September 8, 2008|http://www.middleeast.org/premium/read.cgi?category=Magazine&num=1492&month=9&year=2008&function=text&standalone=1|FlashBack - Arafat's Assassination - Mark Bruzonsky on Toronto Radio Program at the time, 5 Nov 04| Mark Bruzonsky spoke about the Arafat Assassinaton at the time on Toronto Radio Program at the time it happened, not years after.
Listen to this 20-minute radion discussion on a Toronto Radio Program which was live on 5 November 2004.
April, 2004|http://www.middleeast.org/premium/read.cgi?category=Magazine&num=954&month=4&year=2004&function=text|Einstein in 1948| Einstein speaking up in 1948 way before his time and not on relativity!
February, 2004|http://www.middleeast.org/premium/read.cgi?category=Magazine&num=872&month=2&year=2004&function=text|Bush Commission - Coverup and Whitewash|Bush Commission is both not so hard to see Whitewash and Coverup -- but don't expect the corporate media or the on-board Washington press to fess up.
July 28, 2006|http://www.middleeast.org/premium/read.cgi?category=Magazine&num=1469&month=7&year=2006&function=text&standalone=1|Why Are Things So Bad In Washington? MER FlashBack| Why are things so bad in Washington? Why is the Israel Lobby so strong and those who are supposed to represent the Arab countries and peoples so pathetic weak and incompetent? Some of the answers can be found in this MER Flashback first published nearly two years ago in September 2004:
July 17, 2006|http://www.middleeast.org/premium/read.cgi?category=Magazine&num=1460&month=7&year=2006&function=text&standalone=1|The Slide To WORLD WAR III| Before the invasion of Iraq, no less a newman than Walter Cronkite was warning of World War III but prescribing a far different course. Even with Cronkite's unique stature however he was hardly heard. The corporate media wasn't even willing to report Cronkite's warning for he insisted that it was the policies of the United States and the Bush/Cheney Administration that were primarily responsible. He urged Americans to wake up and he urged when it mattered that the Iraq invasion/occupation not take place. MER almost alone reported the significance of Cronkite's speech back then -- October 2002.
July 11, 2006|http://www.middleeast.org/premium/read.cgi?category=Magazine&num=1453&month=7&year=2006&function=text&standalone=1|Israeli Torture and U.S. Complicity - Then and Now - MER FlashBack| The U.S. and Israel are connected in oh so many ways...and torture techniques are among them.
The unusually unspoken reality is that the U.S. and Israel have been torture interconnected in the Middle East for quite a long time. Those now infamous hoods -- because of the dramatic pictures from the US prison in Iraq -- have long been used by the Israelis in prisons where Palestinians are treated far worse but the world has looked the other way for decades now. Indeed Israeli 'training' of Americans to 'deal with the Arabs' may well be the secret so-far untold aspect of the torture and abuse scandals of recent years.
June 4, 2006|http://www.middleeast.org/premium/read.cgi?category=Magazine&num=1442&month=6&year=2006&function=text&standalone=0|WHAT HAPPENED THEN WAS PRECURSOR TO NOW| Eight years ago the political manueverings with the CIA, the Palestinian Authority, Hamas, and of course Israeli, the Mossad, and Washington, were considerable. What was done then is precursor to what has happened since and what is being planned now. Now the CIA and Mossad are more involved with the Fateh movement headed by Mahmoud Abbas than ever before, arming them in fact for the civil war the Israelis have long considered a good alternative if the Palestinians couldn't be forced to sign away their rights and live as Indians on Reservations 'peacefully'. This MER Flashback to June 1998:
April 23, 2006|http://www.middleeast.org/premium/read.cgi?category=Magazine&num=1413&month=4&year=2006&function=text&standalone=0|Apocalypse Then....and Now| Since writing this article nine years ago Edward Said has himself passed away, taking from us all one of the most eloquent and passionate voices of truly expert and courageous thought and analysis. Said was partially compromised and straight-jacketed by his associations with the major Arab regimes, which at the time of this article he was relying on for publication of his regular column. Even so Said's penetrating commentaries and often biting insights were among the best of his day and provide considerable insight now upon reflection many year and many terrible events later.
