...it is imperative to dissolve the Jewish state of
Israel. Such a state, which has no basis other than a fascistic narrative
constructed out of paranoia and mythology, has
no legitimacy in our world. It embodies all of the characteristics that humanity has resoundingly rejected in the last century - settler colonialism, racism, ethnic cleansing, apartheid and genocide. The dehumanization and destruction of a people, along with the dispossession of their land and property, is utterly intolerable. The only feasible alternative is its replacement by a pluralistic, democratic state that includes the Palestinians as equals. There is no other viable solution to the Israeli/Palestinian conflict. Every day we bring you a carefully selected collection of relevant writings from across the Web. Please help out. Click here. Featured This Week: Jan 27, 2012Global March to Jerusalem
 ...The Arab Spring and Occupy Wall Street movements have shown the power of direct nonviolent action. Following their lead, and in the tradition of Ghandi's March to the Sea and ML King's March to Selma for Civil Rights, we are rapidly organizing to participate in the Global March to Jerusalem. The march is committed to nonviolence with tens of thousands of people marching from border countries, from the Occupied Territories, from Gaza and from within Israel... Read more, watch video... CIA Agent Exposes How Al-Qaeda Doesn't Exist | RT on YouTube
Americans are in the crosshairs of terrorists worldwide purely due to Washington's policy in the Muslim world, not because there is an Islamic enemy whose only aim is to kill Americans for their freedoms and lifestyle, insists a former CIA officer. Historian Michael Scheuer, an author of "Through our enemies' eyes", who worked for the agency for over 20 years till 2004 and at one time was the chief of the CIA's 'Bin Laden unit', says America's greatest enemy - radical Islam - never existed... Read more, watch video... Elin Fflur & Al Lewis: Hafan | YouTube TV performance of 'Hafan' from the show 'Noson yng nghwmni'... [As my Celtic friend and fellow One-Stater
explains, "Welsh 'Hafan' means "safe haven", also used figuratively for 'home'
... the home ye come from as well as the one the human soul is seeking and
longing for, i.e. the place of fulfillment of life. May the spirit of Hafan be
the homestead of all mankind of good will to build a better world." Needless to
add, this is in spirit the opposite of the mytho-historical "return" of the
Chosen Ones to the Holy Land, but accurately expresses the sentiments of most of
the Palestinians and their supporters, to whom all beings are considered
sacred.] Watch video...On Its First Anniversary, Egyptian Revolution Continues, by Dr. Ashraf Ezzat | Intifada Palestine  ...we are where we are, so the next question is whether the Tahrir square revolution will actually fulfill its promise of “dignity, freedom and social justice” or whether it will simply usher in an era of extremist Islamist regimes or new forms of military authoritarianism... Read more... Will Israel Attack Iran? by Ronen Bergman | NYT ...[Barak] now faces, along with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and 12 other members of Israel’s inner security cabinet, the most important decision of his life — whether to launch a pre-emptive attack against Iran. We met in the late afternoon, and our conversation — the first of several over the next week — lasted for two and a half hours, long past nightfall. “This is not about some abstract concept,” Barak said as he gazed out at the lights of Tel Aviv, “but a genuine concern. The Iranians are, after all, a nation whose leaders have set themselves a strategic goal of wiping Israel off the map.” [A
well-researched piece with some first-hand knowledge. Despite the conclusion, I
still think that the odds are against an Israeli attack on Iran, but Allah knows
better. Read
more...~ Israel Shamir. Most of the world wants Israel wiped off the map - I certainly do. Are the Israelis going to try to kill us all? Well, yes, if they feel cornered. Just google the 'Sampson Option." ~ the Editor.] Obama threatens Iran to woo Israel: Interview with Mark Glenn | PressTV US President Barack Obama's anti-Iran threats are only aimed at securing his reelection by obeying the Israelis who put him in power in the first place... Read transcript, watch video... How Do You Escape a Color Revolution? Replace Emotional Reaction With Intellectual Sobriety | Color Revolutions and Geopolitics  Oh, you pretty things! ...The
defining characteristics of typical foreign-funded opposition protesters are
their youth, their inexperience, their lack of discernment, their relatively
high level of education, their personal ambition, their access to media and
technology, and their strong inclinations to rebel against the status
quo...Read more... Gingrich's Alinsky remark angers Jewish groups | Rehmat's World ...According to a nationally prominent Zionist spokesperson, former Congressman, Federal Judge, White House Counsel to President Bill Clinton and early backer of Obama, Abner Mikvner, “Barack Obama is the first Jewish President”. Mikvner’s affirmation reflects both Obama’s one-sided and longstanding commitment to the State of Israel and loyalty to the Zionist Power Configuration (ZPC) in the United States, as well as the long-term and successful effort of a network of financially and politically powerful Jewish Zionists to ‘embed’ Obama in their ‘Israel First’ political apparatus... Read more... Drowning In Hypocrisy: War Abroad, Austerity at Home, by Dr. Paul Craig
Roberts | Global Research
...Iran has been trying “to deal with us through diplomacy.” The response from Washington has been belligerent threats of military attack, unfounded and irresponsible accusations that Iran is making a nuclear weapon, sanctions and an oil embargo. Washington’s accusations echo Israel’s and are contradicted by Washington’s own intelligence agencies and the International Atomic Energy Agency. Why doesn’t Washington respond to Iran in a civilized manner with diplomacy? Really, which of the two countries is the greatest threat to peace?.. Read more... Israel SUCKS (The Gas Right Out Of Your Tank), by Keith Johnson | Revolt of the Plebs  ...The oil market is largely driven by headlines, and soars every time the West shakes their fist at one of Israel’s enemies. That not only drives up the price you pay at the pump for a gallon of gasoline, but also affects the cost of every product and service that travels by way of land, air or sea... Read more... The Armenian Genocide | Stephen Lendman ...Turkey's Armenian genocide was one of history's great crimes. America exceeded it manyfold, especially through permanent imperial wars taking many millions of lives and causing incalculable human misery... Read more... EU bans oil import from Iran: India pays in Gold instead of Dollars - China considers doing the same | RT on YouTube ...The latest round of sanctions prohibits any new oil contracts, while allowing for existing deals to run until July. But Tehran is apparently finding ways to keep business pumping. Reports say Iran will keep supplying one of its biggest customers - India - but will get payment in gold instead of dollars.".. Watch video... What Kind of Christianity Is This? by Gary G. Kohls | Consortium
News  Jesus delivering the Sermon on the Mount ...Though this
history has long since been forgotten or ignored, the earliest followers of
Jesus rejected violence, tried to return good for evil, fed the hungry, did acts
of mercy and unconditional love and tried to make friends out of their enemies
(by caring for them, feeding them, praying for them and certainly refusing to
kill them or pay for somebody else to kill them). It was a hugely successful
ethical stance to
take...Read more... The Roots of Christian Zionism: How Scofield Sowed Seeds of Apostasy | Vimeo Ever wonder why so many Christians support America’s many wars, especially in the Middle East? A new Christianity has emerged from the Twentieth Century called Christian Zionism or what could be called, "Angry Evangelicalism," or "Dispensationalism on Steroids." What motivates a nationally known, evangelical preacher like John Hagee to call for a preemptive strike against Iran when it is contrary to what Jesus taught and commanded his followers to do? Watch video... Can foreign gangsters bulldoze your family home without warning and get away with it? | Redress Information & Analysis Stuart Littlewood highlights one of the most disgraceful and criminal aspects of the Israeli occupation, house demolitions, and stresses that “America and the rest of the West should understand clearly why Caterpillar has become the hated symbol of dispossession, ethnic cleansing and oppression, and has been the target of disinvestment campaigns”.. Read more... Jan 26, 2012 Israel steps up campaign of arresting Palestinian parliamentarians, by Dr.
