The Coming American Revolution

Rebel Newsflash: The Coming American Revolution (plus 69 more items)

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• The Coming American Revolution
• Israel set to enforce revocation of Jerusalemites' residency rights
• FBI Indicts Ten as Alleged Russian Spies
• A Confirmation for Petraeus Is a Confirmation of the Surge Narrative
• Money 'but no future' in West Bank
• Alex Jones: The Meaning of Life
• The Chinese Aren't Coming
• Israel must admit to its mistakes
• The rise (and fall) of the Jew, as prophecied by Walt Disney
• G20 fascist police conspiracy
• Doesn't a Spy Need, Like, Secrets?
• We Can't Afford War
• Press For Truth Video Report About The G20 Summit Weekend
• Death Squad Terror in Honduras
• Riz Khan - Fighting wars by remote control
• Obama's Coffee House Loophole
• Hit by the crisis, Spain moves into recession
• When the 'Right War' Goes Wrong
• The Second Coming of Petraeus
• Inspectors Call Afghan Police Tracking System a Failure
• Unmanned Drones: Targeted Killing or Collateral Murder?
• Are the Russians Really Coming?
• BP in the Gulf – The Persian Gulf
• The Trashy Establishment
• Red Team
• Congo's New Mobutu
• Hal Lindsey and Company are Rejoicing: More Death and Destruction for Jesus: Target Iran
• Why Israeli academia will be boycotted
• Israel doesn't seem to want to really probe Gaza flotilla raid
• Obama Blocks Relief Efforts in Gulf to Allow Even Bigger Crisis
• Tuesday: 21 Iraqis Killed, 36 Wounded
• USA Going into Receivership!!
• Elena Kagan, Ethically Unfit, Unqualified to Serve!! 1/4
• Charlie Veitch Detained at Toronto International Airport
• Choosing Gordon Brown's Successor
• COIN Toss
• Our new (unprincipled) elite
• Questions for Supreme Court Nominee Kagan
• Global powers still play spy games
• The Guns of August in the Middle East?
• Why Weren't the Russian 'Spies' Charged with Espionage?
• Infowars.com Poll: BP Oil Gusher Evacuation?
• Video of Jewish Vandalism
• O'Reilly: Obama Could Face Impeachment If He Pardons Illegals
• Venezuelan Jews Build on Deir Yassin Land
• Palestinian Response to Beilin
• Diaspora Jews beware: Stay away from bigots, no matter how friendly them seem
• Congress Jumps to Israel's 'Self-Defense'
• Jerusalem Politicians Face Expulsion
• G20 Protesters Being Abducted, Bundled Into Unmarked Vans In Toronto
• Israeli foreign minister's "peace plan": stripping Palestinians of citizenship
• Activism in the Age of Tyranny and Terror — G20 Report
• New Big Screen Documentary Exposes Pat Tillman Cover-Up
• Riz Khan - Egypt's Gaza crisis
• A Special Place in Hell / Tea Party Jews: Betraying U.S. and Israel at the same time
• A New Capture of a Mossad Agent in Lebanon
• Supreme Court Gun Ruling Allows State, City to Restrict 2nd Amendment
• The Golden Rings of Betrayal
• From the USS Liberty to the Mavi Marmara
• Palestine in Pieces – Book Review
• Low-Scoring Soccer Appeals to the Masses
• McChrystal's Firing Not Worth a Footnote
• The Prisoner of General Petraeus
• The scarecrow
• Abdullah's No Reformer
• Unfinished Business
• The Geopolitics of the iPhone
• I Don't Want to Hold Your Hand
• Israel and Europe's yesterday men
• Letters from Palestine – Book Review

The Coming American Revolution Posted: 30 Jun 2010 10:44 AM PDT A revolution is brewing in the United States of America.  The public discontent surrounding the costly and disastrous wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the firing of General Stanley A. McChrystal, and the BP oil spill in the Gulf are all indications that a revolution is nearing.  There are, of course, many other grievances, such as the trillion dollar bail-out and taxes, but there is one issue that makes a revolution inevitable:  the government lies and cover-up about what really happened on 9-11.

Israel set to enforce revocation of Jerusalemites' residency rights Posted: 30 Jun 2010 05:38 AM PDT Israeli human rights groups and Mahmoud Abbas, the president of the Palestinian Authority who extended his term under controversial emergency powers, have condemned a decision by Israel to expel four Palestinian politicians from East Jerusalem by the end of this week. The Israeli government revoked their residency rights in Jerusalem a few weeks ago, after claiming they were "in breach of trust" for belonging to a "foreign parliament," a reference to the Palestinian Legislative Council.

FBI Indicts Ten as Alleged Russian Spies Posted: 30 Jun 2010 05:14 AM PDT In the wake of the Medvedev-Obama hamburger summit, most normalized US-Russian parley of its kind in history, the FBI has launched indictments of 10 alleged Russian spies, who were not government officials and who had no access to US state secrets. There is no indication so far that the accused succeeded in reporting any valuable information. The FBI's allegations concentrate rather on cat and mouse games between their agents and the defendants that could easily come out of the pages of Ian Fleming or John LeCarré. Skepticism based on this case is enhanced by the current media campaign around Sergei Tretyakov, supposedly a high-level defector from the Russian SVR foreign intelligence who claims that he was station chief in New York for five years. "The cold war never ended," is Tretyakov's main talking point.

