Oct 31, 2010 A Tainted Tribunal: Israel's Other War on Lebanon, by Jeremy Salt | Palestine Chronicle  The assassination of Hariri served the interests only of the US and Israel he extraordinary scenes this week at a gynaecological and obsetrics clinic in the southern suburbs of Beirut have again cast light on the work of the UN Special Tribunal for Lebanon (STL), set up to investigate the assassination of Rafiq Hariri...Read more... Zionist Tolerance For a Change | Gilad Atzmon ...During my journey of grasping what Zionism and Israel stand for, I came to realize that it is actually the Jewish left -- and Jewish Marxists in particular -- that provide us with an adequate glimpse into contemporary Jewish identity, tribal supremacy, marginal politics and tribalism... Read more... A Reply To Rupert: Hiding Truth Behind Euphemisms, Omissions, Slanders And Lies, by William A. Cook | My Catbird Sea ...Not content with such slander against innocent people indignant at the unconscionable brutality of the Israeli war machine, Murdoch chooses to slide silently by the horrific massacres inflicted on the people of Palestine during the Nakba, insisting that Israel suffered decades of “straightforward” military force by those attempting to “overrun Israel.”.. Read more... Such is the Peace Process: Obama as a Salesman, by Ramzy Baroud | Palestine Chronicle ...If a president like Obama – who once enjoyed such a massive national and international mandate - could weaken before a rightwing Israeli prime minister, then why should others even try?.. Read more... Corporate Media On High Alert Over 'Manipulated' Toner Cartridge On UK Plane, by Kurt Nimmo | Prison Planet Officialdom and authorities jacked up the scary rhetoric this morning in response to a “manipulated” toner cartridge found on a plane in the United Kingdom that tested negative for the presence of explosive material... Read more... Were 'The Chosen People' Picked For Their Virtues Or Vices?, by Khalid Amayreh | Intifada Palestine The recent Vatican synod on the deteriorating situation in Palestine-Israel did the right thing by pointing out that Israel ought to discontinue the use of the controversial concept of “the chosen people” to torment and dispossess the Palestinians. Perhaps the Roman Catholic hierarchy has woken up... Read more... Connecting The Dots: Zionism And Its Effects, by Nan Withington | Intifada Palestine Most Americans and Europeans believe that Israel was established by the United Nations after World War II as a haven and homeland for the desperate Jewish survivors of the Nazi holocaust who had nowhere else to go. This belief is wrong on two counts:.. Read more... On The Issue Of Other People’s National Sovereignty, by Dr. Lawrence Davidson | Intifada Palestine ...How many of us consider the possibility that they, the officials and spokespersons, have themselves been misled or corrupted by special interest groups and lobbies?.. Read more... Oct 29, 2010 Ongoing Iran War Preparations? Arabian Sea: Center Of West's 21st Century War, by Rick Rozoff | Global Research  The monumental expansion of arms sales and the buildup of naval and air power in the Arabian Sea region are unprecedented. They are also alarming to the highest degree... Read more... Vatican synod ends with criticism of Israel | Reuters Israel cannot use the biblical concept of a promised land or a chosen people to justify new settlements in Jerusalem or territorial claims, a Vatican synod on the Middle East said Saturday... Read more... Political Correctness About Terrorists Must End! An open letter to Juan Williams from Michael Moore | Global Research Sorry to hear you got fired by National Public Radio for saying on Fox that you get nervous when you see Muslims on a plane with you. It was dumb to say such a thing, but I don't think saying one dumb thing should be a firing offense. (I DO think an NPR journalist wanting to take money from Fox News to be a regular commentator should be a firing offense, but that's another story)... Read more... How Bush's "War on Terror" Unleashed a Flood of Corporate Political Dollars and Undermined American Democracy, by Joshua Holland | AlterNet Last week’s release of thousands of documents detailing the horrors of the invasion and subsequent occupation of Iraq, and the torrent of corporate campaign dollars unleashed by the Supreme Court in its Citizens United decision are the two hottest stories of the day. Most people don’t connect them, but when the history of the 21st century is written, the Iraq war may prove to be a crucial nail in the coffin of our democratic system... Read more... Israel ranks among Western world's most corrupt countries | Haaretz Receiving a score of 6.1 out of 10 Israel is in 22nd place out of 33 OECD members; meanwhile, U.S. drops out of top 20 least corrupt countries... Read more... A Perjurer on the US Supreme Court, by Robert Parry | Consortiumnews In late 1998, when the Republican-controlled House of Representatives voted to impeach President Bill Clinton for lying under oath about a sexual affair, many on the Right insisted that the issue wasn’t the sex but the perjury. They are now confronted with a parallel case in which U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas quite clearly perjured himself to get his seat on the bench... Read more... The Tea Party Disconnect, by Philip Giraldi | Antiwar Some have expressed hopes that the tea partiers, many of whom grew out of the Ron Paul movement, will bring about a shift away from American imperialism through their demands for smaller, cheaper, less intrusive, and more accountable government. But it ain’t necessarily so... Read more... Israel and Europe are still racing toward racism, by Na'ama Sheffi | Haaretz Merkel is apparently right; multiculturalism was never all that popular in the Western world... Read more... Debunking pro-Israeli arguments against boycott, by Sami Hermez | The Electronic Intifada While the boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) movement against apartheid Israel continues to grow, its opponents continue to resort to the same old canards in trying to defend Israel... Read more... Has Israel become a third-world country?, by Ari Shavit | Haaretz Though he committed no crime, he is responsible for the environment that allowed a crime to take place... Read more... The rotting Safed cheese, by Gideon Levy | Haaretz Safed is not the main problem; the problem lies in the response from society and the government... Read more... OECD and Israel's "tourist" colonization of Syria's Golan, by Charlotte Silver | The Electronic Intifada ...Israel's ascension into the OECD has stirred debate over whether or not Israel's policies regarding the territories it occupies prevent it from meeting the OECD's allegedly high standards for membership... Read more... Israel's Racist Polices in Practice, by Michael Warschawski | Alternative Information Center When the current Knesset members were elected, we wrote that the Knesset was divided between the radical Right and the even more radical Right, and that Ivet Liberman and his friends would set the tone. At the conclusion of a year, no one can continue denying this abysmal forecast... Read more... The Palestinians Made The Desert Bloom: Zionist Lies About Palestine Being “A Land Without People….”, by Antoine Raffoul | Intifada Palestine 1948 Lest We Forget has obtained a copy of the full Survey of Palestine (Including the map survey) for its records. The following outline extracts shed more light on the Zionist lies about Palestine being “a land without people….” Read more... Israeli police shoot “hated” Arab legislator in back | Redress Information & Analysis Jonathan Cook reports on the shooting in the back of Israeli Arab MP Haneen Zoubi by Israel police who used special paramilitary forces against an Arab demonstration provoked by ultra-right-wing Jewish extremists staging a march through an Arab town in northern Israel... Read more... Jewish or Israeli?, by Daoud Kuttab | Maan News Agency I have always tried my best to differentiate between Jews and Israelis. It bothers me when Palestinians use these two terms interchangeably... Read more... Jeffrey Feltman's "Really Great Plan": Squeezing Hezbollah, by Franklin Lamb | Counterpunch Beirut is abuzz over some pretty bizarre events that have been unfolding the past few months concerning Hezbollah and the UN created International Tribunal for Lebanon, set up in 2007 to bring to justice those involved in the Valentine Day 2005 assassination of then Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri... Read more... Oct 28, 2010 Al-Qaeda Is A Front Group For The US Military-Industrial Complex, by Paul Joseph Watson | Infowars  American-born Al-Qaeda terror leader Anwar Al-Awlaki, who met with Pentagon officials months after 9/11, is by no means the only patsy handler the Central Intelligence Agency has used over the years to oversee false flag attacks in America and around the world. In fact, just about every major terror attack has been run by an operative with direct ties to the US military-industrial complex... [At a closed meeting of AIPAC... "And now please welcome our guest of honor, Osama Ben Laden."] Read more...Tariq Aziz: villain or victim?, by Mark Seddon | Al Jazeera The decision to deliver a death sentence to Tariq Aziz has caused a stir in the international community... Read more... Want to weaken Hamas? Open Gaza's gates, by Amira Hass | Haaretz Israel's policy, meant to overthrow Hamas by prohibiting production and manufacturing, has failed miserably... Read more... Israel is relieved not to be the only war criminal, by Gideon Levy | Haaretz The voice of joy, the voice of rejoicing is heard in Israel: The Americans and British have also committed for war crimes, not only us... Read more... Midterms: money changes everything, by Cliff Schecter | Al Jazeera Political donations from nefarious groups are strangling US democracy, and a former Bush adviser is cashing in... Read more... And the real enemy is ... by Lamis Andoni | Al Jazeera The US will continue to fail to convince Arabs that Iran, not Israel, poses the greatest threat to regional stability... Read more... When will this conspiracy of silence end?, by Dr. Bouthaina Shaaban | Middle East Monitor The recent and latest - but probably not the last - images of prisoners being abused by Israeli soldiers showed a blindfolded Palestinian woman trying desperately to avoid 21st century brutality in a prison cell with neither bars nor windows. As the seconds ticked by like an eternity it was clear that her body was trying to shrink into itself to avoid the monsters of the modern age, in the land of Jesus Christ, who danced around their victim... Read more... Wikileaks under doubt as "classified" documents substantiate bogus U.S. claims, by Jamshed Abbas | Islam Times The war between Wikileaks and the Pentagon supposedly continued on Friday as the famous “whistleblower” website released 400,000 “classified” documents. The Pentagon has reportedly assigned 120 personnel to pore over the documents to determine the potential damage they could cause to U.S. security... Read more... Occupation reality check, by Daoud Kuttab | Maan News Agency Just when one thought that the direct peace talks might be able to produce a breakthrough, one got an awakening jolt... Read more... Base Desires in Afghanistan, by Nick Turse | TomDispatch Some go by names steeped in military tradition like Leatherneck and Geronimo. Many sound fake-tough, like Ramrod, Lightning, Cobra, and Wolverine.. All, however, have one thing in common: they are U.S. and allied forward operating bases, also known as FOBs. They are part of a base-building surge that has left the countryside of Afghanistan dotted with military posts, themselves expanding all the time, despite the drawdown of forces promised by President Obama beginning in July 2011... Read more... America's Tea Party Phenomenon | Stephen Lendman Tea Party.org calls itself "a grassroots movement (for making Americans aware of) any issue that challenges the security, sovereignty, or domestic tranquility of our beloved nation, the United States of America. From our founding, the Tea Party is the voice of the true owners of the United States, WE THE PEOPLE." More below about these PEOPLE, and their deep-pocketed ability to manipulate minds effectively with considerable right wing media support... Read more... Obama unlikely to last his first term | PressTV A US analyst says US President Barack Obama is unlikely to end his first term as there are serious efforts by American officials to remove him due to his incompetence... Read more, watch video... Tissue, Skin, Bone and Organ Harvesting at Israel's National Forensic Institute: Body Parts and Bio-Piracy | Counterpunch Nancy Scheper-Hughes is professor of anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley, where she directs the doctoral program in medicine and society. Since 1996, she has been involved in active field research on the global traffic in human organs, following the movement of bodies, body parts, transplant doctors, their patients, brokers, and kidney sellers, and the practices of organ and tissue harvesting in several countries... Read more... UN urges probe into US "war on terror" | PressTV UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay says the United States should investigate all allegations in the Wikileak documents... Read more... U.N. Envoy Demands Israel Act Against Settler Violence, by Saed Bannoura | International Middle East Media Center U.N. Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, Robert Serry, demanded Israel act against the escalating attacks carried out by Jewish settlers against Palestinian farmers and their olive trees... Read more... Domination By Insects: The Real “New World Order”, by Gordon Duff | Veterans Today The age of openness and freedom we were promised is a lie, we live in darkness, censorship, we live under dictatorship as pure as any Orwell could have imagined. The slaves of slaves tell other slaves they aren’t slaves... Read more... US trial of child soldier disgraceful | PressTV "I think it is a disgrace and a shame for the United States," Martin Scheinin, UN special expert on counter-terrorism and human rights, said in reference to war crime charges laid against Omar Khadr, who languishes at the Guantanamo Bay prison in Cuba, and faces trial by a US military court... Read more... Ken O'Keefe on the Mavi Marmara | Gilad Atzmon An adorable man tells his story... Watch video... Wikileaks for dummies: exposing the Iraq war crimes files, by Mamoon Alabbasi | Redress Information & Analysis The exposing of the truth about the Iraq war by the whistleblower website WikiLeaks and its founder Julian Assange is without doubt a most commendable act. For one thing, it has been carried out in a responsible manner, in that the site and its owner have taken extraordinary steps to avoid endangering lives. Even more important, the leaking of the documents will ultimately save millions of lives, and it begins to address the injustice done to the countless number of people already lost... Read more... No Muslims Proven Involved In 9/11 | Veterans Today Veterans Today has been requested to publish the following declaration:.. Read more... Oct 26, 2010 Thank You, Australia, For Supporting 9/11 Truth, by Gordon Duff | My Catbird Seat  Trades Hall president Kevin Bracken says terrorists had nothing to do with the 9/11 tragedy. Instead, it was all a conspiracy ...67% of Australians cite 9/11 government conspiracy in poll. How can a government get so out of touch with reality, so “snookered” by American pressure over the 9/11 coverup that it would wake up one morning looking totally idiotic to its own people?..Read more... Israel is the Most Immediate Threat to the Future of the Planet: Kourosh Ziabari interviews Jeffrey Blankfort | Salem-News ..Jeffrey joined me in an exclusive interview to discuss the influence of Israeli lobby on the decision-makers of the U.S. government, Israel's illegal, underground nuclear program, the prospect of Israeli – Palestinian conflict and the imminent threat of an Israeli strike against Iran's nuclear facilities... Read more... We're being sold the same tired rubbish over and over again, by Robert Fisk | The Independent The real problem, of course, is that we are sold the Brooklyn Bridge over and over again. Now here's a good quote: "Iran is the centre of terrorism, fundamentalism and subversion and is in my view more dangerous than Nazism, because Hitler did not possess a nuclear bomb, where the Iranians are trying to perfect a nuclear option." This prediction was not made by Benjamin Netanyahu but by then prime minister Shimon Peres, now president of Israel, in 1996... Read more... Zelikow's Key Role in 9/11 Cover-Up | YouTube In an interview on the Fox Business Network, a retired U.S. int. officer accused the official in charge of the 9/11 Commission of a cover-up of intelligence failures leading up to the terrorist attacks on Sep 11, 2001... Read more, watch video... Another BBC stunt to polish Israel's image? | Middle East Monitor Reports in Haaretz say that the BBC's Top Gear team has been seen entering Israel from Jordan. "Viewers," said the newspaper's Daniel Schmil, "will be able to hear exactly what Clarkson, Hammond and May thought about Israel's roads in the coming season." The objective of the Top Gear visit is to film Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May driving roadsters to Jerusalem, modifying them along the way to suit the local conditions, "in the amusing and entertaining style for which the programme is famous"... Read more... Islamic Jihad joining Hamas ceasefire with Israel?, by Jared Malsin | Maan News Agency Islamic Jihad is taking strides to restrain its members in the Gaza Strip from unauthorized attacks, suggesting that the group has quietly joined Hamas in enforcing a nearly 2-year ceasefire with Israel... Read more... Remember Palestine-Sabra & Shatila Massacre | YouTube/Press TV The Sabra and Shatila massacre took place in the Sabra and Shatila Palestinian refugee camps in Beirut, Lebanon, between September 16 and September 18, 1982, during the Lebanese civil war. Palestinian and Lebanese civilians were massacred in the camps by the Israeli supporters Phalangist militia while the camp was surrounded by Israeli forces... Read more, watch video... Pro-Israeli march met with counter rally | PressTV A number of EDL supporters gathered outside the Israeli embassy in London on Sunday where they demonstrated Islamophobic placards. They were addressed by Rabbi Nachum Shifren, who is a candidate for the California State Senate and a member of the US Tea Party. The pro-Israeli rally was met with a counter protest from Unite Against Fascism and others... Read more... UNHCR lauds Iran's help to refugees | PressTV The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has lauded Iran for its humanitarian assistance to refugees both inside the country and across the world... Read more... Israel's US propaganda machine at work | Redress Information & Analysis Paul J. Balles views one of Israel’s mouthpieces in the United States, the American Jewish Committee, and debunks some of their propaganda lines on peace, Iran, human dignity, energy security and the nature of Israel... Read more... Alan Hart Speaks Out On The Ugly Truth | Veterans Today Alan Hart Esq, former reporter with the BBC, weighs in with Mark Glenn of The Ugly Truth, viz a viz the latest events taking place in his former stomping grounds–the Middle East and Palestine. Of the more important topics discussed— Zionism and Peace are Incompatible, the new piece written by Alan Hart where he makes clear the fact that we cannot serve two masters–either Zionism or peace, but not both... Read more... The United States Fights And Pays For Israel’s Wars: Kourosh Ziabari interviews Maidhc Ó Cathail | My Catbird Seat ...Maidhc joined me in an exclusive interview and responded to my questions about the 9/11 attacks, the influence of the Israeli lobby over the U.S. administration, the prospect of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict, the prolonged controversy over Iran’s nuclear program, and the freedom of press in the United States... Read more... ‘AJC’ - A Propaganda Machine At Work, by Paul Balles | My Catbird Seat David Harris, as Executive Director of the AJC (American Jewish Committee), has been the organization’s leading spokesman. In short, he has been their chief propagandist in America for Israel... Read more... The shaming of America, by Robert Fisk | The Independent Our writer delivers a searing dispatch after the WikiLeaks revelations that expose in detail the brutality of the war in Iraq - and the astonishing, disgraceful deceit of the US... Read more... Palestinians Have the Right to Resist Occupation, by Agustin Velloso | Palestine Chronicle As a Western supporter (non Muslim/Arab) of the Palestinian cause, I have always found it rather difficult to talk (let alone to advocate) about how best Palestinians can resist occupation, especially when this occupation is usually extremely violent and genocidal... Read more... Life in Palestinian Refugee Camps, by Stephen Lendman | Palestine Chronicle Besides mass slaughter and destruction, wars create refugees, millions at times, uprooted, displaced and homeless, on their own somehow to survive. Israel's "War of Independence" was no different, dispossessing hundreds of thousands of Palestinians, a story Western media reports don't explain or even mention... Read more... Morbid Theater: Benjamin Netanyahu's Israel, by George Polley | Palestine Chronicle ...What compelled Netanyahu to quash the recent peace talks with the Palestinians? In spite of what Mr. Netanyahu says in photo ops, his intentions have been quite consistent from the beginning. His address to the United Nations in September 2009 illustrates my point, and illustrates it, as the saying goes, “in spades.”