Nov 30, 2010 Feds Plant Inert Bomb in Portland Before Arresting Muslim Man, by Tim King | Salem-News  ...An alleged plot to detonate a bomb at the Pioneer Square Christmas Tree Lighting ceremony in Portland Friday was foiled by FBI agents and Portland Police officers. A close examination of the facts raises concerns that the story is simply conditioning to prepare Americans for more military conflict in the Middle east... Read more... Anti-Semitism and the Israel-Palestine conflict, by Stephen R. Shalom | Israeli Occupation Archive ...As it becomes increasingly difficult to justify Israel’s treatment of the Palestinian people, Israel’s apologists — whether based in Israel or at pseudo-academic centers such as the Yale Initiative for the Interdisciplinary Study of Anti-Semitism — resort to another line of defense: namely, they accuse Israel’s critics of being anti-Semitic... Read more... Iran accuses US and Israel of killing nuclear scientist | Maan News Agency Iran on Monday accused the US and Israeli intelligence services, the CIA and Mossad, of killing a prominent scientist in the Islamic republic's controversial nuclear programme... Read more... Imperial America's End Time | Stephen Lendman Noted analysts on both left and right see America's empire in decline... Read more... Turkey defends Hezbollah against STL | PressTV Turkey's prime minister says the Lebanese resistance movement of Hezbollah is not behind the assassination of former Lebanese Premier Rafiq Hariri... Read more... Leaked cable: Israel consulted PA prior to Gaza war, by Jared Malsin | Maan News Agency Israel approached the PA and Egypt about potentially assuming control of the Gaza Strip following a theoretical "defeat" of Hamas before Israel's winter war on Gaza, a leaked US diplomatic cable revealed Sunday... Read more... US Zombie Empire: Re-distributed bailout would mean $350,000 per American | YouTube It will take a revolution to bring real change to the American political system -- that is the message Ted Rall is taking across the US to promote his new book The Anti-American Manifesto. The cartoonist and outspoken war critic calls for the fight for democracy to begin... Read more, watch video... Jim Quinn: Lies Across America | naked capitalism While Quinn has a deliberately (some might say overly) provocative style and I quibble with some of his supporting arguments, his overarching observation, that America is wedded to an economic model past its sell by date, and that model has damaging social and political consequences, is one I believe will resonate with many readers... Read more... Hajo Meyer, Auschwitz survivor, on Jews and Palestine | Gilad Atzmon I think that this film is very effective, the message is clear and transparent. I salute Dr Hajo Meyer and the person behind this short video. However... Read more, watch video... They look after our safety | Gilad Atzmon Ever heard of Serco? I hadn't... Watch video... WikiLeaks Document suggests that Mossad Chief wanted to topple Iranian regime | Gilad Atzmon ...I guess that by now as the smoke starts to clear, we see who stood behind the riots in Iran. We also learn once more who are the real enemies of democracy... Read more, watch video... UK study highlights anti-Muslim hate crimes, by David Sapsted | The National Although the researchers found well-documented acts of violence perpetrated by followers of right-wing groups such as the British National Party and English Defence League, they said that the majority of attacks were carried out by "individuals who have become convinced and angry by negative portrayals of Muslims in the media"... Read more... The Self-Sacrifice of Real Truthseekers and Whistleblowers | bushstole04 ...In 1986 Vanunu revealed evidence of Israel's secret nuclear weapons arsenal, an illegal program which was developed largely through the efforts of Shimon Peres. Guess which one received the Nobel Peace Prize?.. Read more... Save a Jew, save yourself! | Rehmat's World The pro-Israel lawmakers had a field-day on November 4, 2010 election for the Congress and Senate. It was accomplished by the financial contributions by Jewish lobby groups and the 65-million-strong Christian Zionist fanatics. The occupation of Palestine by the European Jews could not have materialized without the help of Zionist Christians in Europe and the US... Read more... The Story of the Good Mooselim | Mantiq al-Tayr ...I hope you will enjoy the very well known Madad Madad, done here by the Burdah Ensemble, as much as I did. (It even has a pretty good English subtitles so linguistically challenged British puppet monarchs can follow along.).. Read more... Nov 29, 2010 Tel Aviv bars Vanunu trip for award | Press TV  Vanunu made headlines in 1986, when he divulged shocking secrets about Tel Aviv's nuclear activities. Tel Aviv has denied permission for former Israeli nuclear technician Mordechai Vanunu to leave Israel in order to collect an international award in Berlin...He was kidnapped later in Italy by Mossad's special agents and sentenced to 18 years behind bars. Read more... Still the Best Congress Money Can Buy, by Frank Rich | NYT ...As John Cassidy underscored in a definitive article titled “Who Needs Wall Street?” in The New Yorker last week, the financial sector has paid little for bringing the world to near-collapse or for receiving the taxpayers’ bailout that was denied to most small-enough-to-fail Americans. The sector still rakes in more than a fourth of American business profits, up from a seventh 25 years ago... [A commendable analysis, if it weren't for his ignoring the hyena in the bedroom] Read more...The New York Times: What Passes for Journalism in the Newspaper of Record | Stephen Lendman ...In his April 1998 article titled, "All the News Fit to Print (Part I): Structure and Background of the New York Times," Edward Herman called The Times "an establishment newspaper," serving wealth and power interests, a record dating from 1896 when the Ochs-Sulzberger family took control... Read more... Candidly speaking: The de-Zionization of Anglo Jewry, by Alan Hart | Opinion Maker ...a growing if still smallish number of the Jews of the world are beginning to understand two things. One, even if they cannot bring themselves to read it, is that there is substance to the title of my book Zionism: The Real Enemy of the Jews. The other is the danger (in my view extreme danger) of the rising tide of anti-Israelism being transformed at a point into violent anti-Semitism if they, the Jews of the world and American and European Jews in particular, are perceived as being complicit in Zionism’s crimes... Read more... Steven Spielberg: Body Snatcher–A Review of the Miniseries “Band of Brothers”, by Charles Dodgson | The Occidental Observer ...The episode claims the forced work camps for Jewish victimhood. Its lies and distortions must have been deliberate because the script was read by experts. This is a work of black propaganda that exploits fine acting and technical wizardry... Read more... The Original Sin, by Uri Avnery | Media Monitors Network ...there is no longer any difference between the Orthodox and the national-religious, between Ashkenazim and Sephardim. Seeing the “youth of the hills”, who terrorize Arabs in the occupied territories, on screen, one cannot distinguish among them anymore – not by their dress, not by their body language, not by their slogans....The source of all this evil is, of course, the original sin of the State of Israel: the non-separation between state and religion, based on the non-separation between nation and religion. Nothing but a complete separation between the two will save Israel from total domination by the religious mutation... [Why don't we give them two separate states, Uri?] Read more...Maliki wants foreign troops out of Iraq | PressTV Iraq's recently-reinstated prime minister has warned against any extension to the foreign presence on the strife-weary country's soil... Read more... Keep Your Promises, Mr. President, by George Polley | Palestine Chronicle ...I look at this Mr. President, and I cannot believe it. In your books, when you were running for President, and when you came into office you represented hope for so many people. I, and so many others, expected a fresh approach to the Palestinian situation. What we have received is more of the same. I feel disappointed, violated and lied to. And I do not like it... Read more... Watch these videos selected by Gilad Atzmon Israel admits to stealing organs from dead Palestinians BDS in action... Learn more about the 'anti-Semitic trick' Israeli soldiers on 'Human Shield' trial Gaza Photo Exhibition Attacked by the Jewish Defense League in Paris Members of "The Jewish Defense League" attacked earlier this week a photo exhibition of the German photojournalist Kai Wiedenhöfer "depicting the massacres in the Gaza strip during the Israeli Operation Cast Lead" offensive. The exhibit is being held at the the Modern Art Museum of Paris... Cutting the Deficit: Sacrificing Workers to Save the Rich, by Prof James Petras The most important and popular social and tax programs in the United States are threatened by a self-styled “Bipartisan National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform”... Read more... Nov 27, 2010 The endgame for the peace process, by Robert Grenier | Al Jazeera  Is the realisation finally dawning in Ramallah, Tel Aviv and Washington that the peace process is dead? Future historians will argue over the precise moment when the Arab-Israeli peace process died...Read more... Russia and NATO: "Not a piece of furniture", by Eric Walberg | OpEd News ...Through NATO's integration into the Pentagon's world command structure, it can be said that now, officially, the US rules the world... Read more... Enhanced Airport Screening Controvery | Stephen Lendman On November 23, Washington Post writers Jon Cohen and Ashley Halsey III headlined, "Poll: Nearly two-thirds of Americans support full-body scanners," according to a Washington Post/ABC News poll, even though "half of those polled say enhanced pat-down searches go too far." A new Zogby (11/19 - 22) poll disagreed... Read more... Let Israel keep its freeze, by Lamis Andoni | Maan News Agency At the beginning of his term, Barack Obama became the first US president to call for a halt in Jewish settlement construction in the Israeli occupied Palestinian territories as a prerequisite for the resumption of Israeli-Palestinian negotiations. But if a deal that stipulates a partial 90-day freeze of settlement building in return for US military and political incentives is reached, he will become the first US president to legitimize the colonies... Read more... Who Voted for More War? by Philip Giraldi | Antiwar Even though the United States is fighting two major wars and is involved as well in a number of lesser military conflicts in Africa and the Middle East, foreign and security policy was not on the ballot anywhere. Apart from a couple of candidates in Illinois trying to outdo each other in terms of affirmation of loyalty to Israel, not a word was heard about America’s international engagements and their consequences... Read more... More Than a Bribe: Obama Surrenders Palestinian Rights, by Ramzy Baroud | Counterpunch The Middle East policies of US President Barack Obama may well prove the most detrimental in history so far, surpassing even the rightwing policies of President George W. Bush. [No surprise. Ben Obama was hand-picked and then managed by the Chicago Jewish political mafia.] Read more...A Dark Humor Pervades US Politics, by Don Monkerud | Consortium News As Republicans and Tea Partiers celebrate their electoral victories, they are pushing the nation into their own reality, one that parallels the empirical world but operates by its own strange customs, curious logic and accepted “facts.”.. Read more... Obama's Frantic Mideast Peace Gamble, by Lawrence Davidson | Consortium News Obama’s obsession with “reasoning together” – even when facing determined intransigence – may be the fatal flaw of his presidency... Read more... Pat-Down Fury vs. Perfect Security, by Ivan Eland | Consortium News ...President George W. Bush held out the illusion of near-total sacurity – if only the country accepted repression at home and aggression abroad – and any American who protested this encroachment on liberties was labeled “soft on terror” by many on the Right, including some of today’s Tea Party leaders. But now intrusive airport screening may have gone too far... Read more... Eid Mubarak, Egypt! by Larbi Sadiki | Al Jazeera As Gamal Mubarak seeks his father's throne, will hereditary succession again restrict democratisation in an Arab state?.. Read more... Jews fighting over Chabad House | Rehmat's World ...Today, two years ago – India’s Bollywood city, Mumbai, was scene of terrorist attacks which resulted the death of 170 Indian citizen and seven Israelis inside the Nariman House (Chabad House), a popular stop for Israeli ‘tourists’.. Several local and foreign intelligence agencies and Indian reporters believe that the Chabad House acted as the ‘control room’ for the terrorist rampage... Read more... 