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Obama at the General Assembly: Sacrificing Palestine for Zionist Campaign Funds
James Petras
Introduction
There are two views of Obama’s speech to the General Assembly on September 21, 2011, and his opposition to the recognition of Palestine as a sovereign state and its admission to the UN. The common opinion of foreign policy experts was that Obama led the US to an ignominious diplomatic defeat, deepening US isolation in the international system.
The White House’s blatant parroting of Israel’s position to continue bilateral negotiations, while Tel Aviv continued to colonize Palestinian land and forcibly evict its residents, alienated the 1.5 billion Muslims throughout the world. Obama’s refusal to even mention the return to the 1967 borders as a basis for a “peace settlement”, totally undermined any pretext that the US could act as an “honest broker” in Mid-East peace negotiations, even in the eyes of its most slavish supporters in the PLO. His one-sided reference to Israel’s minimal casualties in maintaining the Occupation, while omitting any mention of the 12,000 Palestinian political prisoners, thousands of assassinations, everyday humiliation, routine torture of suspects and frequent defacement of Palestinian religious centers (mosques and churches, cemeteries and shrines), undermined any US effort to win favor among the millions of people involved in the pro-democracy social movements sweeping the Arab world from Tunisia, Egypt to the Gulf states.
Arab People’s Movements are Winning
Mahboob A. Khawaja, Ph.D.
Challenging the ruthless and egomaniac Arab dictators, the people’s revolutionary movements generate great deal of sensational interest and dramatic impulse on the Western news media-TV screens. Sometime the Western entertaining news media calls it “unrest” or “uprising” befitting to its economic and political aims but in reality are the people’s movements for change and freedom from the yoke of neo-colonialism. The Western military-industrial institutionalized complex needed oil to sustain convenient materialistic life and capitalism, the neo-colonial Arab rulers were the best planned scheme of things to deliver the goodies to the West in return for individual protection, security alliances and delivery of much needed military hardware.
Making Sense of Syria
by Stephen Lendman
Last March, Syria's externally generated uprisings began. Despite legitimate grievances, Washington orchestrated change there like elsewhere in the region.
It's part of its imperial "New Middle East" project to control North Africa, the Middle East and Central Asia to Russia's borders.
NATO Brussels Summit Claims Successful Afghan and Libyan Campaigns
by Stephen Lendman
Despite NATO claims, Libyans heroically keep resisting overwhelming genocidal slaughter. NATO perhaps measures success by body count.
It far exceeds 100,000 and multiples more injured, some life threatening, others debilitating. In a country of six million people, the catastrophic numbers are horrific.
Stop The Machine Occupies Washington
by Stephen Lendman
On October 6, thousands massed in Washington on the 10th anniversary of America's illegal Afghan war against a nonbelligerent country.
Years ago it was lost. Nonetheless, it continues without end. The business of America is war, permanent wars, multiple ones. One nation after another is plundered for wealth and power while homeland needs go begging.
US duopoly power spurns human and civil rights, rule of law principles, and democratic values. Long ago they were abandoned to advance Washington's imperium globally.
Anti-Defamation League Assails Palestinian UN Membership
by Stephen Lendman
For nearly a century, ADL falsely called itself "the nation's premier civil rights/human relations agency (fighting) anti-Semitism and all forms of bigotry...."
In fact, all along it fronted for Jewish supremacy. After Israel's 1948 creation, it backed Israeli rights over Arabs, including by occupation and belligerently enforced apartheid.
FIFTEEN ISSUES, EIGHT DEMANDS, ONE PEOPLE, ONE REVOLUTION
from IronBoltBruce
Global Revolution 1: American Revolution 2: Day 22: Communication 1
8 Oct 2011 (g1a2d0022c1)
The steering committee of the "October 2011 Movement" - the patriots presently occupying Freedom Plaza in Washington DC - published a summary of the 15 issues which are the focus of their protest here: http://october2011.org/issues
The 8 demands which are the focus of my personal protest are these:
- End the Fed.
- Reverse Citizens United.
- Repeal PATRIOT Act.
- Expose 9/11 Truth.
- End Profit Wars.
- Refund Taxpayer Trillions.
- Imprison the Kleptocrats.
- Single Term Limits.
New York Times Bashes Outspoken World Leaders
by Stephen Lendman
Few world leaders challenge US and Israeli crimes. Turkey's Recep Tayyip Erdogan often assails Israel, including at a Pretoria, South Africa Turkish foreign policy conference.
On October 5, Haaretz headlined, "Turkey PM: Israel a nuclear threat to Middle East," saying:
On Wednesday, Erdogan called Israel "a threat to the Middle East region for having....nuclear weapon(s)."
Israel's open secret has it one of eight known nuclear powers.
In his 1997 book, "Open Secrets: Israeli Nuclear and Foreign Policies," Israel Shahak said that "Israel (is) clearly prepar(ing) itself to seek overtly a hegemony over the entire Middle East (with no) hesitati(on) to use for the purpose all means available, including nuclear ones."
Shahak also explained that Israel regards "the launching of missiles (on its territory) as 'nonconventional' regardless of whether they are equipped with explosives or poison gas."
Wall Street Runs America
by Stephen Lendman
Major Wall Street banks occupy and control Washington. They recycle their officials in and out, make policy, and enforce it with money power supremacy for virtually everything they want.
Political Washington salutes and obeys. Money power in private hands and democracy can't co-exist. It buys what it wants at the expense of government of, by and for the people. It never was and isn't now.
Alaska Native Eskimos Fight for Land Being Lost to Climate Change: An Interview with Christine Shearer
By Joshua Frank
Christine Shearer is a postdoctoral scholar in science, technology, and society studies at UC Santa Barbara, and a researcher for CoalSwarm, part of SourceWatch. She is managing editor of Conducive, and author of “Kivalina: A Climate Change Story
Recently Joshua Frank interviewed Christine about her new book, which details the plight of an Alaska Native Eskimo community struggling to save their land that is disappearing as a result of climate change.
Joshua Frank: Christine, what prompted you to investigate what is happening
to the people of Kivalina?
Christine Shearer: A few things. In 2007, I was part of this interdisciplinary research project at UC Santa Barbara, assessing the biggest “human impacts” to marine ecosystems. To do this we collected data from over a hundred scientists. And it really started to hit me how severe climate change is, particularly how quickly it is happening.
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