The United States Justice Department indicted 22 businessmen, including four Israelis, on Tuesday in an arms sting. [ neat … … like in ‘Lord Of War’ ] [youtube]1KGu0FMDJfk[/youtube] The businessmen are suspected of attempting to bribe a person they thought was the defense minister of an African country in order […]
[ … for some reason … ] Israel has stopped issuing work permits to foreign aid workers in the West Bank and East Jerusalem, sparking fears about the future of relief operations in the Palestinian territories. The Israeli Interior Ministry has issued only tourist visas to aid groups such as […]
For those of you who would think that this is a vicious attack on the obama administration. It is not. It is simply history. Time to wake up folks. None of our current government is good. Right or left. As we all have learned in our lifetimes, the old adage is […]
Stuart Littlewood highlights the BBC’s chronic pro-Israel bias, from allowing untruths about Israel’s onslaught on Gaza in 2008-09 to go unchallenged, to its failure to provide accurate context about the Israeli township of Sderot, to its routine willingness to give disproportionate airtime to Israeli spokesmen and lobbyists. ”[The BBC] gives […]
[ a photo of some very unhappy people from Iceland ] [ h / t : Christopher ] See nytimes on new US Supreme Court decision and permission allowing for corparate funding for elections here read in association with the downloadable DVD series..”Century of the Self ” here Watch The […]
In the Time honoured tradition of TIME magazine ( where they can tell you all about the war in detail, but not why it started or why we are even in Afghanistan ), here is a complete -nothing- story from TVNZ about our lads scratching religious glyphs into the side […]
January 19, 2010 Information Clearing House What is the greatest human achievement? Many would answer in terms of some architectural or engineering feat: The Great Pyramids, skyscrapers, a bridge span, or sending men to the moon. Others might say the subduing of some deadly disease or Einstein’s theory of relativity. […]
“The mercenaries and auxiliaries are useless and dangerous, and if anyone supports his state by the arms of mercenaries, he will never stand firm or sure, as they are disunited, ambitious, without discipline, faithless, bold amongst friends, cowardly amongst enemies, they have no fear of God, and keep no faith […]