Extracts of A Witness in Palestine, written by Anna Baltzer. Anna Baltzer, a young Jewish American, went to the West Bank to discover the realities of daily life for Palestinians under the occupation. What she found would change her outlook on the conflict forever. Read the rest of this entry »
On October 14, 2008, James Bamford talked about some of the shocking research in his new book on Democracy Now!, with Amy Goodman Read the rest of this entry »
Middle-aged people who drink moderate amounts of coffee significantly reduce their risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease, a study by Finnish and Swedish researchers showed Thursday. Read the rest of this entry »
Middle-aged people who drink moderate amounts of coffee significantly reduce their risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease, a study by Finnish and Swedish researchers showed Thursday. Read the rest of this entry »
Rep. Charles Rangel (D-N.Y.) has said that he will most likely reintroduce legislation to reinstate the universal military draft this year.
Asked if he plans to introduce the legislation again in 2009, Rangel last week said, “Probably … yes. I don’t want to do anything this early to distract from the issue of the economic stimulus.” according to an article featured in The Hill yesterday.
LONDON – A veteran British Jewish lawmaker compared the Israeli offensive in Gaza Thursday to the Nazis who forced his family to flee from Poland. Read the rest of this entry »
Ninety organizations, mainly French, decided to prosecute Israel at the International Court for committing War Crimes against the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip as the Israeli offensive left more than 1033 Palestinians dead, and over 4580 wounded in its first two weeks. Read the rest of this entry »
UN chief Ban Ki-moon led international protests on Thursday describing the Palestinian death toll as “unbearable” as Israeli air strikes set hospitals, media and UN buildings ablaze.
“I have conveyed my strong protest and outrage and demanded a full explanation from the defence minister and foreign minister,” Ban told reporters in Tel Aviv after the strike on a UN compound in Gaza. Read the rest of this entry »
As the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians has once again flared up following Israel’s ongoing air and ground assault on the Gaza Strip, the IMEU presents a comparison of Israeli and Palestinian military capabilities.Read the rest of this entry »
A senior Iranian commander says if Israel continues intercepting humanitarian aid for Gazans, Iran will adopt an alternative approach. Read the rest of this entry »
Israel deploys military units along the border with Lebanon amid growing concerns that the assault on Gaza was the onset of a multi-front war. Read the rest of this entry »
Nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political and moral questions of our time; the need for mankind to overcome oppression and violence without resorting to oppression and violence. Mankind must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression, and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love. Martin Luther King Jr., December 11, 1964 Let’s all take a moment to remember the life and legacy of this great man as well as his liberating teachings of freedom and equality of all.He was gunned down because of fear and ignorance and yet his words and legacy rose out of death to live forever. Quotes: “Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be. This is the interrelated structure of reality.” “Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.” “Returning violence for violence multiplies violence, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars… Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.” “An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.” -Peace to all beings-
1.5 million people, mostly kids, imprisoned without food, water or medicine being ruthlessly attacked by one of the largest armed forces in the world. The Gaza conflict started by Israel launching an airstrike on Gaza on Dec 27, 2008. It has also started firing rockets at itself from Lebanon to justify an invasion there. Read the rest of this entry »
President Bush Signs H.R. 660, H.R. 3690, S. 863, and H.R. 2640 :
H.R. 2640, the “NICS Improvement Amendments Act of 2007,” which requires accurate information on individuals prohibited from possessing firearms to be transmitted by State and local government and Federal agencies to the Justice Department-administered National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS); and provides incentives for facilitating electronic transmission of such information to NICS. Read the rest of this entry »
Wednesday, Motorola Inc. (MOT) stated that it would cut 4,000 more jobs in 2009 primarily in its mobile phone business and reported a preliminary fourth-quarter loss amid weaker-than-expected handset sales. Read the rest of this entry »
Debunkers and hit piece-obsessed establishment media titans were hoping that 9/11 truth had faded into the background as we accelerate further away from the attacks which took place over 7 years ago.
However, a scene from the second episode of the fifth season of Rescue Me, the wildly popular TV drama about New York City firefighters, reminds us that 9/11 remains at the forefront of American public consciousness.
Jerusalem, Jan 10, (RHC).- Evidence has emerged proving that Israel has been using controversial white phosphorus shells during its offensive in Gaza, despite official denials by Tel Aviv. There is also evidence that the rounds have injured Palestinian civilians, causing severe burns. The use of white phosphorus against civilians is prohibited under international law.
Jerusalem, Jan 10, (RHC).- Evidence has emerged proving that Israel has been using controversial white phosphorus shells during its offensive in Gaza, despite official denials by Tel Aviv. There is also evidence that the rounds have injured Palestinian civilians, causing severe burns. The use of white phosphorus against civilians is prohibited under international law.
