Dave Gahhary: Big-Name Hollywood Producer Exposed as Covert Agent for Israel

A just released book confirms what US law enforcement had suspected for decades: A Jewish Hollywood film producer was "a full-fledged operative for Israel's top-secret intelligence agency", and used his many US based companies to smuggle sensitive nuclear technology from the United States to Israel. He was also the most likely source for Iran and Libya's uranium enrichment advances. According to the Israeli newspaper Haaretz, the book, Confidential: The life of Secret Agent Turned Hollywood Tycoon - Arnon Milchan, recounts Milchan's life story, from his days as a boy through his friendships with Israeli prime ministers, US presidents and Hollywood stars. As far back as 1995, AFP correspondent Michael Collins Piper revealed that Milchan, who bankrolled Oliver Stone's film JFK was a key figure in Israel's nuclear weapons program that Kennedy eas determined to stop. The Milchan funded film ignores this conflict. Milchan produced other films, including Pretty Woman, War of the Roses, Fight Club, and Natural Born Killers. He also funds the Israeli Network, which broadcasts Israeli TV programming to the US and Canada. Milchan, a fanatical devotee of the Zionist state, and an Israeli citizen, set up shop in Tinseltown in the late 1970's, attaining a net worth of around $4 billion. Forbes magazine listed him as the world's 268th richest person! "Milchan's services to the Israeli security industry have been made public before," says Haaretz, "but he has always denied or refused to acknowledge them. This is the first time Milchan confirms these claims."

Patrick Martin: Obama Returns to the Fraud of: Equal Sacrifice

As usual, our idiotic "President" is full of bullshit. If we compare Obama's huge salary to mine, there is nothing equal in our paychecks! The back-to-back nationally televised speeches delivered Monday night by Obama and House Speaker John Boehner were a political fraud on every level! The so-called "debate" in Washington on the federal deficit was rigged in advance! All of the participants took as their principle the imposition of massive cuts on programs that benefit our working people. The Democratic administration and the congressional Republicans were using an orchestrated crisis over the raising of the federal debt ceiling to create the conditions for an unprecedented attack on the living standards and social rights of working people! The two parties do NOT represent the American people, but the American financial aristocracy, whose wealth and income they defend at the expense of the broad masses. They will see basic social programs on which they rely: Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, food stamps, devastated by spending cuts!! Obama delivered a "cynical" speech, whose purpose was to appeal to the American people to support spending cuts that will drive millions of them, including our soldiers fighting in Afghanistan and Iraq into abject poverty, while leaving the gargantuan wealth of the financial aristocracy untouched!! Virtually every sentence in his 15 minute address was a lie!! Obama described the two sides in the debate in terms that underscored the essential unity of the two big business parties. He noted that "both sides agree on the amount of deficit reduction" but, looking once more to "his ubiquitous teleprompter", disagree on what form that should take! One approach, he said, was based on painful cuts in spending, including basic programs like Medicare, but asked the wealthy and the corporations "to give a little," and he treated this as a "balanced approach". According to Obama, "his stubborn opponents" insist on a "cuts only approach" with nothing from the wealthy, including his own huge salary and perks as our "president". In order to conceal the dimensions of the cuts endorsed by both sides, Obama was careful to give no figures. Both the White House and the congressional Republicans have proposed cuts as high as $4 trillion over the next ten years, including devastating attacks on Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, food stamps, and federal programs supporting education, transportation, housing, environmental protection and consumer and worker safety and health. As for taxes on the rich, Obama has proposed only a few hundred billion dollars to serve as a "fig leaf" for the anti-working-class character of his overall budget policy.

