Eric S. Margolis is the author of American Raj: Liberation or Domination? As the troops come home, it’s time to count the cost. The American Conservative November 21, 2011 In October, 2002 I wrote in the first issue of The American Conservative an analysis of the impending Iraq War entitled “The Road [...]
Right-wing Israeli group creates booklet listing businesses that employ Palestinians
by RAINman on 25. Nov, 2011 in Newsletter Links
Saed Bannoura November 21, 2011 A grandson of the late Rabbi Meir Kahane, best known for his belief that Arabs should be ethnically cleansed from historic Palestine, is leading a movement to document and boycott all businesses in Israel that employ Palestinians. The plan was discovered when 19-year old Meir Ettinger was [...]
Iraqi prisoners move closer to inquiry into mistreatment claims
by RAINman on 25. Nov, 2011 in Newsletter Links
Ian Cobain and Richard Norton-Taylor guardian.co.uk, Tuesday 22 November 2011 15.38 GMT UK military faces judge-led inquiry into detentions and interrogations after appeal court rules in favour of 140 Iraqis More than 140 Iraqis who were imprisoned by British troops in the years following the 2003 invasion have won a court of [...]
Commodifying Education: The Corporatization of the American University
by RAINman on 25. Nov, 2011 in Newsletter Links
by STEVEN HIGGS Counterpunch November 21, 2011 Peter Seybold traces the pernicious influence corporatization has had on the American campus back almost a decade before the Reagan Revolution of 1980, to a memo written byRichmond,Va., attorney Lewis F. Powell Jr. to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce in late summer 1971. Powell, who [...]
War crimes tribunal tries Bush, Blair
by RAINman on 25. Nov, 2011 in Newsletter Links
Press TV Sat Nov 19, 2011 5:41PM A War Crimes Tribunal in the Malaysian capital has begun its hearing against George W. Bush and Tony Blair, charging the former officials for the invasion of Iraq and Afghanistan, Press TV reports. The tribunal will determine whether the formerUSpresident and British prime minister committed war [...]
Response to Richard Goldstone ‘Israel and the Apartheid Slander’
by RAINman on 25. Nov, 2011 in Newsletter Links
By Mutasem Awad and Hiyam Noir November 20, 2011 Richard Goldstone’s op-ed published for New York Times and dated October 31 2011, with the offensively noticeable title: “Israeland the Apartheid Slander”, astounded us because of the fallacies, aimed at blurring the truth and to justify the policies pursued by the Israeli occupation for [...]
A message from Kairos Palestine about BDS
by RAINman on 25. Nov, 2011 in Newsletter Links
A Frantic Counter BDS Campaign Under Way in Israel Kairos Palestine November 18, 2011 A Frantic Counter BDS Campaign Under Way in Israel Statement by Kairos Palestine on “Buy Israel Week” Bethlehem, 17.11.2011. Anything but subtle – that sums up the desperate campaign recently launched by an assortment of anti-Palestinians conglomerates. [...]
Seymour M. Hersh: Iran and the I.A.E.A.
by RAINman on 25. Nov, 2011 in Newsletter Links
New Yorker November 19, 2011 -The first question in last Saturday night’s Republican debate on foreign policy dealt withIran, and a newly published report by the International Atomic Energy Agency. The report, which raised renewed concern about the “possible existence of undeclared nuclear facilities and material inIran,” struck a darker tone than previous assessments. [...]
Honored as a Freedom Rider
by RAINman on 25. Nov, 2011 in Newsletter Links
Mazin Qumsiyeh, PhD I was honored to be a freedom rider and it was team effort at its best (those who rode and the many who worked behind the scenes). Two other Palestinians were also arrested with us who were there as a reporters/observers not participants. All eight of us were released eventually pending [...]
Robert Fisk: Assad will only go if his own tanks turn against him
by RAINman on 25. Nov, 2011 in Newsletter Links
Predictions of Syrian leader’s imminent demise are hopelessly optimistic The Independent Wednesday 16 November 2011 InDamascusearlier this month, Syrian state television asked me for an interview on events inSyria. With much trepidation, I accepted, promising the presenter he would not like all I said, but warning – a bit of Fisk blackmail, this [...]
Archie Bland: How an idiot could still end up in the White House
by RAINman on 25. Nov, 2011 in Newsletter Links
Archie Bland The Independent Wednesday 16 November 2011 There is, of course, nothing to stop total idiots trying to be leader of the free world, but you’d think there’d be some sort of winnowing process that would stop them reaching the last six. The amazing video of Herman Cain that did the [...]
Justin Raimondo: The Armageddon Network
by RAINman on 15. Nov, 2011 in Newsletter Links
How the war party is ginning up war with Iran Antiwar.com November 14, 2011 The War Party is bound and determined to drag us, kicking and screaming, into a military conflict with Iran – and they have constructed a vast network of agents inside both parties, and inside the government, to accomplish exactly [...]
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