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  • Snowden shows up Obama on leadership
    • David you ought not to seriously be concerned. Snowden will wind up in jail for life or dead, unless, he opts to seek refuge in a third country. Snowden can't win and therefore is not a willing participant in any scheme, this can only be an altruistic undertaking on his part. I salute him.

      Phil you definitely belong to the second type of journalist mentioned in the article below, congratulations you do some great writing.

      link to pressthink.org

      The professional stance that proscribes all political commitments and discourages journalists from having a clear view or taking a firm position on matters in dispute (you can call it objectivity, if you like, or viewlessness, which I like better) is one way of doing good work. A very different professional stance, where the conclusions that you come to by staring at the facts and thinking through the issues serve to identify your journalism… this is another way of doing good work.

  • Tom Friedman says candidate with AIPAC backing can raise in 3 phone calls what his opponent needs 50,000 calls to raise
    • " took a strategic decision, they will never be out pro-Israel'd again. That they believe cost them electorally a lot"

      So the poor hapless Republicans can't with with them ( the lobby with the Neocons in tow) and they can't win without them, what a conundrum.

      I will never vote Republican until and unless they move to the libertarian less statist middle...progressive libertarian.

      How about what Glenn Greenwald calls the Jeffrey Goldberg media?
      link to salon.com

  • Meet the Israeli-linked firm that sold Big Brother machines to Mubarak, Qaddafi – and Washington
    • Thanks for the story Max, i follow you on Twitter also.

      This is the thorny War of the Roses.

      My favorite Narus/Comverse technologies story was the one on Fox news right after 9/11 by Carl Cameron it is just sweeeeet.

      The second part of the report by Carl Cameron explains the call monitoring by Amdocs ltd at the 5:30 minute mark on the video.
      link to youtube.com

      "That CIA considers Israel to be the number-one spy threat in the Middle East is a revelation only to neophytes. Counterintelligence officers for decades have been aware of the extent of Israeli espionage against the U.S., at home and abroad, though politicos are customarily wise enough to never mention it. Indeed, CI experts for years have spoken of the Big Four threats to the USG: Russia, China, Cuba, and Israel."

      link to 20committee.com

  • Chris Matthews takes populist stance against another Establishment war on an Islamic country
    • The War of the Roses is getting thornier with Chris Matthews taking an affront to the Neocons winning another battle in the 'Neocon War Machine Master Plan' ...

      U.S accuses Israel in the world press...of spying against the U.S.A (homeland).

      Is Israel the CIA’s top counterintelligence threat in the Near East?Signs of sophisticated surveillance prompt US intelligence officials to speak out on ‘complicated relationship’ with Mideast ally; Prime Minister’s Office: It’s a false report
      link to timesofisrael.com

  • Snowden/Greenwald show: left and right must overcome cultural differences for work ahead
    • Justin Raimondo at antiwar dot com is also daring to dream of an alliance.

      Kumbayah!!! To the barricades.

      link to original.antiwar.com

      Joshua Marshall, of the decidedly “progressive” Talking Points Memo blog – who approves of the spying and thinks Snowden is a criminal – has been good enough to provide an ideological rationale for what seems on the surface to be mere partisan loyalty to the Obama administration.

      We are living in an age when yesterday’s liberals are today’s authoritarians, and even a pathetic few of yesterday’s alleged libertarians find themselves on the other side of the barricades from those who are actually fighting for liberty.

      "In Marshall, the regression to “modern,” 1930s-style liberalism is complete. Moving rapidly away from the old-style anti-authoritarianism represented by such turn of the last century liberals as Randolph Bourne and Oswald Garrison Villard, the new liberalism of Marshall’s school believes “democratic” majorities can vote away the rights of minorities, and that so long as a regime can claim a “democratic mandate,” they are free to do as they like. This is quite possibly the most illiberal concept one could possibly come up with, but that just goes to show how inverted our political values have become, and how what used to be called liberal is instead merely another name for despotism. Marshall’s liberalism is the Bizarro World version – and I’m afraid that with the death of Alexander Cockburn, and the absorption of much of the left into the Obama cult, every other kind is nearly extinct.

