September 2009
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Afghanistan: Where Empires Go to Die By Dahr Jamail
On September 7 the Swedish aid agency Swedish Committee for Afghanistan reported that the previous week US soldiers raided one of its hospitals. According to the director of the aid agency, Anders Fange, troops stormed through both the men’s and women’s wards, where they frantically searched for wounded Taliban fighters. Continue reading
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Palestine Video: Bil’in night raid, some injuries By haitham al katib
Shortly after 1:30am, Israeli forces invaded Bil’in again. They raided the house of Abdullah Mahmoud Aburahma in an attempt to arrest him. However, he was not home at the time. Palestinian and international activists intervened by jumping over the wall into the garden since the soldiers had shut the gate closed. Some international activists were… Continue reading
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Stuart Littlewood – How Low will Israel Stoop to Win the Propaganda War?
“The Israel Project”, a US media advocacy group, has produced a revised training manual to help the worldwide Zionist movement win the propaganda war, keep their ill-gotten territorial gains and persuade international audiences to accept that their crimes are necessary and conform to “shared values” between Israel and the civilized West. Continue reading
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Haitham Sabbah – Photo of the Day
A settler tosses wine at a Palestinian woman on Shuhada Street in Hebron. Continue reading
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Black Sea Crisis Deepens As US-NATO Threat To Iran Grows By Rick Rozoff
Tensions are mounting in the Black Sea with the threat of another conflict between U.S. and NATO client state Georgia and Russia as Washington is manifesting plans for possible military strikes against Iran in both word and deed. Continue reading
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Video: Climate & Capitalism – Ian Angus Speaking in London
Video: A talk at the opening session of Climate and Capitalism, a one-day seminar in London (England) on Sept. 12, organized by the Green Left and Socialist Resistance. Derek Wall, former Principal Speaker of the Green Party, says this one day meeting was “one of the best ecosocialist events I have ever been to,” and… Continue reading
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The Unspoken Truth: The Global Research Reader on 9/11
Turning 9/11 Realities Upside Down: When the “Big Lie” becomes the “Truth” Provided below is a selection of essential reading published by Global Research in the course of the last few years. Continue reading
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Haidar Eid – An Open letter to Mr. Jacob Zuma, President of South Africa
I am writing to express my dismay and disappointment with both your attendance at the national conference of the South African Jewish Board of Deputies – a racist organization by any standards – as well as the content of your speech at that forum. Continue reading
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Felipe Luciano – Poema – Presenta a Palmieri
10 September 2009 — Youtube Central Park en 1972. Felipe Luciano estuvo al lado de Eddie Palmieri 1972 en el famoso album (2 vol.) http://www.salsajazz.com Continue reading
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Young Lords Party
From El Pueblo Se Levanta by Newsreel. Edited for Young Lords 40th anniversary website, www.YLP40.com Young Lords Party http://widgets.vodpod.com/w/video_embed/Groupvideo.3389004 more about “Young Lords Party“, posted with vodpod Continue reading
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Video: Amira versus Israel
On August 31st this year, a 15 year-old girl from Gaza made history by filing a law suit against Israel at the International Criminal Court in The Hague. Amira Alquerem lost her father, brother and sister during the 22-day Israeli war on Gaza at the turn of the year. She’s accusing Israel of homicides against… Continue reading
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Militarising space: The Fallujah fallacy Eric Walberg
In April, Air Force Space Command activated a new unit – the 24th Air Force at Lackland Air Force Base in Texas — to keep pace with “the rapid changes in information technology and allow space and cyberspace capabilities to be more accessible to military ground commanders”, according to the Space Command’s top military officer… Continue reading
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Re. 9/11 Launching the International Campaign for Mounir El Motassadeq By Elias Davidsson
The Committee for Mounir el Motassadeq launches today an international campaign for the reopening of his case, after a Hamburg (Germany) court sentenced him to 15 years in prison, for allegedly helping his friends, Mohamed Atta and Co. to prepare the attacks of 9/11. Mounir is doubly innocent. First, he did not know anything of… Continue reading
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Following Afghan Election, NATO Intensifies Deployments, Carnage By Rick Rozoff
Not, never, willing to acknowledge that the Afghan war is in fact a war, Washington and Brussels from the time of the summit until now have attempted to justify their troop buildups in South Asia as motivated primarily by insuring that the second presidential election in Afghanistan since the joint U.S.-NATO invasion of 2001 proceeded… Continue reading
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Lockerbie: Megrahi Was Framed By John Pilger
No one in authority has had the guts to state the truth about the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 above the Scottish village of Lockerbie on 21 December 1988 in which 270 people were killed. The governments in England and Scotland in effect blackmailed Megrahi into dropping his appeal as a condition of his… Continue reading
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Kawther Salam – Palestinian Organs for Sale and Experiments
Many Palestinian bodies which had their organs removed are still in the refrigerators of the Israeli jails and hospitals, and many Palestinian bodies (about 300) which had their organs removed are still in secret and cemeteries with numbered graves. Israel is the only State in the world which continues holding the bodies of Palestinian victims… Continue reading
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Art as Resistance By Dahr Jamail
Soldiers returning from Iraq and Afghanistan have tough truths to tell, and it has been well demonstrated that the establishment media does not want to broadcast these. Given the lack of an outlet for anti-war voices in the corporate media, many contemporary veterans and active-duty soldiers have embraced the arts as a tool for resistance,… Continue reading
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Video: Palestine – Like Never Before (Never Before Campaign)
This video is inspired by Victor Hugo’s saying: “There is nothing more powerful than an idea whose time has come” Continue reading