Nov 30, 2011 Video celebrating Freedom Riders likens Israeli flag to Confederate flag | Mondoweiss  Mazin Qumsiyeh On the 15th of November, six Palestinian activists: Nadeem Al-Sharbate, Huwaida Arraf, Dr.Mazin Qumsieyeh, Fadi Qura’an, Basel Al-Araj, and Badee’ Dwaik, boarded a segregated Israeli bus used by Israeli settlers to Jerusalem in an attempt to highlight the regime of discrimination on freedom of movement in place in the Occupied Palestinian Territories and the fact that Palestinians cannot access Jerusalem freely. After boarding the bus without incidents, the bus was stopped at the Hizme checkpoint, where all the activists were arrested and violently forcibly removed from the bus. ~ Intifada Palestine[This is the true Intifada, the one that will unite the Palestinians and put an end to the malignant tumor threatening the world, the Jewish State.] Watch video...Israeli occupation forces demolish homes and mosque, arrest girls near Hebron | The Electronic Intifada US arms dictators with illegal weapons: Interview with Peter Eyre | PressTV On 24 November Israeli occupation forces demolished two homes, a mosque and a barn, killing livestock, and arrested two young women in the village of Umm Fagarah, in the South Hebron Hills in the occupied West Bank... Read more, watch video... The United States, as one of the world's major cluster bomb manufacturers, has refused to sign the Convention on Cluster Munitions... [Israel buys lots of these, and scattered lots of them as presents for Lebanese children during their most recent invasion of that country.] Watch video...Lies and truths about Syria, by Thierry Meyssan | Voltaire Network For eight months, Western leaders and some public media have been agitating for a war in Syria. The extremely serious accusations leveled against Assad intimidate those who question the justification for a new military intervention. But not everyone, because - on the initiative of Voltaire Network - some came to Syria to investigate for themselves and were able to measure the extent of NATO’s propaganda... Read more... Solidarity, Renewal, and Struggle: Revolution Until Liberation | US Palestinian Community Network  On this International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People, the US Palestinian Community Network marks 64 years since the partition of Palestine – 64 years of ongoing resistance, steadfastness and continuing commitment to free our land and our people. Today, we are in a time of revolution, and increasing global solidarity with our cause. We are nearing the end of what has been a momentous year for the Palestinian people and the Arab nation. 2011 is almost over, but revolution continues throughout the Arab world. From Tunisia and Egypt to Bahrain and Yemen, the Arab revolutions are evolving in their own ways, demonstrating that the Arab people’s resolve against political despotism remains strong... Read more... Jack Abramoff, Whipping Boy, by Russell Mokhiber | Counterpunch ...“One of the most effective ways for us to control a Congressional office is to offer the chief of staff a job when they decide to leave Capitol Hill,” Abramoff said. “And for the time they remained as the chief of staff, we were in control of that office. He or she wasn’t going to allow anything to happen that wouldn’t featherbed where they were going later. They went out of their way. They over-performed in many cases. It is really an incredibly corrupt aspect of what goes on out there. There are a lot of reasons why the revolving door has to be slammed shut. But that alone is a good enough reason.”.. Read more... Is Iran the Enemy of the Arabs? by Patrick Seale | Middle East Online Arabs are being urged to join in the hostile campaign against the Islamic Republic, largely stirred up by Israel and the United States. But is making an enemy of Iran in the Arabs’ interest?.. Read more... Israeli gov't warns Israelis in U.S. not to marry American Jews but come home, by Philip Weiss | Mondoweiss ...This issue is huge. John Mearsheimer first told me about it two years ago. Reverse aliyah, the marrow being sucked out of the Israeli miracle, by Israelis. No wonder the billboard version of these ads are in Palo Alto, Boston, L.A., New York. That's where the software engineers and professors are. This brain drain is also cited fearfully by Bernard Avishai in his Harper's piece - saying that only peace will bring the Israelis home... Read more... Saudi Wahhabism and Conspiracies: A Brief History, by Haytham A. K. Radwan | Intifada Palestine  While Islam as a faith is the main religion in 48 countries, and Muslims around the globe are rapidly growing, Saudi Islam is the main sectarian movement in Saudi Arabia, and its influence is also rapidly growing. Acting as the protector of Islam through its own form of Islam, while it remains an American client state through its location, petrodollar’s cheque book, and American diplomatic and military protection, it could be argued that among the major influential players, Saudi Arabia’s policies, its own form of Islam, and its relations with the US, undoubtedly constitute one of the most serious threats to the security of the world today... Read more... The Chanukah Pantomime | Gilad Atzmon After weeks of relentless attempts by Zionist outlets such as the BOD (Board Of Deputies of British Jews), Harry's Place and the Jewish Chronicle to stop me from playing at 'Raise Your Banners' Festival, I met my audience in Bradford. And here is what they had to say.... Watch video... 'A Needle in the Binding': The legacy of Palestinian prisoner self-education in Israeli prisons, by Ben Lorber and Khalil Ashour | Mondoweiss ...through the will and perseverance of the prisoners, prison was transformed into a school, a veritable university offering education in literature, languages, politics, philosophy, history and more...Prisoners passed on what they knew and had learned in an organized and systematic fashion. Simply put, learning and passing on knowledge and understanding, both about Palestine and in general, has been considered a patriotic duty necessary to ensure steadfastness and perseverance in the struggle to defend our rights against Zionism and colonialism... Read more... The Folly of Sanctions, by Rep. Ron Paul | Antiwar Many people have the misconception that sanctions are an effective means to encourage a change of behavior in another country without war. However, sanctions and blockades are not only acts of war according to international law, they are most often the first step toward a real war, starting with a bombing campaign. Sanctions were the first step in our wars against Iraq and Libya, and now more sanctions planned against Syria and Iran are leading down the same destructive path... Read more... Cryptome Protest Photos Series  A protester takes a break during clashes with Egyptian riot police "Something's happening here and you don't know what it is - do you, Mr. Jones?" And it's happening worldwide. Check out these photos - it's a treasure trove...See... Pipeline Politics and the Rewiring of Eurasia | Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs ...This is our EyeOpener Report by James Corbett, joined by our distinguished guests Pepe Escobar and William Engdahl, presenting the West’s scramble to secure pipeline concessions in the highly strategic Caspian basin region, the likely destabilization game in these key states in a campaign of terror that will be blamed on Islamic fundamentalists or other shadowy terror groups, and how this destabilization would benefit the very NATO countries with an interest in gaining control in the region... Watch video... Palestinian Unity: A Threat, Says Israel | Stephen Lendman ...Israel is the region's leading purveyor of state terrorism by far. Moreover, Netanyahu, other Israeli officials, and previous ones spurn peace. Why else would decades of negotiations go nowhere. Hopefully, Hamas and Fatah agreements will hold... [Without Palestinian unity Israel faces no real threats.] Read more...BRICS blocks the US on Middle East, by M K Bhadrakumar | Indian Punchline The meeting of the deputy foreign ministers of the BRICS countries in Moscow on Thursday regarding the Middle East situation is a major development, as the joint communique testifies... [Go BRICS!] Read more...Laura Stuart: Can the Solidarity Movement Contain Apologists | Gilad Atzmon  ...All protests, flotillas, convoys and lectures feature people of different religions (or none) from a broad spectrum of political backgrounds, yet amazingly there is a huge amount of solidarity across the board with everyone contributing in many different ways within their own area of expertise. The common thread holding us all together is a firm belief in Truth and Justice... Read more... In Modern America, Liking Peace Is Considered Terrorism| Washington's Blog "Why of course the people don’t want war … But after all it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy, and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship … Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is to tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country." ~ Hermann Goering Read more... Drones: Coming to the Skies Near You, by John Glaser | Antiwar ...The U.S. Defense Department operates more than 7,000 aerial drones and 12,000 unmanned ground systems and now hyper-militarized police departments in Miami, Utah, and elsewhere have sought licenses to operate surveillance drones. For the wards of the state, there really is no limit to what weapons and machinery of war can be utilized against the people... Read more... NY City Council Resolution Calls for Support of Occupy Wall Street | NYT Three City Council members introduced a resolution Tuesday that would formalize support for Occupy Wall Street and its message condemning economic inequality... [The Republicans are buffoons and the Democrats are cowards, but not all of them.] Read more...Nov 29, 2011 Are the Freedom Rides a detour for the struggle? by Linah Alsaafin | The Electronic Intifada  Is Palestine’s an anti-colonial or civil rights struggle? ...The Freedom Rides were intended as an anti-colonial act mirroring a previous and successful civil rights one. But our struggle is not a civil rights one. It is a struggle against a foreign occupation. We must be calling for the liberation of an indigenous population under a devastating settler-colonial rule, one that has continued to ethnically cleanse, commit large scale massacres, impose collective punishment, imprison and restrict the movement of Palestinians for decades... [Comments were not enabled for this piece, so I'll insert one here. The problem is the author's either/or statement: "our struggle is not a civil rights one. It is a struggle against a foreign occupation." The real issue is one of strategy. How do you turn the tide of world opinion where it counts, in America? By invoking the Civil Rights Movement heretofore confused Americans might well begin to wake up and start to apply some pressure on a government that is in the pocket of the Zionist Lobby. This would obviously start with African-Americans, veterans of the American civil rights struggle and most important of all, the OWS movement. This could be a game changer. Linah Alsaafin's well written and articulate essay reminds me of all the missed opportunities that litter the history of the Palestinian resistance, which has been one of mistake after mistake. This is understandable, as the Palestinians, prior to the Ashkenazi stealth invasion, were a thoroughly peaceful, highly civilized people, who understandably had a hard time coming to grips with what was happening to them - a ruthless colonialist theft of their land starting with a vicious outburst of ethnic cleansing followed by a 60+ years ongoing genocide. I think it is fair to say that we are talking about an entire people who have been suffering from post-traumatic stress syndrome. It is for this reason that I am not one of those people who repeat the tired old mantra that we should follow the lead of the Palestinians. That way lies failure. Instead, we must trust our own intelligence and wisdom. However, in this case I am foursquare behind the Palestinian lead Freedom Rider initiative. Combined with BDS, it is about the only way that the objectives of the Palestinian people and their supporters, not to mention the welfare of most of the world, might possibly be achieved.] Lebanese MP: Syrian protesters only want overthrow, not reform | The Daily Star The head of the Free Patriotic Movement, MP Michel Aoun, said Syrian protesters’ initial calls for reform in the country were always a cover for their desire to overthrow President Bashar Assad’s government. “They cover up their intentions with demands and these demands are acceptable and dialogue is needed, but whenever we compromise on one issue, they demand something else,” Aoun told a Syrian delegation called “Syrian mothers.” “Until they finally confessed that their desire is to overthrow the regime and its head.”.. Read more... Turkey's Syrian Ambit: New War in the Making, by Jeremy Salt | Turkish News Possibly for the first time in the life of the Turkish republic, a Turkish government has adopted a policy of open, unprovoked confrontation with a neighboring country. The citizens of that country, Syria, are flabbergasted... Read more... Red Scribblings: Political Islam and 'Jewish identity politics - a comparison | Gilad Atzmon The following lengthy article by Red Scribblings proves that the issues raised by The Wandering Who are at the centre of today's philosophical and ideological thinking. It is no secret that Zionist lobbies together with some Jewish anti Zionists are desperate to stop the book or its author. I believe that they would actually do themselves a big favour reading the book first... Read more... US and Pakistan enter the danger zone, by M K Bhadrakumar | Asia Times Online The air strike by the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) at the Pakistani military post at Salala in the Mohmand Agency on the Afghan-Pakistan border Friday night is destined to become a milestone in the chronicle of the Afghan war. Within hours of the incident, Pakistan's relations with the US began nose-diving and it continues to plunge. NATO breached the ''red line''.. Read more... Pushing Palestinians out of East Jerusalem, one family at a time | Alternative Information Center  A Palestinian resident of Silwan The approximately 15,000 Palestinian residents suffer frequent house demolitions and evictions, night raids by the Israeli army and near-daily arrests. A quarter of Silwan’s lands have been confiscated by Israel and given to the City of David project. The Jerusalem municipality has additional plans for Silwan: parking, parks, and archaeological sites that celebrate the ancient Jewish presence in Jerusalem. And, already, more than 500 Jewish settlers live in Silwan...Read more... Iran gets a mini-break - in Bahrain, by Kaveh L Afrasiabi | Asia Times Online ...The report by an independent commission of inquiry headed by Mahmoud Cherif Bassiouni dealt a severe blow to the Bahraini regime by concluding that the security forces had used torture and excessive force against detainees arrested in the Saudi-backed crackdowns over the past several months... Read more... Those who support democracy must welcome the rise of political Islam, by Wadah Khanfar | The Guardian Ennahda, the Islamic party in Tunisia, won 41% of the seats of the Tunisian constitutional assembly last month, causing consternation in the west. But Ennahda will not be an exception on the Arab scene. Last Friday the Islamic Justice and Development Party took the biggest share of the vote in Morocco and will lead the new coalition government for the first time in history. And tomorrow Egypt's elections begin, with the Muslim Brotherhood predicted to become the largest party. There may be more to come... Read more... The Demonization of Iran, by Patrick Cockburn | Counterpunch ...This demonization of Iran at times seems to set the stage for a military attack on Iran by the US and Israel. The propaganda build-up is very similar to that directed against Saddam Hussein’s Iraq in 2002. In both cases, an isolated state with limited resources is presented as a real danger to the region and the world. Unlikely and sometimes comical conspiracy theories are given official credence, such as the supposed plot of an Iranian-American used-car dealer in Texas teaming up with the Iranian Revolutionary Guard to assassinate the Saudi ambassador in Washington. Iran’s nuclear program is identified as a threat in much the same way as Saddam Hussein’s non-existent WMD... Read more... Al-Qaeda Terrorists Airlifted From Libya to Aid Syrian Opposition, by Paul Joseph Watson | Infowars The same Al-Qaeda terrorists who fought U.S. troops in Iraq and helped NATO overthrow Colonel Gaddafi are now being airlifted into Syria to aid rebels there in toppling President Bashar al-Assad... Read more... Neoconservatives Planned Regime Change Throughout the Middle East and Northern Africa 20 Years Ago | Washington's Blog I’ve repeatedly documented that the Neocons planned regime change in Iraq, Libya, Iran, Syria and a host of other countries right after 9/11 … if not before. And that Obama is implementing these same plans – just with a “kindler, gentler” face. Glenn Greenwald provides further documentation that the various Middle Eastern and North African wars were planned before 9/11:.. Read more... Israel: Profile of a Rogue State | Stephen Lendman  Rogue states spurn international law, treaties, conventions, and in Israel's case its own laws and Supreme Court decisions.. Over a million Palestinian children "live and suffer every moment of their lives under the painful reality of occupation." Growing numbers are killed, injured, maimed, handicapped, arrested, imprisoned, and tortured. Most are impoverished and many hungry... Read more... The New Authoritarianism: From Decaying Democracies to Technocratic Dictatorships and Beyond, by Prof. James Petras | Global Research We live in a time of dynamic, regressive, regime changes. A period in which major political transformations and the dramatic roll back of a half century of socio-economic legislation are accelerated by a prolonged and deepening economic crises and a world-wide financier led offensive. This essay explores major ongoing regime changes that have a profound impact on governance, the class structures, economic institutions, political freedom and national sovereignty. We delineate a two-stage process of political regression. The first stage involves the transition from a decaying democracy to an oligarchical democracy; the second stage currently unfolding in Europe involves the transition from oligarchical democracy to colonial-technocratic dictatorship... Read more... Buchenwald Memorial Archivist Cannot ID Elie Wiesel as an Inmate | Elie Wiesel's Tattoo ...Sabine Stein says a complete list of the names of the liberated internees of the KZ Buchenwald, who were present at Buchenwald on April 16, 1945, is not available from her. In other words, she cannot clear up the mystery of Elie Wiesel, she can just go along with the narrative as it is and not make waves... [My pet theory is that the Weasel was a struggling East European actor who saw his opportunity as a con artist and went for it.] Read more...Scott Horton Interviews Gareth Porter | Antiwar Radio Gareth Porter, independent historian and journalist for IPS News, discusses the lies and innuendo in the IAEA report on Iran; the whole story on Vyacheslav Danilenko, the Russian scientist accused of helping Iran’s (alleged) nuclear weapons program; former IAEA inspector Robert Kelly’s doubts about a “containment chamber” for testing high explosives used in nuclear weapons; why this “intelligence” is most likely passed on to the IAEA by Israel; how the “alleged studies” documents got the current Iranian missile design wrong (proving they are forgeries)... Read more... Something's rotten in the heart of Western governments | Redress Information & Analysis Stuart Littlewood considers the extent to which the US and UK political systems have been infiltrated by Israeli stooges and highlights the harmful effects of this Zionist deep penetration on the British and American national interests... Read more... Nov 28, 2011 How Palestine was Vanished from the Map, by Jamal Kanj | Intifada Palestine  Following European atrocities against Jews in Europe, and without a single negotiated session with the native Palestinians, Western guilt-ridden governments let a vote on a UN Special Committee proposal on 29 November 1947 to partition Palestine between its indigenous natives and the new Jewish European immigrants. Under the UN plan, European Jews were granted more than fifty six per cent of historical Palestine while the native Palestinians, who owned ninety three per cent of the territory, were offered less than forty four per cent of their own land... Read more... Iran is not the monster it's made out to be - yet, by Patrick Cockburn | The Independent By blaming the street protests at home on their Shia neighbour, Sunni-dominated Saudi Arabia and Bahrain are playing with fire... Read more... Toward A Jurisprudence of Conscience | Richard Falk Ever since German and Japanese surviving leaders were prosecuted after World War II at Nuremberg and Tokyo, there has been a wide abyss separating the drive for criminal accountability on the part of those who commit crimes against peace, crimes against humanity, war crimes from the realities of world politics. The law is supposed to push toward consistency of application, with the greatest importance attached to holding accountable those with the greatest power and wealth. The realities of world politics move in the opposite direction, exempting from criminal accountability those political actors that play dominant roles... Read more... Goldman Sachs Has Taken Over: Bankers Have Seized Europe, by Paul Craig Roberts | Foreign Policy Journal ...Goldman Sachs and US banks have guaranteed perhaps one trillion dollars or more of European sovereign debt by selling swaps or insurance against which they have not reserved. The fees the US banks received for guaranteeing the values of European sovereign debt instruments simply went into profits and executive bonuses. This, of course, is what ruined the American insurance giant, AIG, leading to the TARP bailout at US taxpayer expense and Goldman Sachs’ enormous profits... Read more... Zionists subjugating Britain's culture | PressTV  Following revelations last week that Zionist lobbies are feeding mainstream British media, it has now emerged that they are also meddling in the book and music industry of the UK to silence anti-Zionist voices. Last week the British media carried a report that the news outlets including BBC, Sky News and Financial Times have “changed their narrative” to meet the Zionist regime's demands on the request of pro-Israeli lobbying group, Britain Israel Communications and Research Centre (BICOM)... Read more... Lobby: 'Civilian government in Egypt is bad for Israel' | Rehmat's World The former Jewish American ambassador to Israel, Martin S. Indyk, has criticized Barack Obama’s open support for a civilian government in Egypt because he feels a non-military government will be against the interests of Israel and US in the region. Martin is vice-president and director at Jewish think tanks Brookings and founding director of AIPAC-linked Washington Institute for Near East Policy (WINEP)... Read more... The Sheikh Raed Affair, by Zulaikha Abdullah | Middle East Monitor The rash decision taken by the Home Secretary to detain such a high-profile and well-respected Palestinian figure unleashed an international storm of criticism and condemnation from across the political, religious and social spectrum. The decision, which appears to have been made as a result of a highly-orchestrated, libelous campaign by right-wing pro-Israel organisations and lobbyists, was viewed widely as a political move aimed at curbing freedom of speech and limiting public access to the Palestinian narrative on the Israel-Palestine conflict... Read more... Miley Cyrus Releases Occupy Wall Street Song and Video | Dprogram This is Dedicated to the thousands of people who are standing up for what they believe in. – Miley Cyrus Watch video... Israel's rightist, religious camps mired in identity crisis, by Gideon Levy | Haaretz The right-wing and the religious camps are making a racket in Israeli politics. These are allegedly the factions that are getting stronger in Israeli society, but they are actually two groups in a deep identity crisis... Read more... Syria, Iran and the Balance of Power in the Middle East, by George Friedman | Intifada Palestine  U.S. troops are in the process of completing their withdrawal from Iraq by the end-of-2011 deadline. We are now moving toward a reckoning with the consequences. The reckoning concerns the potential for a massive shift in the balance of power in the region, with Iran moving from a fairly marginal power to potentially a dominant power... Read more... Reporter describes Israeli Flotilla raid: Interview with Hassan Ghani | PressTV The Israel regime has finally released Press TV correspondent Hassan Ghani, one week after he was abducted in international waters by Israeli forces while aboard a Gaza-bound relief aid boat... Read transcript, watch video... The 'Israeli Puppets' against Syria | Uprooted Palestinians ...The influential French Israel-Firster Jew, Bernard-Henri Levy is running a vicious anti-Bashar campaign and putting pressure on the Crypto-Jew French President Nicolas Sarkosy to eliminate Assad like Qaddafi earlier. Levi ran a similar anti-Muslim campaign against Pakistan in 1971 which resulted in the dismemberment of the country and creation of Bangladesh. Levi is one of the founders of the Libyan rebel National Transitional Council (NTC). Levi had convinced Sarkozy to become the first head of state to recognize NTC in exile... Read more... While consumers shop, U.S. descends into planned financial implosion that favors corporate elite, by Mike Adams | Natural News Even as our own civilization hangs on the precipice of financial solvency, the priorities of the uninformed masses as so distorted that many will actually camp out in front of a Best Buy store in order to be the first in line to save $100 on a big-screen TV. In a time when the very problems of society are rooted in over-consumption and too much television, the everyday plebs place such high importance on expanding the size of their mainstream media hypnosis devices that they will physically fight each other to get one of these TVs at a slightly lower price... Read more... Stone Cold Justice, by John Lyons | Australians for Palestine  You hear them before you see them. The first clue that a new group of children is approaching is a shuffle of shoes and a clinking of handcuffs and shackles. The door to the courtroom bursts open – four boys, all shackled, stare into the room. Four boys looking bewildered. They wear brown prison overalls and they trail into the room where their fate is to be decided by a female Israeli army officer/judge, who is sitting at the bench, waiting. The look on the face of one of the boys changes to elation when he sees his mother at the back of the court. He blows her a kiss. But his mother begins crying and this upsets the boy. He begins crying too... Read more... The necessary elimination of Israeli democracy, by Amos Schocken | Haaretz ...The ideology of Gush Emunim springs from religious, not political motivations. It holds that Israel is for the Jews, and it is not only the Palestinians in the territories who are irrelevant: Israel's Palestinian citizens are also exposed to discrimination with regard to their civil rights and the revocation of their citizenship. This is a strategy of territorial seizure and apartheid. It ignores judicial aspects of territorial ownership and shuns human rights and the guarantees of equality enshrined in Israel's Declaration of Independence... Read more... Palestine Government Pursues Terrorist Threat | Macondo News Yesterday, Gaza Defense Force (GDF) artillery brigades and elite commando units armed with mobile rocket launchers pounded weapons factories and command and control centers within Usurped Palestine (UP), killing numerous terrorist operatives believed to be responsible for the repeated tank and helicopter gunship attacks upon the defenseless population of the small and largely undefended seaside enclave. n a press conference following the raids, GDF spokesman, Ihab al-Ghussein declared “We believe we have delivered a strong blow against a terrorist infrastructure that has, for some time now, threatened Gazan civilians as they seek to peacefully live their daily lives... Read more... The Secret of Oz: Winner, Best Documentary of 2010 | YouTube The world economy is doomed to spiral downwards until we do 2 things: outlaw government borrowing; 2. outlaw fractional reserve lending. Banks should only be allowed to lend out money they actually have and nations do not have to run up a "National Debt". Remember: It's not what backs the money, it's who controls its quantity... Watch video... Nov 27, 2011 Israel 'Apartheid Regime': 'Jewish Lobby Addicted' to Settlement Ideology, by Amos Schocken | Tikun Olam  Haaretz publisher Amos Schocken ...Schocken, to his credit, faces things I’ve never heard a liberal Zionist face, and calls a spade a spade in his article. The “Jewish lobby” and even the Supreme Court come in for their share of criticism...Read more... The "Left" and Libya, by Alexander Cockburn | Counterpunch ...Failure as concerns Libya’s history this year belongs not to the virtually non-existent left, but to the entire political spectrum from progressives and the whole arc rightwards. A substantial measure of blame must be allocated here to the press, both here and in the U.K. Could it be that the press coverage of NATO’s Libyan onslaught was actually worse than the reporting on NATO’s attacks on the former Yugoslavia in the late 1990s, or on Iraq in the run-up to the 2003 invasion by the U.S.A. and its coalition partners? The answer is yes... Read more... OWS: Apartheid Wall Comes Full Circle, by M. I. Bhat | Palestine Chronicle ...The “Arab Spring,” as the West eulogizes the Arab revolutions, was expected to remain largely unique to the Arab world, which incidentally still represents majority of the world’s kingdoms and dictatorships. President Obama, though, wished it to sweep Iran and cross over the Atlantic and into Cuba and Venezuela. Arab Spring may not have entered Iran, it did cross the Atlantic -- not to bloom revolutionary flowers in Cuba or Venezuela but in Obama’s America... Read more... War Criminals and 9/11 Opportunist Exposed on Vandalized Billboard, by Kurt Nimmo | Prison Planet  ...Tillman had become disillusioned with the war and wanted to tell the truth. “Tillman abandoned a lucrative career in pro-football immediately after 9/11 because he felt a rampaging patriotic urge to defend his country, and became a poster child for the war on terror as a result,” writes Paul Watson. “But when he discovered that the invasion of Iraq was based on a mountain of lies and deceit and had nothing to do with defending America, he became infuriated and was ready to return home to become an anti-war hero.”.. Read more... Next Propaganda Phase: UN Says Syria Tortures Children, by Kurt Nimmo | Prison Planet In order to send in the bombers and introduce the sort of carnage in Syria the US and NATO inflicted on Libya, the propaganda war needs to be dialed up. Allegations of child abuse usually do the trick. Journalists call it “the hook.”