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Targeting Press Freedom in Palestine
by Stephen Lendman
Israeli and Palestinian Authority (PA) security forces share guilt. They operate collaboratively.
Journalists and free press activists established the Palestinian Center for Development and Media Freedoms (MADA).
Free expression is the most important of all rights. Without it all others are at risk. Israeli and PA officials notoriously censor truth.
Israeli military censorship bans or sanitizes material it calls potentially harmful to security. It does so whether or not it's true.
Israeli Supreme Court decisions limit content suppression to "tangible (or) near certain" instances of public endangerment. Interpretations are crucial.
Militant MadAmerika
Phillip Farruggio
From the Monday November 4th USA Today cover: “Elite warriors lost without war… For many highly trained ‘killing machines ‘, returning to civilian life is difficult and frightening.” This writer is not making this up, and this is not from some Saturday Night Live script! No, on the contrary, this is just how far our nation has regressed into a militant mindset, whereupon war is the natural course of things. The quintessential question is this: Where are we now at war? It seems that, ever since the last real war our nation engaged in, WW2, this empire has always been militarily involved overseas… but were they really wars? Korea and Vietnam were what our empire’s leaders like to refer to as ‘ Police Actions ‘, shipping our young soldiers into harm’s way to support covert and overt foreign policy decisions.
Former Fed Official Apologizes
by Stephen Lendman
Andrew Huszar is a former Fed official. In 2009 and 2010, he managed its $1.25 trillion mortgaged-backed security purchase program.
He's a former Morgan Stanley managing director. He's currently a Rutgers Business School senior fellow. He's a QE confessor.
He witnessed Bernanke's scam up close and personal. It benefits Wall Street. It ignores Main Street. Bernanke planned it that way.
Investopedia calls QE "monetary policy used to increase the money supply by buying government securities or other securities from the market."
It's supposed to "increase the money supply by flooding financial institutions with capital, in an effort to promote increased lending and liquidity."
Dead in the Water Peace Talks
by Stephen Lendman
Call it the curse of Zionism. Traditional Jews deplore it. True Torah Jews Against Zionism (TTAZ) say it:
● advocates "a political and military end to the Jewish exile;"
● fosters "pseudo-Judaism" based on secular nationalism;
● coercively seeks "armed materialism" in place of "a Divine and Torah centered understanding;"
● endangers all Jews worldwide;
● wants to disassociate Jews and traditional Judaism from ideological Zionism; and
● calls Israel a "Zionist State," not a Jewish one
"(H)atred of Jews and (claimed unique) Jewish suffering is the oxygen of the Zionist movement."
It needs hatred. It manufactures it. Inciting it is longstanding policy. So is manipulating it advantageously. It's to justify Zionism's existence.
It's the enemy of Jews and non-Jews alike. It's a curse. It's a hugely destructive cancer system. It perpetuates myths. Reality exposes its dark side.
Holocaust Denial and Holocaust PTSD
By Rachel Alebev
"One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present." Golda Meir
The following informed opinion essay will explore the origins of the holocaust denial propaganda movement that seeks to deny the reality of the Nazi regime's systematic mass murder of six million Jews in Europe during World War II.
The roots of holocaust denial can be found in the bureaucratic language of the Nazi policy: "The Final Solution to the Jewish Question."
After the war, former Nazis and Nazi sympathizers dismissed the overwhelming proof of the Holocaust established at the Nuremberg war crimes trials – displaying their ignorance as coldly as they herded the men, women, and children into cattle cars to die in the "extermination camps."
In 1979 an organized propaganda movement, holocaust "revisionism" began when Willis Carto, founder of Liberty Lobby, the largest anti-Jewish anti-Semitic propaganda organization in the United States, incorporated the Institute for Historical Review.
The Institute for Historical Review (IHR) is a pseudo-academic enterprise and website where professors with no credentials in history expound historical revisionism.
Historical Revisionism, (pioneered by Harry Elmer Barnes, Taylor Charles Tansill, Paul Rassinier and William H. Chamberlin) strives, in the words of Harry Elmer Barnes, to “bring history into accord with the key facts. In this case it would be IHR’s version of the facts of Nazism, the genocide of Jews and other peoples during World War II.” [1]
Dr. Arthur Butz of Northwestern University, Roger Garaudy, Robert Faurisson, and David Irving are the resident deniers and contributors to IHR.
Who publishes this defaming nonsense? Mark Weber is the executive editor, publisher and site architect of www.ihr.org. [2]
IHR hides behind a claim that they are “fighting for freedom and truth” and exist “to combat historical deceit and bigotry,” but the really inconvenient truth is that: IHR is nothing more than an anti-Semitic academic enterprise disseminating disinformation.
