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September, 2010

Sep 29-30, 2010

Israel's Political Firewall against the Truth, by George Polley | Palestine Chronicle

For FII purposes, Palestinians only exist as terrorists and delegitimizers

  ... “The propagandist's purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.” It is the key to separating out what is blatant propaganda and what is fair and honest communication...
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Ahmadinejad Speaks at UN, American Delegates Walk Out | LiveLeak
  Ahmadinejad told the United Nations that most people believe the U.S. government was responsible for September 11, 2001. The American delegates left the room in protest. He later went on to propose that 2011 be proclaimed the year of nuclear disarmament...
[It's amazing how "shocked" so many "respectable" people can become when someone has the chutzpah to just tell the truth, publicly, in front of the whole world.]
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Replace the War System: Why and How, by Michael Nagler | Common Dreams
  About the murderous rampage of U.S. soldiers from the 5th Stryker Combat Brigade who killed and dismembered Afghani civilians, evidently “for sport,” the Santa Rosa Press Democrat reported on September 20th, “Army officials have not disclosed a motive” for the outrage. Let me try...
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A One-to-Two-State Solution, by Robert Wright | NYT
  This week’s bad news from the West Bank — the resumption of settlement construction after a 10-month moratorium, just as a new round of peace talks had gotten underway — didn’t much dampen optimism among seasoned Middle East watchers. That’s because there wasn’t much optimism to dampen...
[Considering it's the NYT, and in spite of the usual Zionist-induced obtuseness about the nature of the struggle, it's encouraging to see at least this groping at some kind of sanity.]
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New Act of Israeli Piracy SOP, Memory of Murdered American Dims, by Dave Lindorff and Linn Washington | Veterans Today
Israeli Piracy Continues, Terror State Issues No Apologies 
  As news broke that the Israeli navy engaged in yet another act of piracy of nine Jewish activists off the coast of Gaza halting humanitarian aid on the ship, Irene, memories have dimmed of last May’s deadly assault, the infamous Massacre on the Mediterranean...
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The Truth Will Set U.S. Free: Breaking Israel’s Stranglehold over American Foreign Policy, by Maidhc Ó Cathail | My Catbird Seat
  We will know that accountability is underway when we see federal grand juries convened to consider charges against Israel’s agents, assets and sayanim (volunteers). When a jury brings in the first verdict for treason, Americans will know that the rule of law is being restored. We will know that a solution is within sight when the many appendages of its lobby are required to register as foreign agents...
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U.S. Jewish Groups Help Make Palestinian State Impossible | The Daily Beast
  Mideast talks fall apart, as Israel lets West Bank settlements begin anew. Peter Beinart on how American Jewish groups tie Obama’s hands—and work against peace...
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Class-Action Lawsuit To Be Filed Against U.S. Government and Media Organizations Responsible For Creating Anti-Islamic Hysteria | The Ugly Truth
  Before, hearing the constant din of Muslim-bashing taking place on both the mainstream and alternative media in America only aggravated him. However, when a car was recently set ablaze in the parking lot of the LaFayette Islamic Center (to which he is the newly-elected president) and accompanied with notes written in the language of an approaching lynch mob, he decided that enough was enough...
[I wouldn't underestimate the formidable Mr. Tillawi when he gets his dander up - he just might accomplish something. Let's give him our support. He just might be the David with a slingshot we're patiently waiting for.]
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The former guerrilla set to be the world's most powerful woman, by Hugh O'Shaughnessy | The Independent
  The world's most powerful woman will start coming into her own next weekend. Stocky and forceful at 63, this former leader of the resistance to a Western-backed military dictatorship (which tortured her) is preparing to take her place as President of Brazil...
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The Complicated Faces of Anti-Semitism, by Dr. Alan Sabrosky | Dissident Voice

  I cannot speak for the situation elsewhere, but in the US, I doubt if there is a another definable group that equals or surpasses Jews in their achievements in so many different fields, their support for civil liberties and civil rights, and their philanthropy or general support of charitable causes. But when Israel enters the equation, those truly admirable qualities are often set aside...
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Islamophobia, Censorship And The Holocaust, by Shiraz Dossa | Veterans Today
  Six months after attending a controversial Tehran conference, a Canadian professor charges the media and his own university with ignorance and intolerance...
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Reaction to Aafia Siddiqui's Sentencing | Stephen Lendman
  ...Judge Richard Berman ruled her acts premeditated, contradicting jurors saying they were not... No matter that she's completely innocent, and has been a US political prisoner since her March 30, 2003 abduction, incarceration, torture, prosecution, and conviction on bogus charges. Her case is one of America's most egregious examples of horrific abuse and injustice, climaxed by her virtual life sentence for an alleged crime she never committed...
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Out of Control Generals want more WAR!, by Robert L. Hanafin | Veterans Today
  Only a day before the release of Bob Woodword’s new book “Obama’s War" an expose of infighting within the Obama administration over Afghanistan, the progressive grassroots activist group ReThink Afghanistan came out with a video depicting just how much Generals under Gates despise and challenge their Commander-In-Chief...
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Why is the 'rise in crimes against Muslims' becoming a dangerous fact? by Shabana Syed | Gilad Atzmon
  In America the terrorist threat posed by radical Islam has been exaggerated, according to a study by researchers at Duke University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill...
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Journal of a voyage, by Yonatan Shapira | Occupation Magazine
   The course is 120. Another 200 miles to the port in Cyprus and the automatic pilot in the boat, which is supposed to maintain the course, refuses to work and leaves me with the unending task of maintaining the course on a turbulent sea with no sign of land from horizon to horizon. In another half hour, Itamar, my brother, who is also a “refusnik,” will relieve me at the wheel...
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Jewish Gaza-bound activists: IDF used excessive force in naval raid, by Yanir Yagna | Haaretz
  Activists aboard Gaza-bound ship 'Irene' counter IDF version that the vessel was taken over in a peaceful manner...
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An Open Letter To President Obama About American Security, by Gordon Duff | Veterans Today
  ...Our most current concern is with what appears to be a growing pattern of abuse of American rights by Federal law enforcement authorities in recent days.  It is our belief that agent provocateurs have, at the direction of our complex and burdensome state security apparatus, infiltrated groups trying to end the war in Afghanistan, groups asking for an honest investigation of 9/11 and, perhaps even more seriously, groups challenging financial policies that are undermining the future of the United States...
[We have met the enemy and they are us. - Pogo]
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Retribution for a World Lost in Screens, Chris Hedges | t r u t h o u t
  Nemesis was the Greek goddess of retribution. She exacted divine punishment on arrogant mortals who believed they could defy the gods, turn themselves into objects of worship and build ruthless systems of power to control the world around them. The price of such hubris was almost always death...
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The Facts Speak For Themselves, by Jon Gold | 911truthnews
  Before I begin, I would like to say that theorizing about what happened on 9/11, when you’re not being given answers to your questions about that day by the people who should be able to do so, is perfectly normal. As is suspecting that the reason these answers aren’t being given is “sinister” in nature...
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Palestinian Authority Recommends Whitewashing Gaza War Crimes | Stephen Lendman
  Who do they serve anyway? It's clear from the sham peace talks and a new development. The Mahmoud Abbas-controlled Palestinian Authority (PA) wants Israel absolved of accountability for Cast Lead crimes of war and against humanity. No matter that conclusive evidence exposed them, the result of the IDF's 23-day day rampage, killing over 1,400, injuring over 5,000, many severely, and practically leveling wide areas of Gaza, affecting mostly civilian and non-military related targets...
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Gandhi on the Jews (1938) | Veterans Today
  Several letters have been received by me asking me to declare my views about the Arab-Jew question in Palestine and the persecution of the Jews in Germany. It is not without hesitation that I venture to offer my views on this very difficult question...
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Burying Nuclear Waste in the Palestinian Territories | Kawther Salam
  Palestinian farmers from Yatta village south of Hebron in the West Bank have revealed that the Israeli military continues to bury nuclear waste in their farmlands at Al-Masafer near the armistice line in the West Bank. The farmers said that the military forces “IDF” brings trucks loaded with waste suspected to be radioactive waste and is burying it in their lands after they force them to evacuate the area...
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General Toufik: 'God of Algeria', by Jeremy Keenan | Al Jazeera
  Could the demise of the world's longest serving 'intelligence chief' be imminent?...
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The Road to World War III: The Global Banking Cartel Has One Card Left to Play, by David DeGraw | Global Research
  The following is Part I to David DeGraw’s new book, “The Road Through 2012: Revolution or World War III.” This is the second installment to a new seven-part series that we will be posting throughout the next few weeks...
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Israel's Reasoning Against Peace:
Peace might upend wealth of Israelis, by Jonathan Cook | Dissident Voice

  With the resumption of settlement construction in the West Bank yesterday, Israel’s powerful settler movement hopes that it has scuttled peace talks with the Palestinians. It would be misleading, however, to assume that the only major obstacle to the success of the negotiations is the right-wing political ideology the settler movement represents...
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Sunlight Disinfects Sunstein: Now Bring on the War Crimes Tribunals | truthjihad
  Cass Sunstein argues that the government should infiltrate 9/11 truth groups, "disable" 9/11 "conspiracy purveyors," and thereby promote the spread of "beneficial cognitive diversity."..
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Russia and Turkey: Cleaning up the mess in the Middle East | Eric Walberg
  The new Ottomans and the new Byzantines are poised for an intercept as the US stumbles in the current Great Game...
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Roger Waters and the Bombs of David | Gilad Atzmon
  Ynet reported today that The Anti-Defamation League (ADL)  on Monday criticized rock star Roger Waters for simply conveying the truth...
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UN backs 'nuclear-free' Middle East | Al Jazeera
  Security Council to take "concrete steps" towards atomic weapons-free zone...
[The permanent members of the Security Council have veto power, but Israel appears to have veto power over the Council. Israel's continuing membership in the UN is probably the greatest ongoing scandal in contemporary international relations.]
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Israel Shamir: Israeli Peace agreement will mean big war | YouTube
[The video appears to have been shot by a midget, but it's only a minor annoyance.]
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Sep 28, 2010


America's Undeclared War on Pakistan: Deadly Drone Attacks Reach Record High, by Rick Rozoff | Global Research

Pakistan

  On September 25 three missiles fired from a U.S. Predator drone killed four people near the capital of North Waziristan in Pakistan's Federally Administered Tribal Areas, marking at least the 16th such attack in the country so far this month...
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Critique of Israel comes from within the country, by Haroon Siddiqui | The Star
  Israeli columnist Gideon Levy infuriates many Israelis for chronicling Palestinian suffering and Israeli brutality. But his editors at the liberal Haaretz have refused to buckle under pressure.  “This daily newspaper is truly a ray of light in the dark that has descended over Israel,” he writes in The Punishment of Gaza...
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The Sakineh scandal, by Thierry Meyssan | Voltaire Net
  French essayist Bernard-Henry Levy and President Nicolas Sarkozy have mobilized French public opinion to save an Iranian woman, accused of adultery, from being stoned to death. Overcome with emotion, the French did not take the time to verify the allegations, until actor Dieudonné M’bala M’bala traveled to Teheran. Once in the Iranian capital, everything turned out to be false...
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We've Been Here Before: The FBI Raids in Context, by Ron Jacobs | Counterpunch
   On September 24, 2010 the FBI raided several houses and a couple offices in Minneapolis/St. Paul, Chicago and North Carolina  under the guise of looking for proof that the people living in those houses were involved with organizations that "lent material support to terrorists."..
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The ballad of the fleas,  by John Walker Lindh | Cageprisoners  
It’s said that black death spread by fleas
On backs of rats they rode
One fateful autumn thus they came
With vengeance as their code...
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It's All Over Now, Baby Blue ... The Dismantling of Civil Society, by David Michael Green | Counterpunch

  How stupid are you? I mean, let’s just face it, shall we?  That is precisely the question the right has been asking the American public for thirty years (and more) now.  And that is the question the American public has been enthusiastically answering for the same period of time. Like a crack junkie, in fact...
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Jewish Boat On Its Way | Gilad Atzmon
  Haaretz reported this week that a boat carrying Jewish activists from Israel, Germany, the U.S. and Britain set sail on Sunday for Gaza, hoping to breach Israel's blockade there and deliver aid...
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Truth will set the US free: breaking Israel's stranglehold over American foreign | Redress Information & Analysis
  Maidhc Ó Cathail argues that it is vital for the American public to understand that unconditional support for Israel is doing incalculable damage to the US national interest and that, to steer US policy back so that it serves the American people, it is crucial to break the Israel lobby’s stranglehold over policy-making and the media...
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Israel's Nuclear Weapons, by Warner D. Farr, LTC, U.S. Army | USAF Counterproliferation Center
  This paper is a history of the Israeli nuclear weapons program drawn from a review of unclassified sources.  Israel began its search for nuclear weapons at the inception of the state in 1948.  As payment for Israeli participation in the Suez Crisis of 1956, France provided nuclear expertise and constructed a reactor complex for Israel at Dimona capable of large-scale plutonium production and reprocessing.  The United States discovered the facility by 1958 and it was a subject of continual discussions between American presidents and Israeli prime ministers...
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What Ahmadinejad Isn’t Telling Us, by Gordon Duff | Veterans Today
  When President Ahmadinejad announced, before the United Nations that most people in the world believe that the U.S. government was involved in the planning and execution of the 9/11 attacks, he told the truth...
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Truth will set the US free: breaking Israel's stranglehold over American foreign policy | Redress Information & Analysis
  Maidhc Ó Cathail argues that it is vital for the American public to understand that unconditional support for Israel is doing incalculable damage to the US national interest and that, to steer US policy back so that it serves the American people, it is crucial to break the Israel lobby’s stranglehold over policy-making and the media...
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Why Mitchell Said 'No': Hamas is Not Ready to be 'Engaged', by Ramzy Baroud | Palestine Chronicle
  One key difference between Hamas and its rival, the Fatah movement in the West Bank, is that Hamas is accountable to a much more complex set of priorities and expectations. While Fatah is effortlessly co-opted, Hamas remains confined by ideological standards and the stringiest political space. Although, on one hand this represents Hamas’ greatest strength, on the other it shows just how truly arduous is its political undertaking...
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Interview with family devastated by US drone attack, by Asim Qureshi | Cageprisoners
  Cageprisoners interview with Haider whose brother-in-law Mohammed Asghar and his friends became the victims of an unlawful US drone attack...
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The killing of Rachel Corrie seven years on, by Renee Bowyer | Middle East Monitor
  When the name of Rachel Corrie is mentioned you cannot help but pause for a painful moment; a tugging at the heart is the best way to describe it. You want to stop the conversation altogether and retreat into yourself and demand that those around you pay tribute...
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Did 9/11 Really "Change Everything"? | Washington's Blog
  We've been told that 9/11 changed everything. Is it true? Let's look...
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All That You Have Done: Colonialism, Ethnic Cleansing and the Web, by Roger Sheety | Palestine Chronicle
  Despite the current facade of yet another round of fake peace talks, the Israeli government and its professional apologists remain in a panic. Hardly a week passes by without complaint that Israel “is being isolated” or that it is facing a campaign of “delegitimization.”..
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Reaping terror's reward: get in there first - that's the secret | Redress Information & Analysis
  Stuart Littlewood looks at how modern terrorism was in fact pioneered by the Zionists and how Israeli and the US behaviours fit the US definition of terrorism like a glove. If it wasn’t for the “war on terror” America and Israel wouldn’t be enjoying such military fun and games and reaping such fat rewards. Whole new industries are flourishing thanks to the considerable effort they’ve devoted to sowing the seeds of terror...
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Obama's Inner Eisenhower, by Jeff Gates | Criminal State
  Is Barack Obama waking up to the agenda of those who produced his political career? Was his “Inner Eisenhower” on display last week in his televised speech to the U.N. General Assembly? Did listeners detect a distraught commander-in-chief seeking to bypass Congress and appeal directly to the international community for help in containing Israel’s expansionist goals?..
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Sep 27, 2010


Book Review by Jim Miles: Dismantling the Empire | Palestine Chronicle
  That the empire has caused much trouble and is in trouble itself has been well documented and well explained by many current authors. Chalmers Johnson, who wrote Blowback - at the time an unheralded piece of research - and two more volumes, Sorrows of Empire and Nemesis that became the Blowback trilogy, has since written a series of essays that are concise, clear, hard-hitting, and undeniably for Dismantling the Empire...
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Israeli ties: a chance to do the right thing, by Archbishop Desmond Tutu | The Times
  The University of Johannesburg's Senate will next week meet to decide whether to end its relationship with an Israeli institution, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, on the grounds of that university's active support for and involvement in the Israeli military. Archbishop Desmond Tutu supports the move...
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'US, Mossad played roles in 9/11 event' | Press TV
  Following the Iranian president's doubts on the 9/11 event, a top military adviser to the Leader of the Islamic Revolution says the CIA and Mossad were involved in the attacks...
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One of History's Greatest Crimes | Stephen Lendman
  America's hidden history is ugly and disturbing. No nation ever matched it. To Iraq alone, over the past two decades, it includes ongoing genocide, destruction, terror, occupation, and contamination - a horrendous combination of crimes, unmentioned in Western discourse...
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Iran-Iraq war anniversary: A defense which deserves being called 'holy', by Kourosh Ziabari | WVNS
  Almost 20 years have passed since the conclusion of 20th century's longest, most erosive war which was brutally imposed on the defenseless people of Iran by a belligerent and aggressive dictator who was finally pushed to death by the same people who had once persuaded, funded, aided and supported him in attacking and invading the new-born Iran of post-revolution days...
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Conference in India: A Just Peace For Palestine | Rehmat's World
  The two-day BDS Movement conference on A Just Peace For Palestine concluded on September 22-23 in New Delhi (India). The very country whose spiritual leader Mahtama Gandhi was against the creation of a state for the European Jews – now could be about to give birth to a second Zionist state...
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US Zionists in uproar over article showing Israelis don't care about peace | Redress Information & Analysis
  Paul J. Balles reviews the uproar created among American Zionists following an article in Time magazine analyzing the results of a poll which showed that most Israelis don’t care about peace. He argues that Israel’s apologists and stooges have been lying and brainwashing others for so long they believe in their own propaganda...
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Obama at the UN: The Arrogant Voice of Imperialism, by Bill Van Auken | Global Research
  President Barack Obama used his speech at the United Nations General Assembly Thursday to defend US wars and state terror abroad and to proclaim that the economic crisis has been resolved thanks to his Wall Street bailout. The US president received a noticeably tepid response from the assembled UN delegates...
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Eight US universities say yes to apartheid | Redress Information & Analysis
  Lawrence Davidson argues that by signing student exchange agreements with Israeli universities that practice apartheid, eight US universities, including Harvard, Columbia and Michigan, are lending themselves to the destruction of the very educational virtues they claim to cherish...
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International Law Expert: Ahmadinejad is Right about 9/11! | Press TV
  ..."Ahmadinejad is absolutely rational and correct on this, that the American people are now coming to the point of demanding an international inquiry (into the 9/11 attacks), " Franklin Lamb told Press TV...
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Saeb Erekat: “I am a liar” by Antoine Raffoul | Intifada Palestine
  This US State Department scripted and funded commercial was delivered by the so-called ‘Chief Palestinian Negotiator’ Dr Saeb Erekat...
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The Connection Between Zionism & Organized Islamophobia – The Facts | Loonwatch
  Much has been said about the disproportionate Zionist presence in the world of organized Islamophobia. Now we learn that there is more to that claim than unfounded conspiracy theories. It turns out the main funder of anti-Muslim blogger/anti-Park51 organizer Robert Spencer and his hate site JihadWatch are husband and wife duo Aubrey and Joyce Chernick, the same couple are ardent supporters of Zionist causes and major funders of pro-Israel groups across the country...
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Sep 26, 2010


