehmat's World ...The invasion of Libya is NOT for the so-called ‘humanitarian’ reasons but for its huge oil, uranium and gold reserves and an attempt to sabotage the democratic process being waged in various Muslim nation-state ruled by Western-puppets... Read more, watch video... Mar 21, 2011 Talmudic Logic for Beginners | Gilad Atzmon  It is possible that when they circumcised Alan Dershowitz, they binned the wrong bit. Following the recent devastating chain of nuclear disasters in Japan, the lame Zionist advocate has managed to draw the most astonishing conclusion; “Israel Has the Right to Attack Iran's Nuclear Reactors Now”.. Read more... Scapegoats And Witch Hunts, by Paul Balles | Intifada Palestine There’s a sick mentality in the world that demands scapegoats and feeds witch hunts... Read more... Yemen's Tyrant And A Bloody Friday, by Mohamed Khodr | Intifada Palestine Today, Friday, March 18, 2011, Yemen’s Tyrant, President Ali Abdullah Saleh chose to unleash his police and snipers from rooftops to commit a massacre, a bloody Friday, against thousands of peaceful protesters gathered after Friday prayers demanding his removal. At least 45 protesters were killed and many more wounded. This has been the bloodiest massacre committed by Saleh’s forces since the peaceful uprising began weeks ago, although his police, thugs and supporters have been killing and injuring these peaceful protesters gathered at Sana University for weeks... Read more... Ron Paul: Libya strikes unconstitutional only Congress can declare war | YouTube Watch video... Poll: 'European hatred toward Israel, Jews and Muslims is up' | Rehmat's World Interestingly, while the Zionist mafia has succeeded in creating Islamophobia in Europe by spending millions of dollars each year – ranging from Jewish Flemming Rose’s anti-Islam Danish Cartoons to Zionist Christian Dutch MP Geert Wilder’s anti-Islam movie Fitna, and from Israel’s 9/11 to IRA terrorism supporter Zionist Christian Rep. Peter King’s anti-Muslim hearing - it has failed to curb hatred toward Israel and centuries-old hatred of Jews among the vast majority of White Europeans... Read more... 'Miscalculated' Libya: What happens if Gaddafi falls | RT on YouTube RT gets more analysis on Libya from Jean Bricmont, author of the book 'Humanitarian Imperialism'... Watch video... Srebrenica: requiem for a propaganda fiction | The Vineyard of the Saker The controversy of Srebrenica enters a new phase. There is now a definitive new study in English incorporating the most up to date evidence and presenting a thorough critique of the evidence (or what passed for evidence) that was available previously. It is the monograph prepared by a group of authors and published by Srebrenica Historical Project entitled “Deconstruction of a virtual genocide: An intelligent person’s guide to Srebrenica.”.. Read more... Hezbollah statement commenting on the bloody repression of civilian protesters in Bahrain | The Vineyard of the Saker "Before the excessive use of violence to suppress the peaceful demonstrations by the people of Bahrain to claim their legitimate political rights, the violence which is associated with the use of arms and which came directly after the visit of US Secretary of War Robert Gates to Manama, Hezbollah condemns these irresponsible acts against peaceful citizens and sees them as an aggression on freedom of expression and all the fundamental rights of citizens who aspire to a greater political role with the aim of servicing their country, the rights guaranteed by all international laws and conventions. Hezbollah believes that the intensive use of violence does not serve the future of Bahrain and has a negative impact on stability in the country, besides hampering the efforts aimed at reaching a political solution to the crisis.." (Nasrallah).. Read more... Libya, Hypocrisy and Betrayal by the UN, by Felicity Arbuthnot | Palestine Chronicle The bombing of Libya will begin on or nearly to the day, of the eighth anniversary of the beginning of the destruction of Iraq, 20th March, in Europe. Libya too will be destroyed - its schools, education system, water, infrastructure, hospitals, municipal buildings. There will be numerous "tragic mistakes", "collateral damage", mothers, fathers, children, babies, grandparents, blind and deaf schools and on and on. And the wonders of the Roman remains and earlier, largely enduring and revered in all history's turmoils as Iraq, the nation's history - and humanity's, again as Iraq and Afghanistan, will be gone, for ever... Read more... UK Turns on Israel: Government and Media to Blame, by R. Taylor | Palestine Chronicle The current UK Government is 'the most hostile to Israel in living memory.' So says Melanie Phillips, formerly a respected UK journalist now better known for her militant anti-Islam stance and her Israel-is-never-wrong/blame-everyone-else rants... Read more... "No-Touch" Torture at Quantico: The Shameful Abuse of Bradley Manning, by Daniel Ellsberg | Counterpunch President Obama tells us that he's asked the Pentagon whether the conditions of confinement of Bradley Manning, the soldier charged with leaking state secrets, "are appropriate and are meeting our basic standards. They assure me that they are.".. Read more... Is the Occupation Over? What Next?: The End of the Palestinian State? by Fred Schlomka | Counterpunch The demise of the West Bank construction freeze and the emerging building boom is driving the final nails into the coffin of the Palestinian State, at least as previously conceived. If Israelis and Palestinians truly want to see a future based on democracy, justice, and security, then we better start looking at options to the muck that our politicians have been dishing up to us for decades... Read more... Gaddafi's fake supporters and fake casualties of Western air strikes | Painful Truths Telephone and internet communications with Libya have been cut off by Libyan dictator Mu'ammar Gaddafi. However, I have been able to contact a very important person in the Libyan state apparatus using a satellite phone to ascertain the truths regarding Libyan state TV's reports of civilian casualties resulting from Western air and missle strikes. He says that these reports of civilian casualties are a complete lie... Read more... Playing politics at Gaza's Rafah Crossing | Redress Information & Analysis Richard Lightbown explains what controls the opening of the Rafah Crossing between Egypt and the Gaza Strip and briefly considers if this might change in the future... Read more... Mar 20, 2011 A Gazan's Reflection on the Murder of Jews in Itamar, by Samah Sabawi | Palestine Chronicle  The morning news of the Itamar murders broke out, I got a call from my father, a man from Gaza whose entire life was derailed by Israel's occupation of his land. He was fuming: "nothing could justify these murders" he yelled "even if we were to bring up the occupation, the harassment, the brutality of Israel's army and settlers - the minute we entertain an act so criminal as to kill a baby in cold blood, we become no better than those whose acts we despise." I posted his comment on my Facebook wall... Read more... What the Media Missed on Itamar: Murdering Babies is "Permissible" When They're Palestinian, by Alison Weir | Counterpunch  There isn't any doubt about who murdered these children, but since they're just Palestinian kids, hardly anyone cares ...If it turns out that the murderer or murderers were Israeli, as some previously presumed “terrorists” have turned out to be, or a foreign worker who had previously threatened the family over unpaid wages, as some reports from the area suggest, it is likely that coverage of the incident will quickly vanish from U.S. headlines... Read more... Boycott roundup: Canada campuses mobilize to divest | The Electronic Intifada As part of a regular feature, The Electronic Intifada brings you this roundup of activism news related to the growing Palestinian-led boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) movement. This month, several Canadian universities launched strategic campus divestment initiatives, a Danish-owned Israeli security company is forced to pull out of contracts in the occupied West Bank due to public pressure, and legendary musicians Pete Seeger and Roger Waters come out in support of the BDS movement... Read more... Empire's New "Democratic" Plan For The Middle East, by Behzad Majdian | Intifada Palestine If you have an uneasy feeling that there is something suspicious about the overthrow of Mubarak in Egypt, you are not alone. The dictator has been ousted; yet the dictatorship structure remains intact. And presumably, it is in the process of preparing the ground for bringing “democracy” to Egypt. What adds to this suspicion is that the U.S. government and its Western allies, including the Western media, have not gone on a ranting rampage against what has taken place... Read more... Washington's UN War Resolution on Libya | Stephen Lendman On March 18, Washington bullied Security Council members to approve Resolution 1973, a measure authorizing war on Libya. The 10 - 0 vote included five abstentions from China, Russia, Germany, Brazil and India, objecting to sweeping terms, including wide latitude for belligerence on bogus "humanitarian" grounds... Read more... The West is doing the right thing in Libya | Redress Information & Analysis Nureddin Sabir argues that opposition by the left and the anti-imperialist and anti-war movements to the NATO military action in Libya is misplaced and deeply flawed and that these movements should instead look forward to post-Gaddafi Libya and ensure that Libyans are left alone to rebuild their country and their lives without foreign interference... Read more... US promoting arms trade mission organized by settlement firm, by Jimmy Johnson | The Electronic Intifada The United States Department of Commerce and the US embassy in Tel Aviv are co-promoting the Israel Unmanned Systems 2011 trade mission from 27 March to 1 April. Their partner -- and the primary organizer -- is Airlift, inc., an aerospace and consulting firm based in the settlement of Talpiot Mizrach in occupied East Jerusalem. This raises troubling questions about why Washington is promoting the Israeli arms trade and why it is doing so with a firm based in an illegal colony which explicitly contradicts official US policy as well as international law... Read more... Rense & Jacobson: Mind Control In America | YouTube Steven Jacobson analyses the myriad of sophisticated ways that a nation's population is socially engineered, primarily through the media... Read more... Iranian TV: Facebook CEO Is a Zionist who "Offered a Prize for Israelis who Kill Palestinians" | MEMRI Translated by MEMRI, Mossad's free misinterpretation service for Middle-Eastern languages Watch video... Raymond Davis Release: Imran Khan & Ijazul Haq Interviews - The Inside Story | Veterans Today CIA contractor Raymond Davis was released by Punjab officials after a reported deal was negotiated with the families of the two men he was accused of murdering. Davis was scheduled to be indicted for murder charges today. Security forces picked up the families last night. In direct contradiction to news stories, the payment of “Blood Money” under Sharia law is an admission of guilt and, by western standards represents a conviction... Read more, watch video... Playboy, Israel and Helen Thomas | Rehmat's World ...Playboy, in its April issue has published and interview with the ‘self-hating Semite’ old lady, Helen Thomas. The Jewish contributing editor of Playboy, David Hochman, interviewed Helen in Washington DC. Following is a short summary of Helen’s response to Israel-Firster David Hochman... [You go, girl. All decent, informed Americans are behind you.] Read more... Israel fears sushi shortage after quake | Gilad Atzmon  ... really wanted to believe that this report was a tasteless satire but it wasn’t. It is a real representation of Israeli hedonist, self-centric inhumanity... Read more... Libya Stay out of Libya, by Sheldon Richman | Aletho News It’s good to see that the Pentagon is unenthusiastic about military intervention in Libya. But that hasn’t stopped armchair generals such as Sen. John Kerry from pushing for a no-fly zone over that country. Kerry thinks he can make his plan more appealing by couching it in internationalist terms, but we know the American people would bear the brunt of the burden. Kerry is joined by Sens. Joe Lieberman and John McCain, the Senate’s two most obnoxious militarists... Read more... The World Cheers as the CIA Plunges Libya Into Chaos, by David Rothscum | Global Research How was Libya doing under the rule of Gadaffi? How bad did the people have it? Were they oppressed as we now commonly accept as fact? Let us look at the facts for a moment... Read more... Europeans and Oil Sheiks Prepare Mass Murder in Libya, by Kurt Nimmo | Infowars The Pentagon has deferred to France, Britain, and a handful of corrupt Arab oil sheikdoms following a unanimous vote at the United Nations to bomb Libya. The world’s premier war-making outfit will allow the Europeans and the Arabs take the lead in killing Libyans... Read more... Libya, Getting it Right: A Revolutionary Pan-African Perspective, by Gerald A. Perreira | Black Agenda Report ...For those of us who have lived and worked in Libya, there are many complexities to the current situation that have been completely overlooked by the Western media and 'Westoxicated' analysts, who have nothing other than a Eurocentric perspective to draw on. Let us be clear - there is no possibility of understanding what is happening in Libya within a Eurocentric framework. Westerners are incapable of understanding a system unless the system emanates from or is attached in some way to the West. Libya's system and the battle now taking place on its soil, stands completely outside of the Western imagination... Read more... Another Illegal War Of Slaughter Couched In "Humanitarian" Doublespeak, by Paul Joseph Watson | Infowars Those who were asking what the “international community” planned to do in response to the escalating global crisis surrounding the nuclear plant in Fukushima now have their answer – bomb Libya. As if the world wasn’t experiencing enough turmoil and devastation, another illegal war of aggression has been launched in a volatile region, couched in the retching Orwellian doublespeak of ‘no fly zones’ and ‘humanitarian’ rhetoric... Read more, watch video... Jesus' name upsets Jewish Senators | Rehmat's World The Jewish Senator from Minnesota, Terri Bonoff (D) has asked Republican Senate Majority Leader Amy Koch (a Catholic) to remove the words ‘Jesus’ and ‘Christianity’ from the opening session prayers... [To prevent such problems in the future, I humbly suggest that Congress enact a law forbidding the mention of all religious figures except those actually worshiped by the leaders of the Empire: Moloch, Mammon and Lucifer] Read more...Time to Fight Back! Join The Movement | AmpedStatus It’s time to mobilize and aggressively move on common sense political reforms... Read more... The Beacon that Is Israel: Self-serving by Delay and Denial, by William Cook | My Catbird Seat A beacon is a signal fire, a warning light to guide one out of darkness; as the former Foreign Affairs Minister for Israel noted in late February, “These are days of momentous change in the Middle East …” Courageous thousands demand their rights as human beings, she intones, there is an inner hunger for freedom abroad in the land. But those courageous thousands have lit a fire that is a beacon for Israel, if it heeds it, a warning that it alone of all the states in the Middle East could be left defying the peoples’ demands for human rights and freedoms... Read more... Haneen Zoabi: a Palestinian woman fighting for equality in Israel, by Khaled Khalefa | Xinhua News "Every woman can be a woman of frustration. I'm not optimistic. I'm not pessimistic. I'm just struggling," said Haneen Zoabi, a Palestinian