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    On way to Moon/MARS NASA Takes on Terrorism


    New 'Global Peace Movement' Writes Tom Hayden from India


    Musharraf's 'Democracy' - Who Did It Mr. President?


    Pakistan's Beirut


    Project Frustration in Iraq


    Worried Hamas Tries the American Jewish route
    January 07 ,2004 Report: Top Hamas leaders hold talks with Jewish-American following Egyptian mediation A reliable Egyptian source has disclosed that ... more

    The Israeli Scandal which may bring Sharon down


    Bush on the M E - State of the Union 2004
    Bush reiterated America's pursuance of what he termed as "a forward strategy of freedom in the greater Middle East.""We also hear doubts that democrac ... more

    Sharon Warns Jordan in public as well as in private


    The neoconing of America


    Lost Chances writes long-time Egyptian journalist in Washington


    Perle, Frum, AEI, and all those softpeddling neocons


    Why Palestinians Reject 'Geneva'


    Peres Protests Israeli Secret Service Following Him
    Shimon Peres must think everyone has forgotten he was Sharon's Foreign Minister not that long ago.

    Tom Friedman and his incomplete WAR OF IDEAS


    US Policy Insane Friedman Finally Concludes


    The Suicide Bomber! The Suicide Bomber! Propaganda, Selective Morality, Denial: Crimes of War


    The Israeli Generals' Plan: War Against a Whole People


    The Wall Goes to Court


    NYTimes goes after The Pope for Endorsing The Christ


    Another Jewish Israeli-connected media tycoon facing hard times
    Robert Maxwell met a sad fate, probably at the hands of Mossad which he tried to blackmail for money when he was going under. Now Conrad Black is fac ... more

    Israel will "drown in a sea of blood" if it tries to kill Yassin: Hamas


    Israeli ambassador kicked out of Swedish museum after vandalizing art


    Israel's Sweden Envoy Attacks Suicide Bomber Art


    The BBC and the Palestinian Issue


    Dean's M E Campaign Taken Over by Israeli/Jewish Lobby
    First he put Steve Grossman, former head of AIPAC in charge of his campaign. Now he's moved a long-time Israeli-approved player into position to guid ... more

    US and Israel Battle A Little About 'The Wall'


    Responding to Benny Morris and "Survival of the Fittest"
    January 16, 2004 A Response to Benny Morris Genocide Hides Behind Expulsion By ADI OPHIR At some point in the interview, when the reader might think ... more

    Water Wars - "Deadly Thirst"


    Israeli/Jewish Lobby Targets M E Studies Centers for Intimidation


    Yassin 'Marked for Death'


    US Grows More Desperate for U.N. Cover and Bailout in Iraq


    US Plans for Iraq Facing Political Minefields


    Chilling Pledges as first Hamas woman suicide bomber is buried
    Chilling pledges in Gaza as Hamas buries woman suicide bomber Thu Jan 15, 2:22 PM ET GAZA CITY (AFP) - Hamas's first woman suicide bomber, a youn ... more

    The Wall and the Hague; Israel and the World


    Israel Promotes Wall Name-change


    Hamas Leader 'Marked For Death'


    Israel vows to Kill Hamas Founder - Blind Sheik Yassin


    The LIE Factory - Bush's Washington


    Published Replies to Morris and 'Survival of the Fittest'


    Israeli Historian Promotes 'Law of the Jungle'
    'Survival of the Fittest' is a more sanitized way of returning to the 'Law of the Jungle' when it comes to international affairs. Now we all remember ... more

    9/11 Did it to Dennis Miller - a metaphor for much of America


    Gore Swings Hard at 'Moral Coward' 'Corporate Owned' Bush-Cheney Admin
    Gore Slams Bush Administration on Environment January 15, 2004, 2:21 PM EST NEW YORK -- Former Vice President Al Gore on Thursday blasted Presi ... more

    Most 'Terrorism Trials" Will Be Military says FBI Chief


    General Wesley Clark on Iraq - Then and Now
    GENERAL OF THE ARMY WESLEY CLARK Two months ago Democratic hopeful Wesley Clark declared in a debate on 26 October that he has always been firmly ag ... more

