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Saudis Manuever with Oil Their 'Nuclear Weapon'
The Saudis have always been, well, self-centered. Now they are manuevering for both regime survival as well as oil domination. In the short-term the ... more
Killing Underscores Enmity of Evangelists and Muslims in Lebanon
Scott Ritter's 'Iraq Complex'
Qatar Becomes Main US Base in Gulf Region
Even Ha'aretz is Praising Sharon and Dismissing Mitzna
Surprise #1 - Text of Ha'aretz Magazine Article Praising Sharon A LITTLE TLC FROM ARIEL SHARON How did Ariel Sharon succeed in ... more
Pope speaks of 'Clash of Civilizations' that 'at times seems inevitable'
Pope Speaks of "Clash of Civilizations"Friday, 29-Nov-2002 4:20PM Story from APCopyright 2002 by The Associated Press (via ClariNet)VATICAN CITY ... more
Israelis Plan to Reoccupy Parts of Lebanon, maybe Syria
Israel plans to capture territory if attacked from NorthFriday, November 29, 2002TEL AVIV — Israel's military is preparing for an offensive war agains ... more
US and Israel Plan To Go After and Assassinate Many 'on the books' from the past
In wake of Predator success, U.S. weighs assassination optionsFriday, November 29, 2002The United States is quietly examining the feasibility of assas ... more
Story Behind the 'Inspections'...
INSPECTION AS INVASIONThe US has been seeking to prevent a resolution of the Iraq crisis for the past eight years By George Monbiot The Guardian - Tue ... more
Kuwait to Buy 2 million Gas Maks from Israel
[Ha'aretz, 29 Nov]:Israel agrees to sell gas masks to Kuwait for civilian distribution By Amnon Barzilai Israel is prepared to sell 2 million gas ... more
The Ameri can Whips, Leather, and Knives 'Inspector'
Israelis Get What They Want
They've provoked this for quite some time now; they are getting not only what they have sown, but what they want; and they are preparing to use it all ... more
Target Israel
Landslide Likud/Sharon Forecast
Ha'aretz poll puts right-wing-religious bloc firmly in driving seat By Yossi VerterHa'aretz - 29 Nov: Exactly two months before the Knesset election ... more
Ramadan War Crimes
In the days before the attacks in Kenya, the following took place, along with other missile assassinations of key Palestinian resistance leaders:----- ... more
Quotes from George
"Ariel Sharon of Israel is a Man of Peace"George W. Bush"General Musharraf of Pakistan is a Democrat"George W. Bush"The inhabitants of Greece are the ... more
Israel Prepares to 'Tansfer' (i.e., Expel) the Palestinians
Israel's Choice - By NEVE GORDON Jerusalem -- Returning to Israel after an extended absence can be a disturbing experience. On the way back from the a ... more
Appeal to the World from Cities of Occupied Palestine - 28 Nov
APPEAL TO THE WORLD FROM CITIES AND VILLAGES OF OCCUPIED PALESTINEAt the time when we are preparing to receive the Holy Feast of Ramadan and the Glori ... more
Friedman's True Stripes Showing More Openly These Days
He's become the 'liberal Jewish' media man, heavily promoted by the NYTimes and the heavily-Jewish production staff at Public Television. Tom's true ... more
Saudi Bandar's 'Pain'
Bandar Bush
Over the years MER has often focused on the exploits of Saudi Ambassador Bandar bin Sultan. From his cozy relations with the Israeli-Jewish lobby (no ... more
Israel Trying to Innoculate Against 'War Crimes' Charges
Israel is taking steps to try to innoculate itself from war crimes charges by claiming 'self-defense' against 'suicide bombers'. ********************* ... more
Courage Under Fire in Jenin
COURAGE UNDER FIRE For almost a year Caoimhe Butterly has been standing in the way of Israeli tanks and troops in Jenin. Last Friday she was shot by a ... more
'Transfer', i.e, 'Expulsion', i.e. 'Ethnic Cleansing'...Looms
You can bet that when things of this kind reach the general media in this way behind the scenes the Jordanians are already in a panic and preparing fo ... more
Intellectal Intifada Needed In Order to Really Understand
The West is not just losing the war against terrorism: its actions are fuelling it across the world
The Guardian Weekly 28-11-2002, page 13By Seumas Milne The West is not just losing the war against terrorism: its actions are fuelling it across the w ... more
Amram Mitzna - The Reality Behind The Image
'Uncle Saddam' - The Film
Catholic Bishops Plead Some More Against War
Aiming At the Saudis - It's the Rumseld-Cheney-Zionist Crowd Going After 'Em
TIME TO GET 'EM SAUDIS[Alternet - November 27, 2002]The latest brouhaha over Saudi links to al Qaeda that has the media pundits in a tizz maybe no mor ... more
Falwell Should Be 'Excommunicated'...Robertson Too
The Likud Debates a PR and Rump 'Palestinian State'
Israeli-Arab War Spreading Further Worldwide - Mombassa
The Arab Establishment Wants to Elect Mitzna - Repeating History's Big Mistakes
Israelis Advised By Friends in US to Let Americans Do Iraq for Them
Group Urges Pro-Israel Leaders' Silence on Iraq Memo Outlines Response If Hostilities Occur, Discourages Lecturing of Americans on Middle EastBy Dana ... more
Hitchens on Kissinger
It is indeed gross that Henry Kissinger of old is now trotted out to pretend to lead an 'independent' inquiry into 9/11. Emphasis on 'independent'... ... more
CIA: Saudis Still Funding Al Qaida
CIA: Saudis still sending tens of millions to Al QaidaSPECIAL TO WORLD TRIBUNE.COMWednesday, November 27, 2002The CIA has traced transfers of tens of ... more
US and Israel to cut off more funds going to Palestinians
Palestinian 'Minister' Sends Dogs to Paris for Heathcare - European Pay the Tab
PA FUNDING GOES TO THE DOGS[Ha'aretz, 27 Nov]:There is mounting criticism among rank-and-file Palestinians about instances of corruption among their s ... more
Mubarak Strikes Again!
