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Monthly Archives: April 2009

World Bank finds Israel’s water policy hard to swallow-Netanyahu’s Palestinian economic independence is another Israeli lie

by Stephen Glain, the national April 28. 2009 As a former, and by many accounts successful, finance minister, Benjamin Netanyahu presumably knows his way around economics. So when the Israeli prime minister says he will work to provide the Palestinians with economic, if not political, independence, might that not suggest his hard-line government understands that [...]

Israeli settlement homes sold to foreign buyers, another example of their “peace” policies-video

By Jacky Rowland, aljazeera

Flying Pigs, Tamiflu and Factory Farms

by F. William Engdahl Global Research, April 29, 2009 If we are to believe what our trusted international media report, the world is on the brink of a global pandemic outbreak of a new deadly strain of flu, H1N1 as it has been labelled, or more popularly, Swine Flu. As the story goes, the outbreak [...]

Durban II: Alethophobic Boogaloo

By Nima Shirazi, Palestinian think tank “There is nothing to fear except the persistent refusal to find out the truth, the persistent refusal to analyze the causes of happenings.”- Dorothy Thompson Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s opening speech at the 2009 United Nations World Conference Against Racism, dubbed Durban II, addressed numerous inconvenient and uncomfortable truths [...]

Physicians offer chilling account of Gaza atrocities

By Marc Abizeid, Special to The Daily Star, source April 28, 2009 BEIRUT: Renowned Chinese-English physician Dr. Swee Ang gave a moving testimony on Saturday of Israel’s destruction in the Gaza Strip as witnessed in her recent trip to the tiny Palestinian enclave. “Cluster bombs, deliberate assassinations of whole families that they would line up [...]

Israeli soldiers attacked a Palestinian home, women died-video

Patients dying in Gaza because of closed borders and settler attacks on Palestinians

  Settlers take over land, destroy crops near Hebron Tuesday April 28, by Ghassan Bannoura – IMEMC & Agencies Israeli settlers destroyed Palestinian farmers’ crops and took over land that belongs to farmers near the southern West Bank city of Hebron, while soldiers searched homes in the old city part on Tuesday. Famers from the [...]

Swine Flu “Cultured In A Laboratory”?

Well I don’t know if this is a regular outbreak or engineered in some way but I wanted to share these articles with you with some history of past events. Everyday they give us a scare as if people need any more of them. Medical Director: Swine Flu Was “Cultured In A Laboratory” by Paul [...]

Hillary Shatters Condi’s Beirut Record

Hillary shatters Condi’s Beirut Record but can she propel the US team to electoral Victory? by Franklin Lamb, source Beirut April 27, 2009 On June 17, 2008, then Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice set a remarkable American and World Record for the shortest visit to Lebanon ever recorded by a serving US Secretary of State. [...]

Change in US foreign policy?

Many articles have been written about Obama’s policy and if it is any different than Bush. I didn’t share many of these articles because I wanted to wait to see the exact path of the US foreign policy. Clinton just like her predecessor Rice likes to share “US insight” and plans. Remember “the birth of [...]

Israeli racism and crimes such as Israeli dogs attacking a 99 year old Palestinian

Palestinians in Hebron complain of racism By Clayton Swisher, Al Jazeera IDF dogs attack 99 year old Palestinian man About 50 Palestinians wounded in confrontations with IOF troops, settlers [ 25/04/2009] NABLUS, (PIC)– Jewish armed settlers backed by Israeli occupation forces fired at Palestinian citizens in Ourif town, south of Nablus, wounding 13 civilians amidst [...]

“Israel” believes in peace? – cartoons

US and “moderate” Arabs’ interference in Lebanese politics

Whenever I want to write a post about Lebanese politics I change my mind because I don’t know where to begin because of its complexity. I read articles by foreign reporters about Lebanon they try to over simply things and frankly don’t even scratch the surface. The only one I can think of that I [...]

Exploiting the poor and sick: “Israel” fishing for information in Gaza-video

by Ayman Mohyeldin, Aljazeera

Collaborating with the Israelis-cartoon

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