Sahar TV Interviews Dr. Alan Sabrosky On 9/11 And Beyond | My Catbird Seat



  Re-produced below with the authors permission, is an earlier comprehensive thesis, written by him and published in several publications, which  pretty much serves as a transcript for the above interview...
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Architects & Engineers For 9/11 Truth Hit The American Mainstream, by Dr. Ashraf Ezzat  | Veterans Today
  Nobody in his right mind, nobody with the least critical thinking could possibly buy into the 9/11 official story of the reason why the world trade center towers collapsed – at free fall speed- like a house of cards into their basements in just few seconds- WTC building 7 collapsed in exactly 6.5 seconds. Something only very precise demolition can accomplish, something which takes days if not weeks to prepare...
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Is America Being Asked To Negotiate With A Terrorist State? by Gordon Duff | My Catbird Seat
  Israel is demanding the immediate release of Jonathan Pollard.  Pollard, sentenced to life in prison for spying against the United States is a hero in Israel.  Jonathan Pollard, an American of Jewish ancestry and Zionist extremist publicly stated that he tried to destroy America to help maintain the “racial purity of Israel.”..
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British Liberal Democrat leader Clegg now singing off Zionist hymn-sheet | Redress Information & Analysis
  Stuart Littlewood shows how Britain’s Liberal Democrat leader and deputy prime minister, Nick Clegg, has done an about face by rapidly retreating from his previously principled position in support of justice in the Holy Land and is now aligning himself with Israel and Zionism...
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September 11: Towards a UN inquiry commission, by Thierry Meyssan | Voltairenet
  On September 11, 2001 the world watched helplessly as the attacks that plunged the United States into mourning took place. Against all logic, the Bush Administration attributed them to an Islamist plot hatched by a group of fanatics inside a cave in Afghanistan. This accusation was exploited to justify a war against terrorism that was to start in Afghanistan and Iraq and extend, according to President Bush, to 60 countries...
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Viva Palestina sends new Gaza mission | PressTV
  The Viva Palestina charity has sent a new aid convoy, Lifeline 5, to the Gaza Strip despite the likelihood of a new Israeli aggression against the mission...
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Policy chaos, military muscle: Why US will never win Afghan war | YouTube/ RT
  With about 50 to 100 Al-Qaeda members in Afghanistan altogether, the US is spending over a billion dollars annually fighting each of them, estimated ex-marine officer Matthew Hoh, head of the Afghan Study Group. "One of the major problems with the US foreign policy is that we are not consistent," blamed Hoh, explaining that America is withdrawing troops from Iraq where the quantity of Al Qaeda members is many times higher than in Afghanistan...
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Independent Committee of Experts on Gaza War | Stephen Lendman
  On September 21, the UN Human Rights Council's independent fact finding Committee issued its report titled, "No Safe Place," assessing "investigat(ions) and report(s) on violations of human rights law and international humanitarian law during" Operation Cast Lead...
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U.S. Could Be Alone as Europe Turns Inward, by William Pfaff | Truthdig
  ...Today’s relationship with Europe is again complicated, more complicated than many think because there is a slow but clear erosion, and growing distrust on both sides, produced by the American unwillingness to give up its assumption that the states of the European Union remain the respectful satellites they have been during most of the period since World War II...
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The Waning of America, by Dilip Hiro | TomDispatch
  America Is Suffering a Power Outage… and the Rest of the World Knows It...
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Obama Knows the War is Dumb, but Prefers Power Over Peace by Ray McGovern | Antiwar
  One thing that comes through clearly in Bob Woodward’s new book, Obama’s Wars, is the contempt felt by Gen. David Petraeus, commander of U.S. and NATO troops in Afghanistan, toward President Barack Obama...
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Inside Gaza: The Contradictions of Determination, by Falastine M El-Ghezawi | Relativity OnLine


  I was born into occupation. I was born in Palestine. My father was a member the P.L.O. (Palestinian Liberation Organization) and my mother always supported him. I was very lucky to have such rebellious father and patient mother...
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It Is Official: The US Is A Police State, by Dr. Paul Craig Roberts | Global Research
  On September 24, Jason Ditz reported on Antiwar.com that “the FBI is confirming that this morning they began a number of raids against the homes of antiwar activists in Illinois, Minneapolis, Michigan, and North Carolina, claiming that they are ‘seeking evidence relating to activities concerning the material support of terrorism.’”..
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From Coexistence to Conquest: the international law origins of the Arab-Israeli conflict 1891-1949, reviewed by Dr Atef Assha'ar | Middle East Monitor
  The Palestinian cause has been, and will remain the most important issue in the Arab world until it is resolved in accordance with international and humanitarian laws. Many people have approached the issue and have discussed it showing at times thought and knowledge, at times not; it has been discussed both intellectually and as an ideological anomaly. As a result many who have looked at this issue have paid the price by depriving the issue of its humanity, cutting the past from its roots and shrouding the present...
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Where is Israel? by Mahmoud El-Yousseph | The Ugly Truth
  Here is something you’re not likely to see on evening newscasts or in your hometown newspapers: A July 28, 2010 survey of Israeli religious school teachers, designed to gauge their level of education, was conducted by Yediot Ahronot, Israel’s largest newspaper. The conclusions were shocking...
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The Pollard Principle, by Justin Raimondo | Antiwar
  On July 13 of this year, the municipal government of Jerusalem honored one of Israel’s most popular national heroes, a man who had suffered and sacrificed his all for the Jewish state, and is recognized by practically everyone as not only a hero but a modern exemplar of Zionist virtue...
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Democracy Is Overrated. by Ivan Eland | Eurasia Review
  American policymakers love to see purple thumbs in the developing world, especially in countries in which the United States has undertaken “nation-building” projects (read: invasions and occupations)...
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Interview with Richard Falk, U.N. Rapporteur on Human Rights | Palestine Telegraph
  ...The best hope for Palestinians is a ‘legitimacy war’ similar to the campaign that undermined the apartheid government in South Africa, says the Professor Emeritus of international law and practice at Princeton University...
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Sep 25, 2010


Palestinian-Israeli Peace Must be Founded on Human Rights, Justice, by Mazin Qumsiyeh | | Alternative Information Center


  As I keep hearing the mantra of a "new" opening for peace in the Middle East, I am reminded of the statement issued by Amnesty International in March 2001, stating that "a major flaw of the process that began with the Oslo Agreement of 1993 was that peace was not founded on ensuring respect and protection for human rights. If human rights are sacrificed in the search for peace and security there will be no peace and no security"...
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Ahmadinejad and the 9/11 attacks | Al Jazeera
  Surveys show large segments of the world population agree with the Iranian leader's "US government involvement" claims...
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On Gaza and Chutzpah | Gilad Atzmon
  ...In a statement  released following the publication of the UN probe’s conclusion, the Israeli Foreign Ministry announced that “ Israel is a democratic and law abiding country that carefully observes international law and, when need be, knows how to investigate itself”...
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'9/11 was an inside job': Full speech by Mahmoud Ahmadinejad at UN | YouTube
  Iran's president sparked a mass walk-out by US delegates yesterday after telling a UN summit that most people believe the American government was behind the 9/11 attacks...
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John le Carré: "The United States of America Has Gone Mad" | Democracy Now
  ..America has entered one of its periods of historical madness, but this is the worst I can remember: worse than McCarthyism, worse than the Bay of Pigs and in the long term potentially more disastrous than the Vietnam War...
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5 Outright Illegal Scams That Should Put Wall St. Bankers Behind Bars, by Zach Carter | AlterNet

  Unchecked greed and financial insanity on Wall Street crashed our economy. Much of that insanity was legal -- bankers lobbied hard for weak regulations, and got what they paid for. But much of that craziness was outright illegal, and in recent months, a number of shocking scams have come to light that could result in huge fines for banks or even put bankers behind bars...
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CIA's Afghan Kill Teams Expand U.S. War in Pakistan | Wired
  Let there be no doubt that the U.S. is at war in Pakistan. It’s not just the drone strikes. According to insider journalist Bob Woodward’s new book, the CIA manages a large and lethal band of Afghan fighters to infiltrate into Pakistan and attack al-Qaeda’s bases. What could possibly go wrong?
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That 'Official' Poverty Rate? It's Much Worse than You Think, by David DeGraw | AlterNet
  While the shocking new poverty statistics from the Census Bureau indicating that a record 43.6 million Americans lived in poverty in 2009 emphatically demonstrates the severity of the economic crisis, the Census is drastically undercounting this demographic. Apparently the government's poverty statistics are as accurate as its unemployment statistics...
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Advancement in Science and Technology Does Not Give Israel the Right to Act like a Nazi State, by Khalid Amayreh | Intifada Palestine

  Israeli hasbara officials are quite desperate these days trying to stop what seems to be a slow but definitive worldwide awakening to Israeli criminality and hateful racism. In the- not- too-distant- past, these officials used to deny the obvious, such as claiming that Israel didn’t murder civilians, knowingly and deliberately, and that the thousands of innocent Palestinians were merely killed by mistake...
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The Terror Industry and Anti-Jihadism, Who Benefits? by Richard Silverstein | Tikun Olam
   Norman Finkelstein coined the phrase the “Holocaust industry” in his book of the same name, to describe the nexus of Jewish groups, lawyers, politicians, and communal leaders who enrich their power and pocketbook by trumpeting the anti-Semitism threat and causing anxiety and paranoia among world Jewry as a result.  As a result of Finkelstein’s acute analysis, he’s earned outrage and scorn from those in the Jewish community whom he has skewered...
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Turkey: Beware of the Israeli Snake, by Khalid Amayreh | Intifada Palestine
   It is crystal clear that Israel, the arrogant, fanatical and belligerent Jewish state is trying hard to undermine Turkey. Israel feels that its hegemony in the Middle East is being challenged by Turkish efforts to reassert the country’s national interests by enhancing relations with Islamic neighbors and also by courageously opposing Israeli ethnic cleansing and other  manifestly criminal policies against the Palestinians...
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Iran's President (Tries to) Speak Out, by Dr. Lawrence Davidson | Intifada Palestine
   ...As soon as the Iranian president took the podium and began speaking the audio feeds supporting the UN translators started to have “technical” problems. It is a sign of the suspicious world we live in that few astute observers are ready to believe that explanation without further proof. On the other hand, very few media outlets even commented on the glitch. Al-Jazeera, however, did prosaically refer to the incident as “Ahmadinejad lost in translation.”..
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Masturbating on the Edge of the Apocalypse, by Alexander Cockburn | Counterpunch
  It’s the merry laugh on the lip of the abyss.  Christine O’Donnell, senatorial candidate with her “no hand jobs” program has cast an unfamiliar ray of sunshine over the surreal landscape of American politics...
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The Indispensable People?: The Collapse of Western Morality, by Paul Craig Roberts | Counterpunch
  Yes, I know, as many readers will be quick to inform me, the West never had any morality. Nevertheless things have gotten worse...
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No, Higher Consciousness Won't Save Us, by Norman Solomon | t r u t h o u t
  Autumn 2010 is a time of disillusionment for many who deplore the USA's current political trajectory. Some who've been active for progressive causes are now gravitating toward hope that individual actions - in tandem with higher consciousness, more down-to-earth lifestyles and healthy cultural alternatives - can succeed where social activism has failed. It's an old story that is also new...
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Interview by Johann Hari: Is Gideon Levy the most hated man in Israel or just the most heroic? | The Independent
  Gideon Levy is the most hated man in Israel – and perhaps the most heroic. This “good Tel Aviv boy” – a sober, serious child of the Jewish state – has been shot at repeatedly by the Israeli Defence Force, been threatened with being “beaten to a pulp” on the country’s streets, and faced demands from government ministers that he be tightly monitored as “a security risk.” This is because he has done something very simple, and something that almost no other Israeli has done...
[Well, I'd list him among the 36 righteous men - if there are that many.]
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Aafia Siddiqui Sentenced: A Grievous Miscarriage of Justice, by Stephen Lendman | Dissident Voice
   On September 23 in federal court, US District Court Judge, Richard Berman sentenced political prisoner, Aafia Siddiqui, to 86 years in prison. Outrage most accurately expresses this gross miscarriage of justice, compounding what she’s already endured following her March 30, 2003 abduction, imprisonment, torture, prosecution, and conviction on bogus charges...
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Lessons of resistance from southern Lebanon, by Hasan Abu Nimah | The Electronic Intifada

  In May 2000, after two decades of brutal Israeli rule and stiff resistance, the Israeli occupation of southern Lebanon suddenly ended. The Israeli army fled in haste and within hours the South Lebanon Army (SLA) -- its local collaborator militia -- collapsed and many of its members also fled to Israel where they still live...
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Palestinian Economic Dependency on Israel, by Nikki de Beer | Alternative Information Center
  Shortly after the 1967 Middle East War, many economic boundaries for transactions between the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT) and Israel collapsed: both labor and goods could flow freely from the OPT to Israel and vice versa...
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We are the fools, not Lieberman | Middle East Monitor
  The Israeli Foreign Minister, Avigdor Lieberman, is the person who expresses most truthfully the feelings of most Israelis, or those of the government coalition parties in Tel Aviv. The man makes statements and demands that sound outrageous on first hearing, but soon turn into the policies and positions adopted by Israeli governments...
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Iraq Surge in Neo-Con Imagination: The Myth That Kills, by Steve Breyman | Palestine Chronicle
   If you're like me, you can barely make it through a David Brooks column. Should you arrive at the bitter end, your face is screwed up--like you were sucking lemons or whiffing a fetid odor--in a painful mix of disbelief, consternation, and sadness at the waste of prime op-ed real estate. Most days you quickly move on to whatever’s next, and your face slowly relaxes to normal...
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Sep 24, 2010


Activists face broad PA crackdown in West Bank, by Nora Barrows-Friedman | The Electronic Intifada

Anti-PA graffiti in the Dheisheh refugee camp

  "The Palestinian Authority (PA) forces came late at night and started shooting inside the camp," Shihab said. "They came in, shooting, acting like the Israeli military. They wanted to make the people afraid. Everyone went to the main street and started throwing stones, because people thought they were the Israelis, not the PA forces."..
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Killing Palestinians with Impunity | SteveLendmanBlog
  With peace talks underway in Washington; Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt; Jerusalem; then New York, Israel, almost daily, commits crimes of war and against humanity...
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Palestinians take to Jerusalem streets after killing. by Joseph Dana | The Electronic Intifada
  ...Silwan is a neighborhood in occupied East Jerusalem, near the walled Old City, and is the target of an ongoing Israeli government plan to demolish dozens of Palestinian homes and replace them with Israeli settlements and a Jewish-themed park...
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Obama speaks at the UN... Goodbye to peace | Redress Information & Analysis
  Alan Hart argues that US President Barack Obama’s speech at the United Nations demonstrates beyond doubt that he is not interested in a just solution of the Palestine-Israel conflict and is not prepared to declare openly and sincerely that the occupation must end...
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Israel Will Be Palestine | Gilad Atzmon

  ...Israel is located on historic Palestine. It came to life through robbery and ethnic cleansing. It is maintained by theft. At least a fifth of Israel’s population are Palestinians. And if this is not enough, not a single living Palestinian negotiator is ever going to let the refugee issue go, and for a good reason. The right of return is still the crux of the Palestinian cause...
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The Global Arms Trade: The Real Merchants of Death, by Conn Hallinan | Counterpunch
  ...The global arms trade is a $60 billion yearly business, of which the U.S. controls nearly 40 percent, and a political and economic juggernaut that defends its turf with the ferocity of a junkyard dog...
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The Terrorism Fraud, by Philip Giraldi | Antiwar
  "Terrorism" has become the most abused word in the English language.  The fear of terrorism has driven explosive growth in the United States government, has led to two wars in the past ten years with possibly several more waiting in the wings, and has resulted in the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people.  Terrorism is a tactic, not an enemy...
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Peretz, Thomas, and the Middle East double standard, by Matthew Duss | The Boston Globe
   Last June, veteran White House reporter Helen Thomas was fired for telling Jews to “get the hell out of Palestine.’’ While many were deeply and rightly offended by Thomas’s remarks, it was a sad end to a storied journalism career. Howard Kurtz of The Washington Post suggested that if “Thomas had said the opposite thing about the Palestinians, she’d still have her job.’’..
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Copenhagen city council set to vote on divestment, by Adri Nieuwhof | The Electronic Intifada
   On 23 September, Denmark's Social Democrat party will have a decisive influence on a Copenhagen city council vote on whether the municipality should divest $2.3 million from companies involved in the Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip...
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War Is Murder, by Karen Kwiatkowski | Lew Rockwell

  Well, it sure is murder for our boys in desert cammy. Five of our finest are now charged with running an unauthorized hit team, targeting random Afghan civilians for a little stress-relieving target practice. What’s the problem here? The CIA has been doing this for years with its own militarized groups. The DoD is doing this with its own special forces. Xe and other contractors do this with the holy blessing of both DoD and CIA...
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Peace Talks And War Fever | Political Correction
  Yesterday, MSNBC's Dylan Ratigan hosted a 14-minute segment on Iran with journalist/constitutional lawyer Glenn Greenwald and Clifford May, the neocon head of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies. Greenwald opposes confrontation with Iran and believes the case for war is utterly phony.  May is a war hawk on Iran, as he was on Iraq.  (He also supports any and all Israeli military actions.)..
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Our Endless War | Bangor Daily News
  Hardly any American can be comfortable with the assertion of a senior Pentagon planner, Brig. Gen. Mark O. Schissler, that “We’re in a generational war.” He predicted in 2006 that American conflicts would last another 50 or 100 years...
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Sep 23, 2010


Israel Subsidizes Obstacles to Peace, by Shir Hever | Alternative Information Center

