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The Zionist lobby’s First Lady in US Congress

by on 04. Nov, 2011 in Newsletter Links

By Alan Hart     Information Clearing House   November 02, 2011    After UNESCO voted to give the Palestinians full membership, the words of State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland contained a hint that the Obama administration at the highest levels is quite seriously concerned about the possible consequences forAmericaof cutting off funds to the UN [...]

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Bush Greeted By Torture Complaint and War Criminal Welcoming Committee

by on 24. Oct, 2011 in Newsletter Links

Common Dreams    Saturday, October 22, 2011   George Bush’s arrival inCanadafor an economics summit was met by protests and a torture complaint – including a proposed 69-page indictment – brought by international human rights lawyers on behalf of one current and three former Guantánamo detainees. TheBritish Columbia Provincial CourtinSurreyset a Jan. 9 hearing date. Democracy [...]

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No problem– Obama’s State Dep’t spokesperson is married to Romney’s neocon foreign policy adviser

by on 14. Oct, 2011 in Newsletter Links

by Philip Weiss    Mondoweiss       October 12, 2011   Here is a crazy story no one is talking about that is evidence of theIsraellobby’s role in our politics. Last week, Mitt Romney announced a foreign policy team that includes Robert Kagan, a neocon who pushed for theIraqwar.   But Kagan is married to Victoria Nuland, [...]

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John Pilger: The Strange Silencing of Liberal America

by on 14. Jul, 2011 in Newsletter Links

 Obama’s greatest achievement is having seduced, co-opted and silenced much of liberal opinion in the US. Information Clearing House      July 07, 2011    How does political censorship work in liberal societies? When my film Year Zero: the Silent Death of Cambodia was banned in the United States in 1980, the broadcaster PBS cut all contact. [...]

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Yellow Journalism at Its Nastiest

by on 21. Jun, 2011 in Newsletter Links

Yellow Journalism at Its Nastiest  by John Taylor Antiwar Forum    June 20, 2011 Can anyone doubt that The Wall Street Journal’s opinion pages show rabid anti-Arab and anti-Muslim bias? Consider early June: Fouad Ajami kicked off the month with a piece critical of Palestinian plans to obtain UN recognition for their state. Ajami asserts that [...]

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Neocons Losing Hold Over Republican Foreign Policy

by on 20. Jun, 2011 in Newsletter Links

Neocons Losing Hold Over Republican Foreign Policy   by Jim Lobe Antiwar Forum   June 16, 2011 Nearly ten years after seizing control of Republican foreign policy, neoconservatives and other hawks appear to be losing it. That is at least the tentative conclusion of a number of political analysts following Monday’s first nationally televised debate of the [...]

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John Pilger: An Unpalatable Truth –The Martha Gellhorn Prize for Journalism

by on 06. Jun, 2011 in Newsletter Links

John Pilger: An Unpalatable Truth –The Martha Gellhorn Prize for Journalism Information Clearing House   June 03, 2011  London, 2 June 2011  Thank you all for coming to the 12th annual award of the Martha Gellhorn Prize for Journalism. Some would say there are too many awards for journalism that merely celebrate the status quo. The [...]

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Adolph and Me

by on 06. Jun, 2011 in Newsletter Links

Adolph and Me by Abby Zimet A middle school in Russellville, Arkansas is in hot water after its yearbook listed the “Top 5 Worst People of All Time” – to wit: Hitler, Bin Laden, Charles Manson, George Bush and Dick Cheney. Some parents were unhappy. Maybe they thought Cheney should’ve gotten the second slot? Icing [...]

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U.S. President George W. Bush pauses during his remarks at the Ford’s Theatre Gala in Washington

So much for the quiet life… George W Bush rakes in staggering $15million on speaking circuit

by on 24. May, 2011 in Newsletter Links

So much for the quiet life… George W Bush rakes in staggering $15million on speaking circuit  By David Gardner Daily Mail    Last updated at 12:02 AM on 21st May 2011 Former president George Bush has raked in a whopping $15 million since leaving the White House, it was claimed today. Despite insisting he wanted to [...]

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American right trapped in a hyperbolic and dysfunctional world

by on 29. Mar, 2011 in Newsletter Links

American right trapped in a hyperbolic and dysfunctional world GARY YOUNGE   guardian.co.uk  2011      Mar 28 2011 06:38 Polls suggest there are between one in three and one in four Americans who would believe anything. More than a third thought president George Bush did a good job during Hurricane Katrina; half of those thought he [...]

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Prof. Stephen M. Walt : What intervention in Libya tells us about the neocon-liberal alliance

by on 23. Mar, 2011 in Newsletter Links

Prof. Stephen M. Walt : What intervention in Libya tells us about the neocon-liberal alliance  Stephen M. Walt is the Robert and Renée Belfer professor of international relations at Harvard University. Foreign Policy    Monday, March 21, 2011 Last Wednesday I spoke at an event at Hofstra University, on the subject of “Barack Obama’s Foreign Policy.” The [...]

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Egypt is al-Jazeera’s promised land

by on 15. Mar, 2011 in Newsletter Links

Egypt is al-Jazeera’s promised land                               JOHN PLUNKETT AND JOSH HALLIDAY Guardian    Feb 15 2011 11:56 Donald Rumsfeld demonised it and George Bush allegedly said he wanted to bomb it. No one was quite sure whether the then White House incumbent was joking or not, but its offices have been hit by American forces. Twice. [...]

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