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Back to MER World Bush Confused About Himself, America, and God Almighty Sullen, Depressed President Retreats Into Private, Paranoid World By TERESA HAMPTON & WILLIAM D. McTAVISH Jul 29, 2004 A sullen President George W. ... more Blunt Memo Shows How Lobbyists Think Blunt Memo Shows How Lobbyists Think By JOAN LOWY Scripps Howard News Service Jul 12, 2004, 01:53 A lobbying strategy memo that describes targeted s ... more Kerry's Acceptance Speech - 29 July 2004 Text of Sen. John Kerry's speech as prepared for delivery Thursday at the Democratic National Convention: We are here tonight because we love our co ... more Israel and The Guardian - The Long Fall from Grace THE LONG FALL FROM GRACE ISRAEL AND THE GUARDIAN The Economist - Jul 29th 2004: AS THE bulging mailbag of many a newspaper at ... more Bush on Drugs for Depression and Paranoia? Bush drinking and now Bush drugs have been buzzed about in Washington at times by people in the know. Remember that day Bush almost choked we were tol ... more Bush Taking Anti-Depressant Drugs It is true? And why haven't we heard it from the corporate media big newspapers and TV programs? Well, there are lots of other things we haven't hea ... more The real reasons Bush went to war - money, oil, Israel Israel is not focused on as one of the reasons...even though in Washington Israel is the unspoken in public reason insiders are well aware of. But th ... more Israel Prepares for Kerry...or Bush 'Local Jews' Involved in New Zealand Mossad Scandal The Israelis have a long history of both Mossad plots and using 'local Jews' in them. And in New Zealand this time they are not being let to get away ... more The Royal Saudi House of Cards SuperModels Saud’s royal house of cards advertisement Restless youth, resurgent fundamentalism and a resentful middle class are an increasingly immine ... more With Senior US Diplomat on Board Australian Air flight return to base It's an all-too-common story these days with huge costs associated with the heightened security measures. The same day in Washington police took into ... more NATO says NO to US again about Iraq On the same day a huge bomb killed about 100, and the same day Secretary of State Powell rushed to the cameras with Iyad Allawi to proclaim 'Muslim' f ... more Saudi Oil - Not So Much After All? Is Saudi Arabia running out of oil? The Saudis claim to have plenty of reserves, but a top energy expert disputes that. Without any independent data, ... more Only in Washington does 'Deep Throat' mean Fred LaRue rather than Linda Lovelace Yes, indeed...only in Washington! Aid Works in Afghanistan Targeted More Than Ever Before The sad and tragic reality for all is that more and more real aid workers from Western Countries are being targeted for their association with the Wes ... more US presses Saudis to pay and arm forces for Iraq Of course our headline is a bit different than what Allawi and Powell told the press, and of course far different from what the Saudis are saying. Bu ... more US Pressures Saudi and Other 'Muslim' Countries to send troops to Iraq Of course this is all being done with great pressure by the US on the Arab 'client regimes' to join the U.S. side against their own. It's a very dang ... more Lt Kerry of Vietnam War days The problem is...this might actually all be true: NEW YORK TIMES bestselling author Lt. Col. Robert "Buzz" Patterson in his new book RECKLESS DISREG ... more Carville Says 'Never Seen Anything Like This' - Dems Afraid to Challenge Kerry on Anything There is far more weakness in the Democratic Party and in the convention hoopla than is being discussed. Eight of the nine Democratic candidates runn ... more Teresa Heinz Kerry Speaks of Apartheid and Speaking Truth to Power She spoke, quite apparently from the heart, of opposing Apartheid and speaking Truth to Power. But she must have been reminiscing about the past...fo ... more Sharon: 'We need to bring hundreds of thousands of Jews from America to Israel.' Strength in Numbers Israel Woos Foreign Jews, Including Americans, to Keep Up in Population ABC News - J E R U S A L E M, July 24, 2004— Many people ... more ABC News Exposes The Big Money Buying Influence Trying to Hide from sight Every Once and a while the corporate media does its job; even if it is even more rare that it follows up on the job. This time ABC News tried to show ... more Big Money Talks Big for both of the grand Parties U.S. democracy is built on an all-consuming 'two party' system that monopolizes all for itself and keeps everyone else at bay. And it's big money and ... more Kerry Sells Mid East Policy Same As Clinton The same basic forces are at work and once again the Democratic Party has essentially sold Middle East policy to a group of super wealthy and well-co ... more Israeli-Jewish Lobby at Dem Convention already pulling the Mid East policy strings It's a sad tale of big money, selling policy, and pre-placing key people in key positions should the Dems take back the White House in November. They ... more Kerry, Clinton, Carter and the Israeli-Jewish Lobby It's a long running saga by now. And they are still claiming Camp David I was a success! Israel keeps expanding West Bank settlements The Israelis have been doing this kind of thing for more than three decades now. They say one thing, yet they relentlessly and often surreptitiously ... more Nader and the Dems - Past and Future O'Reilly and Michael Moore Duke It Out on FOX MICHAEL MOORE/O'REILLY SHOWDOWN AT CONVENTION Tue Jul 27 2004 16:51:50 ET FOX NEWS is planning to air a redhot interview between Bill O'Reilly and bo ... more Iran and Nuclear Weapons - 2005 will decide The Israelis have long had nuclear weapons, and in recent years have equipped German-build diesel submarines with missiles that can deliver nuclear we ... more Bring 60 of the Washington Post's Finest to the Dem Convention in Boston...and look what you get Fox's Convention By Howard Kurtz Washington Post Staff Writer Tuesday, July 27, 2004; 6:46 AM BOSTON--I was going to talk about Fox News's coverage ... more FOX and the Democrats Underlying Democratic Party Weakness is Giant Unspoken Worry Just look who is either skipping, or been asked to stay away, from the Democratic Party hoopla convention in Boston this week. It's