(RussiaToday) – The Western mainstream media falsifies the news resorting to euphemisms, half-truths and lies in the best (worst) style of George Orwell’s novel 1984. We all live in the unreal world of “Newspeak” used by the Global Power Elite to control our minds.
Man gets confused when things that happen around him and to him, or which are done in his name, cannot be properly grasped, understood or made sense of. Normally, such confusion leads to inaction. If you’re lost at night in the middle of a forest but you can still see the stars, then a bit of astronomical knowledge will at least quickly tell you which way is north. But if it’s cloudy or you’re ignorant of the constellations in starry heaven, then you might as well light up a fire and do nothing until dawn…. You’re Lost!
Today, mainstream media coverage uses programmed distortion, confusion, even outright lying when its Money Power masters order it to support the “official story” on any major political, economic or financial process. When looked at closely, however, the “official story” of things can be seen to be inaccurate, misleading, often hardly believable if not downright stupid.
Examples of this: Iraq’s inexistent WMD’s leading to the invasion and destruction of that country; global mega-banker bail-outs with taxpayer money; irrational US diplomatic, military, financial and ideological alignment to Israeli objectives; “we-killed-Osama-Bin-Laden-and-dumped-his-body-into-the-sea”; and the wide array of “whodunits” surrounding 9/11 in New York and Washington, 7/7 in London, the AMIA/Israeli Embassy attacks in Buenos Aires in 1992/1994, and – of course – that all time favorite: who shot JFK…?
These are but a few of the paradigmatic cases that have at least served to trigger millions of people to wake up and think with their own minds instead of the mainstream media’s! But unfortunately the vast majority of such cases are not so clear-cut. The vast majority of Newspeak lies are like knots, difficult to untie as they carry built-in complexity resembling Gordian Knots. And, as with all Gordian Knots, you need to cut right through them, and this requires swift and precise action plus a good measure of intellectual courage.
To give an example of what we say, let’s take a quick look at how a “Newspeak” operation works. It requires sequential planning, it requires time, it requires proper logistics, it requires “credible” spokespeople in public and private sectors, it requires choosing the right words and images at the right time and in the right circumstances.
So, let’s say the Global Power Elite – working through the governments of the US, UK, EU into which they are deeply embedded, and joint-venturing with a wide array of media outlets, defense companies, oil companies, security and construction companies, and powerful lobbies – decide that they wish to overrun and destroy a specific country… Libya, for example…
How do they ensure that “the international community” will just quietly look on (except for the still relatively small minority of voices that are increasingly raising hell against them)?
The Seven Step Mainstream Media Country Destruction Guide
1. First, they start by targeting a country ripe for “Regime Change”, and brand it a “rogue state”; then…
2. They arm, train, finance local terrorist groups through CIA, MI6, Mossad, Al-Qaeda (a CIA operation), drug cartels (often CIA operations) and call them “freedom fighters”; then…
3. As mock UN Security Council Resolutions are staged that rain death and destruction upon millions of civilians, they call it “UN sanctions to protect civilians”; then…
4. They spread flagrant lies through their “newsrooms” and paid journalists, and call it “the international community’s concerns expressed by prestigious spokespeople and analysts…” then…
5. They bomb, invade and begin to control the target country and call it “liberation”; then…
6. As the target country falls fully under their control, they impose “the kind of democracy that we want to see” (as Hillary Clinton before visiting Egypt and Tunisia on March 10, 2011), until finally…
7. They steal appetizing oil, mineral and agricultural reserves handing them over to Global Power Elite corporations, and impose unnecessary private banking debt and call it “foreign investment and reconstruction.”
Their keynotes are: Force and Hypocrisy, which they have used time and again to destroy entire countries, always in the name of “freedom”, “democracy”, “peace” and “human rights”. Utmost force and violence is used to achieve their ends and goals.
Their Elders recommended this many decades ago in a blueprint for World Domination written on a hoary manuscript of old…
“What did you say…? That you don’t want to be ‘liberated’ and ‘democratized’?!?”
“Then, take this Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Hanoi, Berlin, Dresden, Baghdad, and Basra!! Take that Tokyo, Gaza, Lebanon, Kabul, Pakistan, Tripoli, Belgrade, Egypt, El Salvador and Grenada!! And take that, Panama, Argentina, Chile, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Somalia, Africa!!”
Always bombing people to smithereens… Always, of course, in the name of “freedom”, “democracy”, “peace” and “human rights”
2 million people in Tripoli, many of whom are Gaddafi supporters. NATO brings boat loads of rebels knowing full well a bloodbath was the only possible outcome.
Think about it. Gaddafi is gone from Tripoli. The “liberators” allegedly control Tripoli. Why is the conflict not over? Why are civilians dying, being tortured, being forced to lie in front of cameras? This should be a time for celebration if these rebels were true liberators.
Nothing on NATO news about the majority of the population of Tripoli being terrorized by terrorists. They refer to civilians as “Gaddafi loyalists”.
Cynthia Mckinney is on a Truth Tour describing the corporate media lies regarding NATO’s intervention in Libya. The British are bragging about their special forces leading the rebels. Several thousands NATO airstrikes have taken place. And the western oil companies are lining up for their share of the spoils. Imperialism continues under the guise of a “humanitarian” propaganda lie whereby “we have to destroy the village (country, continent) in order to save it.”
Cynthia writes, “this Truth Tour has been unique because the true peace people in this country (U.S.) have revealed themselves by their willingness to step forward and be counted against this war in the very midst of the worst deceit and demonization ever. NATO war crimes are being excused, discounted, or covered up by those who posed as supporters of justice and peace. It is never OK to bomb people. And it is never OK to ask the peace-loving people of this country to sacrifice Social Security and Medicare and education and housing–and I could go on and on–so that war profiteers can fatten their ill-gotten coffers.
I agree with Stephen Lendman and others who have written that the war propaganda against Libya reached heights higher than that for the war against the Iraqi people. The deceit continues to this day from the most respected “news” outlets. Now, we know them as what they really are, too.”
Never Forgive, Never Forget
by Stephen Lendman
After covering Libya’s rape since last winter in dozens of articles, no forgiving or forgetting is possible for one of history’s great crimes.
Nor is ignoring those responsible, condemning them forthrightly, and explaining why all wars are waged.
NATO outdid Orwell on this one, killing truth by calling war the responsibility to protect – by terrorizing, attacking, and slaughtering civilians like psychopathic assassins.
As a result, honest historians will redefine barbarism to explain NATO’s savagery. It includes ongoing crimes of war and against humanity for the most malevolent reasons.
When is war not war? It’s when committing cold-blooded murder is called the right thing. When major media scoundrels cheerlead it, and when most people believe it because they’re too indifferent, uncaring or lazy to learn the truth.
NATO’s rape of Libya is too ugly for proper words to describe. Only honest images can do it, and lots of them.
Instead, the Big Lie substitutes for honest journalism, especially on television where real (not fake) visuals can show mangled bodies, mass destruction, and other evidence of NATO crimes.
Where civilian deaths can be shown graphically in living color. Where responsibility can be placed where it belongs. Where right and wrong can best be explained. Where repetition can arouse public outrage. Where proper analysis in advance perhaps can prevent all wars.
None are liberating, lawful, or virtuous. All are shamelessly exploitive. Libya’s one of the worst – unscrupulously benefitting powerful interests criminally, ruthlessly, and diabolically.
It doesn’t get any worse than that. Ask Lybians. They’ll explain.
Leading America’s Pack Journalistic Lying
The New York Times is America’s lead propaganda instrument, its reports getting enough global coverage to make a difference.
From the start, it cheer led war with Libya. It played the same role in Afghanistan, Iraq, and all previous US wars, deceiving its readers by dishonest journalism, commentaries, and editorials.
August 26 was no different. Two articles among others stand out. David Kirkpatrick wrote one headlined, “As Qaddafi Forces Retreat, a Newly Freed Imam Encourages Forgiveness,” saying:
Pro-NATO Sheik Abdul Ghani Aboughreis helped incite last winter’s uprising “with a fiery Friday sermon at the Mourad Agha mosque. His words sent thousands of demonstrators pouring into the streets. (His) mosque and neighborhood became a center of revolt and resistance….”
After six months of shamelessly supporting death and destruction against his own people, he now encourages “forgive (ing) each other, to make sure to leave it to the law and not take revenge on each other.”
As in all his Libya war articles, Kirkpatrick left unexplained months of crimes of war and against humanity, committed by NATO and paramilitary killers.
Instead, he highlighted alleged evidence of ongoing Gaddafi loyalist crimes.
In times of war, both sides commit them, but whatever government forces did pale compared to NATO’s savagery and its hired assassins. Kirkpatrick and other Times writers failed to notice.
Anthony Shadid and Kareem Hahim were no better headlining, “Grim Evidence of Fighting’s Toll Becomes Clearer in Libya,” saying:
“As the fighting died down in Tripoli on Friday, the scope and savagery of the violence during the nearly week long battle for control of the capital began to come into sharper focus.”
Evidence he cites is a shameful Amnesty International report (based on freed Al Qaeda and other paramilitary prisoners), saying:
AI “uncovered evidence that forces loyal to (Gaddafi) have killed numerous detainees held at two military camps in Tripoli on 23 and 24 August.”
Perhaps so if other insurgents freed them, attacked Gaddafi forces in the process, and they fought back.
Instead, AI said:
“Loyalist forces in Libya must immediately stop such killings of captives, and both sides must commit to ensuring no harm comes to prisoners in their custody.”
Like UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, AI tries to have it both ways, ruining everything it gets right by reports like this – equating horrendous NATO crimes with lesser ones committed by Gaddafi forces, perhaps many less than imagined. The fog of war makes it hard to know precisely.
Instead, Shadid and Hahim’s article was shamelessly one sided. While citing clear evidence of rebel-committed atrocities, their article claimed:
– Tripoli violence is now subsiding when, in fact, it rages;
– rebels say Gaddafi loyalists killed their own, an absurdity on its face;
– it’s hard “to ascertain the fate of….dead men” in hospitals, as well as chaos committed inside; AP and Reuters reported it resulted from rebel-committed terror;
– Gaddafi’s “cloak of secrecy (and) mercurial rule” are being revealed, leaving unexplained why Washington and its NATO partners wage all wars;
– slogans are being displayed, saying “Libya is free” and “Misurata is steadfast,” though still Gaddafi controlled, it’s believed, what Shadid and Hahim ignored, as well as not debunking claims of Libya’s freedom; and
– documents in Gaddafi’s compound “seemed to show that (his) adopted daughter Hana, who was supposedly killed at age 4 in (1986), was alive (and) working as a doctor;” the key words “seemed to show” both Times writers implied were proof, adding that Tripoli Central Hospital workers claimed “a spacious and well-appointed office” there was hers.
Throughout the conflict, Times articles, op-eds and editorials backed it. Their unstated message is war is good, the more the better when America wages them.
Sadly, that’s the state of managed Western news and opinion. It’s a shocking indictment of its support for wealth and power, no matter how lawless and harmful to billions exploited ruthlessly, shameless, and repeatedly.
Final Comments
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) reports continued fighting in Tripoli, inflicting many casualties.
Moreover, many injured can’t be treated because of ongoing violence, inadequate staff, and enough supplies and capacity at local hospitals.
In addition, “numerous arrests” were made, “including foreign nationals.” Their welfare is very much at risk, especially those singled out for revenge.
Fierce fighting also continues around Misrata and elsewhere. The end of conflict is nowhere in sight. Brega “look(s) like a ghost town.”
In different areas, people are endangered by unexploded ordinance, as well as shortages of food, clean water, drugs, other medical supplies, and spotty or no electricity.
Washington-led NATO turned Libya into a hellish inferno – step one before occupying and exploiting its resources and people. Months ago its wealth was stolen. Ahead will be its future if Libyans don’t struggle and win their freedom.
On August 26 on Russia Today (RT.com), journalist Pepe Escobar said Abdelhakim Belhadj, a former Al-Qaeda insurgent/now CIA asset commands rebel forces in Tripoli.
He explained that he was trained in Afghanistan by a “very hardcore Islamist Libyan group.” Earlier he was captured in Malaysia, detained and tortured in Bangkok, then transferred back to Libya and imprisoned.
In 2009, he made a deal for freedom, in return for serving Western interests, Escobar saying:
“I can say almost for sure with 95% certainty that this is the guy” heading insurgents in Tripoli.
It shows how Washington both demonizes and uses Al Qaeda advantageously, including bin Laden. He was a longtime CIA asset until his death in December 2001 – not from Obama’s staged raid.
Notably, Al Qaeda was a 1980s CIA creation during the Soviet-Afghan war. Moreover, Washington both supports international terrorism covertly and battles it by imperial wars and persecuting Muslims for their faith.
It’s part of the fog to scare people enough to believe waging wars remove threats that, in fact, don’t exist. So they have to be invented to enlist public support, unaware of the harm caused abroad and at home.
Only war profiteers benefit, not taxpayers they steal from or victims they attack. At the same time, corrosive militarism, financial wars, and other destructive policies destroyed America’s soul. Its future as a free country is next.
So focused on bread and circus distractions, most people don’t notice. How else can Washington get away with murder!
Further updates will follow.
In conclusion, Law Professor Francis Boyle’s morning email said the following:
“After Six Months of fighting by the most powerful military alliance in the history of the world, Ghadafy has now become the Greatest African Warrior since Hannibal against the Romans – predecessors to the Americans.”
“Generations from now, people will sing songs, write poems, and compose odes to Ghadafy all over Africa, the Arab World, the Muslim World, and the Third World long after Obama is dead and disparaged and discredited.”
Sic transit Gloria mundi (Thus passes the glory of the world)!”
Keep Libya’s freedom flame alive no matter how imperial monsters try to destroy it!
We’re all Libyans now! Their struggle is ours!
It’s high time we matched their courageous spirit against the world’s most pernicious/destructive force.
Bowed perhaps, they’re not broken! Isn’t that enough to raise our consciousness to support them!
Libya has an estimate of 6 million people ,more than 1 million people that means 1/6 of the entire population was there to show support to their Leader Muʿammar al-Qaḏḏāfī.
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The New York Times and The Washington Post have finally admitted what AMERICAN FREE PRESS (AFP) asserted as far back as Feb. 14:
There is much more to the so-called “grassroots” revolutions in the Mideast than meets the eye.
While critics accused AFP of purveying “conspiracy theories,” the Times and the Post have now laid it on the line: American tax dollars have bankrolled a host of both private and quasi-public institutions that have been underwriting the revolutionary activity wreaking havoc throughout the Arab world.
The first inkling came in a report buried inside the Post on March 10, under the headline “U.S. funds web firms that help Mideast dissidents skirt censors.” The report read in part:
The Obama administration may not be lending arms to dissidents in the Middle East, but it is offering aid in another critical way: Helping them surf the web anonymously as they seek to overthrow their governments. Federal agencies—such as the State Department, the Defense Department and the Broadcasting Board of Governors—have been funding a handful of technology firms that allow people to get online without being tracked or to visit news or social media sites that governments have blocked.Many of these little-known companies—such as the Tor Project or UltraReach— are unabashedly supportive of the activists in the Middle East. . . .
Federal agencies have funded these companies through grants and contracts. By late spring, the State Department is expected to begin doling out even more money—about $30 million—to technology firms and human rights groups that help and train people to shatter [Internet security] and surf the web without being tracked.
On April 15 The New York Times was even more direct when it reported flat-out the fact that the U.S. had been a key behind-the-scenes force in instigating the so-called “Arab spring.” Under the headline “U.S. groups helped nurture Arab uprisings,” the report reads in part:
Even as the United States poured billions of dollars into foreign military programs and anti-terrorism campaigns, a small core of American government-financed organizations were promoting democracy in authoritarian Arab states. The money spent on these programs was minute compared with efforts led by the Pentagon.
But as American officials and others look back at the uprisings of the Arab spring, they are seeing that the United States’ democracy-building campaigns played a bigger role in fomenting protests than was previously known, with key leaders of the movements having been trained by the Americans in campaigning, organizing through new media tools and monitoring elections.
A number of the groups and individuals directly involved in the revolts and reforms sweeping the region . . . received training and financing from groups like the International Republican Institute, the National Democratic Institute and Freedom House, a nonprofit human rights organization based in Washington. . . .
The Republican and Democratic institutes are loosely affiliated with the Republican and Democratic Parties. They were created by Congress and are financed through the National Endowment for Democracy, which was set up in 1983 to channel grants for promoting democracy in developing nations. The National Endowment receives about $100 million annually from Congress. Freedom House also gets the bulk of its money from the American government, mainly from the State Department.
With the truth of U.S. involvement in the orchestrated revolutions now being steadily unveiled, on April 18 The Washington Post stated in the headline of a front page lead story that “U.S. secretly backed Syrian opposition groups, cables released by WikiLeaks show.” The Post story elaborated:
The State Department has secretly financed Syrian political opposition groups and related projects, including a satellite TV channel that beams anti-government programming into the country, according to previously undisclosed diplomatic cables. The London-based satellite channel, Barada TV, began broadcasting in April 2009 but has ramped up operations to cover the mass protests in Syria as part of a long-standing campaign to overthrow the country’s autocratic leader, Bashar al-Assad. . . . Barada TV is closely affiliated with the Movement for Justice and Development, a London-based network of Syrian exiles.
Classified U.S. diplomatic cables show that the State Department has funneled as much as $6 million to the group since 2006 to operate the satellite channel and finance other activities inside Syria. . . . The U.S. money for Syrian opposition figures began flowing under President George W. Bush after he effectively froze political ties with Damascus in 2005. The financial backing has continued under President Obama, even as his administration sought to rebuild relations with Assad.
The U.S.-sponsored revolutions, in many respects, validate AFP’s notation on Feb. 14 that the World Zionist Organization’s Israeli-based magazine Kuvinim (as far back as 1982) had outlined a geopolitical strategy to disrupt and balkanize the Arab world, dividing the Arab states from within. That Israel’s oft-touted “closest ally”—the United States—has been found to now be implementing the agenda is to be expected.
One particularly influential hard-line American supporter of Israel, former Sen. Norm Coleman (R-Minn.), explained in a Feb. 24 commentary in The Washington Times that supporting what was described as “democratic turmoil” was worth the risk for the United States.
After all, Coleman said, if “extremists” should happen to come to power in any of the nations where the U.S. had helped instigate revolutions, the United States must “prepare to confront their aggressive plans with stalwart resistance.”
In case you didn’t figure that out, Coleman meant military intervention. That’s right. More war.
The documentary production company Citizens United has dedicated itself to furthering the interests of the far right and the super-rich.
April 19, 2011 |
The 2010 Supreme Court decision permitting unlimited campaign spending by corporations, Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, is one of the most momentous rulings in U.S. legal history. It transforms the long but unspoken truth of American politics – corporate wealth buys legislative power — into the law of the land.
The Court’s judgment adds one more nail to the coffin of transparent governance based on popular democracy. The unlimited financing and unreported accountability of the media message complements generous campaign contributions, well-paid lobbyists and effective regulatory capture to further ensure that corporate wealth maintains political influence. The Court’s decision is the icing on the cake to an era of unprecedented class polarization, with the rich seizing an ever greater share of the nation’s wealth.
As has been much reported since the decision was handed down in January 2010, the Court overturned a lower court decision and found that a corporation’s First Amendment protections overruled the 2002 McCain-Feingold Campaign Reform Act.
At issue was Hillary: The Movie, a film produced by Citizens United, a staunch rightwing political action group. Since its founding in 1988, Citizens United has matured into one of the nation’s leading documentary production companies. Its films are produced, written and directed by reputable industry professionals and hosted by well-known rightwing figures like Newt Gingrich and Fred Thompson. To date, it has released 17 full-length documentaries on such topics as Ronald Reagan, Bill and Hillary Clinton, 9/11, Barack Obama, the UN, conservative womanhood, and religion.
Citizens United is a cornerstone member of a growing praetorian guard furthering the interests of the super-rich. This guard includes law firms, think tanks, policy groups, PR firms, astroturf organizations, co-opted civil-rights groups, talking-head bloviators and unquestioning reporters who further a well-orchestrated rightwing, corporatist propaganda agenda.
In the all-important areas of the media message, Citizens United is the leading voice and vision of the Tea Party agenda. Would-be “pranksters” James O’Keefe and Andrew Breitbart are creative hacks, having lost all credibility due to their ham-fisted manipulations of phony revelations.
In America’s secular-capitalist and corporate-religious society, the battle over ideas, beliefs and knowledge is the battle for the citizen’s soul. The Murdock enterprise and talk radio are the most obvious voices of rightwing propaganda. Citizens United is just as pernicious.
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Sleaze runs deep in American politics. During the Revolutionary War, British propaganda circulated scurrilous rumors that General Washington engaged in a number of illicit relations. One alleged he had a mistress; another claimed he kept a corporal’s wife at his campsite; still another alleged he had an adulterous liaison with a neighbor’s wife and she bore his out-of-wedlock child.
In our modern era, the most controversial propaganda campaign is the notorious Willie Horton ad used in the 1988 presidential race. The election pitted George H.W. Bush against Massachusetts governor Michael Dukakis. The ad assailed Dukakis’ “liberal” prison polices, effectively painting him with the racist brush, the Republican party’s unspoken secret weapon.
Horton was a Massachusetts felon serving a life sentence for murder; he was mysteriously granted a weekend pass, and while out of prison committed an assault, armed robbery and a rape. The ad, the brainchild of Floyd Brown, linked Horton to Dukakis and played a critical role in Bush’s victory.
Brown was the founder and first president of Citizens United. Prior to founding Citizens United, he served as political director of Americans for Bush and was president of the board of the Reagan Ranch, a division of the Young America’s Foundation. Ever the opportunist, he now serves as president of Excellentia, Inc., an Internet video venture “specializing in marketing to conservatives and Christians.” Brown continues to do battle in rightwing politics, most recently serving as the media adviser to Joe Miller’s ill-fated 2010 Tea Party campaign in Alaska to unseat incumbent Republican Senator Lisa Murkowski.
The Horton ad is the leitmotif of rightwing media propaganda; it is the template for all Citizens United subsequent media productions. While Floyd Brown created the Horton ad, Citizens United’s current head, David Bossie, has pushed the documentary as the vehicle of rightwing propaganda.
Bossie has a checkered career as a Republican operative. He got his start joining a long-line of dirty tricksters, the most modern examples beginning with Chuck Colson and continuing on with Lee Atwater and Karl Rove. In 1996, Bossie was outed for leaking the confidential phone logs of a former Commerce Department official. In 1998, he gained national attention when then-House Speaker Newt Gingrich forced him out as chief investigator for the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform pursuing the anti-Clinton Whitewater investigation. He took creative license selectively editing transcripts of recordings of phone conversations involving Hillary Clinton. Playing the dirty trickster’s game, Bossie edited the tapes to make it appear Clinton was complicit in billing irregularities.
Bossie hooked up with Brown and Citizens United in the early ‘90s. In 1996, in a fundraising letter, it promoted Bossie – then a Senate staffer — as its “top investigator” and its insider “directing the [Whitewater] probe.” This created quite a conflict-of-interest stir. So, when Bossie was booted off the Hill — and in recognition of his invaluable dirty tricks against the Clintons – he was rewarded with a lucrative position at Citizens United, ultimately replacing Brown.
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Over the last decade, Citizens United has become one of America’s major documentary production companies, with Bossie serving as either executive producer, producer or director of all its films. These docs frame the ultra-right’s propaganda campaign, set its agenda and give voice to the Tea Party. Its films are:
* Battle for America (2010) – a Tea Party promotion of “Constitutional Conservatives”; Bossie is executive producer/producer and Stephen Bannon is writer/director.
* Fire from the Heartland: The Awakening of the Conservative Woman (2010) – a portrait of Tea Party women; Bossie is executive producer/ producer and Bannon is writer/director.
* America at Risk (2010) — explores the “dangers” facing America in the post-9/11 decade; Bossie is executive producer/producer and Kevin Knoblock is writer/director.
* Nine Days That Changed the World (2010) — a Tea Party morality tale hosted by Callista and Newt Gingrich; Bossie is executive producer/ producer and Knoblock is writer/director.
* Generation Zero (2010) – offers a conservative analysis of the causes of 2008-2009 global economic crisis; Bossie is executive producer/producer and Bannon is writer/director.
* Perfect Valor (2009) – a John-Wayneish portrait of six Marines who served in Iraq, narrated by Fred Thompson; Knoblock, Craig Haffner, Chetwynd and Bossie are co-executive producers; Matilda Bode, David Taylor and Bossie are co-producers; and Taylor is writer/director.
* Ronald Reagan: Rendezvous with Destiny (2009) – an homage to Saint Gipper, hosted by the Gingrichs; Bossie, the Gingrichs and Lawrence Kadish are co-executive producers; Bossie and Knoblock are co-producers; and Knoblock is writer/director.
* Rediscovering God in America II: Our Heritage (2009) – the title speaks for itself, hosted by the Gingrichs; Bossie and the Gingrichs are co-executive producers; and Knoblock is writer/director.
* Rediscovering God in America (2008) – the original tale of “one nation under God,” hosted by the Gingrichs; Bossie and the Gingrichs are co-executive producers; and Knoblock is writer/director.
* Hype: the Obama Effect (2008) – a Tea Party slam against Obama during the ’08 campaign; Bossie is executive producer/producer and Alan Peterson is writer/director.
* Blocking the Path of 9/11 (2008) – an “investigative” report into a 2006 ABC mini-series into 9/11 that was pulled by the network; Bossie is executive producer/producer and John Ziegler is co-producer, writer and director.
* Hillary: The Movie (2008) – Hillary, the bashing; Bossie is executive producer/producer, Peterson and Lee Troxler are co-writers and Peterson is director.
* We Have the Power: Making America Energy Independent (2008) – Citizens United’s examination of alternate power sources, including nuclear, hydrogen and wind, hosted by the Gingrichs; Bossie, Newt Gingrich and Lawrence Kadish are co-executive producers; Bossie, Knoblock and Terry Moloney are co-producers; and Moloney is writer/ director.
* ACLU: At War with America (2007) – Citizens United war against the ACLU; Bossie is executive producer, producer, writer and director.
* Border Wars: The Battle Over Illegal Immigration (2006) – immigrants, the enemy; Bossie is executive producer/co-producer and Knoblock is co-producer, writer and director.
* Broken Promises: The United Nations at 60 (2005) – a dubious historical portrait of the UN; Bossie is executive producer/producer; Knoblock is the writer; and Knoblock and Ron Silver are co-directors.
* Celsius 41.11: The Temperature at Which the Brain … Begins to Die (2004) – Citizens United’s rejoinder to Michael Moore’s Fahrenheit 411; Bossie is executive producer/producer; Lionel Chewynd and Ted Steinberg are co-writes; and Knoblock is director.
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In his role as head of Citizens United and executive producer of its production arm, Bossie has brought together some talented film industry pros to further the rightwing propaganda campaign. This distinguishes his efforts from those “adolescent” provocations by O’Keefe and Breitbart. Brief profiles of leading Bossie co-collaborators follow:
* Stephen Bannon runs Genius Products, a Hollywood production company, and is a co-founder of the National Tea Party Federation. He comes to filmmaking having served from 1976 to 1983 in the US Navy (including a stint at the Pentagon) and then 15 years in media investment banking and film financing at Goldman Sachs, Jefferies & Co. and his own firm. In addition to docs for Citizens United, he has a number of feature film credits.
* Kevin Knoblock is a documentary TV warhorse. In addition to docs for Citizens United, he has produced, written and/or directed programs for A&E, A&E Biography, TNN, The History Channel and the Travel Channel; he did magazine shows at NBC, MTV and KCBS was an executive at KABC-TV and “Entertainment Tonight.”
* Terry Moloney is an established Hollywood writer/director who runs Proletariat Filmworks, an independent production company. In additional to work for Citizens United, his credits include a public-interest film featuring Sean Penn, a feature film and an executive position with PAX-TV.
* Alan Peterson is a Hollywood actor, producer and director. His all but forgotten 2004 doc, FahrenHYPE 9/11: Unraveling the Truth about Fahrenheit 9/11 and Michael Moore (2004), featured such luminaries as shoe-fetishist Dick Morris and former NYC mayor Ed Koch.
* David Taylor received a Peabody Award for a film about Lyndon Johnson following JFK’s assassination and an Emmy for a film exploring the rivalry between LBJ and Robert Kennedy. He has produced, written and/or director about 100 independent docs for everyone from the BBC and Channel 4 to PBS and the History Channel.
* Ron Silver was a well-known and respected actor in film, TV and on Broadway. He seems to have had an incoherent, if compelling, political outlook: He supported Bill Clinton, backed George Bush and voted for Obama.
* John Ziegler seems more a multimedia rightwing self-promoter than an established Hollywood media pro. He’s been a radio sportscaster talk-radio host, then moved to TV, authored a dubious book of the First Amendment, proudly promoted an attack on John Kerry’s presidential campaign, and has championed Sarah Palin while assailing Obama.
The Citizens United talented “team” of film industry professionals suggests how the propaganda battle has been professionalized.
Citizens United promotes what it — and many among the conservative right and Tea Party movement — consider “traditional values.” These values are grounded in what is known as an “originalist” interpretation of the Constitution; an imperialist- and militaristic-based expansionist foreign policy; a monopolist (as opposed to a competitive, Adam Smith) concept of “free enterprise”; a belief in a white, Judeo-Christian notion of morality; and reverence to a heterosexual, monogamous patriarchal concept of the family as the basic social unit of American society. These values codify a 20th-century mindset in a 21st-century world. They distinguish Citizens United documentaries.
Citizens United films provide a false coherence to explain the real, complex history that is America and the postmodern life. Michael Moore’s Fahrenheit 411, Errol Morris’s Fog of War and Charles Ferguson’s Inside Job are outstanding calls-to-arms confronting Citizens United’s simplemindedness. However, their very success is witness to their weakness. They are one-shots in an era when maintaining a sustained message is critical.
America is in the midst of a profound economic, social and ideological battle. An oligarchy is taking control of the nation, refashioning democracy and popular values. The nation was once defined as welcoming those considered foreign, by a spirit of civility and community, of free social beings. But today, community has been replaced by self-interest, the body politic by personal greed.
Citizens United gives voice and vision to a concerted propaganda initiative attempting to reframe America from a nation of opportunity and mobility to one of social standing and privilege. It’s time for the progressive community to mobilize the infrastructure and to engage in the sustained ideological battle needed to challenge the new praetorian guard exemplified by Citizens United.
As Americans focus on March Madness and Dancing With the Stars instead of the radioactive plume spreading all across the country, the US EPA (Environmental Protection Agency) is attempting to make the mainstream media cover up of the Fukushima cloud a bit easier.
The agency now notorious for its infamous claim that the air was safe to breathe after 9/11 is now seeking to raise the PAGs (Protective Action Guides) to levels vastly higher than those at which they are currently set allowing for more radioactive contamination of the environment and the general public in the event of a radioactive disaster.
PAGs are policies established by the EPA that guide the agency in enforcing the various environmental laws such as the Clean Air and Water Act in the invent of a radioactive emergency such as a nuclear/dirty bomb or factory meltdown like that occurring in Japan.
The EPA had already established PAGs in this area in 1992. They can be found here. However, the agency now plans to amend and revise these standards this year.
Because regulatory agencies form their own policies (although they can be directed by either the President or the Congress), there is no requirement to seek Congressional approval for these changes. All that is required is that the agency place the proposed changes in the Federal Register for public comment before it finalizes its draft into legal policy.
According to PEER (Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, the new standards would drastically raise the levels of radiation allowed in food, water, air, and the general environment. PEER, a national organization of local, state, and federal employees who had access to internal EPA emails, claims that the new standards will result in a “nearly 1000-fold increase for exposure to strontium-90, a 3000 to 100,000-fold hike for exposure to iodine-131; and an almost 25,000 rise for exposure to radioactive nickel-63″ in drinking water. This information, as well as the emails themselves were published by Collapsenet on March 24.
In addition to raising the level of permissible radiation in the environment, PEER suggests that the standards of cleanup after a radioactive emergency will actually be reduced. As a result, radioactive cleanup thresholds will be vastly lowered and, by default, permissible levels of radiation will be vastly increased in this manner as well.
As Michael Kane writes for Collapsenet, the current EPA numbers, as well as those generally agreed upon in the international radiation assessment community, all point to the fact that these increases in permissible levels would create a level of radiation where approximately 1 in 4 people would contract cancer from exposure to them.
The changes to the 1992 PAGs are not a new attempt by the EPA. The agency attempted similar changes in 2009 but the revisions were stopped largely by a barrage of FOIA requests and a lawsuit filed by PEER. However, in 2009 there was no massive radiation disaster the EPA needed to cover up as there is at the current time. In 2009, the EPA could afford to back off, regroup, and try again at a later date. Unfortunately, it is not likely to react the same way this time around.
As of the time of this writing, a toxic cloud of radiation has not only reached the US West Coast, but has spread all the way across the country to states like South Carolina, North Carolina, Florida, and Massachusetts. Both the US government and the mainstream media have largely denied any risk associated with the radiation and have actively engaged in covering up the extent to which it has spread across the country.
In the event of any real journalism, the revelation of the danger and scale of the Japanese radiation cloud could be disastrous for those who hide the truth from the people who are sure to suffer the consequences. Indeed, the revelation that a toxic cloud of cancer-causing particles is littering the United States (especially in real time) might even be too much for the average television- and sports-obsessed American to handle.
However, the lowering of safety standards for radiation contamination would be a major victory for those wishing to cover it up. After all, the talking heads would then be able to claim that the radiation levels are within the safety range set by the EPA.
No cause for worry.
Regardless of the motivation behind these new changes, they must be actively opposed. We cannot allow the veil to be pulled even further over the eyes of the American people. At the very least, we cannot allow an agency charged with protecting both the environment and the people who live in it to set standards alleviating itself of that responsibility.
(PressTV) – President of Bahrain’s Center for Human Rights Nabeel Rajab says the US media have been ordered not to cover news on the government’s brutal crackdown on Bahraini people.
Reports from the Center’s colleagues in the United States say “In the US some news agencies and TV stations were asked not to report on Bahrain and not to embarrass [President Barack Obama’s administration,” Rajab told Press TV.
He went on to say that the US and the Western governments have chosen to keep silent over ongoing atrocities in Bahrain due to their support for the country’s authoritarian regime.
According to unconfirmed reports, over 420 people have been arrested during ongoing protests in the kingdom, Rajab pointed out.
