Dec 10 2013
The ‘long journey’ to Palestine By Ghada Karmi, 09 Dec 2013 12:32 This December will be remembered as the month which saw Nelson Mandela’s passing, a landmark event ending the epic life of a man who left a legacy of compassion for all who suffered injustice, not least the Palestinians. He spoke about the …
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Dec 08 2013
An obsessive’s documenting of Israeli war crimes in Lebanon can show us how the West lost respect for international law By Robert Fisk, Sunday 8 December 2013 Odd Karsten Tveit was always a very obsessional chap. Every story he covered, he always wanted to dig deeper, study further, hear one more tale of horror, …
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Dec 08 2013
Mass murder in the Middle East is funded by our friends the Saudis By Patrick Cockburn, Sunday 8 December 2013 Donors in Saudi Arabia have notoriously played a pivotal role in creating and maintaining Sunni jihadist groups over the past 30 years. But, for all the supposed determination of the United States and its …
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Dec 08 2013
Doomsday theory 2014: Obama as the anti-Christ By Jordan Yerman, Dec 2nd, 2013 [tube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8RPQnsizbos[/tube] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8RPQnsizbos How the world will end: Not with a bang, but with a soundtrack 2012 came and went with no apocalypse. No economic implosion (we got that one a few years earlier). No Rogue Planet Nibiru. Those who were so …
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Dec 07 2013
Mandela’s mission is not yet complete By Gideon Levy, Dec. 8, 2013 2:30 AM South African President Nelson Mandela, in his address for International Solidarity Day with the Palestinian People on December 4, 1997, said: “We know too well that our freedom is incomplete without the freedom of the Palestinians.” And Prime Minister Benjamin …
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Dec 07 2013
Mandela will never, ever be your minstrel. By Musa Okwonga, Friday 6 December 2013 Dear revisionists, Mandela will never, ever be your minstrel. Over the next few days you will try so, so hard to make him something he was not, and you will fail. You will try to smooth him, to sandblast him, …
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Dec 07 2013
Follow Mandela’s example, and roar with laughter at all this rightwing fawning By Marina Hyde, Friday 6 December 2013 12.05 EST Asked for his feelings on meeting the Spice Girls in 1997 – shortly after Mel B had compared their “girl power quest” with the anti-apartheid movement – Nelson Mandela obliged. “I don’t want …
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