There was something tawdry and disgusting about the phone hacking by Rupert Murdoch’s News of the World. The News Corporation owned tabloid hacked the phone mails of several thousand citizens of Great Britain. Victims included celebrities, politicians, and even a murdered eleven year old kidnap victim. But that wasn’t enough to generate type [...]
image from wikipediaIn the year 312, the Roman Emperor Constantine saw some kind of a religious vision at some time before a battle in which he defeated his major rival at the time, Maxentius (1). Just what the nature of the vision was is unclear, but it did lead to Constantine’s conversion to what became [...]
Time Running Out for Sustainable Future: Report Worldwatch maps sustainable ‘good life’, warns great changes must be made before it’s too late – Common Dreams staff The planet will not be able to sustain levels of consumption typical of today’s ‘consumer class’ without irreparable consequences to the globe, according to the just released Worldwatch Institute [...]
Goerge W Bush walks before speaking in defense of his war policy to an audience in December 2005. (Photograph: Pablo Martinez Monsivais/AP) Dissenting Memos on Bush Torture Program Released Administration tried to ‘collect and destroy’ all copies of advice White House received objecting to cruel acts – Common Dreams staff Internal State Department memos warning [...]
Matterhorn, Europe‘s Great Summit, Crumbling in Face of Climate Change Global warming is causing accelerated decay of Matterhorn, high peaks around the world – Common Dreams staff One of the highest peaks in the Alps, Matterhorn, is quickly disintegrating due to global warming patterns. A new report released by researchers from the University of Zurich, [...]
U.S. Army soldiers in four-wheel vehicles wait as bundles of fuel are air delivered by a C-17 Globemaster III to Forward Operating Base Waza K’wah in Paktika province, Afghanistan, Jan. 30, 2011. (Photo: The U.S. Army) Who Benefits From the Organized Violence of War? A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic [...]
Drug War Nightmare: How We Created a Massive Racial Caste System in America The drug war has created a new Jim Crow system. March 26, 2012 | To stay on top of important articles like these, sign up to receive the latest updates from TomDispatch.com here. Ever since Barack Obama lifted his right hand and took [...]
In Defense of Gilad Atzmon By Jean Bricmont Pro-Palestinian friends had repeatedly warned me: Gilad Atzmon is anti-Semitic, he is bad for the Palestinian cause, he may even work for Israel. I must have a contrarian turn of mind, because that kind of talk never stopped me from regularly reading [...]
Advancing the Policy of “Aggressive Diplomacy” Iran in Obama’s Speeches By Sasan Fayazmanesh The best way to understand the Middle East policies of U.S. officials is to study their speeches at the annual policy conferences of American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), where nearly every political figure must pay homage to Israel and its most [...]
Southeast Asia Nations, China Bring Rift to Summit Amid tensions in the South China Sea between China, the Philippines, and Vietnam, other Southeast Asian Nations are split over how they should deal with the region. China has recently called for peace while thePhilippines and Vietnam have developed stronger military ties with each other as well as with the United [...]
cigarette break More chefs taking a break in the land of no cheese: landofnocheese.blogspot.com/2011/06/whitish-whites.html
Grass-mud horse shown on the fifty-cent bill. Word of the Week: Fifty Cents Editor’s Note: The Word of the Week comes from China Digital Space’s Grass-Mud Horse Lexicon, a glossary of terms created by Chinese netizens and frequently encountered in online political discussions. These are the words of China’s online “resistance discourse,” used to mock and subvert [...]
Man Whose WMD Lies Led to Iraq War Confesses All Defector tells how US officials ‘sexed up’ his fictions to make the case for 2003 invasion By Jonathan Owen April 01, 2012 “The Independent” – -A man whose lies helped to make the case for invading Iraq – starting [...]
Günter Grass: poem criticises Israel‘s ‘claim to the right of first strike’ against Iran. Photograph: John Macdougall/AFP/Getty Images Günter Grass launches poetry attack on Israel German Nobel literature laureate Günter Grass says Israel is a threat to world peace in his poem What Must Be Said guardian.co.uk, Wednesday 4 April 2012 17.19 BST Article history German [...]