.. Read more... Israel's Murder of Furkan Doğan, by Tim King | Salem-News Furkan Doğan shot the Israeli military first, then they shot back, and ultimately executed him on the deck of the Gaza Freedom Flotilla 'Mavi Marmara' last May. The problem, is that Furkan was only using a video camera... Read more... Oct 25, 2010 US and Israel: Blinded by the Right | Al Jazeera  Similarities exist in the political landscapes' of both the US and Israel, which left unaltered, could be of grave harm... Read more... Increasing European-Russian convergence | Redress Information & Analysis Christopher King argues that Britain and Europe should look eastwards, towards Russia and the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, and abandon the deadly embrace of the United States if they are to realize their economic potential and regain their political independence... Read more... The Legacy of Mubarak, by Ali Younes | Palestine Chronicle Mubarak’s rule, since he assumed power nearly 30 years ago, has been characterized by his authoritarian grip on power and his reliance on Emergency laws to govern Egypt and curtail civil liberties and personal freedoms. Under the “state of emergency” his government has the right to detain and imprison individuals virtually for no reason. This device is used by the government to mainly attack the Muslim Brotherhood and any other political party and deny them to formally participate in the elections... Read more... Settlers desecrate West Bank cemetery | PressTV On Friday, unidentified vandals entered the graveyard on the outskirts of the village of Kfar Kadum, near Qalqiliya city, and spray-painted a Jewish Star of David and the name of extremist Rabbi Meir Kahane on one of the graves. They even scrawled "price tag" on tombstones, which radical settlers use to describe their revenge campaign against restrictions on Israeli construction in the occupied territories... Read more... Elders join anti-settlement rally in al-Quds | PressTV Joining hundreds of protesters in the weekly anti-settlement demonstration in the East al-Quds neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah, Carter said on Friday that destroying Palestinian homes in order to construct Jewish settlements is against international law... Read more... Immanuel Wallerstein's Worldview | Stephen Lendman America "has been a fading global power since the 1970s, and the US response to the (9/11) terrorist attacks has accelerated this decline....the economic, political and military factors that contributed to US hegemony are the same factors that will inexorably produce the coming US decline.".. Read more... Lipstick on an Elephant, by Victor Thorn | American Free Press Uninspiring old white men like Bob Dole, John McCain and Dick Cheney have found they can’t get elected to the White House. So, it appears the Israeli lobby has switched tactics by selecting women to push forward the GOP... Read more... Western Wars are Hell for women | Rehmat's World It was ten years ago that UN Security Council passed Resolution 1325, on the protection of women in war zones. However, a new study released by UN Population Fund (UNFPA) note that the greatest victims as result of western wars and sanctions (Iraq, Afghanistan, Chechnya, Palestine, Bosnia, Kosova, Kashmir, etc.) have been women... Read more... Israel Shooting and Electric-Shocking Palestinian Children | Stephen Lendman ..."For the first time....three (documented) cases of children reporting being given electric shocks by Israeli interrogators (occurred) in Ari'el Settlement." Each was accused of stone throwing. Electric shocking extracted confessions although the boys maintain their innocence.... Read more... Ratigan Slams Tea Party Borg Hive, by Kurt Nimmo | Infowars Less than two weeks out from the dog and pony show called mid-term elections and Dylan Ratigan wants to know what happened to the Tea Party. He correctly observes that the hitherto grassroots movement was sold down the river and absorbed by the Republican Party... Read more... 9/11 Mastermind Invited to Pentagon, by Paul Joseph Watson | Infowars Al-Qaeda terror mastermind Anwar Al-Awlaki, the man who helped plot the aborted Christmas Day bo mbing, the Fort Hood shooting, the Times Square bombing attempt, and who also preached to the alleged September 11 hijackers, dined at the Pentagon just months after 9/11... Read more, watch video... The Israel Lobby: Targeting Democrats for Election Day Defeat, by MJ Rosenberg | Huffington Post The fury of the "pro-Israel" lobby lately has truly been something to behold. It has abandoned bipartisanship by setting up front organizations like the so-called Emergency Committee for Israel, which is running ads across the country calling on voters to defeat Democratic members of the House and Senate for signing a letter urging President Obama to address the humanitarian crisis in Gaza... Read more... How the United States and Britain Lost the Bogus Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, by Mahboob Khawaja | Global Research The U.S.-led wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are fought to maintain US domination worldwide, to occupy the untapped natural resources of the Middle East, in particular oil and gas, and to protect the value of U.S. dollar as a stable international reserve currency... Read more... Jewish Integrity for a Change | Gilad Atzmon The following is an email that was sent to me by an American Jew a few days ago. This is a very interesting text that exposes the depth of the Jewish Diaspora's identity complex: tribalism, shame, self hatred, pride and embarrassment... Read more... Three videos recommended by Gilad Atzmon The Bible: A Manuel for Genocide Max Blumenthal visits a Settler's Festival One Palestinian Man vs. Many Israeli Soldiers Gaza's Historical Treasures Under Seige, by Eva Bartlett | Antiwar Few outside of Gaza would consider its history much beyond the decades of Israeli occupation. But Gaza is a historical treasure house. Many of those treasures are now in Israeli museums, and those that remain are becoming difficult to preserve due to the Israeli siege... Read more... If Americans Knew Made The ADL's Anti-Israel List | Veterans Today We are pleased that the ADL has noticed that If Americans Knew is influencing the debate on Israel... Read more... Lebanon’s Palestinian Civil Rights Campaign Moves Into The Christian Heartland, with Franklin Lamb | My Catbird Seat Watch... Israeli military prevents UN from building new schools in Gaza; 40,000 students without schools, by Saed Bannoura | International Middle East Media Center Nearly two years after the devastating Israeli invasion of Gaza that left 1400 dead and over 30,000 families without homes, many of the schools that were destroyed in the invasion have yet to be rebuilt. Now a United Nations effort to rebuild schools in Gaza has been cut short by the Israeli military, which refuses to give the UN permission to build several schools... Read more... Call it terror, not price tag, by Zvi Bar'el | Haaretz This is local terror with an instructive purpose - its goal is to terrorize the Palestinians and teach them to behave as the settlers believe they should... Read more... Gadahn Call To Attack Americans Comes From Israel, by Gordon Duff | Veterans Today Israeli terrorist “clones” are responsible for most hard line rhetoric, threats and, if we investigated closely, have actually recruited terrorists and directly inspired, if not planned and executed, attacks on Americans... Read more... Oct 24, 2010 Viva Palestina Convoy Breaks Siege And Enters Gaza To Jubilant Crowds | Veterans Today  The Viva Palestina convoy of almost 150 vehicles, 370 people from 30 different countries and $5 million of aid has entered Gaza... Read more, watch video... Operation Cyanide and Israel's Role in 9/11, by Tim King | Salem-News Israel seems to have a nasty habit of using false information to drag the U.S. into wars.. [See this recent piece about the Russian destroyer that saved the USS Liberty from the Israelis - and the Americans!] Read more...Land Desecration: Palestine's Olive Harvest Horror, by Rannie Amiri | Counterpunch Olives and olives oil. Nothing symbolizes Palestinian land, identity and culture as they do. They are the hallmarks of national pride and the veritable heart of Palestine’s agricultural economy... Read more... The US, Israel and Palestine: Dishonest Broker, by Avi Shlaim | Counterpunch There are many reasons for America’s failure to broker a peace deal between Israel and the Palestinians but the most fundamental one is that it is a dishonest broker. As a result of its palpable partiality towards Israel, America has lost all credibility in the eyes not only of the Palestinians but of the wider Arab and Muslim worlds... Read more... Interview With Jamal Krayem Kanj: Author of Children Of Catastrophe | Intifada Palestine A great deal has been written over the years addressing the Palestine–Israel conflict, and the creation of the Palestinian refugee problem. However, few works on the subject really present the personal aspect: What is it like to be a refugee? What propels a decent human being to take up arms, to become a freedom fighter or a “terrorist?”.. Read more... More Than An Olive Branch, by Khalid Amayreh | Intifada Palestine The Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) has expressed willingness to offer Israel far-reaching concessions in return for the establishment of a viable Palestinian state in all or most of the West Bank, Gaza Strip and East Jerusalem. Some of the offered concessions constitute clear abandonment of Palestinian national constants and other long-standing Palestinian positions... Read more... Israel's right to exist as a Jewish state, by Hasan Abu Nimah | Jordan Times ... if Palestinians recognize an Israeli “right” to oppress and discriminate against them, the next logical step will be for Israel to “enforce” its “right” to be a “Jewish state” by getting rid of Palestinians from within its borders, which is in fact precisely what Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman proposed in his recent “population exchange” speech at the United Nations... Read more... Weimar in Jerusalem: the rise of fascism in Israel | Redress Information & Analysis Uri Avnery warns that fascism will overwhelm Israel unless progressive forces “awake from the coma, understand what is happening and where it is leading to, protest and struggle by all available means ... in order to arrest the fascist wave that is threatening to engulf us”... [Progressive Zionists like Avery still don't see that Israel was fascist from the gitgo] Read more...Vatican meeting demands Israel end occupation | AP Bishops from the Middle East who were summoned to Rome by the pope demanded Saturday that Israel accept U.N. resolutions calling for an end to its "occupation" of Arab lands. In a final joint communique, the bishops also told Israel it shouldn't use the Bible to justify "injustices" against the Palestinians... Read more... Britain's Military Cuts: When Will the U.S. Follow Suit? | TIME Even before the British Defense Ministry this week elected to scrap the Royal Navy's only fixed-wing-aircraft carrier, nobody imagined that Britannia still ruled the waves — or had any of the power that characterized its empire before the two world wars of the past century. Still, as recently as a decade ago, Britain could take solace in its "special relationship" with the sole surviving superpower... Read more... Justice, Israeli style, by Sherine Tadros | Al Jazeera "Does anyone know the Hebrew word for 'occupation'?" A question from the state assigned Hebrew translator to the packed out courtroom. And that kicked off the trial into the killing of US activist Rachel Corrie, which took her family seven years to secure... Read more... Echoes of El Salvador in tales of US-approved death squads, by Patrick Cockburn | The Independent The Iraqi documents released by Wikileaks produce significantly more detail on US actions in the war in Iraq , but do they produce anything that we did not know already? The Pentagon will huff and puff with rage as it did over the Wikileaks release of US military documents about Afghanistan, when it took the contradictory position that there was little new in what has been leaked, but important sources of intelligence had somehow still been compromised... Read more... Eight Countries Absent from OECD Conference in Jerusalem | AIC Norway, Canada, Ireland, UK, Sweden, Iceland, Turkey and South Africa not present at OECD tourism conference.. Following attempts by Israel to use the conference to further its territorial claims on Jerusalem and in response to the strong concerns raised by Palestinian and international civil society as well as Palestinian officials, that the conference would serve to whitewash Israel's violations of international law, several of the eight countries to pull out of the conference have explained their withdrawals were political in nature... Read more... Oct 23, 2010 Is the US system rigged for the rich? | Christian Science Monitor  While the poor get social programs worth $365 billion, the rich get more. Subsidies to help the prosperous build wealth added up to $384 billion last year... [Is the Pope Catholic?] Read more...The UN: Peacemaker or puppet? | Eric Walberg ...The UN got its first body blow with the launching of the Cold War by Churchill and Truman as part of their strategy of trying to mould international relations to save the imperial order from the expected tidal wave of socialist revolutions. The use of the UN label to send US and allied troops into Korea in 1950 was the first salvo in this ongoing battle. The other fatal blow was the agreement of the major powers, in particular, the US and Russia, to create a Jewish state in the British mandate of Palestine in 1948... Read more... Jews, Jazz & Socialism | Gilad Atzmon How would you feel about a Radio show specialising in Aryan classical music? How would you feel about a radio show that features mainly, or only Aryan composers and performers?.. However, Mike Gerber, a writer for the ‘Jewish Socialist Magazine’ and a member of the ‘Jewish Socialist Group’ has a very similar agenda -- he is about to launch a ‘Jews only’ jazz radio show... Read more... A Letter from Daniel McGowan (DYR) to Abraham Foxman(ADL) | Gilad Atzmon Dear Mr. Foxman: We were quite disappointed to have not qualified for your so-called Top Ten Anti-Israel Groups in America. Surely our annual commemorations since 1995 of the Deir Yassin massacre by Jewish terrorists on April 9, 1948 should have warranted inclusion in your top ten... Read more... Has America been "blessed" or "cursed" by its support of Israel?| Leftwing-Christian net ...It would be prudent for the followers of Hagee and other Christian Zionist leaders to ponder these matters, and perhaps start to consider as well the possibility that in aiding and abetting Israel’s treatment of the Palestinians, America, rather than drawing down God’s blessings, may in reality be on the receiving end of his curses... Part I, Part II Thank you for bringing us together, by As'ad Ghanem | Haaretz ...Israel's new right is fundamentally different from the classical revisionist right, which has almost disappeared from the country's political map. Taking its place is a right that closely resembles the European model represented by Frenchman Jean-Marie Le Pen or Austria's late Joerg Haider. It's a right that believes it is possible to subdue the minority only by force, and that emphasizes the racial superiority of the dominant ethnic group... Read more... Israeli killer fears to show face to parents of Rachel Corrie | Leftwing-Christian net It would seem that for all their bluster and bravado, some Israelis are little more than cowards at heart. Take the "gentleman" who drove his bulldozer over Rachel Corrie some years back... Read more... Who will recognize the Israeli nation?, by Doron Rosenblum | Haaretz There is an enormous difference between a nation-state formed by the majority of its citizens and a theocracy that forces on us a definition based on religion... Read more... Teaching the Oppressed How to Fight Oppression: The Violence Debate, by Ramzy Baroud | Counterpunch ...Only the unique experience of the Palestinian people and their genuine struggle for freedom could yield what Palestinians as a collective deem appropriate for their own. This is what happened with the people of India, France, Algeria and South Africa, and many others nations that sought and eventually attained their freedom... Read more... Peres: Israel needs US for existence | PressTV Israeli President Shimon Peres has acknowledged that Israel's existence depends on its friendship with the United States. "We cannot exist alone. For our existence we need the friendship of the United States of America. It doesn't sound easy, but this is the truth," he said... Read more... Israel Considers Unilateral Moves, by Saed Bannoura | International Middle East Media Center Israeli officials are considering declaring unilateral steps if the Palestinian leadership of Mahmoud Abbas implements its vows to walk out of the negotiations and seek international recognition of a Palestinian State... [I guess you could call genocide "unilateral"] Read more...UN report cites US Human Rights abuses | PressTV Systematic violations of human rights by the US government were detailed in the report, which indicates that most violations affected African Americans, minorities, especially Muslims, and immigrant communities in the US as well as abroad... Read more... Liberal Zionism is Flawed, by Miko Peled | Palestine Chronicle Setting aside for a moment the argument of whether dividing historic Palestine into two states was ever a good idea, clearly forty years ago it was a viable solution. Today as liberal Zionist Jews and others call for this solution, it is a sad and pathetic sight... Read more... Carter in Syria: Israel must fully lift Gaza blockade | Haaretz Former U.S. President meets with Syrian President Assad and Hamas politburo chief Meshal in Damascus... Read more... Stupidity, One Thing All Americans Agree On, But Who Is Really Stupid?, by Gordon Duff | Veterans Today ...hopelessness, fear and hate and a case of world class “stupid” has made the world’s greatest military power, not only a threat to world stability but an outright embarrassment... Read more... Israel lobby group urges State Department to begin undercover manipulation of Palestinian websites, by Philip Weiss | Mondoweiss A new report by the Israel lobbyist org Foundation for the Defense of Democracies (with help from the Dershowitz Group) monitored Palestinians' use of the internet and found that Palestinians speak freely on internet forums, without "manipulation." And these Palestinians believe that the two-state solution is dead and are generally opposed to the peace negotiations that the Obama administration is conducting, to the point that the authors of the report recommend that the Obama administration should basically forget about the negotiations and... start manipulating the online forums!.. Read more... Injustice in the age of Obama, by Cindy Sheehan | Al Jazeera Barack Obama, a former law professor, should have a healthy respect for civil liberties, but his actions suggest not... Read more... U.S. Wars Are Bankrupting the World | Let's Try Democracy | David Swanson The endless and infinite "war on terra" is bankrupting the planet. I don't mean moral bankruptcy; that goes without saying. I mean financial bankruptcy. And don't take my word for it. This is the argument made in a new book called "Terrorism and the Economy: How the War on Terror Is Bankrupting the World," by Loretta Napoleoni... Read more... Jewistan: Finally Recognizing Israel as the Jewish State, by Francis Boyle | Information Clearing House Israel’s Likudnik Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reached into his bag of Zionist tricks and pulled out a brand-new demand that had never surfaced before in the history of the Middle East Peace Process going all the way back to their beginning with the negotiation of the original Camp David Accords conducted under the personal auspices of U.S. President Jimmy Carter in 1978: The Palestinians must recognize Israel as “the Jewish State.” Not surprisingly, the Zionist controlled and funded Obama administration publicly endorsed this latest roadblock to peace that was maliciously constructed by Israel... Read more... Zionist False Flag Terror and Deceptions | Aletho News A fairly comprehensive compilation Read more.. Auschwitz Survivor Claims Elie Wiesel is an Impostor | Henry Makow ...in 1986, Miklos was contacted by the Swedish journal Sydsvenska Dagbladet in Malmo and invited to meet "an old friend" named Elie Wiesel... As Miklos answered that he doesn`t know anyone with this name, he was told Elie Wiesel was the same person Miklos knew in the Nazi camps under the name Lazar Wiesel and with the inmate number A-7713... Miklos still remembered that number and he was therefore convinced at that point that he was going to meet his old friend Lazar and happily accepted the invitation... Read more... How Progressive Ideas Protect Inequality, by John Spritzler | Turn the World Upside Down There is indeed a class war whose outcome will determine whether our society will remain one based on inequality with real control over society in the hands of a privileged few, or become one based on equality and genuine democracy; and right now billionaires like Buffet are winning. But the billionaires are few in number and we, the people they are defeating, vastly outnumber them... Read more... Oct 22, 2010 The One State Solution: still no closer to any solution, by Mary Rizzo | Palestine Think Tank  Back when there was a contemplation of Israelis leaving the Gaza Strip, which we strongly suspected, (and which Ilan Pappe wrote about) as being the antecamera to the wiping out of Gaza in a wave of destruction thus far not previously attempted. However, with things only having worsened, does the appeal for a One State Solution still carry validity?.. Read more... Stop the Jewish National Fund | Stop Greenwashing Apartheid The JNF was created in 1901 to acquire land and property rights in Palestine and beyond for exclusive Jewish settlement. While indigenous Palestinians are barred from leasing, building on, managing or working their own land, the JNF holds the land in trust for “those of Jewish race or descendency” living anywhere in the world to “promote the interests of Jews in the prescribed region.”