Seymour Hersh found out that hundreds of Mossad foreign fighters have been in Iraq for a long time. Their specialty: car bombs, sexual torture, beheadings.

All the Zionists wanted was a story, a myth that would enable them to create another myth: "Al-Qaeda." The Zionists needed this myth as an excuse for their long-term plans for the "war on terror," a war to destabilze the Middle East and pit the world against Muslims.

In an interview published Thursday in the London-based Arabic weekly Al-Wassat, Vanunu is quoted as saying "Israel possesses between 100-200 nuclear weapons including a neutron bomb and hydrogen bombs." He is also quoted as saying that are "near-certain indications" that Israel was behind the assassination of U.S. President John F. Kennedy.

The United States backs Israel's right to weapons of deterrence, Prime Minister Ariel Sharon (search) said Thursday, an oblique reference to Israel's secret store of nuclear weapons.

Israel and the United States on Thursday held a successful test of the Arrow anti-ballistic missile system - the world's only operational missile killer system - off the coast of California. Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz described the results of the test as "being further proof for the technological superiority of the Israeli defense industries."

"We had virtually to straitjacket him to keep him under control", the admiral said. "Bud" Zumwalt got it right when he assessed Kerry as having large ambitions --but promised that his career in Vietnam would haunt him if he were ever on the national stage."

The Democratic presidential convention in Boston is more an infomercial than a political contest, but a key piece of information is missing. A majority of the Americans who plan to vote for John Kerry in November assume that he will pull US troops out of Iraq quickly if he becomes president, and is only refusing to say so now to avoid being vilified by the Republican machine for failing to support American soldiers in action overseas. But it is possible that he actually means what he says - and what he says is that he would stay in Iraq indefinitely.

Both House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-TX) and Minority Whip Steny Hoyer (D-MD) apparently bought into Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s attempts to link the U.S. global campaign against terrorism with Israel’s attempts to crush the Palestinian people. They either do not see or do not care that it is precisely this linkage between U.S. military actions in the Middle East and Israeli actions in Palestine that cause most people in the Middle East to be suspicious of American motives and objectives in the region.

The US State Department officially considers a group of 3,800 Marxist Iranian rebels - who once killed several Americans and was supported by Saddam Hussein - "terrorists."

But the same group, under American guard in an Iraqi camp, was just accorded a new status by the Pentagon: "protected persons" under the Geneva Convention.

Remember, government bureaucracies don’t get more money and more power when they succeed, but when they fail. With an incentive system like that, it is fairly obvious what the rest of us are going to get more of: the consequences of intelligence failures.

It is not inconceivable that the administration would ask Congress for a new draft law and that it will be passed. A majority could be formed to support this wickedness by joining together the militarist reactionaries and the liberal, invasive social uplifters. The uplifters believe that all young people "owe" service to their country—if not by shouldering a gun, then by lifting a nursing-home bedpan or working in a national forest or a blighted public school.

National service is a form of slavery, though some may argue that it’s really not since the conscriptees get paid, get college money, medical insurance and perhaps other bennies. But it’s not a wage which distinguishes a free person from a slave; slaves have often been paid in the past.

WMD was the rationale for invading Iraq. But what was really driving the US were fears over oil and the future of the dollar.

Another episode of tyranny has just transpired right before the peoples eyes, and as usual, being brushed under the old Skull and Boned table of government criminality, in which the intramural players are never held accountable, or never stand trial for their crimes against the "sovereign people of the United States of America."

Many Americans fail to realize that the many intifadas of the Palestinians are with full justification. They are fully as entitled to a homeland as are the Jewish settlers. But neither is entitled to dominate it. One of the problems is the name "Israel". What was wrong with the designation "Palestine"? Anytime you create a political entity based on a religion you create inequity. And inequity breeds discontent and ultimately revolution.

If you read page 147 of the commission report carefully, you will find embedded there a key sentence throwing light on the motive of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, whom the report calls the "mastermind of the 9/11 attacks:"

"KSM's animus toward the United States stemmed not from his experiences there as a student, but rather from his violent disagreement with U.S. foreign policy favoring Israel."

The threat of redefining marriage to include same-sex unions stems from activist judges, not state or federal constitutions. Thus the proper solution must be to limit the courts.

A day before Congress left town for a six-week vacation, the House passed the Marriage Protection Act 233 to 194. This bill would deny "all federal courts, including the Supreme Court, jurisdiction to rule on the constitutionality of the Defense of Marriage Act."

The significance of this bill in terms of the balance of power in government is hard to overstate. For years, Congress has been systematically stripped of its power to decide the issues of race, religion and morality by the courts, which have taken to making law by issuing edicts from the bench.

Whoever is the next president of the United States, the Palestinians are shamefully once again left without a glimmer of light at the end of their long and lonely tunnel, while Israel's brutal occupation of the West Bank and Gaza will receive yet another 'made in America' Good Housekeeping seal.

We have British ambassadors visiting Osama bin Laden, whose location is guarded by elite US commandoes, and when the couple that witnessed all this try to report it, they are blackballed.

Something is wrong when the conservative Church has become one of the biggest cheerleaders for war. What the Christian Right needs to realize is that you can be a strong traditionalist, dedicated to strong moral values and a strict reading of God’s Word and still be a proponent for peace . . . Thoughtful conservative Christians who believe in peace need to add better balance to the troubling fatalistic obsession with war, violence, the Middle East, Israel, and the rapture that is currently dominating conservative circles of the Church.

Savilov said Israel's claims has no basis since it posses a large arsenal of nuclear armaments, has not signed the non-proliferation treaty (NPT) and is not a member of the IAEA. The U.S. has on occasions misled its public and international community by falsely claiming the existence of biological and chemical weapons in some nations, "Iraq being the last of them."

The Democratic party bigwigs put the kibosh on antiwar sentiment early on. A platform plank calling the invasion of Iraq a mistake was quashed by a handpicked 186-member committee, along with other planks endorsing Palestinian rights and denouncing the Bushian doctrine of preemptive war.

Dean Manion had become an advocate of the Bricker Amendment, a Constitutional measure designed to prevent the now-familiar disintegration of American sovereignty under the attack of international organizations and treaties . . . Now it is night-time in America – as dark for conservatives as it was in 1954. But with fidelity to principle, a tenacious defense of our Constitution, and a reverence for the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God, today’s true conservatives will find an eager and energetic generation ready to heed the call.

Russia has indicated that an agreement on delivering nuclear fuel rods - which can be used to obtain plutonium - could be finalized this year. Last week, the head of Russia's nuclear energy agency, Alexander Rumyantsev, told the Iranian ambassador to Russia that the deal on the return of spent rods to Russia could be clinched during his upcoming trip to Tehran, tentatively set for October.

Big Brother is no longer lurking somewhere in the distant future. He's been born from the unaccountability of our so-called leaders and the citizens who do not demand it. He appears in the guise of insuring safety and freedom by limiting both. He is the final legacy of America.

Today Israeli warplanes can fly unhindered to any Mideastern city and drop bombs. Lebanon has been a victim of Israeli madness for almost 30 years now. Syria’s Golan Heights remain under Israeli occupation. Millions of Palestinians continue to be humiliated and terrorized by Israeli fascism. But the helpful Western media continues to preserve Israeli as the victims.

The greatest flaw in the commission’s analysis and recommendations, however, was one of omission. The panel did not address the underlying causes of the Sept. 11 attacks. Dealing with the underlying causes is the only way to reduce the chances of terrorist attacks in the first place . . . repeated polls in the Islamic world indicate that the United States is hated not for its culture, technology or freedoms—as President Bush would have us believe—but for its foreign policy.