.. Read more... 451 at Zuccotti Park, by Peter Linebaugh | Counterpunch The cowardly, nocturnal destruction of more than 5,000 volumes of “the People’s Library” last week, a repository of knowledge gathered by the Occupy Wall Street assembly at Zuccotti Park requires the most vigorous push-back. Mayor Bloomberg of New York ordered the destruction which was certainly coordinated with Wall Street and the White House. Let the number 451 become his license plate; let it become his Social Security Number; let it become the password to his billions; let it become his total ID, for now the world knows him as the one who realized the dystopia of book-burning described in Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 (1953) known to every American high school student... Read more... "After me, the deluge!" | Roy Tov  In various recent statements, Israel’s Minister of Defense Ehud Barak is desperately pushing ahead for an Israeli attack on Iran. In a recent interview with CNN, he said Iran has fewer than nine months until it produces a nuclear weapon, adding that soon we will reach a situation where nobody will be able to do anything practical about it... Read more... Is Britain plotting with Israel to attack Iran?: Ex-ambassador exposes government cover-up, by Jonathan Cook | Global Research Last February Britain’s then defense minister Liam Fox attended a dinner in Tel Aviv with a group described as senior Israelis. Alongside him sat Adam Werritty, a lobbyist whose “improper relations” with the minister would lead eight months later to Fox’s hurried resignation. According to several reports in the British media the Israelis in attendance at the dinner were representatives of the Mossad, Israel’s spy agency, while Fox and Werritty were accompanied by Matthew Gould, Britain’s ambassador to Israel... Read more... The Troubling Case of Saif Gadhafi, by Franklin Lamb | Counterpunch ...following the ICRC assurances, the Ukrainian-born Doctor Andrei Murakhovsky who lives in Zintan reported that “Saif’s wound is covered with gangrenous tissue and necrotic tissue.” He added that “This wound is not in good condition and requires amputation. His index finger has been ripped off at the level of the middle phalange (finger bone), the bones are all shattered. It’s the same thing with the thumb of that hand.”.. [Ah, the tender mercies of the thugs supporting the latest Western "humanitarian" war, who have been on a spree of murder, rape and pillage since the fall of Tripoli] Read more... Newt: The ultimate Beltway swindler, by Michael Winship | Salon  The Grinch is early this year You maybe should think twice when even Jack Abramoff thinks you’re beneath contempt. Not that Newt Gingrich cares...[Actually, the candidates (with the exception of Ron Paul) are so covered with the muck and slime of that dreadful pool that you can hardly tell one from another.] Read more...In memorium: Richard Grossman 1943-2011, by Russell Mokhiber | Counterpunch ...“I’m referring to the great myths of this nation’s founding and founders, of the U.S. Constitution and constitutional jurisprudence, the nonsense about limited governance, the sanctification of ‘the rule of law’ when lawmaking and interpreting and enforcing have been the special preserve in every generation of a small minority.”.. Read more... Greetings From the Cannabis Cup, by John Sinclair | Counterpunch Highest greetings from the Cannabis Cup in Amsterdam, where I’m enjoying the heady ambiance of this society where they just don’t care if you want to get high and where a couple thousand American youths are staggering around this week flashing their judge’s badges and sampling the wares of the city’s 250 coffee shops... Read more... Knesset Bill Would Criminalize Speech | Tikun Olam  Hebrew summary of provisions of draconian new libel bill The bill, which handily passed it’s first reading, would harm all Israeli, but hit bloggers especially hard. I know this from my own personal experience since Rachel Neuwirth did sue me unsuccessfully and Aussie Dave and David Yerushalmi threatened to do so, but never followed through with their threats. There are few NGOs prepared to defend bloggers in such circumstances and how many of us have the personal means to do so?..[Maybe I'll write a book just to tempt the ZioNazis to burn it] Read more...Gilad Atzmon answers Alan Hart | YouTube Watch video... The 99% #OWS #N17 Epic Moment | YouTube One of the most impressive moments of yesterday's Occupy Wall Street marches, was when someone projected a giant 99% "bat signal" on the side of one of lower Manhattan's skyscrapers as thousands of people swarmed across the nearby Brooklyn Bridge... Watch video... Assassinating Egyptian Dreams, by Ahmed Amr | Palestine Chronicle  Tantawi is assassinating Egyptian dreams Nostalgia for more innocent times is a comforting refuge when hope is scarce. This week, as we inhaled a toxic dose of tear gas in Tahrir Square, we were all gasping for a resurrection of the spirit of the January uprising that led to the spectacular fall of the House of Mubarak. Many Egyptians would give their right arm to relive the spirit of the 18 glorious days that dazzled our collective imagination and filled our hearts with hopes and dreams of a new dawn for young and old. Those dreams have been assassinated and we know the identity of the assassin...Read more... 'US-led sanctions on Iran illegal' | PressTV Britain and the United States have imposed new sanctions on Iran's banking system and energy sector after the UN nuclear agency's recent report on Tehran's nuclear program... [The entire USraeli Empire is extra-legal. Speaking speculatively, it may even be extra-terrestrial.] Read transcript, watch video...Palestine Solidarity Campaign in unholy alliance with Israeli mouthpiece and UK Zionist website | Redress Information & Analysis Lauren Booth looks at how the Palestine Solidarity Campaign, in particular its national director Sarah Colborne, appear to have put appeasement of some of the UK’s vilest Zionist bodies, such as the Jewish Chronicle weekly and the website Harry’s Place, ahead of genuine opposition to Israeli racism and solidarity with the Palestinian people... Read more... Nov 26, 2011  Look In The Damned Mirror America! by Karl Schwarz | Rense ..."America, America, land of the brave and home of the free. A psychotic nation that believes there is a terrorist behind every tree." They must have learned that from Israel. It is one thing to live in self-imposed, uneducated stupidity, but to live in a delusion too is truly shocking... Read more... The All-Out Hypocrisy of the Arab League and the West, by Kourosh Ziabari | Intifada Palestine After the Arab League hypocritically suspended the membership of Syria amid the mounting pressures of NATO and the United States, the resurgence of violence in Egypt and the increasing use of excessive force in Bahrain and Yemen and the unrelenting massacre of innocent civilians by the barbaric regime of Al Khalifa and Ali Abdullah Saleh once again attracted the attention of conscientious observers in the international community... Read more... Israel's Quiet War with Iran, by Derek Bolton | Antiwar The release of November’s IAEA report sighting "credible" evidence of Iranian efforts to develop nuclear weapons has largely played into the hands of the Israeli Ministry of Defense. As Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak has sought to muster support for unilateral military strikes against Iran, many have surmised that Israeli military intervention may be imminent. However, this fails to account for the fact that Israel, through its intelligence wing the Mossad, has already been engaged in a covert war against Iran’s nuclear program for almost a decade. The only change in recent months is that this ongoing campaign has slowly become more overt... Read more... Holocaust and Holodomor, by Nicholas Lysson | IGC One might think the worst holocaust deniers—at least the only ones who command serious attention—are those who insist the Nazi holocaust, as it involved the Jews only, was without parallel. Guenter Lewy argues for example in The Nazi Persecution of the Gypsies (Oxford University Press, 2000) that while the Gypsies were gassed, shot and otherwise exter-minated in great numbers, right alongside the Jews, they were not true victims of “the” Holocaust (capital “H”) but only of something collateral. Lewy even suggests the Gypsies invited their own destruction with certain cultural traits—in particular, sharply divergent moral standards for dealing among their own and with outsiders. But pre- or anti-Enlightenment Judaism is hardly a less ethnocentric or hostile moral system... Read more... Pepe Escobar: No war with Iran before 2012 elections | RT/YouTube Asia Times correspondent Pepe Escobar says that America's missile shield in Europe targets Russia - and is part of Washington's strategic plan of global dominance... Watch video... Many of the most serious dangers facing Americans today stem from our "special relationship" with Israel | Council for the National Interest Feelings of guilt may be factor in PTSD, by Gregg Zoroya | USA Today Our uniquely massive support for Israel has cost trillions of dollars and multitudes of lives. It has diminished our moral standing in the world, lessened our domestic freedoms, and exposed us to unnecessary and growing peril. The majority of Americans – as well as our diplomatic and military experts – oppose this unique relationship. Yet, the lobby for Israel continues to foment policies that are disastrous for our nation and tragic for the region... Read more... ...Half of all Iraq and Afghanistan veterans treated by the Department of Veterans Affairs have been diagnosed with mental health issues and the most common is PTSD, which is experienced by nearly 200,000 of these veterans, according to the VA. PTSD caused by moral injury can lead to more severe reactions such as family violence or even suicide, says Jonathan Shay, a psychiatrist who has worked on military mental health policies... Read more... Leaked UN report reveals torture, lynchings and abuse in post-Gaddafi Libya | The Independent Thousands of people, including women and children, are being illegally detained by rebel militias in Libya, according to a report by the Secretary-General of the United Nations. Many of the prisoners are suffering torture and systematic mistreatment while being held in private jails outside the control of the country's new government... Read more... Storm Watch: Arab Spring, by Adrian Salbuchi | RT ...Modern war is waged by powerful nations on five different overlapping, holistic levels of aggression against weaker, appetizing countries, ranging from stark naked aggression to subtle subversion... Read more... The Influence of Israel and it's American Lobby over US Middle East Policy, by Jeffrey Blankfort | PIWP The apparent ability of Israel, one of the world's smallest countries, to shape the Middle East policies of the world's remaining superpower has been a source of puzzlement, conjecture, and constant frustration on the part of those fighting for justice for the Palestinians and for the peoples of the region, as a whole. One of the roots of this unique historical phenomenon may be found in the interpretation of a 120-year-old US Supreme Court decision that afforded corporations the same rights as individual American citizens... Read more... Alice Walker: "Going through Israeli checkpoints is like going back in time to American Civil Rights struggle" by Dr. Hanan Chehata | Middle East Monitor  I am a big supporter of BDS. I frankly think that it is the best, absolutely the best way ...During the course of the interview the similarities between the Palestinian struggle for liberation and the African-American struggle during the Civil Rights era is evident. She expresses her belief that "Americans have a duty to be active in the defence of Palestinian people" and further proposes that the illegal settlements paid for unwittingly by American tax payers should be lived in by the Palestinians to whom the land belongs and who should all "come home"...Read more... Illicit Israeli Military Technology Transfers Continued Amidst US State Department Infighting | Reuters A newly declassified US Department of State report obtained by the Institute for Research: Middle Eastern Policy (IRmep) reveals how political infighting and turf battles undermined efforts to reign in illicit Israeli transfers of sensitive US military technology... Read more... Rep. Ron Paul is a 'vicious anti-Semite'! | Rehmat's World In February 2011 America’s leading Muslim-basher, Israel-Firster David Horowitz, accused Rep. Ron Paul of being “a crackpot” and “vicious anti-Semite“. Horowitz claimed that Ron Paul is an ‘anti-Semite’ because of Paul’s proposal to end USAID to the Zionist entity (watch a video below). Ron Paul had said that the US is under huge debt and cannot afford to send money to other countries. Israel is a rich parasite which has sucked more than $3 trillion from American taxpayers since 1970s... Read more, watch video... Libyan Rebels Fought the Globalists' War, by Tony Cartalucci | Prison Planet After rebel leader Abdel-Hakim al-Hasidi [aka Hakim Belhaj] admitted to being trained in Afghanistan and subsequently fighting American troops there, and admitting many of the rebel fighters now joining him in Libya had similarly returned from Afghanistan as well as Iraq, it must strike them as tremendous irony that the same Americans they were filling pine boxes with overseas, are now protecting their lives and handing them an entire country to rule over... Read more... Money: A chart of almost all of it, where it is, and what it can do | War in Context  ..It’s an incredible visualization representing trillions of dollars — what money is spent on (everything from iPads to charity to federal expenditures), and how money is earned (for individuals, corporations, charities, governments, etc.)... See charts... Soros Celebrates the Fall of Tunisia, by Tony Cartalucci | Infowars By now, it is no secret that the “Arab Spring” was a premeditated geopolitical plot engineered by the US corporate-financier interests years in advance. The New York Times in its article, “U.S. Groups Helped Nurture Arab Uprisings,” clearly stated as much when it reported... Read more... Media Lies Used to Provide a Pretext for Another "Humanitarian War": Protest in Syria: Who Counts the Dead? by Julie Lévesque | Global Research ...the LCC wants regime change in Syria and it seems to be the major source of information for the western mainstream media and human rights organizations. This opposition group claims to provide “credible facts”, however there is no way to verify these facts. The so-called facts could well be propaganda intended to discredit the actual regime and galvanize public opinion in favour of the regime change the group aspires to implement... Read more... Norman Finkelstein & Jonathan Rosenhead on BDS | Norman G. Finkelstein Prof Norman Finkelstein and Prof Jonathan Rosenhead discuss the proposition: The Palestinians having being denied justice for 63 years, those who support their rights must endorse their call for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS), including academic and cultural boycott of Israel... Watch video... Gould-Werritty: A Real Conspiracy, Not a Theory | Craig Murray There is a huge government cover-up in progress over the Werritty connection to Mossad and the role of British Ambassador to Israel Matthew Gould, and their neo-con plan to start a war with Iran... Read more... Nov 25, 2011 Will the UN Insist on Fair Trials for Ex-Regime Loyalists in Libya? by Fanklin Lamb | Intifada Palestine  An affable gentleman, "Mahmoud" ushered this observer into the Benghazi People's Court (Mahkamat al-Sha'b) and showed me the freshly painted courtroom where on December 19, 2006, the current NTC leader and long term CIA favorite, Mustafa Abdul Jalil, twice upheld death sentences by firing squad against a Palestinian doctor, Ashraf al-Hujuj, and five Bulgarian nurses.. The death sentences were requested by the Libyan prosecutor in his opening statement four months earlier, in the final appeal in the fake HIV show trial case # 607/2003 held at the criminal court in Benghazi... Read more... Dozens of U.S. spies captured in Lebanon and Iran, by Barak Ravid and the AP | Haaretz ..Dozens of spies working for the CIA were captured recently in Lebanon and Iran, current and former U.S. officials told The Associated Press and ABC News on Monday. The CIA's operations in Lebanon have been badly damaged after Hezbollah identified and captured a number of the U.S. spies... Read more... On Zio-Pharisees and Netanyahu: Mattot Arim and the Jewish Extremists Clockwork | Roy Tov More often than not, decisions of the Israeli government look odd from the outside. Statements by this body often seem to have no other purpose than enraging Palestinians and the international community. Decisions to expand settlements or to further crop Palestinian towns and villages seem to enjoy the same type of unacceptable logic. In fact, this odd behavior can be easily explained. This is the result of the Israeli government being a coalition between quite different parties. On its most basic level, we are talking about a coalition between orthodox Jews - spiritual descendants of the heretical Pharisees - and Zionists... Read more... From Tahrir Square to Wall Street and the rest of the USA, the Empire bares its fangs (again) | Vineyard of the Saker  Seattle activist Dorli Rainey, 84, after being hit with pepper spray The level of violence meted out by the Empire against its opponents is clearly on the rise: from Tahrir Square in Egypt, to the many Occupy Wall Street demonstrations, to the constant saber-rattling against Iran, the Empire is clearly cracking down on its opposition. This new trend is particularly striking in the USA. People who have never lived in the USA or who, even more so, have never studied here, do probably not realize the amazing degree of freedom US colleges have enjoyed in the past. Let me illustrate this by a simple example...Read more... Germany may also fall victim of Europe's debt crisis | Pravda A "disastrous" German bond sale on Wednesday sparked fears that Europe's debt crisis was starting to threaten even Berlin, with the leaders of the euro zone's two biggest economies still at odds over a longer-term structural solution. With contagion spreading, a majority of 20 prominent economists polled by Reuters predicted that the euro zone was unlikely to survive the crisis in its current form, with some envisaging a "core" group that would exclude Greece... Read more... The death of law in Israel, by Alon Harel | Haaretz The Knesset is at work on a variety of bills whose declared purpose is to hit at leftist NGOs, paralyze the courts and ensure - through legislation that criminalizes people and makes them pay damages - that the public discourse will be more Zionist, right wing and convenient for the authorities. Many people perceive these bills as a fatal blow against the rule of law... [It was always just a pretense meant to deceive the Western democracies, whose support was vitally necessary. Now the mask is coming off.] Read more...Bush and Blair found guilty of war crimes for Iraq attack, by Glenn Greenwald | Salon  A tribunal in Malaysia, spearheaded by that nation's former Prime Minister, yesterday found George Bush and Tony Blair guilty of "crimes against peace" and other war crimes for their 2003 aggressive attack on Iraq, as well as fabricating pretexts used to justify the attack. The seven-member Kuala Lumpur War Crimes Tribunal - which featured an American law professor as one of its chief prosecutors - has no formal enforcement power, but was modeled after a 1967 tribunal in Sweden and Denmark that found the U.S. guilty of a war of aggression in Vietnam, and, even more so, after the U.S.-led Nuremberg Tribunal held after World War II... Read more... Muslim hatred unites Israelis and neo-Nazis | Rehmat's World ...Yesterday's anti-Semites have reformed themselves as today's crusading heroes against an unstoppable Muslim birth-rate on a continent that now sees Islam as an intolerant and ghettoised religion. These increasingly mainstream attitudes have marinated across Europe for at least a decade? - most starkly expressed in the writings of the Norway killer Anders Breivik, who slaughtered nearly 70 young left-wingers on Utøya island in late July this year... [There is no substantive difference between Zionism and Nazism. See this essay] Read more...Israeli lobbies dragging US into wars: Interview with James Morris | PressTV A prominent political analyst says that all Republican presidential candidates - with one exception - are working with Israel lobbies to expand the wars in the Middle East... Read transcript, watch video... USA enslaved | YouTube Watch video... Capitalism and the Spy Market, by Lawrence Davidson | Opinion Maker  It was certainly appropriate that the Wall Street Journal (WSJ), the mouthpiece of capitalist ideology, should publish an expose on "a new global market for off-the-shelf surveillance technology." Entitled "The Surveillance Catalog" and referencing some "200 plus marketing documents" from companies worldwide, the WSJ story lays out an array of tools designed to rob every person on planet of their privacy... Read more... "I Will Never Do Business In The United States Of America Again" | Washington's Blog Two-Out-Of-Three Americans (66%) Believe the Federal Government Has Not Been Aggressive Enough In Pursuing Possible Criminal Behavior By Some Wall Street Bankers... Read more... The Arab Spring: " hello or goodbye to democracy? | Alan Hart ...If Egypt's generals do seek to control the democratic process by (among other things) fixing elections as Mubarak did, they will back their actions with the assertion that they must do whatever is necessary to prevent radical Islam taking over the country. That would put them on the same page as Zionism's propaganda maestros... Read more... Bernard-Henri Levy: Turning to Syria, by Othman Tazghart | Al Akhbar English  Levy, who bragged in his last book about the strong influence he has over French President Nicolas Sarkozy, confessed that the two conspired together to marginalize the French foreign ministry so that it would not impede NATO’s intervention in Libya. In his recent column, Levy reveals secret efforts he has undertaken in the past few months to convince Syrian opposition figures to support him in what he calls the “Gaddafi theory.”.. [Perhaps it's time to declare war on this warmongering Zionist "philosopher"] Read more...Hope not Hate | Gilad Atzmon Hope not Hate is presented as a British anti racist/anti Fascist organsisation but in fact it is an offshoot of the notoriously Zionist Searchlight magazine. As if this is not enough, its leader Nick Lowles also co-posts on Harry's Place, the infamous anti-Muslim site and winner of the Islamic Human Rights Commission's 'Annual Islamophobia Awards' 2006. Harry's Place is known as a Hasbara pro-war Neo-Con outlet and is, in my opinion, far more dangerous than any English right wing party... Read more... 'They Found Nothing. Nothing': The IAEA, Iran And 'Fantasy Land' | Media Lens ...informed scepticism in the corporate media has been muted or non-existent - the image of Iran as a 'nuclear threat' has yet again been imposed on the public mind. Any reasonable news reader and viewer would find it extremely difficult to question the emphatic declarations offered right across the media 'spectrum'... Read more... Calls for "Regime Change" in Iran | Moon of Alabama The neocon editors of the Washington Post call for regime change in Iran... Read more... Nov 24, 2011 Turkey and the Syrian 'Abyss', by Ramzy Baroud | Palestine Chronicle  ...the new Turkish foreign policy appears to be centered on ensuring a position of leadership for Ankara in any future scenario faced by Syria. It's a remarkable shift - from a moralistic approach to politics to a crude realpolitik outlook, which may require sacrificing others for the benefit of oneself... Read more... On Eve of Eleventh Debate Ron Paul Places High In Polls | Prison Planet ...A Public Policy Poll presented Paul as the only Republican candidate to best Obama among independent voters (48 to 39 percent), and a late October CNN/Time poll also showed him in the top three in the key states of Iowa, New Hampshire, and South Carolina... Read more, watch video... Medvedev: Russia will target US missile defense sites if no deal | RT Responding to Washington’s failure to bring Russia on board the European missile defense system, President Dmitry Medvedev announces sweeping plans to address what Moscow is calling a threat to national security. Medvedev said he will deploy strike systems in the west and south of the country and deploy Iskander missiles in the Kaliningrad region in order to counter the risk posed by the European missile defense system... Read more, watch video... Egypt's Democracy Challenges: Military Today, Economy Tomorrow, by Hasan Afif El-Hasan | Palestine Chronicle  Protesting against gov. policies is essential feature of democracy The Egyptian people aspire to fulfill their needs for individual emancipation, self assertion, the legitimate pursuit of their interests and the establishment of state institutions that enhance these interests. They expect democratic institutions to multiply opportunities and challenge the inherited discrimination that is based on race, religion and political orientation...Read more... The Nature of the Beast Revealed: The Swing of That Truncheon Thing, by Ron Jacobs | Counterpunch While I truly empathize with the victims of the use of force by police against Occupy protesters these past few weeks, the fact that these acts of abuse occurred has served a very useful purpose. For the first time in a long time, the role of police in a society that calls itself democratic is being questioned. As anyone who has been paying attention knows, in the past few weeks police have beaten, pepper-sprayed, shot rubber bullets and other projectiles, used concussion grenades and other wise attacked Occupiers, their supporters and journalists at protests across the United States... Read more... Israeli Settlers Attack Palestinians with Impunity, by Stephen Lendman | War Is A Crime Palestinians are doubly cursed. Israel's military attacks them regularly. During the past week alone, Israeli air strikes killed four Gazans, wounding another 14. Al-Nabi Saleh village residents participating in a peaceful demonstration were assaulted. Two injuries were reported, including a child. Israel's navy arrested three Palestinian fishermen, confiscating their boats. Their security forces conducted 91 incursions (13 a day on average) into Palestinian communities, arresting 14 civilians. One injury was reported. Israeli security forces raided homes of recently released Palestinian prisoners. They were ordered to appear for questioning to harass and perhaps re-incarcerate them. In addition, Palestinian property was attacked, bulldozed, otherwise destroyed or damaged... Read more... Occupy Tahrir Square vs. Occupy America, by Dr. Ashraf Ezzat | Pyramidion  Wounded protester carried to Tahrir square makeshift hospital Egypt, a land embedded in ancient history with an old legacy of oppression and abuse of power, its people are awakening and refusing to yield to any kind of tyranny or autocracy be it of civilian or military authority. But obviously somebody, and that somebody is unfortunately in command right now, doesn’t seem to get this message...Read more, watch video... US & Arab States Set To Impose No Fly Zone Over Syria, by Paul Joseph Watson | Prison Planet Reports out of Kuwait suggest that Arab states are set to impose a no fly zone over Syria with US logistical support, advancing the prospect of a military assault to topple Syrian President Bashar al-Assad under a “humanitarian” pretext... Read more... Eric Margolis: 'US lost Iraq to Israel and Iran' | Rehmat's World In October 2002, Canadian war reporter, journalist and author Eric S. Margolis warned Americans that Washington’s invasion of Iraq for a regime change would be the “road to folly”. He believed that the war hysteria against Saddam Hussein’s ‘non-existent’ nuclear bombs was created by the pro-Israel individuals and groups who wanted to destroy the only technically advanced Arab neighbor of Israel... Read more... War Against Iran and World Crisis, by Prof. Igor Panarin | RT  A woman walks past a soldier standing guard next to a military vehicle with a poster of a US Amid the global crisis, the hype around Iran's nuclear program is growing. Political scientist Igor Panarin believes that part of the British-American transnational elite is trying to use a war against Iran to save the dollar from collapse...Dollar bill with the Arabic writing: “You can get some money, in exchange for some information" Read more... A Special Place in Hell: Over Netanyahu's New Israel, the B.S. light is on, by Bradley Burston | Haaretz How does Israel expect to explain itself after this? How are people who support Israel supposed to understand the Black Flag legislation which has expropriated the business of the Knesset? Fortunately, the language of the Bible now has a word for all of it. It's spelled Bet Vav Lamed Shin Yud Tet. Sometimes written bull****... Read more... The Broken Contract: Inequality and American Decline, by George Packer | Foreign Affairs ...The Iraq war was a kind of stress test applied to the American body politic. And every major system and organ failed the test: the executive and legislative branches, the military, the intelligence world, the for-profits, the nonprofits, the media. It turned out that we were not in good shape at all -- without even realizing it... Read more... From De-Nazification to 'De-Antisemitification', by Evelyn Hecht-Galinski | Gilad Atzmon  From time to time, I do meet some very brave Jews, people who fight for humanism while stripping themselves of any trace of choseness and exeptionalism. Evelyn Hecht-Galinski is such a person... [Actually, there are quite a few of us. But the Zionists have the money, the power and make most of the noise.] Read more...Freedom Ride and more, by Mazin Qumsiyeh | Popular Resistance This weekly compilation is rich with material to choose from: amazing videos and stories from our first freedom ride, a video call to action for the Global March to Jerusalem, a positive action example, a story from Haaretz on our friend Ashraf AbuRahmah, Moshe Dayan's widow saying that Zionism had run its course, Rafeef Ziadeh's brilliant poem "We teach life", an interview with me in Portuguese, Ran Greenstein on "How to fight the Israel-Apartheid analogy in four easy steps", an article about what is happening in Egypt from Egyptian blogger Dr. Ezzat, and a Jewish call to action... Read more... Yet One More Glimpse into Zionist Desperation | Gilad Atzmon Yesterday evening Zionist ‘Hope not Hate’ declared victory in their ‘battle against Atzmon’. “The Dean of Bradford calls for Atzmon's invite to be withdrawn” trumpeted Nick Lowles’ headline on their official blog... [The whole sorry saga of Atzmon defending himself from the Anti-Zionist Zionists (AZZ) and the garden variety Zionists is so redolent of the underlying shtetl mentality of the Jewish tribal collective. I can remember the days when Jews knew how to laugh at themselves. Now they're deadly serious. If they weren't so dangerous it would be hilarious.] Read more...Targeting of Christian Syrians and Black Libyans: The "Clash of Civilizations" is on the march, by Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya | Voltaire Network  Syria’s Christians want change, but not fall of regime Divide and conquer stratagems are back with a vengeance throughout the Arab world, fanning the flames of discontent and undermining national sovereignty. The stage is being set for a contrived "clash of civilizations," closely following the 1982 plan of Israeli strategist Oded Yinon, for which any form of peaceful coexistence among the various ethnic and religious groups living in Arab countries spells disaster and must be stamped out...Read more... Support today's Freedom Riders by ending US support for Israeli apartheid, by Josh Ruebner | Redress Information & Analysis Josh Ruebner views the parallels between the US Freedom Riders of the early 1960s and the current Palestinian Freedom Riders who have begun a non-violent campaign against the segregated transport systems and apartheid conditions endured by Palestinians under Israel’s brutal military occupation of the West Bank and East Jerusalem... Read more... Palestinian Freedom Riders Challenge Israeli Apartheid | BDS Movement The Palestinian BDS National Committee (BNC) salutes the brave Palestinian Freedom Riders who today challenged through civil disobedience the Israeli occupation and apartheid [1]. With creative tactics inspired by the U.S. civil rights movement and with resolve stemming from a century of ongoing and richly diverse Palestinian civil and popular resistance to settler colonialism and apartheid, the Freedom Riders have highlighted the need to stand up to Israel’s impunity and to further its growing isolation in order to compel it to recognize the inalienable rights of the Palestinian people... Read more... Occupy Evictions: Has War Been Declared? by Ritt Goldstein | OpEd News  With nationwide US protests celebrating Occupy's two month anniversary, concurrently condemning the 'war against dissent' that the recent wave of Occupy evictions bespeak, America is quickly coming to a crossroads. Over 250 were arrested Thursday in New York City alone, the arrests often accompanied by police violence, with even members of the press being reportedly abused. The brutal pepper-spraying of students at Occupy UC Davis makes a further statement... Read more... Gaza: Good News and Bad | Stephen Lendman First the good. On November 22, the International Middle East Media Center (IMEMC) said a "Freedom Spring" convoy arrived through Rafah's border terminal, connecting Gaza and Egypt. Arab Spring movement members will meet Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haniyya and other Palestinian officials. In addition, meetings will be held with women's groups, local NGOs, and others.. Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC) head Ahmad Bahar called the visit historic, saying "convoy members managed to defend their people's dignity and honor, and now, they came to Gaza to express support and solidarity with their people.".. Read more... Commodifying Education: The Corporatization of the American University, by Steven Higgs | Counterpunch Peter Seybold traces the pernicious influence corporatization has had on the American campus back almost a decade before the Reagan Revolution of 1980, to a memo written by Richmond, Va., attorney Lewis F. Powell Jr. to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce in late summer 1971... [Who can even imagine 2084?] Read more...Nov 23, 2011 Johanna Demetrakas' Crazy Wisdom: Can It Ever Be? by E. Nina Rothe | Huffington Post  ...Whatever one takes away from Crazy Wisdom, filmed beautifully by Pablo Bryant (who happens to be Demetrakas' son), one thing is certain: Chogyam Trungpa is a spellbinding subject, one absolutely perfect to inspire a future generation of spiritualism, the kind that is profoundly needed in this present time of confusion and misalignment... [This is where it's really at - can we get there without being blown to smithereens first? (btw, I think she meant "spirituality" - at least I hope so.)] Occupy Wall St - The Revolution Is Love | YouTube ...This video is a taste of the upcoming feature documentary, Occupy Love... [Most of my fellow travelers on one or another spiritual path tend to act as if they are somehow disconnected, above the fray so to speak. They think that absolute truth is separate from, or superior to, relative truth. They are mistaken. This video lays it out simply and convincingly.] The media and Iran: familiar mindlessness, by Glenn Greenwald | Salon The lesson supposedly learned by the U.S. establishment media from the Iraq debacle was the danger of relying on anonymous government sources to disseminate unverified fear-mongering accusations. Rather obviously, no such lesson has been learned, as this continues to be the primary reporting method for accusing the Supreme Hitlers of the Moment — Iran — of anything and everything the U.S. Government can dream up... Read more... Who are the Warmongers? | Uprooted Palestinians  "....the justification for war is the Jewish people's exercising their divine right to the land of Canaan, "And you shall take possession of the land and settle in it for I have assigned the land to you to possess.".. [The Zionists could plead insanity, but it's generally considered a desperate strategy - follow the links; they're choice.] Read more...Hope not Hate? Truth not Lies more likely! | Gilad Atzmon ...Rather than deny the Holocaust, I actually want to strip from it its primacy and to turn it into a universal and ethical message. I actually talk about my great grandmother who died in the Holocaust - but I argue that she wasn’t special at all (though she may be special to me). She had a fate similar to millions of Vietnamese, Iraqis, Germans, Russians and so on. I wonder, why would a socialist such as Meszaros or anyone else for that matter, object to such a universal and humanist approach?.. Read more... Iran and the IAEA: A Trove of New Fake Evidence, by Seymour M. Hersh | Global Research ...I’ve been reporting on Iran and the bomb for The New Yorker for the past decade, with a focus on the repeatedly inability of the best and the brightest of the Joint Special Operations Command to find definitive evidence of a nuclear-weapons production program in Iran. The goal of the high-risk American covert operations was to find something physical—a “smoking calutron,” as a knowledgeable official once told me—to show the world that Iran was working on warheads at an undisclosed site, to make the evidence public, and then to attack and destroy the site... Read more... Justifying a "Humanitarian War" against Syria? The Sinister Role of the NGOs, by Julien Teil | Global Research  The National Endowment for Democracy, or NED, is an organization that presents itself as an NGO officially dedicated to “the growth and strengthening of democratic institutions around the world”. But in reality it gets 95% of its budget from the United States Congress. It was officially created by the Reagan administration in 1982. The nature of the NED has led many contemporary intellectuals and researchers to describe it as an agency enabling the secret services of the US to overthrow governments that the US State Department dislikes... Read more... Asia-Pacific: US Ramps Up Global War Agenda, by Finian Cunningham | Global Research Like a schoolyard bully, President Barack Obama is flexing American military muscle as he currently sweeps through the Asia-Pacific region. The nominal impetus for the tour was the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit held in Hawaii last week. But rather than discussing “economics” (the E in APEC), the salient focus for Obama and his entourage appears to be “war” – and in particular laying down battle lines to China... Read more... Rense & Patricia Mcallistair: Run The Zionist Bankers Out! | YouTube .."I think that the Zionist Jews, who are running these big banks and our Federal Reserve, which is not run by the federal government... they need to be run out of this country," she said... Read more... Billionaires Use Tax Loophole To Lower Their Tax Rates To 1 Percent, by Pat Garofalo | Think Progress ...In 2009, 1,470 households reported income of more than $1 million but paid no federal income tax on it, through their use of various tax loopholes and shelters. Tax rates for millionaires have fallen by 25 percent since the mid-’90s, while one quarter of millionaires currently pay lower tax rates than the average middle-class household... [And most of those illicit gains come from war related economic activities. Go OWS!] Read more, watch video...CIA: Operation Ajax, by Cognito Comics | iTunes  Get the entire book FREE for a limited time! The complete edition of Operation Ajax, an interactive graphic novel that tells the true story of the first CIA-backed coup which toppled Iran's democracy in 1953... Read more... Eustace Mullins On Rothschild Warmongering | Rense The success of the Federal Reserve Conspiracy will raise many questions in the minds of readers who are unfamiliar with the history of the United States and finance capital. How could the Kuhn, Loeb-Morgan alliance, powerful though it might be, believe that it would be capable, first, of devising a plan which would bring the entire money and credit of the people of the United States into their hands, and second, of getting such a plan enacted into law?.. Read more... Ilan Pappe: BDS on Campus, London | YouTube Watch video... George Jahn lies about Iran's Parchin facility | Iran Affairs The US media continues the scaremongering about Iran's nuclear program using more "anonymous sources". The latest example is George Jahn who claims in an article entitled "Suspected Nuclear Site Reportedly Increasingly Active", that according to "officials", there is an "increase in activity at an Iranian site suspected of links to alleged secret work on nuclear weapons." Note the hedging language: the site is "suspected" of having links to an alleged nuclear weapons program. What the hell does that even mean?.. Read more... A guide to Hasbara trolls, by Jonathon Blakeley | Zimoz News  Read more... Lavan Picket - Boycott Israeli Goods - Vancouver | YouTube The Boycott Israeli Apartheid Campaign picketed Lavan, a luxury skin care store in downtown Vancouver, on November 20, 2011. Lavan sells all Israeli products, and picketers called attention to the Palestinian call for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions... Watch video... Zionists Won't Let You See This On Your TV | Gilad Atzmon ...A regime that systematically destroys the lives of innocents every single DAY... [An oldie but goody] Watch video...Ruthlessly Pursuing Middle East Grand Strategy, by Deepak Tripathi | Palestine Chronicle  Popular uprisings that began with peaceful protests in Tunisia and Egypt nearly a year ago, and spread across the Arab world, have created a new reality, not only in countries to experience political awakening, but far beyond. More worryingly for Washington, the Arab Spring created fresh uncertainties and pressures for United States policy. With the first anniversary of those momentous events approaching, there is growing resentment among many Arabs who feel that their revolutions have been hijacked by forces not originally anticipated... Read more... An Open Letter to the Winter Patriot, by Mitch Green | New Economic Perspectives As the occupy movement continues to grow in defiance of the heavy-handed police action determined to squelch it, a natural question emerges: At what point will the military be summoned to contain the cascade of popular dissent? And if our nation’s finest are brought into this struggle to stand between the vested authority of the state and the ranks of those who petition them for a redress of grievance, what may we expect the outcome to be?.. Read more... Trickle-down tyranny: why ordinary people in positions of local power are adopting tactics of tyrants, by Mike Adams | Natural News When I read a story yesterday about an 89-year-old woman being water-boarded by nursing home staff over an argument about ice cream, I knew something terrible was amiss across the American landscape. Spontaneous acts of tyranny have been cropping up lately like cancer tumors... Read more... 'US police brutality will backfire': Interview with Stefan Simanowitz | PressTV ...I think these are the thing that people are challenging and it is not about a list of demands; it is about opening a space where people can think about alternatives and it is about a democratic awakening, changing the way that our country and globally how the world is run because something is not working and I think that there needs to be change and this is a very clear expression of that... Read transcript, watch video... Show Support for OWS so the Mainstream Media Can't Marginalize It As a Fringe Movement | Washington's Blog  ...public support for the Occupy protests is slipping… apparently because the media is focusing on police interactions with the protesters, instead of their actual message. For that reason, it is vital that everyone who supports the Occupy movement show it – so that the mainstream media can’t paint it as a fringe movement – by wearing buttons, bumper stickers, posters or on signs for our windows... Read more... Hizbullah busts Zionists' 'Pizza Hut spy ring' | Rehmat's World Hizbullah has announced the capture of over a dozen spies working for CIA and Mossad. The CIA-Mossad spies and their local informant were using a Beirut Pizza Hut restaurant as their meeting place cover-up... Read more... Non-violence does not have to be passive, by Jim Miles | Global Research Non-violence can be passive, and does at times necessitate full passivity in the face of impending violence. But in other circumstances, especially where the overwhelming balance of force is on one side, a pro-active non violence can be very effective. The police/military are then forced into a decision: to either use violence against the protesters; or to stand down from the protesters... Read more... The boys who cry "Holocaust" by Gary Kamiya | Salon  The same neocon hawks who lied us into Iraq are using the ultimate argument-stopper to push war with Iran... Read more... Getting Back the Golan Heights | Roy Tov ...Despite formal definitions, Israel and Syria live an Orwellian War-Peace situation. A fake war was proclaimed to the worried citizens and artificially kept alive for decades, while the leaders of both sides shared the hefty profits of the Business of War. Fatefully for Barak and Assad, by the end of 2011 the game got spoiled... Read more... Modern Iran or Ancient Persia, by Jagdish Keshav | Pravda Colonialism and subsequent occupation of land has had a parasitical effect since the dawn of civilisation. The effect of a foreign object inside a human body creates the same trauma and has same effect as that of colonialism. The human body, with natural abilities, tries to fight off the foreign object. When it fails, the object becomes a parasite... Read more... Grüner False Identity Lawsuit Against Elie Wiesel Set For January 24 in Budapest | Elie Wiesel Cons the World ...This writer spoke on the telephone with Grüner in Sweden in September 2010, at which time he assured her he would challenge Wiesel’s identity in a court in Budapest the following January. We know how court dates can be postponed, and even cancelled, but Grüner has proved himself to be a persevering man, and though a year late, it now seems he will indeed present his evidence in court. However, the defendant will not be the highly protected Elie Wiesel himself, but Hungarian rabbi Slomó Köves, who invited Wiesel to Hungary in 2009 while “knowing that (he) is not a genuine Holocaust survivor” but “stole the identity of an inmate,” according to Grüner... [I suppose there's a slight chance that the great fraudster's cover gets blown - there's always hope.] Read more...Nov 22, 2011 A Must-do Menu, by Paul Balles | Intifada Palestine  Admiral Thomas Moorer, former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, found the Israeli attack on the USS Liberty to be “an act of war against the United States,” a fact few mainstream news media have reported... Read more... Egypt protests: Death toll up in Cairo's Tahrir Square | BBC News The BBC's Helena Merriman says police were beating protesters - "about 20 or 30 of them I saw, covered in blood." Thousands of Egyptian protesters remain in Cairo's Tahrir Square after two days of clashes in which at least 13 people were killed and hundreds injured... Read more, watch video... The Israeli Pickle: Iran, by Ibrahim Kazerooni and Rob Prince | Counterpunch ...As the Arab Spring extended beyond Tunisia to the rest of the region, long held alliances between Israel, Egypt and Turkey began to fray – if not unravel. Sympathy for the Palestinians surged, Israel’s status plummeted, not just in the Third World, but also in Europe to a great extent. If Israel could still count on the U.S. Congress to genuflect, it is no longer true of the American people, who have begun to have doubts, including in the American Jewish Community... Read more... Israel, the IAEA, and the Road to War With Iran | YouTube This month's release of a new International Atomic Energy Agency report into Iran's nuclear energy program has caused a flurry of diplomatic activity, political posturing, and breathless news headlines about the supposed imminent threat of an alleged Iranian nuclear weapons program... Read more, watch video... Top settler rabbi: Soldiers will sooner choose death than suffer women's singing | Haaretz  "Rabbi" Elyakim Levanon ...in a radio interview on Thursday, Rabbi Levanon criticized a possible ruling that would forbid religious soldiers from leaving events over women's singing, saying that IDF soldier should choose death before complying with such an order...[This guy is not an outlier. The old guard of secular, European Zionists are losing power to these fanatics. The days of the Jewish State are numbered, and the sooner the better. Hopefully this will take place non-violently, but given the tribal Israeli mindset, this is unfortunately unlikely. As the Queen of the Vampires (aka the Zionists' favorite shiksa prostitute) frequently puts it, "all options are on the table."] Read more...Israel Shuts Down Radio Station for Criticizing Regime, by Jason Ditz | Antiwar The “All for Peace” radio station in Israel has been shut down by the nation’s Communications Ministry following claims that they were violating the law by illegally criticizing the far-right coalition government... Read more... Occupy Wall Street Aims to Shut Down Country's Largest Ports On December 12th | Washington's Blog Occupy Oakland has announced that it will try to shut down all West Coast ports on December 12th. Occupy Oakland already shut down the country’s 5th biggest port (Oakland). But Long Beach, California is part of the country’s largest port complex. Therefore, a West Coast shutdown would have a major economic impact... Source... Book Review: Popular Resistance in Palestine | Palestine Chronicle ...The Israeli colonization of Palestinian land cannot be permanently maintained without ideological and material support from outside. The U. S. government, pro-Israeli pressure groups and the European Union give billions of dollars and Euros to Israel, used inter alia for building colonies on occupied land or are invested in the military sector. Billions of dollars are earned from Israeli exports, much of it security-related products, armaments and tourism. The BDS campaign, which Qumsiyeh strongly supports, brings these facts to the fore and attempts to induce governments, churches and private investors to restrain from investments in a country that has been occupying, oppressing and colonizing another people for the last 45 years... Read more... Iranian nuclear programme not about Israel, by MJ Rosenberg | Al Jazeera English  Ehud Barak recently implied that an Iranian bid for nuclear weapons is geopolitical, and not just about Israel Israeli Defence Minister Ehud Barak gaffed big-time this week. In fact, this gaffe is even more colossal than when he said back in 1999 that if he were a stateless young Palestinian, he would "have joined one of the terror organisations". But Barak's remark this week is breathtaking in both its honesty and in its utter deviation from an Israeli government line that has not only been sold to the Israeli people, but also to the United States government - especially to Congress, where anything from Bibi Netanyahu's office is treated as gospel...Read more... Interview with Prof. Francis A. Boyle: Legal Expert Says Impeach Obama; Warns of War Danger | Executive Intelligence Review I've been trying to find a member of the United States House of Representatives to introduce a bill of impeachment, and in fact, if your listening audience can contact their members of the U.S. House and tell them to get in touch with me, I'd be happy to work with them as counsel, free of charge... Read more... Interview with Gen. Joseph P. Hoar: Former CENTCOM Commander Warns of Grave War Danger | Executive Intelligence Review ...From what I have read over the weekend, not from formal organizations, but everybody has the same story now: that Iran are the bad guys; that they're putting the nukes underground; and that they're enriching uranium, and they're experimenting with warheads. The New York Times started it last week, and it's just bubbling along. It's really frightening, I think... Read more... Self-Loving Shlomo | Gilad Atzmon It is supposed to be funny. It is certainly a glimpse into collective morbidity. ~ Gilad [Rather than "collective morbidity" I would call it something like extremely primitive tribal mentality.] Watch video...'Abraham Day': Extremists Celebrate 'Purchase' of Palestinian City, by Ben Lorber | Palestine Chronicle  'Celebrations' ...Over 1000 American and International Zionists joined 700 extremist settlers in Hebron this weekend to celebrate the reading of this Torah portion detailing Abraham’s biblical purchase of Hebron land, as a means to assert sovereignty over the Palestinian residents of Hebron...[Just how disgusting, malevolent and insane can these people get?] Read more...Egypt's Brutal Military Junta is Supported by the Obama Administration, by Paul Joseph Watson | Prison Planet Fresh off the back of bombing Libya under the guise of “humanitarian intervention” while calling on Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to step down over mistreatment of protesters, the Obama administration has taken a noticeably different approach to Egypt’s brutal military junta that is now busy torturing and killing demonstrators on the streets of Cairo... Read more, watch video... Israel Steps Up Police State Crackdowns | Stephen Lendman Israel never embraced democratic values. More than ever today that's true. Many Jews understand. As a result, they're voting with their feet and leaving. Gideon Levy remarked that "(i)t's really an irony of history, because Israel was established to become a shelter to the Jewish people. Now Europe becomes a shelter for the Jews living in Israel.".. Read more... The Turning Point: The Moral Example of UC Davis Students, by Michael Chorost | Psychology Today ...If I had to sum up the attitude of America's governing classes in one word, I would say: contempt. We are seeing the beginning of a worldwide movement to fight for dignity and intelligent, collective governance. It is remarkable, the parallels between what we see in Tunisia, in Cairo, in Rome, in Zucotti Park, in Oakland, California, and now at UC Davis... Read more... Who gains from Cynthia McKinney's assassination? | Rehmat's World  Early this month, four North Georgia men were indicted in a terrorist plot to assassinate former Congresswoman and world-renowned anti-war activist Cynthia McKinney, US Attoney General Israel-Firster Eric Holder and Barack Obama, the first US Jewish President... [Well, he's not exactly Jewish - he's their house nigger, the ultimate shabbas goy.] Read more, watch video...1% Defectors | Washington's Blog ...The police are agents of the 1%, but as humans they are really 99%. The police are the 99% when they go home. They are the 99% when they retire. We need the police to decide to come back to protect the 99% when they are on the job. The arrest of officers such as Lt. John Pike at UC Davis will help remind all police officers that they need to make a choice. Either be part of the 99% or be an agent of the 1%... Read more... Sharon was right: 'Israel does control US' | Rehmat's World ...This not the first time the US lawmakers have fallen on their knees for Jewish election contributions and fully-paid trips to some of Tel Aviv’s 280 brothels. Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX)) introduced HR-271 on May 23, 2011 – supporting the Zionist entity’s right to defend its sovereignty by eliminating (imaginary) nuclear threat posed by the Islamic Republic of Iran. So far 44 lawmakers have co-sponsored the bill which has been referred to the House Foreign Affairs Committee... Read more... Huge Stakes in Syria, by Patrick Cockburn | Counterpunch ...A more convincing motive for international involvement is the decades-old but escalating struggle against Iran by the US, its NATO allies, Israel and the Sunni states of the Middle East. But the last few years have shown the limits of effective action against Iran, short of war, which, for all the bluster from Washington and Tel Aviv, they are wary of fighting. But Syria is a different matter... Read more... Nov 21, 2011  And the winner is... America's festering sores | Redress Information & Analysis Paul J. Balles outlines “a must-do menu” of political causes needing public attention, from the icon of injustice and arbitrariness known as Guantanamo, through the silence over the 1967 Israeli attack on the US warship USS Liberty, which resulted in 200 American casualties, to the existence of Israel’s massive and illegal nuclear arsenal... Read more... Ex-Inspector Rejects IAEA Iran Bomb Test Chamber Claim, by Gareth Porter | Dissident Voice A former inspector for the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has repudiated its major new claim that Iran built an explosives chamber to test components of a nuclear weapon and carry out a simulated nuclear explosion. The IAEA claim that a foreign scientist – identified in news reports as Vyacheslav Danilenko – had been involved in building the alleged containment chamber has now been denied firmly by Danilenko himself in an interview with Radio Free Europe published Friday... Read more... In Defense of Gilad Atzmon, by Sarah Gillespie | Gilad Atzmon  ...as I began to understand the full complexities of Gilad’s arguments – a process, which, for me, required as much unlearning as it did learning – I reluctantly grasped the problem. And, to my utter horror, I also fathomed the full measure of pathological bile wielded against him. Indeed, some of it hemorrhaged in my direction... Read more... Social Opposition in the Age of Internet: Desktop "Militants" and Public Intellectuals, by Prof. James Petras | Global Research The relation of information technology (IT) and more specifically the internet, to politics is a central issue facing contemporary social movements. Like many previous scientific advances the IT innovations have a dual purpose: on the one hand, it has accelerated the global flow of capital, especially financial capital and facilitated imperialist ‘globalization’. On the other hand the internet has served to provide alternative critical sources of analysis as well as easy communication to mobilize popular movements... Read more... Israel is just as chauvinistic after Katsav rape verdict, by Gideon Levy | Haaretz Men - especially, but not only - still treat any female complainant with disbelief and any sexual offender of ex-President Katsav's type with understanding. The back-alley rapist is denounced in Israel these days, but not the bedroom rapist... Read more... The "Iraqization" Of America's Iran Debate: Mohammad Javad Larijani And The Mainstream Media | The Race for Iran  Mohammad Javad Larijani’s visit to New York earlier this week for meetings at the United Nations coincides with a striking upturn in anti-Iranian media coverage and commentary in the West. To address some of the issues raised in the media, Larijani met with several media personalities and a range of Iran “observers” at policy organizations in New York. His media appearances this past week not only provide a window into how the Islamic Republic sees its present situation and future prospects; they also provide a window into current trends in American elite thinking and discourse about Iran. And those trends are, to put it gently, disturbing... Read more... US War Criminals murdered our soldiers: all US police have arrest authority, by Carl Herman | Nonpartisan Examiner Any police officer has arrest authority for the crime of murder. Because US political and corporate media “leadership” lied US soldiers into obvious criminal wars, they must stand trial for these murders of US citizens and state residents under state murder laws... Read more... The Founding Fathers Warned Against Standing Armies | Washington's Blog ...Freud.. argued that when men gave up the primal drive to protect ourselves, our families and our communities – and that power was transferred to standing armies – it disempowered us and made us weak psychologically. Look at America today: Freud might have been right.. Read more... Crackdown in Cairo, excuses in Washington, by Avi Asher-Schapiro | Salon  Sen. Patrick Leahy, left, and Field Marshal Mohamed Hussein Tantawi, Sitting across from me in a downtown cafe, disgruntled democracy activist Ismail Wahby looks defeated. “Everything is failing,” he says. In many ways, Wahby personifies the Western stereotypes about the mislabeled “Facebook Revolution”: He is an upper-middle-class 20-something who blogs in English, French and Arabic. After the ouster of Hosni Mubarak, he worked as community organizer with the Union of Progressive Youth, one of the many revolutionary coalitions formed after the dictator’s fall. But as Egypt’s ruling Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) became more oppressive in the months that followed, Wahby grew discouraged and withdrew from political activism. “I didn’t do a revolution for this shit,” he explains...head of Egyptian armed forces Read more... Making War Palatable: Is Israel Preparing to Attack Iran? by Neve Gordon | Counterpunch Skimming the newspapers as I rushed to get my children ready for school, I suddenly understood that Israel might actually be preparing for a military attack against Iran. “[United States Secretary of Defence Leon] Panetta Demanded Commitment to Coordinate Action in Iran” read one headline, and “A Bomb at Arm’s Length” read another... Read more... Weimar Revisited, by Uri Avnery | Gush Shalom “You and your Weimar!” a friend of mine once exclaimed in exasperation, ”just because you experienced the collapse of the Weimar Republic as a child, you see Weimar behind every corner.”