Dec 10 2011
The Terrible Beauty of Wikileaks By Idrees, December 10th, 2011 … Following are excerpts from my long essay on Wikileaks and the Palestine Papers which appears in The Arabs Are Alive, the first issue of Critical Muslim, edited by Ziauddin Sardar and PULSE’s own Robin Yassin-Kassab. British journalist Gary Younge once quipped that the English …
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Dec 09 2011
Bankers are the dictators of the West By Robert Fisk, Saturday 10 December 2011 … Writing from the very region that produces more clichés per square foot than any other “story” – the Middle East – I should perhaps pause before I say I have never read so much garbage, so much utter drivel, as …
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Dec 05 2011
[tube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kmBnvajSfWU[/tube] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kmBnvajSfWU Brand new track produced by Red Skull, taken from the highly anticipated album Soundtrack To The Struggle by Lowkey. So, we must ask ourselves, what is the dictionary definition of “terrorism”? The systematic use of terror especially as a means of coercion. But what is “terror”? According to the dictionary I …
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Nov 27 2011
Why torturers film their handiwork By Robert Fisk, Saturday 26 November 2011 … When prisoners were brought to Saddam Hussein’s intelligence service for interrogation, their torturers often videotaped the torment. In the years after his downfall, I lectured around the world on the illegality and the immorality and the outrageous civilian slaughter of the invasion …
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Nov 16 2011
By Rafeef Ziadah, London, 12.11.11 [tube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKucPh9xHtM[/tube] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKucPh9xHtM Rafeef Ziadah is a Canadian-Palestinian spoken word artist and activist. Her debut CD Hadeel is dedicated to Palestinian youth, who still fly kites in the face of F16 bombers, who still remember the names if their villages in Palestine and still hear the sound of Hadeel (cooing of …
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Nov 13 2011
A new Israel in the making By Gideon Levy, 02:21 13.11.11 … One day not long from now we will wake up to a different kind of country, the country that’s now in the making. It won’t look like the country we know, which already has its share of flaws, distortions and ills. And when …
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Nov 04 2011
Apartheid and the occupation of Palestine By John Dugard, 04 Nov 2011 09:00 … This week, the Russell Tribunal on Palestine will consider the question of whether Israel’s practices in the occupied Palestinian territory (OPT) constitute the crime of apartheid within the meaning of the 1973 International Convention on the Suppression and Punishment of the …
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