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William A. Cook is a professor of English at the University of La Verne in southern California and author of The Rape Of Palestine: Hope Destroyed, Justice Denied, Tracking Deception: Bush Mid-East Policy and The Chronicles Of Nefaria. He is editor of MWCNEWS.

The Plight of the Palestinians: a Long History of Destruction
by Dr. William A. Cook is out now, available to order from Palgrave Macmillan!

“Daddy, what is a Drone?” A Bedtime Story

U.S. President Barack Obama and daughters Malia and Sasha, watch on television as first lady Michelle Obama takes the stage to deliver her speech at the Democratic National Convention, in the Treaty Room of the White House in Washington

The question jolted him out of his lethargy as he sat upright in the soft chair he had slumped into when she came for “her time with Daddy.”

May 15th, 2013 | Posted in Civil Liberties and Freedom,Corruption,Cost to the US,Editors' Picks,Expert Viewpoints,Foreign Relations,Government,Legislation,Politico | Read More »

The Truth Tellers Lament in a Time of Darkness

We Will Not go down

It is the legacy of Lloyd Garrison, of Martin Luther King, of Malcolm X, of all those who devoted their lives to eradication of slavery and segregation in these United States;

May 2nd, 2013 | Posted in Americas,Asia,Bahrain,Causes,China,Editors' Picks,Egypt,Europe,Global,Iran,Israel,Life,Middle East,Oceana,Oman,Palestine,Peace,Syria,United Kingdom,Yemen | Read More »

Look at the World from Behind the Wall

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Indeed, “Look at the world through their eyes,” let Americans look at the state of Israel through Palestinian eyes to witness the monstrous injustice that exists in this “democratic state” that “shares America’s values,”…

April 1st, 2013 | Posted in Americas,Asia,Bahrain,Causes,China,Editors' Picks,Education,Egypt,Environment,Europe,Expert Opinions ME,Global,Iran,Israel,Life,Middle East,Middle East Conflicts,News From the Region,Oceana,Of Interest,Oman,Palestine,Peace,Syria,United Kingdom,War,Yemen | Read More »

Zion—the Promised Land—too Little, too Late

Doctor Grimshawe's Secret

The Promised Land of Zion is a fabrication of the tribe that is beneficial to the few at the expense of the many;

March 17th, 2013 | Posted in Americas,Asia,Bahrain,China,Editors' Picks,Egypt,Europe,Global,Iran,Israel,Middle East,Oceana,Oman,Palestine,Syria,United Kingdom,Yemen | Read More »

Neither Justice nor Morality: Just Impunity from Crimes against Humanity

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Here’s a gathering of events from last week that seems to reveal a dark side of the Zionist intent: Holocaust Remembrance Day,MP David Ward’s comments about Auschwitz, the refusal by Israel to appear before the UNHRC, and the unilateral, illegal bombing of Syria by IDF. All coalesce to suggest we’ve learned nothing from the Nazi [...]

February 5th, 2013 | Posted in Causes,Civil Liberties and Freedom,Corruption,Cost to the US,Editors' Picks,Expert Viewpoints,Foreign Relations,Government,Israel Lobby in Action,Legislation,Life,Peace,Politico | Read More »

William Cook : Verbal Defecation Buries Truth

A Long History of Suffering...

Should anyone care to extend their interest in this deception you might read “Deception as Truth: the Myth of Mid-East Peace,” “The Birth Date of Fratricide: May 14, 1948,” “A Miscarriage of Birth: a Miscarriage of Justice,” and the Introduction to the book, The Plight of the Palestinians.

January 29th, 2013 | Posted in Americas,Asia,Bahrain,China,Editors' Picks,Egypt,Europe,Global,Iran,Israel,Middle East,Oceana,Of Interest,Oman,Palestine,Syria,United Kingdom,Yemen | Read More »

The Burial of Bethlehem

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A few days ago I received this plea from Samuel Dowell, a cry from the heart in the season of joy and peace, as he witnesses the slow motion deathknell of the city of Bethlehem, the city of the Prince of Peace. “Dr. Cook, Bethlehem. I don’t know if any of this will be useful to you, but send it anyway.”