Hanan Chehata | Middle East Monitor
 Israel has finally done what it has waited almost a year and a half to do; in a raid contravening international law it arrested two members of the Palestinian Parliament who had been seeking refuge in the International Red Cross compound in East Jerusalem. We all knew it was only a matter of time before Israeli forces made their move. Israel has no regard for democracy, so why would it matter that those it arrested are democratically-elected members of the Palestinian parliament? Israel cares little for international law and even less for international public opinion. Arresting them was to be expected after the occupation authorities had served illegal deportation notices on the two men. Is there any other country in the world which seeks to "deport" people from their own city?.. [Well, one
country springs to mind - Nazi Germany. It would be a stretch to say that Israel
is a carbon copy, but not that much of a stretch. See this essay.] Read
more...Oil embargo on Iran a conundrum for Europe, by Emanuele Scimia | Asia Times
Online
The approved oil sanctions against Iran signal an unusual assertiveness of the European Union. For Europe, however, it will not be an easy ride to find alternatives sources to the Iranian crude, while the embargo's impact on the Islamic Republic could be softened by demand from Asia-Pacific countries. The Strait of Hormuz is narrowing day by day: unless Washington and Tehran reach a sort of strategic accommodation... Read more... The deal the West could strike with Iran, by Peter Jenkins | The Telegraph ..On Sunday, Britain, America and France sent warships through the Strait of Hormuz. Recent months have seen a big rise in the twin risks of military action and grave damage to the world economy. This is the consequence of what I believe to be a great diplomatic over-bid: the West’s demand that Iran surrender its capacity to enrich uranium... Read more... Obama Assassination Said to be Legal Under Israeli Law, by Gordon Duff |
Veterans Today
 Can Israel legally kill a president? Point one, of course, Israeli law allows it. Obama is a non-Jew and any non-Jew can be killed at any time according to Israeli law, even one living outside Israel if it is believed that he may some day cause harm to a Jew. This is the legal basis for attacks on children in Gaza, that their deaths likely prevent them from growing up and harming Jews. It is in the Torah and it is law. Also, America has traditionally respected such laws. In fact, President Obama may well have, through pro-Israeli statements, authorized his own execution... Read more... Iran is not an existential threat, by Bruce Riedel | Bitterlemons The danger of war is growing again over Iran's nuclear ambitions. Iran is rattling its sabers, the Republican presidential candidates and others are rattling theirs. But even if Iran gets the bomb, Israel will have overwhelming military superiority over Iran, a fact that should not be lost in all the heated rhetoric... Read more... Obama to Get 12 Hours Notice before Hit on Iran | Arutz Sheva Israeli officials told visiting USS Chief Joint of Staffs Martin Dempsey that it would give President Barack Obama no more than 12 hours notice if and when it attacks Iran, The London Times reported Sunday. The Netanyahu government also will not coordinate with the United States an attack on the Islamic Republic, according to the report, the latest in a number of supposed scenarios concerning cooperation or lack of it between Jerusalem and Washington... Read more... Syrian Snapshot: A View From the Capital, by Sharmine Narwani | Al Akhbar
English
 People pray next to the coffins of people killed in
explosion in the Maidan district ...This Syrian
conflict has layers and layers that we have not yet peeled within the pages of
our sanctified newspapers and online repartees. I have seen very little
verifiable professional reportage from the main areas of conflict. Most of the
“storyline” is taking place in capital cities where competing governments appear
determined to decide Syria’s future. The Syrian people are just cannon fodder. I
am not sure their lives are even considered, as long as their bodies, alive or
dead, lying on streets or taking part in rallies/protests, provide these
storylines a way to feed into their vying
narratives...Read more... Davos 2012: From Capitalism to Fascism, by Robert Wenzel | War Is Crime ..The elitist power grab is going right at the heart of capitalism. Of course, they have always been for central control, with them in control, but now they are calling out capitalism, directly, as an inferior product... Read more... The Vexing 'Jewish Question': A Nineteenth-Century Scholar's View, by Goldwin Smith | Institute for Historical Review Although today it is considered tactless if not hateful to speak openly of a "Jewish question," the often thorny matter of relations between Jews and non-Jews in society is a real issue that has bedeviled countless governments and scholars for centuries. In the following essay, a prominent British scholar tackles this issue with a forthrightness, perceptiveness and courage that is all too rare among academics in our own day... Read more... Iran military spending compared to other middle eastern countries | Iran
Coverage
 Jewish Imperial News | Gilad Atzmon ...I’m not one bit surprised by the surge of Jewish power. I wrote a book about it. But, being intimately familiar with Jewish history, I know exactly where it will lead. Jewish political arrogance has always proved to be, above all, devastatingly dangerous for Jews... [Aye, there's the rub indeed. And Jews are supposedly
smart. Applying Einstein's definition of insanity as "doing the same thing over
and over again and expecting different results," one might conclude that tribal
Jews are either incredibly stupid or just plain nuts - take your
choice.] Read more...John Stewart: West Bank Story | Gilad Atzmon [Stewart's soft Zionist humor reflects the Liberal's habit of
treating both sides equally, never mind that one is overwhelmingly powerful and
armed to the teeth, and the other is essentially helpless.] Watch
video...Activists resisting Palestinian home demolitions face 'IDF Price Tag'
attack, by Jeff Halper | +972
 Salim Shawamreh stands on the ruins
of his demolished home It has become commonplace among violent West Bank
settlers to randomly attack Palestinian mosques, homes, olive orchards and
individuals in order to send a message to other Israelis. They are called “Price
Tag” attacks, after the “signature” the settlers leave scrawled on the walls of
the burnt-out buildings. In the dark of night this past Monday, January 23, the
IDF carried out its own Price Tag assault on ICAHD, the Israeli Committee
Against House
Demolitions...Read more... Israeli Assassinations and American Presidents, by Alison Weir | Antiwar ...Adler’s expectation that Israel’s inner circles have explored such a course of action, and would be willing to undertake it, may be entirely accurate. The fact is that Israel has killed and plotted to assassinate people throughout the world; a number have been Americans. One alleged plot was chillingly similar to Adler’s suggestion. There is evidence that in 1991 an Israeli undercover team planned to assassinate a U.S. president. The intended victim was George Herbert Walker Bush... Read more... Stop the Pro-Israel Lobby, by Stuart Littlewood | Palestine Chronicle ...for years we've been suckered into joining the United States in fighting Israel's wars of aggression. Given our huge debts it beggars belief that we're gearing up for another one... this time against Iran... and pushing the oil markets to the edge of panic. Haven’t we had our fill of warmongering idiocy?.. Read more... Testimonies from the Heart of Darkness, by Tamar Fleishman |
