http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/ CS gas canisters with serial and lot numbers have been found by victims fired on in Tahrir Square Sarah Morrison and Bel Trew Sunday 04 December 2011 Suggested Topics Army Tahrir Square Middle East Military Suez North Africa Law Egypt A British firm manufactured some of the tear gas used by Egyptian security forces… [Read more…]
November 20, 2011
View this story on the Guardian Comment is free By posing naked, Aliaa Mahdy has brilliantly challenged the misogyny and sexual hypocrisy of Egypt’s leaders Mona Eltahawy · 18/11/2011 · guardian.co.uk The blog of 20-year-old Egyptian blogger Aliaa Mahdy Photograph: Aliaa Mahdy When a woman is the sum total of her headscarf and hymen –… [Read more…]
November 19, 2011
Posted on April 20, 2011 by nadiaelawady Muslim women in Europe and the United States who choose to wear a headscarf or face veil are placed under tremendous societal pressures almost every day. On the streets, some people look at them as if they are freaks of nature. Many find it difficult to get jobs… [Read more…]
October 21, 2011
Maikel Nabil Sanad declares he would prefer suicide to being tried by military junta for criticising the army in his blog Jack Shenker guardian.co.uk, Tuesday 18 October 2011 19.28 BST Sanad has been on hunger strike for 57 days and is said to be in critical condition. An Egyptian blogger jailed for criticising the country’s… [Read more…]
October 14, 2011
Demand the release of Maikel Nabil Sanad – Amnesty International Australia.
December 30, 2008
Peter Slezak and Antony Loewenstein Vic Alhadeff is a senior Zionist organisation official. His Unleashed article provides an opportunity for analysis that is instructive about our media and intellectual culture. The very persuasiveness of Alhadeff’s case for Israel is the reason it deserves attention. It misrepresents the uncontroversial facts and the moral issues at stake.… [Read more…]
December 31, 2008
Press Freedom Round-up 2008 Better figures despite a hostile climate and more Internet repression In 2008 : - 60 journalists were killed - 1 media assistant was killed - 673 journalists were arrested - 929 were physically attacked or threatened - 353 media outlets were censored - 29 journalists were kidnapped Internet : - 1… [Read more…]
December 31, 2008
-See videos from the Gaza strip at the Palestine Vlog, including the one below of the December 27 attacks:
December 31, 2008
The Jewish ethical tradition means embracing Palestinians, too. By Sara Roy from the January 2, 2009 edition, Christian Science Monitor Cambridge, Mass. – I hear the voices of my friends in Gaza as clearly as if we were still on the phone; their agony echoes inside me. They weep and moan over the death of… [Read more…]
January 2, 2009
This is a powerful and moving radio documantary about an Irish Australian radio producer trying to come to grips with his location in history and what it’s meant for him personally. He recounts experiences of violence in his life both as a victim and as someone who became violent. His candour is sometimes difficult to… [Read more…]
January 5, 2009
From Women in Black in Vienna. They Report: There have been two mass demonstrations for Gaza in Vienna thus far. There will certainly be more. We had a vigil at the Israeli Embassy on Tuesday, which received much publicity..many photographers and journalists came from the Austrian Press Agency. The Ambassador came out to talk but… [Read more…]
January 4, 2009
In Jeffery Masson’s book ‘ Dogs Never Lie About Love‘, he explores the emotional lives of ‘our best and truest friend’. Well, I just love dogs. I can’t imagine a world without them. The comfort and love they bring into your home and life is without equal. Their emotional brain locks into yours and… [Read more…]
January 6, 2009
It is hard to sit here in safe Sydney and hear this –what many had long suspected. Not only is Israel lying as usual, but it’s also testing what seem to be new weapons. Dr. Mads Fredrik Gilbert talks about horrific details of people who were killed by being split into two! I have always… [Read more…]
January 6, 2009
I found this inspiring to watch. Among some of the messages coming from Gaza is the gentle call ‘ to stay human’. In the midst of the barbarity of the Israeli bombing, this is surely one of the hardest things to do. But stay human we must. There’s no other choice if we want… [Read more…]
January 8, 2009
I heard on Radio National’s PM this evening, that there’s unconfirmed reports of the Israeli Army admitting to diplomats in private, that they know the rocket fire they claim came from within the UN school in Gaza yesterday, actually came from outside. So this article below from Australian Sara Dowse, couldn’t be more timely. Sara… [Read more…]
January 9, 2009
By Naomi Klein, The Nation Posted on January 9, 2009, Printed on January 9, 2009 http://www.alternet.org/story/118332/ It’s time. Long past time. The best strategy to end the increasingly bloody occupation is for Israel to become the target of the kind of global movement that put an end to apartheid in South Africa. In July 2005… [Read more…]
January 11, 2009
Julia Irwin January 11, 2009 Sydney Morning Herald YOU’VE got to hand it to the Israeli public relations flacks: only they could convince you that killing children was an act of self-defence. As the recent bombing of Gaza began, Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni gave instructions for the Foreign Ministry to take “emergency measures to… [Read more…]
January 14, 2009
I was asked a question at a dinner about six months ago–by someone who I thought was an enlightened person–whether or not if she went to Egypt, she would be discriminated against because she was a Jew. This was not someone lacking in self esteem or social capital. So her question was offensive. I could… [Read more…]
January 14, 2009
From an email i recieved from a Jewish friend Israel’s Arab parties, Balad and United Arab List-Ta’al, are disqualified from running in the upcoming Israeli elections in February, the country’s Central Elections Committee ruled Monday. This is a shocking turn of events in a country whose Arab citizens (to say nothing of those under its… [Read more…]
January 14, 2009
Rally MAJOR GLOBAL JANUARY RALLIES occurred from Jan 1-11, including a 100,000 strong rally in London on the 10th January. Please check the links below for further actions. *** For updates on US cities, please visit ANSWER: Act-Now-to-Stop-War-and-Racism and US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation page *** For updates on UK cities, please visit… [Read more…]
January 15, 2009
Steve Niva January 7 2009 Israel has repeatedly claimed that it had “no choice” but to wage war on Gaza on December 27 because Hamas had broken a ceasefire, was firing rockets at Israeli civilians, and had “tried everything in order to avoid this military operation,” as Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni put it. This claim,… [Read more…]
January 16, 2009
A moving song by Michael Heart for the people of Gaza Michael says ’2 nights ago I picked up my acoustic guitar and started strumming lightly, while looking at these horrible photos of the casualties in Gaza, on the internet. It was around midnight my time. And before I knew it, by 2 AM, I… [Read more…]
