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The Sycophantic Palestinian Solidarity Movement
By Gilad Atzmon
In the Palestinian Solidarity Movement we really love celebrities – those famous, rather special people who write great books, play musical instruments (drums included) or even just think great thoughts. We like those people to stand up for Palestine and denounce ‘Zionism’, ‘Israeli Colonialism’ and ‘Apartheid.’ We love them - as long as they don’t say what they really think.
Here’s the problem. Celebrities are often famous and successful because they’re clever and independent. Unlike our progressive, dysfunctional activists, who in most cases lives on income support and repeat our ‘party line’, the celebrity is a confident, career-oriented, self-sufficient subject and, because of their capacity to make autonomous decisions, he or she is assertive and thriving . In short, the activist and the celebrity are made of very different stuff – so a collision is inevitable.
Washington's Dirty Game in Ukraine
by Stephen Lendman
Weeks of Ukraine street protests continue. Washington's dirty hands are involved. They're manipulating things disruptively. Imperial ruthlessness operates this way.
International law is clear and unequivocal. Meddling in the internal affairs of other countries is illegal. Doing so is longstanding US policy.
It's to eliminate independent sovereign states. It's about replacing them with pro-Western vassal ones.
It's about weakening major rivals. It aims to eliminate them altogether if possible. It's for unchallenged global dominance.
It's to make the world safe for corporate American profiteers. John Perkins was an "economic hit man." He explained, saying:
"(H)ighly paid professionals cheat countries around the globe out of trillions of dollars."
'Good' Syrian rebels on run - Saudis ask Putin for help
Michael Collins
In that case, the end result would be a negotiating table with the Syrian government and the U.S. backed rebels on one side and the Saudi backed Islamist Front on the other. Stranger things have happened lately but not much stranger than this extrapolation.
Will there be any 'good' Syrian rebels left to provide credible representation at the January United States - Russia sponsored Geneva II peace conference?
The U.S. favored rebel group, the Free Syrian Army (FSA), experienced major setbacks in December. On the first, the Syrian Arab Army killed a key FSA commander in Daraa Province in southern Syria. On the eighth, "the top Western-backed rebel commander in Syria," General Salim Idris, head of the FSA, fled Syria after an Al Qaeda aligned rebel faction took over FSA weapons warehouses north of Aleppo near the Syria-Turkey border. On December 15, an Al Qaeda affiliated rebel group killed another FSA regional commander in a town near Aleppo.
The Myth of Turkish Secularism
By David Boyajian
Turkey is a secular state. So claim its government and nearly all mainstream Western media. They are mistaken.
In civilized, democratic countries, secularism means not only a respectful separation between church and state but also freedom of religion. As we shall demonstrate, Turkish policies have long been the antithesis of secularism.
The Turkish government massively supports and funds Islam – specifically Sunni Islam - inside the country. Turkey simultaneously represses religions such as Alevism, and bullies and persecutes indigenous Christians, most of whom it liquidated in 20th century genocides. Moreover, it uses Islam to project Turkish political power into Europe, Asia, and elsewhere. Turkey’s system is more properly termed State Islam.
This article is not a criticism of Islam or its faithful. We respect both. Turkey’s secularism myth, nevertheless, cries out to be laid bare.
Making the World Safe for War Profiteers
by Stephen Lendman
Adam Smith said governments are "instituted for the defense of the rich against the poor." Wars are waged to make them richer.
Howard Zinn called war "terrorism magnified a hundred times." Make it many thousands of times.
Michael Parenti said "the best way to win a Nobel Peace Prize (is) to wage war or support those who wage (it) instead of peace."
In his book titled "The Face of Imperialism
Waging wars requires selling them. Public support is needed. Edward Herman and Noam Chomsky call it "Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media
Yemen: Chaos, Conflict And Revolution
By: Sufyan bin Uzayr
Yemen. The very name of this country brings many thoughts to one’s mind. It happens to be one of the oldest centres of civilization in the region, and is currently the second largest country in the Arabian Peninsula. If that does not impress you, Yemen is also the only state in the Arabian Peninsula to have a purely republican form of government, and was the first country in the region to grant voting rights to women.
A nice resume, indeed! Sadly, of late Yemen has not made it to the papers for the right reasons. As harsh as it may sound, present-day Yemen is far from perfect.
