Editor's Note

After forty years of disappointments, difficulties and bumps on the road, growing up in a Palestinian refugee camp, spending years of displacement in Beirut and self-exile in Berlin, London, Paris, Montréal and Moscow, I decided to spend the rest of my life working exclusively for the common good of the humankind-A.G. Continue reading...
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  • Hillary finally brings bureau of spy/diplomatic liaisons out of the closet

    Hillary Clinton finally brings the secret military/State Dept. covert operations out into the open This is the logical outcome of a process started long ago, during the Reagan administration, when Congress put restrictions on the CIA’s shadow wars in Central America. It was then that this so-called “smart policy” began, thereafter; all of the CIA’s illegal operations were contracted out to private interests. 

  • حرب إسرائيل الإقليمية ضد إيران وسوريا تنتظر "ساعة الصفر"

    في الوقت الذي تشتد فيه الهجمة الأميركية-الصهيونية دبلوماسيا في مجلس الأمن وفي مختلف منظمات المجتمع الدولي، واقتصاديا بالحصار ونهب الثروات، وعسكريا بمعارك متواصلة تتنقل من جبهة الى أخرى، ينشغل الساسة والمحللون في العالمين العربي والإسلامي بمحاولة الإجابة على  سؤال ما إذا كانت إسرائيل تستعد لحرب إقليمية واسعة النطاق ضد ايران وسوريا، أو محدودة ضد حزب الله وحماس. والغريب في الأمر، أن المتسائلين يغفلون عن حقيقة أن الحرب الشاملة قد بدأت فعليا منذ ثمانية أعوام، وأن لا نهاية لها في الأفق المنظور، لأن أعداء الأمة، الذين ما زالوا يمسكون بزمام المبادرة، لم يُخفوا يوما أنها حرب واحدة طويلة الأمد، تدار على جبهات مختلفة حسب المعطيات والشروط، التي يرونها مناسبة.

     

  • حرب إسرائيل الإقليمية ضد إيران وسوريا تنتظر "ساعة الصفر"

    في الوقت الذي تشتد فيه الهجمة الأميركية-الصهيونية دبلوماسيا في مجلس الأمن وفي مختلف منظمات المجتمع الدولي، واقتصاديا بالحصار ونهب الثروات، وعسكريا بمعارك متواصلة تتنقل من جبهة الى أخرى، ينشغل الساسة والمحللون في العالمين العربي والإسلامي بمحاولة الإجابة على  سؤال ما إذا كانت إسرائيل تستعد لحرب إقليمية واسعة النطاق ضد ايران وسوريا، أو محدودة ضد حزب الله وحماس. والغريب في الأمر، أن المتسائلين يغفلون عن حقيقة أن الحرب الشاملة قد بدأت فعليا منذ ثمانية أعوام، وأن لا نهاية لها في الأفق المنظور، لأن أعداء الأمة، الذين ما زالوا يمسكون بزمام المبادرة، لم يُخفوا يوما أنها حرب واحدة طويلة الأمد، تدار على جبهات مختلفة حسب المعطيات والشروط، التي يرونها مناسبة.

  • "الحرب بلا جنود" استراتيجية جديدة لإدامة الإحتلال وشلّ حركات المقاومة

    يتجه الفكر العسكري في الولايات المتحدة الأميركية والكيان الصهيوني، منذ سنوات، الى تطوير ما بات يُعرف باستراتيجية "الحرب بلا جنود"، التي تعتمد الى حد كبير على التطبيقات الجديدة، والأبحاث المكثفة، في مجالات الإتصالات والإلكترونيات والكمبيوتر. وعلى أثر إضافة المهام القتالية المتعددة على طائرات الإستطلاع، أُدخلت هذه بكثافة ملحوظة الى الخدمة الفعلية في العراق، وبشكل خاص في الحرب الدائرة على الحدود الأفغانية-الباكستانية، وأصبحت مؤشراً تطبيقيا لإعتماد الإستراتيجية الجديدة.

     

  • "الحرب بلا جنود" استراتيجية جديدة لإدامة الإحتلال وشلّ حركات المقاومة

    يتجه الفكر العسكري في الولايات المتحدة الأميركية والكيان الصهيوني، منذ سنوات، الى تطوير ما بات يُعرف باستراتيجية "الحرب بلا جنود"، التي تعتمد الى حد كبير على التطبيقات الجديدة، والأبحاث المكثفة، في مجالات الإتصالات والإلكترونيات والكمبيوتر. وعلى أثر إضافة المهام القتالية المتعددة على طائرات الإستطلاع، أُدخلت هذه بكثافة ملحوظة الى الخدمة الفعلية في العراق، وبشكل خاص في الحرب الدائرة على الحدود الأفغانية-الباكستانية، وأصبحت مؤشراً تطبيقيا لإعتماد الإستراتيجية الجديدة.

