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Omar Barghouti on BDS
Equal rights for all is the key to the democratisation of the fascist ziostate. Barghouti defines the resistance movement with three aims (1) ending the occupation and colonisation of Palestine outside the 1967 border (2) ending racial discriminati...
An extraordinary complex peace
Kevin Rudd is optimistic of the survival of western hegemony for at least another 15 years, as it shifts to a balance of powers rather than US unilateralism. This is reflected already in the expansion of the G7 to the G20, to include representation f...
Tariq Ali on the US Empire in the Middle East, Latin America and Pakistan
Our future is not yours to choose
The New American Century
End Apartheid, Slavery, Caste & Racism - Support WCAR 2009
From Open Anthropology - The 5th Annual Israel Apartheid Week is Now On. The US, Canada, France and Israel have stuck their noses in the air and are planning to boycott the UN World Conference Against Racism to be held in Geneva on the 24th April. R...
US Lawyers find evidence of possible war crimes in Gaza
Eight American lawyers have spent five days interviewing individuals and communities to determine whether “violations of international law occurred and whether U.S. domestic law has been violated as a consequence” from the Israeli attack ...
Letter in New York Times by Jewish Intellectuals 1948
This is the original text of a letter to the editor published in the New York Times in 1948 signed by prominent Jewish intellectuals, including Albert Einstein. Letters to The Times New York Times December 4, 1948 New Palestine Party Visit of Menache...
Gandhi Rejected Zionism
A private chuckle emanates from the land of bananas - juxtaposing Chomsky, didact he is, with the visionary Gandhi and his words of 80 years ago is a minor recompense for the grinding realisation that Chomsky may well be right - US foreign policy is ...
Boycott, Divestment and Protest Israel Update
From grassroots community action in Tescos in Wales as above to Preston Council voting to boycott Israel and CODEPINK’S visit to Gaza to meet with women’s groups and Hamas officials, ordinary good-hearted people are putting themselves on ...
Tanks for the Memories - Bye Dubya
Enjoy some more zany humour and mend your broken heart at Dr. Zionstein’s....
Obama keeps rendition policy?
Whilst Obama has signalled the closure of Guantanamo and CIA secret interrogation sites, according to this article he plans to keep what is arguably the most reprehensible policy of all - rendering prisoners to ‘allies’ for possible tortu...
Ali Abunimah discusses Obama
The Israel Lobby - the Influence of AIPAC on US Foreign Policy
The Unspoken Truth - Interview with Robert Baer
Atheo News annotates an interview with ex CIA operative Robert Baer who is frank about the exigencies involved in discussing the pariah state of Israel. RB: Well, he [Obama] needs the backing of the Democratic Party to get these things through politi...
The Plank in Western Eyes Courtesy of The Elephant in the Room
Lloyds Bank is the target of protests since it has ceased the ability of Interpal to send aid to Gaza. In Bristol, protesters have forced the bank to close its doors. Suspect Paki has the story, and so does Syd Walker, who chronicles protests aimed a...
Queen Noor of Jordan speaks on Israel & Palestine
5000 Years of History in the Middle East
This is an excellent animation which illustrates the fallacy of Zionist claims to Israel’s current terrortory....
Richard Falk discusses Israel’s control of the US & UN
Global politics can be sleazy, but it doesn’t get any sleazier than this. Nearly 1000 Gazan people have paid with their lives for Israel’s lies - Israel plotted and schemed a massacre whilst smiling in truce with Hamas, then breached the ...
UN Aid Convoy Attacked by Israel - US Senate Accomplice to Atrocities
Israel continues to contravene international law in Gaza, commiting yet more horrendous atrocities in the prosecution of its detestable collective punishment of Gaza’s citizens. A UN agency halted operations in Gaza after a deadly strike on an ...
Congressman Keith Ellison - understanding the Palestinian narrative
Keith Ellison, a US congressman for the state of Minnesota and the only Muslim to be elected to US congress, talks to Al Jazeera’s Shihab Rattansi about the Israeli offensive in Gaza and why he feels so few US politicians understand the Middle ...
UN School Bombed, 40 Killed - US calls for immediate cease fire
Israel crossed the line. @KABOBFest A UN school in #gaza where people were taking shelter was just tank-shelled by Israel, killing 40 people there. http://tinyurl.com/777edx @AJGaza US state department says it wants an “immediate” ceasefi...
CIA Slapped Down
Interesting story we missed at the beginning of the month amidst the Obama rapture - after a lengthy court battle, the CIA lost control of the National Security Archives. Judge Gladys Kessler of the United States District Court for the District of Co...
Mutts insulted
In timely, incisive fashion, Jon Swift has noted Obama’s first gaffe - demeaning mixed breed canines everywhere by referring to them as ‘mutts’ like himself. Meanwhile the effervescent Funky Pix duo analyse the recent US canine cand...
The Country I Lost
In their silvery pods spawned from a mother ship circling our planet, the Klar hurtled down. From a far off world they had been driven. At first they farmed our lands alongside us, keeping to themselves while we lived as we always had in our villages...
Obamareggae!
Collective punishment, collective guilt
Once again, Israhell uses its grotesquely disproportionate US funded weaponry to wantonly slaughter Palestinians. About 100 people were obliterated this time, including 19 children. Israhelli commandant, Barak, foreshadowed an increase in military ex...
Dooby Doodoo
Can’t talk, can’t think, and can’t dance. As McCain attempts to counter allegations of infidelity (who cares except the abominably self-righteous religious freaks) and Barack and Hillary continue their battle for Dem ascendancy, Doo...
