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September 2011

Sep 30, 2011

Are They Really 'The People Of The Book'? | Gilad Atzmon


  ...all efforts to stop the book have fallen apart . There is no sign of anyone pulling the book out but there are clear signs that the Hasbara orchestrated campaign has backfired. No one surrendered to the Zionist campaign and its stooges. As they said in Tahrir Square, ‘we have lost our fear.’ The Wandering Who is now a best seller for more than a week (as far as Amazon ranking can tell). On the Jewish best seller list, it is even more popular than the Babylonian Talmud and the Torah. I guess that this is indeed a great concern for Zionists and their stooges, but there is nothing they can do about it...
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Wadah Khanfar, Al-Jazeera and the triumph of televised propaganda, by Thierry Meyssan | Voltaire Network
  Al-Jazeera - the Qatari news channel that in the space of 15 years established itself in the Arab world as an innovative news outlet - suddenly embarked in a vast intoxication campaign to overthrow the regimes of Libya and Syria through any means. As demonstrated by Thierry Meyssan, this was not a conjunctural shift but one that was planned long in advance by individuals who shrewdly concealed their personal interests to the public...
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Ahmadinejad and Obama at the UN: Of Statesmanship and Political Pandering, by Dr. Franklin Lamb | Intifada Palestine
  For westerners, and particularly Americans who have watched Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad up fairly close as he delivers speeches in the US and elsewhere including during last year’s visit to Lebanon, his charisma and populist connection with the public are evident and often powerful.And President Barack Obama is normally no slough either on the stump when he woes voters and inspires them to support his point of view. But last week’s UN appearance by the two leaders left a Matthew 13:24-30 type image of the wheat being separated from the chaff...
 
Rosh Hashanah (Jewish New Year): will God forgive? | Redress Information & Analysis
  In the wake of British Chief Rabbi Jonathan Sacks’s statement marking the Jewish New Year, in which he extolled the virtue of saying “sorry”, Alan Hart asks Sacks one question: “Chief Rabbi, do you really believe that God will forgive the Jews if they don’t say sorry to the Palestinians and then play their necessary part in righting the wrong done?”..
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Regime Tries to Silence Corruption Whistleblowers: The Latest Crackdown in Iraq, by Patrick Cockburn | Counterpunch
  The Iraqi government is seeking to silence critics who accuse it of rampant corruption by removing officials who try to prosecute racketeers and intimidating politicians and journalists who support them. This month alone it has forced the head of its anti-corruption watchdog to resign. And a prominent Iraqi journalist, who had been threatened for leading anti-government protests, was shot dead in his home in Baghdad...

The Palestinian Statehood Sham: A Donkey Heads To The Den Of Vipers, by Jonathan Azaziah | Mask of Zion


From the bantustan goes the donkey into the den of vipers...
While purchasing weapons from the occupier to murder our friends with snipers...
Collaborating with the beast on a rabid basis but you expect us to believe that you will end the crisis...
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Waters for Life in Palestine, by Mazin Qumsiyeh | Popular Resistance
  From its founding Israel as an apartheid colonial power has appropriated natural resources from native people to use for immigrants imported from around the world.  Before 1967, Israel diverted waters that normally flowed into the Jordan river basin and also restricted water usage by the Palestinians who remained in what became the state of Israel in 1948. After 1967, Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza were denied access to most of their water resources in a calculated process to impoverish the population and destroy the economy in the occupied Palestinian territories...
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Libya And The Big Lie: Using Human Rights Organizations To Launch Wars, by Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya | Intifada Palestine
  The war against Libya is built on fraud. The United Nations Security Council passed two resolutions against Libya on the basis of unproven claims, specifically that Colonel Muammar Qaddafi was killing his own people in Benghazi. The claim in its exact form was that Qaddafi had ordered Libyan forces to kill 6,000 people in Benghazi. These claims were widely disseminated, but always vaguely explained. It was on the basis of this claim that Libya was referred to the U.N. Security Council at U.N Headquarters in New York City and kicked out of the U.N. Human Rights Council in Geneva...
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The Latest in Guarding the Empire: Sex and the Single Drone, by Tom Engelhardt | Antiwar
  In the world of weaponry, they are the sexiest things around. Other countries are desperate to have them. Almost anyone who writes about them becomes a groupie. Reporters exploring their onrushing future swoon at their potentially wondrous techno-talents. They are, of course, the pilotless drones, our grimly named Predators and Reapers...
Countering Slurs: Hollywood's Anti-Arab Propaganda, by Paul J. Balles | Intifada Palestine


  Fordson High School is a secondary school in Dearborn, Michigan. At times Dearborn has been a victim of hostility toward its Muslim community. The city has the largest concentration of Arabs outside of the Middle East. The school and its football (American football) team is the setting for the new film “Fordson: Faith, Fasting, Football”..
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Occupy Boston: smart, savvy, and aiming to emulate Wall Street protests, by Paul Harris | The Guardian

  ..The move raises the first serious prospect of the Wall Street protests spreading beyond New York and comes as other events are also being planned in Los Angeles and Washington...
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Tired Of Being Raped By The Rothschilds Yet? by Dick Eastman | Rense
  Rothschild is a conspiracy against 6 billion people on this planet.  The dynasty and allied merchant banking families cause endless misery in every nation around the world.  They create evil because they always and only profit from evil.  They fashioned the system whereby all of our money for buying and hiring and paying debt is bank loans in which Rothschild collects the interest on money it costs him nothing to supply.  Therefore Rothschild has ended up owning the nation and all of us still deep in debt with no chance of climbing out by the current financial system rules...
[I have no opinion on Social Credit - I don't know enough about it and am no economist. But I do know that the US and much of the world is currently Zionist occupied territory, and we do need an alternative to the current system, sooner than later. If the nascent revolutionary movement in America realizes what the problem is, then I'm behind them 100%. Otherwise it would suit the real criminals just fine. They would take over the leadership of the emerging forces in a heartbeat, just like in Russia in 1917 and with the Tea Party.]
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The US Position in the Middle is Disintegrating, by Michael Brenner | Counterpunch
  ...The repercussions of the Arab Spring have undercut the tacit alliance among Washington, Cairo, Riyadh, Amman and Jerusalem with auxiliary members in Yemen and Tunisia among other peripheral states. Mubarak is gone while his former military cohorts sap the revolution’s zeal through symbolic acts that include untying their bonds to Israel while cultivating an alliance with Turkey. Both pillars of the regional sub-system are animated by deepening anti-American feelings among their populace that are spreading across the Islamic world...


Sep 29, 2011


The Disappearance of President Obama & Netanyahu's Security Scam, by Alan Hart | Intifada Palestine


  ...To the best of my knowledge, no previous American president has ever gone as far as Obama went in shamelessly promoting Zionism’s version of history while more or less ignoring that of the Palestinians. (As I listened, I wondered if three living former presidents – Carter, Bush senior and Clinton – were marvelling at Obama’s complete transformation into a political prostitute)...
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How Wall Street Fleeces America: Privatized Banking, Government Collusion and Class War, by Stephen Lendman | Clarity Press
  "Steve Lendman is one of America’s leading critics,whether it involves exposing collusion between Wall Street and Washington, the Obama regime’s support of the Israeli occupation of Palestine, or the frame-up of Muslim citizens by the attorney general. Fearless,thoroughly documented and judicious in his judgement, Lendman’s essays are a major contribution to the struggle for social justice in America."  ~ James Petras...
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Inciting Violence: Irony And The English Riots | Media Lens
  Ironies abound in the media reaction to the English riots that erupted between August 6-10. It was widely reported that two young men acting independently - Jordan Blackshaw, 20, and Perry Sutcliffe-Keenan, 22 – had been sentenced to four years in prison for trying to incite riots via Facebook in the Manchester area. This ‘despite both being of previous good character’, and despite the fact that their Facebook entries - viewed by a few hundred people – failed to generate a single rioter. Farcically, the only people waiting for Blackshaw at his gathering point were the police...
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A Lingering What? - Another World Is Possible: A Review by Paul Larudee of The Wandering Who? | Another World Is Possible


  ...Atzmon’s basic thesis will be familiar to those who follow his writings.  Although he has long railed against Zionism, he considers it to be merely one manifestation of “Jewishness” – what Atzmon calls an ideology of chosenness – that is the root of the problem.  For him, therefore, Jewish anti-Zionism is merely another face of the same problem. Atzmon, who was born Israeli to Jewish parents, therefore considers himself anti-Jewish, which obviously invites charges of anti-Semitic racism.  He rebuts such charges, however, by distinguishing between “anti-Jewish” (which he is) and “anti-Jew” (which he is not)...
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Polls: Americans Want Our Liberties Restored, Our Troops Brought Home and the Federal Reserve Reined In, by Washington's Blog | Global Research
  This essay is not intended as an endorsement (or non-endorsement) of Ron Paul. Rather, it is intended to demonstrate why Ron Paul is becoming so popular, despite being virtually ignored by the mainstream media...
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Netanyahu's messianism could launch attack on Iran, by Sefi Rachlevsky | Haaretz
  ...The rebbe's followers stood behind Netanyahu's victorious campaign in the 1996 election, which following the incitement-filled demonstrations and Yitzhak Rabin's assassination, with the slogan "Netanyahu is good for the Jews." And on Sunday, the prime minister's entourage was sent to genuflect at the rebbe's court...
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List of Intellectuals Gagged for Hunting the Truth | Uprooted Palestinians


  The Links to this Website have been removed from some pro-Palestinian Websites, because the contents of the Website are highly "controversial", my advice to all readers is to consult with their local "Thought Police" before embarking on reading, if you decide to proceed and read it anyway, you do so at your own risk, such "controversial" materials can cause some of your brain cells to suddenly ignite, which in turn might cause them to catch fire...
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Is the End of Israel here? | Rehmat's World
  ...According to designs of Herzl and Jabotinsky, a small geopolitical monstrosity was created on Arab lands. Its settlers have imposed on America and Germany the annual tribute of five billions dollars. They pour napalm on the mosques and transform whole nations into homeless refugees. They brainwash the whole world by their ashes of Auschwitz.”..
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Putin-Medvedev: Premier musical chairs, by Eric Walberg | Middle East Online
  Russian President Dmitri Medvedev’s nomination of Prime Minister Vladimir Putin as Russia’s pretender to the throne and Putin’s promise to keep his friend as premier was hardly a surprise. All along, except to a few starry-eyed liberals, it was clear, that the buck stopped not with Medvedev but Putin. The liberals were given their chance by Russia’s ex-KGB autocrat and failed spectacularly...
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A Thought Police for the Internet Age: The Dangerous Cult of the Guardian, by Jonathan Cook | Counterpunch
  ...it would be unwise to believe that the Guardian is therefore a free market in progressive or dissident ideas on the left. In fact, quite the contrary: the paper strictly polices what can be said and who can say it in its pages, for cynical reasons we shall come to...
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A free Palestine: Free from the River to the Sea, by Reham Alhelsi | Uprooted Palestinians


  ...Tour with your chair the world, for it is all that you will ever get: a chair, a useless chair in an imaginary state for an imaginary cabinet and an imaginary king. You know that with your chair you are only playing a charade, but with your charade you don’t intend to fool the Zionists, for you coordinate with them day and night, they beckon and you obey. With your charade you don’t intend to fool the Americans, nor the Europeans, nor the Arab dictators, for they demand and you answer: your wish is my command. No, with your charade you want to fool only one, and you want the interest of only one; you want to fool the Palestinian people you claim you represent...
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Time to abolish DHS, by Gene Healy | Washington Examiner
  Two years ago this month, the federal government broke ground on what was supposed to be a massive new headquarters for the Department of Homeland Security. Situated on the St. Elizabeth's Hospital campus in Southeast Washington, the $3.4 billion project was designed to bring together some 15,000 employees of our newest Cabinet department, which in less than a decade has become notorious for waste, mismanagement and inflicting pointless humiliation on airline travelers. Depending on your sense of humor, you may get a mordant chuckle out of the fact that, before the government adopted the St. Elizabeth's moniker in 1916, the property was known as the Government Hospital for the Insane...
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A Call for Actions, by Mazin Qumsiyeh | Palestine Justice Network
  ..For the next few months and as we Palestinians struggle for freedom inside, we ask you as Internationals and Palestinians living abroad to join us on these dates and for these reasons:..
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Sep 28, 2011


In the Shadow of the Wall, the West Bank is Burning, by Mats Svensson | Palestine Chronicle


An illegal settlement, Jordan valley

  ,,,It is night. He is dark and it is dark. The fear comes out of his eyes. He is being chased by dogs and behind the dogs are some jeeps and the men are shouting to the dog drivers to accelerate, it is going too slowly. Yes, that is how I remember the beginning of the movie, the movie I actually did not want to see, and that I still wish I had not seen. The movie "Mississippi Burning" remained within me and hit me in a way that I would have preferred to avoid. It is the movie I once again began to think about when I read about one of the many terrorist attacks...
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America and Europe: Saving the Rich and Losing the Economy, by Dr. Paul Craig Roberts | Global Research
  Economic policy in the United States and Europe has failed, and people are suffering. Economic policy failed for three reasons: (1) policymakers focused on enabling offshoring corporations to move middle class jobs, and the consumer demand, tax base, GDP, and careers associated with the jobs, to foreign countries, such as China and India, where labor is inexpensive; (2) policymakers permitted financial deregulation that unleashed fraud and debt leverage on a scale previously unimaginable; (3) policymakers responded to the resulting financial crisis by imposing austerity on the population and running the printing press in order to bail out banks and prevent any losses to the banks regardless of the cost to national economies and innocent parties...
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Netanyahu proved Israel doesn't want peace, by Gideon Levy | Haaretz
  ...On Friday night the final curtain fell on Netanyahu's masked ball of a two-state solution. Hiding behind the curtain are darkness and gloom. And in that lies an event of historical performance: It proved to the world that Israel wants neither an agreement nor a Palestinian state, and for that matter not peace, either. See you at the next war...
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AIPAC's Ugly Agenda | Stephen Lendman
  AIPAC is an unregistered foreign agent representing Israel. Edward Said once called it "the most powerful and feared lobby in Washington." Calling itself "America's Pro-Israel Lobby," it's represented Israeli interests since founded in 1953. In 1963, it was incorporated as a division of the American Zionist Council (AZC), its precursor. For decades, it's been very successful subverting opposition to Israel's agenda. Virtually no one in Congress confronts it. Doing so would be a career-ender...
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We Are Not Anti-Semites: We Merely Oppose The Psychopathic Religion Judaism | Video Rebel's Blog

Michelle Renouf

  ...Renouf defined anti-Semitism as not being genetic as many Jews falsely claim but rather as being a response to Jewish anti-Gentilism. By that she meant that people opposed Judaism as learned psychopathic behavior and not the genetic race of Jews for being born Jewish. It is the white phosphorous and Depleted Uranium and the torture and starvation of Palestinian children by Jewish adults that we oppose. This is learned behavior taught by psychopathic Jewish rabbis and political leaders to young impressionable children...
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Debt deal: anger and deceit has led the US into a billionaires' coup, by George Monbiot | The Guardian
  The debt deal will hurt the poorest Americans, convinced by Fox and the Tea Party to act against their own welfare...
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War On Terror Or War On Freedom? | Chuck Baldwin
  .."The number of people worldwide who are killed by Muslim-type terrorists, Al Qaeda wannabes, is maybe a few hundred outside of war zones. It's basically the same number of people who die drowning in the bathtub each year,' said John Mueller, an Ohio State University professor who has written extensively about the balance between threat and expenditures in fighting terrorism."..
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Bahrain: New Evidence of Framed-up Death Sentences Against Pro-Democracy Activists, by Finian Cunningham | Global Research
  New evidence has emerged that the Bahraini regime's case against two pro-democracy activists sentenced to death for killing a pair of police officers is seriously flawed. In the latest twist of the controversial murder trial, an employee of Bahrain's Ministry of Interior has now spoken out to clear the names of the men awaiting execution. The alleged killing of the two policemen occurred during the crackdown against pro-democracy protests in the US-backed Persian Gulf kingdom earlier this year. The event was seen as a tipping point that paved the way for an escalation in repression against civilians by Bahraini and Saudi forces, resulting in dozens of deaths and mass detentions...
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The Changing Story: Early Doubts, by Mark Weber | VHO
  From the very beginning there were grave doubts about allegations of mass killings of European Jews. Although such reports were a major feature of the Allies' "psychological warfare" campaign during the Second World War, top British and American officials in a position to know what was going on in German-ruled Europe did not believe what their own governments were telling the world. In July 1943, the chairman of the Britain's Joint Intelligence Committee, Victor Cavendish-Bentinck, commented: "The Poles, and to a far greater extent the Jews, tend to exaggerate German atrocities in order to stoke us up." At the suggestion of the British government, it was therefore agreed to delete the reference to gas chambers from a joint Allied declaration on German atrocities in Poland that was issued later that year by Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin...
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America's Dangerous Game at the UN, by John V. Whitbeck | Palestine Chronicle

An American veto would be neither a big deal nor a bad thing

  ...An American veto would be neither a big deal nor a bad thing. It would unequivocally confirm the sad and humiliating reality, now almost universally recognized, that the United States of America is enslaved to Israel, paying tribute and taking orders. By doing so, an American veto would definitively disqualify the United States from playing any significant role in any genuine Middle East "peace process" which would replace the fraudulent one which the United States has been controlling and manipulating on Israel's behalf for the past 20 years and, thereby, would finally give peace a chance...
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Listen to the next generation of Jews | Young Jewish and Proud
  ..."Young, Jewish, Proud" is decidedly not the product of a Jewish communal initiative. On the contrary it is a grass-roots, self-organized effort of young Jews who seek to express their Jewish identity in a time-honored Jewish manner: by speaking truth to power, by advocating unabashedly for peace, justice and liberation, by standing up to oppression, racism and persecution in Israel/Palestine - and throughout the world. They simply aren't buying what the Jewish establishment has been selling them...
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The Palestinian Error | Roy Tov
  ...At the moment the Israeli society - through the IDF - destroyed food supply installations, water sanitation systems, concrete factories and residential houses it moved morally back to times when people sacrificed babies to wood idols. The firing of white phosphorus shells over the UNRWA compound in Gaza City and similar events are not different in essence from the Nazi gas chambers...
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Israel's UN membership a potential target | Press TV on YouTube

