Rebel Newsflash: Lords of the Ring (plus 99 more items)

Posted: 31 Oct 2010 08:47 PM PDT

Many moons ago and for a few years only, I wore my locks long and sported colourful garb and roamed the psychedelic haunts of Paris, London or Amsterdam, usually holding a joint in one hand while employing the other to underline with languid gestures my latest concept of how to bring instant peace and love to the world. As for my fellow freaks and hippies, most subsisted on very little, at least money-wise, but nearly all had pets, the latter named frequently after a brand of heroes much en vogue during those innocent times. For cats, Galadriel stood high on the agenda, also Arwen and Legolas. In Amsterdam my next-door neighbour, a middle-aged lady with henna-dyed hair, flowing dresses and tinkling bells around one fat ankle, owned a huge tomcat called Gollum . When he was one day run over by a lorry, she came and cried bitterly into my lap. I did my best to comfort her, though secretly rejoiced because the cunning bastard, nomen est omen , used to be a veritable bane for the local sparrows and blackbirds, and long since had I weighed means of abandoning him in a far-away place without coming under suspicion. As for dogs, I remember a Frodo, Bilbo and Pippin, also one Boromir , him a mighty Leonberger and the gentlest fellow I've ever met.

Schopenhauer and the Perception of the Real or Surreal Postmodernity (Part 2)

Posted: 31 Oct 2010 08:26 PM PDT

Schopenhauer is a crucial source in understanding the psychopathological impact of religions, myths and systems of beliefs. At times he labels them "allegories" whereas in other places he describes them as the "metaphysics of the masses" or "people's metaphysics" (Volksmetaphysik). Just as people have popular poetry and the popular wisdoms or proverbs, they also need popular metaphysics. They need an interpretation of life ; and this interpretation must be suited for their comprehension. The great majority of humans have at best a weak faculty for weighing reasons and discriminating between the fact and the fiction. Does this sound familiar?

No belief system, no ideology, no religion is immune from self-serving delusional tenets linked to false perceptions of reality, although, in due time, each of them will undergo the process of demythologization and eventually become a laughing stock for those who see the illusions underlying these delusional myths.

Vinnie Paz And David Icke - End Of Days

Posted: 31 Oct 2010 07:03 PM PDT

The greatest form of control is when you think you're free when you're being fundamentally manipulated and dictated to. One form of dictatorship is being in a prison cell and you can see the bars and touch them. The other one is sitting in a prison cell but you can't see the bars but you think you're free.

What the human race is suffering from is mass hypnosis. We are being hypnotized by people like this: newsreaders, politicians, teachers, lecturers. We are in a country and in a world that is being run by unbelievably sick people. The chasm between what we're told is going on and what is really going on is absolutely enormous.

Bombs, terrorism and manure

Posted: 31 Oct 2010 03:56 PM PDT

terrorism

We have seen it all before. Last Christmas, the "Crotch Bomber" was another "PETN/Yemen" terror fiasco. Press stories blamed Al Qaeda and were ready to build this into a new 9/11 except that reliable witnesses, Detroit area attorneys, saw the terrorist, no passport, no visa, escorted onto the plane. Before that, newspapers said the bomber had a diplomatic passport, a visa and had "evaded" security.

Tariq Aziz Sentenced to Hang

Posted: 31 Oct 2010 03:39 PM PDT

The U.S.-led war against Iraq will soon be twenty years old. Those who remember the lead-up to the war in the summer of 1990 will certainly remember the face and words of Tariq Aziz, then foreign minister of Iraq. His was a voice of reason and intelligence that sought to avoid the war that led to the destruction of Iraq - and hundreds of thousands of lives. Today, just a few days after the release of hundreds of thousands of documents that detail a very long list of war crimes committed by U.S. forces and their army of Iraqi quislings, Tariq Aziz was sentenced to death. This is a very black day for Iraq and the Iraqi people.

Inside Story - The cargo plane bomb plot

Posted: 31 Oct 2010 07:15 AM PDT

A global security alert has been sparked by the discovery of two packages containing explosives on cargo planes from Yemen, bound for the US. Has Yemen become the new front in the global fight against terror?

Health overhaul may lead to free birth control

Posted: 31 Oct 2010 06:58 AM PDT

Fifty years after the pill, another birth control revolution may be on the horizon: free contraception for women in the U.S., thanks to the new health care law.

That could start a shift toward more reliable — and expensive — forms of birth control that are gaining acceptance in other developed countries.

