Doomsday scenarios by Yossi Melman

According to the Jewish Division, there were two central changes in the past three years. One is that the Temple Mount, in its religious-messianic context, plays a cardinal role for extremists who are identified with the Bat Ayin underground or its supporters. The second is the disengagement plan and the desire of the extremists to torpedo it. As the senior figure notes, "This is the central threat (along with the intention to kill the prime minister) that has been created as a result of an ideology that permits an extreme act, which heightens the motivation."

Iraq - A War For Israel? by Mark Weber

Americans have already paid a high price for their nation's commitment to Israel. We will pay an ever higher price - not just in dollars or international prestige, but in the lives of young men squandered for the interests of a foreign state - until the Jewish-Zionist hold on US political life is finally broken.

Fraud minister 'suicide' probe by CHRIS STEPHEN

The body of Heorhiy Kirpa, the transport minister, was discovered on Monday night in his summer house near Kiev with a gunshot wound to the head.

This is the second apparent suicide of a leading government figure this month. Yury Lyahk, 39, head of the Ukrainian Credit Bank, was found with a paperknife embedded in his throat.

US policy of pre-emptive strikes slammed: Book on 9/11

Speaking as the chief guest at the launching of 'No Clean Hands -Sceptical Chronicles of 9/11,' authored by Sayeed Hasan Khan and Kurt Jacobson at the Karachi Press Club, the former editor-in-chief of Dawn, Ahmad Ali Khan, said the international law did not recognise any country's right to go for a pre-emptive strike.

Beijing's Trade War Strategy

"Beijing is eager to convert its growing economic clout into military power," notes William R. Hawkins, Senior Fellow for National Security Studies at the U.S. Business and Industry Council. The arrangement proposed by Li would require that Washington "remove security restrictions on the sale of weapons and military technology to China," he continues. "Beijing would certainly shake loose billions from its massive foreign exchange reserves if it could get access to the innovations that have given America's armed forces capabilities unmatched anywhere else on the planet."

Sudden Discord between Bush and Sharon

Our sources in Washington believe that the determining factor in the US president’s turnabout was the message from Abbas that he will be in a position to announce a comprehensive ceasefire on or around January 1. He promises to bring all the Palestinian organizations including the radical Hamas and Jihad Islami into the truce.

Iran 2004, the Resistance and the Western Anti-War Movement by RON JACOBS

Why are individuals known for their right wing and imperialist viewpoints among the NCRI's diplomatic audience? This is perhaps the most difficult practice of the Iranian Resistance for the US progressive movement to understand. As one of the men I spoke with said, however: What is a neocon to an Iranian living in Iran? The individuals I spoke with emphasized that the NCRI are merely engaging in a practice common among most nationalist movements when it comes to seeking outside support.

The Big Picture - 2004 Update by Joel Skousen

Why would Western leaders want to induce another world war, and why cover for Russia,s war preparations and hide that nation,s intent from the American people? The answer lies in the fact that globalist leaders can use the crisis nature of a world war to further establish global control. Thus it is to the advantage of those who are involved in a conspiracy to establish a one-world governmental system, to facilitate the rise of the next enemy. Citizens who feel threatened by war rally easily to cries of "unity" and "patriotism," and tend to be all too eager to relinquish precious liberties in exchange for government pledges of security.

Recovered: Complete Fox News Series on Israeli Spying in US

Fox News' surprising and crucial December 2001 series on Israeli spy operations in the US was yanked off the Web soon after it triggered howls of rage from Israel and its supporters.

The transcripts of all four segments and the video of two segments have been widely mirrored on the Web since the story aired, but the first two video segments were thought lost until now. The entire series - video and text - is now available at the Information Clearing House:

Carl Cameron Investigates: Israel Is Spying In And On The U.S.?

China Vows to Prevent Taiwan Independence by John Ruwitch and Tiffany Wu

" 'To Taiwan, this is a unilateral change of the status quo, a very serious provocation and an absolutely unnecessary escalation of tension,' Mainland Affairs Council Joseph Wu told reporters in Taipei. 'If China decides to enact the law, it may become an explosive point in cross-Strait relations.' "

Forcing Russia's Hand by Nicholas Berry

President Vladimir Putin's blatant intervention in Ukraine's presidential election has spawned an array of commentary that the Russian president is trying to re-establish the Soviet empire. What is missing from this analysis is one very important fact. The United States and Western Europe have forced Putin's hand. It is the West that has rekindled Russia's international ambitions, ambitions hardly noticeable under Boris Yeltsin.

