UN’s Gaza flotilla probe finds Israeli soldiers committed ‘willful killing’ By Tom A. Peter, Christian Science Monitor, Sept. 23, 2010 A United Nations Human Rights Council investigation concluded that the Israeli military broke international laws during a raid on a…
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US stonewalls effort to criminalize war
The Real News, September 19, 2010
Kabul Bank Corruption
Afghanistan’s troubled bank House of Karzai A bank run exposes more murky financial and political dealings By The Economist, Sept. 9, 2010 PALM JUMEIRAH, the giant palm-shaped peninsula in the Persian Gulf, is famous for its luxury homes. In Kabul…
Another Wikileaks release pending – this time Iraq
Massive Cache of Iraq War Docs to Be Published by WikiLeaks By Kim Zetter, Wired Magazine, September 9, 2010 A massive cache of previously unpublished classified U.S. military documents from the Iraq War is being readied for publication by WikiLeaks,…
Afghan Financial Panic
AlJazeeraEnglish | September 05, 2010 Nervous customers withdraw their savings amid fears of possible bank collapse. Banksters, Afghan style by Creekside, Sept. 2, 2010 Der Spiegel in July: “Billions of dollars are being secreted out of Kabul to help well-connected…
A phony finish to the war on Iraq
Another False Ending: Contracting Out the Occupation By Bill Quigly and Laura Raymond, Counterpunch, September 1, 2010 Another false ending to the Iraq war is being declared. Nearly seven years after George Bush’s infamous “Mission Accomplished” speech on the USS…
Should people boycott Israel?
TheRealNews | August 30, 2010 Omar Barghouti explains the aims of the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement. Part 2 of the interview is entitled Has Israel Moved to the Right?
International Day of the Disappeared
AlJazeeraEnglish | August 31, 2010 We mark the International Day of the Disappeared and ask: What is being done to end forced disappearances, and what will it take to get justice? See also: International Day of the Disappeared
Hiroshima Peace Declaration 2010
By Tadatoshi Akiba, Mayor, The City of Hiroshima, August 6, 2010 In the company of hibakusha who, on this day 65 years ago, were hurled, without understanding why, into a “hell” beyond their most terrifying nightmares and yet somehow managed…
Israel’s Public Relations War
TheRealNews | August 03, 2010 Escalating criticism of Israel led its security establishment to declare a PR war on “delegitimization.” For additional analysis, see the RealNews series entitled Who benefits from Israeli occupation? Palestinian filmmaking culture grows from NGO project…