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Ilan Pappe on how Israel was founded on ethnic cleansing
Israel Defense Minister Eyes Arab Plan
Lebanon’s history of resistance to Zionism
Katherine Harris, Beleaguered Jew
Katherine Harris: "We're All Sort Of Jewish Wannabes"...
Why ‘two states’ is not the solution for Palestine
Israel again buzzes German ships near Lebanon
Revealed: how Murdoch press smears Muslims
Israeli Planes in Mock Raids Over Beirut
Israeli fighter jets staged mock raids over Hezbollah strongholds in Beirut and two southern towns on Tuesday in the heaviest show of air power over L ...
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George Galloway demands Blair held to account for Iraq
Bolton Faults Syria, Iran on Lebanon
Of Course There Is an Israel Lobby - IL
There is nothing in the Stern report which Tony Blair would not already have known, yet we have seen little positive action from him.
AUDO - TARGET IRAN - Hersh and Ritter in NYC on 16 Oct 2006
We have turned Iraq into the most hellish place on Earth
The only workable solution remaining is federation. Even then I don’t see an immediate cessation of internal violence.
Harvard attack on ‘Israel lobby’ is actually a targeting of American public - IL
From the Martin Peretz, The New Republic, branch of the Israel Lobby: "Judging from the initial reaction to their article (one of my students called ...
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The much wider scope of the Israel lobby - IL
Israel Continues to Isolate and Strangle Gaza
Big Metros Show Severe Declines in Latest Circ Report
U.S. vs. AIPAC - IL
From around the world, this time from Norway, come insights into just why the US invaded Iraq and is doing what it is doing in the Middle East. And t ...
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Subverting “Terrorism”: Muslim Problem or Covert Operations Nightmare?
And The YouTube Purge Begins, Starting With Comedy Central
African apocalypse: The continent burning into a desert
Global Warming will devastaste Africa even more than the genocides and AIDS crisis have.
African apocalypse: The continent burning into a desert
Stern Warning on Global Warming Costs
The 700 page report (how many forests is that one wonders) was commissioned by the Chancellor Gordon Brown and is authored by the distinguised economi ...
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Global warming could cost up to seven trillion dollars: British report
Unless the world acts, it costs more than World War I, World War II and the Great Depression of the 1930s while rendering large parts of the planet un ...
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Landmark report reveals apocalyptic cost of global warming
Britons face the prospect of a welter of new green taxes to tackle climate change, as the most authoritative report on global warming warns it will c ...
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Daily Kos Warning: Bush Iran War Plans - 4 Strike Groups in the Persian Gulf
Bad news. Very bad news. Another expeditionary strike group will imminently enter the Persian Gulf where it will join the Enterprise, Eisenhower an ...
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Climate Change Catastrophe British Warn
CIA and Pakistani Try to Kill Zawahri in advance of US Election
Letter to Edtor of Ad Busters about Jewish Neocons
Jewish ‘neocons’ tilt U.S. policy toward Israel, says magazine
Neve Shalom - Wahat Al-Salam
Canadian Ad Crusader Condemned For Saying Neocons Are Jews
American Zeitgeist - Film
Israeli Racist Worse Than Austrian Fascist
Israel - Fund Abbas and Fight Terror
Arab state media under tighter control
Iraq to seek extension to US mandate
USMC Features Articles about War with IRAN
TERRORIST HAVENS GROWING - WSJ Page 1
Concern about extremism seeping out of Iraq underscores a painful irony in the five-year-old war against terrorism: The U.S. and its allies now face t ...
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Chavez Worries CIA Has Him In the Target
Scott Ritter back in 2005 - US War With IRAN has already begun
Cardin - Another Jewish Senator in Washington
Jeffrey Goldberg on Muslim and Jew - Promoted by the Israeli and American Jewish establishments
Israelis Kill 100 Palestinians Monthly in Gaza
Olmert on the way out - maybe to be indicted
Olmert's success in escaping by the skin of his teeth from previous criminal cases has made him less cautious.
Haaretz Editorial - Israel Should Not Ignore Syria..or the U.S.
The Middle East is in great turmoil and transition. Decisions which paths to try, which feints to make, are being made in many capitals now, most of ...
