Richard Falk’s Report to the UNGA on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967 Summary The present report considers developments relevant to the obligations of Israel under international law, as well as the situation of people living in the Occupied Palestinian Territories. Emphasis is given to the cumulative impact of [...]

Road to Hope convoy stalled at Egyptian border By Ken O’Keefe — My Catbird Steat PRESS RELEASE The Road to Hope humanitarian aid convoy continues its role in the international community’s collective mission to break the illegal siege of Gaza and deliver desperately needed aid to the people of Palestine in Gaza.  The convoy comprises [...]

Franklin Lamb’s Saturday Mideast Report, BEIRUT Exclusive to  ( Al-ManarTV :: News ) – What were the Special International Tribunal for Lebanon (STL) investigators imagining as they walked into Dr. Iman Charara’s private obstetrics and gynecology clinic this week demanding personal information on her patients? Perhaps more interestingly, what was Jeffrey Feltman’s ‘Special STL Unit’ [...]

By Hussein Assi Hezbollah Secretary General Sayyed Hasan Nasrallah, called on Thursday for boycotting and ending cooperation with the international investigators affiliated with the international tribunal tasked with finding out the truth in the assassination of former Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri’s case. His eminence warned that cooperation with these investigators was the same as facilitating [...]

By Alan Hart — My Catbird Seat – It is true that in the eyes of many if not most peoples of the world (and probably many of their governments behind closed doors) Israel is increasingly being seen as a pariah state. But that’s a consequence of Israel’s policies and actions, war crimes and all. [...]

By William A. Cook – My Catbird Seat – “I keep reading between the lies” (Goodman Ace) Rupert Murdoch’s recent speech before the ADL (Anti-Defamation League) gathering at their gala dinner, opened with this flattering observation: “You have championed equal treatment for all races and creeds.” What he omitted from that statement is the ADL’s [...]

DOJ Withheld Pre-Sentencing Espionage Case Files Attorneys filed a petition asking President Barack Obama to commute Jonathan Pollard’s life sentence.  The petition argues that Pollard, a civilian U.S. Navy analyst who pled guilty to spying for Israel in 1986, received a sentence greater than “many others who were found guilty of similar activity on behalf of [...]

AMERICA’S ARMY, A TALE OF MISUSE AND ABUSE – “Yes, even without Wikileaks we always knew that such things were happening and now we know that altered versions of some of our reports and additional forgeries have been mixed in with documents meant to incriminate Iran.” For nearly a decade, America has been, in the eyes [...]