Palestine Chronicle
 Another child detained 'This place is the
carbuncle on the ass of the occupation,' said Dalit Baum as the gates of Ofer
prison closed behind us. The Palestinian residents of the West Bank, who had
been living under occupation for over forty years and are deprived of their
basic rights, are brought to justice in military courts. This entire legal
system- investigators, prosecutors and judges- is comprised of men and women, in
uniform, who are subordinated to and serve, not the principles of justice and
law, but the mechanism of the occupation... Read more... The Great Book Robbery, by Karina Goulordava | Mondoweiss June 1948, Israeli soldiers advance in an affluent Arab neighborhood, now almost deserted, in western Jerusalem. The soldiers are followed by several librarians from the national library. Sporadic gunfire is heard. The men cling against the walls as they arrive in a street with big wealthy houses, their occupants left in haste. Breaking into house after house, the librarians “collect” entire libraries into boxes which are loaded onto trucks. Similar scenes repeat themselves throughout the Arab neighborhoods of western Jerusalem and later on in Haifa, Jaffa, Nazareth and other places. In total, 70,000 Palestinian books were “collected” in this manner... Read more, watch video... Silence Of The Lambs: Seumas Milne, George Monbiot & 'Media Analysis' In The Guardian Wonderland | Media Lens One of the original aims of Media Lens, when we began in 2001, was to engage in honest, open and rational debate with journalists working for major news organisations. It wasn’t about ‘bashing’ them or trying to make them look bad. We wanted to examine media assumptions, challenge journalists’ arguments and find out more about the unwritten rules of ‘responsible’ reporting... Read more... Jan 25, 2012 U.S. And NATO Are On The March Worldwide: Part III, by Madison Ruppert |
Stop NATO
 Geopolitical developments continue at a pace that likely makes most peoples’ heads spin, and for good reason. With the situation in Syria, the push for war with Iran and the global growth of NATO control, it appears we are in truly volatile and historic times... Read more... Clay Shirky: Why SOPA is a bad idea | TED
What does a bill like PIPA/SOPA mean to our shareable world? At the TED offices, Clay Shirky delivers a proper manifesto - a call to defend our freedom to create, discuss, link and share, rather than passively consume... Watch video... Europe at war with Iran, by Pepe Escobar | Asia Times Online No one ever lost money betting on the foolishness of European Union (EU) politicos. And if you are an oil trader, rejoice - all the way to the bank; as expected, EU foreign ministers - meekly following the Barack Obama administration - have given a green light for a full Iranian oil embargo... [The good news is that
the dollar's position as the world's reserve currency may well be on its way
out. That would bring the Empire and its vast Ponzi scheme to a screeching halt
and we can all sing Hallelujah!]
Read more...Obama panders to Jewish donors | War in Context President Obama’s reelection campaign unveiled a video featuring testimonials from Israeli leaders a day after he raised $500,000 from Jewish donors. The video, e-blasted Friday to Jewish supporters by David Axelrod, a top campaign official, intersperses speeches by Obama to Jewish audiences and at the United Nations with testimonials culled from news broadcasts... Read more, watch video... Saturday February 4: Day of Mass Action to Stop a U.S. War on Iran | World
Can't Wait
 Who is the aggressor in the Middle East? Visible
street protests and other events and outreach will happen in many places. Stay
tuned for announcements, and write here to endorse the Call for Mass Action, or
get more info. You can use this page to find or organize a protest in your
area...
Read more... As'ad Abukhalil (Angry Arab): The Case Against Israel | YouTube As'ad Abukhalil on 'The Case Against Israel' at Oxford University (20 Jan 2012). The Angry Arab talks about his disbelief in the Zionist state... Watch video... A softer touch on the Nakba, by Akiva Eldar | Haaretz ...A survey by Tel Aviv University researchers in 2008 established that just under half of Israel's Jewish citizens are willing to abandon the narrative that "the Palestinians fled." The survey found that those who use the critical approach tend to view the Palestinians more positively. They also tend to be more supportive of peace agreements and vote for center-left parties. So it's no surprise that the political right wants to erase the Nakba from the collective memory... [One step forward, a
thousand to
go] Read more... Stop Britain's pro-Israel lobby | Redress Information & Analysis Stuart Littlewood calls on British readers to demand that the UK government’s proposed statutory register of lobbyists cover in-house lobbyists, such as the Conservative, Labour and Liberal Democrat Friends of Israel lobby groups which comprise Members of Parliament, and not just lobby firms... Read more... The Puzzling Matter of the Israeli Liberals, by Ramzy Baroud | Palestine
Chronicle
 Regardless of who may rule Israel, little change ever occurs in the country's foreign policy. Winning parties remain obsessed with demographics and retaining absolute military dominance. They also remain unfailingly focused on their quest to initiate racist laws against non-Jewish residents of the state, and continue to hone the art of speaking of peace, while actually maintaining a permanent state of war... Read more... The Brainwashing of the Jews, by Dr. Elias Akleh | Intifada Palestine There are increasing indications, although slim but hopeful, that more Israeli Jews are awakening to the satanic realities of the Zionist Greater Israel Project in the heart of the Arab World. The Jews in general and Israeli Jews in particular, had been subjected for thousands of years to an extremist religiously fundamentalist brainwashing sinister scheme. Its goal is to implant in the Jewish collective psyche the satanic ideology of God’s chosen people in God’s promised land, and that it is their “mitzvah”, their religious duty, to terrorize and murder ALL GOYIM, and to steal all their wealth and their land for the ultimate purpose of creating a Jewish only world with Jerusalem as the center of the world... Read more... Brown-nosing Black man | The Vineyard of the Saker ...Time has proven, beyond any doubt, that Obama was not only a 'house negro', but an abject 'Tom' who would subserviently obey any order from his Wall Street masters and happily betray the interests of the 99%, Black, White, Asian or other. Another term which comes to my mind is 'prostitute'. And the only good thing which came out of his election was the proof that a majority of White Americans would vote for a Black man if they were promised "change you can believe in". Hopefully, this has also proved to a majority of Black Americans that prostitutes come in all colors, Black included, and that race really says nothing about a person... Read more, watch videos... The Jirga Medal of Honor, by Ralph Nader ...U.S. and NATO soldiers and contractors greatly outnumber the Taliban, whose sandals and weapons are from the past century. Still, with the most sophisticated arsenals ever deployed, why are U.S. generals saying that less than 30,000 Taliban fighters, for almost a decade, have fought the U.S. led forces to a draw?.. Read more... Jan 24, 2012 The "anti-Semitism" smear campaign against CAP and Media Matters rolls on,
by Glenn Greenwald | Salon
 Josh Block Last month, my Salon