.. Read more... Nov 20, 2011 From US South to Palestine, Freedom Rides change history, by Nour Joudah | The Electronic Intifada  I grew up with two stories, two histories, and in many ways, two countries. From the age of 5 until 21, I roamed, lived in and loved Tennessee’s hills. But, in those same formative years, I lived from news piece to news piece, following with bated breath the events of my homeland, occupied Palestine... Read more... Rosengarten in Gaza: I was far more afraid of Israel than of Hamas, by Philip Weiss | Mondoweiss Lillian Rosengarten is a New York activist and poet, who was on the Jewish boat to Gaza that was stopped by the Israeli navy in Jan. 2010. Last week she returned from a successful trip to Gaza, entering and leaving at the Egyptian border. Rosengarten was born in Germany; her family left after the Nazis came to power. A Q-and-A... Read more... The Revolt of the Generals Against Iran War | Intifada Palestine In addition to the exclusive EIR interview with former CENTCOM commander, Gen. Joseph P. Hoar (USMC-ret.), other military voices are being raised against the danger of general war, posed by the threat of an Israeli or U.S. attack on Iran. On Nov. 14, General John H. Johns, a retired Army officer who is a signatory on the Human Rights First letter to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid warning against the police-state measures in the new defense bill, wrote an op-ed published in the New York Times, titled “Before We Bomb Iran, Let’s Have a Serious Conversation.” In the article, General Johns cites former Defense Secretary Robert Gates, retired Marine General Anthony Zinni, another former CENTCOM commander, and former Congressman, Admiral Joe Sestak, all warning about the “unintended consequences” of any attack on Iran... [Lyndon LaRouche may not be entirely the nutcase that he's cracked up to be - in any case, this is an excellent and informative short article.] Read more...Reverend Allan Boesak calls Israeli apartheid "more terrifying" than South Africa ever was, by Dr. Hanan Chehata | Middle East Monitor ...The Reverend Allan Aubrey Boesak is a veteran of the South African anti-apartheid struggle. He is the former president of the World Alliance of Reformed Churches, and is a signatory of the South African Christian response to the Kairos Palestine Document. This year he gave expert testimony at the Russell Tribunal on Palestine session in Cape Town, at which he spoke to MEMO's Hanan Chahata... Read more... Israeli democracy fades to black | Redress Information & Analysis Lawrence Davidson argues that the suppression of the democratic rights of non-Jews in Israel, which had traditionally received at least the tacit support of the entire political establishment, is coming full circle, with Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s Likudniks and settlers now targeting the rights of Jews as well... [The Zionists have treated the great majority of Jews as useful idiots for at least the last 100 years. And most of them have swallowed it - hook, line and sinker.] Read more...The Rise of the Fourth Reich | What Really Happened  ...It is the very nature of power that it attracts the sort of people who should not have it. The United States, as the world's last superpower, is a prize that attracts men and women willing to do absolutely anything to win that power, and hence are also willing to do absolutely anything with that power once they have it. If one thinks about it long enough, one will realize that all tyrants, past and most especially present, MUST use deception on their population to initiate a war... Read more... Mossad's murder machine claims another scientist's life in Israeli bid to stop Iran building a nuclear bomb | Daily Mail The two assassins arrived from nowhere as their victim was driving home with his wife. Trapped inside his car, he was hopelessly vulnerable as their motorcycles pulled alongside. He would just have had time to notice their blacked-out visors before they opened fire, emptying round after round into his chest... [The tabloid version, told from the imperial perspective, but informative nonetheless] Read more...Post-War Apology and Reconciliation | Talon Books A retired officer in the US army has apologized to the German army for the mass deaths of German prisoners in US army camps after World War Two. Following extensive private investigations in the US and Germany, Merrit P. Drucker (retired) has sent an e-mail to Lt. Col. Max Klaar, Bundeswehr (retired), head of the Verband der deutscher Soldaten (German Veterans’ Association), regretting the lethal conditions in the US camps where some 750,000 Germans died while they were denied available food and shelter... Read more... We Are Fighting For Justice, by Arundhati Roy | Information Clearing House Tuesday morning, the police cleared Zuccotti Park, but today the people are back. The police should know that this protest is not a battle for territory. We're not fighting for the right to occupy a park here or there. We are fighting for justice. Justice, not just for the people of the United States, but for everybody. What you have achieved since September 17th, when the Occupy movement began in the United States, is to introduce a new imagination, a new political language into the heart of empire. You have reintroduced the right to dream into a system that tried to turn everybody into zombies mesmerized into equating mindless consumerism with happiness and fulfillment... Read more, watch video... UK/US Prepare Christian Genocide in Syria, by Daniel McAdams | Lew Rockwell As the UK Independent newspaper reports in its Saturday edition, the British government has formally opened talks with the Syrian rebels. This move parallels early Western efforts in Libya in advance of the overthrow of the Gaddafi regime and installation of the Benghazi rebels to ruling position in the country. Surely direct military intervention, likely under the NATO flag but with US as the majority partner, is not far behind. As is well-documented, the Syrian rebels are hardly freedom fighters in love with Western democracy. In fact they are to an alarming degree ruthless extremists from the Muslim Brotherhood, working with and sheltered by a horribly misguided Turkish government to overthrow yet another secular regime in the Middle East... Read more... Is Syria next for Nato? by Robert Dreyfuss | The Guardian  Now that Nato is closing up shop in Libya, will it turn to Syria? Right now, the answer is no. But if the fragmented Syrian opposition – bolstered by Turkey, a member of NATO, which is turning increasingly against the Syrian president, Bashar al-Assad – manages to set up a Benghazi-like enclave either inside Syria or across the border in Turkey, anything goes... Read more... Rhetoric of War: First Iraq, then Iran? by Cyrus Safdari | Iran Affairs With the passing of the third anniversary of the United States-led invasion of Iraq, and with no end in sight to the resultant daily carnage and anarchy there, the drumbeat for a new war is becoming audible, this time against Iran. Ironically, the case put forth by the Bush administration and its neoconservative coterie for an attack on Iran has striking rhetorical parallels to the now totally discredited case for attacking Iraq, employing a series of identifiable logical fallacies and rhetorical tricks that are ultimately intended to create a narrative which legitimizes a so-called "pre-emptive" use of force against the Islamic Republic... [Note when this was written] Read more...Seymour Hersh's errors on Iran nuclear program | Iran Affairs Veteran journalist Seymour Hersh has an article in the New Yorker entitled "Iran's nuclear threat - real or not" which while decrying the false and hyped conventional wisdom forming around the latest IAEA report on Iran, makes his own contributions to the false information. I have dealt with three such errors below... Read more... Israel's Plan to Destroy Iran's Civilian Infrastructure, by Kurt Nimmo | Infowars Israel plans not only to attack Iran’s fledgling nuclear program, but also its civilian infrastructure. Eli Lake, writing for The Daily Beast, cites current and former U.S. intelligence officials who say Israel’s target list includes Iran’s electric grid, internet, cellphone network, and emergency frequencies for firemen and police officers... Read more... Serri: Iran's UN Inspectors Are Repeating the Iraq Mistakes | Informed Comment (Juan Cole) The UN’s International Atomic Energy Agency under Yukiya Amano is adopting toward Iran the same approach as the United Nations Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission (UNMOVIC) and Hans Blix chose with regard to Iraq. The methods and arguments are very similar and the result will be similar too: No matter what Iran does there will be no end to inspections, questions and gaps of knowledge... Read more... Whom Do You Serve? | OccupyWall Street  "...It starts out showing the cops attacking students at U.C. Davis, pepper-spraying students, who were sitting down on the ground with their heads bent down, repeatedly (nothing new there) and a large crowd of students chanting “Shame on you!” to the cops (good, but not terribly new either), but then something unexpected happens: The students take the offensive, not violently, but in every other way, and they start marching into the cops, forcing the cops the walk backwards. The students actually drove the cops off the campus, chanting “cops clear out!” and such." ~ John Spritzler Read more, watch video... Bad Moon Rising Over Great Sirte Bay, by Franklin Lamb | Counterpunch This observer, with his sandaled feet comfortably dug into the sand of a chilly Mediterranean beach and huddled next to a camp fire with a congenial and bright group of still heavily armed “NATO rebels,” is learning that the past eight months’ experiences for many Libyans who fought with or for NATO were rather different from what the western mainstream media portrayed. And what many of us who spent last summer in the Western Libya Gadhafi stronghold were inclined to believe about them... Read more... 'US, Israel seek to control entire ME': Interview with Saeb Shaath | PressTV ...Iran has done its best. But Iran is being targeted from a global plan. The global and region plan of attacking Muslim countries prevents them from advancing their economy or to feel sovereign over their civil resources, especially at this precise time since the capitalist system is collapsing. Usually, when the capitalist system faces a huge crisis, the neo-liberals and the imperialist planners and thinkers resort to war. This has happened in the conflict of the First World War, the Second World War, and now the war mongering rhetoric is becoming louder... Read transcript, watch video... Occupy endgame: arrest the 1% "emperor has no clothes" obvious criminals, by Carl Herman | Nonpartisan Examiner ..Occupy’s endgame, in retrospect, will be obvious: after a period of “emperor has no clothes” expository communication from independent Internet media to the 99%, those with arrest authority exercise it to remove criminal leadership from power. The first criminal arrests will be for War Crimes and financial fraud. The most notable will be “leadership” of both US political parties and from the largest financial institutions involved in mortgage and “investment” frauds... [There's always hope] Read more...Obama Plays the China Card, by Justin Raimondo | Antiwar Declaring the US is "here to stay," President Obama made his Asian trip the occasion for a renewed assertion of US hegemony in the region, announcing a new agreement with Australia that would see thousands of US marines stationed at a base in Australia. Dispelling any doubt about who or what this garrison is meant to guard against, the One declared China must "play by the rules." Who sets those rules? Washington does, of course. Which raises the question: what are the rules, anyway?.. Read more... Nov 19, 2011 Halper on the Russell Tribunal | ICAHD  Jeff Halper The Russell Tribunal is what happens when governments abrogate their responsibilities towards their own citizens and peoples under their control. States (plus the UN) are obligated to enforce international law and human rights conventions. When they don’t, as in their failure to apply the International Convention on the Suppression and Punishment of the Crime of Apartheid to Israel and its Occupation, the people themselves must rise up and demand that they do. Civil society forums such as the Russell Tribunal may not carry formal authority, but they represent millions of people the world over who believe that simply leaving governments free to pursue their narrow agendas driven by power, sectarian ideology, militarism and the profits of a few is to doom us all to continued war, bloodshed and injustice...Read more... United Against Cultural Fascism: a letter to every cultured person in this country | Gilad Atzmon Last week, American academic Norman Finkelstein and I were on the front of the Jewish Chronicle (JC). We were presented as Public Jewish Enemies Number One. We were branded together with BNP leader and a racist Nick Griffin. This was obviously a clear outburst of Zionist hysteria... [Some people are bothered when I refer to Zionists as ZioNazis. Actually, it's a very accurate descriptive term. See my essay on the subject.] Read more...Kissinger in Nixon-era document: Jews are self serving 'bastards' | Haaretz American Jewish groups lobbying the Nixon White House on behalf of their Soviet brethren got under Henry Kissinger’s skin in demanding intense pressure on Moscow to the point that he denounced them to a White House colleague as self-serving “bastards,” newly released documents indicate... [For more than 60 years the American powers-that-be have caved into Zionist pressure. Nowadays, the Zionists are taking direct control.] Read more...Retired Philadelphia Police Captain arrested for joining the Occupy Movement | Axis of Logic  Philadelphia Police Captain Ray Lewis arguing with an NYPD cop ...After this video appeared with Capt. Lewis and his sign, "NYPD Don't Be Wall Street Mercenaries," he was arrested yesterday by the NYPD. The photo of Capt. Lewis handcuffed in his police captain's dress uniform is nothing short of bizarre...Watch video... Gorenberg says a one-state solution would produce another Lebanon | Mondoweiss ...Zionism is a”poisonous elixir that taints everything” it touches. Let’s look at the record. If the Zionists had not pushed the US to come to the aid of Britain in WW 1, and they only did so when hated Russia pulled out, it is likely that the war would have come to an end without a German defeat, hundreds of thousands of lives would have been saved and we would have seen either Hitler or the holocaust, nor for that matter, the state of Israel... [Follow the running debate in the Comments section of a piece by Philip Weiss, in which Jeff Blankfort takes on all comers. Like the passage above, it is a startling display of his command of the subject and the high moral and historical ground of his argument. Hats off to Blankfort - he's awesome.] Read more...US creates an Iranian albatross, by Kaveh L Afrasiabi | Asia Times Online ...This is not the first nor shall it be the last time that the US has used its substantial influence at the UN to further its foreign policy objectives against a rival state. Walking through the UN halls, one can still hear the echo of heated debate at the Security Council on Iraq in 2002-2003, when then-US secretary of state Colin Powell adamantly claimed that there was substantial and "irrefutable" evidence of an active and advanced Iraqi weapons of mass destruction program - that turned out to be a hoax and a mere pretext for the illegal invasion of a sovereign Middle East country... Read more... Matthew Gould and the Plot to Attack Iran | Craig Murray  This is Matthew Gould, second from right, British Ambassador to Israel, who was pictured speaking at a meeting of the Leeds Zionist Federation that was also the opening of the Leeds Hasbarah Centre. The Leeds Zionist Federation is part of the Zionist Federation of Great Britain and Ireland, motto “Speaking Up for Israel.” A collection was made at the meeting to send packages to members of the Israeli Defence Force... Read more... "Nuclear Option" Against Iran's Economy Paves Way for War, by Kate Gould | FCNL The drumbeat for another round of draconian sanctions against Iran is growing louder on Capitol Hill. While Illinois Senator Mark Kirk's proposed legislation to “collapse the Central Bank of Iran” was intended to be attached to the now-stalled international affairs funding bill, the pressure from Congress for another round of indiscriminate sanctions continues to build. Some U.S. officials have called sanctioning Iran’s Central Bank “the nuclear option” because it would deal a devastating blow to the teetering global economy, and inflict untold human suffering in Iran. Still, such an initiative is expected to receive overwhelming bipartisan support... [What is it with the US Congress and Senate - are they evil, insane or just plain stupid? Perhaps it's all three. Or are they just opportunistically caving in to the Lobby?] Read more...Russian Warships Enter Syrian Waters To Prevent NATO Attack, by Paul Joseph Watson | Prison Planet ...Russia has stepped up efforts to defend Syria in recent days, with Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov keen to frame the violence in the country as a civil war in defiance of claims by western powers that President Bashar al-Assad has overseen a bloody crackdown on innocent protesters... Read more... IAEA reports on Iran: Mr. Amano and Regime Change, by Sasan Fayazmanesh | Payvand  In an interview with Spiegel Online on April 19, 2011, Dr. Mohamed ElBaradei, former Director General of International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), was asked if he was deceived by the US and its allies when investigating their allegations against Iran’s nuclear program. He answered: “the Americans and the Europeans withheld important documents and information from us. They weren’t interested in a compromise with the government in Tehran, but regime change-by any means necessary.”.. Read more... America's Media War on Syria | Stephen Lendman Replicating Libya's model, Western generated uprisings began in March. Since then, Syria's been ravaged by violence. Hundreds have been killed, many more injured. Civilians and state security forces have been affected. Conflict rages daily. Casualties mount. Regime change is planned to establish another US client state... Read more... How Israel Out-Foxed US Presidents, by Morgan Strong | Consortium News ...The one constant in Israel’s endless maneuverings both with and against the U.S. government has been the effectiveness of the Israel Lobby and its many allies to fend off sustained criticism of Israel, sometimes by smearing critics as anti-Semitic or by mounting aggressive cover-ups when investigations threatened to expose ugly secrets. Given this long record of success, U.S. presidents and other politicians have demonstrated a declining capacity to press Israel into making concessions, the way Eisenhower, Kennedy and Carter tried to do... Read more... How Ahmed Chalabi conned the neocons, by John Dizard | Salon  When the definitive history of the current Iraq war is finally written, wealthy exile Ahmed Chalabi will be among those judged most responsible for the Bush administration’s decision to invade Iraq and topple Saddam Hussein. More than a decade ago Chalabi teamed up with American neoconservatives to sell the war as the cornerstone of an energetic new policy to bring democracy to the Middle East — and after 9/11, as the crucial antidote to global terrorism. It was Chalabi who provided crucial intelligence on Iraqi weaponry to justify the invasion, almost all of which turned out to be false... Read more... In case you don't realise how dangerous the Jewish Lobby Is, by Gilad Atzmon | Veterans Today The Israeli paper Israel-Ayom reports today about a new ‘Congressional bill’ that would require the “American administration to support Israel in a move deemed necessary to defend itself against the Iranian nuclear threat.”.. If you doubted the colossal danger imposed by the the ‘lobby’ you better wake up NOW!!!.. Read more... Israeli media paving the way for an attack on Iran | Redress Information & Analysis Neve Gordon argues that while the Israeli media frenzy supporting an attack on Iran may be orchestrated to pressure the international community to impose harsher sanctions against Iran, it is nonetheless helping to produce the necessary conditions for a military campaign... Read more... Palin embraces OWS? by David Sirota | Salon  The former Alaska governor becomes the latest Republican to adopt the rhetoric of the movement... Read more... Seething Anger: Euro-US Cold Winter, by Eric Walberg | Palestine Chronicle ..The popular perception is that the ordinary people have been living “beyond their means”, a false and invidious conventional wisdom which masks the real nature of the crisis. For it is the elites across Europe and the Americas who have benefited most from the European Union, built on Reaganite neoliberalism, which in turn was fashioned to meet the needs of business. The neoliberal policies of all Western governments, “left” or “right” during the past three decades are the direct cause of the current highly skewed income distribution – by some accounts, worse than in any previous era of human history... Read more... Bibi's Official Genocide Policy, by Craig Murray | Uruknet ...it is quite astonishing that Netanyahu’s decalred, published and open intention to wipe the Palestinians from the map gets nil publicity in the west. The source for this is impeccable: Likud’s party platform as presented on the website of the Knesset. This is absolutely compulsory reading for anybody who was taken in by the opposition to Palestinian statehood "without negotiation" as explained by the Israeli stooges in western governments. This is the actual, official Israeli policy:.. Read more... Nov 18, 2011 A Whiff of Egyptian Freedom for Gaza, by Eric Walberg | Palestine Chronicle  Egyptian journalist on the flotilla to Gaza, Lina Attalah ...This time there were 27 activists, including Americans, Canadians, Irish, Polish, Greek, Palestinian and -- for the first time an Egyptian, Al-Masri Al-Youm English Managing Editor Lina Attalah. For 27 years, Israel has been violating the 1979 Peace Treaty with Egypt, which guaranteed “full autonomy” for the Palestinians within five years. So it was appropriate for an Egyptian to become the 27th member of the team of activists trying to break the Gaza siege... Read more... Between Life and Death: Struggle in the Jordan Valley, by Ben Lorber | Palestine Chronicle Speaking to the American Congress in May, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu remarked that Israel would maintain a long-term presence in the West Bank’s Jordan Valley. In the months that followed, the Israeli army stepped up its attacks on the water wells of the Palestinians who live there... Read more... OWS protesters seek real change in US: Interview with James Jennings | PressTV ...I am not surprised at all because this has been a looming crisis and from the point of view of the municipal authorities it had to be solved in this way. But I think that nobody realizes how extreme the anger is and how much energy is fueling this across the United States and truly throughout the world... Read transcript, watch video... Sanctioning Syria: The Long Road to Damascus, by Maidhc Ó Cathail | Intifada Palestine  A few of the principal 5th Columnists In 1996, an Israeli think tank, the Institute for Advanced Strategic and Political Studies, prepared “A Clean Break: A New Strategy for Securing the Realm” for incoming Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. In that seminal report, the Richard Perle-led study group suggested that Israel could “shape its strategic environment, in cooperation with Turkey and Jordan, by weakening, containing, and even rolling back Syria.” Comprised mainly of American-based pro-Israel advocates, the group stressed, “Most important, it is understandable that Israel has an interest supporting diplomatically, militarily and operationally Turkey’s and Jordan’s actions against Syria, such as securing tribal alliances with Arab tribes that cross into Syrian territory and are hostile to the Syrian ruling elite.”..Read more... Occupiers Occupied: The Hijacking of the First Amendment, by Robert Reich | Huffington Post A funny thing happened to the First Amendment on its way to the public forum. According to the Supreme Court, money is now speech and corporations are now people. But when real people without money assemble to express their dissatisfaction with the political consequences of this, they're treated as public nuisances and evicted... Read more... Zionism is Weaker Than It Was: Occupy AIPAC?, by Andrew Levine | Counterpunch Back in 2004, George W. Bush, full of “political capital” and hell bent on besting his predecessors in beating back the twentieth century, discovered that Social Security was still a “third rail” in American politics. But that was before Democratic victories in 2006 and 2008, and before Barack Obama. Social Security along with other so-called entitlements are now on the chopping block again, and it remains to be seen whether they can survive the up-coming “bipartisan” assault... Read more... Why the West is demonizing Iran | Redress Newsblog Stuart Littlewood argues that behind the "non-stop, loud-mouthed sabre-rattling against Iran" lies the fact that the Anglo-American political establishment is still smarting from not getting its way... [Some very interesting history here] Read more...Dennis Ross: The Undiplomatic History, by Max Blumenthal | Al Akhbar English  ...Serving in four American administrators and overseeing a long and fruitless process to secure an end to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Ross did more than any official to advance Israeli ambitions of expansion at the cost of Palestinian pursuit of statehood and freedom.. Read more... Ross's departure, by Rashid Khalidi | The Hill Dennis Ross has finally left the building. Since the Carter administration, Ross has played a crucial role in crafting Middle East policies that have prolonged and exacerbated the more than six-decade conflict between Israelis and Palestinians. His efforts contributed significantly to the growth in the number of Israeli settlers in the occupied Palestinian territories from well under 200,000 in the 1980s to nearly 600,000 today. It is in no small measure due to him that the two-state solution is all but dead... [May the two-state solution RIP - it would have just intensified and prolonged the agony anyway] Read more...The Fierce Urgency of Conversation with Christian Israeli Dissident Roy Tov, by Eileen Fleming | We Are Wide Awake Last October and just before the publication of BEYOND NUCLEAR: Mordechai Vanunu's FREEDOM of SPEECH Trial and My Life as a Muckraker: 2005-2010 a supporter of Vanunu’s who had become a friend of mine three years prior told me about another dissident Israeli and former military officer who had also converted to Christianity and been involved in high-level scientific programs. A major difference between Vanunu and Roy Tov is that Tov left Israel for South East Asia and wrote his insights of the Zionist state in The Cross of Bethlehem... Read more... Philadelphia Police Captain Ray Lewis Joins Occupy Wall Street | Washingon's Blog  Retired Philadelphia Police captain Ray Lewis has joined Occupy Wall Street, calling the New York Police Department’s conduct “disgusting” and “totally uncalled for”.. Watch video... Menu for Today's Tricky Planet: Use Your Head, by Gabriel Kolko | Counterpunch ...To desert the struggle is to surrender to atavistic forces that would bring a long night to the human condition. Put this way, if only for our self-esteem, we are obliged to continue to oppose dangerous foreign policies, lies, and obscurantism. We must renew the opposition but we must remain true to reality also — and this combination will lose many who would otherwise be a major part of “good causes.”.. Read more... DHS Secret Police Make Arrests at OWS Portland, by Kurt Nimmo | Prison Planet Demotix has posted photos showing that the Department of Homeland Security now operates as a secret police force that arrests people at political events, the hallmark of all totalitarian governments... [What else would one expect from the new and improved American Gestapo] Read more...Nov 17, 2011 Freedom Riders on the West Bank? by Bill Fletcher | ZCommunications  When I first heard about the planned Freedom Rides scheduled for Tuesday, November 15th to take place in the Occupied Palestinian Territories I realized that this was a brilliant tactic. Much as with the Freedom Rides that were used in the USA to dramatize the violence of Jim Crow segregation in the South, and later the Immigrant Freedom Rides to dramatize the plight of immigrants, the Palestinian Freedom Rides are about dramatizing violence—the violence that the Palestinian people face every day as a result of the Israeli Occupation... Read more... Honored as a Freedom Rider, by Mazin Qumsiyeh | Popular Resistance I was honored to be a freedom rider and it was team effort at its best (those who rode and the many who worked behind the scenes). Two other Palestinians were also arrested with us who were there as a reporters/observers not participants. All eight of us were released eventually pending potential trials... [This is important. It's the sort of thing that I and others have been advocating for a long time - to turn the struggle into a civil rights issue. If the Palestinians, in the OPT and in Israel itself, would demand equal rights as citizens, it would change the equation entirely. The Israelis would be forced to face the prospect of One State for all - the alternative being an apartheid, racist state that the world could no longer tolerate.] Read more...Targeting Iran and Syria | Stephen Lendman America, key NATO partners, and Israel target both countries. Israel wants regional rivals removed. Washington and key NATO partners want independent regimes ousted, replaced with subservient ones. At issue is establishing regional dominance. New targets can then confronted politically, economically, and/or belligerently... Read more... Gaza's Suffocating Siege | Stephen Lendman ...Despite Israel claiming no further responsibility, it exercises full control of Gaza's airspace, waters, borders, territory, infrastructure, power, and more. It collects customs and value added taxes for imported goods, conducts regular incursions, excludes most exports, and maintains a physical presence... Read more... Surprise, Homeland Security Coordinates #OWS Crackdowns | Wonkette  Remember when people were freaking out over the Patriot Act and Homeland Security and all this other conveniently ready-to-go post-9/11 police state stuff, because it would obviously be just a matter of time before the whole apparatus was turned against non-Muslim Americans when they started getting complain-y about the social injustice and economic injustice and income inequality and endless recession and permanent unemployment? That day is now, and has been for some time... [It was just a matter of time before the Gestapo would step in] Read more... Mr. 1% Thinks He's Above the Law: Bloomberg Violates Court Order to Allow Occupy Protesters Back In Park | Washington's Blog Billionaire Wall Street alum Bloomberg says he personally made the decision to brutally evict the Occupy Wall Street protesters last night. As part of the sweep, police hit in the head and arrested New York City Councilman Ydanis Rodriguez (other council members marched down to the police station to demand his release).. Read more... Islamophobia on rise in United States: Interview with Ibrahim Hooper | PressTV Latest FBI records show the number of hate crimes against Muslims increased nearly 50 percent last year. One hundred and sixty cases of hate crimes against Muslims were reported in 2010 compared to 107 in 2009. A report by the Center for American Progress released in August named several foundations and wealthy donors as being behind a ten year campaign to spread Islamophobia in the US... Read transcript, watch video... The Movie | Thrive Movement At about the same time I finished watching this fascinating film, Vimeo took it down. You can pay $5 to rent it from the site - it's well worth it. You'll learn a lot, and maybe reconsider some things you thought were just fodder for the tabloids... Watch this film... DOJ: Make It a Federal Crime to 'Lie' on the Internet, by Kurt Nimmo | Infowars  Obama’s Department of Justice will tell Congress today it should have the ability to prosecute people who lie on the internet. It wants to do this by making it illegal to breach the terms of service of websites... Read more... Big Media's Double Standards on Iran | Consortium News The mainstream U.S. press corps is again pounding the propaganda war drums, this time over dubious accusations of Iran’s secret work on a nuclear bomb. It is a pattern of bias that Robert Parry calls the U.S. media’s worst — and most dangerous – ethical violation. Arguably, the most serious ethical crisis in U.S. journalism is the deep-seated bias about the Middle East that is displayed by major American news outlets, particularly the Washington Post and the New York Times... Read