Rebel Newsflash: Nato's Secret Armies (plus 30 more items) |  |
- Nato's Secret Armies
- Keiser Report №77: Global Debt Collapse
- Thou shalt not make Israel ‘a Pariah’
- The stealthy leader
- The freeze as a test
- Two States, One Holy Land: A Framework for Peace
- East Jerusalem Palestinians Denied Basic Rights
- All That You Have Done: Colonialism, Ethnic Cleansing and the Web
- A Medal for War Crimes
- The George W. Bush Memoir: Now Here’s a Book I Might Consider Burning
- 'Our situation worsens every day'
- Where has the hypocrisy gone?
- 'This is our last chance for peace'
- 'In whose name do they talk?'
- 'US - Israel's partner in crime, not a referee'
- Is Britain's new ambassador to Israel really going to be objective?
- AP's Robert Burns Playing Politics by Replacing "Settlement Freeze" With "Curb ...
- A Palestinian Story
- Obama Declares Another National Emergency When None Exists
- Academic research collaboration emboldens Israeli apartheid
- Nine years after September 11
- Press TV's Waqar Rizvi talks to Nashid Abdul-Khaaliq on Qur'an Desecration
- Erdogan – Making of a Muslim Attaturk
- Satan Resides in Framework Agreements
- Evidence Mounts of BP Spraying Toxic Dispersants
- Washington Rules – Book Review
- Gaza subjected to air strikes, water crisis
- Can Netanyahu manage expectations?
- Does international law have a future?
- No animals, no visitors at Gaza's lone zoo
- "They don't want our boys educated"
| Posted: 15 Sep 2010 01:09 PM PDT  In his book, "NATO's Secret Armies: Operation GLADIO and Terrorism in Western Europe," Daniele Ganser described their clandestine Cold War operations, run by European secret services, collaborating with NATO, the CIA and Britain's MI6 and Secret Intelligence Service (SIS) against a possible Soviet invasion, internal communist takeovers, or others on the political left gaining power. The network included France, Germany, Belgium, Norway, Denmark, Netherlands, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Turkey, Greece, Luxemburg, as well as politically neutral European countries - Austria, Finland, Sweden and Switzerland.
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| Keiser Report №77: Global Debt Collapse Posted: 15 Sep 2010 04:38 AM PDT
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| Thou shalt not make Israel ‘a Pariah’ Posted: 15 Sep 2010 04:03 AM PDT On September 13, 2010 – Ben Obama’s envoy to the United Nations atomic watchdog (IAEA), Glyn Davies, tried to blackmail the Arab countries by saying that if they insisted on Israel to join the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) (currently, Israel, India, Pakistan and N. Kores are the only nuclear powers which refuse to sign NPT) – “It will send a wrong signal” to the Zionist entity which has shown its desire to talk to the un-elected leaders of Palestinian nation for a possible “two-state” solution in the distant future. Washington’s warning came ahead of the coming 151-member NPT review meeting on September 20, 2010. The members of the Arab League are expected to resubmit its last year’s resolution – demanding that Israel must join NPT in order to establish a ‘nuclear-free Middle East’. Last year the resolution, backed by the Non-Aligned nations had received a ‘tentative approval’.  |
| Posted: 15 Sep 2010 02:23 AM PDT 
The essence of strategy, according to British military theorist Basil Liddell Hart, is to retain freedom of action while trapping your enemy in a pre-selected path. Whoever is able to keep his enemy guessing makes it difficult for him to concentrate his force, and whoever follows the expected path will face ferocious resistance. Thus Israel failed in the Yom Kippur War and on the Gaza-bound flotilla: In both cases, the military and political leadership presumed easy victory and acted crudely. The other side anticipated how Israel would behave, prepared accordingly and neutralized the Israel Defense Forces' military advantage.  |
