February 22, 2009
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Video: Israeli Military Shoot Gaza Farmer – 18th February 2009
On Tuesday 27th January 2009, in Al Faraheen, Israeli forces shot at several farmers, killing 27 year old farm worker, Anwar al-Breem, Mohammed’s cousin. On Wednesday, February 18, Israeli forces shot a twenty year-old Palestinian farmer as he worked his land in the village of Al-Faraheen, east of Khan Younis in the Gaza Strip. International Continue reading
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Sign the Petition against new (UK) Home Office restrictions on non-EU artists and academics visiting the UK for talks, exhibitions, concerts or artists’ residencies
Visitors now have to submit to a series of arduous and expensive procedures to get their visa, and then more bureaucratic controls when they are in the UK. Continue reading
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Black Sea: Pentagon's Gateway to Three Continents and the Middle East By Rick Rozoff
Prior to the breakup of the Warsaw Pact in 1989 and the Soviet Union two years later the Black Sea was mainly off limits to the West in general and to the Pentagon and NATO in particular. Continue reading
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Iraqi Doctors in Hiding Treat as They Can By Dahr Jamail
In early 2008, the Iraqi Health Ministry said that 628 medical personnel have been killed since 2003. Many believe the real figure is far higher, and that there is additionally a very large number of doctors who have been kidnapped and tortured. Continue reading
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AS NEW SCAMMERS EMERGE, IS IT JAILOUT TIME YET? By Danny Schechter
As we watch an economy in free fall, there seems to a lot less agitation for a serious investigation of those responsible for this collapse Continue reading