more... Hillary Clinton and the New American (Pacific) Century, by Tony Cartalucci | Infowars Secretary of State Hillary Clinton recently published in Foreign Policy magazine, “America’s Pacific Century,” a Hitlerian declaration of imperial intent for American “leadership” in Asia for the next 100 years. The piece, which could just as easily been penned by Neo-Con policy makers begins with, “the future of politics will be decided in Asia, not Afghanistan or Iraq, and the United States will be right at the center of the action. ”.. Read more... Seattle City Counsel Unanimously Supports Occupy Movement and Votes to Stand Up to Big Banks | Washington's Blog ...The Seattle City Council on Monday unanimously adopted a resolution in support of Occupy Seattle that calls on the city to examine its banking and investment practices, home-foreclosure patterns and the financing of local elections... Read more... The Bouncer, by Paul Balles | Veterans Today  ...Tell us who’s the bouncer with the clever justification for pre-emptive action by insisting that one must prove that he doesn’t have what he doesn’t have? My friend, there are many bouncers. One of them, Condoleezza Rice appeared on Jon Stewart’s show a week or so ago and tried to convince an audience of dunces that the bouncer rationale was justification for the war on Iraq... Read more... IISS: Syria's Opposition Is Armed, by Tony Cartalucci | Activist Post The "Free Syria Army" is literally an army of militant extremists, many drawn not from Syria's military ranks, but from the Muslim Brotherhood, carrying heavy weapons back and forth over the Turkish and Lebanese borders; funded, supported, and armed by the United States, Israel, and Turkey. The latest evidence confirming this comes in the form of a report out of the International Institute for Strategic Studies where Senior Fellow for Regional Security at IISS-Middle East Emile Hokayem openly admits Syria's opposition is armed and prepared to drag Syria's violence into even bloodier depths... Read more... Destroying Palestinian solar plant, by Stuart Reigeluth | Gulf News With international attention focusing on the Palestinian UN bid, the prisoner swap and the absurd US response to Unesco accepting Palestine, a much smaller event but no less revealing has been largely overlooked: Israel wants to destroy a Spanish-sponsored solar power plant in the West Bank.. This is a small but symbolic example of Israel's recurring impunity regarding international law... Read more... Sheikh Imran Hosein saw it all in 2003 | Gilad Atzmon Watch video... Nov 16, 2011 SYRIA The latest front in the Zionist War on Everyone Else The Snake Behind the Arab Spring, by Dr. Elias Akleh | Intifada Palestine  Arab Spring map Due to its important geopolitical location.. and to its diversified rich natural resources the indigenous inhabitants of the Middle Eastern region have been subjected to multiple forms of colonial campaigns since the beginning of ancient times. The inhabitants were subjected to ruthless military occupations, genocides, persecutions, oppressions, enslavements, and ethnic cleansing. Yet the people never surrendered nor gave up. They struggled for their freedom and independence and fought all colonial powers one after the other... [And they will survive the latest onslaught by the USraeli Empire, which is in its waning days.] Wahhabis weave web of plot in Syria, by Ismail Salami | PressTV ...To the Wahhabis, Shia Muslims and moderate Sunnis are but infidels and should be killed and their blood is not upon their shoulders. What they conceive of the Shia Muslims is indeed a horrid image which fails to fit into any plausibly logical order. This irrational hatred becomes the prime motivation for the Wahhabis to engage in stoking up unrest in some border cities in Syria which throws full support behind Iran and Hezbollah. In a similar vein, the Saudi Wahhabis fully backed the dictatorial Bahrain regime in eliminating the Shia Muslims and crushing with brutality the popular uprising in the country... Read more... Reports of Iran's nuclear ambitions sound like a repeat of Iraq eight years ago, by Gwynne Dyer | Straight ...Many people in the West realise that they are being hustled into yet another attack on a Middle Eastern country, but they don’t really worry about it too much. After all, it will only be air strikes, and we all know that an air-only war is practically casualty-free for the side with air superiority. Look at Libya, for example... Read more... Syria Uprising Falls Victim to Power Plays, by Ramzy Baroud | Palestine Chronicle  ...Adopting a model that rationalizes foreign intervention - which is incapable of exacting change without extreme violence - will bring horrible consequences for the Syrian people and the whole region. With the Syrian government failing to win the trust of large segments of the Syrian population, the opposition's growing dependency on outside forces, and some Arab media networks fanning the flames of sectarianism and civil war, the Syrian deadlock is morphing into something even more dangerous: a Lebanon-style civil war or a Libyan-style foreign military intervention... Read more... Road to Damascus: Pro-Israel Groups Plot Intervention, by Maidhc Ó Cathail | Palestine Chronicle ...If the “humanitarians” at the Foreign Policy Initiative and the Foundation for Defense of Democracies succeed in getting the Obama administration to adopt their “options” to assist the anti-regime Syrian opposition, Bill Kristol will soon be celebrating the sixth “war of Muslim liberation” that he and his pro-Israel cronies have induced the United States to wage — with little thought for all the “shed blood and expended treasure.” Unless the Syrian people want their country to be added to Kristol’s dubious roster of “the liberated” — Kuwait, the Balkans, Afghanistan, Iraq and Libya — they had better make it loud and clear that they have no desire whatsoever for the kind of “assistance” offered by pro-Israel groups... Read more... Arab League Pro-Western Despots, by Stephen Lendman | War Is A Crime ...Since March, anti-goverment protests began and intensified. Replicating Libya's model, Western backed insurgents stoked violence. Insurrection spread from one city to another. Trapped between waring sides, civilian casualties keep rising. Hundreds of security forces have been killed. Imported weapons are used against them. Syria's wrongfully blamed for confronting an armed insurgency. Unresolved conflict rages. At issue is destabilizing and toppling a Baath party controlled secular, anti-imperial regime, supporting Palestine, Lebanon's Hezbollah and Iran... Read more... Israel arrests "Freedom Riders" challenging apartheid road system, by Jillian Kestler-D'Amours | The Electronic Intifada  Palestinian activists staged a protest inspired by the Freedom Riders of the US civil rights movement “I’m a Freedom Rider! I’m just trying to go to Jerusalem!” shouted Palestinian activist Huwaida Arraf Tuesday evening as a live Internet video feed showed Israeli police officers dragging her off a bus linking Israeli settlements in the West Bank to Jerusalem...[Note that our friend Mazin Qumsiyeh was among them] Read more...Islamic solidarity: The bomb Israel fears, by Mark Glenn | PressTV As should be painfully obvious now to all (and particularly for those in the West going broke fighting her wars for her) Israel's woes are never hers alone... Read more... The US is a Police State: Review of Andrew Kolin's State Power and Democracy, by Prof. John McMurtry | Global Research Many readers may have thought the U.S. is “like a police state” - - think of the security dress down of everyone boarding a flight within the U.S. sphere of control. Political scientist Andrew Kolin goes far beyond hasty analogue. He argues with rich factual substantiation that the U.S is a police state all the way down – not only since the stolen elections and war state of George Bush Jr., but before and since in a cumulative throughline of bureaucratized despotism across borders... Read more... Genocidal Cynicism: The Destiny of Humankind in the Hands of Irresponsible Politicians, by Fidel Castro Ruz | Global Research  No sane person, especially someone who has had access to the elementary knowledge acquired in primary school, would agree that our species, especially those who are children, teenagers or youth, should be deprived of the right to live, today, tomorrow and forever. Never have human beings, throughout their eventful history, as persons endowed with intelligence, ever heard of an experience like that. I feel the duty to convey to those taking the trouble to read these Reflections the opinion that all of us, with no exception, are obliged to create awareness about the risks that humankind are running in an inexorable manner, towards a final and total catastrophe as the consequence of irresponsible decisions made by politicians whose fate, rather than talent or merit, has placed the destiny of humankind in their hands... [He's a tough old bird, with cojones still intact, after facing down the Empire for all these years. Venceremos, Fidel!] Read more... Obama Wants World War III, by Michael S. Rozeff | Lew Rockwell ...A fine mess that U.S. leadership has produced since the Soviet Union fell! It could have led the world to nuclear disarmament and peace. Instead it's created more and more totally useless and destructive warfare. Can anyone see a difference between Obama and Bush? I can't.. Read more... The US Has Been Bombing Iraq Since 1991 Without Stopping - Until Now | AlterNet ...While the U.S. now maintains it has the right to conduct an unmanned airstrikes in any country (or at least any country in the global south) and currently does so in nations like Pakistan, Yemen and Somalia, a palpable shift may indeed still occur in Iraq. On that first morning after the final American withdrawal, Iraqis will wake up and be able to look to skies free of foreign bombs, rockets and machine guns for the first time in 20 years... Read more... Dershowitz' Lies and Glitches | Gilad Atzmon  ...why, I wonder, does Dershowitz insist on reducing a potentially ethical, intellectual and ideological debate to just one more Zionist exercise in mud-slinging? I can think of only two possible answers; First, Dershowitz lacks the necessary intellect to engage in a debate and second, that Zionism and Israel cannot be defended - ethically, morally or intellectually... [Amen to that - this professional liar, money-grubbing sophist, plagiarist and coward is the ultimate poster boy of Zionism] Read more...Washington Loses on Own-Goal Hat Trick, by Philip Giraldi | Antiwar In soccer, an “own goal” is when you screw up royally and kick the ball into your own net. It is the height of embarrassment to lose a game on an own goal. A “hat trick” is when a player scores three goals. No one has ever lost a soccer game on a hat trick of three own goals — at least not until recent developments in Washington... Read more... Deadly Tripoli Clashes Continue, Despite Claims of Resolution, by Jason Ditz | Antiwar Reports have the death toll at 15 today as the gunbattles in and around the Libyan capital of Tripoli enter their fourth day. The fighting between militias from Zawiya and the tribes of Warshefana is the latest in a growing number of faction splits in post-Gadhafi Libya... Read more... 10 Reasons America Will Be Judged as the Most Brutal Empire in History | Activist Post  Liberty Groped ...For some time, many believed the U.S. to be a shining example of economic freedom for other nations to emulate. Indeed, America was eager to promote "economic freedom" globally to open new markets for U.S.-based corporations. When foreign leaders refused to allow these corporate interests into their country, those leaders were replaced through a variety of covert actions. The form of government that would be installed did not matter to the empire makers so long as the corporate interests were served...Read more... Catherine Austin Fitts: The Black Budget And The Leveraged Buyout Of The World Using Stolen Money | Video Rebel's Blog Catherine Austin Fitts said we are witnessing a Leveraged Buyout of the world that will permanently end democracy. The elite has bought all the politicians and the media. They have stolen enough money to earn 2 trillion dollars a year from their investments. She said 2 trillion dollars a year is sufficient to fund a world government... Read more... More racist laws are on the way in Israel, by Mohammed Mohsen Watad | Middle East Monitor ...Israel's Knesset (parliament) is set to discuss a number of bills in its winter session which Palestinians regard as racist, continuing a policy of "unprecedented racist legislation in 1948 Palestine" aimed at undermining the very existence of Palestinians in their own land... Read more... Now Is the Time for an Economic Bill of Rights, by Ellen Brown | Truthout  We are beginning to understand that our money is not Henry Ford said, "It is well enough that the people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning." We are beginning to understand, and Occupy Wall Street looks like the beginning of the revolution...created by the federal government, but by banks Read more... US becoming increasingly military state: Interview with James Fetzer | PressTV ...We are seeing the increase in militarization of the police forces throughout the United States and that is a very bad tendency that has been taking place since 9/11. We see the rich getting richer and the increasing gap between the rich and the poor. This gap has been widening since the administration of Ronald Reagan... Read transcript, watch video... Palestine: what next? | Redress Information & Analysis Alan Hart argues that salvation of the Palestinian cause lies in dissolving the Palestinian Authority, which “has been more or less a quisling authority collaborating with Israel”, restructuring and reinvigorating the Palestinian National Council – the parliament for all Palestinians – and harnessing the immense but dormant potential of the Palestinian diaspora... Read more... Rendezvous with a British minister on Palestine and Iran | Redress Information & Analysis Stuart Littlewood relates the concerns he has raised with UK Foreign Office Minister Henry Bellingham regarding British policy on Palestine and Israel, and the Israeli-inspired sabre rattling towards Iran, and views the possibility – aired by former UK ambassador Craig Murray – of a secret “neo-con cell of senior ministers and officials, coordinating with Israel and the United States”... Read more... Nov 14, 2011 War Clouds Form over Iran, by Wayne Madsen | Global Research  Israel’s all-powerful lobby in Washington, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), an organization composed of Israeli collaborators, infiltrators, and outright traitors to the United States, is steamrolling through the House of Representatives H.R. 1905, which would prohibit the President of the United States, the Secretary of State, members of the U.S. Foreign Service, or any special envoy from engaging in any sort of diplomatic contact, official or unofficial, with any member or agent of the government of Iran... Read more... When Hillary Clinton Doesn't Make Sense, by Kourosh Ziabari | Intifada Palestine U.S. President Barack Obama will be a lame duck next year and the officials in his administration, especially his Secretary of State Hillary Clinton are hilariously doing their best to make sure that they haven’t spared any effort to intervene in the internal affairs of other countries and sabotage the stability and security of those whom they call “enemies”, like Iran... Read more... The Hottest Potato | Craig Murray ...Several national papers have checked out my story factually and nobody has found a single hole in it. But nobody will publish it. I reproduce below every email I have received from any of these papers in reply. They show what a hot potato a serious anti-Zionist is – and I strongly suspect that the repeated inability of editors to make decisions which emerges from these emails shows they need on this subject to consult their proprietors... Read more... Obama Honors Jewish Supremacist, by Alison Weir | Salem-News  President Obama said Education and Sharing Day marked the legacy of hope for a "brighter future"of the late Lubavitcher Rebbe, who launched the initiative... Read more... America's New World Order Agenda | Stephen Lendman New world order strategy dictates major global economic, political, and military policies. Nothing happens accidentally. Events are manipulated. At issue is world dominance. America, Israel, and key NATO nations are partnered to achieve it... Read more... Social inequality, poverty rampant in US: Interview with Paul Street | PressTV A prominent historian says that the US Occupy movement is trying to highlight the rampant poverty and social inequality among members of American society... Read more... Ron Paul and Occupy Protests Join Forces In Demanding an End to Crony Capitalism | Washington's Blog ...Crony capitalists are the ones] that benefit from contract from government, benefit from the Federal Reserve, benefit from all the bailouts. They don’t deserve compassion. They deserve taxation or they deserve to have all their benefits removed... Read more, watch video... The De-Zionization of the American Mind, by Jean Bricmont | Counterpunch ...What is at stake in the de-Zionization of the American mind is not only the fate of the unfortunate inhabitants of Palestine but also unspeakable miseries for the people of that region and maybe of the rest of the world... Read more... Nov 13, 2011 Rim Banna: A time to cry | YouTube  Something Positive Is Happening With Young American Jews | Gilad Atzmon They focus on their Jewish community. I believe that this is very healthy and I support it. Rather than dominating the solidarity movement or discourse, good Jews better concentrate on their own communities. Ethical reawakening is what we need... Watch video... Terror and Revenge Engulf NATO's Libya, by Franklin Lamb | Counterpunch The “new Libya” has entered its own “Terror” which is spreading inexorably, aided by NATO member states including American, French and British SAS units known locally as “disappearance squads”. This is one of the rapidly developing consequences of the UN’s rush to “protect Libya’s civilian population” last spring... Read more... The 'Humanitarian' Road to Damascus: Pro-Israel Groups Outline U.S. Options, by Maidhc Ó Cathail | Intifada Palestine On November 8, the Foreign Policy Initiative and the Foundation for Defense of Democracies jointly issued a discussion paper that outlines “policy options for the United States and like-minded nations to further assist the anti-regime Syrian opposition.” Entitled “Towards a Post-Assad Syria,” the paper advocates imposing “crippling sanctions” on the Assad government, providing assistance to Syrian opposition groups, and imposing no-fly/no-go zones in Syria... Read more... Will There Be More 9/11s?, by Dr. Lawrence Davidson | Intifada Palestine  Glenn Greenwald recently posted a short piece about “The Human Toll of the U.S. Drone Campaign.” Greenwald noted that the population of the United States is kept in the dark about the civilian victims of the drone campaign by a government that “refuses to disclose anything about these attacks and media outlets [which] virtually never report on [its] victims.” What the U.S. public does get from both of these sources is a picture of the Middle East “as a cauldron of sub-human demons.”.. Read more... Iran Mocks IAEA's Increasingly Shrill Allegations, by Jason Ditz | Antiwar IAEA officials keep reiterating the allegations made in this week’s report on Iran’s nuclear program, and hawks keep insisting what is contained within amounts to “proof” of a military dimension in Iran’s current program, even though it is clearly nothing of the sort... Read more... The Seizure of the Gaza Boats, by Ramzy Baroud | Counterpunch Another mission accomplished, or so it seems. Israeli navy ships have managed to thwart yet another civil society ‘provocation’.. Read more... Jewish groups censor new Greek government | Rehmat's World ...Finally Athens has a new unity government headed by Dr. Lucas Papademos 64, former VP at the European Central Bank. The bankers on Wall Street and the City (of London) have breathed a sigh of relief. Sarkozy and Markel are happy with the choice. However, the American Jewish Committee (AJC) has some serious reservations about one of the political parties in the unity government... [He'll be gone in a wink. The Greeks, along with pretty much everyone else in the West, are prisoners of the Zionists.] Read more...Why the Washington Post won't fire Jennifer Rubin, by Glenn Greenwald | Salon  ...Herein lies one of the great myths of American political culture: the media’s “objectivity.” No institution plays a greater role in restricting the terms of permissible debate in America than they do. The fact that they impose these limitations with such gross bias is bad enough; their self-praising insistence that they do no such things makes it that much worse... [As a jew I hate to admit it, but it appears that most of the scumbags who are destroying America, the Western democracies, and much of the rest of the world (albeit in a more violent way) are jewish. Facts are facts.] Read more...Striking Iran: Israel's War Wager, by Jonathan Cook | Al Akhbar English Israel is trying to exploit the international community’s uncertainty about how to respond to this week’s report by the UN nuclear watchdog (IAEA) on Iran’s nuclear program to justify a possible military strike against Iran. The IAEA’s report indicated Iran has secretly worked for years on developing a nuclear warhead and might still be doing so... Read more... Why US should not attack Iran? | YouTube Things that people must know about the fight with Iran... Watch video... Occupy teachers/profs: end 1%'s criminal wars by teaching war laws, facts, by Carl Herman | National Examiner Of all the laws to know, when war is lawful or criminal is arguably the most important. Of all the lessons of history, the sacrifices of all our families through two world wars for the legal victory that strictly limits nations’ use of war is arguably the most important.Teachers and professors could end criminal US wars by teaching the 99% this one law and this one history lesson... Read more... Make money, make war: UK profits from Libya mess | RT ...NATO may have ended its operations in Libya, but the Western presence is far from over, with big companies replacing the warplanes. The countries that bombed the oil-rich state are now getting lucrative contracts to rebuild it. First, British bombs tore it apart. Now, British companies will get paid to put it back together. Libya is open for business, and UK firms are being encouraged to join the gold rush... Watch video... Nov 12, 2011 Hero of the French Resistance and concentration camp survivor expresses his outrage over Israel, by Dr. Hanan Chehata | Middle East Monitor  Stѐphan Hessel was one of the jurors of this year's Russell Tribunal on Palestine held in Cape Town. Mr Hessel, who is of Jewish origin, is lauded as a hero of the French Resistance who survived torture in Nazi concentration camps following his capture by the Gestapo in World War Two. He went on to be one of those who drafted the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights... Read more... Israel's War Threats: Sheer Hollow Propaganda, by Kourosh Ziabari | Intifada Palestine Israel has awkwardly and desperately renewed its outworn war threats against Iran in the recent weeks, indicating that it’s getting prepared to launch a military strike on the Islamic Republic’s nuclear facilities... Read more... Twisters Non-stop, by Paul Balles | Intifada Palestine ...The technique used involves twisted argument aimed at anyone who fails to tow the line of their organization, including writers who attack those who fail to accept any political medicine they prescribe. This ploy works mainly because readers don’t take the time to dig into both sides of arguments and can’t distinguish fact from twisted fiction... Read more... Exclusive interview with UN Special Rapporteur Richard Falk, by Dr. Hanan Chehata | Middle East Monitor  "No matter what the facts are or the law is, the US will side with Israel." In an exclusive and extensive interview with the Middle East Monitor Prof. Richard Falk, the UN Special Rapporteur for Human Rights in the Occupied Palestinian Territories, talks about the on-going intransigence of Israel and its continued failure to abide by international law...Read more... Brainwashed for Final Ethnic Cleansing, by Alan Hart | Intifada Palestine ...Good examples of the extent to which many (most?) Israeli Jews have been brainwashed by Zionist propaganda and are as a consequence beyond reason and only capable of seeing themselves as the victims instead of what they actually are, the oppressors, were on display in all their naked glory in BBC Radio’s documentary of the week first broadcast last Saturday with the title The State of Israel.. Read more... Land Confiscation, by Mazin Qumsiyeh | Popular Resistance ... the world is outraged and politicians while still attached to their failing positions, are feeling besieged by their own people. Delegations from Sweden, Ireland, the US, and many others pass through Palestine and then stay in touch via the internet learning and becoming even more active against the idiotic policies of mainstream Western politicians. Thousands of people are finally saying: we will not take it anymore... Read more... American Jewish Support is Needed Desperately, by Stewart Ogilby | Veterans Today  ...All Jews are not political Zionists, especially in the United States, although early education has too often been designed to instill persecution paranoia combined with a youthful emotional attachment to the State of Israel. For many, it is difficult to remove blinders sufficiently to acknowledge the obvious fact that Israel’s political Zionist leadership has resulted in creating a criminally murderous State having no relationship to moral tenets of Judaism... Read more... Mass walkout at Wayne State leaves "IDF" spokesman lecturing to empty room, by Ali Abunimah | The Electronic Intifada Students at Wayne State University in Detroit staged a silent protest and mass walk-out that left Israel Army reserve spokesman and Jerusalem Post correspondent Gil Hoffman lecturing to a virtually empty auditorium on November 1... Read more, watch video... From 9/11 To World War III:Towards The Construction of A Global Fascist State | The Excavator ...The geopolitical shift towards the balance of powers within the Middle East is healthy and beneficial for both the region and the world. For the past sixty years Israel has not been afraid of attacking any of her neighbours, so a new power on the scene is good because it will put this bully in check. Somebody needs to knock some sense into Israeli leaders and make them reevaluate their current destructive and criminal behavior... Read more... Remembrance in Beit Hanoun, by Nathan Stuckey | ISM  ...Like much of Palestine, history is densely packed, every place has a story, today, we would learn the story of this small area. Today marks the five year anniversary of the Beit Hanoun massacre. Before us, lie the graves of its victims... Read more... Can Hiding The Truth Save Israel From Itself? | Desert Peace New legislation is on the table which would limit donations to Human Rights organisations as part of an ongoing struggle to put an end to dissent in the ‘only Democracy in the Middle East’. If the truth ever sets Israel free, Palestine will surely reap the benefits as would much of the Western world... Read more... Middle East Pop Quiz, by Charley Reese | Antiwar It's time for another pop quiz on America's favorite region of the world – the Middle East. Let's get started with the subject of nuclear weapons.. Read more.... Netanyahu is a Liar, but so are the Leaders of America and the West | Intifada Palestine  Just got caught doing something naughty ...Logic dictates that the US and the West, specifically the leaders of the free world, ought to punish their deceitful Israeli ally for its lies rather than punish the victims of those lies, the Palestinian people. It is they who are besieged, beaten and deprived of their most basic rights to dignity and to a state. This is what the US threat to use the veto in the Security Council to prevent the recognition of a Palestinian State actually means...Read more... Buchenwald: Legend and reality, by Mark Weber | IHR Buchenwald is widely regarded as one of wartime Germany's most notorious "death camps." In fact, though, this carefully cultivated image bears little resemblance to reality. Today, more than forty years after the end of the Second World War, the camp deserves another, more objective look... Read more... The Holocaust and the Myth of the Past as History, by Howard F. Stein | IHR ...One ubiquitous function and purpose of having a sense of history, both individual and group, is to replace the reality of the present and past with a defensive myth of the past through which distorting filter we perceive the past. Were it not one's need to falsify retrospectively by distorting, we would now have no need for a "revision" of sacred historical orthodoxies. Only by stepping outside the cozening ignorance of our tribal caves do we have that perspective which compels us to revise our cherished errors... Read more... Postmodern Imperialism: An Interview with Eric Walberg by Jonathan Reynolds | Palestine Chronicle  ...Why can’t Americans see the imperial nature of their relationship to the world? For a Canadian (or anyone else), this is so obvious... Read more... Bernanke Says That Any Criticism Of The Federal Reserve Is Based On "Misconceptions" | The Economic Collapse ...The Federal Reserve has been a failure of epic proportions. It greatly contributed to the Great Depression (even Bernanke admits this), it created the conditions for the financial bubbles that greatly contributed to the financial crisis of 2008, and it has brought us to the verge of yet another gigantic financial crisis. But Ben Bernanke believes that all of us that are criticizing the Fed are just ignorant... Read more... Undercover Oakland Police Officer Supports Protesters | Washington's Blog ...twenty years from now this movement could be the turning point, the tipping point, right. It’s about time your generation stood up for something. It’s about time young people are in the streets... Read more, watch video... America's Media War on Iran | Stephen Lendman When Washington goes to war or threatens it, America's media march in lockstep, cheerleading. Fiction substitutes for fact. News is carefully filtered, dissent marginalized, and supporting imperial belligerence substitutes for full and accurate disclosure... Read more... Nov 11, 2011 Iran And the beat goes on IAEA report is a dud, and 'Moon of Alabama' busted it wide open with 'Nanodiamonds', by Annie | Mondoweiss  a detonation tank to create nanodiamonds, not a nuclear device Anybody else notice the big sucking sound in reaction to the endlessly uber hyped IAEA report? I knew it, I just knew it. Humping their fear mongering and cramming it down our collective throats the week before the report was due was because they had nothing. Because the only time they'd get away with it was before the report came out, so they ran with it hook line and sinker... Read more... IAEA report on Iran: more of the same, more hype | Iran Affairs ...here we are, building up to yet another war, this time on Iran, using the same sort of lies, with God-knows what consequences, and destroying the credibility of the IAEA in the process. The system in the US is fundamentally out of control, falling fast, and there is no way to regain control. The only question is how much damage it will do to the rest of the world whilst falling... Read more... Iran nuclear report: Why it may not be a game-changer after all, by Scott Peterson | Christian Science Monitor The latest United Nations report on Iran's nuclear program may not be the "game changer" it was billed to be, as some nuclear experts raise doubts about the quality of evidence - and point to lack of proof of current nuclear weapons work... Read more... IAEA Iran Report Unravels: Tainted Mossad Evidence Alleges Russian Scientist Aided Nuclear Weapons Research | Tikun Olam ...While I'm not a fan of the Iranian regime by any stretch, their claims that the report is based on fraud and fabrications is bolstered by Porter's important story. And by God, no one should allow Israel or anyone else to go to war on account of flagrant deception such as the Mossad has offered... Read more... Ben-Eliezer: 'Stop those two fools attacking Iran' | Rehmat's World Former Israeli defense minister, Binyamin Ben-Eliezer, told fellow Labour Party members: "Every citizen in the country has to be worried that these two fools, Netanyahu and Barak, are planning an attack on Iran," quoted by Jewish Daily Forward on November 8, 2011... Read more... Washington and Israel v. Iran and Flotilla Activists, by Stephen Lendman | War Is A Crime ...On November 2, Canada's Tahrir and Ireland's Soairse (Freedom) sailed from Fethiye, Turkey. Israel warplanes and naval vessels shadowed them in international waters. Israeli warships interdicted them violently. Their boats were nearly sunk. Some on board were injured. Twenty-seven participants were arrested, roughed up, detained and imprisoned. All their possessions were stolen... Read more... IAEA and Iran: colonialism in weapons inspectors' clothing, by Patrick Hayes | Spiked Following a flurry of reports from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) over the past week, alarms have been raised that Syria and Iran may be developing nuclear weapons. Yet regardless of whether the IAEA's mundane findings really justify the scaremongering headlines, an important question needs to be asked: what is this officious UN-affiliated body doing poking its nose into these countries' affairs anyway?.. Read more... Major Wars and Suppression of American Freedoms Planned BEFORE 9/11 | Washington's Blog Many things which we've been told have only happened recently actually started a long time ago. For example, the mainstream media claims that Iran is close to building a nuclear weapon. But the Christian Science Monitor notes that the U.S. has been claiming for more than 30 years that Iran was on the verge of nuclear capability. And the decision to threaten to bomb Iran was made before 9/11... Read more... Balfour's Apartheid Legacy, by Stuart Littlewood | Veterans Today  Arthur James Balfour ...The country called Palestine was "liberated" from Turkish Ottoman rule after the Allied Powers, in correspondence between Sir Henry McMahon and Sharif Hussein ibn Ali of Mecca in 1915, promised Arab leaders independence in return for their help in defeating Germany's ally. However a Jewish political movement, Zionism, was finding favour among the ruling élite in London, and the British Government was persuaded by the Zionists' chief spokesman, Chaim Weizmann, to surrender Palestine for their new Jewish homeland. Hardly a thought, it seems, was given to the earlier pledge to the Arabs, who had occupied and owned the land for 1,500 years - longer than the ancient Jews ever did... Read more, watch video... 