Media Monitors Network (MMN)

"Many citizens of the world see an America that was slow to enter World War II, slow to respond to the atrocities Hitler and his minions enacted upon the European Jews, and quick to profiteer from arms and equipment sales to the "allies" during the early stages of that war."

"If, as we are told, Oswald was the lone assassin, where is the issue of national security?"

- Bertrand Russell

"In a fully documented article, a gutsy writer, educator and researcher, Ronald Bleier, blasted through the Zionist Propaganda Machine. His “In the Beginning, There Was Terror,” commentary, (‘The Link,” Vol. 36, Issue 3, July-Aug, 2003), traced the history of the founding of Israel to the present."

"The physical assault on Muslims is an admission of the West's failure to entice the overwhelming majority away from the deen by either hedonistic materialism or under the guise of freedom and democracy."

"The silent majority of Muslim parents would like to send their children to Muslim schools but there are not enough schools to go by."

"Certainly the West and the Saudis could have some trouble imposing the facade democracy formula in the heartland of Islam."

"When the Ottoman Empire gave way to the British Empire, a new technique of control and manipulation surfaced. The British were masters at "divide and conquer" while occupying the Middle East."

"Immediately after leaving the army, Ariel Sharon created the Likud. It was 1973, when he realized that the army top brass would never tolerate his appointment as Chief-of-Staff."

"The point I’m making in this article is that there are MORE of us that are aware than our corporate owned media will tell us. The youth of this country is ALRIGHT, actually quite fabulous I may add."

:: Prepared text of speech at the Brazilian Social Forum, November 8, 2003 - Belo Horizonte, Brazil ::

"When a country — particularly “a democracy” — goes to war, the passive consent of the governed lubricates the machinery of slaughter. Silence is a key form of cooperation, but the war-making system does not insist on quietude or agreement. Mere passivity or self-restraint will suffice to keep the missiles flying, the bombs exploding and the faraway people dying."

"Numerous people among the Muslim community—and even those who look remotely Middle Eastern—have been, at best, humiliated and, in extreme cases, brutalized by government officials."

"A fundamental criticism of the Patriot Act's targeting of Arab and Muslim Americans, as well as foreign nationals, is that it is ineffective. According to Cole of the over 5,000 foreign nationals who have been detained since 9/11, only two have been convicted of anything related to terrorism."

"So what about the stuff we can hardly measure, the things we consider unimportant or trivial in our daily lives? -- a smile, a simple kind gesture, for example? What place do they have in our day-to-day encounters?"

"The U.S. airlines suffered severe losses following the 9/11 attacks on New York and Washington D.C., compounding the effects of an already weak economy. American Airlines, which ranks number one among all airlines using U.S. airports to transit between foreign countries, lost about $5.3 billion during the past two years, and more than $1.04 billion in the first quarter of 2003 alone."

"Does the Liberty Matter? Today, more than ever. More than any other incident, the USS Liberty gave the Israeli Lobby cause to believe that they could get away with anything."

"Over a century ago, Mark Twain concluded, "the very ink with which all history is written is merely fluid prejudice"."

"The American public has been more patient with the U.S. government in Iraq than in Lebanon and Somalia. After the September 11 attacks, the President and his people repeatedly implied -- disingenuously -- that Saddam was implicated in that tragedy. But after President Bush was finally forced to admit that no Saddam-September 11 link had been discovered and that no weapons of mass destruction (WMD) in Iraq were found that could be given to terrorists, the Bush’s administration’s justifications for war are now in shambles."

"The good news for Muslims is not only that Ebadi is the first Muslim woman ever to win the Nobel Peace Prize, but also that she has not blamed Islam for the shortcomings of Muslims."

"President Chandrika Kumaratunga of Sri Lanka first suspended Parliament for two weeks and sacked three ministers, that of Defence, Interior and the Media, from the Cabinet."

"On a related matter, the Ehrlich administration, in MD, is looking to sell the state owned 30-story World Trade Center building, located at Baltimore's Inner Harbor. A critic blasted the proposal as a "fire sale." Now, doesn't this sound familiar? Does the word "Oligarch" ring a bell?"