not only that thr ... more Neocon Reality The conservative right is now up against the neocon right as they battle for power, influence, 'realism', and responsibility for what has already happ ... more Motives for 9/11 Finally gets to Page 1 -- but still no headlines about Israel You would have thought the actual motives for the attack on 9/11 would be a big story. You would have thought that just why it happened..., or at lea ... more Are the Palestinians occupying Israel? Explaining the Arab-Israeli conflict through numbers - Israeli Take on it all Explaining the Arab-Israeli conflict through numbers By Dennis Prager http://www.jewishw ... more Israel Nears the Slippery Slope of Total Isolation and Illigitimacy What's left of what was once thought of as the 'Israeli left' is close to panic. They have not only lost power and been eclipsed by Ariel Sharon and ... more Report Omits Key Player—Foreign Policy Typical in the U.S...the author and the California-based Institute go forward with the critique but fail to specifically mention Israel and U.S. suppo ... more Jimmy Carter's Speech to Dem Convention in Boston (advance prepared remarks) CARTER'S REMARKS TO THE DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL CONVENTION, BOSTON Mon Jul 26 2004 19:45:57 ET My name is Jimmy Carter, and I ... more Palestinian Writer Tells Arafat its time to go Vanunu Charges Israel Behind JFK Assassination Whether or not this startling charge has any validity, four years later, in 1968, Robert F. Kennedy was assassinated by a Palestinian enraged by U.S. ... more Sanctions Ahead for Sudan, but not for Israel top Israel Reroutes 19-miles and pretends 'The Wall' -- really a hodge-podge of electrfied fences, barriers, concrete and barbed wire -- is a more than 500-mile endeavor unique in modern histo ... more Ann Coulter's Nutty Diatribe (cut from USA Today by the way) Put the speakers in a cage Posted: July 26, 2004 4:15 p.m. Eastern By Ann Coulter © 2004 WorldNetDaily.com Here at the Spawn of Satan convention in ... more 'A Pretext for War': Wartime Lies? Bamford Book New York Times - July 25, 2004 'A Pretext for War': Wartime Lies? By FRED KAPLAN A PRETEXT FOR WAR 9/11, Iraq, and the Abuse of America's ... more Kill the Empire! (Or Not) New York Times - July 25, 2004 DIALOGUE Kill the Empire! (Or Not) ADDIS. The whole premise of our thinking had been that threats come from ... more Israel Imprisons Vanunu Anew in Israel Israel's High Court Rejects Nuclear Whistleblower's Petition By Laurie Copans The Associated Press Monday, July 26, 2004; 8:09 AM JERUSALEM -- Israe ... more Iraq lifts ban on travel to Israel Iraq lifts ban on travel to Israel Beirut, Lebanon, Jul. 26 (UPI) Washington Times 26 July 2004 The Iraqi interim government will issue new passpor ... more 9/11 Traitors Absolve Themselves 9/11 Traitors Absolve Themselves By Henry Makow, Ph.D. The "Independent" 911 investigation says the attack could not have been prevented. Consideri ... more Behind 9/11: Old Miscues and New Twists U.S. Troops Use Cash As Weapon U.S. Using Cash as a Defensive Weapon By Doug Struck Washington Post Foreign Service Monday, July 26, 2004; Page A14 TIKRIT, Iraq -- Cash has become ... more New Details Revealed on 9/11 Plans New Details Revealed on 9/11 Plans Interrogators Found Motives and Mind-Set By Susan Schmidt Washington Post Staff Writer Friday, July 23, 2004; Pag ... more New Plot Details Emerge - Plan Taken To Bin Laden - Israel Was Motive THE 9/11 COMMISSION REPORT New Plot Details EmergeKhalid Shaikh Mohammed lacked the resources, so he took his plan to Bin Laden.By Terry McDermottTime ... more The new no mustache Saddam More Preparations by US and Israel to do Iran Vanunu Warns of Israel Chernobyl U.S. Iraqi Govt Threatens Al Jazeera and Arab Media It's about repressing the Arab media to keep it from freely reporting; and if they don't comply it's about finding some kind of way to shut them up. ... more Al-Sadr Damns Allawi and Warns if Syria or Iran is attacked Iran's Quest for the Bomb 9/11 Motives Stories Show Great Coverup of the 'Israeli' Motive Kerry Heavily Funded by Jewish and Israeli-connected interests Israeli Settlements Expanding Even All The Deceptive Talk of 'Withdrawal' Proceeds CIA Heavily Recruiting Arab Americans The price to be paid for this will be that all Americans of whatever background will be increasingly suspect beyond American shores. Americans abroad ... more Arab Hatred for U.S. Policies now nearly universal Poll Shows Growing Arab Rancor at U.S. By Dafna Linzer Washington Post Staff Writer Friday, July 23, 2004; Page A26 Arab views of the United States, ... more WHAT REALLY HAPPENED IN DEIR-YASSIN 54 YEARS AGO? WHAT REALLY HAPPENED IN DEIR-YASSIN 54 YEARS AGO? Assembled, translated & edited by Shimon Tzabar The political and Military Background in Palestine ... more Meanwhile, What is Going On in the Occupied Territories? Meanwhile, What is Going On in the Occupied Territories? Ada Ushpiz Kazam Jadban, 56, is the proprietor of a small grocery store on a corner of Shwe ... more The Massacre in Sabra and Shatila in 1982 The Massacre in Sabra and Shatila in 1982 As reported by an eye witness Ellen Siegal Nineteen years ago I volunteered to go to Beirut to work as a n ... more The Real Situation in Israel and Palestine - December 2001 - Tanya Reinhart A Brief Political Analysis of the Present Tanya Reinhart In mainstream political discourse, Israel's recent atrocities are described as 'retaliatory ... more Israelis and Jews Call for Boycotting Israel Appeal - 2001 The authors of this appeal are Israeli citizens and Jews of other nationalities whose families have been victims of racism and ... more Ethnic Cleansing From The Word Go Ethnic Cleansing From The Word Go A few pages from the autobiography of a Palmach fighter way back in the 1948 war. The 'Palmach' was the elite figh ... more Chaos Spreads Against PA and Occupation in Gaza This is the result of what has happened over the past decades, including the terribly corrupt, inept, and co-opted rule of what was named the "Palesti ... more Australia Now Threatened by Al Qaeda Saddam's people are winning the war - Scott Ritter, IHT Transmitted below is an extremely important op-ed article by Scott Ritter, a former US Marine officer and one of the leading UN weapons