Humiliating Abbas

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• Humiliating Abbas
• Middle-class? Long Gone!
• The killing of Rachel Corrie seven years on
• A beacon of hope in Bosnia
• Free Pollard Now, Pay Later
• The Washington Gossip Machine
• Press TV's Kaneez Fatima talks to Stephen Sniegoski on American "Third Party" ?
• Iran-Iraq war anniversary: A defense which deserves being called 'holy'
• Media Disinformation: The Facts About Ahmadinejad's UN Speech
• Sudan and the 'concerned Zionists'
• Witness - Nablus: The Business of Occupation
• Sunday: 11 Iraqis Killed, 32 Wounded
• Sunday: 10 Iraqis Killed, 27 Wounded
• PressTV-Cine Politics-"South of the Border"
• America's Undeclared War on Pakistan: Deadly Drone Attacks Reach Record High
• Aid to the Palestinians and the Israeli Economy
• Fed Will Purchase Almost $3 Trillion In Treasurys And Set The Stage For The Monetary Endgame
• Analysis: a sink or swim coalition
• Comment: Pope, a close encounter
• The Agenda-License to Kill
• Poor America: How did we end up here?
• Comment: Taliban, a cold war legacy
• Did 9/11 Really "Change Everything"? Or Was It Simply an Excuse to Implement Exisiting War Plans
• Computerized War Crimes: CIA used pirated, inaccurate software to target drone attacks
• One of History's Greatest Crimes
• Syria-Israel negotiations are in a deep sleep
• US accused of Yemen proxy detention
• Riz Khan - The global HIV/Aids epidemic
• Talks now uncertain
• Undying legacy
• Israel kills as it talks
• Boycotting apartheid
• A change of heart in Damascus
• Special: Zionist dialectics: Past and future
• Who is negotiating with whom?
• Clegg Now Singing off Zionist Hymn-sheet
• The Hesder Quiz: Where is Israel?
• On Voting for Bad Democrats: the Perriello Predicament
• Dismantling the Empire – Book Review
• 'A Just Peace For Palestine' Conference in India
• Saturday: 2 US Soldiers, 3 Iraqis Killed; 16 Iraqis Wounded
• IAEA Adopts Atomic Weapons in the Middle East
• Obama at the UN: The Arrogant Voice of Imperialism
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• Obama speaks at the UN… Goodbye to peace
• Independent Committee of Experts on Gaza War
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• One and a Half Cheers for American Decline
• The Terrorism Fraud
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• Obama Knows the War is Dumb, but Prefers Power Over Peace
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Humiliating Abbas Posted: 27 Sep 2010 07:21 AM PDT "All the world is against us" is the undying Jewish mantra. Nowhere is chanted more vehemently that in Holy Land, where it plays soft musical background to the sound of Jews firing machineguns. Never is it checked out against reality. Today – September 27, 2010 – is the first day after the end of the 10-month moratorium on the Israeli construction in the West Bank. The Palestinian request to extend it for three months in order to continue the current negotiations in a positive ambience was rejected. And what a rejection! Construction is expected to begin in Adam, Beit Hagai, Oranit, Sha'arei Tikva, Karmei Tzur, Kedumim, Kochav Hashachar, Ravava, Shavei Shomron, and Yakir. Overall, 600 buildings are expected to be build immediately, while at least another 1400 are waiting for appropriate permits from Ehud Barak, the Israeli Minister of Defense, who controls all aspects of life in the West Bank. Netanyahu made a very clear point to Mahmoud Abbas: you carry no weight. Considering the background of the current talks, this is strange.

Middle-class? Long Gone! Posted: 27 Sep 2010 06:39 AM PDT Like swans of legend, American entrepreneurs sing their final, beautiful song before they just fade away. When everyone who is employed works for the state or federal government, we'll all likely be as impoverished as the citizens of the old Soviet Union. Remember the Soviets standing in long lines, with falling snow, to buy what they could from a dwindling short supply of consumer goods, goods they could barely afford, like two left boots, both of the wrong sizes?

The killing of Rachel Corrie seven years on Posted: 27 Sep 2010 05:02 AM PDT When the name of Rachel Corrie is mentioned you cannot help but pause for a painful moment; a tugging at the heart is the best way to describe it. You want to stop the conversation altogether and retreat into yourself and demand that those around you pay tribute. In an instant, pictures flash before your eyes: Rachel standing in her fluorescent jacket, a massive Caterpillar bulldozer encroaching on her young life and innocence while she demands that the monster and its driver prove to her that humanity is not dead in this world; then a crushed body and three dismayed and disorientated people around her, witnesses to the rejection of Rachel's demand; finally, a disfigured and bloodied face, a young woman being cradled by her companions.

A beacon of hope in Bosnia Posted: 27 Sep 2010 12:39 AM PDT Foca, a region of breathtaking gorges and dark forests in south-eastern Bosnia will be forever remembered for some of the most appalling atrocities of the 1992-1995 war. The declaration of independence by a Muslim-dominated administration in Sarajevo on March 3, 1992 prompted a defiant Bosnian Serb population to try and carve out territory of their own - territory which would become the post-war Bosnian "entity" of Republika Srpska, in which Foca lies. Bosnian Serb forces descended on Foca just a month after the war began, terrorising, imprisoning and torturing the Muslim population and destroying their property and cultural heritage. Hundreds were murdered with dozens of corpses dumped in the Drina River.

Free Pollard Now, Pay Later Posted: 26 Sep 2010 11:00 PM PDT The proposal to free spy Jonathan Pollard in exchange for Israel extending a temporary freeze on settlement building has now received support from four Democrats in Congress. Although many claim Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu initiated this latest bid to free Pollard, it may not be that simple. Since the 1990s the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations has publicly and privately called for Pollard's release. The 52 organizations in the Conference constitute a key block in the American Israel Public Affairs Committee's (AIPAC) executive committee. Hitching Pollard's release to any suitably strong vehicle – whether steaming in from Israel or propelled from within the U.S. – is therefore an AIPAC priority. Like its behind-the-scenes support for Israel's clandestine nuclear weapons program, Pollard's release is not something AIPAC can lobby for openly. This is because – as with many of AIPAC's initiatives – freeing Pollard is both unpopular and a zero-sum game in which America must lose in order for Israel to win.   This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now

The Washington Gossip Machine Posted: 26 Sep 2010 11:00 PM PDT We know the endpoint of the story: another bestseller for Bob Woodward, in this case about a president sandbagged by his own high command and administration officials at one another's throats over an inherited war gone wrong. But where did the story actually begin? Well, here's the strange thing: in a sense, Woodward's new book, Obama's Wars, which focuses heavily on an administration review of Afghan war policy in the fall of 2009, begins with… Woodward. Of course – thank heavens for American media amnesia – amid all the attention his book is getting, no one seems to recall that part of the tale.

Press TV's Kaneez Fatima talks to Stephen Sniegoski on American "Third Party" ? Posted: 26 Sep 2010 07:46 PM PDT Press TV's Kaneez Fatima talks to Stephen Sniegoski on American "Third Party" ?

Iran-Iraq war anniversary: A defense which deserves being called 'holy' Posted: 26 Sep 2010 07:39 PM PDT Almost 20 years have passed since the conclusion of 20th century's longest, most erosive war which was brutally imposed on the defenseless people of Iran by a belligerent and aggressive dictator who was finally pushed to death by the same people who had once persuaded, funded, aided and supported him in attacking and invading the new-born Iran of post-revolution days. The expansionistic ambitions of the beloved puppet of the White House who was granted the honorary citizenship of Detroit as a reward for his unconditional subservience to the United States, transpired to be a deadly pandemic which claimed the lives of more than 400,000 innocent Iranians who witnessed the most breathtaking years the country had experienced contemporarily.

