For over forty years Colombia, the last of Washington’s remaining “death squad democracy” clients in the Western Hemisphere, has waged a relentless counterinsurgency war against the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC} and an equally ruthless campaign with its US-trained and -equipped military and allied paramilitary formations against trade union, […]

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July 17, 2009:    Author: Dauna Coulter | Editor: Dr. Tony Phillips    Forty years ago, Apollo astronauts set out on a daring adventure to explore the Moon. They ended up discovering their own planet. How do you discover Earth … by leaving it? It all started with a single photograph: Apollo 8 […]

Apartheid five years on By Khalid Amayreh July 17, 2009 at 7:22 pm   The World Court ruled Israel’s annexation wall in the West Bank illegal in 2004, but with no pressure coming from the international community it has not been dismantled, writes Khaled Amayreh in the occupied Palestinian territories […]

At approximately 1820GMT on July 15 2009, the Viva Palestina US Convoy finally crossed into Gaza from the Rafah Crossing in Egypt. Headed up by the British Member of Parliament, George Galloway as well as former Congresswoman Cynthia Mckinney, the convoy was due to bring over US$1million of AID and […]

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      A Palestinian coalition that seeks to organize an international boycott of Israel hosted a lecture with the progressive Canadian author Naomi Klein in the West Bank town of Ramallah on June 27. Klein is the author of the highly acclaimed, best-selling books No Logo and The Shock Doctrine, both staples of many […]

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