April 2009
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Video: South Africa – Forgotten Freedom Fighters – Part 2
As South Africans prepare to go to the polls in their fourth general election since the end of Apartheid, Al Jazeera follows a group of former combatants who have stopped waiting for the compensation promised to them by the ANC and have decided to start their own business. Continue reading
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Video: South Africa – Forgotten freedom fighters Part One
As South Africans prepare to go to the polls in their fourth general election since the end of Apartheid, Al Jazeera follows a group of former combatants who have stopped waiting for the compensation promised to them by the ANC and have decided to start their own business. Continue reading
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Free Palestine — End Israeli Occupation — End the Arms trade JOIN US TO MAKE THIS THE BIGGEST DEMONSTRATION FOR PALESTINE IN THE UK
Free Palestine — End Israeli Occupation — End the Arms trade JOIN US TO MAKE THIS THE BIGGEST DEMONSTRATION FOR PALESTINE IN THE UK Continue reading
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Media Coverage of Haiti's Sham Elections By Stephen Lendman
After majority Fanmi Lavalas (FL) candidates were disqualified on a first time ever procedural technicality, party leaders called for a national boycott, and Haitians responded overwhelmingly with estimates of as few as 3% of eligible voters participating. Continue reading
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COHA: Cuba and the United States: Let’s Not Waste an Opportunity for Change
The U.S.’ policy towards Cuba of maintaining sanctions in the hope of bringing about change before negotiations begin is a senseless one, reserved for Havana almost alone, that has proved to be an unmitigated failure. Continue reading
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NATO, SCO or PATO? By Eric Walberg
The Russians believe that Afghan drug trafficking is the most serious threat to the security of Russia and Central Asia. Russia’s anti-drug chief Viktor Ivanov last week called the coalition’s anti-drug policy a fiasco, noting that opium production in Afghanistan had soared since the deployment of US and NATO troops in the country. Continue reading
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What is Canada Doing in Haiti? By Jean Saint-Vil
In January, 2003 the Canadian government organized a meeting to plan the illegal and violent overthrow of the democratically-elected government of the small Caribbean nation for political, ideological and economic reasons. Continue reading
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Iqbal Tamimi – Gaza artists deliver hope out of the womb of destruction
No colours were left in Gaza, no canvas or building material since the tools of arts are like food and medicine and were subjected to the cruel Israeli siege. But Gaza’s artists will never give up, they used destroyed oxygen cylinders, parts of what is left of a bed, remains of destroyed ambulances that were… Continue reading
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Gilad Atzmon – Ahmadinejad: “Read My Lips”
What we saw yesterday at the UN Anti Racism Forum was crude collective institutional Islamophobic racism in its making, a coordinated show of rabid western chauvinism. A bunch of European diplomats behaving as a herd of sheep, exhibiting complete denial of the notion of freedom of speech and the culture of debate. Continue reading
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Full Text of President Ahmadinejad’s Remarks at U.N. Conference on Racism By Jeremy R. Hammond
Dear friends, today the human community is facing a kind of racism which has tarnished the image of humanity in the beginning of the third millennium. The world Zionism personifies racism that falsely resorts to religion and abuse religious sentiments to hide their hatred and ugly faces. Continue reading
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Wounds Of the Heart: An Artist and Her Nation
As a Palestinian citizen of Israel, Rana deeply understands how feelings of belonging and claims of ownership, irrevocably separate, yet permanently connect Arabs and Jews in their struggle for a land that is called Palestine by one group and Israel by the other. Continue reading
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Obama's Real Plan in Latin America By Shamus Cooke
Although Obama’s policy towards Latin America has a similar subversive feeling to it, many of FDR’s methods of dominance are closed to him. Decades of U.S. “good neighbor” policy in Latin America resulted in a continuous string of U.S. backed military coups, broken-debtor economies, and consequently, a hemisphere-wide revolt. Continue reading
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The Economic Model That is in Crisis Needs Urgent Change
In the face of the grave crisis shaking the world and our hemisphere in particular, which illustrates the failure of the so-called ‘free trade’ model it is evident that the official Summit’s declaration is far from representing the indispensible and urgent change that current reality and hemispheric relations demand. Continue reading
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The Arab World and Israel’s Nuclear Arsenal WRITTEN BY Khalid Amayreh in Occupied East Jerusalem
It was Israel that introduced nuclear weapons into the Middle East more than four decades ago, with the knowledge and acquiescence of western powers. The CIA first concluded that Israel had begun to produce nuclear weapons in 1968, but few details emerged until 1986 when Mordechai Vanunu, a former technician at the Dimona nuclear facility,… Continue reading
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VTV, "Eduardo Galeano's Book Soars to No. 1 after Being Gifted to Obama by Chávez"
Open Veins of Latin America, a book by Eduardo Galeano, soared from No. 54,295 to No.1 once the Venezuelan leader gave a copy of it to his US counterpart at the Fifth Summit of the Americas. Continue reading
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Emir Sader, “‘What about Cuba, Mr. Obama?’”
More than four decades and ten US presidents later, Cuba is still alive. It in fact has broken the blockade, not only through its links with other countries of the continent — even Costa Rica, the last in Latin America, just restored its relations with Cuba — but also through its ability to revive tourism,… Continue reading
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Evelyn Rico, “Israel Forcefully Condemned at UN Conference against Racism”
The Iranian president was very forceful this Monday in denouncing the existence of a “racist government” in Israel during his speech at the conference. The Iranian leader said that “the worst racists have been brought to Palestine,” attacking the United States for defending “the crimes of Zionism.” Ahmadinejad equally castigated the “US attack against Iraq”… Continue reading
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Haitians Reject Electoral Sham By Stephen Lendman
Astonishing. Imagine holding a national election and virtually no one shows up. Because of clear electoral rigging, FL leaders urged Haitians to support a national boycott. In overwhelming numbers, they complied by staying home and not voting. Whoever wins, it will be impossible to call the results legitimate. Continue reading
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Haiti: Fanmi Lavalas Banned, Voter Apprehension Widespread By Jeb Sprague
With the credibility of the upcoming elections badly damaged, foreign donors have attempted to smooth things over with a hastily organised conference pledging aid disbursement. Continue reading
The New Dark Age 