President Hosni Mubarak to General Amram Mitzna, new head of Israel's Labor Party: "I send my best wishes on your election as chairman of the Labor Pa ... more
Abu Mazen, Hoping the US and Israel will give him Arafat's Job, Prostrates Further
"I think Sharon is currently the most important leader the Zionist movement has had since [Theodor] Herzl." ABU MAZEN SLAMS INTIFADA AS DISASTER[Ha'ar ... more
Soares Resigns from European Jewish Lobby
Ramallah's VIP 'Checkpoint'
Hu, Yassir, Kofi and Rice
Hu, Yassir, Kofi and Rice Playwright Jim Sherman wrote this after Hu Jintao was named chief of the Communist Party in China. HU'S ON FIRST By Ja ... more
'Goddess of Small Things' - Arundhati Roy
The Observer (UK)Sunday November 17, 2002Goddess of big thingsArundhati Roy's collection of political essays, The Algebra of Infinite Justice, has a n ... more
Chomsky's New Film: POWER AND TERROR
Comment from Shifra Stern: With regard to the assertion that Prof. Chomsky "equated" the 9/11 attacks to the 1998 American bombing of a Sudanese pharm ... more
Talk of 'Nationalizing' US Airlines Just A Year After 9/11
Airlines' Official Warns on Security CostsTHE NEW YORK TIMES - 27 Nov - WASHINGTON, Nov. 26 — The president of the airlines' trade association said to ... more
Israelis Killed UNRWA official, delayed ambulance, then lied and cover-up
Gore Attacks Right-Wing Media Conspiracy
There actually is a far right-wing media-political conspiracy in the US. It involves great amounts of money from the Moonies, the Wash Times newspape ... more
Israeli Claims 'Not Credible' Regarding Killed UN Official
UN rejects Israeli account of British official's killingBy Eric Silver in Jerusalem[The Independent - 25 November 2002The United Nations dismissed as ... more
'Confession' Under Threat of Castration
'Hijacker confessed under threat of castration'By Justin Huggler in Jerusalem[The Independent - 27 November 2002]:The Arab-Israeli citizen accused of ... more
US Wants to Host Another 'Peace Conference' As Iraq War Looms
Big Press on To Get Arafat PA to 'Give Up' Crucial 'Right of Return'
Shin Bet and Nusseibeh in Public
No Palestinian State of Any Kind Says Former PM Shamir
He was the Israelis PM at the Madrid Conference in 1991...one more in a long line of deceptive international arrangements fostered by the US on behalf ... more
US Warned of Suicide Attacks Because of US Policies
Germany Promises Israel More Military Aid
Just a year after 9/11 every US State facing 'fiscal crisis'
November 26, 2002States Are Facing Big Fiscal Crises, Governors ReportBy ROBERT PEARWASHINGTON, Nov. 25 — Plunging tax collections and soaring medical ... more
US Establishment, Council on Foreign Relations and Israel/Jewish lobby in the lead, go after the Saudis
Pat Robertson Takes on Mohamed, Islam, and Bush the unelected theologian
Red Star Returns to 'Modern' Russia
The Real US/Israeli Targets - Iran +
After Iraq, Bush Will Attack His Real Targetby Eric MargolisPublished on Sunday, November 10, 2002 by the Toronto SunNEW YORK -- President George Bush ... more
On REsistance and Terror - Dr. Iyad Sarraj
On Resistance and TerrorBy Eyad El Sarraj20 November 2002 1. Palestine is a question of brutal denial of all basic human rights including the rig ... more
Israel Kills British UN Official
Israel's killing of British citizen Iain Hook, UNRWA's Project Manager in JeninCaoimhe Butterly as told to Annie Higgins, writing from Jenin Refugee C ... more
Perle Declares War With Iraq No Matter What
War, WhateverBush Aide: Inspections Or Not, We'll Attack IraqExclusive By Paul Gilfeather, Whitehall EditorDaily Mirror UK - Friday, 22 November, 2002 ... more
Bush is both a 'moron' and an 'idiot' say the Canadians
Govt Strips Away Citizen Rights in name of 'Security'
We should preserve freedom from terror, not sacrifice it moreGainsville Times - Monday, November 25, 2002--------------------------------------------- ... more
USGovt Megamerger Mess Created by Homeland Security Law
HOMELAND A MEGAMERGER MESSNew York Daily News - Sunday, November 24th, 2002 After months of lectures from politicians on how to run their businesses, ... more
Saudi Royals Charge 'Lies', 'Lies'
