Aug 31, 2010 Seeing the land as one: Raja Shehadeh interviewed, by Sarah Irving | The Electronic Intifada  Raja Shehadeh leading a tour through the hills of the occupied West Bank Ramallah-based writer and co-founder of the Palestinian human rights organization Al-Haq, Raja Shehadeh launched his latest book, A Rift in Time, at the Edinburgh International Book Festival on 14 August. Like earlier works, Shehadeh's latest title addresses the dispossession of the Palestinian people, the failure of the international community and their own leadership to deliver justice, and the abuse of Palestinian rights by the Israeli military and civil authorities...Read more... 9/11 Truth Omnibus 9/11 Planners Confess On Network Television, by Gordon Duff | Veterans Today How can a nation like the United States be duped into two wars and total bankruptcy? It would be one thing if the “truth” about 9/11 was internet conspiracy theory. This isn’t the case. It was all right there in everyone’s living room. They fooled us once and then fooled us again and again. Yes, America has some tail to kick but this time, maybe we should make sure our boot goes up the right rear end for a change... Read more... 9/11: Reader Comment At Veterans Today Debunks Cover Story | My Catbird Seat I want to point out something I haven’t seen written about before regarding 9/11 and maybe it will cause some people who still don’t get it or refuse to examine the mountains of evidence pointing to 9/11 being an inside job to rethink their beliefs in the official story coming from our corporate government and their mouthpiece media... Read more... Treason, Betrayal and Deceit: 9/11 and Beyond, by Alan Sabrosky | Information Clearing House The attacks on September 11, 2001 have been a defining moment for America. The political and psychological impact on Americans of a concerted and visible attack in America was enormous -- indeed, it is an interesting "coincidence" that the attacks occurred on the one day of the year whose mention reinforces a public sense here of danger and emergency: 9-1-1... Read more... Who's Afraid of 9/11 Conspiracy Theories?, by Maidhc Ó Cathail | My Catbird Seat Whenever someone insists too strongly about something not being true, we tend to suspect that maybe it is. In their denials of involvement in 9/11, do Israel’s apologists “protest too much”?.. Read more... Collateral Damage: Covert Operations and the Terrorist Attacks on September 11, 2001 | Israel Shamir On September 11, 2001 the definition of National Security changed for most U.S. citizens. For an entire postwar generation, “National Security” meant protection from nuclear attack. On that day, Americans redefined that threat. On September 11, 2001 three hijacked airliners hit three separate buildings with such precision and skill that many observers believe those flights were controlled by something other than the poorly trained hijackers in the cockpits... Read more... Jackson Pollock and the Cultural Cold War, by Come Carpentier de Gourdon | Vijayvaani The film Pollock directed by Ed Harris, who plays the title role (2000) on the relatively short (1912-1956) and not so eventful but symbolically significant life of American painter Jackson Pollock, provides a vivid picture of a period in recent history which continues to heavily influence most of our (Western) cultural reality... Read more... Islamophobia: Israel’s Most Cherished Weapon of Mass Destruction Destined to Destroy The West If Not Stopped |The Ugly Truth Yes, it certainly paints a frightening picture for sure. The inhabitants of the most powerful countries in the world–militarily and economically speaking–transformed into sub-humanoids, bled completely dry of all the characteristics distinguishing them as members of a higher, more intelligent species and who now roam the earth in search of healthy, uninfected people so they can eat them… Read more... Press TV’s Waqar Rizvi talks to Mark Glenn on Islamophobia in US | The Ugly Truth Watch video... The Book of Amos: On Gideon Levy | Kibush Somewhere deep in the Ha`aretz archives lies a photograph of a 14-year-old Gideon Levy posing atop an abandoned Syrian tank. The Six-Day War had just ended, and young Levy and his parents were on a tour of the freshly occupied West Bank. His photo, Levy says, ended up in the pages of the newspaper that would eventually employ him, though that is the least—and the least painful—of the many attending ironies... Read more... Charles Freeman: Stifling debate on Israel has deadly consequences, by Jared Malsin | Palestine Note When it comes to the normally stultified American debate on Middle East issues, Charles Freeman, the former US ambassador to Saudi Arabia, is one of the most outspoken US officials... Read more... The peaceful intifada, by R. M. Schneiderman and Joanna Chen | Newsweek For decades, it’s been a refrain among moderates in Israel and the West: Where is the Palestinian Gandhi, King, or Mandela? Why is there no Montgomery-style bus boycott in Ramallah, no hunger strike in Bethlehem? The question could soon become passé. Ever since the violent second intifada subsided, a small but growing number of Palestinian residents have explicitly renounced armed struggle and turned to nonviolent civil disobedience... Read more, watch video... Shame on America, Jews and the ADL, by Rabbi Bruce Warshal | The Florida Jewish Journal To begin, the mosque controversy does not involve a mosque. It is planned as a 13-story community center encompassing a swimming pool, 500-seat performing arts center, gym, culinary school, restaurant and, yes, a prayer space for Muslims, which already exists in the current building... Read more... Aug 30, 2010 Burn, Witch, Burn!: America Rages Against Islam, by Keith Johnson | The People's Voice  Islamophobia is sweeping the nation—and it couldn’t have come at a better time. Just when the American people were starting to become distracted with trivial issues like the potential stock market crash, the re-branding of the war in Iraq, and the ongoing environmental disaster in the Gulf—along comes a crisis of biblical proportions, that threatens to destroy the moral fiber of America itself, and deliver its Christian population into the diabolical hands of an Islamic dictatorship ruled under the precepts of Sharia law... Read more... Honoring the Mother of God, by Maria C. Khoury | Palestine News Network It was a beautiful and solemn procession at four in the morning (August 25th) to walk the icon of the Theotokos, the Holy Mother of God, from the monastery next to the Holy Sepulchre all the way down the via Dolorosa to reach the empty tomb of the Virgin Mary at the bottom of the hill below the Russian Orthodox Convent at the Garden of Gethsemane... Read more... Rebranding Iraq, by Ramzy Baroud | Eurasia Review The soldiers of the US 4th Stryker Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division hollered as they made their way into Kuwait. 'We won,' they claimed. 'It’s over.' But what exactly did they win? And is the war really over?.. Read more... More Pointless Talks with Israel?, by Stuart Littlewood | Palestine Chronicle The Palestinians' champion - their White Knight - is preparing to ride forth next week and do battle at the negotiating table with the racist regime's Black Knight and his minder, the Great Satan. The rules of chivalry don’t apply, so the outcome is not in doubt... Read more... Palestine Betrayed, Book Review by Jim Miles | Palestine Chronicle Was Palestine betrayed? Of course it was, by the British, the United States, France, the League of Nations, the United Nations, the remnants of the Ottoman empire, all of the regional Arab countries, and by certain elites and powerful of Palestine itself... Read more... Israeli Rabbi: Abbas, Palestinians Should Die | NYT An influential Israeli rabbi has said God should strike the Palestinians and their leader with a plague, calling for their death in a fiery sermon before Middle East peace talks set to begin next week... [The story came from Reuters, but why would the Zionist NYT print it? Your guess is as good as mine.] Read more...Hamas, the I.R.A. and Us, by Ali Abunimah | NYT George Mitchell, the United States Middle East envoy, tried to counter low expectations for renewed Israeli-Palestinian peace negotiations by harking back to his experience as a mediator in Northern Ireland... [An Op Ed by Abunimah in the NYT?? - the plot thickens. Has there been a revolution in the editorial offices? Must stay tuned.] Read more... Aug 29, 2010 Muslims have more reasons to hate the US than the other way around, by Khalid Amayreh | Palestine Think Tank  ...I don't think that most Muslims hate ordinary Americans who believe in the general principle of "live and let live." Moreover, I don't think that most Americans would unhesitatingly embrace Israeli Nazism if they had the slightest chance to know the truth about Israel, e.g. that it is a criminal state par excellence, based on ethnic cleansing, land theft and racist and religious discrimination... Read more... Death of the First Amendment: The Nazification of the United States, by Paul Craig Roberts | Counterpunch It seems only yesterday that Americans, or those interested in their civil liberties, were shocked that the Bush regime so flagrantly violated the FlSA law against spying on American citizens without a warrant. A federal judge serving on the FISA court even resigned in protest to the illegality of the spying. Nothing was done about it... [RIP, USA] Read more...Yale conference on anti-Semitism targets Palestinian identity, "self-hating" Jews, and anyone who criticizes Israel | Mondoweiss This is disturbing. A Yale University center that purports to study anti-Semitism is holding a three-day conference on "the crisis" of global anti-Semitism (ending tomorrow) that is dedicated to the idea that any criticism of Israel is anti-Semitic. The flotilla raid, anti-Semitic. Helen Thomas, anti-Semitic. The very idea of Palestinian identity, anti-Semitic... Read more... The Terrorists Have Won, by Missy Beatty | Counterpunch On August 22, I was in Manhattan for the counter-protest to support the proposed Islamic center near Ground Zero. My friend Elaine Brower gave an impassioned speech, talking about the “gentlemen’s" club by the site, and a huge Century 21 clothing store (shop, shop, shop), emphasizing the Constitutional right to freedom of religion and reminding the gathering that 15 of the hijackers who used planes as missiles on 9/11 were from Saudi Arabia, that the US continues to conduct business with that country, that we buy oil from Saudi Arabia, and that bikers, who roared in, joining the bigots to protest the Islamic center, most probably, filled their tanks with gas from Saudi Arabia... Read more... The aggression is ongoing: their maps and our destinies, by Dr. Bouthaina Shaaban | Middle East Monitor Our peoples in the region have become target for war mongers who spread pain, destruction, blockade and bloodshed. We have become the west's guinea pigs for torture and assassination... Read more... Interviewing Michael Neumann, by Edward Lewis | Counterpunch Israel/Palestine: What Really Matters and What Doesn't... Read more... US Tells Lebanon: Israel Can Destroy Your Entire Army and All Bases in Four Hours, by Jason Ditz | Antiwar How ill-equipped is the Lebanese Army for the oft-threatened Israeli invasion of Lebanon? According to reports one recent US official warned Lebanon’s Army Commander that Israel’s current contingency plan would include annihilating their entire military, every single army base and all of their offices within the first four hours of a war... Read more... Amen to the Imam, by Jack Hunter | TAC TV ...Trying to get Americans to comprehend the weight of the damage their government sometimes causes overseas is comparable to how some wives react upon learning that their husband is a child molester — many simply shut down, emotionally and morally, refusing to believe it even against overwhelming evidence. The very thought is so traumatic that they go into denial, preferring to ignore or endure the tragedy rather than let it upset their worldview... Read more, watch video... Playing the genocide card, by Tara McCormack | sp!ked review of books The Politics of Genocide, an unflinching attack on Western meddling in foreign affairs, challenges the idea that external intervention can be a force for good... Read more... Black Hearts: One Platoon's Descent into Madness in Iraq's Triangle of Death, Book review by Jim Frederick | The Guardian Vietnam veteran and novelist Edward Wilson finds chilling echoes of that war in a US platoon's Iraq killing spree... Read more... Speech of Hezbollah Secretary General Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah on Tuesday August 24, 2010 | The Vineyard of the Saker ...In Lebanon, we are a country and a people who, within our capacities and circumstances, face many internal and external national and religious challenges and difficulties. Our responsibility, whether we are Muslims or Christians, is to overcome these difficulties, not to fear them or to surrender to them. We rather have to confront them and overcome them and achieve victory in facing whatever challenges so as to protect our country, fortify it, better its situation and develop it on every level. This is a collective responsibility... Read more... McCarthy in Israel, by Neve Gordon | Palestine Chronicle On May 31, I joined some 50 students and faculty members who gathered outside Ben-Gurion University of the Negev to demonstrate against the Israeli military assault on the flotilla carrying humanitarian aid toward Gaza. In response, the next day a few hundred students marched toward the social-sciences building, Israeli flags in hand. Amid the nationalist songs and pro-government chants, there were also shouts demanding my resignation from the university faculty... Read more... UC Irvine administrators call to Muslim student group for Palestine protest, by Brian Napoletano | The Electronic Intifada In response to intense political pressure by multiple pro-Zionist organizations, administrators at the University of California, Irvine (UCI) have recommended the suspension of Muslim students' right to assemble and practice their faith together on campus... [Sign petition protesting this outrageous act] Read more...Left-Leaning Despisers of the 9/11 Truth Movement: Do You Really Believe in Miracles?, by David Ray Griffin | Global Research According to several left-leaning critics of the 9/11 Truth Movement, some of its central claims, especially about the destruction of the World Trade Center, show its members to be scientifically challenged. In the opinion of some of these critics, moreover, claims made by members of this movement are sometimes unscientific in the strongest possible sense, implying an acceptance of magic and miracles... Read more... Unspoken Symbols of Terror, by Solomon Comissiong | Dailycensored A substantial number of Americans seem to savor opportunities that will expose them for the barbaric hypocrites they are. As if it were simply not good enough to be mindless sheep non-critically responding to the drumbeat of the historically anti-democratic corporate media; they eagerly strive to one up their idiocy... Read more... On the Way Down: The Erosion of America's Middle Class, by Thomas Schulz | Der Spiegel While America's super-rich congratulate themselves on donating billions to charity, the rest of the country is worse off than ever. Long-term unemployment is rising and millions of Americans are struggling to survive. The gap between rich and poor is wider than ever and the middle class is disappearing... Read more... What You Will Not Hear About Iraq, by Prof. Adil E. Shamoo | Global Research Iraq has between 25 and 50 percent unemployment, a dysfunctional parliament, rampant disease, an epidemic of mental illness, and sprawling slums. The killing of innocent people has become part of daily life. What a havoc the United States has wreaked in Iraq... Read more... The soul of the 'Land of the Pure' - Flood of Misery, by Robert Grenier | Al Jazeera It is the sheer scale of the devastation that leaves one speechless. As one surveys the overhead photos of vast lowland plains inundated with swirling brown water or stares at the upland images of mighty torrents washing away roads, bridges, entire villages, it is the utter scope of the disaster which almost defies comprehension, which far outstrips the power of words to convey... Read more... Why America Must Have An Anti-War Uprising, by Gordon Duff | Veterans Today Is The Silence Of The American People Complicity In War Crimes?.. [Ignorance is no excuse before the law] Read more... Are the Right-Wingers Stoking Islam Fury Invested in a Never-Ending War? by Joshua Holland | AlterNet ...For those whose entire identity is invested in the War on Terror, its continuation is anything but a bug -- it’s a feature. That’s not to suggest that their feverish Islamophobia is a concerted effort to undermine our supposed “progress” in Afghanistan -- they’re not conspiring to continue the war. It’s that they are detached from the actual conflict abroad and consumed with the ideological war at home. The real enemies aren’t some dusky devils hiding in a cave 4,000 miles away; the real enemies are their political opponents at home, those who challenged their worldview... Read more... The U.S.-made mess in Somalia, by Gwynne Dyer | The Salt Lake Tribune The U.S. decision in 2006 to send Ethiopian troops into Somalia was one of the stupidest moves in a very stupid decade. This week, some of the chickens spawned by that decision came home to roost... Read more... An exciting new Muslim country to drone attack, by Glenn Greenwald | Salon Could Barack Obama become the first person in history to win the Nobel Peace Prize two consecutive years? It is hard to dispute the premise that awarding him the Prize this year would be every bit as justifiable as last year's award. Fresh off his Nobel-winning escalation of the war in Afghanistan, we now have this monument to world peace:.. Read more... Aug 28, 2010 Pakistan and the sum of all fears, by Dr. Ashraf Ezzat | Veterans Today  ..Pakistan is awash with the worst flooding in more than a century; Russia fights wildfires stemming from unprecedented high temperatures; China faces mudslides of an intensity unseen in decades. For many scientists and political leaders, the confluence of these weather catastrophes amounts to tragic evidence that climate change is not just a future concern but a present danger that is liable to affect any country on earth... Read more... Boycott of Israeli Settlement Theater Grows, by Robert Mackey | NYT Dozens of Israel theater professionals have signed a letter protesting plans, announced this week, for Israeli theater companies to perform in a new cultural center nearing completion in Ariel, a West Bank settlement built on a site chosen by Ariel Sharon, Israel’s former leader... [Mr. Mackey might not have his job much longer] Read more...Kotlikoff says "enron accounting" has bankrupted america u.s. deficit really 202 trillion, by Peter Gorenstein | Yahoo! Finance ...“Forget the official debt,” he tells Aaron in this clip. The “real” deficit - including non-budgetary items like unfunded liabilities of Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security and the defense budget - is actually $202 trillion, the professor and author calculates; or 15 times the “official" numbers....| Read more... Amnesty Int'l Finland: Israel scum state, by Benjamin Weinthal | Jerusalem Post The head of Amnesty International’s Finnish branch, Frank Johansson, told The Jerusalem Post on Tuesday that he stands by his statement that Israel is a “scum state.”.. [Someone else whose job may be in danger - one doesn't cross the Zionists with impunity. After all, they're running the show.] Read more...Beirut wants Iran to equip Lebanon Army | Press TV Lebanese President Michel Sleiman has officially asked Iran to equip and modernize the Lebanese Army, given the problems Beirut is facing... Read more... A People That Shall Dwell Alone: Israel's Attack On The Gaza Flotilla, by Joe Quinn | Signs of the Times News ...To fully understand the motivation of Gaza aid groups such as the Free Gaza movement, we must first take a brief look at the history of the occupied Palestinian territories and the state of Israel. Bear with me then as I try to condense, as objectively as possible, ninety years of history in a few short paragraphs... Read more... Quotes | Antiwar Below is a listing of the quotes you see displayed on all Antiwar.com pages... [Read these and weep...] Read more...Treasury Makes Shocking Admission: Program for Struggling Homeowners Just a Ploy to Enrich Big Banks, by Zach Carter | AlterNet ...according to recent startling admissions from top Treasury officials, the mortgage plan was actually not really about helping borrowers at all. Instead, it was simply one element of a broader effort to pump money into big banks and shield them from losses on bad loans. That's right: Treasury openly admitted that its only serious program purporting to help ordinary citizens was actually a cynical move to help Wall Street megabanks... Read more... Analysis of BBC Panorama “Death on the Med” exposes blatant pro-Israel bias | Redress Information & Analysis Ted Clement-Evans introduces a detailed and forensic-like analysis of the transcript of the BBC Panorama programme “Death on the Med”, broadcast on 16 August 2010, which reveals chronic bias and lack of impartiality on the part of the BBC... Read more... Protest Against the Zionist Atrocities | The Vatic Project ...To set the record straight we wish to use this opportunity to show everyone the work and efforts put out by the real Jewish community on the issue of "Zionism" and how they are diametrically opposed to the Zionists actions in "the Jewish peoples name", which is why the Khazars chose Judaism as a religion in the first place... Read more... A War Against the West - published on 9-11-2001 by Israeli Institute IASPS | The Vatic Project Its amazing how fast the head of IASPS (The Israeli Institute for Advanced Strategic and Political Studies) got this out on the day of the attack on 9-11. We did not even know at this point who had done the attack. So how did they know?... Read more... The Capture of Saddam Hussein by Richard Falk [Poetry Video] | My Catbird Sea Remarkable in its sense of human sensibilities and awareness. This poem reaches beyond the understanding of most westerners, who have been fed on the poison of the White Man’s burden, but it will, someday, when it is all over, be treasured as an everlasting gem of light, a spark in the period of the darkest darkness... Watch video... 