Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office said in a statement, “Israel deeply appreciates the decision by President Obama to veto the Security Council Resolution” By James M. Wall / Wall Writings The US has cast its first Obama UN veto, rejecting a Security Council resolution which would have condemned Israeli settlements in the Palestinian territories “as [...]

Let’s admit it, the country has been stolen. William A. Cook / My Catbird Seat We thought we had used the democratic process to rid our country of George W. Bush by the peaceful election of a man who told Americans he would right the wrongs of that Zionist Cabal. Instead we have a houseboy [...]

The United States Stands Alone with Israel in the UN Security Council By Richard Falk In what appears to be as close to a consensus as the world community can ever hope to achieve, the United States reluctantly stood its ground on behalf of Israel and on February 18, 2011 vetoed a resolution on the [...]

BREAKING SURPRISE NEWS: By Mohamed Khodr — My Catbird Seat The United States Vetoes a Palestinian Draft Resolution calling Israeli Settlements “Illegal” in the U.N. Security Council.   The Vote was 14 – 1. This is Obama’s first veto, a veto that gives Israel the impunity to further steal Palestinian land for its terroristic settlers. This [...]

Mark Bruzonsky, a Jewish, American Scholar and Journalist, has been a key member behind the scenes of the Israeli Palestinian peace initiative in the 1980s, meeting with Former Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and with Palestinian officials. Interview with Scholar and Journalist, Mark Bruzonsky In this exclusive interview with Press TV’s Autograph, Mr. Bruzonsky talks about [...]

UPDATE II : My interview with Jeff Stein about his reporting is now posted; to hear it, click PLAY on the recorder By Glenn Greenwald / Salon.com Other obligations prevent me from writing until later today — and I intend to focus on Rahm Emanuel’s war-crimes-protecting proclamation that Obama’s desire for immunity extends beyond CIA officers perpetrating torture to [...]

Washington blocks resolution condemning Israeli buildings on Palestinian land as “illegal” and calling for quick halt. US ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice told council members that the veto “should not be misunderstood to mean we support settlement activity.” All 14 other Security Council members voted in favour of the resolution. British Ambassador Mark [...]

This uprising in Egypt has exposed the fallacy of a lot of arguments and political convictions and at the same time revealed new surprising findings. By Dr. Ashraf Ezzat As I was driving my car along the famed corniche of the historic city of Alexandria to join the march calling for Mubarak to step down [...]