Rebel Newsflash: Fundamentalism into the mainstream (plus 99 more items)

Posted: 21 Aug 2010 10:28 AM PDT

First, the daily lesson: "A soldier who takes part in the war against us, but does so only because he is forced to by threats, is an absolute villain .... We are referring to any sort of participation in the war: a combat soldier, a support soldier, civilian assistance or any form of encouragement and support." And: "Even if civilians are tied up or imprisoned and have no choice but to stay and serve as hostages, it is possible to kill them."

Wake up!

Posted: 21 Aug 2010 10:28 AM PDT

The Bushehr nuclear power plant, south of Tehran.

There is an 80 percent probability that between nine months to two years from now, the Israeli home front will absorb 1,000 to 20,000 losses. That is the result of the Iranian nuclear Catch-22 in which Israel is trapped.

Israel will attack Iran: Will Israel attack Iran?!

Posted: 21 Aug 2010 06:43 AM PDT

Those who mastermind the U.S.-directed psychological operation against Iran have obliviously forgotten that we're now accustomed to seeing the uninteresting, exhausting charade of "will attack Iran"; you put the subject for it, either the United States or Israel.

Over the past five years, Iran has been recurrently under the threat of an imminent war which the mainstream media have overwhelmingly talked of; a war against Tehran to overthrow the Islamic Republic and bring to power a "democratic" regime which the "international community" favors.

An Entrepreneur In The West Bank

Posted: 21 Aug 2010 01:27 AM PDT

"The wall is suffocating the village; it's a physical and psychological prison that's prohibiting us from moving and being productive. Most young men here are apathetic and not well-educated because of the terrible financial situation."

That's how Jamila Al-Fqaih describes the unfortunate reality as she sees it. Like most women of her village, Jamila is a strong and confident woman attached to her land and determined to create a better future for her children. Luckily, she's one of many villagers able to take advantage of agricultural courses conducted by agronomists at a new center in the heart of her village of Beit Liqia, west of Ramallah.

Women Are Our Allies

Posted: 20 Aug 2010 03:10 PM PDT

A frequent complaint among traditionalist White political activists is the under-representation of female involvement in pro-White campaigning. Certainly, one factor favoring male interest in this political endeavor is the fear that a world run by White radical traditionalists would deny women economic autonomy, relegating them to the traditional roles of mother and housewife. And to a large degree women can be forgiven for being nervous, because, not only is this caricature perpetuated by the establishment culture, but one sees little in the literature associated with White Nationalism that does anything other than substantiate the caricature: invectives against butch feminist excess are twinned with lamentations at the plummeting White birthrate and a longing for the pre-feminist social order. When one considers that many women today view the older order as stupefying, mummifying, and (where marriages were loveless or abusive) a serotonin suppressor, it is not surprising that they regard the White Nationalist proposition as a backward step into a dark age of subaltern womanhood.

Who benefits from the War in Iraq and Afghanistan?

Posted: 20 Aug 2010 02:58 PM PDT

Instead of raising the question "who benefits from the war in Afghanistan and Iraq," one might just as well ask the question: Who was the instigator of these two wars? The latter question does not sound very specific and provides a treasure trove for various conspiracy theoreticians. Wild speculations about the true motives of these wars are of no interest for us despite the fact that some of these conspiratorial allegations may be true. What we wish to find out is how these two wars were justified from the standpoint of international law and how they were legitimized by public discourse.

What Will Work

Posted: 20 Aug 2010 02:54 PM PDT

A short one hundred years ago, the sun never set on the empires of our people. At that time we had brought forth the finest music, explored to the uttermost ends of the earth, pioneered care of the environment and kindness to animals, made the most startling discoveries, created the greatest inventions, wrote the most profound literature, established colonies in foreign lands that - despite contemporary assertion - improved the lot of the indigenous peoples, and began unlocking the very secrets of Nature Herself.

Three generations later - ten decades - this race is now against the ropes, fighting for their very survival. Actually, it is worse than that - only a very few of us are fighting - the vast majority of us are actively or passively engaged in our own demise. Why in the world have we gotten into this situation?

The Tribe, the Outsider and the Scapegoat

Posted: 20 Aug 2010 02:50 PM PDT

The leftist Mommy State now growing like a cancer in the U.S. wants to force all the boys and girls to share and get along. That may sort of work with five-year-olds, although not very well as any parent will attest, but it doesn't work at all with adults.

These days, forcing the boys and girls to "share" and "get along" is called "multiculturalism." It has never worked in the past, anywhere. It doesn't work now, anywhere, and it won't in the future, ever. There are many reasons why it doesn't work, but I think the simplest is what I call the Tribe, the Outsider and the Scapegoat.

