Feed on
Posts
Comments

Archive for the 'war' Category

this is empire

Let us not forget that since these bombs were dropped the US/UK/USSR military industrial machines have built 1000s of nuclear bombs. War is a business. Empire needs war for the economic stimulus. But we don’t have to live in empire….. Read more »

Read Full Post »

States Johann Hari, at the Huffington Post.
Who imagined that in 2009, the world’s governments would be declaring a new War on Pirates? As you read this, the British Royal Navy – backed by the ships of more than two dozen nations, from the US to China – is sailing into Somalian waters to take on [...] Read more »

Read Full Post »

By Chris Floyd, on Information ClearingHouse.
Here’s a purely hypothetical scenario. Let’s say you were a dedicated imperial militarist who believed that your country’s security, prestige and financial interests could best be served by war and the ever-present threat of war. Let’s say you had some really hot and juicy operations going on, endless deadly conflicts [...] Read more »

Read Full Post »

Original article at IslamOnline.

As their army is continuing its deadly blitz in the bombed-out Gaza Strip, Israeli farmers are reporting a wide-scale boycott of their produce by Arab and European countries over the Israeli onslaught in Gaza.
“We export persimmons, and because of the fighting a number of countries and distributors are canceling orders,” Giora [...] Read more »

Read Full Post »

In the Name of God; the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful
Reprinted from Palestinian Chronicle.
Since the letter was sent, Venezuela has broken off diplomatic ties with Israel, as has Bolivia.
President Hugo Chavez,
Your Excellency, President Hugo Chavez,
We, the people of Palestine, commend your courage to speak and act upon your conscience regardless of your detractors’ criticism or [...] Read more »

Read Full Post »

By Juan Santos.
In loving memory of the late Mayan priestess Jo’b No’j Chomiha (Rosa Maria Cabrera)
It can no longer be hidden. What is happening in Gaza is, transparently, ethnic cleansing – genocide.
That genocide has been ongoing for sixty years, sometimes in intense, rapid, and explosive junctures, sometimes more slowly, routinely – but always, methodically.To see [...] Read more »

Read Full Post »

By Naomi Klein, at the Nation.
It’s time. Long past time. The best strategy to end the increasingly bloody occupation is for Israel to become the target of the kind of global movement that put an end to apartheid in South Africa.
In July 2005 a huge coalition of Palestinian groups laid out plans to do [...] Read more »

Read Full Post »

By Sam Bahour – The West Bank, Palestinian Chronicle.
I watch in shock, like the rest of the world, at the appalling death and destruction being wrought on Gaza by Israel; and still it does not stop. Meanwhile, we see a seemingly never-ending army of well-prepared Israeli war propagandists, some Israeli government officials, and many other [...] Read more »

Read Full Post »

By Brussells Tribunal
After almost two weeks of impotence, during which an estimated 790 Palestinians in Gaza have been killed, including 230 children, a further 1080 children among the 3300 injured, the UN Security Council passed — with US abstention — a weak and indeterminate resolution that has failed to force the State of Israel to [...] Read more »

Read Full Post »

By Brenda Norrell, Censored News
American Indian activist Russell Means said President-elect Obama was selected by the colonial powers as president to improve the US image globally in the aftermath of George Bush. Further, Means said Obama’s appointments show that he is a Zionist controlled by Israel. Speaking on Red Town Radio today, Means said what [...] Read more »

Read Full Post »

Next »