The Bahraini protesters continue to demand the ouster of the 200-year-old-plus monarchy as well as constitutional reforms.
At least 25 people have been killed and about 1,000 others injured during the government-sanctioned crackdowns on peaceful demonstrators.
Joined recently by police units and troops from Saudi and the United Arab Emirates, the Bahraini government forces have launched a deadly crackdown on the popular revolution that began to sweep the Persian Gulf island on February 14.
The Saudi-backed forces have recently been sighted while destroying religious and historical monuments of the Muslim Persian Gulf state.
On Wednesday, the Human Rights Watch accused Bahraini forces of using violence against people that had already received injuries during earlier attacks.
The rights body said it had documented several cases in which the forces had “severely harassed or beaten” patients under medical care in the country’s Salmaniya hospital in Manama.
Lack of radiation readings echoes pattern of secrecy employed after other major accidents such as Chernobyl.
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Nuclear experts have thrown doubt on the accuracy of official information issued about the Fukushima nuclear accident, saying that it followed a pattern of secrecy and cover-ups employed in other nuclear accidents. “It’s impossible to get any radiation readings,” said John Large, an independent nuclear engineer who has worked for the UK government and been commissioned to report on the accident for Greenpeace International.
“The actions of the Japanese government are completely contrary to their words. They have evacuated 180,000 people but say there is no radiation. They are certain to have readings but we are being told nothing.” He said a radiation release was suspected “but at the moment it is impossible to know. It was the same at Chernobyl, where they said there was a bit of a problem and only later did the full extent emerge.”
According to some reports, 17 helicopter crewmen helping in rescue efforts were contaminated with low-level radiation, but Japanese officials declined to comment.
The country’s government has previously been accused of covering up nuclear accidents and hampering the development of alternative energy.
In a newly released diplomatic cable obtained by WikiLeaks, politician Taro Kono, a high-profile member of Japan‘s lower house, tells U.S. diplomats that the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry – the Japanese government department responsible for nuclear energy – has been “covering up nuclear accidents and obscuring the true costs and problems associated with the nuclear industry.”
In 2008, Kono told them: “The ministries were trapped in their policies, as officials inherited policies from people more senior to them, which they could then not challenge.” He mentioned the dangers of natural disasters in the context of nuclear waste disposal, citing Japan’s “extensive seismic activity, and abundant groundwater, and [he] questioned if there really was a safe place to store nuclear waste in the ‘land of volcanoes.’”
“The Japanese government has always tended to underplay accidents. At the moment the Japanese claims of safety are not to be believed by anyone. The health effects of what has happened so far are imponderable. The reality is we just do not know. There is profound uncertainty about the impact of the accident.”
For greater readership, this article covers key information in it. Its entirety explains much about what’s ongoing – what major media accounts misreport or suppress, especially television reaching large audiences, presenting distorted managed news. It shouldn’t surprise. Representing powerful interests, carefully filtered sanitized reporting substitutes for the real kind.
Gaddafi indisputably is despotic, governing by “fear and cronyism,” treating Libya as his “private estate,” and spawning “an entire hierarchy of corrupt officials,” disdainful of popular interests.
Nonetheless, something is “(r)otten in the so-called ‘Jamahiriya’ (state of the masses) of Libya.” Popular anger is justified and real. At issue is whether it’s spontaneous or externally generated, and, if so, by whom and for what reasons.
Western powers, especially America, gladly support despots. They only fall into disfavor by forgetting who’s boss. Mubarak forgot. So did Gaddafi, long targeted for removal despite rapprochement with America and Western nations. As a result, in-country reports lack credibility without verifiable proof. Much of it is lacking.
At issue is removing an outlier while keeping his regime intact, one friendly to Washington and Western interests. Acquiescence assures support for the world’s most ruthless tyrants. Straying gets them in trouble. Gaddafi strayed, leaving him vulnerable for removal.
Comparing Yugoslavia to Libya
In the 1990s, “pack (or) advocacy journalism” substituted for the real kind, including by promoting the 1999 US-led NATO war of aggression to complete Yugoslavia’s long-planned balkanization, characterized as “humanitarian intervention,” the same theme repeated now.
From March 24 – June 10, 1999, daily attacks were relentless. Around 600 aircraft flew about 3,000 sorties, dropping thousands of tons of ordinance as well as hundreds of ground-launched cruise missiles. Its ferocity to that time was unprecedented. Large numbers were killed, injured or displaced. Vast destruction was inflicted. Two million people lost their livelihoods, many their homes and communities, and for most their futures under military occupation.
Diana Johnstone’s “Fools’ Crusade: Yugoslavia, NATO and Western Delusions” remains the definitive Balkan wars history, explaining what Western media reports suppressed. For America and European powers, it was about deterring Slobodan Milosevic’s “Greater Serbia” ambitions, a gross mischaracterization about 1990s events, culminating in naked aggression.
Libyan turmoil appears headed for a similar resolution, driven by unverified misreporting of events on the ground. In Yugoslavia, it was about removing Milosevic for a more accommodative replacement. In Libya, Gaddafi appears headed for the same fate, again by raw force, Washington’s alternate “diplomacy,” the same kind used to “liberate” Iraq and Afghanistan, destroying both countries, causing millions of deaths as well as vast devastation and despair.
Libyan Analysis in Bullet Points
– Unlike Tunisia, Egypt, and other regional allies, “upsetting (Libya’s) established order is a US and EU objective,” by replacing one despot with another.
– the West “seek(‘s) to capitalize on the revolt” for new leadership it controls.
– Heavy weapons are coming in.
– Destabilizing Libya affects its vast energy reserves and neighboring states, perhaps the entire region.
– Tensions among Libyan factions complicate matters further, including between Gaddafi’s son, Saif Al-Islam, “and his father’s circle of older ministers. Libyan ministers are generally divided amongst those (close to Said) and” member’s of the “old guard.”
– Other tensions exist between Gaddafi and his sons, perhaps one generation against another, each with its own ideas incompatible with the other.
– Gaddafi spent years purging opposition. Even so, “little loyalty is felt for (him) and his family.” Fear alone gives them power. Now it’s gone, denunciation of his regime openly stated. “Aref Sharif, the head of Libyan Air Force,” renounced him. Ministers and ambassadors resigned, some going abroad. “Defections are snowballing amongst the military and government.” Yet what’s ongoing may differ significantly from unverified or willful major media misreporting, including by Al Jazeera.
– Authentic opposition is real, but not organized. It’s “been encouraged and prompted from outside Libya through social media networks, international news stations, and events in the rest of the Arab World.” As a result, major media reports are suspect. Accept nothing from them at face value.
– Internal opposition leadership comes “from within the regime itself.” However, corrupt officials aren’t populists. They oppose Gaddafi but not tyranny, corruption, and other trappings of power and privilege. Some of them, in fact, wish “to save themselves, while others” want to “strengthen their positions.” It’s also possible or likely that they’ve allied with Western powers for their own self-interest.
– Major media reports, including by Al Jazeera, “about Libyan jets firing on protesters in Tripoli and the major cities are unverified and questionable….No visual evidence of the jet attacks has been shown.” Gaddafi, in fact, controls cities reported to be occupied by opponents. Moreover, some accounts of violence are spurious. Stories are invented to “justify no-fly zones,” perhaps heading for war led by America and NATO.
– Corporate and Western interests in Libya, not despotism, explain what’s ongoing. They’re fueling civil war to replace one despot with another, one they control. “Chaos in the Arab World has been viewed as beneficial (to) Washington, Tel Aviv,” and other Western powers. Balkanization may be planned, similar to Yugoslavia, culminating as explained above – “liberation” for control, not democracy America won’t tolerate, including at home. If it happens, regional destabilization may follow, leaders everywhere wondering who’s next.
– Henry Kissinger once said: “to be an enemy of America can be dangerous, but to be a friend is fatal.” If balkanization is planned, friends and foes alike may be targeted if thought unreliable. Libya’s chaos also affects Europe and global energy issues, including price, for oil heading over $100 a barrel and maybe much higher, threatening fragile economies with deeper crisis.
– Washington wanted Gaddafi replaced for years. Former NATO commander General Wesley Clark once included Libya among future targeted countries besides Iraq, Somalia, Sudan, Lebanon, Syria, and Iran. Divide, conquer and control, a game way pre-dating modern America.
– Libya conducted secret negotiations with Washington in 2001. Formal rapprochement followed, but doing business with imperial powers is dangerous, and in Gaddafi’s case perhaps fatal with no safe haven if civil war or NATO ousts him. Either “provides the best cover” for controlling Libya’s “energy sector and to appropriate (its) vast wealth.”
– Libyans should be wary. America and Western powers play hardball against popular interests throughout the region.
– “Actions of opposition to Gaddafi are strong, but there is no strong organized ‘opposition movement.’ The two are different.” Moreover, no opposition force wants democracy.
– Serious discussion suggests a Yugoslav-type “humanitarian intervention.” A “no-fly” zone is mentioned, an act of war if imposed, giving Western powers the right to intervene militarily the way Iraq was bombed in the 1990s. Invasion and occupation, in fact, could follow to replace the already weakened regime. Libya’s assets would be plundered, its people left with one despot replacing another.
A Final Comment
For decades, Gaddafi denied Libyans democratic freedoms. Imperial occupation, however, is worse, creating nightmarish conditions for Iraqis, Afghans, and others experiencing US-style rule, exceeding the worst of regional despots’ harshness, making some look benign by comparison.
Under more populist leaders than Gaddafi and internal opposition forces, mobilized resistance may prevent it, but not easily or quickly. Libyans must now liberate themselves, independent of Western powers wanting to exploit them for their own self-interest.
Stephen Lendman lives in Chicago and can be reached at lendmanstephen@sbcglobal.net. Also visit his blog site at sjlendman.blogspot.com and listen to cutting-edge discussions with distinguished guests on the Progressive Radio News Hour on the Progressive Radio Network Thursdays at 10AM US Central time and Saturdays and Sundays at noon. All programs are archived for easy listening.
The government and controlled media have lied to the public about 9-11 since the day it occurred.
Those who have discerned and exposed the lies about the “false flag” terror attacks and the fraudulent “War on Terror” have been treated like madmen and criminals.
It’s time for this criminal nightmare to end.
Who controls the “hidden hand” in the U.S. mass media that censors and suppresses the crucial 9-11 evidence?
What is the nexus connecting the architects of 9-11 with the mass media moguls who are covering up the truth?
Rupert Murdoch, a Jew,
is a supporter of Zionism and a friend of Israeli president Shimon Peres.
The on-going cover-up of the evidence of Israeli involvement in 9-11 and explosions in the World Trade Center by the U.S. mass media is indicative of a high-level connection between the architects of the “false flag” terror attacks and the media moguls who control the major news networks in the United States.
As a longtime observer of Israel and the Middle East, I have watched how the U.S. mass media has increasingly become an instrument of Israeli propaganda.
As Zionists have extended their grip on American media networks the major television, radio, film and print media outlets have effectively become propaganda tools of a foreign state – Israel – and are used to manipulate U.S. public opinion to support the Zionist agenda. The painfully obvious anti-Arab and anti-Islamic bias of Hollywood films and news-related programs has become ever more extreme as pro-Israel Zionists have achieved near total control of the U.S. mass media.
It needs to be understood that the Zionist conquest of the U.S. mass media did not simply happen by chance or as a result of natural market forces. It is the planned result of a long-term covert strategy put into effect decades ago by the government of Israel to control the news and entertainment networks that inform how Americans view Zionism, Israel, and the Middle East.
The Israelis realized that if they could control what Americans read, see, and hear about Zionism, Israel, and the Middle East then they would be able to control how they think.
Controlling U.S. public opinion is crucial to realizing the Zionist agenda.
Rupert Murdoch’s media empire acts as a Zionist propaganda network.
Zionist control of the major media networks has resulted in Americans getting an extremely distorted and biased view of the world, particularly of the Middle East and of such significant events as 9-11 and the “War on Terror.”
Understanding the strategy and the people behind Israel’s conquest of the American mass media is an essential step to recovering our national sovereignty.
As an independent journalist and researcher of 9-11, I have seen how Zionist-controlled media outlets are actively engaged in covering up the evidence of Israeli involvement in the “false flag” attacks of 9-11 and the Zionist-planned “War on Terror.” I have personally been subjected to years of slander and defamation from a host of Zionist-controlled news outlets, including CNN and FOX News, simply because I have investigated and written about the evidence of Israeli involvement.
Today, the United States of America is by all appearances an Israeli-occupied state. The U.S. Congress dutifully authorizes the annual payment of an immense tribute to Israel, some three thousand million dollars a year. Like a subservient colony, the United States provides hundreds of thousands of its young men and women to fight and die as mercenaries in Zionist-planned wars in the Middle East.
The tens of thousands of American and European christian soldiers and mercenaries fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan are very similar to the former Mamluks of Baghdad – captured “male white slaves” serving their Zionist rulers.
This dismal situation is, of course, not new. It has only become more obvious and extreme. The United States has provided more than $108 billion in direct aid to the state of Israel since 1949 (Washington Report, July 2006) and the U.S. State Dept. recently promised the Israeli military another $30 billion over the next ten years – a twenty-five percent increase.
Hundreds, if not thousands, of U.S. soldiers have died as a result of serving on or near the front lines in Israel’s wars. The 241 American marines killed in the Beirut bombing of 1983 and the 34 servicemen killed during the 1967 Israeli attack on the USS Liberty are the first that come to mind.
More than 4,000 American men and women have died during the current phase, the occupation stage, of the nearly two-decade-long war against Iraq.
The U.S.-led invasion and occupation of Iraq, an illegal war of aggression, is clearly a Zionist-planned war in which Americans and other mercenaries actually do the fighting – and dying.
WHERE IS THE OUTRAGE?
The obvious question is, where is the outrage?
Where is the spiritual, intellectual, and political resistance to this blatant exploitation of Americans and their national resources by a tiny foreign state with a militant and racist ideology? Why do patriotic Americans tolerate this abuse of the “land of the free and the home of the brave?”
While the power of the Israeli lobby (and an occasional murder) may explain the lack of any significant political resistance in the U.S. Congress to Zionist demands, it can not explain how the American population has come to accept this extremely bizarre and abusive relationship with a foreign state.
How has Zionist control of the United States been foisted onto the American people?
ZIONIST DECEPTIONS
Many Americans willingly accept the extremely one-sided and abusive relationship with Israel because they have internalized three fundamental Zionist deceptions, which have been forced into their brains by the controlled mass media.
The first is the religious hoax that equates the modern state of Israel with the Israel of the Bible. This religious fraud elevates modern-day Israelis, regardless of their actual ethnicity, to being the rightful heirs of the Promised Land. Although this hoax is quickly revealed to anyone who actually reads Zionist history, it has been successfully foisted onto millions of extremely naive and gullible Christians. These misled and abused people are often referred to as christian Zionists.
The second fundamental Zionist deception is that Israel is a “sister democracy” of the United States and that Israelis and Americans share the same “democratic” values. This lie is also quickly exposed by reading Israeli history or visiting Israeli-occupied Palestine. The only Americans who could possibly share Israeli values are those who believe in Jewish racism and supremacism – the central pillar of the Zionist worldview that is completely un-American.
The third Zionist deception is that nineteen Arab Muslims under the leadership of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and Osama bin Laden were behind the 9-11 attacks at the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. This deception has been used to usher in the Zionist-planned “War on Terror,” which has brought U.S. and European troops into an extensive long-term Middle Eastern war.
Why hasn’t the media interviewed the families of the nineteen suspected hijackers?
Why does the media not demand an open trial for Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the alleged “mastermind” of 9-11, currently held by the U.S. in Guantanamo?
Why is the media treatment of these people only as deep as their photos?
While the first two deceptions are primarily philosophical in nature and rather pointless to argue, the 9-11 deception is painfully real and something we allow to continue at our own peril.
“AUSCHWITZ OF THE MIND”
These Zionist deceptions, which are all demonstrably false, have been carefully planted and cultivated in the minds of millions of people through the devices of the Zionist-controlled media.
Zionist domination of the mass media and academia in the United States is so pervasive that Americans are subjected, like Truman Burbank in the film The Truman Show, to a constant barrage of multi-level deception, as if the entire population were living in a false construction – an “Auschwitz of the mind.”
Like the false world of Truman Burbank, the Zionist-created worldview is so overwhelming that it prevents many people from ever realizing that they are being held mentally captive. Even when we peel away the layers of deception and expose the fraud, somehow the show goes on. For the criminals in high places, the show must go on.
The first deception, the religious hoax of the Zionist state’s connection to the biblical Israel, is doctrine to television evangelists like Pat Robertson and his Christian Coalition, while the second and third have become “conventional wisdom” for the U.S. news and entertainment media.
Because millions of Americans have accepted and internalized these Zionist-created falsehoods, they are unable to understand the actual realities of the Middle East or the massive fraud of the “War on Terror.”
The controlled media is careful to censor any information that might disturb the perverse worldview of America’s forty million Christian Zionists who are kept in the darkness like children locked in a closet.
ZIONISM – “THE REAL ENEMY OF THE JEWS”
When, for example, the highly-regarded Israeli historian Avi Shlaim wrote his 2005 editorial entitled “Is Zionism today the real enemy of the Jews?” (below insert) his comments were published in the International Herald Tribune (IHT), which is read in 180 nations, but kept out of the pages of The New York Times, the domestic newspaper of its parent company.
OXFORD, England — Zionism is the national liberation movement of the Jewish people and the state of Israel is its political expression. Israel used to be a symbol of freedom and a source of pride for the Jews of the Diaspora. Israel’s mistreatment of the Palestinians, however, has turned it into a liability and a moral burden for the liberal segment of the Jewish community. Some Jews, especially on the left, would go even further by linking Israel’s behavior to the upsurge of the new anti-Semitism throughout the world.
Israel’s illegal occupation of the Palestinian territories since 1967 is the underlying problem. Occupation transformed the Zionist movement from a legitimate national liberation movement for the Jews into a colonial power and an oppressor of the Palestinians.
By Zionism today I mean the ideological, ultra-nationalist settlers and their supporters in the Likud-led government. These settlers are a tiny minority but they maintain a stranglehold over the Israeli political system. They represent the unacceptable face of Zionism. Zionism does not equal racism, but many of these hard-line settlers and their leaders are blatant racists. Their extremism and their excesses have led some people to start questioning not just the Zionist colonial project beyond the 1967 borders but also the legitimacy of the state of Israel within those borders. And it is these settlers who also endanger the safety and well-being of Jews everywhere.
Prime Minister Ariel Sharon personifies this xenophobic, exclusive, aggressive and expansionist brand of Zionism. One of the greatest accolades in Judaism is to be a rodeph shalom, a seeker of peace. Sharon is not that by any stretch of the imagination. He is a man of war and the champion of violent solutions.
Sharon’s purpose is politicide: to deny the Palestinians any independent political existence in Palestine. His plan for withdrawal from Gaza is called “the unilateral disengagement plan.” It is not a peace plan but a prelude to the annexation of large chunks of the West Bank to Israel. Sharon, the unilateralist par excellence, is a Jewish Rambo — the antithesis of the traditional Jewish values of truth, justice and tolerance.
Sharon’s government is waging a savage war against the Palestinian people. Its policies include the confiscation of land; the demolition of houses; the uprooting of trees; curfews, roadblocks and 736 checkpoints that inflict horrendous hardships; the systematic abuse of Palestinian human rights; and the building of the illegal wall on the West Bank, a wall that is as much about land-grabbing as it is about security.
It is this brand of cruel Zionism that is the real enemy of what remains of liberal Israel and of the Jews outside Israel. It is the enemy because it fuels the flames of virulent and sometimes violent anti-Semitism. Israel’s policies are the cause; hatred of Israel and anti-Semitism are the consequences.
There has been much talk in recent years about “the new anti-Semitism.” The argument, in a nutshell, is that the resurgence of anti-Semitism has little or nothing to do with Israel’s behavior. Anti-Zionism is merely a surrogate, so the argument runs, for bad, old-fashioned anti-Semitism.
These arguments need to be addressed. First: What is anti-Semitism? Isaiah Berlin defined an anti-Semite as “someone who hates Jews more than is strictly necessary!” This mischievous definition has the merit of applying to all anti-Semitism, old as well as new.
But we need to look beyond the labels. Is there a lot of classic anti-Semitism about? Yes. Is anti-Semitism spreading in Europe? Yes, at an alarming rate. Do some people use anti-Zionism as a respectable cover for their despicable Judeophobia? Alas, yes again. What is the relative weight of hatred of Israel on the one hand and Judeophobia on the other in the making of the new anti-Semitism? I don’t know.
What I do know is that a lot of decent people, without any anti-Semitic baggage, are furious with Israel because of its oppression of the Palestinians. There is simply no getting away from the fact that attitudes toward Israel are changing as a result of its own shift towards the Zionism of the extreme right and of the radical rabbis. During the years of the Oslo peace process, Israel was in fact the favorite of the West because it was willing to withdraw from the occupied territories.
Israel’s image today is negative not because it is a Jewish state but because it habitually transgresses the norms of acceptable international behavior. Indeed, Israel is increasingly perceived as a rogue state, as an international pariah, and as a threat to world peace.
This perception of Israel is a major factor in the recent resurgence of anti-Semitism in Europe and in the rest of the world. In this sense, Zionism today is the real enemy of the Jews. It is a tragedy that a state that was built as a haven for the Jewish people after the Holocaust is now one of the least safe places on earth for Jews to live in. Israel ought to withdraw from the occupied territories not as a favor to the Palestinians but as a favor to itself and to world Jewry for, as Karl Marx noted, a people that oppresses another cannot itself remain free.
Now, why would the New York Times, whose motto is “All The News That’s Fit to Print,” censor the viewpoint of a renowned Israeli historian writing on the causes of modern anti-Semitism?
What did Shlaim say that the editors at the Times thought was unfit for Americans to read?
“Israel’s image today is negative not because it is a Jewish state but because it habitually transgresses the norms of acceptable international behavior. Indeed, Israel is increasingly perceived as a rogue state, as an international pariah, and as a threat to world peace,” Shlaim, an Iraqi Jew who was born in Baghdad, wrote.
“This perception of Israel is a major factor in the recent resurgence of anti-Semitism in Europe and in the rest of the world. In this sense, Zionism today is the real enemy of the Jews.”
When one understands that the primary function of the Zionist-controlled media is to keep Americans in the dark about the Middle East and Zionism, it becomes clear why Shlaim’s article was published in the international publication owned by the New York Times but kept from their U.S. readership.
Shlaim’s comments would have greatly disturbed the carefully cultivated Zionist worldview of millions of Americans – both Jews and Gentiles – an audience that is both protected and held captive.
THE MEDIA COVER-UP OF 9-11
As an independent journalist I have seen how many important stories have been covered-up or ignored by the controlled media.
I have written about many of these suppressed stories, such as the sinking of the Estonia, the downing of Flight TWA 800, and the dangers of depleted uranium.
At the top of my list, however, is the most egregious and criminal cover-up of the evidence of 9-11.
“Ninety-five percent of the work of the intelligence agencies around the world is deception and disinformation,” German intelligence expert Andreas von Bülow told me in December 2001.
This deception is widely propagated in the mainstream media creating an accepted version of events.
“Journalists don’t even raise the simplest questions,” he said. “Those who differ are labeled as crazy.”
After the London press conference during Jimmy Walter‘s 2005 European 9-11 Truth tour, two reporters from the BBC were eager to interview me.
“Why are you the only journalist who does not believe the official explanation of what happened on 9-11?” was their first question.
The BBC interviewing the author in London
“If that is the case,” I told them, “it is probably due to the fact that others who have questioned the official version have lost their jobs as a result.”
The van was leaving for the hotel so I decided to cut the interview short. I could see where the interview was heading.
When FOX News and CNN interviewed me on the pretense that they were interested in my 9-11 research and evidence, all they really wanted to do was to smear me as an anti-Semite.
In both cases the interviewers were clearly not at all interested in the 9-11 evidence or my research.
Alan Samuel Colmes, a Jewish talking head for Fox News,
was not interested in discussing the evidence of 9-11
but only in trying to smear the author as an anti-Semite.
“WOE BETIDE HIM…”
“The dissident cannot be taken seriously,” the veteran British journalist Roland Huntford wrote about the mass media in his book The New Totalitarians. “There is a range of tolerated opinions, and a narrow one it is: woe betide him who departs from it.”
While Huntford was writing about the controlled media of Sweden in the 1970s, his comments hold true for the Zionist-controlled mass media in the United States today, particularly when the subject is 9-11 or Israel.
I, for example, have paid a very high price for investigating and writing about the evidence that contradicts the government’s version of what happened on 9-11. The first attack came from the Anti-Defamation League of B’nai B’rith (ADL) in November 2001.
The ADL, a private organization dedicated to supporting Zionist and Israeli interests, first smeared the American Free Press, the newspaper I wrote for, as a,
“conspiratorial and anti-Semitic weekly newspaper,” which it said had “repeatedly turned to the subject of the 9-11 attacks as grist for its mill.”
“Bollyn suggests that the ‘mainstream media’ is ignoring eyewitness accounts of bombs that exploded inside the World Trade Center before the collapse of the TwinTowers.”
Indeed, the first line of my article from September 2001 said exactly that:
Despite reports from numerous eyewitnesses and experts, including news reporters on the scene, who heard or saw explosions immediately before the collapse of the World Trade Center, there has been virtual silence in the mainstream media.
But, I asked,
Why would an organization dedicated to Israeli and Jewish interests attack me, as a journalist, for writing about eyewitness reports of explosions in the World Trade Center?
What did my writing about this extremely newsworthy subject have to do with Israel or Jews?
Had my BBC interview gone on, I might have asked why the BBC editors had ignored and censored the comments of their own reporter, Steve Evans, who had been in the SouthTower (WTC 2) when it was hit and who reported having observed a “series of explosions.” Shortly after the destruction of the WTC, the BBC interviewed Evans on their television news program based in London.
Because Evans’ observations were ignored by the BBC and not followed up, I wrote about his report of the explosions he felt in the SouthTower:
Evans was asked what he had seen:
“Its more what I felt really,” Evans said. “I was at the base of the 2nd tower, the second tower that was hit. There was an explosion – I didn’t think it was an explosion – but the base of the building shook. I felt it shake… then when we were outside, the second explosion happened and then there was a series of explosions…”
[At this point the London news anchor cut Evans off in mid-sentence rather than listen to Evans continue to describe the "series of explosions" that he saw and felt. Evans' microphone was turned down.]
But in a minute Evans returns to the “series of explosions” that he witnessed:
“We can only wonder at the kind of damage – the kind of human damage – which was caused by those explosions – those series of explosions,” Evans said.
Evans is a professional journalist and his observations of explosions in the second tower need to be taken into account by anybody looking into the cause of the catastrophe of September 11.
Many eyewitnesses reported similar explosions, but these reports, and what they suggest, are intentionally being censored and avoided by the very people who are supposed to be investigating the cause of the collapses. The same kind of censorship occurred with FOX News, CNN, and the leading U.S. news networks that had reporters at the World Trade Center.
Firsthand reports of explosions at the WTC from professional reporters were broadcast only once – and never picked up again, except by the much-despised “conspiracy theorists.”
The news reports that five Middle Eastern men were being sought or had been captured in New Jersey after they had videotaped themselves celebrating in front of the burning towers were treated in the same way.
The arrest of the five men, all Israelis, two of whom were known Mossad agents, was only reported in the Bergen Record (New Jersey) on September 12, 2001 – but never discussed or investigated by the national news networks.
ISRAELIS FOREWARNED
Likewise, the story of the Odigo text message warning of the attacks – before they occurred – was dropped into the media’s memory hole. The instant text messages, which were precise to the minute, had been sent via the Israeli-owned Odigo instant messaging service and had even been received by Odigo employees in Israel, but the story of Israelis having prior knowledge of the attacks was never discussed in the U.S. mass media.
How did the news editors at the BBC, FOX News, CNN, and the leading networks decide to censor their own reporters and avoid discussing certain aspects of 9-11?
Let’s look at this logically.
The 9-11 event was the biggest story these news editors had ever handled. Suffice it to say that the editorial decisions about how to cover 9-11 must have been made by the boss at the top.
Any decision to omit or censor reports about explosions at the World Trade Center or indications of Israeli involvement would have been made by the senior executive of each network. In the case of CNN it would have been Gerald M. Levin, the CEO of Time Warner, who acquired Turner Broadcasting in 1997. (Levin unexpectedly announced his resignation in December 2001, less than three months after 9-11.)
At FOX News the top decision maker would have been Rupert Murdoch, CEO of News Corporation. At ABC News it would have been Michael D. Eisner, CEO of Disney, the network’s parent company.
Were the media moguls Murdoch, Levin, and Eisner involved in 9-11?
How else could they know that certain aspects of the event needed to be suppressed by their news networks?
Their networks have been suppressing important information about 9-11 since the day of the event.
They have also been actively involved in a conspiracy to cover-up the truth.
How can that be?
Who is behind this cover-up?
What occult power, what hidden hand, would be able to communicate with these men and influence them to suppress important reports and evidence from the terror attacks of 9-11?
ARNON MILCHAN – MOSSAD’S MAN IN THE MIDDLE
If one considers the known evidence of Israeli prior knowledge of 9-11, the Odigo text messages and the five arrested Mossad agents, for example, as indicative of Israeli state involvement in the crime, the identity of the occult power behind the cover-up is rather obvious.
The “hidden hand” suppressing the information about 9-11 would have to be a high-level person in the Israeli political-military intelligence establishment who also has very close relations with media kingpins like Murdoch, Levin, and Eisner.
Arnon Milchan (a.k.a. Milchen) is such a person.
While millions of Americans have watched his films, such as Pretty Woman and JFK, very few know that Arnon Milchan is a “best friend” of Shimon Peres (born Szymon Perski in Wiszniewo, Poland) the current Israeli president and godfather of Israel’s nuclear arsenal.
The Israeli movie producer Arnon Milchan (between Peres and Netanyahu) is a close friend of
Israel’s president Shimon Peres (“his first letter he wrote as president went to me”),
Defense Minister Ehud Barak, and Likud Party leader Binyamin (“Bibi”) Netanyahu.
Milchan, who began his career with the fertilizer/chemical company Milchan Brothers,
reportedly owns 30 companies in 17 countries involved in plastics, electronics, communications, and pharmaceuticals.
Milchan’s 40-year friendship with Peres, the man who oversaw the illegal development of Israel’s nuclear weapon program is key to understanding Milchan’s career as an undercover operative, weapons procurer, and film producer.
The fact that Milchan, the Hollywood producer, has been Israel’s “foremost weapons procurer” for decades, brokering deals for “everything from nuclear triggers to rocket fuel to guidance systems,” is seldom mentioned in the U.S. news media.
This is probably due to the fact that Milchan is also a “best friend” and business partner of Rupert Murdoch. He is also a friend a business partner with Levin (Warner Brothers) and Eisner.
“I consider him one of my best friends,” Milchan said about Murdoch, “and I think vice versa. We’re having a ball. He’s a very cool guy.”
“Kingpins like Warner Brothers’ Gerald Levin and Disney’s Michael Eisner are quick to return his calls,” the American Jewish journalist Ann Louise Bardach wrote about Milchan in her article ‘The Last Tycoon‘ in April 2000.
In 1997, after a six-year relationship with Warner Brothers, Milchan became a partner with Murdoch, selling him twenty percent of his film company, New Regency Productions, for $200 million. Murdoch also invested another $30 million in Regency Television.
Today, Murdoch’s equity partnership with Milchan is close to fifty percent.
“Milchan’s deal with Fox also assures him a level of financial security,” Bardach wrote. “With Murdoch’s $200 million investment and a subsequent $600 million line of credit from a team of banks led by Chase Manhattan, Milchan is well into mogul territory.
“Milchan’s tony offices occupy most of Building 12, right next door to the Executive Building on the Fox lot,” Bardach wrote. “And it is from this seat of power that Milchan is building an entertainment empire that could one day rival Murdoch’s.”
Peter Chernin, president and chief operating officer of Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation, left,
presents Arnon Milchan with a lifetime achievement award at an event celebrating
the 60th Anniversary of the state of Israel in Los Angeles on September 18, 2008.
Chernin, Murdoch, and Milchan have worked together for many years.
THE MILCHAN INFLUENCE
The Israeli influence in films and news media has profoundly affected the quality of news reporting and entertainment.
Israeli attitudes and ideas are now disseminated through national media outlets which reach the entire U.S. population on a daily basis. Israeli-made films often reveal hints or clues about actual crimes or criminal plots the Israeli producers are aware of.
One such project, The Lone Gunmen, produced by Milchan’s “best friend” Rupert Murdoch, had an uncanny resemblance to the 9-11 attacks on the World Trade Center. Was this Milchan’s influence? The Milchan-Murdoch partnership in television production may be key to understanding the genesis of the plot of the pilot episode of this short-lived television series. In the first episode a passenger airliner is hijacked by remote control and flown toward the World Trade Center.
Disaster is averted at the last minute by over-riding the computer program that has hijacked the plane.
The Lone Gunmen, produced by Rupert Murdoch in 2000, revealed an extremely uncanny prescience of 9-11(click above image).
During the same year it was made, Milchan was producing two television series in collaboration with Fox Television: Roswell, which aired on Warner Brothers network, and Malcolm in the Middle, which was aired on Fox. The Lone Gunmen pilot episode aired on FOX Television in March 2001.
Given the long, close, and extensive collaboration between Murdoch and Milchan, it seems fair to ask:
Was Arnon Milchan the original source of the plotline for The Lone Gunmen?
Why were the people involved in the production of this episode not investigated by the media?
Why did the media ignore its own uncanny prescience, The Lone Gunmen episode, which mirrored reality six months later?
Was the similarity between the Murdoch-produced show and reality too close for comfort?
Was it too uncomfortable to discuss the origin of the idea for the show?
Apparently so.
Was the Israeli chemical magnate Arnon Milchan the author of
the plotline for The Lone Gunmen pilot episode in which a passenger airplane
was remotely hijacked and flown into the World Trade Center?
In Milchan’s highly-controversial film JFK (1991), directed by Oliver Stone, the assassination of President John F. Kennedy is ascribed to conspirators within the U.S. military-industrial complex.
Whose idea was this? Why is Arnon Milchan’s own connection with Itzhak Rabin, who was in Dallas on the day Kennedy was shot, not an issue here?