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Ken O'Keefe and Sameh Habeeb @ The Freiburg Conference | Gilad Atzmon
  Ken O'Keefe's speech closed the day in Freiburg. It was a monumental talk that was received with a standing ovation. Ken is probably one of the most charismatic and inspiring  persons in our movement...
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President Obama's UN speech and its critics | Redress Information & Analysis

  Lawrence Davidson argues that the only way for US presidential nominees to break free from the shackles of Zionist lobbies is to get the public riled up on the issue of US policy towards the Palestine-Israel conflict "to the point where millions see it as a voting issue"..
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Sep 27, 2011


Obama: America's 'First Jewish President'? by Marwan Bishara | Al Jazeera


  ...the fact that Obama surpassed his predecessor George W Bush, the most radical supporter of Israel among all US Presidents, has left everyone in Israel dumbstruck. The latest Zionist US president sounded like Israel’s own founding fathers. Never have they heard a US president read straight from the papers of the Israeli government...
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Irvine 11: Sentenced to community service, no jailtime; attorneys prepare appeal, by Nora Barrows-Friedman | The Electronic Intifada
  At approximately 2:35pm this afternoon in the Orange County Superior Courthouse in Santa Ana, California, the presiding judge in the Irvine 11 trial, Peter Wilson, announced his sentence following a jury’s decision to convict the students on both misdemeanor counts with which they were charged (“conspiracy to disrupt a public meeting” and “disruption of a public meeting”)..
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Who in US "leadership" today will declare the "emperor has no clothes" facts? by Carl Herman | Examiner
  ...The public knows something is terribly wrong with what appear to be unlawful wars and related War Crimes, economic looting in the trillions, and corporate media who lie and distract. Public confusion is lifting as literally millions of Americans now have sufficient command of the “emperor has no clothes” facts to explain, document, and prove the Orwellian crimes of the American emperors and minions...
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First: US Political Independence from Israel, by Jamal Kanj | Intifada Palestine

Sen. James Fulbright

  Indeed before Palestinians seek their independent nation, America must first achieve its political independence state from Israel. In October 1973 in an interview with Face the Nation, an outstanding US liberal, Chair of Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Democratic Senator Fullbright declared: “Israelis control the policy in the congress and the senate.”..
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Does the resignation of Al Jazeera Director-General signal a change in state policies? by Amira Huweidi | Middle East Monitor
  ...Whatever happens, it seems unlikely that the world will again witness a young revolutionary such as Nawara Najm who spoke on Al Jazeera on the day that Mubarak stepped down in Egypt. Her now famous words - "Thank you Tunisia, thank you Al Jazeera, no more fear, no more oppression" - look as if they will be a fitting tribute to the Wadah Khanfar era. With all of its complexity and influence, he made the news channel more important than the policies of the state which launched it. Perhaps that is why he has had to step down...
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Spielberg's Cabal Banned Me from Stanford Libraries, by Eric Hunt | Holocaust Denier
   Steven Spielberg’s USC Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation is known for their over 50,000 video “testimonies” which supposedly prove that six million Jews were gassed by evil Germans. However, when Spielberg’s Shoah Foundation archives are actually accessed and analyzed, these video archives are in reality an invaluable treasure trove for Holocaust truthers...
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On the State of the State of Palestine, by Alexandra Robinson | Palestine Chronicle
  ...With all of the proposed state’s problems, it will likely only have symbolic importance and seeks to give the Palestinians a slightly better platform for negotiation.  If nothing else all of the press preceding Abbas’s address to the U.N. has served as a mechanism that called the issue to light on an international level.  Egypt and Turkey have departed from being prevailing allies of Israel in the region and even the centrist U.S. news media outlet NPR has acknowledged “Israel’s growing isolation in the world.”  The U.S. is the only significant ally that Israel still has...
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Ground Zero Mosque Opens Without Much Controversy, by Dr. Ashraf Ezzat | Intifada Palestine


 The Islamic Community Center located blocks away from where the Twin Towers once stood, and commonly referred to as the ground zero mosque, has officially opened, celebrating the day with an art exhibit that features children representing 171 ethnicities...
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Obama's Free Fall: No Sense of Fair Play, by Stuart Littlewood | Palestine Chronicle
  No-one connected with the old discredited peace 'circus' should be allowed anywhere near the new quest for justice in the Holy Land. Too many are strangers to fair play and appear to share the morals and mentality of the alley-cat. The only surprise about the Palestinians' bid for freedom at the United Nations was the panicky response of US president and the speed with which he jettisoned all pretence of integrity and political respectability...
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Bat Ye'or and the Islamophobia industry, by Farha Khaled | PressTV
  ...Despite her pretensions, she was not taken seriously in academic circles and remained on the fringes until 9/11. Her star rose after 9/11, when bashing Islam became a lucrative business, most ardently embraced by conservative extremists. Some right wing Zionists have since made it a career. Prior to 9/11, the only Islamophobe of note was Daniel Pipes downgraded. In comparison, he seems almost a moderate now, indeed he has bemoaned his growing irrelevance by whining that he does believe in a 'moderate Islam,' a view that puts him at odds with the radical Zionist Islamophobes...
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Disowning Palestine: Canada Took Wrong Side, by Paul Heinbecker | Palestine Chronicle

Canada's former ambassador to the UN, Paul Heinbecker

  'To see ourselves as others see us, would from many a blunder free us,' advice as sound and pertinent today as when first offered the world by Robbie Burns a couple of centuries ago. Our government's opposition to the Palestinians' application to join the UN may be such a blunder; it will in any case likely burden Canadian foreign policy for years to come...
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Indicting The Israel Criminal Banking Network | Video Rebel's Blog
  This is a response to a powerful and poetic video trial of the Israel Criminal Banking Network. I have decided to briefly add my testimony to the court case against the Israel Crime Family. This is merely a partial outline of Zionist crimes. The Palestinians and the Lebanese can give far better evidence of Israel’s multitudinous war crimes than I could...
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Libya: Rebels Create Humanitarian Disaster, Then Blame it on Qaddafi, by Tony Cartalucci | Infowars
  Despite desperate attempts by Wall Street and London to proclaim their intervention in Libya a success, even going as far as sending their political proxies Nicolas Sarkozy of France and David Cameron of the United Kingdom for a quick photo opportunity at the rebel held airport in contested Tripoli, vast swaths of the nation are still fiercely resisting NATO and their proxy rebel forces. This includes entire cities still standing in defiance against rebel attempts to “starve them out” and dozens of daily NATO airstrikes aimed at breaking the population’s will to fight on...
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Common Destiny of Tibet and Palestine, by Tenzin Nima | Palestine Chronicle
  ...Palestinian and Tibetan people suffer from a similar fate. Both people have been colonized by foreign nations almost at same time, only a few years after the end of the Second World War in 1945. Both suffer from loss of identity and dignity. Both peoples’ existences are on the verge of being wiped out...
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Has the UN been designed to fail? by Danny Schechter | Al Jazeera English

The US pays nearly 25 per cent of the total UN budget

  One of the most astute critics of the United Nations was a man who worked there for years and worshipped its ambitions. His name was Conor Cruise O’Brien, an Irish diplomat and extraordinary writer who savaged the institution he once adored...
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9-11 Cop Breaks Silence, by Dave Gahary | American Free Press
  The New Jersey police officer responsible for capturing five Israelis who filmed and celebrated while the World Trade Center towers burned has broken his silence, agreeing to a Sept. 16 exclusive interview with AFP. As AFP readers are no doubt aware, these are the same Israelis who were working under the direction of Urban Moving Systems, a Mossad front company at the center of Israeli involvement in the Sept. 11 attacks...
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Why Jeff Goldberg is Wrong about Mearsheimer - Again, by Stephen M. Walt | Foreign Policy
  ...In a certain sense, it is hard not to be impressed by the energy and imagination that Jeffrey Goldberg devotes to smearing Steve Walt and me. Although he clearly disagrees with our views about U.S.-Israel relations and the role of the Israel lobby, he does not bother to engage what we actually wrote in any meaningful way. Indeed, given what he writes about us, I am not even sure he has read our book or related articles. Instead of challenging the arguments and evidence that we presented, his modus operandi is to misrepresent and distort our views, in a transparent attempt to portray us as rabid anti-Semites...
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UN bid heralds death of Palestine's old guard | Redress Information & Analysis
  Jonathan Cook argues that the inevitable cot-death of the Palestinians’ UN statehood bid, suffocated by Israel’s American and European allies, will spell the end of the illusion of two states and with it Palestine’s old guard, and usher in a new generation of Palestinians, directing their energies into an anti-apartheid struggle and the international boycott and sanctions movement...
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Sep 26, 2011


The Rev. Jeremiah Wright Recalls Obama's Fall From Grace, by Chris Hedges | Truthdig


  Barack Obama’s politically expedient decision to betray and abandon his pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, exposed his cowardice and moral bankruptcy. In that moment, playing the part of Judas, he surrendered the last shreds of his integrity. He became nothing more than a pawn of power, or as Cornel West says, “a black mascot for Wall Street.”..
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The Syrian Regime: Struggle For Survival And Implications For Its Fall, by Dr. Najib E. Saliba | Intifada Palestine
   Since the beginning of February (2011), much international attention has been focused on the so-called Arab Spring, a term coined by the Western media and applied to the series of uprisings in Tunisia, Egypt, Libya and then Syria. Unlike Tunisia and Egypt whose regimes’ continuity depended on Western backing, the Syrian regime drew its support from the loyalty of its armed forces, the Ba ‘th party, political groups affiliated with the Ba ‘th, and the Arab nationalist ideology the Syrian regime has stood for since the end of the French mandate, if not before. Of all the Arab states Syria believes it has a special mission in the Arab World. It considers itself the heartbeat of Arab nationalism. This idea rests on historical factors and modern ones as well...
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"Embarrassing" Obama in free-fall as gangster morals kill peace process | Redress Information & Analysis
  Stuart Littlewood argues that a complete lack of morality or any sense of justice is behind US President Barack Obama’s embracing of Tel Aviv’s disinformation and his enslavement by Israel, as manifested in his UN speech in relation to the Palestinian bid for statehood...
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America's Post-9/11 Catastrophe, by Michael Winship | Consortium News
  President George W. Bush’s response to the 9/11 attacks by launching two open-ended wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, plus the sustained Republican assault on government domestic spending, have contributed to a decline in safety and health at home and abroad...
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Goldberg vs. Mearsheimer | Gilad Atzmon


  ...it is somewhat amusing that an ex concentration camp guard like Goldberg should label me a ‘Hitler apologist’ or a  ‘Holocaust denier’: after all, since Goldberg is an ardent pro-war Zionist who openly and enthusiastically supports a Jews-only, racist, expansionist state, it is clear that he is actually the one who is an advocate of a distinctly Nazi-like ideology and practice...
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Welcome to the Police State: NYC Cops Mace Peaceful Protestors Against Wall Street | naked capitalism
  I’m beginning to wonder whether the right to assemble is effectively dead in the US. No one who is a wage slave (which is the overwhelming majority of the population) can afford to have an arrest record, even a misdemeanor, in this age of short job tenures and rising use of background checks...
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On Israel and Palestine, Obama is Rick Perry, by MJ Rosenberg | Al Jazeera English
  For the first time since the UN conferred statehood on Israel 63 years ago, the sitting US president told the world body that the United States will back Israel, right or wrong. The president's speech was so one-sided, in fact, that he sounded a lot like Texas Governor Rick Perry, who gave a similar speech to a group of "pro-Israel" right-wingers one day earlier. Perry is not the president, so his speech was different, except for the motivation, which was same...
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Israel Announces Suspension of OPT Demolitions and Promptly Demolishes Several Structures, by Mikaela Levin | Alternative Information Center

  During the first days of September, the Israeli military administration announced its decision to temporarily suspend demolitions in the occupied Palestinian territory, in recognition of the double standard applied for years to Palestinians and Jewish settlers. Nevertheless two days after the international media picked up this news...
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Sep 25, 2011


Why Palestinians have a right to return home, by Mark LeVine | Al Jazeera English

There are approximately 6 million Palestinians who live outside the pre-1967 borders

   Mark LeVine asked three leading scholars of the "refugee problem" - Karma Nabulsi (lecturer in international relations, Oxford University), Susan Akram (Boston University Law School and founder of the Asylum and Human Rights Clinic at Greater Boston Legal Services) and Ingrid Jaradat Gassner (Director of BADIL, Resource Centre for Palestinian Residency and Refugee Rights) - to address some of the key arguments surrounding the right of return...
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A Call for Democratic Revolution, by John Spritzler and Dave Stratman | New Democracy World
  ..We are writing to invite you to a discussion of how to make a revolution and what the new society should be like. We hope you will spread this "Call" far and wide and begin discussing the idea of revolution with your family, friends and co-workers...
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VT Supports Palestinian Statehood to Increase US Security | Veterans Today
    Veteranstoday.com, the most widely read Military and Foreign Affairs Online Journal, urges President Obama to end the cycle of endangering American national security through continued ‘blank check’ support for Israel...
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'US military mindset produces monsters' | PressTV
  Press TV talks with Rick Rozoff, manager for Stop NATO in Chicago about the mindset of the US military leadership and US government indiscretion that is cultivating a carte blanche impunity toward the value of the lives of the civilians of Afghanistan and Iraq. The attitude filters from the top down resulting in atrocities against innocent people by ground forces...
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Palestine and "Our Sacred Honor" | Mantiq al-Tayr


  ...“And for the support of this declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor. But since we are a bunch of pussies when it comes to Israeli control of our political system, our honor isn’t really all that fucking sacred. We are hypocrites and cowards and we have willingly become the laughingstock of the entire planet.”..
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Straight Talk on Jews and 9/11 | Veterans Today
  ...Law enforcement officials have long lists of witnesses, most American, some Israeli, a few American Jews with dual citizenship, that they have been blocked from questioning.  There is hard proof the primary criminals on 9/11 were Bush officials. Bush may well have been involved even prior to being appointed by a 5/4 Supreme Court vote.  There is also mountains of evidence that both Bush elections involved massive electronic “vote flipping” with full complicity of state officials, particularly in Florida and Ohio... 
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Analysis: what was so objectionable about Ahmadinejad's speech?, by Madison Ruppert | Prison Planet
  ...He was quickly lambasted in the press for his “anti-Semitic slurs” and “conspiracy theories” but when one takes a look at his address found on the UN’s official website, it doesn’t quite measure up to this picture. One thing that truly surprised me in his speech was his praise of global governance. If you removed these passages and attributed them to some of the greatest campaigners for a new world order, like many American Presidents and the likes of Kissinger and others, I would not find it out of character...
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Atzmon on Jewishness: Jezebel's legacy | International News


  Gilad Atzmon is a world citizen who calls London his home. He was born a sabra, and served as a paramedic in the Israeli Defense Forces during the 1982 Lebanon War, when he realised that “I was part of a colonial state, the result of plundering and ethnic cleansing.” He has wandered far since then, become a novelist, philosopher, one of the world’s best jazz saxophonists, and at the same time, one of the staunchest supporters of the Palestinian cause, supporting their right of return and the one-state solution...
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Is Israel now the unofficial 51st State of the United States of America? by Ibrahim Hewitt | Middle East Monitor
  ...it is ridiculous to consider the US to be an honest broker in the Israel-Palestine conflict; how could it be when its president now wears a "badge of honour" bestowed by the right-wing Prime Minister of the Zionist state, Benjamin Netanyahu. The same Netanyahu, remember, who basically told Obama where to go when asked to put a stop on building and expanding Israel's illegal settlements in the occupied West Bank. And we know that the government of United States of America is being led by the nose by a pro-Israel Lobby which places Israel's interests above all others, America's included...
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Wings of Death: US builds global drone base net | RT on YouTube
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Murder and Torture, the Lasting Legacy of America, by Gordon Duff | Veterans Today

The End of the Road

  ...We also have a political party, the GOP, that thinks this should remain national policy, we have a religion, Christian Evangelism and its offshoot, Christian Zionism, that think rape is a form of legitmate questioning, we have political and military leaders who continue to support these policies. We also have, within our society, those who ordered these acts, those who provided legal cover, those who commanded the murder and rape squads and those who participated who are war criminals, people with ranks from President of the United States to Private First Class...
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Goodbye to international law | Redress Information & Analysis
  Lawrence Davidson argues that the erosion of international law – “the only thing that stands between all of us and the next holocaust” – due to the efforts of Britain and the US to protect Israeli war criminals will rebound on the West...
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Countering slurs: Hollywood's anti-Arab propaganda | Redress Information & Analysis
  Paul J. Balles considers the role of Hollywood in promoting racist and negative stereotypes of Arabs and views some of the efforts that have been made to counter these slurs...
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Witch hunts in "free" Libya, by Lizzie Phelan | Voltaire Network

Under the protection of NATO, the National Transitional Council gives free rein to racist killings

  While NATO’s mandate enjoins it to protect civilians, the Alliance allows the forces of the Libyan National Transition Council to continue their abuses. After hunting down black Africans, the summary executions now extend to members of the Qadhadhfa tribe, that of the fallen Leader. Hundreds of thousands of African workers have already fled the country to escape death; the time has now come for certain Libyans to take the road to exile if they want to survive...
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Israeli occupation is neither moral nor legitimate, by Noam Chayut | The Independent
  When I joined the army, the 30th anniversary of occupation was being "celebrated", and three years later, as a young officer, I was sent with my soldiers to confront the second intifada...
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Wadi Fuqeen: Palestinian Village between Hope and Despair | YouTube
  The film Valley of Hope and Despair, by Joshka Wessels, Jakob Schiller and Lubna Sharief, illustrates how the Israeli occupation deprives Palestinians of their water resources and how illegal settlements continue to pour raw sewage into the many valleys of the occupied West Bank. Villages are being imprisoned by an eight-metre-high wall, causing severe environmental and human impact...
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Sep 24, 2011


Statement on UN Speeches, by Jesse Bacon | Jewish Voice for Peace


  ...While the question remains if the UN statehood bid adequately addresses the larger issue of Palestinian rights, Abbas’ address importantly gave voice to the Palestinian struggle for self-determination. While there is no uniform support for this UN bid, today was undoubtedly a historic and moving day. After over 63 years struggling for global recognition, it was moving to see the countries of the world represented in the UN general assembly give President Abbas a rousing standing ovation...
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A World Declaration of Liberation from Criminal Israel, by Les Visibile | Reflections in a Petri Dish
  ...I find all arguments for legitimacy and continuance of the illegal state of Israel to be untenable and declare all of them null and void. I declare on this date, September 22, 2011, the recognition of the state of Palestine on all lands occupied by those so named and defined as Palestinians, as they existed prior to the First World War. I command that all usurpers going by the designation of Israelis be immediately expelled from all of the territories so named and relocated to any country that will have them and failing that to a secure, walled facility where they can be quarantined for the public safety and good...
[No way I could have said it any better, or even nearly as well]
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London JC launched an attack on Prof John Mearsheimer | Gilad Atzmon

