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Chris McGreal reports for The Guardian: Secret South African documents reveal that Israel offered to sell nuclear warheads to the apartheid regime, providing the first official documentary evidence of the state’s possession of nuclear weapons. The “top secret” minutes of meetings between senior officials from the two countries in 1975 show that South Africa’s defence minister, PW Botha, asked for the warheads and Shimon Peres, then Israel’s defence minister and
by Gilad Atzmon * There is often a noticeable discrepancy between what one claims to be and what one actually is. * Hegel taught us that our self-perception is a fragile and evolving amalgam of the way we like to see ourselves and the way we are mirrored by others. * I, for instance, tend to regard myself as a Jazz saxophonist. My self-image is inherently dependent on the willingness
I have just been listening to Rand Paul’s acceptance speech. He called Evo Morales and Hugo Chavez “petty dictators” which he must KNOW is a ridiculous lie – hence he is a dishonest liar. He also said that “Obama apologizes for America’s greatness”. What kind of crap is that? Obama is every bit as arrogant, imperialist and flag-waving as Dubya, Papa-Bush or even Reagan. He also seems to be oblivious
Last year, the lunatics who run the “Jewish state” in occupied Palestine had already deported Norman Finkelstein alleging that he had not provided his interrogators a full account of his travels to Lebanon. This decision was seen by most commentators as both stupid and petty. It might possibly also be illegal because the Law of Return specifically is designed to make it possible for Jews not only to enter, but
by Pepe Escobar for the Asia Times Intricate shadowplay surrounds the (failed) smoking sports utility vehicle Times Square bomber Faisal Shahzad. Earlier in 2010, the Central Intelligence Agency warned al-Qaeda might try an attack inside the US “within the next six months”. It did happen – like clockwork – with the added bonus that the alleged perpetrators are even more convenient than al-Qaeda. United States Attorney General Eric Holder is
(again – thanks to L. for this, and so many other good pointers. VS)
Here is the full text of the article the NJDC just published (red color added -VS) : Elena Kagan’s Jewish Background: Just What Pat Buchanan Fears While former Republican Presidential Candidate Pat Buchanan wrote today that Kagan’s confirmation would lead to a Court that is too Jewish, those who are interested in Kagan’s Jewish background from a more positive perspective have been flooding NJDC’s offices with requests for more information.
al-Manar reports: The budgetary difficulty that has been delaying Israel’s armament with the anti-missile defense system Iron Dome has apparently been resolved. The Pentagon has issued a message to Israel’s Defense Ministry that U.S. President Barack Obama has approved the transfer of special assistance totaling $205 million for the purchase of more than ten Iron Dome batteries. The Iron Dome missile defense system aced a test run in January, and
by Fidel Castro Our times are characterized by an unprecedented event: the threat to the survival of the human species imposed on the world by imperialism. The painful reality should not come as a surprise to anyone. It could be seen rapidly advancing in the past few decades, at such a pace as it is hard to imagine. Does it mean that Obama is the promoter of this threat or
By James Petras for the Axis of Logic President Obama has nominated Elena Kagan for Justice of the United States Supreme Court on the basis of an academic publication record, which might give her a fighting chance for tenure at a first rate correspondence law school in the Texas Panhandle. A review of her published scholarship after almost two decades in and out of academia turns up four law review
Dear friends, Thanks for your emails and comments. I have to tell you that the idea that somebody could be ‘spamming’ the blog as a way to saturate it with garbage had never crossed my mind. I did wonder whether anybody in his/her right mind would actually hope to get some sales with this kind of idiotic ‘marketing strategies’, but that there could be a non-commercial intention behind this is
Dear friends, I am being spammed by some moron trying to sell tickets for Roger Waters (ironically, I have been a fan of Roger Waters all my life). I had to turn on comments moderation, at least temporarily, until this nonsense stops. Sorry about that. Please do let me know what solution you want me to adopt permanently. The Saker
Dear friends, There seems to be an orgy of spamming going on. Mostly, spammers seem to be polluting older posts, such as my interview with Jonathan Cook, but sometimes this crap shows up in more recent comment sections. The “trick” to ask for a word ID before allowing a comment does not seem to work any more. And blogger does not allow me to ban a specific user from commenting.
by Rick Rozoff for Stop NATO Eleven years ago today the North Atlantic Treaty Organization was in the seventh week of a bombing war against the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, one which saw over 1,000 Western military planes fly over 38,000 combat missions, bombs dropped from the sky and Tomahawk cruise missiles launched from the Mediterranean Sea. Having quickly exhausted military targets, NATO warplanes resorted to bombing so-called targets of
RT reports: The crew of a large Russian anti-submarine ship has freed an oil tanker seized by Somali pirates on Wednesday. All 23 Russian sailors from the hijacked vessel have escaped the incident unscathed. As a result of the rescue efforts, 10 pirates have been captured and one killed. “The large submarine-hunter ‘Marshal Shaposhnikov’ (see photos – click on picture for high resolution) of Russia’s Pacific Navy carried out an
Their latest invention? Osama Bin-Ladin is comfortably living in Iran… All we need now if a retouched image of Imam Khamenei with a Hitler moustache and the war can start. Sickening.
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Kasie Hunt for the Politico reports: Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) thinks he’s found a work-around on the whole Miranda rights debate for U.S. citizens accused of terrorism: Strip their citizenship and ship them to Guantanamo. Lieberman plans to introduce a bill that would amend a decades-old law aimed at yanking citizenship from U.S. citizens who fight for a foreign military. “I’m now putting together legislation to amend that to [specify
Jeremy Scahill, the award-winning independent journalist and the author of the international bestseller, “Blackwater: The Rise of the World’s Most Powerful Mercenary Army” has just published an article on his blog at The Nation entitled “Secret Erik Prince Tape Exposed“. Scahill was also interviewed today on Democracy Now. Check out the article and the interview, interesting stuff. Here is, however, the one quote by Prince which is really priceless: “These
A lecture by Professor John J. Mearsheimer Contrary to the wishes of the Obama administration and most Americans – to include many American Jews – Israel is not going to allow the Palestinians to have a viable state of their own in Gaza and the West Bank. Regrettably, the two-state solution is now a fantasy.