inspectors in ... more Israel's Lobbyists Gunning for Iran U.S. Support for Israel Behind 9/11 Attacker Motives Laptop Wi-Fi Fears Roots of Israeli Apartheid - History Revisited In 1923, a generation after Herzl wrote The Jewish State, Jabotinsky wrote The Iron Wall. The roots of what has become Israeli Apartheid and now t ... more Dems covering up their big deep divisions Fahrenheit 9/11 Does Have Them Worried After All They were worried from the beginning. But even as they attacked the movie, and its maker, they simply increased it's visibility and contributed to it ... more Europeans 'Warn' Israel With General Assembly Vote True, the Europeans have sent a rather meak warning shot Israel's way. But unless it is followed up with something serious in the political or economi ... more Marty Peretz in Washington Fans the Flames of Iraq War He's one of Israel's many in Washington; but particular important because he owns and uses The New Republic on Israel's behalf and has substantial tie ... more Senator Byrd's Scathing Indictment of Contemporary Washington Sen. Byrd's Indictment by Jules Witcover Democratic Sen. Robert C. Byrd of West Virginia, routinely dismissed by his colleagues as if he were some em ... more Bush Shows No Sign of Learning His Lesson About Pre-emptive War Bush Shows No Sign of Learning His Lesson About Pre-emptive War by Helen Thomas If President Bush has any grand plan for another pre-emptive war, ... more Israel Finally Forced to Play Real Defense Israel Tells Europeans To Bud Out Fair enough, it's an opportunity for the Europeans to show that they really are made of something and that they can in fact stand up to the U.S. and I ... more U.S. Presbyterian Church Acts to Divest from Israel Finally, one of the Christian denominations in the United States has acted in a principled and courageous way. Will this "most censorious decision ev ... more Presbyterians DIVEST from Israel Finally, one of the Christian denominations in the US has acted in a principled and courageous way. Will the Presbyterians open the door for other no ... more Americans: The Missionary Position Americans: The Missionary Position By Steve Weissman Thursday 22 July 2004 Left, right, or center, Americans like to believe we have a missi ... more Musharraf's Pakistan Turns on its own Palestinian Civil War Continues to Simmer and Threatens to Erupt Kofi Says No to Bush...however politely Doonesbury gets nixed and censored Sharon Says Iran Must Be Next Attack Iran the day Iraq war ends, demands Israel From Stephen Farrell, Robert Thomson and Danielle Haas [The Times of London, UK, 5 Nov 2003]: ISRA ... more Torturing Children - Made in the USA Torturing Children By William Rivers Pitt The biggest story of the Iraq war is not about missing weapons of mass destruction, or about deep-cover ... more Committee On The Present Danger Reborn by Neocons et. al. Committee on the Present Danger (CPD) Neocons Revive Cold War Group by Jim Lobe Washington - 21 July 2004: A bipartisan group of 41 mainly neoco ... more General Assembly Tells Israel: "Tear Down That Wall" Nukes in Iraq? How convenient the timing and circumstances. After foreign reports of U.S. efforts to 'plant' some kinds of weapons in Iraq so they could be found, l ... more Taiwan Practices for War with the Mainland Las Vegas Audience Erupts at mention of Michael Moore and Fahrenheit 9/11 Israel Vows Defiance US and UK Secret Services Were Used... "The Secret Services were Used" By Jean-Dominique Merchet Libération Friday 16 July 2004 Eric Denécé, an intelligence expert, an ... more 'Realists' and neocons line up to fight over Iran policy Scramble to Arms - Arms Makers Rush Back to Iraq This go around they are paying for a different kind of arms. It's not an army that can be used to attempt to bring down the Iranian Regime, or that w ... more Now Bush Points to Iran connections to 9/11 and al Qaeda Singer Ronsdadt Thrown Out For Endorsing Moore and Fahrenheit 9/11 Bush Hits Iran for aiding al Qeida All the signs point to a 2005 confrontation with Iran with the basic aim of 'regime change' one way or another. It will be presented as an issue of I ... more Tell Iran and Syria To Get With It...or else This from the op ed pages of the right-wing Washington newspaper, the Washington Times, which today headlined on the front page President Bush's linka ... more The Present Danger Redux When it comes to what's next in the Middle East the Democrats and Republicans are much more united then they are on social and domestic issues. This ... more The corruption, chaos, and ineptitude are deeper than policies - even the p.r. of it all is so badly bunggled Arafat's Crumbling 'Authority' How self-serving of the Americans and the Israelis to put the main responsibility on Yasser Arafat rather than themselves where it truly belongs. At l ... more Palestinian InTRAfada Israel's Weapons of Mass Destruction True to character in contemporary Washington, not one word about how it is Israel's possession of a vast arsenal of nuclear and other weapons of mass ... more How to 'Stop Nuclear Terror' - Bush Admin Secretary of Energy Spencer Abraham Now General Barak Wants to Give Up Settlements He claimed all along while trying to get Arafat to sign on the dotted line it would be such a great sacrifice for Israel. Now we find out of course t ... more Hundreds of Israelis Want to Do Sharon In Why and How the Press Failed Us Casino Expels Linda Ronstadt for dumping on Bush in praise of Fahrenheit 9/11 The extraordinary polarization of American society continues to increase with 'incidents' of this kind happening more and more it seems. ... more Israel Plans for Arafat's Death - No Burial in Jerusalem Sodomizing Iraqi Boys Iran - 'Regime Change' in sight for Washington and Israel Free Passage for the House of Saud The Biggest Crime in American History and Planes are Grounded. Yet the House of Saud Gets Safe Passage Home. By Craig Unger The Indepe ... more Iraqis Still Buying Saddam Why Iraq's Booksellers Want the Freedom to Censor their Shelves By Robert Fisk The Independent U.K. Saturday 17 July 2004 In ... more Blair Warned Before Iraqi Invasion It Could Be Ruled Illegal Chirac to Sharon - You're Not Welcome in France Heathrow Security Plans Found in Roadway From Jabotinsky to Begin, Shamir, and Sharon - 