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January 17, 2018

Yes, It Was Blood for Oil: CODEPINK Nails the Truth About George Bush’s Wars (Part 1)

Iraq, Perspective, U.S /

Events Defining the Nature of the Wars The following actions are fully documented in the narrative to follow: 1. The Bush Administration declared its formal commitment to the invasion of Iraq just ten days after taking office, on January 30, 2001. This was seven months prior to the terrorism events of 9/11. (Planning for an […]

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The Neo-Liberal Economic Mess

India, Perspective /

Amazing logic indeed. This is a crazy world. An interesting article written by an Indian Economist. Japanese save a lot. They do not spend much. Also, Japan exports far more than it imports. Has an annual trade surplus of over 100 billion. Yet Japanese economy is considered weak, even collapsing. Americans spend, save little. Also

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Israel’s BDS blacklist is straight out of apartheid. The UK can’t condone it

Blogs, Israel, Oppression Reports, Palestine /

Israel’s “BDS blacklist”, published in the Israeli media on Sunday, bans 20 charities and human rights groups from entering the country, because they support the Palestinian-led boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) movement – a campaign that holds Israel to account over violations of Palestinian rights and international law. Israel imposes travel ban on 20 foreign

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Egyptians find little reason for optimism in new elections

Egypt, Middle East /

Looking back, Mohamed Hamdi, a taxi driver in his early 40s, now says he was “overzealous” in his support for the new president, Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, when he secured a landslide win in Egypt’s presidential elections little more than three years ago. “I had high hopes he would heavily improve this battered economy after many

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Israel officials meet Amitabh Bachchan in desperate attempt to woo Bollywood

Blogs, India, Israel, Middle East, Palestine /

Bollywood superstar Amitabh Bachchan thrilled Israeli officials in India after opening his home to the Israeli consulate in Mumbai. The actor received gushing applause from Israel’s Consul General Yaakov Finkelstein for his “active role in cooperation between Bollywood and Israel”. Finkelstein thanked Bachchan on Tuesday in a tweet following a meeting with the actor at

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Keppel bribes belie Singapore’s clean image

Blogs, Singapore /

One of the largest corruption scandals in the history of Singapore’s corporate sector has come to glaring light, tarnishing the image and credentials of prominent state-backed conglomerate Keppel Corp and raising questions about the city-state’s supposed incorruptibility. Its subsidiary, Keppel Offshore & Marine Ltd (KOM), the world’s largest builder of oil rigs, has been implicated

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Death still approaches

Middle East, Palestine, Perspective, Tunisia /

Over the past decade, there has been a proliferation of personal essays and book-length accounts by writers who have visited the Occupied Territories. Their aim has been to illuminate for a mainly Western audience issues previously ignored, or over-simplified, in the media of their home countries, and thereby to reframe international perceptions of the Palestinian

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