    Rare Defeat for Israeli/Jewish Lobby


    Cheney, Israel's Lobby, and CIA LEAKGATE
    Will Cheney Fall in `Leakgate'? by Jeffrey Steinberg Jan. 7 (EIRNS)--The first 200,000 copies of the LaRouche in 2004 campaign pamphlet, ``Chil ... more

    Abduction by Israeli Undercover Agents
    Fear and Intimidation: My Abduction by Israeli Undercover Police Tel Aviv Radhika Sainath 7 Dec 03 What does the Israeli government have to fear f ... more

    General Clark's Credibility Takes Big Hit
    WES CLARK MADE CASE FOR IRAQ WAR BEFORE CONGRESS; PRAISED PERLE ANALYSIS; TRANSCRIPT REVEALEDTwo months ago Democratic hopeful Wesley Clark declared i ... more

    Arafat Speaks Harshly and Bitterly from Ramallah Imprisonment
    An encounter with Arafat and back! Eyad El Sarraj 15 January 2004 He was frail, b ... more

    Legality of Bremer Laws Challenged
    Legality of Changing Iraq Is Questioned 1/14/04 WASHINGTON (AP) -- The old Iraq wasn't particularly hospitable to foreign investors, but L. Paul Bre ... more

    Bushies Made 'Political War' Charges Senator Kennedy


    Palestinian mother kills Israelis in suicide attack - 14 Jan 04


    US Army War College Report Blasts Bush and his War


    Witchhunt Days Returneth


    Sean Penn Goes Back to Iraq and reports from the front


    Q & A about Israel's WALL
    10 Questions & Answers about the Apartheid Wall1. What is the Apartheid Wall?It is a concrete wall eight meters high which when completed will wind ... more

    Jewish Media Control and Influence in USA
    The Alien Grip on Our News and Entertainment Media Must Be Broken Who Rules America? By the Research Staff of National Vanguard Magazine PO Box 330, ... more

    Peeping Big Brother Eyes Everywhere...America's Future?


    Big Brother Watching and 'Permitting' to Further Expand
    Just as 9/11 was used as the excuse to invade/occupy Iraq, now the new climate in the U.S. is being used to monitor, 'permit' and control everyone mor ... more

    Sharon twists as Israeli settlers rally
    It's a competition between extremes of course, with Sharon shroudly positioning himself as 'reasonable' when it fact he has championed not only the se ... more

    Palestinians debate ideological solutions as Rome burns
    While Rome burns, so to speak, the Palestinian factions continue to debate theoretical, practically theological, 'solutions' in ways that even their f ... more

    Israel's Fence Goes to The Hague
    It's rather late in the day...but here we go. The Hague Court is going to take up Israel's 'Fence' directly, and very indirectly Israel's apartheid. ... more

    Perle's neocon 'Pulp Fiction'


    Israel Missing It's Moment?
    Even many Israelis are aware of this. Yet the U.S. keeps pumping the Israelis up.

    Iranian F M Endorses 'One State Solution'


    'Culture of Fear' for U.S. Journalists
    it's the land of the free and the home of the brave, of course. But when it comes to 'establishment journalism' those practicing it are also living i ... more

    Searching for the 'Dirty Bomb'


    'Smoke 'Em- How The U.S. Stealth Kills


    Bush Planned for New U.S.-controlled Iraq From the Get Go


    Former Treasury Secretary took on Washington before taking on Bush
    "It's all about sound bites, deluding the people, pandering to the lowest common denominator," said O'Neill. "I didn't adjust [in Washington] and I'm ... more

    Jews versus Jews - A Diaspora Divided


    Pentagon Almost Pushed China to War with Taiwan
    2003: China Almost Went to War Over Taiwan When Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao visited the White House last month, President Bush issued a stinging rebuk ... more

    Arafat and Company Try More Blustering...
    Of course the Israelis and Sharon have already done the important 'unilateral' things...regardless of what they do more at this point. As for Arafat ... more

    The 'New' Marines...
    Having failed with brute force of arms and conquest, the 'new' Marine approach will be:

    Yassin of Hamas Speaks and Warns


    Bush Savaged by his own former Treasury Secretary
    The Books are coming!