Saudi Arabia Says 9/11 Cash Charges Are LiesBy Ghaida GhantousDUBAI (Reuters - 25 Nov) - Saudi Arabia Monday dismissed as lies charges that it finance ... more
USGovt Will Now 'Police' The Internet
US homeland security to police the Netby x • Thursday November 21, 2002 US homeland security to police the Net Declan McCullagh, CNET News.com A massi ... more
Ashcroft on the Internet in 1997...versus Ashcroft 2002
KEEP BIG BROTHER'S HANDS OFF THE INTERNET By Senator John AshcroftRepublican, MissouriChairman of the Senate Commerce Subcommittee on Consumer Affairs ... more
Arab World Preparing For Another Day
If this is true - and in the Middle East a certain degree of scepticism is always worth maintaining, even with the best information - then it will be ... more
Is The Hydrogen Bomb Next Israelis Ask?
Sharon pulled another heart-warming surprise out of his briefcase: viz, "policy." Yes, it turns out that, defamatory smears notwithstanding, the gover ... more
Israelis Want Hamas and Hezbollah Destroyed by US
"Graham added that a cornered Saddam was more likely to coordinate terrorist attacks against American interests with such groups and that the proximit ... more
Six Weeks In Autumn - As The World Edges Toward the Abyss
US Plans to Bug the World
U.S. Hopes to Check Computers GloballySystem Would Be Used to Hunt TerroristsBy Robert O'Harrow Jr.Washington Post Staff WriterTuesday, November 12, 2 ... more
Pentagon Takes Over in USA
Total Information Awareness[Washington Post - Saturday, November 16, 2002; Page A20]ANYONE WHO deliberately set out to invent a government program wit ... more
'Reconfiguring' the Internet by the Military-Industrial Complex
The Bugging of America By The Pentagon
Saudi Royals Pressed Hard to Obey
Two powerful forces are now out to force the Saudi Rulers back into line -- the Israeli/Jewish lobby and the Pentagon, now seeded at the highest level ... more
Pentagon Wants to eDNA the Internet
The Internet started with the Pentagon, and one way or another the militarists plan to regain control of it and know who is talking with hom about wha ... more
Big Brother 'Uncle Sam' Grabs For Info
Indeed 'Knowledge is Power' and the USG and military are grabbing for it as neer before. They don't have a great deal of wisdom however and knowledge ... more
'Moron' C-Student Bush Lectures World
Sharon and Bibi Battle It Out for Toughest and Shroudest Israeli leadership
Still More Israeli Settlements As More Money and Arms Flow from US to the Jewish State
Pentagon Confirms Super-Snoop System
Politically Correct 'Speech Code' Coming to Harvard
This is what Harvard President Lawrence Summers, an active member in thre 'liberal Zionist Jewish community', is behind-the-scenes helping to bring to ... more
The Era of Biologically Engineered Weapons Cometh
Second Canadian Officials Calls Pres Bush "A Moron"
Pentagon to Track Americans - What they buy, where they go, whom they know
Israelis Demand More Billions from US
It's couched in a certain kind of polite diplomatic language and phraseology; but in reality the Israelis are essentially blackmailing the US demandin ... more
Suicide Bombing 'Self-Portrait' by prize-winning Colorado artist
'Martyr' a bomb with some art studentsBy Rebecca Jones, Rocky Mountain NewsNovember 14, 2002A prize-winning painting by a local artist has so disturbe ... more
Rove - It was like being at a Nazi-rally!
NEW WOODWARD BOOK REVEALEDReady. Set. Blastoff! On the controversial new book coming next week from Bob Woodward.BUSH AT WAR, being tightly held by SI ... more
Gore Finally Speaketh...this time to sell books
Gore Calls 2000 Verdict 'Crushing,' Assails CourtBy Dan BalzWashington Post - November 15:In his first interviews since conceding the presidency to Ge ... more
As the World Turns - Kasi's Execution Serves as rather Vivid Reminder
The Kasi execution and what happened 9 years ago outside the CIA serves as a reminder of the forces set in motion by the Israeli occupation of the Pal ... more
Massive Attacks and 'Pogroms' Expand in Occupied Palestine
IN NABLUS: "Operation Wheels of Thrust continues in Shechem, and Prime Minister Sharon says it is not limited in time. Army sources say that there a ... more
UK Admits Responsiblity...Is US Next?