| Posted: 15 Sep 2010 02:23 AM PDT  Direct negotiations on a final-status agreement opened yesterday at Sharm al-Sheikh, in the shadow of the ongoing dispute over a freeze on settlement construction in the West Bank and East Jerusalem. Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas is threatening to quit the talks should Israel resume construction over the Green Line. Israeli ministers and coalition MKs are threatening to undermine the government's stability should it decide to extend the freeze at the end of this month. And the American government is seeking a wonder drug that would remove the settlement freeze from the agenda and cool the atmosphere in a manner conducive to substantive discussion of the conflict's core issues.  |
| Two States, One Holy Land: A Framework for Peace Posted: 14 Sep 2010 11:50 PM PDT http://palestinechronicle.com/uploads/1284497401abbas_bibi_doubts_images.jpg On September 5, Benjamin Netanyahu urged a new approach to issues that have defied resolution in past Israeli-Palestinians negotiations, telling reporters that, for the new round of negotiations to succeed, "we will have to learn the lessons of 17 years of experience from negotiations and to think creatively -- what's called 'outside the box'." Between 1988 and 2000, international lawyer John Whitbeck's "Two States, One Holy Land" framework for peace was published 40 times, in various lengths and in the Arabic, Dutch, English, French, German and Hebrew languages. In response to the Israeli prime minister's call for creative, "outside the box" thinking and in the hope stimulating such thinking, Palestine Chronicle is publishing below an updated version of Mr. Whitbeck's framework for a two-state solution which, rather than separating Israelis and Palestinians, would bring them together in "a new society of peaceful coexistence, mutual respect and human dignity".  |
| East Jerusalem Palestinians Denied Basic Rights Posted: 14 Sep 2010 11:48 PM PDT http://palestinechronicle.com/uploads/1284498255checkpoint_solider_man_cook.jpg The Association for Civil Rights in Israel (ACRI) is the country's leading human and civil rights organization through litigation, legal advocacy, education and public outreach. Its new report is titled, "Unsafe Space: The Israeli Authorities' Failure to Protect Human Rights amid Settlements in East Jerusalem," explaining how Judaization harms basic Palestinian freedoms. In fact, the Israeli military, police, and hostile settlers deny them, ACRI saying:  |
| All That You Have Done: Colonialism, Ethnic Cleansing and the Web Posted: 14 Sep 2010 11:32 PM PDT http://palestinechronicle.com/uploads/1284496334bassam_abu_rahme_3.jpg Despite the current facade 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 “delegitimization.” 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 which “may develop into a comprehensive existential threat within a few years.” (*) In essence, any organization or individual that dares criticize Israeli policy in the Occupied Palestinian Territories in particular is a de facto member of this dreaded network of delegitmization. As with all Israeli hasbara (explanation), the Reut Institute blames primarily the Palestinian victims and secondarily those who report or publicize their plight.  |
| Posted: 14 Sep 2010 10:12 PM PDT http://www.kawther.info/wpr/wp-content/uploads/Untitled-120.jpgTony Blair, the war criminal of Iraq, Afghanistan and the Middle East and former prime minister of the UK, was awarded last night Sept. 13 2010 the “Liberty Medal” at the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia by the famous protagonist of many sex scandals in the White House, former President Bill Clinton. the chair of the NCC joined thw president while awarding the disgraceful Bliar in ignorance of the scene of last week when he was pelted with shoes, eggs, and beer bottles during the signing of his miserable first book in Ireland, after he left millions of widows orphans behind him in Iraq. The “medal of freedom” is supposedly given to people in recognition of their effort for peace, NOT for war crimes, genocide, crimes against humanity, corruption and thievery. This award was established in 1988 on the bicentennial anniversary of the proclamation of the US Constitution, and until now it has been given ONLY to war criminals from the US and its allies.
