Israeli forces attempts to legitimize pre-meditated murder and land annexation Eva Bartlett, In Gaza “Life is hard for Palestinian farmers in the border region near Israel. The IOF shoot at us every day, any time. They shoot at the international volunteers (ISM) also.” This was Jaber Abu Rjila testifying some of what he has [...]
The Human Rights Situation in Occupied Palestine Stephen Lendman On March 15, 2006, the UN General Assembly voted overwhelmingly 170 to 4 (with only the US, Israel, the Marshall Islands and Palau against) “to establish the Human Rights Council (HRC), based in Geneva, in replacement of the Commission on Human Rights, as a subsidiary [...]
Dr. Joseph Meir. Brought young mothers the gospel of eugenics. Last update - 01:50 16/06/2004 `Do not have children if they won’t be healthy!’ By Tamara Traubmann A shocking new study reveals how key figures in the pre-state Zionist establishment proposed castrating the mentally ill, sterilizing the poor and doing everything [...]
Half of Israelis back immediate strike on Iran: Fifty-one percent support an immediate Israeli strike on Iran’s nuclear sites, while 49 percent believe the Jewish state should await the outcome of efforts by the US administration to engage with the Islamic republic, said the survey published by Tel Aviv University. http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090524/wl_mideast_afp/irannuclearpoliticsisraelus === Russia [...]
Hundreds ‘tortured’ in Iraqi prisons 25 May 2009 Iraq’s Ministry of Human Rights has declared in a report that hundreds of people were tortured in Iraqi prisons last year. According to the report published in Baghdad’s al-Sabbah newspaper Sunday, of the 306 cases of torture and abuse in Iraqi prisons, 107 took place in the semi-autonomous [...]
A family lost in white phosphorous shelling Eman Mohammed writing from , Live from Palestine, 25 May 2009 Umm Muhammad’s eldest son, Muhammad, holds a picture of his family. Everyone in the picture was killed except for him, Umm Muhammad and two younger brothers, Ahmad and Ali. The Abu Halima family’s agony began when the family was [...]
U.S. prepares to withdraw, Iraqi resistance prepares for battle By Ned Parker …The commander and another insurgent leader interviewed for this story belong to the secret world of Sunni tribesmen and old military officers who laid down their arms and helped bring relative peace to Iraq in the last two years. They decided to [...]
Insisting on Gaza access, Hope Convoy spends night at Rafah Date: 25 / 05 / 2009 Time: 10:28 The Rafah Crossing [Ma'anImages] Gaza – Ma’an – European solidarity activists with the Hope Convoy to Gaza spent Sunday night in the entryway of the Egyptian side of the Rafah crossing after Egypt refused to allow all of the [...]
Protest for UK Doctors Gaza Access Pro Palestine activist picketed David Miliband MP house in Primrose Hill, London in solidarity with the two British surgeons who are on hunger strikes after being denied access to the Gaza strip. Protesters attempted to deliver a letter to the Foreign [...]
Israel destroying Gaza’s farmlands Eva Bartlett, The Electronic Intifada, 22 May 2009 A farmer holds crops destroyed by Israeli troops. On the morning of 4 May 2009, Israeli troops set fire to Palestinian crops along Gaza’s eastern border with Israel. The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) reported that 200,000 square meters of crops were destroyed, including [...]
Did Bibi Box Obama in? By Pat Buchanan By setting a six-month deadline, Obama has given an incentive to Israel, AIPAC, the neocons and even al-Qaida, which wants Shia Iran bombed back to the stone age, to provoke collisions with Iran, until December, then demand that Obama keep his word, suspend talks, impose severe sanctions [...]
DECEPTION AND DEFIANCE FROM U.S. ADMINISTRATION, NOT SADDAM HUSSEIN Malcom Lagauche On Sunday, May 16, 2004, Colin Powell, in an interview for NBC’s “Meet the Press,” actually came clean about the deceit used to prime the U.S. public for a war against Iraq. He acknowledged that information fed to him and the CIA by [...]
Israeli toxic waste threatens Palestinian life Fri, 22 May 2009 05:03:37 GMT Israeli waste disposal companies send dozens of refuse-filled trucks to Palestinian villages every day. Tel Aviv illegally dumps hazardous waste in the Palestinian West Bank, gifting cancer, sterility and mental disorders to the local population. In an exclusive [...]
Obama’s Preventive Detention Plans Face Scrutiny 22 May 2009 The Obama administration’s efforts to craft what it calls a “preventive detention” plan for suspected terrorists will face constitutional challenges similar to those raised against the Bush regime’s policies. A White House task force reviewing detention policy is set to make recommendations in late July. The administration [...]
No, I Do Not Support “The Troops” Arthur Silber …On the occasion of this Memorial Day and on the days to come, all of which promise to be deeply tragic and murderously bloody so long as the goals of the American ruling class remain unchanged, the objects of your reverence must be severely restricted. That [...]
Torture and 9/11 By John S. Hatch If Mr. Obama were to take a deep breath, look back and take a lesson from some of America’s darkest days, here’s what he would find: http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article22684.htm === Facts and Myths about Obama’s Preventive Detention Proposal By Glenn Greenwald In the wake of Obama’s speech yesterday, there are [...]
“The next generation must continue our struggle” Rami Almeghari writing from the occupied Gaza Strip, Live from Palestine, 21 May 2009 Dr. Abdullah al-Hourani is a Palestinian politician and researcher based in the Gaza Strip. He is the director of the Gaza-based Palestinian Center for National Studies in Gaza and chairman of the Palestinian Popular Committee for [...]
The Rape of Iraq’s Children. Layla Anwar, An Arab Woman Blues …Thousands of refugee children with no future…thousands of maimed children, thousands with NO MORE access to education, health care….thousands of cases of malnutrition, poverty, illness…thousands deeply traumatized for life… Okay so what about hundreds of dollars ? You can count hundreds of [...]
When will world leaders show “cruel racists” zero tolerance? Stuart Littlewood …The news this week that three British medics are on hunger strike in Egypt makes the cruelty point clear enough to those who have so far been blind and deaf to it. They are protesting against being refused entry into Gaza for a [...]
Obama Endorses Indefinite Detention Without Trial 22 May 2009 President Obama acknowledged publicly for the first time yesterday that some prisoners at Guantanamo Bay may have to be held without trial indefinitely, siding with conservative national security advocates on one of the most contentious issues raised by the closing of the military prison in Cuba. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/05/21/AR2009052104045.html Obama Is [...]