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Emails from frontline Iraq
The System’s Broken
Is this the dirtiest election ever? Republicans fear landslide defeat
Russia bars proposed sanctions on Iran
Being a Suspect, Not a Terrorist, Gets You Killed or Detained Indefinitely
Rethinking Iraq: The Way Forward
WMD intercept exercise set to begin in the Gulf
US-led forces move to defend Saudi oil terminal
The Veil and the Bikini Schism
UK Moving to Now Secret 'Green Tax'
From Aqaba to Sharm - Fake Peace festivals - Tanya Reinhardt
A recipe for the Greater War: The United States fear of losing power which it doesn't have
Hamas and Israel's "Right to Exist"
Hamas and Israel's "Right to Exist" Virginia TILLEY - 15 May 2006 To the great consternation of most of the world, the European Union, followed now b ...
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Decline of The American Empire
Bush Iran War Plans - 4 Strike Groups in the Persian Gulf
What will Bush and Cheney, allied with the Israeli-centric Neocons and the Rapture seeking Evanlicals, really do? Not to take seriously the threat th ...
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Who is Afraid of the Iranian Bomb? Uri Avneri
Israel's "new Middle East" - Tanya Reinhard
Judith Miller and the NYTimes took the lead pushing war with Iraq
Subverting “Terrorism” - Muslim Problem or Covert Operations Nightmare?
Sandra Bullock's 'Loving'
David's father: I'll never escape stigma of Madonna's AIDS 'lie'
Clintons Snubbed As They Overreach
Abbas eyes PLO troops in Jordan
More Than a Road Map, and You Don’t Have to Fold It
The Rand McNally G.P.S. Navigator can tell you more than how to get from Point A to Point B — it can actually offer you suggestions for scenic trips. ...
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Lieberman Senate Race most expensive in history
GAO chief warns economic disaster looms
America's Middle Class Has Become Globalization's Loser
Fueling U.S. adversaries
These are flush times for some of America's most determined adversaries.
Iraqi leader critical of U.S. envoy - Talks to Bush in Hastily-arranged video conf.
...a hastily arranged videoconference with the president was needed because issues needed airing at a higher level than with U.S. Ambassador Zalmay Kh ...
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Bush rallies base to 'just say no'
Barbara Amiel - The Fast Lady
How the West short-changed Afghanistan
Blood money row as OJ 'admits' killings
Egypt deploys troops on Gaza border
Egypt deploys troops on Gaza border Thousands of Egyptian troops have been deployed near the Egypt-Gaza border. Egypt stepped-up security measure ...
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Israelis put nuclear bunkers in gardens
“We are aware of all these panicky people building atomic shelters. They’re wasting their money,” said a security source. “Israel will not allow Ira ...
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Karen Hughes Reveals Her BIG Public Diplomacy Steps for Iraq
The BIG Plans of the State Dept for Iraq
Trying to Contain the Iraq Disaster - NYTimes Editorial
This major extraordinary NYTimes Editorial unusually took the full double-column column on the whole page where usually a number of individual editori ...
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Ongoing 'intifada' in France has injured 2,500 police in 2006
Fromkin on 1956 in the Middle East and the aftermath
The Grand Ayatollah Behind the Curtain
Europe's Muslims - Alienation Growing
The border with Israel is quiet, but tension everywhere else is growing.
Iranian's mission possible: Drive the U.S. out of Iraq
Portraits of Sharon - 3 New Books Even Before He Passes
US, Arabs, and Israel Prepare Fateh To Win Palestinian Civil War
US and S Korean Move Toward Possible 'Preemptive' Action
AP Interview: Chalabi Prods U.S. on Iran
Partition Is Not the Solution . . .
UK paper: Israel used 'uranium bombs'
GAO Chief Warns Economic Disaster Looms
UK paper: Israel used 'uranium bombs'
Israel, the Bomb & Peace in the Middle East
Israel and the Bomb - 1998
Israel's scandalous siege of Gaza
Scandlous Indeed. And the US, UK, and other European states are very much complicitious, no matter how much they pretend otherwise.