colleague Justin Elliott revealed that AIPAC’s former spokesman, Josh Block, had
been encouraging neoconservative journalists and pundits on a private email list
to attack as “anti-Semites” various Middle East commentators employed by two of
the most influential Democratic-Party-aligned organizations: the Center for
American Progress (CAP) and Media Matters (MM). Block distributed a dossier
containing posts by these CAP and MM writers about Israel and Iran that he
claimed evince anti-Semitism, and then issued these marching
orders...Read more... Thoughts on Palestinian conference, by Mazin Qumsiyeh | Popular
Resistance
...Everyone talks about creating an alternative political faction to the existing ones, dismantling the Palestinian Authority and returning to the liberation struggle, and/or changing the self-destructive direction of two-states to the winning strategy of one-state advocacy. People are finally ready for these. The question remains: who will do it?.. Read more... Lies and Truths, by Mazin Qumsiyeh | Sharing the Land of Canaan ...This year will mark 64 years since the founding of the state of Israel on the ruins of 540 Palestinian villages and towns. As 7 million of the 11 million Palestinians in the world remain refugees or displaced people denied basic human rights it is more important to debunk myths and lies. I updated this list to now include 64 lies/myths (one for each year)... Read more... America's Last Chance, by Paul Craig Roberts | Global Research America has one last chance, and it is a very slim one. Americans can elect Ron Paul President, or they can descend into tyranny. Why is Ron Paul America’s last chance? Because he is the only candidate who is not owned lock, stock, and barrel by the military-security complex, Wall Street, and the Israel Lobby... [True enough]
Read more... A Snare and a Delusion: Ron Paul's Anti-Imperialism, by Andrew Levine | Counterpunch ...Supporting Ron Paul can therefore seem as good a way as any to express contempt for Barack Obama and his liberal supporters. Since they offer up fresh grounds for contempt on an almost daily basis, the temptation is palpable to discount Paul’s antiquarian economic philosophy, his hostility towards the labor movement, and his attraction to social policies of the kind that Ebenezer Scrooge endorsed before three ghosts and the Cratchit family set him straight... [Well, maybe that's true too. But if one is actually going to
vote, I suppose a protest vote is better than none at all. As for me, it's
Alfred E. Neuman all the
way.] Read more...
America's Great Divide Between Rich and Poor | Stephen Lendman ...In the world's richest ever country, poverty is highest among industrialized nations. Homelessness and hunger levels are unprecedented. Over 20% of US families haven't enough money to buy food and need help. Over half of US children need food stamps to eat. Tens of millions have no health insurance. Those with it pay double the cost in other developed nations. Policies enacted under Obama assure tougher times ahead... [When will America's so-called
"Christians" come to understand that, yes, we are our brothers' and sisters'
keepers. And forget about the tribal Jews - they are only concerned about the
tribe, which is doing quite well, at least for the time being, thank you very much.] Read more...Gingrich's Major Backer Arch-Zionist Sheldon Adelson, by Stephen Sniegoski
| My Catbird Seat
 Sheldon Adelson, Las Vegas casino and hotel
magnate Gingrich’s faltering presidential campaign was completely
resuscitated by a 5 million donation from Las Vegas casino king and
super-Zionist Sheldon Adelson. (According to Wikipedia, Adelson is currently
the 8th wealthiest American and 16th wealthiest person in the world, with a net
worth of $23.3 billion.)..
Read more... OWS plans massive protests for Spring | PressTV US Occupy protesters are preparing for a showdown with authorities as they are set to stage nationwide rallies in front of more than 120 federal courthouses... Read transcript, watch video... Cell 36: Palestinian children locked in solitary confinement in Israel |
The Guardian
Cell 36 in Al Jalame prison, northern Israel, is one of a handful of cells where Palestinian children are locked in solitary confinement for days or even weeks. Mohammad Shabrawi from Tulkarm, in the West Bank, was arrested last January, aged 16, and Ezz ad-Deen Ali Qadi from Ramallah, who was 17 when arrested, talk about their experiences... Watch video... War Architects Have Written a New Script - This Time with Azerbaijan in the Lead Actor Role | Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs Post ...You’d think all the debunked allegations and failed attempts would give the imperial hawks a bit of a pause to come up with a better concoction. At least go away for a while and rethink their strategy; no? Obviously not. Desperation can do amazingly stupid things to greed-driven, wild-eyed and blood-thirsty bullies in pursuit of expanded turf. They just came out with a new concocted scenario and allegations. This time their lead actor happens to be Azerbaijan... Read more... The Eurasian "Triple Alliance": The Strategic Importance of Iran for Russia and China, by Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya | Global Research China, the Russian Federation, and Iran are widely considered to be allies and partners. Together the Russian Federation, the People's Republic of China, and the Islamic Republic of Iran form a strategic barrier directed against U.S. expansionism. The three countries form a "triple alliance," which constitutes the core of a Eurasian coalition directed against U.S. encroachment into Eurasia and its quest for global hegemony... Read more... Putting Israel first, by Paul Woodward | War in Context For a while now an argument has been rumbling along about the expression “Israel-firster” — a term that some people regard as bordering on anti-Semitic. Prime culprit — in the eyes of those making the charge — is M.J. Rosenberg at Media Matters. James Kirchik at The New Republic says use of the term “largely amounts to name-calling.” What he and others who find the term offensive have no intention of doing is actually addressing the question of whether any/many/most of Israel’s most outspoken defenders in the U.S. place their allegiance to Israel ahead of their loyalty to the United States. In other words, whether they do indeed put Israel first... Read more... Obama's Iran choice, by MJ Rosenberg | Al Jazeera English ..I had thought that the reason all the Republican candidates (with the exception of Ron Paul) are such noisy warmongers is because that is their natural proclivity - and because it pleases donors (such as Sheldon Adelson, Newt Gingrich's big campaign funder) who base their political choices on Binyamin Netanyahu's desires. But Times reporter Mark Landler suggests that one of the results of this year's conveniently timed Iran crisis is to present President Barack Obama with a choice of two options, either of which the GOP could successfully exploit to defeat him in the election... Read more... Hillary Mann Leverett On U.S. And Iranian Strategies In The Middle East |
The Race for Iran
 Hillary appeared on Konflikt, Swedish Radio’s in-depth foreign affairs program, to talk about her experience as an American diplomat negotiating with Iranian counterparts over Afghanistan and how that experience informs her current views about U.S. and Iranian strategies in the Middle East today. You can listen to the interview, which is in English after a very brief introduction in Swedish... Listen to podcast... 10 percent of Israeli academics labeled 'anti-Zionist' by campus watchdogs | Haaretz Survey comes up with the names of more than 1,000 Israelis, 800 of whom are academics but also including authors, journalists, public intellectuals, and past and present cabinet ministers... [They are heretics! To the stake
