‘Firm sold Israel torture instruments’

A Danish-British security company has sold torture instruments to the Israeli prisons, holding Palestinians inmates, a Danish newspaper has written. The firm, named G4s, sells the devices to the detention facilities in the occupied West Bank, which provide the necessary means for torture of the Palestinian prisoners, Berlingske Tidende reported on Nov. 23.

The “flotilla video”: Israeli troops storm boat with aid supplies bound for Gaza Strip

Source In the news today, worldwide controversy around an Israeli commando attack on a “Free Gaza Movement” flotilla carrying aid supplies to the blockaded Gaza strip. NYT story here. Varying reports on how many were killed: 10 according to Israel, and 19 or more according to the activists and some news organizations. Some 600 people [...]

Britain to change arrest rule

Britain’s new Foreign Secretary William Hague promises to “act speedily” to change the way arrests are ordered under international law in Britain. “The current situation is as unsatisfactory as it is indefensible. We cannot have a position where Israeli politicians feel they cannot visit this country… and indeed this would apply to many other nations [...]

Who Will Hold America Accountable for Its Crimes?

The website WikiLeaks has been garnering attention recently due to its publication of sensitive material that many in government (and elsewhere) would rather be kept private. Information on the site includes secret intelligence documents and studies commissioned by the U.S. government, which does not seem to appreciate the disclosure of such information, for fear of [...]

US confronts its reputation abroad

Hamas Leader Was ‘Drugged And Suffocated’

[  Succinylcholine is NOT a sedative.  It is a muscle relaxer used to induce paralysis, so the victim can die awake, while his lungs refuse to work.  Mossad also knew it would be detected. ] The Hamas commander who was killed in his Dubai hotel room was drugged and then suffocated, police have said. It [...]

Interpol adds suspected Dubai assassins to most wanted list

Interpol added the 11 suspected assassins allegedly responsible for last month’s Dubai assassination of a Hamas strongman to their most wanted list, Haaretz learned on Thursday. The individuals who were charged by Dubai police as responsible for the killing of Hamas commander Mahmoud al-Mabhouh were tagged with “Red Notices,” according to the Interpol’s official website. [...]

Drug Smuggling At Costa Rica’s Main Airport Up 63%

Perhaps it is due to the economic crisis or just a fast way to get rich, as many more this past year have decided to take the chance and smuggle drugs out of Costa Rica by was of the country’s major airport, the Juan Santamaría International Airport (Aeropuerto Internacional Juan Santamaría), in San José. The [...]

Israeli Police Arrest Nuclear Whistleblower

JERUSALEM —  Israeli police say that nuclear whistleblower Mordechai Vanunu has been arrested. Police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said Vanunu was detained on suspicion he met with several foreigners, in violation of the conditions of his 2004 release from prison. He’s to appear in a Jerusalem court later Tuesday. Vanunu was a former low-level technician at an [...]

Israel’s organ theft unforgivable: PFLP

A senior member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) says Israel‘s killing of Palestinian youths for their organs is an “unforgivable sin.” Stealing organs of Palestinian martyrs is a violation of all humanitarian principles and values, PFLP executive Maher al-Taher said in a Tuesday statement. Taher further called on human rights [...]

2 Mossad operatives institutionalized

One of the large mental health hospitals in Israel was recently surprised to receive a young, good-looking patient in a psychotic state who was accompanied by a personal security guard, Yedioth Ahronoth reported on Sunday. The doctors, who asked why the woman was accompanied by a guard, were shocked to learn that she was a [...]

Spanish EU presidency wants Palestinian state in 2010

Spain, the European Union‘s incoming president, is to orchestrate a push by the bloc for the establishment of a Palestinian state in 2010. Miguel Ángel Moratinos Cuyaubé, the country’s foreign minister, said on Friday (18 December) that Madrid sees the foundation of a Palestinian state alongside Israel as one of its main priorities under its [...]

FBI Linguist Leaked Classified Docs to Blogger

An Israeli-American attorney who worked for the Federal Bureau of Investigation as a translator pled guilty yesterday to unlawfully disclosing five classified FBI documents to an unidentified blogger last April, who then published information from the documents on his blog, the Department of Justice announced. In a signed plea agreement (pdf), Shamai Leibowitz stipulated that [...]