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| The George W. Bush Memoir: Now Here’s a Book I Might Consider Burning Posted: 14 Sep 2010 06:36 PM PDT  Admirers of George W. Bush will soon have an opportunity to get inside the head of their dearly beloved neo-conservative icon. His much-hyped memoir, ‘Decision Points’ is due out in bookstores on November 9th. We’re told that ‘The Decider’ has, “spent almost every day” writing what his publishing house calls, “a strikingly personal and candid account revealing how and why he made the defining decisions in his consequential presidency and personal life.”  |
| 'Our situation worsens every day' Posted: 14 Sep 2010 05:08 PM PDT  A second round of direct talks between Israel and the Palestinian Authority are taking place under the auspices of Hillary Clinton, the US secretary of state, in Egypt's Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh. Washington says it hopes the talks will lead to an agreement within a year. Al Jazeera asked Palestinians living in the West Bank's Dheisheh refugee camp how they think the negotiations will impact them.  |
| Posted: 14 Sep 2010 04:23 PM PDT  In the late 1970s or early 1980s, Professor Asa Kasher spoke at a conference of some kind about the differences between Labor Party governments and Likud governments. The Labor governments were hypocritical, and there is something positive about hypocrisy, Kasher said. At least the hypocrite knows there is a binding system of values, and that he is not acting according to them. As a result, he disguises his actions. It was understood from Kasher's comments that Labor governments knew that ruling over another people against that people's will was an impermissible act. The Likud, Kasher said at the time, as memory permits to reconstruct after the passage of 30 years, doesn't feel at all bound by those values. The impermissible had become legitimate.  |
| 'This is our last chance for peace' Posted: 14 Sep 2010 04:13 PM PDT  A second round of direct talks between Israel and the Palestinian Authority are taking place under the auspices of Hillary Clinton, the US secretary of state, in Egypt's Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh. Washington says it hopes the talks will lead to an agreement within a year. When asked whether they think the talks will succeed, some Israelis respond with a cynical laugh, but most reply with an odd mix of apathy, exhaustion and pessimism, coloured by hope.  |
| Posted: 14 Sep 2010 04:08 PM PDT  A second round of direct talks between Israel and the Palestinian Authority are taking place under the auspices of Hillary Clinton, the US secretary of state, in Egypt's Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh. Washington says it hopes the talks will lead to an agreement within a year. But Hamas, which governs the Gaza Strip, are notably absent from the discussions and George Mitchell, the US' Middle East envoy, has said that they will play no role.  |
| 'US - Israel's partner in crime, not a referee' Posted: 14 Sep 2010 04:00 PM PDT
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| Is Britain's new ambassador to Israel really going to be objective? Posted: 14 Sep 2010 03:32 PM PDT  Can a Jewish ambassador to Israel ever be truly objective when advising his home government on relations with the Jewish state? That is going to be the big question for Britain's new ambassador to Israel, Matthew Gould, who has just taken up residence in Tel Aviv. Under normal circumstances, the faith or ethnic background of Britain's ambassadors should be totally irrelevant to their ability to represent HM Government in capitals across the world. But Israel is not a normal state in that it ignores international laws and conventions on a routine basis, and does so with apparent impunity. David Cameron's description of Gaza under Israel's siege as "a prison camp" was welcome but it did not disguise the fact that the British Prime Minister, like his predecessors, is a declared supporter of the state established on Palestinian land in 1948. Despite Matthew Gould's claim to be "a career diplomat", his previous service as the principal private secretary to Labour's David Miliband (also a member of North London's increasingly influential Jewish community) when he was Foreign Secretary suggests that Conservative Mr. Cameron is indeed playing the Jewish card with this appointment. But for whose benefit: Britain's or Israel's? |
| AP's Robert Burns Playing Politics by Replacing "Settlement Freeze" With "Curb ... Posted: 14 Sep 2010 02:45 PM PDT  The Associated Press takes pride in being the leading international news agency. The short headlines that appear on Yahoo home page are almost exclusively reserved to AP stories. But even the great AP makes mistakes. Sometimes its errors are not factual but a descriptive. The consequences are just as bad. Reporting from Washington, AP's Security Affairs Reporter Robert Burns filed an analysis piece Monday about the challenges facing Secretary of State Clinton's upcoming trip to the Middle East. The story was dealing with whether she will be able to overcome the looming settlement obstacle. Burns, unilaterally, decided to change the terminology and phraseology connected to one of the major obstacles of the Palestinian-Israeli conflicts. Settlements.
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| Posted: 14 Sep 2010 02:12 PM PDT  I met the family of Mohammed by accident as I offered them a ride back to their home in Dheisheh refugee camp, in the southern West Bank city of Bethlehem, from Gush Etzion Israeli military compound where they were seeking a permit to enter Jerusalem for medical treatments (and I was called for questioning). What I learned about this family is almost unbelievable and could certainly be material for a book or at least a documentary. The father was 12 years old when Israeli soldiers shot him in the head with a rubber coated steel bullet fragmenting his skull and damaging part of his brain.
