November 2008
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Sonja Karkar: Gaza`s Death Throes
What kind of government seals a heavily populated territory of 1.5 million people so that no person can enter or leave without permission, fishermen cannot fish in their own waters, and world food aid cannot be delivered to the starving population? Continue reading
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Uri Blau: Targeted Assassinations – a License to kill
Malaisha was a target for assassination. His fate had been decided several months earlier, in the office of then head of Central Command, Yair Naveh. As far as the public was concerned, on the other hand, the last declared assassination carried out by the IDF in the West Bank took place in August 2006; at… Continue reading
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Gaza: Beyond the blockade
Sameh Habeeb reports on the humanitarian crisis taking place inside Gaza’s sealed borders http://widgets.vodpod.com/w/video_embed/Groupvideo.1812244 more about “Gaza: Beyond the blockade“, posted with vodpod Continue reading
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EILEEN FLEMING: The Ongoing Nakba and Vanunu
Vanunu has been nominated for the Noble Peace Prize annually since 1986 for his courage and truth telling, by providing the photographic eveidence that warned the world that Israel had already manufactured upwards of 200 nuclear warheads in 1985. Continue reading
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Nil NIKANDROV Medvedev: The Name Venezuelans Pronounce Correctly
As the time of Dmitry Medvedev’s visit to Venezuela is getting closer information attacks aiming to undermine Russian-Venezuelan relations, to smear Hugo Chavez and his Russian partners have become much more intense. Continue reading
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China and the Congo Wars: AFRICOM. America’s New Military Command By F. William Engdahl
Just weeks after President George W. Bush signed the Order creating a new US military command dedicated to Africa, AFRICOM, events on the mineral-rich continent have erupted which suggest a major agenda of the incoming Obama Presidency will be for the son of a black Kenyan to focus US resources, military and other, on dealing… Continue reading
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Housman’s Radical Booksellers Newsletter for December 2008
We wish you all a peaceful time over the festive season and hope you have a great 2009! Thanks for all your continued support this year… In order to make your gift-buying that little bit easier, we will be keeping the shop open on Sundays in December until Christmas, between 3pm and 7pm at a Continue reading
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Media Lens: ‘Living Our Values’: Guardian News & Media And The Climate – Part 2
Earlier this month, the Observer smeared climate activists by highlighting police warnings of a “growing threat of eco-terrorism”. The alleged threat is presented by a group called Earth First!, which the paper claimed “has supporters who believe that reducing the Earth’s population by four-fifths will help to protect the planet”. Continue reading
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Franklin Lamb – Completing the task of evicting Israel from Lebanon
Under pressure from the lame duck Bush Administration to withdraw from territory that the Lebanese Resistance (moukawamah Lubnaniyah) did not liberate during its May 2000 rout of the Israel army and its surrogate SLA militia, Israel to date remains unwilling to budge. Continue reading
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Bewitched, Baffled and Bewildered By William Bowles
The problem they confront is that without an enemy in the form of socialism, they have no explanations, no excuses, no one to blame except individuals. Which is why the media have raised the spectre that once haunted Europe, dare we speak its name? Bolshevism and a pretty bastardized one at that, but one that… Continue reading
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Media Lens: ‘Living Our Values’: Guardian News & Media And The Climate – Part 1
MEDIA LENS: Correcting for the distorted vision of the corporate media November 25, 2008 PART 1 – IN THEORY Last week, Guardian News & Media (GNM) published ‘Living Our Values’, an independently audited account of the company’s annual performance on sustainability issues. GNM, which encompasses the Guardian, the Observer and guardian.co.uk, claims to have strong Continue reading
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Akram Awad – The Siege on Gaza: We Share the Blame
As an international community, we all share the responsibility for the ongoing brutal siege on Gaza, and not until we utilise all possible means of peaceful and nonviolent resistance shall we hope for a close end of that siege. Continue reading
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Gaza: Siege report for the past 20 days
Popular Committee Against Siege PCAS issues a comprehensives report on the latest of siege outcomes which hit all life aspects. The crisis came up strongly as Israel completely closed crossings, banned food stuff, fuel shipments and all products into Gaza Strip. Continue reading
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The Ugly Of War – Afghanistan
September 2008 http://widgets.vodpod.com/w/video_embed/Groupvideo.1796434 more about "The Ugly Of War – Afghanistan", posted with vodpod Continue reading
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In besieged Gaza, Journal of a voyage by Gideon Spiro : A call for civil disobedience
When Mairead Maguire, the Nobel Peace Prize laureate from Northern Ireland, called me and asked me to join the sea-voyage of the humanitarian delegation from Larnaca (Cyprus) to Gaza to break the Israeli closure and to bring medicine to the besieged city, I answered positively without hesitation. Continue reading
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Afghans fear shortage in humanitarian aid – 25 Nov 2008
The Afghan government has warned foreign donors of a “huge humanitarian crisis” if they don’t respond rapidly to growing food shortages.Al Jazeera’s David Chater reports from the west of Afghanistan. http://widgets.vodpod.com/w/video_embed/Groupvideo.1796408 more about “Afghans fear shortage in humanitarian…“, posted with vodpod Continue reading
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Hidden histories confirmed: So much for the ‘Mother of Parliaments’
24 November 2008 — williambowles.info “This we do by rigging the parliament through official majorities, a restricted franchise and so forth” — From the minutes of the British Colonial Office, 14 December, 1959 Back in June of 2006 I wrote a piece, based on a story in the New African magazine on how the British Continue reading
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Blockade plunges Gaza Strip into darkness
Israel’s defence minister has said the border crossing between Israel and the Gaza strip will stay closed, putting the life of Gazans at risk as they feel the pinch of the blockade. Al Jazeera’s Sherine Tadros reports from the impoverished strip where shortages are threatening those who are already most vulnerable. Continue reading
The New Dark Age 