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Arafat Threatens to Walk to Bethlehem, Gandhi Style?
Not since the siege of Beirut, led by then Minister of Defense Ariel Sharon, has Yassir Arafat remained in the same place for so long. Now, in a sieg ... more
Blair Lashes Out at British Media
Darkness Eclipses Hope in the Middle East
Rafsanjani Warns of Nuke War With Israel
Public Warnings of Nuclear War in the Middle East and Sub-Continent have now come from Israeli, Pakistani, Indian, and now Iranian officials. Those w ... more
Sacramento Bee Newspaper Publisher Hissed and Booed By Students - The New American Order
Publisher of Sacramento Bee hissed and Booed for speaking up against U.S. policies
Israeli Spying in USA, Part I
Fox News, Dec 2001, Part I
Israeli Spying in USA - Part IV
Fox News, Dec 2001, Part IV
Israeli Spying in USA - Part III
Fox News, Dec 2001, Part III
Israeli Spying in USA - Part 2
FOX News, Dec 2001, Part II
A former U.S. Attorney General on "American Militarism"
The USA has been hijacked in the name of "security" and "patriatism" by its most no-nothing right-wing militarists. There were far better days when Am ... more
The Pope Discovers Palestinian Refugees and skipping a meal as he fades into history
Oh yes, the Pope who discovered Palestinian refugees camps last year, more than half a century too late; now discovers a cheap and easy way to skip a ... more
Arafat's Last Stand
This article by one of the most astute and thoughtful Middle East correspondents.
WANTED DEAD OR ALIVE - Hamas
Now the Americans are further supporting the Israeli occupation by placing bounties on Palestinians even in the territories illegally "occupied" by Is ... more
Vatican Says Withdraw Israel
As usual the Vatican is far too late and far too little in dealing with the Israelis. In the past decade in fact the Vatican's policies have only enc ... more
Kashmir India/Pakistan Crisis - Following the U.S. and Israeli lead
"The government should do what America has done in Afghanistan and what Israel is doing in Palestine. The government should not shy away from attackin ... more
Imperial Presidency Lambasted By Most in Congress
Richard Nixon tried to dress up the White House guard in new uniforms reminiscence of European royalty. There was such an outcry he relented. Now th ... more
Hamas Explained - By the American Establishment that is
Famous Egyptian Calls for BOYCOTT OF U.S. - but only once
Qandil's program helps Egyptian TV appear to be opening up, but his shows are still prerecorded and reviewed.
Beaten Fisk Rises Quickly To Tell More Painful Truths
The people who were assaulted were the Afghans, the scars inflicted by us – by B-52s, not by them. And I'll say it again. If I was an Afghan refugee i ... more
The 51st State
On 11 December 2001 President George W. Bush stood before the nation at the White House, an Israeli flag prominently displayed right behind him for al ... more
They call this 'the slaughterhouse'
Christina Lamb has seen death and misery in refugee campsin many parts of Asia and Africa, but she has never seen anythings as harrowing as the 'forgo ... more
U.S. Setting the Stage for Next War "Phases"
US Begins To Target Other Countries
U.S. Military To Go To Many Countries Soon
The Bush administration has begun plans for military actions in the global war on terrorism that include placing special operations forces in multiple ... more
Bomber 'planned chemical attack'
His bag had been flung yards down the road, but, though seriously wounded, he tried to reach it. He was shot in the leg and chest and
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Mullah Omar 'is captured'
"Captured"?
'Hatred' of America
A somewhat off-key article -- for instance the bland statement that "the United States had no role in the establishment of Muslim governments either i ... more
The Future of Afghanistan
After first bringing about the Soviet invasion, then engaging the Soviet Empire with the help of the Mujahadin including Osama Bin Laden, then helping ... more
US gave nod for East Timor invasion
The United States offered full and direct approval to Indonesia's 1975 invasion of East Timor, a move by then-president Suharto which consigned the t ... more
Arafat lashes out as US fails to condemn attacks
It took Arafat a very long time...but: "Dear God, who cares about the Americans?" he said in the interview in the West Bank city of Ramallah. "The Am ... more
The modern Caliphate destroyed
On April 4, 1996, as the Taliban neared total control, he was moved by zeal to unseal a shrine in Kandahar that held a cloak believed to have belonged ... more
Terminate America: message from a mother in mourning
From the Syndney Morning Herald, not any US publication:
"Rukia, 39, who like many Afghans uses only one name, lost her family five days ago when she ... more
Americans Torpedo Another Inter Conf - this one on germ warfare
"They have fired a missile at the conference. We are deeply disappointed," one senior European diplomat said.