Viciously Attacking Israeli Arabs

Posted: 31 Oct 2010 06:53 AM PDT

Reminiscent of Kristallnacht violence, Israeli Arabs in Haifa District's Umm al-Fahm community were attacked, Haaretz writers Fadi Eyadat, Jack Khoury, and Chaim Levinson headlining, "Police clash with Arab protesters as rightists rally in Umm al-Fahm," saying:

In Arab Umm al-Fahm, "Dozens of extreme rightists (hooligan West Bank settlers) held a protest against the Islamic Movement," an initiative advocating Islam among Israeli Arabs on three levels - religious, social, and support for Palestinian self-determination.

Why the talks were always destined to fail

Posted: 31 Oct 2010 05:40 AM PDT

The Palestinian Authority and Israeli government began direct 'peace talks' in September 2010 after coercion by the US; this time it was going to be different. The two sides would go back to their people and claim that peace has been 'negotiated' and that the conflict has ended. Some may have called this naïve; sceptics claimed these were just fantasies. But those around the negotiating table, analysts who have been following this conflict for decades, and those on the ground knew different. The success of these talks depended on three key issues, which one or both sides would never abandon and so this worn out approach was destined to fail yet again:

Lebanon simmers as Hezbollah braces

Posted: 31 Oct 2010 04:37 AM PDT

By calling for a boycott of the tribunal investigating the assassination of Rafiq al-Hariri, the late Lebanese prime minister, Hezbollah has drawn a line in the sand: collaborating with the investigation is paramount to collaborating with the US, Israel and all other external forces that are targeting the party.

For Hezbollah, the Special Tribunal on Lebanon (STL) has become no more than a tool to achieve what Israel failed to in the 2006 war - disarming the movement credited with the 2000 liberation of southern Lebanon from Israeli occupation.

Farooque Ahmed: Entrapped by an FBI Sting

Posted: 31 Oct 2010 02:43 AM PDT

The story is disturbingly familiar. FBI agents arrest a suspect on terrorism related charges, nearly always a Muslim, photographed full bearded to look menacing. Media reports highlight it, headlining government charges to incite fear. Announced arrests are strategically timed, this one days before mid-term elections. The message - Obama keeps America safe, vote Democrat.

Though too early to conclude guilt or innocence, what's so far known is worrisome, involving an FBI sting to entrap. Based on numerous previous cases, without exception, innocent men and occasionally women have been targeted, evidence later showing no plot and no crime. Yet suspects are arrested, charged, tried, and convicted by manipulated/intimidated juries, right-wing judges sentencing them to long prison terms.

Adnan Mirza: Another US War on Terror Victim

Posted: 31 Oct 2010 02:39 AM PDT

Post-9/11, Mirza is one of legions of war on terror victims - framed, charged, indicted, tried and convicted on bogus terrorism related charges.

On October 22, the US Attorney's Office for the Southern District of Texas headlined, "Pakistani Student Sentenced to prison for conspiring to support the Taliban and unlawful possession of firearms," saying:

Adnan Mirza was "convicted in May 2010 (on nine counts) following a jury trial....Senior US District Judge Ewing Werlein (imposed) the maximum applicable prison term for each" one, complying with prosecutors' request for terrorism enhancements, used when they claim a crime aimed to influence or coerce government policy. Mirza was also fined $1,000 for each count, $9,000 in total.

Military rule haunts Burma election

Posted: 31 Oct 2010 01:07 AM PDT

The ghost of military-ruled Burma's first strongman, General Ne Win, has returned to haunt the South-east Asian nation's current junta leader, Senior General Than Shwe, as the country heads for its first general election in two decades on November 7.

In a bizarre twist, the candidates loyal to the late Ne Win, who ruled Burma with an iron fist from a 1962 coup untill 1988, are being cast in some quarters as a welcome force for expanding the very restricted political space in place since the early 1990s, when Than Shwe came to power.

Mike Gravel to introduce Multi-State Initiative to Investigate 9/11

Posted: 31 Oct 2010 12:21 AM PDT

Mike Gravel, famous for the Pentagon Papers that revealed the lies the public and Congress were told by the Johnson administration about Vietnam, has gone public for 9/11 Truth. He met with members of WeAreChangeLA to discuss starting an initiative in California that would put an investigation of 9/11 on the 2012 ballot.

Victor Thorn Interviews Former CNN Reporter Who Was First on Scene at Pentagon on 9-11

Posted: 30 Oct 2010 08:06 PM PDT

There's an old saying: Don't spit on my leg and tell me it's raining. Likewise, don't show me a photo taken only minutes after the 9-11 Pentagon "event" and insist that a Boeing 757—which is 155 feet long with a 124 foot wingspan and weighs 100 tons—crashed into America's military nerve-center.

