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    What if former President Carter and North Korea are right?
    North Korea shot back that Bush was "a politically backward child."

    'Journeys With George' - The Real Man Behind the White House Mask
    ...Bush reverting to Deke-house form on the press plane: predicting that Pelosi's crush on another reporter would "result in a relationship that goes ... more

    Pearl's Killing in the NYTimes, but no mention of his 'Israeli Connection'
    The New York Times published this extensive story on 23 February, still not mentioning the revealing information about Daniel Pearl being Israeli

    Journalists Are Now Targets...But Who Is To Blame?
    "If we don't stop now, how can we protest when next our colleagues are seized by ruthless men who claim we are spies?"

    Pearl killing video much too gruesome to show


    Tom Friedman Plants Latest 'Peace Plan' in Riyadh to obstruct and confuse Arab Summit next month in Beirut
    Crown Prince Abdullah certainly doesn't read MID-EAST REALITIES -- or he certainly wouldn't be privately meeting with Tom Friedman in the first p ... more

    Hillary Panders to Jewish Lobby More Than Ever


    Killed Reporter's 'Israeli Connection' Now Leaking Out


    U.S. Pushes Saudis With New 'Peace Plan' - Real Goal is Deflecting Arab Summit in March
    There is no real "Saudi Peace Plan". There are some things put in Saudi mouths by the Americans and such agents as Tom Friedman of the New York Times ... more

    Is Sharon Repeating Errors of the Past; or Preparing to Finally Take the Greatest of Gambles
    "The first, unarmed, intifada of 1987-1993 was a total surprise to Arafat, and the second, violent one was directed, potentially, against him as much ... more

    Bush threatens China as all previous American Presidents have refrained from doing
    , Mr Bush spelt out for the first time in China a commitment to "defend" Taiwan if it were attacked by the mainland.

    'Sharon Must Go' - But It's Misguided Optimism Many Fear
    "Sooner or later, Israel will have to surrender most of the lands it seized in 1967, just as, rightly and voluntarily, it surrendered its Lebanese fie ... more

    Israelis desert Sharon as credibility dives


    Uncle Sam, Uncle Tom, and Uncle Ben?
    The Americans think you can buy anyone with enough money; and you can convince anyone with enough advertising. That's the American "culture".

    U.S. Seeks 'World Domination' Charges Iran
    "It is a shame that a country with a long record of sponsoring terrorist operations, a country that planned and undertook military coups in many parts ... more

    Christian Fundamentalists aligned with Israel whip up religions war bigotry
    "But, ladies and gentlemen, I have taken issue with our esteemed president in regard to his stand in saying Islam is a peaceful religion. It's just no ... more

    Jimmy Carter says harm by George W will take years to repair


    US Mercenary Forces Heading to Afghanistan
    The CIA is issueing warnings and then leaking them publicly, just in case. After condemning the Afghans for letting in "foreigners", the U.S. is rush ... more

    New Agency Will Not Lie, Top Pentagon Officials Say
    Biggest Whopper from the Pentagon yesterday after most newspapers and television news broadcasts ran with stories the previous day saying exactly the ... more

    Big Brother Is Indeed Watching and Listening


    Pentagon and Hollywood Now Closer Than Ever
    Just turn on American TV and watch JAG...you'd think it was produced by the Pentagon, in the Pentagon, for the Pentagon. Hollywood is now selling its ... more

    International Governmental Sleuthing and the NSA/CIA to Expand Reach


    The Flag-waving Right-wingers are finally waking up to the world of 'Big Brother'
    "Is this the kind of world Americans want?" - William Safire By creating the means to monitor 300 million visits to the United States yearly, this ... more

    More Teror Ahead; or More Disinformation to Justify The New Crusades?
    "There is now a network being reconstructed in Europe . . . more secretive, more radicalised and with a greater capacity for violence..."

    A little response from the American media...underline 'little'


    Pentagon To Make News and Spread Propaganda, some true, some false, far and wide!
    The big "defense" and "entertainment" corporations have bought up the major American media in the past few decades. Now the Pentagon and the State De ... more

    The Govt Can Find Out Everything about Everyone - Just Type It and They Will Come


    MTV Profile "Rejected" By Powell's State Dept
    What the MTV Gen doesn't seem to appreciate is that Powell has been a millitary "yes man" all his life; which is how he got where he is in such an Ame ... more

    Louis Farrakhan condemns U.S. war on terrorism
    If only Martin Luther King were still with us...he'd only be in his seventies.

    Honesty from Musharraf - but reasons suspect
    "Today we are the poorest, the most illiterate, the most backward, the most unhealthy, the most un-enlightened, the most deprived, and the weakest of ... more

    Arafat - Down but not Out


    BBC Letters - The Impact of Sharon


    The "Jihad" Website


    America's New Laser of Death Cleared for Take-Off
    The American Empire is now on the way to becoming an early precursor of its "Star Wars" inspiration.