  I occasionally read the London JC: it provides  a glimpse into Zionist paranoia, and it also depicts a true image of the ‘Nuevo Ghetto’ mentality. Today, a week ahead of the publication of my new book The Wandering Who, the JC seems to be desperate to mount pressure on Professor John Mearsheimer, the highly respected academic who warmly endorsed my book...
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The Futile Undertaking of Palestinian Statehood, by Esam Al-Amin | Counterpunch
  ...millions of people around the world are fed up with injustices carried out by imperialist, racist, or colonialist policies. They support the notion of racial equality, of one-person one-vote in historical Palestine that would also redress the historical injustices done to the Palestinian refugees. In essence, Abbas, who reached a dead end, is trying to salvage his failing approach by claiming a hollow diplomatic victory. But the problem with it is that it will provide Israel with the perfect pretext to deny the Palestinian refugees right of return to their historical land enshrined in international law and UN Resolution 194...
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Ahmadinejad spoke like 'Prophet of Peace' | Rehmat's World
  Iranian President Dr. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, delivered a speech at the UN General Assembly on Thursday. As expected, he won the hearts of the oppressed people around the world. He exposed the ‘evildoers’ who are waging wars around the world for greed and for the survival of an illegal entity in Muslim East while refusing to give similar rights to the native people of occupied Palestine...
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Quest for Palestinian Statehood: Question of Peace and War, by Eyad El Sarraj | Palestine Chronicle
  Israeli right wing Likud government and Labour (peace maker!) President and other Zionists are alarmed and angry because Palestinians are going ahead to request state membership of the UN. The US President (Nobel peace!), administration and the congress are also upset. The Zionist lobbies, Aipac and Jstreet are all up in arms to frustrate the Palestinian move. Why? Because:..
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Obama's tirade full of illusions, by Kourosh Ziabari | PressTV


  For those who don't know the United States or haven't heard of its aggressive foreign policy, warmongerings and military adventures around the world, President Barack Obama's September 21 address to the United Nations General Assembly appeals as an eloquent, persuasive and moving speech which was aimed at extending peace, security and well-being throughout the world and offered new opportunities for dialogue and cooperation between the US and other nations...
[The only thing Obama does well - he gives good speech, albeit full of lies, half truths and blandly hypocritical]
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Psychologists: Questioning 9/11 Is the Sane Thing To Do, by Washington's Blog | Global Research
  The 9/11 Commissioners and congressional investigators into 9/11 themselves don’t believe the government’s description of events. Much of the world doesn’t believe the official story. Many mental health professionals have concluded that the official version of 9/11 is false, and that those who believe the official version suffer from defense mechanisms...
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Meanwhile, Back in Iraq, by Phyllis Bennis | Counterpunch
  ..There’s an awful lot of discussion underway about the massive cuts in the Pentagon’s budget that may be looming as part of the deficit deal. But somehow few are mentioning that those potential cuts from the defense department’s main budget don’t even touch the actual war funding — this year alone it’s $48 billion for Iraq and $122 billion for the war in Afghanistan...
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America's Shambles in Afghanistan, by Brian Cloughley | Counterpunch
  ...the riveting sentence that leapt from the page to my astonished eyes was the declaration that  “The United States of America did not choose to fight a war in Afghanistan.” It’s a bit like being told  “Hitler didn’t cause World War Two”, or reading a newspaper headline like  “Republican Politician Tells Truth” or “Netanyahu Says Arabs are Human”  But the Obama assertion was even more bizarre...
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Kudos Mr. Abbas, by Mazin Qumsiyeh | Popular Resistance
  Mahmoud Abbas gave a brilliant speech at the United Nations, getting rounds of applause from most of the representatives.  I think it demonstrated clearly and unambiguously that the Palestinian leadership has been "unreasonably reasonable" and has instead seen the hopes of peace and of millions of Palestinians suffering for 63 years dashed on the rock of Israeli expansionist, colonial, and apartheid policies...
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Mahmoud Abbas and Barack Obama: tragic hero vs political prostitute | Redress Information & Analysis
  Uri Avnery compares Palestinian President Mahmud Abbas’s gamble in making a bid for Palestinian statehood at the United Nations – and thereby putting Palestine at the centre of world attention – with Barack Obama’s sheer unprincipled prostitution in the service of Israel – all for the sake of a second term as president...
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Sep 22-23, 2011


Palestine & UN: History of a double standard, by Marwan Bishara | Al Jazeera English

The UN General Assembly has adopted 690 different resolutions between 1947-1990 on matters dealing with Palestine

  Failure to resolve the Palestinian-Israeli conflict and Israel's 40-year occupation, in the words of UN former Secretary General Kofi Annan, would “continue to hurt the reputation of the United Nations and raise questions about its impartiality”. No cause has consumed as much UN paper work as the plight of the displaced and occupied Palestinians. But hundreds of its resolutions on Palestine have not been respected let alone applied for over half a century...
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Empire Strikes Back | Brewerstroupe
  Events during the past few months provide an example of just how manipulated the mainstream Media has become. We have been repeatedly told that Muammar Qaddafi has raped, brutalised and beggared the people of Libya. Qaddafi has rather bizarre clothes sense, bad hair and appears to indulge a little nepotism but much of what is believed by the chattering classes is either factually incorrect or a spin on an existing factoid...
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September 11 and "The Years of Shame":
Media Lies versus "Moral Conscience" by Dr. Paul Craig Roberts | Global Research

  ...Thanks to what Krugman calls “our professional pundits” and Gerald Celente calls “presstitutes,” the American people know little if anything about the murder of countless civilians and displacement of millions of others in these six Muslim countries, which the Bush/Obama governments regard as “security threats,” or habitats of small elements that are “security threats,” to the single super-power. Before I continue, think for a minute about the level of threat posed by these Muslim countries that lack internal unity, an air force, a navy, a modern army, and nuclear ICBMs. Compare this “threat” to the Soviet threat, which, at least, was potentially real...
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Destroying a Country's Standard of Living: What Libya Had Achieved, What has been Destroyed, by Prof. Michel Chossudovsky | Global Research
  ...The NATO invasion and occupation marks the ruinous "rebirth" of Libya's standard of living  That is the forbidden and unspoken truth:  an entire Nation has been destabilized and destroyed, its people driven into abysmal poverty. The objective of the NATO bombings from the outset was to destroy the country's standard of living, its health infrastructure, its schools and hospitals, its water distribution system. And then "rebuild" with the help of donors and creditors under the helm of the IMF and the World Bank. The diktats of the "free market" are a precondition for the instatement of  a Western style "democratic dictatorship ".. 
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BDS Update: Buttressing an Independent Palestine, by Eric Walberg | Palestine Chronicle
  Palestine's move to become an independent state has benefitted from the growing BDS movement, as the world wakes up the enormous and unjust suffering of the Palestinian people...
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Sirhan Sirhan: In His Own Words, by Stephen Lendman | Al Jazeera
  ...Sirhan also explained he's Palestinian, born in Jerusalem in 1944, "alive during the turmoil that erupted when the United Nations stole our country and gave it to the Jews." In fact, its 1947 Partition Plan (General Assembly Resolution 181) gave them 56% of historic Palestine, placing Jerusalem (declared a corpus separatum, a separate body) under UN trusteeship as an international city, binding to this day. At the time, Palestinians comprised two-thirds of the population, owning 93% of the land, most of it now stolen. All of it occupied illegally...
[All things considered, it isn't difficult to identify the most likely suspects behind these assassinations]
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Palestine and the New Caliphate: The Arab Autumn, by Israel Shamir | Counterpunch
  Autumn in the Middle East hasn’t the melancholy connotations you attach to it in the West. For you, this is the season of dying; leaves change color and fall and birds fly south. For us, this is the jolly season of awakening after stupefying summer heat; grass hatches again on the burned-to-reddish-brown lawns and trees are heavy with ripe figs and pomegranates...
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Progressive Chosenness, by Gilad Atzmon | Veterans Today
  ...many Jews believe in Zionism, a few Jews believe that Zionism is actually ‘bad for the Jews’ (as opposed to bad for humanity or the Palestinians).  But all Jews who identify themselves politically as Jews act out of ‘Jewish self interests. They all prefer to operate in ‘Jews only cells’  I guess that this is the true practical meaning of ‘chosenness’..
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What Exactly Do Israeli Leaders Want? by Ahmed E. Souaiaia | Palestine Chronicle
  ..If the world community, including the Arabs and the Palestinians, recognize Palestine at the 1967 borders, the world and the Arabs will be automatically recognizing Israel as occupying the remainder of the land—something the Arab and most Muslim countries have not done in 63 years. Such a vote will achieve what the UN, the UNSC, numerous US administrations, and the Oslo agreement have failed to achieve. This vote will give Israel an internationally recognizable border over which they can establish a Jewish state or a Martian state, a democratic state or a tyrannical state… whatever designation they want...
[This is the clear implication of the current Ramallah/Vichy government's bid for statehood]
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American Tragedy | Gilad Atzmon
Obama in his kipa chanting the haftorah at his bar-mitzvah

  ...Obama is not performing too well in the polls. He clearly needs the Jewish Lobby on his side. The American president ‘provided’ yesterday and the lobby was quick to react- “Israel has no better friend in the world today," wrote the president of the National Council of Jewish Democrats, David Harris...
[The bar-mitzvah is pass/fail, but he has powerful temple connections, so in spite of his complexion and non-existent command of Hebrew, he was confirmed.]
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An Ill Wind From Norway, by Maidhc Ó Cathail | Dissident Voice
  ...Could it be that Foxman’s condemnation of Islamophobia is nothing more than a fig leaf to conceal his efforts to counter a more plausible source of anxiety: the growing awareness in the United States and around the world of Zionist criminality? Isn’t the spread of such so-called “anti-Semitism” a more likely cause of the ADL’s concern about “access to extremist ideologies on the Internet”?..
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Mother of Al-Sadat's Assassin: Al-Sadat Sold the Country to the Jews and the Americans | YouTube
[Kindly brought to you by MEMRI, Mossad's free mistranslation service]
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Fmr Lebanese Defense Minister Dalloul: George Washington Said the Jews Were "Blood-Suckers" | YouTube
[This video is also a product of MEMRI. I have no idea whether or not the quotes are genuine, but as the Zionists are the acknowledged world masters of lies, forgeries, false flag attacks and other crimes of deceit too numerous to mention, it hardly matters.]
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The Dark Legacy of Reaganomics, by Robert Parry | Consortium News
  For half a century – from the depths of the Great Depression until the rise of Ronald Reagan – the U.S. government invested in building the nation and funding key research. And the country flourished. But Reagan then reversed those priorities. The results are in...
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'We won't stop until Israel is out' | RT on YouTube
  Only three days are left before the Palestinian leader presents the bid for independence at the UN. And as Mahmoud Abbas' adviser Dr. Nabil Shaath told RT, independence is the vital condition of peaceful co-existence between Palestine and Israel. ­"Palestine will co-exist with Israel in peace only when Israelis withdraw and we sign a peace agreement," said Dr. Nabil Shaath. "We want to be free and independent, not oppressed...
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Ahmadinejad to RT: Israeli theft failed, occupation days numbered | RT on YouTube
  Ahead of his speech at the UN General Assembly, we spoke to the Iranian president Mahmud Ahmadinejad about the Palestinian push for statehood and the situation in the Middle East...
[It's amusing to watch the warmongers and hypocrites react to this man who not only tells mostly the truth but has access to the world stage]
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'UN is a foreign policy tool of US, West': Interview with Abayomi Azikiwe | PressTV

  The United Nations is an international organization which has been a foreign policy tool malleable in the hands of the US and its Western allies since WWII, says an American journalist...
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International Day of Peace, by Mazin Qumsiyeh | Popular Resistance
  In his first speech at the UN, President Obama stated that he prohibited torture and ordered Guantanamo prisons closed.  He also said he will work to cut the nuclear arsenal of the US and Russia and move towards a world without nuclear weapons. He said that peace must be pursued by actions of all nations working together and that the era of unilateralism is finished. He said he will work aggressively to advance peace based on two states: Israel and Palestine. He said, "America does not accept the legitimacy of continued Israeli settlements".  All were big fat LIES. And now comes Obama with new lies in front of the UN and at this International day of peace...
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Western intervention, is it ever helpful? by Dan Hind | Al Jazeera English

The most useful thing European powers can do for Libya is to leave it alone

  ..Plenty of people will be on hand with advice for the Libyans in the months ahead. I thought it might be useful to think a little more about how best people outside the country might be able to contribute. I turned to Greg Muttitt, a London-based writer who has made an intense study of the politics of Western intervention and Iraqi resistance in the years since the invasion of 2003...
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Israeli 'Vengeance' strikes Ankara | Rehmat's World
  ...The PKK is known to be funded and armed by the US and Israel. It’s a Zionist proxy militia Israel has been using against Turkey, Iraq, Syria and Iran. All four countries have significant Kurdish minorities which includes Muslims, Christians and Jews. Over 50,000 Kurdish Jews are Israeli citizens...
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Explaining the silence on Yemen, by Abubakr Al-Shamahi | Al Jazeera English
  Yemenis have been protesting peacefully for the fall of the regime since February, making this the longest-running of the "Arab Spring" protests. Massacres have been visited upon protesters before: Exactly six months ago the "Friday of Dignity" massacre saw 52 killed. Yet Yemen has been largely absent from the international media agenda. The Western focus on the Arab world in recent months has been on Libya and Syria, with Yemen an unsexy brother in the background...
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Stalin's 1937 Counter-Revolution Against Trotskyism, by Dan Michaels | The Occidental Observer
  ...because Trotsky and a plethora of fellow Jews already held sway in the Soviet Union, many of their coreligionists in the free world both openly (when possible) and secretly (if not possible) admired the accomplishment of their fellow Jews and lent their services in the establishment of the proletarian utopia. Trotsky was idolized by a very large number of Jews on the left—an entirely mainstream movement among Jews at the time...
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Timeline of the Rothschild family, by Andrew Hitchcock | I Am The Witness
  The Rothschilds have been in control of the world for a very long time, their tentacles reaching into many aspects of our daily lives, as is documented in the following timeline...
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Palestine: Hope or Despair? by Alan Hart | Veterans Today
  ..the drama about to unfold at the UN in New York indicates that Abbas, better late than never, has discovered his testicles – both of them if he goes all the way with his insistence that the Palestinian request for UN recognition as a member state must be presented to the Security Council, but only one of them if he settles for a vote in the General Assembly and spares Obama the embarrassment of having to cast another veto which would fully expose the  president’s sick-making hypocrisy (the consequence of his fear of confronting the Zionist lobby) and his administration’s double standards...
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Ban Ki-moon: A Record of Failure and Betrayal | Stephen Lendman
  The UN affirms international support for tolerance, peace and security, and resolve to promote universal economic and social advancement. However, since its 1945 founding, it's failed on all counts, even though some of its agencies (like UNICEF, WFP, UNHCR and UNESCO) at times provide aid in areas of health, education, food assistance, refugees, social development and more...
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Israel's panic-stricken UK fans urge more lopsided negotiations | Redress Information & Analysis
  As the Palestinians prepare to present their bid for statehood to the United Nations, Stuart Littlewood looks at how Israel’s stooges in the UK have rallied round to mount a rearguard defence of the Zionist entity, denying the Palestinians their right to self-determination while hypocritically claiming to support that same right for the people of Libya, Tunisia, Egypt and Syria...
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Dealing with Israel under a hegemonic crisis, by Bulent Aras | Al Jazeera English
  ...Although none of the regional powers, i.e., Israel, Iran, and Turkey, is able to dominate others, each experiences emancipation from the limiting influence of the hegemonic order. Israel’s choice in this situation is to oppress Palestinians, block any hope for peace, de-legitimize the UN system and international law. Israel also consolidates the US double standard image, marginalises the regional countries and peoples, and turns a blind eye to radical change and transformation in the region...
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Sep 21, 2011


Tapping the Israeli Embassy, by Philip Giraldi | The American Conservative


  Shamai Leibowitz, an FBI Hebrew translator, was arrested in May 2010 for revealing restricted information consisting of five reports classified “secret” to an unidentified blogger. He confessed—explaining that he had been trying to reveal illegal activity—repented, and was sentenced to a minimum term of 20 months in prison. He has now been released. There was considerable speculation over what Leibowitz, a left-wing, Israel-born dual national, had actually revealed...
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The Golden Rule Of State Violence: Terrorism Is What They Do; Counterterrorism Is What We Do | Media Lens
  A defining feature of state power is rhetoric about a ‘moral’ or ‘ethical’ role in world affairs. Errors of judgement, blunders and tactical mistakes can, and do, occur. But the motivation underlying state policy is fundamentally benign. Reporters and commentators, trained or selected for professional ‘reliability’, tend to slavishly adopt this prevailing ideology...
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Rise of anti-Israeli sentiments in ME, by Kourosh Ziabari | PressTV


  ...it was not only the deplorable economic situation and social inequalities in these countries which motivated the people to surge and revolt against their governments, but a feeling of indignation against the large-scale policies of the statesmen in establishing close ties with the US, Israel and their European friends and complicity in their criminal actions can be considered as one of the most important resentments of the people in Egypt, Tunisia, Yemen, Bahrain and Jordan whose people have recently joined the all-encompassing wave of Islamic awakening in the region...
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30,000 political prisoners in Saudi Arabia: Interview with Ali al-Ahmad | PressTV
  People are arrested and jailed in Saudi Arabia as political prisoners based on suspicion and there is no trial and no proof that they are guilty at all. Jails are now overcrowded. Press TV talks with Ali al-Ahmad, Director of IGA (Institute for [Persian] Gulf Affairs) in Washington about how for decades Saudi money and over compromising by Western entities has allowed Saudi Arabia to act against human rights with total impunity...
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The importance of being anti-Israeli, by Ismail Salami | PressTV