In his futuristic film Brazil (1985), directed by Terry Gilliam, terrorist explosions go off in cafes for no apparent reason, very much like the seemingly senseless terrorism that plagues occupied Iraq.
Is this Milchan’s influence?
“Anyone closely associated with Peres pretty well must be satanic,” Barry Chamish, a Canadian-Israeli wrote, “but Milchan produced a film that shows he has insider information.”
Chamish advises his readers to watch The Devil’s Advocate with Al Pacino to “understand the implication.”
“Milchan runs his company like a family business. Heading up New Regency Productions for him is his childhood friend David Matalon, whose parents were best friends with Milchan’s,” Bardach wrote.
“Daughter Alexandra [Milchan-Lambert] is vice president of production in Los Angeles.”
Matalon has served as president and CEO of New Regency Productions since 1995.
In 1986, Matalon, an Israeli co-founder of Tri-Star pictures, released a film entitled Iron Eagle, in which the aerial combat scenes were filmed entirely with the Israeli Air Force. The plot of this film is about how a few teenagers are able to steal U.S. military codes, aircraft, and information from under the noses of the military brass and run an entire military operation in which they bomb Libya without the knowledge of the military command.
This film gives some indication of the kind of projects and ideas the Israeli military has collaborated on with their fellow Israelis in Hollywood.
THE SECRETIVE MOGUL
“Averse to publicity and little known outside Hollywood” is how Arnon Milchan’s biography begins. “My idea of a good profile is no profile,” Milchan told Bardach.
Murdoch, Levin, and Eisner have obviously respected the Israeli’s wish, but why would a Hollywood mogul not want to be known to the public?
“Arnon Milchan has kept his secrets to himself,” Bardach wrote.
Arnon Milchan with Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie
Indeed, very little is known about Milchan, Israel’s super weapons agent, except that he spends more time in Tel Aviv and France than he does in his office on the 20th Century Fox lot in Los Angeles, according to Bardach.
Now, why would a Hollywood movie producer spend more time in Tel Aviv, where no movies are being made, than in Hollywood?
POLISH ZIONIST ROOTS
Milchan was born on December 6, 1944, on the Zionist settlement of Rehovot, in what was then Palestine, according to his biography in Current Biography (2000). Rehovot, one of the earliest Zionist settlements, was founded in 1890 by Polish and Russian Jews, one of whom was Milchan’s paternal grandfather.
Rehovot has a street and a neighborhood named “Milchen”, no doubt in memory of his grandfather.
“My family’s been there for 500 years,” Milchan told Bardach.
“My grandfather was a very close friend of President [Chaim] Weizmann.”
Oddly, Bardach does not provide the name of his grandfather who was “a very close friend” of Israel’s first president. Nor does she give the name of the ancestors Milchan proudly claims have lived in Palestine for five hundred years.
“Milchan’s father was an enviable success story himself, having laid the sprinklers that irrigated Israel,” Bardach wrote. “Later, he would handle some of Israel’s lucrative military contracts, according to his son.”
Bardach continues:
However, it was young Milchan who put the company on the map internationally, after his father’s sudden death. Following a spot of schooling in London and Geneva, where he excelled in soccer and tennis, Milchan dropped out and returned to Israel. Soon, he struck gold.
By marketing a newly discovered nutrient that quadrupled citrus production, he brought his company stratospheric sales throughout the world.
“This is a man who made his fortune by screwing with nature,” says screenwriter Shawn Slovo, who began her career as Milchan’s secretary in 1977. “He’s the Israeli who made the desert bloom. Amazing when you think about it. He could have retired at the age of 22.”
Instead, like a kid racing around the Monopoly board, Milchan gobbled up another half dozen businesses–including electronics, chemicals, aerospace and plastics.
Still in his early twenties, he met the Shah of Iran and reportedly talked the wily Persian into dozens of contracts, one to build much of Tehran’s airport.
When one considers that Arnon Milchan, in his early twenties, was among the founders of Israel’s Labor Party in the 1960s with Shimon Peres, Moshe Dayan, and Teddy Kolleck, then one can appreciate that his contracts in Iran and his career in arms dealing and Hollywood have been done with the active collaboration of the Mossad.
“I’M AN AGENT”
Milchan is a,
“go-between for American weapons manufacturers and the Israeli government, thus playing a major role in the strengthening of the Israeli military,” according to Current Biography (2000).
“Throughout the 1970s, 1980s, and even up until the Gulf War in 1991, Milchan was Israel’s foremost weapons procurer, brokering deals for such prized superweapons as the Hawk missile and the famous Scud-foil of the Gulf War, the Patriot,” Bardach wrote.
“At different times in his career, his Israeli company, Milchan Brothers, has represented arms manufacturers such as Raytheon, North American Rockwell, Beechcraft, Bell Helicopter and Magnavox. Or, as Milchan downplays it, “there were a bunch of them.”
Nevertheless, he bristles at being called an arms dealer.
“I’m their rep in Israel,” he says emphatically. “I get a fee, a commission. I’m not even the buyer. I’m an agent.”
“What we do is send my people to the United States,” Milchan told Bardach, “so we know what these guys are talking about, and you go back and say to the buyer, ‘I think this guy has some interesting stuff. Would you meet with him?’ And then you arrange a meeting with the head of the [Israeli] air force and the head of this and the head of that.”
In 1992, Milchan was described by the Jerusalem Post as being “among the handful of Hollywood moguls with the muscle and money to single-handedly give the go-ahead for a new movie project.
The Mossad is undoubtedly the source of much of Milchan’s “muscle and money.”
Who pays Milchan’s commissions? Whether the commission is paid by the weapon’s vendor or by the state of Israel, the money going to Milchan is American money. He is paid either by the company or from the billions of U.S. taxpayer dollars provided to Israel for weapons every year.
In this way, Milchan, Mossad’s man in the middle, has been greatly enriched by U.S. weapons sales to Israel.
“BIG STAR” TO RAYTHEON
In 1975, for example, Milchan reportedly received an improper $300,000 commission paid by a Raytheon subsidiary for the sale of Hawk missiles.
Raytheon makes the Patriot and Hawk missile systems and key components of the Global Hawk. Of particular interest is Raytheon’s Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) which allow remote operators to pilot the Global Hawk from “thousands of miles away.” This is the kind of technology that is thought to have been used in the terror attacks of 9-11.
Terry Gilliam told Bardach that he’ll never forget a visit to the Paris Air Show with Milchan during the filming of Baron Munchausen.
“It was wonderful to see how the whole arms business worked,” Gilliam said. “Arnon was very psyched about the video games. He brought his son with him, who was then a teenager, to play the games, which can replicate the destruction of the planet. He took me to the Raytheon booth, and it was all showmanship. He was obviously a big star to Raytheon.”
“Growing up, I would read that he was an arms dealer; he was in the Mossad, and he was a movie producer,” his daughter Alexandra told Bardach.
She is married to a Scott Lambert, an agent with William Morris in Beverley Hills and graduate of American University in Washington, D.C. (Lambert happens to share the same name of a former Director of Manufacturing Systems at Raytheon.)
MODUS OPERANDI
When one looks at Milchan’s career as an Israeli agent who bought media outlets with dirty money one should consider that this may be the modus operandi he has employed to gain influence and outlets in the U.S. media market.
Money laundering could explain his ability to make huge deals and control media networks – and his desire for secrecy.
“He’s extremely powerful because he brings money to the table,” journalist Anita Busch wrote.
“He’s unique in that way. He’s got a credit line that’s astronomical, like, you know, almost a billion dollars.” Terry Gilliam, the director of Brazil, wondered where the money came from. “Arnon can be great, but when it comes to money there’s something – I don’t know – bits just don’t seem to connect.”
Charles McKeown, a film writer, had a hard time getting paid by the billion dollar Israeli.
“You just never know whether he was telling the truth or not,” McKeown said.
“The kind of deals he was in, the level of finance and the way he operated, seemed to me like a world upside down. I felt we were dealing with a sort of dangerous, shady quality.”
MONEY LAUNDERER
In 1975, the Israeli government headed by Yitzhak Rabin and Defense Minister Shimon Peres recruited Milchan to launder money from South Africa.
Milchan,
“has admitted laundering some of the more than $100 million spent by the South Africans during the 1970s in an attempt to improve the white government’s image abroad,” according to the authors of The Iran-Contra Connection.
Because both Israel and South Africa were ostracized in the 1970s,
“The money laundering was part of the two countries’ plan to buy newspapers and other media in various parts of the world,” his biography reads.
“The Rabin government recruited… Milchan to launder cash… to purchase influential publications,” Andrew and Leslie Cockburn wrote in their book Dangerous Liaison.
THE MIDDLEMAN
Milchan told Bardach he was asked by,
“prominent Israelis if ‘we can use your companies to make deals to buy newspapers.’ I said, ‘Sure. It sounds like fun.’ Basically, I was used as a middleman.”
A citizen of both Israel and Monaco, he is said to control thirty companies in seventeen countries, profiting in everything from film production to the weapons trade.
But, how does one man control thirty companies in seventeen countries? Clearly there must be an entire team behind these businesses.
Milchan’s team could be called Team Mossad.
“I’ll say it in my own words,” Milchan told Bardach. “I love Israel, and any way I can help Israel, I will. I’ll do it again and again. If you say I’m an arms dealer, that’s your problem. In Israel, there is practically no business that does not have something to do with defense.”
Milchan also funds Christian Zionist movements.
Milchan has reportedly contributed significantly to the Christian Coalition, an organization started by the Reverend Pat Robertson, a staunch supporter of Israel. He also underwrites the Israeli Network which transmits Israeli television programs to the United States and Canada via cable and satellite.
Milchan is also an owner of the Israeli television station known as Channel 10. The other owners are Ronald Lauder, who like Milchan owned about twenty-five percent, and Josef (Yossi) Maiman, who owns fifty-one percent and who has been with Channel 10 since it was founded in 2003. Rupert Murdoch bought nine percent of Channel 10 stock from Milchan and Lauder in 2006. Maiman, a Mossad agent, owns and controls a great deal of the gas fields of Turkmenistan.
One of the main goals of the occupation of Afghanistan is to build a pipeline to bring the Israeli-owned gas of Turkmenistan to India and China.
(Maiman and Lauder are both linked to the Mossad and 9-11. For more on Maiman read my article, “The Great Game: The War For Caspian Oil And Gas.” Information about Lauder can be found in “Mossad -The Israeli Connection To 9-11″)
SMUGGLING NUCLEAR TRIGGERS
Milchan should have been busted in 1985 for smuggling triggers for nuclear bombs, when a business associate, Richard Kelly Smyth, was indicted by a federal grand jury in Los Angeles on charges of smuggling 810 krytrons to Israel.
Because krytrons are used as detonators or triggers for nuclear weapons, their export is tightly regulated.
In 1973, Smyth started a company called Milco International, Inc., financed, according to the Washington Post, by Milchan, hence its name. Up to eighty percent of Milco’s business was reportedly with Milchan and Israel. In 1980, the federal indictment asserted, Smyth and Milco sent 610 krytrons to Israel without the necessary licenses, plus another 200 in 1982.
The 1985 indictment identified the Israeli buyers of the nuclear triggers as Heli Trading Ltd. and Milchan Brothers, two of Milchan’s Israel-based companies. Federal authorities told NBC News in 1993 that Milchan also shared in the profits derived from the sales.
Announcement of the indictments came four days after the Israeli Defense Ministry, reacting to news of the grand jury probe, admitted that it had the devices, known as krytrons. The krytrons were shipped between 1979 and 1983 to an Israeli firm under contract to the government for defense work.
The Israeli Ministry of Defense returned only 469 of the krytrons, and Smyth vanished a week before he was to appear for trial.
PROTECTING ISRAEL
Robert C. Bonner, the U.S. attorney in Los Angeles, refused to comment on questions about whether the Israeli government had been involved in the illegal actions.
State Department spokesman Edward Djerejian said,
“I can only note that the indictment does not mention any Israeli citizen.”
Djerejian added that the United States,
“has expressed its serious concern to the Israeli government about this alleged violation of U.S. law” and had been assured that Israel will cooperate with the continuing U.S. investigation “to the full extent permitted under Israeli law.”
“Smyth’s disappearance, and the unwillingness of Israeli officials to cooperate with U.S. investigators on the case, left federal authorities unable to proceed,” Robert Windrem of NBC News reported in July 2001.
Although Milchan is not mentioned in the indictment, a Milco employe, Gretel Siler, who identified herself as corporate treasurer of Milco, told the Washington Post that Milchan had been associated with Milco in various export transactions and had been involved in purchasing the krytrons from the manufacturer, EG&G, of Wellesley, Mass.
Milchan denied being involved in the $60,000 krytron deal, but told “60 Minutes” (CBS) that he had allowed the Israeli government to use his companies as conduits for trading with the United States.
“I’m not saying I’m an innocent person – but in this specific case, I knew nothing about it,” Milchan told Frank Rose of Premiere magazine.
In any case, Milchan was never charged in the case.
Robert Mainhardt, a nuclear scientist and former director of Milco, told “60 Minutes” that he had resigned after Milchan had asked him to obtain advanced nuclear reactor designs and a supply of uranium hexachloride, which is used in the enrichment of bomb-grade uranium. Mainhardt’s fellow directors at Milco, Arthur Biehl and Ivan Getting began to feel uneasy sometime in 1982, the Washington Post reported.
The Washington Post did a series of articles about this smuggling.
The most important excerpts are the following:
When they joined the board of directors of Milco International in 1980, Biehl and Getting recalled, they thought the company’s primary business was developing aerospace software for U.S. military and space programs.
They had been recruited by the company’s owner, Richard K. Smyth, while serving with him on an influential panel that advises the U.S. Air Force on advanced technologies, work that required them to have top-secret clearances.
But they soon realized that Smyth, a California-based computer expert, spent most of his time trying to buy equipment with military applications, including a uranium byproduct known as “green salt” that can be processed into weapons-grade uranium, for the government of Israel.
Often, they said, the sales were made through an Israeli middleman, Arnon Milchan, a flamboyant businessman who sold arms before becoming a producer of such popular movies as the recent Brazil.
“I didn’t have any evidence there was anything improper,” Biehl said. “I just thought it was a strange way to do business… I wondered why the Israelis were paying fees to (Milco and Milchan) when they could get the same equipment directly” using U.S. foreign aid.
In late 1982, Biehl and Getting resigned from Milco’s board of directors, in part because of their misgivings about Smyth’s dealings with Milchan and Israel.
Asked why Israel didn’t buy the krytrons through its 200-member procurement staff in New York, which buys military equipment with $1.8 billion in annual U.S. aid, Yossi Gal, spokesman with the Israeli Embassy in Washington DC, told the Post that Israel occasionally used “independent agents” to make purchases.
Under U.S. laws, Smyth needed a munitions license from the State Department to ship the krytrons overseas. If he had tried to obtain one, according to a knowledgeable State Department source, he would have been turned down because Israel has not signed the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty.
Smyth’s relations with Israel began in the early 1970s when he was working for North American Rockwell as a chief engineer in its avionics division and traveled to Israel to help set up a subsidiary. There, he met Milchan, who was Rockwell’s representative and “point man” with the Israeli government, according to an associate of Smyth from that period.
In January 1973, Smyth founded Milco while still working at Rockwell. His associate recalled Smyth once saying that Milchan provided money to start Milco; this associate said he believes that the name Milco was derived from Milchan.
At the time that Milco was founded, former U.S. intelligence officials said, the Central Intelligence Agency knew that Israel was working to perfect a solid-fuel tactical missile, known as the Jericho, that could carry nuclear warheads. In late 1973, Smyth’s associate recalled, he saw Milco order forms for several barrels of a butyl compound used to bind explosive powders into solid rocket fuel. Smyth said he was shipping the butyl to Milchan through another company he owned in Houston, the associate recalled.
Smyth’s next known contact with Israel occurred in 1975, about a year after he left Rockwell to run Milco full time. On Oct. 30 of that year, Smyth applied for a munitions license to ship 400 krytrons to Heli Trading Inc., Milchan’s company in Israel.
The application, which is filed in court records in Los Angeles, said that the “end user” would be Rehovot Instruments Ltd. and that the krytrons would be used as “remotely located intrusion detectors.”
Smyth filed the application after being told by an official from an unnamed U.S. intelligence agency that a license was required, according to court records.
Smyth met with the official and told him that,
“Arnon Milchan [had] requested that a certain number of krytrons be shipped to Israel,” according to a letter filed by William Fahey, the prosecutor in the current case.
Internal Milco records, provided by former Smyth associates, show that the company struggled financially from 1975 to 1980. It landed several small contracts for less than $25,000 with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and the Air Force for studies on computer software for avionics systems in advanced aircraft, the MX missile and a small ship defense missile called the Patriot.
It was also in 1980, the federal indictment alleged, that Milco sent 610 krytrons to Israel in 11 shipments without obtaining the needed licenses. Smyth bought them from EG&G in Salem, Mass., the sole producer of the switches in the United States.
In mid-1981, Smyth listed several contracts with Heli Trading to acquire training simulators for Hawk air defense missiles, a voice scrambler and lasers. He also cited “probable” contracts for a computerized flight control system for Israel’s Lavi fighter plane, and thermal batteries and gyroscopes.
James Russell, vice president of Incosym Inc., a maker of gyroscopes in Thousand Oaks, Calif., said he sold Milco several $10,000 gyroscopes in that period. Smyth told him the navigation aids would be used on Israeli navy patrol boats. Milco also won a flight control contract for the Lavi in 1983, according to a listing in Aviation Week magazine.
Smyth’s world started to crumble in early 1983 after someone broke into Milco’s offices and took several thousand dollars worth of computer and software equipment.
Because he was doing some classified U.S. government work and feared some records of it might have been stolen, Smyth wrote a lengthy report about the theft for the Pentagon and the Federal Bureau of Investigation, then-company attorney Brian R. Carter said.
Milco company records revealed that Milchan’s companies had ordered large quantities of missile-related equipment and materials between 1977 and 1982.
Among the nuclear items listed were the 810 krytrons, plus neutron generators, high-speed oscilloscopes and high-voltage condensers, according to a 1996 paper on Israel’s Nuclear Weapon Capability by the Wisconsin Project on Nuclear Arms Control.
In August 1985, U.S. Customs subpoenaed the financial records linking Smyth and Milchan. The records were neither turned over nor found.
Smyth and his wife disappeared just days before his scheduled trial, which almost certainly would have involved Milchan.
“There were so many…indictments that they probably decided just to get out,” Mainhardt, who operates a security business in Dublin, California, said. “If I had to make a guess, I’d say they’re in Israel.”
“Let’s assume that there’s nothing that Israel and the United States do separately,” Milchan told Bardach. “Smyth, a U.S. fugitive for more than a decade, was last seen in Herzliya Pituach, an affluent suburb of Tel Aviv, where Milchan owns a home,” Bardach wrote in 2000.
In July 2001, Smyth was arrested in Malaga, Spain. Smyth pleaded guilty in December to one count of violating the Arms Export Control Act and one count of making a false statement to Customs agents. Prosecutors dropped twenty-eight other counts.
On April 29, 2002 Smyth was sentenced to forty months in federal prison and fined $20,000 for illegally exporting to Israel the devices that are used as triggers for nuclear weapons.
Smyth, 72, was immediately made eligible for parole at his sentencing.
MILCHAN AND PERES
“In Israel, Milchan spends much of his time with best friend Shimon Peres,” Bardach wrote.
She continued, “Milchan’s political connections would prove to be the foundation of his future empire. In addition to agriculture, there would be biotechnology, advertising, aerospace, and the biggest jackpot of them all – arms.”
Arnon Milchan is deeply engaged in chemicals and helped build Israel’s nuclear arsenal,
which was developed by his good friend Shimon Peres.
What does he know about the super-thermite that demolished the World Trade Center?
In 1953, at age thirty, Shimon Peres was appointed by Israel’s first prime minister, David Ben Gurion, to become Director-General of the Ministry of Defense.
Within three years, Peres had laid the foundation for Israel’s nuclear weapon program, according to the Wisconsin Project on Nuclear Arms Control. Peres started Israel’s program to develop nuclear power and nuclear weapons by convincing the French to help Israel build a secret nuclear reactor beginning about 1957. He chose France as the major supplier, arranged the sale of a nuclear reactor, and spent the next decade overseeing the construction of the Dimona nuclear weapon production complex.
Peres is the one who came up with Israel’s most often repeated nuclear declaration. At an April 1963 meeting in the White House, Peres responded to President John F. Kennedy’s questions about Israel’s nuclear program by saying:
“Israel will not be the first to introduce nuclear weapons to the Middle East.”
Two years later, Prime Minister Levi Eshkol elevated Peres’s words to Israel’s official nuclear line.
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(RedactedNews) – In 1977 Elvis Presley, “King of Rock and Roll”, died. Since his death, sightings of Elvis around the world have numbered in the tens of thousands. In 2001 Osama bin Laden, CIA asset and critic of Israel’s policies in Palestine, died. Since his death several video tapes and a string of audio recordings have been attributed to him.
In a sense, bin Laden has become “Elvis bin Laden,” the “King of Terrorism”. However, unlike the real Elvis, whose musical legacy will live forever, the legacy of “Elvis bin Laden”, the “Al Qaeda” organization and the illusory underground Tora Bora “terror-plex” is only kept alive by the charlatans of the military-industrial complex and their media partners.
NOT ANOTHER PHONY BIN LADEN TAPE…
A new “bin Laden tape,” audio only, reputed to sound “something like bin Laden,” was released today. Media insiders have, for years now, referred to bin Laden as “Elvis bin Laden,” a name coined by UPI’s Arnaud de Borchgrave.
“THERE AREN’T ONE OF THOSE, THERE ARE MANY OF THOSE”…Donald Rumsfeld, former Secretary of Defense
“10 YEARS AND STILL LOOKING…STILL LOOKING…STILL LOOKING…WHAT WE NEED IS RUMSFELD STRAPPED DOWN, A FLASHLIGHT, A BLOWTORCH AND A PROCTOLOGIST.“…Gordon Duff, Veterans Today
CIA OR CIA AND MOSSAD
You see, across the Islamic world, Osama bin Laden’s obituary was front page news back in 2001. His “obit” was in the papers then because that was when he died.
In the years since his death, bin Laden, or more correctly “Elvis bin Laden,” has been a busy boy. The first crude attempts at videos, routinely “found” on the internet by an Israeli group, were laughable. Actors playing bin Laden were chosen like department store Santas. Eventually the videos ceased and Elvis bin Laden went “audio cassette only”, but audio experts quickly debunked these as phony also.
The most recent Elvis bin Laden debacle, one those of us in the media have been dreading as we are tired of writing about this trash, has the long dead bin Laden discussing the fate of two French journalists held in Afghanistan. A few minor inconsistencies are ignored, as is one very major inconsistency, which we will deal with in a moment:
The Taliban managed to supply video of the kidnapped journalists, but only audio of Elvis Bin Laden. Perhaps the physical deterioration of years of decomposition has made him camera shy;
The Taliban, warlike, proud Pashtun tribesmen of Afghanistan and Pakistan never accepted bin Laden or any Arab as a leader. In fact, Arabs are barely tolerated as guests, when they “behave”, and then only because the teachings of the Koran demand it. They are not held in esteem and are seen by the Taliban as a nuisance.
As “leaders” or “fighters”, Afghan tribesmen look on outsiders as amateurs, something a thousand years of history seems to support quite easily. In Afghanistan and Pakistan current estimates of Arab strength, a group the US labels as “Al Qaida,” is less than 20. No Arab, especially not one who has been dead for a decade, would ever be allowed to speak for the Taliban.
THE ASSANGE FACTOR
Elvis bin Laden and Julian Assange of Wikileaks have one very major thing in common, both are very “sensitive” to the needs and feelings of Israel. Osama bin Laden, when actually alive, continually berated the United States as being controlled by Israel. The real bin Laden couldn’t order tea without using the word “Zionist”. The phony bin Laden tapes have a “Wikileaks” aspect to them.
They come from Israeli sources
They blame America and Arabs for everything
They call for attacks on America, implying that Israel’s actions against Palestinians are entirely America’s responsibility.
TWO HEADS OF THE SAME COIN
Elvis bin Laden, like Julian Assange, seems to have a powerful “pro-Israel” filter. In continual calls for “holy war”, there is always a suspicious absence of calls to actually attack Israel. Targets are always “America and the West”, even during “Operation Cast Lead”, the Israeli attack on Gaza, which killed thousands of civilians. Elvis bin Laden, instead of calling for a holy war or “Jihad” against Israel, for some strange reason said the following:
Calling Arab leaders “hypocrites”….. “liberating Jerusalem needed honest Arab leadership….It has become clear that some Arab leaders were complicit with the Crusade Zionist alliance against our people”.
Elvis bin Laden then called the Gaza attacks an “historic event and a tragedy”. In place of a the murderous Jihad of Osama bin Laden, Elvis bin Laden called for “devoted committee from the Islamic world to establish an advisory body”.
Does blaming Arab leaders have a familiar “Wiki-ring? Despite Elvis bin Laden’s mention of “Crusader Zionists”, those he holds responsible for Israel’s targeted attack on Gaza schools and hospitals using cluster bombs, depleted uranium and white phosphorous, all war crimes and crimes against humanity, not a word about Israel. No, Elvis bin Laden, like Julian Assange, blames Arabs but mostly blames America.
“Crusader-Zionists” are Americans, Evangelical “Christians”, the “Israel-firsters” that Israel lobbies for money, but “throws under a bus” when “blamin’ time” comes. Elvis bin Laden doesn’t blame Israel nor considers Operation Cast Lead a war crime. He calls it an “historic event and a tragedy”. Murder can be an historic event. Murder can be a tragedy. Murder, however, is still murder. Someone needs to remind “Elvis bin Laden” of that.
Our Elvis bin Laden, like Wikileaks Julian Assange, certainly sounds Israeli, but not just Israeli. Elvis bin Laden never demands attacks on Israel. In fact, he never even suggests that Israel bears any responsibility whatsoever. To the new guitar playing bin Laden, Zionism is an American problem.
Assange, however, is far more insidious than bin Laden was ever accused of being. He doesn’t just censor things for Israel, but actively plants “leaks” fabricated by Israel as disinformation. This has been both admitted and widely acknowledged.
Assange lives to punish the enemies of Israel’s ultra-nationalist faction. In America, collecting money for an orphanage, which takes in children whose parents were killed by drone attacks, is considered “material support of terrorism” and makes one subject to immediate rendition. Under this policy, long deemed “legal” by the United States and Britain, Julian Assange would have been named an “enemy combatant” and taken to Bulgaria, Poland or perhaps Southern Sudan for torture or even a shallow grave.
With him would go every person helping him, his “co-conspirators”, not merely a dozen employees at the New York Times, the Guardian and other papers, but his “special internet friends” as well. Anyone who can’t see that amongst his “best friends” and co-conspirators the best of all is Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel, simply isn’t paying attention.
Much the same, Elvis bin Laden seems to be equally allied with Netanyahu. If “bin Laden” – albeit a “ghost”, an actors voice on an audio tape or a clownish stooge in Arab “fancy dress” as though going to a masquerade – is considered a terrorist, isn’t Israel, indeed Netanyahu himself, to be considered equally complicit?
Consider this. If bin Laden was responsible for 9/11 why is it that the only terrorists arrested on 9/11 worked for Israel? Five Israelis, dubbed the “dancing Israeli’s for their celebration of joy, later admitted on live television that they were sent to “document the attack.” Of course, the more likely scenario is that this Mossad camera crew was there to guide the planes to their targets, given that they were strategically set up well in advance of the attack, cameras perfectly aligned for either filming the most dramatic footage since Zapruder…
Or were they “painting” the World Trade Center towers with target lasers? Was it something else? 10 weeks of interrogation and they were shuttled back to Israel while Americans hunted for that other bin Laden, by that time dying, his last CIA paycheck uncashed.
Assange, Elvis bin Laden, custom leaks on demand, bizarre threats from a dead man, all have the same things in common. They are two heads on the same coin. Both are Israel.
Assange, now fighting exposure by feinting at attacking Israel, is trying to appear less the Mossad operative by “releasing” stories through selected newspapers and claiming they are secret documents.
Bin Laden, however, remains a mixed bag. His messages are supposedly intended to recruit and inspire real terrorists yet continually advocate only the death of American troops. The even more ridiculous coincidence, if you consider such things either ridiculous or coincidence, and they are neither, is that the same sources who have been caught passing off Elvis bin Laden as real have also released video of Americans being killed by snipers or IED attacks.
Whoever is managing the Elvis bin Laden franchise also seems to be murdering Americans and filming that also. This much is not conjecture. Murdering Americans seems to be the Assange agenda too. An agenda not of peace nor of “openness”, not even of “freedom of speech” emanates from the “Wikileaks Censorship Bureau.”
The photograph of Israel Shamir with Julian Assange lifts the fog on Israel Shamir’s bizarre support of Wikileaks! But why did Israel Shamir not disclose his close association with Julian Assange when he called Zahir Ebrahim a ‘denier’? (Image via aangirfan via the Swedish Expressen.se)
WOW: Israel Shamir Works for Wikileaks – And He Did Not Tell Us About This When He Called Us ‘Denier’!
My response to the unexpected confirmation that ASSANGE & SHAMIR – DISINFORMATION AGENTS?, is reproduced below. This case once again underscores the fact that the beleaguered public, wildly searching for leaders and guidance among the alternate media and the various dissent-chiefs who dominate it, simply cannot trust anyone to be who they claim they are just because they play dissent. See my report Manufacturing Dissent. As also my recent discovery concerning the famous rebel-author on banking reform, Ellen Brown, J.D.!
While dissent-chief extraordinaire, recovering former Israeli Military Occupation Forces Russian-Jewish soldier for Zion, turned Swedish-Christian pacifist-soldier for Jesus, a favorite of many beleaguered Muslims, speaker to many an audience worldwide, Israel Shamir’s bizarredom is cogently explained by this new revelation of his association with Julian Assange, Ellen Brown’s bizarre statements: “Of course the oligarchy is the problem, but that doesn’t mean we can’t steer the Fed. Bernanke drives a Ford Falcon. I think he’s one of us!”, and “the U.S. is the last holdout, and the Fed is what’s holding us out. Bernanke is standing up to the Gnomes of Zurich and Basel”, still remain inexplicable. Are these two secretly friends too?
This explains much to me. Thanks [to blogger writing under the nom de plume aangirfan] for discovering the references that Israel Shamir actually works for Wikileaks!
I was initially very surprised when Israel Shamir, with whom I had corresponded a few times over the years, mentioned my name in one of his articles along with others, and wrote:
‘They are not to be accused of collaboration with Pentagon and the CIA.’
And then he went on to strangely label me a “denier”:
‘A second denier, young Pakistani intellectual cum American Ivy League graduate Zahir Ebrahim, writes: “The core-lies retained in the Wikileaks’ disclosure is to once again reaffirm that there is a real nemesis called “Osama Bin Laden”, that the “war on terror” is real, that it is being inflicted upon the West from the Pakistan-Iran nexus, in order to re-substantiate the handoff of former President George W. Bush’s clairvoyance to the Obama Administration that “If another September 11 style attack is being planned, it probably is being plotted in Pakistan, and not Afghanistan”!
Zahir makes the same mistake. The files are the reports of what US officials believe or claim to believe. I’d ask Zahir: if you were to get hold of all reports sent from and to Afghanistan, would you censor them to remove ideas and names that are not to your liking? Remember, these are not files from God Almighty, this is the kind of stuff that spooks and soldiers write, and it naturally reflects their view of the world. So it is not “core-lies”, but “core-truth”: US officials express under the stamp of “top secret” the very same views they openly espouse.’
I couldn’t believe this load of crap – he first published it in the article titled “Wikileaks: The Real Stuff” (subsequently also published under other titles I believe), and then forwarded it to me and others mentioned for comment without disclosing that he actually worked for Wikileaks (!!)
While I had him pegged as a disinfo artist immediately, I couldn’t really grasp his motivation.
Why would a stellar dissent-chief coasting on his reputation with a loyal following of sycophant (like all other dissent-chiefs) be so stupid as to believe any of that Wikileaks business when it was all so transparent, and he was supposedly a very learned person with command of this and that, and all that? But Chomsky and Ellsberg believed it too – and I already knew them to be controlled dissent. So, since a man is known by the mantras he echoes, was Israel Shamir too one of them? How did that transpire – for it wasn’t at all obvious from what little I knew of his background. I had in fact met him at Stanford University many years ago when he came there to give a talk, and I had come away rather impressed by the metanoia of this fellow, even mentioning his metanoia in one of my essays.
The fog is lifted here, just by looking at the photograph above!
The Phantom Menace: Fantasies, Falsehoods, and Fear-Mongering about Iran’s Nuclear Program
Submitted by Nima Shirazi
“To tell deliberate lies while genuinely believing in them, to forget any fact that has become inconvenient, and then, when it becomes necessary again, to draw it back from oblivion for just so long as it is needed, to deny the existence of objective reality and all the while to take account of the reality which one denies — all this is indispensably necessary.”
- George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four
Facts rarely get in the way of American and Israeli fear-mongering and jingoism, especially when it comes to anti-Iran propaganda. For nearly thirty years now, U.S. and Zionist politicians and analysts, along with some of their European allies, have warned that Iranian nuclear weapons capability is just around the corner and that such a possibility would not only be catastrophic for Israel with its 400 nuclear warheads and state-of-the-art killing power supplied by U.S. taxpayers, but that it would also endanger regional dictatorships, Europe, and even the United States.
If these warnings are to be believed, Iran is only a few years away from unveiling a nuclear bomb…and has been for the past three decades. Fittingly, let’s begin in 1984.
An April 24, 1984 article entitled “‘Ayatollah’ Bomb in Production for Iran in United Press Internationalreferenced a Jane’s Intelligence Defense Weekly report warning that Iran was moving “very quickly” towards a nuclear weapon and could have one as early as 1986.
Two months later, on June 27, 1984, in an article entitled “Senator says Iran, Iraq seek N-Bomb,” Minority Whip of the U.S. Senate Alan Cranston was quoted as claiming Iran was a mere seven years away from being able to build its own nuclear weapon. In April 1987, the Washington Post published an article with the title “Atomic Ayatollahs: Just What the Mideast Needs – an Iranian Bomb,” in which reporter David Segal wrote of the imminent threat of such a weapon.
The next year, in 1988, Iraq issued warnings that Tehran was at the nuclear threshold.