January 17, 2009
Taxpayers are spending over $1 billion to send refined fuel to the Israeli military — at a time when Israel doesn’t need it and America does. By Robert Bryce Editor’s note: Generous support for this article was provided by the Investigative Fund at the Nation Institute. http:////www.salon.com/news/feature/2009/01/16/gaza_invasion/index.html Israel’s current air and ground assault on the… [Read more…]
January 18, 2009
By Anat Biletzki January 14, 2009 I write as an Israeli. In the past two-and-a-half weeks Israeli forces have killed over 900 people in Gaza; Palestinian rockets have killed four Israelis and Palestinian fighters have killed six soldiers. As the assault began, Bibi Netanyahu, the leader of Israel’s definitive right-wing party, Likud, said that talk… [Read more…]
January 19, 2009
JOINT CONVOCATION OF WOMEN IN BLACK OF MADRID AND OF BELGRADE Women in Black Against War Invite you to a vigil in black and in silence Tuesday, 20 JANUARY 2009 from 18:00 to 19:00 IN FRONT OF THE EMBASSY OF THE UNITED STATES (Madrid) c/Serrano, Nº 75 Metro: Nunez de Balboa On the occasion of… [Read more…]
January 20, 2009
January 20, 2009 By Noam Chomsky Noam Chomsky’s ZSpace Page Saturday December 27, the latest US-Israeli attack on helpless Palestinians was launched. The attack had been meticulously planned, for over 6 months according to the Israeli press. The planning had two components: military and propaganda. It was based on the lessons of Israel’s 2006 invasion… [Read more…]
January 21, 2009
Tell the truth about Israel. A friend had her comment removed from the Guardian’s “Comment is Free”. I can’t imagine what was so offensive about what she said, apart from the fact that it was all true. Below is a note she wrote about it on facebook. ============================================================== Elizabeth Wurtzel, author of Prozac Nation (1995)… [Read more…]
January 23, 2009
09/01/2009 This war, perhaps more than its predecessors, is exposing the true deep veins of Israeli society. Racism and hatred are rearing their heads, as is the impulse for revenge and the thirst for blood. The “inclination of the commander” in the Israel Defense Forces is now “to kill as many as possible,” as the… [Read more…]
January 24, 2009
I’m trying to find out where this report came from and who this informed Journalist is . I am surprised that it hasn’t been picked up by a major news network and that it was lost in the news about Gaza. This is a crucial bit of information because it was the basis upon which… [Read more…]
January 24, 2009
Fruit and vegetable exports are crucial to the Israeli economy. A consumer boycott of agricultural produce exerts direct economic pressure where it matters Joanna Blythman Comments (68) Men of the Salmi family salvage some belongings from the rubble of their home in the Gaza City district of Zeitoun. Photograph: Lefteris Pitarakis/AP If you’re not in… [Read more…]
January 24, 2009
Why I Haven’t Returned to Belgrade By Slavenka Drakulic 01/21/2009 The Balkan wars of the 1990s may be of the past, but their legacy still haunts the region. People do not want to admit they took part in wars. But while they may not be war criminals or murderers, they still bear responsibility. I was… [Read more…]
January 25, 2009
January 25, 2009
On the same day Barack Obama was inaugurated as the first African-American president in U.S. history, an old story was repeating itself in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, across the river from El Paso, Texas. Staging a caravan through the violence-ridden city, a new group of mothers of disappeared young women brought public attention to the cases… [Read more…]
January 25, 2009
This little gem is from the ABC TV’s Media Watch
January 28, 2009
By Truth Dig. Posted on 27 Jan 2009 AP photo / Sebastian Scheiner A rainbow, as if projected by the American media, is seen over the northern Gaza Strip, from the Israel-Gaza Border. By Chris Hedges The assault on Gaza exposed not only Israel’s callous disregard for international law but the gutlessness of the American press.… [Read more…]
January 28, 2009
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/world-gets-its-first-gay-head-of-state-1519068.html Former air hostess to be sworn in as Icelandic premier after economic collapse By Peter Popham Thursday, 29 January 2009 Johanna Sigurdardottir is Iceland’s new Prime Minister The first government collapse of the global economic crisis is about to yield the world’s first openly-gay leader. Johanna Sigurdardottir, a former air hostess, is expected to… [Read more…]
January 28, 2009
A gut wrenching report on the callousness and brutality of the Israeli army and their shocking indifference towards Palestinians. There’s also some appallingly cruel commentary at the bottom of the article which can be found here: http://mideast.blogs.time.com/2009/01/26/the-devils-footsteps-in-gaza/ =============================================================== There’s something about phosphorus, the way it smoulders and burns for days, that makes it looks as… [Read more…]
January 29, 2009
Gaza – Ma’an – Date: 29 / 01 / 2009 Time: 21:31 Palestinian academics and media personnel, as well as international activists, demanded the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) leave the Gaza Strip over its refusal to air an appeal for aid on the network. Academics organized a sit-in near the entrance to the BBC’s office in Gaza,… [Read more…]
February 1, 2009
The biggest silence in Australia is about Indigenous history and people. We have forgotten our bloody heritage and the injustices that have become part of every day life for indigenous people here. We have just had our national day of celebrating colonialism –Australia Day. But despite our Prime Minister’s apology to Indigenous people last… [Read more…]
February 2, 2009
This video message is made by an Israeli woman from Machsom Watch–a checkpoint Watch. A voluntary movement of Israeli women, founded in 2001, dedicated to monitoring and reporting human rights violations at checkpoints in the West Bank and Jerusalem. It brings together Israeli women who are united in theis opposition to the occupation and their… [Read more…]
February 3, 2009
I wonder what happens if protests such as these were given coverage in the Australian media? Might it be possible that public opinion and therefore government policy would change on Israel? There’s no doubt in my mind that Australian media coverage of the war on Gaza and the war on Palestinians in general has been… [Read more…]
February 3, 2009
A protester has thrown a shoe at Wen Jiabao during a speech at Cambridge University and called the Chinese prime minister a “dictator”. The shoe landed about a metre away from Mr Wen and the protester, a young man, was then removed by security guards. Mr Wen, who earlier signed a series of trade agreements… [Read more…]
February 4, 2009
Date: Sat, Jan 31, 2009 Dear Sir, I am writing to you, to ask you to contact those who are authorized to do so, to remove the name of my grandfather from the memorial at Yad Vashem, which is dedicated to the Jewish victims of National Socialism. It says “Moshe Brajtberg, gassed in 1943 in… [Read more…]
