Oct 31, 2013 Our Invisible Revolution, by Chris Hedges | Truthdig ..As long as most citizens believe in the ideas that justify global capitalism, the private and state institutions that serve our corporate masters are unassailable. When these ideas are shattered, the institutions that buttress the ruling class deflate and collapse. The battle of ideas is percolating below the surface. It is a battle the corporate state is steadily losing. An increasing number of Americans are getting it. They know that we have been stripped of political power. They recognize that we have been shorn of our most basic and cherished civil liberties, and live under the gaze of the most intrusive security and surveillance apparatus in human history... The Psychology of Zionist Bloodbath, by Jonas E. Alexis | Veterans Today Eighteenth-century English playwright and poet William Congreve, who befriended Jonathan Swift in college, intoned in The Mourning Bride: “Heav’n has no rage, like love to hatred turn’d, nor hell a fury, like a woman scorned.” This line seems to describe Caroline B. Glick of the Jerusalem Post, who has declared that Iran is “the genocidal, nuclear weapons-developing mullocracy” in the Middle East... How science is telling us all to revolt, by Naomi Klein | The New Statesman ...we happen to have an economic system that fetishises GDP growth above all else, regardless of the human or ecological consequences, and in which the neoliberal political class has utterly abdicated its responsibility to manage anything (since the market is the invisible genius to which everything must be entrusted).. [It’s about time that GDP growth is recognized as a potent and devastating form of socioeconomic cancer rather than something to be celebrated.] Jeremy Scahill, The Fantasy of a Clean War | TomDispatch ...It is not just the precedents set during the Obama era that will reverberate into the future, but also the lethal operations themselves. No one can scientifically predict the future consequences of drone strikes, cruise missile attacks, and night raids. But from my experience in several undeclared war zones across the globe, it seems clear that the United States is helping to breed a new generation of enemies in Somalia, Yemen, Pakistan, Afghanistan, and throughout the Muslim world. Those whose loved ones were killed in drone strikes or cruise missile attacks or night raids will have a legitimate score to settle... [Uncle Shmuel has so much to answer for] Neocons Push Israeli-Saudi Alliance, by Robert Parry | Consortium News Early U.S. presidents warned against the dangers of “entangling alliances,” prescient advice that the neocons want President Obama to ignore amid demands from Israel and Saudi Arabia that America tie itself up in the endless and bloody sectarian conflicts of the Middle East... 28 Signs That The West Coast Is Being Absolutely Fried With Nuclear Radiation From Fukushima, by Michael Snyder | Global Research The map below comes from the Nuclear Emergency Tracking Center. It shows that radiation levels at radiation monitoring stations all over the country are elevated. As you will notice, this is particularly true along the west coast of the United States. Every single day, 300 tons of radioactive water from Fukushima enters the Pacific Ocean. That means that the total amouont of radioactive material released from Fukushima is constantly increasing, and it is steadily building up in our food chain... Palestinians: Last Victims of the Holocaust, by Lillian Rosengarten | Palestine Chronicle Where is the heart of the Jewish soul? Soul as ethical compassion, the Jewish spirit as it struggled to survive the darkest nightmare of Nazi racial laws. How do the first and second generation of victims of such heinous blood curdling racist crimes during the Nazi program of ethnic cleansing, live it’s present form of nationalism in Israel? By what demonic twist of fate can Jews, who merely two generations ago suffered the cruelest racial bestiality as victims of Nazi anti-Semitism and racial purity laws, justify destroying an entire Palestinian population by plowing through their land, driving out it’s inhabitants and by wielding power through military force to establish their ownership by “right.”.. USPCN Strongly Condemns Arrest and Indictment of Rasmea Yousef Odeh | USPCN ...the lead prosecutor in the Holy Land 5 case, and career anti-Palestinian ideologue and racist, Assistant U.S. Attorney Barry Jonas, was present at Rasmea’s hearing on the morning she was arrested. This proves beyond a doubt that this case is not about any alleged immigration violation, but rather a witch-hunt against another community leader who has dedicated her life to organizing for the Right of Return and Palestine’s decolonization... [When Uncle Shmuel wants to destroy someone he perceives as “the enemy,” especially people involved with Islamic charities and social services, he almost always succeeds.] Love is my religion and faith | YouTube Teva Nears Collapse | Roi Tov On October 30, 2013, Teva Pharmaceutical Industries, Israel's largest company and the world's largest generic drugs company, announced that President and CEO Jeremy Levin is leaving it. Beyond ongoing operative difficulties, Teva is soon to lose its patent on Copaxone. The ship's captain abandoned Israel's industrial flagship with a huge hole in the revenues compartment, before an almost unavoidable sinking in the salty waters of the Dead Sea... [I suggest that all (Jewish) Israelis be deported to their original home, the Dead Sea. Dog Has Spoken.] Kerry tells Bibi and Jewish Lobby to Shove It, by Jim W. Dean | Press TV/Veterans Today ...The EU Parliament on the other hand, has a plan to de-nuclearize the MidEast...one which includes Israel. The feathers will be flying when that comes in the mail. When this silliness is all over I hope to get to see a large open air prison where the hard core Zios and Jewish Lobby folks are incarcerated with the throat slitting Jihadis. But we would only allow stone age tools to be used in the camp and have wireless video cameras everywhere so we could all watch justice being done...inexpensively !!!.. US Jewish racists face to face with the truth | Redress Information & Analysis Jewish supremacists visiting the racist Jewish National Fund’s (JNF) annual national conference in Denver, USA, have found themselves face to face with the truth. Advertisements, highlighting the fact that Israel is engaged in ethnic cleansing, have been appearing on Denver-area buses just as Jewish racists flocked to the JNF’s national coven in the central city of Denver... U.N. urges end to U.S. Cuba embargo for 21st year | Reuters ...Israel, heavily dependent on U.S. backing in the Middle East, and the tiny Pacific state of Palau were the only two countries that supported the United States in opposing the non-binding resolution in the 193-nation assembly. The Pacific states of the Marshall Islands and Micronesia abstained... [What’s funny is that even the tiny South Pacific islands promoted into “nations” for this very purpose didn’t go along with the Evil Empire this time. Just the two-headed USraeli monster standing alone and defying the world.] Lapid: Jews must fight hate every hour of every day | Jerusalem Post Maybe one of these it will occur to them to look in the mirror. It’s unlikely though – the tribal habit of projection is too ingrained [Ed.]... Uri Avnery: ‘Israel is not Apartheid State’ | Rehmat's World It seems Uri Avnery has started dropping his anti-Zionism cover. Last month, he claimed that former Iranian president Dr. Ahmadinejad was a Mossad agent. In a recent article, Avnery has tried to prove that Israel is not an apartheid state like the old White-occupied South Africa. Before some Israeli hasbara goon calls me a “Jew-hater”, I would let American Jewish blogger Roger Tucker describe Uri Avnery:.. [Read my comment, if it’s up yet] The Fine Jewish Art of Burlesque | Jewish Daily Forward ...The Schlep Sisters represent a new breed of Jewish burlesque artists who not only bump and grind and celebrate their bodies and sexuality — it is a postfeminist era, after all — but also incorporate their ethnic heritage into their sexual shtick... [It is worth noting that Odessa Lil comes from a distinguished line of liberated Jewish women. This quote is from an interesting essay on the subject – “The American Consul in Odessa wrote in 1908 that the "whole 'business' of prostitution is almost exclusively in the hands of the Jews." Here’s the URL. I tried to post this comment to the Forward but it was instantly deleted. I guess my email address has been red flagged. Gee, I wonder why.] US trying to play Iran off Syria? by Finian Cunningham | PressTV Is the US trying to manipulate Iran, through sanctions relief, in order to assert Washington’s agenda for regime change in Syria? The answer would seem to be ‘yes’, as suggested by the latest tour of the region by the UN-Arab League special envoy, Lakhdar Brahimi... [No surprise there] Oct 30, 2013 9-11 explained in 5 minutes!! | YouTube 9-11 was done by our government, don't be ignorant. Do some research and listen to educated, trained professionals explain the facts about 9-11. The "experts" that make it on television are paid government employees and therefore incapable of common sense or having an educated opinion on the subject... [Brief and to the point] Israel and the NSA: Partners in Crime, by Justin Raimondo | Antiwar It wasn’t the US government breaking into the private communications of former French President Nicolas Sarkozy, according to top secret documents unearthed by Edward Snowden and published in Le Monde – it was the Israelis. A four-page internal précis regarding a visit to Washington by two top French intelligence officials denies the NSA or any US intelligence agency was behind the May 2012 attempted break-in – which sought to implant a monitoring device inside the Elysee Palace’s communications system – but instead fingers the Israelis, albeit indirectly:.. Ghosts of Vietnam, by Gordon Duff | Veterans Today ...That generation, my generation, fought a war to stay alive and fought a second enemy, a corrupt military, a corrupt government in Washington, to stay sane. It didn’t work. The real enemy was always here, in America. The Vietnamese won their freedom. Americans lost theirs... Peace process is doomed to fail while Israel stalls for time, by Jonathan Cook | The View from Nazareth ...At Israel’s insistence, the peace talks have been entirely shielded from public view. Privacy, Israel argued, would ease the pressure on the two parties and give them greater room to be forthcoming and creative. The reality, however, is that the lack of scrutiny has allowed Israel to drag its feet. Secrecy, Israel hopes, will give it the cover it expects to need when – as seems certain – the talks end inconclusively, or the Palestinians storm out... Cutting The Middle East’s Gordian Knot: Why Israel Cannot Survive In Its Present Form | John Chuckman Some Israelis are fond of comparing Israel’s displacement of Palestinians to the historical experience of North Americans in displacing indigenous people, but the comparison is inaccurate on almost every level. First, comparing events of two hundred years ago and today is misleading: norms of human rights and ethics and law have changed tremendously in that time. Besides, people all over the world see and read of such injustices today, something not possible at an earlier time... The NSA Will Regret Eavesdropping on This Email | Ron Paul Channel Obama’s loyal zombies clearly don’t mind his administration’s rampant unconstitutional surveillance, but even the most diehard liberal will be shocked to learn about the devastating effects the NSA’s secret Utah headquarters has on the environment... Anti-Zionist Comics Hits Israel | Roi Tov The most educated segment of Israeli society hits back at Zion. Expectedly, they chose the printed media for that, in an effort that if attempted in Europe, it would be classified as anti-Semitic and their perpetrators will probably be gassed to death. Ultra-Orthodox Jews have recently been forced to join the Zionist army. This violation and their having been left out of Netanyahu's new coalition had created a feeling of danger amid them... A Long-Term Nuclear Deal with Iran: Is a "Good" Deal Possible? by Robert Einhorn | Brookings Institution No negotiated solution to the Iran nuclear issue will be ideal. The United States will not get all that it asks for. Any agreement will be criticized, both in Israel and the United States. But the test for any agreement should not be how it measures up against the best outcome we can imagine. A better test is how it compares to alternative means for dealing with the problem. Those alternative means include the use of military force, active efforts to promote regime change, and a continuation of the current pressure strategy... [Not bad, coming from a Zionist] Gaza's Tunnel Economy | Stephen Lendman They're a vital lifeline. They're a potential death trap. They're a bonanza for profiteers. They symbolize Palestinians' will to survive. It shows their determination to do so against all odds. Decades of Israeli viciousness haven't deterred them. They're not about to quit now... Open letter to EU Foreign Ministers from Gush Shalom | Veterans Today “We would like you to know that many in Israel consider your position against settlements to be an expression of true friendship and concern towards Israel” stated the Gush Shalom letter. “It is Israel’s existential interest to come to terms with the fact that in today’s world it is unacceptable to rule over another people by force, confiscate that people’s land and settle on it. The European Union would best help Israel’s true interests by insisting unflinchingly on this principle.”.. Peace process is doomed to fail while Israel stalls for time, by Jonathan Cook | The View from Nazareth Whatever happened to the Israeli-Palestinian peace process? You could be forgiven for thinking everyone packed up shop a while ago and forgot to inform you. There’s been barely a peep about it since the revival of talks was greeted with great fanfare back in July... The structural roots of Israeli apartheid, by Noura Erakat | Al Jazeera Palestinian-Israeli negotiations have intensified in recent days. The talks, facilitated by US Secretary of State John Kerry, have resulted in 13 meetings between the two delegations to discuss issues of mutual concern. Yet in the midst of the current flurry of activity aimed at saving the two-state solution from the shelves of rich archival libraries, three-time Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu is insisting that the conflict is not a political one at all... [Well worth reading, even with the knowledge that she’s the niece of the collaborator Saeb Erekat, who, as chief Palestinian negotiator, has been pushing the stillborn two-state solution since day one.] Oct 29, 2013 Obama at the UN General Assembly: Five Years a Zionist Lackey, by James Petras | ICH Obama’s rhetorical exercise in ‘peace talk’ at the United Nations General Assembly impressed few delegations and even fewer Americans: Far more eloquent are his five years of wars, military interventions, cyber-spying, drone murders, military coups and the merciless prosecution of patriotic truth tellers. If his ‘peace message’ fell flat, the explicit affirmations of imperial prerogatives, threats of military interventions and over two dozen (25) references to Israel as a ‘strategic ally’, confirmed the suspicions and fears that Obama was preparing for even more deadly wars...
Will Israel Merge With Saudi Arabia? by Kevin Barrett | Veterans Today ...It seems that the Saudi and Israeli regimes have joined together to pursue the same foreign policy. Since their domestic policies are also similar, the question arises: Why not merge the two countries into a new entity called Saudi Israelia? Skeptics will argue that such a marriage between Zionists and Arabs could never succeed. But consider how much the two nations have in common...
Adelson-Backed Group Surveys Israeli-Americans on Level of Loyalty to Israel | Tikun Olam An L.A. based pro-Israel group, the Israeli-American Council (IAC), with the financial support of Sheldon Adelson, has compiled a survey measuring the level of loyalty of Israeli-Americans to Israel and America. The survey was disseminated to tens of thousands of Israelis living in the U.S., with the collaboration of the Israeli embassy and consulates, which used their e-mail lists to distribute it. The IAC appears to have pretensions of becoming an Israeli-American version of Aipac... [Silverstein doesn’t mention the widespread speculation that the survey was a Mossad recruiting device. Thousands of potential traitors could have been identified and then contacted. "I'm gonna make you an offer you can't refuse'"]
Israel and the NSA: Partners in Crime, by Justin Raimondo | Antiwar It wasn’t the US government breaking into the private communications of former French President Nicolas Sarkozy, according to top secret documents unearthed by Edward Snowden and published in Le Monde – it was the Israelis... [Israel and America go together like a Trojan and a horse]
US Cyber Command: Documents Reveal Pentagon Launching Covert Cyber Attacks | Antifascist Calling In 2008, the Armed Forces Journal published a prescient piece by Colonel Charles W. Williamson III, a staff judge advocate with the Air Force Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance Agency at Lackland Air Force Base in Texas, the National Security Agency listening post focused on intercepting communications from Latin America, the Middle East and Europe...
Merkel Sells Out For 5 Eyes Access | Moon of Alabama ...Merkel does not want to get rid of the "collect it all" spying on Germans and other people. She, who some believe was herself an nonofficial associate (IM) of the infamous East German state security service (Stasi), does not mind the violation of German citizens' rights to privacy. She wants to be, against German public opinion, part of the club that does the spying. She wants to have Germany accepted in the 5 eyes club which consists of the United States, Great Britain, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. Those countries have pledged not to spy on each other but to share everything they have. But in effect the secret services of these countries are just NSA appendages...
Meet Noam Chomsky, Academic Gatekeeper | The Corbett Report Is Noam Chomsky an anarcho-syndicalist or proponent of the Federal Reserve? A fearless political crusader or defender of the Warren Commission JFK orthodoxy? A tireless campaigner for justice or someone who doesn’t care who did 9/11? Join us this week on The Corbett Report as we examine some of the subjects that Chomsky would prefer you didn’t think about...
The Biggest Scam In The History Of Mankind! | YouTube
Cosmic Jewish Zombie | YouTube Amen...
Former heads of state call on EU to set up state surveillance of ‘intolerant’ citizens | Life Site News A council of former heads of state and government leaders has called on the European Union to establish national surveillance units to monitor citizens of all 27 EU member states suspected of “intolerance”. The European Council on Tolerance and Reconciliation (ECTR), a “tolerance watchdog” launched under the leadership of former Polish president Aleksander Kwasniewski and Moshe Kantor, President of the European Jewish Congress, called for the establishment of government surveillance bodies to directly monitor the “intolerant” behavior of identified citizens and groups... [The Holycause Inquisition is working overtime.]
EU's Fundamental Rights Agency Disappears Bogus Working Definition of Antisemitism | Jews sans frontieres For a long time the European Union Monitoring Centre on Racism and Xenophobia (EUMC) hosted on its website a zionist drafted so-called working definition of antisemitism. It's successor organisation, the EU's Fundamental Rights Agency (FRA), continued hosting the dodgy definition leading to much confusion about its status with the EU in spite of objections that the working definition appeared to be designed to prevent serious criticism of The State of Israel...
Confessions of an American Drone Operator, by Matthew Power | GQ He was an experiment, really. One of the first recruits for a new kind of warfare in which men and machines merge. He flew multiple missions, but he never left his computer. He hunted top terrorists, saved lives, but always from afar. He stalked and killed countless people, but could not always tell you precisely what he was hitting. Meet the 21st-century American killing machine. who's still utterly, terrifyingly human...
Iran deal-breaker report gives Israel hope, by Kaveh L Afrasiabi | Asia Times Online Manna from heaven for Israel and Iranophobic neoconservatives in Washington, who are working overtime to scuttle a nuclear deal with Iran, has come with a new "scientific" report exploding on the US media scene, which claims that Iran is only a month away from acquiring the bomb. That eclipses the Obama administration's previous statement in September that Iran is "one year or more" away from this critical capability...
Goodbye US, Israeli, Saudi alliance: A new order beckons, by Saeed Naqvi | New Kerala The Saudi refusal of the rotating Security Council seat has been seen for what it partly is: a tantrum. But it is also a clue to a coming political reality: West Asian politics may well be reverting to normality...
A Lopsided U.S. Visa-Waiver, by Yousef Munayyer | NYT ...The U.S.-Israel Strategic Partnership Act, backed by the pro-Israel lobbying group, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, or Aipac, was introduced by Ms. Boxer and has 53 co-sponsors in the Senate. It legislates, for the first time, the inclusion of Israel in the U.S. visa-waiver program. This means that Israelis can enter the United States without a visa. Israel has long sought this prized designation but has always faced resistance from the State Department because the program requires reciprocity...
Israel: "Jews created Europe," - "with Unlimited Funds" added Europe | Roi Tov ...Amos Oz is one of the better known Israeli writers. He is successful in Japan, and one of his books is eligible in China's schools. He is the recipient of many awards, most recently, the Kafka 2013. Ahead of the formal event in Prague, Yediot Ahronot published his planned speech on October 23. Oz considers Kafka his main influence; thus it is safe to assume he prepared the speech carefully. Yet, each paragraph I read contained new horrors. I won't analyze the entire weapon of mass destruction here. Let me just translate a few key statements...
Is Glenn Greenwald the Future of News? by Bill Keller and GG | NYT ..Glenn Greenwald broke what is probably the year’s biggest news story, Edward Snowden’s revelations of the vast surveillance apparatus constructed by the National Security Agency. He has also been an outspoken critic of the kind of journalism practiced at places like The New York Times, and an advocate of a more activist, more partisan kind of journalism..