Maale Adumin Settlement

  The current round of negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians is taking place in the shadow of Israel’s blatant disregard of international law, its continued siege and bombardment of the Gaza Strip, and the ongoing colonization of the Syrian Golan and the West Bank, including East Jerusalem...
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End Israel Lobbies Pervasive And Damaging Influence In Us Politics, by Debbie Menon | Veterans Today
  Support for Israel is not only tragic and immoral, it is also extremely damaging to Americans...
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Shamir le fou et Thion le fanatique | Israel Shamir
   My good friend and French dissident Serge Thion has written a fiery response to an old essay of mine called The right move  (Fr: http://www.israelshamir.net/French/RightMoveFr.htm ) under the title Shamir gone mad. Apparently only now, after ten years of correspondence, has Serge finally apprehended that when I speak of the One State Solution I actually meant just that: One State, as compared to the infamous Two State Solution...
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The Grudge, An Inverted History Of Israel And America, by Gordon Duff | Veterans Today
 What Israel Is Taught About Their “Best Friend In The World”..
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Obama and Iraq: Through a Glass, Darkly, by Scott Ritter | Truthdig
  ...It is in this topsy-turvy world created by political hype and media spin that a president can, with a straight face, announce the withdrawal of American “combat troops” from Iraq, while leaving behind six combat brigades (renamed, but not reorganized) comprising some 50,000 troops to fight and die in “noncombat.”..
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Universal Warrior, by E. Paul Newell | Veterans Today
  ...Seventeen on the edge of eighteen, why does a young man stand up and say I will stand on guard for thee. I am willing to die for the ”On Guard” cause. The series of uniforms are beautiful, they are shiny new, they are colored boldly, they are made with precision, the fit is immaculate, the symbolization is significant and important, each one blends with the other. This is powerful in itself, so powerful that young men will seek to endeavor towards the chance to wear the uniform and fit in with the others...
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Parallel lives, by Dalia Karpel | Haaretz
  During her army service, Nufar Yishai-Karin witnessed the brutality of young soldiers in her armored infantry unit near Rafah. Now, in a study based on interviews with a new generation of recruits, she reveals the psychological mechanisms behind their violent and abusive behavior toward Palestinians. The soldiers' stories shocked her, but she believes they are victims, too...
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Iraq: The Age of Darkness, by Dirk Adriaensens | Global Research
“Success”, a devastating balance sheet
  The fundamental contradiction of this success is the fact that Bremer's 100 orders turned Iraq into a giant free-market paradise, but a hellish nightmare for Iraqis. They colonized the country for capital - pillage on the grandest scale, a cutthroat capitalist laboratory, weapons of mass destruction. Iraqis got no role in the planning nor were given subcontracts to share the benefits. New economic laws instituted low taxes, 100% foreign investor ownership of Iraqi assets, the right to expropriate all profits, unrestricted imports, and long-term 30-40 year deals and leases, dispossessing Iraqis of their own resources, so no future government could change them
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Israel is No Friend of America, by Debbie Menon | Intifada Palestine
  The Palestinian message on the ground is clear, but no one’s listening. They won’t accept surrender for peace. They want nothing less than freedom and justice in their own unoccupied land...
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Perpetuating the Wartime Mythology, by Richard A. Widmann | Inconvenient History
  In July, Oscar-winning director Oliver Stone commented that Hitler's actions during World War Two should be put "into context." This comment along with the assertion that "Jewish domination of the media" has prevented an honest discussion about the Holocaust landed the "JFK" director in hot water. The comments occurred during an interview in which Stone was promoting his new Showtime television series, "A Secret History of America."..
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“Vague” law used to lock up activists: Israel makes meeting another Arab a crime, by Jonathan Cook | Redress Information & Analysis
   A vague security offense of “contact with a foreign agent” is being used by Israel’s secret police, the Shin Bet, to lock up Arab political activists in Israel without evidence that a crime has been committed, human rights lawyers alleged this week. The lawyers said the Shin Bet was exploiting the law to characterize innocent or accidental meetings between members of Israel’s large Arab minority and Arab foreign nationals as criminal activity...
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Democracy in Arab Eyes, by Dr. Bouthaina Shabaan | Intifada Palestine
  On International Democracy Day last week, satellite TV channels across our region focused on the type of democracy imported, together with details of the bloodbaths, disasters, wars and American invasions driven by hatred for Muslims.  Democracy was invoked as an ideal, regardless of people’s living standards, the disasters befalling them and the gutters they are thrown into under the pretext of raising the standard of political action to the level of ‘democracy’...
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EU shares moral responsibility for PA persecution of its people, by Khalid Amayreh | Middle East Monitor
   The European Union (EU) is considered the main donor and bankroller of the Palestinian Authority (PA), an entity that more or less lives off Europeans' tax payers. Hence, the EU is supposed to have certain leverage on PA domestic policies, including the extent to which the Ramallah-based government is committed to human rights and civil liberties...
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Israel's unreasonable demand, by Omar Rahman | The Guardian
  Asking Palestinians to recognize Israel as a Jewish state is like urging the IRA to see Northern Ireland as a Protestant entity...
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IAEA and Western moral bankruptcy | Rehmat's World
  ...Last year’s summit saw a resolution tabled by Arab states urging Israel to sign up to the treaty, had passed with a very narrow majority but Israel has since dismissed the non-binding resolution and has refused to become a signatory to the NPT, saying it is a purely symbolic document...
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Mahmoud Ahmadinejad: Unipolar World Will Lead to War | Information Clearing House

  Speaking on the UN summit sidelines, Iran's leader says the biggest trouble facing the world is domination by the United States. In an exclusive interview with RT, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad explains how he wants to change the existing world order...
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Gazan detainees in Egyptian prisons appeal for international help | Middle East Monitor
  The Arab Organization for Human Rights (AOHR) in Britain has recently released a report on the condition of Palestinian detainees in Egyptian jails. MEMO has gained access to the document which records the names and abuses to which scores of young Palestinians were subjected...
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Off the rails on a crazy train, by Cliff Schecter | Al Jazeera

  It is rather poetic that after a rollercoaster of a primary season in US politics, the furthest right 'Tea Party' Republican yet to emerge, Christine O'Donnell, stood victorious Tuesday night in the tiny state of Delaware. O'Donnell, a Republican so far to the right that she makes Sarah Palin look like Emma Goldman, beat popular Delaware congressman and former governor Mike Castle, in the race to see who would be the Republican nominee to run for Vice President Joe Biden's former seat in the US Senate...
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Ahmadinejad: Israeli PM an assassin | Press TV
  Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says the Israeli prime minister is a professional assassin, who should be tried for his crimes against the people of Palestine.
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Sep 22, 2010


Netanyahu's 'catastrophic success', by Robert Grenier | Al Jazeera


  The George W. Bush administration had a phrase for it: "Catastrophic success." As part of the planning process before the US invasion of Iraq in 2003, a comprehensive list of potentially disastrous unintended consequences of a successful military campaign was drawn up. Though initially there was considerable relief when none of the developments on the list came to pass, it eventually became apparent that the list - which failed to anticipate a string of supremely unwise post-invasion decisions - was far too short...
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American public opinion and the special relationship with Israel, by John Mearsheimer | Mondoweiss
  There is no question that the United States has a relationship with Israel that has no parallel in modern history. Washington gives Israel consistent, almost unconditional diplomatic backing and more foreign aid than any other country. In other words, Israel gets this aid even when it does things that the United States opposes, like building settlements. Furthermore, Israel is rarely criticized by American officials and certainly not by anyone who aspires to high office...
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Tea With Frankenstein: Please, No Masturbation, by David Michael Green | Common Dreams
  Just when you thought you’d reached the ground floor in the well of American self-destruction, you find out once again that that pit is absolutely bottomless...
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Interactive map of israeli Settlements and Outposts | Peace Now
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Growing Poverty in America, by Stephen Lendman | OpEd News
  ...With America in economic crisis, the new Census report portends much worse ahead under a president and Congress doing little to address it, the Brookings Institution Isabel Sawhill expecting the problem to "get much worse long before it gets better."..
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Best Option: Dignified Failure, by Sam Bahour | Palestine Chronicle
  ...Conventional wisdom on both sides of the Atlantic predicts that the current peace talks will hit a cement wall before the one-year time frame expires. The numerous explanations for the predicted failure are all sensible given the region's track record. International law is blatantly ignored, the logic of might is right trumps justice and the international community continues to turn its back to its own obligations toward the occupied Palestinian people...
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Israel Turns its Guns on Internationals, by  Dr. Hanan Chehata | Middle East Monitor
  With every day that passes Israel further establishes itself as one of the world's leading violators of human rights. To its British and American allies this may be seen as a gross overstatement; after all there are plenty of despotic, third world countries that arguably have worse human rights records. The question is - how many of them model themselves as democratic, advanced, first world, nuclear allies?..
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New START's Big Winners: U.S. Nuke Complex, Pentagon, and Contractors, by Darwin Bond Graham | Foreign Policy In Focus
  ...While ratification is by no means guaranteed, there are several clear winners already: Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, Aerojet General, Alliant Techsystems, Los Alamos and Lawrence Livermore nuclear weapons laboratories, Y-12 nuclear labs, the Pentagon, and Bechtel Corporation...
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Bloggers Chasten Washington Know-It-Alls, by Kelley B. Vlahos | Antiwar
  ...Washington’s national security elite gathered itself up to deliver a full feast this month, collectively declaring that the Afghanistan policy is a disaster and in need of a “New Way Forward,” which of course, it aimed to generously provide...
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Israeli Organ Harvesting: The New "Blood Libel"? by Alison Weir | If Americans Knew
   ...Palestinians “harbor strong suspicions against Israel for seizing young men and having them serve as the country’s organ reserve – a very serious accusation, with enough question marks to motivate the International Court of Justice (ICJ) to start an investigation about possible war crimes.”..
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A Shared State in a Shared Homeland, by Miko Peled | Palestine Chronicle
   ...The two-state solution is finished, done in by decades of settlement activity entrenching unmovable colonies. A pluralistic, secular democracy in all of Israel/Palestine, with no partition and no segregation, will be a powerhouse of creativity and cooperation and will enable Israelis and Palestinians to move ahead towards a bright future. What worked in South Africa and a de-segregated American South can work in Israel/Palestine as well...
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Did God Say: Let There Be Plagues and Wars? by Dallas Darling | Palestine Chronicle
  ...The Book of Genesis, with its cycles of creation, recreation and life came to mind when Ovadia Yosef, a senior rabbi from Israel’s coalition government, called for Palestinian Mahmoud Abbas to “vanish from our world.” Although Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu tried to distance himself from the rabbi’s message, including “May God strike them down with the plague along with all the nasty Palestinians who persecute Israel.” Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman declared: “Signing a comprehensible peace agreement with the Palestinians is an unattainable goal-not next year and not in the next generation.”..
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Turning terrorists into "heroes", by Ibrahim Hewitt | Middle East Monitor
   ...Ostensibly formed to defend early Jewish settlements in Palestine, by 1939 the Haganah was helping to organise illegal Jewish immigration to Palestine. Post-Second World War it joined with two more extreme splinter groups, Irgun and Lehi ("the Stern Gang") to form the "Jewish Resistance Movement". It was the Stern Gang which assassinated Lord Moyne, the British Minister for the Middle East, in 1944. The Haganah and its elite Palmach commando unit, along with the Stern Gang and Irgun, carried out numerous terrorist acts against British governmental installations across Palestine between 1944 and 1947...
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Zionist Dialectics: Past and Future, by M. Shahid Alam | Middle East Monitor
   ...How did the Jewish colons in Palestine succeed in creating an exclusionary colonial settler state in the middle of the twentieth century, and continue to grow with support from a surrogate mother country, while the French colons in Algeria, the Italians in Libya or the British colons in Kenya had to give up their colonial projects?..
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Sep 21, 2010


Israel Denies Gazans Access to Their Own Land and Waters, by Stephen Lendman | Baltimore Chronicle


  Throughout 43 years of occupation, Israel has waged war on Palestinians' human rights and civil liberties, a new UN report providing more evidence that keeps mounting exponentially, adding clarity about an out-of-control rogue state operating lawlessly...
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Canada Undermines Palestinian Unity, Peace, by Yves Engler | Palestine Chronicle
  Current peace negotiations between Israeli and Palestinian officials are unlikely to end, let alone reverse, Palestinian dispossession. The power imbalance between the sides is simply too great. While Canada could be part of the solution, so far it has been part of the problem...
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A Misguided Debate: Regarding US Muslims, by Ramzy Baroud | Counterpunch
  Laurie Goodstein’s article, ‘American Muslims Ask, Will We Ever Belong?’ was intended as a sympathetic reading of the concerns of US Muslim communities facing increasing levels of hostility and fear. While generally insightful and sensibly written, the article also highlights the very misconceptions that riddle the bizarre debate pitting American Muslims against much of the government, the mainstream media and most of the general public...
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Colonial Design: Ann Stoler Endorses Boycott of Israel | Palestine Chronicle
  As someone who has worked for some thirty years as a teacher and student of colonial studies– on comparative colonial situations, colonial histories, and the violent and subtle forms of governance on which colonial regimes rely, it would be difficult not to describe the Israeli state as a colonial one...
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Violence, fraud and cronyism keep millions away from Afghan poll, by Julius Cavendish | The Independent
  Almost as quickly as the international community rushed to praise Saturday's parliamentary elections in Afghanistan, complaints of widespread irregularities began pouring in, echoing the protracted wrangle over vote-rigging that returned President Hamid Karzai to power last year...
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Weapons Bizarre, by Justin Raimondo | Antiwar
  Christopher Hitchens, the professional warmonger turned professional atheist, is demanding the Catholic Church be “held accountable” for the crimes of pederastic priests. His appetite for “justice” is considerably reduced, however, when it comes to meting it out to those public officials who lied us into war with Iraq – a war he vociferously supported and continues to support...
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Burning Kashmir | Eric Margolis
  The world’s longest-running international conflict – Kashmir – has burst once more into flames...
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On Jewish Loyalty | Gilad Atzmon
  Recognizing Israel as uniquely Jewish is one of the key demands  made by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the latest  talks with the Palestinians. However, Foreign Minister Lieberman took it one step further. He demands all Israelis swear an oath of loyalty to the Jewish state. Liebermann’s campaign slogan is "no loyalty, no citizenship."..
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300 Economists Warn Obama: Grave Danger Ahead, by Bryce Covert | New Deal 2.0
  Three hundred economists released a letter to President Obama today with one message: focus on jobs, not on the deficit. Robert Borosage, co-director of the Institute for America’s Future and one of the authors of the statement, said the letter is “a call for action on the economy and a return to economic common sense” in a conference call with the media this morning...
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Imperialism And Imperial Barbarism, by James Petras | My Catbird Seat
  Imperialism, its character, means and ends has changed over time and place...
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Harah!: Israeli Company Hired by State Government to Spy on Pennsylvanians and Other Americans, by Dave Lindorff | OpEd News

  The surprise disclosure that the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, through its state Homeland Security Agency, along with a number of local police departments in the state, have been employing a private Israeli security company with strong links to Mossad and the Israeli Defense Force grows increasingly disturbing when the website of the company, called the Institute of Terrorism Research and Response, is examined...
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Reality check: Iran is not a nuclear threat, by Scott Horton | Christian Science Monitor
  Forget the neoconservative hype. The facts show Iran is not and has not been a nuclear threat to either the United States or Israel...
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Some Killing More 'Moral' Than Other, by Mel Frykberg | IPS
  Controversy is building up over a 91-year-old man, his 17-year-old grandson and a 20-year-old neighbour, all farmers, who were killed by Israeli shelling and gunfire as they tried to tend their land 700 metres from northern Gaza's border with Israel...
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Chavez wants a break from U.S. meddling. Can you blame him? by Mike Whitney| OpEd News
  Most people know that Iran, Russia and Venezuela all have vast oil reserves. And, they also know that Hugo Chavez, Vladimir Putin and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad are on Washington's "enemies list." So, why is it so hard for them to connect the dots?..
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"In the Face of This Truth" by Robert Jensen | YES! Magazine
  It's time to talk honestly about collapse–no matter how others may respond...
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Sep 20, 2010


Martin Peretz: editor of New Republic and agent of Israel | Redress Information & Analysis
 
"Muslim life is cheap"

  Lawrence Davidson profiles Martin Peretz, the editor-in-chief of the New Republic. "Martin Peretz is a good example of that subset of Americans whose single-minded dedication to Israel makes them ... agents of a foreign power. Indeed, in his willingness to pronounce his affection in the most indiscrete way, Peretz can be seen as their spokesman."..
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Harvard students: Peretz invitation ‘lends legitimacy and respectability to views that can only be described as abhorrent and racist’, by Adam Horowitz | Mondoweiss
  ...we respectfully ask that you reconsider having Mr. Peretz as one of the Celebration’s speakers, or at least that he be publicly challenged to defend views that are, in our opinion, indefensible...
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Poll:
Vast majority opposes attack on Iran, by Daniel Tencer | Raw Story

  Fewer than one in five Americans would support a US military strike on Iran if the Middle Eastern country continued to pursue its nuclear program in the face of international sanctions, a new poll indicates...
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'Largest flotilla yet' en-route to Gaza | Israel News
  Ships from Britain, Morocco, Qatar to rendezvous in Syria, sail toward el-Arish Port in northern Sinai Peninsula; activists plan to enter Gaza through Rafah Crossing, deliver humanitarian aid...
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Gaza: a castle in the sand | Al-Ahram Weekly
  Two years after Cast Lead Hamas is indomitable and the Palestinians withdrawn, writes Graham Usher in Gaza...
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The pitiful Zionist Federation: forever out of touch with reality, by Dr. Hanan Chehata | Middle East Monitor
  In a major step towards promoting justice and human rights, Britain's Trades Union Congress (TUC) voted this week in favour of a campaign to boycott companies that profit from Israel's illegal settlements. This is a very welcome and commendable decision which acknowledges the illegal nature of the settlements and the goods produced therein, as well as the harmful consequences of buying them in terms of the devastation that it wreaks on the Palestinian people...
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Noam Chomsky and the pro-Israel lobby: Fourteen erroneous theses | James Petras
  Yesterday the major Zionist organizations told us who we may or may not criticize in the Middle East, today they tell us who we may criticize in the United States, tomorrow they will tell us to bend our heads and submit to their lies and deceptions in order to engage in new wars of conquest at the service of a morally repugnant colonial regime...
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Relentless Propaganda | Cindy Sheehan's Soapbox
  On July 4th 2006, I, and dozens of other antiwar activists began what we called: "Troops Home Fast." It was supposed to be a fast until the troops were coming home from Iraq...
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The Victim Game, by Gordon Duff | Veterans Today
  It is easy to spot a liar if you are willing to take an honest look.  When the American press quoted President Ahmadinejad of Iran saying, "I am going to wipe Israel off the face of the earth" we had our own gullibility thrown in our faces.  We, if willing to look honestly at ourselves, were being humiliated, played for fools...
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Message to Muslims - I'm Sorry, by Nicholas Kristof | NYT
  ...I hereby apologize to Muslims for the wave of bigotry and simple nuttiness that has lately been directed at you...
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Sep 19, 2010


911, Power Elite, and Al-Qaeda, by Dr. Elias Akleh | Intifada Palestine


  ...This global war on terror had been deliberately manipulated to take the shapes of underlying war against Islamic extremism, war against Islam, clash of civilizations, and Judeo-Christianity against Islam. This conflict had been carefully planned and executed. It is only one link in the chain of perpetual wars along the history of mankind...
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Spreading Falsehoods about Iran: "United Against Nuclear Iran": America's War Propaganda Mouthpiece, by Kourosh Ziabari | Global Research
  Those who regularly follow the developments of Iran might have come across to the website of "United Against Nuclear Iran", a "non-partisan, non-profit advocacy organization" that seeks to "prevent Iran from fulfilling its ambition to become a regional super-power possessing nuclear weapons"..
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Feeling the Loyalty to the Jewish State of Israel, by Max Blumenthal | You Tube
  Israeli lawmaker David Rotem has introduced legislation demanding that all citizens of Israel swear loyalty to the state. PM Benjamin Netanyahu insisted those who take the oath pledge loyalty to "the state of the Jewish people." We asked people on the streets of Jerusalem to take a similar oath...
["I am totally convinced that Nazis could have learned a lot from these loyal Jews" - Gilad Atzmon]
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If Americans Knew What Israel Is Doing | You Tube
  Those who want to suppress the facts have dishonestly contacted YouTube and claimed that the video "If Americans Knew What Israel Is Doing!" was a Terms of Service Violation. The video is clearly NOT a TOS violation. You can see why they don't want you to see it...
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Real Versus Fake Crises: Concealing The Risk of An All Out Nuclear War, by Michel Chossudovsky | Global Research
   The media is involved in acts of camouflage. The devastating impacts of a nuclear war are either trivialized or not mentioned. Meanwhile, public opinion has its eyes rivetted on what might be described as "fake crises". A Third World War is no longer a hypothetical scenario. Already in 2007, president Bush had hinted in no uncertain terms that if Iran did not comply with US demands, we might "reluctantly" be forced into in a World War III situation...
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Caught! Mossad Paid By U.S. To Spy On "Dissidents," Tea Party, Environmentalists, by Gordon Duff | Veterans Today
   Did you know that attending a meeting to organize a bake sale for new band uniforms can put you on a terrorist watch list?  You don’t have to join a peace group or protest oil drilling to be considered dangerous...
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Army Vet and Muslim Sgt. Key to Saddam Capture Speaks Out on Islamophobia, by Michael Leon | Veterans Today

  U.S. Army Sergeant Ayman A. Ibrahim’s intelligence directly led to the capture of Saddam Hussein. Ibrahim speaks out now as a Muslim for America, and against the rampant Islamophobia in an America gone seemingly mad...
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The Palestinians are descendants of the ancient Israelites, by Dr. Ashraf Ezzat | Veterans Today
  The Jews now living in Israel and other places in the world are not at all descendants of the ancient people who inhabited the so called Kingdom of Judea...
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Poverty Rises as Wall Street Billionaires Whine, by Les Leopold | Huffington Post