During an Oct. 19 interview, this writer questioned former CNN correspondent Jamie McIntyre about the 200,000 pounds of missing wreckage. McIntyre was one of the first establishment reporters on the scene soon after the Pentagon event and has been cited repeatedly by researchers exploring alternative views about what happened on the morning of Sept. 11, 2001.

Saturday: 11 Iraqis Killed, 11 Wounded

Posted: 30 Oct 2010 07:28 PM PDT

At least 11 Iraqis were killed and 11 more were wounded in light violence. Five of casualties died of injuries received in yesterday's blast in Diyala province.

In political news, the Goran party has quit an alliance that included the Kurdistan Democratic Party and Patriotic Union of Kurdistan. This new development casts further doubt that a new government will be selected quickly. Meanwhile, a spokesman for the Badr Organization has denied the group is splitting away from the Supreme Islamic Council. Also, Iraqiya says it will not give up its constitutional right to be part of the new government. And late in the day, a Saudi offer to broker resolution talks between the parties was rejected by Shi'ite politicians.

Three cheers for Israel's right

Posted: 30 Oct 2010 06:43 PM PDT

At this point the Western world is looking at Israel with a complete lack of understanding. Is it just a banana republic, something like a failed state? Or is it just behaving like a spoiled child, as Tom Friedman lately argued? Or is it an ethnocracy that, unsuccessfully, tries to hide ethnic cleansing and colonial ambitions behind protestations that it is under existential threat?

Who's the real victim?

Posted: 30 Oct 2010 05:29 PM PDT

Once upon a time the staple piece of clothing was the blue shirt of the Labor Movement, and songwriter Mordechai Zeira sang about it: "And it's much better than all jewels." A new generation has arrived, and its shirt is darker. Today it's black and bears the legend: We are all the victims of Goldstone.

Israel is proud to present: The aggressor-victim

Posted: 30 Oct 2010 05:29 PM PDT

Zionists and Jews – Padding in chicken soup

Posted: 30 Oct 2010 05:13 PM PDT

"I am not a nice Jew, because I don't want to be a Jew, because Jewish values don't really turn me on and all this 'Pour out Thy wrath on the nations' stuff doesn't impress me," Gilad Atzmon.

The great majority of westerners cannot differentiate between Zionists and the Jews. First of all there are far more Zionists among the Christian extreme than among the Athiest and Orthodox Jews. The western world has been fooled by the doctrine that there two categories of Jews; one who blindly support Israel and the other who are not anti-Israel but are against the Nazi policies of the Zionist regime.

Netanyahu, Abbas and the battle for the U.S. press

Posted: 30 Oct 2010 11:23 AM PDT

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's attempts to strike a blow for Israel in the international media apparently misfired this week when he failed to convince a group of top American journalists of Israel's commitment to peace.

On Wednesday, Netanyahu hosted a group of senior New York Times staff for a personal briefing at his office in Jerusalem. The aim: to make the world understand that it is the Palestinians, not settlers, blocking the path to peace.

Peddling politics in America

Posted: 30 Oct 2010 10:29 AM PDT

Our country is in economic distress. Millions are out of work, and cutbacks in public services are pervasive at the city and state levels.

The 'great recession' is deep and could go deeper. Most families are tightening their belts and in some cases are at breaking point because their benefits have run out.

Toner Bomb Results in More Airport Molestation

Posted: 30 Oct 2010 10:01 AM PDT

The absurd accumulation of junk found on a UPS plane from Yemen to Chicago ridiculously described as an al-Qaeda bomb has provided the government with an excuse to conduct "an unpredictable mix of security layers that include explosives trace detection, advanced imaging technology, canine teams" and intimate "pat-downs," more accurately described as breast and crotch groping.

It has been almost a decade since we were told Muslim cave dwellers made NORAD stand down and performed miracles with the laws of physics. Since that time not one airport instance of officialdom molesting millions of air passengers has produced a hidden bomb or threat to aviation. In fact, as in the case of the fizzle pants non-bomber, the government has allowed potential threats to board aircraft.

In the End, Only One Way to See It

Posted: 30 Oct 2010 09:29 AM PDT

I came to the Holy Land thinking I could find some type of middle ground and lodge myself there. As a Palestinian-American, I am equipped with the knowledge, cultural awareness and communication skills to show a Western audience the unvarnished truth behind the conflict. I try not to get emotionally involved with the political issues and "stay above" the fray. As a trained journalist, that is what I was taught.