Amendment to Israeli ‘Citizenship Law’ to Ministers on Sunday

On Sunday, the Ministerial Committee on Legislation will consider a bill alternately known as the “Human Respect and Freedom Law” and the “Amendment to the Citizenship and Entry into Israel Law,” authored by Member of Knesset David Rotem (Yisrael Beiteinu). Rotem says the purpose of the bill is to make a law out of decisions [...]

Israel Electric Company Begins Internet Infrastructure Test Projects

Communications minister Moshe Kahlon, on Tuesday, authorized the Israel Electric Corporation to set up two pilot programs that would enable the IEC to become an internet infrastructure provider. One project would have the IEC set up an infrastructure for Fiber to the x (FTTx) connections, providing far faster internet connections than are available today in [...]

Israel confirms U.K. arrest warrant against Tzipi Livni

Senior officials in Israel confirmed reports on Monday that a British court issued an arrest warrant against opposition chairwoman Tzipi Livni for her role in orchestrating Israel’s military offensive against Hamas in the Gaza Strip nearly a year ago. The request for the warrant was submitted by a pro-Palestinian organization. British sources reported late Monday [...]

Silence over sudden death of Jordan’s ex-spy chief in Vienna

There is widespread silence in Jordan about the sudden death of the country’s former intelligence chief, at his luxury Vienna hotel room, on Wednesday. The country’s tightly controlled press barely mentioned the news of the death of Field Marshal Said Bashir Saad Kheir, 56, whose body was reportedly discovered in bed by a maid in [...]

Lebanon agrees Hezbollah right to arms

Lebanon‘s new cabinet has agreed to acknowledge the Islamic Hezbollah movement’s right to use armed resistance against the Israeli acts of hostility. A cabinet committee commissioned with drafting a policy statement for the country’s new government met for the ninth time on Wednesday, when it reached an agreement on the issue, said Information Minister Tarek [...]

South Africa busts Shin Bet operation, expels Israeli agent

The South African government has expelled an Israeli intelligence agent posing as an airline worker, after the discovery of a major Israeli undercover operation at the Oliver R. Tambo International Airport (OR Tambo International Airport) in Johannesburg. The operation was uncovered by Carte Blanche, South African television’s most respected investigative news program, based on testimony [...]

Poll: US views Israel exempted from law

The US apparently views Israel as being exempted from abiding by international law, the results of a recent online opinion poll indicate. Press TV asked in an online poll about the respondents’ opinion on a recent motion by the US congressmen against the Goldstone report (United Nations Fact Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict), which [...]

Berlin Wall: 223 dead. Wall that separates the USA from Mexico: 5.6 thousand dead

On the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, the world lives with a number of barriers that serve to restrain the free movement of people. The wall that divides the West Bank from Israel and preventing the passage of Mexican immigrants to the United States are the best known, but there are [...]

Israel, US war games due off California

Israel plans military exercises at a US naval facility using its Arrow interceptor missiles in a series of drills that also deploys American missile systems. The Israeli Air Force (IAF) will ship the required hardware for the exercise to a Pacific Ocean range off the California coast later this summer, according to Reuters, quoting the [...]

Cynthia McKinney Demands Immediate Release After Her Gaza-Bound Boat is Seized by Israeli Navy

Former U.S. lawmaker and Green Party leader Cynthia McKinney, a longtime activist for the Palestinians, says her boat, the Spirit of Humanity, was carrying medical supplies, cement, olive trees and children’s toys to Gaza when it was seized by an Israeli navy ship. Former U.S. lawmaker and Green Party presidential candidate Cynthia McKinney, whose relief [...]

‘Hezbollah’s legitimacy growing in the West’

Hezbollah Deputy Secretary-General Sheikh Naim Qassem Hezbollah says Western states should stop their support of Israel stating that the resistance movement has been enjoying increased legitimacy. “In recent years, the Western perception of Hezbollah has changed. Even governments have started to look for reasons to communicate and have relations with Hezbollah … This indicates that [...]

