Egyptian writer and lecturer Mona Eltahawy published an article on the current Egyptian revolution entitled “All Egyptians are being liberated from the burden of history”” (The Age, Melbourne, On-line National Times section, 31 January 2011: ), her key passage being: “But here now finally are our children - Generation Facebook - kicking aside the burden of history, determined to show us just how easy it is to tell the dictator it’s time to go. To understand the importance of what’s going (...)
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Egyptian Revolution, US-backed Mubarak, Apartheid Israel & censorship by pro-Zionist Mainstream media
31 January 2011 par (Open-Publishing)
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EDITORIAL SAYS MUBARAK DOESN’T GET IT - BUT WHOSE CREATURE IS HE? - UNITED STATES’ & ISRAEL’S DARK ROLES
30 January 2011 par (Open-Publishing)
EDITORIAL SAYS EGYPT’S MUBARAK DOESN’T GET IT - BUT WHOSE CREATURE IS MUBARAK ? - THE UNITED STATES’ AND ISRAEL’S DARK ROLES IN EGYPT
POSTED RESPONSE TO AN EDITORIAL IN TORONTO’S GLOBE AND MAIL
Please, just whose creature is Mubarak?
For thirty years he has been protected, generously supplied with aid and arms, and literally paid by the United States.
He is only one of many such people in the world’s oppressive governments who has spent much of his adult life on the CIA’s payroll. (...) -
OBAMA’S EMPTY WORDS ON AMERICA - TIME FOR AMERICA TO SHUT-UP & ROLL-UP ITS SLEEVES - BUT IT WON’T HAPPEN
30 January 2011 par (Open-Publishing)
1 commentOBAMA’S SADLY EMPTY WORDS ABOUT AMERICA - IT’S TIME FOR AMERICA TO SHUT-UP AND ROLL-UP ITS SLEEVES - BUT THAT WILL NEVER HAPPEN
Competitiveness and innovation are never affected by government exhortations, nor indeed are they affected by any other exhortations, including those of business schools or “inspirational” speakers.
They come from the underlying real economic and financial conditions of a country and of the world in which it functions.
One can only look at the United States’ (...) -
Canada Harbouring Ben Ali Family Thieves
27 January 2011 par (Open-Publishing)
The ’most notorious family member’ of the former Tunisian dictatorship Belhassen Trabelsi is hiding with his family, likely somewhere near Montreal. Members of Canada’s Tunisian community are ’very mad’ at the Stephen Harper Government’s handling of the Ben Ali file, claiming that Ottawa is shielding the fugitives and has been slow to freeze illegal, stolen assets of the fugitive billionaire.
"We expect the government not to let these people flee Canada," said Haroun Bouazzi, who’s part (...) -
Pakistan, Egypt, Frankenstein Matters
22 January 2011 par (Open-Publishing)
Pakistan Egypt Frankenstein Matters
To Benazhir Bhutto, an Islamic moderate and Lewis Awad, a moderate Arab Coptic Christian, the name Frankenstein mattered. If the dates associated with the novel ‘Frankenstein’ and attacks by Al Qaeda are compared there is a pattern targeting major Capitols, the UN and India.
When In 1993 Benazir Bhutto President of Pakistan was attacked by the key perpetrators of the World trade (...) -
United States Has a Choice in Tunisia
21 January 2011 par (Open-Publishing)
By Nicola Nasser*
The ongoing Tunisian Intifada (uprising) cannot yet quite be termed a revolution; Tunisians are still revolting, aspiring for bread and freedom. This Intifada will go in history as a revolution if it gets either bread or freedom and as a great revolution if it gets both. Internally, “the one constant in revolutions is the primordial role played by the army,” Jean Tulard, a French historian of revolutions, told Le Monde in an interview, and the Tunisian military seems so (...) -
Canada’s Commandos JTF2 Committed War Crimes in Afghanistan
19 January 2011 par (Open-Publishing)
JTF2 Command ’Encouraged’ War Crimes Soldier Alleges
"A member of Canada’s elite special forces unit says he felt his peers were being ’encouraged’ by the Canadian Forces chain of command to commit war crimes in Afghanistan, according to new documents obtained by CBC News.
The member alleged that a fellow JTF2 member was involved in the shooting death of an Afghan who had his hands up in the act of surrender...The soldier who raised the allegations also claimed that in January 2008, (...) -
Scientific opinions, global warming & 2010-2011 Pakistan, Brazil, Sri Lanka & Australia flood disasters
15 January 2011 par (Open-Publishing)
Because the day to day weather is highly variable one cannot attribute the severity of any specific weather event (such as the current La Niña-associated Queensland and Eastern and Southern Australian floods) to man-made global warming.
However increased greenhouse gas (GHG) pollution leads successively to global warming, increased sea temperature, increased evaporation and thence to increased precipitation.
Indeed the incidence of floods has greatly increased throughout the world over (...) -
Gaza Youth Breaks Out MANIFESTO
31 December 2010 par (Open-Publishing)
1 commentThe following is the statement of Gaza Youth Breaks Out. It was posted on facebook and there’s no website to be found (yet?), note there are contact links at the bottom. So for everyone’s benefit and with much respect, I repost it here in full:
GAZAN YOUTH’S MANIFESTO FOR CHANGE
Fuck Hamas. Fuck Israel. Fuck Fatah. Fuck UN. Fuck UNWRA. Fuck USA!
We, the youth in Gaza, are so fed up with Israel, Hamas, the occupation, the violations of human rights and the indifference (...) -
Millions Of Flood Victims In Pakistan Now Face Harsh Winter
18 December 2010 par (Open-Publishing)
Reports indicate that the hardships from Pakistan’s earlier monsoon floods have been exacerbated by the onslaught of winter. The floods impacted 20 million of Pakistan’s population of just over 180 million people. As the temperature dips, hundreds of thousands of displaced children and adults are susceptible to pneumonia and other cold related diseases. According to Director of the National Institute of Child Health (Pakistan), Professor Jamal Raza states that the flood victims becoming (...)