Anti-Americanism has real and profound roots
Although few America-haters resort to terror, their simmering rage not only incubates violence; it also provides the moral support that can transform ... more
Israel's Real Plot
Things are so advanced at this point that even Newsweek magazine is beginning to write about, and the Jordanians are beginning to publicly talk about, ... more
Shock as columnist investigated for un-American activity
It sounds too strange to be true....
The Last Colonial War
Leave it to Robert Fisk to sum things up succinctly and brilliantly.
Arafat's Long History - cleaned-up
A rather sanitized and very incomplete, though still useful, history of Yasser Arafat
Grounded Arafat besieged by Israel
YASSER ARAFAT found himself bottled up in a few square miles of the West Bank town of Ramallah yesterday in possibly the toughest moment in a career o ... more
The terrible cost of Arafat's lost history of corruption, incomptence, and cronyism
Arafat's decades of corruption, incompetence, and cronyism have greatly contributed to the terrible predicament faced today by Palestinian people. No ... more
Hillary and Shumer - both NY Senators Declare Arafat Like the Taliban
Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton warned on Sunday that the United States would "root out" any terrorist elements in Yasser Arafat's Palestinian Authority - ... more
Israelis Aim To End Oslo and Arafat Eras
For some time the real Israeli policies have been either to trap Arafat in a false peace where he would sign away Palestinian rights giving Israel mor ... more
Sharon's Days Are Numbered - Even His Allies Are Telling Him So
If Sharon returns from Washington empty-handed, his national unity coalition will not survive for long. Three dead ends are too much even for the lead ... more
Secret US plan for Iraq war
Bush orders backing for rebels to topple Saddam
FBI agents rebel over new powers
The plan has caused outrage within the FBI itself with agents expected to act upon new surveillance powers describing themselves as 'very, very angry' ... more
Taliban Mass Suicide Rather Than Surrender To Brutal US/Russian-sponsored 'Northern Alliance'
EIGHTY Taliban prisoners of war have apparently blown themselves up rather than surrender to the Northern Alliance
Horror Massacre in Afghanistan
Tale of an American Taliban. A U.S. citizen on the horror at Kala Jangi. NEWSWEEK WEB EXCLUSIVE
Spying on American Religious and Political Groups Resumes - FlashBack to Hoover Era
Attorney General John Ashcroft is considering a plan to relax restrictions on the F.B.I.'s spying on religious and political organizations in the Unit ... more
Helen Thomas on George Bush and the Peoples House
But now the 201-year-old Executive Mansion belongs only to a select, elitist group of people, including top government officials, members of Congress ... more
America's 'Talibanisation'
Sometimes an observer who knows us well can see from afar more than we can see ourselves up close.
Powell Plays To Public Opinion, Not Realpolitik
Gee, how about, "The Americans must make 100 percent effort to ensure democracy and self-determination for the Palestinian people. There must be real ... more
Jordan's King Works Harder For U.S./Britain
Installed by the British, the Hashemite Throne has always been the greatest collaborator with the West and Israel of all the Arab "client regimes", ev ... more
Dean of Washington Press Corps Cries Foul
"The Bush administration is using the national trauma and state of emergency resulting from the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks to trample the Bill of Righ ... more
A Gaza Diary: Scenes from the Palestinian Uprising
Must Read. Important depth of understanding about what the Palestinians are actually being subjected to.
Afghan Alliance Saying NO to Brit and U.S. Forces
Already the tension is growing between the new Afghan warlords and the very same Brits and Americans who made it possible for them to take power.
Terrorism came after unsuccessful U.S./Taliban talks about oil
Add these insights into the bigger puzzle picture
Massacres and Bloodletting in Afghanistan
Before the bombing started, senior L.A.Times correspondent Robin Wright was asked by CNN at the last moment of an interview for her one most important ... more
India Pakistan Conflict More Possible
There is no real solution in sight to the Kashmir crisis. Very serious tensions now exist between these two nuclear-armed protagonists. Both are pla ... more
U.S. totally dominated now by oil and big business interests
Even when it came to Bin Laden and Terrorism, new book helps explain why Bin Laden was never really dealth with before 9/11.
Hezbollah Refuses The Bait and The Bribe
Everywhere now the Americans, in this particular case fronting for the Israelis, are bribing, threatening, infiltrating, spying. This is the brave ne ... more
Powell Prepares Verbal Antacids, Not Actions
Politics and War are all intertwined these days as never before. The new American media "War Room" is a propaganda operation, not even very disguised ... more
'Rumsfeld Plan' Calls for 'New Iraq' as well
The Americans are planning to remake the world in their image -- one safe for their multinationals, their "client regimes", and their modern-day imper ... more
Al-Jazeera Accuses U.S. of bombing Kabul Office
The Pentagon yesterday denied that it had deliberately targeted al-Jazeera, but said it could not explain why the office was hit.
