By Helena Cobban The Nation - 14 October 2009 If you walk along a certain dusty lane in the walled Old City of Damascus, you’ll come to a heavy door that admits you to the tree-shaded courtyards of the Talisman Hotel. Last January I was part of a small group that stayed at the Talisman. We [...]
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At What Cost the Israel Lobby?
Jeff Gates Uruknet.info – 12 October 2009 More than 46 years ago, President John F. Kennedy sought to preclude a nuclear arms race in the Middle East. In June 1963, he wrote the last in a series of insistent letters to Israeli Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion. Those letters sought what Israel now demands of Iran: [...]
Video: The New American Century
The untold history of The Project for the New American Century Video Posted 9 October 2009 This film demonstrates how the first film theaters in the US were used over a hundred years ago to broadcast propaganda to rile the American people into the Spanish-American War. The film exposes how every major war in US [...]
Gore Vidal’s United States of fury
At 84, the writer and activist may be confined to a wheelchair, but his rage – at his country, its leaders and citizens – burns as fiercely as ever. Johann Hari watches the sparks fly Independent – 7 October 2009 In Russian, the phrase “gore vidal” means “he has seen grief”. As Gore Vidal [...]
Yasmin Alibhai-Brown: We abandon history at our peril
Some school children surveyed thought Churchill the first man to walk on the moon Independent Monday, 14 September 2009 History may soon become extinct in our secondary schools, go the way of domestic science and handwriting classes, only less missed and less lamented than either. A major new study by the Historical Association and teacher [...]
The Closed Door
August 2, 2009 Nineteen years ago, incidents occurred in Iraq and Kuwait that changed the world and thus began the U.S. quest for word domination, an effort that gained momentum and is in full-swing today. According to the United States, “another Hitler” had just unleashed military forces that were in the first stage of taking [...]
THE OTHER APARTHEID STATE
Ronnie Kasrils was South Africa’s Minister of Intelligence under Thabo Mbeki’s leadership Address by Ronnie Kasrils: CAPE TOWN INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE: RE-ENVISIONING ISRAEL/PALESTINE 12 JUNE 2009 May I start by quoting a South African who emphatically stated as far back as 1961 that “The Jews took Israel from the Arabs after the Arabs had lived there [...]
Noam Chomsky: Unexceptional Americans: Why We Can’t See the Trees or the Forest
The Torture Memos and Historical Amnesia Published on Tuesday, May 19, 2009 by TomDispatch.com The torture memos released by the White House elicited shock, indignation, and surprise. The shock and indignation are understandable. The surprise, less so. For one thing, even without inquiry, it was reasonable to suppose that Guantanamo was a torture chamber. [...]
The Disease of Permanent War
by Chris Hedges* First Published by Truth Digg.com The embrace by any society of permanent war is a parasite that devours the heart and soul of a nation. Permanent war extinguishes liberal, democratic movements. It turns culture into nationalist cant. It degrades and corrupts education and the media, and wrecks the economy. The [...]
15th May is Nakba Day!
Nakba Day (Arabic: يوم النكبة yawm al-nakba – 15 May) meaning “day of the catastrophe” is an annual day of commemoration for the Palestinian people of the “anniversary of the creation of Israel” which marks the beginning of the 1948 Palestinian exodus, the resulting defeat in the 1948 Palestine War, the loss of land [...]
The issue of Racism between Zionism and the Apartheid ideology
Salim Nazzal This is a quick and generalized paper, which gives evidences of which might explain why the Zionist regime has been more capable of resisting the pressures of the culture of human rights and self determination while the apartheid regimes have vanished.
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