By Ken Silverstein – Harpers Magazine

Desmond Travers was one of the four members of the United Nations Fact Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict, which produced the controversial Goldstone Report. Travers is a retired Colonel of the Army of the Irish Defence Forces. His last appointment [...]]]> http://buchanan.org/blog/six-questions-for-desmond-travers-on-the-goldstone-report-2913 by Human Rights Watch

57 Palestinians Forced From Their Homes in One Week

The Israeli government is destroying the homes of Palestinian families and causing unnecessary suffering so that it can expand illegal Jewish settlements in East Jerusalem. Israel needs to respect the basic rights of Palestinian families to property and housing…

(Jerusalem) – Israeli authorities in East [...]]]> http://buchanan.org/blog/israel-stop-east-jerusalem-home-demolitions-2910 Click here to view the embedded video.

The CIA relied on intelligence based on torture in prisons in Uzbekistan, a place where widespread torture practices include raping suspects with broken bottles and boiling them alive, says a former British ambassador to the central Asian country.

Craig Murray, the rector of the University of Dundee in Scotland and until [...]]]> http://buchanan.org/blog/former-uk-ambassador-cia-sent-people-to-be-%e2%80%98raped-with-broken-bottles%e2%80%99-2901 by Jason Leopold – TruthOut

Two years before the invasion of Iraq, oil executives and foreign policy advisers told the Bush administration that the United States would remain “a prisoner of its energy dilemma” as long as Saddam Hussein was in power.

That April 2001 report, “Strategic Policy Challenges for the 21st Century,” [...]]]> http://buchanan.org/blog/eager-to-tap-iraqs-vast-oil-reserves-industry-execs-suggested-invasion-2899 The video shows three events that took place during this year’s olive harvest in the West Bank: Settlers are seen stealing olives from a grove belonging to a resident of al-Mughair village. Two settlers pick olives and drag filled sacks to a car… Residents discovered several dozens of olive trees had been cut in [...]]]> http://buchanan.org/blog/video-israeli-settlers-trespassers-harass-palestinians-and-steal-crops-during-olive-harvest-in-the-west-bank-2890 by Dominic Waghorn – Sky News, UK

‘Halas’, says Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas. ‘Enough. It’s over’.

Last night he told his people he has ‘no desire’ to stand in the elections he has called for early next year.

He has made similar threats before, about resigning and not wanting to go on. Whether he means it this time [...]]]> http://buchanan.org/blog/has-us-clumsiness-finished-off-mahmoud-abbas-2887 By Patrick J. Buchanan

For the Blue Dogs, Tuesday was a fire bell in the night.

Virginia Republicans led by Robert McDonnell crushed the most conservative Democrat nominee in decades, rolling up a victory that rivaled Ronald Reagan’s rout of Walter Mondale. New Jersey GOP nominee Chris Christie, whose campaign had been the despair of its backers, won [...]]]> http://buchanan.org/blog/for-whom-the-bell-tolls-2875 Click here to view the embedded video.

According to the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Steven J. Rosen will be allowed to move ahead with his civil defamation lawsuit against the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC).  Rosen and fellow AIPAC employee Keith Weissman were indicted under the 1917 Espionage Act in 2005 along [...]]]> http://buchanan.org/blog/why-does-aipac-spy-on-americans-2867 Mary Tyler Moore: I didn’t take the shot…

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It’s not often that an appellate court decision reflects so vividly what a country has become, but such is the case with yesterday’s ruling by the Second Circuit Court of Appeals in Arar v. Ashcroft (.pdf).  

Maher Arar is both a Canadian and Syrian citizen of Syrian descent.  A telecommunications engineer [...]]]> http://buchanan.org/blog/a-court-decision-that-reflects-what-type-of-country-the-us-is-2857 Click here to view the embedded video.

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I have been following the evolving “pandemic” of H1N1 influenza beginning with the original discovery of the infection in Mexico in March of this year. In the course of this study I have tried to utilize as my sources high-quality, peer-reviewed journals, data from the CDC and accepted textbooks of virology.

As with [...]]]> http://buchanan.org/blog/swine-flu-one-of-the-most-massive-cover-ups-in-american-history-2838 Russia Today: Dina Gusovsky speaks to Congressman Ron Paul about his take on the vaccine, as well as burning foreign policy issues affecting the United States.

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The idea that Osama bin Laden was responsible for the 9/11 attacks has been an article of faith for public officials and the mainstream media. Calling it an “article of faith” points to two features of this idea. On the one hand, no one in these circles [...]]]> http://buchanan.org/blog/was-osama-bin-laden-responsible-for-the-911-attacks-2830 by Glenn Greenwald – Salon.com

An Israeli columnist issues a scathing indictment of Israel and calls on the U.S. to apply pressure.

The latest Haaretz column by the outstanding and courageous Israeli columnist, Gideon Levy, is entitled “America, Stop Sucking Up to Israel,” and it highlights one of the most bizarre political facts:  criticism of Israeli actions is far [...]]]> http://buchanan.org/blog/ongoing-u-s-efforts-to-protect-and-coddle-israel-2825 by Kevin G. Hall – McClatchy Newspapers

More than a year into the gravest financial crisis since the Great Depression, millions of Americans have seen their home values and retirement savings plunge and their jobs evaporate.

What they haven’t seen are any Wall Street tycoons forced to swap their multi-million dollar jobs and custom-made suits for dishwashing [...]]]> http://buchanan.org/blog/why-havent-any-wall-street-tycoons-been-sent-to-the-slammer-2822