10 Needed Steps for Obama to Start Dismantling America's Gigantic, Destructive Military Empire, by Chalmers Johnson | AlterNet However ambitious President Barack Obama's domestic plans, one unacknowledged issue has the potential to destroy any reform efforts he might launch. Think of it as the 800-pound gorilla in the American living room: our longstanding reliance on imperialism and militarism in our relations with other countries and the vast, potentially ruinous global empire of bases that goes with it... Read more... The World According to Gordon Duff, by Peter B. Collins Gordon Duff, senior editor at Veterans Today, offers a sweeping view of America’s wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the WikiLeaks saga, and the events of 9/11... Read more... Israel Is Spying In And On The U.S.? Part 1 | YouTube It has been more than 16 years since a civilian working for the Navy was charged with passing secrets to Israel. Jonathan Pollard pled guilty to conspiracy to commit espionage and is serving a life sentence... [Part 2- Part 3 - Part 4. These items have since been removed from the FOX News web site. Yet another MSM journalist's job in jeapordy.] Read more...More pointless talks with Israel? Send in the clowns | Redress Information & Analysis Stuart Littlewood argues that instead of embarking on another humiliating round of talks with Israel, the Palestinians should stand on principle, go over the heads of corrupt meddlers and demand from the international community a solution based on the law and justice endorsed by that community... Read more... Aug 27, 2010 In the face of Islamophobia, by Sean Bonner | Al Jazeera  Religious freedom and tolerance are core American values Last Monday, August 23rd, artist Glen E Friedman fueled by frustration hung 9 banners out of an apartment window in downtown Manhattan's Liberty Street. The message being relayed was one of unequivocal religious tolerance. Further still, the apartment currently owned by hip hop mogul Russell Simmons, gazes directly down onto the 'Ground Zero' site... Read more... Where Is The Sense of Decency? by Kawther Salam | Palestine Think Tank ...After the massacre in which over 50 Palestinians were murdered, the Israeli military “central command” Gen. Ilan Biran, a former Golani brigadier perpetrator of destruction of many Palestinian towns and cities in 1967, imposed a curfew on the Palestinian victims in Hebron which lasted for over 40 days. He closed some streets in the old city, among them Al-Shuhada street. The ethnic cleansing step followed... Read more, watch video... Why Americans should oppose Zionism, by Steven Salaita | The Electronic Intifada Israel has been subject to some bad publicity recently. In 2008-09, it launched a brutal military campaign in the Gaza Strip that killed more than 400 Palestinian children. In May 2010, bumbling Israeli commandos murdered nine nonviolence activists on the Gaza Freedom Flotilla's Mavi Marmara. It only got worse for Israel when it was revealed that soldiers stole and sold personal items such as laptops from the ship... Read more... Notes from Besieged Gaza, by Stephen Lendman | OpEd News On June 17, Israel's Cabinet issued a six point plan, agreeing to ease access for civilian goods entering Gaza without loosening inflexible security measures to restrict them. So what's changed? Not much... Read more... Israel Takes Control of Lebanon, by Raja Mujtaba | Opinion Maker WMR has learned from its Lebanese intelligence sources that the Lebanese government is coming to realize that Israeli intelligence penetration of all political groups in the country is worse than originally believed... Read more... The Israeli Lobby: Declassified Documents Expose Its Influence | SteveLendmanBlog James Petras' powerful 2006 book titled, "The Power of Israel in the United States" explained the enormous Jewish Lobby influence on US Middle East policies. Often harming American interests, they're pursued anyway because of its grassroots and high-level control over government, the business community, academia, the clergy and mass media since at least the 1960s... Read more... More Troops Head to Iraq as Obama Declares Mission Accomplished, by Kurt Nimmo | Infowars Ireland Iraq troop drawdown, what troop drawdown? It was about a week ago the corporate media, with much sickening fanfare, announced the “official” end to the occupation of Iraq... Read more... Boxed into a Corner on Iran, by Philip Giraldi | Antiwar There has been considerable concern expressed in the media over the date August 21st. It was the day when Russian technicians were to insert the fuel rods to begin the activation of the Iranian nuclear reactor at Bushehr. No less a voice out of the past than John Bolton, UN Ambassador under George W. Bush, called for an immediate attack on the Iranian nuclear facilities before the reactor became operational... Read more... Why Zionist Jews need ‘self-pity’ | Rehmat's World The reason as concluded by a 2010 study done by two Israeli professors, Dr. Daniel Bar-Tal and Dr. Eran Halperin, from the Interdisciplinary Center in Herzliya – because the average Israeli doesn’t want to know the facts... Read more... Why Israel is campaigning for US-Iran war? | Rehmat's World Israel Occupation Force was set up on May 25, 1948 on the orders of David Ben Gurion. It was created by merging the Jewish terrorist militias of Haganah, Irgun and Lehi. It’s only country in the region where military service is compulsory for its non-Arab citizens over the age of 18... Read more... Middle East Sound of Music, by Sherri Muzher | Media Monitors Network ...Palestinians aren’t leaving and Israelis aren’t leaving. They share the same land and the same natural resources. Their economies are linked. Israeli settlements have made physical separation impossible. The only solution is a democratic bi-national state where Palestinians and Israelis live as equals and are forced to make it work. Who knows? U2’s song, “One” may become the theme song for both... Read more... Church boycott calls ring louder, by Sarah Irving | The Electronic Intifada The world's churches have long been one of the battlegrounds of the boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) movement. With the strengthening of the BDS movement, a number of churches across the globe have seen the boycott of Israeli and Israeli settlement goods hotting up, and recent weeks have witnessed some notable victories... Read more... Washington Orders Shahbaz Airbase Saved, not Pakistan's Flood Victims, by Stephen Lendman | Baltimore Chronicle With 20 million or more people affected, about 12% of the population, the equivalent of 37 million Americans, Pakistan's devastating floods are truly of biblical proportions, described by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon as worse than anything he'd ever seen... Read more... Riz Khan - Gideon Levy on Middle East peace | YouTube The controversial Israeli columnist and author discusses the 'peace talks' that are set to resume between Israelis and Palestinians in Washington... Watch video... The Bomb-Iran Debate From Hell, by Tony Karon | TomDispatch For Star Trek fans, the news is grim. Some set of maniacs on planet Earth is ready to take all the pleasure out of that low-budget TV show and its ensuing set of big-budget movies. They are actually planning someday to manufacture phasers, ones large enough to vaporize incoming missiles and others small enough to be hand-held and, if not vaporize, then inflict terrible pain. Sooner or later, they expect to beam them down to this planet and set them to work... Read more... Dog Days, by Justin Raimondo | Antiwar They thrive on hate, and live for war: that’s neoconservatism in a nutshell. Pronounced dead on several occasions, the neocons have always come back to life like zombies in a grade-B horror movie. And if you think the Obama administration is neocon-proof, well then, my friend, think again… The War Party never sleeps, let alone takes vacations. As you while away the fading summer days, relaxing by the pool, remember: they’re out there, and they’re busy... Read more... Global boycott movement claims victories, arrests | The Electronic Intifada This week, the Norwegian government announced that it has divested from two major Israeli companies involved in settlement construction and land theft in the occupied West Bank. Both companies, Africa Israel Investments and its subsidiary, Danya Cebus, are owned by Israeli billionaire Lev Leviev, and have been at the center of a widespread boycott, divestment and sanctions campaign since 2009... Read more... Strategic Patience, Camille, by Jeff Huber | Antiwar ...Like many citizens, I voted for Obama twice. When he won the party nomination from Hillary Clinton, I thought, “Ding! Dong!” When he won the election, I sacrificed a cigar to my Maker in thanks for Him not allowing one of the planet’s most dangerous lunatics to become its most powerful head of state... Read more... Canadian Boat to Gaza to break siege, overcome "aid traps", by Steven Zhou | The Electronic Intifada Canadian activists looking to assist in the breaking of the siege of Gaza plan to launch a Canadian Boat to Gaza this fall. However, this Canadian version of the Freedom Flotilla that seeks to break the siege has a twist... Read more... Barack Obama, Dick Cheney, and Privatized War, by Charles Glass | Taki's Mag ...After the US Seventh Army landed at Saint Tropez and nearby beaches, it famously fought its way “from the Riviera to the Rhine.” Ten days after the southern invasion, Paris was liberated—and a million French men and women poured gratitude on American troops. It seems remote from the way the US fights wars today... Read more... Aug 26, 2010 Do most Israelis and many other Jews NEED to feel persecuted?, by Alan Hart | My Catbird Seat  Nakba, Sabra - Shatilla, Qana, Jenin, Gaza.. ? I have written and often say that very many if not most Jews do not want to know the truth of history as it relates to the making and sustaining of the conflict in and over Palestine that became Israel. (An essential element of the truth being that Israel was created, mainly, by Zionist terrorism and ethnic cleansing)...Read more... Binyamin Netanyahu and Mahmoud Abbas: what are the possibilities? | Redress Information & Analysis Lawrence Davidson explains why the US-sponsored direct talks between Israel and Mahmoud Abbas’s Fatah faction, due to start on 2 September, are most unlikely to result in anything that is in the interest of the Palestinian people... Read more... Hitchens off the wall on Iran and Israel: Bomb Iran Now, by Judith Bello | Counterpunch ...The 'War with Iran' propaganda machine is running full throttle. First, there are the grand statements of propaganda denouncing the government for terrorism, barbarism, supporting terrorism, meddling in the affairs of their neighbors, not having a free press and other undemocratic practices... Read more... Fallout of Hate Is Spreading Across America from "Ground Zero", by Joshua Holland | AlterNet That the site of the World Trade Center has come to be known as Ground Zero illustrates how the American public has come to fetishize the attacks of 9/11. It’s not an apt analog for the physical destruction that resulted from the attacks on the World Trade Center. But it is an appropriate metaphor for the virulent and socially acceptable bigotry against Muslim Americans that has radiated out from Ground Zero and spread across the United States... Read more... Mossad in America, by Philip Giraldi | The American Conservative Israeli government claims that it does not spy on the United States are intended for the media and popular consumption. The reality is that Israel’s intelligence agencies target the United States intensively, particularly in pursuit of military and dual-use civilian technology... Read more... What is Russia’s Place in the Middle East? by Thierry Meyssan | Voltairenet Caught up in a smoldering feud between its President and Prime Minister, Russia is not making the most of the historic opportunity to deploy in the Middle East. Russian elites were unable to draw up a strategy for that region when they had the chance and, now, they are no longer capable of it... Read more... Aug 25, 2010 One Democratic State in Palestine | Gilad Atzmon  Living in a world dominated by relentless Zionist lobbying, I am far from being captivated by the current state of Western democracy. I am not impressed at all by the lethal enthusiasm to democratize the World in the name of ‘moral interventionism’... Read more... Israelis risk jail to smuggle Palestinians, by Jonathan Cook | The National Nearly 600 Israelis have signed up for a campaign of civil disobedience, vowing to risk jail to smuggle Palestinian women and children into Israel for a brief taste of life outside the occupied West Bank... [Yes, even among the Jewish Israelis there are decent people willing to work for others less fortunate, hard as it may be to believe. Unfortunately, they are the rare exceptions that prove the rule.] Read more...Stolen U.S. dollars exit Afghan airport controlled by Karzai brother | SpyTalk / Washington Post Afghan intelligence service reports in the hands of NATO-led forces say that the major exit point for stolen American dollars is through the airport in Kandahar, controlled by President Hamid Karzai’s brother... Read more... A United Iran Against A Collapsing Israel, by Kourosh Ziabari | Eurasia Review As the racist regime of Israel moves toward greater international isolation due to its aggressive, belligerent policies, Iran receives wider support from the world's nations for its uncompromising resistance against the bullying superpowers and annulling their mischievous plots... [If there's any hope that Israel - that bloated monstrosity - will collapse any time in the foreseeable future, humanitarians of the world will have to put their shoulders to the wheel in a coordinated way. We can't count on Iran to do it alone.] Read more...The UN, Impunity and War, by Fidel Castro | Granma Resolution 1929 of the United Nations Security Council on June 9, 2010 sealed the fate of imperialism... Read more... Mosque Imam's Wife Injects More Religious Fervor Into Ground Zero Debate, by Steve Watson | Infowars The wife of ‘Imam’ Feisal Abdul Rauf, the founder of the proposed mosque three blocks away from ground zero in lower Manhattan has further fanned the flames of the controversy by comparing opposition to the project to a hatred of Jews... [Putting "Imam" in quotes makes one wonder where Watson is coming from here. But the video is worth watching.] Read more, watch video...Formalizing Israel's Land Grab, by Chris Hedges | Truthdig Time is running out for Israel. And the Israeli government knows it... Read more... None Dare Call It Tyranny, by Sheldon Richman | FFF If you want to know what tyranny is like, look around. The national government — specifically the executive branch — can do pretty much what it wants... Read more... Racketeers for Capitalism | Cindy Sheehan I remember when the US war dead in Iraq reached 1000 sometime in the summer of 2005. My youngest child and her boyfriend accompanied me to a vigil in Davis, Ca. where we held candles, pictures of Casey, each other, and sobbed—not just for Casey, but for all the rest, also. And not just for the Americans, but for the Iraqis, too... Read more... Israel to seek another 1b euros Holocaust in reparations from Germany | Haaretz Finance Minister Steinitz will present Berlin with the demand in a joint session scheduled for early 2010... [What a racket. No question they'll get the money; the habitually obedient Germans didn't miss a goose step when they swapped the swastika for the Star of David.] Read more...9/11 Planners Confess On Network Television, by Gordon Duff | Veterans Today How can a nation like the United States be duped into two wars and total bankruptcy? It would be one thing if the “truth” about 9/11 was internet conspiracy theory. This isn’t the case. It was all right there in everyone’s living room... Read more... Gazans Stitching Together a Living, Somehow, by Mel Frykberg | Antiwar Just off Omar Al-Mukhtar Street, Gaza City’s main thoroughfare, in a narrow, sandy alley way is a little second-hand clothing shop. In the dimly lit store, with only intermittent electricity for some hours a day at best, sits a single battered and aging sewing machine... Read more... Countdown to Zero - or to War on Iran? by John V. Walsh | Antiwar ...A country like Iran, which has been placed on the executioner’s list known as the “axis of evil,” may have only one option if it is to survive: get a nuclear deterrent. The nukes need never be used, but they must be in one’s hand to keep one’s neck out of the Empire’s noose... Read more... Neoconservatism: The Biography of a Movement - Reviewed by Stephen J. Sniegoski | My Catbird Seat The mainstream media acclaim [it] as the best book on neoconservatism - and portray its author, Justin Vaïsse, a French specialist on American foreign policy and a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, as a veritable Alexis de Tocqueville for his masterly insights. The mainstream’s high praise of this book, however, would seem to be due in large part to its minimization of two taboo issues—neoconservatism’s Jewish nature and its focus on Israel... Read more... Aug 24, 2010 'Riyadh plans to sabotage Hezbollah' | PressTV  Lebanese Hezbollah chief Seyyed Hassan Nasrallah and former Lebanese premier Rafiq Hariri Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah is spending $500 million to implicate Hezbollah in the murder of former Lebanese premier Rafiq Hariri, a report says...Read more... Reflections on Russia and and the US-Russian Relationship: An American View, by Amb. (Retd.) K. Gajendra Singh | TARAFITS ...Russia has become more confident, Washington has declined in power and influence. Obama has signed new Salt agreement with Medvedev in Prague a few months ago .But the neo-liberals and Neocons who led US into quagmire into Iraq and an unwinnable war in Afghanistan are still making a lot of noise .US politicians so easily manipulated by the Jewish lobby have still not realized that in the new world order , US is just one power and not the hyper power of 1990s and 2000s... Read more... "Mercs support Taliban in Afghanistan" | PressTV Afghan President Hamid Karzai says private security firms are a source of corruption in his country as they have ties with Mafia-like groups funding the Taliban... Read more... Lebanon Braces for a Turbulent Fall, by Rannie Amiri | Counterpunch August has not seen a week without Lebanon making headlines. And mounting domestic and foreign pressures indicate the same may hold true in September... Read more... With a victory like this... by Akiva Eldar | Haaretz The direct negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians have preconditions - dictated by Israel... ["the binational model is a nightmare, as far as I'm concerned." Then what would be his dream?] Read more...Finding Hope in Tragedy: Midnight on the Flotilla, by Ron Jacobs | Counterpunch The shock much of the world felt upon first hearing the news of the May 31, 2010 Israeli attack on the aid to Gaza flotilla has diminished since those first days. The daily degradation and despair felt by many of Gaza's residents hasn't... Read more... Declassified Senate Investigation Files Reveal Clandestine Israeli PR Campaign in America | PR Newswire Declassified files from a Senate investigation into Israeli-funded covert public relations and lobbying activity in the United States were released by the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) on July 23rd, 2010. The subpoenaed documents reveal Israel's clandestine programs for "cultivation of editors," the "stimulation and placement of suitable articles in the major consumer magazines" as well as U.S. reporting about sensitive subjects such as the Dimona nuclear weapons facility... Read more... Mr. Crown and the President: Israel, Big Money and Obama, by Margaret Kimberley | Counterpunch Lester Crown is a Chicagoan with a net worth of four billion dollars. He owns a large stake in and is a former president and board chairman of defense contractor General Dynamics. He also has held large holdings in Hilton Hotels, Maytag (now Whirlpool), and the Chicago Bulls and New York Yankees... Read more... Mosque Demagoguery Is Bipartisan by Rep. Ron Paul | Antiwar Is the controversy over building a mosque near Ground Zero a grand distraction or a grand opportunity? Or is it, once again, grandiose demagoguery?.. Read more... The Military, Bankruptcy, and Tyranny, by Jacob G. Hornberger | FFF In order to get our nation back on track, it’s important to return to fundamental principles, the principles on which our nation was founded. Let’s review how the Founding Fathers viewed the military and foreign policy in the context of where the United States is today... Read more... You can't be a Jewish Muslim, by Lev Grinberg | Haaretz Instead of bringing about the secularization of Judaism, Zionism turned religion into the central element of the definition of national identity, and turned the State of Israel into a tool of the religious redemption project... Read more... Post-Zionism: When You Say No, by Uri Avnery | Palestine Chronicle Before the victory of feminism, there was a popular Israeli song in which the boy asks the girl: 'When you say No, what do you mean?' This question has already been answered. Now I am more and more tempted to ask: 'When you say Zionism, what do you mean?' That is also my answer when asked whether I am a Zionist. When you say Zionist, what do you mean?.. [I have a simple answer for that - a Zionist is someone who believes the jewish State of Israel has the right to exist.] Read more... The geopolitics of passions, by Pierre Hassner | Al Jazeera Being neither an Arab nor a specialist on the Middle East, I can offer only a few hesitant and provisional suggestions on the topic of the geopolitics of passions in the Middle East... Read more... Aug 23, 2010 Israel and the anti-Muslim blow-up, by MJ Rosenberg | Al Jazeera  Post-9/11 Islamophobia continues to grow within Jewish communities in the US I don't know why I am at all surprised that the American Right - including the Republican Party - has decided that scapegoating Muslims is the ticket to success. After all, it's nothing new...Read more... An open letter to Israel, from Lauren Booth, UK | Gilad Atzmon This morning I set out to write a piece about the looting of the aid Flotilla to Gaza, by your soldiers... Read more... The Muslims Are Coming, by Dr. Ashraf Ezzat | Veterans Today The American Muslims are beginning to feel alienated from the American society and this for anyone familiar with Islam is a very alarming sign... Read more... Brazil and Venezuela: Two Turning Point Elections this Fall, by Prof. James Petras | Global Research Two elections in Latin America this fall will have decisive importance in the direction of economic and foreign policy for the coming decade... Read more... An Estimated 20 Million Pakistanis in Desperate Need: Why So Little Media Attention? | Brookings Institution As of today, the number of Pakistanis affected by the floods is estimated at 20 million – a massive figure that has continued to increase with the United Nations putting the number at 15.4 million only a few days ago... Read more... Why the Wars can't be Won, by Prof. John Kozy | Global Research There was a time when every school child could recite the Gettysburg Address from memory, especially its famous peroration: “we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain, that this nation shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the earth." But that resolution has largely gone unfulfilled... Read more... US troops say goodbye to Iraq, by Robert Fisk | The Independent Torture. Corruption. Civil war. America has certainly left its mark... Read more... Pages From The Auschwitz Death Registry Volumes, by Mark Weber | Institute for Historical Research Long-Hidden Death Certificates Discredit Extermination Claims... Read more... Mossad's licence to kill, by Gordon Thomas | The Telegraph The killing of Mahmoud al-Mabhouh bears the hallmarks of the ruthless Israeli intelligence service. One of the leading chroniclers of the agency gives a unique insight into its methods... Read more... Fundamentalism into the mainstream, by Zvi Bar'el | Haaretz Fundamentalist rabbis have approved murder, attacks on Arabs, illegal land seizures and racist segregation, and have ignored the murder of a prime minister... [A marriage made in hell - the secular and religious Zionists. One shudders at the thought of their offspring.] Read more...Double Vendetta: The Insanity of the Iran Confrontation | YouTube How long can we allow the maniacs who are driving us to the brink of World War Three to stay in power? We'd better do something soon, or we will all be done for... Watch video... The Story of Obama: All in The Company (Part II), by Wayne Madsen | Opinion Maker In Part I of this WMR special report, we revealed the connections between Barack Obama, Sr. and the CIA-affiliated Airlift Africa project to provide college degrees to and gain influence over a group of 280 eastern