Palestinian intellectual Edward Said became a staunch proponent of a one-state solution [AP] Palestine and the politics of hope Palestinians should consider the late Edward Said’s strong support for a one-state solution. Farid Y. Farid Last Modified: 03 Oct 2011 16:26 Towards the end of his highly anticipated speech at the United Nations General Assembly, [...]
An Israeli soldier aims his rifle towards Palestinians during a demonstration against the Israeli separation wall in the West Bank village of Bilin near Ramallah November 30, 2007. (MaanImages/Medyan Dairieh) Medics: Teenager shot by soldiers near Gaza City Published today (updated) 03/10/2011 20:28 GAZA CITY (Ma’an) — Israeli soldiers shot and injured a Palestinian [...]
Women take part in a protest at the Red Cross headquarters in Gaza City on Oct. 3, 2011, to show their solidarity with prisoners held in Israeli jails. (Reuters/Mohammed Salem) Thousands rally for prisoners in Israeli jails Published today (updated) 03/10/2011 19:41 NABLUS (AFP) — Thousands of people in the West Bank and Gaza [...]
Robert Fisk: The never-ending war against cliché and jargon REX FEATURES The ‘commercial space’ on the Champs-Elysées, also known as shops and cafés ENLARGE SPONSORED LINKS Asked to give a talk on the Middle East last week, I read on my invitation: “We want to bring visionaries, innovators, doers, funders, connectors, and their community into [...]
Time After Time Mr. Fish By Mr. Fish In the Dec. 14, 1963, issue of Time magazine, which was a special issue commemorating the life and death of the recently slain President Kennedy, there was a section devoted to the assassination that contained several captioned frames taken from the Zapruder film. One such frame depicted the [...]
Ry Cooder Listening Party With Robert Scheer SHARE 2 Nonesuch Records Posted on Oct 2, 2011 The celebrated musician talks about select tracks from his new album, “Pull Up Some Dust and Sit Down,” as well as his musical and political influences, with Truthdig’s Robert Scheer and Kasia Anderson. The first part of this interview originally aired [...]
Abbas Well-Deserved UN Applause 24 September 2011 When Binyamin Netanyahu addressed the US Congress some months ago he was given multiple standing ovations by America’s Senators and Congressmen. Yesterday the whole world, represented at the UN by their Ambassadors, sincerely and spontaneously gave Palestinian President Mahmud Abbas a standing ovation – with the exception of [...]
Rupert Murdoch’s the Daily has 80,000 paying subscribers Rupert Murdoch launches the Daily. Photograph: Spencer Platt/Getty Images iPad newspaper attracts just a sixth of the number News Corp chief said it needs to break even reddit this Comments (66) Josh Halliday guardian.co.uk, Monday 3 October 2011 11.15 BST Article history Rupert Murdoch‘s iPad-only newspaper the [...]
Israel must restart talks with its neighbours or face isolation, says US Leon Panetta answers questions aboard an US air force plane en route to the Middle East. Photograph: Win Mcnamee/AP Defence secretary Leon Panetta says Israel needs to focus on diplomacy as well as security as he travels to Middle East reddit this Associated [...]
European debt crisis: Osborne talks up the UK recovery as markets tumble on Greek fears This page will update automatically every minute: On | Off • Lunchtime round-up • Osborne: ‘You cannot borrow your way out of debt’ • Osborne announces ‘credit easing’ for small businesses • Euro hits 8 1/2 month low against dollar • FTSE [...]
How Anti-Authoritarians Can Transcend their Sense of Hopelessness and Fight Back LIKE THIS ARTICLE ? Join our mailing list: How can anti-authoritarian critical thinkers rise above their pessimism and really fight for change? September 28, 2011 | Critical thinking anti-authoritarians see the enormity of the military-industrial complex, the energy-industrial complex and the financial-industrial complex. They [...]
National Transitional Council (NTC) fighters battle loyalist forces in Sirte. (AFP/Aris Messinis) Red Cross warns of medical emergency in Sirte, Libya Published yesterday (updated) 02/10/2011 12:08 MISRATA, Libya (AFP) — The international Red Cross warned of a medical emergency in Moammar Gadhafi‘s hometown Sirte as the battle for the fugitive Libyan strongman’s largest remaining [...]