.. Read more... Is US about to lose Iraq to Iran? | Rehmat's World On October 17, 2010 – Martin Chulov writing in British daily Guardian said that “Iran has brokered behind the scenes deal for pro-Tehran government in Iraq”. According to writer’s ‘confidential information’ – all anti-Israel Shia groups (Hizbullah, Syria and Iran) were behind the new deal between the incumbent Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki and the Islamic resistance militia leader Moqtada al-Sadr... Read more... Hope vs. Reality, by Sam Bahour | Maan News Agency As a Palestinian-American father of two daughters living in Al-Bireh, the twin city of Ramallah, no one on this earth wishes for Palestinians and Israelis to reach a lasting peace agreement more than I do... Read more... Does Israel want peace or to play the blame game?, by Nabil Sha'ath | Haaretz Is the government of Israel engaged in the negotiation process to reach peace, or is Israel engaged in this process to advance a public relations campaign and buy time to continue its colonial enterprise on our occupied territory?.. Read more... Harper's Disgusting Policies Earn a Humiliating Rebuff: Why the UN Rejected Canada's Bid for the Security Council, by Yves Engler | Counterpunch In a harsh international rebuke Stephen Harper’s government lost its bid for a UN Security Council seat last week. The vote in New York was the world’s response to a Canadian foreign policy designed to please the most reactionary, shortsighted sectors of the Conservative Party’s base — evangelical Christian Zionists, extreme right-wing Jews, Islamophobes, the military-industrial-academic-complex, mining and oil executives and old cold-warriors... Read more... Meshaal interview on Hamas Policy | Palestine Think Tank Since 1996, Khaled Mesh'al has been the Chairman of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) Political Bureau. After the assassination of Hamas leader Abdul 'Aziz Rantisi in 2004 by Israeli forces, Mesh'al became the movement's overall leader. He lives in exile in Damascus, from where he oversees the movement's activities both within Palestine and outside... Read more... Controlling the narrative in Israel and Palestine, by Paul McGeough | Palestine Think Tank Tooling around suburban Washington earlier this week, the car radio shrieked – on just a single word... in quoting the president of France, the reporter did not use the word 'settlement.' Instead, she attributed to Nicolas Sarkozy the dreaded C-word – 'colonies.' Not quite as jaunty as 'settlements', is it?.. Read more... The State of Bla-Bla-Bla, by Uri Avnery | Palestine Chronicle Will Germany enact a law that demands that every Turk aspiring to citizenship swear allegiance to the 'German Federal Republic, the Nation-State of the German People'? Sounds like a ridiculous idea... Read more... Help Make Attack on USS Liberty a Household Word, by Jim Condit Jr | Veterans Today  Why Is A Strafed Life Raft From The USS Liberty In An Israeli Museum Is it possible to break the censorship NOW around the attack on the USS Liberty in 1968, and its implications today? Yes. Utilizing the little known Reasonable Access Law, I, as a congressional candidate, have been airing radio ads over major talk show stations in the Midwest since October 8th, 2010... Read more... Mainstreaming the Extreme Rightwing, by Ralph Nader | Palestine Chronicle The strong case that Eric Alterman's book What Liberal Media? made in 2003 against the propaganda-style claim by rightwingers, that the mass media has a liberal bias, is an expanding understatement. Just read recent issues of The Washington Post and The New York Times to see the most extreme reactionaries getting the kind of coverage their publicists love... Read more... Ardent Zionist turns boycott advocate, Mel Frykberg | The Electronic Intifada. A former captain in the Israeli Air Force, previously an ardent Zionist who lost many members of his family in the Holocaust, has been labeled a psychopath and denounced by many Israelis for the moral stand he has taken against the Israeli occupation... Read more... Israel's fear of boycott movement behind obsession with recognition as Jewish state | Redress Information & Analysis Lawrence Davidson unpicks the subtext behind the current emphasis by Zionists on recognition of Israel as a Jewish state, which he says is aimed primarily “at undermining the growing boycott movement that seeks to isolate Israel and call into serious question the legitimacy of a state designed exclusively for one ethnic or religious group”... Read more... The Saker's Q&A with "Lebanese Christian" about Hezbollah-Christian relations | The Vineyard of the Saker ..One of the most misunderstood aspects of the socio-political reality of Lebanon is the fact that Hezbollah is very open to Christians as long as they are real Lebanese patriots and not proxies for Israel and the USA... Read more... Oct 21, 2010 Occupation affects every aspect of olive oil production | The Electronic Intifada  Israeli bulldozers uproot olive trees in the West Bank city of Beit Jala, along the route of the wall Read more... The first day of the Palestinian olive harvest officially began on 15 October, and Rani Ali and his family -- like hundreds of others -- were out among their olive trees, starting to bring in what looks to be a good harvest... Israel's Longstanding Middle East Plan | Stephen Lendman In 1982, Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs senior adviser Oded Yinon published a revealing document for regional conquest and dominance. Still relevant today, it's titled "A Strategy for Israel in the 1980s, translated, edited, and retitled "The Zionist Plan for the Middle East" by distinguished Professor Israel Shahak (1933 - 2001), longtime activist, analyst, and outspoken Israeli critic... Read more... From Rabbi Yosef to Marx | Gilad Atzmon In case the Goyim cannot find a purpose in their life, Israeli senior Sephardi Rabbi Ovadia Yosef is there to help them out. In his Saturday sermon Rabbi Yosef revealed that the sole purpose of Gentiles is to serve Jews. “Goyim were born only to serve us. Without that, they have no place in the world.”.. Read more... Foreign Policy and the Midterms, by Justin Raimondo | Antiwar The United States is currently fighting two wars, and a third one in Pakistan that is as yet unacknowledged – and yet, with the midterm elections coming up in a matter of a few weeks, we don’t hear anything about this from the candidates. Why is that?.. Read more... The Democrats' Day of Reckoning, by John V. Walsh | Antiwar Why does no one on the Left say it outright ? Obama and his Democratic Party gang should be punished mercilessly in the November elections. If they escape such punishment, then they will continue to break every real and implied promise to their base, and the goals of an end to wars and a decent, secure life will continue to be trampled under foot... Read more... The priority is to return and remain, by Jillian Kestler-D'Amours | The Electronic Intifada ...Electronic Intifada contributor Jillian Kestler-D'Amours spoke with Hassan Jabareen, the founder and director general of Adalah, the Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel, about the loyalty oath and what it means for Palestinian citizens of Israel... Read more... Sympathy For The Devil: Continued Calls For Pollard’s Release Yet Another Symptom of America’s Failing Health | The Ugly Truth As an indicator that the state of the American union is showing signs of serious disrepair, Israel and her supporters’ continued constant shrieking for the release of the most notorious and dangerous spy ever to wage war against America–Jonathon Pollard– has resulted in no measurable blowback from the same U.S. citizens who were/are so grievously malaffected... Read more... Zionism and peace are incompatible, by Alan Hart | Redress Information & Analysis Alan Hart speculates whether US President Barack Obama will make one last bid for peace in the Middle East by not vetoing a possible UN Security Council resolution recognizing Palestinian independence within the 1967 borders of the West Bank and Gaza... Read more... Committing perjury is all in a day's work for Israel's chief military advocate-general | Redress Information & Analysis Richard Lightbown considers the obfuscations and downright lies of Israeli Chief Military Advocate-General Avichai Mandelblit, one of the main witnesses before the Turkel Commission, set up by the Israeli government to examine the Israeli attack on the Turkish aid ship, the Mavi Marmara, which resulted in the murder of nine aid workers... Read more... We can’t rely on American intelligence, so why entrust hostages’ lives to US forces? | Redress Information & Analysis Yvonne Ridley contrasts the bungled rescue attempt of UK aid worker Linda Norgrove, which resulted in her being killed by her American “rescuers”,with her own successful release from Taliban captivity following local Afghan mediation. She argues that the lesson to be learnt is “never, ever, leave the fate of a British citizen in the hands of the Americans again”... Read more... Oct 20, 2010 Palestinians' human rights key to peace, by Anna Balzer | Australians for Palestine  As US-brokered Israeli-Palestinian negotiations break down, the prospects for peace in the Middle East may seem more dismal than ever. On the outside, it might appear that both sides are digging in their heels, refusing to compromise, but the reality on the ground is different... Read more... Israel Divestment Campaign The Israel Divestment Campaign (IDC) is the first citizens’ effort in the country to appeal directly to voters to hold Israel accountable for violations of international law and human rights... Read more... The United States Fights and Pays for Israel's Wars: Maidhc Ó Cathail interviewed by Kourosh Ziabari | Intifada Palestine I would say that most American politicians are totally unaware of the Israeli “art students,” the so-called “dancing Israelis,” the Odigo warnings and other facts that point to Israeli involvement in the 9/11 attacks. Therefore, they probably considered Ahmadinejad’s questioning of the official 9/11 narrative to be yet another unwarranted provocation of the United States by the Iranian leader... Read more... Susan Abulhawa vs. Alan Dershowitz at the Boston Book Festival | Intifada Palestine Watch Susan Abulhawa thrash Alan Dershowitz at the Boston Book Festival yesterday.. Alan Dershowitz keeps getting angrier to the point he asks someone from the audience to shutup as and points a finger at Susan calling her “this woman…” . [Abulhawa is an excellent example of the fundamental nobility and decency of the Palestinian people. The audio is poor but it's worth enduring it to watch the demonic Dershowitz squirm and then lose it.] Watch video...My Amazing and Disturbing Experiences in Israel, by Joe Cortina | Veterans Today Summer of 1989 Trip Changed My American Perspective on Israel and It’s Unique Special Status Given to it by Our U.S. Congress... Read more... Major rabbi says non-Jews are donkeys, created to serve Jews, by Khalid Amayreh | The People's Voice A major Jewish religious figure in Israel has likened non-Jews to donkeys and beasts of burden, saying the main reason for their very existence is to serve Jews... Read more... Behold World . . Breaking News! Now we know who created the universe !! | Uprooted Palestinians “Jews brought about the existence of the ENTIRE creation” said the Rebbe Meachem Schneerson!.. [The ignorance, evil and arrogance of the rabbinate is truly breathtaking] Read more...Obama is worse than Bush: International gulag system tortures more Muslims today than ever before | Signs of the Times A U.S. report, based on interviews with former detainees, says Afghan prisoners were abused at a secret military detention centre in Afghanistan. The facility dubbed the 'Black Jail' is thought to be located at Bagram airbase. Former inmates' claim they were subjected to strip searches, sleep deprivation and a lack of food. Some testimonies date from this year, despite President Obama's pledge to clean up prison practices. The U.S. military denies the detention centre even exists. Philip Giraldi, a former CIA officer, says Obama's administration is worse than his predecessor, when it comes to detainees in Afghanistan... Read more... Who is Israeli spy MEGA | Against All Enemies In an interview last week, Phil Giraldi told Scott Horton that he had heard that admitted Israeli spy Ben-Ami Kadish was to be finally sentenced last Friday, but, according to PACER, nothing has happened. Let's hope that he is negotiating with the authorities to disclose the identity of Mega... Read more... From Scala To Wembley | Gilad Atzmon ...It occurred to me a while back that as far as Palestinian affairs are concerned, the tide has indeed changed. The struggle of the Palestinian people has now become a part of a Western collective conscience. We are a mass movement becoming increasingly aware of itself... Read more... Four part video series by Jeff Gates: The Hate Mongers Among Us | My Catbird Seat ...as usual, the power of association is once again deployed to wage war on the U.S in plain sight — with the usual suspects blaming the U.S., many of them alleged “progressives.” Brilliant war-waging strategy—in a typically psychopathic sort of way... Read more, watch videos... ADL's demonization of student activism denounced | Electronic Intifada ...As members of several student groups working for justice in Palestine, we affirmatively state that the ADL's characterization of our campus educational efforts and activism about Israeli injustices against Palestinians as "biased" is a disingenuous and misguided attempt to vilify students who criticize Israel's occupation, which denies Palestinian human rights and self-determination... Read more... Remembering Furkan Dogan, by Ralph Loeffler | Electronic Intifada ...Furkan Dogan was an American, a young American of only 19 years when on 31 May a hail of Israeli bullets ended his life on the Mavi Marmara Turkish humanitarian aid ship. Furkan was filming the Israeli assault when an Israeli commando fired his first shot pointblank hitting Furkan squarely in the face. Four more shots were fired into Furkan leaving him dead and unrecognizable... Read more... The blackmailing of American democracy | Middle East Monitor As the US mid-term elections draw tantalisingly closer the battle lines have been drawn. At the centre of them all is the Palestine issue. This is the message from an article published by the Jerusalem Post titled The Jewish problem with Obama.. The article's central thesis is that President Barak Obama nurtures an innate hostility toward Israel and "it is impossible to be anti-Israel and not be anti-Jewish"... Read more... The invisible government: Propaganda Disguised as Journalism, by John Pilger | If Americans Knew In a speech in Chicago, John Pilger describes how propaganda has become such a potent force in our lives and, in the words of one of its founders, represents 'an invisible government'... Read more... Jerusalem Post: New int'l flotilla heading to Gaza in early 2011 | US to GAZA Pro-Palestinian groups plan to sail a flotilla of boats through Israel‘s sea blockade of Gaza as early as February in the second such attempt in less than a year, activists said Monday. The activists, representing groups from over a dozen countries including Switzerland, Turkey and the United States, said the flotilla would be bigger than the one stopped by Israel earlier this year... Read more... Karma Nabulsi: Diary | London Review of Books Nowadays, when Palestinian activists in their twenties and thirties meet up with veterans of the Palestinian struggle, they show an unexpected thoughtfulness towards the older, revolutionary generation, to which I belong. This is nothing like the courtesy extended as a matter of course to older people in our part of the world: it is more intimate and more poignant... Read more... Dr Linda Norgrove: victim of the UK's Afghanistan policy | Redress Information & Analysis Christopher King argues that the botched attempt by US troops in Afghanistan to rescue British aid worker Linda Norgrove, which resulted in her being killed by her American “rescuers”, should be seen as an omen for the future of London’s subservience to Washington: disaster for Britain... Read more... Oct 19, 2010 When Will The Crimes Of 9/11 End?, by Gordon Duff | Veterans Today  9 years after 9/11, American drug production in Afghanistan has gone from zero to 92% of world output. Calling the drug business there anything but “American” is a lie. We don’t just “turn way,” we are in it up to our necks, maybe deeper... Read more... Joe Sobran - Martyr For Truth, by Dr. Stephen Sniegoski | My Catbird Seat ...What was especially noteworthy about him, however, was his penchant for intellectual honesty. Joe Sobran sought to pursue truth, even when it would lead to the destruction of his brilliant career and ultimately contribute to his early death. Specifically, it was his violation of the taboo pertaining to Jewish power and the U.S. Israelocentric foreign policy that led to his fall... Read more... Paul Craig Roberts | Israel vs. the World For decades the US government has enabled repeated Israeli military aggression against Lebanon and now appears to be getting into gear for another Israeli assault on the former American protectorate of Lebanon. On October 14 the US government expressed its "outrage" that the Lebanese government had permitted a visit by Iranian President Ahmadinejad, who is the focus of Washington's intense demonization efforts. Israel's representatives in the US Congress threatened to stop US military aid to Lebanon, forgetting that US Rep. Howard Berman (D,CA) has had aid to Lebanon blocked since last August to punish Lebanon for a border clash with Israel... Read more... Israeli police launch drive to fill ranks with settlers, by Jonathan Cook | The National As US-sponsored peace talks have stalled over the issue of settlements, Israel's national police force has revealed that it is turning to the very same illegal communities in its first-ever drive to recruit officers from among the settlers. The special officer training course, which is chiefly aimed at discharged combat soldiers, includes seven months of religious studies in an extremist West Bank settlement... Read more... The Tide Has Changed: A Musical Essay and a Lesson in Humanity, by Ramzy Baroud | Palestine Chronicle If one tried to fit music compositions into an equivalent literary style, Gilad Atzmon & The Orient House Ensemble’s latest release would come across as a most engaging political essay: persuasive, argumentative, rational, original, imaginative and always unfailingly accessible. But unlike the rigid politicking of politicians and increasingly Machiavellian style of today’s