and southern African students from soon-to-be independent African nations to counter similar programs established by the Soviet Union and China... Read more... Fighting expulsion and Western hypocrisy in Jerusalem, by Rahela Mizrahi | The Electronic Intifada Earlier this summer, Israel arrested Muhammad Abu Tir, a member of the Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC) and Hamas. Israel also ordered two other PLC members, Muhammad Totah and Ahmad Attoun and the Palestinian Authority's (PA) former minister of Jerusalem affairs Khaled Abu Arafeh to leave their home town of Jerusalem... Read more... There Can Be No ‘Graceful Exit’ by William Pfaff | Antiwar Gen. David Petraeus, the man who replaced his former Central Command subordinate Gen. Stanley McChrystal, when the latter was cashiered last month for insubordinate criticism of his civilian superiors, denies that President Barack Obama has given him the assignment to “seek a graceful exit” from America’s war against the Taliban. He is determined to win... Read more... Hamas: A Beginner's Guide - Book Review by Dr. Ludwig Watzal | The Palestine Chronicle Israel, the United States and the European Union call Hamas a "terrorist organisation". Yet Hamas swept to victory in the 2006 Palestinian elections and stunned the world. It is now a democratically elected political party. All the election observers agreed that the elections were free, fair, and democratic. The Palestinian people showed their ability to establish a democratic state next to Israel. But Israel, the United States and the EU did not like this idea... Read more... Is Canada passing information on its citizens to Israel? by Yves Engler | The Electronic Intifada On 7 April, Freda Guttman, a 76-year-old Jewish Montrealer, received a visit from agents of the Canadian Security and Intelligence Service (CSIS). She slammed the door on them so it's not clear if the visit was related to her role in Tadamon!, a Middle East solidarity collective, or her friendship with Canadian activist Stefan Christoff... Read more... Iraq war dissenter Kelly's postmortem report remains secret | Redress Information & Analysis British Attorney-General Dominic Grieve’s response to widespread calls for Dr David Kelly’s postmortem files to be released continues to indicate that the government is hiding something of importance, argues Christopher King... Read more... Aug 22, 2010 American Professor Charges Israel with Genocide - Publisher Censors Title! | truthjihad  William A. Cook, professor of English at the University of La Verne in southern California, has charged the state of Israel with genocide -- but his publisher won't let him use the G word in the title of his new book... Read more... Israel: Breaking the law is the rule and not the exception, by Hassan Al-Haifi | Inteltrends If there is any country in the world that has enjoyed full immunity from due process and from accountability for crimes committed, it is Israel. Of course, it is needless to say that a state with the dubious and suspicious foundations for its very existence can never hope to enjoy peace and quiet... Read more... America Cannot Go to War for Israel, by Ahmed Moor: | Huffington Post The mongrel dogs of war are foaming at the bit. For years they've cowered in their damp trenches, bristling in the heat. But they're back now. They've gathered their sagging flesh and cast their milky, crusty eyes at Iran. The mongrel dogs of war are planning another war... Read more... The Israel Lobby Swims The Atlantic, by Grant Smith | Antiwar Jeffrey Goldberg’s current cover story in The Atlantic, “The Point of No Return,” achieved massive distribution across a broad spectrum of old and new media in the United States. Some observers – including Glenn Greenwald in “How Propagandists Function” – noted how well the methodology and message of Goldberg’s piece serves the Israeli government’s efforts to push U.S. military action against Iran... Read more... Separation of Church and Hate:The Kate Mosque Solution | Greg Palast Given that white Christian supremacist Tim McVeigh bombed the Oklahoma City Federal Building, shouldn't we ban white churches from Oklahoma? As New York City's indigenous Lenape Natives died at Ground Zero by the thousands when overrun by Christian colonists, shouldn't we ban Christian churches from their sacred ground? If a mosque near Ground Zero is bad, then why not ban all Muslims from downtown New York? For this to work, should we require all Muslims in the city to wear yellow crescents?.. Read more... The IDF's sociopathic mentality towards Palestinians: a reflection of the Israeli "state of mind" | Middle East Monitor In a news item reminiscent of the shocking and disturbing photos that came out of Iraq's notorious Abu-Ghraib prison a few years ago, now ex-IDF soldier Eden Aberjil has posted images of herself on Facebook in which she is seen posing in front of bound and blindfolded Palestinian detainees. There has been widespread condemnation of this in the media and even Israeli military sources have called the pictures "shameful, base and crude". Miss Aberjil herself thinks that the matter has "been blown out of proportion" and called the army's response "ungrateful".. Read more... There'll be no peace for Chavez until USA gets its hands on VZLA's oilfields | VHeadline VHeadline.com commentarist Kenneth T. Tellis writes: The Washington Post by-line was "How Venezuela's Hugo Chavez tries to hide the truth about his government!" So I would like to rephrase the question: "Is the Washington Post attempting to hide the REAL truth about the Hugo Chavez government by innuendo instead of merely giving us the facts?".. Read more... Israelis conducting covert maritime operations in Persian Gulf, by Wayne Madsen | Online Journal Chinese and Japanese intelligence agencies, which closely monitor events in the Persian Gulf due to the dependence of both countries on oil from the region, report that Israeli Navy commandos have recently been active in creating maritime incidents in the Gulf that could be blamed on Iran... Read more... The Fall of America and the Western World (Video) | YouTube National Bankruptcy. Hyper-inflation. Severe Credit Crisis. The Death of the Dollar and the Euro. Socialism. Even Martial Law. For the first time since the Great Depression, the world's problems have become our problems. And the experts all agree things will only get worse... [It's a sales pitch for a set of videos, but you might want to take a look] Read more, watch video...Revisiting the 'Good War's' Aftermath: Emerging Truth in an Ocean of Myth | Rebel News After the Reich: The Brutal History of the Allied Occupation, by Giles MacDonogh Those who honestly chronicle human events, present or past, are a rare and honorable breed. We should certainly ennoble them within the pantheon of our earthly gods. As we do so, we will no doubt include those who, not out of alienation against the West or the United States or its people but out of a thirst for truth, are bringing to light the awful events that followed in the wake of World War II...Read more... Ilan Pappe on "The Nakba of Palestine" | YouTube Historian Ilan Pappe of Exeter University discusses the people and ideology behind the crimes of the war of 1948, which he describes as the ethnic cleansing of Palestine. This speech was given at the Al-Awda Convention in 2008... Watch video... We hear ''Israel will attack Iran!'' and ''America will attack Iran!'' over and over, by Kourosh Ziabari | Baltimore Chronicle Those who mastermind the U.S.-directed psychological operation against Iran have obliviously forgotten that we're now accustomed to seeing the uninteresting, exhausting charade of "will attack Iran"; you put the subject for it, either the United States or Israel... Read more... Who benefits from the War in Iraq and Afghanistan? by Tom Sunic | Occidental Observer The following article is the slightly edited version of the speech Mr. Sunic gave on August 7, 2010 at the festival-conference of the NPD (National Democratic Party), near the town of Goerlitz, Germany... Read more... Declassified: Massive Israeli manipulation of US media exposed | YouTube Russia Today interviews Grant F. Smith, Director of Institute for Research on Middle Eastern Policy Files declassified in America have revealed covert public relations and lobbying activities of Israel in the U.S. The National Archive made the documents public following a Senate investigation. They suggest Israel has been trying to shape media coverage of issues it regards as important...Watch video... Obama: All In The Company -Part I, by Wayne Madsen | Opinion Maker WMR has discovered CIA files that document the agency’s connections to institutions and individuals figuring prominently in the lives of Barack Obama and his mother, father, grandmother, and stepfather... Read more... Palestine: Occupied, Divided, Isolated, Oppressed and Unaided | SteveLendmanBlog Imagine the following:.. Read more... A case of decency deficit: Israel's sickness goes beyond one soldier and her Facebook pictures | Redress Information & Analysis Lawrence Davidson considers the case of the female Israeli soldier who posted pictures of herself with handcuffed and blindfolded Palestinian prisoners. He argues that, rather than being an isolated incident, this is in fact symptomatic of the indecency of the State of Israel and its ideology, Zionism, which should be treated with international isolation... Read more... Aug 21, 2010 Why Iran’s Jews are Better Off Than Gaza’s Palestinians, by Mike Whitney | Intifada-Palestine  Jewish member of the Iran Parliament. Iranian Jews refuse cash 'bribe' to move to Israel 25,000 Jews live in Iran. It’s the largest Jewish population in the Middle East outside of Israel. Iranian Jews are not persecuted or abused by the state, in fact, they are protected under Iran’s constitution. They are free to practice their religion and to vote in elections. They are not stopped and searched at checkpoints, they are not brutalized by an occupying army, and they are not herded into a densely-populated penal colony...Read more... Martin Luther King on War | Brasscheck TV Yesterday was Martin Luther King day. Today, the US inaugurates a new president who happens to be black. Some people connect the two events. They can't be serious... Read more... Israeli soldiers accused of sexual abuse | Press TV A children rights group has accused the Israeli military of abusing Palestinian teenagers who were arrested by Israeli soldiers... Read more... United Against Knowledge | Uprooted Palestinians The Guardian reported today that two Israeli groups have set up training courses in subversive Wikipedia editing aiming to 'show the other side' of the Jewish State... Read more... Ramadan Kareem from the Netanyahu and Obama Administrations, by Jeff Halper | Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions Yesterday, the day before the Muslim holy month of Ramadan began, at 2:30 in the morning, workers sent by the Israeli authorities, protected by dozens of police, destroyed the tombstones in the last portion of the Mamilla cemetery, an historic Muslim burial ground with graves going back to the 7th Century, hitherto left untouched... Read more... John Pilger helps us understand the BBC’s making of “Death in the Med” | Ken O’Keefe This is an extract from an article published in 2002, it is so telling as it explains BBC’s relationship with Israel Goldvicht, an Israeli producer who might as well be an official agent of the Israeli hasbara (propaganda) machine. Goldvicht would have been key to getting Jane Corbin “embedded” with the Israeli commandos as they strut their GI Joe stuff. So here is Pilger’s take on it... Read more... Fighting expulsion and Western hypocrisy in Jerusalem, by Rahela Mizrahi | The Electronic Intifada Earlier this summer, Israel arrested Muhammad Abu Tir, a member of the Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC) and Hamas. Isr ael also ordered two other PLC members, Muhammad Totah and Ahmad Attoun and the Palestinian Authority's (PA) former minister of Jerusalem affairs Khaled Abu Arafeh to leave their home town of Jerusalem... Read more... India employing Israeli oppression tactics in Kashmir, by Jimmy Johnson | The Electronic Intifada The 2010 summer in the disputed area of Jammu and Kashmir, administered by India, has been marked by popular protests by Kashmiris and crackdowns by India's military. The stream of violence has left more than fifty dead, mostly young protestors. The situation in Kashmir has some parallels with Israel's occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip, even borrowing the term intifada to describe the uprising... Read more... Isn't Tolerance an American Virtue? by George S. Hishmeh | Palestine Chronicle Observing the shameful and venomous debate raging in the US over plans for a Muslim civic centre and a mosque in downtown Manhattan two blocks from Ground Zero, I could not help but recall the time when my father took me to visit Syria and Jordan while I was a student at the American University of Beirut... Read more... Israel's multi-front war on Lebanese resistance, by Hicham Safieddine | The Electronic Intifada The international coverage of border clashes between Lebanese and Israeli military forces earlier this month may have suggested the confrontation was a mere squabble over cutting a tree that went awry in a "trigger-happy" and "conflict-prone" region... Read more... Chalmers Johnson: Portrait of a Sagging Empire | Tomgram ...I knew then -- and I think it still holds today -- that no one of prominence with Johnson’s position on the war and in his age range had ever written such a set of sentences. At that moment, knowing nothing else, I made the decision to publish his book. It was possibly the single most impulsive, even irrational, and thoroughly satisfying decision I’ve made in my 30-odd years as an editor in, or at the fringes of, mainstream publishing... Read more... Aug 20, 2010 US Announces Second Fake End to Iraq War, by Jason Ditz | Antiwar  It was another of those great TV moments. Embedded reports filming as the “last” brigade of American troops in Iraq cross the border into Kuwait bringing over seven years of unhappy conflict to its final, conclusive end. America was, at last, at peace... Read more... A Terrible Disease of the Mind: Part II, by Zaid Nabulsi | Dissident Voice My family and I long to return to the Gardens of Cordoba (Qurtuba). We agonise with every breath to re-inhabit the castles of Seville (Ishbeelyah). In our veins, there runs an eternal longing to walk again in the footsteps of our forefathers in Zaragoza (Saraqusta). We yearn to once again cultivate the orchards of Valladolid (Balad Al Waleed). We shall strive, by military means if necessary, to see the blessed day when we can tread along the rose-scented pathways of the splendid palace of Al Hambra (Al Hamra’a) in Granada (Ghirnata). Every stone and every particle of sand in that Iberian holy land belongs to me and to my people, exclusively... Read more... Special Comment, Muslim Community, by Keith Olbermann Center | YouTube Watch video... The secrets in Israel's archives | Redress Information & Analysis Jonathan Cook reports that secrets of serious war crimes, such as the ethnic cleansing of the Syrian Golan Heights following the 1967 war, lay behind the Israeli government’s decision to extend from 50 to70 years the period during which sensitive state documents must remain classified... Read more... Who is the Israeli state loyal to? | Redress Information & Analysis Neve Gordon argues that the demand of a loyalty oath in Israel has ominous similarities to the demands made by Mussolini's Italy, and that the Israeli state must “be loyal to all of its citizens, regardless of race, colour, gender, language, religion, political opinions, national or social origin, property or birth status”.. [We know who their loyal to - themselves] Read more...Humor Dept: Obama Wins No-Balls Prize, by the incomparable Michael K. Smith | Legalienate In a dramatic announcement that drew gasps of pleasure and cries of "it's about time," President Barack Obama today won the "No-Balls" Prize for "spinelessness above and beyond the call of duty," while retroactively losing the 2009 Nobel Peace prize, which the awards Committee confessed had been mistakenly granted due to a "tragic typographical error.".. Read more... The Same Objective, Different Perspective, by Mitri I. Musleh | Palestine News Network In 1947, the United Nations proposed a resolution to divide Palestine into two states. A Jewish State to be established on 56.47%, a Palestinian State is to be established on 43.53% with Jerusalem and Bethlehem remaining as International Zone... Read more... Desperately Seeking Accommodation: Iran Offers U.S. Chance to Build Nuclear Power Plants, by Kurt Nimmo | Infowars Iran has provided the United States with an opportunity to make sure it does not gain the nuclear material required to make a bomb. Do you think the Obama administration will take advantage of the opportunity?.. Read more... Living in Dignity With the Benefits of Citizenship: Why Iran's Jews are Better Off Than Gaza's Palestinians, by Mike Whitney | Counterpunch 25,000 Jews live in Iran. It's the largest Jewish population in the Middle East outside of Israel. Iranian Jews are not persecuted or abused by the state, in fact, they are protected under Iran's constitution. They are free to practice their religion and to vote in elections. They are not stopped and searched at checkpoints, they are not brutalized by an occupying army, and they are not herded into a densely-populated penal colony where they are deprived of the basic means of survival... Read more... None Dare Call It Tyranny: The Ugly Truth, by Sheldon Richman | Counterpunch Thanks to Wikileaks and heroic leakers inside the military, we now know the U.S. government has killed many more innocent Afghan civilians than we were aware of heretofore. We also know that American military and intelligence personnel roam Afghanistan assassinating suspected bad guys. Sometimes they kill people they later acknowledge weren’t bad guys at all... Read more... U.S. support for Israel is decreasing, new poll shows | Haaretz Survey conducted by U.S.-Jewish group the Israel Project asked Americans and Europeans about their views on Israel... [Given time, the ZioNazi homunculus will have to be weaned, at which point it will shrivel up and die, God willing.] Read more...A Zionist State of Mind, A Dreamscape Of Ghosts, by Phil Rockstroh | Palestine Chronicle  Self-deception is at the root of habitual deceit Although my mother fled Nazi Germany, as a child, on a Kindertransport, with a few family valuables sown into her clothing, and I was brought up on the myths and hagiography of the Zionist state, I, over time, came to recognize the folly of the whole colonialist enterprise — the folly of ethnic exclusion and expulsion, the inherent tragedy of nationalism based on the delusion of religious birthright. With much sorrow, I came to the sad realization that the dream of the State of Israel was based on European chauvinism and exceptionalism...Read more... Noam Chomsky interviewed by Kathleen Wells: The Real Reasons the U.S. Enables Israeli Crimes and Atrocities | AlterNet Speak to me about the relation between the United States and Israel. Specifically, address, as you have previously stated, how every crime, violation of international law, that Israel commits is done through the direct participation and authorization of the United States... Read more... Another Attempt to Control Historical Writing on the Role of Jews in the USSR, by Kevin MacDonald | The Occidental Observer Apropos the recent series on chapters from Solzhenitsyn’s 200 Years Together, a new textbook for university students in Russia emphasizes the elite status of Jews in the early decades of the USSR... Read more... An interview with Basem Ra'ad by Jonathan Scott: Palestinian roots of Western civilization | The Electronic Intifada Basem Ra'ad is a professor at Al-Quds University in occupied East Jerusalem. For the past two decades, he has been researching the ancient past of Palestine, much of which concerns the Western and Israeli appropriation of ancient languages and cultures, from the Canaanite alphabet to the Canaanite pantheon of gods and goddesses... Read more... 40 Religious Leaders Denounce Sarah Palin and Fox's Hate Speech, by Jason Easley | PoliticusUSA Forty different Catholic, evangelical, mainline Protestant, Jewish and Muslim leaders and scholars came together to release a statement condemning the hate language of Fox News, Sarah Palin, and Newt Gingrich as it relates to the so called Ground Zero mosque, “Fear-mongering and hateful rhetoric only undermine treasured values at the heart of diverse faith traditions and our nation’s highest ideals.”