Why No Sympathy for the Palestinians? The Disgusting Attacks on Gunter Grass By Tariq Ali April 10, 2012 “Information Clearing House“ —- The German writer Gunter Grass (The Tin Drum) had already predicted the response to his poem in SdZ. There is no reason to be surprised, but there is every reason [...]
If Iran Had Nuclear Weapons Most Arab People Would Feel Safer By Noam Chomsky The Arab dictators may be in America’s pocket but, says Noam Chomsky, polls show repeatedly that it is the United States and Israel that are viewed as the greatest threat to the vast majority of the Arab [...]
Night raids in Afghanistan In case you missed it, this past Sunday, an “agreement” was signed between General John R. Allen, the American commander in Afghanistan and Afghan Defense Minister Abdul Rahim Wardok regarding “special operations missions” including “night raids, relegating American troops to a supporting role and bringing the raids under Afghan authority”. Under [...]
A question of faith … the cathedral of San Cristóbal de las Casas. Photograph: Alamy Mexico’s rebel Chiapas state is turning its back on Catholicism The poor and persecuted in the Zapatista bastion embrace Muhammad as well as Marcos Frédéric Saliba Guardian Weekly, Tuesday 10 April 2012 12.39 BST Article history Manuel Gómez, 61, is walking [...]
Abdel Hakim Belhaj has been offered £1m in compensation by the government over his alleged rendition to Libya. Photograph: Francois Mori/AP Libyan dissident offered money to avoid MI6 appearing in open court Abdel Hakim Belhaj offered £1m in compensation over alleged UK involvement in his rendition to the Gaddafi regime Richard Norton-Taylor guardian.co.uk, Tuesday 10 April 2012 21.21 BST [...]
Stock market panic selling led to shares falling across the world with the FTSE100 down 128 points. Photograph: Frank Baron for the Guardian European stock markets rocked by panic selling as debt crisis reignites Investors demanding high premiums for holding Italian and Spanish bonds as fears of double-dip recession grow Heather Stewart, Larry Elliott and Giles Tremlett in Madrid [...]
Perverts in Power: The Torture-Lovers Who Rule Us by Chris Floyd I. The ordeal of Fatima Bouchar, detailed by Ian Cobain in the Guardian, exemplifies the vile essence of the “Terror War” being conducted by United States and its abject satellite, Great Britain, against large swathes of the world’s population (including, increasingly, their own people). It [...]
Shell Hell in Nigeria As We Ruin Our Kids’ Planet, They Take Us to Court By David Swanson http://warisacrime.org/content/we-ruin-our-kids-planet-they-take-us-court Here in the land of the free lunch and the home of the instant gratification, most people make a huge deal out of children’s rights or fetuses’ rights, or occasionally both. Which is [...]
Engelhardt, The Smog of War Posted by Tom Engelhardt at 9:05am, April 10, 2012. [Note for TomDispatch Readers: The Nation magazine website has just released the first of a series of short video interviews with me about my latest book, The United States of Fear -- this one focusing on how post-Cold-War Washington chose what I [...]
Brazil’s importance on the world stage is such that Barack Obama, the US president, hailed it an “equal partner”. But as Dilma Rouseff, the Brazilian president, makes her first official visit to Washington, we ask if the US is giving the emerging power the recognition it is seeking. On Monday, Rouseff, who represents the [...]
Breivik claims the attacks were necessary in a civil war against Islam in Europe [AFP] A new psychiatric examination has found that confessed mass killer Anders Behring Breivik is not criminally insane, despite a claim based upon an earlier assessment. Tuesday’s finding comes six days before the 33-year-old Norwegian is set to stand trial on terror charges a [...]
Günter Grass identifies Israel as a threat to world peace in his poem, ‘What Must Be Said’ [GALLO/GETTY] New York, NY - On Wednesday, April 4, 2012, the German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung published Nobel laureate Günter Grass’ poem (the German original) that has created quite a stir not only in Germany, Israel and Iran, but also across the [...]
A bomb-damaged branch of the Administrative Reform ministry in Athens yesterday. Photograph: John Kolesidis/REUTERS Eurozone crisis live: Bombs in Athens over Easter break Eurozone investor sentiment drops Spanish minister refuses to rule out bailout Greeks protest austerity measures with small fire-bombs There is more live coverage of events at http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2012/apr/10/eurozone-crisis-live-athens-protests-bombs Related articles Greeks Rally Against Austerity [...]