One Israeli group, Settlement Watch, says in the three months to May, West Bank settlements expanded by 26 hectares (65 acres).The government has approved construction of thousands more homes in the three main settlement blocs on the West Bank, encouraged by an apparent endorsement by George Bush for their eventual annexation.

Senator John Kerry recently released the following statement regarding the International Court of Justice (ICJ) ruling on Israel's "security fence": "I am deeply disappointed by the ICJ ruling related to Israel's security fence. Israel's fence is a legitimate response to terror that only exists in response to the wave of terror attacks against Israel. The fence is an important tool in Israel's fight against terrorism. It is not a matter for the ICJ."

A tactic of “anyone but Bush” is based in curious illogic. It supposedly emerges from the thinking that Bush is so utterly horrible that the likelihood of another equally horrible president is unimaginable. Ergo anyone else would be a significant improvement. As Kerry’s Bush-like pronouncements illustrate, such logic is obviously flawed. It seems a far more rational approach would be to recognize the mistaken choice of Bush and search for and choose a candidate whose platform is representative of the voters.

Before using derogatory terms like “reactionary” and “protectionist xenophobes,” Brother Kemp might read a little more deeply into American history than Carl Sandburg’s Lincoln.

The first act of Congress Washington proudly signed on July 4 was the Tariff Act of 1789. Abe (“Give us a protective tariff and we shall have the greatest country on earth”) Lincoln was not only the father of 70 years of Republican protectionism, he raised the Morrill tariff 12 times. And, sorry to report, Jack, the old Rail Splitter spoke openly and often about sending slaves back to Africa.

But this obsession with American regime change just shows how much blind faith some people have in electoral politics, and indeed how they’ve bought into the idea that regime change can likely do much good. If the Democrats understood how terrible the results have been in US-led regime change throughout the world, they would likely not apply such nomenclature to their aspirations in American electoral politics. Maybe they do understand. Either way, the fact that they do use such language, which brings to mind a long legacy of bloody failure in Iraq and elsewhere, just goes to show that they can no more be trusted with the police state powers of the US Executive than can the current monsters ruling America.

To a great deal of fanfare and with surprising bipartisan unanimity in its conclusions, the US Senate Select Committee on Intelligence on July 9 published its 521-page "Report on the US Intelligence Community's Prewar Intelligence Assessments on Iraq". By and large, it's a bad report, at undue length it rehashes well-known facts and reveals nothing new, and - most unhappily - draws uninspired conclusions of little forward-looking value.

It's too bad the Democratic party was so successful in its "dirty tricks" campaign against Nader, keeping him off so many state ballots that he won't be on but a dozen or so. He could have given voice to a large constituency of antiwar voters, and given his own unique – if not always correct – analysis of what empowers the power elite.

Cohen’s fellow party member Yossi Sarid said that the government should lock the Temple Mount’s gate to Jews. “The Temple Mount area is not a playground for opportunists from Sharon to Etzion . . . Likud lawmaker and former senior ISA official Ehud Yatom has termed Etzion’s words as “extremely serious”.

Israel's supreme court has decided not to lift the travel restrictions on Mordechai Vanunu, the country's nuclear weapons whistleblower . . . Mr Vanunu reacted angrily to the decision by claiming that it breached his fundamental human rights.

Contrary to the conventional wisdom, American imperialism is, at its roots, a left-wing disorder rather than a conservative impulse.

There is an American Empire, but we should dump it, because we Americans are woefully incompetent when it comes to maintaining empires . . . We should start bringing our troops home from the far-flung corners of the world, establish a sensible self-defense posture and use the billions of dollars we would save to tackle all the really serious domestic problems we have . . . Unfortunately, for that to happen you'd probably have to elect Pat Buchanan or me as president, and neither one of us is running.

But, then, has creativity ever been the strong suit of the Hispanic world? Can we really expect to find much scientific or artistic talent among immigrants from Latin America?

To investigate these questions, I crunched some numbers from Charles Murray's recent gift to data nerds everywhere, his book

(Here's my interview with Murray about his book and my review of it in The American Conservative.)

While that CPD ad has 40 signers, only three are big name Republicans: Sen. John Kyl, Jack Kemp and Ed Meese. The rest of the list reads like the head table at the annual American Enterprise Institute dinner. Yet, Pete Hannaford, a former Reagan aide, told the Post he put this all together after talking with a "variety of friends."

The government appropriates $25 billion for "Homeland Security" but appears incapable of doing more than issue face-saving warnings about the inevitability of another attack . . . They are not there to prevent terror but to administer it. The "terror" is designed to remove our civil rights and build a security apparatus to imprison us. In the view of the elite, we are the real threat. We are the potential terrorists . . . The government pleads impotence in the face of the "terrorist" threat because the government is executing the terror on the civilian population. What they did to the 3000 people in the WTC on Sept. 11 is a harbinger of what they are planning for you and I.

The single unambiguous winner in the Iraq War is the United Nations. Just as the war has depleted our military and accelerated our descent into national bankruptcy, it has enhanced the UN’s power and prestige.

Which brings us to a fascinating paradox. Michael Moore, who supports the UN in theory, strongly opposes its most important present undertaking, the Iraq War. By way of contrast, the GOP-line conservative movement, particularly talk radio demagogues such as Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity, opposes the UN in theory, while supporting its most important present undertaking, the Iraq War. In fact, Limbaugh and Hannity frequently invoke UN Security Council resolutions to justify the war and defend the Bush administration’s Iraq policy in general.

Jewish donors, concerned about McKinney's re-emergence, had anticipated backing McKinney's opponent in a runoff next month, but now are faced with the likelihood that McKinney will return to Washington after winning in November in a heavily Democratic district.

The resurrection of McKinney's career comes as a surprise to many Jewish donors, who spent time and money to defeat her two years ago after a controversial tenure in Congress. McKinney had consistently angered many Jews because of her anti-Israel comments and vocal opposition to votes supporting Israel's right to self-defense.

True to character in contemporary Washington, not one word about how it is Israel's possession of a vast arsenal of nuclear and other weapons of mass destruction, including submarines to deliver these weapons by missile throughout the greater Middle Eastern and south Asian regions, that has greatly fueled the race for such weapons in past decades.

A thoughtful review of "Israel's Weapons of Mass Destruction" comes from the Palestine Monitor and Secretary Abraham's Washington Post Op Ed follows.

Only Daniel McCarthy of the American Conservative utters anything like such a brainstorm.

Calling for a return to the "so-called isolationist and noninterventionist right," Mr. McCarthy affirms forthrightly, "America is a nation state. It is not meant to be a sort of world government in embryo, not meant to be a last provider of justice or security for the entire world."

The United States Constitution gives Congress the authority to regulate the time, place, and manner of federal elections. Thus, ballot access is one of the few areas where Congress has explicit constitutional authority to establish national standards. In order to open up the political process, I have introduced the Voter Freedom Act (HR 1941). HR 1941 established uniform standards for ballot access so third party and independent candidates can at last compete on a level playing field.

Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, the man who conceived and directed the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, was motivated by his strong disagreement with American support for Israel, said the final report of the Sept. 11 commission.

Legislation that would make Holocaust-denial committed overseas an offense under Israeli legal jurisdiction was approved unanimously in first reading by the Knesset on Tuesday.

The passage of the measure would enable Israel to demand the extradition of Holocaust-deniers for prosecution.

The legislation expands the territorial jurisdiction of the Israeli law against Holocaust-denying outside of it borders.

The answer is that civil war is already underway in Iraq . . . an American creation and puppet – a Quisling regime, formed and propped up by a now-hated invader. If it is to have any hope of legitimacy, it must cut the strings to the American puppeteer. So far, it shows no ability to do that.

The prime minister, Ariel Sharon, has said he sees no role for the Europeans and that his only negotiating partner is the US.