      Although perhaps not: after all, the reporter who broke this story – Glenn Greenwald – is an exemplar of the old liberalism, and perhaps his example will inspire others to push back against the Obamaite mutation. So maybe – just maybe – there’s hope for the future of American liberalism after all."

    • It seems that Glenn Greenwald has some observations about Mr Ron Paul.

      link to salon.com

      "Ron Paul’s candidacy is a mirror held up in front of the face of America’s Democratic Party and its progressive wing, and the image that is reflected is an ugly one; more to the point, it’s one they do not want to see because it so violently conflicts with their desired self-perception.

    • Great article and awesome recognition of an inevitable alliance..the libertarian left and the libertarian right.

      The Neoconservative stranglehold over both Dems and Repubs is a marriage made in the bowels of Mordor.

  • 'Washington Post' columnist doesn't rule out 'mass roundups of ethnic or religious groups' in U.S.
    • I have a visceral reaction every time i see the term homeland applied to the United States, makes me feel sad for this country that i grew up in and learned to love.

      Here is a look at what our Neocons act like out in cyberspace, this is about Gen Keith Alexander:Director of NSA.
      by James Bamford.
      THE SECRET WAR
      link to wired.com

      He is director of the world’s largest intelligence service, the National Security Agency; chief of the Central Security Service; and commander of the US Cyber Command. As such, he has his own secret military, presiding over the Navy’s 10th Fleet, the 24th Air Force, and the Second Army.

  • Cory Booker's connection to Zionism steeped in religious fundamentalism and ties to the Jewish community
    • from feb 2007 in the jewish forward.
      "In the beginning of the Iraq war they talked about the neocons‚ as a code word," Hoenlein said. "Now we see that code words are no longer necessary." He warned that the United States is nearing a situation similar to that of Britain, where delegitimization of Israel is widespread.

      "This is a cancer that starts from the top and works its way down," he said. "It poisons the opinions among elites which trickle down into society."

      According to Hoenlein, such critics tend not only to delegitimize Israel but also to "intimidate American Jews not to speak out." He called on American Jews to take action against this phenomenon, saying that Christian Zionists seemed at times more willing than Jews to fight back."

      I contend that the Christian Zionists were cultivated by Israel-AIPAC, just look at it's history and how Dora Gold, Netanyahu and a whole panoply of Israeli's were paraded on Christian tv to firm up the image of poor suffering Israel to the Christian sheep. It is a deeply emotional message that is easy for a bible believer to cling to.

      I saw this first hand, I was one of those bleating sheep who was weaned listening to that message at one time. I saw it also in the messianic jewish congregations in the city of Philadelphia at congregation Beth Yeshua on Haverford, they practice the same methods, they parade Israeli's who to me seemed more like propagandists for Israel than Christians.

      Cory Booker is the poster child and we see who his handlers are by reading the article above.

  • The MSM tries to distinguish between Manning and Snowden. Don't let them
    • Wesley Clarke....seven countries to be attacked, only one left cause even Sudan has been split in half.

      Iran is unfinished business.

      link to youtube.com

      He mentions Richard Perle and Paul Wolfowitz towards the end of this short clip.

    • I don't think you need to use the qualifier of prophetic for what Ron Paul said in his farewell speech.

      I loved the way the reporters/journalist were all up in arms when Rosen from Foxnews was targeted by DOJ, they thought they were part of the ruling class, the national security state does not operate like that, they intimidate very much like the lobby we are so fond of following here on this website.

      storms a coming, and all it does it get closer and closer one event at a time.

      link to youtube.com

    • Great post Phil. To me both Bradley Manning and Edward Snowden did our nation a great service which it may not recognize until we are way further down the road and we'll be able to look back and lament not having heeded the warning.

      James R. Clapper lied to congress under oath. Now that is a crime worth pursuing.

      The U.S gov't v/s the Citizens of the United States. It isn't about my party v/s your party any longer.

      i'll put up the coffee catch a whiff.

  • Approaching 60, Norman Finkelstein reflects
  • Four months later, did Hagel's confirmation make any difference at all?
    • Hagel himself has proven to be just another tool but, his show trial did bring about a breakthrough.