political essayists – so brazen they no longer hide behind illusory moral façades - the band’s latest work is also unapologetically humanistic... Read more... Shocked by the story behind the headline | Maan News Agency "It was not at all rational, the way it's written in the news; it was chaos," a member of Ma'an's TV crew said after being caught up in the middle of Tuesday's settler violence near Nablus... Read more... Heroes for the Beaten, Foreclosed on, Imprisoned Masses, by Chris Hedges | Truthdig Staughton Lynd could have built an enviable career as an academic but for his conscience. His conscience led him as a young undergraduate disgusted by the elitism around him to drop out of Harvard, and tortured him when he returned to finish his degree. It plagued him after he received his doctorate from Columbia and saw him head to the segregated South to join his friend Howard Zinn in teaching history at the historically black Spelman College... Read more... American Warscapes, by Tom Engelhardt | TomDispatch How Old Will You Be When the American War State Goes Down?.. Read more... The Bernanke Speech | Economic Collapse When Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke gives a speech about the U.S. economy, it gets a whole lot more attention than when Barack Obama gives a speech about the U.S. economy. Why is this true? Well, it is because Bernanke has a whole lot more control over the U.S. economy than Obama does... Read more... The Iranian dilemma, by MJ Rosenberg | Al Jazeera If Israel were to attack Iran it would be disastrous for the US; negotiations must be the first resort... Read more... Then They Came for Me, by Robert Koehler | Antiwar Speaking out a year ago against the idea of holding civilian trials for terrorism suspects, Liz Cheney captured the paranoid arrogance of the past decade with stunning efficiency... Read more... Declassified Statement on Jonathan Pollard by Caspar W. Weinberger | Antiwar The following statement was submitted to the District Court of the District of Columbia on March 3, 1987, by the former secretary of defense one day before Judge Aubry E. Robinson Jr. sentenced Israeli spy Jonathan Pollard to life in prison. Weinberger submitted a 46-page classified declaration (“in camera”) of damage caused by Pollard in January 1987. It has never been fully declassified... [Pollard should run for Congress; then it would be All in the Family] Read more...Jim Traficant Can Win, by R.K. Traveler | American Free Press Jim Traficant’s 2010 congressional race is arguably the nation’s most important election, and that is why “they” totally ignore it—to make sure the American people, especially the good folks in Ohio’s 17th district in Youngstown, don’t even know “Big Jim” is running... Read more... Jews Must Root Out Radical Jewish Extremists from their Communities, by Kevin Barrett | truthjihad The Jewish-dominated corporate mainstream media often admonishes us that we Muslims have a duty to root out radical Muslim extremists from our communities. The problem is, I don't know any radical Muslim extremists... Read more... Dirty War in Afghanistan, by Douglas Valentine | Global Research On the morning of Dec. 30, 2009, I listened in disbelief as an NPR "terrorism" expert disingenuously explained how the suicide bombing that killed seven CIA employees in Afghanistan was especially hideous, because the CIA victims were spreading economic development and democracy through a Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT). CIA Director Lou Panetta issued a statement saying, "Those who fell yesterday were far from home and close to the enemy, doing the hard work that must be done to protect our country from terrorism." President Obama likewise glorified the CIA officers, calling them "part of a long line of patriots who have made great sacrifices for their fellow citizens, and for our way of life.".. Read more... When will this conspiracy of silence end?, by Dr. Bouthaina Shaaban | Middle East Monitor The recent and latest - but probably not the last - images of prisoners being abused by Israeli soldiers showed a blindfolded Palestinian woman trying desperately to avoid 21st century brutality in a prison cell with neither bars nor windows. As the seconds ticked by like an eternity it was clear that her body was trying to shrink into itself to avoid the monsters of the modern age, in the land of Jesus Christ, who danced around their victim... Read more... Engaging the Middle East — after the Cairo speech, by Ambassador Chas W. Freeman, Jr. | War in Context As an American, I look at the results of U.S. policies in the Middle East and they remind me of the T-shirt someone once gave me. It said: “Sinatra is dead. Elvis is dead. And me, I don’t feel so good.”.. Read more... ADL on the Defensive. Nonviolent Revolution for Palestine Deepens, by Mazin Qumsiyeh | Axis of Logic The Arab Defamation League (A.K.A. as Anti-Defamation league of Bnai Brith) is an American Zionist organization which focuses on defending Israeli apartheid policies even when those are harming Jews. ADL just named the top ten groups in the US that they say are most organized in their "anti-Israel" stances in the US. I am proud to have been a co-founder of one of those organizations and to have served on the board of two others as well actively involved in supporting five others.. [Mazin is one of the great beings of our time; an actual Christian in a sea of hypocrites] Read more...New Hearing Set for Sami Al-Arian, by Stephen Lendman | War Is A Crime Though free on bail, Al-Arian remains politically imprisoned like many hundreds of others behind bars. Because of his faith, ethnicity, prominence and political activism, he was accused of supporting "terrorism" and other outrageous charges. In fact, he's a Palestinian refugee, a distinguished professor, scholar, community leader, and civil activist, a man deserving honor, not incarceration doing hard time until released after five and half years of brutal treatment, including solitary confinement in rat and roach-infested cells... Read more... Britain hangs out "welcome" sign to war criminals | Redress Information & Analysis Stuart Littlewood views the efforts of Israel’s stooges at the heart of the British government, William Hague and the Conservative Friends of Israel, to amend UK law so that Israeli officials accused of serious war crimes could visit Britain without fear of prosecution... Read more... Oct 18, 2010 CBS Report On 9/11: Ground Level Explosion Caused WTC To Collapse, by Paul Joseph Watson | Prison Planet  Yet another 9/11 video that NIST tried to block from being released has emerged discussing bombs in the World Trade Center that led to the collapse of the twin towers, indicating once more that the organization attempted to preside over a cover-up to hide evidence of secondary explosives... Read more, watch video... Obama/Donilon: Staring down the generals | Eric Walberg How should the new NSA Tom Donilon rate the “success” of the past decade’s jingoistic fight against terrorism? The Pentagon keeps coughing up more troops and arms to fight Israel’s war in Iraq and someone’s war in Afghanistan (what is the US doing in Afghanistan?)... Read more... This Is A Country Of Fear!, by Jesse Ventura | YouTube Watch video... Ahmadinejad: Israel and its allies are all on their way to hell | Haaretz Remarks come in the wake of Iranian President's recent visit to Lebanon, where he voiced what he termed as his support of Lebanon's resistance of Israeli aggression... Read more... Bin Laden is Dead, Long Live Bin Laden, by Maidhc Ó Cathail | My Catbird Seat Who’s keeping the terror myth alive?.. Read article, watch video... Behind Purge of Moscow Mayor is Kremlin Power Battle, by F. William Engdahl | Vineyard of the Saker The dramatic confrontation between the politically powerful Mayor of Moscow, Yury Luzhkov and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev is far more than a Russian corruption scandal. It is the latest move in a global chess game of power between the faction increasingly lined up behind former President Vladimir Putin and current president Medvedev. At stake is whether Russia becomes an integrated part of a global NATO or it remains independent... Read more... George Galloway Flies To Toronto After Federal Court Decision, by James Clark | My Catbird Seat Eighteen months ago, Minister of Citizenship and Immigration Jason Kenney blocked then-British MP George Galloway from Canada, labeling him a terror supporter and a national security risk. At the time, Galloway was scheduled to appear in four Canadian cities on a speaking tour called “Resisting War: from Gaza to Afghanistan.”.. Read more... Same Accident Viewed From Three Different Street Corners | My Catbird Seat The American patriotic truth movement is not yet strong or numerous enough for a peaceful and successful counter-revolution, that could throw off the tyrants of both the Shadow and sitting/titular governments. So, those of us who make up this movement should be careful not to make enemies, within our own ranks, which would restrain our progress... Read more... Oct 17, 2010 Murdoch: There is an Ongoing War Against the Jews, by Keith Johnson | Revolt of the Plebs  “We live in a world where there is an ongoing war against the Jews” You must think I’m at it again, using sarcasm to illustrate an inversion of reality. But it wasn’t me who made that statement. That was actually a quote by Rupert Murdoch; from a speech he delivered Wednesday night, at the annual Anti-Defamation League banquet in New York City...[The mind of a multi-billionaire psychopath] Read more... On the Road with Ahmadinejad in Lebanon, by Franklin Lamb | Counterpunch He came, he saw, he conquered. As he watched the Iranian President blow kisses to cleaning workers at Beirut’s airport during his departure for Iran early this morning, a Lebanese Christian historian commented “This Persian’s glory at the moment is arguably greater than Caesar’s following Rome’s second conquest of Britain”... Read more... The Ugly American And His Frantic Race Over The Abyss - On To The Trash Heap Of History, by Joe Cortina | Veterans Today I am finally convinced that a huge percentage of the American people are the worst hypocrites imaginable – considering the fact that some 80% of us claim to be “Christians”.. Read more... Anti-Defamation League smears peace groups: Jewish Voice for Peace in top 10, by Cecilie Surasky | MuzzleWatch Under Abraham Foxman’s leadership, the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) is an embarrassment. It calls itself the “nation’s premier civil rights/human relations agency,” dedicated to fighting anti-Semitism and all forms of bigotry and protecting the civil rights for all. But there’s a critical exception– “all” does not include those it considers a threat to the Israeli government... Read more... Is a Jewish Holocaust Against the Palestinians in the Offing?, by Khalid Amayreh | Intifada Palestine ...Like most other national-religious rabbis, Lior believes that the Bible condones the mass murder of non-Jewish men, women and children who refuse to submit to the “master race.” In 1994, the same rabbi enthusiastically endorsed the massacre of innocent Palestinian worshipers at the Ibrahimi Mosque in downtown Hebron at the hands of an American Jewish Terrorist named Baruch Goldstein, who had immigrated to Israel from the United States. Lior eulogized Goldstein, who was subsequently killed by survivors, calling him a “great hero and saint.”... Read more... Treason by Members of the United States Congress | YouTube It must have been realized that the letter to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, signed by nearly 300 members of the U.S. Congress, affirming their commitment to Israel, would be widely publicized and fall into the hands of that illegal Apartheid State, so the writing and signing of that letter should be considered an act of treason... Read more... Before we kill each other over Religion, Take this Quiz, by Dr. Ashraf Ezzat | Veterans Today If we knew better, if only we knew more about each other’s religions maybe we would have come to respect and recognize that we have a lot more to share than to denounce and hate each other for... Read more... This is the "Jewish state!", by Cherifa Sirry | Axis of Logic A few days ago another car with settlers deliberately ran over 2 more Palestinian children in the town of Silwan, in occupied Jerusalem. The driver of the car and his friends of course fled. In any civilized country this is called ‘hit and run’ and drivers are jailed for committing such a crime. In Israel however, this is normal practice... Read more... The Zionist System Shows its True Face, by Michael Khaled | MIFTAH Recent headlines and editorials have been sounding the alarm on a new Israeli policy requiring non-Jewish immigrants to Israel to swear allegiance to a “Jewish and democratic” state. Commentators and academics around the world are calling the just-approved measure fascist and some even compare it to racist laws in Europe that lead up to the Holocaust... Read more... Israel needs to Stop Playing the Victim, by Joharah Baker | Media Monitors Network ...Ironically, Israelis, who themselves often accuse us of this tactic, are even more guilty of it. Actually, their perceived victimization is what they thrive on. What is so baffling is how the same unbecoming tactic works so well for them... Read more... It's Not What You Say, it's How You Say it, by Joharah Baker | MIFTAH My mother used this line on me all the time when I was growing up. When I felt I had been done a grave injustice by my unfair parents – which was obviously every other day as a teenager – I would argue my point in rants and raves, flaying my arms and blaring in the highest decibel humanly possible... Read more... Pentagon Author Exposes Zelikow's Key Role in 9/11 Cover-Up, by Maidhc O’Cathail | Intifada Palestine In an interview on the Fox Business Network, a retired U.S. intelligence officer accused the official in charge of the 9/11 Commission of a cover-up of intelligence failures leading up to the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001... Read more... Stopping the Crazy, by Joharah Baker | Media Monitors Network ...What is so absurd is that the majority of mainstream Israelis are not supportive of Jewish settlements in the West Bank. According to a Truman Institute survey conducted in March of this year, 60 percent of Israelis support the dismantlement of most settlements in a final peace agreement with the Palestinians. The fact is, settlements are more of a hassle for most Israelis than anything else. They are not ideologically attached to them and they don't appreciate the fact that so much of their tax money and so many of their children are made to serve the enterprise... Read more... Israeli Occupation Bar Farmers from Harvesting their Olives | Intifada Palestine Israeli occupation authority barred Palestinian farmers from reaching their fields while extremist Jewish settlers opened fire at farmers and set fire to olives groves. Farmers from the village of Masha to the west of the northern West Bank city of Salfit were barred from reaching their fields which lie behind the apartheid wall to harvest their olive crop... Read more... Yes indeed, show us all the map!, by Alan Hart | Intifada Palestine Better late than never, a very senior Palestinian official in Ramallah, Yasser Abed Rabbo, found the right way to challenge Israel and the U.S. As reported by AFP on 13 October, he said, “We officially demand that the US administration and the Israeli government provide a map of the borders of the state of Israel which they want us to recognise.”.. Read more... Oct 16, 2010 Israel 'declares war on its people', by Mya Guarnieri | Al Jazeera  You could easily miss the thin, gravel road that leads to Al Arakib, a Bedouin village in the north Negev. It is a bit ironic, given the enormity of the struggle there and its deep implications for the Jewish state. Israeli forces have razed the village five times since late July, sparking cries of ethnic cleansing and leaving more than 300 Bedouin homeless. But the equally determined residents, along with a handful of Jewish activists, continue to rebuild... Read more... Time to stick it again to the Arabs, by Gideon Levy | Haaretz There's only reason one for setting forth the loyalty law − and on the memorial day for those killed by the police during the October 2000 disturbances − and for the MKS provocative tours through Silwan... Read more... Military Aid to Israel undermines our domestic priorities and the rule of law | Just Peace Our political leaders have committed to give Israel at least $30 billion in military aid from 2009 to 2018. This policy must be changed to conform to our nation’s interests, economic realities, and values. As American citizens and taxpayers, we urge our elected officials to join the side of peace, security, and equality for both Palestinians and Israelis... Read more... My oath to Israel’s “Jewish democracy”: why my fingers will be crossed | Redress Information & Analysis Jonathan Cook describes his misgivings at having to swear an oath of loyalty to Israel as a “Jewish and democratic state” and explains that the loyalty oath requirement may be the first in a series of steps planned by Israeli leaders to fulfil their vision of a racially pure country... Read more... Global Actions To End Israel’s Occupation | Interfaith Peace Initiative Organizations, governments and businesses worldwide are taking action that can help bring freedom for Palestinians and an end to the colonization of Palestinian land. The list of such actions is broad and inspiring. It has doubled since May 31, 2010, when Israel attacked a flotilla of ships carrying humanitarian aid to the people of the Gaza Strip... Read more... Anna Baltzer: Palestinians “come second” at peace talks | P U L S E A visit to the occupied territories of Palestine can change one’s perspectives forever. Such was the case of Anna Baltzer. Baltzer is a Jewish-American granddaughter of Holocaust survivors... Read more... Haunted by ghosts, by Yaron Frid | Haaretz Self-proclaimed anti-Israeli saxophonist Gilad Atzmon and prog rock legend Robert Wyatt have joined forces to make musical magic and "political noise".. Read more... Philip Giraldi: Israeli Policies are Manifestly Evil, Interview by Kourosh Ziabari for Intifada Palestine Philip Giraldi joined me in an exclusive interview to discuss the latest developments of the Middle East, the prospect of Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the possibility of a peaceful compromise between Iran and the United States and the impact of the Israeli lobby on the long-term policies of the White House... Read more... Israel's right needs perpetual war, by Zeev Sternhell | Haaretz In the right's view, Negotiations on partitioning the land are an existential danger because they recognize the Palestinians' equal rights, and thereby undermine the Jews' unique status in Eretz Israel... Read more... Is Israel an Apartheid State?, by Frances ReMillard | ICAHD-USA Do Israel’s practices in occupied Palestinian territory, namely the West Bank, East Jerusalem and Gaza, amount to the crimes of colonialism and apartheid under international law? A summary of a legal study by HSRC of South Africa... Read more... Launch of Norwegian Call for Cultural, Academic Boycott of Israel | Alternative News A Norwegian petition calling for an institutional cultural and academic boycott of Israel (in line with the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel guidelines) has gathered 100 impressive signatories -- academics, writers, musicians, other cultural workers, and sports celebrities... Read more... The man behind Avigdor Lieberman, by Aluf Benn | Haaretz The long-term significance of the internal struggle Netanyahu's government is spearheading is with the oppression of the Arabs, right-wing power is guaranteed for decades... Read more... Boston University's Islamophobic Pro-Israeli Conference | Stephen Lendman ...CAMERA says "Israel faces a convergence of global forces that may undermine its legitimacy in the eyes of the world community." So it sponsored a two day conference, featuring notorious pro-Israeli Islamophobes and other extremists, spreading hate-filled propaganda for the price of admission - $50 per day or a flat $25 for students, those helping out attending free, including lunches. What a deal to be indoctrinated free of charge... Read more... The Palestinian state of Ishmael, as envisioned by Rehavam Ze'evi, by Shay Fogelman | Haaretz In the full flush of victory after the Six-Day War, as the Israeli military scrambled to impose its rule on its newly acquired territory its leaders also drew up plans for a Palestinian state. A rare look at slain right-wing leader's plan... Read more... Oct 15, 2010 The No-State Alternative, by Cameron Hunt | Palestine Chronicle  Anyone that has studied the various 'Alternatives' to the US-managed ‘peace process’ that were put forward to the Arab League by Palestinian Authority President, Mahmoud Abbas, on 8 October 2010, has