****January 05, 2010 11:29 PM Breaking News - Viva Palestina convoy facing crisis point in Egypt - urgent action needed***** To all friends of Palestine
Our situation is now at a crisis point! Riot has broken out in the port of Al- Arish.
This late afternoon we were negotiating with a senior official from Cairo who left negotiations some two hours ago and did not return. Our negotiations with the official was regarding taking our aid vehicles into Gaza. _ He left two hours ago and did (...)
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6 January 2010 par (Open-Publishing)
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The US and China: One Side is Losing, the Other is Winning
6 January 2010 par (Open-Publishing)
The US and China: One Side is Losing, the Other is Winning
3 JANUARY 2010, by James Petras*
Asian capitalism, notably China and South Korea are competing with the US for global power. Asian global power is driven by dynamic economic growth, while the US pursues a strategy of military-driven empire building, illustrating the great divide in the world today. Expanding on an article recently published in the Financial Times, James Petras highlights the stark contrast between two strategic (...) -
Obama or Ahmadinejad: Who poses the greater nuclear threat?
5 January 2010 par (Open-Publishing)
Obama or Ahmadinejad: Who poses the greater nuclear threat?
With provocative posters provides the semi-Russian TV channel Russia Today for sedition - and after indicated that even censored.
They hang in England and the United States. At first glance, to provoke the poster and thought-provoking. In making the second best known for Russia Today: The semi-public television has the unofficial task of maintaining the image of Russia, and the posters are the first major advertising campaign (...) -
Roger Waters of Pink Floyd has Sent the Gaza Freedom Marchers (videos)
29 December 2009 par (Open-Publishing)
2 commentsMy name is Roger Waters. I am an English musician living in the USA. I am writing to express my great admiration for and solidarity with the 1360 men and women from 42 different countries around the World who are gathering in Egypt, preparing for The Gaza Freedom March. We all watched, aghast, the vicious attack made a year ago on the people of Gaza by Israeli armed forces and the ongoing illegal siege. The suffering wrought on the population of Gaza by both the invasion and the siege is (...)
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The Dissolution
26 December 2009 par (Open-Publishing)
By David Glenn Cox
“Fascism is a political ideology that seeks to combine radical and authoritarian nationalism with a corporatist economic system, and which is usually considered to be on the far right of the traditional left – right political spectrum.
"Fascists advocate the creation of a single party state, with the belief that the majority is unsuited to govern itself through democracy and by reaffirming the benefits of inequality. Fascist governments forbid and suppress openness (...) -
U.S. – led World Community Fails, Palestinians on Brink of Explosion
25 December 2009 par (Open-Publishing)
1 commentBy Nicola Nasser*
"In the absence of all hope, we cry out our cry of hope,” Palestinian Christian leaders, representing churches and church-related organizations, meeting in Bethlehem on December 11, concluded in their 13-page document titled “Kairos Palestine – 2009: A Moment of Truth,” enlisting Christians worldwide in proactive efforts to end the Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories. Their “cry” symbolizes the popular mood of their people as well as the political status quo. (...) -
Democratic Nazism: Germany complicit in 4.5 million excess deaths US Afghan Holocaust & Afghan Genocide
18 December 2009 par (Open-Publishing)
Germany is examining what happened when German Occupying Forces in Occupied Afghanistan ordered in US airstrikes that killed 142 Occupied Afghans (see “German military filmed Kunduz strike from ground”, The Local, Germany: ).
However Germany ignores the horrendous 3.4 million non-violent excess deaths (non-violent avoidable deaths, deaths that did not have to happen) associated with occupation of Afghanistan by the war criminal US Alliance composed of the US, UK, France, Germany, other (...) -
Christians of Palestine Decry ‘Absence of All Hope’
18 December 2009 par (Open-Publishing)
By Nicola Nasser*
"In the absence of all hope, we cry out our cry of hope. We believe in God, good and just. We believe that God’s goodness will finally triumph over the evil of hate and of death that still persist in our land. We will see here ’a new land’ and ’a new human being’, capable of rising up in the spirit to love each one of his or her brothers and sisters," concluded a document (“Kairos Palestine Document”) released by Palestinian Christian leaders on December 11, 2009. (...) -
U.S. Creates Its Antithesis in Iraq
16 December 2009 par (Open-Publishing)
By Nicola Nasser*
Nowhere it is more obvious than in Iraq that the existence of an election law, elections themselves and the constitution they are based on are not indicators of democracy or legitimacy, because these mechanisms are merely symbols of the antithesis of the mechanisms of democracy as practiced back home by the U.S. occupying power.
An editorial of The Washington Post on December 8 hailed the passing two days earlier of an amended version of the 2005 election law by the (...) -
Obama’s Waterloo: The Afghan Lie
5 December 2009 par (Open-Publishing)
JAZZMAN CHRONICLES. DISSEMINATE FREELY.
“As Commander-in-Chief, I have determined that it is in our vital national interest to send an additional 30,000 U.S. troops to Afghanistan. After 18 months, our troops will begin to come home.”
“Under the banner of … domestic unity and international legitimacy - and only after the Taliban refused to turn over Osama bin Laden - we sent our troops into Afghanistan. Within a matter of months, al Qaeda was scattered and many of its operatives were (...)