Yet I recently watched a Palestinian friend get into a political discussion with an Israeli security guard on the way to the dorms at Hebrew University in Jerusalem. My friend is a fiery artist from the north with Israeli citizenship, and the guard, an imposing Sephardic Jew of Moroccan descent.

Forget the Details, its all about the Land

Posted: 30 Oct 2010 09:29 AM PDT

The Palestinian-Israeli conflict may seem unbelievably complicated to most – an endless web of historical narratives, emotional claims and bitter pasts – but it all comes down to a simple premise: the Palestinian-Israeli conflict is about land, plain and simple. Israel wants the rest of it and the Palestinians won't go down without a fight in trying to keep the tiny sliver that remains. All of Israel's hair-splitting in between – insistence on a Jewish state, more security at its borders, the threat of Hamas in Gaza – these are all minor details that divert attention away from its main goal, which is grabbing as much Palestinian land as possible before a final settlement is reached.

Were "the chosen people" picked for their virtues or vices?

Posted: 30 Oct 2010 09:06 AM PDT

On the face of it, the latest good news from Rome represents a step towards the reassertion of moral Christianity at the expense of Zionist (or "Zionised") Christianity. The formulation of a western Christian, especially Roman Catholic, stance on the plight of the Palestinians at the hands of the Zionists is welcome. However, it probably has more to do with reasserting Christianity's moral identity than with making any serious effort to challenge the Israeli regime, which under Benjamin Netanyahu's right-wing leadership is drifting through unbridled jingoism towards fascism.

Barry May Not Run in 2012. Does It Matter?

Posted: 30 Oct 2010 07:56 AM PDT

According to WorldNetDaily, an influential Democrat operative reports that some "senior personalities in the Democratic Party have discussed with President Obama's advisers the possibility of him not running for re-election in 2012." It would be best for the party if Obama did not seek re-election in 2012, and more than one discussion has been held on the matter with Obama's top advisers, according to the party operative, writes Aaron Klein.

Back in 2008, as the corporate media went wild over Obama and his zombie-like supporters fainted and swooned, we said he would turn out to be an utter and complete disaster. It was obvious this groomed community activist out of Chicago's south-side was simply a momentary grab-bag selection intended by the elite to once again trick the plebs and continue their long-term agenda of global consolidation and domination through engineered social and economic collapse.

Powerful EU Nations May Reform "Mission Impossible" Treaty in Secret

Posted: 30 Oct 2010 07:45 AM PDT

The AFP reported today that the European Union members agreed to make "landmark" and "tricky" reforms to the current Lisbon Treaty designed to "fend off another financial crisis." To clarify, they did not all agree on final reforms, yet they all agreed changes must be made.

However, a top EU diplomat warned that getting all member nations to agree on the actual reforms may be a "mission impossible." So, reportedly, the final deal may be hashed out in secret without any input from the European parliament or "wish-list" political requests from representatives of member states. According to AFP:

Setting Brazil's agenda

Posted: 30 Oct 2010 06:21 AM PDT

When the first book is written about Brazil's 2010 presidential elections the opening chapter will probably detail how the person with the greatest impact during the runoff phase was not even on the ballot on October 31.

That person is Marina Silva, a working-class senator from a small Amazon region state and much-acclaimed former environment minister.

Is Rupert Murdoch ignorant or an agent of Zionist deception?

Posted: 30 Oct 2010 04:34 AM PDT

In a recent speech at an ADL (Anti-Defamation League) dinner, Rupert Murdoch, arguably the most influential mainstream media chief on Planet Earth, made some extraordinary statements which must be challenged. But first it's necessary for us all to be clear about what ADL's role is.

Its proclaimed objective is to "fight anti-Semitism". In reality its main purpose under the leadership of Abe Foxman is to smear, harass, silence and preferably destroy those of all faiths and none who are critical of Zionism in action – critical of Israel's policies in general and its contempt for international law in particular; and critical of the awesome power of the Zionist lobby, in America especially.

Hizbullah: 'Obama, we are not that stupid'

Posted: 30 Oct 2010 04:25 AM PDT

Not before the dust settled down after Iranian President Dr. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's visit to Lebanon where he was received as a national hero, Jeffrey David Feltman, Obama's Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs landed in Beirut. Feltman, a former US ambassador to Lebanon, met Lebanese President Suleiman and Prime Minister Sa'ad Hariri, whom he delivered Ben Obama's personal message. The Speaker of Lebanese parliament, Nabih Berri (founder of Amal party) refused to meet Feltman.

