Engelhardt: Why Bush Shed His GI Joe Gear20 Sep 2007Has anyone noticed that our commander-in-chief no longer plays dress up? He hasn’t done so for a while and that’s no small thing. It’s a phenomenon that came and went almost without comment in the media.
Stewart: Volunteers For America20 Sep 2007Over the past few months I have talked to many people about the worsening situation in the Middle East and the US. I’ve talked with family and friends, with strangers in grocery stores and gas stations and with activists and advocates who have been moved to action by the atrocities and crimes of George W.
Scheer: Checkbook Imperialism:20 Sep 2007Please, please, I tell myself, leave Orwell out of it. Find some other, fresher way to explain why “Operation Iraqi Freedom” is dependent upon killer mercenaries.
Wilpert: ZNet Book Interview with Gregory Wilpert20 Sep 2007Can you tell ZNet, please, what Changing Venezuela by Taking Power is about? What is it trying to communicate? Changing Venezuela by Taking Power is an explanation and analysis of the policies of the Chavez government of Venezuela. It first explains why Chavez came into office and why his political program increasingly radicalized over the course of the first six extremely contentious years of his presidency.
Palast: Bush’s Fake Sheik Whacked20 Sep 2007Did you see George all choked up? In his surreal TV talk on Thursday, he got all emotional over the killing by Al Qaeda of Sheik Abu Risha, the leader of the new Sunni alliance with the US against the insurgents in Anbar Province, Iraq. Bush shook A.
Jacobs: It Really Is About the Oil–And Not Only in Iraq20 Sep 2007So, the secret is finally out. The Iraq war and occupation is about oil! Alan Greenspan, the man on whom the capitalist press has conferred the title of sage numerous times, says exactly that in his memoirs released this week.
JJP: Gaza: A Call for Urgent Action20 Sep 2007September 20, 2007—Jews for a Just Peace Vancouver deplores the unanimous decision by the Israeli cabinet to impose sanctions on supplies of electricity, fuel and other basic goods and services to the civilian population of Gaza, and calls upon the international community to prevent this crime against humanity from being carried out. Indeed, the very legal framework invoked by Israel to carry out this illegal and immoral act – declaring Gaza a “hostile entity” within a “conflict short of war” – has absolut.
Herd: Chasing Public Space19 Sep 2007The Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit has just concluded in Sydney. This meeting was attended by the leaders of Pacific Rim countries, including Japan, China, Russia, Canada and the United States.
Nasser: Palestinian Propaganda is a Prize for Israel19 Sep 2007The inter-Palestinian war of words and the mutual violations of the freedom of press and expression by the Hamas – led government of Ismael Haniyyeh in the Gaza Strip and the Fatah – led government of Salam Fayyad in the West Bank have presented Israel with its biggest propaganda prize that is overshadowing the violations of human rights committed by the Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) in the Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPT). The Palestinian Center for Press Development and Freedom “Mada” had this to say on Palestinian media during August this year: There were “more violations of media freedom in the Palestinian territories particularly by the Executive Force (of Hamas) in the Gaza Strip and the (Fatah-led) Palestinian security agencies (of the Palestinian Authority) in the West Bank, in addition to the Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF).
Barker: Washington Promotes ‘Independent’ Media in Venezuela19 Sep 2007For some time it has been apparent that President Hugo Chavez – the democratically elected President of Venezuela – and his government have been on the US’s ‘regime change shopping list’. Such coup-inspiring attitudes were especially transparent in 2006, when the US’s National Security Strategy noted that: “In Venezuela, a demagogue awash in oil money [i.
Barker: Washington Promotes ‘Independent’ Media in Venezuela19 Sep 2007 Washington Promotes ‘Independent’ Media in Venezuela By Michael Barker For some time it has been apparent that President Hugo Chavez – the democratically elected President of Venezuela – and his government have been on the US’s ‘regime change shopping list’. Such coup-inspiring attitudes were especially transparent in 2006, when the US’s National Security Strategy noted that: “In Venezuela, a demagogue awash in oil money [i.
Levy: This is how the moderates look19 Sep 2007Haim Ramon has made a big comeback. As if renewing the Hebrew language, he has coined the term “infrastructural oxygen” – Israel should strike a blow at Gaza’s infrastructural oxygen.
Mishra: The Peasant in Present day India19 Sep 2007Looking around, we find a great deal of confusion in present day India, especially in Hindi press, as regards ‘peasant’. Quite often it is used interchangeably with ‘farmer’.
Velloso: Spain and Equatorial Guinea: development cooperation as fraud19 Sep 2007Development cooperation between Spain and Equatorial Guinea is an exercise in political rhetoric, fine for soothing the consciences of sensitive citizens and useful to dissemble the policies of both countries’ governments. The citizenry think they are “helping” the poor while politicians cover up the way cooperation is useless for the African country’s development but good for increasing the scandalous wealth of the Obiang clan and to contribute to Spanish political and business expansion.
Weissman: Greenspan, Kissinger: Oil Drives U.S. in Iraq, Iran19 Sep 2007Alan Greenspan had acknowledged what is blindingly obvious to those who live in the reality-based world: The Iraq War was largely about oil. Meanwhile, Henry Kissinger says in an op-ed in Sunday’s Washington Post that control over oil is the key issue that should determine whether the U.
Khatib: Bil’in will continue to struggle against the wall and settlements19 Sep 2007On September 4, after nearly three years of nonviolent protests by our village of Bil’in, the Israeli Supreme Court ruled that Israel’s wall here must be moved further west, returning 250 acres of our farmland. In Bil’in we celebrated, along with our Israeli and international supporters.
Rappaport: Jews are capable of acting like neo-Nazis19 Sep 2007Last week, as all the Israeli television networks were broadcasting pictures of the “neo-Nazi” teenagers attacking random victims, public attention inevitably turned to the attackers. It is difficult to imagine a neo-Nazi group operating here, in the Jewish State.
Goodman: Tipping the Scales of Justice in Jena19 Sep 2007The tree at Jena High School has been cut down, but the furor around it has only grown. “What did the tree do wrong?” asked Katrina Wallace, a stepsister of one of the Jena Six, when I interviewed her at the Burger Barn in Jena, La.
Lendman: Reviewing Naomi Klein’s “The Shock Doctrine”19 Sep 2007Naomi Klein is an award-winning Canadian journalist, author, documentary filmmaker and activist. She writes a regular column for The Nation magazine and London Guardian that’s syndicated internationally by the New York Times Syndicate that gives people worldwide access to her work but not its own readers at home.
Trigona: Human Rights in Argentina: A Year Without Julio Lopez19 Sep 2007Human Rights groups in Argentina rallied September 18 to mark the one year disappearance of a key witness who helped convict a former police officer for life in 2006. Rights representatives have expressed immediate concerns over missing witness Julio Lopez; a new name that has been inscribed on the doleful roll call of Argentina’s disappeared.
Podur: Shawn Brant18 Sep 2007On August 30, about two weeks before Canada became one of only four countries to vote against a UN declaration on indigenous rights, Tyendinaga Mohawk father and activist, Shawn Brant was released from Quinte Detention Centre on bail. Bail had been denied him twice before, when he first turned himself in on July 5th and again after a bail-review hearing on August 10th.
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