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 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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Dec 06 2013
Our Freedom Seems Possible Because You Reached Yours By Marwan Barghouti, 06 Dec 2013 “During the long years of my own struggle, I had the occasion to think many times of you, dear Nelson Mandela. Even more since my arrest in 2002. I think of a man who spent 27 years in a prison …
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Nov 24 2013
JFK and the day I took one quick shot in Dallas… By Dom Joly, Sunday 24 November 2013 I’ve spent the last week overdosing on Kennedy porn. I’ve watched so many documentaries about what happened on that awful day in Dallas 50 years ago that my own head is ready to explode. I feel …
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