By Hussein Assi
Hezbollah Secretary General Sayyed Hasan Nasrallah announced on Monday the Resistance party's new political document that was approved during the party's General Conference that lasted for months.
Sayyed Nasrallah held a press conference through a giant screen at al-Jinan hall on the [...]
Urs Flueeler/Associated Press In the village of Amsteg, Switzerland, a poster promoting the ban on minarets became the site of competing messages on Monday.
By J. DAVID GOODMAN
When Swiss voters overwhelmingly approved a ban on construction of minarets in a referendum on Sunday, they [...]
The ruling party candidate in Honduras's presidential election has conceded defeat after preliminary results showed him trailing with only 38 per cent of the vote.
Porfirio Lobo, the opposition candidate, who preliminary figures showed had more than 56 per cent support, claimed victory soon afterwards.
"The people will" [...]
Whoever wins the ballot is expected to face an uphill battle for international legitimacy [Reuters]
Early unofficial results from the much-disputed presidential election in Honduras have put conservative opposition candidate Porfirio Lobo in the lead over his liberal rival, Elvin Santos.
No official results had been [...]
Brave "purity of arms" Zionist soldier defends "the Jewish state" against little girl "terrorists"
.. The real terror is that disseminated by the occupiers.
By Jim Miles
The task of saving and reviving humanity oft times appears overwhelming when studied from a fully global perspective: occupations, wars, and [...]
Any political decision must include Fateh and Hamas, refugees and exiles.
By Ghada Karmi
Palestinian history is at one of its most serious and important junctures. The peace negotiations that commenced with the Oslo accords in 1993 are at an end. Even hardened devotees of the peace process [...]
There is a danger that Australia could become a safe haven for Israeli war criminals.
By Sonja Karkar
The news that former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert was in Australia and was welcomed by the honourable members of our parliament came as somewhat of a shock. It is [...]
From Fred M:
Some reality for all the kids in the back seat yammering "Are we there
yet?" Recall that some psychologists have for years been saying that
our social intelligence has been mostly frozen somewhere between the
ages of ten and fourteen ....
By Jim [...]
Photo M. Omer
By Mohammed Omer
Although ignored by much of the Western media, a battle which echoes the biblical story of David and Goliath is taking place in The Hague. In the modern-day version, young David is personified by a soft-spoken 15-year-old girl named Amira Alqerem. [...]
Al Ahram
An Israel-Hamas prisoner swap deal appears close to fruition, though no indication has been given yet as to who and how many it includes, writes Khaled Amayreh in occupied Jerusalem
As of Wednesday, 25 November, German and Egyptian mediators were trying hectically to finalise a prisoner swap deal [...]
Member of Netanyahu's party: Obama regime is 'worst ever' for Israel; Vice PM cancels lecture after rightist protest.
By Chaim Levinson, Haaretz
Rank-and-file Likudniks and Lawmakers in the ruling Likud party lambasted the Obama administration at a gathering on Saturday, in response to Israel's decision to temporarily freeze construction in West [...]
Tourism Minister Stas Misezhnikov (Yisrael Beitenu) said Saturday that despite the cabinet's decision to temporarily freeze settlement construction, his ministry would continue to develop tourist sites in the West Bank.
Speaking at an event in Holon, Misezhnikov said that the Tourism Ministry was focused on three [...]
No matter how they're packaged, "peace" initiatives will do little until Israel's oppression of Palestinians ends. (Rami Swidan/MaanImages)
By Hasan Abu Nimah
As a child in early-1940s Palestine, I grew up in a small village of 1,500 individuals with its roots in biblical times. I' [...]
The PA leadership in Ramallah is leading the Palestinian movement of independence to a dead end with its proposed unilateral call for Palestinian statehood. (Thaer Ganaim/MaanImages)
The Electronic Intifada, 19 November 2009
By Virginia Tilley,
From a rumor, to a rising murmur, the proposal floated by the [...]
Theodore Herzl: Founder of Zionism
By Alan Hart
Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu described his offer to temporarily restrict construction of all-new Jewish settlements on the West Bank excluding Arab East Jerusalem as a “far-reaching and painful step”, which was part of a policy he hoped would give [...]
Construction of Har Homa, an illegal Israeli settlement in Bethlehem [MaanImages]
BETHLEHEM --Though Israel's army was ordered to issue a temporary freeze order on West Bank settlement construction on Thursday, reports from the Israeli press revealed permits were granted for 28 new public buildings.