Alexandr Solzhenitsyn's "During the Soviet-German War" Chapter 21 of 200 Years Together

Posted: 20 Aug 2010 02:44 PM PDT

Solzhenitsyn's Chapter 21, on the WWII years, is now available. See here, and again notice the link requesting donations.) As elsewhere, it stresses the reality behind Jewish complicity in Bolshevism. For example, he argues that evacuations of Jews during WWII were done without publicity-mainly because of sensitivity about German propaganda emphasizing "Judeo-Bolshevism": "The Soviet leadership undoubtedly realized that they gave a solid foundation to this propaganda during the 1920s and 1930s."

Double Vendetta - The Insanity of the Iran Confrontation

Posted: 20 Aug 2010 02:35 PM PDT

The United States has waged war in Afghanistan for nearly 9 years based on a pack of lies that Osama Bin Laden, based in Afghanistan, carried out 9/11, while the U.S. government ignores the proof that the World Trade Center was pulverized using an extremely advanced nano-composite form of Super-Thermite.

The chips of super-thermite found in the dust of the World Trade Center are scientific proof that the government explanation of what happened on 9/11 is nothing but a pack of treasonous lies designed to get public opinion behind a pre-planned war to occupy mineral rich Afghanistan.

Zionists in bid to subvert Wikipedia

Posted: 20 Aug 2010 11:55 AM PDT

The British newspaper the Guardian reported on 18 August that two Israeli groups have set up training courses in subversive Wikipedia editing with the aim to "show the other side" of the Jewish state.

Those who lend their pen to the Palestinian cause know about Wikipedia Jews, a term that was coined a few years ago. It refers to a bunch of rabid crypto-Zionists who constantly vandalize encyclopaedia entries related to Palestine, Palestinian activists and Israeli atrocities.

Declassified: Massive Israeli manipulation of US media exposed

Posted: 20 Aug 2010 11:45 AM PDT

Files declassified in America have revealed covert public relations and lobbying activities of Israel in the U.S. The National Archive made the documents public following a Senate investigation. They suggest Israel has been trying to shape media coverage of issues it regards as important. You can download the files from the web-site of the Institute for Research on Middle Eastern policy. And we can cross to Washington now and talk to Grant F. Smith who is a director at that Institute.

Netanyahu has won, for now

Posted: 20 Aug 2010 10:08 AM PDT

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and U.S. President Barack Obama

After a year and a half of political stagnation and Israel's increasing international isolation, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu can claim his first diplomatic achievement - even if it is a modest one.

The Story of Obama: All in The Company (Part I)

Posted: 20 Aug 2010 09:24 AM PDT

President Obama's own work in 1983 for Business International Corporation, a CIA front that conducted seminars with the world's most powerful leaders and used journalists as agents abroad, dovetails with CIA espionage activities conducted by his mother, Stanley Ann Dunham in 1960s post-coup Indonesia on behalf of a number of CIA front operations, including the East-West Center at the University of Hawaii, the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), and the Ford Foundation. Dunham met and married Lolo Soetoro, Obama's stepfather, at the East-West Center in 1965. Soetoro was recalled to Indonesia in 1965 to serve as a senior army officer and assist General Suharto and the CIA in the bloody overthrow of President Sukarno.

The Story of Obama: All in the Company (Part II)

Posted: 20 Aug 2010 09:22 AM PDT

In Part I of this WMR special report, we revealed the connections between Barack Obama, Sr. and the CIA-affiliated Airlift Africa project to provide college degrees to and gain influence over a group of 280 eastern and southern African students from soon-to-be independent African nations to counter similar programs established by the Soviet Union and China. Barack Obama Sr. was the first African student to attend the University of Hawaii. Obama Sr. and Obama's mother Stanley Ann Dunham met in a Russian language class in 1959 and they married in 1961.

Air Force Issues Memo Warning Soldiers, Employees Not to Read WikiLeaks Docs

Posted: 20 Aug 2010 06:42 AM PDT

An Infowars.com reader at the Homestead Air Reserve Base in Florida sent the memo below, originally posted on the 482 FW Community Bulletin Board. The memo instructs government personnel to not access the Wikileaks website or download "publicized classified information," namely over 70,000 classified documents on the war in Afghanistan. "Looks like they don't want us government employees to know the truth," remarked the person who sent the memo.

In essence, the memo confirms that the Pentagon is monitoring the web activity of its soldiers and employees.

American Professor Charges Israel with Genocide -- Publisher Censors Title!

Posted: 20 Aug 2010 06:03 AM PDT

William A. Cook, professor of English at the University of La Verne in southern California, has charged the state of Israel with genocide -- but his publisher won't let him use the G word in the title of his new book!

Discussing the brand-new The Plight of the Palestinians: A Long History of Destruction on the Kevin Barrett show yesterday, Dr. Cook said that the publishers, Palgrave-McMillan, told him: "'We can't use the original title As the World Watches: Genocide in Palestine.'" Dr. Cook added that the book's contents, which provide ample proof that Israel is committing genocide against the Palestinians, were not censored.