A Confirmation for Petraeus Is a Confirmation of the Surge Narrative Posted: 30 Jun 2010 02:42 AM PDT Two nominees walk into the capital for their confirmation hearings on Tuesday morning. One is a war hero. The other, a lawyer. They meet under the great rotunda to give each other a little pep talk before what promises to be a long day. "I'm sick and tired of hearing about my lack of judicial experience," the lawyer confesses. "No, problem," says the war hero. "I have enough experience for the both of us. Take some of mine," and he sprinkles a little of his experience dust over the top of her head. "Damn it," says the lawyer, "Now I have a record."

Money 'but no future' in West Bank Posted: 30 Jun 2010 02:28 AM PDT An 'opening soon' sign hangs on top of a newly finished building in the centre of Ramallah. It belongs to an international hotel chain owned by Saudi Prince Walid bin Talal's Kingdom Holding. Cafes in Ramallah are packed with people smoking shisha and screaming at TV screens. Like millions of fans around the world they are watching the World Cup and cheering for their favourite teams.

Alex Jones: The Meaning of Life Posted: 30 Jun 2010 01:59 AM PDT Alex Jones: The Meaning of Life

The Chinese Aren't Coming Posted: 30 Jun 2010 01:50 AM PDT On Tuesday, the Cold War finally ended with a historic trade agreement between China and Taiwan that will dramatically integrate the mainland's economy with that of its claimed breakaway province. Peace has descended on the most contentious point of conflict between East and West for the past six decades—but don't expect the folks at the Pentagon or their military contractors to celebrate. The remaining raison d'être for much of their $700 billion budget has suddenly collapsed, and with it the claim on huge profits and high-flying careers.

Israel must admit to its mistakes Posted: 30 Jun 2010 01:25 AM PDT Like Abbas admitted that the second intifada was one of the worst Palestinian mistakes, Israel needs to admit to its worst mistake: the settlement enterprise. Since 2003 the sense of pointlessness has only increased, and so has the pain over the waste of human potential and human lives. Grossman's words reverberated in my soul as I witnessed Israel gradually giving up on the blockade on Gaza. Another instance of pointless, and in this case, inhuman struggle. Experts agree that, if anything, the blockade only strengthened Hamas by allowing the Islamist organization to take virtual control of all goods smuggled through the flourishing tunnel system, and thus gain a stranglehold over all of Gaza.

The rise (and fall) of the Jew, as prophecied by Walt Disney Posted: 30 Jun 2010 01:19 AM PDT Internet rumor whispers about Obama getting a "kill switch" for the Internet itself. The Florida based preacher, Chuck Baldwin, pens an article "the Internet must remain free." Where's his faith in God, I wonder? What neither Obama or Baldwin understands is that kill-switching the Internet would have cascading, uncontrollable consequences, not unlike the Deepwater Horizon Gulf of Mexico catastrophe.

G20 fascist police conspiracy Posted: 30 Jun 2010 12:59 AM PDT The G20 fascist police conspiracy is fast becoming a political issue in Canada. What made it so obvious was the police backing off from even attempting to stop the violent protesters, only to pick up their energy in time to arrest a huge number of non-violent protesters, none of whom was doing anything even remotely illegal. Perhaps we can take some comfort in the fact that the police are completely incompetent at carrying out a fascist conspiracy. At the very least, the police chief in Toronto should be fired for cause.

Doesn't a Spy Need, Like, Secrets? Posted: 30 Jun 2010 12:58 AM PDT "The only things missing in more than a decade of operation were actual secrets to send home to Moscow," reports the New York Times about the accused spies for Russia. Which then beggars the question of whether they're actually spies. In fact, "none of the 11 people accused in the case face charges of espionage, because in all those years they were never caught sending classified information back to Moscow, American officials said." More . . . The assignments, described in secret instructions intercepted by the F.B.I., were to collect routine political gossip and policy talk that might have been more efficiently gathered by surfing the Web.

We Can't Afford War Posted: 29 Jun 2010 11:58 PM PDT "General Petraeus is a military man constantly at war with the facts," began the MoveOn.org attack ad against Gen. David Petraeus back in 2007, after he had delivered a report to Congress on the status of the war in Iraq. George W. Bush was president, and MoveOn was accusing Petraeus of "cooking the books for the White House." The campaign asked "General Petraeus or General Betray Us?" on a full-page ad in The Washington Post. MoveOn took tremendous heat for the campaign, but stood its ground. Three years later, Barack Obama is president, Petraeus has become his man in Afghanistan, and MoveOn pulls the critical Web content. Why? Because Bush's first war, Afghanistan, has become Obama's war, a quagmire. The U.S. will eventually negotiate its withdrawal from Afghanistan. The only difference between now and then will be the number of dead, on all sides, and the amount of (borrowed) money that will be spent.

Press For Truth Video Report About The G20 Summit Weekend Posted: 29 Jun 2010 11:42 PM PDT A Press For Truth video report about what took place on the weekend of the G20 summit in downtown Toronto.

