It took just four days for a world famous singer to cancel her Tel Aviv show in response to her fans’ urging her to respect the international picket line. Lorde’s decision on Christmas Eve to pull the Tel Aviv show from her world tour – remarking that booking the gig in the first place “wasn’t…
by Robert Naiman posted by Thuthout Thursday night, by what the Christian Science Monitor called the “thinnestof margins” the General Assembly of the 1.9 million member Presbyterian Church USA failed to approve a resolution requiring the church to divest its $20 million investments in Caterpillar, Motorola, and Hewlett-Packard over the ties of these companies to…
By Kourosh Ziabari posted 19 June, 2012 by Countercurrents.org The announcement by Iran’s intelligence ministry that it has arrested 20 people associated with the terrorist operations in which two of the country’s nuclear scientists were assassinated received the Western mainstream media’s meaningful silence, but clearly demonstrated the influence and might of Iran’s intelligence apparatus, giving…
posted June 18, 2012 by Scottish Palestine Solidarity Campaign According to the Herald on Sunday, “It wasn’t much fun being an Israeli footballer at Tynecastle yesterday. Lashed by the rain, barracked by pro-Palestinian demonstrators – and seven goals down at half-time…against a noisy backdrop of protests about the imprisonment of Palestinian footballers. The Israeli national…
posted June 16, 2012 by The Hindu Tabla maestro Zakir Hussain has called off a series of performances scheduled to be held in Israel later this month, in the wake of an appeal made by 85 artistes, writers and activists. The Indian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (INCACBI) had appealed to…
by John Rosenthal posted June 9, 2012 by National Review It was, in the words of U.N. special envoy Kofi Annan, the “tipping point” in the Syria conflict: a savage massacre of over 90 people, predominantly women and children, for which the Syrian regime of Bashar al-Assad was immediately blamed by virtually the entirety of…
by Ali Abunimah posted June 6, 2012 by The Electronic Intifada For the first time since their hunger strikes began, an independent doctor has been allowed to visit Mahmoud Sarsak and Akram Rikhawi in the Israeli jail where they are held, confirming the imminent danger to their lives. After 80 and 56 days of hunger…
posted June 9, 2012 by Ahram Online Somalia’s Al-Qaeda-allied Shebab rebels Saturday mocked a US offer of up to $33 million for tip-offs enabling the arrest of its top leaders, saying they would give 10 camels to anyone who helped locate Barack Obama. The highest price put up by the US State Department on Thursday…
by Stephen Leahy posted June 4, 2012 by Inter Press Service News Agency Ecologically ignorant policies are largely responsible for the interlinked crises that are unraveling the planet’s life support system. The unintended consequences of such policies are climate change, desertification, biodiversity decline, ocean pollution and the destruction of forests, according to the policy advocacy…
By Tamara Pearson posted June 6, 2012 by Venezuela Analysis Yesterday movements and political currents grouped into the Revolutionary Popular Alliance (APR) marched in Caracas against global capitalism and for a deepening of the Bolivarian revolution. According to Venezuelan alternative media source, Aporrea, some 2000 people took part in the march. Groups both expressed their…