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Goldstone: Israel Not an Apartheid State Posted by Joel B. Pollak Nov 4th 2011 at 5:19 pm in Africa, Foreign Policy, Israel, Media Criticism, Middle East, United Nations | 174576Comments(9)http%3A%2F%2Fbigpeace.com%2Fjpollak%2F2011%2F11%2F04%2Fgoldstone-israel-not-an-apartheid-state%2FGoldstone%3A+Israel+Not+an+Apartheid+State2011-11-05+00%3A19%3A45Joel+B.+Pollakhttp%3A%2F%2Fbigpeace.com%2F%3Fp%3D174576 Richard Goldstone. Source: The Jewish Daily ForwardRichard Goldstone, who once accused Israel of deliberately seeking the deaths of Palestinian civilians, then recanted, has published an op-ed in the New York Times today refuting the accusation that Israel is an apartheid state. While “apartheid” can have broader meaning, its use is meant to evoke the situation in pre-1994 South Africa. It is an unfair and inaccurate slander against Israel, calculated...

BENTON TOWNSHIP - Five decades after struggling to gain civil rights, African Americans must still deal with a health care and political system that denies their most basic needs. That was the feeling voiced by former Georgia congresswoman and 2008 Green Party presidential candidate Cynthia McKinney, who cited her aunt's death from a botched colonoscopy as an example. "The doctor punctured her colon (and) sent her to her daughter's home, where she began to feel pain," McKinney said. "She called the hospital, and the doctor told her to go to sleep and call back in the morning. By the time...

At a time when the American people to tighten their belts, teachers receive their order of dismissal, the vital statistics of the American people reveals a social security crisis in the making, with the government of the United States threatening to default on its debt, our President and Congress decided that a new war, this time against the Libyan people, is appropriate. This comes at a time when, according to estimates, the U.S. spends $3 billion per week for the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. The president and Congress continue to fund the war against Libya, despite the announcement by...

While Muammar Gaddafi grows ever more desperate as he loses key military support, former U.S. Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney (D-GA) is shamelessly serving as a propagandist for the Libyan tyrant’s regime. Venomous remarks recently made by the former six-term congresswoman on Libyan state television were deeply disturbing, to say the least. Among her many outbursts, she charged that America is spending “money on death, destruction and war.” The fact that these comments were broadcast on Libyan state television, which serves as Gaddafi’s mouthpiece, makes matters all the more reprehensible. Yet such behavior by Cynthia McKinney should come as no surprise. It...

Tripoli (Libya) - While serving on the (U.S.)House International Relations Committee from 1993 to 2003, it became clear to me that the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) was an anachronism. Founded in 1945 at the end of World War II, NATO was founded by the United States in response to the Soviet Union's survival as a Communist state. NATO was the U.S. insurance policy that capitalist ownership and domination of European, Asian, and African economies would continue. This also would ensure the survival of the then-extant global apartheid. NATO is a collective security pact wherein member states pledge that an...

LIBYA-Former Georgia congresswoman and Green Party presidential nominee, Cynthia McKinney blasted President Barack Obama for his involvement in the bombing of Libya and his economic policies on a pro-Khaddafi television station. CNN reports: “I want to say categorically and very clearly that these policies of war … are not what the people of the United States stand for and it’s not what African-Americans stand for,” she told state TV. “Under the economic policies of the Obama administration, those who have the least are losing the most. And those who have the most are getting even more,” she said. “The situation...

In an interview with PressTV of Iran, former Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney said the Tea Party movement “was definitely hijacked.” McKinney, making her first visit to Iran to attend an anti-terrorism seminar, told her interviewer that there was “tremendous pressure inside the political process to make sure that the voters stay aligned inside either the Democratic or the Republican parties, because both of those parties have been captured by special interests.” McKinney suggested the Tea Party was an example of a grassroots movement “hijacked” and then “corralled back into the Republican Party fold so that these could then stay where the...

Former U.S. congresswoman McKinney speaks on state TV in Libya May 21, 2011|By the CNN Wire Staff A former U.S. congresswoman slammed U.S. policy on Libyan state TV late Saturday and stressed the "last thing we need to do is spend money on death, destruction and war." The station is fiercely loyal to Moammar Gadhafi and her interview was spliced with what appeared to be rallies in support of the embattled Libyan leader. "I think that it's very important that people understand what is happening here. And it's important that people all over the world see the truth. And that...

Most people already know that former Democrat Representative Cynthia McKinney is crazy. But travelling to Libya and appearing on Libyan state TV? That's a whole new kind of crazy. Appearing in a live interview on Libyan state TV, McKinney stated that she was in Libya on a "fact-finding" mission. She then went on to slam US policies. "I think that it's very important that people understand what is happening here," she began. "And it's important that people all over the world see the truth. And that is why I am here ... to understand the truth." She continued later, "Under...

