Rannie Amiri "There was no such thing as Palestinians ... They did not exist." - Former Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir (The Sunday Times, 15 June 1969) Gaza is abuzz with activity. Humanitarian groups and relief agencies are trying to squeeze through… more »
Edgar J. Steele "If you don't know where you are going, you will wind up somewhere else." -- Yogi Berra President Barack Obama held his first press conference last night. Thirteen questions from the press corps, albeit some of them compound. Thirteen… more »
Still patting the Mad Dog? US, British and European appeasement of Israeli fascists
February 10th, 2009
Stuart Littlewood Binyamin Netanyahu Stuart Littlewood considers the prospect of progromist Binyamin Netanyahu becoming Israeli prime minister and asks whether he is “the right man” and if now is “the right time” stipulated by… more »
THE RAVAGES OF TRIBALISM (III): LEARNING TO HATE "THE OTHER"
February 10th, 2009
Arthur Silber Part I and Part II provide the background and context needed to more fully appreciate what follows. Some General Observations The analysis of the final part of the true story we are considering will reveal several significant patterns of… more »
Balkans: Staging Ground For NATO's Post-Cold War Order
February 10th, 2009
Rick Rozoff The world hasn't begun to recover from the events of 1991, a true annus terribilis whose watershed nature was insufficiently appreciated at the time and has been practically ignored since. The year initiated the first attempt in history to… more »
Requiring Accountability From Pampered Public Servants
February 10th, 2009
Emily Spence The taxpayers of Mississippi, whether they condoned the action or not, bought their current or a former governor an eight seat plane for 3.7 million dollars. The state's authorizing fiscal managers, obviously, must have deemed it an… more »
Mohammed Omer Tunneling essential goods into the Gaza Strip. (Photo: Iyad Albaba.) Options are few in Rafah. As in other societies throughout history trapped behind walls or segregated in ghettos, the smuggling in of basic necessities, as well as… more »
A Short History of the Israeli - Palestinian Conflict: Past Is Prologue
February 9th, 2009
Stephen Lendman Its roots are from the late 19th century when Theodor Herzl founded modern Zionism at the First Zionist Congress in Basle, Switzerland in 1897. In his book "Overcoming Zionism," Joel Kovel writes: Zionism seeks "the restoration of… more »
Len Hart Without a bullet that can be proven to have been at the scene of the crime, the government would have had no case against Lee Harvey Oswald, tried in absentia because he was murdered. Conveniently! The government needed a piece of hard evidence… more »
Robin Yassin-Kassab In both Lebanon and Gaza, the resistance is still standing. (Wesam Saleh/ MaanImages) “What really protects our people and gain back our rights is the sincere Resistance and everything else is mere Illusion.” -Nasrallah… more »
By David Swanson https://worldbeyondwar.org/nato-youth-summit-tells-viewers-to-get-ready-for-war The recent NATO “Youth Summit,” even on double speed, is over an hour and a half on Youtube. I couldn’t watch it all, as it just made me feel old — so old…
Dr. Vladislav B. Sotirovic The meaning of intifada The Arabic word intifada means “shaking off” but in the political language as a term, it means “uprising”. More precisely, this term refers to the two Palestinian uprisings on both territories of the…
University of Virginia President Jim Ryan exiting Pavilion VI is confronted by students protesting his decision to break up an anti-war demonstration, Thursday, May 9, 2024. By David Swanson I’m old enough to remember a video of a New York Times…
by Tracy Turner Plastic has been in use for over a century. It was first created in the mid-19th century, with the invention of celluloid in 1869, and it is considered the first actual plastic. The widespread commercial production of plastics began in…
Employees from the World Central Kitchen were killed in an Israeli air strike on their vehicles in the central Gaza Strip. (Majdi Fathi / NurPhoto via Getty Images) JAMES BAMFORD Because it isn’t so much the bombs that kill but the list that puts…
Dr. Vladislav B. Sotirovic Southern Serbia’s autonomous province of Kosovo and Metochia (KosMet) has been subject to a gradual, but permanent change in its demographic content during the time of Titoslavia (Socialist Yugoslavia, 1945−1991). Three…
By David Swanson Article 5 of the North Atlantic Treaty declares that NATO members will assist another member if attacked by “taking action as it deems necessary, including the use of armed force.” But the UN Charter does not say anywhere that warmaking…
By Tracy Turner The Legacy of Unit 8200 - When browsing Yandex Images, looking for artistic renderings of Zionism, it is expected to see either an Octopus strangling the Earth or an Octopus strangling the Rotunda Dome in Washington, D.C. The legacy of…
David Swanson I fervently hope, dear reader, that you do not agree that every person in Israel deserves to die. But I know some of you do, and I hope to suggest a better way of looking at it. I know that you’re even more unlikely to agree with me that…
From the very pan-global perspective, the best-known geopolitical thesis is of the British Mackinder – “Heartland Thesis”. According to the thesis, the Asian “Heartland” is a pivotal area of global geopolitics. Who controls this area provides a chief…
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