Thousands of peaceful protesters, including peace activists and war veterans, have marched through the second largest city in the U.S. carrying banners against NATO and demanding the dissolution of the Alliance.
May 21st, 2012 | Posted in Americas,Editors Picks,Europe,World | Read More »
The book focuses on the break-up of American Jewish support for Israel. Its central argument is that the mostly liberal American Jewish community now knows too much about the historical, human rights and diplomatic record of the Israel-Palestine conflict to lend Israel blind support.
May 20th, 2012 | Posted in Americas,Editors Picks,Europe,Israel,Middle East,Palestine,World | Read More »
Secret Service agents, NORTHCOM and National Guard forces, as well as thousands of state and local police seem everywhere.
May 20th, 2012 | Posted in Americas,Editors Picks | Read More »
The end of the Cold War sparked this new Fake War Syndrome (FWS) and there is NO cure in sight.
May 20th, 2012 | Posted in Americas,Asia,Britain United Kingdom,China,Economics & Markets,Economy,Editors Picks,Europe,Iran,Middle East,World | Read More »
The danger to humanity is in the nuclear button briefcase in the Oval Office and in the brainwashed and militant American (sic) population, the most totally disinformed and ignorant people on earth.”
May 19th, 2012 | Posted in Americas,Editors Picks,Europe,Israel,Middle East,World | Read More »
Together with thousands of people I took to the streets of Ramallah, joined by a group of amazing women and their children.
May 18th, 2012 | Posted in Americas,Britain United Kingdom,Editors Picks,Europe,Israel,Middle East,Palestine,World | Read More »
Out of the 2,000 Palestinian political prisoners on the hunger strike, two have not eaten for 78 days and have said they will not start eating again until their administrative detentions are lifted.
May 16th, 2012 | Posted in Americas,Britain United Kingdom,Europe,Israel,Middle East,Palestine,World | Read More »
Do you have to be xenophobic, paranoid, isolationist, or libertarian to protest a secretive gathering of over 100 billionaires, industrialists, media barons, and politicians working to shape our public sphere, or has the left dropped the ball?
May 16th, 2012 | Posted in Americas,Editors Picks,World | Read More »
As Ilan Pappe has said, most Israeli Jews have no idea of what they did to the Palestinians in 1948. (He also said that those who do know don’t think that what was done was wrong). But that’s only the tip of an iceberg of ignorance.
May 15th, 2012 | Posted in Americas,Britain United Kingdom,China,Editors Picks,Europe,Israel,Middle East,Palestine,World | Read More »
Victors’ celebrations harbor shadows that lurk in the soul as revelers dance in remembrance, burying in laughter the suffering screams of those displaced and destroyed, furiously hiding forgotten faces framed in fear from mocking the glorious dance should they be awakened once more by the reverie.
May 14th, 2012 | Posted in Americas,Britain United Kingdom,Causes,Editors Picks,Education,Europe,History,Israel,Living,Middle East,Palestine,Peace,World | Read More »
America has always been a bully. Americans are convinced that they have a God-given right, or destiny, to expand the country’s borders from “sea to shining sea”.
May 13th, 2012 | Posted in Americas,Britain United Kingdom,Civil Liberties and Freedom,Corruption,Editors Picks,Europe,Foreign Relations,Government,Legislation,Politics,World | Read More »
Marchers moved through the streets of Hebron, Kafr Qaddoum, Nablus, Nabi Saleh, Ni’lin, Ramallah, al-Walaja and outside of Ofer prison. The picture above was taken in Hebron.
May 12th, 2012 | Posted in Americas,Israel,Middle East,Palestine,World | Read More »
A $100 million NATO invasion is coming. Low intensity conflict may follow. The “City of Broad Shoulders” may get more than it bargained for.
May 11th, 2012 | Posted in Americas | Read More »
It is crunch time in Syria. Allow the jihadist battle to take flight there, and there is no telling how far and wide this fight will spread. The Annan Plan is the “only game in town,” and the Syrian Army the only military force that can take action against these militants.
May 9th, 2012 | Posted in Americas,Asia,Europe,Middle East,Syria,World | Read More »
Grassroots activism takes time to grow. Broad-based participation is vital. Issues must be clearly defined. Leadership is needed. Major obstacles must be overcome.
