Last month, Erekat accused Al Jazeera of taking part in a campaign to overthrow the PA after more than 1,600 confidential files on the negotiations between Palestinian and Israeli officials were made public by the network.
The documents, shared by Al Jazeera with the UK's Guardian newspaper, exposed concessions to Israel in 10 years of secret peace talks, embarrassing and angering the PA leadership.
At the time, Erekat accused Al Jazeera of attempting to discredit the peace process and provoke people into "a revolution against their leaders in order to bring down the Palestinian political system".
He insisted that the PA's position on Jerusalem, refugees and borders during peace negotiations were based on internationally recognised principles.
Arab Israelis celebrate Mubarak’s downfall
Locals hit streets as jubilant parade held in Arab Israeli town to mark Mubarak ouster
Australian citizen Mamdouh Habib was captured and tortured in the years after September 11 in both Egypt and Guantanamo Bay.
For years, “war on terror” supporters defamed Habib and claimed he was lying about his allegations of mistreatment. However last year in just one case against the Australian Murdoch press, he won a small victory:
The courts have delivered another win to former Guantanamo Bay inmate Mamdouh Habib, declaring that he was defamed by News Ltd columnist Piers Akerman, paving the way for a hefty payout.
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WASHINGTON (AFP) - US lawmakers on Friday hailed Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak's departure from power, but urged an "orderly" shift to democracy and voiced anxiety about the country's future relations with Israel.
"This is an extraordinary moment for Egypt. Courageous and peaceful demands for freedom and opportunity have now won the Egyptian people a chance at a new beginning," said Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman John Kerry.
Massive protests across the nation have put the bullseye clearly on Yemen as the next Egypt-style revolution target in the region, but while today’s protests may not have been as big, they may be even more damaging to the pro-US dictator Ali Abdullah Saleh.
That is because today’s protests were not centered in the capital city, but rather across southern Yemen, where upwards of 3,000 protesters took to the streets demanding nothing short of full secession from the nation.
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Under previous city attorneys, political protesters arrested for failing to disperse and blocking streets were usually prosecuted for infractions and fined. City Attorney Carmen Trutanich, while complaining that budget cuts are crippling his office, is insisting that first-time arrestees for protesting go to misdemeanor trial and face up to a year in jail. He says the goal is "predictability," but the LAT story shows he hasn't been consistent.
The Obama administration's Justice Department has asserted that the FBI can obtain telephone records of international calls made from the U.S. without any formal legal process or court oversight, according to a document obtained by McClatchy Newspapers.
That assertion was revealed - perhaps inadvertently - by the department in its response to a McClatchy Newspapers request for a copy of a secret Justice Department memo.
The controversy over the telephone records is a legacy of the Bush administration's war on terror. Critics say the Obama administration appears to be continuing many of the most controversial tactics of that strategy, including the assertion of sweeping executive powers.
China’s $2.85 trillion in foreign exchange reserves and the serious drought it is facing in its wheat producing north pose a serious danger to global food security, especially in the food importing developing world, according to a www.nytimes.com report Feb 8.
For now, China is talking more about bringing water to the drought plagued north, rather than importing wheat. China Daily online Feb 10 said the country would spend $1 billion to battle the drought and another at least 6.7 billion yuan ($1.02 billion) to divert water to affected areas, to construct emergency wells and irrigation facilities, and to take other measures.
The Egyptian government has faced rising domestic and regional criticism since a report first published by the Israeli newspaper Haaretz said Egypt was building an underground steel barrier along the Gaza border to curtail smuggling through tunnels under the border.
The Egyptian military announced this morning that they will continue to starve the Gazans for their masters in Israel.
Some revolution. Looks like they revolved 360 degrees and came up empty.
"They allowed themselves to go into denial," said Daniel Levy, a former Israeli Justice Ministry advisor who is now a senior fellow at the New America Foundation in Washington. "Now they've got no strategy and their options just narrowed."