  ...So far, the West has danced to every tune of the Zionist regime and Israel has until now played, as Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyep Erdogan puts it, the role of a 'spoiled child' who frolics frivolously about in the international political arena, threatening the nearest target and one of the main supporters of Palestine e.g. Iran - which is too big a morsel for it to chew - with bombing their nuclear sites. However, time is running out for Israel which has now become a synonym for hate...
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Moral Bankruptcy: will U.S. veto Palestine? by Jim Miles | Global Research
  ...As for negotiations they have only proven to be a dead end for Palestine, quite literally. As the Israelis and the U.S. have “negotiated” over the last forty years, the Palestinian territory has been reduced to a series of bantustans or cantonments in which the Palestinians are essentially in an open air prison, ruled - not governed - by the Israeli Defence Forces imposition of martial law. This year’s release of the Palestinian papers demonstrated that the Palestinians are more than willing ‘partners for peace’ while the Israelis are the ones not looking for a negotiated settlement. Negotiations have simply been the cover used by Israeli, with the full support of the U.S., to continue the slow process of annexation and expropriation of Palestinian land and the ethnic cleansing of the Palestinian people...
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Shin Bet: An ingrained culture of torture and deceit, by Dr. Hanan Chehata | Middle East Monitor


  Known at different times by various names (the General Security Service [GSS], the Israeli Security Agency [ISA], Shabak], Shin Bet is Israel's internal security  and counter-intelligence service. Its role includes the interrogation of "suspects"; exposing "terrorist" rings; counter-espionage; the protection of the state president and so on. It is one of three branches of the Israeli intelligence community...
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The one-sided US veto: an astounding display of hypocrisy | Redress Information & Analysis
  Neve Gordon and Yinon Cohen argue that the US plan to veto the Palestinians’ bid for UN recognition, under the pretext that unilateralism is misguided, is an astounding display of hypocrisy and double standards...
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Top 10 Reasons to Join the "We Divest" Campaign, by Anna Baltzer | US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation
  The “We Divest” Campaign stands out as one of the most important and accessible divestment campaigns in the country today. Here are some reasons it could be the perfect campaign for your community!..
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Sep 20, 2011


What Palestinian state? by Lori Allen | Al Jazeera English

Even if the UN votes for statehood, many Palestinians believe that Israel will still control the occupied territories

  ...While all the official analysts and intellectuals comment on the mysterious motives and obscure strategies of official politicians, some other Palestinians are trying to build a state in other, less remarked upon ways. And unlike the Palestinian leadership, they have some kind of long-term strategy, still vague though it may be...
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Trial of Destruction: Sarkozy sued for Libya crimes | RT on YouTube
  ...Ongoing NATO airstrikes have also reportedly killed a number of civilians by mistake. But some Western leaders are now facing charges at home over their military intervention...
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Michel Chossudovsky: 'Here we go again! NATO recruiting jihadists to invade Syria' | RT on YouTube
  ..Across in Syria, at least four people were reportedly killed in crackdowns on anti-government protests on Sunday. The ongoing violence in the country has left more than two and a half thousand dead in the past few months...
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The 9/11 Delusion: Israel's False Flag, Jingoism And Inhumanity, by Jonathan Azaziah | Opinion Maker


  ..Welcome to a world where militarism is the religion of the masses and rituals of piety and righteousness include the spilling of innocent blood in faraway lands, inhabited by the undesirables commonly mislabeled as ‘ay-rabs and moozlums,’ or in classic Orwellian dialect understood in gleeful ignorance by these said masses, ‘extremists, terrorists, fanatics, islamofascists, despisers of freedom, haters of liberty.’..
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The Bilderberg Group, The Press & 9/11 | YouTube
  An in-depth interview with Andrew Gavin Marshall, researcher and contributor to Global Research. We discuss Golbalization, the Bilderberg Group, the Controlled Media and 9/11. Part Two...
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All alone on Israel island, by Yousef Munayyer | Al Jazeera English
  ..the United States is consistently acting against its own interests to serve the interest of a right-wing Israeli government. The Palestinian UN bid, which is exposing this rather embarrassing American behaviour internationally, is a way for Palestinians to say to the world, "You see, this is what we have to deal with when we participate in US-led negotiations."..
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Sep 19, 2011


A Letter to Janet About Sabra-Shatilla: Remembering a Martyr for Palestinian Refugees | Intifada Palestine


  Dr. Franklin Lamb is an American who has dedicated the best years of his life and more to the service of Palestinian Refugee Camps in Lebanon. This is a letter to his wife Janet on the anniversary of the Sabra & Shatila Massacre, on Sept. 14, 2007...
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Two Different Worlds, by Paul Balles | Intifada Palestine
  This past week the internet and mainstream media have both been chock-a-block with 9/11. But they haven’t been in the same world. The contrasting stories have been absolutely amazing...
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NY residents protest US support of Israel | Press TV/YouTube
   Hundreds of demonstrators took to the streets of New York on Thursday ahead of a scheduled UN vote on the recognition of a Palestinian statehood due next week, which the United States has signaled it will veto...
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Egyptians Stormed Israeli Embassy, Other Nations Should Do The Same | Gilad Atzmon


  The Egyptians' victorious attack on the Israeli embassy in Cairo last night leads to a dramatic decision: Israeli Air Force plane returns ambassador, members of diplomatic staff and their families to Israel. And I wonder, how long will it take before Americans, Brits, Germans, Indians, French, Chinese, Argentinians and others do the same...
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Sarkozy and Cameron in Tripoli: Scramble for Libya is on, by Bill Van Auken | WSWS
  With their surprise visit to Tripoli Thursday, French President Nicolas Sarkozy and British Prime Minister David Cameron signaled that the scramble by the major powers for control of Libya’s oil wealth is in full swing...
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Israel and the Upcoming Nuclear War, by Gordon Duff | Veterans Today
  The total destruction of Israel, something used by the Zionist lobby to bilk the US out of billions for years, is no longer a dream, it is inevitable.  The only question is “when?”..
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'Tears of Gaza' : Lest Our Tears Dry up, by Susan Abulhawa | Palestine Chronicle

I hope this film will be shown throughout the world

  'Tears of Gaza' by Vibeke Lokkerberg is a documentary film that should be watched by every American, to see how Israel spends our taxes.  Every European should watch it, to see the true face of Israel. It should be viewed by every Arab, to renew our resolve not to allow a racist nation to wipe Palestine and her children from the map and from history...
[Watch the trailer]
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US Ambassador: Support for Israel Drives All US Mideast Policies, by Alison Weir | Antiwar
  While many Americans may believe that US policies are designed to address American needs, America’s new Ambassador to Israel explains that this is far from the case. In a recent speech before the Jewish People Policy Institute (JPPI), Ambassador Daniel Shapiro clarified what drives US policies: "The test of every policy the Administration develops in the Middle East is whether it is consistent with the goal of ensuring Israel’s future as a secure, Jewish, democratic state. That is a commitment that runs as a common thread through our entire government."..
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Rejoice: The true beneficiaries of Libya's revolution, by John Pilger | Mathaba
  On September 13, one of the world's biggest arms fairs opens in London, backed by the British government. On September 8, the London Chamber of Commerce and Industry held a preview entitled "Middle East: A vast market for UK defence and security companies". The host was the Royal Bank of Scotland, a bank which has been a major investor in cluster bombs...
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U.S. Ambassador to Syria in charge of recruiting Arab/Muslim death squads, by Wayne Madsen | Opinion Maker

  WMR has been informed by reliable sources that the U.S. ambassador to Syria, Robert S. Ford, is the key State Department official who has been responsible for recruiting Arab "death squads" from Al Qaeda-affiliated units in Afghanistan, Iraq, Yemen, and Chechnya to fight against Syrian military and police forces in embattled Syria. Ford served as the Political Officer at the U.S. embassy in Baghdad from 2004 to 2006 under Ambassador John Negroponte, the U.S. ambassador to Honduras from 1981 to 1985...
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Sep 18, 2011


Israel: "Ungrateful [US] Ally", by Jamal Kanj | Intifada Palestine

  The recently published comments by former US Secretary of Defense, who served also as the CIA Chief in an earlier administration, that Israel was “ungrateful ally,” warrant a serious review of the one-sided US/Israel relationship. Especially, since this statement is coming from a person who is considered as a good friend of Israel...
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Obama, the Palestinian State & Zionist Schizophrenia | Gilad Atzmon
  ...I guess that some may be surprised to learn that Israel and most Israelis actually want the Palestinian initiative to go ahead and to succeed. They want a Palestinian State because this is the only solution that would save the ‘Jews only State’ from a demographic meltdown...
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AE911Truth: The Experts Speak Out (Full Movie) | 911 Truth News
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The Last Jewish Prophet: Book Review by William T. Hathaway | Veterans Today


  As the poet Allen Ginsberg said, “If you want to be a prophet, you have to tell your secrets.” By being brave enough to expose himself in writing, Atzmon has become a prophet, and his prophecy, as I see it, is a completion of the Mosaic journey, but this time as a mass exodus from Jewishness and all other ethnic bondings that split humanity. After 40 centuries of wandering in the desert of chosenness and separation, Jews and Gentiles alike can finally enter the full humanness of one world family, a secular promised land free of divisive group identities...
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Interview with Recep Tayyip Erdogan (Part 2), by Fahmi Huwaidi | Middle East Monitor
  In the second part of the interview, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan tells why he believes the era of the people has arrived in the Arab World and the end of tyranny is nigh. Anyone who does not recognise this fact or closes his eyes in the belief that the will of people can be defeated and their voice can be muzzled will, he argues, pay a high price and will only have themselves to blame...
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Economy - US: A-minus; Israel: A-plus | Rehmat's World
  One doesn’t need a PhD in finance to figure out who is sucking blood out of the American taxpayers. One just has to look at the latest report published by the US-based credit rating agency, Standard and Poor’s. The agency which had down-graded the US to A-minus a month ago – has raised Israel’s credit rating to A-plus...
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29 years after the Massacre at Sabra Shatila, by Franklin Lamb | Intifada Palestine


  “The answer my friend is blowin’ in the wind” was the general consensus following a discussion between this observer and a gathering of Palestinian refugees in Sabha, Libya, many of whom would very much like to travel to Shatila camp in Beirut this week and participate in the 29th annual commemoration of the 1982 Israeli facilitated massacre that left more than 3000 dead and hundreds still missing...
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'Israel benefits from chaos in ME' | PressTV
  ...One thing that I want to point out with regards to these anti-Israel protests that are taking place is that there is nothing new or unnatural about this; Israel has demonstrated herself to be a very dangerous […] in the region and what we are seeing now are just the natural outcome of whenever a healthy body acquires a virus, it sneezes and it coughs, it does whatever it has to do in order to expel this virus from the system unless the virus destroys the body...
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Cameron and Sarkozy's Coy Victory Lap in Tripoli, by Patrick Cockburn | Counterpunch
  David Cameron and Nicolas Sarkozy were careful during their first visit to Libya since the overthrow of Muammar Gaddafi to avoid anything evoking comparisons with President Bush’s “Mission Accomplished” rhetoric after the occupation of Iraq. They know how his imperial arrogance and premature declaration of victory came back to haunt him...
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Sep 17, 2011


Ignorance and 9/11, by Dr. Lawrence Davidson | Intifada Palestine

“Following the First Gulf War a U.S. sponsored blockade of Iraq resulted in the death of over half a million Iraqi poor people and children.”

  ...I have come to the conclusion that the United States, for all its ability to project force, is in decline. It is in decline for the same reason that most past empires and power states have faltered. They falter because, over time, their elites become self-deluded and the general public kept in ignorance. The elites come to mistake their own perceptions, limited by narrow interest and/or distorted by ideologies, for objective reality...
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Palestine at the UN, by Uri Avnery | Counterpunch
   ...When the Two-State Solution made its extraordinary march from the vision of a handful of outsiders (or crazies) to a world-wide consensus, it was this context in which it was viewed. Not a plot against Israel, but the only viable basis for real peace. This vision was firmly rejected by David Ben-Gurion, then the undisputed leader of Israel. He was busy distributing new Jewish immigrants across the vast areas expropriated from the Arabs, and he did not believe in peace with the Arabs anyhow...
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Another UN Failure: The Palmer Report on the Flotilla Incident of 31 May 2010, by Richard Falk | Intifada Palestine
  When the UN Secretary General announced on 2 August 2010 that a Panel of Inquiry had been established to investigate the Israeli attacks of 31 May on the Mavi Marmara and five other ships carrying humanitarian aid to the beleaguered people of Gaza there was widespread hope that international law would be vindicated and the Israelis would finally be held accountable. With the release of the Palmer Report these hopes have been largely dashed as the report failed to address the central international law issues in a credible and satisfactory manner...
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Israeli War Criminals Are Welcome Here | Gilad Atzmon


  ...the amendment of the law is just another symptom of the Zion-ification of UK legal system and culture.  I believe that the timing of this submissive dubious political decision couldn’t be more significant.  This week a decade ago the English Speaking Empire adopted the Old Testament’s ‘eye for and eye’ (i.e. 'The War Against Terror') as its new official ideological mantra.  Hence, it is far from being surprising that it is now following orders from Jerusalem...
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'Jordan's king strong ally of US, Israel': Interview with Ali al-Ahmed | PressTV
  ...The monarchy in Jordan remains a very strong ally of the US and Israel so the change is not in the monarchy itself but in the Jordanian streets. Let's remember that the majority of Jordanian population is Palestinians or [have] Palestinian origin so a character of Jordan is very much a Palestinian character despite the attempt of the monarchy to impose a Jordanian character on the country and try to impose that on the Palestinians themselves...
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The Real Reason the US Wanted Gaddafi Gone, by Murray Dobbin | Counterpunch

  ...Watching the sorry media spectacle of the tragic farce unfolding in Libya, one has to wonder if anyone will ever expose the lies and hubris that have characterized the coverage of this faux Arab spring...
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The Gaza Story: Challenging History through Narration, by Ramzy Baroud | Palestine Days Freiburg 2011


  ...The common failure to truly understand Gaza within an appropriate context is largely based on who is telling the story, how it is told, what is included and what is omitted. Here is an alternative attempt at understanding...
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Incredible Scandal: 'Libya rebels admit attacks on women & children' | Russia Today/YouTube
  Rebel forces in Libya claim they are advancing in Colonel Gaddafi's home town of Sirte - one of the last loyalist bastions. Several thousand opposition fighters, backed by tanks and heavy weapons, have reportedly launched an offensive on the city. Russia says it's time to lift the UN-imposed no fly-zone in Libya, which was introduced to save civilians. Anti-war activists, though, maintain that NATO's role has nothing to do with any humanitarian mission...
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What is the US up to in Iraq? Pepe Escobar | Al Jazeera English

Muqtada al-Sadr has laid out three demands with the help of a massive demonstration

  Imagine Dick Cheney's reaction when confronted with this bit of information. Shia cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, a certified Iraqi nationalist leader and the country's de facto kingmaker, has just called for the end of any "armed resistance" against US "invader" forces before a full US withdrawal in December 2011 - as established by the Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA) signed by the Iraqi parliament and the Bush administration in late 2008...
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Salvaging September: Palestinian Statehood Initiative, by Jeff Halper | Palestine Chronicle
  ...would the establishment of a Palestinian state within the 1967 borders compromise the refugees’ right of return and the national rights of Palestinians within Israel? Does recognition of a Palestinian state within the 1967 borders foreclose forever the emergence of a single state in historic Palestine, be it democratic or bi-national, or will it permit further political efforts and evolution in that direction?..
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Sep 16, 2011


Combating ignorance, avoiding arrogance, by Robert Jensen | Al Jazeera English

Much of the US public believed falsehoods about Iraq in 2003, a major reason why the anti-war movement failed

  ...It is always tempting to label political opponents ignorant and bemoan their stupidity: If only they could know what we know and understand as we understand, then certainly they would adopt our politics. I try not to fall into that trap, realising that in a complex world reasonable people can disagree. But if we are to confront the challenges ahead we have to recognise that the contemporary United States is both a technologically advanced society with an educational system that is first-rate on some criteria, yet at the same time is also a profoundly ignorant society...
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Call from Gaza: Open Rafah Crossing Permanently, by Haidar Eid | One Democratic State Group
  Today, a call demanding the re-opening of the Rafah Crossing between Egypt and Palestine has come from Gaza. It is propelled by support from Egypt and has been endorsed by dozens of organizations, citizens' groups, associations and coalitions in many countries, as well as by distinguished international personalities. The call to action underscores the Geneva Conventions which entitle all people to freedom of movement and protection from collective punishment such as the arbitrary closure of the Crossing...
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'Israel illegal occupier if Palestine recognized': RT interviews Jeff Halper | YouTube
  ...Military resistance to Palestinians will only bring international sanctions on Israel after Palestine is recognised in September's vote. That's the view of Jeff Halper, a political activist and co-founder of the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions...
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Ernst Zundel Warns The Jews About Doing To America What They Did To Germany | YouTube

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Americans sail across Atlantic to commemorate USS liberty | Press TV/YouTube
  Sailing for publicity against Israeli crimes is becoming more common. Most recently, a retired American professor has sailed across the Atlantic Ocean from his home in Texas to the Mediterranean in memory of the attack on the U.S.S. Liberty by Israeli forces, resulting in the deaths of dozens of Americans...
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On Libya, Now They Tell Us, by Robert Parry | OpEd News
  During the six-month uprising against Muammar Gaddafi, major U.S. news outlets repeated again and again that the Libyan dictator was behind the 1988 bombing of Pan Am 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, and they ignored warnings that militant Islamists were at the core of the anti-Gaddafi rebel army...
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West Bank villagers' daily battle with Israel over water, by David Hearst | The Guardian

Israeli authorities use Israeli army machinery as they destroy a water reservoir used by Palestinian farmers

  ..Cheek by jowl with the water towers and red roofs of the Israeli settlers in this area of the West Bank is a landscape of stone boulders, tents and caves. The Palestinian village of al-Amniyr looks from afar like a rubbish tip until you realise that the rubbish is people's dwellings, which have been destroyed in attacks targeting their water cisterns...
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Palestinian Bedouins threatened with ethnic cleansing, by Omar Radwan | Middle East Monitor