BRITAIN TO BLAME FOR MANY WORLD PROBLEMS, SAYS STRAWBy Richard Beeston, Diplomatic EditorTimes of London, UK, 15 Nov:BRITAIN’S colonial legacy around ... more
FBI and White House Publicly Feuding Again...
Kurds Fear They Will Again Suffer Tragedy with GWII
Boston Globe's 'Peace Option for Israel'
A BOSTON GLOBE EDITORIALA peace option in Israel11/13/2002THAT THE CONFLICT between Israelis and Palestinians has become a blind vendetta was demonstr ... more
Iraq War 'Not Just or Justifiable' Catholic Bishops Insist
War on Iraq Not Yet Justified, Bishops SayBy LAURIE GOODSTEINNew York Times, 14 Nov, WASHINGTON — Roman Catholic bishops in the United States issued a ... more
US 'Fears' Blix May Do His Job!
It's all about upping the pressure on everyone from Kofi to Hans. The Americans (and Israelis of course) are determined to have their way; no one wil ... more
Expect War Maybe Next Month...'Inevitable now' says Scott Ritter
Powell Attacks Christian Right - Gee...what took him so long...is there a war or something?
US and Israel Have Other Targets After Iraq - Iran and Pakistan
After Iraq, Bush will attack his real target By ERIC MARGOLISThe Toronto SUN - 13 Nov - NEW YORK: President George Bush wrapped himself in the America ... more
Ross of Israeli Lobby Shows No Shame
Pushing hard for War sooner rather than later, Israel's minions in the US are hard at work and show no shame. In this Washington Post Op Ed no mentio ... more
US Fears Inspections Might Work...Steps Up Pressure on UN
U.S. fears inspection whitewash, could press for Blix replacementSPECIAL TO WORLD TRIBUNE.COMThursday, November 14, 2002As the United Nations prepares ... more
Pentagon Rushing Americans Toward 1984!
"Every purchase you make with a credit card, every magazine subscription you buy and medical prescription you fill, every Web site you visit and e-mai ... more
Pentagon Perle Spews Forth All Over the Europeans
Europe lacks moral fibre, says US hawkBy Edward Pilkington and Ewen MacAskillThe Guardian - 13 Nov: Richard Perle, a leading Pentagon adviser on Iraq ... more
Catholic Bishops Plan Statement Opposing US War On Iraq
Catholic bishops plan statement opposing U.S. invasion of IraqBy John RiveraSunSpot.net - November 13, 2002:WASHINGTON - U.S. bishops moved yesterday ... more
Bush Denouces Anti-Islamic Christian Leader's Remarks.....Finally
Sure took him a very long time. What he should have done instinctive and credibly on Day 1; he instead is doing in a scripted way on Week 3 or 4... ... more
Kofi Annan Denouces Israel....but....
Words are cheap, especially in this case; it's actions that count. Most of Kofi Annan's actions have linked him as a branch of the American State Dep ... more
More Deadly than Anthrax and Loose in Detroit
Anyone who wants to be a 'terrorist' only had to watch CBS News this week to find out how easy it is to buy the ingredients for very destructive car b ... more
As UN Hypocrisy Rises to Epic Proportions, it's one pogrom after another for the ghettoized Palestinians
"Israeli security officials today identified the suspected gunman in the Kibbutz Metzer attack as Sirhan Sirhan and said he is a distant relative of t ... more
Chechnya Clearly Getting Under Putin's Skin
Why Putin Boils Over: Chechnya Is His Personal WarBy MICHAEL WINESNew York Times, 13 Nov, MOSCOW — In certain diplomatic circles outside Russia today, ... more
With US Help Musharraf Struggles to Hold On
Pakistan Also in the American/Israeli Crosshairs
Pakistan's N. Korea Deals Stir ScrutinyAid to Nuclear Arms Bid May Be RecentBy Glenn KesslerWashington Post Staff WriterWednesday, November 13, 2002; ... more
After then Fired Boutros, they Hired Kofi
The Americans like to control everything, and that's why Kofi Annan was brought in after they fired Boutros Ghali at the helm of the U.N. How unbecom ... more
Now Kevin Spacey Warns America about Bush
Spacey makes case for Iraq-nophobiaKevin Spacey believes that America's troops can oust Saddam Hussein in less than two weeks. But he thinks the count ... more
And the radiation killing goes on and on
Osama Bin-Laden's Latest
Extracts from 'Bin Laden' tapeThe following text formed part of a purported audio tape by the al-Qaida leader aired by al-Jazeera TV yesterdayReuters ... more
WAR GAMES - New Media Finds Its Place in the New World Order
A Taste For War - How Osama Became Iraq
New Report Says 500,000+ could be killed in loomng M E war
And it appears this guesstimate is based on the assumption the war does not escalate throughout the region, or the world. Nor does it take into accou ... more
