occupation
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Welcome to the Revolution: Life @ OccupyWallStreet’s Liberty Park
I’ve spent countless hours at Liberty Park talking with people of all political persuasions, from all walks of life, from all over this country, no, check that, from all over the world. The second you walk into the occupation, you can’t help but get knocked around like a volleyball. At every turn, there is an… Continue reading
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Video: Nobody Can Predict The Moment Of Revolution (Occupy Wall Street)
Now in the 12th day of occupation the video gives us a real sense of the strength of feeling, mostly by young people. Continue reading
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The Wall Street Occupation: A Sleep-In Protest in the Shadow of Power By Manny Jalonschi
Surrounded by the headquarters of some of the world’s most powerful financial players, over two thousand protesters converged on Wall Street this Saturday. By the end of the second day, those occupying Liberty Park, formerly known as Zuccotti Park on Broadway and Liberty St., had settled in, partially helped by pizza, hot chocolate and blankets… Continue reading
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Social justice also means ending the occupation By Zeev Sternhell
Be the internal ills of Israeli society as they may, and they are too numerous to count, most of them can be treated and even cured; but the occupation and colonialism are terminal illnesses. Continue reading
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How Could the Largest Social Justice Movement in Israel’s History Manage to Ignore the Country’s Biggest Moral Disaster? By Joseph Dana
The decision to exclude the occupation from the grievances of the July 14 Tent City movement was entirely organic. The key question is why. Continue reading
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Rebel Assassins Terrorizing Libyans By Stephen Lendman
It’s a truism that where large energy reserves exist, America has imperial plans to control them. Libya is now ground zero. US-led NATO assassins invaded to menace, intimidate, kill, plunder, and cause out-of-control chaos, notably in Tripoli, the struggle’s current epicenter. Continue reading
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Video: Qalandia barrier 26-8-11: Judaising Jerusalem
The Olive Revolution (popular revolution and the national humanitarian non-armed revolution against the Israeli occupation) starts the campaign ‘knocking on doors of Jerusalem’ Part of Alquds week activities as a response to all the Israeli policies of judaising Jerusalem. Continue reading
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Obama’s Responsibility to Protect is a License to Kill By Glen Ford
Believing the Libya assault to have been a shining success, the United States will feel confident in launching new aggressions under the insidious rubric of R2P – Responsibility to Protect. The 2004 invasion and of Haiti was the precedent, ‘when the United Nations Secretary General lent his seal of approval to the occupation and endorsed… Continue reading
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BOOTS ON THE GROUND? NATO Prepares ‘Humanitarian’ Occupation Of Libya Thousands of NATO troops on standby By Paul Joseph Watson
Preparing to head off any potential counter-attack by Gaddafi forces, NATO powers are readying a “humanitarian” occupation of Libya with thousands of British and American soldiers, risking the possibility that troops could be sent into yet another quagmire to rival Afghanistan and Iraq. Continue reading
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The Israeli Occupation Archive 18 August 2011: J14 / Leahy Law / Beating Palestinians and more…
18 August 2011 — The Israeli Occupation Archive * Lia Tarachansky: The fight for equality in Israel’s J14 movement * Josh Ruebner: Hold Israel accountable with Leahy law * IDF officer who defended beating Palestinians to take over infantry Continue reading
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Electronic Intifada 15 August 2011: Women in Hebron | Rafah closure frustration | Throwing rocks | And more …
15 August 2011 — Update from the Electronic Intifada RECENT BLOG POSTS ON THE ELECTRONIC INTIFADA: Continue reading
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Information Clearing House Newsletter August 8, 2011: They Died in Vain; Deal With It
8 August 2011 — Information Clearing House Saudi Arabia’s Message to Syria, Decoded By Brian Whitaker It is Iranian influence, not the killing of civilians, that Saudi Arabia is concerned about as it recalls its ambassador in Syria. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28782.htm Continue reading
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Tent 1948 by Abir Kopty
If you are Palestinian, it will be difficult to find anything to identify with in Tel Aviv’s tents’ city on Rothschild Boulevard, until you reach Tent 1948. My first tour there was a few days ago, when I decided to join Tent 1948. Tent 1948’s main message is that social justice should be for all.… Continue reading
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Gilad Atzmon: Massacre in Norway— More About the Jewish Right Wing Connection
Thanks to respected anti-Zionist Jeff Blankfort (who provided me with a crucial link) I have now learned that, just one day before last Friday’s Massacre in Norway, former Trotsky-ite turned neo-con David Horowitz carried an article by Joseph Klein in his Front Page magazine, entitled “The Quislings of Norway,” which might as well have provided… Continue reading
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How the U.S. meddled in Haiti By Andrea Hektor
Kim Ives is a journalist and editor with Haiti Liberté, a weekly newspaper published in Port-au-Prince and New York City. He talked to Ashley Smith about what’s ahead for Haiti under a new president, as well as the recent Wikileaks revelations about U.S. meddling in the country and what the return of ousted former Jean-Bertrand… Continue reading
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A Palestinian State Redeems the U.N.’s Historic Nakba (Catastrophe) By Mohamed Khodr
9 July 2011 — Intifada Palestine This September is the moment of truth for the United Nations Security Council and the U.N. General Assembly, despite the threatened U.S. veto. Continue reading
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Information Clearing House Newsletter 10 July, 2011: Weekend Roundup – Don't Support the Troops
10 July, 2011 — Information Clearing House Don’t Support the Troops – Bring Them Home By Sheldon Richman Politicians love nothing better than to pay tribute to “our troops,” especially those who have made “the ultimate sacrifice.” Yet those words stink of hypocrisy when one realizes that the same politicians create the conditions that then Continue reading
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Free Gaza Movement Supports Call for Military Embargo on Israel
The Free Gaza Movement welcomes, endorses, and supports the Palestinian Boycott National Committee (BNC) call for an immediate and comprehensive military embargo on Israel. Continue reading