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Rahm Emanuel`s Father Specialized in Bus Bombings in Palestine

Wikipedia deleted the page about Rahm Emanuel's father in 2008. Why do you suppose?

(WASHINGTON D.C.) - Former White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel held a top position in our country's leadership and his example of ethics and integrity is of the highest importance.

Richard Falk Is Right on 9/11-Will Obama and Friends Forsake Falk for Telling the Truth

Did we miss something? What’s the problem here?

(MADISON, Wi.) - Richard Falk, UN Special Rapporteur on human rights in Occupied Palestine, is under fire for writing what is obviously true about the U.S. government and the media. Calls for his firing abound from the usual suspects.

Such commitments to truth as Falk possesses can pose problems for prospective careerists, but the 80-year-old human rights activist and scholar likely doesn’t care all that much about resulting slander.

On Jewish Identity

As soon as exclusivity or superiority is claimed for any ethnic or religious fraction of the human whole, there is implicitly posited a belief in the inferiority of ‘the other.’

(LOS ANGELES) - As someone who is both Jewish and supportive of the Palestinian struggle for a just and sustainable peace, I am often asked about my identity.

The harshest critics of my understanding of the Israel/Palestine conflict contend that I am a self-hating Jew, which implies that sharp criticism of Israel and Zionism are somehow incompatible with affirming a Jewish identity. Of course, I deny this.

Free Tunisia

Today Tunisia stands at the heart of the fight for equality.

(LONDON) - Tunisia continues to dominate headlines and it should; popular uprisings have relieved nations of tyrants in the past.

When the power of the people leads to the removal of oppressive regimes, it is a form of democracy in action.

Remarks by the President in State of the Union Address

The U.S. President's annual State of the Union Address in its entirety.

(WASHINGTON D.C.) - Tuesday's remarks by the President in State of the Union Address were made at the United States Capitol in Washington, D.C. at 9:12 P.M. EST.

THE PRESIDENT: Mr. Speaker, Mr. Vice President, members of Congress, distinguished guests, and fellow Americans: Tonight I want to begin by congratulating the men and women of the 112th Congress, as well as your new Speaker, John Boehner.

Valley of the Wolves

If Germans are genuinely interested in the Nazi past, they better look closely at Israeli current brutality.

(LONDON) - Valley of the Wolves: Palestine is a new Turkish movie portraying the Mavi Marmara massacre as a premeditated Israeli attack that was set to kill innocent peace activists.

An uproar has erupted in Germany in the last few days over the upcoming launching of the film. The film's intended release date in Germany is January 27, the same day as the International Holocaust Remembrance Day.

Is America Rubber Stamping Apartheid in Palestine?

Includes related videos by Anthony Lawson.

(MELBOURNE) - “More and more, Americans from all walks of life are talking about Israel's influence in Washington, looking for someone to blame. Americans are angry, feeling powerless, victimized by their own government.

Some of that blame takes the form of Antisemitism, again rearing its ugly head, but most of it is expressed in healthy skepticism, skepticism of a government showing signs of having been bought.

The Palestine Papers: Israel`s Peacemakers Unmasked

Key revelations emerge from the leaked confidential documents recording major, unreciprocated concessions made by Mahmoud Abbas’s team in talks with Israel, including relinquishing Palestinian sovereignty over Muslim holy places...

(NAZARETH) - For more than a decade, since the collapse of the Camp David talks in 2000, the mantra of Israeli politics has been the same:

“There is no Palestinian partner for peace.”

Israel Strikes Back

Though the U.S. reliably vetoes Security Council resolutions at Israel’s request, sentiments are shifting as a global public awakens to the costs of the U.S.-Israeli relationship.

(TEMPE, Ariz.) - Timing is everything when waging war “by way of deception,” the motto that has long guided Israeli war-planners. Whenever Israel’s geopolitical goals are threatened, chaos is assured.

In national security terminology, the January 24th bombing at Moscow’s busiest airport was “out of theater repositioning.”

Traumatized Soldiers are Being Redeployed to War

The United States redeploys traumatized American soldiers and marines to Iraq and Afghanistan, giving a rise to the suicide rate among service members, says a peace activist.

(TEHRAN Press TV) - "Even though they are suffering from mental trauma, from PTSD, they are often redeployed to Iraq or Afghanistan without treatment," Dr. Dahlia Wasfi said in a Sunday interview with Press TV's US Desk.

This while suicide rates among American soldiers and Marines, particularly those serving overseas, is on the rise.