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AIPAC Conference Promotes War – by Stephen Lendman

It’s contemptuous of fundamental human rights. It believes Jews are God’s chosen people. It thinks Arabs are subhumans. It favors eliminating them altogether. War is its instrument of choice.

Washington again was venue. A rogue’s gallery of participants attended. Warmongering speeches were featured. AIPAC does it annually. It disseminates disinformation, lies and hate.

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Israel, United States, Zionism

Israel And America: The “Special Relationship” That Isn’t – By Dr. Alan Sabrosky

Whenever Israel’s supporters today speak of a “special relationship” with the US that is supposedly graven in stone, it is useful to remember that something very different existed when Israel came into existence in 1948 on the gutted carcass of Palestine. The US recognized Israel, but that was about it. Hollywood was (and remains) largely a Jewish preserve, but their level of influence elsewhere – in the government, the media and academia – was limited. Prominent American Jews felt no obligation to endorse Israel or Israeli leaders, no matter what happened. Dozens (including Albert Einstein) signed a letter published in the New York Times in 1948 protesting the arrival of Menachem Begin and condemning his actions. And the general American public was largely indifferent to what happened in the Middle East.

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Israel, United States

Why Americans are turning away from Israel and its U.S. lobby [video]

Grant F. Smith, research director of IRmep, briefs several hundred Houston area non-profit and business leaders about why Americans are turning away from Israel and challenging Israel’s U.S. lobby. Review of major espionage, propaganda and wealth transfer initiatives.

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United States, Zionism
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Hagel In The Dock: The Aipac Dog Bites A Man – by Dr. Alan Sabrosky

There may not be a magic bullet to end the Zionist domination of the American political process, but in Chuck Hagel, we got a dud. I do not regret supporting him at the beginning, but I wish he had shown more fortitude as the process degenerated — admittedly a lot to ask, but then the position to which he was nominated cries out for someone like that, which it has not had for many years. Well, perhaps next time — if there is one — it’ll be a Marine in his place.

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Palestine, United States

Alan Hart: What do Obama and Abbas have in common?

Alan Hart examines what it would take for Obama and Abbas to stop being grovellers to Israel and the Zionist lobby, and wonders if they’d both be assassinated if they ceased grovelling.

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Israel, United States, War Crimes

Israeli Operation Cast Lead Gaza Massacre, Israeli & American War Crimes

This “Video” graphically depicts in part the most vile, evil, inhuman Zionist Israeli behavior and actions against the ever suffering practically defenseless Palestinian people of Gaza who have no military or sophisticated American made weapons as Israel has, to defend and protect them from the unwarranted cowardly Israeli military attacks, mayhem and massacres.

This presentation is a Memorial and a Requiem for the Dead of Gaza, Honouring the Valiant Palestinian People and a Monument to the People of Gaza.

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Grassroots Activism, United States

Mohamed Khodr: A Petition to Reclaim Our Government, Our Democracy, Our Future from Israel

America, two hundred and thirty seven years ago we overthrew a colonial foreign power that occupied our land, stole our treasury, and dictated its interests upon Americans. Americans launched a revolution against the most powerful military in the world and won. The United States of America was founded as a FREE, independent, and SOVEREIGN NATION, only to see another foreign nation, ISRAEL, use insidious stealth power of money, media, and lobbies to once again dictate its will and policies upon a most obliging compliant federal government.

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Failures, United States
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Stephen Lendman: Hillary Clinton – Profile of Imperial Arrogance and Lawlessness

Hillary Clinton represents the worst of imperial arrogance. She supports the worst of Israeli lawlessness. She was one of the largest recipients of defense contractor cash. She backed war on Afghanistan and Iraq. She opposed a Democrat resolution. She supported restriction-free nuclear cooperation with Israel and other US allies violating NPT provisions. She endorsed nuclear weapons use in Afghanistan and Pakistan. She calls them deterrents that “keep the peace.

