November 6th, 2009 Republican Sen. Richard Burr of North Carolina is lashing out against the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, accusing the group of exploiting the deadly rampage to oppose his gun lobby backed bill — which seeks to protect veterans’ rights to gun ownership.
Sen. Richard Burr, R-N.C. is lashing out against the Brady Campaign to Prevent [...]
November 4th, 2009 By Bouthaina Shaaban
November 03, 2009 “Counterpunch” — When you read a news story saying that “the United Nations called on Israel to stop demolishing Palestinian homes and put an end to the policy of forced evictions in East Jerusalem, warning that there are 60,000 Palestinians threatened of becoming homeless,” you cannot but wonder about the [...]
November 4th, 2009 Tuesday, November 3, 2009
Meet the new “skinny” Obama. Normally, it would be easy to accept that the President of the United States has lost some weight and its no big deal.
But then my mind turns towards Iraq and Saddam Hussein, and the fact that the man who we executed was quite different than the [...]
October 24th, 2009 By Karl Schwarz
10-23-9
http://www.rense.com/general88/khaz.htm
If you have been following the international news there is a behind-the-scenes flap between Israel and Turkey that might be why the recent US Israel war games were cancelled over Turkish airspace.
Seems the cancellation of the war games may not have had anything to do with Gaza, the Goldstone Report and the [...]
October 23rd, 2009 By Chloe Melas
CNN
NEW YORK (CNN) — New York public health workers will no longer be required to be vaccinated against both the seasonal and H1N1 flu virus, state officials announced Thursday, prompted by a vaccine shortage.
A statement from Gov. David Paterson announced the policy change on behalf of State Health Commissioner Richard F. Daines.
Daines had [...]
October 23rd, 2009 Posted on 20 October 2009
by State Rep. Susan Lynn (TN-57th)
The following is a letter from Tennessee to the other 49 State Legislatures
We send greetings from the Tennessee General Assembly. On June 23, 2009, House Joint Resolution 108, the State Sovereignty Resolution, was signed by Governor Phil Bredesen. The Resolution created a committee which has as [...]
October 23rd, 2009 October 14, 2009
Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments on a front-page news story in today’s New York Times on the problem of child sexual abuse:
Reporter Paul Vitello shows the shocking extent of child sexual abuse in Brooklyn’s Orthodox Jewish community. He also details the cover-ups that have long been aided and abetted by law enforcement.
Where [...]
October 23rd, 2009 By Karin Friedemann
10-23-9
http://www.rense.com/general88/wither.htm
The debate over the Goldstone Report is a huge distraction from the real problem: the Report’s inadequacy and the futility of bringing the case to the International Criminal Court. The Report itself, written by a Zionist Jew, is extremely flawed and biased in favor of Israel. Richard Goldstone’s daughter Nicole told Israeli Army [...]
October 12th, 2009 October 12, 2009 at 9:34 pm
Abbas must go
by Khalid Amayreh
Mahmoud Abbas’s decision to defer the adoption of the Goldstone report by the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva last week was more than an innocent diplomatic error or classical example of political misjudgment.
It was rather a brazen act of national [...]
October 12th, 2009 By Paul Craig Roberts
October 12, 2009 “Information Clearing House” — The double standard under which the Israeli government operates is too much for everyone except the brainwashed Americans. Even the very Israeli Jerusalem Post can see the double standard displayed by “all of Israel now speaking in one voice against the Goldstone report”:
“This is the [...]
October 5th, 2009 By Paul Craig Roberts
10-4-9
http://www.rense.com/general87/whyof.htm
An article in the journal, Sociological Inquiry, (”There Must Be a Reason”: Osama, Saddam, and Inferred Justification, Vol. 79, No. 2. (2009), pp. 142-162. PDF) casts light on the effectiveness of propaganda. Researchers examined why big lies succeed where little lies fail. Governments can get away with mass deceptions, but politicians cannot [...]
September 25th, 2009 Gordon Duff Salem-News.com
With the 9/11 Commission rescinding their own report, 9/11 debunking machine is now our “smoking gun”.
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(CINCINNATTI, Ohio) – When 9/11 Commission Chief Counsel, John Farmer, released his book, The Ground Truth, debunking his own 9/11 commission report and was supported by Chairman Thomas Kean and commission member Senator Bob Kerrey [...]
September 12th, 2009 By Khalid Amayreh in Occupied East Jerusalem
http://sabbah.biz/mt/archives/2008/03/10/my-message-to-the-jews/
Settler Graffiti in Hebron [10/03/2008]
I realize very well that you are not carbon copies of each other. And I also know that there are many Jews around the world who truly despise what Israel has been doing to the Palestinian people in your name.
I earnestly commend these conscientious Jews [...]
September 12th, 2009 Dr. Graeme MacQueen
“Today, our nation saw evil.” George W. Bush, September 11, 2001
September 11, 2009 will not be a simple anniversary of an extraordinary day but the mythic return of a day that is now in the calendar of American civil religion.
American citizens will be urged to re-achieve the levels of patriotic fervour stimulated by [...]
September 9th, 2009 September 9, 2009
http://www.counterpunch.org/cook09092009.html
By JONATHAN COOK
in Nazareth.
The increasingly harsh political climate in Israel under Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s right-wing government has prompted the leadership of the country’s 1.3 million Arab citizens to call the first general strike in several years.
The one-day stoppage is due to take place on October 1, a date heavy with symbolism because [...]
September 4th, 2009 by Abby Zimet
A year after St. Paul police rounded up and arrested over 200 people who were planning to protest the Republican National Convention – but hadn’t actually done anything yet – 27 plaintiffs filed a class action suit against the city on behalf of all those arrested. Police officers used pepper spray, non-lethal ammunition [...]
September 2nd, 2009 Tue, 01 Sep 2009 22:59:08 GMT
Israeli soldiers arrest a Palestinian photojournalist at gunpoint in the West Bank.
The Palestinian Media Coalition has expressed grave concern over Israel’s arrest of Palestinian journalists.
The PMC condemned the Zionist action after Israeli soldiers kidnapped journalist Seri Sammour on August 31 in a raid on his house in Jenin in the [...]
September 2nd, 2009 By William Fisher
NEW YORK, Sep 1 (IPS) – Did physicians and psychologists help the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency develop a new research protocol to assess and refine the use of waterboarding or other harsh interrogation techniques?
This is the question being raised in a new report by a leading human rights organisation. The group says that, [...]
August 31st, 2009 Orders We Will Not Obey
“The time is now near at hand which must probably determine, whether Americans are to be, Freemen, or Slaves; whether they are to have any property they can call their own; whether their Houses, and Farms, are to be pillaged and destroyed, and they consigned to a State of Wretchedness from [...]
August 28th, 2009 P
Circuit court cites ‘trauma’ to 4 sent to prison
By Jonathan Saltzman, Globe Staff | August 28, 2009
A federal appeals court upheld yesterday a landmark verdict for four men framed by the FBI in a gangland slaying, although the appellate judges said the $101.7 million damage judgment awarded by a lower court was “at [...]