Levy said Israel had relied heavily on Mubarak to defend its regional policies regarding peace talks with the Palestinians and the security cordon around the Gaza Strip, and now will have difficulties adjusting to a more democratic Egyptian government.
"You can't be a friend of Arab democracy if you're an enemy of Palestinian freedom," Levy said. "In that sense, they are as out of touch with Middle East reality as Mubarak was."
The US House of Representatives voted Thursday night to clear the road for an extension of controversial provisions in the USA PATRIOT Act.
When the act was first signed into law, Congress put in some "sunset" provisions to quiet the concerns of civil libertarians, but they were ignored by successive extensions. Unfortunately, those concerns proved to be well founded, and a 2008 Justice Department report confirmed that the FBI regularly abused their ability to obtain personal records of Americans without a warrant.
The top US military commander will visit Israel and Jordan Sunday and Monday to reaffirm US support following the collapse of the presidency of Hosni Mubarak in Egypt.
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Admiral Mike Mullen will begin his trip in Amman where he will meet with King Abdullah II and his Jordanian counterpart, Lieutenant General Meshaal Al-Zabn.
"He will discuss security issues of mutual concern and reassure both these key partners of the US military's commitment to that partnership," Pentagon spokesman Captain John Kirby said.
“These men are no longer to function, or present themselves as priests, with the exception of offering absolution to the dying,” said archdiocese spokeswoman Kelly Lynch.
The right-wing Israeli government of Minister Benyamin Netanyahu has been staggered by the massive demonstrations and strike wave engulfing Egypt, its critical Arab ally in the region, and the simultaneous emergence of social opposition in Israel itself.
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WASHINGTON (AFP) - The top US military commander will visit Israel and Jordan Sunday and Monday to reaffirm US support following the collapse of the presidency of Hosni Mubarak in Egypt. Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Admiral Mike Mullen will begin his trip in Amman where he will meet with King Abdullah II and his Jordanian counterpart, Lieutenant General Meshaal Al-Zabn.
Hosni Mubarak had harsh words for the United States and what he described as its misguided quest for democracy in the Middle East in a telephone call with an Israeli lawmaker a day before he quit as Egypt's president.
As the throngs celebrated in Cairo, I couldn’t help wondering about what is happening to democracy here in the United States. I think it’s on the ropes. We’re in serious danger of becoming a democracy in name only.
While millions of ordinary Americans are struggling with unemployment and declining standards of living, the levers of real power have been all but completely commandeered by the financial and corporate elite. It doesn’t really matter what ordinary people want. The wealthy call the tune, and the politicians dance.
It was hopeless. Even the mighty United States was impotent when faced with this tsunami of popular outrage. In the end it settled for second best: a pro-Western military dictatorship. But will this really be the outcome?
WHEN CONFRONTED with a new situation, Obama’s first response is generally admirable. Then, it seems, second thoughts set in. And third. And fourth. The end result is a 180 degree turn. When the masses started to gather in Tahrir Square, he reacted exactly like most decent people in the US and, indeed, throughout the world. There was unbounded admiration for those brave young men and women who faced the dreaded Mukhabarat secret police, demanding democracy and human rights. How could one not admire them?
Out of the blue, we saw what looked as the strongest regime in the Middle East collapse in 18 days of peaceful demonstrations. That in a country were over a million people (out of a population of slightly over 80 million) formed part of a Walsinghamian secret police. A true 1984 type of society.
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DAMNING evidence from an Egyptian intelligence officer that names an Australian official who witnessed the torture of Sydney man Mamdouh Habib in Guantanamo Bay has been revealed as the trigger for a hushed-up government payout to Mr Habib and a high-level investigation.
The explosive 840-word statement, released exclusively to The Sun-Herald, was shown to government solicitors three days before they suddenly paid Mr Habib an undisclosed amount to drop his lawsuit claiming Australia was complicit in his CIA-engineered kidnap in 2001, transfer to Egypt and subsequent torture.