Toward a New Grand Strategy for U.S. Foreign Policy by Tom Barry

In the lead-up to the Persian Gulf War, President George HW Bush attempted to address the absence of a post-Cold War vision by observing that the Gulf War coalition was the foundation of a “new world order.” However, this vision never took hold, partly because the bases for this new world order were not well defined. The concept of a new world order in which the U.S. would lead multilateral coalitions also faced opposition at home from both Republicans and Democrats, including concern among conservatives that the U.S. government was linking its interests and security too closely to multilateralism and the United Nations in particular, and concern among liberals and progressives that the concept of a new world order was too closely linked to military action and traditional concepts of national security.

New America and the Global Order: The Free World’s End? by Tom Nairn

Like Abraham Lincoln’s United States after the defeat of the secession, all are in truth forms of the unitary, armoured state designed to prevent unavoidably diverse peoples from wanting things too diverse and uncontrollable, above all in relationships with other states. Federation is an expression of nationalism, not a repudiation of it. As Galbraith himself explains, there would not be the faintest chance of Kurds accepting federation with a Shi’a–national majority, and calling it “loose” won’t make it possible.

Anti-secession law may backfire in Taiwan by Laurence Eyton

"The idea that favoring the pan-blues over the independence-minded DPP and its allies can mollify Beijing has received a severe blow, and the end result of the anti-secession law might well, ironically enough, be a growth in support for those who favor secession, who are seen as able and willing to 'stand up to Chinese bullying.' "

First we vote, then we kick you out by Pepe Escobar

Asia Times - Asia's most trusted news source for the Middle East

January 30, 2005, the day slated for Iraqi elections to be held, could be the thunder and lightning announcing the start of the Iraqi Civil War. Or, as many Iraqis convey in their prayers to Allah, it could lead to an elected Shi'ite-dominated government - but Iraqi nationalist nevertheless - convincing moderate Sunnis that their political commitment to the end of the occupation is more effective than a guerrilla strategy.

terrorism of israel by ROB MILLER

terrorism of israel

Denying the right of Palestinian refugees to return is therefore essential to maintaining Israeli “democracy”.

Israeli President Unveils Plan For 'World Knesset'

UJA-Federation of New York: Israeli President Unveils Plan For 'World Knesset' (Forward)

Israel's government took its first public step last week toward the formal creation of an international Jewish "parliament," whose purpose would be to represent Diaspora Jews in the formation of Israeli government policies that have potential impact on Jewish life in other countries.

Wake Up! It’s a Border, Not a Security Fence by Adir Zik

Arutz Sheva - Israel National News:

"A popular talk show host, termed "Israel's Rush Limbaugh," has come out strongly against the separation fence, warning that in actuality it is a final border being foisted upon the Israeli public. "

The Sinister Plan by MICHAEL SCHWARTZ

The Sinister Plan : OutLookIndia.com: "The Sinister Plan "

The chilling reality of what Fallujah has become is only now seeping out, as the American military continues to block almost all access to the city, whether to reporters, its former residents, or aid groups like the Red Crescent Society.

Israeli spies pay wages of hubris to the United States

gulfnews.com: Opinion

The JTA report states: "With senior officials at America's top pro-Israel organisation facing the spectre of federal indictments, staffers at other groups are beginning to waver in their support and are warning that the mounting legal scandal could damage the political credibility of the entire Jewish community."

Anti-secession bill reveals China's fears by Li YongYan

Asia Times Online - News from greater China; Hong Kong and Taiwan

The balance of power has shifted so much by now that the new leadership in Beijing is even indicating that under the one-China principle, everything is negotiable between the mainland and the island. But the fact remains that Taiwan talks and acts like a fully sovereign nation, whether the United Nations embraces it or not. Certainly it is self-governing.

Israel's coalition talks hit obstacle

Israel's coalition talks hit obstacle - (United Press International)

The talks were halted by plans to appoint Labor leader Shimon Peres as second deputy prime minister. However, Israel's constitution provides for only one deputy and the current holder, Ehud Olmert, refuses to surrender the post.

investing in a new world order

The year is 2050. Global economic growth is strong. Inflationary pressures are building in the world’s biggest economy, which is set to apply the brakes by raising interest rates. All eyes are trained on its central bank. But the object of their attention is not the US Federal Reserve, it is the People’s Bank of China.

This is many economists’ vision of the future, with China displacing the US as the world’s biggest economy over the decades ahead. Its near neighbour, India, is also expected to become an economic powerhouse.

