July 2010
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Rebuilding a Demolished Palestinian Home By Ellen Davidson
Rubble covers the tile floor at the site of the demolished home we are beginning to rebuild in the East Jerusalem section of Anata, a Palestinian town divided between occupied “East” Jerusalem and the occupied West Bank. Activists from the United States, Britain, Germany, and Iran, reinforced daily by local Palestinian and Israeli activists, have… Continue reading
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The Color of Pomegranates By Sergei Parajanov
21 July, 2010 Sayat Nova http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?docid=7336544791488368382&hl=en&fs=true Sergei Parajanov (9 January, 1924 – 20 July, 1990) was a Soviet Armenian filmmaker. Continue reading
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“Israel is regional bully with nuclear weapons” – Jonathan Cook
‘The reason why Israel can’t allow Iran to have nuclear weapons is because if Iran developed its own nuclear arsenal, it would totally change the balance of power in the Middle East,’ he says. ‘At the moment Israel is the regional bully, it has its own nuclear weapons, it can pull them out as it… Continue reading
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Carbon Market ‘Growth’ Mainly Fraudulent, World Bank Report Shows By Oscar Reyes
The global carbon market grew in 2009. Far from signalling a success, this reflects a massive increase in fraud, the dumping of surplus emissions permits by industry, and a rise in financial speculation. Continue reading
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A Freedom Charter or A Second Nakba? By Kenneth O’Keefe
Imagine this, imagine that Nelson Mandela and the African National Congress negotiated a deal with the South African Apartheid regime and settled for a ‘two-state solution.’ Imagine Mandela negotiating with the Apartheid regime a land deal in which less than 15% of current day South Africa went to the black South Africans, the remaining 85%… Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report 21 July, 2010: Black America's Real Priorities / Reparations for Current Racism / Somalia War Expands
21 July, 2010 — Black Agenda Report Tea Partyers, Fox News, “Negativity” Against the President? Are These Really Black America’s Most Pressing Problems? From the established civil rights organizations like the NAACP to legions of elected Democrats and preachers and even people like our good friends at Color of Change, the main activity these days… Continue reading
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Israel Report Attempts to Cover up Widespread and Systematic Commission of War Crimes and Shield Perpetrators from Justice
The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) asserts that Israel has wholly failed to fulfil its obligation to conduct genuine investigations; the State’s efforts to date represent an attempt to shield the perpetrators from justice. Moreover PCHR has identified a number of inconsistencies in Israel’s reported findings. The following cases are illustrative of the ineffectiveness… Continue reading
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Iraqi-American artist turns body into anti-war work of art
Waffa Bilal, an Iraqi-American artist whose brother died in Iraq, has repeatedly tattooed himself to draw attention to the casualties of war. On his body are marks for each dead Western soldier, and 100,000 dots representing Iraqi casualties. Continue reading
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The Ministry of Truth: Obama’s War on the Internet Philip Giraldi
The Ministry of Truth was how George Orwell described the mechanism used by government to control information in his seminal novel 1984. A recent trip to Europe has convinced me that the governments of the world have been rocked by the power of the internet and are seeking to gain control of it so that… Continue reading
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Defend the Rights of Palestinian Citizens in Israel
The meeting will be a unique opportunity to hear about the serious attacks on the democratic rights of Palestinian citizens of Israel, following the decision last week to remove parliamentary privileges of Haneen Zoubi for her participation in the flotilla taking humanitarian aid to Gaza. Continue reading
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Spades, Human Rights and Undemocratizing Israel
Boaz Okon, former Israeli judge and current legal affairs editor for the right-leaning and largest Israeli newspaper, Yedioth Aharonoth, has called a spade a spade using both the forbidden words; apartheid and fascism. In his article, “Draw Me a Monster,” translated into English by the Coteret website, he described a long and still-growing list of… Continue reading
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MEDIA LENS ALERT: “PEACE ENVOY” BLAIR GETS AN EASY RIDE IN THE INDEPENDENT
The whole tone of the Independent interview was uncritical and respectful; a bland and meek summation of the sincere and well-intentioned thoughts of a man with the blood of untold numbers of victims on his hands: men, women and children in Iraq, Afghanistan, the former Yugoslavia and, indeed, in Palestine itself. Continue reading
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Jonathan Cook, “Netanyahu: America Won’t Get in Our Way”
u: I know what America is. America is something that can easily be moved. Moved to the right direction. . . . 80% of the Americans support us. It’s absurd. Continue reading
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Fernando Nabais, “Umberto Digital Haiku No. 2”
An interactive cinematic experiment that reinterprets a shot from the film Umberto D by Vittorio de Sica, manipulating it in response to the attention that the viewer devotes to it. Umberto D depicts Italy in 1952 in the middle of a deep recession, a mirror of the current economic crisis. Continue reading
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Buying Venezuela’s Press With U.S. Tax Dollars By Jeremy Bigwood
Until now, the State Department has hidden its role in funding the Venezuelan news media, one of the opposition’s most powerful weapons against President Hugo Chávez and his Bolivarian movement. The PADF, serving as an intermediary, effectively removed the government’s fingerprints from the money. Yet, as noted in a State Department document titled “Bureau/Program Specific… Continue reading
The New Dark Age 