Interpreting the Middle East for North Americans — Interpreting North America for the Middle East

This is the second expose of U.S.-Middle East policies by former Congressman Paul Findley, author of They Dare to Speak Out: People and Institutions Confront Israel's Lobby. Like Findley's first book, this one will become a major weapon in the battle within the United States to break Israel's iron grip on the U.S. Treasury.

Consider Berger's interview last week with Mark Bisnow, in which he concedes that the premises for invading Iraq were "not valid," but adds that "it would be a huge mistake for us to cut and run."

There you have the distinguishing features of Democratic foreign policy: It's the same as Republican foreign policy, only this time it's run by Democrats.

How can anyone like Berger harmlessly stuff papers into his socks, pants and jacket? How could he have harmlessly discarded documents? The real question is what was Berger trying to hide? Let´s hope we find out what really happened and why.

The Israeli Mossad agent Zev Barkan has been running Asian criminal gangs used to obtain Australian Identity documents and other passports stolen from Australians Killed in Asia, a New Zealand security official has said.

In the long run, the fundamental problem is that there is no partition of Palestine-Israel possible that is acceptable to sufficient numbers of both Israelis and Palestinians. The barest consensus, resting largely on fear of the Palestinian birth rate, exists in Israel for some sort of separation from the West Bank and Gaza. But it seems no two Israelis can agree on what and where to withdraw from. Even the most forthcoming proposals fall far short of what international law requires and any majority of Palestinians could accept as a minimal basis for a two-state solution. While this stalemate hardens, construction of new settlements and the wall grinds on, further altering demographics and geography such that the concepts of withdrawal and separation become ever more nonsensical.

The only thing that could break the impasse is massive and immediate international intervention to force Israel to change its ways.

Israel, like a spoilt child, does not accept the opinion because it does not suit it. A senior aide to Israeli Prime Minister Raanan Gissin said that "this resolution (opinion) will find its place in the garbage can of history".

The ruling of the World Court is seen as a moral, legal and political victory for Palestinians. The decision places Israel with an obligation, as a UN member, to dismantle the wall forthwith because its construction is contrary to international law.

While the Bush administration is keen on exporting "freedom and democracy based on rule of law" to other countries in the Middle East, it does not pursue the same when it adversely affects Israel. This demonstrates the double standard of the US policy -- one policy applies to other countries and another to Israel. How the Bush administration can get respect for pursuing such contradictory policy from countries across the world?

In spite of financial and economic difficulties, Russia still produces state-of-the-art military technologies that continue to impress the world.

"The contingency plan in question is the Continuity-Of-Government plan (COG), first drafted in 1949 under the Truman regime shortly after the Soviet Union detonated its first atomic weapon," Martin explains.

In addition to COG, "Bush has this power under Patriot I Act with the expansion of his authority under the War Powers Act of 1947, since, it should be remembered, a declared state of national emergency already exists in the United States at present," Martin writes in his column, "Canceling US Elections: It’s Easier Than You Think."

As the conflict on the Israel-Lebanon border escalates, the Israeli military has issued a blunt warning that it may launch a direct attack against Syria.

Dozens of Jewish extremists want to see Ariel Sharon killed — and would be under arrest as security threats if they were Arabs, the head of Israel's security agency said yesterday.

Shin Bet boss Avi Dichter gave the unprecedented candid view of assassination threats to Sharon as he described bitter resentment of the prime minister's plan to pull Jewish settlers and Israeli troops out of the Gaza Strip.

Former National Security Adviser Sandy Berger – now the target of an FBI probe – was a key part of a deal the Clinton administration made to secure an illegal $300,000 contribution from the communist Chinese government, says an investigator into the Chinagate scandal in the 1990s.

Berger was criticized at the time for being blasé about security lapses and failing to report Chinese espionage at nuclear labs to Congress, and for having gone out of his way to interfere with a Justice Department investigation of Loral Space & Communications Ltd. for an illegal transfer of missile technology to China. Berger's Loral lobbying (the press reported that Loral chairman Bernard Schwartz was one of the Democrats' largest soft-money contributors during 1995-1996, and had hired a former National Security Council spokesman) was successful.

Anti-Semitism is "commonplace" in Europe and the United States only if one redefines it to include looking cross-eyed at Ariel Sharon . . . Something is on the increase, but it isn't anti-Semitism: it is the aggressiveness of Israel and its international amen corner, not only in the occupied territories but in places as far-flung as France and New Zealand . . . Instead of apologies, the Israelis and their supporters internationally have been demonizing the Kiwis as neo-Nazis for daring to defend their sovereignty.

Had Henry Wallace, vice president before 1945, stayed on and taken office that April, Harry Dexter White might have become secretary of the treasury and Lawrence Duggan secretary of state. This would have put two Soviet spies at the pinnacle of the U.S. government to shape postwar policy toward Stalin, in whose service both were then secretly enlisted.

Our young women are facing the same now, because they are recruiting you to the armed forces. What are you going 9,000 miles away to fight for? Who are you fighting? What have those people done to you? They call them insurgents, but the military is in that man’s house as an occupier. What are you doing there? If they rise up to kill you for being there, what are you going to say? Are you going to say, “That’s the enemy,” when you are in their house? That’s like a robber breaking into your house, taking over your house, and holding your wife and your children under arms.

Team America at www.teamamericapac.org issued ten reasons why America must enforce its immigration laws. They started with the tenth reason and worked up to the first. Why? Because the first nine support the most important reason which you will find out. Mr. Ed Garrison brilliantly wrote them.

A candidate who won't discuss a timetable for ending America's military occupation of Arab lands is hardly going to stop supporting Israel's occupation forces and settlements in the West Bank and Gaza (and Kerry's positions have become almost indistinguishable from Bush's on that issue as well.) 
 

Kerry's view of the Middle East, frantic pandering to Israel's darkest interests, promises no end to future troubles. He is an unrepentant, unimaginative supporter of global empire.
 
That brings us to the real tragedy of America and the real cause of 9/11 and so many other horrors: America's swaggering readiness to play the game of global empire with all the brutality and incivility that it implies.

"How can Americans love their nation if they hate its government?" asked neoconservative Bill Kristol some years ago.

Very easily, is the proper answer, not only from American conservatives (real ones, not the pseudo-cons  Mr. Kristol commands) but even their French allies.

The Millennium Challenge Act is designed to appease fiscal conservatives and defense hawks by appearing to single out friendly, well-behaved nations for aid payments, ostensibly creating a carrot-and-stick approach. But the Act merely puts a shiny new label on the same old failed policy of trying to remake the world using welfare.

"We sent President Bush a memo over one year ago that stated that Iraq was part to blame for 9/11. However, after carefully reviewing that memo this past week, we noticed there was a misspelling. All the words that ended in 'n' where ending in 'q'. We think the keyboard on the analyst laptop failed. So when he tried to type Iran, his keyboard transposed the letter 'n' and placed a 'q' in its place. I feel real bad about this."
 
Far fetched? Makes more sense than the actual policy!

What would you do if your army was mired down in a country turned hostile by your invasion, forced to hide behind fortified positions, and only able to make an occasional foray to kill a few women and children along with an occasional insurgent? A plethora of reports are issued revealing that the reasons you thought you had for invading the country were completely false. The invasion was based on mistaken "intelligence."

Oops! It looks like we were wrong, but we're not responsible because "everybody" thought Iraq had WMDs. The only problem with that excuse is that it isn't true. While the Bush Administration was exaggerating WMD claims, people in the know were saying something quite different.

I have just received information that another anti-ANC website has been hacked and a message was left: "ONE BOER ONE BULLET" - which is a political slogan used by the terrorist: Peter Mokaba.

Why don’t the United States of America and major European powers treat Israel in the same way they treat Iran, North Korea or any other country when the offenses are the same?
 
