How to Sell Americans on the Idea of Israeli “Settlements” By Dan Ephron

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By Dan Ephron
ICH
Newsweek Web Exclusive
July 10, 2009″Newsweek” [pdf]

How do you sell the American public on the idea that Israel has the right to maintain or even expand Jewish settlements in the West Bank? Be positive. Turn the issue away from settlements and toward peace. Invoke ethnic cleansing.

Those are three of the recommendations made by Frank Luntz, a political consultant and pollster, in an internal study he wrote for the Washington-based group The Israel Project (TIP) on effective ways to talk to Americans about the conflict between Israelis and Palestinians. The 117-page study, titled The Israel Project’s 2009 Global Language Dictionary, was commissioned by the nonprofit group, which aims to promote Israel’s side of the story, and leaked to NEWSWEEK. It includes chapters with such titles as “How to Talk About Palestinian Self Government and Prosperity” and “The Language of Tackling a Nuclear Iran.”

The report is strewn with bolded examples of “Words That Work” and “Words That Don’t Work,” alongside rhetorical tips such as “Don’t talk about religion” and “No matter what you’re asked, bridge to a productive pro-Israel message.” Taken together, the 18 chapters offer a fascinating look at the way Israel and its supporters try to shape the public debate in their favor.

The full report can be viewed here. [pdf]

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If Americans Knew – what every American needs to know about Israel/Palestine + Maps

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Iran Israel US Nukes

Spirit of Humanity Free Gaza 21

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from the archives:

Occupation 101 (video; watch while available; over 18 only)

Landscapes of Occupation in Palestine

http://vodpod.com/watch/1311875-60-minutes-on-israels-options?pod=dandelionsalad

Who Will Stop The Settlers? By Jonathan Cook

Gaza Strip (Documentary; 2002)

Michael Hudson: Trash for Cash Swaps and Debt Peonage

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MaxKeiserTV
July 10, 2009

http://maxkeiser.com

New Wave of Disinformation: “Pigs at Risk” of Contracting the H1N1 Swine Flu by Michel Chossudovsky

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by Michel Chossudovsky
Global Research, July 10, 2009

“Pigs at risk from people as new flu spreads” citing authoritative scientific sources is the title of a recent news report. “With the increasing numbers of human infections, a spillover of this virus to pigs is becoming more likely.”

Pigs are the victims. Humans are the perpetrators. In a twisted logic, the news reports convey the impression that only people can infect pigs with the H1N1 swine flu and that pigs cannot be the original source of the infection.

The reports also convey the impression that hog farms are clean and that the swine flu is not endemic to the hog farms:

Practically On the Table by Ralph Nader

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by Ralph Nader
The Nader Page
July 10, 2009

A few days ago, a citizen asked the progressive legislator from California, Congressman Henry Waxman why he took his name off the list of about Eighty House sponsors of single-payer health insurance? Mr. Waxman replied: “it [H.R. 676] isn’t going to happen.”

In early January and last year, Americans who believe in Presidential accountability for constitutional, statutory and treaty violations asked Democrats in Congress—“If not impeachment, why not at least a resolution of censure of George W. Bush and Dick Cheney?” The uniform reply was “It’s not practical.”

These lawmakers—Democrats all, who are the majority in Congress and who agree with these questioners—keep saying “It’s not going to happen” or “It’s not practical.”

“It’s just not practical” to provide a federal minimum wage equal to that in 1968, inflation adjusted, which would be $10 an hour.

West’s Afghan War And Drive Into Caspian Sea Basin by Rick Rozoff

by Rick Rozoff
Featured Writer
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Stop NATO
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/stopnato/message/40624
July 10, 2009

The Pentagon and its NATO allies have launched the largest combat offensive to date in their nearly eight-year war in South Asia – Operation Khanjar (Strike of the Sword) with 4,000 US Marines, attack helicopters and tanks and Operation Panchai Palang (Panther’s Claw) with several hundred British engaged in airborne assaults – in the Afghan province of Helmand.

The American effort is the largest ground combat operation conducted by Washington in Asia since the Vietnam War.

Other NATO and allied nations have also boosted or intend to increase their troop strength in Afghanistan, with German forces to exceed 4,000 for the first time, Romanian troops to top 1,000 and contingents to be augmented from dozens of other NATO member and partner states, including formerly neutral Finland and Sweden.