Fisk on Israel War Crimes in Lebanon - 28 July 2006 (not sure of date)
Fisk: Israel commits War Crimes in Lebanon By Robert Fisk, The Independent This mother and son were in a convoy fleeing danger yesterday when the Isr ...
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ISRAEL USED A NEW URANIUM- BASED WEAPON
LONDON, OCT. 28, (BNA) -- TODAYS BRITISH PAPERS REVEALED THAT ISRAEL USED A NEW URANIUM- BASED WEAPON IN ITS RECENT 34-DAY AGGRESSION ON LEBANON WHICH ...
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The US Military's 'Cult of Cruelty'
Pictures of Destruction and Civilian Victims of the Anglo-American Aggression in Iraq
Patrick Cockburn: From 'mission accomplished' to mission impossible for the Iraqis
US Strategy Change in Iraq Defines Iran as Main Menace
Chomsky - U.S. is a Terrorist State
Senator Candidate Jim Webb's Saturday Radio Address - Sent out Friday and Embargoed
** EMBARGOED UNTIL SATURDAY, OCTOBER 28 AT 11:00 AM ** Date: Friday, October 27, 2006 Contact: Jeff Pyatt: 703-778-4080 Jessica Smith, c: 202-236-3 ...
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Palestine should be “wiped off the map.” Did anyone react?
Chomsky On How US Supports Terrorists Around The World...and Why
Peace Palestine Blog
The Armageddon Lobby
Remarks at the Saban Forum Closing Session - Deconstructing Condi
A Palestinian, An Israeli, A European, A European Pan-Arabist Face off on the Ultimate Question of Israel’s Legitimacy: Is There Any Life After Zionism?
Israel draws up an assassination hit-list of Hamas ministers
MAAN NEWS AGENCY --------------------------- Israel draws up an assassination hit-list of Hamas ministers Date: 27 / 10 / 2006 Time: 12:46 Bethle ...
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Christian Zionism: An Egregious Threat to U.S. - Middle East Understanding
Christian Zionism - Long Academic Article - by Rammy M. Haija
Saudis joining Israel and U.S. with Big Expensive Fence
Syrian Juggle in Washington
Syrian opposition alarmed by U.S. reconciliation with Assad Just a year ago senior Bush administration officials were regularly meeting Syrian opposi ...
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China buildup seen behind new Bush space policy
Iranians Preparing in Many Ways
Abbas Threatens Again as Pressures Grow
ISRAEL'S SECRET WEAPON
U.S. hails airborne laser as weapons milestone
How the UK gave Israel the bomb ... long ago
Iraq PM, U.S. envoy pledge harmony after tension
Taliban Vows More Attacks
Dem Party Leaders Distance Themselves from Carter on Israel
The second most dangerous country: the United States
Resolution 1701 changed Israel's relations with world
Study: Israelis and U.S. Jews no longer seen as one nation
Israel Preparing for Changes maybe New Era in Washington
Solana and Peres Have Angry Public Exchange
Israel's Racist Lieberman On The Rise
Former Mossad Chief Whips Up Anti-Muslim Concerns For Europe
Fmr UN Ambassador’s Advice On Iraq: “Mr. President, Disengage And Focus On Political Settlement”
Bipartisan Redeployment - Biden and Gelb in the WSJ on 24 Oct
Israel Plans 'Smart Bombing' of Egypt/Gaza Border
Marines: What You Read is "Logged and Filed" and sometimes BLOCKED
Clamor rises for a US shift on Iraq
Insurgent ambush kills 24 Iraqi police
US leaders rethinking Iraq tactics
'Back Off' Rummie Orders!
US Military In Iraq Blocks "Left Leaning", Allows Conservative Based Websites...
Sidney Blumenthal Columns on Salon.com
The terrible toll in Iraq
Scientists agree that we're hurtling toward disaster. But how fast, and is nuclear power the answer or solar power?
U.S. generals call for Democratic takeover
Cleric Won't Step Down Over Rape Remark
"after we clean the world of the White House first."
Gaza on the Brink of Civil War
Gaza on the Brink of Civil War Tel Aviv Notes No. 190 October 26, 2006 Gaza on the Brink of Civil War Shlomo Brom Institute for National Security S ...
