Yet another scoop from Wikileaks, one of the most important websites in the world: WikiLeaks has released a classified US military video depicting the indiscriminate slaying of over a dozen people in the Iraqi suburb of New Baghdad — including two Reuters news staff. Reuters has been trying to obtain the video through the Freedom…
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Of course the Israeli occupation of Palestine brings anti-Western anger
Thomas Hegghammer in Foreign Policy reminds us that ignoring Palestine, or suggesting that leaving the conflict unresolved doesn’t bring hatred towards the West, is deluding themselves: In recent weeks, U.S. Gen. David Petraeus and others have made headlines by suggesting that the Israeli-Palestinian conflict increases anti-Americanism in the Muslim world. The Wall Street Journal’s Bret…
Yes, a US official sits and talks with Hamas (that’s news, apparently)
Al-Jazeera reports on a story that shows the rather pathetic fear that accompanies even meeting an Islamist organisation. Better watch out, you may catch the resistance bug: I could not believe my eyes this morning at the Al Jazeera Centre for Strategic Studies conference on Political Islam.… Perusing the programme I noticed a panel that…
What interest does America have by blindly backing Israel?
Foreign Policy’s Marc Perry argues: In early February of 2006, I submitted a book proposal about the wartime relationship between Generals George Marshall and Dwight Eisenhower to a group of New York publishers. I had worked on the proposal for nine months and believed it would garner significant interest. Two weeks after the submission, I…
Why is a Muslim man being locked up indefinitely in the US?
America, land of the incarcerated: Today in New York City, the U.S. is torturing a Muslim detainee with no prior criminal record who has not even gone to trial. For the last almost three years, Syed Fahad Hashmi has been kept in total pre-trial isolation inside in a small cell under 24 hour video and…
Listening to Jewish calls for Arab genocide
If true, why the hell is a US ambassador sitting through this? Arutz Sheva (‘Channel Seven’), an Israeli media network that runs Israel National News (INN), reported that on Dec. 30, 2009, a rabbinical “congress for peace” proposed to U.S. Ambassador to Israel James Cunningham genocidal ethnic cleansing of Palestinians as “the Biblical approach to…
A Palestinian state “around 2011”
Here’s the Palestinian “vision”, courtesy of Western funding and largess. Impossible to achieve? No. A provisional Palestinian “state” could be called today. The question is what it will look like, what happens to the Jewish settlers and how will Israel react. Right now, the thought of a viable Palestinian state seems close to impossible: Next…
How the US military kills civilians in Afghanistan
The recent complete comments by General Stanley McChrystal to American troops in Afghanistan. Imagine if, say, an Iranian general said this to his men. Sure, we kill countless innocents but they know it’s for their own good. The moral bankruptcy of the mission in Afghanistan: We really ask a lot of our young service people…
Jimmy Carter, stick to your guns
Why do political leaders (past or present) need the approval of the Zionist lobby? To be classed as sufficiently “Zionist”, “pro-Israel” and “friendly to Jews”? Or to attract the big bucks when running in elections? A prominent Jewish leader criticized former President Jimmy Carter on Monday, blasting Carter for saying in a speech this month…