    The Weak and Impotent Arab Regimes
    'Lost in a Pit of Desperation...They cannot criticise US policy, however outrageous they believe it to be, because they are all beholden to it'

    U.S. Saudi Connection Now Fearful and Angry - Part 1 of 3
    Not the complete story by far; and a great deal of "protection" and overlooking when it comes to the long-time Saudi Ambassador in Washington, Prince ... more

    Oil for Security Fueled Close U.S.-Saudi Ties - Part 2 of 3


    Severe Tensions between U.S. and Saudis - Part 3 of 3


    Oil and Money - the U.S. and the Saudis (insert in Part 2)


    Saudi Wealth Spilled Into the U.S. not Arabdom - (Part 2 insert)


    Iraq - 11 Years After the Gulf War


    Israel's Army Taking A Beating From the Battered Palestinians


    The Attack on Iraq is Coming Soon
    Closely coordinated with the Israelis, the Pentagon and CIA are engaged now in getting ready to "change the regime" in Baghdad as soon as a few months ... more

    Academics Sign On to "War Against Terrorism"


    'We are idling. All of Palestine is idling"


    Brave New World and Big Brother Both Coming to Washington Soon - Stay Tuned!


    The Mouth of the South Strikes Again: Bush=Caesar, 911 "Terrorists" = Brave
    "I think they were brave at the very least," Turner said of the 19 airliner hijackers believed to have committed the attacks, adding that they "might ... more

    China responds to Bush and $250 billion Pentagon Budget Increase


    Storm Over Afghan Civilian Deaths and Beatings


    Iranians Rally Against U.S. and Israel
    George Bush started the name calling, and is preparing for war -- in coordination with Israel. A backlash is brewing, and its not only in Iran.

    Out of the Egyptian Gulag
    Saad Eddin Ibrahim was dragged to martyrdom after spending a career working within the system. His years working for the Hashemite Royal Court in Amm ... more

    Oops - We tortured (our way) the wrong people
    Beating and kicking into submission - the U.S. way

    George W - Sranger to much of America, and nearly all of the world!
    Bush, who gets generally positive treatment from Bruni in the book, nonetheless comes off in parts as a stranger to America outside his own upper-clas ... more

    Foreign Media Winces at Excessive U.S. "Patriotism"
    "First major global event since the Sept. 11 terror attacks on the United States ... also became the center stage for America's declaration against te ... more

    Thousands of Civlilians and Innocents Killed by Americans So Far in "War Against Terrorism"
    And this is the report from the heart of the American establishment which has been amazingly compliant in its support for the Pengaton's rule and indu ... more

    Armed To the Teeth
    Not since the Roman Empire has one nation been so armed more than all others and determined to cower all others into submission to the will of the Emp ... more

    Europe's Patton "Breaks The Silence".
    A little rhetoric, true. But what is Europe actually going to do; that's what really could matter...the rhetoric on its own doesn't.

    Fury from Europeans about Bush's World War
    He calls on Europe's 15 member states to put aside their traditional wariness of angering the US and to speak up, forging an international stan ... more

    Israeli expulsion idea gains steam
    It's an old "idea" of course...ethnic-cleansing Israeli-style with the world accepting or at least refusing to stop it. But now in 2002 it's never be ... more

    Billions for war and repression: Bush budget for a garrison state
    Modern Day Rome is arming as never before with no one to challenge it at this time in history. There's even a "Crusader mobile howitzer" for 1/2 Bil ... more

    Americans told to hold back on their Patriotism this time
    This took a little thoughtfulness under the circumstances. Thank you IOC.

    Lie to Them and They Will Come
    "There is only one drawback: Gush Katif is an illegal settlement in occupied Palestinian territory and protected by barbed wire fences, armed soldiers ... more

    911 Changed America Forever Even More Than Atomic Bomb
    "The fact is I don't trust a man who uses the word evil eighteen times in ten minutes" says Norman Mailer.

    US Advertising Campaign Not Working So Well
    The Americans seem to think they can sell their outrageous and increasingly a kind of neo-Christian fundamentalist foreign policy like they hype cerea ... more

    Americans Tell Everyone Else "We Don't Care...We'll Go It Alone"
    Tension between the US and its European allies intensified yesterday as senior US officials warned that Washington would act alone in its "war" on ter ... more

    Arafat's Latest Pitch
    When you've lost your credibility, most of all with your own people, it's not easy for anyone to take you seriously. Arafat has been used for a decad ... more

    "10 Days in September" - Multi-Part WASHINGTON POST Investigative Story


    Israelis to Seal Off Jerusalem from Palestinians in further attempt to totally control and de facto annex city


    USG to Propagandize with Super Bowl Ads as never before
    Get this. The American people send money to Washington, and then, as if we don't already hear from them enough, the leaders" hire P.R. firms and buy ... more

    Crusading Cross to be built in Michigan
    Bad timing...unless that is this is meant to symbolize Crusades II?

