Despite the IDF’s killing of over 160 and the wounding of 17,000 unarmed Palestinian protesters, and despite the great international outcry this has caused, the Israeli Supreme Court has ruled that the IDF’s rules of engagement are in line with “international parameters.” GAZA CITY, PALESTINE — The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) have killed at least 35 Read More…
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Neocons Concoct Threat Of “Iranian Hackers” To Justify Preemptive “Counterattack” Against Iran
Recent warnings of an imminent Iranian cyberattack on the U.S. are dubious at best — aimed at ending the U.S.’ isolation through dishonest intelligence, while justifying a U.S. “preemptive counterattack” on Iran’s infrastructure in a bid to further destabilize the nation. WASHINGTON — Several reports in both American and Israeli media have recently been circulating the claim that Read More…
US Military Aid To Israel Set To Exceed $3.8B, or $23,000 Per Year For Every Jewish Family Living In Israel
The massive funding for Israel’s military is the result of the 2016 U.S.-Israel Memorandum of Understanding on security assistance between the Israeli and U.S. governments, which called for annual funding of $3.8 billion — or $23,000 per year for every Jewish family living in Israel — for the next 10 years. WASHINGTON — In an event Read More…
Netanyahu Declares Israel’s Readiness To Join Saudi-Led Bloody War On Yemen
Netanyahu has shown his willingness to use Iran’s fabled presence as a pretext for military action anywhere in the region, particularly when the true motives for military escalation would prove more difficult to justify. HAIFA, ISRAEL — On Wednesday, during a speech at a naval parade in Haifa, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu threatened to deploy the Israeli military Read More…
Powerful UK Firm Pursues Contract To “Modernize” Saudi Military
“[The U.K.] should be focusing on trying to stop this terrible conflict, not assisting the Saudi government. British companies should be very cautious indeed in what they are supporting. Yemen is the world’s worst humanitarian crisis and getting worse by the day.” – Anna Macdonald, director of a global arms-control organization LONDON — A powerful U.K.-based Read More…
To Get Assange, US Likely To Play the “Russia” Angle Via Mueller Probe
By treating Assange as a Russian collaborator — not as a journalist or publisher — and using the carefully cultivated RussiaGate hysteria against him, it will spare other journalists the obligation of belatedly coming to Assange’s aid and they will instead continue to align themselves with the very institutions that seek to destroy a colleague Read More…






