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Jews Against Zionism
by Stephen Lendman
They're numerous, outspoken, and range from secular to orthodox to one group calling itself "True Torah Jews Against Zionism."
They believe that "traditional" Jews don't support Zionism, an ideology they call "contrary to Jewish law and beliefs and the teachings of the Holy Torah." They say Zionism:
-- advocates "a political and military end to the Jewish exile;"
The Vanunu Opera and Christmas 2009
eileen fleming
It ain't over 'til the fat lady sings is a proverb that means do NOT assume the outcome of something-such as a sports game-until it has finished.
The proverb originated from Richard Wagner's opera suite Der Ring des Nibelungen in its last part, Götterdämmerung, when the fat lady/the Valkyrie Brünnhilde, delivers an aria that lasts nearly ten minutes and ends the drama.
The Celebration Went Unnoticed - Big Leftist Win in Uruguay
Michael Collins
Uruguay's left wing political coalition, the Broad Front party (Frente Amplio), retained control of the presidency in the November elections. This wasn't just any election. The winner, flower farmer Jose "Pepe" Mujica, was the victim of imprisonment and torture during Operation Condor in the 1970's as a result of his efforts as a Tupamaro rebel. During that period of military dictatorship, the new president spent fourteen years in prison, including two years confined at the bottom of a well.
Mujica won 48% of the vote in the initial round of elections on October 25. He then pushed his total to 52% for a comfortable victory in the November 29 runoff voting against Conservative candidate Luis Alberto Lacalle who gained 44% of the vote. In the 2004 elections, outgoing President Tabaré Vázquez, also of the Broad Front coalition, won with just over 50% of the vote.
Mujica set an expansive tone in his inaugural speech by stating, “My government will be a government of open doors, and above all a negotiating administration … we will demand commitment, compromise and hard work” MercoPress, Nov. 30. He then announced meetings with President Lula da Silva of Brazil and Argentine President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner.
Height of Hypocrisy: Uri Avnery's 'Height of Kitsch'
A rebelnews.org editorial
Israeli activists like Uri Avnery always give me the creeps. They are working so hard to make the rest of the world believe that not all Israelis are bad, but then they have to come up with unflattering comparisons between the Israeli Occupation Forces and the German Wehrmacht. Unflattering for the German Wehrmacht that is.
If those Israeli 'activists' were serious about justice for the Palestinians, they wouldn't parrot the old Judeo-Bolshevik propaganda lies about the bad, bad Nazis. Without the Nazis, there wouldn't be a Zionist colony on Palestinian land, and it's fairly obvious that the Nazis were put into power by the Zionists to create the conditions for it. Let me ask you this sacrilegious 5-year-imprisonment question: If the Nazis had been serious about killing all European Jews, why didn't they do what Stalin's Jewish commissars did so efficiently with millions of Christian Ukrainians, and simply starve them to death?
Project Humanbeingsfirst Responds to The Israel Lobby's Global Propaganda Manual
Zahir Ebrahim
In response to Paul J Balles bringing The Israel Lobby's Global Propaganda Manual titled: “The Israel Project’s 2009 GLOBAL LANGUAGE DICTIONARY” to the public's notice, Project Humanbeingsfirst.org observed, on December 1st, 2009 at 23:10:
Thank you for bringing attention to the final 11th edition of the Orweliian Newspeak Dictionary in the making – 1984, wonderful to watch were it not also reality in the making:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5464625623984168940 'WHO CONTROLS THE PAST CONTROLS THE FUTURE WHO CONTROLS THE PRESENT CONTROLS THE PAST'
Caution: some nudity in a few scenes – but a necessary watch for modern generation un-attuned to reading. The book however is a better study (the link is to one my favorite Kafkaesque moments in the book): http://www.george-orwell.org/1984/15.html
You're Doing One Hell of a Job in Central Asia, Barack!
Jack D. Douglas
Barack Obama et al. have apparently found the perfect model and game plan for winning in Afghanistan, Pakistan and the vast Eurasia massif – FEMA under Bush II in New Orleans after Katrina.
