Fight for votes as UN meets on Palestine Riyad Mansour, the PLO ambassador to the United Nations, speaks with reporters at the UN headquarters in New York (Reuters/Shannon Stapleton) By Jared Malsin UNITED NATIONS (Ma’an) — Palestinian and American officials are waging a diplomatic tug-of-war for the votes of a handful of countries as [...]
Nate Goldshlag was among several members of Veterans for Peace who disrupted Donald Rumsfeld’s book tour event in Boston this week. Photograph: Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Images On Monday 26 September, three members of Veterans For Peace and a member of Code Pink confronted Donald Rumsfeld at a Boston stop of his book tour. I attempted [...]
Palestinian activist wins compensation over detention in UK Sheikh Raed Salah, the Palestinian activist who was held for two days after arriving in Britain in June. Photograph: Sebastian Scheiner/AP A Palestinian activist detained on the orders of the home secretary, Theresa May, was held unlawfully and is entitled to compensation, the high court has ruled. [...]
Phone hacking: Neville Thurlbeck says ‘truth will out’ Phone hacking: former News of the World chief reporter Neville Thurlbeck has spoken out over his dismissal. Photograph: Rex Features Neville Thurlbeck, the former News of the World chief reporter, has broken his silence on the phone-hacking scandal, saying he “took no part in the matter which [...]
Party’s Over: Tripoli Residents Sick of Rebel Troops New Tripoli Council Urges Rebels to ‘Get a Handle’ on Troops by Jason Ditz, September 29, 2011 | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum The rebel conquest of the Libyan capital of Tripoli was portrayed as a watershed moment in the civil war, with celebrations [...]
Engelhardt, Washington’s Field of Screams Posted by Tom Engelhardt at 9:31am, September 29, 2011. [Note for TomDispatch Readers: Just to let you know, a little memoir of my growing-up years, “Movies Saved My Life, A Young New Yorker Meets Foreigners in Film,” is in the October Harper’s Magazine and on your local newsstands now. Check [...]
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Cognitive Dissonance in Somalia Brian Beyer, September 28, 2011 Print This | Share This | Comment | Antiwar Forum As in many other places around the globe, the United States has a bad track record of propping up leaders and groups in Somalia, only to watch them crumble months or years later. Siad Barre, the ruthless military dictator [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) – Public disclosure of graphic photos and video taken of Osama bin Laden after he was killed in May by U.S. commandos would damage national security and lead to attacks on American property and personnel, the Obama administration contends in a court documents. In a response late Monday to a Freedom of Information [...]
Myanmar promises prisoner amnesty Email Print By MATTHEW PENNINGTON, Associated Press – Tue Sep 27, 7:08 pm ET UNITED NATIONS – Military-dominated Myanmar says its recent democratic reforms are irreversible and has promised a prisoner amnesty in the near future. Foreign Minister Wanna Maung Lwin told the U.N. General Assembly on Tuesday that talks last month between Myanmar’s president and [...]
US Knows Pressure on Pakistan Won’t Change Policy by Gareth Porter, September 28, 2011 | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum The U.S. threat last week that “all options” are on the table if the Pakistani military doesn’t cut its ties with the Haqqani network of anti-U.S. insurgents created the appearance of a crisis involving potential U.S. [...]
How McChrystal and Petraeus Built an Indiscriminate “Killing Machine” Gen. Stanley McChrystal describes his strategy going forward in Afghanistan after President Barack Obama announced he will increase the US troop presence by 30,000 beginning in early 2010. (Photo: U.S. Army Sgt. David E. Alvarado / isafmedia) Monday 26 September 2011 by: Gareth Porter, Truthout [...]
AMY GOODMAN: We continue with Noam Chomsky. His latest book, 9-11: Was There an Alternative?, has been republished—well, with a new essay about the assassination of Osama bin Laden. His original book,9-11, just months published after the 9/11 attacks, was the seminal counter-narrative to what was being said after the attacks of September 11th, 2001, as he [...]
