Filed under: Global, Middle East, North America | Tags: America, Apartheid, Barack Obama, Colonialism, Ethnic Cleansing, Gaza, Gaza City, gaza Strip, Hamas, Historic Paliestine, Imperialism, Ismail Haniyeh, Israel, Israeli Apartheid, Likud, Militarism, Occupied Palestine, One State, Oslo Accords, Palestine, Palestinian, Palestinian Authority, Racism, State Terror, Two-State, US-Israel, West Bank, White Suprmeacy, Zionism, Zionist, Zionist Entity
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25 June 2009
Soruce: Electronic Intifada
When Hamas, unexpectedly, won the 2006 parliamentary elections in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, the message from the one-third of the Palestinian people living in those territories was clear: no more of the “peace process” facade — with its untiring “two-state solution” slogan that never materialized, and no more of the bread crumbs offered to the new inauthentic NGOized, Osloized leadership classes. (In the years since the 1993 Oslo accords, funding NGOs — nongovernmental organizations — has been a major means for foreign governments to influence, co-opt and neutralize Palestinian politics. This process of “Osloization” made some Palestinian organizations more loyal to their funders than to their principles.)
Many of those who voted Hamas into power were not, in fact, supporters of the organization, but rather disgruntled Palestinians looking for change and reform after 13 years of futile, meaningless negotiations that did huge damage to the Palestinian cause and transformed it from a liberation struggle supported by millions all over the world into a (more…)
Filed under: Asia, Middle East | Tags: Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Barack Obama, Basiji, Electoral Fraud, Electoral Fruad Iran, Green Revolution, Iran, Iran Elections 2009, Iran Protests, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Mir Hussein Mousavi, Mir-Hossein Mousavi, Neo-Con, Obama, Protests, Revolutionary Guard Corps, State Repression, Tehran, Zionist
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19 June 2009
Source: Common Dreams
The growing nonviolent insurrection in Iran against the efforts by the ruling clerics to return the ultra-conservative and increasingly autocratic incumbent president Mahmoud Ahmadinjead to power is growing. Whatever the outcome, it represents an exciting and massive outpouring of Iranian civil society for a more open and pluralistic society.
Ironically, defenders of Ahmadinejad’s repression are trying to blame everyone from the U.S. government to nonviolent theorist Gene Sharp to various small NGOs engaged in educational efforts on strategic nonviolent action as somehow being responsible for the popular uprising in Iran. It appears to be based upon the rather bizarre assumption that millions of Iranians would somehow be willing to pour out onto the streets in the face of violent repression by state security forces only because they have been directed to do so by people from an imperialist power which overthrew their last democratic government and subsequently propped up (more…)
Filed under: Middle East | Tags: Afghanistan, Arab Regimes, Arab States, Barack Obama, Bush Administration, Chechnya, Collective Punishment, Colonial Power, Colonialism, Dispossession, Egypt, Ethic Cleansing, Euro-Supremacy, Fatah, Gaza, gaza Strip, Hamas, Hilary Clinton, Hosani Mubarak, Imperialism, Iraq, Israel, Israeli Apartheid, Jerusalem, Jews, Joe Biden, Jordan, Lebanon, Logic, Mahmoud Darwish, Muslim, Muslim World, National Liberation, Native Americans, Nazi Germany, Palestinain Liberation Organization, Palestine, Palestinians, Qassem al-Mughrabi, Racism, Shiite Iraqi, Somalia, State Terror, Syria, Tawfiq Jaber, Terrorism, United Nations, White Supremacy, Yemen, Zionism, Zionist
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31 December 2008
Source: Guardian – Comment Is Free
I have spent most of the Bush administration’s tenure reporting from Iraq, Afghanistan, Lebanon, Somalia and other conflicts. I have been published by most major publications. I have been interviewed by most major networks and I have even testified before the senate foreign relations committee. The Bush administration began its tenure with Palestinians being massacred and it ends with Israel committing one of its largest massacres yet in a 60-year history of occupying Palestinian land. Bush’s final visit to the country he chose to occupy ended with (more…)
Filed under: Middle East | Tags: Barack Obama, Colonialism, Egypt, Ehud Barak, European Union, gaza Strip, Hamas, Imperialism, Israel's 9/11, Israeli Apartheid, Israeli Civil Defence Official, Israeli Defence Minister, Israeli War Planes, Mahmoud Abbas, Matan Vilnai, Ofer Shmerling, Racism, Refugees, Settler-Colonialism, United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees, US-Dominated Quartet, Western-Backed Palestinian Authority, White Supremacy
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December 29, 2008
“I will play music and celebrate what the Israeli air force is doing.” Those chilling words were spoken on al-Jazeera on Saturday by Ofer Shmerling, an Israeli civil defence official in the Sderot area adjacent to the Gaza Strip. For days Israeli planes have bombed Gaza. Almost 300 Palestinians have been killed and a thousand injured, the majority civilians, including women and children. Israel claims most of the dead were Hamas “terrorists”. In fact, the targets were police stations in dense residential areas, and the dead included many police officers and other civilians. Under international law, police officers are civilians, and targeting them is no less a war crime than aiming at other civilians.
Palestinians are at a loss to describe this new catastrophe. Is it our 9/11, or is it a taste of the “bigger shoah” Matan Vilnai, the deputy defence minister, threatened in February, after the last round of mass killings?
Israel says it is acting in “retaliation” for rockets fired with increasing intensity ever since a six-month truce expired on 19 December. But the bombs dropped on Gaza are only a variation in Israel’s method of killing Palestinians. In recent months they died mostly (more…)
Filed under: Caribbean | Tags: Barack Obama, Brazil, Communist, Cuba, Economic Blockade, Latin America, Madeleine Albright, President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, President Raul Castro, Spanish Colonialism, United States
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Dec. 19, 2008
Reprinted from Granma International
BRASILIA, December 18 (PL). — President Raúl Castro today highlighted the preparation of the Cuban people in confronting the blockade, which has no perspective, and reiterated his disposition to dialogue with the United States on the basis of absolute equality of conditions.
“It’s been almost 50 years now, it’s time for it to end, it’s dying,” the Cuban president said in comments to reporters during his official visit to Brazil at the invitation of Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.
“If we ask ourselves, why the (more…)
Filed under: Caribbean | Tags: Barack Obama, Cuba, Cuban Five, Political Prisoners, Raul Castro, U.S. Trade Embargo
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Dec. 18, 2008
Reprinted from Reuters
BRASILIA: President Raul Castro said on Thursday Cuba could release political prisoners as one of the “gestures” needed to pave the way for talks with incoming U.S. President Barack Obama.
It was Cuba’s most specific offer of a way to ease ties with the United States since Obama, who takes office on January 20, was elected in November.
“Let’s do gesture for gesture,” Castro told (more…)
Filed under: Africa, North America | Tags: AFRICOM, Arms, Barack Obama, Bush Administration, East Africa Counter-Terrorism Initiative, Militarism, Oil, President Bush, Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, U.S.-African Military Relations
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7 December 2008
On 6 February 2007, President Bush announced that the United States would create a new military command for Africa, to be known as Africa Command or Africom. Throughout the Cold War and for more than a decade afterwards, the U.S. did not have a military command for Africa; instead, U.S. military activities on the African continent were conducted by three separate military commands: the European Command, which had responsibility for most of the continent; the Central Command, which oversaw Egypt and the Horn of Africa region along with the Middle East and Central Asia; and the Pacific Command, which administered military ties with Madagascar and other islands in the Indian Ocean.
Until the creation of Africom, the administration of U.S.-African military relations was conducted through (more…)