'Revionist' Zionism When Ariel Sharon became Prime Minister of Israel, the picture on the wall was not of Theodore Herzl, the secular but worldly Jewish nationalist, but ... more Manachurian Candidate Redux for the Age of 'Terrorism' Actress Merle Streep Scared About the Future - Not her's...but her country and her world somehow Meryl Streep has veered off on her own little "Rock the Vote" tour. "Something like 35 percent of the population who can vote, doesn't," she s ... more Palestinians Burn Arafat Building and sack Arafat appointees...warning him further Kerry Pledges More for CIA, Pentagon, Israel Israeli Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom shakes hands with Cam Kerry, brother of Democratic presidential candidate Senator John Kerry, during a meeting ... more Jewish Brother Cam Emerging Brother Cam is Jewish and Big Israeli Supporter Kerry Promises Ongoing Support for Israel Palestinian Civil War Closer Than Ever The Israelis have been pushing the Palestinians toward Civil War for a long time. The Palestinians have known this, and resisted. But a kind of lowe ... more More Osamas in the Making? Iraq Has Vast Oil Fields - and the U.S. Wants Them Iraq's New S.O.B. India Not So Happy About Pakistani 'U.N. Iraqi Envoy' Saddam 'Without The Mustache' Iraqi Opens Same Newspaper U.S. Closed that Ignited Confrontations Australian PM 'War Criminal' Says former Minister Cheney 'Family Values' Israel's Settlements Actually Keep Right On Growing Paris Slams Sharon for Insisting French Jews Move to Israel Radical Reform Now Insists New More Radical Palestinian Generation Gaza Explodes With Rage Against PA and even Arafat himself French Jews: 'Must Mov To Israel' Says Sharon In making this loud call Sharon exposes the underside of Zionism that Jews living in the West like to overlook. Allawi guns down his own - video from ABC Australia The Nightly Slaughter in Iraq - Robert Fisk Pentagon Tried to Censor Saddam 'Hearing' July 3 / 4, 2004 "We Don't Trust You Guys" Pentagon Tried to Censor Saddam's Hearing By ROBERT FISK The Independent Baghdad A team of U ... more Arafat loosing touch as well as control MER has been harping on about "Palestinian Authority" corruption and the urgency of grand "reforms" for a very long time before it became popular to d ... more ABC Australian TV interview about Allawi shooting to death six Iraqi prisoners Broadcast in Australia on 15 July 2004: rtsp://media.abc.net.au/reallibrary/200407/r25468_62980.rm Iraqi PM - Allawi shot prisoners in cold blood: w ... more Allawi Personal Killings Reverberating in Australia but not yet in US or UK Senate Report on Iraq Intel Points to Role of Jerusalem Senate Report on Iraq Intel Points to Role of Jerusalem By Ori Nir July 16, 2004 "The Forward" -- WASHINGTON — Cooperation between Israel and the Un ... more SCOTT RITTER - FACING THE ENEMY ON THE GROUND SCOTT RITTER - FACING THE ENEMY ON THE GROUND IRAQ: The Pentagon Neocons and the Investigating committees have ignored the advice and testimony of f ... more HOW THE CIA CREATED OSAMA BIN LADEN HOW THE CIA CREATED OSAMA BIN LADEN Excerpt: "Freedom movements arise and assert themselves. They're doing so on almost every continent populated by ... more Israel Prepares to Attack Iran 'Alone' Well...it's not really 'alone'. For Israel and the U.S. are quite attacked at the hip, very much politically and strategically married, whatever the ... more Civilian father and son left bleeding to death in overnight invasion of Nablus Civilian father and son left bleeding to death in overnight invasion of Nablus Palestine Monitor - Tuesday July 6, 2004 Nablus - A Palestinian Unive ... more Israeli forces open fire on UN Convoy delivering aid Palestine Monitor - Thursday, July 15, 2004 The Israel occupation Forces on Wednesday opened fire on a United Nations convoy delivering humanitar ... more Lobbying For the Pro-Israel Candidates By Nathan Guttman Haaretz - July 6, 2004 Former Georgia congresswoman Cynthia McKinney, who is pro-Palestinian, is trying to get re-elected, and on ... more Israel's Weapons of Mass Destruction Palestine Fact Sheets - Israeli Weapons of Mass Destruction Israel is believed to be the sixth nation in the world and the first in the Middle East ... more Israeli Snipers Target Palestinian Children Israeli Snipers Target Palestinian Children Palestine Monitor: May 26, 2004 On the morning of Tuesday, May 18 Asma al-Mughair, 16, and her brother A ... more Allawi shot inmates in cold blood, say witnesses Kerry Will Double Again U.S. Spies Worldwide You've got to wonder more and more about the Democrats in their desperation to win. No talk of causes, no talk about how much was brought on by U.S. ... more Elton John Attacks U.S. for 'Censorship' by 'Democracy' Palestinians Ban 'U.N. Envoy' Palestinians Push for U.N. 'Sanctions' Clinton Misleads World Further About Realities of Camp David II and Middle East If you not only control political power but own the instruments of information and 'education' you can write your own history, true or false. The Is ... more Insurgents Targeting Iraqi's working with the U.S.-installed government Of course it's a puppet government, everybody really knows this. It's a government put in place, financed by, armed by, and kept in power by, the Uni ... more One More Push Toward U.S. Confrontation with Iran Major forces in the U.S. and the Middle East keep pushing for another U.S. clash with Iran. Israeli Prime Minister Sharon has all but declared the Is ... more Gazans Rebel Against PA, UN, Arafat PA Collapsing - Years of Ineptitude and Corruption Coming Home to Roost Angry Egyptians and Clerics Blame 'the West' and Israel Iraqis Uniting in 'War of Liberation' Against U.S. Occupier FBI Steps Up Interviewing Muslims and Arabs Neocons and Israel Pushed the US into Iraq American neo-conservatives pushed war by Arshin Adib-Moghaddam* Few analysts would question that institutions are central to the build up of sa ... more Tough Guy Iyad Allawi Allawi's Path to Power in Iraq Allawi's Plans for Iraqi Internal CIA/KGB/FBI Senior Cleric Calls for War Against American Occupation Allawi shot prisoners in cold blood: witnesses New Saddam? It is indeed reminiscent of the stories of the old dictator. But then most of the time he was doing these things he was an up-and-coming ... more New 'Militant' Groups Taking over in Occupied Palestine The word most often used is 'militant'. But more accurate words would be indigenous, younger, toughter, and feed-up...for it's quite understandable i ... more Palestinians Term ICJ Decision 'Historic' U.S. Congress Blocks 'Aid' to Saudi Arabia This is the same House of Representatives that the other day voted to condemn the International Court of Justice for its nearly unanimous decision aga ... more Woopi's 'Freedom of Expression' Takes A Slimfast Hit NewsFlash! 