Dec 07 2013

As long as the Palestinians are not free

Mandela’s mission is not yet complete

By , 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…  [more]

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Dec 07 2013

Mandela will never, ever be your minstrel

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…  [more]

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Dec 07 2013

Mandela was a very funny man

Follow Mandela’s example, and roar with laughter at all this rightwing fawning

By , Friday 6 December 2013 12.05 EST   Asked for his feelings on meeting the Spice Girls in 1997 – shortly after Mel B had…  [more]

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Dec 06 2013

The triumph of light over darkness

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…  [more]

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Nov 26 2013

What constitutes security for Israel

Obama Crushes the Neocons

By Michael Tomasky, November 25th 20135:45 am   Well, the ayatollah appears to have lent his provisional support to the historic U.S.-Iran accord announced Saturday night. In a letter to President Hassan Rouhani, Supreme Leader Ali…  [more]

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Nov 24 2013

Next to the grassy knoll

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…  [more]

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Nov 23 2013

Systematic and institutionalized

UNICEF isn’t anti-Semitic

By , Mar. 10, 2013 2:45 AM   It has already been met here with a typical shrug of the shoulders, the report by the United Nations Children Fund declaring that Palestinian children detained by…  [more]

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