In an interview with Danna Harman, published in Israeli daily Ha'aretz (October 24, 2010), Feltman said: "Lebanon right now is going through a difficult period. This is something that is related to the internal dynamics of Lebanon, not to the conflict with Israel. What is happening now is there are some people in Lebanon saying, you have to chose between justice – as symbolized by the special tribunal for Lebanon—and stability. In our mind that is an artificial choice. The people saying this are the very ones trying to destabilize Lebanon now. The reason I went to Lebanon was to deliver a message from Obama which was a reaffirmation of our strong support for Lebanon's sovereignty and independence. What we are trying to do is to find a way to lower the tensions and reduce the temperature in Lebanon."

The high and the mighty

Posted: 30 Oct 2010 02:45 AM PDT

Cannabis is California's number one cash crop. This fall, voters will decide whether or not to fully legalise the drug and transform US drug policy.

The implications are huge if it passes. It will have a profound effect on the state's struggling economy, the overburdened criminal justice system and even the raging drug war in neighbouring Mexico that has claimed nearly 30,000 lives.

In the meantime, no politicians running for statewide office are supporting the measure. What does that say about the politics of cannabis?

A Tainted Tribunal: Israel's Other War on Lebanon

Posted: 29 Oct 2010 10:06 PM PDT

The extraordinary scenes this week at a gynaecological and obsetrics clinic in the southern suburbs of Beirut have again cast light on the work of the UN Special Tribunal for Lebanon (STL), set up to investigate the assassination of Rafiq Hariri. STL investigators went to Dr Inam Charara's clinic with a demand to be given access to the files of patients dating back to 2003. More specifically, they wanted the addresses and phone numbers of 17 patients. The presence of STL investigators in her clinic disturbed women waiting for appointments. Other women arrived from other clinics in the building and a fracas broke out. Eventually the investigators were driven off, but not before a computer, a briefcase, mobile phones and notebooks had been snatched from them. The episode raises fresh questions about the role of the STL. The southern suburbs are predominantly Shi'a and many of the patients in Dr Charara's clinic are the wives, daughters and mothers of Hizbullah officials. What the STL hoped to find remains known only to itself.

Welcoming Muslims for the Love of Christ

Posted: 29 Oct 2010 09:52 PM PDT

In the small Tennessee town of Cordova sits Heartsong Church, who welcomed their Muslim neighbors in a time of distress. The church's act of generosity is deeply gratifying to me as a Muslim.

This story was not found in mainstream media, but rather on an Arabic website whose name translates as "incoming traffic," and was filled with heartwarming pictures of the event.

Friday: 27 Iraqis Killed, 76 Wounded

Posted: 29 Oct 2010 05:30 PM PDT

A deadly blast shattered an otherwise quiet day in Iraq, where at least 27 Iraqis were killed and 76 more were wounded, almost all of them in Balad Ruz. To the south a possibly accidental chlorine gas explosion brought back memories of the chlorine attacks that marked the height of the sectarian violence several years ago. In better news, a successful trade in Kirkuk liberated two Kurdish women who were kidnapped a day earlier.

At least 25 Iraqis were killed and 75 more were wounded during a suicide blast at a Balad Ruz coffee shop that is located in a predominantly Feyli Kurd neighborhood. In Mosul, a body belonging to the owner of an exchange office was found strangled.

Ed Miliband irks 'British Friends of Israel'

Posted: 29 Oct 2010 05:25 PM PDT

On October 25, 2010 – Ed Miliband 40, became the youngest leader of Britain's Labour Party. He closely defeated (50.65% vs 49.35%) his elder brother David Miliband, the nototiously pro-Israel former British Foreign Secretary in Gordon Brown's government. David Milliband is listed as "Author" by Israel Hasbara Committee. Ed Miliband seems to be influenced by his mother, who is signatory of Jews for Justice for Palestinians. Ed Miliband is considered a close friend of the newly-appointed Labour Party's Shadow Justice Secretary Sadiq Khan.

Ed Miliband in his speech at the Lobour Party conference said that Israel should lift the naval blockade of Gaza and that its attack on the Gaza Freedom Flotilla, which killed nine Turkish aid activists, was "wrong."

From London to Qom for Islam

Posted: 29 Oct 2010 05:07 PM PDT

Last week, speaking at the Global Peace and Unity Event in London (UK), Lauren Booth (born 1967), sister-in-law of the Islamophobe former British prime minister Tony Blair, currently UN special envoy to Middle East, said: "What I wanted to share with you today is that I am Lauren Booth and I am a Muslim".

The British journalist Lauren Booth, who currently works with Iran's Press TV said that she converted to Islam after her spiritual journey the city of Qom. She told The Mail on Sunday newspaper that she now wears a hijab whenever she leaves her home and had not ruled out adopting the burqa. She said she prays five times a day, visits her local mosque "when I can", and has given up pork and alcohol.

