Don’t infantilize the people

Only Rational Thinking Can Save The World Andre Vltchek, Dissident Voice, April 14th, 2017 The West has brought the world to the brink of total collapse, but its citizens, even its intellectuals, are stubbornly refusing to grasp the urgency. Like ostriches, many are hiding their heads in the sand. There seems to be an acute

The Vatican & the Pharisees

Vatican recognizes ‘Palestinian state’ Press TV, 13-5-2015 The Vatican has officially recognized the state of Palestine in a new treaty. According to the treaty the Holy See switched its diplomatic relations from the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) to the state of Palestine. On November 29, 2012, the United Nations General Assembly voted to upgrade Palestine’s

The Temple dilemma

Orthodox Judaism and the Temple dilemma Motti Inbari, Times of Israel, 5-1-2015 Over the past decade, there has been a steady increase in rabbinical rulings that permit the entry of Jews to the Temple Mount. The only limitation was to observe the restrictions regarding purity when doing so… Since the destruction of the Second Temple,

Hanukkah & Phariseeism

Hanukkah, also known as the Festival of Lights, Feast of Dedication, is an eight-day Jewish holiday commemorating the rededication of the Second Temple in Jerusalem at the time of the Maccabean Revolt against the Seleucid Empire of the 2nd century BCE. Phariseeism: Hypocritical observance of the letter of religious or moral law without regard for

The Temple Myth – part two

The Western Wall? What do Jews believe? We all know that the Western Wall, the Kotel,is the last remnant of our Temple. We also know that Jews from around the world gather here to pray. People write notes to G-d and place them between the ancient stones of the Wall. In the year 37 BCE,

The Temple Mount Myth

Zoabi: Israel is a ‘Terror State’ Presence of Jewish Temple on Temple Mount is a ‘myth.’ By Uzi Baruch, Tova Dvorin, Israel National News, 11/14/2014 Arab MKs are among the Israeli Arabs readying to protest in Umm Al-Fahm Friday, as frustrations build in the Arab city over the Temple Mount and the shooting of terrorist

Why Syrians support Bashar al Assad

Why Syrians support Bashar al Assad By Tim Anderson, Pravda 30.09.2014 The sudden reversion of Washington to a ‘war on terror’ pretext for intervention in Syria has confused western audiences. For three years they watched ‘humanitarian intervention’ stories, which poured contempt on the Syrian President’s assertion that he was fighting foreign backed terrorists. Now the

De-Baathification in Iraq

A Bitter Legacy: Lessons of De-Baathification in Iraq Miranda Sissons and Abdulrazzaq Al-Saiedi ICTJ – Justice, Truth, Dignity Iraq’s de-Baathification process is the most current example of large-scale, politically based dismissals. Yet factual information about de-Baathifi cation is scarce and for good reason. From its inception in 2003, de-Baathifi cation was a deeply flawed process.

Interview with Gaddafi

Play ‘An Interview with Qaddafi’ opens in London Libya Herald, 8 June 2014 A new play now showing at a London theatre sets out to tell a different story of the 2011 revolution, claiming Muammar Qaddafi was a benign figure and the NATO intervention as a capitalist conspiracy revolving around the World Bank. In An

Putin versus the Neocons

Leaked phone call on Ukraine lays bare Washington’s gangsterism Bill Van Auken, World Socialist Website, 10-2-2014 The US media has shown remarkably little interest in the tape of a telephone call between Victoria Nuland, the State Department’s top official on Europe and Eurasia, and the US ambassador to Ukraine, Geoffrey Pyatt, which was posted on