      I think that the Donkey fellatio skit on SNL was a very important piece simply because it shows that we are on the verge of a major breakthrough on this issue...and the breakthrough will not come until the American people on main street become aware that there is a very powerful foreign lobby that works very hard to send their sons and daughters to wars in the middle east at their behest.

      if comedy is the chosen vehicle to get the message across to middle america then so be it...colbert and the daily show are built around just that.

      Nothing short of this type of breakthrough will impact the power of that lobby, they have no fear, but the regular jew on the street that might be impacted by this fear which will raise their hackles and send the lobby scurrying back home to the country they lobby for.

      You already see how people are choosing between being zionist supporters and zionist amenders or zionist rejecters.

      just my read of this dilemma.

      what is that lobby's name, therein lies the problem...identifying that lobby by name and associating it with a foreign nation...do not be surprised that the lobby has cultivated the ziochristians for that moment if it ever arrives.

  • The education of Samantha Power
    • You do some remarkable writing Phil. The American Jewish community could learn something from you if you can get them to remember that they have a myth about themselves to live up to.

      “Anarchism is not a romantic fable but the hardheaded realization, based on five thousand years of experience, that we cannot entrust the management of our lives to kings, priests, politicians, generals, and county commissioners.” — Edward Abbey

  • End your illusion: Israeli government will never implement a two-state solution, top official says
  • Exile and the Prophetic: A word from the (Jewish) Secretary of Pandering
    • " And these families’ lives should not be determined by terrorists in their midst."

      Wow calling the israeli security state "terrorists in their midst" right to their face and they did not even take note.

  • Hannah Arendt and the Hungarian Jews
    • Jobbik is just another example of 'Blowback' in spades is being dealt around the world.

  • Obama told friends he reneged on progressive promises out of fear of assassination -- former CIA analyst
    • Since you brought up Mary Pinchot take a look at Mary's Mosaic by Peter Janney.
      Phenomenal story about the daughter of a prominent Philadelphia family from yesteryear.

      link to amazon.com

      Peter Janney grew up in Washington D.C. during the 1950s and 1960s. His father was a high-ranking CIA official and close friends with Richard Helms, James Angleton, and Mary’s husband, Cord Meyer. His mother and Mary Meyer were classmates at Vassar College.

    • Phil have you ever heard of Col Prouty? His witness adds some granularity to the narrative of the JFK assassination.

      Col Prouty was Pentagon assigned and was traveling back through New Zealand on the day of the assassination of JFK.
      Fletcher discusses his own experiences in New Zealand the day of the killing.
      link to prouty.org

      The commentary section and the photo section is interesting.
      http://www.prouty.org

      The Col. L Fletcher Prouty Reference Site is a focal point where researchers can locate and retrieve articles, books, videos, and tapes on a variety of subjects which Fletcher has written and participated in.

      Col. Prouty spent 9 of his 23 year military career in the Pentagon (1955-1964): 2 years with the Secretary of Defense, 2 years with the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and 5 years with Headquarters, U.S. Air Force. In 1955 he was appointed the first "Focal Point" officer between the CIA and the Air Force for Clandestine Operations per National Security Council Directive 5412. He was Briefing Officer for the Secretary of Defense (1960-1961), and for the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

      At times he would be called to meet with Allen Dulles and John Foster Dulles at their home on highly classified business. He was assigned to attend MKULTRA meetings. In this capacity Col. Prouty would be at the nerve center of the Military-Industrial Complex at a time unequalled in American History. He has written on these subjects, about the JFK assassination, the Cold War period, and Vietnamese warfare, and the existence of a "Secret Team". He backs up his his work with seldom seen or mentioned official documents - some never before released.

    • One has to love that wing of the national security state that speaks through Mcgovern, Pillar, Giraldi and the others unknown to me but apparent in the pushback against the zionists within the body politic.

      The Rosen and Franklin spying did not go over too well within the red white and blue intel community who must be sick and tired of catching Israeli spies and being forced to let them fly the coop. Remember Dominik Suter and Urban moving systems? They are also known as the Israeli spies that were arrested after the event that put a ring around the nose of the American body politic and drove us headlong into the middle east.