Obama's Great Speech to End All Confusions and War Losses for the U.S. was completely Machiavellian and politically cynical. Every word was carefully crafted and polished and practiced in delivery over and over again by Emanuel, Barack and the whole vast team of PR people in the White House. They made certain that the Speech promised everything everyone wanted, roughly in proportion to their payoff influence. Barack solemnly promised the military more than they wanted because they had him boxed in and surrounded – 30,000 more troops in uniform and secretly about that many in the secret "contract" troops which have already been pouring in [as shown by the Wall Street Journal]. He signed the blank check for McChrystal and his rampaging Black Ops Murder Squads, complete with their shiny new Sky Warrior drones that can spot a baby cowering under rubble from over 15,000 feet up and fire four, not two, Hellfire Missiles and hit her from all angles. But he then turned around to the opposite end of the spectrum and promised the majority of Americans who now want out fast and an end to the insane slaughter and turning the world against the US and promised them a shiny new Exit Strategy right out of Iraq, written by McChrystal, of course, based on mass murder from the sky, bribing narco-lords, making deals with the totally corrupt Karzai puppet regime, forcing Pakistan to commit national suicide by attacking tens of millions of its own citizens, and then starting a stand-down of US troops just before the next presidential election season begins in earnest – if all of that Vietnam-Iraq strategic hamlet and Phoenix program works. The only trouble is that they made two little mistakes...
Osama Bin Laden, Dead or Alive?…An irrelevant question asked by David Ray Griffin
Maher Osseiran
I say that it is irrelevant because the war policy makers in the U.S. government can easily deal with a bin Laden death and find ways to justify their never ending war on terror; bin Laden’s vital signs are of little consequence.
In the world of David Ray Griffin and his cheerleaders, if it is possible to prove that bin Laden is dead, wars would immediately come to an end. Such irrational rationale seems to be the noble driving force behind his most recent book, “Osama Bin Laden, Dead or Alive?”, if it were not for its reliance on excessive speculation and falsehoods.
Arundhati Roy Disturbs Democratic Daydreaming
By Trond Øverland
Arundhati Roy is an unusual Indian woman. Instead of acting the graceful upholder of traditional values, she goes on challenging the hard core of establishment thinking. Roy is India’s leading commentator on such evils as militaristic imperialist capitalism, Hindu-supported genocide of Muslims, and dam disasters. In her latest book, Field Notes on Democracy: Listening to Grasshoppers
Grasshoppers is a collection of essays on such recent events as the 2008 terrorist attack on Mumbai, the 2006 visit to India by “the war criminal” U.S. President George W. Bush, the 2002 Gujarat carnage (between 2000-4000 Muslims slaughtered), the 2001 attack on the Indian Parliament by "so-called" Pakistan-based terrorists, and the growing inequality in India (“the old society has curdled and separated into a thin layer of thick cream – and a lot of water …”).
A Death Warrant for the Future
Chris Floyd
How many tomorrows have they given away?
How many compared to yesterday?
How many more without any reward?
How many more can they afford?
-- Bob Dylan, "2x2"
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And now it is here. The new "surge" in Afghanistan is underway – the second surge launched by the progressive president in his first year in office. Barack Obama's speech, and the policies embraced in it, and the sinister implications underlying it, are all abysmally awful. They are a death warrant not only for the thousands of Afghan and Pakistani civilians who will be killed in the intensified conflict, but also for the countless thousands of innocents yet to die in the coming generations of a world roiled and destabilized by an out-of-control empire.
Already the evil effects of America's decades-long campaign of violent domination of world affairs will carry on far into the future – even if this campaign were brought to a sudden halt right now. Every one of us – and our children, and our grandchildren – will have to live with terrible consequences of the corrupt and murderous imperial project. There is no escaping this fate. But each day that the imperial project goes forward makes those consequences more horrific, more atrocious, and extends them deeper into the substrate of human existence, and farther and farther into the future.
And as Barack Obama's speech shows, we are plowing ahead on this insane, inhuman course. We are not even attempting to begin to find ways to slow or mitigate the imperial cancer, much less stop it outright; we are just stomping the pedal to the floor, screeching full-throttle to the depths of hell. This is a terrible, sickening moment in American history, yet another fatal turning point in the nation's slow and agonizing demise.
Will Congress Criminalize Anti-Semitism and Israeli Criticism?
By Stephen Lendman
In the current climate, perhaps given:
-- America's police state laws;
-- no due process or judicial fairness for any state target;
-- mass illegal surveillance;
-- targeting dissent; and
-- the power of the Israeli Lobby over Congress, the media, academia, the clergy, and most anyone confronting them.
During Israel's war on Gaza, only 5 of 535 congressional members dissented on pro-Israeli resolutions.
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