'Interim Iraqi PM' personally executed six last month He's a long-time CIA operative and if this explosive news story just breaking proves to be true it is likely to be the end of the US-chosen and protec ... more 'Arafat's Enforcer' Kidnapped in Gaza The Israelis have wanted to foment a Palestinian civil war for a long time now. They have tried and tried without success, even as life for the Pales ... more ABC News Admits Drudge Influence Hitler Name Resurfaces in Washington 'Escape from Iraq' This is the 'new Iraq' more than a year after the American invasion/occupation. China Prepares for Taiwan with new subs + Condi Rice was in China earlier in the month, telling the Chinese the Americans are going to sell more advanced weapons systems to Taiwan and at the s ... more Ozzie Compares Bush to Hitler - loudly OZZY JOINS BUSH BASH WITH HITLER MONTAGE Rocker Ozzy Osbourne took Jones Beach, NY last night on what is quickly becoming a predictable Bush-bashing ... more Scenarios for Iraq's Future An interpreter takes a hard look at Iraq An interpreter takes a hard look at Iraq Allawi 'versus' the U.S. - contradictions build-in to today's situation The Iranian Example in history The U.S. CIA and military have been busy toppling regimes and 'rebuilding' regimes in the Middle East for a long time now, taking over for the British ... more Iraqis Readying for More Confrontation with U.S. helped by Iran Throughout Iraq, as well as in fact throughout the Middle East, countries and groups are preparing for more fighting in the months and years ahead. more China Threatens US over relations with Taiwan This is a delicate time for world affairs. There is the North Korean situation where China's involvement is critical. There is Taiwan where an explos ... more Senate Intelligence Committee Stiffed by Bush and CIA Bush's Offensive WAR Room Sharon and Peres, Labor and Likud, Together Again They've done it already quite a few times and now once again. Peres, one should recall, was Foreign Minister for Sharon in his first years as Prime M ... more Washington Gives Thump Down to 'Delay Election' Notion Military Vote Vital for Bush Win He gets the military vote, the religious vote, the corporate vote, and the Chamber of Commerce vote. And it all adds up; even if leaving ever so many ... more Moore's 'Loyalties' from the Washington Times - Moore's loyalties Left-wing gadfly Michael Moore brags that he has had a camera team in Iraq interviewing ... more Senate Let Bush Off Easy Made-Up Anti-Semitism Are they now going to take back all the protest, all the further slander against the Arabs and the Muslims, all the propagandistic use of this fallati ... more Bra Bomb Debut Arafat Hints Israelis Did It Who really knows any more who did what. There certainly is a long history of Israeli manipulations of any and everything. And in just the past few d ... more Bush Outsources Mid East Policy Hard Core Repubs - Now ABB, Anybody But Bush America Deserves Better - The Bland Leading the Blind Bush is no Hitler...but Conservatives Increasing Skeptical of Bush and the neocons Michael Moore (Dems) and Richard Perle (Rep neocons) -- an unplanned alliance with Saudi Arabia the target Angry Bush Walks Out On Media The pressures are building in a Washington more polarized, more cynical, more corrupt, and more hateful than most long-time insiders can ever remember ... more Emergency U.N. Session Looms U.S. Threatens To Leave Saudi Royals on their own unless... U.S. threatens to abandon Saudis and their oil The United States has sent a tough message to Saudi Arabia that did not rule out abandoning the king ... more Bush Insists Pre-emptive Unilateralism is the Future Bush asserts pre-emptive strikes policyBy Edward Alden in WashingtonFinancial Timees - July 12 2004 President George W. Bush said on Monday his admini ... more Exposing FOX - documentary wars escalate The extraordinary polarization in American politics has now led to Cable TV wars as well. And this upcoming documentary is meant to dent FOX News lik ... more The CIA's Allawi - 'Bring Me An Ax' The CIA 'Mislead' the Leaders, the Leaders 'Mislead' the country and the world Now comes the even more important part; and there's not much chance the Senate Intelligence Committee is going to do this one in a truly serious and c ... more 'OutFOXed' Indeed A new kind of cable TV wars is breaking out in view of the fierce polarization now evident in American society. And this new upcoming documentary abo ... more Congressional Corruption Escalating As Rarely Before Bashing Bush 'Values' Escalates 'Why did Bush knock down the Towers?' Al-Yawar Claims 'Occupation is over now' even as more American troops and CIA arrive Of course the transparency of all this is pretty evident. The Americans reconstituted the 'Iraqi Government Council' as an 'interim government', exch ... more 'Honor' Killings in Pakistan persist New 'Iron Curtain' beween West and Islam warns Musharraf Looks like General Musharraf is finally learning a few things about actually being President of Pakistan, rather than General of the Army. His situat ... more Newsweek Takes on Fahrehheit 9/11 and Moore Thinking the Unthinkable in American politics It wasn't that long ago that the idea the Supreme Court would decide the American Presidency in a highly divisive and totally unprecedented 5-4 decis ... more Israel's Ha'aretz Says Yes to Sharon It's a sign of how confused, and even desperate, the Israelis have become, this rush to say "yes" to Sharon. At the moment the Israelis are dominant, ... more Israel's Fence Further Explained and Backed in Ha'aretz Edward Said's Legacy - by Tony Judt * July.05.2004 The Rootless Cosmopolitan By Tony Judt When Edward Said died in September 2003, after a decade-long battle against leukemia, he ... more PA 