About the new MiddleEast.Org
(June 30, 2004)
U.S. Ordered Brits to Attack Iran - Brits Balked
(June 30, 2004)
The order was given in secret by the U.S. commander in Iraq, General Ricardo Sanchez, who was already scheduled to be replaced, quite likely because of his involvement in the horrendous Iraqi torture scandal. But anyone who thinks General Sanchez gave the order without checking first with his neocon bosses back at the Pentagon -- Wolfowitz and Feith, who then of course check with Rumsfeld who then tells the President, Condi, and Colin -- just doesn't understand even at this late date how the invasion/occupation of Iraq came about nor how the Pentagon planning has been progressing for Iran, Syria, North Korea, just as soon as the excuses can be managed.
Bush and U.S. Exposed - book by book by book
(June 30, 2004)
This list of books exposing the Bush presidency for what it really is all about is an essential corrective to all the propaganda and TV clips constantly bombarding the American people... In many ways though some of these books are more significant, however in a TV/Movie age even collectively they will not have the same impact though they do help set a climate for skepticism and anxiety. This particular list was compiled a few months ago by USA Today so it's hardly complete at this point. But it is a good starting place for those wanting to choose a little holiday reading, however depressive, sometimes shocking, surely politically and historically depressing.
America's Baghdad - Corruption, Barricades, Boozing, Fear and Incompetence
(June 29, 2004)
Baghdad is awash with stories of the corruption, cronyism and incompetence of the US-led Coalition Provisional Authority, which was dissolved this week.
Brits Departed Palestine Leaving Civil War - MER FlashBack
(June 29, 2004)
"Contrary to contemporary assertions, the British and the Americans have done far more to prevent democracy in the Middle East, and to inhibit independent economic development as well, then they will ever admit."
Bremer Slinks Away; CIA Slinks Forward
(June 28, 2004)
Thus now Bremer hastily and rather shamefully
slinks away without much fanfare, a few days
early so they say, even as Iraq continues to
seeth in hatred and a slow-simmer civil war.
Baghdad Shuffle
(June 28, 2004)
It's historic alright. A huge historic bungle that is quite literally exploding in their faces as they try to appear to go but actually stay with their carefully chosen Iraqi faces now out front. Over the weekend on ABC News one of the neocon political commentators made a little mistake and clearly called the American-appointed 'interim Iraqi Prime Minister' a "CIA agent" -- it was a rare moment of candor in public in today's confused, uptight, and secretive Washington.
Kurds on 'the return' - Palestinians into ghettos
(June 27, 2004)
Substitute "Palestinians" for Kurds, and "Israelis" for Arabs, and there is a whole different twist to 'the return' of the Kurds featured in this front-page New York Times article last Sunday. Another great irony of our times is that even as the Americans and the Israelis help facilitate what the Kurds are doing in Iraq they demand the Palestinians give up their 'right of return' even though it is enshrined in many U.N. Security Council resolutions going back to 1947...
Worst Crisis Since WWII?
(June 26, 2004)
"the most foolhardy civilian leadership in the
modern history of the United States." (Newsweek) "A vacuum has opened up at the heart of world politics where US leadership ought to be found." (Financial Times) "The unpalatable truth is that the Bush administration has failed in almost everything it has touched."
The Historical Moment - MER Flashback Four Years
(June 25, 2004)
MER FLASHBACK to 25 June 2001: Months before what is now known as "9/11" MER published these articles indicating that a major strike by Osama
Bin-Laden against the U.S. was imminent and that the Israelis were more determined than ever to subjugate the Palestinians. We wrote at the time: "In these conditions any spark can ignite the blaze; and sometimes such giant fires consume more than was originally anticipated, sometimes even those who start them."
BBC Hired by British Government to Broadcast TV to Middle East
(June 24, 2004)
More Readers' Comments from Around the World
(June 24, 2004)
Just some of the many Readers's Comments continually pouring in to MER from around the world.
Thank you for previewing the new MiddleEast.Org
(June 23, 2004)
Cheney and Rumseld "linked to murder" of CIA scientist in cold war years
(June 23, 2004)
Secret documents have revealed US Vice President Dick Cheney and Secretary of Defence Donald Rumsfeld are "linked to the murder" of a senior CIA scientist.
