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!
I [...]

Patriotism put on trial

LAST WEEK in Washington, right-wingers rallied to a demand by Iowa Republican Senator Chuck Grassley for the names of Justice Department attorneys who used to be with law firms representing Guantanamo detainees. Elizabeth Cheney’s Keep America Safe group released on YouTube a video denouncing the “Department of Jihad.’’ Breathless announcers at Fox TV began publishing the names.

Teabaggers Are Stupid White People – Video

ShareUpdate: Bob Cesca at Huffington Post:  ”No matter how loud and obnoxious they might become, the urgency is to make sure the tea party isn’t taken any more seriously than its backwards and contradictory positions on the issues, its phony Astroturfing, and its Southern Strategy politics. This is essentially a corporate-driven assembly of angry white [...]

Calling All Rebels

There are no constraints left to halt America’s slide into a totalitarian capitalism. Electoral politics are a sham. The media have been debased and defanged by corporate owners. The working class has been impoverished and is now being plunged into profound despair. The legal system has been corrupted to serve corporate interests. Popular institutions, from labor unions to political parties, have been destroyed or emasculated by corporate power.

Alice, Gimme a Cup a’ Joe, Hold the Roscoe

Half the citizens I encounter while making my daily rounds in life may be armed, ‘packing heat’ ‘carrying a piece,’ a rod or a roscoe in their skivvies and I wouldn’t know it. Out of sight, out of mind I suppose, but as soon as those weapons are in plain sight I admit to getting a little nervous.

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ShareHOLOCAUST DENIAL, ISRAEL GONE MAD AND THE FAILURES OF ISLAM
MAKING A PERFECT WORLD WITH IMPERFECT PEOPLE
By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor
I didn’t do it, Jeff Gates didn’ t do it and, when you check, most Muslims aren’t the ones doing it.  The three terms, Israel, Zionism and Jews are “out there” every day.  Few know [...]

Justices to hear case over protests at military funerals

A small Kansas church that has gained nationwide attention for protesting loudly at funerals of U.S. service members will receive a Supreme Court hearing over free speech rights.

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