Protesters dressed up as bankers under police watch in Zaragoza, during the March 29 Spanish general strike [Al Jazeera/Pepe Escobar] The longing for rest and peace must itself be thrust aside; it coincides with the acceptance of iniquity. Those who weep for the happy periods they encountered in history acknowledge what they want: not the [...]
Report: CIA Operating Drone Flights Over Iran The Washington Post has revealed the CIA has been operating stealth surveillance drones deep inside Iran for the last three years in an attempt to uncover evidence of an Iranian nuclear weapons program. In addition, the National Security Agency has ramped up eavesdropping on Iran, and the United [...]
Daughter of Greek Suicide Victim: “Bestiality of Capitalism Unacceptable” Hundreds of people gathered Saturday in Athens, Greece, for the funeral of Dimitris Christoulas, the 77-year-old retired pharmacist who shot and killed himself near the Greek Parliament building last week after writing a note that blamed his suicide on the [...]
“To forbid the use of military bases on our territory” By davidswanson - Posted on 09 April 2012 U.S. Military Bases in Germany and a Brief History of Protests Against Them By Elsa Rassbach On September 25, 2009, U.S. and NATO commanders emblematically chose Ramstein Air Base in Germany to announce the request [...]
Scoundrels Attack Gunter Grass Truths by Stephen Lendman Touching the most sensitive nerves has risks. Nearly always hostile responses follow. Criticizing Israel is the third rail of US politics. It’s also largely off limits in scoundrel media managed news, op-eds, and editorials. Gunter Grass took the risks. He [...]
GAZA CITY (Ma’an) — Israeli soldiers on Monday shot and injured a Palestinian construction worker in eastern Gaza, medics said. The 23-year-old man was taken to the Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, medical officials told Ma’an. An Israeli military spokeswoman did not immediately return a call seeking comment. Also Monday, witnesses said that dozens of [...]
Firefighters try to save bags of food aid at the United Nations headquarters in Gaza City after it was bombed by Israel on Jan. 15, 2009. (MaanImages/Mohamed Al-Zanon) BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — Palestine can still pursue an investigation into possible Israeli war crimes during the last offensive on Gaza at the International Criminal Court, PLO observer [...]
How NATO Dehumanizes Us Categories:Afghanistan http://vcnv.org/how-nato-dehumanizes-us by Jerica Arents When we finally stepped off the helicopter and greeted the mountains of Bamiyan, Afghanistan, I was exhausted. A full day and a half after our departure, my eyelids were heavy and I was hoping, desperately, for a cup of warm, life-giving [...]
Israel Afraid of Iraq’s US-Provided Warplanes That Israel feels threatened by Iraq – America’s intended client – is a monument to the failure of the Iraq war by John Glaser, April 09, 2012 Print This | Share This Recent U.S. military aid and arms sales to Iraq are fueling concern in Israel amid intelligence reports that Baghdad is increasingly [...]
Why Do They Hate George Galloway So Much? by PATRICK COCKBURN The ferocity of the attacks on George Galloway by the British commentariat is one of the most revealing outcomes of his victory in the Bradford West by-election. News presenters saw no problem in conducting interviews with the newly elected [...]
Heard the One About the Peace Activist on the Titanic? By David Swanson http://warisacrime.org/content/heard-one-about-peace-activist-titanic As we mark the 100-year anniversary of the unsinkable Titanic sinking, we should recall both the good and bad of that long-forgotten world of 1912. Were an unbelievably expensive means of luxury travel between the United [...]
Pakistani Muslim women celebrating Eid al-Adhi in Lahore. Photograph: Arif Ali/AFP/Getty Images New wave of well-off Pakistani women drawn to conservative Islam Wealthy, educated women are increasingly embracing the trend for religious inquiry and observance Jason Burke in Lahore guardian.co.uk, Monday 9 April 2012 19.06 BST Article history All the women working in the information technology division of the Bank [...]
Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, a candidate for the Republican presidential nomination, right, and Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) shake hands during a campaign event at Lawrence University in Appleton, Wis., March 30, 2012. (Photo: Eric Thayer / The New York Times) Obama and Romney Are Politicians, Not Visionaries Monday, 09 April 2012 09:23By Dean Baker, Truthout | [...]
The situation to state it briefly is this: The [SPD] Executive and the General Commission [of the Trade Unions] have already considered the mass strike, and after lengthy negotiations it was defeated by the resistance of the General Commission”The masses themselves ought to decide, but it is our duty to present the [...]