with
them!] Read more...How Iran Could Whip the United States and Israel Without Firing a Single Shot, by Mark R. Crovelli | Lew Rockwell ...the Iranian government can and will try to avoid a brutal and bloody war with two of the most heavily armed countries in the history of the world. Duh. They will try to avoid this outcome not because they particularly care about the wellbeing of their citizens, (of course they don’t, they’re politicians after all), but because they are acutely aware that wars with the United States eventually result in "regime change.".. Read more... The use of web-based disinformation by the 'west', by Helena Cobban | Just World News ...We liberals need to be very careful indeed that we do not have our admirable sentiments of human solidarity abused by today's architects of 'western' colonial invasion, control, and domination. The situation that Syria's people are living through today is extremely difficult. There are no easy answers. Both the regime and the opposition have demonstrated their resilience, and neither looks as though it is about to "win" the current contest any time soon... Read more... Three Reconciliations, by Zbigniew Brzezinski | The American Interest If we wish to reflect on the common challenge inherent in the ongoing transformation of global politics, we would be wise to start by recognizing what I believe to be the three fundamental facts of the present era. First, global peace is threatened not by utopian fanaticism, as was the case during the 20th century, but by the turbulent complexity inherent in the phenomenon of global political awakening. Second, comprehensive social progress is more enduringly attained by democratic participation than by authoritarian mobilization... [Sounds both
astute and reasonable, but the sticky question is - who winds up running the
show, and what are their motivations and interests? That's the fly in the
ointment of the New World
Order.] Read more... Israel's Trauma Psychology and the Attack on Gaza | Avigail Abarbanel ...Israel has been itching for a ‘good war’ for a while now. The botched attack on Lebanon in 2006 was a psychological disappointment that did not fulfil its purpose, and only led to a deepening chasm between the political and military arms in Israel. An Israeli friend told me in disgust the other day, that there is an atmosphere of ‘national orgasm’ in Israel about the prospect of attacking Iran. While people are being bombed in Gaza, all Israelis can talk about is the coming attack on Iran. But there is a link between the two... Read more... Creating American Terrorists, by Philip Giraldi | Antiwar .... To do so [to oppose a powerful interest group, the Israel Lobby]
these days is to invite a charge of terrorism support with the option of being
arrested by the Pentagon and locked up somewhere at the pleasure of the
president of the United States. How low have we sunk, Mr. Obama? You portray
yourself as a man of honor and a defender of constitutionalism, but you have
opened the gates to lawlessness and authoritarian rule. And even if you are as
benign as you depict yourself, you have provided the legal tools for those who
might follow you — the Gingriches, the Perrys, the Bachmanns, and the Santorums
— to possibly do much, much worse...
[Is it time to declare war on those who
are in the process of destroying the United States of America? Never mind that
those people are the Republican and Democratic parties, the government and the
sycophants, hypocrites, opportunists and traitors who support them. We The
People demand justice, freedom and equality, and if we have to water the tree of
liberty with our blood to reassert the primacy of these principles, then so be it.
~ Who said that? Why, it was yours truly.] Read more... Chris Hedges Sues Obama
Admin Over Indefinite Detention of U.S. Citizens Approved in NDAA | Democracy
Now on YouTube ..Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Chris Hedges has filed suit against President Obama and Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta to challenge the legality of the National Defense Authorization Act, which includes controversial provisions authorizing the military to jail anyone it considers a terrorism suspect anywhere in the world, without charge or trial. Sections of the bill are written so broadly that critics say they could encompass journalists who report on terror-related issues, such as Hedges, for supporting enemy forces... Watch video... Israeli warmongers itching to attack Gaza despite Hamas peace overtures | Redress Information & Analysis Uri Avnery argues that, in his desperation to make a mark by starting a war but unable to attack Iran for fear of the apocalyptic consequences, Israel’s new chief of staff, General Benny Gantz, is itching to attack Gaza instead, even without a pretext... Read more... Ecology and the Pathology of Capitalism, by Charles Sullivan | Information Clearing House Contrary to everything we have been taught, there is no actual United States of America. The U.S. is an occupied territory that could more accurately be described as the Corporate States of America. If the geopolitical states are united, the people are not. We are a nation divided by ideology and by social and economic class. The U.S. is not a democracy and it never was. The systems of power do not allow the voice of working people to be heard or their collective will to be acted upon... Read more... The ongoing war against truth | Redress Information & Analysis Lawrence Davidson views the battle between truth-tellers and those who would suppress the truth, as reflected in the US-inspired prosecution of Spanish judge Baltasar Garzon for allegedly “abusing judicial powers” – a charge apparently prompted by his call for Spain to bring charges against six Bush Jr administration officials for clearing the way for the use of torture during the Iraq war... Read more... The Limits of Debate on War With Iran, by John Glaser | Antiwar As prominent voices in the U.S. pontificate about a looming nuclear bomb in Iran, as fleets of U.S. navy warships demonstrate provocative militarism in the Persian Gulf, and as Israel uses its committed constituency in America to push for a preemptive military strike, war with Iran seems ever closer. But even someone as deeply concerned as I am about attacking Iran (on false pretenses no less), can recognize that there is significant aversion within official circles to doing such a thing. The problem is, these “antiwar-with-Iran” voices are still squarely in the threaten, provoke, sanction, and covertly attack Iran camp... Read more... Coming soon: MA in Shoah studies | Ynet The unique program will be launched on October 2012. It will be the first time an Israeli academic institution introduces such a program, which aims to deal with the alarming drop in the number of young students specializing in the Holocaust in Israel and that fact that senior researchers are slowly retiring... [Maybe they've finally
milked it for all it's worth. Just how many thousands of people can make a
living at guilt-tripping the rest of the
world?] Read more...Jan 23, 2012 EU diplomats propose BDS against Israeli colonialism, by Joe Catron |
Mondoweiss
 The Israeli settlement of Har Homa overlooking
Bethlehem A report sent to the European Union on Monday by its member
countries’ top diplomats in Jerusalem and Ramallah proposed state-level
boycotts, divestment, and sanctions against Israel’s illegal colonial
infrastructure in the occupied West Bank. These recommendations, unprecedented