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Salon Interview: Camille Paglia - Concern about Bush's Mental Health
Blix: Iraq Pure Disaster - Country Better Off Under Saddam
Senator Allen Attacks Web Below the Belt
ALLEN'S REVENGE: EXPOSES UNDERAGE SEX SCENES IN OPPONENT'S NOVELS Thu Oct 26 2006 20:05:37 ET Sen. George Allen, R-VA, unleashed a press release late ...
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Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said Thursday that critics should "just back off"
'Just Back Off' -- what a metaphor for the Approach the Bush/Cheney/Neocon/Evangelical government that rules in Washington.
Iraq's History Being Looted and Destroyed
What liberal Media? Orville Schell on Eric Alterman's book in the NYTimes
President Bush Radio Address - Peace in the Middle East - 22 July 2006
President Bush Radio Address - Peace in the Middle East - 29 July 2006
President Bush on the Middle East - Radio 23 Sept 2006
Google Bombing - The Latest in Political Twisting and Spinning
Palestine Refugees - Special Publication
America Moves Toward War with Iran: Part 2 - William R. Polk
America Moves Toward War with Iran: Part 1 - William R. Polk
Soros-backed American Jews to Launch new Mideast Initiative
U.S. troops on active duty call for Iraq withdrawal
NATO bombs kill scores of Afghan civilians: officials
Israel violates Palestinian prisoner rights: report
FOURTH STRIKE GROUP JOINS 3 OTHER ARMADAS OFF IRAN. GET YOUR WAR ON!
Bush Iran War Plans - 4 Strike Groups in the Persian Gulf
Nearing - WAR With IRAN
South Koreans Increase Pace of Sex As North Korean's Explode Nuke
U.S. generals call for Democratic takeover
Joe Lieberman Has Wanted to 'Stay The Course' Just Like Bush
Active Duty Military Want Out of Iraq
Bush's policy quagmire
Jewish Billionaires versus AIPAC - IL
United Airlines Starts Campaign for Washington to Beijing Flights
Hitchens on Judt in Slate - IL
Israeli warplanes in 'incident' with German ship off Lebanon: military
Israel, Germany at odds over Lebanon air incident
War Preparations - Target Iran +
Soros Considering Financing 'Liberal' Jewish/Israeli Lobby
Blair: World must stop Iran from getting nuke bomb
Report: Syria ups military alert level
Looks Like VP Cheney Wants to Get Hillary on the Ticket
Rice Says 'Axis of Evil' Proven Right
Arabs Must Now Get Nuclear Weapons
The Israel Lobby Debate Isn't Going Away - IL
Well...it's not exactly the hot topic at Washington think-tanks... But...the Mearsheimer-Walt-LRB inspired debate is out there and having a continual ...
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Libya wants to be aerospace center
ISRAEL and NATO cozy up closer
Gazans building 'underground city': Israeli army chief
US/ISRAEL: Ties will weather policy setbacks - Full Article - IL
Iraq in danger of breaking up: Russia
The debate ignited by Walt and Mearsheimer gathers momentum - IL
U.S.-Israel Ties Will Weather Setbacks - IL
A Nadir of U.S. Power
The Least Bad Option on Iraq: Disengagement and Damage Control
Seriously Misspoken - However Truthfully
In Balad, Age-Old Ties Were 'Destroyed in a Second'
"Our relations are not of months or years. It's since the beginning of time," he said. "This relationship has been destroyed in a second."
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Into the abyss of Baghdad - LATimes
Lieberman Comes to Israeli Govt With Presidential Agenda
The God Delusion
Pelosi - No Impeachment Ahead
Mofaz, in U.S., warns of dangers of Iran helping Palestinians
Jewish Poll on What Kind Of Foreign Policy American Jews Want
Education minister instructs schools to mark Kafr Qasem massacre anniversary
Rhetorical Change - No More 'Stay The Course'
Egypt then, Syria Now
UNIFIL chief warns force may be used against IAF jets in Lebanon
Furor Over Carter’s South Africa Analogy
GOP Group Outspending Rivals on Jewish Ads 4 to 1
Evangelicals Ally With Democrats on Environment
IRAN Rushing Ahead with Nuclear Technology
History News network
COMING WAR WITH IRAN - William R. Polk
HOW BUSH RULES - Sidney Blumenthal of the DNC
Diane Farrell Delivers Democratic Radio Address 21 Oct 2006 - IRAQ
The Great Heist - Nearly $1 Billion Stolen By Iraqis from U.S.
