by Bernard Keane Visa, Mastercard and PayPal all enable donations to be made to US-registered groups funding illegal Israeli settlements in the West Bank in defiance of international law. It appears at least one of the major credit cards also…
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Funding illegal Israeli settlements? Priceless.
Tagged with: israeli settlements, Mastercard, PayPal, Visa
Posted in Israel, Oppression, Palestinian Territories, US - Israel relations, US Foreign Policy
Posted in Israel, Oppression, Palestinian Territories, US - Israel relations, US Foreign Policy
Ron Paul, G.O.P. Loner, Comes In From Cold
WASHINGTON — As virtually all of Washington was declaring WikiLeaks’s disclosures of secret diplomatic cables an act of treason, Representative Ron Paul was applauding the organization for exposing the United States’ “delusional foreign policy.” For this, the conservative blog RedState…
“I’m with you, not my president,” House Leader Eric Cantor told Israel’s Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu
Republican Cantor recants on Israel Incoming House Majority Leader tries to explain why he pledged allegiance to Israel’s leader over the US President. Soon-to-be House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA) is desperately trying to explain away the promise he made…
Pentagon’s Biggest Lie? “No Surprises” Expected from WikiLeaks
The pre-leak spin by the Pentagon is that they have already disclosed everything important that will be revealed in the next WikiLeaks document super-dump. Obama’s Pentagon apparently believes that Americans are as gullible – if not mutton-headed – as the…
Tagged with: Wikileaks
Posted in Defense, DOD, Iraq, Military, Reports/Studies/Books, US Foreign Policy
Posted in Defense, DOD, Iraq, Military, Reports/Studies/Books, US Foreign Policy
VIDEO: Waxman Confronts ‘U.S.’ Chamber Over Foreign Money Questions, Secret Corporate Campaign Funds
Earlier this month, ThinkProgress investigated the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and found fundraising documents soliciting money from foreign businesses for the same 501(c)(6) account the Chamber is using to wage an unprecedented $75 million dollar partisan attack campaign. ThinkProgress documented…
Tagged with: bank of america, BP, David Chavern, Henry Waxman, Tom Perriello, Tom Petrie, U.S. Chamber of Commerce
Posted in Capitalism, Money, Republicans, US - Israel relations
Posted in Capitalism, Money, Republicans, US - Israel relations
Republican Billionaires Arrange Secret Meeting to Plot Evil
The vast Right Wing Conspiracy will convene in January, according to a personal invitation that infamous billionaire Charles Koch recently sent to his rich friends. There they will plot to stop the Obama agenda, perhaps with Glenn Beck giving instructions.…
Glen Greenwald: They hate us for our occupations
In 2004, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld commissioned a task force to study what causes Terrorism, and it concluded that “Muslims do not ‘hate our freedom,’ but rather, they hate our policies”: specifically, “American direct intervention in the Muslim world” through our “one…
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