Bin Laden: 'Bush is Pharoah of This Century'
Mid East War Now Inevitable as Arab regimes cower
Putin Definiantly Continues Genocidal Policies in Chechnya
Russia should be condemned and ostracized by the world for what it has done and is doing in Chechnya. Instead, compliments of the Americans, the Russ ... more
Iraqis Profess Defiance Before Saddam's Acceptance
Iraqis Profess Definance, before Saddam's Acceptance:Tragically, on the actual terms the positions being taken in Baghdad are quite understandable; th ... more
Putin Shows His True Dictator Stripes In Public
How unbecoming and dangerous some of these leaders we allow to govern are. After first manufacturing terrorism in Russia to justify his Chechnyan pol ... more
Americans: The Divide Between the Aware and the Hypnotized - Granny D Speaks Her Mind
Stirring of Revolution and Civil War Expand in Jordan
King Abdullah, owing his throne very personally to the CIA as he very well knows, is already protected by a special force of American security persone ... more
Be Ready for War This Year Folks
The ink was hardly dry at the UN, after two extended months of 'debate', before the Bush Team started leaking their war plans to the major media and p ... more
Going After the Saudis...the Neocons, the Israelis/Zionists, the Christian Fundamentalists
GOING AFTER THE SAUDIS Big Oil joins up with the neocons – and a LaRouche 'defector' By Justin RaimondoAugust 9, 2002 Just as the news that the Pentag ... more
Does World War III Loom Because of Saudi Arabia and 9/11?
Saudi Arabia: The Sarajevo of the 21st Century Is Iraq a Diversion from the Real Invasion or Will Bush Try to Occupy Both Countries at Once? Allah's L ... more
Saudis Secretly Manuever Over Succession
The succession struggle is quite for real in Arabia these days...after all it's called 'Saudi' Arabia. Among other reasons this accounts for the Saud ... more
Scott Ritter Fears Nor Iraq but rather US/Israeli Policies
Scott Ritter: If Israel uses nuclear weapons it will be destroyed The former chief UN weapons inspector made his comments in a “Globes” interview. By ... more
Tanya Reinhart on 'How To End the War of 1948'
"With the U.S. backing, and the silence of the Western world, there is a serious danger that what we have seen so far is only the beginning, and that ... more
What the US Now Does To Many Without Any Cause other than place of birth
In the long run these policies will further hurt the US as normal discourse, travel, tourism, students, will all be substantial harmed the more and lo ... more
Caged by the Americans - Suicides and Hunger Strikes and Secrecy
Distant voices tell of life for Britons caged in Camp Delta Letters to families reveal hunger strikes and suicides in US jail for terror suspects Paul ... more
New Kashmir Bombing - India/Pakistan Tensions Could Erupt any time
Europeans Act Like Political Eunuchs Regarding Arab-Israeli Conflict
"There's almost a sense of despair right now," said John Wyles, a European policy analyst. "The European Union is the primary donor to the Palestinian ... more
Bibi Reveals Himself Layer by Layer
[excerpt]: "It is a fact that when we had pressures coming from the United States in the first few days of Operation Defensive Shield, the prime minis ... more
From the Battle of Algiers to the Battles of Nablus, Jenin, Bethlehem, et. al.
How the olive thieves shamed Israel
Now the Israelis, and this particular author in fact, should be experts on such subjects of 'shame'. But the 'liberals' among them mask their own 'sh ... more
Israelis Prepare for more direct Military Rule and 'Expulsion'
Of course they don't say it openly, but these preparations are all about imposing even more hard and direct military rule on the Palestinians...prepar ... more
Open Letter to Hitchens
'No War With Iraq' Articles and Information from The Nation Magazine
The Big Corporate Media Getting Still Bigger and More Incentuous
CNNABCNEWS MERGE COULD BE BY JANUARY; TROUBLED AOLTIMEWARNER MAY DELAYGet ready for the biggest, baddest news organization the world has ever seen. Wh ... more
U.S. Declares War Plans and Solo Action Anytime It Wishes
It took only hours after the U.N. vote for the U.S. to very publicly declare its war plans and that regardless of what others say it could go it alone ... more
Sharon and Bush - The Cozy Couple
BACK DOOR TO BUSHBy Jackson DiehlWashington Post Monday, November 4, 2002; Page A19 Which foreign leader has had the maximum Oval Officeaccess to Geor ... more
Will You Just Stand on the Sidelines?