  While 43.6 million Americans live in poverty, the richest men of finance sure are getting pissy. First Steve Schwartzman, head of the Blackrock private equity company, compares the Obama administration's effort to close billionaires' tax loopholes to "the Nazi invasion of Poland."..
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This Country Just Can't Deal with Reality Any More, by Robert Parry | AlterNet
  As Election Day 2010 approaches – as the United States wallows in the swamps of war, recession and environmental degradation – the consequences of the nation’s three-decade-old decoupling from reality are becoming painfully obvious...
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Indigenous resistance, from Colombia to Palestine, by Anna Baltzer | Electronic Intifada
  "They only see our water, our land, our trees. They don't care about us. They want the land -- without the people on it."..
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This Yom Kippur, We Must Atone for the Sins of Israeli Policy, by Ira Chernus | AlterNet
  On this Yom Kippur, as always, millions of Jews will observe their most solemn day of the year by fasting. Why? “No food. You know, we have to atone for our sins.” That’s how Woody Allen’s stereotypically Jewish father explains it in the classic film, Annie Hall. But Annie’s ultra-WASP mother is still baffled. “What sins?” she asks. “I don't understand.” “Tell you the truth,” Woody’s dad admits “neither do we.”..
[Ignorance is no excuse before the law (divine, human or natural); justice must and will be done (spiritual law). Jews had better start praying.]
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The Wacky World of American War, by Engelhardt and Turse | TomDispatch
  ...Oh, those madcap Pentagon bureaucrats and the zany horde of generals and admirals who go with them!  Give them credit: no one on Earth knows how to throw a war like they do -- and they never go home...
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Zionist False Flag Terror and Deceptions | Aletho News

  Excerpts from Take Our World Back...
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Xenophobia and Islamophobia in the USA | Redress Information & Analysis

  Paul J. Balles considers the mindset – the ignorance, irrationality and faulty reasoning – behind xenophobia and its latest manifestation in the United States and other Western countries, Islamophobia...
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Why Tariq Aziz Should Be Released, by Muriel Mirak-Weissback | Intifada Palestine
  The appearance on August 5 of an interview with former Iraqi diplomat Dr. Tariq Aziz in the Guardian was a minor bombshell, whose repercussions were to be felt worldwide. Like an underground explosion, the interview sent waves throughout international waters, rocking many boats and reaching far distant shores. It was not only what the former top Iraqi diplomat said — although his brief statements were of utmost relevance — but the mere fact that he was allowed to speak out in public, which sent eerie signals across international diplomatic circuits. Why?..
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Ahmadinejad on NBC - Another Zionist gimmick | Rehmat's World
  Andrea Mitchell (wife of former Federal Reserve Chairman, Alan Greenspan, her second Jewish husband), TV journalist with NBC (owned by Zionist Jew Jeff Zucker) had an exclusive interview with Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (watch video below). The interview was nothing but to find another venue to stage character assassination of a Muslim leader who is despised by the Zionazi thugs and their western political poodle...
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Israeli-linked organ dealers busted | Press TV
  South Africa's biggest healthcare company Netcare has been implicated in an illegal kidney transplant plot...
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Sep 18, 2010


Sabra and Shatila: On massacres, atrocities and holocausts, by Sonja Karkar | Australians for Palestine


  It happened twenty-eight years ago – 16 September 1982.  A massacre so awful that people who know about it cannot forget it.  The photos are gruesome reminders – charred, decapitated, indecently violated corpses, the smell of rotting flesh, still as foul to those who remember it as when they were recoiling from it all those years ago. For the victims and the handful of survivors, it was a 36-hour holocaust without mercy.  It was deliberate, it was planned and it was overseen.  But to this day, the killers have gone unpunished...
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The pharaoh of Jerusalem, by Philip Weiss | Mondoweiss
  In the last two days two guides have taken me through the geography of the Israeli occupation of East Jerusalem, and I’m staggered. I wonder why this monstrous structure is not better known, even to people like me, who study the conflict...
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'Iraqis should be paid trillions by US as compensation for invasion' | YouTube/ RT
  Well the violence in Iraq is not abating after the departure of U.S. combat troops. 9 Iraqi soldiers have just been killed by a roadside bomb in the latest attack. Talking about the reparations, Abdel Bari Atwan, editor-in-chief of the Al-Quds Al-Arabi newspaper, says it's the Iraqis who should be getting compensation from the U.S., not the other way round...
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Even Kristol and Podhoretz Agree: Obama the Neoconservative, by Sheldon Richman | Counterpunch
  President Barack Obama was far from candid when he announced the end of combat operations in Iraq last month, but he did nothing to hide the fact that he is a neoconservative when it comes to the American empire...
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Constitutional Referendum in Turkey: Grand Battle between Traditionalists and Secularists | East+West Review 
  September 12, 2010, a referendum on constitutional reform is being held in Turkey. The results are known: 58% for and 42% against the reforms. Turkish citizens voted for or against changes in the law of the land proposed by the country’s government. Twenty-six amendments deal for the most part with relations between the military and the civilian government, the role of the Constitutional court in banning political parties, as well as citizens’ rights to join trade unions and take part in strikes...
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BBC Correspondent says MOSSAD did 9/11 and Iran doesn't want Nukes | YouTube 
  Former Senior BBC Mideast Correspondent Alan Hart says on air that Israeli Mossad did 9/11 and much more in his revealing interview with Kevin Barrett which can be heard here...
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Talking To The Wall | Gilad Atzmon
  An old Jewish joke: A female CNN journalist heard about a very old Jewish man who had been going to the Western Wall to pray, twice a day, every day, for a long, long time...
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Welcome to Sodom | Gilad Atzmon  
  Israeli soldiers sexually abused Palestinian children. Is there an end to Israeli barbarism?...
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Zionist Pressure Fails to Stop Overcoming Zionism Book | YouTube
  Joel Kovel, author of Overcoming Zionism, said, "What we don't have is any kind of real debate on this subject in our country at this time ... basically these Zionist repression groups have had pretty much a free hand ... that's why I wrote the book. I disregarded all the taboos, that you're not supposed to talk about Israel in any depth in this country."..
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Folk Music Legend Pete Seeger Urged to Abandon Israel Event | International Middle East Media Center
  Folk music icon Pete Seeger has been urged by over 40 organizations, along with musicians close to him, to cancel his participation in a November internet event organized by the Israeli groups the Arava Institute for Environmental Studies, the Jewish National Fund (JNF) and others...
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British surgeon David Halpin asks Tony Blair questions in the dock | Australians for Palestine
  Your ‘Journey’ has been long on miles but absent of humanity, reason and law. . . So there are many questions to answer before you face charges at the Hague, and a multitude to follow in the dock. But the myriad questions you face at trial are but a fraction of the minds, lives, limbs and eyes you have taken in your zeal...
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Two September deadlines, one strategy for hope, by John Whitbeck | Jerusalem Post
  If Abbas violates his pledge and continues to negotiate while Israel expands settlements, he will forfeit his remaining credibility among his own people. Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas is trapped in a box with no apparent exit...
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Jerusalem or Gaza - where is it worse to be Palestinian? by Amira Hass | Haaretz
   Is it the isolation and insulation that Israel has imposed on Gaza, or the cynicism with which the decision makers continue to turn the population of East Jerusalem into welfare clients and slum dwellers, and then pride themselves of the national insurance payments they grant them?..
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Richard Cohen: Israel Liability For Us, by Stephen Sniegoski | My Catbird Seat
  Critics of  the US  “special relationship” with Israel hold that it is detrimental to American interests in the Middle East.  Its supporters, however, normally claim the opposite—that Israel is actually an American  strategic asset.  (The Chomskyites are the odd men out since even though they are critical of American and Israeli policies, they maintain that US support for Israel is beneficial for the imperialistic interests of the (predominantly gentile) US ruling class, though harmful to the American masses.)...
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The Jewish identity of the State of Israel, by Munir Shafiq | Middle East Monitor
  Does anyone else wonder why Benjamin Netanyahu is already insisting that a peace agreement between Israel and the Palestinians must include recognition by the latter that the state of Israel is a homeland for the Jewish people? By insisting on no ambiguity whatsoever, the Israeli prime minister has thrown down a challenge to the Palestinian Authority President, Mahmoud Abbas, who has said that the leaders of Israel can define their state as they like, it's nothing to do with him...
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Nothing to Gain, More to Lose: Serbia Surrenders Kosovo to the UN, by Diana Johnstone | Counterpunch
  On September 10, at the UN General Assembly, Serbia abruptly surrendered its claim to the breakaway province of Kosovo to the European Union.  Serbian leaders described this surrender as a “compromise”. But for Serbia, it was all give and no take...
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Sep 17, 2010


28 Years Later: Sabra and Shatila Massacre | My Palestine

  28 years ago, one September day, after playing with my siblings and friends in our land, we returned home with joy in our hearts. We were very happy and rushed to tell my parents of our plan to go on a “picnic” the following day with our friends. My father looked at us and said calmly: no, there will be no picnic tomorrow. My parents were sitting in front of the TV, both unusually quiet, my father’s eyes looked troubled, my mother had tears in her eyes. The house was silent, dead silent, except for the screams coming from the TV. I looked at the TV and saw the same images over and over: dead bodies …. dead bodies …. dead bodies…
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Combat in Iraq Continues as Plans for Long-term U.S. Presence Are Laid, by Michael Tennant | The New American
  On August 31 President Barack Obama announced that “the American combat mission in Iraq has ended.” The last officially designated combat troops were withdrawn on August 18. Within days an American soldier was killed in a rocket attack. On September 5, U.S. troops participated in a battle between suicide bombers and Iraqi forces in which 12 people were killed and 36 wounded...
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Security in Afghanistan Crumbles as Counterinsurgency Fails, by Derrick Crowe | Huffington Post
  As President Obama's strategy review for Afghanistan commences, let's hope he's balancing the information coming to him from his happy-talking generals with some independent news reading of his own...
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A Bipartisan Look at the Israel Lobby, by Philip Giraldi | Antiwar
  The Bipartisan Policy Center’s National Security Preparedness Group’s September 10th report "Assessing the Terrorist Threat" concludes that there is a growing threat to the United States derived from the radicalization of some American Muslims, a number of whom have joined extremist groups abroad...
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Michael Moore campaigns to free Bradley Manning in war logs case, by Chris McGreal | The Guardian
  Documentary maker joins Daniel Ellsberg of Pentagon papers fame to head worldwide protests over WikiLeaks prosecution...
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Black Humor Dept: Hezbollah prints playing cards of top Israeli officials targeted for revenge, by Avi Issacharoff | Haaretz
  The militant group has vowed to avenge the 2008 assassination of one of its senior members, Imad Mughniyah...
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Power Struggle in Egypt: ElBaradei's Boycott Call Could Erode Mubarak's Legitimacy | Der Spiegel
  For years, Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak has used manipulated elections to remain in power. But a new challenge from former International Atomic Energy Agency head Mohamed ElBaradei may threaten his grip on leadership. He has now called for a boycott of approaching parliamentary elections...
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The 9/11 Truth movement are all 'kooks'? Think again! | The Vineyard of the Saker
  3 new groups join the 9/11 Truth movement...
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Is America’s Military Prepared For The Israeli Threat?, by Gordon Duff | Veterans Today
  “The American people are afraid, they see disaster coming.  Everyone is waiting to see what city is chosen to be sacrificed.  Will it be Phoenix or Sacramento or perhaps Atlanta?  This is the real fear, the “not so secret” fear in the heart of every American.”..
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Bad Wars Aren't Possible Unless Good People Back Them | Michael Moore

  ...We invaded Iraq because most Americans -- including good liberals like Al Franken, Nicholas Kristof & Bill Keller of the New York Times, David Remnick of the New Yorker, the editors of the Atlantic and the New Republic, Harvey Weinstein, Hillary Clinton, Chuck Schumer and John Kerry -- wanted to...
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America's True Believers and the Great Muslim Scare, by Dr. Lawrence Davidson | Intifada Palestine
  In the year 1951 the American working class intellectual Eric Hoffer described those he called the True Believers. These are people who are alienated from their present conditions and suffer feelings of insecurity and uncertainty about the way their lives and communities are heading. To set things straight they seek out movements, either of the right or the left, that claim to have assured answers to problems while offering comfort and solidarity in a fellowship of like believers...
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Bombshell from London, by Eric S. Margolis | Uruknet

  The London-based International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS), is the world’s leading think tank for military affairs. It represents the top echelon of defence experts, retired officers and senior military men, spanning the globe from the United States and Britain to China, Russia and India...
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The Hate Mongers Among Us, by Jeff Gates | Criminal State
  Hate is a harsh word. As the counterpoint to love, hate reigns supreme among those emotions that the faith traditions seek to expunge from the human heart. Hate we’re told is the face of evil seen in plumes of smoke and ash on 911. Yet hate also serves a purpose for those adept at catalyzing conflicts...
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The Thin Green Line: It's Not Just the Settlements (or the Occupation), Stupid! by Nima Shirazi | Foreign Policy Journal

  “Before their eyes we turn into our homestead the land and villages in which they and their forefathers have lived…We are a generation of settlers, and without the steel helmet and gun barrel, we shall not be able to plant a tree or build a house.” – Moshe Dayan, Israel Defense Forces Chief of Staff, speaking at the funeral of an Israeli farmer killed by a Palestinian in April 1956...
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One-State, Two-State and the American Task Force on Palestine, by Antoine Raffoul | My Catbird Seat
  Until recently, we had never heard of the American Task Force on Palestine (ATFP). After some research on the subject of the One-State vs the Two-State solution, we discovered a long Study published by the ATFP in 2009 entitled “What’s Wrong With The One-State Agenda“. It made for interesting reading and shed some light on the people behind the ATFP which claim “to promote an end to the conflict in the Middle East through a negotiated agreement that provides for two states – Israel and Palestine – living side by side in peace and security”...
[It turns out that ATFP is a creation of the US State Dept]
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Return to Shatila, by William A. Cook | Palestine Chronicle

  Twenty eight years ago, a scene of unspeakable horror rocked the rubble strewn alleys of Sabra and Shatila refugee camps in Beirut as vengeance vied with naked lust in a massive display of human malice illuminated for the IDF overseers of this massacre with flares that provided “an unobstructed and panoramic view” for Israeli Defense Minister, Ariel Sharon and his Chief of Staff, Rafael Eitan, as they watched from the seven story Kuwaiti embassy providing logistical support for their Phalangist allies as they “massacred for 36 to 48 hours” the hapless Palestinians imprisoned in the camps...
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Sep 16, 2010


Gaza subjected to air strikes, water crisis | The Electronic Intifada

Sewage flowing into the sea at Gaza

  Three Palestinian farmers were killed by Israeli tank shelling late at night 12 September in the northernmost occupied Gaza Strip, along the no-go "buffer zone" enforced by the Israeli military. Al-Jazeera reported that a 91-year-old farmer, Ibrahim Abdullah Abu Saeed, and 20-year-old Ismael Walid Abu Audeh were killed immediately. Abu Saeed's 17-year-old grandson, Hossam Khaled Abu Saeed, was critically injured and died shortly afterwards...
[It doesn't stop and never will until the State of Israel is wiped off the map, God willing]
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US Endgame in Afghanistan: The Evil of Three Lessers, by Eric Walberg | Global Research
  In his school-boyish Oval Office “Mission accomplished!” speech 31 August, United States President Barack Obama heaped faint praise on Bush's invasion of Iraq, averring that no one could doubt Bush's support for the troops, love of his country and commitment to its security when he wrote this most "remarkable chapter in the history of the United States and Iraq". True, it was written at a "huge price" to the US (apparently it was provided free of charge for the fortunate Iraqis)...
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Making a Mockery of the Real Crime of Rape: Assange Beseiged, by Israel Shamir and Paul Bennett | Counterpunch
   The plot thickens as our favorite hero of the Matrix; our own “Captain Neo” Julian Assange, faces danger yet again. When we last parted company with the legendary founder of WikiLeaks, he was breathing a sigh of relief after dodging spurious double-rape charges. The complaints were dropped, and our hero was free to roam the globe once again...
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Three takes on the need to get rid of the Quisling PNA from Redress Information & Analysis

Start again with a clean sheet, Palestinians
   Stuart Littlewood argues that the Palestinian National Authority has become “an abomination” whose “leaders have so fouled the nest that the stink is unbearable” and that the future “hinges largely on Hamas, who at least are fiercely patriotic” and “see the enemy for what they really are”...
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Fatah: Collaborationist Israeli ally
  Stephen Lendman charts the shameful record of Palestinian National Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and his Fatah faction, who since the Oslo accords of 1973 have played the role of Israel’s sheriffs in the occupied territories...
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Disbanding the Palestinian Authority would scupper Israeli strategy

  Nureddin Sabir argues that the time has come to dismantle the Palestinian National Authority – a principal tool of Israeli policy in Palestine – and to replace it with a progressive, patriotic and democratic grassroots liberation movement...
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Nato's Secret Armies, by Stephen Lendman | OpEd News
   In his book, "NATO's Secret Armies: Operation GLADIO and Terrorism in Western Europe," Daniele Ganser described their clandestine Cold War operations, run by European secret services, collaborating with NATO, the CIA and Britain's MI6 and Secret Intelligence Service (SIS) against a possible Soviet invasion, internal communist takeovers, or others on the political left gaining power...
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Two states and one Holy Land, by John Whitbeck | Arab News
   As the Israeli-Palestinian "peace process" struggles to inch forward again in an atmosphere of profound pessimism bordering on hopelessness, what is most sadly missing is any compelling vision of how a Holy Land at peace could be structured so as to enhance not only the physical security of Israelis and the human dignity of Palestinians but also the future quality of day-to-day life for both peoples...
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All That You Have Done: Colonialism, Ethnic Cleansing and the Web, by Roger Sheety | Palestine Chronicle

   Despite the current facade of yet another round of fake peace talks, the Israeli government and its professional apologists remain in a panic. Hardly a week passes by without complaint that Israel “is being isolated” or that it is facing a campaign of “delegitimization.” In February of this year the Reut Institute, an Israeli group-think tank, published a remarkably delusional, ahistorical piece of propaganda masquerading as a scholarly report and warning of an internationally concerted effort that seeks to “erode” Israel’s diplomatic status which “may develop into a comprehensive existential threat within a few years.”..
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Humor Dept: The George W. Bush Memoir: Now Here's a Book I might Consider Burning, by Keith Johnson | The People's Voice
  Admirers of George W. Bush will soon have an opportunity to get inside the head of their dearly beloved neo-conservative icon. His much-hyped memoir, ‘Decision Points’ is due out in bookstores on November 9th...
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Where has the hypocrisy gone?, by Amira Hass | Haaretz
  No one thinks to ask about the consensus among the residents of Palestinian cities and villages on whose land the settlements have been built. The millions of Palestinians don't count at all...
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'US - Israel's partner in crime, not a referee' | YouTube 
  Israeli and Palestinian leaders are holding a new round of direct talks. The main issue being discussed is whether a current freeze on Israeli settlement-building in the West Bank will be extended. Palestinian President Abbas threatens to walk out on the negotiations if construction continues. For more on this, RT talks to Omar Barghouti, an activist from the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel...
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Academic research collaboration emboldens Israeli apartheid, by Diane Shammas | The Electronic Intifada
  ...The delegation's main objective was to discuss opportunities for academic collaboration with Israeli universities and reciprocal exchange programs for student and faculty. The majority of these Israeli universities, if not all, have been implicated in war crimes and other human rights violations against Palestinian and Lebanese civilians...
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Palestine: One Land, One People, One Destiny
Second Palestinian Popular Conference:  Together, Restoring our National Institutions, Reclaiming our Rights, Empowering our Community
October 29-31, 2010 in Chicago