'Ground Zero Mosque' inflating Islamophobia

Posted: 20 Aug 2010 04:44 AM PDT

I have the feeling that like the Broadway Bomber, the underwear bomber, the shoe bomber, the Khalid Sheik Mohammed trial and where it should be held, and other 'false-flag' events that building this new Mosque two blocks from Ground Zero is inflating the inherent Islamophobia of New Yorkers and America. And that ain't good, for New York, Muslims, Americans and America, or the world.

I see more and more articles on the proposed mosque, the rabid Republicans taking fiery stands and the wimpy Democrats trying to show their just as "tough on terror" as their cohorts in Congress. One of the articles I found particularly noxious was the Money behind the Mosque from the unfair and imbalanced reporting of the New York Post and world-wide media mogul, duel American/Israeli citizen and sympathizer, Rupert Murdoch, who is of Jewish decent on his mother's side. She had the money that put her husband in the cat-bird seat of an Australian newspaper and Rupert followed in dad's footsteps right to America and New York City.

Friday: 4 Iraqis Killed, 8 Wounded

Posted: 20 Aug 2010 04:06 AM PDT

At least four Iraqis were killed and eight more were wounded in light violence. Despite the much-reported withdrawal of U.S. combat troops two days ago, a U.S. patrol came under a thermal bomb attack in Kirkuk. No casualties were reported in that incident. The U.S. military says that 52,000 American servicemembers remain in the country.

Why is Israel Afraid of our Cemeteries?

Posted: 20 Aug 2010 03:21 AM PDT

After demolishing all the houses of Al-Arakib, the Israeli occupation authorities razed the village cemetery, completely erasing the memory and history of this Palestinian village, as it has erased more than 500 other Palestinian villages since 1948. A few days later, the Israelis desecrated 150 graves in the historic cemetery of Ma'aman Allah in Jerusalem, one of the oldest and largest Muslim cemeteries in the Holy City. This cemetery was once 200 acres in size, containing the mortal remains of thousands of the Prophet's companions, early Muslims, Islamic scholars, leaders and martyrs. That was before the Israelis came along; now only 20 acres remain.

FBI Ignores Iranian Intelligence Death Threat to Hostage Crisis Hero

Posted: 20 Aug 2010 03:17 AM PDT

"An Iranian intelligence agent recently approached Phil Tourney, hero of the 1980 hostage crisis, to deliver a death threat...and the FBI isn't interested."

Sounds implausible? Wrong. It's impossible.

Neocons Shamelessly Exploit 9/11 Pain to Ban Manhattan Mosque

Posted: 20 Aug 2010 01:57 AM PDT

Keep America Safe, a propaganda organization designed to keep the manufactured war on terror alive, has produced a tear-jerk video featuring victim families and heart-tug piano music. The victims urge Muslims not to build a multi-million dollar mosque less than two blocks from the Ground Zero.

Mega-neocon, Bill Kristol, sits on the board of Keep America Safe, as does the daughter of the former vice president, Liz Cheney, also a top-notch neocon. Kristol is the co-founder of the Project for the New American Century, a neocon think tank that along with the American Enterprise Institute staffed the Bush administration and pushed for the invasion of Iraq (current death toll: more than a million).

Palestinians face movement restrictions during Ramadan

Posted: 20 Aug 2010 01:42 AM PDT

For seven years Majda Abdul Qader Sheikh, 38, has not been allowed to visit the home of her parents, just a few hundred meters from her house.

"I tried to get a special visitor's permit for a quick visit during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan but I was refused," says Sheikh, mother of seven children. "I have had no problems with the Israeli authorities, nor am I considered a security threat," she added.

The Ground Zero Mosque and Property Rights

Posted: 20 Aug 2010 12:30 AM PDT

If the "debate" staged by the corporate media over the so-called "Ground Zero Mosque" demonstrates anything, it is once again how gullible and easily influenced the American people are, at least according to polls.

On August 19, Time Magazine released a poll showing 61% of respondents oppose the construction of the mosque, compared with 26% who support it. "More than 70% concur with the premise that proceeding with the plan would be an insult to the victims of the attacks on the World Trade Center," writes Time.

John Pilger helps us understand the BBC's making of "Death in the Med"

Posted: 20 Aug 2010 12:07 AM PDT

On June 9, the Correspondent series on BBC Television broadcast a report about the recent siege of the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem. This was an exemplar of the problems identified in the Glasgow research. It was, in effect, an Israeli occupation propaganda film put out by the BBC. It was made as a co-production with an American channel, and the credits listed the producer as Israel Goldvicht, who runs an Israeli production company. That would have been fine had the filmmakers made any attempt to challenge the Israeli military with whom they had ingratiated themselves.

Crisis. What Crisis? Profits Soar!

Posted: 19 Aug 2010 11:10 PM PDT

While progressives and leftists write about the "crises of capitalism", manufacturers, petroleum companies, bankers and most other major corporations on both sides of the Atlantic and Pacific coast are chuckling all the way to the bank.