February 15, 2006|http://www.middleeast.org/premium/read.cgi?category=Magazine&num=1352&month=2&year=2006&function=text&standalone=0|Sharon The War Criminal - FlashBack to 2001 and BBC 'Accused'| "I think there is no doubt in my mind that he (Sharon) is indictable (as a war criminal) for the kind of knowledge that he either had, or should have had." - Professor Richard Falk, Princeton University
February 5, 2006|http://www.middleeast.org/premium/read.cgi?category=Magazine&num=1341&month=2&year=2006&function=text&standalone=0|Colin Powell and The Mother of All Hoaxes| Last Friday evening Colin Powell's Chief of Staff in the State Department at the time Powell gave his historic speech at the U.N. Security Council came clean. It was that much-heralded speech of course that prepared the way for the launching of the disastrous Iraqi invasion/occupation. Now, Friday evening on the NOW! program on Public Broadcasting, Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson, who was right there helping prepare Powell's every move, damns it all as a 'historic hoax'.
January 21, 2006|http://www.middleeast.org/premium/read.cgi?category=Magazine&num=1324&month=1&year=2006&function=text&standalone=0|Torturing Palestinians| From MER in January 1997: Torture of Palestinians is not only routine and systematic, in it actually sanctioned by the Israeli legal system that has been twisted to serve Israeli policies. Going back to the Shinbet scandal of the early 1980's, even more sadistic forms of torture have given way to the kinds of 'legalized' torture methods outlined in this important article from one of the few independent and courageous media sources in Israel, The Alternative Information Center (AIC). Among the reasons the Israelis get away with such systematic torture of Palestinians is that hardly anyone is willing to protest. The so-called "Palestinian Authority" practices similar and even worse torture techniques, as do nearly all of the Arab governments in the region -- so they are hardly in a position to protest. And the "liberal" American Jewish community has been morally bankrupt about such issues for so long now that to speak up at this point would be to condemn themselves for permitting, and even encouraging in many cases, such Nazi-like behavior by the Israelis for decades.
October 24, 2005|http://www.middleeast.org/premium/read.cgi?category=Magazine&num=59&month=10&year=2005&function=text&standalone=1|The Israeli Iraq Connection - MER FlashBack| "...the U.S. went to war in Iraq for oil, Israel and military bases craved by administration 'neocons' so 'the United States and Israel could dominate that part of the world.' " Former Top CIA Official
June 29, 2005|http://www.middleeast.org/premium/read.cgi?category=Magazine&num=1291&month=6&year=2005&function=text|the Mideast's political vista is bleak and depressing - MER FlashBack 5 Years| "There is not a single Arab regime that has authentic political legitimacy. All are kept in power by soldiers and secret police... From Morocco to Iraq, the Mideast's political vista is bleak and depressing."
June 8, 2005|http://www.middleeast.org/premium/read.cgi?category=Magazine&num=1278&month=6&year=2005&function=text|KILLING IRAQ - MER FlashBack 5 Long Years Ago|
June 6, 2005|http://www.middleeast.org/premium/read.cgi?category=Magazine&num=1277&month=6&year=2005&function=text|America's Little Gulag - MER FlashBack|
April 27, 2005|http://www.middleeast.org/premium/read.cgi?category=Magazine&num=1270&month=4&year=2005&function=text|MER FlashBack - Wiping Out Palestinian Nationalism| MER FLASHBACK - Five Long Years Ago: Finally even Arafat's own Fateh is beginning to put into print what has long been suspected and whispered -- the Palestinian people have been
April 23, 2005|http://www.middleeast.org/premium/read.cgi?category=Magazine&num=1264&month=4&year=2005&function=text|Interview with Boutros Boutros-Ghali in 1979 - Considerable Historical Insights|
April 16, 2005|http://www.middleeast.org/premium/read.cgi?category=Magazine&num=1261&month=4&year=2005&function=text|FlashBack - 5 Very Long Years Ago|
April 10, 2005|http://www.middleeast.org/premium/read.cgi?category=Magazine&num=1256&month=4&year=2005&function=text|IRAQ AUTOPSY - FlashBack 2 Years| "The United States has embarked on an imperial adventure in the Middle East. This is the true meaning of the war against Iraq... Washington is
February, 2005|http://www.middleeast.org/premium/read.cgi?category=Magazine&num=1248&month=2&year=2005&function=text|McJewish McCarthy| "What is happening at the moment at Columbia University and to Professor Rashid Khalidi and others, for instance, is but a small
visible part of a sordid stinking contemporary witch-hunt political iceberg. It is wrong; it is grossly unfair; it is frighteningly untruthful; if not halted it will continue to grow and spread and the stains and stench of this modern-day McCarthism will expand with ever-more intimidation and repression... Where are those individually and collectively who have the courage and the dignity to cry foul and raise the real banners of true liberty, defense of the crucial First Amendment, and real democracy...not to mention truthfulness?"