      They say that James Jesus Angleton has a statue honoring him in Israel.
      The movie "The War of the Roses" comes to mind to me, i think the U.S wants a divorce but it could prove too costly.

      link to antiwar.com

      "Middle Eastern-looking men," as described by witnesses, were Israelis: they were found with box cutters in their van, $4,000 in cash, and multiple passports. Police interrogated them for hours, and transferred them to a maximum security facility, where they were held for months.

      Their van was registered as the property of Urban Moving Systems: A raid on the Urban Moving Systems warehouse yielded computers, documents, and other evidence – of what, we don't know. Suter, the owner of the company, refused all comment, and soon fled the country – to Israel.

      The inclusion of Suter, an Israeli, and the front man for what even the Forward acknowledges was a Mossad operation, on an official list of terrorist suspects should silence, for good, those who dismiss the Israeli connection to 9/11 as a "myth," urban or otherwise. As a great patriot once said:

      "I have in my hands a list…."

      Phil Giraldi recently wrote and analysis of the Big O and deduced that he was a buck-passer, which again does not run against the grain of Mcgoverns revelation of why he passes the buck so much.

      I love this revelation and the reverberations it will have within the tweeting intellectuals, both statist types and the not so statist types.

      Let's see how soon before the tweet-osphere goes a twitter.

      Good catch Phil.

  • As Manning trial begins-- 'Does America have a conscience?'
    • Apparently this site is horrid with venomous posters according to this tweeter...
      this type of condemnation ought to be considered a badge of courage to those of you who run this site.

      yaacov lozowick ‏@yaacovlozowick 22m
      .@Mondoweiss WOULD regard Bradley Manning as a hero. link to mondoweiss.net … via
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      Charlie Adams ‏@AdamovichC 18m
      @yaacovlozowick @Mondoweiss is a horrid site especially their venomous commentators. Thankfully, its an echo-chamber of fringe lunatics.

  • Hey New York, get ready for the big (anti-Zionist) parade!
    • The Naturei Karta Jews have some very interesting books telling a history that many zionist would prefer never be told...and the rest of world jewry would find very unpallatable if they allow themselves to cross the chasm of cognitive dissonance over the bridge of facts.

      link to truetorahjews.org

      The Yemenite Children

      Early Crimes of the Zionists Against Jews The Story of the Yemenite Jewish Community ... that this violated the Sabbath, he was told: “Only in Yemen is there a Sabbath; here, in Israel there is no Sabbath.”

      The Tehran Children

      The Children of Tehran Early Crimes of the Zionists Against Jews The Story of the Polish ... communities who were fooled into leaving their homes in Yemen and other Arab countries and depart for the Zionist state. The ...

  • J Street is no longer on outs with Netanyahu
    • JStreet is like a containment operation, (i always suspected that they had a Zionist purpose) designed to capture the jews who could no longer handle the aggressive racist AIPAC agenda and their fraying image in the U.S and were ready to defect. But with Jstreet they get to be progressive which is part of the image that is so important to the mostly liberal jews who vote Dem, but the purpose as is now evident was to create support for Israel from the breakaway left.

      Zionism uber alles.

  • Why did 'NYT' serve as platform for 'military propaganda'?
    • Harold, I am surprised the see that you were surprised by the New York Times; do not be, this is what we have learned to expect from most U.S news source, as well as any politician. Serving as a propaganda arm for the state of Israel is par for the course over here for main stream news sources, as well as for politicos. I must surmise from your surprise that you either are new to this issue orrrrr you do not live in the United States, either that or this is just you being as polite as possible in your approach to the NYT. Either way this is the lay of the road re: the subject of Israel: support and sycophantic propaganda in support for anything Israel does is the American way.

      If you really need to know why the New York Times served as a platform for military propaganda for Israel, then let me tell you what i have learned, we live in country where Zionist Jewish americans wield a lot of political power, and they use it all the time to protect the Israel brand here in the States, as Phil has catalogued here at Mondoweiss. This website has covered issue after issue, confrontation after confrontation, where we have seen the Zionist win battle after battle, but the damm does seem be have been broached a few times and is showing signs of serious strain.

      Support for Israel is the Golden calf, now all we need is for a Moses to come down from the mountain with the ten commandments and chastise the tribe for their idolatry.

      Is there a Moses in the house? someone with the status of a Moses?