From the first quarter of this year, corporate profits have shot up between twenty to over a hundred percent. In fact, corporate profits have risen higher than they were before the onset of the recession in 2008. Contrary to progressive bloggers the rates of profits are rising not falling, particularly among the biggest corporations. The buoyancy of corporate profits is directly a result of the deepening crises of the working class, public and private employees and small and medium size enterprises.

Ken_O'keef Gaza Flotilla Probe

Posted: 19 Aug 2010 11:02 PM PDT

Interview with Ken O'Keef,Gaza Flotilla attack survivor from Dublin, about Netanyahu's recent remarks on the deadly attack by Israeli navy on the Freedom Flotilla carrying humanitarian aids to Gaza.

Something Stinks About Wikileaks Release of "Secret" Documents

Posted: 19 Aug 2010 11:00 PM PDT

Since the dramatic release of a US military film of a US airborne shooting of unarmed journalists in Iraq, Wiki-Leaks has gained global notoreity and credibility as a daring website that releases sensitive material to the public from whistleblowers within various governments. Their latest "coup" involved alleged leak of thousands of pages of supposedly sensitive documents regarding US informers within the Taliban in Afghanistan and their ties to senior people linked to Pakistan's ISI military intelligence. The evidence suggests however that far from an honest leak, it is a calculated disinformation to the gain of the US and perhaps Israeli and Indian intelligence and a coverup of the US and Western role in drug trafficking out of Afghanistan.

The Neanderthal hypothesis

Posted: 19 Aug 2010 10:56 PM PDT

The whole world is puzzled by the undisguised insanity that seems to pervert and pollute every news story in the world. Why would they deliberately poison the ocean? Why would they bomb innocent countries?

Why do they poison food, foul the air, and produce supposedly beneficial medicines that, when studied carefully, always seem to contain hidden, time-delayed poisons?

Study – Belief in God reduces distress

Posted: 19 Aug 2010 10:39 PM PDT

In 1980, when German diplomat Dr. Murad Wilfried Hofman, NATO's director of information converted to Islam, he wrote that he feel less distressed now than before. Watch a video on talk with Dr. Murad Hofman.

Now a new Brain Study conducted by Michael Inzlicht and Alexa Tullett at the University of Toronto (Scarbrough Campus), published in the Journal of the Association for Psychological Science on August 4, 2010 – proves that people who believe in God are less distressed than the non-believers.

Impact of Israeli Military Order No. 1650

Posted: 19 Aug 2010 09:57 PM PDT

Taking effect in April 2010, it defined all West Bank residents as "infiltrators" (including native born ones), requiring they get IDF-issued permits.

Order No. 1650 (Prevention of Infiltration) and Order No. 1949 (Security Provisions) were issued in October 2009 as amendments to a 1969 Order No. 329 (Order regarding Prevention of Infiltration), declaring "infiltrator" state enemies from Jordan, Syria, Egypt and Lebanon would be imprisoned and/or deported.

Israel's Bogus Construction Moratorium

Posted: 19 Aug 2010 09:57 PM PDT

Promises made, then broken. Promise peace. Wage war and daily violence throughout the Territories. Announce a settlement construction halt. Keep building, the promised pause (not a freeze) never observed despite Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's December 8 announced moratorium saying:

"I hope that this decision will help launch meaningful negotiations to reach a historic peace agreement that would finally end the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians," what he relentlessly pursues, spurning resolution for an equitable, just peace, wanting surrender, not conciliation on equal terms, what he'll never agree to or accept.

Palestine: Occupied, Divided, Isolated, Oppressed and Unaided

Posted: 19 Aug 2010 09:52 PM PDT

Imagine the following:

You're ruthlessly oppressed in an occupied country under a system of institutionalized racism, affording rights solely to Jews. You have no recognized nation, no right of citizenship, no democratic freedoms or civil liberties, including no power over your daily life.

On the edge with Max Keiser

Posted: 19 Aug 2010 09:28 PM PDT

Max Keiser is on the edge of the financial news where future financial scandals, market crashes and monetary crisis begin, be there before it happens

Alex Jones – I support Israel

Posted: 19 Aug 2010 09:19 PM PDT

Here is all one needs to know about Alex Jones. If this fat retard were a real patriot, he would be telling you the truth about things like 911, the wars, the economic collapse, Obama, the police state, and all the other things he rants about. The truth about these topics are that every last one of them was engineered by, what he calls, the "global elite". However, there is nothing "elite" about the monsters behind all of our ills, because they are nothing more than a bunch of blood sucking leeches known as JEWS.

Will the White Race Survive?

Posted: 19 Aug 2010 08:30 PM PDT

The very real threat to the continued existence of the European people. Not only do Europeans have the near prospect of living in nations where they are a small minority and thus must live as strangers in their own land, but their very existence as a heritage is threatened. There is a word for the wiping away of a race or people. It is called genocide. But, people of European descent are awakening all over the world. As soon as they invest themselves in the struggle for their heritage and freedom, no power on earth can stop them from restoring their homelands and securing the existence and freedom of their children.