Media Disinformation: The Facts About Ahmadinejad's UN Speech Posted: 26 Sep 2010 06:48 PM PDT A large portion of the American people, on the basis of media reports, probably think that during his UN speech Sept. 23 Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad declared that the U.S. government secretly arranged for the 9/11 attacks. He did not say that, however. In its Sept. 24 article about the speech The New York Times headline read: "Iran Leader Says U.S. Planned 9/11 Attacks." The first paragraph declared: "President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran made a series of incendiary remarks in his speech to the United Nations General Assembly on Thursday, notably the claim that the United States orchestrated the Sept. 11 attacks to rescue its declining economy, to reassert its weakening grip on the Middle East and to save Israel."

Sudan and the 'concerned Zionists' Posted: 26 Sep 2010 05:26 PM PDT The UN secretary-general Ban Ki-Moon held a special meeting at the UN headquarters on September 24, 2010 to let the 'concerned Zionist' leaders issue another warning to the Islamist government in Khatoum. The meeting was attending by Sudan's vice-president Ali Osman Muhamed Taha, autonomous South Sudanese president Salva Kiir, Chairman of African Union (AU), Hillary Clinton and last but not the least – Zionist heavyweight US President Ben Obama. Interestingly, the two speakers, Obama and Ki-Moon, who aired on Friday, their 'great concern' for the peace and security of the Christian and traditional religious minorities in Sudan (listen to their speeches in the video below) – are known for putting 'duct-tape' on their mouths when it comes to the plight of the Christian minority under the Jewish fascism in the occupied Palestine. Before the plantation of the Zionist entity in 1948 – the Christian population in Palestine was 12%. Now, it has been reduced to less than 5%.

Witness - Nablus: The Business of Occupation Posted: 26 Sep 2010 11:50 AM PDT An old soap factory, a modern olive oil plant and two import-export agents struggle to do business in Nablus under the Israeli occupation.

Sunday: 11 Iraqis Killed, 32 Wounded Posted: 26 Sep 2010 09:46 AM PDT Baghdad and nearby Garma today suffered a string of small but highly visible attacks that left a number of government employees and security elements injured or dead. At least 11 Iraqis were killed and 32 more were wounded in that and other violence. Additionally, Iran claims to have crossed the border into Iraq and killed 30 Kurdish militants. Also, Iraq launched a new U.S.-built patrol boat, the first of its expanding fleet, at the Umm Qasr naval base. Iran's Revolutionary Guards have reportedly crossed the border into Iraq in response to a deadly bombing in Mahabad, Iran last week. They claim to have killed 30 Kurdish rebels involved in the bombing and are still in pursuit of two more. The bombing occurred in a Kurdish area of Iran during a military parade that commemorated the Iran-Iraq War's 30th anniversary. In recent months, Iran has launched several attacks against Party For a Free Kurdistan (PJAK) rebels without asking for Iraqi permission. Kurdish groups have condemned the bombing, and no one has taken responsibility. Still, Iran blames the PJAK for the attack. The PJAK uses remote areas of northern Iraq for their hidden camps.

Sunday: 10 Iraqis Killed, 27 Wounded Posted: 26 Sep 2010 09:46 AM PDT Baghdad and nearby Garma today suffered a string of small but highly visible attacks that left a number of government employees and security elements injured or dead. At least 10 Iraqis were killed and 27 more were wounded in that and other violence. Also, Iraq launched a new U.S.-built patrol boat, the first of its expanding fleet, at the Umm Qasr naval base. In Baghdad, six people were wounded when a bomb, targeting a car carrying the head of a minister of parliament's office, exploded near a Saadoun petrol station. One person was killed and seven others were wounded during a blast in Karrada. A bomb wounded three in Mansour. Another bomb wounded three more in Beirut Square. On Airport Road, gunmen killed an employee of the Integrity Ministry, while a Culture Ministry employee died of wounds received in a shooting in Amiriya. At least three other people were wounded in separate small arms attacks. A large weapons cache was discovered in Zayouna. No casualties were so far reported after a mortar strike in the Green Zone.

PressTV-Cine Politics-"South of the Border" Posted: 26 Sep 2010 08:05 AM PDT In this Edition of Press TV's Cine Politics the documentary "South of the Border", directed by Oliver Stone, is discussed. In this documentary, the filmmaker attempts to shed light on Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, a man the US has called a dictator and an enemy of US interests abroad. Stone traverses the continent and speaks to a group known as the new Bolivarians. Including in this group are Evo Morales, de Kirchner of Argentina, Lula of Brazil among others. Stone paints Chavez and other Bolivarians as the victims of US government smear campaign. Chavez is one of the few who has been able to reach independence from the US hand over Latin America. A lot of support for Chavez comes from the people. One of the guests believes that Venezuela\'s relationship with Iran worries the US because of the economic ties between the two and not necessarily a military strategy to wage some kind of terrorist war on the US. Economically the US is being challenged, not militarily. And it is dangerous for Washington because this relationship can make the US lose its hegemony. The film shows how these new Bolivarians have stood up to the US and the IMF.

America's Undeclared War on Pakistan: Deadly Drone Attacks Reach Record High Posted: 26 Sep 2010 07:49 AM PDT On September 25 three missiles fired from a U.S. Predator drone killed four people near the capital of North Waziristan in Pakistan's Federally Administered Tribal Areas, marking at least the 16th such attack in the country so far this month. This September has seen the largest amount of American unmanned aerial vehicle - drone - attacks in Pakistan and the most deaths resulting from them of any month in the nine-year war waged by the United States and its North Atlantic Treaty Organization allies in Afghanistan and, though insufficiently acknowledged, increasingly in Pakistan.

Aid to the Palestinians and the Israeli Economy Posted: 26 Sep 2010 07:31 AM PDT Palestinian Economic Dependency on Israel, published on the Alternative Information Center's website on 23 September 2010, briefly mentioned official development assistance (ODA) to Palestinians. This article will elaborate more fully on foreign aid to the Palestinians, particularly in relation to the Israeli economy.

Fed Will Purchase Almost $3 Trillion In Treasurys And Set The Stage For The Monetary Endgame Posted: 26 Sep 2010 07:28 AM PDT Recently the debate over when QE2 will occur has taken a back seat over the question of what the implications of the Fed's latest intervention in monetary policy will be, as it is now certain that Bernanke will attempt a fresh round of monetary stimulus to prevent the recent deceleration in the economy from transforming into outright deflation. Whether or not the Fed will decide to engage in QE2 on its November 3 meeting, or as others have suggested December 14, and maybe even as far out as January 25, the actual event is now a certainty. And while many have discussed this topic in big picture terms, most notably David Tepper, who on Friday stated that no matter what, stocks will benefit from QE2, few if any have actually considered what the impact of QE2 will be on the Fed's balance sheet, and how the change in composition in Fed assets will impact all marketable asset classes. We have conducted a rough analysis on how QE2 will reshape the Fed's balance sheet. We were stunned to realize that over the next 6 months the Fed may be the net buyer of nearly $3 trillion in Treasurys, an action which will likely set off a chain of events which could result in rates dropping all the way to zero, stocks surging, and gold (and other precious metals) going from current price levels to well in the 5 digit range.

Analysis: a sink or swim coalition Posted: 26 Sep 2010 07:06 AM PDT Many months into the coalition's reign, and yet none of the parties in Westminster seem to have found the answer to the simple yet complicated question: How does politics work in a coalition? Kenneth Clarke, the justice secretary, commented to the effect that Britain imprisons too many people. This was followed by a wide-ranging speech on foreign policy by William Hague, the foreign secretary, who refused to disparage the European Union. For many members of the Tory Party, that all sounded very Liberal Democrat.