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Human Rights, United States, War Crimes

Clive Hambidge: The American Manifest Destiny

American progress is, has been, constructed on abuse and contempt for the sovereignty of other nations and their people and is thereby racist. American peace, American liberty, American freedom, and the ruthless pursuit of happiness for American citizens is the dream, but the manifest truth is, that American citizens are facing social meltdown and immizeration at home as their military and intelligence agencies kill abroad for profit. This America we hold to be self evident. “The idea of rights is nothing but the concept of virtue applied to the world of politics. By means of the idea of rights men have defined the nature of licence and of tyranny …  no man can be great without virtue, nor any nation great without the respects for rights.” (Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America [1835] 1991:219). This America must be your manifest duty to understand. How can you export American Democracy to a distrusting world when “you have no product?” (Cindy Sheehan).

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911, Human Rights, Terrorism, United States
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Richard Falk: Zero Dark Thirty & American Exceptionalism

The particulars of this Operation Neptune Spear (the US Government code name) are ventures that only the United States, and possibly Israel, would undertake, and that their unabashed victory claim, is a notorious instance of American Exceptionalism, namely, an assertion that the United States can do what others must not dare to do, and can even provide for itself a legal rationale with the arrogant label ‘not for use by others.’

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Israel, Nuclear Weapon, United States, Videos
Abby Martin talks to Grant Smith, Director of the Institute for Research: Middle Eastern Policy, about NUMEC, Israel's nuclear ambiguity and nuclear secrets.

Nuclear Weapons: What’s worse, poisoning by Israel, or gagging by U.S. government?

Grant F. Smith appeared on Abby Martin’s global broadcast today to discuss the Israeli nuclear weapons program. Topics covered included the diversion of weapons-grade uranium from Apollo, Pennsylvania, the U.S. government’s ongoing fight against releasing classified documents on Israeli nukes, the bankruptcy of “nuclear ambiguity.”

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Israel, United States, Zionism
Hagel lost and sold his soul, honor, dignity, self respect, courage, and principles to a powerful minority to secure a government job.

Mohamed Khodr: Amendment to U.S. Constitution. President Nominates Hagel, Israel Lobby Gives “Advise and Consent”, Not U.S. Senate

In effect, Hagel imbibed, adopted, and swallowed Israel’s laundry list of demands. NOTHING BUT ISRAEL is the concern of Jewish Americans in and out of government, the rest of the world can go to hell. Hagel lost and sold his soul, honor, dignity, self respect, courage, and principles to a powerful minority to secure a government job.

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Human Rights, Israel, United States
Obama Vacant Occupation

William A. Cook: Universalism and Individualism versus Tribalism

this country has chosen to support the increasingly undemocratic state of Israel, the ever increasing tribalism that is pushing that state into a theocracy that denies the universalism of all human kind and imposes a set of beliefs that threaten to destroy the very concept of individual rights. America invests untold billions of dollars into this state ostensibly because it is democratic, a democratic friend in the mid-east, and it adheres to America’s core values. Nothing could be further from the truth.

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Democracy, Freedom of Speech, Politics, United States
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Paul Craig Roberts: The Institutionalization of Tyranny

The institutionalization of tyranny is the achievement of the Bush/Obama regimes of the 21st century. This, and not the Great Society, is the decisive break from the American tradition. The Bush Republicans demolished almost all of the constitutional protections of liberty erected by the Founding Fathers. The Obama Democrats codified Bush’s dismantling of the Constitution and removed the protection afforded to citizens from being murdered by the government without due process.

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United States, Zionism
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Jamal Kanj: Unchecked Israel Firsters

Can you imagine two American politician race to do a “one-upsmanship on who is more pro-China?” Of course you can’t because this will never happen. But why is it OK if politicians are pro-Israel? Have the Americans lost their minds? How do they allow Israel Firster’s so called American politicians and policy makers to declare their loyalty to a foreign state and can be counted on to put interests of Israel in front of America’s?