Racist Jew Serial Killer

Posted: 19 Aug 2010 08:13 PM PDT

A string of murders and attacks spanning three different states came to an abrupt end just over a week ago, when police announced that they might have a serial killer on their hands. At first, police were unable to connect the dots between a number of dead bodies and other attacks, but as stories from survivors piled up, it quickly became evident that they did indeed have a serial killer on their hands.

All Lies, All the Time

Posted: 19 Aug 2010 06:00 PM PDT

I had to laugh when I saw the headline on Antiwar.com: "US Announces Second Fake End to Iraq War." Yes, I did indeed get a rush of déjà-vu as I listened to Keith Olbermann and Rachel Maddow solemnly describe "the end" of the "combat mission" in Iraq, and Richard Engel pontificate as the cameras zoomed in on the "last" convoy over the border to Kuwait. Occasionally, however, reality would intrude, as Rachel noted the broadcast could be interrupted at any time by a sudden attack, and there would be no time to explain to viewers what was happening. It was Olbermann who openly referred to Bush's "Mission Accomplished" moment, and wondered if perhaps this wasn't a re-run: I'll bet he got in plenty of trouble for that little crack. As Engel interviewed a couple of disinterested looking grunts about their innermost thoughts at "this historic moment," I thought: from "shock and awe" to schlock and yawn.

In Palestine, Barriers Rise Between Ramadan Gatherings

Posted: 19 Aug 2010 06:00 PM PDT

For seven years Majda Abdul Qader Sheikh, 38, has not been allowed to visit the home of her parents, just a few hundred meters from her house.

"I tried to get a special visitor's permit for a quick visit during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan but I was refused," says Sheikh, mother of seven children. "I have had no problems with the Israeli authorities, nor am I considered a security threat," she added.

A Mosque in New York City

Posted: 19 Aug 2010 06:00 PM PDT

In December 2009 the New York Times ran a story entitled "Muslim Prayers and Renewal Near Ground Zero" about plans to build an Islamic center – also known as the Cordoba House and Park51 project – at 45-51 Park Place, two blocks north of the World Trade Center. The building had been purchased earlier that year by a group of Muslims and had been used as a place of prayer (the location is not designated as a mosque, but is used as overflow prayer space for a nearby mosque in the TriBeCa neighborhood). According to Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, the cleric leading the project, building an Islamic center would send "the opposite statement to what happened on 9/11" and that he wanted "to push back against the extremists."

We Are Change San Francisco chased out of the Bohemian Club

Posted: 19 Aug 2010 04:37 PM PDT

The San Francisco Esoteric Adventure with Freeman

Obama Enters Another Controversy

Posted: 19 Aug 2010 04:00 PM PDT

It is becoming apparent for all to see that a man who has made his name as a community organizer does not have the skills to be president of these United States. Maybe he could develop the requisite skills as a governor. Possibly he could develop such skills were he to sit in the Senate for a couple of terms. Yet there are delicate sensitivities, the ability to listen, to stick by your guns, occasionally to remain reticent. These are the fundamentals of a leader, and President Barack Obama has demonstrated that he lacks all of them, most notably reticence. I now think it is clear even to Official Washington that President Obama is the worst president of modern times. President Jimmy Carter is redeemed.

Judea declare war on Islamic Iran

Posted: 19 Aug 2010 03:20 PM PDT

How many of the readers know that the American Jewish Congress (AJC) held a mass rally at Madison Square Garden in March 1933 and called for economic sanctions against Germany. At that time Adolf Hitler was not in power and there were no Nazis or their Jew collaborators.

How a propaganda campaign can blind the world public from the truth – is explained by a former Mossad operater Victor Otrovsky in his book The Other Side of Deception. He records why the Jewish Lobby carried out a 15-year compaign of lies against a US ally (Saddam Hussein) in order to prepare the nation to embark on a Holocaust of Iraqi people in 2003. "After the bombing of Libya, our friend Qadhafi is sure to stay out of the picture for some time. Iraq and Saddam Hussein are the next target. We're starting now to build him up as the big villain. It will take some time, but in the end, there's no doubt that it'll work".

Iran and the Russian 'double standards'

Posted: 19 Aug 2010 12:07 PM PDT

The Russian Nuclear Agency (ROSATOM) has announced once again that it's going to load the reactor at Bushehr nuclear power-generating plant with nuclear fuel on August 21, 2010. If (and if) it really happens, it would be a great slap on the faces of Ben Obama and the Washington's former Israeli Ambassador at UN, John Bolton, who last week advised Benjamin Netanyahu that Israel has ten day to bomb Bushehr facility. However, Moscow's latest desire to fulfill its contractual obligations considering dragging its feet on this for more than a decade and not delivering S-300 anti-missile system to Islamic Republic for which Tehran has already made the down-payment – shows Moscow's double standards.

