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Gilo and Last Straws
eileen fleming
On the Palestinian side of the 1967 Green Line, upon a hilltop southwest of occupied East Jerusalem and separated from Beit Jala [a suburb of Bethlehem] by a deep gorge, is Gilo.
Gilo is understood to be an illegal settlement by the United Nations and European Union, but Israel and the US spin it as a neighborhood.
This week's announcement of Israel's plan to build 900 more dwellings in Gilo with a price tag of NIS 1.86 million for a 5-room apartment has garnered international criticism as well as from the US.
Targeting Muslim Charities in America
by Stephen Lendman
In a December 2008 article, this writer explained that the Texas-based Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development (HLF) was the largest American Muslim charity until the Bush administration bogusly declared it an enemy of the state and shut it down.
On December 4, 2001, the Treasury Department declared HLF a terrorist group, froze its assets, and falsely claimed they were being used to funnel millions of dollars to Hamas. HLF's appeal was denied.
Dark clouds are hovering over the Middle East
Salim Nazzal
It is obvious now that the Jewish extremist’s government in the Zionist state is interested in anything but not in peace.
This government rejects all sort of political compromise which made the earlier American president Bill Clinton, who is visiting the region these days, telling them that since Jews has chosen to come to the Middle East, they have to agree on political compromise; otherwise they will have no friends in the future. But it is doubtful that the Jewish extremists are ready to hear any voice expect their own voice following the saying of the founder of the state of Israel the war lord Ben Gorion that the important thing is what Jews do, and not what Goyem (non Jews) say.
Imaginary Gold Bullion: How Deep Does the Plunder of the World’s Resources Go?
How Much of the World’s Gold Supply Is Salted with Tungsten and Steel?
By Martha Rose Crow, M.S.
Because I manage 103 blogs, people send me many articles and bits of information. A lot of it is stuff I’ve seen or read before or can't use, but sometimes something ‘golden’(pun and metaphor intended) crosses my desk that sticks in my head and won’t go away.
Two days ago, someone sent me an important article. Besides posting the article (‘On Doing God’s Work’ by Ron Kirby) on my ‘Evil Economics’ blog http://evileconomics.blogspot.com, I didn’t know how else to share the information but write this article and send it out into the world.
Most people on the planet know that Congress and the Obama administration have not yet really tried to investigate the corruption on wal-street (caustic pun and metaphor intended) and/or bring the cabal of criminals to justice --plus enact laws such as another Glass-Segal Act to prevent another such widespread scale of economic crisis and corruption in the future.
What's Thanksgiving really all about?
Mary Shaw
The Native Americans who survived were herded onto reservations, where they faced their own set of challenges. This form of apartheid separated Native Americans physically, socially, and economically from the world outside the reservation.
The Thanksgiving holiday is just around the corner, but this year I am tempted to skip the festivities. While some Americans mark this holiday as an occasion to give thanks and gratitude for their perceived blessings, that benign and admirable purpose too often takes a back seat to what Thanksgiving has become in recent decades: a celebration of gluttony and excess.
In conversations about the upcoming holiday, I hear Americans talk excitedly about their plans to overeat -- to eat so much that they've built a post-meal nap into their annual Thanksgiving routine. It's all about the feast. It's all about stuffing themselves fuller than Grandma stuffed the turkey. More mashed potatoes. Extra gravy. A second slice of pie. Then sleep it off. And they're proud of it.
Has "nation building" ever succeeded?
November 21, 2009 was a bad day for Afghanistan if you look at the news reports. That's nothing new. Afghanistan has had decades of bad days since the Soviet invasion and the civil war sustained by U.S. financial and intelligence efforts in partnership with the Pakistani intelligence community.
There are two assumptions that justify the essential role of the question in any further effort by the United States in Afghanistan. 100,000 of the finest troops in the world can't subjugate a nation of 31 million people indefinitely. In order to achieve the "mission," there must be a viable government with the motivation and ability to keep in check those forces dangerous to the U.S. These two assumptions form the criteria for"nation building" (or "state building").