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Nine years after September 11, by Thierry Meyssan | Voltaire Net
  In stark contrast with the glibness of official speeches on September 11, Thierry Meyssan offers his assessment of where we stand nine years after the attacks. His lucidity and steadfastness are bearing fruits. A large majority of people around the world no longer believe the US government’s account. In the United States itself, the most recent pole shows that 74% of the population actually doubts the official version...
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The questions of 9/11 are still unanswered, by Kourosh Ziabari | Global Research
  For those who are familiar with the world of journalism, it's comprehensible that Osama Bin Laden was simply a name which should have been put forward to become the target of ad hominem attacks by the mainstream media of the Bilderberg Group to appease the pain of Americans who couldn't digest the tragic loss of life in a chain of suicidal attacks which were carried out by the agents of a political entity which has so far succeeded in surviving thanks to the ignorance of taxpayers who don't know where their taxes go...
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Sep 14-15, 2010


9/11: The Mother Of All Coincidences, by Eric Margolis | My Catbird Seat


  ...I inspected the ruins of the New York’s Twin Towers, atop which I often dined, right after the attack. Downtown Manhattan was enveloped by a hideous, stinking miasma from the attack. I have never smelled anything so awful. It took me days to scrub the foul odor off my body. As a native New Yorker, I was shaken to the core by 9/11 – but hardly surprised, as I had predicted a major attack on the US nine days earlier...
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Do Not Pity the Democrats, by Chris Hedges | Truthdig
  There are no longer any major institutions in American society, including the press, the educational system, the financial sector, labor unions, the arts, religious institutions and our dysfunctional political parties, which can be considered democratic. The intent, design and function of these institutions, controlled by corporate money, are to bolster the hierarchical and anti-democratic power of the corporate state...
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Now We Know the Cause of Islamic Terrorism, by Jim Cox | Lew Rockwell

  ...It’s funny how B.O. (or his predecessor) never cited past American government policies as being a recruitment bonanza for al Qaeda. Only a handful of misguided activists at the Florida church using their own property and their privately acquired copies of the Koran have such an effect in the President’s view...
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America the Exceptional, by Glenn Greenwald | Salon
  ...the U.S. creates a worldwide regime of torture, disappearances and lawless imprisonment.  Then, the Bush administration, the Obama administration, and the American federal judiciary all collaborate to shield the guilty parties from all accountability (Look Forward, Not Backward!), and worse, to ensure that not a single victim can even access American courts to obtain a ruling as to the legality of what was done to them, let alone receive compensation for their suffering, even while recognizing that many of the victims were completely innocent...
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Israel's new rocket defence system | Redress Information & Analysis
  Jonathan Cook assesses the significance of new Israeli missile systems designed to shoot down short-range rockets. He argues that the real significance lies in the fact that Israel is tightening the screw even further on Gaza and sending warning signals to the West Bank in order to force a total Palestinian submission...
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Satan Resides In Framework Agreements, by Uri Avnery | Eurasia Review
  There is a story about the man who dictated his will. He divided his property generously, provided for all the members of his family, rewarded his friends and did not forget his servants. He finished off with a short paragraph: “In case of my death, this will is null and void.”..
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If the 'Mosque' Isn't Built, This Is No Longer America | Michael Moore
  I am opposed to the building of the "mosque" two blocks from Ground Zero. I want it built o n Ground Zero. Why? Because I believe in an America that protects those who are the victims of hate and prejudice...
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Los Angeles Launches Nation's First Israel Divestment Campaign | Alternet
  On April 1, 2010, in a no-holds-barred interview with the Christian Science Monitor, Israeli peacemaker Jonathan Ben Artzi, a PhD candidate at Brown University and nephew to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, made clear his belief that equality and social justice will prevail in Israel when the government and people of the United States adopt a no-tolerance stance toward Israel’s abuse of Palestinians...
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Israel's evidence questioned as Corrie trial resumes | The Electronic Intifada

  Testimonies resumed in the ongoing civil suit lodged by Rachel Corrie's family against the State of Israel in Haifa's District Court this week, as the state's defense team called three witnesses to the stand...
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Collapsing America, by Linh Dinh | Dissident Voice

  All governments lie, kill and misuse public funds, but these calculated habits are amplified manifold during wars. We’re in two now, aiming for a third...
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British Rabbi stands for Palestine rights | Press TV

  To discuss the plight of the Palestinians, Press TV's Remember Palestine program hosted by Lauren Booth, talked to Rabbi Yacov Weisz from Rabbis for Palestine, a self-described orthodox Jewish human rights organization based in London. The organization opposes Zionism and calls for a peaceful dismantling of Israel...
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"Lost tribe" on Fast Track to Israel, by Jonathan Cook | Global Research

  The Israeli government is reported to have quietly approved the fast-track immigration of 7,000 members of a supposedly “lost Jewish” tribe, known as the Bnei Menashe, currently living in a remote area of India. Under the plan, the “lost Jews” would be brought to Israel over the next two years by right-wing and religious organisations who, critics are concerned, will seek to place them in West Bank settlements in a bid to foil Israel’s partial agreement to a temporary freeze of settlement growth...
[I humbly suggest that the Zionist PR establishment mount a campaign inviting anyone anywhere who'd like a modern, tax-free apartment gratis and a job provided by the state in the beautiful and exciting West Bank, to apply for conversion and automatic status as an immigrant "Jew." It worked for the Afrikaaners - they only had to be white.]
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The Diary of Anne Frank: Is it Genuine?, by Robert Faurisson | IHR
  ...In the following essay, the author takes another look at the famous diary (or diaries), taking into account developments since then, including the publication in 1986 by a Netherlands government agency of a comprehensive "critical edition" of the Anne Frank diary...
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Tony Blair and the great Islamic threat, by Gwynne Dyer | World Bulletin
  People often wind up believing their own cover story. Former British prime minister Tony Blair, for example, is trapped forever in the rationalizations he used in 2003 to explain why he was going along with George Bush’s invasion of Iraq. He was at it again last week, telling the BBC that “radical Islam” is the greatest threat facing the world today...
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The Kill Team in Afghanistan and the Kill Team at Home: No Good Men Left Here, by Christopher Ketcham | Counterpunch
  We already know enough from the Wikileaks Afghan archives to conclude that the news of the so-called “Kill Team” in Afghanistan – twelve US Army soldiers wantonly murdering and mutilating Afghan civilians – is no news at all.  It is the norm of empire.   It is the monstrous quotidian.  Certainly there are many more instances like it that will never come to light...
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The Zionist Terror Network: Background and Operation of the Jewish Defense League and other Criminal Zionist Groups | IHR

  This booklet documents the background and criminal activities of Jewish Zionist terrorist groups, and especially the Jewish Defense League. Particular emphasis is given here to terror -- including murder -- against "thought criminals" who question the Holocaust story that six million Jews were systematically killed during the Second World War...
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Kenneth O'Keefe: Veto power is an insult to the international community, interviewed by Kourosh Ziabari | Intifada Palestine

   Kenneth O’Keefe is a world citizen. As an anti-war activist and social entrepreneur, he renounced his U.S. citizenship on March 1, 2001 and burned his American passport on January 7, 2004 in protest to the United States’ Imperialism and called for the immediate withdrawal of American forces from Iraq. O’Keefe is a former U.S. Mariner who served in the 1991 Persian Gulf War and subsequently revealed the use of depleted uranium by the United States as a crime against humanity...
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The Hate Mongers Among Us: (Part 4) Staying on Message to Advance the Narrative, by Jeff Gates | Criminal State
  Keeping the “anti-Semitism” theme front-and-center remains essential to advance the hate-monger’s narrative with the assistance of mainstream media. Thus the Anti-Defamation League criticized the cover of Time magazine for what ADL President Abe Foxman suggested was a portrayal of Israelis as more interested in making money than in striking a peace accord with the Palestinians. The article highlighted Israel’s booming real estate market and the pleasure Israelis are taking in late-Summer vacations...
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Does the Palestinian diaspora care enough to become engaged? | Redress Information & Analysis
  Alan Hart argues the time has come for Palestinians to disband the corrupt and discredited Palestinian National Authority and put policy making and implementation back into the hands of a reconstructed and reinvigorated Palestinian National Council, the pan-Palestinian parliament...
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Sep 13, 2010


Canadian Boat to Gaza: Get Behind the Flotilla, by Yves Engler | Palestine Chronicle

Mavi Marvara

  A specter is haunting the Harper government and its pro-Israel allies. It's been dubbed CBG and it stands for Canadian Boat to Gaza...
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Islamophobia: The Bigotry of our Age | International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network
  Recently, several shocking instances of Islamophobic bigotry have made news in the US. Plans to construct and expand mosques have been met with hostility, threats and violence. In Temecula, California, residents voiced their opposition to a mosque in their community by harassing Muslim worshipers with dogs. In Jacksonville, Florida, someone detonated a pipe bomb at an Islamic Center while 60 people were praying inside...
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Why “Not “ Remember 9/11, by E. Paul Newell | Veterans Today
  Yes indeed why “not to” remember 9/11? This is a good question that needs to be asked of the world. We can always ask why we should remember 9/11. But is anyone asking why we should not remember 9/11? Well everyone can just make up their own reasons as to why they or others should remember 9/11...
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Blindly returning to the dark ages, by Faryal Leghari | Khaleej Times
  This year the September 11 dateline comes encased in unbridled controversy of a different kind. Thanks to the ‘Burn A Quran Day’, the brainchild of one Pastor Terry Jones of the Dove World Outreach Centre in Gainesville, Florida, being staged to commemorate the September 11 anniversary. This controversial act that was in the pipeline since months has stirred a hornet’s nest...
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9/11 Hijacker Mohamed Atta & the Unreported Story, by Dr. Ashraf Ezzat  | Veterans Today
  On September 11, 2001, American Airlines Flight 11, a Boeing 767 out of Boston for Los Angeles, crashed into the north tower of the World Trade Center in New York at 8:48 a.m. Mohamed Atta was the presumed team leader of the hijacking of American Airlines Flight 11, which was the first plane to strike the World Trade Center. Atta was one of the 19 hijackers who pulled off the scariest terror attacks ever on American soil...
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Court Sides With Bush/Obama Administrations In Favor of Torture, Secrecy, Against Rule of Law | The BRAD BLOG
  ...the heart of this matter is the Government's "alleged" right (the President of the United States' actually) to use the so-called "state secrets privilege" to keep victims of alleged torture from ever even having a day in court --- even when one of those victims, as in this case, charges that his torture included "cutting his penis and other body parts with a scalpel and then pouring stinging liquid on the wounds."..
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Top Stories More Important than Quran-Burning Nut Job | Juan Cole
  The horrible era of anti-Muslim bigotry in the United States yielded a one-day silly season on Thursday, covered wall-to-wall by the US cable news channels. The weird cultist Terry Jones, fired from his church in Cologne, Germany last year for abusing his congregants, preaching hate-filled sermons, and demanding absolute obedience, was favored by an unprecedented telephone call from Secretary of Defense Robert Gates asking him not to burn the Quran, the Muslim scripture, on Saturday...
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Truth About Religion And Democracy, by Gordon Duff | Veterans Today
  Where to we start?  Do we try to clear up the mythologies, alright we can simply call them lies, about the “founding fathers?”  Hey, they were atheists!  These were men from “The Age of Reason.”  This meant they rejected all religion as superstition.  All this talk about Jefferson or Franklin being “theists” or trying to negotiate and “lawyer” some religion into the Constitution through the “back door” is simply pandering...
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A Videofest
Letter to Israel | YouTube 
  Journalist Lauren Booth was on the first Free Gaza voyage and stayed to work in Gaza after the boats left. Her heartfelt letter to the people of Israel should be read by everyone who hopes for peace in the Middle East...

Press TV's Kaneez Fatima talks to Mark Glenn on Islamophobia in US | YouTube

Press TV's Waqar Rizvi talks to Mark Dankof on Truth abut 9/11 | YouTube
 
Press TV's Kaneez Fatima talks to James Morris on US Blasphemy | YouTube

Give History a Chance, with Gilad Atzmon | Vimeo
  A talk given at Debunking ‘The War on Terror’ symposium, London, 14th July 2010 (dealing with history, Zionism, Revisionism, Temporality, Palestine and Israeli barbarism). Introduction by Ken O'keefe...

BBC Bias: The Gaza Freedom Flotilla | Gilad Atzmon
  An invaluable film by the  master documentary maker Anthony Lawson...

US-Israel vs Turkey-Iran | Rehmat's World
  ...Like Professor Shlomo Sand who has challenged the Zionist narration of JEWS and their ‘biblical right’ to occupy non-Jewish Arab Palestine – Former NYT reporter and author, Professor Stephen Kinzer also challenges the current Washington’s policy towards Islamic Republic and Turkey. He believes that Washington must change its blind support for Israel in order to stop Turkey going further closer to the Islamist regime in Tehran...

The Real Story behind Israel's Invasion of Gaza | Goldstone Facts
  The Sawafeary chicken coops were located only a few meters away from one of the key IDF positions. The IDF position was, itself, dictated by the lay of the terrain in the area. As the command investigation determined, this IDF position could not be adequately secured if the chicken coop structures were left intact. The demolition of these structures was needed to allow a clean line of sight for protection of IDF forces...

Simon Weisenthal: Myth-maker and Mossad agent | Rehmat's World

  Tom Segev PhD (born 1945) is an Israeli historian, author and journalist. He studied at Hebrew University (Jerusalem) and received his doctorate in history from Boston University in 1970. He had been a visiting professor at several American Universities in the past. His 2006 book ‘Six Day War, 1967′ is considered a masterpiece in the six centuries’ history of Jewish war against its Arab neighbors...
 


Fatah: Collaborationist Israeli Ally | SteveLendmanBlog

  At least since the Oslo Accords, Fatah has served Israel more than its own people. On August 25, Haaretz highlighted the latest example, "PA arrests dozens of Hamas, Islamic Jihad militants in West Bank," saying a PA source confirmed dozens made, including "high ranking officials in (both) organizations."..
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Ramadan Reflections from a Christian, by Tammy Obeidallah | The Ugly Truth
  As of this writing, the Islamic holy month of Ramadan is coming to a close. The past month has been a time of unprecedented turbulence for Muslims around the world. While both natural and man-made disasters plague our brothers and sisters overseas, media-fed controversy strains Muslim/non-Muslim relations here in the United States...
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The Holy Vengeance | Rehmat's World
  In 1236, a Jewish convert to Christianity, Nicholas Donin, submitted to Pope Gregory IX listing 35 charhes against the Judaism’s most holy book Talmud. The list included the insults to Jesus, his mother Mary, Christianity, spitting on the Cross and priests, the Blood Libel, hatred toward Gentiles and even animals and many foolish and revolting tales. After investigations the Pope issued a ‘Papal Bull (Holy Directive)’ that all copies of this hateful book be confiscated and burnt in public...
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Censored: On Thought Control in Israel, by Stephen Lendman | Palestine Chronicle
  Since its 1948 establishment, IDF military censor authority banned or sanitized material potentially damaging to Israel's security. Thereafter, voluntary media/government agreements prevailed, all domestic and foreign news organizations abiding by censorship rulings...
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Does international law have a future? | Redress Information & Analysis
  Lawrence Davidson considers how the application of international law has become “class based”, where the criminal leaders of powerful states – or those with powerful patrons – enjoy impunity, while the relatively weaker are brought to account for their criminal behaviour...
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Sep 12, 2010

9/11 Analysis


Nine years, two wars, hundreds of thousands dead – and nothing learnt, by Robert Fisk | The Guardian
  Did 9/11 make us all mad? Our memorial to the innocents who died nine years ago has been a holocaust of fire and blood...
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From Ronald Reagan and the Soviet-Afghan War to George W Bush and September 11, 2001, by Michel Chossudovsky | Global Research
   This article summarizes earlier writings by the author on 9/11 and the role of Al Qaeda in US foreign policy...
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9/11 and America's Secret Terror Campaign, by Andrew Gavin Marshall | Global Research
  For several years prior to the events of 9/11, top American strategists had been acknowledging the necessity of what they oft-termed a "new Pearl Harbor", a momentous attack upon America itself, in order to mobilize the American populace for a new global war of domination...
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An Interfaith Buddhist Response to the Ground Zero Protests, by Matthew Weiner and Rev. Chloe Breyer | Huffington Post
  ...If timing is everything, then a Buddhist approach to conflict, for this situation, may be an opportunity to take a step back, to be thoughtful with those we most disagree with, whichever side we are on. Perhaps it will help us, we who want to live together here, to move forward...
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Orthodox Jewish youths burn New Testaments in Or Yehuda | Haaretz
  City's deputy mayor initiated bonfire of missionary-distributed material, held next to a synagogue in town...
[[It's perfectly OK for them to do these things - after all, they're "special."]
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U.S. Aim in "Peace Process": Liquidation of Palestinian struggle, by Richard Becker | Global Research
  Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton are seeking, they say, a two-state solution, a Palestinian state in a small fraction of Palestine alongside Israel. Their idea is to create a weak, disarmed and broken-up state side-by-side with and dominated in every respect by Israel, the world's fifth-ranked military power. The Pentagon and CIA have been
providing the funding, training and arms for tens of thousands of Palestinian police, whose main task would be the suppression of any Palestinian organizations unwilling to accept this new form of colonial domination...
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American Hate: Military "Death Squad" Arrested, by Gordon Duff  | Dissident Voice
Politics, Religion and the Military, A Recipe for Disaster
  A dozen American soldiers are under arrest, five for murder, in crimes that we may never know the full extent of.  The accusations, killing for sport, collecting fingers as trophies, is "meat" for the media.  It will sell papers, it will bring TV viewers and, combined with the threatened Koran burning and the "hatefest" over the location of the Manhattan Islamic Center, everything imaginable is being done to make certain that terrorism is alive and well and aimed at the United States...
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Bin Laden is Dead, Long Live Bin Laden, by Maidhc Ó Cathail  | My Catbird Seat
   Who's keeping the terror myth alive?..
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Global Collapse of the Fiat Money System: Too Big To Fail Global Banks Will Collapse Between Now and First Quarter 2011, by Matthias Chang | Global Research
   Readers of my articles will recall that I have warned as far back as December 2006, that the global banks will collapse when the Financial Tsunami hits the global economy in 2007. And as they say, the rest is history...
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Orient Express | Israel Shamir

  Like the Four Riders of the Apocalypse, the unknown kamikaze rode their giant crafts into the two visible symbols of American world domination, Wall Street and the Pentagon. They vanished in flames and smoke, and we do not yet know who they were. They could be practically anybody: American Nationalists, American Communists, American Fundamentalist Christians, American Anarchists, anybody who rejects the twin gods of the dollar and the M-16, who hates the stock market and interventions overseas, who dreams of America for Americans, who does not want to support the drive for world domination...
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Kurt Sonnenfeld: A witness for the persecution, by Thierry Meyssan | Voltaire Net
  Kurt Sonnenfeld's case is outstanding for at least two reasons. He is in possession of official documentation that contradicts the U.S. Government's account of the 9/11 events. He is a high-profile U.S. citizen forced to seek refugee status because of his government's dogged persecution...
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Negotiations for Peace Theme of New Documentary, by Diane Morrow | Middle East Conflict