.. Read more... Imran Khan Demands Freedom For Dr. Aafia, Ashcroft Rendition Victim, by Gordon Duff | Veterans Today Last year, an Israeli-American Judge Richard Berman oversaw one of America’s strangest trials. The CIA claimed it arrested Dr. Aafia, a scientist with a doctorate from MIT, wife of a local Boston Anesthesiologist and young mother of two in Karachi in 2008 with plans to blow up American facilities around the world. Every word told the court, told the press is a lie. Aafia was kidnapped by a street gang working for the son of former Pakistani President Musharaff in early 2003. From 2003 to 2008, she was moved from prison to prison eventually ending up at Bagrham Air Force Base in Afghanistan... Read more, watch video... Israel is committing a holocaust in Gaza, by Norman Finkelstein | Today's Zaman ...sometimes I feel that Israel has come out of the boils of the hell, a satanic state. Ninety percent of the population continues to cheer, to exalt and feel proud and heroic. They send a Sherman tank to a playground and torch children. Is this heroism? Is this courage?.. Read more... Israel's Hidden Hands in Lebanon: Who Killed Hariri? by Esam Al-Amin | Intifada Palestine On Valentine’s Day in 2005, former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri left in his motorcade along the seaside highway, cruising towards his mansion. As the motorcade slowed down in front of the St. George Hotel in downtown Beirut, a huge explosion of a parked Mitsubishi pick-up truck detonated at 12:56 PM, killing him along with 22 others including his entourage, bodyguards and some passers-by... Read more... The New War of the Christian Crusaders: Know-Nothings of 2010, by David Rosen | Counterpunch The building of a Muslim community center in an abandoned building two blocks from the site of New York’s former World Trade Center has become the latest controversy in America’s long fought religious wars. The construction of the center, often referred to as a mosque, has become the latest rallying issue for the Christian right, Tea Party proponents and Republican operatives in their war to impose moralistic and corporatist values on America... Read more... The Hidden but Awkward Origins of World War 2: The unexpected views of four key diplomats who were close to events | Historical Review Press Joseph P. Kennedy, U.S. Ambassador to Britain during the years immediately preceding WW2 was the father of the famous American Kennedy dynasty. James Forrestal the first US Secretary of Defense (1947-1949) quotes him as saying "Chamberlain (the British Prime Minister) stated that America and the world Jews had forced England into the war".. Read more... "Failed State" Myths: Welcome to Lebanon: Graveyard of the Arrogant, by Patrick Cockburn | Counterpunch Why has Lebanon ended up as the graveyard of so many invaders? Israelis used to say in the 1960s that one of their military bands would be enough to conquer the country. Sometimes, prior to Israel and Egypt agreeing a peace in 1979, they would add archly that “I don’t know which will be the first Arab country to sign a peace treaty with Israel, but I do know the name of the second.” The idea was that Lebanon, only the size of Wales and its population divided by communal, sectarian and party hatreds, would inevitably be a pushover for the greatest military power in the Middle East... Read more... Where is George W. Bush when America needs him? by Joe Conason | Salon Two former Bush aides speak out bravely in defense of the rights of Muslims, but their old boss remains silent... Read more... China: wisdom not gunboats | Al-Ahram Weekly A new US military doctrine, war games and ASEAN troops in Afghanistan have stirred up an oriental hornet's nest, says Eric Walberg... Read more... A beautiful gift from the BBC, by Ken O'Keefe | Uprooted Palestinians If you haven't seen it, look for BBC Panorama’s "Death in the Med" program online, you will be treated to first class propaganda as only the BBC can deliver... Read more... Situation of Bedouin in Negev is 'ticking time bomb' by Amos Oz, by Jack Khoury and Maya Sela | Haaretz Oz is the latest public figure to voice solidarity with the residents of Al-Arakib, a town torn down 4 times in last months in order to plant forests... Read more... Riddle Or Conspiracy of Traitors (Video) | Kawther Salam Is this a Palestinian-Israeli riddle or a conspiracy? Yesterday I was searching and documenting the bloody crimes of several Israeli officials who were involved in genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes against the Palestinians in the occupied West Bank, among others I was interested in... Read more, watch video... Lebanon scatters a little chicken feed and labels it "manna from heaven" by Franklin Lamb | My Catbird Seat At 3:02 p.m. on 8/17/10 Lebanon’s Parliament began to deliberate on granting basic civil rights to its Palestinian refugees and within four minutes agreed to alter article 50 Lebanon’s 1964 labor law to theoretically make it easier for Palestinian refugees to obtain a work permit and a job... Read more... Playing the Never Again Card, Again, by Jeff Gates | Veterans Today The phony intelligence used to induce our March 2003 invasion of Iraq has been dusted off. This time it’s being deployed to take us into Iran. Same scam. Same storyline. Same fraud—even featuring some of the same players. Except that this time around their deception lacks the broader context required to gain traction for their phony content. That key difference makes today’s perpetrators far more transparent... Read more... Hamas must rebrand and take the wind out of Israel's and America's sails | Redress Information & Analysis Stuart Littlewood calls on Hamas – indeed, on all Palestinians – to hone their long-neglected public relations strategy, arguing that “whoever rules in Palestine will never win any battles with Israel or the US without a proper media set-up and an effective communications strategy”... Read more... Can Anthony Blair's five million pounds resurrect Dr David Kelly? | Redress Information & Analysis Christopher King argues that Tony Blair’s decision to pay blood money to a UK servicemen’s charity should not detract from the need to release the postmortem report on the death of Iraq war whistleblower and UN weapons inspector David Kelly, who allegedly committed suicide but is suspected of having been murdered by US, Israeli or UK agents... Read more... Israeli settlers expand campaign to manipulate entries on Wikipedia, by Saed Bannoura | International Middle East Media Center The internet's open-source, user-edited encyclopedia called 'Wikipedia' has been targeted by Israeli governmental and non-governmental partisans since its inception, who have attempted to manipulate its contents to promote a Zionist agenda. This week, Israeli settlers launched a course for right-wing Israelis interested in helping to manipulate the contents of entries on the online encyclopedia... Read more... Aug 18, 2010 United Against Paintings | Gilad Atzmon  Some British Jews are desperate to stop the truth about the Jewish state being spread around. The Jewish Chronicle reported today that Jewish “Community leaders are battling to stop an exhibition of paintings by children from Gaza being shown in schools in the North of England.”.. Read more... Sufis: The Muslims in the Middle, by William Dalrymple | NYT President Obama's eloquent endorsement on Friday of a planned Islamic cultural center near the World Trade Center, followed by his apparent retreat the next day, was just one of many paradoxes at the heart of the increasingly impassioned controversy... Read more... Fear Not | Israel Shamir So many people have circulated so many warnings of the forthcoming US-Israeli attack on Iran that it is hard to ignore them... Read more... Secret Assault on Terrorism Widens on Two Continents | Information Clearing House At first, the news from Yemen on May 25 sounded like a modest victory in the campaign against terrorists: an airstrike had hit a group suspected of being operatives for Al Qaeda in the remote desert of Marib Province, birthplace of the legendary queen of Sheba. But the strike, it turned out, had also killed the province’s deputy governor, a respected local leader who Yemeni officials said had been trying to talk Qaeda members into giving up their fight... Read more... Palestine's Jerusalem MPs: Just get out | The Economist Hamas members of parliament who live in Israeli-occupied East Jerusalem have not only lost their jobs, since the Palestinian Authority (PA) closed down their legislature; they are also losing their homes... Read more... Post-Anti-Americanism: Europeans Can't Be Bothered to Hate America | Newsweek You can still buy an American newspaper at the kiosk in Rome’s Piazza Colonna, but you have to ask the lady behind the counter. She turns from the window, paws through a stack on the floor, and produces an International Herald Tribune, holding it at arm’s length like a day-old fish... Read more... What Should A Poor Warmongering Neoconservative Do? by Juan Cole | Information Clearing House This political grouping includes WASPS such as former CIA director James Woolsey and former UN ambassador John Bolton, but at its core is politically active and extremely wealthy Jewish former Democrats who broke with their party in the 1980s to become war hawks in Republican administrations, and most of whom are rooted in Rightwing Zionism as exemplified in the thought of prominent fascist theorist Vladimir Jabotinsky... Read more... Ignoring the obvious, by Alan Fisher | Al Jazeera ...despite the evidence of floods and flames, of drought and danger, there is no concerted international action towards reaching an agreement on the best way to fight climate change... Read more... Rep. Dennis Kucinich Seeks to Ban Assassinations of US Citizens, by Jeremy Scahill | The Nation Lawyers for US citizen Anwar al-Awlaki, who has reportedly been targeted for assassination by the CIA and Joint Special Operations Command, had to fight the US government to have the right to represent him... Read more... How propagandists function: Exhibit A, by Glenn Greenwald | Salon ...This is what a propagandist, by definition, does: asserts any claim as fact in service of a concealed agenda without the slightest concern for whether it's true... Read more... Turkey sets up own Gaza flotilla inquiry | Haaretz Probe will work under the office of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and present findings to UN... Read more... Dr David Kelly was on a hitlist, says UN weapons expert as calls grow for full inquest | Daily Mail A leading UN weapons inspector last night added his voice to the growing clamour for a full inquest into the death of Dr David Kelly... Read more... Christian Zionism: The Root of All Evil? by Tammy Obeidallah | The Palestine Chronicle It is common knowledge that many so-called Christians throw unconditional, unyielding support behind the Jewish state. Known as Christian Zionists, or more recently “Israel-firsters”—indicating their degree of loyalty over and above the interests of their own country—it is estimated they are over 50 million strong in the United States alone... Read more... Harakiri: Israeli-Style, by Uri Avnery | The Palestine Chronicle If God wills, even a broomstick can shoot – so I wrote after the appointment of the Turkel commission. I was quoting the Jewish saying in the hope that in spite of everything, something would come out of it. The commission was born in sin... Read more... Public Enemy Number One, The American Press, by Gordon Duff | Veterans Today It’s 2010 and a few members of congress have noted that we have a corruption problem in Afghanistan. Over a period of 9 years. $2.4 trillion dollars has been stolen with a dozen enquiries, dozens of reports, audits, all saying the same thing. The “war on terror” was more “pickpocketing” and not so much “Osama bin Waldo.”.. Read more... The US Blockade of Cuba Is Pure Punishment for Cuban and American People, by Anna Kalinina | AlterNet In 1958, Hilton Hotels proudly opened the tallest and largest hotel in Latin America, the Havana Hilton, located in the heart of Havana, Cuba. Boasting a casino, an outdoor swimming pool, and a panoramic view of Havana from its rooftop nightclub and bar located atop 25 stories of five-star accommodation, this luxurious destination was only open to Americans for two years... Read more... Stalin's Jews, by Sever Plocker | Israel News We mustn't forget that some of greatest murderers of modern times were Jewish... [Nothing's changed] Read more...Israel should not keep its history behind lock and key, by Jonathan Cook | The National History may be written by the victors, as Winston Churchill is said to have observed, but the opening up of archives can threaten a nation every bit as much as the unearthing of mass graves... Read more... The real war on 'terror' must begin, by Mark LeVine | Al Jazeera How can we process the idea of 20 million people left homeless and six million facing immanent starvation, with little or no locally produced food available for at least the next two years? How do you quantify feeding and housing 20,000,000 people... Read more... The Man With The Israeli Accent: "USS LIBERTY Survivor's Life Threatened by Mossad on American Soil While Uncle Sam Yawns | The Ugly Truth One would think that in this–the post 9/11 age–that a direct, face-to-face threat against the life of a decorated American war hero by someone claiming to be an agent working for a Middle Eastern country tied to previous acts of terrorism against the US would rouse some concern... Read more... The ‘Israeli Hizbullah’ | Rehmat's World On Saturday, US-Israeli military carried out maneuvers in a terrain that resembles South Lebanon (Hizbullah’s home territory) as part of exercises on the occupied part of Palestinian territories’ border with Lebanon and Syria. Israel TV channels showed parts of the excersizes in which the Israel Occupied Force (IOF) aided by US Marines were shown engaged with Hizbullah fighters... Read more... No room for Arab students at Israeli universities | Redress Information & Analysis Jonathan Cook reports on new discriminatory practices by Israeli universities designed to further tighten the screws on the country’s Arab citizens by excluding them from university higher education... Read more... Aug 17, 2010 In Loving Memory of Abu Obeida | Gilad Atzmon  Abu Obeida was murdered two days ago in Houston Texas. I lost a friend. Palestine lost one of its best activists ever... Read more... Why is no one heard publicly denouncing the fate of Vincent Reynouard? by Paul-Eric Blanrue | Thought and Action In France, a writer, father of eight, is in prison for his historical research. And the so-called free press says nothing about it!.. Read more... Israeli general says flotilla killings low | Australians for Palestine An Israeli military panel charged with investigating the bloody takeover of the Gaza Freedom Flotilla says the death of nine civilians on board the aid convoy is low... Read more... The Jewish Division | Gilad Atzmon I guess it shouldn’t take us by surprise that the Israeli flag has become a common feature at the ultra nationalist English Defence League's (EDL) demonstrations and gatherings. The EDL calls for taking action against the "Islamization of Britain" and “Muslim fundamentalists”.. Read more... The Process of Revolution, by Timothy Baldwin | News with Views Freedom mostly—if not only—comes by revolution. Revolution is the change of political power from one to another. In the case of America’s founding, power transferred from Great Britain to the individual States of America. Inevitably, revolution results in the division and separation from that form or system of government causing the plight. Rarely, if ever, does freedom come by gradual progression. Just the opposite: tyranny comes by gradual progression... Read more... Universal Jurisdiction to Hold Israel Accountable, by Stephen Lendman | Dissident Voice The well-established universal jurisdiction principle (UJ) holds that certain crimes are too grave to ignore, including genocide, crimes of war and against humanity. Thus, under UJ, nations may investigate and prosecute foreign nationals when their country of residence or origin won’t, can’t, or hasn’t for any reason... Read more... Porno for Pessimists, by Keith Johnson | Revolt of the Plebs The very fact that you are reading this may indicate that you suffer from a psychosis characterized by delusions of grandeur, coupled with feelings of euphoric bliss, at the prospect of being clued in to terrible events and conspiracies that may be contributing to the end of civilization as we know it... Read more... An Interview With Jared Malsin: Covering Palestine, by Nathaniel Wolfson | Counterpunch ...there are systematic efforts to have citizen journalists document human rights abuses. B’Tselem has a project, formerly known as “Shooting Back,” where they bought up a bunch of either Flip Cams or some other cheap cameras and gave out hundreds of them throughout the West Bank, especially areas close to settlements or military encampments that experience more violence than other places. They have captured thousands of hours of documentary evidence of human rights abuses... Read more... Iran, Tajikistan, and Afghanistan, by Kourosh Ziabari | Dissident Voice The trilateral summit of the presidents of three Persian-speaking countries of Iran, Tajikistan and Afghanistan wrapped up on August 5 in Tehran and recorded another unforgettable event in the memory of the three brother nations... Read more... Citizens, but not equal, by Akiva Eldar | Haaretz It's easier for Netanyahu to extend Ramadan greetings than it is to put a stop to the Museum of Tolerance [sic], built on the site of what was once a Muslim cemetery in central Jerusalem... Read more... Ramadan Kareem: From the Netanyahu and Obama Administrations: The Message of the Bulldozers, by Jeff Halper | Counterpunch On the day before the Muslim holy month of Ramadan began, at 2:30 in the morning, workers sent by the Israeli authorities, protected by dozens of police, destroyed the tombstones in the last portion of the Mamilla cemetery, an historic Muslim burial ground with graves going back to the 7th Century, hitherto left untouched. The government of Israel has always been fully cognizant of the sanctity and historic significance of the site... Read more... Bin Laden is dead: long live Bin Laden | Redress Information & Analysis Maidhc Ó Cathail argues that, “with the hunt for the elusive bin Laden having already cost thousands of lives and trillions of dollars, perhaps Americans should demand conclusive proof that Israel hasn’t conned them into fighting a phoney ‘war on terror’”.. Read more... "Arabs, get out" by Gideon Levy | Haaretz If the inciters succeed in expelling the Arab MKs from the Knesset, it will be the final straw. Forget justice: it's plain stupid… and frightening... Read more... How Close is America's Demise?: The Ecstasy of Empire, by Paul Craig Roberts | Counterpunch If the wars are not immediately stopped and the jobs brought back to America, the US is relegated to the trash bin of history... Read more... Aug 16, 2010 Igniting Armageddon in The Middle East, by Elias Akleh | MWC  Aggressive rhetoric and a push for Israel to attack Iran have been, lately, intensified in the American media. While senators are trying to get President Obama to officially support an Israeli attack on Iran, reporters of the main media are trying to convince the average American that Iran’s (non-existent) nuclear weapons program, half the globe away, is a threat to America, and the only viable way to stop Iran is through an Israeli “preventive” attack... Read more... Debating The Holocaust | Thomas Dalton There can be no denying the “Holocaust” of the mid-twentieth century: it was called World War II. Roughly 50 to 60 million people died worldwide - about 70 percent of whom were civilians. They died from a variety of causes including guns, bombs, fire, disease, exposure, starvation, and chemical toxins. Within this greater Holocaust existed many lesser holocausts... Read more... Crisis. What Crisis? Profits Soar! by James Petras | Dissident Voice While progressives and leftists write about the “crises of capitalism”, manufacturers, petroleum companies, bankers and most other major corporations on both sides of the Atlantic and Pacific coast are chuckling all the way to the bank... Read more... John McCain: A Closer Look at Evil (Part 14), by Jeff Gates | Veterans Today The John McCain docked in Danang this week. No, not THAT John McCain but the USS John S. McCain, a guided-missile destroyer named for the Arizona senator’s father and grandfather—both four-star admirals. One can only imagine the twittering in Hanoi at this event. I wonder if local media replayed the broadcasts that POW John S. McCain III provided for the North Vietnamese in 1967 at the height of the bombing campaign against targets in Hanoi... Read more... Lebanon, Palestine: Provoking War, by Stephen Lendman | Palestine Chronicle Perhaps suggesting a larger-scale planned offensive, recent violent Israeli outbreaks struck Gaza, the West Bank, and Israeli/Lebanon border, the first there since the summer 2006 war... Read more... August Musings, by Gordon Duff | My Catbird Seat As head of the editorial board of a military publication, sometimes it would be better if I stayed in bed. If you are a journalist and not entirely insane, which would make you a rarity, you check the morning output of others, I won’t call it news, I know better... Read more... Real Leaks: Blowing The Lid Off Lockerbie, by Robbie the Pict | Veterans Today For those who might dare to peer through the windows of the ‘ACCIDENT’ temple, I now have the names of three search and rescue personnel who are on record claiming that they were warned away from a pallet, piled with what looked like munitions, by snipers in a helicopter. I went to Lockerbie last week and spoke to witnesses who had the aircraft pass only feet above their heads, so close they thought they would be killed, but with a ‘terrible grinding noise’ from the engines... Read more... The Rubin Con Goes On, by Robert Scheer | Truthdig The corruptions of journalism were on full display when CNN’s Fareed Zakaria turned to Robert Rubin this past Sunday for advice on how to fix the financial crisis that he, as much as anyone, caused... Read more... U.S. Is Bankrupt and We Don't Even Know It, by Laurence Kotlikoff | Bloomberg Let’s get real. The U.S. is bankrupt. Neither spending more nor taxing less will help the country pay its bills. What it can and must do is radically simplify its tax, health-care, retirement and financial systems, each of which is a complete mess... Read more... 6 Million Pakistanis need Immediate Aid as 1/3 of Country is Submerged, by Juan Cole | Information Clearing House I can barely believe the words I am writing are not a nightmare from which I will soon wake up. A third of Pakistan is now under water, and fresh rainfall threatens two more waves of flooding in the southern Sindh province... Read more... From Marx to Goldman Sachs: The Fictions of Fictitious Capital, by Michael Hudson | Information Clearing House In his draft notes on “Interest-Bearing Capital and Commercial Capital in Relation to Industrial Capital” for what became Vol. III of Kapital and Part III of Theories of Surplus Value, Marx wrote optimistically about how industrial capitalism would modernize banking and financial systems. Its historical task, he believed, was to rescue society from usurious money lending and asset stripping, replacing the age-old parasitic tendencies of banking by steering credit to finance productive investment... Read more... False Flag Alert! by Maj. William B. Fox and Dr. James H. Fetzer | Lone Star Iconoclast Our nation appears to be on the verge of committing one of the greatest atrocities in human history. If reports of an imminent Israeli attack on Iran's nuclear energy facilities are well-founded — an attack that could only occur with the support of the United States — then an estimated 2.6 million Iranians may be killed outright and millions more would incur early deaths as contamination clouds sweep over Afghanistan, Pakistan, and India... Read more... Lebanon: We'll reject U.S. military aid if weapons can't be used against Israel, by AP and Natasha Mozgovaya | Haaretz Lebanese Defense Minister Elias Murr said Wednesday he would reject any U.S. military assistance to Lebanon's army if it comes with conditions that the weapons not be used against Israel... Read more... The Real Reasons Why the US and India Demonize Pakistan's ISI, by Shahid R. Siddiqi | Veterans Today Pakistan’s Inter Services Intelligence agency, or ISI as it is popularly known, is seen as their nemesis by those who have tried to undermine the security interests of the country one way or the other. It is no wonder then that in past few years the Americans unleashed a strong ISI-bashing campaign, with India following suit... Read more... A Neocon Preps US for War with Iran, by Ray McGovern | Consortium News I guess I was naïve in thinking that The Atlantic and its American-Israeli writer Jeffrey Goldberg might shy away from arguing for yet another war — this one with Iran — while the cauldrons are still boiling in Afghanistan and Iraq... Read more... Pakistani General: Islamic Iran is not acceptable to US-Israel | Rehmat's World In a recent interview with Islamic Republic News Agency, Pakistan’s political and military analyst, Lt. Gen. Abdul Qayyum, said that an independent Iran is not acceptable to both the US and Israel... Read more... Kashmir: The Valley of Blood | Pakistan Daily “The Kashmiri Freedom movement is often portrayed as a communal movement where Kashmiri Muslims are pitted against the Hindus, but this is far from true. There is a rich tradition of Kashmiriyat – a composite cultural identity with the glorious traditions of communal amity, tolerance and compassion – in the Valley dating back several centuries,” Akhila Raman, an Indian researcher on the Kashmir conflict... Read more... Gaza's Poisoned Water | SteveLendmanBlog On August 5, the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) published the latest in its "Narratives Under Siege" series, titled "There's Something in the Water: The Poisoning of Life in the Gaza Strip.".. Read more... Supporting the wrong side, by Bouthaina Shaaban | The Daily Star When Nelson Mandela stood to greet the thousands of people gathered to watch the World Cup final in South Africa, everyone stood to show respect to the man whose moral authority and stardom is unrivalled and uncontested. One wonders how Mandela came to represent moral and human integrity in our age and how he was treated by a racist government before he defeated it. What were the accusations leveled at him during the different stages of his struggle?.. Read more... It's the intangibles that count with Iran, by Rami G. Khouri | The Daily Star Recently, I returned from a 10-day trip to Iran that was primarily a touristic visit for me and my wife. However, I did talk to friends and others whose political views reflected both sides of the government-opposition divide. I sought firsthand appreciation of Iran that went beyond the American- and Israeli-influenced Western media’s heavy focus on Iran as an irresponsible international menace. Read more... Report from the Presbyterian General Assembly (Part 2): The Jewish Response | Mark Braverman There were two groups of Jewish attendees at the 219th General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (USA) in Minneapolis early this month. One was composed of several members of Jewish Voice for Peace, Jeff Halper of the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions, and me. We were there at the invitation of the denomination’s Israel Palestine Mission Network to support passage of the Middle East Study Committee Report, “Breaking Down the Walls” and other Middle East-related overtures, including divestment from Caterpillar, recognition that Israel’s policies constitute Apartheid, and endorsement of the Palestine Kairos document... Read more... Israeli Generals and Intel Officials Oppose Attack on Iran | IPS Pro-Israeli journalist Jeffrey Goldberg's article in "The Atlantic" magazine was evidently aimed at showing why the Barack Obama administration should worry that it risks an attack by the government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Iran in the coming months unless it takes a much more menacing line toward Iran's nuclear programme... Read more... US Citizen Claims Flotitlla Followed Mahatma Ghandi's Principles | Rebel News Translated by MEMRI, Mossad's free misinterpretation service for Middle-Eastern languages Watch video... The Jews Exploit the Holocaust in the Film Industry, by Demet Tezcan | YouTube (MEMRI Flotilla Coverage) Watch video... Aug 15, 2010 The Weak Case for War with Iran, by Flynt and Hillary Mann Leverett | Foreign Policy  Amid widespread skepticism that sanctions will stop Tehran's nuclear development and grudging, belated recognition that the Green Movement will not deliver a more pliable Iranian government, a growing number of commentators are asking the question, "What does President Obama do next on Iran?".. Read more... All is not quiet on the Lebanese front | Redress Information & Analysis Lawrence Davidson considers calls within the US Congress to punish the Lebanese army for defending Lebanese territory against Israeli violations and asks: “What will it take to make ordinary Americans ... grasp the danger of allowing their Middle East policy to be made by a special interest that has no regard for either the wellbeing of individual citizens or the national interest?”