Category: The Middle East

By their books

Beware men of power who turn to writing books By Robert Fisk, Saturday, 9 April 2011 … Lebanon is a great place to pick up the linguistic ticks of the region’s – hopefully still falling – dictators. And I owe it to Alexandre Najjar to raise in the literary section of the French-language L’Orient Le …

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What is trvth?

We’re not being told the truth on Libya By Johan Hari, Friday, 8 April 2011 … Most of us have a low feeling that we are not being told the real reasons for the war in Libya. David Cameron’s instinctive response to the Arab revolutions was to jump on a plane and tour the palaces …

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I protest!

There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest. ~ Elie Wiesel [tube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FNQiL-TPobM[/tube] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FNQiL-TPobM [tube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZbWRfBZY-ng[/tube] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZbWRfBZY-ng

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Amnesty International @ 50

Amnesty International posters – in pictures The Observer, Sunday 3 April 2011 Amnesty has produced powerful posters over the past 50 years. Here are some of the best… La Colombe et le Prisonnier, 1959 A poster with an image donated to Amnesty by Pablo Picasso Prisoner of Conscience, 1969 (Netherlands) Designed by Joop Lieverst, a …

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Does any of this sound familiar?

Voices of protest that deserve to be listened to, not sneered at By Yasmin Alibhai-Brown, Monday, 28 March 2011 … My husband, daughter and I should have joined fellow-citizens who marched on Saturday against the cuts demanded by fundamentalist, doctrinaire Tories and their helpful little Lib Dem friends. But I had earlier agreed to speak …

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Dangerous farce

The shady men backed by the West to displace Gaddafi By Patrick Cogburn, Sunday, 3 April 2011 … In the restaurant of the Amal Africa hotel in Ajdabiya south of Benghazi, waiters have started to ask journalists to pay their bills before they eat. This urgency on the part of the hotel management reflects their …

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Until we awake

The Collapse of Globalization By Chris Hedges, Mar 27, 2011 … The uprisings in the Middle East, the unrest that is tearing apart nations such as the Ivory Coast, the bubbling discontent in Greece, Ireland and Britain and the labor disputes in states such as Wisconsin and Ohio presage the collapse of globalization. They presage a world …

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