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| Obama Declares Another National Emergency When None Exists Posted: 14 Sep 2010 12:46 PM PDT Well, not exactly. In fact, he renewed, for the second, time, the Bush administration's 9/11 one, a White House press release saying: "Letter from the President on the Continuation of the National Emergency with Respect to Certain Terrorist Attack" "Section 202(d) of the National Emergencies Act, 50 USC 1622(d), provides for the automatic termination of a national emergency unless, prior to the anniversary date of its declaration, the President publishes in the Federal Register and transmits to the Congress a notice stating that the emergency is to continue in effect beyond the anniversary date. Consistent with this provision, I have sent to the Federal Register the enclosed notice, stating that the emergency declared with respect to the terrorist attacks on the United States of September 11, 2001, is to continue in effect for an additional year."
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| Academic research collaboration emboldens Israeli apartheid Posted: 14 Sep 2010 12:10 PM PDT
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| Posted: 14 Sep 2010 10:50 AM PDT  We have commemorated the ninth anniversary of the September 11 attacks, which served as pretext for a war which was meant to last forever. After killing nearly three thousand people in the U.S., the organizers of the attacks caused the death of more than one million people in Afghanistan and Iraq. They planned to extend the carnage to Syria and Iran, but have failed -for the time being- to implement that stage of the plan. On the occasion of this sad anniversary, those who shifted the blame for their own crimes on the Islamists before ravaging the Muslim Middle East, have come up with a new stage production. A fake debate about the construction of a Muslim center in Manhattan has been shaking the United States, while another one has been sparked by the cries to burn the Koran.  |
| Press TV's Waqar Rizvi talks to Nashid Abdul-Khaaliq on Qur'an Desecration Posted: 14 Sep 2010 04:55 AM PDT
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| Erdogan – Making of a Muslim Attaturk Posted: 14 Sep 2010 03:21 AM PDT http://i151.photobucket.com/albums/s127/Sanamyan/Erdoganindark.jpg On Sunday 58% of Turks who took part in the referendum – gave the ruling party AKP the Constitutional powers to make necessary amendments to the existing Kemalist Constitution based on secularism and prominent role to the military as the ‘Guardian of Kemalism’. This is Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s fourth democratic victory since AkP won national elections in 2002. His Justice and Development Party (AKP) has won two general elections and two referenda – all with sweeping victories. Yesterday, voters overwhelmingly approved the referendum initiated by Erdogan’s Islamic-oriented Justice and Development Party. The constitutional measures passed give the government wide-ranging power to exert control over the military and judiciary, both traditional bulwarks of the country’s secularism.  |
| Satan Resides in Framework Agreements Posted: 14 Sep 2010 02:40 AM PDT  There is a story about the man who dictated his will. He divided his property generously, provided for all the members of his family, rewarded his friends and did not forget his servants. He finished off with a short paragraph: “In case of my death, this will is null and void.” I rather fear that such a paragraph will be added to the “framework agreement” that Binyamin Netanyahu promises to sign within a year, after honest and fruitful negotiations with the Palestinian Authority, mediated by Hillary Clinton, to the greater glory of President Barack Obama.  |
| Evidence Mounts of BP Spraying Toxic Dispersants Posted: 14 Sep 2010 02:24 AM PDT http://dahrjamailiraq.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/091310jamail.jpg Private contractor in Carolina Skiff with tank of Corexit dispersant, August 10, south of Pass Christian Harbor, 9:30 AM. (Photo: Don Tillman) Shirley and Don Tillman, residents of Pass Christian, Mississippi, have owned shrimp boats, an oyster boat and many pleasure boats. They spent much time on the Gulf of Mexico before working in BP’s Vessels Of Opportunity (VOO) program looking for and trying to clean up oil.  |
| Washington Rules – Book Review Posted: 14 Sep 2010 02:16 AM PDT
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| Gaza subjected to air strikes, water crisis Posted: 14 Sep 2010 01:06 AM PDT
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| Can Netanyahu manage expectations? Posted: 14 Sep 2010 12:41 AM PDT http://english.aljazeera.net/mritems/Images/2010/9/2/201092145734409738_20.jpg Binyamin Netanyahu, Israel's prime minister, is once again in the position of pledging a commitment to peace with Palestinians while resuming the construction of settlements in disputed territories. The talks, which are dismissed by many as posturing and lauded by few as a sustained challenge of Israel's policies by the US, are the second round under the Obama administration. However, it could be said that the first round of talks, held last year, fell apart rather than ended. While Netanyahu instituted a 10-month freeze on the construction of new settlements in East Jerusalem, by March plans for an additional 1,600 new homes were approved in the area, a decision which strained the historically friendly relationship between Israel and the US.  |