February 5, 2009
February 6, 2009
A woman has thrown a shoe at the Israeli ambassador to Sweden as he was giving a lecture on Israel’s forthcoming elections. The shoe hit Benny Dagan in the chest during a seminar held at the University of Stockholm on Wednesday, a local police official said. Ylva Kornheffer, a board member of the Stockholm Association… [Read more…]
February 6, 2009
‘The BBC cannot be neutral in the struggle between truth and untruth, justice and injustice, freedom and slavery, compassion and cruelty, tolerance and intolerance.’ Thus read a 1972 internal document called Principles and Practice in News and Current Affairs laying out the guidelines for the BBC’s coverage of conflicts. It appears to affirm that in… [Read more…]
February 6, 2009
The following letter was published in a full-page advertisement in The Irish Times on 31 January 2009: The original ad, including signatures may be downloaded here. [PDF] Israel’s bombardment of Gaza killed over 1,300 Palestinians, a third of them children. Thousands have been wounded. Many victims had been taking refuge in clearly marked UN facilities.… [Read more…]
February 10, 2009
http://www.hindu.com/mag/2009/02/08/stories/2009020850080300.htm THE OTHER HALF KALPANA SHARMA In Nepal, despite the now-flourishing democracy and freedom of press, the price of not toeing the political line set up by armed militias is often death. Paying a heavy price: Uma Singh Whenever we in India use the phrase “neighbouring country”, we refer to Pakistan. We forget that there… [Read more…]
February 13, 2009
Radio Broadcasts Provide Vital Humanitarian Information to Gazans http://www.internews.org/prs/2009/20090209_gaza.shtm Mohammad Abu Shahmeh/Internews Gazans listen to the radio while taking shelter at the house of Abu Ali. (February 9, 2009) “It was darkness, no electricity, and the only thing that connected us to the world was a small radio. We were more than forty people, men,… [Read more…]
February 18, 2009
(IFJ/IFEX) – The following is a translation of a 13 February 2009 IFJ media release: The IFJ condemns the 12 January 2009 assassination of Martín Ocampos Páez, director of the Hugua Ñandu FM community radio station. At the time of his assassination, Ocampos Páez was in his home in the Concepción area of eastern Paraguay.… [Read more…]
February 19, 2009
19 February 2009 By Dominic Ponsford Press Gazette A Moscow jury has acquitted three men charged with the killing of journalist and Kremlin critic Anna Politkovskaya. The campaigning journalist for Novaya Gazeta was shot dead outside her Moscow flat in 2006 in a contract-style killing. She had a history of exposing atrocities perpetrated in Chechnya… [Read more…]
February 21, 2009
By Medea Benjamin, AlterNet. Posted February 19, 2009. What I saw was like a form of collective punishment, leaving behind a trail of grieving mothers, angry fathers and traumatized children. When I traveled to Gaza last week, everywhere I went, a photo haunted me. I saw it in a brochure called “Gaza will not die”… [Read more…]
February 23, 2009
• White phosphorus shells traced back to America • Activists call for arms embargoes on both sides Rory McCarthy in Jerusalem The Guardian, Monday 23 February 2009 Article history Relatives mourn a Palestinian man killed by Israeli soldiers in Gaza, last month. Photograph: Eyad Baba/AP Detailed evidence has emerged of Israel’s extensive use of US-made… [Read more…]
February 23, 2009
“It’s Your Radio, Your Voice” Deborah Ensor/Internews School children dance at the opening of Naath FM, the only community radio station in Leer County, Southern Sudan. (February 23, 2009) When Naath FM, the only community radio station in Leer County, Southern Sudan, was officially launched this week, thousands of people came to honor and claim… [Read more…]
February 24, 2009
By Khalid Amayreh in occupied East Jerusalem Feb 24, 2009 In an apparent effort to sound “balanced” and “unbiased,” the London-based human rights group, Amnesty International (AI) , has urged the international community to halt arms sales to the Israeli apartheid regime and the Palestinian Islamic liberation movement, Hamas. A report issued by the group… [Read more…]
February 25, 2009
Catherine Deveny February 25, 2009 ‘LADIES! Faking it? Feel it for real! Call one of the doctors at Advanced Medical Institute now,” and there’s a picture of a gorgeous looking scantily clad girl seducing an equally gorgeous-looking guy. It’s a massive billboard over the road from Flinders Street Station with a road works sign beneath… [Read more…]
February 28, 2009
These days Serbia is globally famous for young tennis stars and old war criminals. Also for a young bully, a roughneck basketball player who recently lost his temper in an American bar, and beat an American drinking buddy into a coma.Instead of being arrested and jailed in the US, where he lived, this character fled… [Read more…]
March 2, 2009
By Gideon Levy <levy@haaretz.co.il>, Haaretz Correspondent http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1065552.html Everyone now has his fingers crossed for Ari Folman and all the creative artists behind “Waltz with Bashir” to win the Oscar on Sunday. A first Israeli Oscar? Why not? However, it must also be noted that the film is infuriating, disturbing, outrageous and deceptive. It deserves an… [Read more…]
March 4, 2009
By Robert Weissman March 4, 2009 Financial deregulatory mania over the last three decades led directly to the current financial meltdown. Were the deregulators acting out of principle? Perhaps. But it couldn’t have hurt that the financial sector invested a staggering $5.1 billion in political influence purchasing in the United States over the last decade.… [Read more…]
March 6, 2009
Added by Media in Zimbabwe • Mar 4th, 2009 • Category: Media News Information Minister Webster Shamu by Tsitsi Chimberengwa All those wishing to practice journalism, should do so without having to pay exorbitant registration fees or face unnecessary restrictions, said Zimbabwean Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai during his inaugural speech to the Seventh parliament opening… [Read more…]
March 6, 2009
A secret network of safe houses and escape routes is saving gay Iraqis from execution by Islamist death squads Comments (113) Peter Tatchell guardian.co.uk, Wednesday 25 February 2009 21.30 GMT Article history In the bad old days of slavery in the United States, there was the “Underground Railroad” – a clandestine network of secret routes… [Read more…]
March 6, 2009
By Robert Weissman March 6, 2009 What can $5 billion buy in Washington? Quite a lot. Over the 1998-2008 period, the financial sector spent more than $5 billion on U.S. federal campaign contributions and lobbying expenditures. This extraordinary investment paid off fabulously. Congress and executive agencies rolled back long-standing regulatory restraints, refused to impose new… [Read more…]
March 7, 2009
This is a trailer for a documentary about the bombing of Gaza shot by a Spanish film Crew who were there at the time. If, like me, you were angry with western media coverage of the war on Gaza; you will find this a searing indictment of not only the media and it’s lack of… [Read more…]
