Analysis

By Stephen Lendman

Now the latest. On January 5, Israel's Knesset, by a 47 - 16 vote, approved forming a parliamentary committee to investigate leftist Israeli organizations. Among them, B'Tselem issuing a same day press release headlined, "B'Tselem proud of its activities and completely transparent. The Knesset's decision is what harms Israel's international status," adding:

Read more: Israel's Knesset Targets Leftist Organizations

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By Nour Odeh

It is a unique and educational experience - maybe even shocking, though admirable in its simplicity.

A replica of Bethlehem, the city, and the punishing daily reality of Israeli occupation in all its aspects: the Wall, expanding illegal settlements, shrinking space, diminishing water supplies and routine humiliation. In the background, music typical of the region plays, adding to the "feel" of the exhibit.

Read more: When Bethlehem comes to Madrid

By Stephen Lendman

December 28 was Cast Lead's second anniversary, a three week onslaught inflicting an appalling human, destructive and environmental toll. The war ended. Regular attacks continued, and Gaza remains suffocating under siege. Yet world leaders are doing nothing to end it or hold Israeli war criminals accountable.

Read more: Besieged Gaza Two Years After Cast Lead

By Sherwood Ross

China's “SECRET WAR PLAN” (Be amazed!) has leaked out and fallen into the hands of none other than “Popular Mechanics”(PM) magazine, which plastered it on the cover of its December issue. How this TOP SECRET info got into the hands of the intrepid editors at Hearst Publishing in New York on west 57th Street in Manhattan is not disclosed. But it reveals the sophisticated new technology of “China's most dangerous new weapon,” the (shudder!) antiship ballistic missile, or ASBM, “specifically designed to target a moving aircraft carrier.” Writer Erik Sofge says it could take out a carrier as powerful as the USS Nimitz, a 100,000-ton leviathan that carries 90 warplanes capable of making an excellent start at obliterating all of China, regardless of how that might impact Wal-Mart sales. Sofge speculates the Nimitz would race to Taiwan's rescue if China attacked, say, in 2015. Taiwan, of course, is an island 100 miles from the Mainland, long considered the private property of every ruler in Beijing.

Read more: China's 'Secret' War Plan Revealed by US Magazine

By Gilad Atzmon

Given the severity and uncertainty of the economic crisis we are all experiencing, I suggest we look once more at the work of Milton Friedman, the leading economist and a staunch advocate of hard capitalism.

Read more: Milton Friedman’s ‘Capitalism and the Jews’ Revisited