Russell Brand: To the Barricades, by Archie Kennedy | MCW News Russell Brand's recent BBC interview with Jeremy Paxman has gone viral. He said what many are thinking but dare not utter. His obvious lack of preparation, his spontaneous honesty and irreverence apparently caught the BBC's Jeremy Paxman off guard. Brand's call for revolution seemed less offensive to Paxman and all professional sycophants than his admission that he had never voted. He then went on to point out that elections are part of a process that entrenches power and control for corporate and political elites... Oct 28, 2013 The Influence of Israel and it's American Lobby over US Middle East Policy, by Jeffrey Blankfort | IPSC The apparent ability of Israel, one of the world's smallest countries, to shape the Middle East policies of the world's remaining superpower has been a source of puzzlement, conjecture, and constant frustration on the part of those fighting for justice for the Palestinians and for the peoples of the region, as a whole. One of the roots of this unique historical phenomenon may be found in the interpretation of a 120-year-old US Supreme Court decision that afforded corporations the same rights as individual American citizens... [Vampire capitalism and tribal Jewish culture go hand in hand] Gaza: The economy under the siege | Gala Khalil S. Shaheen, Head of the Economic Unit at the Palestinian Center for Human Rights, talks about the Gaza economy under the siege, how the occupation and the siege affect directly the economy, and therefore the development of the oppressed Palestinian people, denying them the right to develop and have normal lives as human beings... Obama Should Emulate Reagan's Cry For Nuclear-Free World, by Sherwood Ross | OpEd News At a time when a record 47-million Americans live in poverty, when cities are going bankrupt, when 10 million jobless can't find work and millions more are too discouraged to look, when the infrastructure is crumbling, when schools are running down, when bridges,roads and water mains need urgent repair, and when the AP reports four out of five Americans are in the financial soup, President Obama's plan to spend $60 billion to refurbish an aging nuclear weapons arsenal is an obscene waste of tax dollars... The Debate (Topic Syria): Ken O'Keefe vs. Lee Kaplan | PressTV/YouTube Lee Kaplan provides a classic example of the propagandist’s methods; divert, make personal attacks, revert to tired historical myths like America liberated Europe in World War II so as to imply the massive crimes during WWII and since do not matter. I hope to be in a debate with Lee many more times as he provides one gift after another in terms of providing material that exposes the shallow, baseless foundation of lies that our global system of tyranny is built upon. Enjoy these dinosaurs while they are still around because their days of utility in a world waking up are clearly numbered... Israeli Jews: licensed to be racist | Redress Information & Analysis Here’s some food for thought for advertisers and brand-builders thinking of peddling Israel to an unsuspecting world. The Jews-only state is not just “the only democracy in the Middle East” (but only if you’re a Jew), and it’s not the only surviving apartheid state, now that South Africa has switched colours. It is the only society that allows openly racist groups to spread their poisonous racial hatred without hindrance... Ex-CIA Michael Scheuer Tells Congress: I'd Dump the Israelis Tomorrow | YouTube [Well, he’s right of course, but that flock of bought and paid for whores, hypocrites and traitors aren’t even listening. After all, to their kind, only money talks.] Waking Up to the Holographic Universe, by Yukon Jack | Veterans Today ...I am going to show you why you believe in god, but first ask yourself, why did man invent myth? He didn’t set out to consciously invent myth, the brain is simply creating an algorithm to justify the view coming in from the hologram, without the proper memes to describe a natural phenomenon our brain simply invents something for us to believe. The brain is a trickster, the brain loves to feed bullshit to the mind... [Jack is on to something. This is a must read for anyone who is willing to admit that they are confused and who’s seriously trying to figure out what in hell is actually going on. Or, to use a tried and true method, one could find a genuine meditation master and proceed to study and practice a spiritual path. Sanity is indeed possible and without it the outlook is grim indeed. The path to waking up isn’t easy but many have accomplished it. We are at the end of the Dark Age, which means two things: right now it’s about as bad as it can get – on the other hand, dawn is just around the corner. I suggest reading “Turning the Mind Into an Ally,” by Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche.] Ryan Dawson interviews Gilad Atzmon | Gilad Atzmon An expose of the deceit that is intrinsic to Jewish Identity politics and the Jewish Left in particular. We spoke about Palestine, BDS, Soros, Identity politics, JVP, Holocaust, victimhood, truth, ethics, my detractors and more... Does Uri Avnery know so little about Israel? | Jonathan Cook One of my concerns about Uri Avnery is that, whatever the good work he has done as a journalist and peace activist, especially in regard to the occupied territories, he still has an ability to write utter nonsense when it comes to what is happening inside Israel. It is difficult to know whether this is simple ignorance or a bad case of ideological blinkers. But it is also hard to believe a man who has studied his own society for so long can really know so little about what is going on there... [Well, he’s still a Zionist, which explains a lot and is all you really need to know. I respect him, but he's too old at this point to change his spots. RIP] "Spy on America" Program Scrapped by Israel | Roi Tov "Phase is everything in life," a physicist friend told me once. While watching a nearby Hamiltonian, I found it impossible to refute his claim. In sharp contrast, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu learned that truth only on October 27, 2013, when he was forced to scrap a secondary "Spy on America" program. Timing is key for most events, and despite what he may think, Bibi is not a locksmith... To Become A Jew | Gilad Atzmon ...We are not dealing here with Jewish race or gene. Taking on the Jewish religion in this case introduces a set of supremacist non ethical beliefs. This is what Jewishness is all about... [The scum of the Earth are understandably drawn to Israel. I wonder how many old-style supremacist Afrikaners have done the same thing.] The Jew Blumenthal denigrating a man who's boots he is not fit to lick | Paul Eisen While listening to his interview here, I heard Gilad Atzmon mention Max Blumenthal's interview with David Irving. So here he is - the Jew Blumenthal denigrating a man who's boots he is not fit to lick... No Woman, No Drive | YouTube Bahrain regime waging war on own people, by Finian Cunningham | PressTV The US-backed Bahraini regime is mounting an undeclared, merciless war on the majority Shia population of the tiny Persian Gulf island. Yet, this systematic crime against humanity is proceeding with impunity and barely a murmur of international protest. The regime may be the ones holding the gun, but it is the tacit support of Washington and London that allows these despots to pull the trigger on civilians... Turkey Strives toward Regional Leadership, by Pyotr Iskenderov | Strategic Culture Foundation Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovich's recent visit to Ankara was yet another important testimony to Turkey's continuing active penetration into the vast region of Southeastern Europe, the former Soviet Union, and the Middle East, in which Recep Tayip Erdogan's government is skillfully combining political and economic leverage... On Israel's system of segregated roads in the occupied Palestinian territories, by Ahmad Barclay | Visualizing Palestine Oct 27, 2013 A Modest Proposal to the Anti-Defamation League, by Alison Weir | If Americans Knew ...Your organization apparently finds those working on behalf of justice and equality for all abhorrent when this includes Palestinians. Happily, many disagree with you. In fact, a large and growing number of people (of all ethnicities, religions, races, and political persuasions) believe that universal principles of morality do not contain exceptions... Adelson and FDD Want to Nuke Iran, Diplomacy, by Ryan Costello | Huffington Post Sheldon Adelson, the billionaire best-known in political circles for losing a great deal of money trying to unseat President Obama in the 2012 election, is also a major donor to organizations that are pushing for new sanctions and war with Iran. Just yesterday, Adelson made some shocking comments on Iran that help clarify what the real goal is behind the latest diplomacy-killing sanctions push in the Senate. In a video recorded by Mondoweiss, Adelson suggests that instead of diplomacy, we should nuke Iran... Rabbi Boteach defends Adelson’s ‘glib’ nuking comment, by Philip Weiss | Mondoweiss Shmuley Boteach is angry about what he calls misrepresentations of comments made at his panel the other night at Yeshiva University. He is defending Sheldon Adelson in the Jerusalem Post for urging Obama to fire an “atomic weapon” into Iran rather than negotiate. He’s released full video of the event. The PR firm Richard Rubenstein also released a statement in Boteach’s name on Adelson’s comments calling them “innocuous”:.. Brzezinski teaches US discretion in his 'global hegemony' speech | The Voice of Russia The concept of global hegemony seems to be dead in the water and the dominance itself pretty much unattainable. The past 13 years of US control over the post Cold-War world has come to an end. These are some of the highlights that Zbigniew Brzezinski, an American political scientist and former US National Security Adviser, made in his speech at University of Johns Hopkins... US sanctions bleed Iran's health system, by Kaveh L Afrasiabi | Asia Times Online Slowly but surely, in a scenario reminiscent of pre-invasion Iraq, unilateral Western sanctions on Iran are having devastating effects on Iran's healthcare sector, adversely affecting the well-being of millions of ordinary Iranians - cancer patients first and foremost... Refusing to Understand Iran | Alternative Insight Three forces in the United States are most aggressive in shaping reactions to the policies of the Islamic Republic of Iran. Each of these organizations has an agenda that prevents objective analysis. None of their contributions provide a clear definition of Iran's position in the international battlefields or allow satisfactory appraisals of Iran's role in Middle East civil disturbances and instabilities... As Europe erupts over US spying, NSA chief says government must stop media, by Glenn Greenwald | The Guardian With General Alexander calling for NSA reporting to be halted, US and UK credibility as guardians of press freedom is crushed... Congressional oversight of the NSA is a joke. I should know, I'm in Congress, by Alan Grayson | The Guardian I've learned far more about government spying on citizens from the media than I have from official intelligence briefings... Clapper and Carney Get Slippery on Surveillance, by Andrew Rosenthal | NYT Does anyone still believe anything the Obama administration has to say about surveillance?.. Spy vs. Spy: Iran, Turkey, and Israel Edition, by Philip Giraldi | The American Conservative David Ignatius of the Washington Post is reporting that early in 2012 Ankara informed the Iranians of the identities of a number of Israeli intelligence sources that were being routinely met in Turkey. Per Ignatius, who is particularly well connected to the Israel government and its security agencies, 10 Iranians who were spying for Israel were, as a consequence, arrested, denying Israel one of its “significant” sources of information... Israel was behind the hacking of millions of French phones | Gilad Atzmon The Daily Mail reports today tha Israel and not America was behind the hacking of millions of French phones, it was claimed today. In the latest extraordinary twist in the global eavesdropping scandal, Israeli agents are said to have intercepted more than 70 million calls and text messages a month... [The Israelis? The Americans? Is there a discernible difference?] Who is the real threat: Iran or Israel? by Akbar Ganji | Al Jazeera ...The fact is that Netanyahu and his government have tried to bring the Iran "nuclear threat" to the foreground in order to sideline other major issues, including the continued occupation of Palestinian lands and denying citizenship rights to its inhabitants. The fact that has been neglected is that Israel has been building hundreds of nuclear warheads and it threatens Iran with military attacks... Thousands Occupy Hebron in Celebration of Death | Roi Tov On Saturday, October 26, 2013, the Palestinian city of Hebron in the southern West Bank was occupied by thousands of Jews celebrating the Life of Sarah weekly portion of the Pentateuch. 7 Jewish leftists members of All That's Left, one of them from abroad, were arrested by the police after blocking the way near the Cave of the Patriarchs,+ where Sarah is buried. Fearing violence, few Palestinians dared to leave their homes; their hometown had become a Palestinian Ghetto... A Tacit Admission that Israel is Ethnically Cleansing Palestinians, by Paul Larudee and Beth Daoud | Dissident Voice ...As of this writing, the ads are available for all to see, both Denver residents and visitors to the city, like the hundreds of delegates to the convention of the Jewish National Fund, 1½ blocks from the 16th street mall... Israel Benefits As World Loses, by Paul Balles | Intifada Palestine ...The Israelis and their lobbyists in the United States laugh quietly when they hear someone complain about the $3 billion in annual gifts America sends to Israel. Why is that funny? Because it only represents a tiny portion of what Israel really costs America. Add the total costs of all the wars the US has fought for Israel. The Iraq war alone has cost America $815 billion and it’s still not over. It has benefitted no one but Israel–not America and certainly not Iraq. The number of Iraqis slaughtered in the US war and occupation of Iraq: 1,455,590... [Uncle Shmuel has a big shit-eating grin on his face] What Recovery? by Mike Whitney | CounterPunch ...the whole system has been rejiggered to accommodate a handful of underwater, zombie institutions who wouldn’t know how to make an honest buck in a normal business transaction if it was staring them in the face... ARAMCO and the House of Saud, by Dean Henderson | Veterans Today ...The only thing that was more striking than this nation’s collective response to the Arab Spring – both from the paranoid right and the jaded left – was the cumulative journalistic ignorance displayed concerning Middle Eastern politics... Oct 26, 2013 Iran Still Very Much in the Crosshairs Israelis, Saudis Just Getting Started in Opposing U.S.-Iran Detente, by Mitchell Plitnick | LobeLog The trick to finding an agreement between the P5+1 world powers and Iran has become clear: keep Israel and Saudi Arabia out of the room. (But don’t expect them to be happy about it.) Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is touring the globe now with his message of doom about an impending Iranian nuclear weapon. “It will be tragic if (Iran) succeeds in avoiding the sanctions,” Netanyahu said in Rome on Tuesday... What a Surprise: U.S.-Based Iran “Experts” Promoting Israeli Policy | Going to Tehran ...The author of the remarkably Netanyahu-like Op Ed cited above is: Ray Takeyh, the mainstream media’s long-time “go to” (if also perennially mistaken) Iran “expert” who advised Dennis Ross’s destructively incompetent handling of the Iran nuclear file during President Obama’s first term and is now back at the Council on Foreign Relations. We have no reason to believe that Ray is coordinating his public positions with the Israeli government. But it is remarkable how congruent his views are with those of the most hegemonically-minded Israeli prime minister in living memory... Franks legislation authorizes military force against Iran, by Morad Ghorban and Lee Hodges | The Hill Recent talks between the West and Iran have created an important opportunity to resolve the Iran nuclear standoff. U.S. officials have expressed cautious optimism that a deal may be reached that protects U.S. interests. However, some in Washington seem determined to undermine the diplomatic process... Paranoid Saudis fear US treachery, by Finian Cunningham | PressTV The Saudis are sulking big time with Washington. This is not just due to a temper-tantrum by the kingdom’s spymaster, Prince Bandar. The entire House of Saud is in ructions over what the rulers perceive as “American treachery”.. Senate Dems May Spurn Obama’s Call for Delay, Push Iran Sanctions, by Jason Ditz | Antiwar AIPAC Heavily Lobbying Congress to Continue Sanctions - Progress on the diplomatic front with Iran could be seriously undermined at a moment’s notice by the US Congress, as imposing yet more sanctions in response to Iranian diplomatic overtures would be a clear sign the US isn’t there to make deals, but to make excuses... Persian classical music from Iran - Great masters of the Santur | YouTube Whose Interests are They? by Andrew Levine | CounterPunch ...That Americans’ security will not be truly enhanced until our government stops propping up retrograde, authoritarian regimes in the Middle East, and until the United States stops underwriting ethnic cleansing in occupied Palestine, is obvious enough – but also beyond the ken of the prevailing bipartisan consensus... Al Qaeda’s Corridor Through Syria, by Vijay Prashad | CounterPunch ...ISIS and its form of radicalism are a product of Saudi Arabian and Qatari financing of the rebellion. Money from the Gulf Arabs alongside foreign fighters and a motivated group of Syrian fighters have given ISIS the advantage. At the same time, as Saudi and Qatari money has allowed its proxies to have the upper hand against other rebels on the battlefield, Saudi and Qatari influence has prevented unity and an agenda to develop among the political leadership of the rebellion... Anti-Bedouin Unit Becomes Operational | Roi Tov In the last week of October 2013, Israel Police announced that the core of its Yoav Unit, created in April 2012, had become operational with 110 fighters fully trained and equipped by the army. Another 250 men will soon start the training. Following the approval of the Prawer Law, which attempts to expel Bedouins from their homes, on June 24, 2013, Israel is fighting its own citizens, Bedouins living in the Negev Desert. The Yoav Unit was set to expel them from their ancestral homes... To regain respect, US must dump Israel, by Kevin Barrett | Veterans Today ...The new Pharaoh of Egypt, General al-Sisi, is ignoring pathetic whimpers about human rights and democracy emanating from Washington, DC. Al-Sisi, who hails from a Moroccan Jewish background and is rumored to be an Israeli agent, continues to butcher peaceful protestors as he establishes a dictatorship whose viciousness and autocracy are far beyond anything Mubarak ever dreamed of. Al-Sisi’s coup was approved in Tel Aviv, not Washington DC... Ten Explosive U.S. Government Secrets about Israel, by Grant F. Smith | IRmep ...it is prudent to believe that LBJ—properly warned by his intelligence services and advisors that Israel was stealing the most precious military material on earth from America—was simply too marinated in Israel lobby campaign cash to faithfully uphold his oath of office. It is similarly reasonable to believe the Justice Department and FBI won't release Israeli spy files because Americans would finally understand that, despite massive ongoing harm to America, political appointees in the Justice Department thwart warranted prosecutions... Yellen to be Nominated As Third Consecutive Jewish Federal Reserve Head, by Bob Johnson | Veterans Today ...If Yellen is appointed, which there is no real reason that she will not be approved by the kosher plutocrats in the US Senate, the US economy will have been in the hands of Jews for the last 27 years. When we stop and realize that Jews only make up about 2% of the US population, we begin to realize just how much this is against the odds... [Antisemitism! Antisemitism!] Israel’s Trojan horses in the USA | Redress Information & Analysis By way of deception and lies is the modus operandi of Israel and its secret agents – and, we now know, also its pimps and stooges. The name sounds innocent enough – “Creative Community for Peace”, or CCFP – and the purpose benign bordering on the fluffy – to “supports the idea of building bridges between people through art and music”. But the reality is very different... Oct 25, 2013 America’s “Secret Wars” in Over 100 Countries Around the World, by Andrew Gavin Marshall | Dissident Voice Obama’s global terror campaign is not only dependent upon his drone assassination program, but increasingly it has come to rely upon the deployment of Special Operations forces in countries all over the world, reportedly between 70 and 120 countries at any one time. As Obama has sought to draw down the large-scale ground invasions of countries (as Bush pursued in Afghanistan and Iraq), he has escalated the world of ‘covert warfare,’ largely outside the oversight of Congress and the public. One of the most important agencies in this global “secret war” is the Joint Special Operations Command, or JSOC for short... Crying Wolf Over Iran, by Philip Giraldi | Antiwar Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been trying to convince the audience in both the United States and Europe that new Iranian President Hassan Rouhani is a "wolf in sheep’s clothing" intent on beguiling the west with empty promises while proceeding full speed with a nuclear weapons program. Unfortunately for Netanyahu, few are interested in hearing an argument that has been repeated over and over again for more than twenty years in one form or another regarding the imminence of a "Mullah nuke." If there is a true predatory beast tale intrinsic to the oft repeated narrative, it perhaps should be the story of the boy who cried wolf... Are You Racist? George Galloway | Oxford Union - YouTube A Response to Eric Alterman, by Max Blumenthal | The Nation ..In writing my book I intended to loosen the blockade of suppression of thought and discussion on the subject of Israel-Palestine. For years, especially since the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin by a right-wing Jewish extremist, a contingent of self-appointed enforcers has attempted to suppress an honest, free and full debate. These enforcers, recently aided and abetted by Benjamin Netanyahu’s right-wing government, have painted critics who do not toe the party line or journalists who report uncomfortable facts as anti-Semitic, self-hating Jews or cheerleaders for terror. Readers of The Nation should recognize this kind of smearing as a form of McCarthyism... [Is Israel fascist? Absolutely. See Us vs. Them: On the Meaning of Fascism] Syria: After CW Removal, Obama May Again Go For Regime Change | Moon of Alabama The NYT has a long piece on the development of Obama's policies towards Syria. While some on his staff pressed for outright open war on Syria others were going along the "let them kill each other" line. Their idea was and is to let both sides fight each other until no one is left standing. To this purpose the stream of weapons and ammunition to the mercenaries fighting the Syrian government was switched off when the mercenaries were in advantage and switched on again when the government seemed to win... Former British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw Told The Truth For A Change | Gilad Atzmon A report from an ex-Member of the Israeli Knesset yesterday claimed that during a meeting in the British Houses of Parliament, former Foreign Secretary and Home Secretary Jack Straw (Lab) ‘peddled an anti-Semitic’ trope about Jewish control over U.S. and Germany foreign policy. Straw reportedly claimed that pro-Israel lobby groups such as AIPAC work with this “unlimited” funding to “divert American policy in the region” and stated that “Germany’s “obsession” with defending Israel” was a major problem... Government shutdown and Chinese gold, by Jim W. Dean | Veterans Today ...we have a dual headed financial monster to fear for all of our financial futures. We have a monetary system built on a house of cards, matched up with official government intervention policies in conjunction with groups of banks who can crash the markets. We are to trust that this is all being done for the public good, but the track record would suggest otherwise... Israel's New Racism: The Persecution of African Migrants in the Holy Land | YouTube About 60,000 African migrants have arrived in Israel since 2006, fleeing unrest in their home countries. But upon arrival in the ostensibly democratic country, the migrants have faced intense persecution and have been branded as "infiltrators" by right-wing politicians and activists... [Eliminating the “others” to maintain racial purity. Sounds depressingly familiar.] ♫ 129 tracks (Christina Pluhar: L'Arpeggiata) | YouTube Iran-U.S. rapprochement possible with goodwill and determination: Amb. Thomas Pickering, by Kourosh Ziabari | Veterans Today People in Iran and the United States are enthusiastically monitoring the headlines on the newspapers and the TV channels to see if a historic breakthrough between their countries will finally emerge at the critical juncture when the two rivals are expected to strike a deal over the decade-long controversy on Iran’s nuclear program and move toward a momentous normalization of bilateral relations... [“Goodwill” on the part of the Imperial elite? Gotta be kidding.] The New World Order's Tower of Babel, by Nikolai Malishevski | Strategic Culture Foundation Recent events in Iraq, Libya and Syria have one common factor which is being carefully concealed: the looting of museums and the destruction of entire strata of the rich heritage of ancient cultures by the American «liberators». For example, after the Americans plundered Baghdad's museums, a large part of the loot was dumped on the black antiques market in the West. This is also one of the motives for the Yankees' campaign against Damascus. Illegal trading of antiques is considered no less profitable than the drug trade... Saudi-US Row: Prince Bandar bin ‘Sulking’ Tries Old Bribe and Threat Trick Again, by Finian Cunningham | Strategic Culture Foundation Historic allies, the United States and Saudi Arabia, are in the midst of a full-blown row, after the kingdom’s spy chief Prince Bandar bin Sultan threatened that their strategic liaison was on the rocks. The sulking sultan is no stranger to maverick mood swings. But there is good reason to believe that the senior Saudi is not merely acting alone, and that this is the obscurantist kingdom’s way of expressing strategic frustrations... Europe’s Imperial Dominion & Subjugation of the Globe, by Mohamed Khodr | Veterans Today “Imperialism has been the most powerful force in world history over the last four or five centuries, carving up whole continents while oppressing indigenous peoples and obliterating entire civilizations. Yet, it is seldom accorded any serious attention by our academics, media commentators, and political leaders. When not ignored outright, the subject of imperialism has been sanitized, so that empires become “commonwealths,” and colonies become “territories” or “dominions” Imperialist military interventions become matters of “national defense,” “national security,” and maintaining “stability” in one or another region”.. Erich Priebke's final interview - late July, 2013 | Paul Eisen I originally received this from Professor Robert Faurisson but this version is from the Carolyn Yeager website which I'm told seems the best translation... [And this man is labeled a “monster” by the Holycause Inquisition and their brainwashed sycophants. For some additional little known background: “Before the First World War [in Germany], Jews occupied 13 percent of the directorships of joint-stock corporations and 24 percent of the supervisory positions within these corporations.. During 1904 they comprised 27 percent of all lawyers, 10 percent of all apprenticed lawyers, 5 percent of court clerks, 4 percent of magistrates, and up to 30 percent of all higher ranks of the judiciary.. Jews were [also] overrepresented among university professors and students between 1870 and 1933. For example, in 1909-1910.. almost 12 percent of instructors at German universities were Jewish.. [I]n 1905-1906 Jewish students comprised 25 percent of the law and medical students.. The percentage of Jewish doctors was also quite high, especially in large cities, where they sometimes were a majority.. In Berlin around 1890, 25 percent of all children attending grammar school were Jewish… ~ Sarah Gordon (1984: 10-14)] Read more... Israel orders Bedouins to get rid of mud ovens | Gulf News The Israeli military has ordered Palestinian Bedouins to get rid of their mud ovens immediately as they were “harming” the nearby residents of Karmeal colony. Some 50 families comprising 300 Bedouins live in Umm Al Khair without electricity, potable water or a drainage system... British TV “celebrity” Simon Cowell, US singer Lionel Ritchie, come out as Israel pimps | Redress Information & Analysis ...Other pimps and stooges included Rabbi Yechiel Eckstein, President of the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews, who gave 4.5 million dollars; Haim Saban, who gave 2.3 million dollars; and software company Oracle’s chief executive Larry Ellison, who gave 1 million dollars.. in aid of the Israeli occupiers... Netanyahu captain of sinking ship: PressTV interview with Jim W. Dean | Veterans Today This is the number one read story on Press TV today, rare for an interview, and the first interview for me to make it to the top. I did bump the usual 3 minutes they want on these phone interviews up to 4.5, to be able to get a few more licks in. That helped... Oct 24, 2013 An Angel Song for Peace and an End to Violence, by Finian Cunningham | Veterans News ..America has long been accused of (or credited with) leading the world in whichever direction it takes. Rightly or wrongly, this assessment should be taken at face value and the American Press should demonstrate the wisdom of demanding truth and accountability from its elected Representatives and Legislators by disenfranchising the likes of.. the so-called neocons or ziocons in the next Congressional elections. Is that too much to expect of a nation and people that prides itself as the purveyors of democracy?.. As Ye Sow, So Shall Ye Reap: No Way Out, by Paul Craig Roberts | CounterPunch The year 2014 could be shaping up as the year that the chickens come home to roost. Americans, even well-informed ones, don’t know all of the mistakes made by neoconized and corrupted Washington in the past two decades. However, enough is known to see that the US has lost economic and political power, and that the loss is irreversible. The economic cost of this lost will be born by what remains of the middle class and the increasingly poverty-stricken lower class. The one percent will have offshore gold holdings and large sums of money in foreign currencies and other foreign assets to see them through... MJ Rosenberg owes Ali Abunimah an apology for false accusations of anti-Semitism, by David Samel | Mondoweiss While tirelessly working to promote the rights of his people, Palestinian-American activist and Electronic Intifada founder Ali Abunimah has kept a wary eye open for anti-Semitism, and repeatedly made it clear that there is no room in the Palestinian rights movement for any attacks on Jewish people. For example, see his harsh criticism of Gilad Atzmon and Greta Berlin... [Hilarious. Karma, neh? Abunimah getting a taste of his own medicine, albeit not in his polite drawing-room political correctness style. I’m a One Stater myself and do appreciate his book, but his unconscionable slander of Atzmon and Berlin for being “anti-semites” just came back to haunt him. As for Rosenberg, he needs to find a new dope dealer - that last batch was laced with something toxic. BTW, the comments on this thread are Jewcy.] Einstein letter, on sale at Ebay, blamed Jewish terrorists for risking 'catastrophe' in Palestine, by Philip Weiss | Mondoweiss Ebay is selling a letter written by Albert Einstein at the time of the Deir Yassin massacre in April 1948 to an American Zionist, denouncing the Zionist militias’ terrorist activities. It’s interesting that Einstein’s word, catastrophe, is also the Palestinians’ word in Arabic, the Nakba. The letter’s text:.. U.S. Jews Battle Over Blumenthal’s “Goliath” | James M. Wall The story of how Israel was born as a modern state out of the horrors of the Nakba has been subsumed in the story of the Holocaust. Blumenthal found that even a small reference to the Nakba in a third-grade Israeli text was deleted. When Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu returned to office he ordered all textbooks with Nakba references immediately confiscated. The narrative of the Palestinian Nakba threatens Israel’s self-understanding as a democratic state. What liberal Zionists don’t like to face is that the modern state of Israel is fast becoming an ideological Zionist state, driven by, in Haber’s phrase above, “core Zionist principles of the Ben Gurion school”.. The spinning and status of the Iran nuclear negotiations | Iran Affairs I am greatly amused by efforts of our chattering classes to rewrite the history of the past 10 years to pretend that the reason for the lack of progress thus far in the US-Iran nuclear debacle has been Iran's intrasigence. The Leveretts point out that much of the media coverage starts out with the assumption that it is Iran's burden to make compromises to meet US demands, not vice versa, as if the obstacle to the resolution of the standoff thus long has been Iran and not the US with its excess demands that Iran abandon enrichment... Adelson says Obama should fire 'atomic weapon' at Iran, not negotiate, by Philip Weiss | Mondoweiss Last night in New York, Sheldon Adelson, the billionaire supporter of Israel, said that the U.S. should fire a nuclear weapon