A brief summary of a revolution that lost its way and descended into violence and revenge killings ~ by young Egyptian author and women’s rights advocate, Ahmed El Fiky My Take on the assassination of the chief prosecutor of Egypt : ( The Egyptian Politics in a nutshell ) 1- Few hours before the 25th…
Dr Bassel Ghattas may have his Israeli citizenship revoked by the Knesset today because he chose to participate in the Flotilla to Gaza. Dr Ghattas: “Many questions concerning the Israeli-Palestinian conflict are being asked in Israel these days. One of the most popular of the questions is related to a decision made by me, an…
Today’s rants: We are living in a world where “Islamists” are blamed for murder before the blood has even dried on the pavement. World outrage takes flight before the perpetrator is even apprehended. Yet we are censored and threatened if we dare to say boo to a Jew in jest or in protest at what…
Après avoir exposé la campagne de la JVP contre la grande patriote américaine Alison Weir, j’ai été approché par Berta Schwartz, une militante de la JVP américaine. Berta est évidemment un pseudonyme. Comme pour Ned Rozenberg, nos dissidents juifs libéraux craignent leurs synagogues «progressistes». Le fait d’exprimer leurs pensées ouvertement pourrait conduire à leur exclusion…
Norman Finkelstein Speech – ‘This House Believes Israel is a Rogue State’ One has to, I think, be faithful to the factual record and also one has to preserve moral sense. And that’s why I arrived on this side of the proposition. There was a British poll taken a few months ago I think, and…
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It’s highly unlikely that the Syrian military has used chemical weapons in its ongoing fight against foreign-backed jihadists, but if it had, would use of the weapons be uniquely reprehensible, and would it justify an intervention? June 27, 2015 By Stephen Gowans There are two problems with the way…
The following article is based on a speech I gave at Brunel University at the invitation of the Brunel Socialist and Progressive Society. There is currently a very serious threat of war against Iran and Syria. Algeria, Sudan, Somalia, Zimbabwe and elsewhere are also on the ‘hit list’. The key issue for the anti-war movement…
Israel: War Crimes? Us??? By Uri Avnery “WAR IS HELL!” the US general George Patton famously exclaimed. War is the business of killing the “enemy”, in order to impose your will on them. Therefore, “humane war” is an oxymoron. War itself is a crime. There are few exceptions. I would exempt the war against Nazi…
BDS succumbs to greater anti Semitism pressure. So BDS falls deeper into the anti Semitism pit from which all dedicated defenders of the Palestinian cause will be ejected. So this means we cannot criticise CRIF, the French Federation for Jewish Institutions that is a thinly veiled excuse for Zionist power wielding. It will mean that the Jewish…
What you are reading is a snippet from life under siege in Aleppo, Syria. The daily struggle of just one resident battling the brutality and punitive measures taken by the US/NATO/GCC/Israeli terrorist hordes nesting in and around Aleppo. The writers name is withheld for security reasons but this information was sent to us at the…
The Wall Will Fall 