30 August, 2010 — Information Clearing House Abbas is a Man in Exile, Even Among His Own By Omar Karmi Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian president, faces a crisis of credibility among his own people as he heads into direct talks with Israel in Washington this week. www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26270.htm Hamas, the I.R.A. and Us By ALI ABUNIMAH [...]
29 August, 2010 — URUK Net The Morning Star : Disputing Iraq Body Count Figures. Felicity Arbuthnot August 29, 2010 – Your lead article (”The Deaths that Chilcot Forgot”, 28th August*) regarding the Iraq Body Count statistics on Iraqi deaths since the 2003 invasion, makes the point that “… the true figure is expected to [...]
30 August, 2010 — CounterCurrents Press Release www.countercurrents.org/pressrelease.htm Action Alert www.countercurrents.org/actionalert.htm Another Bubble Is About To Burst By Martin Borgs This is the story of the greatest financial crisis we will ever see… The one that is on the way. Filmmaker Martin Borgs takes a provocative look at the events leading up the Global Financial [...]
30 August, 2010 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center East Jerusalem neighborhood attacked by Israeli soldiers; at least 4 detained IMEMC – 31 Aug 2010 – Monday August 30, 2010 – 17:35, The Silwan neighborhood, which has been the site of an Israeli municipal plan to rid the neighborhood of its Palestinian residents, [...]
29 August, 2010 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Israeli universities condemn ‘witch hunt’ by right-wing groups IMEMC – 29 Aug 2010 – Sunday August 29, 2010 – 16:09, In a joint statement released by Israel’s largest and most prominent universities, the academic leadership challenged a foreign-funded campaign to undermine academic freedom in [...]
An ambulance is stopped, and the sick people inside brought out to explain their ailments. A mother is separated from her very young children. Young Palestinians laugh and throw snowballs at Israeli soldiers, who jovially respond in kind. One Israeli soldier harasses a pretty Palestinian girl. Another refers to the Arabs as “animals,” and suggests the documentary crew is making a film for the Discovery Channel. Palestinians wait in the pouring rain while an Israeli soldier eats his lunch.
26 August, 2010 — URUK Net Target, Yemen: U.S. War of Terror Expands By Kenneth J. Theisen August 26, 2010 – According to a story in the Wall Street Journal Obama administration officials “believe al Qaeda in Yemen is now collaborating more closely with allies in Pakistan and Somalia.” The story states that this belief [...]
27 August, 2010 — CounterCurrents Press Release www.countercurrents.org/pressrelease.htm Action Alert www.countercurrents.org/actionalert.htm America Facing Depression And Bankruptcy By Stephen Lendman “Twenty countries (including America) are headed into bankruptcy and more will follow. That brings up the subject of state debt in the US. America has been in an inflationary depression for 18 months. States have been [...]
27 August, 2010 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Red Crescent Members Arrested at Weekly Protest, Ni’lin IMEMC – 27 Aug 2010 – Friday August 27, 2010 – 13:40, Israeli writer and film maker Joseph Dana has reported, via his twitter account, that the Israeli military has conducted a number of arrests in [...]
Ariel lies 20km inside the West Bank, deeper than any other sizable settlement. The divided highway leading to it – the best road in the West Bank – is open to Israelis only, *and* lacks any signs naming the numerous Palestinian towns and villages flanking the road. According to Peace Now’s 2006 settlement land report, 35% of Ariel’s area was confiscated from private Palestinian owners by military fiat. The rest is public land. No patch of Ariel’s lands was rightfully purchased. Occupied Palestinians are allowed into Ariel only with special permits.
“I was not elected to keep silent or to sit at the table and clap” – Haneen Zoabi, Palestinian member of the Israeli Knesset. Israel did everything it could to make us forget our history: controlling education and the media, putting us in a ghetto, preventing us from having normal relations with the Arab world and visiting our families in Syria and Lebanon.
26 August, 2010 — CounterCurrents Press Release www.countercurrents.org/pressrelease.htm Action Alert www.countercurrents.org/actionalert.htm The Top 5 Most Ignored Humanitarian Crises By Mark Leon Goldberg The sluggish international response to the Pakistan floods emergency is actually not all that sluggish, at least compared to these humanitarian crises. Introducing the five most under-funded and ignored humanitarian crises www.countercurrents.org/goldberg260810.htm
25 August, 2010 — Information Clearing House Wikileaks Posts Classified CIA Memo By Al Jazeera The whistleblower organisation Wikileaks has released a classified CIA document asking what would happen if foreign countries began to view the US as an “exporter of terrorism”. www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26240.htm Another U.S.-Inflicted “Ground Zero” in Pakistan By William N. Grigg If opinion [...]
24 August, 2010 — URUK Net Global boycott movement claims victories, arrests Report, The Electronic Intifada August 24, 2010 – This week, the Norwegian government announced that it has divested from two major Israeli companies involved in settlement construction and land theft in the occupied West Bank. Both companies, Africa Israel Investments and its subsidiary, [...]
22 August, 2010 — CounterCurrents Press Release www.countercurrents.org/pressrelease.htm Action Alert www.countercurrents.org/actionalert.htm India’s Sham Nuclear Liability Bill By Toxic Watch British Petroleum (BP) is facing a bill of up to $34 billion from the Gulf of Mexico oil spill disaster. After US senators demanded, the oil company deposited $20 billion (about Rs 92000 crores) into a [...]
26 August, 2010 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Israeli education ministry approves new ‘whites-only’ settlement school IMEMC – 26 Aug 2010 – Thursday August 26, 2010 – 03:38, Several months ago, a religious school in the illegal Israeli settlement of Immanuel was criticized for segregating white Jewish students from non-white Jewish students [...]
Evidence is mounting that the Institute for Zionist Strategies (IZS) — an Israeli NGO at the forefront of an ongoing campaign to purge Israeli Universities of faculty and programs deemed “left-wing” — is a creature of The Hudson Institute, a major Washington based neoconservative think-tank, which played an active role in shaping the Bush administration’s Middle East policies.
19 August, 2010 — URUK Net Obama’s “Mission Accomplished” Bill Van Auken August 20, 2010 – The White House and the Pentagon, assisted by a servile media, have hyped Thursday’s exit of a single Stryker brigade from Iraq as the end of the “combat mission” in that country, echoing the ill-fated claim made by George [...]
22 August, 2010 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Hebron: Israeli Military and Policemen Shut Three Palestinian Shops IMEMC – 22 Aug 2010 – Sunday August 22, 2010 – 17:19, Every Saturday for the last several months, Youth Against the Settlements has led a nonviolent action — “Open Shuhada Street” — at the [...]
21 August, 2010 — Information Clearing House – ICH Archives 12 February, 2010 to the present - ICH Archives March 2003 – March 2010 A Disaster of Daunting Magnitude By Miami Herald The eyes see. The ears hear. Yet, somehow, the mind struggles to grasp the full dimension of this catastrophe. Almost 20 million people [...]
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