British Zionists join far-right organization to promote Islamophobia and racism in UK

Posted: 19 Aug 2010 10:59 AM PDT

I guess it shouldn't take us by surprise that the Israeli flag has become a common feature at demonstrations and gatherings by the ultra-nationalist English Defence League (EDL).

The EDL is campaigning for action against what it regards as the "Islamization of Britain" and "Muslim fundamentalists". It is a magnet for extreme right-wing activists and is driven by xenophobia and ethnocentrism.

A Beautiful Gift from the BBC to Israel

Posted: 19 Aug 2010 10:57 AM PDT

I am one of the passengers/witnesses interviewed for this program and I am very much aware of BBC's role in justifying war and covering up Israeli crimes. I am in no way naive about this; to the contrary my motivation for the interview lay largely in the all too likely opportunity to expose the BBC.

A relevant job considering the BBC's role in the slaughter of over one million Iraqi's, a direct role by virtue of the war they justified. BBC from start to present, justifying Iraq, a massive war crime and crime against humanity based entirely on lies (propagated intensely by the BBC). The British Broadcasting Corporation, synonymous with millions of orphans and refugees and countless lives destroyed in Iraq, beating the drums of war without pause, the ultimate prostitutes of propaganda.

Trapped at Ground Zero

Posted: 19 Aug 2010 10:15 AM PDT

The controversy over the right of Muslim Americans to build community center and mosque a short distance from the site of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks is both strange and outright inappropriate. It should never be necessary for law-abiding Americans to justify exercising their right to freely practice their own religion. This right is in accordance to the First Amendment, part of the Bill of Rights that has constituted the foundation of American freedom for over 200 years.

Hamas Must Re-brand

Posted: 19 Aug 2010 09:46 AM PDT

In the five years since I became interested in the conflict in Palestine, only two things of positive note have happened in the Occupied Territories.

The Palestinians held full and fair elections in 2006 to establish themselves as a democracy… and much good it did them.

Israel and the anti-Muslim blow-up

Posted: 19 Aug 2010 06:58 AM PDT

I don't know why I am at all surprised that the American Right - including the Republican Party - has decided that scapegoating Muslims is the ticket to success. After all, it's nothing new.

I remember right after 9/11 when the columnist Charles Krauthammer, now one of the most vocal anti-Muslim demagogues, almost literally flipped out in my Chevy Chase, Maryland synagogue when the rabbi said something about the importance of not associating the terrorist attacks with Muslims in general.

Fighting expulsion and Western hypocrisy in Jerusalem

Posted: 19 Aug 2010 06:51 AM PDT

Earlier this summer, Israel arrested Muhammad Abu Tir, a member of the Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC) and Hamas. Israel also ordered two other PLC members, Muhammad Totah and Ahmad Attoun and the Palestinian Authority's (PA) former minister of Jerusalem affairs Khaled Abu Arafeh to leave their home town of Jerusalem.

Al-Araqib residents fear fourth demolition

Posted: 19 Aug 2010 06:29 AM PDT

On the eve of the start of Ramadan last week, Israeli police demolished the Bedouin village of al-Araqib in the Negev desert. It was the third time within two weeks that the village had been razed.

Unfazed, the Bedouin villagers immediately began rebuilding.

"We have already put back up some twenty of our huts, and we're putting up more every day -- despite the fast," village leader Sheikh Sayyah Abu Drim told IPS when reached by telephone a week after the last police action.

Thursday: 11 Iraqis Killed, 17 Wounded

Posted: 19 Aug 2010 05:38 AM PDT

At least 11 Iraqis were killed and 17 more were wounded in light attacks that concentrated on security personnel. A day after U.S. combat forces left Iraq, Maj. Gen. Stephen Lanza said that Iraqi forces are capable of keeping security but selecting the new government would help. About 56,000 troops will remain to assist the Iraqis; however, the final withdrawal of Americans could be as late as 2020 depending on conditions.

Should White Americans Become Better Liars? #1

Posted: 19 Aug 2010 04:47 AM PDT

After the debacle of the 2008 Presidential campaign, White Americans should take an honest look in the mirror and try to understand why we did so badly.

Most White Americans chose to support old White men who went out of their way to be "fair" and not "racist" in any way,"honesty is the best policy."

The result was a horrendous loss and many were shocked to learn that 24 out of 25 Black African Americans voted for Obama, even supposedly "conservative", "patriotic" Black Americans like Gen. Colin Powell – Hey, what's going on? Was Gen. Powell lying to us all those years?!!

India employing Israeli oppression tactics in Kashmir

Posted: 19 Aug 2010 03:39 AM PDT

The 2010 summer in the disputed area of Jammu and Kashmir, administered by India, has been marked by popular protests by Kashmiris and crackdowns by India's military. The stream of violence has left more than fifty dead, mostly young protestors. The situation in Kashmir has some parallels with Israel's occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip, even borrowing the term intifada to describe the uprising. But the connection is more than analogy -- Israel's pacification efforts against Palestinians have proven valuable for the Indian police, army and intelligence services in their campaigns to pacify Jammu and Kashmir with numerous Indian military and security imports from Israel leading the way.