female legislator in the Israeli parliament, Knesset. Zoabi has made a history in Israel as the first woman to be elected in the Knesset on an Arab Party's list. At her 41, she has been representing the Arab National Democratic Party in the parliament since 2009... Read more... Palestinians understand Gaddafi better than we do, by Robert Fisk | The Independent ...A visit to the filth of the Sabra and Shatila camps in Beirut, or to Ein el-Helweh in Sidon, is enough to teach anyone that amid this swamp of misery and hopelessness, UNRWA represents the world's only collective sympathy, underfunded, short-staffed, poor though it is. Yet now, the whole organisation is being singled out by a right-wing Israel and its so-called (and self-proclaiming) supporters as purveyors of darkness, "de-legitimisers", a network of support for Palestinians which must be destroyed lest the poorest of the poor – including those in the misery of Gaza – become addicted to their social services... Read more... Israel's law of the jungle, by Mohyeddin Sajedi | PressTV Israel has ordered the construction of new residential units in all illegal West Bank settlements. There is no doubt this will put the final nails in the coffin of the so-called peace talks... Read more... Is Obama Even Worse Than Bush? by David Swanson | Counterpunch ...Richard Nixon's White House Counsel John Dean, while Bush was president, predicted that Bush's successor would be one of two things, either the best or the worst president in history. He, or she, would either undo the damage and prosecute the crimes, or protect the criminals and continue the abuses. Obama has protected the criminals, continued many of the abuses, more firmly established the power to commit those abuses, and expanded abusive powers beyond what Bush ever attempted... Read more... Power Concedes Nothing Without a Demand, by Chris Hedges | Truthdig The liberal class is discovering what happens when you tolerate the intolerant. Let hate speech pollute the airways. Let corporations buy up your courts and state and federal legislative bodies. Let the Christian religion be manipulated by charlatans to demonize Muslims, gays and intellectuals, discredit science and become a source of personal enrichment. Let unions wither under corporate assault. Let social services and public education be stripped of funding. Let Wall Street loot the national treasury with impunity. Let sleazy con artists use lies and deception to carry out unethical sting operations on tottering liberal institutions, and you roll out the welcome mat for fascism... Read more... Bilderberg To Meet In Switzerland, by James P. Tucker Jr. | American Free Press The shadowy group known as Bilderberg will be gathering this year for its annual meeting at the resort city of St. Moritz, in southeastern Switzerland, June 9-12, but they will have a lot of company. St. Moritz is a short distance from Davos, the site of the regular high-priced meeting of thousands of bankers, political leaders and other notables called the World Economic Forum. But unlike at Davos, where the press is always welcome, Bilderberg still tries to maintain absolute secrecy... Read more... Who In The World Is Going To Buy The Billions Of Dollars Of Debt The U.S. Government Is Constantly Pumping Out Now? | The Economic Collapse Is the U.S. government on the verge of a massive debt problem? For years, the U.S. government has been able to borrow all the money that it has wanted to at extremely low interest rates. But now many of the lending sources that the U.S. government has been depending on are drying up... Read more... France arrests pro-Palestinians for anti-Israel campaign | YouTube [Comment:] It is a disgrace that such protests are being criminalised. The criminal actions that need to be dealt with are Israel's blockade of Gaza; its attack on the Mavi Marmara; the building of illegal structures on Palestinian land and its total disregard for the human rights of non-Jews. These courageous protesters leave most Israelis way behind as human beings, and are to be cheered and encouraged for their actions. French justice? Liberté, égalité, fraternité? What a laugh! Watch video... Victoria and Israel's Sea Piracy | Rehmat's World Some of the readers may have heard about the tatest Israeli hoax: “Israel navy Iranian arms shipment’... Read more... 'US policy in ME is unsustainable': Interview with Mark Dankof | PressTV Bahrain's turmoil has become extremely critical as political analysts think the Saudi Arabian troops have had the United States' green light to step on the soil of the Persian Gulf nation... Read more... Mar 18, 2011 No Fly Zone over Israel: An Interview With Gilad Atzmon  ...For the conflict to be resolved the Jewish state has to give up on its tribal supremacist ideology. In categorical terms, Israel is not different from Nazi Germany. It is ethno-centric and racially oriented, it is supremacist and expansionist. For the situation to be resolved, the Jewish state must go through a process of de-Zionification... Read more... Statement by Jewish Activists and Organizations active in BDS against Israel | International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network ...Through boycott, divestment and sanctions, civil society asserts our commitment to not contribute to the Israeli state, which is responsible for atrocious acts of disregard for human life and well being. Attacks against BDS campaigns will not prevent us from taking this stance against Israeli impunity. For the Jewish organizations signed onto this letter, self-determination for Jews includes the right to participate in the movement for justice in Palestine and to live in the world with our fellow citizens in peace, freedom, and equity. It does not include the domination and colonization of other people or living separate from our fellow human beings in a state that privileges Jews... Read more... Deny the Holocaust and go to prison, by Kourosh Ziabari | PressTV Those who think that Europe is a "beacon of freedom" and "heaven of liberty" should give themselves an opportunity to reconsider what they had simplistically believed for so long... [The Holycause has replaced Catholicism as the religion of the old Holy Roman Empire, complete with cathedrals (Holycause museums) and a Holy Inquisition. Fortunately, they have not adopted the rack, as confessions of heresy are not yet demanded.] Read more...David Horowitz spreading hatred @ Brooklyn College | YouTube David Horowitz came to speak at BC to spread his hatred of Palestinians, Arabs and Muslims in general... [Extraordinary example of projection. Should be included in all Psychology curricula. Just substitute "Israelis" for "Palestinians" and he speaks the simple truth. Not too likely that the Arab Defamation League (ADL) is going to get on his case, is it?] Read more...A Farewell Address, by Philip Giraldi | Antiwar Our first president as well as Jefferson, Madison, Monroe, and Adams predicted ruin for a republic that would involve itself in foreign politics. The founders also foresaw and warned against what we now call democracy promotion, the urge to fan the flames started by the American revolution to launch a crusade to convert the nations of the world into firebreathing republicans. James Madison’s Secretary of State John Quincy Adams described it as "going abroad in search of monsters to destroy.".. Read more... Windmills which can only be moved by the wind of change, by Dr. Bouthaina Shaaban | Intifada Palestine Ernesto Che Guevara once said, “revolutions are made by adventurers and manipulated by opportunists”. I recalled this statement while following up Western analyses of Arab revolutions. I found that the thing which strikes Western strategic analysts is this sudden and dramatic change in the Arab mood, so they cannot wait for regimes to change... Read more... Two myths about the Middle East the world should do without, by Nada Tarbush | The Hill One collateral "damage" of recent events in the Middle East may be the crumbling of two widely-held myths: one speaks of the “Arab exception” and seeks to explain it through culturalist notions asserting that Arab and more broadly Muslim societies are inherently anti-democratic; the second claims that Israel is “the only democracy in the Middle East.”.. Read more... Talking about Jewish Ideology and Zionism in Germany | Gilad Atzmon I spoke about Jewish Ideology & Zionism at Cafe Palestine, Freiburg, Germany last Sunday. The room was full. The tide has changed, no one can stop us now!.. Watch video... Saudi Intervention Likely to Bring Regional Blowback, by Barbara Slavin | IPS Saudi Arabia's incursion into neighbouring Bahrain is a risky move that could further inflame domestic unrest in both countries and give a propaganda boost to Tehran's campaign to cultivate the Arab street... Read more... Libya: Five Reasons Not to Intervene, by Justin Raimondo | Antiwar As Moammar Gadhafi’s thugs move toward Benghazi, the rebel stronghold, and the provisional government calls for arms and other assistance from the West – principally the United States – we are told to put all doubts aside and simply respond to the alleged moral imperative of preventing a slaughter. This, intone the interventionists, is an “emergency,” which means: we must stop thinking, and respond emotionally to the call to “do something.”.. Read more... Decentralized global rebellion against neoliberal economic policies, with Max Keiser | Press TV/ YouTube In this edition of Press TV's on the edge with Max Keiser, Max discusses the link between the worker's struggle in Wisconsin and the revolutions in Egypt and Tunisia with the journalist and blogger, David DeGraw. DeGraw believes what we are seeing in Wisconsin, Egypt, Tunisia and all over the world is a decentralized global rebellion against neo-liberal global economic policies... Read more, watch video... Where might the "wrong track" lead?, by Alan Hart | My Catbird Seat I thought Frank Gardner, the BBC’s security correspondent, was spot on with his first comments after Saudi Arabia’s reinforcement of Bahrain’s military. Drawing off four years experience of living in Bahrain, he said: “The Bahraini royal family has squandered chances for dialogue over many years. Now it’s too late.”.. Read more... The Zionist Mega-Scams of 9/11, Bernard Madoff & Allen Stanford, by Christopher Bollyn | Rebel News The people who are preventing the discovery of the facts in such cases are actually complicit in covering-up crimes of mass murder. Logically, there can be no reason for dedicated Zionists to obstruct the investigation of 9-11 other than to conceal the evidence of Israeli and Zionist involvement in the crimes... Read more... Another Imperial Quagmire? by Ivan Eland | Antiwar Unbelievably, after experiencing 10 years of quagmire in Afghanistan and Iraq, the American foreign policy establishment is now clamoring for the institution of a no-fly zone in Libya. Luminaries on both the Left and the Right have endorsed the concept: for example, Senators John Kerry, Joe Lieberman, and John McCain. Even though the U.S. military would have to first attack Libyan radars, air defenses, runways, aircraft, and command, control, and communication facilities, John Kerry argued that a no-fly zone was not a military operation. Traditionally, the foreign policy elites of declining empires have never accepted the need to retrench overseas before it was too late... Read more... Israel Has the Right to Attack Iran's Nuclear Reactors Now, by Alan Dershowitz | Matzav Iran’s recent attempt to ship arms to Hamas in Gaza is an act of war committed by the Iranian government against the Israeli government. The Israeli Navy seized the ship, loaded with weapons designed to kill Israeli civilians, and traced the weapons back to Iran. Nor is this the first act of war that would justify a military response by Israel under international law... [Would someone please arrest or otherwise incapacitate this Zionazi monster - all options are on the table] Read more...So much for liberty, by Karin Friedemann | Khaleej Times In the aftermath of 9/11 the US Department of Justice and especially the FBI have had a policy of rooting out a phantasmagorical worldwide anti-US terrorist conspiracy by arresting and prosecuting Muslim Americans on ridiculous charges based on a bizarre conspiracy theory that has moved from the Zionist Lobby to the highest levels of the US government... Read more... Neocons' Goal: Iran by Way of Libya, by Stephen J. Sniegoski | Opinion Maker Although the neocons had initially been rather cool toward the popular uprisings in the Middle East which threatened regimes friendly to the U.S. and Israel, such as Mubarak’s in Egypt, they have reverted to their militant regime change stance toward Gaddafi ’s regime in Libya. In espousing this interventionist position, they are not as conspicuous as they had been regarding Iraq and Iran, when they had stood in the vanguard, but are only one component of a popular mainstream cause, which unites many otherwise disparate groups... Read more... Hizbullah: 'The defender of Lebanon' | Rehmat's World ...after being kicked-out of his post, constitutionally, by Hizbullah-led Opposition, pro-USrael Saad told a large gathering of his supporters in Beirut that Hizbullah should disarm itself as matter of principle. He asserted that only Lebanon’s Armed Forces has the responsiblity to defend the country against foreign aggression. He was suggesting to trust the same army which did not fire a single shot during the 34-day invasion by the Jewish Army in Summer 2006... Read more... Mar 17, 2011 Civil Society and Palestine: The Growing Power of the Ordinary, by Ramzy Baroud | Palestine Chronicle  Civil society is now part of the overall political equation The global boycott movement (BDS) and other related campaigns were aimed at exposing Israeli transgressions against the Palestinian people and galvanizing international solidarity. What is so uplifting to see now is how their achievements have far surpassed these initial aims. The campaigns have animated, accentuated and actually legitimized Palestinian civil society - a notion that long stood outside the official paradigm acceptable to Israel, and which had very little space within the restrictive realm of the Palestinian Authority...Read more... AIPAC's Newest Strategy, by MJ Rosenberg | Media Matters Prime minister Benyamin Netanyahu is being heavily criticised in Israel for his blatant exploitation of the murder of five members of one family (including three children) at the Itamar settlement near Nablus. Particularly egregious has been Netanyahu’s demand that president Mahmoud Abbas personally appear on Palestinian radio and television to condemn the killings, although Abbas had issued an unusually strong statement as soon as he heard of the tragedy... Read more... Zionist tales of "passionate longing" for Palestinian lands | Redress Information & Analysis Stuart Littlewood analyses a recent document published by the Board of Deputies of British Jews which targets Christians and appears to be “little more than a propaganda exercise to soft-soap Christians into coming on-side for the continuing land-grab and the making of Israel’s occupation permanent”.. Read more... In The Public Interest: PBS-NPR-Leaning Right, by Ralph Nader | OpEd News The tumultuous managerial shakeup at National Public Radio headquarters for trivial verbal miscues once again has highlighted the ludicrous corporatist right-wing charge that public radio and public TV are replete with left-leaning or leftist programming... Read more... Radicalization: It's Not a Muslim Thing, by Tammy Obeidallah | Palestine Chronicle New York Congressman Pete King served as ringmaster at the latest congressional circus looking into Muslim 'radicalization' and its perceived threat to the Homeland. Unfortunately, I was not invited to testify at this hearing, else I would have been happy to share my insights with Congressman King as to what “radicalization” means and how I became “radicalized.”