Death Squad Terror in Honduras Posted: 29 Jun 2010 10:03 PM PDT On June 28, 2009, while he slept, dozens of Honduran soldiers stormed President Manuel Zelaya's residence, arrested him at gunpoint, and exiled him to Costa Rica, in violation of the 1982 Constitution, stating: "No Honduran may be expatriated nor delivered by the authorities to a foreign state," nor may a democratically elected leader be deposed, evidence showing Washington's involvement and support, coordination handled by US Ambassador Hugo Llorens and Thomas Shannon, Jr., current US Ambassador to Brazil, then Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs.

Riz Khan - Fighting wars by remote control Posted: 29 Jun 2010 08:39 PM PDT On Tuesday's Riz Khan we look at the de-humanisation of war as robot combat gathers momentum, and we explore the legal implications of the latest advances in military technology.

Obama's Coffee House Loophole Posted: 29 Jun 2010 07:00 PM PDT President Obama is finally uniting the left and the right — in joint opposition to his administration's chronic sabotage of transparency and public disclosure rules. It won't be long before liberals disillusioned by Dear Leader's reveal-as-we-say-not-as-we-conceal policies link arms with me and join in on my 2-year-old chant: Obama lied, transparency died. Watchdog groups and Republicans on Capitol Hill want an investigation into hundreds of White House meetings with corporate lobbyists at D.C. coffee houses. K Street influence peddlers told The New York Times last week that they've met routinely with Team Obama officials over the past 18 months to discuss policy matters — at Starbucks, Caribou Coffee, even on a side lawn — with the express purpose of circumventing the public's right to know.

Hit by the crisis, Spain moves into recession Posted: 29 Jun 2010 06:45 PM PDT Lashed by the bursting of the housing bubble, Spain slipped into recession at the end of 2008. In the first quarter of 2010, the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) has increased painfully at 0.1% and this is the first rise in this indicator (itself contested for good reasons [1 ]), after seven consecutive quarters of contraction or stagnation. Since the onset of the economic crisis, Spain, fourth largest economy of the euro zone, has seen its official unemployment rate double to almost 20% of the workforce, going from 1.76 million unemployed in the second quarter 2007 to 4.6 million in the first quarter of 2010.

When the 'Right War' Goes Wrong Posted: 29 Jun 2010 06:00 PM PDT The increasingly dangerous Afghanistan situation is worth analysis at two levels, that of the war itself, the ultimately doomed attempt by the United States to conquer the Taliban insurrection and impose a pro-American government, and the domestic political effect of Barack Obama's misguided decision to replace "Bush's war" in Iraq with "Obama's war" in Afghanistan. The former rested on the fiction that Saddam Hussein threatened the United States and Israel with weapons of mass destruction. The Afghan intervention is being promoted by the yet more extravagant fantasy that America and the world are potentially threatened by Taliban-controlled Pakistani nuclear weapons.

The Second Coming of Petraeus Posted: 29 Jun 2010 06:00 PM PDT With the justified firing of Gen. Stanley McChrystal and his replacement with Iraq water-walker David Petraeus, it's as if people are hoping for a second coming of Jesus in Afghanistan. Unfortunately, the replacement may be similar to the second coming of the water-walking Joe Gibbs as coach of the Washington Redskins. Although McChrystal's derisive comments about high-level Obama administration officials weren't as bad as Gen. Douglas MacArthur's attempts to undermine President Harry Truman's effort to keep the Korean War from turning into a nuclear war against China, such insubordination by a military officer toward the civilian command structure cannot be tolerated in a republic. If it is, the country may not be a republic for long. Thus, even many Republicans didn't squawk about McChrystal's sacking.

Inspectors Call Afghan Police Tracking System a Failure Posted: 29 Jun 2010 06:00 PM PDT A system designed to track the success of Afghan police training is deeply flawed, says a report from the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan (SIGAR). Some 67 out of 101 Afghan National Police (ANP) units rated capable of working independently had regressed within a year, says the report that was published Tuesday.

Unmanned Drones: Targeted Killing or Collateral Murder? Posted: 29 Jun 2010 06:00 PM PDT When a Pakistani-U.S. national pleaded guilty last week to a failed attempt to detonate explosives packed in a vehicle in the heart of New York City, he admitted that one of the reasons he targeted the busy Times Square neighborhood was to "injure and kill" as many people as possible. The presiding judge, Miriam Goldman Cedarbaum, asked the suspect, Faisal Shahzad, 30, whether he was conscious of the fact he would have killed dozens of civilians, including women and children.

Are the Russians Really Coming? Posted: 29 Jun 2010 06:00 PM PDT It's like taking a trip in a time machine, going all the way back to the darkest days of the cold war era, as headlines scream: Russian spy cabal arrested! Glamorous Russian Mata Hari – "worthy of a 007 movie" – was sending secret messages! Eleven seemingly ordinary – incredibly ordinary – people have been arrested so far, in a case that seems as bizarre as it is unbelievable. A message supposedly decrypted and sent to the cabal read as follows: "You were sent to USA for long-term service trip. Your education, bank accounts, car, house etc. – all these serve one goal: fulfill your main mission, i.e. to search and develop ties in policymaking circles in US and send intels (intelligence reports) to C[enter]."

