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Behind the turbulent news from Israel, a struggle for historical truth has passed almost unnoticed outside academic circles; yet its wider significance is epic.

The Extremist Threat Risks Enforcing the Neoliberal Center

April 28, both Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat accepted an American proposal whereby US and British security personnel will be dispatched to Jericho to supervise the imprisonment of six Palestinians besieged with Arafat in what remains of the Ramallah governo

Chemical Weapons Convention and the US attempts to dismantle it

New research suggests that television news fails to inform young people about what's going on in the Occupied Territories, or why.

The Mainstream Media And The Israeli - Palestinian Conflict

Here in Nablus the Israeli military have cut the phone lines and destroyed the water supply. As in Jenin, the Israeli military not only bulldozes houses, tortures and kills Palestinians, but also targets the infrastructure, bringing more death, terror, and starvation.

On the morning of Wednesday 10 April, reports began to emerge from the Jenin refugee camp in the extreme north of the Israeli-occupied West Bank that its Palestinian defenders had run out of ammunition and were thus no longer able to resist the Israeli offensive that began on 2 April.

"Between ourselves it must be clear that there is no room for both peoples together in this country … . We shall not achieve our goal of being an independent people with the Arabs in this small country.

This essay has a dual purpose. I began it initially to explain how sophisticated and effective the dominant corporate media is in programming the public mind to believe whatever message they deliver regardless of whether it's true which it rarely is. By Stephen Lendman

The package of privatization, anti-poor programs, and intense repression is best exemplified by Colombia, where imposing privatization and the kind of 'development' that displaces and impoverishes millions takes so much violence that it has forced even its US sponsors to make public, if hypocritical