March 9, 2009
By Jessica Weiss, IJNet Editor 09/03/2009 Ugandan human rights reporter Frank Nyakairu received the 2008 Knight International Journalism Award from the International Center for Journalists (ICFJ) in November. As a correspondent in East Africa, Nyakairu is a voice for victims of genocide, rape and other violent offenses stemming from wars in the region. He also… [Read more…]
March 12, 2009
Jasmina Tesanovic 8th March, 2009 The global economic crisis has stirred all kind of troubles. Women thrive in troubles and make an income out of it. In all dark historical times, in all wars and economic crisis women have been the caryatids of survival. The invisible grey economy of mothers, sisters and daughters becomes the… [Read more…]
March 12, 2009
By Robert Weissman March 12, 2009 Is it fair to complain about the actions of the financial deregulators? Could anyone reasonably have foreseen the consequences of a decades-long regulatory holiday for the financial sector? In a word, yes. In preparing “Sold Out: How Wall Street and Washington Betrayed America,” <http://www.wallstreetwatch.org/soldoutreport.htm> a report that documents a… [Read more…]
March 12, 2009
MEDIA RELEASE The Emanuel Synagogue Woollahra has rescinded its invitation to Israeli peace activist, Professor Jeff Halper, to speak at the synagogue on 23rd March. This follows the axing by the Australian Jewish News of an advertisement for Professor Halper’s other meetings in Sydney.Professor Halper is Coordinator of the Israeli Committee against Housing Demolitions (ICAHD).… [Read more…]
March 19, 2009
By Robert Weissman March 19, 2009 Watch out if you live in or visit Washington, D.C. If you see a camera or microphone, be careful not to be trampled by a politician rushing to shout their “outrage” at AIG, and its brazen scheme to pay $165 million in bonuses to employees at the company unit… [Read more…]
March 19, 2009
March 23, 2009
Written by Isabel Nicholson, Alternative Information Center (AIC) Monday, 23 March 2009 On 23 March, a press conference was held at the offices of the Alternative Information Center (AIC) in Jerusalem, to demand justice be done in the wake of the shooting by the Israeli military of American activist Tristan Anderson. Tristan Anderson, an American… [Read more…]
March 28, 2009
Last update - 08:45 22/03/2009 By Amira Hass, Haaretz Correspondent Tags: Amira Hass, GAZA STRIP – “Rules of Engagement: Open fire also upon rescue,” was handwritten in Hebrew on a sheet of paper found in one of the Palestinian homes the Israel Defense Forces took over during Operation Cast Lead. A reservist officer who did not take… [Read more…]
April 11, 2009
Jasmina Tesanovic 9 April 2009 Here in northern Italy, we overslept the big earthquake in L’Aquila, which is a beautiful, ancient small town now completely in ruins. My agent, his wife and his cat were in Rome one hundred kilometers from the epicenter. He jumped out of his bed at the early hours of 6th… [Read more…]
April 11, 2009
Jeff Halper April 10, 2009 A funny thing happened to me on my way to synagogue in Sydney; my scheduled talk was cancelled. Granted, I am very critical of Israel’s policies of occupation and doubt whether a two-state solution is still possible given the extent of Israel’s settlements. But this hardly warrants the demonisation to… [Read more…]
April 19, 2009
Uri Avnery 18.04.09 http://zope.gush-shalom.org/home/en/channels/avnery/1240086714 PERHAPS Avigdor Lieberman is only a passing episode in the annals of the State of Israel. Perhaps the fire he is trying to ignite will flicker briefly and go out by itself. Or perhaps the police investigations into the grave corruption affair of which he is suspected will lead to his… [Read more…]
April 21, 2009
or: How Israel kills at will and in total impunity while the world asks the Palestinians for non-violent resistance. On April the 17th, like any Fridays afternoon for the last 4 years, the small village of Bil’in, north of Ramallah, was preparing for the usual demonstration against Israel’s annexation wall (some people call it apartheid… [Read more…]
April 23, 2009
By Antonio Castillo, published in Eureka Street 23 April 2009 While the Fifth Summit of the Americas ended without an agreed final declaration, the gathering of hemispheric presidents will be better remembered for US President Obama’s pledged to ‘seek a new beginning with Cuba’. While Cuba was not present at the gathering of 34 leaders… [Read more…]
April 24, 2009
By Haaretz Service Tags: Norway, Gaza, War Crimes Former prime minister Ehud Olmert and opposition leader Tzipi Livni may face war crimes charges in Norway over their role in Israel’s offensive against Hamas in Gaza, AFP reported Tuesday. The news agency said six Norwegian lawyers announced plans Tuesday to accuse the pair, as well as… [Read more…]
April 24, 2009
I shake my head with incredulity at these corporations and what they think is acceptable. And I have theory that this disregard for life has its roots in the alienation that technology thrives on and what that alienation spawns. I’ve come across young people who’ve used the most offensive examples to argue their points without… [Read more…]
April 30, 2009
By HADEEL AL-SHALCHI, Associated Press Writer Hadeel Al-shalchi, Associated Press Writer – Thu Apr 30, 9:18 pm ET CAIRO – An 8-year-old Saudi girl has divorced her middle-aged husband after her father forced her to marry him last year in exchange for about $13,000, her lawyer said Thursday. Saudi Arabia has come under increasing criticism… [Read more…]
May 1, 2009
This video of strangers dancing together at Antwerp station is a delight to watch. it keeps you smiling all along. i love the little girl in pink wth the back pack who is the first to join the young man in dancing. And notice the brief cases on the floor… I read trust into that… [Read more…]
May 23, 2009
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/4331986.cms The horror that is unfolding in Sri Lanka becomes possible because of the silence that surrounds it. There is almost no reporting in the mainstream Indian media — or indeed in the international press — about what is happening there. Why this should be so is a matter of serious concern. From the little… [Read more…]
May 30, 2009
By Elahe Amani Friday 29 May 2009 Jelveh Javaheri of Iran and Aung San Suu Kyi of Burma have many differences at personal and political level. But, other than sharing the same biology, they have one thing in common, they both are prisoners of conscience by authoritarian states in countries where respect for human rights… [Read more…]
June 20, 2009
June 20, 2009
June 25, 2009
June 26 2009 AHMEDABAD: One of Gujarat’s biggest Women-based NGO, SEWA, will be first to run a community radio station (CRS) exclusively by women, as Information & Broadcasting Ministry has granted permission to Mahila SEWA Trust for establishing a radio station. SEWA, which is into radio programme production for last four years, will have its… [Read more…]
July 15, 2009