It's Now the Second Half of 1948
(June 23, 2004)
As always Professor Tanya Reinhart from Tel Aviv University writes with extraordinary insight.
"...the Israeli military and political leadership are aiming, eventually, at a total destruction of the Palestinian authority, and, with it, the process of Oslo, which is now dominantly considered by them a 'historical mistake'."
Information Warfare - Israel Wins Big
(June 22, 2004)
For 10 years Tim Llewellyn was the BBC's Middle East correspondent. In this passionately argued polemic he accuses British broadcasters, including his former employer, of systematic bias in covering the Arab-Israeli conflict, giving undue prominence to the views of the Israelis while all but disregarding the roots of the crisis and what is being done to the Palestinians.
Gearing Up for IRAN and North Korea
(June 21, 2004)
"...waiting to confront Iraq would have allowed the
United States to confront more immediate dangers....
Because our military is stretched so thin in Iraq, we cannot threaten military action in Iran or North Korea." Martin Peretz and The New Republic
REVOLT in WASHINGTON
(June 20, 2004)
Nader Speaks to Buchanon
(June 15, 2004)
He's going after the real conservative vote, so he says.
Crusade II - Reagan first brought the neocons to power
(June 09, 2004)
Cheney, Wolfowitz, Perle, Abrams, Bush...and the list goes on. Those who have recently led the crusade to invade Iraq, subjugate the Palestinians, and fight Islam, were brought to power in Washington for the first time some 23 years ago when Ronald Reagan of the once far-right was victorious over Jimmy Carter of the once mid-left in American politics. And some now forget that the man who greatly helped bring Ronald Reagan to power was none other than George Herbert Walker Bush, former head of the CIA, who now became Vice-President for the next eight years and then himself succeeded Reagan as President in 1989.
Realities of the "Reagan Plan" for the Middle East
(June 06, 2004)
The seeds for the Intifada and for Israel's increasingly aggressive escalating occupation of and dispossession of the Palestinian people were sown in the years of the Reagan Presidency. Indeed it was Ronald Reagan who first brought what we today call the "neocons" to power in Washington, and the right-wing Republicans who forged such a close alliance with the Israeli Likud of Menachem Begin, Yitzhak Shamir, and Ariel Sharon which had come to power in Israel in 1977 for the first time.
| MER WORLD (June, 2004)
| They Tried to Kill Uday in 1996 | | Lower Military Profile in Iraq - More Smoke and Mirrors | | US Tried to Ignite War with Iran | | CIA's 'most important asset' now set to rule in Baghdad | | Podhoretz Gets White House Celebration | | Torturing Palestinians Continues | | America's Baghdad - Corruption, Barricades, and Fear | | Novel Discusses Bush Assassination | | 'Involuntary Mobilization' Begins in US | | Quasi-Draft Begins in USA | | Bush Keeps Harping on 'Democracy in the Middle East' - but with little credibility or following | | Finally Israel's Nukes Get Some Attention | | A warning to those who dare to criticise Israel in the land of free speech - Robert Fisk | | Israeli-centric Think-Tanks Push US To War | | Iraq War - Conceived in Israel | | All those Israeli Weapons of Mass Destruction | | World War III coming for sure top Sharon aide insists | | Israel Pushed Hard For the War - Back to July 2002 | | How Bush Legitimised Terrorism | | An illegal and immoral war, betrayed by images that reveal our racism - Robert Fisk | | Things Bush Didn't Tell Us - Robert Fisk | | They Came As Liberators and Conquerors - 1917 and 2003 - Robert Fisk | | Israel Kills Hamas Gaza Commander, Prepares for Egyptians to control Palestinians in Gaza | | Former top dem Ed Koch lambasts Fahrenheit 9/11 and Moore | | Bush a Reverse Robin Hood - Robs the Poor to pay the Rich | | Bremer Slinks Away, CIA Slinks Ahead | | Bremer Departs, even more quickly than pushed | | What happened to the BBC - pushed out Director-General speaks up | | Bremer departs in failure, Iraq