Analysis

By Uri Avnery

The judge: “You are accused of murdering your wife and two children. How do you plead: Guilty or not guilty?”

The accused: “Your honor, I do not deal with the past. I think about the future!”

No, not a scene from a comedy. Something very similar really happened. That is how Eli Yishai, the Minister of the Interior, Binyamin Netanyahu and the other nincompoops responded this week to the accusations of gross negligence which resulted in the unprecedented giant firestorm that ravaged large parts of Mount Carmel and caused the deaths of 42 people.

Read more: A General Overhaul

By Gideon Polya

Julian Assange, the famous leadership figure of Wikileaks, is an Australian citizen who was born in Queensland, North East Australia. So far  the Wikileaks releases re Australia have exposed what US officials thought of PM Rudd (“control freak” and other unflattering comments); Rudd’s appalling advocacy of  US war with China and Australian soldiers for war in Pakistan; successful lobbying of the Labor Government by BHP Billiton to help block a $21 billion Chinese investment in mining giant Rio Tinto; revelation of secret Australian Government pessimism over the Afghan War; and exposure of 3 [pro-Zionist, pro-US] Labor MPs as involved in giving insider information and opinions to the US. The US lackey Australian Government has reacted by threatening Assange with criminal proceedings, this in turn provoking widespread support for Julian Assange from both ordinary and eminent Australians.

Read more: Australian Government Threatens Australian Julian Assange

By Ludwig Watzal

Today, the German-Israeli human rights lawyer celebrates her 80th birthday in the German town of Tuebingen. Last year, she and her husband Mieciu had been married for 60 years. Ms. Langer was born in Poland. When Nazi-Germany attacked Poland in September 1939, she and her family fled to the Soviet Union, where they stayed till the end of World War II. Her latter husband’s family was not so “lucky”. All, except Mieciu, were exterminated by the Nazi-killers. He survived several concentration camps. After they got married they immigrated to Israel in 1950.

Read more: Happy Birthday Felicia Langer!

By MWC News

By Teresa Bo

Even though its summer time in Argentina, the temperatures in El Calafate, in Patagonia, are still very low.

It's still cold in this part of the country where we decided to come to report on the impact that global warming is having on glaciers in South America.

Read more: Global warming: A dark future for South America's glaciers

By MWC News

Ecuadoran President Rafael Correa on WikiLeaks, the September Coup, U.S. Denial of Climate Funding, and Controversial Forest Scheme REDD

Secret U.S. diplomatic cables recently published by the whistleblower website WikiLeaks revealed new details about how the U.S. manipulated last year’s U.N. climate talks in Copenhagen. Ecuador was one of the nations that lost funding after it refused to sign on to the U.S.-led Copenhagen Accord. Democracy Now! asks Ecuadoran President Rafael Correa about the latest WikiLeaks revelations on how the United States denied his country aid, the failed coup against him earlier this year, and his support for the controversial carbon market-based forest protection scheme known as REDD.

Read more: Ecuadoran President Correa on WikiLeaks