Caught between arms and politics

Posted: 19 Aug 2010 03:04 AM PDT

The bombing of a United Nations building in Baghdad on a summer morning seven years ago may demonstrate that not everyone believes in the apparent good intentions of the humanitarian organisations that are operating in their country.

Sergio Vieira de Mello, a charismatic Brazilian diplomat, had arrived in Iraq five days before the explosion to set up a UN body with the mandate of "assisting the government and people of Iraq in advancing their political dialogue and national reconciliation".

Jim Giles: White Entertainment Channel

Posted: 18 Aug 2010 09:43 PM PDT

Jim Giles remains our favorite personality on what we have started to call the White Entertainment Channel. Ever since the Edgar Steele meltdown with Pastor Lindstedt, Jim has been on a roll, which each episode more hilarious and over the top than the previous one. We tune into RFM every day around here.

Tales from the Northwest Frontier

Posted: 18 Aug 2010 06:00 PM PDT

One of my favorite movies is The Tailor of Panama, based on the tongue-in-cheek novel written by John Le Carre which was in turn derived from Graham Greene's Our Man in Havana. In the film, Pierce Brosnan was featured as a corrupt British intelligence officer who fraudulently convinced the CIA to fund a secret army that did not actually exist. When one of the CIA officers complained that he had never heard of the group, Brosnan replied "Of course not. It's a SECRET army." He got his money.

Why WikiLeaks Must Be Protected

Posted: 18 Aug 2010 06:00 PM PDT

On 26 July, WikiLeaks released thousands of secret US military files on the war in Afghanistan. Cover-ups, a secret assassination unit and the killing of civilians are documented. In file after file, the brutalities echo the colonial past. From Malaya and Vietnam to Bloody Sunday and Basra, little has changed. The difference is that today there is an extraordinary way of knowing how faraway societies are routinely ravaged in our name. WikiLeaks has acquired records of six years of civilian killing for both Afghanistan and Iraq, of which those published in the Guardian, Der Spiegel and the New York Times are a fraction.

And the State, is It Loyal?

Posted: 18 Aug 2010 05:32 PM PDT

Several weeks ago, hundreds of students demonstrated in front of Ben-Gurion University's administration building. About a third of the protestors were expressing their opposition to the government's decision to attack the relief flotilla, while the remaining two thirds came to support the government. At one point the pro-government protesters began chanting: 'No citizenship without loyalty!'

The Secrets in Israel's Archives

Posted: 18 Aug 2010 05:21 PM PDT

History may be written by the victors, as Winston Churchill is said to have observed, but the opening up of archives can threaten a nation every bit as much as the unearthing of mass graves.

That danger explains a decision quietly taken last month by Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, to extend by an additional 20 years the country's 50-year rule for the release of sensitive documents.

Isn't Tolerance an American Virtue?

Posted: 18 Aug 2010 05:14 PM PDT

Observing the shameful and venomous debate raging in the US over plans for a Muslim civic centre and a mosque in downtown Manhattan two blocks from Ground Zero, I could not help but recall the time when my father took me to visit Syria and Jordan while I was a student at the American University of Beirut.

One of the most striking revelations for me, as a Christian, was seeing the tomb where the head of John the Baptist was said to lie inside the famous Umayyad Mosque in Damascus.

Gulf Fishermen Crash Obama's FL Vacation With Concerns About Seafood Safety

Posted: 18 Aug 2010 02:35 PM PDT

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=083FD9A-Z_Q

CIA Launches "Counterproliferation Center" as Iran Attack Rhetoric Kicks Into High Gear

Posted: 18 Aug 2010 12:39 PM PDT

As the rhetoric heats up in preparation for an attack on Iran, the CIA has announced it will christen a "counterproliferation center to combat the spread of dangerous weapons and technology, a move that comes as Iran is on the verge of fueling up a new nuclear power plant," reports the Associated Press.

Obama's CIA boss, Leon Panetta, said the CIA will formalize a collaboration between its "operators" — presumably the "Dark Side" Cheney talked about so fondly — and its more sedate analysts.

Chick Corea: don't turn your back in Gaza!

Posted: 18 Aug 2010 10:25 AM PDT

We are a group of students from Gaza, and our only fault is being Palestinians. For that, Mr. Corea, we are imprisoned with our families and loved ones in what major human rights organizations call the largest open air prison in modern history. The state you are planning to entertain committed a process of ethnic cleansing against the indigenous people in 1948. And now it is engaged in what the Israeli academic Ilan Pappe calls "slow motion genocide" against the 1.5 million population of Gaza.

Israel's multi-front war on Lebanese resistance

Posted: 18 Aug 2010 08:34 AM PDT

The international coverage of border clashes between Lebanese and Israeli military forces earlier this month may have suggested the confrontation was a mere squabble over cutting a tree that went awry in a "trigger-happy" and "conflict-prone" region. Less than a week later, one of several recent speeches by Hizballah's Secretary General Hassan Nasrallah managed to get brief global media coverage. He presented visual and audio material suggesting that Israel may have assassinated former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri in February 2005.