Comment: Pope, a close encounter Posted: 26 Sep 2010 06:58 AM PDT Pope Benedict XVI's visit to Britain is the first papal visit since 1982, when Pope John Paul the second's six-day tour saw a huge turn-out. The visit comes following an extended formal invitation by the then Britain's Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, in February 2009, drawing much diverse opinion within the officially Protestant state that enjoys highly secular values. These views have been reflected by British and Irish mainstream media, and can be traced in its newspapers.

The Agenda-License to Kill Posted: 26 Sep 2010 06:47 AM PDT This program raises the question whether the US and other Western countries should be given the license to kill. Some are vocally critical of those countries for extrajudicial killing. The US had the highest rate of those kinds of killing during the past years. Some recent ones are the assassination of Hamas members and others in the Middle East. But the phenomenon is by means linked to the Twin Towers bombing and precedes the terrorist attack. In this Edition of The Agenda this Western License to Kill is discussed.

Poor America: How did we end up here? Posted: 26 Sep 2010 06:32 AM PDT Who or what is to blame for the growing level of poverty in America, which already is at its highest in over 50 years? Lori "The Resident" Harfenist has been assessing people's views on the current US economic situation.

Comment: Taliban, a cold war legacy Posted: 26 Sep 2010 06:03 AM PDT 27 September is the anniversary of fall of Kabul The capital of Afghanistan to extremist Taliban militia in 1996. Taliban forces consolidated their grip on Kabul on this day, after storming the presidential palace. Inspired by the Saudi Wahabi scholars, the Taliban wanted to make Afghanistan the world's purest Islamic state. A bloody wave of killings and amputations were introduced by the extremist group. only 3 countries recognised the hardliners as the legitimate rulers of Afghanistan Pakistan , Saudi Arabia and United Arab Emirates .

Did 9/11 Really "Change Everything"? Or Was It Simply an Excuse to Implement Exisiting War Plans Posted: 26 Sep 2010 05:36 AM PDT The Afghanistan war was planned before 9/11 (see this and this). The decision to launch the Iraq war was made before 9/11. Indeed, former CIA director George Tenet said that the White House wanted to invade Iraq long before 9/11, and inserted "crap" in its justifications for invading Iraq. Former Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill - who sat on the National Security Council - also says that Bush planned the Iraq war before9/11. And top British officials say that the U.S. discussed Iraq regime change one month after Bush took office

Computerized War Crimes: CIA used pirated, inaccurate software to target drone attacks Posted: 26 Sep 2010 05:32 AM PDT 'They want to kill people with my software that doesn't work,' software exec tells court The CIA used illegally pirated software to direct Predator drone attacks, despite apparently knowing the software was inaccurate, according to documents in an intellectual property lawsuit. The lawsuit, working its way through a Massachusetts court, alleges that the CIA purchased a pirated and inaccurate version of a location analysis program, which may have incorrectly located targets by as much as 42 feet.

One of History's Greatest Crimes Posted: 26 Sep 2010 03:30 AM PDT America's hidden history is ugly and disturbing. No nation ever matched it. To Iraq alone, over the past two decades, it includes ongoing genocide, destruction, terror, occupation, and contamination - a horrendous combination of crimes, unmentioned in Western discourse. Environmental Engineering Professor Souad N. Al-Azzawi documents them, including in her report titled, "Crime of the Century: Iraq's Occupation and DU Contamination," a detailed account of US culpability.

Syria-Israel negotiations are in a deep sleep Posted: 26 Sep 2010 02:30 AM PDT As the negotiations focus is fixed firmly on what is happening between the Israelis and the Palestinians, news is filtering through of some unexpected moves by the US administration to kick-start the long stalled Israel-Syria peace talks. Senator George Mitchell's visit to Damascus to meet Syria's President Bashar Al-Assad, coinciding with shuttle visits to the region by a French envoy, suggests that something is afoot. That this is Mr. Mitchell's first trip to Damascus in 18 months, during which he has visited other capitals in the region more than twenty times adds to the speculation.

US accused of Yemen proxy detention Posted: 26 Sep 2010 02:08 AM PDT When Sharif Mobley, an American citizen living in Yemen, went to the shops on the morning of January 26 this year, his family had no idea that it was the start of a chain of events that would lead to him being accused of murder and facing potential execution. As he drank tea on a Sana'a street, eight masked men burst from two white vans and tried to grab him. Terrified, he ran, but was brought crashing to the ground by two bullets to his legs and bundled into one of the vans.

Riz Khan - The global HIV/Aids epidemic Posted: 26 Sep 2010 01:32 AM PDT Funding priorities have changed for many countries during these tough economic times and contributions to the global Aids fund have suffered as a result. At the same time, HIV infection rates are rising rapidly in many parts of the world. On this episode of the Riz Khan show we ask: Has the world turned its back on the HIV/Aids crisis?

Talks now uncertain Posted: 25 Sep 2010 11:03 PM PDT Israel and the Palestinian Authority (PA) continue to assert near diametrically opposed stances with regards to virtually all core issues, including conditions for the continuation of talks. This week, PA President Mahmoud Abbas, who is coming under a hail of criticisms from Palestinian and Arab quarters for succumbing to Israeli and American bullying, has warned that he won't continue "a single day" of direct peace talks with Israel if the latter refuses to extend an eight-month settlement expansion freeze, due to expire next week.

Undying legacy Posted: 25 Sep 2010 11:03 PM PDT Hoda Abdel-Nasser has an admission to make about the politics of her father, Gamal Abdel-Nasser who died 40 years ago this week. He is the man with whom her name will forever be linked, not only because she is his biological daughter, but because she believes in his ideological conviction. "His legacy lives on to this day. His memory is alive. His tireless effort to uplift his people from poverty is an exemplary effort in self-sacrifice. It is for this reason that I am busy documenting his works, deeds and speeches. I am his literary executrix and I have a historic duty to immortalise his name."

Israel kills as it talks Posted: 25 Sep 2010 11:03 PM PDT Israeli occupation forces have killed a Palestinian man in the northern West Bank in what eyewitnesses and neighbours described as "a cold-blooded murder" and "extrajudicial" execution. The murder took place at the Noor Shams Refugee Camp on 17 September in an area that is supposed to be under the control of the Palestinian Authority (PA).

Boycotting apartheid Posted: 25 Sep 2010 11:03 PM PDT In July, in Rachel Corrie's hometown of Olympia, Washington state, the popular Food Co-op announced that no Israeli products would be sold at its two grocery stores. Archbishop Desmond Tutu, a principal endorser of this new Israel Divestment Campaign, issued a statement endorsing the boycott. "The Olympia Food Co-op has joined a growing worldwide movement on the part of citizens and the private sector to support by non-violent tangible acts the Palestinian struggle for justice and self-determination." In a surprise move in August, Harvard University divested itself of all its Israel investments, almost $40 million worth of shares, including Pharmaceutical Industries, NICE Systems, Check Point Software Technologies, Cellcom Israel and Partner Communications. Initially, Harvard gave no explanation for its actions to the SEC. John Longbrake, spokesman for Harvard, maintained that Harvard has not divested from Israel, that these changes were routine and did not represent a change in policy. But was Harvard in fact caving under BDS calls and trying to do so as quietly as possible to avoid a Zionist backlash? In the past, Harvard has divested from companies for purely political reasons, but they did so publicly. For instance, five years ago, Harvard divested from PetroChina in order to protest China's actions in Sudan.