    The First Female "Suicide Bomber" Martyr
    As a paramedic who treated the Palestinian wounded in clashes with Israel soldiers, Idris had been hit three times by Israeli rubber bullets, her fami ... more

    New Age NYC Protests, from the left to the anarchists
    "We want to save the life of this planet," she says. "We can't afford to sit this one out."

    Bush Declares War...almost...on a few States
    The next "phases" are coming into more clear view.

    Israel's Next Step - Seal Off the "Natives"
    Now it's come to this; and the future will be even more difficult and potentially catastrophic.

    Why We Are All Suicide Bombers writes Dr. Eyad Sarraj
    "I've told you a few things. Now do you understand why we have turned into suicide killers?" This was the very first MER Newsletter

    Israeli Torture - First Hand
    "I am 34 years old now, and the scars of the torture are on my body. My soul is scarred."

    Masked Protestors Subject to Arrest in NYC


    NYC Days of Rage Against World Economic Forum Looming
    "Police are preparing as if the Mongol hordes are coming," said Laursen. "In Seattle and Genoa, by far, the overwhelming amount of violence was done b ... more

    Saudi Mail Scare - So Much Suspicion and Fear Out There


    Great Majority of Educated Saudis Support Bin Laden's
    They report this kind of poll circumspectly and without much fanfare; yet its really quite astounding and you'd think many more Americans would like t ... more

    Bernard Lewis, darling of the Israelis, stirs things up further
    Says Bernard Lewis: Either its societies, especially those in the Middle East, will continue in ''a downward spiral of hate and spite, rage and self-p ... more

    Special Forces Wage Secret Afghan War


    U.S. Saudi Connection Troubled
    Islam and Israel, sovereignty and national pride, the demands of an anti-terror war -- all have combined to shake the U.S.-Saudi partnership and stir ... more

    Death of Democracy as Press Cheerleads
    Professor of Philosophy and Religious Studies Glen Martin: The goal of the U.S. ruling class and its puppet U.S. government is military and economic ... more

    New Secret Plan to Topple Saddam


    Great Explosion Ahead in Middle East
    The Middle East is on the edge of an explosion the likes of which we haven't seen in a quarter century. The explosion, the cause of which will ... more

    Tensions Mount Still Further in once Holy Land


    Arafat: still a leader, but of what?
    Brave Palestinian children now think they are protecting their "leader" Yasser Arafat; but leader of what is the real question?

    Ghosts and Secrets from the Lebanon Killing Fields
    But one picture showed a different Hobeika, 19 years ago, with a gunman at his side. This was a tougher, colder man, in dark glasses, the Hobeika who ... more

    World's Richest Try to Help World's Poorest


    First Female Suicide Bomber in Jerusalem?


    New Homeland Military Command, headed by 4-Star


    Royal Jordanian and the Money Bags


    Israeli Reservists Finally Say "NO"
    Long, long overdue, this statement today. Back in 1982, as Ariel Sharon's armies were about to invade Beirut, a lone courage figure, Elie Geva, then ... more

    Dean of American Press Corps Takes on George W and Team
    She understands the need for more airport security, Thomas said, but racial profiling, wiretapping and government intrusions on private property are t ... more

    Lots of money and arms for Musharraf's Pakistan from USA


    Rep Ron Paul of Texas Raise Many Important Issues


    Law of the Fist - New York Cops Vow to Crush Violent Protest at World Economic Forum
    The Police are essentially vowing to crush the protestors about to converge on New York city weekend after next because of the "World Economic Forum". ... more

    Barak: Arafat Is Terrorist After all
    It would be comical if it all weren't so tragic and bloody. Now the foreign leader who was Bill Clinton's most frequent White House guest and a "part ... more

    Mass Destruction Weapons Arms Race Escalates Further
    "The Zionist entity, founded on usurption and aggression, possesses various weapons of mass destruction, and this has prompted more than one Arab coun ... more

    Dead Sea Disappearing - Within 50 Years!


    Saudi denounces US agenda behind "War Against Terrorism"
    In an almost unprecedented criticism of US foreign policy, Mohammad al-Oteibi, the former Saudi ambassador to Kabul, said Osama bin Laden "is only a c ... more

    The Arrogance of Power
    And thank you Robert Novak -- we say with some hesitation in view of Robert Novak's often misguided commentaries -- for this one!

    Bugging the Chinese via American corporations
    The impact of the discovery on US business could be catastrophic for Boeing and other parts of the US aerospace industry because China is one of the f ... more

    Robert Altman Lambasts Dubya et. al.
    Thank you Robert Altman.
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