at Iran rather than negotiate. He said that if Obama fires a weapon into the desert, killing no one, and then threatens to send the next one to Tehran so that Iran is “wiped out,” Iran will cease its nuclear program... [Adelson is living proof that the recently bruited anthropological theory that Jews are descended from the Neanderthals and are out for revenge just might have some traction] Iran Talks: Devil Is in the Details, by Jason Ditz | Antiwar Western diplomats have leaked details of their “demands” on Iran to the Associated Press, and after last week’s leaks of the Iranian proposal, we now have a pretty clear picture of where the secretive negotiations now stand... [All might be well, unless the West bows to the criminally insane demands of Israel] Sergey Lavrov at the Royal Institute for International Relations | Voltaire Net ...For the first time in centuries the sources of global growth have shifted beyond the borders of the European civilization, reshaping the geopolitical landscape and establishing a polycentric international system in line with the realities and needs of the twenty-first century. The developments of recent years have shown again and again that today no single country, nor even a group of countries have sufficient resources to address international challenges by imposing their will on all others. The only way to provide effective global governance is to bring major poles of power and influence of the modern world into alignment... The Inevitability of the Third Intifada, by Dmitry Minin | Strategic Culture Foundation American diplomacy, which has been enduring one failure after another in the Middle East, is faced with the prospect with yet another large fiasco which threatens to bury the White House's entire Middle East strategy altogether. There are more and more signs that the sluggish process of Palestinian-Israeli reconciliation, which remains for now in the shadows, could be disrupted at any moment and turn into the hot phase of the Third Palestinian Intifada... A New Kind of War Is Being Legalized | War Is A Crime ...The group wants President Obama to explain what the law is (since nobody else can), wants him to comply with it (whatever it is), wants civilians compensated (if anyone can agree who the civilians are and if people can really be compensated for the murder of their loved ones), and wants the U.S. government to investigate itself. Somehow the notion of prosecuting crimes doesn't come up... [Now if someone were to drone O’Bomber then a lot of innocent people wouldn’t lose their lives. Just thinking.] Secret Killings, by Binoy Kampmark | CounterPunch ...What this shows is the remarkable and disturbing faith being placed in the latest killing machines. Technology displaces the ethical imperative. The latest tendency in this direction is affirmed by efforts to translate “super heroes” in comic form to the battlefield, another product of seeing war as video game, celluloid projection, and trigger happy adolescence... What Comes Next?: A forum on the end of the two-state paradigm | Mondoweiss “What Comes Next?: A forum on the end of the two-state paradigm” was initiated by Jewish Voice for Peace as an investigation into the current state of thinking about one state and two state solutions, and the collection has been further expanded by Mondoweiss to mark 20 years since the beginning of the Oslo peace process... "Israeli Gandhi was ahead of his time" | Roi Tov ...In recent years, Israel is shifting its policies from a two-state solution to a one-state one. The main battle signaling the shift was known as E1, an attempt to create Jewish contiguity between Jerusalem and the Dead Sea, where one of Israel's main industrial centers is located. Once this is achieved, the West Bank will be effectively bisected, splitting the State of Palestine into three non-contiguous zones (Gaza would be the third). If the West Bank is bisected, Palestine would not be viable... Is it really Israel's New Racism? | Gilad Atzmon ..The film reveals a most ugly manifestation of Jewish ethnocentrism, exclusivism and bigotry, but you may notice that none of the Israeli racists in the film identifies as a ‘Zionist’ or showed any concern for the Zionist nature of Israel. Instead they, and without exception, express their deep concern with the ‘Jewish State’ its ‘Jewish character’ and matters pertaining to the Jewish religion and Jewish ‘purity’.. Direct Rule by Wall Street Begins with Detroit, by Glen Ford | Black Agenda Report ..The American state and economy are being relentlessly restructured in order to further consolidate the rule of finance capital. In the largely Black urban centers of the nation, the oligarchy intends to rule directly, without the inconvenience of meaningful elections and the other trappings of democracy. Detroit proves the point. This week, a judge begins a bankruptcy court trial that will decide if local corporate dictator Kevyn Orr, the emergency financial manager imposed by the state to protect the interests of Wall Street, will essentially be allowed to sell Detroit’s assets to a British bank in order to pay off the city’s debts to American banks... Iran’s Hardliners: Weaker But Louder, by Ali Reza Eshraghi | LobeLog News media accounts of reactions from Iran to the recent talks in Geneva remind me of a joke that has gone viral there: A salesman shows a variety of hearing aids ranging in cost from one to a thousand dollars to a customer, who then asks, “How well does the one dollar one work?” The salesman responds, “It doesn’t work at all! But, people speak louder when they see you wearing it.”.. For U.S. in the Mideast, the Ice Is Getting Thinner, by Jim Lobe | Inter Press Service ..While neo-conservatives, many Republicans and other hawks here claim that Washington’s Middle Eastern difficulties are due chiefly to President Barack Obama’s desire to disengage from the region and his failure to aggressively assert Washington’s interests, militarily if necessary, others argue that the forces unleashed by the 2003 Iraq invasion and the so-called Arab Spring have transformed the area in ways that defy U.S. control... Australia Threatens Jewish Academics, by Gideon Polya | MCW News ..Because America is now politically dominated by Neocon American and Zionist Imperialist One Percenters, the bipartisan Australian political “sine qua non” of “all the away with the USA” now also involves near-total support for Israel that is dressed up with politically correct and disingenuous assurances that Australia wants peace in the Middle East, want peace talks and wants a “2-state solution” for Israel-Palestine. The latter is now impossible because Israel has now ethnically cleansed about 90% of the land of the former Mandatory Palestine... [The elites of the English speaking countries are under a malevolent spell. The magic incantation is "I'm gonna make you an offer you can't refuse."] A Memorial at Deir Yassin | Deir Yassin Remembered ..On April 9th 1948, the massacre of more than 100 Palestinian civilians was perpetrated by Jewish terrorists at the village of Deir Yassin near Jerusalem. The massacre was a pivotal event in the Palestinian Catastrophe which accompanied the creation of the state of Israel. Thousands of Palestinians were killed and over 700,000 were driven or frightened from their homes and lands on which they had lived for centuries.. Deir Yassin Remembered proposes to build a memorial at Deir Yassin to the victims of the massacre of April 9th 1948.. You can add your name to the petition here... [If I can afford to give them a few bucks, so can you] West toxic lie on Syria exposed, by Finian Cunningham | PressTV ...a large-scale killing took place near Damascus on 21 August involving Saudi and Western military intelligence in collusion with the foreign-backed anti-government mercenaries. Civilians, including children, were murdered in cold blood, perhaps by lethal injection, in order to stage a provocation that was aimed as a pretext for a US-led military assault on Syria. That all-out attack on Syria was all the more pressing because of the floundering regime-change objective of the Axis of Evil comprising Washington, London, Paris, Riyadh, Doha, Tel Aviv, Amman and Ankara... Bakri Bans Israel | Roi Tov "My father scared them. He was one of the most talented persons in the movie industry. He touched the Israeli public with his Hebrew, with his poetic speech, with his charisma, and they wanted to put an end to this," said Palestinian actor Saleh Bakri on October 20, 2013, while announcing his banning of Israel... Peres suffering from Portnoy’s Complaint? by Franklin Lamb | Intifada Palestine Being subjected to the Zionist lobby can get tedious—particularly its chronic parading of an often disoriented and fast-deteriorating fellow, who should surely be tending a vegetable or flower garden somewhere in Occupied Palestine, where he lives on stolen land. International lawyers, even some at Hebrew University, have come to recognize the half century of crimes against humanity meted out by Shimon Peres upon hundreds of thousands of Palestinian refugees, and thus one could be forgiven for rolling eyes at the Israeli president’s concerns over demons said to be haunting his sleeping and waking moments, as he complains that perhaps, just maybe, he was wrong in his calculations 70 years ago... Read more... Who's Afraid of the Right of Return? A Response to Kathleen Peratis on BDS, by Tom Pessah | The Daily Beast ...Kathleen, I want to challenge you: the next time you are on a panel, insist that a Palestinian also be invited to participate. And when she is, I want you to look her straight in the eye, tell her that you have democratic values, and then defend the idea that any young American Jew has more right to go and live in Israel/Palestine than she does... Canada’s racism contradictions, by Yves Engler | Redress Information & Analysis Openly racist Jewish National Fund receives Canadian public funds and political support. In Canada it is illegal to restrict the sale of property to certain ethnic or religious groups but many of our business people and politicians promote an organization that does exactly that in Israel... Israel forbids recreation in besieged Palestinian village | Redress Information & Analysis The Israeli occupation authorities have issued an order for the closure of the only recreational park in the Palestinian village of Wadi Fuqeen, which is sandwiched between the Apartheid Wall and the Jewish squatter colony of Beitar Illit... US- Venezuela Relations: A Case Study of Imperialism and Anti-Imperialism | James Petras ...US policy toward Venezuela in the 1990’s and its successes were part and parcel of a general embrace of neo-liberal electoral regimes in Latin America. Washington and its allies in the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the World Bank (WB) and the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) promoted and supported regimes throughout Latin America, which privatized and de-nationalized over five thousand public enterprises in the most lucrative economic sectors... What Planet Are We On? The Coming Era of Tiny Wars and Micro-Conflicts, by Tom Engelhardt | TomDispatch ...In terms of advanced and unchallenged military power, there has been nothing like the U.S. armed forces since the Mongols swept across Eurasia. No wonder American presidents now regularly use phrases like “the finest fighting force the world has ever known” to describe it. By the logic of the situation, the planet should be a pushover for it. Lesser nations with far lesser forces have, in the past, controlled vast territories. And despite much discussion of American decline and the waning of its power in a “multi-polar” world, its ability to pulverize and destroy, kill and maim, blow up and kick down has only grown in this new century... Hollywood and the Dreadful Few (Part II), by Jonas E. Alexis | Veterans Today ...Hollywood was and still is a largely subversive movement. When it comes to deconstructing the West and bringing it to its knees, there comes a point where money does not matter anymore. Making money is less important than weakening the cultural harmony that existed in America for years... [See also this. At the vry least, these two articles help to explain the execrable Sarah Silverman.] Mainstream Journalists Expose 9/11 Hoax, by Kevin Barrett | Veterans Today ...President Bush’s family had done business with the family of the man who allegedly made the terrorist attack, Osama Bin Laden. The Bin Laden family was actually on the board of Bush’s oil company. How is it possible that of all the billions of families in the world, the one family that makes the attack on America has done business with the President of America.. I don’t think 9/11 was an Arab conspiracy or a Muslim conspiracy. I think it’s an American conspiracy to overthrow the government of the United States and install what is becoming a police state, and also to advance the imperial ambitions of the United States, to swindle the Middle East out of their energy resources.”.. Billionaire Mayor Wins Genesis Prize | Stephen Lendman Outgoing New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg ranks 13th among Forbes magazine's global billionaires. He's America's 10th richest.. On October 21, he was awarded the first Genesis Prize. The Israeli government, Jewish Agency for Israel, and Genesis Philanthropy Group launched it.. he'll be honored for "exceptional values and achievements." Apparently they include making money the old-fashioned way, waging class warfare, targeting First Amendment rights, and enforcing racist harshness. Millions of ordinary New Yorkers understand best... Torturing and Jailing Palestinian Children, by Ziad Abbas | CounterPunch Although I have been living far from Palestine for a few years and I am now in my forties, I still have nightmares about the Israeli army invading my house when I was a child and about the first time I was tortured. This is the reality most Palestinian former prisoners live with for the rest of our lives... Sectarianism: Redrawing the Map of Middle East, by Ramzy Baroud | Palestine Chronicle ...For nearly two decades, many warned that American military intervention in Iraq would eventually “destabilize” the entire region. The term “destabilize” was of course a relevant one, since Israel has done more than its fair share to destabilize several countries, occupy some and destroy others. But the prospects of political destabilization were much more ominous when the world’s most powerful country invested much of its might and financial resources to do the job. In 1990-91, then again in 2003, and once more in 2006, Iraq was used as a giant field of experimentation for war, “state building” and US-provoked civil war... 'Our' weaponized Wahhabi bastards, by Pepe Escobar | Asia Times Online Life is good if you’re a member of the Gulf Counter-revolution Club, officially known as Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC). You can crush the Arab Spring at will. You can hire goons all across dar-al-Islam to advance a sectarian Sunni-Shi’ite divide. You can be deeply implicated in the destruction of Syria. You can treat a significant part of your own population as third-class citizens. Not only you get away with it; you get rewarded with expensive toys... [See also his followup: The self-beheading House of Saud] A Peek at the Ideology of a Prominent NSA Defender, by Conor Friedersdorf | The Atlantic ...The scoop, based on documents leaked by Edward Snowden, exposes an ongoing surveillance practice that affects millions of Americans. It provides yet another proof of the fact that NSA defenders are misleading the public when they avow that the agency doesn't spy on American citizens. It permits a debate about whether the U.S. ought to be indiscriminately collecting address books and whether the practice is subject to adequate oversight. And it raises the question of whether it makes sense to permit data collection abroad that would be illegal if conducted within the United States... Faulty history lures Americans into foolish interventions: The Myth of the Better War, by Christopher Preble | Reason ...he challenges the widely accepted idea that America's counterinsurgency wars-in Vietnam, Iraq, and now Afghanistan-"were made better simply by enlightened generals and improved tactics." This myth of the better war waged by better men has been used to rally the American people to support foreign interventions and re-interventions into situations that seemed lost. An exaggerated faith in counterinsurgency (COIN) will encourage similar misadventures in the future, he warns... Israel and the Erosion of Democracy: An Australian Story, by Samah Sabawi | Palestine Chronicle A few months ago I signed my name as co-defendant to a possible legal action threatened by an Israeli law firm, Shurat HaDin, targeting two Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies (CPACS) academics – Professors Jake Lynch and Stuart Rees for publically refusing to co-operate with Israel’s Hebrew university. Almost two thousand Australian and international academics, writers, human rights activists and other members of civil society have since joined this unprecedented historic act of solidarity signing as co-defendants along with the two targeted professors... Oct 22, 2013 Suppressing and Manipulating 9/11 Truth using the internet, by Jim Fetzer | Veterans Today ...I am overwhelmed by the elegance and simplicity of the techniques that are being deployed to defeat the dissemination of 9/11 Truth to the American public. By simply controlling the search engines, the government can insure that only a tiny percentage of the potential audience for an RT documentary on 9/11 will be seen; and by promoting extremely simple-minded productions about each of the victims–which are designed to appeal to small children and unsophisticated adults–they are effectively concealing the truth about 9/11 from those who most deserve to know... David R. Griffin Reviews "September 11 - The New Pearl Harbor" | Amazon There have been several really good films and videos about 9/11. But the new film by award-winning film-maker Massimo Mazzucco is in a class by itself. For those of us who have been working on 9/11 for a long time, this is the film we have been waiting for. Whereas there are excellent films treating the falsity of particular parts of the official account, such as the Twin Towers or WTC 7, Mazzucco has given us a comprehensive documentary treatment of 9/11, dealing with virtually all of the issues... Another Nobel Peace Prize – Another Farce? by Felicity Arbuthnot | Global Research ...This year’s Peace Prize awarded, on Friday, 11th October, went to the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) the Netherlands based organization, founded only in 1997, unheard of by most, charged with ridding the world of chemical weapons. The Award came ten days after an OPCW team arrived in Syria to eliminate the country’s chemical weapons stock. A brief visit in August had them scuttling out, an apparent courage free entity, within days... War! What Is It Good For? Profit and Power, by William Astore | TomDispatch It’s no news (and in fact rarely makes it off the inside pages of our newspapers) that the U.S. dominates -- one might almost say monopolizes -- the global arms market. In 2011, the last year for which figures are available, U.S. weapons makers tripled their sales to $66.3 billion and were expected to remain in that range for 2012 as well. In other words, they took 78% of the market that year, with Russia coming in a vanishingly distant second at $4.8 billion in sales... Israel Cranks Up the PR Machine, by Max Blumenthal | The Nation ...While paranoia mounts inside Israeli policy circles about the rising tide of nonviolent global resistance, Netanyahu has grown obsessed with Israel’s withering image in the West. Under his guidance, the term “delegitimization” has become a household word signifying BDS and nearly everything done in the name of exposing Israel’s violations of international law. And thanks to Netanyahu’s instigation, Barack Obama has become the first American president to explicitly pledge to battle the pressure campaign... [Instead of the Nobel, he should have received the MSG (Most Subservient Shabbas Goy Award)] The New Great Game Round-Up #25 | Christoph Germann ...Millions of labor migrants, in particular from Central Asian countries, travel to Russia in search of work. This has triggered xenophobia and hate attack, as once again demonstrated by this week's mass riot in Moscow after the stabbing of a 25-year-old Russian:.. "Nobody loves Jerusalem more or less than us" | Roi Tov ...The new bill is short, with just two clauses. The first one states that the government or anyone acting on its behalf cannot conduct negotiations with a view to partition Jerusalem or hand over any part of it without a majority of at least 80 Knesset members, i.e. a 2/3 majority. The second nails the first, claiming that if the government overlooks this prohibition, neither the negotiations nor any decision or agreement emanating from them will be binding... The Huffington Post: Sleaze Dressed Up as a Liberal, by Yukon Jack | Veterans Today ...Large flashing ads celebrating the latest Hollywood whore’s boob job are in you face distracting the reader from actually reading any critical issue facing the nation. The HP is also obsessed with the latest Jewish legislation and the latest outrageous headline of the Congressional idiots. The Huffington Post is about cleavage, maybe they should go all the way and just put the latest Hollywood boobs on the front page, the already have the latest Hollywood Boobs on the front page. If the editors of the HuffPost were honest, they would sell Obama’s health care agenda like this:.. Islamophobic Injustice, by Paul Balles | Veterans Today Sami Al-Arian’s story is one of the most appalling tales of brutal, horrifying, unjust treatment of a Palestinian victimized by Americans... America's Economic Dark Side | Stephen Lendman ..."Of all developed nations, the United States has the most unequal distribution of income, and we're surging towards every greater inequality." America's 400 richest elites have more wealth than half the population. Jacob Kornbluth's new documentary film "Inequality for All" examines disturbing truths. US inequality is at historic highs... The Evisceration of Yugoslavia Part V: A Kangaroo Court, by Dean Henderson | Veterans Today The International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) was created at the behest of the US and received its funding and direction from its NATO sponsors. The very concept of an ad hoc tribunal established with the intent of judging events that occur in only one geographic location violates the standard of equity of law. Attempts by the world community to establish an International Criminal Court, which would have jurisdiction around the world, have failed due to US insistence that American citizens be exempt from prosecution by the court... David Duke: The Secret Behind Communism | YouTube Congratulations to our American truth-telling comrades | Redress Information & Analysis It’s one of the highest accolades truth-telling fighters against racism and bigotry could hope for. The Zio-cons of the ironically named “Anti-Defamation League” (ADL) have published a list of what it considers to be the 10 “most influential and active anti-Israel groups” operating in the United States, the Times of Israel reports. The winning truth-tellers, announced on 21 October, are:.. [This website, I must admit, is too marginal for such an honor, but mañana, quien sabe?] We Don’t Need More ‘Spin’ About NSA’s Unconstitutional Domestic Snooping, We Need It Stopped, by Ivan Eland | The Independent Institute In response to an avalanche of criticism over revelations of his National Security Agency’s (NSA’s) bulk collection of Americans’ telephone and other electronic metadata, General Keith B. Alexander, the director of the agency, in a recent interview with the New York Times, claimed that his spy agency is just misunderstood—not operating illegally or nefariously. Alexander argued that he and his agency simply need to do a better job explaining what they do to the American people... Oct 21, 2013 Bankrupt at Home and Abroad, Syria Shows Washington is a Spent Geopolitical Player, by Finian Cunningham | Strategic Culture Foundation US policy on Syria could be described as «a comedy of errors» if the consequences for human suffering were not so brutal. Having largely created a quagmire of terrorism and lawlessness in Syria through covert insurgency operations over the past two and half years, the US government looks like a hapless Doctor Frankenstein who has lost control of the beast, or should we say beasts. The creation from the laboratory of American regime change has many forms, from savage death squads on the ground to effete exile political groups ensconced in five-star Persian Gulf hotels... Scum Suckers of the Potomac, by Yukon Jack | Veterans Today ...How disgusting is Congress? How treasonous is Congress? How whored to Israel is the Congress of the United States? When psychopath, war monger, America hater Netanyahu gave a speech about his country our elected representatives could barely stay sitting, they kept jumping up with great energy clapping like penguins high on crack. I’m calling it, that was the moment in time of peak whore doom, when the scum sucking carp on the Potomac showed the world their true whore colors of blue and white. Packed to the gills like carp slurping bread in a Koi pond, our Congress knows who’s their sugar daddy... East Med subsea cable to feed 2000MW to energy-hungry Europe | Financial Mirror The first phase of an EU-backed plan to lay the world's longest subsea electricity cable could be completed by 2017, ending Europe’s reliance on Russian energy supplies, while allowing Israel to export power generated from its newly found offshore gasfields... ♫ John Doan: 'The Lamentation Of Turlough O'Carolan' | YouTube Reclaiming Judaism from Zionism, by Ilan Pappe | The Electronic Intifada When the Zionist movement appeared in Eastern Europe in the 1880s, it found it very difficult to persuade the leading rabbis and secular Jewish thinkers of the day to support it. The leading rabbis saw the political history in the Bible and the idea of Jewish sovereignty on the land of Israel as very marginal topics and were much more concerned, as indeed Judaism as a religion was, with the holy tracts that focused on the relationship between the believers themselves and in particular their relations with God. Secular liberal or socialist Jews also found the idea of Jewish nationalism unattractive... Resist | Paul Eisen ...I'm afraid this post is about another example of denial - no, not Holocaust denial - but the denial of my freedom to speak, write and even to think. So the first is from the World Jewish Congress about a letter they sent to Amazon and below that is Inconvenient History's response... Rouhani is West’s best bet in Iran, by Seyed Hossein Mousavian | Gulf News ...These examples illustrate that when Iran decides to accomplish a goal, its unyielding determination often accomplishes the goal, despite pressure and opposition from the West. Iran’s decision to avoid building weapons of mass destruction, of all kinds, is not because of the US threats and pressure. If Iran had in fact made the decision to develop nuclear weapons, the notion that pressure and even the use of force might prevent Iran from accomplishing this fails to hold up in consideration of prior achievements... ♫ John Abercrombie: Alice In Wonderland | YouTube Iran Hawks Down but Not Out After Geneva, by Jim Lobe | LobeLog ...Before this week’s talks, the hawks, who have generally taken their cues from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, were hoping for swift passage by the Senate of new sanctions legislation that was approved last by the House of Representatives by a 400-20 margin last July, shortly after the election of the most moderate of Iran’s presidential candidates, Hassan Rouhani.. The legislation’s main designers include the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies (FDD), which has been heavily funded by wealthy U.S. businessmen close to Netanyahu’s Likud Party, such as casino magnate Sheldon Adelson, hedge fund billionaire Paul Singer, and Home Depot founder Bernard Marcus... Egyptians tell Israel to stuff its holocaust award | Redress Information & Analysis A member of the family of the first Arab honoured by Israel for risking his life to save Jews during the holocaust says the family isn’t interested in the recognition.. In a demonstration of grand hypocrisy, on 20 October Vad Yashem, which denies the Palestinian nakba and does not recognize that non-Jews also suffered at the hands of the Nazis.. Mohamed Helmy was in fact the exact opposite of what Israel and the hypocrites of the holocaust industry stand for. As Mervat Hassan told AP, “Helmy was not picking a certain nationality, race or religion to help. He treated patients regardless of who they were,”.. That is a world away from the supremacist apartheid state of Israel... Is This America's Leading Liberal? Libertarians: the new warriors against crazy presidents, by Ted Rall | Urban Tulsa Weekly ...On a lot of issues, Rand Paul’s stances are contemptible. Exhibit A: He opposed the Civil Rights Act as a violation of “state’s rights,” the clarion call of the segregationist Old South. Yet on many of the existential questions of our time, radical policies that have transformed the United States from a democratic republic to a terrifying authoritarian state that uses brute force to subjugate a vast global empire, Rand is on the side of the angels — far more so than the self-defined progressives who claim to value civil liberties while running interference for the insular, violent and repressive Obama administration... Secret Sex Life of the Jews | Lasha Darkmoon A few months ago, I received an angry email from a young woman called Victoria. Having ticked me off severely for various things I’d said in an article—and after a further exchange of emotional letters—Victoria, who was half Jewish, told me she would no longer be writing to me. So I wrote her a valedictory note in which I took my leave of her with the friendly words, “Farewell, my dear Jewess!”.. Oct 20, 2013 The Israel Lobby Cowbird | Institute for Research: Middle Eastern Policy How is the Israel lobby like a swarm of cowbirds? Cowbirds use the devious strategy of brood parasitism, arriving at the nest of more parentally-oriented birds to lay their own eggs. Cowbirds then enjoy unburdened freedom to forage and thrive while their own young are raised, fed and protected by unsuspecting parents. If an avian host dares remove the cowbird's offspring, the host's own eggs—if not the entire nest—will likely be destroyed by the watchful cowbird... CIA-Obama-George Soros Coordinated Misinformation Campaign Targets Russia | Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs Post ...The exclusive show presented the case of multimillionaire American businessman Rick Bourke, who supposedly blew the whistle on a fraudulent scheme by international criminals to gain control of the oil riches of Azerbaijan. Since May 2013 Rick Bourke has been held in a federal prison for violating the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act for alleged knowledge of the bribery that allegedly took place in 1998. Other investors in the corrupt Azerbaijan scheme included former Democratic Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell and major institutions, including Columbia University and AIG. However, so far, no one has been jailed other than Bourke... The Human Costs of the Iran Sanctions, by Joy Gordon | Foreign Policy In June of last year, an American college student walked into the Apple store in Alpharetta, Georgia, to buy an iPad, chatting with her uncle in Farsi. The store clerk asked what language they were speaking, then refused to sell the young woman an iPad, citing U.S. sanctions against Iran ... although there is no law that prohibits U.S. companies from selling to U.S. citizens of Iranian descent. There was an outcry from the Iranian-American community, denouncing the incident as ethnic profiling. But the story goes much deeper... [The cost to Americans will be even greater – what goes around comes around.] The Last of the Sheiks? by Christopher M. Davidson | NYT This summer, disgruntled Saudis took their grievances online in droves, complaining of ever-growing inequality, rising poverty, corruption and unemployment. Their Twitter campaign became one of the world’s highest trending topics. It caused great alarm within elite circles in Saudi Arabia and sent ripples throughout the region. The rallying cry that “salaries are not enough” helped to prove that the monarchy’s social contract with its people is now publicly coming unstuck, and on a significant scale... Israel Vanishes Settlements while Tricking Iran | Roi Tov "The Jewish Brain Invents Patents" is an Israeli idiom used to denote a wild act, usually by the government; it is never a positive comment. A purposeful violation of the law, for example, the forced sterilization of Ethiopian women would enter this category. It was impossible not to recall it on October 17, 2013, when Israel published a plan to vanish settlements from international media while offering Iran to freeze settlements construction in exchange for Iran stopping its nuclear centrifuges. The Jewish brain may invent patents, but it forgot to protect them, disclosing its planned tricks over the media. "Thank you," said Iran while meticulously collecting the data... Wouldn't it be wonderful | Paul Eisen Here again is Don Hikind, the Democratic State Assemblyman who, despite his links to acts of terrorism and violence against racial minorities, has emerged as a political kingmaker in New York State politics... [Psychopaths do have a tendency to rise to the top of corrupt systems] 5 Dirty Tricks AIPAC Uses Against Congress | IRMEP When you're already the biggest stealth lobby of any foreign government, respecting the law just doesn't pay. Many lobbyists work aggressively to get their way on Capitol Hill by bundling donor contributions, passing inside information that lawmakers can profit from before ordinary investors and creating a favor bank. Some of those activities are unethical, but surprisingly few are actually illegal. AIPAC tactics fall into a different category... Saudi Arabia and U.A.E. Preparing for War with Iran? Major Purchases of “Bunker Buster” Bombs and Missiles from Pentagon, by Timothy Guzman | Global Research The Pentagon plans to sell $10.8 Billion worth of military weapons to its closest allies in the Middle East besides Israel, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE). Agence France-Presse (AFP) reported that the Pentagon will sell Saudi Arabia and the UAE, two of the worst dictatorships in the world missiles, munitions and “Bunker-Busting” bombs worth up to $10.8 Billion... Awkwardest and Most Authoritative Ever Comments on Drones | War Is A Crime President Obama invited Malala Yousafzai, a 16-year-old Pakistani advocate for girls' education, to meet with his family. And she promptly explained that what he is doing works against her agenda and fuels terrorism. Malala is a victim of violence in Pakistan, having been attacked by religious fanatics opposed to her work. But Obama may not have expected her to speak up against other forms of violence in her country... A Hard Quest to Deliver Truth to the Unwilling: Wikileaks Rides East! by Israel Shamir | CounterPunch A diverse gang of five journalists in their early thirties ride a car through deserts and high mountains of Central Asia. Amidst breathtaking scenery, they cross impassable tunnels, negotiate steep curves and flocks of sheep on country roads, visit the capitals of new republics that came into being since the fall of the USSR, meet interesting people and discuss freedom of speech and its limits. A road movie par excellence, it’s Easy Rider by Wim Wenders, but in a better setting... 