'Delays' Again UN Security Council Debate Zionism United - Sharon and Peres Started Together, Now Ending Together Reborn: A Bi-national State in Historic Palestine/Israel 'DOOMED TO FAILURE IN THE MIDDLE EAST' Tough Hit for Israel's "Image" Nonsense from Newsweek One has to wonder about just about everyone and everything in the American establishment when it comes to the Middle East. Publications seek advertis ... more Anti-jewish Attacks Up in France Sharon now blames International Court for Palestinian resistance to occupation And here is Ariel Sharon's Statement to the Cabinet on 12 July 2004 (but of course it was meant as a Statement to the World): PM SHARON'S REMARKS FRO ... more Historic ICJ Ruling - 'Occupied Territory' The ruling from the International Court of Justice dealing with "the wall" may have continuing ramifications for some time to come for beyond the wall ... more 'Garbage Can of History' Say the Israelis to the U.N. Court Israel's Ideological Catastrophe Kerry and Israel...but of course The Democratic Party has long been associated with Israel's Labor Party; the Republicans with the Likud and dancing with everyone else Israeli. With ... more More Secrets of Abu Ghraib Keep Leaking Out World Court - Unanimous Except for U.S. Judge The U.S. and Israel are totally isolated. Now the burden of action is upon the real international community and the United Nations. Global Intelligence 'Failure' It was much more than a 'failure'. It was orchestrated in Washington, primarily by the neocons and the Vice-President. It was purposeful, a 'plot' i ... more Historic War Based on Lies and Deceptions Sure enough, had the Vice-President not made his 10 trips to the CIA to push for the faulty intelligence assessments, had the CIA resisted the politic ... more Iraq - The Oxford Poll: Americans Be Gone Just-departed Paul Bremer was out of touch with Iraqis THEY'RE ANGRY ABOUT THE OCCUPATION AND WANT U.S. TO LEAVE By Daniel Sneider Before he skippe ... more Corrupting 'Democracy' on Capitol Hill The Americans are running around the world these days with their 'democracy themes' -- except of course in the key countries they support which are po ... more 'Shame, Shame,Shame' Congressional Democrats Chant Washington is more polarized than ever, and the respect and decorum of the U.S. Congress is more besmerched than ever. It's a sad time indeed for 'Am ... more UN Court Finally Barks Of course the great problem here is that by the time the Court spoke it's pretty late in the day. The Wall is considerably completed and the U.S. has ... more Pentagon Missing Bush Records - How Convenient July 9, 2004 Pentagon Says Bush Records of Service Were Destroyed By RALPH BLUMENTHAL OUSTON, July 8 - Military records that could help establish Pre ... more Trump to Bush - 'You're Fired!' Trump slams Bush on Iraq President Bush, you should be fired. The Donald has turned thumbs down on the President's war in Iraq, calling it a "mess." ... more 1000+ and Counting in Iraq Of course the real U.S. and 'coalition' toll is far higher, that of the Iraqis tremendous higher and beyond counting it seems, and the numbers who ar ... more Prophecy and Politics - Christian Zionists Fuel both Israel and their Crusade Israelis Settlements Still Surreptitiously Expanding The Americans know this. The Israelis know this. But everyone with 'official' power keeps pretending otherwise, looking the other way, blaming the P ... more Keynote Address by Indian Filmmaker Keynote Address by Anand Patwardhan, Indian Docu Film maker and Peace Activist June 16, 2004 Silverdocs Seminar, co-sponsored by the World Bank, Wash ... more The U.S. and Iran - the neocons keep on gunning Lost Chances in IranBy David IgnatiusFriday, July 9, 2004; Page A19Whoever wins this November's presidential election, the United States faces an urg ... more Damning Israel's Wall and Opening Door to Sanctions The World Court on Israel's Apartheid Wall - Sanctions Ahead? For a long time now, but for the U.S. veto and political blockage, Israel would have been sanctioned by the United Nations, and rightly so. Indeed i ... more Fahrenheit 9/11 by Leonard Fein in The Foreward http://forward.com/main/article.php?ref=fein200407081202 Fronting for Israel as usual Dennis Ross now pushes the Egyptians to control the Palestinians Egypt's New Role By Dennis Ross Friday, July 2, 2004; Page A15 While the world remains riveted on Iraq, Egypt has signaled a new -- even unpreceden ... more Militants Make Unprecedented Push To Gain a Voice in Palestinian Affairs Militants Make Unprecedented Push To Gain a Voice in Palestinian Affairs By Molly Moore and John Ward Anderson Washington Post Foreign Service Thursd ... more Israeli Lobby Launches Massive PR Campaign to Blunt International Court Ruling In the U.S. the powerful Israeli-Jewish lobby quite literally gets away with political murder. Here they go again...well prepared...well-financed...a ... more Tenet Defiantly Departs CIA Under Growing Fire He leaves in semi-disgrace even as the exposee of all the CIA's misdeeds, failures, and lies -- for whatever reasons -- are beginning to come more cl ... more UN Nuclear Agency Hypocritical when it comes to Israel Vanunu is right of course to try to blow the whistle on the U.N. in this way. The double-standards, hypcrisy, and double-dealings from the U.N. whene ... more Crafty Sharon Plays the U.N. this time For Ariel Sharon and today's Israel a Palestinian State is walls, fences, motes, apartheid everywhere even as more settlements surreptitiously are bui ... more Silencing the FBI Witness about 9/11 Christian Zionists and The Wall The Underlying Dishonesty of Elie Wiesel 'In Cold Blood' - Baghdad Blunder Baghdad Blunder "in Cold Blood" By Jean-Pierre Perrin Libération - Paris - Wednesday 07 July 2004 An American convoy smashed an Iraqi's car ... more Muzzling Saddam - The Trial Run Fails The U.S. military, along with the CIA, are now engaged in information manipulation and media deception as never before in history. This first trial r ... more Plane Heading for Capitol Almost Shot out of Sky It's a sign of three things -- how extraordinarily tense the U.S. has become, the tremendous amount of manpower and money being used for 'security', a ... more Missing Marine Conspiracy Theory First they said he deserted, now they say he may have faked his own kidnapping... Rumsfeld: Pentagon lost $2.3 trillion Wow. 