Melting permafrost as a result of global warming could trigger runaway climate change. Photograph: Corbis A scientific conundrum that has puzzled climate experts for years may have been solved with the publication of research showing how an increase in carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere contributed to rising temperatures millions of years ago. The paper, [...]
Amazon.co.uk was transferred to a Luxembourg company in 2006. It’s UK operation is classed as ‘order fulfilment’ business – a delivery organisation. Photograph: Sarah Lee for the Guardian Amazon.co.uk, Britain’s biggest online retailer, generated sales of more than £3.3bn in the country last year but paid no corporation tax on any of the profits from [...]
This article deals with a ‘doctrine’ that has and still does affect the indigenous people of Australia. While some view the Australian attitude to the indigenous as “paternal” that word carries with it some concept of actually caring for and being concerned about the peoples being made the subject of some or any [...]
I (MaanImages/File) NABLUS (Ma’an) — Israeli forces detained at least four people in the West Bank overnight Monday, locals and security officials said. Forces raided Nablus city at dawn, detaining Fadel Beitawi, 33, the son of Hamas-affiliated lawmaker Hamid Beitawi, and Muhammad Muna, 28, a journalist with Quds Press, locals said. In nearby village Kafr [...]
BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — Israeli settlers have planted trees on privately-owned Palestinian land near Bethlehem, a local official said Tuesday. Popular committee spokesman Ahmad Salah told Ma’an that a group of settlers planted tree saplings on 2,000 square meters of land in the Ein al-Qassis area of al-Khader. The land belongs to Hasan Mousa Hasan, who [...]
Hana Shalabi is being compared by some to Winnie Mandela who was also exiled for her activism [EPA] Santa Barbara, CA - As with Khader Adnan, Israel supposedly compromised with Hana Shalabi on day 43 of her hunger strike in protest against administrative detentionand her abysmal treatment. But Israel’s concept of “compromise”, if considered, becomes indistinguishable from [...]
An estimated 70,000 people currently live in 45 unrecognised Bedouin villages in the Negev [REUTERS] Beer-Sheva, Israel - “It is not every day that a government decides to relocate almost half a per cent of its population in a programme of forced urbanisation,” Rawia Aburabia asserted, adding that “this is precisely what Prawer wants to do”.The meeting, which [...]
James Murdoch‘s resignation as chairman of BSkyB comes ahead of a cross-party committee report and his appearance later this month at the Leveson inquiry. Photograph: Warren Allott/AFP/Getty Images It was the sacrifice that James Murdoch hoped he would not have to make. BSkyB was a business he loved, a growing broadcaster in an otherwise pressurised industry, where he spent [...]
The imperial way – American decline in perspective – Noam Chomsky Posted: February 17, 2012 | Author: SW9Red | Filed under: U.S. | Tags: AA Berle, Abedin Taherkenareh, American decline, Balfour Declaration, Barack Obama, CELAC, Chomsky, Crusades, Duvalier, Foreign Policy Research Institute,General Allenby, Harold Ickes, IMF, Iran, Marcos, MENA, Mobutu, Noam Chomsky, Palestine, Paul Godwin, Ronald Reagan,Roosevelt, Somoza, Suharto, The Arab Spring, Thomas Carothers | 1 Comment » Source – guardian.co.uk. An Iranian female student during a demonstration marking the 32nd anniversary of US Embassy in Tehran, 2011. Photograph: Abedin [...]
The Matrix of Four Forms of Racism By Ethan Indi (about the author) According to the Hopi, there are red, yellow, purple and white people synonymous with the colors of corn. Each color is related to an element and anyone can potentially lose their way and become two-hearted. The term two-hearted comes from the Hopi [...]
On this Land Day, I was at Erez Crossing. Several hundred youth had managed to find their way around the Hamas policemen blocking the roads leading to Erez. They Shoot the Youth Don’t They? By Johnny Barber (about the author) Become a Fan — Page 1 of 1 page(s) opednews.com On March 30, 1976, the Palestinian people declared a general [...]
A sample of copepods taken during a June 2011 cruise aboard the R/V Ka’imikai-O-Kanaloa off the northeast coast of Japan. (Ken Kostel, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution) Fukushima Radiation Moving Steadily Across Pacific Concentrated levels found as scientists sample the Pacific for signs of Fukushima – Common Dreams staff Teams of scientists have already found debris [...]