'Old Nazi' Erich Priebke speaking on camera in 1994 and in an interview three months before his death | Paul Eisen The Allied bombing in 1945 have left the camp without food, water and medicines. It has spread typhus epidemic that has claimed thousands of sick and dead. Those movies date back to those facts, when the refugee camp of Bergen Belsen devastated by the epidemic, in April 1945, was now in the hands of the Allies. The shooting was specially filmed for propaganda purposes, by British director Hitchcock, the master of horror. It’s frightening the cynicism, the lack of sense of humanity with which even today is speculation with those images.. A fake!.. [Lousy translation, but you can understand what he was saying, which is in accord with mainstream revisionist scholarship on the subject.] Supreme Court to Israel: "Stop Robbing" | Roi Tov On October 18, 2013, Israel's Supreme Court ruled in the case of the Jehoash Tablet and the James Ossuary, ending a 7-year affair in a rather embarrassing fashion. The State of Israel had robbed the artifacts' owner. Unlike in Greece, in Israel archeology is considered more than a tax-generating business by the state. It offers the opportunity to rewrite history, to delete Palestinians and recreate Biblical Israel. Recently, two events provided colorful reminders of these industrious fabrications... The ferocity and failure of America’s sanctions apparatus: A Very Perfect Instrument, by Andrew Cockburn | ICH Not until five months after the armistice that ended WWI did the Allies allow Germany to import food — not out of concern for the ongoing death and suffering, but out of fear that desperate Germans would follow the Russians into Bolshevism. By the time it was lifted, the peacetime blockade had killed about a quarter of a million people, including many children who either starved or died from diseases associated with malnutrition. A survey of 600 young Nazis on their motivations for supporting Hitler suggested that a major influence was their vivid memories of childhood hunger and privation... Talk About Political Dysfunction | NYT ...None of the country’s competing armed factions are capable of governing alone. Each wishes to protect its special privileges while preventing its opponents from governing. Libya is truly ruled by everyone and no one... [Welcome to Uncle Shmuel’s Signature ClusterF#&k] How US Pressure Bends UN Agencies, by Robert Parry | Consortium News For at least the past dozen years, the U.S. government has aggressively sought to gain control of the leadership of key United Nations agencies, including the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) which is central to the dispute over the Syrian government’s alleged use of Sarin gas on Aug. 21. Yet, despite evidence that this U.S. manipulation can twist the findings of these UN groups in ways favored by Official Washington, the mainstream American press usually leaves out this context and treats UN findings — or at least those that side with the U.S. government – as independent and beyond reproach, including the OPCW’s recent reporting on the Syrian dispute... Ideological Disaster, by Lawrence Davidson | OpEd News In the eighteenth century the West shifted from mercantilism to capitalism. Mercantilism was an economic system that gave governments wide-ranging regulatory powers over commerce, mostly to ensure a positive balance of trade. It also allowed for strong guild structures and protection for domestic industries. However, the Industrial Revolution ended mercantilism and brought to power a business class that wanted to be free to operate without government oversight. As the capitalist worldview evolved, it made a fetish out of the "free market" and viewed government as, at best, a necessary evil. Any sort of regulation was seen as the equivalent of slavery... The Chomsky-Vltchek Worldview | Richard Falk ...After finishing the book my immediate reaction was that ‘Chomsky knows everything’ and ‘Vltchek has been everywhere and done everything.’ Omniscience and omnipresence are not often encountered, being primary attributes commonly attributed by theologians to a monotheistic god! Leaving aside this hyperbole, one is stunned throughout by the quality of the deep knowledge and compassion exhibited by these two public intellectuals, and even more by their deeply felt sympathy for all those being victimized as a result of the way in which the world is organized and Western hard power has been and is being deployed... Suffocating Palestine to Extinction | Stephen Lendman Israel wants Palestine to disappear. Stealing all valued Judea and Samaria areas advances its agenda. So do other lawless acts. Gaza's siege is Exhibit A. Imposing it has nothing to do with security. It's called the world's largest open air prison for good reason. It followed months after Palestinians elected Hamas their legitimate government. Suffocating them is called slow-motion genocide for good reason... Oct 19, 2013 1993-2013: is the twenty years long "pas de deux" of Russia and the USA coming to an end? | The Vineyard of the Saker The latest tensions between the EU and Russia over Greenpeace's stunt in the Arctic only confirmed a fact which nobody really bothers denying anymore: Western political and financial elites absolutely hate Vladimir Putin and they are appalled at Russia's behavior, both inside Russia and on the international scene. This tension was quite visible on the faces of Obama and Putin at the G8 summit in Lough Erne where both leaders looked absolutely disgusted with each other. Things got even worse when Putin did something quite unheard of in the Russian diplomatic history: he publicly said that Kerry was dishonest and even called him a liar... BDS: Can you spot the difference? | Paul Eisen Here's a critical section from the BDS website (Freedom, justice, equality) as it used to be: These non-violent punitive measures should be maintained until Israel meets its obligation to recognize the Palestinian people’s inalienable right to self-determination and fully complies with the precepts of international law by:.. [Gilad Atzmon, to my knowledge, was the first to point out that BDS had been taken over by the AZZ (anti-zionist zionist) gatekeepers. He spotted it right away.] Appalling Human Rights Abuses in Bahrain | Stephen Lendman Since February 2011, Bahrainis challenged state terror policies heroically. Brutal crackdowns followed. They continue. They include mass arrests, imprisonments, torture, kangaroo court trials, and overall ruthlessness. Bahrain's ruling Al Khalifa monarchy is a close US ally. Washington provides material support. It's one of the world's most despotic regimes... The Crying of Flight 655: The Washington Post and the Whitewashing of a War Crime | Wide Asleep in America ...Iran's allegations that the warship was far too technologically advanced to make such a catastrophic mistake were dismissed by the American government. When questioned about the incident while on a presidential campaign trail the following month, Bush barked, "I will never apologize for the United States of America, ever. I don't care what the facts are!".. [No matter how many people of no matter how many countries we murder, directly or indirectly, we will not escape the consequences. On the contrary, the retribution will be only that much more severe. What is it about this simple law of nature - what goes around comes around - that is so hard for them to understand?] The Descenders, by Uri Avnery | Gush Shalom ...In the years when “descenders” were considered trash, we were proud of being Israeli. During the fifties and sixties, whenever I presented my Israeli passport at any border control, I felt good. Israel was viewed with admiration throughout the world, not least by our enemies.. Today, when presenting his passport, an Israeli feels no such pride. He may feel a sense of contrariness (“us against the whole world”), but he or she is conscious of his country being considered by many as an apartheid state, oppressing another people. Every person abroad has seen countless photos of heavily armed Israel soldiers confronting Palestinian women and children. Nothing to be proud of... What If Iran Already Has A Nuke | Buzzfeed “I am reminding them what the world will look like, what the Middle East will look like, if Iran has the bomb. We need them to remember that this is not a far off possibility but a very near, almost actualized thing,” he said. How near depends on whom you ask. In interviews last week, some Israeli government analysts told the Maariv newspaper that Iran already has one nuclear bomb... [And what if that bomb were already where it would do the most good, in the heart of Tel Aviv? Well, one can daydream.] A state within a locked cage? No, thank you, by Adam Keller | Crazy Country Until last week Lieutenant General Benny Gantz was not especially known as a demagogue. A professional military officer who had been steadily promoted until reaching the head of the pyramid.. but at Bar Ilan University he entered with considerable skill into the sphere of horror propaganda, setting out a long list of nightmare scenarios: cybernetic damage to vital services, disrupting daily life in Israel; blood and fire on the Golan Heights; salvo's of precise and destructive missiles all over the country; and ever more troubles which are about to come down on our heads - unless the government ministers come to their senses and immediately cancel the cuts in the Defence Budget... EU bank finances Israeli power plant as nearby Bedouins face demolitions, by David Cronin | The Electronic Intifada European Union officials approved a loan for an Israeli energy project exactly one week after Palestinian Bedouins living nearby were served with demolition orders. A little-noticed decision made by the European Investment Bank on 17 September to rubber-stamp a €150 million ($205 million) loan for the Megalim power plant amounts to a gesture of support for Israel’s ethnic cleansing in the Naqab (Negev) desert... Hersh Says bin Laden Kill Story "One Big Lie," by Sherwood Ross | OpEd News If Seymour Hersh says the tale of the death of Osama bin Laden at the hands of US Navy SEALS is "one big lie" and "not one word of it is true," President Obama will be hard pressed to keep his job when Hersh's new book comes out. Over a lifetime, investigative reporter Hersh has become famous for his accuracy, honesty, reliability and integrity and if he says the bin Laden tale is a fake, you can take it to the bank... [One big lie among so many, here in the Orwellian heartland] Netanyahu Is Israel’s Ted Cruz | MJ Rosenberg ...Netanyahu’s succession of Rabin would have been like having Governor George Wallace succeed Kennedy or, in the current context, be like having Ted Cruz follow President Obama, God forbid. Netanyahu’s goal was, and is, destroying everything Rabin accomplished. And he’s done a fine job of it... Should the ICC indict itself for war crimes? by Gordon Duff | Veterans Today Since its inception in 2002, there have been hundreds of attempts to present evidence to the ICC over 9/11, the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq and the tens of thousands of subsequent war crimes, whose origins were proven a “false flag” attack, could lead to a cascade of historic indictments. Considering the timing of the ratification of the 1998 Treaty of Rome, just after 9/11, the signing of the treaty by President Clinton and the failure of the US to ratify the treaty, the chain of events, in itself, is more than coincidental... Read more... Obama weighs unfreezing Iranian assets as reward for nuclear concessions | Jerusalem Post The US is weighing the possibility of unfreezing billions of dollars of Iranian assets in response to potential concessions by Tehran on its nuclear program discussed at the recently concluded nuclear talks in Geneva, The New York Times quoted a senior Obama administration official as saying on Thursday... [Not gonna happen – neither human decency nor legality – let alone sanity - count for anything in the Imperial playbook.] Iran’s New Nuclear Proposal, by Barbara Slavin | Al Monitor Iran has put forward a new proposal to resolve the nuclear crisis that includes a freeze on production of 20% enriched uranium, a pledge to convert its stockpile to fuel rods and an agreement to relinquish spent fuel for a still-to-be completed heavy water reactor, according to an Iranian source who has proven reliable in the past. No alternative to Full Liberation, by Nahida | Poetry for Palestine Promoting “one state” after the failure of the “two states” means in plain language: Inviting the Zionist entity to ANNEX and OCCUPY what is left of Palestine, blessing the invaders with the “right” to keep their LOOT of whatever they have captured through wars of conquest and aggression, enabling the invaders to ENLARGE and EXPAND their entity, a small step towards a “greater israel,” embracing the finalization of the Zionist project.. Campaigning to upgrade the Palestinians’ status from “occupied” to “slaves”, living under the boot of Jewish supremacists who see Palestinians and other goyim as animals created only to serve Jews... Israeli soccer team re-named “The Fighting Goys,” by Kevin Barrett | Veterans Today Adding a new chapter to the history of racist sports teams names, the Israeli Knesset voted Thursday to call its national soccer team “The Fighting Goys.” The vote honored the memory of the late Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, who became the most popular rabbi in Israeli history by stating that non-Jews were created to be the slaves of the Jews, and calling for the genocidal annihilation of Arabs.. Since we consider the goyim (non-Jews) to be at or below the level of animals, and are looking forward to their extermination, ‘The Fighting Goys’ is a perfect name for our national soccer team.”.. [I think this is satire, but given what the Israelis are capable of I’m not 100% sure.] Oct 18, 2013 What Comes Next?: A forum on the end of the two-state paradigm | Mondoweiss “What Comes Next?: A forum on the end of the two-state paradigm” was initiated by Jewish Voice for Peace as an investigation into the current state of thinking about one state and two state solutions, and the collection has been further expanded by Mondoweiss to mark 20 years since the beginning of the Oslo peace process... U.S. Campaign Against Turkish Spy Chief Continues | Moon of Alabama Human Rights Watch and the Wall Street Journal blamed Turkey and especially its intelligence chief Hakan Fidan for supporting the "bad" insurgents and terrorists in Syria and to thereby hindering the U.S. plans to use the "good" insurgents and terrorists to achieve regime change there. The recent allegations were also covered in the Turkish press, often in support of the Turkish government strategy. U.S. interference and the recent campaign against Hakan Fidan continue... 50,000 Syrian Christians ask for Russian citizenship | Interfax A group of Syrian Christians have applied for Russian citizenship, according to the Russian Foreign Ministry. "Since Syrian law allows dual citizenship, we have decided to seek citizenship of the Russian Federation if this is possible. Russian citizenship would be an honor for any Syrian Christian who wished to acquire it," the group said in a letter to the Russian Foreign Ministry. "Our appeal does not mean that we have any mistrust in the Syrian army or government. However, we are scared of the conspiracy of the West and hateful fanatics who are waging a brutal war against our country," the letter says... Russia's Middle Eastern Frontier, by Nikolai Malishevski | Strategic Culture Foundation ...Since the beginning of the Arab spring and the aggression against Syria, Qatar has begun to play a key role in America's anti-Russian plans, as it has: a) colossal gas reserves, in which respect this small country has already surpassed Gazprom, b) a huge fleet of 54 special Q-max and Q-flex ships for transporting liquefied gas, and c) the largest gas field in the world, the Northern field, for which the moratorium on development ends in 2014. Most likely, that is when the deciding battle for Syria will take place and the all-out «gas» attack on Russia will begin... Drones, the Media and Malala's Message, by Peter Hart | FAIR ...Farea al-Muslimi, a Yemeni writer and activist, came to Washington to deliver moving testimony to the Senate Judiciary Committee about the effect of drone strikes on his country: "What the violent militants had previously failed to achieve, one drone strike accomplished in an instant. There is now an intense anger against America." His words received scant coverage in the US media. If Americans wish to understand how US wars are experienced by those on the other side of the military attacks, it is important to hear these voices. But will US media allow these voices to be heard?.. No need to bother, Kathleen | Paul Eisen Kathleen Peratis is a human rights lawyer and former board member of the liberal Zionist group J Street who has several times taken the stage to argue against boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) against Israel. Yesterday she changed her line, somewhat, publishing a piece at Open Zion arguing for a Jewish BDS movement for the sake of preserving “our democratic Zionism.”.. [A perfect example of how tribal Jewry manages to infiltrate all sides and all factions, eventually gaining control over them. It's the damnedest thing.] Democrats, AIPAC Jeopardize Iran Talks, by Yochi Dreazen, John Hudson | Foreign Policy ..The Obama administration is facing an unexpected hurdle in its new nuclear talks with Iran - a sizeable bloc of Democratic lawmakers who have made clear that they would break with the White House and fight any effort to lift the current sanctions on Tehran... [And who said AIPAC was losing its grip? Money still talks.] Iran Allowed Inspections Far Exceeding Additional Protocol | IRD ...Iran has also repeatedly offered to not only ratify the Additional Protocol (AP) but impose limits on its nuclear program well beyond the AP, as long as its right to enrichment is recognized - and it is not, so that’s where the problem lies, not with Iran. IAEA head El Baradei himself pointed out that Iran had been making these sorts of compromise offers to the West for years but was ignored because, he concluded: “They weren’t interested in a compromise with the government in Tehran, but regime change – by any means necessary.".. Subramanian Swamy: The Mossad Stooge & The Assassination of Rajiv Gandhi & it’s Global Strategic Impact | Great Game India ...The Tamil commandoes that went to Israel became known as the TELO. They are separate from the main Tamil rebels, known as the LTTE (Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam).. Meanwhile Mossad simultaneously trained the Tamils’ enemies (the Singhalese) in Israel, but did not tell the main Tamil army, or the main Indian government, or anyone else. In Israel they kept both the groups apart. Their purpose for this, as always, was to fan the war to a fever pitch, and make a fortune as the Goyim kill each other... Even the World Bank Understands: Palestine is Being Disappeared, by Jonathan Cook | Palestine Chronicle Two recent images encapsulate the message behind the dry statistics of last week’s report by the World Bank on the state of the Palestinian economy. The first is a poster from the campaigning group Visualising Palestine that shows a photoshopped image of Central Park, eerily naked. Amid New York’s skyscrapers, the park has been sheared of its trees by bulldozers. A caption reveals that since the occupation began in 1967, Israel has uprooted 800,000 olive trees belonging to Palestinians, enough to fill 33 Central Parks... Israelis Turning Blood into Money: The Lab Review, by Vacy Vlazna | Palestine Chronicle Warning! The Lab contains war-porn and hard-core evil; watch and weep. Yotam Feldman’s documentary, released in August, is one of the most important exposés of the obscene rationale and execution of Israel’s hugely lucrative arms and security industries through the voices of some of its ex-military key operators: Amos Golan, Shimon Naveh, Leo Gleser, and Yoav Galant. Israel’s armament juggernaut currently turns over $7 billion p.a. and its phenomenal success is, as Feldman reveals, due to experience, that is, the testing of weaponry on the Palestinian population in the Israeli military ‘labs’ of Gaza and the West Bank:.. Re-assessing Political Islam: Part II, by Eric Walberg | OpEd News ...The support of the newly uncorrupt government by the vast majority provided a brief window of justice (a doubling of the minimum wage, new freedoms for Islamists to organize grassroots initiatives to help the poor and encourage a revival of the faith, honest elections), despite the active sabotage of the old state structures, which the coup abruptly ended. Secular leaders, watching as the "soft state' now under the direction of the Islamists became less and less relevant, mounted a hysterical campaign to overthrow the popular government, abandoning the revolution and calling on the old guard to take back control through brute force to end all pretense to justice... “Jerusalem the Red Line,” by Stuart Littlewood | Redress Information & Analysis ...Palestinian leaders are notoriously clueless about the media, public affairs, diplomacy and holding Israel to account for its crimes – the “other options” Meshaal once spoke of. They won’t learn, won’t even make the effort. And that applies to both the PA and Hamas. The cost of their incompetence to ordinary Palestinians is incalculable. So, they are left with having to fight, which they are entitled to do. But how successful have they been so far? And is armed resistance really a game they are equipped for?.. Read more... 70 percent rise in settlement construction starts | Maan News New settlement construction starts rose by 70 percent in the first half of 2013 compared with a year earlier, an Israeli NGO said Thursday, describing the increase as "drastic". According to figures released by the anti-settler group Peace Now, the construction of 1,708 new homes in the West Bank and East Jerusalem began between January and June 2013, compared with 995 in the same period last year... EU to bypass its own anti-settlements guidelines, by Noam Sheizaf | +972 Magazine Israeli and European officials are reportedly nearing an agreement that would allow Israeli institutions to continue operating freely in the West Bank while enjoying EU grants... Einstein and eBay | Paul Eisen The document above was donated to Deir Yassin Remembered and is now up for sale. It's a letter from Albert Einstein to a Mr Shepherd Rifkin of the "American Friends of the Fighters for the Freedom of Israel" (Stern Gang/Lehi") and... check the date...it was written one day after the Deir Yassin massacre... The Serpent and the Red Line, by William A. Cook | MCW News ..The first warning we had concerning the nature of a Red Line came from the Serpent (read Satan) that leered enticingly from Yahweh’s Tree of Good and Evil as Eve sauntered near. He knew the nature of G-d’s creatures; he knew that if he were to conquer G-d he must open Eve’s and Adam’s eyes to their true nature, the depraved nature that rules by arrogance, treachery, hubris and power. He knew that Yahweh had opened the door to that depravity by decree:.. The birth of the 'de-Americanized' world, by Pepe Escobar | Asia Times Online This is it. China has had enough. The (diplomatic) gloves are off. It's time to build a "de-Americanized" world. It's time for a "new international reserve currency" to replace the US dollar. It's all here, in a Xinhua editorial, straight from the dragon's mouth. And the year is only 2013. Fasten your seat belts - and that applies especially to the Washington elites. It's gonna be a bumpy ride... Will the U.S. Actually Try Diplomacy with Iran? | Stephen M. Walt ...Iranian and American negotiators, along with the other members of the P5+1, are meeting in Geneva to discuss the nuclear dispute that has divided Iran and these nations for many years. The core issues are: 1) how much of Iran's present nuclear capacity might it be willing to give up, 2) the scope of international inspections of Iran's remaining facilities, and 3) the speed with which the United States and others will lift the economic sanctions they have imposed on Iran.. the hard-line position of issuing threats, imposing sanctions, and insisting that Iran give in to all our demands has backfired and put us in a worse position today... Hooray, we brought the Iranian people to their knees, by Larry Derfner | +972 Magazine And I’m sure this is true. I don’t doubt that the reason Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei changed his tune, or the reason President Hassan Rouhani got elected, was because the sanctions had devastated the Iranian economy. But what does it mean to devastate the economy of a country of 80 million people? How do you bring a country’s economy to its knees without bringing the country’s people to their knees, too? You can’t, can you?.. Russian official rules out Arafat polonium poisoning | Yahoo News The head of a Russian forensics agency said on Tuesday that samples from the body of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat had revealed no traces of radioactive polonium, a Russian news agency reported.. If confirmed, the findings would deal a blow to Palestinian suspicions that Arafat was assassinated by Israel - a theory fuelled by a Swiss lab report last year which found unusual amounts of the deadly isotope polonium on his clothes... Half a million Iraqis died from war-related causes since US invasion | Al Akhbar Nearly half a million people have died from war-related causes in Iraq since the US-led invasion in 2003, according to an academic study published in the United States on Tuesday. That toll is far higher than the nearly 115,000 violent civilian deaths reported by the British-based group Iraq Body Count, which bases its tally on media reports, hospital and morgue records, and official and non-governmental accounts... [Is Uncle Shmuel proud of his handiwork?] The forgotten story of Iran Air Flight 655, by Max Fisher If you walked into any high school classroom in the United States and asked the students to describe their country's relationship with Iran, you'd probably hear words like "enemy" and "threat," maybe "distrust" and "nuclear." But ask them what the number 655 has to do with it, and you'd be met with silence. Try the same thing in an Iranian classroom, asking about the United States, and you'd probably hear some of the same words. Mention the number 655, though, it's a safe bet that at least a few of the students would immediately know what you were talking about... Rabin's Forgotten Program: No Palestinian State, No Settlement Freeze, Gush Katif as Model, Israeli control of borders | IMRA Once again the Ministry of Foreign Affairs has decided not to include the late Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin's last major policy address among the material it provided in a special page to mark the anniversary of his assassination... [Only in the topsy turvy Alice in Wonderland context of Israel could this guy be thought of as a “Peacemaker.] Abunimah, Rosenberg, Anti-semitism and Dishonesty | Gilad Atzmon ...More and more commentators and scholars accept that Israelis are not Zionists, they are actually the product of the Zionist project. Most Israelis do not even understand what Zionism stands for. Zionism is the promise to bring about a Jewish national home. Once the Jewish State was founded (1948) Zionism finished its role as far as Israeli Jews are concerned. Thus, Zionism is now largely a Jewish Diaspora discourse... [Ignoring all the heavy flack that he gets from the left and the right, Atzmon always zeroes in on the main issues of concern, most importantly Jewish identity politics.] CrossTalk with Peter LaVelle: Internet Captured | RT/YouTube All the major Internet organizations have pledged to free themselves from the influence of the US government. What does this mean and how could it be done? How have the recent NSA scandals impacted the Internet? And can we expect more or less control of the Internet? CrossTalking with Ray McGovern, Jim Killock and Bonnie Bracey Sutton... All the Government’s Men: Agents of Terror on Payroll | Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs Post Since the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, through quasi investigative reports, leaks, whistleblowers and numerous court documents, several key 9/11 operatives have been identified and confirmed as assets and or informants of the United States government. Further, all details of these operatives’ positions, functions and employment records have been sealed and protected as beyond top secret classified... John Kerry: “Liar, Liar, Pants on Fire,” by Jeffrey K. Silverman | Veterans Today ...Much planning and resources went into concocting the August 21 false flag attack in Syria, as whether you want to believe the chain of emails sent by DOD contractors or not it does appear that the White House had a major hand in planning the Syrian gas attacks as a convenient ploy to direct attention away from real issues, and put the US on a war footing again now that the war on terrorism is losing wind from its sails and a new enemy is needed... Reaganomics architect: “Capitalism has failed,” by Kevin Barrett | Veterans Today ...Dr. Roberts is still widely viewed as an apostle of free markets. He is perhaps best known as the Reagan Administration Assistant Secretary of the Treasury who ushered in supply-side economics and helped downsize government. When such a towering figure of free-market thinking says that laissez-faire capitalism has failed, it signals a seismic shift in his own thinking, or in history’s trajectory. Or maybe both... West's toxic lie on Syria exposed, by Finian Cunningham | PressTV There is a growing host of evidence that.. supports an altogether more credible and disturbing narrative. Namely, that a large-scale killing took place near Damascus on 21 August involving Saudi and Western military intelligence in collusion with the foreign-backed anti-government mercenaries. Civilians, including children, were murdered in cold blood, perhaps by lethal injection, in order to stage a provocation that was aimed as a pretext for a US-led military assault on Syria. That all-out attack on Syria was all the more pressing because of the floundering regime-change objective of the Axis of Evil comprising Washington, London, Paris, Riyadh, Doha, Tel Aviv, Amman and Ankara... Iran Hopes to Join Brics Group to Beat US-led Sanctions | IBTimes UK Iran is looking to join the Brics nations in order to subvert US-imposed sanctions which have been crippling the country's oil-based economy. Iran, which continues to enjoy a relatively cosy relationship with the Brics countries - Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa - despite a severe economic clampdown, has been scouting for opportunities across the world in order to boost its oil resources, the nerve-centre of the country's economy. Defying the US over the sanctions, the Brics group was also seen as favourable towards Iran over the latter's contentious nuclear programme... [Take that bric out of the wall and the Imperial edifice will be significantly weakened.] Don’t Look for Grown-Ups in Government, by Sheldon Richman | The Future of Freedom Foundation With the government partially closed for over two weeks now and the debt-ceiling deadline upon us, the pundits are demanding that the “grown-ups in the room” finally put a stop to the childish goings-on in Washington. That would be nice — except there are no grown-ups in the room. If you seek evidence, just look around. Politicians, from President Barack Obama, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, and House Speaker John Boehner on down, operate at a level of irresponsibility that we don’t tolerate in children... Oct 16, 2013 A Trip Through the Negev Desert Leads to the Heart of Israel’s National Nightmare, by Max Blumenthal | Truthout ...Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu seamlessly blended frightening details of Iranian evildoing with images of defenseless Jews “bludgeoned” and “left for dead” by anti-Semites in nineteenth century Europe. Aimed at U.S. and Iranian moves towards diplomacy and a war-weary American public, Netanyahu’s gloomy tirade threatened to cast him as a desperate, diminished figure. Though it was poorly received in the U.S., alienating even a few of his stalwart pro-Israel allies, his jeremiad served a greater purpose, deflecting attention from his country's policies towards the group he scarcely mentioned: the Palestinians... Kerry, Kerry, Quite Contrary: US Secretary of State Reveals Ignorance on Iranian Nuclear Program | Wide Asleep in America In an extensive interview with Scott Pelley on CBS' "60 Minutes" this past Sunday evening, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry revealed a startling lack of awareness of certain basic facts regarding Iran's nuclear program and the history of various proposals Iran has made to alleviate suspicion over its intentions. Such ignorance goes a long way to explaining how and faulty and false information is disseminated by politicians, goes unchallenged by the press and is subsequently regurgitated by professional pundits who take government declarations at face value without engaging in either critical thinking or independent verification... People Power Alone Can Save Us! | Stephen Lendman Daily events should scare everyone. Peace in our time no longer exists. Today is the most perilous time in world history. Administration policies bear full responsibility. Washington is an out-of-control monster. It reflects rogue governance writ large. It targets humanity. It does so at home and abroad. It threatens world peace. Today's upside down reality endangers everyone... US losing world respect due to hypocrisy in ME | PressTV Press TV has conducted an interview with James Fetzer, professor at University of Minnesota, about talks over Iran’s nuclear program and the statement made by US Secretary of State John Kerry that Israel’s interests will always be kept in mind in this regard... Collapse of U.S. Is Certain – Only Its Timing Is Unknown, by Lorimer Wilson | Veterans News ..It’s a slow motion train wreck that can be seen coming miles away but which, like deer paralyzed in the headlights, everyone is unwilling to face up to and to take any meaningful corrective action – and it will be the downfall of them all... [Uncle Shmuel, your karmic debt is coming due] Zion: "Jerusalem is Ottoman" | Roi Tov ...The Old City is the name of the area enclosed by an Ottoman Empire Wall, which by local standards cannot be considered truly old; it is not even middle-aged, it was built in 1538 by Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent. Biblical Golgotha is within its walls; within them everything is quite flat, to the extent that it is difficult to imagine the Via Dolorosa as the steep way Jesus walked to His crucifixion. In their violent worldview, ignorant of history, violating denizens and traditions, Zionists made a hilarious error. While claiming to be the legal successors of Biblical Israel, they are restoring their unrecognized capital as the Ottoman city it was. Israel's message is "Jerusalem is Ottoman.".. Writing Dershowitz's obituary, by Belen Fernandez | Al Jazeera ...Some "reasonable" folks might go as far as to question how persons incapable of concocting coherent arguments or presenting valid evidence in support of them end up professors of law at the nation’s leading academic institutions... [Dershowitz is living proof that the Hebrews got confused and started taking orders not from God, but the other guy. See Wayne Madsen re "some ancient fairy tales involving some tribes who wandered the deserts of the Middle East and saw and heard non-existent things because of sun stroke, drinking bad water, and smoking local hallucinogenic plants." . As far as I'm concerned, that pretty much sums up the essential "History of the Jewish People."] Will Obama Blow His Diplomatic Opportunity with Iran? | Going to Tehran ...Obama will face enormous and largely self-inflicted legal difficulties in lifting or modifying U.S. sanctions to encourage and support diplomatic progress on the nuclear issue. During Obama’s presidency, many U.S. sanctions that started out as executive order sanctions have been written into law, with conditions for their removal that go well beyond progress on the nuclear issue. These conditions include requirements that Tehran cut its ties to groups like Hizballah that the United States foolishly designates as terrorist organizations and effectively transform the Islamic Republic into a secular liberal republic... Iran Allowed Inspections Far Exceeding Additional Protocol, by Dr. Cyrus Safdari | Iran Diplomacy ...Iran has also repeatedly offered to not only ratify the Additional Protocol (AP) but impose limits on its nuclear program well beyond the AP, as long as its right to enrichment is recognized -- and it is not, so that’s where the problem lies not with Iran. IAEA head Elbaradei himself pointed out that Iran had been making these sorts of compromise offers to the West for years but was ignored because, he concluded: “They weren’t interested in a compromise with the government in Tehran, but regime change – by any means necessary.".. FM Lavrov: West Failing to Deliver on Syria Deals with Russia | RIA Novosti Russia’s foreign minister on Monday said a key Syrian opposition group’s refusal to take part in the Moscow-backed Geneva-2 peace conference on Syria indicates that the West has failed to deliver on its promises... Iranian Sabotage Compromises Entire Israeli Drone Fleet, Saudi Arabia Stations Israeli Drones for Iran Attack on Its Territory | Tikun Olam ...He says that Iran’s Revolutionary Guards, operating out of the Bekaa Valley, have so compromised Israel’s drone fleet that it cannot be used for the critical mission Israel has set for them: to disable Iran’s air defenses as preparation for an IAF assault on Iranian targets, including its nuclear program. Without UAV capability, Israel must use conventional means to knock out Iran’s anti-aircraft systems. That would be too costly considering distance and other technical challenges. All this leads to the possible conclusion that if Bibi attacks Iran he would have to consider very seriously using a nuclear weapon (or as the source calls it, ‘BVR tactical nukes’).. The Fed and US could simply CANCEL all $5 trillion of intragovernment debt, by Carl Herman | Examiner Congressman Alan Grayson is correct that the Fed could cancel its own US national debt holdings of ~$2 trillion. This could begin public justice from how our current system transfers public assets into 1% private profits: currently conservatively estimated at $30 trillion held in tax-free offshore accounts, and satirized in South Park’s Emmy Award-winning episode on our bailing out the big banks with the catchline, “And it’s gone.”.. Where Journalism Collides With State ‘Security’: BBC News, MI5 And The Mantra Of ‘Keeping People Safe,’ by David Cromwell | Media Lens ...the professed upholding of BBC 'impartiality' translates in practice to providing the propaganda version of reality. After all, as Mencken observed, a major state function is to convince the public that the government is protecting it from threats. It would not be responsible BBC journalism to recognise that government policies put British people at risk by, for instance, launching illegal wars of aggression likely to lead to blowback – a genuine risk well understood by the state and, indeed, with the kind of horrific consequences seen in the London 7/7 bombings in 2005. As John Pilger noted recently:.. NYT's OPCW "He Said, She Said" Reporting Misses Major Judgement | Moon of Alabama ...in the NYT's account that ILO judgement never happened. It is not once mentioned in the story. For the Times the issue is still one of "interpretation and speculation" even as a court has judged fully in support of Mr. Bustani's version of the story. By that it defends the neo-conservatives of the Bush administration who would not for a moment care about law but only about their megalomaniac project of global hegemony... [The NYT, the WP, the BBC, the WSJ et al – faithful, kosher Masters of Deceit] ‘I am Israeli’ by Jonathan Cook | The View from Nazareth Israel is almost certainly the only country that deceives the global community every time one of its citizens crosses an international border. It does so because the passports it issues contain a fiction. When a border official opens an Israeli passport for inspection, he or she sees the passport holder’s nationality stated as “Israeli.” And yet inside Israel, no state official, government agency or court recognizes the existence of an “Israeli” national... [It’s understandable, really. They’re not likely to advertize that they’re actually zombies en route to the Apocalypse.] Oct 15, 2013 U.S. fiscal failure warrants a de-Americanized world, by Liu Chang | Xinhua As U.S. politicians of both political parties are still shuffling back and forth between the White House and the Capitol Hill without striking a viable deal to bring normality to the body politic they brag about, it is perhaps a good time for the befuddled world to start considering building a de-Americanized world. Emerging from the bloodshed of the Second World War as the world's most powerful nation, the United States has since then been trying to build a global empire by imposing a postwar world order, fueling recovery in Europe, and encouraging regime-change in nations that it deems hardly Washington-friendly... [The dragon is awake and getting ready to soar] The Siren Song of Zero Enrichment, by Mark Jansson | The National Interest The upcoming Iran nuclear talks have sparked debate as to what exactly diplomats should put on the table when they meet in Geneva next week. There exists a broad consensus among experts that the “diplomatic option is the right one” for resolving the dispute. While there are many unexplored ways of “getting to yes” with Iran, there is a tried and true way of getting to no: demanding that it abandon uranium enrichment... Why I keep a Swiss Bayonet on my desk | Eric Margolis ...Swiss independence was won and remains thanks to her people’s force of arms. Switzerland is the world’s oldest democracy, dating from 1291. As a former resident, I believe this beautiful nation is the world’s most perfect and sensible democracy. Citizens vote directly in all major questions. The 26 Swiss cantons manage their own financial, judicial, and administrative affairs, leaving only defense, railroads, post and foreign affairs to a tiny government in Bern... St Anne of Blah Blah | Paul Eisen This is about a new exhibition about Ann Frank in the Museum of Tolerance. The first piece is to me pretty incomprehensible but seems to be the standard stuff and the second, by Michael Hoffman who sent me this, is somewhat less adulatory... [The poor girl has been cast as the Virgin in the hagiography of the Holycause - a role I doubt she would have wanted.] IDF Major General Detained in London | Roi Tov ...The British public and police can still make clear that the guest is unwelcome and create an embarrassing headline for him. That is what happened today, October 14, 2013, to General Marom. Upon arrival at London's Heathrow Airport, he was detained for questioning on his role during Operation Cast Lead and the raid on the Gaza's Freedom Flotilla attack. He used his allotted phone call to contact Israel's Ministry of Justice and shortly afterwards was released... No Jewish racial continuum from ancient time | Gilad Atzmon The Milibands, The BBC And The Proletariat | Gilad Atzmon ...Apparently in Britain 2013, any attempt to question the intellectual foundations, history and meaning behind Marxism and socialist thinking is reduced simply to ‘antisemitism’. So, it looks like Marxism and cosmopolitanism, like Jewishness and Israeli racism, have been merged into one vague entity removed from our public discourse, let alone criticism. This shouldn’t surprise us being that it is entirely consistent with the Orwellian prophecy... Obama's War on Press Freedom | Stephen Lendman ...Candidate Obama promised transparency, accountability, and reform. He called sunlight "the best source of information about waste, fraud, and abuse." He said whistleblowing reflects "acts of courage and patriotism." He said one thing. He did another. He usurped diktat powers. He wages war on truth. He targets whistleblowers. He threatens free expression. Press freedom is endangered on his watch. He prioritizes surveillance powers... [Black man speak with forked tongue] US continues to gag, murder 9/11 truth-seekers, by Kevin Barrett | PressTV Is the US government using assault, intimidation, even murder - and killing free speech worldwide - to cover up the insider crimes of September 11th, 2001?.. Iranian satellite channels including Press TV have been banned from most European and North American markets during the past year, presumably because they often feature anti-Zionists and 9/11 truth supporters - two groups that are almost completely blacked out by Western media... Staying power and the war for justice, by Lawrence Davidson | Redress Information & Analysis ...we have two news stories that have raised the hopes of progressives. The first is the decision of US President Obama and Iranian President Hassan Rouhani to engage diplomatically, a step which represents a setback for the influence of the Zionist lobby. The second report is about a poll indicating that a near majority of American Jews think the Israeli government is not serious about peace with the Palestinians. Again, while both developments show movement in the right direction – movement that progressives can help sustain – it would be wise to stay sober... Yet another Israeli rabbi spouts racist poison against Arabs | Redress Information & Analysis Jewish racists who are saddened by the death of their doyen, Rabbi Yosef Ovadia, will take comfort in the fact that another racist Jewish “man of God," Dov Lior, the chief rabbi of the squatter colony of Kiryat Arba near Hebron, is losing no time to fill in his space... [When I was 12 and studying for my Bar Mitzvah, I was somewhat oblivious to the sickness and evil inherent in the Jewish tradition – I thought it was merely silly and stupid. How could “adults” in the 20th Century take such obvious crap seriously, I asked myself. I'm still asking that question.] The Nobel War Prize, by Allen L. Jasson | MCW News Any illusion that the Nobel Committee harbour regrets about awarding the Nobel Peace Prize (NPP) to war criminals of the calibre of Kissinger and Obama can now be dismissed outright with this latest crime against humanity committed by this obviously corrupt institution. Indeed, it is a criminal fraud against Alfred Nobel who explicitly bequeathed the prize to “Champions of Peace”.. Egypt: End of Hope, by Andre Vltchek | CounterPunch Instead of passion and hope, all there is left on the streets of Cairo is depressing defeatism, frustration and hate. Once there were heads and hands raised high, and the Egyptian flags flew proudly in the wind; there were fiery speeches, dreams of social justice, of a brand new country with an enormous heart and a distinct place for every citizen. Once it all was not unlike what has been taking place all over Latin America for more than a decade... Israeli Perpetual Terrorism, by Dr. Elias Akleh | Intifada Palestine The world’s attention is focused on the Syrian war against terrorism, on the Egyptian demonstrations and conflict, on the Tunisian demonstrations and on the daily Iraqi terrorist car bombings. The Israeli terrorism against Palestinians on the other hand has been dropped off the radar. The Israelis are taking advantage of this to intensify their terrorism, persecution, ethnic cleansing, and large scale theft of Palestinian land... Oct 14, 2013 Snowden Accepts Whistleblower Award, by Ray McGovern | Antiwar National Security Agency whistleblower Edward Snowden, from his asylum in Russia, accepted an award on Wednesday from a group of former US intelligence officials expressing support for his decision to divulge secrets about the NSA’s electronic surveillance of Americans and people around the globe. The award, named in honor of the late CIA analyst Sam Adams, was presented to Snowden at a ceremony in Moscow by previous recipients of the award bestowed by the Sam Adams Associates for Integrity in Intelligence (SAAII)... A little girl and a little boy and 120 years of history, by Adam Keller | Crazy Country ...Last weekend, a hooded Palestinian cut the fence and entered into Psagot. He encountered a 9-year old girl, named Noam Glick, who was playing in the backyard, and wounded her. The girl cried out and the Palestinian escaped. The girl's father, Israel Glick, who is among the founders of the settlement, told the media representatives who had immediately arrived: "My daughter is a heroine! She saved all of us." The girl was taken to hospital and her wound fortunately turned out to be light. This case is known to everybody in Israel, even to those who give the news only a brief glance... Post-Intervention Libya: A Militia State | Richard Falk ...The capture of Ali Zeidan was reportedly prompted both by anger at the government’s impotence in the face of such an overt violation of Libyan sovereignty by the United States, as well as serving to warn the political leadership of the country that any further effort to disarm militias would be resisted. Ali Zeidan seizure was largely symbolic. He was held by his captors for only a few hours before being released. Nevertheless, the ease of the kidnapping sent shivers down the spine of the Western countries that had been so proud two years ago of their regime-changing intervention under NATO auspices... Maltreatment of Muslim Prisoners in The U.S., by Sherwood Ross | OpEd News ...The arrest and conviction of Muslims on flimsy conspiracy charges often instigated by FBI informants reveals spreading corruption in the American legal system. "After 9/11/2001 the Bush/Obama administrations have constructed an American Police State using Arabs and Muslims as their pretexts and scapegoats," says Francis Boyle, distinguished international legal authority and professor of law at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. "It is reminiscent of the Nazi government's persecution of the German Jews before the outbreak of World War II. Arabs and Muslims have become the New Jews in Police State America that is now slouching towards a military dictatorship and World War III.".. Arafat poisoning claim backed by journal | Al Jazeera One of the world's leading medical journals has supported the possibility that Yasser Arafat, the longtime Palestinian leader, was poisoned with the radioactive element polonium 210. The British The Lancet journal has published a peer review of last year's research by Swiss scientists on Arafat's personal effects... Power Sharing in Syria: Lessons from Lebanon's Taif Experience, by Stephan Rosiny | Middle East Policy Council ...In 2012, Lakhdar Brahimi, the UN and Arab League special envoy for Syria, warned that the violence could turn Syria into another "failed state" like Somalia.1 Others drew a comparison with neighboring Lebanon, given that ethnic and sectarian identities had turned into deterministic markers for violence and thrown the country into a devastating civil war. Only after sixteen years did the Taif agreement help end the circle of violence there. Could a similar power-sharing model be applied to today's Syria?.. Obscuring the Details: A Panoramic Look at America’s Case Against Syria, by Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya | Strategic Culture Foundation The US federal government and the various agencies, media organizations, individuals, foreign governments, non-governmental organizations, lobbies, forces, and other entities that are tied to it have done everything in their power to obscure the details involving the chemical attacks in that took place in Syria on August 21, 2013. The aim has been to justify the US-led foreign campaign that was launched against Syria in 2011 by making the Syrian government appear culpable of grievous crimes. The chemical attack on Ghouta has now come to represent the crux of the matter... The West must be flexible in dealing with Iran, by Peter Jenkins | Telegraph By his diplomacy since taking office, President Rouhani of Iran has done enough to suggest that, after eight bleak years, the reins of government are once more in the hands of men with whom the West can do business. Drawing a parallel with the situation in 1985 when Mikhail Gorbachev took over the leadership of the Soviet Union would not be inappropriate. It is best not done in the hearing of Mr Rouhani’s Iranian well-wishers, though, since they are aware that many Russians now take a dim view of Mr Gorbachev and his policies... Yossi Gurvitz: On Jewish 'Ethics' | Gilad Atzmon Israeli writer Yossi Gurvitz on genocide, child abuse, the Goy hatred, the Torah, the Talmud and Israel.. Land-Robbing Law Expanded by Israel | Roi Tov One of evil's preferred hideouts in Israel is laws that are clumsily entitled and that seem to have been written by someone who never bothered to learn Hebrew. That is not the case; while reading the gibberish, one is experiencing the ultimate weapon of mass distraction. Make secret, inaccessible laws, and then enforce them by legally—but illegitimately—raping the people... Tea Party Terrorists, by Joel S. Hirschhorn | Eurasia Review By now all conscious people have seen how American Tea Party Republicans, especially those in the House of Representatives and Senate, are widely seen as radical, unreasonable, mad, stupid, extreme, anarchists, delusional and worse. My view is that the best and most useful way to see these people is this: They are political terrorists... Israelis gather to remember slain Rabin | Al Jazeera Tens of thousands of Israelis gathered in Tel Aviv to mourn peace-seeking prime minister Yitzhak Rabin on the 18th anniversary of his assassination by a Jewish extremist. The protestors that gathered on Saturday were mainly young people representing a wide political spectrum but protesting against Israeli radicals opposed to peace with the Palestinians. The protestors carried portraits of the peace-seeking Rabin – who was assassinated after addressing a rally in the same square on November 4, 1995 – and banners with slogans condemning racism and intolerance... [Nice to know that not all of them are criminally insane] Barrett: Only Israel benefits from Syria war | PressTV Press TV has conducted an interview with Kevin Barrett, author and Middle East expert, from Madison, to discuss Human Rights Watch (HRW) recent report over Takfiri militants killing 190 civilians and holding over 200 others hostage in Syria’s western province of Latakia in August alone... Leslie Fielder (1917-2003) and Identity Politics, by Jo Neace Krause | Veterans Today Leslie Fiedler (l917-2003) was an English professor who in his younger days wrote the astute iconic essay, “Come Back To the Raft Again, Huck, Honey.” In this essay he points out, like a gold coin right under our noses. that so many great American novels have to do with men running away from women, ( seeking the wilderness that lies beyond civilization).. Pro-Israel SkyTrain Ads Respond To 'Disappearing Palestine' Campaign | Huffington Post (Canada) How pathetic; loathing and contempt are the only words that echoed in my head when I saw this ~ nahida.. Get 'Valentino's Ghost' into theaters and on TV and VOD | Indiegogo We made our documentary film Valentino's Ghost because we want to help build bridges with this film, bridges of understanding that can lead to tolerance, to take steps on the path towards justice, and even toward the peace that comes with it. It's about how America's foreign policies in the Middle East drive and shape the way that way that Arabs, Muslims and Islam are portrayed by the mainstream media and Hollywood. We start with the romantic, exotic Arab of Rudolph Valentino's "Sheik" films, and end with the Arab Muslim today, as the embodiment of evil. What happened?.. Oct 13, 2013 Snowden Accepts Whistleblower Award, by Ray McGovern | Antiwar National Security Agency whistleblower Edward Snowden, from his asylum in Russia, accepted an award on Wednesday from a group of former US intelligence officials expressing support for his decision to divulge secrets about the NSA’s electronic surveillance of Americans and people around the globe. The award, named in honor of the late CIA analyst Sam Adams, was presented to Snowden at a ceremony in Moscow by previous recipients of the award bestowed by the Sam Adams Associates for Integrity in Intelligence (SAAII)... A little girl and a little boy and 120 years of history, by Adam Keller | Crazy Country ...Last weekend, a hooded Palestinian cut the fence and entered into Psagot. He encountered a 9-year old girl, named Noam Glick, who was playing in the backyard, and wounded her. The girl cried out and the Palestinian escaped. The girl's father, Israel Glick, who is among the founders of the settlement, told the media representatives who had immediately arrived: "My daughter is a heroine! She saved all of us." The girl was taken to hospital and her wound fortunately turned out to be light. This case is known to everybody in Israel, even to those who give the news only a brief glance... Post-Intervention Libya: A Militia State | Richard Falk ...The capture of Ali Zeidan was reportedly prompted both by anger at the government’s impotence in the face of such an overt violation of Libyan sovereignty by the United States, as well as serving to warn the political leadership of the country that any further effort to disarm militias would be resisted. Ali Zeidan seizure was largely symbolic. He was held by his captors for only a few hours before being released. Nevertheless, the ease of the kidnapping sent shivers down the spine of the Western countries that had been so proud two years ago of their regime-changing intervention under NATO auspices... Maltreatment of Muslim Prisoners in The U.S., by Sherwood Ross | OpEd News ...The arrest and conviction of Muslims on flimsy conspiracy charges often instigated by FBI informants reveals spreading corruption in the American legal system. "After 9/11/2001 the Bush/Obama administrations have constructed an American Police State using Arabs and Muslims as their pretexts and scapegoats," says Francis Boyle, distinguished international legal authority and professor of law at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. "It is reminiscent of the Nazi government's persecution of the German Jews before the outbreak of World War II. Arabs and Muslims have become the New Jews in Police State America that is now slouching towards a military dictatorship and World War III.".. Arafat poisoning claim backed by journal | Al Jazeera One of the world's leading medical journals has supported the possibility that Yasser Arafat, the longtime Palestinian leader, was poisoned with the radioactive element polonium 210. The British The Lancet journal has published a peer review of last year's research by Swiss scientists on Arafat's personal effects... Power Sharing in Syria: Lessons from Lebanon's Taif Experience, by Stephan Rosiny | Middle East Policy Council ...In 2012, Lakhdar Brahimi, the UN and Arab League special envoy for Syria, warned that the violence could turn Syria into another "failed state" like Somalia.1 Others drew a comparison with neighboring Lebanon, given that ethnic and sectarian identities had turned into deterministic markers for violence and thrown the country into a devastating civil war. Only after sixteen years did the Taif agreement help end the circle of violence there. Could a similar power-sharing model be applied to today's Syria?.. Obscuring the Details: A Panoramic Look at America’s Case Against Syria, by Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya | Strategic Culture Foundation The US federal government and the various agencies, media organizations, individuals, foreign governments, non-governmental organizations, lobbies, forces, and other entities that are tied to it have done everything in their power to obscure the details involving the chemical attacks in that took place in Syria on August 21, 2013. The aim has been to justify the US-led foreign campaign that was launched against Syria in 2011 by making the Syrian government appear culpable of grievous crimes. The chemical attack on Ghouta has now come to represent the crux of the matter... The West must be flexible in dealing with Iran, by Peter Jenkins | Telegraph By his diplomacy since taking office, President Rouhani of Iran has done enough to suggest that, after eight bleak years, the reins of government are once more in the hands of men with whom the West can do business. Drawing a parallel with the situation in 1985 when Mikhail Gorbachev took over the leadership of the Soviet Union would not be inappropriate. It is best not done in the hearing of Mr Rouhani’s Iranian well-wishers, though, since they are aware that many Russians now take a dim view of Mr Gorbachev and his policies... Yossi Gurvitz: On Jewish 'Ethics' | Gilad Atzmon Israeli writer Yossi Gurvitz on genocide, child abuse, the Goy hatred, the Torah, the Talmud and Israel.. Land-Robbing Law Expanded by Israel | Roi Tov One of evil's preferred hideouts in Israel is laws that are clumsily entitled and that seem to have been written by someone who never bothered to learn Hebrew. That is not the case; while reading the gibberish, one is experiencing the ultimate weapon of mass distraction. Make secret, inaccessible laws, and then enforce them by legally—but illegitimately—raping the people... Tea Party Terrorists, by Joel S. Hirschhorn | Eurasia Review By now all conscious people have seen how American Tea Party Republicans, especially those in the House of Representatives and Senate, are widely seen as radical, unreasonable, mad, stupid, extreme, anarchists, delusional and worse. My view is that the best and most useful way to see these people is this: They are political terrorists... Israelis gather to remember slain Rabin | Al Jazeera Tens of thousands of Israelis gathered in Tel Aviv to mourn peace-seeking prime minister Yitzhak Rabin on the 18th anniversary of his assassination by a Jewish extremist. The protestors that gathered on Saturday were mainly young people representing a wide political spectrum but protesting against Israeli radicals opposed to peace with the Palestinians. The protestors carried portraits of the peace-seeking Rabin – who was assassinated after addressing a rally in the same square on November 4, 1995 – and banners with slogans condemning racism and intolerance... [Nice to know that not all of them are criminally insane] Barrett: Only Israel benefits from Syria war | PressTV Press TV has conducted an interview with Kevin Barrett, author and Middle East expert, from Madison, to discuss Human Rights Watch (HRW) recent report over Takfiri militants killing 190 civilians and holding over 200 others hostage in Syria’s western province of Latakia in August alone... Leslie Fielder (1917-2003) and Identity Politics, by Jo Neace Krause | Veterans Today Leslie Fiedler (l917-2003) was an English professor who in his younger days wrote the astute iconic essay, “Come Back To the Raft Again, Huck, Honey.” In this essay he points out, like a gold coin right under our noses. that so many great American novels have to do with men running away from women, ( seeking the wilderness that lies beyond civilization).. Pro-Israel SkyTrain Ads Respond To 'Disappearing Palestine' Campaign | Huffington Post (Canada) How pathetic; loathing and contempt are the only words that echoed in my head when I saw this ~ nahida.. Get 'Valentino's Ghost' into theaters and on TV and VOD | Indiegogo We made our documentary film Valentino's Ghost because we want to help build bridges with this film, bridges of understanding that can lead to tolerance, to take steps on the path towards justice, and even toward the peace that comes with it. It's about how America's foreign policies in the Middle East drive and shape the way that way that Arabs, Muslims and Islam are portrayed by the mainstream media and Hollywood. We start with the romantic, exotic Arab of Rudolph Valentino's "Sheik" films, and end with the Arab Muslim today, as the embodiment of evil. What happened?.. Exceptionalism & the Mission from God, by Jonathon Blakeley | deLiberation I will try to connect the dots between various forms of exceptionalism and how they have embedded into our society as dangerous memetic viruses and are doing tremendous harm to the World. Primarily this article will limit itself to looking at three types of exceptionalism: [Jewish, British and American].. Iran-Israel Relations Yesterday and Today, by Vladimir Simonov | Veterans Today Reading the reviews and comments on an article about the current tensions between Iran and Israel, which sometimes are on the brink of war or at least Tel Aviv’s threats to carry out missile and bomb strikes targeting Iran’s nuclear program, one cannot help but be amazed at the short historical memory we humans have. There are few people now who remember that in early 1950, Iran was the second Islamic state in the Middle East after Turkey to recognize Israel de facto... François Hollande Missteps Put France on Levant Sidelines, by Franklin Lamb | Al Manar In modern times, France has done far better diplomatically when it has advocated against impetuous military involvement in the internal affairs of other countries. French standing in international politics has been highest when its government was cautious about its military involvement in favor of assuming the posture of the wise voice of Old World Europe counseling the impetuousness upstarts of the New World. When Charles de Gaulle told Kennedy, then Johnson, to stay out of Vietnam, his international standing skyrocketed. When Chirac told Bush not to go into Iraq, the same thing happened as history repeated... The Weight of Tradition: Why Judaism is Not Like Other Religions, by Mark Weber | Paul Eisen ..It addresses an issue I'd touched on.. the degree to which the Jewish character is formed by Judaism and its texts. There, I claimed that although the naked supremacism of Jewish texts must inevitably inform present day Jewish feelings, it would be a mistake to rely too heavily on them in trying to understand the thoughts, feelings and behaviour of Jews we know. I still believe that, but here, Mark Weber does a pretty good job of convincing me otherwise... Israel’s Empty Threats Against Iran | Tikun Olam Israel’s Air Force regularly trains for attacking Iran. I’ve written several posts about previous war games exercises in Greece and Romania. The latter in 2004 ended in a helicopter crash during an exercise in which the IAF was simulating flight and landings at very high altitude. This type of operation might be necessary to rescue an Israeli pilot shot down over Iran’s mountainous terrain... Syria: Turkey Blamed For "Regime Change" Failure | Moon of Alabama Ten days ago the Guardian was the first "western" media to report on a massacre U.S supported insurgents and terrorists had committed back in August in Syria's Latakia governate. U.S. media did not follow up on this. But now Human Rights Watch, a U.S. influenced para-government organization which has intensely propagandized against the Syrian government, is publishing a report on Executions, Unlawful Killings, and Hostage Taking by Opposition Forces in Latakia Countryside. The fact that such a report is now published by HRW can be interpreted as a sign that U.S. policies on Syria are changing sides and will now, slowly slowly, turn against the insurgents and in favor of the Syrian government... [See also You Can Still See Their Blood] Obama at the UN General Assembly: Five Years a Zionist Lackey, by James Petras | Dissident Voice Obama’s rhetorical exercise in ‘peace talk’ at the United Nations General Assembly impressed few delegations and even fewer Americans: Far more eloquent are his five years of wars, military interventions, cyber-spying, drone murders, military coups and the merciless prosecution of patriotic truth tellers... Conflicts of interest in the Syria debate | Public Accountability Initiative During the public debate around the question of whether to attack Syria, Stephen Hadley, former national security adviser to George W. Bush, made a series of high-profile media appearances. Hadley argued strenuously for military intervention in appearances on CNN, MSNBC, Fox News, and Bloomberg TV, and authored a Washington Post op-ed headlined “To stop Iran, Obama must enforce red lines with Assad.” In each case, Hadley’s audience was not informed that he serves as a director of Raytheon... As Usual, Orientalism Employed to Undermine Diplomacy with Iran | Wide Asleep in America As talks between the Islamic Republic of Iran and the P5+1 (China, France, Great Britain, Russia, the United States and Germany) over Iran’s nuclear program are set to resume on October 15 after a long hiatus, much is being written by establishment analysts and the Beltway think tank commentariat about the potential for a diplomatic breakthrough and what it will take to get there. As always, racist and derogatory tropes – echoed, if not influenced, by the often disparaging and ignorant words of both Western and Israeli officials about Iran – are common in assessing what is often referred to as “the Persian mind.”