Editor's Note: And of course this "employee" went straight to Media Matters, the left propaganda outlet funded by Globalist George Soros, further proving the illusion of choice in the mainstream media is set up only to keep the left-right debate fully raging.
Eric W. Dolan Raw Story
A former employee of Fox News called the company a "propaganda outfit" that is determined to undermine the Obama administration and Democrats...
Bhutto was assassinated Dec 27, 2007, as she was leaving Liaquat Bagh in a motorcade after addressing an election rally in Rawalpindi, the twin city of Islamabad capital. A teenaged shooter was seen aiming for her head in the CCTV footage before a powerful suicide blast killed at least 24 people participating in the rally.
Musharraf's name was added to the list following a statement of former Rawalpindi city police chief Saud Aziz. Aziz claimed that Musharraf had given the order to change Benazir's security in charge. He also claimed that the murder scene was immediately washed on Musharraf's orders.
Musharraf ruled Pakistan for nine years after taking power in a bloodless coup in 1999. He stepped down in 2008 and left Pakistan. He now lives in London.
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UNITED NATIONS (AFP) - US ambassador to the United Nations, Susan Rice, has condemned US critics of the world body who have called for US funds to be held back, while also attacking the UN for picking up "bad habits" including mismanagement and corruption...
The Toronto Police Services Board, a civilian agency that oversees the police force, made name tags mandatory in 2006. The police have appealed this decision and lost, and yet there were many officers spotted at the rally who refused to comply. After the G-20, Chief Blair’s response to this was to dock the officers a day’s pay, which amounts to a fine of about $300, and it now looks like this punishment clearly had no effect at all.
Many people in this city have some serious concerns that we are quickly slipping into a fascist police state here in Canada. The fact that Officer Josephs refused to identify himself that day to me or that about 1,100 people were arrested during the G20 weekend in Toronto, but only 308 were charged -- with many of those charges later being dropped -- proves that these concerns are well founded.
Algerian security forces and pro-democracy protesters are clashing, as demonstrations got underway in the capital Algiers on Saturday.
At least 2,000 protestors were able to overcome a security cordon enforced around the capital's May First Square, joining other demonstrators calling for reform.
Earlier, thousands of police in riot gear were in position to stop the demonstrations that could mimic the uprising which forced out Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak.
Security forces have closed all entrances to the capital and already arrested hundreds of protesters, sources told Al Jazeera.
At the scene of the protests, blogger and activist, Elias Filali, said human right's activists and syndicate members were among those arrested.
Tony Cartalucci, Contributing Writer Activist Post
In 2008, the Alliance of Youth Movements held its inaugural summit in New York City. Attending this summit was a combination of State Department staff, Council on Foreign Relations members, former National Security staff, Department of Homeland Security advisers, and a myriad of representatives from American corporations and mass media organizations including AT&T, Google, Facebook, NBC, ABC, CBS, CNN, MSNBC, and MTV...
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WASHINGTON (AFP) - Two weeks after protesters in Egypt choked angrily on "Made in USA" tear gas, US lawmakers on Friday were weighing tighter controls on exports that can help repressive regimes cling to power...
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Obama is once again moving to renew the unconstitutional and tyrannical Patriot Act. The vote in the House of Representatives failed, but it will be back...
A despicable tyrant has gone, but the army that imposed the will of that despicable tyrant for 30 years is now in charge and the Egyptian army is not only controlled by the US, it is funded by massive American military 'aid' - second only in scale to Israel.
It is true that the army didn't fire on the demonstrators as it would have done before, but it did so at the time that its masters in America were calling for Mubarak to step down, in effect, and for the protestors to be left alone. Why did the US government do this after supporting the tyrant for 30 years? Because they want 'regime change' in Egypt as part of a domino effect across the whole Middle East to advance a much bigger agenda.
