Month: June 2010

The Outrage at Helen Thomas

By ALISON WEIR Whenever Israel commits yet another atrocity, its defenders are quick to redirect public attention away from the grisly crime scene. Currently, there are headlines about allegedly anti-Semitic comments made by senior White House correspondent Helen Thomas. Pundits…

The War On Terror is a fraud

Webster Tarpley: “The War On Terror is a fraud – it is not meant to be won, it is meant to be continuous” (Photo: Frank Kitson) Webster Tarpley is a member of the “world anti-imperialist conference” Axis for Peace, of…

EXCLUSIVE: NETANYAHU EXPLAINS VIDEO OF ISRAELI RAID

“Take for instance the bulky orange boxes that many of the passengers are shown wearing over their shoulders. To the untrained eye, these appear to be life jackets, and at one point, in fact, the video shows a large white…

Lawyers for Palestinian Human Rights

Lawyers for Palestinian Human Rights (LPHR) was set up by UK-based practising lawyers and law students in London in 1988, during the first intifada in the Occupied Palestinian Territory. LPHR supports Palestinian people in their legal struggle to exercise their…

Fascism is neither right nor left

If  in exchange for decreased world pressure for an international probe into Gaza flotilla events, as The Daily Telegraph reports, the Gaza siege will be eased, then this will be another failure of the international community to impose sanction on…

Fear, pain and propaganda: an activist’s story

Scottish campaigner Theresa McDermott speaks exclusively to David Pratt and reveals what she witnessed when Israeli commandos stormed the flotilla carrying humanitarian aid to Gaza last week. I was on Challenger 1, a 25-metre motor yacht that was the smallest…

Kidnapped by Israel, forsaken by Britain

“It was this time last week that I was on the top deck of the Mavi Marmara, and first spotted Israeli war ships in the distance, as they approached the humanitarian flotilla. Little did I know how deadly and bloody…

Who was Rachel Corrie?

Long article about this you woman in The Guardian (from 2008) In one of her final emails home Rachel said, ‘This has to stop! I think it is a good idea for us all to drop everything and devote our…

Colonizers’ Hutzpah

“It amounts to this:  protected by a Western empire, you colonize a part of the world, ethnically cleanse as many of its indigenous people as you can, and confine the remainder to stew in a series of besieged reservations, which…

Notes on the Freedom Flotilla

A small collection of links to interesting articles concerning the latest catastrophic acts of the “only democracy in the Middle East” on may 30. After the Gaza massacre, the Dubai passport scam, the revelations about links with the Apartheid regime…