      Exodus 32
      When the people saw that Moses was so long in coming down from the mountain, they gathered around Aaron and said, “Come, make us gods[a] who will go before us. As for this fellow Moses who brought us up out of Egypt, we don’t know what has happened to him.”
      2 Aaron answered them, “Take off the gold earrings that your wives, your sons and your daughters are wearing, and bring them to me.” 3 So all the people took off their earrings and brought them to Aaron. 4 He took what they handed him and made it into an idol cast in the shape of a calf.
      Then the Lord said to Moses, “Go down, because your people, whom you brought up out of Egypt, have become corrupt. 8 They have been quick to turn away from what I commanded them and have made themselves an idol cast in the shape of a calf. They have bowed down to it and sacrificed to it.
      When Moses approached the camp and saw the calf and the dancing, his anger burned and he threw the tablets out of his hands, breaking them to pieces at the foot of the mountain. 20 And he took the calf the people had made and burned it in the fire; then he ground it to powder, scattered it on the water and made the Israelites drink it.

      How will the Lord deal with the new Idolatry?

  • Kerry goes for the Hail Mary, but Obama is punting
    • Israels best friend in the United States gives an analysis of "the project in the middle east".

      link to chasfreeman.net

      "The first question is how long Israel can survive as a democracy or at all. The Jewish state has left the humane vision of early Zionism and its own beginnings far behind it. Israel now rules over a disenfranchised Muslim and Christian majority whom it would like to expel and a significant minority of disrespected secular and progressive Jews who are stealing away to the safer and more tolerant environs of the United States and other Western countries. Israel has befriended none of its Arab neighbors. It has spurned or subverted all their offers to accept and make peace with it except when compelled to address these by American diplomacy. The Jewish state has now largely alienated its former friends and supporters in Europe. Its all-important American patron and protector suffers from budgetary bloat, political constipation, diplomatic enervation, and strategic myopia."

      "For a large majority of those over whom the Israeli state rules directly or indirectly, Israel is already not a democracy. It consists of four categories of residents: Jewish Israelis who, as the ruling caste, are full participants in its political economy; Palestinian Arab Israelis, who are citizens with restricted rights and reduced benefits; Palestinian Arabs in the West Bank, who are treated as stateless prisoners in their own land; and Palestinian Arabs in the Gaza ghetto, who are an urban proletariat besieged and tormented at will by the Israeli armed forces. The operational demands of this multi-layered, militarily-enforced system of ethno-religious separation have resulted in the steady contraction of freedoms in Israel proper."

  • Obama's secret wars in Muslim world make Americans vulnerable
    • If you get a chance to watch a rerun of Jeremy Scahill's speech at the Sanctuary please do, you will not regret it if you wish to better understand why they hate us.

      link to mediasanctuary.org

      "Dirty Wars" w/ journalist Jeremy Scahill
      Date & Time: 05/22/2013 - 7pm
      Jeremy Scahill, author of "Blackwater: The World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army" and "Dirty Wars: The World Is a Battlefield," will speak at The Sanctuary for Independent Media on Wednesday, May 22, 2013 at 7:00 PM. Admission is by donation ($10 suggested, $5 student/low income). Advance tickets are available by clicking here.

      This event is co-sponsored by Bethlehem Neighbors for Peace, Women Against War, Project SALAM and the National Coalition to Protect Civil Freedoms, Albany chapter.

  • Biden says Jewish 'influence' behind American cultural politics is 'immense... immense'
    • Maybe if President Obama gets impeached then Joe Biden can be the next Israel firster jewish pandering president.

  • Exile and the Prophetic: Disappearing Massad, disappearing Palestine
  • Exile and the prophetic: Encountering Otto Maduro
    • Great article, thanks for the background. Is Nicolas Maduro the current president of Venezuela related to Otto Maduro?

  • More on the Church of Scotland's controversial report on occupation
    • wikispooks has it in case anyone didn't copy the original release on abrahams inheritance.

    • Can anyone direct me to where i can get a copy of the original document released by the church.

