Media Monitors Network (MMN)

"The dangers of crying wolf on such issues are all too clear. The cynical use of allegations of genocide or ethnic cleansing for propaganda reasons is morally repugnant."

"Both also urged the United States and Israel to push for the full implementation of the Roadmap with simultaneous steps taken by both Israel and the Palestinians."

"Israel with all its might is the initiator and the giver, and Israel is the taker; it can lead to the beginning of a change (with the understanding that the Palestinian security apparatuses are very limited in their ability to act without Israeli support); it and only it can untie the knot of the weakness of power."

"Fellowship is a bond of flesh, like the bond of blood-kinship, and it is not permissible to shun a kinsman on account of his offence. Brotherhood in religion is firmer than brotherhood in kinship."

"As with voting, many individuals view these activities as overly time-consuming or believe that one person alone can accomplish little."

"Whatever Iran may choose to do diplomatically, and however determined it is to maintain its peaceful nuclear program, it is likely to face increasing pressure in the future."

"The arrogance of some who have risen to high rank and acquired power (and money through real-estate operations to go with it) surpasses all bounds."

"Of course, the world now knows Cheney’s and Rice’s bald assertions were nonsense, as the administration’s own State Department argued."

"Fast food corporations, like the tobacco companies before them, are largely aware of the ill-effects of their products, but as long as the customers keep lining up they continue to sell their toxic wares."

"We should be encouraged that despite 160 years of destructive Political Zionism, our cause has never been more morally visible to the rest of humanity (even pundits in the US media and the US government know it in tehir hearts but lie about it)."

"It is terrorism unbridled. When will Israel be sated with Palestinian blood?"

"Musharraf probably savours his status as Bush’s “trusted friend”, but he should not forget that “the higher the monkey climbs, the harder it falls”.

"It is true that Democratic party leaders are conducting a widespread and often unethical campaign to keep Nader off state ballots. This ham-fisted effort led by former Monsanto executive and lobbyist Toby Moffett has gained the Nader candidacy sympathy in the press and bolstered the resolve of Nader supporters to vote for Ralph."

"In Sharon’s estimate, the occasion of the first American presidential debate presented a perfect opportunity to commence another massacre of Palestinians. The Israelis know all too well that both Democrats and Republicans are accustomed to financing their campaigns with innocent Palestinian blood."

"The American debates, of course, are not debates at all. They are more a set of joint press conferences, a staged opportunity for both candidates to repeat memorized lines in a cozy environment, protected by elaborate rules and an always-undemanding moderator."

"Washington's ploy must be seen for what it is. That the United States Administration has sought to use claims of "genocide" in Darfur for crass and electoral political reasons is clear. In crying wolf on "genocide" the Bush Administration has not only undoubtedly banalised the concept of genocide, it has enflamed an already fraught situation in Darfur."

"To use a much-overworked boxing metaphor, the debate featured no knockdowns, but Kerry won on points. Despite the constraints imposed on the proceedings, the more than 50 million viewers who tuned in to the 90-minute debate were treated to a rather substantive discussion of two competing approaches to diplomacy, the war on terrorism and to winning the war in Iraq."

"Who’s going to supervise the Iraqi national election, in January, 2005? It has to be an individual that “fair and balanced” Fox News has confidence in. America’s Iago, Henry Kissinger, is too old for the post. Paul Bremer, the ex-Iraqi Viceroy, won’t dare go back to Baghdad. Who can blame him? So, I nominate that “Windbag for Democracy” - the Mother of all Neocons and Israeli cheerleader - Richard Perle!"

"Just as with those empires of old, which sought what the historian Carroll Quigley (Bill Clinton’s guru at Georgetown University) called “Universal Empire,” that is, not just imperial centralization, but hegemony over their existing “Core and Periphery,” which today literally means the entire world, I believe that the U.S. has not only failed, but is in decline."

"These people, who have decided to betray their religion, people, culture and homelands, are present everywhere in the Muslim world: they are to be found in the universities, print and electronic media, cultural institutions, even in mosques. It is one of the most heart-wrenching and undeniable facts of our times that their number is not small, and that the reach of their influence is so long that the entire spectrum of Islamic tradition and culture is now under attack."