Oct 31, 2011 US Congress for Black Ops Against Iran, by Dr. Ismail Salami | Intifada Palestine  The US secret agenda for tightening its vice-like grip on the Islamic Republic of Iran has taken on an apparently new form after the anti-Iran alleged assassination plot against the Saudi ambassador to the United States, Adel al-Jubeir, raised many eyebrows among experts and analysts around the world... Read more... Libya: War Without End | Stephen Lendman Libya will long be remembered as one of history's great crimes. For over eight months, NATO's killing machine ravaged the country, killing tens of thousands. Years of protracted conflict lie ahead. Libyans will keep struggling until they're free from NATO's scourge... Read more... What is it with NATO and terrorists? by Timothy Bancroft-Hinchey | Pravda In the good old days, the good guy wore the white hat and the bad cowboy wore the black hat. The good one stood for generally accepted human values defending what is acceptable in all societies, while the bad one represented what we all fear, the dark colour of his clothes representing the night, evil, fear, the Devil. And today?.. Read more... Joshua Blakeney on 9/11 and "Terrorism", by Debbie Menon | My Catbird Seat  Israel's 'unprecedented control over American politics' Israel is exporting or “globalizing” Israeli and Zionist philosophy, policy and brainwashing, or “Globalizing Terrorism, and Zionist propaganda”..Read more... NATO Hunting Season in Full Swing, by Robert Bridge | Global Research ...That brings us to Libya, where the world was just treated to ghastly images of Muammar Gaddafi being torn apart by a wild mob moments after his capture. Not only does this barbaric execution – the autopsy revealed Gaddafi died from a gunshot wound to the head – speak volumes about what the future holds for this North African nation (which was doing fairly well for itself with free healthcare and education before the civil war began) it shows exactly how callous NATO has become in its coordination of these jolly little wars... Read more... European Poll: Israel Biggest Threat To World Peace | Jewish Federations of America ...Results of a new poll commissioned by the European Commission show that Israel is believed by Europeans in 15 countries to be the greatest threat to world peace, greater than North Korea, Iran or Afghanistan... [Courtesy of the people who are building a "Museum of Tolerance" on top of the most venerated Muslim cemetery in Jerusalem - what planet did they say these people are from?] Read more...Prepare For Armageddon, by Raja G Mujtaba | Opinion Maker  Most frightening of everything in this FSB report, however, is the reply Putin gave to Russia’s top generals yesterday when asked what preparations should be made and he answered.. “Prepare for Armageddon.”.. [I'm not a believer in the imminent apocalypse, but if the Israelis and their supporters aren't stopped soon, it could happen.] Read more...Settlers succeeding in hostile takeover of Israel, by Gideon Levy | Haaretz Do you really want to live in a country where the heads of the settlement enterprise allocate its lands, plan its nature sites, rule on its laws and are increasingly controlling its lifestyles?.. Read more... An attack on Iran would be a disaster for Israel, by Amir Oren | Haaretz ...An Israeli operation against Iran's nuclear program is liable to recycle the cons of Operation Kadesh, without its benefits. Such a fear is harbored by those who oppose this possible military adventure; the list of negative effects outweighs whatever diplomatic or military advantages might be accrued by such an action, the critics believe. After all, Barak is no Moshe Dayan, and Bibi is not Ben-Gurion... Read more... When Hillary Clinton doesn't make sense, by Kourosh Ziabari | PressTV  US President Barack Obama will be a lame duck next year and the officials in his administration, especially his Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, are hilariously doing their best to make sure that they haven't spared any effort to intervene in the internal affairs of other countries and sabotage the stability and security of those whom they call "enemies," like Iran... [Beware the rise of the Dragon Lady] Read more...The Iraq war is finally over. And it marks a complete neocon defeat, by Jonathan Steele | The Guardian ...The final troop withdrawal marks a complete defeat for Bush's Iraq project. The neocons' grand plan to use the 2003 invasion to turn the country into a secure pro-western democracy and a garrison for US bases that could put pressure on Syria and Iran lies in tatters... Read more... The Dönmeh: The Middle East's Most Whispered Secret, by Wayne Madsen | Another World Is Possible There is a historical “eight hundred pound gorilla” lurking in the background of almost every serious military and diplomatic incident involving Israel, Turkey, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Greece, Armenia, the Kurds, the Assyrians, and some other players in the Middle East and southeastern Europe. It is a factor that is generally only whispered about at diplomatic receptions, news conferences, and think tank sessions due to the explosiveness and controversial nature of the subject... Read more... Wall Street Isn't Winning It's Cheating, by Matt Taibbi | Rolling Stone  ...These nutty criticisms of the protests are spreading like cancer. Earlier that same day, I'd taped a TV segment on CNN with Will Cain from the National Review, and we got into an argument on the air. Cain and I agreed about a lot of the problems on Wall Street, but when it came to the protesters, we disagreed on one big thing... Read more, watch video... Understanding the US Torture State, by Anthony Gregory | Antiwar When I was a child in Reagan’s America, a common theme in Cold War rhetoric was that the Soviets tortured people and detained them without cause, extracted phony confessions through cruel violence, did the unspeakable to detainees who were helpless against the full, heartless weight of the communist state. It was torture as much as any evil that differentiated the bad guys, the commies, from the good guys, the American people and their government... Read more... '44% of Italians have negative views of Jews' | Jerusalem Post Study finds varying degrees of hostility toward Jews, ranging from traditional stereotypes to "pure anti-Semites.".. [It must be therefore, since the enemies of the Jews belonged to the most diverse races, since they lived in countries very distant from each other, since they were ruled by very different laws, governed by opposite principles, since they had neither the same morals, nor the same customs, since they were animated by unlike dispositions which did not permit them to judge of anything in the same way, it must be therefore that the general cause of anti-Semitism has always resided in Israel itself and not in those who have fought against Israel.” Read more... ~ Statement regarding the expulsions of Jews, by noted Jewish author Bernard Lazare in “L’antisémitisme, son histoire et ses causes,”published in 1894] Lamis Deek, "One Democratic State in all of Palestine" | YouTube  Lamis Deek of Al-Awda-NY talks about a vision for one state comprising all of Israel/Palestine... Watch video... [Watch also: Said and Deek on Palestine and Israel's Right to Exist] These magnificent Palestinian women break my heart - they are so fine.] Elie Wiesel: A Prominent False Witness, by Robert Faurisson ...Elie Wiesel issues alarmed and inflammatory appeals against Revisionist authors. He senses that things are getting out of hand. It is going to become more and more difficult for him to maintain the mad belief that the Jews were exterminated or were subjected to a policy of extermination, especially in so-called gas chambers... Read more... Quantum Note: Under the Shadow of a Deadly State, by Dr. Muzaffar Iqbal | Opinion Maker ...we now live under the shadow of a deadly state which has technological capability to extinguish any life anywhere in the world. It has no qualms about legality of such killings and there is not a single state, organization, or institution that can stop this state from committing these crimes against humanity. Such is the global horror and darkness of the shadow that extends from Washington DC all the way to the deserts of Yemen. This is the real heart of darkness, the ultimate horror, the complete descent of humanity into inhumanity—a unipolar world in which the distinction between justice and injustice has disappeared... [Just like Israel. They make a lovely couple - of rattlesnakes.] Read more...Oct 30, 2011 BDS victory: French transportation giant Alstom loses $10 billion contract due to BDS pressure, by Nora Barrows-Friedman | The Electronic Intifada  After several years’ worth of pressure by boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) activists worldwide, French transportation multinational Alstom has officially lost a significant contract bid with the Saudi Haramain Railway Project in Saudi Arabia. Alstom and Veolia, another French urban systems corporation, are involved with the illegal Jerusalem Light Rail project that links West Jerusalem with settlement colonies in the occupied West Bank... [Another battle won in a long war. They add up. Venceremos!] Read more...Who Was Muammar Qaddafi? Libya's Wealth Redistribution Project: Introduction by Cynthia McKinney | Intifada Palestine Colonel Muammar Qaddafi symbolizes many things to many different people around the world. Love or hate the Libyan leader, under his rule Libya transformed from one of the poorest countries on the face of the planet into the country with the highest standard of living in Africa... Read more... The Greatest Threat To World Peace | Gilad Atzmon ...It looks as if Israel is preparing the ground for an attack on Iran that would probably escalate into a vile world conflict. Israeli leadership seems to fail to grasp the meaning of it all. This leadership has managed to buy itself the reputation of being impervious to the notion of culpability and responsibility. It basically fails to understand the consequences of it is actions... Read more... Exclusive IDF Interview: Israeli Soldiers Told To 'Cleanse' Gaza | YouTube Israeli soldiers tell Channel 4 News they were ordered to "cleanse" Palestinian neighbourhoods, as filmmaker Nurit Kedar says "the atmosphere was that nobody should talk about this war".. Read more... Living in a Delusional World, by Paul Craig Roberts | Counterpunch I have come to the conclusion that Big Brother’s subjects in George Orwell’s 1984 are better informed than Americans. Americans have no idea why they have been at war in the Middle East, Asia and Africa for a decade. They don’t realize that their liberties have been supplanted by a Gestapo Police State. Few understand that hard economic times are here to stay... Read more... More Iraq and Afghanistan war veterans wind up homeless | USA Today  ..About 13,000 of the nation's homeless in 2010 were ex-service members between ages 18 and 30, a disproportionately large number of the nation's overall homeless veteran population... [Just more collateral damage from our "humanitarian" wars] Read more...The Mess in the Middle East | Palestine Chronicle Below is the text of a speech delivered Thursday, October 27 by Ambassador Chas Freeman at the annual conference of the National Council on U.S.-Arab Relations in Washington. Freeman is a former American ambassador to Saudi Arabia and former president of the Middle East Policy Council in Washington. He was President Barack Obama's early nominee to head the National Intelligence Council. However, a decisive attack on Freeman by the pro-Israel Lobby ended that attempt... Read more... Understanding Tunisia's Elections Results | Counterpunch ...The same old Islamophobic voices, that raised false alarms echoing Israeli hyped fears over twenty years ago and poisoned the atmosphere between the West and moderate Islamic groups, are back at it again. The real question now is: Have Western political leaders learned anything during this time or are we about to initiate a predictable sequel to the clash of civilizations?.. Read more... Iraq War's Lessons Lost on US, by Ramzy Baroud | Antiwar ...It might take us years to truly understand the magnitude of what has since transpired in Iraq. Death and destruction have hovered over the country, killing and wounding hundreds of thousands, sending millions into exile and millions more have been classified by U.N. agencies as Internally Displaced Persons (IDP). It was a horror show that cannot be captured with the language of reason, but every moment of it was experienced by millions of ordinary people, punished severely for a crime they never committed... Read more... Jewish Double Standards and Hypocrisy Department: Reform Jews Get on the Far Right Bandwagon, by Kevin MacDonald | The Occidental Observer ...Forgive me for being cynical when we hear the constant refrain that the reason that Jews are on the left is because of “Jewish values” of tolerance and social justice. This is just another example of a repeated theme here, that Jewish ethics is fundamentally about what is good for the Jews. The Jewish culture of the left in the U.S. is ethnic warfare against the traditional people and culture of America, while Jewish attitudes about Israel justify ethnic warfare against the Palestinians—including tolerance of ethnic cleansing and apartheid... Read more... Oct 29, 2011 Occupy Oakland & Mercenaries of the Oligarchy: The 99% vs. The Iron Heel, by Nima Sharazi | Wide Asleep in America  General Strike: Oakland, 1946 ...Meanwhile, as gas clouds wafted through the Oakland air, just across the bay in San Francisco, President Barack Obama was at a reelection fundraiser at the W Hotel for which guests shelled out at least $5,000 to attend. It was the latest stop on one of the president's "busiest donor outreach trips of the season." Last week, the Washington Post reported that "despite frosty relations with the titans of Wall Street, President Obama has still managed to raise far more money this year from the financial and banking sector than Mitt Romney or any other Republican presidential candidate.".. Read more... The Lost Truth: The Killing of Gaddafi and Bin Laden, by Jamal Kanj | Intifada Palestine Human rights organizations described the gruesome killing of Gaddafi a war crime. Most certainly, if Gaddafi’s horrid photos were not revealed on TV screens and the front pages of newspapers, not many would have admonished the rebels for the slaying of the dictator. Irrespective however, the killing of Gaddafi was a cold blooded murder. Much like the crimes he was accused of committing against his people... Read more... Stoking Nationalism in Iran, by Paul R. Pillar | The National Interest However much the hyping of the alleged plot involving the DEA informant and the Iranian-American used car salesman in Texas may have been motivated by a desire to look tough on Iran in the eyes of the American public, it is having unhelpful effects on the attitudes of the Iranian public... Read more... The Victories of Revisionism | Robert Faurisson  ...the “Holocaust” remains the lone official religion of the entire West, a murderous religion if ever there was one. And one that continues to fool millions of good souls in the crudest ways: the display of heaps of eyeglasses, hair, shoes or valises presented as “relics” of the “gassed”, faked or deceptively exploited photographs, texts of innocuous papers altered or purposely misinterpreted, endless proliferation of monuments, ceremonies, shows, the drumming of the Shoah into our heads as early as primary school, organised excursions to the holy sites of alleged Jewish martyrdom and great show trials with their calls for lynch-law... [Faurisson deserves great respect and admiration as one the true heroes of our time. Heroism is "grace under pressure', fearlessness in the face of adversity and, in exceptional cases like his, an unswerving dedication to human decency and truth at great personal cost.] Read more...If the Libyan war was about saving lives, it was a catastrophic failure, by Seumas Milne | The Guardian NATO claimed it would protect civilians in Libya, but delivered far more killing. It's a warning to the Arab world and Africa... Read more... Did Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Steal the 2009 Iran Election? | Eric A. Brill Many commentators have insisted that Mahmoud Ahmadinejad stole Iran's 2009 presidential election from Mir-Hossein Mousavi. The post-election protests have been cast as courageous Truth confronting arrogant Power. Yet not one of Mousavi's many thousands of election-day observers has claimed that fraud occurred at his polling station or that the reported vote count was different from what he witnessed. Nor has anyone else come forward with a credible, evidence-backed account of electoral fraud... Read more... Congress Hears Calls to Escalate Covert War Against Iran, by Jason Ditz | Antiwar  In a hearing that was vaguely related to the alleged DC assassination plot, a number of former officials and general war enthusiasts discussed ways to further escalate a covert war against Iran, including making the war more overt... Read more... American crisis politics | Eric Walberg ...If Barack and Mitt are the best the political elite can come up with, we can only conclude that the entire American ruling class is suffering from acute paranoid schizophrenia - fearing commies-turned-Muslims under their beds, shedding tears over the odd child hit by a stray bullet in, say, Syria, while joyously bombing hapless Afghans, Iraqs and Libyans into the Stone Age, wiping out hundreds of thousands in the process... Read more... Israel's Leading Columnist, Barnea, Warns of Israeli Attack on Iran | Tikun Olam For those of you seeking a comparison in the U.S. media that does justice to the role Nahum Barnea plays as Israel’s leading political columnist, you might go back to Walter Cronkite or Walter Lippman. In terms of today’s media, you could compare him to Tom Friedman, though Barnea is far more read, known and popular in Israel than Friedman is here... Read more... Israeli Defense Ministry Acknowledges Defeat | Roy Tov  Iranian Missiles ...One of the listeners asked then when will Iran produce nuclear warheads. “At the moment they decide to change the balance of power,” was the concise answer. Major General Gilad had just acknowledged defeat. Israel’s final countdown is on...Read more... Israeli media's bigoted view of Gaddafi's killing | Redress Information & Analysis Uri Avnery criticizes the Israeli media’s portrayal of the killing of Muammar Gaddafi and his son Mutasim as evidence of Arab barbarism, and argues that the lynching of the Gaddafis not only reflects their treatment of the Libyan people but also has precedents in “civilized” Europe... Read more... @ #occupywallstreet on Arresting Banksters, with Bill Black | We Are Change Watch video... Israel finds new "home" for Bedouins: a garbage dump, by Jillian Kestler-D'Amours | The Electronic Intifada  ...“We want to stay in our homes. If they damage our homes or our tents, we want to build again. We won’t move. Even if they want to kill us, we want to stay. We haven’t any place to go,” he said... Read more... 'Alternative to Obama, Zionist neocons': Interview with Mark Dankof | PressTV A US Political analyst says, with the US drone strikes in Pakistan, the only replacement to President Obama in the election would be a more “militant Republican, Zionist neo-conservative.”.. Read transcript, watch video... Humor dept: Truck loaded with 20 tons of beer falls off bridge in Russia | Pravda English? ..The accident took place on the outskirts of the city of Nizhny Tagil. The truck driver had the driving experience of 18 years. The man did not set the correct speed of the movement... [Uh-oh, things are getting really serious] Read more...An "Open Door" tour for Israeli apartheid, by Hannah Mermelstein | The Electronic Intifada ...Israel is desperate to salvage its global image and promote itself as a liberal democracy, but it is not working. As Idan Raichel and India.Arie continue their “Open Door” tour, people with conscience the world over are heeding the Palestinian civil society call for BDS. Cultural boycott actions highlight cultural workers’ complicity in Israel’s violations of international law and human rights, thereby opening the door to justice a little wider each day... Read more... US breakup: Myth or reality? by Professsor Igor Panarin | RT  ...During the 6 years of Gorbachev’s rule, the Soviet Union’s foreign debt grew fivefold, and earlier, during World War I, the foreign debt of the Russian empire grew 5.5 times. This, among other reasons, was enough to prompt a collapse of the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union... [I can think of worse scenarios.] Read more...Shalit deal reveals Israel's superiority complex, by Alon Idan | Haaretz ...1,027 Palestinians are worth one Jewish life not because the Palestinians minimize the importance of their own lives, but because we diminish the value of their lives. This is a mirror image of the prejudice we Israelis harbor and which has enabled the immoral activities we have sponsored for dozens of years... [This is a tribal psychology that goes back millennia] Read more... 'World furious at Palestinians' plight': Interview with Baroness Jenny Tonge | PressTV ...They really must solve this huge problem that they have made for themselves entirely their fault, they have made this problem and they have got to solve it by giving the Palestinians their land back and creating a secure and prosperous day to Palestine... Read transcript, watch video... Oct 28, 2011 Has President Obama Become a Joke? by Alan Hart | Intifada Palestine  Last Saturday in his radio address to his own people and over the internet to those around the world who still think he is worth listening to, President Obama said, “This week we had two powerful reminders of how we’ve renewed American leadership in the world.” That made me wonder which of the two d’s should be applied to him – duplicitous or deluded... Read more... Real wimps go to Tehran via Baghdad, by Pepe Escobar | Asia Times Online The new Holy Trinity mythology peddled by Washington to an unsuspecting world is that the Libya war is over, the Iraq war will be over by New Year's Eve, and the Afghan war will be over by 2014. Oh yes; and Lindsay Lohan is a reincarnation of the Virgin Mary... Read more... Former Obama envoy George Mitchell comes out as 'Israel's lawyer', by Ali Abunimah | The Electronic Intifada While he held the job of President Barack Obama’s peace process envoy, former US Senator George Mitchell generally maintained a good reputation. He came into the job with high regard because of his role in Northern Ireland. During his Middle East tenure, Mitchell was notoriously tight-lipped, allowing people to believe that behind the stony face was a tough and fair “honest broker” who would privately take Israel to task in ways that the US could not do publicly. But this was always an illusion... Read more... The arms firm behind the suppression of #OccupyOakland and Palestine's popular struggle, by Max Blumenthal | Al Akhbar English With the rise of the Occupy Wall Street, a new generation of mostly middle class Americans is learning for the first time about the militarization of their local police forces. And they are learning the hard way, through confrontations with phalanxes of riot cops armed with the latest in "non-lethal" crowd control weaponry. Yesterday's protests in Oakland, California were the site of perhaps the harshest police violence leveled against the Occupy movement so far... Read more... #OWS Rolling Update + US Revolution RECAP | Public Intelligence Blog  “#ows is growing. We will be in a thousand cities in this country by the end of the month – hundreds of cities in other countries. We will see General Assemblies on six continents.”.. Read more... Propaganda techniques | Source Watch Propagandists use a variety of propaganda techniques to influence opinions and to avoid the truth. Often these techniques rely on some element of censorship or manipulation, either omitting significant information or distorting it... Read more... OWS co-founder warns against 'totalitarian nightmare' | Poor Richard's blog The Mark Weber Report: Jews and Wall Street | Voice of Reason Broadcast NetworkThe question Occupy Wall Street activists should be asking is not what concrete results they want to achieve, but what the result will be if they don’t do anything, says Alexa O’Brien, who helped organize the first OWS protests. Instead of thinking of what the OWS movement could achieve in the long run, the main issue is what happens to the country if it remains indifferent, O’Brien believes. “What happens to our nation if we do not stand up to the centralization of power and the destruction of our civil liberties?”, she asked, adding that people “don’t want their children growing up in a totalitarian nightmare.”.. Read more, watch video... Taxonomy of the Logical Fallacies | Fallacy Files It would be a good exercise to collect some samples of writings by neocons or other hasbaratchiks, or, for that matter, most American politicians, and use this framework to deconstruct them... Read more... Killing Gaddafi | Media Lens As one surviving resident of Sirte asked: ‘What would people in Europe and America say if Gaddafi was doing this?’ The answer is hardly in doubt - wall-to-wall coverage and volcanic outrage. Gaddafi was certainly a vicious tyrant responsible for gross human rights abuses. But callous indifference to human suffering was supposed to be the reason he was so beyond the pale, so unlike ‘us’... Read more... Syria slips towards sectarian war, by Robert Fisk | The Independent  So there was the reporter from Syrian television asking what I thought of the situation in Syria, and there was I saying that you can no longer infantilise Arabs, that the uprisings/revolts/revolutions/unrest in the Arab world were all different; but that dictatorship didn't work, that if there were – if – a serious new constitution, pluralist political parties and real and genuine free elections, Syria might just climb out of its tragedy but that the government was running out of time, fast... Read more... Europe Wallows In Insolveable Problems, by Bob Chapman | International Forecaster We address this European issue, because soon it will debut in the US. The comprehensive policy response, which we have been told existed, really doesn’t exist. We found that out last Friday. All the lies of the past two weeks by various European governments and bureaucrats, as well as Mr. Sarkozy and Mrs. Merkel, were just more delaying tactics to attempt to find a solution to Europe’s financial dilemma... Read more... US crackdown on protesters 'appalling': Interview with James Fetzer | PressTV ..The situation is appalling; [former US president] John F. Kennedy observed in 1961 that those who make peaceful reform impossible make violent revolution inevitable... Read more... Pepe Escobar: NATO is the global Robocop | RT on YouTube According to some reports NATO dropped approximately 40 thousand bombs in the past seven months. This played a big part in the capture and death of Gaddafi. Many believe showing the lifeless body of Gaddafi was tasteless and the media has ignored the real issues. Who's to gain from the fall of Gaddafi?.. Watch video... Guardian columnist apologizes for 'anti-Semitic slur' | Jerusalem Post A Guardian journalist has apologized after being accused of anti-Semitism following an article in which she maintained that Israel’s eagerness to bring home Gilad Schalit was based on a “Zionist” belief that the lives “of the chosen are of hugely greater consequence than those of their unfortunate neighbors.”.. [One wonders how much longer the hasbaratchiks can continue to obscure and deny the obvious. Not all journalists will be so easily intimidated as they are at present, as awareness begins to spread and fear of the Zionists recedes.] Read more...Occupy Wall Street Launching First Nationwide General Strike In America Since 1946 | Washington's Blog General Strike, 1946. That first 24-hour period of the 54-hour strike Rumors have been flying for a week that the Occupy protesters will be launching a nationwide general strike. We have been biting our tongue waiting for a formal decision...had a carnival spirit. A mass of couples danced in the streets. The participants were making history, knew it, and were having fun. Read more... Alleged anti-Jewish sentiment in the “Occupy Wall Street” movement has raised the issue of the Jewish role in finance and business life. In fact, Jews wield vastly disproportionate power and influence in American business and finance, far more than any other single ethnic-religious group. It’s no exaggeration to say that Jews “control” Wall Street... Read more, listen... Jews and the Occupy Wall St. Protests, by Kevin MacDonald | The Occidental Observer ...Jews do have a dominant position on Wall St., a fact that has not gone unnoticed even by Jewish scholars like Benjamin Ginsberg who noted in his 1999 book The Fatal Embrace: Jews and the State that 50% of Wall Street executives were Jewish. It’s doubtless at least that high now, and that number doesn’t really get at the extent of Jewish control of key Wall St. players like Goldman Sachs (Lloyd Blankfein) and JP Morgan Chase (Jamie Dimon)... [Oops! Not kosher, not politically correct, offensive to The Tribe] Read more... Israel: The herd nation, by Yitzhak Laor | Haaretz A human herd is always a hypnotized and homogeneous one, with no ability to ask questions or act independently. And under cover of panic, one can do almost anything in its name. This is well known by everyone who makes a living off of herds - on the right and the left. The herd lavishes love on itself that turns into violent hatred of others. Or sometimes, the direction is reversed: In wartime, it begins with fire and lead, and against this background, the "we" gradually emerges... Read more... Daddy is not a nice person: The legacy of Cameron, Obama and Sarkozy, by Timothy Bancroft-Hinchey | Pravda Let this article serve for posterity, so that future generations, including the children and grandchildren of these three politicians can read these lines and judge for themselves the difference between what this demonic axis has done in reality and the nonsense they will spout forth in their memoirs. The bottom line is Daddy is not a nice person... Read more... Oct 27, 2011 Israel: Twenty Years and Counting, by Dr. Lawrence Davidson | Intifada Palestine  On February 12, 2009 then head of the CIA Leon Panetta (who is now Secretary of Defense) endorsed a secret CIA analysis “predicting the demise of Zionist Israel within 20 years if general political trends in the region continue.” [One can only hope that it will be sooner than later.] Read more... The Negev's Hot Wind Blowing, by Jonathan Cook | Middle East Research and Information Project Over the past 15 months the dusty plains of the northern Negev desert in Israel have been witness to a ritual of destruction, part of a police operation known as Hot Wind. On 29 occasions since June 2010, hundreds of Israeli paramilitary officers have made the pilgrimage over a dirt track near the city of Beersheva to the zinc sheds and hemp tents of al-‘Araqib. Within hours of their arrival, the 45 ramshackle structures - home to some 300 Bedouin villagers - are pulled down and al-‘Araqib is wiped off the map once again... Read more... 'Hannibal' policy: Israel's plan to kill its own soldiers, by Jonathan Cook | The National ...the surprising and inconvenient truth is that official Israeli institutions, including its army, value the lives of Jewish Israelis no more than they do Palestinians - except insofar as it is necessary to keep public opinion onside and the ranks of the conscript army filled. Amid all the self-congratulation, it was easy to overlook the army's view of the Shalit deal. Its commanders were not only downcast, but, it seems, determined to use drastic military means to ensure there was not a repeat of the event. Not least, they appear to be reviving the so-called "Hannibal procedure", the Israeli army's dirtiest secret... Read more... Wartime Contracting Commission Classifies Findings for Next 20 Years, by John Glaser | Antiwar ...The Commission has been at work for three years, revealing that up to $60 billion in US war funds were lost due to waste, fraud, and abuse. One report concluded that “criminal behavior and blatant corruption” were directly responsible for much of the waste in the expensive “reconstruction”projects in Iraq and Afghanistan since 2002. It also found that one in every six contracting and grant dollars spent in Iraq and Afghanistan has been wasted... [Actually, all of it was wasted - worse than wasted. And many clueless Americans wonder how the country went broke.] Read more...Immunity and Impunity in Elite America: How the Legal System Was Deep-Sixed and Occupy Wall Street Swept the Land, by Glenn Greenwald | Common Dreams As intense protests spawned by Occupy Wall Street continue to grow, it is worth asking: Why now? The answer is not obvious. After all, severe income and wealth inequality have long plagued the United States. In fact, it could reasonably be claimed that this form of inequality is part of the design of the American founding - indeed, an integral part of it... Read more... Pope Foxman "Deeply Disturbed" | Maurice Pinay Blog ...we see Pope Foxman in his edict to the Goyim proclaim that it's a damnable "major pillar of classical anti-Semitism" to recognize the fact that Judaism is not a universal religion but a tribal religion which teaches its adherents to favor the tribe over outsiders. But over here, in Foxman's inter-office memo to the tribe not meant for Goy eyes to see, Foxman admonishes the tribe to not love universally because to do so is "Judaism lite" which "brushes past the theological significance of acting on behalf of Jews.".. [Obvious to anyone who dares to look, but quite politically incorrect. On the other hand, political correctness was largely a Jewish strategy, so that's hardly surprising.] Read more...Revulsion, Resistance & Angry Words from Tripoli University, by Franklin Lamb | Intifada Palestine ...“Now the real resistance will begin! The Libyan people are now even surer than they were during this summer that the NTC sold our country to the NATO colonial countries. As NATO continues to hunt down Saif al Islam, many around our country are making Saif the new leader of the resistance to colonialism in Libya and in Africa. I personally pledge my support for him and pray that Allah will protect him. Watch what the Gadhafi tribe and my Waffala tribe do together in the coming weeks—but also starting today. Maybe NATO can be said in some ways to have won round one. But let’s see what happens in the many rounds to come.”.. Read more... Jalud: Another Day, Another Pogrom | Tikun Olam  The hooded face of the Jew Klan, settler pogromists about to wreak mayhem The High Holiday liturgy includes a moving prayer called Eyleh Ezkerah (“These I will remember”), which portrays the martyrdom of rabbis at the hands of the Romans in their struggle to suppress the practice of Judaism during Jewish revolts against Roman rule. Today, we have our own litany of Jewish pogroms in the West Bank to memorialize: two weeks ago it was Anatot, this week it’s Jalud...Read more... Dr. James Galbraith, Professional Fed Killer | The Daily Bail An important blast that few of you witnessed the first time around. Except that is for Dr. Galbraith himself, who posted this story prominently on the website for the Univ. of Texas LBJ School, where he serves as Chairman... Read more, watch video... ADL bid for U.S. bipartisan support for Israel faces staunch resistance, by Natasha Mozgovaya | Haaretz Anti-Defamation League chief Abraham H. Foxman under fire for releasing 'National Pledge for Unity on Israel,' meant to avoid Israel becoming a debate point in the road to the 2012 presidential elections... [The more light shining on the Arab Defamation League (ADL) the better.] Read more... Schopenhauer's guide for Hardcore Trolling: Part 1 - Extension | Logicien For those with a taste for philosophy, this series is a brilliant exposition of applied Sophistry (known more formally as Rhetoric). If you find yourself in a dispute with an articulate Zionist, for example an Alan Dershowitz type, you will recognize and be able to respond to the casuistry... Read more... The Anti-Semitism of Zionism's Leaders, by John Spritzler | New Democracy World ...As late as 1948 there were "between 100,000 and 114,000 displaced Jews in the American Zone of Germany. From among that group, more than 55,000 applications for emigration to the United States had been filed by the fall of 1947; and a majority of these people specified a preference of going anywhere but Palestine." About this time, Rabbi Klausner, a U.S. Army rabbi, gave a report about the Jews in the DP camps to "the Zionist-controlled American Jewish Conference" in which he stated: "I am convinced that the people must be forced to go to Palestine... Read more... Iran Air 727 landing without nose gear | Iran Affairs I am sure that everyone by now has seen the video of the Iran Air 727 airliner that landed without front wheels - a fantastic display of professionalism and skill by the pilot and other crew members - and yet ironically no one mentions that the US sanctions on selling civilian aircraft parts to Iran not only violates international law but also places the lives of innocent Iranians in danger every day... Read more... Economists: End Or Drastically Downsize the Fed | Washington's Blog ...The Federal Reserve is an enormously powerful institution, which doles out tens of trillions of dollars – many to foreign banks and governments – without democratic input of any nature whatsoever. While Fed apologists say that the bank’s “independence” must be preserved, the fact that the Fed has sent trillions overseas shows the Fed is somewhat independent of American interests. And the fact that the Fed funneled trillions to the biggest banks – instead of main street or public works projects – runs counter to the wishes of most people and of Keynes’ actual prescriptions... Read more... No Water for Arabs | Roy Tov  Basic services denied to Palestinian Citizens of Israel From time to time I get angry emails from Israelis and Jews. More often than not, the first are too embarrassed to openly admit their citizenship. Reactions vary with the topic, yet they can be accurately summarized as: “Why do you speak against us? We have suffered so much…” Invariably, they fail to see the intrinsic fallacy of their argumentation. Previous suffering – if it did take place – is not an excuse for bringing misery and terror to others..Read more... . Libya: Human rights imposters used to spawn NATO's fraudulent war, by Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya | Global Civilians For Peace In Libya The names change but the methods remain the same. In Iraq the imperial war facilitator was Ahmed Chalabi. In Libya he goes by the name of Soliman Bouchuiguir, a shadowy human rights figure whose baseless allegations against Gaddafi were endorsed by the UN system and its affiliated human rights agencies without the slightest verification... Read more... Truths, facts and facts on the ground, by Joseph Massad | Al Jazeera English Much of the international support that Israel receives is based on several lies it tells and re-tells as "facts".. Read more... The blinding power of Israel's closed information environment | Redress Information & Analysis Lawrence Davidson considers the distorting power of the Zionist thought collective on Israel’s leaders and supporters, which makes them hostile to criticism, even from friendly quarters, and blinds them to impending perils of their own making... Read more... Government funding institutions supporting Jewish terrorism | +972 Brigadier General Nitzan Alon, who left the command of the AYOSH (West Bank) Division yesterday, spoke candidly during his replacement ceremony, and called the “price tag” actions by their true name: Jewish terrorism. Alon, who was repeatedly harassed by the settlers, demanded that more be done in the battle against it. One could, of course, ask why didn’t Alon himself (who as the “military commander” in the West Bank wields the combined powers of a British occupying general and a Turkish pasha) commence this battle; why didn’t he order the destruction of the houses of suspected Jewish terrorists as the IDF destroys the houses of the families of Palestinian suspects; why didn’t he put rebellious settlements under curfew, as many Palestinians towns and villages have been so often?.. [It's not just the settlers - Israel was weaned on terrorism and will never give it up. It's in the blood, so to speak.] Read more...Pentagon game to divide Iranians and Arabs, by Sharmine Narwani | Salon A military planning exercise illuminates the story driving Washington's response to the Arab Spring... Read more... Oct 26, 2011 I Wish to Tell You about Gaza, by Lillian Rosengarten | Palestine Chronicle  'To those who were martyred for the land of sad oranges' ...I am impressed by the beauty of the Palestinians and their drive towards dignity and freedom. I am impressed by the parents of their sick children who tend them with love and much tragedy etched on their faces. So much of what I saw and heard in Gaza has left a deep black hole in my consciousness for I am aware that the crimes committed by the Zionists of Israel and completely complicit with the US are one of the greatest crimes against a population that fails to be seen as human beings. Instead Palestinians are demonized, dehumanized in an attempt to obliterate their history, their dignity and their right to exist in safety and peace. From my perspective, this is nothing short of the final chapter of the Holocaust, a tragedy from which there is no forgiveness...Read more... Gaddafi Dead: What Next? by Dr. Ismail Salami | Intifada Palestine ...why is it that the good intentions of the US government are only lavished on oil-rich countries while Palestine was deplorably ignored by the US government when Israel started a three-week bombing and invasion in 2009 in an operation known to the Israelis as Operation Cast Lead and to the Palestinians as the Gaza Massacre during which Israel unleashed a bloodbath... Read more... Lynching in Libya: Made in U$A | IAC ...The imperialist war in Libya is reminiscent of past colonial wars in Africa and Asia. Targeting of any civilian necessities, such as water, food, medicine, and communication is specifically prohibited under international law and considered a war crime under the Nuremburg and Geneva Conventions. Yet during seven months of war those are exactly the civilian targets that NATO planners focused on again and again... Read more... Netanyahu's Epitaph | Roy Tov ...Mr. Bibi are you planning peace with Abbas? If you are getting warnings from Shin Beth yes-men, then the situation is serious. Two out of the two Israeli prime ministers who made turns toward a stable peace ended their terms in odd circumstances... Read more... Gaddafi Flying White Flag When Killed, by Kurt Nimmo | Infowar  Appearing on the Alex Jones Show today, investigative journalist Wayne Madsen said his sources in Libya provided information revealing Moammar Gaddafi was set-up in an assassination plot... Read more, watch video... Leaving Iraq, US Warns Iran: 'We're Ready for Ya', by Robert Dreyfuss | The Nation ...Not that the United States is abandoning Iraq. From President Obama, Secretary of State Clinton and Secretary of Defense Panetta on down, U\S. officials are unanimous in declaring that they intend to go back to the negotiating table to make sure that the United States can send some military trainers and equipment specialists to Iraq in 2012, to help Iraq learn how to use the high-tech weapons Washington hopes to sell to Iraq in the future. And Clinton issued a blunt warning to Iran:.. [US(raeli) Middle East policy in brief: Unless you do what we tell you to do, buy what we want to sell you, sell you what we want you to buy, all on our own terms and using our banking system, you towelheads are all dogfood.] Read more...Veterans and Police Officers Support "Occupy Wall Street" Protesters | Washington's Blog ...Raw Story reports today in a story entitled, “New York cops defy order to arrest hundreds of ‘Occupy Albany’ protesters”:.. Read more... NATO Countries Set to Steal $30,000 from Each Libyan Citizen, by Scott Creighton | Poor Richard's blog The pro-Western corporatist media outlets are hurriedly trying to help spin every aspect of the murder of Moammar Gadhafi and the ongoing rape and pillage of the Libyan people’s assets. Yesterday Paul Richter of the LA Times wrote an article claiming that Moammar Gadhafi was the richest man in the world, holding some $200 billion dollars in assets hidden all over the globe. Buried deep within the body of his article, the truth finally comes out… [It reminds me of the Israeli policy of charging Palestinians for the cost of demolishing their homes.] Read more...Reckless Endangerment: Totally Corrupt America, by Dr. Paul Craig Roberts | Global Research  Read more... US anti-Iran allegations seem comedy: Interview with Jeffery Steinberg | PressTV ...One prominent TV analyst, a former judge, basically said that the whole thing smelled like a cross between an FBI sting operation and a Marx Brothers' comedy and basically pointed out that the timing of the announcement of this alleged plot came just a day after attorney general Eric Holder was subpoenaed by Congress to testify about his knowledge of a major scandal in which federal agencies allowed weapons to be smuggled into the hands of Mexican drug cartel assassins who killed several federal officials... Read transcript, watch video... Mike Bickle predicts "prison camps" for Jews, and second Holocaust | Gilad Atzmon It seems as if Israel's best allies, the Christian Zionists have a plan for the people of Israel. There is an old Jewish saying; 'tell me who your friends are and I'll tell you who you are,' and the message for Israel is pretty clear - if you go to bed with zealots, you may wake up in a 'prison camp'.. [One doesn't need the bible-obsessed lunatics to make this prediction - it's just a case of what goes around comes around, aka karma. It's an old, reliable pattern.] Read more, watch video... The Day The Zombies Realize America Has Neither A President Nor Any Presidential Candidates | Video Rebel's Blog ...Translation from Media Speak: Hey suckers, we count the votes and we never ever count votes for Ron Paul or anyone else who wants to audit the Federal Reserve and end aid to Israel. We own you and your government. You are not allowed to vote for anyone not on our approved list. You do understand that the term ‘Real’ refers to Approved By TV News. Anything not on TV is not Real and either does not exist or is a Conspiracy Theory... Read more... Everybody's Son, and 1,027 More, by Uri Avnery | Palestine Chronicle  Gaza celebrates the release of hundreds of its prisoners The most sensible – I almost wrote 'the only sensible' – sentence uttered this week sprang from the lips of a 5-year old boy. After the prisoner swap, one of those smart-aleck TV reporters asked him: “Why did we release 1,027 Arabs for one Israeli soldier?” He expected, of course, the usual answer: because one Israeli is worth a thousand Arabs. The little boy replied: “Because we caught many of them and they caught only one.”..Read more... Yes, the Middle Eastern Wars Really Are All About Oil: The Reason Behind the Wars in the Middle East | Washington's Blog ...Anyone who thinks that the Middle Eastern wars are a response to 9/11 should read this. For example, the Iraq war and [threatened] Iran war were planned before 9/11. The Afghanistan war was planned before 9/11. And – according to French intelligence officers – the U.S. wanted to run a lettuce pipeline through Afghanistan to transport Central Asian oil easily and cheaply. And so the U.S. told the Taliban shortly before 9/11 that they would either get “a carpet of gold or a carpet of bombs”, the former if they greenlighted the pipeline, the second if they didn’t... [Not to mention that the Zionists write US Middle East policy, so don't forget poor little Israel in the equation.] Read more...Murdoch vs. Occupy Wall Street | The Bloody Cross Roads ...Unlike the criminals on Wall Street, who fund and own stock in the Post, we voluntarily use our own money, not that which has been filched from the taxpayers through bailouts and other forms of corporate welfare; and we use it to feed people, not to speculate on worthless paper and pay propagandists to misinform the public... [Rupert Murdoch easily makes the 10 Most Wanted by the People list - his ugly mug should seen everywhere with a cross through it.] Read more...'Criminal network running EU economy': Interview with Rodney Shakespeare | PressTV A prominent professor of economics says that the EU economic system is run by the criminal “one percent” cabal group which is holding the “99 percent” accountable to pay... Read more, watch video... Israeli museum not so tolerant, group of archaeologists say | LA Times  A group of prominent international archaeologists are among the latest people to publicly denounce plans to build a museum on the site of a centuries-old Muslim cemetery not far from Jerusalem’s historic Old City. In a letter addressed to the board of the Los Angeles-based Simon Wiesenthal Center, the mayor of Jerusalem and the director of the Israel Antiquities Authority, all of whom are backing the controversial project, 84 archeologists argued that construction of the museum would desecrate the sanctity of the site, known to be the location of the Mamilla Cemetery, or Ma'man Allah, the sanctuary of God... Read more... Open Letter to the NTC in Libya, by Timothy Bancroft-Hinchey | Pravda I cannot address you as "dear" because my human dignity refuses to allow me to address you with a term of endearment, given the inhumane, monstrous, demonic and despicable behaviour of your hordes over the last few months since February. This letter does not mean that the struggle between good and evil in Libya is over, for evil is always evil and good always wins. The coming months and years will show very clearly what happens when foreign powers try to install bands of terrorists, rapists, racists, murderers, looters, arsonists, torturers and vandals by force... Read more... Beating the Drums of a Broader US-NATO Middle East War, by Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya | Global Research The World is at a dangerous crossroads. In the wake of the war on Libya, the tendency is towards military escalation over a region extending from the Mediterranean to Central Asia. Syria and Iran are next on NATO's military road map. The following article, originally published by Global Research in May 2008, sheds light on current US-NATO threats directed against Syria and Iran. As suggested by Nazemroaya, plans to implement a broader Middle East war have been on the drawing board of the Pentagon for several years. ~ Michel Chossudovsky.. Read more... Iran and Management of New US Scenario, by Mahmoud Reza Golshanpazhooh | Iran Review ...it is clear that the new scenario follows well-calculated objectives when one considers that the allegations have surfaced at a time that the United States is grappling with dire economic conditions and is in deep trouble due to the ongoing developments in the Middle East, Saudi Arabia’s fragile situation, shaky position of Israel in the region, Iran’s special status, forthcoming US elections and the US plan to withdraw its forces from Iraq and Afghanistan... Read more... Oct 25, 2011 Neturei Karta has a Solution to the Middle-East Problem: The Full Dissolution of the "State Of Israel" | True Torah Jews  The Palestinians want back the land stolen from them by the "State of Israel" in 1948, but this “State of Israel” will never return it to them, having “received” it from the United Nations! The creation of a "State of Israel" at the expense of the Palestinians living there was a wrong decision, a historic injustice that is unacceptable today to increasing numbers of people. This "State of Israel" must be dissolved quickly and peacefully. The danger emanating from that region can no longer be tolerated... [Disregard the religious rationale if you like, but pay attention to the prescription. I call it the Algerian (as opposed to the South African) solution, and it is the only option preferable to the usual formula for One Democratic State. With each crime the Israelis commit, the likelihood that this end result will eventually emerge increases, until the Imperial grasp on world power slackens enough so that the US can no longer provide impunity. That time is approaching rapidly.] How to Kill an Ambassador, by Philip Giraldi | Antiwar An increasing number of former intel officers that I network with are convinced that the alleged plot to kill the Saudi Arabian ambassador in Washington is not only completely implausible as described by the Justice Department and White House but also possibly the contrivance of an intelligence or security service other than that of Iran. There is a consensus that the Iranian government has no motive for carrying out the attack, as it would have only further isolated Tehran internationally and could easily have led to massive retaliation... Read more... Switching Focus from Iraq to Iran, by Ray McGovern | Consortium News You might think that by now I would be so used to infuriating neocon drivel that, to preserve my own sanity, I would avoid looking at the Washington Post or at least its editorial pages. I have tried. But it seems that after almost a half century in Washington, and particularly after the recent rash of “wars of choice,” it is simply not possible. One has to keep an eye on what bloody mischief the neocons are devising... Read more... America's Defeat in Iraq, and Iran's Gain | The Race for Iran ...The decision to invade Iraq in 2003 was America’s biggest strategic blunder since the end of the Cold War. It has done massive damage to America’s strategic position, in the Middle East and globally... Read more... Plumbing the Depths of Deception: Nancy Scola Ignores the H2Occupation of Palestine | Wide Asleep in America  An empty Palestinian agricultural reservoir ...over 60% of Israel's fresh water supply comes from Palestinian aquifers in the West Bank, illegally seized in 1967 after a conflict instigated by Israel and subsequently controlled exclusively by the Israeli government and military in occupied Palestine...Read more... The Masada Myth, by Nachman Ben-Yehuda | The Bible and Interpretation The expression "the Masada Myth" has become quite common among Israelis, and yet, the exact meaning of that expression is not entirely clear. In this short paper I shall try to describe the nature of the Masada myth, when it was created and why... [Israel was created and continues to exist on the basis of deceit, as well as blackmail, extortion and terrorism.] Read more...