Bush's Lies And Simple Truths (Robert Jensen)

George Bush HAS misled the American public. He IS misleading the American public, and we can assume he WILL continue to mislead the public. In fact, the entire Bush administration has been misleading the public, sometimes by misdirection, sometimes by fudging the facts, and sometimes by straightforward, outright lies.

The Business of Death (Norman Finkelstein)

The Holocaust only emerged in American life after Israel's victory in the 1967 Six Day war against its Arab neighbours. [Since then] too many public and private resources have been invested in memorialising the Nazi genocide. Most of the output is worthless, a tribute not to Jewish suffering but to Jewish aggrandisement. The Holocaust has proven to be an indispensable ideological weapon.

Open letter to Rev. Pat Robertson

Rev. Robertson, I propose that you and I have a dialogue. You should bring a list of all the killings carried out by the Muslims throughout the history and I will bring a list of all the killings caused by the non-Muslims. And let us compare the both lists.

The American Administration is a Bloodthirsty Wild Animal

[T]he nightmare of American hysteria, ignorance, arrogance, stupidity and belligerence; the most powerful nation the world has ever known effectively waging war against the rest of the world.

Oil is the obvious motive for US interest in Iraq

Installing a pro-U.S. regime in Iraq would clearly open up lucrative possibilities for US oil companies and guarantee the US long-term access to oil reserves.

How did Iraq get its weapons?

Reports by the US Senate's committee on banking, housing and urban affairs -- which oversees American exports policy -- reveal that the US, under the successive administrations of Ronald Reagan and George Bush Sr, sold materials including anthrax, VX nerve gas, West Nile fever germs and botulism to Iraq right up until March 1992, as well as germs similar to tuberculosis and pneumonia.

Occupied Maan

The Jordanian regime, known in Washington as a "moderate" Arab state, has portrayed its targets in Maan alternately as drug dealers, weapons smugglers and Islamist extremists with connections to Kabul.
 

UK government dossier on human rights abuses

As the debate on whether to use military force against Iraq escalates, the human rights of the Iraqi people, as a direct consequence of any potential military action, is sorely missing from the equation.
 

Not in Our Name

Facts Sheet about: Iraq, Afghanistan, Occupied Palestine, Global Economy, Media Monopoly, etc...

Sanctions Harm Ordinary Iraqis

Our government doesn't want us to see the devastation our policy has caused. Our policy of sanctions against Iraq has claimed the lives of more than 1 million Iraqis - mostly children.

Journalists are under fire for telling the truth

I will tell you. Journalists are being attacked for telling the truth, for trying to tell it how it is. American journalists especially.

Paying for the Bullet

I have nothing against Arabs, but a lot of them seem to hate me. Not as an individual, but just as an American. I think I understand why.

Neoconservatives Consolidate Control over U.S. Mideast Policy

Abrams, appointed by the White House December 2, 2002, first came to national prominence as a controversial political appointee in the Reagan administration. He later pleaded guilty to lying to Congress regarding the Iran-Contra scandal, and has also opposed the Oslo peace process and called for Washington to "stand by Israel," rather than act as a neutral mediator between Israel and the Palestinians.

Bali Halloween (Israel Shamir)

There is no "Islamic' terror but in the eyes of the beholder. The Catholic IRA was bombing London pubs well before Hamas discovered Tel Aviv cafés. The Tamil Tigers, Hindu militant organisation trained by the Israeli Mossad, are world leaders in suicide bombings.

Fear and ignorance fueling racial profiling after Sept. 11 (By Acel Moore)

The case of the three Muslim men who were detained by authorities in Florida for 17 hours last weekend is evidence that African American men are no longer the primary focus of racial profiling. As an African American, I know that racial profiling - targeting people whose skin is black or brown - is as American as the Stars and Stripes.
 

Why war is now on the back burner

President Bush may have put an invasion of Iraq on hold until it can best help his 2004 re-election campaign.

World's Policeman or Bully? (Robert Jensen)

All this talk about being the world's policeman helps obscure a simple reality: U.S. policy-makers routinely ignore international law and act as rogues.