Phone-hacking inquiry needs advisers to ‘fill gap’ in expertise, says publisher Lord Justice Leveson has been challenged over the expertise of advisers to the phone-hacking inquiry. Photograph: Wpa Pool/Getty Images The publisher of the Daily Mail has challenged Lord Justice Leveson over the six advisers to the phone-hacking inquiry amid concerns that the prime minister’s [...]
Palestinian statehood bid kicked into committee by UN security council Riyad Mansour said the UN security council should approve the statehood request because much of the world already recognises Palestine as a country. Photograph: Shen Hong/Xinhua Press/Corbis The UN security council has moved the issue of recognising a Palestinian state to a committee which [...]
Death in the Amazon: Brazil accused of protecting trees but not its people Death in the Amazon – a deforested area burns near Novo Progresso in the state of Pará, north Brazil. Photograph: Andre Penner/Associated Press Even here, Tuesday is an unusual day to die. At the weekend there is no shortage of bloodletting in [...]
Greece increased its police force with 2,000 policemen and recently bought new anti-riot equipment [EPA] In the old days of the European colonial expansion eastwards, the Great Powers (England, France, Russia, and Austria) would rack their heads over the fate of what they called “the sick man of Europe“: The Ottoman Empire, whose bankruptcy [...]
6 Ways the Rich Are Waging a Class War Against the American People LIKE THIS ARTICLE ? Join our mailing list: Sign up to stay up to date on the latest headlines via email. TAKE ACTION Change.org|Get Widget|Start an Online Petition � There hasn’t been any organized, explicitly class-based violence in this country for generations, so [...]
What Is Hugo Chávez Up To? by Joshua Kucera Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez has set alarms ringing with his efforts to create a global anti-American coalition. When Muammar al-Qaddafi faced worldwide condemnation this past winter as he brutally struck back against a popular uprising, the Libyan dictator may have taken comfort from knowing he had [...]
By Bernd Debusmann WASHINGTON (Reuters) – So much for charges from conservative contenders for the 2012 US presidential elections that Barack Obama is not pro-Israel enough — the president just won seals of approval from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, his far-right foreign minister, Avigdor Lieberman, and the US lobby that usually reflects their views. [...]
JERUSALEM (AFP) — Israel on Wednesday rejected international outcry over its plans to build 1,100 new homes in Gilo in annexed Palestinian east Jerusalem, insisting the area was “not a settlement.” “Gilo is not a settlement, nor a settlement outpost. It is a neighborhood which constitutes an integral part of the center of Jerusalem,” [...]
(MaanImages, File) BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — A petition signed by 100,000 American Jews calls for the US to veto the PLO proposal for UN membership of a Palestinian state, Israeli media said Tuesday. The document, which says Palestinian leaders’ refusal to recognize Israel as a Jewish state threatens their national home, was presented to Israeli [...]
Israeli soldiers hand out confiscation orders in the West Bank village of Izbat al-Tabib, east of Qalqiliya, on April 7, 2011. (MaanImages/Khaleel Reash, File) BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — Israeli forces notified villagers near Bethlehem that their land will soon be confiscated, local residents said Wednesday. Land owned by 40 families in Battir village — 148 [...]
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addresses the 66th United Nations General Assembly at the UN headquarters in New York, September 23, 2011. (REUTERS/Eric Thayer) JERUSALEM (AFP) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Ehud Barak both warned in interviews published Wednesday that the situation in Egypt’s Sinai poses a “very troubling” threat [...]
BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — Chinese officials said the nation “regrets and opposes” Israel’s expansion of the illegal East Jerusalem settlement Gilo, the official Xinhua news agency reported on Wednesday. China urged Israel to act carefully as the world works to reinvigorate negotiations between Palestinians and Israel, Foreign Ministry spokesman Hong Lei told reporters at a [...]
Committee: Israel to build new bypass road south of Bethlehem Published today (updated) 28/09/2011 22:29 A view of an Israeli military bypass road on the edge of the Jayyous village near the West Bank city of Qalqilia on November 28, 2008. (MaanImages/Khaleel Reash) HEBRON (Ma’an) — Israeli authorities notified the municipality of Beit Ummar [...]