By late 1991, Congressional reports and CIA assessments maintained a “high degree of certainty that the government of Iran has acquired all or virtually all of the components required for the construction of two to three nuclear weapons.” In January 1992, Benjamin Netanyahu told the Knesset that “within three to five years, we can assume that Iran will become autonomous in its ability to develop and produce a nuclear bomb.”
Furthermore, a February 1992 report by the U.S. House of Representatives suggested that Iran would have two or three operational nuclear weapons by April 1992.
In March 1992, The Arms Control Reporter reported that Iran already had four nuclear weapons, which it had obtained from Russia. That same year, the CIA predicted an Iranian nuclear weapon by 2000, then later changed their estimate to 2003.
A May 1992 report in The European claims that “Iran has obtained at least two nuclear warheads out of a batch officially listed as ‘missing from the newly independent republic of Kazakhstan.’”
Speaking on French television in October 1992, then-Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres warned the international community that Iran would be armed with a nuclear bomb by 1999. The following month, the New York Timesreported that Israel was confident Iran would “become a nuclear power in a few years unless stopped.”
The same year, Robert Gates, then-director of the CIA, addressed the imminent threat of Iranian nuclear weapons. “Is it a problem today?” he asked at the time, “probably not. But three, four, five years from now it could be a serious problem.”
On January 23, 1993, Gad Yaacobi, Israeli envoy to the UN, was quoted in the Boston Globe, claiming that Iran was devoting $800 million per year to the development of nuclear weapons. Then, on February 24, 1993, CIA director James Woolsey said that although Iran was “still eight to ten years away from being able to produce its own nuclear weapon” the United States was concerned that, with foreign assistance, it could become a nuclear power earlier.
That same year, international press went wild with speculation over Iranian nuclear weapons. In the Spring of 1993, U.S. News & World Report, the New York Times, the conservative French weekly Paris Match, and Foreign Report all claimed Iran had struck a deal with North Korea to develop nuclear weapons capability, while U.S. intelligence analysts alleged an Iranian nuclear alliance with Ukraine. Months later, the AFP reported Switzerland was supplying Iran with nuclear weapons technology, while the Intelligence Newsletter claimed that the French firm CKD was delivering nuclear materials to Iran and U.S. News and World Report accused Soviet scientists working in Kazakhstan of selling weapons-grade uranium to Iran. By the end of 1993, Theresa Hitchens and Brendan McNally of Defense News and National Defense University analyst W. Seth Carus had reaffirmed CIA director Woolsey’s prediction “that Iran could have nuclear weapons within eight to ten years.”
In January 1995, John Holum, director of the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, testified before Congress that “Iran could have the bomb by 2003,” while Defense Secretary William Perry unveiled a grimmer analysis, stating that “Iran may be less than five years from building an atomic bomb, although how soon…depends how they go about getting it.” Perry suggested that Iran could potentially buy or steal a nuclear bomb from one of the former Soviet states in “a week, a month, five years.”
The New York Timesreported that “Iran is much closer to producing nuclear weapons than previously thought, and could be less than five years away from having an atomic bomb, several senior American and Israeli officials say,” a claim repeated by Greg Gerardi in The Nonproliferation Review (Vol. 2, 1995).
At the same time, a senior Israeli official declared, “If Iran is not interrupted in this program by some foreign power, it will have the device in more or less five years.” After a meeting in Jerusalem between Defense Secretary Perry and Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, they announced that Iran would have a nuclear bomb in seven to 15 years.
On February 15, 1996, then-Israeli Foreign Minister Ehud Barak told members of the UN Security Council that Iran would be producing nuclear weapons by 2004.
On April 29, 1996, Israel’s then-Prime Minister Shimon Peres claimed in an interview with ABC that “the Iranians are trying to perfect a nuclear option” and would “reach nuclear weapons” in four years. By 1997 the Israelis confidently predicted an active Iranian nuclear bomb by 2005.
In March 1997, U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency director John Holum again attested to a House panel that Iran would develop a nuclear weapon sometime between 2005 and 2007.
The following month, according to a report in Hamburg’s Welt am Sonntag, the German Federal Intelligence Service (BND) believed Iran had an active nuclear weapons development program and would be able to produce nuclear weapons by 2002, “although that timeframe could be accelerated if Iran acquires weapons-grade fissile material on the black market.” Eight days later, in early May 1997, a Los Angeles Times article quoted a senior Israeli intelligence official as stating that Iran would be able to make a nuclear bomb by “the middle of the next decade.”
On June 26, 1997, the U.S. military commander in the Persian Gulf, General Binford Peay, stated that, were Iran to acquire access to fissile material, it would obtain nuclear weapons “sometime at the turn of the century, the near-end of the turn of the century.”
In September 1997, Jane’s Intelligence Defense Reviewreported that former U.S. Secretary of State Warren Christopher declared, “we know that since the mid-1980s, Iran has had an organized structure dedicated to acquiring and developing nuclear weapons,” as then-Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned that the Iranian nuclear technology program “may be the most dangerous development in the 21st century.”
Writing in the Jerusalem Post on April 9, 1998, Steve Rodan claimed “Documents obtained by the Jerusalem Post show Iran has four nuclear bombs.” The next day, U.S. State Department spokesperson James Rubin addressed this allegation, stating, “There was no evidence to substantiate such claims.”
On October 21, 1998, General Anthony Zinni, head of U.S. Central Command, said Iran could have deliverable nuclear weapons by 2003. “If I were a betting man,” he said, “I would say they are on track within five years, they would have the capability.”
The next year, on November 21, 1999, a senior Israeli military official was quoted by AP reporter Ron Kampeas (who was later hired as Washington bureau chief for the Jewish Telegraphic Agency) saying, “Unless the United States pressures Russia to end its military assistance to Iran, the Islamic republic will possess a nuclear capability within five years.”
On December 9, 1999, General Zinni reiterated his assessment that Iran “will have nuclear capability in a few years.”
In a January 2000 New York Times article co-authored by Judith Miller, it was reported that the CIA suggested to the Clinton administration “that Iran might now be able to make a nuclear weapon,” even though this assessment was “apparently not based on evidence that Iran’s indigenous efforts to build a bomb have achieved a breakthrough,” but rather that “the United States cannot track with great certainty increased efforts by Iran to acquire nuclear materials and technology on the international black market.”
On March 9, 2000, the BBCstated that German intelligence once again believed Iran to be “working to develop missiles and nuclear weapons.” The Telegraph reported on September 27, 2000 that the CIA believes Iran’s nuclear weapons capability to be progressing rapidly and suggests Iran will develop an intercontinental ballistic missile capable of reaching London or New York within the next decade. CIA Deputy Director Norman Schindler is quoted as saying, “Iran is attempting to develop the capability to produce both plutonium and highly enriched uranium, and it is actively pursuing the acquisition of fissile material and the expertise and technology necessary to form the material into nuclear weapons.”
By the summer of 2001, Israeli Defense Minister Binyamin Ben-Eliezer was warning that Iran could have nuclear weapons by 2005 and that, sometime in the next decade, the Iranian nuclear program would reach a “point of no return,” from which time “it would be impossible to stop it from attaining a bomb.” By the end of the year, despite an inquiry into the questionable validity of Israeli intelligence regarding the Iranian nuclear program, Mossad head Efraim Halevy repeated the claim that Iran is developing nuclear and other non-conventional weapons.
In early 2002, the CIA again issued a report alleging that Iran “remains one of the most active countries seeking to acquire (weapons of mass destruction and advanced conventional weapons) technology from abroad…In doing so, Tehran is attempting to develop a domestic capability to produce various types of weapons — chemical, biological, nuclear — and their delivery systems.” Soon thereafter, CIA Director George Tenet testified before a Senate hearing that Iran may be able to “produce enough fissile material for a nuclear weapon by the end of this decade…Obtaining material from outside could cut years from this estimate.”
During his “Axis-of-Evil” State of the Union address on January 29, 2002, George W. Bush declared that Iran was “aggressively” pursuing weapons of mass destruction.
On July 29, 2002, U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense Marshall Billingslea testified to the Senate that “Iran is aggressively pursuing nuclear weapons.” Three days later, after a meeting with Russian officials on August 1, U.S. Energy Secretary Spencer Abraham stated that Iran was “aggressively pursuing nuclear weapons as well as [other] weapons of mass destruction.” By the end of the year, White House Press Secretary Ari Fleischer was reiterating U.S. concerns about, what he termed, Iran’s “across-the-board pursuit of weapons of mass destruction and missile capabilities.”
In an interview with CNBC on February 2003, U.S. Undersecretary of State John Bolton said that Iran is seeking technological assistance from North Korea and China to enhance its weapons of mass destruction programs. In April 2003, John Wolf, U.S. Assistant Secretary of State, accused Iran of having an “alarming, clandestine program.”
That same month, the Los Angeles Times stated that “there is evidence that Iran is developing nuclear weapons and other weapons of mass destruction,” in a polling question regarding American attitudes toward Iran. The question followed, “Do you think the U.S. should or should not take military action against Iran if they continue to develop these weapons?” Fifty percent of respondents thought the U.S. should attack Iran.
The Telegraphreported on June 1, 2003 that “Senior Pentagon officials are proposing widespread covert operations against the government in Iran, hoping that dissident groups will mount a coup before the regime acquires a nuclear weapon.” The report contained a quote from a U.S. “government official with close links to the White House” as saying “There are some who see the overthrow of the regime as the only way to deal with the danger of Iran possessing a nuclear weapon. But there’s not going to be another war. The idea is to destabilize from inside. No one’s talking about invading anywhere.”
A CNN/USA Today/Galluppoll taken in late June 2003 asked Americans, “How likely do you think it is that Iran is developing weapons of mass destruction?” 46% of those surveyed said “very likely,” while another 38% said “somewhat likely.” Only 2% replied “not at all likely.”
An August 5, 2003 report in the Jerusalem Poststated that “Iran will have the materials needed to make a nuclear bomb by 2004 and will have an operative nuclear weapons program by 2005, a high-ranking military officer told the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee.”
On October 21, 2003, Major General Aharon Ze’evi, Israel’s Director of Military Intelligence, declared in Ha’aretz that “by the summer of 2004, Iran will have reached the point of no return in its attempts to develop nuclear weapons.” A few weeks later, the CIA released a semi-annual unclassified report to Congress which stated Iran had “vigorously” pursued production of weapons of mass destruction and that the “United States remains convinced that Tehran has been pursuing a clandestine nuclear weapons program.”
By mid-November 2003, Mossad intelligence service chief Meir Dagan testified for the first time before the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee and said that Iran was close to the “point of no return” in developing nuclear arms.
In early 2004, Ken Brill, U.S. Ambassador to the IAEA, reiterated the American position that Iran’s nuclear efforts are “clearly geared to the development of nuclear weapons.” One year later, on January 24, 2005, Mossad chief Meir Dagan again claimed that Iran’s nuclear program was almost at the “point of no return,” adding “the route to building a bomb is a short one” and that Iran could possess a nuclear weapon in less than three years. On January 28, the Guardianquoted Israeli Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz stating the same thing. He warned that Iran would reach “the point of no return” within the next twelve months in its covert attempt to secure a nuclear weapons capability. A week later, U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said on CNN that Iran was “on a path of seeking a nuclear weapon,” but admitted that Iran was “years away” from building a nuclear bomb.
By August 2005, a “high-ranking IDF officer” told the Jerusalem Post that Israel has revised its earlier estimate that Iran would have a nuclear bomb by 2008, now putting the estimate closer to 2012. The same day, a major U.S. intelligence review projected that Iran was approximately ten years away from manufacturing the key ingredient for a nuclear weapon, doubling its previous estimate.
Two weeks later, however, Israeli military chief General Aharon Zeevi contradicted both the new Israeli and U.S. estimates. “Barring an unexpected delay,” he said, “Iran is going to become nuclear capable in 2008 and not in 10 years.”
In November 2005, Mohammad Mohaddessin, chair of the so-called National Council of Resistance of Iran (otherwise known as the Islamist/MarxistterroristcultMojahadeen-e Khalq, or MEK, which is currently designated as a Foreign Terrorist Organization by the U.S. government) addressed a European Parliament conference and proclaimed that the “Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei is determined to pursue and complete Tehran’s nuclear weapons program full blast…[and] would have the bomb in two or three years time.”
On January 18, 2006, Donald Rumsfeld toldFox News that Iran was “acquiring nuclear weapons.”
A CNN/USA Today/Gallupsurvey conducted in late January 2006 asked, “Based on what you have heard or read, do you think that the government of Iran is or is not attempting to develop its own nuclear weapons?” 88% of those polled said Iran is.
82% of respondents to a Fox News/Opinion Dynamics poll taken around the same time believed “Iran wants to use the uranium for military purposes, such as to build a nuclear weapons program.” 68% thought “Iran currently has a nuclear weapons program,” an increase of 8% from the previous year.
CBS Newsreported on April 26, 2007 that “a new intelligence report says Iran has overcome technical difficulties in enriching uranium and could have enough bomb-grade material for a single nuclear weapon in less than three years.”
In late May 2007, IAEA head Mohammad El Baradei stated that, even if Iran wanted to build a nuclear weapon (despite all evidence to the contrary), it would not be able to “before the end of this decade or some time in the middle of the next decade. In other words three to eight years from now.” On July 11, 2007, Ha’aretzreported that “Iran will cross the ‘technological threshold’ enabling it to independently manufacture nuclear weapons within six months to a year and attain nuclear capability as early as mid-2009, according to Israel’s Military Intelligence.” The report also noted that “U.S. intelligence predicts that Iran will attain nuclear capability within three to six years.”
A Fox News/Opinion Dynamics opinion poll taken in late September 2007 found that 80% of Americans believed Iran’s nuclear program was for “military purposes.”
Israeli President Shimon Peres issued an official statement on October 18, 2007 that claimed “everyone knows [Iran's] true intentions, and many intelligence agencies throughout the world have proof that Iran is seeking to develop nuclear weapons for the purpose of war and death.”
Less than two months later, the New York Times released “Key Judgments From a National Intelligence Estimate on Iran’s Nuclear Activity,” a consensus view of all 16 U.S. intelligence agencies. The analysis, entitled “Iran: Nuclear Intentions and Capabilities,” concluded with “high confidence” that the Iranian government had “halted its nuclear weapons program” in 2003, “had not restarted its nuclear weapons program as of mid-2007,” and admitted that “we do not know whether it currently intends to develop nuclear weapons.” The NIE also found that “Iran does not currently have a nuclear weapon” and that “Tehran’s decision to halt its nuclear weapons program suggests it is less determined to develop nuclear weapons than we have been judging since 2005.” Also included in the report was the assessment that, if Iran actually had a nuclear weapons program, “the earliest possible date Iran would be technically capable of producing enough HEU [highly enriched uranium] for a weapon is late 2009, but that this is very unlikely,” continuing, “Iran probably would be technically capable of producing enough HEU for a weapon sometime during the 2010-2015 time frame,” and adding that “All agencies recognize the possibility that this capability may not be attained until after 2015.”
A report released on February 7, 2008 by the Institute for Science and International Security (ISIS) asserted that Iran had tested a new, and more efficient, centrifuge design to enrich uranium. If 1,200 new centrifuges were operational, the report suggested, Iran could produce enough weapons-grade uranium for a bomb in one year.
Less than a week later, Israeli Prime Minster Ehud Olmert told reporters, “We are certain that the Iranians are engaged in a serious…clandestine operation to build up a non-conventional capacity.” Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, in a speech at West Point that Spring, claimed that Iran “is hellbent on acquiring nuclear weapons.”
On June 28, 2008, Shabtai Shavit, a former Mossad deputy director and influential adviser to the Israeli Knesset’s Defense and Foreign Affairs Committee, toldThe Sunday Telegraph that “worst-case scenario,” Iran may have a nuclear weapon in “somewhere around a year.”
In November 2008, David Sanger and William Broad of The New York Timesreported that “Iran has now produced roughly enough nuclear material to make, with added purification, a single atom bomb, according to nuclear experts.” The article quoted nuclar physicist Richard L. Garwin, who helped invent the hydrogen bomb, as saying “They clearly have enough material for a bomb.” Siegfried S. Hecker of Stanford University and a former director of the Los Alamos weapons laboratory said in the report that the growing size of the Iranian stockpile “underscored that they are marching down the path to developing the nuclear weapons option,” while Thomas B. Cochran, a senior scientist in the nuclear program of the Natural Resources Defense Council declared, “They have a weapon’s worth.” Peter D. Zimmerman, a physicist and former United States government arms scientist, cautioned that Iran was “very close” to nuclear weapons capability. “If it isn’t tomorrow, it’s soon,” he said, indicating the threshold could be reached in a matter of months.
David Blair, writing in The Telegraph on January 27, 2009, reported that the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) “has said Iran is months away from crossing a vital threshold which could put it on course to build a weapon,” continuing that “Mark Fitzpatrick, the senior fellow for non-proliferation at the IISS, said: ‘This year, it’s very likely that Iran will have produced enough low-enriched uranium which, if further enriched, could constitute enough fissile material for one nuclear weapon, if that is the route Iran so desires.’”
On February 12, 2009, CIA Director-to-be Leon Panetta, told a Capitol Hill hearing, “From all the information I’ve seen, I think there is no question that [Iran is] seeking [nuclear weapons] capability.” Later that month, Benjamin Netanyahu, then a candidate for Israeli Prime Minister, told a Congressional delegation led by Maryland Senator Ben Cardin that “he did not know for certain how close Iran was to developing a nuclear weapons capability, but that ‘our experts’ say Iran was probably only one or two years away and that was why they wanted open ended negotiations.” Soon after that, Israel’s top intelligence official Amos Yadlin said Iran had “crossed the technological threshold” and was now capable of making a weapon.
In contrast to these allegations, National Intelligence director Dennis Blair told a Senate hearing in early March 2009 that Iran had only low-enriched uranium, which would need further processing to be used for weapons, and continued to explain that Iran had “not yet made that decision” to convert it. “We assess now that Iran does not have any highly enriched uranium,” Blair said.
Speaking in private with U.S. Congressmembers in late Spring 2009, Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak “estimated a window between 6 and 18 months from now in which stopping Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons might still be viable.” In mid-June 2009, Mossad chief Meir Dagan said, “the Iranians will have by 2014 a bomb ready to be used, which would represent a concrete threat for Israel.”
On July 8, 2009, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Admiral Mike Mullen, speaking at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, warned that the “window is closing” for preventing Iran from acquiring a nuclear weapon. Mullen claimed that Iran was only one to three years away from successfully building a nuclear weapon and “is very focused on developing this capability.” A week later, Germany’s BND foreign intelligence agency declared Iran was capable of producing and testing an atomic bomb within six months.
The following month, on August 3, The Times (UK) reported that Iran had “perfected the technology to create and detonate a nuclear warhead” and “could feasibly make a bomb within a year” if given the order by head of state Ali Khamenei.
Meanwhile, a Newsweekreport from September 16, 2009, indicated that the National Intelligence Estimate stood by its 2007 assessment and that “U.S. intelligence agencies have informed policymakers at the White House and other agencies that the status of Iranian work on development and production of a nuclear bomb has not changed.”
Nevertheless, both ABC News/Washington Post and CNN/Opinion Research Corporationpolls taken in mid-October 2009 found that, “Based on what [they]‘ve heard or read,” between 87% and 88% of respondents believed Iran to be developing nuclear weapons.
In November 2009, during a private meeting between U.S. Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs, Alexander Vershbow, and a number of senior Israeli defense officials in Israel, the head of Israel’s Defense Ministry Intelligence Analysis Production, Brigadier General Yossi Baidatz, “argued that it would take Iran one year to obtain a nuclear weapon and two and a half years to build an arsenal of three weapons.”
The Times (UK) reported on January 10, 2010 that retired Israeli brigadier-general and former director-general of Israel’s Atomic Energy Commission Uzi Eilam “believes it will probably take Iran seven years to make nuclear weapons,” despite the dire warnings from Major-General Amos Yadlin, head of Israeli military intelligence, who had recently told the Knesset defense committee that Iran would most likely be able to build a single nuclear device within the year.
In an interview with the U.S. military’s Voice of America on January 12, 2010, the director of the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency, Lieutenant General Ronald Burgess, said there was no evidence that Iran has made a final decision to build nuclear weapons and confirmed that the key NIE finding that Iran has not yet committed itself to nuclear weapons was still valid. “The bottom line assessments of the NIE still hold true,” he said. “We have not seen indication that the government has made the decision to move ahead with the program.”
Barack Obama, in his first State of the Union speech on January 27, 2010 claimed that Iran was “violating international agreements in pursuit of nuclear weapons.”
Speaking in Doha, Qatar on February 14, 2010, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton addressed, what she called, “Iran’s pursuit of nuclear weapons.” Although Clinton said that the United States was attempting to “influence the Iranian decision regarding whether or not to pursue a nuclear weapon,” she added that “the evidence is accumulating that that’s exactly what they are trying to do, which is deeply concerning, because it doesn’t directly threaten the United States, but it directly threatens a lot of our friends, allies, and partners here in this region and beyond.”
A CNN/Opinion Research Corporationpoll, taken at the same time as Clinton’s Doha visit, revealed that 71% of Americans believed Iran already had nuclear weapons. Of those remaining respondents who didn’t think Iran already possessed a nuclear bomb, over 72% thought it either “very likely” or “somewhat likely” that “Iran will have nuclear weapons in the next few years.”
At an April 14, 2010 hearing of the Senate Armed Services Committee, Lieutenant General Burgess, stated that Iran could develop a nuclear weapon within a year and in three years build one that could be deployed, despite having judged that Iran didn’t even have an active nuclear weapons program a mere four months earlier.
Perennial warmongers David Sanger and William Broad of the New York Timesreported on May 31, 2010 that “Iran has now produced a stockpile of nuclear fuel that experts say would be enough, with further enrichment, to make two nuclear weapons.”
On June 11, 2010, U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates said that “Most people believe that the Iranians could not really have any nuclear weapons for at least another year or two. I would say the intelligence estimates range from one to three years.”
The U.S. House of Representativespassed a bill on June 24, 2010, introduced by Democratic Congressman Jim Costa of California, that “condemn[ed] the Government of Iran’s continued pursuit of a nuclear weapons capability and unconventional weapons and ballistic missile capabilities.”
CIA Director Leon Panetta said on June 27, 2010, Iran would need two years to prepare two tested and operational nuclear weapons. “We think they have enough low-enriched uranium for two weapons,” Panetta told Jake Tapper of ABC News, continuing to explain that Iran would require one year to enrich the material to weapon-grade levels and “another year to develop the kind of weapon delivery system in order to make that viable.”
On July 22, 2010, nearly a third of House Republicans signed onto a resolution which stated that “Iran continues its pursuit of nuclear weapons” and “express[ed] support for the State of Israel’s right to defend Israeli sovereignty, to protect the lives and safety of the Israeli people, and to use all means necessary to confront and eliminate nuclear threats posed by the Islamic Republic of Iran, including the use of military force if no other peaceful solution can be found within reasonable time to protect against such an immediate and existential threat to the State of Israel.”
On August 19, 2010, the New York Timesquoted Gary Samore, President Obama’s top adviser on nuclear issues, as saying that the U.S. believes Iran has “roughly a year dash time” before it could convert nuclear material into a working weapon.
Following the release of the latest IAEA report on Iran’s nuclear facilities, The Telegraphdeclared that Iran was “on [the] brink of [a] nuclear weapon,” had “passed a crucial nuclear threshold,” and “could now go on to arm an atomic missile with relative ease.”
In his attention-grabbing September 2009 cover story for The Atlantic, entitled “The Point of No Return,” Israeli establishment mouthpiece Jeffrey Goldberg wrote that, according to Israeli intelligence estimates, “Iran is, at most, one to three years away from having a breakout nuclear capability (often understood to be the capacity to assemble more than one missile-ready nuclear device within about three months of deciding to do so).”
Joint Chiefs chairman Mullen, speaking in Bahrain on December 18, 2010, said, “From my perspective I see Iran continuing on this path to develop nuclear weapons, and I believe that that development and achieving that goal would be very destabilizing to the region.”
A week ago, on December 22, 2010, the great prognosticator Sarah Palin wrote in USA Today that “Iran continues to defy the international community in its drive to acquire nuclear weapons.”
Just today, December 29, 2010, Reutersquotes Israeli Deputy Prime Minister Moshe Yaalon as claiming Iran would soon have a nuclear weapon. “I don’t know if it will happen in 2011 or in 2012, but we are talking in terms of the next three years,” he said, adding that in terms of Iran’s nuclear time-line, “we cannot talk about a ‘point of no return.’ Iran does not currently have the ability to make a nuclear bomb on its own.”
Despite all of these hysterical warnings, no evidence of an Iranian nuclear weapons program has ever been revealed. The IAEA has repeatedly found, through intensive, round-the-clock monitoring and inspection of Iran’s nuclear facilities – including numerous surprise visits to Iranian enrichment plants – that all of Iran’s centrifuges operate under IAEA safeguards and “continue to be operated as declared.”
As far back as 1991, then-Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Hans Blix, made it clear that there was “no cause for concern” regarding Iran’s attempts to acquire nuclear technology. Twelve years later, in an IAEA report from November 2003, the agency affirmed that “to date, there is no evidence that the previously undeclared nuclear material and activities referred to above were related to a nuclear weapons programme.” Furthermore, after extensive inspections of Iran’s nuclear facilities, the IAEA again concluded in its November 2004 report that “all the declared nuclear material in Iran has been accounted for, and therefore such material is not diverted to prohibited activities.”
During a press conference in Washington D.C. on October 27, 2007, IAEA Director-General El Baradei confirmed, “I have not received any information that there is a concrete active nuclear weapons program going on right now.” He continued, “Have we seen Iran having the nuclear material that can readily be used into a weapon? No. Have we seen an active weapons program? No.”
By May 2008, the IAEA still reported that it had found “no indication” that Iran has or ever did have a nuclear weapons program and affirmed that “The Agency has been able to continue to verify the non-diversion of declared nuclear material [to weaponization] in Iran.” On February 22, 2009, IAEA spokesperson Melissa Fleming even issued a statement clarifying the IAEA’s position regarding the flurry of deliberatelymisleadingarticles in the US and European press claiming that Iran had enriched enough uranium “to build a nuclear bomb.” The statement, among other things, declared that “No nuclear material could have been removed from the [Nantanz] facility without the Agency’s knowledge since the facility is subject to video surveillance and the nuclear material has been kept under seal.”
This assessment was reaffirmed in September 2009, in response to various media reports over the past few years claiming that Iran’s intent to build a nuclear bomb can be proven by information provided from a mysteriousstolen laptop and a dubious, undated – and forged – two-page document. The IAEA stated, “With respect to a recent media report, the IAEA reiterates that it has no concrete proof that there is or has been a nuclear weapon programme in Iran.”
In his Annual Threat Assessment of the US Intelligence Community for the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, delivered on February 2, 2010, National Intelligence director Dennis Blair stated, “We continue to assess [that] Iran is keeping open the option to develop nuclear weapons in part by developing various nuclear capabilities that bring it closer to being able to produce such weapons, should it choose to do so. We do not know, however, if Iran will eventually decide to build nuclear weapons.”
Speaking with Charlie Rose in November 2010, Blair once again reiterated that “Iran hasn’t made up its mind” whether or not to pursue nuclear weaponry. On November 28, 2010, a diplomatic cable made available by Wikileaks revealed that, in December 2009, senior Israeli Defense Ministry official Amos Gilad told Undersecretary of State Ellen Tauscher that “he was not sure Tehran had decided it wants a nuclear weapon.”
Back in October 2003, the San Francisco Chroniclequoted former IAEA weapons inspector David Albright as saying, with regard to new reports about a possible Iranian nuclear weapons program revealed by the MEK, “We should be very suspicious about what our leaders or the exile groups say about Iran’s nuclear capacity.”
Albright continued, “There is a drumbeat of allegations, but there’s not a whole lot of solid information. It may be that Iran has not made the decision to build nuclear weapons. We have to be very careful not to overstate the intelligence.”
It appears that nothing much has changed in the past seven years, let alone the previous three decades.
Whereas the new year will surely bring more lies and deception about Iran and its nuclear energy program, more doublespeak and duplicity regarding the threat Iran poses to the United States, to Israel and to U.S.-backed Arab dictatorships, and more warmongering and demonization from Zionist think tanks, right-wing and progressive pundits alike, the 112th Congress and the Obama administration, the truth is not on their side.
“Facts are stubborn things,” John Adams said in 1770. “And whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.”
Here’s hoping that, in 2011, the facts will begin to matter.
Happy New Year.
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UPDATE:
Just hours after this article was posted, United Press Internationalpublished the findings of a new public opinion poll conducted by Angus-Reid. The poll found that 70% of respondents believe “the Government of Iran is attempting to develop nuclear weapons. Only 11 per cent of Americans do not believe that Iran is pursuing a nuclear program, while one-in-five (19%) are not sure.”
(GlobalResearch) – Anyone who doesn’t believe that the US is an incipient fascist state needs only to consult the latest assault on civil liberty by Fox News (sic). Instead of informing citizens, Fox News (sic) informs on citizens. Jason Ditz reports (antiwar.com Dec. 28) that Fox News (sic) “no longer content to simply shill for a growing police state,” turned in a grandmother to the Department of Homeland Security for making “anti-American comments.”
The media have segued into the police attitude, which regards insistence on civil liberties and references to the Constitution as signs of extremism, especially when the Constitution is invoked in defense of dissent or privacy or placarded on a bumper sticker. President George W. Bush set the scene when he declared: “you are with us or against us.”
Bush’s words demonstrate a frightening decline in our government’s respect for dissent since the presidency of John F. Kennedy. In a speech to the Newspaper Publishers Association in 1961, President Kennedy said:
“No president should fear public scrutiny of his program, for from that scrutiny comes understanding, and from that understanding comes support or opposition; and both are necessary. . . . Without debate, without criticism, no administration and no country can succeed, and no republic can survive. That is why the Athenian law makers once decreed it a crime for any citizen to shrink from controversy. And that is why our press was protected by the First Amendment.”
The press is not protected, Kennedy told the newspaper publishers, in order that it can amuse and entertain, emphasize the trivial, or simply tell the public what it wants to hear. The press is protected so that it can find and report facts and, thus, inform, arouse “and sometimes even anger public opinion.”
In a statement unlikely to be repeated by an American president, Kennedy told the newspaper publishers: “I’m not asking your newspapers to support an administration, but I am asking your help in the tremendous task of informing and alerting the American people, for I have complete confidence in the response and dedication of our citizens whenever they are fully informed.”
The America of Kennedy’s day and the America of today are two different worlds. In America today the media are expected to lie for the government in order to prevent the people from finding out what the government is up to. If polls can be believed, Americans brainwashed and programmed by O’Reilly, Hannity, Beck, and Limbaugh want Bradley Manning and Julian Assange torn limb from limb for informing Americans of the criminal acts of their government. Politicians and journalists are screeching for their execution.
President Kennedy told the Newspaper Publishers Association that “it is to the printing press, the recorder of man’s deeds, the keeper of his conscience, the courier of his news, that we look for strength and assistance, confident that with your help man will be what he was born to be: Free and Independent.” Who can imagine a Bill Clinton, a George W. Bush, or a Barack Obama saying such a thing today?
Today the press is a propaganda ministry for the government. Any member who departs from his duty to lie and spin the news is expelled from the fraternity. A public increasingly unemployed, broke and homeless is told that they have vast enemies plotting to destroy them in the absence of annual trillion dollar expenditures for the military/security complex, wars lasting decades, no-fly lists, unlimited spying and collecting of dossiers on citizens supplemented by neighbors reporting on neighbors, full body scanners at airports, shopping centers, metro and train stations, traffic checks, and the equivalence of treason with the uttering of a truth.
Two years ago when he came into office President Obama admitted that no one knew what the military mission was in Afghanistan, including the president himself, but that he would find a mission and define it. On his recent trip to Afghanistan, Obama came up with the mission: to make the families of the troops safe in America, his version of Bush’s “we have to kill them over there before they kill us over here.”
No one snorted with derision or even mildly giggled. Neither the New York Times nor Fox News (sic) dared to wonder if perhaps, maybe, murdering and displacing large numbers of Muslims in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Yemen and US support for Israel’s similar treatment of Lebanese and Palestinians might be creating a hostile environment that could breed terrorists. If there still is such a thing as the Newspaper Publishers Association, its members are incapable of such an unpatriotic thought.
Today no one believes that our country’s success depends on an informed public and a free press. America’s success depends on its financial and military hegemony over the world. Any information inconsistent with the indispensable people’s god-given right to dominate the world must be suppressed and the messenger discredited and destroyed.
Now that the press has voluntarily shed its First Amendment rights, the government is working to redefine free speech as a privilege limited to the media, not a right of citizens. Thus, the insistence that WikiLeaks is not a media organization and Fox News (sic) turning in a citizen for exercising free speech. Washington’s assault on Assange and WikiLeaks is an assault on what remains of the US Constitution. When we cheer for WikiLeaks’ demise, we are cheering for our own.
ADL TO ATTACK JOURNALISTS AND PUBLICATIONS TYING ISRAEL TO WIKILEAKS
By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor
“There is a list, the Bush administration’s “working group” that green-lighted 9/11. Of the five names on it, three are Jews. “
Last week, responding to a deluge of news reports tying Israel to Wikileaks, Julian Assange announced he finally planned to release 3700 cables from the US Embassy in Tel Aviv, documents previously withheld from the public. In a press release, Assange said he planned the “dump” in 6 months but didn’t indicate how many other documents involving Israel were being withheld.
Veterans Today has been informed by sources within the ADL that, in coordination with Julian Assange’s announcement, they were “tasked” by the Tel Aviv government to begin operations against journalists and online publications that had let to Wikileaks being discredited as an Israeli intelligence operation. Sources indicate that Tel Aviv values Wikileaks as a vital asset in molding public opinion and providing cover for high risk operations.
ADL’s website is loading up with warnings and attacks, all defending Wikileaks and Julian Assange and attacking news sources that print materials either critical of Julian Assange or citing Israel’s involvement in Wikileak’s agreement to allow material critical of Israel to be censored.
“If we had Wikileaks up to speed, the Goldstone Report would never have been heard of at all. There isn’t anything that can’t be covered up by a Julian Assange scandal. I just hope something doesn’t come up where it gets so serious that Assange will have to be assassinated. He is really a loveable dupe.” (ADL source)
The ADL source cited publications www.opinion-maker.org and www.veteranstoday.com as the largest threats, followed by author Jeff Gates.