There are two reasons. First, the strategic interests of big powers and second, the policy of confronting Islam, which they have labeled after the fall of communism as their No.1 enemy. Both these reasons dictate that Israel, a country the West implanted in the Arab region for a variety of reasons, must be protected in every way -- with military hardware, diplomatic backing, Security Council vetoes and contemptuous dismissal of judgments by international courts.

Even without a valid passport, he was entitled to return to the United States to face the federal charges against him, but this obviously wasn't his intention last week. Fischer writes of himself in the third person, "Bobby Fischer does not wish to return to the Jew-controlled USA where he faces a kangaroo court and 10 years in Federal prison and a likely early demise or worse on trumped political charges. Nor does he wish to remain in a hostile brutal and corrupt U.S.-controlled Japan."
 
The dangling question is why his passport was suddenly revoked last year after he was allowed to swan about the world with it for so long. The U.S. State Department hasn't said yet whether it will make a request to have Fischer extradited, but it's hard to see why it would have withdrawn the passport if it didn't mean to try him.

“Top U.S. Army analysts believe Israel's intelligence agency, the Mossad, is ‘ruthless and cunning,’ ‘a wildcard’ that ‘has [the] capability to target U.S. forces and make it look like a Palestinian/Arab act.’

From World War II to present, there have been 612,875 Americans, mostly young, who have lost their lives in the service of the nation. An additional 928,900 returned to their homes suffering from wounds they received on the battlefield.
 
In the war in Iraq, as of July 9, 882 U.S. servicemen and servicewomen have been killed, and, according to the Pentagon, in Iraq the ratio is estimated to be about six wounded for every battle death.

Can Jack seriously believe the Father of Our Country would have approved of amnesty for 8 million to 14 million illegal aliens and an immigration policy that will leave us in 2050 with 100,000,000 Hispanics, concentrated in our Southwest, with scores of millions not speaking English and loyal to nations not our own?

People will ask why Lord Butler has been less savage than the American congressional report in attacking the presentation of this intelligence. The answer is that the stakes in Britain are far higher. The Americans were reconciled to regime change, irrespective of whether or not Saddam had the WMD. For Blair that case was vital. His political life has been on the line, and Lord Butler, conceiving that it is not his job to end the Prime Minister’s career, has stayed his hand.

Some Europeans would welcome Bush's re-election, believing it would make inevitable a decision by the bulk of the EU countries to construct a serious European political and strategic entity. They think that essential, and want Britain to belong to it. But they argue that if Britain votes to reject a European constitution, both sides should take that decision as final.

Zev Barkan the suspected Israeli Mossad agent on the run from New Zealand Police has been sighted in North Korea, according to an Asian-based NGO closely linked to New Zealand intelligence networks.

We implore and beseech our Jewish brethren to realize that the Zionists are not the saviors of the Jewish People and guarantors of their safety, but rather the instigators and original cause of Jewish suffering in the Holy Land and worldwide. The idea that Zionism and the State of “Israel” is the protector of Jews is probably the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the Jewish People.

G2 quotes the report, which was drafted by four of Israel's senior defense experts, as saying "All enemy targets should be selected with the view that their destruction would promptly force the enemy to cease all nuclear/biological/chemical exchanges with Israel."

The report also called on Israel to develop a multilayered ballistic missile defense system and described Iran as a "suicide nation," recommending "targeted killings" of members of the country's elite, including its leading nuclear scientists.

This was no intelligence failure. This was strategic deception, a combination the Soviet KGB called "disinformatzia" and "maskirovka." This was facilitated by an ideologically and religiously extreme president; a Dr. Strangelovian vice-president lusting for war and oil; neocon ideologues and a cowardly Congress that violated its most basic responsibility to the nation.

Invariably included in the 80 to 100 participants are representatives of many of the world's largest capitalist empires - men wielding immense power in the fields of economics and business. And many of these attend all the meetings, along with a number of 'regulars' operating in other parts of the corridors of power . . . Bilderbergism is the arm of a movement whose main aim is to create - 'a world fit for multinationals to live in' - which may indeed even see itself as spear-heading the establishment of World Government by such interests.

British and American inquiries into intelligence failures over Saddam Hussein’s supposed illegal weapons have both found that their countries’ spy chiefs hyped up questionable evidence, which happened to help their political masters make the case for war. 
  

The USA's involvement in a pre-emptive strike against Iran would also undermine the Bush administration's last vestiges of credibility as an 'honest broker' in negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians. An Israeli strike could effectively end hopes of reaching any kind of peace deal. The US administration also faces the dilemma of insisting that Iran has no right to develop nuclear weapons while Israel is believed to have several hundred in its arsenal.

Rest assured that the American-Israeli Harpoons are nuclear, and the Zionists have every intention of using them on Tehran and Damascus if they think they can get away with it. Dangerous people do dangerous things in dangerous times, and there is nothing more dangerous that a pack of religious fanatics with their backs to the Mediterranean, facing the imminent destruction of Zion. The Israeli economy is in tatters, Jewish migrants are fleeing Israel in droves, and the Zionist host [America] is fast running out of spare cash and free weapons.

The lesson that the rest of the world learned from the chief's comical trip to Israel: if you want to develop and hang on to your nuclear weapons you must do the following:

1) Find yourself a very strong partner, a kind of Godfather, whose aggressive and gangster-like behavior and interests match yours, someone who will protect your criminal activities at all costs and against all charges.
 
2) Never join any international agreements, such as the NPT, and never admit to having nuclear weapons.

3) If the IAEA chief ever shows up, say "I don't know what he is coming to see" and, of course, show him nothing.
 
4) If he dares to ask questions about your nuclear weapons, change the subject by attacking another country and say that that country supports the victims of your colonial aggression (oops, sorry, I meant supports the "terrorists").

5) While you are at it, throw in the argument that the country in question has missiles that threaten Europe (remember the Iraqi missiles that could be launched in 45 minutes and reach Europe?)

6) If you are asked to join the family of civilized nations who have joined the NPT, or if the chief says please, at least slow down your nuclear weapons development policy, say that you will consider it only at the end of a non-existent "roadmap to peace."

7) Finally, if you really, really want to make the chief feel like he got something out of his useless trip, put him on a plane, take him up a few thousand feet, and show him your nuclear power plant below!

We have sent a message to the entire Arab world that under no circumstances will we treat the Palestinians with even a semblance of justice and that we will condone whatever Israel chooses to do. Bush has never grasped the fact that the Palestinian issue is paramount in every Arab country.

Under the ostensible rule of a man named Aya Allawi, handpicked by the occupying military power to be the front man for empire, a leader who dares not leave his bunker or drift even a few feet from his US-paid guards, a man whom everyone knows would be shot dead in a matter of seconds should he dare to walk the streets, a man who would receive no votes in a real election.
 
Americans need to know: what the US government has done to Iraq it can do to America. Under the right conditions, nothing can prevent the militarized feds from behaving toward you and yours exactly as it has behaved toward them and theirs.

Iyad Allawi, the new Prime Minister of Iraq, pulled a pistol and executed as many as six suspected insurgents at a Baghdad police station, just days before Washington handed control of the country to his interim government, according to two people who allege they witnessed the killings. 
 
US officials in Iraq have not made an outright denial of the allegations. An emailed response to questions from the Herald to the US ambassador, John Negroponte, said: "If we attempted to refute each [rumour], we would have no time for other business. As far as this embassy's press office is concerned, this case is closed."

In an astonishing admission after the disclosure of the cover-up in yesterday's Independent, Tony Blair's official spokesman said MI6 decided not to tell the Hutton inquiry - set up to investigate the death of the government scientist David Kelly - that crucial intelligence on Saddam's chemical and biological weapons was unsound. The security services, he said, felt it was "too sensitive'' to be made public.

Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry said Friday he would be willing to launch a pre-emptive strike against terrorists if he had adequate intelligence of a threat.

Sharon may have given up on holding 100 percent of the land between the Mediterranean and the Jordan, and therefore abandoned Gush Emunim's version of the Greater Israel ideology, many liberal Israelis are willing to support Sharon's 50 percent plan for a Greater Israel, replacing the two-state solution mantra with a new buzzword—"separation."

In a July 4 article, the Israeli daily Ha'aretz reported that "intelligence specialists in New Zealand, including one individual who said he had once worked for the Mossad, said in interviews that the members of a group associated with the case had been working systematically for years to obtain New Zealand passports, which are considered 'door-openers' and do not arouse suspicion in the Arab world." 

In August 2002, Mr Feith's cell gave a briefing to Mr Rumsfeld and his deputy, Paul Wolfowitz, which included a stinging condemnation of the CIA's intelligence assessment techniques.

In sharp contrast to the Senate intelligence committee's criticisms of "over-reaching" and "exaggeration" by CIA agents, the Pentagon briefing criticised the agency for requiring "juridical evidence" for its findings and for the "consistent underestimation" of the possibility that Iraq and al-Qa'eda were attempting to conceal their collaboration.

British ministers spoke to their American counterparts almost daily during the run-up to war. But Butler and his colleagues produced a report with just eight references to the United States, and several of these are to US publications.

Israel declined on Friday to make a public apology demanded by Wellington after two members of the Jewish state's Mossad intelligence agency were convicted of trying to fraudulently obtain a New Zealand passport.

While you sleep, a war on our southern border lights up with guns and blood.   While our soldiers fight in Iraq, our country suffers an invasion.  While our borders remain open because Congress sits back with its tea and crumpets, our citizens suffer danger.  Not a man or woman from San Diego, California to Brownsville, Texas can safely walk on the border without packing heat. 
 

The report also documents how those arrested in the U.S. were connected to Israeli companies that had provided telephony services for American companies and U.S. federal authorities, while also claiming the Israeli companies should be investigated, in case they had installed "back door" services, which would allow some future operative to access the American companies' systems. The DEA, it is claimed, purchased communications equipment worth some $100 million from Israeli companies five years ago, and that is said to be the reason for the widespread Israeli activity around this agency.

On the very day the  Post published its report on “French anti-Semitism,” another story immediately followed, although not (as far as I can see) in the Post,  [French woman admits she made up anti-Semitic attack , Yahoo.com News, July 14] explaining that the reported incident was entirely fictitious.

This process of the redefinition of racism was allowed to continue because, although most people were not fooled by it, they were reluctant to criticize it. But Bill Cosby’s courageous actions should help unshackle us from this unfair yoke of derogatory labels. Cosby has set the process in motion. Now it is up to all of us to firmly refuse to accept any more phony accusations of racism.

Police chief inspector Luis Martin Gomez described earlier intelligence service claims that the detonators had been left clearly in view as if to call deliberate attention to them as "utterly false".

The section of the Patriot Act most relevant to terrorism financing is Title III, known as the International Money Laundering Abatement and Anti-Terrorist Financing Act of 2001. Its effects are far reaching. Essentially, the law changes the Bank Secrecy Act of 1970 and the Money Laundering Control Act of 1986, and expands their scope to include activities believed to be linked to terrorist financing.

Joe Wilson may be a liar and a gadfly (to put it kindly). But it’s the CIA’s Valerie Plame who first dismissed the Niger-yellowcake report - and then sent her mendacious empty-suit husband on the important mission to investigate this potential Saddam Hussein uranium supplier.

We should consider the possibility that the key might not be more money and resources for the "community" overall, but less. The larger an institution, the more difficult communication and maintaining focus become. All our intelligence agencies are to some extent encrusted with overlapping and often counterproductive layers of bureaucracy.

The first two acts of former Central Intelligence Agency asset turned Prime Minister Iyad Allawi were to call a US air strike on an alleged safe house in Fallujah, and to sign a martial-law order to be imposed on an Arab "sovereign" state by a Western, Christian army. Saddam Hussein also imposed martial law on Iraq.

All of which means no matter who America chooses as its next president — and no matter who the manipulators behind America’s computerized voting scam decide to choose as the winner in November’s election — the endless run of needless wars crafted in Washington and Tel Aviv will continue unabated into our dark future.

Israel has no intention of ever returning what they call Judea and Samaria, i.e. Palestine. That is the dirty little secret Israelis want hidden from the world. It means Israel has never negotiated in "good faith" over a Palestinian state.

A Jewish convert and adviser to his brother, Cameron Kerry was sent as a "surrogate" to reassure Israelis that the Democratic candidate was as strong a supporter as Bush, a source who helped arrange the trip said.

The British conclusion is a war based on utter incompetence, but no one was negligent or to blame. Just those damn errors. If it hadn’t been for happenstance errors, Saddam Hussein would have been guilty as charged.

Jacques Chirac bowed to pressure from across the political spectrum by announcing yesterday that France would hold a referendum on whether to adopt the European constitution, signalling the start of a fraught campaign to ensure the government secures a yes vote.

To be an elitist, a true high level elitist, you have to be ruthless, you have to be sadistic, you have to not have a conscience, you have to not just be coldly evil, but have an enjoyment for it.

In fact, I tend to believe a good way of looking at governments is to judge them not as governments, but simply as organizations of people. Take away the mysticism of the state, and all you see are huge, dangerous criminal gangs.

Lehman's penchant for ideology and political agendas over fact-based intelligence was one of the reasons he was forced out of the second Reagan administration. In 1987, when he left with such other hardliners as Richard Perle and Frank Gaffney, it was increasingly apparent even to the most die-hard anticommunists that the Soviet Union was beginning to implode.

But the leadership of Black America cannot embrace the Cosby message. Why? Because if White America is not responsible for the social crisis in Black America, upon what moral ground do these leaders stand to demand retribution or reparations?

If White America is not guilty, why should White America pay, other than out of the goodness of its heart? And some black leaders are fully aware of the alarming implications of Cosby's message, the Rev. Al Sharpton being one of them.

Al-Qaeda ties to the OKC bombing were not mentioned in the state trial of Terry Nichols, yet evidence used by federal prosecutors in recent cases makes the ties obvious.

World domination. Support for Israel. Controlling the world's resources. That's why they are here. And -- watch my lips -- they have no more intention of leaving in November 2004.

By playing the Kurds against Syria and Iran, the Israelis may end up triggering a Turkish invasion of Kurdish Iraq, touching off a war that could engulf the entire region. That Israel would emerge from such a conflict unscathed is illusion.

An attempt to squelch ads for a controversial new film illustrates how "campaign finance reform" has created a new corps of federal speech police.

The fact that Israeli operatives are now in Iraq explodes once and for all the oft-repeated claim that America is an honest peace broker. The whole world will now understand that this was just another of Washington's many deceptions. Bush's uncritical support of Sharon's iron fist shows that even the pretense of impartiality has now evaporated. And, to the shame of every American who cares about justice, candidate Kerry has seconded Bush on Israel without qualification.

The only people who will benefit from such a "terror attack" are White House politicians desperate for another distraction from their high crimes and misdemeanors. They are the only ones that could gain from a suspension of elections and the inevitable declaration of martial law that will emerge in the aftermath of whatever scheme is being cooked up to kill more Americans.

Ideologically, John Kerry and George W. Bush toe the same line with regards to the Arab world and war.

Michael A. Peroutka, who accepted the Constitution Party nomination June 25, appeared last week at a rally in Seattle with former Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore. By aligning himself with Mr. Moore, the candidate seeks to garner some Republican voters who are unhappy with Mr. Bush’s expansion of government and decry the country’s move toward secularism.