US Accuses Israel of Spying; Second Charge in 4 Months by Barbara Ferguson

US Accuses Israel of Spying; Second Charge in 4 Months

For the second time in four months, the US has accused Israel of spying against Washington. This week, the FBI charged the Israeli Defense Ministry of industrial espionage, and accused it’s defense officials of trying to access US top secret technological and intelligence data.

US agents use phone taps in bid to unseat ElBaradei by Rupert Cornwell

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The leader of the campaign to get rid of him is understood to be John Bolton, the hardline under-secretary of state for arms control, whose admirers would like to see him promoted to be the deputy to Condoleezza Rice, the incoming Secretary of State. The eavesdropping is part of an apparent effort to persuade a blocking minority of the IAEA's 35-member board to oppose Dr ElBaradei's appointment to a third term when his current one expires next summer, on the grounds that he has been too soft on Iran.

Judges' verdict on terror laws provokes constitutional crisis by Clare Dyer, Michael White and Alan Travis

Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | Judges' verdict on terror laws provokes constitutional crisis

It was the anti-terror laws introduced by Mr Blunkett which posed a threat, he declared. "The real threat to the life of the nation, in the sense of a people living in accordance with its traditional laws and political values, comes not from terrorism but from laws such as these."

Coming geopolitical quakes by Arnaud de Borchgrave

Coming geopolitical quakes - The Washington Times: Commentary - December 15, 2004

Behind all the geopolitical jargon about the "functioning core of globalization," "system perturbations," and "dialectics of transformation," there is the underlying fear of a Vietnamlike debacle in Iraq that would drive the U.S. into isolationism — a sort of globalization in reverse.

British 'PATRIOT Act' Reined In by High Court

t r u t h o u t - British 'PATRIOT Act' Reined In by High Court

Britain's highest court of appeal struck a blow against the government's anti-terrorism policy Thursday by ruling it cannot detain suspected foreign terrorists indefinitely without trial.

In a stinging rebuke to Prime Minister Tony Blair's government, the panel ruled by 8 to 1 that the anti-terrorism act that authorized the detentions violated European human rights laws and were discriminatory because they applied only to foreign nationals and not to British citizens.

Jewish citizens of Israel vote with their feet by Iqbal Jassat

Jewish citizens of Israel vote with their feet (mparent7777.blog-city.com)

"...it appears that propagandists for Israel are bent on swimming against the tide of critical public opinion which is characterized by hugely popular solidarity campaigns against Israel. More important is the fact that these lobby groups, not satisfied with their dismal performance, are once again seeking to wield the axe of ‘anti-semitism’ to attack anti-Israeli comment."

No way to die

Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | No way to die

Speaking of the popular wish for a hero's death, the long-time colleague expresses a similar view: "If we are to consider it a heroic death we should agree with the popular consensus that he was poisoned by the Israelis . . . but we don't have the evidence."

Iraqi Resistance Speaks

BELLACIAO - Iraqi Resistance Speaks - Bellaciao collective

"We have not crossed the oceans and seas to occupy Britain or the U.S. nor are we responsible for 9/11. These are only a few of the lies that these criminals present to cover their true plans for the control of the energy resources of the world, in face of a growing China and a strong unified Europe . It is Ironic that the Iraqi?s are to bear the full face of this large and growing conflict on behalf of the rest of this sleeping world."

Tribute by Kirwan

Tribute

Maybe there are no longer any real differences between the belief systems at the top of the transnational corporate food chain. Maybe what is being used against the population here is only what so many corporate powers have been reluctant to do for far too long. Apparently the real powers must now feel very comfortable, at this present moment, when all pretense can finally be dropped and the USA can finally take its place among the tyrannical empires that have preceded us on that one-way road to owning everything and everyone?

Netanyahu's real agenda by Avirama Golan

Haaretz - Israel News - Netanyahu s real agenda

Netanyahu's opinions on economic matters are not separate from his political positions. Anyone who reads his writings and seriously considers the interviews he gave to Nekuda (the settlers' publication) and the Likud magazine prior to his election to the post of prime minister will understand that as far as Netanyahu is concerned, there is no reason to end the occupation. From his point of view, Israel can close itself off within a fence, conduct an armed and aggressive struggle against terror, and at the same time develop a tough neo-liberal economy.

