East Timor: a lesson in why the poorest threaten the powerful 5 April 2012 Milan Kundera’s truism, “the struggle of people against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting”, described East Timor. The day before I set out to film clandestinely there in 1993, I went to Stanfords map [...]
Rebekah Brooks leaves the high court in London after giving evidence to the Leveson inquiry last week. Photograph: Sang Tan/AP Rebekah Brooks, the former News International chief executive, will be told on Tuesday if she is to be among the first people to face criminal charges over the phone-hacking scandal. The Crown Prosecution Service will announce whether [...]
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Illustration by Mr. Fish Colonized by Corporations By Chris Hedges In Robert E. Gamer’s book “The Developing Nations” is a chapter called “Why Men Do Not Revolt.” In it Gamer notes that although the oppressed often do revolt, the object of their hostility is misplaced. They vent their fury on a political puppet, someone who masks colonial power, [...]
Anti-War ANZAC Day APR 25, ’124:03 PM By Alice Barricadas Today is a sad day. It is probably a good thing that the hundreds of old men, who used to line the pub walls on ANZAC day as an act of both remembrance and to forget, are mostly dead. Many [...]
link http://www.tothepointanalyses.com/1408 Part I – Liberal Games On 10 April 2012 the journalist Charles Davis did a guest posting on Glenn Greenwald’s website, Salon. The title of the piece is “The Liberal Betrayal of Bradley Manning.” Davis’s argument is that President Obama acts much like George Bush Jr. when it comes to “security” issues. He has, for [...]
Israel’s Buffoon: The UN Nakba By Vacy Vlazna On May 15, 1948 the unilateral proclamation of the State of Israel which erupted into the brutal Palestinian Nakba or Catastrophe was also catastrophic for United Nations (UN) ringing the death knell for its stature and authority. Like medieval kings, the [...]
‘A third element has crept into this conflict, possibly from Iraq, Lebanon and Jordan, and its agenda has nothing to do with the Arab spring or the clamour for democracy.’ Illustration by Toby Morison. Abdel Bari Atwan guardian.co.uk, Sunday 13 May 2012 21.00 BST Comments (60) The two suicide car bombs in Damascus on 10 May were an [...]
WAR: The “Mutual Butchery” of the Poor and Working Class This is a war on all of us, and the struggle against war is really a struggle for a better life for the millions of folks who are in need here in this country. The fight against the [...]
“Governments use national animosities, foreign wars and the glamour of empire-making, in order to…divert rising sentiment against domestic abuses.” - J. R. Hobson “Vietnam should remind conservatives that whenever you put your faith in big government for any reason, sooner or later you wind up an apologist for mass murder.” - Karl Hess [...]
War Tribunal Finds Bush, Cheney Guilty of War Crimes Kuala Lumpur War Crimes Tribunal orders reparations be given to torture victims – Common Dreams staff Former US President George W Bush, his Vice-President Dick Cheney and six other members of his administration have been found guilty of war crimes by a tribunal in Malaysia. [...]
Tomgram: Engelhardt, Predator Nation Posted by Tom Engelhardt at 5:51pm, May 13, 2012. [For TomDispatch Readers: Point of pride -- the TD post a Sunday ago of the last words ofEcotopia author Ernest Callenbach, “Epistle to the Ecotopians,” was chosen as a point of departure for a moving online column by the New York Times’ Mark Bittman. [...]