Jimmy Carter July 15, 2009 Illustration: Dyson Women and girls have been discriminated against for too long in a twisted interpretation of the word of God. I HAVE been a practising Christian all my life and a deacon and Bible teacher for many years. My faith is a source of strength and comfort to me,… [Read more…]
July 18, 2009
Escalation in arbitrary arrests and disappearances of individuals and human rights defenders July 17, 2009 Shadi Sadr, a lawyer and prominent women’s rights activist working with the One Million Signatures Campaign, was arrested today by plain clothes security officers and taken to an undisclosed location. The men pulled her into a car as she walked… [Read more…]
July 20, 2009
By: Jasmina Tesanovic On 15 July Natalya Estemirova, 50, was kidnapped and murdered by unknown assailants in the Chechen capital Grozny. The mother-of-one worked for the human rights organisation Memorial and was a close friend of the journalist Anna Politkovskaya, also murdered in 2006. A human rights activist is killed like a dog, executed, dumped… [Read more…]
July 24, 2009
At 85 Hedy Epstein, a survivor of the 2nd WW has never stopped in her fight for Peace and Human Rights for all people – as she says in this interview – “not only for jewish people”. “The Free Gaza video is an interview with a great woman, Hedy Epstein, just turned 85. She has… [Read more…]
July 27, 2009
‘Do you think the Israelis liked what I did? Some would have preferred it if I’d blown myself up’ The remarkable story of Ismail Khatib, a Palestinian father from the West Bank city of Jenin, continues. After his son Ahmed was shot by israeli soldiers in November 2005, the Khatib’s courageously donated their beloved 12 year-old’s… [Read more…]
August 8, 2009
By Bob Herbet, New York Times Published: August 7, 2009 “I actually look good. I dress good, am clean-shaven, bathe, touch of cologne — yet 30 million women rejected me,” wrote George Sodini in a blog that he kept while preparing for this week’s shooting in a Pennsylvania gym in which he killed three women,… [Read more…]
August 20, 2009
The Lockerbie bomber has left Scotland on board a plane bound for Libya after being freed from prison on compassionate grounds. Abdelbaset Ali al-Megrahi, 57, was jailed in 2001 for the atrocity which claimed 270 lives in 1988. The decision to release Megrahi, who has terminal prostate cancer, was made by the Scottish Government. US… [Read more…]
August 30, 2009
Observer investigation uncovers link between dramatic rise in birth defects in Punjab and pollution from coal-fired power stations Gethin Chamberlain, Bathinda The Observer, Sunday 30 August 2009 Article history Gurpreet Sigh, 7, who has cerebral palsy and microcephaly, and is from Sirsar, 50km from the Punjabi town of Bathinda. He is being treated at the… [Read more…]
September 8, 2009
Former UN worker escapes flogging but says she would rather go to jail than pay fine imposed for breaching decency laws James Sturcke, Matthew Weaver and agencies guardian.co.uk, Monday 7 September 2009 15.15 BST Article history A Sudanese woman said today that she would continue her campaign of defiance after being convicted by a court… [Read more…]
September 24, 2009
Each and every awakening from zionism is a step towards justice. My heart sings when i come across people who’ve changed their minds about Isreal and its myths. Please watch these videos for a gentle story about how these men came to understand the horror visited upon the Palestinians for the last 61 years. ]… [Read more…]
December 4, 2009
MADRE News Posted on: Tuesday, December 1, 2009 Keywords: Afghanistan, Peace Building, US Foreign Policy Tonight, President Obama will tell us that he must expand the war on Afghanistan in order to end it. He will say that another troop surge is necessary to prevent al-Qaeda from using Afghanistan as a base. What he won’t… [Read more…]
April 16, 2010
By Matthew Rothschild, April 12, 2010 Noam Chomsky, the leading leftwing intellectual, warned last week that fascism may be coming to the United States. “I’m just old enough to have heard a number of Hitler’s speeches on the radio,” he said, “and I have a memory of the texture and the tone of the cheering… [Read more…]
April 17, 2010
AlterNet / By Yasha Levine 49 COMMENTS The Koch family, America’s biggest financial backers of the Tea Party, would not be the billionaires they are today were it not for the godless empire of the USSR. April 17, 2010 | LIKE THIS ARTICLE ? Join our mailing list: Sign up to stay up to date… [Read more…]
April 20, 2010
By NINA FUNNELL April 12, 2010 Comments 85 illustration: Robin Cowcher In 1994, feminist Anne Summers penned an open letter to the next generation of women asking them why they feel so alienated from the women’s liberation movement. In it, she asks why young women do not fully appreciate the battles that have been fought… [Read more…]
April 29, 2010
One reviewer accuses the murdered Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya of being hot-headed. Why has this become a pejorative term, asks Maria Tumarkin 28 April 2010 Tags: journalism, Maria Tumarkin, Russia Print this article Email this article Follow Inside Story on AFP Photo/ Jens Schlueter IN A RECENT review of Anna Politkovskaya’s Nothing but the Truth:… [Read more…]
May 13, 2010
By Zach Carter Wall Street’s captains of industry and top policymakers in Washington are often the same people. A lot of them get rich by playing for both teams. The financial crisis has unveiled a new set of public villains—corrupt corporate capitalists who leveraged their connections in government for their own personal profit. During the… [Read more…]
May 31, 2010
www.coalitionforpalestine.org As the UN Security Council meets today to address yesterday’s terrible attack by the Israeli Defence Forces on the Gaza Freedom Flotilla in the Mediterranean Sea, which was attempting to deliver 10,000 tonnes of humanitarian aid to the illegally-blockaded Gaza Strip, CJPP asks all our supporters to urgently email or fax the following letter… [Read more…]
May 31, 2010
Dear All, Many of you have heard the terrible news of the Israeli attack against the Freedom Flotilla, which, so far, claimed the lives of 15 – 20 activists, who sailed to break the siege on Gaza, carrying medical and food supplies in addition to construction materials, to be delivered to the besieged 1.5 million… [Read more…]
May 31, 2010
EMERGENCY ACTION ALERT Many civilians on board the international humanitarian aid flotilla to Gaza have been killed by Israeli naval forces. (Media reports put the death toll at 10-19). Israeli commandos descending from helicopters stormed the six-boat flotilla in the early hours of Monday morning, while it was in international waters, about 90 miles (150km)… [Read more…]
May 31, 2010
June 4, 2010
During the 3 days Israel held most of those detained in the attack on the Freedom Flotilla — including 60 journalists, according to Reporters Without Borders –Israel shaped the narrative of what occurred 70 miles off the coast of Gaza in the predawn hours of May 30. Over the past few days, many of the… [Read more…]
July 15, 2010
Ealing Comedy World Premiere She tried being that stand up comic but quite never got there. All these other things got in the way-like a terrible case of the the earnies ( earnestness).
