Citizens International

May 3, 2013

The Popularity Of The Consumerist Culture Is Imported From The West

by Kourosh Ziabari posted April 14, 2013 by Countercurrents.org   Interview with Prof. Zygmunt Bauman                     Prof. Zygmunt Bauman is a world-renowned, award-winning sociologist, philosopher and historian. He was born on November 19, 1925 in Poland and has been living in the UK since 1971. He is an emeritus

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When Israeli denial of Palestinian existence becomes genocidal

by Ilan Pappe posted April 20, 2013 by The Electronic Intifada Sixty-five years on, Israeli President Shimon Peres still denies the existence of the indigenous population of Palestine. In a regal interview he gave the Israeli press on the eve of the state’s ” Independence Day,” Shimon Peres, the current president of Israel, said the following: “I remember

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A Dangerous Delusion – Why the West is Wrong About Nuclear Iran

by Daud Abdullah A book review   The current dispute between the west and Iran over its nuclear programme bears uncanny similarities to the case of Iraq; western assertions that Iran is developing a nuclear weapons programme is strikingly reminiscent of the claims of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. In the absence of no

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The Five Stages Of Collapse, By Dmitry Orlov, Reviewed

by Carolyn Baker posted April 8, 2013 by Information Clearing House” – “Carolyn Baker”    Many of us who have been researching collapse for a decade or more repeatedly use the word in writing, speaking, and daily conversation, but few of us have the opportunity to define it with such precision or personal experience as one finds in Dmitry

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The PLO’s dangerous land swaps rhetoric

by Samah Sabawi … posted April 3, 2013 by Aljazeera … The “land swaps” rhetoric is designed to protect the large Israeli settlement blocks and their buffer zones.   “As PLO representatives parrot the parlance of “land swaps”, they need to remember that these settlements are responsible not only for destroying Palestinian livelihood, but also

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