“We know we aren’t going to be able to reach their audience. Our job is to insulate our own base, America’s Jewish population, one increasingly sympathetic to progressive alternative publications. With Israel and President Obama at each others throats and 78% of America’s Jewish population having supported Obama in the presidential election, we could be playing with fire here.” (ADL source)
ISRAEL’S STRATEGY BACKFIRES
It isn’t a very well kept secret that the ADL and AIPAC are agencies of Israeli intelligence. Their litany of transgressions is being dragged into the open by former AIPAC Lobbyist Steve Rosen in his defamation lawsuit against that organization. In 2004, the FBI tried to close AIPAC down for spying, only to see their criminal cases blocked by Bush administration officials.
Now, with the ADL openly going after the press for reporting ties between Julian Assange and Israel and Assange’s agreement to allow Wikileaks to be censored by both Israel and press organizations working with them, has exposed Wikileaks to even more embarrassment.
ADL actions to publicly defend Wikileaks is blowing up in their faces.
“I have no idea what they were thinking back in Tel Aviv. What kind of idiot would try to keep the Wikileaks and Israel thing quiet and then have the ADL run around like maniacs calling people names. The ADL should keep to spray painting swastika’s on synagogues and sending articles to “Stormfront” and leave the thinking to people better equipped, if there still are people like that around….which I am not so sure of.” (ADL source)
9/11, IS THAT THAT WHAT IS BEING HIDDEN?
With 9/11 more and more in the public eye, especially with Fox News and Jesse Ventura’s “Conspiracy Theory” building a powerful case for involvement by the Bush administration in the planning and execution of 9/11 as a “false flag” terror attack, it is likely that Israel feels particularly vulnerable. If a solid tie between Israel and 9/11 is made, Israel will have its first real security problem since 1973.
“I never knew Assange was working for us, not even when he started attacking the 9/11 Truth movement. I really didn’t know for sure until a couple of days ago. As for 9/11, that’s something else. There are a couple of senior guys running around, saying they planned 9/11, not Mossad, military guys. I don’t know if they are bullshitters or not. They say it like this…’Of course, we did it, who else? We don’t care, say whatever you want, who needs to hide anything, we can do whatever we want there’
This is how the put it. I just don’t know what they are saying this or why they are saying it now. What I do know is that this Wikileaks thing, somehow 9/11 may be behind it.
There is a list, the Bush administration’s “working group” that green-lighted 9/11. Of the five names on it, three are Jews. ” (ADL Source)
ASSANGE LASHES OUT, PROMISES ISRAEL “LEAK”…IN 6 MONTHS
By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor
“We know what has been released. The genuinely sensitive material held by Wikileaks, that tying Israel to actions against America in Iraq, tying Israel to the drug trade in Afghanistan and tying Israel to terrorism in Pakistan, have yet to be seen. Will Assange be releasing these reports in 6 months? Why wait that long?”
Julian Assange has lashed out at the independent press for their attacks on the credibility of Wikileaks, particularly after revelations of his associations with, not only the New York Times and the powerful Murdoch media empire, both strong voices for Israel’s Zionist movement, but the Rothschilds family and even, strange as it may seem, billionaire George Soros.
While the mainstream media, now openly admitting their partnership with Wikileaks, has built Assange to “rock star” status, their reporting has systematically censored attacks on Wikileaks by, not only alternative media but governments as well.
Assange’s recent rages at the independent media are a clear indication of the declining status of mainstream press and television as reliable new sources. With 4 out of 5 seeking their news from the Internet and those looking for something other than sports, fashion and gossip, more likely than not moving increasingly toward the alternative press, Wikileaks, now practically a “brand name” for the New York Times and Fox/Murdoch group, is beginning to look, more and more, like a liability. YouTube – Veterans Today -
These attacks on Assange, citing his seeming pro-Israel bias, one he now openly admits also, soon began coming in from governments, Pakistan and Turkey, major allies of the United States, among others. However, the press never reported them or any of the other accusations of bias. While busily reporting on Assange’s sex life, a version now contradicted as to nature and preferences, the media left out the real heart of the Wikileaks controversy itself, its own role in Wikileaks.
If anything, the New York Times is guilty, not so much of espionage as reported by CBS News, but for misrepresenting their role in Wikileaks.
FILTERING THE UNFILTERED, THE PROPAGANDIZING OF WIKILEAKS
When Assange admitted that materials damaging to Israel were allowed to be removed from Wikileaks by outsiders, The New York Times and unnamed others, he failed to clarify the process used for adding material to Wikileaks. This process is called “seeding.”
When Brzezinski accused Assange of “seeding” Wikileaks with “pointed material” on behalf of an “intelligence agency,” this is the process he was referring to. It isn’t just that Wikileaks protects Israel but that material damaging to Israel’s enemies is now proven to have been chosen specifically.
This won’t be said enough times. When material was added and taken away to serve the purpose of powerful outside groups, in this case, all with powerful Israeli ties, it made Wikileaks an agent of censorship, an agent of propaganda and totally discredited the Wikileaks project.
Dr. Alan Sabrosky cites the following after his analysis of Wikileak material;
“The one striking exception in all of this global tour de farce <sic.> is the Middle East. Certainly, even aside from Wikileaks founder Julian Assange’s fulsome praise of Binyamin Netanyahu, what is said and what is not, represent the message Israel and its partisans in the US Government (itself heavily Zionist and “Israel First” in orientation) want the world to hear, believe and accept. The message coming across in the US diplomatic cables could have been designed and drafted by Avigdor Lieberman, and who knows? It may have been…
No one knows how many groups were given censorship power by Assange or why or what materials were removed, and how embarrassing they would be to Israel. Were there materials on the attack on the Freedom Flotilla or the Goldstone Report? Were there reports on Mordecai Vanunu and Israel’s nuclear program? Did Wikileaks suppress information on how Israel and India have armed Taliban terrorists for attacks inside Pakistan or, far more serious, reports that Israeli sniper teams and other groups, targeting American troops, did so in an attempt to blame Iran and push the United States to war with that nation. Are there reports of Israeli agents planning attacks on US forces in Bahrain in 2007, attacks meant to be blamed on Shiite terrorists allied to Iran? We are told there are and that these reports were removed and withheld.
WHAT WE GOT INSTEAD…
Instead of these reports, the public got these carefully selected and unsubstantiated items:
1. 10th June 2006: Al Qaida in Iraq insurgents plan to attack a forward operating base in Karmah with chemical weapons…The insurgents plan to deploy their chemical weapon using mortars as a delivery system. (Analyst Comments: In Iraq AQI has tried several times to employ chemical weapons against coalition forces).
2. 16th August 2008: CBRN personnel has tested the rounds twice with M8 paper and J CAM. EOD (Explosive Ordnance Disposal), and chemical recon element assess that the chemical … tested positive for chemical agent. EOD reports 12 x full chemical rounds. 14 x damaged rounds are either leaking or empty. The cache consisted of 26 contaminated rounds and 14 empty 155mm rounds.
3. 13th October 2005: As of late September 2005, Al-Qa’ida in Iraq elements allegedly planned to attack Abu Ghurayb prison in early to mid-October using an unspecified number of mortars and car bombs…. AQIZ elements allegedly planned to use 20 “chemical munitions” brought from Syria.
4. 28th January 2006: The ten are chemical weapons specialists and came to Iraq to support the chemical weapons operations of Hizballah Islam I. (Field comment — The chemical operations of Hizballah Islam I were previously reported as Al Qa’ida Iraq operations, the ten unidentified men are chemical weapons specialists from Syria)…The ten unidentified men were taken to Is’Hagey Iraq, where the unidentified chemicals weapons … are stored. The chemical weapons were brought from Syria to Iraq on 21 January 2006.
5. 29th December 2006: As of 27 December 2006, three unidentified Bedouins who were alleged Iraq AQI Operatives planned to transport chemical munitions from Al Judayda, Saudi Arabia, to Nugra Al Salman District, a border area in Al Muthanna Province, Iraq …Subsequently, Iraq AQI operatives planned use the munitions to attack hospitals, outdoor markets, and US military forces in Al Basrah, Al Amarah and An Nasiriyah on or after 15 January 2007.
6. 5th March 2007: AQI insurgency group is planning a rocket attack on several targets in the Baghdad International Zone and a US base in Al Rashdiyah by using Katusha rockets filled with unknown chemicals… these rockets were described as being three meters long and are modified in order to carry the extra weight. (Field Comment – the source was unable to provide the type of chemical and stated that these rockets probably originated from Iran).
7. 20th September 2007: As of late September 2007, Islamic State of Iraq (ISI) militants in Mosul, Iraq were planning an imminent attack on Tall ‘Afar using rockets with Chlorine gas or another chemical compound … The rockets had a range of more than 20 Kilometers, and an impact radius of 50 to 100 square meters. (Comment: the Arabic word “Sarukh” was used to describe the rockets).
Upon closer examination, each of these reports was shown to be worthless, discarded or downgraded by the US government as “chickenfeed.” The proposed attacks all never happened, the weapons spoken of were never found or used, in fact, the Iraq War Logs were a litany of failure. However, when the press, now shown to have selected the “leaks” in the first place, wrote about their own work, what was “chickenfeed” was spun into powerful accusations, all false, fanciful and reprehensible.
We know what has been released. The genuinely sensitive material held by Wikileaks, that tying Israel to actions against America in Iraq, tying Israel to the drug trade in Afghanistan and tying Israel to terrorism in Pakistan, have yet to be seen. Will Assange be releasing these reports in 6 months? Why wait that long?
PRO-WAR, ANTI-WAR, WILL THE REAL WIKILEAKS PLEASE STAND UP
Assange is pro-war, Assange is a strong “neocon” supporter, Assange has supported Bush administration policies in every way from the mishandling of the 9/11 investigation to the invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan. In fact, Assange was totally pro-American until the Obama administration began pushing for an end to the forced removal of Palestinians by Israel.
Lila Rajiva, writing for Veterans Today, cited Stewart Bramhill:
So what is the corporate media trying to conceal by beating Assange’s sex life to death?
Most of the information in the recent cables release is already widely available on the Internet.
At the same time I find it surprising to find absolutely nothing about the “strategic” reasons the US is at war in Pakistan and Afghanistan.Nothing about the Pentagon agenda to foster the secession of oil and mineral rich Balochistan from Pakistan as a US client state – just like Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan and other former Soviet republics. Nothing about CIA support for the Baloch separatist movement. Nothing about the CIA training young Baloch separatists in bomb making and other terrorist activities to disrupt operations at the Chinese-built Gwadar Port (intended to transport Iranian oil and natural gas via Pakistan to China).
The latest Wikileak has been out a for a month, actually much longer if you are the New York Times or the government of Israel. They had it all from day one. With the US government threatening Julian Assange with prosecution for holding and releasing illegally obtained classified material, why aren’t they going after the real Wikileaks, the New York Times? It only took Zbigniew Brzezinski, Washington’s “establishment” foreign policy expert, a “New York minute” to spot Wikileaks as an intelligence operation, when he informed PBS interviewer Judy Woodruff of this on December 2.
This story wasn’t new. The worst part is that the story was well documented from the first, long ago, but suppressed in the press, now long proven totally complicit, not in choosing what Wikileaks stories to print, but in choosing what Wikileaks intelligence was released to the public. This is what it all comes down to.
WIKILEAKS IS A “PRESS RELEASE,” AND HARDLY A “LEAK” AT ALL
Julian Assange, for some unknown reason, placed full authority for what the public could and couldn’t be trusted with in the hands of the New York Times. Wasn’t Wikileaks set up to attack the press in the first place? Wasn’t it Wikileaks that was telling us, from day one, that the governments were controlling the press, censoring the news and supporting wars?
The whole purpose of Wikileaks was to eliminate and bypass the cabal of corrupt government and controlled press, to empower citizens with real information that was withheld. Instead, Wikileaks became just another government controlled newspaper, and Julian Assange got his daily press conferences, his staged photo shoots and his endless fame, all while covering his complicity in censorship and his relationships with the world’s most powerful and often reviled forces, all advocates of war.
With all the hoopla about opposing war, the majority of Wikileaks documents, certainly the most “pointed” and “seeded” of them, as Brzezinski tells us, are all in support of the wars Julian Assange said he opposed. Other than minor reports outlining the idiocy of the people who wrote the reports, cables or whatever we want to call them, other than proving American diplomats and intelligence officers are typically dupes and clowns, something a decade of war and lies has proven to the world long ago, what, exactly, has Wikileaks done?
Dr. Alan Sabrosky sums it up far better than I could ever do;
But nothing like that is there, or at least has yet surfaced, which makes me increasingly inclined to see this as just another game of rhetorical smoke and mirrors, with a lot of real cables and real victims (like the poor US soldier who presumably gave Assange at least some of the cables), but with many or most of the Middle East cables “cooked” if not fabricated outright.
So these, at least, are probably the handiwork of Israeli-Americans or just Israelis putting their own spin on things, included in a mass of otherwise legitimate cables as camouflage and for validation. An Australian news website concluded that “[the] WikiLeaks cables [are] the 9/11 of world diplomacy.” Too, too true – same source, different vehicle and venue, all helping pave the road to yet another needless war in Israel’s service, this time against Iran. The gods weep — but not, presumably, Yahweh.”
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VETERANS TODAY, WITH PERMISSION FROM JONATHAN AZAZIAH, INCLUDES HIS ANALYSIS OF WIKILEAKS:
Wikileaks Is Zionist Poison II: Deconstruction Of The Myth
Not since Zionist warmonger Barack Obama’s ‘ascension’ to the US presidency, has there been such a hysteria in the anti-war/anti-Zionist community as there is with Julian Assange and his organization, Wikileaks. Just like Obama, whose smooth-talker persona duped millions of awakened individuals, lulling them into a false sense of security with lies and trickery, Wikileaks has pulled the wool over the eyes of average people and distinguished activists and writers alike with its ‘whistleblower’ image.
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Even after Obama’s Zionist roots were exposed, in which powerful pro-Israel figures like Abner Mikva, Joel Sprayregen, Newton Minow, Bettylu Saltzman of the dynastic Saltzman family, Rabbi Arnold Jacob Wolf, Lester Crown of the vastly wealthy Crown household and Penny Pritzker of the Pritzker dynasty nurtured his rise to political stardom in Chicago (1), the current puppet of the Zionist entity was no less supported and no less loved by his starry-eyed followers.
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After Obama was designated the democratic ‘candidate’ for president, he delivered a speech at AIPAC and announced to his masters that the United States has an ‘unshakeable commitment to Israel’s security (2).’ Still, the opinions of his followers remained unchanged. And not even after Obama maintained utter silence during Operation Cast Lead (3), in which the usurping Tel Aviv regime murdered 1,440 innocent Palestinians in illegally besieged and occupied Gaza, including 431 children, did his legions of drones realize that the slogans of hope and change they so vehemently believed in, were really just smoke and mirrors.
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Only recently, due to Obama spreading the Zionist Bush administration’s ‘Project for a New American Century’ to Yemen, expanding the murderous drone strikes in Pakistan, as well as increasing the genocides in occupied Iraq and occupied Afghanistan, have some of his once seemingly mind-controlled supporters snapped out of their trance. Plenty of them still continue their blindness however.
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Assange and Wikileaks make the Zionist-fueled Obama hype look minuscule; like rain drops in an ocean. Wikileaks, touted and fully endorsed by the Zionist media, has become the peak of resistance and dissidence. The greatest whistleblower in the history of whistleblowing. Assange has been elevated to god status, eclipsing rock stars and movie stars. Wikileaks cannot be questioned. Assange cannot be investigated. Everything the organization does is for the good of the people, and everything Assange says is absolute 100% fact.
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Though it may come as a shock to those who have bought into the absurdity of Wikileaks, everything aforementioned is a morbid delusion. Wikileaks is no whistleblower. Assange is no hero. And the leaks, which have been hailed across the globe, aren’t even leaks. Wikileaks isn’t just toxic Zionist poison, it is a full-blown US-Zionist intelligence operation.
Israeli Foreknowledge and Arrogance
One day after the World Trade Center was demolished with military-grade thermite explosives, mass murderer of Gaza Benjamin Netanyahu told the Zionist-owned New York Times that the 9/11 attacks were ‘very good’ for US-Israeli relations, and that they would generate immediate sympathy for the Zionist entity (4). One year after Netanyahu made these audacious declarations, he delivered a speech to the US House of Representatives, laying out reasons why the obliteration of Iraq is necessary for the survival of Israel (5). In 2008, the Zionist war criminal delivered a speech to an Israeli university, reiterating his comments about the Mossad false flag on 9/11, as well as stating that his regime is benefitting from the ‘American struggle in Iraq (6).’As recent as July of this year, Netanyahu has publicly declared that any withdrawal from Iraq will leave the Tel Aviv regime vulnerable to ‘renewed hostilities (7).’
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Netanyahu continued this pattern of arrogant behavior with Wikileaks, by revealing that the usurping entity had prior knowledge to the organization’s upcoming leaks on the day that ‘Cablegate’ began, just hours before the release (8). Netanyahu stated that the Zionist entity wouldn’t be the ‘center of international attention.’ The following day, Netanyahu reaffirmed this revelation by stating that Israel ‘wasn’t harmed at all;’ a senior official in his Zionist administration also said that ‘we come out looking very good (9).’
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On the same day, former national security advisors to butcher of Lebanon Ehud Olmert and Sabra and Shatilah massacre architect Ariel Sharon boasted that ‘Israel benefits from these leaks (10).’ Israel’s Finance Minister, Yuval Steinitz, when asked about the leaks on Israel Radio, said that he ‘doesn’t see damage. Quite the opposite (11).’ Israeli mouthpiece newspapers emboldened the statements of their murderous leaders, with one opining that ‘had Wikileaks not existed, Israel would have had to invent it (12).’ This statement in particular will prove not only to be devilishly ironic, but another example of Israeli foreknowledge.
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While nations all over the world, nations of Resistance and nations of oppression alike, scrambled to defend themselves from the Wikileaks onslaught, several officials of the illegitimate Zionist state, including the prime minister himself, openly affirmed the impregnableness of Israel. No damage, a bounty of satisfaction and a plethora of benefits. The questions are simple: If the Zionist entity isn’t behind Wikileaks, how did its officials know it wouldn’t become the subject of international media scrutiny? If Wikileaks wasn’t protecting the Zionist agenda, why would Israeli officials intransigently say their illegal occupying entity remained unharmed after the leaks? And if in fact Israel is operating Wikileaks, then the Zionist media’s depictions of Assange and his crew as whistleblowers are monstrously false, aren’t they? Logic and common sense should guide all to the blatant, blue and white six-pointed-star-shaped answers.
Red Mafiya Don Semion Mogilevich is left out of Cablegate deliberately.
Cablegate Fraud I: The Obviousness
Like the Afghan War Diary and the Iraq War Logs which mixed Zionist hasbara with facts about American and British war crimes, Wikileaks’ Cablegate documents mix truths with Zionist lies to maximize the potential of the disinformation campaign. And like the previous leaks, the truths that are released are examples that were revealed and reported on by activists and journalists alike long before Wikileaks was relentlessly and aggressively force-fed to the masses by the Zionist media.
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Included are shockers like Israel attempted to coordinate its Operation Cast Lead assault on illegally blockaded Gaza with traitorous Palestinian collaborationist Mahmoud Abbas and the brutal Zionist dictator of Egypt, Hosni Mubarak (13). Revelations like Ali Abdullah Saleh, US-Saudi puppet president of Yemen, covered up US air strikes that murdered children (14). Discoveries like the US is waging a ‘secret’ war inside Pakistan (15). Eye-openers like a Lebanese official offering advice to the Zionist entity on how to trample the Lebanese Resistance movement, Hezbollah (16), or the US flying spy missions over Lebanon from its Diego Garcia base (17). Or quite possibly the largest and most apocalyptic divulgement: the Israeli mafia exists prominently within the illegitimate usurping entity, and is a very, very dangerous group (18). How incredibly overwhelming. The name of Assange’s putrid organization should be Wikiobviousness, not Wikileaks.
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Mahmoud Abbas has been exposed over and over again as a treasonist to the Palestinian people since he became an integral part of Middle Eastern politics, or more accurately, the Zionist Power Configuration. Since 2005, Abbas’s Palestinian ‘Authority’ has been cooperating with the Zionist entity through ‘security coordination (19),’ which links the two illegitimate powers to a crackdown on all elements that support Resistance to Zionism. Despite denial after denial by Abbas himself and his spokespersons, he finally admitted to this filthy collaboration in March of this year (20).
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Israel and Mubarak’s regime have transferred weapons to Abbas, and the US has given Fatah hundreds of millions of dollars in aid to undermine Palestinian Resistance, chiefly Hamas, and to strengthen the Zionist stranglehold on occupied Palestine (21). Mahmoud Abbas has deep financial ties to Tel Aviv, which also amounts to hundreds of millions of dollars given to Fatah by the Israeli government yearly (22). Wikileaks wasn’t needed for this; anyone that is simply capable of reading is well-aware that Abbas is a disgrace to the Palestinian people and a total puppet of the Zionist entity.
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Ali Abdullah Saleh is a traitor to the Yemeni people; like Abbas, this has been known for decades. He sold Yemen to the Anglo-American oil agenda, and then solidified the sellout by entering into billion dollar slave-agreements with the Zionist-infested World Bank and IMF (23). Saleh is a habitual recipient of the American oppressor’s aid money (24), and as of January of this year, he’s been receiving this blood money on an even greater scale (25). He has used these funds along with money from the House of Saud to wage a brutal war against the Resistance of southern Yemen (26).
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The US dropped cluster bombs on Yemen in December of 2009, and it was well reported in the alternative media sphere; this murderous attack claimed the lives of 120 innocents and wounded 40 others (27), not 41 as Assange’s organization erroneously reports. Telling the world that American bombs kill civilians is like telling someone that the sky is blue or that the sun is hot. There was no need for ‘whistleblowing’ on this matter.
Yemen is Zion’s newest target; sickeningly pro-Israel war criminal Joe Lieberman called for preemptive strikes against the Arab nation last year in late December (28), and Obama’s Zionist administration obliged by increasing its illegal military presence inside the country (29). Despite wide-ranged reporting in the Zionist media and the anti-Zionist media, Ali Abdullah Saleh continued his role as a stooge, and denied the presence of America inside Yemen (30). Now, Obama and his gang of criminals have set forth a plan for an even larger military mobilization which will be followed by an occupation (31).
In addition, Mossad is carrying out assassinations and other terrorist operations against the Yemeni Resistance in the south (32). Don’t expect to see any of this information in the Cablegate documents though; Wikileaks must protect Israel at all costs.
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The CIA has been conducting a war with its murderous predator drones against Pakistan since 2004 (33), and it has been doing so from Pakistani bases thanks to one criminal administration after another (34). 90% of the people murdered by these CIA drones are civilians (35), and these attacks occur close to every single day (36). It was reported in 2008 (37), and in February of 2010 (38), that US Special Forces were engaging in terrorism on the ground in Pakistan. Wikileaks didn’t ‘reveal’ anything about a ‘secret war’ inside the Islamic Republic; it stated a fact that could’ve been reiterated by anyone with a slight interest in geopolitics.
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The real secret war against Pakistan is that which is being conducted by Israel and the Hindutva entity of India. Since the late 1980s, Zionism and Hindutva have signed military agreements and performed covert operations to destroy Pakistan’s nuclear program (39). In 2001, Mossad and RAW created four new agencies to target important personalities in the fields of law, defense, politics and religion, with the hopes of creating all out ‘sectarian’ chaos within Pakistan (40). Codenamed the ‘Dragon Policy,’ Mossad and RAW agents hired mercenaries, druglords and mafia figures to unleash the de-stabilization process (41).
Indian and Israeli intelligence have coordinated a string of car bombings with Xe (Blackwater) cells across the Islamic Republic (42), including the massive blast that claimed more than 100 lives in Peshawar, a Mossad stronghold (43), in 2009 (44).
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Hezbollah Secretary General, his eminence, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, has never been bashful about exposing pro-Zionist politicians in Lebanon, with his most recent slashing of the collaborators taking place during a historic speech for Martyrs’ Day (45). While Elias al-Murr has denied the allegations set forth by the Wikileaks PSYOP (46), he is merely and pathetically attempting to save face; it is a well-known fact that the vile Fouad Siniora government (which al-Murr was a part of) tried to disarm Hezbollah and disconnect the Resistance’s telecommunications network on behalf of the Zionist regime and the US (47). Siniora and his goons failed miserably as Hezbollah persevered and triumphed.
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It is also a well known fact that the US conducts spying and military operations, primarily against occupied Iraq and the Islamic Republic of Iran (48), from Diego Garcia; the Indian Ocean territory turned into a military compound by British and American occupiers who have malevolently ethnically cleansed the entire indigenous population (49). On a side note, this evil of course isn’t mentioned by Wikileaks. The mentioning of a few previously known American spy missions in Lebanon is nothing more than a cover for the massive Zionist creature in the room: Israel is notorious for its spy missions in Lebanon, as it has violated Lebanese airspace well over 7,000 times since its crushing defeat at the hands of Hezbollah in the summer of 2006 (50).
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Failing to mention Zionist activity in Lebanon is the equivalent of failing to mention the stars in the sky at nightfall. The Lebanese Resistance and the Lebanese Army have arrested at least 141 Israeli spies since April of last year (51), in the telecommunications, security and military sectors. The Zionist entity infiltrated Alfa, one of Lebanon’s two telecom companies, and used the penetrated network against Hezbollah in the 2006 war (52). Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah exposed the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri as a Mossad operation (53), and in an unsuspected but typical display of arrogance, Israel admitted to benefitting greatly from the murder (54). Tel Aviv had distanced itself from the Special Tribunal for Lebanon (STL), which is backed by the US (55), as well as the UK (56), but the genocidal maniac Avigdor Lieberman finally confirmed what had been known in Lebanon since the Tribunal’s inception: Israel is heavily contributing to it (57).
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The STL is not only a plot to eliminate Hezbollah, but to completely fragment Lebanon; it should come as no surprise then, that it was designed by Zionist Congressman Howard Berman and the powerful Israeli Lobby group, AIPAC (58). Sayyed Nasrallah uncovered that all of the information collected by the STL ends up in the hands of the usurping Zionist regime (59); it is essentially another Israeli spying operation. The Sayyed also revealed that Israel had not only penetrated Alfa, but all of Lebanon’s telecommunications; the Zionist regime is capable of cloning SIM cards, planting phone numbers, duplicating billing data and making phone calls without the phone-owner’s knowledge (60). Just days ago, Hezbollah telecommunications experts unearthed Israeli spying devices near the southern city of Tyre; when the Zionist entity’s cover was blown, the devices were detonated (61). Not even an inkling of any of this information will be made readily available by treacherous Wikileaks because its purpose is to protect Israeli interests. And at the top of the list of those interests, is to colonize Lebanon, especially the south, as part of Greater Israel (62).
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On the surface, it would seem that the revelations about the influence of Israeli organized crime (OC) within the Zionist settler state are groundbreaking; frightening and shocking even. But further analysis of the cable in question displays more of the same: a repetition of previously known information crossbred with odious lies to form a highly effective damage control operation. It was reported across the Middle East, as well as in Zionist-owned Western media that Israeli mob boss Yaakov Alperon was assassinated in 2008 (63), as was the intransigence of Israeli mafia stalwart Zeev Rosenstein, who was arrested in 2004 for the distribution of unfathomable amounts of ecstasy (64). It was also already known that the new generation of Israeli gangsters were receiving training in the fields of assassination and ordnance during their service in IOF (65). These cases of obviousness however do not vindicate Wikileaks but condemn it in an even harsher manner due to the propaganda also contained within the cable.
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The cable states ‘It is not entirely clear to what extent OC elements have penetrated the Israeli establishment and corrupt public officials.’ What an obscene falsification; since the 1980s, the Israeli mafia has exerted a gargantuan amount of control over the occupying government in Tel Aviv, coordinating this corruption from New York City and the streets of occupied Palestine (66). The cable also portrays Zionist war criminal Ehud Olmert in a positive light, saying that Olmert called emergency meetings in response to the public safety concerns and promised to add 1,000 officers to the current efforts ‘combating’ organized crime. Another sham; Olmert is a criminal that is incessantly connected to the Israeli mafia (67). Olmert has been charged with corruption regarding Bank Leumi (68), whom notorious blood-diamond dealer Lev Leviev has a major stake in (69). Leviev is deeply connected to organized crime, due to his business ties with Russian-Israeli oligarch and mobster Roman Abramovich (70).
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Quite possibly the most laughable excerpt of all in the entire cable is this statement: ‘Little is known about the full extent of Russian criminal activity in Israel.’ The Israeli mafia IS the Russian-Jewish mafia. The two cannot be separated; like the illegitimate Israeli state and Zionism. The cable also says Arab criminals routinely collaborate with Russian-Israeli crime families. This is erroneous; an attempt to divide the blame equally amongst Arabs and Israelis. The Red Mafiya (Russian Mob) is intensely racist and territorial, collaborating with noone but other Russian factions in their quest for criminal dominance. The Russian criminals not only poured into Israel after the Soviet Union was dissolved, they were invited by the Zionist entity’s government to start their lives anew (71).
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The most powerful gangster in the world, and don of the Russian-Israeli mafia, Semion Mogilevich has his headquarters in Israel (72); his net worth is well over one billion dollars (73), wielding a criminal empire that involves human trafficking, drug dealing, arms peddling, nuclear materials smuggling and blood diamonds. Marat Balagula, another immensely powerful Russian-Jewish gangster made his home in the Zionist entity after leaving the Soviet Union. Balagula’s empire includes gas fraud, credit card fraud, and the usual elements of drugs, illegal weaponry and prostitution, along with ownership of diamond mines in Sierra Leone. Russian-Israeli organized crime, the Organizatsiya, cannot be talked about without mentioning these two prominent figures. It is no surprise that Wikileaks conveniently leaves their names out of the ‘leaks.’ Also left out of the cables is the most damning information about the Red Mafiya of all: unlike Italian-American mobsters, Russian-Jewish mobsters cannot be touched by US intelligence and local law enforcement, for fear of being hammered and character-assassinated by the Zionist lobby for exercising anti-Semitism (74).
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The power of the Red Mafiya was exposed by the late Robert Friedman, a journalist who began investigating the Russian-Jewish criminal gang in 1989 (75), and who wrote a monumental book about their exploits more than a decade ago. His work brought the nonstop heat of Russian-Jewish OC on top of his head, receiving several threats by high-ranking gangsters (76). Despite media reports of him dying of a rare disease he contracted while on an investigative mission in Bombay (Mumbai), all evidence points to the brave Mr. Friedman being poisoned by Mogilevich’s associates (77). Just like Assange, right?
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The destruction of the Wikileaks cables in this section provides clear proof of what Assange’s group actually is: a ‘Limited Hang Out’ operation. Limited Hang Out ops are used by intelligence agencies to deliver well-known information to the public about government corruption and certain political crimes, satisfying their salivation for an expose of misdeeds while withholding the more critical, more secretive information (78). Wikileaks doesn’t reveal; it rehashes. Former director of Mossad Efraim Halevy stated in an interview several years ago, ‘Not one big success of the Mossad has ever been made public (79).’ Wikileaks works diligently to keep it that way.
Cablegate is nothing but a promotion of Zionist propaganda.
Cablegate Fraud II: Disgusting Zionist Lies
In a previous piece on Wikileaks, this author commented, ‘The other accusations sound like concoctions dug up from the dungeons of Zionist think tanks and lobby organizations salivating for the destruction of the Islamic Republic, not the work of whistle-blowers attempting to expose corruption and disseminate truth (80).’ This observation turned out to be a prognostication come true. The cables aren’t really secret government documents. They are propaganda pieces written by Khazarian political officials and diplomats who have spent their lives serving the Israeli Lobby. Among them are US ambassadors to Turkey Eric Edelman and James Jeffrey, Deputy Secretary of State James B. Steinberg, US ambassador to Brazil Clifford Sobel, US charge d’affaires in Saudi Arabia Michael Gfoeller, Assistant Secretary for European and Eurasian Affairs Philip H. Gordon, career diplomat and current Special Envoy Daniel Fried and US ambassador to Canada David Jacobson (81).
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This revelation explains why the newest docs from Wikileaks contain even more Zionist drivel than the last release.
The diplomatic cables claim that it was Hamas that broke the ceasefire that led to Operation Case Lead (82). They also brazenly claim that the Zionist entity has no assets in occupied Iraq (83). They insanely say that India has a huge stake in the facilitation of peace in occupied Kashmir (84). The cables belligerently claim that Syrians assassinated Lebanese Premier Saad Hariri’s father, former Premier Rafiq Hariri (85). There is more tiresome tripe about leader of the Islamic Revolution in Iran, Grand Ayatollah Sayyed Ali Khamenei, having terminal cancer (86). There is another ridiculous claim that there is an Israeli weapons manufacturer in Haifa which is vital to US security interests (87). One cable disgustingly repeats the age-old Zionist propaganda about Israel attempting to minimize civilian casualties and Hamas using human shields (88). And arguably the most outlandish cable of all, Libyan leader Muammar al-Gaddafi intimidated the British government into freeing wrongfully accused Abdelbaset Mohmed Ali al-Megrahi (89).
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Claiming that the fighters of the Palestinian Resistance, whether it is Hamas or any other faction, use human shields, is a grotesque Zionist lie. There is no evidence on any level whatsoever; it is a nightmarish concoction of the hasbara squads that run the Zionist media. However, there is undeniable evidence that the Zionist entity’s occupation forces have used Palestinian human shields on numerous occasions; 15 times since 2005 began (90). Two IOF soldiers were ‘convicted’ in Israel’s kangaroo courts of using a 9-year boy as a human shield. The boy, Majid, will be scarred for the rest of his life for the horrific abuse he endured at the hands of IOF; the soldiers who abused him were demoted and given suspended sentences in an all too typical display of Zionist justice (91).
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It is another aberration of the historical record to state that Hamas broke the ceasefire, when Hamas did not fire a single rocket into the territory occupied by Zion in the four months since the calm between occupied and occupier began (92). Tel Aviv discarded the cease-fire when it calculatingly murdered 6 Hamas officials in a raid on November 5, 2008 (93). When Hamas returned fire to defend itself and the people of occupied Gaza, the murderous Zionist entity had the pretext it needed to launch Operation Cast Lead, which had been planned years in advance by the upper echelons of the Israeli government, Mossad, Shin Bet and Aman {Israeli military intelligence} (94). Is there an organization outside of the media itself that spews Zionist propaganda better than Wikileaks?