.. Read more... Palestinian Youth Movement: Cherries not Strawberries!! by Ibrahim Shikaki | Palestine Chronicle For many outside Palestine this analogy might not make any sense, since strawberries and cherries are both available throughout the year. In Palestine, like in many 'developing' countries, we eat in season; strawberries ripe in spring, cherries in summer... Read more... The Dwarfs, by Uri Avnery | Gush Shalom Jerusalem is abuzz with brilliant new ideas. The brightest minds of our political establishment are grappling with the problems created by the ongoing Arab revolution that is reshaping the landscape around us. Here is the latest crop of mind-bogglingly innovative ideas:.. [Avnery is probably the last respectable Zionist] 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... The No Brain Zone, by Frank Scott | legalienate When Israel slaughtered innocent Ghazans our corporate controllers maintained relative silence, but cries of horror are regularly expressed at the violence in Libya. A disastrous No Fly Zone would only increase the bloodshed, but even if it is avoided one thing seems clear. Much of American leadership, its political opposition and sectors of the population are living in a No Brain Zone, sinking from normally appalling ignorance to an even more threatening near imbecility... Read more... Massacring Truth: The Story of Jenin Jenin, by Seraj Assi | Palestine Chronicle 'They whom got shy died,' goes the Arab proverb. In Hebrew they call it Chutzpah, that is, the quality of extreme audacity. Nowhere is Israel's Chutzpah more acute than in the story the Palestinian actor and director Muhammad Bakri and the Sisyphean war waged on his 2002 documentary Jenin Jenin ... Read more... Churchill, International Jews and the Holocaust: A Revisionist Analysis, by Paul Grubach | Inconvenient History Winston Churchill played an important role in the history of the twentieth century. For this reason alone, it is important that revisionists re-examine the beliefs and historical forces that motivated this lionized British icon. By improving our understanding of Churchill’s views of and his relationship with the Holocaust and the powerful Jewish groups that played a decisive role in his career, we gain a more accurate view of the past and can use these lessons to hopefully make a more peaceful future for all... Read more... U.S. Islamophobia: Chicken a la King, by John Feffer | Voltaire Muslims are rising up against tyranny throughout the Arab world. They have ousted autocrats, consistently called for democracy, and inspired people from Beijing to Madison to rally for justice. And yet, for some here in the homeland, Muslims are still the problem. Consider two campaigns recently launched from Washington, DC. The first is the March 10 Homeland Security Committee hearing on Muslim radicalism, sponsored by Rep. Peter King (R-NY). The second is a campaign against sharia law, spearheaded by the Center for Security Policy. Both suggest the American empire needs an enemy—not only abroad— but at home as well... Read more... Will We Ever Learn? Kicking the Intervention Habit | Richard Falk What is immediately striking about the bipartisan call in Washington for a no-fly zone and air strikes designed to help rebel forces in Libya is the absence of any concern with the relevance of international law or the authority of the United Nations. None in authority take the trouble to construct some kind of legal rationalization. The ‘realists’ in command, and echoed by the mainstream media, do not feel any need to provide even a legal fig leaf before embarking on aggressive warfare... Read more... US military using psychological warfare on Americans | Redress Information & Analysis Paul J. Balles looks at how the US armed forces are now using psychological warfare not only to influence foreign foes, such as in Afghanistan and Iraq, but also in within the USA itself... Read more... Gandhi’s India: ‘World’s largest arms buyer’ | Rehmat's World India where more than half of its 1.1 trillion population live below the poverty line - has become the world’s largest arms buyer (US$32.5 billion)... Read more... AIPAC Policy Conference 2010 Congress, AIPAC-Israel and 9/11, by Gordon Duff | Veterans Today  Telling It Like It Is This week, most members of congress, 100% of the new “Tea Party,” swore allegiance to the State of Israel. To those of us at Veterans Today, we have a problem with this... Read more... What Does It Profit a Congressman to Retain His Office but Suffer the Loss of His Soul? by William A Cook | Intifada Palestine Two months from now Americans will be subjected to the humiliating spectacle of their Representatives and Senators crawling down AIPAC’s plush red carpet to the podium at its annual conference where they will obsequiously laud this bloody organization with words of praise, outdoing each other in pitiful patronizing phrases, in unquestioning obedience to their masters... Read more... Extravaganza of Jewish Power | Gilad Atzmon AIPAC Policy Conference 2010. See the faces and hear the voices... [It takes a strong stomach to watch virtually your entire government committing treason in plain sight] The Gaddafi Syndrome And America's Petro-Imperialism, by Mohamed Khodr | Intifada Palestine It’s time the Arab Tyrants know the Fear they inflicted on their people for decades. Now it’s their turn to be afraid, be really afraid... Read more... Hezbollah unruffled by show of force, by Sami Moubayed | Asia Times Online Thousands of Lebanese took to the streets of Beirut on Sunday demanding that Hezbollah disarm. Their demonstration, called for by ex-prime minister Saad al-Hariri, marked the sixth anniversary of a massive "Cedar revolution" in 2005 staged by the same players, which demanded the withdrawal of Syrian troops from Lebanon... Read more... Three Scandinavian ISM activists trapped by curfew in Awarta village following settlers murder | International Solidarity Movement At 5:30 pm last night a large mob of settlers came down the hill and attacked villagers with stones, breaking one 15-year-old boy’s arm. At 5pm the soldiers had announced that their curfew was finished, but it became clear today that the curfew is still in effect as soldiers shout at people to go back inside if they step outside their homes. Though ISM activists could have left last night, they stayed in the village anticipating disturbances from settlers, and are now trapped again by the continuing curfew. Villagers have told the activists that their presence is influencing the behavior of the settlers: the soldiers are less abusive when internationals are present... Read more... Fogel: 'thou shalt not demand your wages' | Rehmat's World Israel’s racist FM Avigdor Lieberman, while visiting the Fogel’s house in the illegal Jewish settlement of Itamar build on a land stolen from the native Palestinians, said: “This is a house of death reminiscent of the Kishinev pogrom. The State of Israel must show the world that anyone who allows acts of murder against settlers is also culpable”... Read more... A United Iran Against a Collapsing Israel, by Kourosh Ziabari | Veterans Today As the racist regime of Israel moves toward greater international isolation due to its aggressive, belligerent policies, Iran receives wider support from the world’s nations for its uncompromising resistance against the bullying superpowers and annulling their mischievous plots. The world is witness to the growth of Iran’s popularity while hatred and disgust against Israel builds up progressively... Read more... Palestinians at home, abroad protest division, leadership | The Electronic Intifada Palestinian civil society groups are preparing for a day of mass sit-ins on 15 March, to protest the widening split between Palestinian political and resistance factions as Israel's illegal occupation grinds on... Read more... Why Palestinians will protest on 15 March, by Rawan Abu-Shahla | The Electronic Intifada We are a group of Palestinian youths who have come together for the sole purpose of leaving behind our political identities and affiliations, and deciding to put our best interests above all else, united under our Palestinian flag. We have called for peaceful demonstrations on Tuesday, 15 March across the Palestinian nation -- in the Gaza Strip and West Bank, the territories of 1948 and the Palestinian diaspora, calling out together one slogan: "The people want to end the division!".. Read more... Dutch opposition boycotts parliamentary delegation to Israel, by Adri Nieuwhof | The Electronic Intifada Dutch opposition parties boycotted a parliamentary delegation to the Middle East in February after parties supporting the right-wing government insisted on going ahead with the visit despite an Israeli government ban on allowing the lawmakers to visit the besieged Gaza Strip. Read more... Egyptian activists move to shut down infamous secret police, by Emad Mekay | The Electronic Intifada The much-feared secret police and intelligence service that protected the regime of former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak by arresting, torturing and even killing opponents has started a wave of burning documents and evidence that could incriminate them, as calls escalate for abolishing the force altogether and bringing its officers to justice... Read more... Time to Investigate Israeli Spying in U.S., by Michael Collins Piper | American Free Press If Rep. Peter King (R-N.Y.) is interested in fighting terrorism and treason, he should not only look at the first source of terrorism against America in the Middle East—the state of Israel—as described in the accompanying story, but he should inquire into the numerous high-level American government policy makers who have already been investigated by the FBI for suspected espionage and illicit influence-peddling on Israel’s behalf.... Read more... Libya Targeted, by James P. Tucker | American Free Press Bilderberg luminaries—those “world citizens” who meet secretly each year in sealed-off resorts to control governments, resources, money and people—are reportedly secretly plotting to push the United States into a broader war across the Middle East and Iran, apparently on Israel’s behalf... Read more... Barak: 'Israel's 'diplomatic tsunami' is approaching | Rehmat's World Speaking at the Institute for National Security Studies in Tel Aviv, Israel’s Defense Minister Ehud Barak predicted that Israel could face a diplomatic tsunami if the deadlock in Benji-Abbas peace talks continues. He also warned that the campaign to delegitimize the Zionist entity was picking up momentum and “an international movement that may recognize a Palestinian state within the 1967 borders.”.. Read more... Clearing up myths and misconceptions about Gaddafi and the Libyan uprising | Redress Information & Analysis Muhammad al-Arabi views some of the myths and misconceptions that are used by Libyan dictator Mu'ammar Gaddafi’s backers to justify supporting his murderous regime. He argues that, far from being a progressive anti-imperialist, Gaddafi has not only played a destructive role among national liberation movements, but has also stolen Libya’s wealth and impoverished its people... Read more... Speaking with Will Yakowicz | Israel Shamir Modern journalism is more akin to warfare than a search for truth. I have been misquoted so many times that it’s a wonder I speak to anyone at all. “Don’t speak to strangers” is what they told us in kindergarten, and I’m sure I’d be better off if I followed that advice... Read more... Mar 15, 2011 Global actions, backlash during Israeli Apartheid Week | The Electronic Intifada  The 7th annual Israeli Apartheid Week launched this week, with more than 75 cities across six continents participating in educational events and direct actions in support of the Palestinian-led boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) movement... Read more... To Gaza With Love | USTOGAZA We are happy to announce the launch of an exciting new effort – To Gaza with Love — to collect letters from people in the U.S. to the people of Gaza. Your letters will be precious cargo on the ship... Read more... Fissures in the Arab Revolts, by Vijay Prashad | Counterpunch There will be blood. No revolution comes in a straight line. Counter-revolution runs its steady course from Bahrain and Saudi Arabia through Egypt and into Libya... Read more... Arab Uprisings: Time to Quit Playing al Qaeda’s Card, by Dr. Ashraf Ezzat | Veterans Today As Arabs are willing to start over with freedom and dignity there is no reason why the west cannot do the same and start dealing with Arabs in a more dignified way... Read more... On The Denial Of Community Responsibility, by Dr. Lawrence Davidson | Intifada Palestine ...At the core of Islam’s teaching on economics is the notion that the wealth that individual (or a business) possesses is not just his, her or its money. You possess this wealth by the grace of God and so you are commanded to return a portion of it to the community. For a Muslim this is a religious obligation, but you do not have to be a believer in any religion to see its important implications... Read more... Nuclear Meltdown in Japan | Stephen Lendman For years, Helen Caldicott warned it's coming. In her 1978 book, "Nuclear Madness," she said: "As a physician, I contend that nuclear technology threatens life on our planet with extinction. If present trends continue, the air we breathe, the food we eat, and the water we drink will soon be contaminated with enough radioactive pollutants to pose a potential health hazard far greater than any plague humanity has ever experienced.".. Read more... Our Rachel, by Dr. Lasha Darkmoon | The Occidental Observer It is hoped that the essay presented below will serve as an introduction to this widely acclaimed video as well as a tribute to Rachel on the 8th anniversary of her death on March 16... Read more... Rachel Corrie: ‘Mother Teresa for Islamists’ | Rehmat's World The Zionazi terrorist Dr. Steven Plaut (Haifa University) in his article ‘Welcome to Haifa, Mr. and Mrs. Corrie’, published in The Jewish Press (March 3, 2011), wrote: “Corrie has since become a sort of Mother Teresa for the radical left and apologists for Islamofascism. She is the martyr saint of the pro-terror lobby and is even celebrated by Klansman David Duke”... Read more... Libya: Veterans Today Was Right, by Jim W. Dean | Veterans Today On February 25th our senior editor Gordon Duff wrote that we must attack Gadaffi now. We had boxed him in with freezing his assets and a war crimes investigation. He had nowhere to go and that tends to make a man go down swinging. And that can mean a big body count…thousands and thousands of extra people dying that didn’t have to if grownups did what they were supposed to... Read more... Ron Paul: No-fly Zone Over Libya Would be an Act of War, by Kurt Nimmo | Prison Planet On the House floor Thursday, Rep. Ron Paul pointed out that imposing a so-called no-fly zone on Libya would be illegal under international law and an act of war. “I’m preparing to introduce a resolution next week, and it’s a sense of Congress, that the executive branch can’t do this without approval from the Congress,” said Paul... Read more... Public "Education" has become indoctrination and distraction | YouTube People are not being educated they're being tested for levels of obedience. School is about memorizing what you are told short term and repeating it. The bulk of how you are graded is by completely daily busy work. This is for the work force the most important quality in a worker bee actually is obedience... Read more... Twelve unsustainable things that will soon come to a disastrous end on our planet, by Mike Adams | Natural News If you look around what's really happening in our world today, there's an inescapable pattern that curiously emerges: Much of what's going on is simply unsustainable. It can't go on for much longer... Read more... Our Time of Universal Deceit Needs An Orwell, by