'Shambolic' Cover of Saddam in the dock Dennis Ross Shows His True Colors to all Remember now, this is the very same 'Ambassador' Dennis Ross whom the 'even-handed' Americans insisted be the top 'peace process' 'negotiator' for a ... more Sure Enough It's Dennis Ross Now Working Directly for the Israelis Remember now, this is the very same Dennis Ross whom the 'even-handed' Americans insisted be the top 'negotiator' between Israel and the Palestinians ... more Dennis Ross now heading up Jewish Agency for Israel Group? Read through the article. Can it really be that former Ambassador Dennis Ross, long-time top 'negotiator' of the 'Middle East Peace Process' for the ... more Israel Wants Jews Wherever It Can Find them - Target France The Israelis have tried hard and repeatedly to get immigration from one place or another. There were the Iraqi Jews back when Israel first came into ... more The Arab Bank Now Put Under Growing Pressure Long known for its close ties to the Palestinian establishment, and the Arafat regime, now Israel's friends and agents are also targeting the Arab Ban ... more U.S.-installed Iraqi government issues 'Patriot Act' like laws Of course everything will have to be monitored and enforced by the Americans. The 'interim government' is not only a U.S. creation it is quickly tryi ... more Islamic-style Internet 'dating' in Pakistan Israeli 'Civil War'? What a p.r. coup for Ariel Sharon. Rather than the extremist that he has always been he now can point not only to his having become Israeli Prime Min ... more Pentagon Neocon Corruption The Bush Pentagon has quite literally been run by what are called the "neocons". Behind this term is a simple reality not usually discussed on the fr ... more Brando's Unmade Movie was to feature 'unfair balance between West and rest of world' Pushing Israel About Its Nukes -- but not very hard or very seriously Shinbet Collaborators Israelis Prepare to Tackle th ICJ Even Sharon's Duplicitous Plan Bites the Dust It was never really serious in terms of something other than apartheid bondage for the Palestinians. It was always political subterfuge, buying still ... more A thousand legal experts ready to defend Saddam from the Americans Of course it's from the Americans. Everyone really understands that the 'interim government' is an American creation and can exist only because of th ... more Israel's Extremer Fanatics Target Israel's Fanatics This kind of thing makes it look like Ariel Sharon and his extreme neo-fascist Jabotinsky-inspired party are something other than fanatics themselves. ... more Blair: No WMD to be found after all One of these days Tony Blair will be gone; maybe George Bush too. But the lies, deceptions, and tricks they perpatred on the world will remain. And ... more US Evil says 40% of Canadian Youth Poll: over 40% of Canadian teens think America is "evil" by Arthur Weinreb June 30, 2004 Can West News Services, owners of several Canadian newspap ... more The American Pretense About 'Democracy' in the Middle East NATO's Afghanistan 'Myth' Everywhere the Bush Administration is proclaiming success and courting disaster. Both the economic and political policies pursued by the U.S. are hea ... more NYPost Gets it Wrong - Kerry Gephart This is hardly the first time the NYPost has gotten things wrong; but it may be the most blatant and embarrassing. Kashmir Deadlock The political theatrics are far more lowkey and even 'hopeful'. Yet the actual deadlock over Kashmir remains deep and quite intractable. more CIA prevented real information about Iraqi weapons from reaching President, et. al. Thus the question is...why did the Director of the CIA, George Tenet, handle things in this way and was it part of a calculated plan to push the U.S. ... more Iran positioned to 'steer' Iraq's political future US working with appointed 'Interim Govt' Drops Huge Bombs on Falluja Israelis Deceiving World Once Again Ariel Sharon, as well as other Israeli governments before, have repeatedly and in fact systematically deceived the world about the 'settlements'. The ... more Israel's Nukes Of course this is one of the big contradictions in our world -- a vast Israeli program of weapons of mass destruction including nuclear bombs and miss ... more Americans Celebrate 'Independence Day' on guard All over America the fireworks went off and talk of 'Home of the Brave' exploded into regular discourse. And in New York, at what the Americans seem ... more 'Freedom Tower' to replace World Trade Center Saddam's Limited Revelations Sadr Demands True End to Occupation They Behead, We Use 'Smart' Bombs They Behead; We Do It With Smart Bombs By Michael Takiff Los Angeles Times Sunday 04 July 2004 Referring to the beheading of Nic ... more NYTimes on Independence Day 2w004 About Independence New York Times Editorial Sunday 04 July 2004 People too often get the impression that the only people who use the ... more Michael Moore on Independence Day USA The Patriot Act By Michael Moore Los Angeles Times Sunday 04 July 2004 What's more American than asking questions? New York ... more Marines Stage-Managed Giant Saddam Statue Fall and Imagery Army Stage-Managed Fall of Hussein Statue LATIMES - Saturday - July 3, 2004 The Army's internal study of the war in Iraq criticizes some efforts by ... more Fisk on the "New and Free Iraq" So This is What They Call the New, 'Free' Iraq Robert Fisk Independent U.K. Sunday 04 July 2004 Americans hold Saddam Hussein. Americans ra ... more Kerry Pledges Loyalty to Israel wooing the Jewish vote Kerry recasts Mideast stance to woo back Jewish voters Bryan Bender NYT Saturday, July 03, 2004 WASHINGTON Senator John Kerry strikes a decided ... more American General Now Fingers 'Israeli Interrogators' in Iraq 'Screaming Idiot' in the Middle East Withdraw from Iraq? - The Book Pakistan, Jordan, Yemen do what the Americans Want These regimes are among the closest to the Americans, and thus they are doing what the Americans want and expect them to do against the wishes of thei ... more "Independence Day" in the U.S. and in Iraq It's Independence Day in the USA. But that's little consolidation to the Iraqis, to the Palestinians, or to the Chechnyans or Afghanis and so many ot ... more Another secret