SYRIA: AVAAZ, PURPOSE & THE ART OF SELLING HATE FOR EMPIRE

http://wrongkindofgreen.org/2014/09/17/syria-avaaz-purpose-the-art-of-selling-hate-for-empire/ SYRIA: AVAAZ, PURPOSE & THE ART OF SELLING HATE FOR EMPIRE admin Sep 17, 2014 350.org / 1Sky, Amnesty International, Antarctica, Avaaz, Earth Day Network, Examples of Legitimate Organizations, Human Rights Watch, Imperialist Wars/Occupations, Non-Profit Industrial Complex,Occupy Wall Street, Pacifism as Pathology, Purpose, TckTcktck Partner: Meet ‘The Corporate Leaders Group on Climate Change’, The…

Gaza: Don’t hit her ~ Omar Ghraieb.

Gaza, December, We grow up being lectured about courage and taking risks and how exhilarating it is. They make it sound like the right thing to do. Until we become adults and we start getting lectured about not taking risks and hearing pro-cowardice sayings like this Arabic one that says: “Cowardice makes two thirds of…

Samah Jabr: The ‘invisible damage’ of life under the occupation ~ Emmanuela Eposti

“There is a wish for Palestinians to be stateless, but also faceless and voiceless.” Samah Jabr, one of Palestine’s first female psychiatrists and a trained psychoanalytic psychotherapist, has spent her life witnessing and treating the psychological effects of the continued Israeli occupation on the Palestinian population. Not content to simply confine herself to medical practice,…

Convening for Palestine ~ Eva Bartlett.

Peace and anti-war activists from around the world gathered in Beirut to highlight Zionist crimes and consider ways and means to help the Palestinians end the brutal Zionist occupation. As the Zionist state increasingly and openly reveals its criminal, apartheid nature, more and more citizens from around the world are waking up and standing in…

Israeli role in Syrian conflict brought into the open ~ Nicola Nasser.

Overtly, the Israeli superpower of the Middle East has been keen to posture as having no role whatsoever in the four-year old devastating conflict in Syria, where all major regional and international powers are politically and militarily deeply involved and settling scores by Syrian blood. In his geopolitical weekly analysis, entitled “The Islamic State Reshapes…

Watching Cheney: He’s Got Nothing

Originally posted on The Dish:
[Re-posted from earlier today] His interview last night is worth revisiting again. He says what he has previously said – adding nothing to the factual record, and addressing none of the specifics in the report. But he is also clearly rattled. He is used to proclaiming categorical truths about things…