likely been able to piece together four different Alternatives that were proposed, and their likely chronology:.. [A novel idea; you never know] Read more...Interview With Yonatan Shapira, Crew Member Of Jewish Boat To Gaza (Audio) | Palestine News Network Listen... Danger Of Israel's Racist Demands, by Daoud Kuttab | Palestine News Network ...Once again the Israelis are trying to push their internal problems and their hesitation to pay the needed price for peace onto others... Read more... The Main Question that Israel Misses, by George S. Hishmeh | Palestine Chronicle It is generally recognized that the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), now a 100,000-member pro-Israeli lobbying group, has had an impressive record since the fifties in advocating pro-Israel policies mostly to Congress. But of late several key officials, all American Jews in sensitive government positions, have outpaced this lobbying group established in 1950... Read more... A Close Look at the Pro-Israeli Lobbies inside Britain, by Ershad Abubacker | Palestine Chronicle The US is considered by many as the backbone of Israel and the mother of many evils in Middle East. With the presence of various pro-Israeli lobbies and pressure groups rallying around the corridors of power in Washington to press their case, they have been highly successful not only in setting the agenda in favour of Israel, but also makes sure that the Palestine voice is not heard. Many believe that this is a typical phenomenon in Washington and hence an internal issue of the United States. But the pro-Israeli lobbies are a decisive factor in most European countries and its influence is felt manifold in Britain... Read more... Netanyahu, Lieberman and Barak are making Israel into a ghetto, by Avirama Golan | Haaretz The right-wing strategists think they have managed to outwit us, but the true patriots are the cowards, the doubters and the troubled, who see before their eyes the worrisome signs of the beginning of the fall... [It was always a ghetto; that was the point] Read more...EU police mission complicit in Israeli, PA rights abuses, by David Cronin | Electronic Intifada A bizarre public relations exercise is now underway in the West Bank. Doubtlessly inspired by the enduring popularity of TV drama CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, the European Union has been trying to glamorize a forensic science course it has been running for Palestinian police since mid-September... Read more... US midterms: Political freak show, by Cliff Schecter | Al Jazeera During the current US midterm election campaigns, truth is most definitely stranger than fiction... Read more... Gaza teens brave IDF fire to collect salvaged building materials, by Amira Hass | Haaretz In three months, soldiers shot and wounded 10 youths collecting building materials in expanded buffer zone... Read more... The Israel lobby's shame, by MJ Rosenberg | Al Jazeera The Israel lobby has many detractors for a host of reasons, but their actions have actually caused great harm to Israel... Read more... Resistance to Israel's Separation Wall: Model of Bil'in Village | Alternative News In the Occupied Palestinian West Bank, a 770 km Separation Wall weaves in and out of Palestinian towns and villages separating Palestinians from their homes and land. The construction of this wall by Israel isolates 29 Palestinian towns from the West Bank and leaves them on the Israeli side of the Wall... Read more... Hyped Terror Threat Exposed as Political Trick, Effort to Continue Afghan Occupation, by Kurt Nimmo | Prison Planet Wajid Shamsul Hasan, Pakistan’s High Commissioner to London, believes the latest spate of warnings about terror attacks in Europe are politically motivated. “There may be internal political dynamics, including the forthcoming midterm American elections,” Hasan said. “If the Americans have definite information about terrorists and al-Qaeda people, we should be provided with that and we could go after them ourselves.”.. Read more, watch videos... Ahmadinejad tells Lebanese at rally near Israel border: The Zionists will disappear, by Jack Khoury | Haaretz Ahmadinejad welcomed by thousands of people in Bint Jbeil, location of heavy fighting during Second Lebanon War, where signs hang praising Iranian president as 'protector of resistance'... Read more... PLO Responds To Israeli Demand Of 'Jewish State' Recognition: Show Us The Map Of Your Borders' | International Middle East Media Center Yasser Abed Rabbo, an official with the Palestine Liberation Organization, told reporters on Wednesday that in response to the Israeli demand that the Palestinians recognize it as a 'Jewish state', that Israel must present the map of the state that it wants the Palestinians to recognize, before asking this question... Read more... Woman's Hour with Gareth Peirce | BBC Radio 4 Programmes Solicitor Gareth Peirce on her book "Dispatches from the Dark Side: on Torture and the Death of Justice.".. Listen... Israeli forces test ethnic cleansing scenario, by Jonathan Cook | Redress Information & Analysis Israel has secretly staged a training exercise to test its ability to quell any civil unrest that might result from a peace deal with the Palestinian Authority requiring the forcible transfer of many Arab citizens, the Israeli media has reported... Read more... Israeli Army Detains Journalists Helping with Harvest | International Middle East Media Center Israeli army detained, on Thursday afternoon, a number of journalists who participated as volunteers in harvesting olives... Read more... Tantrums and Sheeshas: Who will care when Israel self-destructs?, by Yvonne Ridley | Information Clearing House After the collapse of the faux Middle East peace talks Israel’s growing isolation in the world is not entirely unexpected. A side-effect is that America has discovered that it cannot force the rest of the international community to embrace the Frankenstein monster it has nurtured. With the exception of Egypt, and in the absence of financial or military inducements given to the Pharaoh Hosni Mubarak, few self-respecting states are willing to embrace the Zionist brat... Read more... Egypt Allows Viva Palestina Aid Convey Into Gaza | Palestine News Network Hussam Zaki of the Egyptian Foreign Ministry said that the convoy will be allowed access to Gaza but insisted on his country's decision to keep considering George Galloway, the British ex-parliamentarian leading the convoy, as persona non grata... Read more... 'Declare independent Palestinian state' | PressTV Mustafa Barghouthi called on the Palestinian Authority (PA) on Wednesday to immediately declare "an independent democratic Palestinian state," including all the territories occupied by Israel during and after the Six-Day War in 1967 and with East al-Quds (Jerusalem) as its capital... Read more... Oct 14, 2010 'Israeli racist laws against democracy' | PressTV  A US analyst says Israel cannot oblige its citizens to take oath of loyalty to "a democratic Jewish state," while its formation is based on racist laws... [Handsome is as handsome does] Read more...International solidarity under attack, by Mike Marqusee | The Electronic Intifada ...Thus the highly particularist ideology of Zionism -- which rests on the assertion of eternal ownership of a specified territory by a specified people -- becomes a broader "civilizational" cause. This ideology underpins the ever-widening Israeli definition of "self-defense." To those for whom the maintenance of a Jewish supremacist state in Palestine is the sine qua non of Jewish survival, any assertion of Palestinian rights is an "existential" threat... Read more... A question for the British foreign secretary | Redress Information & Analysis Stuart Littlewood reminds British Foreign Secretary William Hague of recent acts of piracy by the Israeli navy against unarmed aid ships, including the sadistic assault on the Jewish boat, the Irene, and asks him what the UK government and its partners are doing to keep the seaways open and guarantee free movement, as required by numerous treaties, charters and the law?.. Read more... Ahmadinejad: Israel permanent threat | PressTV Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad calls Israel a "permanent" global threat, saying the West created the regime to dominate the entire world... [Maybe he should shave or grow a full beard, but in any case there's more truth in what he says than that of any Western leader I can think of.] Read more... "To Exist is to Resist": From Apartheid South Africa to Palestine, by Patrick Bond | Counterpunch Given the debilitating weaknesses within Palestine’s competing political blocs - Hamas in besieged Gaza and Fatah in the Occupied West Bank, as well as the US-Israeli-Fatah-backed unelected government in Ramallah led by the neoliberal prime minister (and former World Bank/IMF official) Salam Fayyad - this is a struggle that only progressive civil society appears equipped to fight properly... Read more... US urges acceptance of Israel | PressTV The United States has voiced support for Israel's claim of existence saying this has to be accepted by the Palestinians as well... [Yeah, when hell freezes over] Read more...OECD Considers Relocating Conference Planned For Jerusalem Due To Boycott Calls | International Middle East Media Center After several nations announced that they will likely boycott this month's planned bi-annual tourism conference of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, the Secretary-General of the OECD wrote a harshly worded letter to the Israeli Prime Minister which hinted at the possibility of relocating the conference... Read more... London's Jazza sings in tune with Palestine, by Mamoon Alabbasi | Middle East Online Artists from across cultural and music genre divides unite in festival for Palestinians... Read more... As Petraeus Perpetuates Afghanistan Training Myth, Kandahar Casualties Double, by Jim White | The Seminal The military and political career of General David Petraeus has been propelled forward many times on the basis of his ability to spin the same myth over and over... Read more... Not Even Skin Deep: America's Religious Veneer, by Charles R. Larson | Counterpunch ...The problem is that Americans get their religion from the same place they get everything else—from their ignorance and their gullibility... Read more... Village of al-Araqib Demolished for Sixth Time | International Middle East Media Center The Israeli Ministry Of Interior continued to demolish houses in the village of al-Araqib, in al-Nakab. Bulldozers of the Israeli Interior Ministry demolished houses after being rebuilt for the fifth time... Read more... Arm-Twisting Obama: Israel's Other "Peace" Plan, by Jonathan Cook | Counterpunch ...Rather than investing wasted energy in doomed talks, the two sides appear to be adopting the same alternative strategy: cutting a deal directly with Washington that circumvents the other party... Read more... They hate us for our occupations, by Glenn Greenwald | Salon In 2004, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld commissioned a task force to study what causes Terrorism, and it concluded that "Muslims do not 'hate our freedom,' but rather, they hate our policies".. Read more... In Afghanistan, the Handwriting Is on the Wall, by John Prados | Huffington Post ...When the true volatility of this situation is revealed, the U.S. and NATO war effort will be plunged into a crisis of unprecedented proportion... Read more... Helen Thomas: You cannot criticize Israel in the U.S. and survive | Haaretz Former White House correspondent Helen Thomas stands by her controversial remarks on Israel that led to her retirement... Read more... Oct 13, 2010 Generating 'High Value Targets', by Dr. Khalid Saifullah | Veterans Today  Everyone would agree that spotting and eliminating terrorists is highly desirable in today’s world of terrorism. Few would disagree that this goal is inevitably linked with another task, and that is the production of these high-value targets (HVTs). In the good old days of Gen Musharraf, when production of HVTs was at its best, Information Minister Sheikh Rashid Ahmad used to break the good news of one Al- Qaeda “mastermind” being captured almost every week... Read more... Time for New Palestinian Political Strategy, by Dr. Elias Akleh | Intifada Palestine Palestinians had long lost confidence in their Palestinian Authority as their representative, who was supposed to defend their rights and work to achieve their statehood. Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian President, was imposed on the Palestinians in the 2005 election when the Israeli forces had arrested and restricted the movements of other Palestinian candidates and his campaign was given 94% of TV coverage. Although his presidency had expired in January of 2009 he is still, illegally and unconstitutionally, occupying his position... Read more... AIPAC Sends in the Clowns! by Franklin Lamb | Intifada Palestine Suddenly they were all over the place, arriving not as singles but in battalions. Many, like Maryland’s 5th District Rep. Steny Hoyer had been to Israel nearly a dozen times; career stalwarts once more showing fealty to Israel’s brutal occupation of Palestine while lamely telling their constituents that they were on a legitimate ‘fact finding mission.” For many, their real purpose was to signal their President that there must be no change in the US policy of coddling Israel’s increasingly Apartheid regime... [An oldie but a goodie] Read more...Unrelinquished Power: The Military Coup We Never Saw, by Gordon Duff | Veterans Today Initially, groups, Zionists, “banksters” and con men of all kinds rushed to the side of the neocons, seeing them as “hapless bumpkins” both naive and “on the make.” It was believed that, behind every “family values” type was a thief, a child molester or an ambitious “sell out” looking to exploit the stupidity of those around them and prey on fear and ignorance…and to a large extent, this has been correct... Read more... I Don’t Blame You Yet: Reflections On The USS Liberty Cover-Up, by Philip Tourney | Veterans Today ...You pay your taxes, you’ve raised good kids, have a job, love your better half even go to church once a month. That sounds about as good as it gets. You’re just like most Americans, trying to do the very best for family, God, and country. It’s not your fault. You are just the average Joe or average Peggy in America, trying to make life better, be fair with others, teach your children morals, and pay your bills on time. I commend you and may God bless you. But as I said earlier, you are a minor player in a script you did not write... Read more... Support the Troops? No way!, by Justin Raimondo | Antiwar We often hear, from antiwar activists as well as pious politicians and every sort of commentator, that we should all "support the troops." No matter what one thinks of the particular war being fought, this kind of boilerplate is invariably appended: "But of course," we are told, "everyone supports the troops." We honor them for their service. We pat them on the back and say: "Good job!".. Read more... It’s Official (Fox News): 9/11 Commission 'A Whitewash', by Gordon Duff | Veterans Today ...Two weeks ago, President Ahmadinejad of Iran called for a UN investigation of 9/11. He was called a lunatic by President Obama. Now, Fox News, new owner of Farsi 1, Iran’s biggest entertainment network, has blown the lid off 9/11, calling it a “whitewash” and saying that the 9/11 Commissioners staged a coverup... Read more... Meet the Supremacist Jewish Rebbe Meachem Mendel Schneerson | Uprooted Palestinians Some still insist that Chabad is a "fringe group", that "has no influence" and that exposing their supremacist ideology, their level of influence and the harm they do is a "distraction".. Read more, watch videos... Hope, and How Not to Visit Palestine | P U L S E My visit to Nablus coincided with the first Palestinian Human Rights Film Festival at an-Najah University. Even better than the films shown were the panel discussions afterwards, on issues such as refugees, resistance and women’s rights. The first film I saw was “To Shoot an Elephant”, a brutal, highly-recommended documentary shot by International Solidarity Movement activists who happened to be in Gaza as the 2008/09 massacre unfolded... Read more... A Long History of America's Dark Side, by Peter Dale Scott and Robert Parry | Consortium News Many Americans view their country and its soldiers as the “good guys” spreading “democracy” and “liberty” around the world. When the United States inflicts unnecessary death and destruction, it’s viewed as a mistake or an aberration. In the following article – cobbled together from previous stories published at Consortiumnews.com – Peter Dale Scott and Robert Parry examine the long history of these acts of brutality, a record that suggests they are neither a “mistake” nor an “aberration” but rather conscious counterinsurgency doctrine on the "dark side".. Read more... Columbus Day: A Symbol of American Values, by Solomon Comissiong | Daily Censored There are myriad vile symbols floating throughout the American empire. Due to mass governmental programming, most Americans are oblivious to these symbols and just how reprehensible they are. From the image of the Cherokee murderer, Andrew Jackson, on the twenty dollar bill to a bridge in Virginia named after the proud racist and illegal occupier of Haiti, Woodrow Wilson; there is no shortage of praise for these repugnant characters throughout the US... Read more... In the crosshairs of US drones, by Kamal Hyder | Al Jazeera Residents live under a constant fear of being hit as dozens of unmanned drones buzz the skies over North and South Waziristan. The drones frighten children and women who sometimes become the victims, especially if the intended targets are anywhere close to their homes... Read more... The rapid rise of Brazil's Green party, by Gwynne Dyer | Straight Marina Silva, is the leader of Brazil’s Green party, and the speaker, Altino Machado, is a journalist and one of her oldest friends. But Marina has already done something remarkable: she persuaded one-fifth of Brazil’s voters to support the Green party... Read more... Oct 12, 2010 One Wall, Two People, No States: the Peace Pretense, by William A Cook | Australians for Palestine  “Our goal is two states, Israel and Palestine, living side by side in peace and security,” (President Obama) such is the illusion that resurfaces to restart the peace negotiations that will stabilize the mid-east. For 63 years that “goal” has been the carrot held before the people of the United States and Britain as the ultimate resolution for the Israeli/Palestinian crisis. In reality there is nothing in the statement that is true... Read more... The Cultivation Of Fear And Discomfort: The emergence of a new government in Holland, by Peter Edel | Today's Zaman After the elections last June in Holland, the Freedom Party (PVV) achieved a landslide victory. The PVV hardly needs introduction. Party leader Geert Wilders became infamous for his rude and baseless remarks about Islam... Read more... Six More Years, by Philip Giraldi | Antiwar Back when George W. Bush was running for reelection in 2004, the United States had recently completed a successful though totally unnecessary invasion of Iraq, which had not yet completely fallen to pieces despite the best efforts of Proconsul L. Paul Bremer and his neoconservative Myrmidons. But there was considerable concern among many Americans that four more years of George Bush’s doctrine of preemptive war could easily lead to an unending global conflict... Read more... Wagner Again | Gilad Atzmon Oi vey, an Israeli orchestra plans to play the music of this meshigine Wagner, whom Hitler loved so much... Read more... Music and Tones Rise for Gaza, by Lauren Booth | Pal Telegraph Until now, it' been a real source of pride amongst Israel's support network that big name musicians have felt 'safe' to appear at Zionist fund raisers. Even whilst Israel commits ever more stomach churning war crimes in Palestine and -as we saw in May with the attack on the Freedom Flotilla - in international waters... Read more... ‘Americans betrayed by their government’ | Prison Planet There has been much chatter on mainstream media that there are plenty of “other” jobs out there that people don’t know about. However, data does not support the praises economists are singing about the “New Economy.” Paul Craig Roberts says the “New Economy” is supposed to consist of financial services, innovation, and high-tech services but unfortunately these jobs have not come to fruition and the US government has betrayed its people... Watch video... Al-Qaeda or Al-Tricko? 