US President Barack Obama meets Israel‘s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the United Nations in New York September 21, 2011. (Reuters/Kevin Lamarque) JERUSALEM (Reuters) — US President Barack Obama’s popularity has risen sharply in Israel after he spoke out forcibly against a Palestinian statehood bid at the United Nations last week, according to an [...]
Ibrahim’s death seemed to compel little, if any, media coverage. By Ramzy Baroud ‘Both of Ibrahim’s arms were cut off. He had a hole in his lung. Parts of his legs were missing. His kidney was in a bad condition…we need people to stand with us.’ These were the words of an exhausted man as [...]
Twenty one opposition activists were sentenced for involvement with a months-long protest movement [EPA] Bahrain court upholds sentences for activists Appeals denied to 21 opposition activists held in June after Gulf state crushed an uprising by majority Shia Muslims. A special Bahrain security court has rejected appeals by 21 opposition activists who were convicted [...]
Public airings of Mubarak’s trial have stopped, but Fekky’s sentence was aired on state TV [AFP] Egypt sentences former information minister Judge sentences Anas el-Fikky to seven years in prison for squandering public funds from the state television union An Egyptian court has sentenced Anas el-Fikky, the former information minister, to seven years in prison for [...]
Phone hacking: second NoW journalist takes News International to tribunal A second former News of the World lojournalist is taking News International to an employment tribunal. Photograph: Graeme Robertson A second journalist at the heart of the News of the World phone-hacking scandal is taking Rupert Murdoch’s News International to an employment tribunal, claiming unfair [...]
Al-Qaida calls on Ahmadinejad to end 9/11 conspiracy theories In its English language magazine Al-Qaida has reportedly called on Iran’s president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to stop citing conspiracy theories that the US was to blame behind 9/11. Photograph: Timothy A Clary/AFP/Getty Images Al-Qaida has sent a message to the Iranian president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, asking him to stop [...]
Nicolas Sarkozy ally accused of spying in latest scandal to hit re-election bid Nicolas Sarkozy at the Élysée on Wednesday, the day his state prosecutor was to be interviewed by a judge over spying claims. Photograph: Eric Feferberg/AFP/Getty The threat to Nicolas Sarkozy‘s re-election bid from corruption scandals intensified on Wednesday after a leading state prosecutor [...]
The political pendulum of the US has swung so far to the right that ‘centre-left’ politicians such as Al Gore only appear sporadically in the media says writer [GALLO/GETTY] The de-politicisation of political media US political ideologies are converging on the right, but the power of ideas doesn’t matter in this popularity contest. “President Obama’s [...]
The US says Israeli settlement construction is counter-productive to efforts to resume peace talks [EPA] Europe and US condemn Israel settlement plans EU foreign policy chief and US secretary of state attack plans to build illegal settlements in occupied East Jerusalem. The European Union and the United States have condemned Israeli plans for the construction [...]
Five Western nations softened their sanctions call against Syria to gain support in the UN Security Council [Reuters] Western states give way on UN Syria sanctions New draft resolution drops demand for immediate sanctions against Damascus in bid to gain Security Council support. Western powers have dropped earlier calls for immediate sanctions against Syria by the [...]
Aid agency withdrew Pakistan staff after CIA fake vaccination scheme The compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan, where Osama bin Laden was killed after the CIA ran a fake vaccination programme in the town. Photograph: Akhtar Soomro/Reuters Save the Children, which was not linked to the scheme, flew workers out of the country after US warnings [...]
The government estimates that 195,705 individuals across 38 provinces were affected by the typhoon [Reuters] The Philippines government has began a clean-up of flooded areas and assessments of damage, including to the key rice crop, a day after destruction from Typhoon Nesat left behind at least 21 people dead. Financial markets, government offices and some schools reopened on Wednesday [...]