BP in the Gulf – The Persian Gulf Posted: 29 Jun 2010 06:00 PM PDT To frustrated Americans who have begun boycotting BP: Welcome to the club. It's great not to be the only member any more! Does boycotting BP really make sense? Perhaps not. After all, many BP filling stations are actually owned by local people, not the corporation itself. Besides, when you're filling up at a Shell or ExxonMobil station, it's hard to feel much sense of moral triumph. Nonetheless, I reserve my right to drive by BP stations. I started doing it long before this year's oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

The Trashy Establishment Posted: 29 Jun 2010 12:22 PM PDT I've read the transcript of the sexual assault complaint against Al Gore. He basically comes across as you'd expect-like a glutinous pig-but there's one part I found particularly disturbing.  It's at a point where the masseuse is still in the hotel room and Gore is trying to get her to sleep with him. This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now

Red Team Posted: 29 Jun 2010 12:03 PM PDT While it is anathema to broach the subject of engaging militant groups like Hizballah* and Hamas in official Washington circles (to say nothing of Israel), that is exactly what a team of senior intelligence officers at U.S. Central Command -- CENTCOM -- has been doing. In a "Red Team" report issued on May 7 and entitled "Managing Hizballah and Hamas," senior CENTCOM intelligence officers question the current U.S. policy of isolating and marginalizing the two movements. Instead, the Red Team recommends a mix of strategies that would integrate the two organizations into their respective political mainstreams. While a Red Team exercise is deliberately designed to provide senior commanders with briefings and assumptions that challenge accepted strategies, the report is at once provocative, controversial -- and at odds with current U.S. policy.

Congo's New Mobutu Posted: 29 Jun 2010 11:43 AM PDT You might expect that the Democratic Republic of the Congo -- which suffered under what was arguably the most brutal colonial administration in sub-Saharan Africa, a dismal three decades of repression under strongman Mobutu Sese Seko, and a regional war that resulted in the deaths of some 5.4 million and counting -- would want to move on from its past. But the country's 50-year independence celebration on June 30 will do exactly the opposite: In an attempt to recreate that historic day in 1960 when Congo's first prime minister, Patrice Lumumba, took over the reins of leadership from Belgium's King Baudouin, President Joseph Kabila has invited the former colonial power's current sovereign, Albert II, to be the guest of honor. Yet try as Kabila might, casting himself in the same light as Congo's iconic independence leader is proving a difficult sell these days. It's much more accurate to say that he is the new Mobutu.

Hal Lindsey and Company are Rejoicing: More Death and Destruction for Jesus: Target Iran Posted: 29 Jun 2010 11:34 AM PDT Octogenarian Christian Zionist Hal Lindsey and Company are rejoicing.  Lindsey's web page today is more than happy to link its main story to the Israeli intelligence-connected web page, DEBKA, which tells us that the United States naval buildup inspired by Israel and aimed at Iran, is proceeding apace. DEBKA's story is entitled, "3rd Carrier, 4000 Marines Join U. S. Armada Opposite Iranian Shore."

Why Israeli academia will be boycotted Posted: 29 Jun 2010 11:29 AM PDT I tried to place this awful conflict in the context of two truths, with two claims that contradict each other in terms of historical facts and painful memories, between two national movements that have lost all sense of proportion while striving for a settlement that does not provide either side with complete justice.

Israel doesn't seem to want to really probe Gaza flotilla raid Posted: 29 Jun 2010 11:29 AM PDT Turkel quickly discovered that a panel with a limited mandate and no authority to subpoena witnesses, which is at the mercy of officials' willingness to appear before it, cannot do its job properly. In his rulings, Turkel repeatedly stressed the need for "our camp to be pure." But the restrictions the government imposed on his panel does not attest to a genuine desire to get to the bottom of what happened.

Obama Blocks Relief Efforts in Gulf to Allow Even Bigger Crisis Posted: 29 Jun 2010 11:21 AM PDT Alex covers some news at the top of this segment, but then dives into the cold hard facts that our president is not just helping this situation in the gulf of mexico, but "deliberately" allowing the crisis to become even worse by holding back clean up efforts

Tuesday: 21 Iraqis Killed, 36 Wounded Posted: 29 Jun 2010 10:43 AM PDT At least 21 Iraqis were killed and 36 more were wounded in a string of attacks that targeted police and other officials. Meanwhile, Prime Minister Maliki met with his rival in talks that could break the political impasse that is fueling some of the violence. The two leading contenders for prime minister, Nouri al-Maliki and Ayad Allawi, today met to work through a bitter rivalry that has grown more intense since March elections. Allawi's Iraqiya part won more seats that Maliki's State of Law, but neither party won the majority required to lead the new government. Today's meeting lasted an hour and was seen as a major step towards reconciliation, but the two men avoided discussing who will serve as the next prime minister. A Maliki associate also said that the meeting should not be viewed as an attempt to sideline the Kurds or the Iraqi National Alliance.

USA Going into Receivership!! Posted: 29 Jun 2010 10:20 AM PDT Alex covers the latest financial news and discusses how america is headed for receivership like Greee!

Elena Kagan, Ethically Unfit, Unqualified to Serve!! 1/4 Posted: 29 Jun 2010 10:06 AM PDT Alex goes bonkers over trying to deal with the real possibility of Kagan becoming a high court judge.