.. Read more... Israeli Claim of Iranian ICBM Exploits Biased U.S. Intel, by Gareth Porter | IPS In an effort to provoke any possible opposition in U.S. political circles to a nuclear deal with Iran, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has returned to exploiting an old claim that Iran is building intercontinental ballistic missiles that could hit the United States.. Michael Elleman of the London-based International Institute for Strategic Studies, the author of an authoritative study on Iran’s missile programme, told IPS, “I’ve seen no evidence of Iranian ICBM development, let alone a capability.”.. [Same old shit, but even in heavily propagandized America more than just a few people are waking up to what’s going on] Nobel Prize part of West’s propaganda fog, by Finian Cunningham | PressTV The Nobel Peace Prize should be renamed the Nobel Propaganda Prize, after this year’s ever-so contrived award to the UN-approved chemical weapons team sent to disarm Syria... CIA Halts Public Access to Open Source Service | Secrecy News For more than half a century, the public has been able to access a wealth of information collected by U.S. intelligence from unclassified, open sources around the world. At the end of this year, the Central Intelligence Agency will terminate that access... Which, and Whose, Concrete Actions? by Paul Pillar | National Interest ...with the week of euphoria over, any prospects for progress toward an agreement about the Iranian nuclear program face two big impediments. First, of course, are the forces that have opposed all along any agreement between the United States and Iran, will continue to oppose any agreement, and will see the setback they suffered this past week as a reason to try harder to step up their game. Those forces are led by Prime Minister Netanyahu of Israel [ and assisted.. by “American hawks and neoconservatives, Republicans who will oppose Obama on anything, and some Democrats with a more Israel-centric bent.”.. Hannah Arendt and Jewish Intolerance | Gilad Atzmon ...Every humanities student in the Western world will, at some time, comes across the work of Hannah Arendt but no one really knows by name, any of her detractors. The same applies to Spinoza who we know was subjected to the same relentless Rabbinical campaigns but no one knows the name of any of the Rabbis who chased him... [There are Jews in history who have done towering work in the arts and sciences. Far outnumbering them, though, mediocre (or just plain evil) Jews became Zionists.] La Shoah | Paul Eisen This is by Sani and comes from eminent revisionist scholar and activist Professor Robert Faurisson. It refers to the Fabius-Gayssot Act of July 13, 1990 which enforced the Holocaust narrative in French law. The law is sometimes called the Faurisson Law because it was brought in to deal with that pesky professor who would insist on his demand: "Show me or draw me a Nazi gas chamber!” Of course no one did, because no one could. And why could they not? Simple. Because homicidal Nazi gas-chambers didn't (and couldn't) exist... Remember Bibi’s Wisdom on Iraq 11 Years Ago | LobeLog On the eve of Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s visit to the White House and subsequent speech at the UN General Assembly, it once again appears appropriate to recall the great geopolitical wisdom he displayed almost exactly 11 years ago when he appeared before Congress to bang the drums of war against Iraq with a confidence fully equal to that of the neoconservatives whose arguments he echoed (and may have helped shape).. The Terror Globetrotters: Interview with Annie Machon | Manuel Ochsenreiter ..This is a very obvious case of a “blow back”. We shouldn´t forget the fact that last year Kenya had a large military operation in its neighbor country Somalia with the support of the West – the “Operation Linda Nchi” (“Protect the country”). The Al-Shabab group was the main target of the operation. This was of course a military operation against a sovereign state. President of Somalia Sharif Ahmed stated very clear that he welcomed Kenyan logistical support, but he was against the Kenyan military presence in Somalia.. How Syria Unlocked America’s Dark Closet, by Gordon Duff | Veterans Today As the chances of American “boots on the ground” in Syria disappear, burying the secrets that Syria has exposed is critical, but to whom? Never has a single conflict exposed so much weakness, duplicity and criminality. These things have always been there but never so plain for all to see... Oct 11, 2013 Two States or One? The Future of Israelis and Palestinians | Middle East Policy Council The Middle East Policy Council's 74th Capitol Hill Conference featured a lively debate on what is possible versus what is plausible in resolving the dispute between Israelis and Palestinians. Some panelists offered a vigorous defense of the two-state solution, arguing that despite myriad challenges, this path is the best chance for long-term peace, security and justice for Palestinians and Israelis alike. Others portrayed it as a "two-state illusion," viewing the current negotiations as only deepening the oppressive conditions for Palestinians by relying on outdated assumptions about how to resolve the conflict... [That the one state solution now shares equal space with the moribund alternative is a promising sign – we're getting there.] The Militarization of Liberalism, by Norman Pollack | CounterPunch ...when I refer to the militarization of liberalism, I mean its predisposition to global hegemony, the dedication to Cold War policies, in part, for proving its nonradical credentials, in part, because, in its haste to ward off suspicions of un-Americanism and adopt a posture of super-patriotism, it actually has the conviction that freedom and capitalism are synonymous if not identical, and finally, the gullible belief and pride that capitalist expansion is America’s duty to the world. In all of these cases, militarism is the ratifying condition for their respective realization... The Latest Step in the Evolution of America’s Police State, by William Blum | CounterPunch “If you’ve got nothing to hide, you’ve got nothing to fear.” So say many Americans. And many Germans as well. But one German, Ilija Trojanow, would disagree. He has lent his name to published documents denouncing the National Security Agency (NSA), and was one of several prominent German authors who signed a letter to Chancellor Angela Merkel urging her to take a firm stance against the mass online surveillance conducted by the NSA. Trojanow and the other authors had nothing to hide, which is why the letter was published for the public to read. What happened after that, however... Israel Wins Elections in Azerbaijan | Roi Tov Few people expected to see the ridicule of the USA 2000 Presidential Election surpassed in their lifetime. Yet, it happened on October 8, 2013.It was the day before the elections in Azerbaijan. Incredibly, the country's Central Election Commission sent through its official smartphone app the elections results without waiting for the people to vote... A Syrian Solution? by Philip Giraldi | Antiwar ...Most observers would agree that the tragedy in Syria has reached its current proportions largely due to outside meddling, starting some years ago with the Saudis, and continuing more recently with Turkey backed by France and Britain and the United States. What started out as a domestic protest movement that was largely peaceful has morphed into a full scale civil war that includes plenty of outside players and which has also drawn in nearly all of Syria’s neighbors with regional security implications... The Messianic, Apocalyptic Bibi Netanyahu, by Jim Lobe | LobeLog ...it’s difficult to tell whether Netanyahu actually believes any of this or is just trying to rally support for Israel’s hard-line positions and deflect international attention from the Palestinian question. While we are inclined to view his rhetoric as mostly cynical, his recently-espoused claim that Iranians are not permitted to wear jeans or listen to western music suggests that we can’t completely discount sheer ignorance or a Manichaean worldview that can’t reconcile blue jeans with his image of the Islamic Republic. In either case, we can probably expect his rhetoric to become increasingly messianic and apocalyptic if and when the possibility of peace between the US and Iran increases... Libya: America's New Playground | Scott McPherson Those Libyans -- they sure are ungrateful. One would think that after having been bombed into chaos by NATO warplanes, and left to watch their country fall increasingly into the hands of radical Islamist guerrilla groups, the country's new leaders would be a little more appreciative of western governments' ability to wield power at will. Instead, they're learning what it means to be a satrap of the US... The immorality of 'humanitarian' warfare, by Bruce Fein | The Daily Caller Benign motives are suspect. They intellectually disarm, when they should trigger heightened scrutiny. As Supreme Court Justice Louis D. Brandeis elaborated in Olmstead v. United States (1928): “Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the Government’s purposes are beneficent … The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning but without understanding.”.. Before You Rejoice… by Andrew P. Napolitano | Antiwar Before you rejoice that the government has seized an alleged terrorist in Libya who was indicted for planning the notorious 1998 U.S. embassy bombings in Africa, before you join the House of Representatives in a standing ovation for the Capitol Hill Police who killed a woman whose car struck a White House fence and who then drove away at a high speed, and before you commend the New York Police Department for quickly getting to the bottom of an alleged assault by a motorcycle gang that tormented a young family on a city street, please give some thought to the rule of law... ♫ Roger Waters: "It all makes perfect sense" | YouTube The key to the understanding of our world... [The sanskrit word for it is samsara, the vicious circle of untamed passion, aggression and ignorance] Reni Manukian speaks to Abby Martin about the murder of her husband | YouTube Reni Manukian speaks to Abby Martin about the murder of her husband by 3 FBI agents in Orlando, FL... [Which US agency gets to use the byline “Murder, Inc.” – the FBI or the CIA? There seems to be some sort of competition.] YouTube deactivates Press TV's account under orders of the ADL | YouTube [Just like in any other banana republic, this one run by The Tribe] Joke of the Day: UN Says Afghanistan Risks Becoming ‘Narco-State’! | Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs Post This morning I came across this headline from Reuters: Afghanistan risks becoming ‘narco-state’: U.N. official. So here is what I thought first: This must be an archived article from ten or eleven years ago. Immediately I clicked on the link and checked the date. No, it is dated October 9, 2013. As in today! Then, I checked the section to see whether it is posted under their Editorial Cartoon or Today’s Joke page. And guess what? Nope! The hilarious headline and the more hilarious content are posted as a regular news article. No matter. I bent over and laughed anyway. Come on, you’ve got to admit it is funny, as in, bend over and laugh funny... Doug Stanhope: Fuck the Jews | YouTube Israel’s Politics of Fragmentation | Richard Falk This Palestinian entitlement, validated by the international law relating to fundamental human rights prohibiting all forms of discrimination, and especially structural forms embedded in law that discriminate on the basis of race and religion. The government of Israel, reinforced by its Supreme Court, endorses the view that only Jews can possess Israeli nationality that is the basis of a range of crucial rights under Israeli law. What is more Jews have Israeli nationality even if lacking any link to Israel and wherever they are located, while Palestinians (and other religious and ethnic minorities) are denied Israeli nationality... Crimes and injustices in Palestine – in engaging visuals | Redress Information & Analysis From child imprisonment to the uprooting of olive trees and the ruination of lives in occupied Palestine, “Visualizing Palestine” let’s you understand the essence of the ongoing injustice in Palestine in engaging visuals – infographics, animations and exhibitions... Unholy Alliance | Stephen Lendman ...senior Israeli security officials met with a high-level Gulf state counterpart. They did so in Jerusalem. The Arab official's name wasn't mentioned. It's believed to be Saudi Prince Bandar ibn Sultan. Representing his government, he's very much involved in Washington's war on Syria. So is Israel. Bandar's visit broke a decades long taboo. It marks the first known time a Saudi official visited Israel.. Doing so involves forming a dark alliance. Including America, it's hard imagining a darker one. It's an axis of evil writ large... Oct 10, 2013 The Failure of War as an Instrument of Foreign Policy, by William John Cox | CounterPunch ...The use of war as an instrument of foreign policy fails in all of these situations because it does not produce the desired change; it injures the innocent victims of their unrepresentative governments and results in their hatred of the aggressors, rather than their oppressors. In addition, the use of war by the United States also harms its own people through the wasteful diversion of scarce tax resources to the military-industrial complex, the compiling of massive and unsustainable public debt, and a reduction of personal freedoms by the intelligence-security complex... History Abandons Israeli Regime, by Gordon Duff | Veterans Today America can’t fight any more wars. Our military is gone, not that we don’t have weapons. We are drowning in them. We have half a million broken soldiers, one million broken young veterans and two million more left over from other wars. We have a population that no longer believes the news, a population that thinks “false flag” at every staged false flag incident... What to do about anti-Zionist Zionists, by Dr. Patrick Slattery | Paul Eisen This is a very reasoned piece about Jews in the solidarity movement. The writer seems to think that these Jewish activists are useful for what they are able and willing to do i.e. opposing the post-1967 occupation even if they are utterly useless at opposing the 1948 occupation and, even more useless at opposing the current Jewish 'occupation' of America and the west. It's very nice of him but I think Dr Slattery is far too kind to us Jews... “The world is antisemitic”, Oh… Really ! | Poetry for Palestine Through my interaction with many people of Jewish background, I began to notice that many amongst them have been conditioned and psychologically indoctrinated to think in terms of “us, and the world“. The nature of the state of connectedness between them and the world is defined from a very young age in an unhealthy terms, thus as they grow older, the dynamics of this twisted relationship takes a very peculiar slant, an unbalanced bondage between an innocent persecuted perpetually victimised minority and a hostile, ruthless, hateful world collective... Israelis Angry At Court Ruling On Africans | YouTube On September 16, 2013, Israel's Supreme Court overruled an amendment that the Knesset tacked on to the country's Anti-Infiltration Law in January 2012. The amendment authorized the automatic incarceration without trial of all Africans who enter the country asking for asylum. Since the amendment came into effect, about 2,000 Africans have been jailed by Israel. The court now ruled that they must be released. The next day, on September 17, 2013, residents of South Tel Aviv, where about 30,000 African asylum-seekers already live, protested the court's decision... Academic Witchcraft Course to Solve Israel's Emigration | Roi Tov ...On October 9, a report recently published by the Taub Center for Social Policy Studies in Israel reached the media. It claims that Israel has the worst rate of brain drain in West while over the past 40 years, the expenditure per student plummeted along with the number of senior faculty members at Israeli universities. The report includes interesting data. Over 25% of Israelis choosing an academic career prefer the USA over Israel. In 1973, there were 131 senior faculty members for every 100,000 Israelis. Nowadays, the ratio had declined by 53%, to 62 senior faculty members while the number of students pursuing higher education increased more than 400%.. Grand Theft Holy Land | Xymphora "Genes Suggest European Women at Root of Ashkenazi Family Tree" Every word was very carefully chosen (does 'Near East' mean Khazar?): "Overall, at least 80 percent of Ashkenazi maternal ancestry comes from women indigenous to Europe, and 8 percent from the Near East, with the rest uncertain, the researchers estimate.".. Considering that Judaism is defined by matrilineal descent, and the claim to the stolen land is based on a claim of ancient ownership, Zionism has to be the largest and most audacious con game in history... [That it is, and it's paired with the most audacious extortion racket in history. Is it too much of a stretch to suggest that tribal "Jewishness" could be characterized as a proclivity to engage in organized crime? Like Murder, Inc, Wall Street, the Federal Reserve, White Slavery, Blood Diamonds, stolen organs? - see The Culture of Deceit.] Stop Demonizing Iran, by Sheldon Richman | Future of Freedom Foundation Not everyone wants the United States to improve relations with Iran. Some prefer war instead. Not because Iran is a threat to the American people, or the Israelis, but because a friendly Iran would no longer furnish the convenient enemy the hawks in the United States and Israel need. So, despite overtures from the new Iranian president, Hassan Rouhani, Iran’s regime must still be demonized as a group of religious fanatics — mad mullahs — who cannot be reasoned with and who want nothing more than to lob nuclear warheads at the United States and Israel... Netanyahu: His Own Worst Enemy | Stephen Lendman He never misses an opportunity to miss an opportunity to act responsibly. He's too set in his ways. He's too far gone to change. He's off the rails entirely. It shows every time he speaks. He puts his foot in his mouth. One day he'll risk swallowing it. His 2012 UN address was abhorrent. He made a fool out of himself before a world audience. He did again on October 1... Likud Extremists Facing Total Defeat, by Jim W. Dean | Veterans Today ...Israeli Prime Ministers have long sold themselves to the Israeli public on their ability to retain American military aid and taxpayer support. Israel’s WMD stockpiles make all US aid technically illegal, so their continuing to show that ‘the fix’ is still in solidifies their foreign policy skills. Israelis like seeing their leaders manipulate American policy, to the point of bragging about it publicly at home... Titanic Goes Under, by Yukon Jack | Veterans Today ...The terminator ran out of juice, too bad. Good bye and good riddance! We really don’t like the Federal Government, for one thing it does not govern, all it does it loot and kill, it is like a wrecking ball gone crazy making a mess everywhere on the planet. How many wars and how many people have they killed, maimed, displaced by the American state as it whores itself to Wall Street, the war machine, and crazy little Israel?.. Journal of Academic Freedom: Volume 4 | AAUP The American Association of University Professors has just published Volume 4 of its Journal of Academic Freedom, focusing on the academic boycott of Israel... Zionist group renews attacks on California professor, by Nora Barrows-Friedman | The Electronic Intifada A Zionist group based in California has renewed its vicious campaign against a mathematics professor at the California State University at Northridge (CSUN), claiming that he is violating the law by using university resources to express his personal and political views. The professor, David Klein, an outspoken and unapologetic supporter of the Palestinian-led boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) movement... Israel turns blind eye to racist state-employed rabbis, by Jonathan Cook | The Electronic Intifada Jews must not rent homes to “gentiles.” That was the religious decree issued this week by at least fifty of Israel’s leading rabbis, many of them employed by the state as municipal religious leaders. Jews should first warn, then “ostracize” fellow Jews who fail to heed the directive, the rabbis declared. The decree is the latest in a wave of racist pronouncements from some of Israel’s most influential rabbis... [One might draw the conclusion that Judaism is inherently racist. Actually, a cursory reading of the Old Testament would confirm that hypothesis.] Why are Americans totally oblivious to the fact that “their” Federal Reserve Bank is Jewish? | Uprooted Palestinians News today that Janet Yellen is to be the new chairwoman of Federal Reserve, replacing Ben Bernanke. Not surprising of course is that Yellen is Jewish, continuing a long tradition since the formation of the FRB. Quite remarkable when you know only around 2.2% of the American population is Jewish. So what makes Jews especially able to run the most important financial institution in the USA & the world? Is it because they do such a great job in controlling the economy... ["I have two great enemies, the Southern Army in front of me and the bankers in the rear. Of the two, the one at the rear is my greatest foe." ~ Abraham Lincoln] Read more...Oct 9, 2013 Oct 8, 2013As Gaza Dies Slowly, Waiting Game is on, by Ramzy Baroud | Palestine Chronicle Since the Hamas election victory in January 2006 — and particularly after the Hamas-Fatah clashes and split between Gaza and the West Bank in the summer of 2007 — Gaza has undergone a disturbing human experiment, whose toll is unprecedented in the history of the impoverished Strip. The plotters involve the usual suspects, each with a clear set of objectives behind the isolation and targeting of Gaza. The US and Israel have worked tirelessly to divide Palestinians and derail any chances of a unified government, let alone a cohesive national project... The War on Terrorism … or whatever, by William Blum | The Anti-Empire Report ...All this barbarity piled on top of a greater absurdity – these Western-backed, anti-government forces are often engaged in battle with other Western-backed, anti-government forces, non-jihadist. It has become increasingly difficult to sell this war to the American public as one of pro-democracy “moderates” locked in a good-guy-versus-bad-guy struggle with an evil dictator, although in actuality the United States has fought on the same side as al Qaeda on repeated occasions before Syria. Here’s a brief survey:.. The Last Desperate Thrashings of a Dinosaur: Is Homeland Security Preparing for the Next Wall Street Collapse? by Ellen Brown | CounterPunch Reports are that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is engaged in a massive, covert military buildup. An article in the Associated Press in February confirmed an open purchase order by DHS for 1.6 billion rounds of ammunition. According to an op-ed in Forbes, that’s enough to sustain an Iraq-sized war for over twenty years. DHS has also acquired heavily armored tanks, which have been seen roaming the streets. Evidently somebody in government is expecting some serious civil unrest. The question is, why?.. What Russia should do in response to the latest Russia-bashing campaign | The Vineyard of the Saker ...What is certain is that as soon as Putin came to power in 2000 and all throughout the past 13 years the western plutocracy has fought a sustained, if not very effective, political propaganda campaign against Russia.. In response to that campaign, Putin has very successfully responded with a kind of a "judo-move" in which he turned every one of these campaigns into an electoral argument in support of his policies by showing the Russian people how utterly absurd these Russia-bashing campaigns were, And, truth be told, these were absolutely ridiculous, every single one of them, and this is also why none of them ever had any bigger impact than a wet firecracker... Year After Year, It Must End: Giant Pentagon Budget Is Unauditable, by Ralph Nader | CounterPunch The federal government is currently in a state of shutdown thanks to a small faction of extremist Republicans who vehemently bellow that the Affordable Care Act (ACA) will have a catastrophic economic effect on our country.. Congress, however, has failed to address the worst excesses in the federal budget — the bloated, highly wasteful military budget. More than half of federal discretionary spending now goes to the military budget. Many more taxpayer dollars are devoted to the Department of Defense than to the critical needs of our citizenry, including the flawed Obamacare which should be replaced with single payer — full Medicare for all... The Gatekeepers: Locking in Palestinians as Terrorists, by Vacy Vlazna | Palestine Chronicle ...The MO of the vicious Shin Bet or Shabak is covert counter-terrorism – based on the premise that the people of Palestine have no right to defend themselves or fight for their rightful independence enshrined in international law against the brutal illegal occupier and colonizer- the rogue State of Israel. Meanwhile, Israel, the world’s fourth largest high-tech nuclear military force bleats its right to defend itself against Palestinian rocks and piddly homemade rockets... [I cringe when Israelis (the world's premier terrorist state) complain about tewowists.] How Lavabit Melted Down, by Michael Phillips and Matt Buchanan | The New Yorker On August 8th, Lavabit, newly famous for being the secure e-mail service used by the National Security Agency whistleblower Edward Snowden, went dark. Its owner and operator, Ladar Levison, replaced its home page with a message: “I cannot share my experiences over the last six weeks, even though I have twice made the appropriate requests.” Levison could write only that he chose to shut down the company rather than “become complicit in crimes against the American people,” and he promised to “fight for the Constitution in the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals.”.. [See also An Interview with John McAfee] The Phone Company that Said No to NSA, by Dr Stuart Jeanne Bramhall | Veterans Today Former US West CEO Joseph Nacchio was released from prison last week after completing a four year insider trading sentence. He still claims the NSA framed him on the insider trading charges – after he refused to participate in their illegal phone surveillance program in 2001. US West was the only major telecommunication program that refused to spy on its customers... Violence, Instability, Torture and Deaths in Libya | Stephen Lendman Wherever America shows up, mass slaughter, destruction, instability and human misery follow. Today's Libya reflects Washington's deplorable legacy. North Africa's most developed country was ravaged and destroyed. Anarchical charnel house conditions replaced it... On Treason | YouTube ..Cicero's iconic speech. "A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation..” Evo Morales: Obama can invade any country for US energy needs | YouTube In his dramatic speech in New York, Bolivian President Evo Morales called for the UN to be moved out of the US and for Barack Obama to be tried for crimes against humanity... [What America, in its exceptional ignorance, lacks most is spiritual energy, not fossil fuels. This has nothing to do with religion.] JFK's War against the National Security Establishment: Why Kennedy Was Assassinated, by Douglas Horne | The Future of Freedom Foundation ...Although John F. Kennedy gave a robust inaugural address that seemed in the eyes of many to establish his credentials as a traditional, mainstream Cold Warrior, his ensuing behavior early in 1961, and his increasing and open skepticism, throughout his first year in office, toward the bellicose and inflexible advice he was receiving from within the federal bureaucracy, signaled a growing gulf between the young 35th president and the national security establishment that was supposed to serve him and implement his policy decisions... Glenn Greenwald full interview on Snowden, NSA, GCHQ and spying | YouTube BBC Newsnight exclusive interview with journalist Glenn Greenwald on Edward Snowden, the PRISM revelations and mass surveillance... Bob Dylan: “For the times they are a-changin,” by James M. Wall | Wallwritings ...I was reminded of Dylan’s “song with a purpose” while attempting to decipher the reaction to two recent United Nations General Assembly speeches, specifically, one from Iranian President Hassan Rouhani, and another from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The positive response to Rouhani is startling compared to the surprisingly negative reaction evoked by Netanyahu. Times are most certainly changing when an Israeli leader is trumped on the world stage so decisively by a leader of Iran... Witness to injustice in Palestine, by Jamal Kanj | Redress Information & Analysis As I read the book I tried to fathom what drove a young American woman from a small town in Oklahoma with a degree in physics to end up spending two years traversing military checkpoints and helping farmers harvest olives in the Middle East... Is Netanyahu Israel’s “Wolf in Wolf’s Clothing“? by Ludwig Watzal | Dissident Voice Netanyahu’s speech at the UN General Assembly was a political impudence. He showed the world that he has not understood the signs of the times. He seemed out of place with diplomacy and still caught up in aggressive rhetoric. He threatened Iran with an attack. If no other country wants to participate in a raid, Israel will do it alone, he said. President Obama should be forewarned and make clear that the U. S. would not help Israel in a war of aggression. The U. S. should not accept any longer to be jerked around by a politically deranged leader of a tiny country... The Two-Party System is a Farce, by Timothy Gatto | The People's Voice ...The two-party system is an archaic institution that must be replaced if we want an effective form of government. One political party should not be able to force the nation into bankruptcy. This is a ridiculous situation. Do not, under any circumstances, allow the Democrats and Republicans to keep control of the Federal government. They have shown us that this system does not work... An Awesome Book on the Warfare State, Jacob Hornberger | The Future of Freedom Foundation ...Swanson shows how the national-security state has become a permanent bureaucratized part of the U.S. government. He cites President Eisenhower’s warning to the American people about the dangers that the military-industrial complex pose to our democratic processes. And he details the ever-growing tensions that existed between Eisenhower’s successor, John Kennedy, and the national-security state establishment... The NSA Review Panel Shut Down, by Binoy Kampmark | CounterPunch ...Former deputy director Chris Inglis, in a rather humourless way, hazarded a joke about the numbers in the employ of the NSA: “somewhere between 37,000 and one billion.” This may be closer to the mark than first blush – after all, the security complex has been privatised, with the U.S. government effectively a huge commercial franchise. Security, both in its actual and fictional assertions, is big business... ["Security" expertise and technology (what I call applied paranoia) have recently overtaken blood diamonds as Israel's major export.] A Tale of Two Americas, by Mohamed Khodr | Veterans Today ...I ask your indulgence and patience in my humble critique of the untrue and irrational myth of “American Exceptionaism”. Many powerful rulers, nations, and empires have similarly thought of themselves as “Exceptional” despite their evil oppression and subjugation of other human beings. The sole surviving nation in the world that monopolizes such a term in its racist religious beliefs (“gentiles are only born to serve Jews”) and military occupation and brutality against another powerless people is the rogue terrorist state of ISRAEL... Mehdi Hasan: Is Islam a peaceful religion? | Oxford Union/YouTube Mehdi Hasan gives his argument for Islam being a peaceful religion... [Ask Rabbi Ovadia, who said “May the Holy Name visit retribution on the Arab heads, and cause their seed to be lost, and annihilate them. It is forbidden to have pity on them. We must give them missiles with relish, annihilate them. Evil ones, damnable ones.” (2001 Passover sermon. Cf. Haaretz, April 12, 2001)] Rabbi Ovadia’s Record of Hate Speech Sanitized by the Media, by Michael Hoffman | On the Contrary ...Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, the “Torah sage” of the extremist Israeli political party Shas, has died at age 93. Isabel Kershner, foreign correspondent for the New York Times writes: “Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, a fiery figure in Israeli politics who, as the spiritual leader of the ultra-Orthodox Shas Party, fought for the interests of Jews of Middle Eastern and North African origin, died Monday in Jerusalem...Clad in his distinctive uniform of turban, gold-embroidered robe and dark glasses, Rabbi Yosef embodied a particular blend of religion, tradition, populism and ethnicity... Palestinian, Western officials praise racist rabbi | Redress Information & Analysis Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas and the United States and British ambassadors to Israel have been paying tribute to one of the vilest, most racist and women-hating warmongers the world has ever known. Upon learning that Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, the leader of Israel’s Sephardic Jewish community, had bit the dust, Abbas reportedly asked a group of Israeli parliamentarians whom he was meeting at the time to send his condolences to the rabbi’s family “in the name of the Palestinian people”.. Who Killed Rabbi Ovadia Yosef? | Roi Tov ...Since the late 1980s, his Shas party was targeted by the State of Israel as undesirable. Since its views were legal, the State adopted a different tactic: entrapment. In the Zionist Paradise, entrapment is the State's favorite way of achieving revenge, its highest value. Shas got political prominence thanks to a charismatic follower of Ovadia Yosef. Aryeh Deri became the political leader of Shas and a government minister at the age of 24. His becoming prime minister in the near future seemed a fact. Alas, in 2000, he was entrapped in a bribe affair and sent to jail... Palestinians do have options for change and resistance, by Mazin Qumsiyeh | Ma'an News On November 28, 1947, the CIA predicted accurately the meaning of Truman's push to partition Palestine: "Armed hostilities between Jews and Arabs will break out if the UN General Assembly accepts the plan to partition Palestine ... the resulting conflict will seriously disturb the social, economic, and political stability of the Arab world, and US commercial and strategic interests will be dangerously jeopardized ... The poverty, unrest, and hopelessness upon which Communist propaganda thrives will increase throughout the Arab world.".. The Power of a Radical Minority – at Home and Abroad | Susan Eisenhower In transformational times, assessing and reassessing one’s basic assumptions is critical for navigating the confusing and dangerous shoals of public and foreign affairs. Like those who perpetually “fight the last war,” far too many people are inclined to view every development through the lens of their own experience. The conflict in Syria and the U.S. government shutdown may be two differing but relevant cases in point... Read more... Alison Weir | Paul Eisen This is Alison Weir Director of Council for the National Interest and founder of If Americans Knew.org... The continuing saga of the decline of America as we know it, by Ed Mattson | Veterans Today ...Where the events in Europe gave rise to Adolph Hitler, who seized upon this loss of respect and self esteem to change the geographic landscape of much of Europe leaving over 48 million people dead, the election of Barack Obama has produced catastrophic changes leaving America almost non-recognizable and rapidly becoming a shadow of the greatness it once was. How could this happen? The excuses are many but it really boils down to a few key truths that, like I said in my last article, “America just can’t handle the truth”.. CrossTalk: Neocon Twilight | RT/YouTube UK's Liberal Guardian Bids To Become First Global Daily, by Sherwood Ross | OpEd News If Americans complain they aren't getting the true story about foreign affairs, they're very likely right. By choosing to ignore, say, reporting about the carnage the U.S. has wrought, and the wreckage it has left, across the globe, the American print and broadcast media reveal their subservience to the White House and its corporate allies. I've watched CNN for hours and rarely see a report about the fighting in Afghanistan. You'd never know there's a war on. It's not that CNN distorts the news so much as it omits the news about the mayhem the U.S. inflicts when it goes to war... The Red Napoleon and the Ends of Revolution, by Binoy Kampmark | CounterPunch ...Giap’s name is much like a secular Moses in the context of engineering the French defeat at Dien Bien Phu in 1954. Hundreds of miles of trenches were dug. French air supplies began drying up, deterred by anti-aircraft guns. Just as Moses brought tablets of rules, Giap brought the message that colonial powers like France could be defeated. The formula was devastating. When that counter-revolutionary power in the form of the United States started replacing the French presence in the manner of not so quiet Americans the program repeated itself... Iran Urges West: Make an Offer Before Next Week’s Meeting, by Jason Ditz | Antiwar With Iran and the P5+1 making good progress at talks on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly, a new round of talks scheduled for next week has raised high hopes. But Iran is hoping to see an actual proposal.. The February plan, such as it was, demanded Iran suspend all 20 percent uranium enrichment, hand over significant amounts of its stockpile of 20 percent enriched uranium unilaterally and close the Fordow enrichment plant. In return, the US would allow Iran to return to gray market bartering in gold, but would keep materially all sanctions in place beyond that... Dispatch from Djibouti: Total Militarized Lunacy, by Andre Vltchek | CounterPunch ...The capital city of Djibouti is also called Djibouti. That is where two thirds of the population lives. But in reality, this entire area, around the capital, is one huge sprawl of Western military bases, as well as countless facilities servicing them... Oct 7, 2013 The Cape of Good Hope, by Israel Shamir | Dissident Voice ..American hegemony is over. The bully has been subdued. We cleared the Cape of Good Hope, symbolically speaking, in September 2013. With the Syrian crisis, the world has passed a key forking of modern history. It was touch and go, just as risky as the Cuban missile crisis of 1962. The chances for total war were high, as the steely wills of America and Eurasia had crossed in the Eastern Mediterranean. It will take some time until the realisation of what we’ve gone through seeps in: it is normal for events of such magnitude. The turmoil in the US, from the mad car chase in the DC to the shutdown of federal government and possible debt default, are the direct consequences of this event... Syria: “The Army of Islam”; Saudi Arabia’s Greatest Export, by Phil Greaves | Global Research ...These announcements have effectively put-to-bed the western propagated myth that was the “Free Syrian Army”. Militant groups the west ostensibly touted as “secular moderates” yearning for “freedom and democracy” from a tyrannical regime; have now openly declared their Salafi/Jihadi fundamentalist ideology, with the ultimate aim of creating a Syrian state ruled by Islamic law... The Evisceration of Yugoslavia Part III: CIA Islamists, Halliburton and Fake Massacres, by Dean Henderson | Veterans Today ...Islamic fundamentalists poured into Bosnia. They were trained by ex-Afghan mujahadeen leaders, including Osama bin Laden. Iranian mullahs were also sending fighters, with blessings from the Clinton Administration. Bin Laden’s al Qaeda operatives trained a cell of Bosnian fighters known as Takfir wal Hijra (Expiration and Exile). Some in the Clinton State Department were nervous about the growing ranks of Islamists in Bosnia, but CIA argued against the expulsion of al-Qaeda. They even arranged to have certain terrorist groups deleted from a State Department watch list so that members could travel freely to the Balkans to take part in the war... UK becoming Holocaust centre of Europe | Paul Eisen The first of these articles is from The Occidental Observer, the second from the Daily Telegraph via the IHR... Max Blumenthal on "Goliath: Life and Loathing in Greater Israel" | Democracy Now! "I was most surprised at the banality of the racism and violence that I witnessed and how it’s so widely tolerated because it’s so common," says Blumenthal about his four years of reporting in Israel. "And I’m most surprised that it hasn’t made its way to the American public ... that’s why I set out to do this endeavor, this journalistic endeavor, to paint this intimate portrait of Israeli society for Americans who don’t see what it really is.".. The man who sold the world: Dr. Erekat is back, by Hakim Bishara | +972 Magazine ...Erekat, as it often happens to people in power, couldn’t foresee the downfall. That happened in January 2011, when the meeting minutes of the talks with the Israelis and Americans (known as the Palestine Papers) were leaked to the press. The transcripts disclose the extent of concessions offered by Erekat and team in return for nothing much. Livni’s true hawkishness comes forward with blatant “No”s scattered all over the protocols. But on a deeper personal level, the leaks reveal the servile and submissive nature of PA officials in their dwellings with their Israelis counterparts, as well as their helpless obsequiousness toward the Americans... Omar Barghouti on “ethical decolonization” and moving beyond Zionist racism | The Electronic Intifada Earlier this month, an American university professor wrote an editorial for The New York Times about the failure of the two-state solution in Palestine and the need to consider alternatives. The editorial provoked various discussions in the media, but I was disappointed that every time someone has this epiphany, the ensuing discussion neglects the movement-building and dialogue that have been happening for many years among Palestinians, Israeli Jews and others who are committed to decolonization and equality in a democratic secular state... Dayan Called for Using Nukes During 1973 War | Tikun Olam On the 40th anniversary of the Yom Kippur War, Israel’s premier nuclear historian, Avner Cohen, just released, with the cooperation of the Woodrow Wilson Center, a trove of interviews with figures who were key participants in strategic decisions of that historic time... Obama says Iran a year or more from nuclear weapon capability | Reuters The United States believes Iran is a year or a more away from being able to produce a nuclear weapon, President Barack Obama said in an interview with the Associated Press released on Saturday, although he described the estimate as "conservative.".. [Pretty amazing for a country that doesn’t even have a nuclear weapons program - as Obama continues to channel Bush] Israel: No dispute over Iran timeframe | Associated Press Israel and the U.S. are on the same page regarding the need to prevent Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons, an official said Saturday night after President Barack Obama told The Associated Press that Iran is at least a year away from the bomb, an assessment that differs from Israel's shorter timetable.. Israel contends Tehran is on a faster course and is just months away from a nuclear bomb... [Israel has been saying that for more than ten years. It's really getting old.] Serious Questions about the Integrity of the UN Report on Syria, by Subrata Ghoshroy | NYTimes eXaminer News reports of an alleged chemical weapons attack by Syrian government forces in the suburbs of Damascus in the early morning hours of August 21 spreaded like wildfire. As reports were coming in, the US, French, and the British governments began to claim that there was a massacre. U.S. Government claimed that exactly 1429 people had died including 426 children. In the ensuing days and weeks the media repeatedly showed video images of ghastly scenes of dead and dying. Most of these videos were posted on the Internet and their authenticity could not be verified. Yet, those governments pronounced that the Syrian military was responsible for the massacre... Why the lessons of Vietnam do matter, by Pepe Escobar | Asia Times ...In 1995, on the 20th anniversary of the end of the American War, former US defense secretary Robert McNamara met the legendary Giap in Hanoi. The old warrior told him that the US had entered a war without knowing anything about Vietnam's complex history, culture and fighting spirit against a wave of foreign invasions. McNamara was forced to agree. The US emerged from Vietnam with nothing but humiliation... Netanyahu’s dictation disgrace for US, with Kevin Barrett | PressTV ..“Now it is just a disgrace that somebody like that can come to the United States and try to dictate to the American president how he should conduct his foreign policy. And more and more Americans are being outraged by this and were hoping that some day we will have a president with the intestinal fortitude to stand up against these Israeli mass murderers and big liars.”.. Will Western churches fight injustice in Holy Land? by Stuart Littlewood | Redress Information & Analysis ...UK Methodists will be remembered for blazing a trail through the BDS minefield at their annual conference three years ago. They voted to boycott products from Israeli settlements in occupied Palestine, regarded as illegal under international law, and to encourage Methodists across the country to do the same. This followed a call from Palestinian Christians, a growing number of Jewish organizations both inside Israel and worldwide, and the World Council of Churches... After handshake, settler child throws stone at six-year-old Palestinian | +972 Magazine One activist captures what was almost a moving moment between a six-year-old Palestinian and a settler child in the occupied south Hebron Hills. Almost... Fighting the Stupid Revolution, by Joel S. Hirschhorn | Nolan Chart Stupid Americans elect stupid politicians. Government hating Americans elect government hating politicians. Mean spirited citizens elect mean spirited politicians. Like minded Tea Party Republican conservatives end up living together, feeding their mutual anger and resentment about most social progress. This reinforces and intensifies narrow-minded beliefs... Corporate Child Abuse: The Unseen Global Epidemic, by Prof. John McMurtry | Global Research ...today children may be assaulted, diseased, or killed by pervasive corporate drugs, junk-foods and beverages, perverted by mindless violence in multiple modes, deployed as dead-end labour with no benefits, and then dumped into a corporate future of debt enslavement and meaningless work. How could this increasing systematic abuse be publicly licensed at every level? What kind of society could turn a blind eye to its dominant institutions laying waste the lives of the young and humanity’s future itself?.. [But here in the West we’re teaching them “self-esteem,” thereby markedly increasing the average Narcissistic Stupidity Quotient (NSQ) to over 105%.] Oct 6, 2013 Zionism versus Diplomacy and Peace, by Lawrence Davidson | Intifada Palestine Iran’s new and more moderate President Hassan Rouhani came to the United Nations at the end of September. Amidst numerous interviews and diplomatic discussions, his message was clear: no, Iran will not give up its legal right to enrich uranium and no, Iran will not develop nuclear weapons. According to Rouhani, Iran is willing to prove this second point by “ensuring full transparency [of its nuclear program] under international law.” In exchange for doing so, Iran will demand “a total lifting” of international sanctions. In truth, this has been the position of the Iranian government for years... Washington’s Israeli Co-driver has Roadblocks Aplenty for Iran In Diplomatic Road Ahead, by Finian Cunningham | Strategic Culture Foundation The Iranian government has described the newfound path of diplomacy with the United States as «a long road with a lot of ups and downs». Not only ups and downs, it may be added, but twists and turns, blind alleys, potholes, craters and treacherous precipices. And if the US client Israeli regime has its way the Iranian negotiating vehicle could find itself in a head-on collision with a brick wall. Such are the obstacles and hazards besetting the new road of diplomacy between the US and Iran... Four Decades After the Tishrin: War Self-Delusion, by Franklin Lamb | CounterPunch Is Damascus this weekend and many other areas of Syria, citizens will celebrate the accomplishments of the October 6, 1973 19 day war launched jointly by Syrian and Egyptian armies to regain Arab land illegally occupied in 1967.. The results of the battle were mixed as history records, but the political and military effects are still indelible, as Zionist leaders exhibit a certain bi-polarization... CIA Activities in Syria: US Never Stops to Step on Same Rake, by Andrei Akulov | Strategic Culture Foundation According to the Washington Post, the CIA is expanding a clandestine effort to train opposition fighters in Syria, as U.S. officials said. The newspaper reports the CIA’s mission has been defined by the White House’s desire to seek a political settlement, a scenario that relies on an eventual stalemate among the warring factions rather than a clear victor. As a result, US officials said, limits on the agency’s authorities enable it to provide enough support to help ensure that politically moderate, U.S.-supported militias don’t lose but not enough for them to win... Zionist Hollywood: Not a Bed of Roses, by Jo Neace Krause | Veterans Today Movie stars are dreamers who feed a dreaming world, but some of them have their eyes open to reality with an extraordinary understanding of what that reality means. They know all about the power games that move this world and the intriguing, puzzling submission of people who find themselves exploited by one form or another of the entrapments laid for them... Only months remain to stop global surveillance machine: conference of civil libertarians and digital experts, by Barrie Zwicker | Truth and Shadows We know massive surveillance has nothing to do with actual terrorism – that it is all about control and eliminating dissent. We know that the surveillance state knows more about us than we ourselves know. But do we know how long may be the window of opportunity to achieve some real curbs on runaway surveillance, before a New Dark Ages is entrenched beyond all resistance? It could be only “a few months” in the opinion of Professor Andrew Clement of the University of Toronto... Another World Is Coming, by Frank Scott | Legalienate ...while the Israeli president of America’s Israeli caucus hectored his underlings to continue support for destruction of Iran, the newly weakened USA leadership has been forced by circumstance to move diplomatically and for the first time openly act in opposition – however limply - to its Zionist sub-government... Barking Up The Wrong Tree, by Peter Jenkins | LobeLog Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s statement to the UN General Assembly today leaves me feeling frustrated. There are more than 30 points in it that I would dearly love to discuss with him, either because they seem to be of questionable veracity, or because they are assertions that are not backed up by evidence. But perhaps I should count myself lucky that such an opportunity will never come my way. I suspect Mr. Netanyahu is a politician who finds it hard to concede a point or learn from his mistakes... Winston Churchill speaks the truth? | Paul Eisen Like lots of really awful people, Winston Churchill knew the truth - though he rarely spoke it. Here at least he has a go... Palestinian-Israeli Sings Jewish | Roi Tov ...In the eighties, our teachers loved to scare us. In the morning hours, the sun already scorched the long barracks we called school. Washed in sweat, they told us that the Nazis had turned our grandparents into soap. Years later, this was found to be a lie, no human DNA was ever found in the infamous soap bars; it was just another scary Israeli soap-opera. "How dare you, the Germans are the bad guys!" my teacher shouts at this text from her cold, white sepulcher.. those with a sharp ear could recognize the Zionist's only message repeated in all of them: "The entire world is against us.".. BBC Panorama: Saving Syria's Children | YouTube BBC Panorama travels with British doctors inside Syria to exclusively reveal the devastating impact of the war on children caught in the conflict. The doctors witness the aftermath of the bombing of a school by a suspected napalm-like incendiary device and medical facilities constantly under attack - both war crimes under international law. Filmed in the north of the country after the chemical weapons attack in Damascus which inflamed world opinion and brought America, Russia and the UN to the table, the film shows how the conventional war is intensifying with children bearing the brunt of this humanitarian catastrophe... The Republic of Lying | Stephen Lendman Longtime investigative journalist Seymour Hersh addressed it.. Others like him did years earlier. They included HL Mencken, Charles Edward Russell, Lincoln Steffens, Upton Sinclair, and IF Stone among others. Stone (1907 - 1989) said he "tried to bring the instincts of a scholar to the service of journalism; to take nothing for granted; to turn journalism into literature; to provide radical analysis with a conscientious concern for accuracy, and in studying the current scene to do (his) very best to preserve human values and free institutions.".. Hillary Clinton's 2016 Chances: The Coming Train Wreck, by Amy Davidson | The New Yorker Do people really think that a Hillary Clinton 2016 campaign is a good idea—for the Democratic Party, our collective sanity, even for her? Maybe it doesn’t matter; some political locomotives just move ahead, even if the wreck is predestined, and her campaign is now coming around the bend... [There are other reasons to be wary – Hillary is warmonger-in-chief of the Democratic Party - maybe because she's a she, like Condi Rice. Gotta out macho the boys, what?] About ambiguity and hypocrisy, by Adam Keller | Crazy Country In the midst of the intensive debate about the Iranian nuclear program (the uranium enriching centrifuges “turning round and round in underground installations protected with thick layers of concrete”) suddenly, there came nuclear news from Israel’s own past... Do-it-yourself cartography of the Middle East, by Belen Fernandez | Al Jazeera A recent offering from the New York Times Opinion page is an infographic titled "How 5 Countries Could Become 14". Featuring analysis by Robin Wright—distinguished scholar at the United States Institute of Peace and the Wilson Center—it depicts prospective divisions of Libya, Syria, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, and Yemen into territories with predictable names like Sunnistan, Shiitestan, Alawitestan, and Wahhabistan... Why did they kill her? The Lady And The Police Chase, by Rosemarie Jackowski | Countercurrents It was a very hot summer afternoon in 1972. I was heading for home on a quiet country road in south Jersey. I was tired and hungry after working all day. My 4 year old daughter was sitting in the back seat quietly reading a book. When I saw that there was a police road block ahead, I pulled into a driveway and turned around, intending to take an alternate way home. I did not want to be delayed. Suddenly my rear view mirror was filled with a rainbow of red and blue flashing lights... Prove What You Don't Have, by Paul Balles | Intifada Palestine Prove that you don’t have what I believe you have! That was an exact demand made on Saddam Hussein. He scoffed. That brought “shock and awe”, and Saddam was hanged on the mother of all ropes. Prove that you don’t have weapons of mass destruction (WMDs). The neocons sold the logic of that empty demand and the American public bought it... Oct 5, 2013 Politicians, by Mazin Qumsiyeh | Popular Resistance Netanyahu tells Obama to keep illegal sanctions on Iran and that he can get AIPAC to help resolve the US budget conflict (a conflict caused in large part by trillions spent for Israel)! Livni tells J Street that the Israeli Occupation Army is a great army and that its is only fighting terrorists (even though she admitted her own parents were members of the Irgun terror organization and met while robbing a British train). Abbas tells US Jewish leaders that Palestinians can give up on 78% of Palestine. Obama tells the UN that he seeks peace between the “Jewish state” and the Palestinians... Killjoy Was Here, by Uri Avnery | Dissident Voice Binyamin Netanyahu aroused my pity. From my 10 years of membership in the Knesset I know how unpleasant it is to speak before an empty hall. His die-hard followers – a pathetic residue of Casino magnates and burnt-out Zionist right-wingers – sat in the gallery and an over-blown Israeli delegation sat in the hall, but they only underlined the general emptiness. Depressing. How different from President Hassan Rouhani’s reception!.. Israel’s “men of God” pray for failure of peace talks | Redress Information & Analysis Israel’s rabbis, the advocates and guardians of Judaism, are asking God to prevent peace from descending on the Holy Land. The Israeli news website Ynet reports that, upon hearing rumours that Israel might relinquish tiny bits of the land it has stolen from the indigenous Palestinians, Israeli rabbis and heads of religious schools known as yeshiva issued a manifesto ordering worshippers to add to the amidah prayer, which is said three times a day on weekdays, a special prayer calling on God to kill the prospects of peace with the Palestinians... Alison Weir: Americans say NO to Zionist attempted censorship | My Catbird Seat As I wrote before, Israelists worked behind the scenes to block me from speaking in South Dakota during a visit to the state last week. They got the local World Affairs Council to pull its sponsorship of one talk, tried unsuccessfully to scare off other hosts, and pressured media not to cover my events. And they may have headed off other invitations, as some events fell through in the planning stage. But we fought back with the best weapon against censorship — exposure. We publicized the story, and South Dakota media covered it widely, including a front page article in the state's biggest newspaper... US Zionist attack dog brought to heel, by Finian Cunningham | PressTV Interesting times are in the offing between the US and Iran as the American government says it is now “ready for talks” with the Islamic Republic - after 34 years of hostility since the Iranian Revolution of 1979. US Secretary of State John Kerry has said that economic sanctions imposed on Iran could be lifted within six months.. American officials seem to have resisted Israel’s latest saber rattling when Premier Benjamin Netanyahu hotfooted it to Washington earlier this week with grim warnings that Iran’s diplomatic overtures were merely a ruse... The Worth of an Israel Police Informant's Body | Roi Tov ...How inept must the Police be to fail to cover up its own crimes? Israel Police prides itself on being professional with intelligent investigators, fearless forensic scientists, and aggressive anti-terrorism forces. Yet, this impressive list also includes the body of Eyal Salhub. It is almost good. It has just a few bullets in the head, and his skin was slightly burnt by a fire set to hide evidence. How much is his body worth? On October 4, 2013, even the aftermath attempt to hide the frightful facts failed, when the Police admitted having paid a silence fee to the family of the dead... Israel’s academic standing: mediocre and getting worse | Jews sans frontieres One reason we are always told that we can never ever boycott Israel is because of its sterling academic reputation. Israel, we have heard on countless occasions, is a paragon of science, medicine and humanities. If we boycott Israel we’ll be boycotting the cutting-edgiest of high-tech, the most miraculous research in medicine, the inventors of… well, just about everything. Well, it seems that such talk of Israeli academic excellence is pure propaganda... No such thing as 'Israeli nationhood,' country's Supreme Court says | LA Times There is no such thing as "Israeli nationhood," Israel's Supreme Court has ruled, putting to an end a 40-year legal battle but leaving fundamental questions about national identity and the character of the country very much open. The court on Wednesday rejected a petition by a group of Israelis to change the ethnic registration on their identity cards from "Jewish" to "Israeli." Some Arab citizens joined the petition, also asking to be listed as "Israeli.".. Israeli agents operating in "many" Arab countries, especially Egypt | Middle East Monitor The former director of Israeli military intelligence, General Amos Yadlin, has revealed that its operatives have penetrated a number of Arab countries, notably Egypt. Yadlin also named Tunisia, Morocco, Iraq, Sudan, Yemen, Lebanon, Iran, Libya, Palestine and Syria as places where Israeli agents are active... He said that the Military Intelligence Division's work against the "enemy" has succeeded in escalating unrest and sectarian and social tensions wherever they are operating, especially in Egypt... US waking up to threat of Israel, by Mark Glenn | PressTV The beginning of September featured what looked for sure to be yet another military disaster in the Middle East for Israel's benefit. By all appearances, a nagging, needling Benjamin Netanyahu had finally gotten on US President Barack Obama's last nerve and pushed him into doing what he has resisted doing now for the last four years, meaning war with Syria.. And then, almost as quickly as it all started, it ended as abruptly as someone slamming on the brakes... Judge for yourselves | Paul Eisen British readers of this blog will certainly, and others may well be, aware of the furore in Britain about the Daily Mail article about Ed Miliband's father being anti-British. Ed Miliband is the leader of Britain's Labour party and the son of Ralph Miliband, a Jewish Marxist intellectual who came to Britain as a refugee in 1940. Below is the article and below that is another article that appeared in today's Guardian by Jewish (Oh, it is relevant) columnist Jonathan Freedland... Oct 4, 2013 Netanyahu and Obama Seek “The Truth,” by James M Wall | My Catbird Seat The world must stand up to and stop Israel’s bullying of its neighbors and of the U.S. leadership, or the irrational men that run Israel will trigger catastrophe... Childhood Denied, by Yousef Munayyer | The Daily Beast ..For many Palestinians living under Israeli military occupation childhood ends even earlier than you’d think. The commonplace elements of a child’s life in Palestine, which under normal circumstances would be filled with school books, football and games with friends, is instead interrupted by the harsh realities of occupation that include soldiers, checkpoints, walls, discrimination and racism... The American People Smash The Lobby — At Least For Now | MJ Rosenberg I have always believed that, at some point, the Israeli prime minister and his lobby would lose their grip on U.S. Middle East policy, at least I’ve believed that since 1982 when Tom Dine, AIPAC’s most successful executive director, explained how it would happen. It was during my four year stint at AIPAC that I asked Dine if a president of the United States could take a position opposed by the lobby, in a case where U.S. national security interests were clearly at stake, and prevail... Was it a Psyop? Nairobi Mall Deceit Abets Israeli-Western Pipeline Wars to Oust Asian Rivals, by Yoichi Shimatsu | Global Research ..As the events at the Westgate shopping mall in Nairobi unfolded, it became clear that the bloody spectacle was staged by a shadowy entity, which the Kenya foreign minister described as “Al Qaeda”. Her statement was based on the presence of other foreign assailants, including passport holders of the U.S. and Britain , under the command of a Western woman believed to be the so-called “White Widow”.. [See also The Blowback that Created al-Shabaab] Israel Cancels History | Roi Tov ...Western democracies are closer to the London-based terror-regime described in Orwell's 1984 surveillance nightmare than to the image that these regimes are indefatigably advertising. They have no choice; the day after they stop brainwashing their citizens, these will rebel against the unjustifiable oppression. On October 3, 2013, a dry administrative decision by Israel's Minister of Education caused George Orwell to stir uncomfortably in his tomb and dwarfed USA's attempts to become the oppressive British Empire described by that author. Israel decided to cancel history... NSA and Jewish Bankers: Two Zionist Monsters, by Jonas E. Alexis | Veterans Today ...What we are clearly seeing here is that if you are against anything that the Zionist regime has cooked up, then you are more than likely to be labeled a terrorist or something equally worse. Whatever they do, you must accept it. In the Zionist world, free speech and free expression are simply relics of the past. Whenever the Zionist mob is not in charge, they ask for diversity; but whenever they take control over the academia, they fine you if you ask for just an ounce of diversity... Interview with James Fetzer: ‘Israel’s case against diplomacy on Iran baseless’ | PressTV ...Iran has never made an effort to overthrow the government of the United States, but in 1953, Kermit Roosevelt and the CIA overthrew the democratically elected government of Iran. It’s atrocious to suggest the US has reasons to distrust Iran when Iran has every reason to distrust the United States. Iran is a peaceful nation, it hasn’t attacked any other country in over 300 years, has signed the Non-Proliferation Treaty, allows inspectors, and is perfectly entitled to develop a peaceful nuclear energy program... Honouring Palestinian human rights defender Raji Sourani, by Phyllis Bennis and Richard Falk | Al Jazeera ...the Israeli oppressors have done their best over the years to discredit, intimidate, and punish all those who dare to call attention to the unlawfulness, indeed criminality, of their prolonged occupation and continuous encroachment on the most fundamental of Palestinian rights, that of self-determination. One of the most durable and effective of these Palestinian human rights heroes is the lawyer Raji Sourani, the founder and director of Gaza's Palestine Centre for Human Rights... Jewish Americans turning their backs on Israel | Redress Information & Analysis ...it isn’t just Rouhani’s dovishness that’s worrying the warmongers in usurped Palestine. Israel is losing America, and the loss has little to do with the incumbent in the White House. A recent poll of American Jews by the Pew Research Centre confirms that American Jews are turning away from Israel... Obamacare Is Another Private Sector Rip-Off Of Americans | Paul Craig Roberts ...When Republicans for ideological reasons blocked a single-payer health system like the rest of the developed world has and, indeed, even some developing countries have, the Obama regime, needing a victory, went to the insurance companies and told them to come up with a health care plan that the insurance lobby could get passed by Congress. Obamacare was written by the private insurance industry with the goal of raising its profits with 50 million mandated new customers... Rethinking the Two-State Solution, by Neve Gordon | CounterPunch ...J Street does not want to find itself promoting an irrelevant political program, it will need to begin thinking about an alternative that guarantees both democracy and a certain strain of Zionism, but also advocates a single state in which Jews and Palestinians live together as equals.. The question now is whether the new lobby will have the foresight and audacity to follow the footsteps of major Zionist intellectuals who supported a binational state — like the great philosopher Martin Buber and the founder and first president of Hebrew University, Judah Magnes — and take the road less traveled... Government Looking for Witches Will Find Them, by Andrew P. Napolitano | Antiwar ..The Obama administration is of the view that the NSA can spy on anyone anywhere. The president believes that federal statutes enable the secret FISA court to authorize the NSA to capture any information it desires about any persons without identifying the persons and without a showing of probable cause of criminal behavior on the part of the persons to be spied upon. This is the same mindset that the British government had with respect to the colonists. It, too, believed that British law permitted a judge in secret in Britain to issue general warrants to be executed in the colonies at the whim of British agents... US cowardice will let Israel’s isolated right off the hook, by Robert Fisk | The Independent ...when Mr Rouhani came to speak, Western nations crowded into the chamber to hear him. But Israel stormed out. “A stupid gesture,” according to that wise old Israeli sage, writer and philosopher Uri Avnery. “As rational and effective as a little boy’s tantrum when his favourite toy is taken away. Stupid because it painted Israel as a spoiler, at a time when the entire world is seized by an attack of optimism after the recent events in Damascus and Tehran. Stupid, because it proclaims the fact that Israel is at present totally isolated.”