Humpday Humor: Ironic Party Politics

Will neoconservatives jump ship from the Republican party in 2016?  Max Blumenthal makes an interesting prediction...

Talk Co-sponsored by New Yorkers Against the Cornell-Technion Partnership (NYACT), Brooklyn for Peace, and the Peace and Social Action Committee of Brooklyn Monthly Meeting (Quakers)

Humpday Humor: AIPAC Propaganda

Student body presidents being indoctrinated into AIPAC's world view:

interview by Max Blumenthal

Humpday Humor: Separating the Jew from Israel

Moshe Kasher explains his lack of influence over The State of Israel...

Alternative Media Is Working

In this clip Angela Davis talks about a major U.S. export which gets almost no attention by outcast media outlets like The New York Times or FOX News.  She calls this censored export the U.S. model of mass incarceration.

You may have guessed what Davis was referring to based on the first paragraph of this post.  If so then you are certainly aware of the alternative media.  If after watching the video you are saying "oh yeah, I already knew that" then great!  You are not alone.

Based on audience reaction at Riverside Church in New York there are many, many people aware of the largest open-air prison on earth.

Not only do they know this prison exists but they also have an understanding of which government ensures that the inmates are kept caged in far behind the fence.

The rousing support for her comments are proof that alternative media is working.

Can a 25-to-1 Death Toll Still Be Called a War?

The BBC reports the death toll during the current war in Israel/Palestine:

This report came before a United Nations run school was bombed on Sunday in Gaza.  The most recent airstrike resulted in the deaths of at least 10 more Palestinians.

Anti-War Speech is Officially Censored in U.S.

Susan Rice with the President of Israel, Shimon Peres

It turns out that there is "Officially" Censored Speech in the U.S.  Phrases that should not be broadcast include:

"Stop the bombing, stop the killing".

Watch as U.S. National Security Advisor Susan Rice restricts freedom of speech in D.C...  

Video clip here.

Harry Truman Writing on Palestine

In 1946 U.S. President Harry Truman wrote to the King of Saudi Arabia about Palestine.  In his letter Truman writes:

The Government and people of the United States have given support to the concept of a Jewish National Home in Palestine ever since the termination of the first World War...

World War I had been over for nearly thirty years at the time of this letter.  This means that a Jewish home in Palestine has been "official U.S. policy" for almost a full century.
 

Harry Truman with Crown Prince Saud
(1947)

Truman continues:

I do not consider that my urging of the admittance of a considerable number of displaced Jews into Palestine or my statements with regard to the solution of the problem of Palestine in any sense represent an action hostile to the Arab people. 

For over six decades the U.S. has chosen to walk the tightrope by supporting the Saudi Arab monarchy while also supporting Israel against Palestinian Arab's.  The world's largest military supporting and opposing Arab people depending upon where they stand on the earth has been and always will be a recipe for disaster.

Fair Reporting by the AP on Israel/Palestine?

Israeli soldiers detaining Palestinian children
in the West Bank (2012)

Eleven days into Israel's most recent invasion of Gaza the AP reports that one Israeli soldier has been killed.  He was likely gunned down by friendly fire.  Details can be found in the "The Big Story".

The same story provides the reader with the number of Palestinians killed by the hands of Israel....

...a conflict that has already seen more than 274 Palestinians killed in Gaza, around a fifth of them children.

So if you are scoring at home this "conflict" is 274-to-1.  

In a 2012 school shooting in Connecticut the score was 26-to-1.  Would anyone have called what that shooter did to those poor people a "conflict"?

Masked Men Beat Unarmed 15 Year Old Boy

Police in east Jerusalem were caught on tape beating an unarmed 15 year old boy late last week.

 

The victim, Tariq Abu Khdeir of Tampa, Florida, was released after his parents paid the ransom fee of $877.  

The teen has not been charged with any crime.

NBC News reports