Ten Things Americans Can Do: Lower the Debt, End Military Aid to Israel

When I served as the US Intelligence Operations Officer in Goeppingen, our "friends", the Israelis, thought it would be "fun" to sink the USS Liberty, and machine gun all Americans on board. At the time, General Sherrer, the commander of our 4th Armored Division commented: "With friends like these, we have no need of enemies!! As the President and Congress grapple with a formula to raise the debt-ceiling by next Tuesday to avert a default on our loans, we offer this suggestion to our elected officials: Cutting off the $30 billion in weapons pledged to Israel from 2009 to 2018 won't completely solve our debt problem, but it sure would help. From a moral and financial perspective, we cannot afford to provide Israel with the weapons it misuses to sustain its illegal 44 year military occupation of the Palestinian West Bank, East Jerusalem and the Gaza Strip. In addition, you can educate your friends and neighbors about the true cost of arming Israel, and mobilize them to end our country's military support for Israel's violations of Palestinian human rights. Learn from experts how to place an ad in your community to oppose military aid to Israel. US Campaign member groups have purchased such ads in at least nine US cities. Find out how to make your city the next! Join us in a conference call on Thursday, August 4, at 9:00 pm Eastern time. 1. To join the call, dial (760) 569-7676, and use access code 545802#. No RSVP needed. 2. Join more than 2,000 people in more than 800 cities and 49 states, who are educating and mobilizing people in their communities. If you sign up to receive a packet in the mail, it will include postcards, petitions, flyers, fact sheets and stickers. 3. Get your city council to pass a resolution opposing military aid to Israel. Read our brand-new organizing how-to guide, download templates and resources, and let us help you publicize your campaign. 4. Find out the staggering amount of money that people in your state, congressional district, county and city give in weapons to Israel, and what that same amount could purchase instead for unmet needs like housing and health care. 5. Use the numbers on our website to write President Obama and your Members of Congress a letter opposing military aid to Israel. 6. Use those numbers to write a letter to the editor of your local newspaper, or call in to your local talk show. Reference a recent story on the debt-ceiling negotiations, and make the point that we could reduce our debt and improve our moral and financial standing by ending military aid to Israel.
7. Learn more about the more than 670 million weapons transferred from the United States to Israel, and the devastating impact these weapons make on Palestinians living under Israel's brutal military occupation. 8. Sign up to arrange a local meeting with your members of Congress during the August recess, to discuss with them ending US military aid to Israel, and other policy issues. 9. Help end the US military and diplomatic support for Israel that enables it to deny Palestinians their freedom and self-determination.

Forrest Jones: Home Depot Founder Langone: Obama's Unpresidential Behavior Destroying Economy and Country!

Though the United States will work its way through the debt ceiling crisis and probably avoid a default, President Obama's "un-presidential" behavior during the process has fueled division and suspicion to the extent that the damage of his actions will endure, says Home Depot co-founder and former New York Stock Exchange director Ken Langone. "He's NOT bringing us together. He's willfully dividing us. He''s petulant," Langone told CNBC. "This guy worked like hell to be president Behave like a president. Let me look to you as a model of how we should behave. So what does he say: fat cats, jet airplanes, what's the purpose?" That purpose, Langone says, is to divide the nation by accusing others of not doing their fair share to contribute to the country's finances, says Langone, now chairman and CEO of investment bank Invemed Associates. "Divide us, and we all lose. And this has got to stop! And if he's listening, or one of his people are listening, and you can quote me exactly for what I say, he is not acting presidential, he is behaving in a way designed, in my opinion, to divide us, and make us look at each other with skepticism, with suspicion. That's the end of America, as we know it!" Turning to the debate over lifting the government's $14.3 trillion debt ceiling to avoid default, Langone says both sides of the political spectrum will agree to lift it: "The deficit, we're going to get through, the debt limit, it will all come through. The destruction he is inflicting by his behavior will carry on long after we have settled the debt limit," he told CNBC.

