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I was in Cambodia in 2006 working with a small, grass-roots, non-profit organization dedicated to street children. One day while heading to a village located on the outskirts of Phnom Penh (Cambodia’s capital), I passed by the massive reconstruction site of what was to become the UN backed Extra...
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A superb presentation by the great Daniel Ellsberg who suggests that counter-insurgency plan in Afganistan is similar to Viet Nam.
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That there are striking parallels between white rule in apartheid South Africa and Zionist rule in Palestine – an analogy made by such mainstream figures as President Jimmy Carter and Archbishop Desmond Tutu – should no longer be controversial. But calling Israeli apartheid by its name will occas...
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by William Blum“It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.” — VoltaireQuestion: How many countries do you have to be at war with to be disqualified from receiving the Nobel Peace Prize?Answer: Five. Bar...
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The following is a version of the article I wrote for Le Monde Diplomatique updated for the German edition. On the day I arrived in Peshawar mid-September, the evening stillness was broken by nine loud explosions, each preceded by the sucking sound of a projectile as it arced into Hayatabad, t...
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With unmanned, remote-controlled drones increasingly in use from Pakistan to Palestine, as well as Iraq and Afghanistan, we are grimly reminded about the latest lethal machines from the high-tech military-industry complex and the putative robotics revolution in warfare. From Hungry Beast TV.Part ...
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Robert Greenwald of Brave New Films speaks about Afghanistan on Bob McChesney’s excellent Media Matters.Robert Greenwald and McChesney discuss AfghanistanRobert Greenwald is a producer, director and political activist. Greenwald is the founder and president of Brave New Films. Under Greenwa...
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Yesterday five British soldiers were shot dead by an Afghan policeman. Just as they keep promising that they’ve reached ‘decisive turning points’ in their battle with the Afghan resistance, British military officials immediately vowed that the ‘rogue’ policeman would be caught. Today the Taliban ...
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Earlier this week award-winning investigative journalist Jeremy Scahill appeared on CNN’s Lou Dobb’s Tonight where he debated NYU’s Patricia DeGennaro and the neoconservative Max Boot of the Council on Foreign Relations about Afghanistan.Scahill has written and continues to writ...
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Alternet, November 4. As the year winds down and Hollywood gets busy creating Oscar buzz, one unlikely contender is “The Hurt Locker,” the widely praised Iraq movie that premiered at the Venice Film Festival last year and was released in the U.S. in June 2009.Just when I thought IR...
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M. Shahid AlamAt the outset of the classes I teach, I always address the question of bias in the social sciences. In one course – on the history of the global economy – this is the central theme. It critiques Eurocentric biases in several leading Western accounts of the rise of the global economy...
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“Today we journey from Operation Cast Lead to Operation Cast Doubt. Almost as serious as committing war crimes is covering up war crimes, pretending that war crimes were never committed and did not exist.” — Dennis KucinichThe US House of Representatives on Tuesday passed a nonb...
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Alan Hart does well to provide this historical corrective, excerpted from ‘Israel’s Right to Exist‘?According to history as written by the winner, Zionism, Israel was given its birth certificate and thus legitimacy by the UN Partition Resolution of 29 November 1947. This is prop...
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… Fatah founders and the likelihood of an uprising deepens, while US Secretaries of State continue to speak with forked tongue. Fatah’s Demise in the West Bank? from Sequence News (10:30) (transcript)
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Indian author Arundhati Roy interviewed on the Riz Khan program discussing politics in contemporary India, from the Maoists to Kashmir. Part One (12.07) Part Two (10.39)
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The youth in Israel are raised to willingly and even proudly enlist into the army. I personally remember being promised, by my high school teachers that if something happens to me, Israel doesn’t forsake it’s “sons and daughters”. It’s been a while since I was in school, but nothing has changed:[...
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Richard Fadden, the newly appointed director of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS), recently stated that the Canadian media portrays terror suspects as “quasi-folk heroes” and that some Canadians wrongly believe that the Canadian government is “overreacting”...
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Syrian born Canadian citizen Maher Arar was flying through New York in 2002 on his way home to Canada after a family vacation when he was stopped by U.S. immigration. The US authorities had been misinformed by erring Canadian authorities that Arar was a terror suspect. After prolonged periods o...
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From our friend Agustín Velloso Santisteban in Madrid. Oh, the pirates! What a nice word. It brings us sweet memories from our childhood. Unscrupulous, merciless, astute characters, and today armed with automatic guns. We are longing to see before the High Court in Madrid, Spain, the two Somali p...
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If all goes well I will be at Notre Dame University in the US later this month for a conference on the role of Islam in contemporary European literature. I wrote the piece below for the conference.Salman Rushdie once commented that ‘Islam’, in contrast to ‘the West’, is not a narrative civilisati...
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Tariq Ali and Noam Chomsky speak in London on the Israel-Palestine question. I think Tariq’s suggestions are eminently sensible, whereas once again I’m left a bit underwhelmed by Chomsky’s analysis.
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Yesterday, after my analysis of developments in Paksitan was published by IPS, I was interviewed by Dori Smith of the excellent Talk Nation Radio, which is broadcast on several Pacifica channels. Among other things we also spoke about US foreign policy in the region, the Iraq war, neoconservative...
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Despite the previously blossoming rhetoric about “social facts,” “fraud,” and the Green Movement (only the third term refers to something that actually exists), news out of the Islamic Republic of Iran continues to suggest that the Iranian populace voted strongly for Ahmad...
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A Spinwatch Investigation: by Tom Mills and David Miller, 30 October 2009Spinwatch has uncovered evidence that an apparently London based organisation offering expertise on Iran to journalists and politicians is a covert propaganda operation run by a pro-Israel organisation in the United States.T...
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POLITICS: U.S. in Pakistan’s Mind: Nothing But AversionAnalysis by Muhammad Idrees AhmadPESHAWAR, Pakistan, Oct 30 (IPS) – To the west of Peshawar on the Jamrud Road that leads to the historic Khyber Pass sits the Karkhano Market, a series of shopping plazas whose usual offering of contraba...
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P U L S E Our Belen interviews Mel Zelaya.
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Zelaya with Andrés Thomas Conteris, Founder of Democracy Now! en Español, at the Brazilian embassy. (Photo: Milton Benitez)
The full extended interview in two parts. A few zionists in the audience had predictable responses, but the two or three disruptive petulant hasbarats were shown the door and far more in the audience were audibly supportive. (Jon Stewart’s own corporate liberal hasbara was more irksome: for...
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Phillip Adams speaks to the nephew of the late Edward Said, Professor Saree Makdisi, who will give the 2009 Edward Said Memorial Lecture in Adelaide. Professor Makdisi talks about the latest UN findings of war crimes in Gaza; what he describes as the bureaucratic occupation of the Palestinian ter...
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Looking in the mirror is no easy task. Especially when your eyes are smoked by Zionism. Now that impunity is slowly diminishing, Israel finds itself stuck between the Goldstone and a hard place. How does the spoiled brat of the Middle East deal with the fact that years of stealing cookies from th...
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While Richard Goldstone deserves credit for publishing a fair report about Israel’s war crime during its assault on Gaza — especially in light of the storm of vilification that he has had to endure — one need not be so swayed as to exempt him claims from scrutiny. There are seri...
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