Charlie Veitch Detained at Toronto International Airport Posted: 29 Jun 2010 10:02 AM PDT Dan Dicks of Press for Truth in Canada told Infowars.com this afternoon that Charlie Veitch was detained at Toronto International Airport. Veitch was scheduled to return to England after attending demonstrations against the G20 globalist confab held over the weekend. Veitch sent an urgent text message to Dicks indicating he was detained. "They've got me," Charlie said. "Get help!"

Choosing Gordon Brown's Successor Posted: 29 Jun 2010 09:07 AM PDT An anxious nation awaits. Yes, it's Labour leadership contest time—in which all the thoroughly untarnished candidates from this highly responsible party vie to inherit the glorious mantle let fall by that great statesman and patriot, "Cincinnatus" Gordon Brown. There are four ex-ministers in the lists. Of these valued veterans, former Foreign Secretary David Miliband is favorite amongst the turf accountant fraternity. Like us all, the bookies clearly cannot wait to see him become "a great unifying force on all shades of centre left opinion in this country"—so obviously what the country needs after 13 years of centre left government.

COIN Toss Posted: 29 Jun 2010 09:04 AM PDT It's a bad moment for counterinsurgency strategy and its adherents. The surge that U.S. President Barack Obama ordered in Afghanistan appears to have sunk into a quagmire, one that critics of the policy foresaw at the time. Indeed, the polemic underneath Rolling Stone's profile of Gen. Stanley McChrystal was that the "runaway general" had hornswoggled a gullible president into signing off on a hopeless mission. The author, freelance journalist Michael Hastings, described the adversary as "Afghan kids who pose no threat to the U.S. homeland" and compared the nation-building effort there to "trying to stop the drug war in Mexico by occupying Arkansas and building Baptist churches in Little Rock." Of course, if that's so, then McChrystal probably should have been court-martialed rather than forcibly retired.

Our new (unprincipled) elite Posted: 29 Jun 2010 08:14 AM PDT Harvard Law professor Noah Feldman had a bit of Jewish triumphalism published recently in the NY Times ("The Triumphant Decline of the WASP ").  Now that the WASPs have gone down to zero seats on the Supreme Court and there's a Black president, it's time to congratulate the WASPs for holding onto their principles even though their principles caused their demise: WASPs as the first and only proposition ethnic group.

Questions for Supreme Court Nominee Kagan Posted: 29 Jun 2010 08:07 AM PDT Supreme Court nominations are a rare opportunity for millions of Americans to watch, learn and converse about what the Court, the Constitution and the Justices mean for their way of life, their freedoms and their livelihoods. Members of the Senate Judiciary Committee should consider asking Solicitor General Elena Kagan, who has been nominated to be an Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, some or all of the following questions.

Global powers still play spy games Posted: 29 Jun 2010 08:05 AM PDT The claims by US authorities that they have broken up a Russian spy ring that has been operating inside the country for the last decade seem like a flashback to the Cold War. But although many people had assumed that intense rivalry between intelligence agencies, such as the CIA and KGB, were a thing of the past, the fact is that nations still want to know what their enemies, and even their friends, are thinking.

The Guns of August in the Middle East? Posted: 29 Jun 2010 07:27 AM PDT Crazy talk about the Middle East seems to be escalating, backed up by some pretty ominous military deployments. We'll start with the department of scary statements: First up, Shabtai Shavit, former chief of the Israeli spy agency Mossad, speaking June 21 at Bar Ilan University, Tel Aviv on why Israel should launch a pre-emptive strike at Iran: "I am of the opinion that, since there is an ongoing war, since the threat is permanent, since the intention of the enemy in this case is to annihilate you, the right doctrine is one of presumption and not retaliation."

Why Weren't the Russian 'Spies' Charged with Espionage? Posted: 29 Jun 2010 06:33 AM PDT Yesterday, federal prosecutors unsealed criminal complaints against 11 people who were allegedly part of a Russian spy ring. According to the prosecution, the suspects lived in the United States under false names while trying to penetrate "policy-making circles" on behalf of Russia's SVR, the successor to the KGB specializing in foreign intelligence. The defendants were charged with "conspiracy to act as an agent of a foreign government without notifying the U.S. attorney general," an offense that carries a maximum sentence of five years in prison. Why weren't they charged with espionage, which can often bring a life sentence or even the death penalty?

Infowars.com Poll: BP Oil Gusher Evacuation? Posted: 29 Jun 2010 05:15 AM PDT An Infowars.com poll on a rumored Gulf Coast evacuation in response to environmental and health dangers posed by the BP oil gusher was close to evenly divided. 27% of respondents said there will be a massive and widespread evacuation while 30% indicated they believe only certain towns and cities will experience evacuation. 28% said rumors of a widespread or limited evacuation is merely propaganda designed to scare people. "We're going to have to evacuate the gulf states," Matt Simmons , founder of Simmons and Co., an oil investment firm and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations told the Washington Post on June 23. "Can you imagine evacuating 20 million people?… This story is 80 times worse than I thought."