among Western nations, herald a breakthrough for the growing Boycott,
Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS)
movement...Read more... Shit Students CAN'T Say (About Israel) | YouTube
The crazy sh*t you CAN'T say on campus about Israel because of intimidation, censorship and legal threats... Watch video... Edward Said: The Myth of the "Clash of Civilizations" | YouTube In 1993 Harvard Professor Samuel P. Huntington wrote an essay titled "The Clash of Civilizations?" and later he expanded it into a book with the same title, but without the question mark. Edward Said, late Columbia professor rips Huntington's thesis to shreds... Watch video... Waging liberation in and outside Israel's prison walls, by Ameer Makhoul | The Electronic Intifada  Liberating Palestinian political
prisoners should mean liberating them now The success of
internationalization can be gauged by the extent to which the issue or question
concerned becomes a global concern. It means creating a situation on the ground
which makes it impossible for the international system to continue shirking
responsibility, or colluding with a dominant or powerful party in usurping the
rights of a weaker victim. International mechanisms can then be brought into
play to support the restoration of the victim’s rights and enforce compliance on
the
violator...Read more... Adalah's battle will get harder, by Virginia Tilley | Unpetrified Opinion In the battle against racist Israeli laws, there is no substitute for the website of Adalah: Centre for Arab Minority Rights in Israel. So it's with huge respect and deep admiration for this extraordinary centre that I refer anyone to its work. Yet also, the following caveat: while supporting Adalah and others to fight this law is courageous, principled and necessary, we should be careful not to slip into a major error, which is to believe Israel's democracy has just gone off on some alarming side track, and can be got back on track by a little steering -- defeating this or that offensive law or practice. This error is related to a deeper one: the mistaken idea that racism in Israel is getting worse... [Virginia has never lost sight of the main point - doing harm to
others for one's own gain is never
acceptable.] Read more...Iran War: US Eyes Mideast Gendarme Role, by Dr. Ismail Salami | Intifada
Palestine
..Amidst an escalating crisis following an exchange of threats between Washington and Tehran, US Army Gen. Martin Dempsey has visited Israel to discuss what is claimed to be an effort to stop a possible Israeli attack on Iranian nuclear sites. This is at least what Western media has been reporting with the manifest purpose of depicting the US government as Mr. Nice Guy who wishes to stop an Israeli attack without having any intention of its own to participate in another military expedition in the Middle East. Is this a sudden political volte face?.. Read more... Into an Unsettled New Year, by Mya Guarnieri | IPS  ZioNazi
thugs in Hebron An elderly Palestinian woman spent last week on hunger
strike to protest violent attacks by Israeli settlers. Hana Abu Heikel went on
the hunger strike on behalf of her family after settlers burned the family car
during the previous weekend. Since Israeli settlers moved into the houses
surrounding the Abu Heikel family home in Hebron in 1984, the Abu Heikels have
seen eight cars burned. Six vehicles were also smashed by settlers...Read more... The problem with Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood is not sharia, by Sara Khorshid
| The Guardian Secularism is not my cause and sharia is not my fear but I am one of those Egyptians who are critical of the Muslim Brotherhood movement – one who made a point of not voting for the Brotherhood's Freedom and Justice party in the recent elections. My cause is Egypt, the revolution, and seeing my country become a true democracy. My fear is the prolongation of military rule, of transformation to a system that gives the military special status above civil institutions, or one that grants the army and its budget immunity against parliamentary accountability... [We sincerely wish you luck, but you've got a
hard row to hoe. The Egyptian military has all the force and resources of the USraeli Empire
behind
it.] Read more...Israel is pushing the world toward WW III | Rehmat's World Both professor Richard Falk (Princeton University) and professor Gary G. Sick (Columbia University) have blamed the Zionist regime for pushing the US and other western powers to start WW III in the Muslim world. Israel wants this new war as a ploy to divert the world’s attention from its own Zionazi policies on a daily basis. Both Falk and Sick are on the National Advisory Committee of Middle East Policy Council... Read more... The 'invented people' stand little chance, by Robert Fisk | The Independent  Thank goodness we don't have to hear Newt Gingrich for a while. His statement that the Palestinians were an "invented people" marked about the lowest point in the Republican-Christian Right-Likudist/Israel relationship. So deep has this pact now become that you can deny the existence of an entire people if you want to become US president. It's time, surely, to take a look at this extraordinary movement, to remind ourselves – since US "statesmen" cannot – just what its implications really are... [The Newt appears to be alive and well, for the time being, and the
world's greatest liars are still in
control.] Read more... Getting Rid of 'Anti-Israel' Presidents | Consortium News Some staunch supporters of Israel believe that its interests are so compelling that they trump American self-governance, with one extremist suggesting the murder of President Obama. Others, however, appear to have joined in an earlier subversion of U.S. democracy, Robert Parry reports... [As long as these genocidal
maniacs have total impunity, granted by the US, they can do and say whatever they
like.] Read more...We are all hippies now, by PF Louis | Natural News The term hippy is often used contemptuously. Some ex-hippies have a sense of failure with that counter culture movement's inability to change the world. The occupy movements taking place now are reviving memories of that 1960s anti-establishment counter culture activity. Hopefully, awareness of this counter culture's consciousness will not quickly fade... [I was one of those hippies. We gave it all we had -
humor, creativity, open curiosity and a yearning for truth. But the
counter-revolution beat us down, and people became afraid. That same fear, in
the form of excessive caution and political correctness threatens
the nascent renewal of resistance to a culture of greed and death. May they rise
above that fear and negativity and once again manifest the brilliance and
compassion that lies within us all. Let's celebrate being alive and human again! - It's about
time.] Read more...Jan 22, 2012 'So What Hope is There?': The Blockbusters, by Uri Avnery | Palestine
Chronicle
 'Go! (Arabic), Egypt is here!' Tel Aviv, August 6
...When the Jews from Muslim countries started to arrive en masse in Israel,
they were steeped in Arab culture. But here they were received by a society that
held everything Arab in total contempt. Their Arab culture was “primitive”,
while real culture was European. Furthermore, they were identified with the
murderous Muslims. So the immigrants were required to shed their own culture and
traditions, their accent, their memories, their music. In order to show how
thoroughly Israeli they had become, they also had to hate