    Bush: "a blind man in a room full of deaf people."


    Sari's Sister Cashing In Doing What the Israelis and Americans want done


    Democrats Focus On Jews
    Both the Donkeys and the Elephants are running after the Jews...and all the politicians know their place when it comes to Israel.
    Arab literary innocence and ignorance


    More Settlements in Occupied Syrian Lands


    Saudi 'Religion' Under Growing Challenge and Pressure
    Most of the challenge is coming from the American neocons, and their Israeli patrons. But there's enough wrong with the situation in Saudi Arabia, an ... more

    It's 'Survival of the Fittest in the once Holy Land
    And this is coming the the so-called 'Liberal' and 'Progressive' Israelis:-----------Survival of the fittestBy Ari ShavitBenny Morris says he was alwa ... more

    Even the American Sec of State Now Feels Need to talk about it
    Powell: U.S. opposes one state solution By Nathan Guttman, Haaretz Correspondent, Haaretz Service and News Agencies United States Secretary of State ... more

    The Dems and Israel's Corner 'Properly' School Howard Dean
    DEMOCRATS SCHOOLING DEAN ON FOREIGN POLICY By Anne E. Kornblut Boston Globe - 28 Dec 2003 - page 1, WASHINGTON: The Democratic foreign policy establi ... more

    Zionist-Hindu-Apartheid...all in the same BBC commentator's 'diatribe'
    WE OWE ZIONISTS AND HINDUS NOTHING by ROBERT KILROY-SILK BBC Broadcaster and Sunday Express Columnist We are told by some of the more hysterical cri ... more

    Palestinian NGOs tell US AID 'no thanks'
    Palestinian NGO’s refuse USAID grants in protest to “terrorism” pledge Palestinian aid groups are refusing US government financial support in protest ... more

    Restarting the 'Jordan is Palestine' approach


    CIA on Agent Manhunt for Iraq


    For Syria, its limited WMD are to deter Israel says Assad


    Producer of UNCOVERED - The Whole Truth About the Iraq War Interviewed
    Robert Greenwald, Producer/Director of "Uncovered: The Whole Truth About the Iraq War," A New Documentary That Reveals How the Bush Administration Li ... more

    Soros on 'the American Bubble of Supremacy'


    Death Squads - Iraq and Palestine
    For Wednesday, December 17, 2003 Murder Inc. Column By Charlie Reese Seymour Hersh, with his usual thoroughness, has documented Secretary of Defens ... more

    More Moral Protests From Within Israeli Army
    Israeli colonel resigns over army's 'immoral' actions By Justin Huggler in Jerusalem The Independent, London 05 January 2004 A reservist colonel i ... more

    US and UN bear greatest responsiblity for this impending disaster
    The U.S. is the country that bears the greatest responsibility for bringing this about both by its actions and its refusal to stop its actions. The U ... more

    Chomsky in the NYTimes
    January 7, 2004 The New Meaning for "Neo" Planet Chomsky in the Times By MICHAEL LEON The limits of column inches can constrain reasoned, subtle ar ... more

    Pentagon Chief chose TIME 'Man of the Year'


    Likudniks Fight Among Themselves Over the Spoils
    TRYING TO DEFEAT PM SHARON'S POLICIES "We won't fold! We won't fold!" So chanted many hundreds of Likud Central Committee members on Monday night ... more

    'Freedom Tower' WTC Monument has Israeli connections
    ISRAELI'S PLAN CHOSEN FOR WTC SITE The winning plan for the memorial to be built at the site of the felled World Trade Center towers was co-desig ... more

    Mossad to Tripoli
    LIBYAN-ISRAELI TIES A Kuwaiti newspaper claims that as Libya warms up to the Western world and even Israel, Muammar Kaddafi is willing to com ... more

    Fearing for real the 'Dirty Bomb'


    Racism is indeed deeply ingrained in America - liberals included


    Hertzberg - Far Too Little, Far Too Late
    ---------------------------------------- World Jewry is not an amen chorus By Arthur Herzberg In the middle of the First World War, the then prime m ... more