Video of Jewish Vandalism Posted: 29 Jun 2010 04:53 AM PDT On 16 June 2010, a Palestinian farmer witnessed two settlers, believed to reside in the settlement of Kiryat Arba, walking through his garden.  Upon inspection, the farmer realized that his crops, planted with the assistance of USAID, had been destroyed and water pipes slashed. According to the farmer, the damage to the crops totaled an estimated 10,000 NIS (about 2600 USD) The damaged crops are the primary food and economic resource for the extended family of thirty adults and thirty children. The Israeli Army and Israeli Police arrived a half-hour after the farmer call them to take statements. The family filed an official complaint, but remain skeptical because they have filed complaints in the past and have never received justice.

O'Reilly: Obama Could Face Impeachment If He Pardons Illegals Posted: 29 Jun 2010 03:36 AM PDT Fox News' Bill O'Reilly is warning that if President Barack Obama ever bypasses Congress and uses his pardon power to make millions of illegal aliens citizens, he could face serious calls for his impeachment. "If President Obama were to sign an executive order giving illegal aliens amnesty, his career would be over and an impeachment movement would explode," O'Reilly said Friday night on his "Talking Points" segment during his top-rated Fox show.

Venezuelan Jews Build on Deir Yassin Land Posted: 29 Jun 2010 02:36 AM PDT The Venezuelan Jewish community is building a luxury apartment complex on the site of the destroyed Palestinian village Deir Yassin. The Palestinian village of Deir Yassin was one of five Palestinian villages to the west of Jerusalem that were completely cleansed and destroyed during the ethnic cleansing of 1948 (the other four are Qalunia, Sarris, Beit Surek and Biddou). The village is known for the massacre that was committed by the Zionist underground paramilitary groups Irgun and Lehi on April 9, 1948, during which 93 to 170 Palestinians were assassinated in cold blood by shooting or hand grenades thrown at their homes.

Palestinian Response to Beilin Posted: 29 Jun 2010 01:54 AM PDT On June 24, B'nai B'rith International circulated a letter written by Mr.Yossi Beilin, Israel's Former Deputy Foreign Minister, and issued to delegates of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (USA). According to B'nai B'rith, Beilin's letter sought to urge them against "unbalanced or counter-productive steps" on the Middle East.

Diaspora Jews beware: Stay away from bigots, no matter how friendly them seem Posted: 29 Jun 2010 01:38 AM PDT In June, the English Defence League - a thuggish anti-Muslim group known for its raucous (and sometimes violent) street protests - launched a Jewish division, attracting at least a handful of Jews among the 500 fans on its 'Jewish Division'" Facebook page. The EDL had previously brandished Israeli flags at demonstrations to taunt its Muslim opponents, and even announced its intent to join a pro-Israel rally organized by Britain's Zionist Federation following the recent Gaza flotilla crisis. (The rally's organizers distanced themselves from the EDL, which has been condemned by mainstream Jewish communal groups; ultimately, EDL members weren't much in evidence at the rally.)

Congress Jumps to Israel's 'Self-Defense' Posted: 29 Jun 2010 12:51 AM PDT In a letter to President Barack Obama date June 17, 329 out of 435 members of the U.S. House of Representatives referred to Israel's May 31 attack on a humanitarian aid flotilla in international waters, which resulted in the deaths of nine passengers and crew and injuries to scores of others, as an act of "self-defense" which they "strongly support." Similarly, a June 21 Senate letter -- signed by 87 out of 100 senators -- went on record "fully" supporting what it called "Israel's right to self-defense," claiming that the widely supported effort to relieve critical shortages of food and medicine in the besieged Gaza Strip was simply part of a "clever tactical and diplomatic ploy" by "Israel's opponents" to "challenge its international standing." This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now

Jerusalem Politicians Face Expulsion Posted: 29 Jun 2010 12:10 AM PDT Israeli human-rights groups and Mahmoud Abbas, the president of the Palestinian Authority, have condemned a decision by Israel to expel four Palestinian politicians from East Jerusalem by the end of this week. The Israeli government revoked their residency rights in Jerusalem a few weeks ago, after claiming they were "in breach of trust" for belonging to a "foreign parliament", a reference to the Palestinian Legislative Council.

G20 Protesters Being Abducted, Bundled Into Unmarked Vans In Toronto Posted: 29 Jun 2010 12:09 AM PDT In a repeat of scenes witnessed at last year's G20 meeting in Pittsburgh, protesters in Toronto are being abducted off the streets and bundled into unmarked vehicles which are driven away at high speeds. Several videos show police tackling protesters to the ground, cuffing them and then handing them over to unidentified casually dressed individuals who shove the demonstrators into unmarked black vans.

Israeli foreign minister's "peace plan": stripping Palestinians of citizenship Posted: 29 Jun 2010 12:08 AM PDT Avigdor Lieberman, Israel's far-right foreign minister, set out last week what he called a "blueprint for a resolution to the conflict" with the Palestinians that demands most of the country's large Palestinian minority be stripped of citizenship and relocated outside Israel's future borders. Warning Israel faced growing diplomatic pressure for a full withdrawal to the Green Line, the pre-1967 border, Lieberman said that, if such a partition were implemented, "the conflict will inevitably pass beyond those borders and into Israel."