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Israel, Opinion, United States, Zionism
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Mohamed Khodr: Who Will Congress Choose AIPAC or Chuck Hagel

The “Jewish Lobby” has such power and influence on the U.S. government; one only needs to read the main reason U.S. Senators, mostly Republicans vying for a piece of the Democrats Jewish subsidy, are opposing the nomination of Senator Chuck Hagel for Secretary of Defense.

According to a leading opponent of the nomination, Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC), who appeared on CNN (Jan. 6) explaining his opposition by saying Senator Hagel “is very antagonistic to the State of Israel”.

What the Hell? Israel – Senator Hagel is nominated by President Obama for Secretary of Defense of the United States, not Israel.

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Corporate Media, United States
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Danny Schechter: Will Americans ever get to see Al Jazeera?

Now that Al Jazeera has bought Current TV, a channel shown on Time Warner cable, the Time Warner megacorp became the first system operator out of the box to say it would not carry the new news channel that the Qatar-based network wants to launch in America, in much the same way that BBC set up BBC America to offer its programming to US viewers.

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Opinion, United States
Obama and hagel

Jamal Kanj: Obama and the Jewish Lobby

Ironically, patriot Americans are shoved aside by the Jewish lobby’s “thought police” while individuals with dual Israeli citizenship or ex-Israeli soldiers or even suspected spies were appointed unchallenged to the highest offices in US administrations.

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Americas, Terrorism, United States
US Death Buisness

Elias Akleh: Who Killed Our Children?

The whole US was shocked when armed with automatic assault weapons 20 years old Adam Lanza murdered 20 first grade students in Newtown, Connecticut, yet very few, if any, Americans get shocked when their presidents murder thousands of similar children of other nations but call them heroes and defenders of freedom and democracy.

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Opinion, United States, War
Thirty three countries - Failed States Index based on a risk assessment

Wiping Countries off the Map? Iran or the United States?

Several targeted countries in the Middle East, Africa and Asia, are categorized as “failed states”. The central question is: who is failing the failed states? Who is “Taking them Out”?
It is part of a covert United States military and intelligence agenda. Destroying countries is part of a US Imperial project, a process of global domination.

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Israel, United States
Obama Interview

Alan Hart: An off-the-record New Year conversation with President Obama

Alan Hart: What is it in particular that you think they need to be “saved” from?

President Obama: (The president smiled). The short answer is Netanyahu, those to the right of him and the Zionist colonial ideology they represent. The long answer has to take account of this fact. If Israel continues on its present course, gobbling up more and more of the land and water resources of the occupied West Bank, there will come a time when the Palestinians of Greater Israel will outnumber its Jews. They and their leaders will then have a choice of three options.

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Mohamed Khodr: Obama Will Cave in to Israel and Drop Chuck Hagel’s Nomination

Mr. President, it is shocking, bewildering, incredulous, and tragically disappointing that American citizens should have to resort to a petition asking you to serve America’s national interest by nominating the incredibly qualified Senator Chuck Hagel for Secretary of Defense and, for once, stand up to Israel and its Jewish cabal and lobbies, such as AIPAC, ADL, and the American Jewish Committee, who are smearing and assaulting an honorable American to pressure you to withdraw him from consideration as has been reported in Israel.

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Israel, United States, War Crimes, Zionism
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Glenn Greenwald: The Israel Lobby’s smear campaign against Chuck Hagel and Zero Dark Thirty

Discussing the potential new Defense Secretary, Chuck Hagel, and the highly-celebrated pro-torture film, “Zero Dark Thirty,” on MSNBC’s “Up with Chris Hayes.”

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United States, Zionism
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Stephen Lendman: John Kerry is Israel’s Man at State

“John Kerry will never do anything to compromise (Israel’s) security.” He’s committed to a “special relationship.” His support for Israel is “unwavering.” He always believed that America “must stand solidly behind Israel at the UN and other international organizations.” He favors moving America’s embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. He’s “Israel’s Man at State.”