Movie Star Danny Glover Speaks Up
"one of the main purveyors of violence ithis world is this country," says Movie Star Danny Glover as some in the U.S. decide they've got to speak up ... more
Fired for Speaking Up and Sarcasm
It's happening in many different kinds of ways far and wide now -- this is the "new USA" that goes along with the "new war" and the world of Bush/Ashc ... more
Arafat - Not Much Credibility Left
Little credibility Arafat wants to play ball with the Israelis and Americans and father even a fake "Palestinian State". But his people are determine ... more
Peres seeks 'best bet' trying to trap Palestinians in pseudo 'State'
If Peres and so many Israelis are now for a "Palestinian State", no wonder so many Palestinians are more and more skeptical than ever.
Even the 'friendly' Kuwaitis name kids Osama
Even the "friendly" Kuwaits are naming their kids Osama and predicting more Muslims will join the counter-jihad against the crusading USA. And, even ... more
Arab-Israeli War More Likely than Peace
The Egyptian President has made harsh public comments. The Saudis are jittery and mad. The U.N. is running for it. And at the helm in Israel, Sharo ... more
Just Say 'NO' to 'PALESTINIAN STATE'
[Read the whole article, this is satirical]. But all of a sudden, in the middle of all these atrocities, there seems to be a ray of light. The term ... more
William Safire on the New Dictatorship
Even the far right-wing intelligentsia is now beginning to wake up to what is happening to our country in the name of "anti-terrorism" and "the new wo ... more
Saddam Sends Condolences to U.S. Citizens
Iraqi President Saddam Hussein has sent a letter to a U.S. citizen personally offering condolences for the first time over the September 11 attacks on ... more
"Palestinian State" Talk
The Saudis would like people to believe this. And so would the Americans in their own way; and the Israelis in their own way. American Presidents ha ... more
Americans Light The Nuclear Fuse
The U.S., Israel, India, now with much help from Turkey -- plus of course the ongoing help, no matter how grudgingly, from the Arab "client regimes", ... more
President William Jefferson Clinton at Georgetown University, 7 November 2001
This is definitely not a guy to trust. And this is definitely a guy who helped bring about the chaoctic and dangerous world of today, all in the name ... more
Saudi desperation growing - American forces more irritating
The Saudi Royals of Arabia are both occupied and reassertive at the same time. Crown Prince Abdullah has been said to be waiting for a chance to make ... more
U.S. Will Try Again to Change Iraqi Sanctions
"We keep a close eye on Iraq. We will continue to work on modifying the sanctions regime so we keep the Iraqi regime bottled up with respect to the de ... more
Afghan Boomerang - America's nurture of militant Islam and the miscalculations of Osama Bin
Until recently, the name "Afghanistan" had an exotic ring to many, but not to US policy-makers. For a decade (1979-1989) they backed the Afghan war ag ... more
Bin Laden a creature of CIA and US policies
"Bin Laden is a sign of things to come" said Pakistani political analyst and critic Eqbal Ahmad before he died in 1999.
Bin Laden interview 11/10/2001
Bin Laden speaks up again, this time claiming to have nuclear and other weapons of mass destruction for "deterrence".
Nuke Suitcases and other mass destruction weapons in USA?
Are nuclear suitcases and chem/bio weaponds of mass destruction already position in the USA?
Also, full Bin Laden interview published 10 November 2001 ... more
Opponents of War Are Scarce on Television
Even the New York Times, some two months after 911, feels the need to run a small story on one of its inside pages, wondering why "opponents" of the w ... more
Tunnel Vision Americans Don't See What The World Sees
" 'BBC World News' and other foreign-based programs offer an essential supplement to this tunnel vision." Even though ITN and BBC are better, for Am ... more
Turmoil in Germany as Green Party of Foreign Minister Fischer Rebels
The German Green Party, the party of Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer, is seething with rebellion against the German Government's seduction by the Ame ... more
US shows video of man being blown apart
America's Giant Killer Non-Nuke Almost-Nuke Bomb
They have the destructive power of an atomic bomb, but they can barely make a dent in U.S. news coverage. I'm talking about the 15,000-pound bombs the ... more
The Big Battle To Control The Middle East
The United States is fighting two wars at the present time: a small war aimed at the capture of Osama bin Laden and his top lieutenants; and a large w ... more
The Flower of Anti-War Protest
The Prince of Wales has been slapped round the face with a flower by a war protester during his visit to the Baltic states.