Dr. Paul Craig Roberts | Global Research If we were to be blessed with a 21st century George Orwell, he would coin a new “speak” to apply to “support the troops.” Would he call this “Deceptive Speak”? Or would he be more clever? The words certainly deserve an Orwellian name. The catch-phrase was rolled out the minute the war started, which makes one wonder about its public relations origin. Who can oppose supporting the troops, at least before we learned from WikiLeaks and Abu Ghraib of the intentional killing of civilians and torturing of whoever happened to be rounded up in the various sweeps? All for the fun and games of it... Read more... Mar 14, 2011 Congressman Peter King's Great Muslim Scare, by Franklin Lamb | Al-Manar  King's ‘Muslim Terrorism” hearings are the first and hopefully the last of its kind to focus on a single religious group. His false assumptions are being roundly rejected across America and Europe. Counterterrorism experts, veteran’s organizations, interfaith leaders, local leaders and editorial boards, and most importantly the American public are rejecting King's racist calumny... Read more... Part I: Insurrection and Military Intervention: The US-NATO Attempted Coup d'Etat in Libya? by Prof Michel Chossudovsky | Global Research The US and NATO are supporting an armed insurrection in Eastern Libya, with a view to justifying a "humanitarian intervention". This is not a non-violent protest movement as in Egypt and Tunisia. Conditions in Libya are fundamentally different. The armed insurgency in Eastern Libya is directly supported by foreign powers. The insurrection in Benghazi immediately hoisted the red, black and green banner with the crescent and star: the flag of the monarchy of King Idris, which symbolized the rule of the former colonial powers... Read more... Part II: "Operation Libya" and the Battle for Oil: Redrawing the Map of Africa, by Prof Michel Chossudovsky | Global Research The geopolitical and economic implications of a US-NATO led military intervention directed against Libya are far-reaching. Libya is among the World's largest oil economies with approximately 3.5% of global oil reserves, more than twice those of the US. "Operation Libya" is part of the broader military agenda in the Middle East and Central Asia which consists in gaining control and corporate ownership over more than sixty percent of the world's reserves of oil and natural gas, including oil and gas pipeline routes... Read more... The Writing is on Facebook | Roy Tov This month a new group was created in Facebook; Palestinian Intifada its name. It gained a large momentum with already over 140 thousand members and thousands joining every day. The group is calling for a Third Intifada in the Occupied Territories, as a local answer to the events in Egypt and Tunisia. Essentially it is calling for what I said in Israel’s Mubarak that it will probably happen soon. Considering who is behind Facebook, they have reasons to worry. Accordingly, the group announced that if the page would be removed, Muslims around the world will boycott Facebook... Read more... Consequences of Israeli weapons testing on Gaza | Redress Information & Analysis Richard Lightbown argues that Israel’s use of depleted uranium, white phosphorus and other toxic metals in its war on the people of the Gaza Strip has put the whole of the Strip’s population and its environment – air, soil, groundwater and possibly seawater – at risk of serious long-term injury and contamination... Read more... Gates: 'US may lose Bahrain to Iran' | Rehmat's World ...The Zionist-controlled western mainstream media has been claiming Tehran and Lebanese Islamic Resistance, Hizbullah, behind the protests in the Middle East. Interestingly, the lie has been refuted by no other than an internationally wanted war criminal – Israel’s defense minister Gen. Ehud Barak... Read more... American Muslims, terrorism and Israel Lobby | Rehmat's World ...Regardless of how Sharia is interpreted in the Muslim world, the notion that Sharia “threatens” the U.S. legal system is as ludicrous as the Cold War fantasies that communists were taking over the school system or poisoning the drinking water. The man behind this extraordinary scam is Frank Gaffney, a right-winger so lunatic that he’s been banned from speaking at the annual Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC)... Read more... Rep. Peter King: Hearings Or Smearings For Israel, by Mohamed Khodr | Intifada Palestine  “Fame and riches are fleeting. Stupidity is eternal” It’s déjà vu all over again. A Catholic Congressman is holding hearings on Un-American Activities by a small American minority community he claims are being infiltrated and controlled by Radical elements that threaten the national security making them an enemy within...Read more... More Than 50% of U.S. Senate to Attend AIPAC Policy Conference: Celebrating Sending U.S. Taxpayer Billions Out of the Country, by Johnny Punish | Veterans Today On May 22-24, the pro-Israel America conference from AIPAC is coming to Washington, D.C. Will you be there? You gotta know that the U.S. Congress will be. They must go as their hands will be out taking cash bribes with their blackened hearts spilling with no shame as they send our billions earned by the sweat of each American to a land far far away that has no consequence to the everyday welfare of Americans... Read more... Palestinian family in East Jerusalem told to make way for Jewish settlers, by Harriet Sherwood | The Guardian Court order to evacuate room follows 11-year battle waged by US millionaire Irving Moskowitz... Read more... Israel Cornered on Every Front: Netanyahu's Illusory Peace Plan, by Jonathan Cook | Counterpunch Benjamin Netanyahu's advisers conceded last week that the Israeli prime minister is more downcast than they have ever seen him. The reason for his gloominess is to be found in Israel's diplomatic and strategic standing, which some analysts suggest is at its lowest ebb in living memory... Read more... Hizbullah to increase military power to scare Israel | Rehmat's World While the former Lebanese prime minister Saad Hariri is dancing to USraeli tune by calling for disarming the Islamic Resistance – on Thursday, the head of its executice council, Sayyed Hashem Safieddine, declared that “Hizbullah would increase its military strength to fight and scare Zionists“. He also added that those who stood against the Resistance are scared because they’re witnessing the collapse of all anti-Resistance regimes... [As the world begins to right itself] Read more...Libya and the Return of Humanitarian Imperialism, by Jean Bricmont | Counterpunch ...Twelve years later, it is Kosovo all over again. Hundred of thousands of Iraqis dead, NATO stranded in an impossible position in Afghanistan, and they have learned nothing! The Kosovo war was made to stop a nonexistent genocide, the Afghan war to protect women (go and check their situation now), and the Iraq war to protect the Kurds. When will they understand that all wars claim to have humanitarian justifications? Even Hitler was “protecting minorities” in Czechoslovakia and Poland... Read more... Gaza truckers protest Israel's closure of commercial crossing, by Rami Almeghari | The Electronic Intifada ...In 2006, after Hamas decisively won the Palestinian Legislative Council elections in the occupied Gaza Strip and West Bank, Israel began to close Karni from time to time, reducing the flow of goods into Gaza. In 2007, after Hamas ousted US-supported militias loyal to PA leader Mahmoud Abbas and his Fatah party, Israel tightened the siege even further... Read more... Palestinian women prisoners shackled during childbirth, by Mehru Jaffer | The Electronic Intifada Female Palestinian prisoners detained in Israel are often denied legal representation and medical care while being housed in squalid conditions that can include sharing cells with rodents. According to Fabrizia Falcione, a women's human rights officer for the United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM), now part of UN WOMEN, told IPS that it is crucial to reveal the human face behind this breach of international law and international humanitarian law in order to address the plight of Palestinian political prisoners, including women and children... Read more... The Shekel Has Dropped | Gilad Atzmon A few days ago, I published a short piece about a BBC global poll gauging attitudes towards various countries worldwide. In the poll, Israel came pretty much at the bottom. The world seems to dislike the Jewish State, and this is not a big surprise... Read more... Islamic Republic Beyond Israeli Hasbara | Rehmat's World “The most important thing that I can convey about Iran in general – my most memorable reaction in retrospect – is this simple concept: Americans need to ignore anything and everything they hear about modern-day Iran, its leader, its culture, and its people from the mass media in America," - Michael Collins Piper... Read more... Mar 12, 2011 Why Do Most Americans Know Nothing About These Issues, by Dr Alan Sabrosky | Intifada Palestine  Read more... 'Humanitarian Imperialism' in Libya Could End the White Man's Burden! by K.Gajendra Singh | MCW News David Cameron, now heading a coalition government of a bankrupt United Kingdom , along with some elements in France and elsewhere in Europe is raring to go to war on Libya in the 21st century version of Whiteman’s burden .Still drunk with the colonial power hangover, Cameron is an apt successor of Tony Blair... Read more... 26/11 Revisited: Raymond Davis And A Travesty Of Justice, by Jonathan Azaziah | Mask of Zion The events of November 26th, 2008 will forever live in infamy. The terror attacks perpetrated against the Indian city of Mumbai shook the South Asia subcontinent to its core, leaving 195 confirmed dead and at least 295 other innocents wounded. The terror was said to be manufactured in Pakistan... Read more... The only freedom we have in the west is the freedom to go shopping: Interview by Kourosh Ziabari with Dr. Fredrick Toben | Veterans Today ..In 1994, Fredrick Toben founded the Adelaide Institute and became its director. The aim was to research matters relating to ‘Holocaust-Shoah’ and other related ‘taboo topics’ that mainstream research institutes did not dare investigate for fear of financial and social sanction. In 1998 Adelaide Institute held the first-ever Revisionist Symposium in Australia. In 1997 and 1999 he went on a world revisionist fact-finding tour that took him to Eastern Europe, in particular to Auschwitz, where allegedly millions of Jews were gassed. He found that the technicality of the gassing assertion could not be sustained... [There are three myths central to the dogma of the Holycause: "6 Million Jews" were killed; the concentration camps were "death camps," designed for "The Final Solution, the (non-existent) Nazi plan for the extermination of the Jews; and, of course, the existence of "gas chambers." Investigating these three pillars, let alone asserting that they are unverifiable, or heaven forbid, untrue, can land you in prison for years in a dozen European countries, Such is the power of the (un)Holy Inquisition.] Read more...Are You A War Criminal?, by Gordon Duff | Veterans Today ...Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel, running the largest concentration camp known to man, the walled ghetto of Gaza, can draw standing ovations from America’s congress while facing arrest nearly every other place on earth. For every Israeli or Libyan crackpot extremist, there are ten, perhaps a hundred, running around Washington... Read more... Iran: 'Manhattan Project' and winner in the Arab crisis | Rehmat's World The Israeli propaganda outlet, The Wall Street [Journal], reported on March 8, 2011 that Ehud Barak wants another US$20 billion US taxpayers’ money to upgrade the demoralized Jewish army to face potential threats from the regime changes in the Middle East being carried out by the West – in case some of them turned out to be ‘anti-Semitic’... Read more... Egyptian Revolution? Globalists Own Both Horses In Two Horse Race, by Paul Joseph Watson | Prison Planet Globalist stooge Mohamed ElBaradei is being groomed by the elite to successfully hijack the revolution in Egypt and fend off presidential rival Amr Moussa, who himself is a favored candidate for the US military-industrial complex, meaning that the globalists will own both horses in a two horse race – welcome to “democracy,” new world order style... Read more... Stealing from Social Security to Pay for Wars and Bailouts, by Dr. Paul Craig Roberts | Global Research ...The true cost of America’s illegal Iraq invasion, which was based entirely on lies, fabrications and deceptions, is at least $3,000 billion according to economist Joseph Stiglitz and budget expert Linda Bilmes. The same for the Afghan war, which is ongoing. If the Afghan war lasts as long as the Pentagon says it needs to, the cost will be a multiple of the cost of the Iraq war... Read more... Israel Keeping Ghaddafi Afloat, by Barry Chamish | Veterans Today ...In just a few weeks, Libya was crawling with guns for hire, many without knowledge that their paychecks originated at the Bank of Israel. How could Israel justify the ongoing massacre of Libyan civilians by its hired guns? Because Ghaddafi’s defeat would mean an Islamist government, though it’s anybody’s guess if that is even the case... Read more... The Walls in Bethlehem, Baghdad, and Afghanistan: How Israel Benefits from America's Wars, by Eileen Fleming | Al Jazeera ...All the builders of these barriers and walls claim that they are democracies and that the walls are all about Security. All builders of these barriers and walls exhibit the schizophrenic discipline of thinking two contradictory truths at the same time. Coined by George Orwell in "1984" as 'doublethink' the Ministry of Peace wages war, the Ministry of Truth fabricates lies and the Ministry of Love tortures and kills any it deems threatening. Most threatening of all for Big Brother are those with independent thought... Read more... Is Pakistan next in line? by James Carroll | Editor, The Boston Globe The revolutions in the Arab streets, whatever their individual outcomes, have already overturned the dominant assumption of global geopolitics — that hundreds of millions of impoverished people will uncomplainingly accept their assignment to the antechamber of hell. The United States, meanwhile, has been faced with the radical obsolescence of its Cold War-rooted preference of strong-man “stability’’ over basic principles of justice... Read more... Facing up to Jewish nationalism and racist violence, by Max Blumenthal and Joseph Dana | The Electronic Intifada When we released the now famous and censored video Feeling the Hate in Jerusalem, we were widely attacked and dismissed for daring to publicize footage of college-age Jewish kids behaving like racist fanatics while intoxicated. We argued that our footage revealed a deep sickness within Israeli society and among diaspora Jews who defined their Jewish identity according to extreme Zionist ideology... Read more... Letter To William Hague: Her Majesty's Ambassador To Israel And The Law | Intifada Palestine ...an amendment is being pressed in the Mother of Parliaments in response to requests from Tel Aviv. He did not have the courage to say that the threatened arrests of Israeli leaders came directly out of their criminal actions. It is normal and principled is it not for nations to maintain their laws rather than finding ways of accomodating the perpetrators of the most heinous crimes... Read more... General Anan: 'Lobby's new man in Cairo' | Rehmat's World The Jewish Lobby’s insider (The New York Times) has spilled the beans on March 10, 2011: “Today General Enan, a favorite of the American military sits to the right of its leader, the 75-year-old defense minister, Field Marshal Mohamed Hussein Tantawi, and is considered his potential successor. In the meantime, American officials