December 22nd, 2012 | Posted in Americas,Asia,Bahrain,China,Editors' Picks,Egypt,Europe,Global,Iran,Israel,Middle East,Oceana,Oman,Palestine,Syria,United Kingdom,Yemen | Read More »

At Last, the True Ministers of God Have Spoken-Hallelujah!

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Great is truth, sayeth the Prophet, and it shall prevail, if not for those now living perhaps for the dead who have suffered the consequence of this deceit; it is to them, “to the dead,” says Voltaire, “we owe only truth.”

October 12th, 2012 | Posted in Americas,Arts & Entertainment,Asia,Bahrain,Book Reviews,Causes,China,Civil Liberties and Freedom,Corruption,Cost to the US,Editors' Picks,Egypt,Europe,Expert Viewpoints,Foreign Relations,Global,Government,Iran,Israel,Israel Lobby in Action,Legislation,Life,Middle East,Oceana,Oman,Palestine,Peace,Politico,Syria,United Kingdom,Yemen | Read More »

The Think Tank Clown: Patrick Clawson

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They after all exist as aborted children of the State of Israel, a direct issue of AIPAC, a think-tank of intellectuals created for the sole purpose of extolling the State of Israel while condemning all who would question Israel’s policies or people.

September 30th, 2012 | Posted in AfPak,Editors' Picks,Expert Opinions ME,Iraq War,Libya,Middle East Conflicts,Military,News From the Region,Support the Troops,War | Read More »

The Wind and the Sun

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The tale of the North Wind and the Sun,conveys a moral that Netanyahu might consider as he thumps his way from podium to podium damning the Iranians, damning those who will not follow his madness, proclaiming his G-d given right to blast the Iranians from the face of the earth.

September 18th, 2012 | Posted in Americas,Asia,Bahrain,China,Egypt,Europe,Global,Iran,Israel,Middle East,Oceana,Oman,Palestine,Syria,United Kingdom,Yemen | Read More »

The Politics of Power: Burying Truth through Resolutions

Pamela Geller: American patriot or extremist firebrand?

The Gellers of this world will step forward to expose themselves as vulgar, as barbaric, as heedless of their fellows because they care for none but themselves– heartless, soulless, lacking “human sympathy” which alone can bring peace into this world.

September 4th, 2012 | Posted in Americas,Editors' Picks,Europe,Global,Israel,Middle East,Palestine,United Kingdom | Read More »

Wimpish in America

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Can anyone doubt that Capitalism is a failed economic system? How many times must it fail for people to accept that fact? Yet our press and our representatives and our schools keep a thundering drum beat of regurgitation to keep it afloat…

August 22nd, 2012 | Posted in Americas,Asia,Business,China,Economics & Markets,Editors' Picks,Europe,Global,Investing & Finance,Jobs,Middle East,Small Business,United Kingdom | Read More »

America’s Coming Nakba (Catastrophe)

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With America forced to do bidding of its adopted child by the “corpocracy” and its unending need for wars to sustain economic growth, America finds itself weak as its forces futilely attempt to contain terrorism

May 24th, 2011 | Posted in Americas,Editors' Picks,Global | Read More »

Now Israel Is Free to Declare Its Innocence before the International Court of Justice

United States Congress has once again jumped to the fore as defender of the beleaguered state of Israel by writing a letter to the UNHRC Let us present this case as objectively as we can… A few photos of Israeli use of white phosphorus will accompany this article if possible. William A. Cook / STAFF [...]

April 15th, 2011 | Posted in War | Read More »

WILLIAM COOK : Tsunami in the Mid-East

It’s curious to consider how events in one part of the world offer images that reflect conditions in another part, as the devastation in Japan provides a glimpse into the eruptions spreading throughout the mid-east. The suddenness of the tsunami

March 28th, 2011 | Posted in War | Read More »

What Does It Profit a Congressman to Retain His Office but Suffer the Loss of His Soul?