The freeze [...]
By Franklin Lamb – Beirut
"It is the right of the Lebanese people, Army and the (Hezbollah led-) resistance to liberate the Shebaa Farms, the Kfar Shuba Hills and the northern part of the village of Ghajar as well as to defend Lebanon and its territorial waters in the face of" [...]
Tom Perriello is latest manifestation of a politician abandoning core beliefs.
By Adam Shapiro
One year ago, I watched election results coming in for Virginia's Fifth Congressional District, where my friend and colleague Tom Perriello was challenging incumbent Virgil Goode, Jr. CNN kept flipping the winner because the [...]
For 30 years, Stewart defended America's poor, underprivileged, and unwanted.
By Stephen Lendman
On November 20, New York Times writer Colin Moynihan broke the news headlining:
"Radical Lawyer Convicted of Aiding Terrorist Is Jailed," then saying:
"Defiant to the end as she embraced supporters outside the" [...]
'The truth is, the Indians never had any real title to the soil.' - Roosevelt
By Ramzy Baroud
This week Americans will observe 'Thanksgiving' commemorating a romanticized era in their nations record, celebrating the supposed solidarity and brotherhood enjoyed by the first settlers and the indigenous people of [...]
Meyer said it was impossible to see how weapons inspectors could conclude their work in time [EPA]
The military timetable for war in Iraq did not allow UN weapons inspectors the time to conclude their work, a former British ambassador to the US has told a public [...]
Hamas announced Wednesday that it was postponing continued negotiations on the release of captured Israeli occupation soldier Gilad Shalit until after the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Adha, which ends on Monday. The Hamas announcement was issued in Damascus following meetings between Khaled Mashaal, the organization's politburo Chief [...]
"[Schneiderhan] showed his sense of humanity and proved he did not want to kill Afghan civilians" -- Assadullah Omar Khil, Afghan tribal elder
In the days after the Afghan strike Germany
denied there had been any civilian victims [EPA]
General Wolfgang Schneiderhan, Germany's highest-ranking officer, has [...]
The 10-month suspension will not halt building in East Jerusalem or construction already approved [AFP]
A Palestinian official has described Israel's proposed 10-month suspension of settlement construction in the occupied West Bank as mere "propaganda".
Saeb Erekat, the Palestinian chief negotiator, said on Thursday that [...]
By RANNIE AMIRI
The release of the captured Israeli soldier, Gilad Shalit, appears imminent. The recent flurry of activity in Cairo of high-profile Israeli and Hamas officials along with their Egyptian and German intermediaries point to a deal taking place in upcoming days, nicely timed to Eid Al-Adha [...]
By RANNIE AMIRI
The release of the captured Israeli soldier, Gilad Shalit, appears imminent. The recent flurry of activity in Cairo of high-profile Israeli and Hamas officials along with their Egyptian and German intermediaries point to a deal taking place in upcoming days, nicely timed to Eid Al-Adha [...]
The Nation
Taliban fighters in an undisclosed location in Afghanistan. Reuters Photos
On October 29, 2001, while the Taliban's rule over Afghanistan was under assault, the regime's ambassador in Islamabad gave a chaotic press conference in front of several dozen reporters sitting on the grass. On [...]
By Khalid Amayreh
Israeli Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu is a manifestly fascist-minded demagogue who thinks that everything Jewish must override everything non-Jewish, regardless of all considerations.
He is also a first-class liar who believes that lying to the world, including Jews, is the first [...]
The 10-month freeze will not halt building in East Jerusalem or that has already been approved [AFP]
Israel's prime minister has announced a 10-month halt to the construction of new settlement houses in the occupied West Bank.
Binyamin Netanyahu told a news conference on Wednesday that [...]
The leaders who led Britain into war will not befound 'guilty', commentators say [GETTY/GALLO]
By Jacqueline Head
Britain's most wide-ranging inquiry into the Iraq war is under way - but in a country where two previous inquiries were branded little more than "establishment whitewash" - is it likely [...]
By Jeremy Scahill
At a covert forward operating base run by the US Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) in the Pakistani port city of Karachi, members of an elite division of Blackwater are at the center of a secret program in which they [...]
By PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS
Republican members of Congress and what masquerades as a “conservative” media are outraged that the Obama administration intends to try in federal court Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, the alleged mastermind of 9/11, and four alleged co-conspirators.
The Republican and right-wing rant that a trial is too [...]
