Noam Chomsky | Truthout | 3 August 2014 Amid all the horrors unfolding in the latest Israeli offensive in Gaza, Israel’s goal is simple: quiet-for-quiet, a return to the norm. For the West Bank, the norm is that Israel continues its illegal construction of settlements and infrastructure so that it can integrate into Israel whatever might…
Democracy Now! | 6 August 2014 To discuss the lead-up to the ceasefire and what to expect from the talks in Cairo, we are joined by author and scholar Norman Finkelstein. [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r73tKex3ngY?feature=player_detailpage&w=640&h=360]
Wayne Madsen | The 4th Media | 24 July 2014 Northwoods and MH-17: False Flags Fly alongside «Old Glory» Americans are fond of revering their flag, dubbed «Old Glory». However, most Americans have never heard of other «flags» common in their history, «false flags» intended to whip up public fervor and plunge the United States…
By Steve Chovanec Global Research, August 05, 2014 “We must expel Arabs and take their place.”– David Ben-Gurion, October 5 1937, Journal of Palestine Studies, Vol. 41, No. 2 (Winter 2012), University of California Press, pp. 245-250.* – 1980’s For 30 years, from the War of Independence until today [1981], we [Israel] have been…
Brian Eno | Information Clearing House | 5 August 2014 I suddenly found myself thinking that it could have been one of my kids in that bag, says Brian Eno, and that thought upset me more than anything has for a long time. Brian Eno’s letter to America: WHY? I just don’t get it Dear…
By Prof Michel Chossudovsky Global Research, August 03, 2014 Genocide directed against Palestinians has become a “New Normal” according to the Times of Israel. Under certain circumstances –according to the Times of Israel article–“Genocide is Permissible” because it is directed against Palestinians who are “terrorists” and who should be “obliterated”. Implementing a policy of genocide…
Alison Weir | Talking Stick TV | 4 August 2014 Talk by Alison Weir, Executive Director of If Americans Knew and author of the book “Against Our Better Judgment: The Hidden History of How the U.S. Was Used to Create Israel” recorded July 30, 2014 at the Common Good Cafe at University Temple United Methodist…
Noam Chomsky | Information Clearing House | 3 August 2014 Almost every day brings news of awful crimes, but some are so heinous, so horrendous and malicious, that they dwarf all else. One of those rare events took place on July 17, when Malaysian Airlines MH17 was shot down in Eastern Ukraine, killing 298 people.…
Gilad Atzmon | Veterans Today | 31 July 2014 IDF’s colossal defeat in Gaza this week leaves Israel and Israelis with just three political and personal options: 1. Mass expulsion – ethnic cleansing of the entire Palestinian population from territories controlled by Israel. Such action may sound unreasonable or even phantasmic, but it is actually…
by RIA Novosti | July 29, 2014 “Even as the US government claims to be brokering a ceasefire, it continues selling weapons to Israel..” While negotiating a truce between Israelis and Palestinian militants, the US continues to stoke the conflict by selling deadly weapons to Israel, a Middle East expert told RIA Novosti Monday. “Even…