| Does international law have a future? Posted: 13 Sep 2010 11:23 PM PDT Back on 23 August 2010 Israel’s most prestigious human rights organization, B’Tselem released a short report on the condition of water supplies in the Gaza Strip. Referencing the United Nations Environment Programme as well as the Palestine Water Authority, B’Tselem reported that the Strip’s underground water system is in such bad repair that, even if rehabilitation was begun immediately, it would take 20 years for it to be restructured as a modern system. This is compounded by the dilapidated state of the Gaza wastewater-system, which is also antiquated. As a result it is estimated that "40 per cent of the incidence of disease in Gaza is related to polluted drinking water". B’Tselem blames this shocking situation on the Israeli government. "Since it began its siege on the Gaza Strip, in June 2007, Israel has forbidden the entry of equipment and materials needed to rehabilitate the water and wastewater-treatment systems there." The blockade of these materials remains in place to this day. Finally, during its "Operation Cast Lead" invasion of the Gaza Strip, Israel targeted the water networks, treatment plants, wells, and even home water tanks.  |
| No animals, no visitors at Gaza's lone zoo Posted: 13 Sep 2010 11:01 PM PDT
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| "They don't want our boys educated" Posted: 13 Sep 2010 07:01 PM PDT
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This time, Max Keiser and co-host Stacy Herbert look at emails from viewers on their "Peak America" moments and then check out the scandals of the Irish choice of being "good Europeans" or "bad Europeans", as a result of bankers offering only "bad banks"; while Iceland refuses to settle at any price. In the second half of the show, Max goes Down Under to talk to economist Steve Keen about the global debt collapse.
Israeli and Palestinian leaders are holding a new round of direct talks. The main issue being discussed is whether a current freeze on Israeli settlement-building in the West Bank will be extended. Palestinian President Abbas threatens to walk out on the negotiations if construction continues. For more on this, RT talks to Omar Barghouti, an activist from the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel.
In July, Donna Shalala, the president of the University of Miami and former United States Secretary of Health and Human Services during the Clinton administration, joined a 13-member delegation of American university presidents to Israel. The delegation's main objective was to discuss opportunities for academic collaboration with Israeli universities and reciprocal exchange programs for student and faculty. The majority of these Israeli universities, if not all, have been implicated in war crimes and other human rights violations against Palestinian and Lebanese civilians ("
Press TV's Waqar Rizvi talks to Nashid Abdul-Khaaliq on Qur'an Desecration
Andrew Bacevich has written another authoritative and well written book examining the U.S. military and its influence on the United States. His writing, as with his earlier works, is provocative, challenging, well researched, informative, and logically argued. Only someone thoroughly imbued with the rhetoric of U.S. benign stewardship of global affairs and ignorant of many key events within recent and current U.S. foreign affairs might be able to ignore Bacevich’s presentations and contentions about U.S. foreign policy and U.S. militarism.
Three Palestinian farmers were killed by Israeli tank shelling late at night 12 September in the northernmost occupied Gaza Strip, along the no-go "buffer zone" enforced by the Israeli military. Al-Jazeera reported that a 91-year-old farmer, Ibrahim Abdullah Abu Saeed, and 20-year-old Ismael Walid Abu Audeh were killed immediately. Abu Saeed's 17-year-old grandson, Hossam Khaled Abu Saeed, was critically injured and died shortly afterwards ("
"We haven't had a single visit yet through Ramadan, what kind of zoo doesn't get visitors during holidays?" asks Mahmoud Barghoud, 22, co-creator of the Marha zoo.
Located just north of Hebron in the occupied West Bank, the entrance to the Palestinian village of Beit Ommar is also the site of an Israeli military post. A large yellow gate is opened and closed at the will of the Israeli army, which can cut off the inhabitants of the town from the rest of the West Bank at any time. Beit Ommar has been resisting since 1948, when the town's inhabitants fought the original settler population of Gush Etzion and today many continue to suffer the impact of the many surrounding settlements. Jody McIntyre interviews Beit Ommar resident Amal al-Montallab for The Electronic Intifada.
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