Teeters in insurrection | | CIA Insider Slams Bush Admin and the Neocons | | Baghdad Shuffle | | Baghdad Shuffle - "CIA Agent" Now Iraqi Public Face of Occupation | | Exposed: BP, its pipeline, and an environmental timebomb | | The Multibillion Robbery the U.S. Calls Reconstruction | | No more moral authority and leadership | | Bush confused in his undies | | Bush Campaign Uses Hitler to compare with the Dems | | Journalism and Psychiatry | | Remember now, until her husband decided to run for Pres, she was a Republican | | Nader Marches Foreward for History's Sake | | Top CIA Analyst Points the Finger - ISRAEL | | The Cost - Just the Numbers | | Chomsky on Erasing Palestinian History | | Telling example of how little regard Europeans have for Pres Bush | | Even UK Says US Military Trials Unacceptible | | Counter film festival launched by right-wing Bush supporters | | Tunisia's Tangled Web | | When Democracy Failed - The U.S. now Germany before | | Cheney Tells Senior Senator 'Go Fuck Yourself' on Senate Floor | | Cheney Defense his "Fuck Yourself" Screetch | | Washington Grows Tense and Testy | | Washington debates appropriateness of reporting VP's "Go Fuck Yourself" comment while the world spins | | Wolfowitz Blames the Press and Charges the media with "cowardice" | | Wolfowitz Succumbs and Appologizes | | Bush's China Cabinet | | Wolfowitz Muddies Himself Some More | | Sharon should have been prosecuted | | Jewish Agency to Push further Jewish Emigration to Israel | | Kurds on 'the return' creating more Arab refugees | | More US Troops Being Readied for Iraq | | Sharon's Trick | | As in Tiananmen Square | | Bush off to Europe to pressure and cajole others to 'help' with Iraq and the Middle East | | Gore Attacks Bush Admin for Lying and Deceiving as never before | | US Drops Demands for War Crimes Shield as world balks | | Cheney Uses the Fuck word in the Senate | | Wolfowitz Fumbles Again | | Hiding Israel | | President Under Legal Challenge | | Iraqi Generals Death Now Brings Charges against soldiers who did it | | Bush Says 'Democracy' but he Means 'Hegemony' | | Bush and the Neocons - Crisis for America in the World | | FlashBack to before the Iraq War - Can US Neoimperialist March Be Stopped? | | Sharon and Bush push for Greater Israel...minus Gaza | | Why are the US and Israel Threatening Syria" | | US Troops To Stay For Years In Iraq | | Bigger 9/11 Looms Warns Senior CIA Operative | | Get this - Sharon Seeks 'Peace' Legacy Says Peres | | Even Barbara Walters Has Her Say about the poor political journalism in the USA today | | BBC to be paid by Foreign Office to 'compete' with Arabic news sources from the region | | Israelis Shoot At British Parliamentary Group | | Huge Coordinated Wave of Attacks Rocks Iraq Thursday | | Bad News From Israel - The Exposing Book | | The end of the "Two-State Solution" | | Arafat Regime Corruption - PM Businesses Help Build Israeli Settlements! | | Another Govt Attempt to Mute the Truth | | THE WHITE HOUSE FIB FACTORY GOES INTO HIGH GEAR | | Torture is now the American Way | | 'Egypt Today' Tries to help Americanize the Arab World Most Important Country | | Through Our Enemies Eyes | | Book Barrage Challenges Bush Administration from left, right, and center | | UK Troops Now Accused of Mutilating Iraqi Bodies | | Secret US Gulag Much More Extensive Than Ever Admitted | | CIA Rebellion | | Israel Shamir Complains About Zionist Internet Attacks | | Iraq's American 'Interim' Government Can't Do Anything Without Massive U.S. Protection | | North Korea Stand-off | | Jordan's Royals | | Palestinian factions slam ''security role'' of Jordan, Egypt in territories | | Outside Arab forces now to try to 'control' the Palestinians | | Bad News From Israel | | 'Liberating' the Saudis from their oil | | British Broadsheet Links Mossad to 9/11 | | Death, Destruction, Profanity, and Ratings | | Nuke Terrorist Attack just a 'race against time' at this point | | The FBI and the anti-Bush Teddy Bear threat | | French Jews Ponder Leaving As Hostility Grows | | Hitchens Trashes Moore | | Israel's Plan B - The Kurds and Iran.... | | Alarming 'resurgence of Anti-Semitism' Says Annan | | From the far far right | | Bush turns to old 'CIA' rather secretive lawyer | | Depressed and Liberated Iraqis turn to Viagra et. al. | | Always grasping the Arab establishment keeps hoping against hope - John Munro on Albawaba | | Arafat Did It...But Still We Better Get A Deal With Him | | Israeli-Jewish Lobby Adds Powerful Christian Associate | | The Zelikow Report Implodes | | The Neo-cons At War | | Israel Using Iraq to build up intelligence and power against Iran and Syria | | Iran 'Restarting' Nuke Program | | More "Lies" and Distortions from Guantanamo | | Neocon Pentagon Wants Spy Authority in USA | | The Coming Strike, and maybe 'Regime Change', in Iran | | The Mossad in Iraq | | Bush's own Mossad Agent | | Mossad Has Infiltrated Iraq Big Time, preparing for Iran and Syria | | Clinton says deal with Arafat now while we can | | Gaza Settlers Want More Money! | | Blackboard to give Campuses New Technology Edge | | A hint into the future compliments of Martin Peretz and the 'liberal' end of the Israeli-Jewish lobby | | Mickey Mouse and the U.N. - the view from the Washington establishment | | US Will 'Guard' Saddam under Iraqi 'Legal Custody' | | Clinton Rages On About The Personal Avoiding The Really Important...like the Middle East | | Still More Torture, Sex, Rape Charges Against Americans | | US Pulverized suspected Zarqawi places in Fallujah regardless of consequences | | The NYTimes on Clinton, his book, and his life | | U.S. Still Fears Moving Embassy to Jerusalem | | Israel To Dig Canal to Separate Gaza from Egypt | | Arafat Tries Again To 'Recognize' Israel and Limit Refugees | | CIA "Anonymous" Challenges Iraq War and Bush Admin | | Bush Behaving Like Saddam Says Madonna | | This time Saddam is actually writing his own novel... but for very limited circulation | | Prestigious Group Demands Regime Change in Washington... | | Iraq weighs draconian measures to stamp out violence | | Grim Public Opinion Realities Now Confront USA in Iraq | | Suppressed Iraq Poll Grim Numbers for Americans | | Iran criticised over nuclear cooperation | | Bush: 'Numerous Contacts' Between Iraq, Al-Qaida | | 'Marshal Law' Threatened by new U.S.-chosen Iraqi government | | Israelis to Control Gaza Ghetto by 'remote control' | | Chalabi's Nephew Says He Wants to Hang Saddam | | 'Marshall Law' Threatened by new U.S-selected government in Baghdad | | Cheney Attacks Press as 'Outrageous' | | Repubs to try to discredit 'Ferenheit 9/11" | | Bush Keeps Insisting | | Target Iran | | Denouncing US Mid East policies was at heart of 9/11 | | The American Secret Gulag | | Oil Chief Confesses His Fear for the Planet | | Star Wars-type Crowd Control Weapons Coming from the Pentagon | | Iran threatens to 'resume' nuclear program | | Zogby Fronts for Saudi paymasters more than ever in Washington | | Once Again Pentagon and CIA 'Drop the Ball' and 'Violate Geneva Conventions' | | The Raucus Baghdad Green Zone Bar Scene | | American soldiers brutalized Iraqis. How far up does the responsibility go? - Seymour Hersh | | How the Department of Defense mishandled the disaster at Abu Ghraib - Seymour Hersh | | How a secret Pentagon program came to Abu Ghraib - Seymour Hersh | | Investigative Reporter Hersh Does It Again | | Zaraqwi in Fallujah? | | Global Warming Danger Growing | | The infamous 'Feith Memo' which helped spark Iraq invasion/occupation | | Washington Post's Man Would make DOUG FEITH President! | | Bamford's Book on the pretexts for the Iraq War | | Feith again at the center of channeling money and governing Iraq | | Cheney, Halliburton, and Iraq won't go away | | Still More Israeli Settlements Expansions | | Kerry's Wife Republican Until Lately... | | Nader interviewed by Buchanon finally speaks up about Israel | | Keegan's Book on Iraq War ends far short | | The U.S. Has Stacked the Deck in Iraq | | Hate for U.S. is Mainstream not Marginal | | Despising U.S. Widespread In Iraq Today | | Abdullah comes again to Washington to get his