'US cries wolf to rev up world for dominance war' | Russia Today/YouTube European intelligence officials and senior Pakistan diplomats have accused the U.S. of crying wolf after it issued a terror alert for Europe earlier this week. The UK's Guardian newspaper goes on to allege the actual purpose of the alert was to justify a recent increase in drone attacks inside Pakistan... Watch video... Israel's other “peace” plan: arm-twisting Obama | Redress Information & Analysis Jonathan Cook argues that by rejecting Obama’s reckless and extravagant incentives to Israel in return for a temporary freeze on settlement-building, Netanyahu hopes to persuade the White House “to reaffirm a promise made in a 2004 letter from … George W. Bush that Israel will not be required to withdraw to the pre-1967 borders in a peace deal”... Read more... America should fund Israeli settlers to leave, by Diana Buttu | Financial Times The latest round of Israeli-Palestinian negotiations is already on shaky ground. At issue, once again, is Israel’s insistence that it can build and expand settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem. Its 10-month moratorium expired on September 26, and while Barack Obama, US president, said Israel should extend it – and according to some reports offered incentives including upgrades to Israel’s advanced weapons systems and an increase in the $3bn in annual aid for nothing beyond a 60-day extension – he, like his predecessors, has refused to insist on a total halt... Read more... Drunken diplomacy – new settlements, by Mark Le Vine | Aljazeera ...why can’t Barack Obama, by all accounts a fairly sober fellow, see that “friends don’t let friends drive drunk,” never mind allow them to rob the corner liquor store over and over again?.. Read more... Karam's Story: Confiscating Childhood in the Occupied Territories, by Ahmad Barqawi | Counterpunch Thirteen is the age for a lot of things; it carries a certain significance for every boy that reaches that age with all the promises that life has to offer; it's a time when boys get their first bike, enjoy their favorite video games, make it into the school's football squad, it's a time when boys begin to marvel at and appreciate the mysteries of life pre-adulthood, and for some; it's even a time when they experience their first innocent crush; but if you're a thirteen year old boy in occupied Palestine; you're placed under house arrest by the Israeli authorities... Read more... Ilan Pappe on Being an "Enemy of the State of Israel" | YouTube Israeli dissident Ilan Pappe talks about the political situation in Israel... Watch video... Muslim Brotherhood enters election fray | Press TV The government arrested over 5,000 Brotherhood members last year and has repeatedly attempted to target the group's top leadership and its funding resources. "We are in a state of corruption and disruption that hasn't been seen before in the history of Egypt, therefore, the Muslim Brotherhood has to declare its position concerning the next parliamentary elections,".. Read more... Fraud in America | Stephen Lendman A systemic problem, it's everywhere, especially in savage capitalism's greed-driven system, enriching a global royalty at the expense of most others... Read more... 9/11: The Unidentified Murder Weapons, by Anthony Lawson | My Catbird Seat The four aircraft which crashed on September 11th, 2001 have never been forensically matched to the four passenger planes which were allegedly hijacked that morning. Requests under the Freedom of Information Act have met with denials and refusals, and documents which have been produced, allegedly using data from the only three “Black Box” flight recorders said to have been found, have no serial numbers of the devices listed on them... Read more, watch video... Gold Rises as Bankster Currency War Gains Momentum, by Kurt Nimmo | Infowars Globalist loan sharks feign worry. Unemployment is so bad in the United States, the government is thinking about slapping tariffs on cheap Chinese slave labor products. China is a lead player in the so-called currency war now underway. It has kept the value of its currency low in order to game the system and gain trade advantages. China refuses to follow the rules and this concerns the loan shark boss Dominique Strauss-Kahn and Little Timmy Geithner, the latest Wall Street and Federal Reserve insider to run our Treasury... Read more, watch video... Oct 11, 2010 Israel Forces Complete Exercise for Population Exchange between Israel, PA, by Sergio Yahni | Alternative Information Center  The Voice of Israel Radio reported that on Thursday (7 October), Israeli security forces completed a comprehensive security exercise simulating the response to mass demonstrations of Palestinian citizens of Israel following conclusion of an agreement with the Palestinian Authority (PA). Amongst other things, the security forces ran through scenarios of violent demonstrations following any possible agreement for population exchange with the PA... [The final shoe to drop] Read more...Negotiating One's Demise: An Evaporating Palestine, by Rannie Amiri | Counterpunch ...It is remarkable that those representing the Palestinian people would waiver in the slightest about quitting the talks in the face of ongoing land seizure. If this is not a red line, what is? It suggests a leadership which has not only failed to stand for the basic rights of its people, but a further reminder of Abbas’ illegitimacy as a spokesperson for those rights... Read more... Afghanistan: War without end | The Guardian There is a clear and pressing need to end the monumental folly of prosecuting a war in Afghanistan... Read more... More terrorism fear-mongering exposed as frivolous, by Glenn Greenwald | Salon ...What's most striking is how we collectively never learn lessons. These are the same people who ran around screaming for two years that we had to attack Iraq or else Saddam would get us all with his mad chemical scientists and nuclear clouds, yet they are still listened to whenever they unleash their newest Scary Villains. Fear is a potent weapon... Read more... Flotilla victims' families to International Criminal Court: Prosecute Israel | Haaretz Turkish lawyers petition the ICC to examine IDF 'war crimes' during clashes aboard Turkish aid ship Mavi Marmara, which resulted in 9 dead, on May 31... Read more... Sands of Sorrow (1950): The Plight of the Palestinian Refugees | Palestine Think Tank This film is absolutely extraordinary. It shows the refugee camps and the cities in Palestine and Jordan where refugees had fled, including cave dwellings, convents and tents to house them. Yes. Already in 1950, it was referred to as a "seemingly endless plight". And sixty long years have gone by... Watch video... Lieberman and the Jewish Political Continuum | Gilad Atzmon ...Netanyahu, Barak and many other Israelis are often ‘outraged’ by FM Lieberman. I guess that Israelis grasp that their senior diplomat exposes the Israeli ploy: when Israelis talk peace -- what they really mean is war with no end... Read more... Israel: “Country X”, by Rehmat | Uprooted Palestinians Israeli daily The Jerusalem Post reported that the FBI has arrested a Jew employee of Akamai Technologies Elliot Doxer for providing confidential information over 18-month to a FBI agent he thought worked for Israeli Consulate in Boston... Read more... The Jewish Republic of Israel, by Gideon Levy | Haaretz Swearing an oath to a Jewish state will decide its fate. It is liable to turn the country into a theocracy like Saudi Arabia... Read more... Documentary Probes Death of a Peace Activist, by Amanda Bransford | IPS The 2003 death of young peace activist Rachel Corrie, crushed by an Israeli military bulldozer, inspired worldwide press coverage, demonstrations and debates – and eventually at least two plays and a number of songs... Read more... The Golem: The Story of Israel's Nuclear Arsenal | YouTube How Israel -- the racist state that has the bomb -- pushed the U.S. into the senseless war in Iraq and now demands the United States wage an insane war against Iran!.. Read more, watch video... Singing off the Zionist Hymn-sheet, by Stuart Littlewood | Dissident Voice ...following the freaky electoral good fortune that catapulted him to the top, and in the wake of Israel’s murderous assault on the Mavi Marmara, Clegg has begun to change his tune. He welcomed the appointment of Lord Trimble to the racist entity’s farcical inquiry into its own entrails, well aware that Trimble is a founding member of the new international movement “Friends of Israel Initiative”... Read more... Abbas might call it a day | Global Post ...A visibly desperate Abbas told reporters earlier this week that "soon you will not be speaking with me in my capacity as president". A Palestinian journalist travelling aboard the presidential plane reported that Abbas told him and other reporters that "this is the last time you will be travelling with me as president of the PA"... Read more... Nothing has changed since the Yom Kippur War, by Gideon Levy | Haaretz Nothing has changed in 37 years. Israel has the same arrogant hubris and the same obstinate resistance to any prospect of a peace agreement... Read more... Palestine boycott committee calls on US pension fund to divest from Israel | Electronic Intifada The Palestinian Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions National Committee (BNC), on behalf of its constituent organizations and unions representing the majority of Palestinian civil society, calls upon the US non-profit pension fund TIAA-CREF to live up to its motto of providing "Financial Services for the Greater Good" by divesting its funds from companies that profit from Israel's occupation of Palestinian territories and violation of Palestinian rights... Read more... Prosecution of Freedom in France | Kawther Salam Will Europe revert to the times of dictatorship and feudalism? Have European governments turned into puppets in the hands of zionism and jewish organizations? Is Europe in a hurry to enact laws which only serve the interests of Israel and zionism and which threaten the interests of European countries and structure of European societies?.. Read more... His father's boy: the three faces of Binyamin Netanyahu, by Uri Avnery | Redress Information & Analysis Uri Avnery considers the three faces of Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu: the unprincipled conman, the street-wise trickster and the advocate of Greater Israel. He concludes that while Netanyahu displays all three faces, the third is the one that represents him most... Read more... Oct 10, 2010 Video shows settler leader run over Palestinian children | Maan News Agency  ...A video of the incident from the Al Jazeera news network shows an Israeli-plated car swerve towards the children, one of whom is thrown over the windscreen. The car then drives off... Read more, watch video... Reaping what you sow: how US policies breed terror | Redress Information & Analysis Paul J. Balles argues that rather than blame the reactions of "extremists" on Islam, Americans ought to look at their own unjust and murderous policies in the Middle East and Afghanistan as causes of “terrorism”.. Read more... Kosher Oxymoron: Jewish Democracy | Gilad Atzmon ...The Israeli cabinet better decide whether they want their state to be Jewish or democratic, for the two clearly contradict each other... Read more... Arab regime credibility hanging by its last invisible thread | Redress Information & Analysis Alan Hart views the state of Arab impotence in the face of Israel and the Zionist-lobby-controlled US, arguing that if the Arabs were serious and united, the mere threat of their using the oil weapon would have been sufficient to galvanize the US into reigning in Israel... Read more... The politicization of Judaism, by Brandon Davis | The Daily Princetonian If you’ve been listening to Newt Gingrich recently, you might be fearful of Muslims turning the United States of America into the Islamic Republic of America. You might be under the impression that Islamic religion is nothing more than a political front. You might be under the impression that Christianity is also fast becoming a political tool. But in all of the recent ranting about religion and politics, the third Abrahamic faith is flying under the radar... Read more... Oct 9, 2010 Israel and Judaism: Doubts Growing About Whether Israel Can Simultaneously Be Jewish and Democratic, by Allan C. Brownfeld | Washington Report  A Palestinian woman holding her child and national flag, stands in front of her home in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah a year after she and her family were evicted by the Jewish settlers exiting her house Israeli leaders frequently refer to their state as one which is both "Jewish" and "democratic." In the eyes of more and more observers, however, this may be a contradiction in terms... Read more... Australian Jews condemn Israel's violations of international law | Australians for Palestine Read more... Israel losing its appeal for Jews, by Salah Al Naami | Al Ahram Weekly Signs are strong that Israel could collapse from within as support amongst the Jewish Diaspora wanes dramatically... Read more... 'False witnesses' and the truth, by Zeina Khodr | Al Jazeera For the past five years, the world was led to believe that Syria was behind the massive car bombing that killed former Prime Minister Rafiq al-Hariri and 22 others in Beirut. Now, Rafiq's son - Prime Minister Saad al-Hariri – said he had been wrong to accuse Damascus for the murder adding that the charges had been politically motivated... Read more... Leaked letter reveals Obama's contempt for international law | Redress Information & Analysis Stuart Littlewood views US President Barack Obama’s willingness to ride roughshod over international law and the Geneva Conventions by granting Israel reckless and extravagant favours – courtesy of US taxpayers – in return for Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu saving Obama’s political bacon and seeing him through November’s mid-term elections... Read more... Obama's man on the Middle East, by Lamis Adoni | Australians for Palestine The draft letter written by the Obama administration to Binyamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, and revealed by David Makovsky on the website of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, has Dennis Ross written all over it... Read more... Israel Needs to Stop Playing the Victim, by Joharah Baker | Uruknet ...Israelis, who themselves often accuse us of this tactic, are even more guilty of it. Actually, their perceived victimization is what they thrive on. What is so baffling is how the same unbecoming tactic works so well for them... Read more... UN Fact-Finding Mission Says Israelis "Executed" US Citizen Furkan Dogan, by Gareth Porter | t r u t h o u t The report of the fact-finding mission of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) on the Israeli attack on the Gaza flotilla released last week shows conclusively, for the first time, that US citizen Furkan Dogan and five Turkish citizens were murdered execution-style by Israeli commandos... Read more... Stop raids against US anti-war activists and international solidarity activists | International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network We are calling on our international allies to take action in support of long-time peace and human rights activists who have come under attack for their work against U.S. occupation and military intervention abroad... Read more... Shame on us! by Khalid Amayreh | Palestine Think Tank What will happen next? Will Palestinian kids be duped into playing music to Israeli pilots who exterminated Gaza children with White Phosphorus?.. Read more... Zionists: We hate you because you are evil, not because you are Jewish | Palestine Think Tank I have been under fire of late from two diametrically opposite quarters. First, the fanatical, self-worshipping Zionists who think that non-Jewish suffering should never ever be compared with Jewish suffering. Needless to say, this psychotic attitude stems from deep-seated convictions that a Jew is a special creature whose life is worth more than the rest of humanity... Read more... Israel and peace are clearly incompatible, by Hassan Al-Haifi | Yemen Times Any person watching the theatrics of the Middle East peace process is bound to wonder: How much is the world closer to seeing a real genuine peace in the Holy Land? In fact, all the signs are showing that for all intents and purposes, peace is simply not anywhere near being “around the corner”... Read more... Birth of the National Security State, by Philip Giraldi | Campaign For Liberty It is not far fetched to speculate that the United States has, over the past ten years, been sliding into a form of authoritarianism that retains only some aspects of the constitution and a limited rule of law... Read more... Dr. Aafia Siddiqui: Why She Was Targeted and Why She Matters to All of Us, by Tammy Obeidallah | Al Jazeera Dr. Siddiqui was detained and tortured for allegedly plotting terrorist acts and links to Al-Qaeda. Why wasn’t she brought up on terrorism charges? The overriding question remains: Why was a brilliant American-educated neuroscientist singled out for such heinous abuses?.. Read more... Kenneth O'Keefe, Former U.S. Marine Criticizes Lies Behind U.S. Helping Israel, by Pauline Kennedy | Intifada Palestine Tear gas filled the air, Israeli militants fired off rounds from snipers and percussion grenades went off all around. A 19-year-old American photographer holding his camera up to catch the moment was shot dead from helicopters above... Read more... The American Propaganda Machine, by Eric L. Wattree | Veterans Today The American propaganda machine tells us that Muslims are a hostile people who hate American freedom. The most cursory examination of that claim reveals that the evidence the claim is based upon is highly flawed, yet the American people have been persuaded that it’s true. That suggests that the American people have learned nothing from our experience with the Nazi’s, and it also suggests that the biggest threat to America is the propaganda machine itself... Read more... America's deepening moral crisis, by Jeffrey Sachs | The Guardian The language of collective compassion has been abandoned in the US, and no politician dare even mention helping the poor... Read more... Israel is now punishing Palestinians shamelessly, by Amira Hass | Haaretz Behind a modest desk with a view of Beit Jala sits a nameless Shin Bet security service officer who is very pleased with himself. He has just saved the Jewish people in Israel from yet another grave security risk by preventing a 47-year-old woman, for five weeks now, from going abroad for urgent medical tests... Read more... Oct 8, 2010 Viva Palestina 5 in Ancona, a photo essay, by Mary Rizzo | Palestine Think Tank  Palestinian flag made by an Italian activist's mother. It is being brought to Gaza Yesterday, the Viva Palestina 5 convoy arrived in Ancona to end the first leg of their land journey, and sail closer to the final destination. We all think the destination is Gaza, Palestine, but actually, it’s freedom for all of us...Read more... Support Palestine: come to Jazza Music Festival | Redress Newsblog Musicians Sarah Gillespie, Gilad Atzmon and at least 40 other leading artists from UK and Palestine will try to achieve the impossible in London next week... Read more... 9/11 Firefighters Reveal Huge Explosions Before Towers Collapsed, by Paul Joseph Watson | Prison Planet Newly obtained video that was reluctantly released by NIST after a lawsuit by the International Center for 9/11 Studies shows two firefighters on 9/11 discussing how secondary explosions occurred immediately before the collapse of the twin towers, providing damning new evidence that explosive devices were used to bring down the buildings... Read more, watch video... Controlling the narrative in Israel and Palestine, by Paul McGeough | Palestine Think Tank ...in quoting the president of France, the reporter did not use the word 'settlement.' Instead, she attributed to Nicolas Sarkozy the dreaded C-word – 'colonies.' Not quite as jaunty as 'settlements', is it?.. Read more... The Four Conflicts: Bracing for Israel's Next Attack on Lebanon, by Franklin Lamb | Counterpunch You can see Akka, Palestine from my favorite Lebanese village, Maron al Ras. On any day, but particularly since September 21 of this year, you can also see beefed up IDF military patrols, assorted electronic listening posts and sundry spy devices, new Raytheon-produced surveillance equipment, two new supposedly camouflaged cinder block one room shacks with Zionist soldiers peering out... Read more... What if Peace Talks “Succeed?” by Nadia Hijab | Palestine Think Tank Many commentators expect the direct talks between Israelis and Palestinians to fail. But there is a much worse scenario: What if they "succeed?".. Read more... The Palestinian Gentlemen: Peace Process in Style, by Seraj Assi | Palestine Chronicle This is the tenth anniversary of the Second Intifada, which broke out in Palestinian cities and villages in late September 2000 unmasking the myth of the peace process in the region. So it is perhaps an opportune time to reflect on the gentlemanly approach implemented by PA “peacemakers” for nearly two decades, while they celebrate the renewal of “direct talks” in Washington now... [They used to hang traitors, didn't they?] Read more... Cointelpro 101: A History of Repression, by Ron Jacobs | Counterpunch ...Cointelpro was the abbreviated name for the intelligence and counterinsurgency operation waged against a multitude of organizations and individuals deemed threats to national security during the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s by the FBI and other US law enforcement and intelligence agencies. Short for counterintelligence, Cointelpro involved the use of a multitude of methods up to and including murder in its crusade to neutralize any and all left opposition to the status quo in the United States... Read more... 