UK, Irish artists saluted for principled boycott stance

Posted: 18 Aug 2010 08:18 AM PDT

The Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI) salutes the British dance group Faithless for declining to play in Israel this summer. The cancellation of the group's Israeli gig is the latest in a string of cancellations of performances in Israel by artists and musicians of conscience, artists who say no to normalizing relations with Israel, no to business as usual with a state that practices the most pernicious forms of occupation, colonialism and apartheid.

Students, boycott Israel's propagandist youth festival!

Posted: 18 Aug 2010 07:53 AM PDT

Once again, the Brand-Israel machine is in high gear, this time organizing a million-dollar international youth extravaganza in Eilat in September 2010 called "Funjoya." This unabashed propaganda exercise is sponsored by the Israel Ministry of Tourism and the Israeli Student Union, among other official and semi-official bodies. The Ministry of Tourism explains one of the aims of the festival: "branding Israel as an attractive tourism destination for students, an improvement in Israel's image among this target group and facilitating multi-cultural encounters for students from Israel and European countries."

Wednesday: 25 Iraqis Killed, 33 Wounded

Posted: 18 Aug 2010 06:53 AM PDT

The last brigade of U.S. combat troops crossed the border into Kuwait at 3:51 a.m. local time, two weeks ahead of the official drawdown deadline set by Washington. Although approximately 50,000 personnel will remain in Iraq and combat conditions will continue for many of those left behind, the withdrawal of the 4th Stryker Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division is a symbolic end to combat operations.

The Octopus of Death and Terror

Posted: 18 Aug 2010 04:53 AM PDT

Which is the Octopus who wants to destroy the Al- Sakhrah (Dome of the Rock) and Al-Aqsa and Ibrahimi Mosques in Jerusalem and Hebron, which is the Octopus who began to prepare the Israeli soldiers to re-occupy the Palestinian towns and cities, arrest and execute the Palestinian police and the security forces whenever the Octopus terrorists commit horror crimes in Jerusalem, and Hebron?

Playing the Never Again Card, Again

Posted: 18 Aug 2010 02:13 AM PDT

The phony intelligence used to induce our March 2003 invasion of Iraq has been dusted off. This time it's being deployed to take us into Iran.

Same scam. Same storyline. Same fraud—even featuring some of the same players.

Except that this time around their deception lacks the broader context required to gain traction for their phony content. That key difference makes today's perpetrators far more transparent—for those willing to look.

Lebanon scatters a little chicken feed and labels it 'manna from heaven'

Posted: 18 Aug 2010 01:22 AM PDT

At 3:02 p.m. on 8/17/10 Lebanon's Parliament began to deliberate on granting basic civil rights to its Palestinian refugees and within four minutes agreed to alter article 50 Lebanon's 1964 labor law to theoretically make it easier for Palestinian refugees to obtain a work permit and a job.

There was no discussion of other draft bills to grant Palestinian refugees elementary civil rights, and fifteen minutes later, by 3:17 p.m. Parliament had agreed on the next bill involving excavating for oil, which may bring millions to some well placed members. Many MP's hadn't studied either bill.

Gaza Farmers Over Use Pesticides

Posted: 18 Aug 2010 12:52 AM PDT

When touring Gaza farms one rarely finds wild plants, only manmade grown crops are found.

Ali Mo'amer, a 35 year old farmer lives in the southern Gaza Strip town of Rafah, says that he sprays pesticides twice a day. "I have 5 Acers of land, I spry them twice a day without knowing the amount or consecration percentage I should use."

The Same Objective, Different Perspective

Posted: 17 Aug 2010 09:43 PM PDT

In 1947, the United Nations proposed a resolution to divide Palestine into two states. A Jewish State to be established on 56.47%, a Palestinian State is to be established on 43.53% with Jerusalem and Bethlehem remaining as International Zone.

Subjected to colonial occupation, the ill led, ill prepared, ill equipped, ill trained and ill-organized Arab countries rejected the plan.

Madagascar: State of denial

Posted: 17 Aug 2010 08:28 PM PDT

While Madagascar celebrates 50 years of independence from France this year, the country remains mired in economic crisis and political uncertainty over who is legitimately leading the nation of 20 million.

In March 2009, clashes between the regime of Marc Ravalomanana, the then president, and the opposition movement, led by the capital's former mayor, Andry Rajoelina, left more than 100 people dead and the nation in turmoil.

Glenn Beck: "Restoring Honor"

Posted: 17 Aug 2010 07:14 PM PDT

Glenn Beck.

The mention of his name is already eliciting howls of protest from certain quarters of the commentariat.

Fraud. Coward. Phony. Idiot. Kosher Con. Conspiracy Nut. Huckster.

Cordoba House: The Acid Test