Arabs...Read more... A setback to Zionists' regime change in Syria | Rehmat's World ...Some senior AL officials believe the organization will keep the mission in place because the time is not right for “escalation” and the international community is not yet ready for a ‘Libyan-type’ military intervention in Syria. However, the Qatari Emir, who funded West’s proxy war in Libya – has called last week for the dispatch of Arab troops to the country. His warmongering rant was slammed by two AL members, Iraq and Lebanon... Read more... Obama Pushes Hard to Protect Big Banks from Fraud Prosecutions .. But We Can Stop Him | Washington's Blog As we’ve noted for years, the entire strategy of Washington towards the economy is to cover up the fraud which caused the financial crisis … even though prosecuting fraud and re-establishing the rule of law is the only way to get out of this depression. One major front in Washington’s cover-up effort has been to settle fraud cases with the big banks for pennies on the dollar. This is a backdoor bailout for the banks, encourages them to commit more fraud, and fails to plug the basic holes in the economy which are preventing a recovery... Read more... Have Israel's "inner circles" discussed assassinating President Obama? | Redress Information & Analysis Alan Hart says that brainwashing by American Zionists, and the anti-Obama hate campaign conducted by Israel’s stooges in the Republican Party, are creating an environment where the prospect of assassinating the US president to make way for a more pro-Israel president is no longer unthinkable... [They assassinated Rabin, quite possibly Jack and Bobby Kennedy, not to mention the folks at the Twin Towers, so why not their poodle Obama?] Read more...Is This Why They Won't Prosecute? Top Justice Officials Represented Big
Banks | Washington's Blog
Obama’s Department of Justice isn’t prosecuting any big fish. Indeed, the Obama administration is prosecuting fewer financial crimes than Ronald Reagan, George W. Bush, George H.W. Bush or Bill Clinton. This is true even though the big banks – such as Bank of America, Citigroup, JP Morgan and Wells Fargo – committed some fraud, but their entire business model is fraudulent... Read more... The Global Elite Are Hiding 18 Trillion Dollars In Offshore Banks | The Economic Collapse  In recent days, the fact that Mitt Romney has millions of dollars parked down in the Cayman Islands has made headlines all over the world. But when it comes to offshore banking, what Mitt Romney is doing is small potatoes... Read more... Britain bans Press TV | PressTV ...This is the first time in British history that an international news channel has been taken off the air, raising huge questions over freedom of speech in a country which claims to adhere to liberal, democratic values. Nevertheless, PTV will continue to broadcast to British viewers via foreign satellite platforms and through the internet. The channel says that Ofcom's decision will be an ultimately futile attempt to hide the truth... Read more, watch video... Occupy Wall Street at a Crossroads, by Ismael Hossein-Zadeh | Global Research ...An obvious reason for the fading of support for Occupy demonstrations is the carefully calculated use of excessive power and presence of the police force, designed to frighten or discourage ambivalent spectators who may contemplate joining the protestors. Another equally obvious factor is the corporate media that, in collusion with politicians, tend to drive a wedge between the protestors and their potential allies among the wider working population... [As I see it the only remedy would be the
formation of a third party uniting nearly all of the opposition to the
Republicrats and their corporate/Zionist owners. I have dubbed it "the Alliance
Party." It's quite workable, but would require an agreement to disagree about
secondary issues. I would kick it off by organizing a meeting with Ron Paul,
Ralph Nader, Dennis Kucinich, Pat Buchanan, Cynthia McKinney and half a dozen
others. This is doable, but someone would have to take the first
step.] Read more... Undermining Global Democracy: Seven Truths Inconvenient to U.S. Foreign Policy, by Daniel Kovalik | Counterpunch As George Orwell so eloquently stated, “Truth is the first casualty of war.” Indeed, lying is absolutely necessary to the ability of countries such as the U.S. aiming to wage unprovoked war upon other countries – the worst form of human rights crime as recognized by the Nuremberg Tribunal which noted that it is “the supreme international crime differing only from other war crimes in that it contains within itself the accumulated evil of the whole.”... Read more... Francis Clark-Lowes' Appeal Speech to PSC, by Gilad Atzmon | deLiberation Francis Clark-Lowes, an academic, former Chair of the National PSC and former chairman of the Brighton branch for Palestinian Solidarity, appealed today to the PSC AGM against his recent expulsion from the Palestinian Solidarity Campaign... [One has to hand it to the Zionists; they appear to
have taken control of the PSC. How twisted can it get?] Read more...Obama's Secret Letter to Tehran: Is the War against Iran On Hold? by Mahdi
Darius Nazemroaya | Global Research  In the letter, the White House spelled out the position of the United States, while Iranian officials said it was a sign of things as they really are: the U.S. cannot afford to wage a war against Iran. Within the letter written by President Barak Hussein Obama was a U.S. request for the start of negotiations between Washington and Tehran to end Iranian-U.S. hostilities... Read more... The US-GCC fatal attraction, by Pepe Escobar | Asia Times Online There's no way to understand the larger-than-life United States-Iran psychodrama, the Western push for regime change in both Syria and Iran, and the trials and tribulations of the Arab Spring(s) - now mired in perpetual winter - without a close look at the fatal attraction between Washington and the Gulf Cooperation Council, the club of six wealthy Persian Gulf monarchies (Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Oman, Kuwait, Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates)... Read more... Wisse Kokht Kugl mit Khazershmaltz! by Joachim Martillo | Ethnic Ashkenazim Against Zionist Israel ...Even though Wisse's scholarship leaves much to be desired, her works do often contain useful material. She is such a classic example of ethnic Ashkenazi extremism, fanaticism, and bigotry that she almost merits a professorship at Harvard so that she can be studied and remain in the public eye as a flagrant example of the dark side of Eastern European ethnic Ashkenazi culture... Read more... Atlanta Jewish Newspaper Advocates Mossad Assassinating Obama If Iran Gets Nukes | Tikun Olam Andrew Adler, now that’s a name that should live in Jewish infamy. He’s the publisher of the Atlanta Jewish Times who actually published a column in his paper saying that one of three options Israel should consider on the day the Prime Minister hears that Iran has a nuclear weapon is for Mossad agents in the U.S. to assassinate Barack Obama... [One wonders if
Adler got prior approval from the Sanhedrin before running his piece. Well,
I guess not - see this]
