The Big Chill
Laura Rozen
Achill has taken hold lately among both government officials and the US media. It comes in the wake of a US district court’s decision to jail a New York Times reporter for refusing to reveal to a grand jury her sources in the Bush Administration and the FBI… Continue reading
United States Department of State
Office of Inspector General
Report of Audit
Documents
In March of 1992 US State Department inspector general Sherman Funk issued a classified report about illegal Israeli transfers of US military technology. The report finds Israel “is systematically violating U.S. arms control laws.” The “Blue… Continue reading
Arms-Export Reports Further Strain U.S.-Israeli Ties
Thomas L. Friedman
A series of charges this week that Israel has improperly re-exported American arms technologies to countries such as China and South Africa have rocked the already tense relations between the United States and Israel.
Administration officials have confirmed a detailed report by The… Continue reading
Anti-peace Coalition Governing Israel
The Blockbusters
Uri Avnery
January 21, 2012 “Information Clearing House” — “ISRAEL HAS no foreign policy, only a domestic policy,” Henry Kissinger once remarked.
This has probably been more or less true of every country since the advent of democracy. Yet in Israel, this seems even… Continue reading
In Iranian media, activist lauds Charlottesville’s anti-war resolution
Ted Strong
The day after the Charlottesville City Council passed a resolution calling on the federal government to end all its wars and avoid starting a new one with Iran, the move has drawn attention from abroad.
One arm of Iran’s state-owned media
The Afghan Dust is Settling
A Sourcebook on Media Censorship in America
Book Review of Project Censored’s Censored 2012
Dr. Paul W. Rea
Even more than its predecessors, Censored 2012 makes for highly engaging and informative reading. This collection is a well mixed bag containing much that we need to know… Continue reading
A Fitting Symbol of the American Empire
Sheldon Richman
The image of four U.S. marines urinating on the corpses of Afghan fighters is a fitting symbol of American intervention in Central Asia and the Middle East. That picture will live forever in the memories of people in the region, along with the pictures… Continue reading
Israel arrests Palestinian parliament speaker
By Agencies
The speaker of the defunct Palestinian parliament, a member of Hamas who was previously detained in connection with the capture of Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit, has been arrested.
Abdel Aziz Dweik was arrested on Thursday at a checkpoint near Ramallah, in the West Bank, Hamas… Continue reading
Truthdigger of the Week: Chris Hedges
Late last year, President Obama pulled a fast one by changing his stance on the National Defense Authorization Act so suddenly and drastically that Americans were left with a bad case of legislative whiplash—and a very serious state of affairs with regard… Continue reading
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