Will You Just Stand On The Sidelines?by Amira Hass[Ha'aretz; November 06, 2002]:After the elections the preachers of the "transfersolution" will be st ... more
Return to 'the Bi-national Option'
More Excuses, Rationalizations, and Bumbling from Shimon Peres
Beaten and Arrested for Speaking Arabic
Unable to Take Responsiblity or Face Reality, they call it 'Galloping Anti-Semitism'
US War Plans Firm and Rolling
Just hours after the American mid-term election and the UN vote were completed, the Pentagon's war plans were leaked so they could be the Sunday headl ... more
Iraq Puts Brave Face on UN Action
500,000+ March in Italy Against War and US
Half-A-Million March in Anti-War Rally in Italy FLORENCE, Italy (Reuters - 9 Nov, 2 PM) - More than half a million anti-war protesters from across Eur ... more
Beyond Bush's Rubicon?
Syria Fidgits and Disembles on its U.N. Vote
The UN Resolution - Day the World Turned on Iraq
Pentagon Superspy Computers Turned On Americans
Pentagon Plans a Computer System That Would Peek at Personal Data of AmericansBy JOHN MARKOFF[New York Times - 9 Nov 2002}The Pentagon is constructing ... more
India Creates It Own Terrorists?
Shooting of 'terrorists' leads to Indian inquiry By Edward Luce in New DelhiFinancial Times; Nov 08, 2002India's human rights commission launched an i ... more
Interview about Iraq, Saddam, Palestinians with Nita Renfrew
Tales of a Tyrant - THE ATLANTIC helps prepare for war
Bush and his own 'Middle East Peace Plan'
Professor Stephen Zunes writes:
Oprah 'Warmonger'?
Oprah Winfrey, Warmonger?Fedwa Wazwaz, AlterNetNovember 6, 2002-------------------------------------------------------------------There is a Sanskrit ... more
Hi-jacking US Foreign Policy - The Men Who Stole the Show
The Men Who Stole the ShowJim Lobe and Tom Barry, Foreign Policy in Focus - November 4, 2002---------------------------------------------------------- ... more
Ships Leave US With Enormous War Supplies Bound for Middle East
Massive military cargo ships leave U.S. portsLONDON, Nov 4 (Reuters) - Three enormous U.S.-military owned cargo ships capable of carrying tanks have l ... more
Basra - Preparing for the Coming War
Big-Time Israeli Lobby Operative Heads Back to Washington
Rahm Emanuel (D-Ill.)Congressional QuarterlyTuesday, November 5, 2002; 11:00 PMElection: Defeated Mark A. Augusti, R, to succeed Rod R. Blagojevich, D ... more
Green Light From U.N. - No Matter What the Pretenses Otherwise
DOCUMENT LEAVES WAY CLEAR FOR WAR. Resolution's grey areas may give hawks excuse for strike Ewen MacAskill and Oliver Burkeman in New YorkThe Guardia ... more
The Sad and Tragic Decline of American Journalism and 'Public' Broadcasting
Interview with John Pilger The Progressive, November 2002 issueBy David Barsamian Corporate journalism in the United States preaches "objectivity" an ... more
The Odd and Troubling Origins of Today's Anti-War Movement
BEHIND THE PLACARDS THE ODD AND TROUBLING ORIGINS OF TODAY'S ANTI-WAR MOVEMENT by David CornFREE MUMIA. FREE THE CUBAN ... more
Life Under 'Wacky' Occupation - Jenin, Occupied Palestine
US Voters Unleash Republican Fundamentalists on the World
5 Years Ago Egyptian Tourism Took Big Hit
November 3, 2002Egypt Shores Up Security, and Tourism Slowly RecoversBy DANIEL J. WAKINUXOR, Egypt, Oct. 31 — A pair of stone lions that guarded the t ... more
New Turkish Leaders Cast Doubt on Use of Turkey for US War
Turkish Leader Won't OK Use of BasesANKARA, Turkey (AP) - 6 Nov -- The leader of Turkey's winning party refused Wednesday to commit to allowing U.S. w ... more
Islamists Gaining Everywhere...Thanks to the USA
War and Politics: Islamists Gain Votes as U.S. ActsBy NEIL MacFARQUHARNew York Times, 6 Nov: CAIRO, Nov. 5 — The perception that Washington remains h ... more
Pleas To Save Iraqi Archeological Treasures from Destruction
The Sharon 'Expulsion' Plan for the Palestinians
ARIEL SHARON'S SECRET PLAN.TO REMOVE PALESTINIANS FROM ISRAEL.by Gordon Thomas.Israel's hard-line prime minister, Ariel Sharon, has ordered his defenc ... more
Whole World Braces For What New More Powerful Bush Govt Will Do
A War Over Water?