If there are some examples of nation building as referents, then there might a justification for further military and political presence. If there are no real examples of nation building, then the current administration's decision making process is based on an empty concept, one that merely justifies occupation and ongoing warfare based on deliberately unstated reasons.
As the Light onto the Nations
by Gilad Atzmon
‘Israel is the light onto the nations’ says the Torah. Indeed it is, and not just because the Torah says so. Israel is ahead of everyone else in many fronts. Take for instance, terrorizing civilian populations and practicing some of the most devastating murderous tactics upon elders, women and young.
The Jerusalem post reported yesterday that the Chairman of NATO's Military Committee, Admiral Giampaolo Di Paola, visited Israel earlier this week to study “IDF tactics and methods that the military alliance can utilise for its war in Afghanistan.” A senior Israeli defence official added "The one thing on NATO's mind today is how to win in Afghanistan…Di Paola was very impressed by the IDF, which is a major source of information due to our operational experience."
Towards Resolving Thanksgiving Contradictions
By Emily Spence
"...the so-called Indians were viewed as subhuman, just as were Blacks,
Jews, Asians and many other persecuted peoples in this country."
Overview: At Thanksgiving, why not avoid cutesy repugnant myths concerning "Indians" and Pilgrims? Instead, one might consider the suffering that arose after the "New World" became viewed as a land of opportunity -- a fresh spot to environmentally plunder while removing native populations. One might, also, reflect on the debt that we, connected in myriad ways, owe to each other. Assuredly, it's especially obliged by the people who have cornucopian bounty in their lives.
Years ago, a friend of mine, when we were discussing goodness and malevolence, casually mentioned that even the worst criminals nearly always thought that whatever they were doing was constructive and the problem, then, became one in which different people hold radically different outlooks concerning whatever stands for benefits. In this sense, Josef Mengele (a human representing the epitome of moral depravity) probably thought that he was advancing scientific knowledge and ultimately helping humankind by his unconscionable medical experiments carried out on Jews and gypsies during the Nazi regime. At the same time, he was being an exemplary patriotic citizen by, unquestioningly, supporting the atrocious aims of his government for which he was commended many times. (Oh, how the leadership loves to dole out accolades, medals, praise and certificates during grand speeches when their nefarious objectives are backed by their lackeys and cohorts.)
Weak Public Option Myths That Liberals Believe
By Kevin Gosztola
On Saturday night, the Senate will take a procedural vote to move debate on the current health insurance enrichment bill in Congress forward.
Democratic Senators like Dick Durbin, Patrick Leahy, and Chuck Schumer, through a project called Citizens for a Public Option, have been building support for the public option and encouraging Americans to write letters to the editor that debunk health care reform myths---myths that the conservative echo chamber have been propagating.
Senators (and representatives in the House and Obama) can champion this health insurance legislation all they want and claim it will “foster greater competition in the marketplace, create more choices for consumers, and lead to lower costs and better quality for all,” but doctors who have been on the front lines of America's sick care non-system do not believe many of the arguments that Democrats are using to create support for a public option.
John Allen Muhammad, Death Penalty and the Gulf War Syndrome
by William Hughes
“Let’s call it [the death penalty] by its real name...and recognize it for what it is--vengeance!” - Albert Camus
The state of Virginia, on Nov. 10, 2009, at 9:11 P.M., executed by lethal injection the Washington area sniper, John Allen Muhammad, aka John Allen Williams. The deed was carried out at the death chamber, at the Greensville Correctional Center, in Jarratt, just south of Richmond. Muhammad was convicted of killing Dean Howell Meyers, who was refueling his car in Manassas, VA, on Oct. 7, 2002. The Governor of Virginia, Tim Kaine, rejected Muhammad’s lawyers’ plea to commute the sentence to life imprisonment. On his killing spree, which inspired widespread fear and panic, Muhammad left nine other innocent dead victims in Maryland, Virginia and Washington, D.C. His motive for his shooting rampage, committed at random, went to the grave with him.
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