'What We Have Here, Is A Failure To Communicate!' by Jim Kirwan | Rense The recently-escalated battle between the American people and the TSA is far more important than it first appears. ... If America has a single founding principle, it is this: no government has any authority to take any action without the consent of the governed... Read more... Road to Hope Convoy Reaches Gaza | The Vineyard of the Saker Despite kidnapping, government obstacles and financial challenges... Read more... Nov 26, 2010  Publish It Not, by Jonathan Cook | AMEU In the mid-1990s, I arrived in Jerusalem for the first time–then as a tourist–with the potent Western myth at the front of my consciousness: that of Israel as “a light unto the nations,” the plucky underdog facing a menacing Arab world. A series of later professional shocks as a freelance journalist reporting on Israel would shatter those assumptions... [Very informative article] Read more...America: The Silence of a Nation, by Chris Hedges | Truthdig Truthdig columnist and author Chris Hedges has some very strong words for the Israeli and American governments, condemning their roles in the ongoing conflict with Gaza in this clip from Hedges’ speech at Revolution Books in New York City last year. Video content and music were later added to the footage from that speech to make this powerful package... Watch video... AIPAC Spying: Why Is The FBI Looking The Other Way? by Gordon Duff | Veterans Today The group has, over the years, destroyed anyone who has tried to have it named what it really is, a dangerous foreign lobby and nest of spies. AIPAC is the most feared organization in Washington and most powerful, above any law... Read more... US Intelligence Thwarted Attack on Iran, by Ray McGovern | Antiwar Nowhere in his memoir, Decision Points, is Bush’s bizarre relationship with truth so manifest as when he describes his dismay at learning that the intelligence community had redeemed itself for its lies about Iraq by preparing an honest National Intelligence Estimate on Iran. As the Bush book makes abundantly clear, that NIE rammed an iron rod through the wheels of the juggernaut rolling toward war... Read more... TSA Gestapo Empire, by Paul Craig Roberts | Veterans Today It doesn’t take a bureaucrat long to create an empire. John Pistole, the FBI agent who took over the Transportation Security Administration on July 1 told USA Today 16 days later that protecting trains and subways from terrorist attacks will be as high a priority for him as air travel... Read more... Comments On The Peace Process | Richard Falk The mainstream discourse is preoccupied with whether a deal can be struck, and worries not at all about its fairness or about the process that features a partisan mediator or about Palestinian representation issues (neither inclusive nor legitimate)... Read more... Turkey vows reaction to Israel threat | Press TV Does (Israel) think it can enter Lebanon with the most modern aircraft and tanks to kill women and children, and destroy schools and hospitals, and then expect us to remain silent?.. Read more... A Conservative Estimate of Total Direct U.S. Aid to Israel: Almost $114 Billion, by Shirl McArthur | WRMEA ...It must be emphasized that this analysis is a conservative, defensible accounting of U.S. direct aid to Israel, NOT of Israel’s cost to the U.S. or the American taxpayer, nor of the benefits to Israel of U.S. aid. The distinction is important, because the indirect or consequential costs suffered by the U.S. as a result of its blind support for Israel exceed by many times the substantial amount of direct aid to Israel... Read more... The party game is over: Stand and fight | John Pilger ...Born of the "never again" spirit of 1945, social democracy has surrendered to an extreme political cult of money worship. This reached its apogee when £1trn of public money was handed unconditionally to corrupt banks by a Labour government whose leader, Gordon Brown, had previously described "financiers" as the nation's "great example" and his personal "inspiration"... Read more... The New American Credo: Might Is Right, by Dr. Paul Craig Roberts | Global Research ...The full body scanners are manufactured by Rapiscan Systems, a firm represented by the Chertoff Group. The Chertoff Group is Michael Chertoff, a dual Israeli/US citizen appointed Secretary of Homeland Security in 2005 by Puppet President George W. Bush. The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) used Obama’s economic stimulus, the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, to purchase 150 Rapiscan machines. Much larger purchases are in the works... Read more... Iran-Korea Nuclear Lies: Orders From Tel Aviv, by Gordon Duff | Veterans Today ...Former President George W. Bush planned to invade Iran in 2007, even though America’s military was exhausted and overstretched by two unsuccessful wars. His own popularity, at a real 8%, was the reason, that and the economic collapse that he was trying to push back until he left office. He believed a war would have saved his presidency, buried the $3 trillion dollars stolen by his friends and given him a legacy to be proud of, even if every family in America suffered... Read more... A rabbi struggles to protect his Palestinian flock | The Independent ...Ascherman knows this "reality" as well as anyone. He is director of Rabbis for Human Rights, an activist organisation which he co-founded 15 years ago and which describes itself as the "rabbinic voice of conscience in Israel". If this sounds a high-flown ideal, Ascherman's pursuit of it is sometimes dangerous and always practical – at no time more so than during the annual olive harvest in the West Bank... Read more... In the Shadow of Stern: The Inside Story of a LEHI Intelligence Officer, by Arno Weinstein | B'tzedek ... This is the story of one intelligence officer of the LEHI. His name is Stanley Goldfoot. South African by birth, Mr. Goldfoot today resides in Jerusalem, and remains ever vigilant of Israel's future. The editors of B’tzedek were granted an interview with Mr. Goldfoot in an attempt to better understand one of the more dramatic events in the history of the LEHI and the nation of Israel. That event was the execution of United Nations' mediator Count Folke Bernadotte in the fall of 1948... [The origins of terrorism in the Middle East] Read more...Behold! Israel found Patriarch in Canada | Rehmat's World ...What Ben Obama could not achieve by giving billions of dollars in aid to the Zionist entity – Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper achieved by parroting the term anti-Semitism for criticism of Israel... Read more... Nov 25, 2010 200 Israeli War Criminals Better Hope For Palestinian Amnesty | Gilad Atzmon  Read more... BDS update: Anti-apartheid Hagues, by Eric Walberg | Uruknet ...Despite the stranglehold Israel lobbies have on Euro-parliaments and politicians, there have been some surprisingly plucky official moves to protest illegal Israeli settlements recently... Read more... U.N. Remains Deadlocked on Defining Terrorism, by Thalif Deen | IPS ...a U.N. Ad Hoc Committee to Eliminate Terrorism, created by the General Assembly back in December 1996, has remained deadlocked as it tries to reach agreement on a comprehensive draft convention to eliminate terrorism. Last month, it made another unsuccessful effort at drawing a distinction between "freedom fighters" and "state sponsored terrorism".. Read more... Britain assists Israelis in war crimes | PressTV The Russell Tribunal on Palestine (RTP) has lashed out at British arms companies for giving assistance, and encouraging war crimes and rights abuses by Israeli authorities... Read more... Egypt Rejects "Interference" in Elections. by William Fisher | IPS ...Some 600 candidates from the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) party have been arrested and 250 remain in custody. The MB, whose candidates must run as "independents" because it is not recognized as a political party, controls about 20 percent of the seats in Parliament... Read more... The Incredible Shrinking Withdrawal Date, by Tom Engelhardt | Middle East Online ...Practically speaking, the answer to when it will be over is: just this side of never. If you take the word of our Afghan War commander, the secretary of defense, and top officials of the Obama administration and NATO, we’re not leaving any time soon... Read more... My Friend Barack, by Ralph Nader | OpEd News As you know I've been peddling my book Decision Points and while doing interviews, people ask me what I think of the job you're doing. My answer is the same: He deserves to make decisions without criticism from me. It's a tough enough job as it is. But their inquiries did prompt me to write you to privately express my continual admiration for the job you are doing. Amazing!.. Read more... Hariri defends Hezbollah over murder | PressTV Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri has rejected the involvement of Hezbollah and Lebanon's head of police intelligence in the murder of former premier Rafiq Hariri... Read more... Sarah Palin and the missing 'F' word, by Alan Hart | My Catbird Seat ...I know and have frequently said, even on public platforms in the U.S., that Americans, generally speaking, are the most uninformed, mis-informed and gullible people on Planet Earth. But gullible enough to make Sarah Palin president?.. Read more... St. Petersburg Mosque | Rehmat's World ...Step out of the Gorkovskaya metro station at Friday prayer time and you feel as though you’re in a crowd going to a sporting event, as hundreds and hundreds of people walk the couple of hundred meters to the mosque. Over the treetops, the sky-blue mosaic of the minarets and the turquoise cupola sparkle in the sun... Read more... Ron Paul: Crotch Groped by TSA, Calls for Boycott of Airlines | Prison Planet “If we tolerate this,” Paul said, “there’s something wrong with us.” He added that the American people deserve to be humiliated and demeaned by the government if they refuse to stand up and resist... Read more, watch video... Occupation Heats Palestinian Temperament, by Michael Khaled | MIFTAH ...The conflict has hardened Palestinians' demeanor. It's as if the macho aspects of Arab culture are magnified by the constant hassles, threats and intimidation they feel daily under an authority which keeps one nation underfoot to elevate another. It has led the Palestinians to become a very stoic people... Read more... Remembering Chalmers Ashby Johnson (8/6/31 - 11/20/10) | Stephen Lendman ...Maintaining heightened militarism "suggest(ed) that the Cold War was, in fact, a cover for something else; that something else being an American empire intentionally created during World War II as the successor to the British Empire. The Cold War was not the clean-cut conflict between totalitarian and democratic values that we had claimed it to be."... Read more... Giving Thanks to Outgoing Sen. Feingold by Kelley B. Vlahos | Antiwar ...Feingold, in what Glen Greenwald calls “one of the most courageous political acts of the last decade,” ended up being the only senator to vote against the PATRIOT Act in 2001, and continued to fight to reform or eliminate its provisions throughout each sunset and reauthorization well into the Democratic Obama Administration... Read more... What Made Avineri Laugh?, by Uri Avnery | Palestine Chronicle This strategy would have been legitimate and even justified – had it proved effective. But in real life, the opposite happened: the masses left Peace Now, and the movement is now, like all of us, engaged in a desperate rearguard battle against the rising Rightist tide... Read more... Bribing Israel: Enhancing the Swag, by Phyllis Bennis | Interlink Books The breathless will-they-won’t-they coverage wasn’t quite as extreme this time, but there’s still been way more attention paid to the latest U.S. “settlement freeze” offer to Netanyahu than it deserves. What’s supposed to be the main point of it all – new negotiations leading to something remotely resembling a just, lasting and comprehensive peace – is simply not on the agenda of either Israel or the U.S... Read more... Korea-stone cops | Eric Walberg ...The words of condemnation - of the North - from UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and US President Barack Obama for the “provocation” flowed, as expected. Obama used the occasion to reaffirmed plans to stage joint military exercises later this week in the Yellow Sea, the latest in its own provocations of both North Korea and China this year, following the sinking of a South Korean warship in an earlier joint US-South Korean military “exercise”. Read more... Nov 24, 2010 TSA Tips for Travelers: Or, How to Stop Worrying and Love Letting Us Touch Your Junk | truthjihad  ...We know that many of you have been raised to feel ashamed of exposing your naked bodies in public. For people who suffer from this kind of inhibition, we offer the option of merely having your genitals groped... Read more... More in the Humor Dept: TSA Training Video | YouTube Bootleg of new training video for Transportation Security Administration... "War criminals" leak strikes at heart of Israeli society | Redress Information & Analysis Paul Larudee considers the implications for Israel and its armed forces of the leaking of the details of 200 Israeli military personnel who participated in the invasion of Gaza of 2008-09, which resulted in the murder of more than 1,400 people, primarily civilians, including over 340 children... Read more... Obama plays the fox with the Israeli wolves | Redress Information & Analysis Lawrence Davidson argues that the apparent game plan behind US President Barack Obama's extraordinary concessions to Israel in return for a temporary moratorium on colony expansion in the West Bank will most likely fail because it aims unscrupulously to ensnare the Palestinians into an agreement that rewards Israel but delivers zero justice and solves nothing for the Palestinians... Read more... Russia Today TV crew arrested while filming at the US 'School of Assassins' | The Vineyard of the Saker Watch videos... Palestinian Marines Training in US and EU | Kawther Salam 50 members of the Palestinian Naval Commando operations are training in Croatia, Serbia, and Hungary in coordinating with EU, and 25 of Palestinian Naval Commandos are being training in the United States under an agreement reached between one of the former PA elements who escaped from Gaza, Mohammad Dahlan, and the U.S. National Security Advisor James Jones, as well as Lt. Gen. Keith Dayton. The training of the Palestinian Commandos is part of a plan and preparation for invading Gaza and topple Hamas... Read more... Islamist opposition accuses Egypt regime of rigging election | Maan News Agency The opposition Muslim Brotherhood accused the government on Monday of rigging Egypt's parliamentary election by stopping its candidates from campaigning and arresting nearly 250 of its supporters... Read more... The Stench of American Hypocrisy: Crimes of Torture and "The American Dream", by Paul Craig Roberts | Global Research In a recent column, "The Stench of American Hypocrisy," I noted that US public officials and media are on their high horse about the rule of law in Burma while the rule of law collapses unremarked in the US. Americans enjoy beating up other peoples for American sins. Indeed, hypocrisy has become the defining characteristic of the United States... Read more... "War Without Borders": NATO Proclaims Itself Global Military Force. by Rick Rozoff | Global Research ...Invoking the little-noted