A new way to wage war and guess who is at the forefront? Warning of a “cyber arms race,” top web security firm McAfee says that China, France, Israel, Russia and the United States have developed cyber weapons. “McAfee began to warn of the global cyber arms race more than two years ago, but now…
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Settlement halt? Don’t make me laugh
Two abused children and one shows who’s boss: Israel has given the go ahead for the construction of 900 housing units in occupied… East Jerusalem, rebuffing a reported US request that it block construction at the Gilo settlement, officials have said.
Gideon Levy on Israel: we are in a coma
Gideon Levy, a fine Israeli journalist, speaks to the Real News Network: I know there is a change in the Jewish community in the United States, but it’s too little and too late…Israel, the Israeli society, is in a situation of coma for at least ten years.
Chomsky on our inability to see Middle East hypocrisy
Guernica: You cite a story in the New York Times where “the reviewer,” you write, “constitutional lawyer Noah Feldman, described Osama [bin Laden]’s descent to greater and greater evil over the years, finally reaching the absolute lower depths, when ”˜he put forth the perverse claim that since the United States is a democracy, all citizens…
America is rich yet so many of its people don’t eat
More than 49 million Americans – or one in seven – struggled to find enough to eat last year, according to a report from the US Department of Agriculture released Monday. That’s the highest total since the federal government began keeping track of food insecurity.
There is enough Sarah Palin love to go around
Sarah Palin, how much do we love you? I hope your new book, where you you express love for God and Ronald Reagan (I wonder which one has inspired more deaths), is out this week. God bless you.
Academics should not be too critical of Israel, demand Zionist enforcers
Jewish dissenters beware: Right-wing groups in Israel want to create a climate of fear among left-wing scholars at Israeli universities by emulating the “witch-hunt” tactics of the US academic monitoring group Campus Watch, Israeli professors warn. The watchdog groups IsraCampus and Israel Academia Monitor are believed to be stepping up their campaigns after the recent…
Without serious pressure, writes Roger Cohen, Israel will not change
New York Times columnist Roger Cohen has written extensively this year about the Israel/Palestine conflict, and his latest column continues that tradition. Its importance lies in telling Americans how content many Israelis are with the status-quo (namely occupation): I’ve grown so pessimistic about Israel-Palestine that I find myself agreeing with Israel’s hard-line foreign minister, Avigdor…
Britain’s Channel 4 looks into the reach of the Zionist lobby
Can you imagine a leading current affairs program in the US or Australia investigating the tentacles of the Zionist lobby? Hardly: Pro-Israeli organisations in Britain look set to see their influence increase if the Conservatives win the next election, a film scrutinising the activities of a powerful but little-known lobby warns today. At least half…
Blumenthal on Palin’s role as the radical Christian lady to beat
American writer and author Max Blumenthal – a unique voice in America who skewers the radical Right and religious fundamentalism as well as challenging Zionist apartheid in Palestine – writes here about Sarah Palin’s new book, “Going Rogue”: Sarah Palin’s heavily publicized book tour begins in earnest this Monday, but weeks before, her ghostwritten memoir,…