Rebel Newsflash: The Comeback Kid (plus 18 more items) |  |
- The Comeback Kid
- Why the 9-11 Trial is Being Blocked
- Lebanon's 'hot summer'
- Chapter 5 of 200 Years Together: "After the Murder of Alexander II"
- 9/11 & Nine Years of Deception and War
- Layton Tendencies
- US cannot defeat Iran without nuclear attack
- Britain: Press TV is 'anti-Semite'
- Lebanon's female 'freedom-fighters'
- The 'New Palestine'
- Israel is a land built on myths
- Obama: 'We will leave Iraq this month'
- Lebanon, Palestine: Provoking War
- Chomsky: 'I regard myself as a supporter of Israel'
- Rabbi for 'ground zero' Cordoba House
- Special tribunal on Hariri murder cannot be trusted
- 'Secret hand' in French Sahel raid
- Iran without Ahmadinejad
- Crimean Tatars fear for future
| Posted: 09 Aug 2010 12:44 AM PDT  Fidel Castro has made a career of returning from the brink of disaster. In 1956, when his band of seasick comrades landed in Cuba, half of them were killed immediately.  |
| Why the 9-11 Trial is Being Blocked Posted: 09 Aug 2010 12:29 AM PDT
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| Posted: 08 Aug 2010 10:45 PM PDT  "So do I need to worry about this incident in the south?" My friend, Nicole Saad, asked via text message from the US a few hours after the Lebanese and Israeli armies clashed near the border between the two countries on Tuesday. The clashes left two Lebanese soldiers, one Lebanese journalist and one Israeli soldier dead. Nicole is looking forward to her decade-long overdue visit to her native country on August 6, and like many prospective visitors is now highly concerned about the security situation in Lebanon - particularly as countries like Canada, the US and the UK have issued travel warnings.  |
| Chapter 5 of 200 Years Together: "After the Murder of Alexander II" Posted: 08 Aug 2010 04:50 PM PDT  Solzhenitsyn's Chapter 5 ("After the Murder of Alexander II") recounts the important period after the assassination of Tsar Alexandar II in 1881. (See here. Donations for the translators are much needed.) The assassination inaugurated a period of anti-Jewish pogroms, restrictions on Jews, and an upsurge of Jewish involvement in revolutionary activities. Solzhenitsyn's treatment is highly reminiscent of Albert Lindemann's treatment in Esau's Tears and in his The Jew Accused in its dismissal of the apologetic accounts written by Jewish historians and in his portrayal of the very real difficulties faced by the Russian government in dealing with its Jewish population. In general, the tensions between Jews and non-Jews recounted here reflect traditional anti-Jewish themes, particularly Jewish economic domination, but there are also themes peculiar to the rise of the Jews as an educated elite that were widespread in Europe at the time. We also see here the theme of Jewish involvement in revolutionary political radicalism which culminated in the revolution of 1917.  |
| 9/11 & Nine Years of Deception and War Posted: 08 Aug 2010 04:00 PM PDT  Nine years ago this week Larry Silverstein and his partner, the former Israeli commando Frank Lowy, closed the deal on the 99-year lease of the World Trade Center. Silverstein and Lowy, devoted agents of the state of Israel and its Zionist fund-raising organizations in New York, immediately had their leased WTC property and future rental earnings insured against a terror attack exactly like that which occurred only seven weeks later. Having obtained the lease with borrowed funds, Silverstein promptly raised rents forty percent.  |
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| US cannot defeat Iran without nuclear attack Posted: 08 Aug 2010 01:03 PM PDT  "The Pentagon's planners have war-gamed an attack on Iran several times in the past 15 years, and they just can't make it come out as a US victory," says Richard Clarke, counterterrorism adviser in the White House under three administrations. Any military historian will tell you that no regular army has ever defeated an organized guerilla resistance in a conventional warfare. The "military attack on the table", rhetoric aside, the Western leaders know that their demoralized soldiers are no match when it comes to fighting the faith-inspired Muslim resistance groups. The US, Israel, Russia, India, NATO and many other imperialist powers are learning that truth currently in Afghanistan, Iraq, Palestine, Chechnya, Philippines, Kashmir and Lebanon.  |