'World breaking loose of chain of obedience' | PressTV Dr. Ashraf Ezzat a columnist at Veterans Today says the world is breaking loose from the 'chain of obedience' that he believes is the source of world problems... [An optimistic view - and Dr. Ezzat is no Dr. Pangloss - that's refreshing] Watch video...Russell Tribunal: 'Israel is an apartheid entity' | Rehmat's World On Monday, the Russell Tribunal on Palestine (RTP) completed its two-days session in Cape Town (South Africa). In its unanimous verdict the RTP found that the Zionist regime is a racist and apartheid entity as defined under international law. In their recommendations, the jury called upon the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court to initiate an investigation into the international crimes committee by Israel... Read more... World closes eyes to Gaza's woes, by Mohieddin Sajedi | PressTV  Israel's recent seizure of two ships carrying aid to besieged people of Gaza was easily lost in international and regional silence, as if, collective punishment of the Gazans has won Western and international approval... Read more... Americans Are Now Living In a Society That Rivals Orwell's 1984, by Paul Joseph Watson & Alex Jones | Prison Planet Americans are now living in a society that in some cases is more draconian, more invasive and more Orwellian than the dystopian tyranny fictionalized in Orwell's chilling classic Nineteen Eighty-Four. On almost every front, American citizens are under an equal or greater threat of abuse, control and more pervasive and high-tech surveillance than anything Winston Smith ever faced... Read more... The Bund: A Disturbing Jewish Political Exercise | Gilad Atzmon ..This is a film about the 'Jews only' socialist party- The Bund. In the documentary you can watch for yourself 'young' revolutionary Bundists in action. In spite of being 'Socialists' and 'Internationalists', they, for some reason, ended up living in a 'Jews only' State in occupied Palestine at the expense of the Palestinians... Read more, watch video... 'US, Israel seek to sow discord in ME': Interview with Mark Glenn | PressTV A prominent political analyst says that the United States and Israeli regimes are creating confusion among Middle East countries in order to break up regional cohesion... Read more, watch video... Judge Goldstone's offensive apology for apartheid, by Udi Aloni | Salon  I write as an Israeli Jew who was brought up and molded at the very center of secular, Zionist Israel. My parents, Reuven and Shulamit Aloni, exemplify everything that is good and just about Israel for humanistic Jews like Judge Richard Goldstone, the noted South African jurist, who in a recent New York Times Op-Ed, denied the practice of apartheid in Israel... Read more... Is Britain about to betray the Palestinians - again? | Redress Information & Analysis Stuart Littlewood views Britain's decision to abort the Palestinians' bid to obtain UN recognition for their independence by abstaining in the Security Council, and argues that what is needed is a no-nonsense, law-based approach to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, such as that adopted by the Russell Tribunal... Read more... From Gaddafi's unknown grave, hidden volcanoes may erupt, by Bhim Singh | Vijayvaani ...Demonized by the West as a tyrant, Col. Gaddafi was killed in custody of the rebel forces working under the strict command of the US-led NATO. His barbaric murder in custody has left a black scar on the face of NATO. The international community and historians may do justice to themselves and to history by analyzing the sequence of events that shook the people of Iraq, Yugoslavia and now Libya in the name of democracy... Read more... End Corporate Personhood, by Thom Hartmann | Truthout Arizona changed its law after 1886 so that the word person would include nonliving as well as living legal entities: “‘Person’ includes a corporation, company, partnership, firm, association or society, as well as a natural person.”.. [Google the great documentary "Corporation" - it lays it all out.] Read more...The Obama Doctrine: Making a Virtue of Necessity, by James Petras | The People's Voice  After nearly 3 years in deep pursuit of the colonial wars initiated by ex-President Bush, the Obama regime has finally recognized the catastrophic domestic and foreign consequences. As a result the “reality principle” has taken hold; the maintenance of the US Empire requires modification of tactics and strategies, to cut political, military and diplomatic losses... Read more... Manchester University is facing growing protests after caving in to Zionist pressure | Norman G. Finkelstein In a letter to university Head of Governance, Martin Conway, J-BIG said it was astonished “that a respected university should collude with Zionist attempts to suppress open discussion of Prof Finkelstein’s views on campus.” Students from Manchester Action Palestine said the university management and Union “capitulated to pressure from JSOC [Jewish Society] to limit attendees of the event to students only, depriving the public of seeing one of the world’s foremost commentators on the Israel-Palestine conflict.”.. Read more... Preparing for Revolution: A Poem | Richard Falk To be human Read more...is to be naked before and after the law... Netanyahu admitted lying before, by Mazin Qumsiyeh | Popular Resistance I do not know why people are surprised at what Sarkozy and Obama said to each other in private about Netanyahu as a liar. This is after all the same Netanyahu who gave a speech to dozens of Likud Party members in Eilat in which he admitted this is his strategy... Read more... Arrivederci Berlusconi | The Economic Collapse  ...Over the past 30 years, the global financial system has constructed a gigantic mountain of debt, risk and leverage unlike anything the world has ever seen before. At some point the whole thing is going to come crashing down... Read more... Reporters Covering Occupy Wall Street Are Being Targeted for Arrest ... Nationwide | Washington's Blog The intimidation and harassment of reporters by authorities has not been confined to widely-publicised hotspots such as New York and Oakland, Calif., but has moved into the heartland, with recent arrests of journalists caught on video in Wisconsin and Tennessee... Read more... Israelis brainwashed for final ethnic cleansing of Palestinians | Redress Information & Analysis Alan Hart argues that when Israel concludes that it cannot break the Palestinian will, it will create a pretext to ethnically cleanse Palestinians from the West Bank and that, consequently global concern "should be less about trying to start a real peace process in which Israeli leaders have no interest and more about stopping a final Zionist ethnic cleansing of Palestine".. Read more... Michael Hudson, Bob Chapman, Max Keiser: The Bleak Future Of America And The Dollar | Video Rebel's Blog ...Enter Michael Hudson who is a respected academic from the Left who was so angry with Obama that he called him a Republican. He said Obama’s only plan to cure the 23% unemployment rate in America was to cut wages 30%. He said this will fail for 2 reasons. America costs too much to produce anything because it has replaced capitalism with a Finance Capital system. There is an excessive burden placed on Americans who are gouged by the banks on mortgages plus the high cost of healthcare. The US unemployment rate will soar past 30% before this depression is over... Read more, watch video... Nov 10, 2011 Iran The cowardly and despicable leaders of the "free world," their arms twisted by the criminally insane Israelis and their ubiquitous Zionist fifth columns, prepare to strike - god help us all 'Attack Iran' and AIPAC's Infamous Chutzpah, by MJ Rosenberg | Intifada Palestine  Another war for Israel Wasting no time after its success in getting the administration to oppose Palestinian statehood at the United Nations, and still celebrating the UNESCO funding cutoff, AIPAC has returned to its number one priority: Pushing for war with Iran... Read more... Iran: Five Minutes to Zero Hour, by Justin Raimondo | Antiwar If you wade through the International Atomic Energy Agency’s much-awaited report on Iran’s alleged pursuit of nuclear weapons technology – a fate I wouldn’t wish on anyone – what you’ll find is a studious ambiguity. “May,” “might,” and “could” are words that modify practically every assertion of Iranian perfidy... Read more... Warmongers Eager for More Blood-Letting, by Stuart Littlewood | Intifada Palestine  What a spectacle they make of themselves, whooping and stomping to the frenzied beat of Tel Aviv’s drum, their dumb-ass chant getting ever shriller... Read more... Imminent Iran nuclear threat? A timeline of warnings since 1979, by Scott Peterson | CSMonitor Breathless predictions that the Islamic Republic will soon be at the brink of nuclear capability, or – worse – acquire an actual nuclear bomb, are not new. For more than quarter of a century Western officials have claimed repeatedly that Iran is close to joining the nuclear club. Such a result is always declared "unacceptable" and a possible reason for military action, with "all options on the table" to prevent upsetting the Mideast strategic balance dominated by the US and Israel... [Well, this time we're on the brink for sure] Read more... Scott Horton Interviews Flynt Leverett | Antiwar Radio Flynt Leverett, former Senior Director for Middle East Affairs at the National Security Council, discusses why the IAEA’s job in Iran is verifying the non-diversion of nuclear materials for making weapons, not publicizing the assertions of foreign intelligence agencies; how “journalist” David Sanger of the NY Times continues his personal crusade against Iran, truth be damned; why Iran’s alleged theoretical study of nuclear weapons, including the testing of high explosives, still does not violate the NPT; the dubious legality of UN Security Council resolutions prohibiting Iran from enjoying its rights to nuclear energy as an NPT signatory; and why an Israeli airstrike on Iran’s nuclear facilities would only work if they used nuclear weapons – or dragged the US into the war... Listen... Harakiri would be the honourable thing to do for Amano | Guardian  The incoming head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) assures the US that he agrees with the US on "every key strategic decision", including Iran... Read more... A bad case of nuclear Iranophobia, by Pepe Escobar | Asia Times Online As the climax to a leaking frenzy in Western corporate media that bordered on - literally - nuclear hysteria, United Nations inspectors at the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) finally released a report essentially charging that Tehran had tried to design a nuclear weapon to fit in a missile warhead until as late as last year... [At the root of the wars Israel has made or fostered lies the defining characteristic of Zionism - paranoid schizophrenia.] Read more... 'They will want nukes now!': UK & US plan to strike Iran exposed | RT and YouTube British officials are reportedly working on a plan to assist U.S. forces in a pre-emptive attack on Iranian military facilities. It follows claims Washington is moving towards a policy of intervention out of fear that Tehran is developing a nuclear weapons program - something Iran has always denied. And political analyst Chris Bambery believes it's the prospect of economic ruin that's motivating the old elite into action... Watch video... Who's in favour of sanctioning Iran? by Jasmin Ramsey | Al Jazeera English  Not two months after the US' highest-ranking military officer repeated calls for diplomacy with Iran, a key congressional committee approved two bills that would impose the severest sanctions that we've seen yet. Among their draconian measures is a last minute revision that would make it illegal for US officials to even speak to Iranian officials unless the president issues a special waiver and provides congress with a 15-day notice... Read more... Iranians condemn threats of military attack against Iran | Payvand News A collection of 121 Iranian intellectuals, writers and journalists has issued a statement in reaction to recent talk of a possible military strike against Iran, warning that "humanitarian assistance and democracy cannot be delivered through the end of a canon.".. Read more... Using Fake Intelligence to Justify War on Iran, by Michel Chossudovsky | Global Research  The criminal process of fabricating lies to justify a military agenda must be understood. Without the lie, the US-NATO Israel military alliance has no leg to stand on. Iran does not constitute a threat to Global Security or to the security of Israel. The antiwar movement must forcefully address the role of these lies and fabrications. Without the Lie, the military agenda has no legitimacy in the eyes of public opinion. The following text on the role of fake intelligence was written in November 2010... Read more... Iran provides 20 answers to clarify ambiguities about its nuclear program | Tehran Times Iran's envoy to the IAEA Ali-Asghar SoltaniehIran's envoy to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Ali-Asghar Soltanieh has offered the (Non-Aligned Movement) NAM critical information about Iran's nuclear program amid a publicity hype by the Western media over the latest IAEA report on Tehran's nuclear case... Read more... Nov 9, 2011 From Balfour to Obama: Colonial Thinking on Palestine, by Roger Sheety | Palestine Chronicle  The Palestinian people never consented to be occupied The phrase “British Mandate of Palestine” is as commonplace in Western and Zionist scholarship on Palestine as to be inoffensive and therefore barely given a second thought. Indeed, a quick internet search of this seemingly innocuous term reveals some two million results of wildly varying quality and usefulness. There was, however, no such thing as “British Mandate” of Palestine; it was and remains a purely European/Western colonial construct, an abstraction with real and disastrous consequences...Read more... Professionals said to be behind hack attack on Russell Tribunal website, by Asa Winstanley | The Electronic Intifada Harry Fear, who built the site last year, told me the attack had been “executed, quite extraordinarily, without any ostensible compromising of the settings” that control the domain name. The attackers “penetrated the DNS system at a deeper level, showing their degree of sophistication and will,” said Fear. In other words, the attackers appear to have compromised the domain registrar company itself, even covering their tracks as they went... [It would appear that Sauron Himself is taking a personal interest..] Read more... On "Nuclear Iran" Allegations: Nanodiamonds Ain't Nuclear Bombs | Moon of Alabama ...The Washington Posts alleges that the IAEA says foreign expertise has brought Iran to threshold of nuclear capability. This is of course, well, a lie. The IAEA has said nothing like that. It is simply an assertion made by the reporter and some "nuclear Iran" scare propagandists based on misinterpreting some factual points in the IAEA "evidence". What that "evidence" says is: Iran is working on nanodiamond production... Read more... Palestinians Resist Settler Violence during Olive Harvest | Palestine Chronicle  Harvesters were told to stop picking olives in Burin As this year's olive harvest sends Palestinian families across all of historic Palestine out to their olive trees, a new nonviolent resistance group called Refusing to Die In Silence is patrolling the West Bank, protecting harvesters from increased settler violence...Read more... A Response to Michael Neumann: There's Nothing Idealistic About the One-State Solution, by Jonathan Cook | Counterpunch This is at least the third time in the past four years that philosophy professor Michael Neumann has used these pages to lambast the supporters of a one-state solution to the Israel-Palestine conflict. On each occasion he has offered a little more insight into why he so vehemently objects to what he terms the “delusions” of those who oppose – or, at least, gave up on – the two-state solution... Read more... Fighting to make Israel into a military theocracy, by Yagil Levy | Haaretz ...many religious Zionist leaders think that a critical mass of religious soldiers in combat units weakens the IDF's ability to evacuate settlements, to judge by the way the army was deployed to evacuate the Gaza Strip settlements in 2005, because those soldiers constitute the inner circle of the units that come into direct contact with the settlers... [Just like Nazi Germany, Israel is and always has been a secular military theocracy, embodying and defending the religion of the Chosen People instead of the Master Race. Different tribes, same meaning.] Read more... Condi Rice: 'I've a deep affinity with Israel' | Rehmat's World  ...“Our present challenge is not China or Brazil or India, and certainly not Europe. The challenge is the United States gone bad,” Rice told a packed Belk Theater on the Campus of Queen University in Charlotte (NC). While she was speaking inside, a group of Campus students protested outside carrying banners “Convict Condi for her war crimes“. It looks like Condoleeza Rice is planning to make a comeback by attacking Israel’s ‘perceived enemies’... [The prostitutes and traitors are legion.] Read more...Lazy Ouzo-Swilling, Olive-Pit Spitting Greeks Or, How Goldman Sacked Greece | Greg Palast ...Why did the Greek government throw its nation's fate into Goldman's greasy hands? What the heck was in the "RESTRICTED" document? And why did I have to take it to Geneva, to throw it down in front of the Director-General of the WTO for authentication, a creepy French banker I otherwise wouldn't bother to spit on, and then tear off to Quito to share it with the grateful President of Ecuador?.. Read more, watch video... Israel, U.S. to embark on largest joint exercise in allies' history, by Natasha Mozgovaya | Haaretz U.S. Assistant Secretary for Political-Military Affairs Andrew Shapiro says security relationship with Israel is broader, deeper, more intense than ever before... [Who? Shapiro? "Dual Citizen"?] Read more... Finding Freedom in Handcuffs, by Chris Hedges | Truthdig  Police arrest Occupy Wall Street protesters as they staged a sit-down Truthdig columnist Chris Hedges, an activist, an author and a member of a reporting team that won a 2002 Pulitzer Prize, wrote this article after he was released from custody following his arrest last Thursday...at Goldman Sachs headquarters on Thursday in New York Read more... Zionist plan to build 60,000 settlement units in Jerusalem | Occupied Palestine Hebrew media sources revealed a strategic plan of the occupation municipality in Jerusalem which aims to build more than 60,000 new settler residential units in Jerusalem over the next 20 years... Read more... Israeli Hijacking of Gaza Freedom Waves Boats "Violent and Dangerous", by Col. Ann Wright (Retd) | War Is A Crime ...“The account received from Fintan Lane flatly contradicts the Israeli narrative that Israel ‘took every precaution necessary to ensure the safety of the activists on board the vessels’. It is a small miracle that no one was seriously injured during this obviously very violent boarding of the Freedom Waves boats.”.. Read more... Lifta: A symbol of Palestine, by Antoine Raffoul | Intifada Palestine  On 27 April 1989, Yasser Arafat, while in exile in Tunis, wrote a letter to the Director-General of UNESCO at the time Federico Mayor expressing, in simple terms, the Palestinian peopleʼs wish to play an active part, amongst peace-loving peoples, in forging links between civilised nations in the fields of education, science and culture. In essence, that letter was Palestineʼs application for membership to the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)... Read more... Wall Street's Wars: Fallujah Veteran: 'I Served The 1%' | Information Clearing House I did not serve my country in Iraq; I served the 1%. It was on their behalf that I helped lay siege to Fallujah, helped kill thousands of civilians, helped displace hundreds of thousands of innocent people, and helped destroy an entire city. My "service" served Exxon-Mobil, Halliburton, KBR, Blackwater, and other multinational corporations in Iraq... Read more... IAEA On Iran: Nothing But Know-How, by John Glaser | Antiwar Most of what I think needs to be said on the Iran nuclear weapons issue I’ve already written, or has already been written elsewhere. Namely, U.S. policy influences Iran strongly towards attaining a nuclear deterrent, so the notion that Iranians have intent here should not be a surprise. The U.S. has waged two aggressive, unnecessary wars directly along Iran’s east and west borders, constantly floods the Persian Gulf with fleets of navy warships, bribes client states surrounding Iranian territory with weapons systems and money to be subservient to U.S. interests and allow U.S. military bases there, and heaps restrictive sanctions on Iran’s energy and banking industries.. [The Empire's normal modus operandi, before the all out assault] Read more... Rattling Sabers & Beating Drums: Fear-Mongering over Nuclear Iran Reaches a Fever-Pitch, by Nima Shirazi | Wide Asleep in America  ...Addressing the UN three days later, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu repeated his most dire of warnings (which he's been making since at least 1995) about an Iranian nuclear weapon. "The greatest threat facing the world today is the marriage between religious fanaticism and the weapons of mass destruction," he said, apparently unaware of the obvious irony... Read more... Letting Israel off the hook on nuclear weapons | Redress Information & Analysis Stuart Littlewood takes a look at the warmongers in London and Washington who are dancing to Israel’s clamour for war on Iran over its alleged nuclear programme while turning a blind eye to the Zionist entity’s own substantial nuclear capability, estimated 400 warheads... Read more... Palestinian Freedom Riders to challenge segregation by riding settler buses to Jerusalem | ISM On Tuesday, November 15th, 2011, Palestinian activists will reenact the US Civil Rights Movement’s Freedom Rides to the American South by boarding segregated Israeli public transportation in the West Bank to travel to occupied East Jerusalem... Read more... Nov 8, 2011 This Is How Israel Runs The British Press | Gilad Atzmon  Read more... Dreams of Democracy, by Paul Balles | Intifada Palestine ..Early in the 20th century, Wilson observed, “The government, which was designed for the people, has got into the hands of the bosses and their employers, the special interests. An invisible empire has been set up above the forms of democracy.”.. Read more... Israel's Peres warns attack on Iran getting 'closer' | AFP Israeli President Shimon Peres warned on Sunday that an attack on Iran is becoming increasingly likely, days before a report by the UN's nuclear watchdog on Iran's nuclear programme is due... [From Middle Earth Mordor may seem far away, but the dark clouds are gathering. Israel and its attack dog the US must be stopped before they start WWIII.] Read more...The Strange Power of Qatar, by Hugh Eakin | The New York Review of Books  Doha, Qatar, with the ‘dallah,’ or coffee pot, monument in the foreground, 2010 On August 23, Libyan rebels raised their flag over Bab al-Aziziya, the once-impregnable complex housing Muammar Qaddafi’s headquarters in Tripoli. Though the dictator himself still remained at large, the overrunning of one of the nerve centers of his regime had enormous symbolic power and seemed to offer definitive proof of the rebels’ strength. And yet on several newscasts, a different story about the uprising was emerging: along with the rebels’ tricolor with white crescent and star, the presidential compound at Bab al-Aziziya was briefly shown flying the maroon and white flag of Qatar, the tiny, gas-rich Arabian emirate more than two thousand miles away...Read more... The struggle to make Israel a normal country, by Oudeh Basharat | Haaretz At a time when the right is tearing its hair out because the Arabs are not willing to give the Jews even one state, life in the Arab villages has become a continuing nightmare with daily shooting and bombs being thrown freely... [Israel will cease to exist long before it becomes "a normal country," which is an impossibility in any case. The only real question is will they take the rest of us down with them?] Read more...Solving 9/11 to Avoid World War and End the Crimocracy | Christopher Bollyn ..There are two essential requirements to prevent a third World War in our time and to end the crimocracy that dominates Washington, D.C., London, and Jerusalem. First, there must be an independent, rigorous, and thorough forensic investigation of 9/11, followed by criminal prosecution of all those involved in the terror atrocity - and the cover-up. Secondly, there must be a return to hand-counted paper ballots in every polling place in the United States... Read more... Vicious Triangle Forming against Iran: The Israeli tail is wagging the US-UK dog, by Dr. Ismail Salami | Global Research  In recent days, there has been a vociferous interest in Israel, the US and the UK in fanning the flames of Iranophobia in what observers see as a political red herring to engage in a catastrophic war in the Middle East. The trio, which constitute a vicious triangle in their roguishly Iranophobic endeavors, have manifestly held secret meetings among the top security officials and formed a united front against Iran... Read more... Why forget the Holocaust? | Paul Treanor At least until 11 September 2001, the Holocaust was the primary historical reference used to justify military intervention, by the US and its allies. Indirectly, it is also used to legitimise social injustice in liberal-democratic nations, and to imply a liberal-democratic entitlement to a monopoly of power. It is used to legitimise global inequality, as if it entitled opponents of the Holocaust to prosperity, while others starve. Remembering the Holocaust is not a moral imperative: the memory serves no good purpose, only evil purposes... Read more... Interrogation on way back, by Mazin Qumsiyeh | Popular Resistance I finally came back to Palestine after a long and costly trip (in many ways) including today's interrogation by the Israeli Shin Bet (which I am told is "to continue")... Read more... Call-Out for Solidarity with Egypt: Defend the Revolution | Veterans Today  Occupy Tahrir square, February 2011 A letter from Cairo to the Occupy movements & other solidarity movements..Read more... 'Attack Iran' and AIPAC's infamous chutzpah, by MJ Rosenberg | Al Jazeera English Lobbying for a US war with Iran, AIPAC is pushing a bill that would prohibit diplomacy between the two nations... Read more... An inside look at the base where Iran is developing nuclear weapons, by Yossi Melman | Haaretz UN nuclear watchdog to release report on activities this week; Iran has carried out experiments in the final stage for developing nuclear weapons including explosions and computer simulations of explosions... [Possession of a nuclear deterrent is probably the only protection Iran will have against an otherwise inevitable attack by the Empire.] Read more...Nov 7, 2011 America's Imperial Arrogance | Stephen Lendman  ...America is a rogue terror state, an imperial predator. Unchallenged global dominance is planned. All nations it doesn't control are targeted. It was Saddam's undoing, Gaddafi's also as well as others post-WW II, including democrats, despots and others in between... Read more... Credible Threat: Israel Ramps Up Rhetoric Against Iran, by Yahya Dabouq | Intifada Palestine ...Who is for and against the attack on Iran? And who will prevail? Netanyahu-Barak, who are banging the drums of war? Or the heads of the security services, who believe it would be a reckless move? Realistically speaking, if talk of a strike was anything more than sabre-rattling, it wouldn’t be discussed so publicly. Israeli media and the adventurists who seek to attack Iran are using the issue to divert attention from other pressing matters and concerns... Read more... Dershowitz is Desperate | Gilad Atzmon ...“Many of us including me tend to equate Israel to Nazi Germany. Rather often I myself join others and argue that Israelis are the Nazis of our time. I want to take this opportunity to amend my statement. Israelis are not the Nazis of our time and the Nazis were not the Israelis of their time. Israel, is in fact far worse than Nazi Germany and the above equation is simply meaningless and misleading.”