say, General Enan, 63, has become a crucial link for the United States as it navigates the rocky course ahead with Cairo“.. Read more... Mar 11, 2011 Spotlight On Libya, by Ibrahim Ebeid | Iraq Palestine Committee  Why the US is interested in Libya The protests that we are witnessing in Libya must be examined carefully and wisely. We have to realize that the intifada of Libya is not totally a genuine one for reform; Part of it is provoked by the United States and the Zionists to occupy this oil-producing country, under the pretence of “democracy,” to get rid of its legitimate government for saying “no” to US and Zionist domination...Read more... Egypt: Peering into the revolution's crystal ball, by Eric Walberg | International News Egypt’s revolution is considered to be a startling new development, the result of the Internet age. But it is actually more like the traditional revolutionary scenario predicted by Karl Marx in the mid-19th century, a desperate protest against mass poverty resulting from rampant capitalism... Read more... Egypt-Israeli relations continue to cool, by Omar Radwan | Middle East Monitor ...Egypt's previous policy of supporting the siege of Gaza has created some deeply damaging and embarrassing incidents. Aid convoys have been held up by the Egyptian authorities, with activists being beaten by police and pro-government thugs while aid was confiscated and left to rot. All this is now likely to change. It seems inevitable that the siege of Gaza will be at least partially eased. However, it remains to be seen whether the Egyptian government will be able to fully lift it... Read more... Rense & Tillawi: The US is Israel's Bitch | YouTube Hesham Tillawi on the (US) Israeli and Palestinian reaction to the Arab uprising... Watch video... What About A No Fly Zone for The Palestinians? | Gilad Atzmon ...I am left puzzled, for I have never observed Cameron, Obama or the UN being so touched in the same manner by the death of Palestinian civilians, who are also butchered on a daily basis by Israeli air raids... Read more... Rense & Ted Pike: The Talmudic Takeover | YouTube The Rev Ted Pike has been campaigning for decades against the erosion of Western sanity by a cult of religious followers of Judaism... Watch video... Netanyahu's lebensraum, by Khalid Amayreh | Middle East Monitor ...Zionism is much more than criminal and nefarious. It is also genocidal, racist, rapacious, covetous, and of course utterly mendacious. Zionism is expansionistic, very much like a malignant cancer. This is why, no people on earth can remain safe if living with or next to Zionism. In other words, if you don't eradicate Zionism, Zionism will eradicate you... [Right on, brother, tell it like it is] Read more...A Neoconservative 'Shock and Awe': The Rise of the Arabs, by Ramzy Baroud | Palestine Chronicle A pervading sense of awe seems to be engulfing Arab societies everywhere. What is underway in the Arab world is greater than simply revolution in a political or economic sense– it is, in fact, shifting the very self-definition of what it means to be Arab, both individually and collectively... Read more... Zionist Lobby: 'Thou shalt not talk ill of me' | Rehmat's World The Jewish President and CEO of National Public Radio (NPR), Vivian Schiller, has been forced to resign after the release of a video showing head of NPR fundraiser, Ron Schiller (Jewish but no relation to Vivian), claiming that the Tea Party’s members are nothing but a bunch of “weird evangelical kind of movement. the group is ‘fanatically involved in people’s personal lives and very fundamental (radical) Christian – I wouldn’t even call it Christian). Basically, they believe in white, middle America, gun-toting... Read more... Libya: Is This Kosovo All Over Gain? by Diana Johnstone | Counterpunch Less than a dozen years after NATO bombed Yugoslavia into pieces, detaching the province of Kosovo from Serbia, there are signs that the military alliance is gearing up for another victorious little “humanitarian war”, this time against Libya. The differences are, of course, enormous. But let’s look at some of the disturbing similarities... Read more... 51 Documents: Zionist Collaboration With The Nazis, by Lenni Brenner If you want to know what Benjamin Netanyahu really thinks about coexisting with Palestinians, Vladimir Jabotinsky’s 1923 article, The Iron Wall (We and the Arabs), is a must read. Benzion Netanyahu, the Israeli Prime Minister’s father, was Jabotinsky’s secretary. It is one of six matrix pieces for the 51 documents dealing with Zionist collaboration with the fascist powers... Read more... Mar 10, 2011  Oops! Mistake No Thank You, The Arabs Have Their Own Minds, by Brenda Heard | Moqawama ‘With me you have a prime minister whose belief in "Israel" is indestructible', David Cameron assured over a thousand supporters of a private security organization that polices the English Jewish communities. While his commitment has long been common knowledge, his word choice underscores the need for concern... Read more... Corporate Media Coverage of Libya is a Psyop, by Kurt Nimmo | Infowars In the interview here, war correspondent Keith Harmon Snow spells out how the lopsided coverage of the conflict in Libya is a Pentagon psyop... Read more, watch video... Gideon Levi: Israel is 'half a democracy' | Rehmat's World The famed Israeli columnist, Gideon Levy, wrote in daily Ha’aretz under title Half a democracy, challenging the long-standing western myth of ‘the only democracy in the Middle East’. “What sort of democracy is this, if exactly half the state’s residents don’t benefit from it?.. Read more... Pinning Israeli crimes on Iran | Rehmat's World ...The 2010 Arab Public Opinion Poll conducted by the Zionist think tank, Brookings Institute and the Zogby International polling firm showed that 80% of the participants considered Israel to be No.1 threat to world peace while 77% agreed that Tehran has the right to pursue its nuclear program - a whopping increase of 24 percent since last year... Read more... An Israeli War Criminal Has Been Invited To Speak At An American University | USTOGAZA An Israeli Navy Seal has been invited to speak on Thursday March 10, 2011 at New York University, in New York City. He was was one of the first Israeli military personnel to illegally board the Mavi Marmara, a ship in the Freedom Flotilla, that headed to Gaza last Spring on a humanitarian and human rights mission... Read more... J Street Sticks to the Script at its Annual Conference, Despite Coming to a Two-State Dead-End, by Zoe Zenowich and Alex Kane | AlterNet ...“All this talk about the two-state solution is largely meaningless. There is not going to be a two-state solution,” said John Mearsheimer, co-author of The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy, in a recent Institute for Middle East Understanding press briefing. “The Israelis are in the driver's seat here and they want to incorporate all of the West Bank, and effectively the Gaza Strip, into a greater Israel.”.. Read more... On March 15 the 'angry young men' of Gaza will work to end division, by Mohammed Rabah Suliman | Mondoweiss ...there comes March 15th, the day when our anger is directed toward one cause with one collective aim. The day our anger is directed the right way, at the right people, transformed into the right form of patient expression. For once, to chant in harmony against one ghostly enemy, to carry the same flag, to be properly “politicalized” for one cause... Read more... Netanyahu's illusory peace plan: Israel cornered on every front | Redress Information & Analysis Jonathan Cook considers Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s imminent plan to buy time and fend off world pressure in the context of Israel’s unprecedented and growing international isolation... Read more... The grievous return of Henry Kissinger | Redress Information & Analysis Lawrence Davidson views Henry Kissinger’s recent lobbying to free Jonathan Pollard, an American convicted of spying for Israel, against the background of a history of bad judgements, amoral decisions and war crimes by the former US secretary of state... Read more... Check out this new BDS Resource for Upcoming Global Day of Action! Ten days ago, folk music legend Pete Seeger announced his support for the boycott, divestment, and sanctions (BDS) movement to compel Israel to comply with international law and human rights. Less than a week later, Pink Floyd musician Roger Waters also joined the campaign... Read more... Mar 9, 2011 15 March Palestine: End of Division, by Vittorio Arrigoni | Salem-News  The mighty flow of blood and hope from Tunisia, Egypt, Yemen, Bahrain, Algeria and Libya has also washed over young Palestinian minds in Gaza. What started as a stream has become a torrent and will soon spill it banks. Palestine's 25 January will be 15 March... Read more... Israel's Hidden Faces, by Alan Sabrosky | YouTube A primer for understanding the strategic dynamics of an Israel few Americans, or others elsewhere, see and know... Watch video... NATO's Inevitable War: The Flood of Lies regarding Libya, by Fidel Castro Ruz | Global Research ...The colossal campaign of lies, unleashed by the mass media, resulted in great confusion in world public opinion. Some time will go by before we can reconstruct what has really happened in Libya, and we can separate the true facts from the false ones that have been spread... Read more... Paul Balles: What next? | Intifada Palestine Revolutions raise more questions than answers. The prime one: What happens after the thrill of protest victory wears off?.. Read more... Egyptian army follows Israel, US orders: Interview with Mark Glenn | PressTV Protests in Egypt gain momentum as revolutionaries say they are set to disclose information incriminating senior officials over their involvement in the violent crackdown on anti-regime protests... Read more... The Penny Has Dropped | Gilad Atzmon Ynet reported yesterday , that in a BBC global poll gauging attitudes towards various countries worldwide, Israel came pretty much at the bottom - There were just three countries less popular than the Jewish State – Pakistan, North Korea and Iran... Read more... A Comment on Saeb Erekat's Statement in the Palestine Chronicle ...The PA can indeed choose to continue with the status quo, dissolve itself—(which Erekat says it’s thinking of doing)—or, better yet, achieve reconciliation with Hamas and transform itself through democratic representation of all Palestinian civil society groups and parties in preparation for a non-violent struggle for Palestinian rights and freedom... Read more... Is Israel Ready for the New Middle East? by Yacov Ben Efrat | Palestine Chronicle ...Israel has long tried to maintain the old order by appeal to its own security, presenting itself as defender of democracy and civilization. The pretense has failed. Reality has shown otherwise. Democracy is the oxygen of the Arab masses. For its sake they go to the streets and risk their lives. Today, as a result, the question has been reversed: Is Israel prepared to give up the shameful, anachronistic Occupation? Is Israel ready for democracy?.. Read more... .::. PALESTINIAN SURPRISES.::. This was supposed to be a book but it made more sense to turn it into a "website book." After all, not everyone will go to the bookstore but nearly everyone has access to the Internet. And the sad reality is that too many people have formed their opinions of Palestinian people, places, and things by the words of others. Well, I’m an American-Palestinian and I’d like to tell you about my own people and heritage... Read more... Mar 8, 2011 Brazil's 'lessons' for Arab rebels, by Chris Arsenault | Al Jazeera English  Brazil unilaterally recognized Palestine in 2010, prompting other South American nations to follow suit During Brazil's two decades of military dictatorship, it would have been unthinkable that a female former revolutionary would lead the country in the 21st century. That transition, from autocracy to democracy, might offer some lessons for rebels across the Arab world...Read more... Egypt: A Virtual Smoking Gun? by Maidhc Ó Cathail | Intifada Palestine On January 12, 2009, US Undersecretary for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs James K. Glassman joined a group of Egyptian political bloggers from the Virtual Newsroom of the American University in Cairo. Is this the “virtual” smoking gun that indicates American collusion in the subsequent ouster of Hosni Mubarak?.. Read more... U.S. Human Rights Policy Is Self-Serving And Duplicitous: Kourosh Ziabari Interviews George Katsiaficas | Intifada Palestine What follows is the complete text of interview with Dr. George Katsiaficas on the recent uprising in the Arab world, its impacts on the international developments and its implications for the United States and its European allies... Read more... How the Swedes Set Up Julian Assange, by Israel Shamir | Counterpunch The British magistrate court has decided to surrender Julian Assange to the Nordic Amazons who were hunting for his head – pending appeal. Thus the long Saga of the Broken Condom, or whatever name by which it will become known to posterity, took a definite turn for the worse. The judge decided to honor the European Arrest Warrant issued by man-eating Swedish prosecutor Marianne Ny. Julian has appealed to the High Court, ensuring that the saga will go on as a side divertissement to the main story, Cablegate... Read more... Could pariah status spell the end for Zionism? | Alan Hart One eminent Israeli who apparently thinks the answer could be yes is Ilan Baruch, a veteran diplomat who resigned ahead of his retirement because, he said, he could no longer represent his government’s “wrong” policy. He also ridiculed Zionism’s assertion that global anti-Israeli sentiments generated by occupation are a manifestation of anti-Semitism... Read more... Gaddafi's days are numbered: Interview with Jeff Steinberg of the Executive Intelligence Review | Press TV Reports show that eastern Libya, along with some western parts of the country, are now under control by the armed anti-regime revolutionary forces, but the country's long-time ruler, Muammar Gaddafi, has not yet stepped down... Read more, watch video... Pakistan: The Paralyzed Government, by Saeed Qureshi | Opinion Maker ...Pakistan is paralyzed by sectarian divide, political factionalism, a teetering economy, the broken and obsolete civic system, malfunctioning institutions, bad governance, widespread corruption, glaring patronage and swelling violence. The ineptitude, incompetence, apathy and indifference of the people in power and also themselves becoming part of the melee of plunder are taking Pakistan to a situation of a failed state... [The USraeli demolition of Pakistan is nearing completion] Read more...Extrajudicial Assassinations As Official Israeli Policy, by Stephen Lendman | Global Research "Governments shall prohibit by law all extra-legal, arbitrary and summary executions and shall ensure that any such executions are recognized as offences under their criminal laws, and are punishable by appropriate penalties which take into account the seriousness of such offenses. Exceptional circumstances, including a state of war or threat of war, internal political instability or any other public emergency may not be invoked as a justification of such executions. (They) shall not be carried out under any circumstances including, but not limited to, situations of internal armed conflict, excessive or illegal use of force by a public official or other person acting in an official capacity or by a person acting at the instigation, or with the consent or acquiescence of such person, and situations in which deaths occur in custody. This prohibition shall prevail over decrees issued by governmental authority.".. Read more... Harvey Point's "distinguished" alumni, by Wayne Madsen | Opinion Maker The CIA has good reason to be silent about the operations at Harvey Point. For decades, under