A change of heart in Damascus Posted: 25 Sep 2010 11:03 PM PDT Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad made an unannounced trip to Syria on Saturday, stopping off for talks with the country's president, Bashar Al-Assad, at Damascus airport on his way to Algeria for an official visit. Some observers have speculated that the visit could have been connected to earlier visits to the country by US Middle East envoy George Mitchell and French envoy Jean-Claude Cousseran. However, according to a press release from the Syrian presidency, the brief one-hour meeting between the two presidents dealt with "bilateral relations and the need to increase economic and development cooperation between the two countries, especially on strategic issues," as well as "the importance of ending the stalemate in Iraq and forming a government in order to maintain Iraq's unity, stability and security and rebuild the country so it can regain its role in the Arab and regional arenas and enhance regional economic cooperation."

Special: Zionist dialectics: Past and future Posted: 25 Sep 2010 11:03 PM PDT My God! Is this the end? Is this the goal for which our fathers have striven and for whose sake all generations have suffered? Is this the dream of a return to Zion which our people have dreamt for centuries: that we now come to Zion to stain its soil with innocent blood? -- Ahad Ha'am, 1921 This study has employed a dialectical framework for analysing the destabilising logic of Zionism. We have examined this logic as it has unfolded through time, driven by the vision of an exclusionary colonialism, drawing into its circuit -- aligned with it and against it -- nations, peoples, forces, and civilisations whose actions and interactions impinge on the trajectory of Zionism, and in turn who are changed by this trajectory.

Who is negotiating with whom? Posted: 25 Sep 2010 11:03 PM PDT The Israeli-Palestinian talks taking place under the auspices of the United States highlight a denial of reality and a shocking ignorance of international relations by the parties involved. More than providing any chance of a just solution to the Palestinian problem, the talks offer an opportunity to evaluate the credibility and legitimacy of the various actors in the process. They are an opportunity for the Palestinian people, the Arab community, the Islamic community, and the international community at large to review the integrity of participants and to learn lessons that might make a solution possible in the future. Some of these lessons are already apparent.

Clegg Now Singing off Zionist Hymn-sheet Posted: 25 Sep 2010 06:52 PM PDT In the space of a few short years Nick Clegg has shot from obscurity to stardom in British politics, joining Conservative leader David "I'm-a-Zionist" Cameron at the head of Britain's new coalition government. Clegg, the leader of the Liberal Democrats, is deputy prime minister and gets to play PM from time to time, like now when Dave appears to still be enjoying a perk that's laughably called 'paternity leave'.

The Hesder Quiz: Where is Israel? Posted: 25 Sep 2010 06:40 PM PDT Here is something you're not likely to see on evening newscasts or your home town newspapers: A July 28, 2010 survey of Israeli religious school teachers, designed to gauge their level of education, was conducted by Yediot Ahronot, Israel's largest newspaper. The conclusions were shocking. One young teacher described the Jewish religious school, called a Hesder, where he works one hour per week and earns $300 monthly as follows: "We do not teach math, science, English, history or literature. After morning prayer, we teach the Torah only."

On Voting for Bad Democrats: the Perriello Predicament Posted: 25 Sep 2010 06:21 PM PDT What if you told your local congress critter you'd oppose them if they funded more war, and they funded more war, but their opponent is even worse and a Republican? Tom Perriello, first-term Democratic congress member from Virginia's Fifth district, is widely expected to lose his reelection bid, in part because he voted for a healthcare bill. Right wingers in the district hated the bill for doing anything at all. Others of us who want to eliminate the health insurance corporations, as other wealthy countries have done, thought it was a terrible bill and quite possibly worse than nothing, as it empowers and entrenches the problem even while imposing some reforms.

Dismantling the Empire – Book Review Posted: 25 Sep 2010 06:18 PM PDT That the empire has caused much trouble and is in trouble itself has been well documented and well explained by many current authors. Chalmers Johnson, who wrote Blowback - at the time an unheralded piece of research - and two more volumes, Sorrows of Empire and Nemesis that became the Blowback trilogy, has since written a series of essays that are concise, clear, hard-hitting, and undeniably for Dismantling the Empire.

'A Just Peace For Palestine' Conference in India Posted: 25 Sep 2010 05:37 PM PDT The two-day BDS Movement conference on A Just Peace For Palestine concluded on September 22-23 in Ne Delhi (India). The very country whose spiritual leader Mahtama Gandhi was against the creation of a state for the European Jews – now could be about to give birth to a second Zionist state. The Conference was conference was jointly organized by the Committee for Solidarity with Palestine, Palestine BDS National Committee, All India Peace and Solidarity Organisation and other like-minded organisations. All the speakers emphasised that until the Israeli oppression of Palestine people ends, the much sought after 'two-state solution' will never get realised. The Conference gave a united call for academic and cultural boycott of Israel.

Saturday: 2 US Soldiers, 3 Iraqis Killed; 16 Iraqis Wounded Posted: 25 Sep 2010 01:41 PM PDT At least three Iraqis were killed and 16 others were wounded in new attacks. Separately, two U.S. soldiers were killed and a third one was injured during a non-combat event. Further underscoring the ongoing U.S. presence in Iraq, a leading Sunni cleric urged Arab leaders to boycott the Arab summit next March in Baghdad, in protest of this continuing U.S. occupation. The Iraqiya party, which won the most seats in March elections, reiterated their rejection of incumbent Nouri al-Maliki's return as prime minister. Meanwhile, Iraq's vice-presidents agreed to launch "brave initiatives" they believe could hasten the formation of the new government.

IAEA Adopts Atomic Weapons in the Middle East Posted: 25 Sep 2010 01:01 PM PDT The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA's) 54th General Conference of Member States concluded yesterday, Friday September 24 2010, in Vienna. The member states of the (IAEA) voted on a draft resolution introduced by the Arab States calling for Israel to join the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT). The United States and its major allies, the European States and some small western countries, who called for a Middle East free from "weapons of mass destruction", allied themselves over the past three days by holding continuous meetings and gatherings outside the hall where the 54 IAEA General Conference was held at the UN headquarters in Vienna, in order to thwart the resolution introduced by the Arab States. Forty-six delegations voted in favor of the resolution, 51 against it and 23 others abstained from voting in the 151-member General Assembly of the IAEA.

Obama at the UN: The Arrogant Voice of Imperialism Posted: 25 Sep 2010 11:51 AM PDT President Barack Obama used his speech at the United Nations General Assembly Thursday to defend US wars and state terror abroad and to proclaim that the economic crisis has been resolved thanks to his Wall Street bailout. The US president received a noticeably tepid response from the assembled UN delegates. While in his first address to the body last year, he was able to pose as a fresh alternative to the crimes carried out by the Bush administration, by now it has become clear to most on the international stage that his administration's policies are largely in continuity with those of its predecessor.

Will Stuxnet Malware Be Used In False Flag Attack? Posted: 25 Sep 2010 11:09 AM PDT http://img.youtube.com/vi/S6bG8Db09sY/0.jpg Iran has admitted today that Stuxnet malware has infected its industrial computer system. "An IT official of Iran's mines and metals ministry told the Mehr news agency that 30,000 computers belonging to industrial units have already been infected by the virus," reports Deutsche Presse-Agentur today. "Mahmoud Alyaie told Mehr that the Iranian industrial control systems are made by Siemens and the Stuxnet is designed to attack exactly these systems and transfer classified data abroad."

Frost over the World - Bill Gates Posted: 25 Sep 2010 09:55 AM PDT The founder of Microsoft and the US' wealthiest man talks about faith, philanthropy and the technology that will change the future.