    Much more Power to the FBI and Ashcroft
    Bush Grabs New Power for FBI By Kim Zetter 02:00 AM Jan. 06, 2004 PT While the nation was distracted last month by images of Saddam Hussein's spid ... more

    Another Army Psych warfare player - Koran and Bible in hand
    A Koran-totting Bible preaching Colonel. The Pentagon has been working hard to get these stories planted into the American press. One has to wonder ... more

    The Ugly Making of Tom Delay
    The Making of Tom Delay by Tony Papert December 29, 2003 The snakelike cast of Tom DeLay's eyes can be disconcerting, can't it? -- Somewhat as thoug ... more

    Psych war units working overtime
    Army psych unit tries to persuade Iraqi insurgents fight is over JASON KEYSER, Associated Press WriterMonday, January 5, 2004 (01-05) 22:52 PST TIKRIT ... more

    ADL and Foxman Join the Blast Against MoveOn and Free Speech


    US Military Holds Journalists For Days
    05 Jan 2004 19:14 U.S. frees Reuters, NBC staff detained in Iraq BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Three Iraqis working for Reuters and one employed by the U. ... more

    Unilateral Delusion Indeed


    Ads Compare Bush to Hitler, US to Nazi Germany
    GRAPHIC: Nazi Flags In A Parade GRAPHIC: Hitler HITLER: (Speaking In German) CHYRON: A NATION WARPED BY LIES GRAPHIC: German Tro ... more

    Simon Wiesenthal Center Jumps on MoveOn.Org


    Israelis want big bucks in 'restitution' from Iraq via Washington


    The Lobby Hits the Campuses Again
    DECEMBER 26, 2003 - The Forward Pro-Israel Activism Makes Comeback on Campus By JONATHAN KESSLER When the anti-Iraq war movement fir ... more

    The Mother of all CIA-Pentagon Deceptions
    In the tradition of the Bay of Pigs, Mylai and Watergate -- and more recently the fables of Jessica Lynch and all those weapons of mass destruction -- ... more

    25 Feb - The Jews Versus The Movies


    FBI Now 'Monitors' Hotel Bookings, et. al.


    Kicking Them To Death
    The Brits of course do have much history in years past in bringing about death and control to the natives of many lands. Occassionally stories of this ... more

    Liberal NY Zionist Crowd Can't Get Use to Sharon
    Don't be fooled by Sharon's 'new' message Henry Siegman IHT Friday, December 26, 2003 Israel's future There is no international conflict that indu ... more

    The Incomparable Judy Steinberg Dean
    The Incomparable Judy Steinberg Dean By Mary Lynn Jones, AlterNet December 26, 2003 Meet Dr. Judith Steinberg Dean, career woman. Busy balancing her ... more

    The Imperial Gong Show Year
    The Imperial Gong Show Year By Tom Engelhardt, tomdispatch.com January 2, 2004 I haven't checked my Chinese calendar but if 2003 wasn't the Year of ... more

    Nablus Under Siege
    This message from Nablus opens with: " Please Act Immediately to Lift the Siege off Nablus, Balata and Beit Foreek! This is a Humanitarian Crisis!") ... more

    American Jews do more fronting and lying for Sharon


    When it comes to NUKES, Israel 'Yes' everyone else 'No'
    At least this is an attempt at a serious explanation of how the Israelis see things. In reality the Israelis ignited the arms race for nukes and othe ... more

    American Jailed in Israel for Helping Palestinians


    WJC beats the anti-semitism drum louder, causing more of it
    As the contributor who sent this to MER puts it: "What would be more accurate is two say that these self-styled Jewish leaders contribute to anti-sem ... more

    Robertson Says God for Bush, Right or Wrong
    Now of course this is the same guy who is more Israeli than the Israelis. But then again, at core, Christian fundamentalists are in fact in many ways ... more

    Hey World...What about Israel?
    'Israel must destroy WMD' 21/12/2003 14:40 - (SA) Tripoli - A Libyan newspaper, Al-Jamahiriya, says the international community should pressure I ... more

