Images of the thousands of Egyptian protesters that defied a curfew in the capital Cairo and other cities taken throughout the day. [youtube]3qQTzLoKYF4[/youtube]
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Repeated calls by Western leaders, including US president Barack Obama, for Egypt’s protest movement to refrain from violence are also significant. Never mind the utter hypocrisy of such exhortations by the US and other Western governments who have armed the Mubarak regime to the teeth and continue to support it […]
Luther King Jr. questioned US military interventions against progressive movements in the Third World by invoking a JFK quote: “Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.” Were he alive to witness the last three decades of US foreign policy, King might update that quote by noting: […]
Protests have erupted across Egypt again today with the largest and most widespread anti-government demonstrations seen so far. In an unprecedented display of popular protest, hundreds of thousands of demonstrators are gathering in Cairo, Alexandria, Suez, Mansoura, Sharqiya and elsewhere. Intense confrontations are taking place with state security forces. We […]
Nurit Kedar’s film, Concrete, hears from Israeli soldiers who blame their military leaders for encouraging a “disproportionate” response to Hamas’s rockets. [ White phosphorus was used by Israel on Gazan neighbourhoods during operation Cast Lead ] They claim their commanders used to “psych up” soldiers before an operation so they […]
Have you, or someone you love, been troubled by any of the following conditions? [youtube]DOV8Is8WuGA[/youtube] Corruption and fraud within government? Conspiracy, also known as secret plots? Censorship? Dumbing down of the populace through such means as chemicals harmful to the brain in the food, water, or vaccinations? A poorly funded […]
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[ Palestinian House Demolitions + Israeli Settlement Construction = Israeli Border Expansion ] A new collection of data released by Israeli NGO B’Tselem shows that the Israeli government dramatically increased the number of Palestinian homes demolished in the portion of the West Bank that is under full Israeli control. Read […]
For the first time in human history almost all of humanity is politically activated, politically conscious and politically interactive… The resulting global political activism is generating a surge in the quest for personal dignity, cultural respect and economic opportunity in a world painfully scarred by memories of centuries-long alien colonial […]