Israeli police shoot legislator as racists march in Arab town

Posted: 29 Oct 2010 04:57 PM PDT

Israeli police injured two Arab legislators on Wednesday in violent clashes provoked by Jewish right-wing extremists staging a march through the northern Arab town of Umm al-Fahm.

Haneen Zoabi, a parliament member who has become a national hate figure in Israel and received hundreds of death threats since her participation in an aid flotilla to Gaza in the summer, was among those hurt.

Hiding truth behind euphemisms, omissions, truth behind euphemisms, omissions, slanders and lies: A reply to Rupert Murdoch

Posted: 29 Oct 2010 04:28 PM PDT

Rupert Murdoch's recent speech before the ADL gathering at their dinner gala opened with this flattering observation, "You have championed equal treatment for all races and creeds." What he omitted from that statement is the ADL's treatment of the Palestinian people under Abraham Foxman, its national director, who "…uses high-mindedness and unfounded anti-Semitism hysteria as cover for backing Jewish supremacy and the right of Israelis over Arabs, including by occupation and belligerently enforced apartheid" (Steven Lendman, Socio-Economic History Blog). Murdoch omits a needed clause at the end of that statement: "except for the Palestinian people and their beliefs and their rights under international law." Indeed, Lendman's article refutes virtually every one of Murdoch's claims, laying bare the truth behind Murdoch's talk: see nothing, hear nothing, speak nothing against Israel or suffer the condemnation that comes with the label "Anti-Semite."

Red Apples For the President and the Defense Minister

Posted: 29 Oct 2010 03:36 PM PDT

I don't know who gave to Austrian President Dr. Heinz Fischer and his Defense Minister Norbert Darabos the two red apples. Was he that child who the President stopped at his side to take a commemorative picture, or someone else? It was a short moment which separated me from this human and beautiful scene. When they received the red apples I was few steps in front of them caring to be at the right distance for taking pictures. When I turned around, I saw a red apple in the hands of each of the men as signs of happiness and pleasure, while they were smiling as if each apple was a rare jewel.

US Palestinians converging to help shape homeland's future

Posted: 29 Oct 2010 03:36 PM PDT

When activists from across the United States convened in August 2008 for the US Palestinian Community Network's first Popular Conference, few people knew what to expect. The energy at the conference was palpable as organizations, individuals and families from our communities across the country, as well as solidarity forces allied with our cause, came together to participate in healthy discussions, necessary debates and to study our victories and failures to help strengthen the ongoing movement to realize justice in Palestine.

This weekend in Chicago, the second Popular Conference for Arabs and Palestinians in the US (http://popular.palestineconference.org) promises to continue to push our movement forward. After more than six decades of colonization, forced dispossession, home demolitions, occupation and apartheid, Palestinians remain steadfast in their refutation of the Israeli assertion that "The old will die, and the young will soon forget." Students, youth, elders, women, men, professionals, artists and workers will convene in order to continue to build strong institutions that represent all Palestinian and Arab social sectors. Through these institutions, the US Palestinian Community Network (USPCN) continues to develop a representative national body of Palestinians and Arabs capable of and empowered to unify our voice and affirm the right of the Palestinians in exile to participate fully in shaping Palestine's future.

Such is the Peace Process: Obama as a Salesman

Posted: 29 Oct 2010 03:13 PM PDT

It wouldn't be an exaggeration to claim that the resumption of peace talks between the Israeli government and the Palestinian Authority have thus far yielded nothing of value, at least not as far as settling the decades-long struggle.

For one, the media has paid the talks little attention, aside from the ceremonial coverage of the first round of talks in Washington on September 2. It barely noticed the following round in the Middle East nearly two weeks later. What did capture the media's attention was US President Barack Obama's attempt to minimize the damage he invited upon himself for merely pressing Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to issue a partial moratorium on settlement building (about 11 months ago), and then to extend the settlement freeze.

Israeli Police Shoot 'Hated' Arab Legislator in Back

Posted: 29 Oct 2010 03:05 PM PDT

Israeli police injured two Arab legislators yesterday in violent clashes provoked by Jewish rightwing extremists staging a march through the northern Arab town of Umm al-Fahm.

Haneen Zoubi, a parliament member who has become a national hate figure in Israel and received hundreds of death threats since her participation in an aid flotilla to Gaza in the summer, was among those hurt.

Democracy in Illinois: Pro-Israel Tweedledum and Tweedledee

Posted: 29 Oct 2010 02:59 PM PDT

Helen Keller's pithy observation about American democracy being little more than a choice 'between Tweedledum and Tweedledee' was never more true than in the upcoming midterm elections in the ninth congressional district of Illinois.

