Viciously Attacking Israeli Arabs

Viciously Attacking Israeli Arabs - by Stephen LendmanReminiscent of Kristallnacht violence, Israeli Arabs in Haifa District's Umm al-Fahm community were attacked, Haaretz writers Fadi Eyadat, Jack Khoury, and Chaim Levinson headlining, "Police clash with Arab protesters as rightists rally in Umm al-Fahm," saying:In Arab Umm al-Fahm, "Dozens of extreme rightists (hooligan West Bank settlers) held...

Farooque Ahmed: Entrapped by an FBI Sting

Farooque Ahmed: Entrapped by an FBI Sting - by Stephen LendmanThe story is disturbingly familiar. FBI agents arrest a suspect on terrorism related charges, nearly always a Muslim, photographed full bearded to look menacing. Media reports highlight it, headlining government charges to incite fear. Announced arrests are strategically timed, this one days before mid-term elections....

Reviewing Project Censored’s Top 2009-10 Stories

Reviewing Project Censored's Top 2009-10 Stories - by Stephen LendmanFounded in 1976 by Carl Jensen, Mickey Huff now heads PC, working cooperatively with former director Peter Phillips' Media Freedom Foundation (MFF) and other investigative research and media related organizations. Together they counter major media real news and information censorship and suppression - what PC and...

Adnan Mirza: Another US War on Terror Victim

Adnan Mirza: Another US War on Terror Victim - by Stephen LendmanPost-9/11, Mirza is one of legions of war on terror victims - framed, charged, indicted, tried and convicted on bogus terrorism related charges.On October 22, the US Attorney's Office for the Southern District of Texas headlined, "Pakistani Student Sentenced to prison for conspiring to...

Franklin Roosevelt’s Second Bill of Rights

Franklin Roosevelt's Second Bill of Rights - by Stephen LendmanFerdinand Lundberg's "Cracks in the Constitution" deconstructed what framers, in fact, created, men he equated with a Wall Street crowd, given their economic status and prominence as bankers, merchants, lawyers, politicians, judges, and overall wheeler-dealers. In 1787, they convened for their own interests, not the general...

America’s Gulf: Ongoing Coverup and Denial

America's Gulf: Ongoing Coverup and Denial - by Stephen LendmanOn October 22, AP reported that over 7,000 square miles of Gulf waters off Florida's Panhandle were declared oil-free and reopened to fishing. According the the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), 96% of Gulf waters are now safe and reopened, spokeswoman Jane Lubchenco saying, "Our...

Anti-Defamation League Demagoguery and Islamophobia

Anti-Defamation League Demagoguery and Islamophobia - by Stephen LendmanFounded by B'nai B'rith in 1913, its stated mission is "to stop the defamation of the Jewish people and to secure justice and fair treatment to all," calling itself "the nation's premier civil rights/human relations agency, (fighting) anti-Semitism and all forms of bigotry...."In fact, Abraham Foxman, its...

Congressional Fleecing the Public Legislation

Congressional Fleecing the Public Legislation - by Stephen LendmanOn February 23, HR 4646: Debt Free America Act was introduced "To establish a fee on transactions which would eliminate the national debt and replace the income tax on individuals."Sponsor Representative Chaka Fattah's (D. PA) same day press release said:The bill offers a "simple new approach to...

Progressive Radio News Hour Guests for October 28, 30 and 31

The Progressive Radio News Hour Guests for October 28, 30, and 31, 2010Thursday, October 28 at 10AM US Central time: Jack ShaheenShaheen is an essayist, media critic, lecturer, "committed internationalist," "humanist," and author or five books, including the TV Arab, Arab and Muslim Stereotyping in American Popular Culture, Reel Bad Arabs: How Hollywood Vilifies a...

Systemic Washington-Sanctioned Fraud

Systemic Washington-Sanctioned Fraud - by Stephen LendmanIt's the American way. More for the rich. Crumbs for the rest, and fraud as a way of life since the republic's beginning, though hardly on today's scale. Perhaps the first prominent example was in 1792, involving former Assistant Treasury Secretary William Duer. Appointed by Alexander Hamilton in 1789,...