Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter fields questions from Haaretz Editor-in-Chief David Landau during an international Internet conference hosted by TheMarker. Carter, a Nobel Peace Prize laureate, brokered a peace treaty in 1979 between Israel and Egypt – the first such…
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Posted in Activism, Democrats, Israel, Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Media, NGOs, Peace, US - Israel relations, US Foreign Policy
Posted in Activism, Democrats, Israel, Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Media, NGOs, Peace, US - Israel relations, US Foreign Policy
On Secular Fundamentalism
AP photos / left: Gautam Singh / right: Uwe Lein By Chris Hedges Source: Truthdig Chris Hedges, who went to seminary at Harvard Divinity School, is the author of “I Don’t Believe in Atheists.” This essay is adapted from the…
Posted in GeoPolitics, NGOs, Politics, Religion and Politics, The Right-Wing, The West, United States
The Federal Reserve is a Private Financial Institution
Text of court ruling and analysis Court Rules Federal Reserve is Privately Owned Case Reveals Fed’s Status as a Private Institution Below are excerpts from a court case proving the Federal Reserve system’s status. As you will see, the…
Jewish leader calls Hagee ‘extremist’
The leader of the largest branch of American Judaism said Wednesday that synagogues in the movement shouldn’t work with the Rev. John Hagee, a Christian Zionist, calling him an “extremist” on Israeli policy who disparages other faiths. Rabbi Eric Yoffie,…
The Power of the Israel Lobby
Two Knights and a Dragon By URI AVNERY There are books that change people’s consciousness and change history. Some tell a story, like Harriet Beech Stowe’s 1851 “Uncle Tom’s Cabin”, which gave a huge impetus to the campaign for the…
The Israel Lobby and US Foreign Policy
By John J Mearsheimer and Stephen M Walt Five years ago, Atlantic Monthly commissioned two academics, John Mearsheimer of Chicago University and Stephen Walt of Harvard, to write a significant article about the influence of the Israeli lobby on American…
UNESCO slams new seven wonders list
THE UN body for culture overnight blasted a private initiative that drew nearly 100 million Internet and telephone voters to choose seven “new” wonders of the world. “This campaign responds to other criteria and objectives than that of UNESCO in…
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