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Obviously, Ayatollah Sayyed Ali Khamenei isn’t dying of cancer; this absurd allegation has been repeated over and over through the years by several mainstream media outlets. It was reported in 2006 that the revolutionary leader was ‘dying of serious cancer and wouldn’t live much more than a year (95).’ In 2007, it was reported as fact that Sayyed Khamenei was dead from his ‘long battle’ with cancer (96). In 2009, foul Zionist Michael Ledeen wrote that the Ayatollah collapsed into a coma as a result of his cancer (97). It should be noted that Ledeen, who has close ties with AIPAC and Zionist war criminal Richard Perle (98), has been a driving force behind the idea that Iran is behind all of the chaos in occupied Iraq (99), which Wikileaks presented a strong case for in its propaganda-filled Iraq War Logs (100). Taking into account that the diplomatic cables are in fact written by Zionists, the connection between Ledeen and Wikileaks isn’t all that surprising. This petty and childish claim about the Ayatollah having cancer is part of a broader psychological warfare operation to discredit, disunite and utterly humiliate the Islamic Republic. The Ayatollah’s ‘cancer’ can be placed in the trash alongside other nonsense like Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s Jewish roots and the Israeli star being engraved into several buildings in Tehran (101).
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Not only has Saad Hariri himself already rejected the claims of Syria being behind his father’s brutal assassination (102), as mentioned in a previous section, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah has provided hard evidence that the Zionist entity was the orchestrator of the former premier’s killing (103). All claims to the contrary are extensions of the Zionist campaign to destroy the Lebanese Resistance.
The Hindutva entity of India has been criminally occupying Kashmir for 63 years, how can such a regime have a ‘huge stake in facilitating peace?’ Since 1989, more than 100,000 innocents have been murdered, over 100,000 children were orphaned, over 22,000 women have been widowed, nearly 10,000 women have been raped, nearly 120,000 Kashmiris have been illegally detained and over 105,000 architectural structures have been razed by the occupying military (104). Mass graves have been found all over the occupied Valley (105). Military torture is common place in occupied Kashmir; sexual abuse, sleep deprivation, electrocution, beatings and stripping prisoners naked are only some of the acts of brutality that have been forced upon the people of Kashmir (106).
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Not a single one of these ungodly crimes against humanity are mentioned by Wikileaks; the occupation itself isn’t even mentioned. Instead, Assange’s organization ‘vindicates’ the Hindutvadis by ‘revealing’ that the ISI coordinates terror attacks in occupied Afghanistan (107). More disgraceful Zionist propaganda. Indian officials have been almost as bold as the Zionist entity, stating that they are ‘not concerned’ about Wikileaks (108). Other officials have boasted that they are ‘not embarrassed’ by Cablegate (109). India is the Zionist entity’s closest ally in Asia; the two racist regimes have collaborated in the occupation of Kashmir and spreading mayhem across Pakistan (110), and the fact that Hindutva isn’t concerned or embarrassed by so-called leaks of secret documents is beyond suspicious; it is collusive.
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The theory that Israel is vital to American security, or that it is a satellite of the American ‘empire,’ is typical leftist rubbish to downplay the crimes of Zionism and Zionist power in the US. It is also contradictory to the facts. America doesn’t have a base in occupied Palestine, nor does it have any troops. It only stores minimal weaponry inside the Zionist entity, and this weaponry can be used by IOF at any time, without American permission. Israeli bases cannot be used by the United States. No US puppet that borders the land that Zion stole from Palestine can conduct reconnaissance over Israel, let alone use Zionist bases for taking off. At times, especially after the preemptive war of 1973, Israel has undermined the relations between America and other Middle Eastern nations. And due to the chokehold that the Zionist Lobby has on the US government, whenever Israel is being attacked in the international community, America runs like a dog to defend its owner (111). There is no American ‘imperialism’ in Israel, although there is plenty of Zionism in America. Israel serves no interest but its own, manipulating any nation that it needs to, including the genocidal US, to accomplish the goals of international Zionism.
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Apart from being another ugly Zionist falsehood, it is an insult to the intelligence of the people to postulate that Israel has no ‘assets’ in occupied Iraq. The sanctions against Iraq, the occupation and subsequent genocide were designed by a neoconservative cabal with dual loyalties to the illegitimate state of Israel (112). No official from this exclusive Zionist group has been harmed by the Wikileaks cables; not one. Mossad has agents stationed across Iraq from Mosul to Fallujah to Baghdad to Najaf to Karbala, wreaking havoc on the Iraqi people with Israeli-made IEDs and car bombs (113). In 2004, there were casualties everyday from made-in-Zion IEDs, and in 2005, three out of five Iraqis that were murdered met their end due to an IED (114). Mossad operations continue to this very moment in Iraq, with the Israeli agency’s masterpiece being the animalistic display of savagery at Sayedat al-Najat Cathedral in Karada, Baghdad, which claimed the lives of 58 Iraqi Christians (115). Wikileaks has done an excellent job at convincing the world that Israel has nothing to do with the annihilation of Iraq; but Assange’s malicious smokescreen is as weak as a spider’s web when challenged with the indestructible blade of the truth.
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If it wasn’t being presented as unquestionable gospel, the abominable claim that Muammar al-Gaddafi intimidated the British government into releasing Abdelbaset Mohmed Ali al-Megrahi would be exceedingly funny. The idea that Gaddafi, who was terrorized by Mossad throughout the 1980s (116), somehow bullied the British government, whose intelligence agency MI5 orchestrated the 7/7 terror attacks with Mossad (117), is a slander against al-Megrahi, whose life was ruined by the Lockerbie incident, and a deflection of evidence regarding who was really behind the attack. In fact, it was the British government intimidating and threatening Gaddafi (118). Al-Megrahi wasn’t released due to Libyan intimidation, he was released because he was innocent; there wasn’t a drop of evidence against him (119), and the Western conspiratorial charade couldn’t last any longer.
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Lockerbie, like 7/7, 9/11, 26/11 and so many other recent ‘terrorist’ attacks blamed on Muslims, was a Mossad false flag intended to influence geopolitics to the detriment of Islamic nations (120). False flags, an Israeli speciality, haven’t just been ‘looked over’ by Wikileaks, they’ve been deliberately left out for the sole benefit of the repulsive Zionist entity.
The cables dissected here are only a drop in the bucket of hundreds of documents ‘released’ during Cablegate. The Zionist propaganda speaks for itself. It is shameful that so many have accepted this proverbial waste as if it were a holy declaration spoken by a prophet. Simply shameful.
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Both of these nations have been assaulted by Wikileaks.
Targeted by Zion: Turkey and Iran
Since Zionist commandoes barbarically executed 9 Turkish peace activists in international waters on May 31st of this year (121), the relationship between Turkey and Israel has become severely strained and entered into a realm of complication. On the positive side, amidst calls from its citizenry, Ankara has taken several steps to disconnect itself from Zionism. Turkish intelligence completely cut its ties with Mossad (122). Turkey also cancelled three extremely lucrative military exercises directly after the Freedom Flotilla massacre (123). Turkey has also continually voted against the illegal sanctions against Iran and signed joint energy agreements with the Islamic Republic and Brazil (124), much to the dispay and the ZOG in America and the Zionist entity itself. Prime Minister Erdogan also defended Hezbollah against the Zionist-designed STL in his recent visit to Lebanon (125).
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On the negative side however, all of Prime Minister Erdogan’s harsh rhetoric against the Zionist regime (126), which he unleashed even while he was being threatened with Mossad assassination (127), has proven to be nothing more than just that: rhetoric. Throughout all of the condemning and slamming of Israel, Erdogan and other Turkish officials have continually called for an apology and compensation from the Zionist state, as recently as December 7th (128); as if an apology will undo the murder of 9 innocent peace activists. As if an apology will heal the pain of their families, or bring their killers to justice for crimes against humanity. Israel committed an act of war against Turkey, and Erdogan wants an apology? It extends beyond strangeness and becomes insanity.
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Just days after the massacre, Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu simplified everything by saying if Israel lifted the blockade against Gaza, Turkish-Israeli ties will ‘normalize.’ This normalization must also include the illegal 62-year occupation of Palestine, as well as the illegal occupations of Lebanese and Syrian lands, which Turkey has traditionally ignored while making $2.5 billion in imports and exports since 2000 via a free trade agreement with Tel Aviv (129). He also declared, ‘The security of Israeli diplomats and Israeli tourists is our nation’s honor. We will be making sure they are safe (130).’ The citizens of Turkey were murdered by Israel, and Davutoglu is concerned about the safety of the defenders of murder and illegal occupation? Shouldn’t his concern be with making his citizens safe, along with all those oppressed by Zionism? This politically correct square dance for the sake of pleasing Israel is absolutely revolting.
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Disturbingly, while Erdogan showed solidarity with the Lebanese Resistance in his November trip to Lebanon, he also showed solidarity with Israel, unconscionably saying that when peace and security are restored in the region, Israel will ‘win from this peace (131).’ Odd would be an understatement for this remark. Israel is the reason for the lack of security and peace in the region. Israel is the oppressor, occupier, de-stabilizer, murderer, bomber, gangster, assassin, shooter and killer in the Middle East, from one end to the other. As long as this entity remains, peace will never be prospective. Zionism must end for peace to be a reality.
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Furthermore, the most abhorrent part of Erdogan’s behavior is his atrocious denial of the Armenian Genocide (132), one of history’s greatest crimes in which the Young Turks movement systematically murdered 1.5 million innocent Armenians between 1915-1923. Erdogan made an even bigger fool out of himself when he preposterously claimed that Armenians ‘exterminated’ Turks (133). This continues the typical stance of all Turkish regimes, which have denied the Armenian Genocide for more than 90 years (134). The Armenian Genocide has always been an event attacked and denied by the Zionist media and Zionist lobby also, most notably the criminal ADL (135), due to the scarcely talked-about facts surrounding the perpetrators of it.
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The Young Turks weren’t Turkish Muslims as it is widely accepted, but Zionists of ‘Jewish’ origin with direct connections to B’nai B’rith, Zionist bankers and the founder of Irgun himself, mass murderer Vladimir Jabotinsky (136). The man who the Zionist Young Turks brought to power (and who also partook in their savage activities), and who is credited with the secularization of Turkey, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, was no more a Muslim than vile Zionist Hillary Clinton; he, like his brethren in the Young Turks, had ‘Jewish’ roots and was known for constantly reciting prayers from the racist, unholy Talmud and the xenophobic Kabbalah (137). Turkey denies this shocking truth as well, sticking to the Zionist lie which is promoted to cause division between Muslims and Christians.
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The historical cover-up of the Zionist nature of Ataturk and the Young Turks is pertinent to the character of Erdogan, because he was once an opponent of Ataturk’s secular ideology, and spent time in a Turkish prison for ‘inciting religious hatred’ after reciting a poem with strong Islamic convictions (138). All of these anomalies, coupled with what comes after Wikileaks’ released cables, prove that Erdogan is nothing more than an opportunistic coward, and it is no wonder that Lebanon’s Armenian community courageously protested his visit to their country (139).
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With Turkey, and Erdogan in particular, teetering on the brink of a radical foreign policy shift, in what would be a global game-changer, in comes Julian Assange and Wikileaks with yet another startling revelation: Turkey aided and abetted Al-Qaeda in occupied Iraq (140). Though Erdogan subsequently blasted the cables (141), he mentioned nothing about the undeniable fact that Al-Qaeda is a work of fiction (142), or that Israel is behind Wikileaks; he just barked and barked with his usual fiery rhetoric, and then kowtowed to Zionism when the power brokers in Tel Aviv called.
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It is a direct result of the international embarrassment at the hands of Israel via Wikileaks’ Cablegate, that Erdogan sent Turkish helicopters to Israel and told Benjamin Netanyahu that Turkey will coordinate NATO relief efforts inside the Zionist entity when massive forest fires erupted (143). It is this Zionist smear campaign that is the reason why Turkey is now engaged in high-level talks with the Israeli regime to ‘mend’ its relations with Palestine’s occupier (144). And for what seemed impossible days after the Freedom Flotilla massacre, it is because of Cablegate that an official proposal has been drawn up for Israel to express regret for acting in self-defense and unintentionally killing the Turkish citizens aboard the Mavi Marmara, issue compensation to the families of the slain activists, while preventing prosecution of the IOF commandoes that carried out the murders (145). Justice, peace, solidarity and whatever little dignity Erdogan had, have gone out the window because of Wikileaks; proving that Turkey still is what it has been since the Zionist Young Turks obliterated the Ottoman Empire and exterminated 1.5 million innocent Armenians: an utter tool of Zionism. It is also evident that the calls of Huseyin Celik, a senior Turkish official who accused Israel of initiating the Cablegate ‘leak,’ have fallen upon deaf ears in Ankara (146).
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Senior Israeli intelligence correspondent for Haaretz, Yossi Melman, recently wrote that Cablegate was the work of Mossad, and it was connected with several other recent events in the ongoing international Western intelligence campaign assaulting Iran (147). Benjamin Netanyahu has stated that Wikileaks proves that the Zionist entity is ‘right’ on Iran, and that the entire Middle East is concerned about Iran’s ‘nuclear ambitions (148).’ This constant Israeli lordliness is a reflection of Cablegate eclipsing the Iraq War Logs in terms of the audacity of untruth about the Islamic Republic. Besides, what would a Wikileaks document dump be without Zionist propaganda against Iran?
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The most talked about leaks have most certainly been those mentioning the leaders of the Gulf States expressing not just mere concern about Iran’s nuclear capabilities, but fierce encouragement of an attack on the Islamic Republic (149). There are also cables regarding the 2009 Iranian elections, which Wikileaks calls a ‘coup d’etat,’ and that the revolutionary nation ‘engineered’ Ahmadinejad’s victory (150). Other cables say that Iran has secretly purchased long-range missiles from North Korea (151). There are cables that say Iran is smuggling weapons out of Turkmenistan, in a violation of its neighbor’s sovereignty (152). And of course, there is no shortage on the propaganda regarding Iran aggressively pursing nuclear weapons (153), with one cable even suggesting that Pakistan is a ‘regional competitor (154).’
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First and foremost, the 2009 Iranian elections were anything but stolen; Mahmoud Ahmadinejad won by a landslide, attaining well over 60% of the votes submitted (155). There is not a single shred of evidence that Iran’s elections were ‘stolen,’ but there is overwhelming evidence that the US, inspired by the Israeli Lobby, spent hundreds of millions of dollars on programs that would de-stabilize Iran and facilitate regime change (156). The Zionist media sold the Western masses a cockamamie story about fraudulent elections based on unsubstantiated reports from Twitter (157), where Mossad agents have been conducting cyber warfare through hasbara since Operation Cast Lead (158).
This subject however, with all of the facts, has been thoroughly documented by many activists, writers and scholars. The objective of Cablegate was to assault Iran diplomatically, fracturing its ties with the Arab region, as well as to foment ‘sectarian’ tension between Sunni and Shia, Arab and Persian. This miserly Zionist plot has failed however, because regardless of the feelings of the corrupt, US-owned leaders of the Gulf States, 88% of the Arab citizens view Israel as the predominant threat in the region, 77% view America as the threat, while a minute 10% view Iran as a threat; there is also overwhelming support for Iran’s peaceful nuclear program (159). Ethnicity and religion are irrelevant; in defiance of US-Zionist efforts, Resistance will support Resistance always.
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The attempted scheme to disrupt and destroy Iran’s diplomatic relations with the Arab world, especially as Iran works with Syria and Saudi Arabia for peace in Lebanon, efforts which Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah has called ‘sincere (160),’ has also failed. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has slammed Wikileaks as psychological warfare; he further said that the information wasn’t leaked, but organized, and went on to say, ‘We are friends with the regional countries and mischievous acts will not affect relations (161).’ Iran’s Parliament Speaker, Ali Larijani said that the enemies of regional stability are behind Wikileaks and it is only an attempt to promote discord (162). Iran’s former Foreign Minister, Manouchehr Mottaki said the ‘questionable’ Wikileaks documents will not affect Iran’s brotherly and friendly relations with the Gulf States (163).
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Cablegate opened up the gates for two significant events: new, stronger illegal sanctions against the Islamic Republic by the United States (164), and another Mossad assassination of an Iranian scientist, Majid Shahriari (165). Jeffrey Goldberg, the Israeli-American journalist that spread horrific lies to promote the Zionist invasion of Iraq (166), used Cablegate to spread an even more ludicrous premise, that an Arab Lobby is supporting a war against Iran, and not a ‘Jewish’ Lobby (167). Zionist David Frum, Bush’s former speechwriter and loathsome war criminal, has also used Cablegate to justify an all-out military offensive against Iran (168).
It is troubling, that many in the ‘anti-war’ movement have ignored the Zionist fingerprints all over Wikileaks, and have stated that an American war against Iran will never happen; they have outlandishly stated that there is no evidence of such a war, and even more outlandishly, that Wikileaks has exposed Iranian support of American ‘imperialism.’
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It is troubling, that it will take another Zionist-designed genocide to awaken such persons from their media-induced slumber. The war against Iran isn’t happening in the future, nor is it a fabrication; the US-Zionist war against Iran is taking place right now. And it has been for quite some time.
The United States has surrounded the Islamic Republic with gunboats on numerous occasions, halted Iranian ships for arms shipments to the Resistance of Gaza, financed and educated Iranian ‘dissidents’ to bring about a pro-Western regime totally disconnected from the Islamic Revolution, kidnaped Iranian diplomats in occupied Iraq, kidnaped Iranian military personal on the Iranian border and then tortured them inside Iraq, continually spied on Iran and violated its sovereignty, attacked Iran’s currency and its international financial affairs, and funded ‘terrorist’ proxies to carry out murderous attacks on innocents within Iran (169).
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The organization Jundullah, has waged barbaric warfare against the Islamic Republic, claiming thousands of lives; Jundullah is fully backed by the CIA and receives nearly $400 million a year from the US State Department (170). Mossad is also linked to Jundullah, providing training for the front operation, and coordinating several strikes against Iranian mosques (171). Ardeshire Hassanpour, a 44-year old Iranian nuclear scientist, was assassinated by Mossad in 2007 (172). Just days before the Cablegate release, Israel skyjacked an Iranian plane for the 130th time since 1984 (173). The Stuxnet computer virus, which originated in Israel (174), was unleashed on Iran’s industrial sector, including its nuclear power plant, by the Zionist entity in September of this year (175). Will this suffice as enough evidence of acts of war against Iran? Everything aforesaid is only part of the American-Israeli onslaught against the Islamic Revolution; to weaken it before the long-planned invasion and occupation.
Wikileaks, with extensive help from the Zionist media, has broken Turkey and deepened international Zionism’s war against Iran. Wikileaks’ largest success however, has been its coopting of the worldwide activist network, totally blinding it from seeing its function as the archer for every target that the Zionist entity considers an enemy.
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Wikileaks is an Israeli-American intelligence operation.
Wikileaks Exposed: The CIA, Google, PROMIS and More
Some authors and writers have suggested that an intelligence service may be behind Wikileaks, and others, like Pakistani Army General Mirza Aslam Beg have said outright that only CIA and Mossad could be behind such an operation (176). The General is spot on; Wikileaks has several connections to US intelligence, and these connections uncover several mysteries about Wikileaks, including who they are exactly and what exactly it is that they do.
Co-Founder of Wikileaks, John Young, whom Julian Assange calls Wikileaks’ spiritual godfather, left the organization in its early stages after labeling it a CIA operation for data-mining (177). Though Young has recently changed his position for one of support, the members of Wikileaks’ Advisory Board confirm Young’s original suspicions. One of these members is security expert (and Wikileaks security designer) Ben Laurie (178), who is currently working on several projects for Google (179).
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Google’s links to the intelligence community are vast; the internet giant has a security agreement with the NSA (180), the electronic surveillance organization responsible for spying on millions of Americans (181), a partnership with the CIA via its joint business venture with the agency’s investment wing, In-Q-Tel (182), in the purchase of an internet monitoring organization, Recorded Future (183), a working relationship with the Zionist Organization of America, profoundly linked to the Israeli military establishment (184), to fight anti-Semitism and ‘anti-Israel propaganda (185),’ and a disturbing research project in Tel Aviv, where Zionist founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page have major ties, to delve into the aspects of the human genome and genetic data-mining (186). The Google ties alone are enough to discredit and expose the entire Wikileaks operation.
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Wikileaks is being heavily funded by Mossad and corrosive, criminal Zionist billionaire George Soros, and is also directly involved with a $20 million CIA operation involving Chinese ‘dissidents’ trained by the agency to hack into China’s computers and reroute the implanted viruses to American government computer systems, all for the purpose of increasing the cyber defense budget (187), a plan that began when dual-citizen of Israel and Mossad operative Amit Yoran was elected Cyber Security Czar by war criminal George W. Bush in 2003 (188). Amit Yoran and his family were a key part of the Mossad false attack on September 11th (189); just one more example of more than 60 years of Israeli espionage against the United States, including cyber warfare (190). Some of these ‘dissidents’ are Wang Dan, Xiao Qiang, and Wang Youcai, all members of Wikileaks’ Advisory Board. This operation is an extension of the CIA’s ‘Operation Yellowbird,’ an earlier scheme in which the CIA supported the subversive activities of ‘pro-democracy’ Chinese citizens and rescued them from prosecution at the hands of the Chinese government (191).
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Is there any mention of this CIA sabotage against China in any of the Cablegate documents? Obviously not. What about Zionist spying? Nowhere to be found. Instead, predictably, there are cables blaming China for espionage against the United States and Google (192); considering the security connections of Google with CIA, NSA and the Israeli military, this is beyond asinine. It is clear, that this is just more damage control to completely cover up the CIA-Wikileaks operation.
Another member of Wikileaks’ Advisory board is Tashi Namgyal Khamsitsang, former representative of the Dalai Lama and president of the Tibetan Association of Washington (193). George Soros is a major financial contributor to the Dalai Lama (194), the ‘spiritual’ leader of the Tibetan ‘struggle for independence.’ The Soros-founded International Crisis Group vociferously promotes the Tibetan cause, spreading falsehoods about Chinese ethnic cleansing and other concocted crimes against humanity (195). This is another Zionist-engineered farce to distract the masses from the real struggles of Palestine, Kashmir, Iraq, Afghanistan, Somalia, Yemen and Pakistan. The Tibetan freedom movement has been funded by the CIA for decades through its National Endowment For Democracy (NDE) to weaken China’s social fabric; NDE was used by the agency to provide millions per year to its Asian clients, including $180,000.00 per year for the Dalai Lama himself (196). NDE is an integral part of none other than the CIA’s Operation Yellowbird (197). Any mention in the Cablegate documents of the CIA’s subversive connections to Tibet? Absolutely not; but there is plenty of sewage about China oppressing Tibet and restricting the Dalai Lama’s movements (198).
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The remaining members of Wikileaks’ Advisory Board are Phillip Adams and Francisco ‘Chico’ Whitaker Ferreira. Adams is a columnist for The Australian (199), a newspaper owned by News Corporation (200), the media conglomerate of infamous Zionist billionaire, Keith Rupert Murdoch, who recently accepted an award from the Zionist propaganda arm, the Anti-Defamation League (201). Ferreira worked as a researcher and consultant with UNESCO, and is currently a member of the World Future Council (202). The World Future Council is an organization dedicated to globalization via the strengthening of the UN, and it is a frequenter of the supranational organization’s conventions on environmental issues (203). The World Future Council has also worked extensively with the Zionist European Union, contributing several points to its Directive on renewable energy (204), an unabashed promotion of the ‘global warming’ agenda which has been thoroughly debunked as a scientific hoax (205).
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UNESCO is the criminal United Nations organization that has been complicit in the anarchic corruption that has destroyed Iraq’s once flourishing educational system (206), and the group that has overseen the looting of Iraq’s most precious artifacts, antiquities and ancient books, which it attributes to ‘professionals (207).’ These professionals are none other than the agents of Mossad, who have looted Iraq’s precious artifacts from Baghdad to Mosul to Najaf (208), and UNESCO has watched Israel’s intelligence apparatus steal Iraq’s priceless history without making a peep about Zion’s crimes. This isn’t surprising however, as UNESCO has a partnership with L’Oreal, in which the supranational wing and cosmetics giant issue 5 ‘For Women In Science’ awards every year (209). L’Oreal is a massive contributor to the illegitimate Zionist state, and has set up its commercial center of the Middle East in Israel, it has been praised by the American Jewish Committee and the ADL, it has accepted awards from mass murderer Benjamin Netanyahu and has given out scholarships worth $10,000.00 to Israeli students (210). It is utter Zionist collusion on the part of UNESCO, which of course, has never been acknowledged by Wikileaks.
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The questions are just begging to be asked. What kind of whistleblower organization takes money from Mossad and CIA? And what kind of whistleblower organization’s advisory board is comprised of CIA agents, CIA assets, Zionist journalists and globalists? And if such an organization takes such blood money, and is comprised of such personalities, it really isn’t all that’s cracked up to be, now is it? And it actually is what it sounds like: an intelligence front.
The most devastating blow to Wikileaks’ whistleblower aura is the revelation that it is using PROMIS software to filter the information it attains before its world-renowned leaks (211). PROMIS was created by the INSLAW corporation, owned by former NSA agent, Bill Hamilton. Though Hamilton’s intention was to transfer the license of his revolutionary software to the United States government, PROMIS was stolen by officials from war criminal Ronald Reagan’s Justice Department and handed over to the CIA and the NSA, who re-formatted the technology to use it in global espionage operations (212). There is not an organization on planet earth with access to PROMIS software, that isn’t connected to the CIA or a proxy of the CIA. It is the final shot from the cannon, shattering every piece of Wikileaks’ armor.
Obama’s Regulation Czar, obnoxious Zionist Cass Sunstein, has called for government infiltration of all groups that propose historical revisionism and ‘conspiracy theories (213).’ With Wikileaks’ vast connections to the CIA, and its glamorous image in the anti-war movement, it is clear that Assange’s group is a reflection of Sunstein’s Orwellian vision. Wikileaks is COINTELPRO 2.0, cyber edition.
Julian Assange has been bought and paid for by Israel.
Assange: Darling of The Zionist Elite
One wonders how documents that were written by Zionist diplomats, filtered with CIA software and vigorously promoted by the Zionist media can be so adamantly accepted as unequivocal truth by those associated with anti-war sentiments and anti-Zionism. One wonders how such individuals can discard their logic, principles and dignity so easily. And one wonders what force is preventing them from regaining their senses. Every group needs a polarizing and charismatic leader to guide them and nurture them. In the case of the successfully coopted anti-war movement, that leader is 39-year old hacker and ‘whistle-blower’ extraordinaire, Julian Assange from Queensland, Australia.
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While Assange has been depicted by the Zionist media as a renegade on the run from Interpol in a high-octane Hollywood action thriller, a voice of the people and a hero to be worshiped by men and women alike, an examination of the record serves as a fan to blow the Zionist smokescreen right into the abyss and expose the man behind Zion’s mask. Though the mainstream press continues to say that Assange was arrested in the UK for ‘sex crimes’ committed in Sweden, this is a fallacy; Assange willingly met with UK police on his lawyer’s advice (214). Interpol’s infamous ‘red notice’ that it posted on Assange was never needed (215), because despite media reports of Assange living his life in hiding, the UK police knew exactly where he was for 30 days (216). As the circus of Assange’s rape/molestation charges chugs on with vigor, the Zionist media deliberately (and conveniently) left out the fact that Sweden’s rape charges against Assange were dropped already back in August (217). Interpol, an international police cooperation outfit, is known for apprehending criminals of all sorts from pole to pole across the earth; if the intent was to incarcerate and silence Assange, why wasn’t he picked up at the internationally covered press conference he gave in Geneva in November of this year (218)?
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The lawyer that instructed Julian Assange to turn himself in was Mark Stephens, of Finers Stephens Innocent, the London legal heavyweight. Mark Stephens is an ardent Zionist who defended Yoram Blachar, the former head of the Israeli Medical Association, an organization known for its doctors engaging in the horrific torture of Palestinians (219). On behalf of Blacher, Mark Stephens filed a libel suit against Dr. Derek Summerfield, a UK-based physician who repeatedly blasted Blachar and his complicity with the Zionist entity’s crimes against humanity (220).
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Stephens has also defended several Zionist media outlets (221), including CNN, headed by CEO Jeffrey Bewkes, a staunch Zionist who has been honored by notorious Zionist institutions the American Jewish Committee and the Simon Wiesenthal Center (222), ABC, headed by CEO Robert Iger, who has been honored by the extremist Zionist organization, Aish HaTorah (223), the New York Times, known for its disgustingly pro-Israel bias in all of its reporting on the Middle East (224), as well as the Wall Street Journal (225), owned by ultra-Zionist Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation. Finers Stephens Innocent serves as a legal advisor for Waddesdon Manor, owned by the godfathers of Israel, the Rothschild banking family, which explains why Mark Stephens is also a Freeman of the City of London (226), the financial district of London which governs all major financial happenings across the globe and is dominated by the Rothschild clan (227).
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Julian Assange has his own disturbing connections to the Zionist Rothschild dynasty. In 2008, Assange accepted the ‘Economist Index On Censorship Award’ from The Economist Magazine (228). The Economist is part of the Economist Group, a media corporation which is 50% owned by the Zionist Rothschilds (229). In addition, Assange is an ‘absolute’ proponent of Zionist-designed free market capitalism, declaring in a recent Forbes interview that he ‘loves markets,’ and that Wikileaks was designed for the benefit of capitalism (230). Free market capitalism is the repugnant capitalist ideology of Milton Friedman, whom many consider to be Adam Smith reborn (231). Milton Friedman was a dual-citizen of Israel, he issued many lectures at Zionist universities built on occupied Palestinian land, he atrociously considered the illegitimate Zionist state a ‘beautiful and diversified country, with enemies on all sides,’ he donated regularly to the Israel Center for Social and Economic Progress, a Zionist ‘charity,’ and was a friend to Israeli war criminals Menachem Begin, Shimon Peres and Ariel Sharon (232).
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During the transition of being ‘on the run from the law’ and turning himself in to the law, Julian Assange wrote an editorial for The Australian, the Zionist-owned newspaper where his fellow Wikileaks board member Phillip Adams is a stalwart. The very concept of writing an editorial for a Zionist-owned newspaper while supposedly on the run from international intelligence agents should have been a wake-up call for every activist who accepts Wikileaks as truth, that Assange and Wikileaks are nothing but a sideshow; unfortunately, this didn’t open their eyes to the ‘dancing bears’ either. In Assange’s editorial, he remarkably declared that he isn’t anti-war, and what is even more opprobrious, he glorified Zionist billionaire Rupert Murdoch, and his elitist father, Keith Murdoch, citing them as sources of journalistic integrity and truth, and then comparing Wikileaks’ efforts to those of the Murdoch family (233). Rupert Murdoch is anything but a source of truth; he has dedicated billions upon billions of dollars to spreading disinformation, sensationalism and outright lies with his Fox News Network to unabashedly condone the illegal Zionist wars in occupied Iraq and Afghanistan (234); his promotion of the genocidal invasion of Iraq was in such a great amount, that it was called ‘Mr. Murdoch’s war (235).’ In that case then, Assange’s comparison is quite accurate, since Wikileaks does nothing but promote Zionist distortion.
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The more despicable, and most certainly more collusive of Assange’s praises, is that of the originator of the ‘war on terror,’ Zionist war criminal Benjamin Netanyahu. In an interview with Bewkes-owned TIME Magazine, Assange called Netanyahu a ‘sophisticated politician,’ and used the butcher of Gaza as an example of a world leader who respects the leaks of his organization, and even went on to say that Netanyahu believes Wikileaks will lead to ‘an increase in the peace process in the Middle East and particularly in relation to Iran,’ and most damningly, admitting that Cablegate was in the interest of Israel (236). It is not coincidental at all, that the two Zionist objects of Julian Assange’s praise are quite good friends; Netanyahu stays at Rupert Murdoch’s estate when the war criminal is in London (237).
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What kind of whistle-blower gives his leaks to Zionist-owned, corporate, elitist newspapers and then writes an editorial for one? What kind of hero of the oppressed people hires a Zionist lawyer that defends the torture of Palestinians and the institutions that cover it up? What kind of freedom fighter accepts an award from the Rothschild family, one of the greatest causes of the destruction of peace and justice throughout the world? What kind of revolutionary is inspired by Zionist liars like the Murdoch family and offers his praise to filthy war criminals like Benjamin Netanyahu? What kind of champion of the people subscribes to Zionist-created free market capitalism and admits that his organization was created to nonsensically make an anti-freedom and anti-ethics ideology more ‘free and ethical?’ What kind of defender of truth mentions Iran’s nuclear program as if it was a threat to ‘peace’ while totally ignoring hundreds of Israeli nukes? Julian Assange is none of these things; and to label him as such, is an insult to those righteous persons who are. Julian Assange is a Zionist shill, bought and paid for by the Israel-first elite, Mossad and the CIA, planted in the activism community as the front man for the new generation of COINTELPRO.
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Resistance and Knowledge will trigger Revolution; not Wikileaks.
Conclusion: Real Heroes and Real Leaks
A final note needs to be made about some recent allegations in Arabic media regarding secret videos and recordings of Julian Assange taking money from Israeli officials and cutting a deal with the Zionist entity to protect it from Wikileaks’ document dumps (238). While it is indeed true that Assange has certainly taken money from Israeli intelligence, this theory implies that Wikileaks wasn’t always a corrupt organization; that the intentions of Wikileaks were once pure. This is a terribly false narrative that makes Assange and company look like victims bullied by the Zionist entity. Assange and his crew are assets of Israel, not enemies turned friends.
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It is already an established fact that Assange has been taking money from Mossad, CIA and Zionist George Soros from the very beginning; before Wikileaks even became an internationally renowned ‘whistle-blower,’ the Zionist media was treating it as such, with Assange’s organization being touted by Zionist-owned TIME Magazine and the propaganda-spewing Washington Post (239). Wikileaks’ first official leak was a despicable pack of lies against the Somali Resistance (240), fighting vehemently against the Zionist-instigated, US-backed United Nations-African Union occupation of the their country (241). Every leak thereafter didn’t harm Israel either; this shows solidarity with the illegitimate usurping regime from the jump, not a case of flip-flopping and turn-coating. In addition, Julian Assange has admitted to having connections to Australian intelligence (242), which has been reporting first to Mossad for decades, including, not so ironically, in the case of true whistleblower Mordechai Vanunu, tipping the Israeli intelligence agency off prior to his kidnaping (243).