US absentee at UN anti-racism confab

The US reportedly decides against participating in a UN-led anti-racism conference in Geneva following hectic Israeli attempts to denounce the event. On Friday, an unnamed US State Department official announced the decision for withdrawal from the conference which the two sides walked out on in 2001, Reuters reported. The 2001 conference held in Durban, South [...]

Iranians don’t “hate us because we have freedom”

Iran is celebrating the 30th anniversary of its historic Islamic revolution after three decades of siege warfare by the western powers. To understand why relations between Tehran and the West are so bitter, we must understand their historical context. Iran’s jagged relations with the West began during World War II. In 1941, the British Empire [...]

Hamas to pay victims of Gaza war

Hamas is set to hand out money to Gazans afflicted by Israel’s offensive on the Gaza Strip. The territory’s government was due to start giving out the money, expected to total about $45m, on Sunday - a day after a Hamas committee was established to oversee relief efforts. Ahmed al-Kurd, the Hamas-appointed minister of social affairs, also heads the National High [...]

How to Deal with Government Propaganda on the Web

How should we deal with the onslaught of American and Israeli government-sponsored bloggers defending those governments’ actions (see this and this)? Well, one way is to ask bloggers who appear to be parroting pro-government propaganda without any thought the following question: “Has the American, Israeli and/or any other government directly or indirectly instructed or requested [...]

US veto blocks UN anti-Israel resolution

The UN Security Council has been unable to force an end to Israeli attacks against Gaza due to the intervention of the United States. Washington once again used its veto powers on Sunday to block a resolution calling for an end to the massive ongoing Israeli attacks against the Gaza Strip. See also: Israeli blockade [...]

Hamas News Conference on Israeli Attack

Israeli blockade forces Palestinians to search rubbish dumps for food

UN fears irreversible damage is being done in Gaza as new statistics reveal the level of deprivation. Impoverished Palestinians on the Gaza Strip are being forced to scavenge for food on rubbish dumps to survive as Israel‘s economic blockade risks causing irreversible damage, according to international observers. Figures released last week by the UN Relief [...]

Middle East Forum hires former AIPAC Policy Development Head Steven J. Rosen

Of course there’s nothing all that unusual about a spy going to work for a Washington thinktank. Ex-CIA employees do it all the time: so do all sorts of other spooks, who would otherwise be haunting the world’s darkest corners. No big deal. But what I’ve never seen, and don’t recall ever hearing about, is [...]

Cynthia McKinney Prevented From Leaving U.S.

Former Congresswoman and presidential candidate Cynthia McKinney has been prevented from leaving the country after she planned to give a speech in Damascus Syria at a Conference being held to commemorate the 60th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

Iran says Israel-linked spy network arrested

Iran’s Revolutionary Guards have arrested a spy network linked to Israeli intelligence who tried to gather information on Iranian nuclear and military programmes, the guard’s chief said on Monday.”The intelligence bureau of the Revolutionary Guards Corps has recently discovered a spy network linked with the Israeli Mossad,” Mohammad Ali Jafari said on state radio. “This [...]

Iranian ‘Blogfather’ Hossein Derakhshan is arrested on charge of spying for Israel

A prominent Iranian blogger, nicknamed the Blogfather for spawning Iran’s spectacular blogging revolution, has been arrested in Tehran and accused of spying for Israel. Hossein Derakhshan, who was last based in London after spending several years in Canada, returned to live in his homeland a few weeks ago.

Perris pastor draws 12-year prison term for scamming investors of some $30 million

After calling a Perris pastor and one co-defendant “economic predators,” a federal judge in Los Angeles sentenced the men to prison terms for bilking investors of almost $30 million in a Ponzi scheme. U.S. District Judge Percy Anderson sentenced pastor Robert Jennings, 59, to 12 years in prison Monday for his role defrauding 500 people [...]

Spy drone ‘Predator,’ reflects what US has become

TUCSON — The bad news is that the US Border Patrol has four drones flying out of Fort Huachuca over the US/Mexico border for surveillance. One drone has already crashed near Nogales and these unmanned aerial planes, provided first by Israel’s Apartheid spy technology maker, Elbit Systems, are a risk to the lives of those [...]