.. [Along these lines, you might find my essay Zionism and Nazism: Is there a difference that makes a difference? of some interest.] Read more...Rense & Atzmon talking about the Lobby | Gilad Atzmon Watch video... I write to you from cell 9 of the Apartheid State of Israel | FPM News I write to you from cell 9, block 59 Givon Prison near Ramla in Occupied Palestine. Although I was tasered during the assault on the Tahrir, and bruised during forcible removal dockside (I am limping slightly as a result) I am basically ok. We, Ehab, Michael, Karen from Tahrir, as well as Karen, Kit (US) and Jihan who we saw briefly this morning. We are most concerned about our Tahrir shipmate, Palestinian Majd Kayyal from Haifa, last seen by us at Ashdod being photographed and put in a police car... Read more... Bishop Williamson Contra Mundum, by Michael Hoffman | On the Contrary  ..We would not have published Bishop Williamson’s column had he not referred to “noble exceptions” among the Jews who did not have a hand in Christ’s death. In our own writing we have always emphasized that the notion of collective racial guilt, such as the Allied World War II doctrine that every German man, woman and child was collectively guilty of Nazi crimes and deserved death, is a reflection of a rabbinic mentality... [One wonders: If the Jews (or to be more specific, the Pharisees, as many Jews were the followers of Rebbe Jeshua from Nazareth) were not responsible for the crucifixion , who was? The Klingons? Ah, I forgot, it must have been them Mooselims.] Read more...Attack on Iran: Hitlerian Act of Aggression, by Tony Cartalucci | Prison Planet As the rhetoric for war with Iran begins to mount, first with the staged DEA-Saudi bomb plot, and now with an upcoming IAEA report supposedly “exposing” Iran’s nuclear arms ambitions, it is important to re-read through the signed confessions by the corporate-fascist interests behind this drive for war... Read more... Insanity, not logic, guides Israel's leadership, by Gideon Levy | Haaretz The mens' men who are threatening Iran now are the real cowards' cowards. The brave ones are in fact those who are trying to thwart the insanity, from former Mossad chief Meir Dagan to Interior Minister Eli Yishai... Read more... Boston: Pro-Palestinian protesters 'storm' Israeli Consulate | Ynet Social activists in the United States have found a way to mesh their own demands with the Palestinian protest against Gaza blockade. The demonstrators were also protesting the interception of the Gaza-bound "Freedom Waves".. Watch video... Nov 6, 2011 The Dönmeh: The Middle East's Most Whispered Secret, by Wayne Madsen | Another World Is Possible  What will surprise those who may already be surprised about the Dönmeh connection to Turkey, is the Dönmeh connection to the House of Saud in Saudi Arabia... Read more... Washington Wants Its Imperial Model Replicated in Libya, by Stephen Lendman | War Is A Crime ..NATO turned Libya into a charnel house. Tens of thousands of corpses bear testimony. Major media scoundrels lied about war objectives from inception. Now they cheerlead ravaged Libya's success. Correspondents there see one thing and report another. They make pimps, prostitutes and dope peddlers look respectable in comparison... Read more... Washington and Israel: Rogue State Partners | Stephen Lendman ..Iran's Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei said: "We have undeniable documents which show America was behind the curtain of terror in Iran and the region. By presenting....100 documents, we will disgrace America in the world." In fact, Washington does it well on its own, exposing itself as the world's leading state sponsor of terrorism. Its lawlessness is unrivaled. Permanent war defines its agenda... Read more... Settlers Stone Elderly Palestinian Lady | WAFA  A group of Jewish settlers Monday stoned an elderly Palestinian lady as she was picking olives in Mukhmas, a village southeast of Ramallah in the West Bank, according to local sources. The 80-year-old woman was reported to be injured in the head and transferred to hospital for treatment. Settlers have escalated their attacks on Palestinians, especially farmers, since the beginning of October to coincide with the olive picking season, a time of great significance to the Palestinian community... Read more... Armageddon Ahead, by Gilad Atzmon | Information Clearing House It does not take a genius to gather that the Israeli aggression towards Iran would endanger every living species on this planet. Devastatingly enough, our Western governments do nothing to stop the Jewish State. That should not take us by surprise: our politicians are largely funded and vetted by Israeli lobbies that openly support attack on Iran... Read more... The secrets in Israel's archives: Evidence of ethnic cleansing kept under lock and key, by Jonathan Cook | Global Research History may be written by the victors, as Winston Churchill is said to have observed, but the opening up of archives can threaten a nation every bit as much as the unearthing of mass graves. That danger explains a decision quietly taken last month by Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, to extend by an additional 20 years the country’s 50-year rule for the release of sensitive documents... Read more... "Hold Me Back," Shouts Netanyahu | Roy Tov  ...In terms of Negotiation Theory, Netanyahu is attempting what is known as a “red-tactic,” a violent move aimed at creating a win-lose situation. The worst thing that can happen to a red-player – as Netanyahu is – is to be disclosed as such. Mr. Netanyahu, do you know what? I won’t hold you back. I hope also the Western Hydra won’t hold you back. Let’s see you – big Entebbe hero – attacking Iran. Go ahead, we won’t stop you. Please, bring a fast end to your violent country and cruel people. We beg you... Read more... Israeli doctors 'failing to report torture of Palestinian detainees', by Harriet Sherwood | Uruknet Medical professionals in Israel are being accused of failing to document and report injuries caused by the ill-treatment and torture of detainees by security personnel in violation of their ethical code... Read more... UNESCO, Ashraf AbuRahmah, and more, by Mazin Qumsiyeh | Uruknet An apartheid "judge" just allowed the Israeli occupation authorities to keep our friend Ashraf AbuRahmah in jail pending trials. Ashraf was shot deliberately while handcuffed and blindfolded in an incident that was captured on video embarrassing the occupation forces. Ashraf is also the brother of Jawaher and Bassem both friends of ours and both murdered by IOF in Bilin during popular nonviolent protests. Justice is not served in an apartheid regime... Read more... The Other Plots: Iran Complains to UN Over US Assassinations of Top Scientists, by Jason Ditz | Antiwar  Most of the talk around Iran and assassination plots lately centers around the convoluted plot against the Saudi Ambassador to the United States, which the US claims was orchestrated by the Quds Force. Today though the Iranian government flipped the situation around, delivering documentation to the United Nations detailing the alleged US plots which led to the assassination of a number of top nuclear scientists in the nation... Read more... Do Zionists Control Wall Street | YouTube Watch video... (Set aside for a minute your view of David Duke as a former Klansman and listen to what he has to say now.) Palestinian Child Prisoners: The systematic and institutionalised ill-treatment and torture of Palestinian children by Israeli authorities | Defense for Children International This report documents the widespread ill-treatment and torture of Palestinian children at the hands of the Israeli army and police force. It contains the testimonies of 33 children who bear witness to the abuse they received at the hands of soldiers from the moment of arrest through to an often violent interrogation. Children report being painfully shackled for hours on end, kicked, beaten and threatened, some with death, until they provide confessions, some written in Hebrew, a language they do not speak or understand... Read more... Wall Street "Mob" Bankrolls Powerful Rep. Eric Cantor, by Michael Collins Piper | American Free Press  House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) captured media attention with his vocal declaration that participants in the Occupy Wall Street movement were nothing more than “mobs.” His word choice was interesting since the public record indicates that Cantor does indeed know much about mobs—the Wall Street mob, in particular. If there’s any one single member of Congress who can be reckoned a voice for Wall Street, it is Cantor... Read more... 'Coexistence' rhetoric not reflective of Zionist cruelty | The Daily Illini ...The conflict between Israeli Jews and Palestinian Arabs is deeply rooted in the nature of the Zionist settler-colonialist project, with its violent ethnic cleansing, dispossession and occupation, all ongoing. The material goal of the Zionist project — a Jewish state — has necessitated legalized discrimination against Palestinian citizens of Israel... Read more... Ultra-Orthodox spitting attacks on Old City clergymen becoming daily | Haaretz ...""When I see an ultra-Orthodox man coming toward me in the street, I always ask myself if he will spit at me," says Narek, a Canadian Armenian, this week. About a month ago, on his way to buy groceries in the Old City, two ultra-Orthodox men spat at him. The spittle did not fall at his feet but on his person. Narek, a former football player, decided this time not to turn the other cheek... Read more... Zionist Terror | Palestinian Tragedy  For Israeli soldiers, all Palestinians are targets. They do not care whether In the previous chapter, we examined the Zionists' view that the Jews' return to Palestine is a "holy goal" and that the war launched to reach this goal would be a "holy war." This idea plays an important role in the Israelis' education...the person in their sights is a child, a woman, or an elderly man or woman Read more... Former Mossad Chief Halevy: Iran Attack "Will Impact Region for 100 Years" | Tikun Olam Ynet reports that Ephraim Halevy, a former Mossad director, said yesterday that Iran poses no “existential threat” to Israel and that attacking it must truly be a last resort. Anyone considering such a strike must realize that it would impact not just Israel, but the entire region for the next 100 years. If this was all Halevy said it would be important, but mere reinforcement of views already expressed forcefully by Meir Dagan, the most recent past Mossad chief. What renders the former’s views even more interesting is that he identifies what he considers an even greater existential threat to Israel: the Haredim... Read more... Iran Sanctions Act Definite Step Toward War, by Rep. Ron Paul | Antiwar I would like to express my concerns over the Iran Threat Reduction Act of 2011 and my opposition to it being brought to the Floor for a vote. Let us be clear on one critical matter: the sanctions against Iran mandated by this legislation are definite steps toward a US attack on Iran. They will also, if actually applied, severely disrupt global trade and undermine the US economy, thereby harming our national security. I am surprised and disturbed that the committee viewed this aggressive legislation to be so bipartisan and uncontroversial that a recorded vote was not even called... Read more... Apartheid and the occupation of Palestine, by John Dugard | Al Jazeera English  Robben Island in South Africa housed political prisoners during apartheid, but Israeli jails hold even more As the Russell Tribunal convenes to discuss apartheid, Israel has already surpassed South Africa's racist era...Read more... It doesn't matter to them if it's untrue. It's a higher truth, by William Blum | Counterpunch “We came, we saw, he died.”— US Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, giggling, as she spoke of the depraved murder of Moammar Gaddafi. Imagine Osama bin Laden or some other Islamic leader speaking of 9-11: “We came, we saw, 3,000 died … ha- ha.” Clinton and her partners-in-crime in NATO can also have a good laugh at how they deceived the world. The destruction of Libya, the reduction of a modern welfare state to piles of rubble, to ghost towns, the murder of thousands... Read more... The Guardian of Israel | Redress Information & Analysis Gilad Atzmon argues that, by regurgitating Israeli disinformation that the UK is ready to join the US and Israel in attacking Iran but without any attribution or substantiation, Britain’s Guardian newspaper has turned itself into a mouthpiece of Israeli propaganda... Read more... Nov 5, 2011 From Tribalism to Humanism | Uprooted Palestinians  ...From an Islamic perspective, Gilad’s journey is what Muslims call the “Greater Jihad”, the inner journey that one embarks upon to examine one's purpose in life, one’s identity, one’s thoughts, one’s intentions, and one’s inner most hidden harmful characteristics. Such perpetual reflection helps us to identify and face our dark side, contain our ego, curtail our greed, and work with awareness to replace or transform such ills into a more constructive, caring, compassionate and generous qualities... Read more... Balfour's apartheid legacy | Redress Information & Analysis Stuart Littlewood charts the British lies and duplicity, manifested most blatantly in the Balfour Declaration whereby Britain promised to give something it did not own (Palestine) to someone who had no right to have (the Zionist settlers), and the resulting bloodshed, pain and injustice. Arthur Balfour's infamous "Declaration" was written 94 years ago this week. Palestinians, of course, don’t need reminding. And to mark the anniversary Israel ordered its warships to carry out yet another act of piracy on peaceful, innocent shipping carrying humanitarian relief to the imprisoned people of Gaza... Read more... Israel's Big Bluff, by Justin Raimondo | Antiwar ...this alleged "debate" taking place within the Israeli leadership, complete with a phony "investigation" by Netanyahu into who leaked the nonexistent Israeli attack "plan," is a non-event. The whole thing, in short, is a bluff. But who is being bluffed here? Not the Iranians, who are surely aware of Israel’s incapacity. The volume of the war hysteria is being turned up with one purpose in mind: the Israelis want the US to do their dirty work for them. This is a threat aimed not only – or even primarily – at Iran, but at us... Read more... 'He has a right to speak,' said the cop to the banker | Daily Kos Like most bullies, the banks are cowards. They talk a big game, but if confronted with their crimes, they run for cover and go whining to "mommy." Today, I walked up and down a sidewalk, in front of a branch of Chase and a branch of BofA. I handed out about 250 flyers during lunch hour. They panicked and called their private security people, then more private security and finally the cops. That's when they found out that they didn't have a leg to stand on... [A heartening story, but the downside is that the cop, after no doubt being reminded by his chief who the police actually work for, has probably lost any chance of promotion.] Read more...Stuxnet Raises 'Blowback' Risk In Cyberwar | NPR The Stuxnet computer worm, arguably the first and only cybersuperweapon ever deployed, continues to rattle security experts around the world, one year after its existence was made public... [What goes around comes around, aka karma] Read more...Iran Responds to US charges | The Race for Iran  ...if one actually speaks with Iranian officials (something that the United States government, as a matter of policy, bars itself from doing)—or even Iranian analysts supportive of the Islamic Republic (which the mainstream media are reluctant to do)—what comes across is a strong sense that the Obama Administration’s recent accusations against the Islamic Republic are a manifestation of American desperation... Read more... Global Warfare: Targeting Iran - Preparing for World War III, by Michel Chossudovsky | Global Research The military deployment of US-NATO forces is occurring in several regions of the World simultaneously. Militarization at the global level is instrumented through the US military's Unified Command structure: the entire planet is divided up into geographic Combatant Commands under the control of the Pentagon. According to (former) NATO Commander General Wesley Clark, the Pentagon’s military road-map consists of a sequence of war theaters: “[The] five-year campaign plan [includes]... a total of seven countries, beginning with Iraq, then Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Iran, Somalia and Sudan.”.. The Pentagon’s global military design is one of world conquest... [And the Zionist design is to continue to control the US, thereby becoming the real rulers of the world. It's an ancient plan, only now nearing fruition.] Read more...According to WINEP, the Shiites banned the atomic bomb to better conceal they are building it | Voltaire Network The Washington Institute for Near East Policy (WINEP), which denounced the supposedly military nature of the Iranian nuclear program, must regularly be confronted with a hefty contention: how is it possible that the Revolutionary Guards could be developing such a program in secret when the manufacture, stockpiling, threat and use of weapons of mass destruction were forbidden by a fatwa of the Supreme Leader of the Revolution?.. [Projection is the principal modus operandum of the paranoid mind. There is someone about to attack you who looks remarkably like... you.] Read more... Iran's Top Security Official Displays Document on US Terrorism | Fars News Agency ..."By releasing these documents, we will dishonor the US and those who claim to be the advocates of human rights and campaign against terrorism among the world public opinion," he added. Ayatollah Khamenei reiterated that Tehran has a full hand with abundant proofs, evidence and documents to prove the terrorist nature of the US... [Not that any more proof is needed - it's all over the place, like its new favorite terrorist toy, the drone.] Read more...American Muslims show solidarity with Occupy Wall Street protests | YouTube ...While many have been here individually since the beginning of the demonstrations -- this group felt it was important to come in large numbers to show the world they too are Americans who understand the concerns of the dis-contented... Watch video... Lasha Darkmoon: 'America is an Israeli Colony' | Rehmat's World  ..“The Zionization of America is complete, with AIPAC appointing the government and 60 million Christian Zionists ready to die for their new masters in Jerusalem,” she wrote. In other word, for every disloyal Jewish American, there are ten disloyal Christian Americans. Let us not forget, more than 75% of members of Congress and Senate openly support Israel and are willing to do everything in their powers to destroy nations which are considered ‘enemies’ by Tel Aviv... Read more... What does 'Death to Israel' mean to you? by Bradley Burston | Haaretz Burston: "..if progressives cannot see Israelis as people, if they cannot summon up the same compassion and concern for unarmed combatants on both sides of a battle front, it's time they checked their ideology for holes.' Gideon Levy, also in Haaretz: "The only recognition that is needed now is Israel's recognition of the Palestinians as human beings. If this is obtained, all the rest will be relatively easy." Burston: "..The assumption is that Israel's crimes are of such Third Reich magnitude, that anti-civilian violence committed by its enemies is either negligible or justified." Editor: Compared to the massive terrorism inflicted on the Palestinians for nearly the last 100 years, the violence they have responded with is indeed negligible. Moreover, armed resistance to colonialist aggression and occupation is specifically justified by UN legal rulings. Violence as a response to Israeli terrorism may not be a wise strategy, but the Israeli claim of self-defense is specious. We don't want to see anyone killed, or harmed in any way, especially children, but as I have almost gotten tired of saying, what goes around comes around. It's a law of nature. Burston: "What we want for ourselves is no less just. It is, in fact, the very same: freedom to live in safety and sovereignty." Editor: There is only one way to achieve that end. Recognize, as the South African white Nationalists finally did, that the only sane solution is to coexist with the Palestinians in a pluralistic, democratic state, or to get the hell out, like the French Colons in Algeria did. In all good conscience, "Death to Israel!!" Amen! Greenspan Was Worried that the U.S. Would Pay Off It's Debt, Causing the Fed to "Lose Control of Monetary Policy" | Washington's Blog "...We are absolutely without a permanent money system. When one gets a complete grasp of the picture, the tragic absurdity of our hopeless position is almost incredible, but there it is. It is the most important subject intelligent persons can investigate and reflect upon. It is so important that our present civilization may collapse unless it becomes widely understood and the defects remedied very soon." ~ Robert H. Hemphill, former Credit Manager of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta [Every Ponzi scheme, even the American economy, implodes sooner or later. Most likely it will be the Chinese who deliver the coup de grace. "No buy more US debt."] Read more...For Culture of Peace and Recognition: Palestine is a UNESCO Member State, by Ayman Qwaider | Palestine Telegraph ..In attempting to address issues of justice, conflict and peace between two parties, firstly the recognition and the acceptance of the other is paramount. Without acknowledging the rights and dignity of the other, how can justice ever prevail?.. Read more... Goldstone's Folly: Disappointing and Perverse | Richard Falk  ...on the eve of the third session of the Russell Tribunal on Palestine scheduled to be held in Cape Town between November 5-7 Goldstone has again come to the defense of Israel in a highly partisan manner that abandons any pretense of judicious respect for either the legal duties of those with power or the legal rights of those in vulnerable circumstances... Read more... America's Last Stand: Ron Paul And Jesse Ventura 2012 | Video Rebel's Blog ...Allowing Israel to run America’s foreign and military policies is treason. Ron Paul is the only presidential candidate who opposes all aid to Israel and is therefore not traitorous. If all the candidates except Ron Paul are willing to destroy our military and our dollar, then I see no reason why we should support anyone else... [Paul and Ventura could be the headliners, but I advocate a much broader strategy, which would entail all or most of the outliers (the non-Republicrats, including Ralph Nader, the Green Party etc.), forming a new third party. I have dubbed it the "Alliance Party." Anybody willing to help me write up a flyer that could be distributed at the 'Occupy' sites? That's where the troops would come from.] Read more...ICC to Probe NATO War Crimes in Libya War, by Jason Ditz | Antiwar NATO’s careful avoidance of any investigations of the many civilians they killed over several months of bombing western Libyan cities may have kept the situation quiet for awhile, but now it looks like the story is coming out without them... Read more... The Israeli-Occupied Hearing on Alleged Iranian Terror: Territory of Lies | Maidhc Ó Cathail In the wake of the much-heralded FBI sting that supposedly foiled a dastardly plot by Iran’s Revolutionary Guard elite Qods Force – involving a bumbling, failed used-car salesman’s botched attempt to hire a reportedly Mossad-trained Mexican drug cartel – to blow up the Saudi ambassador in a crowded but fictitious Washington D.C. restaurant, a duly alarmed U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Homeland Security convened an urgent hearing on “Iranian Terror Operations on American Soil.” .. “If it wasn’t so serious, it would be satire.”.. Read more... Libya's Liberation Front Organizing in the Sahel, by Franklin Lamb | Counterpunch ...Today the Sahel is providing protection, weapons gathering and storage facilities, sites for training camps, and hideouts as well as a generally formidable base for those working to organize the growing Libyan Liberation Front (LLF). The aim of the LLF is to liberate Libya from what it considers NATO-installed colonial puppets. The Sahel region is only one of multiple locations which are becoming active as the Libyan counter revolution, led by members of the Gadahfi and Wafalla tribes, make preparations for the next phase of resistance... Read more... [Below the fundraising appeal] Nov 4, 2011 Israel ready to stop Gaza-bound ships, by Harriet Sherwood | The Guardian  An Israeli patrol boat ..."We want to break the siege Israel has imposed on our people. The fact that we're in international waters is already a victory for the movement. Israel's siege of Gaza is untenable and it's a moral responsibility to put an end to this injustice."..[What the world needs is a fleet, armed to the teeth, to protect those boats. That's what America would have done before that benighted country became humiliated by the Israeli fifth column, who allow only toadies, cowards and pliable jerks to get elected to national office.] Read more...Egypt post-revolution, by Professor Mazin Qumsiyeh | Popular Resistance ...According to a British report Israel is upgrading its nuclear weapons. According to Israeli papers they are seriously considering an attack on Iran. Put it together and it is not another Zionist driven regional or world conflict but a catastrophe beyond imagination. The ghetto mentality visible from reading the comments in the Jerusalem Post or other Israeli papers show a deeply schizophrenic and paranoid psychology that is extremely dangerous... Read more... Lies Behind Lies Behind the "Humanitarian War" in Libya | YouTube ...Soliman Bouchuiguir, former president of the Libyan League for Human Rights with symbiotic ties to the National Transitional Council, generated the pack of lies that justified NATO's war allegedly to protect the Libyan population. He is currently the new Libyan ambassador to Switzerland... Read more... The Merchants of Death and Me, by Philip Giraldi | Antiwar ...perhaps the most startling insight revealed by the panel is the inability to understand why the United States has been unable to sell its message “Hollywood style.” Well, it should be obvious even to the masters of war who create the ordnance that goes off with a bang all around the world that the narrative proposed by the United States, i.e., that “we are here to protect you,” doesn’t sell too well in any part of the world where the people can look around and see the devastation that has actually been delivered... Read more... Defunding UNESCO, by Jamal Kanj | Intifada Palestine  ..No single nation should be allowed to blackmail the collective will of the international community in order to serve local political gains by self-centered politicians seeking parochial votes and money. This is certainly the case in the US where pro Israel Jewish money and votes are coveted by political hopefuls from both parties... Read more... Britain Prepares to Attack Iran, by Jason Ditz | Antiwar With Defense Ministry officials saying that they believe the US may soon “fast-forward” plans to attack Iran, Britain’s military is stepping up its own preparations for such an attack under the assumption that they will join in on the war... Read more... Israel Called Biggest Threat to World Peace | Stephen Lendman America easily takes top honors, followed by Israel, Britain, and France, the real axis of evil. In Israel's case, it's easy to see why. It's been top regional rogue state for decades. No other Middle East nation matches it. A new European Commission poll rated 15 countries. Respondents called Israel the biggest threat to world peace. So did past surveys... Read more... Finkelstein on Goldstone, by Philip Weiss | Mondoweiss ...You will forever be remembered as the judge who retracted the report bearing your name. Like Kaufman's sentence on the Rosenbergs, your recantation was not exactly a glorious moment. The dignified thing now would be for you to quietly retire. Your persistence in trying to reestablish your name will only turn you into an object of contempt and ridicule... Read more... Iconic Images of Veterans Supporting the Protests | Mondoweiss  ..When one Navy veteran addressed Zuccotti Park he put it very simply: “If you continue to assemble in peace and solidarity, justice will come to pass. We are the 99%.”