the guise of "counter-terrorism" training, Harvey Point has been training terrorists, including members of the Kosovo Liberation Army, anti-Castro commandos of Brigade 2506 and Alpha 66, the South Korean Central Intelligence Agency (KCIA), Israel's Sayeret Matkal commandos, Angolan guerrillas of the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA), Chechen guerrillas, the secret police of the infamous Greek colonels' junta, and the Honduran death squad Movimiento Anti-Communista Hondureno (MACHO), as well as CIA Latin America cocaine smugglers used in "Operation Pseudo Miranda" during William Casey's reign at Langley... Read more... Out-of-Control Human Rights Abuses in Iraq, by Stephen Lendman | OpEd News ...over the past two decades, America devastated Iraq by genocide, vast destruction, terror, occupation, and contamination - a monstrous combination of unspeakable ongoing crimes... Read more... Another War Crime in Afghanistan: US massacres nine children in air strike | SHOAH On Tuesday, March 1, the US military massacred nine children in an airstrike in Afghanistan’s northeastern Kunar province. The attack, which prompted mass protests, is only the latest atrocity in the region, coming less than two weeks after another attack left as many as 65 civilians dead... Read more... Egyptian's sentiment key to democracy: Interview with Ray McGovern | PressTV Ray McGovern, former CIA analyst and US Army veteran, shared his thoughts on the recent events taking place in Egypt... Read transcript... Israel's sham inquiry into murder aboard the Mavi Marmara | Redress Information & Analysis Richard Lightbown assesses in forensic detail Israel’s submission to the UN Panel of Inquiry on the Gaza Flotilla raid (the Turkel Commission Report) against available evidence, showing how the commission received much of its testimony via a third party, discouraged witnesses from the flotilla from appearing, used antiquated legal opinion and further compromised itself by using biased language... Read more... Tony Blair agreed to train Gaddafi's special forces in 'deal in the desert' | The Telegraph Tony Blair used his final foreign trip as prime minister to sign a confidential deal with Muammar Gaddafi to train Libyan special forces and supply him with Nato secrets... Read more... Libyan Rebels Release Captured SAS Troops | Antiwar ...Sometimes no really means no. That’s what the British military learned today when, after a solid week of Libyan rebel leaders insisting that they didn’t want any foreign intervention in the ongoing efforts to oust long-time dictator Moammar Gadhafi, they decided a great idea would be to dispatch a unit of their special forces, the SAS, to Benghazi to “offer help.”.. Read more... Mar 7, 2011 Palestinians call for unity protest on 15 March, by Pam Bailey | The Electronic Intifada  Youth in Gaza pose for a photograph soon after the 2008-09 Israeli assault A look at the Tunisian and Egyptian uprisings that succeeded in ousting long-entrenched dictators confirms a universal truth: it is the youth who are leading the way in forcing reform in the Middle East...Read more... How Palestine's Uprising Inspired Egypt's, by Hossam el-Hamalawy | The Indypendent In the 1990s, one could only whisper Hosni Mubarak’s name. Political talk or jokes were avoided in phone calls. This year, millions of Egyptians fought for 18 days against their aging tyrant, braving the police troops firing teargas, rubber bullets and live ammunition. People in Egypt have lost their fear, but it did not happen overnight... Read more... In whose name does Dutch FM Rosenthal speak? | The Electronic Intifada In recent months, a number of Latin American countries have publicly expressed their recognition of Palestinian statehood. Given that a Palestinian state doesn't yet exist, this recognition also amounts to supporting the Palestinian right to statehood. For Israel and defenders of its policies around the world, the "snowball effect" of nations recognizing this right is, unsurprisingly, unnerving. One such defender is Dutch Foreign Minister Uri Rosenthal... [It is truly mind-boggling how Zionist Jews have managed to insinuate themselves into positions of political power in virtually all of the Western democracies] Read more...Arab pride reborn through revolution, by Yasmeen El Khoudary | The Electronic Intifada ...I lost faith in the Arabs, and in the Palestinian factions and politicians who have cut through the veins of our noble cause with their sickening selfishness, greed and hypocrisy. But when the revolution came, like a wave of hope, justice and freedom that swept through the entire region, it breathed life into the Arab within me... Read more... Israeli company recruits mercenaries to support Gadhafi, by Seham | Mondoweiss Now before we get to Gadhafi's crimes, the reports of an Israeli company's support for the mercenaries:.. Read more... World Social Forum puts Palestine solidarity into action, by Stefan Christoff | Uruknet Tens of thousands of activists gathered in Dakar, Senegal for the 2011 World Social Forum (WSF) in February. Hundreds of workshops and assemblies on social justice struggles around the world were held at Cheikh Anta Diop University in Dakar, including a series of presentations on the Palestinian struggle for liberation and the growing global boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) movement against Israeli apartheid... Read more... The Names Of The Innocent Who Are Killed, by Vera Macht | Gilad Atzmon Omar Maruf was killed by a soldier who was heavily armed, and well equipped with everything the latest Western military industry has to offer. Omar was wearing old, dirty clothes, and collecting stones with his donkey. Omar was not even a so-called "collateral damage" who was unfortunately hit by a misguided bullet or bomb during a military attack. In our modern wars, where everything is precisely calculated, sometimes someone is just at the wrong time at the wrong place. But it wasn’t like that. No, a young soldier, heavily armed and well equipped, targeted Omar, who was standing there, with shabby clothes and stones in his hands, and decided to shoot him... Read more... Israel on the wrong side of history | Redress Information & Analysis Uri Avnery argues that Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s policy of maintaining Israel as a garrison state, enlarging the settlements, preventing the foundation of a real Palestinian state and promoting eternal conflict is leading to a cul-de-sac and international isolation from which it will be hard to exit... [See also We March to Jerusalem, Martyrs in the Millions on Avnery's viewpoint, by Nahida] Read more...What A New Egypt Means For The Middle East, by Sami Moubayed | Intifada Palestine When locked away at the Camp David resort back in 1978, United States officials from the Carter administration would often say: “Menachem Begin needs to consult his people, given that Israel is a democracy, before committing to any concession to the Egyptians.” That would immediately be followed by another phrase: “It shouldn’t be a problem for president Sadat; there is no public opinion that matters in Egypt — or anywhere else in the Arab world. Arab leaders can do as they please and get away with it without being questioned or scrutinized by their own people.”.. Read more... Will America Make The Right Choice In Libya? by Dr. Ashraf Ezzat | Veterans Today The capture of a paranoid dictator was the pretext for the American invasion of Iraq; will history repeat itself in Libya?.. Read more... Criminalizing The Truth Tellers, by Dr. Lawrence Davidson | Intifada Palestine There is no doubt that Julian Assange, the head of the Wikileaks organization, and Bradley Manning, the soldier who allegedly leaked U.S. classified documents, are being singled out and made examples of by the Obama administration. Their suffering constitutes a message which goes like this: if you inform the public of what the United States government is doing, no matter how illegal and disgusting it might be, our police and intelligence agencies will track you down and turn your life into hell... Read more... The Beacon That Is Israel: Self-Serving By Delay And Denial, by William A. Cook | Intifada Palestine A beacon is a signal fire, a warning light to guide one out of darkness; as the former Foreign Affairs Minister for Israel noted in late February, “These are days of momentous change in the Middle East …” Courageous thousands demand their rights as human beings, she intones, there is an inner hunger for freedom abroad in the land. But those courageous thousands have lit a fire that is a beacon for Israel, if it heeds it, a warning that it alone of all the states in the Middle East could be left defying the peoples’ demands for human rights and freedoms... Read more... Has The Lebanon Tribunal Drama Become Farce? by Franklin Lamb | Al-Manar This observer had a wild day in Lebanon’s Bekaa Valley yesterday. Then again, for one reason or another, it seems that every time I go to the Bekaa it turns into a wild day... Read more... West's fear - Gaddafi wants civil war: Interview with Allen Roland | Press TV As Western nations move in, perching themselves like vultures over Libya waiting for the pickings, Gaddafi is holding more cards than has been anticipated... Read more... American Bloody Pragmatism | Gilad Atzmon After killing hundreds of thousands of Muslims in the name of democracy, the White House has now decided that ‘stability in the region’ is by far, much more important... Read more... Dr. Hajo Meyer: Selections from an Interview | YouTube Dr. Hajo Meyer is a Holocaust survivor and anti-Zionist activist. He has been conducting a speaking tour titled "Never Again For Anyone," sharing his experiences of surviving Auschwitz and his perceptions of Zionism and the Israeli occupation of Palestinian land... Watch video... Occupation Has No Future: Militarism + Resistance in Israel/Palestine | YouTube ...Through conversations with Israeli conscientious objectors, former soldiers, and Palestinians living under occupation, the film creates a survey of the current atmosphere in the State of Israel and the West Bank. It explores the Israeli social environment that creates such heightened militarism and leads to attitudes of fear, exclusion, racism, and ultimately aggression... Read more, watch video... US hijacks leaderless Egypt revolution: Interview with Mark Glenn | PressTV US and Israel, confident enough to have hijacked the leaderless Egyptian revolution and positioning themselves as the decision makers, have sent high profile senators to ground zero at Tahrir Square... Read more... Saudi protesters demand reforms: Interview with Prof. Paul Sheldon Foote | PressTV Saudi Arabians are becoming more dissatisfied with their government, and while protests continue in the oil rich nation, the US and its Western allies become more concerned... Read more... Arab working class revolts for change | PressTV Press TV interviewed Ralph Schoenman the author of The Hidden History of Zionism, regarding the protests in the Arab world and how the elite in the US consider the rest of the population to be a whorehouse for exploitation... Read more... Mar 6, 2011 Ovadia Yosef's love letter to his donkey, by Richard Edmondson | Leftwing-Christian  Ovadia Yosef, the racist Israeli rabbi who says goyim exist only to serve the people of Israel, has finally found a gentile he likes: Hosni Mubarak. In a letter sent mid-2010 and reported at the time in the Israeli media, Yosef expressed his fond wish that the Egyptian dictator might “continue to lead your countrymen in majesty, courage, and strength, for a lifetime and in peace; may you succeed in all your doings.”.. Read more... Roots Of The Arab Revolts And Premature Celebrations, by James Petras | Intifada Palestine Street-based movements lack the organization and leadership to project, let alone impose a new political or social order. Their power is found in their ability to pressure existing elites and institutions, not to replace the state and economy. Hence the surprising ease with which the US, Israeli and EU backed Egyptian military were able to seize power and protect the entire rentier state and economic structure while sustaining their ties with their imperial mentors... Read more... Visiting Nasser, by Vera Macht | Gilad Atzmon It’s stormy, the wind is whipping through the trees, and scattered rain drops hit us in the face as we go down the muddy dirt road to Nasser's house... Read more... Israel Intervenes In Libya…For Gaddafi, by Gordon Duff | Veterans Today In a move that surprises all but Middle East experts, Israel has promised Libya’s dictator of over 40 years, Colonel Gaddafi, 50,000 troops to aid in crushing rebels set on overthrowing his murderous rule... Read more... We March to Jerusalem, Martyrs in the Millions, by Nahida the Exiled Palestinian | Poetry for Palestine ...Mr. Avnery, you and your brethren need to understand that: YOUR “zionist dream” has turned the lives of the indigenous people of Palestine into never-ending nightmares. Under the cover of the “unique” suffering of the Jews, you have turned the Palestinian existence into a callously measured holocaust and slow-motion genocide... [You go, girl!] Read more...Mossad Kidnaps Gazan Engineer in Ukraine, Now Held Incommunicado in Israeli Prison | Tikun Olam A Ukrainian news source reported in late February that the Mossad kidnapped the chief engineer of Gaza’s only power plant in Ukraine:.. Read more... Finkelstein and Canadian Jewish Lobby | Rehmat's World The Canadians For Justice And Peace In The Middle East had recently invited world-renowned Jewish academic, author and anti-Zionist, Dr. Norman Finkelstein to deliver lectures in several cities in Ontario. As expected, Dr. Finkelstein’s lecture tour faced the wrath of the pro-Israel lobby groups... Read more, watch video... Britain cherry-picks which war criminals to prosecute and where to impose no-fly zones, by Stuart Littlewood | My Catbird Seat After maintaining a deafening silence about Israel’s atrocities against civilians, Britain suddenly wants a “day of reckoning” for war criminals – as long as they are Libyan... Read more... Israel's Hidden Faces: A Long Day's Night for Us All, by Dr. Alan Sabrosky | Salem-News Far too often, issues involving Israel and its actions are addressed in a sophisticated and complex manner, often with little or no linkage among them. This is fine for professionals who are well versed in the subject matter, and can infer detail and linkages where none is explicitly given or made. But it is NOT acceptable for a general public, most of whom are not even aware that these issues exist, and have been exposed to a steady diet of pro-Israel propaganda throughout most if not all of their lives... Read more... Libya: African mercenaries 'immune from prosecution for war crimes, by Jon Swaine | The Telegraph African mercenaries hired by the Gaddafi regime to kill Libyan protesters would be immune from prosecution for war crimes due to a clause in this weekend's UN resolution that was demanded by the United States... Read more... The Real U.S. National Security Budget: The Figure No One Wants You to See, by Chris Hellman | TomDispatch We at TomDispatch thought we might lend a hand to Congress’s deliberations this week by offering something new: the first real figure on what American taxpayers actually pay for the Pentagon, the U.S. military, homeland security, our distant wars, the care of veterans, intelligence, and every other aspect of our national security and war state... Read more... Israeli lawmaker Approves Shooting Palestinian Children | YouTube An Israeli lawmaker has backed the shooting of Palestinians that throw rocks at settler cars, saying even children should be targeted if they appear "life-threatening.".. Read more... The Kochs vs. Mainstreet: the Right-Wing Billionaires' Open War on Everyday Americans | AlterNet Koch Industries, the private company of the billionaire Koch brothers