In a district which includes the affluent northern suburbs of Chicago along the shore of Lake Michigan, the central issue is not the two wars—or is it now three?—the country is fighting, nor is it the tanking economy, in great part caused by those debt-inducing wars. No, the burning issue here is… who cares more about Israel?

Corporate Media On High Alert Over "Manipulated" Toner Cartridge On UK Plane

Posted: 29 Oct 2010 09:54 AM PDT

Officialdom and authorities jacked up the scary rhetoric this morning in response to a "manipulated" toner cartridge found on a plane in the United Kingdom that tested negative for the presence of explosive material.

"Airports in some of the United States were on high alert Friday after investigators found a suspicious package on a plane in the United Kingdom the night before, a law enforcement source with detailed knowledge of the investigation said," reports CNN.

Edwin M. Wright Comments on the Zionist Takeover of America

Posted: 28 Oct 2010 11:30 PM PDT

Edwin M. Wright (pictured) was a State Department employee in the 1940s and 1950s, excerpts from his recollections concerning Zionist control over America make for some absolutely eye opening reading — admin:

Edwin Wright: Zionist Jews Worked to Capture US Government

Big Men, Big Money, Big Voting Scam

Posted: 28 Oct 2010 11:00 PM PDT

The other day, on the front page of my hometown newspaper was a shocking tale of Iranian perfidy in Afghanistan headlined "Iran Is Said to Give Top Karzai Aide Cash by the Bagful." The mounds of euros reportedly being passed to Afghan President Hamid Karzai's chief of staff Umar Daudzai were a familiar form of influence peddling — intended, as the New York Times piece put it, "to buy the loyalty of Mr. Daudzai and promote Iran's interests in the presidential palace, according to Afghan and Western officials here. Iran uses its influence to help drive a wedge between the Afghans and their American and NATO benefactors, they say."

The Times even had a vivid account of a "large plastic bag bulging with packets of euro bills" being passed to Daudzai on a plane departing Iran. Strange, though, how few seem to remember the way American "benefactors" launched this latest disastrous chapter in Afghanistan's three-decade-old catastrophe by proudly delivering their own bag-equivalents stuffed with cash. Back in 2001, with planning for a U.S. invasion ramping up, CIA agents reportedly appeared in Taliban-free northern Afghanistan with devastatingly convincing arguments for supporting Washington: metal "suitcases" — okay, when it comes to bribery, call us a little classier than our rivals — stuffed with millions of dollars in non-sequentially numbered hundred-dollar bills. Back then, it was called "preparing the ground" for invasion and, at the time, was considered not perfidious corruption but brilliant spycraft. Of course, in one form or another, as Karzai — who, as Juan Cole recently commented, "appears not to understand the word 'corruption'" – noted in a news conference this week, American money has never stopped flowing in staggering amounts.

Jonathan Pollard's First Freedom Gambit

Posted: 28 Oct 2010 11:00 PM PDT

Attorneys filed a petition asking President Barack Obama to commute Jonathan Pollard's life sentence. The petition argues that Pollard, a civilian U.S. Navy analyst who pled guilty to spying for Israel in 1986, received a sentence greater than "many others who were found guilty of similar activity on behalf of nations adversarial to us, unlike Israel." Four Democratic members of Congress are circulating a letter in Congress supporting clemency. Former assistant secretary of Defense Lawrence Korb is also calling for Pollard's release, arguing that initial damage assessments of Pollard's espionage performed by his boss, former Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger, were overblown.

Would clemency result in a renewed surge of Israeli espionage against US national security and commercial targets that was cresting when Pollard was arrested? Would it exonerate the many others who were never properly investigated or prosecuted for spying for Israel? Leading indicators are not encouraging. The FBI's latest reverse sting operation recently netted an Akamai employee eager to sell corporate secrets to the Mossad in exchange for cash and perhaps knocking off his estranged wife overseas. Stuart Nozette awaits trial. The apparent ease with which the FBI still rounds up copycat spies imbued with Pollard's patriotism toward a foreign country and lust for easy cash seems to follow the Michael Scheuer dictum that "Israel's intelligence services have found a seemingly unending number of recruits who …have decided that Israel's — not America's — advancement is paramount and justifies criminal and/or treasonous behavior."

This is just the tip of the iceberg: Israel and terrorism

Posted: 28 Oct 2010 08:49 PM PDT

If you support Israel, then you support terrorism, 100% no doubt!