  The Israeli government has adopted a new plan to "resettle" the Bedouin residents of unrecognised villages in the Negev Desert into larger recognised settlements.  This plan will affect tens of thousands of Bedouins in the Negev.  Dressed up as a solution to the problem of unrecognised Bedouin villages, this plan in fact is a blueprint for ethnic cleansing and the destruction of the Bedouin way of life...
[Shucks, they're just movin' the dirty injuns onto reservations]
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"US biggest supporter of religious intolerance" | Russia Today on YouTube
  ...London based Middle East political analyst Dan Glazebrook told RT that with the new Libyan leadership Africa may face echoes of its colonial past...
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Israel does not want a Palestinian state. Period, by Gideon Levy | Haaretz
  ..The Palestinians in the West Bank, 3.5 million today, will not live without civil rights for another 42 years. We might as well get used to the fact that the world won't stand for it...
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The Egyptians want to expel the Israelis, by Abdel Bari Atwan | Middle East Monitor
  ...Thirty years of humiliating peace and cold normalisation did not change the Egyptians' feelings towards Israel. Thanks largely to the Israelis and their arrogant governments which take joy in humiliating Arabs and Muslims, massacring Palestinians and destroying the peace process, Egyptian anger and hatred grew...
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Palestinians on statehood: 'We want action, not votes at the UN', by Harriet Sherwood | The Guardian
  ..."I am a simple man," he says, leaning on his sturdy walking stick. "I don't know about politics. But from my life experience, I don't think we will gain anything. What is left, after the settlements, the military zones, the wall, the bypass roads? You think you can build a state on a few scattered villages?..
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Inside 9/11: Who controlled the planes? | YouTube
  Why made all four hijacked planes on 9/11 long detours? How did the hijackers know about "radar holes"? How could they conduct key hijacking events simultaneously all within 10 minutes? Who controlled the planes?..
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Sep 15, 2011


September and Beyond: Who Speaks in My Name? by Samah Sabawi | Al-Shabaka
  ...we must address the following urgent questions: What legitimacy do the PA and the PLO have? Where did they derive this legitimacy from? How and with whom do we advance our collective political aspirations?..
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One-Eyed Men In The World Of The Blind, by Dr. Lawrence Davidson | Intifada Palestine
   There is an interesting phenomenon which we can call “the political retiree’s confession.” I don’t mean all those hyped memoirs, ghost written for all manner of high ranking ex-officials. Here I refer to statements by important political leaders and bureaucrats, either out of office or about to vacate their positions, publically describing what really needs to be done...
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9/11 and the National Security Scam, by Sheldon Richman | Counterpunch
  ...It is said that 9/11 changed everything, but in fact it changed nothing whatsoever. Opportunistic politicians simply used the attacks to do much more of what they had already been doing and were hoping to continue in greater measure. Admittedly they were good at that. The attacks gave them a unique chance to frighten Americans into acceding to whatever the ruling elite wanted...
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Virtual statehood or the Right of Return, by Omar Barghouti | Al Jazeera English

Some Israeli officials support the UN bid because the PA would replace the PLO for negotiations with Israel

   ...Without any sense of irony, Palestinian officials who have time and again colluded in eroding official international support for UNGA 194, as the Palestine Papers have amply shown, are now appropriating that very number and using it in a bid that runs the risk of surrendering the right of return associated with it for more than six decades. This is merely a symbol of the far more substantive moral, political and legal bind that this Initiative may potentially place the Palestinians and their supporters in...
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How Obama Became the Curator of the Bush Legacy, by Mike Davis | TomDispatch
  ...Ten years ago, lower Manhattan became the Sarajevo of the War on Terrorism.. In both cases, a small network of peripheral but well-connected conspirators, ennobled in their own eyes by the bitter grievances of their region, attacked a major symbol of the responsible empire.  The outrages were deliberately aimed to detonate larger, cataclysmic conflicts, and in this respect, were successful beyond the darkest imagining of the plotters...
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9/11 - was there an alternative? by Noam Chomsky | Al Jazeera English

  ..A number of analysts have observed that although bin Laden was finally killed, he won some major successes in his war against the US. "He repeatedly asserted that the only way to drive the US from the Muslim world and defeat its satraps was by drawing Americans into a series of small but expensive wars that would ultimately bankrupt them," Eric Margolis writes. "'Bleeding the US,' in his words. The United States, first under George W Bush and then Barack Obama, rushed right into bin Laden’s trap...
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Substantial evidence indicates US neoconservatives perpetrated 9/11 in pursuit of their own goals, by Mohsen Pakaein | Voltaire Network


  In NATO powers and allied states, the media and politicians have embraced the Islamic conspiracy theory as the obvious and indisputable explanation for the September 11 attacks. But one man’s truth is another man’s lie. In the rest of the world, what prevails is the idea that the event was orchestrated by the neocons...
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Shifting Alliances: Turkey vs. Israel | Roy Tov
  ..Things are not only changing rapidly for Israel, they are doing so in tandem. The slow deterioration in Israel’s relations with Egypt is becoming more violent by the day, while the same is true for Israel’s relations with Turkey. As of now, Turkey and Egypt have no ambassadors in Tel Aviv, and Israel has recalled its ambassadors from their capitals as well. What’s next?..
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Wadi Fuqeen: Palestine's Valley of Hope and Despair | Redress Information & Analysis
  The film Valley of Hope and Despair, directed by Joshka Wessels, illustrates how the Israeli occupation deprives Palestinians of their water resources and how illegal settlements continue to pour raw sewage into the many valleys of the occupied West Bank. Villages are being imprisoned by an eight-metre-high wall, causing severe environmental and human impact...
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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

Ronald Reagan meets Afghan Mujahideen Commanders at the White House in 1985

  ...The "Global War on Terrorism" is a complex and intricate intelligence construct. The covert support provided to "Islamic extremist groups" is part of an imperial agenda. It purports to weaken and eventually destroy secular and civilian governmental institutions, while also contributing to vilifying Islam. It is an instrument of colonization which seeks to undermine sovereign nation-states and transform countries into territories...
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Essence of the Suppressed Truth: Alan Hart's speech to Freiburg Conference | My Catbird Seat
   ...I describe the conflict in and over Palestine that became the Zionist – not Jewish! – state of Israel as the cancer at the heart of international affairs; and I believe that without a cure this cancer will consume us all. I also believe that almost nothing is more important than crossing and actually eliminating the boundaries that have prevented, and to a very large extent do still prevent, informed and honest discussion about who must do what and why for justice for the Palestinians and peace for all...
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9/11: The Ultimate Triumph of the Strategy of Tension (II), by Wayne Madsen | Strategic Culture Foundation
  ...After years of employing the fascistic “strategy of tension” in Western Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and Latin America, the neo-conservatives who dominated the Bush administration on the eve of September 11, 2001, were confident that the ultimate act of destroying the World Trade Center in New York and bombing the Pentagon, in addition to destroying a yet unknown target by United flight 93 – shot down by U.S. Air Force fighter-interceptors over Pennsylvania – would bring about the sea change foreseen by the neo-conservatives...
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The Fake Fall Of Tripoli And The Zionist Dragon's Butchery Across Palestine (II), by Jonathan Azaziah | Mask of Zion

Zionism's ultimate goal: Greater Israel, from the Nile to the Tigris and Euphrates

  In the first part of this series, the malignant Zionist propaganda surrounding the fall of Tripoli was picked apart, piece by piece, exposing the destructive, genocidal, brute force of NATO and its crimes against humanity on Libyan soil. This part, the series finale, will deal with the latest horror inflicted upon the occupied Gaza Strip, holy Al-Quds and occupied Al-Khalil as a result of Zionist intelligence shenanigans in the Egyptian Sinai...
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Orwellian September 11 commemoration heralds new wars, by Thierry Meyssan | Voltaire Network
  The tenth anniversary of the September 11 attacks has given rise to a profusion of articles, documentaries and television programs that certify the Bush administration’s version of the events, while world opinion has become largely skeptical. For Thierry Meyssan, who sparked the global debate on the interpretation of the attacks, the overwhelming media campaign is the imperial system’s last attempt to preserve its apparent legitimacy and justify its future wars...
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Polish-Jewish sociologist compares West Bank separation fence to Warsaw Ghetto walls, by Roman Frister | Haaretz
  Sygmunt Bauman, the Jewish sociologist and one of the greatest philosophers of our time, castigated Israel harshly this week, saying it did not want peace and was afraid of it. Bauman said Israel was "taking advantage of the Holocaust to legitimize unconscionable acts," and compared the separation fence to the walls surrounding the Warsaw Ghetto, in which hundreds of thousands of Jews perished...
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Witnessing the Transition to fear in Tripoli, by Lizzie Phelan | Salem-News
  As the sounds of tanks and firefights and the smell of death that filled the air grew more and more distant, I remembered the peaceful, welcoming and safe city I had driven into...
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Sep 14, 2011


What State Do Palestinians Want? by Mahmoud N. Musa | Palestine Chronicle

Two state solution' legitimizes Israel as a racist state

  Before Palestinian politicians go to the General Assembly of the United Nations to ask for recognition of their nominal state, they have to answer this question: Is this what the Palestinian people want?..
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Of the 1%, by the 1%, for the 1%, by Joseph E. Stiglitz | Vanity Fair
  ...While the top 1 percent have seen their incomes rise 18 percent over the past decade, those in the middle have actually seen their incomes fall. For men with only high-school degrees, the decline has been precipitous—12 percent in the last quarter-century alone. All the growth in recent decades—and more—has gone to those at the top. In terms of income equality, America lags behind any country in the old, ossified Europe that President George W. Bush used to deride...
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How Al Qaeda men came to power in Libya, by Thierry Meyssan | Voltaire Network

Historical leader of Al Qaeda in Libya, Abdel Hakim Belhadj, is now the military governor
 of "liberated" Tripoli and in charge of organizing the army of the "new Libya"


  ..Thierry Meyssan has assembled the main data available on the issue. The facts confirm his analysis, defended since the events of September 11, that Al Qaeda is a hotbed of mercenaries used by the United States to fight in Afghanistan, Bosnia, Chechnya, Kosovo, Iraq, and now Libya, Syria and Yemen...
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NATO's War Crimes in Libya: Who Grieves for the Fallen Heroes? by Prof. James Petras | Global Research
  The conquest and occupation of Libyan is first and foremost a military victory for NATO. Every aspect of the military offensive was spearheaded and directed by NATO air, sea and ground forces. The NATO invasion of Libya was basically a response to the “Arab spring” : the popular uprisings which spread from North Africa to the Persian Gulf . The NATO assault formed part of a general counter-attack designed to contain and reverse the popular democratic and anti-imperialist movements which had ousted or were on the verge of overthrowing US-client dictators...
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UN Palmer Panel Report Deserves No Deference, by Audrey Bomse | Palestine Chronicle

Israeli guns and degrading treatment did not deter us

  Almost all the factual findings, as well as the legal analysis and conclusions of the recently leaked UN Secretary General’s Panel of Inquiry into the 'Flotilla Incident' on May 31, 2010 (Palmer/Uribe Panel) directly contradict those of an earlier UN report of the Human Rights Council Fact-Finding Mission (FFM). Its findings and conclusions also contradict every statement Secretary- General Ban Ki-moon has made about Gaza, the Goldstone report, and statements by other international agencies, including the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC)...
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The Egyptian People Want Israel Out, by Julie Webb-Pullman | Palestine Chronicle
  The hasty and undignified departure of Israeli embassy staff from Cairo following popular protests on Friday (September 09) underscores the highly-tenuous state of Israeli-Egyptian relations, as well as the strength and determination of the Egyptian people. Since the overthrow of Israeli-US stalwart Mubarak, there have been increasing demands to revise Israeli-Egyptian relations, based on the perception that Israel has never honored the 1978 Camp David accords which govern them...
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Sep 13, 2011


More on 9/11


Post-September 11, NSA 'enemies' include us, by James Bamford | Politico


  Somewhere between Sept. 11 and today, the enemy morphed from a handful of terrorists to the American population at large, leaving us nowhere to run and no place to hide...
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9/11: A Conspiracy Theory | YouTube
A must watch video...

The Top 40 Reasons To Doubt The Official Story Of September 11th, 2001 | 911truth
  We are continuing to compile the best documentation links for every single point on this page...
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9/11 and the War on Terror: Polls Show What People Think 10 Years Later | 911Blogger
  ...a poll taken by World Public Opinion, a collaborative project of research centers in various countries managed by the Program on International Policy Attitudes at the University of Maryland, College Park, polled 16,063 people in 17 nations outside of the United States during the summer of 2008. They found that majorities in only 9 of the 17 countries believe Al Qaeda carried out the attacks. The poll showed that in the world’s most populous country – China – only 32% believed that Al Qaeda carried out the attacks...
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Please pencil in September 15 (for Palestinian self-determination) | Mondoweiss
  Yesterday I mentioned a global action on September 15 in connection with the push for Palestinian statehood. Well here's another big event, a march to the U.N. that day, organized by Adalah-NY, WESPAC, ICAHD, Al-Awda, Jews Say No, IJAN, and a bunch of other folks...
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Big Brothers Buy in at Big Media: The Koch Whisperers, by Pam Martens | Counterpunch
  ...Donors Capital Fund, Inc. is a conduit that guarantees its donors complete anonymity.  It takes money from the elite folks and plows it into shady operations...
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Elephant in the Room: The Terrorism Issue That Wasn't Discussed, by Gareth Porter | Counterpunch
  In the commentary on the tenth anniversary of 9/11, the news and infotainment media have predictably framed the discussion by the question of how successful the CIA and the military have been in destroying al Qaeda.  Absent from the torrent of opinion and analysis was any mention of how the U.S. military occupation of Muslim lands and wars that continue to kill Muslim civilians fuel jihadist sentiment that will keep the threat of terrorism high for many years to come...
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It's not the brutality that is 'systematic' - it's the lying about it, Robert Fisk | The Independent
  ..On an oppressively scorching day in Basra, Daoud Mousa first spoke of his son's death, telling me how the boy's wife had died of cancer just six months earlier, how Baha's children were now orphans, how – not long after the British Army had arrested Baha Mousa and beaten him to death, for that is what happened – a British officer had come to his home and stared at the floor and offered cash by way of saying sorry...
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Sep 12, 2011


The Loneliness of the Falling Man, by William Cook | Intifada Palestine


  ...we must pay attention to this falling man who epitomizes those caught in the merciless behavior of uncontrolled power–selfish, arrogant, soulless without remorse or compassion or respect or dignity for those they destroy...
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Russia's Middle East Dilemma, by Eric Walberg | Palestine Chronicle
  ...Underlying the Atlantist-Eurasianist debate is the fate of the entire Western project to transform the Middle East, which has been in the works since the 1980s with the rise of the neocons. This plan was to bring about a controlled chaos in the region, creating a series of weak statelets that would benefit a strong Israel. Oded Yinon’s “A Strategy for Israel in the 1980s” proposed the policy of divide-and-conquer. Hizbullah leader Hassan Nasrallah described the Israeli policy in 2007 as intended to create “a region that has been partitioned into ethnic and confessional states that are in agreement with each other. This is the new Middle East.”..
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Palestine's future - its students - must be set free | Redress Information & Analysis
  Stuart Littlewood details Israel’s determined effort to prevent the creation of educated Palestinian cadres through the systematic repression, harassment and ill-treatment of Palestinian students and the disruption of their education...
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Jewel in the Crown of the Arab Spring, by Sami Moubayed | Intifada Palestine


  The Arab Spring has given an interesting twist to the Arab-Israeli conflict. Young Arabs on the streets of major capitals have realised that the real problem is not only Israel but the Arab environment that has surrounded the Palestinians, using and abusing them, since 1948...
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Questioning 9/11: The Politician Turned Conspiracy Theorist, by Christian Stöcker | Der Spiegel
  ...Bülow doesn't commit himself definitively to the position, but he feels fairly certain that either the Bush administration or other, far more powerful groups operating behind the scenes allowed more than 3,000 people to die in order to construct an unassailable argument supporting geopolitically desirable military operations such as those in Iraq and Afghanistan...
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9/11 for Dummies: Top Five 9/11 Facts Everyone Should Know, by Johnny Punish | Veterans Today

  In speaking with my fellow Americans about 9/11 ten years after the fact, I have found that many, sadly and unfortunately, have either forgotten what happened that terrible day or have purchased the propaganda delivered to them by their own “trusted” main stream US media...
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Oakland Children's Museum Cancels Palestinian Children's Art Exhibit Under Pressure from Local Jewish Groups, by Jewish Voice for Peace | Sottnet


  Berkeley, CA's Middle East Children's Alliance broke the news yesterday that the exhibit of children's artwork from Gaza that they had worked on for months with Oakland's Children's Museum of Art was suddenly canceled by the board before the planned September 24 opening reception...
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U.S. Navy Won't Protect Americans From Israel's Terrorists, by Bob Johnson | Veterans Today
   ...Israel is the enemy of progress and peace. In fact, there is no word in ancient Hebrew for “progress” as is made clear by the founding war pig of the neoconservative movement, Leo Strauss.  And we need to remember Israel would not even be able to exist without the aiding and abetting by treasonous U.S. politicians from both the left and the right who take billions of U.S. tax-payer dollars and give it to the Jewish state every year...
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New York Times Complicit in 9/11? by Susan Lindauer | Veterans Today

  ...Unhappily, the corporate media has been a co-conspirator in the 9/11 Cover Up from day one. They have actively abetted the government with its dirty work. Say a truth teller got arrested on the Patriot Act—like me— and locked in prison on a military base, while the public debate raged over 9/11 and Iraq without access to knowledgeable sources. The government could rely on corporate media to squash the story, while the Justice Department fought my demands for a trial, playing every dirty trick in the book to stop a New York jury from hearing testimony about 9/11 and Iraq...
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Mavi Marmara lawyers pursue criminal complaints against Israelis, declare UN report "null and void," by Ali Abunimah| The Electronic Intifada


  Lawyers representing the victims of the Israeli military attack on the Mavi Marmara have affirmed that they are pursuing legal action against the perpetrators, including individuals Israeli soldiers...
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Developing campaigns in support of Palestinian political prisoners, by Adri Nieuwhof | The Electronic Intifada
  ...The book offers such a wide variety of information that it is difficult to know where to start. I have challenged the editors to identify key issues for international campaigns in support of Palestinian political prisoners...
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9/11 Was A Fantastically Profitable Covert Operation | Lars Schall
  Now that the 10th anniversary of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 approaches, I spoke with former Wall Street investment banker Catherine Austin Fitts on aspects related to the financial angle of the crime. “9/11,” she says, “is the symptom of a model of control which is centralized and top-down.”..
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Sep 11, 2011