The Israelization of America

US officials recently announced the somewhat jarring news that Israeli security forces will be training American soldiers in the techniques of urban warfare. Apparently Israel’s illegal thirty-five year occupation of Palestine has enabled it to perfect tactics that our troops will need in a 'possible' war on Iraq.

The Sniper who Embraced Islam

Only Islam will be blamed, of that I am sure. It surely won't be the U.S. Army, where the suspected murderer was trained to be a dead-sure marksman; nor will it be his failed marriage, his chronic unemployment, or the delusions that filled his otherwise empty life.

The return of Cover-up Kissinger

The man is, in fact, a war criminal -- wanted for questioning in Chile, Argentina and France (concerning French citizens who disappeared in Chile). He cannot travel to Britain, Brazil and many other countries because they cannot guarantee his immunity from legal proceedings.

Free Jamil Al-Amin!

As a leader of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and an honorary Black Panther, Brown garnered enough attention and influence to earn a 44,000-page government file. He has been repeatedly harassed, arrested, and jailed over the last 35 years.

Bullies, Dogs, Rats and the Muslim Ummah

At the dawn of European colonialism the body of the Muslim Ummah may be seen as the body of a sick man who was suffering from cancer or some deep organic disease, making him frail, weak and hardly able to move. Here came the bully of the West (colonial powers)...

Question & Answer: Bali Island Attacks (Sheikh Yusuf Al-Qaradawi)

Indeed, those people hurt Islam and Muslims with the wrong behavior they do; as the threat they pose to Islam is much more than that of the enemies of Islam who fight it tooth and nail, both in darkness and broad daylight. That is why they say that ‘a wise enemy is better than a fool friend.’ Also, the Arab poet reiterated this saying:

China 'Cracks down on Muslims'

China has been taking advantage of the US war against terrorism to make sweeping arrests of its restive Muslim population in the far west, according to Amnesty International.

The Sad Story of Turkish Secularism

Secularism won its first and greatest victory in the Muslim world on Oct. 29, 1923, when in Turkey Mustafa Kemal Ataturk came to power and systematically proceeded with his program of secularizing that remarkable Islamic country.

Corporate America and its nauseating greed

It takes quite a leap of faith to believe that when firms maximize profits they also "maximize the collective good."

Editorial: The Daily Addresses the MSA Controversy

Throughout the mainstream media there exists a discourse of “terror,” one that obscures critical thinking and reduces complex and nuanced situations down to buzzwords and alarmism.

Converted to Islam?

The Interior Ministry and the Ministry of Religious Affairs are doing all they can to prevent official recognition of Jews who convert or marry a Muslim.

Evidence Links DC Sniper to Oval Office

George Bush and his ranks of mercenaries can go kill all they want, destroy all they want, mimic all they want. But for every crime they commit a homegrown terrorist will pop up at their own backyard to have them drink from the same cup.

On Commentary he says don't dismiss Falwell. He and his ilk are dangerous

Heavily supported by influential preachers who wave Israeli flags in Washington, Ariel Sharon need not fear any interruption in the $10 million dollars a day he receives from US taxpayers, money that he needs to pay for his expensive subjugation of Palestinians.

The Current Situation in Palestine (Dr. Maria C. Khoury)

 Israel has demolished hundreds of Palestinian homes and uprooted over 500,000 acres of crops during the Palestinian Intifada, a flagrant violation of international law.

PM plans to ask U.S. for aid that could top $10 billion

Currently, Washington provides Israel $2.1 billion a year that must be spent in the United States on defense supplies. One proposal is for $2 billion to be converted to shekels and used to purchase defense equipment from Israeli manufacturers in the hope that it would invigorate the Israeli economy.

With Friends Like These - Chechnya

However, that wasn't the general tenor of media coverage of the incident here in the United States. The White House was quick to defend the Russians' actions, and many American networks went so far as to adopt the official Soviet, er, Russian characterization of the incident as not just terrorism, but "Russia's 9/11."

India's Own Beirut

Whatever the Hindu extremists say, there are no Islamic terrorists in Ahmadabad now—but there will be if the assaults on Muslims do not cease.

China's New Terrorists

With a new U.N. 'terrorist' label, it's open season on China's Muslim minorities.

Algerians Protest Impending Deportation From Canada (Yahya Abdul Rahman)

Since September 11th people in the Arab and Muslim communities are justifiably fearful to speak out.