catch phrase that since 1989 has been employed in anticipation and later fulfilment of plans to subordinate all of Europe under NATO's military command, Alliance heads of state in Lisbon last week also endorsed the completion of expansion plans affecting the Balkans and the former Soviet Union:.. Read more... TSA Searches: Are Trains and Subways Next?, by Kurt Nimmo | Prison Planet ...Obama and Clinton expect you to bite the bullet and accept what amounts to sexual molestation in order to board a commercial airplane in the United States... If past comments made by Mr. Pistole are any indicator, however, the government would like to see naked body scanners and intrusive pat downs expand from airports to train stations and subway platforms... Read more... Destructive Neoliberal Austerity | Stephen Lendman Instead of vitally needed stimulus, Washington and European governments dictate austerity. The pretext of deficit reduction is being used to transfer more wealth to those already with too much, plus the usual canard over the urgency to save national banking systems... Read more... Names of War Criminals Donated by Israeli Soldier | Kawther Salam ...The e-mail which this Israeli soldier sent me made me wonder if the title of “war criminal” is desirable, wished by all the soldiers of the Israeli occupation army. Has the level of filth, crime and depravity in the so-called “Israeli Defense Forces” reached the point where every Israeli soldier intentionally murders children, elderly, women and innocent civilians and then boasts of his crimes so that his name can be included in published lists of war criminals?... Read more... Palestinian calls grow to seek UN resolution, by Jonathan Cook | The National Top Palestinian officials, including President Mahmoud Abbas, are engaged in "very serious" discussions about whether to abandon negotiations with Israel and seek United Nations recognition of a Palestinian state, a senior Palestinian official said yesterday... Read more... Ex-AIPAC official threatens to uncover mass spying at Israel lobby | Raw Story A former foreign policy chief for the largest Israeli lobby in the US is threatening to provide evidence members of the organization regularly trafficked in classified US government information. The claim comes in the midst of an increasingly ugly lawsuit in which parties have alleged or admitted to mass viewing of pornography among senior staffers at AIPAC as well as extra-marital affairs... [Go get 'em, Tonto] Read more...Zionism Must Go, by Khalid Amayreh | Intifada Palestine Day after day, Israel is proving to all and sundry that it is more of a malignant tumor whose ultimate goal is to kill, replace, destroy and liquidate than of a normal human entity wanting to live and let live... Read more... Al-Qaeda’s Christian Massacre: Aiding And Abetting The Occupation Of Palestine, by Maidhc Ó Cathail | Intifada Palestine ...Indeed, if anyone benefited from the church massacre it was Israel. Reminiscent of the Zionist underground’s attacks on Iraqi Jews in the 1950s, this assault on the Christian minority was clearly designed to encourage them to flee the country where they had lived in relative peace and prosperity for two millennia. The removal of a Christian presence from the Muslim-dominated region would eliminate the model of coexistence as a viable alternative to the “clash of civilisations” view of the world... Read more... IRS Asked to Revoke AIPAC's Tax Exemption | PRNewswire ...Today the Internal Revenue Service received a 1,389 page filing demanding that the American Israel Public Affairs Committee's (AIPAC's) tax exempt status be retroactively revoked. The filing, submitted by the IRmep Center for Policy and Law Enforcement, spans nearly 60 years, from the moment AIPAC's founder left the employment of the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs to the present... Read more... Nov 23, 2010 War, Humiliation, Pride, by Deepak Tripathi | Palestine Chronicle  Never underestimate the cost of humiliation. For in war victory is never clean, because it empowers the vanquished, or their successors, to struggle in the future. Recent wars in Iraq, on the Afghanistan-Pakistan front and elsewhere confirm this enduring, though often unheeded, lesson of history... Read more... An American bribe that stinks of appeasement, by Robert Fisk | The Independent ...In the ordinary sane world in which we think we live, there is only one word for Barack Obama's offer: appeasement. Usually, our lords and masters use that word with disdain and disgust... Read more... U.S. State Dept. Report: Religious Freedom Under Attack in Israel | International Middle East Media Center ...Women are forced to sit in the back of many buses in Israel, and the largest bus company, Egged, has designated a number of bus routes 'Orthodox', requiring that female passengers sit in the back, or face harassment or violence against them. Gender segregation is also a policy around the 'Western Wall' holy site in Jerusalem. According to the State Department report, “Ultra-Orthodox "modesty patrols" attempted to enforce gender separation and a path designated for "men only" was installed opposite the Western Wall. Mixed-gender ceremonies have been banned in the Western Wall plaza.“.. Read more... Nowhere Left to Run?, by Mark Levine | Huffington Post ...do the results reflect rather an underlying continuity in the generation-long evolution of Euro-American politics towards a fully neoliberalised system; one which supports the pursuit of unbridled wealth by elites while those with the most to lose conveniently spend their energy attacking immigrants, minorities and the poor -- the system's ultimate victims?.. Read more... AIPAC: Fighting for survival, by MJ Rosenberg | Al Jazeera With the flailing lobby distracted by a legal battle with a former employee, peace may just have a chance... Read more... The Windy City Makes Waves for Peace, Equity and Justice in Palestine | Stephen Lendman On November 20, Steering committee CJPIP member Caren Levy Van Slyke headlined, "End Military Aid to Israel message reaches thousands of Chicago commuters," saying: Skeptics doubted it would happen, "and we were not too sure ourselves" whether it was possible to reach Chicago Transit Authority (CTA) commuters directly... Read more... Republican Cantor recants on Israel | Al Jazeera Cantor's pledge of allegiance to a foreign leader would be remarkable, and deeply offensive, even if the foreign country in question were Canada or the United Kingdom, our two closest allies with whom we have few policy differences... Read more... Israel to build fence on Egypt border | Press TV Israel is set to begin construction of a 250-kilometer wall along its southwestern border with Egypt in a move that Tel Aviv claims to be aimed at stemming the flow of immigrants. [The paranoid fascist ghetto state will no doubt eventually build a seawater moat around the surrounding wall and allow entry and exit only through a portcullis guarded by rabid kosher rottweilers - I can see it coming!] Read more...Draft dodging on the rise in Israel | Press TV New figures show that nearly half of Jewish Israelis aged between 18 and 40 do not serve in Israel's military and that figure is expected to rise by another 10 percent in the next decade... [I presume they don't enforce the draft because, as long as they have an ample supply of brainwashedfanatics, they can avoid having to deal with dissension from within the ranks] Read more...TSA Tactics Find Ominous Parallel in Nazi Germany, by Kurt Nimmo | Infowars The TSA is part of a larger effort to implement a slow motion surveillance and high-tech police state control grid in America. It is an element of the “alternative geography” of the military-corporate-intelligence establishment, an aspect specifically designed to acclimate Americans to the prospect of an ever encroaching police state... Read more, watch video... Tel Aviv wants US to release Israel spy | PressTV Israel conditions the extension of a partial freeze on settlement activities in the occupied Palestinian lands on the freedom of one of Tel Aviv's spies imprisoned in the US... [Who knows? Whatever Bibi wants, Bibi gets. Or is this just another deliberately outrageous demand to obviate any possibility of derailing the Zionist project of creating an Arabrein Greater Israel?] Read more... Russell court tries Israel accomplices | PressTV An international court, entitling itself as the world people's tribunal, has begun trying the corporations assisting Israel in its crimes against Palestinians... Read more... Riz Khan interviews Slavoj Zizek: The capitalist system is pushing us all towards an apocalyptic doomsday | Gilad Atzmon Watch video... Racism under cover of the Torah | Haaretz The justice minister, the religious services minister and the mayors where these rabbis serve must warn them that they are abusing their positions and even suspend them if necessary. Otherwise, they too will bear responsibility for turning Israeli society into a tool in the hands of religious racist fanatics. [Would that somehow be worse than the current rule by secular racist fanatics?] Read more...Israel must choose between Enlightenment and Romanticism, by Carlo Strenger and Menachem Lorberbaum | Haaretz The Israeli right today is blissfully unaware (or perhaps, more disturbingly, chooses to ignore ) that in fact it adopts the language of romantic nationalism that swept Europe in the 19th and the early 20th century. Germans, Russians and Serbs used precisely the same language to claim that they had some right that goes deeper than mere political sovereignty which transcends any claims of an international order... [You don't realize how right you are, Mr. Strenger] Read more... 9/11: Israel's Grand Deception, by Jonathan Azaziah | Mask of Zion When an event occurs that changes the dynamics of the geopolitical spectrum, there is only one question that needs to be asked, no matter what kind of information is being force-fed to the public by the Zionist media: Who does this event benefit?.. Read more... Wait- we are giving who?? 20 F-35 stealth attack jets?? for what??, by Virginia Tilley | Mondoweiss With 25 years of experience under my belt analysing the Middle East conflict, and as a close observer of US foreign policy with a pragmatic attitude toward its realist exigencies, I have never seen anything as destructive, humiliating and ruinously conceived as the “incentive” package now being offered by the US to Israel for a 3-month settlement freeze. It is our country’s foreign policy nadir: a deal is so damaging to US interests that it is hard to find words for it... Read more... How Antisemitism Cons The Jew, by Gordon Duff | Veterans Today ...All of this is without substance and validity, all a game, tools for con men to scare Jews into joining reprehensible right wing, and frankly very much Nazi political movements, as has been done in the US and Israel with the Likud thugs. How could any sane Jew follow these knuckle dragging morons?.. Read more... The Lies of Islamophobia: The Three Unfinished Wars of the West Against the Rest, by John Feffer | Huffington Post ...The persistence of Crusader myths and their transposition into a Cold War framework help explain why the West is saddled with so many misconceptions about Islam. They don’t, however, explain the recent spike in Islamophobia in the U.S. after several years of relative tolerance. To understand this, we must turn to the third unfinished war: the Global War on Terror launched by George W. Bush... Read more... Nov 22, 2010 The deadly lie of democracy in Iraq, by Ahmed Habib | The Electronic Intifada  An Iraqi boy in a music school that has not been restored ..In spite of the satirical sadness of it all, the liberal media, and Iraq's desperate population, continue to hold on to the electoral proceedings with religious fervor. From outside Iraq, those who politically organized the occupation see the elections as justification for their complicity in mass murder...since it was destroyed during the US-led war on Iraq Read more... Friends of Israel: Enemies Inside the Gates, by Alan Lawson | YouTube ...It cannot be said, too often or too loudly: The interests of a Nation's own Citizens must come first. The 9/11 cover-up is falling apart at the seams, and politicians should be made accountable, either for their ignorance about issues that affect their nation, or because they have been protecting the official story, knowing that is is false... Read more, watch video... NATO Summit and Increasing Tensions | IntelliBriefs The North Atlantic according to Washington definition now covers the entire world .US led NATO warlords aka military-industrial complex in axis with energy and financial interests now consider the rest of the world its enemy without saying so... Read more... The obstacles to reporting the truth about war | The Electronic Intifada ..."There is no such thing as freedom of expression as such in the world we live in today. More journalists have been killed in Iraq than in any other war in history. Journalists are there to expose reality to the world, and they should be protected, while instead they are attacked,".. Read more... US millionaires want end to tax breaks | PressTV Senator Joe Lieberman told The Washington Post, "I think there's a reality here, which is that while it might be best to continue the middle-class tax cuts and raise taxes on higher-income people, the votes (in Congress) are not there to do that." [Sanity rears its head, which will no doubt get chopped off once again - by Joey and his friends] Read more...A privatized Nakba, by Charlotte Silver | The Electronic Intifada Palestinians describe the Israel Land Administration Law quietly passed by the Israeli Knesset in 2009 as the final stage in the 62-year process of displacement from their homeland. The legislation is expected to have a long-term, disastrous impact on Palestinian lives and precludes the possibility of a negotiated resolution to the conflict... Read more... Cinematic therapy for Israeli soldiers, by Belén Fernández | The Electronic Intifada ...The reduction of Lebanon to the interior of an Israeli military vehicle alerts us to the film's insular vision right away. The fact that traumatized members of an invading Israeli tank crew are portrayed as the ultimate victims of a war that according to