Eastern Europe and the Habit of Servitude

An “open letter” from the ghosts of the cold war begs for an appropriate response by Justin Raimondo, July 24, 2009, source With the end of the cold war, and the implosion of the Soviet empire, one would have thought the entanglements engendered by half a century of US-Russian hostility would have ended. One would, [...]

US: Kidney Scandal Exposed Amid Corruption Sting

I’m not putting this just because that it happened in the US and like the rest of the world it is plagued with corruption but I wish this could happen in my country where most politicians and some religious figures would end up in jail but the funny or rather sad part is our corrupted politicians [...]

‘Swine flu virus began life in lab’-video

by Wayne Madsen, source

The Reality of “Israel’s” “Open Jerusalem”: Ghettoes, demolitions and housing shortages

by Jonathan Cook, source Jerusalem. No one would have been more surprised than Fawziya Khurd by the recent pronouncement of Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, that Israel operates an “open city” policy in Jerusalem. Mr Netanyahu told his cabinet on Sunday that Israel’s annexation of East Jerusalem following the 1967 war — what he [...]

Selling the fake economic peace: Celebrating absurdity in Nablus

by Sousan Hammad writing from Nablus, occupied West Bank, Live from Palestine, 22 July 2009, source It was a portentous day in the occupied West Bank city of Nablus. Over 100,000 Palestinians from Haifa, Jerusalem, Jenin and more gathered in the city on Saturday to celebrate the making of a Guinness World Record: the largest [...]

No Arabism with “Lebanon First” and no Lebanon with a Surrendering Arabism

by Samir Sabbagh, Palestinian think tank Does the idea of “Lebanon first” mean distancing from Arabism? Isn’t it for up leveling sovereignty and independence? Is it innocent from the accusation of seclusion? Isn’t it distancing itself from the Arab neighborhood to concentrate on internal matters as per the demands of the “international will” … Or [...]

The Broken Dreams of Wada Cortas: Memoirs of a Lost Arab World

“War has crowded the memories of my youth and old age and every stage in between.” This disturbing sentence is true now for all Arabs as it was many decades ago during the life of Wada Cortas. A simple sentence simplifies the life of tens of millions of people all stuck in the whirlwind that [...]

“Israel” and the Nutbar Factor: Have “Israel” and its supporters gone over the edge?

by Justin Raimondo, July 22, 2009, source As Israel defies the U.S. on settlement policies and its continuing mistreatment of the Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza, a recent poll shows the American public is undergoing a significant shift in its historically pro-Israel views: “According to the survey of 800 registered voters, which was [...]

Rampaging Settlers Shatter Fragile Calm

By Mel Frykberg RAMALLAH, Jul 22 (IPS) – The northern Palestinian West Bank is turning into a flashpoint as Israeli settlers continue to attack Palestinian civilians and their property as part of a “price tag” policy. On Tuesday Walid Assaf, a Palestinian Legislative Council member, was injured after Israeli settlers near the northern West Bank [...]

Bedouin school under threat from “Israel”-video

by Al Jazeera

Team Twitter: “Israel’s” Internet War

By JONATHAN COOK, counter punch in Nazareth. The passionate support for Israel expressed on talkback sections of websites, internet chat forums, blogs, Twitters and Facebook may not be all that it seems. Israel’s foreign ministry is reported to be establishing a special undercover team of paid workers whose job it will be to surf the [...]

The July War Series, Part I – The US Involvement in the Israeli Aggression

By Yusuf Fernandez, July 19, 2009, source One of the main losers of the 2006 July War was the United States and particularly the Bush Administration. The Bush government´s policies were framed by the pro-Israeli lobby and particularly the neocon gang -a group of extremist pro-Israeli individuals working in and out of the Administration. Neocons [...]

Why is South Africa still helping apartheid “Israel”?

by Sayed Dhansay, The Electronic Intifada, 21 July 2009 A few weeks ago I departed from South Africa for the Gaza Strip in order to take up a short-term voluntary post with a humanitarian organization there. As the Rafah border crossing with Egypt is effectively the only passage in and out of the besieged territory, [...]

Hillary Clinton moves State Department to the right of Condoleezza Rice

By Wayne Madsen, Online Journal Contributing Writer, Jul 21, 2009 – Although the State Department under Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice was a hotbed of neoconservative intrigue and secret operations, not one progressive democratically-elected Latin American leader was ousted by a U.S.-inspired military coup, although there were a number of abortive attempts. However, that situation [...]

Settlers Grow and Advance

By Mel Frykberg RAMALLAH, Jul 20 (IPS) – A little village nestled in a valley between several hills in the Bethlehem governorate is today fighting for survival. All around Wadi Fuqin village on the outskirts of Bethlehem in the southern West Bank is the expanding and illegal Israeli settlement Beitar Illit, home to 35,000 settlers. [...]