New pro-Israel lobby as alternative to AIPAC
Charles Bronfman on Ha'aretz Blog On Line
US Official Appologizes Sunday Night For Saying Too Much
Andy Rooney on Bush and Iraq
It's the more free spirited and older about to depart among us who have the most to say it seems when it comes to truth-telling in Washington
Martin Indyk on Ha'aretz Blog On Line
Europe, France, and Islam
Bush, Israel, the Saudis, and Saddam... Now IRAN
More 9/11 'Conspiracy' Pictures
AJCommittee Further Whips Up Jewish Israeli Fears
AIPAC Fingered Again - and it gets to TIME Magazine
When anyone or any group in Washington gets too many enemies and finds its power of intimidation and reprisal lessening...things start to leak out and ...
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Top State Dept Official Mis-Speaks...the truth
Israelis Admit to Using Phosphorus Chemical Weapons
Labor and Kadima - Israel's Tragedy
France Hints at "Suspending' UN Sanction Talk about Iran
It's quite likely the Americans are in on this one way or another as they know they can't get real U.N. Sanctions on Iran past the Security Council. < ...
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Carter's 'Apartheid' Analogy
Senior Israeli Minister Says Hold Talks Based on Saudi Plan
Whether this is to deflect all the political pressures building everywhere, most especially in the US, or something new and real is hard to say. But ...
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President Bush Radio Address on Iraq - 21 October 2006
New Book - US Policy Toward Israel
The Arafat 'Stealth Assassination' - November 2004
As the second anniversary approaches, a look back....
New 'Left' Jewish Lobby in Washington being born
Israeli Decision To Further Expand Jerusalem Put Off
Israeli-American Nobel winner doubts Israel's long-term survival
"I Misspoke' State Dept Representative Pleads to keep job
Top US Diplomat 'Seriously Misspoke' - ' Arrogance and Stupidity'
Israel's Liberman Comes To Power
AIPAC 'Liberal' Alternative in the Works
Rahm Emmanuel on the March
BUSH Jr. Chides Bush Sr
Britain's race chief warns of violence over veil row
Dem Victory Means Nightmare in Washington for Bush/Cheney
What Would The Democrats Do in Power?
A New Tack on Darfur
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/20/AR2006102001659.html
CHANGE COURSE IN IRAQ - Wash Post Editorial
Conflicts Among Shiites Challenge a Village Sheik in Southern Iraq - Wash Post Page 1
Mahathir Still Big Power in Malaysia
Another Major Muslim Scholar Denied Entry to U.S.
There's nothing suspicious about him," said Nawaz Khan, a member of the East Bay group. "He is not involved in any political groups. All he does is te ...
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At Saudi instigation and meeting Islamic clerics decree a halt to sectarian bloodshed
Reconciling ego and reality
The agenda for these elders goes beyond Iraq, North Korea and Iran. The goal is to convince the president to appreciate the possibility that many of o ...
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Iraqi Youth Want U.S. Troops to Withdraw
The Americans are more confused and on edge than ever. Iraqis dead since the first Gulf War, the era of sanctions, and the Invasion/Occupation, numbe ...
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Senior US Diplomat concedes U.S. 'arrogance' in Iraq
One has to wonder what the game is now, and just what Condi and George think they are going to get for this verbal 'concession' at this critical time ...
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Veil Debate in Britain Is Also Divisive for Muslims
US Pushes Palestinian Toward Civil War - Thug Dahlan Groomed to Take Over from Abbas
Iran and Israel Keep Threatening
Mr. Ahmadinejad, speaking to a crowd of hundreds of thousands in Tehran, threatened any country that supports Israel, and said the United States and ...
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The bomb proliferates - North Korean Possible War as well as Iran
Climate Extremes Are Coming, Study Says
Prof Explains and Justifies 650,000+ dead in war in Iraq Figure