journalist Robert Fisk killed at least 17,500 persons in Lebanon, mainly civilians, illustrates the Israeli knack for inverting the relationship between aggressor and victim... Read more... Iran's invincible 'moral weapons' | Rehmat's World Former Cuban President Fidel Castro.. touched on the current western powers’ bullying of the Islamic Republic as a proxy for the Zionist regime. He stated that Cuba went through a similar sanctions and threats – and the Cuban Revolution withstood all pressure from the “barbaric empire” – not because Cuba had nuclear bombs – but “our nuclear weapon is the invincible power of moral weapons”.. Read more... Europe's Dirty Secret: Financial Elite Looting Public Treasuries | Global Research ...What the Financial Times calls a “dirty secret” is hardly news to those who have followed developments since the collapse of Lehman Brothers 26 months ago. What is remarkable, however, is the bluntness with which this organ of British finance capital acknowledges the existence of a dictatorship of the banks over government policy throughout Europe. Nor is it any different in North America, South America, Africa or Asia... Read more... Ethnically Cleansing East Jerusalem, by Stephen Lendman | OpEd News Jerusalem is the epicenter of a decades long struggle. For Jews, it's politically important as their capital, a national and religious center, as well as symbolic of Judaism's revival and prominence. For Christians, it's where Jesus lived and died, and for Muslims, it's their third holiest site (the Dome of the Rock on the Temple Mount and Al-Aqsa Mosque) after Mecca's Sacred Mosque and the Mosque of the Prophet in Madina... Read more... Nov 21, 2010 Israel Has Much To Be Thankful For This Thanksgiving!, by Mohamed Khodr | Veterans Today  Bay Area billboards ‘thank’ the US for Israel’s blank check President Obama, your outrageous acceptance of Israel’s extortion of $3 Billion worth of F-35 fighter planes along with other security and political guarantees for the mere acceptance of a 90 day “freeze” of settlements in the West Bank, which excludes East Jerusalem, is a slap to the honor and dignity of this nation, the sole superpower. That a rogue illegitimate small war crime of a nation can bring this superpower to its knees is proof that our leaders, government, institutions, media, and academia can be bought, sold, and intimidated by a few hundred thousand rich and powerful American Jews...Read more... No, Mr Netanyahu, you and yours are responsible for the "demonization" of Israel | Redress Information & Analysis Alan Hart dismisses Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu's propaganda that anti-Semitism in increasing. He argues that it is not anti-Semitism but anti-Israelism that is gathering pace and that Israel has only its arrogance, racism and criminal behaviour to blame... Read more... Israeli fascism, the joker Shlomo Avineri and the tragedy of Peace Now | Redress Information & Analysis Uri Avnery cautions against those in Israel such as Shlomo Avineri who dismiss the increasingly potent fascist tendencies in the country and warns against appeasing racists and fascists, in the way that Peace Now is currently doing... Read more... Britain's Jewish Problem: M.G. Murchin | Adilbookz "Anyone who has spent, as I have, a considerable time studying the Jewish question and discussing it with people of all classes and types, must now realize that this problem needs to be ventilated without delay — before it is too late," says M.G. Murchin in the introduction to this book, which was published by Hurst & Blackett in 1939... [Alan has posted the first chapter to his site - well worth reading - plus ca change, plus la meme chose] Read more...Evidence of Iran Nuclear Weapons Program May Be Fraudulent, by Gareth Porter | t r u t h o u t Since 2007, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) - with the support of the United States, Israel and European allies UK, France and Germany - has been demanding that Iran explain a set of purported internal documents portraying a covert Iranian military program of research and development of nuclear weapons... Read more... After NATO Summit, U.S. to intensify Military Drive into Asia, by Rick Rozoff | Media Monitors Network 100,000 American and another 50,000 NATO troops are fighting in the tenth year of their collective war in Afghanistan. The U.S. is escalating deadly drone missile strikes and NATO is increasing helicopter gunship raids in Pakistan... The Pentagon has indeed marked this as its Asia-Pacific century... Read more... It's Official: Rich Declare War on the Middle Class, by Robert Freeman | Common Dreams For the past thirty years the rich have been waging war on the middle class. It’s been astonishingly effective, partly because it has been undeclared. But even that pretense is now being abandoned. The President’s National Deficit Commission has effectively declared that the rich will now go after what is left of working and middle class wealth and will take whatever steps are necessary to seize it... Read more... De-Zionising Israel, by Bassem Hassan | Al-Ahram Weekly The racist and colonialist characteristics of Zionism were quite evident since its inception as an organised political movement in the late 19th century. In his attempt to sell the idea of a Jewish state in Palestine to the colonialist powers of the day, Theodor Herzl explained that such a state would constitute part of Europe's "wall of defence against Asia; [it] would serve as an outpost of civilisation against barbarism". But he was quick to add that the Zionists would take any country the European colonial powers would agree to give them. Read more... The Tea Party Moron Complex: Grand Theft Economics, by Mike Taibbi | Sott.net By rallying behind dingbats and morons like Palin and Michele Bachmann, the Tea Party has made anti-intellectualism its rallying cry... [In the early 19th Century such people were known as the Know-Nothings] Read more...Criminalizing Dissent in America under the Anti-Terrorism Legislation: Going After Political Organizers, by Michael Deutsch | Global Research ...In late September the FBI carried out a series of raids of homes and anti-war offices of public activists in Minneapolis and Chicago. Following the raids the Obama Justice Department subpoenaed 14 activists to a grand jury in Chicago and also subpoenaed the files of several anti-war and community organizations. In carrying out these repressive actions, the Justice department was taking its lead from the Supreme Court’s 6-3 opinion last June in Holder v. the Humanitarian Law Project... [And what about Israel, a "foreign terrorist group" if ever there was one?] Read more...Orwellian Scenario: The "Total Control Society" Is Here - Iris Scanners | Global Research The U.S. government and its corporate allies are looking out for you - literally - with surveillance tools intended to identify you, track your whereabouts, monitor your activities and allow or restrict your access to people, places or things deemed suitable by the government. This is all the more true as another invasive technology, the iris scanner, is about to be unleashed on the American people... Read more... Why America will come to regret the craven deal Obama is offering Netanyahu, by Christopher Hitchens | Slate ...How the old buzzard must cackle when he sees the gentiles actually volunteering a bribe to do the lowly work! And lowly it is, involving the tearing-up of international law and U.N. resolutions and election promises, and the further dispossession and eviction of a people to whom we gave our word. This craven impotence will be noticed elsewhere, and by some very undesirable persons, and we will most certainly be made to regret it. For now, though, the shame... Read more... A Time To Act: A Campaign To Jail Financial Fraudsters, By Danny Schechter | The Real News ...The men they call the Big Swinging Dicks are back. In the words of the New York Times, Wall Street is getting its "groove back," anticipating their latest round of bonuses while gloating about how their strategic and undisclosed campaign donations assured that the overdue regulations they fear will be put on hold... Read more... How Israel and the US Hope to Destroy Hezbollah, by Franklin Lamb | Al-Manar TV “Don’t you see, the STL is the perfect international law instrument to destroy Hezbollah, achieve regime change in Syria, create deadly Sunni-Shia conflicts everywhere, cause civil a war in Lebanon and topple the Mullahs in Iran. It’s going to be like Cheney never left office.”.. Read more... Chabad Lubavitch and USA Law-makers | Nahida the Exiled Palestinian If good Jewish people are serious about combating and preventing the comeback of antisemitism, they must not sleep or feel rested until this supremacist ideology is exposed, shamed and abandoned once and for all... [Amen, Nahida] Read more..The Controversy about the Extermination of the Jews | Germar Rudolph ...this method attempts to hold the German people morally, politically, and economically liable for Hitler's crimes until the end of time. The prerequisites for an implementation of this concept are: 1. the absolute acceptance of all allegations of German guilt, as well as 2. the moral (and increasingly, the legal) rejection of all attempts of revision and the hushing-up of similar or even worse crimes committed against the German people by others... Read more... On Zionism and Jewish Identity | Gilad Atzmon A talk I gave at the Mercury Cafe in Denver on July 1, 2010. I am very proud of it and I hope you also find it interesting... Read more, watch video... Nov 20, 2010 AL NAKBA: The Palestinian Catastrophe 1948 from Benny Brunner (on vimeo) | Intifada Palestine  (58 min. documentary, Israel-Germany-The Netherlands, 1997). Arguably the first film that seriously tackles the historic events that lead to the creation of 750.000 Palestinian refugees at the end of the first Israeli-Arab war of 1948. Based on historian Benny Morris’ book “The birth of the Palestinian refugee problem, 1947-49″. Read more, watch... Are Terrorists Supplying Our Airport Scanners? by Gordon Duff (2 Videos) | Veterans Today Two very dubious terror attacks, both seriously discredited, have provided the impetus for 70 American airports to install scanners, unproven, untested, humiliating and certainly cancer causing... Read more, watch videos... Declassified: Massive Israeli Manipulation Of US Media Exposed | Intifada Palestine Files declassified in America have revealed covert public relations and lobbying activities of Israel in the U.S. The National Archive made the documents public following a Senate investigation... Read more, watch video... Israeli Ghajar 'withdrawal' is a PR stunt, by Rehmat | Uprooted Palestinians ...The so-called ‘withdrawal’ is no different than the lie Israel used to cover its defeat at the hands of Hizbullah fighters in 2000 and 2006. Under UNIFIL control, the northern part, will be under Israeli control for strategic and water-supply purposes with the added benefit that the international community will bear the cost... Read more... Who Is Usurping The Spirit Of The East? by Dr. Bouthaina Shaaban | Intifada Palestine This is not the only Israeli attack on churches and mosques in occupied Palestine. Killing worshipers is a common criminal practice that terrorist Zionist groups have mastered for over 70 years in Palestine. Baruch Goldstein opened fire on unarmed Palestinian Muslims praying inside the Ibrahim Mosque; and Zionists have made a statute for him at the entrance to Al-Khalil (Hebron)... Read more... Israel's war crimes and crimes against humanity go unreported by media, by Norman Finkelstein | Canadian Charger American scholar Dr. Norman Finkelstein said there was no war in Gaza: the so-called War in Gaza was a massacre. He also said the 2008-2009 devastation of Gaza may be but a prelude of what's to come in Lebanon... Read more... Stonewalling Goldstone | Stephen Lendman On September 15, 2009, the UN Human Rights Council's (HRC) Goldstone Commission issued its findings on Cast Lead, Israel's war of aggression against Gaza, inflicting enormous loss of life, thousands of injuries, massive human suffering, and vast destruction, despite no provocation or threat to Israeli security... Read more... HANDS OFF! Citizens Across America Battle Privacy Invasion, by Mark Anderson | American Free Press California computer programmer John Tyner attracted national attention recently when he posted a video shot from his cell phone in which he is heard refusing to allow a security officer to probe his groin area during a frisking at San Diego Airport on Nov. 13... Read more... Big Money from Donors Puts Cantor In Hip Pocket of Powerful Interests, by Michael Collins Piper | American Free Press Rep. Eric Cantor (R-Va.) is one of the very few members of Congress who has some of the richest and most powerful people in the world bankrolling his political endeavors. That—along with Cantor’s peculiar fund-raising prowess—is another reason why many now perceive the soon-to-be House Republican majority leader as the real “big man” in the House GOP caucus, eclipsing even Speaker-to-be John Boehner... Read more... A Follow Up on My Fifth Grade Essay: Education at Gunpoint, by Ramzy Baroud | Dissident Voice ...The grayish blue pencil I used to write my essay with was one of several items handed annually by United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) staff to refugee children in many schools scattered throughout the Gaza Strip. My Arabic teacher was Abu Kamal al-Hanafi, a wonderful man with a terrible temper, who was also the Imam of the local mosque. My classroom had exactly 62 students. My desk was as old as the Israeli occupation of Gaza... Read more... An email from RI&A Zionist pressure is incessant, ubiquitous, unrelenting and always in the service of evil. