A Thief is a Thief – Even When They Work for the Government

I write a political column for several publications across the country. I’m also a staff writer for Veterans Today, a publication that will be particularly interested in this case, because not only does government corruption and the assault on the middle class have a negative impact on returning veterans, but Ms. Snow’s only son is a Master Sergeant in the United States Air Force. Thus, while he’s off defending this nation, his very own government is both robbing and abusing his single mother who he’s left behind at home.

Undercover police in Jerusalem protests

Riots took place all over East Jerusalem this week in protest of settlers threatening to force their way into the Al Aqsa Mosque. As a result, Israeli security forces shut down major areas of the Old City, including the mosque compound to Muslim men under 50.

Minorities Giving up Affirmative Action Have Right to a Level Playing Field

Minorities increasingly are going to have to push harder for their own advancement without affirmative action, says the cofounder of a law school purposefully dedicated to the education of minority, immigrant, and low-income students.

Upcoming Pakistan-US strategic dialogue in Washington

the US should reconcile with the hard reality that it messed up in starting a senseless war on terror to make the world safe. In case the US is seriously interested in peace in the region and safe and honourable exit from Afghanistan, it should get out of the spell of deadly Indo-Israeli nexus and stop listening to self serving advises given by the duo. It should listen to Pakistan rather than dictating terms. Pak Army and ISI should be given a free hand to plan and execute the final phase. The US will stand to gain by relying on Pakistan since unlike India it is not a fair weather friend

U.S. Peace Activists Stand with the Palestinian People!

ShareThe organizers of the 20 March Peace demonstrations in Washington, DC, Chicago, LA, and San Francisco, CA have vowed that U.S. Peace  demonstrations against the continued occupation of Iraq, and escalation of war in SW Asia will also stand with the Palestinian people against Israeli aggression.
Robert L. Hanafin, Major, U.S. Air Force-Retired, Veterans Today News

Foreign Policy Briefing 3/17/10

Israeli officials rejected demands by the Obama Administration to cancel a building project in East Jerusalem, the New York Times reports. Secretary of State Clinton said Washington expected action from Israel, and a key US demand is that Israel neither promote nor permit “provocative” acts, meaning anything that would disturb the atmosphere as Palestinians and Israelis prepare for indirect peace talks. That would include new building projects.

Israel’s Crackdown Confronts Liberals and Humanists

ShareAn unprecedented Israeli campaign to silence dissidents, intellectuals and human rights organizations is gaining momentum in the wake of Israel’s December 2008 assault against Gaza that caused intense international outrage at the rightwing government in Israel such that the country has consolidated its status as a militaristic, pariah state.
Chris Hedges, former foreign correspondent for the New York Times and senior fellow at the Nation Institute, has [...]

Anti-Semitism – What is it?

Several of us among the incurably curious asked ourselves a simple question: what is anti-Semitism? The fact that it must be written with a capital “S” says a lot.

Then we realized it also morphs. To that feature I can attest. In November 2002, I met a “John Doe” in London who proposed a research challenge. While meeting that challenge, I encountered various versions of anti-Semitism.

History Revised, Teachers Sacked: The Book Wars in Texas and Beyond

It’s been a brawl for years, this education culture war that seems to take on a particularly vicious turn in the heart of Texas. The latest and most important round, a drastic revision of the social studies curriculum standards to put a conservative spin on history and economics textbooks, was given preliminary approval after a series of heated meetings of the Texas Board of Education that didn’t do much to improve the image of the nation’s second largest state as a sometimes small-minded political and educational backwater.

20 March Peace Demonstrations still on Despite Pre-Protest Suppression of Dissent

ShareDespite serious assaults on free speech rights that have been intended to obstruct mobilization for the 20 March Peace demonstrations in Washington, D.C., Chicago, and in LA and San Francisco, leaders of labor organizations, Unions, the Muslim-American community, Veterans and Military Families of Peace continue to plan and organize their rallies.
Though I personally believe that [...]