How Iran will fight back by Kaveh L Afrasiabi

Asia Times - Asia's most trusted news source for the Middle East

Ironically, to open a parenthesis here, some friends of Israel in the US, such as Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz, an avid supporter of "torturing the terrorists", has recently inked a column on a pro-Israel website calling for the revision of international law allowing an Israeli, and US, military assault against Iran. Dershowitz has clearly taken flight of the rule of law, making a mockery of the esteemed institution that is considered a beacon on the hill in the United States; the same Ivy League university is home to the hate discourse of "clashing civilizations", another ornament for its cherished history.

America has lost its world leadership in a dizzyingly short time

America has lost its world leadership in a dizzyingly short time: "The 'political capital' which Bush claims that he has gained by virtue of this election ends at our shores. Overseas he is bankrupt. The Bush presidency was viewed as the most powerful catalyst in bringing the 25 nations of the 'old' and 'new' Europe together in approving their new constitution for the European Union (EU) in Rome last month. The driving force in its ratification is the hope of creating a major collective economic and political entity on the world scene which could challenge American hegemony in world affairs."

Analysis of Strategic Threats by Joel M. Skousen

JoelSkousen.com: Analysis of Strategic Threats: "By Joel M. Skousen"

Two of these world powers are nations--Russia and China--and the third is a transnational conspiracy of power by a combination of individuals in the West attempting to maneuver the world into a New World Order (NWO) of global control, euphemistically masquerading as a "global democracy." I will refer to the latter as Western globalists. All less powerful nations in the world fall under the influence of one of these three powers, either as direct allies, client states for the purchase of arms, and/or diplomatic allies working in collusion to further strategic goals of global hegemony. There is one further complicating factor, however. The Western globalists are divided into two main factions: a US/British faction firmly in control of the financial means of the NWO, and a European faction of hard-core leftists, secretly aligned with Moscow, which controls the majority of votes in the General Assembly of the UN. I will attempt to describe each of the three power centers, their allies, and what I believe their individual strategy involves.

We Are the Problem by Charley Reese

To say that occupation ended when we transferred sovereignty to a government we selected and appointed is to play word games. Anybody who believes the interim government is actually independent and could do anything without our permission is living in a dream world.

Rebellion in the Ranks by Justin Raimondo

It's all part of the great "transformation" that is supposed to be taking place not only in the military but also in the civilian realm. Inured to the stench of death, we must soldier on in the name of what George W. Bush calls the "global democratic revolution" – and if American GIs in Iraq have to rummage through garbage to improvise armor, then so be it. If they are sitting ducks for terrorists worldwide, and handicapped by faulty (albeit high-priced) equipment – well, it's all for a good cause.

Defeat For an Empire by Robert Jensen

We should all carry a profound sense of sadness at where decisions made by U.S. policy-makers -- not just the gang in power today but a string of Republican and Democratic administrations -- have left us and the Iraqis. But that sadness should not keep us from pursuing the most courageous act of citizenship in the United States today: pledging to dismantle the American empire.

Unmasking the Secret War By the 'Economic Hit Men' by Helga Zepp-LaRouche

Unmasking the Secret War By the 'Economic Hit Men': "by Helga Zepp-LaRouche "

Besides the book by John Perkins, there is yet another very cogent reason to reopen the circumstances surrounding the murder of Herrhausen. Today we are confronted with the rapidly collapsing world financial system. And in this situation, Herrhausen had proposed and taken up certain measures, in order to prevent damage from being done to the population and to defend the general welfare. Since his death and that of Rohwedder, in Germany there have been very few if any bankers at all, who would be prepared to act in this way—and that was, to be sure, the intended effect of the perpetrators of the murder.

Members of Reestablished Sanhedrin Ascend Temple Mount

Arutz Sheva - Israel National News

In a dramatic but unpublicized move Monday, members of the newly established Sanhedrin ascended the Temple Mount, Judaism’s holiest site.

There is also a Talmudic tradition (Eruvin 43b; Maharatz Chajas ad loc; Rashash , Sanhedrin 13b) that Elijah the Prophet will present himself before a duly-ordained Sanhedrin when he announces the coming of the Messiah, meaning that – despite common misconceptions - a Sanhedrin is a pre-, not post-messianic institution.

When Legend Becomes Fact by James Wall

When Legend Becomes Fact (mparent7777.blog-city.com)

After extensive research of the period of Israel’s formation as a modern state, Flapan identifies seven “myths” that he refutes as only partial or distorted versions of what has emerged as the prevailing narrative for the region. In light of Yasir Arafat’s death, one of those myths is particularly pertinent: Israel’s hand has always been extended in peace, but since no Arab leaders have ever recognized Israel’s right to exist, there has never been anyone to talk to.

