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How The World Changed After 9/11

[ ... for those of us wishing to enter a 'post' post 911 world ]
We invite you to join us as we host 8 panel discussions over 2 days
which will explore the important changes in our world since the attacks of 9/11

and the ever increasing need to understand its relevance.
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“Can We All Please Stop Using The Phrase ‘Conspiracy Theory’ Now?”

The label “conspiracy theory”
is commonly used to try to discredit criticism of the powerful in government or business.

[ .. or both ]

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The United States Of Anger

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Israel Jets, Drone Enter Lebanon Airspace

Four Israeli warplanes and one spy drone have illegally flown over Lebanon’s airspace in the third day of provocative violations of the country’s sovereignty.
On Friday, the Israeli aircraft entered the southern border town of Naqoura, the Lebanese Army said in a statement.
The statement added that the aircraft flew over several areas before heading [...]

Demolishing Anti-Iran Propaganda

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Pakistan Floods ~ Disaster Of Epic Proportions Raises The Spectre Of Systemic Collapse

3.5 millon children at risk , economy and exports to contract as losses could exceed $10bn
Pakistan seeks restructuring of $10bn IMF loan as the United Nations urges help and raises $500 million

Given the initial reports about crop and other losses,
it now appears that Pakistan’s economy may contract in the next twelve months
and total [...]

McCARTHYISM REARING ITS UGLY FACE AGAIN AT ISRAELI UNIVERSITY

The same group that tried to destroy the NIF and lynch Naomi Chazan a few months ago

has found a new target…. this time it’s Ben Gurion University.

In their own words …

“Our aim isn’t to harm the university

and we are not against academic freedom.

We simply believe that the views should be balanced. [...]

A Case Of Decency Deficit In Israeli Society

Former Israeli Soldier Eden Abargil seems to have decency deficit problems.
If nothing else she cannot see that there is in fact violence in her photos.

The Palestinian men whom she is so gleefully guarding have obviously suffered violence simply by being bound and blindfolded for resisting illegal occupation.
So, is Eden Abargil’s [...]

“Let Them Eat Sand. “

The Israeli War Machine may not understand mortality,

but cluster bombs and white phosphorous cost real money
and even Uncle Sam can’t endlessly foot the bill.
So what’s a humanitarian to do?
Simple solution
and it will work.
Video:
http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/918.html
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US Announces Second Fake End To Iraq War

It was another of those great TV moments.

Embedded reports filming as the “last” brigade of American troops in Iraq cross the border into Kuwait bringing over seven years of unhappy conflict to its final, conclusive end.
America was, at last, at peace.
But like so many other great TV moments,
this one was a scripted fantasy,
a fake exit [...]

BBC Distortions

Kenneth O’Keefe, who witnessed the Israeli assault
on the Gaza-bound Turkish aid ship,
the Mavi Marmara,
highlights the prejudices, distortions and lies of the BBC,

whose Panorama programme on 15 August propagated the Israeli line regarding the assault on the aid ship
and the murder of nine peace activists, hook, line and sinker.
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NAZI’S vs The ISRAELI’S

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Israeli Tanks Roll Into Gaza Strip

Palestinians have repelled an Israeli attack in which several tanks crossed into southern parts of the Gaza Strip and an Israeli soldier pierced through the bordering security fence.
According to Hamas security officials, six Israeli tanks crossed into the area and one of them fired shells at a house near the town [...]

An Israeli Perspective ~ Troubled Water

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Polish NATO Troops Blow Up Afghan Home For Fun

Polish soldiers blew the vacated Afghan cottage up
It is a three-minute film. At first one can see left Afghan buildings, then moment of dropping one of cottages off and Polish soldiers. Also their commentaries are heard.
Blowing the civilian building up is breaking international conventions, among others Geneva.
A ban on attacking civilian buildings is [...]

Russia Deploys S-300 Systems In Abkhazia

[Russia knows what is coming.
Before Israel can start a war in Iran,
the land supply routes through the Caucasus mountains must be closed down by a war,
which is what Georgia is about to start with Russia.

h / t : wrh ]
The deployment of S-300 air defense systems in Georgia’s [...]