#OccupyWallStreet Co-opting Close Call | We Are Change Why everyone needs to get involved @ #OccupyWallStreet... Watch video... Our Prisoners Also Have a Story Worth Telling, by Joharah Baker | Relief Web ...before the press is quick to condemn the freed prisoners, perhaps they should balance their criticism for both sides. Just as Gilad Shalit was barred from family, from sunlight and from interaction with others, countless Palestinian prisoners have endured months and years in solidarity confinement, others have not been allowed family visits and still others have been subjected to severe torture methods by Israeli intelligence officers during interrogation sessions that have lasted weeks and months on end... Read more... Revealed: the capitalist network that runs the world | New Scientist  The 1318 transnational corporations that form the core of the economy As protests against financial power sweep the world this week, science may have confirmed the protesters' worst fears. An analysis of the relationships between 43,000 transnational corporations has identified a relatively small group of companies, mainly banks, with disproportionate power over the global economy...Read more... About that Iraq withdrawal, by Glenn Greenwald | Salon President Obama announced today that all U.S. troops will be withdrawn from Iraq by the end of the year, and this announcement is being seized upon exactly the way you would predict: by the Right to argue that Obama is a weak, appeasing Chamberlain and by Democrats to hail his greatness for keeping his promise and (yet again) Ending the War. It’s obviously a good thing that these troops are leaving Iraq, but let’s note three clear facts before either of these absurd narratives ossify:.. Read more... CIA & the Nuclear Black Market: A Case Study | Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs Post This is our EyeOpener Report by James Corbett, presenting the documented but under-reported facts and intrigues on AQ Khan’s nuclear network, the CIA’s knowledge and surveillance of the network from its very inception, and the collaborative efforts by the CIA and certain US politicians to fund, protect and further the network’s nuclear black-market activities and expansion... Watch video... The War on Libya and the Broader US-NATO Military Agenda, by Prof. Michel Chossudovsky | Global Research With the killing of Libya's leader Muammar Gaddafi this past week, NATO is celebrating what, in their view, is a great victory. However, this so-called "victory" has nothing to do with democracy, freedom or justice; it is part of a broad, insidious geopolitical strategy that has been on NATO's drawing board for years. And what is even more frightening than the bloodlust being shamelessly splashed across the mainstream media is the fact that this latest manoeuver is merely a small part of a much wider military agenda with potentially catastrophic consequences... Read more... Why Israel can't be a 'Jewish State', by Sari Nusseibeh | Al Jazeera English  The Hitler Youth reincarnated The Israeli government's current mantra is that the Palestinians must recognise a "Jewish State". Of course, the Palestinians have clearly and repeatedly recognised the State of Israel as such in the 1993 Oslo Accords (which were based on an Israeli promise to establish a Palestinian state within five years - a promise now shattered) and many times since. Recently, however, Israeli leaders have dramatically and unilaterally moved the goal-posts and are now clamouring that Palestinians must recognise Israel as a "Jewish State"..Read more... If Dershowitz Wants a Debate, I Will Meet Him Any Time | Gilad Atzmon It seems as if the panic around The Wandering Who has escalated tonight. According to the Jerusalem Post, the infamous Alan Dershowitz and the dubious Abe Foxman are now joining the desperate Zionist attempt to ban the book. I obviously welcome them on board... [Gilad Atzmon, the saxophone wielding Warrior, against Alan (the Worm) Dershowitz - who wouldn't want a ticket?] Read more...The History of "Pro-Democracy" Regime Change: In Bed With the NED, by George Szamuely | Global Research ...During the Cold War, the US government acquired some very bad habits. One of them was an eagerness to interfere in the domestic affairs of other countries. With supreme arrogance, the NED decides to bankroll certain foreign politicians and to undermine others. Politicians who pursue policies favored by Washington will receive US largesse. Those who pursue policies frowned on by Washington will find themselves the object of a campaign of vilification, originating in Washington and transmitted back via the well-oiled NED machine... Read more... Jewish banishment and The "City" of London | Earthlinggb's Blog  The small clique who rule the City dictate to the British Parliament ...“To the majority of people the words “Crown” and “City” in reference to London refer to the queen or the capital of England. This is not the truth. The “City” is in fact a privately owned Corporation – or Sovereign State – occupying an irregular rectangle of 677 acres and located right in the heart of the 610 square mile ‘Greater London’ area... Read more... Boomerang! Is the Pentagon Field-Testing 'Son of Stuxnet'? by Tom Burghardt | Dissident Voice When the cybersecurity firm Symantec announced they had discovered a sophisticated Trojan which shared many of the characteristics of the Stuxnet virus, I wondered: was the Pentagon and/or their Israeli partners in crime field-testing insidious new spyware?.. Read more... NATO, The Most Perfidious Instrument in the History of Humanity, by Fidel Castro | Prensa Latina ..NATO took on its global repressive role as soon as the USSR ceased to exist; it was the USSR that was taken as pretext by the United States to set up the alliance, Fidel explains and notes that NATO´s criminal objective was felt in Serbia, whose people heroically fought the Nazis troops during WWII... Read more... Pro-Israel Lobby Courts African Americans, by Ira Glunts | Palestine Chronicle Hasbara is the Hebrew word for a particular type of pernicious propaganda first employed by early Zionists leaders to explain the unexplainable actions of the Jewish administration in Palestine. In recent years, hasbara has been disseminated by certain Christian fundamentalists who believe supporting Israel brings them closer to God, and also by many members of the United States Congress who have been co-opted by the powerful pro-Israel lobby. Now the lobby has its sights set on a new group of potential collaborators: African Americans... Read more... Oct 24, 2011 A World United for Human Rights, by William A. Cook | Intifada Palestine  Today the American people, in concert with their brothers and sisters around the world, proclaim the rights to which they are entitled by birth and citizenship, by Constitutional law and Proclamation, and by membership in the collective body of nations that has universalized recognition of these rights for all humanity. And today, in cities and hamlets across this nation, and in many nations around the world, people gather in peace to demand of their governments recognition of these rights that have been abrogated by the few and denied to many... Read more... Dr Joel Hayward in the Firing Line Again, by Dr. K R Bolton | Foreign Policy Journal A Case Study in Zionist Methodology & Academic Corruption In 1993, Joel Hayward completed an MA thesis on the literature of holocaust revisionism. Hayward was of Jewish descent, was a member of the New Zealand Friends of Israel, and a co-founder of Opposition to Anti-Semitism. Yet in the course of his studies, he had come to regard holocaust revisionist literature as making some valid points. It was a controversial conclusion that nonetheless garnered Hayward First Class Honors. When in the year 2000 a University “embargo” on public release had expired, the NZ Jewish Council, and Professor Dov Bing of Waikato University launched a campaign to have Hayward’s Masterate revoked. The matter was made public by Bing, presumably on the safe assumption that the news media could be relied upon to mindlessly smear Hayward, which it duly did... [This sort of thing has happened to many other academics who dare to tell truth to power, particularly in the US.] Read more...Israel's Gilad Shalit got off lightly: Considering a Palestinian kid throwing stones gets imprisonment and mashed testicles! | Redress Information & Analysis Stuart Littlewood views the hypocrisy of Western civic leaders who are falling over one another honouring Gilad Shalit for “sitting behind his armour plate picking out soft targets among the women and children packed into the Gaza Strip” while ignoring the vilest crimes committed by Israel against civilians, including children... Read more... The lynching of Muammar Gaddafi | Voltaire Network The death of Muammar al-Gaddafi was hailed with an explosion of joy in all the government palaces of Western countries, but not by the Libyan people. For Thierry Meyssan, this militarily useless murder was perpetrated by the Empire not only as an example, but also to deconstruct Libya’s tribal society... Read more... We the 99% Demand a Totally Different Federal Budget, by David Swanson | Global Research  We can fit our demands on a bumpersticker: "Majority Rule" or "People Over Profits" or "Love Not Greed." But we don't want to. Our government is doing everything wrong, and we should be allowed to present the full list of grievances. We can, however, give the world a thousand words' worth in an image, a pie chart to be exact. Our federal budget funds the wrong things. We want it to fund the right things... Read more... Shalit deal should change Israel's stance toward Hamas, by Gideon Levy | Haaretz Even in the midst of the prisoner deal, efforts at brainwashing and sowing fear along with demonization and dehumanization continued in all their strength and ugliness... Read more... Imperialism and Democracy: White House or Liberty Square? by Prof. James Petras | Global Research The relation between imperialism and democracy has been debated and discussed over 2500 years, from fifth century Athens to Liberty Park in Manhattan . Contemporary critics of imperialism (and capitalism) claim to find a fundamental incompatibility, citing the growing police state measures accompanying colonial wars, from Clinton’s anti-terrorist laws, and Bush’s “Patriot Act” to Obama’s ordering the extrajudicial assassination of overseas US citizens... Read more... Iraqis reject US bases after military withdrawal | Rehmat's World ...US President Barack Obama declared another ‘Mission Accomplished‘ by announcing the full withdrawal of US and other foreign occupation forces from Iraq by the end of this year – a decision forced by the collapse of months-long talk between Obama administration and Iraqi government of Nouri al-Maliki. The driving force behind the collapse was no other than the Moqtada al-Sadr block in the Maliki government... Read more... IMF, EU, European Central Bank Troika: Greece Debt Sustainability Analysis | Public Intelligence  This draft analysis by the so-called “troika” of the IMF, European Commission, and the European Central Bank was leaked to a number of media outlets. Almost none of the outlets chose to reproduce the full PDF of the document, except for a few Italian economics publications. The Financial Times seems to have published the document behind a paywall... Read more... OTR - Occupy The Rockefellers | We Are Change We can occupy Wall Street and we are. Also know that most of Wall Street relies on the “Federal” “Reserve” to bail out the banks that handle the brokers accounts. However, some of the most prominent share holders of the private ”Federal” “Reserve” includes Chase Manhattan owner and once CEO David Rockefeller. Be sure to view the LEAKED speech given by David in an Invitation only Industrial Conference... Watch video... L.A. Teacher Fired for Protesting "Zionist Jews" at the Fed | Christopher Bollyn Brave people like McAllister who stand up to protest the Zionist crimocracy behind the illegal wars of conquest and the plundering of the U.S. Treasury invariably find their freedom of speech rights denied and their motivations questioned. It is certainly not "hate speech" to identify the culprits behind such massive crimes... Read more, watch video... UN Report on Human Rights Situation in Occupied Palestine | Richard Falk I am making available here my latest report to the UNGA in my role as Special Rapporteur on Occupied Palestine... Read more... Oct 22-23, 2011 Obama, The Son of Africa, Claims a Continent's Crown Jewels, by John Pilger | Global Research  On 14 October, President Barack Obama announced he was sending United States special forces troops to Uganda to join the civil war there. In the next few months, US combat troops will be sent to South Sudan, Congo and Central African Republic. They will only "engage" for "self-defence", says Obama, satirically. With Libya secured, an American invasion of the African continent is under way... Read more... Who Are the Palestinians? by Mya Guarnieri | Huffington Post The Palestinian Authority's United Nations bid for statehood is divisive. It has furthered America's and Israel's drift from the international community--and has confirmed, yet again, the United States' deep bias towards Israel. The request is also controversial within Palestinian circles... Read more... America: Now 12 Simultaneous Wars, Misery Index 36%, Third Lebanon War? When Will The Misery Index Hit 60%? | Video Rebel's Blog ...Israelis do not want the anger against the bankers who are mostly Jewish to cross over into anger against war and fuse into an anti-Zionist battle cry in the streets. That could get real ugly when unemployment and inflation surge... Read more... The truth about 'class war' in America, by Richard Wolff | The Guardian Republicans and conservatives always fight back against proposals to raise taxes on corporations and rich individuals by making two basic claims. First, such proposals amount to un-American "class warfare", pitting the working class against corporations and the rich. Second, such proposals would take money for the government that would otherwise have been invested in production and thus created jobs. Neither logic nor evidence supports either claim... Read more... Hezbollah Announces Next Targets | Roy Tov  ..On Friday, October 21, 2011, Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah said to the Lebanese Al-Akhbar newspaper that the next war with Israel will start in Tel Aviv and that Hezbollah has “many surprises” that will change the face of the region in a future war. Next time there would be no red lines, he added. What is he talking about?.. [Hey, Benito, don't mess with Nasrallah - he's got your number.] Read more...Killing Qaddafi: Murder or Vigilante justice, by Ali Younes | Palestine Chronicle ...This win, however is marred by the apparent murder of Qaddafi which would be considered a war crime to kill a captured and unarmed combatant. This is not a defense of Qaddafi, but one should not commit murder while trying to achieve justice and at the same time claiming the moral high grounds... Read more... Celebrating Palestinian Culture in the Shadows of Occupation, by Julie Holm | Palestine Telegraph When talking, reading and writing about Palestine, there is almost always one subject overshadowing everything else: the occupation. Living in the West Bank every day is a reminder of the restrictions put on the Palestinians by the Israeli government. Once in a while, however, it is possible to forget, if only for a moment, the occupation that affects almost every minute of a Palestinian’s life... Read more... America's Multi-Headed Monster | Stephen Lendman ..Today's America is too broken and corrupted to fix. Nothing short of dismantling it and starting over can work, including a new Constitution put to a national referendum to vote up or down section by section. That's direct participatory democracy, the real kind with referendum voting on major issues too important to leave solely to elected officials. Most important is making banking a highly regulated public utility, nationalizing or abolishing the Fed. Wall Street's franchise must end. Giant banks must be broken up and nationalized, insolvent ones liquidated... Read more... Time to Redefine Treason, by Gordon Duff | Veterans Today  Warning: Obscene Photo ..The point we hope to make is that “treason,” in the here and now, with secret technologies beyond human imagination available to a “select few,” with countries once thought of as progressive democracies, not only openly involved in a litany of war crimes but running vast drug cartels, the old definition of treason is, well, old...Read more... Americans Pay Dearly to Maintain Israel's Nuclear Secrets, by Grant Smith | Antiwar ..According to newly declassified FBI files [.pdf], NUMEC’s venture capitalist David Lowenthal and founder Zalman Shapiro knowingly failed to comply with even the lax AEC standards in force in the 1960s for handling radioactive waste at NUMEC. An FBI wiretap placed on Lowenthal’s phone picked up shocking news of a major illicit radioactive spill on May 5, 1969. Lowenthal and Shapiro were both under investigation for diverting enough HEU to Israel to build more than a dozen atomic weapons... Read more... JFK Versus World Zionism, by Donald J. Cassidy | Ascertain the Truth After JFK, the White House surrendered America to World Zionism. Johnson canceled all of JFK's anti-Zionist measures, the Arms Race resumed, the Vietnam War was escalated, war debt and interest skyrocketed, nuclear weaponry given to Israel, Henry Jackson in the Senate made Zionist policy Washington policy, the crew of the USS Liberty was murdered by Israel without a murmur, Treasury currency was withdrawn and interest payments to World Zionism increased, and the "flyspeck in the desert" soared from protectorate to partner to patriarch of Washington... Read more... The Roots of Christian Zionism: How Scofield Sowed Seeds of Apostasy | Ascertain the Truth Ever wonder why so many Christians support America’s many wars, especially in the Middle East? A new Christianity has emerged from the Twentieth Century called Christian Zionism or what could be called, "Angry Evangelicalism," or "Dispensationalism on Steroids." What motivates a nationally known, evangelical preacher like John Hagee to call for a preemptive strike against Iran when it is contrary to what Jesus taught and commanded his followers to do? This “Roots of Zionism” presentation may be the first of its kind with a factual explanation of how Christianity’s latest apostate epidemic was launched with the publishing of C. I. Scofield's reference Bible in 1909... Read more, watch video... Thank God for the Jewish Chronicle | Gilad Atzmon  As always, the London Jewish Chronicle (JC) is providing us with an accurate insight into Jewish influence within the media and beyond. The JC is desperate to stop my book, The Wandering Who -- and it is also foolish enough to disclose its tactics, openly revealing to us the pressure which some elements within the Jewish community are willing to mount on Britain’s leading newspapers and other outlets... Read more... Targeted for assassination by NATO? Will Seif Gaddafi Survive to Have His Day in Court? by Franklin Lamb | Intifada Palestine ...The international lawyers, whose assistance has been arranged through Gadhafi family members and friends, has accepted the obligation to represent Seif al Islam against charges filed by the International Criminal Court on June 26, 2011 and to represent him in any and all legal proceedings that the NTC government may bring against him in Libya. They have been advised by Gadafi supporters in Libya and neighboring countries that the NTC at the direction of NATO, fully intends to see Seif al Islam killed before he can address the international media and his supporters, following the transfer of his father’s leadership authority to Seif on August 29, 2011... Read more... Still Under Wraps, by Paul Balles | Intifada Palestine From a passenger ship, everyone can see a bearded man on a small island. He is shouting and desperately waving his hands. “Who is it?” a passenger asks the captain. “I’ve no idea. Every year when we pass, he goes nuts.” At times I feel like the bearded old man going nuts over the passing ship missing the point... Read more... Popular Resistance: Just two prisoners, by Mazin Qumsiyeh Western media try to make Palestinian political prisoners mere numbers while personalizing one Israeli soldier. So let me just give you the names and brief story of two of those released Palestinian political prisoners... Read more... Top Fraud Prosecutor: The Criminals Can Be Forced to Disgorge their Ill-Gotten Gains INCLUDING Bonuses | Washington's Blog ...because fraud caused the Great Depression and the current economic crisis, and the economy cannot stabilize until the rule of law is restored, and criminal fraud on Wall Street is prosecuted, suing to recoup criminally-gotten gains is the best thing we can do for our economy... Read more... Oct 21, 2011 Provoking a Path to Persia, by Maidhc Ó Cathail | Intifada Palestine  Saban is Mossad’s bagman for the biggest war criminals of our time In June 2009, the Saban Center for Middle East Policy published “Which Path to Persia?