Category Archives: War on Terror

UN Committee: Israeli system ‘tantamount to apartheid’

Ethnic Cleansing / Land Theft & Destruction / Occupation & Apartheid / Exile & Restriction of Movement / Refugees Report: Israel issued 13,000 demolition orders against Palestinian real estate Haaretz newspaper said the Israeli civil administration issued 13,000 demolition warnings … Continue reading

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Israeli officer threatens to rape Palestinian activists in custody (if this happened in Syria it would be headline news)

Israel faces major West Bank uprising over hunger strikers

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Michael Scheuer says Israeli lobby has tied American gov’t down like Gulliver

Our leaders tell us bin Laden attacked us because of our liberties. But they ignore what he said in his declaration of war

Posted in Iraq, Israel Lobby, Media, Neocons, US Policy in the Middle East, US Politics, War on Terror | 25 Comments

Thaer Halahla and Bilal Thiab in serious condition after 63 days on hunger strike

Physicians for Human Rights (PHR) – Israel Branch, warned that the health condition of Thaer Halahla and Bilal Thiab, who entered their 63rd day of hunger strike is causing grave concern, adding that both detainees suffer from an acute decrease of muscle tone and are bedridden, which puts them under dual threat; muscle atrophy and Thrombophilia, which can lead to a fatal blood clot.

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Hollywood’s glorifications of torture so influenced US soldiers that military officials appealed to producers to tone it down

Hollywood’s ceaseless glorification of torture outstrips the worst that Hollywood did in the 50s, and it has had real-world consequences

Posted in Media, US Policy in the Middle East, US Politics, War on Terror | 12 Comments

Bradley Manning could become the Ellsberg of our age (if the media would just stop marginalizing him)

The media have painted Bradley Manning as a headcase, but he’s as heroic as Daniel Ellsberg, in a less hospitable intellectual climate

Posted in Activism, Iraq, Neocons, US Policy in the Middle East, US Politics, War on Terror | 47 Comments

When discrimination hits home (IHOP fired my dad for being Arab and Muslim)

After 9/11 IHOP told a model manager, Hussein ‘Joseph’ Chamseddine, to ‘lay low’ on the job because he is Muslim. Then in 2010 it fired him and three others

Posted in Activism, On the ground reports, US Policy in the Middle East, US Politics, War on Terror | 6 Comments

Assange’s first guest on RT world premier: Nasrallah says US & Israel seek civil war in Syria

Nasrallah says that Israel and the US want civil war in Syria

Posted in Arab Spring, Israel Lobby, Israel/Palestine, Israeli Government, Media, Middle East, Nakba, Neocons, Occupation, Reports/Video, US Policy in the Middle East, US Politics, War on Terror | 149 Comments

How Benny Morris transformed a patriotic struggle into a ‘holy war’ for ‘sacred Islamic soil’

An excerpt of Norman Finkelstein’s new book, Knowing Too Much: Why the American Jewish Romance with Israel Is Coming to an End

Posted in Israel/Palestine, US Policy in the Middle East, War on Terror | 45 Comments

Strip searches, and the security state

Bradley Manning’s solitary confinement was for his own safety, said Obama in the spirit of George W Bush

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NYPD helped Mort Zuckerman–8 years later, his paper shills for NYPD spying

Mort Zuckerman gets VIP treatment from the NYPD. Eight years later, his paper is praising the NYPD’s practice of spying on Muslims–and getting the facts wrong.

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Israel’s man in Egypt throws his hat into the presidential race

Suleiman supported Israel’s blockade, was against Fatah-Hamas reconciliation and was the CIA’s ‘point man’ for extraordinary rendition and torture.

Posted in Arab Spring, Egypt, Israel/Palestine, Middle East, US Policy in the Middle East, US Politics, War on Terror | Tagged , , , , | 22 Comments

‘Israel’s policy endangers world peace’ — Jakob Augstein and Gideon Levy have Gunter Grass’s back

Leading German and Israeli writers back up Gunter Grass on the importance of his challenge to those who are silent about Israeli nukes’ threat to peace

Posted in Israel Lobby, Israel/Palestine, Israeli Government, Media, Middle East, Neocons, US Policy in the Middle East, War on Terror | 77 Comments

From sea to spying sea: FBI used ‘outreach’ program to collect and store data on Muslims

The FBI’s ‘mosque outreach’ has enabled the agency to collect data on Muslims’ religious beliefs, store that data and share it with other law enforcement agencies.

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Survivors of Kandahar villages massacre speak to western journalist

Survivors of the massacre in Kandahar say that more than one American was involved

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Video: the Gaza onslaught

What does disproportionate and indiscriminate attack mean? And where do these attacks on Gaza originate?

Posted in Gaza, Israel Lobby, Israel/Palestine, Israeli Government, Nakba, Neocons, Occupation, US Policy in the Middle East, US Politics, War on Terror | 31 Comments

NYPD: Snoops, spies and … agent provocateurs?

NYPD’s undercover cop scouted pro-Palestinian community before finding star terrorism target

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NYPD surveillance document reveals spying on Palestine solidarity movement

Jordan Flaherty, a journalist who has reported from Gaza, and two Palestine solidarity demonstrations were mentioned in a 2008 NYPD memo.

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‘Safe European home’?

Toulouse killings demonstrate that Identity politics is a blind alley, for radical Islamists, and the far right in Europe

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Peter King hypes Hezbollah threat to US

King’s hearing on Hezbollah in the US was more about stoking fear than about an actual threat.

Posted in Iran, Middle East, US Politics, War on Terror | Tagged , , , | 11 Comments

Pentagon fears Israeli strike on Iran would drag US in

Israel wants to attack Iran and they want the US public’s OK

Posted in American Jewish Community, Iran, Israel Lobby, Israel/Palestine, Israeli Government, Media, Middle East, Neocons, US Policy in the Middle East, US Politics, War on Terror | 83 Comments

Those killed in Gaza have a name, and each has a family that grieves for them

With the exception of the two men Israel assassinated on Friday March 9 – Zuhair al-Qaisy, secretary-general of the Popular Resistance Committees, and Mahmoud Ahmad Al-Hanini, a Hamas military leader – the Palestinians killed remained nameless in all mainstream media accounts of the recent Israeli attacks on Gaza. Johnny Barber interviews the families of those killed.

Posted in Activism, Gaza, Israel Lobby, Israel/Palestine, Israeli Government, Media, Middle East, Nakba, Neocons, Occupation, Reports/Video, US Policy in the Middle East, US Politics, War on Terror | Tagged | 10 Comments

Muslim activists give NYPD chief Ray Kelly the cold shoulder

NYPD police commissioner is reaching out to Muslims in the wake of reports that show massive spying on Muslims in the Northeast. But many Muslim activists aren’t accepting the invitations.

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Another civilian massacre and the savagery of our soldiers

What the latest massacre in Afghanistan says about the United States’s neverending “War on Terror”

Posted in Iraq, Middle East, US Policy in the Middle East, US Politics, War on Terror | Tagged | 38 Comments

Massacre in Afghanistan

The news of a horrific brutal massacre of civilians in Afghanistan arrived in spurts yesterday accompanied with the news one lone soldier had come forward to turn himself in. 16 people, 9 of them children murdered in the middle of the night.

Posted in Iraq, Middle East, US Policy in the Middle East, War on Terror | 41 Comments