.. Read more... Israeli leaders' price tag against the Palestinians, by Gideon Levy | Haaretz What, for heaven's sake, is so terrible about Palestine being accepted to UNESCO? Why is this considered an "anti-Israeli" step? And in general, what's so bad about the Palestinians relinquishing terror and going over to the international arena? If Israel were to behave intelligently, it would vote to accept the Palestinians to any respectable international organization... [See my Comment, if they publish it.] Read more... Archbishop Atallah Hanna Speaks on the Palestinian Right of Return | YouTube ..Archbishop Theodosios Atallah Hanna is a distinguished Arab nationalist and spiritual leader for Palestine. He is Archbishop of Sebastia from the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Jerusalem. He is also the designated spokesperson for the Greek Orthodox Church for all of Palestine... [Part 2 of 2, Arabic w/ English subtitles] Read more, watch video...Panetta to Netanyahu: "Israel may not survive the current Arab/Islamic awakening", by Franklin Lamb | Foreign Policy Journal Three weeks after being named by President Obama in January 2009 as the 19th Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and during his first day on the job on February 12, 2009, Leon Panetta, now US Secretary of Defense, signed off on a March 2009 “eyes only” CIA Report that had just been completed by his new agency... Read more... Israel attack on Iran military suicide, by Ismail Salami | PressTV  It matters little on what grounds the idea of attacking Iran was articulated in the minds of the Israelis or who was the initial originator of this imbecilic notion. What is important is that an Israeli attack will not only disturb the political equilibrium in the Middle East but it will inflict losses of inconceivable proportions upon the Zionist entity as well. A military strike by Israel on Iran is tantamount to a final nail in the coffin of Zionism... Read more... One-State: Historical debate with renewed relevance - a primer by Lora Gordon | Rosa Luxemburg Foundation Palestine ...different forms of what is broadly termed the “one-state-solution” have been formulated, with actors reaching from the Palestinian Left to the Israeli Right, spanning frameworks from sharing the land on an equal basis to annexing the rest of Palestine to Israel, providing Palestinians with limited rights only. The following text by Lora Gordon aims to clarify the debate... Read more... Israel sabre rattles against Iran to divert attention from home | Redress Information & Analysis Uri Avnery argues that Israeli leaders are using the spectre of an imminent attack on Iran – which he believes will not happen – in order to safeguard the country’s bloated military budget and divert attention from the social protest movement at home... Read more... Nov 3, 2011 Palestine's UNESCO membership further isolates Israel and USA | Redress Information & Analysis Stuart Littlewood hails the decision by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) to admit Palestine as a full member, and points out that membership brings important benefits, including protection of Palestinian heritage from Israel's malicious destructiveness... [On the other hand, if the Zionists display any of their vaunted intelligence, they will take this opportunity to establish a helpless and dependent bantustan-style Palestine while simultaneously giving legitimacy to a Jewish State. Fortunately, this is not likely, as they have all along displayed little if any wisdom.] Read more... Goldstone sugarcoats persecution to try to save Israel, by Philip Weiss and Adam Horowitz | Mondoweiss Richard Goldstone’s op-ed in the Times today saying that it is “slander” to say that Israel practices “apartheid” is shocking at a number of levels. It is shocking that the eminent judge, who damaged his international reputation last spring by stepping away from a UN report he had co-authored in 2009 that was highly critical of Israel, would now step out as an Israel apologist, employing hackneyed and cookie-cutter arguments about a little democracy contending with hostile neighbors. And it is shocking that a judge with a former reputation for dispassionate examination of the facts would go as far as he has here to misrepresent the reality of the situation to try and make Israel look good... Read more... Tens of thousands of Syrians rally in support of Assad ahead of Arab ministers' visit | Xinhua The United States and its European allies have slapped sets of sanctions on senior Syrian officials and entities while calling on Assad to step down. The latest move by the United States was pulling its ambassador from Syria due to "credible threats against his personal safety in Syria," according to a statement issued by the U.S. State Department. In response, Syria recalled its ambassador to the U.S. for consultations... Read more... Condoleezza Rice Talks Values, by Dr. Lawrence Davidson | Intifada Palestine  There is evidence of Condoleezza Rice's responsibility for war crimes, ..What great things did she accomplish? Well, she assisted in the killing of between 600,00 and 1 million Iraqis and over 33,000 Americans and did so on the basis of false claims. This is the sort of record that ought to put one before the International Criminal Court and not in the halls of a great university..including torture, and for selling the illegal Iraq War Read more... Haaretz Screaming Headline: Bibi Seeks Cabinet Approval for Iran Attack | Tikun Olam ...The article suggests that this month’s IAEA report will be “decisive” in determining Israel’s decision. Since Israeli media have already blared what the supposed substance of the report will be (i.e. that Iran is moving ever closer to processes necessary to create a nuclear weapon), this seems a dubious proposition. What this means is that Bibi wants to bomb Iran and if there is any material in the report that justifies his pre-ordained outcome, then he will seize upon it... Read more... Edwin M. Wright Oral History Interview | Truman Library ...So the Bible--and belief that it is God's Holy Word and infallible, became a useful tool in Zionist propaganda. I take the point of view that the Bible is a mixture of Hebrew legends and myths and cannot be used as an element in U.S. foreign policy... Read more... The French connection | Beis Moshiach ...Excerpt from p. 11 of Chabad Lubavitcher document: "Dozens of policemen and security guards guard the president-elect [Sarkozy] of France. A huge crowd of fans roars their approval. Then the shliach of the Rebbe, Rabbi Dovid Zaoui comes in wearing a black hat and beard, and with lots of Jewish pride. President-elect Nicolas Sarkozy notices him, stops everything, and goes over to him. He hugs the shliach and warmly shakes his hand. Television cameras capture the scene which is broadcast over and over throughout the French Republic. The story of the personal friendship between the Rebbe’s shliach and the French president who wrote to the Rebbe and publicly called him “Melech HaMoshiach,” promising to publicize the Seven Noachide Laws..." [Part of a seriously ill subset suffering from human hydrophobia, prominent among whom are the West Bank settlers, these people are the zombies.] Read more...Escalation: Israel Green-Lights Invasion of the Gaza Strip, by Jason Ditz | Antiwar  Though Prime Minister Benjamin Netaynahu has ruled out cooperating with any ceasefire coming out of the strip, Israeli military officials were saying on Sunday that they believed the latest round of escalation was over. Now it seems the biggest incursion into the strip since the December 2008 invasion is in the offing... Read more... 'You lost': reporters at State say UNESCO vote isolates U.S. from world opinion (and possibly from intellectual property enforcement) | Mondoweiss Below is the transcript of the amazing interchange yesterday between State Department spokesperson Victoria Nuland and AP's Matt Lee, among other reporters at the daily briefing. The reporters have had it with the emperor's new clothes... Read more, watch video... Answering Judge Goldstone's defense and denial of Israeli apartheid, by Ali Abunimah | The Electronic Intifada What does it mean that Judge Richard Goldstone – he of the Goldstone report – has penned a desperate and propagandistic defense of Israel against what he calls the “apartheid slander” in The New York Times?It’s a classic case of the judge doth protest too much... Read more... Iran military head warns of 'heavy damage' should Israel attack | Haaretz Iran's military chief warned Wednesday that an Israeli attack on Iran's nuclear development sites will come at a heavy price, according to the Iranian ISNA news agency. Responding to reports that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been trying to gain a majority in the cabinet for an attack on Iran, the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff of Iran's armed forces, Hassan Firouzabadi, warned both Israel and the U.S. against such a move... [The standard USraeli Imperial response to the growing world rejection of the Zionist project: more war] Read more...BDS update: Erdogan - 'Why no UN sanctions for Israel?', by Eric Walberg | The People's Voice  ...Atlas, who grew up in Belgium, is of Egyptian, Moroccan and Palestinian ancestry and has Jewish roots. She was appointed a Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations Conference Against Racism in 2001, which was boycotted by the United States and Israel, for raising issues about US treatment of African Americans and Israel’s treatment of Palestinians... Read more... Annual Israel-EU seminar on the fight against antisemitism and xenophobia | Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs ...The meeting's host, Mr. Nemitz, cited the already existing European legislation against xenophobia and racism, and stressed the need to combat antisemitism. Ambassador Hadas-Handelsman emphasized that today the difference between antisemitism and anti-Israeli criticism has become blurred, along with intensifying attempts to delegitimize Israel... [I may not be the smartest jew around, but it doesn't take a genius to understand that "As ye sow, so shall ye reap."] Read more... US fears uncoordinated Israeli strike on Iran | Ynet Washington concerned Israel will mount military operation against Islamic Republic, State Department official says. US consequently putting greater pressure on Security Council to impose harsher sanctions on Iran... [The Keystone Kops trying to deal with unrest in the ME ghetto. "Should we just go in there and waste 'em all, or what?" "Well, this ain't Gaza we're talkin' about."] Read more...Debating Greg Felton's Exploding Middle East Myths | Gilad Atzmon ..For nearly 63 years, since its creation in 1948, the state of Israel has carefully controlled what the Western world knows about the Zionist state. As a result, what we have received from the mainstream media is reams of propaganda and little truth when it comes to the racist and bellicose state. Against this backdrop of censored "news," one gutsy journalist took a dangerous stand and instead has been telling the truth about Israel for the last 15 years... Read more, watch video... America Vanquished, by Dr. Lasha Darkmoon | Rense  ...If Americans have lost their country to organized Jewry, they lost it slowly and imperceptibly. Indeed, most Americans remain unaware that their country no longer belongs to them. They fervently believe they still live in a democracy. This was a takeover not without precedent, however. It had happened to Germany. It had happened to Russia. It has now happened to America... [Part II is here] Read more...US Uranium to Blame for Deformed Babies in Fallujah? by Prof. Christopher Busby | Global Research A London court is set to hear a case involving the alleged use of uranium-enhanced weapons by US-led forces in the deadly 2004 battle for Fallujah. Some say it is the cause of horrific birth defects and congenital diseases in the Iraqi city... Read more, watch video... A State of ALL its Citizens | Palestine Justice Network We, the undersigned, Palestinians and Israelis, believe that the historic land of Palestine should be shared by all those who now live in it and its natives who have been expelled or exiled from it since 1948, and their descendants, regardless of religion, ethnicity, national origin or current citizenship status. Cognisant of the great changes in the Middle East including the recent Arab uprisings, we conceive of our movement as part of the drive towards democracy, accountability, transparency, equality and economic and social justice in the region. We intend to build a model state in the region, rooted in equal citizenship, popular democracy and institutional justice... Read more... Oakland Port Closes as Protesters March on Waterfront | NYT Thousands of Occupy Oakland protesters expanded their anti-Wall Street demonstrations on Wednesday, marching through downtown, picketing banks and swarming the port. By early evening, port authorities said maritime operations there were effectively shut down... [A shout out for Oakland! Who said the Raiders weren't any good?] Read more...The Zionist lobby's First Lady in US Congress, by Alan Hart | Veterans Today  ...The Zionist lobby’s First Lady in Congress is the Cuban-American born Ileana Ros-Lehtinen. (Her maternal grandparents were Sephardic Jews from Turkey who became active in Cuba’s Jewish community. Her mother converted to Catholicism). She was the first Republican to be elected to the House of Representatives from Florida and she is today the chairwoman of its Foreign Affairs Committee. In that capacity she introduced the bill to cut off US funding to any UN organization that recognizes Palestinian statehood. She also advocates cutting funding to the Lebanese Armed Forces and the West Bank and Gaza... Read more... Palestinian youth join boats set to challenge Israel's siege of Gaza | ISM Two civilian boats, the Canadian Tahrir (Liberation), and the Irish Saoirse (Freedom), carrying 27 people from nine countries, are currently in international waters making their way to the beleaguered Gaza Strip to challenge Israel’s ongoing criminal blockade of the territory... Read more... Obama's Legacy of Shame | Stephen Lendman Promising change after eight Bush/Republican years, Obama delivered betrayal. With congressional Democrats, he exceeded Bush's harshness, lawlessness, belligerency, and public trust betrayal. He is violating every major domestic and foreign issue promise made... [What else would one expect from someone selected and promoted by the Chicago Jewish political mafia to be their very own house nigger.] Read more...Will Greece Pull an Iceland .. And Tell the Banks to Pound Sand? | Washington's Blog Iceland told the banks to pound sand. And Iceland’s economy is doing much better than virtually all of the countries which have let the banks push them around... [It would be the smart thing to do, for the Greeks and everyone else. Maybe, dog willing, the banks will go bust.] Read more...Israeli Ministers Attack Dagan for Going Public Against Iran Attack | Tikun Olam  'I, a criminal? Charge me then.' Meir Dagan, Israel’s former spy chief, lashed back against cabinet ministers who criticized him for attacking plans by Bibi Netanyahu to bomb Iran... Read more... OWS is turning into anti-Zionism Tsunami | Rehmat's World The Zionist mafia is scared to death at the thought that the popular Occupied Wall Street (OWS) movement could turn into an anti-Zionism Tsunami. They fear that when more and more people will learn the unspoken truth; the Wall Street is controlled by Jews and Zionists (Allen Sanford, Robert Rubin, Jamie Dimon, Llyod Blankfien, Stephen Friedman, Madoff, etc. to name a few) - they may turn against Wall Street’s main beneficiary, the Zionist state of Israel... [There's always hope] Read more... Hizbullah Discusses Its Operational Plan for War with Israel: Missile Fire on Tel Aviv and Conquest | Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs ...In recent weeks Hizbullah leader Hasan Nasrallah held a series of meetings with his top-level military command as well as field commanders responsible for preparing for war with Israel. According to a source close to Hizbullah, Nasrallah's operational directive was that in the next military conflict with Israel, Hizbullah will hit Tel Aviv with missiles at the outset of the war, while also dispatching forces to conquer the Galilee... [Hizbullah, you have my heartfelt support, as well as that of the war-weary and decent people of this world.] Read more...Nov 2, 2011 One up to the Palestinians, by Stuart Littlewood | Intifada Palestine  Delegates applaud after the vote at the UNESCO headquarters ...Expect big sulks, hysterics and toys being thrown out of the Clinton, Obama and Netanyahu prams...Read more... Confusing Syria with Libya? Fact checking AI's "hospitals investigation", by Franklin Lamb | Al Manar Amnesty International claims this week, without convincing material, probative or relevant evidence that Syrian authorities, including Hospital administrators and staff, have since March 2011 turned Syrian hospitals into instruments of repression in order to crush protests and demonstrations... Read more... The Mess in the Middle East, by Ambassador Chas W. Freeman | Middle East Policy Council Remarks to the 20th Annual Arab-U.S. Policymakers Conference National Council on U.S.-Arab Relations ...I was also reminded of the words of a famous expert on the Middle East who, many years ago, was asked to describe U.S. policy there. He replied, “We don’t have a policy in the Middle East; but that’s just as well because, if we did, it would be the wrong one.” Recent events suggest that this was a major and memorable insight. The more that “change we can believe in” unfolds in the Middle East, the more things stay the same or retrogress. The more policy we have, the more perverse the results it seems to produce for our country...Read more... Palestine Can Now Join the International Criminal Court | Craig Murray ...if Palestine accedes to the Statute of Rome, under Article 12 of the Statute of Rome, the International Criminal Court would have jurisdiction over Israelis committing war crimes on Palestinian soil. Other states parties – including the UK – would be obliged by law to hand over indicted Israeli war criminals to the court at the Hague. This would be a massive blow to the Israeli propaganda and lobbying machine... Read more... World Leaders & Chabad Lubavitch: What's the Attraction? | The King's Court  A culture of hate ...The question must be asked: Where does the loyalty of our leaders lie? Why do they smile so, at men who unabashedly support the brutal terrorist regime of "Israel"? A regime which has, without provocation, violently attacked every single one of its neighbours... Why are our Leaders so fond of a small group of men who view the innocent victims of this foul regime as "unrepentant evil-doers", as "aggressors" whose wives and children are as "guilty" as they have deemed those oppressed men to be?..Read more... The gap is narrowing between IDF and ultra-Orthodox customs, by Yossi Sarid | Haaretz In both places there is a separation between women and men, between masculine and feminine areas, while the High Court of Justice says this is forbidden... Read more... Communique No. 1 of "The Global March to Jerusalem" | Silver Lining ...The goal of the Zionists is to force Palestinian residents out of Jerusalem and the rest of Palestine through acts of state terrorism, economic pressures, legal restrictions, and outright expulsions. The Holy city of Jerusalem is falsely called “the eternal capital of Israel” by Netanyahu and other Zionist leaders who clearly state that Jerusalem is non-negotiable. Such statements and related actions by the Zionists are absolutely inconsistent with all of the relevant United Nations resolutions on Jerusalem and contrary to the principles of international law... Read more... Congressional Hearing on "Iranian Terror Operations on American Soil" Dominated by Pro-Israeli Think Tanks | The Passionate Attachment On Wednesday, October 26, 2011 the Committee on Homeland Security’s Subcommittee on Counter-terrorism and Intelligence and the Subcommittee on Oversight, Investigations, and Management held a joint hearing entitled “Iranian Terror Operations on American Soil.”.. Read more, watch videos (if you've got a strong stomach - these people are clearly criminally insane).. Thank You Mr Dershowitz | Gilad Atzmon  Back in March, notorious Zionist advocate Alan Dershowitz launched an attack on Norwegian universities that refused to provide him with a platform. Instead of learning the necessary lesson and amend his tactics, Dershowitz indulged himself in a personal assault against academics who opposed his visit to the country... [Atzmon against the Pharisees, armed only with a saxophone and a jawbone. Go get 'em, Gilad.] Read more...Israel violates Egypt-brokered truce, escalates aerial attacks on Gaza | ABNA Israel has escalated its military aggression against the Gaza Strip and intensified its air raids at dawn Sunday immediately after a truce brokered by Egypt was declared between the two sides... Read more... Is Israel Over? by Benny Morris | The Daily Beast ...A profound, internal, existential crisis has arrived. It stems in part from the changing nature of the country, more right wing, more restrictive, far less liberal, and far less egalitarian. Many moderate Israelis fear the country is heading for ruin... [An excellent historian, but a committed Zionist, finally sees the handwriting on the wall.] Read more...Meet The Psychopathic Settlers | YouTube Watch video... American-Israeli Haredi Man Confesses To Trafficking Human Organs | International Middle East Media Center  American-Israeli citizen Levi Yitzhak Rosenbaum, 60, an Orthodox (Haredi) Jew who resides in Brooklyn New York, has pleaded guilty to trafficking human organs... [Each and every one was Guaranteed Kosher] Read more...Jewish people are just that, people, and far from chosen, by Gideon Levy | Haaretz ...Only we know what's good for us, and not only for us but for the entire world. There is nothing like Israeli ingenuity, there is nothing similar to Jewish intelligence, the Jewish brain invents new ideas for us like no other brain, because we're the best, bro... [Levy is an honest man. Maybe God will spare the Jews after all - if He/She/It can find 35 more like him.] Read more... Truman Adviser Recalls May 14,1948 US Decision to Recognize Israel | ICH ...An "insider's account" of the discussions leading up to these decisions has just been published by former Secretary of Defense Clark Clifford, one of the few living parties to the discussions leading to partition... Read more... The Zionist Betrayal of Jewish Civilization: Amos Oz, Charlie Rose, and Ashkenazi Hegemony, by David Shasha | Sephardic Heritage Update I have often remarked that there is a foundational paradox within Ashkenazi-European Zionism. At its core Zionism is an attempt to resolve the so-called “Jewish Question” by restoring the Jewish people to its historical homeland in the Middle East. When looked at more carefully, the two formative elements of Zionist identity – Judaism and life in an Asiatic land – are both deeply problematic... Read more... A Great Jewish Joke | Gilad Atzmon  Harry and Esther are flying to Australia for a 3 week holiday to celebrate their 40th anniversary. Suddenly, over the public address system, the Captain announces, "Ladies and Gentlemen, I am afraid I have some very bad news... Read more... An Update on Obama's Gitmo, Torture, and Obstruction of Justice, by John Glaser | Antiwar ...That report found that prisoners are hung from the ceilings by their wrists, severely beaten with cables and wooden sticks, have their toenails torn off, are treated with electric shock, and even have their genitals twisted until they lose consciousness, among other abuse. Not a problem for President Barack “Looking-Forward-Not-Backward” Obama... Read more... Out-of-Control Israeli State Terror | Stephen Lendman ...Premeditated Israeli attacks initiated conflict. Militants were falsely blamed. Gazan resistance responds defensively. Israel calls it terrorism. International law clearly legitimizes defensive responses to external attacks... Read more... The 9/11 Commission claims that "we found no evidence", by Kevin Ryan | 911Blogger ...I checked to see how many times the 9/11 Commission Report used the phrase “no evidence,” and noted in particular the times the Commission claimed to have “found no evidence” or that “no evidence was uncovered.” I discovered that the phrase “no evidence” appears an amazing 63 times... Read more... Not judges, but witnesses: the third Russell Tribunal on Palestine begins, by Frank Barat | The Electronic Intifada  “We will not be free until Palestine is free.” “We do not represent any state power, nor can we compel the policy-makers responsible for crimes against the people of Vietnam to stand accused before us. We have no force majeure. The procedures of a trial are impossible to implement.” With those words, the renowned philosopher Bertrand Russell opened the first Russell Tribunal on US war crimes committed in Vietnam in November 1966...Read more... Occupy Veterans Movement Growing | ABC News Since Occupy Wall Street protests have broken out in cities across the U.S. and abroad, support has come from what might seem like an unlikely corner: war veterans... Read more... The Pentagon-Arab Spring love story, by Pepe Escobar | Asia Times Online Anyone who hoped the Arab Spring might eventually take over the Persian Gulf and those lands once known as Arabia Felix has enough reason to drown in sadness. The Arab counter-revolution is stronger than ever - led by the House of Saud and its monarchy minions at the Gulf Counter-revolution Club (GCC), officially known as Gulf Cooperation Council. And their most precious ally is the Pentagon... Read more... America's Saudi conundrum, by M K Bhadrakumar | Indian Punchline ...This is what makes the US’ ‘war on terror’ a macabre joke. The Saudis and other wealthy Arabs patronise the ‘jihadis’ who kill the Americans who still shamelessly fawn over the Saudis, while the ‘jihadi’ attacks give the US the perfect excuse to wage wars in pursuit of its geopolitical agenda in faraway lands and the resultant insecurities give the alibi to sell even more weapons to the Saudis who don’t know how to use them but are experts in the art of paying kickbacks to the American elites... Read more... A Glimpse Into Israeli Nuclear Madness | Gilad Atzmon  Please read the following Haaretz report and ask yourself why does Israel need so many nuclear bombs? Why does it need ‘transcontinental missiles’? Why does the Jewish State think in terms of ‘second strike nuclear option’?.. Read more... Testimony to the Russell Tribunal on Palestine: Apartheid in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, by John Dugard | Australians for Palestine As the Russell Tribunal convenes this week in Cape Town, South Africa, Israel again rushes to call in its favours. “Israel is not an Apartheid state” is its catch cry and this in the face of the careening rush downhill for the whole Zionist project. And who to deliver the message? None other than Justice Richard Goldstone, a South African Jew who for one honourable moment in time, decided that truth transcended tribal loyalties and soberly charged Israel with committing war crimes in Gaza... Read more... US Enters UN Alley | Roy Tov ...America’s autopilot put its massive ship within a very narrow dead end alley. Does America expect that the participation of Palestine in the world’s cultural forum – UNESCO - would be defined on grounds of America’s contribution to that organization’s budget? Does America attempt to openly blackmail the world and still attempt to present itself as morally pristine? Does America attempt to scare off the other UN organizations about to accept Palestine? Is Obama capable of understanding a majority of at least 140 out of 193 UN members supporting Palestine?.. Read more... Nov 1, 2011 Did the Age of Enlightenment never occur? by Nahida Izzat | Uprooted Palestinians  Nahida is one of the strongest, most eloquent and profound writers in our movement. And yet, in spite of being an exiled Palestinian, she is terrorised, intimidated and harassed by no others than the Jewish ‘anti’ Zionists. In the following piece Nahida brings the shocking details of the campaign against her and freedom of speech that was led by Liverpool Jewish ‘anti’ Zionist Greg Dropkin and his clan. I better say it clearly and loudly; we are not going to tolerate AZZ’s (anti Zionist Zionists) repellent behaviour forever. We are tired of Talmudic commissars. We believe in freedom of speech and freedom of expression... ~ Gilad Atzmon Read more... Yediot's Barnea outlines the nightmare that would follow an Israeli strike on Iran, by Nahum Barnea | Coteret ...“The ramifications are clear and harsh—like the war against Iraq, the war against Israel will also be perceived by the Iranians as a war intended to right a wrong and bring justice to the world by destroying the State of Israel. Only a threat to the regime will be able to make the Iranian leadership stop. It is difficult to see how Israel could create such a threat.”.. Read more... Nuclear powers plan weapons spending spree, report finds | The Guardian  A 2009 nuclear missile test in North Korea The world's nuclear powers are planning to spend hundreds of billions of pounds modernising and upgrading weapons warheads and delivery systems over the next decade, according to an authoritative report published on Monday...[MAD redux, with a lot more players - not looking good] Read more...Netanyahu Threatens Gazans with Death | Stephen Lendman Throughout its history, Israel had belligerent, racist prime ministers, none worse than Netanyahu. He talks peace but mocks and spurns it. His extremism heads Israel toward the brink. His worst ever government enrages global millions. Eventually, Israel may end up isolated and universally vilified as a pariah state... Read more... Italian citizen sues Italy for its war against Libya | Mathaba  Tenor Giuseppe (Joe) Fallisi will testify at a tribunal in Rome on Thursday, October 27, 2011, assisted by Luke Tadolini, as a result of a complaint issued by him against the State of Italy regarding its war on Libya, which influence has been apparent in our country. Formally, the complaint is against "anonymous people", but it is clear that it includes all politicians involved in this tragic and shameful act... Read more... Living Under Israel's Boot | Stephen Lendman Like occupied people everywhere, Palestinians understand oppression better than experts. Ask them. They'll explain. In Gaza, it means living under siege and Israeli air, land and sea attacks. West Bank communities face day and night incursions. In the week ending October 27, 58 were conducted, nearly 10 a day... Read more... Hero: Navy Sailor Stands Tall In the Middle of Oakland Tear Gas Firestorm ... Holding Up the Constitution and a Veterans for Peace Flag | Washington's Blog  Here he is a couple of minutes before, standing with marine veteran Scott Olsen before Olsen was hit in the head and nearly killed by a projectile:.. Read more, watch video... US will back Saudi king in case of revolt: Interview with Christopher Walker | PressTV [Gee, how surprising. How does the song go? "A friend of the devil is a friend of mine"] Read transcript, watch video...Scott Olsen & the American Uprising Against Criminal Politics | Christopher Bollyn  "Our country has been so numb and so cruel and ..The on-going American protest movement is similar to the Palestinian Intifada in that it is a popular uprising against a criminal regime that has simply become too oppressive to bear any longer. While the U.S. government engages in costly illegal wars and targeted assassinations in at least 6 nations the American people chafe under the heavy costs incurred by the criminal war-mongering regime in Washington...it’s great that people are waking up." Read more, watch video... US pulls UNESCO funding after Palestine is granted full membership, by Harriet Sherwood | The Guardian The overwhelming backing for the Palestinians' bid to join the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization was a huge boost for their campaign for international recognition of an independent state, and a blow to Israel and the US, who had opposed the move... [The only recognition that is needed now is Israel's recognition of the Palestinians as human beings. If this is obtained, all the rest will be relatively easy. Read more, watch video... ~Gideon Levy in Haaretz, 4/22/09] Middle East propaganda 101, by Glenn Greenwald | Salon  [The Dragon Lady hearts Dracula] Read more...How Israel benefits the U.S., by the Hasbara twins | LA Times American leaders have traditionally explained the foundations of the U.S.-Israel relationship by citing shared democratic values and the moral responsibility America bears to protect the small nation-state of the Jewish people. Although accurate and essential, this characterization is incomplete because it fails to capture a third, crucial aspect: the many ways in which Israel advances U.S. national interests... [No comment - have to run to the bathroom. It's my stomach.] Read more... Israel's Second Strike | Roy Tov  Samson | Sculpture in Ashdod ...In 1991, Random House published The Samson Option: Israel's Nuclear Arsenal and American Foreign Policy by Seymour Hersh. The largest publisher in the world, Random House is closely related to Israel and Jews, as shown in The Da Vinci Nazi; it is difficult to believe this publication took place without the approval and support of Israel. The book's title refers to the nuclear strategy whereby Israel would launch a nuclear retaliatory strike if the state was being overrun, just as the Biblical figure Samson pushed apart the pillars of a Philistine temple, bringing down the roof and killing himself and thousands of Philistines who had gathered to see him humiliated...Read more... Terrorists fight terrorism: America, Israel and the "terrorist" bogeyman | Redress Information & Analysis Paul J. Balles argues that those who shout “terrorism” loudest – Israel and America’s Zionists and neo-conservatives – are themselves serial practitioners of state terrorism and murder committed in the guise of self-defense... Read more... Comic Relief in Egypt: Islamist Party Launches "Revolutionary" Policy on Women, by Muriel Mirak-Weissbach | Intifada Palestine  One secular Egyptian intellectual commented on the event: “But, hey, where are the women?”.. Read more... US Plans 2012 Surge In Persian Gulf Region, by Jason Ditz | Antiwar ...Secretary of State Hillary Clinton defended the escalation plan, saying it was “proof of our ongoing commitment to Iraq and to the future of that region, which holds such promise and should be freed from outside interference to continue on the pathway to democracy.” No word yet if she managed to say that with a straight face... Read more... |
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