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Defence, United States

Mohamed Khodr: Who Will Obama Choose – AIPAC or Senator Hagel?

President Obama you must nominate Senator Chuck Hagel or forever be known as the President who surrendered our sovereignty and independence to a state whose belligerent policies against a defenseless people, the Palestinians, are condemned by the entire world.

Not nominating Senator Hagel will only further embolden Israel and its amen corner to further ensure that all such future decisions and nominations be first approved in Tel Aviv, not by the American people.

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Defence, United States, Zionism
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Alan Hart: Obama’s Hagel Test

Obama’s decision, expected very soon, about whether or not to nominate Hagel will give us the first significant indication since his re-election of whether or not he is going to continue to dance to Zionism’s tune or, as Hagel might put it, continue to be intimidated by its lobby.

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Human Rights, United States
Abdulrahman al-Awlaki, American Citizen | Assassinated by Obama's Drone Wars

Obama’s Crocodile Tears

I would like to see your tears, Obama, also for another citizen of your country, a kid named Abdulrahman al-Awlaki, who was killed by your illegitimate orders. Until then, you and your government are outliers. Blessed be the victims, may God have mercy on their souls.

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Arabs, United States, War Crimes

Do Arabs Cry For Their Children Too?

The misery and torment that befell Newton can be multiplied a thousand fold across the Arab world. American policy and actions have resulted in the deaths (i.e. murder) of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands, of innocent children. The deaths of these children can be considered as war crimes and a crime against humanity of the highest order. They should shock and outrage us, compelling us to demand an immediate change in American foreign policy.

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Politics, United States, Zionism
Palestinian men, show them standing in line next to the “Security” wall surrounding Jerusalem during Ramadan.

James M. Wall: The fate of human dignity is in our hands

Human dignity for the Palestinian people is in the hands of the world in 2013. Barack Obama knows that he and his nation play an essential role in delivering  that dignity to the Palestinian people. Benign neglect will not be his policy.

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Opinion, United States, War Crimes
Francis Boyle

More Than 30 Top U.S. Officials Guilty of War Crimes, Boyle Says

Charges that the war crimes includes torture, enforced disappearances, assassinations, murders, kidnappings, extraordinary renditions, ‘shock and awe’ (bombings), and (the use of) depleted uranium, white phosphorus, cluster bombs, drone strikes, and the like.

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Defence, Israel, United States
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Dr. Elias Akleh: American Nuclear Hypocrisy

When it comes to criminal Israel, American nuclear hypocrisy go as far as criminalizing themselves by violating their own American laws to protect and support Israel financially, militarily, and politically.

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Featured Articles, Israel, United States
israel impunity

William A. Cook: From the City of Destruction to the Promised Land

The path to the Promised lands is the path that avoids wanton destruction of the kind the United States and Israel have wrought in the mid-east, where cooperation, compassion and concern for all is the peace all deserve.

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Israel, Palestine, United States
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Mohamed Khodr: US and Israel Faced The Greatest Slap Heard Around the World

95% of the entire world rebuked and expressed their long held anger against U.S. and Israel. The world is slowly finding its voice, its courage, its humanitarian conscience to tell Israel and the U.S.: “Enough is Enough” of your murderous atrocities, ethnic cleansing, and theft and illegal occupation of a nation—Palestine.

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Israel, United States

Glenn Greenwald; The US and Israel: a short quiz on ‘rogue nation’ status

It’s the entire planet on one side, versus the US, its new right-wing poodle to the north, Israel, and three tiny, bribed islands on the other side.

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Israel, Satire, United States, War

Israel Routes US Forces in “Six-Hour War” [Satire]

Obama orders land, sea and air invasion of israel. Us sixth fleet wiped out by israeli planes, ships and subs. Israeli amphibious assault on washington dc successful. Israeli flag flies over the us capitol building.

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