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The very fact that Assange has given all of his documents to Zionist-owned elitist media outlets should have been enough to raise a red flag with anyone and everyone pursing truth, peace and justice. Instead, like sheep, Wikileaks’ followers are being led right to slaughter. Just like the sinking of the Lusitania was the false flag for World War One, Pearl Harbor was the false flag for World War Two, the Gulf of Tonkin was the false flag for Vietnam and 9/11 was the false flag for Zionism’s current hegemonic onslaught against the Middle East, Wikileaks is the Zionist-created false flag that is being used right now, at this very moment, to usher in an all-out assault on the internet, with Zionist war criminal Joseph Lieberman leading the way with the first shot: new legislation that is being called ‘Patriot Act for the internet (244).’
A real leak is one that doesn’t serve the Zionist agenda; a real hero is one that fights against Zionism and exposes it with reckless abandon, only concerned with the truth.
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No mention in the Zionist media is the leak of the names, ranks, photos and addresses of 200 Israeli war criminals that participated in the genocide of Operation Cast Lead against occupied Gaza in 2008-09 (245).
No mention in the Zionist media is the leak initiated by former IOF soldier Anat Kam, who delivered 2,000 classified military files that detailed war crimes (including targeted assassinations) committed in the occupied West Bank to Haaretz journalist Uri Blau (246). An Israeli gag order was put on the whole affair (247), and Anat Kam remains on house arrest, awaiting a life imprisonment sentence for ‘treason’ against the Israeli regime (248).
Unless it is part of a smear campaign, there is no mention in the Zionist media of the undeniably true statements of courageous former White House press core reporter Helen Thomas, who said that Zionists own Congress, the White House, Hollywood, Wall Street and American foreign policy (249). Instead of dissecting the evidence, there are only pathetic accusations of anti-Semitism.
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Never mentioned in the rotten Zionist media is Gary Webb, the brave investigative journalist that completely exposed the CIA drug trafficking operation to pump cocaine into African-American communities in Los Angeles (250). Contrary to ridiculous media reports of Gary Webb committing suicide by shooting himself in the head twice, he was assassinated by the CIA for bringing the agency’s racist criminality to light (251).
Never mentioned by the Zionist-owned media machine is the tragic story of another noble investigative reporter, Danny Casolaro, who unearthed an international conspiracy centered around the theft of the aforementioned PROMIS software of the INSLAW corporation, with the butcher of Iraq, Zionist war criminal George H.W. Bush sitting at the head, shadowing the affair through his secretive criminal society known as the Black Rose; Casolaro was snuffed out in brutal fashion by the very same criminals he exposed (252).
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No mention in the Zionist-controlled press is the meticulous and shocking research of Edward Hooper, who wrote a nearly-1,200-page investigative masterpiece undeniably destroying mainstream AIDS theory and uncovering that it was actually created by a Zionist scientist named Hillary Koprowski, who gave contaminated, mutated dosages of Oral Polio Vaccine to more than a quarter of a million Congolese youth after being commissioned by the United States government to do so (253).
Never in the Zionist media are the veracious efforts of Cathy O’Brien and Mark Phillips mentioned, who blew the whistle on the barbaric CIA mind control programs of Project Monarch and MKULTRA, which brought to light the unbearably twisted criminal behavior of the highest echelons of various governments (254).
Never mentioned by the Zionist media is Sibel Edmonds, the Turkish-American FBI translator turned whistle-blower that exposed varying degrees of spying within the US government, including significant revelations about collusion between the Turkish military, Israeli military intelligence, AIPAC and the neo-conservative Zionist Power Configuration governing America’s foreign policy (255).
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And never is it mentioned, nor will it ever be mentioned by the Zionist media the name of Milton William Cooper, better known as Bill Cooper, the writer, shortwave radio broadcaster, researcher and activist that exposed every degree of the international conspiracy dominating the world today (256), including a brilliant expose of the vile history of the Anti-Defamation League (257). On June 28th, 2001, during his nightly ‘Hour Of The Time’ broadcast, which can be heard on various outlets across the web, Bill Cooper predicted that a false flag attack was to be carried out in New York City in the coming months, and it would be blamed on Osama Bin Laden to initiate the next phase of globalization, or the ‘New World Order.’ In November of 2001, just months after his chilling prediction, Bill Cooper was murdered outside of his home.
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These men and women, along with the previously discussed Mordechai Vanunu and Robert Friedman, are real whistle-blowers; real journalists; real activists; and in several cases, real heroes. Their sacrifice, along with the sacrifice and efforts of giants like Malcolm X, Patrice Lumumba, Salvador Allende, Fela Kuti, Omar Mukhtar, Mehdi Ben Barka, Che Guevara, General Abdul Karim Qasem, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, Fred Hampton and Ayatollah Sayyed Ruhollah Khomeini should be studied and drawn upon for light, strength, inspiration and guidance in the revolutionary struggle for peace, truth, freedom and justice for all oppressed people. The Zionist media can keep Julian Assange and the rest of its intelligence-connected, manufactured frauds.
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It must never be forgotten (and constantly reiterated) that Assange despicably stated that he is annoyed by ‘false conspiracies such as 9/11 (258),’ although there is overwhelming evidence that there was a massive cover-up to hide the fact that the towers were demolished from the inside with explosives (259), and that there were Mossad agents and high-ranking sayanim of the Zionist entity at every post to carry out the intricacies of the famed false flag attack (260). Like Bin Laden, who was in a US hospital meeting with CIA officials only two months before the 9/11 attacks (261), Julian Assange was a guest at a cocktail party at a US embassy nearly a year ago (262). Revelations will continue to surface about Assange’s deception and his connections to the usurping, occupying Tel Aviv regime while the Zionist media simultaneously lies to the public about his heroism in the typical, perfect language of the Hegelian Dialectic. Do not fall for the trick. Wikileaks is Zionist poison. This is the deconstruction of the myth that says it is anything but.
~ The End~
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(46) Murr Denies Wikileaks’ Allegations by Ahram Online
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(67) Olmert’s 9/11 Mafia by Barry Chamish
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(81) Wikileaks: US Hits Back At Israel by Wayne Madsen
(82) At Least One Wikileak Is Just A Bold-Faced Lie – And It’s a Significant One by Scott Creighton
(83) Cable 05TELAVIV1580: Mossad Chief To Codel Corzine: Some Foreign by Wikileaks
(84) Kashmir Shows Up In Wikileaks by Greater Kashmir
(85) Cable 07TELAVIV2652, U/S Burns’ August 17th Meeting With Israeli Mossad by Wikileaks
(86) Wikileaks: Ayatollah Khamenei Has Terminal Cancer by Damien McElroy, The Telegraph
(87) Wikileaks: Israel Weapons Manufacturer Listed As Site Vital To US Interests by Barak Ravid, Haaretz
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(100) Ho Hum, More Wikileaks ‘Chickenfeed’ by Gordon Duff, Veterans Today
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(103) Sayyed Nasrallah: Israel Behind Hariri’s Assassination by Hussein Assi, Al-Manar
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(105) Mass Graves In Kashmir by Fatima Sultan Syed
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(113) The Zionist Murderers Of Iraq by Jonathan Azaziah, Mask of Zion
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(120) Deception Over Lockerbie by Maidhc O Cathail
(121) The Reality Of Zionism by Jonathan Azaziah, Mask of Zion
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(123) Turkey Decides To Cancel Three Military Exercises With Israel by Xinhua English
(124) Ahmet Davutoglu: ‘We Are A Part Of The West’ by Newsweek
(125) Turkey Defends Hezbollah Against STL by Press TV
(126) Erdogan: Israel To Lose Closest Ally by The Jerusalem Post
(127) Israeli Mossad Accused Of Attempting To Assassinate Erdogan by The European Union Times
(128) Turkish PM Reiterates Demand For Israel’s Apology, Compensation by Xinhua English
(129) Why We Need Turkey by Zvi Bar’el, Haaretz
(130) Turkey To Normalize Ties If Gaza Blockade Ends by Reuters
(131) Erdogan’s Visit To Lebanon And Calling On Israel To Apologize And Halt The Inflammatory by Mohamed Abd el Fattah, All Voices
(132) Erdogan Denies Genocide, Links Karabakh To Armenia Ties On Prime Time TV by Asbarez Armenian News
(133) Erdogan Accuses Armenians Of ‘Exterminating’ Turks by Asbarez Armenian News
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(135) ADL’s Abe Foxman Disputes Criticism On Armenian Genocide Position by Armen Carapetian, Armenian National Committee
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(137) When Kemal Ataturk Recited Shema Yisrael by Hillel Halkin, The Jewish Daily Forward
(138) Turkey’s Charismatic Pro-Islamic Leader by BBC News
(139) Armenians Protest Erdogan’s Visit: We Haven’t Forgotten Yet by Al-Manar
(140) Wikileaks Release To Show NATO Ally Turkey Helped Al Qaeda In Iraq by Reuters
(141) Turkey’s Erdogan Slams Wikileaks Cables As Slander by Ayla Jean Yackley, Reuters
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(143) Facing Fires, Israel Appeals For Help by Ethan Bronner, The New York Times
(144) Official Says Israel, Turkey In Talks To Mend Ties by The Associated Press
(145) J’lem, Turkey May Find Resolution To Flotilla Legal Issues by Herb Keinon, The Jerusalem Post; Israel Likely To Offer Heavy ‘Humanitarian’ Compensation Over Turkey Flotilla Deaths by Barak Ravid, Haaretz
(146) Turkish Official: Israel Initiated Massive Leak by Ynet News
(147) Mossad, MI6, The CIA And The Case Of The Assassinated Scientist by Yossi Melman, The Independent
(148) Netanyahu: Wikileaks Cables Prove Israel Is Right On Iran by Barak Ravid, Haaretz
(149) Gulf States Discuss Iran Following Wikileaks Revelations by David Miller, The Jerusalem Post
(150) Cable 09ASHGABAT757: Iran Post-Election: [Source Removed] Calls by Wikileaks
(151) Wikileaks’ ‘Cablegate’ Dump: 10 Biggest Revelations by The Week
(152) Cable 09ASHGABAT218: Turkmenistan/Iran: Weapons Found Hidden In Iranian by Wikileaks
(153) Wikileaks ‘Cablegate’ Shows How Iran Troubles The World by Samyuktha Krishnappa, International Business Times; Wikileaks Reveals Nuclear Secrets Of Both NATO and Iran by The Associated Press
(154) Wikileaks Cablegate: Iran Saw Pakistan As A Nuclear-Weapons Competitor Says Lavrov by Frontier India
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(157) You Provide The Tweets, We’ll Provide The Info War – The Iranian Protests And The Mainstream Media by Jack Z. Bratich
(158) Facebook, Twitter, Israel’s New Battle Ground by Press TV
(159) The Myth Of A Shia/Sunni-Persian-Arab Confrontation by Arshin Adib-Moghaddam, Antiwar.com
(160) Sayyed Nasrallah’s Speech Gave Momentum To Saudi-Syrian Efforts by Ahlul Bayt News Agency
(161) Wikileaks Claims Are ‘Psychological Warfare’ Says Ahmadinejad by Ian Black, The Guardian
(162) Wikileaks Seek To Create Discord In The Region by Iran Review
(163) ‘Wikileaks Unable To Shake Iran Ties’ by Press TV
(164) U.S. Announces New Iran Sanctions by Borzou Daragahi, The Los Angeles Times
(165) Time: Mossad Behind Iran Hit? By Press TV
(166) Playing The Never Again Card, Again by Jeff Gates, Veterans Today
(167) The Impotence Of The Pan-Semitic Front by Jeffrey Goldberg, The Atlantic
(168) Wikileaks Builds Case Against Iran by David Frum, CNN
(169) Much Ado About Nothing? – The Anti-Empire Report by William Blum
(170) Jundullah’s Links To Al Qaeda And The CIA by Aangirfan
(171) Hezbollah Spices Up Israel-Iran Mix by Kaveh L. Afrasiabi, The Asia Times
(172) Iranian Nuclear Scientist ‘Assassinated By Mossad’ by Sarah Baxter, The Sunday Times
(173) ‘Iran Skyjacking Plot Launched In Israel’ by Press TV
(174) Security Experts Suggest That Stuxnet Originated In Israel by Zero Hedge
(175) US, Israel Behind Cyber Attack On Iran? by Press TV; Stuxnet Virus Traced To Israel: ‘Everything Before Was Kid’s Stuff’ by The World Tribune
(176) Former Pakistani General: CIA, Mossad Behind Wikileaks Reports by Fars News Agency
(177) Click And Dagger: Inside Wikileaks’ Leak Factory by David Kushner, Mother Jones
(178) Exposed: Wikileaks’ Secrets by Annabel Symington, Wired
(179) Ben Laurie, Google by Dave Birch, Digital Identity Blog
(180) Google To Enlist NSA To Help It Ward Off Cyber Attacks by Ellen Nakashima, The Washington Post
(181) The Shadow Factory: The Ultra-Secret NSA From 9/11 To The Eavesdropping On America by James Bamford
(182) About IQT: History by In-Q-Tel
(183) Exclusive: Google, CIA Invest In ‘Future’ Of Web Monitoring by Noah Shachtman, Wired
(184) Zionism’s ZOA Pushes To Make All Campus Criticism Of Israel Illegal by James M. Wall, Veterans Today
(185) ZOA Praises Google For Removing False Anti-Israel Propaganda From Google Earth’s Map Of Israel by Morton Klein, Zionist Organization of America
(186) Google – Zionist Engine Of Mind And Genetic Control by Philip Jones
(187) CIA, Mossad and Soros Behind Wikileaks by Wayne Madsen, Pakistan Daily
(188) Israelis Hold Keys To NSA/US Military Computer Networks by Christopher Bollyn
(189) The Israeli Moles Who Controlled US Defense Computers On 9/11 by Christopher Bollyn
(190) Israeli Spying: The Mother Of All Scandals by What Really Happened
(191) CIA Operations In China—Another CIA Domestic OP? by Ralph McGehee
(192) Wikileaks: Chinese Contact Claimed Beijing Hacked Google As Part Of Coordinated Computer Sabotage Program by David Gardner, Daily Mail
(193) Local Demonstrators Turn Out For Tibetans by Haley Edwards, The Seattle Times
(194) The Dalai Lama, George Soros And You by James Boyce, Intent Blog; George Soros, Imperial Wizard by Heather Coffin, Covert Action Quarterly
(195) CrisisWatch Database: China by International Crisis Group
(196) Risky Geopolitical Game: Washington Plays ‘Tibet Roulette’ With China by F. William Engdahl, Online Journal
(197) CIA Operations In China Part III by Ralph McGehee
(198) Wikileaks Reveal China’s Attempts To Limit His Holiness’ Movements by James Dunn, The Tibet Post
(199) Columnists: Phillip Adams by The Australian
(200) Newspapers And Information Services by News Corporation
(201) Media Magnate Rupert Murdoch, Accepting ADL Award, Calls For An End Of Efforts To Isolate Israel by The Anti-Defamation League
(202) Councilor Biographies: Francisco Whitaker by The World Future Council; Chico Whitaker Ferreira (Brazil) by The Right Livelihood Award
(203) About Us: Around The Globe by The World Future Council
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“thought it was a bomb…walked out through the hole..burning wreckage..no plane parts…threatened to keep silent”
FORMER VICE PRESIDENT CHENEY ACCUSED OF ENGINEERING PENTAGON ATTACK
DONALD RUMSFELD CITED AS POSSIBLE ACCOMPICE
By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor
Confirmed sources in the Nigerian government tell us, in order to keep former Vice President Cheney out of prison for crimes involving Nigeria, $500,000,000 in bribes have been promised, negotiated by former President George H.W. Bush. Now, only a day later, Cheney faces possible charges, so many charges they can only be imagined, for planning the Pentagon attack on 9/11. TV host, Jesse Ventura, former Navy Seal, former Governor of Minnesota, on a one hour documentary on prime-time American television, makes an open and shut criminal case tying Cheney, Rumsfeld and officials throughout the US government with complicity in the planning, execution and subsequent cover-up of the 9/11 attack on the Pentagon.
According to experts on 9/11, engineers, pilots, intelligence officers and members of our military, Jesse Ventura “hit the nail on the head.” Ventura, using evidence developed over 9 years by hundreds of individuals, outlines the utter impossibility of the government’s cover story on 9/11 and systematically debunks it using testimony and scientific evidence.
Ventura cites, in an interview with a 9/11 commissioner, a possible motive for the Pentagon attack being included with the attacks on the World Trade Center. $2,300,000,000,000, yes 2.3 billion US dollars had disappeared, cited only the day before in a televised statement by Secretary Rumsfeld, money “gone missing” from the Pentagon’s accounting. The are of the Pentagon hit by a missile or destroyed by explosives or both contained all records of this missing money.
NO PLANE, NO WAY, NOT EVEN CLOSE
Ventura proves, beyond any doubt that no airplane every hit the Pentagon. As the video shows, not even a highly trained airline pilot was capable of the maneuvers claimed. Long before, it had been proven that the 757 was incapable the task, either the maneuvers or the speed and trajectory. The plane would have come apart, there is no disagreement with this and hasn’t been for some time, yet nothing had been done. Why?
It is also clearly shown that there is absolutely no evidence of any kind showing a plane hit the Pentagon, no wreckage, no bodies, no luggage. Items claimed to have been taken to Dover Air Force Base, bodies, plane parts, were never at the Pentagon as both video and testimony prove.
There is also proof that the government threatened witnesses, telling them to support the “aircraft scenario.”
NO MUSLIMS, NO HIJACKERS, NO BOX CUTTERS, ALL PROVEN LIES FINALLY
The basis for the conspiracy theory regarding Muslim hijackers with box cutters was based on supposed phone calls made by Barbara Olson, wife of Bush Solicitor General. Solicitor General Olson claimed he talked to his wife on a cell phone, spoke with her at length, while she described the hijackings as now dramatized by Hollywood. When it was proven that a cell phone is incapable of making such calls, Olson claimed it was a “seat back phone.” When it was proven that there were no seat back phones on American Airlines 757 aircraft, nothing further was asked.
Then investigations shows he received one call, lasting “0″ seconds. Ventura questions as to whether Olson was duped or complicit? Should he be arrested too? Was his wife, Barbara, ever really on the plane?
Then Ventura looks into the flight itself. Not only was the flight recorder “dead” but during the flight itself, the transponder was turned off. Even more suspicious, the plane disappeared from radar for 28 minutes.
There is no discussion of this 28 minutes, but speculation, perhaps no longer speculation, has long been that the flight landed. As to what happened then, we cannot guess, or can we. One of my friends, a former Pentagon official, had a friend on that aircraft. Not long ago, he asked me.
“Gordon, what do you think happened to him, do you think he was executed? Bullet in the brain as they stepped off the plane or something even worse?”
Ventura didn’t go there. None of us want to. It requires visualizing a scene out of Auschwitz.
Can Americans be so brutal, so devious, so traitorous? It isn’t just Jesse Ventura that is willing to risk his life to bring it out, Fox News journalist Geraldo Rivera, several weeks ago, debunked the Building 7 collapse at the World Trade Center as “controlled demolition.”
9/11 COMMISSION DUPED, ADMITS THERE WAS NO REAL INVESTIGATION AT ALL
Commission video’s redacted to remove testimony by the Secretary of Transportation, transcripts altered, witnesses blocked, evidence, tons of evidence of government conspiracy withheld, this is the case against the government. Threats, intimidation, going on for years, this is proven. Were there more than threats, murders, “heart attacks” or threats against families? Ventura proves the Pentagon was a government conspiracy, he “names names.” Geraldo makes any other explanation for Building 7 other than “controlled demolition” pure insanity.
IGNORING EVIDENCE, PROOF OF DICTATORSHIP OR ARE ARRESTS PLANNED?
It isn’t as though the evidence presented by Governor Ventura and Geraldo Rivera or even the other stories, Judge Napolitano’s revelations of knowledge of the attacks as early as 9/11, was new. All has been know, all highly credible and all systematically ignored, attacked by the press, suppressed by courts, officials at every level.
9/11 and the recent revelations aren’t proof of a conspiracy by 2 men, or Israel. It is proof that there never was an Al Qaeda and that the deaths, two wars, the 9/11 deaths and the carnage across the world wrought by the United States was part of a criminal conspiracy, one that could only be perpetrated by a dictatorship under the guise of representative democracy.
Everything we have seen, and millions around the world have watched, nobody can ignore it anymore, it all says that what has happened is something no American would allow, not if this still were America. Jesse Ventura proved something startling to most, suspected by some. He proved that, at some point in our past, 10 years, more, we don’t know, our government was overthrown.
MORE WIKILEAKS, MORE ASSANGE, MORE 9/11 COVER-UP
The strongest and most vocal opponent of a new 9/11 investigation is Julian Assange of Wikleaks. If any individual outside the US government were to be named as most complicit in a 9/11 cover-up, it would be Julian Assange.
Everything since then, certainly 9/11 and now, the news about Iran and, especially Wikileaks, all subterfuge. When former National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brzezinsky cited Wikileaks on a PBS interview, televised nationally, that Wikileaks was the word of an intelligence agency, Israel never reported it or responded. Instead, they attributed Brzezinski’s quote to me:
“Speaking to Haaretz, Duff added that ‘it sticks out like a sore thumb that WikiLeaks is obviously concocted by an intelligence agency.’”
This is what Brzezinski told Judy Woodruff of PBS:
ZBIGNIEW BRZEZINSKI: But I think the most serious issues are not those which are getting the headlines right now. Who cares if Berlusconi is described as a clown. Most Italians agree with that. Who cares if Putin is described as an alpha dog? He probably is flattered by it.
The real issue is, who is feeding Wikipedia on this issue — Wiki — Wiki — WikiLeaks on this issue? They’re getting a lot of information which seems trivial, inconsequential, but some of it seems surprisingly pointed. …The very pointed references to Arab leaders could have as their objective undermining their political credibility at home, because this kind of public identification of their hostility towards Iran could actually play against them at home.
It’s, rather, a question of whether WikiLeaks are being manipulated by interested parties that want to either complicate our relationship with other governments or want to undermine some governments, because some of these items that are being emphasized and have surfaced are very pointed.
And I wonder whether, in fact, there aren’t some operations internationally, intelligence services, that are feeding stuff to WikiLeaks, because it is a unique opportunity to embarrass us, to embarrass our position, but also to undermine our relations with particular governments.
BUSH, OBAMA, CONTINUING DICTATORSHIP, CONTINUING COVER-UP, CONTINUING WAR
Barak Obama ran for president on a platform based on justice, ending the wars and bringing accountability to government after 8 years of scandals, deceit and what can only be called “hooliganism and piracy.” Instead, he has done nothing, the wars continue, drugs are flowing from Afghanistan even faster than before, 9/11 evidence, now overwhelming and impossible ignore is still ignored.
Americans looking for reform wonder if Bush left at all. Those complicit are, though few admit it, disturbed by seeing America led by an African American. The visible public face on the very well financed attacks on President Obama are all very much based on race hatred. Who would want a return to policies enacted by the least successful president in American history, George W. Bush, who left office with an approval record listed at 22%. Many would find a number lower, even half, more credible. President Clinton, after surviving impeachment for lying about sexual misconduct left office with 68% approval.
Even through the assaults on President Obama, many financed by the Koch brothers, tied to ultra-nationalists in Israel, whether there was a real change of government is not clear. As Jesse Ventura pointed out, while Vice President Dick Cheney was getting reports of a plane approaching the Pentagon, seemingly even orchestrating the attack himself, President Bush was in Florida reading to school children. Two years of Obama have been similar, too similar.
What can we assume from this? Is, in fact, the President of the United States no longer Commander in Chief? Did our government hand itself over to “shadow” rule with Bush or did it happen earlier, after President Reagan’s dementia made him unable to manage the cabal that surrounded him?
The headline on today’s New York Times:
SENATE BLOCKS BILL FOR ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT STUDENTS
The headline on today’s Washington Post:
TOP US SPY REMOVED AFTER THREATS
What is “their” message? Certainly not “never again.” In fact we know that “again” is just around the corner, an Iran war with or without a new 9/11, planned and executed by the same folks, older, not wiser and certainly more pathologically insane and murderous.
The Hidden Evil (The financial elite’s covert war against the civilian population)
Isn’t she beautiful ?
Revolution ( in the US a constitutional right )
The 1776 Declaration of Independence stated that when a long train of abuses by those in power evidence a design to reduce the rights of people to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, it is the peoples right, in fact their duty to engage in a revolution.
……………………
and ….. JFK in his own words !
In a speech to the Newspaper Publishers Association in 1961, President Kennedy said:
“No president should fear public scrutiny of his program, for from that scrutiny comes understanding, and from that understanding comes support or opposition; and both are necessary. . . . Without debate, without criticism, no administration and no country can succeed, and no republic can survive. That is why the Athenian law makers once decreed it a crime for any citizen to shrink from controversy. And that is why our press was protected by the First Amendment.”
Abraham Lincoln said, just before his assassination:
I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country...Corporations have been enthroned, an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money-power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until the wealth is aggregated in a few hands and the Republic is destroyed."
Hmmmm.
“Only after the last tree has been cut down, Only after the last river has been poisoned, Only after the last fish has been caught, Only then will you find that money cannot be eaten”. Cree Indian Prophecy
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Human Rights Investigations has been following the situation of the Tawergha closely and here we draw the information together and find, based on the reports of witnesses, journalists and human rights workers, the situation of the Tawergha is not just one of ethnic cleansing but, according to the legal definition, genocide. HRI has grave concerns, not only f […]
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On Saturday 17th September, as reported by Al Jazeera, Ahmed Bani, the interim government’s military spokesman, said gave army personnel still loyal to Gaddafi a last chance to join the ranks of former rebel fighters: “The soldiers and officers who will not heed this last call will be accused of high treason.” The invocation of [...]
NATO arrives everywhere violently. Chicago was no exception. During summit activities, city cops are enforcers. They specialize in serving wealth, power, and imperial interests. more...
Another entry from USA in The GREEN WALL Activist Contest 2012. Write in a public place WWW.GREENCHARTER.COM and send us photos of evidence showing before and after, and we will publish it here more...
Photo: Police hit and run a man as wide spread police violence against peaceful anti-war protesters takes shape ahead of NATO military summit in Chicago more...
Failure to uphold international laws has allowed nations like the US to get away with crimes against humanity, writes Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad, former Prime Minister of Malaysia (photo, right, with Mathaba News founder and editor, left) more...
Israel`s long known open secret is its formidable nuclear arsenal. Less is known about its chemical and biological weapons (CBW) capability. Mathaba Analyst Stephen Lendman takes a look. more...
DAMASCUS, (SANA) – Russia, as a creditor of the UN World Food Program, decided to dedicate the majority of its remaining contributions to the Program for sending urgent humanitarian relief to Syria
DUBAI, (SANA)- A militant group called 'al-Nusra Front', which is connected with al-Qaeda, claimed responsibility for the suicide bombing which targeted the city of Deir Ezzor, eastern Syria, that killed nine people and injured more than 100 others
MOSCOW, (SANA) – The Syrian community in Russia condemned on Sunday the terrorist attacks witnessed in Syria, the latest of which was the terrorist bombing in Deir Ezzor province, stressing that these attacks will not defeat the determination of the Syrian people.
MOSCOW, (SANA) – Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said that during the G8 Summit in Camp David, Russia adhered to its stance which states that the situation in Syria cannot be resolved through exerting pressure via force or otherwise on the Syria government
CAMP DAVID, U.S, (SANA)- The Group of 8 Summit called on all sides in Syria to immediately halt violence and carry out the plan of the UN envoy Kofi Annan
MOSCOW, (SANA)- Russia on Friday expressed condemnation of the terrorist attempt that targeted the international observers in Syria, saying it was aimed at foiling the plan of the UN envoy to Syria, Kofi Annan
PROVINCES, (SANA)- Head of the UN observer mission to Syria, Gen. Robert Mood, said on Friday the mission is working at finding a successful way to be deployed in Syria thanks to the advanced level of cooperation by the Syrian government, the UN Presidency and the contributor countries
TUNIS, (SANA) – Tunisian authorities on Friday admitted that there are Tunisian citizens who were killed or arrested in Syria, and that they were members of the armed terrorist groups
[ PIC 21/05/2012 - 09:37 AM ] NABLUS, (PIC)– Israeli occupation forces (IOF) arrested seven Palestinian citizens in the West Bank at dawn Monday including a 70-year-old man in Nablus, local sources said. Eyewitnesses told the PIC reporter in Nablus city that IOF soldiers stormed the city before dawn and withdrew after taking away four [...]
Maan News Agency | May 21, 2012 (updated) BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — An Israeli human rights group released footage on Sunday of settlers firing on Nablus-village a day earlier, and called on Israel’s military to investigate the assailants, as well as the army’s role. Settlers entered Asira al-Qibliya on Saturday and threw rocks at propertie […]
LIVE BLOG ▶ PALESTINIANS ON HUNGER STRIKE | #PalHunger LIVE BLOG ▶ Commemorating 64 Years of Catastrophe in Palestine | #Nakba64 LIVE BLOG ▶ Israel Attacks Gaza May 17, 2012 & lies about it | #GazaUnderAttack continuous updated آخر الأخبار والتحديثات May 21, 2012 | 23382 Days Since Al-Nakba & Gaza has been under siege [...]
[ PIC 20/05/2012 - 08:45 PM ] THE HAGUE (PIC)– The Palestinian community in the Netherlands held, on Saturday, a conference to mark the 64th anniversary of the Palestinian Nakba in the capital Amsterdam, with the participation of the former PM of Netherlands, Dries van Agt, and with a large presence of the Palestinian community [...]
Al-Qassam Website | 21-05-2012,08:37 Al Qassam website (PressTV) – Palestinian refugees want their next generation to go back home to a free “Palestinian state” and to build their country themselves, a young Palestinian refugee tells Press TV. The comment comes as Palestinians commemorated the 64th anniversary of Nakba Day on May 15; when over 750,000 […]
Monday May 21, 2012 03:31 by Saed Bannoura – IMEMC Palestinian medical sources reported Sunday that a Palestinian youth was injured near the Etzion Israeli settlement, between Bethlehem and Hebron in the occupied West Bank. The soldiers then stepped on his palms to pose for pictures as the resident continued to bleed. Salah Sghayyar – [...]
[ PIC 20/05/2012 - 08:06 PM ] OCCUPIED JERUSALEM (PIC)– A Palestinian researcher revealed that more than two thirds of Jerusalemites owe money to the Israeli occupation’s different organs and departments. The Jerusalemite activist and researcher, Fakhri Abu Diab, said that Israeli official data showed that there are over 43 thousand debt files in […]
LIVE BLOG ▶ PALESTINIANS ON HUNGER STRIKE | #PalHunger LIVE BLOG ▶ Commemorating 64 Years of Catastrophe in Palestine | #Nakba64 LIVE BLOG ▶ Israel Attacks Gaza May 17, 2012 & lies about it | #GazaUnderAttack continuous updated آخر الأخبار والتحديثات May 20, 2012 | 23381 Days Since Al-Nakba & Gaza has been under siege [...]
[ PIC 20/05/2012 - 05:44 PM ] AL-KHALIL, (PIC)– A Palestinian teen was seriously injured near Gush Etzion settlement to the north of Al-Khalil after Israeli occupation forces (IOF) fired at him. Medical sources said that the 17-year-old youth Salah Zaghir was seriously wounded in his abdomen after an Israeli soldier fired at him near [...]
[ PIC 20/05/2012 - 05:52 PM ] GAZA, (PIC)– Spokesman of Hamas in Gaza Fawzi Barhoum has charged that the Jewish settlers’ storming of the Aqsa mosque on Sunday fell in line with the religious war waged by the Israeli occupation government against the Palestinian people. Barhoum told the PIC that the repeated visits by [...]
New Delhi, May 21, IRNA – Terming the cultural relations between India and Iran as “extensive” and “uninterrupted”, an Indian scholar Monday emphasized the need to further strengthen the ties between the two nations.-1391/03/01-16:06
Mahshahr, Khuzestan Prov, May 21, IRNA – Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said here on Monday that the Iranian nation is well capable of reaching the industrial and scientific peaks in the world.-1391/03/01-13:17
Tehran, May 21, IRNA — UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon in his message on the International Day for Biological Diversity, May 22, 2012, while warning that between 30 and 35 per cent of critical marine environments are estimated to have been destroyed called for national and international actions to preserve marine biodiversity.-1391/03/01-11:24
Vienna, May 21, IRNA -- Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Yukiya Amano, says he is positive about visiting Iran.-1391/03/01-00:25
Head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) Fereydoun Abbasi has stressed the importance of more effective cooperation between Tehran and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).
A riot has left at least one prison guard dead and eight other people wounded at a private-run jail in the US state of Mississippi, American officials say.
The UK government has failed to stop Afghanistan’s deadly heroin trade, a pledge former Prime Minister Tony Blair made when he was making the case for invasion of the country.
Riot police have once again clashed with protesters in Montreal and arrested some 180 people protesting at the new legislation aimed at ending the three months of anti-tuition hikes protests.
Commander of the Iranian Army’s Ground Forces Brigadier General Ahmad Reza Pourdastan has announced the army’s plans for a military drill in the central province of Isfahan.
Small British companies say the government is shutting them out of the Olympics trade boost despite earlier ‘selling’ the games to taxpayers as an economic boon.
China's oil imports from Iran have increased by 53.2 percent in April to 388,034 barrels per day (bpd) from 253,302 bpd a month earlier, Chinese customs data shows.
The Pentagon’s global military design is one of world conquest. The military deployment of US-NATO forces is occurring in several regions of the world simultaneously.
The dumping of highly radioactive water into the Pacific Ocean constitutes a potential trigger to a process of global radioactive contamination... Eventually all major regions of the World will be affected.
The Economic Collapse | During an appearance on Meet The Press on Sunday, Jim Cramer of CNBC boldly predicted that "financial anarchy" is coming to Europe.
The American Dream | With the way that things are heading in this country, it is not surprising that there are approximately 3 million preppers in the United States today.
The horror stories about the Transportation Security Administration are indisputable. In the post 911 environment, civil liberties routinely ignored or eliminated, become a mere memory in a country that once prided itself as the beacon of freedom for the entire world. The TSA is part of the Department of Homeland Security. FEMA, the Federal Emergency [...]