A WAR OVER WATER?Lebanon's use of spring riles IsraelBy Mohamad Bazzi[Newsday - November 3, 2002 -Wazzani, Lebanon] - Amid the parched landscape of th ... more
Israel Wanted Oslo - The Hidden Economic Logic of Oslo and What Followed
Comparing the Two Intifadas
Sowing the Whirlwind: Israel, America and the Coming War
From Challenge # 76 November-December 2002Sowing the Whirlwind: Israel, America and the Coming WarRoni Ben EfratPRESIDENT George W. Bush gets wall-to- ... more
From the From Lines of Israel's New 'Wall of Separation'
An eyewitness report from the front lines as the Israelis build their wall and destroy more Palestinian villages and lives: Defending the olive tr ... more
100,000 Attend Israeli Peace Rally - 1 November
Most tellingly, no important Palestinian personality was given the microphone; rather the organizers, many long-affiliated with the Labor Party, turne ... more
Bush I to the Defense of Saudi Arabia
Notice the date here - one day after American election day:Former U.S. President Bush Defends Saudi ArabiaOfficial Saudi Press AgencyFormer U.S. Presi ... more
Largest CIA Station was (is?) Cairo - Atherton Dies
Alfred Atherton Jr. Dies at 80; Diplomat in Mideast Peace Deal By Bart BarnesWashington Post Staff WriterThursday, October 31, 2002; Page B07 Alfred L ... more
Iraq's Orchestra Soldiers On
The orchestra played on the deck of the Titanic as the giant boat slipped into the North Atlantic. And now the Iraqi orchestra 'soldiers on' as the d ... more
US Warns Companies about Renewed Arab Boycott of Israel
Two-State 'Solution' Not Longer 'Viable'
Beilin Once Again Fronts for the Labor Zionist 'Liberals'
Sharon Gets His Chance to Fail[New York Times - 3 Nov]By Yossi Beilin; Yossi Beilin was Israel's justice minister in the government led by Ehud Barak. ... more
U.S. Aid to Israel - Approaching $100 billion total
U.S Financial Aid To Israel: Figures, Facts, and Impact Summary Benefits to Israel of U.S. Aid Since 1949 (As of November 1, 1997) Foreign Aid Grants ... more
Why the Rise of Anti-Semitism in Europe?
Why The Rise In Anti-Semitism In Europe?Sunday, October 27 2002 07:39 PM GMT Any time that we hear that Jews are "suddenly" being persecuted, we have ... more
Palestinian leaders lambaste HRW report
Palestinian leaders lambaste HRW reportOccupied Jerusalem: 2 November, 2002 (IAP News) Palestinian leaders from across the political spectrum have str ... more
U.S. 'Black ' World Expanding Rapidly
The Defense Department is dramatically expanding its 'black world' of covert operations The Secret War Frustrated by intelligence failuresby William M ... more
Ever Expanding Cover Roles for US military and CIA ahead
The first 30 pages of the 78-page Defense Science Board's report, "Summer Study on Special Operations and Joint Forces in Support of CounteringTerrori ... more
Israel's partial 'Sampson Option'
It was back in the 1980s actually that investigative journalist Seymour Hersh published a book called THE SAMPSON OPTION, looking ahead in history to ... more
We are NOT Appeasers - No Attack on Iraq Warns Incoming Archbishop of Canterbury
Don't call us appeasers for hesitating at war with IraqBy Rowan Williams[The Telegraph, UK, Opinion - 5/11/2002]:The new word for those who have expre ... more
'Islamists' Take Power in Turkey and Pakistan
Elections in both Turkey and Pakistan show the trend. In Turkey, the ruling parties received hardly any votes at all while the party they tried to ou ... more
Interview with Sharon
Israel Demands Iran Be Attacked !
Attack Iran the day Iraq war ends, demands IsraelFrom Stephen Farrell, Robert Thomson and Danielle Haas[The Times of London, UK, 5 Nov]:ISRAEL’S Prime ... more
Iraqi Trade Fair Opens With Harsh Words for US
Archibishop of Canterbury Also Warns of Nuclear War if US Attacks Iraq
Archbishop warns West of nuclear conflict over IraqBy Jonathan Petre Religion CorrespondentTelegraph, UK, 5 Nov:War against Iraq could escalate into a ... more
Israel Plotting US War 'Secretly' - USA Today Finally Gets It
Israel reportedly helping with U.S. war preparationBy John Diamond, USA TODAYWASHINGTON, 4 Nov — Israel is secretly playing a key role in U.S. prepara ... more
Iraq Articles in The American Prospect
Tinker, Banker, NeoCon, Spy - Ahmed Chalabi's long and winding road from (and to?) Baghdad
Bush's Man in Baghdad - Meet Ahmed Chalabi
Leftists Who Love The War Too Much
US Wants Control of Iraqi Oil and International Markets
Russian And US EconomiesWant Opposite Outcome In Iraq(YellowTimes.org - 1 Nov) - With his fate presumably in the hands of the Bush administration, Sad ... more
Making the US Like the Rest of Us
Making the U.S. Like the Rest, by Randy NeumannMaking the U.S. Like the RestBy Randy Neumannranneuisomedia.comThe Bush administration appears to be mo ... more
Are We All Hostages on A Hijacked Planet?