| Britain: Press TV is 'anti-Semite' Posted: 08 Aug 2010 12:41 PM PDT  The other day I found two news items in daily Guardian showing how the 'freedom of press' works in that country. One was concerning MP George Galloway's outburst on Iranian Press TV – calling Israel's invasion of Gaza "war crimes" and Israel being an "apartheid-style occupation". The other was the Israeli butchery on Free Gaza Flotilla presented on Press TV by Tony Blair's sister-in-law Lauren Booth. Ofcom, the British broadcasting (standards) regulatory has blamed Press TV for not showing the 'expected' impartiality during its June 5th broadcast about Israeli commandos assault on board Free Gaza vessels carry humanitarian supplies and aid workers, killing nine Turks in cold blood. The regulator also objected to Lauren Booth's comment: "Israeli commandos …. committed a massacre of innocent civilians sailing aid ships to besieged Gaza Strip …. This was obviously a barbarous attack on civilians. One thing is certain: As Turkey buries its murdered citizens – the brave men and women on those ships, in one move, have shifted world opinion against Israeli apartheid."  |
| Lebanon's female 'freedom-fighters' Posted: 08 Aug 2010 12:30 PM PDT
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| Posted: 08 Aug 2010 04:00 AM PDT  "You (Jews in the Diaspora) are changing jackets – you're changing countries like jackets…. If China ever became the world's foremost super power, American Jews would migrate there to assimilate rather than in the US," A.B. Yehoushua, the ultra-Zionist Israeli author told AJC conference in 2006. Many of Zionist leaders Chaim, Ben Gurion, Eshkol, Meir, Peres, Begin, etc. grew up in Diaspora, mainly in Eastern Europe. Many Jewish writers, such as, Roger Tucker, Gilad Atzmon, Israel Shamir, Simon Jones, etc. have come to the conclusion that the only way to stop the bloodshed in the Middle East would to dismantle the Zionist entity and establish a democratic state for both the native Muslims and Christians and the foreign Jew settlers.  |
| Israel is a land built on myths Posted: 08 Aug 2010 03:00 AM PDT
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| Obama: 'We will leave Iraq this month' Posted: 08 Aug 2010 02:49 AM PDT  Ben Obama has told the disabled US veterans in Atlanta that as per his February 27, 2009 pledge, US combat forces will be leaving this month. However, Obama was smart enough not to tell the veterans that after wasting over US$800 billion of taxpayers' money and 4300 US soldier dead and another 100,000 wounded – he is still going to leave 50,000 US soldiers in Iraq to look after the interests of Israel in the Middle East. It was the pro-Israel warmongers like Dick Cheney, Richard Perle, John Bolton, Bill Kristol, Reuel Marc Gerecht, Norm Podhoretz, Daniel Pipes, etc. who fooled the American public by Israeli Hasbara (propaganda) lies to wage a war on Iraq, which had been US ally in 8-year war with the Islamic Republic. Now the same Israeli-poodles are running a vicious campaign against Islamic Republic. Richard Perle in a testimony before the US Senate on November 8, 2002, had claimed that Iraqi oil would pay for US war costs. Maybe it has – but only Perle and Benjamin Netanyahu would know!  |
| Lebanon, Palestine: Provoking War Posted: 08 Aug 2010 01:13 AM PDT  Perhaps suggesting a larger-scale planned offensive, recent violent Israeli outbreaks struck Gaza, the West Bank, and Israeli/Lebanon border, the first there since the summer 2006 war.  |