  ...a very timely and highly compelling documentary about the conflict releases in October. Little Town of Bethlehem from EthnoGraphic Media (EGM) addresses the growing nonviolence movement in Palestine and Israel...
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Palestinian-British Political Artist Detained And Stripped Searched At Ben Gurion Airport, by Nancy Leigh | International Middle East Media Center
  On Saturday September 4th British-born Palestinian Political Hip Hop artist, Shadia Mansour, was held at gunpoint by airport security and intelligence officers...
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When they shout: "We strongly condemn", by Dr. Bouthaina Shaaban | Middle East Monitor
  On August 29, 2010, Martin Indyk wrote an op-ed in The New York Times entitled "For once, hope in the Middle East".  When I read it, I felt I should respond with an article that sheds light on the issues which Mr, Indyk has chosen to ignore...
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Divestment: from the campus to the streets, by Mohammad Talaat | The Electronic Intifada
  Following a sharp increase in divestment efforts across North American college campuses last spring, this academic year promises an even greater number of initiatives. The success and near-success of efforts at several campuses last year, coupled with Israel's attack on the Gaza Freedom Flotilla this summer, has inspired new efforts among peace and justice
activists to target companies that profit from and abet Israel's apartheid regime...
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Stolen Valor Act Was Always A Joke, by Gordon Duff | Veterans Today
  One US Senator wears a Silver Star awarded to him instead of sending him to prison.  He has a secret presidential pardon and his military records are classified.  One recent US President was awarded a DFC for something he could have just as easily been sent to the brig for, an incident that killed two crew members described by those there as "panic" in combat.  One friend of a powerful politician actually awarded himself a Medal of Honor.  Senator John Kerry won three Purple Hearts for wounds a Marine would never bother to
mention to a corpsman.  General Colin Powell wears a Purple Heart for a wound even John Kerry wouldn't have noticed...
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The Source of America's Wars - Kristol Clear, by Maidhc Ó Cathail | My Catbird Seat
  Americans feeling let down by Barack Obama's escalation of the war in Afghanistan should take careful note of those who welcomed yet another "surge." It might help them to identify the source of their seemingly endless wars...
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'Israel is a Lunatic State' - Finkelstein on Gaza Flotilla Attack | YouTube
  Political scientist Norman Finkelstein has spoken to RT to give his assessment of Israel's raid on the Gaza Freedom Flotilla...
[The combination of lunacy and serial killings is usually classified as psychopathic.]
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Sep 11, 2010


The American Occupation of Afghanistan and the Birth of a National Liberation Movement, by Prof. Marc W. Herold | Global Research

Kabul, August 1996 before the Taliban entered. An old man in his neighborhood that was
 destroyed by years of inter-factional fighting, following the withdrawal of the Soviets in 1989

  ...Whenever Goebbels, the brain behind Nazi propaganda, heard anyone speak of culture, he pulled out his pistol. That goes to show that the Nazis who were and are the most tragic expression of imperialism and its thirst for domination even if they were, all of them, sick like Hitler, had a clear idea of the value of culture as a factor in the resistance to foreign domination...
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Elie Wiesel Is A Fraud: House Of Lies Crashing Down! | Northerntruthseeker
  Living in Canada, I am limited on what I can or cannot say about the Holocaust of World War II. If I was to state that I deny the Holocaust, then I could be arrested and charged with "Holocaust Denial". And since proper research is disallowed by Zionist Jewish groups that control all facets of the law in this country, I just will not state my position on that subject. I go after subjects that have factual evidence, not those who's proper research is forbidden by "law"!..
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Targeting Civilians: Israel's Specialty, by Stephen Lendman | Palestine Chronicle

  Professor Jeremy Salt teaches political science at Ankara, Turkey's Bilkent University. He's also the author of "The Unmaking of the Middle East: A History of Western Disorder in Arab Lands." On January 9, 2009, during Israel's war on Gaza, he wrote "A Message to the brave Israeli Airmen," asking:..
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Sept. 11: A Day Without War, by Amy Goodman | Truthdig
  The ninth anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks on the United States should serve as a moment to reflect on tolerance. It should be a day of peace. Yet the rising anti-Muslim fervor here, together with the continuing U.S. military occupation of Iraq and the escalating war in Afghanistan (and Pakistan), all fuel the belief that the U.S. really is at war with Islam...
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Moral Interventionism, Labour and Miliband, by Gilad Atzmon | Palestine Chronicle
  ...Considering the scale of the atrocities we are all complicit in thanks to the Labour government, it is my duty to remind the Labour party members who their leading candidate is, what he stands for and what interests he may serve...
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US to GAZA: A compilation

In NY harbor, Palestinian-Americans take leadership role in US campaign for Gaza, by Philip Weiss | Mondoweiss
  Last night I joined a three-hour cruise on New York harbor that served as a fundraiser to send a U.S. boat to Gaza in October. This morning I have three strong impressions of the event: 1, the great widening that is taking place on the issue on the American left-- the issue has found a political home; 2, Chris Hedges's spiritual speech on the issue; 3, the strong presence of Palestinian-Americans on the boat, and indeed their increasing role in the intellectual/political leadership on the issue...
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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. ..
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Day 205- The Audacity | Dear Mr President 365
  Dear Mr. President, this morning I woke up to news of a US organization working to send their own aid ship in defiance of the Gaza blockade. This ship will be called The Audacity of Hope, and, because it has also been endorsed by Rashid Khalidi, it is being linked to you by some right-wing media sources...
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Obama's friend raising funds for new Gaza aid ship, by Natasha Mozgovaya  | Haaretz
  Rashid Khalidi, a well-known critic of Israel, hopes to raise at least $370,000 in the next month...
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Iraq: An End or an Escalation? | Ron Paul
  Amid much fanfare last week, the last supposed “combat” troops left Iraq as the administration touted the beginning of the end of the Iraq War and a change in the role of the United States in that country.  Considering the continued public frustration with the war effort, and with the growing laundry list of broken promises, this was merely another one of the administration’s operations in political maneuvering and semantics in order to convince an increasingly war-weary public that the Iraq War is at last ending...
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The ‘Meaning’ of 9/11, by Justin Raimondo | My Catbird Seat
  It’s not what you think –
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9/11 kooks? Sure they are kooks. It takes a real kook to ignore things like this: | The Vineyard of the Saker
  So yes. There are plenty of 9/11 kooks. At NIST...
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The Koran at Fahrenheit 451, by Alexander Cockburn | Counterpunch

  By the end of the week, the air was so thick with pieties about the need for tolerance and respect for all creeds that one yearned for the Rev. Terry Jones, mutton chop whiskers akimbo, to rescind his last minute cave-in, stiffen his spine, then toss those Korans into the burn barrels outside his Gainesville church in Florida and torch them on this year’s anniversary of 9/11...
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God Announces Palestinian State in Uganda, by Belen Fernandez | Palestine Chronicle
  In an interview this week with Al Jazeera's Shihab Rattansi, omnipresent Israeli government spokesman Mark Regev addressed the difficulty of defining the border between Israel and Palestine without knowing “what’s going to be on the other side” and whether whatever it is will recognize the Jewish state...
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Suffering the New Normal: The End of the American Century? by David Rosen | Counterpunch
   The American Century emerged out of the ashes of the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, and reached its nadir in the wake of the al-Qaeda attacks of September 11, 2001. Looking back, the attacks of 9/11 seems to signal an end to a “century” of America’s ever-increasing domestic renewal and ever-expanding global hegemony...
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The Art of Talking Middle East Peace with a Forked Tongue, by Rizwan A. Rahmani  | Huffington Post
  I hear the news with much bemusement of Israel agreeing to talk peace with the Palestinians, and that Benjamin Netanyahu is looking forward to this meeting. It is almost comical to me, and about as believable as some sort of mythical Chimera, which only exists on the pages of a fantastical Greek tale with an elaborate plot...
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The Military and the Academy: The Silence of the Israeli Intelligentsia, by Lisa Taraki | Counterpunch
  The ongoing buzz in the Israeli media around statements issued by artists and academics against lecturing or performing in the colony of Ariel – built on occupied Palestinian land – betrays a stark contradiction in the positions of the Israeli intelligentsia. While they are now calling for a boycott of settlements, they have remained apathetic or even content regarding the far more significant heavy hand of the military-security-political establishment in society, including in academia and cultural institutions...
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Barack Obama: Torturer-and-Assassin-in-Chief | Hornberger's Blog
  The Ninth Circuit’s ruling yesterday in the case of Binyam Mohamed vs. Jeppesen Dataplan, Inc. confirms two things: the U.S. government wields the omnipotent, unreviewable power to torture people and, two, that Barack Obama, despite his much ballyhooed pre-election campaign hype about “change,” is actually just serving George W. Bush’s third term in office...
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The Emir of Qatar: The Mideast's Quiet Peacemaker, by Rannie Amiri | Counterpunch
  ...It was Ahmadinejad’s sixth visit to the Persian Gulf state in five years, but it spoke less of him than the quiet, effective diplomacy for which his host, the Emir of Qatar, Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani, is renowned...
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Back to high-school: today, physics 101 | The Vineyard of the Saker
  My friend L. has just emailed me this video, which I new about, but which I do want to post here for those of you who say that they are not engineers and that they have a hard time coming to a conclusion about what happened with WTC7.  In this video David Chandler, a high-school physics teacher, uses basic (high-school level) yet absolutely incontrovertible laws of physics to prove tat WTC7 did fall at free-fall acceleration for a significant part of its collapse...
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Debt, Denial, and Default | Bullion Bulls Canada
  ...if we look at the economy of the state of Michigan, we see an economy which is larger and in far worse shape than even Greece’s economy. Similarly, the economy of California is larger – and in worse shape than the economy of Spain. In other words, for every Euro economy which is supposedly in some sort of “crisis”, there is a U.S. state with a larger economy, and bigger debt problems...
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Sep 10, 2010


Does Burning the Quran Solve Your Problems? by Kourosh Ziabari | Salem-News


  There are thousands of instances which indicate the benevolence, peacefulness and serenity of Islam...
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'Apropos' Peace Talks | Gilad Atzmon
  Needless to mention, I don’t hold my breath for the outcome of the current ‘peace talks’. As I mentioned many times before, Israelis are not interested in peace as they fail to grasp what peace is all about or what it stands for...
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A Ground Zero Reflection: Indefensible Drones, by Kathy Kelly | Counterpunch
  Libby and Jerica are in the front seat of the Prius, and Mary and I are in back. We just left Oklahoma, we're heading into Shamrock, Texas, and tomorrow we'll be Indian Springs, Nevada, home of Creech Air Force Base. We've been discussing our legal defense...
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Learn more about the Nakba | Gilad Atzmon
  from an Israeli who is brave enough to admit the sin...
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Hamas re-positioning themselves? by Stuart Littlewood | My Catbird Seat
  “Negotiation today does not serve the Palestinian side… Just as there is currently no parity in the field of confrontation, there is also no parity around the negotiating table,” says Mesh’al...
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Biden and the False Iraq War Narrative, by Gareth Porter | t r u t h o u t
  In an interview on the PBS NewsHour last Wednesday, Joe Biden was unwilling to contradict the official narrative of the Iraq war that Gen. David Petraeus and the Bush surge had turned Iraq into a good war after all...
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Should Saudi King Abdullah invite Netanyahu to Riyadh? by Alan Hart | My Catbird Seat
  The suggestion that he should was made by Thomas L. Friedman in his column for the New York Times on 7 September. My first response was to say to myself, “That proves Friedman doesn’t understand the complexities of the conflict and is at least a little bit bonkers.” But the more I thought about it, the more it seemed to me that King Abdullah should do what Friedman suggested...
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Tony Blair scrapped London book signing to avoid protest 'hassle', by Alexandra Topping | The Guardian
  Tony Blair yesterday took a last-minute decision to cancel his key book signing in central London because of security fears, after unrest at a signing in Dublin saw the former prime minister pelted with eggs and shoes...
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The Punishment of Gaza: An Interview with Gideon Levy | Counterpunch
  For decades Gideon Levy has used the platform provided by the liberal Israeli newspaper Ha’aretz to shine a light on the brutal realities of Israel’s occupation. His journalism, along with that of his colleague Amira Hass, has been an invaluable resource not only for Israeli readers but, through the Ha’aretz website, for international audiences seeking an informed and humane Israeli perspective on the conflict...
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Global BDS Against Israel Is Working, by Stephen Lendman | Sabbah Report
  In July 2005, a coalition of 171 Palestinian Civil Society organizations created the Global BDS movement for "Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions against Israel Until it Complies with International Law and Universal Principles of Human Rights" for Occupied Palestinians, Israeli Arabs, and Palestinian diaspora refugees...
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A Modest Proposal, by Philip Giraldi | Antiwar
  The Founding Fathers were in no way ambiguous about armies and warfare.  One of their objections to the policies of King George III expressed in the Declaration of Independence was that "He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the consent of our legislators."  Another grievance was that he had employed mercenary soldiers against the citizens of the thirteen colonies.  The Founders distrusted standing armies because those forces could be used to overawe the citizenry and to support autocratic rule...
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Media New Battleground for Palestinians and Israelis | IPS
  Palestinians and Israelis are using the media as a new battleground in their war to win hearts and minds across the globe, even as the protracted conflict in the Mideast drags on with no apparent end in sight...
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Islam and America's Most Powerful Cult ,by M. Junaid Levesque-Alam | Antiwar
  The "Islam is a cult" mantra is not an epithet: it is the axiom of a belief system that outmatches any religion in America in influence and irrationality. Within this belief system, facts cannot weaken the pull of the idea that "whole blocks of millions or tens of millions of people can be confidently labeled ‘good’ or ‘bad,’" and reason cannot compete with the coveted "habit of assuming that human beings can be classified like insects."..
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Militarizing Space, by Stephen Lendman | Counterpunch
  ...Co-founder and coordinator of the Global Network Against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space, Bruce Gagnon warned: "If the US is allowed to move the arms race into space, there will be no return. We have this one chance, this one moment in history, to stop the weaponization of space from happening. The peace movement must move quickly, boldly, and publicly," which so far hasn't happened, most people mindless to the danger...
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Devils and the Deep Blue Sea, by Jeff Huber | Antiwar
  The non-victory-lap victory lap broadcast from the Oval Office last week showed beyond any lingering doubt that young Mr. Obama is every bit the prevaricator that young Mr. Bush was. But the mission semi-accomplished speech carried an even darker announcement: the unconditional surrender of our political leadership to the American Pentarchy, that malevolent confluence of Big Brother, Big Bucks, Big Oil, Big Arms, Big Bandwidth, Big Jesus, Big Zion, and big-shot generals and politicians who sustain the Pentagon’s Long War agenda...
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Sep 9, 2010


The lights are going out in Gaza, by Mohammed Omer | IPS


  The Muslim festival Eid approaches, but not the end to power cuts that have darkened the month-long Ramadan fasting leading up to the festival. Or to the agony of Gazans, made worse by the reminder that it's approaching festive time...
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Here We Go A-Summiting: Damage Control, by Uri Avnery | Counterpunch
   A Dutch journalist asked me last Wednesday to try and divine the thoughts of Binyamin Netanyahu on his way to Washington. It seems that she was satisfied with the results, because she asked me to divine the thoughts of Mahmoud Abbas, too. She must have liked that as well, because then she asked me to do the same for Barack Obama. Here, then, is what I told her...
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No Tears Needed Over the Demise of the US Empire, by Ivan Eland | Antiwar
  In a recent column, Thomas Friedman, probably the most influential “internationalist” – read: proponent of U.S. interventionism in faraway places – has finally discovered that the United States must soon turn inward and put domestic economic growth first because of its massive public debt, huge federal budget deficit, and looming fiscal crisis caused by a dramatic automatic escalation in entitlements spending. Eureka, the foreign policy rapture has begun!..
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History According to Beck and Palin: The Myth of the Founding Fathers, by Tom Turnipseed | Counterpunch
  Led by Glenn Beck and Sarah Palin, Tea Party worshippers of the Founding Fathers want to return to the “good ol’ days” of 1787, when most African-Americans were slaves, many poor whites were indentured servants, and women couldn’t vote...
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Will our generals ever shut up?, by Tom Engelhardt | Salon
  As the military masters the media pulpit, it's pushing America toward a more hawkish position in foreign affairs...
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Mad Men:
The Psychopaths of Power Play the Insanity Card | Chris Floyd

  For your consideration: two stories, from opposite sides of the world, concerning the attitude of Power toward those who would question its wisdom...
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Our ‘Dumb Wars’ Will Go On, by Stanley Kutler | Truthdig
   “It is time to turn the page,” President Barack Obama said as he announced the “end” of combat operations in Iraq. Meanwhile, those who brought us that unnecessary war remain committed to such policies and, if returned to power, are likely to carry them out...
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Why am I not hearing the endless rumble of jaws dropping to the floor?! | The Vineyard of the Saker
  For those of you who have been regular readers of my blog it is no secret that after 8 years of doubts and confusion I have finally come to the conclusion that 9/11 was an "inside job"...
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Michael Moore Teaches Rahm Emanuel a F**cking Economics Lesson | AlterNet
  Dear Rahm Emanuel, I read this week that — according to a new book by Steven Rattner, your administration's former "Car Czar" — during White House meetings about how to save the tens of thousands of jobs that would be lost if GM and Chrysler collapsed, your response was, "Fuck the UAW!"..
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Enough With The Mideast Kabuki! | Eric Margolis
  On 2 Sept, 2001, in a newspaper article, I wrote: “America’s strategic and economic interests in the Mideast and Muslim world are being threatened by the agony in Palestine, which inevitably invites terrorist attacks against US citizens and property.” The 9/11 attacks came nine days later...
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America's Empire and Endless Wars Are Destroying the World, and Ruining Our Great Country, by Terrence McNally and Andrew Bacevich | AlterNet
  Andrew Bacevich speaks with a fairly unique mix of experience, authority, passion and wisdom in questioning our nation’s priorities: specifically our willingness to place so much of our national identity, wealth, attention, moral practice, and finally the life and blood of many thousands of our citizens and millions of those of other countries in the hands of our military...
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The boycott of Israel is "gaining speed" | Redress Information & Analysis
  Lawrence Davidson outlines the reasons why the boycott of Israel is gaining speed, from “the horrors of the Israeli occupation and its ghettoizing of the people of Gaza”, to the segregation and economic and social discrimination against Israel’s non-Jewish population, to the corrupting influences of Zionism on policy-making institutions of Western governments, especially those of the United States...
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When the Israeli Jews Lose Their Moral Compass, by Hasan Afif El-Hasan | Palestine Chronicle
  On the first day of the Palestinian-Israeli direct negotiations, I was reading a book by Avraham Burg on Israel. Avraham Burg, a man who once was at the heart of the Israeli establishment as the speaker of the Knesset, asked the same question which I spent years trying to answer. Why the Jewish people, the yesterday’s victims of Hitler and the survivors of the Holocaust do not view the indigenous Palestinians as people with possibly legitimate needs?..
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Iran's President Ahmadinejad should desist from harmful rhetoric | Redress Information & Analysis
  Paul J. Balles argues that Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s rhetoric on Israel and the US is pointless and counter-productive: “While one may sympathize with the reasons for his verbal attacks, Ahmadinejad would do well for himself, the Gulf and the world if he bit his tongue occasionally and restrained his inordinate pride.”..
[I empathize with Ahmadinejad, a proud and highly intelligent man whose country is being threatened by the psychos in DC and Tel Aviv, but I have to agree with Balles that he needs to be a little more discreet. Taunting a bully is likely to get a violent reaction.]
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What America Left Behind in Iraq, by Nir Rosen | Foreign Policy
  Hundreds of cars waiting in the heat to slowly pass through one of the dozens of checkpoints and searches they must endure every day. The constant roar of generators. The smell of fuel, of sewage, of kabobs. Automatic weapons pointed at your head out of military vehicles, out of SUVs with tinted windows. Mountains of garbage. Rumors of the latest assassination or explosion. Welcome to the new Iraq...
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"We need to nationalize the resistance", by Jody McIntyre | The Electronic Infifada
  Public servant Bassem Mohammed al-Tamimi is from al-Nabi Saleh, a small village about 20 kilometers northwest of Ramallah. As coordinator of the local Popular Committee, Tamimi has played a leading role in al-Nabi Saleh's demonstrations against the nearby illegal Israeli settlement and military base of Halamish. Jody McIntyre interviewed al-Tamimi for The Electronic Intifada...
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A Palestinian Rent-Boy Goes to Washington | Kawther Salam
   On August 25, 2010, President Mahmoud Abbas traveled to Washington to start new rounds of the so-called “peace negotiations” headed by the former negotiator of Oslo, Saeb Erekat. In engaging in these negotiations, Abbas chose to ignore the will of the majority of Palestinians, .. and to rely solely on his own decision, the corrupt Fatah central committee, the illegal cabinet, the corrupt Arab regimes in Egypt and Jordan, on the congratulations of the Saudi Royal family which heads a kingdom of illiteracy, on the League of Arab States which has no real power and is instead a front for zionist interests, and Middle East “peace” quartet...
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Kitat Kohenut and the Israeli Police State in Amerikka, by Mark Dankof | Al-Jazeerah
  For those of you who have trouble sleeping, I don’t recommend reading the alternative explanation of the events in New York on September 11, 2001 offered by Nashid Abdul-Khaaliq.  Nor would I recommend ex-CIA station chief Philip Giraldi’s recent essay in Pat Buchanan’s “The American Conservative,” entitled “Mossad in America.”..
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The Cakewalk War | Patrick J. Buchanan
  Six months before the invasion of Iraq, Taki Theodoracopulos, Scott McConnell and this writer launched a new magazine, The American Conservative. Goal: Convince our countrymen that invading Iraq would be imperial folly...
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Sep 8, 2010