    No Need for the War Blix Now Says Clearly


    EU Could Have But Failed


    More al-Jazeera Caving in and Watering down
    They pushed Yvonne Ridley out not long ago...now this. The word is out among Arab journalists...Al-Jazeera is being tamed through great American and ... more

    World Jewish Congress Keeps on Doing Israel's Bidding
    Decades ago the World Jewish Congress sold itself to the Israelis after a few decades of much more independent existence. The current President, form ... more

    Bush Faces a Challenging Year: The Turn From War to Peace


    CIA Middle East central to be Baghdad as well as Amman
    The CIA has branch offices throughout the Middle East, but before the Iraq invasion headquarters has been Amman, Jordan. Fitting of course as the sur ... more

    US Objective -- Taming the Arabs/Muslims not Saddam
    US Objective -- Taming the Arabs/Muslims not Saddam Saddam Hussein, despite all his faults, was viewed in the Arab/Muslim world as a symbol of resi ... more

    The Trial of Saddam Hussein
    We'll see just how fair and just this trial is going to be...if at all. In all likelihood the Americans will arrange to keep Saddam as tight-lipped a ... more

    TSA Chief at Dulles Arrested for DWI


    Loose Nukes..and Drunken TSA Chief
    The head of the TSA at Dulles Airport -- that's the new Homeland Security Department -- was arrested for drunk driving early on the morning of 1 Janua ... more

    Troops Raid Mosque...Boots + Guns and all
    It's another page from the Israeli play book...and the Americans are doing their best it seems to immitate the Israeli ways.

    Iran Balks at U.S. Delegation Offer
    Wise move, even under the very difficult circumstances the Iranians now face. The Americans rarely give 'aid' without political strings and motives. ... more

    Palestinian Refugee Kids from the world...on-line


    EYE-TO-EYE - Palestinian Refugees and the Internet


    Jewish Academic Stirs Wrath From Zionist American Jewish Enforcers
    We say 'Enforcer' for this is a debate which the 'organized Jewish community' has worked hard and tirelessly to keep from breaking out in publications ... more

    US Almost Invaded Arabdom Back in 1973 - Kissinger Era
    Thursday, Jan. 1, 2004 Britain: U.S. Planned '73 Arab Invasion LONDON (AP) - British spy chiefs warned after the 1973 Arab-Israeli war that ... more

    Gore Vidal Uncensored - WAKE UP AMERICA!
    Uncensored Gore VidalMarc Cooper, LA WeeklyDecember 22, 2003It's lucky for George W. Bush that he wasn't born in an earlier time and somehow stumbled ... more

    Former CIA guy warns 'Don't Be Fooled' by Ashcroft, Bush ploy
    Don't Be FooledRay McGovernDecember 31, 2003It seems it is all too easy to get caught up in the holiday spirit. How else to explain the reaction of th ... more

    Dems even worse than Bush when it comes to Israel says Jewish Prof Zunes
    More 'Right' on Israel Than Bush Stephen Zunes, December 22, 2003 The moment images of Saddam Hussein's capture flashed across TV screens around t ... more

    More Golan Heights Settlements - Syria Denouces


    Regime Change Syria - US and Israel Trying to do it the CIA/Mossad Way
    US promotes ''opposition'' to topple Bashar… 29-12-2003 Following the ouster of the Iraqi regime headed by Saddam Hussein, eyes are currently focuse ... more

    News and Entertainment Entanglement in today's America
    This is one of the major reasons news from the 'mass, corporate' media has become so suspect and so suspect in today's USA. And thus of course one of ... more

    Perle's Neo-Con War Handbook


    The 'Crats' of Palestine
    It's another consequence of Israel's increasingly brutal and increasingly ugly of the Palestinians:

    'Truth Drug's Ahead for Saddam - He Will Be 'Broken'
    SADDAM’S INTERROGATORS – AND THEIR TECHNIQUES TO MAKE HIM TALK by Gordon Thomas Britain’s top interrogators – MI5’s Eliza Manningham-Buller and Richa ... more

    April Glaspie & Saddam Hussein in 1990


    Settlers Up Another 16% just since Sharon took office!
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