Two months from now Americans will be subjected to the humiliating spectacle of their Representatives and Senators crawling down AIPAC’s plush red carpet to the podium at its annual conference where they will obsequiously laud this bloody organization with words of praise, outdoing each other in pitiful patronizing phrases, in unquestioning obedience to their masters.

March 14th, 2011 | Posted in Corruption,Politico | Read More »

WILLIAM COOK: “We the Forgotten People of the United States…”

We thought we had used the democratic process to rid our country of George W. Bush by the peaceful election of a man who told Americans he would right the wrongs of that Zionist Cabal. Instead we have a houseboy doing the chores of his Mars, Netanyahu. How far can he fall? Is there no principle, no obsequious cringing, no personal shame he will not endure to pay homage to his masters?

February 20th, 2011 | Posted in Egypt,Global,Israel,Middle East,Palestine | Read More »

Lessons Learned in the Streets of Cairo

“Simple description of observable reality does nothing more than capture the ‘accidents’ that identify the particularity of something, not convey the greater universal truths, the ideal form, that lies hidden beneath the accidental appearance.” For fifteen days and counting, the people of the world have been watching in wonder and witnessing in fascination the Egyptian [...]

February 12th, 2011 | Posted in Causes,Foreign Relations,Peace,Politico | Read More »

Unraveling the Illusion: the Democracy that Never Was

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“The only people in Egypt who are committed to peace are the people in Mubarak’s inner circle, and if the next president is not one of them, we are going to be in trouble.” * *Eli Shaked, former Israeli ambassador to Cairo, in Yediot Ahronot By Prof. William A. Cook / STAFF WRITER The Egyptian [...]

February 1st, 2011 | Posted in Egypt,Global,Iran,Israel,Middle East,Palestine | Read More »

AS THE DOMINOES FLOW TOWARD ISRAEL

Ultimately it comes back to Israel, a nation that defies the continuous cries from the United Nations to abide by international law, to heed the decisions of the International Court, to accept the efforts of the UN to investigate its actions so the rule of law can prevail, to see that force is not the [...]

January 29th, 2011 | Posted in Egypt,Global,Middle East | Read More »

An Open Letter to Sandy Berger and Stephen Hadley

An Open Letter to Sandy Berger and Stephen Hadley: A Road Map to Peace beginning with Justice By William A. Cook Let me introduce myself lest you discard a letter from someone you do not know. I am a citizen of this nation having lasted beyond the biblical three score and ten with an ancestry that [...]

January 17th, 2011 | Posted in Causes,Peace,War | Read More »

OUT OF FAILURE, A CHANCE FOR JUSTICE FOR PALESTINE

Perhaps Crowley’s “change in tactics” means that the US will abandon its role as “negotiator” and do, as the British Government did in 1947, give the resolution for peace in the mid-east to the UN where it belongs since the UN carved the Mandated land into two states in Resolution 181. by William A. Cook [...]

December 9th, 2010 | Posted in Global,Israel,Palestine | Read More »

“He’s Neither Alive nor Dead”: the Resurrection of Ariel Sharon

“The Israeli Patient: Searching for Ariel Sharon’s Political Legacy.” While noting that the former Prime Minister has been in a coma now for 5 years, “his presence looms over the country’s political course.” — Christoph Schult By William A. Cook Raanan Gissin, Sharon’s former advisor, made the above comment last month as quoted in the [...]

November 8th, 2010 | Posted in Global,Israel,Palestine | Read More »

REPLYING TO RUPERT — HIDING BEHIND LIES

“I keep reading between the lies” (Goodman Ace) By William A. Cook — Veterans Today Rupert Murdoch’s recent speech before the ADL (Anti-Defamation League) gathering at their gala dinner, opened with this flattering observation: “You have championed equal treatment for all races and creeds.” What he omitted from that statement is the ADL’s treatment of [...]

October 30th, 2010 | Posted in Global | Read More »

 

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