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...
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Richest lawmakers grew wealthier as economy faltered, by Rachel Rose Hartman | Yahoo! News
  The rest of the country is still struggling with high unemployment amid a sluggish-at-best economic recovery -- but the wealthiest members of Congress are in high cotton. Indeed, the top 50 wealthiest lawmakers saw their combined net worths increase last year, according to the Hill's annual analysis of financial disclosure documents...
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U.S. Marine Veteran Returns to America as a "Terrorist," Says Israel, by Ken O’Keefe | Veterans Today
   I will be returning to America in the next 36 hours as a publicly accused “terrorist operative”, according to the Israeli military that is.  It will be interesting to see how my birth nation will handle me.  Especially because I headed to Gaza aboard the Freedom Flotilla in order to “train a commando unit for Hamas” (according to Israel)...
[There seems to be a shortage of genuine heroes these days - O'Keefe is an exception.]
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Our Long National Nightmare Isn't Over, It's Just Beginning, by David Michael Green | Information Clearing House
  In the 1930s, the only thing we had to fear was fear, itself.  Today, the main thing we have to fear is us, ourselves.  Looking out over the horizon, I'm starting to wonder just how many shades of dark there are on the palette.  Lately, I get the feeling that we're about to find out...
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UN Atomic Agency Curtails Probe of Israel's Nuclear Capability | Business Week
  United Nations investigators, ordered to write a report about Israel’s atomic capabilities, said they couldn’t compile enough information to assess the extent of the country’s nuclear program...
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Iran is being sanctioned for crimes it didn't commit, official says | Haaretz
  Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman says UN-led sanctions and resolutions targeting the country's nuclear program are 'illegal, illogical and unfair in principle.'..
[Meanwhile, Israel is free to commit its crimes with utter impunity]
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An Unsettled Issue: Israeli Settlement Construction Booms Despite Ban, by Juliane von Mittelstaedt | Der Spiegel
  In Washington, the Israelis and Palestinians are discussing peace, but in the Jewish settlements in the West Bank, construction is proceeding at full speed. A legal ban is being ignored and the government is looking away. The thousands of new homes could hinder reconciliation...
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Is Israel Running The Taliban? by Gordon Duff | Veterans Today
  43 Pakistanis were killed in a terror attack, killed for supporting Palestinians in Gaza.  The signs had been there, the Wikileaks attempt to put responsibility for the Taliban on Veterans Today editor General Hamid Gul.  This was debunked in a heartbeat.  This attack was vicious and clearly the work of Israel...
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Fascism is already here, by Yossi Sarid | Haaretz
  If protesters didn't exist, Netanyahu, Livnat and Sa'ar would have to invent them. After all, these figures are the last living proof of a democratic regime in Israel...
[It is still too little recognized that Israel was irrevocably Fascist from its very conception. See "Us vs. Them: On the Meaning of Fascism"]
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The Triumph of Evil, by Prof. John Kozy | Global Research
  Modern societies have justified their adoption of criminal activities by claiming that such techniques are necessary to combat evil. But the war against evil by the good cannot be won using evil tactics. Evil never yields goodness, and by using these evil practices, the amount of evil in the world increases both in amount and extent. Attempting to save the nation by becoming what you are trying to save the nation from is suicidal. Unless benign techniques such as those developed by primitive societies are put to use, evil will prevail. Then, paraphrasing J. Robert Oppenheimer's comment after the first atomic bomb was successfully tested, We will have become evil, the destroyer of goodness...
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9 Shameless Warmongers Who Call Fox News Home | Media Matters
  During the run-up to the Iraq war, some of the worst purveyors of misinformation about Iraq had a home at Fox News, and their ranks have swelled considerably since then. Media Matters takes a look at the track record of wrong predictions and shoddy analysis about the war in Iraq by many of Fox News’ contributors and analysts...
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How the World Changed After 9/11: A Symposium of Critical Thinkers | How the World Changed
  A made for television event in lower Manhattan on September 11th and 12th, 2010...
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Palestinian recognition of Israel, a Jewish state - Why? | Alcanaanite's Blog
  Why do Benjamin Netanyahu, Avigdor Lieberman, and other Zionist leaders insist that “without Palestinian recognition that Israel is the state of the Jewish people, there will not be peace”?..
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Tel Aviv On The Potomac, by Keith Johnson | Revolt of the Plebs
  With very few exceptions, the current crop of Armani suited sycophants who occupy seats in both houses of Congress must go!  Topping the list are those who pledge their allegiance to a certain foreign power in the Middle East...
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Who does he think he is fooling? | Aljazeera
  Robert Grenier deconstructs the political rhetoric of former United States ambassador to Israel, Martin Indyk...
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Sep 7, 2010


‘Firedoglake’ is progressive– just don’t talk about Palestine, by Philip Weiss | Mondoweiss

  Here is an important matter that I have been sitting on for days and that people who care about American support for Palestinian oppression need to be aware of: the extent to which Firedoglake, a leading progressive site, suppresses criticism of Israel. The battle demonstrates that even inside the left, the Israel lobby is a strong force...
['Progressive Zionist' is one of my favorite oxymorons]
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The Imperial Anatomy of Al-Qaeda:
The CIA’s Drug-Running Terrorists and the “Arc of Crisis, by Andrew Gavin Marshall

  As the 9th anniversary of 9/11 nears, and the war on terror continues to be waged and grows in ferocity and geography, it seems all the more imperative to return to the events of that fateful September morning and re-examine the reasons for war and the nature of the stated culprit, Al-Qaeda...
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No exit: A Palestinian legislator trapped in the West Bank, by Amira Hass | Haaretz
  The Shin Bet and Civil Administration sometimes differ on who is a security threat, which could have serious consequences for a Palestinian woman who needs an urgent brain exam...
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War Forevermore | Mantiq al-Tayr
  ...since the average American is a complete Zionist-bullshit-fed dumb ass, when I say state of perpetual war, I mean perpetual.  The occupation of Iraq will continue and no doubt much great use will be made of the all the military bases we built there and of course of the new US embassy in Baghdad which is the size of Vatican city...
[Nothing lasts forever, including the dollar as the world's reserve currency - when that goes, so does the Imperial overreach.]
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Khaled Mesh’al lays out new Hamas policy direction | Middle East Monitor
  This is the most recent interview with Khaled Mesh'al who, since 1996, has been the Chairman of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) Political Bureau. After the assassination of Hamas leader Abdul ‘Aziz Rantisi in 2004, Mesh'al became the overall leader of the movement...
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Hague and an ethical foreign policy, by Zulaikha Abdullah | Middle East Monitor
  ...For Hague, the core emphasis is on the promotion of human rights as a value which helps define and drive British Foreign policy asserting that "We cannot have a foreign policy without a conscience. Foreign policy is domestic policy written in large", and while human rights are not the only issue that inform policy, they are indivisible from it...
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Munir's Story: 28 years after the Massacre at Sabra-Shatila, by Dr. Franklin Lamb | My Catbird Seat
  The untreated psychic wounds are still open. Accountability, justice and basic civil rights for the survivors are still denied...
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Turning Iraq Into a "Good War", by Gareth Porter | Counterpunch
  In an interview on the PBS NewsHour last Wednesday, Joe Biden was unwilling to contradict the official narrative of the Iraq War that Gen. David Petraeus and the Bush surge had  turned Iraq into a good war after all.  That interview serves as a reminder of just how completely the Democratic Party foreign policy elite has adopted that version of the war...
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They caused the Iraq War and remain without shame, by James Zogby | The National
  ...At some point in history those who brought this disaster down on us all must be called to account for the fabrications, the embarrassment to America’s honour, and the death and waste of so many lives. Until that occurs, the conclusion to this sad chapter will not have been written...
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Israeli FM Slams Peace Talks, Insists Peace "Unattainable" for Generations, by Jason Ditz | Antiwar
  Hawkish Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman, who has made it clear time and again that he opposes on general principle the idea of a peace settlement with the Palestinians, today again lashed out at the talks...
[Where was Lieberman when the KKK needed him?]
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Sep 6, 2010

Like a pillar of fire, by Gideon Levy | Haaretz

  This weekend an important Israeli will celebrate his 87th birthday. Although he is the same age as Israel's president, and his influence on Israel's history has not been much smaller than the latter's...
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America’s History of Fear, by Nicholas Kristof | NYT

  A radio interviewer asked me the other day if I thought bigotry was the only reason why someone might oppose the Islamic center in Lower Manhattan. No, I don’t. Most of the opponents aren’t bigots but well-meaning worriers — and during earlier waves of intolerance in American history, it was just the same...
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Obama's Ridiculous Mid-East Summit, by Alexander Cockburn | Counterpunch

  It has been impossible to read the agenda for the Oval Office summit between Obama, Netanyahu and Abbas without laughing out loud at the absurdity of its pretensions...
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Hamas, don’t blow this chance, by Stuart Littlewood | My Catbird Seat
   Can the resistance exploit the fake talks, re-position itself and finally “come good”?..
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Palestinians as Second-Class Citizens: Terms of Coexistence, by George Bisharat | Counterpunch
  "Where is the Palestinian Mandela?" pundits occasionally ask. But after these latest Israeli-Palestinian peace talks in Washington fail -- as they inevitably will -- the more pressing question may be: "Where is the Israeli de Klerk?" Will an Israeli leader emerge with the former South African president's moral courage and foresight to dismantle a discriminatory regime and foster democracy based on equal rights?..
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Who pays for the loss of life in Iran? by Kourosh Ziabari | Eurasia Review
   Since the victory of Iran's Islamic Revolution in 1979 which toppled the U.S.-backed regime of Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, Iran has been facing with devastating and agonizing financial sanctions of the United States and its European allies who didn't favor the post-revolutionary Iran's doctrine of confrontation with the superpowers and its denial of Western liberal democratic values...
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Anti-Israel economic boycotts are gaining speed, by Nehemia Shtrasler | Haaretz
  The sums involved are not large, but their international significance is huge. Boycotts by governments gives a boost to boycotts by non-government bodies around the world.
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A Koran-Bashing Pastor: The Fire This Time, by Rev. William E. Alberts | Counterpunch
  In his second Inaugural Address, former president George W. Bush championed his administration’s pre-emptive, falsely based, criminal war of choice against Iraq with, “We have lit a fire . . . and one day this untamed fire of freedom will reach the darkest corners of our world.”..
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Persecuting a Conciliator, by Sheldon Richman | FFF
  If a YMCA or a YMHA were planned for 51 Park Place in Lower Manhattan, two blocks from the Twin Towers’ former site, who would have noticed? Instead, the equivalent of a Muslim Y (without the implied male exclusivity) is to be built there. What’s the big deal?..
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A Lesson in Reality: Behind the Israeli Wall, by Ramzy Baroud | Counterpunch
  ...real life is not a well-organized academic argument. It can be, and often is chaotic, strange and puzzling, but it is real. Only by understanding reality the way it is - not the way we feel that it ought to be for any reason - can we meaningfully position ourselves to appreciate the subject at hand...
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Hamas official: Israeli settlers are a legitimate military target | Haaretz
  Member of Hamas' politburo says settlers posses more than half a million automatic weapons, as well as being regularly supported by IDF troops...
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Your apology is not convincing, by Abdel Bari Atwan | Middle East Monitor
  It was right that the Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad did apologize for the actions of elements within the security apparatus under his authority. They had attacked a gathering of representatives of PLO factions and independent national figures, and prevented them from participating in a symposium called to express opposition to the participation of Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas in direct negotiations in Washington...
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Doubtful declarations | Haaretz
  The Washington summit met the goals set for it. It ended with an announcement of the renewal of negotiations to reach an Israeli-Palestinian settlement that will resolve all the core issues and lead to the establishment of a Palestinian state...
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I am a Muslim; I am a victim of terrorism, by Dr. Bouthaina Shaaban | Middle East Monitor
  Those who try to make the word 'terrorism' a synonym of the word 'Islam' try to brainwash us these days by the phrase "I am a Muslim, I am against terrorism", which many Arabic-language TV stations have started to use during the month of Ramadan, when TV viewing becomes a dominant pastime in the Arab world...
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Sep 5, 2010


An Al Quds day letter to Tony Blair, From Lauren Booth in Iran | Gilad Atzmon


  I guess that Tony Blair’s sister in law, Lauren Booth, could easily use the phone and tell Tony what she thinks of him, his politics and his new memoir. However, being a peace activist she decided also to share it with the rest of us...
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Obama's Iraq speech: An exercise in cowardice and deceit, by Bill Van Auken | Global Research
  ..It was deceitful to the people of the United States and the entire world in its characterization of the criminal war against Iraq. And it was cowardly in its groveling before the American military...
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Bloody Memoir | Gilad Atzmon
  Tony Blair, a man who launched a criminal war with no end, declared once again today that “Radical Islam is the world's greatest threat.”..
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Obama has signaled his coming complete surrender to Zionism and its lobby | Redress Information & Analysis
  Alan Hart argues that behind US President Barack Obama’s declaration that the US will not force Israel to accept a just peace – in effect, his surrender to Zionism – may lurk the conclusion that the Zionist state is already a monster beyond control...
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The Greatest Covert Operation Ever: The Politics of Terror as the Business of Terror, by Douglas Valentine | Global Research
  ...In America , terrorism is always condemned by the government, and, accordingly, America is never a perpetrator of terrorism, but always the victims of it.  The US war on terror is the ultimate expression of this principle: it is a military response to terrorism; violence in self-defense, not (ostensibly) violence for a political purpose...
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Vomiting Perfidy, by Layla Anwar | An Arab Woman Blues
   Since yesterday I have been vomiting my insides out... My first bout of vomit came after I read a transcript of your President's speech, his speech to the "nation"...
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The True Cost of the War, by Paul Craig Roberts | Antiwar
  Obama’s "end of Iraq war" speech must have shattered any remaining belief in him. Forced to appease both his supporters and the warmonger right-wing, who denounce him as a Muslim and a Marxist, Obama resorted to Orwellian DoubleSpeak...
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Islamophobia: "Israel's Most Cherished Weapon of Mass Destruction Destined to Destroy The West If Not Stopped, by Mark Glenn | 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…
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Why Israelis Don't Care About Peace with Palestinians, by Karl Vick | Yahoo! News
   Heli and Eli sell condos on Exodus Street, a name that evokes a certain historical hardship in a neighborhood that suggests none at all, the ingathering of the Jews having entered a whole new realm here...
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Middle East Loses Trillions As U.S. Strikes Record Arms Deals, by Rick Rozoff | Global Research
  ...The Middle East requires comprehensive regional development, but instead is receiving billions of dollars worth of arms...
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Dissecting the Holocaust: Witnesses to the Gas Chambers of Auschwitz, by Robert Faurisson | Historical Revisionism
  Eyewitness testimony must always be verified. There are two essential means of verifying such testimony in criminal cases: confronting the account with the material elements (in particular, with expertise as to the crime weapon), and the detailed cross-examination of the witness on what he/she purports to have seen...
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Cleansing History Of The Hitler-Zionist Nexus, by Gordon Duff | Veterans Today
  History is subjective, though it was never meant to be.  Real history has never been in danger as it is today.  World War II wasn’t the “clean war” we purport it to be but as dirty as World War I, with its secret deals and payoffs.  Everything in its aftermath has required a mythology,  misrepresention and disinformation, not only the war but its after-shocks and how the conflicts continue, almost endlessly...
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Zionism and the Third Reich, by Mark Weber | Institute for Historical Review
 
  Early in 1935, a passenger ship bound for Haifa in Palestine left the German port of Bremerhaven. Its stern bore the Hebrew letters for its name, "Tel Aviv," while a swastika banner fluttered from the mast. And although the ship was Zionist-owned, its captain was a National Socialist Party member...
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Sep 4, 2010


Gaza: 16 Year Old Girl Defies The Sea And The Siege To Feed Her Family | Palestine News Network


  Every dawn, 16 year old Madeliene Kalab, leaves her home and sails into the Mediterranean on a small boat her family owns...
[Somehow they endure]
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Flying the flag, faking the news, by John Pilger | New Statesman
  Loud noises from Washington about a US pull-out from Iraq are a poor disguise for America’s determination to keep waging war...
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Freeman on Israel: Asset or Liability? | Nixon Center
  ...Identifiable U.S. government subsidies to Israel total over $140 billion since 1949. This makes Israel by far the largest recipient of American giveaways since World War II.  The total would be much higher if aid to Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, and support for Palestinians in refugee camps and the occupied territories were included.  These programs have complex purposes but are justified in large measure in terms of their contribution to the security of the Jewish state...
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Palestinian strategy towards independence, by Daoud Kuttab | Maan News Agency
  There is a chance that the Israeli occupation that began in 1967 will soon end and an independent Palestinian state will emerge. The direct peace talks taking place in Washington are a necessary step towards that goal, but this is not the only option the Palestinians have...
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Cognitive Dissonance

'Anti-Semitic': The Label Jews Hope Will Stop Criticism, by Paul Balles | Gulf Daily News
   If you indulge in ad hominem attacks (attacking the person rather than the issue), you can expect the same in return. The issues related to the anti-Semitic label are many...
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Rabbis can apparently say whatever they want, by Anshel Pfeffer | Haaretz
   That so many Israeli rabbis are public employees should have led to some kind of oversight. In fact, the opposite is the case...
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Sycophants in Washington, by Timothy V. Gatto | The People's Voice
  Recently the big subject on the internet has been the Fair Elections Act which calls for public financing of candidates for public office. I’m not surprised as I have been writing non-stop about this subject since 2004. I just wondered when the rest of the country was going to catch up. There is no one that could be as happy as I am that people are finally “getting it”...
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To a Martian, Zionism can be confusing, by Carlo Strenger | Haaretz
  Imagine an anthropologist from Mars sent to earth to compile a report on Israeli political culture, and to understand the distinction between Zionism and anti-Zionism...
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Saving humanity from "The Monster" | Rehmat's World
  ...In 1984, Admiral Thomas Moorer, former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, had stated: “I’ve never seen a President — I don’t care who he is — stand up to [the Jews] … They always get what they want. The Israelis know what is going on all the time. I got to the point where I wouldn’t write anything down. If the American people understood what a grip these people have got on our government, they would rise up in arms.”..
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David Miliband's murky past, by Gilad Atzmon | Redress Information & Analysis
   ”David Miliband was, until recently, listed on an Israeli propaganda site as an “Israeli Hasbara [Propaganda] Author”. Interestingly enough, The Israeli Hasbara site that listed him disappeared on 5 May 2010, a day before the British general election, when it was clear that Gordon Brown’s political career was about to be cast into history. From then on it was obvious that David Miliband would offer himself as a candidate for the Labour leadership. Is it a coincidence?”..
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What Is Said And What Is Not Said, by Mazin Qumsiyeh | Australians for Palestine
  President Obama has been a strong advocate of Israel and half the staff in his administration that have anything to do with US policy in the Middle East are Jewish Zionists (people like Rahm Emanuel and Dennis Ross).  Thus it is not surprising that he never ever said any words to acknowledge Palestinians have any rights to anything (only aspirations for statehood). By contrast he speaks of rights of Israelis (the occupiers) to security and peace...
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Back To The Violence In The Holy Land, by Maria C. Khoury | Palestine News Network
  This is the problem with the Middle East, for every few steps that we take forward there are double those steps we take backwards when people decide to use violence as the answer...
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Dr. Bouthaina Shaaban: Palestine waiting for Wikileaks!! | Intifada Palestine
  ...despite the leaks and artificial official noise they provoked, the Congress decided to give $ 37 billion to continuing the war on Afghanistan and Iraq, despite the fact that this coincided with news that tens of billions of dollars went unaccounted for in Iraq, and despite the fact that the money was not spent for the objectives designed for it in Washington...
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Sep 3, 2010


