By Gus Bridi  (Sabbah Report) “There should be no mosque near Ground Zero in New York so long as there are no churches or synagogues in Saudi Arabia. The time for double standards that allow Islamists to behave aggressively toward us while they demand our weakness and submission is over.”- Newt Gingrich Has Lebanon officially [...]

Antiwar.com http://antiwar.com/radio/2010/08/26/p… By Philip Giraldi – Israeli government claims that it does not spy on the United States are intended for the media and popular consumption. The reality is that Israel’s intelligence agencies target the United States intensively, particularly in pursuit of military and dual-use civilian technology. Among nations considered to be friendly to Washington, [...]

By Linda S. Heard  (Gulfnews) – Germany’s treatment of suspected Mossad assassin Uri Brodsky makes a mockery of justice and rule of law Imagine that you could fraudulently obtain a German travel document to be used by assassins, utilising the name and personal details of a still-living individual to do so, and even if you [...]

By Alan Hart — My Catbird Seat Short answer. Iran’s President Ahmadinejad did NOT call for Israeli Jews to be annihilated. Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, the spiritual leader of Israel’s Shas party, HAS called, more than once, for the Palestinians (and, in fact, all Arabs) to be exterminated. As reported by the mainstream Western media, Ahmadinejad [...]

This superlative op-ed, which I read at http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/29/opinion/29abunimah.html, provides ample evidence to justify my great respect for Ali Abunimah. He’s fearless, uncompromising, articulate, knowledgeable in both historical and current facts, and right:  right for our America, right for Palestine, and, yes, right even for Israel, if only it were capable of regaining its sanity and applying norms [...]

By “EyesWideOpen” a reader at Veterans Today – ANY PUBLICATION IS NO BETTER THAN ITS AUDIENCE GORDON DUFF: 9/11 PLANNERS CONFESS ON NETWORK TELEVISION … It’s refreshing to see there are so many people who “get it”– except maybe Steve. This was a great article and there are some really good comments here. I want [...]

By James Hohmann (politico.com) Glenn Beck calls for national revival Forty-seven years after Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his “I Have a Dream Speech,” Fox News host Glenn Beck stood Saturday close to the spot at the Lincoln Memorial where the civil rights leader called for racial equality, urging the nation to return to “faith, [...]

By Mike Whitney ( Information Clearing House) – Robert Herz was forced to resign from his job as chairman of the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) because he insisted that the banks assign a fair value to their assets. That’s not what you’ll read in the papers, but it’s true just the same. Herz was [...]