Mark Weber wants to end, what he incorrectly refers to as “the reign of Jewish-Zionist power,” in the United States and around the world. [3]
Weber, in a public forum, expressed his disappointment that Germany and the Axis powers didn’t win World War II. [4]
“An axis-dominated Europe, I suggested, would have been prosperous, socially progressive, politically stable and technologically advanced, with an extensive, continent-wide transportation and communications network, conscientious environmental policies, and a comprehensive healthcare system. At the same time, the continent would have remained ethnically and culturally European. Large scale immigration of non-Europeans would have been unthinkable.” [From the IHR meeting on July 31, 2010]
What? IHR wants an axis-dominated Europe?
Why low key US response to Hezbollah and Iran Guards in big battle for Aleppo, Syria?
Michael Collins
The low key reaction by the United States Department of State to recent events in the battle for Syria's second largest city, Aleppo, reveals a shift in U.S. policy on the Syrian conflict. It looks like the Syrian rebel forces will lose a key supporter.
In early November, the Syrian Arab Army took Al-Safira, a town southeast of Aleppo. The town served as a key gathering point for key rebel factions. Shortly after that, the army attacked and reclaimed a former felicity, Base 80, and the Aleppo International Airport, in rebel hands for nearly a year. These victories establish ground and air supply routes to Aleppo, something the Syrian government required for any attempt to regain the city. Aleppo is currently divided between rebel and government forces, with a smaller part of the city controlled by Syrian Kurds.
Oil Espionage: Targeting OPEC
by Stephen Lendman
NSA and Britain's Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) spy globally. It's largely unrelated to protecting national security.
The only enemies both countries have are ones they invent. Claims otherwise ring hollow.
Spying is for control. It's for economic advantage. It's to be one up on foreign competitors. It's for information used advantageously in trade, political, and military relations.
It's longstanding. It's institutionalized. It's lawless. It doesn't matter. It continues undeterred.
Both agencies invent pretexts to do so. They manufacture fear. They defend the indefensible. Their extrajudicial aggressiveness is breathtaking.
Invoking terrorist threats don't wash. NSA and GCHQ are extensions of rogue governments. They facilitate lawless practices. They commit plenty of their own.
They don't make the world safer for democracy. They don't enhance stability and security. They add greatly to police state harshness. They commit espionage on a global scale.
US Atrocities in Afghanistan
by Stephen Lendman
US drones murder Afghan civilian men, women and children. American grounds forces do it up close and personal.
US inflicted death, torture and other atrocities reflect daily life. Ordinary Afghans suffer most. They struggle to survive. American aggression is one of history's greatest crimes.
War criminals remain unpunished. Accountability is denied. Conflict persists. It's Washington's longest war. It's longer than WW I and II combined. It shows no signs of ending.
Trillions of dollars go mass slaughter and destruction. They're spent for unchallenged global dominance.
Vital homeland needs go begging. Targeted countries are ravaged and destroyed. Imperial lawlessness operates this way.
Judaizing Palestine
by Stephen Lendman
On November 13, the Jerusalem Post headlined "Netanyahu instructs housing minister to 'reconsider' plans for 24,000 units beyond Green Line."
Tenders were issued to begin preliminary work. According to an unnamed Israeli official, Netanyahu expressed concern over timing.
He referred to ongoing (sham) peace talks and international focus on Iran.
Construction plans aren't shelved. They're not delayed. Netanyahu committed long ago to unlimited settlement expansions.
He's defiant. He dismisses world condemnation. He claims the right to keep "building in Jerusalem, (throughout the West Bank, as well as all other places) on the map of Israel's strategic interests."
The People Can Defeat the Trans-Pacific Partnership
By Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers
Time to end the failed experiment with rigged corporate trade and put in place fair trade for the people and planet before profits
Momentum is growing in the campaign to stop the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP). Yesterday, the TPP was dealt two blows. Each could be lethal but the TPP, and its Atlantic counterpart, called TAFTA, are not dead yet. It is time for the movement of movements that formed to oppose the TPP to stand in solidarity, defeat these agreements and end the era of rigged corporate trade.
Yesterday’s first blow came from Wikileaks, showing once again that when government works in secret with big corporations, exposure by whistle blowers is critical to changing the corrupt direction of government and the economy. Wikileaks published the full text of the intellectual property chapter; the leaked document included the positions of all the parties. It will take time for all the corporate rigging in this lengthy document to be understood, but already it is evident that Internet freedom will be curtailed, access to healthcare will become more expensive and access to information will be undermined.
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