FOR OUR FRIENDS WHO STILL DON’T GET IT How can a nation like the United States be duped into two wars and total bankruptcy?  It would be one thing if the “truth” about 9/11 was internet conspiracy theory.  This isn’t the case.  It was all right there in everyone’s living room.  They fooled us once and [...]

Greta Berlin for Free Gaza Team: Two years ago today, 44 people from 17 countries were on the Mediterranian heading toward Gaza. We were in two dilapidated fishing boats, the seas were rough, most of us were seasick, and all of us were worried that Israeli military warships would prevent us from getting into the [...]

Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate (www.peacepeople.com) Dear BBC Panorama Team I write to you regarding your programme of 16th August, 2010, about The Freedom Flotilla and particularly the killings of unarmed civilians by Israeli Navy Seals on the ship MV “Mavi Marmara’, on 3lst May, 2010. I have been campaigning for the rights of Palestinians [...]

By Medea Benjamin (opednews.com) With the withdrawal of U.S. combat troops from Iraq, the administration, the military and the media are trying to put a positive spin on this grim chapter of U.S. history. It would certainly give some comfort to the grieving families of the over 4,400 soldiers killed in Iraq if their sacrifices [...]

“Antiwar.com” — Jeffrey Goldberg’s current cover story in The Atlantic, “The Point of No Return,” achieved massive distribution across a broad spectrum of old and new media in the United States. Some observers – including Glenn Greenwald in “How Propagandists Function” – noted how well the methodology and message of Goldberg’s piece serves the Israeli [...]

By Bob Nichols – Veterans Today (San Francisco) Many people are asking if Iran can build a nuclear weapon. The answer is No, they cannot. Iran does not have the tools or material to do so. Some 40 countries would probably like to build a reactor, though,  according to the IAEA, the International Atomic Energy [...]

By James Petras Dilma Rousseff – Brazil Hugo Chavez – Venezuela Introduction Two elections in Latin America this fall will have decisive importance in the direction of economic and foreign policy for the coming decade. Venezuelan legislative elections on September 26 will determine whether President Chavez can secure the two-thirds majority needed to proceed with [...]

WHISTLEBLOWER OR  “KAPO QUEEN,” AMERICAN CENSORSHIP IN HIGH GEAR “I am in favor of the Zionist state.  I would gladly kill Arabs, even slaughter them.  I can’t allow Arab lovers to ruin the perfect life I lead.”….Eden Abergil A “Kapo” was a Jew who served the Nazis, sometimes as administrators, but more often as thuggish [...]