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Redress Information & Analysis" redress@redress.cc > The document hosting and embedding website Scribd.com has yielded to pressure > from the Israeli army's press unit and deleted the Scribd account of Redress > Information & Analysis (http://www.redress.cc), following our posting of a list > of Israeli military personnel suspected of war crimes in Gaza during Operation > Cast Lead of 2008/09. (See http://www.redress.cc/palestine/redress20101119) > > Please write to Scribd and tell them what a bunch of craven cowards they are. > Their email address is press@scribd.com > They did not even have the courtesy of asking us to remove our other files > first. > Nov 19, 2010 Everything or Nothing | Landscape Suicide  Next week in Hollywood, Jean-Luc Godard will be honored with an Honorary Oscar for his lifetime achievement. He thinks it’s pointless that one insinuates he is an anti-Semite.' I hope this will serve as an addendum to this post on the recent slurs directed at Godard in the mainstream media... Read more... The Anti-Semitic Side Of Zionism, by Braveheart | RePorters NoteBook An Israeli two hour documentary entitled "The Anti-Semitic Side of Zionism" explores the dark side of Theodore Herzl's conception of a Jewish state. It contains revealing information not known even to most revisionist students of the subject. Herzl expressed sentiments in his personal diary which would make even hardened anti-Semites blush... Read more... US experts urge 'change' in Iran policy | PressTV Two US think tanks say the Obama administration needs to recalibrate its Iran policy, urging a strategic engagement to replace coercive action on the Islamic Republic... Read more... Afghanistan trap for US-led forces | PressTV New French Defense Minister Alain Juppe has described Afghanistan as a 'trap' for all countries that have deployed troops in the war-torn country... Read more... New Jersey Legislators Take on the TSA | YouTube Senator Michael J. Doherty (R-Hunterdon, Warren) and Senator James Beach (D-Camden) today announced they will present resolutions to the Senate and Assembly calling on the U.S. Congress to end TSA screening procedures requiring full body scans and pat downs at U.S. airports Their action comes in response to widespread concerns over privacy and radiation, as well as reports of inappropriate conduct by TSA agents during the screening process... Watch video... Land of the free, home of the brave? Yeah, right... | The Vineyard of the Saker 80% of Americans support "porno-scanners" in their airports. They believe that in order to board a plane, all passengers must agree to either have their body photographed naked, or have their genitals groped by TSA thugs.. I would say: land of the slaves, home of terrified cowards... Read more... Encircling Russia, Targeting China: NATO's True Role in US Grand Strategy, by Diana Johnstone | Counterpunch ...NATO as such has no strategy, and cannot have its own strategy. NATO is in reality an instrument of United States strategy. Its only operative Strategic Concept is the one put into practice by the United States. But even that is an elusive phantom. American leaders seem to prefer striking postures, “showing resolve”, to defining strategies... Read more... Liar, Liar, by Philip Giraldi | Antiwar President Barack Obama’s speech in Indonesia in which he conceded that the United States must do more to establish a good working relationship with many Muslim nations would have ranked as one of the more pathetic performances by an American president in recent years but for the fact that there have been so many awful performances to choose from... Read more... Just what is the Army for, exactly? by Christina Patterson | The Independent ...Young men go to war, in countries where there's no conscription, for the same reason that people climb Everest. They go because it's there. The question, the much, much bigger question, and the question that it's hard to ask in the days before or after the day when we so magnificently remember that they do, is why do we send them?.. Read more... 'Porno Scanner' Scandal Shows the Idiocy of America's Zero Risk Culture, by Richard Forno | AlterNet ...Ten years after 9/11, Americans who fly are facing a Faustian choice between subjecting themselves to a virtual (and potentially medically damaging) strip search conducted in questionable machines run by federal employees or a psychologically damaging pat-down of their bodies. Osama bin Ladin must be giggling himself silly this week... Read more... U.S. taxpayers are paying for Israel's West Bank occupation, by Akiva Eldar | Haaretz According to a June 2010 fact sheet on the USAID Internet site, last year American taxpayers funded the paving of 63 kilometers of asphalt roads in the West Bank... Read more... The Arms of King Abdullah, by Brian Anderson | Mises Daily Congress was recently notified by the US administration that it would be selling weapons to Saudi Arabia in one of the largest arms sales in history... Read more... 200 Israeli army offices suspected of war crimes in Gaza | Redress Information & Analysis Redress Information & Analysis publishes the names, photographs and other details of 200 Israeli military commanders of various ranks suspected of war crimes during Operation Cast Lead against the people of Gaza, which resulted in the murder of more than 1,400 people, primarily civilians, including over 340 children. The information was received anonymously, presumably from someone with links to the israeli armed forces... Read more... UK Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg's initiation as an Israeli | Redress Information & Analysis Stuart Littlewood charts the slide of British Deputy Prime Minister and Liberal Democratic Party leader Nick Clegg from champion of justice to shameless stooge of a foreign power, the apartheid state of Israel. Read more... Nov 18, 2010 Pigs, Piper and Palestine | Mantiq al-Tayr  Read more... A Bribe too Good to Refuse | Stephen Lendman When all else fails, offer money, or in this case weapons for peace (a clear oxymoron) via for a three month settlement construction moratorium in name only. In fact, new building is unimpeded, Obama's offer a facade to hide reality on the ground... Read more... Arabian Sea: Center Of West's 21st Century War, by Rick Rozoff | Voice Of Karachi The West, America and its NATO allies, are escalating military operations across the area, from Asia to Africa to the Middle East. The theater of operations has recently brodened from South Asia to the Arabian Peninsula with drone and helicopter attacks in Pakistan air and cruise missile strikes in Yemen... Read more... Economists Send Fed Open Letter Warning of QE2 Perils, by Kurt Nimmo | Infowars ...Economists are worried about the Federal Reserve’s QE2. “We believe the Federal Reserve’s large-scale asset purchase plan (so-called “quantitative easing”) should be reconsidered and discontinued,” write a number of economists in an open letter sent to Fed boss Bernanke... Read more... Epilogue: Shahid Alam's 'Israeli Exceptionalism' | YouTube ..Zionism has been successful insofar as its desire to create a Jewish-majority nation-state has been achieved. Despite its discursive self-image as a liberation movement, Zionist practice is colonialist and brutally violent... Watch video... Holocaust Industry: Finkelstein was right | Rehmat's World Ten years ago – Jewish academic and author, Dr. Norman Finkelstein, said publically (though discussed privately for many decades) that Holocaust is being exploited by the Jewish Establishment and Israel (by forging the numbers of Holocaust survivors – 100,000 in 1945 and over one million now) for money and to blunt criticism of the Zionist regime... Read more... Bush at Large, by Ralph Nader | Palestine Chronicle George W. Bush is on a roll - a money roll with a $7 million advance for his book Decision Points and a rehabilitation roll to paint his war crimes as justifiable mass-slaughter and torture... Read more... Helen Thomas speaks her mind, again! | Rehmat's World ..Helen Thomas said that she intends to return from her retirement as she has “a lot to say”... Read more, watch video... Sarkozy's Mistake | IPS For over two centuries, protest has been a part of the political genetic code of French society. This time the crisis was triggered by French president Nicholas Sarkozy, who, discredited by various rank scandals and blinded by the IMF and credit ranking agencies, is trying to demolish one of the crown jewels of the welfare state: the right to retire at the age of 60... Read more... Manufacturing consent in Jordan, by Lamis Andoni | Al Jazeera A loyalist parliament may have been elected but at what cost to Jordan's social cohesion and national unity?.. Read more... Obama's Bribe: Palestinians Will Be the Losers - Again, by Jonathan Cook | Palestine Chronicle ...So far, in attempting to resolve the conflict, Obama has nearly exhausted his political capital. There were intimations this week that the White House could not afford further humiliation and was going for broke... Read more... Middle East's Only Democracy Crushes Dissent, by Tammy Obeidallah | Palestine Chronicle Ever since becoming an activist on behalf of Palestine some ten years ago, I have found ironic humor in the label, 'The Middle East’s Only Democracy' used by American policymakers and media in describing the Jewish State... Read more... Flashmob: Cape Town Opera say NO | YouTube Israelis perform Boycott Israeli Apartheid Operetta... Read lyrics, watch video... Nov 17, 2010 American Idle | Revolt of the Plebs  History is not likely to speak well of today’s Americans. While the people of nations around the globe stand up to their oppressors, Americans sit idly by as their government runs roughshod over their life, liberty and property... Read more... Netanyahu tests Obama, again, by MJ Rosenberg | Al Jazeera How will the US react to Israel's announcement that it will be building more settlement units in East Jerusalem?.. Read more... Washington Backing Indonesian State Terror, by Stephen Lendman | OpEd News ...Since formed in 1952, its record includes kidnappings, rape, torture, targeted killings, sweeping violence, mass murder, and other atrocities against anyone supporting independence or challenging state authority. A June 2009 Human Rights Watch (HRW) report reviewed Kopassus abuses titled, "What Did I Do Wrong?" It discussed "frequent brutality against ordinary Papuans,".. Read more... Uncovering Algeria's civil war, by Yasmine Ryan | Al Jazeera Challenging the dominant narrative on Algeria's brutal civil war has never been an easy task. But an investigation into the killing of seven French monks in the midst of the conflict is providing a rare opportunity to dig further into the allegations that the country's secret services deliberately fostered the descent into violence... Read more... What, Really, Is The Obama-Clinton Game Plan For Israel/Palestine?, by Alan Hart | Veterans Today On the face of it the package of “incentives” Secretary of State Clinton offered Prime Minister Netanyahu to persuade him to buy and sell to his coalition government a one-time-only freeze of 90 days on settlement construction in the occupied West Bank could be summed up with one “c” word – criminal... Read more... Staged Government Terror: An Open Admission Within The British House of Lords, by Brandon Turbeville | Activist Post If there was any doubt that governments fund terror and stage false flag attacks against themselves, that doubt should be erased by a recent exchange within the British House of Lords... Read more... The Unreturned | PressTV-Cine Politics In this edition of Press TV's Cine Politics, the documentary "The Unreturned" by American filmmaker Nathan Fisher and the thematic elements concerning 4.7 million Iraqis displaced and living as refugees are reviewed... Watch video... Eric Cantor's Pledge of Allegiance, by Glenn Greenwald | Salon Soon-to-be GOP House Majority Leader Eric Cantor met on Wednesday with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu -- the same day when the actual U.S. Secretary of State met with Netanyahu -- and vowed that he and his GOP colleagues would protect and defend Israeli interests against his own Government... Read more... Three videos with Gilad Atzmon ‘Building What?’ lands on Fox TV’s Geraldo At Large, by Jerry Mazza | Online Journal ..Geraldo began with the standard reference to all those edgy protestors who rallied in front of Larry Silverstein’s new Building 7, shouting “9/11 was an inside job.” He added “c’mon, get a life.” But then, lo, he turned the phrase to say perhaps these protestors weren’t so nutty after all... Read more... Class Warfare Jeopardizing American Workers' Security | Stephen Lendman ..For American workers, achieving retirement security is simple and achievable, but not with opposition from powerful, destructive forces - financial giants complicit with government, willing bipartisan majorities plotting to jeopardize the future of millions... Read more... Nov 16, 2010 Bush Didn't Write No Damn Book, by Ahamad Amr | Palestine Chronicle  The first lie you'll encounter in 'Decision Points' is the identity of the author; Bush didn't write no damn book and if I'm wrong about that, I'll eat the shoe that Iraqi journalist threw at him. 'Decision Points' is a hoax as transparent as Clifford Irving's fake autobiography of Howard Hughes... Read more... How The Zionist Press Reacts To Criticism, by Jonny Paul.