Wednesday, February 17, 2010, 11:13 AM.:
The Media Response to the Growing Influence of the 9/11 Truth Movement. - By Elizabeth Woodworth
Category: 911 - wtc | Posted by: babagrr | Add comment>Global Research" -- In the past year,
in response to emerging independent science on the 9/11 attacks, nine corporate, seven public, and two independent media outlets aired analytic programs
investigating the official account.
Increasingly, the issue is treated as a scientific controversy worthy of debate, rather than as a "conspiracy theory"
ignoring science and common sense.
This essay presents these media analyses in the form of 18 case studies.
Eight countries –
allowed their publicly-owned broadcasting stations to air the full spectrum of evidence challenging the truth of the official account of 9/11.
This more open approach taken in the international media – I could also have included the Japanese media –
might be a sign that worldwide public and corporate media organizations are positioning themselves, and preparing their audiences, for a possible revelation
of the truth of the claim that forces within the US government were complicit in the attacks – a revelation that would call into question the publicly
given rationale for the military operations in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan.
The evidence now being explored in the international media may...
Wednesday, February 17, 2010, 10:34 AM.:
Former IAEA Head Hans Blix - 'Iran Won't Simply Sit There and Accept an Attack' - By Bernhard Zand
Category: Iran | Posted by: babagrr | Add comment>Spiegel" -- Hans Blix is the former head of the International
Atomic Energy Agency and also worked as a UN weapons inspector in Iraq. He talks to SPIEGEL about whether Iran really has the ability to enrich uranium
and if economic sanctions can ever be effective.
SPIEGEL: Tehran has announced that it has enriched
a "first batch" of uranium from 3.5 to 20 percent. Does this mean that we now face a new stage in the escalation of
http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,677030,00.html"
>the conflict with Iran?
Hans Blix: The government in Tehran originally declared that it only intended to enrich uranium
to 3.5 percent, to produce fuel for nuclear reactors. But now it needs uranium enriched to about 20 percent for its research reactor, in order to produce
isotopes for medical use. Tehran had the same problem once before, in the early 1980s. The United States had built a research reactor for Tehran, Iran
had ordered nuclear fuel and had even paid for it, but then came the mullahs' revolution, and America refused to deliver the fuel. The West has faced a
dilemma since then: If we don't supply them with the fuel, Iran has a reason to produce...
Wednesday, February 17, 2010, 10:08 AM.:
Dreyfus, The Protocols and Goldstone - By Gilad Atzmon
Category: Zionism | Posted by: babagrr | Add comment| http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/135780" >Alan Dershowitz on Judge Goldstone: “But now I see him as a traitor… It’s as if they would have taken a Jew to edit the Protocols of the Elders of Zion. He uses his Jewish last name to kosher his slander of the Jewish People.” |
February 13, 2010 "http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/"
>Information Clearing House" - - For those who still cannot make their minds up about Jewish nationalism and the Zionist
violent abuse of Western academic culture (tolerance, academic freedom, pluralism etc) Rabbi Shmully Hecht of Yale’s University Jewish society, gives
an exemplary opportunity to see it all. Rabbi Hecht confronted Judge Goldstone last week while Goldstone was delivering an address at Yale University.
Rabbi Hecht and his supporters held up a sign at the back of the conference room equating the Goldstone report with the Protocols of the Elders of
Zion and the Dreyfus affair.
Wednesday, February 17, 2010, 10:03 AM.:
The Monopolization of America - By Russell Mokhiber
Category: United States | Posted by: babagrr | Add comment"Corporate Crime Reporter"
You walk into your local convenience store and head to the cold walk-in beer room in the back.
The choice is overwhelming.
Budweiser, Michelob, Bud Light, Busch Light, Stella Artois, Grolsch, Kirin,Tsingtao, Corona, Negra Modelo, Rolling Rock, Widmer, Miller and Coors.
In fact, all of these beers are controlled by two companies.
MillerCoors under the direction of South African Breweries (SAB) and AnheuserBusch In Bev.