February 2, 2005|http://www.middleeast.org/premium/read.cgi?category=Magazine&num=1241&month=2&year=2005&function=text|Remember It's 'Dual Containment' | [MER January 1999] The world is going to be hearing alot more about the "Iranian threat" in the year ahead. The context is "Dual Containment". The result is quite likely to be much more bloodshed, much more h[atred, much more "instability".
December 3, 2004|http://www.middleeast.org/premium/read.cgi?category=Magazine&num=1224&month=12&year=2004&function=text|9/11 was foreseeable one way or another| What has happened in recent years, indeed what happened on 9/11 and then it's aftermath, were in general quite foreseeable, no matter how much official Washington keeps pretending otherwise. The aggressive, imperialistic, self-righteous, deceptive, and oh-so-arrogant policies of the United States and Israel were at work for decades provoking and creating a kind of historical blowback that the whole world is now forced to live with. The following MER Editorial was published on Thanksgiving day in November 1997.
December 1, 2004|http://www.middleeast.org/premium/read.cgi?category=Magazine&num=1220&month=12&year=2004&function=text|NewsFlash - Barghouti IN! After All| Now with Barghouti's entrance into the Palestinian election race and with Hamas in part threatening to 'boycot' if their own interests are not met -- and with Iraq exploding in greater hatred and violence against the Americans -- the entire U.S.-Israeli strategy for January 'elections' in both occupied Palestine and Iraq is very much in doubt.
December 1, 2004|http://www.middleeast.org/premium/read.cgi?category=Magazine&num=1219&month=12&year=2004&function=text|Sharon - Past and Future - MER FLASHBACK| "Sharon was a killer obsessed with hatred of Palestinians. I had promised Arafat that his people would not get any harm. Sharon, however, ignored this commitment entirely. Sharon's word is worth nil." -Ambassador Philip Habib, Ronald Reagan's Special Middle East Envoy*
September 30, 2004|http://www.middleeast.org/premium/read.cgi?category=Magazine&num=1125&month=9&year=2004&function=text|MER Warned About Jewish Neocons and Israeli Lobby Years Ago| Think back now to the days before the Bush/Cheney regime took power in Washington, before the term 'neocon' and the policy of 'pre-emption' were in wide use, and to before 9/11 was even imagined by all but a very few. MER was already long ago raising the warning flags, explaining what was really happening in Washington as well as in the Middle East, previewing what has since come to be; all while so many others were proclaiming the 'peace process is irreversible' and Yasser Arafat was the most frequent foreign guest at the American White House!
September 30, 2004|http://www.middleeast.org/premium/read.cgi?category=Magazine&num=1124&month=9&year=2004&function=text|MER Warned About Jewish Neocons and Israeli Lobby Long Ago| Think back now to the days before the Bush/Cheney regime took power in Washington, before the term 'neocon' and the policy of 'pre-emption' were in wide use, and to before 9/11 was even imagined by all but a very few. MER was already long ago raising the warning flags, explaining what was really happening in Washington as well as in the Middle East, previewing what has since come to be; all while so many others were proclaiming the 'peace process is irreversible' and Yasser Arafat was the most frequent foreign guest at the American White House!
September 22, 2004|http://www.middleeast.org/premium/read.cgi?category=Magazine&num=1115&month=9&year=2004&function=text|ARAB AMERICANS - REALITIES NOT DECEPTIONS| The real message to the tough-minded politicos in Washington is this: There's nothing to worry about from Arab Americans...working overtime they can only mobilize quite few in numbers...they are not even protesting against the upcoming agreement itself likely to be soon signed across the street...they know nothing about the power of civil disobedience...they have no powerful or even significant allies...their leadership is naive and oftentimes foolish...and the Arab organizations we work with can be counted on to keep them under control come what may.