Foreign Policy Briefing 3/13/10

Secretary of State Clinton warned Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu Friday that Israel had sent a “deeply negative signal” about the U.S.-Israeli relationship and urged him to take immediate steps to demonstrate it was interested in renewing efforts at a Middle East peace agreement, the Washington Post reports. Her call, made in the wake of the embarrassment suffered by Vice President Biden when Israel announced it would build 1,600 housing units in a disputed area of Jerusalem, was an unusually tough message for the longtime U.S. ally, the Post says.

Editor’s Picks: News and Opinion Around the Web

David Cole takes on Liz Cheney and her Daddy Warbucks at Salon. Andy Kroll at Tomgram welcomes us the Ponzi Nation we have become. Glen Beck is still listening to the Beatles backwards and finding dark and treasonous portends in pop music and probably in his breakfast cereal at Media Matters and Jim Hightower says “chicken feathers” to the idea of Georgia’s new state bird… the chicken? Those stories and more in today’s picks.

Why Don’t Honest Journalists Take On Roger Ailes & Fox News?

One question has tugged at my professional conscience throughout the year-long congressional debate over health-care reform, and it has nothing to do with the public option, portability or medical malpractice. It is this: Why haven’t America’s old-school news organizations blown the whistle on Roger Ailes, chief of Fox News, for using the network to conduct a propaganda campaign against the Obama administration — a campaign without precedent in our modern political history?

Is there a Method to Liz Cheney’s Madness?

The Cheneys are engaged in a preemptive strike against the Obama administration in general, and the Justice Department in particular, in order to stir up public opinion against the prospect that the Obama administration will finally decides to prosecute Dick Cheney for war crimes – as the rule of law demands. They’re busily laying the groundwork to incite insurrection across this country to counter the application of the rule of law.

Desmond Tutu Hits Discrimination of Gays as Human Rights Violation

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Famed anti-apartheid activist and Nobel Peace Prize recipient, Desmond Tutu, blasts the anti-gay hatred sweeping the continent of Africa. Writes Tutu in the Washington Post: “The wave of hate must stop. Politicians who profit from exploiting this hate, from fanning it, must not be tempted by this easy way to profit from fear and misunderstanding. And my [...]

Foreign Policy Briefing 3/12/10

An open diplomatic row with Israel during the visit of Vice President Biden has shined a spotlight on the U.S. failure to rein in Israeli settlement ambitions and deepened Palestinian suspicions the US is too weak to broker a deal, AP reports. The Palestinians largely lost faith in the U.S. as a broker after Obama tried – and failed – to get the Netanyahu government to stop building on lands Palestinians claim for a future state, AP says.

Rachel Corrie’s Family Puts Israel on Trial Seven Years after Murder

ShareThis story is all over the British and Israeli press, but not much in the America, other than the usual suspects: Human rights, peace, justice, civil liberties outlets, and those other anti-American types who don’t understand that war is good, ignorance is strength, chickenhawks are courageous, and brutally murdering a 23-year-old American peace activist with a bulldozer is heroic. [...]

Israel Steals More Land, Sandbags Biden

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From Juan Cole:
Israel Humiliates Biden, Announces Further Colonization on Eve of US-Brokered Talks
The far rightwing government of Binyamin Netanyahu in Israel majorly sandbagged Vice President Joe Biden on Tuesday, demonstrating once again that it has not the slightest interest in pursuing a just peace with the Palestinian people or in [...]

GORDON DUFF: CRYBABY “SIR” BERNIE KERIK, 9/11 AND AMERICA’S CONTROLLED PRESS

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THE MYTH OF POOR BERNIE KERIK AND THE 9/11 COVER-UP
By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor
One of the strangest things seen in America in recent days was the press coverage of the sentencing of Bernie Kerik as a crooked cop.  Day in, day out, Fox News does little but talk up the heroics of Bernie Kerik [...]

Mitt Insults Marines, Outlines Foreign Policy for Fantasy World

ShareUpdate: See the Chickenhawk Hall of Shame:  “Let you and him go fight; I’ll hold your coat.” – Motto of the Chickenhawk
From Joe Lieberman to Sarah Palin to Mitt Romney, chickenhawks love to talk tough about using military force because it makes them look tough, a political asset. The problems are obvious.
From Ed Kilgore:
Semper Fi, Mitt!
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