Two multinational corporations controlling the beer choices of 300 million Americans.
And it's not just beer.
One single multinational corporation dominates the world supply of eyeglass stores.
One dominates the milk supply.
Barry Lynn goes down the list of industries.
And he finds a similar story across the board.
A handful of multinational corporations controlling each industry - or the supply chains of each industry.
Such dominant monopolies were illegal just thirty years ago.
But that all changed with Ronald Reagan and Robert Bork.
A corporatist oligarchy took hold.
President Obama has promised aggressive antitrust enforcement.
But Lynn says it's pie in the sky.
"It will take more than a lawsuit or two to overthrow America's corporatist oligarchy and restore a model of capitalism that protects our rights as property holders and citizens," Lynn argues in his new book - Cornered: The New Monopoly Capitalism...
Wednesday, February 17, 2010, 09:57 AM.:
The Goal of Modern Propaganda: Mythocracy - By Cindy Sheehan
Category: Media | Posted by: babagrr | Add comment
Originally published on February 14, 2010 "
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/"
>Information Clearing House" -- On Super Bowl Sunday, the reason that I wrote my new book: http://cindysheehanssoapbox.blogspot.com/2010/01/order-info-for-myth-america-ii.html"
>Myth America: 20 Greatest Myths of the Robber Class and the Case for Revolution, literally hit home.
Since it was the Holy Day of Obligation for our national religion of Football, I headed for my health club because I have always
been a heretic. I arrived there a little before kick off, so the club was still occupied, but after kick-off it was deserted.
After my water workout and swim in
the pool that I had all to myself, I headed to the hot tub which was occupied by another spa patron—an older gentleman named Bill whom seems to come
to the club just to sit in the hot tub and chat. I get the feeling he is very lonely, and this following exchange may be why:
Bill: I think what you do disgraces
your son, his memory and what he died for.
Cindy: Oh really? Since he was killed
in an illegal and immoral war, I think this nation disgraced him.
Bill: But they attacked us...
Wednesday, February 17, 2010, 09:30 AM.:
What Do Empires Do? - By Michael Parenti
Category: General | Posted by: babagrr | Add commentOriginally published on February 14,2010 "http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/02/13-0"
>Commondreams" -- When I wrote my book http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0872862984?ie=UTF8tag=commondreams-20linkCode=xm2camp=1789creativeASIN=0872862984"
>Against Empire in 1995, as might be expected, some of my U.S. compatriots thought it was wrong of me to call the United States an empire.
It was widely believed that U.S. rulers did not pursue empire; they intervened abroad only out of self-defense or for humanitarian rescue operations or
to overthrow tyranny, fight terrorism, and propagate democracy.
But by the year 2000, everyone started talking about the United States as an empire and writing books
with titles like http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0805077979?ie=UTF8tag=commondreams-20linkCode=xm2camp=1789creativeASIN=0805077979"
>Sorrows of Empire, http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0195309022?ie=UTF8tag=commondreams-20linkCode=xm2camp=1789creativeASIN=0195309022"
>Follies of Empire, http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/069113135X?ie=UTF8tag=commondreams-20linkCode=xm2camp=1789creativeASIN=069113135X"
>Twilight of Empire, or http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1568584377?ie=UTF8tag=commondreams-20linkCode=xm2camp=1789creativeASIN=1568584377"
>Empire of Illusions--- all referring to the United States when they spoke of empire.
Even conservatives started using the word. Amazing. One could hear right-wing pundits announcing
on U.S. television, "We're an empire, with all the responsibilities and opportunities of empire and we better get used to it"; and "We
are the strongest nation in the world and have every right to act as such"---as if having the power gives U.S. leaders an inherent entitlement to
exercise it upon others as they might wish.
"What is going on here?" I asked myself at the time. How is it that so many people feel
free to...
