By David Blair I never thought I would write this, but Aung San Suu Kyi sent a shiver down my spine when she appeared on the Today programme this morning. Her equivocal attitude towards the violence suffered by Burma’s Muslim minority was deeply disturbing. I’m sorry to say that she employed the standard devices used by […]
by PAM MARTENS The insidious greed and public looting that Wall Street has nurtured to an art form in New York City is metastasizing like a virulent tumor strain throughout the state, fraying the social fabric and crushing people caught in its grip like bugs. On Tuesday evening, September 17, 2013, Seema Kalia was
By John Pilger Countries are “pieces on a chessboard upon which is being played out a great game for the domination of the world,” wrote Lord Curzon, Viceroy of India, in 1898. Nothing has changed. The shopping mall massacre in Nairobi was a bloody façade behind which a full-scale invasion of Africa and a
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By Kathleen Sharp Sixty-five years ago today, in a remote part of Great Britain, George Orwell was finishing his prescient novel, 1984. At the same moment a continent away in Hollywood, an American woman was actually living Orwell’s fictional story. In the fall of 1948, actress Dorothy Comingore of Citizen Kane fame had no clue that the U.S.
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By Mazin Qumsiyeh On November 28, 1947, the CIA predicted accurately the meaning of Truman’s push to partition Palestine: “Armed hostilities between Jews and Arabs will break out if the UN General Assembly accepts the plan to partition Palestine … the resulting conflict will seriously disturb the social, economic, and political stability of the
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by FRANKLIN LAMB Damascus In Damascus and many other areas of Syria this weekend, citizens will celebrate the accomplishments of the October 6, 1973 – 19 day war jointly launched by Syrian and Egyptian armies to regain Arab land illegally occupied since 1967. Syrians will honor the 6,000 (Syrians) who died during battle. Many events are planned including
Press Release MAPIM 1st October 2013 FRESH ATTACK ON MUSLIMS IN MYANMAR – WHY IS THE UN AND ASEAN SECRETARIAT ACTION LESS? MAPIM regrets and registers its strong condemnation on the recent report of a fresh violence that had taken place in Thandwe township,Rakhine State,Myanmar on Mon,Sep 30,2013. The prevailing ethnic violence
Press Release MAPIM 1st October 2013 MAPIM condemn harshly the Israeli forces that are currently forcing the Alqurmi Neighborhood people in Jerusalem (al-Quds) to leave their homes. The on going scheme called the Judaization project of Al Quds Is actively in progress and has not come to the notice of the world. We register
By Pepe Escobar October 02, 2013 “Information Clearing House – Iranian missiles will hit New York in “three to four years”. A nuclear Iran is like “50 North Koreas”. This could be the sound of a deranged, dangerous sociopath, or this could be the sound of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin “Bibi” Netanyahu addressing the UN General Assembly. Compare