July 30, 2010
JAL & ANA – Chubu International Airport It was a hot Perth day and a little girl stepped off a plane from a country far, far away. The unexpected heat and her winter woolens made her uncomfortable and hot. She wanted to go back home straight away. If this place is going to be just… [Read more…]
January 28, 2011
Created by tshaaban88. Another Egyptian who’s had enough. Description —————- Violent clashes between police and demonstrators as over ten thousand gather on the streets of Cairo. The Egyptian population has endured a tyrants rule for far too long, millions struggle each day to find where their next meal is coming from. January 25th, 2011 marks… [Read more…]
January 30, 2011
February 2, 2011
http://newmatilda.com/2011/02/01/what-uprising-means-egyptians-oz egypt 1 Feb 2011 By Nadyat El Gawley Nadyat El Gawley didn’t see the protests in Egypt coming. She speaks to fellow members of the Australian Egyptian community about their responses to the uprising When Tunisia exploded in early January, I hoped the revolution underway there would repeat itself in Egypt, but it felt… [Read more…]
February 2, 2011
http://networkedblogs.com/dMALr Robin Yassin-Kassab AP photo When the pro-Mubarak protestors appeared on the streets yesterday they were a comical sight. The small crowd near the Egyptian TV building (so obviously a propaganda set-up) were surrounded and outnumbered by police. It was as if they were trying to remind Egyptians what a traditional demonstration should look like.… [Read more…]
February 4, 2011
By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF Published: February 3, 2011 CAIRO Damon Winter/The New York Times Nicholas D. Kristof On the Ground Nicholas Kristof is posting from Cairo on his blog whenever he has Internet access. You can also follow his updates on Facebook and Twitter. Go to Blog » Go to Columnist Page » Inside Tahrir… [Read more…]
February 4, 2011
Published on Friday, February 4, 2011 by Foreign Policy in Focus (FPIF) The Fake Moderation of America’s Moderate Mideast Allies by Asli Bali and Aziz Rana As the Mubarak regime turns to violence in a vain attempt to repress the peaceful protests that have swept Egypt’s streets for over ten days, the risks associated with… [Read more…]
February 4, 2011
February 5, 2011
Ahdaf Soueif looks back on a week of deceit and violence in Egypt – and finds it has also been a week of hope and democracy in action guardian.co.uk, Friday 4 February 2011 20.40 GMT An anti-government protester takes a break from the demonstrations against president Hosni Mubarak in Cairo today. Photograph: Sean Smith for… [Read more…]
February 5, 2011
By Omar Kamel Sunday, 06 February 2011 Last Tuesday! I’m sorry to say this, but some clearly have no clue what’s going on. The facts are these: Nothing has been achieved so far except empty promises from a regime that doesn’t know how to do anything except lie, cheat, and steal. The revolution in Tahrir… [Read more…]
February 5, 2011
The People Speak, is a brilliant docu drama inspired by someone whose loss has been tremendous to struggles for justice and peace. It is SO relevant to today’s struggles around the world–those we hear about and those we don’t. Please watch this powerful tribute to the late Howard Zinn and his razor-sharp analysis of power… [Read more…]
February 6, 2011
By Charles Onians Agence France-Presse CAIRO – Egypt’s feared state security services are using torture as much as they ever did, rights activists say, with no sign that their horrifying tactics are about to change despite the regime’s promise of reform. Rights groups say that anger against routine police abuse and torture has been a… [Read more…]
February 7, 2011
if you’ve been asking how did this uprising begin in Egypt, please watch this heartfelt video from the woman who started it all. Asmaa Mahfouz had had enough one day and decided to act. Her calls for action resonated among a people similarly angry about the injustice perpetrated by an illegitimate, unjust and autocratic… [Read more…]
February 7, 2011
http://www.greenleft.org.au/node/46637 Sunday, February 6, 2011 By Ash Pemberton A protest in West Papua. West Papuan refugees in Papua New Guinea have been terrorised and arrested by police, West Papua Media Alerts said on January 28. They were allegedly arrested on behalf of the Indonesian military and local logging interests. Police and soldiers rounded up 79… [Read more…]
February 9, 2011
Egypt — where a popular uprising that began last week seeks the end to President Hosni Mubarak’s 30-year rule — is the second-largest recipient of U.S. foreign aid after Israel. The Egyptian government receives about $2 billion a year from the United States, with most of that assistance going to its military. Last year the… [Read more…]
February 10, 2011
Mohammed Abou Zaid / AP http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/41506482/ns/world_news-mideastn_africa/ Egyptian lawyers in black robes, at right, are stopped by anti-riot police officers, left, as they stream into Cairo’s Tahrir Square, Thursday. NBC, msnbc.com and news services NBC, msnbc.com and news services breaking news CAIRO — Egypt’s President Hosni Mubarak is to step down after 17 days of pro-democracy protests,… [Read more…]
February 10, 2011
http://www.newstatesman.com/international-politics/2011/02/pilger-egypt-square-western John Pilger Published 10 February 2011 Western leaders should be quaking in their boots. An Egyptian protester waves a national flag as he sits on an electricity pole during demonstrations by thousands of anti-government supporters. Photograph: Getty Images. The uprising in Egypt is our theatre of the possible. It is what people across the… [Read more…]
February 11, 2011
Chorus In every street in my country, the sound of freedom calls me
February 19, 2011
February 19, 2011
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/they-didnt-run-away-they-faced-the-bullets-headon-2219267.html After Egypt’s revolution, the people have lost their fear Saturday, 19 February 2011 Getty Images ‘They didn’t run away. They faced the bullets head-on.’ “Massacre – it’s a massacre,” the doctors were shouting. Three dead. Four dead. One man was carried past me on a stretcher in the emergency room, blood spurting… [Read more…]
February 19, 2011
Women and children leapt from bridges to their deaths as they tried to escape a ruthless crackdown by Libyan forces loyal to Colonel Muammar Gaddafi. Image 1 of 2 Anti-government demonstrators destroying a monument of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi’s Green book Photo: AFP/GETTY Image 1 of 2 Supporters of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi hold his pictures during a pro-government rally in Tripoli… [Read more…]
February 21, 2011
More than 230 people have been killed in clashes in Libya as anti-government protests reached the Libyan capital for the first time and the building where the country’s parliament meets was set on fire. Link to this video By Richard Spencer, Middle East Correspondent Nabila Ramdani in Cairo and Agencies 1:00PM GMT 21 Feb 2011… [Read more…]
February 22, 2011
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/23/world/africa/23libya.html The New York Times A conference hall in Tripoli, Libya, was among the government buildings still smoldering in the capital on Monday. By DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK and SHARON OTTERMAN Published: February 22, 2011 CAIRO — Libya appeared to slip further from the grip of Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi on Tuesday, as opposition forces in eastern… [Read more…]
February 22, 2011
The Shadow Immigration spokesman Scott Morrison was so callous last week it offended Neos Kosmos and should mark the end of the Federal Coalition’s infatuation with One Nation’s policies The asylum seekers who were transported from Christmas Island detention centre to attended the funeral of their loved ones who perished on the shores… [Read more…]
February 25, 2011
http://english.aljazeera.net/programmes/empire/2011/02/20112211027266463.html ‘The genie is out of the bottle’ Assessing a changing Arab world with Noam Chomsky and Al Jazeera’s Marwan Bishara Aljazeera <http://english.aljazeera.net/programmes/empire/2011/02/20112211027266463.html> Massive public protests continue to sweep the Middle East and North Africa in countries including Bahrain, Libya, Yemen and Iran – many being met with violent government crackdowns. We speak to Marwan… [Read more…]
February 26, 2011
Gendarmes in Yaoundé’s Independence Square this morning © Edouard Tamba/afrol New afrol News, 23 February – Cameroon’s nation-wide anti-government protests started modestly today, with calls for President Paul Biya to step down. But protesters in Douala and Yaoundé were outnumbered by police. Since the food price riots in 2008, 23 February has been the day… [Read more…]
March 5, 2011
Translation posted 5 March 2011 · View original post [pt] Written byClara Onofre Translated by Janet Gunter Countries Angola Topics Freedom of Speech, Cyber-Activism, Governance, Internet & Telecoms, Protest, Politics Languages Portuguese This post also available in: Deutsch · Angola: Reaktionen zum Aufruf zur Revolution Português · Angola: Revolução com data marcada In the spirit… [Read more…]
March 5, 2011
http://www.thenation.com/article/158991/arab-spring Rashid Khalidi March 3, 2011 | This article appeared in the March 21, 2011 edition of The Nation. Suddenly, to be an Arab has become a good thing. People all over the Arab world feel a sense of pride in shaking off decades of cowed passivity under dictatorships that ruled with no deference… [Read more…]
March 5, 2011
http://globalvoicesonline.org/2011/03/05/middle-east-revolutionary-breeze-blowing-from-cairo-to-benghazi/ This post is part of our special coverage Libya Uprising 2011. From a geographical point of view, Libya is right next to the Egyptian western borders. And from a historical point of view, its on-going revolution seems to be the one that will succeed right after the Egyptian one in toppling a decades-old regime. The… [Read more…]
March 7, 2011
Meaningful change in the Middle East is not possible until the malign influence of the House of Saud is lifted. For nearly eight decades it has served as a bulwark of American power in the region, and in more recent years has emerged as a key ally of Israel. When Israel was devastating Lebanon… [Read more…]
March 7, 2011
Immigration Museums.