| Information Clearing House In the second attack on Israel by Liberal Democrat politicians in the same week that the party’s leader said the party got it wrong on Israel, Jenny Tonge claimed on Friday that Israel’s treatment of Palestinians is the root cause of terrorism worldwide. Read more... When Fascism Masquerades as Populism, by Charles Sullivan | Dissident Voice With its reliance on corporate money and financial contributions by the wealthy, the U.S. electoral system provides movement in only one direction: to the right. Traditional liberals lack the financial wherewithal to compete against free market fundamentalists... Read more... The Long Disease of War, by Clancy Sigal | Counterpunch ...A few blocks from where I live, homeless, dazed Vietnam, Iraq and now Afghanistan vets sleep under the 405 Freeway, a stone's throw from a vast VA military cemetery – the irony lost on no one. Except perhaps on Diane Feinstein, one of my two California senators, whose husband, Richard Blum, owns a controlling interest in two war-related companies, thriving in Iraq and Afghanistan, that directly profit from the invasions Feinstein voted for... Read more... Gladio: How We Terrorize Ourselves, by Gordon Duff | Veterans Today How many Americans have heard of Operation Gladio? Many ask, how could simple Arabs or even Israel, put together an organization capable of 9/11? If, as 78% of Australians indicate, in a recent Herald Sun poll, America planned 9/11 herself, how did a democracy lose its way? How did America’s intelligence and defense groups become terrorists? When did it happen and why?.. Read more... Sheriff Obama strikes a one-sided deal with gang leader Netanyahu | Redress Information & Analysis Neve Gordon views US President Barack Obama’s reckless offer to arms Israel to the teeth, protect it from pressure at the United Nations and fend off attempts to expose its nuclear weapons programme in return for a temporary freeze on construction on stolen Palestinian land... Read more... Torture in US Prisons | Stephen Lendman In March 2005, a UK Deborah Davis Channel 4 report titled, "Torture, Inc., America's Brutal Prisons" highlighted the horrors, including prisoners savaged by dogs, brutally shocked with cattle prods, burned by toxic chemicals, harmed by stun guns, beaten, stripped naked and abused in various other ways. Sound familiar? Welcome to mainland Guantanamo... Read more... US activists face new repression as political prisoners fight for justice, by Nora Barrows-Friedman and Maureen Clare Murphy | The Electronic Intifada For decades the United States government has attempted to criminalize work in the Palestinian community in support of their national liberation cause. But in recent years this repression has increased dramatically... Read more... The Stench of American Hypocrisy, by Paul Craig Roberts | Information Clearing House Ten years of rule by the Bush and Obama regimes have seen the collapse of the rule of law in the United States. Is the American media covering this ominous and extraordinary story? No the American media is preoccupied with the rule of law in Burma... Read more... PM Stephen Harper: Canadian Traitor and Israel’s “Anti-Semitic” Drummer Boy, by Arthur Topham | Radical Press As a dedicated patriot and nationalist there is absolutely no doubt left in my mind that Canada’s Prime Minister, Stephen Harper, is an abject traitor as well as a full-blown slave to the racist, supremacist state of Israel... Read more... The Origin of America’s Intellectual Vacuum, by Chris Hedges | Truthdig The blacklisted mathematics instructor Chandler Davis, after serving six months in the Danbury federal penitentiary for refusing to cooperate with the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC), warned the universities that ousted him and thousands of other professors that the purges would decimate the country’s intellectual life... Read more... Nov 15, 2010 Did Bibi Netanyahu Win The Midterms?, by James Traub | Veterans Today  Rep. Eric Cantor The Republican Congress isn’t even in office yet and already it’s screwing up the Israeli-Palestinian peace process...Read more... The Mythical United States of America: Rushing into Backwardness, by Prof. John Kozy | Global Research The mythical United States of America so highly lauded exists nowhere. It is a Shangri-la. The Preamble of the Constitution makes perfectly clear what kind of nation the United States was meant to be. What exists today fulfills none of those goals... Read more... Holocaust's End | Roy Tov In year 2000, Norman Finkelstein published his excellent The Holocaust Industry: Reflections on the Exploitation of Jewish Suffering. He argued there that the American Jewish establishment exploits the memory of the Nazi Holocaust for political and financial gain, as well as to further the interests of Israel. Moreover, he claims that this "Holocaust Industry" has corrupted Jewish culture and the authentic memory of the Holocaust... Read more... Elections Put Pro-Israel Neo-Cons Back On Top, by Michael Collins Piper | My Catbird Seat The Republican Party’s takeover of the House of Representatives in the recent election also ushers in a consolidation of pro-Israeli political influence over Congress unlike ever before... Read more... Who Speaks Up For Holocaust Survivors?, by Gordon Duff | Veterans Today Last week, 17 men were arrested in New York for defrauding Germany out of $42 million in payments to phony holocaust survivors. Tens of thousands of American Jews had filed for pensions from Germany claiming to be concentration camp survivors... Read more... South Africa illegal kidney deals tied to Israel | Global Research Netcare, the biggest health care provider in South Africa, has pleaded guilty to charges of performing illegal kidney transplant operations using Israeli-linked organ trafficking syndicate... Read more... Remaking the Middle East, by Jim Miles | Global Research ...The U.S. has been trying to remake the Middle East for quite some decades now as it gradually took over the role of the British and French as the local imperial power... Read more... Last British veteran of WW1 refuses to mark Remembrance Day | The Telegraph Since leaving the Navy in 1956 Claude Choules, now aged 109, has refused to march in Anzac Day parades in his adopted home of Australia and has become increasingly pacifist... Read more... Nov 14, 2010 Is The American Public About To Toss Israel?, by Franklin Lamb | Al Manar  Ever so slowly over the past two decades, and gaining momentum since the April 2002 Israeli destruction of the West Bank town of Jenin, American attitudes toward Israel appear to be changing according to some public opinion analysts... Read more... Which ''human'' rights do you call for?, by Kourosh Ziabari | Baltimore Chronicle ...Thousands of mental patients are suffering in a remote country and those who promote themselves as the harbingers of human rights, deprive these "humans" from their most essential right which is proper medication. How is it possible to justify the Canadian style of respecting human rights, we don't know!... Read more... Ehud Barak's criminal legacy regarding Israeli attitudes to the Palestinians | Redress Information & Analysis Uri Avnery views the criminal legacy of Israeli Defence Minister and war crimes suspect Ehud Barak in hardening Israeli opinion against peace with the Palestinian people... Read more... The torturers revisited | Redress Information & Analysis Paul J. Balles finds echoes of Kafka in the US torture facility at Guantanamo in Cuba and a secret British detention centre near Basra, in Iraq... Read more... Final Statement: 2nd Popular Palestinian Conference ...Having suffered decades of systematic targeting by US Department of Justice dating back to the early 1960′s and now facing a renewed level of repression by the Obama Administration and his Department of Justice all without an Embassy to look to for the most meager level of protection, the attendees and organizers of the USPCN Civil Liberties and National Rights Track have committed to launching the Committee for the Equal Protection of Palestinian Arab Rights (hereinafter “CEPR”)... Read more... Nov 13, 2010 The Weight of a City, by Michael Khaled | MIFTAH  ...the role of Jerusalem in the conflict is similarly symbolic. Physically there is nothing particularly extraordinary about the city; it’s not more beautiful, resource rich, or strategic than many others. Yet, as the holy city of the three great Western religions, literally billions of people around the world have a stake in its future... Read more... A Kind of Schizophrenia, by Paul Larudee | Gilad Atzmon ...we must challenge the state of Israel and its policies that are directed toward the expulsion, marginalization and disappearance of the Palestinian people. We must be unwilling to give Israel a pass on the principles that we apply everywhere else... Read more... Jewish Values vs. Israeli Policies: Why five young Jews disrupted PM Netanyahu in New Orleans, by Rae Abileah | Mondoweiss Being young and Jewish and realizing what Israel’s occupation is really like, contrary to what we may have been taught in our religious schools or high school trips to the holy land, can be a lonely journey. It can be compared to a “coming out” experience, where sharing your perceptions with friends and family, let alone a room full of over 4,000 Jews, can be a daunting task... [Also watch this video] Read more...Am Yisrael Chai?, by Mitchell Plitnick | Palestine Note ...now it is a club being used to bludgeon not only Palestinians, but also anyone who might oppose Israeli policy. It is now a chant of a mindless mass of people, consumed with nationalistic zeal. It is now the slogan bullies paint on terrorized innocents forced out of their homes and businesses in Hebron. And it is now the chant used to ridicule young activists who will no longer tolerate lies, political manipulation and human rights abuses being committed in their name... Read more... The Zionist State: More Dangerous Than Smallpox, by Phillip F. Tourney | The Ugly Truth ...Peace? Israel wants peace as much as a dentist wants a cavity-free world. No, what Israel wants is war, war, and more war, as long as it is America doing the fighting for her and the fact that America has suffered greatly only adds more pleasure to the entire situation as far as Israel is concerned... Read more... The Phantom Left, by Chris Hedges | Truthdig The American left is a phantom. It is conjured up by the right wing to tag Barack Obama as a socialist and used by the liberal class to justify its complacency and lethargy... Read more... Anger as Germany cuts funding to Orthodox Jews | The Telegraph The German government has ignited a row with the country's Orthodox Jews after it stopped funding the training of Orthodox rabbis... [Oh, dear. Too many sharp teeth on the teats?] Read more...Israeli Spying: The Mother of all Scandals | What Really Happened Once again Israel denies wrongdoing, or faced with incontrovertible evidence (in this case one of the spies has reportedly cooperated with the FBI) dismisses the spying with the claim that such spying is harmless, because Israel and the United States are such good friends... Read more... A Prominent German Historian Tackles Taboos of Third Reich History, by Nathaniel Bacon | Newsnet ...What is most strikingly new in this book is Nolte’s informed and open-minded treatment of the work of what he calls the “radical revisionists.” With candor that is very rare among prominent scholars, Nolte confesses in the foreword... Read more... Holocaust Denial And Uncomfortable Truths, by Robin Davis | Countercurrents ...history shows the greatest purveyors of lies, hatred and incitement to violence are those with the power to spread their poison by manipulating popular opinion via the control or complicity of the mass media. Through a purposefully constructed lens of political correctness the despicable becomes normal... Read more... Why I believe the king of the Nazi hunters, Simon Wiesenthal, was a fraud, by Guy Walters | The Daily Mail In my view, Simon Wiesenthal was a liar and a fraud. In fact, I’d go so far as to say he was one of the biggest conmen of the 20th century. I spent four years working on a history of Nazi-hunting that was published last year, and the material I gathered on Wiesenthal was enough to make me scream out loud... [His only rival for that title is Elie the Wiesel] Read more... To a Child who Dreamt of Freedom, by Reham Alhelsi | My Palestine You dreamt of playing with your friends in the streets and alleys of Palestine, you dreamt of playing without fear of F-16s and tanks, you dreamt of playing without blood and tears. You dreamt of running in the streets, up the hills and on the beach. You dreamt of playing hide and seek in a world where playing wars and soldier and civilian would be just a game... Read more... Letter To The British Liberal Democrats, by Stuart Littlewood | Intifada Palestine LibDem leaders know perfectly well that under ‘universal jurisdiction’ all states that are party to the Geneva Conventions are obliged to seek out and prosecute or extradite those suspected of grave breaches of the Conventions and bring them justice, regardless of nationality... Read more... Palestine and the fate of the United Nations | Redress Information & Analysis Lawrence Davidson argues that the failure of the United Nations to deliver justice to the Palestinians has condemned it to oblivion and that rather than look to the UN to deliver justice, fairness and equity, civil society must mobilize to do what is right in Palestine, as happened in the struggle that brought down apartheid South Africa... Read more... Fatah Using Iran Bogey To Justify Surrender To Israel, by Khalid Amayreh | Intifada Palestine Trying to justify its manifest moral and political bankruptcy, the Fatah movement, under PA leader Mahmoud Abbas, is trying to use the so-called Iran bogey to justify its effective surrender to the Zionist regime... Read more... Joe Sobran's Conservative Foreign Policy | YouTube Passing away last week at the age of 64, the late Joseph Sobran spent nearly two decades as editor for National Review - and the last two decades of his life battling the neoconservatives who had taken over his movement and wanted him out of it... [These days, genuine conservatives are even more rare than genuine liberals] Watch video...Nov 12, 2010 Western Media Frightened Of The "F" Word In Its Israeli Context | Intifada Palestine  Loyalty oath to Jewish state part of ethnic cleansing campaign as Israel veers into fascism There is a debate in Israel about whether the Zionist state is on the slippery slope to fascism or is already fascist. As far as I am aware the mainstream Western media has not drawn any attention to this...Read more... You Don't Have To Be Jewish To Be Proud Of These Young People | Desertpeace A vision of collective identity, purpose and values written by and for young Jews committed to justice in Israel and Palestine. It is an invitation and call to action for both our peers and our elders, launched as a counter-protest at the 2010 Jewish Federation General Assembly in New Orleans... Read more... Veterans Day 2010: Honor the Consciences of Our Veterans | YouTube The war in Afghanistan is now in its tenth year, with no end in sight. Al Qaida isn't in Afghanistan anymore, and the war doesn't meet the criteria for just war. We need to end this war, and honor the consciences of those troops who say, "I can't fight this war. My conscience won't allow it.".. Read more... Is Palestine America's Next Vietnam?, by Ira Chernus | TomDispatch ...there are unexpected undertows in both places, which make politics in Washington and Tel Aviv (and let's not forget Ramallah) remarkably unpredictable... Read more... Netanyahu: Intellectual Father of the 'War on Terror', by Thomas Harrington | Antiwar ...I don't know about you, but I was truly amazed at the alacrity with which the concept of the "War on Terror," and with it, the thousand some-odd page PATRIOT Act was rolled out in the wake of the attacks on the Twin Towers. There was no way, I thought then, and I think now, that this stuff was not sitting there in fairly finished form on the shelves of some very high-level White House offices... Read more... Zionism Needs Israeli Jews To Feel Frightened: Kourosh Zaibari Interviews Alan Hart | Eurasia Review ...Alan Hart joined me in an exclusive, in-depth interview to explore the prospect of Israel-Palestinian conflict, the roots of Zionist lobby's influence over the U.S. Congress, the 9/11 conspiracy theories and the possibility of a U.S.