January 8, 2010
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Letter From Climate Prisoners In Denmark By Climate Prisoners
Copenhagen, January 1st 2010: Something is rotten (but not just) in Denmark. As a matter of fact, thousands of people have been considered, without any evidence, a threat to the society. Hundreds have been arrested and some are still under detention, waiting for judgement or under investigation. Among them, us, the undersigned. Continue reading
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The Yemen Hidden Agenda: Behind the Al-Qaeda Scenarios, A Strategic Oil Transit Chokepoint By F. William Engdahl
For some months the world has seen a steady escalation of US military involvement in Yemen, a dismally poor land adjacent to Saudi Arabia on its north, the Red Sea on its west, the Gulf of Aden on its south, opening to the Arabian Sea, overlooking another desolate land that has been in the headlines… Continue reading
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Glen Ford: Triumph of right-wing nationalism
Video: Paul Jay speaks with Glen Ford of the Black Agenda Report about Obama’s foreign policies. Continue reading
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Call by Evo Morales for Peoples’ World Conference on Climate Change and Mother Earth’s Rights
Call by Evo Morales for Peoples’ World Conference on Climate Change and Mother Earth’s Rights Considering that climate change represents a real threat to the existence of humanity, of living beings and our Mother Earth as we know it today Continue reading
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Egypt deports British lawmaker Galloway
Cairo has deported British lawmaker George Galloway, following clashes between a Gaza-bound aid convoy he was accompanying and Egyptian police. The lawmaker was planning to return to Gaza via the Rafah crossing early Friday when several Egyptian plainclothes security forces detained him and bundled him into a plane and flew him to London. Continue reading
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Statement by SA Palestine Solidarity Movement and COSATU
We salute the gallant and heroic actions of over 1,400 people from around the world – especially the South African delegation – who went to Cairo to embark on the historic Gaza Freedom March (GFM). The South African delegation truly represented the revolutionary and humanitarian character of our country even when faced with the harassment… Continue reading
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Egypt ‘deports aid convoy leader’
George Galloway, the British MP leading the Viva Palestina international aid convoy to the Gaza Strip has been forced to leave Egypt, the group has said on its website. Galloway was apparently picked up by Egyptian officials at the Rafah border crossing on Friday and driven to Cairo where he was placed on a flight back… Continue reading
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Egypt deports MP George Galloway By Tim Moynihan
Plain clothes police officers bundled the Respect MP on to a plane bound for London, said a spokeswoman for the Viva Palestina convoy. Continue reading
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Abdul Aziz Tarakji – “Israel” has committed in Gaza, all crimes under international criminal law
Israel has committed a crime against humanity, known as a series of criminal acts committed as a part of a planned, systematic and widespread attack against civilians, including murder, torture, and the crime of apartheid and oppression against the Palestinians, and this would deprive some or all of population, intentional and severe deprivation of fundamental… Continue reading
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Big Green NGOs: Sleeping With the Enemy
The largest climate change campaign in the world is in bed with the world’s most powerful corporations. … The mainstream environmental movement no longer inspires nor leads society to an enlightened existence – it simply bows down to the status quo. Continue reading
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War Ravages Afghan Environment By Joshua Frank
Shipping off 30,000 more troops to the land of the Taliban may be infuriating to devoted antiwar activists, but the toll the Afghanistan war is having on the environment should also force nature lovers into the streets in protest. Continue reading
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BRITISH MP GEORGE GALLOWAY in CAIRO ‘DEPORTATION’
British MP George Galloway was officially deported from Cairo today (Friday), when Egyptian ununiformed plane clothes police officers bundled him onto a London plane. Galloway had been trying to return to Rafah after news broke that seven of the Viva Palestina convoy members were said to be arrested. Continue reading
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GazaFriends: Break the siege on Gaza, let them live in peace and dignity
As Israeli F16s attack northern, Western, Southern and Middle Gaza tonight, doing extensive damage, the Palestinians of Gaza are, once again, terrorized by American bombs and Israeli genocidal policies. Viva Palestina is still there, and the Gaza Freedom March has just finished. Continue reading
The New Dark Age 