.. Read more... "Unregulated Greed has Destroyed the Capitalist System": The Big Things That Matter And The Little Things That Annoy, by Paul Craig Roberts | Global Research I write about major problems: the collapsing US economy, wars based on lies and deception, the police state based on “the war on terror” and other fabrications such as those orchestrated by corrupt police and prosecutors, who boost their performance reports by convicting the innocent, and so on. America is a very distressing place. The fact that so many Americans are taken in by the lies told by “their” government makes America all the more depressing... Read more... Explaining Murder: Israeli Hasbara in Full Swing, by Richard Lightbown | Palestine Chronicle The hasbara industry is in full swing at the moment as Benjamin Netanyahu’s government pulls out all the stops to create a smokescreen to cover its crimes... Read more... Homeless Take On Israeli Forces, by Mel Frykberg | Uruknet A bruising battle of will is taking place between Israeli security forces and Palestinians recently made homeless after two Palestinian villages were razed and hundreds left homeless. During the last few weeks over a thousand heavily armed Israeli riot police, soldiers and police, at times accompanied by helicopters and bulldozers, have clashed with the expelled Palestinians and their supporters as the latter attempt to rebuild the villages... Read more... Israel Lacking Allies and Friends, by George S. Hishmeh | Palestine Chronicle ...former U.S. Ambassador Chas Freeman lambasted Israel for being "an extreme liability for the U.S. financially, strategically, politically." His sharp viewpoint came in a response to a seminar at the Nixon Center here that focused on the point of whether Israel is an "asset or liability" for the U.S... Read more... U.N. Chief May Be Heading for Showdown with Israel, by Thalif Deen | IPS When the Israeli government gave its blessings to a U.N. panel of inquiry probing the military attack on a flotilla of ships carrying humanitarian aid to Gaza last May, there was widespread speculation that Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon may have struck a backdoor deal over its mandate... Read more... The Permanent War System Rolls On: Serial Denial on Iraq and Afghanistan, by Gareth Porter | Counterpunch ...This refusal to face up to reality that the United States cannot succeed in Afghanistan, despite all the evidence to the contrary, suggests that something much deeper is going on here... Read more... Blackwater: Can't Stop, Won't Stop, by Fouad Pervez | Foreign Policy In Focus Blackwater (rebranded as Xe in an effort to escape the negative publicity associated with their former name), recently received a $100 million contract from the CIA to secure its bases in Afghanistan. The State Department also awarded them $120 million to provide security for new diplomatic buildings... Read more... Gaza's Great Tunnel Recession, by Theodore May | Foreign Policy Battered by Israeli and Egyptian military strikes and undermined by the easing of the blockade on Gaza, the once-booming tunnel industry is a shadow of its former self... Read more... Smearing Bradley Manning, by Justin Raimondo | Antiwar The smear campaign against Bradley Manning took off the moment he was arrested, with professional snitch Adrian "I Have Asperger’s Syndrome" Lamo detailing how he supposedly ensnared Manning in his web and adding that the young intelligence analyst was merely vying for "attention" by "vacuuming up" all the secret data he could just for the hell of it... Read more... Palestinian Centre for Human Rights: Poisoning of Gaza water puts population at risk | Electronic Intifada The signs which dot the beach along the Gaza City waterfront are clear: "THIS BEACH IS POLLUTED," they read, and yet they seem to serve only as obstacles for children running to the sea rather than warnings to be heeded of the serious health risks associated with swimming here... Read more... Gaza, Soweto and African American Thought, by Bishop Donald R. Corder | Intifada Palestine Part 3: Message of Truth Caught in an illusion spun by pride the pinnacle of arrogance was displayed on 14 May 1948 when Israel crowned itself a nation. Historic record discloses these people who cried out that the blood of their Messiah be upon their own heads and that of their children. Bring forth a declaration that these same persons would fall by the edge of the sword, and shall be led away captive into all nations: and Jerusalem shall be trodden down of the Gentiles until such a time that God would restore them...Read more... Tony Judt: An intellectual hero | Al Jazeera New York University (NYU) professor and internationally renowned historian Tony Judt died last week of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, better known in the US as Lou Gehrig's disease after the famous baseball player whose death from the disease first brought it to public consciousness in 1941. It is hard to fathom the scope of the loss, not just of the man, but of the type of scholarship, of the way Professor Judt taught those willing to learn about how to approach and utilise history... Read more... Gaza's emergency services battered, by Eva Bartlett | The Electronic Intifada Outside the battered Civil Defense station in northern Gaza's Jabaliya region, Mohammed Zidan, a seven-year veteran of fire-fighting and rescue services, stands on crutches in front of battered Civil Defense vehicles... Read more... Aug 14, 2010 John McCain: A Closer Look at Evil (Part 13), by Jeff Gates | My Catbird Seat Treason in Plain Sight  Sen. John McCain and Joe Lieberman The same two Senators who insisted that the U.S. invade Iraq on false intelligence are now marketing Pakistan as the next in a series of “plausible” Evil Doers. Their complicity runs deep. The consistency of their conduct confirms that what we see again unfolding is treason—ongoing in plain sight and, to date, with legal impunity...Read more... There Already Is One State, by Daniel McGowan | Dissident Voice The overwhelming desire within Israel, and more importantly within the United States, to divide Palestine into two states reflects a 130-year old dream to create a Jewish state in the Holy Land. Aside from the attractiveness or repulsiveness of such a dream, such a division flies in the face of reality or what might be called “facts on the ground.”.. Read more... 150 Irish artists pledge to boycott Israel | The Irish Times A cultural boycott of Israel was launched yesterday, with more than 150 Irish artists announcing that they intend not to perform or exhibit in Israel, or to accept any funding from institutions linked to the Israeli government... Read more... Hillary’s Enemies List, by Philip Giraldi | Antiwar Some might recall the enemies list that President Richard Nixon kept in his desk. The list was appended to a memo that asked "how we can use the available federal machinery to screw our political enemies?".. Read more... Double Vendetta: The Insanity of the Iran Confrontation, by Anthony Lawson | Salem-News Every American and British citizen should watch this video How long can we allow the maniacs who are driving us to the brink of World War Three to stay in power? We'd better do something soon, or we will all be done for...Read more, watch video... The Omar Khadr travesty, by Glenn Greenwald | Salon ...That Obama has vigorously embraced and at times even exceeded some of Bush's most controversial and radical policies is simply indisputable. I'd request that anyone doubting that just review the very partial list I compiled... Read more... Standing Up To The Enemy …. Again | Desert Peace Aug 12-13, 2010 Bravery and Morality in Israel | Gilad Atzmon ...Israel's Defense Force's Chief of Staff Gabi Ashkenazi testified today before the Israeli internal probe into Israel's deadly raid on the Gaza-bound aid flotilla... Read more, watch video... The Elders of Anti-Zion, by Uri Avnery | Gush Shalom ...The enemies of Israel, we were told, no longer believe that they can destroy Israel by force of arms. Instead, they have adopted a new strategy: to bring about the collapse of Israel by denying its very legitimacy... Read more... Ground Zero Mosque Not at Ground Zero and Not a Mosque, by Dr. Ashraf Ezzat | Veterans Today After the 9/11 attacks, islamophobia began to take shape in the collective consciousness of the American and western general public. But for the American Muslims it was a lot more than viewing this antipathy on TV, they were living it, day in and day out... Read more... Why Americans Are Exporting Themselves, by Gordon Duff | Veterans Today ...when Americans chose to live overseas, it is often a huge inconvenience. It isn’t just language. Americans give up cheap gas, OK, not that cheap anymore, cheap food and conveniences found almost no place else, give them up but are still leaving in droves... Read more... Days of Rage: The Noxious Transformation of the Conservative Movement into a Rabid Fringe, by Max Blumenthal | Alternet I am not sure when I first detected the noxious fumes that would envelop the conservative movement in the Obama era. It might have been early on, in April 2009, when I visited a series of gun shows in rural California and Nevada... Read more... Homeless Bedouins Take On Israeli Forces, by Mel Frykberg | Antiwar A bruising battle of will is taking place between Israeli security forces and Palestinians recently made homeless after two Palestinian villages were razed and hundreds left homeless... Read more... Hezbollah exposes Israeli hit men | Press TV Hezbollah leader Seyyed Hassan Nasrallah has presented evidence proving that Israel masterminded the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri... Read more... Targeting Iran: Is the US Administration Planning a Nuclear Holocaust? by Michel Chossudovsky | Global Research The US and its allies are preparing to launch a nuclear war directed against Iran with devastating consequences. This military adventure in the real sense of the word threatens the future of humanity. While one can conceptualize the loss of life and destruction resulting from present-day wars including Iraq and Afghanistan, it is impossible to fully comprehend the devastation which might result from a Third World War, using "new technologies" and advanced weapons, until it occurs and becomes a reality... Read more... No Amount Of Hasbara Can Beautify Israel's Face, by Khalid Amayreh | Palestine Think Tank Israeli hasbara doctors and their mouthpieces in the West don’t stop dithering about the perceived failure of the Israeli propaganda machine "to get the message through" to western audiences. Hundreds of millions of dollars are spent every year and the best of the best PR firms are recruited to do the job for Israel... Read more... US main sponsor of terrorism | Press TV Iran's Foreign Ministry spokesman says the US is the main sponsor of terrorism and that it tries to cover up this fact by leveling accusations against other countries... Read more... The Tears of Gaza Must Be Our Tears, by Chris Hedges | Truthdig When I lived in Jerusalem I had a friend who confided in me that as a college student in the United States she attended events like these, wrote up reports and submitted them to the Israel consulate for money. It would be naive to assume this Israeli practice has ended. So, I want first tonight to address that person, or those persons, who may have come to this event for the purpose of reporting on it to the Israeli government... Read more... Hurrah for Hugo Chavez, by Mike Whitney | Information Clearing House It's no fun being on Washington's enemies list. Just ask Hugo Chavez. Last week, the Venezuelan president had to cancel a trip to Cuba after he was told that a coup was underway and his life was in danger. The information came from an anonymous source who had delivered a similar warning prior to the failed coup in 2002... Read more... US Interference In Venezuela Keeps Growing, by Eva Golinger | Postcards from the Revolution Despite President Obama’s promise to President Chavez that his administration wouldn’t interfere in Venezuela’s internal affairs, the US-funded National Endowment for Democracy (NED) is channeling millions into anti-Chavez groups... Read more... All The 9-11 Airports Serviced By One Israeli Owned Company | What Really Happened "To make the situation worse, a private security company called ICTS, owned by an Israeli, Ezra Harel, and registered in the Netherlands, was employed at Charles de Gaulle airport to screen passengers boarding US planes. Most of its personnel are ex-Shin Bet officers. The company covers security at Boston's Logan airport, where the American Airlines plane came down after flight attendants and passengers overpowered Reid.".. Read more... Free Palestine Walks | AAPER ...AAPER announces the Second Annual Free Palestine Walks, to be held on October 9, 2010! Like the AIDS Walks, Breast Cancer Walks, and Freedom Walks during the Civil Rights Movement, the Free Palestine Walks can have a major impact across the United States... Read more... To Spite Our Faces, by Jeff Huber | Antiwar Time magazine’s new cover girl certainly spawned a piranha swarm of controversy. Lamentably, the outrage Time‘s Aug. 9 issue inspired has served to further mask the extent to which Obama-era war propaganda has eclipsed even the Orwellian efforts of the Bush/Cheney regime, and how that propaganda has buried the uncomfortable truth about our global military crusades... Read more... Fear Not, by Israel Shamir | My Catbird Seat ...A piece written by a few ex-spooks warning of a new round of war is one of these messages.. this item fits with the dire predictions of Fidel Castro. It fits with the recent heating up of the Gaza and Lebanon borders. It fits with the relocation of some American warships and accompanying Israeli U-boats to the shores of Iran. Rumours of Israeli advance forces being placed in Azerbaijan and even Saudi Arabia are used as supportive evidence. The Jewish state certainly wants to break Iran, just as Iraq was broken... Read more... Fredrick Toben: Materialism that sustains the western democracies is exhausting itself, interviewed by Kourosh Ziabari | Ramallah Online ..In the West we have pushed the hedonistic-consumer life-style to the point where individuals self-destruct through substance abuse and nihilistic thought processes that suggest life is fun and games. As a teacher I opposed such a world view because the act of thinking about things is actually hard work... Read more... A Glimpse into Israeli Paranoia | Gilad Atzmon Watch this amusing new Hasbara video. It seems as if the Israelis start to acknowledge that the days of their ‘Jews only state’ are numbered... Read more, watch video... Another insult to Christianity: Meet the Methodist Friends of Israel | Redress Information & Analysis Stuart Littlewood looks at how Israel’s mouthpieces in the UK, from Chief Rabbi Jonathan Sacks, the Board of Deputies of British Jews and the Jewish Leadership Council to a band of dangerously naive simpletons called Methodist Friends of Israel, have grouped together to denounce the Methodist Church’s decision to boycott products from Israeli settlements in occupied Palestine... Read more... Israel and Saudi Arabia to Buy Advanced War Planes: The US Arms Bonanza in the Middle East, by Jonathan Cook | Counterpunch Two of the United States’ closest allies in the Middle East, Israel and Saudi Arabia, are on the brink of signing large arms deals with the US in a move designed to ratchet up the pressure on Iran, according to defence analysts... Read more... Ignorance, apathy, parochialism and the US national psyche | Redress Information & Analysis The cases of Omar Khadr and Bradley Manning Lawrence Davidson shows how popular apathy and parochialism, combined with control of the information flow by the US government and its allied mass media, has led to a situation whereby the American public views injustice and illegality with complete indifference...Read more... Aug 11, 2010 One-State, Two-States and the American Task Force on Palestine, by Antoine Raffoul | My Catbird Seat ...It is surely high time that all politicians, historians, writers and academics who still believe in and support the idea of a Two-State solution to the Israel-Palestine tragedy to come forward and submit, once and for all, a clear and transparent statement outlining exactly what they really mean by the Two-State solution. They have had 62 years to advance this idea and they have failed... Read more... Lucky prisoners of the Gaza strip: Extra-ordinary lives, by Nadezhda Kevorkova | Russia Today The 20th Century chronographer Alexander Solzhenitsyn made a paradoxical remark in his book “The Gulag Archipelago”: “Be blessed, prison! You’ve made a man of me!” It’s hard to understand this wisdom living in a safe world. It’s easier to understand it in Russia and, strange as it is, in Palestine... Read more... US to Gaza ...Citizens around the world have responded to the plight of the Palestinian people and are taking action to help break the blockade which is suffocating the lives of the people of Gaza and denying them their liberty. The U.S. government is complicit through established policies that uncritically support Israel in its brutal attack on the Palestinian people and on those who attempt to intervene on their behalf. We in the United States must continue to step up and do our part. We must join with others from across the world to support an end to the collective punishment of 1.5 million Palestinians in Gaza... Read more... Iraq War Begins, by Richard Falk [Poetry Video] | My Catbird Seat It is not “conspiracy theory” to suggest that leaders of nations betray their people into wars. It is undeniable fact. Falk, in this poem reminds us of the betrayal of the century... Read more, watch video... The New Aristocrats of Finance Pose a Serious Threat to Our Democratic Way of Life, by Joe Costello | AlterNet Let's face it, what a America needs is good clean fight. A fight that brings in everyone, redefines categories and alliances, cleanses our putrid politics, and establishes a healthy politics for the 21st century. At this point, there's just no way around it. Our politics is so defiled, our economy so completely in the clutches of a rabidly greedy few, and our government wallows in incompetence to the point of criminality, that the only cure is for the American people in unison to stand up, take responsibility... Read more... Are US-Israel intelligence agencies blocking Palestinian civil rights to weaken Hezbollah? by Dr. Franklin Lamb | My Catbird Seat The State Department’s Bureau of Intelligence and Research (NIR) is part of the U.S. Intelligence Community’s panoply of 16 agencies, which comprise the US Intelligence Community (IC). According to Congressional sources consulted below, NIR and Israel have been working longer hours than most members of Lebanon’s Parliament, carefully analyzing the language of the main draft proposals concerning elementary civil rights for Palestinian Refugees... Read more... U.S. is a Bigger Threat to Pakistan than India, by Brig Asif Haroon Raja | Veterans Today Pakistan continues to remain target of international and internal conspiracies. While internal situation is dismal, external situation is equally grim. Foreign forces of 44 countries based in Afghanistan are getting restless because of unmanageable turbulence in Afghanistan. USA is holding Pakistan responsible for its failure in defeating Taliban... Read more... Israel's siege on freedoms, by Laila El-Haddad | Sabbah Report It's three years since I've been back to Gaza. Much has happened since my last visit. Fatah waged a failed coup and now rules only the West Bank, while Hamas is in charge of Gaza. Israel launched its deadly Cast Lead assault. Fuel shortages. Electricity crises. And so on... Read more... New "al Qaeda" Leader May Be Israeli, by Gordon Duff | Veterans Today Adnan Shukrijumah, 35 formerly of Brooklyn, New York and Miami Beach is more likely to carry the real name Levine or Goldstein. The “legend,” intelligence jargon for a false background constructed for an imaginary person, created for Shukrijumah is paper thin. An FBI Agent named Brian LeBlanc in an “exclusive interview” with the Associated Press warned the world of this new “bin Laden” clone... Read more... Facts Overwhelming Israel's Spin, by Greta Berlin | ABQ Journal Once again, Israel commits war crimes against a civilian population on board six ships in international waters then whines that it is the victim of a PR smear. Journal Staff Writer Lloyd Jojola’s interview with Asher Yarden, consul general of Israel to the Southwest, proves they think they can spin the story of piracy at sea to sympathetic journalists who will ask no probing questions, but merely spout back what the apologists say... Read more... How Many Iraqis Did We "Liberate" From Life on Earth? by Robert Naiman | t r u t h o u t Is there a man or woman in America today who is willing to stand at noon in the public square and claim that demands to bomb, invade, and occupy other people's countries have anything to do with human liberation?.. Read more... Why the U.S. Won't Cut Ties with Israel, No Matter How Extreme Its Government Gets | AlterNet A thick web of military-strategic ties is at the heart of the US-Israeli relationship... Read more... Out of Sight, Out of Mind | Dahr Jamail's Dispatches Since BP announced that CEO Tony Hayward would receive a multi-million dollar golden parachute and be replaced by Bob Dudley, we have witnessed an incredibly broad, and powerful, propaganda campaign. A campaign that peaked this week with the US government, clearly acting in BP’s best interests, itself announcing, via outlets willing to allow themselves to be used to transfer the propaganda, like the New York Times, this message: “The government is expected to announce on Wednesday that three-quarters of the oil from the Deepwater Horizon leak has already evaporated, dispersed, been captured or otherwise eliminated — and that much of the rest is so diluted that it does not seem to pose much additional risk of harm.”