March 8, 2011
http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Middle-East/2011/0308/In-Egypt-s-Tahrir-Square-women-attacked-at-rally-on-International-Women-s-Day After helping to overthrow Mubarak, Egyptian women – and some men – demonstrated today in favor of giving women more of a voice in building Egypt’s future. An Egyptian protester argues with a man as hundreds of women marched to Cairo’s central Tahrir Square to celebrate International Women’s Day on Tuesday. A protest by… [Read more…]
March 8, 2011
http://globalvoicesonline.org/2011/03/08/morocco-women-celebrate-international-day/?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=facebook This post is part of our special coverage Morocco Protests 2011. Moroccan women, like their counterparts across the world, have been celebrating the 100th anniversary of the International Women’s Day today. They have long been at the forefront of the civil society’s struggle for a better and more dignified life. And as the freedom… [Read more…]
March 12, 2011
http://globalvoicesonline.org/2011/03/10/libya-group-occupies-london-mansion-owned-by-gaddafis-son/ Posted 10 March 2011 Written byJohn Liebhardt Squatters moved in to Saif Gaddafi’s house in North London by Alex Milan Tracy © Demotix (09/03/2011) This post is part of our special coverage Libya Uprising 2011. A London-based group is now occupying a house it says is owned by Saif al-Islam Muammar al-Gaddafi, the 38-year-old… [Read more…]
March 12, 2011
March 6 2011 Written by Haifa Alrasheed The flame of protests raging across the Arab world, from the Ocean to the Gulf, has reached the Saudi Arabian cities Al Qatif and Al Hafouf. More than 100 people gathered in each of the two cities for the release of Shiite cleric Tawfiq Al Amir, who was… [Read more…]
March 12, 2011
Asia-Pacific 13 March 2011 Last updated at 02:07 GMT An estimated 170,000 people have been evacuated from the area around a quake-damaged nuclear power station in north-east Japan that was hit by an explosion, the UN atomic watchdog says. A building housing a reactor was destroyed in Saturday’s blast but the reactor is said to… [Read more…]
March 12, 2011
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/169635.html Japanese medics drive through Fukushima on March 13, 2011 following the massive earthquake and tsunami. Meltdowns have reportedly occurred in two of Japan’s nuclear reactors while a risk of another explosion is reported at Japan’s quake-hit Fukushima nuclear power plant. The Japanese government made the announcement on Sunday as the cooling system of one… [Read more…]
March 12, 2011
Anti-government protesters shout slogans after clashes with police in Sanaa March 12, 2011. Credit: Reuters/Khaled Abdullah SANAA | Sun Mar 13, 2011 4:39am EDT SANAA (Reuters) – A Yemeni protester died on Sunday from gunshot wounds sustained in clashes with police in the southern port of Aden, and demonstrators gathered in the capital Sanaa… [Read more…]
March 19, 2011
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-12793484 Many Egyptians voted for the first time Continue reading the main story Related Stories Q&A: Egypt referendum Egypt voices: Constitutional referendum Vote choice splits Egyptians Millions of Egyptians have voted in a referendum on constitutional reforms, a month after a popular uprising swept President Hosni Mubarak from power. If passed, it would allow Egypt… [Read more…]
March 19, 2011
By Sam Reeves (AFP) – 3 hours ago LONDON — Britain bombarded Libya with missiles from air and sea as multinational forces launched military action, with Prime Minister David Cameron urging an end to Moamer Kadhafi’s “appalling brutality”. As the intervention to enforce a UN-mandated no-fly zone began, Royal Air Force Tornados on Saturday hit… [Read more…]
March 19, 2011
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/bahrain-and-yemen-declare-war-on-their-protesters-2247066.html With 42 killed in Sanaa, regimes show they will keep power at any cost By Patrick Cockburn Sunday, 20 March 2011 afp/getty images More protests hit both Yemen (above) and Bahrain yesterday Abrutal counter-revolution is sweeping through the Arabian Peninsula as Bahrain and Yemen both declare war on reform movements and ferociously try… [Read more…]
March 19, 2011
http://links.visibli.com/share/30d77a By Ken Belson and Hiroko Tabuchi New York Times Posted: 03/19/2011 09:08:25 PM PDT TOKYO — The government said Saturday that it had found higher than normal levels of radioactive materials in spinach and milk at farms up to 90 miles away from the ravaged nuclear power plants, the first confirmation by officials that… [Read more…]
March 20, 2011
By Caroline Alexander – Mar 18, 2011 3:36 AM ET Thu Mar 17 16:36:23 GMT 2011 International communities must show solidarity with those rebelling against autocratic rule in the Middle East and North Africa because the tide is turning against the Arab Spring, said Nawal El Saadawi, an Egyptian political activist of more than four… [Read more…]
March 26, 2011
http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/international/countriesandterritories/syria/index.html World > Countries and Territories > Syria Updated: March 25, 2011 Syria’s harsh and stagnant dictatorship at first seemed immune to the wave of unrest that swept through most of the Arab world after the revolution in Tunisia in January 2011. But in mid-March, demonstrations broke out in several cities, and grew rapidly after… [Read more…]
March 26, 2011
Printer Friendly Version By Gilbert Achcar Saturday, March 19, 2011 Gilbert Achcar’s ZSpace Page Join ZSpace [Gilbert Achcar grew up in Lebanon, and is currently Professor at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) of the University of London. His books include The Clash of Barbarisms: The Making of the New World… [Read more…]
March 26, 2011
World Breaking News The Canadian Press – ONLINE EDITION By: The Associated Press Posted: 03/27/2011 3:04 AM | Radioactivity in contaminated water in one reactor unit at a damaged Japanese nuclear power plant tested 10 million times higher than normal, forcing the evacuation of workers and again delaying efforts to bring the complex under control,… [Read more…]
March 27, 2011
March 29, 2011
Alive and Kicking Goals! from Virus Media on Vimeo.
April 1, 2011
By Tara Bahrampour and Liz Sly, Sunday, March 27, 10:57 PM BENGHAZI, LIBYA — The mother of a woman who burst into a Tripoli hotel and said that she had been raped by government militiamen hailed her daughter as a hero Sunday and said government officials offered her money and a house to change her… [Read more…]
April 2, 2011
April 3, 2011 – 3:59AM AFP Syrian security forces arrested 37 people on Saturday, a day after nine people were killed as thousands of pro-reform protesters took to the streets. The wave of raids targeted the southern town of Daraa, one of the main centres of more than two weeks of demonstrations, as well as… [Read more…]
April 2, 2011
Syrian security forces arrest more protesters.