Read more...Zbig: Israelis "bought influence" and outmaneuvered Obama, by Jordan Michael Smith | Salon The president "should have stuck to his guns" on Mideast peace, says Zbigniew Brzezinski, former NSC advisor... [Poodles rarely bark] Read more... The Idiot's Guide to Fighting Dictatorship in Syria While Opposing Military Intervention, by Bassam Haddad | Jadaliyya  ...Syria is being used by various powers—including the United States, Saudi Arabia, and their chorus—as an occasion to accomplish their respective or collective objectives in the region. And their aims are reactionary ones, to be sure, in terms of the interests of most people in the region as the past decades behind us attest and as current uprisings against the “fruits” of such objectives make clear, even to some skeptics. This does not mean, however, that we should withdraw our opposition and halt the struggle against dictatorship in Syria. It only serves to remind us how not to do it... Read more... Whose hands are behind those dramatic YouTube pictures? by Patrick Cockburn | The Independent ...The BBC and other television stations happily run nightly pictures of mayhem from Syria, grandly disclaiming responsibility for their authenticity. These disclaimers are intoned so often that they now have as much impact on viewers as warnings that a news report may contain flash photography. People understandably believe that if the BBC and other channels were not convinced of the truth of YouTube pictures they would not be using them as their main source of information on Syria... Read more... A musical interlude: Colli Iaith - Elin Fflur | YouTube Losing
language and losing dignity, Losing muse and losing bardism, Losing the golden crown of society And in its place a shallow debased language... [The
fruits of Capitalism/Globalism look good when you buy them, but they
are mostly rotten when you get them home.] Read lyrics, watch
video... Key Reasons against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran | Campaign Against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran The current US stand-off against Iran, like the run-up to the invasion of Iraq in 2003, was instigated by the neoconservatives of the Bush Administration based on their doctrine of “maintaining US pre-eminence, thwarting rival powers and shaping the global security system according to US interests” [1]. In the case of Saddam’s regime, its fictitious Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) and its alleged links to Al-Qaida were used in the US propaganda war to first impose UN sanctions and eventually invade Iraq for a regime change... Read more... Jan 21, 2012 The Divergent Faces of Israel, by Dr. Lawrence Davidson | Intifada
Palestine
 Last month Amira Hass, one of Israel’s best, bravest and most disliked journalists wrote a short piece in Haaretz entitled “When ‘fascist’ is not a rude word.” Here she tells us that “in fascist regimes the state is above all” and then notes that the sort of fascist style bills pouring out of Israel’s Knesset would “make Jean-Marie Le Pen and his daughter [the leaders of the far right party of France] look like amateurs.”.. Read more... The Return of the Smear Bund, by Justin Raimondo | Antiwar The tale of the DC Five – the five Beltway bloggers at two prominent Democratic Washington think tanks who have been smacked down (and one fired) for being insufficiently pro-Israel – is hardly a shock to those who know their history... [Any American who actively supports Israel is
an enemy of the US, not to mention mankind. If they work for the government,
they are traitors. It's that
simple.] Read more...Israel's humane society, by Belen Fernandez | Al Jazeera English Last week, Israel's High Court voted to uphold a law denying Israeli citizenship or residency not only to Palestinians married to Israeli Arabs, but also to spouses of similarly distasteful nationality (Lebanese, Iraqi, etc). I read the news of the court verdict on the Haaretz website, where it was offset by another breaking headline of a more compassionate nature: "Serbian vulture set free after treatment at Israeli veterinary hospital"... Read more... The Middle East Didn't Really Get Any Freer in 2011, by Max Fisher | The
Atlantic
 Anti-government protesters pray next to tanks during
Friday prayers at Tahrir Square in Cairo The societies of the Middle East
and North Africa are not much freer than they were one year ago, according to
the new annual report by Freedom House on global trends in freedom. The 2012
Freedom in the World report, out today, finds that political rights and civil
liberties in the region were pulled back almost as much as they were advanced.
It seems that, although the popular democracy movements of the Arab Spring
ejected three dictators and altered the region, perhaps forever, Middle Eastern
autocrats and monarchs are fighting back, nearly to a draw...
Read more... GOP Officially Endorses One-State Solution, by Mitchell Plitnick | LobeLog Last week in New Orleans, the Republican National Committee officially adopted a resolution supporting a one-state solution in Israel-Palestine. This news came to me via a very trusted source, but both I and my source were puzzled by the fact that we could find nothing in the media confirming this. I called the RNC, but they would neither confirm nor deny. So, I contacted Cindy Costa, the RNC’s National Committeewoman from South Carolina who was listed as the sponsor of the resolution. Here’s our e-mail exchange:.. [Dog works in mysterious
ways] Read more...The world war on democracy | John Pilger Lisette Talate died the other day. I remember a wiry, fiercely intelligent woman who masked her grief with a determination that was a presence. She was the embodiment of people's resistance to the war on democracy. I first glimpsed her in a 1950s Colonial Office film about the Chagos islanders, a tiny creole nation living midway between Africa and Asia in the Indian Ocean... Read more... Israel Plans Major Gaza War, by Stephen Lendman | Veterans Today  Israel already threatens war on Iran. It’s also involved with Washington, Turkey, Jordan, and other rogue Arab states behind Syria’s externally generated insurgency. Gaza’s also threatened... Read more... Paid to be Ignored: The CIA's Cassandras, by Gabriel Kolko | Counterpunch ...The CIA’S fundamental problem is that despite the obeisance of the American culture and the positivist tradition that exists in American life since the founding of the nation, the reality is quite different. The CIA pretends to be objective, and undoubtedly some within it are or want to be, but for a variety of reasons, strategists ignore advice they do want to hear from the CIA. The CIA analytic section is, on the whole, ineffective. There is too much information available and decision-makers use only what reinforces their preconceived conclusions and their desires, in the case of Presidents, for reelection... Read more... Blood on Whose Hands: Bradley Manning, Washington and Civilian Deaths, by Chase Madar | Counterpunch Who in their right mind wants to talk about, think about, or read a short essay about… civilian war casualties? What a bummer, this topic, especially since our Afghan, Iraq, and other ongoing wars were advertised as uplifting acts of philanthropy: wars to spread security, freedom, democracy, human rights, gender equality, the rule of law, etc... Read more... The Jewish Monopoly on Opium | Watching China  David Sassoon -
China's own original "Merchant of Death" ...how England first gained
control of Hong Kong. The truth lies buried in the family line of David Sassoon,
"The Rothschilds of The Far East," and their monopoly over the opium trade.
Britain won Hong Kong by launching the opium Wars to give the Sassoons exclusive
rights to drug an entire
nation...Read more... Israeli's demographic-cultural barriers to peace, by Uri Avnery | Redress Information & Analysis Uri Avnery considers the relationship between Israel’s demographic-cultural blocs and its domestic politics, especially attitudes towards peace and the Arabs. He argues that before peace can take root, the barriers between the blocs, especially the deeply ingrained racism of the Oriental and Russian Jews, must be broken... Read more...   Donate to One Democratic State "In separateness lies the world's great misery, in compassion lies the world's true strength." - The Buddha |
