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Zeev Gorin, friend , mentor, social justice activist, blog contributor, dead at 65.. Robert Fisk: Painters love martyrs and prophets.. Our reign of terror, by the Israeli army.. Venezuela: Democracy, socialism and imperialism..
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Zeev Gorin, friend , mentor, social justice activist, blog contributor, dead at 65
Dear friends:
Contributor to this blog, my dear friend, adopted brother, and ideological soulmate, Zeev Gorin died May 2, 2008. His death was unexpected and leaves devastated his family and friends. A dedicated and untiring social justice activist, Zeev was also a devoted husband, father, friend...
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Robert Fisk: Painters love martyrs and prophets
Saint Sebastian's death – arrows puncturing skin – is straight out of Shia martyrology
by Robert Fisk
The Independent
Saturday, 19 April 2008
Nothing annoys me more than a magnificent Renaissance painting which carries the deadly label "school of". Why any of the great masters would let some...
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Our reign of terror, by the Israeli army
In shocking testimonies that reveal abductions, beatings and torture, Israeli soldiers confess the horror they have visited on Hebron
By Donald Macintyre in Jerusalem
The Independent
Saturday, 19 April 2008
The dark-haired 22-year-old in black T-shirt, blue jeans and red Crocs is understandably...
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Venezuela: Democracy, socialism and imperialism
by James Petras
18 April, 2008
The James Petras website
Introduction
Venezuela’s President Hugo Chavez remains the world’s leading secular, democratically elected political leader who has consistently and publicly opposed imperialist wars in the Middle East, attacked extra-territorial...
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Iraq: Chaos hardening sectarian fiefdoms
by Ali Gharib
WASHINGTON (IPS) - There are an estimated 2.7 million Iraqis who have been displaced within their own country. No house; no food; no security. Who do they turn to for help? The international community's humanitarian organisations? The occupying United States government? The central...
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Maoist Victory in Nepal: View From India
By J. Sri Raman
t r u t h o u t
The Maoist victory in the April 10 Nepal elections to a Constituent Assembly has come as a shock to every victim of media-reinforced prejudice and propaganda. The elite in Nepal and the political establishments in countries around the world were caught...
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Uri Avnery: Manifest Destiny?
Uri Avnery
Gush Shalom
NEXT MONTH, Israel will celebrate its 60th anniversary. The government is working feverishly to make this day into an occasion of joy and jubilation. While serious problems are crying out for funds, some 40 million dollars have been allocated to this aim.
But the nation is...
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Nepal elections coverage
Here are a few articles analyzing the April 10 electoral victory of Nepali Maoists:
* Maoist Victory in Nepal: View From India (J. Sri Raman)
* Nepal’s Maoist landslide (Prashant Jha)
* Triumph of the new mainstream in Nepal (Siddharth Varadarajan)
* Interview with Baburam Bhattarai, Nepali...
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Nepal’s Maoist landslide
An electoral earthquake reflects the social distance that had grown between Kathmandu's elite and media and Nepal's people, says Prashant JhaPrashant Jha
openDemocracy
The results of the general election in Nepal on 10 April 2008, won overwhelmingly by the Maoists - officially the Communist Party...
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Triumph of the new mainstream in Nepal
Siddharth Varadarajan
The Hindu
By voting in the Maoists, the Nepali people have chosen the party most likely to push for an egalitarian society and inclusive republican system in the Constituent Assembly. India must not only respect the verdict but also help the new government implement its...
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Interview with Baburam Bhattarai, Nepali Maoist leader
April 16, 2008, Nepali Times interview with CPNM (Communist Party of Nepal - Maoist) leader, and possible next prime minister, Baburam Bhattarai.
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"Radical democrat"
Nepali Times
Baburam Bhattarai pointed to a bouquet in his study and said: "People who never looked at us before...
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Maoist victory in Nepal brings lessons for India
NEW DELHI (AFP)--A stunning showing by Nepal's Maoists in landmark polls is a wake-up call for giant southern neighbor India as it battles its own left-wing rebellion, analysts say.