September 11, 2004|http://www.middleeast.org/premium/read.cgi?category=Magazine&num=1100&month=9&year=2004&function=text|9/11 began a long time ago and for very real reasons| Those who were reading MER six years ago were giving a prescient foretaste of what has since come, and why. This MER article was originally published on 25 August 1998. Read it now keeping in mind that what has been happening since was being caused and was foreseeable then; just as what is being done now is creating the still bleaker future now ahead if today's course in Washington is not significantly altered...and soon.
August 17, 2004|http://www.middleeast.org/premium/read.cgi?category=Magazine&num=1065&month=8&year=2004&function=text|"They are cheating us, laughing at us" - MER FlashBack 7 Years| "In the end, so long as the U.S. continues to back Israeli occupation with ever greater amounts of money, guns, and political protection, little will change and the "peace process" will remain a grand deception breeding resistance, hatred, and yes, more terrorism."
August 11, 2004|http://www.middleeast.org/premium/read.cgi?category=Magazine&num=1056&month=8&year=2004&function=text|Hidden History of the "Peace Process"| "It's not inordinate Chinese money and influence in American politics the Congress should be investigating, it's how Israel manipulates American politics with the help of some key Americans (most of them Jewish), who are in fact, however distasteful it is to say it, 'dually loyal'."
August 3, 2004|http://www.middleeast.org/premium/read.cgi?category=Magazine&num=1041&month=8&year=2004&function=text|10 YEARS and 1 MILLION+ DEAD and COUNTING - MER FlashBack| "Here we are in the middle of the millennium year and we are responsible for genocide in Iraq. All of us that live in the silent democracies are responsible for sustained genocide in Iraq."Former Assistant Secretary General of the United Nations Denis Haliday July 28, 2004|http://www.middleeast.org/premium/read.cgi?category=Magazine&num=1032&month=7&year=2004&function=text|Arafat's Pickle + Barak's Choking| Professor Edward Said: "It really doesn't matter whether he declares a Palestinian state or not, because he'll have a state without real borders -- they're controlled by the Israelis -- no real sovereignty, no real country -- it will be cut up into cantons and he won't have east Jerusalem. He won't be able to get rid of the settlers and won't have control over the water, air or sea. Aside from all that, he'll have a state of sorts... [It's] a sign of both exasperation and weakness.'' July 2000
June 29, 2004|http://www.middleeast.org/premium/read.cgi?category=Magazine&num=989&month=6&year=2004&function=text|Brits Departed Palestine Leaving Civil War - MER FlashBack| "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."
June 25, 2004|http://www.middleeast.org/premium/read.cgi?category=Magazine&num=984&month=6&year=2004&function=text|The Historical Moment - MER Flashback Four Years| 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
June 23, 2004|http://www.middleeast.org/premium/read.cgi?category=Magazine&num=977&month=6&year=2004&function=text|It's Now the Second Half of 1948| As always Professor Tanya Reinhart from Tel Aviv University writes with extraordinary insight.
May, 2004|http://www.middleeast.org/premium/read.cgi?category=Magazine&num=957&month=5&year=2004&function=text|TORTURE| Despite all the claims of 'shock' and 'disgust', until the US, British, and Israeli prisons are opened to international inspection the assumption will now be that these practices are not so uncommon...only that the revelation of them is.
