THE POLITICS OF THE ANTI-WAR MOVEMENT And the Intractable Dilemma of International ANSWER by Bill Weinberg WAR ON TRUTH AT GUANTANAMO Detainees Launch Non-Violent Resistance Behind Pentagon’s Iron Veil by Tanya Theriault PARAGUAY: THE PENTAGON’S NEW LATIN BEACHHEAD Is the… Read more#. 116. December 2005
Continue Reading#. 116. December 2005From the Electronic Intifada & Electronic Iraq: URGENT: UPDATE ON FOUR MISSING CPT MEMBERS IN IRAQ Press Release, Christian Peacemaker Teams, 29 November 2005 CPT Hebron contacted EI about the four members of the Christian Peacemaker Teams who were abducted… Read morePalestine solidarity activists held hostage in Iraq
A highly critical report on Israeli actions in East Jerusalem by East Jerusalem and Ramallah-based British diplomats was leaked to the press by “someone who wanted to publicize it,” according to the New York Times. The report was prepared for… Read moreItaly blocks release of EU report on East Jerusalem
JERUSALEM AND RAMALLAH HEADS OF MISSION REPORT ON EAST JERUSALEM SUMMARY 1. East Jerusalem is of central importance to the Palestinians in political, economic, social and religious terms. Several inter-linked Israeli policies are reducing the possibility of reaching a final… Read moreEU report on East Jerusalem
Continue ReadingEU report on East JerusalemDavid Irving, the self-trained British “historian” currently cooling his heels in an Austrian jail cell, appears to have recanted his denial of the Nazi Judeocide. The Nov.5 UK Guardian reports that a “repented” Irving plans to plead guilty to charges… Read moreIs David Irving recanting his Holocaust denial?
The following item is from the Jewish Telegraphic Agency: Church leader accuses Israel A Scottish church leader called Israel’s West Bank security barrier a “theft of land.” The Rev. David Lacy, an official with the Church of Scotland, said he… Read moreScottish church leader: Israeli barrier “theft of land”
The Israeli daily Ha’aretz claims Israeli citizens were evacuated from the Radisson Hotel in Amman hours before the bombing that killed 57. There is no attribution for the source of this information: Last update – 00:45 10/11/2005 Israelis evacuated from… Read moreHaaretz: Israelis evacuated before Jordan bombings
Senator John McCain, a former naval aviator who was tortured during his six-year captivity by the North Vietnamese Army (NVA), is, to his great credit, inserting an anti-torture clause into a senate bill, to the consternation of the Bushies. The… Read moreMcCain says Israel “doesn’t torture” — but is that so?
According to the Voice of the Islamic Republic of Iran radio, Nov. 4, the supreme Iranian leader Ayatollah Ali Khamene’i appeared to distance himself from the statement of hardline Iranian President Mahmud Ahmadinezhad that Israel should be “wiped off the… Read moreIranian supremo: throwing Jews into the sea not halal
Israel is continuing its collective punishment of the Gaza Strip with sonic booms from low-flying aircraft. Now that there are no longer settlers living in Gaza, this tactic is being used to pressure militants who fire mortars at Israel. The… Read moreUN condemns Israeli use of sonic booms on Gaza
FILIBERTO OJEDA RIOS: TARGETED ASSASSINATION? U.S. State Terrorism in Puerto Rico by Yeidy Rosa ALGERIA: THE AMNESTY VOTE AND THE KABYLIA QUESTION Berber Boycott in Restive Region Signals Continued Struggle by Zighen Aym ALGERIA: WILL REFERENDUM WIPE THE SLATE CLEAN?… Read more#. 115. November 2005
Continue Reading#. 115. November 2005BOOK REVIEW Imperial Overstretch: George W Bush and the Hubris of Empire By Roger Burbach and Jim Tarbell Zed Books, London, 2004 by Daniel Leal Diaz In the optimistically-entitled Imperial Overstretch, Burbach and Tarbell credit the contemporary United States, “an… Read moreBUSH’S “OVERSTRETCH” PROBLEM—AND OURS
Continue ReadingBUSH’S “OVERSTRETCH” PROBLEM—AND OURS