'Dying to Win': Newt Gingrich's 'Terrorism', by Ramzy Baroud | Palestine Chronicle ...Evoking a threat of terrorism is a very clever way to achieve political galvanization, as it creates a sharp and unmistakable delineation between us – the human, civilized and ‘democratic’ – and the inhuman and barbaric others. When the term ‘terrorism’ is unleashed, there are no half positions, no middle grounds, no grey areas... Read more... Palestine's red lines of struggle, by Hazem Jamjoum | The Electronic Intifada There are certain inalienable rights that many Palestinians consider to not be up for negotiation, including the Palestinian refugees' right of return... Read more... The Long War: Year Ten, by Andrew Bacevich and Tom Engelhardt | Antiwar Consider this: the number three book at Amazon.com at the moment is entitled Obama’s Wars, and yet the war that may most truly turn out to be the president’s seems only now to be gaining steam. Is it a case of premature titling?.. Read more... Israel deports nobel peace laureate, by Mel Frykberg | The Electronic Intifada ...Maguire is not deterred. She has reiterated her determination to pursue peace wherever she sees children suffering following her experiences in her native Northern Ireland. Three of her nephews, all young boys, were killed during a targeted assassination carried out by British security forces. Their mother (Maguire's sister) committed suicide shortly afterwards... Read more... Oct 7, 2010 The Charter of the Israeli State, by Avigail Abarbanel | Veterans Today  Growing up as an Israeli provided me with an intimate understanding of Israeli-Jewish psychology. Ever since I can remember, we in Israel were told that Jews have nowhere else to go because the world didn't like Jews... Read more... Recognition of Israel as Jewish state poses existential threat to Israeli Arabs | Redress Information & Analysis Jonathan Cook argues that Palestinian recognition of Israel as a Jewish state, as demanded by Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, would destroy the campaign by Israel's Arab citizens to reform Israel into a true democracy and would mean that Netanyahu will have Palestinian backing to label the reformers a fifth column and expel them to bantustans in the West Bank... Read more... Lawless Nation: the Executive Branch Part I of III, by Michael Collins | Uruknet Selected to run by the powerful and wealthy, promising the public one thing and delivering another after elected, the President of the United States is the focus of a new political doctrine - the unitary executive. The office of the president has rapidly become a law unto itself over the past ten years... Read more... Harry Belafonte: Iraq & Afghanistan Wars Are "Immoral, Unconscionable and Unwinnable" | Democracy Now "The President's decision to escalate the war in that region alone costs the nation $33 billion," the legendary musician, actor and activist Harry Belafonte said at Saturday's "One Nation Working Together" in Washington. "That sum of money could not only create 600,000 jobs here in America, but would even leave us a few billion to start rebuilding our schools, our roads, our hospitals and affordable housing... Read more... An Army Too Near The Edge, by Gordon Duff | Veterans Today They always march off to war, fanfare, flags, speeches, parades. There's always an enemy, an evildoer, torpedo boats in the Tonkin Gulf or mystery airplanes and dissolving buildings in Manhattan. The "armchair pundits" and "Monday morning quarterbacks" all assure is the same thing, it will be over in weeks, "the boys will be back for Christmas.".. Read more... Venezuela's Elections: A Win for US Interference, by Eva Golinger | Gobal Research Although it is undeniably true that the winner of Venezuela's legislative elections last Sunday was the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV), which sealed a solid and absolute majority in the new National Assembly, there was also another winner: US interference... Read more... Red Cross document: Israel is violating international law in E. Jerusalem | Haaretz Confidential paper says fence, settlements, Israeli highways have severed city from West Bank... Read more... Gilad Atzmon on Press TV: Remember Palestine | YouTube Atzmon interviewed by Lauren Booth. Music Palestine, jazz, Jazza Festival, Robet Wyatt and life in general... Read more... Mavi Marmara Witness | YouTube Ken O'Keefe and Kevin Neish, both survivors of Israel's 31 May 2010 attack on the Gaza Freedom Flotilla vessel Mavi Marmara, offer rare and candid views of the fateful and tragic night, commenting along the way on what it means... Watch video... 'And then the night came down', by Mya Guarnieri | Al Jazeera Families of Palestinian-Israelis killed at the start of the second intifada are still fighting for justice a decade on... Read more... Towards accountability: John Dugard interviewed by Adri Nieuwhof | The Electronic Intifada Last month, Professor John Dugard, former UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in the Occupied Palestinian Territories, chaired a meeting on universal Jurisdiction in the Hague. The Electronic Intifada contributor Adri Nieuwhof interviewed Dugard about means of bringing Israel to account for its human rights violations, particularly the legal mechanism of universal jurisdiction... Read more... Wrecking the American Dream | Stephen Lendman Long planned, the current economic storm erupted violently in late 2007. It wasn't by accident. It was engineered years back, so financial racketeers could profit from wrecking global economies and destroying their middle class, including America's... Read more... Register to Walk in Your City in October | AAPER The Free Palestine Walks are silent walks to (a) raise awareness about Palestine among Americans who take part in, sponsor and observe the walks and (b) to raise funds to educate millions of Americans about Palestine... Read more... Recognition of Israel as Jewish state poses existential threat to Israeli Arabs | Redress Information & Analysis Jonathan Cook argues that Palestinian recognition of Israel as a Jewish state, as demanded by Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, would destroy the campaign by Israel's Arab citizens to reform Israel into a true democracy and would mean that Netanyahu will have Palestinian backing to label the reformers a fifth column and expel them to bantustans in the West Bank... Read more... The Cost of Telling the Truth in the United States, by Kourosh Ziabari | Salem-News By firing the Cuban-American news anchor and host, CNN demonstrated that those who assert that the United States is a "beacon of freedom" just make baseless and unfounded claims... Read more... Oct 6, 2010 New face, same imperialism, by Tariq Ali | The Age  ...Once installed, Obama called, like every US president, for peace between the two suffering peoples of the Holy Land, and again, like every predecessor, for Palestinians to recognise Israel and for Israel to stop its settlements in the territories it seized in 1967. Within a week of the President’s speech in Cairo pledging opposition to further settlements, the governing Netanyahu coalition was extending Jewish properties in East Jerusalem with impunity... Read more... Israel Calls Challenge to Blockade of Gaza a "provocative joke", by Ann Wright | OpEd News ...Glyn Secker, a British citizen, the captain of the "Irene," and a member of Jews for Justice for Palestinians Executive Committee said, "In the tradition of the civil rights movement...we assert our right to continue to Gaza under international law. We have a particular point to make, as the voice of Jews who have an alternative opinion to that of the Israeli establishment.".. Read more... It's All Really Very Simple, If...You Can Become a Conspiracy Investigator, by J Speer Williams | Rense Let us begin by asking ourselves, "Who owns the corporate-mainstream media?" And of course, the answer is large, very large, corporations own the corporate media. But, who owns the controlling stock of these large corporations, and controls their "news" and aired content?.. Read more... A conversation with Robert Wyatt about Cultural Resistance | Gilad Atzmon ...The emerging mainstream solidarity with Palestine should be seen as the outcome of a general craving for justice, an outburst of collective ethical intuition... Read more... Rick Sanchez on Jewish Media Power, by Edmund Connelly | Occidental Observer ...there is a glaring double standard about alluding to Jewish power in the media. Jews are free to reference it, but woe unto the non-Jew who wades into those shark-infested waters... Read more... Ecuador Coup Attempt Engineered by the CIA, by Nil Nikandrov | Global Research Ecuador's police forces played the key role in the coup attempt which shattered the country on September 30. The passing of a law affecting the police officers' bonuses and job benefits became a pretext for the rebellion which erupted in the capital city of Quito and the Guayquil seaport town. Actually, the law was not supposed to entail pay reductions, but those who masterminded the coup managed to convince the police that it would and thus provoked the uprising... Read more... Israel in America: Obama's dance of death, by Eric Walberg | Rebel News ...Why are Obama's three closest advisers -- all Jewish -- leaving? There is no pat answer. Axelrod is no friend of Summers, and suggested in an email the latter would be more comfortable in the “cafeteria at Goldman Sachs”. He claims he is homesick. Obama's Keynesianism probably finally got to Summers. Emanuel, a former congressman, a talented ballet dancer, son of an Irgun terrorist, and an Israeli soldier during the first Gulf war against Iraq, leads us to the real answer... Read more... Stephen Colbert Strikes Again, Thank God, by Paul Hogarth | BeyondChron When Colbert roasted George Bush in 2006, it woke up the media to how they had let the Worst President in American History get away with pre-emptive wars and torture. And when Colbert spoke last week (invited by Bay Area Congresswoman Zoe Lofgren), his dead serious message about immigration reform – albeit through the lens of a satirical pundit – was devastatingly effective in highlighting the plight of migrant farm workers... Read more... The mendacity of "restraint", by Richard Irvine, The Electronic Intifada As Israel's self-imposed and largely irrelevant settlement freeze ends, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has asked settlers to show "restraint." It is an interesting choice of adjective, for people who show restraint are the injured and outraged; they are victims who although entitled to a full measure of justice settle for less to maintain good will and harmony... Read more... Matt Taibbi's Great Derangement | truthjihad ...Taibbi, who supposedly thinks that the 9/11 truthers' arguments are invalid, yet who devotes a tremendous amount of time and energy to insulting them and calling them crazy (rather than constructing a careful, balanced, thorough, and nuanced argument explaining why they are wrong) is nuttier than the looniest "conspiracy theorist" of his deranged imagination... Read more... Execution at Dawn in Holy Jerusalem | Kawther Salam ...Israel has murdered in cold blood 59 Palestinian citizens after being arrested since the start of the Al-Aqsa Intifada in 2000 and until yesterday October 3 2010... Read more... October Surprise: Terror Hysteria Recycled In Election Ploy, by Paul Joseph Watson | Prison Planet The establishment media is giving full court press to announcements from US and European authorities that airport lobbies are being targeted for terror attacks in a recycled version of the laughable 2007 incident in which two mental deficients set fire to a jeep outside Glasgow airport, a non-event that authorities hyped beyond all recognition amidst a similar wave of hysteria to that which we’re witnessing now... Read more... Sumud in the Jordan Valley: Ongoing Nakba, Ongoing Resistance, by Buenaventura Vidal | Alternative Information Center Ethnic cleansing, perpetrated through forced displacement, persists as one of the main strategies of the Zionist colonisation and settlement of Palestine. Historically, displacement began with the Nakba, the expulsion of more than 750,000 Palestinians from their homes and property in 1948, which set the material basis for the establishment of a state with a Jewish majority in historic Palestine... Read more... Israeli Bar Ilan University sacks top academic for her critical views | Redress Information & Analysis Neve Gordon describes how Israel’s Bar Ilan University denied tenure to a brilliant, world-class philosophy professor, Ariella Azoulay – in effect sacking her – because “a significant part of her work offers a critique of Israeli rights-abuse policy and of Zionism”... Read more... Oct 5, 2010 Black October of Ehud Barak: Decade to the Slaughter of Palestinians in Israel, by Michael Warschawski | Alternative News  "Peace Process" Ten years have passed since the slaughter of the Palestinian population in Israel, a slaughter orchestrated by Ehud Barak and, let’s not ever forget, Professor Shlomo Ben Ami...Read more... 'Innocent' Wall Street?: Banks & companies 'clever in dishonesty' | YouTube US author Yves Smith spoke with RT about the cover-ups that went on leading up to and during the economic crisis, the real secrets of the crooks on Wall Street, and the doom and gloom of the future of America's economy... Read more, watch video... Our Man in Palestine, by Nathan Thrall | The New York Review of Books ...According to a Hamas spokesman, however, the shooting had a more specific purpose: to demonstrate the futility of the recent cooperation between Israeli and Palestinian security forces. This cooperation has reached unprecedented levels under the quiet direction of a three-star US Army general, Keith Dayton, who has been commanding a little-publicized American mission to build up Palestinian security forces in the West Bank... Read more... Netanyahu humiliates Obama again, by MJ Rosenberg | Al Jazeera The Obama administration must understand that the Israeli prime minister is essentially a right-wing Republican... Read more... Be very afraid: we are being fleeced by purveyors of fear, by Simon Jenkins | The Guardian Home Office threat levels are absurd abstractions of no help to anyone except the security lobby raising cash through fear... Read more... Iran Wins Iraqi Elections 7 Months Later, by Juan Cole | Informed Comment Although it make take some time yet to form a government in Iraq, Friday may have been a turning point. If so, it was a turning point in which Iran won decisively and managed to rebuild a Shiite fundamentalist coalition led by incumbent PM Nuri al-Maliki that, in partnership with the Kurds, could dominate Baghdad for the next four years... Read more... Victory in Iraq?: An Analysis, by Dr. Lawrence Davidson | Intifada Palestine Back in July 2010 Senator John McCain told Geoff Millard, board chairman of Iraq Veterans Against the War, that his organization was irrelevant. “You’re too late. We already won that one” was McCain’s comment. Senator McCain has never defined exactly what he meant by winning. Nor, for that matter, have the various media outlets that follow his line... Read more... Inauspicious signs for Pakistan, by Brig Asif Haroon Raja | Opinion Maker After occupying Afghanistan, the US conceptualized several plans to destabilize, denuclearize, secularize and fragment or balkanize Pakistan. Gen Musharraf was persuaded to cut off links with Mullah Omar led Taliban regime in Kabul, help US in militarily occupying Afghanistan, and to become a frontline state to fight US war on terror. Once Afghanistan was occupied, Pakistan was forced to accept pro-India non-Pashtun heavy regime led by Hamid Karzai hostile to Pakistan... Read more... Israel's Arab Citizens Are Not a Negotiating Chip, by Jonathan Cook | Antiwar Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel’s prime minister, has insisted from the launch of the current peace talks that the Palestinians set no preconditions, while making his own precondition the centerpiece of negotiations... Read more... Ahmadinejad's Showdown in New York, by Dr. Muzaffar Iqbal | Opinion Maker Arrogance leads to hate and enmity that does not allow the truth to surface; truth is the key to justice and peace... Read more... Lessons of the Elections in Venezuela, by John Reimann | Dailycensored The recent (Sept. 25) congressional elections in Venezuela once again put the regime of President Hugo Chavez in the world news... Read more... US Prof Destroys 'Holocaust Icon' Wiesel, by David O'Connell | Rense Elie Wiesel is widely admired by many of the Catholics who wield power in the diocesan chanceries and the administrations of the nation's Catholic schools and universities... He is accorded this treatment despite the fact that he plays a prominent role in exploiting the abusive relationship that exists between the representatives of the major Jewish Organizations and those Catholics who "dialogue" with them... Read more... The Holocaust before It Happened, by Bill Wright | VHO George Santayana was famous for his aphorism "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." Perhaps those who believe in the myth of the ‘six million’ have forgotten that Jews were making substantially similar claims regarding ‘six million’ Jews about to perish in the aftermath of World War One... Read more... Hope is heading for reality as anti-siege activism scores successes against the odds, by Renee Bowyer | Middle East Monitor When the borders of Gaza were sealed by Israel in June 2007 the population faced a situation that was, inevitably, going to deteriorate on every level very quickly. A total blockade of an overcrowded and already economically devastated country should have been condemned across the world from the beginning, but it has taken over three years to convince the international community to hold Israel to account for the suffering it is causing... Read more... The New Antiwar Populism, by Justin Raimondo | Antiwar The War Party is running scared – and with good reason. Writing in the Washington Post, neocons Danielle Pletka and Thomas Donnelly are in a panic that the rising “tea party” movement, which upended the Republican establishment at the polls, is about to abandon “the defense of freedom” in faraway Afghanistan in favor of rescuing what’s left of our freedom closer to home... Read more... What Classless Society?: The Growing Rich-poor Gap in "Classless" America, by Jack A. Smith | Global Research The so-called growing rich-poor gap in "classless" America is a euphemism for the existence of an accelerated class struggle against American workers and the poor by a relatively small minority that possesses or has access to great wealth and power. The Census Bureau reported Sept. 24 that the income differential between rich and poor Americans was greater in 2009 than any time since such records were kept... Read more... Obama's cave-in to Israel: letter suggests US not honest broker | Redress Information & Analysis Jonathan Cook considers the significance of a leaked letter from US President Barack Obama to Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu which undermines Obama’s claim to be an honest broker and confirms suspicions that Netanyahu’s professed desire to establish a Palestinian state is insincere... Read more... “Rule Of Lie”: America’s “Wingnut” Press, by Gordon Duff | Veterans Today President Ahmadinejad of Iran has asked for a UN investigation of 9/11. For this, he has been branded a “wingnut” and “evildoer” by the American press. However, the 9/11 Commission itself asked for a criminal investigation, saying it uncovered a conspiracy and was prevented from getting the truth. They were quickly silenced... Read more... Shooting from the Mavi Marmara: time for Israel to put up or shut up | Redress Information & Analysis Richard Lightbown looks at the continuing Israeli disinformation about the murder of aid workers aboard the Gaza-bound Turkish ship, the Mavi Marmara, on 31 May 2010 and challenges the Israelis either to produce the evidence to back up their version of events or to shut up and accept responsibility for their actions... Read more... Oct 4, 2010 The Extraordinary Rendition of Palestine, by Mazin Qumsiyeh | Alternative News  It has been a rather bizarre week in the Middle East. Let me just cite a few examples... Read more... The Impending Collapse Of Israel