When Cohen attempts to bond with his protagonist Dictator Aladeen, he actually speaks in his mother tongue, Hebrew. Cohen speaks Hebrew because Aladeen is not an Arab dictator, he is actually an Israeli patriot like Cohen himself.
By Dr. Ismail Salami In an organized act of brutality, a number of US soldiers went on a house-to-house shooting spree in Zangabad village, Kandahar in March and massacred 16 people including nine children while they were sleeping and all Washington had to say were a few words of condolence and apology nonchalantly strung together [...]
There is much to both question and criticize about NATO but primary is the fact that America has created an international organization that is not answerable to international or constitutional laws and is still mired in a cold war mentality.
My Recent Comment on Prof. Richard Falk's Blog Highlighting the Failures of the Mainstream Media to Cover the Hunger Strike Aimed a Calling Attention to Israel's Violations of the Universal Human Rights of Palestinians.
Russian Aurora has discharged a preemptive salvo against the Atlantic freedom vultures in America, which have camped out at sweet home Chicago. No, it wasn’t another Bolshevik mutiny at the legendary cruiser in St Petersburg; it was an audacious Russian think tank, Institute for Foreign Policy Research & Initiatives, www.invissin.ru that boarded ritzy Ma […]
Fed Prez Who Owns Over $1 Million in Gold Greek Bailout May Have to Be $19.7 Billion Higher Greece misses another bailout deadline - Reuters Foreclosure deal deadline arrives, not all states are...
Video - Sen. Rand Paul on the Senate Floor - Jan. 31, 2012 This law is approximately 40 years overdue, and it took a neophyte Senator to be the first to propose such legislation in the history of...
Video - Nigel Farage - Feb. 1, 2012 Transcript "Well, Congratulations everybody. Davud Cameron had you worried for a bit. You thought he was even a eurosceptic. But it's okay, you had a quiet word...
Counterfeit Value Derivatives: Follow the Bouncing Ball Bailout Battle - The IMF vs. Germany Summary of Bernanke's testimony before Congress Bernanke: Deficit reduction must be top priority 47...
In the matter of the Scarborough Shoal mess, the Philippines started it and the infamous Chinese nine-dash line encompassing almost the entire South China Sea looks like an audacious claim drawn from an appetite for aggression. A closer look reveals that there is some genuine method to Beijing's madness, and a chance that gas and greed, rather than inte […]
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization hopes that If you can't beat them in Pashtunistan, you can at least corral them in the home of the blues, with NATO's Chicago summit planned to instill in members the "common values" behind drone warfare and base expansion. As riot police lock down the city, some partners likely fear they've mar […]
Hopes by Iran hawks for the United States Congress to provide enough ammunition to threaten Iran with a military strike on the eve of critical talks over Tehran's nuclear program have fallen unexpectedly short. The House has retracted its talons, while over in the Senate a new sanctions bill was blocked by Republicans because it wasn't sufficiently […]
The possibility of direct talks between the United States and Iran emerged in January when new sanctions gave the White House political cover to revert to a policy of engagement. However, Tehran's profound mistrust of American sincerity hampers progress. The only sensible way forward is to let bygones be bygones and work through an intermediary such as […]
China's refusal to use its leverage as North Korea's friend and protector to halt its provocations strengthens the United States alliance system that Beijing considers a tool of encirclement. As Pyongyang blithely continues with missile launches and other acts that undermine China in the international arena, it seems hard to image a policy more dam […]
What the US Can Learn from China by Ann Lee This book forces the reader to confront China's growth in the midst of America's decline, drawing attention to the reasons US politics became too self-serving, too short-sighted and too partisan. The author doesn't argue the Chinese approach is flawless, but she does hold up China's single-minde […]
The transition to a new constitution and the rule of law cannot be achieved overnight (South Africa's model constitution was seven years in the making). Yet the rush to get Nepal's new code into shape has been seemly, with the result that it will not have legitimacy, simply because politicians have failed to hear the dissenting voices of the people […]
Western opinion has largely greeted China's early attempts at innovation with skepticism. Yet companies such as Tsing Capital and Chrysalix Venture Capital are discovering entrepreneurs whose concepts represent a potential next wave of innovative technologies that could impact the world. - Benjamin A Shobert
The United States is to permit investment by US companies in Myanmar, while a ban will remain on imports from the still largely military-run country. Critics say the move is too early, with armed conflict still raging in the north, and will inevitably benefit human-rights abusers.- Carey L Biron
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg is now officially worth close to US$20 billion after successfully bringing off the initial public offering for his young social network site. Fans keen to grab a piece of the company may have to pay 50% more than the initial price when the shares start trading Friday. Martin J Young surveys the week's developments in com […]
The Secretary General of the Arab League, Dr. Nabil Al-Arabi, arrived in Sudan on Sunday for discussions with President Omar Al-Bashir and senior Sudanese officials. The agenda will cover the crisis with South Sudan and the latest political and security developments in Darfur. A press release from the Arab League revealed that Al-Arabi had a meeting on Frida […]
South Africa's University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN) has pulled the plug on the Israeli deputy ambassador to South Africa, Yaakov Finkelstein. This is yet another blow to Israel-South Africa relations that have recently become tense. Finkelstein was due to speak at UKZN later on today, Monday (21 May 2012), but yesterday afternoon, UKZN's Deputy Vice […]
EXCLUSIVE PICTURES Schoolgirls from the Muhammad Tufaha School in Nablus have held a craft exhibition under the title "Flowers of Spring", which featured their work from across the academic year. The exhibition was supervised by craft instructor Maha Al-Qadomi and was attended by local officials, parents and students. Many of the exhibits underline […]
Recently, millions of Egyptians crowded round TV sets in Cairo to watch two presidential candidates debate their country's future. For citizens more used to having a political system imposed on them than joining in the discussion, they seem to have adapted quickly. Cheers and applause broke out as the candidates each exploited their opponent's weak […]
Introduction The status of prisoners of war is a very complicated issue in international humanitarian law. Many people think - wrongly - that all of the Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails are to be considered as prisoners of war. International humanitarian law, in particular the Third Geneva Convention of 1949 and its protocols, gives a very precise defi […]
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Love it or hate it, the BBC is perhaps the most powerful media institution in the world. Not even the Murdoch empire in its heyday matched the scale and impact of the BBC's operations. Yet, in the last week, it has suffered two embarrassing setbacks in the aftermath of which its funders, the British public, are entitled to a change of policy. For almost […]
A group of illegal Jewish settlers, accompanied by an Israeli government minister and a number of members of the Knesset (Israeli parliament), broke into the courtyards of Al-Aqsa Mosque on Thursday morning, 17 May, amid a state of alert and while being heavily guarded by Israeli occupation forces. Mahmoud Abu Atta, a spokesman for the Al-Aqsa for Endowment […]
A poll conducted by the BBC World Service has ranked Israel in third place among the worst countries in the world, keeping company with North Korea and only just ahead of Iran and Pakistan. The results of the global poll, organised by the BBC and covering 22 countries, showed that Israel stands among the countries with the most negative influence on the worl […]
A report on Israel radio has revealed that manifestations of racial discrimination are widespread across Israeli society. The racism is particularly evident between Jews and Arabs, but there is also evidence of racism between Jews themselves and against African refugees who come to work in Israel. The report noted instances of attempted arson attacks on buil […]
Hebrew media sources have revealed the extent of support in Israel's parliament, the Knesset, for a law which would ban the commemoration of the Palestinian Nakba (Catastrophe) in Israeli universities and educational institutions. Yedioth Ahronoth reported that the Chairman of the Knesset Education Committee, Alex Miller, is behind the introduction of t […]
Reports indicate a single suicide bomber who detonated powerful explosives amid a crowd of soldiers rehearsing for an upcoming parade in Yemen's capital city of Sanaa left at least 96 dead and perhaps 300 or more wounded. "We are hearing reports that 96 people were killed and many more injured. There have been requests for blood donations and the d […]
The City of Chicago has filed charges against three Occupy activists, Jared Chase, Brent Beterly, and Brian Jacob Church, including possession of explosives or incendiary devices, material support for terrorism, and conspiracy. Chicago police during anti-NATO protests. (photo: Mikasi) read more
The local press was quickly at the scene but Twitter broke the story first. Though the hour was late, Yemen’s social media was still very much awake. A US drone’s missiles had just slammed into a convoy of vehicles in a remote part of Yemen, killing three alleged militants. read more
See below for livestream and Twitter updates... Thousands of protesters are in Chicago today for a "People's G8" in a call led by National Nurses United (NNU) to demand an economy for the 99% and heal the "financial traumas faced by real people at the hands of Wall Street." read more […]
Today, the Cornucopia Institute released a report titled The Organic Watergate, revealing widespread corruption in the USDA's organic food monitoring panel -- the National Organic Standards Board (NOSB). read more
Updated: 6:15 p.m. EST with a clarified quote*. In the seemingly endless war over abortion rights in America, battles are waged in legislatures, in courts and, most recently, on the Internet. The strategy of using abortion-related keywords to send a woman searching the web for abortion information More...
On Monday, Federal Communications Commission chairman Julius Genachowski announced changes that would modernize the agency’s Lifeline program to give greater broadband Internet access to low-income Americans. Lifeline has traditionally provided “discounts on one basic monthly telephone service (wireline or wireless) for qualified subscribers.” While announci […]
Sangeeta Ghosh, assistant corporate counsel for Kent County, Mich., says should the 51-year-old man charged in two cases of failing to disclose his HIV-positive status to sexual partners make bail, the county is prepared to ask a court to force him to take antiretroviral medications. “The county is More...
Former Michigan state Rep. Jack Hoogendyk is likely to announce next week that he will challenge Congressman Fred Upton (R-St. Joseph) in the GOP primary in August. Hoogendyk unsuccessfully challenged Upton for the seat two years ago, when he was able to garner only 43 percent of the vote, More...
The Foundation for Government Accountability debuted a new website Monday — an online database of the salaries of Florida’s public employees: FloridaOpenGov.org. The website is almost a replica of a project by Foundation President Tarren Bragdon at his last place of employment, the Maine Heritage Policy Center. More...
Going to court may be “the best way” to resolve a dispute over water rights between the U.S. Forest Service and the National Ski Areas Association, according to a former Forest Service ski area permit coordinator. “Frankly, litigation may be the best way forward on this issue,” Ed Ryerson More...
Arkansas Attorney General Dustin McDaniel has blocked the state’s Personhood affiliate from introducing a bill that would define life from the moment of conception, on the grounds that it is “too vague” as written. Though “fetal personhood” measures across the country have been criticized for that very reason, Personhood Arkansas More...
With the beginning of session only days away, Florida legislators have been busy filing a slew of anti-abortion bills. Add yet another to the list: a measure outlawing race- and gender-based abortions. The bill was filed by state Rep. Scott Plakon, R-Longwood. House Bill 1327, or the “Susan B. More...
Kalley King Yanta, a former anchor for a Minneapolis-based television station and an anti-abortion-rights activist, has joined the Minnesota for Marriage group to anchor videos intended to convince Minnesotans to vote for the anti-gay-marriage amendment on the ballot in 2012. The videos — and Yanta — have come under More...
An alleged admission by a 51-year-old Comstock Park, Mich., man that he attempted to infect hundreds of people with HIV through unprotected sexual activity and needle-sharing has sparked a media feeding frenzy, which HIV activists and legal experts have roundly censured as “sensationalist.” In spite of the national condemnation, More...
[New Vision] The Commander of the United States Africa Command (AFRICOM) Gen. Carter F. Ham has stated that he is confident the Lord's Resistance Army chief, Joseph Kony will be brought to justice.
[Capital FM] Malabo - The government of Equatorial Guinea's Prime Minister Ignacio Milam Tang resigned in line with a constitutional reform approved in November, the country's communications minister said on Friday.
[Oxfam] As the Camp David G8 Summit winds down, international agency Oxfam criticized G8 leaders for failing to renew measurable funding and policy commitments to help address global food security. Leaders were unwilling to continue current efforts to invest in developing country agriculture, even as they set a new goal of helping 50 million people lift them […]
[Garowe Online] Mogadishu - Multiple explosions in Mogadishu's busy Bakara market and another blast in east Mogadishu killed 8 and injured more than 15 on Saturday, Radio Garowe reports.
[Daily News] SOME 35 NGOs have teamed up to petition the government, urging it to allocate adequate budget for maternal and newborn health during the 2012/2013 financial year.
[Aswat Masriya] Cairo - Campaign of presidential candidate Hisham Bastawisi denied reports that he may withdraw for another candidate, insisting on his intention to run the race until the end.
[UN News] The United Nations envoy in Somalia, Augustine P. Mahiga, today expressed concern over recent violent clashes in the northern city of Hargeisa, located in Somaliland, between Somaliland security forces and citizens which allegedly resulted in the deaths on both sides.
[Sudan Tribune] Khartoum - The chairman of the African Union High-Level Implementation Panel (AUHIP) saw little change in Khartoum's position regarding the resumption of negotiations with Juba during his talks today with Sudanese president Omer Hassan al-Bashir.
[Daily Trust] A lone gun man was arrested around 12:00pm today at the Radio House, Area 10, Abuja which is the venue of the ongoing ministerial briefings ahead of the Democracy Day celebrations.
[Daily News] UBUNGO Member of Parliament (MP) Mr John Mnyika (CHADEMA), has requested the Ministry of Water to explain what has become of the Dar es Salaam Water Supply and Sanitation Project (DWSSP) which cost the government 164.6 million US dollars between 2003 and 2010 but has not materialized.
Vocational school students of SMKN 3 Mataram, West Nusa Tenggara, have managed to assemble 2,000 laptops for fellow students in schools throughout the region since 2009.The students have worked with ...
The government will accurately describe its human rights record in a report to be given to the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) later this week, a top Palace official says.“The Office of ...
Contrary to her controversial and eye-catching image, Lady Gaga is actually very modest, according to a representative from local concert promoter Big Daddy Entertainment.“For instance, she ...
Local Internet and multimedia service provider PT Indosat Mega Media (IM2) plans to expand its market into the small and medium enterprises (SMEs) segment for future growth.IM2 president director ...
With uncertainty surrounding US singer Lady Gaga’s upcoming concert scheduled in Jakarta, it has been rumored that her promoter has switched the venue to Bali instead. Bali officials, however, ...
The Indonesian national futsal team is ready to compete in the 2012 Asia Cup in Dubai, which will run from May 25 to June 1."We began training in April. Our team is ready to compete and to do their ...
Tangerang regency police (Polresta Tangerang) have arrested two of the seven members of Pitam Kuning, a gang that has allegedly been involved in a number of armed robberies targeting minimarkets ...
Millions in Asia and the western United States watched as a rare "ring of fire" eclipse crossed their skies.The annular eclipse, in which the moon passes in front of the sun leaving only a golden ...
At the tender age of 11, Cecilia Moseley already appears versed in the virtues of fitness. But she was left star-struck Sunday after first lady Michelle Obama and an audience of global leaders ...
Authorities say a guard was killed and, at one point, hostages were taken during a riot at a Mississippi prison that holds illegal immigrants.The Sunday riot at the privately run prison in southwest ...
A spokesperson from the Israel Foreign Ministry refuted an Anatolia news agency news report which said the Israeli president has requested permission to deploy at least 20,000 soldiers to Greek Cyprus in exchange for building a gas terminal on the island.
A group of masked assailants threw a Molotov cocktail onto a public bus along the Taksim-Osmanbey route when the bus stopped at a red light near the Okmeydanı Şark Kahvesi, setting the bus on fire, in İstanbul's Şişli district on Sunday.
Six teenagers attending a picnic organized by a district Quran course drowned over the weekend in İskenderun, Hatay, when they were swept away by strong currents after going for a swim in the sea.
Turkish-Iraqi ties have been further strained after the burning of a Turkish flag during a protest near the Turkish Consulate General in Basra on Saturday and threats by protesters against Turkish firms operating in the city.
Residents of a Beirut suburb fired heavy machine guns and rocket-propelled grenades at each other on Sunday, the latest violence to raise fears that Syria's turmoil was spilling over the border into its neighbour.
A special ops team officer was killed and five other security personnel were wounded in a clash with the terrorist Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) in the Kulp district of Diyarbakır province on Monday.
Turkish police on Monday detained three people, including two Turks, for their suspected involvement in a plot to abduct a defected Syrian colonel who fled to Turkey.
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan arrived in Pakistan's capital city Islamabad late on Sunday as the formal guest of his Pakistani counterpart, Yousuf Raza Gilani.
Syria briefly closed its Bab al-Hawa border gate with Turkey on Saturday, apparently because of a military operation carried out by Syrian troops against a village near the border.
Former member of the Egyptian Brotherhood Abolfotoh leads in the presidential elections held by Egyptian embassies abroad, according to partial results.
European shares bounced back from five-month lows today as investors bought into some stocks and sectors that had been particularly badly hit in the previous week's sell-off.
Thousands of people in northern Italy slept in tents and cars overnight as more than 100 aftershocks rocked the area hit by a magnitude 6.0 earthquake that killed seven people and inflicted heavy damage to centuries-old cultural sites.
French prosecutors said today they had opened an inquiry into allegations of group rape by Dominique Strauss-Kahn and three friends, as part of an investigation into his ties to a suspected prostitution ring in the northern city of Lille.
French President Francois Hollande and like-minded euro zone leaders are expected to promote the idea of mutualised European debt at an informal summit in Brussels this week, increasing pressure on German Chancellor Angela Merkel to drop her opposition to the proposal.
Italy is likely to register a strong protest vote against belt-tightening in local elections that will provide a fresh snapshot of Europe's changing political landscape a year ahead of a national ballot.
British nuke submarine HMS Talent was dispatched last night to the Malvinas Islands with Tomahawk warheads on what could be a warning signal to Argentina, according to UK’s sensationalist tabloid The Sun.
The UN nuclear supervisor flies to Tehran looking for a deal to inspect suspected weapons sites - a potential breakthrough that Iran may hope could persuade the West to start lifting sanctions and deflect threats of war.
Former Vice-President Julio Cobos said he believes Buenos Aires governor Daniel Scioli “is the most presidential candidate in the Justicialist Party,” therefore his deputy governor “tries to put bumps in the road.”
Venezuela's economy grew 5.6% in the first quarter of 2012 confirmed planning and finance minister Jorge Giordani and Venezuelan Central Bank (BCV) president Nelson Merentes on Thursday. read more
A German news website has revealed that the German government has been pushing for Eurozone countries to adopt a more active role in backing the current Venezuelan opposition coalition, the Roundtable of Democratic Unity (MUD), in the run up to this year’s presidential elections. read more
A total of 312,725 international tourists have visited Venezuela between January and April 2012, a figure which represents almost a 50% increase compared with the same period last year. read more
The government has revealed that there are about 3.7 million independent workers in Venezuela who could potentially benefit from the reforms to the Law on Social Security in Venezuela, enacted on April 21 by President Hugo Chávez. read more
Government representatives and private media have said opposition presidential candidate Henrique Capriles’ campaign is “stagnating” as he fails to gain support, while journalists also marched yesterday protesting violent attacks committed against them by Capriles’ supporters. read more
Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez returned to Venezuela on Friday night, announcing a successful conclusion to his radiotherapy treatment in Cuba and his intention to return to the frontline of Venezuelan politics. Meanwhile, polls show him extending his advantage over rival Henrique Capriles Radonski. read more […]
Venezuelan alternative news website Aporrea.org reached its tenth anniversary today, marking a milestone in Venezuela’s Bolivarian revolution. read more
The Canadian Boat to Gaza, in cooperation, with international initiatives in the US, Australia and other countries, is launching a new initiative to challenge the illegal and inhumane Israeli blockade of Gaza, the only Mediterranean port closed to shipping. This new initiative: Gaza’s Ark, will build a boat in Gaza, using existing resources. A crew of intern […]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE (London, May 4, 2012) Last summer, “Omer” posted a video saying he had been turned down as a passenger on board one of Free Gaza’s boats because he is gay. Within a few days, he was discovered to be a fake, apparently recording his statement coordinated with the Israeli government press office. Yesterday, Jon Ronson from the Guardian, f […]
April 11, 2012 During the Israeli “Operation Cast Lead” in Dec. 2008 – Jan. 2009, Dr. Gilbert was one of only two outside doctors in Gaza. Last week the International Criminal Court, to the protests of Amnesty International and other groups, stated it would not issue prosecutions for the Israeli Operation. Recently Gilbert, co-author of “Eyes in Gaza,” retur […]
I spent the early afternoon at a demonstration attended by several thousand people. The Hamas authorities refused to allow the people to march to the border, and clashes broke out with the police. .When we finally found a way to get around the Hamas cordon, we found shabob (Kids from roughly the age of 12 to 25) at Erez Crossing. They were throwing stones a […]
We don't usualy post blogs, but this one from Audacity of Hope passenger, Johnny Barber, is eloquent and timely. He is currently in Gaza as a photojournalist and puts a face and a family to the murdered men, women and children from last week. http://onebrightpearl-jb.blogspot.fr/2012/03/hey-will-never-beg.html
How long before South Africans are accused of being anti-Semites? South Africa to ban labeling West Bank settlement products as 'made in Israel', Amira Hass Minister of Trade and Industry says South Africa recognizes the State of Israel only within … Continue reading →
Inspired by the donkeys of the Gaza zoo, Israeli architect Malkit Shoshan exposes the inhumanities of Zionism in a Dutch exhibit that has stirred critics across Europe
Time magazine crowns Benjamin Netanyahu in its latest cover article, although he comes across as the leader of a country on the verge of a nervous breakdown.
Suspect linked to rape of two women in north Israel on Sunday surrenders to officers near his home; attorney of man suspected of aiding to alleged rapists says alibi solid
During Knesset session on wave of violence, Commander Aharon Aksol says employing foreign migrants would curb phenomenon. MK Danon: Solution is simple – deportation
Palestinian cell indicted in attempted kidnapping of Yael Shahak and 8-year-old daughter, now she recalls incident: 'Look in his eyes changed and he became crazed'
Robert ScheerEven after it was known that Jamie Dimon’s bank blew more than $2 billion, Barack Obama still had praise for the intellect of his political backer.
The EditorsThe president’s endorsement of same-sex marriage is a testament to the generations of activists who waged a brave and often lonely battle for gay rights.
Chris MooneyPolitical watchdogs like PolitiFact and the Washington Post's "Fact-Checker" are accused of favoring Democrats—but it is the facts themselves that have a liberal bias.
Nato has told AFP that a US warship in the Mediterranean armed with interceptor missiles and a radar system in Turkey have come under Nato command out of a base in Rammstein, Germany. The move is phase one of a Europe-based missile shield system to be fully operational by 2018.
Nato should consider opening up its Partnership for Peace scheme to post-Arab-Spring democracies, writes Jos Boonstra.Related StoriesEU takes aim at Israeli settler productsObama presses EU leaders on growth
French far-right leader Marine Le Pen may lose her parliamentary seat to far-left leader Jean-Luc Melenchon in next month's parliamentary elections. An Ifop-Fiducial poll showed Le Pen would win 34% of first round votes to 29% for Melenchon but would be beaten 55-45% in the 17 June second round.
Denmark is planning to label products from Israeli settlements in the West Bank, foreign minister Villy Søvndal told Politiken Friday. In a similar move, South Africa's trade ministry Saturday said Israeli products made on Palestinian land must be marked "Made in Occupied Palestinian Territories." Israel described the move as "racist. […]
Iranian filmmaker Asghar Farhadi was awarded the European Union's Media Prize at this year’s film festival in Cannes. The 60,000 euro prize is meant to help fund his next film.
More than 20,000 people demonstrated in Frankfurt on Sunday against austerity measures in Europe and the power of banks. Activists from the ”Occupy Frankfurt” set up tents outside the European Central Bank’s headquarter after police cleared out an earlier encampment at the same place last week.
French leader Hollande has said he will call for joint eurozone debt at Wednesday's EU summit, despite German opposition.Related StoriesGreece struggling to manage asylum seekersEuropean Commission should be EU government, says GermanyObama presses EU leaders on growth
A weekend summit of G8 leaders stressed the need for the eurozone to focus on keeping Greece inside the euro. But plans are reportedly being drafted to deal with its potential exit.Related StoriesEuropean Commission should be EU government, says GermanyHollande to confront Merkel on eurobonds at EU summit[Opinion] Nato: Do what you do best
Turkey Thursday accused Israeli airplanes of violating the airspace of northern Cyprus - recognised only by Turkey. Ankara said the Israeli plan was driven off by Turkish fighter planes. The incident happened on Monday and comes as Turkey and Israel's relations have soured recently.
The space agency Nasa is training a team of astronauts to land on asteroids after a three million mile journey – dwarfing the mere 239,000 miles travelled to the moon. The mission, planned for the next decade, would land on an asteroid travelling at more than 50,000 miles an hour. The astronauts will drive vehicles [...]
The European banking industry has suffered another crushing blow after Moody’s ratings agency downgraded the credit ratings of 16 Spanish banks, citing the weakened government’s ability to support some banks. The agency downgraded the long-term debt and deposit ratings by one to three notches for 16 Spanish banks and Santander UK PLC, a UK-domiciled subsidia […]
NASA’s Kepler space telescope has recorded the number of superflares or enormous releases of magnetic energy that can damage a nearby orbiting planet. According to the report published in the journal Nature, superflares are much less frequent on slow-rotating stars like our Sun. The biggest recorded flare on the Sun happened on September 1, 1859 [...]
For the first time in US history, racial and ethnic minorities outnumber its white majority – white births make up fewer than half the children born in the country, according to the US Census Bureau. The new 2011 census, which was made public on Thursday, reveals non-Hispanic whites accounted for 49.6 per cent of all [...]
Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev has warned the West against launching ‘hasty wars’, which may increase regional tensions and even trigger a nuclear war. “Sometimes these [military] actions — which undermine state sovereignty — could result in a fully-fledged regional war, and even — although I do not want to scare anyone […]
New poll results released on Monday showed former U.S. House speaker Newt Gingrich on top of the GOP field and benefiting from the exit of Herman Cain from the presidential campaign.
Egyptian Prime Minister Kamal al-Ganzouri has completed the line-up of the new cabinet, state TV reported Monday. Ganzouri led the Egyptian gov't under the Mubarak regime from Jan. 1996 to Oct. 1999.
The most senior security policy adviser to British Prime Minister David Cameron told a committee of the Houses of Parliament on Monday that it was highly unlikely that there would be any British military intervention in Syria.
Obama Monday urged Republican lawmakers in Congress to join Democrats and approve the extension of payroll tax cuts next year to revive the U.S. economy.
Abbas announced Monday that the Palestinians are ready to present their visions concerning all the permanent status issues to end the conflict with Israel.
Europe's powerhouses France and Germany agreed Monday on a series of reforms aimed at changing the European Union (EU) treaty to impose tough control of eurozone budgets.
Russia's Central Election Commission (CEC) announced Monday that the ruling United Russia party won 49.54 percent of the votes after 95.71 percent of the ballots were counted.
Syria has responded positively to the Arab League (AL) protocol on an observer mission, but proposed "minor amendments" to the plan, a foreign ministry spokesman said Monday.
Pakistan said on Monday that it wants solid outcome of Bonn Conference on the future of Afghanistan to promote peace and reconciliation in the war- shattered country.
Irish Prime Minister Enda Kenny on Sunday called for tougher measures for next year's budget, reminding the public that the country is running a deficit of 16 billion euros (21.46 billion U.S. dollars).
Seit 2007 habe ich gezögert von folgendem zu berichten und meine damalige Einsicht immer wieder verdrängt. Aber irgendwann kommt alles Verdrängte an die Oberfläche. Zunächst einmal wird dem aufmerksamen Leser aufgefallen sein, daß ich in meiner Besprechung des skandalösen Begleitbandes zu OROP Wüste den zweiten Teil des Büchleins, der von Richard Blasband zu […]
Einer der brillantesten Wissenschaftler, Rassenkundler und Kenner der jüdischen Geschichte: Houston Stewart Chamberlain. Houston Stewart Chamberlain (* 9. September 1855 in Portsmouth, England; † 9. Januar 1927 in Bayreuth) war ein Schriftsteller, Verfasser zahlreicher populärwissenschaftlicher Werke, unter anderem zu Richard Wagner, Immanuel Kant und Johann […]
Um den Tag der energetischen Wurzel des Neuanfanges mitgestalten zu können, gibt es viele Möglichkeiten… Die Intuition einer lieben Leserin brachte uns auf die Idee, Orte ausfindig zu machen, die Pfingstsonntag um 14:30 Uhr durchaus eine Reise wert sind! Für den Süden Deutschlands sind zwei Orte zu nennen, an denen wir Pfingstsonntag um 14:30 Uhr [...] […]
Grausamer Drogenkrieg in Mexiko: Im Norden des Landes wurden 23 Tote gefunden. Mehrere Leichen hingen von einer Autobahnbrücke, die Köpfe der anderen Opfer lagen vor einem Rathaus. Neue Gewaltexzesse im mexikanischen Drogenkrieg: 23 Tote sind in der Grenzstadt Nuevo Laredo in Nordmexiko entdeckt worden. Neun Menschen hingen am Freitag von einer Autobahnbrück […]
Der Sozialist Hollande setzt mit der 30prozentigen Kürzung ebenso ein Zeichen wie die konservative Kanzlerin mit der 5,7prozentigen Erhöhung Es ist eine symbolische Geste, wenn der frisch gewählte französische Präsident Hollande sich und seinen Ministern zu Beginn schon einmal eine 30prozentige Gehaltskürzung verordnet. Gleichwohl setzt die neue Regierung da […]
Blockupy – Erfolg oder Niederlage? Mehr als 25.000 Menschen sollen heute (gestern) in der Frankfurter Innenstadt nach Veranstalterangaben gegen die Politik der EU-Troika demonstriert haben Das Spektrum der Demonstranten reichte von Gewerkschaften, der Linkspartei, Attac bis den außerparlamentarischen Bündnissen Ums Ganze und der Interventionistischen L […]
Der Dreiteiler basiert auf dem Roman “Joseph Balsamo” von Alexandre Dumas Abenteurer, Hochstapler, Magier, Goldmacher, Geisterbeschwörer – “Graf” Cagliostro suchte im 18. Jahrhundert fast alle Hauptstädte und Höfe Europas heim. Im Jahre 1791 wurde er von der Inquisition verurteilt und verschwand bis an sein Lebensende hinter Ker […]
Wir verlangen, dass wir genau wie die Frauen mit einem Tag geehrt werden, da wir ständig Opfer von Missbrauch, Demütigungen, verbalen, physischen und sexuellen Attacken sind. Außerdem muss folgendes beachtet werden: Wer ist der Einzige der sich traut, alles aufzuessen, was ihm vorgesetzt wird, ohne zu mucksen ? Der selbstlose Mann ! Wer hebt die [...]
Dokumentation: Die Rede von Parkschützer Matthias von Herrmann auf der heutigen 124. Montagsdemonstration der Stuttgarter Bürgerbewegung für den Kopfbahnhof und gegen das verkehrsindustrielle Umbauprogramm "Stuttgart 21" (S21).
Rund 500 Demonstranten versammelten sich vor dem Haus des Bürgermeisters von Chicago Rahm Emanuel, um gegen die kürzliche Schliessung der psychiatrischen Kliniken als Teil einer Reihe von Kundgebungen und Märsche zeitgleich mit einem NATO-Gipfel zu protestieren. Die Menschen hatten Transparente mitgebracht mit den Slogans “food not bombs”, “seize the peace” […]
Griechenland: Nachdem vorher der Botschafter der Berliner Republik in Athen, Wolfgang Dold, und der deutsche EU-Parlamentspräsident Martin Schulz (SPD/SPE) bei ihm rausgeschlichen kamen, hat der Vorsitzende der Koalition der Radikalen SYRIZA, Alexis Tsipras, auch dem britischen "Guardian" eine Audienz gegeben. Auszüge des Interviews im Wortlaut: […]
Sea Shepherd Conservation Society warnte am 17.Mai davor, dass Paul Watson in Costa Rica nicht sicher ist und um sein Leben fürchten muss. Die taiwanesische Haifang-Mafia hat seit Jahren ein Kopfgeld in Höhe von 20.000 Dollar auf den Captain ausgesetzt. “Wir wissen, dass der Arm der taiwanesischen Fischerei-Mafia nicht nur bis zur illegalen Fischerei in Cost […]
Sie hat nichts mit dem Ereignis zu tun, das ihm den Namen gab: Die riesige Rallye für Frieden , an deren Ende die Ermordung Yitzhak Rabins war. Diese Rallye war in jeder Hinsicht anders. Es war ein fröhliches Ereignis. Dutzende von NGOs, viele von ihnen klein, einige von ihnen etwas größer, jede mit einer anderen Agenda, kamen zusammen, um den sozialen Prote […]
Heute hat Angela Mutti Merkel versucht, ihrem griechischen Volk ein Referendum zu geben.. Leider gab es da ein kleines Mißverständnis. Dabei will sie nur ständig das Beste. Und zwar mit Zinsen. Heute hat also Mutti – wer würde ihr schon was antun? Einfach abwählen?! Niemals! Ihr Muttimörder! – dem griechischen Volk ein Referendum über blühende [. […]
Videos und updates In ganz Frankfurt und Randgebiete ist das Recht auf Bewegungsfreiheit, Meinungsäusserungen und Pressefreiheit ausser Kraft gesetzt, denn die Repressalien der Polizei erstrecken sich auf Kontrollen und Platzverweise für alle Besucher, einschliesslich Touristen und Einwohner. Auch am heutigen Freitag kamen tausende Menschen in die Innenstadt […]
Liedermacher Konstantin Wecker auf dem Paulsplatz zu den Blockupy-Protesten: Wecker: “Begräbnis demokratischer Rechte” Livestreams und updates von den “Bloccupy”-Protesten. Ohrfeige nach Karlsruhe aus der Main-Metropole: die Bürger verhalten sich wie Bürger, die zur Verteidigung der Verfassung sowie für das Gemeinwohl der Gesellschaft […]
Mit diesem 565 Seiten umfassenden Gesetz wäre ein Freibrief durch einen kurzen Paragraf in Statut 1021 für das Militär in Kraft getreten, jeden Bürger auf unbestimmte Zeit ohne ein ordentliches Gerichtsverfahren zu inhaftieren, dem vorgeworfen wird, wissentlich oder unwissentlich Unterstützung des Terrorismus zu leisten.