.. Read more... Political Prisoners in America, by Stephen Lendman | OpEd News Noted journalist H.L. Mencken described "The most dangerous man to any government [is someone] who is able to think things out for himself, without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, and intolerable," yet resisting, he faces recrimination - political imprisonment for his beliefs and activism, officials tolerating no opposition to their authority, no matter how extreme or lawless... Read more... The Information War, by Justin Raimondo | Antiwar It’s almost funny – if your sense of humor runs to the dark side – to watch the Washington power elite go bonkers over the WikiLeaks revelations. We have Pentagon officials stamping their feet and demanding that WikiLeaks “return” the “stolen” documents it has posted online, and refrain from posting any more – as if this material, having gone viral worldwide, could possibly be reclaimed and made inaccessible... Read more... Zardari's Katrina, by Fatima Bhutto | Foreign Policy This week, Pakistan's president, Asif Ali Zardari, boarded a private Gulfstream Jet along with his family and his hundreds-large entourage to visit the European countries included on the president's grand tour. Yesterday, Zardari -- who was married to my aunt, the late Benazir Bhutto, before her 2007 murder -- landed in London... Read more... Israel's pillars of Samson: not quite Armageddon but... | Redress Information & Analysis Alan Sabrosky considers the relationship between the subservience of successive US presidents, including Barack Obama, to Israel and Israel’s ongoing access to US nuclear codes and systems, and its ability to override safeguards in the US to obtain command and control over at least US land-based strategic nuclear systems... Read more... Aug 10, 2010 The ‘New Palestine’ | Rehmat's World ...Many Jewish writers, such as, Roger Tucker, Gilad Atzmon, Israel Shamir, Simon Jones, etc. have come to the conclusion that the only way to stop the bloodshed in the Middle East would be to dismantle the Zionist entity and establish a democratic state for both the native Muslims and Christians and the foreign Jew settlers... Read more... Nothing short of nukes will work, by Gwynne Dyer | NZ Herald News When Admiral Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the highest-ranking American officer, was asked recently on NBC's Meet The Press show whether the United States has a military plan for an attack on Iran, he replied simply: "We do"... Read more... What collapsing empire looks like, by Glenn Greenwald | Salon As we enter our ninth year of the War in Afghanistan with an escalated force, and continue to occupy Iraq indefinitely, and feed an endlessly growing Surveillance State, reports are emerging of the Deficit Commission hard at work planning how to cut Social Security, Medicare, and now even to freeze military pay... Read more... Why the 9-11 Trial is Being Blocked, by Christopher Bollyn | The Populist Nine years after 9-11, the U.S. government is letting the so-called “mastermind” of 9-11 languish in “legal limbo” in Guantanamo. Why would they be doing that? Don’t they have a case?.. Read more... The Comeback Kid, by William Stebbins | Al Jazeera Fidel Castro has made a career of returning from the brink of disaster. In 1956, when his band of seasick comrades landed in Cuba, half of them were killed immediately. Of the 82 that boarded the yacht Granma in Mexico, only 12 made it to the Sierra Maestra mountains to launch the revolution. What had appeared to be a mere nuisance, to be ignored or easily eliminated, marched into Havana in triumph two years later... Read more... The lies of Hiroshima are the lies of today | John Pilger In an article for the Guardian on the anniversary of the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, John Pilger describes the 'progression of lies' from the dust of that detonated city, to the wars of today - and the threatened attack on Iran... Read more... China is a barometer on whether Israel will attack nuclear plants in Iran, by Clayton Jones | CS Monitor Despite fresh UN sanctions on Iran, China beefs up trade and investment. Does it know something the US doesn't about Israel's intentions to stop Iran's nuclear program?.. Read more... U.S. Funding for Israeli Missile Defense Programs Reaches New High | NJDC The Jerusalem Post reported that under President Barack Obama’s leadership, and with the help of Congressional Democrats and other members of Congress, funding for Israeli missile defense programs is set to reach its highest level ever... Read more... Humor Dept: American VIP humiliated at airport | Israel News Prof. Donna Shalala, Clinton's secretary of health, arrives in Israel in order to fight academic boycott against Israel, claims she was held at Ben-Gurion Airport just because she has Arab last name... [The Israelis are so grateful for the largesse we bestow on them that they go out of their way to make our representatives comfortable. Shalala's lucky they didn't throw her in prison just for the hell of it. ] Read more...Venezuelan diplomatic break with Columbia comes amidst massive US military expansion in the region, by Jesse Strecker | Dailycensored While mainstream media outlets have granted plenty of airtime to Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez’s decision to break relations with Colombia after the nation accused him of harboring ‘terrorists,’ few sources are reporting on the military buildup that is surrounding the left-leaning Bolivarian nations, Venezuela and Bolivia... Read more... Dachau: The fraudulent claims of "extermination" and "homicidal gas chambers" | Thy Weapon of War Dachau is a town in Upper Bavaria, in the southern part of Germany. Even "mainstream" historians and Holohoax propagandists now acknowledge that no mass exterminations took place at Dachau or in any of the German camps on German soil, and the fairy tales about "gas chambers" and "mass exterminations of jews" are now relegated to the camps that were in occupied Poland... Read more... Israel is a land built on myths | Rehmat's World ...The truth if revealed would show that Israel is an outlaw entity, created by Jew-hating Western Christian powers by stealing the land from its Arab inhabitants to solve their centuries old ‘Jewish Problem’... Read more... Turkish deep state versus civilians - as we speak | Dailycensored On July 24, an Istanbul Court ordered the arrest of 102 current and former high ranking Turkish military officers. The military responded by shielding the officers in locations that made arrests difficult, if not impossible... Read more... Lebanon’s female ‘freedom-fighters’ | Rehmat's World Many people have not heard of Rima Fakhri. she is one of hundreds of Lebanese female freedom-fighters of Islamic Resistance, Hizbullah. She is also the member of Hizbullah’s Political Council... Read more... Lebanon, Palestine: Provoking War, by Stephen Lendman | Palestine Chronicle Perhaps suggesting a larger-scale planned offensive, recent violent Israeli outbreaks struck Gaza, the West Bank, and Israeli/Lebanon border, the first there since the summer 2006 war. Like Cast Lead, it was Israeli aggression - violent, lawless and unrelenting, a scorched-earth blitzkrieg, inflicting vast destruction, causing billions in damage, killing over 1,000 Lebanese, injuring thousands more, and displacing around a million others (about one-fourth of the country's four million population), including over 300,000 children fleeing north for their lives. In the end, Hezbollah handed Israel a humiliating defeat... Read more... Rabbi for ‘ground zero’ Cordoba House | Pravda Rabbi Arthur Washkow of the Philadelphia-based Shalom Center joined about 30 other religious leaders and Jewish activists Thursday at the location where the Cordoba Initiative hopes to build an Islamic center that will include a mosque, an athletic center, a school and art studios. Rabbi told the people that the mosque will help people to understand Islam beyond the current Islamophobe narrative... Read more... Aug 9, 2010 Neocons Hope Israel Will Start a Fire the U.S. Will Be Forced to Put Out, by Gareth Porter | Veterans Today Neocons are supporting an Israeli attack on Iran in the hope that the U.S. would be drawn into the ensuing conflict. ”If the Israelis bomb now, American public opinion will probably be with them,” writes neocon Reuel Marc Gerecht. “Perhaps decisively so.”.. Read more... Newsweek's Zacharia Returns ADL Award, Rendering Foxman "Speechless" | Tikun Olam In the realm of the impossible is the following statement from Abe Foxman upon learning that Fareed Zacharia, noted Newsweek columnist and Muslim-American, would be returning an ADL award and honorarium in protest of the ADL’s position opposing the Cordoba House Muslim Cultural Center near Ground Zero:.. Read more... Iran gains as Arabs' Obama hopes sink, by Jim Lobe | Asia Times United States President Barack Obama has suffered a sharp drop in popularity in the Arab world over the past year, and Iran may be reaping the benefits, according to a major new survey of public opinion in five Arab countries. Read more... Footage Exposes One of the Worst Civilian Casualty Incidents of the War | Rethink Afghanistan ...I put the injured down on the floor but there was already 5 other injured people already on the floor. There was death inside and injured people outside. The foreign countries please listen to me listen to the others, what should we do?.. Read more, watch video... 9/11 & Nine Years of Deception and War | Christopher Bollyn ...A U.S. soldier in Afghanistan. July has been the deadliest month of the nine-year war for U.S. troops in Afghanistan with 66 fatalities reported. Apart from the 8,000 Americans reported killed and wounded in Afghanistan, tens of thousands more will bear the heavy spiritual and psychological burden of having participated in a fraudulent and illegal war in which they killed innocent people. Why, and for whom are we really fighting this criminal war in Central Asia?.. Read more... It Wasn't a War: Kate Perkins interviews Norman Finkelstein | Guernica The Israel critic and Holocaust heir on the “Gaza massacre,” the Goldstone Report, the public turn against Israeli policy, and the difference between “of” and “in.”.. Read more... The Tribe, the Outsider and the Scapegoat, by Bob Wallace | Occidental Observer The leftist Mommy State now growing like a cancer in the U.S. wants to force all the boys and girls to share and get along. That may sort of work with five-year-olds, although not very well as any parent will attest, but it doesn't work at all with adults... [See also Us vs. Them: On the Meaning of Fascism] Read more...The Unrivaled Legacy Of Avicenna, by Kourosh Ziabari | Eurasia Review Iran has been a land of prominent, influential figures in science, letters, arts and literature whose impact on the global civilization will remain in place forever... Read more... Scores injured in explosions, Israeli attacks on Gaza | The Electronic Intifada ...Monday's massive explosions followed three consecutive days of Israeli military air strikes, as US-made Israeli warplanes hit multiple areas in the occupied Gaza Strip over the weekend, inciting panic in and inflicting trauma onto a population still reeling from the 2008-09 bombings and invasions... Read more... International solidarity under attack, by Mike Marqusee | The Electronic Intifada From small beginnings and with few resources, the international movement in solidarity with the Palestinians has grown into a force that Israel perceives as a major threat. The assault on the Gaza aid flotilla was a lethal escalation in what has become an increasingly bitter campaign against that movement, whose constituents now range from dockworkers in South Africa refusing to offload Israeli goods to students at Berkeley demanding divestment... Read more... Truth, History, and Integrity, by Gilad Atzmon | Dissident Voice Back in 2007 the notorious American Jewish right-wing organization, the ADL (Anti-Defamation League) announced that it recognized the events in which an estimated 1.5 million Armenians were massacred as “genocide.” The ADL’s national director, Abraham Foxman, insisted that he made the decision after discussing the matter with ‘historians’. For some reason he failed to mention who the historians were, nor did he refer to their credibility or field of scholarship. However, Foxman also consulted with one holocaust survivor who supported the decision. It was Elie Wiesel, not known for being a leading world expert on the Armenian ordeal... Read more... Under Siege: On Emma Williams, by Charles Glass | Taki Mag In October 2000 most of the children invited by Dr. Emma Williams to her son Archie’s seventh birthday party failed to turn up. Distance was not the issue, given that her house was only twenty minutes from the French lycée where her two boys were studying. The problem was location. In Jerusalem, living anywhere is a political statement with safety implications... Read more... Book review: Palestine brought to life in "Behind the Wall", by Marcy Newman | The Electronic Intifada Anyone familiar with the work of the Palestinian youth center Lajee in Aida refugee camp in the occupied West Bank city of Bethlehem has probably encountered photographer Rich Wiles' work. Wiles' foray into publishing began with a series of books produced by the youth of Aida camp, collaborative projects that he facilitated... Read more... Aug 8, 2010 Tony Judt, May His Memory Be for a Blessing | Tikun Olam Today, we have lost one of the bravest public intellectuals engaged in the Israeli-Arab conflict. I just noticed in his NY Times obituary that he was born in that seminal year, 1948, an irony that undoubtedly would not have been lost on him... Read more... Bedouins lose yet another village to Israeli forces, by Jonathan Cook | The National Israeli security forces destroyed a Bedouin village this week for the second time in a matter of days, leaving 300 inhabitants homeless again after they and dozens of Jewish and Arab volunteers had begun rebuilding the 45 homes... Read more... Preparing For The Zionist Armageddon | Desertpeace Despite the growing number of individuals, including many prominent Jews, speaking out and demonstrating against Israel’s polices, the government of Israel is going ‘full steam ahead’ in preparation for still another war in the region... Read more... Israel retreats on flotilla agreement, by Jonathan Cook | The National Israel quickly reined back expectations yesterday over its agreement to co-operate with a UN investigation into the Israeli army’s lethal raid on a Gaza-bound aid flotilla two months ago... Read more... Audacity of Hope Ship Sails from New York to Gaza in Human Rights Mission | My Catbird Seat They said it couldn’t be done, that Americans couldn’t raise money fast enough to buy a boat to join Freedom Flotilla 2 in the fall. But never underestimate American determination in the face of Israeli intransigence and brutality. The launch of the US Boat to Gaza began last night in New York, and Free Gaza was there to participate... Read more, watch videos... 'All Aboard the Mavi Marmara': David Rovics' New Song | Gilad Atzmon [At least there's one singer/songwriter carrying on the great tradition] Watch video... Watch and be angry and inspired! by Mazin Qumsiyeh | My Catbird Seat Wednesday was another honorable and painful chapter in the struggle of the village of Al-Walaja. Apartheid soldiers assaulted children and adults protesting peacefully, injured many, and arrested six Palestinians... Read more, watch videos... Suspected Israeli torturer gets key police job in Jerusalem, by Jonathan Cook | Redress Information & Analysis A police officer known as “Major George” who is accused of torturing Arab prisoners in his previous role as chief interrogator in a secret military jail has been appointed to oversee relations with Jerusalem’s Palestinian population, it has emerged... Read more... Powerful Message: There's Still Hope for the World, by Fidel Castro Ruz | Global Research For 57 years, two generations of Cubans, the one that came before us and our own, which led both from January 1 to today, have fought against the most powerful empire humanity has ever known.. A colossal crime is being committed against thousands of millions of adolescents and young people of both sexes, whose wonderful intelligence is manipulated by the mass media, and in fact, many of them, especially men, are turned into soldiers to die in unjust, genocidal wars carried out all over the planet... Read more... Bridge Experience, by Mazin Qumsiyeh | Gilad Atzmon Not a single day pass without some bad news from Israel... Watch video... Newsweek Magazine Sold, by Michael Collins Piper | AFP Newsweek magazine is now the property of Zionist billionaire Sidney Harman and his wife Jane—a fervent advocate for the interests of Israel—who (rather than serving in Congress as she does) should instead be serving time in prison for influence peddling and conspiracy to obstruct justice on behalf of two Washington operatives for AIPAC, the powerful lobby for Israel... Read more... Smoke on a Bridge: Lebanon Awaits a Verdict, by Ramzy Baroud | Palestine Chronicle In Lebanon, a sense of urgency always seems to prevail, even when there are no urgent matters to tend to... Read more... Rachel Corrie, by Dave Gahary | AFP AFP Interview Series host Dave Gahary interviewed Cindy and Craig Corrie, the parents of Rachel Corrie, the Washington state peace activist who was murdered in 2003 when an Israeli Defense Force bulldozer, used to illegally demolish the homes of Palestinians, ran over her. The Corries explain what brought their daughter to Palestine, lend insight into their attempts to carry Rachel’s message forward, and provide the latest information on their lawsuit against the Israeli government, along with some shocking details in their fight to get justice for their daughter... Read more... Palestinians Denied Access to Water | Stephen Lendman According to OCHA (the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs), Palestinians face a serious water crisis, being denied access to their own resources... Read more... Plumbing the Depths of Lawless Executive Depravity, by Ernest A. Canning | The BRAD BLOG A growing body of evidence, including confirmation contained in the recently exposed Afghan "Pentagon Papers," suggests the President did not look back at his predecessor's war crimes because he saw, in the failure to prosecute, the ground work for his own round of "Unitary Executive" lawlessness --- an expanded, illegal and increasingly covert "war on terror" in which hundreds, perhaps thousands of paramilitary assassins, operating in secret and beyond the rule of law, carry out targeted killings of "suspected" terrorists on a global scale --- a program that has already produced massive collateral casualties amongst innocent civilians who are in the wrong place at the wrong time... Read more... Legalizing injustice in the Negev and implications for 'democracy' in Israel | Redress Information & Analysis Nasser Rego considers the legal and political framework of the escalating ethnic cleansing of the Negev – or Naqab – by the Israeli authorities and argues that, given the fracturing of the “solomonic pillar of law propping up Israel’s democratic facade”, the time has come for the international community to fulfill its responsibility to protect Israel’s imperiled Arab citizens... Read more... Come Home, America On February 20, 2010 a conference was held bringing together conservatives, progressives, liberals and libertarians who oppose American militarism and Empire... Read more... Treason by Members of the United States Congress, video by Alan Lawson | YouTube It must have been realized that the letter to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, signed by nearly 300 members of the U.S. Congress, affirming their commitment to Israel, would be widely publicized and fall into the hands of that illegal Apartheid State, so the writing and signing of that letter should be considered an act of treason... Read more, watch video... Understanding the Muslim world, by Mark LeVine | Al Jazeera What does it say about the chances for American success in Afghanistan and the larger global 'war on terror' - which despite the Obama administration's official name change to "Overseas Contingency Operations" remains deliberately far removed from any contingency that might hasten its end - that the wives of the military's most senior commanders better comprehend the reasons for the continued difficulty in pacifying the country than do their husbands?.. Read more... A Failure to Protect Civil Liberties, by Robyn Blumner | Antiwar Should lawyers be required to obtain a government-granted license before being allowed to represent an American terror suspect? It’s a U.S. Treasury Department regulation, an unconstitutional one to my mind, and one that’s being challenged. But this latest civil liberties skirmish is indicative of a larger point, that President Barack Obama is putting less and less daylight between his policies and those of his predecessor... Read more... A Country in Fragments: The Subjective Atlas of Palestine, by Roger Sheety | Palestine Chronicle A light yet enlightening book on a heavy subject, The Subjective Atlas of Palestine is a beautiful, award-winning art book edited by Dutch designer Annelys de Vet and features both individual and collaborative contributions from over thirty different Palestinian artists, photographers and writers who were asked to “map their country as they see it.”