—Options for a New American Strategy toward Iran.” Writing in a tone strikingly reminiscent of the Project for a New American Century’s infamous pre-9/11 paper “Rebuilding America’s Defenses,” the six co-authors noted that, “It seems highly unlikely that the United States would mount an invasion without any provocation or other buildup.” For a think tank specifically established by media mogul Haim Saban to protect Israel, this could prove to be a formidable obstacle impeding their desired march—of U.S. troops—to Tehran...Read more... We Are Not Your Human Resources, by David Michael Green | Counterpunch ...More and more, Americans are coming to the realization that the choice between Democrats and Republicans is the political equivalent to the choice between Goldman Sachs and Citibank. That is to say, none at all. And more and more they will demand a real alternative, if only from sheer desperation... [Powerful stuff, a must read] Read more...Class War: It's About Time, by Frank Scott | Legalienate Whenever murmurs among the people indicate growing awareness that they are paying an exorbitant price in order to enrich a tiny minority, the terrified cry of “class war” is raised by the poor huddled masses of billionaires, millionaires and their corporate servants in politics and media. This contradicts the fictional notion that there are no classes in American society, that we are all “middle class” and oh, a few unfortunates are poor but that’s only temporary. As soon as their investments pay off they too will arrive at the exalted status of “middle”. That would be right after the Easter bunny delivers chocolate covered Tooth Fairies to all the little boys and girls... Read more... Britain, France, US: 'And the Winner is ...', by Eric Walberg | Global Research In the Lifestyle Sweepstakes, the Answer is "None of the Above" The economic and social experiments in the past three decades by British governments from left to right have left the plucky Brits reeling, as this summer's unprecedented bread and ipod riots showed all too conclusively. For a year now, fiscal austerity and financial chaos have sent Britain’s economy into a nasty cycle of low growth and rising unemployment... Read more... Hypocrisy knows no limits, by Mazin Qumsiyeh | Popular Resistance ...US lawmakers in congress (prostituting themselves for their AIPAC masters) are talking about Libya and Iraq paying (financially) for their "liberation" and that they expect these countries to have friendly relation with Israel! But there are already voices within Libya and Iraq who say "enough" BS. I think the Arab spring and Arab people will surprise the (Zionist) US foreign policy makers. Democracy is coming. Stay tuned... Read more... 34 years in prison, decades of selflessness, by Muhammad al Qeeq | Middle East Monitor  Nael Al-Barghouthi was among the first to resist the Israeli occupation The members of the Al-Barghouthi family are famous for their steadfastness and resistance to Israel's military occupation of their land. They have given martyrs, leaders and prisoners for the sake of Palestine. Nael Al-Barghouthi ended up as the doyen of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails. Together with his brother Omar and cousin Fahkri they became models of steadfastness for more than 30 years in the cells of the occupation authorities...as its malicious effect spread in occupied Palestine Read more... Killing Gaddafi Spares ICC Embarrassment For US & Britain, by Paul Joseph Watson | Prison Planet ...Now that Gaddafi is dead, Libya will fall victim to political extremists and face the same fate as Egypt, which since the US-backed “Arab Spring” at the start of the year which displaced Mubarak, has turned into an even worse tyranny overseen by a military dictatorship. But the mainstream networks will merely continue to broadcast scenes of cheering men firing guns into the air, selling another act of cynical neo-imperialism as a glorious liberation... Read more, watch video... Hillary Clinton in Tripoli | Stephen Lendman ...A protracted struggle remains. If the country replicates Afghanistan and Iraq, expect years more conflict. NATO never quits. Neither do committed loyalists throughout MENA countries (Middle East/North Africa) and Central Asia struggling to be free... Read more... What Is Obama Doing In Africa and Mexico? Is Germ Warfare On The Agenda? | Video Rebel's Blog ...This policy of destroying any nation capable of resiting the expansion of Israel’s borders from the Nile to the Euphrates was published by Israeli journalist Oded Yinon in 1982. But it was first announced by the Zionist leader Herzl in the 19th century. This capitulation to Israel is understandable because the sovereign American republic ceased to exist on November 22, 1963. That was the day the CIA-MOSSAD-MI6 took over the world in a coup by successfully killing President Kennedy and got away with it... Read more... Wicked Witch of the West goes to Libya | Pravda  The chief crusader arrived supposedly somewhere in Libya. The exact location is under dispute, claims that Clinton was in Tripoli are doubtful at best. She was under heavy guard and moved about in total secrecy. It was a disgusting display of imperial bombastic arrogance and pompous, pretentious theatrics... Read more... Roots World Review: Rim Bana | Gilad Atzmon ...“Zionism was an attempt to bring to the world a ‘new civilized Jew’, an authentic human being, a productive subject driven by a love of the soil and an ethical orientation. But the scale of crimes against humanity committed by the Jewish State on a daily basis for more than six decades demonstrates beyond doubt that the Zionist project has been a disaster. The Neo Ghetto society that surrounds itself with an annexation wall may well be the most brutal tribal collective in the history of the Jewish people. And this is indeed a tragedy.”.. Read more... Yes, Rejoice for Precious Shalit, But .., by Stuart Littlewood | Palestine Chronicle I was once a national serviceman myself, drafted into the military by a barmy government. So I can’t deny that I'm pleased for Gilad Shalit and his parents. No teenage soldier, especially a conscript, should spend 5 years in anyone's prison even if soldiering for the world's vilest regime. On the other hand why is there such a torrent of sympathy for Shalit when the much-hyped thousand-for-one prisoner swop leaves 8,000 Palestinians still rotting in Israeli jails, some of them having languished in captivity far longer than our Israeli hero?.. Read more... The Alleged Iran Saudi Envoy Assassination Plot: Mossad at Work, by Ismail Salami | Global Research ...The US government keeps preaching at others and talking of dismantling this or that regime which they term as 'dictatorial' or 'sponsor of terrorism'. Now that the lot has fallen to the US government itself, they are at a loss and appear despondently desperate. The implosive voice that is eroding the American system from within cannot be easily smothered or contained. Therefore, the US has to find a way to divert international attention from what is going on in the country and zoom in on Iran. This can be one simple reason but it is very plausible. However, a bigger scenario is at work in collaboration with the Mossad and other intelligence services... Read more... Britain's Own Pravda-Style Propaganda: The Statistics of Western State Terror | Media Lens Ten years later, the violent consequences of the invasion of Afghanistan are truly appalling. A Stop the War video, ‘What is the true cost of the Afghanistan war?’ details some of the appalling statistics:.. Read more... Oct 20, 2011 Uncovered: Israel's role in planned US lawsuit to fight BDS, by Ali Abunimah | The Electronic Intifada  Israel is busily attempting to disrupt the boycott, divestment and sanctions movement ...A group of pro-Israel activists, backed by StandWithUs, a national US pro-Israel US organization, is planning to take legal action to force the Olympia Food Co-op to rescind its historic decision to boycott Israeli products...in support of Palestinian liberation and self-determination Read more... Wall Street Firms Spy on Protestors In Tax-Funded Center, by Pam Martens | Counterpunch ...James Tisch, is now the CEO of the Loews Corporation and was elected by Wall Street banks to sit on the Federal Reserve Bank of New York until 2013 representing the public’s interest. (Clearly, the 1 per cent think they know what’s best for the 99 per cent.) The Federal Reserve Bank of New York is the entity which doled out the bulk of the $16 trillion in bailout loans to the U.S. and foreign financial community. Members of Tisch’s family work for Wall Street firms or hedge funds which have prime broker relationships with them... Read more... Obama Has Awlaki's 16-Yr-Old Son, Friends Killed at Dinner, by Jason Ditz | Antiwar ...Though the Obama Administration seems pretty comfortable with assassinating the elder Awlaki, even though he was a US citizen and not charged with any crimes, the killing of the assorted other people, including several teenagers, seems considerably more suspect. Killing children with missiles isn’t exactly new to the president, of course, but Abdel-Rahman’s status as a natural-born US citizen who was never even suspected of a crime is likely to make it difficult to sweep his assassination under the rug... Read more... U.S. Officials Peddle False Intel to Support Terror Plot Claims, by Gareth Porter | IPS The media stories generated by the leaks helped divert press attention from the fact that there is no verifiable evidence of any official Iranian involvement in the alleged assassination plan, contrary to the broad claim being made by the administration. But the information about the two Iranian officials leaked to NBC News, the Washington Post and Reuters was unambiguously false and misleading, as confirmed by official documents in one case and a former senior intelligence and counter-terrorism official in the other... Read more... An Education for Empire: The Rockefeller, Carnegie, and Ford Foundations in the Construction of Knowledge | Andrew Gavin Marshall ...Orientalism developed as European capitalism expanded outwards, defining an ‘us-and-them’ concept of European identity in relation to the ‘Orient’. Orientalism, then, came to embody a specific European superiority in relation to ‘other’ non-Western cultures. The underlying concept of Orientalism was that the non-Western world was inherently and radically “different” from (and inferior to) the West. Hence, as a ‘discipline’ or “style of thought,” Orientalism came to justify European dominance over inferior “others.” Area studies thus took up this mantle, aiming to categorize, study, and ‘understand’ particular non-Western areas of the world with the objective of exerting authority and domination over them... Read more... Hawks Behind Iraq War Rally for War With Iran, by Jim Lobe | Antiwar  Key neoconservatives and other right-wing hawks who championed the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq are calling for military strikes against Iran in retaliation for its purported murder-for-hire plot against the Saudi ambassador. Leading the charge is the Foreign Policy Initiative (FPI), the ideological successor to the Project for the New American Century (PNAC), which played a critical role in mobilizing support for “regime change” in Iraq in the late 1990s and subsequently spearheaded the public campaign to invade the country after the 9/11 attacks... [If Obama really wants to off the bad guys, he could start with this rogue's gallery] Read more...The Legend of Sirte, by Jeremy Salt | Palestine Chronicle A legend is being created that is going to haunt the people who have been propelled into power in Tripoli. In Sirte a handful of men have set an example of bravery in the face of impossible odds that will eventually find its place in Arab history. Weeks of missile and bomb attacks have reduced the centre of the city to ruins and killed an unknown number of civilians. The photos coming out of the city show Beirut-style devastation. The fighters defending the city would seem to be doomed. They have their backs to the sea and are surrounded on three sides. We don't know who they are or how many of them there are... Read more... The Christians of the Orient stand up against the new Western colonialism, by Thierry Meyssan | Voltaire Network The war against Syria, planned by the United States, France and the United Kingdom for mid-November 2011, has been blocked in extremis by the Russian and Chinese vetoes at the Security Council. According to Nicolas Sarkozy, who informed the Maronite Patriarch of the matter during a stormy meeting at the Elysée Palace on 5 September 2011, the plan contemplates the expulsion of Middle East Christians by the Western powers. In this context a press campaign is underway in Europe to accuse the Christians of the Orient of collusion with the dictatorships. Mother Agnès-Mariam of the Cross, mother superior of the monastery of James the Mutilated in Qara (Syria) responds to this war propaganda... Read more... Obama's Imperial Arrogance | Stephen Lendman Candidate Obama promised peace. As president, he double downed Bush and then some, waging multiple direct and proxy wars. The business of America is war. Washington has a permanent war policy... Republicans and Democrats perpetuate it... Read more... The Suicide of Liberty: The Transformation of the US into a Police State, by Dr. Paul Craig Roberts | Global Research ...Considering the endless wars and astounding hypocrisy and immorality associated with white America since the collapse of the Soviet Union two decades ago, the world is likely to cheer when power slips from the hands of what Leonard Jeffries termed the “ice people,” that is, people without souls or feelings for others... Read more... Spare a thought for the 8,000 Palestinian prisoners | Redress Information & Analysis Stuart Littlewood highlights the hypocrisy of Britain’s Israeli stooges, foremost Prime Minister David Cameron and Defense Select Committee Chairman James Arbuthnot who, while rejoicing over the release of Israeli prisoner Gilad Shalit, are happy to ignore the fate of 8,000 Palestinian prisoners languishing in Israeli prisons and Israel’s utter disregard for international humanitarian conventions... Read more... Government Now Officially Above the Law | GRTV on YouTube  Manhattan Federal Judge Alvin Hellerstein has declined to hold the CIA in contempt for destroying videos that it had been ordered by the courts to preserve... [Alvin K. Hellerstein is the judge who handles all 9-11 litigation. His son is an Israeli lawyer who emigrated to Israel in 2001 and whose law firm works for and with the Rothschild-funded Mossad company responsible for the 9-11 terror attacks. ~ Christopher Bollyn] Watch video... The occupy Iran Fast and Furious plot, by Pepe Escobar | Asia Times Online ...The US government expects an unsuspecting world to believe that a washed-up car salesman in Texas was tasked by a select intelligence arm of the Iranian government to fish for anyone who looked like a Mexican drug gangster and then order them a US$1.5 million hit on the Saudi ambassador in Washington - in the meantime promising them unfettered access to "tons of opium"... Read more... US Begins Huge Military Maneuvers Aimed at Iran, Paul Joseph Watson | Prison Planet ...during US Defense Secretary Leon Panetta’s October 3 Tel Aviv visit, Israeli hawks attempted to persuade Panetta to give the green light for a military strike on Iran. Within ten days, details of an alleged assassination plot against a Saudi ambassador emerged and the foiled attack was blamed on Iran. Innumerable experts immediately voiced their doubts about the authenticity of the plot, with 21-year CIA veteran Robert Baer labeling the story “a truly awful Hollywood script”.. Read more... Charles Lindbergh: A Courageous American's Prophetic Voice, by Mark Weber | IHR ...During his lifetime he made a mark not only as a pioneering global aviator, but also as an award-winning author, environmentalist and anti-war activist. Given the scarcity of truly heroic Americans during the past century, he towers as a man of exemplary accomplishment and courage. He deserves to be remembered today not only as an authentic American hero, but also because much of what he wrote and said is relevant in our own age. Indeed, some of his remarks have proven to be prophetic... Read more... A harvest of tears: Palestinian agriculture continues to suffer as a result of ruthless Israeli policies, by Dr. Hanan Chehata | Middle East Monitor It is olive harvest season once again in the Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPTs) and something unusual is taking place, something unique to this region. Unlike most harvests around the world which are collected either by local farmers or migrant workers, in the case of Palestine people are literally flying in from all over the globe, albeit in very small numbers, in order to participate in the olive picking season. This is not due to a cultural tradition or as a communal celebration or festival, but to a sense of solidarity... Read more... "Greater Israel" or Peace?: Interview by Scott McConnell | The American Conservative  Pathbreaking scholars Norman Finkelstein and John Mearsheimer speak out about the precarious future of the Jewish state... [Either Israel has no future or humanity has no future - which would you choose?] Read more...Which Of These Candidates Was Chosen For Us By The CIA-MOSSAD-MI6? | Video Rebel's Blog ..I once participated in a typical American election in which the Democrat was a member of the Trilateral Commission headed by Sir Evelyn de Rothschild in Europe and by David Rockefeller in North America. The Republican candidate was a member of the Bilderberg Society headed by David Rockefeller in North America and by Sir Evelyn de Rothschild in Europe. So, if both men are friends of the Rothschilds and the Rockefellers, which one should we place our election bets on?.. Read more... The Federal Reserve and Bank of America Initiate a Coup to Dump Hundreds of Billions of Dollars of Losses on the American Taxpayer | Washington's Blog ...you would expect this move to be driven by adverse selection, that it, that BofA would move its WORST derivatives, that is, the ones that were riskiest or otherwise had high collateral posting requirements, to the sub. Bill Black confirmed that even though the details were sketchy, this is precisely what took place... Read more... 'US, Israel greatest aggressors': Interview with James Fetzer | PressTV ...Since the Iranian revolution of 1979, Iran has attacked no countries. But during that same period of time, Israel attacked Iraq in 1981; it invaded Lebanon in 1982; in September, it bombed Syria; in 2006, it attacked Lebanon; in February 2008, it raided Gaza, and Israel, again, attacked, killing Hamas members in November; in May of 2010, Israel attacked the international flotilla killing multiple Turkish citizens. And during that same period of time, the United States has engaged in no less than around 60 attacks on other nations including El Salvador in 1980; Lebanon in 1982; in 1983, Honduras; in 1983, Kuwait; in 1987, Panama; in 1988, Liberia; in 1990, Sierra Leon; in 1990, Bosnia-Herzegovina; in 1993 to the present, the Central African Republic; in 1996, Albania; in 1997, Cambodia, Afghanistan and the Sudan... Read more... Getting banished by the Jewish Federation on Yom Kippur, by Cecilie Surasky | Muzzle Watch What does Chabad Rabbi Manis Friedman have that I don’t have? Is it the beard? The religious authority? Or is it the record of advocating for the killing of Arab women, men and children? Why does he get to stay on the Jewish Federation’s much promoted Jewish Heroes competition list, while I was unceremoniously deleted - without explanation - this morning, less than 24 hours after a story about my nomination appeared in JWeekly, the Bay Area Jewish paper... [I can remember a time in my life, many decades ago, when it was possible for a Jew, like myself, to be proud of being Jewish. That time is long gone. Now one can feel only revulsion and shame.] Read more...How the U.S. Might Have Fabricated Iran's Plot to Assassinate the Saudi Ambassador: Framing Iran? by Ben Rosenfeld | Counterpunch ...If you stand on a pedestal and proclaim yourself the world’s foremost open society and guarantor of human rights, then embark on a massive killing spree across the world, shocking, awing, droning, disappearing, torturing, endlessly detaining, occupying, and humiliating countless people, “justified” by a pile of lies, all the while insisting your s–t don’t stink, people are going to want to take you down a notch... Read more... Lebanon's Palestinians Require UN Action to Obtain Civil Rights, by Franklin Lamb | Intifada Palestine  Jalil refugee camp, Baalbek, Lebanon Jalil Refugee Camp is located about 90 km east of Beirut near Baalbek in the Bekaa valley and is home to approximately 8000 of the World’s most destitute Palestinian refugees. It is usually referred to as “Wavell Camp”, after the British Field Marshal Archibald Percival Wavell’s time at the former French military base during World War II...Read more... The book they don't want you to read | Gilad Atzmon Here we go again: Jewish Zionists and Jewish ‘anti-Zionists yet again join forces to burn a book that, amongst other things, explores the Jewish culture of book-burning. Is this a coincidence? I don’t think so... Read more... Podcast Oct 14, 2011 | The Ugly Truth Eyewitness to Israeli brutality in Gaza - we are honored to be joined by Palestinian journalist Sammi Ibrahem as he recounts some of his personal experiences dealing with God’s Chosen Terrorists during his youth in occupied Gaza... Listen... Fighting for the Soul of the American Dream, by Stephen Lendman | OpEd News Republics are nations where heads of state aren't monarchs or despots in which citizens elect officials to represent them... Read more... Government Front Group Vows to Abolish Critical Thinking, by Paul Joseph Watson | Prison Planet Government front group Demos, an integral part of the British establishment which was founded by Marxists, is terrified that children are using the Internet to question what they are taught in school, and has vowed to abolish any such critical thinking to reinforce the education system’s role as a tool of indoctrination... [It's even worse in the US, where a thoroughly indoctrinated public remains essentially clueless. OWS is an amorphous reaction to this state of affairs.] Read more...Unfolding a plot: Mossad at work, by Ismail Salami | PressTV ..The US government keeps preaching at others and talking of dismantling this or that regime which they term as 'dictatorial' or 'sponsor of terrorism'. Now that the lot has fallen to the US government itself, they are at a loss and appear despondently desperate. The implosive voice that is eroding the American system from within cannot be easily smothered or contained... Read more... Life in East Jerusalem | Stephen Lendman Palestinians suffer grievously under occupation, including in East Jerusalem. Israel wants it entirely Judaized as its capital even though legally it's an international city under UN trusteeship... Read more... Occupy Assange: 'Corrupt banks, corrupt cash' | RT on YouTube The founder of WikiLeaks, Julian Assange, attended the protests in London that are part of a worldwide action against corporate greed and austerity measures. Assange said that he was there to show his solidarity with the Occupy London movement, which was inspired by the Occupy Wall Street protests in the US... Watch video... Five Banks Account For 96% Of $250 Trillion In Outstanding US Derivative Exposure, by Tyler Durden | Global Research The latest quarterly report from the Office Of the Currency Comptroller is out and as usual it presents in a crisp, clear and very much glaring format the fact that the top 4 banks in the US now account for a massively disproportionate amount of the derivative risk in the financial system... Read more... Revealed: Fox's best man and his ties to Iran's opposition, by Jane Merrick and James Hanning | The Independent  Liam Fox on his wedding day, with Adam Werritty, right ..Mr Werritty, 33, has been debriefed by MI6 about his travels and is so highly regarded by the Israeli intelligence service Mossad – who thought he was Mr Fox's chief of staff – that he was able to arrange meetings at the highest levels of the Israeli government...Read more... NATO: Dancing with the Devil in Libya, by Timothy Bancroft-Hinchey | Pravda If there was ever any doubt in anyone's minds as to what is really going on in Libya, this weekend proved once and for all that NATO's terrorist "rebels" are about as popular and wanted as an intruding drunkard bawling obscenities from the back of the church at a funeral service. The people of Libya do not want gangs of fanatics running amok... Read more... Is Anyone Dumb Enough to Believe that Obama Supports the 99%? | Washington's Blog ...Forget what you’ve been taught … the mainstream Democrats and mainstream Republicans are virtually identical on all core matters. Don’t fall for the old divide-and-conquer trick... Read more... CIA Advertises Its Takeover of Local Law Enforcement, by Kurt Nimmo | Prison Planet ...The FBI and the CIA are putting the finishing touches on a political surveillance police sate apparatus. It is being sold under the phony rubric of terrorism prevention, never mind terrorists the government offers as examples are by and large clueless patsies, drunks and drug addicts, the mentally ill and loudmouthed miscreants who make the mistake of talking about al-Qaeda or agreeing with agents provocateurs to bomb airports and other targets despite the fact they are mostly incapable of doing so.. Read more, watch video... Libya: Human rights impostors used to spawn NATO's fraudulent war, by Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya | Voltaire Network The names change but the methods remain the same. In Iraq the imperial war facilitator was Ahmed Chalabi. In Libya he goes by the name of Soliman Bouchuiguir, a shadowy human rights figure whose baseless allegations against Gaddafi were endorsed by the UN system and its affiliated human rights agencies without the slightest verification... Read more... Lies, Damn Lies, and NATO Claiming Control Across Libya | Stephen Lendman ...NATO is a rogue killing machine. It's mission isn't liberation. It's slaughtering, ravaging and pillaging for power and profit. Wherever it intervenes, human misery follows. Death, disease, starvation, deprivation and desperation haunt the living. Libya is one of history's great crimes. Against overwhelming odds, loyalists tied down the world's mightiest military force for seven months, determined to resist, live free, and rebuild... Read more... Britain's Own Pravda-Style Propaganda: Ten Years Of ‘Involvement’ In Afghanistan | Media Lens Imagine Britain had been invaded and occupied by armed forces from another region of the world with China, for example, as a significant ‘partner’ in the ‘coalition’. Imagine tens of thousands of Britons had been killed, and millions had fled as refugees. This is how the Chinese state broadcaster might report the invasion ten years hence: 'It’s ten years this week since Chinese forces first became involved in Britain, and more than five years since they assumed responsibility for south-east England. So what's been achieved in that time?'