instructions | | Invisible Enemy by Edward Abboud | | Crowds joyfully celebrate American deaths in Baghdad | | Bush G-8 News Conference, Sea Island Georgia, 10 June 2004 | | State Department Attempt to Coverup Terrorism Increase Backfires Badly | | Former Ambassadors and High-Ranking Military Want to Fire Bush | | Hamas refuses to surrender or give Gaza to Egyptian 'security' as Israel demands | | Iran Says It's Now Member of 'Nuclear Club' | | More US 'errors' and deaths in Iraq now being admitted | | Iran now 'member of nuclear club' | | Iraqis Signal U.S. to get out now - contempt for U.S. occupation on display | | Iran Plays for power in Iraq | | Bandar of Arabia calls for 'Jihad against the terrorists' | | The Plot to Kill the Saudi King and Upend the U.S.-configured Middle East | | Abdullah of Pizza and Star Trek | | Contempt for US occupation on visible display in Iraqa | | Iraqis prepare to call US and U.S.-installed government bluff | | Towering He Was Not | | He lied and cheated in the name of anti-communism | | Viewing Reagan from Iraq and abroad | | Washington's Good News on Terrorism turns very sour | | McCain Rejects Kerry | | Breslin: Reagan should be on $3 bill | | State Department confesses to inexplicable mistakes | | Bush formally warned about Torture in 2002 | | Israeli Military Provoked Intifada II | | Bush Admin Skeptical About Syrian Initiative | | Saudi Student Acquitted of "Terrorism" | | Terrorism "Screw Up" - State Department Goofs Bigtime | | More Israeli Technology to enforce and put down the unending occupation | | Watching and Spying Everywhere Now as the 'war on terrorism' reverberates throughout U.S. society | | The Libyan Plan for Saudi revolution | | Bush and Europeans not really so in sync about the M E | | Iran-Contra and How Reagan Saved Himself | | Middle East Dominates Sea Island G-8 Summit | | News by Internet | | G-8 "Partnership with Middle East Statement" - June 9, 2004 | | Capitol Scare Causes Everyone to Run for it | | Bush and Europeans 'Unite' To Save the Middle East | | Litigant In Chief: 9/11 Widow Ellen Mariani Says George W. Bush is a Gangster(Ed Asne | | 9/11 Widow Has her say about Bush and 9/11 | | Reagan's Heart of Darkness | | Too much Reagan both Brokaw and Rather agee - indeed the world goes on | | Top Political Cartoonist Hits Closer to Reality about Reagan | | G-8 Poised to Back U.S. Plan for Mideast Democracy | | G-8 Poised to Back U.S. Plan for Mideast Democracy | | BBC Journalists Attacked, one Killed, in Riyadh | | Americans Giving Up Liberties for 'Security' | | Tenet's "Personal Reasons" | | "Disengagement" Cries Sharon; Worse Than Apartheid Scream the Palestinians | | The Reagan Plan - 1 Sept 1982 | | Sharon Fudges and Delays...and survives...one more time | | Pope Blasts U.S. Society Once Again | | Bush Keeps the Pope Waiting | | All the V-P Contenders...including two Clintons | | Malaca Achilles Heel | | Turkism PM Chastises Israelis for doing to Palestinians what was done to them | | CIA Director's Resignation Speech at CIA HQ | | IAEA to finally say something about Israeli nuclear 'facilities' | | Bush and the French and D-Day | | World War II Redux | | Risk of Dirty A-bomb growing | | Bush's Mayor Wants Kerry | | Bush Wants to 'Shape' Iraqi Thinking | | US High-Tech Helps Control Things in Saudi Arabia | | U.S.: Suspected 'dirty bomb' plot included plan to blow up apartments | | Nuclear Terrorism Greatest Threat Kerry Declares | | The Buried Inside NYTimes Partial and Inadequate Confession - 26 May 2004 | | The NYTimes Iraq Pre-War Coverage...and the big 'mistakes' | | NYTimes - Weapon of Mass Deception | | Civilian Military Pentagon Tensions on slow boil | | Bush Keeps Saddam's Gun Closeby in White House | | New Cheney Scandal - Coordination of Halliburton Iraqi Deal | | Judith Miller Resignation! | | Clinton to KeyNote BOOK EXPO (lol, or should be say BOOK EXPLO?) | | U.S. uses 'massive pressure' to coerce U.S. chosen to head 'Iraqi interim' government' | | Guarding D-Day from Al-Qaida |
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