India, they say, needs to do far more to bring its own ultra-left insurgents into the mainstream and end crushing...
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Bear Stearns bailout: 'Socialism for the rich'
by P. Sainath
Frontline
The nations that taught us that state meddling in economic matters was blasphemy are now nationalising banks, bailing out brigands, and pouring in funds to stop factories from closing down.
The bailout of Bear Stearns by the U.S. Federal Reserve was worth $30 billion. That...
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NIGERIA: Tensions rise with start of trial of Delta leader
ABUJA, 15 April 2008 (IRIN) - In a demonstration of support for prominent Niger Delta militant Henry Okah, who the government put in trial in early April, militant leaders have said that they will escalate armed conflict.
"We have pulled out of any peace talks, we have not disarmed so there really...
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South Africa's new struggle
The ANC government has allowed the world's most voracious companies to escape reparations for poisoning the land and its peopleby John Pilger
New Statesman
When I returned to South Africa following the fall of apartheid, I asked Ahmed Kathrada to take me to Robben Island. Known affectionately as...
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John Pilger: Honouring the 'unbreakable promise'
"The struggle of people against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting.” -- Milan Kundera
“Democracy” is now the free market – a concept itself berefet of freedom. “Reform” is now the denial of reform. “Economics” is the relegation of most human endeavour to material value, a bottom...
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IRAQ: From One Dictator to the Next
by Ali al-Fadhily and Dahr Jamail*
BAGHDAD, Apr 12 (IPS) - Many Iraqis have come to believe that Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki is just as much a dictator as Saddam Hussein was.
"Al-Maliki is a dictator who must be removed by all means," 35-year-old Abdul-Riza Hussein, a Mehdi Army member...
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India, Africa renewing a partnership
Editorial
The Hindu
The real significance of the just-concluded India-Africa Forum Summit lies not in the specific initiatives announced by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh but in the fact that two rising regions of the world have consciously begun the process of rediscovering each other in the...
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Basra Battles: Barely Half the Story
By Ramzy Baroud
The Palestine Chronicle
When it comes to Iraq, reporters appear intent on omitting or fabricating news.
The latest battles in Basra, Iraq's second largest city and a vital oil seaport, furnished ample instances of misleading and manipulative practice in corporate journalism today....
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Mugabe losing southern African support
JOHANNESBURG , 11 April 2008 (IRIN) - Seven months ago leaders of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) greeted President Robert Mugabe with a standing ovation at a regional summit in the Zambian capital of Lusaka, but while the venue for the 12 April crisis summit on Zimbabwe maybe the...
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Israeli rabbis call for genocide of Palestinians
Saleh Al-Naami
Al-Ahram Weekly
"All of the Palestinians must be killed; men, women, infants, and even their beasts." This was the religious opinion issued one week ago by Rabbi Yisrael Rosen, director of the Tsomet Institute, a long-established religious institute attended by students and soldiers...
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New wave of food protests
JOHANNESBURG (IRIN) -- Food prices have the potential to change regimes and the course of history. When Marie Antoinette allegedly said "Let them eat cake" in 1789, she was wondering why higher bread prices were causing so much trouble in Paris.
Food security analysts, NGOs, think tanks and the...
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Globalization pills for globalization ills
[Related article: A pilgrimage in India to save seeds, the land and farmers and video: Seeding deep democracy]
Globalisation pills for globalisation ills: Offering the disease as the cure for India's deepening food and agrarian crisis
by Vandana Shiva
Znet
Over the last 15 years, India's food...
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Stuffed and starved: Food riots break out across the globe
Democracy Now! interviews Raj Patel, author of Stuffed and Starved: The Hidden Battle for the World Food System.
Transcript from Democracy Now!
Global food prices have risen dramatically, adding a new level of danger to the crisis of world hunger. In Africa, food riots have swept across the...
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Iraq: A nation ruined
All sectors of Iraqi society have been affected, with women bearing the brunt of the war. Under Saddam Hussein and the Baath Party, women were represented in all sectors of society. More than half of the civil service personnel were women and a fourth of the parliament members since the 1980s...
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