To Paraphrase Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya: YES! THERE IS SOMETHING ROTTEN in AMERICA!!e

The division of Libya into three separate countries is part of the US-NATO imperial design, a project shared by the US, Britain, Italy, and France. The NATO war launched against Libya in March of 2011 was really geared toward the breakup of the country into three separate entities. However, this NATO war is now backfiring: The Libyan people have now united to save their county, and Tripoli is exploring its strategic options. You are now witnessing the NATO led war back firing, since the Libyan people have united to save their country, and what's more, Tripoli is rapidly exploring its strategic options. The "mainstream media" has been a major force in this war! Having endorsed and fabricated the news, they have endorsed and fabricated the news, and these false fabrications have justified an illegal and criminal war against an entire population. Passing through the neighborhood of Fashloom in Tripoli, it is apparent that NO Jets have attacked it, as Al Jazeera and the BBC have falsely claimed. Now, the same media networks, newspapers, and wire services claim on a daily basis that Tripoli is about to fall, and that the "Transitional Council" is making new advances to various cities. Unfortunately for these idiots, Tripoli is nowhere near falling, and it is relatively peaceful these days! Foreign journalists have been taken to all of these affected areas, and they are all peaceful and quiet! The mainstream media reporting from Tripoli have deliberately painted a false picture of Libya as a country on the brink of collapse, and Colonel Qaddafi as a despot with very little support. Strangely, a journalist was filmed wearing a bullet-proof vest for his report in a peaceful area, where there was no need of that sort of defensive armor. Not only are the foreign media actively misreporting, but they are gladly, and deliberately serving the interests of the military coalition.

Madison Ruppert: Direct Attacks near Gaddafi's Residence in Tripoli!

According to an AFP journalist, two blasts rocked the area near Muammar Gaddafi's residence in Libya's capital city, Tripoli, around 12:50 AM Sunday local time. NATO confirmed that its war planes struck one of Gaddafi's military command centers, claiming responsibility for seven strikes. In a Times of India report, it was said that a column of smoke was observed over Gaddafi's residential complex itself. The article also claims that it had been directly targeted by NATO bombers on Saturday. An AFP article states the same, but fails to cite any official sources for this claim that NATO was directly targeting Gaddafi. NATO has been directly targeting Gaddafi since the beginning of the campaign, evidenced by their attack on one of his compounds that resulted in the death of his family members. However, it would be bombshell news if NATO openly admitted to attempting to assassinate a leader with the peoples' support. A Reuters report, however, cites "one Tripoli resident" who said that one of the NATO strikes appeared to hit a formerly untouched intelligence building in Tripoli, though it did not mention Gaddafi's residential compound.

Judy Andreas: BRING 'em HOME

Judy Andreas recalls that Friday, April 15, 2005, she stood in front of her local Court House protesting the War in Iraq. At the time, it was tax day, and she and her comrades were trying to make a point about how their tax dollars were being used. Many cars passed by, and gave them an approving honk, while other drivers gave them a disapproving 3rd finger. Some of these cars had "support our troops" proudly displayed on their rear bumpers. Though it was 2005, it seemed like only yesterday. Did their protests do any good? Today, there are still people in our country who stand on a street corner every week protesting "the war". My question is "which war". "Support our troops"? Does anyone question those words when they mindlessly slap the bright yellow sticker on their vehicle? Back in 2005, after I returned from my tour as Advisory Team Leader in Vietnam, our country had its first fatality in Iraq. His name was Army Specialist Manny Lopez. Because he expected to be in Baghdad for 18 months, he made a video for his daughter, Isabella. After the tragedy hit the newspaper, grief-stricken people called the local radio station to give voice to their pain, and one woman uttered, through her tears,"He died for our freedom." Perhaps I have been sufficiently "dumbed down", but as I stumble around in my flouride induced fog, I hoped that someone would help me to understand how killing innocent people in Vietnam or Iraq is helping to keep us "free"! What has sending soldiers to be poisoned and diehave to do with our freedom? In my lexicon of of logic, the belief that "he died for our freedom" is just about as meaningless as "support our troops." On that particular April 15, we carried signs in front of the Court House. I chose a sign that featured a picture of an Iraqi Vet named Herold Noel. Unlike Manny Lopez, Herold came home from the war, just as I did from that one in Vietnam!