Rothschild and CIA Publications Attack "Constitution-worshipers" Posted: 25 Sep 2010 09:27 AM PDT The editors of the Economist have declared constitutionalists mentally ill. "Indeed, there is something infantile in the belief of the constitution-worshipers that the complex political arguments of today can be settled by simple fidelity to a document written in the 18th century," the editors wrote on September 23. "When history is turned into scripture and men into deities, truth is the victim." The Economist is owned by members of the Rothschild banking family of England. It is run by the Economist Group, a known CIA front.

The Listening Post - Kashmiris left out in the cold Posted: 25 Sep 2010 09:12 AM PDT On The Listening Post this week: Kashmiris are frozen out by mainstream media coverage after a summer of violence and the great new hope for independent press in Italy.

Race Supremacy: Revealing Hatred Posted: 25 Sep 2010 09:09 AM PDT Donning swastikas and brown shirts, or long white robes and hoods, the attendees of a white supremacist rally are without a doubt a disquieting and memorable sight. Coated with heavy symbolism that pierces deep into the darkest shadows of America's racial history, Klan members, neo-Nazis, and other right wing extremists are easily passed off by most as simply members of a "hate group". But in order to combat the existence of these organizations, we must first understand them. How do members of these groups acquire their beliefs? How does the white supremacist movement exist now, in a country where it is considered by many to be a relic of the past? And what are its goals for the future? On the other side of the coin, what is it like to be a victim of violence perpetrated by this movement? Or what is it like to attempt to infiltrate or monitor right wing extremism, despite the dangers? The film "Revealing Hate" will attempt to answer some of these questions, through telling the stories of those who have prosecuted, photographed, protested, infiltrated, and even participated in these organizations. Each individual's story, told separately in a vignette style, will shed more light on these philosophies that continue to run deep within the fringes of our society.

Inside Story - France and al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb Posted: 25 Sep 2010 09:06 AM PDT France has vowed to mobilise all of its resources to free the French hostages held by al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb.

Intelligence Report Envisions "Designing Humans With Unique Abilities" Under Global Governance Regime Posted: 25 Sep 2010 08:59 AM PDT Recently a document was disclosed by the grace of the Freedom of Information Act entitled Global Governance 2025: At a Critical Juncture. The document, written by the American National Intelligence Council (NIC) and the European Union's Institute for Security Studies (EUISS), outlines the agenda from now to 2025 for global government. It discusses the many obstacles in the quest for achieving global government and discusses the possibility, the desirability, of "designing humans with unique physical, emotional, or cognitive abilities." "While not being policy prescriptive, the report shares a strong belief—as exemplified by multilateralist approaches of the US and EU governments to resolving global problems such as the recent financial crisis—that global challenges will require global solutions.", the document reads.

September 11: Towards a UN inquiry commission Posted: 25 Sep 2010 07:21 AM PDT On September 11, 2001 the world watched helplessly as the attacks that plunged the United States into mourning took place. Against all logic, the Bush Administration attributed them to an Islamist plot hatched by a group of fanatics inside a cave in Afghanistan. This accusation was exploited to justify a war against terrorism that was to start in Afghanistan and Iraq and extend, according to President Bush, to 60 countries.

PressTV-Comment with George Galloway-Viva Palestina Posted: 25 Sep 2010 07:14 AM PDT Viva Palestina 5 convoy is on its way. It has just landed in Greece. Press TV's Hassan al-Khatib is with the convoy. Egyptian government has made threats against the convoy and have said they will not allow him to land in Sinai. Let's watch and see what George Galloway and his viewers have to say about Viva Palestina.

Policy chaos, military muscle: Why US will never win Afghan war Posted: 25 Sep 2010 07:03 AM PDT With about 50 to 100 Al-Qaeda members in Afghanistan altogether, the US is spending over a billion dollars annually fighting each of them, estimated ex-marine officer Matthew Hoh, head of the Afghan Study Group. "One of the major problems with the US foreign policy is that we are not consistent," blamed Hoh, explaining that America is withdrawing troops from Iraq where the quantity of Al Qaeda members is many times higher than in Afghanistan.

9/11 – Obama lives in 'self-denial' Posted: 25 Sep 2010 06:46 AM PDT Ben Obama on Friday condemned as "hateful" and "excuseable" suggestions by Iranianian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad that the US government may have been behind the September 11, 2001 attacks. Dr. Ahmadinejad's response to the 'self-denials' was that they should have the moral courage "to listen".

Euro Doom: Germany wants Deutschmark back Posted: 25 Sep 2010 06:11 AM PDT In spring indebted nations such as Greece, Portugal and Spain nearly dragged the Euro zone into the abyss. It was only a seven hundred and fifty billion Euro bailout package that maintained the shaky balance. But many experts still believe what we've witnessed, is the beginning of the end. Some of them have gathered in Berlin. RT's Laura Emmett talks to Jurgen Elsasser, one of the organizers of the Euro conference.

Arabs face discrimination in Israel Posted: 25 Sep 2010 04:59 AM PDT Discrimination faced by Palestinians living within Israel's borders remains one of the key sticking points in Middle East peace talks. Umm al-Fahm is a town made up almost entirely of Palestinian Israelis - those who found themselves within the new border when Israel was created in 1948. Israel's declaration of independence, the equivalent of a constitution, states that all citizens are equal but the one-fifth of the population who are Palestinian, believe they are less equal than others. Al Jazeera's Dan Nolan reports from Umm al-Fahm, Israel.

Assassination of Pakistani political figure in London linked to CIA, Mossad, and RAW Posted: 25 Sep 2010 04:32 AM PDT The assassination on September 16 of exiled Pakistani Muttahida Quami Movement (MQM) [United National Movement] leader Imran Farooq outside of his Edgware, London home has been linked to the ongoing joint CIA-Israeli Mossad-Indian Research and Analysis Wing (RAW) Pakistan destabilization program, according to WMR's Asian intelligence sources who have been closely monitoring the attempts by the three foreign intelligence agencies to bring about chaos in Pakistan.

Obama speaks at the UN… Goodbye to peace Posted: 25 Sep 2010 03:52 AM PDT On marks out of ten for his speech to the UN on the subject of ending the conflict in and over Palestine that became Israel, I'd give President Obama minus five. Earlier this month (on 4 September) I wrote a piece with the headline Obama has signalled his coming complete surrender to Zionism and its lobby. That surrender, it seems to me, is now effectively a fait accompli.

Independent Committee of Experts on Gaza War Posted: 25 Sep 2010 03:02 AM PDT On September 21, the UN Human Rights Council's independent fact finding Committee issued its report titled, "No Safe Place," assessing "investigat(ions) and report(s) on violations of human rights law and international humanitarian law during" Operation Cast Lead.

US Could Be Alone as Europe Turns Inward Posted: 24 Sep 2010 11:00 PM PDT The relationship between Western Europe and the colonies that became the United States was complicated from the beginning, when the North American settlements were mere appendages of the European powers, and were drawn into their conflicts – King William III's and Queen Anne's wars, the French and Indian war involving the Iroquois, and then the American colonial revolt against England. Three decades later, the reprise of the war with England afforded the new United States an opportunity to rebuild its burned national capitol and the city of Washington. Today's relationship with Europe is again complicated, more complicated than many think because there is a slow but clear erosion, and growing distrust on both sides, produced by the American unwillingness to give up its assumption that the states of the European Union remain the respectful satellites they have been during most of the period since World War II. The situation of the colonial period is to a degree reversed, with America's European allies in reaction against America's imperial wars.