  • إنعدام الأمن الغذائي الإقليمي: العراق نموذجاً...

    من أوليات أهداف الحركة الصهيونية العالمية هو خلق أوضاع سياسية وإقتصادية ينعدم فيها الأمن الغذائي تدريجياً على أوسع نطاق ممكن في العالمين العربي والإسلامي، كشرط أوّلي للتحكم بمصائر شعوبهما على اختلاف أعراقهم وطوائفهم. وطوال عقود من الزمن، حققت الهيئات والمنظمات الدولية "التنموية والحقوقية"، الدائرة في فلك الحركة الصهيونية، نجاحات كبيرة على طريق فرض القوانين الزراعية والبيئية، ومراسيم تحديث أدوات الحكم، وإلغاء الحمايات الجمركية، وغيرها مما يندرج زوراً تحت مسميات "الإصلاحات الإقتصادية والإدارية". وما استغرق تحقيقه في هذا المجال عشرات السنين في أقطار أخرى، استطاع الإحتلال إدخاله الى القوانين العراقية خلال أشهر، بل أسابيع معدودة.

  • إنعدام الأمن الغذائي الإقليمي: العراق نموذجاً...

    من أوليات أهداف الحركة الصهيونية العالمية هو خلق أوضاع سياسية وإقتصادية ينعدم فيها الأمن الغذائي تدريجياً على أوسع نطاق ممكن في العالمين العربي والإسلامي، كشرط أوّلي للتحكم بمصائر شعوبهما على اختلاف أعراقهم وطوائفهم. وطوال عقود من الزمن، حققت الهيئات والمنظمات الدولية "التنموية والحقوقية"، الدائرة في فلك الحركة الصهيونية، نجاحات كبيرة على طريق فرض القوانين الزراعية والبيئية، ومراسيم تحديث أدوات الحكم، وإلغاء الحمايات الجمركية، وغيرها مما يندرج زوراً تحت مسميات "الإصلاحات الإقتصادية والإدارية". وما استغرق تحقيقه في هذا المجال عشرات السنين في أقطار أخرى، استطاع الإحتلال إدخاله الى القوانين العراقية خلال أشهر، بل أسابيع معدودة.

  • Is Israel planning act of desperation? It still holds two stolen nukes for possible port attack

    Whenever the gang that has seized power in Israel wants to move forward their agenda -- their plan to use American lives to dominate not only the Middle East but Central Asia -- they reach into their bag of tricks. Sometimes it’s a simple story: “rockets from Gaza” or another phony bin Laden audio tape. However, too often, as we have learned time and time again, something very bad happens at just the right time. Some imaginary terrorist group with no planning ability, no logistics, and no influence or history of being able to move men or material shows up in New York, Detroit, London, Dubai, Madrid or Mumbai. The signature is always the same: help through airports, high quality documents and timed perfectly to advance the Israeli agenda.

  • استعداء اسرائيل لتركيا فعل استراتيجي مقصود لا غلطة شاطر

    بعيدا عن حالات المكابرة أو الإنفعال أو الحماس، المتفشية في أوساط الساسة والمفكرين في العالمين العربي والإسلامي، لا بد أن نتساءل عن الدوافع الحقيقية وراء التصرفات الإسرائيلية المتكررة ضد الحكومة التركية. فقد يحسب المراقب، للوهلة الأولى، أن هذه الممارسات الوقحة والمكشوفة هي مجرد هفوات وأخطاء صادرة عن حكومة رعناء، فقدت إتّزانها وعقلانيتها بسبب تبجحها وغرورها. ولكن المظاهر طالما كانت خدّاعة. فمن غير الممكن أن تتصرف إسرائيل بهذا القدر من الغباء، وإستفزازاتها المقصودة والمبرمجة تستهدف، أولاً إستعداء تركيا تمهيدا لتفتيتها، ثم جرجرة المجتمع التركي تدريجيا الى الصراعات العرقية والمذهبية التي تمزق بقية شعوب وبلدان المنطقة، كي تبقى إسرائيل وحدها الدولة الإقليمية الأقوى في الشرق الأوسط. 