A new draft wouldn't be the same as the old draft. The proposed measures try to take some of the sting out of conscription by requiring all Americans, male and female, between 18 and 26 to serve for two years in either the armed services or "in a civilian capacity that ... promotes the national defense."

In regard to Kerry and Bush, there is no difference between their ideologies or agendas, but mindless dummies hear what they want to hear, and think that their is. Kerry has repeatedly declared that he is going to continue nearly every one of Bushes policies, except for tax cuts. He has vowed to raise taxes, and idiots support that. He has said repeatedly that he is going to continue the war on terrorism, and keep America's military in Iraq , as long as necessary.

Under any circumstances, the disaster blueprint should be made public. However, the lack of regard for the Bill of Rights in the Justice Department under Attorney General John Ashcroft and the suggestion by White House Counsel Alberto Gonzales that the Geneva Convention is "quaint" make it imperative that Americans know before this election what plans the administration has to reconstitute the country after a disaster.

America's secessionists remain on the fringes. But if federal politicos insist on one-size-fits-all policies for a diverse population, it's only a matter of time before people in the mainstream contemplate the benefits to be had if they decide to "break it up."

"Many prominent Democrats say they have strongly urged Mr. Kerry to choose Mr. Edwards, and warned that he would face a battery of questions if he did not."

For one senses he did not want to do this, that it was forced upon him, that he felt he had to do it, against his own preferences of Dick Gephardt or his friend Sen. Bob Graham of Florida.

You know it's coming down to the wire when the New York Times talks about Bilderberg and world government. Externalization of the hierarchy has never been more apparent.

The "Criminalization of the State", is when war criminals legitimately occupy positions of authority, which enable them to decide "who are the criminals", when in fact they are the criminals.

When you own all the ponies, you don't really care who wins the race. So it is with the US presidential elections in 2004.

The latest "Conservative Index" that has just been published by The New American, (a biweekly publication of The John Birch Society), is an eye-opener for those who think that the Republicans in Congress are "conservative." The index once again refutes the myth, based on the voting records of Republicans in Congress, that the Republican Party is the party of "conservatism."

The perils of Israeli involvement in the "new" Iraq cannot be overstated. It is already grave enough that the Sharon government and its allies and supporters in Washington worked so intensively to propel the Bush administration to invade and occupy Iraq, a drive that accelerated in the wake of 11 September with the feverish attempt to unearth any connection between Saddam Hussein and Al-Qaeda. Clearly, Israel perceived that the invasion and occupation of Iraq served its long-range ambitions.

Did Americans survive the Cold War, when the Soviet Union possessed the ability to destroy us in a matter of minutes,—only to see us incinerated by nuclear- and chemical-armed terrorists walking into the country from south of the border?

Cancel the elections? They needn't bother. Whichever wing of the War Party wins out, come Election Day, the continuity of our imperial foreign policy remains unbroken.

The prime minister should present the choices forthrightly: Jewish racism or democracy. Settlements, or hope for both peoples. False visions of barbed wire and suicide bombers, or a recognised international border between two states and a shared capital in Jerusalem.

What's needed is not a political replacement for the Sharon government but a vision of hope, an alternative to the destruction of Zionism and its values by the deaf, dumb and callous.

The world's obliviousness to Israel's wanton destruction of property and lives and livelihoods at Rafah, and in general to the obscene oppression that is the occupation, is stupefying. Yet, although minorities of courageous Israelis and American Jews speak out in opposition, most self-defined centrists in the U.S., both within and outside the peace movement, still do not dare confront Israeli governments in any meaningful way.

Details surrounding the downing of two American helicopters in Iraq early this week are now in and tell a totally different story than published by mainstream press.

Cameron Kerry converted to Judaism when he married Kathy Weinman of Michigan, and later learned that his paternal grandparents were Czech Jews who had converted to Christianity before immigrating to the U.S.

US citizens would be up in arms if they learned the facts . . . They would be outraged if they learned of the real cost to them (in blood and treasure) that the unconditional support given to Israel. They would be appalled at the incredible grip on the political process that AIPAC (Israel's lobby in Washington) has over both democrats and republicans. But much of this knowledge is shielded from the public by a largely subservient media.

Islamophobia is alive and well in the US . . . However what is really required is a sea change in education and attitudes in the US, where a mere 14 percent of the population possesses a passport and relatively few have even met a Muslim, let alone befriended one.

How well equipped are we to deal with substantially higher energy prices? This is a question that no policymaker has honestly confronted yet. The markets remain in denial, but high energy prices are the new economic reality.

If there is indeed an "October oil surprise", the resultant shock is likely to be one which neither consumers, nor Western policymakers will appreciate, since it could entail prices sharply higher than those currently prevailing. The days of cheap oil prices are over; the only question is, how high and how fast from here?

For all time, when bad governments wanted to increase their power, they spread fear and claimed the new power would allow them to "protect" the people. If there were no real enemies at the gate, they would invent them. The threat of terrorism has been enormously exaggerated by this administration to justify a very un-American lust for power.

Most advisers now gathering round Kerry are missionaries who believe not so much in a war on terror as in a war on state failure. Failed states produce terrorism, they argue, so you have to go to the source.

The notion is more dangerous, since the number of target-countries for uninvited nation-building is bigger. The issue is not whether military intervention is unilateral, as with Bush, or multilateral, as with Kerry, but why neither sees that it nearly always makes things worse.

"I think ElBaradei is operating in secret with (the Israelis)," Vanunu told the newspaper. "All he'll hear ... will be propaganda and disinformation."

Mocked for their alleged appeasement of Islam because of their own Muslim immigrant populations, they reply that a good deal less demonization of Islam and more knowledge of it would greatly improve US policy in much of the world.

Attacked because their criticism of Israel supposedly expresses anti-Semitism, they declare that their own memories of the Holocaust do not allow them to encourage Israel on its present path of self-destruction.

Above all, they think that their past has taught them how to deal with the rest of the world in a post-imperial mode. That, they think, is something our own nation has yet to learn.

The distinct possibility that Bush will start another military adventure, just before the election. Rumor at high levels has it that he will declare a state of emergency, based on faked reports, that North Korea and/or Iran are about to launch nuclear strikes against the American homeland and that he has ordered counterstrikes to defend this country.

Having constructed for the last 40 years or more a party that serves up civil rights laws, affirmative action, liberal judges who enforce and create more civil rights laws and more affirmative action, hate crimes laws, welfare of all descriptions, and more immigration and more "rights" for immigrants and other minorities, the Democrats have built their party around an agenda that caters to blacks and Hispanics and the ever-dwindling number of whites willing to support that agenda.

Gun Owners of America says Sen. John Edwards is a "virtual clone" of Sen. John F. Kerry when it comes to issues of concern to gun owners.

Sadly, many Christians have a similar mentality to far-left liberals. They believe the government should be involved in just about every aspect of life. Many also make the mistake of believing everything immoral should be controlled and regulated by the government. They take offense to libertarian suggestions that government force will not make everything better.

"The wall, along the route chosen, and its associated regime, gravely infringes a number of rights of Palestinians residing in the territory occupied by Israel, and the infringements resulting from that route cannot be justified by military exigencies or by the requirements of national security or public order."

Brigadier General Janet Karpinski told BBC Radio in an interview on Saturday that she met with a man who claimed to be Israeli and that he "did some of the interrogation" at the facility.

The use of mercenaries was once a dirty, little secret most governments were loath to acknowledge.

During the first Gulf War, about two percent of U.S. military personnel were private workers. As of 2003, it had reached 10 percent. The Pentagon employs more than 700,000 private contractors, and at least $33 billion of the $416 billion in military spending overwhelmingly approved by the Senate last week will go to PMCs.