One and a Half Cheers for American Decline Posted: 24 Sep 2010 11:00 PM PDT Compare two assessments of the American future: In the latest NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll in which 61 percent of Americans interviewed considered "things in the nation" to be "on the wrong track," 66 percent did "not feel confident that life for our children's generation will be better than it has been for us." (Seven percent were "not sure," and only 27 percent "felt confident.") But here was the polling question you're least likely to see discussed in your local newspaper or by Washington-based pundits: "Do you think America is in a state of decline, or do you feel that this is not the case?" Sixty-five percent of respondents chose as their answer: "in a state of decline."

The Terrorism Fraud Posted: 24 Sep 2010 11:00 PM PDT "Terrorism" has become the most abused word in the English language.  The fear of terrorism has driven explosive growth in the United States government, has led to two wars in the past ten years with possibly several more waiting in the wings, and has resulted in the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people.  Terrorism is a tactic, not an enemy.  It consists of attacking a largely civilian population to demoralize it and reduce its willingness to resist either an aggressor or an occupying power.  It has been used extensively in the twentieth century and so far into the twenty-first century because it is a force equalizer.  It enables a resistance movement or a group seeking a change in government to attack a much larger and more powerful opponent.  Because it has that ability to engage asymmetrically, one can expect that terror tactics will continue to be with us for the foreseeable future.

After Empire Posted: 24 Sep 2010 11:00 PM PDT The spring of 2003 may have been the high point of the American Empire. The very next year, the fiasco of the Iraq invasion prompted the self-described "neoliberal" Michael Lind to complain on the pages of Financial Times that Bush the Lesser's bumbling ways have ruined imperialism: "Neoliberalism, like neoconservatism, depended on the mystique of American power… Without US forces doing the heavy lifting in UN or Nato interventions, the ambitious neoliberal strategy of muscular internationalism becomes impossible."

Obama Knows the War is Dumb, but Prefers Power Over Peace Posted: 24 Sep 2010 11:00 PM PDT One thing that comes through clearly in Bob Woodward's new book, Obama's Wars, is the contempt felt by Gen. David Petraeus, commander of U.S. and NATO troops in Afghanistan, toward President Barack Obama. One of Woodward's more telling vignettes has Petraeus, after quaffing a glass of wine during a flight in May, telling some of his staff that the administration was "[expletive] with the wrong guy."

It Is Official: The US Is A Police State Posted: 24 Sep 2010 11:00 PM PDT On September 24, Jason Ditz reported on Antiwar.com that "the FBI is confirming that this morning they began a number of raids against the homes of antiwar activists in Illinois, Minneapolis, Michigan, and North Carolina, claiming that they are 'seeking evidence relating to activities concerning the material support of terrorism.'" Now we know what Homeland Security (sic) secretary Janet Napolitano meant when she said on September 10: "The old view that 'if we fight the terrorists abroad, we won't have to fight them here'  is just that — the old view."  The new view, Napolitano said, is "to counter violent extremism right here at home."

Dissecting Obama's UN speech Posted: 24 Sep 2010 09:48 PM PDT Barack Obama, the US president, has urged countries in the United Nations to get behind Middle East peace efforts in an address at the UN General Assembly. But Ali Hasan Abunimah, a Palestinian-American journalist and co-founder of Electronic Intifada, an independent web site about the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, said Obama's speech did not represent anything new. "That bodes very ill for the peace process that he's so invested in," Abunimah told Al Jazeera's Shihab Rattansi, speaking from the US state of Indiana. "Let's judge him not by what he says, but what he does."

"Why aren't the Bedouins treated like Jewish citizens?" Posted: 24 Sep 2010 08:17 PM PDT The Palestinian Bedouin village of al-Araqib was destroyed for the fifth time in two months on 13 September. Villagers and their supporters watched as it took less than an hour for three bulldozers and at least a hundred police officers to raze the entire community, located just outside of Beersheba in the Negev desert. Jillian Kestler-D'Amours interviews Ismael Abu Saad, Associate Professor at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev and the founder of the university's Center for Bedouin Studies and Development, about the history of Bedouin communities and Israeli policy in the region, and the strength of resistance in al-Araqib.

Press TV's Waqar Rizvi talks to Mark Dankof Ahmadinejad's Remarks Posted: 24 Sep 2010 07:58 PM PDT Press TV's Waqar Rizvi talks to Mark Dankof Ahmadinejad's Remarks

Alex Jones Talks About The ADL Attacking Him Posted: 24 Sep 2010 07:30 PM PDT Alex Jones Talks About The ADL Attacking Him

Aafia Siddiqui – Victim of Zionist justice Posted: 24 Sep 2010 05:07 PM PDT On September 23, a Zionist Jew Judge Richard Berman sentenced Pakistani citizen and mother of three Dr. Aafia Siddiqui to 86 year in prison. Dr. Aafia Siddiqui is MIT educated scientist and victim of rape at the hand of her captors, in Afghanistan and the US. After the sentencing, when her lawyer said that he will appeal against the verdict – she denounced the trail and said an appeal would be "a waste of time. I appeal to Allah". Now compare Berman's judgement with another Jew Judge Michael B. Mukasey (later promoted to become US Attorney General), who set free 140 Israelis arrested for espionage in the US (ABC News 20/20) after 9/11. How about the Jewish campaign in support of Sakineh Mohammadi-Ashtiani, the Iranian woman sentenced for adultery – proving that in American justice, being raped is a serious crime while having sex out of marriage is a 'civilized act'.

Feds Expand War On Terror, Raid Communist Antiwar Activists Posted: 24 Sep 2010 02:38 PM PDT Following the absurd hyperbole of senior Obama administration officials earlier this week warning that the CIA's Night of the Walking Dead cave dwellers will attempt small scale attacks against the United States, the FBI's Joint Terrorism Task Force dispatched SWAT teams to the homes of antiwar activists in Minneapolis and Chicago in order to keep alive and expand the terrorism mantra

Why an Underwear Bomber Trial with an Entrapment Defense Would be One of the Greatest Events in U.S. History Posted: 24 Sep 2010 11:15 AM PDT It has been nearly nine months since Lori and I were almost killed by the Underwear Bomber, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab. For the first few months, Lori and I were very vocal over the media blackout and corresponding cover up to the real story of the Christmas Day events. If anyone is not familiar with our experience, our story can be read here in this blog. For the past few months, we have chosen to sit back and watch as the trial, or lack thereof, plays out in the courthouse we regularly practice in. While the media blackout to the true events continues, the failed attack on our credibility has been replaced with deafening silence as to our eyewitness account. To us, this matter has never been about seeking vengeance against the Underwear Bomber. When taking our eyewitness account and adding it to the small amount of honest facts that have come out, one can only recognize the Underwear Bomber as a mere patsy. It is quite shocking that, thus far, the Underwear Bomber hasn't been forever silenced as other patsies that have come before him.

Establishment Reacts To Ahmadinejad 9/11 Controversy Like Kid Caught With Hand In Cookie Jar Posted: 24 Sep 2010 10:27 AM PDT The reaction of establishment politicians and their corporate media mouthpieces to Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's comments about 9/11 is akin to that of a guilty child caught with his hand in the cookie jar and chocolate smeared all over his face. The move to inflate the situation by creating a media circus will ultimately backfire as more people discover that, unfortunately, the Iranian President's comments, although cloaked in an ever present anti-Israel sentiment, are accurate.

Friday: 1 Iraqi Killed, 13 Wounded Posted: 24 Sep 2010 10:13 AM PDT Updated at 7:55 p.m. EDT, Sept. 24, 2010 At least one Iraqi was killed and 13 more were wounded in light violence. Meanwhile, Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari announced that full diplomatic ties with Syria will be resumed. Also, for the first time since the invasion of Iraq, more contractors have died in the country than have U.S. troops.

