New York
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Israel’s “Operation Mow the Lawn” by Steve Niva
One can only imagine the nods of self-satisfaction when an Israel Defense Forces planner came up with “Pillar of Cloud” to name Israel’s subsequent eight-day aerial assault on Gaza. By lifting this metaphor from several well-known passages in the Torah, the IDF sought to portray the operation as a divinely sanctioned mission to clear the… Continue reading
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Truth, Propaganda and Media Manipulation
Never before has it been so important to have independent, honest voices and sources of information. We are – as a society – inundated and overwhelmed with a flood of information from a wide array of sources, but these sources of information, by and large, serve the powerful interests and individuals that own them. The… Continue reading
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US tightens military noose around Syria By Bill Van Auken
Amid an escalating drumbeat about a supposed threat that Syria’s government is preparing to use chemical weapons against its own people, Washington has deployed a naval armada off the country’s coast. Continue reading
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Five Notes on Egypt's Crisis By Joshua Stacher
Amidst street battles over Muhammad Mursi’s decree and Egypt’s draft constitution, the Brothers have indeed argued a familiar authoritarian line: The protesters have no valid claims; they are a small troublemaking minority; they wish to disregard electoral results and plunge the country into chaos. Some of the Brothers and their backers have been portraying the… Continue reading
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Historical Roots of the US “War on Terrorism”: The Pathology of a Single Superpower. NATO and Beyond
This incisive and carefully researched article originally published by Covert Action Quarterly in 1999 sheds light with tremendous foresight on the historical evolution of the US led “War on Terrorism” and the articulation of what has been described as “Global NATO”. Continue reading
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Turning Their Back on Bradley Manning
As the alleged source of many of the most vital WikiLeaks reports of the past several years, U.S. Army Private Bradley Manning shed considerable light on how the United States has prosecuted the Iraq and Afghan wars. Other State Department cables reportedly leaked by Manning conveyed vital information about U.S. foreign policy. But the developments… Continue reading
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The Legal Creation of Race in America By Devon DB
When examining history, it seems that a narrative has evolved over time that slavery somehow just happened in the United States due to the need for cheap labor and that Africans were chosen because they could do that labor the best. While this is true, it is far from the full reality of the situation.… Continue reading
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Humanitarian Coverup: Why is Obama Silent Over the New Congo War? By Shamus Cooke
The last Congo war that ended in 2003 killed 5.4 million people, the worst humanitarian disaster since World War II. The killing was directly enabled by international silence over the issue; the war was ignored and the causes obscured because governments were backing groups involved in the fighting. Now a new Congo war has begun… Continue reading
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Video: “Mowing the Grass” in Gaza
Michael Ratner: I don’t put human rights on an equal footing when it comes to talking about the oppressed versus the oppressor (inc. transcript) Continue reading
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Video: "Mowing the Grass" in Gaza
Michael Ratner: I don’t put human rights on an equal footing when it comes to talking about the oppressed versus the oppressor (inc. transcript) Continue reading
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FAIR: Palestinians and the Proper Way to Grieve Dead Children
That question might not occur to you, but readers of the New York Times (11/20/12) were treated to correspondent Jodi Rudoren’s unusual critique of a funeral for members of the Dula family, whose home in Gaza City was destroyed by an Israeli airstrike on Sunday. Continue reading
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The political trial of a caring man and the end of justice in America By John Pilger
On 26 February 2003, one month before the invasion [of Iraq], Dr. Rafil Dhafir, a prominent cancer specialist in Syracuse, New York, was arrested by federal agents and interrogated about the charity he had founded, Help the Needy. Dr. Dhafir was one of many Americans, Muslims and non-Muslims, who for 13 years had raised money… Continue reading
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For Israel, Imperialism Isn’t Enough By Dan Freeman-Maloy
Things in Palestine have developed far beyond the point where any given ‘flare-up’ in the constant violence that defines Israeli rule can be addressed in isolation. The significance of the ongoing Israeli assault on Gaza has absolutely nothing to do with the tired, dull hasbara talking points being peddled by Israeli diplomats — less still… Continue reading
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“Sandy”: Obama’s “Good Storm” By Felicity Arbuthnot
Cathy Breen from Voices for Non Violence was late to hear of Hurricane Sandy and of its impact on the Manhatten community where she lives. She was in Najav, in southern Iraq, where, as the rest of the country, the electricity is intermittent to non-existent, nearly ten years after the invasion which wrought its final… Continue reading
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Video: The Agueros Archive: Preserving New York's Latino Heritage
Jack Agüeros is a poet, playwright, short story writer, translator and author of five books. He was an activist in New York’s Latino community in the 1960s and ’70s and director of El Museo del Barrio for close to a decade. Agüeros, who turns 78 on Sept. 2 and suffers from Alzheimer’s disease, can no… Continue reading
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ICH 10 November 2012: Dead Enough: The Reality of the “Lesser Evil”
10 November 2012 — — Information Clearing House Petraeus Caught With Pants Down?How Was Petraeus’ Affair Uncovered and Did he Really Have To Resign? By Daniel Politi “Petraeus took the samurai route and insisted that he had done a dishonorable thing and now had to try to balance it by doing the honorable thing and stepping… Continue reading
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Out of the bunkers, into the streets
For those of you who contributed last week to The Yes Men are Revolting Kickstarter campaign—thank you! You were a beacon of hope in an otherwise weird, rough week. Superstorm Sandy knocked out our power, locked us out of our offices in lower Manhattan, and reduced us to hauling water up 19 floors to Andy’s… Continue reading
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Evidence of Fraud in the 2004 U.S. Presidential Election: A Reader
This Reading List, a substantially expanded version of previous lists published on 11 and 15 November, has been prepared with the aim of making a wide range of readings on the subject of the integrity—or the lack of integrity—of the recent U.S. presidential election readily available. Continue reading
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Millions Still Without Power As Temperature Nears Freezing In Eastern US By Bill Van Auken
Fear is growing that Sandy’s death toll, already topping 100, will be augmented by further fatalities, caused not by natural disaster but rather the inability and unwillingness of all levels of government and a social system driven by private profit to mount an adequate relief effort for the millions of people left without electricity, heat,… Continue reading
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Looking for Revolution in Kuwait By Mary Ann Tétreault
If one were looking for a revolution in the Middle East, the Gulf might be the place to start. The usual mental images of revolutions feature teeming masses and blood in the streets, and there are examples of each in the Gulf. But to see a revolution that may be in progress one has to… Continue reading
The New Dark Age 