This clip is only the tip of the iceberg. Unfortunately, people think Palestine is angry muslims so they give a blind eye and leave Israel doing crimes against humanity. what a pathetic thinking !

Persecuted FEMA 9-11 Photographer Fights Extradition

Posted: 28 Oct 2010 08:06 PM PDT

For five weeks following the 9-11 attacks, high-ranking FEMA official Kurt Sonnenfeld was given unlimited access to the various crime scenes as an official videographer.

However, when Sonnenfeld discovered that his official documentation contradicted the U.S. government's account of the events, he refused to be a part of a cover-up and did not turn over the tapes to officialdom.

Snakes On Our Plane

Posted: 28 Oct 2010 07:19 PM PDT

Here is a haunting tale of intrigue and horror, a tale of monstrous snakes with fangs that would sear my words from your brain and burn theirs into your mind, their venom meant to poison your soul.

These are stimulus/response creatures without souls, all hiding under the cover name of US Intelligence Services.

These sickening vile snakes have infested our physical plane, and are trying to swarm over us spiritually, with their drugs, poisons, and behavioral modification programs.

Kashmiris commemorate 'Black Day'

Posted: 28 Oct 2010 06:12 PM PDT

On Wednesday, New Delhi imposed curfew in four districts of Jammu and Kashmir Valley and thwarted the protest march to the United Nations office on the anniversary of the invasion of Hindu Occupation Force (HOF) on October 27, 1947. The protest was called for by the veteran Kashmiri Hurriyet leader, Syed Ali Gilani, to commemorate the 62nd anniversary of the invasion of Indian army, an annual event known as the 'Black Day'.

Syed Ali Gilani, now living in Indian jail, has said that the ongoing Kashmiri resistance cannot be suppressed by India through use of brute force.

Jeff Feltman's 'really great plan'

Posted: 28 Oct 2010 04:21 PM PDT

Beirut is abuzz this morning over some pretty bizarre events that have been unfolding the past few months concerning Hezbollah and the UN created International Tribunal for Lebanon, created in 2007 to bring to justice those involved in the Valentine Day 2005 assassination of then Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri.

Another one occurred yesterday morning, 10/27/10, at 9:00 am at Dr. Iman Charara's street level private obstetrics and gynecology clinic, here in Dahiyeh, a Hezbollah south Beirut neighborhood which is still recovering from Israel's 33 days of carpet bombing in 2006 which destroyed pretty much everything including more than 250 homes, scores of businesses, and much of the infrastructure.

A refugee, single mother, worker, struggler

Posted: 28 Oct 2010 02:13 PM PDT

Seventy-year-old Amna Hammad, or Umm Jihad as she is more commonly known, sat on a mattress in her cement room as the sun began to set over al-Maghazi camp in the central Gaza Strip. She started to relate her story of raising three children -- now grown men -- despite decades of separation from her husband.

"In 1967, when Israel occupied the Gaza Strip, my husband left Gaza along with thousands of others who fled the Israeli invasion. He left me with three sons, Jihad, then aged four, Nihad, then two and Adnan, a six-month-old baby. So I had to take responsibility for all of them, being a mother and father at the same," Umm Jihad explained.

Jack Conway Takes Money from Criminal Drug Company

Posted: 28 Oct 2010 07:18 AM PDT

The more you look at Jack Conway, the worse it gets. Yesterday we reported on Conway's effort to obstruct justice in a criminal drug investigation of his brother. Today we report that Jack Conway accepts money from a company that pushes a dangerous drug, OxyContin.

The NADDI, the National Association of Drug Diversion Investigators, dropped a $50,000 check on Kentucky and its Attorney General Jack Conway.

Halloween or The Art of Living Amongst Lemmings

Posted: 28 Oct 2010 07:00 AM PDT

Halloween is coming soon, one of those times, where people who are living with their eyes wide open are wondering how to deal with the concerted effort of our media and education system to cutify, death, witches and devils. Especially those of us with young children need to decide what to do about the Halloween activities of our off-spring's schools. Given the days and weeks of preparation going into the event, not allowing the children to go to school on Halloween day is simply not enough. The damage is already done.

Jewish or Israeli?

Posted: 28 Oct 2010 05:37 AM PDT

I have always tried my best to differentiate between Jews and Israelis. It bothers me when Palestinians use these two terms interchangeably.

Every time I cross the Jordan River, I overhear people talk on their cell phones, saying how they just got into the Jewish side, left the Jewish side, or were waiting to go through the Jewish side. Such comments can be heard as people approach or leave an Israeli checkpoint or have any other dealings with Israelis.

A Perjurer on the US Supreme Court