Even your best friends won't tell you Posted: 24 Sep 2010 10:09 AM PDT As I remember, that has been a headline for everything from bad breath to dandruff sufferers to those suffering from body odors. The headline was ideal shame-making for manufacturers of mouthwashes, dandruff shampoos, deodorants and antiperspirants. And now it applies to our purported worst enemy, the President of Iran Mahmoud Ahmedinejad. That is, he's telling us what none of our "best friends" in our government are saying, "that the American government may have been behind the 9/11 attack." After being greeted by a round of applause as he entered the U.N. General Assembly yesterday, September 23, Ahmedinejad was applauded again after his remarks. During his General Assembly address he called for a "U.N. fact finding group to investigate 9/11." I hope their findings (if a group should ever come about) won't be treated like the fact-finding results of Hans Blix, head of the UN's United Nations Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission. His claims of no WMD in Hussein's Iraq were ignored. As were the claims of orthodox Jewish Justice Richard Goldstone's report on Zionist overkill in Gaza.

Old media raises a fuss over web aggregators Posted: 24 Sep 2010 09:29 AM PDT It must sting a little bit for the "old media" to see the growing trend of news-and-information seekers going to websites like the Drudge Report, The Huffington Post, WorldNetDaily, Infowars and, dare I say it, Oklahoma Watchdog, when they seek hard-hitting news stories. Indeed that "sting" has chafed Leonard Downie Jr., the former executive editor and current vice president-at-large of The Washington Post. The Post, a paper that seems to live in the past, has a website that has been trounced by the more popular Huffington Post, a left-leaning news and entertainment website. HuffPo also blew past The New York Times website in terms of traffic earlier this year.

Clinton missing the big picture Posted: 24 Sep 2010 08:48 AM PDT In the coming week or so, the Obama administration will release its much-anticipated Quadrennial Diplomacy and Development Review (QDDR), a new report instituted by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to benchmark and frame a new approach to managing international development budgets and objectives. Behind the scenes, a serious battle has raged between the administration's development czars – and interestingly, while Hillary Clinton ended up prevailing in most of the key contests, she has yet to put her stamp on a more effective approach to 21st century international development and hasn't yet upgraded her own department's growing but mostly ignored nation-stabilizing, smart power team.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad: And now the hit pieces begin Posted: 24 Sep 2010 08:26 AM PDT Yesterday, at the annual United Nations General Assembly, the Iranian President, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, said in his address to the gathered world leaders that the "majority of the American people, as well as most nations and politicians around the world agree with this view" (that the attacks of September 11 2001 was an inside job). This not only causes the vast majority of the U.S. delegates to leave the hall in disgust, but it also causes the Main Stream Media to go into fits of panic as the news spreads that someone has the guts to stand up in the United Nations and say that the American Administration, under former President George W. Bush, committed the world's worst ever terrorist atrocity against their own citizens, and not only that, but that the majority of Americans know that they did it.

Who was behind the destruction of the WTC steel? Posted: 24 Sep 2010 08:11 AM PDT My forthcoming article focuses on the Mossad-run network behind the criminal destruction of the steel from the World Trade Center.  I have found that the network that arranged for the destruction of the steel - critical evidence from the crime scene - was organized by Israel's Mossad and their Zionist agents, the real culprits behind the false-flag terrorism that changed the world.

Congressional Food Fascism Legislation Posted: 24 Sep 2010 08:03 AM PDT On July 29, 2009, the House passed HR 2749: Food Safety Enhancement Act of 2009 "To amend the (1938 as amended) Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to improve the safety of food in the global market, and for other purposes." On March 3, 2009, S. 510: FDA Food Safety Modernization Act was introduced, the Senate's version of the House bill. It stalled after being assailed as anti-consumer and small farmer as well as failing to help food safety. In fact, like the House bill, it's cover for greater industry consolidation, destructive to consumer welfare.

The Mysterious Case of Iranian Nuclear Scientist Shahram Amiri. What was His Relationship to the CIA? Posted: 24 Sep 2010 08:02 AM PDT Iranian scientist Shahram Amiri disappeared in June of the last year in Saudi Arabia while on pilgrimage to Mecca. He left for Saudi Arabia on May 31st and his wife said that the last she heard from him was in a June 3 phone call.

Hamas versus Fatah: Impasse in the Peace Talks. Why Washington Says 'No': Hamas is Not Ready to be 'Engaged' Posted: 24 Sep 2010 07:34 AM PDT One key difference between Hamas and its rival, the Fatah movement in the West Bank, is that Hamas is accountable to a much more complex set of priorities and expectations. While Fatah is effortlessly co-opted, Hamas remains confined by ideological standards and the stringiest political space. Although, on one hand this represents Hamas' greatest strength, on the other it shows just how truly arduous is its political undertaking. The difference is relevant in light of the resumption of talks between Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Washington, followed by another round of talks in the Middle East. Both once more raised the question: can Israel and Fatah achieve peace without Hamas' involvement?

From Coexistence to Conquest: the international law origins of the Arab-Israeli conflict 1891 1949 Posted: 24 Sep 2010 07:30 AM PDT The Palestinian cause has been, and will remain the most important issue in the Arab world until it is resolved in accordance with international and humanitarian laws. Many people have approached the issue and have discussed it showing at times thought and knowledge, at times not; it has been discussed both intellectually and as an ideological anomaly. As a result many who have looked at this issue have paid the price by depriving the issue of its humanity, cutting the past from its roots and shrouding the present in a manner that does not fit its status. With all its components, the Zionist movement forms a strange ideology, fuelled by those whose feelings have united with their objectives, as the book illustrates, historically, politically and legally.

Gold Breaks Psychological Barrier Posted: 24 Sep 2010 07:15 AM PDT Gold has continued its astronomical ascent, reaching a new record-breaking high of $1,300 an ounce today. This is the fourth day of record high gold prices. Earlier in the week, the precious metal surged after Federal Reserve boss Bernanke said the banksters will provide extra "monetary stimulus" to boost the collapsing economy.

Expose Senator Schumer and Israeli Terrorism! Posted: 24 Sep 2010 07:14 AM PDT http://img.youtube.com/vi/npkCXsjQv_o/0.jpgDr. David Duke exposes Senator Chuck Schumer's support of Israeli terrorism. David Duke shows how Sen. Schumer is clearly guilty of violation of the Patriot Act and should be indicted under its provisions. The former member of the House of Representatives in Louisiana also shows how the extremist Zionists have so much power in American media and politics Israel can practically get away with anything. Murdering thousands of men, women and children, mass torture, ethnic cleansing, massacres such as Sabra and Shatilla, shooting down a civilian airliner, the peace flotilla murders, and even terrorist acts against the United States!

UN report on flotilla raid blisters Israel Posted: 24 Sep 2010 06:16 AM PDT The extensive and meticulous investigative report by the UN Human Rights Council on Israel's May 31 raid on the Free Gaza flotilla was released yesterday. Interviewing 112 survivors (but forbidden by Israel from questioning any of its commandoes), the report devastates Israel's claim of innocence—further damaging her international reputation. Here are selected passages from the UN's high-drama, fast moving account, beginning with attack on the Mavi Mamara and ending with abuse and humiliations of survivors before deportation from Israel.

Abdel Nasser Amer's "Intelligent dreams" Posted: 24 Sep 2010 05:51 AM PDT Abdel Nasser Amer is an artist who lives and works in the city of Khan Younis in the occupied Gaza Strip. During Israel's 2008-09 winter invasion of Gaza, Amer's studio and some of his art were destroyed. Amer won a competition for a six-month residency with the Swiss Visual Artists Association in Neuchatel, Switzerland where he is working on his latest project, Rehaan (intelligent dreams). The Electronic Intifada contributor Adri Nieuwhof interviews Amer to discuss his life and work.