Bush Admin -Saudi deal now leaks out U.S. Said to Return Saudi Suspects in Secret Deal, NYT Reports July 3 (Bloomberg) -- Five suspected terrorists were released from the U.S. naval base ... more Sharon's Phony 'Disengagement' Sharon’s Phony Disengagement by Ronald Bleier June 29, 2004 It’s remarkable that Sharon’s Gaza disengagement plan is not more widely recognized f ... more Baghdad Bug Out Baghdad bug-out By Douglas O'Rourke Online Journal Guest Writer LOS ANGELES, July 2, 2004 Like a thief in the night, Bush proconsul L. Pa ... more Marlon Brando and 'Jews Run Hollywood' "Anti-Semitic" Labels Used as Political Tools Linda S. Heard - The Online Journal 08.26.03 Star of "Braveheart" Mel Gibson is the latest in the line ... more Vienna - Now With 'Herzl Square' Palestinians hang collaborator 'Corroded Soul' Says Bush of Bin Laden Bush doesn't use the word 'crusade' any longer; but so much of what he does and says makes it evident he is on a crusading mission consistent with his ... more U.S. General Says 'Israelis' were involved Israel and the US have worked hard to prevent Israel's fingerprints from showing up on everything from how the Iraq war came to be, to the torture tec ... more Brando's Last Film Was to Point at 'the West' CIA Pros Fear What Is Yet to Come - Porter Goss Cheney Cat's Paw, Porter Goss, as CIA Director? By Ray McGovern* Saturday 03 July 2004 There is, thankfully, a remnant of CIA profe ... more Realities of Saddam - Robert Fisk Confused? Shadow of his old self? Hardly By Robert Fisk in Baghdad The Independent, UK - 02 July 2004: Bags beneath his eyes, beard greying, fin ... more Rape and Murder at Abu Ghraib Blowing Off Osama's Head Corporate News Networks Agreed to US Military Censorship of Saddam 'Hearing' It's more than the 'Sounds of Silence' and 'Military Censorship'. It's what the corporate media allow the government to get away with, even after all ... more Reducing Egypt's Money Wanting to put still more pressures on the Egyptians to do what they are told, the Americans use all kinds of twists and turns to let the Egyptians kn ... more 'The liberation of Baghdad is not far away' Israel and the Neocons - it's not yet over What is happening today in Washington, with considerable pushing and proding by the Israelis and their friends, has deep roots. The power and influen ... more Negroponte - Past and Present Bremer's Legacy Will Linger The Bremer flag was quickly disgarded by the Iraqis, but much else will linger. Economic and political decisions have been put in place by the "Coali ... more The Chief Justice, Abu Ghraib, and Invading Countries The man who helped Richard Nixon justify the invasion of Cambodia, the man who steered the court to electing the man with the least popular vote in 20 ... more Citizens of the World: UNITE Billions Missing and Corruption Everywhere As Bremer Departs Baghdad Bush Admin Credibility Keeps On Sinking Propaganda American Style The Palestinian Key - The "Right of Return" How Bremer Slinked Away from Baghdad Read this inside the paper analysis story about what actually happened in Baghdad on Monday -- not about the tag lines and rhetorical hyperbole the A ... more Bremer and his 'Israeli Flag' are gone from Iraq - but the U.S. 'Governing Council' remains But if these guys have been making policies and decisions about the future of Iraq and the Middle East in the same way they did about a new Iraqi flag ... more Bush and Saddam deal in political theatre and politicized legalistic fictions Karzai and Americans delay pseudo elections again He ran to Turkey for the NATO summit literally begging that more troops be quickly sent to save his regime. The Americans were pushing it of course.. ... more Same old, Same old - Bremer's Flag Bites the Dust It hardly flew at all. Indeed it's a rather amazing mystery how Bremer and the neocons ever thought any of this was ever going to fly. But then...lo ... more American Keep on Bombing as new US-installed government attempts to gain traction Iraq and the saga of the Bremer Flag Another of the Bremer/neocon mystery decisions and edicts all of which are quickly fading from history. Wolfowitz - is he kidding...or appologizing? This guy strikes out so often...and yet he stays there at the top essentially in charge of U.S. foreign policy more than the Secretary of State or the ... more Missing the Historic Photo Op This Time Around Bremer's secret get me out of here 'ceremony' Real reporting these days oftentimes isn't on page 1 and doesn't come in the form of straight news. This from the inside pages of The Washington Post ... more Iraq Resistance After American Woman Such a headline would have meant one thing a few years ago; something very different now. France 'vetoes' Afghan soldiers - American furious Of course Bush is pretending otherwise and putting the happy face on all this, but Karzai's personal pleas on top of American arm-twisting didn't prev ... more 'Please Hurry' with the Extra Troops Pleads Karzai The French and others in Europe are not nearly as gunhoe as the Americans. Karzai is essentially attempting to use NATO and US Troops as his own army ... more Says Paula: 'It All Started With Me' 'Anonymous' Outed...and CIA Questioned Censure of Bush Admin by top Diplomats and Generals may be unprecedented Nation Security Mandarins Assail Bush/Cheney 'Terrorists" and the Internet according to the U.S. Govt Think-Tank "Institute for Peace" Israeli Journalist Amira Haas Honored Amira Hass acceptance speech for Anna Lindh award The first Anna Lindh award has been given to Haaretz journalist/reporter Amira Hass. Dear Mr. Bo ... more More First Hand Sexual Abuse and Torture Stories US soldiers abused 12 year Iraqi child at Iraqi prison ----- US soldiers abused 12 year Iraqi child at Iraqi prison Suhaib al-Baz, a journalist for ... more Bush and U.S. Exposed - book by book by book This list of books exposing the Bush presidency for what it really is all about is an essential corrective to all the propaganda and TV clips constant ... more U.S. Secretly Orders Brits to Attack Iran; Brits Balk The order was given in secret by the U.S. commander in Iraq, General Ricardo Sanchez, who was already scheduled to be replaced, quite likely because o ... more Israelis Do Another Political Reality End Run - this time with the Wall and the