Brenda Heard – The Complex Business of Assassination

Friday, March 12th, 2010

WRITTEN BY BRENDA HEARD   Antonio Cassese, President of the Special Tribunal for Lebanon (STL), recently presented the First Annual Report on the operation and activities of the Tribunal during the period from 1 March 2009 to 28 February 2010.  With its remit to investigate the 14 February 2005 Beirut bombing ...

Zahir Ebrahim – Anatomy of Conspiracy Theory

Wednesday, March 10th, 2010

WRITTEN BY ZAHIR EBRAHIM     Some may rationally ponder that how is it, that such a long running global conspiracy for world government as outlined in Project Humanbeingsfirst's report "The Enduring Capitalist Conspiracy for World Government", can be kept alive across centuries and across geographies. This brief paper examines that question. Noam ...

Zahra Carla Pilavdzic – Personal Problems in a Privileged Society

Monday, March 1st, 2010

WRITTEN BY ZAHRA CARLA PILAVDZIC  (artwork by Carlos Latuff) So and so thinks she's too fat. She not only wants some liposuction but a nose job while she's at it. And if she could afford it, maybe some new boobs. She thinks then she'll be famous and people will love her. Another ...

Ibrahim Hewitt – The Observer, Israel and the language of war

Friday, February 26th, 2010

WRITTEN BY IBRAHIM HEWITT – ALSO IN SPANISH BELOW! A leader writer in the Observer newspaper (“Israel can accelerate peace by exercising restraint” http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/feb/21/observer-editorial-israel-palestine , 21 February) really must be taken to task over the language that was used in the column. In seeking to analyse the Israel-Palestine situation the writer ...

Jack Shenker – Why do the western media ignore Egyptian dissent?

Wednesday, February 10th, 2010

Egyptian plain-clothes policemen detain a demonstrator in Mahala, April 2008. Photograph: AFP/Getty Images Pro-democracy protests in Iran top the news agenda, but similar tensions in Egypt pass unreported   WRITTEN BY JACK SHENKER – Here's a thought experiment: pick a random Middle Eastern country led by an unpopular autocrat whose legitimacy is being ...

Salim Nazzal – Zionists can threaten but can not intimidate me

Monday, February 1st, 2010

WRITTEN BY Salim Nazzal – At the beginning I got “strange” e-mails which hinted towards assassination and the like. The Zionist character in these e-mails was obvious. I simply paid no attention. I know Zionists fear the voice of the victims. My voice is the voice of my people who ...

Humanitarian aid or military occupation in Haiti?

Thursday, January 21st, 2010

SOCIALIST WORKER –  Ashley Smith explains why help hasn't reached most of the victims of Haiti's earthquake–because the priority of the U.S. government is on imposing its control. WHEN HURRICANE Katrina struck New Orleans in 2005, George W. Bush displayed a callous disregard for the Black victims of the disaster. When his ...

Mazin Qumsiyeh – Little Buffalo (with MUST SEE video)

Thursday, January 14th, 2010

We just finished a 10-day tour in Italy where I gave six talks. I am now in Jordan where I will give a talk Friday  (6 PM, Al-Balad Theater, near First Circle, Jabal Amman). Here I am hosted by my generous Zoologist friend Prof. Zuhair Amr and we take time ...

Sonja Karkar – Israel Must be Held to Account for the Misery in Gaza

Tuesday, January 12th, 2010

World, Jauary 4, 2010 (Pal Telegraph) – They came one cold December day. Not fearless warriors but fearsome hoardes hell-bent on destruction of the genocidal kind that leaves no room for regeneration. That was one year ago in Gaza. The attack shocked a complacent world into finally seeing Israel's merciless ferocity ...

Sonja Karkar – Israel Must be Held to Account for the Misery in Gaza

Tuesday, January 12th, 2010

World, Jauary 4, 2010 (Pal Telegraph) – They came one cold December day. Not fearless warriors but fearsome hoardes hell-bent on destruction of the genocidal kind that leaves no room for regeneration. That was one year ago in Gaza. The attack shocked a complacent world into finally seeing Israel's merciless ferocity ...