Im Chaem, right, a 67-year-old former Khmer Rouge provincial secretary, at a school event in Anlong Veng, Cambodia, on June 21, 2010 Heng Sinith / AP COMMENT PRINT EMAIL REPRINTS SHARE At first blush, it seems like a nourishing gift. The Phnom Srok reservoir in northwest Cambodia spreads nearly as far as the eye [...]
United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (Geneva) Sudan: Thousands More Flee Air Strikes in Blue Nile State Pumla Rulashe 27 September 2011 Assosa, Ethiopia — A fresh wave of air strikes in Sudan’s Blue Nile State since last Wednesday has sent increasing numbers of refugees fleeing into Ethiopia, with some 1,500 pouring [...]
By KIMBERLY DOZIER updated 9/27/2011 8:43:30 AM ET Print Font: WASHINGTON — A man accused of running an illegal contractor spy ring in Afghanistan has resigned from the Air Force, still maintaining his innocence, and still facing possible criminal charges. Two investigations continue in a case that has tested the definition of what contractors are allowed to do [...]
Accidents are the major cause of helicopter crashes in Afghanistan, despite the recent shootdown of a Chinook that killed 30 U.S. servicemembers, according to records obtained by USA TODAY. By Romeo Gacad, AFP/Getty Images U.S. troops board a Chinook in Kandahar province, Afghanistan. Enlarge By Romeo Gacad, AFP/Getty Images U.S. troops board a Chinook in [...]
Libya fighting: Fears grow for civilians in Sirte Anti-Gaddafi fighters are optimistic Continue reading the main story Libya Crisis Pain resurfaces Chaotic fighting Islamists keen to engage Profile: Sirte International officials have expressed fears for more than 200,000 civilians caught in fierce clashes in the Libyan cities of Sirte and Bani Walid. Nato said fighters [...]
Mustafa Abdul Jalil (Photo: BBC) Audio: Play | Download Abdel Bari Atwan to sue leader of Libyan Opposition A Spokesperson for the London-based newspaper, Al-Quds Al-Arabi today confirmed that editor-in-chief, Abdel Bari Atwan, is to sue Mr Mustafa Abdel Jalil, Chair of the National Transitional Council of Libya, for libel and defamation. The [...]
“How I Helped Lose Hearts and Minds” Author Under Fire Kelley Beaucar Vlahos, September 27, 2011 Print This | Share This | Comment | Antiwar Forum The Net is abuzz today with the irony, that Peter Van Buren, a 23-year foreign service officer with the U.S Department of State, may be the only department personnel to be fired [...]
AU: 3,000 More Troops Headed to Somalia Troops Expected to Come From Djibouti, Sierra Leone by Jason Ditz, September 27, 2011 | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum According to Lt. Col. Ankunda, the spokesman for African Union (AU) troops in Somalia, an additional 3,000 troops are expected to be dispatched to the [...]
More than 40 per cent of employed Americans are working in the typically low-paying service industry [GALLO/GETTY] “I hear all this, ‘well, this is class warfare, this is whatever’. No. There is nobody in this country who got rich on his own. Nobody. You built a factory out there? Good for you. But I want [...]
Saudi woman to be lashed for defying driving ban Saudi women are forced to rely on live-in drivers or male relatives to drive them to work, the shop or the doctor because of the ban. Photograph: Fayez Nureldine/AFP Shaima Jastaina sentenced to 10 lashes after being found guilty of driving without permission reddit this [...]
Captain Netanyahu‘s crew is running Israel aground It is true that the Palestinians also bear a large share of responsibility for the impasse, but can the government truly say its own hands are clean? By Doron Rosenblum This week, we learned that the commander of an Israel Navy vessel was jailed for seven days for [...]
Netanyahu‘s messianism could launch attack on Iran The Lubavitcher Rebbe, whose followers stood behind Netanyahu’s victorious campaign in the 1996 election. Photo by: AP Relying on the Lubavitcher Rebbe and his teachings in a speech that was ostensibly in favor of a Palestinian state is like relying on a racist who fervently supports slavery in [...]