  • A Plague Upon The World: The USA is a "Failed State"

    To American eyes a vague "terrorist threat," a creation of their own government, is sufficient justification for naked aggression against Muslim peoples and for an agenda of world hegemony.

  • The Black Art Of ‘Master Illusions’

    How do wars begin? With a “master illusion”, according to Ralph McGehee, one of the CIA’s pioneers in “black propaganda”, known today as “news management”.

  • Soros, the CIA, Mossad and the new media destabilization of Iran

    Welcome to Destabilization 2.0, the latest version of a program that the western powers have been running for decades in order to overthrow foreign, democratically elected governments that don't yield to the whims of western governments and multinational corporations.
  • Controlling Our Food

    Video Documentary: On March 11 a new documentary was aired on French television - a documentary that Americans won’t ever see. The gigantic bio-tech corporation Monsanto is threatening to destroy the agricultural biodiversity which has served mankind for thousands of years.
  • Obama's Undeclared War On Pakistan Continues

    Three days after his inauguration, on January 23, 2009, President Barack Obama ordered U.S. predator drones to attack sites inside of Pakistan, reportedly killing 15 people. It was the first documented attack ordered by the new U.S. Commander in Chief inside of Pakistan. Since that first Obama-authorized attack, the U.S. has regularly bombed Pakistan, killing scores of civilians.

  • Stolen Election in Iran? An Inside View of Vote Fraud

    Although not having been present at the recent presidential elections in Iran and thus not able to state on the basis of personal observation whether there was or wasn’t fraud committed, I was struck by the familiar refrain of some of the arguments by those in the Western media who seem to believe that the election must have been stolen by the incumbent. After observing elections for over ten years in the former communist world – from the Balkans to the Baltics, and from Central-Asia to the Caucasus – one starts to recognize certain recurring arguments in the analysis and assessment of an election.
  • What Actually Happened in the Iranian Presidential Election?

    Since the June 12 Iranian presidential elections, Iran "experts” have mushroomed like bacteria in a Petri dish. So here is a quiz for all those instant experts. Which major country has elected more presidents than any in the world since 1980? Further, which nation is the only one that held ten presidential elections within thirty years of its revolution?
  • Iran Could be Another US Orchestrated ‘Color Revolution’

    A number of commentators have expressed their idealistic belief in the purity of Mousavi, Montazeri, and the westernized youth of Terhan. The CIA destabilization plan, announced two years ago (see below) has somehow not contaminated unfolding events.
  • Do We Really Care About Democracy in Iran?

    After being  victims of multiple false and propagandistic  media campaigns one would think that we would be able to read between the lines when our mainstream media sources act in lockstep with one another in marketing the agenda du jour.
  • A Civil War, Obama’s Gift to Pakistan

    A civil war is brewing in Pakistan. Thanks to President Barack Obama, who is shifting the American war from Iraq to “the real enemies” operating from Afghanistan and Pakistan. Cash-strapped Pakistan could not defy Obama persuasion and decided to wage a war against its own people, the Pashtuns inhabiting the Northern Province and the tribal areas of Waziristan.
  • Iran Faces Greater Risks Than It Knows

    Stephen Kinzer’s book, All the Shah’s Men: An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror, tells the story of the overthrow of Iran’s democratically elected leader, Mohammed Mosaddeq, by the CIA and the British MI6 in 1953. The CIA bribed Iranian government officials, businessmen, and reporters, and paid Iranians to demonstrate in the streets.
  • The “Coup” in Iran?

    Why were the Lebanese elections regarded as a “crushing defeat” for Hizbullah and FPM and their allies? It was not because the final count of seats was substantially different from what it had been before, but because pre-election hype had made it seem as if the opposition was going to sweep into power.
  • Proof: Israeli Effort to Destabilize Iran Via Twitter IranElection

    Right-wing Israeli interests are engaged in an all out Twitter attack with hopes of delegitimizing the Iranian election and causing political instability within Iran.
  • The privatization of ‘Obama’s War’

    The sudden reappearance of former Vice President Dick Cheney over the last few months -- seeming to emerge from his famous undisclosed location more frequently now than he ever did when he was in office -- does not mean six more weeks of winter. But it does bring to mind that classic country and western song, “How Can I Miss You When You Won’t Go Away?”
  • Fear Rules

    The power of irrational fear in the US is extraordinary. It ranks up there with the Israel Lobby, the military/security complex, and the financial gangsters. Indeed, fear might be the most powerful force in America.
  • No Decisive Victory for Pro Western in Lebanon Elections

