By Ayman Abu Shanab GAZA CITY (Ma’an) — As President Mahmoud Abbas prepares to submit a bid for recognition of Palestine as the UN’s 194th member, Palestinian factions are divided over the campaign. Abbas will head to New York on Monday ahead of the General Assembly’s annual session, while the US has already vowed [...]
LIKE THIS ARTICLE ? Join our mailing list: They want to wipe out all the findings of hundreds of years of scientific investigation and have taken to schools, the courts and political leaders to get things done. September 8, 2011 | A few weeks ago, Jon Huntsman torpedoed his candidacy for the Republican presidential nomination [...]
The 10 Worst Weather Disasters This Year and Why They Are Happening Surveying damage from Irene in New Jersey. Photo Credit: Agence France-Presse LIKE THIS ARTICLE ? Join our mailing list: Sign up to stay up to date on the latest headlines via email. We’ve already had 10 disasters topping $1 billion [...]
Palestinian fisherman work on their boats in the port off Gaza City, Nov. 8, 2008 [MaanImages/Hatem Omar] Israeli forces detain 8 fishermen off Gaza coast Published Sunday 11/09/2011 (updated) 12/09/2011 11:17 GAZA CITY (Ma’an) — Israeli forces on Sunday detained eight fishermen off the coast of Gaza City, locals told Ma’an. Locals said Israeli naval [...]
AMY GOODMAN: We move to another issue around climate. A newstudy has found that war is associated with global climate. According to the report, there are links between the climate phenomenon El Niño and outbreaks of violence in countries from southern Sudan to Indonesia and Peru. In fact, the scientists find that El Niño, which brings [...]
Israeli guns and degrading treatment did not deter us. (FreeGaza) By Audrey Bomse, Legal Adviser to the Free Gaza Movement Almost all the factual findings, as well as the legal analysis and conclusions of the recently leaked UN Secretary General’s Panel of Inquiry into the ‘Flotilla Incident’ on May 31, 2010 (Palmer/Uribe Panel) directly contradict [...]
Gaza City — Nael Mosallam watched the 9/11 attacks from a rooftop in Brooklyn. He was doing construction work – re-roofing a rowhouse – when another worker tapped him on the shoulder and pointed out a low-flying plane over Lower Manhattan. “Everybody was shocked, nobody moved,” he said. He walked home in a daze, horrified, [...]
Anti-American sentiment has grown steadily in the years since 9/11 and the deaths of countless civilians in the conflicts associated with the ‘war on terror’ [EPA] 9/11 did not start or end at midnight All too often we view 9/11 from the perspective of the nation-state rather than from a global standpoint. Richard Falk [...]
China plans to let its currency trade freely on international markets by 2015 [EPA] China buys gold, challenges US dollar WikiLeaks cables allege that China is buying gold to weaken the US dollar’s supremacy as the world’s reserve currency. Chris Arsenault Last Modified: 13 Sep 2011 15: China is shifting some of its massive foreign [...]
Hamas donates $140,000 to Somalia Published yesterday (updated) 13/09/2011 14:13 A boy sits looking over the Seyidka settlement for the famine stricken internally displaced people in Berkulan near Somalia’s capital Mogadishu, September 6. Famine has spread to six out of eight regions in southern Somalia, with 750,000 people facing imminent starvation, the United Nations [...]
Israel demolishes West Bank water infrastructure Published yesterday (updated) 13/09/2011 19:55 TUBAS (Ma’an) — Israeli soldiers on Tuesday demolished water infrastructure in the northern West Bank, locals and Palestinian Authority security officials said. Palestinian farmer Muwaffaq Abdul-Raziq said troops demolished his well in Khirbet Atuf, near Tubas. The well cost him 750,000 shekels (around [...]
MADA: Increase in violations against Palestinian journalists Published yesterday (updated) 13/09/2011 18:45 Palestinian journalists attend a sit-in in the city of Bethlehem protesting harassment by Palestinian security forces [MaanImages/Luay Sababa, File] BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — Violations against journalists in the West Bank and Gaza by Palestinian security forces and Israeli authorities increased in August, a [...]