History has always shown us that people are seldom seen dreaming like one, thinking like one, aspiring to one goal and acting like one for all, and all for one.
We had many fictions and fairly tales that celebrated such oneness but we had very few realities on the ground.
Years and even centuries would pass by before any group of people could be united in heart and mind, before they could start realizing that they can and will make things change according to their true will … and before they believe that they can achieve magical moments with no need for crystal ball.
Egyptians are jubilant over achieving the first step in forcing decades-long dictator Hosni Mubarak out of power, as the military is now in charge.
An East York woman woke up to a yellow notice on her windshield warning that her car could be fined or towed for being illegally parked in her own driveway. The city notice states, “Park in front of garage door only.”
Man-made global warming (also known as climate change) claims have been thoroughly discredited by the “scientists” who perpetrated them through leaked e-mails in the ‘Climategate’ scandal. It seems like it should be a dead issue, but the truth is that too many resources have been invested in this scam to allow it to fade away. The global warming myth is thriving internationally, on the federal level and in state and local governments.
The global warming myth was popularized by Margaret Thatcher (under the influence of a UN depopulation advocate) and was designed to break US power, upgrade nuclear weapons in the UK and to punish Thatcher’s political enemies.
In early September, The Intel Hub and Project Gulf Impact released blood tests that showed toxic chemicals in multiple gulf residents. Not only were these findings ignored, they were “debunked” by BP and government talking heads alike.
Three and a half months later we now know that these tests were indeed valid and ultimately show the need for more testing at a massive level.
KLFY Eyewitness News has conducted news tests on four males who age ranged from 3 to 43. They also tested a 38 year old female. The tests indicated massive exposure to toxic chemicals associated with CRUDE OIL.
It is so inspiring and invigorating a scene to watch, you don’t have to be Egyptian to feel related to the roaring and jubilant people in Tahrir square, you only have to be alive. By Dr. Ashraf Ezzat /Alexandria, Egypt
Physician Steven Jones, one of the scientists who discovered thermite in the dust of the World Trade Center, explains in detail the scientific method at the base of his discovery. He discusses the origin of the dust samples of the WTC and the nanothermite.
This interview showcases one of the international experts of the shocking documentary by the Architects and Engineers entitled “9/11: Explosive Testimony Exclusives”
If Ultimate Electronics had more customers like Paul Gilman, the suburban Denver-based chain might not be closing its doors.
Gilman, of Colorado Springs, came to Ultimate’s store at 7207 N. Academy Blvd. on Friday with his wife and two children on a regular shopping trip. He didn’t know the chain had begun a liquidation sale this week as part of its Jan. 26 bankruptcy filing...
Borders Group Inc. is in the final stages of preparing a bankruptcy filing, clinching a long fall for a company with humble beginnings that helped change the way Americans buy books but failed to keep pace with the digital transformation rocking every corner of the media landscape...
(Reuters) - The top U.S. military officer heads to Jordan and Israel next week for high-level talks meant to reassure key allies at a moment of heightened uncertainty after Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak's ouster.
Mubarak handed over power to the Egyptian army Friday after an 18-day popular uprising, with Washington now facing huge challenges in a potentially volatile power shift in Cairo that could have repercussions for U.S. policy across the Middle East.
Admiral Mike Mullen, chairman of the U.S. military's Joint Chiefs of Staff, will arrive in Jordan Sunday for talks with his military counterpart and with Jordan's King Abdullah.
I don’t know about you, but I’m watching all this unfold in Egypt with a kind of nervous scepticism. While many are saying this is the beginning of an uprising chain-reaction that will bring in new life and hope to other oppressed nations.
I hope so, but I have my doubts.
I hate to rain on anyone’s parade, especially regarding hope. I do have hope for humanity and we are waking up at an astounding rate. That will continue whether it manifests in physical uprisings like Egypt or not.
Highly entertaining IMF protest song written by an Irish musician...
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