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The invisible government: Propaganda Disguised as Journalism

John Pilger: In a speech in Chicago, John Pilger describes how propaganda has become such a potent force in our lives and, in the words of one of its founders, represents 'an invisible government'.

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A moment of truth: A word of faith, hope and love from the heart of...

We, a group of Christian Palestinians, after prayer, reflection and an exchange of opinion, cry out from within the suffering in our country, under the Israeli occupation, with a cry of hope in the...

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Documentary Video: Shooting the Messenger

This documentary on the deliberate killing and intimidation of journalists in conflict zones, examines how international reporters became targets.

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Impressions of Israeli Executions in the West Bank

Much planning had gone into our family vacation in Israel-Palestine. We could spare only the last two weeks of 2009, and so had developed an uncompromising itinerary for each day, allowing a mere...

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Calling Bono: Your Palestinian Gandhis Exist ... in Graves and Prisons

In your recent column in the New York Times, "Ten for the Next Ten," you wrote: "I'll place my hopes on the possibility -- however remote at the moment -- that...people in places filled with rage and...

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International law is clear: Israeli settlements are illegal

Eric Rozenman's Dec. 11 Op-Ed article, "Israeli settlements are more than legitimate," is legal nonsense that disregards history. He is correct in his observation that Article 6 of the Mandate for...

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Noam Chomsky and the pro-Israel lobby: Fourteen erroneous theses

Noam Chomsky has been called the US leading intellectual by pundits and even some sectors of the mass media. He has a large audience throughout the world especially in academic circles, in large part...

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Ethan Bronner's Conflict With Impartiality

Ethan Bronner is the New York Times Jerusalem bureau chief. As such, he is the editor responsible for all the news coming out of Israel-Palestine. It is his job to decide what gets reported and what...

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Beware of the BBC

Stuart Littlewood highlights the BBC's chronic pro-Israel bias, from allowing untruths about Israel's onslaught on Gaza in 2008-09 to go unchallenged, to its failure to provide accurate context about...

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Stealing Success Tel Aviv Style

And there is another aspect of Israel's growing high tech sector that he understandably chose to ignore because it is extremely sleazy. That is the significant advantage that Israel has gained by...

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New Booklet: Stealing Success Tel Aviv Style

International security and counterterrorism expert Philip Giraldi argues that Israel's flourishing high tech industry is built on widespread theft of American research. This has undermined American...

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How to Contact the US Government and Media

Contact information for the U.S. government and media.

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Remember Rachel Corrie

On March 16, 2003, Rachel Corrie was killed by Israeli soldiers driving a bulldozer. Please help us keep Rachel's memory and message alive! Order materials to distribute to your friends, family,...

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US Media and Israeli Military: All in the Family

Recent exposes revealing that Ethan Bronner, the New York Times Israel-Palestine bureau chief, has a son in the Israeli military have caused a storm of controversy that continues to swirl and generate...

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A History Lesson for Obama: Eisenhower's Example

With President Obama's Middle East peace plans so completely -- and humiliatingly -- shipwrecked on the rocks of Israeli intransigence, it's time for him to consider a new approach, at least if he's...

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The First Intifada

It's interesting to find myself a small factor in the California race for the Republican nomination for the U.S. Senate. But before I get to that, it's necessary to take a look at the campaigns...

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My "Relationship" With Tom Campbell: A Wrench in the Israeli Gears

The First Intifada was a grassroots uprising against Israel's occupation of the West Bank, Gaza Strip and East Jerusalem. Intifada is an Arabic word for "civil uprising" that literally means "shaking...

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NPR Watch: Linda Gradstein Has Done It Again on Gaza

NPR's reporter Linda Gradstein has done it again. She has managed to take a "must report" story on Israeli-Palestinian relations -- the new report by B'Tselem on the non-combatants, including children,...

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An Open Letter to the Southern Poverty Law Clinic: Do You Equate Anti-Zionism...

I am disturbed by an article that the Center published in the fall 2007 issue of "Intelligence Report"--the Center's magazine. The item "Navy Extremist Disciplined--But Not for Extremism" is on page...

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AIPAC: We'll take over Cal's student government... That's how we operate in...

"How are we going to beat back the anti-Israel divestment resolution at Berkeley? We're going to make certain that pro-Israel students take over the student government and reverse the vote. That is how...

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Gabrielle Giffords, Tom Hurndall and Palestinian Children: Shot in the Head

Alison Weir, CounterPunch - There is something particularly horrifying when someone is shot in the head. Perhaps it's the gruesome image, the destruction of the brain, the clear intent to kill. The...

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Critical Connections: Egypt, the US, and the Israel Lobby

Minimally explored in all the coverage of the momentous Egyptian uprising taking place over the last 10 days [Jan-Feb 2011] are the Israeli connections.

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Denying Nazi-Zionist collusion: The Sacramento Bee, Darrell Steinberg, and...

In an inversion of journalistic ethics, the Sacramento Bee reported on opposition to an event before and after it took place, but didn't cover the event itself. It featured an entire report on...

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Media omissions on Itamar: Murdering babies is "permissible" when they're...

US media widely and repeatedly reported on the horrific March 11th murder of three small Israeli children and their parents. While no one yet knows who committed this grotesque act, reports presume...

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VIDEO: AIPAC and Stealth Israel Political Action Committees

Janet McMahon of the Washington Report on Middle East Affairs explains the history and impact of "stealth PACs." Why has the American Israel Public Affairs Committee spawned a network of PACs across...

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Israel Lobby Dominates Congress, Media Covers it Up

You might think that 20 percent of the American Congress going on all-expenses-paid, week-long junkets to a foreign country -- paid for by a lobby for that country -- would be newsworthy, especially...

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Israeli video games in Gaza: "Minimal collateral damage"

He looks at the camera with bright eyes and the beginning of a smile, wearing a miniature dark blue zipper sweatshirt, the cuffs folded up a bit to make it fit. I can imagine his mother dressing him...

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American Taxpayers Pay and Pay: Subsidizing Israel's Ascendancy Over the U.S.

Israel's Jerusalem Post newspaper recently published an article calling Israel "The New Golden Country" for young people from around the world. It reports that Israel boasts "an ever-increasing GDP, a...

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Spinning the Egyptian Anti-Israel Protest

Today's New York Times front-page story on Egyptian protests against the Israeli embassy largely neglects a primary cause of the anger: Israeli forces' killing of five Egyptian policemen. Egyptian...

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Shop Talk: The Sacramento Bee

Editors at McClatchy's Sacramento Bee recently made a series of questionable decisions in their coverage of a local event. They ran news stories about opposition to an upcoming event beforehand and...

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The Real Story of How Israel Was Created

To better understand the Palestinian bid for membership in the United Nations, it is important to understand the original 1947 UN action on Israel-Palestine. The common representation of Israel's birth...

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