Hostages on a Hijacked Planet: World-Class Author Henry Makow, Ph.D. tells us what to do against the "illuminati" globalistsHostages on a Hijacked Pla ... more
US Plan to Destroy OPEC, bring Saudi into line, and take charge of international oil
US Carve-Up Of Vast Oil Riches Begins!Bush Plans To Ditch Industry Rivals And Force End Of OPECBy Peter Beaumont and Faisal Islam[The Observer - UK - ... more
'We're Watching You...Be Happy!'
London's Privacy Falling Down By Julia Scheeres Attention Londoners: Big Bobby is watching - 2 Nov. That's the message of posters plastered along Lon ... more
Expect even more and worse from the Mossad
Bibi Cometh, one way or another
The Rabin Mythology Lives
First they created a peace myth around General Yitzhak Rabin...then around General Ehud Barak... But just look at the result...much more telling than ... more
Was Wellstone Murdered?
Israeli Govt Most Extreme In History, Preparing for War and 'Expulsion' (aka 'Transfer')
Blind and Cook Weapons from the USA and UK
Army's secret 'people zapper' plansAntony Barnett, public affairs editor[The Observer - Sunday November 3, 2002]:Britain has been involved in secret t ... more
Qaddafi Strikes Again!
International beauties wear Gadhafi T-shirts at Libya's first ever beauty contestTRIPOLI, Libya (AP - 3 Nov) - Women from around the world gathered in ... more
Political Bankruptcy and Deception from the Israeli Establishment
Israel to Have 'War Criminal' Defense Minister as well as PM
The Transparent Opportunist - Head of Israel's Labor Party "Fuad"
He is being transparently opportunist in choosing his resignation issue. Heappears to be opposing Israel's generous subsidies for the settlements (whi ... more
The People Must Protest
Forty years ago, I sat down proudly in Trafalgar Square alongside Bertrand Russell and thousands of others in protest against Britain's weapons of mas ... more
Sex and Fear - Dr. Susan Block
Whose War Is It Really?
Remapping the Middle EastWhose War Is It This Time?by NASEER ARURI[Counterpunch - 28 Oct]DEMONS AND THREATS THROUGHOUT HISTORYAs the Bush Administrati ... more
Sharon's Wall
Dear Fat-Assed, Chain-Smoking, Drunken, Opportunist, Cynical Christopher
Letter to a Lying, Self-Serving, Fat-Assed, Chain Smoking, Drunken, Opportunistic, Cynical Contrarian (AKA C. Hitchens)by JACK McCARTHYHitchens, you f ... more
Say it ain't so...Amnesty International and Israel
Pentagon Top Brass and Israelis Getting Ready to Attack
Metzger arrives for consultations ahead of Iraq war Will liaise between Israel and U.S. By Amos Harel and Aluf Benn[Ha'aretz - 2 Nov]Admiral James M ... more
Good Riddance...and the long Deceit of Labor
Good riddance By Yoel Marcus[Ha'aretz - 1 Nov]A millionaire commando all set to rescue the nation. Ne'eman and Caspi as UN mediators patching things ... more
All October Articles
Loosing Civility and 'Class' in America
Dear Democrats, From Ralph Nader
Ralph Nader Open Letter to Democratic Party U.S. Newswire 31 Oct 10:55 Open Letter to the Democratic Party from Ralph Nader Contact: Ralph Nader, 202- ... more
English Al-Jazeera Coming
Latest Pentagon 'Course': Combat Training for Journalists
OLIVES WAR
It's much too late, much too little, from those in Israel who associate themselves with the Labor party and as 'liberals'. Ze'ev Schiff and others co ... more
Death for Palestinian Coerced by Shin Bet to work for Human Rights Org and Collaborate
Palestinian 'justice' is of course a misnomer; but also as the terrible military occupation goes into Generation 2 Palestnian society is now all but d ... more
The UN and 'automaticity'...US wins even when it loses
The UN, the US and Iraqby PHYLLIS BENNIS[The NATION - 11 November]As the United Nations Security Council neared approval of a resolution on Iraq, it a ... more
The End, Rather than the Beginning, of Empire
THE END OF EMPIREby WILLIAM GREIDER[THE NATION - 23 September 2002]The imperial ambitions of the Bush Administration, post-9/11, are founded on quicks ... more
Condi and George Tout 'Democracy' - What a Laugh...
''Condoleezza's nonsense about democracy''By John Chuckman(YellowTimes.org - 28 Oct) – Condoleezza Rice wants to bring democracy to the Middle East. M ... more
Abdullah of Jordan Sells Out One More Time
Hillary's Long Fast Climb to the White House Oval Office
TIMES OF LONDON - Recent Middle East Articles
Hi-Tech 'Terrorist Database' Being Compiled by USA
U.S. military building database of terror suspects' fingerprints, faces, voicesBy JIM KRANE, AP Technology WriterNEW YORK - 29 Oct: The United States ... more
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