"I want to say categorically and very clearly that these policies of war ... are not what the people of the United States stand for and it's not what African-Americans stand for," former Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney (D-Georgia) told state-run television in Libya.

New York, NY - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad met here, September 21, with 100 leaders and representatives of anti-war, labor, alternative media and Iranian and Palestinian solidarity organizations. Among the participants were Sarah Martin, Freedom Road Socialist Organization, Margaret Sarfehjooy, board member of the Minneapolis-based Women Against Military Madness, former attorney general Ramsey Clark, former Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney, Sara Flounders from the International Action Center, Brian Becker of the ANSWER coalition, Ramona Africa of the Free Mumia Coalition and Amiri Baraka, poet and activist. The meeting was called by the president of Iran with the hope that a frank and...

Explanation on why capitalism HAS NOT FAILED and N0bama is clearly leading us to socialism and gov. takeover.

The message of peace pedaled into Pueblo on Saturday. Riders with Bike4Peace, including former U.S. Rep. Cynthia McKinney of Georgia, who ran for president in 2008 on the Green Party ticket, stopped in Pueblo on a cross-country trek to the White House. "We started at the House of Common Sense in Oakland (Calif.) and we're going to end at the White House, which needs some common sense," McKinney said Saturday at the Unitarian Universalist Church on the East Side, where the bikers were treated to a potluck meal. McKinney and five others cyclists are biking across the U.S. promoting peace...

Green Party leaders expressed sadness and sympathy for the family of former Georgia State Rep. James Edward "Billy" McKinney, father of Cynthia McKinney, after his passing on Thursday, July 15, following a long illness. He was 83. Billy McKinney served as a state legislator in Georgia for 30 years. Cynthia McKinney, the Green Party's 2008 presidential nominee and a former six-term Georgia member of the US House of Representatives, also served in the Georgia legislature. They became the first father-daughter duo in the Georgia House when Ms. McKinney was first elected in 1992. "The McKinney family has the sympathy of...

It isn't just the pro-Palestinian press that is attempting to distort the reality behind the recent flotilla incident off the coast of Gaza. Former Democratic Congresswoman, and 2008 Green Party candidate for President of the United States, Cynthia McKinney, has voiced her own version of reality through an anti-Israeli rant in Arab News. McKinney is of course, a reliable source on the topic, having been involved in her own little attempts at defying and breaking an Israeli blockade of Gaza (translation - aiding and abetting a terrorist regime). In her column for Arab News, McKinney expresses outrage over ‘Israel's needless,...

Terrible news: dozens of our friends and comrades are dead and wounded in the pirate attack in the high seas on humanitarian aid boats by crazed Israeli Jews. This is a dreadful crime that will forever be remembered. The details are not fully available yet; the massacre toll stands meanwhile on 15, but it can go up or down. The best source for news yet http://twitter.com/Mondoweiss What is clear that the Israeli pirates attacked the humanitarian aid flotilla in the international waters over 90 miles (150 km) out of their territorial waters. The boats carried no arms, but the Jewish...

This is my part of the presentation made to more than 150 activists today outside the gates of West Point while President Obama was outlining the future course of the war on Afghanistan. The entire program will be running on www.wbaix.org after 7am Sunday, May 23, 2010.

There is a new peace coalition in town called Peace of the Action. Peace of the Action is the brainchild of Peace Mom, Cindy Sheehan, who has been striving to make the concept of peace a reality since her son, Casey, was killed in Iraq in April 2004. “Peace of the Action will be setting up Camp Out Now on the lawn of the Washington Monument beginning March 13th and this new peace camp will be the launching pad for daily direct actions against the seat of our government; A government that is involved in so many wars, invasions, bombings...

Cindy Sheehan said Facebook deleted an invitation to the CIA Drone Protest in Langley, Virginia, scheduled for Jan. 16, 2010. Sheehan said "the CIA is becoming overly involved in terrorizing populations." Sheehan joins a powerhouse of women activists to lead the CIA Drone Protest, including Cynthia McKinney, Ann Wright, Kathy Kelly and Debra Sweet. "We had an event with over 250 confirmed guests and it was deleted by Facebook," Sheehan said. "We are going to the source of one of the big problems in the US Empire -- the CIA -- to protest its extra-judicial killings of people in Pakistan....

Article is some lefty stuff but also some good skewerings of Dems like Traficant, McKinney, Franken, Howard Dean...