Injustice made in Palestine (Kathy Malas)

After Sabra and Shatila, Western news were debating if this event was a massacre or not!!! The press concentrated on Israel's self-examination rather than on the victims and their surviving family.

The True, Peaceful Face of Islam (Karen Armstrong)

It would be as grave a mistake to see Osama bin Laden as an authentic representative of Islam as to consider James Kopp, the alleged killer of an abortion provider in Buffalo, N.Y., a typical Christian or Baruch Goldstein, who shot 29 worshipers in the Hebron mosque in 1994 and died in the attack, a true martyr of Israel.

GALILEE FLOWERS (Israel Shamir)

While Moslems do not consider Jesus - God, they proclaim him as the Messiah, the Anointed one, the Paradise Dweller. This religious idea, familiar to Nestorians and other early churches, but rejected by mainstream Christianity, opened the gates for those Jews, who could not part with the notion of strict monotheism. That is why many Palestinian Jews and Christians of the 7th century accepted Islam and became Palestinian Moslems.

Here are some of the Muslim victims of genocide throughout history

Compiled By The Canadian Islamic Congress

Islam & Democracy: Between the Past, the Present and the Future (Dr. Radwan Masmoudi)

The purpose of this paper is to take a brief historical look at the interactions between Islam, as a religion, and the political systems that ruled the Muslim world (Ummah). My objective is to outline possible scenarios for the future, and describe how they might serve the Muslim Ummah, and Islam, to different degrees in light of the teachings of the Quran and the Sunna, as well as the emerging and changing needs of our societies. 

Modernization of the Islamic World (Ibrahim Abu-Rabi')

The historical forces that produced Osama bin Laden and the Taliban, and a look at U.S. involvement in the Muslim world. 

Calif. Muslims Detained in Crowded, Cold Centers

Hundreds of Muslim men and boys are being subjected to strip searches in freezing, standing room only detention centers in southern California after being arrested for routine visa irregularities, immigration lawyers said on Thursday.

The Black Peso Money Laundering System

One critical step in the illegal drugs business is the process of laundering huge amounts of cash -- profits from the street sales of drugs -- into usable assets.  Customs and DEA cases reveal that legitimate companies such as General Electric, Whirlpool, Phillip Morris and Intel Computers have all become involved in this system in the past.

U.S. Business & Money Laundering (By Oriana Zill and Lowell Bergman)

The list of invitees read like the Fortune 500. Quietly, privately in June of 2000, an exclusive group of 20 people representing Hewlett Packard, Ford, Sony, General Motors, Whirlpool, General Electric and their trade associations gathered in Washington DC to meet with Attorney General Janet Reno and Deputy Treasury Secretary Stuart Eizenstat. The press was neither invited nor notified.

Wolfowitz Doctrine

The classified document makes the case for a world dominated by one superpower whose position can be perpetuated by constructive behavior and sufficient military might to deter any nation or group of nations from challenging American primacy.
 

America's objective to dominate oil fields, not destroy WMD (Firoz Osman)

Saddam Hussein's last-minute agreement to permit United Nations weapons inspectors unconditional access will hopefully unmask America's veiled ambitions for the region.

September 11th, The Terrorism that Terrorism Has Wrought (David Gilbert)

With the pain of 9/11 so palpable, I became almost obsessed with what it must have been like for civilians bombed by the US in Hiroshima & Nagasaki, Vietnam, Grenada, Panama, Iraq, and Yugoslavia - and what it would soon be like for civilians in Afghanistan, already just about the poorest and most devastated country in the world.

Tobacco Industry Gave More Than $5.8 Million in Political Contributions

Tobacco companies, along with tobacco company executives and employees, donated more than $3.6 million in soft money to the Democratic and Republican parties so far this cycle.

Islamic heritage under attack

The courtyard of the Dada Hari mosque was covered in ashes. Closer inspection revealed that the Hindu youths that broke into the building had made a bonfire of its Korans.

In bed with the cartels (Alex Roslin)

A former U.S. Green Beret charges American troops are training cocaine-financed Columbian military death squads.

Muslims burned out by Hindus fear returning home

Pressure by Hindu radical groups on employers has made it more difficult for them to welcome Muslim workers back.