House of Horrors, by Paul Balles | Intifada Palestine
  Assassinations, kidnappings, torture–the actions of uncivilized pirates, barbaric criminals and rogue governments. The entire litany of vicious crimes against humanity, fitting for horrid, inhuman terrorist groups or third world mongrels, now belongs to America. Every day another violation of human dignity is exposed in the medium of the internet and ignored by most mainstream media...
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An American-Palestinian Reflection on 9/11, by Prof. Mazin Qumsiyeh | Popular Resistance
  Ten years after September 11, 2001, we still have the choice of continuing the same policies that lead to war and conflict or to insist on human rights and hold violators accountable...
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An Oriental Fantasy: Revolution in Israel-Palestine, by Muriel Mirak-Weissbach | Intifada Palestine

ins becker: Sea of People: Israelis watch massive protest that drew 450,000 people on Sept. 3. Adjusted for Israel’s population, that’s the equivalent of 18 million Americans
  The streets of Tel Aviv are overflowing with demonstrators, who are waving the Palestinian flag, its insignia dominating a blurred sea of other flags, including some with the star of David. At the culmination of months of mass protests here as well as in other Israeli cities and across the Gaza Strip and the formerly occupied West Bank, Israelis, both Arab and Jewish, join hands with Palestinian refugees released from the camps, to celebrate the birth of new Palestine...
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Pro-Israeli Group Calls Pro-American Veterans Group Extremist! by Debbie Menon | Intifada Palestine


   Congratulations, Veterans Today, Gordon Duff, Alan Hart, Alan Sabrosky, and Kevin Barrett … you have arrived!   That you have been singled out for approbation and condemnation means that you are doing the right thing, and doing a good job of it. Abe is running scared!..
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Will the US Declare Independence at the UN? by John V. Whitbeck | Palestine Chronicle
  ...If the the U.S. government did decide to defy most of mankind by casting its veto, this would hurt the United States and Israel far more than it would hurt Palestine, definitively disqualifying the United States from maintaining its monopoly stranglehold on any "peace process" -- which, since U.S. objectives are indistinguishable from Israeli objectives, could only be to Palestine's advantage. This month's UN initiative is a win-win proposition for Palestine...
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Are Libya's Palestinians Ready for the Post-Gaddafi Era? by Franklin Lamb | Counterpunch
   ...Despite some mercurial behavior following Oslo and a couple of other times, Gaddafi’s granting of internationally recognized human rights to  all Palestinian refugees hosted by Libya, in the current period ranks Libya slightly behind Jordan and about equal with Syria is supporting, over the past 30 years, those whose land and homes were stolen by Zionist colonizers...
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The 'War on Terror' goes to court, by Lisa Hajjar | Al Jazeera English

According to US officials, about 90 children were detained at Bagram Air Base as 'unlawful enemy combatants'

  Days after the attacks of September 11, 2001, the Bush administration started making decisions that led to the official authorisation of torture tactics, indefinite incommunicado detention and the denial of habeas corpus for people who would be detained at Guantánamo, Bagram, or "black sites" (secret prisons) run by the CIA, kidnappings, forced disappearances and extraordinary rendition to foreign countries to exploit their torturing services. While some of those practices were cancelled when Barack Obama took office in January 2009, others continue to characterise US detention policy in the "War on Terror"..
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The blockade which has suddenly become legal, by Mohammed Jamil | Middle East Monitor
  ... it is undoubtedly shameful for the UN to be behind a report lacking in even the minimum of standards of internationally accepted legal standards and methodology. How much more shame can the UN bear following its inability to implement many resolutions condemning Israel and its occupation of Palestine over many decades? The Palmer report carries the stamp of the UN but essentially condemns the victims and condones the executioners. This has to be a new low for the UN which seems to have to avoid any criticism of Israel if it is to avoid a US veto...
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People of the Lie, by Thomas H. Naylor | Counterpunch
  We live in the world of make-believe, a world controlled by ciphers such as Wall Street, Corporate America, the White House, Congress, and the Pentagon.  These ciphers enjoy the enthusiastic support of the media, the academy, and the shamans to whom we entrust the care of body, mind, and soul.  They reside in cipherspace, a euphemism for what French writer Albert Camus called the absurd...
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Sep 10, 2011


9/11 Ten Years Later: What have we learned? by Jamal Kanj | Intifada Palestine


  ...Why was America’s target derailed from fighting the purported perpetrators of 9/11? Who has gained the most out of these wars? Who has a first class “Sayanim” (Zionist citizens in host nations) spying network capable of instigating these wars? Who has the interest in a perpetuating conflict between the West and Muslims? The only answer for all these questions: Israel...
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Judging Israel | Roy Tov
  ...All Jewish settlers enter the definition of war criminals under the definitions adopted by this court, since the direct or indirect transfer of an occupier’s population into occupied territory constitutes a war crime. The settlements were built with the blessing and help of the State of Israel, which provided the settlers with rights and benefits lesser citizens of the country didn’t enjoy. All of them could now face trial in The Hague. The same goes for many Israeli Administration officials and Shin Beth and IDF officers. Judgment Day is in the air..
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Tell the National Building Museum: Don't Reward CAT's Destruction in Palestine! by Anna Balzer | US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation

  Around the world, Caterpillar has become a symbol of destruction wrought by Israeli occupation forces with its equipment against the Palestinian people. For years, the Israeli military has used Caterpillar bulldozers received courtesy of U.S. taxpayer-dollars to destroy Palestinian homes, uproot olive trees, construct Jewish-only settlements and the Apartheid Wall, and kill and maim unarmed civilians...
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Disappointment at the United Nations: The Palmer Report on the Flotilla Incident of 31 May 2010, by Prof. Richard Falk | Middle East Monitor
  When the UN Secretary General announced on 2 August 2010 that a Panel of Inquiry had been established to investigate the Israeli attacks of 31 May on the Mavi Marmara and five other ships carrying humanitarian aid to the beleaguered people of Gaza there was widespread hope that international law would be vindicated and the Israelis would finally be held accountable. With the release of the report this past week these hopes have been largely dashed as the report failed to address the central international law issues in a credible and satisfactory manner...
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Freedom or Anarchy? 'Rebelution' leaves Libya in fear | RT on YouTube
  Confrontation between Libyan rebels and pro-Gaddafi forces shows no sign of easing. Battles have been raging near the towns of Sirte and Bani Walid - two of the few remaning strongholds of the fallen regime. Forces loyal to the Colonel fired rockets from Bani Walid, where two of Gaddafi's sons are believed to be leading the armed resistence. That's despite the interim government seeking to negotiate a peaceful resolution...
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Erdogan: Turkish warships will escort aid vessels to Gaza | Reuters

 Turkish frigate

  Turkey said on Thursday it would escort aid ships to Gaza and would not allow a repetition of last year's Israeli raid that killed nine Turks, setting the stage for a potential naval confrontation with its former ally...
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'US did what Bin Laden wanted, created Al-Qaeda in Iraq & Africa' | RT on YouTube
  In just a few days, the United States will be marking its greatest tragedy in half a century - the terrorist attacks on September 11th 2001. What followed was a decade of invasions, torture scandals and untold abuses on both sides. Ivan Eland, a senior fellow at the Independent Institute says president Obama is now making the same mistakes George Bush did after 9/11...
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Philosopher for hire, by Udi Aloni | Haaretz
  I call on Bernard-Henri Levy: Kindly be a human being always and everywhere. March with us in September to free Palestine from the occupation and Israel from Zionism...
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Netanyahu must go, it's as simple as that, by Yoel Marcus | Haaretz
  Bibi is getting on the nerves of the entire world. And that's because of four words: They don't believe him ... Israel is marching to the UN General Assembly weak and hated, under very difficult negotiating conditions...
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The Waste Land, by Alexander Cockburn | Counterpunch
  ...You can find America’s future in blueprints minted in business-funded think tanks 30 to 40 years ago at the dawn of the neo-liberal age: destruction of organized labor; attrition of the social safety net; attrition of government regulation; a war on the poor, fought without mercy at every level...
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Daphne and Itzik: Israel's New Protest Movement, by Uri Avnery | Counterpunch

   ...Daphne is anti-establishment. She is not doing this for slight changes within the existing system. Though she was born into the heart of the establishment, Jerusalem’s sedate Rehavia neighborhood, she wants to overthrow it and to create something completely new. Itzik wants to work within the establishment. He talks about the “New Israeli”, but it is not at all clear what is new about him...
[As I see it, the question is this: will Israeli youth choose to join the rest of humanity or continue to build the Zionazi fortified ghetto at any price? Much depends on how this plays itself out.]
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Sep 9, 2011


9/11: Open Letter & Challenge to ADL's Abe Foxman, by Alan Hart | Intifada Palestine

Abraham Foxman has been the director of the Anti-Defamation league since 1987

  Mr. Foxman, your assertion that criticism of Israel is by definition a manifestation of anti-Semitism, is Zionist propaganda nonsense for a blackmail purpose, the purpose being to silence criticism and prevent informed and honest debate about Israel’s policies and actions...
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We Will Not Be Silenced! by Gordon Duff | Veterans Today
  Abe, I call you that because you are like an old friend, perhaps one gone a bit potty, a bit over the edge, a bit obsessed. So many of us have that crazy aunt in the attic. You are mine...
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Miko Peled: Return of the General's son | Australians for Palestine
  Miko Peled is the son of General Matti Peled, who was a leader in the 1967 war who also fought in the War of Independence in 1948. Like his father, Peled is an advocate for an end to the occupation of Palestine. As an Israeli, he offers an insider’s perspective on just how far Israel has strayed from its democratic principles, and how it has created a society marred by racism and indifference to the suffering of others.. In this segment, Miko Peled tells of his experiences as a young soldier in the Israeli army. He describes a confrontation with the same army on a recent visit to Israel and the West Bank...
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The Desperation of the Fool, by William Cook | Intifada Palestine


Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, Florida Congresswoman

  ...Ileana does not work alone. She serves as the culminating act of the Israeli government and its supporters that intend to deny the Palestinians their right to an independent state. This reality is most graphically illustrated by a comment made by the butcher of Beirut, Ariel Sharon: “We’ll make a pastrami sandwich of them. We’ll insert a strip of Jewish settlement, in between the Palestinians, and then another strip of Jewish settlement, right across the West Bank, so that in 25 years time, neither the United Nations, nor the United States, nobody, will be able to tear it apart.”..
[The anti-Castro Cubans and the Zionists do have a lot in common, and it smells the same.]
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'US compelled to follow Zionists in ME': Interview with Rodney Shakespeare | PressTV
  A prominent political analyst says that the Zionist regime is controlling US foreign policies in Bahrain and Saudi Arabia...
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Israeli pyromaniacs are setting the Mideast on fire, by Gideon Levy | Haaretz
  Autumn 2011 is teeming with disasters and our fate has been entrusted to a handful of cynical politicians, headed by Benjamin Netanyahu...
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Occupation Law and the One-State Reality, by Darryl Li | Jadaliyya


  ...Since the eruption of the first intifada in 1987 placed the West Bank and Gaza Strip at the center of the Palestinian struggle, much of the diplomacy, activism, and scholarship related to the conflict has revolved around three questions: To what extent should the law of occupation apply? Do the acts of Israel or others comply with this framework? And how can this framework be implemented or enforced? Instead of revisiting these old debates, let us re-examine the assumptions behind the consensus position of the international community upon which Palestinians and their allies have relied...
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Irish medics to go on strike for Bahrain | PressTV
  ...it was literally 24 hours ago that the proposal was put together to have a solidarity fast by Professor Fitzgerald and Professor Damien McCormack who are both affiliates of medical colleges and some frontline defenders who are joining us. Literally within 24 hours there has been a lot of people coming on board with it and international attention we have: doctors in the UK, the United States and France who are joining this strike also...
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Human rights rhetoric grows in Middle East, by Shadi Mokhtari | Al Jazeera English
  The wave of protest and change sweeping the Middle East has produced many firsts. Among them is Middle Eastern governments' reluctant foray into human rights politics. The early Arab response to Libya, though riddled with contradictions, was groundbreaking...
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The crime of apartheid, by Frank Barat | Al Jazeera English

In the occupied Palestinian Territories, a "matrix of control has been put into place that curbs Palestinians' most basic human rights"

  South Africa, 1948. After winning the elections, the National Party turned the racial segregation policies put in place under Dutch and British colonial rule, into something a lot more sophisticated and Machiavellian. The government classified all peoples in three separate races. White, coloured and blacks. Each race had its rights and limitations. The white minority controlled the much larger black majority . This system of domination and separation became known as "apartheid"...
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Thousand-and-one reasons why Palestine must get independence | Redress Information & Analysis

  Stuart Littlewood argues that recent attacks by Israeli squatters on a staff member and a student of Palestinian Bethlehem University in the occupied West bank – the latest in a long series of attacks and harassments of the university – underline once again the urgent need for Palestinian independence...
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AFP refutes Jewish group's comparison of BDS protests to Nazi-era tactics | Australians for Palestine
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Sep 8, 2011


Exodus countdown from Israel, by Ismail Salami | PressTV


  The 'land of milk and honey' has turned into that of bitter gall for the Israelis who no longer seek solace and security in a country which is inching towards instability and insecurity on a daily basis. The Israeli people live in constant fear; they no longer believe in their authorities if they ever did; their hopes are broken; their dreams are shattered. It is now time for them to give back the dreams they have long stolen from the Palestinian people...
[Amen]
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Israeli-Palestinian Conflict 101 | Jewish Voice for Peace
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Divesting from Israel's Occupation, by Ida Audeh | Palestine Chronicle
  In September, the University of Colorado Board of Regents will be presented with a petition urging it to remove from the university's stock portfolio all companies that profit from Israel's occupation of the West Bank (including East Jerusalem) and the Gaza Strip. Launched by CU-Divest and signed by nearly 2,000 students and human rights activists, the petition states that the university's $1.7 billion investments "may violate the University's commitment to human rights and social justice."..
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9/11 and the makers of history, by Tarak Barkawi | Al Jazeera English
   ...Global military commitments have hastened an inevitable US decline. The unrestrained power of finance capital is wrecking economies and societies across the Western world. Europe lies prostrate, bereft of anything approaching serious leadership, mired in the divisive politics of austerity and racist, anti-immigrant populism. The great international institutions have sat on the sidelines of the crises roiling the world. The communications technologies that were supposed to lead to mutual understanding instead assist revolts and terrorism, rioters and financial speculators, when they are not being used by states to spy on their own citizens, or by corporations to increase the number of consumer products people desire...
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US Congress members take junket to Israel: who wins and who loses? | Redress Information & Analysis
  Carolyn Boyd challenges the US congressional trips to Israel. Eighty-one House members traveled to Israel in August, and there is significant concern that they did not get a full picture of the situation there. Instead, many are suggesting they should have been home in their districts meeting with constituents during this time of economic turmoil...
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Israel collapsing from within, by Mike Jennings | PressTV



  The Tel Aviv regime has been witnessing tens-of-thousands-plus demonstrations for over six weeks now, and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's nightmare of Israel “deteriorate[ing] into the situation of certain European countries,” is inching closer to becoming reality...
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'US politicians contemptuous of the poor': Interview with Saul Landau | PressTV
  ...There is an assumption in Congress and indeed in Washington that the means and ends of all American policies, especially foreign policy, is the large corporation and bank and this is the assumption that is not discussed; it is never put forward but behind almost all pieces of major legislation, this is the issue...
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Israel Better Think Twice | Gilad Atzmon
   ...In the age of Islamic resistance,  tables of contents with numbers of tanks, vessels, and airplanes  are obsolete.  It is the spirit and the will rather than the tank that wins the battle.  This spirit better be called The Islam Spring, and it is unbeatable indeed...
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An Urgent Call for Transparency and Participation | Anti-Apartheid Wall Campaign
  At not more than 15 days from the UN General Assembly session on Palestine, during which the Palestinian official leadership will present an initiative on the Palestinian state to the world community, many pros and cons are being hotly debated. Yet, even without entering these debates, one of the most serious concerns is the fundamentally flawed process underlying the UN bid. It appears to be a distressing dejá-vu of past mistakes...
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Sep 7, 2011


Meet Captain Israel, the anti-BDS superhero, by Mark LeVine | Al Jazeera English

Judische Volk Über Alles!