In Palestine, by Prof. Francis Boyle | My Catbird Seat The Palestinians must sign nothing and let Israel collapse!.. Read more... When the Taliban calls, pick up, by Danny Schechter | Al Jazeera Is the limited coverage of the Afghan war in the US a symptom of life in an American "republic of fear"?.. Read more... Remembering the second intifada, by Jon Elmer | Al Jazeera Ten years ago, Ariel Sharon marched on the symbolic heart of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and invoked one of the most famous phrases in Israeli history. "The Temple Mount is in our hands," he said, reiterating the radio broadcast from June 1967, when Israeli forces overran Jerusalem... Read more... Craig Blomberg interviewed by Kourosh Ziabari: It was very sad that Quran was burnt | Intifada Palestine Prof. Blomberg joined me in an interview to answer my questions on the recent incident of Quran burning in the United States, the inter-faith dialogue of the followers of Islam and Christianity, the contribution of religion to the global peace and stability, the role of religion in solving the problems of contemporary man and the dissolution of the basis of traditional family in the 21st century... Read more... Forever War, by Tom Engelhardt | TomDispatch ...the present Pentagon and military cast of characters can’t stop themselves. They really can’t. The thought that in Afghanistan or anywhere else they might have to go on a diet, as sooner or later they will, is deeply unnerving. Forever war is in their blood, so much so that they’re ready to face down the commander-in-chief, if necessary, to make it continue... Read more... Avigdor Lieberman's UN speech shows the true face of Israel, by Alex Kane | Mondoweiss Yisrael Beiteinu’s strong third-place showing in Israel’s February 2009 elections for the Knesset was met with dread and disgust from many different quarters. Avigdor Lieberman, the founder and leader of the far-right party and the current Foreign Minister, ran a campaign filled with fascist overtones as he called for “loyalty oaths” to be signed by Palestinian citizens of Israel... Read more... Oct 3, 2010 In defense of South African academics' boycott call, by Ronnie Kasrils | The Electronic Intifada  Drawing comparisons to South African apartheid policies, Israel requires Palestinians to carry identification documents that restrict their movement When African National Congress leader Chief Albert Luthuli made a call for the international community to support a boycott of apartheid South Africa in 1958, the response was a widespread and dedicated movement that played a significant role in ending apartheid... Read more... Criticism of Israel is not anti-Semitism, stupid! | Rehmat's World “When you read the history of Israel from objective sources, you discover that it is an outlaw state, created by the powers that be by stealing the land from its original inhabitants, and systematically exterminating them ever since,”.. Read more... Israeli mayors' visit runs aground in Spain, Netherlands, by Adri Nieuwhof | Electronic Intifada The Association of Netherlands Municipalities (VNG) canceled a 19 September visit by Israeli mayors because the delegation included leaders of illegal Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank, igniting a firestorm in the Dutch parliament... Read more... BBC: Israeli Soldiers Ate Chocolate While Shooting Children! | Socio-Economics History Watch video... Passengers grabbed Israeli weapons to stop the killing | YouTube After seeing passengers shot at close range they tried to grab the weapons to stop the killing. Kenneth Nichols O'Keefe was later beaten by the Israelis... Read more... This is how Israel controls your media | YouTube Once you have watched this all should be clear to you! Always question the MSM and why their news is being reported. There is always an agenda and there is always censorship and manipulation of your thoughts... Watch video... US soldiers 'killed Afghan civilians for sport and collected fingers as trophies', by Chris McGreal | The Guardian Five of the soldiers are charged with murdering three Afghan men who were allegedly killed for sport in separate attacks this year. Seven others are accused of covering up the killings and assaulting a recruit who exposed the murders when he reported other abuses, including members of the unit smoking hashish stolen from civilians... Read more... "We focus on doing things right, instead of doing the right things" | Middle East Monitor This quote from an international aid worker in Jerusalem prefaces a new briefing paper from Oxford University's Refugee Studies Centre. Written by Dr. Jason Hart and Claudia Lo Forte, "Protecting Palestinian children from political violence - the role of the international community" provides some interesting reading... Read more... Failed Washington-Sponsored Ecuadorean Coup Attempt | Stephen Lendman Post-9/11, Washington sponsored four coup d'etats. Two succeeded - most recently in Honduras in 2009 against Manuel Zelaya, and in Haiti in 2004 deposing Jean-Bertrand Aristide. Two others failed - in Venezuela in 2002 against Hugo Chavez, and on September 30 in Ecuador against Rafael Correa - so far. Two by Bush, two by Obama with plenty of time for more mischief before November 2012... Read more... You get the truth only from 'former' officials', by Dr. Bouthaina Shaaban | Middle East Monitor Warning from the Obama administration's submission to Israeli pressure, in an interview with the Lebanese OTV, Michael Scheuer, a 'former' senior CIA officer, said: "Three hundred million Americans could wake up tomorrow to discover that a foreign leader, Benjamin Netanyahu, led them to war with Iran, which might lead to war with the rest of the Muslim world"... Read more... Pakistan Warns NATO Against Future Attacks, by Jason Ditz | Antiwar Pakistani officials are continuing to angrily condemn NATO over yesterday’s attack on its security forces, with Prime Minister Yousef Raza Gilani warning that the nation has “other options” for possible retaliation if NATO refuses to apologize... Read more... After the journey: a UN man's open letter to Tony Blair, by Hans von Sponeck | Redress Information & Analysis Hans von Sponeck, UN humanitarian coordinator during 1998-2000, demands answers from the former British Prime Minister and war crimes suspect Tony Blair to a simple question: why is Iraq in such a mess?... Read more... In Maliki's Govt Deal, Anti-US Cleric the Real Winner, by Jason Ditz | Antiwar Though a number of comparable “deals” have seemingly emerged only to collapse over the past seven months, Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki seemingly is on the brink of having ensured himself a second term in office after the Iraqi National Alliance (INA) backed off its previous objections and agreed to back him... Read more... James Powers and the murky world of 'Top Secret America' | The Guardian A surveillance scandal in Pennsylvania has lifted the lid on corruption and waste in the US's private intelligence industry... Read more... Time to repeal Congress' blank check on wars, by Barbara Lee | SF Chronicle Following the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, Congress passed a joint resolution broadly authorizing the president to use "all necessary and appropriate force" against those involved in attacking our nation and to prevent any future acts of international terrorism against the United States... Read more... The U.S. searches for war criminals, by Glenn Greenwald | Salon It doesn't happen often, but sometimes, something you read is so magnificent on its own that there is nothing to say about it. This USA Today article, proudly touting the increased efforts of the U.S. Government to track down and punish war criminals (provided, of course, that they're not American), is one such example... Read more... Dwight Was Right, by Michael Moore | Common Dreams So...it turns out President Eisenhower wasn't making up all that stuff about the military-industrial complex... Read more... Obama's Dud Svengali, by Alexander Cockburn | Counterpunch ...By the time Obama hired him, Emanuel already had a proven record of toadyism to corporate America and the neocon lobby, Emanuel was a relict of all that was sleazy in the Clinton White House... Read more... America's homeland insecurity | Redress Information & Analysis Paul J. Balles argues that the United States’ ill-defined “war on terror” poses a real and present danger to US civil liberties, as evidenced by US Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano’s exhortation that “homeland security begins with hometown security” and hometown security begins with locally-based observations of “suspicious” activity... Read more... Oct 2, 2010 Obama transition: Neoconservative resurgence under democratic leadership, by Dahr Jamail | Voltaire Net  Make no mistake. The American Empire is in decline.We are watching the bloated lumbering beast, drunk on its own propaganda of moral, spiritual, military, social and material superiority, hurtling down the abyss. The world is visibly multi-polar today, but the US continues to trumpet its belief of undisputed might and authority... Read more... Obama Imposes New Iran Sanctions as War Chorus Rises, by Jim Lobe | IPS Amid new calls for Washington to attack Iran's nuclear facilities if its diplomatic efforts at curbing Tehran's uranium-enrichment programme fail, the United States Wednesday imposed unilateral sanctions against eight senior Iranian officials whom it accused of committing "sustained and severe violations of human rights"... [Talk about the pot calling the kettle black] Read more...Sounds of peace in a troubled land, by Mark LeVine | Al Jazeera A group of musicians from both the East and West have come together to seek a better future for the people of Pakistan... [The silver lining] Read more..."In the Interests of Israel": Why Russia will not sell the S-300 Air Defense System to Iran, by General Leonid Ivashov | Voltaire Net The sanctions against Iran were the final blow to the Medvedev-Putin partnership, already on the wane for some time. The Russian President has opted for the U.S.-Israeli camp. The outright war between the two excutive heads has crystallized on the possible delivery of the surface-to-air S-300 missiles to Tehran. According to General Leonid Ivashov, former Joint Chief of Staff of the Russian Armed Forces, the Kremlin has turned its back on the country’s strategic interests, throwing himself into the arms of the enemy... Read more... Innocents Abroad, Politicos at Home: Obama's Men, by Ray McGovern | Counterpunch Paging through Bob Woodward’s “Obama’s Wars,” I should not have been surprised that the index lacks any entry for “intelligence.” The excerpts that dribbled out earlier this week had made unavoidably clear that there was, in fact, no entry for intelligence in the disorderly process last fall that got the Obama administration neck-deep in the Big Muddy... Read more... Why The Constitution Failed, by Gordon Duff | Veterans Today In 2000, the United States Supreme Court, by a 5/4 margin, the deciding vote being Justice Clarence Thomas, perhaps the worst justice in court history, elected a President. Investigations since have shown that the election wasn’t even close, Bush lost by millions of votes and more than a few states... Read more... Jenny, Iraq and the Next War: Farewell to Arms, by Ramzy Baroud | Counterpunch Let’s call her Jenny. Jenny was alone, and clearly confused. Her face was dotted with acne, and her short, blond hair was stiff at the ends. As the Skyline train sped towards the next destination, she stood ‘at attention’ in her military fatigues and boots staring aimlessly into the vastness of the Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport... Read more... Door-to-door spies in Utah County? | ABC4 Sales people working neighborhoods in Northern Utah County have been asking some odd questions that have nothing to do with making the sale. Folks are reporting that they're asking about the new National Security Agency's data center that is being built at Camp Williams. The sales people say they're Israeli art students... Read more... Mass Assassinations Lie at the Heart of America's Military Strategy in the Muslim World, by Fred Branfman | AlterNet The truth that many Americans find hard to take is that mass U.S. assassination on a scale unequaled in world history lies at the heart of America's military strategy in the Muslim world, a policy both illegal and never seriously debated by Congress or the American people... Read more... New Scientific Evidence Contradicting Official 9/11 Explanation | Global Research TV Quick recap of the Joint Press Conferences announcing new scientific evidence contradicting the official explanation of 9/11 and the launch of three new 9/11 Truth groups: Scientists for 9/11 Truth, U.S. Military Officers for 9/11 Truth and Actors & Artists for 9/11 Truth... Watch video... Abbas is unfit to lead the Palestinian People, by Khalid Amayreh | Intifada Palestine The reaction of the Palestinian Authority (PA) Chairman Mahmoud Abbas to the latest Zionist provocations, including the all-out settlement expansion drive in the West Bank, has been disastrous and calamitous... Read more... America’s Real Anti-Government Threat, by Gordon Duff | Veterans Today ...an investigation of site ownership and client lists funding the “Patriotic Revolt” were not what we expected. The “patriots” that were going to replace the armed militia’s of the 1990′s were actually the Republican Party, their phony “think tanks” and the largest multi-national corporations in the world, representing defense, oil, insurance, big pharma, big tobacco and “clean coal,” a veritable “who’s who” of world class criminals.”.. Read more... Blackwater's Black Ops, by Jeremy Scahill | The Nation Over the past several years, entities closely linked to the private security firm Blackwater have provided intelligence, training and security services to US and foreign governments as well as several multinational corporations, including Monsanto, Chevron, the Walt Disney Company, Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines and banking giants Deutsche Bank and Barclays... Read more... When Will Obscenely Rich A**holes Stop Crying About Taxes?, by Bill Maher | AlterNet ...I've done some math that indicates that, considering the hole this country is in, if you are earning more than a million dollars a year and are complaining about a 3.6% tax increase, then you are by definition a greedy asshole... Read more... Crony Capitalism: Wall Street's Favorite Politicians, by Zach Carter | Huffington Post A full 90 members of Congress who voted to bailout Wall Street in 2008 failed to support financial reform reining in the banks that drove our economy off a cliff. But when you examine campaign contribution data, it's really no surprise that these particular lawmakers voted to mortgage our economic future to Big Finance... Read more... Overcoming AIPAC is not enough | Redress Information & Analysis Lawrence Davidson outlines a strategy for unshackling the United States from Israel, based on melding the liberation of the US from AIPAC with the revival of American national interests in the broader Middle East and Muslim world, and with the viable future of Palestine... Read more... Oct 1, 2010 FBI targets US Palestine activists, by Chris Arsenault | Al Jazeera  Activists say they are trying to educate the public about suffering caused by US foreign policy Searches, subpoenas, but no charges for anti-war activists 'providing support to terrorists' in Colombia and Palestine...Read more... Oy, the Humanity! An Israeli Jew Takes on the ADL, by Andy Nowicki | Occidental Observer Except for a very brief moment at the start of Defamation, a smart, mordant, and incisive documentary which examines the tendency of forces within contemporary Judaism to exploit the Holocaust for political ends, we never see the man behind the camera, Israeli Jew Yoav Shamir. One imagines, however, that this fellow had his poker face honed to perfection, because he was able to pull off a terrifically effective undercover job... Read more... Gaza Flotilla: Tariq Ali in London | YouTube Watch video... Mission Creep: TSA to Implement "Secure Flight" on November 1, by Kurt Nimmo | Infowars On November 1, boarding an aircraft in the United States will become more intrusive. That’s when the Department of Homeland Security’s Transportation Security Administration will begin enforcing something called “Secure Flight.”.. Read more... Miliband's maiden speech welcomed across the Middle East, by Dr. Daud Abdullah | Middle East Monitor Ed Miliband's maiden speech as the leader of the Labour Party has drawn scorn from the right-wing media and the pro-Israel lobby. It also provoked the wrath of New Labour die-hards. Across the Middle East, however, the reaction has been noticeably different... Read more... Sacrificing Substance for Process: Peace Process to Nowhere, by Franklin C. Spinney | Counterpunch The Israeli newspaper Yediot Ahronot reports that President Obama begged Prime Minister Netanyahu to extend his settlement freeze in order to save the so-called peace talks. As a quid pro quo, Obama is reported to have promised Netanyahu that (1) Israel could resume settlement construction if the peace negotiations failed to produce results and (2) that the United States would give Israel written assurances of its commitment to Israel’s security... Read more... UN report into flotilla attack exposes Israeli lies and criminality, by Dr. Hanan Chehata | Middle East Monitor Israel has been condemned, yet again, by the United Nations for serious violations of international human rights and humanitarian laws. A UN report released last week has confirmed that there is "clear evidence to support prosecutions" against the Israeli authorities for the crimes of "wilful killing.".. Read more... The Sin of Independence: Why Doesn't the US Talk to Iran?, by Ismael Hossein-Zadeh and Karla Hansen | Counterpunch The unrelenting diplomatic and geopolitical standoff between Iran and the United States is often blamed on the Iranian government for its “confrontational” foreign policies, or its “unwillingness” to enter into a dialogue with the United States. Little known, however, is the fact that during the past decade or so, Iran has offered a number of times to negotiate with the United States without ever getting a positive response from the U.S... Read more... The Palestinian Authority and supporting settlement activity, by Abdel Sattar Qassem | Middle East Monitor The anchor at the TV station was surprised when I told him that the Palestinian Authority supported settlement activity and that I do not care what I hear in the media as much as I do for what I see on the ground. At this stage of the interview I had thrown his prepared questions into disarray and he had no option but to follow my train of thought and examine what I had said... Read more... In search of a great Arab leader?, by Lamis Andoni | Al Jazeera Forty years after his death, no Arab leader has been able to fill the role left vacant by Gamal Abdel Nasser... Read more... Wake Up, America! by Philip Giraldi | Antiwar Let us suppose for a moment that an individual enjoying the full confidence and trust of the United States government was given access to the most secret information possessed by the US military, to include how it would react to an attack by an aggressor armed with nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles. Let us further suppose that that individual violated his trust in the most egregious and vile fashion, offering to sell the information to anyone, but eventually settling on a nation ostensibly friendly to the US but not in any way a formal ally. The individual then proceeded to deliver defense secrets literally by the carload... Read more... Not 'settling' for nothing, by Nora Barrows-Friedman | Al Jazeera The cessation of the settlement moratorium was never in doubt to the Palestinian residents of Wadi Rahaal... Read more... BBC and Murdoch, on the Same Side, by John Pilger | Antiwar Britain is said to be approaching its Berlusconi Moment. That is to say, if Rupert Murdoch wins control of Sky he will command half the television and newspaper market and threaten what is known as public service broadcasting. Although the alarm is ringing, it is unlikely that any government will stop him while his court is packed with politicians of all parties... Read more... The Ineffable Lobby, by Paul R. Pillar | The National Interest Lately one hasn't heard much of the screaming against the observation that supporters of a certain Middle Eastern state exercise influence over U.S. policy that is well out of proportion to what a clear focus on U.S. interests would dictate. That's because the observation doesn't get voiced very much... Read more... Army publication: Settlers heavily overrepresented among IDF commanders, by Amos Harel | Haaretz 20 percent of company commanders in the Golani brigades live over the Green Line... Read more... |
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