Defence of Apartheid Israel Unjustifiable, by Iqbal Jassat | Palestine Chronicle


  I wonder whether pro-Israeli apologists ever sense the sheer hopelessness of their desperate attempts to shield the apartheid regime from legitimate and necessary criticism...
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A Middle East peace that wreaks havoc, by Ghada Karmi | The Guardian

  What an irony that the Palestinians' arch-enemy, Israel, should also be their saviour. There is a real danger that the Israeli-Palestinian peace talks due to starton September 2 in Washington could yield a botched deal that falls far short of the needs of international law or elemental justice, and sets back the cause of Palestine for decades, if not for ever. Fortunately this will not happen as long as Israel's obduracy can be relied on to save the Palestinians from such an outcome...
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Israel's shameless mouthpiece, by Dr. Hanan Chehata | Middle East Monitor
  In yet another revealing speech, this time delivered at a symposium at IDC University in Herzliya, Tony Blair has exposed himself for what he truly is; not a "peace envoy" by any stretch of the imagination but a shameless mouthpiece for the State of Israel...
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Not Guilty: The Israeli Captain who Emptied his Rifle into a Palestinian Schoolgirl, by Chris McGreal | Intifada Palestine
  An Israeli army officer who fired the entire magazine of his automatic rifle into a 13-year-old Palestinian girl and then said he would have done the same even if she had been three years old was acquitted on all charges by a military court yesterday...
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Acts of Contrition, by Justin Raimondo | Antiwar
  Neocon has second thoughts on Iraq...
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Khaled Meshaal Interviewed by Sharmine Narwani: Hamas Chief Weighs In on Eve of Peace Talks | Huffington Post

  With pundits in most capitals already predicting failure for the US-brokered Palestinian-Israeli peace talks to begin on Thursday, it seems only natural to start asking the question: "What's next?"..
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'Conspiracies of Rich Men' to Rob You, Enslave You, and Wage Aggressive Wars at Your Expense! by Len Hart | The People's Voice
  It is still fashionable in the American media to deride 'conspiracies' with a blanket if illogical and uninformed smears. Conspiracies are, in fact, how things get done in either crime or commerce. Lately, there is little difference...
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America's Faltering Search for Peace in the Middle East: Openings for Others? by Ambassador Charles W. ("Chas") Freeman, Jr. (USFS, Ret.) | Sabbah Report
  ...The ongoing conflict in the Holy Land increasingly disturbs the world's conscience as well as its tranquility. The Israel-Palestine issue began as a struggle in the context of European colonialism. In the post-colonial era, tension between Israelis and the Palestinians they dispossessed became, by degrees, the principal source of radicalization and instability in the Arab East and then the Arab world as a whole. It stimulated escalating terrorism against Israelis at home and their allies abroad. Since the end of the Cold War, the interaction between Israel and its captive Palestinian population has emerged as the fountainhead of global strife...
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Diana Buttu on the Palestinian Right of Return and the so-called Negotiation Process | AFP
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'Bullied' but not surrendering, by Lamis Andoni | Al Jazeera

  US may have forced the PA to the negotiating table but Palestinians will not submit.
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The Limits of Force as an Instrument of Foreign Policy, by Shireen Hunter | Antiwar
  Despite their vast military and technological power, the United States and many of its allies have been bogged down for nearly 10 years in Afghanistan and Iraq. This failure of the U.S. and its allies to achieve their goals in these two countries raises the question of how effective military force is as an instrument of foreign policy and a means of inducing political change...
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Is there a Western conspiracy to protect Israeli agents? by Linda Heard | Online Journal
  Imagine that you could fraudulently obtain a German travel document to be used by assassins, utilising the name and personal details of a still-living individual to do so, and even if you were caught, arrested and extradited to Germany for trial, you would be allowed to return to your home country. It’s possible if you happen to be an Israeli...
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The Lowest of the Low | Gilad Atzmon
  ...Considering the scale of the atrocities we are all complicit in thanks to the Labour government, it is my duty to remind the Labour party members who their leading candidate is, what he stands for and what interests he may serve...
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Mitchell hoping for a quick-fix fake peace? by Stuart Littlewood | My Catbird Seat
  For real peace he must bang heads together at the United Nations to finish their unfinished business...
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Are Hate Crime Laws Legalizing Treason? by Jeff Gates | Intifada Palestine
  The Anti-Defamation League silencing strategy offers a microcosm of how the US was induced to war in Iraq based on false intelligence...
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Israeli Shin Bet electrocuted child prisoners to extract confessions | Middle East Monitor
  Following a visit yesterday to some young prisoners being held at the Megiddo Prison, lawyers for the Ministry of Detainees have stated that the young prisoners testified under oath that they had been interrogated and systematically electrocuted and tortured by Israeli intelligence officers in settlements near Palestinian cities...
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Secret 'Kill Lists' Fly in the Face of US and Int'l Law, by William Fisher  | IPS
  Two of the nation's most influential human rights organizations have filed a lawsuit challenging the government's authority to carry out "targeted killings" of U.S. citizens located far from any armed conflict zone...
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List Of Settler-initiated Crimes Against Palestinians In The Last Few Weeks | Political Theatrics
  I have been to the West Bank, I have seen with my own eyes how the settlers walk around with machine guns, terrorizing the native Palestinian population.  They are only in the West Bank to justify a continued Israeli military presence there; and they are armed to the teeth...
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Sep 2, 2010


America's Holy Crusade against the Muslim World, by Michel Chossudovsky | Global Research


  We have reached a decisive transition in the evolution of US military doctrine. The "Global War on Terrorism" (GWOT) directed against Al Qaeda launched in the wake of 9/11 is evolving towards a full-fledged "war of religion", a "holy crusade" directed against the Muslim World...
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How to Kill Goyim and Influence People: Israeli Rabbis Defend Book's Shocking Religious Defense of Killing Non-Jews, by Max Blumenthal | AlterNet
  When I went into the Jewish religious book emporium, Pomeranz, in central Jerusalem to inquire about the availability of a book called Torat Ha'Melech, or the King's Torah, a commotion immediately ensued. "Are you sure you want it?" the owner, M. Pomeranz, asked me half-jokingly. "The Shabak [Israel's internal security service] is going to want a word with you if you do."..
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Indo-US-Israel-Afghan collaborative game against Pakistan, by Asif Haroon Raja | Veterans Today
  9/11 dramatically converted Pakistan from an international outcast under a military dictator aligned with extremist Taliban regime in Kabul to become a key strategic partner of America ’s war on terror. This change in status brought about by USA did not come about out of the blue but under a well conceived design...
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The Washington Farce: Mahmoud Abbas: Double Agent, by Jeffrey Blankfort | Counterpunch
   This coming week we will witness the latest challenge for the man who is arguably the most extraordinary double agent in the Middle East. What is unusual about Mahmoud Abbas, or Abu Mazen, as he was known when his fellow Palestinians had yet to take his measure, is that most of what he does for his Israeli and US masters he does in plain sight...
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Coming Nuclear Flashpoint, by Michael Scheuer | The Diplomat
  India’s role in Afghanistan is hailed as a triumph of soft power. In fact, it has simply made conflict with Pakistan more likely...
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Obama's Tricky Battle with the Military-Media Complex, by Rory O'Connor | AlterNet
  ...Given that Obama has delivered on his promise in Iraq, why should we doubt next year’s pending pullouts from both Iraq and Afghanistan? Simple: high military officials and their accomplices in the media ardently oppose both – and the president is either unwilling or simply unable to confront them...
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"Solidarity tastes different inside prison" | Electronic Intifada
  The following is an edited excerpt from a 7 August 2010 letter written by Ameer Makhoul from Israeli prison. A human rights defender, the director of the Arab nongovernmental organization network Ittijah, a leading voice of the Palestinian boycott, divestment and sanctions movement and a Palestinian citizen of Israel, Makhoul was arrested during a raid of his family home in Haifa in the early morning hours of 6 May...
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Hysteria, fear and wishes of a magical kingdom, by Michael Leon | Veterans Today
  If we take the Tea Party seriously about wanting their country back, one must ask where were they from 2000-2008 when Bush-Cheney trashed the country? No, theirs is unfocused provincialism against anything alien, foreign, different from their white, Christianite utopia...
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Obama to Escalate Slaughter in Yemen, by Bill Van Auken | Global Research
  With the opening of a new front in Yemen for the CIA’s drone “targeted killing” program, the Obama administration is steadily escalating the role played by both the covert agency and secretive US military Special Operations forces as a global Murder Incorporated...
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Israeli Arab MK Zuabi: IDF boarded Gaza flotilla ships with intent to kill | Haaretz
  Israeli Arab MK Hanin Zuabi testified before a United Nations panel probing Israel's deadly raid on a Gaza-bound aid flotilla in May, telling the panel that commandos who boarded the ships intended to kill...
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The Reut Report on the Assault on the Gaza Flotilla: Israel's Vision Problem, by Paul Larudee | Counterpunch
  ... I have both myopia and hyperopia (nearsightedness and farsightedness), due to stretching of the eye globe and increasing rigidity of the lens, making it difficult to focus on both nearby and distant objects without correction... In Israel’s case, these vision impairments are due to overstretching of credibility and rigidity of mindset, while paranoia filters incoming facts and reduces the perception of reality. Israel also needs correction...
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(Humor Dept): Inside The Great Reptilian Conspiracy: From Queen Elizabeth to Barack Obama - They Live! by Jan Frel | AlterNet
  "[Heene] was motivated," his former assistant wrote in a tell-all a few days after the Balloon Boy hoax, by "the idea there are alien beings that walk among us and are shape shifters, able to resemble human beings and running the upper echelon of our government...
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A Grisly Form of Stability: What Is the US Legacy in Iraq? by Patrick Cockburn | Counterpunch
  ...Politically, Iraq may look increasingly like Lebanon with each ethnic or sectarian community vying for a share of power and resources. But if Iraq is becoming like Lebanon, it is a Lebanon with money. Dysfunctional the state machine may be, but it still has $60bn in annual oil revenues to spend, mostly on the salaries of the security forces and the civilian bureaucracy...
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The State and Local Bases of Zionist Power in America, by James Petras | My Catbird Seat
  Another one of Prof. Petras’ informative classics…. A MUST READ to understand the influence of Zionist Power over US Foreign Policy...
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The "nobody-could-have-known" excuse and Iraq, by Glenn Greenwald | Salon
  The predominant attribute of American elites is a refusal to take responsibility for any failures.  The favored tactic for accomplishing this evasion is the "nobody-could-have-known" excuse...
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Bedouin future at stake in the Negev, by Jonathan Cook | The National
  Nuri al Uqbi’s small cinderblock home in a ramshackle neighbourhood of Hura, a Bedouin town in Israel’s Negev desert, hardly looks like the epicentre of a legal struggle that some observers say threatens Israel’s Jewish character...
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A moment of reckoning but for whom? America or Zionism? by Alan Hart | My Catbird Seat
  I never thought a day could come when I would agree with anything stated by Moshe Arens (three times an Israeli minister of defense, a one-time foreign minister, a former ambassador to the U.S. and, in my opinion, Zionism’s in-Israel equivalent of Richard “Prince of Darkness” Perle in America). But the day came...
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From Shas to Hamas: The South Park Hate Preacher Group, by Maidhc Ó Cathail | YouTube
  Like the contrived Danish cartoon controversy, the much-hyped Times Square car bomb incident provided an ideal opportunity for those who seek to make Islam look bad in the eyes of the world...
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Uncovered: the unholy Zionist-EDL alliance, by Dr. Hanan Chehata | Middle East Monitor
  The increasingly cosy relationship between the extremist, racist EDL movement and the ultra-racist Zionist movement in the UK is becoming more and more visible with each passing demonstration that they attend. It is now a common sight to see a mass of Israeli flags at an EDL rally and a mob of EDL members at a pro-Israel rally...
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I love his directness | Gilad Atzmon
  Here are a few words by Ken O'keefe, a solidarity hero: a man who embodies the true spirit of resistance...
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When Will We See the Next Mass Murder? by Jeff Gates | Veterans Today
   Here’s a news flash for Tel Aviv: it’s not a sign of respect when the bulk of humanity views you as psychopathic. The concerns of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu are misplaced. The legitimacy of Israel is no longer threatened. It’s already lost. Long gone. Kaput...
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Sep 1, 2010


 Endless War, Humanitarian Crisis, and Perpetual Resistance: U.S. Foreign Policy in the 21st Century. by Michael Schwartz | Global Research


  ...What never appears in the U.S. media is the process by which these military offensives translate into massive displacement. Unlike our unformed image of these wars, which pictures people fleeing the fighting and then returning when (and if) peace and/or security returns, these military campaigns leave permanent damage behind that usually—at least given the current goals and policies of the United States—have little chance of being repaired. Therefore, the displacement is likely to be long term for a substantial proportion of its victims, with all the misery that refugee status implies...
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‘Sinner’ singer given 39 lashes by rabbis | Jerusalem Post
  A singer who performed in front of a “mixed audience” of men and women was lashed 39 times to make him “repent,” after a ruling by a self-described rabbinic court on Wednesday...
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U.S. aid to Israel has surpassed trillion-plus dollars since 1973, by Ron Estes | StAugustine.com
  Can Israel afford to continue to occupy Palestinian territory? "Israel's ongoing occupation of the Palestinian territories is damaging the economy of the Jewish state," said a report published by Adva Center for Information on Equality and Social Justice in Israel...
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The American Selective Sensitivity to the Mosque and Israel, by Dr. Ashraf Ezzat | Veterans Today

  Since the beginning of the period of decolonization, settlers have no longer been able to simply say: ‘We came, we won and now we are here’ the way the Americans, the whites in South Africa and the Australians said. This way of taking over somebody else’s land by brute force was becoming extinct. It was becoming historically unaccepted and outdated...
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"AAPER Citizen's Hearing on US Policy Towards Palestine" | Vimeo
  Citizen witnesses Rich Forer and Curtis Sollohub, back from recent trips to Israel/ Palestine, provide testimony and answer questions on their experiences to a panel of citizen questioners and an assembled audience in Albuquerque, NM...
[Rich Forer, one of that very rare breed that lets the facts determine his opinions (which led him from being a member of AIPAC to a firm and highly informed anti-Zionist), marshals more data in one paragraph than most commentators can manage in a long article.]
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Did the Israeli Defense Force Bomb Jews?, by Bob Nichols | Veterans Today
  Israel, a nuclear weapons armed colossus in the Middle East, fights a lot of wars with two small, almost defenseless neighboring countries – Lebanon and Gaza. The 2006 War with Lebanon took a turn for the worse, though...
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David Grossman: 'I cannot afford the luxury of despair' | The Guardian
  The Israeli writer discusses his novel To the End of the Land, a memorial to his son who was killed while serving in the army, and why he remains an opponent of his country's policy towards the Palestinians...
[It must be difficult, even near impossible, for Israelis like Grossman to awaken to the fact that the whole thing was a monstrous mistake from the beginning, which must be rectified if there is ever to be anything like peace in this world.]
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Beck, Racism And The Theory Of Christian Inferiority, by Gordon Duff | Veterans Today
  There is a certain absurdity for a group only remotely related to Christianity calling for a “revival of the Christian faith” in a New York rally, led by “Cowboy Jesus” freak Glenn Beck.  Beck, whose claimed religious beliefs are based on Mormonism, an offshoot of Christianity originally based on polygamy and closely resembling the Islamic Shia sect, predominate in modern day Iran, is one of the top entertainers of Israeli-American Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation...
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Any bastard can be a rabbi, by Yossi Sarid | Haaretz
  Some 30 years ago, the Hebrew slogan was coined: "Medinat halakha - halkha hamedina," which means more or less that if Israel becomes a state governed by Jewish law, that will be the end of the state. Is the end near? It is coming...
[Pound for pound, I don't think there's any doubt that Orthodox Rabbis far outstrip their brethren among fundamentalist Muslim and Christian religious leaders in ignorance and sheer malevolence.]
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Is Fox News evil or stupid? Jon Stewart parses Ground Zero mosque funding | Irish Central
  Jon Stewart is the only pundit to take-on the question of the Ground Zero mosque's funding with anything like detail...
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Masterminds, Mosques and Mass Insanity: "War on Terrorism" Propaganda Ratcheted up Ahead of War Escalation, by Larry Chin | Global Research
  Exemplified by the furor over the so-called “Ground Zero mosque” in New York, and rumors of a new Al-Qaeda “mastermind”, 9/11 “war on terrorism” propaganda has been ramped up to deafening levels by various political factions. Nearly a decade since Bush/Cheney’s 9/11 false flag deception, a fearful, self-destructive American mass public remains fully brainwashed by “war on terrorism”  deception--- ignorant of history, and militantly oblivious to facts...
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Letter to Cordoba Center on Behalf of a Former 'Slave', by Mark Gonzales | Palestine Chronicle
I.  The three century old remains of 20,000 African men, women, children former slaves were discovered after the clean up of the World Trade Center's collapse.
II. Between twenty and thirty percent of all stolen Africans brought to America as slaves were Muslim...
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The Boycott Israel Movement Needs to Rethink Tactics, by Uri Avnery | Antiwar
  Channel 10, one of Israel’s three TV channels, aired a report this week that surely frightened a lot of viewers. Its title was “Who Is Organizing the Worldwide Hatred of Israel Movement?” and its subject was the dozens of groups in various countries which are conducting a vigorous propaganda campaign for the Palestinians and against Israel...
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The Ground Zero Synagogue - Lebanon, by Gus Bridi | My Catbird Seat
  So what now Newt? Should you expect the Lebanese to allow a synagogue to be built on their Ground Zero, in the aftermath of a 9/11 that occurred 5 years after ours and which, “proportionately” speaking, was 30 times the size of ours? Well guess what you hateful, misguided, twit? THEY DID...
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Keynote at The 2010 U.S. Assembly of Jews | Vimeo
  Haidar Eid's Keynote at The National Jewish Anti-Zionist Gathering prior to the 2010 United States Social Forum in Detroit and Michigan...
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What's the difference between President Ahmadinejad and Rabbi Yosef? by Alan Hart | My Catbird Seat
  Short answer. Iran’s President Ahmadinejad did NOT call for Israeli Jews to be annihilated. Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, the spiritual leader of Israel’s Shas party, HAS called, more than once, for the Palestinians (and, in fact, all Arabs) to be exterminated...
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Resolution To Sanction Israel In Support Of U.S. And International Law | Salem-News
  Jack Dresser, Ph.D., a Eugene, Oregon Behavioral Research Scientist who works in Political & Prevention Psychology with the group Veterans for Peace, says he is pleased to report that the proposed resolution below was passed today by the national conference of Veterans for Peace...
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