  ...Captain Israel's catchphrase is "For Israel!" And his shield is a giant Star of David. And his costume is a shade of blue that only my late mother and Jewish women of her particular generation and fashion sense would ever consider wearing. And he's carrying a giant menorah in his other hand, screaming into the sky as dozens of Israeli jets streak overhead, while a bunch of Israeli tanks with IDF infantrymen advance behind him, bombs and machine gun fire erupting all around them in a scene that could only be meant to depict the final war for Israel's existence...
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The Legend of 9/11 10 Years On: A video by Anthony Lawson | YouTube
  This video concentrates on the two major 9/11 issues: The Unidentified Planes and The Controlled Demolitions. Nothing else. It does not mention the NORAD stand--down; the don't-fly and don't-go-to-work warnings or the Dancing Israelis or any of the other anomalies and suspicious happenings. The alleged amateur suicide pilots are not mentioned, either, for obvious reasons, and I do not know what happened to the allegedly hijacked planes or their alleged passengers and crews...
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When the Baathists Read their History, by Sami Moubayed | Intifada Palestine
  The pre-Ba'ath era in Syria is generally acknowledged by most people as the "golden era" of Syrian democracy. Even radical Ba'athists who refused to admit that in the past now nod affirmatively when such a bold statement is made, acknowledging that when operating through a real democracy, the Ba'athists won an overwhelming number of seats in the parliamentary elections of 1954...
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Exposing religious fundamentalism in the US, by Paul Rosenberg | Al Jazeera English
  The US media has been downplaying a radical Christian theology that is increasingly influential in the Republican Party...
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Vision of the "New Libya": Visit the "New Iraq" by Felicity Arbuthnot | Global Research


   ...Another country with a modern, developed infrastructure reduced to a pre-industrial age - with the rebuilding contracts reportedly already being divvied out - in the West...
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Sanctioning Messenger Dr. Bouthainia Shaaban Assaults American Values, by Dr. Franklin Lamb | Salem News
   As part of its 7th set of US sanctions against Syria, which began in June, 2011, the Obama administration has targeted a messenger, a sometime spokeswoman, a positive image of Syria, someone people of all religions and cultures have easily identified with over the past several years, Dr. Bouthainia Shaaban. The US administration acted thus for the sole purpose of pressuring the government of Syrian President Bashar Assad, but has succeeded in undermining American values of freedom of expression much more...
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Sarkozy: from Tripoli to Damascus and Tehran | Rehmat's World
  It seems French President Nicolas Sarkozy, an Israeli assest, is on his way to rebuilding old French colonial power and pro-Israel regime changes among Israel's Arab neighbors. After occupying Libya, he is eyeing Syria - a French colony after WW II out of which Paris carved Lebanon for Christians to maintain French influence in a Muslim-majority Middle East...
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The People's State of Palestine? by Georgina Reeves | Palestine Chronicle
  ...September 24th will come and go, and regardless of what happens at the UN in New York, nothing will likely change for the millions of Palestinians living under occupation, living in squalid poverty in camps in the Middle East, and living in exile throughout the world. If nothing else, September 24th should unite Palestinians-no matter who or where they are-in calling for the establishment of a new organisation, elected by the people, to represent their hopes and aspirations. Let the farce surrounding the UN vote usher in a new and more promising era for Palestinian self-determination...
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Bahrain:US Ally Kills Children: So When Is NATO Intervening? by Finian Cunningham | Global Research


  ...the relentless repression - condemned by Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch and several other rights groups - has failed to halt the pro-democracy campaign. The resilience of the protesters is all the more remarkable given that their cause has been met with cold indifference from Washington and London, and from much of the mainstream media. While Western governments have been quick to condemn the rulers of Libya and Syria for alleged human rights violations - launching a full-scale military onslaught on the former and mounting diplomatic sanctions against the latter - these same governments have continued to give full backing to the Al Khalifa dictatorship in Bahrain...
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Financial Times Betrays Thomas Friedman, by Belén Fernández | Palestine Chronicle
  Today marks the release of yet another book by Thomas Friedman, the New York Times' prolific foreign affairs columnist whose articles over the years have exposed such trends as the 'collective madness' of Palestinians and the progress in Mexican baby names to more NAFTA-friendly alternatives than Juan, such as Alexander and Kevin...
[Why would anyone waste their time reading Friedman?]
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Arabs make the desert bloom, by Oudeh Basharat | Haaretz
  In the ultimate of ironies, there is no better manifestation of the Zionist concept of making the desert bloom than the unrecognized Arab villages of the Negev - vibrant islands in a sea of gold, in the middle of nothing whatsoever...
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Labor's Demise As A Countervailing Power: "Labor Day" should be renamed "Corporation Day" or "War Day" by Dr. Paul Craig Roberts | Global Research
  It is Labor Day weekend, 2011, but labor has nothing to celebrate. The jobs that once gave American workers a stake in capitalism have left and gone away. Corporations in pursuit of near-term profits have moved labor's jobs to China, India, Indonesia, Taiwan, South Korea and Eastern Europe. Labor arbitrage, that is, the substitution of foreign labor that is paid less than its productivity for American labor, has enriched Wall Street, shareholders and corporate CEOs, but it has devastated American employment, household incomes, tax base, and the outlook for the US economy...
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You Only Believe the Official 9/11 Story Because You Don't Know the Official 9/11 Story | TV News Lies


  During the past 10 years I have not met a single individual who, after doing research on the subject, switched from questioning the official narrative of the events of 9/11/2001 to believing the official narrative of those events..  It is always the other way around. Why do you think that is? There are good reasons for this, and I will try to explain this phenomenon right now...
[Kind of obvious, isn't it?]
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'Israel's bullying in eastern Med is over' by Serkan Demirtas | Hurriyet Daily News
  The eastern Mediterranean will no longer be a place where Israeli naval forces can freely exercise their "bullying" practices against civilian vessels, a Turkish official said Friday. The official said this would be the outcome of Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu's statement earlier in the day that "Turkey would take every precaution it deems necessary for the safety of maritime navigation in the eastern Mediterranean."..
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In America The Rule Of Law Is Vacated, by Dr. Paul Craig Roberts | Global Research
  With bank fraudsters, torturers, and war criminals running free, the US Department of Justice (sic) has nothing better to do than to harass the famous Tennessee guitar manufacturer, Gibson, arrest organic food producers in California and send 12 abusive FBI agents armed with assault rifles to bust down yet another wrong door of yet another innocent family, leaving
parents, children, and grandmother traumatized...
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Western Pillage of Libya | Butterfly Storms
  This is nothing but the rape and pillage of Libya and Libyans. Already the pigs are pushing at the trough to steal their bit of Libya.  Western oil companies are ecstatic as NATO clears the way for them to make billions off of this war..  Everything that NATO has done in Libya has been illegal...
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Full-Blown Civil War Erupts On Wall Street: As Reality Finally Hits The Financial Elite, They Start Turning On Each Other, by David DeGraw | Amped Status


  Finally, after trillions in fraudulent activity, trillions in bailouts, trillions in printed money, billions in political bribing and billions in bonuses, the criminal cartel members on Wall Street are beginning to get what they deserve. As the Eurozone is coming apart at the seams and as the US economy grinds to a halt, the financial elite are starting to turn on each other...
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The Crime of the Patriot Act, 9/11 and a Whistleblower's Truth, by Rady Ananda | Global Research
  ...Extreme Prejudice reads like a spy novel; it's exciting, horrifying and compelling.  It offers an informed view of the geopolitical scene in the years just before and after the 9/11 attack, and the extraordinary lengths the USG went to in trying to hide or justify the illegal invasions that followed.  It's a slice of American History that patriots, as well as actors on the global stage, need to know...
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Dr. Dahlia Wasfi Takes Us Down Memory Lane: Dick Cheney's War Crimes | Information Clearing House
   ...Just because a bunch of psychopaths & parasites have got their hands on the levers of power & control - that does NOT mean that the Overwhelming (now, there's a word to get our heads around!!) Rest Of Us should just roll over to have our tummy tickled whilst hoisting a white flag !!!..
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Israel Objects to Palestinian Statehood to Avoid War Crimes Investigations, by John Glaser | Antiwar

   A WikiLeaks cable reveals drones were used in Gaza, as well as Israel's true reasons for objecting to PA statehood...
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WikiLeaks: Special treatment gives Israeli mobsters free access to US soil, by Ali Abunimah | The Electronic Intifada
  ...Israel, according to the cable, is a world center of money laundering, drug trafficking, and trafficking in women for prostitution; and Israeli crime families operate international criminal syndicates involved in gambling, credit card and technology fraud spanning the globe...
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Sep 6, 2011


How US "charities" break tax laws to fund Israeli settlements, by Mike Coogan | Uruknet

In addition to providing $3 billion in annual military aid to Israel, Americans
 are subsidizing the construction of Israel’s illegal settlements


  ...One such organization, American Friends of Ariel Inc., paints a picture of how these US based front groups collect tax-deductible donations, and use them to build and expand illegal Israeli settlements, and in some cases, purchase weapons for the settlers within them. In many cases, including that of American Friends of Ariel Inc., the organization does not make substantial efforts to disguise the fact that the US based tax exempt entity is nothing more than a shell organization being used to transfer money abroad...
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Sept 15: Palestine Rally at the United Nations | Al-Awda NY
  Palestinians everywhere are mobilizing to remind the world of their right to self-determination. In New York we are marching to the UN because the world’s attention is focused on the vote on Palestine scheduled to take place there...
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Egypt's military ruler Tantawi and the American siege of Gaza: revelations from Wikileaks, by Ali Abunimah | The Electronic Intifada
   The US administration of President Barack Obama was even more actively involved than previously known in enforcing the siege of Gaza along Egypt’s border with the territory. And the Pentagon provided direct assistance and technology for these efforts, a newly released official document reveals...
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Jewish Girl Prank Calls Her Parents | YouTube
  A Jewish girl away from home at college prank calls her parents and tells them she started dating an Italian guy. The father threatens to kill the guy and the mothers comments are priceless...
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The Wandering WHO?: Book review by Paul J Balles | Veterans Today



  Gilad Atzmon, scholar, prolific writer and leading jazz saxophonist has authored the book The Wandering WHO? In it he astutely explores the identity crisis he himself experienced and one faced by many Jews...
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Iran Saves Assad? 'Hezbollah to prevent Western attack on Syria' | RT on YouTube
  ...Russia condemned Western sanctions against Syria calling them harmful and ineffective. Moscow's stance has largely been echoed by its partners within the BRICS group - Brazil, India, China and South Africa. Dr. Sreeram Chaulia, a professor at the Jindal School of International Affairs in India, believes it's important the alliance is united in dealing with the situation in the Middle East...
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Israel strategically destitute, by Mohiyeddin Sajedi | PressTV

  ...In Egypt and Turkey, Israel has forfeited two of its allies in the Arab world and the world of Islam. Turkey's move in downgrading its relations with Israel and expelling its ambassador from Ankara is still not sufficient in the eyes of some of the people of Gaza, who are calling for Turkey to renounce its entire diplomatic ties with Israel. Nonetheless, it appears that Turkey is still pacing along its step-by-step policy of relieving itself of the burden of political and military relations with Israel...
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Sept 11: The last witness alive | Rehmat's World
   ..What makes William Rodriguez’s story so unique is that not only he was the last person to come out alive the WTC but also he had the keys to the building. His exclusive story as narrated by Richard Reopke totally negates the official 9/11 story and the ’9/11 Commission Report’. Rodriguez says that WTC was blown-up by bombs planted in the basement of the building even before the first so-called ‘hijacked plane’ hit the Tower...
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Failing to realise the promise of 9/11, by Robert Grenier | Al Jazeera English

On September 20, 2001, George W Bush laid out his plans for
the 'War on Terror' to a joint session of congress


  ...as someone whose professional career was radically altered by 9/11, I am most drawn to focus on the immediate aftermath of the 9/11 attacks themselves, on a brief period of time before decisions had been made and policies set, before old habits of mind had re-imposed themselves on new facts and new assumptions. On September 11, 2001, I was the CIA Station Chief in Islamabad, holding the intelligence brief for both Pakistan and Afghanistan...
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Which people, what justice? by Salman Masalha | Haaretz
  Even if the slogan uttered by tens of thousands in the streets of Israel of late is pleasant to hear, it is the greatest of lies. Were its users asked to explain which "people," demand what "justice" for which "society," the slogan would crumble. ..
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Just a Word: A Poem by Mhara Costello | Palestine Chronicle
Thank your God for sparing you, the suffering others have lived through
Where are the cries of just demand, for Arabs driven from their land?
Blame the victim, turn the cheek, praise the bully, kick the weak!
Mock the man who truth does speak...
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Palestinian Statehood - A Non-starter?: Israeli lawyer Ms. Lynda Brayer interviewed by Dr. Ludwig Watzal | Palestine Chronicle
  ...this neo-colonialism began immediately following the collapse of the former USSR.  The first Gulf War took place because the US no longer feared any interference from the Soviets. The lack of a balance of power in the world today seems to account for all the neo-colonialist ventures, all of which have taken place as a result of the perpetual need of capital to accumulate.  As we know though, capital reached its peak in the early 1970's, and since then it has been searching for ways to find profit.  Globalization is the latest manifestation of monopolistic capitalism, or imperialism...
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Out of the north an evil shall break | Roy Tov
Jeremiah lamenting over the destruction of Jerusalem

  Then [Allah] said unto me, Out of the north an evil shall break forth upon all the inhabitants of the land, is probably one of the best known verses in the Book of Jeremiah (1:14). The reason for that is its frequent use by the Israeli Administration in order to scare Israel’s denizens. In days when the social dysfunction of the Israeli government cannot be hidden anymore, enemies reappear - according to Israeli politicians - on the northern border of Israel, bringing the old words of prophet Jeremiah into life...
[The quotation would be apt as a Palestinian response to the impending arrival of the Ashkenazi colonists in the late 19th century]
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Derfner: "Why I got fired by Jerusalem Post" | Rehmat's World
  The US-born radical Zionist Jew journalist and blogger, Larry Derfner 60, was fired by Israeli daily the Jerusalem Post late last month for posting an ‘anti-Semite’ statement on his blog, ‘Israel Reconsidered’. His crime was that he spoke the truth; ‘Palestinian terror is result of Israeli occupation’...
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Graveyard for trees, by Mazin Qumsiyeh | Popular Resistance
  ...The old farmer Mohammed Al-Atrash (Abu Wajih) was standing there in shock, speechless, wondering where humanity is on this black day.  Israeli authorities picked the day well: it was the day of returning to school and to work from the 5 day Eid (Holiday) at the end of the Holy Month of Ramadan.  They brought massive forces starting at dawn and circled an area of over one square mile declaring it a closed military area...
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Gaza not represented in UN's blockade whitewash | Redress Information & Analysis
  Stuart Littlewood analyses the conclusions of the UN’s Palmer inquiry into the fatal Israeli raid on the Gaza-bound Turkish aid ship Mavi Marmara: a “bizarre reframing of the situation – that the illegal occupier, Israel, is the victim of the Palestinians’ lawful resistance and that Israel’s security must be given priority over everyone else’s”...
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Sep 5, 2011


The Israeli Operation Cast Lead Massacre: Israeli and American War Crimes, by Arthur F. Billy Ph.D | Intifada Palestine


  This presentation is a Memorial and a Requiem for the Dead of Gaza, Honouring the Valiant Palestinian People and a Monument to the People of Gaza...
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What will Palestinian statehood mean? by Abdel Razzaq Takriti | Al Jazeera English
  The recent release of an authoritative legal opinion highlighting certain unexpected, unintended, and serious political and legal dangers in the September initiative, has created useful popular discussion and public debate. The opinion assesses the implications arising if the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) replaces itself by the State of Palestine as the sole legitimate representative of the Palestinian people at the UN...
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Thieves of the Pentagon, by Saul Landau | Counterpunch
  A rogue elephant ravishes the American living room. But instead of stopping the criminal antics, the people and elected officials salute, praise and honor him, and keep him close to our hearts and wallets. The scoundrel’s name? The Defense Department. Thanks to clever PR teams, the media refers to its murderous and thieving excesses in eulogies to “our brave men and women in uniform who keep our freedom alive.”..
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America's self-inflicted decline, by Malcolm Fraser | Al Jazeera English

  ...China’s call for the introduction of a new reserve currency stems from its frustration with the failure of major governments - whether in the US or Europe - to govern their economic affairs with realism and good sense. China recognises that the US is in great difficulty (indeed, it recognises this more clearly than the US itself), and that, given the poisonous political atmosphere prevailing in Washington, there will be no easy return to good government, economic stability, and strong growth...
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The Fake Fall Of Tripoli And The Zionist Dragon's Butchery Across Palestine, by Jonathan Azaziah | SHOAH


  ...the privatization and neoliberalization of Libya were high on the list for the Zionist globe holders and it is now clear that Raphael Luzon will be the usurping Israeli regime’s agent in bringing this economic storm of hellfire to the Libyan people...
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$60bn to pockets of war contractors | PressTV
  Press TV talks with Jeff Steinberg, Editor, Executive Intelligence Review from Washington about the report revealed by the Commission on Wartime Contracting that he commends for revealing at least a part of the truth detailing bribes and kickbacks between private war contractors likely to be far greater than the 60 billion dollars of US tax payers' money estimated in the report...
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Libyan Rebels Listed by US State Department as Terrorists, by Tony Cartalucci | Land Destroyer
  In March 2011, the London Telegraph reported that Libya's rebels had direct ties to Al Qaeda and that both leaders and fighters had spent time in both Iraq and Afghanistan combating US troops. The article titled, "Libyan rebel commander admits his fighters have al-Qaeda links" featured Abdel-Hakim al-Hasidi, who had been captured by the US after fighting Americans in Afghanistan, returned to Libya, and released under a bargain for Hasidi and his Libyan Islamic Fighting Group (LIFG) militants to abandon extremism and become productive members of society. Quite obviously, and with the US, UK, and NATO's help, Hasidi and his men went back on this bargain and are now sowing murder and mayhem across Libya...
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Libya and the World We Live In, by William Blum | Counterpunch
  The Holy Triumvirate - The United States, NATO and the European Union - recognizes no higher power and believes, literally, that it can do whatever it wants in the world, to whomever it wants, for as long as it wants, and call it whatever it wants, like “humanitarian”...
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Sep 4, 2011


Palestine: Arduous Odyssey Of Statehood, by Dr. Ismail Salami and Kourosh Ziabari | Intifada Palestine


  ...if Palestine is granted full membership, Israel will likely deny recognition, continuing its illegal occupation, this time against a sovereign country; however, even if Israel keeps up with its hostility, the “automatic majority” of the UN General Assembly will take the side of Palestine...
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The 9/11 Conspiracists: Vindicated After All These Years? by Alexander Cockburn | Counterpunch
  ...One in seven Americans and one in four among  those aged 16-24, (so a recent poll commissioned by the BBC tells us)  believe that there was a vast conspiracy in which the U.S. government was involved.  But across those ten years have the charges that it was an “inside job” –– a favored phrase of the self-styled “truthers”  — received any serious buttress? The answer is no...
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Protesters disrupt BBC from performance of the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra | London BDS
  The successful protest that both disrupted the concert and pulled the Radio 3 broadcast off the air made headlines around the world...
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Turkey and Israel: Turkey does the right thing | Redress Information & Analysis
  Lawrence Davidson lauds Turkey’s decision to downgrade its diplomatic relations with Israel and suspend military ties with the Zionist state and says that Tel Aviv’s refusal to do the decent thing and apologize for murdering unarmed civilians on the high seas has probably put an end to its dream of becoming a NATO member...
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Suicide Nation, by Ron Jacobs | Counterpunch
  ...The roundups continued and an omnibus law that had obviously been sitting somewhere in the national security state’s bureau was passed almost unanimously.  That law is known as the PATRIOT Act and did more to restrict human and civil rights in the United States than any other law passed in the previous fifty years.  We have grown used to its restrictions, just like we have grown used to wars that never end.  To pretend that wars of aggression and false security prevents political attacks on a system designed to dominate the world is more than folly.  It is suicidal...
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Corroboration of Killing - Vidui Ariga | Roy Tov