TULKAREM -- Zionist Israeli settler-colonists from the illegal colony of Yitzhar injured a Palestinian man travelling in a public bus on a main road near the settlement on Tuesday, the victim of the attack reported.
The service taxi, carrying seven passengers in total, was assailed by a barrage of [...]
Hamas officials speak at a ceremony honoring Roudah Habib,
released in exchange for a video tape of Shalit
[MaanImages]
FAZA -- Israel has exaggerated the progress of recent prisoner swap talks and manipulated the hopes and expectations of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians, Hamas leaders proclaimed late [...]
Peshawar has borne the brunt of recent Taliban attacks in retaliation for a military offensive [AFP]
A new report has accused the US private security firm formerly known as Blackwater of operating a covert assassination and kidnapping programme against suspected Taliban and al-Qaeda members in northwest Pakistan.
[...]
Salam Fayyad (MaanImages)
24 November 2009
By Ben White
Thirty years ago, Israel minister Ariel Sharon told Knesset members that while they "shouted" about the settlements, "we lay another foot of pipe, another mile of road and build another house." Successive Israeli governments have agreed with [...]
There is nothing wrong with an inclusive Jewish nation that wants to live at peace with others. But what made Jewish Zionism dangerous was its hatefulness towards the Palestinian-Arabs, including denying their rights and sabotaging the existence of an autonomous Palestinian homeland, says Dallas Darling.
In her book, [...]
The National
Nov. 23, 9009
By Jonathan Cook
NAZARETH, Israel // South Africa deported an Israeli airline official last week following allegations that Israel’s secret police, the Shin Bet, had infiltrated Johannesburg international airport in an effort to gather information on South African citizens, particularly black and Muslim travellers.
The [...]
Brazil president declares support for Tehran's quest for "peaceful nuclear energy".
Brazil's president has offered his backing for Tehran's controversial nuclear programme.
Speaking at a joint news conference in the capital Brasilia on Monday after holding talks with Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, his visiting Iranian counterpart, Luis Inacio [...]
IDF tactics are being considered by NATO officials for the war in Afghanistan
By Gilad Atzmon
'Israel is the light onto the nations' says the Torah. Indeed it is, and not just because the Torah says so. Israel is ahead of everyone else in many [...]
"These documents show that planning [for the invasion of Iraq] began as far back as 2002" -- Alex Salmond,Scottish Nationalist leader
Blair told the British parliament in 2002 that there were no plans for war
Leaked British government documents have called into question former premier Tony Blair's' [...]
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Global Research
By Mike Whitney
Things could get ugly fast. With the Democrats backing-off on a second round of stimulus, the Fed signaling an end to quantitative easing, and Obama moaning about rising deficits; there's a good chance that the stumbling recovery could turn into another sharp plunge. [...]
Israel ordered the construction halted saying some of the land on which the stadium was being built had been designated for its use.
Work on a football stadium being built in the West Bank, and financed by the international football federation FIFA, has been stopped.
Israel ordered the construction [...]
Al Ahram
Clockwise from top left: pro-veil demonstrations in France; "Stop-the-minaret" campaign logo in Switzerland; The Economist cover story on "Eurabia"; a symbolic illustration depicting veiled women on the French flag; a BBC map showing the number of Muslim populations in Europe, hijab -martyr Marwa [...]
Al Ahram
Clockwise from top left: pro-veil demonstrations in France; "Stop-the-minaret" campaign logo in Switzerland; The Economist cover story on "Eurabia"; a symbolic illustration depicting veiled women on the French flag; a BBC map showing the number of Muslim populations in Europe, hijab -martyr Marwa [...]
Contemporary Israeli cinema gives some hope that Israeli society will soon confront, or is confronting, the violence Zionism has done not only to others but also to Israelis, writes Hamid Dabashi*
The consecutive appearance of three major Israeli war films, Joseph Cedar's Beaufort (2007), Ari Folman's Waltz [...]
Contemporary Israeli cinema gives some hope that Israeli society will soon confront, or is confronting, the violence Zionism has done not only to others but also to Israelis, writes Hamid Dabashi*
The consecutive appearance of three major Israeli war films, Joseph Cedar's Beaufort (2007), Ari Folman's Waltz [...]
Continuing in disarray, the Palestinian arena appears locked between warring factions, delayed elections and a moribund peace process with Israel, writes Khaled Amayreh in Ramallah
Having discovered -- rather belatedly -- the futility of open- ended peace talks with Israel, the Palestinian Authority (PA) leadership is contemplating taking a number of [...]