The Algebra of Infinite Justice - by Arundhati Roy
President Bush's ultimatum to the people of the world - "If you're not with us, you're against us" - is a piece of presumptuous arrogance. It's not a ... more
'Brutality Smeared in Peanut Butter' Why The War Must End Now - By Arundhati Roy
In America, the arms industry, the oil industry, the major media networks, and, indeed, US foreign policy, are all controlled by the same business com ... more
Creating More Future Terrorism - John Le Carre
An internationally acclaimed author of eighteen novels, John LeCarre is also an astute political observer. In this ssay published in the The Nation, L ... more
Ariel Sharon - full interview in The Guardian
"The Bulldozer" plays to the media, even as his occupation army continues to kill, the neo-Apartheid policies continue to be pursued, and plans to bri ... more
Sharon wants 1 million new Jews for Israel
While the Palestinians are corralled on reservations, Israeli-style Bantustans in a neo-apartheid situation, the Israelis continue to bring in more Je ... more
Real Terrorism
History it is said is written, and thus made, by the victor. So with "terrorism" - it is usually defined by those who have the power, the money, and ... more
The hardline Afghan-American academic
He's long been associated with the hard-line America-first political academics in the USA, with CIA ties to boot. But he's been trying to maintain a ... more
Islamic American Nonprofits Face Increased Scrutiny in U.S.
While Jewish groups continue to raise huge amounts of money for Israel, the Americans are going to use the new situation to cut off as much money to P ... more
PAKISTAN being pressured to send its nuks to China
THE ISLAMIC BOMB. One way or another the Americnas, pushed hard by the Israelis, and in coordination with the Indians, are determined to defange Paki ... more
Beijing produces videos glorifying terrorist
THE Chinese state-run propaganda machine is cashing in on the terror attacks in New York and Washington, producing books ... more
Sands of Corruption - Sunday Cover story
Cover story about Saudi Arabia in the SUNDAY BUSINESS POST, published in Dublin, Ireland. MER Publisher Mark Bruzonsky is quoted.
Unprecedented Spying and Surveillance - U.S. Being Transformed Towards Police State
Massive Secret Detention Round-Up Under Way
Marines and Israelis Prepare to "SafeGuard" Pakistani Nuks
U.S. Marines Could Safeguard Pakistan's Nuclear Weapons In The Event Of A Pakistani Uprising Or Overthrow Of President ---- Coalition Information Cent ... more
How 'Houdini' Arafat defies death
At the moment, ironically, it's the CIA working closely with Egyptian, Saudi, and Jordanian intelligence services that keeps Yasser Arafat alive and h ... more
'Anti-Americanism' Has Roots in U.S. Foreign Policy
There are real, serious, and historically deep reasons for so much "anti-Americanism" around the world. Mushahid Hussein, graduate of Georgetown Univ ... more
The Coming Arab Crash
THE COMING ARAB CRASH - By Said Aburish - Wishful thinking?
One of the most astute Arab political analysts, writing from London, looks ahead.
"The ... more
Saying the Unsayable
SAYING THE UNSAYABLE. The link between "the new war" and the old long-festering issue of Palestine. David Hirst gets a bit optimistic.
BIG BROTHER PENTAGON
The U.S. Military is buying up all the satellite photos of Afghanistan -- not to use, for they already have much better photo capabilities -- but to p ... more
Really Scary Pentagon Secret Terror Plans From The Past
This one should really scare you! Pentagon-created terror-on-the-homefront plans
to create the excuse to invade Cuba and get ride of Castro. If that ... more
British Muslim support for terror
SUNDAY TIMES - London - 4 Nov. FOUR out of every 10 British Muslims believe Osama Bin Laden is justified in mounting his war against the United Stat ... more
Bush to push for "viable Palestinian State"
This game of political deception and verbal combat has been going on for some decades now. Jimmy Carter was the first American President to publicly ... more
Backyard terrorism - In Georgia, USA
The U.S. stands accused of considerable "terrorism" itself by many in the world. "The School of the Americas" in Georgia has been at the top of the l ... more
CHOMSKY - New War, New World
Professor Noam Chomsky gives this extraordinary overview of our new world and the "new war"
Going After the ISLAMIC BOMB
The U.S. -- working closely with Israel and India, two countries which have themselves been working together for years to try to take out Pakistan's n ... more
Israel accused of massacre on West Bank’s bloodiest day
The village of Beit Rima, where the Israeli operation was under way, remained sealed off last night amid Palestinian accusations, denied by Israel, th ... more
LeMonde, Al Jazeera Censored in US, Internet Under Surveillance
Censorship USA
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