By attracting the kind of denunciations that reveal a deep animus towards the United States in the attackers, Huntington’s book has revealed that there is a substantial anti-American intelligentsia (and lumpen-intelligentsia) within the American nation committed to a sort of “counter-tribalism.” These are the patriots of an America that does not exist—the America of multiculturalism, bilingualism, and diversity that, in President Clinton’s words, “can live without a dominant European culture.”

President Bush’s undifferentiated “global war on terror” has encouraged the government of Ariel Sharon to assert that Israel’s enemies and America’s enemies are one and the same. But they are not. Indeed, Sharon’s misguided effort to crush resistance to Israel’s occupation of the West Bank and Gaza through brute force serves only to complicate and exacerbate our own problems. Sharon’s policy will not work, and as Israel’s chief supporter we get tagged with much of the blame.

Most of the Shin Bet interrogators are of Ashkenazim (European) origin who study the Arabic language only when they are in their twenties after joining the security service. Before each interrogation a psychologist who has studied in depth the mental profile of the prisoner is consulted. The interrogator will also read intelligence reports about their charge.

If you people believe in what I'm doing, then now is the time to show your support, either for me, or for the others in our cause. There are more people now coming out and speaking out about Africa/S.Africa.

Kerry and Edwards better go back and read those books about the pointlessness of war and the dangers of imperial over-reach that Kerry was reading as he became disillusioned with the war in Vietnam during his two tours of duty there. They are just as relevant to Iraq today as they were to Indochina back then. Otherwise, if they are lucky enough to win the White House in November, they'll find themselves in the same position as "peace candidate" Lyndon Johnson was in after his landslide win over Barry Goldwater back in November 1964.

Some are so turned off by both major-party presidential candidates they are threatening to stay home on Election Day.

Others are abandoning, or considering abandoning, their traditional political home, the Republican Party, in favor of a third party. They regard the two major political camps as so similar – and unacceptable – that only a third-party choice seems worthwhile.

Sen. John Edwards' standout "performance" at the super-secret Bilderberg meeting in Italy last month may have been a key reason for his selection as John Kerry's vice presidential running mate, according to the New York Times.

The exhortation for democracy from an American president who has been so consistently one-sided on the Palestine-Israeli conflict sounds disingenuous and hypocritical to Arab people.

He is also banned from entering internet chat rooms, he must not approach any foreign embassies, and his phone calls are being continously monitored . . . the severest restriction has been the confiscation of his passport to prevent him from leaving the country — an infringement of his civil liberties he is currently challenging in the courts. Vanunu says that since his release he has been receiving a flood of death threats from Israelis, most of whom revile him as a traitor, and that he wants to leave for the safety of Europe or the United States.

The same media that harp on Vice President Dick Cheney's ties to Halliburton and Big Business suddenly became silent on Sen. Edwards' links to the profitable pro-litigation lobby of rich trial lawyers. The American Tort Reform Association, or ATRA, has called them the "Learjet lawyers" because they have made hundreds of millions of dollars exploiting the civil-justice system.

Edwards co-sponsored the Congressional Resolution on Iraq, saying on the Senate Floor that "Saddam Hussein's regime represents a grave threat to America," that Hussein "has chemical and biological weapons," and "is doing everything he can to build nuclear weapons." For those Democrats who are vociferously anti-war, Ralph Nader must look pretty appealing right about now.

"Edwards is either going to abandon his colleagues in the Senate, or have to be on a very short leash and ready to fly back for votes on a moment's notice," says a Republican staffer on the Rules Committee. "Either way, his presence on the ticket and lack of presence on the Senate floor presents us with some interesting opportunities."

Any votes for Ralph Nader will be cancelled out by votes by Libertarian and Constitution party members. Their candidates, Michael Badnarik and Michael Peroutka are strong alternatives to voters who feel that Bush has betrayed their conservative ideology. It is also possible that Nader's vote will be so insignificant that the Libertarians alone may be able to pull 1% of the vote away from George Bush.

One of the brilliant unremarked-upon cornerstones of the film (based on Richard Condon's 1959 novel) is that the prime Communist agent in the US is NOT some rag-tag scruffy diehard leftie - but is, instead, a most imperious upper-class lady who would immerse herself in the great unwashed proletariat NEVER.

Ariel Sharon told army radio: "I don't know what he is coming to see. Israel has to keep in its hand all the components of power necessary to protect itself."

According to some of these reports the Israel Navy’s three modern long- range diesel-powered submarines are capable of carrying nuclear tipped cruise missiles, and constitute Israel's "second strike capability".

Threats to resist any evacuationhave grown since Mr Sharon, until recently hailed on the far right for his association with settlement-building, decided to go ahead with the Gaza plan despite losing a May referendum of Likud members.

Mr Powell, speaking alongside Mr Shalom, said the Bush administration had been pointing out Iran's nuclear weapon capability to the international community for the last three-and-a-half years.

Washington does not pressure Israel to adhere to the Non-Proliferation Treaty, which would oblige its nuclear facilities to submit to international supervision by the IAEA.

Debate over Germany's bid to gain a permanent seat in the United Nations security council took a new twist Tuesday when two top opposition politicians spoke out against a German seat and argued instead for one European voice at the UN.

Ministers from the big five EU nations agreed that sweeping harmonisation of police, counter-terrorism and border control measures was essential to crack down on international terrorism.

They also want to see moves put in place to harmonise individual countries’ legal systems, DNA records, biometric travel documents and residence permits.

All this might have been averted if Wilson had heeded the counsel of Washington and Jefferson against American intervention in Europe’s wars. He should have treated Wilhelm II as Europe’s regional problem.

But since Wilson, American presidents have almost forgotten the very concept of a regional problem. One local war after another has been turned into a strategic challenge, requiring American military intervention.

Because of the AIPAC (the American Israel Public Affairs Committee) influence, many US politicians support Israel—either because they want this money (paid for by US tax dollars) or because they fear that Jews will vigorously support their opponents, which has been shown to be true in many cases. (For example, see former Congressman Paul Findley’s book, They Dare to Speak Out, which describes his problems when he dared to defy the J-PACs' totalitarian desires.)

Our resources are being drained at $56 billion annually. Immigrants send $15 billion back to Mexico. They send $25 billion back to South America and $16 billion back to Asia. Our annual trade deficit exceeds $400 billion. Over $100 billion in cash flows out of our borders for drugs. We pay billions for illegals in our medical systems, schools and ESL classes. According to Professor Borgas of Harvard, American workers lose $133 billion in wages to illegal aliens taking over American jobs.

A Study by the Institute for Policy Studies and Foreign Policy In Focus

The Independent and the Daily Mirror broke ranks and, now and then, The Guardian. However, of all the world's major broadcasters, according to a Media Tenor study, the BBC gave the least coverage to anti-war dissent, less than even the US networks. In other words, the views of the majority of Britons were ignored. All that stuff about impartiality is, of course, stuff. The BBC, in its language, emphasis and omissions, has supported every war in memory.

The only remaining question is whether the small number of candidates who are in conflict with Israel stems from the success of the Jewish and pro-Israel organizations in preventing the advancement of candidates who have anti-Israel positions, or whether this is a natural political process whereby candidates from both parties are adopting a pro-Israeli line, and is something that is to be taken for granted.

If "Israel was never near the top of the list" when it comes to motives for this war, then how is it that Tel Aviv turns out to be the chief beneficiary in so many ways? As the Mossad infiltrates Kurdistan, demands recognition from the Iraqi "government," and even sends its skilled torturers to help the American occupiers subjugate and degrade their Arab charges more effectively, the demonstrable evidence that Israel's most loyal supporters led the way to war is not so easily brushed aside.

IQ tests, while hardly perfect, are useful predictors in a number of ways.