    There will be no Islamic Republic of Lebanon. Nor will there be a pro-Western Lebanese republic. There will, after yesterday's vote -- for the Hezbollah-Christian coalition and for the secular Sunni-Christian alliance -- be a government of "national salvation" in Beirut, run by an ex-army general-president with ever-increasing powers.
  • America’s Violent Extremism

    What are we to make of Obama’s speech at Cairo University in Egypt? "I’ve come here to Cairo to seek a new beginning between the United States and Muslims around the world, one based on mutual interest and mutual respect."
  • The Grim Picture of Obama's Middle East

    A CNN headline, reporting Obama's plans for his June 4 Cairo address, reads 'Obama looks to reach the soul of the Muslim world.' Perhaps that captures his intent, but more significant is the content hidden in the rhetorical stance, or more accurately, omitted.
  • When a government lies to its people

    You might ask what it takes to remember
    When you know that you've seen it before,
    When a government lies to its people,
    And our country is drifting to war.
    —Jackson Browne, "Lives in the Balance"

  • Obama Has 250,000 "Contractors" in Iraq and Afghanistan

    Newly released Pentagon statistics show that in both Iraq and Afghanistan the number of armed contractors is rising. The DoD says it sees "similar dependence on contractors in future."
  • Obama's Great Illusion

    I wonder how many of you have woken up to the fact that America's latest leader is really a political Houdini ... an illusionist on a presidential scale. Infront of our very eyes he has morphed from a gentle intellectual, and strong defender of human rights into a war-mongering bully who sponsors targetted assassinations and orders pre-emptive strikes with casual ease.
  • America Is the Rogue Nation

    bushOne gets the impression that there are some people in Washington who believe that Israel or the U.S. can bomb Iran's nuclear reactors, fly home, and it will be mission complete.
    It makes you wonder if perhaps there is a virus going around that is gradually making people stupid. If we or Israel attack Iran, we will have a new war on our hands. The Iranians are not going to shrug off an attack and say, "You naughty boys, you."

  • Plans rapidly proceeding to make Iraq our Middle Eastern launching pad

    The Bush administration is working overtime on two key objectives, both specifically designed to reshape the Middle East in the mold envisioned by the U.S. and Israel, our loyal and very aggressive ally.

    I have now come to believe that Bush and Cheney have no intentions of leaving Iraq under any circumstances and that they are following a carefully crafted plan to assure a permanent, dominant U.S. presence in the Middle East. Can they, will they find the way to succeed? We better hope not but it appears that we may be heading into a very dangerous and worrisome time for the Middle East and the entire world.

  • Deadly Fallout From Obama's Groveling Before Israel Lobby

     Only Nader Has Pointed Out the Danger

    Like a Moslem undertaking the Hajj, the once in a lifetime trip to Mecca, or a Catholic chancing to see the Pope speak from his Vatican window, presidential candidates seemingly long to trudge to the annual AIPAC conference to pay fealty to Israel and its Lobby.

  • The West's weapon of self-delusion

     There are gun battles in Beirut – and America thinks things are going fine

    So they are it again, the great and the good of American democracy, grovelling and fawning to the Israeli lobbyists of American Israel Public Affairs Committee (Aipac), repeatedly allying themselves to the cause of another country and one that is continuing to steal Arab land.

  • Jewishness versus democracy

    The 16th Knesset is strenuously working to hammer together a constitution at a time when the right controls both the Israeli parliament and its Law and Constitution Committee. One of the most important missions of the forthcoming constitution in the view of the Israeli right is to reinforce the notion of the Jewishness of the Israeli state. In order to promote this drive in the media and academic circles the Israeli Institute for Democracy, that elitist establishment that holds its annual conventions in Herzliya, has launched a campaign "for the sake of constitution by consensus".

     
  • Collateral Damage: What It Really Means When America Goes to War

    Troops, when they battle insurgent forces, as in Iraq, or Gaza or Vietnam, are placed in “atrocity producing situations.” Being surrounded by a hostile population makes simple acts, such as going to a store to buy a can of Coke, dangerous. The fear and stress push troops to view everyone around them as the enemy. The hostility is compounded when the enemy, as in Iraq, is elusive, shadowy and hard to find. The rage soldiers feel after a roadside bomb explodes, killing or maiming their comrades, is one that is easily directed, over time, to innocent civilians who are seen to support the insurgents.

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