Fatah, Hamas recall 18 years of failed Oslo Accords Published yesterday (updated) 13/09/2011 22:04 The small Palestinian village of Nabi Saleh on Friday held a demonstration to “bury” the Oslo Accords once and for all [MaanImages] RAMALLAH (Ma’an) — Senior Fatah official Mohammad Shtayyeh on Tuesday called on the international community to assume its [...]
Erdogan: Recognizing Palestinian state ‘an obligation’ Published today (updated) 13/09/2011 19:40 Palestinian students stand at the port in Gaza city holding pictures of Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan following a rally urging him to visit the Gaza Strip. [AFP/Mahmud Hams] The Middle East is very much a matter of recognition. For years its [...]
Financial speculators responsible for rising global food prices, claims report Chickens are transported at a wholesale poultry market in New Delhi. In keeping with a global trend, India’s food price index is on the rise. Photograph: Adnan Abidi/Reuters Influence of financial players on agricultural commodity markets blamed for global food price inflation and hunger [...]
Turkey says flotilla raid was ’cause for war’ ANKARA, Turkey – Turkey’s prime minister says Israel’s raid on a Gaza-bound aid flotilla last year was “cause for war” but adds that his country had shown “patience” and refrained from taking any action. Prime Minister Recep Erdogan’s comments to Al-Jazeera television come as a rift between [...]
US embassy in Kabul under attack – live updates Smoke rises from buildings during an on-going attack in Kabul city centre. Photograph: Daud Yardost/AFP/Getty Images Rockets are being fired at the US embassy in Kabul, say police in Afghanistan. The Taliban has claimed responsibliity and says the attackers are armed with rocket-propelled grenades, [...]
Phone hacking: James Murdoch recalled by MPs Phone hacking: James Murdoch has been recalled to give more evidence to MPs. Photograph: PA News Corp boss to face fresh questions about whether he knew News of the World hacking went further than one reporter reddit this James Robinson guardian.co.uk, Tuesday 13 September 2011 12.48 BST Article [...]
Al-Qa’ida Ten Years after 9/11 If it is true that ‘it’s the results that matter’ then, on this the tenth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, the United States has been the biggest loser, regardless of whether al-Qa’ida implemented them or – as some conspiracy theorists say – the US authorities knew about the attacks in [...]
US-Supported Afghan Militias Commit Widespread Human Rights Abuses A Human Rights Watch report details impunity of criminal gangs, off the hook due to ties to corrupt Afghan officials by John Glaser, September 12, 2011 | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum US-supported Afghan militias are committing widespread human rights abuses, but neither Washington or Kabul are [...]
Obama poised to break Iraq pullout promise Reuters/Jim Young The president promised early on to withdraw all U.S. troops from Iraq by the end of 2011. What changed? BY JUSTIN ELLIOTT President Obama speaks to Marines at Camp Lejeune in February, 2009. A debate is unfolding in official Washington about whether the Obama administration should leave [...]
Ignoring the Deaths of Innocents After 9/11 by Gareth Porter, September 13, 2011 | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum In the commentary on the tenth anniversary of 9/11, the news and infotainment media predictably framed the discussion by the question of how successful the CIA and the military have been in destroying al-Qaeda. Absent from the [...]
The Legacy of 9/11: An Institutionalization of Terror at Home and Abroad by Chip Pitts Responding to terror perpetrated by 19 men with box-cutters a decade ago, the US government has now put hundreds of millions of innocent Americans into countless military, intelligence, and law enforcement databases without suspecting them of any crime. The National Security Agency [...]
In Cheney’s memoir, it’s clear Iraq’s lessons didn’t sink in By Bob Woodward, Published: September 12 A key lesson of the 9/11 decade for presidents and other national security decision makers is the importance of rigorously testing intelligence evidence: poking holes in it, setting out contradictions, figuring out what may have been overlooked or left out. It is [...]