Activism in the Age of Tyranny and Terror — G20 Report Posted: 28 Jun 2010 11:44 PM PDT World tyranny is accelerating at a pace not seen since Stalin, Hitler, Mao, and Mussolini converged on the world stage.  Their regimes were history's prime examples, but there have been countless other dictators who have flourished, leading to the unfortunate conclusion that dictatorships are the rule, not the exception.  Central to these power structures has been secrecy, intimidation, and the outlawing of basic human rights such as free speech, the right to peaceably assemble, the eradication of individuality in deference to the State, and extrajudicial arrests of their own citizens.  The G8 and G20 Summits now represent a traveling tyranny that is emulating history's most infamous.  Activists would then be wise to consult history when developing an effective strategy to combat the increasing dehumanization.

New Big Screen Documentary Exposes Pat Tillman Cover-Up Posted: 28 Jun 2010 11:13 PM PDT A new documentary set to hit the big screen this summer lifts the lid on the cover-up behind the death of Pat Tillman, the pro-football star who gave up a lucrative career to fight in Afghanistan and Iraq before preparing to return to the U.S. as an anti-war icon, at which point he was killed in a so-called friendly fire incident that more closely resembled a deliberate assassination. Whether or not the documentary delves into the question of whether Tillman's death was a targeted act of murder remains to be seen, but the evidence strongly indicates that Tillman was deliberately assassinated in order to prevent him from becoming an anti-war icon and derailing public support in the United States for the ongoing occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan.

Riz Khan - Egypt's Gaza crisis Posted: 28 Jun 2010 10:51 PM PDT Has Gaza's humanitarian disaster become a political crisis for Egypt? On Monday's Riz Khan we will look at Egypt's policies towards Gaza and whether or not its traditional leadership role is being eclipsed as a result.

A Special Place in Hell / Tea Party Jews: Betraying U.S. and Israel at the same time Posted: 28 Jun 2010 10:21 PM PDT Every wonder what a future America might look like if the Tea Party took over? Try today's Israel. In fact, for a far-right segment of U.S. Jewry which, since the rise of Barack Obama, has mushroomed in volume and impact if not in numbers, anti-government animus has taken what may have been an inevitable next step: finding ways to betray in one stroke the policies and, in fact, the national interests of both the United States and Israel.

A New Capture of a Mossad Agent in Lebanon Posted: 28 Jun 2010 10:06 PM PDT Lebanese security arrested a newly uncovered Mossad agent (Charbel Q.) who had a sensitive post at "Alpha", the Lebanese telecommunications sector company. The Lebanese authorities described the capture of the new Mossad agent as a big catch saying that we are in the vanguard of uncovering a very precious treasure in terms of the services and information which was provided during the past 14 years to the Israelis and the Mossad, including information that helped the Israeli army to identify their targets during the criminal war of 2006.

Supreme Court Gun Ruling Allows State, City to Restrict 2nd Amendment Posted: 28 Jun 2010 09:19 PM PDT Alex breaks down what was really in the latest Supreme Court Gun Ruling and how the Mainsteam Media will Spin this into making you think you've gotten a victory.

The Golden Rings of Betrayal Posted: 28 Jun 2010 07:58 PM PDT Not five days ago I sat entranced as the LA Opera transformed the Chandler Center into a rapturous world of metaphor with its rendering of Wagner's Das Rheingold, the first of the four operas of the Ring Cycle. On Sunday the 20th my wife and I fell further under the bewitching wonder of the metaphors that give substance to this world of unreality that probes the reality of ours. Today, the 22nd, I fled the imaginative brilliance of Wagner's genius to immerse myself in the unimaginative brutality of this barbaric 21st century as the artist's themes find fulfillment in this most advanced civilized world where our western world began, the geographic womb of Abraham's unmerciful and malicious g-d who sought the destruction of his own creatures at the hands of His chosen few.

From the USS Liberty to the Mavi Marmara Posted: 28 Jun 2010 06:15 PM PDT In an outstanding article entitled 'How Israeli propaganda shaped U.S. media coverage of the flotilla attack', Glenn Greenwald makes the argument that is self-evident in the title. As someone who was on the Mavi Marmara ship and interviewed frequently after the Israeli crime, I can attest to the accuracy of his findings, which are also applicable to the Canadian media and other global media outlets as well, albeit to a lesser extent.

Palestine in Pieces – Book Review Posted: 28 Jun 2010 05:55 PM PDT Kathleen and Bill Christison's Palestine in Pieces: Graphic Perspectives on the Israeli Occupation is a labor of love. Compellingly written and meticulously structured, this book combines historical fact with narrative accounts and photographic images of everyday realities faced by Palestinians in the West Bank, Gaza and East Jerusalem, thereby providing the reader with an experience-near understanding of what it means to live in a state of dispossession.

Low-Scoring Soccer Appeals to the Masses Posted: 28 Jun 2010 04:02 PM PDT Is the grindingly low scoring in the World Cup soccer tournament a bug or—as I'm finally starting to suspect—a feature? Could it be that the World Cup's global popularity is not so much despite all the nil-nil draws as because of the grimness of the scores? The three-match mini-season that opened the 2010 World Cup set a new record for futility with the 32 teams scoring only 101 goals in 96 tries, or just 1.05 per team per game.

