A former senior justice official of Earth’s most powerful nation vents his rage at the war machine his country has become.
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Right-wing Jewish settlers in the Palestinian city of Hebron wear skull caps and carry Glock pistols. They have forcibly expanded their settlements, closed Palestinian shops, and expelled residents. Settlers say they are protecting Jewish land. Palestinians and progressive Israelis say the settlers make a peace settlement impossible. Correspondent Reese Erlich takes us from the Jewish settlements of Hebron to the streets of Ramallah.
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Colonel Gaddafi was a genuine pan-Arabist, in the tradition of Egypt’s Gamal Abdel Nasser, except more radically anti-West. Under Gaddafi’s autocratic rule Libya improved greatly, and things became much better, especially for the poor and women, with a distribution of wealth hitherto unknown in any country on the continent.
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On the last day of September, a crowd of Winnipeggers gathered to hear one of Israel’s most courageous and incisive journalists — Ha’aretz reporter/columnist Amira Hass. In this supposed “information age” of ours, where bits of “fact” or shreds of news of any sort can be be procured in a flash…
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A former senior justice official of Earth’s most powerful nation vents his rage at the war machine his country has become.
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Foxy Lady is a must-read for anyone curious to peer into the quirky littoral activities of some of the shady visitors to their little port. This is a tale that reinforces the popular belief that Darwin is probably less Australia’s front door and more its Asian cat flap.
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Roughly two million Cambodians perished in the 1975-79 Cambodian genocide. Thousands of foreigners died too. Among these were a Canadian, a New Zealander and an Englishmen, two Australians and four Americans — all of them captured while sailing yachts through the Gulf of Thailand. The intellectual authors of the Cambodian genocide now face justice at an international tribunal in Phnom Penh. For the family and friends of the genocide’s forgotten victims, it’s been a long time coming.
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Naksa Day protesters at the Qalandiyah checkpoint between Jerusalem and Ramallah were greeted with violence this morning. We spoke on the phone with Palestinian National Initiative leader Mustapha Barghouthi.
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Little Rwanda is now commemorating the seventeenth anniversary of the 1994 genocide. Between April 6 and early July 1994, an estimated 800,000 ethnic Tutsis and some tens of thousands of Hutus perished (the latter figure very uncertain).
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Young girls run and shout here at the Afghans4Tomorrow girl’s school, much as they do everywhere in the world. But the sight is unusual in Afghanistan because these girls wear school uniforms, not all-encompassing burkas. They’re are also playing inside an enclosed courtyard — away from public view.
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An Interview with 1989 Right Livelihood Award winner Melaku Worede.
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