.. Read more... America's FBI goes rogue on Iran | Redress Information & Analysis Lawrence Davidson looks at the questionable behaviour of the FBI, which has used the illegal practice of entrapment to concoct the Iranian plot story, and the environment of hypocrisy, political lobbies, self-serving interest groups and public indifference that permits such behaviour to take place... Read more... Oct 18, 2011 L.A. City Council Votes to Support Occupy LA | KCET  Hundreds of Occupy LA members are camping outside Los Angeles City Hall Occupy LA has gained the official support of the Los Angeles City Council after it unanimously approved a resolution Wednesday afternoon. It now heads to Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa for his approval or veto... Read more... No tears for warmonger Fox, by Stuart Littlewood | Intifada Palestine The powerful Israel lobby will no doubt be sad to see their man go... Read more... Israeli Eviction Order For The Bedouin Of The Jordan Valley, by Antoine Raffoul | Intifada Palestine ..We enclose a Notice which, like many hundreds of them, will be served (in Hebrew of course) by the Zionist authorities, upon the Palestinian indigenous population of the Jordan Valley in yet another attempt at stealing and confiscating their Palestinian property in broad daylight while the world (and the PA) looks on... [When the inevitable finally happens - in 5, 10 or 25 years, however long it will take - the new government of Palestine will be able to immediately serve notice on the Israelis (in Arabic) merely by substituting the term "Jews" for "Bedouin" using this regulation as the template. After all, it's already written up in impressive "legal" language. At that point, the world might begin to recover its balance and its sanity.] Read more...Theater of the absurd: Israel's endgame, by Ramzy Baroud | PressTV ..While Netanyahu is a rightwing zealot without a shred of respect for international law, he is also a pragmatic leader. He understands that international support for Palestinians and the growing isolation and the 'delegitimization' of Israel (a mainstream topic of discussion in Israel today) are still not enough to alter facts on the ground. They will not impede the construction of the illegal 'Separation Wall' or slow down Israel's colonial ambitions. The reason for this is US support... Read more... Mapping America's Shadowy Drone Wars, by Tom Engelhardt and Nick Turse | Antiwar ...two quite separate universes are simply located in the vicinity of each other and of what, since Sept. 12, 2001, we’ve been calling Ground Zero. Think of it as Ground Zero Doubled, or think of it as the militarized recent American past and the unknown, potentially inspiring American future occupying something like the same space. (You can, of course, come up with your own pairings, some far less optimistic.) In their present state, New York’s finest represent a local version of the way this country has been militarized to its bones in these last years and, since 9/11, transformed into a full-scale surveillance-intelligence-homeland-security state... Read more... 1 Marine vs. 30 Cops (Marine Wins) | YouTube United States Marine Corps. Sgt. Shamar Thomas from Roosevelt, NY went toe to toe with the New York Police Department. An activist in the Occupy Wall Street movement, Thomas voiced his opinions of the NYPD police brutality that had and has been plaguing the #OWS movement... Read more, watch video... Who is the 'one percent' rich in USA? | PressTV  Fortune 500 has issued a list of S&P 500 companies along with their 2010 financial details. Along with American billionaires and millionaires, the 500 companies are believed to form a main part of the “One Percent” rich in America. Recent anti-Wall Street protesters blame the One Percent for their desperate economic situation... Read more... Illegal Jewish settlers continue attacks against Christian and Muslim places of worship, by Samira Quraishy | Middle East Monitor ..Since 2010, there have been 27 documented attacks on mosques in the occupied West Bank and Jerusalem carried out by Israeli settlers, the Israeli occupational forces and, sometimes, both together. There have also been 3 documented attacks on churches in the occupied Palestinian territories... Read more... Any friend of Israel is a friend of Elie Wiesel, by Carolyn Yeager | Elie Wiesel Tattoo ...Wiesel is an unabashed supporter of Israel. Like John Hagee and Alan Dershowitz, he excuses the excesses of the State of Israel on religious grounds … the religion of Zionism and the religion of the Holocaust. It’s time for left, liberal Jews to do more than take up the cause of Palestine by criticising Israel’s violence and brutality. They need to look at the whole, rotten story of King Wiesel – and the rest of the ‘survivors’ he symbolically represents. They can begin that unpleasant task right here at Elie Wiesel Cons The World... [A small quibble - Jewish Zionism is a tribal, fascist political ideology, not a religion like the Holycause. Christian Zionism, on the other hand, resembles a religion, but is just a pathetic doomsday cult.] Read more...Morbid Addiction: CIA & the Drug Trade | Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs Post Just as the British Empire was in part financed by their control of the opium trade through the British East India Company, so too has the CIA been found time after time to be at the heart of the modern international drug trade. From its very inception, the CIA has been embroiled in the murky underworld of drug trafficking... Read more, watch video... Can the West Reply? by Huma Nawaz | Opinion Maker 9/11 is the day in the history that shook the whole world. The day changed the course of the history, for the last 10 years are still the Iraqi, Afghani and Pakistani innocent civilians who are paying the price for that. The country which suffers more than any other is Pakistan... Read more... Truth and Falsehood in Syria, by Jeremy Salt | Counterpunch 23 Reasons Why We Should be Careful About Uncritically Accepting Western Views of the Syrian Insurrection... Read more... Oct 17, 2011 The Real Enemy of the Palestinians, by Dr. Elias Akleh | Intifada Palestine  ... Israelis, themselves, are as much victims as the Palestinians although to a much lesser extent. Those Israelis are being misguided, mass-brainwashed, and militarily driven by deliberately distorted and misinterpreted theology, political Rabbis, and Western Zionist imperialist powers to execute the colonial Zionist project of establishing Greater Israel in the heart of the Middle East... Read more... War by Deception Extra | YouTube The defense industry makes money off of ANY conflict so why Iraq? Because there were a threat to Israel. We could have bought the oil for FAR less than what it cost to steal it. Big oil did not create ANY of the lies that lead to war, and yet PNAC wrote ALL of them. This was a war for and by Israel... Watch video... The Diary of Anne Frank - Genuine? by Prof Robert Faurisson | IHR For two years that question was included in the official syllabus "Text and Document Criticism," a seminar reserved for degreed students in their fourth year. The conclusion of my studies and research is that The Diary of Anne Frank is a fraud... Read more... Ditlieb Felderer on the Anne Frank diary | YouTube Swedish researcher, author and expert on Auschwitz Ditlieb Felderer discusses how the Anne Frank diary was discovered to be a hoax... Read more... Corporate-Fascists Clamor for Iran War, by Tony Cartalucci | Prison Planet ...America’s policy... is in fact produced by these unelected, nebulous private institutions. Despite the different logos and rhetoric wielded by each of these institutions, they consist of the same members and same corporate-financier sponsors and merely specialize in executing different aspects of the corporate-financier agenda... Read more... Shalit is returning to a state in psychosis, by Gideon Levy | Haaretz Israeli society now wraps itself in a self-righteous cloak of self-praise: How concerned we are about the fate of a single soldier. And what about the fates of many soldiers, of an entire army, an entire people?.. Read more... Occupy Together mass movement rolls across Europe | RT on YouTube Protesters nicknamed "The Indignant" marched in major European cities Saturday as demonstrations against corruption, capitalism and austerity measures went global. The "Occupy Wall Street" protests that began in Canada and spread to cities across the U.S. moved Saturday to Asia and Europe, linking up with anti-austerity demonstrations that have raged across the debt-ridden continent for months... Watch video... Liam Fox Is Not a 'Useful Idiot' | Gilad Atzmon A rather stinky Israeli espionage mole has just been exposed in Britain. Yesterday, Liam Fox, the Defense Secretary, resigned following revelations about his dubious relationship with Adam Werritty... Read more... Oct 16, 2011 Occupy Wall Street Continues and Expands  A Brief Message for Humanity: We Want to be Free! | Andrew Gavin Marshall ..The people of the world are waking up, rising up, acting up, fed up, not giving up, but getting up, standing up, climbing up… looking up. Around the world, in every place, in every case, in every situation, circumstance, and altercation, the powers of our world, sitting firm in their positions, atop the institutions of our domination, proffering the ideas of our indoctrination, seek to confuse, divide, control, co-opt, crush, define, repress, overrun, undermine, and cause distress… to all those people, everywhere, who look forward with new eyes, crying out to the world, and in to themselves, “We want to be free!”.. Read more... US incapable of making serious reforms: Interview with Danny Schechter | PressTV The Occupy Wall Street movement's short and sweet message, “99 percent vs. one percent,” focuses on economic inequality that drives the movement... Read more, watch video... Michael Moore Take 2: Redemption on the Federal Reserve? @ #occupywallstreet | YouTube Watch video... From Argentina to Wall Street, by Benjamin Dangl | Al Jazeera English ..Faced with such immediate economic strife and unemployment, many Argentines banded together to create a new society out of the wreckage of the old. Poverty, homelessness and unemployment were countered with barter systems, factory occupations, communally-run kitchens and alternative currency. Neighbourhood assemblies provided solidarity, support and vital spaces for discussion in communities across the country. Ongoing protests kicked out five presidents in two weeks, and the movements that emerged from this period transformed the social and political fabric of Argentina... Read more... 'Indignant' protests to sweep across world | The Raw Story “Indignant” activists, angered by a biting economic crisis they blame on politicians and bankers, vow to take to the streets worldwide on Saturday in a protest spanning 71 nations. It is the first global show of power by the movement, born May 15 when a rally in Madrid’s central square of Puerta del Sol sparked a protest that spread nationwide, then to other countries... Read more... An Insidious Threat to the Occupy Movement, by Ismael Hossein-Zadeh | Counterpunch The threat I am referring to is not that of being pepper-sprayed, arrested, beaten or imprisoned. It is a different type of threat: a stealthy challenger that while pretending to advance the goals of the Occupy Movement tends to undermine it from within—more or less like the proverbial elephant in the room... Read more... America’s ‘Primal Scream’ by Nicholas Kristof | NYT ..Economists used to believe that we had to hold our noses and put up with high inequality as the price of robust growth. But more recent research suggests the opposite: inequality not only stinks, but also damages economies... Read more...  I want one of those with the Obama crew Globalist Warlord Obama Moves to Expand Africom Reach, by Kurt Nimmo | Prison Planet In addition to his wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, those underway in Yemen and Somalia – and coming soon in Iran – the warlord Obama is now dispatching troops to Uganda to do battle with the wacky yet murderous Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA)... Read more, watch video... Kenney blasts AI for demanding Bush's arrest | Rehmat's World “Canada is required by its international obligations to arrest and prosecute former president Bush given his responsibility for crimes under international law including torture,” Amnesty’s Susan Lee said in a statement... Read more... The Nonsensical Alleged Iranian Plot And The End Of All Reason, by Madison Ruppert | Intel Hub In order to believe the latest flight of fancy promulgated by Washington, one must suspend any and all logic, reason and plain old common sense. Let’s not forget that one must also ignore any knowledge of Iranian strategy, the operations of the Quds Force and the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) in general... Read more... 'Ofcom to shut Press TV over alt. news' | PressTV Britain's Office of Communications (Ofcom) has drawn criticism from the international spectators of Press TV following the British media regulator's decision to ban the law-abiding Iranian news network... Read more, watch video... Foreigners Dump $74 Billion In Treasurys In 6 Consecutive Weeks: Biggest Sequential Outflow In History | Zero Hedge ...We also proposed a far simpler theory: "the dreaded D-day in which foreign officials and private investors finally start offloading their $2.7 trillion in Treasurys with impunity (although not with the element of surprise - China has made it abundantly clear it will sell its Treasury holdings, the only question is when), has finally arrived.".. [Well, the inevitable is going to happen sooner or later and the colossal Ponzi scheme will come to its predetermined end.] Read more...The Iranian "Plot" by Alexander Cockburn | Counterpunch ..utter absurdity in allegations leveled by the US government is no bar to a deferential hearing in our nation’s major conduits of official opinion. Suppose the CIA leaks a secret national security review concluding that the moon is actually made of cheese, and the Chinese are planning to send up a pair of gigantic bio-engineered rats to breed in numbers sufficient to eat the cheese and thus sabotage US plans for Missile Defense radar deployment on the moon’s dark side... Read more... Crisis for Billionaires, by Israel Shamir | Counterpunch The fate of Qaddafi hovers like Hamlet’s father’s spirit over many a presidential and managerial desk. The Libyan leader amassed a fortune, some for himself and his family, some for his nation. He placed it in various banks, funds and shelters, and it turns out that instead of greenbacks he could have amassed so many beautiful reddish maple leaves with greater satisfaction and safety. With a wave of their hands, the US and its allies froze the assets and later stole them... Read more... The Price of the Libya Intervention: Surface to Air Missiles for All, by Conn Hallinan | Antiwar ...When the mujahideen went home, they took the war with them, to Yemen, Somalia, Pakistan, India, the Philippines, Indonesia, Central Asia, North Africa, and a host of other places. They also permanently altered the skyline silhouette of New York City. In the annals of disastrous "blowbacks"—unintended consequences flowing from a policy or event—U.S. support for overthrowing the Afghan government and supporting the mujahideen has little competition... [A few more "humanitarian" interventions and Humanity may become extinct.] Read more...There Never Was an Egyptian Revolution, by Ahmed Amr | Dissident Voice The thrill is gone, the euphoria has faded and our mass delusions have been swept away to make room for the reality that there never was an Egyptian revolution. Eight months after deposing the old despot, Egypt is now in the firm grip of a new and improved military dictatorship – the Supreme Counsel of the Armed Forces. Any lingering doubt about the intentions of the generals to retain command and control of the ship of state vanished on Bloody Sunday... Read more... Terror plot gets even better | The Vineyard of the Saker ...Time to bomb them Mullahs to teach them some lessons in democracy! And while the bombs begin falling on Tehran, we can quietly crush the Egyptian revolution, kill more Palestinians, strengthen al-Qaeda in Libya, kill ourselves some more Shias in Bahrain, send more weapons into Mexico, begin some drone strikes in Syria to "protect peaceful civilians", send more aid to the "Jewish State of Israel with its Eternal and Undivided Capital Jerusalem and Only Democracy in the Middle-East", denounce upcoming elections in Venezuela as a fraud, increase drone strikes in Pakistan and Yemen, vow to bring Georgia into NATO, etc. Maybe then fewer people will notice the complete collapse of the Empire's economy... Read more... Oct 15, 2011 Remaining Human: A Buddhist Perspective on Occupy Wall Street, by Michael Stone | Elephant Journal  ..These protests are reminding us that with a little imagination, a lot can change. We are witnessing a collective awakening to the fact that our corporations and governments are the products of human action. They aren’t serving anymore, and so it is in our power and in our interest to replace them. We are not fighting the people on Wall Street, we are fighting this whole system. Žižek, the protestors, the Buddha and Shitou share a common and easily forgotten truth: We cause suffering for ourselves and others when we lose our sense of connectedness. We are the 99 percent but we are dependent on the 1 percent that control forty percent of the wealth. Those statistics reflect grave imbalance in our society... Read more... Pepe Escobar: Iranian plot was an inside job | RT on YouTube A US government informant acting as a member of the Zetas, a drug cartel in Mexico, helped thwart an Iranian plot to assassinate the Saudi Arabian ambassador to the United States on American soil. Now Obama's top national security aides are seeking new international sanctions against Iran. Pepe Escobar, correspondent for the Asia Times, tells us who's to gain from the situation... Watch video... No Way Home for Gilad Shalit | Roy Tov ...It doesn’t take peeling much of this onion to see the remarkable amount of financial gains – and media quiet – achieved in this agreement. That’s why Netanyahu signed it after being blessed by Shimon Peres (who is closely related to the Shin Beth and very ironically called Netanyahu a “brave man”) and Yoram Cohen, the head of the Shin Beth. Violent reactions began shortly afterwards and from some unexpected directions... [The whole affair underlines the fact that the Zionists consider only Jews to be real human beings. Everyone else is treff, unclean, and expendable.] Read more...Brilliant Protest Art | Washington's Blog  Israeli society is standing by as settlers take the reigns | Haaretz ...Even if some day the right is no longer in power or Israel is forced to give in by dint of international sanctions, policy in the territories will not change substantially, because there the rioters are in control, in cooperation with the police and the army and with the general consensus of silence. They hold all the cards; threatening the possibility of a violent uprising against any government that does not serve their interests... [It may be that the South African model (the One State Solution) has become moot, and the only remaining remedy is the Algerian solution. In the immortal words of Helen Thomas, "Let them go back to wherever in hell they came from." Many Israelis would do that in a heartbeat - if they could afford it.] Read more...Where Did Herzl Go Wrong? by Uri Avnery | Palestine Chronicle ...Right from its founding, the State of Israel became the Holocaust-state. But we are not a helpless ghetto anymore – we have powerful armed forces, we can indeed do unto others as others have done unto us. The old existential fears, mistrusts, suspicions, hatreds, prejudices, stereotypes, sense of victimhood, dreams of revenge, that were born in the Diaspora, have superimposed themselves on the state, creating a very dangerous mixture of power and victimhood, brutality and masochism, militarism and the conviction that the whole world is against us. A ghetto with nuclear weapons... Read more... Unhappy Nation: Americans distrust corporatocracy | RT on YouTube Public distrust towards the U.S. government's also growing, according to the latest polls. More than two thirds of Americans now say they're unhappy with Washington. And as RT's Gayane Chichakyan reports, the White House and Congress are heavily influenced by equally unpopular powerful corporations... Read more... Jeff Halper's Fall 2011 US Speaking Tour | ICAHD  ICAHD Director Jeff Halper will speak in California, Arizona, New Mexico, Massachusetts, New Jersey, and New York later this month... [Don't miss it if he's going to be in your area - Jeff is one of the few non-Palestinian heroes in this struggle. He's a Jew who made Aliyah decades ago and discovered first hand what was going on in Israel/Palestine - and decided to do something about it.] Read more...Lobby boots Surasky from Jewish 'Heroes' Contest | Rehmat's World ...The Jewish Community Heroes contest is an annual event run by the Jewish Federations of North America (JFNA). 331 persons were nominated for 2010 contest. Cecilie Surasky made the top ten most voted nominees. However, while celebrating Yom Kippur, JFNA officials pulled her name from the contest website. Her crime; well she is a ‘Self-Hating Israel-Threatening (S.H.I.T)‘ Jewish woman. Her organization Jewish Voices for Peace doesn’t believe in the existence of ‘Jews only’ Israel... Read more... Wheels Come Off Phony Iran Terror Plot, by Kurt Nimmo | Infowars The bogus plot cooked up by the FBI and DEA to frame a used car dealer and claim he tried to set up an assassination plot at the behest of Iran’s Quds is coming apart at the seams. Hillary Mann Leverett, a former official in the Bush administration, says the supposed plot makes no sense... Read more, watch video... Back to Basics in Palestine: Time for Unity, Synergy and Mobilization | Palestine Chronicle  Palestinian freedom is non-negotiable Susan Abulhawa presents an argument to abandon all negotiations with Israel and to abandon calls for the One State and Two State solutions; and in fact, to abandon academic debates on a political construct in favor of embracing the basic calls of Palestinian civil society for essential human rights...Read more... Obama: Most Warmongering President of Modern History, by Kurt Nimmo | Infowars Now that Obama appears ready to start World War III – or IV, depending if a neocon is doing the recounting – we should take a stroll down memory lane and take a look at the record. It turns out Obama is more of a warmonger than his predecessor, not that diehard Democrat supporters are paying much attention (they only hate it when establishment Republicans are killing women and children)... Read more, watch video... Targeting Iran: US Playing the Saudi Envoy Game, by Ismail Salami | Palestine Chronicle ...US officials will use the fabricated occasion to press for new international sanctions as they say that Iranian agents have sought to hire a purported member of a Mexican drug cartel to assassinate the Saudi envoy on American soil. Regardless of the impertinence and hollowness of the claim, one should not disregard the influence of the powerful Zionist lobby in the new mudslinging plan which is, as Iran's Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani puts it, a 'tactless and childish game.”.. Read more... Oct 14, 2011 Wall St: 'Needed - a new old economic primer', by Eric Walberg | World News  The gathering momentum of protest in the US is charting new old territory. It is time to reflect on how we got here The current crisis of capitalism is textbook Marx. Greedy capitalists, craven politicians, scheming bankers, dispossessed masses. It is also textbook Lenin. Imperial wars awakening the masses to revolt – though the days of Lenin’s competing empires are over. Rather, we are all one big happy family...Read more... Lessons Learned, by Mazin Qumsiyeh | Sharing the Land of Canaan It has been over three years since I returned to Palestine from living in the US for nearly three decades. Those three plus years in Palestine have been truly phenomenal and inspirational. I took time to change and update the lessons I learned from life especially from those three years (and from >30 years of activism)... Read more... Jews Talking To Themselves | Gilad Atzmon ...Zionism that was there initially to ‘liberate’ the Jew is, in practice, just another method of blind observance. In a Talmudic manner, Zionism would cling to legalism and avoid any form of ethical thinking. This fact alone explains why Israel is the biggest threat to humanity and humanism... Read more, watch video... Israel and Libya: Preparing Africa for the 'Clash of Civilizations', by Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya | Global Research ...In this, his third of four installments, Nazemroaya removes the U.S./NATO fig leaf and what he reveals are the abhorrent, obnoxious, inhumane, and cynical machinations of the pro-Israel Lobby that is the only political force that seems to be able to command the mightiest of militaries and the strongest of leaders to act in ways that threaten the peace and tranquility of their own political parties and national security of their own governments. Indeed, by its policy to support Israel, no matter how belligerent its policies, the United States has eroded its own national interest, as warnings from U.S. military leaders continue to point out... ~ Cynthia McKinney Read more... For the Heart and Soul of the Movement, by Richard Edmondson | Left-Wing Christian  Are the ‘Occupy America’ protesters perhaps beginning to look just a little bit like the 3 monkeys? Monday I reported on attempts to silence blogger John Friend at an Occupy San Diego protest a few days ago. Friend got up and began to speak about the corrupt banking system, and everything was going along just peachy—peachy, that is, until midway through his talk when he shifted the topic to Israel and 9/11... Read more... FBI Insider: Obama Administration Likely Manufactured Dubious Terror Plot, by Paul Joseph Watson | Prison Planet Retired U.S. Army Lieutenant Colonel Anthony Shaffer says that an FBI insider told him the dubious terror plot to assassinate a Saudi ambassador which has been blamed on Iran was likely manufactured by the Obama administration, because no information about the plot even exists within FBI channels... Read more, watch video... Transparent Lies from the Division of Dumb and Dumber | Smoking Mirrors ...we knew the day was coming. We knew it was a matter of time and it would probably happen in October a few days, a week, ten days before Palestine went to the UN and laid claim to a small portion of what had always been theirs, until the false nation of Israel stole it in order to set up a criminal enterprise that now has a large part of the world on the brink of; who knows what? Doubt the reality of that? Then reality isn’t a familiar resident in whatever world you have convinced yourself is real... Read more... Not so much a murder plot as a screenplay, by Adrian Hamilton | The Independent You couldn't make it up. An Iranian-American paying $1.5m to Mexican drugs gangsters to assassinate the Saudi ambassador to Washington, and all at the behest of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps back in Tehran. All we needed was a beautiful blonde to entrap the Arab and Jason Bourne to rescue him from certain death and the scenario would be complete... Read more... The economics of the Arab Spring, by Adeel Malik and Bassem Awdallah | Al Jazeera English After emergency laws are lifted, constitutions are drafted and elections are held, policymakers in the Middle East will be faced with a tough practical challenge: how to create economic opportunities for its teeming millions? Arab revolutions had a clear economic underpinning: they were fuelled by poverty, unemployment and lack of economic opportunity. At the heart of these uprisings is a search for social and economic justice. While political repression in the Middle East remains a subject of continuous discussion in media and academic circles, the scale and intensity of the region’s economic repression has gone relatively unnoticed... Read more... Declaration of a Bantustan in Palestine, by Haidar Eid | Al Jazeera English  Israel has erected as many as 573 permanent barriers The "induced euphoria" that characterises discussions within the mainstream media around the upcoming declaration of an independent Palestinian state in September ignores the stark realities on the ground and the warnings of critical commentators. Depicting such a declaration as a "breakthrough", and a "challenge" to the defunct "peace process" and the right-wing government of Israel, serves to obscure Israel's continued denial of Palestinian rights while reinforcing the international community's implicit endorsement of an apartheid state in the Middle East...and checkpoints as well as 69 'flying checkpoints' Read more... Protesters - And Perhaps States - Consider Launching Their Own Currency | Washington's Blog ...As counter-intuitive as it sounds, experts say that the current money-creation system is the exact opposite of what everyone thinks. In fact, loans are created first, and then “money” is created second to fund the loans. And some experts say we don’t even need money in the traditional sense. As such – even though the Fed doesn’t like competition (all of our bills are “Federal Reserve Notes”) – there is actually tremendous flexibility in creating currency systems, as long as there is agreement by enough people to use them and accept them as payment... Read more... Panic of the Plutocrats, by Paul Krugman | NYT It remains to be seen whether the Occupy Wall Street protests will change America’s direction. Yet the protests have already elicited a remarkably hysterical reaction from Wall Street, the super-rich in general, and politicians and pundits who reliably serve the interests of the wealthiest hundredth of a percent... Read more... John Pilger - Civil disobedience is the only way now | YouTube .."The war on Afghanistan was a fraud right from the beginning, just as the attack on Iraq was a fraud and the invasion of Libya is a fraud.".. Watch video... The Myth of American Exceptionalism, by Stephen M. Walt | Foreign Policy  ...Most statements of "American exceptionalism" presume that America's values, political system, and history are unique and worthy of universal admiration. They also imply that the United States is both destined and entitled to play a distinct and positive role on the world stage. The only thing wrong with this self-congratulatory portrait of America's global role is that it is mostly a myth... Read more... Massacre in Maspero: The Second Egyptian Uprising, by Ahmed Amr | Palestine Chronicle The thrill is gone, the euphoria has faded and our mass delusions have been swept away to make room for the reality that there never was an Egyptian revolution. Eight months after deposing the old despot, Egypt is now in the firm grip of a new and improved military dictatorship – The Supreme Counsel of the Armed Forces. Any lingering doubt about the intentions of the generals to retain command and control of the ship of state vanished on Bloody Sunday... Read more... 