Media Monitors Network (MMN)

"With Iraq and Afghanistan fallen and Libya and Iran kneeling down on the nuclear issue, Pakistan will in fact be facing hard times in weeks and months—to come."

"Words that George Will wrote 10 years ago now aptly describe his own stance: “It is a theoretical impossibility” that he behaved badly. “Good behavior” is whatever he does."

"If Gaddafi had been sincere in his declaration that changes in the regional and global order had prompted him to make significant changes to his old policies, he would have appeared before his people to explain things. If Gaddafi were truly courageous, he would have owned up to his mistakes and asked his people to forgive him."

"The Jirga was really a side-show enacted to prove that representatives of the Afghan people (how they were elected and selected also came in for criticism) were debating and discussing the issues confronting Afghanistan. All the main decisions had already been made by Zalmay Khalilzad, the Afghan-born US ambassador to Kabul, who hovered over the proceedings like a vulture over a carcass."

"Human difference, the incomplete human project, will be asserted against the indifference of the real world where all echoes are the same. What matters is not the consequence of one's absence, but the need for consequence; it is that need that makes us what we are."

"The core dispute of Kashmir has to be resolved, done in such a way that satisfies all the claimants."

"World Peace and Palestinian Independence will come when America divorces itself from its “Passionate Attachment” to Israel."

"It is good that Rep. Richard A. Gephardt (D-MO) is finally confessing that he doesn’t trust Bush, Jr. “to conduct foreign policy.” It would have been much better if he would have come clean about his reservations when that important vote came up in the House of Representatives, in October, 2002, on the pro-Iraq War Resolution. Instead, Gephardt voted then to delegate the awesome war making power to the Bush-Cheney Gang."

"As Sharon and Olmert speak of "relocating" existing settlements in the Occupied Territories, new ones are being established."

"Although the sanctions on Syria are less severe and will only impact a trade of $300 million a year, the message to the Middle East is one of antagonism and hostility."

"General Musharaf is a committed secularist with no relationship to the Islamic ideology of Pakistan. America and India believe that Muslims are “terrorists.” Musharaf appears to be a facilitator for the American and Indian political agenda to manipulate the self-tailored power house."

"...the Muslim world had observed the Divine proscriptions against usury. While the Western nations are largely "tapped" or "maxed" out on debt, the Islamic world is virgin territory. With the GNP of these countries--under the careful supervision of Israeli overlords--many trillion dollars of new debt could be created."

"When it comes to fundamental democratic reform, therefore, perhaps the Muslim world would do better to emulate Western democratic ideals of a century ago, not the hypocritical and schizophrenic brand being practiced today."

"...the management of "bad news" has been quite effective, leaving the field wide open for coverage of what is termed the "larger" political news coverage of "progress".

"The miracle power that elevates the few is to be found in their industry, application, and perseverance, under the promptings of a brave determined spirit."

– Mark Twain

"The country would be both safer and less fearful with a more low-key alert system, targeted to state and local agencies that specific intelligence shows to be under threat at a particular time."

"The sooner Arabs and other Middle Easterners come to terms with the ‘LA Lull’ standard, the more likely they are to land in the real world."

"We are ruled by an intellectual and moral featherweight who lost the popular vote and since 911 has moved from that awful beginning to head the worst regime in American history."

"Holocaustianity is coercive propaganda specifically designed to justify the existence of Israel, but none of its beliefs can withstand scrutiny, and that is what is taking place on campuses."

"Abe Foxman swears Israel has a “healthy democracy” because oppositional figures are heard all of the time. Sure, they are! Unless, of course, they are protesting its notorious Apartheid Wall, than they can be shot by the Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) with live ammunition, like Israeli activist Gil Naamati was last Friday (“Baltimore Sun,” 12/29/03)."