Triumph of groupthink Olmert, left, and Gates, right, shake hands at Olmert’s office in Jerusalem, April 19, 2007. by LAWRENCE DAVIDSON on SEPTEMBER 11, 2011 … careerism and narrow interests over honesty and moral courage There is an interesting phenomenon which we can call “the political retiree’s confession”. I don’t mean all those hyped memoirs, ghost written [...]
G8 pledges billions for Arab Spring as IMF recognizes Libya Published Sunday 11/09/2011 (updated) 11/09/2011 16:48 International Monetary Fund managing director Christine Lagarde arrives for a meeting of the G7 Finance ministers and “Deauville Partnership” in Marseille, southern France. [AFP/Gerard Julien] MARSEILLE, France (AFP) — Arab states that ousted their dictators got a financial [...]
Analysis: Arab Spring reaches Israeli embassy in Cairo Published yesterday 16:30 Egyptian army officers arrest a suspected demonstrators attempting to come close to the Israeli embassy at the site of clashes between protesters and riot police in Cairo September 10, 2011. [Reuters/Amr Abdallah Dalsh] By Rashid Shahin Seven months after toppling the regime of [...]
B’Tselem: Israel denies ‘right to protest’ in West Bank Published yesterday (updated) 12/09/2011 20:37 A Palestinian youth hangs his national flag in front of Israeli soldiers during a demonstration against Israel’s controversial separation barrier in the West Bank town of Beit Jala, near Bethlehem on July 11, 2010. [MaanImages/Luay Sababa] BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — The [...]
Israeli leaders mull statehood bid in a changing world Published yesterday (updated) 12/09/2011 18:19 Israel‘s opposition leader Tzipi Livni says Israel should seek its own resolution at the UN to block political parties advocating violence from democratic participation. [AFP/GETTY, File] By Charlotte Alfred HERZLIYA, Israel (Ma’an) — Israel’s opposition leader said on Sunday evening [...]
Former MI5 chief urges terrorist talks Lady Eliza Manningham-Buller, the former head of MI5, attacked anti-terrorist laws passed under Labour. Photograph: Graeme Robertson/Getty Images Lady Eliza Manningham-Buller says dialogue with terror groups, including al-Qaida, requires courage but ‘is necessary’ reddit this Richard Norton-Taylor The Guardian, Tuesday 13 September 2011 Article history The former head [...]
Al Gore wants your Twitter account for climate push Former US vice-president and environmental activist Al Gore is to launch a climate change push using social media. Photograph: Rodrigo Buenida/AFP/Getty Images Former US vice-president will broadcast presentations across 24 time zones from as part of a climate change campaign reddit this Reuters guardian.co.uk, Monday [...]
Murder and torture ‘carried out by both sides’ of uprising against Libyan regime Libyan rebels gather on armoured vehicles outside Sirte, one of the last strongholds of the fugitive leader Muammar Gaddafi. Photograph: Ciro Fusco/ANSA Amnesty International report is filled with horrific abuses and killings by pro-Gaddafi forces as well as opposition fighters Rebels [...]
Greek Default Looms Eurozone At Death’s Door by MIKE WHITNEY “After almost two years of fighting to contain the region’s debt crisis and providing the biggest share of three European bailouts, Chancellor Angela Merkel is laying the ground for what markets say is almost a sure thing: a Greek default.” – Bloomberg News Greece is hurtling [...]
The 9/11 Conspiracists: Vindicated After All These Years? by ALEXANDER COCKBURN We’re homing in on the tenth anniversary of the destruction of the Wall Street Trade Towers and the attack on the Pentagon. One in seven Americans and one in four among those aged 16-24, (so a recent poll commissioned by the BBC tells us) [...]
Storming the Embassy: ‘Peace without Justice is Tyranny’ By Nath Aldalala’a What was built on feeble foundations is feeble. The Egypt-Israeli Peace Treaty (EIPT) was signed at a time characterised by a very different domestic and regional political climate. The most notable aspect of that period was the lack of voice from within the ranks [...]