April 2, 2011
LONDON, April 2 | Sat Apr 2, 2011 10:17am EDT LONDON, April 2 (Reuters) – Reuters said on Saturday it was concerned for the safety of its photographer Khaled al-Hariri, who has been detained by Syrian authorities for five days. Hariri, 50, has a condition which needs daily medication. A Syrian national, he was last… [Read more…]
May 8, 2011
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/egypt/8500984/Egypt-10-killed-in-religious-clashes-in-Cairo.html Ten people have been killed in clashes between Muslims and Christians in Egypt’s capital Cairo overnight. Egyptian soldiers stand guard next to furniture set on fire during clashes in the country’s capital Cairo. Photo: AP 12:53PM BST 08 May 2011 Egypt’s military rulers said that 190 people have been detained overnight in connection with the… [Read more…]
May 8, 2011
http://www.guernicamag.com/blog/2652/noam_chomsky_my_reaction_to_os/ May 6, 2011 We might ask ourselves how we would be reacting if Iraqi commandos landed at George W. Bush’s compound, assassinated him, and dumped his body in the Atlantic. By Noam Chomsky It’s increasingly clear that the operation was a planned assassination, multiply violating elementary norms of international law. There appears to have… [Read more…]
May 12, 2011
http://english.ahram.org.eg/News/11855.aspx In a bid to gain political ground, five of Egypt’s socialist movements unite under the new Coalition of Socialist Forces banner Mohamed El Hebeishy, Wednesday 11 May 2011 Unite- Photo by Mohamed El Hebeishy Five Egyptian political parties and movements unite to form the Coalition of Socialist Forces, they announced in a meeting on… [Read more…]
May 15, 2011
After the idealism of February’s revolution, Egyptians are worried about sectarian conflicts wrecking their hopes of building a better nation. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/egypt/8513930/Egypt-revolution-followed-by-conflict-between-Christians-and-Muslims.html Coptic Christians chant slogans as they protest the recent attacks on Christians and churches in Egypt. Photo: AP By Richard Spencer, Cairo 7:06PM BST 14 May 2011 Two families, two bereavements, two narrow streets apart.… [Read more…]
May 15, 2011
Enjoy this wonderful performance by this group of young people who obviously enjoy playing music together. This was filmed in Birzeit, Palestine. My thanks to my good friend Hania for passing it on. As she says, please watch till the end to get the full impact of what playing together means for this group of… [Read more…]
May 15, 2011
A moving interaction with sharks. This remarkable woman communicates with them in the most of astonishing of ways. Please watch till the end.
May 16, 2011
By Geraldine Baum and Kim Willsher Los Angeles Times http://www.philly.com/philly/news/nation_world/121875634.html NEW YORK – Dominique Strauss-Kahn, head of the International Monetary Fund, was due in a Manhattan courtroom Sunday to be arraigned on sexual-assault charges alongside weekend petty criminals – and before an audience of well-dressed French journalists, tourists, and New York tabloid reporters. Strauss-Kahn, leader… [Read more…]
May 20, 2011
Wonderful to see young people lead social change!
May 20, 2011
Lina Attalah Thu, 19/05/2011 – 18:05 http://www.almasryalyoum.com/en/node/444129
June 5, 2011
Reviewed by Shelley Walia http://www.tribuneindia.com/2011/20110529/spectrum/book1.htm The Zinn Reader: Writings on Disobedience and Democracy By Howard Zinn. The Seven Stories Press, New York. Pages 746. $18.95. HOWARDZINN, the historian and dissident writer, has had a deep impact on people around the world. His credibility is known to all contemporary historians and political scientists, to students and… [Read more…]
June 5, 2011
Submitted by Ali Abunimah on Sat, 06/04/2011 – 14:02 The UK-based international cosmetics firm LUSH has endorsed a single aimed at raising awareness of the struggle for human rights in Palestine. In an appeal in the “Ethical Campaigns” section on its website, the company says: This month we have the exciting opportunity to help secure a… [Read more…]
June 17, 2011
If ever the stupidity , cruelty and ignorance of people has a fine example , then this is it. Great news that the dog got away. By any Measure of decency, those responsible for this act of cruelty should face justice for their appalling actions. (AFP) – 8 hours ago JERUSALEM — A Jerusalem rabbinical… [Read more…]
June 18, 2011
Witness this. Witness this beautiful gift from a creature whose life is probably harsh with few comforts. This stray dog feels for the people. I hope the people give it the love and care it deserves. For more, visit http://rebeldog.tumblr.com/
June 19, 2011
Sylvia Hale June 20, 2011Comments 36 http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/politics/joining-the-freedom-flotilla-to-break-gaza-blockade-is-a-necessity-20110619-1g9vj.html Yesterday, I left for Europe to join the flotilla to break the blockade of Gaza, along with fellow Australians Vivienne Porzsolt, of Jews Against the Occupation, and Michael Coleman, a youth worker. People ask me why I’m going. I reply by recalling my experiences in Gaza last July… [Read more…]
June 26, 2011
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2011/jul/14/egypt-victorious-islamists/ July 14, 2011 Yasmine El Rashidi E-mail Print Share Khaled Elfiqi/epa/CorbisCoptic Christian women looking out from inside the Virgin Mary Church in the Imbaba neighborhood of Cairo, May 8, 2011. The church was set on fire during clashes between Christians and Muslims the previous night. The forty-year-old Virgin Mary Church on Cairo’s al-Wahda Street—the… [Read more…]
June 29, 2011
http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=399506 Colorful day in Nabi Saleh Published Friday 24/06/2011 (updated) 25/06/2011 17:33 [MaanImages/HO/Diana Al-Zeer] Click for more images BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — The children of An-Nabi Saleh set off with kites and painted faces to the village’s hill shortly after noon on Friday.An hour later, they were sheltering in a village house, while five Israeli military… [Read more…]
June 29, 2011
A great report from the Canadian broadcaster CBC about the Tahrir, the Canadian boat on its way to Gaza with activists from other European countries and Australia
July 3, 2011
This post is by Miles Howe, words and photograph – Miles is one of the most optimistic men I have ever meet, not to mention his wicked sense humor and commitment, and I still hope to sail to Gaza with him in the near future. The Greek government has crumbled in the face Israeli pressure,… [Read more…]
July 10, 2011
The unmitigated gall of the state of Israel in harassing protesters, denying left wing journalists from reporting on its actions inside the country, is only surpassed by the willingness of airlines to prevent paying passengers from reaching their destination in Israel on the say so of the apartheid state.
August 5, 2011
Published on Thursday, August 4, 2011 by CommonDreams.org by Robert C. Koehler When our lives are torn open, when the worst possible thing happens, what we have, finally, are our roses and our courage. “I chose to stay in Oslo the entire week. It has felt like the most natural thing to do. I have… [Read more…]
December 4, 2011
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