Hollow Point Bullet

  The Turkish and Palestinian reactions to the Report of the Secretary-General’s Panel of Inquiry on the 31 May 2010 Flotilla Incident were a strong and clear rejection. The report recognized that Israel committed crimes during the Gaza’s Freedom Flotilla event, but the UN committee failed reaching the inevitable conclusions. They didn’t address properly the fact Israel attacked the ship on international waters. They didn’t address properly the fact the people attacked on the boat had the inalienable right of self-defense...
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The Dogs of War: The Next Intifada, by Uri Avnery | Counterpunch
  ...The Settlers and their allies dominate the present Israeli government coalition. They object to giving up even one square inch of occupied territory of the country God has promised us. (Even settlers who do not believe in God do believe that God has promised us the land.) Because of this, there are no peace negotiations, no freeze on building activities in the settlements, no move of any kind towards peace...
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Farrakhan Exposes The Jewish & Neo-Con Conspiracy In Middle East | YouTube
  Minister Louis Farrakhan delivered a press conference on May 3, 2004 at the National Press Club in Washington DC and exposed to the world the hidden forces guiding America and her wicked policies...
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'9/11, case of US pretext to wage wars': Interview with Richard Becker | PressTV
  ...The Bush administration, Chaney, Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz, etc, wanted to go to war. Bush wanted to go to war. This was an incident that actually happened and that provided the pretext for the US government to mobilize the sentiments of the people of the United States, to mislead them into justifying a war, first, against Afghanistan; then the following summer, attempting to construe what happened on 9/11 as being somehow the responsibility of Iraq, making knowingly false claims about weapons of mass destruction, attempting to scare the people in United States into supporting this war which has turned into an absolute disaster for the people in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and for the people in the United States...
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ADL: "Blaming Israel or Jews for 9/11 is anti-Semitism" | Rehmat's World
  In the past, the Zionist regime had created their ‘official fact finding reports’ on 34-day invasion of Lebanon in 2006, 23-day Operation Cast Lead in 2009, May 31, 2010 attack on Gaza flotilla and the 2005 assassination of former Lebanese prime minister Rafik Hariri. All those reports put the blame on the victims of Judeofascism...
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The race is on for Libya's oil, with Britain and France both staking a claim | The Guardian
  The starting pistol has been fired on bids by Britain and other western powers to secure a slice of the oil prize in Libya when France said it was "fair and logical" for its companies to benefit...
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Sep 3, 2011

9/11 Revisited
 
After A Decade: Have We Learned Anything? by Dr. Paul Craig Roberts | Global Research


  In a few days it will be the tenth anniversary of September 11, 2001. How well has the US government’s official account of the event held up over the decade? Not very well. The chairman, vice chairman, and senior legal counsel of the 9/11 Commission wrote books partially disassociating themselves from the commission’s report. They said that the Bush administration put obstacles in their path, that information was withheld from them, that President Bush agreed to testify only if he was chaperoned by Vice President Cheney and neither were put under oath, that Pentagon and FAA officials lied to the commission and that the commission considered referring the false testimony for investigation for obstruction of justice...
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Video of Cruise missile hitting Pentagon on 9/11 leaked | PressTV
  Suppressed video released 10 years after 9/11 attacks in the United States clearly shows the Pentagon attack was a Cruise type missile, either a Tomahawk or Russian/Soviet Granit as described by former officer of the Soviet nuclear intelligence Dimitri Khalezov...
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The End of Innocence Revisited | Gilad Atzmon
   ...I somehow managed to predict, already then in September 2001, that the fate of the west was doomed and the collapse of  Anglo-American strategy was inevitable. This paper is ten years old but its message may even be more devastating today...
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'Oil, Israel, ideology motivated 9/11': Interview with Dr. James Fetzer | PressTV
  Newly released footage of the 9/11 incident suggest that the US government staged the attacks on New York to eliminate the threat of Saddam Hussein to Israel and take control of Iraqi oil...
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Ten Years Later, Americans Still Stupid and Vulnerable, by by Ted Rall | Common Dreams
  The century of U.S. foreign policy that led to 9/11—supporting dictators, crushing democratic movements, spreading gangster capitalism at the point of a thousand nukes—should and could have been put on hold and reassessed in the wake of 9/11. It wasn't time to act. It was time to think...
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Libya
 
NATO's Ugly Face, by Stephen Lendman | Uprooted Palestinians
  Images don’t lie, except NATO’s fake ones produced in Doha, Qatar and perhaps elsewhere on Hollywood sound stages. For months, NATO marauders and rebel killers gang raped Libya – murdering, destroying, ravaging on the pretense of protecting. On August 22, Obama, a duplicitous unindicted war criminal, described the above images as “basic and joyful longing for human freedom.” On August 25, Secretary of State Clinton, another unindicted war criminal, said “(t)he events in Libya this week have heartened the world.” Let them and their conspiratorial allies go to Tripoli, Brega, Misrata and other ravaged Libyan cities and see for themselves...
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Notes From Tripoli, by Dr Franklin Lamb | Mathaba
  For those wondering whether Dr Franklin Lamb left his hotel and vantage point over Tripoli here is his latest report...
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NATO's peaceful and sustainable political solution: turn Tripoli into a slaughterhouse | Human Rights Investigations
  NATO has been described as the rebel air force, but it is more accurate to describe the rebels as NATO’s ground forces. The National Transitional Council has little independence and NATO controls the rebel ground forces, arms them, trains them, provides advisers, provides massive fire support and decides on strategy. NATO controls the air and sea and little moves on the ground without NATO’s permission...
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NATO Acquires Military Outpost In Third Continent: Interview with Rick Rozoff | Global Research
  ...the fact that the African continent, on which Libya is located, has collectively refused recognition to the new rebel regime is significant, as is the fact that the Russian Foreign Ministry has voiced its concerns and its opposition to any plans that the North Atlantic Treaty Organization may entertain for placing troops on the ground in Libya, ostensibly under the guise of a peacekeeping or stabilization force, but also more prominently voiced some concerns about the prospect of NATO military facilities being authorized by the forces opposed to Gaddafi...
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The September vote
 
Convergence: Freedom Flotilla, Palestinian Independence and Israel as a Failed State | Roy Tov

Ehud Barak | War Criminal

  ...Formally a democracy, the State of Israel systematically violates human rights of its citizens and others with the only obvious interest being maximizing the incomes of the twenty families running the Israeli economy. For an Israeli citizen watching the news during September 2011, it is hard not to see the current convergence of violent events towards a very clear point. On September 21, 2011, Israelis will wake up to a new reality in which Palestine would be independent and Israel would have very few friends left, even within its own citizens. Israel as a Failed State would then be unofficially declared. Soon afterwards, the Third and Final Exile may begin...
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A State of Palestine would backfire on its own people, by Mehdi Hasan | The Guardian
  ...For the first time in my life, I find myself in agreement with Binyamin Netanyahu. The loathsome Israeli prime minister is opposed to the Palestinian bid for statehood – and so, reluctantly, am I. But for very different reasons...
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Israel's settler army and government poised to commit a new outrage | Redress Information & Analysis
  Uri Avnery says Israel’s settler-dominated political and military establishments may be planning to provoke serious violence to coincide with the Palestinian bid to gain UN recognition later this month...
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Will 'Nipper' Cameron obey Tel Aviv's trumpet or vote for Palestinian freedom? by Stuart Littlewood | Veterans Today
   Britain and NATO were keen as mustard to establish a no-fly zone over Libya to “protect civilians” but too cowardly to do the same for the Palestinians, who are constantly on the receiving end of Israel’s vicious air strikes and armed incursions. Muslims and Christians alike have been slaughtered or maimed in their thousands and had their homes, farms and water resources stolen while waiting 63 years for the international community to deliver them from Israel’s brutal occupation...
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"BLESS THEE O ISRAEL" by Nahida | Uprooted Palestinians

Chabad "at home" in The White House

  For how long are we supposed to keep dancing around the elephant in the room while we turn our heads away pointing the finger at the "Islamist" bogeyman, pretending not to see, pretending not to know, pretending that looking or even glancing at the elephant is an irrelevant distraction, or hateful anti-Semitism !! Furthermore, for how long are we going to tolerate the hate, racism, supremacy and calls for subjugation and/ or extermination of the non-Jews by some Jewish books, some Jewish Laws and some Jewish fanatics, who have actually already secured themselves in extremely high positions of control and influence in the world of the gentiles??..
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Obama's Wars on Humanity | Stephen Lendman
  America’s a poster child failed state, defined in a recent article as follows:
(1) An inability or unwillingness to protect its citizens from violence and other forms of harm.
(2) Its abrogation of rule of law standards.
(3) Its lawless belligerent pursuits.
(4) If nominal democracies, its policy deficiencies, exposing a serious democratic deficit...
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Norway's Terror as Systemic Destabilization: Breivik, the Arms-for-Drugs Milieu, and Global Shadow Elites, by Prof. Peter Dale Scott | Global Research
  ...in the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center the attackers were trained by a member of al Qaeda, Ali Mohamed, who almost certainly was a double agent working also for U.S. sources. The same trainer “led” (to quote the 9/11 Commission Report” the 1998 attack on the U.S. Embassy, and may have trained the alleged 9/11 hijackers as well. This continuity suggests that all these American incidents of violence may have been part of an on-going strategy of tension, to destabilize society as a means to justify the ever-mounting budgets for America’s security forces...
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Rabbi Menachem Youlus of Save a Torah Is Charged in Fraud | NYT

Rabbi Menachem Youlus, one of the founders of the organization Save a Torah, at his Jewish bookstore

  He described himself as a risk-taking rabbi who had been “beaten up, thrown in jail and gone $175,000 into debt” on “expeditions” to Eastern Europe. He said his mission was to rescue and restore Torahs that had been “wrenched from their communities during the Holocaust” and place them with congregations that would look after them...
[According to Talmudic ethics he did only one thing wrong - he got caught. Unless he was also working on the Sabbath, a much graver crime.]
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Auschwitz Museum Director Reveals 'Gas Chamber' Hoax | The Uplifting Crane
    ...In a dramatic and unprecedented videotaped interview, Dr. Franciszek Piper, senior curator and director of archives of the Auschwitz State Museum admitted on camera that ‘Krema 1,’ the alleged ‘homicidal gas chamber’ shown off to hundreds of thousands of tourists every year at the Auschwitz main camp, was, in fact, fabricated after the war by the Soviet Union...
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'Anti-apartheid move unfolds in Israel': Interview with Ralph Schoenman | PressTV
  ...Political activists have called for a million man protest outside the Israeli embassy and the calls in Egypt are echoed by Israelis who are holding up signs of support for the Egyptian uprising and that is the road towards the linking of the struggle against the exploitation of the Israeli state to its settler character, its racist character, its imperial character so that, as in South Africa, even amongst those who had been settlers, they began to support the African National Congress and the pan-Africanist Congress in South Africa...
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Israeli animation | YouTube
  A brilliant take on what is happening in Israel...



Sep 2, 2011


Palestinian Statehood: The Ayes And The Nays, by Debbie Menon | Salem-News


  Israel's apartheid is strikingly similar to what was seen in South Africa, Pilger's documentary goes to the heart of the matter...
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Polish-Jewish sociologist compares West Bank separation fence to Warsaw Ghetto walls, by Roman Frister | Haaretz
  Sygmunt Bauman, the Jewish sociologist and one of the greatest philosophers of our time, castigated Israel harshly this week, saying it did not want peace and was afraid of it. Bauman said Israel was "taking advantage of the Holocaust to legitimize unconscionable acts," and compared the separation fence to the walls surrounding the Warsaw Ghetto, in which hundreds of thousands of Jews perished in the Holocaust...
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Just a Word: Terrorist!!! | YouTube
   Terrorist' is just a word, one I wish I'd never heard
   When it's used to vilify, without the need to question why...

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Jews in Space | Gilad Atzmon
  I  mentioned before that the 'Jewish national state', is not such a bad idea but planet Earth is probably not the right place.  Here is Mel Brooks’ take on the subject...
[I have long felt that when the historic pattern plays itself out again, but this time within the context of an integrated, worldwide human society, the Jews facing expulsion would have nowhere to go on this planet. Alpha Centauri springs to mind, but the final destination will no doubt be hotly debated over Jewish dinner tables.]
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Iraqi warfare survivor on X Factor Australia - Emmanuel Kelly | YouTube
  ..Emmanuel, the adopted son of Children First Foundation boss Moira Kelly, wowed Ronan Keating, Spice Girl Mel Brown, Natalie Bassingthwaighte and Guy Sebastian with his heartfelt performance of the John Lennon classic Imagine on last night's audition show...
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10 Painful Lessons of 9/11, by Ralph Nader | Palestine Chronicle


  ...All empires eventually eat away at their own and devour themselves...
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'US middle class on verge of collapse' | PressTV
  ...The US is still spending money on unpopular wars, and the government budget is climbing, while the US revenue is shrinking due to unemployment and unwillingness to tax the rich. Press TV has interviewed Charles M. Young, founder of thiscantbehappenin.net, who says the US is financial trouble because the government is unwilling to tax the rich and big corporations which are draining the middle class out of their money...
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Legal interpretation of the demolition of homes in the Occupied Palestinian Territories, by Mahmoud Al-Mubarak | Middle East Monitor
  Observers of the systematic Israeli abuses in the Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPTs), especially the demolition of houses and the resultant forced expulsion of the Palestinian population, may be surprised at the absence of any international legal action by Palestinian officials against Israel. They would probably conclude that the Palestinians have a "successful case in the hands of an unsuccessful lawyer"...
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Ron Paul and Fein Occupant, by Sibel Edmonds | Opinion Maker
  ..This is where Ron Paul stands admirably on Israel and its war propaganda against Iran: Cut Foreign Aid, Unshackle Israel and Leave Iran Alone!..
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To Avert A Bloodbath: Libya And The Press | Media Lens
  ...On August 26, the Washington Post quoted Diana Eltahawy, Libya researcher for Amnesty International: ‘In Tripoli, we are seeing the same pattern in recent days that we saw earlier in the east.’ Eltahawy ‘described a record of abuse, torture and the extrajudicial killing of captured pro-Gaddafi fighters that has followed the rebels from east to west as they have taken over the country’. Elsewhere, Nato’s alleged attempt ‘to avert a bloodbath’ has resulted in additional bloodbaths – its own...
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Bernard-Henri Levy blunders on Israeli-Libyan 'mission' by Leela Jacinto | FRANCE 24
  Bernard-Henri Levy is known to weigh in on weighty international issues. But when the controversial French philosopher-writer took it upon himself to mediate a détente between Libya and Israel, he apparently went too far. ..
[Nazi Germany had its "philosophers," so a ZioNazi "philosopher" was to be expected.]
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Sep 1, 2011


One State vs Two States, by Samir Abed-Rabbo | Australians for Palestine


  This essay addresses potential settlement options for the Palestine/Israel impasse. The two most popular options are the Two State and the One State solutions. Many misconceptions are associated with these options, but in order for the public to understand those misunderstandings, a comparison between the two solutions is warranted...
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The great American political circus, by Danny Schechter | Al Jazeera English
  .."the laws changed in a way that effectively allowed these outside groups to raise and spend unlimited sums of money to say whatever they want, to do it whenever they wanted to, and they could do it in as strong a term as they wanted to". These developments get scant media attention for one good reason: The media is a prime beneficiary of a political system dominated by big money. Much of these billions are raised for political advertising. The networks get it. No wonder that they are out to sell more than tell...
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IOF: "Be prepared to kill Palestinian youth" | Rehmat's World
  Israel’s every Jewish citizen becomes a combatant by the time he/she reaches the age of 18 by Israeli law. However, currently, the Israel Occupation Force (IOF) is further arming and training the illegal Jewish settlers in the West Bank to provide first defense-line to IOF during the possible non-violent protests by Palestinians after the unilateral declaration of a separate Palestine state based on pre-1967 borders...
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Selling Islamophobia, by Wajahat Ali | Counterpunch
  Exploiting fear, hysteria and ignorance has been a lucrative business for the Islamophobia network in America. After a six-month-long investigative research project, the Center for American Progress Action Fund released a 138-page report, “Fear Inc: Exposing the Islamophobia Network in America”, which for the first time reveals that more than $42m from seven foundations over the past decade have helped empower a relatively small, but interconnected group of individuals and organizations to spread anti-Muslim fear and hate in America...
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Media Manipulation, Libya and Western Lies | Roy Tov


  ...The blatant violation of NATO’s mandate is sustained with made up events and photographs. Russia Today (RT) published a few days ago an excellent analysis showing the filmed takeover of the Green Square in Tripoli by the rebels – broadcast first by Al Jazeera and Al Arabiya - had been shot in Qatar with the help of actors. The fools had forgotten adding several key details of the real plaza to their video...
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Sinking the Mavi Marmara, by Belen Fernandez | Al Jazeera English
  ...The Israeli Foreign Ministry confirmed the violent intentions of the seafarers by adding the category, "Weapons found on Mavi Marmara" to its Flickr photostream and uploading images of marbles, kitchen knives, keffiyehs, and a metal pail. Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon's detection of ties between the Gaza flotilla and global Jihad was additionally upheld by a Flickr photograph featuring a slingshot colourfully decorated with stars and the label "Hizbullah". The Foreign Ministry has yet to explain whether "Hizbullah" always labels its Gaza-bound slingshots in English, or why the photograph is specified as having been taken on February 7, 2006, i.e., over four years prior to the flotilla attack...
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The FBI Goes Rogue, by Lawrence Davidson | Consortium News
  One neoconservative argument against American Muslims is that there is a correlation between mosques and FBI terror investigations. But that may be circular logic since the FBI targets mosques with paid informants trying to detect potential “lone wolves” and lure them into terrorist acts...
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Elephant in the Holy Land, by Sherri Muzher
  While the two-state solution is constantly raised, Israeli settlements are forcing a lot of people to confront the elephant in the room. That elephant is bi-nationalism -- the idea of two national groups living in one state. It’s not a matter of being idealistic or singing Kumbaya. It’s about being a realist. Seriously, when was the last time you saw a nation exist on disconnected hills? The settlements, which are strategically spread throughout East Jerusalem and the West Bank, have made physical separation impossible...
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The Top Ten Myths in the War Against Libya, by Maximilian Forte | Counterpunch

  ...we look at some of the reasons why these claims are better seen as imperial folklore, as the myths that supported the broadest of all myths—that this war is a “humanitarian intervention,” one designed to “protect civilians”. Again, the importance of these myths lies in their wide reproduction, with little question, and to deadly effect. In addition, they threaten to severely distort the ideals of human rights and their future invocation, as well aiding in the continued militarization of Western culture and society...
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