Transcript Of Robert Fisk Speech At Concordia University

[T]he Americans do have an emperor in mind for occupied Iraq. The re-establishment of the Hashemite Kingdom in Iraq might allow King Abdullah of Jordan to cash in on some of the oilfields of Iraq.

Israel, the unjust stewards (Archbishop Desmond Tutu)

Have our Jewish sisters and brothers forgotten their humiliation? Have they forgotten the collective punishment, the home demolitions, in their own history so soon?

The forgotten Muslims of Xinjiang

Beijing has effectively pre-empted Muslim countries, which rely on China for political, economic and military assistance, from speaking out against its repression of their fellow Muslims in Xinjiang.

Britain to Blame for many World Problems, says Straw

Ah...if only Jimmy Carter would admit his mistakes that lead to the assassination of his friend Anwar Sadat, Israel's expanding settlements, the Iran crisis, the Intifada, et. al. And Ronald Reagan with his 'Reagan Plan' that practically destroyed Lebanon and set the stage for the Palestinian revolt.

Americans imposing racist agenda

The United States is hell-bent on treating as a potential terrorist anyone who is Muslim or Arab or, failing that, dark-skinned enough to pass for one. And Canadians are being asked to go along with it. And we're supposed to go along with this? I don't think so.

Name Calling

The name-calling technique links a person, or idea, to a negative symbol. The propagandist who uses this technique hopes that the audience will reject the person or the idea on the basis of the negative symbol, instead of looking at the available evidence.

Why think about propaganda?

It may seem strange to suggest that the study of propaganda has relevance to contemporary politics. After all, when most people think about propaganda, they think of the enormous campaigns that were waged by Hitler and Stalin in the 1930s.

Saudi Arabia Said to Assure U.S. on Use of Bases

"I firmly believe the Saudis will give us all the cooperation we need, and every indication I have is we're getting pretty much what we've asked for," Gen. John P. Jumper

Fighting for our Minds

But its easy too because the moment we start the battle, the moment we acknowledge the simple fact that our minds have been colonized, the colonizer's modes and methods, its purpose, its theology become ever so clear.

"U.S. Is A Leading Terrorist State" (by Noam Chomsky)

I think we ought to be very cautious about using the phrase ‘War on Terror’. There can’t be a War on Terror. It’s a logical impossibility.

Agreement On US 3.2 Billion Gas Pipeline Project Signed

Pakistan, Afghanistan and Turkmenistan on Friday signed here a framework agreement for a US $ 3.2 billion gas pipeline project passing through the three countries.

Economist tallies swelling cost of Israel to US

Since 1973, Israel has cost the United States about $1.6 trillion. If divided by today's population, that is more than $5,700 per person.

Israeli soldiers tell Palestinian villagers

Abu Salameh also testified that the soldiers also stole at gunpoint 28 cellular telephones, large amounts of money and other valuable things from the hostages.

Palestinians subjected to new Israeli technique called ‘the lottery’

In the lottery, they said, border policemen order apprehended Palestinians to pick from folded pieces of paper that have different punishments written on them.

Israel, U.S. kick off liaison operations ahead of Iraq war

The newly-arrived unit is responsible for setting up the infrastructure for communication and coordination among the IDF, the Pentagon and any American forces in the area during the expected war with Iraq.

Liberal dissent brewing in Iraq crisis Mississauga MP threatens to quit

A Liberal MP from the GTA says she will resign from caucus if her government joins any U.S.-led strike against Iraq that does not have United Nations approval.

STOP the Deportations

As an effort to continue the struggle against the deportation of non-status Algerian refugees until all non-status Algerians in Canada are regularized and the deportations cease.

Hell no, we shouldn’t go - (Howard Zinn)

If that were our responsibility, we’d be making war all over the planet because there are tyrants all over the planet. The government of Burma has treated its people as badly as Saddam Hussein.

U.S. Human Rights Leadership Faulted

The United States is far from the world's worst human rights abuser. But Washington has so much power today that when it flouts human rights standards, it damages the human rights cause worldwide.

Canadian passport 'meant nothing' to U.S. immigration officials

The only crime they committed was the crime of being born in the Middle East.