'Price Tag': Israel Lays Ground for Anti-apartheid Struggle, by Jonathan Cook | Palestine Chronicle Jewish far-right groups responsible for a series of arson attacks on West Bank mosques over the past year broke dangerous ground last week when they turned their attention for the first time to holy places inside Israel. A mosque was torched, followed days later by an attack on Muslim and Christian graves. In each case the settlers left their calling card – the words "Price tag", indicating an act of revenge – scrawled on their handiwork... Read more... Al Jazeera's truth to power, by Clayton Swisher | Al Jazeera English Nine months ago, when Al Jazeera and the Guardian jointly published the Palestine Papers, revealing the scale of concessions secretly made by Palestinian negotiators in a decade of talks with Israeli leaders, we were accused of biased, agenda-driven coverage. As head of the investigative team that produced the papers, I was accused on live television by the chief Palestinian negotiator, Saeb Erekat, of being a CIA agent on a mission to destroy the chances of Palestinian statehood. Today Ofcom, which was asked by the PLO to investigate whether our coverage had been unfair to both it and to Erekat, published a 19-page ruling that unequivocally vindicates our coverage... Read more... Obama's Depression, by Stephen Lendman | War Is A Crime Chosen to serve power, not popular interests, Obama wrecked America's economy to save giant Wall Street banks. He's still doing it, despite claiming he's been out in front doing all he can. By bailing out too-big-to-fail banks and waging multiple imperial wars, he intensified social misery. As a result, Main Street is mired in protracted Depression... [This comes as no surprise to those (especially Lendman, who is both Jewish and a resident of Chicago), who are aware that Obama was selected and continues to be handled by the Chicago Jewish political mafia.] Read more...Oct 13, 2011 Occupy Wall Street Continues Über-Vultures: The Billionaires Who Would Pick Our President, by Greg Palast | Truthout  The Koch Brothers, from "The Joker's Wild" deck of cards The untold story of the sources of the loot controlled by Paul "The Vulture" Singer, Ken Langone and the Kochs - and why they need to buy the White House... Read more... The Big Picture: A 40-Year Scan of the Right-Wing Corporate Takeover of America, by Colin Greer | AlterNet ..The conservative ascendancy is hardly an overnight phenomenon. Rather, it represents a dynamic shift in American politics that has taken place over more than 40 years, beginning in the 1970s. During this time, conservative billionaire donors, corporations and the Chamber of Commerce, all invested in conservative think-tanks and communications infrastructure, while Fox News, Rush Limbaugh and a broad and deep media network of right-wing pundits have come to dominate the public discourse... Read more... Occupy Wall Street: Rumble from the People, by Ralph Nader | Palestine Chronicle Inside the barricading bubbles surrounding the Wall Street plutocrats and the Washington oligarchs who service them, there must be worry. After three years of disclosed 'lying, cheating and stealing' as one prosecutor put it, with nary a visible stir from the masses, suddenly the barricades are beginning to quiver... Read more... Occupy Wall Street, corporate fascism, by Marc Adler | The Bloody Cross Roads Humanity faces a daunting battle against corporate forces that have historically proved willing to employ any means necessary to preserve an evil system. The police brutality and corporate funding aimed at crushing Occupy Wall Street hint of the savagery unleashed by corporations in countries around the world over the past 150 years. Yet the recent crackdown has provided our rebellion with an extraordinary public relations weapon by demonstrating the veracity of our charges against a ruthless system that despises democracy and justice... Read more... Are Americans Finally Waking Up? | Washington's Blog ...Compare Zbigniew Brzezinski’s statement that the whole world is becoming awakened, and people everywhere are aware of inequities, lack of justice and lack of respect. With this statement by Christopher Greene that Americans are finally waking up to being ripped off by the big banks, Federal Reserve and their enablers in the executive and legislative branches... Read more, watch video... Occupy This: US History exposes the 1%'s crimes then and now, by Carl Herman | Nonpartisan Examiner ...This 6-article series documents the history of criminality of the 1%’s Wars of Aggression and War Crimes. The power of this history is to reveal that the 1% lies, kills, and loots as their usual business. We the People, the 99%, have historically been distracted by political and media rhetoric that propagandized the crimes... Read more... Gaza represents the ultimate failure of politics, by David Miliband | The Guardian  Government is all about statistics. But life is about people, and the disjunction between the two explains a lot about the cynicism and disaffection with politics. This is true for domestic policy, but also in international affairs, where the confusion and fatigue induced by distance is increased by the seemingly intractable nature of many of the problems... Read more... Caribbean Sea Pirates in Crisis, by Israel Shamir | The Truthseeker The crisis peaking in Britain is of a Caribbean-sea-pirate type: long time no trophies, while lifestyle has to be maintained. Neoliberal policies have undermined the toughest folk on earth, hard-working, prudent, obedient, stiff-upper-lipped red-faced Brits, the people who managed India, burned down the White House and withstood Hitler. Their backbone – Yorkshire miners and Sheffield steel workers – was broken by their Golders Green grocer-at-large, a.k.a. the Iron Lady. She folded down the industries, and turned the Isles into a Tortuga-like pirate paradise, a place for financiers to relax, unwind and plan their raids... Read more... "Champion of Israel" in UK Cabinet Liam Fox self-destructs | Redress Information & Analysis Stuart Littlewood argues that the strange relationship between UK Defence Secretary Liam Fox and the spiv Adam Werrity is not the only example of Fox’s poor judgment, noting that he is an Israel stooge whose affinity to the Zionist state has given him a highly distorted reading of the Middle East... Read more... Nablus sisters fall victim to yet another hit and run crime | International Solidarity Movement  The father and brother of the hit and run victims Sajah, 19, and Ahlam Bilal, 18, from Kufr Qaddoum were injured on Tuesday October 4th by Israeli settler, Eliyaho Miller, on the main road in Huwara. The two women were walking to Ibn Sina College of Nursing where they are studying when the settler crashed his vehicle into the women. After he hit them both and Sajah was thrown 10 meters from the accident, he attempted to flee the scene by foot. Miller was stopped by a Palestinian taxi driver until the Israeli police came to make a report...[Will they even slap him on the wrist? Unlikely. Not in a country run by like-mindedpsychopaths.] Read more... Palestinian Hero Gilad Shalit Freed | Roy Tov ...Under the state-sponsored Stasi-styled propaganda, the Israeli Administration makes efforts – from Hollywood to Wall Street – to portray itself as an organization concerned with personal suffering of its citizens and soldiers. Yet, if looking at its actions, time and again we find a different attitude. The Iron Dome anti-missiles system is not being developed to protect Sderot, but to defend Singapore against highly paranoiac presumed attacks. Shalit freedom is of no consequences; in fact his captivity is much more profitable for the Zionist Deep Pockets’ Oligarchy. But, five years? Even gullible Israelis begin to suspect after so long... Read more... The price of torching mosques: Israel lays ground for anti-apartheid struggle | Redress Information & Analysis Jonathan Cook argues that a likely response of Palestinians in the occupied territories and Israel to growing Jewish violence is a civil rights movement with a simple rallying cry – "one person, one vote" – voiced to a world exasperated by Israel's racism and self-destructive behaviour... Read more... Rick Perry travel bankrolled by activist rabbi Irwin Katsof, by Kenneth P. Vogel | Politico Rick Perry is talking up his travels to Israel on the stump — a line that’s likely music to the ears of an activist rabbi who made the governor’s last two trips happen. The rabbi, Irwin Katsof, has spent years recruiting American officials to participate in lavish trips meant to strengthen U.S.-Israel economic and political ties... Read more... A Palestinian political prisoner's take on Israel's protest movement, by Ameer Makhoul | The Electronic Intifada  The people demand social justice! But for all? ...the contradictory nature of “social justice,” as this universal value is understood on Tel Aviv’s Rothschild Blvd., silences all issues of injustice related to the Palestinian people. I am not just speaking of Palestinians in the West Bank, the Gaza Strip and in exile, but also those who are Israeli citizens, who suffer daily from land confiscation, racist legislation, the non-recognition of their villages by the state and the Judaization of the Naqab (Negev) and the Galilee...Read more... Political Prisoners, by Mazin Qumsiyeh | Popular Resistance It is good news that over 1000 Palestinian political prisoners will be released in a prison swap deal. But there are still thousands of Palestinian political prisoners. This Saturday we will be discussing in our cultural group the new book by Marwan Barghouthi about his life behind bars. He will apparently not be part of this prisoner exchange deal neither will Ahmed Saadat of PFLP nor other key leaders... Read more... Iran seizes 250 tons of narcotics | PressTV “We have seized about 250 tons of traditional narcotics like opium, hashish, morphine and heroin being trafficked from Afghanistan. The amount shows an eight-percent increase compared with last year,” said Ali Mobedi, the head of Iran's Drug Control Headquarters, on Tuesday. He went on to say that the Iranian officials, during the same time interval, have seized 140 percent more crack cocaine, compared with last year. “About 85 percent of the drugs were seized exactly on the border of Iran and Afghanistan,” the official pointed out, stressing that the detained amount is enough to destroy the whole human population... [That must have put a crimp in the CIA's revenues - a small one, though, in their multi-billion dollar Afghan drug trade.] Read transcript, watch video... UNRWA: Israel becoming 'more efficient' at displacing Palestinians | Maan News Agency  ...Israel's civil administration routinely destroys Palestinian structures built without Israeli permission in the 62 percent of the West Bank designated Area C under the Oslo Accords. "Systematic and widespread administrative destruction of a range of civilian structures in area C, including homes, schools and cisterns, has been taking place since the end of 1980s,".. Read more... Funding the messiah of racist incitement, by Sefi Rachlevsky | Haaretz Nir Ben-Artzi is a messiah. The fact that he has no basic or religious education and worked as a tractor driver until the revelation has turned him into an interesting case to be studied. The strangeness of the messiah and his ignorance gave his inner circle great power - like Nathan of Gaza for Shabbetai Zvi. In the case of Ben-Artzi, things reached the point where he claimed he had been kept locked up by his aides, who compelled him to sign a confession that he had had sex with a minor and with an animal. Meanwhile, his barely educated aides took control of the believers' monetary donations... Read more... Afghanistan: Ten Years of Tragedy and Misguided Policy, by Ramzy Baroud | Palestine Chronicle ..The war remains repulsive 10 years after the US began attacking the poorest country on earth. This latest crime against humanity in Afghanistan is a continuation of a trend that has spanned decades. Unfortunate Afghanistan was designated a pawn in a great game between powerful contenders vying for strategic control and easy access to natural resources. Throughout history Afghanistan has been brutalised simply because of its geographical location... Read more... Oct 12, 2011 More on Occupy Wall Street  Occupy Wall Street: The Most Important Thing in the World Now, by Naomi Klein | The Nation ..If there is one thing I know, it is that the 1 percent loves a crisis. When people are panicked and desperate and no one seems to know what to do, that is the ideal time to push through their wish list of pro-corporate policies: privatizing education and social security, slashing public services, getting rid of the last constraints on corporate power. Amidst the economic crisis, this is happening the world over... Read more... 10 Things to Know About Wall Street's Rapacious Attack on America, by Les Leopold | AlterNet ..My favorite sign held by an occupier is painted on a skateboard: “This is what Freedom Looks Like.” My son would agree. And my recurring thought is, “It’s about f’ing time.” What took us so long? How much worse did it have to get before public outrage would finally focus on those who caused the problem and those who are milking us dry? Several of us have been pleading in blog after blog for more than two years to build a broad-based assault on Wall Street... Read more... Study: Wealthy Stockbrokers More Dangerous Than Psychopaths, by David Sirota | Alternet Like most people living through this jarring age of economic turbulence and political dysfunction, you can probably recall a moment in the last few months when you thought to yourself that our lawmakers and corporate leaders are all crazy. And not just run-of-the-mill crazy, a la George Costanza's parents, but the kind of crazy that makes films like "Silence of the Lambs" and "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" so frightening... Read more... 'US democracy is a sham' | PressTV As the 'Occupy Wall Street' protests in New York City's financial district show no signs of abating, other movements are rapidly mushrooming in other cities of the United States... Watch video... Why the Elites Are in Trouble, by Chris Hedges | Truthdig ...These protesters have not come to work within the system. They are not pleading with Congress for electoral reform. They know electoral politics is a farce and have found another way to be heard and exercise power. They have no faith, nor should they, in the political system or the two major political parties. They know the press will not amplify their voices, and so they created a press of their own. They know the economy serves the oligarchs, so they formed their own communal system. This movement is an effort to take our country back... Read more... Do We Need Banks, Or Can We Cut Out the Middleman? | Washington's Blog Virtually all independent economists and financial experts agree that the economy cannot stabilize or recover unless the giant, insolvent banks are broken up (and here and here). And the very size of the big banks is also warping our entire political system. Politicians are wholly bought and paid for... Read more... Boston mayor says he sympathizes with protesters, but they can't tie up the city | The Boston Globe .."The message they are saying ... is the middle class of America is having a difficult time. That's the issue they are trying to get across," Menino said. "I agree with them on the issues. Foreclosure. Corporate greed. These are issues I've been working on my entire career. But you can't tie up a city," he said... Read more, watch video... A Right Derived From Might: The Real Story of How Israel Was Created, by Alison Weir | Counterpunch  ..The common representation of Israel's birth is that the UN created Israel, that the world was in favor of this move, and that the US governmental establishment supported it. All these assumptions are demonstrably incorrect... Read more... Can you spot the difference? | YouTube Last year two major protests made the news for bringing attention to the Israeli Occupation and other violations of international law committed by the Israeli government. On September 23rd, UC Irvine students stood up to protest Israeli Ambassador Michael Oren. On November 10th, inspired by the students at the UC Irvine, young attendees at the Jewish Federations of North America General Assembly stood up to the protest Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Can you spot the difference between them?.. Watch video... Supremacism Revisited | Gilad Atzmon ...It's now clear to me why Jewish ethnic leaders toss around the 'White Supremacist' label. It is there to divert attention from the true depth of their own Jewish Supremacism, an ideological tendency deeply embedded in every form of Jewish identity politics. For every Jewish political collective is a 'Jews only' exclusive club concerned primarily with Jewish particular interests... [What is commonly termed "Supremacism" is actually the hallmark of fascism] Read more...The murder of Americans: Existence of secret kill lists now admitted by lawless White House, by Mike Adams | Natural News You know things are bad in the realm of tyranny when even Reuters runs a story that admits the White House openly engages in the outright murder of U.S. citizens whom the White House deems "enemies." In an article entitled, Secret panel can put Americans on "kill list".. Read more... Stop all US aid to Israel, by Jihad el-Khazen | Middle East Monitor  ..The United States economy is in a mess and the country is near-bankrupt, whereas Israel is doing very nicely, thank you, not least because of the direct and undeclared assistance of more than $10 billion a year it gets from American taxpayers. This huge sum is taken from increasingly poor American citizens thanks to the US Congress, which has been more or less bought by the pro-Israel Lobby. No foreign policy decisions are made by Congress without the approval of the Lobby... Read more... Musings of a Self-Hating Jew, by Saul Landau | Counterpunch 63 years ago most Jews rejoiced over the birth of Israel. Some thought it would become the place where a new vision of socialism with justice and equality would arise. Clearly, not all Jews believed that -or in those values... Read more... An investigation into the transformation of Jerusalem after 1967, by Dr. Daud Abdullah | Middle East Monitor Israel's occupation of Jerusalem has for all intents and purposes strangled its Arab population. The restrictive policies enforced in; construction, planning, land appropriation, investment in infrastructure and services are all geared to force the flight of Palestinians and realize the Judaisation of the city. Consequently, every aspect of Palestinian life has been blighted by neglect, discrimination and deprivation... Read more... The "Generous" Offer, by Eve Spangler | Counterpunch ...Serious thinkers have already turned their attention to the challenges implicit in the death of the two state solution - for example, Salman Abu Sitta's ground-breaking work showing how many Palestinian refugees come from Israel's least settled areas and could return there with much less disruption than is generally supposed. What kind of legal formulas might safeguard the cultural and ethnic heritage of Christians, Muslims and Jews in a single state?.. Read more... America's Conquest of Africa: The Roles of France and Israel, Introduction by Cynthia McKinney | Global Research  Read more... Financial Polarization and Corruption: Obama's Politics of Deception, by Prof. Michael Hudson | Global Research ..The problem facing Mr. Obama is obvious enough: How can he hold the support of moderates and independents (or as Fox News calls them, socialists and anti-capitalists), students and labor, minorities and others who campaigned so heavily for him in 2008? He has double-crossed them – smoothly, with a gentle smile and patronizing patter talk, but with an iron determination to hand federal monetary and tax policy over to his largest campaign contributors: Wall Street and assorted special interests – the Democratic Party’s Rubinomics and Clintonomics core operators, plus smooth Bush Administration holdovers such as Tim Geithner, not to mention quasi-Cheney factotums in the Justice Department. .. Read more... Chicago's Elders of Zion and Obama's War for Profit | Christopher Bollyn ..Because the scale of the war-for-profit scam is so immense, an example comparing what the money wasted on the wars could have bought for the American people is helpful: The U.S. military spends an estimated $20 billion a year just to air-condition its tents and bases in Iraq and Afghanistan. This is equivalent to 20 years of funding for Amtrak, the sorely neglected U.S. passenger rail system... Read more... The class warfare the rich don't understand, by Heather Digby Parton | Al Jazeera English One would have thought that in 2011, the term "class warfare" would be as out of fashion as Nehru jackets, but after watching the Republicans spend the first two years of Obama's presidency apoplectic over what they defined as hard core socialism put in practice, it stands to reason the old standard would make a comeback. No matter what you call it, rich people complaining about taxes is evergreen. It is also completely ridiculous... Read more... Oct 11, 2011 Gilad Atzmon on Jewish Identity Politics: Calling Out the Tribalists, by Kathleen Christison | Counterpunch  ...It is Zionism’s tribal exclusivism that has killed Palestinian aspirations to freedom and a national identity. And it is the widespread liberal Jewish—and Western—failure from the beginning to recognize the realities of Zionism that has silenced the Palestinian voice for 60-plus years and prevented any just resolution of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. As a self-defined Jewish state, Israel is by definition non-democratic and tribal and, whether innocently or not, its supporters have been perpetuating its exclusivist, anti-universalist mandate since the days, well before 1948, when Zionists conceived the notion of dispossessing and dispersing the Palestinians so that Jews could have exclusive access to Palestine, and then carried through with this massive injustice... Read more... A State is Born in Palestine, by Ronen Bergman | NYT ...The decision is viewed in the Arab world as “the great crime,” and Palestinian leaders, including the current president of the Palestinian Authority, Mahmoud Abbas, regard it as the original sin that led to the catastrophe, the nakba, that befell their nation — a disaster they now want the General Assembly to remedy. What is not widely known is how a possibly pro-Arab committee, or at least one that was supposed to be neutral, came to issue a report that led directly to the establishment of the state of Israel... [How the crime was perpetrated - fascinating] Read more...Palestine and Israel: phony peace negotiations or rule of law, which is it to be? | Redress Information & Analysis Stuart Littlewood challenges his Member of Parliament, Henry Bellingham, to provide a rational and truthful explanation of Britain’s continuing support for the non-existent “peace process” between Israel and the Palestinians in preference to the rule of law – or justice and liberty... Read more... The acts of perfidious traitors throughout Jewish history, by Uri Avnery | Haaretz ...One can draw countless examples from the histories of other peoples too. At times of crisis, the real patriots, those who call for peace and compromise, – in short the “lefties,” – are considered traitors, whereas the nationalists of all types, the warmongers, the inciters of hatred, are perceived as patriots. It is of them that the British man of letters Samuel Johnson said that “patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.”