April, 2003|http://www.middleeast.org/premium/read.cgi?category=Magazine&num=824&month=4&year=2003&function=text|THIS MODERN-DAY WAR OVER IRAQ, OIL, ISRAEL AND CONTROL OF ARABDOM GOES BACK TO 1913|In a personal discussion I had with the author of this book, a former White House Press Secretary, Salinger told me in 1995 that he considered what happened at the time of the Gulf War a "plot" largely perpetrated on Iraq by the United States. His book, by the way, was a best-seller in Europe -- more than a million copies -- but it was essentially black-balled in the U.S. where it quickly went into obscurity after a small initial print run of 25,000. -Mark Bruzonsky
April, 2003|http://www.middleeast.org/premium/read.cgi?category=Magazine&num=822&month=4&year=2003&function=text|IT'S REALLY A JOINT ISRAELI-AMERICAN WAR ON THE ARABS AND ON MUSLIMS...AND ONE BROUGHT ON BY THE ISRAELI/JEWISH LOBBY AND MINIONS IN WASHINGTON|Washington is intoxicated by the vision of imposing a Pax Americana on the Arab world on the model of the imperial 'order' which Britain imposed on the entire region in an earlier age... This is not a purely American project. Rather it must be seen as the culmination of America's strategic partnership with Israel... Much of the ideological justification and political pressure for war against Iraq has come from right-wing American Zionists, many of them Jews, closely allied to Israel's Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and occupying influential positions both inside and outside the Bush dministration. It is neither exaggeration, nor anti-Semitism, as they would have it, to say that this is a Bush-Sharon war against Iraq.
January, 2002|http://www.middleeast.org/premium/read.cgi?category=Magazine&num=564&month=1&year=2002&function=text|Arab nations leaving Palestinians to face Israel alone|"The Arab world is unlikely to remain backward and divided forever," says one of the quoted commentators. True enough. But while it does, and while it is saddled with the inept and corrupt "client regimes" who prey on their own people and miserably squander the resources, the culture, and the history, of this once vital region, the whole Middle East is a seething cauldron of still growing hatreds and grievances whose eruptions in the 21st century now well begun are likely to be far greater than all those of the bloody 20th century now past.
December, 2001|http://www.middleeast.org/premium/read.cgi?category=Magazine&num=491&month=12&year=2001&function=text|Lies About "Peace" and a "Palestinian State" - Then and Now|More than twenty years ago now another American President was promising a complete "settlement freeze" and a "transitional period" leading to a "Palestinian State". The notion that George W. Bush is doing so for the first time, sui generis, is not only blatantly historically fallacious but downright disingenuous.
December, 2001|http://www.middleeast.org/premium/read.cgi?category=Magazine&num=512&month=12&year=2001&function=text|Thank You Der Spiegel |We've yet to see the full English translation of yesterday's important article by Publisher Rudolf Augstein of Der Spiegel. But right away we can certainly comment that it's about time German intellectuals and journalists realized that precisely because of their past they have a special obligation to stand up against racism and facism and brute militarism -- from whatever quarter it rears its ugly tentacles.
August, 2001|http://www.middleeast.org/premium/read.cgi?category=Magazine&num=363&month=8&year=2001&function=text|"INVITING HELL TO BREAK LO0SE" - PFLP LEADER ASSASSINATED TODAY |The Israelis are clearly planning to totally crush the Palestinians -- Minister Uzi Landau is publicly saying as much -- probably thinking they can buy themselves still more years to consolidate their grip on the occupied territories and probably scheming for the opportunity to push as many Palestinians as they can across the Jordan and into a Hashemite Kingdom that will eventually, sooner or later, implode into a Palestinian State.
April|http://www.middleeast.org/premium/read.cgi?category=Magazine&num=732&month=4&year=2002&function=text|Humiliating and Exiling Arafat and the Palestinians|The Israelis are not planning to martyr Yasser Arafat, rather they are planning to grossly humiliate and weaken him, while at the same time crushing all Palestinian resistance and arresting key members of the Arafat regime -- except for ...
29 October 2001|http://www.MiddleEast.Org/10-29-01.htm|War of the Worlds - Playboy (Slovenia) October 2001|This article by the Publisher of MER, Mark Bruzonsky (http://www.MiddleEast.Org/mab) was written in the days immediately after 9/11 and published in the Oct 2001 issue of PLAYBOY Magazine in Slovenia.
|http://www.MiddleEast.Org/archives/iraq.htm|Iraq Archives|Articles from 1998 when another US -Iraq crisis was brewing. Of course this time the American empire is not content with bombing and sanctions, this time nothing less than complete occupation and total control are the clear goals.
23 April 1997|http://www.middleeast.org/archives/1998_10_23a.htm|ARAFAT in REtrospect|One of the most emminent Palestinian personalities, Professor Edward SaiD at Columbia University, has publicly, and repeatedly, used the word "collaborator" to describe his former colleague, Yasser Arafat -- Said's books and articles have subsequently been banned by the "Palestinian Authority".....read on...