How Sudan muzzles its media Posted: 24 Sep 2010 05:49 AM PDT Friday's special UN summit on Sudan, held three months ahead of a referendum on independence for the self-governed south of the country, is likely dominate news reports in the African nation. But as Sudanese journalists report the details of the meeting, they will have to be very careful of what they say. Authorities in Sudan have been accused of a campaign of harrassment and intimidation against the media aimed at avoiding dissenting coverage, and as political tensions rise over the possible secession of the south, rights groups are warning that an already muzzled media could be slapped with further reporting restrictions.

After the "Journey": UN Humanitarian Coordinator asks War Criminal Tony Blair: Why is Iraq in such a Mess? Posted: 24 Sep 2010 05:13 AM PDT You do not know me. Why should you? Or maybe you should have known me and the many other UN officials who struggled in Iraq when you prepared your Iraq policy. Reading the Iraq details of your "journey", as told in your memoir, has confirmed my fears. You tell a story of a leader, but not of a statesman. You could have, at least belatedly, set the record straight. Instead you repeat all the arguments we have heard before, such as why sanctions had to be the way they were; why the fear of Saddam Hussein outweighed the fear of crossing the line between concern for people and power politics; why Iraq ended up as a human garbage can. You preferred to latch on to Bill Clinton's 1998 Iraq Liberation Act and George W Bush's determination to implement it.

90% Of People To Be Removed: A Timeline Of World Population Control Posted: 24 Sep 2010 04:38 AM PDT It's just unfortunate that those in power who want the New World Order and population reduction can help prevent aspartame from being banned, but we have to keep trying and keep warning. Like Dr. Maria Alemany told me in Barcelona who did the Trocho Study, proving the formaldehyde from the free methyl alcohol embalms living tissue and damages DNA), aspartame will kill 200 million, maybe already has. '

Jones: Israel-bashers are "scum" Posted: 24 Sep 2010 04:35 AM PDT In a recent Youtube clip, talk show host Alex Jones describes himself as the most influential leader of the Patriot/Tea Party revolt, next to Rep. Ron Paul. Many would disagree. Yet he inarguably has the power to influence and mislead many. A tactic of the intellectually dishonest is to mock or defame their opponent instead of responding to their facts. On Youtube, Jones can be heard repeatedly using this strategy to oppose critics of Israel. "What I want to say is this…I support Israel. It is their land…it is the UN that has declared them terrorists. The UN supports groups that want to dissolve Israel…" (Youtube: 'Alex Jones - "I Support Israel Its Their Land" Zionism') Jones ignores the 65 years of abuse of Palestinians and violations of international law that cause the UN to criticize Israel. He vilifies other critics of the Jewish state: "I watch these Nazi and anti-Israel groups. They're a bunch of scum."(Youtube: 'Alex Jones on Israel critics: "weak minded idiots"...')

Ahmadinejad and the 9/11 attacks Posted: 24 Sep 2010 03:39 AM PDT Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the Iranian president, has again managed to steal the global spotlight, after levelling a series of rhetorical attacks on the US and Israel - the "Zionist entity" in his words - during an address to the UN General Assembly. Specifically, he told world leaders on Thursday that the "majority of the American people, as well as most nations and politicians around the world agree" that "some segments within the US government orchestrated" the September 11, 2001, attacks in order to "reverse the declining American economy" and to justify US military operations in the Middle East to "save the Zionist regime".

Democrats Want to Shake Down Fast Food Industry Posted: 24 Sep 2010 02:48 AM PDT http://www.davidduke.com/images/ester.jpg Obama often appoints czars for this and that, but the First "Lady" has become a rajah of restaurants, dictating to the American eating-out trade what they can serve. A recent news article reports, "First lady Michelle Obama is prodding the nation's restaurants to add more healthy options to menus, label those items more prominently and market nutritious foods to kids. Speaking to the National Restaurant Association on Monday, Mrs. Obama pleaded with restaurants small and large to take a little butter or cream out of their dishes, use low fat milk and provide apple slices or carrots as a default side dish on the kids' menu."

Guilty As Charged: UN Report on Gaza Flotilla Massacre Posted: 24 Sep 2010 02:47 AM PDT On September 22, Reuters headlined the news, saying: "UN Experts Condemn Israel Attack on Gaza Flotilla" It explained that the UN Human Rights Council's (HRC) "panel of international experts" concluded what was obvious on day one - that Israel's international water attack "was unlawful and resulted in violations of human rights and international humanitarian law...."

Equality -- or Freedom? Posted: 24 Sep 2010 12:00 AM PDT If you would understand why America has lost the dynamism she had in the 1950s and 1960s, consider the new Paycheck Fairness Act passed by the House 256 to 162. The need for such a law, writes Valerie Jarrett, the ranking woman in Barack Obama's White House, is that "working women are still paid only 77 cents for every dollar earned by a man."

Have you noticed mainstream health news getting crazier lately? Posted: 24 Sep 2010 12:00 AM PDT Mark your calendars. This week goes down in history as the most bizarre health news weeks in the history of the mainstream media. I've noticed more truly strange and illogical health stories this week from the conventional press than ever before, and I'll share a few of those with you below.

Protect yourself from Alzheimer's disease with cinnamon Posted: 24 Sep 2010 12:00 AM PDT Degenerative mental diseases like Alzheimer's and dementia continue to ravish the lives of millions around the world. And to make matters worse, the financial burden of caring for dementia patients now tops one percent of the entire world's gross domestic product (GDP). But there are ways to help prevent and treat serious mental decline, including simply eating lots of cinnamon.

'The coffee incident' Posted: 23 Sep 2010 11:03 PM PDT Gamal Abdel-Nasser's death 40 years ago still sparks debate in Egypt. Last week, in his weekly TV show on Al-Jazeera, political analyst Mohamed Hassanein Heikal marked the 40th anniversary of the late president's death by talking about his final days. Almost inevitably, he mentioned what he called "the incident of the Nile Hilton coffee", which occurred when Nasser was meeting the late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat as part of his mediation attempts between the Palestinians and Jordanians during the Black September crisis in 1970. Heikal said Nasser looked "so angry" during an argument with Arafat that Anwar El-Sadat, who was vice-president at the time, offered to prepare a cup of coffee himself. According to Heikal Sadat "ordered the president's chef out of the kitchen and made the coffee himself, which Nasser drank three days before he died".

Region: Colonialism, ethnic cleansing and the web Posted: 23 Sep 2010 11:03 PM PDT Despite the current façade of yet another round of fake peace talks, the Israeli government and its professional apologists remain in a panic. Hardly a week passes by without complaint that Israel "is being isolated" or that it is facing a campaign of "delegitimisation". In February of this year, the Reut Institute, an Israeli group-think tank, published a remarkably delusional, ahistorical piece of propaganda masquerading as a scholarly report and warning of an internationally concerted effort that seeks to "erode" Israel's diplomatic status and which "may develop into a comprehensive existential threat within a few years". In essence, any organisation or individual that dares criticise Israeli policy in the occupied Palestinian territories in particular is a de facto member of this dreaded network of delegitimisation. As with all Israeli hasbara (collective propaganda), the Reut Institute blames primarily Palestinian victims and secondarily those who report or publicise their plight.

Where is Israel? Posted: 23 Sep 2010 07:38 PM PDT Here is something you're not likely to see on evening newscasts or in your hometown newspapers: A July 28, 2010 survey of Israeli religious school teachers, designed to gauge their level of education, was conducted by Yediot Ahronot, Israel's largest newspaper. The conclusions were shocking. Are you ready for the results? Hold on to your seat!

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