Strategies For The New World Order by Mike Whitney

ZNet |Economy | Savaging the Dollar

“The price of labor is set in South China, because that is the largest center of work force on the planet. So, if you want to live seven times as well as somebody in Canton, you’re going to have to be seven times more productive.”

Russia Reveals Deadly New Missile For Air Force

Russia revealed it was fitting its strategic bombers with cruise missiles capable of delivering a massive precision strike thousands of miles away -- giving away the first clear hint of its post-Cold War military strategy.

Is the US the Next Mexico? by Henry Makow Ph.D.

In "Puzzling Neighbors: A Historical Guide to Understand Modern Mexico" (1987) Salvador Borrego describes Mexico's turbulent blood soaked history and poverty in terms of a conflict with agents of an "alien" force.

"During more than 160 years, Mexicans have been hounded by influences which are foreign to their essence, by a phantom, an X factor which not all have identified..."

The "alien" force is London-based international finance and its corporate tentacles using Freemasonry and the United States government as hand puppets.

What Are We Up to – in Ukraine? by Patrick J. Buchanan

For us to imperil it by using our perfected technique of the "post-modern coup" – as we did in Serbia and Georgia and failed to do in Belarus – to elect American vassals in Russia's backyard, even in former Soviet republics, seems an act of imperial arrogance and blind stupidity.

Congress should investigate NED and any organization that used clandestine cash or agents to fix the Ukrainian election, as the U.S. media appear to have gone into the tank for global democracy, as they did for war in Iraq.

Prince Bernhard by GORDON CASELY

His reputation as a mover and shaker inspired the Bilderberg conferences of the 1950s, a forum where politicians and officials from both sides of the Atlantic could meet to discuss global problems in absolute privacy.

BIran, US divide stands in Iraq's way by Kaveh L Afrasiabi

There are, however, serious side effects to Iran's Iraq policy in tandem with the US approach, given the second George W Bush administration's stubborn resistance to acknowledging any positive role played by Iran in regional crises, depicting Iran instead as a "rogue" power that, in the words of Kenneth Pollack in his new book, Persian Puzzle, aims to overthrow its neighbors. Such caricatures of Iran's regional foreign policy are not helpful and the Bush administration must sooner or later reckon with the fact that Iran is a major regional player with a sophisticated, multilayered foreign policy, featuring certain shared or parallel interests with the US.

Rethinking Secession by Alan Bock

A central government with strictly limited powers that grants virtual autonomy to diverse regions is another option, of course. But central governments are seldom content to confine themselves within strictly limited powers. As the world sorts itself out in the near future, division should be a serious option, not one that is automatically dismissed by diplomats and political leaders. Oftentimes the status quo is more destabilizing and conflict-inducing than a possible division or secession.

The Zionist Plan for the Middle East by Israel Shahak

The plan operates on two essential premises. To survive, Israel must 1) become an imperial regional power, and 2) must effect the division of the whole area into small states by the dissolution of all existing Arab states. Small here will depend on the ethnic or sectarian composition of each state. Consequently, the Zionist hope is that sectarian-based states become Israel's satellites and, ironically, its source of moral legitimation.

When is as mob not really a mob? by Simon Jenkins

We are obsessed with ordering the world to our will — and complaining bitterly when it declines to be so odered. Mr Yushchenko may be “our sort” of oligarch, as opposed to Russia’s. His victory is probably in Europe’s interest, though not if Ukraine’s wealth, mostly in the east, goes to Russia.

China and Iran Draw Closer

In late October, China’s government-owned Sinopec Group signed a $70 billion oil and natural gas agreement with Iran. Under the terms of the agreement, “Sinopec Group will buy 250 million tons of liquefied natural gas over 30 years from Iran and develop the giant Yadavaran field,” reported Beijing’s Xinhuanet news service. “Iran is also committed to export 150,000 barrels of crude oil to China for 25 years after commissioning of the field.”

IMF Sponsored "Democracy" in The Ukraine by Michel Chossudovsky

In the Ukraine, the IMF not only intervened in the implementation of the macroeconomic agenda, it also intruded directly in the arena of domestic party politics. As in Russia in 1993, the Ukrainian parliament was seen as an obstacle to the implementation of the "free market reforms".

Commissar Aaronovitch by Justin Raimondo

Behind the vapid rhetorical flourishes of Global Democratism, and the gimmicky public relations campaigns, is a well-oiled propaganda machine funded by self-interested governments, which are intent on pursuing their own geopolitical, economic, and ideological agendas.