Charles and David, is an oil and gas, chemicals, cattle, forestry, and synthetics giant -- and also a major force for punishing Main Street Americans. Charles and David Koch (pronounced "coke") have directed many millions of their shared $43 billion net worth into a vast propaganda machine that's corrupting American politics in order to reward their pollution-based enterprise... Read more... U.S. And NATO Escalate World's Deadliest War On Both Sides Of Afghan-Pakistani Border, by Rick Rozoff | Global Research The United States and its military allies in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization have entered the third month of war in Afghanistan this year, which President Barack Obama in December of 2009 announced as the year in which American and other foreign occupation forces would be reduced preparatory to their full withdrawal. Within months of the U.S. head of state’s claim, the commander-in-chief had over 90,000 troops in the conquered country and currently there are 60,000 more [state sponsored mercenaries] from some fifty other nations serving in NATO’s International Security Assistance Force (ISAF)... Read more... The Federal Reserve as an Instrument of War | Cabal Times While much has been written about how the Federal Reserve benefits certain private parties and how it generates money out of thin air, this paper delves deeper into the operation of the Federal Reserve as an instrument of war, and its historical role as a primary enabler of armed international conflict... Read more... Zionism and Anti-Semitism | Jews Against Zionism We implore and beseech our Jewish brethren to realize that the Zionists are not the saviors of the Jewish People and guarantors of their safety, but rather the instigators and original cause of Jewish suffering in the Holy Land and worldwide. The idea that Zionism and the State of “Israel” is the protector of Jews is probably the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the Jewish People. Indeed, where else since 1945 have Jews been in such physical danger as in the Zionist state?... Read more... The Spoils of War: Billions Over Baghdad, by Donald L. Bartlett and James B. Steele | Progress Is stealing public money the real reason for invasion?.. Ten miles west of Manhattan in New Jersey stands a fortress-like building behind an iron fence. In East Rutherford at 100 Orchard Street, it is the largest repository of American currency in the world. EROC (East Rutherford Operations Center) of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York is where the bank processes checks, makes wire transfers, and receives and ships out paper money... Read more... Mar 5, 2011 Coexistence: An Incredible Photo | daylife  A member of Neturei Karta (Torah Jews), a fringe of the ultra-Orthodox movement within the anti-Zionist bloc in Israel, talks with a masked Palestinian youth as he shows his support during clashes with Israeli police in the Arab east Jerusalem neighbourhood of Silwan... Read more... The Arab Spring, by Rashid Khalidi | The Nation Suddenly, to be an Arab has become a good thing. People all over the Arab world feel a sense of pride in shaking off decades of cowed passivity under dictatorships that ruled with no deference to popular wishes. And it has become respectable in the West as well. Egypt is now thought of as an exciting and progressive place; its people’s expressions of solidarity are welcomed by demonstrators in Madison, Wisconsin; and its bright young activists are seen as models for a new kind of twenty-first-century mobilization... Read more... US students face jail time for disrupting Israeli official's speech, by Nora Barrows-Friedman | The Electronic Intifada Eleven University of California students face criminal charges and possible jail terms for protesting and disrupting a speech by an Israeli official as the Orange County district attorney's office engages in what one of the students' attorneys calls "selective and discriminatory prosecution".. Read more... The 'Illegal' Bishop of Jerusalem and the Christian EXODUS from the 'Holy' Land, by Eileen Fleming | Arabisto The Anglican Bishop of Jerusalem, Reverend Suheil Dawani, has been forbidden to live in Jerusalem because his permit/visa was revoked by Israel’s Interior Ministry... Read more... Holocaust Survivor Memoir Exposed as Fraud, by Mark Weber A Holocaust survivor memoir that has received prestigious literary awards and lavish praise has been exposed as a hoax... [Par for the course. Show me a "holocaust memoir" that isn't a fake and I'll bake you a cake.] Read more...US must change attitude towards ME | Press TV interviews Jason Ditz of Antiwar ...These people have managed to overthrow their dictators in a relatively short order with comparatively little loss of life compared to the usual violent insurrections we have seen historically. It seems like a new era is dawning as far as the ability of these countries to get rid of their Western backed dictators... Read more... NATO indifferent to Libyan interests: Interview with Jim Brann from Stop the War Coalition | PressTV As Libyans continue their pro-democracy protests, Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi threatening to massacre protesters in the event of foreign intervention has raised concerns in the West... Read more... US: A terrorist training base, by Wayne Madsen | Opinion Maker For some three decades, local residents near a top secret terrorist training base have reported on hearing explosions, seeing sudden flashes of light and night time flares, and noticing small planes and "black helicopters" arriving at and departing from a small airfield on the base. The airspace over the base is off-limits to unauthorized aircraft... Read more... CIA's Multinational Interests in Pakistan, by Sultan M. Hali | Shoah The arrests of Raymond Allen Davis (RAD), an established CIA operative and US national Mark De Haven from Peshawar have blown the lid off CIA’s clandestine operations in Pakistan. What is shocking is the extent of the massive covert maneuvers, which have been going on for years since the painstakingly laid infrastructure could not have been established in a few weeks’ time... Read more... Quantum Note: An Arabian Union? by Dr. Muzaffar Iqbal | Opinion Maker The proverbial cat is out. No one can put it back in the bag, but where would it go? Those who orchestrated change in the Middle East were unaware of the consequences of “liberating” Iraq, but they pretended to know it all... Read more... Ben Yehuda St, Jerusalem: Catwalk of Jewish Extremism | Video by Max Blumenthal on YouTube Take a walk down Ben Yehuda Pedestrian Mall in central Jerusalem and meet some Jewish extremists. It's what we did every day - whether we liked or not... Watch video... Islamophobia for Dummiez | YouTube Islamophobia for Dummies examines the first few days of the Egyptian Revolution to get a better idea about the Muslim world, and hopefully reduce some of the prejudices against Muslims... [Mostly from Jon Stewart's Daily Show] Watch video...Arab Jews Being Nostalgic | Al Jazeera on YouTube In 1948, a group of Jewish Arab musicians from Baghdad and Cairo were amongst the streams of Jewish immigrants coming to the new state of Israel from all over the world. Cafe Noah in Tel Aviv became the one place where their music and culture could survive. A look into life in cultural exile in Israel... ["How long will it take before Arab Jews in Israel realize that the Palestinians, Egyptians, Iraqis, Libyans, Tunisians and Moroccans are their real brothers?" - Gilad Atzmon] Watch video...Warning: boycott Israel success brings "Boycott Arab goods" smear | Redress Information & Analysis Stuart Littlewood reports on a cheap disinformation ploy employed lately by Israeli “cyber warriors” unhinged by the success of the global Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement against the Jewish apartheid state... Read more... Mar 4, 2011 Reflections on the Revolutions in Tunisia and Egypt, by Rashid Khalidi | Foreign Policy  This is above all a moment of new possibilities in the Arab world, and indeed in the entire Middle East. We have not witnessed such a turning point for a very long time. Suddenly, once insuperable obstacles seem surmountable. Despotic regimes that have been entrenched across the Arab world for two full generations are suddenly vulnerable. Two of the most formidable among them -- in Tunis and Cairo -- have crumbled before our eyes in a matter of a few weeks. Another in Tripoli, one of the most brutal and repressive, is tottering at this moment... Read more... Freedom From Arab Tyrants Will Free Palestine, by Mohamed Khodr | Intifada Palestine This is above all a moment of new possibilities in the Arab world, and indeed in the entire Middle East. We have not witnessed such a turning point for a very long time. Suddenly, once insuperable obstacles seem surmountable. Despotic regimes that have been entrenched across the Arab world for two full generations are suddenly vulnerable. Two of the most formidable among them -- in Tunis and Cairo -- have crumbled before our eyes in a matter of a few weeks. Another in Tripoli, one of the most brutal and repressive, is tottering at this moment... Read more... The revolution in Egypt, by Hesham Bahari | shamireaders Now we shall publish a few reports by our Egyptian friend Hesham Bahari. He is a writer and a publisher of Alhambra Publications; the man who was instrumental in providing Nagib Mahfuz with the Nobel Prise. Hesham is a Christian, who lives in Sweden for many years; he frequently visits Egypt and he was there during the revolution... [See also Part II, The people of Tunisia show the way] Read more...U.S. Prepares to Make Its Lunge at Libya's Oil Fields, by Glen Ford | Black Agenda Report American progressives and peace forces have been in a state of joyous delirium in recent weeks as they experienced vicarious, televised popular victories in Tunisia and Egypt. Watching unarmed crowds achieve tentative victories against entrenched, U.S.-backed regimes produced a kind of giddiness on this side of the ocean – an otherworldly feeling that somehow, the foreign outposts of U.S. empire might suddenly disintegrate by popular demand. But now, the U.S. naval war machine lies off the coast of Libya, and it is time for the American anti-war movement – such as it is – to remember who is the biggest enemy of peace on planet Earth:.. Read more... Egypt/Serbia/Georgia: Learning from others' mistakes, by Eric Walberg | International News ..Central to Egypt’s revolution was a tiny group of Serbian activists Otpor (resistance), who adapted nonviolent tactics of in the late 1990s and successfully forced Serbian president Slobodan Milosevic to resign in 2000. Egyptian youth in the 6 April Youth Movement even adopted their clenched fist symbol, bringing Otpor once again into world headlines and TV screens... Read more... US immature to face Arab world unrest | PressTV ..There is no doubt that after the fall of the US-backed Egyptian regime, the United States finds itself in a very difficult position regarding the strategic importance of Libya and Egypt. I find it very difficult to believe that the United States will give up its interests in the region so easily. This is on the one hand; while, on the other hand, we should not neglect the importance of the Libyan oil for the West. So they will do anything possible to remove Gaddafi from power, on the one hand, which is a well-deserved move, and they would, on the other hand, like to ensure a new government that is pro-American... Read transcript, watch interview... Obama in Focus, by Wayne Madsen | Opinion Maker President Obama's mother, Stanley Ann Dunham, worked in Indonesia for a U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) embassy cover operation that helped identify some 5000 key members of the Indonesian Communist Party.. The 5000 targets' names appeared in what was called by the CIA "the shooting list.".. Read more... CIA May Assassinate Julian Assange: Paul Craig Roberts Interviewed on Russia Today, by Kurt Nimmo | Prison Planet ...Roberts told Russia Today there is “a concerted effort to nail him – to shut Assange up… If the legal attempt fails, he’ll simply be assassinated by a CIA assassination team. It’s common practice for the CIA to do that.”.. Read more, watch interview... Roots of the Arab Revolts and Premature Celebrations, by James Petras | Dissident Voice ...What is lacking is any attempt to provide a framework for the revolt which takes account of the large scale, long and medium term socio-economic structures as well as the immediate ‘detonators’ of political action. The scope and depth of the popular uprisings, as well as the diverse political and social forces which have entered into the conflicts, preclude any explanations which look at one dimension of the struggles... Read more... Most Americans Strongly Oppose U.S. Military Action in Libya, by Kurt Nimmo | Infowars According to Rasmussen, a large majority of Americans agree with the common sense of George Washington. During his farewell address, the first president of the United States said the nation should beware of foreign entanglements... Read more... US Special Forces Arrive In Libya, by Paul Joseph Watson | Prison Planet US Special Forces have reportedly landed in Libya to train anti-Gaddafi rebels as a western-backed coup d’état in the oil-rich nation nears, with British and French “defense advisors” also arriving to set up training bases in the rebel-controlled eastern region of the country... Read more... More blood for oil? Libya and the UK | Redress Information & Analysis Amid the talk in Washington and London of military intervention in Libya, Tim Coles considers how the Anglo-American portrayal of Mu’ammar Gaddafi changed from bogeyman to friend when it became apparent that he would grant oil contracts to various Western companies... Read more... Mar 3, 2011 Questions on the destruction of the World Trade Center, by Gordon Duff | Veterans Today  Ground Zero, Worse Than Hiroshima? ...There is more than minor evidence that the report, now rejected as outlandish by hundreds of architects and scientists, was a “whitewash” and is, in itself traced to members of the Bush administration believed complicit in a very real conspiracy...Read more... 9/11 revisited | Redress Information & Analysis Paul J. Balles summarizes author David Ray Griffin’s "21 reasons to question the official story about 9/11", published in his book The New Pearl Harbor Revisited and other studies. Read more... Seventh Annual Israel Anti-Apartheid Week, by Stephen Lendman | OpEd News ...Supporters call IAW an expression of Palestinian solidarity, a call to boycott, divest and impose sanctions, and demand Israel be held accountable for decades of oppressive occupation, imperial wars, lawlessness, expropriating Palestinian land, denying self-determination, the right of return, targeted killings, torture, illegal arrests and incarcerations, and denying social, political and economic justice and equality, including for Israeli Arabs... Read more... Keeping up with the Gaddafis, by Karim Haddad | Al Jazeera English On Saturday, the United Nations Security Council voted unanimously to adopt a resolution imposing international sanctions on Libya, including an arms embargo, asset freezes and travel bans. Resolution 1970 also referred the situation in the country to the International Criminal Court (ICC) - and marks the first time that the US has ever voted in favour of such a move... Read more... We are not the enemy, by Jordan Elgrably | Al Jazeera English If I were in a position to deliver a message to the people of the Middle East, including Israelis, I would proudly declare myself an Arab Jew and remind everyone that Jews have been an integral part of the Middle East mosaic for millennia. We are not the enemy, and often we speak the same languages - Arabic, Farsi, Turkish etc. Our ancestors have lived in Syria, Iraq, Egypt, Iran, Turkey and even Afghanistan for