AMMAN — The Israeli war on the Gaza Strip entered its 17th day Monday as the United Nations and other organizations took Israel to task for human rights violations and war crimes, which include experimenting with new weapons on the civilian population of Gaza. Read the rest of this entry »
If Illinois Democrat Bobby Rush has his way, gun owners in America will be required to submit to the federal government a photo, thumb print and mental heath records. Rush’s proposed bill H.R. 45, also known as “Blair Holt’s Firearm Licensing and Record of Sale Act of 2009,” will make it illegal to possess a “qualifying firearm,” specifically any firearm that takes an ammunition clip, without a license. Read the rest of this entry »
In his January 8 article, “Gaza Under Fire,” John Pilger quotes the Soviet dissident Yevgeny Yevtushenko saying: “When the truth is replaced by silence, the silence is a lie.” America’s dominant media suppress facts, sacrifice accuracy, and conceal the greater lie that: Read the rest of this entry »
TORONTO (Reuters) – Nortel Networks Corp, North America’s biggest telephone equipment maker, filed for bankruptcy on Wednesday, hoping to save a once high-flying business whose decade-long decline has accelerated with the global economic crisis. Read the rest of this entry »
Israeli forces battled Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip’s main city early Wednesday and bombed the enclave’s southern border with Egypt as the death toll from the war on Hamas neared 1,000. Read the rest of this entry »
Says “new American nationalism” needed for survival
A Washington Times columnist has claimed that a universal military draft is a key necessity if America is to survive throughout and beyond the 21st century. Read the rest of this entry »
Apart from the slaughter of 900 Palestinians and the vast destruction from 14 days of aerial bombardment, the Israeli invasion of Gaza has failed to achieve any of its strategic objectives. The Palestinian resistance is still intact, the rocket-fire has continued, and Hamas is stronger than ever. So, what has been gained? Read the rest of this entry »
Apart from the slaughter of 900 Palestinians and the vast destruction from 14 days of aerial bombardment, the Israeli invasion of Gaza has failed to achieve any of its strategic objectives. The Palestinian resistance is still intact, the rocket-fire has continued, and Hamas is stronger than ever. So, what has been gained? Read the rest of this entry »
Bethlehem – Ma’an – Right-wing Israeli politician Avigdor Lieberman proposed a “solution” to the war in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday saying, “Israel won’t be secure so long as Hamas is in power, and therefore we need to come to a decision that we will break the will of Hamas to keep fighting.” Read the rest of this entry »
A relatively new area of the brain’s cerebral cortex evolved to enable humans and other primates the necessary small motor skills to pick up small objects and deftly use tools, scientists now say. Read the rest of this entry »
Informed sources in Washington tell Newsmax that Israel indeed will launch a strike against Iran’s nuclear facilities soon – possibly in just days as President George W. Bush prepares to leave office. Read the rest of this entry »
Because it recognizes the importance of the propaganda war, Israel fights on this front as vigorously and disproportionately as it engages on the battlefield, notes James Zogby. Read the rest of this entry »
Because it recognizes the importance of the propaganda war, Israel fights on this front as vigorously and disproportionately as it engages on the battlefield, notes James Zogby. Read the rest of this entry »
Historically, some great powers have originated in the Middle East: The Persian Empire, the Islamic Caliphate and the Ottoman Empire. Following the collapse of the latter as a result of World War One, no great power indigenous to the Middle East has emerged, Read the rest of this entry »
The United States spends more than $52 billion a year maintaining, upgrading and operating its nuclear weapons arsenal each year, a little-heralded study revealed Monday.
Outside of the hefty price tag, equally significant is the way the money is spent. The US devoted just 1.3 percent — or $700 million — to preparing for the consequences of a nuclear attack. Read the rest of this entry »
Press TV ‘Fine Print’ broadcast just conveyed (via streaming video link at top of www.presstv.com) that Cheney wanted Israel to attack Hezbollah to have war with Syria and Iran and is furious that Israel didn’t follow through with such which would have been in accordance with the rest of the ‘A Clean Break’ agenda (access the ‘A Clean Break’ link on the upper right side of http://NEOCONZIONISTTHREAT.COM). Press TV’s ‘Fine Print’ broadcast also conveyed that Israelis studied Nazi Warsaw Ghetto war crime tactics for Gaza attack! Read the rest of this entry »
On January 9th the U.S. Congress passed House Resolution 34 in support of the Zionist Terrorist Massacre in Gaza, a loss of life for Palestine proportionate to one thousand 9-11 attacks on America!
All you have to do is the look at the resolution recently passed by the House of Representatives (HRES 34 EH) with only 5 dissenting votes, to know who rules America. It condemns Hamas and the people of Gaza as terrorists but has no mention of the decades long Israeli occupation and strangulation of the West Bank and Gaza, or the bloody terrorism of tens of thousands of Palestinian men, women and children who have been killed, maimed, tortured or made homeless by years of Israel’s terrorism. Read the rest of this entry »
Israeli infantry units battled with Hamas fighters across Gaza on Monday as Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said he hoped Egyptian peace efforts could bring about a swift end to the war.
At least 19 people were reported killed in Monday’s clashes, medics said, pushing the overall toll past the 900 mark in a 17-day-old conflict which has also wounded nearly 4,000 people. Read the rest of this entry »
The aerial war against Gaza launched by Israel just after Christmas, and the ground offensive, with which it rang in the New Year, were shocking in their brutality, but should constitute no surprise, if viewed from the standpoint of long-term Israeli strategic aims. The Israelis have argued that the offensive was launched in response to eight years’ of relentless attacks by Hamas rockets into Israel. But then, one asks: why now? Why should they wait eight years? Read the rest of this entry »