May 7th, 2012 | Posted in Americas,Editors Picks | Read More »
The problem of Terry Jones and people like him with Islam and its teaching is that Islam unveils the true evil nature of imperialism
May 6th, 2012 | Posted in Americas,World | Read More »
“The trouble with us Israelis is that we’ve become the victims of our own propaganda.” General Shlomo Gazit
May 5th, 2012 | Posted in Americas,Asia,Britain United Kingdom,Editors Picks,Europe,Iran,Israel,Middle East,Palestine,World | Read More »
AIPAC History. Proto-AIPAC’s incubation in the Israeli embassy in 1948. Strategic direction-setting by the Mossad and Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
May 4th, 2012 | Posted in Americas,Asia,Britain United Kingdom,China,Editors Picks,Iran,Israel,Palestine,World | Read More »
One loss and one victory will prepare the United Methodist Church to take the next step in ending United Methodist support for the occupation. Like the segregated church it was until 1964, the United Methodist church can change.
May 3rd, 2012 | Posted in Americas,Britain United Kingdom,Editors Picks,Europe,Israel,Middle East,Palestine,World | Read More »
Not only is Israel harming Palestinians, but it is harming itself.
May 3rd, 2012 | Posted in Americas,Britain United Kingdom,Europe,Israel,Middle East,Palestine,World | Read More »
The report told Americans that there are Palestinian Christians. Israeli Ambassador Michael Oren not only called the head of CBS news in an attempt to quash a report on the displacement of Palestinian Christians by the Israeli Occupation of the West Bank and East Jerusalem, but he briefed Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu of the far right wing Likud Party on his attempt.
May 2nd, 2012 | Posted in Americas,Britain United Kingdom,Editors Picks,Europe,Israel,Middle East,Palestine,World | Read More »
The multitrillion-dollar global question remains: Is the emergence of BRICS a signal that we have truly entered a new multipolar world?
May 1st, 2012 | Posted in Americas,Asia,Britain United Kingdom,China,Europe,Iran,Middle East,World | Read More »
NATO's "responsibility to protect" (R2P) was subterfuge to wage war. Months of terror bombing left Libya a charnel house.
May 1st, 2012 | Posted in Americas,Britain United Kingdom,Europe,Middle East,World | Read More »
As this process of demilitarization and national reconciliation unfolds – aided hopefully by objective observers on the ground inside Syria – it will be vital to focus only on credible, verifiable information to keep cool heads.
April 30th, 2012 | Posted in Americas,Asia,Britain United Kingdom,China,Europe,Israel,Middle East,Syria,World | Read More »
In his speech to AIPAC, Netanyahu referred to 1944 to make the case for war against Iran. He gets his history wrong again. In 1944, at a time when Nazi Germany was plotting the final solution, Iranian diplomats were busy handing out hundreds of passports to European and Iranian Jews in order to facilitate their exodus to Iran.
April 30th, 2012 | Posted in Americas,Asia,Britain United Kingdom,Editors Picks,Europe,Iran,Israel,Middle East,World | Read More »
Enough of this inter-faith lah-di-dah? True Christians everywhere – not just the Methodists – need to stiffen the sinew and toughen up. Why continue all this inter-faith lah-di-dah with religious delinquents?
April 30th, 2012 | Posted in Americas,Asia,Editors Picks,Europe,Israel,Living,Middle East,Palestine,World | Read More »
Predator drones sanitize killing on the cheap compared to manned aircraft and ground troops. Teams of remote warriors work far from, and at times, closer to battlefields.
April 29th, 2012 | Posted in Americas,Middle East,Yemen | Read More »
Andy Worthington is a superb reporter who has specialized in providing the facts of the US government’s illegal abuse of “detainees,” against whom no evidence exists.
April 29th, 2012 | Posted in Americas,World | Read More »
Adapting to the sweeping changes of the Arab Spring requires a new paradigm about the Middle East, one that is cognizant and respectful of the democratic will of Arab public opinion.
April 29th, 2012 | Posted in Americas,Asia,Bahrain,Britain United Kingdom,China,Editors Picks,Egypt,Europe,Israel,Middle East,Oman,Palestine,Syria,World,Yemen | Read More »
In this era, the most efficient defense rendering such attack useless is by widely advertising it beforehand; articles like this one are a proper beginning for this. Only if the Israeli leadership understands that it will be seen as personally responsible for the event and would face international justice, only then it might refrain from the crime. Mr. Romney, Mr. Obama, do we agree on this?
April 28th, 2012 | Posted in Americas,Editors Picks,Iran,Israel,Middle East,World | Read More »
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