The tests are not statistically-biased predictors—i.e., blacks don't "overachieve" in the real world relative to their test scores. In colleges, in fact, they tend to underachieve on their grades relative to their SATs. (I have, however, argued at length, here and here, that because standardized tests can't measure improvisational ability, they miss an area where blacks tend to be strong.)

Over the last 85 years or so, blacks in America have averaged about one standard deviation lower on IQ tests than whites.

The sobering experience in Iraq is causing second thoughts on the right. If these thoughts include an overdue questioning as to who benefits from U.S. commitments to defend every nation in Europe, and who pays, we are at the beginning of wisdom. As for the Journal editorial writers, they are welcome at the next gathering of America First.

People too often get the impression that the only people who use the nation's civil liberties protections are lawbreakers who were not quite guilty of the exact felony they were charged with. Perhaps we should thank the Bush administration for providing so many situations that demonstrate how an unfettered law enforcement system, even one pursuing worthy ends, can destroy the lives of the innocent out of hubris or carelessness.

When North Korea nukes San Francisco with the weapons that Rumsfeld sold them, just watch people's opinions change. Besides, these bills are not even really geared towards service abroad, they are worded to include a domestic draft, whereby people will be organized into tattle-tale squads to spy on subversives for Homeland.

The world got its first official but unrevealing look inside Israel's top-secret Dimona nuclear complex on Sunday, courtesy of a new Internet site launched by the country's Atomic Energy Commission.

US SENATOR KERRY: ''MY PRO-ISRAEL VOTING RECORD IS SECOND TO NONE." In the policy paper, which has not been released publicly, Kerry outlines clear, strongly worded positions on several issues important to the American Jewish community.

A Foreign Office insider said that a report from inspectors to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) next month could provide the trigger for a formal deadline to be set at the body's meeting in September.

How can it claim that Iran has no right to nuclear weapons when Israel not only possesses both strategic and tactical nuclear weapons, but has several hundred in its arsenal. For the U.S. to preempt against Iran would also undermine the Administration's last shred of credibility as an honest broker between Israel and the Palestinians.

Yet it is much easier for pro-war enthusiasts to just claim we hate America than actually answer our arguments and defend their own positions. In the current war, with the embarrassing lack of Iraqi weapons of mass destruction, the growing toll of lives lost on both sides, and more and more Americans questioning why we are there, history will vindicate the anti-war dissenters, just as they have largely been vindicated with Vietnam.

The problem with mainstream Americans is they want everything in 3 minute bites and they do not want to have to think too hard, or remember anything. They certainly do not want to read if they do not have to.

On September 22, 2002, George W. Bush released some unclassified details of his administration's brand new National Security Strategy – which codifies the Bush Doctrine.

The NSS envisions the establishment – through employment of overwhelming military and economic power – of an American hegemony.

There is little doubt that, as a former Middle Eastern dictator, Saddam will die . . . Only the Iraqis will play an important role in the evolution of such a system. Right now, they are busy deciding whether the interim government is indeed a legitimate one. If they were to grant the extant government its direly needed legitimacy, that would indeed be an important step toward democratization of Iraq. In the meantime, a fair trial for the former dictator - who was never fair to his subjects while he was in power - will speak volumes about what kind of Iraq will emerge in the coming months and years.

“Rulers have been imposed on Iraqis, first the Governing Council, and now the interim government. A government in exile would give Iraqis the chance to choose instead of accepting one choice delivered by the occupiers," said al-Ani.

Saddam Hussein’s defence lawyer Muhammad al-Rashdan said the move deserves deep consideration.

Kerry, who previously spoke against the separation fence at a gathering of the Arab-American Institute, is now seeking to correct that impression: "The security fence is a legitimate act of self-defense erected in response to the wave of terror attacks against Israeli citizens."

Kerry's Middle East Policy is a dangerous journey mapped out on a carbon copy of Israel's view of the conflict. After the Bush Administration's similar position and laissez faire approach to gross Israeli violations of human rights, Palestinians can expect few changes to the present misery.

Mr. Shalom said he has asked the United States to do "everything it can" to block passage of a Palestinian-backed U.N. resolution on the barrier.

The recent release on April 22 of Mordechai Vanunu from an Israeli prison provides an opportunity to challenge the U.S. policy of supporting Israel's development of nuclear weapons while threatening war against other Middle Eastern states for simply having the potential for developing such weaponry.

The people she calls "strong proponents of immigration reform" are in fact proponents of amnesty. President's Bush's immigration plan of last January offered a "plan to bring illegal laborers out of the shadows." She means (but won't say) amnesty.

One is struck by the peculiar absence of any reference by Moore to the so-called neo-conservatives of Bush's inner circle, almost entirely Jewish, who plotted the invasion of Iraq long before September 11. Moore's bravery stops at the door of Israel, and he does not bother even asking if Israel and its army of influence peddlers in the US capital and its halls of power and decision-making was a key factor triggering the present administration into war with Iraq.

The dog that did not bark is the Iraqi invasion of Iran, with which - lo and behold - Saddam is not to be charged. Why? Because he invaded Iran at the behest of the US and Britain. He fought the Iranian army and attacked the Iranian cities - and the civilians within them - with weapons given to him by Britain and America and with maps supplied personally by Donald Rumsfeld. The trial could scarcely cover the invasion of a foreign country by Iraq in which a million people died when we would have to be indicted as co-conspirators.

"That book actually started as an unclassified manual in 1999 for new counterterrorist officers working bin Laden and Sunni extremism," says one veteran CIA terrorism specialist. "Scheuer had written it at the request of his successor as Alec station chief, who specifically wanted it to be something that was drawn from open sources in the Arab and Islamic worlds for two reasons: one, so people could take it out of the building and digest it at their leisure, and two, because he wanted new officers to appreciate how much is actually out there that's useful that isn't classified, particularly if you have a context for it."

That he presided over a media empire that made all of this possible, that even turned the opinion of conservatives who should have opposed every bit of this into a chorus of cheers for a regime that has been a calamity for human liberty, for this he cannot be held responsible . . . All the warmongers have something to answer for, but Buckley in particular. His goal at the start of his career was to change the American right from peace-loving to warmongering. He did that. He succeeded.

Now it is time for bread and circuses. Keep the people distracted. Show them Saddam. Remind them what it used to be like. Make them grateful. Make Saddam pay. Show his face once more across the world so that his victims will think about the past, not the present. Charge him. Before the full majesty of Iraq's new "democratic" law. And may George Bush win the next American election.

First Cultural Marxism. Then Political Correctness. And now the LLEA. Take me to my grave, but I'm going to stoutly resist anybody telling me what I can say and what I can think.

No amount of United Nations resolutions or International Court of Justice decisions are going to influence Sharon. Not even the economic incentive of one day joining the European Union. This is a country firmly positioned outside of the mainstream of world affairs, fully supported by the U.S. administration.

In recent years a politicized and right-wing Protestant fundamentalist movement has emerged as a major factor in U.S. support for the policies of the rightist Likud government in Israel.

It used to be that Republican administrations had the ability to withstand pressure from Zionist lobbying groups when it was deemed important for American interests.

What Israel is building in the West Bank is made of walls and fences, but it is not a wall or a fence. It is something very different. I am not sure about its proper name: ghettos? Extra-judicial detention centers? Open-air prisons? A network of cages for humans?

The Universal National Service Act of 2003 sitting in this 108th Congress isn't getting much attention in the media . . . To provide for the common defense by requiring that all young persons in the United States, including women, perform a period of military service or a period of civilian service in furtherance of the national defense and homeland security, and for other purposes.

Israeli Finance Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he expected an oil pipeline from Iraq to Israel to be reopened in the near future after being closed when Israel became a state in 1948.