| Chomsky: 'I regard myself as a supporter of Israel' Posted: 08 Aug 2010 12:46 AM PDT  Israeli Channel 2 News TV reporter conducted an interview with Dr. Noam Chomsky in Amman (Jordan) on May 23, 2010 after he was not allowed by Israeli authorities to travel to the West Bank to deliver a scheduled lecture at Birzeit college. In the interview, while he debunked Israeli claim that Chomsky is a "Self-Hating, Israel-Threatening (S.H.I.T)" Jew and restated his true relation with the Zionist entity: "I regard myself as a supporter of Israel" (watch the video below). The reporter kept churning Hasbara lies about Dr. Chomsky, Hamas, Hizbullah and the Islamic Republic. Dr. Chomsky stated that the Israeli refusal to let him enter the West Bank was pre-planned. He defended his meeting with Hizbullah leader Sheikh Nasrallah and Hizbullah's right to carry its weapons as a deterrent. He also rejected Zionist propaganda about Iranian President Dr. Ahmadinejad being calling for the destruction of Israel. He stated that both Ahmadinejad and Hizbullah are willing to accept the solution to the Israel-Palestine conflict, acceptable to Palestinians.  |
| Rabbi for 'ground zero' Cordoba House Posted: 07 Aug 2010 11:25 PM PDT  Rabbi Arthur Washkow of the Philadelphia-based Shalom Center joined about 30 other religious leaders and Jewish activists Thursday at the location where the Cordoba Initiative hopes to build an Islamic center that will include a mosque, an atheletic center, a school and art studios. Rabbi told the people that the mosque will help people to understand Islam beyond the current Islamophobe narrative.  |
| Special tribunal on Hariri murder cannot be trusted Posted: 07 Aug 2010 10:59 PM PDT  Lebanon's former prime minister Rafik Hariri was a great politician and the force behind the rebuilding of Downtown Beirut, following 15 years of civil war.
His assassination on February 14, 2005, along with 22 others, was a terrible act that needed to be investigated.  |
| 'Secret hand' in French Sahel raid Posted: 07 Aug 2010 09:12 PM PDT  France's raid into Mali on Thursday, July 22, in an attempt to liberate a French hostage who had been seized in northern Niger in April and held hostage by al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) emir Abdelhamid abou Zaïd in the Tigharghar mountains of north-east Mali, close to the village of Tessalit and less than 200kms south of the Algeria border, was an unmitigated disaster. Not only did it fail to find Michel Germaneau, but AQIM leader, Musab Abdul Wadoud (Abdul Malek Droukdel) announced two days later that Germaneau had been executed in retaliation for the six AQIM members killed in the raid.  |
| Posted: 07 Aug 2010 02:01 PM PDT  Most world leaders are ignorant of the fact that the real power in the Islamic Republic is nation's Spiritual Leader, Ayatullah Ali Khamenei, who is the Rahbar (Supreme Guardian of the 1979 Islamic Revolution). He is the Supreme C-in-C of the Iranian Armed Forces. Under Iranian Constitution, he is not allowed to assume a political position, but also cannot be replaced through US-sponored 'Green Revolution'. The country's elected President is the second highest official State authority who is responsible for the implementation of the Constitution and, as the Chief Executive, for the exercise of the executive powers, with the exception of those matters that directly relate to the Leader.  |
| Crimean Tatars fear for future Posted: 07 Aug 2010 12:51 AM PDT  "I've already been here for 960 days, and today is the 961st," said the weather-beaten Tatar man, squinting beneath the powerful Crimean sun. Seydamet Smailov has spent almost three years living alone in a dilapidated cabin by the side of a busy road in the Ukrainian city of Simferopol because he has a vital task to accomplish: standing guard over a pile of bricks.  |
Hello—I'm Lance Boyle, and I'll be your host for "Modern Classics," a new movie feature coming soon to WTFN. We'll show you classic works of literature and film that have been adapted, sometimes very freely, to bring to life our political reality. Here's a sneak peek at a Canadian adaptation of Christopher Marlowe's 1604 masterpiece The Tragical History of Dr. Faustus. The story has been played and re-interpreted by other masters over the centuries—Mann, Goethe, Gounod—but its central theme has remained unchanged: a bored, frustrated but otherwise bright man sells his soul to gratify his ambitions. Here are a few scenes from Layton Tendencies.
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