.. Israel’s Secret Nuclear Biological and Chemical Weapons, by Manlio Dinucci | Global Research For years, Syria and Egypt refused to abandon their chemical weapons facing a threatening neighbor, Israel, which develops very sophisticated ones, in addition to biological and nuclear weapons. However, while Syria has joined the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons , we are taking a look at Israeli activities... The Truthseeker: 9/11 and Operation Gladio | Global Research Oct 3, 2013 Edward Said and His Quest for a Just Peace, by Sandy Tolan | Palestine Chronicle Edward Said died ten years ago – in September 2003, after a twelve-year battle with leukemia. One of the 20th century’s great intellectuals, Said, author of the masterworks Orientalism and Culture and Imperialism, was also a beloved professor to generations of students at Columbia University, a gifted amateur pianist and an opera critic for The Nation magazine. He was perhaps best known for his fierce defense of the rights of his people, the Palestinians, in numerous books and hundreds of essays and articles published worldwide... America's Empty Gestures Toward Iran, by Stephen M. Walt | Foreign Policy Even if you stayed up since Friday and skipped the finale of Breaking Bad, there's no way you could have kept up with all the commentary about the U.S.-Iranian minuet at the U.N. General Assembly opening last week. There was a lot of spinning going on, of course, with proponents of a nuclear deal looking for reasons to be optimistic and die-hard opponents looking for signs that it was all just a bad dream... Can Iran Trust the United States? by Sheldon Richman | The Future of Freedom Foundation People ask whether the United States can trust Iran. The better question is whether Iran can trust the United States. Since 1979 the U.S. government has prosecuted a covert and proxy war against Iran. The objective has been regime change and installation of a government that will loyally serve U.S. state objectives. This war began after the popular overthrow of the U.S. government’s client, Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, whose brutal regime the Eisenhower administration and CIA had preserved by driving Iran’s popular Prime Minister Mohammad Mossadegh from office in 1953. Had the U.S. government not supported the shah and his secret police, there would have been no 1979 Islamic Revolution... Gaza: Crushed Between Israel and Egypt, by Jonathan Cook | CounterPunch The furore over the recent chemical weapons attack in Syria has overshadowed disturbing events to the south, as Egypt’s generals wage a quiet war of attrition against the Hamas leadership in Gaza. Hamas has found itself increasingly isolated, politically and geographically, since the Egyptian army ousted the country’s first democratically elected president, Mohammed Morsi, in early July. Hamas is paying the price for its close ties to Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood... The Work of a Generation, by Edward Snowden | Common Dreams NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden's words were entered as testimony at the European Parliament's Civil Liberties Committee in Brussels on Monday. Jesselyn Radack of the US Government Accountability Project (GAP) and a former whistleblower and ethics adviser to the US Department of Justice, read Snowden's statement into the record... Breaking American exceptionalism, by Pepe Escobar | Asia Times Online Never underestimate American soft power. What if the US government actually shut down to mourn the passing of Breaking Bad, arguably the most astonishing show in the history of television? It would be nothing short of poetic justice - as Breaking Bad is infinitely more pertinent for the American psyche than predictable cheap shots at Capitol Hill. Walter White, aka Heisenberg, may have become the ultimate, larger than life hero of the Google/YouTube/Facebook era... Israel Will Have to ‘Stand Alone’ as Netanyahu Rhetoric Continues | Syrian Free Press “Stop the rhetoric already Bibi.” While you sit in a county FILLED with Chemical Weapons, Biological Weapons and Nuclear Weapons while REFUSING to sign the Non-Proliferation Treaty, do you really believe people are still listening to your constant cries for war? Do you think Americans want to send their sons and daughters to a war to defend the behavior of a Narcissistic Sociopath such as yourself? I think you might be surprised to find the answer is NO!.. CW Expert Opinion on the UN Report on Syria | Mideast Shuffle While investigating the UN Report on chemical weapons (CW) use in Ghouta, Syria, we sought a multitude of opinions from experts and others who offered insightful observations. We published our findings in an article entitled: Questions Plague UN Report on Syria. To learn more about Sarin and other nerve gases used in warfare, you would be hard pressed to find any better hands-on experience than in Iran, a country that suffered directly – and repeatedly – from Iraq’s use of CWs during the 1980-88 war between the two countries... West’s damning silence over Bahrain, by Finian Cunningham | PressTV ...Bahrain represents a genuine case of a peaceful pro-democracy movement being crushed by a despised tyrant. That’s the narrative that the Western governments and their propaganda mainstream media apply erroneously to Syria; but when it comes to Bahrain, where the narrative is truly applicable, the West turns a blind eye and develops a curious speech impediment... George Stephanopoulos Thinks Iran is Enriching Weapons-Grade Uranium, by Nima Shirazi | Wide Asleep in America Iran's new foreign minister Mohammad Javad Zarif appeared on ABC's "This Week" and addressed a number of the same questions every Iranian official is asked again and again in interviews by the American media. George Stephanopoulos, who effectively conducted the same interview with former Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad three years in a row, asked Zarif about possible concessions Iran is willing to make over its nuclear program. By doing so, however, he revealed that he knows very little about Iran's domestic enrichment program and the consistent findings of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).. Syria's Top Five Insurgent Leaders, by Joshua Landis | Syria Comment If we confine our choices to leaders with broad appeal in the Arab and Islamist mainstream — excluding both al-Qaida and Kurdish leaders — we get the following five, listed in order... Im Tirzu’s Shoval: Nuke Iran | Tikun Olam On a day when Bibi Netanyahu brayed yet again from a UN rostrum about the Iranian nuclear threat, Im Tirzu’s Ronen Shoval was busy at home reinforcing the message. Employing the classic Kahanist slogan (later adopted by figures as diverse as John McCain and others), ‘Never Again,’ Shoval penned a Jerusalem Post op-ed advocating using Israeli nuclear weapons to destroy Iran’s nuclear program. It’s a classic Kahanist manifesto, which argues that the non-Jewish world failed to defend Jews during the Holocaust and cannot be expected to protect what he calls the “Zionist enterprise” from Iran’s “2014 Shoah.”.. People’s History of Gaza and Egypt: The Bond Cannot Be Broken, by Ramzy Baroud | Palestine Chronicle ...Gaza is being 'collectively punished', and is now facing economic hardship and a severe fuel shortage as a result of the Egyptian army's destroying of underground tunnels. This is nothing particularly new. In fact, such 'collective punishment' has defined Gaza's relationship to Israel for the last 65 years. Successive sieges and wars have left Gaza with deep scars, but left its people extremely strong, resilient and resourceful. But what makes the tightening of the Israeli siege - imposed in earnest since 2007 - particularly painful is that it comes through Egypt... California Governor Signs Ban on NDAA Detentions, by Jason Ditz | Antiwar After an overwhelmingly successful run through the California legislature last months, Governor Jerry Brown has signed AB351, a law banning all cooperation with the 2012 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) or any other federal attempts to indefinitely detain people... The Perils of Parasitism, by Justin Raimondo | Antiwar ...The US military budget is greater than the defense budgets of the top ten spenders combined. That’s not "bloat." That’s not "waste." That’s just flat out crazy. It’s crazy because it has nothing to do with defending the country: it’s about dominating the world. And, as Edward Snowden has revealed, a good part of that enormous sum is spent spying on Washington’s number one enemy – the American people. That’s why Mr. Parasite and his fellow leeches are wondering "What the hell?" these days – because Americans are waking up to the scam, and calling his perks and privileges into question... UNSC Resolution 2118: a half-full glass? | The Vineyard of the Saker ...as long as Putin is alive and in the Kremlin, the US will not get a UNSC Resolution to attack Syria. I think that nobody, short of pathological Russia-haters, will deny that. The Americans understand that too. So they also understand that if they find Syria in material breach of UNSC Res 2118 they will have to go to the UNSC where the best they can hope for is a Russian and Chinese agreement to Chapter VII measures which fall short of the use of military force.. So short of Assad throwing a chemical hand grenade from his balcony on CNN live - the UNSC will not endorse an attack on Syria... America’s War against the People of Korea: The Historical Record of US War Crimes, by Prof Michel Chossudovsky | Global Research ...According to I.F. Stone’s “Hidden History of the Korean War” first published in 1952 (at the height of the Korean War), the US deliberately sought a pretext, an act of deception, which incited the North to cross the 38th parallel ultimately leading to all out war.. In Stone’s account, General Douglas MacArthur “did everything possible to avoid peace”. US wars of aggression are waged under the cloak of “self defence” and pre-emptive attacks... Canadian Colonizers Criticize Aroma, Israel | Roi Tov On the day after Netanyahu's speech at the 68th UN General Assembly, the earth still spins. It couldn't be otherwise after a speech that can be categorized exclusively as "irrelevant" and "arrogant." The issue is simple. As long as Israel aims its nuclear missiles at Iran, it cannot criticize any Iranian attempt to defend itself. Until The Negev Nuclear Research Center in Dimona, the Ben Gurion University nuclear engineering facilities, the Wing 2 IAF Base, the Palmachim IAF Base, and the nuclear weapons on Israeli fleet of German submarines are publicly dismantled, Netanyahu must be quiet. He has no moral right to utter even one word... Netanyahu’s UN speech: Sounds like a sociopath? by Pepe Escobar | RT Iranian missiles will hit New York in “three to four years”. A nuclear Iran is like “50 North Koreas”. This could be the sound of a deranged, dangerous sociopath, or this could be the sound of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin “Bibi” Netanyahu addressing the UN General Assembly... Obama kowtowing to Netanyahu, a disgrace: Interview with Kevin Barrett | PressTV ...The Israeli lobby does not just have a lot of clout in Congress. It owns Congress, it’s outright and about half of the money that is contributed to federal candidates in the US comes from Zionists and it has very strong strings attached. This has been going on ever since we heard from President John F Kennedy who confided to his close friend Gore Vidal that he had been approached by Israeli lobby people who told him that if he would let them run his foreign policy, they would take care of all of his financial needs from then on. And the same thing has been going on ever since. Kennedy rejected the deal and that's one of the reasons he was killed... Oct 2, 2013 Worldwide Militarization and the Weapons Industry: America’s Surveillance and Targeted Assassination Machine, by William C. Lewis | Global Research Perpetual mass-media deception and pervasive surveillance encompass a never ending train of abuse that won’t end any time soon. As long as armaments factories continue producing weapons of death for the fortune 500 Wall Street elite who reside in U.S. capitalist society, war and threats of war will continue to expand and take on an ever deadlier character... [Revolution may well be the only option, but what sort of revolution? How to avoid the pitfalls of previous attempts? Thinking about Revolution http://www.newdemocracyworld.org/thinking.pdf is an attempt to articulate an answer to that question. It may appear hopelessly utopian, but are there any better ideas out there?] Read more...Syrian FM to UN: 'Terrorists from 83 countries fighting in Syria' | RT News ...In his speech to the UN Assembly, Muallem on Monday dismissed the definition of the Syrian conflict as a civil war, saying that the Syrian government is engaged in a “war against terrorism that recognizes no values, nor justice, nor equality, and disregards any rights or laws.. Confronting this terror in my country requires the international community to act in accordance with relevant resolutions on countering terrorism, particularly the UNSC resolution No. 1373 of 2001,” he said... Read more... A Syrian solution to civil conflict? The Free Syrian Army is holding talks with Assad's senior staff, by Robert Fisk | The Independent Six weeks ago, a two-man delegation arrived in secret in Damascus: civilians from Aleppo who represented elements of the Free Syrian Army, the rebel group largely composed of fighters who deserted the regime’s army in the first year of the war. They came under a guarantee of safety, and met, so I am told, a senior official on the staff of President Bashar al-Assad. And they carried with them an extraordinary initiative – that there might be talks between the government and FSA officers who “believed in a Syrian solution” to the war... Read more... This is Anna Baltzer | Paul Eisen Poll Shows Major Shift in Identity of U.S. Jews | NYT The first major survey of American Jews in more than 10 years finds a significant rise in those who are not religious, marry outside the faith and are not raising their children Jewish — resulting in rapid assimilation that is sweeping through every branch of Judaism except the Orthodox... [This is both positive and negative. On the plus side, only 17% of jews approve of west bank settlements - on the negative, a la marx, the modern commercialized world is the triumph of Judaism, a pseudo-religion whose god is money. ~ Eric Walberg. (I might add that the Hebrew deity of the money power is known to us as the Golden Calf. Its scripture is the Talmud, an attempt to escape whatever spiritual teachings are contained in the Torah. Israel, as the Torah Jews tell us, is the embodiment of the cult of the Golden Calf as laid out in the Babylonian Talmud, a tortuous attempt to outwit God. Needless to say, God (or karma, as I would put it) always wins in the end. ~ the Editor)] Read more...45% of public back their children leaving Israel | Globes ...In the survey, 51% said that they had considered leaving Israel, while 38% said they had not and 11% said they had no possibility of leaving. 49% of those polled felt that leaving Israel was more legitimate today than in the past, while 34% felt that it was exactly the same as in the past. The survey also found that the Israeli public rejected out of hand the label given to emigrants by the late Yitzhak Rabin in the 1970s as "drop-out weaklings." 80% of respondents said they don't agree with this label... [Perhaps attrition will turn out to be the solution – not with a bang, but a whimper. All that will be left will be the crazies, unable no longer able to sustain their domination over the Palestinians.] Read more...Mainstream Media's Ongoing Disinformation Campaign on Iran, by Nima Shirazi | Wide Asleep in America As the United States and Iran carefully embark on a renewed push for diplomacy, including direct contact between the presidents of each country for the first time in 34 years, the mainstream media continues to stymie any chance for an honest assessment of Iran's nuclear program, engaging instead in disinformation, misrepresentation and misleading reporting that has long characterized coverage of the issue... Read more... Israel Doesn’t Give a Hoot About Iranian Nukes, by John Glaser | Antiwar In the coming weeks and months, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is likely to “dedicate himself to derailing any prospect for a diplomatic breakthrough” between the United States and Iran. And the reasons have nothing at all to do with Iran’s nuclear program. Instead, Israeli intransigence on the Iran issue is motivated by two factors: (1) maintaining regional military superiority and hegemony, and (2) distracting from the Israeli-Palestinian issue... Cheesy Tricks, Cofix, and Trampy Israel | Roi Tov "Starbucks failed in Israel," I said while sipping a cup of coffee. The person listening to my chit-chat laughed. At the time, I was not aware that the company supports Israel. In the 1990's, Yitzhak Tshuva, who is active in the energy market and is one of Israel's richest oligarchs, brought Starbucks to the Holy Land. An expert in gasoline can seldom prepare a decent cup of coffee; Mr. Tshuva confirmed this ancestral rule... Netanyahu says nuclear-armed Iran as dangerous as '50 North Koreas' | The Hill Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu used his United Nations address Tuesday to put President Obama on notice that Israel is prepared to attack Iran on its own. The Israeli leader said Iran’s diplomatic overtures are not to be trusted and urged the world body to keep up the pressure on Iran to give up its nuclear program... [This is typical reporting from the point of view that prevails inside the beltway bubble. The following link is what the rest of the world sees.] New Israeli Math and the Return of the Holocaust Analogy: Steinitz: Iran "Equal to 30 Nuclear North Koreas" | Wide Asleep in America At the second annual Jerusalem Post Conference, held in New York City on Sunday April 28, a number of former and current Israeli officials offered new estimates about Iran's nuclear progress, issued threats of war and pretended Israel is more powerful and militarily capable than it really is. In other words, it was just another day of shameless and shameful Israeli propaganda; pathetic, jingoistic bluster meant to appeal to hawkish American donors, puff up Israel's inflated sense of self, and attempt to boost its already non-existent credibility... False Flag: Coming Soon! | YouTube Watch out for this blood-curdling, excruciating painful, genocidal, mass-extinction movie - a Pentagon/Hollywood/Mossad co-production in hyper-reality 4D (patent pending) - be prepared to be shocked in sight, sound, smell and all tactile senses - feel the pain and smell of the burning corpses and dying men. Free admission for purchase of one pack of Kool-aid (Government issued only) at WalMart and Target; Food stamps are accepted... What a Way to Run the Country | Stephen Lendman Americans get the best democracy money can buy. The best, brightest and most honorable are excluded. Rare exceptions prove the rule. Washington is dysfunctional, out-of-control, corrupt, lawless and self-serving. Miscreants infest the nation's capital. They do so like crabgrass besets lawns. Both parties represent two sides of the same coin... Government shuts down! Drones grounded, NSA shuttered; dogs, Syrians and pot-smokers safe? NOT! by Kevin Barrett | Veterans Today ...The “American Holocaust” is a term coined by historian William Blum for the murder of millions of people around the world by US military and CIA “interventions” since World War II. According to André Vltchek and Noam Chomsky’s new book Western Terrorism: From Hiroshima to Drone Warfare, the total number of people murdered by the US and its stooges since World War II is between 55 and 60 million... My Reaction to Netanyahu’s Speech: Pure Joy | MJ Rosenberg By responding to Iran’s outstretched hand with snarling sarcasm and the open threat of war, Netanyahu has dealt Israel out of the entire US/Iranian diplomatic process. Netanyahu made clear that he has no interest in anything President Rouhani might say or offer. His interest is in discrediting him and convincing the United States to join Israel in an attack on Iran. But now, thanks in part to this speech, what Netanyahu wants or thinks doesn’t matter. With 85% of Americans supporting improved relations with Iran (according to the Washington Post poll), President Obama has the mandate he needs to go forward... Message to the UN from Uruguay, by Ariadna Theokopoulos | deLiberation ...speeches like the one delivered by Uruguayan president are not common. He criticized the unfettered consumerism, greed, waste and the “market god” He expressed disapproval of ungovernable globalization, spoke about the national feeling that is imprinted in our genetic code but criticized the national chauvinism of the world powers. He spoke against war, which he said leads to a blind course that only ensures hate, fanaticism and mistrust. Mujica also criticized organizations like the UN. He said the organization languishes without democracy because small countries like Uruguay.. cannot enter the decision making centers “even to serve coffee.”.. Parano-Semitism, or Paranoid Jew Syndrome, by Dov Frishberg | The Times of Israel Parano-Semitism occurs when a Jew or Jewess exhibits persistent anxiety, obsessive thoughts, compulsive behavior or irritability typically leading to sadness and even depression in response to perceived but non-existent manifestations of anti-Semitism... [My question: how did this sane, incisive article make it into this Zionist rag?] Oct 1, 2013 A Wall for a Wall: Mirroring Racism, by William A. Cook | Salem News Now that our President has handed over the resolution of the Syrian debacle to the United Nations, perhaps justice demands that he hand over resolution of the Israeli/Palestinian conflict to that international body as well. One can turn to the reality of the illegal machinations of the Israeli Zionist government any day of the week and see and know and feel the terror that exists for the occupied people who are defenseless before the impunity granted to the state of Israel for crimes that any other member nation of the UN would, as is true of Syria, be brought for justice before the International Courts... Israel’s Politics of Deflection | Richard Falk During my period as the UN Special Rapporteur for Human Rights in Palestine on behalf of the Human Rights Council I have been struck by the persistent efforts of Israel and its strong civil society adjuncts to divert attention from the substance of Palestinian grievances or the consideration of the respective rights of Israel and Palestine under international law. I have also observed that many, but by not means all of those who represent the Palestinians seem strangely reluctant to focus on substance or to take full advantage of opportunities to use UN mechanisms to challenge Israel on the terrain of international law and morality... The Life Of An American Jew In Racist Marxist Israel | The People's Voice ..The late Jack Bernstein was a rarity—an American Zionist who actually "returned" to Israel, not for a vacation or to summer on a kibbutz, but to live and die in Israel building a Jewish nation. What makes him almost one of a kind, though, was his ability to see through the sham and hype to the oppressive, racist, parasitic character of Zionism as practiced in modern Israel, and his courage to denounce it with the force and fervor of an Old Testament prophet. Bernstein tells how it was, how it is, and how it will be—as long as American taxpayers tolerate their leaders’ bowing to every wish and whim of the Ashkenazic (Eastern European) elite which rules Israel... Syria: New Constellations Emerge | Moon of Alabama ...The precautious U.S. government move to detente with Iran, widely supported by the U.S. population, will put pressure on the Gulf regimes. They are financially bound to the "west" and can not stand against the U.S. will. When Obama will finally throw away the regime change platitudes and decide to shut down the supply lines to the Jihadis in Syria, the Gulf states, as well as Turkey, will have to comply. Iran and Russia put out some feelers that might make it it easier, especially for the Saudis, to dismount from the sectarian horse they have been riding in the wake of Shia ascendency... The Consistency of Official Iranian Commentary: Are Rouhani's Statements Really a Huge Break from the Past? | Wide Asleep in America ...Same goes for the Jerusalem Post, which ran a similar story entitled, "Rouhani on peace process: Whatever the Palestinians accept, Iran will accept," and quoted the Iranian president as saying that "the decision makers about Palestine are the people of Palestine," in response to a question about the stagnant Israeli-Palestinian peace process. Is this breaking news? Hardly. This has been the constantly repeated position of the Iranian government for years, consistently reiterated for years by Rouhani's presidential predecessor, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad... 'Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your fears': More predictions before Netanyahu's big day at the UN | Mondoweiss Here are the latest predictions on Netanyahu’s speech tomorrow to the U.N. General Assembly from intrepid Mondoweiss readers... Yes, MEMRI, there is a Fatwa from Khamenei forbidding Nukes, by Juan Cole | Informed Comment I’m told that MEMRI, which has its origins in Israeli military intelligence, has put out a statement doubting that Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei ever issued a fatwa forbidding nuclear weapons. (MEMRI claims to be a 501(c)3 non-profit but is actually an effort to cherry-pick Middle Eastern news to present the most negative face of the Arab world to Americans so as to prejudice them in favor of Israel; in this case it is just doing propaganda).. NSA: Rogue Spying Writ Large | Stephen Lendman No nation in human history ever harmed more millions of people more grievously than America. None ever did it more deceptively. None did under the guise of promoting democratic values. None claimed more disingenuous nobel intentions. None expressed more support for human and civil rights while egregiously violating them. None more dangerously threatened humanity. None operated more lawlessly with malicious intent... On Blood Rituals | Gilad Atzmon ...When, the ‘Goyim’ start to complain about Jewish blood rituals is when they are willing to admit to themselves that something is distinctively different and wrong with Jewish culture. Such a transition is indeed a sign of growing resentment towards Jewish culture and politics. In America this transition takes place at a time when the wide public gathers that it is Israel and the Jewish lobby that are relentlessly pushing the west into wars... [The writing has always been on the wall] Israel's Taboo Reaches Court | Roi Tov ...Your Honor, Your Most Honest Attorney General of Israel Yehuda Weinstein, these are State crimes. Let me remind you a few wise words told about your alleged ancestors: "Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye pay tithe of mint and anise and cummin, and have omitted the weightier matters of the law, judgment, mercy, and faith" (Mathew 23:23). Mr. Weinstein, without open and public Justice, your society becomes just a Fijian-derived taboo... [The criminal state of Israel has been illegitimate from the gitgo, a product of ethnic cleansing, force majeure and deception.] Breeding terror in Guantanamo? by Belen Fernandez | Al Jazeera The "debate" about what to do with the remaining Guantanamo prisoners - 84 of whom Reuters acknowledges were "cleared for release years ago" - boils down to what has become Barack Obama's signature move: pursuing the same fundamental policies as his detractors while pretending not to. Those detractors lend a hand to the arrangement by making Obama appear sane... What is Kerry actually negotiating with Iran? | Iran Affairs ..’Asked what steps Iran could take to prove its seriousness, Kerry replied: "They could immediately open for inspection the Fordo facility, they could immediately sign the protocol of the international community regarding inspections, they could offer to cease voluntarily to take enrichment above a certain level."’ Except that Fordo has been open to inspections for years, since the Iranians (and not US intelligence agencies, as the NYT claims) first disclosed the location of the site to the IAEA. In fact Mohammad ElBaradei himself visited Fordo, and famously said it was nothing more than a hole in the mountain and nothing to be worried about... Jewish schism threatens Israel’s deadly grip on USA | Redress Information & Analysis Israel is losing its deadly grip on the American people. And it’s not just the ordinary folk who are turning their backs on the apartheid state, but American Jews, hitherto its loyal foot soldiers. Nothing could illustrate this better than the sight of the leaders of J Street, the “liberal” Zionist American lobby group, praising the Israeli armed forces while the audience cheers the boycott, divestment and sanctions movement, BDS... 'This Week' Exclusive Interview: Iran's Foreign Minister Javad Zarif | YouTube George Stephanopoulos goes one-on-one with Iranian Foreign Minister Dr. Javad Zarif... Brian Williams' Iran propaganda, by Glenn Greenwald | The Guardian The NBC star tells his viewers that Iranian leaders are 'suddenly claiming they don't want nuclear weapons', even though they've been saying it for years... After Rohani’s Visit to New York: Flynt Leverett on Prospects for U.S.-Iranian Nuclear Diplomacy | Going to Tehran ...In the wake of President Rohani’s visit to New York for the United Nations General Assembly, much of the American commentariat (including one of Flynt’s co-panelists on the Newshour) is asking how much the Islamic Republic will be prepared to concede—or, more bluntly, surrender—in nuclear talks. But, as we have noted before, this is mistaken and self-deluding view... Shabak Nabs Alleged Iranian Spy–Surprise!–Same Day Bibi Leaves for UN to Skewer Iran | Tikun Olam ...I never believe he posed a threat to anyone. In short, this incident is nothing like the Israeli-MeK assassination campaign and sabotage of Iranian missile facilities, which are crimes of state terrorism for which the Mossad and its leadership should be tried before an international court. Israel’s spying and terror is far more lethal than anything Iran has mounted... |
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