The US State Department has sadly joined the push to distribute GM crops around the world, whether people want them or not by Wenonah Hauter Wenonah Hauter is the executive director of the consumer advocacy group Food & Water Watch. She has worked extensively on energy, food, water and environmental issues at the national, state [...]
Prof. Joseph Massad: The last of the Semites
Joseph Massad is Associate Professor of Modern Arab Politics and Intellectual History at Columbia University. It is Israel’s claims that it represents and speaks for all Jews that are the most anti-Semitic claims of all. Al Jazeera Last Modified: 14 May 2013 14:49 Jewish opponents of Zionism understood the movement since its early age as [...]
The organization behind illegal West Bank outpost construction
With friends in high places, law-evading ploys and piles of money in the bank, veteran settler leader Ze’ev Hever and his organization Amana are seemingly immune to Israeli legal action. By Chaim Levinson Haaretz 18:30 13.05.13 | 33 Theoretically, the Civil Administration – the Israel Defense Forces body responsible for infrastructure law enforcement in the [...]
Uri Avnery’s Specious Attack On The One State Solution
By John Spritzler John Spritzler is editor of www.NewDemocracyWorld.org Information Clearing House May 14, 2013 Uri Avnery may be the most sophisticated defender of Israel’s ethnic cleansing of Palestinians. He defends this ethnic cleansing while posing as a great friend and sympathizer of Palestinians, supposedly proven by his opposition to Israel’s occupation of the West [...]
The Persecution of the Oak Ridge Three — How the US Turned Three Pacifists Into Violent Terrorists
by FRAN QUIGLEY Fran Quigley is the director of the Health and Human Rights Clinic at Indiana University McKinney School of Law. Counterpunch May 15, 2013 In just ten months, the United States managed to transform an 82 year-old Catholic nun and two pacifists from non-violent anti-nuclear peace protestors accused of misdemeanor trespassing into federal [...]
Dirty Wars, Filthy Hands: 5 Unsavory Ways America Conducts Its Global War on Terror
America’s allies are terrorists, warlords, and corrupt officials, plied with bounty payments and quid-pro-quo assassinations. By Alex Kane Alex Kane is AlterNet’s New York-based World editor, and an assistant editor for Mondoweiss. Follow him on Twitter @alexbkane. Information Clearing House Alternet May 13, 2013 The recent revelation that the Central Intelligence Agency has handed tens [...]
ICC prosecutor opens initial probe into Gaza flotilla
Maan Wednesday 15/05/2013, 21:08 THE HAGUE (AFP) — The International Criminal Court has opened a preliminary probe into Israel’s deadly raid on a Gaza-bound flotilla in 2010, the prosecutor’s office said Tuesday. “My office will be conducting a preliminary examination in order to establish whether the criteria for opening an investigation are met,” Fatou Bensouda [...]
Turkey: Israel to compensate only those who drop lawsuits
Deputy PM Arinc confirms reconciliation agreement will obligate families of Marmara raid victims to drop lawsuits against IDF officers. Families’ rep: Inappropriate to talk compensation prior to removal of Gaza blockade Ynet Published: 05.12.13, 09:17 / Israel News Turkish Deputy Prime Minister Bulent Arinc said the reconciliation agreement being formulated between Turkey and Israel would [...]
