So far this year various issues have taken center stage as campaign rhetoric here in America gets fired up across the national political spectrum. Among the most oft revisited is government spending. With TARP emergency spending measures introduced by the George W Bush administration and subsequent additions to this it makes sense. People from across the political landscape were upset by the idea the very people responsible for the reckless behavior which led the country and world to such a perilous financial position were being given a free pass and a taxpayer financing to boot. Worse was the fact they were handed taxpayer dollars.

25 MKs have proposed legislation aimed at outlawing Israeli organizations involved in universal jurisdiction activity - if passed, the bill would endanger Israeli democracy.

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As the political left has shrunk in size and influence, the organizations that promote universal values have become the only clear and systematic opposition to official human rights abuses, whether within Israel proper or in the occupied territories. Thus, HROs have become the new enemies of the Israeli far right. For it, the human-rights agenda is unacceptable and inherently "anti-Israeli," and thus it has a duty to stop it.

Letter in the Haaretz, July 16, 2010 Read the rest »»

The War in Iraq has been a complete disaster that is about as obvious as you can get. Following 9/11 the Bush administration used the opportunity to rush through a credible sounding excuse to go into Iraq. This was done on the backs of people with solid reputations and years of service to their country being pressured to lend credence to shaky evidence.

Le Ministère des Affaires étrangères et européennes a annoncé aujourd’hui que la France s’engageait à verser 17 milliards d’Euros pour la reconstruction d’Haïti après le catastrophique tremblement de terre qui a frappé il y a six mois cette nation caribéenne déjà démunie, faisant près de 300 000 victimes.

Puisque des juifs socialistes (Mendès-France) peuvent s’entendre avec des nazis antisémites (André Bettencourt), puisque des sionistes (Sarkozy) et des pétainistes antisémites (Bettencourt-L’Oréal) sont en mesure de s’entendre, cela devrait suffire pour bien montrer que, pour tous ces gens, les idéologies ne comptent que tant qu’elles servent à manipuler la population (et le sionisme sert à manipuler essentiellement les Juifs !).

An important and often neglected question...

July 12, 2010

Critique of an article with the same title in Toronto’s Globe and Mail by Ian Buruma
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/is-israel-a-normal-country/...

This article starts with a brave question, and I think for most people the answer is apparent with the asking of the question.

But like the famous line of T.S. Elliot, the piece ends, not with a bang, but a whimper.

After asking a question which would never pass the lips of Israel’s establishment, the article makes the very claims and assertions the Israeli government would make.

En l’espace d’un mois, deux imminentes correspondantes, l’une âgée de 90 ans, à la Maison Blanche et l’autre plus jeune travaillant à CNN, ont été poussées à démissionner pour avoir transgressé la ligne rouge : déplaire au lobby israélien. Qu’à cela ne tienne, fuckoff CNN, BBC et tutti quanti, nous regarderons la chaine du Hisboallah, el Manar, à défaut d’avoir d’autres télé plus « modérés » qui nous conviennent !

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Mon, 06/28/2010

The G8 and G20 summits wrapped up in Huntsville and Toronto over the weekend, amidst big spending promises from the leaders and the arrests of over 600 protesters.

FSRN's Aaron Lakoff was in the streets of Toronto, and files this report: http://www.fsrn.org/audio/g8-and-g20-meetings-wrap-canada/6991

“Resolver el conflicto palestino-israelí es en muchos aspectos –aunque no en todos- extraordina riamente simple"

Ramón Pedregal Casanova y Alejandro Pedregal
Rebelión

le colonialisme est un mauvais élève dixit le Général Giap