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…
Category: Opinions and Debates
Guantánamo is now Obama’s kangaroo court
Photo: Allan Lissner Obama Bravely Takes on a Tortured Child Soldier Torturing the Rule of Law at Obama’s Gitmo By Chase Madar, Counterpunch, July 30-August 1, 2010 President Obama may lack the nerve to stare down Liz Cheney or Bibi…
The Rising Non-Violent Movement in Palestine
TheRealNews | July 19, 2010: A speech by Dr. Mustafa Barghouti on Palestinian political dynamics and Middle East peace.
The Siege against Gaza: America’s Ongoing Support of Israeli Military and Intelligence Operations
by Prof. Michel Chossudovsky, GlobalResearch.ca, July 22, 2010 The Israeli Commando had an explicit order to kill. What was the role of the United States? The raids on the Gaza Freedom Flotilla, bear the mark of previous Israeli operations directed…
Haiti: fundamental problems unaddressed
A man pushes a wheel barrow past earthquake damaged buildings in downtown Port-au-Prince, Haiti, June 21. Photo: Alexandre Meneghini/AP Six Months After the Quake The Political Roadblocks to Haiti’s Reconstruction By Yves Engler, Counterpunch, July 16-18, 2010 Six months ago…
The article that ended McChrystral’s war
The Runaway General By Michael Hastings, Rolling Stone, June 22, 2010 ‘How’d I get screwed into going to this dinner?” demands Gen. Stanley McChrystal. It’s a Thursday night in mid-April, and the commander of all U.S. and NATO forces in…
Another perspective on the nuclear arms race
Beep, flash, boom: the music of nuke tests By Russel Smith, The Globe and Mail, July 7, 2010 Internet art often exists on the intersecting boundaries of video, lecture, graphic design, publicity, slide-show and game. The medium lends itself to…
Is war with Iran imminent?
corbettreport June 29, 2010 (10 minutes): Paul Craig Roberts, former Assistant Treasury Secretary and Wall Street Journal comments on the recent US sanctions on Iran and the likelihood of a strike on Iran by the US and/or Israel.
Lessons from Afghan history
Why the Taliban is winning in Afghanistan By William Dalrymple, New Statesman, June 22, 2010 As Washington and London struggle to prop up a puppet government over which Hamid Karzai has no control, they risk repeating the blood-soaked 19th-century history…
Inside the Taliban
AlJazeeraEnglish, June 24, 2010 (22 minutes): What kind of Afghanistan does the Taliban want and is their vision for the nation one that is sustainable?