-directed military strike against Iran... Read more... 9/11: Chomsky and Rabbi Shira | Rehmat's World The recent actions of two American Jewish professors, Noam Chomsky and Rabbi Shira Lander shed some light on the evil hands behind 9/11. The neocons (mostly Jewish) used that tragic event to wage wars against two Muslim nation-states, Afghanistan and Iraq - killing hundreds of thousands of Muslim men, women and children... Read more... Asia Trip: Obama Sticks to Failed Foreign Policy, by William Pfaff | Antiwar Historically minded observers might have noted a resemblance between President Barack Obama and the First Lady's journey in Asia to the royal passage, receiving the fealty of lesser potentates, that led to the Great Durbar in Delhi in 1911 at which Britain's King George V and Queen Mary were crowned King-Emperor and Queen-Empress of India... Read more... Muslim Americans Foil Terror Threats, by William Fisher | IPS A new report on violent extremists in the United States finds that terrorism plots by non-Muslims greatly outnumber those attempted by Muslims, and that Muslim-American communities helped foil close to a third of al Qaeda-related terror plots threatening the country since Sep. 11, 2001... Read more... Wingnuts on Parade, by Philip Giraldi | Antiwar Most voters seemed to understand that the outcome of America's midterm election was the result of a devastated economy and the President Barack Obama's failure to create jobs or even to understand the difficulties that are confronting many American families. But it's nevertheless strange how America's elites never seem to get it... Read more... What Laila Sees, by David Smith-Ferri | Antiwar Laila's descriptions of living with fear and violence in Kandahar contradict the mild U.S. descriptions of the "security situation" there... Read more... Glyn Secker's Testimony | Jewish Boat To Gaza ...We made our point to the world very powerfully that there are probably hundreds of thousands of Jews around the world who are appalled at the Israeli policies to the Palestinians; the violations of their humanity and their human rights... Read more... Israeli tactics are 'uniting' Palestinians, by Jonathan Cook | The National Asad Ghanem, a professor of political science at Haifa University, predicts Mr Netanyahu and his cabinet will eventually come to rue their obduracy. The intransigence and the unabashed espousal of "an ideology of Jewish supremacy" by Mr Netanyahu and his supporters will lead to the gradual "reunification" of the Palestinian people... Read more... Mounting US war threats against Iran, by Bill Van Auken | Global Research Leading Republican Senator Lindsey Graham signaled a turn following the midterm elections toward an escalation of US threats against Iran, publicly calling for an all-out war that would "neuter" Tehran and leave it incapable of resistance. Graham made the statement Saturday at a conference on international security in Halifax, Canada. "Containment is off the table,"he declared in relation to Iran's nuclear program... Read more... Iraq : Destroying a Country: War Crimes and Atrocities, by Felicity Arbuthnot | Global Research Perhaps the most surprising aspect of the latest, vast cache of documents from Wikileaks, is that anyone was surprised at the revelations. For Iraqis, Afghans and the region, and Iraq and Afghanistan watchers across the globe, countless millions of words have been written and eye witness reports sent since day one of the highly questionable legality of the Afghan invasion the absolute illegality of that of Iraq... Read more... History Never Happened, Who Is David Irving?, by Gordon Duff | Veterans Today A few days ago someone sent me a link to a video by David Irving, the British author who professionally debunks everything. Irving, famous of late for taking on the holocaust, is the "go to guy" on World War II and Germany in particular. His research is, hands down, the best out there and he loves humiliating others for being duped by writing academic garbage based on secondary sources, too often proven, not just unreliable, but utter fiction... Read more, watch video... Israel wilfully keeping Gazans at near-starvation level | Daily Times The Israel government has been carrying out a deliberate policy of keeping the Gazan population alive at a near-starvation level while Israel sold or leased property in Arab neighbourhoods of Jerusalem to Israeli settlers at exceptionally low prices, court documents published on Sunday show... Read more... Obama's Inner Eisenhower, by Jeff Gates | My Catbird Seat Has this young president-with no military experience-been forced to face the reality of an enemy within? If so, we may yet have an opportunity to restore representative government. If so, those who deceived the U.S. to invade Iraq for a Zionist agenda may yet be held accountable... Read more... If you really want peace... | Never Before Campaign ...As if humanity hasn't learned from the millions killed due to the lack of justice. One would think it would have been obvious by now that there is no peace without justice, and that no people will lie down and accept injustice upon their children. Palestine is no exception... Watch video... In Motion: The Plot To Destroy The United States, by Gordon Duff | Veterans Today Plans are in motion for a "false flag" attack on America. Iran will be blamed, everyone knows that and Iran will be totally innocent. This is the last thing Iran would ever want. The most likely scenario is a nuclear attack. Two bombs are missing, bombs built by Israel in South Africa and lost long ago... Read more... Nov 11, 2010 The Oslo Virus and the Struggle for Bantustans, by Haidar Eid | The Palestine Chronicle  The option of an independent Palestinian state has become impossible In 'The Music of the Violin,' a short story by South African writer Njabulo Ndebele, one of the characters comments on the 'concessions' made by the apartheid regime to the indigenous people: "That's how it is planned. That we be given a little of everything, and so prize the little we have that we forget about freedom."..Read more... German people in unprecedented rebellion against government, by Jane Burgermeister | Aletho News Like the Roman legions vanquished in the Teutoburger Wald in Lower Saxony in 9 AD, the 17,000 police officers that marched into the woods around the nuclear storage facility in Gorleben in northern Germany on Sunday morning looked invincible... Read more... There's A Huge Anti-Austerity Protest In London Right Now | Business Insider ...It is estimated more that 50,000 have showed up. MI5 has closed the public entrance to its offices, concerned about protesters approaching it... Read more... Letter to British Liberal Democrats: protecting war criminals 'just about the lowest thing anyone could do' Stuart Littlewood challenges Britain’s Liberal Democrats, the new junior partners in the Conservative-led governing coalition, to confirm or denyForeign Secretary William Hague’s claim that they had agreed to amend UK law so that Israeli war crimes suspects can visit Britain without fear of prosecution under universal jurisdiction... Read more... Fox News, Fear Peddlers and Falsehoods Reshape Congress, by James M. Wall | My Catbird Seat Politicians, pollsters, media and pundits would have us believe ”the economy and taxes” were the burning issues in our late, unlamented midterm elections... Read more... Israel Plans To Take Their New Congress To War, by Franklin Lamb | Veterans Today ...No sooner had the election results been declared than key winners received what for decades has been a post election ritual, bestowed on new Members of Congress. That would be the delivery of US taxpayer subsidized invitations for all expense paid junkets to Israel. Of this year’s batch, Florida’s new Senator, Marco Rubio, who considers himself a Tea Party leader and who has been called “America’s great Right hope’ will lead the flock and arrive in Israel on Sunday 11/7/10... Read more... Wholesale Treason: Why Israel Bought Congress, by Gordon Duff | Veterans Today ...AIPAC, the Israel lobby used to, well, we don’t exactly know what they are “used to” but every politician in America is terrified of it for some reason, claims to have total control over the new congress... Read more... “He’s Neither Alive nor Dead”: the Resurrection of Ariel Sharon, by William A. Cook | My Catbird Seat ...It seems that the current policies of the Netanyahu administration, the increased vigor in the Knesset as it rams through a series of “thought” legislation, and the uncertainty that surrounds Obama’s ambiguous thrusts and withdrawals regarding his negotiations have shed klieg lights on what Sharon wrought before he fell into the coma... Read more... Meet your new House Foreign Affairs chairwoman: Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, by Josh Rogin | Foreign Policy Now that the Republicans are projected to take control of the House, we here at The Cable would like to introduce you to the next head of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, Florida Congresswoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen... Read more... How the Israel Lobby Took Control of U.S. Foreign Policy, by Jeff Gates | Intifada Palestine In the early 1960s, Senator William J. Fulbright fought to force the American Zionist Council to register as agents of a foreign government. The Council eluded registration by reorganizing as the American Israel Public Affairs Committee. AIPAC has since become what Fulbright most feared: a foreign agent dominating American foreign policy while disguised as a domestic lobby... Read more... UN will be judged on whether it upholds Palestinian rights | The Electronic Intifada The following is an oral presentation made by Richard Falk, Special Rapporteur on the Situation of human rights in the Palestinian Territories occupied since 1967, to the United Nations General Assembly on 20 October 2010... Read more... Show a Film about Bethlehem in December | AAPER There is a town in Palestine that is of particular significance for many Americans during the Christmas season -- the town of Bethlehem. Today, Bethlehem -- and Palestine -- resembles an open-air prison, occupied by Israel's military and encircled by Israel's wall... Read more... Something uplifting for a change: "Stand By Me" | Vimeo An extraordinary video mix from everywhere [courtesy Debbie Menon, My Catbird Seat]... Watch video and enjoy... Bush Boasts About Waterboarding, by Ray McGovern | Antiwar Former President George W. Bush continues to be beyond shame. Those favored with an advance copy of his memoir, Decision Points, say it paints a picture of a totally unapologetic Bush bragging, for example, about authorizing the CIA to waterboard 9/11 “mastermind” Khalid Sheikh Mohammed... Read more... Shin Bet Mistreatment of Palestinian Detainees | Stephen Lendman An October B'Tselem/HaMoked, Center of the Defense of the Individual report, titled "Kept in the Dark: Treatment of Palestinian Detainees in the Petach-Tikva Interrogation Facility of the Israel Security Agency (Shin Bet)" is discussed below... Read more... World Awakens To Criminal Banking Cartel, by Steve Watson | Prison Planet A global backlash has emerged against the Federal Reserve’s blatant policy of devaluing the dollar by printing $600 billion out of thin air, a move that analysts, economists, foreign ministers and even the Fed’s own employees charge will only serve to stall economic recovery and initiate trade and currency wars... Read more... Dissecting the Perpetual War Machine, by Gareth Porter | IPS Andrew J. Bacevich emerged in the first decade of the century as this country's most widely read and widely respected critic of U.S. militarism and empire... Read more... Heads Or Tails, One Or Two-State Solution, by Mitri I. Musleh | Palestine News Network The challenges facing President Obama have not changed. The Palestinian leadership remains divided, unproductive and out of touch with the facts on the grounds and the Palestinian populace. The Israeli leadership remains committed to the Zionist plan of establishing the Greater Israel and has turned a deaf ear to any country in the world that opposes this vision... Read more... Speaking out on Kashmir and Palestine in the US, by Yasmin Qureshi | The Electronic Intifada The United States has become a battleground for both the struggles of the peoples of Palestine and Kashmir, for freedom from military occupation and for justice. Awareness amongst the US public is broadened as the repression of both struggles grows ever more violent, and meanwhile those wishing to stifle debate on these issues in the US resort to harassment and intimidation... Read more... QE2 and Last Rites for the World's Reserve Currency: Dollar in the Dustbin, by Mike Whitney | Counterpunch Millions of Americans have no idea what Quantitative Easing is or how it will effect them personally. That's why Wednesday's announcement that the Fed will purchase another $600 billion in US Treasuries merely reinforced feelings of helplessness and a sense that government spending is out-of-control... Read more... Children With Matches, by Fred Reed | Antiwar ...Sen. Graham has the brains of a tapeworm, making him eminently qualified for the Senate. Tapeworms, I note, do not have brains. It is characteristic of warlike innocents, to include the Pentagon, to believe that if you destroy navies and air forces, you win wars. This worked well in Vietnam, you will recall, and as soon as we destroy the Taliban’s navy, Afghanistan will be a cakewalk... Read more... There Is No Business like Shoa Business | Gilad Atzmon Seventeen people have been charged in the US with the theft of $42m of Holocaust compensation funds provided by the German government... Read more... Mockery of Justice: The Corries vs. Israel, by Hatim Kanaaneh | The Palestine Chronicle ...Here was a most capable pair of Palestinian lawyers bearing down with full force on a series of witnesses representing the best Israel could produce in its defense, formerly in the face of the intruding ISM and now to counter the petty claims of a sad family set on discrediting ‘the only democracy in the Middle East’ and its valiant soldiers, members of the ‘most moral army in the world.’ I had seen and heard of innumerable cases where again and again the Israeli judicial system squeezes Palestinian defendants literally lifeless. But here I was witnessing the reverse process: Palestinians pressing proud Israelis, former and current members of Israel’s proud and mighty field units, into a state of denial, meekness, confusion and regression... Read more... Nov 2, 2010 America’s Army: A Tale Of Misuse And Abuse, by Gordon Duff | Veterans Today  Winning Hearts And Minds For nearly a decade, America has been, in the eyes of the world, the successor to Nazi Germany... The Tariq Aziz Sentence: The Audacity, Bestiality and Venality of Victors, by Monish Chatterjee | Uruknet Throughout my conscious years, I have witnessed with disbelief and increasing hopelessness the limitless human capacity for cruelty and barbarism- quite often comfortably cloaked in terms of righteousness and piety. A vast number of instances of this ongoing blot upon the soul of humanity are readily attributable to the audacity of power, and the ability of the human animal to compartmentalize, commit the most inhuman acts, and go on living unperturbed to see another day... Read more... About those packages - that "credible terrorist threat" - coming just before Election Day, by Ann Althouse | Information Clearing House It's the big story. I haven't written about it yet. I didn't know what to say as the story was unfolding yesterday. I had the thought — and I immediately censored myself — what does this have to do with Election Day? I cut myself off from that line of thinking because, of course, the war on terrorism transcends the petty vicissitudes of partisan politics. I readjusted my consciousness to suit an image of myself as a decent person... Read more... Turkey policy paper: Israel's actions threaten Mideast | Haaretz Ankara's National Security Council names Israel as central threat to Turkey's security for first time since 1949, fails to mention Iran, Syria... Read more... Acclaimed Indian Author Arundhati Roy Faces Arrest for Questioning India's Claim on Kashmir | Democracy Now The award-winning Indian author Arundhati Roy is facing possible arrest in India on sedition charges after publicly advocating for Kashmir independence and challenging India’s claim that Kashmir is an "integral part of India." If charged and convicted of sedition, Roy could face up to life in prison... Read, watch, listen... How the US created al Qaeda | Brasscheck TV Watch video... RFK, Jr. and Jeff Sharlet Discuss "C Street" | YouTube For decades in Washington, D.C., a secretive group known as The Family has been working behind the scenes to empower a few select politicians, and to influence the decisions that shape our country. Not only has this group operated in almost complete secrecy, but they've also skewed Christianity to the point where they believe that God wants us to take care of the rich and powerful more than the poor and hungry... Read more, watch video... Segregation of Jews and Arabs in 2010 Israel is almost absolute, by Amnon Be'eri-Sulitzeanu | Haaretz For those of us who live here, it is something we take for granted. But visitors from abroad cannot believe their eyes... Read more... The real story of the 2010 election, by Ben Kimiero | Media Matters ...in endeavoring to explain how the GOP has seemingly managed to reverse its political fortunes in such a short amount of time, media outlets would be remiss not to mention one of the most important factors. In fact, we don't need to wait for Tuesday's results to pinpoint perhaps the most significant development in the country's political landscape over the past two years. One of the two major political parties in the country is run by a "news" network... Read more... The wretched mind of the American authoritarian, by Glenn Greenwald | Salon Decadent governments often spawn a decadent citizenry. A 22-year-old Nebraska resident was arrested yesterday for waterboarding his girlfriend as she was tied to a couch, because he wanted to know if she was cheating on him with another man; I wonder where he learned that?.. Read more... The Zionist Hollowhoax Continues, by Joe Cortina | Veterans Today Since I wrote this documented expose of some of the outright lies and deceptions surrounding the so-called Zionist holocaust – better described as a ‘hollowhoax’– several distinguished learned patriots and seekers of truth have suffered every form of brutality and injustice for the crime of expressing their learned and FACT FOUNDED ‘opinions’ resulting from many years of professional investigations... Read more... The Tea Party movement: deluded and inspired by billionaires, by George Monbiot | The Guardian By funding numerous rightwing organisations, the mega-rich Koch brothers have duped millions into supporting big business... Read more... The New American Century: PNAC Exposed, by Massimo Mazzucco | Axis of Logic This film goes in detail through the untold history of The Project for the New American Century with tons of archival footage and connects it right into the present. This film exposes how every major war in US history was based on a complete fraud with video of insiders themselves admitting it. This film shows how the first film theaters in the US were used over a hundred years ago to broadcast propaganda to rile the American people into the Spanish-American War... Read more, watch videos... The Insane Prelude to the Corporate Takeover of the Planet, by Siv O'Neall | Axis of Logic The planning for the days of the Unites States asserting itself comfortably as the lone global power, influencing trade, resources, and living conditions all over the world, is anything but recent history... Read more... Viciously Attacking Israeli Arabs, by Stephen Lendman | OpEd News Reminiscent of Kristallnacht violence, Israeli Arabs in Haifa District's Umm al-Fahm community were attacked, Haaretz writers Fadi Eyadat, Jack Khoury, and Chaim Levinson headlining, "Police clash with Arab protesters as rightists rally in Umm al-Fahm,".. Read more... Adnan Mirza: Another US War on Terror Victim | Stephen Lendman Post-9/11, Mirza is one of legions of war on terror victims - framed, charged, indicted, tried and convicted on bogus terrorism related charges... Read more... Victor Thorn Interviews Former CNN Reporter Who Was First on Scene at Pentagon on 9-11 | American Free Press There’s an old saying: Don’t spit on my leg and tell me it’s raining. Likewise, don’t show me a photo taken only minutes after the 9-11 Pentagon “event” and insist that a Boeing 757—which is 155 feet long with a 124 foot wingspan and weighs 100 tons—crashed into America’s military nerve-center... Read more... Forget the Details, its all about the Land, by Joharah Baker | Uruknet The Palestinian-Israeli conflict may seem unbelievably complicated to most – an endless web of historical narratives, emotional claims and bitter pasts – but it all comes down to a simple premise: the Palestinian-Israeli conflict is about land, plain and simple. Israel wants the rest of it and the Palestinians won't go down without a fight in trying to keep the tiny sliver that remains... Read more... The Financial Puzzle Behind 9/11, by David DeGraw | Consortiumnews The back story of the power struggle for energy supplies in the Near East – from the late 1970s through 9/11 to the present – is one that requires serious investigation, but has often been relegated to the back burner behind 9/11 conspiracy theories... Read more... Nov 1, 2010 Bombs, Terrorism And Manure, by Gordon Duff | Veterans Today  Typical Muslim Terrorist (Note Star Of David Tattoo) Worse still, the “terrorists” father, described by the press as a “Muslim banker” turned out to be a partner in an Israeli managed defense company and a close friend of the CIA...Read more... Why the talks were always destined to fail, by Samira Quraishy | Middle East Monitor ...Israel and western powers have yet to acknowledge the Zionist state's "original sin" which led to the Palestinian refugee crisis, the illegal occupation and decades of human rights abuses and injustice. Until and unless this is done, it is hard to see any real peace with justice emerging from any "peace negotiations".. Read more... Why 9-11 Truth Has Won: The Coming of the Flood, by Allen L. Jasson | MWC News ...the successful demand by the 9-11 Truth Movement and others for a new, wider, proper investigation is only a matter of time. The flood would come. The recent political squabble in Australia represents further breaching of the dam wall that will bring that flood... Read more... Mike Gravel will introduce Multi-State Initiative to Investigate 9/11 | YouTube Mike Gravel, famous for the Pentagon Papers that revealed the lies the public and Congress were told by the Johnson administration about Vietnam, has gone public for 9/11 Truth. He met with members of WeAreChangeLA to discuss starting an initiative in California that would put an investigation of 9/11 on the 2012 ballot... Watch video... Israel is proud to present: The aggressor-victim, by Gideon Levy | Haaretz Israelis have always loved victimization, not only when we were real victims, as often was the case in our history, but also when we were the aggressors, occupiers and abusers... Read more... Ed Miliband irks ‘British Friends of Israel’| Rehmat's World Ed Miliband 40, became the youngest leader of Britain’s Labour Party. He closely defeated (50.65% vs 49.35%) his elder brother David Miliband, the nototiously pro-Israel former British Foreign Secretary in Gordon Brown’s government. David Milliband is listed as “Author” by Israel Hasbara Committee. Ed Miliband seems to be influenced by his mother, who is signatory of Jews for Justice for Palestinians... Read more... A Turning Point Quietly Reached, by Jeremy Salt | The Palestine Chronicle This turning point has arrived quietly, no fanfare or advance warning signifying its importance. After 62 years there is nothing left to talk about with Israel. Finally, all possibilities have been eliminated. Past plans are scattered across the landscape like the whitened bones of dinosaurs, their only purpose to remind us and future generations of what might have been but never was. The last flimsy veil has been pulled away from a 'peace process' that was never a peace process in the first place but a different kind of war process... Read more... From London to Qom for Islam | Rehmat's World Last week, speaking at the Global Peace and Unity Event in London (UK), Lauren Booth (born 1967), sister-in-law of the Islamophobe former British prime minister Tony Blair, currently UN special envoy to Middle East, said: “What I wanted to share with you today is that I am Lauren Booth and I am a Muslim”... Read more... US Palestinians converging to help shape homeland's future, by Andrew Dalack | The Electronic Intifada ...This weekend in Chicago, the second Popular Conference for Arabs and Palestinians in the US promises to continue to push our movement forward. After more than six decades of colonization, forced dispossession, home demolitions, occupation and apartheid, Palestinians remain steadfast in their refutation of the Israeli assertion that "The old will die, and the young will soon forget.".. Read more... Edwin M. Wright Oral History Interview | Truman Library General staff G-2 Middle East specialist, Washington, 1945-46; Bureau Near East-South Asian-African Affairs Department of State, since 1946, country specialist 1946-47, advisor U.N. affairs, 1947-50, advisor on intelligence 1950-55... Read more... Montreal activists launch campus boycott campaign, by Jillian Kestler-D'Amours | The Electronic Intifada As a boycott, divestment and sanctions conference was convened in Montreal last week, activists launched a boycott campaign at two city universities. A group of students, professors and staff from Concordia and McGill universities are calling on the schools cut ties with the Israeli Institute of Technology, more commonly referred to as Technion University... Read more... Polish Prosecutor Will Investigate Torture Of Guantánamo Prisoner | Common Dreams The Polish prosecutor will investigate the detention and torture of Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri at a black site in Poland after he was kidnapped and transported there by the CIA. This is the first time an extraordinary rendition victim's claims have been recognized in an official investigation in Poland. In response to the announcement, the American Civil Liberties Union called for accountability in the U.S. for top-level officials who may have known about and authorized torture, and for cooperation with the Polish prosecutor in securing documents and witnesses in the ongoing investigation... Read more... New photographs reveal IDF's "purity of arms" claim to be a sick joke, by Omar Radwan | Middle East Monitor A new set of photographs taken by Israeli soldiers has appeared on the Facebook page of the Israeli human rights group "Breaking the Silence". These photos show Israeli soldiers abusing and humiliating Palestinians during "Operation Cast Lead" - the 2008-2009 assault on Gaza... Read more... The Remaining Option for the Palestinians, by George S. Hishmeh | The Palestine Chronicle Over 70 years ago, agitating European Zionist leaders were offered by Britain, who then ruled Palestine, about 20 percent of the Arab country to establish a state there, a partition they accepted in principle but then demanded more land. This offer was made behind Palestinians backs... Read more... |
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