.. Read more... US Envoys from Hell, by Eric Walberg | Palestine Chronicle  Ben Obama and Pastor Wright ...Former president Clinton's counsel Abner Mikvner was not joking when he claimed back in 2008 that "Barack Obama is the first Jewish President." Obama's complete surrender to the Israel Lobby as his first term winds up has been attributed to the need to court the Jewish vote as he gears up to campaign for a second term. But maybe it's just inevitable, given the lobby's complete control of American politics as witnessed by the 29 standing ovations...Read more... I Weep for My Nation, Mr. President, by Katherine Barwick | Palestine Chronicle ...Why are we so afraid to stand up to Israel, the country that is the recipient of most of our tax money…the same country that blatantly ignores every UN Resolution concerning the Middle East…the same nation that contrary to UN orders, continues to build settlements and occupy land that is not rightfully theirs…the same country that openly practices state-supported terrorism of a people who, like David, throw stones at the Israeli Goliath who responds with tank fire, gas and bullets…the same country lead by a man who continues to openly insult you and our people?.. Read more... The End of Poverty | YouTube Global poverty did not just happen. It began with military conquest, slavery and colonization that resulted in the seizure of land, minerals and forced labor. Today, the problem persists because of unfair debt, trade and tax policies — in other words, wealthy countries taking advantage of poor, developing countries... Watch video... Israel's top critic attacked by Jewish Group, by Ronan Macfield | Palestine Telegraph A number of so-called “Pro Palestinian campaigners” are planning a picket against the musician and activist, Gilad Atzmon, in London Monday, 10/10/2011. The campaigners suggest that Atzmon is harmful for the Palestinian solidarity. However, the man is reported to be one of the top critics of Israel and its deadly policies in the Middle East... [Go get 'em, Gilad] Read more...What is the Occupation the Beginning of? by John Spritzler | Turn the World Upside Down ..I hope it inspires the 99% with a vision of a non-capitalist society based on equality and concern for one another and genuine democracy instead of the opposite values held by the 1%. And I know that such a mass, popular revolutionary movement, if we build it, will be able to defend itself against all of the violence that the ruling class will try to use to stop it from making a new and better world... Read more... Oct 10, 2011 Anatot Pogrom Victims Suffered Sexual Abuse | Intifada Palestine  ‘The True Right’ with caption: ‘Nazileftist smashed with blows.’ ... what Idan Landau has done is to focus very specifically on the level of sexual violence meted out to the female protesters by the settlers. But not just by the male settlers, by the female settlers specifically. I’ve read about the violence of which settlers are capable for years. That’s nothing new. But what Idan has collected in his blog post is new...Read more... Obama at the General Assembly: Sacrificing Palestine for Zionist Campaign Funds | James Petras There are two views of Obama’s speech to the General Assembly on September 21, 2011, and his opposition to the recognition of Palestine as a sovereign state and its admission to the UN. The common opinion of foreign policy experts was that Obama led the US to an ignominious diplomatic defeat, deepening US isolation in the international system... Read more... Suppressing the truth: US and Israeli cover-ups | Redress Information & Analysis Paul J. Balles argues that the US and Israel “have apparently adopted a war machine of unmanned drones to eliminate any enemy – real or perceived”.. Read more... Torah Jews: Probably The Only Jewish Ethical Collective | Gilad Atzmon As far as I am concerned Torah Jews are the only peaceful Jewish collective that is also coherent, ethical and authentic. They are also totally modest. I have never heard any of these Rabbis telling Palestinians or solidarity activists how to run the Palestinian state or how to manage a solidarity movement... Watch video... 1,000 Jews gather at Wall St. for #occupy-yomkippur Kol Nidre | +972  Kol Nidre on Wall Street When new media activist Daniel Sieradski, a.k.a. the Orthodox Anarchist, a.k.a. @mobius1ski , suggested having an ad hoc Kol Nidre minyan on Wall Street, in solidarity with the Occupied Wall Street movement, he wondered if he would succeed in attracting 20 participants (an egalitarian minyan of 10 men and 10 women)..Read more... Panetta to Netanyahu: "Israel May Not Survive the Current Arab/Islamic Awakening, by Franklin Lamb | Al Manar Three weeks after being named by President Obama in January 2009 as the 19th Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and during his first day on the job which was February 12, 2009, Leon Panetta, now US Secretary of Defense, signed off on a March 2009 “eyes only” CIA Report that had just been completed by his new agency... Read more... 'US will stop funding Israeli crimes': Interview with Franklin Lamb | PressTV ..The American people have no stomach for this and I don't think that Obama can sustain this current course of his of groveling to Israel in terms of the United Nations fiasco and now UNESCO. This clear message is that the Zionist apartheid Israel has no place in the region, and it has no place in asking for its 6 billion dollars a year handout from the American tax payer. We're fed up... Read more, watch video... US, UK will never halt Israeli Violations: Interview with Victor Kattan | PressTV A prominent political analyst says the United States and Britain have never seriously demanded that the Israeli regime stop its illegal expansion of settlement units in the occupied Palestinian territories... [More realistic, unfortunately, than Dr. Lamb's view] Watch video...Oct 9, 2011 Deepak Chopra interviewed by We Are Change @ #occupywallstreet | YouTube  Luke Rudkowski asks Deepak Chopra what he thinks meditation will do for occupy wall street protesters, as well as thoughts on Obama's drone strikes and corruption... [This interview transcends everything else on this website. This perennial philosophy is as true today as it was when uttered by the Buddha, Lao Tze, Rabbi Hillel, Jesus of Nazareth, Ramakrishna or Chopra, not to mention countless others. If people were to listen to and comprehend these simple teachings and then put that awareness into action, all of our current political problems would vanish like a snowflake touching fire. We would still have problems, of course, and suffering is inescapable, but having grown up, we would be in a position to operate from a basis of wisdom and compassion instead of profound ignorance. In the meantime, all I can do is chronicle the relative truth of what is happening, which is really a secondary phenomenon.] Watch video...Max Puts the Boot into Pakistan, by Maidhc Ó Cathail | Intifada Palestine ...The embarrassing spectacle of one of America’s most eminent military commanders seeing fit to grovel in such a demeaning way before a young pro-Israeli hack would surely have ended General Petraeus’s career in Washington before it began if the American public had been made aware of the incident. The Israel-centric U.S. media, however, chose to studiously ignore the revealing Petraeus-Boot correspondence... Read more... Impunity Always Leads to Greater Crimes, by Jamal Kanj | Intifada Palestine ..Through its 63 year history, amoral Israeli leaders have skillfully demonstrated mastery in habitual deceit and political con-artistry. Despite intermittent indignation at cunning Israeli officials; impotent Western leaders, mostly for political expediency, have cosseted Israel at the expense of their own self professed cherished values... Read more... What the Lamestream Media has Missed: Occupy Wall Street Is a Memo To Obama And The Establishment, by Aaron Krowne | The Implode-o-Meter Blog  Left, right, or center, most of the mainstream media has been utterly contemptuous of the nascent Occupy Wall Street (OWS) movement, as Jon Stewart has just illustrated adroitly with his signature wit. Of course the right-wing pundits cannot be beat for their overt contempt for the protests — it’s all just a bunch of statist, communist, anti-capitalist malcontents, don’t you know! Nothing good wholesome Americans should support, or even pay attention to... Read more... Israel and those "real democratic rights" | Redress Information & Analysis Lawrence Davidson debunks the myth that Israel’s Arab citizens enjoy any kind of meaningful democratic rights – “the only reason they are allowed to vote is because their votes cannot change the system that discriminates against them” – and argues that only “a force of catastrophic intensity” can change the deep-rooted racism in Israeli society underlying this discrimination... Read more... American charade of double standards, by Kourosh Ziabari | PressTV The hullabaloo and tumult which the Western mainstream media have ignited during the past weeks over the fallacious report that a Christian pastor in Iran is sentenced to death on charges of apostasy once again underscores the hypocritical nature of the United States and its European allies, bringing to light the double standards which they have conventionally exercised regarding the human rights issue... Read more... Spain: 'Jewish history without Muslims' | Rehmat's World According to the Israeli daily YNet, the city of Maimonides (Cordoba, Spain) will have Jewish Yom Kippur services this week for the first time since Jews were expelled from Spain by the invading Christian Crusaders in 1492. The services will be conducted in the new Synagogue in the Casa de Espana center, located 100 ft. away from the ancient Synagogue in the Jewish Quarter... Read more, watch video... Reagan's Bargain/Charlie Wilson's War | Consortium News  Charlie Wilson At the 10th anniversary of the U.S. war in Afghanistan, we are re-publishing two articles by Washington insiders, CIA analyst Peter W. Dickson and lobbyist Bruce P. Cameron. Both issued unheeded warnings about the looming catastrophe – Dickson while at the CIA in the 1980s, alarmed by Pakistan’s progress toward a nuclear bomb...Read more... Israel: Many Enemies, Much Prestige, by Uri Avnery | Palestine Chronicle An old photo from World War I shows a company of German soldiers getting on the train on their way to the front. On the wall of the car somebody had scribbled: “viel Feind, viel Ehr’” (“The more enemies, the more Honor”.).. Read more... Stop the Machine Occupies Washington | Stephen Lendman On October 6, thousands massed in Washington on the 10th anniversary of America's illegal Afghan war against a nonbelligerent country. Years ago it was lost. Nonetheless, it continues without end. The business of America is war, permanent wars, multiple ones. One nation after another is plundered for wealth and power while homeland needs go begging... Read more... Isad in Damascus: Syrians Reclaim Steve Jobs, by Sami Moubayed | Intifada Palestine ...Few people know that Apple founder and icon Jobs, who died on Wednesday at the age of 56 after losing a battle with cancer, originally came from Syria. As the news of Jobs’ death vibrated throughout the globe, young technology-savvy Syrians mourned his death, laying claim to a computer genius who revolutionized the world... Read more... Oct 8, 2011 OWS Gaining Support  Soros is attempting to take over "Occupy America" movement, by Wayne Madsen | Opinion Maker Wall Street and London hedge fund tycoon George Soros sent a signal to his minions and infiltrators when he stated that he sympathized with the Occupy Wall Street movement. Soros's statement dovetailed with David Plouffe, President Obama's Senior Adviser, making contact with certain newly-minted "leaders" of the "Occupy" movement across the United States to ensure that they are as politically-manipulated by the White House as a vast majority of "Tea Party" members have been manipulated by senior Republican Party officials and the billionaire Koch Brothers... Read more, watch video... OWS Needs to Target Real Enemies Or Face Irrelevancy, by Kurt Nimmo | Prison Planet ..Instead of occupying a park outside of Wall Street, they should march en masse to 33 Liberty Street. That’s where the New York Fed is located. In addition, they should take their chants and drums to the Harold Pratt House on 58 E. 68th Street at Park Avenue. The Council On Foreign Relations does business at that address... Read more... Roseanne Barr: Put Bankers In Re-Education Camps, by Paul Joseph Watson | Prison Planet ..Explaining her call for “re-education camps,” Barr explained, “That’s for bankers, that’s for the guilty, because I wouldn’t want to immediately behead the guilty….because I’m a compassionate human I would allow them to go and be re-educated, it wouldn’t be straight to the guillotine.”.. Read more, watch video... WWII and Other Military Vets Support Wall Street Protest | Washington's Blog  .."I am a WWII Vet, South Pacific Campaign. 94 years young, handy capped, from War Injuries. I want you to know from my Heart, I am so proud of each and every one of you. So Hang in there, your movement is just what this Country needs..." Read more, watch video... Wall Street Crackdown: Police beat back protesters, dozens arrested | RT on YouTube Police in the U.S. have been filmed beating back protesters at a mass demonstration in New York, in the biggest event yet in the three-week-long rally called 'Occupy Wall Street'.. Watch video... The 'Getting' of Assange and the Smearing of a Revolution, by John Pilger | Global Research The High Court in London will soon decide whether Julian Assange is to be extradited to Sweden to face allegations of sexual misconduct. At the appeal hearing in July, Ben Emmerson QC, counsel for the defense, described the whole saga as “crazy”. Sweden’s chief prosecutor had dismissed the original arrest warrant, saying there was no case for Assange to answer. Both the women involved said they had consented to have sex. On the facts alleged, no crime would have been committed in Britain... Read more... Obama: The Assassination of Anwar Al-Awlaki by Fiat | James Petras There is ample evidence to suggest that the publicity surrounding the killing of al-Awlaki has greatly exaggerated his political importance and is an attempt to cover up the declining influence of the US in the Islamic world. The State Department’s declaration of a major victory serves to exaggerate US military capacity to defeat its adversaries. The assassination serves to justify Obama’s arbitrary use of death squads to execute overseas US critics and adversaries by executive fiat denying the accused elementary judicial protections... Read more... US Congress blocks £128m in aid for Palestinians | The Guardian The Palestinian Authority has accused the US of "collective punishment", after the US Congress blocked $200m (£128m) in aid in response to President Mahmoud Abbas' bid for UN statehood... [I suppose they'll just add it to the 3 or 4 billion they're giving Israel. It could fund a number of new concentration camps.] Read more...Israel's Jewishness: Precondition for Palestinian Statehood | Al Akhbar English  Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during a Likud party meeting ...By denying the Palestinians the UN route while at the same time insisting as part of peace talks that they acknowledge Israel’s Jewish character, Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu is driving the final nail into the coffin of the peace process and the pursuit of the two-state solution...Read more... 'Israel reigns over US polity' | PressTV Press TV interviews Mark Dankof, the former US Senate candidate, who says Americans need to put an end to Israeli-driven policies of their government. The video offers the opinions of two additional guests: Debra Sweet and Sara Flounders... Read more, watch video... Witness the Nazis of our time | YouTube Watch video... The Following Is A Fictional Dramatization Of A Press Conference By President Barack Obama | Stansberry's Investment Advisory Set in December 2012, this speech details what we believe The President might say on the day America’s foreign creditors finally stop lending us money, and demand repayment for our country’s debts... [I didn't listen to the last part, the "how to survive it" bit, but it's a comprehensive review of the facts and trends that point directly at a looming financial catastrophe.] Read more, listen...The Jew-Only Panic Mobile Technology | Gilad Atzmon  The all new iJew from CST ...the ‘CST Report’ mobile application is ready to launch. The first ‘Jew-only’ mobile application designed to comfort Jews, their anxiety and their very special security needs... Read more... Russia May Sell Syria Advanced Weapons as NATO Prepares to Attack, by Kurt Nimmo | Prison Planet ...Russia has sold a large number of Iskander ballistic missiles and the officials said considering the threat of NATO invasion the Russians are looking at selling Syria its advanced S-300 anti-missile system. Assad, however, is concerned the European Union and the United States may dangle a carrot and dissuade the Russians from supporting Syria. Assad has said if his country is attacked he will set the Middle East on fire... Read more... The End of Pax Americana? by Patrick J. Buchanan | Antiwar Observing the correlation of forces in this city and the intensity of conviction in the base of each party, the outcome of the ongoing fiscal fight between Barack Obama and the Tea Party Republicans seems preordained. Deadlock. There will be no big jobs-for-taxes deal. The can will be kicked down the road into the next administration. A second truth is emerging. When the cutting comes, as it shall, the Pentagon will be first to ascend the scaffold... [What, put away the brass knuckles? Oh, what a drag!] Read more...Netanyahu Heals Partisan Divide in Washington, by Michael K. Smith | Legalienation News Bureau  Benji Netanyahu's bar mitzvah portrait Moses parted the Red Sea. Jesus walked on water. And now Benjamin Netanyahu has healed the partisan divide in Washington D.C., the greatest miracle of all time, according to this morning's editorial in the New York Times. In a forty-five minute address before a Joint Session of Congress the tough-talking Israeli Prime Minister convinced a heretofore bitterly divided U.S. political class to lay aside its budget battles and concentrate on America's transcendent purpose: to resettle Palestinian Arabs in outer Mongolia so Israel need no longer face the Arab "demographic threat" to Jewish democracy...Read more... New legislation fails to give Tzipi Livni protection from arrest | Middle East Monitor ..Ms Livni and the Foreign Secretary have claimed this week that the recent change in the British law on arrest warrants (requiring the consent of the DPP before a magistrate could issue a warrant) has spared Ms Livni from arrest. If that were true then no certificate was needed from the Foreign Secretary. Rather, it was the issue of a certificate of diplomatic immunity that allowed a war crimes suspect, Ms Livni, the subject of a previous arrest warrant, to escape due process... Read more... November 19, 2012: Lloyd Blankfein, Jamie Dimon, Blythe Masters Arrested | Video Rebel's Blog Lieutenant Maria Hernandez: your assets will be funding the government for the next few years. Read more...Blankfein: When will I be arraigned? I need to call my lawyer and have him arrange bail. Lieutenant Maria Hernandez: There won’t be any bail. You will be tried in a military court as an enemy combatant with all the rights and privileges of any Al Qaeda suspect caught on a battle field. Blankfein: Enemy Combatant? That doesn’t sound good... Oct 7, 2011 Mosque Torching: When Extremist Attacks Against Arabs Cross the Green Line, by Jonathan Cook | Al Akhbar English  ..Since 2009, when Netanyahu formed the most right-wing government in Israel’s history, Jewish extremist groups based in the West Bank settlements have set fire to more than half a dozen Palestinian mosques, as well as committing several pogrom-style attacks on isolated Palestinian communities. Now, the suspicions of Israel’s Arab minority that they too are on the hit list have been confirmed... Read more... A New Video about the Annexation wall | Gilad Atzmon This important video explores the brutal reality inflicted by the neo-ghetto ideology and the walls it surrounded itself with. Zionism was there to drift the Jew away from the Ghetto but Israel has managed to relocate the Jew behind the Ghetto wall. Israel has managed to separate its people from the land and its indigenous people... Watch video... The Neo-Book Burners And 'The People Of The Book' | Rainlore's World of Music ... when an artist - in this case, an author - whose work has been reviewed on this site, and that author and his work become the subject of sustained smear campaigns and worse, then it is clearly every freedom-loving decent human being's duty to speak out. While we still have that precious freedom, that the very people who conduct these kinds of campaigns would so clearly and dearly like to take away from us... Read more, watch video... Why tax the rich to pay for more war? by Robert Naiman | Al Jazeera English ...In a different political juncture, I would be happy to march behind the banner of taxing the rich. But at this political juncture, when the war budget is half of federal discretionary spending, and when because of the Budget Control Act and the Supercommittee, we have a historic opportunity to cut the war budget - a much better prospect, at present, than our prospects for raising tax rates on rich people - I ain't marching for this dogwhistle anymore... Read more... Obama Has Now Increased Debt More than All Presidents from George Washington Through George H.W. Bush Combined, by Terence P. Jeffrey | CNS News ...in the less-than-three-years Obama has been in office, the federal debt has increased by $4.212 trillion--more than the total national debt of about $4.1672 trillion accumulated by all 41 U.S. presidents from George Washington through George H.W. Bush combined... [Maybe Obama is a double agent - he sure has done more damage to the US than all of our "enemies" combined. So bully for him.] Read more... Gilad Atzmon on Kevin Barett's Truth Jihad Radio Show  On 28th September I was a guest on the Kevin Barrett’s radio show. We spoke about everything: Israel, Palestine, freedom of speech, Islam, Judaism, Jewish identity, Zionism, Nazism vs. Zionism, The Guardian and its 'new cult' , The Wandering Who, The Wondering me, the ‘left’, Jewish ‘anti’ Zionism and more... Listen... How the GOP has learned to love Israel unconditionally | JTA ..Current and former GOP operatives and veterans of Republican administrations have identified a number of factors in explaining why the Republican Party, which until a decade or so ago tolerated a faction that advocated keeping Israel at a friendly distance, is now hewing almost exclusively to a policy of no daylight between the United States and the Jewish state... Read more... Irene Zisblatt: Treblinka Survivor | Holocaust Denial Presented by a Holocaust Denier Irene Zisblatt is registered as a Treblinka survivor in the Benjamin and Vladka Meed Registry of Jewish Holocaust Survivors. Is it possible Zisblatt made a stop at Treblinka before arriving at Auschwitz? Is she keeping this a secret because this would reveal Treblinka to be a transit camp? Or is it another one of her Big Lies, enabled by those who believe Jews deliberately kept alive by Germans deserve to tell any horrific atrocity lies they want as a form of revenge?.. Watch video... Prince of Darkness Denies Own Existence, by Dana Milbank | Washington Post Listening to neoconservative mastermind Richard Perle at the Nixon Center yesterday, there was a sense of falling down the rabbit hole... Read more, watch video... US Envoys from Hell, by Eric Walberg | Dissident Voice The 711 coalition deaths in Operation Enduring Freedom in Afghanistan last year made 2010 the deadliest one for foreign troops since the US invasion in 2001, continuing the upward trend since 2003. 