Politics
Wednesday, 11 May 2011 07:59
By Khalid Amayreh
Israel is celebrating 63 years of independence these days. However, it would be correct to claim that the Jewish state is also celebrating 63 years of land theft, ethnic cleansing, and oppression systematically and incessantly meted out to the Palestinian people, the indigenous inhabitants of Palestine.
Wednesday, 11 May 2011 07:48
What Ilan Pappe described as "the ethnic cleaning of Palestine," Edward Said called its "holocaust," saying:
"Every human calamity is different, but there is value in seeing analogies and perhaps hidden similarities." He called Nazi extermination "the lowest point of (Jewish) collective existence." Occupied Palestinians today "are as powerless as Jews were" under Hitler, devastated by "power used for evil purposes," not self-defense.
Tuesday, 10 May 2011 07:06
Except for Aristide's tenure, what passes for Haitian democracy would make a despot blush, thanks to America's imperial grip on the hemisphere's poorest, long-suffering people.
As a result, last November's presidential and legislative elections might best be called a cruel joke. The entire process was rigged to exclude 15 parties, including by far the most popular, Aristide's Fanmi Lavalas.
Monday, 09 May 2011 19:41
By Khalid Amayreh in occupied Jerusalem
This is more than a legitimate question because it is unfair and immoral to keep silent about the indisputably greater evil, e.g. Israel, while demonizing the supposedly lesser evil just because this evil "works against our freedoms and interests."
Monday, 09 May 2011 09:22
On May 2, AP writer Matt Apuzzo headlined, "US Official: New bin Laden tape, recorded shortly before death, expected to surface soon," saying:
"US intelligence officials believe (he) made a propaganda recording shortly before his death and expect that tape to surface soon...A new recording (would) provide a final word from beyond the grave..."
Read more: New Bin Laden Tapes Appear Fake Like Earlier Ones
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| Lawrence Davidson | |
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The UN, Integrated Systems & American Intransigence To Accountability |
| Clive Hambidge | |
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On Political Precondition |
| Richard Falk | |
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LGBTQ exclusion of anti-capitalism |
| Soheil Asefi | |
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Russia Catches CIA Spy Red-Handed |
| Stephen Lendman | |
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Abolish the IRS -- And the Income Tax with It |
| Sheldon Richman | |
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Francis A. Boyle, Destroying Libya and World Order |
| Ludwig Watzal | |
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'Daddy, what is a Drone?' |
| William A. Cook | |
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The collapse of journalism and the journalism of collapse |
| Robert Jensen | |
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Buckling to Bigotry |
| Nima Shirazi | |
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Kurdish Clouds Over Darkening West Asia Horizon |
| K.Gajendra Singh | |
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