.. Read more... Gaza in Plain Language, video by Anthony Lawson | Dissident Voice "This documentary portrays, accurately, the criminal onslaught that Israeli armed forces inflicted on Gaza, early last year, which ravaged the territory and its 1.5 million population, who have been placed under a brutal siege for three years. This was after 60 years of dispossession and ethnic cleansing to which the majority of the population have been subjected to. It is time that the world community conscience took note of that and acted accordingly... Watch video... Aug 7, 2010 Isolating Iran is part of the 'Great Energy Game', by Antony Loewenstein | Salem-News The Middle East is witness to continuous developments these days, such as Iran’s active diplomacy to attract the indispensable 118-member bloc of non-aligned countries to support its nuclear program, the growing isolation of Israel in European countries and within academic circles in the U.S., Arabs’ fears of losing the power game in the Persian Gulf region, and the expansion of illegal settlements of Israel in the West Bank and its unremitting disobedience to United Nations Security Council resolutions... Read more... You Got it Wrong, Mr. Abbas!, by Antoine Raffoul | Intifada Palestine It was reported recently that the S Daniel Abraham Centre for Middle East Peace hosted the Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas for dinner in Washington DC, on June 9 2010. The head of this Centre is Robert Wexler, a former Florida Congressman and a staunch supporter of Israeli government policies... Read more... No guns? They must be terrorists, by Mark Steel | The Independent ...But bit by bit Israel is finding it has to answer for itself publicly, and the old excuses are not so easily accepted. From now on they'll have to put a bit more thought into their bollocks, which has got to be for the good... Read more... War on Iran? | If Americans Knew For many years, a number of Israeli leaders have been pushing for a war against Iran. According to Israeli author Israel Shahak, writing in 1993, there were two possible scenarios: In one; Israel would attack Iran alone, in another, Israel “would ‘persuade’ the West to do the job.” It appears that the second scenario may be underway... Read more... Second Republic: A Idea Whose Time has Come? | Adrian Salbuchi Watch videos... Israeli Soldiers assault Adults and Children in Peaceful Demonstration [Video] | Intifada Palestine Today (Wednesday) was another honorable and painful chapter in the struggle of the village of Al-Walaja. Apartheid soldiers assaulted children and adults protesting peacefully, injured many, and arrested six Palestinians. The destruction of the beautiful ancient village land was stopped for over 1.5 hours. I was especially touched by the courage of Omar and his two children, one of them was hit by a soldier with his gun on top of his head. Please see this video and be both angered and inspired by the courage of the Walajans... Watch video... The Prosecution of George W. Bush for Murder, by Vincent Bugliosi | Veterans Today ...Perhaps the most amazing thing to me about the belief of many that George Bush lied to the American public in starting his war with Iraq is that the liberal columnists who have accused him of doing this merely make this point, and then go on to the next paragraph in their columns... Read more... Iran official: We have obtained the S-300 missile system | Haaretz Fars news agency says Tehran signs deal with Belarus after Russia reportedly refused to provide Iran with the surface-to-air system over recent UN sanctions... [I sincerely hope it's true, but they need more of them to deter the coming slaughter] Read more...The Avoidable Depression: "No one believes the U.S. is the land of opportunity anymore, by Mike Whitney | Information Clearing House The economy has gone from bad to worse. Last Friday's report from the Commerce Department confirmed that GDP had slipped from 3.7% to 2.4% in one quarter. Now that depleted stockpiles have been rebuilt and fiscal stimulus is running out, activity will continue to sputter increasing the likelihood of a double dip recession... Read more... Church to burn copies of Koran to mark 9/11 | The News (Australia) A Florida church was yesterday promoting an event where it will burn copies of the Koran to mark the ninth anniversary of the September 11 attacks on the U.S... [Wanted: Experienced arsonist for Church work] Read more... Queen Nancy of the Robber Class, by Cindy Sheehan | Information Clearing House ...Planet Earth of the Real People to Queen Nancy [Pelosi] of the Robber Class—can you use some of your husband’s millions to buy a clue? We here down in the class that does the fighting, killing, and dying while you and your buds do the profiteering... Read more... Whose Hands? Whose Blood? by Tom Engelhardt | Antiwar Consider the following statement offered by Admiral Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, at a news conference last week. He was discussing Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks as well as the person who has taken responsibility for the vast, still ongoing Afghan War document dump at that site. "Mr. Assange," Mullen commented, "can say whatever he likes about the greater good he thinks he and his source are doing, but the truth is they might already have on their hands the blood of some young soldier or that of an Afghan family.".. Read more... A Cakewalk Against Iran, by Philip Geraldi | My Catbird Seat Everyone who is concerned that yet another war in the Middle East could wreck what remains of the United States economy and probably strip away even more of our liberties should be troubled by the numerous calls for war against Iran... Read more... The Century of the Self (Part 1) | Information Clearing House The Century of the Self tells the untold and sometimes controversial story of the growth of the mass-consumer society in Britain and the United States. How was the all-consuming self created, by whom, and in whose interests?.. Read more, watch video... Dr. Fredrick Toben on the Holocaust and Oliver Stone on Jewish Control of the Media, with Hesham Tillawi | Ustream Watch video... Tony Blair Must Be Prosecuted, by John Pilger | t r u t h o u t Tony Blair must be prosecuted, not indulged like his mentor Peter Mandelson. Both have produced self-serving memoirs for which they have been paid fortunes. Blair's will appear next month and earn him £4.6 million. Now, consider Britain's Proceeds of Crime Act... Read more... The Next War, by Robert Koehler | Common Dreams "I'm going to be killing people. I'm actually joining the Marines and will be doing this in real life." War springs eternal. Compare the words of the 18-year-old boy quoted above by Philadelphia radio station WRTI, as he was wielding a pretend machine gun at a video-game parlor/Army recruiting center at a Philly shopping mall, with those of two neocons, Charles Robb and Charles Wald (retired senator and general, respectively), writing last month in the Washington Post:.. Read more... Do the Rich Need the Rest of America? by Robert Frank | Wall Street Journal Late last year, the U.S. economy experienced a surprising decoupling. As stocks boomed, the wealthy bounced back. And while the Main Street economy was wracked by high unemployment and the real-estate crash, the wealthy–whose financial fates were more tied to capital markets than jobs and houses– picked themselves up, brushed themselves off and started buying luxury goods again... Read more... Hanging A Hammock Between Death And The Abyss: A Götterdämmerung Of Kitsch, by Phil Rockstroh | OpEd News Given the level of cultural absurdity at large, both the commercially tormented landscape and the mass media dominated mindscape of the United States seem a Gogol goof-take... Read more, watch video... Only we're allowed, by Gideon Levy | Haaretz After Tuesday's border clash, Israel will continue to ignore UNIFIL and the Lebanese army... Read more... A flawed system? U.S. boasts highest prison incarceration numbers in world | The Real News The United States of America currently incarcerates the highest percentage of its own citizens when compared to any other country in the world. With it's harsh drug laws, minimum sentencing guidelines and repeated imprisonment of non-violent offenders, the country has literally thrown the shackles on millions of individuals... Read more... All Quiet on the Eastern Front, by Uri Avnery | Gush Shalom People endowed with sensitive political ears were startled this week by two words, which, so it seemed, escaped from the mouth of Binyamin Netanyahu by accident: “Eastern front”. Once upon a time these words were part of the everyday vocabulary of the occupation. In recent years they have been gathering dust in the political junkyard... Read more... Ethnic cleansing in the Israeli Negev, by Neve Gordon | The Guardian The razing of a Bedouin village by Israeli police shows how far the state will go to achieve its aim of Judaising the Negev region... Read more, watch video... John McCain: A Closer Look at Evil (Part 6), by Jeff Gates | Criminal State Those who know him best agree that John McCain is too unstable for public office. “The thought of McCain being president sends a cold chill down my spine,” says fellow Republican Senator Thad Cochran of Mississippi who has known McCain for four decades. “He is erratic. He is hotheaded. He loses his temper and he worries me.” McCain’s political path to the U.S. Senate offers a case study in organized crime, American-style... Read more... The ADL and its marriage to the enemies of tolerance, by Michael Leon | Veterans Today The ADL is oblivious to the fact that they are making an alliance of convenience with the enemies of tolerance, the Christian right... Read more... China Calls Our Bluff: "The US is Insolvent and Faces Bankruptcy as a Pure Debtor Nation but [U.S.] Rating Agencies Still Give it High Rankings" | Washington's Blog As the Financial Times notes, the head of China's biggest credit rating agency has said America is insolvent and that U.S. credit ratings are a joke:.. Read more... A Coup In Turkey Before Any Attack On Iran? | Aangirfan The military wants to promote 11 generals who have been charged with plotting to bring down the government. Reportedly, Turkish prime minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has called for a cancellation of the promotions for the 11 generals. But he lacks the power to cancel appointments wanted by the generals... Read more... Dr. Alan Sabrosky: 9/11 Was a Mossad Operation | BigEye Zionism Unmasked: The Dark Face Of Jewish Nationalism Israeli prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu once remarked to a Likud gathering that "Israel is not like other countries." Oddly enough for him, that time he was telling the truth, and nowhere is that more evident than with Jewish nationalism, whether or not one pins the "Zionist" label on it...Read more... Who will take out the garbage if our courts of justice won't punish war crimes? | Redress Information & Analysis Stuart Littlewood considers the impunity with which state-sponsored murderers and war criminals operate and argues that if universal jurisdiction is not made to work, then upright, socially responsible citizens may have to dispense justice themselves. “Assassination may not remain the private playground of shadowy CIA and Mossad operatives for much longer.”.. [Such actions may become necessary unless things change radically and soon] Read more...Aug 6, 2010 Palestinian Child confronts Israeli forces over father's detention, by Zuheir Al-Shaer | Maan News Video footage of a four-year-old child begging Israeli forces to release his father from detention on Monday has circulated the globe... Read more, watch video... Disemboweling the Right of Return: America's Dog in Lebanese Fight, by Franklin Lamb |WVNS For months, as Lebanon's historic debate over basic civil rights for Palestinian refugees has unfolded, the Obama administration has watched idly along the sidelines. As hundreds of thousands of Palestinian refugees cough and slow-bake while inhaling rancid camp air in Lebanon's sweltering breezeless heat, the White House has now sent Lebanon's Parliament a message. The United States will not support meaningful civil, social or economic rights for the world's largest and oldest refugee population and it wants them naturalized anywhere except anyplace in Palestine... Read more.. Economics: The Midas touch, by Steven Silber | Haaretz If Jews excelled at commerce, it's because their faith saw it as natural and their host societies often forbade key aspects of it to themselves. Historian Jerry Muller looks at how it all led to catastrophe... Read more... Noam Chomsky Interview Regarding Israel | Information Clearing House "I regard myself as a supporter of Israel".. Watch video... Who is afraid of the 'Golden Rule'? | Rebel News The human ability to complicate even the most straightforward questions is beyond amazing. In some cases this is being done quite deliberately, for example in the field of ethics. These days, you can't go through a MBA programme of a reputable business school without being forced to attend some ethics course, usually as part of a compulsory subject such as 'decision making' or 'managing people'... Read more... The Old Right’s Jewish Problem, by John Derbyshire | Taki's Mag The Alternative Right website has posted an interesting symposium on the topic: Is the traditional Right anti-Jewish?.. Read more... What to Do About the Wars, by Ivan Eland | Antiwar As President Obama pooh-poohed as old news the many WikiLeaks documents showing the sad state of the conflict in Afghanistan, the chief executive also began an entire month of crowing about keeping his campaign promise to “bring the war in Iraq to a responsible end.” But in both wars, the president’s strategies are flawed and need to be replaced with new ones... Read more... Can Americans Who Oppose War and Empire Work Together? by Kevin Zeese | Dissident Voice Senator Lindsay Graham, a war supporting senator from South Carolina, said what he fears most is a left-right alliance against the Afghanistan War. He recognizes that such an alliance could stop war funding and force American troops to return home. But the masters of war may not have to use divide and rule tactics because many war opponents on both sides of the political spectrum seem too willing to divide themselves... [Please read my comments on the site and submit your own] Read more...The Liberal Media: Rest in Peace | Steve Lendman The New York Times never qualified, run exclusively as a voice for power and privilege. The same, of course, holds for virtually all mainstream publications, including The Nation magazine, suppressing, sanitizing, and distorting truths, betraying its readers since 1865... Read more... Book Review: A Powerful Testimony to Courage, by George Polley | Palestine Chronicle “What we are fighting in the South Hebron Hills is pure, rarefied, unadulterated, uncontainable human evil. Nothing but malice drives this campaign to uproot” people from their homes. … “They led peaceful, if somewhat impoverished lives, until the settlers came. Since then, there has been no peace. They are tormented, terrified, incredulous, as am I. What black greed, what unwitting hatred, has turned Israeli Jews into the torturers of the innocent?” The stories in Letters from Palestine are by people who live this reality on a daily basis... Read more... The Trouble With Unconstitutional Wars, by Rep. Ron Paul | Antiwar Our foreign policy was in the spotlight last week, which is exactly where it should be. Almost two years ago many voters elected someone they thought would lead us to a more peaceful, rational co-existence with other countries. However, while attention has been focused on the administration’s disastrous economic policies, its equally disastrous foreign policies have exacerbated our problems overseas. Especially in times of economic crisis, we cannot afford to ignore costly foreign policy mistakes... Read more... Patrick Buchanan On 'GOP Blank Check For War?' | Eurasia Review High among the blunders of history was the “blank cheque” Kaiser Wilhelm gave Vienna, after the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, to deal with the Serbs as they saw fit... Read more... Here Be Dragons: In Bed With the US Army, by Tom Engelhardt and Ann Jones | TomDispatch MRAPs, Sprained Ankles, Air Conditioning, Farting Contests, and Other Snapshots from the American War in Afghanistan... Read more... Anti-Defamers Defame Muslims, by Justin Raimondo | Lew Rockwell I'm shocked – shocked, I tell you! – that the Anti-Defamation League has joined the alliance of militant Christians, militantly atheistic "Objectivists," and other assorted militant nut-jobs in calling for a ban on the so-called "Ground Zero mosque, " otherwise known as Cordoba House. After all, why would an organization ostensibly devoted to "civil rights" and "tolerance" get in bed with Pamela "Shrieking Harpy" Geller, the Religious Right, and Leonard Peikoff, the Peripatetic Pipsqueak?.. Read more... Palestine Takes Center Stage in the Antiwar Movement, by Andrew Pollack | Palestine Chronicle The United National Antiwar Conference, attended by 850 people from July 23 to 25, 2010 in Albany, New York, marked a sea change in the attitude of the antiwar movement toward Palestine. For the first time a broadly representative, democratic national conference of peace activists adopted the demand "End All US Aid to Israel." UNAC also endorsed the global BDS movement, committed itself to joining Palestine solidarity efforts around future flotillas, emergency responses to Zionist attacks, etc., and expressed its opposition to the US's many-faceted complicity in Zionism's various crimes... Read more... Don't deny our rights: open letter to Mahmoud Abbas | The Electronic Intifada The following open letter to Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, whose elected mandate expired in July 2009 and who has remained in power under controversial emergency laws, was issued on 22 July 2010:.. Read more... Colombia: Report Suggests "Correlation" between U.S. Aid and Army Killings | IPS "There are alarming links between increased reports of extrajudicial executions of civilians by the Colombian army and units that receive U.S. military financing," John Lindsay-Poland, lead author of a two-year study on the question, told IPS... Read more... The end of (military) history, by Andrew J Bacevich | Asia Times ...Armed conflict in the industrial age reached new heights of lethality and destructiveness. Once begun, wars devoured everything, inflicting staggering material, psychological, and moral damage. Pain vastly exceeded gain. In that regard, the war of 1914-1918 became emblematic: even the winners ended up losers. When fighting eventually stopped, the victors were left not to celebrate but to mourn... Read more... Aug 4-5, 2010 Press TV Under Attack | Gilad Atzmon To tell the truth about Israeli barbarism is a breach of impartiality. The Guardian and the Jewish Chronicle reported today that, Ofcom, the UK broadcasting standards body, has ruled that Iranian-backed Press TV’s coverage of the Gaza flotilla incident breached guidelines on impartiality... Read more... War with Iran?: Memorandum for President Obama from Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity | My Catbird Seat We write to alert you to the likelihood that Israel will attack Iran as early as this month. This would likely lead to a wider war. Israel’s leaders would calculate that once the battle is joined, it will be politically untenable for you to give anything less than unstinting support to Israel, no matter how the war started, and that U.S. troops and weaponry would flow freely. Wider war could eventually result in destruction of the state of Israel... Read more... Israel has crept into the EU without anyone noticing, by Robert Fisk | The Independent The death of five Israeli servicemen in a helicopter crash in Romania this week raised scarcely a headline. There was a Nato-Israeli exercise in progress. Well, that's OK then... Read more... A strategy of liberation requires emancipation | Uprooted Palestinians After almost one century of Zionist terrorism in Palestine, the world is gradually waking up to this racist and destructive ideology. Contributing to the heroic Palestinian Resistance, this growing awareness will incidentally precipitate the abolition of the Zionist ideology and its hideous manifestation, just like slavery or Nazism were abolished... Read more... The Legitimacy of Boycotting as a Tactic, by Kim Petersen | Dissident Voice Progressivism values solidarity, and within that solidarity there is respect for diversity. It is expected that there will be differences of opinion on the causes of injustices and solutions to the injustice. What best captures the essence of progressivism is its adherence to principles. It seems obvious to declare the right to non-violently resist an occupier/oppressor must be one of those principles. There appears, however, a schism on this principle within the progressivist movement... Read more... False Flag Nuke Attack On U.S. Justified?: King’s Torah, by Gordon Duff | Veterans Today This week, the last piece fell into place. The National Research Council, part of the National Academy of Science, heavy on politics and light on science, announced that America was no longer able to track nukes threatening our shores... Read more... Castro is right, so is Helen Thomas, by Khalid Amayreh | Palestine Think Tank Zionist supremacists from Tel Aviv to Los Angeles are ganging up on two elderly targets these days. The first is the 84-year-old Fidel Castro, a man who apparently made up his mind about Zionism more than six decades ago. And the second is 89-year-old veteran American journalist Helen Thomas... Read more... Why the Feds Fear Thinkers Like Howard Zinn, by Chris Hedges | t r u t h o u t On Monday I will teach my final American history class of the semester to prison inmates. We have spent five weeks reading Howard Zinn’s “A People’s History of the United States.” The class is taught in a small room in the basement of the prison... Read more... Judaic Pagan God, by Dr. Elias Akleh | Sabbah Report Religions, though monotheistic aiming to unite nations under one God, have been used by politicians and political clergy to divide and segregate nations and to bet them against each other in perpetual wars that benefit only military industrial complex and its share owners... Read more... The Mortal Peril Of Christian Zionism In America, by David Edward Standridge | The Ugly Truth Zionism, and even worse yet, “Christian Zionism”, are inseparable from the horrific fate of America, and by extension from the world in general. As has been said, “There is no light between (them)”. And it is the blood and treasure of Israel’s Golem, the US and a few allied countries, which will be sacrificed in an utterly insane global Holy War on behalf of Jewish nationalism... Read more... Zionism Carries Within it the Seeds of its own Demise, by Nayef Rajoub | Intifada Palestine Interviewed by Khalid Amayreh Nayef Rajoub, 52, is one of the most popular Islamic leaders in Occupied Palestine. His courageous promotion of Palestinian rights, including the right of return for Palestinian refugees, has attracted the unwanted attention of the Israeli security services...Read more... What they can do to Iran, by Dr Muzaffar Iqbal | The News "I cannot see American soldiers walking down that road over there," said Professor Mahdi, pointing to the busy street below his office. "Iran is not Afghanistan." "I cannot either, and Americans know that. What is possible, however, is something far more devastating: one week of carpet bombing which will destroy all that Iran has built over the last thirty years." "Not even one week," he said, "it may take three days to destroy the work of a generation.".. Read more... A Police State You'd Better Believe In, by Jack Kenny | The New American When our nation is waging "war on" so many things (drugs, crime, poverty, terrorism), it's hard to know where to enlist and when to defect. Or put another way, when should a patriot oppose his government? One answer, which we may hope is obvious, is when his government is waging war on liberty. The trick, of course, is to recognize it as such, since the government will always claim to be defending liberty when waging war against it... Read more... The Lies and Losses of War, by Chris Hedges | Information Clearing House Journalist, author and Truthdig columnist Chris Hedges brought his years of experience in the world’s war-torn zones to bear on this challenging speech he gave in March for the Truth Commission on Conscience in War at New York City’s Riverside Church. In this clip, Hedges points out that Americans “are as capable of perpetuating evil as those who oppose us, and this existential crisis is one that turns those who have the courage to stand up and speak ... into outcasts, pariahs, prophets.”