Desert Peace

Just hours ago Uruknet’s Administrator received the following response from Google….regarding being taken off their News links.

=> Read more!

(Illustration:) “Will You Sing Me A Lullaby?”

Daily News Egypt

The world is witnessing a terrible human rights crime in Gaza, where a million and a half human beings are being imprisoned with almost no access to the outside world by sea, air, or land. An entire population is being brutally punished.

This gross mistreatment of the Palestinians in Gaza was escalated dramatically by Israel, with United States backing, after political candidates representing Hamas won a majority of seats in the Palestinian Authority parliament in 2006. The election was unanimously judged to be honest and fair by all international observers.

=> Read more!

Smoking Mirrors

Softly… softly… stepping carefully among the possibilities of critical hours; I have been thinking about the bombing of the Madrid Train Station on 3/11. I have been thinking about the bombing of the London Tube on 7/7 and the Mac daddy wack on 9/11 and I ask myself; what about May? You have a 3 and a 7 and a 9 but you have no five. I guess it’s foolish to wonder about things like this but that’s how the mind works sometimes.

=> Read more!

The fall of the American empire resembles that of Rome in several areas but primarily --military and economic. The economies of the US and Rome ultimately depended on conquest. To this end, the US was sold to the Military/Industrial complex for whom 'conquest' is both an addictive drug and a life's blood. By the time the Roman Empire was sold at auction to one Didius Julianus, Rome's currency had already collapsed, as the dollar is likewise endangered. The smart money had already dumped sestercius for Greek Drachmas and the sale of the empire was concluded in Greek currency --not Roman.

=> Read more!

Keeping It Real

The entire world changed on September 11, 2001 with the bombing of the World Trade Center in New York City, but the world had started to change in 1989, with the collapse of the former Soviet Union. The media and social engineers those who work to manipulate and influence the thinking of the people had done a skillful job of “dumbing-” down America; moreover, quite naturally the trends of a changing world would go unnoticed by the masses of the people, in particular inside the United States and the world over in general; in reality, the world had started to change long before the bombing of the World Trade Center and Pentagon. However, the masses of people have always been made confused, deceived and disorientated in their ability to determine fact from fiction by a small minority for the purpose of global and international exploitation. (Reference: “None Dare Call it Conspiracy” by Gary Allen and Larry Abraham).

=> Read more!

On February 12, 2008, Arab League information ministers issued a communique outlining 'tough' guidelines for Arab satellite channels. The new guidelines specifically prohibited the broadcasting of negative reporting of heads of state, religious or national figures.

=> Read more!

ZioPedia

My dear daughter,

It’s your 18th birthday today, and you have probably worked out by now that not everything you were told by your parents, teachers, media and government is actually true. In fact, anything you know about our world, politics, society, history and I mean anything, is most likely a lie.

This is a world of hoaxes. Democracy, drug prohibition, war on terror, feminism, social welfare, globalisation, even man made global warming, it’s all a hoax.

=> Read more!

Enlarge photo

In a moment I believed that all my attempts to compensate my children the scary and unsecured life they have to live in Gaza succeeded, buying them the toys they liked, taking them to places that not many children in the camp can visit, letting them use the computer, were some of the things that I used in an attempt to let them forget even for awhile that they are living in GAZA.

=> Read more!

Online Journal

I was reading Five Years of My Life: An Innocent Man in Guantanamo, by Murat Kurnaz, when I came across a passage about Kurnaz being subjected to gruesome electric shock torture at the hands of America’s brave volunteer warriors. After passing out and being tossed back in his cell to sleep it off, Kurnaz was soon awakened by harrowing screams.

=> Read more!

Dark clouds above Gaza. (Mohammed Omer/IPS)

Uruknet / Electronic Intifada / IPS

It's been strangely quiet for some time at the port in Gaza. No clanging of hooks, no sounds of creaking cranes or of thumping of nets upon decks. Boat engines, normally puttering and spewing exhaust, lie entombed under covers.

Of the 40,000 fishermen and others who make a living from the catch, only about 700 are still busy, according to the Fishing Syndicate in Gaza. The boats need oil, and Israel will not let the fishermen have it.

=> Read more!

The use of petroleum as a weapon by the British Empire has been a key feature of the oil business since its beginning. The original oil fields, in Pennsylvania and Texas in the United States, and in Russia, were taken over by British-allied interests, whose initial interest in oil was as fuel for a new and more powerful navy, in preparation for World War I. As the world industrialized, oil became even more important, and the control of oil assumed even greater importance for the British.

=> Read more!