An article in the Independent - The pasta, paper and hearing aids that could threaten Israeli security - while revealing ongoing Israeli crimes against Palestinians (without actually naming them as such) still manages to hide the reality that is masked by the sarcasm ...

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Condi's Last-Ever Human Rightz Country Reports Are Out!

Bolivia's State Department Human Rights Report is Funny/Dumb Too

The Imperial Unconscious

Afghan Faces, Predators, Reapers, Terrorist Stars, Roman Conquerors, Imperial Graveyards, and Other Oddities of the Truncated American Century
By Tom Engelhardt

Sometimes, it's the everyday things, the ones that fly below the radar, that matter.

Here, according to Bloomberg News, is part of Secretary of Defense Ro...

...Apostasy Used to Further Demonize Islam?

Headline declares: "Chechen leader imposes strict brand of Islam" and then proceeds to give readers a picture of what "strict Islam" and "Islamic values" and "traditional customs", which Kadyrov is trying to impose on Chechnya, look like - 7 young women shot in the head and dumped by the roadside. ...

If you have eaten a tomato this winter, chances are very good that it was picked by a person who lives in virtual slavery.

Barry Estabrook

March 2009

Gourmet via Angry Arab

....The beige stucco house at 209 South Seventh Street is remarkable only because it is in be...

by Stephen Lendman

25 February 2009

Enough is enough. After 61 years of Palestinian slaughter, displacement, occupation, oppression, and international dismissiveness and complicity, global action is essential. Israel must be held accountable. World leaders won't do it, so grassroots movements must lead the way.

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by Niraj Joshi

25 Febraury 2009

What will be the impact of the global economic crisis, this financial meltdown in the world's richest economies, on that of the world's most impoverished? Consider the case of Haiti, where the sheer magnitude of the economic disaster, already long under way, is difficult to conceive in most countries.

Recent World Bank data warns t...

Written by Anis

Witness how the artistic enablers of neo-colonialist imperialism take up the defense of the bread-and-circuses liberal culture that has come under attack by “extremists” and that is itself nourished at the twin nipples of the neoconservative and neoliberal warlord rulers of the emerging new world order.

Pakistan foreign minister pushes US for drones

By FOSTER KLUG – 1 hour ago

WASHINGTON (AP) — Pakistan's foreign minister said Wednesday that his country has asked the United States to provide unmanned aircraft that would allow Pakistan to strike extremists hiding in rugged terrain along the Afghan border.

Shah Mahmood Qureshi said in an interview with Associated Press reporters a...

24 February 2009

by Salmah Umm Zainab

It appears to have been DictatorshipWatch that first broke the story on 15 February 2009 of the secret air base in Pakistan that might be curr...

In the early morning of February 20th at 2am, Israeli Forces invaded the town of Tamoun, located in the Tubas region of the northern occupied West Bank. Around 50 soldiers in seven jeeps surrounded two houses in the town, firing sound bombs and live ammunition before breaking into the residences.

During the course of the invasion, an army attack dog mauled the face of Salem Fadel...

by Kambale Musavuli

19 February 2009

Since Rwanda and Uganda invaded the Congo in 1996, they have pursued a plan to appropriate the wealth of Eastern Congo either directly or through proxy forces. The December 2008 United Nations report is the latest in a series of U.N. reports dating from 2001 that clearly documents the systematic looting and appropriation of Congolese resources by Rwanda and Uganda, two of Washington and London's staunchest allies in...