McChrystal's Firing Not Worth a Footnote Posted: 28 Jun 2010 04:01 PM PDT Patrick Buchanan commented on Friday about the cashiering of General Stanley McChrystal. Buchanan focused upon the dissimilarities between Obama's firing of McChrystal and President Harry Truman's firing of General Douglas MacArthur in 1951. McChrystal is a special forces General, a technician dispatched to Kabul to implement a counter-insurgency strategy which Obama himself had ordered. They were on the same page. MacArthur and Truman were not. McChrystal has been sacked in retaliation for a few off-the-cuff remarks in an overly long magazine article. McChrystal and his gung-ho staff disparaged certain members of Team Obama, including Obama himself. This indiscretion could have easily been overlooked in the interests of the presumed greater good of winning the Afghan war. Every top official in NATO and President Karzai advised against booting McChrystal. But evidently Obama was afraid of looking like a weeny if he only took Stan to the woodshed, and then sent him back on the field.

The Prisoner of General Petraeus Posted: 28 Jun 2010 04:00 PM PDT President Obama is being hailed for toughness in his firing of Gen. McChrystal and brilliance in his replacing him as Afghan field commander with Gen. David Petraeus, who managed the George W. Bush "surge" in Iraq that saved this nation from an ignominious defeat. Herewith, a dissent.

The scarecrow Posted: 28 Jun 2010 10:41 AM PDT There is a long tradition of frightening people over the release of terrorists. The suggestion of talking to the Palestine Liberation Organization was once an especially frightening scarecrow, as was the establishment of a Palestinian state. Abie Nathan went to jail for months because of his contacts with the PLO, yet later on five prime ministers spoke to the organization's leaders and the PLO became Israel's pet partner. Those who supported a Palestinian state were once considered traitors, until all of Israel, from Bibi to Tibi, began advocating this solution. The latest scarecrow is talks with Hamas, which quite closely resembles its predecessor.

Abdullah's No Reformer Posted: 28 Jun 2010 10:13 AM PDT Those who predicted the Saudi monarch would bring real change to the kingdom had it wrong. His real goal has been to tighten his family's grip on power. Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah, the energetic octogenarian who is in his fifth year as head of the oil-rich kingdom, will visit Washington on June 29. Abdullah has overcome divisions within the royal family and proceeded to restore stability to the kingdom, which just a few years ago was under siege by local radicals and wracked with fears about the possible regionalization of the Iraq war. For all his considerable political acumen, however, Abdullah has turned to an old playbook to consolidate the House of Saud's authority -- leaving important questions about what comes next for the kingdom unanswered.

Unfinished Business Posted: 28 Jun 2010 09:11 AM PDT For 65 years, Japanese corporations have escaped responsibility for abusing American POWs during World War II. Lester Tenney entered World War II as a strapping 21-year-old, weight 180 pounds. By the time he emerged from Japanese captivity in 1945, he was a shattered, emaciated cripple. His left arm and shoulder were partly paralyzed due to an accident in a coal mine where he'd been sent as a slave laborer. His overseers there -- civilian employees of the Mitsui Corp., not members of the Imperial Army -- had knocked out his teeth in repeated beatings with hammers and pickaxes. At war's end, he weighed in at 98 pounds. It took him a year in U.S. Army hospitals to regain something like a semblance of his old well-being.

The Geopolitics of the iPhone Posted: 28 Jun 2010 09:11 AM PDT Coltan -- short for columbite-tantalite -- is an ore that takes on heat-resistant properties when it gets refined. It's also capable of holding a high electrical charge for a long time. Both characteristics make coltan an ideal component in circuitry design, and it's these that make the mineral so valuable. In the iPhone and other electronic devices, coltan is used in the production of tantalum capacitors, which store charge better than normal capacitors, improving battery life.

I Don't Want to Hold Your Hand Posted: 28 Jun 2010 08:40 AM PDT What will be the image that frames the news reporting of June 29's White House meeting between U.S. President Barack Obama and King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia? Surely not another bow toward the desert monarch, as caught on video at the London G-20 meeting in April 2009. Or what hypercritics saw as a further deferential bob in Riyadh last June, when the president leaned forward so the shorter king could confer on him the King Abdul Aziz Order of Merit, a chunky necklace that Obama took off within seconds.

Israel and Europe's yesterday men Posted: 28 Jun 2010 02:00 AM PDT Like a drowning man, Israel is grasping for a helpline. Condemned by the UN and Amnesty International for war crimes in Gaza, time has finally caught up with Israel's elusive generals and political elite. Across Europe international lawyers are poring over evidence to prosecute several senior officials in national courts utilizing the principle of universal jurisdiction. Against this background, a media and public relations blitz on Israel's behalf has been launched by the Dutch right-wing politician Geert Wilders, Spain's ex-Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar and Northern Ireland's Lord David Trimble; despite varied political backgrounds, all are singing from the same song sheet: Israel, they claim, is fighting for its survival.

Letters from Palestine – Book Review Posted: 27 Jun 2010 07:33 PM PDT I seldom read books from cover to cover. But when Kenneth Ring sent me his Letters from Palestine with a note saying "Here's my baby," I couldn't put it down. Ken presents a collection of personal stories from Palestinians, inside and outside the occupied territories, that provide penetrating insights - sometimes harrowing, sometimes funny, always fascinating - into their daily lives and thoughts. It would not surprise me if, in time, these accounts became inscribed in Palestinian folklore.

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