2011 promises to be even more deadly, and already includes the most spectacular event in this gruesome body count, when insurgents shot down a helicopter in eastern Afghanistan, killing 30 Americans... Read more... Oct 6, 2011 Occupying Wall Street The Best Among Us, by Chris Hedges | Truthdig  There are no excuses left. Either you join the revolt taking place on Wall Street and in the financial districts of other cities across the country or you stand on the wrong side of history. Either you obstruct, in the only form left to us, which is civil disobedience, the plundering by the criminal class on Wall Street and accelerated destruction of the ecosystem that sustains the human species, or become the passive enabler of a monstrous evil... Read more... Chomsky on "Occupy Wall Street" and Israel's Imminent Collapse | Intifada Palestine Chomsky vividly shares his reflections on the wall street protests and warns of an impending serious poverty and real unemployment similar to the great depression, he talks about the 2012 American presidential campaign spending and how positions in both the white house and the congress are being bought, not earned and he refers to the killing of Osama Bin Laden... Read more, watch video... Hitting the Streets of Boston, by Mark Provost | Counterpunch ..So far, the media has largely ignored the 99 percent movement. A nationwide uprising focused on addressing extreme economic and political inequality is just not newsworthy. Journalists claim that we lack coherence, and ask in a quixotic tone, “Why are they protesting?” Have they not read their own articles or watched their own television reports... Read more... Is the Jig Up on Wall Street? by Thomas H. Naylor | Counterpunch Humble though its beginnings, the so-called Occupy Wall Street protest movement launched recently in Zuccotti Park in Lower Manhattan could have profound national and international political and economic implications. Finally, political activists have the right target for their concerns, and it is neither the White House nor the Congress, for the U.S. Government is owned, operated, and controlled by Wall Street and Corporate America... Read more... George Carlin on why we should Occupy Wall Street | Dangerous Minds  ..Carlin was never much of a topical comedian, so much of his material is evergreen and will stay that way because it expresses deep societal truths and exposes hypocrisy so ruthlessly. No surprise then, that his rant about Wall Street, corrupt politicians and end-stage Capitalism is still so on the money... Read more, watch video... The Biggest Lie in the War on Terrorism: The Crime of Making Americans Aware of Their Own History, by William Blum | Counterpunch Is history getting too close for comfort for the fragile little American heart and mind? Their schools and their favorite media have done an excellent job of keeping them ignorant of what their favorite country has done to the rest of the world, but lately some discomforting points of view have managed to find their way into this well-defended American consciousness... Read more... House Committee Chair Places Hold on Palestinian Aid | Intifada Palestine ...“The Arabs will assist the Palestinian Authority,” Arab League head Nabil al-Arabi said Sunday in Cairo after a meeting with chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat. “This will be the strongest answer” to the U.S. cuts. Erekat said that “The Palestinian people refuse to allow economic aid to become an instrument of blackmail regarding its rights to membership of the United Nations.”.. Read more... Free Ahmad Sa'adat  Ahmad Sa'adat was sentenced to 30 years imprisonment by the illegitimate occupation military court on December 25, 2008 at Ofer Military Base in Ramallah, Palestine. Throughout the court's meetings, which Sa'adat refused to recognize, the trial was delayed on multiple occasions, despite Sa'adat's having been held in custody, of the Palestinian Authority under U.S. and British Guard, and then by the Israeli military after their attack on Jericho Prison on March 14, 2006. He was never been tried during his four years in PA detention... Read more... Remembering 9/11: 10 Years of War | YouTube This video was presented at the Global Research conference, AFTER 9/11: TEN YEARS OF WAR, held at the Cinema du Parc in Montreal on September 8, 2011.. Watch video... Libya: "the jewel in the crown" by Bill Van Auken | WSWS ...“We know that oil is the jewel in the crown of Libyan natural resources, but even in Gaddafi’s time they were starting from A to Z in terms of building infrastructure and other things,” said Cretz. The US ambassador continued: “If we can get American companies here on a fairly big scale, which we will try to do everything we can to do that, then this will redound to improve the situation in the United States with respect to our own jobs.”.. Read more... Support from the Tribes of Sahara: Thousands of Tuaregs Join Libyan Resistance Forces, by Alliby Hassan | Global Research  ..September 19 Tuareg tribes had a general conference composed of the heads of the tribes in Libya, Mali and Niger. Tuareg stated that all will fight against the renegades because they started a war against the Libyan Tuareg and killed a large number of them... Read more... The Book, by Stuart Littlewood and Phillip Vine | Radio Free Palestine ..how the Holy Land has been betrayed for nearly a century and how its people, Muslim and Christian, have been cruelly abused and dispossessed in order to fulfill the Zionist grand plan to steal and occupy the entire territory permanently... Read online... The Al Qaeda Legend: Wither The "Global War on Terrorism"? by Prof. Michel Chossudovsky | Global Research ..From the outset in 2001, a vast Public Relations campaign was launched by the Pentagon with a view to shaping and manipulating World public opinion. The PR stunt consisted in leaking reports on links or relations between Al Qaeda and its alleged State sponsors (e.g. How Saddam was supporting bin Laden, etc). The objective was to justify preemptive military actions against countries which were "harboring the terrorists". There was no truth or rationale in these statements emanating from higher authority. "Going after Bin Laden" became part of an unbending consensus. Fear and insecurity prevailed over common sense... Read more... Foreign Interests In Our Midst | Gilad Atzmon  The Jewish Chronicle reported yesterday that Israeli War Criminal Ms Tzipi Livni is heading to Britain following the amendment of Britain’s universal jurisdiction law. Under the old terms, ethically driven British citizens were able to apply for an arrest warrant for suspected war criminals. That meant that Israeli political and military leaders were strictly advised to stay away from this kingdom... [Just in case there is anyone reading this who doesn't already know, her father, Eitan Livni, was the original commander of the Irgun, the first and most violent Middle Eastern terrorist organization.] Read more...Washington's "pure, unadulterated hypocrisy at its most naked" | Redress Information & Analysis Alan Hart argues that the USA’s denunciation of Russia’s and China’s vetoing of the draft UN Security Council resolution condemning the Syrian regime’s brutal suppression of protesters while declaring its intention to veto Palestinian statehood and shielding Israel from UN censures of its crimes is nothing but “pure, unadulterated hypocrisy at its most naked”.. Read more... Settlers Attack Israeli Activists and Palestinian Farmers near Anatot 9/30 2011 | Gilad Atzmon This is a pogrom and the perpetrators are actually Jewish... [In Palestine such events occur on a nearly daily basis] Watch video...German Holocaust Fund irks Jewish groups | Rehmat's World ...Germany has paid over $93 billion to Zionist groups as Holocaust compensation. In addition, German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder established a Federal Agency, Remembrance, Responsibility and Future (EVZ) in 2000 with a fund of 10 billion Deutsche Mark. The Agency’s main job is to make financial compensation to Holocaust survivors, fight hatred against Jews and teach Zionists’ interpretation of the Holocaust to the new generations... Read more... Oct 3-5, 2011 The Occupy Wall St. Protests Message from Chinese activists and academics in support of Occupy Wall Street | China Study Group  ...The protests ring the death knell of the rule of capital. Popular democracy will replace elite democracy in the 21st Century, and the curtain has lifted on the movement from elite politics to popular politics. Using the language of the “Wall Street Revolution,” this is a struggle of the popular 99% against the corrupt 1%, a struggle of the popular 99% against the elite 1%,and is the final struggle of the popular forces against elite capitalist rule... Read more... Declaration of the Occupation of New York City | Common Dreams ..As one people, united, we acknowledge the reality: that the future of the human race requires the cooperation of its members; that our system must protect our rights, and upon corruption of that system, it is up to the individuals to protect their own rights, and those of their neighbors; that a democratic government derives its just power from the people, but corporations do not seek consent to extract wealth from the people and the Earth... Read more... Occupy Boston: General Assembly | YouTube Footage from the General Assembly at Occupy Boston Sept. 30, 2011... Watch video... American Spring? 'Occupy Wall Street just the beginning' | YouTube ..Radio host and author Stephen Lendman says the ever expanding protest shows awareness is growing among Americans that the country is run by people they never elected... Read more, watch video... Nobel Prize Winning Economist Supports Protests | Washington's Blog Yesterday, Nobel prize-winning economist Joe Stiglitz met with the “Occupy Wall Street” protesters to support their cause. Stiglitz said, among other things, that Wall Street got rich by “socializing losses and privatizing gain… that’s not capitalism… its a distorted economy.”.. Read more, watch video... Occupy Everything: 'US protests have explosive potential' | RT on YouTube Protesters continue to gather on the streets of New York following Saturday's brutal showdown on Brooklyn Bridge that saw more than 700 people arrested. The movement called 'Occupy Wall Street' is promising more marches against corporate greed and social inequality... Read more, watch video... Ibrahim Zaza: The Gaza Boy Newspapers Omitted, by Ramzy Baroud | Palestine Chronicle  Ibrahim's death seemed to compel little, if any, media coverage Ibrahim Zaza was merely a 12-year-old boy. He and his cousin Mohammed, 14, were hit by an Israeli missile in Gaza, fired from an manned drone as they played in front of their house.. Avital Leibowitz: “The logic is that when someone is trying to launch a rocket at you, then the logic is - we better target that person before he targets us.” The one photo I could retrieve of Ibrahim Zaza showed him posing shyly for the camera, his hair brushed forward. My heart breaks now as I think of him, and all the other victims of Israel’s “logic”... Read more... Abbas's Dangerous Path To Palestinian Statehood, by Dr. Elias Akleh | Intifada Palestine ..Abbas’ bid for statehood does not seem to be a well-thought out strategy at this time in the history of Palestinian struggle for statehood and it opens a dangerous new can of worms. This strategy would hurt the majority of Palestinians and their just cause... Read more... The Day America Died: The only Future for Americans is a Nightmare, by Dr. Paul Craig Roberts | Global Research ...long before 9/11 US law had ceased to be a shield of the people and had been turned into a weapon in the hands of the government. The event known as 9/11 was used to raise the executive branch above the law. As long as the President sanctions an illegal act, executive branch employees are no longer accountable to the law that prohibits the illegal act. On the president’s authority, the executive branch can violate US laws against spying on Americans without warrants, indefinite detention, and torture and suffer no consequences... Read more... Leaked documents explain events at Al Jazeera, by Dr. Daud Abdullah | Middle East Monitor ...Khanfar holds to the school of thought that there are certain issues about which journalists cannot be silent or neutral. Perhaps he was influenced by his stint working in South Africa; Archbishop Desmond Tutu certainly espouses a similar view. He is well-known for saying, "If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality.".. Read more... Heckling Becomes a Crime, by Paul Balles | Intifada Palestine ..Every public speaker–especially those facing hostile audiences–should learn how to deal with hecklers. Instead, the case of the “Irvine 11″ generated a national debate regarding free speech.. Read more... 'US allowing Israel's illegal policies' | PressTV ...A prominent political analyst says that the US will allow Israel to pursue its policies because the Israeli lobby owns both the Democrat and Republican political parties. In an exclusive interview with Press TV, Mark Dankoff, former US Senate candidate, tells us more on the United States' mutual relationship with Israel... Read more, watch video... Arnon Milchan: "Mr. Israel" and 9/11 | Christopher Bollyn  In Confidential, a recent biography of Arnon Milchan, Israel's LAKAM agent Number One, the authors reveal that Milchan and Peres are "strategic partners" and "holders of some of Israel's most significant secrets." Chief among these secrets would certainly be how Israeli agents carried out 9/11... Read more... Bibi: "We only tell truth in Israel" | Uprooted Palestinians In a recent interview (watch video below) with CNN’s Fareed Zakaria, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has claimed that Israeli Jews have killed “tens of thousands” of Palestinian. However, CNN mistranslated (from Turkish to English) his estimate into “hundreds of thousands“, according to Turkish daily Hurriyet... Read more... Netanyahu: Master of Deception, by Samuel Dowell | Palestine Chronicle ...Netanyahu says that Israel would like to be the first to recognize Palestine. His wish will be granted very soon, as Israel weeps in grief and guilt before the world and asks for forgiveness... Read more... Ralph Nader's Grand Alliance, by Michael Tracey | The American Conservative ...Looking ahead to the 2012 presidential race, one might assume that Nader has little to be cheerful about. Yet he says there is one candidate who sticks out—who even gives him hope: Rep. Ron Paul of Texas... [The only hope for evolutionary, as opposed to revolutionary, change in American politics is the emergence of a third party that can effectively challenge the Republicrats. I have been calling it the "Alliance Party" for the last couple of years. It's really a no-brainer.] Read more...Modern Barbarism, by Dr. Lawrence Davidson | Intifada Palestine Has anyone noticed that the political air is wafting rancid lately? That is the smell of modern barbarism... Read more... Israel's Window to Bomb Iran | Consortium News Israeli leaders continue to pound the drum about taking out Iran’s nuclear program – and some hardliners may want to strike soon, fearing the window of opportunity will close if President Barack Obama wins reelection and is less susceptible to political pressures, as ex-CIA analyst Ray McGovern observes... Read more... Oct 2, 2011 The Ultimate Quiz, by Richard Jones | Gilad Atzmon  The noose is tightening. Read more...It’s stolen my voice away. Reduced to a feeble whisper, But with so much left to say. So many awkward questions And only one answer, So don’t go away. The answers will not change, However much you pray... Where Commemoration Meets Celebration, by Mazin Qumsiyeh | This Week in Palestine ...Palestinians remain the largest refugee population on earth. We are experiencing the longest remaining occupation - the suffering has endured for 63 years. We have a history of 130 years of colonisation and a far longer history of conflicts, wars, and occupations going back over 4,000 years. It is thus not surprising that we have plenty of history to relate to in our memory, much of it is unfortunately sad. But we also have the most amazing story of survival and persistence (sumud)... Read more... May vs. Salah | Gilad Atzmon Sheikh Raed Salah won a great victory in Britain High Court yesterday, Sheikh Salah (52) was detained on the orders of the home secretary, Theresa May who was obviously following instructions from the real rulers of this country (in Jerusalem). Salah was then imprisoned for funding Hamas and leading a violent demonstration. The High Court, however, ruled that Sheikh Salah was held unlawfully and is entitled to compensation... Read more... Turkey Redraws Sykes-Picot, by Eric Walberg | Palestine Chronicle  The Turkish Prime Minister is now a hero for many Turkey's foreign policy shift is now in full gear. Having kicked out the Israeli ambassador and rejected the UN Palmer Report, Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu says that Turkey plans to take its case against Israel’s blockade of Gaza to the International Court of Justice, not alone, but with the support of the Arab League, the Organization of Islamic Cooperation and the African Union. “The process will probably reach a certain point in October and we will make our application.”.. Read more... Into the Mentality of the Occupier/Oppressor, by Kim Petersen | Dissident Voice ...Gilad Atzmon is someone who encompasses what it means to be an intellectual. He is someone seemingly unbound by a specific group or milieu. Atzmon turned away from the Zionism of his father and the - what he calls - Nazism of his fellow Jews in Israel. Atzmon recalls the plight of captured Palestinian freedom fighters at the Ansar internment camp during his time in the Israeli military: “The place was a concentration camp. The inmates were the ‘Jews’, and I was nothing but a ‘Nazi’.”.. Read more... UK Rewrites War Crimes Law At Israel's Request, by Richard Irvine | Intifada Palestine Legal mechanisms developed after the end of the Second World War to more easily prosecute war criminals are now being taken off the books to preserve Israeli impunity from accountability... Read more... Trapped between Jewish Vampires and Goldman Sachs | Roy Tov  On a odd article about Jewish Vampires published by Haaretz. And an even stranger interview on World-Dominance published by the BBC... Read more... Gilad Atzmon's The Wandering Who: a joyous affirmation of the end of identity politics, by Kevin Barrett | Truth Jihad As a recovering angry Muslim, I cannot help loving fully-recovered ex-Zionist Jew Gilad Atzmon's The Wandering Who: A Study of Jewish Identity of Politics...and the firestorm it has sparked. It isn't just the joy of watching Atzmon say all the things about Jewishness that need to be said, but that hardly anybody has the guts to say... Read more... US Congress blocks £128m in aid for Palestinians | The Guardian The Palestinian Authority has accused the US of "collective punishment", after the US Congress blocked $200m (£128m) in aid in response to President Mahmoud Abbas' bid for UN statehood. The decision to freeze the payments was reportedly made by three congressional committees on 18 August, before Abbas' planned bid for statehood recognition at the UN the following month... Read more... Oct 1, 2011 The age of the Reaper, by Pepe Escobar | Voltaire Network  Arrogance and shameless doublespeak reign supreme in the world of diplomacy. Respect for international law and human rights is a farce. Never has this come across so blatantly as in President Obama’s speech on 21 September before the UN General Assembly. Revealing in terms of the hypocrisy and imperialist interests that pervade Washington’s policies all over the world, the speech was also Obama’s crowning moment as an Israeli doormat... Read more... The Money Masters: Behind the Global Debt Crisis, by Adrian Salbuchi | Global Research ...As we assess some of the key components of today’s Global Financial, Currency and Banking Model in this article, readers will hopefully get a better understanding as to why we are all in such a crisis, and that it will tend to get much worse in the months and years to come... Read more... Open Letter From Arun Gupta on the Wall Street Occupation: The Revolution Begins at Home, by Arun Gupta | Naomi Klein An introduction from Naomi: "Please take a look at this thoughtful essay by my friend Arun Gupta, editor of The Indypendent. If I were in New York (I'm based in British Columbia, Canada at the moment), I would certainly be spending time at the Wall Street occupation, and I urge those of you who do live in the area to go in person to Liberty Park and check it out... Read more... Witch hunts in "free" Libya, by Lizzie Phelan | Voltaire Network  Under the protection of NATO, the National Transitional Council While NATO’s mandate enjoins it to protect civilians, the Alliance allows the forces of the Libyan National Transition Council to continue their abuses. After hunting down black Africans, the summary executions now extend to members of the Qadhadhfa tribe, that of the fallen Leader. Hundreds of thousands of African workers have already fled the country to escape death; the time has now come for certain Libyans to take the road to exile if they want to survive...gives free rein to racist killings Read more... Pakistan and "The Haqqani Network": The Latest Orchestrated Threat to America and The End of History, by Dr. Paul Craig Roberts | Global Research Have you ever before heard of the Haqqanis? I didn’t think so. Like Al Qaeda, about which no one had ever heard prior to 9/11, the “Haqqani Network” has popped up in time of need to justify America’s next war--Pakistan. President Obama’s claim that he had Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden exterminated deflated the threat from that long-serving bogyman. A terror organization that left its leader, unarmed and undefended, a sitting duck for assassination no longer seemed formidable. Time for a new, more threatening, bogyman, the pursuit of which will keep the “war on terror” going... Read more... Mass killing and humanitarian disaster in NATO siege of Sirte, by Bill Van Auken | Global Research Refugees from the Libyan coastal city of Sirte report that thousands have died as a result of relentless NATO bombardment and shelling by the the Western-backed “rebels.” The two-week-old NATO siege of Sirte has left the city without adequate food, drinkable water, medicine and other basic necessities of life, creating hellish condition for its population of 100,000... Read more... Israeli forces hand Bethlehem village confiscation orders | Maan News Agency  Israeli soldiers hand out confiscation orders in the West Bank Israeli forces notified villagers near Bethlehem that their land will soon be confiscated, local residents said Wednesday. Land owned by 40 families in Battir village - 148 dunams of vegetable, fruit and olive groves - is earmarked for confiscation, villagers told Ma'an. According to the notices received by villagers, the area is close to the train line to Jerusalem and next to the East Jerusalem settlement of Gilo, in which Israeli authorities approved the building of 1,100 new homes on Tuesday, sparking international condemnation...village of Izbat al-Tabib, east of Qalqiliya Read more... Likud-Republican Alliance: WWIII Scenario? Launching a First Strike on Iran, by Solomon Davidson | Global Research Rumors now coursing through the upper echelons of the US and pro-Israel Jewish communities anticipate a unilateral Israeli attack on Iranian nuclear sites in the run-up to the presidential election in November, 2012. Backers of the sneak attack strategy believe that the pre-election timing will guarantee Congressional backing and prevent President Obama and other members of his government from opposing what will be a mirror image of the Israeli pre-emptive strike on the Iraqi nuclear reactor at Osirak in 1982... Read more... Slap on the Face, by Jamal Kanj | Intifada Palestine. The Middle East Peace Quartet which comprises of the UN, US, European Union and Russia just received a slap in the face from their spoiled progeny, otherwise known as Israel. On 27th September, the Israeli government announced plans to undermine the peace process by building 1100 new Jewish only units in occupied East Jerusalem... Read more... Army Tracking Plan: Drones That Never Forget a Face, by Noah Shachtman | Wired  Perhaps the idea of spy drones already makes your nervous. Maybe you’re uncomfortable with the notion of an unblinking, robotic eye in the sky that can watch your every move. If so, you may want to click away now. Because if the Army has its way, drones won’t just be able to look at what you do. They’ll be able to recognize your face — and track you, based on how you look. If the military machines assemble enough information, they might just be able to peer into your heart... [Wow, do we ever need a revolution, like by yesterday - the Matrix is upon us.] Read more...A World of Lawlessness and Chaos: As The Drone Flies, by Ralph Nader | Information Clearing House News The fast developing predator drone technology, officially called unmanned aerial vehicles or UAVs, is becoming so dominant and so beyond any restraining framework of law or ethics, that its use by the U.S. government around the world may invite a horrific blowback... Read more... Israeli Consul General wants to rescue US town from "foreign" influence, by Phan Nguyen | Mondoweiss A recent lawsuit against the Olympia Food Co-op for boycotting Israeli goods has strangely made Olympia, Washington, the site of the first anti-BDS lawsuit since the Israeli government passed its anti-BDS law... Read more... Israelis Mock Palestinian Bid for Statehood, by Dr. Ashraf Ezzat | Intifada Palestine  ...The Zionist politicians have managed over the years to utilize that sense of fear and victimization and somehow through a Zionist-oriented pop culture or what we could call now the Holocaust Industry to cast Israel as a “victim state” in order to garner “immunity to criticism”. Nowadays, Israelis, and due to the prolonged exposure to this Holocaust industrial hazards, are exhibiting the symptoms of a mass paranoia syndrome. For more elaboration on the symptoms - albeit farcical - of this syndrome let’s watch the video... Read more... The 9/11 Delusion: Israel's False Flag, Jingoism And Inhumanity, by Jonathan Azaziah | Mask of Zion ...And the god of this sickening hyper-nationalistic religion? In accordance with the most deranged interpretation of monotheism, there can only be one and it is ‘Israel,’ the usurping supremacist entity evilly resting on the land that it usurped from the indigenous, the bones of the innocents that it slaughtered, the roots of the ancient trees that it uprooted and the history that it buried in the ‘nakba,’ Arabic’s chilling word for ‘catastrophe.’.. Read more... |
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