Media Circus: police could have arrested the man sooner; they took part in his suspected terrorist act. By Tim King — Salem-News. 19-year old Mohamed Osman Mohamud (PORTLAND, Ore.) – An alleged plot to detonate a bomb at the Pioneer Square Christmas Tree Lighting ceremony in Portland Friday was foiled by FBI agents and Portland [...]

Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. Con me consistently for six decades and the relationship is over, as is Israel’s credibility as a legitimate nation state. By Jeff Gates What is Tel Aviv to do now that it’s known Israelis and pro-Israelis ‘fixed’ the intelligence that induced the U.S. [...]

That was the headline over a story – wonderful news, I say, if it’s true – in Israel’s English language newspaper, the Jerusalem Post, on 25 November. Alan Hart On behalf of Zionism’s colonial project in Palestine, the writer, Isi Leibler, was verbally crucifying one of Britain’s most influential Jewish leaders for daring to go [...]

Either might force international community’s hand, suggests Halper By Stuart Littlewood The other day I looked back with sadness on how nothing had changed for the better since my last trip to Palestine three years ago. On that occasion I also visited Gaza, an experience indelibly etched on my memory. The situation there only goes [...]

By James M. Wall Sen. Robert F. Kennedy, then a candidate for US president, was flying on April 4, 1968, from New York City to Indianapolis, Indiana. During the flight he learned of the death of Martin Luther King, Jr. In spite of warnings that it would not be safe, Kennedy insisted on speaking at [...]

“recent admissions that the Israeli lobby, AIPAC, routinely receives masses of classified information makes them suspect #1 for being the source of Wikileaks” Wikileaks is like a TV show that never gets off the ground.  We started with a “shoot ‘em up” in Iraq, the helicopter slaughter soon forgotten and move on to, well, what?  [...]

Unfortunately the reality that was the basis of the original Boston Tea Party has been forgotten in the latter-day protests. By Paul Balles If the Tea Party rally in America represented a sane, honest, non-violent revolution, it could make a lot of sense as a populist movement. Unfortunately, it’s been spearheaded by a psycho and [...]

Part II  “Know thyself”  Sun Tzu and Hassan Nasrallah Franklin Lamb’s Saturday Mideast Report –- Al Manar According to the Lebanese military, at 11 am and again at 1 p.m.  on 1l/24/10, a total of six Israeli warplanes crossed into Lebanese airspace, and violated for the 8256th time UNSC resolution 1701 that ended Israel’s 5th [...]