    • I'll give you my take on the reason for the switch; the isreli jews with the support of their american brethren have cultivated a narrative within the christian church in order to get cover for "such a time as this" to quote a biblical phrase from the book of esther. Dora Gold and Binyamin netanyahu and myriad others have been paraded through pat robertsons 700 club for yeeears and yeeears, searing that putrid racist message of god mandated support for that disgusting racist project in the middle east called israel in the minds of the christian sheep.

      I'm not too far from the truth on this, look at that history and note the handywork.

  • Church of Scotland backs away from boycott call in the face of pressure
    • This move getting the Church to step away from the correct biblical position re:Israel really aggravates me...i can now only hope for the day when these hyper zionist jews get their comeuppance.

      Phil Giraldi says...

      link to original.antiwar.com

      President Obama recognizes the power represented by Jewish groups acting as a cohesive and focused political entity when he meets with them collectively in the White House, so why the reluctance in recognizing and confronting their persistent pro-war, pro-intervention agenda? At a March 7th session, shortly before his trip to Israel, Obama met with Alan Solow, Lee Rosenberg and Michael Kassen of AIPAC; Barry Curtiss-Lusher of the Anti-Defamation League; David Harris of the American Jewish Committee; Jerry Silverman of Jewish Federations of North America; Harvard Professor Alan Dershowitz; former Congressman Robert Wexler; Dan Mariaschin of B’nai B’rith; Malcolm Hoenlein, executive vice chairman of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations; Jeremy Ben-Ami, executive director of J Street; and Rabbi Marvin Hier, dean and founder of the Simon Wiesenthal Center. Admittedly the linking of Jewish organizations’ easy access to policymakers with their possible role in launching a string of failed wars in Asia and still more in the offing on behalf of Israel makes many people uncomfortable because it invites the dual loyalty critique and even more extreme commentary that is ultimately racist in nature, but there you have it. The president knows who is pulling his strings and so should the rest of us.

      Americans can either confront the ugly realities of what has been going on for the past twelve years or they can pretend that what they are seeing is not really there. The gatekeepers are understandably concerned lest Washington’s next war be blamed on American Jews..

  • US Jews are so 'polarized' over Israel they can't talk about it to each other, 'Jewish Chronicle' reports
    • I applaud you for your concern, I not being jewish, see the potential for blowback if a xenophobic reaction ever arises. We live in precarious economic times and those have been the times when these events have taken place in the past, and since I married jewish I try to introduce the zionist issue into my partners life so that she can intelligently choose which position she will ultimately take.

      Knowledge is power.

    • For this point of view and the outreach that you have started with your website Mr Weiss; I salute you.

      Drive that wedge through your community Phil, heaven knows you all need to separate yourselves from any association with the zionist, once the tide turns who know what that wave will bring. Judging from history there is reason for concern.

      Brutus:
      There is a tide in the affairs of men.
      Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune;
      Omitted, all the voyage of their life
      Is bound in shallows and in miseries.
      On such a full sea are we now afloat,
      And we must take the current when it serves,
      Or lose our ventures.

      Julius Caesar Act 4, scene 3, 218–224

  • 'The policy of the present Israeli government is likely to lead to disaster': Stephen Hawking pulls out of conference hosted by Shimon Peres, backs academic boycott of Israel (Updated)
  • Mainstream turns against intervention, this time (Tom Friedman has spoken)
    • A better question instead of what are liberals for is why does Israel hold such power over American politics?

      "Israel is the largest American aircraft carrier in the world that cannot be sunk, does not carry even one American soldier, and is located in a critical region for American national security." Alexander Haig.

      Is the nation of Israel some type of science experiment being used by the American national security nut cases ?

      When will the aipac crowd realize this and stop being used by their american sponsors?

      Does the aipac crowd not care that Israel is giving Jews the world over a very bad name and has the potential to cause some very serious blowback, something comparable to what the bolshevik dream caused for them in the not too distant past.

      does anybody ever learn from the past?
      Sometimes you're the player sometimes you're the game.

  • Syria wrap: Grumbling This won't be easy, NYT's Bill Keller suits up for another Mid-East war
    • Justin Raimondo tweets about the takedown of Huffpost piece.

      Justin Raimondo ‏@JustinRaimondo 1m
      RECORD TIME Huffpo piece on UN claim rebels used sarin gas taken down in 5 mins. replaced by piece saying UN "distances itself" from claim.

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