By Abdul-Hakim Salah France 2 bureau chief rebuffs critics over Abbas article Published yesterday (updated) 02/10/2011 19:00 BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — French-Israeli journalist Charles Enderlin told Ma’an on Sunday that he was used to being attacked by extremists, after his article published in France caused a stir for its support of President Mahmoud Abbas. In [...]
Palestinian detainees walk with an Israeli prison guard (R) before their release from Ofer prison outside the West Bank city of Ramallah August 25, 2008. (Reuters/Baz Ratner) Detainees from Ashkelon prison join hunger strike Published yesterday (updated) 03/10/2011 10:09 RAMALLAH (Ma’an) — Head of the Palestinian Detainees Center Qaddoura Fares said Sunday that 20 [...]
(MaanImages/Rami Swidan, File) Locals: Settlers burn olive trees in Ramallah villages Published yesterday (updated) 02/10/2011 19:58 RAMALLAH (Ma’an) — Israeli settlers vandalized orchards in two Ramallah-district villages late Saturday, locals told Ma’an. Settlers uprooted olive trees owned by Palestinian farmers and set fire to the groves in the central West Bank villages of Nabi [...]
Officials: Blair acting for US, Israel (MaanImages/File) BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — Senior Palestinian officials said Sunday that Middle East Quartet envoy Tony Blair was acting as a propagandist for the US and Israel. A top official speaking on condition of anonymity told Ma’an that Blair had followed instructions from Israel to avoid talking about politics [...]
Mosque set alight in Galilee village A Palestinian shows the damage to a family house which was firebombed by Jewish settlers in the West Bank village of Huwwara near Nablus. [AFP/Jaafar Ashtiyeh] JERUSALEM (AFP) — A mosque in northern Israel was set on fire overnight Sunday in a suspected ‘price tag’ attack, Israeli police [...]
A formula for justice Bayes’ theorem is a mathematical equation used in court cases to analyse statistical evidence. But a judge has ruled it can no longer be used. Will it result in more miscarriages of justice? Bayes’ theorem. Photograph: guardian.co.uk It’s not often that the quiet world of mathematics is rocked by a murder [...]
Obama Wrong to Rub Out Al-Awlaki Forgive me while I don’t cheer the assassination of Anwar Al-Awlaki, the New Mexico-born cleric whom the United States just killed in Yemen. He was a U.S. citizen, after all. He had never been indicted for a crime here, much less convicted of one, much less sentenced to death. [...]
Israel’s Great Fear: Iran Might Act Like Them Military Officials Concerned Iran Might Try ‘Nuclear Ambiguity’ by Jason Ditz, October 02, 2011 | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum Those who follow the Israeli media will see the nation’s government afraid of a myriad of things. Today, as it so often does, attention turns to Iran’s [...]
Shell oil paid Nigerian military to put down protests, court documents show Secret papers reveal that in the 1990s the oil giant routinely worked with the army to suppress resistance to its activities Shell oil activities in Ogoniland in the Niger delta have polluted rivers. Photograph: Akintunde Akinleye/REUTERS Shell has never denied that its oil [...]
NATO: At Least 10,000 ‘Lost Missiles’ in Libya Missiles a Threat to Civil Aviation by Jason Ditz, October 02, 2011 | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum In a secret meeting with German MPs, top NATO officials reportedly confirmed that over 10,000 missiles inside Libya are still completely unaccounted for, with Admiral Giampaolo di Paola saying that [...]
Pakistan denies ISI involvement in Burhanuddin Rabbani‘s assassination Burhanuddin Rabbani, the former Afghan president, was to lead peace talks with the Taliban but was killed in a suicide bomb attack. Photograph: Jalil Rezayee/EPA Pakistan has denied Afghanistan‘s claim that the military Inter-Services Intelligence agency (ISI) was involved in the assassination of Afghanistan’s envoy for peace talks [...]
Peter Van Buren, How the American Taxpayer Got Plucked in Iraq Posted by Peter Van Buren at 6:00pm, October 2, 2011. [Note for TomDispatch Readers: Today’s twisted treat for you is a slightly adapted chapter from Peter Van Buren’s new book, We Meant Well: How I Helped Lose the Battle for the Hearts and Minds of [...]