Obama claims right to imprison “combatants” acquitted at trial By Bill Van Auken

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By Bill Van Auken
http://www.wsws.org
10 July 2009

In testimony before the US Senate Tuesday, legal representatives of the Obama administration not only defended the system of kangaroo military tribunals set up under Bush, but affirmed the government’s right to continue imprisoning detainees indefinitely, even if they are tried and acquitted on allegations of terror-related crimes.

This assertion of sweeping, extra-constitutional powers is only the latest in a long series of decisions by the Democratic administration demonstrating its essential continuity with the Bush White House on questions of militarism and attacks on democratic rights.

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via Obama claims right to imprison “combatants” acquitted at trial

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Military Commissions: Government Flounders, As Admiral Hutson Nails Problems by Andy Worthington

Whose Country is it anyway? A political-economic oligarchy has taken over the USA by Prof. John Kozy

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by Prof. John Kozy
Global Research, July 4, 2009

A political-economic oligarchy has taken over the United States of America. This oligarchy has institutionalized a body of law that protects businesses at the expense of not only the common people but the nation itself.

CNN interviewed a person recently who was seriously burned when his vehicle burst into flames because a plastic brake-fluid reservoir ruptured. Having sued Chrysler, he was now concerned that its bankruptcy filing would enable Chrysler to avoid paying any damages. A CNN legal expert called this highly likely, since the main goal of reorganization in bankruptcy is preserving the company’s viability and that those creditors who could contribute most to attaining that goal would be compensated first while those involved in civil suits against the company would be placed lowest on the creditor list since compensating them would lessen the chances of the company’s surviving. This rational clearly implies that the preservation of companies is more important than the preservation of people. Of course, similar cases have been reported before. The claims of workers for unpaid wages have often been dismissed as have their contracts for benefits.

Obama’s Rollback Strategy: Honduras, Iran, Pakistan, Afghanistan (and the Boomerang Effect) by Prof James Petras

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by Prof James Petras
Global Research, July 9, 2009

The recent events in Honduras and Iran, which pit democratically elected regimes against pro-US military and civilian actors intent on overthrowing them can best be understood as part of a larger White House strategy designed to rollback the gains achieved by opposition government and movements during the Bush years.

In a manner reminiscent of Ronald Reagan’s New Cold War policies, Obama has vastly increased the military budget, increased the number of combat troops, targeted new regions for military intervention and backed military coups in regions traditionally controlled by the US . However Obama’s rollback strategy occurs in a very different international and domestic context. Unlike Reagan, Obama faces a prolonged and profound recession/depression, massive fiscal and trade deficits, a declining role in the world economy and loss of political dominance in Latin America, the Middle East, East Asia and elsewhere. While Reagan faced off against a decaying Soviet Communist regime, Obama confronts surging world-wide opposition from a variety of independent secular, clerical, nationalist, liberal democratic and socialist electoral regimes and social movements anchored in local struggles.

Shadow Secrets (2008)

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PrentissMcCabe

Mar 8, 2010

This new film looks at the origins and history of the Afghan Mujahedin & al-Qaeda and their associations with various intelligence agencies including the CIA, FBI, MI6 and those of Saudi Arabia & Pakistan.

Compiled, edited and produced by The Dossier http://www.thedossier.ukonline.co.uk/

The Journey to Gaza Begins, by Michael Prysner

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by Michael Prysner
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Act Now to Stop War & End Racism

After five days in Cairo, we are ready to set off with vehicles and medical supplies

Niels Harrit: Nano-thermite took down the WTC?

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RussiaToday
July 09, 2009

Could the most audacious terrorist attack in history be a sophisticated masterpiece of demolition?

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Thermite By John S. Hatch

Danish scientist Niels Harrit, on nano-thermite in the WTC dust (English subtitles)

Active Thermitic Material Discovered in Dust from the 9/11 World Trade

Punk Patriot: Health Care + Bernie Sanders Talks About Healthcare Reform + Media Are Sicko

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Updated: added a petition and videos

trichenosis
July 09, 2009

The Insurance and Pharmaceutical industry are joining with the Democrats and Republicans, to fuck us all over.

http://punkpatriot.blogspot.com
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http://www.singlepayeraction.org
http://www.congress.org