Wednesday, February 17, 2010, 08:58 AM.:
The Evil of Sanctions - By Brian Cloughley
Category: IRAQ | Posted by: babagrr | Add comment>fff" -- February 9, 2010 -- When strong governments
wish to impose their will on weaker regimes, they often resort to sanctions. The effects have included the death or debilitation of millions of innocent
people. Two good examples are Cuba, on which draconian U.S. sanctions have been enforced since 1960, and Iraq, where brutal sanctions were enforced from
1990 to 2003.
In 1959 the Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista was overthrown. He had ruled with the approval
of Washington and the Mafia (who gave him a percentage on their casino operations). The dictator Castro took over and declared himself a communist, prompting
the U.S. government to attempt to overthrow him. The illegal attempt to invade the country — the Bay of Pigs fiasco — was a national embarrassment
for Washington, and the obvious revenge was to punish the country by the use of sanctions. Almost no contact with Cuba was allowed, and the effects have
been monstrous.
Earlier this year the Cato Institute recorded,
The embargo has been a failure by every measure. It has not changed the course or nature of the
Cuban government. It has not liberated a single Cuban citizen. In fact, the embargo has made the Cuban people a...
Wednesday, February 17, 2010, 08:51 AM.:
Zionism: A Fairy Tale That’s Become a Terrifying Nightmare - By Alan Hart
Category: Zionism | Posted by: babagrr | Add comment- -Most Jews of the world (and probably many Gentiles) believe that Zionism is the return of Jews to the land promised to them by God. At the risk of offending some readers of all faiths for saying so, I must confess, and do so cheerfully, that I don’t buy this concept because the Gentile me does not believe in the God of organized, institutional religions. So, I say to myself, no God, no promise to Jews (or anybody else). In my perception of the scheme of things, God is the potential for good inside each and every one of us. God so defined is a prisoner within each of us and our prime task is to liberate this prisoner. But let’s put that to one side.
The Jews who “returned” in answer to Zionism’s call had no biological connection to the ancient Hebrews. They were converts to Judaism long after the end of the Hebrew conquest and short-lived domination of much of Canaan, the name as in the Bible by which Palestine was first known to the world. They therefore had no legitimate claim on the land.
The Jews who did have a legitimate claim,...
Wednesday, February 17, 2010, 08:48 AM.:
Not All Iranians Hate Their Regime - By Matthew Cassel
Category: Iran | Posted by: babagrr | Add comment>The Guardian" -- Describing the events in Iran yesterday, CNN correspondent
Ivan Watson made a point of mentioning that http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xc75q7_iran-marks-anniversary_news"
>free food and drink were handed out in Azadi Square to those celebrating the 31st anniversary of the revolution – as if the treats were part
of a cunning ploy by the Ahmadinejad government.
Although some of my friends in Tehran who walked for miles to attend
the hours of festivities at Azadi Square told me regretfully that they were not offered free food or drink, I don't doubt that refreshments were indeed
distributed at the rally.
Last October I attended a memorial service in Tehran organised by the Revolutionary Guard to honour
hundreds of Iranian medical volunteers killed while caring for their comrades during the bloody eight-year war with Iraq.
At the entrance of the packed auditorium small trays of fruit, juice and water were handed out. I
tried to politely decline the offer from the man in camouflage, but was later happy that his insistence succeeded. I found the banana and pineapple flavoured
juice box quite refreshing as the service dragged on for a number of hours.
Anyone who has spent time in Iran and the Middle East knows about the hospitality of this...
Wednesday, February 17, 2010, 08:40 AM.:
Goldstone Facts - The Real Story Behind Israel's Attack On Gaza
Category: palestine | Posted by: babagrr | Add commentFactual Findings narrated by Ross Vachon
Factual and Legal findings narrated by Noam Chomsky
Live Testimonies relevant to the Goldstone Report's Findings
The video also contains live testimonies of Khalid, Kawthar and Samar Abd Rabbo before the UN Fact Finding Mission headed by Justice
Richard Goldstone. For more information on this video, please go to http://www.goldstonefacts.org"
>www.goldstonefacts.org