.. Watch video... Chapter 5 of 200 Years Together: "After the Murder of Alexander II", by Kevin MacDonald | Occidental Observer Solzhenitsyn’s Chapter 5 (“After the Murder of Alexander II”) recounts the important period after the assassination of Tsar Alexandar II in 1881. The assassination inaugurated a period of anti-Jewish pogroms, restrictions on Jews, and an upsurge of Jewish involvement in revolutionary activities... Read more... Israel's teenage barbarians at al-Arakib, by Lawrence Davidson | Redress Information & Analysis Lawrence Davidson considers the role played by Israeli youths in the construction of fascism in Israel, most recently during an operation to ethnically cleanse non-Jewish citizens of Israel from a village in the Negev, where teenage students had been bussed in to hound the villagers out of their homes and act as cheerleaders during the ethnic cleansing... Read more... Aug 3, 2010 Preparing for World War III, Targeting Iran, by by Michel Chossudovsky | Global Research Part I: Global Warfare Humanity is at a dangerous crossroads. War preparations to attack Iran are in "an advanced state of readiness". Hi tech weapons systems including nuclear warheads are fully deployed. This military adventure has been on the Pentagon's drawing board since the mid-1990s. First Iraq, then Iran according to a declassified 1995 US Central Command document... Read more... The rich tapestry of Israeli apartheid, by Jonathan Cook | Mondoweiss The recent announcement that Palestinian communities in Israel will be provided with a bus service for the first time since Israel’s founding – that is, in 62 years – surprised observers who had not realized second-class citizenship also extends to being deprived of a bus line... Read more... Chelsea's Wedding: Let Them Eat Cake, by Paul Craig Roberts | Counterpunch It is not unusual for members of the diminishing upper middle class to drop $20,000 or $30,000 on a big wedding. But for celebrities this large sum wouldn’t cover the wedding dress or the flowers... Read more... America The Beautiful, Or Embarrassica The Mutilated? by David Michael Green | Euarasia Review Sometime presidential candidate and full-time lunatic Steve Forbes recently wrote a column on “Obama’s Soft-Core Socialism”... Read more... Conflict Without End? (Vol. III) | Clarity Press Alan Hart's epic history of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict In this extraordinary book, Alan Hart has succeeded in elucidating for us the immediate and long term dangers involved in the unconditional Western support for Zionism and its oppressive policies against the Palestinians. The author provides us with a chilling exposure of how this embrace developed and continues to endanger Jewish existence and fuels the anti-Semitism that refuses to disappear...Read more... Right-Wing Crazies Fight Witchcraft and Demons, Gunning for a State Near You, by Bruce Wilson | Alternet A radical, right-wing charismatic evangelical movement is burrowing into the power structures of major American cities and states... Read more... 40 Bizarre Statistics That Reveal The Horrifying Truth About The Collapse Of The U.S. Economy | The Truth Wins Most Americans still appear to be operating under the delusion that the "recession" will soon pass and that things will get back to "normal" very soon. Unfortunately, that is not anywhere close to the truth... Read more... Jewish War Crimes and Crimes Against Humanity Immediately Following the Second World War, Part 3 | Historical Review ...In the next three years, from sixty thousand to eighty thousand would die in the Office's institutions, much, much less than the number of Jews who'd died at Auschwitz but more than the number who'd died at Belsen or Buchenwald or one thousand places the Jews of the world now proclaim, "We will never forget.".. Read more... The Great Gulf Between Zionism and Judaism, by G. J. Neuberger | Neturei Karta ..Human life is sacred and human rights are not to be denied by those who would subvert them for "national security" or for any other reason. No one knows this better than the Jews, who have been second-class citizens so often and for so long. Zionists, however, may differ. This is understandable because Judaism and Zionism are by no means the same. Indeed they are incompatible and irreconcilable: If one is a good Jew, one cannot be a Zionist; if one is a Zionist, one cannot be a good Jew... Read more... Learn About Israeli Crimes Just 3 Years After The Liberation Of Auschwitz | Gilad Atzmon You may learn also about freedom of speech and freedom of expression in the so-called 'only democracy' in the Middle East... Watch video... Settlers Ramp Up "Price Tag" Policy: Israeli Rabbi Preaches "Slaughter" of Gentile Babies, by Jonathan Cook | Counterpunch A rabbi from one of the most violent settlements in the West Bank was questioned on suspicion of incitement last week as Israeli police stepped up their investigation into a book in which he sanctions the killing of non-Jews, including children and babies... Read more... Aug 2, 2010 Israel classifies its past as top secret | Redress Information & Analysis Lawrence Davidson explains why the Israeli government has decided to extend for an additional 20 years the period during which state documents must remain classified and the possibility that previously declassified documents might be reclassified... Read more... Must listen interview with former Republican Congressman Paul Findley | America Hijacked Findley speaks out about the Israeli lobby and its manipulation of US foreign policy in the Middle East, resulting in thousands of American deaths and tens of thousands of Muslim deaths... Read more... How American News Media Works In Favor Of Israel, with Alison Weir | Information Clearing House Watch video... Judge faces anti-semitism probe after speech attacking Israel helps free arms factory protesters | Daily Mail A senior judge was under investigation yesterday after being accused of making anti-Semitic remarks in court that may have swayed his jury into acquitting a group of protesters... [Will the Holy Inquisition prevail again, or is the tide beginning to turn?] Read more...Summer Camp Of Destruction: Israeli High Schoolers Assist The Razing Of A Bedouin Town | Max Blumenthal On July 26, Israeli police demolished 45 buildings in the unrecognized Bedouin village of al-Arakib, razing the entire village to the ground to make way for a Jewish National Fund forest. The destruction was part of a larger project to force the Bedouin community of the Negev away from their ancestral lands and into seven Indian reservation-style communities the Israeli government has constructed for them... Read more... Aug 1, 2010 Truth Above All: Interview with Dr. Dariusz Ratajczak For all of you seeking further information about Dariusz Ratajczak after hearing the sketchy news that his decomposing remains were found in ( of under) the automobile that he was forced to make home as the result of years of ostracism and privation. Once hailed as the most brilliant historian of his generation, he was stripped of his professorial post and livelihood, as well as his his immediate family, while a nation containing 20 million adults shamefully stood by as its most visible national hero of the contemporary era was reduced to less than non-person status for nearly a decade... [The unHoly Inquisition just doing its thing] Read more...Deaf, Dumb and Blind: US Treasury is Running on Fumes, by Paul Craig Roberts | Counterpunch The White House is screaming like a stuck pig. WikiLeaks' release of the Afghan War Documents "puts the lives of our soldiers and our coalition partners at risk." What nonsense. Obama's war puts the lives of American soldiers at risk, and the craven puppet state behavior of "our partners" in serving as US mercenaries is what puts their troops at risk... Read more... The Breakup of the United States, by Michael S. Rozeff | Lew Rockwell As the dissatisfactions of Americans with their national government grow, so does the likelihood of the breakup of the United States. I believe that most Americans can improve their well-being by ending the national government, that is, ending the Union. I believe that this goal should shape politics if politics is to do much good... Read more... Trends to Barbarism and Prospects for Socialism, by James Petras | My Catbird Seat Western societies and states are moving inexorably toward conditions resembling barbarism; structural changes are reversing decades of social welfare and subjecting labor, natural resources and the wealth of nations to raw exploitation, pillage and plunder, driving living standards downward and provoking unprecedented levels of discontent... Read more... The CIA and WMDs: The Damning Evidence | The New York Review of Books The following letter, by a former US intelligence officer, was sent in response to Thomas Powers's review of Robert Jervis's Why Intelligence Fails: Lessons from the Iranian Revolution and the Iraq War in the May 27 issue... Read more... John McCain: A Closer Look at Evil (Part 5), by Jeff Gates | Criminal State Over the span of six decades of focused funding and single-issue advocacy, the Israel lobby amassed enough political clout that it can now dominate U.S. policy-making. Allied with organized crime, the lobby's pro-Zionist influence took us to war in the Middle East. Meanwhile, the broader syndicate took the U.S economy into a debt-induced tailspin while vastly increasing its members' personal wealth... Read more... Zombie Neocon Strategy Behind Israel's "Bomb Iran" Campaign, by Gareth Porter | t r u t h o u t ...Israel cannot fight a war with Iran without full U.S. involvement. Israel needs to know that the United States will finish the war that Israel wants to start... Read more... Grassroots Rising: The Story of Evo Morales, by Ron Jacobs | Counterpunch Although the rhetoric against the left-leaning governments in Latin America in the US media has calmed down since the Obama administration moved into the White House, it is safe to assume that the continuing popularity of these governments and their alliances with those Washington considers enemies concerns the foreign policy establishment... Read more... Falling into The Pit with Ben Stein and The Tribe | Smoking Mirrors Ben Stein says that the unemployed are people with unpleasant personalities. He didn't say anything about how Zionist Bankers are responsible for the majority of the unemployed. He sees no irony in the fact that he himself is one of the most unpleasant people in an unpleasant system that survives by military adventures abroad and cannibalism at home... Read more... Right-Wing Group Launches 'Anti-Islamic' Bus Ads in Major Cities | Think Progress In May, the American Society for Muslim Advancement (ASMA) and the Cordoba Initiative proposed plans to build a community center two blocks away from Ground Zero in New York City that would include "a mosque, performance art center, gym, swimming pool and other public spaces." Since then, radical conservatives across the country have expressed open hostility to the construction of Muslim places of worship... Read more... Moshe and the Occupied Hummus Factory | Desertpeace Shamir Salads, an Israeli company located in the West Bank, is marketing its products in Europe using a false address west of the Green Line, violating an agreement between Israel and the European Union... Read more... The Children of Deir Yassin, by Pat McDonnell Twair ...A few hours later, Arab authorities announced Jewish terrorists has attacked the village of Deir Yassin. In hope of inciting neighbouring Arab governments to come to their aid, they graphically described the slaughter of Deir Yassin's civilian inhabitants. The Arab governments did not respond, but tragically, the Palestinian peasants did and began to make a mass exodus from their homeland of millennia to the Jordanian border... Read more... Wiki-Leaks Is Israel, Like We All Didn't Know, by Gordon Duff | Veterans Today Now "Wiki-Leaks" is busy selling phony bin Laden stories, having the long dead Osama humiliating the CIA by running around villages in Afghanistan selling vacuum cleaners. What is our "leak" site really about?.. Read more... When Globalism Runs Its Course: The Year America Dissolved, by Paul Craig Roberts | Counterpunch It was 2017. Clans were governing America... Read more... "It's Fun to Shoot Some People": Psychotic Morons, by Brian Cloughley | Counterpunch The recently sacked US commander in Afghanistan, McChrystal, was a special forces freak who was complicit in or actually caused the cloak-and-dagger deaths of an unknown number of people. He and his knuckle-dragging rabble were and are unaccountable to either man or morality. They kill at will... Read more... US Is Hostile, Can Pak Military See This? by Shireen Mazari | Pakalert From our nuclear program to the ISI, there is a continuous ongoing war being waged on us by the US. It may not be a military war but it has economic, political, diplomatic and psychological components. What is simply absurd is why the "PakMil" - a term Admiral Mike Mullen has coined to show his intimacy with General Kayani and is used only by him when he meets the COAS apparently - is not seeing the ground realities... Read more... The Hidden Face of Sanctions, by Alan Sabrosky | My Catbird Seat ...The real purpose of sanctions is not to affect the policies of the Iranian government, because nothing it does will affect the sanctions. It is to prepare the US public for an attack against Iran, almost certainly in conjunction with Israel, to destroy Israel’s last remaining competitor in the region and to provide a cover for Israel’s expulsion of the Palestinians from the West Bank and Gaza, into Jordan and the Sinai respectively... Read more... July 31, 2010 Fascist Israeli Knesset, by Michael Warschawski | Alternative Information Center This week the Knesset began its summer recess, and its members earned their holiday: in the last days of the previous session, they worked overtime to present various proposals, the common denominator of which was to save the state from its enemies at home... Read more... In Memorium: The Tragic Death of a Night Porter, by JP Bellinger | Veterans Today ..what possesses greater intrinsic value? Maintaining the mainstream version of the Holocaust at any cost, or the life of a single human being whose only offense was to engage in historical research in a quest for the truth?.. Read more... Islamophobia in Britain: The Products, The Names and The Faces | Gilad Atzmon Islamophobia has made it to the market place. In the open and shamelessly cafepress.co.uk offers hundreds of anti Muslim and anti Arab products: T-shirts, caps babysuits etc'. Yet, make no mistake, Cafepress is not an ordinary xenophobic retailer driven by some crude 'universal' bigotry... Read more... Hold US Leaders Accountable for War Crimes, by Sherwood Ross | Grant Lawrence blog Unless Americans hold their leaders accountable for their criminal conduct, even if it means the death penalty, future leaders will commit crimes as well, a prominent law school dean warns... Read more... Israel Threatens Lebanon, by Rannie Amiri | Global Research Beirut will be abuzz with diplomatic activity this weekend as Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah makes his first official visit to Lebanon since assuming the throne. Reports are that President Bashar Assad of Syria will accompany him as the two aim to diffuse mounting tension over the Special Tribunal for Lebanon 's (STL) anticipated indictment of "rogue" Hezbollah elements allegedly involved in the 2005 assassination of Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri... Read more... Oliver Stone Telling Hard Truths in the Face of Character Assassination, by Michael Leon | Veterans Today Spend your life working for peace and justice, then you criticize Israel and its propaganda apparatus and suddenly you are accused of being a bigot and defending Hitler. Welcome, you are another victim of the Character Assassination Team of the Zionist militarists... Read more... We Are Not Special, and There Is No Happy Ending: The Blood-Drenched Darkness of American Exceptionalism, by Arthur Silber | Uruknet You may not regard the two propositions in my title as deserving of any special attention. You may think, entirely correctly, that if we as Americans are special, it is only in the way that any human being is special: that each of us is unique and irreplaceable, that each of our lives, and the lives of all of us, demand reverence for the unrepeatable value of a person's brief passage in this world... Read more... John McCain; A Closer Look at Evil (Part 4), by Jeff Gates | My Catbird Seat The career of John McCain offers a textbook case confirming how war is waged on the U.S. by way of deception-with the help of senior lawmakers. Despite the constancy of his treasonous conduct, McCain seeks a fifth term in the U.S. Senate... Read more... Don't Blame Pakistan For The Failure Of The War, by Imran Khan | Veterans Today Before the West invaded Afghanistan my country had no suicide bombers, no jihad and no Talebanisation... Read more... Who Owns General Petraeus? by Philip Giraldi | Antiwar Anyone who has ever served in the military would confirm that to become a general in the armed forces of the United States requires highly developed political skills. One must be politically astute to guide large military forces while at the same time answering to largely ignorant constituencies in Congress, the White House, and the media... [You rarely have to look further than the usual suspects] Read more...The Afghanistan Files and the Poison of Lies, by Gerd Appenzeller | My Catbird Seat Indiscretions like those currently from WikiLeaks and the newspapers that reprinted portions of the text therefore have but one goal in mind: to make the truth known... Read more... What's in a name? In a racist society, everything, by Richard Irvine | The Electronic Intifada Names have always been political. Throughout history different regimes have used naming as a means of racial or religious identification. In Nazi Germany a 1938 law obliged Jews to add Sara or Israel to their names so as to eliminate ethnic confusion. And in my own country, Northern Ireland, even without a law, a name could determine one's success in life... Read more... Why Muslims should rethink Palestine, by Ramzy Baroud | Palestine Note Thousands of faithful assiduously listened as I outlined the challenges facing Palestine and its people. Cries of 'Allahu Akbar' - God is Great - occasionally resounded from a corner of the giant South African mosque. Many whimpered as I described the tragedy that had befallen Gaza as a result of the Israeli siege. They cheered, smiled and nodded as I emphasized how the will of the Palestinian people would not be defeated... Read more... It's Not the Graveyard of Empires, by Christian Caryl | Foreign Policy It's the mother of all clichés. Almost no one can resist it. It's wielded by everyone from thoughtful ex-generals to vitriolic bloggers. It crops up everywhere from Russia's English-language TV channel to scruffy Pakistani newspapers to America's stately National Public Radio. The Huffington Post can't seem to live without it, and one recent book even chose it as a title. Afghanistan, we're told, is "the graveyard of empires.".. Read more... Middle East history buff Hague whitewashes Israel's villainy on the high seas | Redress Information & Analysis Stuart Littlewood views British Foreign Secretary William Hague's weasel words on the siege of Gaza and his consistent rear-guard defence of Israeli crimes, which show that Prime Minister David Cameron's recent reference to the Gaza Strip as a "prison camp" should not be interpreted as signaling a change in the UK's slavishly pro-Israel policies... Read more... US and Colombia plan to attack Venezuela, by Eva Golinger | Postcards from the Revolution Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez denounced this Saturday US plans to attack his country and overthrow his government. During a ceremony celebrating the 227th birthday of Independence hero Simon Bolivar, Chavez read from a secret memo he had been sent from an unnamed source inside the United States... Read more... July 30, 2010 An exclusive interview with Hajo Meyer, Holocaust survivor and "anti-semite" | You Tube Watch... A Nasty, Lying Zionist? by Alex Kane | Desertpeace Israeli historian Benny Morris is famous for being part of the “New Historians” of Israel that exposed a great deal of Zionist myths about the founding of the state of Israel, including the falsehood that leaders of surrounding Arab states told Palestinians to leave their homes, and that they listened. The truth, of course, is that there was a deliberate policy of expulsion carried about by Jewish forces, and that many Palestinians fled and became refugees because they were fearful for their lives... Read more... Politics before and after the Gaza flotilla, by Dr Saeb Shaath | Palestine News Network Palestinians have refused to surrender. The Collective Punishment unleashed on them by the combined might of Israel and the United States has failed to crush the extraordinary resistance mounted by the Palestinian people... Read more... Why Is the Antiwar Movement Stalled? by Justin Raimondo | Antiwar A recent gathering of the remnants of the antiwar movement, sponsored by something calling itself the United National Antiwar Conference, underscores the reasons why there is almost no effective organized opposition to the present administration’s occupation of Iraq and Afghanistan... [Raimondo inexplicably leaves out the salient fact that Chomsky is a Zionist, which is sufficient explanation by itself] Read more...Let the apologies to Goldstone begin, by Philip Weiss | Mondoweiss ..After the Israelis came out with their lame investigation saying that they would indict several officers and soldiers in four cases arising from the Gaza conflict of '08-'09, a fairminded South African columnist, Allister Sparks, published an important piece a few days ago, calling on South African rabbis to apologize to Judge Richard Goldstone for slamming Goldstone's report last year... Read more... On the Bloated Intelligence Bureaucracy, by Rep. Ron Paul | Antiwar I have often spoken about the excessive size of government, and most recently how waste and inefficiency needs to be eliminated from our military budget. Our foreign policy is not only bankrupting us, but actively creating and antagonizing enemies of the United States and compromising our national security... Read more... Engelhardt, Clueless in Afghanistan -- and Washington | TomDispatch Have you ever thought about just how strange this country’s version of normal truly is? Let me make my point with a single, hardly noticed Washington Post news story that’s been on my mind for a while. It represents the sort of reporting that, in our world, zips by with next to no reaction, despite the true weirdness buried in it... Read more... Egypt Punishes Gaza More, by Adam Morrow and Khaled Moussa al-Omrani | Antiwar Almost two months since Egypt announced it would reopen its Rafah border terminal with the Gaza Strip, operation of the crossing remains sorely limited... Read more... The Last Bastion of American Morality Is Under Assault, by Paul Craig Roberts | FPJ The morality of the American people now resides, insecurely, in the Presbyterian Church. Every other institution of American society–the evangelical churches, the bought-and-paid-for American media, both houses of Congress, the executive branch, both political parties, the corporations, the financial sector, the universities–all support Israel’s genocide against the Palestinians. Only the Presbyterians dissent... Read more... Ban Israel from the London 2012 Olympics, by Kawther Salam | Palestine Think Tank We, the undersigned citizens of the world, call on the international Olympics Committee to rescind Israel's participation in the London 2012 Olympics. Israel's attack on a humanitarian aid fleet on Monday 31 May 2010, its murder of 9 human rights activists in international waters, and wounding many more, demonstrate that Israel rejects the structural tenets of our shared humanity, manifested in a global moral consensus and international law... Read more... A state afraid of its past | Haaretz The role of the security establishment and intelligence services is to protect the state in the present, not to hide the past... Read more... |
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