Some Historical Context
Yemeni unification occurred back in 1990 when North Yemen (officially Yemen Arab Republic) was united with South Yemen (PDR of Yemen). What seemed to be a peaceful unification later on led to an atmosphere of civil war and the quest for power-grab ensued -- you know how it goes!
1,000 Days and Counting
by Stephen Lendman
December 13 marked the 1,000th day of Bahraini protests. At issue are long denied fundamental rights.
Majority Shias face systematic discrimination. The ruling Al Khalifa monarchy governs lawlessly. Ruthlessness reflects official state policy.
Since mid-February 2011, pro-democracy demonstrators rallied nearly daily. They demand fundamental civil and human rights.
They want democratic governance replacing despotism. The want Al Khalifa royal family members to relinquish power.
They ruthlessly retain it. They enjoy full US support. They've killed dozens of peaceful protesters. They arrested hundreds more.
The Modern State of Israel: A Hegelian Paradigm
By Katherine Smith, PhD
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Kristallnacht, the Night of Broken Glass, happened 75 years ago when Nazi thugs conducted a wave of violent anti-Jewish pogroms on the streets of Berlin and other cities in Germany. U.S. President Barack Obama, on the 2014 Anniversary of Kristallnacht, issued a statement to commemorate the anniversary of Kristallnacht, stating that "the event foreshadowed the systematic slaughter of six million Jews and millions of other innocent victims."
My recent article, Kristallnacht 75th Anniversary: What Really Happened in Nazi Germany?, agrees with Obama's contention that Kristallnacht foreshadowed the Holocaust, but points out that the murder of Ernst vom Rath by the teenager Herschel Grynszpan, who mistakenly thought vom Rath was the German ambassador, foreshadowed Kristallnacht.
My succeeding article, Kristallnacht, Grynszpan and the Munich Agreement: Connect the World War Dots, documents that the Munich agreement foreshadowed Herschel Grynszpan's murder of com Rath and that, further, the Versailles Treaty foreshadowed World War II. In other words 70 Million Died So The Jews Could Have Palestine; this article was featured for 40 days on the front page of rense.com in the section "Facts Are Facts." [1]
The creation of the State of Israel was not the silver lining around the dark cloud of desolation of two World Wars and the Holocaust. The creation of the State of Israel was a meticulous New World Order plan dating back to 1897, when a few wealthy Europeans led by the Rothschilds, not the Jewish people, wanted to create public support for the founding of a Jewish State. Those few wealthy Europeans claimed that the "increase" in anti-Semitism present in the world at the end of the 19th Century would end if a people collectively known as "Jews" returned to their "rightful" historical homeland in Palestine. [Appendix A]
Rigging Foreign Exchange Markets
by Stephen Lendman
It's the world's largest financial market. It trades around $5 trillion daily. It's more than all global equity markets combined. It operates round-the-clock. It's manipulated for profit. More on that below.
Grand theft reflects official Wall Street policy. It's longstanding. High crimes go unpunished. Bankers make money the old-fashioned way. They steal it. They do it lots of clever ways.
They do it through fraud, grand theft, market manipulation, front-running, misrepresentation, scamming investors, naked short selling, precious metals price suppression, controlling Washington, getting open-ended low or no interest rate bailouts when needed, and assuring world financial capitals are banker occupied territories.
They do it artfully. Few people know what's going on. Scandals rarely surface. Budding ones are usually buried. Little more than dust gets kicked up. Headlines disappear in short order.
Global Power Project: The Group of Thirty, Architects of Austerity
by Andrew Gavin Marshall
The Group of Thirty, a p reeminent think tank that brings together dozens of the world’s most influential policy makers, central bankers, financiers and academics, has been the focus of two recent reports for Occupy.com’s Global Power Project. In studying this group, I compiled CVs of the G30's current and senior members: a total of 34 individuals. The first report looked at the origins of the G30, while the second examined some of the current projects and reports emanating from the group. In this installment, I take a look at some specific members of the G30 and their roles in justifying and implementing austerity measures.
Central Bankers, Markets and Austerity
For the current members of the Group of Thirty who are sitting or recently-sitting central bankers, their roles in the financial and economic turmoil of recent years is well-known and, most especially, their role in bailing out banks, providing long-term subsidies and support mechanisms for financial markets, and forcing governments to implement austerity and "structural reform" policies, notably in the European Union. With both the former European Central Bank (ECB) President Jean-Claude Trichet and current ECB President Mario Draghi serving as members of the G30, austerity measures have become a clearly favored policy of the G30.
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