Israel Threatens To Pull Out Of UN Gaza Probe

Israel threatened on Tuesday to pull out of a UN probe into its deadly flotilla raid to keep the panel from grilling its troops,
as the defence minister told another inquiry the fleet was a “planned provocation.”

The May 31 raid, in which Israeli commandos killed nine pro-Palestinian Turkish activists,
sparked international outrage
and led [...]

They Can’t Deny It Anymore

Working with a brave team in Afghanistan headed by Anita,
Brave New Foundation’s Rethink Afghanistan project sent an intrepid local blogger into Sangin District of Helmand Province
-one of the most dangerous areas of the country.
He brought back extraordinary first-person accounts from survivors of the Sangin catastrophe.
Thanks to his work, there’s no doubt anymore:
as many as 52 [...]

House Slave Syndrome

A recent article declares, “Tired of war, thousands of Iraqis want to go to U.S.”
What it fails to mention is who triggered all the bloodshed.
Who made conditions in Iraq so intolerable that these people must flee?
You know who.
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Can You Pass The Terrorism Quiz ?

Misconceptions about terrorism, regularly promoted by the mainstream media,
have facilitated harmful US government actions—two wars, domestic legislation that curtailed civil liberties, excessive national security spending.
That basic, factual information about terrorism is so rarely reported thus serves to reinforce the power of those who benefit from a fearful population.
It should be banal [...]

Palestinian Youth Shoot Back ~ With Camcorders

Every Friday, the slingshot-wielding boys, or shabab, of the West Bank village of Ni’lin hold a demonstration at Israel’s separation wall, which has deprived the village of 750 acres of farmland.
But among the shabab are other youngsters with a different weapon — video cameras.

“The films we are [...]

Israel To Drag U.S. Into War Against Iran

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George Galloway vs The US Senate

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Antony Loewenstein ~ Isolating Iran Is Part Of The ‘Great Energy Game’

Antony Loewenstein’s articles on Iran, Israel and Middle East current affairs have appeared on the Guardian, Washington Post,
Sydney Morning Herald & The Australian.
The Middle East is witness to continuous developments these days,

such as Iran’s active diplomacy to attract the indispensable 118-member bloc of non-aligned countries to support [...]

Palestine ~ The Third Option

The other day, I came across two interesting articles.
One written by an American Jew and the other by an Israeli-born Jew.
Roger Tucker, an American and founder of One Democratic State, had featured this blog once and Israeli-born Brit Gilad Atzmon who has been quoted several times on this blog.
Both writers dismiss the western ‘option’ [...]

JOHN PILGER ~ Tony Blair Must Be Prosecuted

Tony Blair must be prosecuted, not indulged like his mentor Peter Mandelson.
Both have produced self-serving memoirs for which they have been paid fortunes.

In his latest column for the New Statesman, John Pilger writes about the “paramount war crime” defined by the Nuremberg judges in 1946 and [...]

GORDON DUFF ~ NEW “AL QAEDA” LEADER MAY BE ISRAELI

PHONY TERRORIST LEADER BEING “BRANDED” BY ASSOCIATED PRESS, THE “VOICE OF ISRAEL”

Adnan Shukrijumah, 35 formerly of Brooklyn, New York and Miami Beach is more likely to carry the real name Levine or Goldstein.
The “legend,” intelligence jargon for a false background constructed for an imaginary person,
created for Shukrijumah is paper thin.
An FBI Agent [...]

Watching Men Lie

Philip Zelikow,
CFR Member
Former Executive Director of the 9/11 Commission Report.
Aspen Strategy Group, Aspen, Colorado
White Burkett Professor of History, Univ. of Virginia
Director Mills Center Public Affairs, Univ. of Virginia
Co-Director Harvard Intel-Public Policy, Harvard Univ, 1991
Associate Professor of Public Policy, Harvard Univ. 1991
George H.W. Bush, National Security Council (NSC), 1989
Adjunct Professor, Navy Grad. School, Monterey California
Ph.D. Law [...]

Gallipoli ~ The End

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The Political Class In Crisis

Across the world the formulaic system designed to free banking programmes from state control is in crisis.
Everywhere the political class are despised and distrusted.
Everywhere the myth of government as representational
is exposed.

The majority of citizens in the ‘democracies’ are against the Afghan war
yet each country in the pretended ‘coalition’ finds its government backing what it insists [...]

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