Muslim pilgrims avoiding States

The big problem is with routes through the U.S., he said. "Nobody wants to go there."

The calculated and strategic assault on the American Family

Less than 2% of the total U.S. population controls over 98% of the wealth and the gap is growing even more disproportionate. Yet Bush claims that the wealthy deserve a tax break, but yet they already have over 98% of all of the wealth of America.

20,000 march for peace

The Montreal turnout exceeded all expectations as an estimated 20,000 people marched through downtown, according to organizers. It was the largest peace demonstration in the city since the Vietnam War, they said.

Attacks against Muslims and Arabs in the USA increase at 1700%

The report read that since September 11, atmospheres of doubts have cordoned the Arabs and Muslims in the USA.

Prominent Christian leader says:

Don't they see that Israel has reduced our population centers to huge open-air jails?

500,000 Anti-War Protesters Demonstrate in Washington

Sponsored by the International A.N.S.W.E.R. (Act Now to Stop War & End Racism) Coalition, the protests were endorsed by thousands of organizations. Similar demonstrations were held in at least 30 other countries.

Statistics for the Palestinian Intifada
28 September, 2000 - 13 January, 2003

Attacks On Masjid al Aqsa Since Occupation
Since the Israeli occupation of East Jerusalem in 1967 the Zionist fundamentalists have staged over a hundred attacks on Masjid al Aqsa Haram Shareef.
 

Islamic Human Rights Commission - Press Release

The report outlines the number and nature of atrocities and includes analyses of state and local government complicity in the crimes that were originally attributed to unruly Hindu mobs acting spontaneously.

Mandela condemns US stance on Iraq

Former South African president Nelson Mandela has criticised US President George W Bush over Iraq, saying the sole reason for a possible US-led attack would be to gain control of Iraqi oil.

Nike Labor Practices in Vietnam

Nike contractors are exploiting the Vietnamese workers in many areas, including wages, working conditions, health and safety practices.

US begins secret talks to secure Iraq's oilfields

The relationship between the oil industry and the US administration, from the president, George Bush, downwards, is the closest in American history.

STATEMENT OF ENAAM ARNAOUT

The plea agreement entered into today is an acknowledgment by the government that neither Mr. Arnaout nor BIF ever provided any support to al Qaeda, Osama bin Laden, or any other terrorist organization.

Monitoring mosques a loss of freedom for all

That's the excuse dictators use to keep people in line. Today it's the government after most any Arab-American, just because. Tomorrow, it might be after any one of us. Color-code it one of America's darkest moments.
 

AMERICA ORDERS 100,000 BODY BAGS

BRITAIN risks being dragged into another Vietnam, ex-Chancellor Ken Clarke warned yesterday.

Ex-inspector dismisses US report

But for those with knowledge of the disarmament process, the report was nothing but "smoking mirrors, nothing to do with reality (and) plain wrong", Ritter said.

Jordan's Sweatshops: the Carrot or the Stick of US Policy?
They're turning Jordan into a colony for the United States and the Zionist entity.

Open Letter to Secretary of State
Should the United States proceed to war against Iraq the United States will be acting illegally, in violation of the United Nations Charter and Article VI(2) of the United States Constitution.

US troops 'pouring into Saudi Arabia'
Saudi public opinion, inflamed by Israel's suppression of the Palestinian uprising, is totally against a US-led war against Iraq.

AMERICAN MEDIA DODGING U.N. SURVEILLANCE STORY
Three days after a British newspaper revealed a memo about U.S. spying on U.N. Security Council delegations

Jordan admits to hosting U.S. troops
It is the first time the Jordanian government admitted to helping the Americans. For weeks, it has denied reports it will assist the U.S. war effort.
 

Bush Sr warning over unilateral action
THE first President Bush has told his son that hopes of peace in the Middle East would be ruined if a war with Iraq were not backed by international unity.
 

The Battle of Baghdad

So where are they, Mr Blair?

See no evil, no more

Israeli commandoes to Assassinate 500 Iraqi Scientists

20 school children injured in bomb blast near Jenin

American peace activist shot by Israeli Army

Cheney, Halliburton and the Spoils of War

Extremist Zionists dominating White House
decision-making and promoting an Israel/Sharon Agenda!