hundreds, sometimes thousands, of years... Read more... US builds up then usurps dictators | PressTV Dr. Paul Sheldon Foote, professor from California State University, Irvine, reports that the US government holds strong relationships with dictators throughout the world, using them to strengthen US power in national and regional areas... Read more, watch interview... WikiLeaks at the Forefront of 21st-Century Journalism, by Kevin Zeese | Antiwar If there was ever doubts about whether the editor-in-chief of WikiLeaks, Julian Assange, is a journalist, recent events erase those doubts and put him at the forefront of a movement to democratize journalism and empower people... Read more... Counter-terrorism and Arab revolt, by Robert Grenier| Al Jazeera English The fires were still smoldering in Tunisia, and violent clashes with Egyptian security forces were just beginning when I got a call from a journalist friend, the first of many such calls from reporters covering the "national security" beat in the US. "Your stomach must be in a knot," he said. For a second, I had no idea what he meant... Read more... We saw the Arab revolutions coming, by Wadah Khanfar | Al Jazeera English On February 11, the day Hosni Mubarak stepped down as president of Egypt, Al Jazeera faced a welcome dilemma: Scenes of elation were playing out not just in Cairo but throughout the region, and even with our vast network of journalists, we found it difficult to be everywhere at once. From North Africa to the Arabian Peninsula, Arabs were celebrating the reclamation of their self-confidence, dignity and hope... Read more... Egypt: Dictatorship and tyranny by any other name, by Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya | Voltairenet Since Hosni Mubarak fled from Cairo, the backbone of the Egyptian dictatorship remains in power and the political status quo prevails. Meanwhile the United States and its cohorts are busily forging a malleable brand of opposition, so as to control both sides of the political arena. However, the people of the region have lost their fear and the sands are shifting... Read more... Libya: Are the US and EU Pushing for Civil War to Justify NATO Intervention?, by Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya | Voltairenet Of all the struggles going on in North Africa and the Middle East right now, the most difficult to unravel is the one in Libya... Read more... Tyranny And Rebellion: The Breaking Of The Corporate Media Monopoly | Media Lens Historian Howard Zinn (1922-2010), would be remembered above all for his humanity and warmth, were it not for the crystal clarity of his insight. In 'A Power That Governments Can’t Suppress,' he wrote:.. Read more... Bahrain bleeds for liberty, by Mamoon Alabbasi | Redress Information & Analysis Mamoon Alabbasi views the hypocrisy and double standards displayed by Western politicians and media towards the pro-democracy movement in Bahrain. Read more... Rebranding Egypt's revolution| Redress Information & Analysis Mamoon Alabbasi warns Egyptians against attempts by outsiders to abort their revolution by sowing the seeds of religious division. “Those who have failed to suppress the Egyptian revolution now seek to derail it or rebrand it [as either Islamist or other] in order to keep the status quo of division and mistrust among the people.”.. Read more... Mar 2, 2011 Gaddafi Burning the House Down, by Shafiq Morton | Palestine Chronicle  My visit to Libya in the late 1990's was as Kafka-esque as the life and times of its then Brother Leader, Colonel Muammar Gaddafi. It was in the era of the Lockerbie bombing sanctions, and getting to Libya was no camel ride... Read more... Behind The Arab Revolt Is A Word We Dare Not Speak, by John Pilger | Intifada Palestine Shortly after the invasion of Iraq in 2003, I interviewed Ray McGovern, one of an elite group of CIA officers who prepared the President’s daily intelligence brief. McGovern was at the apex of the “national security” monolith that is American power and had retired with presidential plaudits... Read more... Hundreds of Lebanese rally against sectarian regime | The Daily Star Hundreds of people braved a cold, driving rain Sunday to march in support of toppling the country’s sectarian political system, which the demonstrators blame for corruption and impoverishing the public... Read more... Top Genocide Scholars Battle Over How To Characterize Israel's Actions | Jewish Forward Did Jews commit genocide in 1948? The question is provocative, and the answer for most people is an unequivocal no. But a debate over this idea has formed the crux of a heated argument among the most eminent genocide scholars in the world, and led recently to the censure of an Israeli professor by the field’s leading academic association... ["Genocide: the deliberate and systematic destruction of a racial, political, or cultural group" "Does anybody seriously deny that this is exactly what is taking place in Palestine?" Read more...- the Saker] U.N-U.S.-E.U: Fine To Kill Gentiles, But Protect The Jews, by Mohamed Khodr | Veterans Today “You can call me anything you like. Call me a monster or a murderer.. Better a live Judeo-Nazi than a dead saint…”Even if you prove to me that the present war in Lebanon is a dirty immoral war, I don’t care. ..We shall start another war, kill and destroy more and more, until they will have had enough... Read more... Why I tried to arrest Avigdor Lieberman, by David Cronin | Electronic Intifada ...As well as being recognized as a crime by the UN since the 1970s, apartheid has more recently been one of the offenses covered by the Rome Statute, under which the International Criminal Court was founded. The EU is nominally a strong supporter of the ICC, yet the Union's representatives have mostly kept their mouths shut about Israeli apartheid and its consolidation... Read more, watch video... Divide and Conquer Strategies in America, by David DeGraw | Global Research The global bankers, who caused our economic crisis, are attempting to deflect blame and divide the American public by escalating attacks on public-sector workers. The battle in Wisconsin, which is spreading across the entire nation, should be viewed in a global economic context. Do not let the obsolete Republican vs. Democrat charade confuse you. Even if you believe Unions have been corrupted, in this case you have to go with the strategy: “The enemy of my enemy is my friend.” .. Read more... Liberty's Easy Slide into Tyranny, by Prof John Kozy | Global Research ...The FED, CIA, Executive Privilege, The Patriot Act, Homeland Security, and more, by themselves, are bad but not disastrous. Together, however, they are the tools of tyranny that are tyrannizing America, because they provide people who are not answerable to the people with powers that can be and often are abused. It happens because those who implement ideas that seem sound never ask what happens when the powers these ideas entail fall into the hands of the unscrupulous... [e.g., Zionists] Read more...A Revolution in Rhetoric: The Word as Dynamo in the Arab World, by Khalil Elayan | Palestine Chronicle ...The people, if they do nothing, if they mimic their leaders’ sins and crimes, are just as guilty and deserve their subjugation. The individual must choose the good action over the evil one; it is an existential imperative. It is our responsibility to overcome those forces that would have us do otherwise... Read more... Global Insurrection Against Neo-Liberal Economic Domination, by David DeGraw | Global Research ...Whether national populations realize it or not, these uprisings are against systemic global economic policies that are strategically designed to exploit the working class, reduce living standards, increase personal debt and create severe inequalities of wealth. These global uprising, which have only just begun, are the first wave of the inevitable reaction to the implementation of a centralized worldwide Neo-Feudal economic order... Read more... The Obama Administration's War on Civil Liberties and Free Speech, by Tom Burghardt | Global Research While Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was praising the role that the internet played in toppling oppressive regimes (ironically enough, close U.S. allies), the Justice Department was in court in Alexandria, Virginia seeking to invade the privacy and political rights of WikiLeaks supporters even as it shields well-connected "War on Terror" fraudsters... Read more... Fear and trembling in Israel, by Mohyeddin Sajedi | PressTV Israeli's concerns continue to mount as developments in the Middle East speed up. Just as Israeli security sources failed to predict the fall of Ben Ali and Mubarak, their confusion continues to grow in their visions of the future... Read more... Beware, Israeli War Criminal Are Using False Identities | Gilad Atzmon Israeli Ynet reports today that an IDF Spokesperson assumed a false name to avoid arrest for 'war crimes' in Britain... Read more... Open Letter to Congress: Study War Some More, by Steve Breyman | Palestine Chronicle Dear 112th Congress: You are surely as inspired by events in Cairo, Tunis, and Benghazi as the rest of us. And you are surely as distressed by events in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Pakistan as your fellow Americans. Now is as good a time as any to face a grim fact: you and your recent predecessors are abject failures at one of your most important constitutional responsibilities--dealing with war. But you can still redeem yourselves, and do your constituents and your country a historic good turn in the meantime... [Good luck with that - talking sense to that bestiary of cowards, hypocrites, traitors, whores and pimps is a total waste of breath] Read more...Mar 1, 2011 Folk music legend Pete Seeger endorses boycott of Israel | ICAHD-USA and Adalah-NY  Pete Seeger endorses the boycott of Israel (pictured with ICAHD's Jeff Halper) Folk music legend Pete Seeger has come out in support of the growing Palestinian movement for Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) against Israel as a program for justice for Palestinians and a route to peace in the Middle East...Read more... News From Lox TV: Iran plans to rape all women and kill all Jews! by Frank Scott | legalienate New revelations from an Iranian dissident code-named “screwball” reveal shocking plans on the part of that fiendish nation. The former New York hot dog vendor claims he sold one (with mustard and sauerkraut) to an Iranian agent who told him the true story of Islamic fundamentalist plans to take over churches, synagogues and mosques and turn them into falafel stands and sex orgy headquarters... Read more... Hasbara's Smear Falls Apart - Again | Gilad Atzmon As funny as it may sound, Harry's Place - the infamous Israeli propaganda website and Neocon outlet that rushed to advocate Blair’s criminal wars - is now desperately insisting on mounting pressure on venues to stop me from spreading the necessary message about Israel and its lobbies... Read more... Hello, Is This Muammar? | Gilad Atzmon Tony Blair, widely criticised in recent days for offering Muammar Gaddafi "the hand of friendship" seven years ago, made an extraordinary personal intervention when he twice phoned the embattled Libyan dictator on Friday and asked him to stop killing protesters rising up against the regime... Read more... Obama's "Humanitarian" Conquest Of Libya, by Paul Joseph Watson | Prison Planet Before President Barack Obama even took office, we warned that his administration would continue to follow the Bush-era policy of bankrupting America both financially and morally with new wars, but that these conquests would be done in the name of a humanitarian crisis rather than a pre-emptive assault... Read more... Spreading Activism for Change, by Stephen Lendman | OpEd News At issue is freedom v. tyranny, what Aaron Russo's 2006 film called "Freedom to Fascism," identifying America's money system as inimical to liberty and justice for all... Read more... Israel needs NATO membership for its survival | Rehmat's World The Jewish Chronicle reported that Ronald Lauder (Reagan’s ambassador to Austria), President of the World Jewish Congress (WJC) has “called for Israel to be admitted into NATO in order to guarantee its survival in the future... Read more... The Last Word on Terrorism | The Corbett Report All of this terror hysteria that the public has been force-fed over the past decade would be utterly incomprehensible if we were to understand “terrorist” to mean what you and I and John Q. Public believe it means. But it does not. You see, in our modern world “terrorism” is not terrorism. It does not describe a tactic, it is not about violence and bloodshed, suicide bombers or Allahu Akhbar. It is not a word, it is a weapon, a weapon aimed at those who disagree with the aims of Heinz Kissinger and all of his Bilderberg/CFR/Trilateralist ilk, those who wish for the supremacy of a small, rich elite of financiers and multi-national monopoly capital thugs... Read more, watch video... Inside The Mind Of Charlie Sheen, by Paul Joseph Watson & Alex Jones | Infowars ...As to why we are talking about a Hollywood actor’s career troubles when massive revolts are spreading the globe as the planet verges on the precipice of chaos, the answer is simple. For a start, we never expected Charlie’s interview to turn into such a gargantuan spectacle to the point where it became the number one news story in America... Read more... War Über Alles, by Paul Craig Roberts | Antiwar The United States government cannot get enough of war. With Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi’s regime falling to a rebelling population, CNN reports that a Pentagon spokesman said that the U.S. is looking at all options from the military side. Allegedly, the Pentagon, which is responsible for one million dead Iraqis and an unknown number of dead Afghans and Pakistanis, is concerned about the deaths of 1,000 Libyan protesters... Read more... Others look to Tunisia for lessons | PressTV Tunisians, like other popular uprisings, want a clean slate; a new government not tainted by the old regime, but this is a political challenge... Read more, watch interview... WikiLeaks Threat: Will US torture Assange? | Russia Today on YouTube For some perspective from the US RT talks to Sara Flounders from the American activist group International Action Center... Watch video... Wayne's Analysis of Pakistan, Part 1 | Opinion Maker These reports have been compiled from our archieves and being published for the interest of the readers... Read more... The Immorality of Empire, by Nicholas Kramer | Antiwar As I watch the popular uprisings unfold against brutal dictatorships supported by my own government, I cannot help but reflect upon the moral implications of my participation in the American empire... Read more... Who is behind turmoil in Libya? | Rehmat's World "...So I came back to see him (a General at the Pentagon) a few weeks later, and by that time we were bombing in Afghanistan. I said, “Are we still going to war with Iraq?” And he said, “Oh, it’s worse than that.” He reached over on his desk. He picked up a piece of paper. And he said, “I just got this down from upstairs”—meaning the Secretary of Defense’s office—”today.” And he said, “This is a memo that describes how we’re going to take out seven countries in five years..." [The person quoted here is General Wesley Clark] Read more...Empire of Lies: Why Our Media Betrays Us, by Jonathan Cook | Palestine Chronicle ...In our globalised world, the question of who is at the centre of empire is much less clear than it once was. The US government is today less the heart of empire than its enabler. What were until recently the arms of empire, especially the financial and military industries, have become a transnational imperial elite whose interests are not bound by borders and whose powers largely evade legislative and moral controls... Read more... |
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