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B.Soc.Sci (Aus). Helped start an Organic Food Co-op and a Local Energy Transfer System (goods & services exchange, no cash). Lived near permaculture's Bill Mollison for a time, saw semi barren land transformed into gardens and orchards. Worked in a Community Support Center. Currently in NZ/ Aotearoa.
Saturday, July 24, 2010 Health Hazards in Gulf Warrant Evacuations: Rose Aguilar, Truthout Report (2 comments)
When Louisiana residents ask marine toxicologist and community activist Riki Ott what she would do if she lived in the Gulf with children, she tells them she would leave immediately. "It's that bad. We need to start talking about who's going to pay for evacuations."
Friday, July 23, 2010 Earthlings Trash Space - Daily Telegraph
SPACE is meant to be the final frontier but it's starting to look more like a cosmic rubbish dump.
An estimated 500,000 pieces of man-made garbage, from tiny specks of metal to jettisoned fuel tanks the size of a bus, hurtle through space at more than 30,000km/h, creating a serious traffic hazard for satellites.
Friday, July 23, 2010 Big Oil Makes War on the Earth - Ellen Cantarow
If you live on the Gulf Coast, welcome to the real world of oil -- and just know that you're not alone. In the Niger Delta and the Ecuadorian Amazon, among other places, your emerging hell has been the living hell of local populations for decades.
Wednesday, July 21, 2010 Jesse Jackson: Let's give Congress our marching orders (2 comments)
The drones releasing bombs over Afghanistan are falling on our cities here at home. More than 20 million workers are unemployed or underemployed. States and localities are facing another round of severe cuts. Across the country, there is a growing divide between the elites in Washington and the American people.
Tuesday, July 20, 2010 NASA's WISE telescope finishes photographing entire sky
A TELESCOPE made by Utah State University's Space Dynamics Lab for NASA has finished its six-month survey of the entire sky. WISE snapped some 1.3 million images, including those of distant galaxies and brown dwarf stars, as well as 100,000 asteroids.
NASA marked the occasion by releasing a high-res image of the Pleiades star cluster, also known as the Seven Sisters.
Monday, July 19, 2010 Talking with the Taliban: A shift in Afghanistan Strategy. Guardian (1 comments)
The Obama administration is revising its Afghanistan strategy to embrace the idea of negotiating with senior members of the Taliban through third parties â€" a policy to which it had previously been lukewarm. - Ewan MacAskill & Simon Tisdall
Monday, July 19, 2010 A Puzzling Collapse of Earth's Upper Atmosphere - NASA (5 comments)
NASA-funded researchers are monitoring a big event in our planet's atmosphere. High above Earth's surface where the atmosphere meets space, a rarefied layer of gas called "the thermosphere" recently collapsed and now is rebounding again.
Monday, July 19, 2010 WAR DRUMS: Chomsky on IRAN and USA+Israel (3 comments)
They are gearing up totally for the destruction of Iran,. according to Dan Plesch, director of the Centre for International Studies and Diplomacy at the University of London. .US bombers and long range missiles are ready today to destroy 10,000 targets in Iran in a few hours,. he said. .The firepower of US forces has quadrupled since 2003,. accelerating under Obama. Noam Chomsky
Tuesday, July 13, 2010 Brad Blog: Fox 'News' Judge Napolitano Says Bush, Cheney "Should Have Been Indicted!"
Says 'evidence overwhelming' they 'participated in criminal conspiracies to violate federal law and guaranteed civil liberties of hundreds, maybe thousands of human beings'...
Asked by Nader what the consequences should be, he says: "They should have been indicted! They absolutely should have been indicted! For torturing, for spying, for arresting without warrant."
Tuesday, July 13, 2010 Coalition Against War Spending Joined by Independent Greens: David Swanson
The Independent Green Party of Virginia has joined a coalition that includes 88 congressional candidates from every major party and 29 national organizations opposed to any further spending on the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. The Independent Greens is the first political party to join the Coalition Against War Spending.
Tuesday, July 6, 2010 Change? Green Jobs Advocate Faces Prison for Dropping Banner while BP and Massey Go Free?
The climate change and clean energy debates might have reached a new low..
Ted Glick, legendary nonviolent advocate, who dropped a "Green Jobs Now" banner down the hallway of the Hart Senate Office Building last fall, goes to trial on Tuesday, July 6th. He faces up to three years in prison.
Three years for dropping a banner that reminds Congress to pursue green jobs and clean energy?
Tuesday, July 6, 2010 It's not just BP's oil in the Gulf that threatens world's oceans.
A sobering new report warns that the oceans face a "fundamental and irreversible ecological transformation" not seen in millions of years as greenhouse gases and climate change already have affected temperature, acidity, sea and oxygen levels, the food chain and possibly major currents that could alter global weather. - Les Blumenthal
Monday, July 5, 2010 Maddie Oatman: 15 Minutes with Rogue Cellist Ben Solee (1 comments)
"How do you value an untouched mountain? I think that's something that lawmakers and environmentalists are working really hard to try to figure out. Because how can you put a value sign on not only the actual physical mountain, but also the trees above it, the fact that it wicks all water through, and all the culture that surrounds it?" ~ Ben Solee (Includes Music Clips)
Monday, July 5, 2010 Jerome Guillett: Windpower's Problem: It Makes Energy Too Cheap (5 comments)
Utilities don't like wind, not because it's not competitive, but because it brings prices down for their existing assets, lowering their revenues and profits.
Author is President and CEO at Energy Bankers of Paris.
Sunday, July 4, 2010 Lt Col Barry Wingard: The Erosion of Individual Liberties; When Justice & Politics Become One (1 comments)
In the "War on Terror," I am amazed how every time our enemy takes action, it sets into motion a scramble by our government to take away the individual rights of Americans. Will we reach a point at which we will be completely stripped of our civil liberties in the name of eliminating danger from external threats?
Saturday, July 3, 2010 US to provide $2 billion for two Solar Energy projects - BBC (1 comments)
Nearly $2bn (-1.3bn) in loan guarantees will be given to two companies to kick-start the US solar energy industry, President Barack Obama has announced.
Saturday, July 3, 2010 Tikkun: Interdependence Day Celebration (2 comments)
A new revolution is necessary -- one in which our actions reflect a realization that our well-being depends on the well-being of everyone else on the planet and of the planet itself.
Friday, July 2, 2010 Truthout: The Upcoming Nuclear Peril - Worse than BP Disaster (1 comments)
The recent destruction wrought by Big Finance and Big Oil will pale in comparison to the destruction wrought by Big Nuclear if we do not use the Gulf disaster as an opportunity to end our dangerous addiction to dirty fuels and to reject the illusion that any industry will "regulate" itself.
Thursday, July 1, 2010 America's Economic Addiction to War (2 comments)
Each segment of this 10-part movie length video series tracing the nexus of the military-industrial complex and corporatism is about 10 minutes long. It contains both historical video footage and interviews.
Thursday, July 1, 2010 Amy Goodman: We Can't Afford War
. Cities and states across the country are facing devastating budget crises. Pensions are being wiped out. Foreclosures are continuing at record levels. A true defense budget would shore up our schools, our roads, our towns, our social safety net. The U.S. House of Representatives is under pressure to pass a $33 billion Afghan War supplemental this week. We can't afford war.
Saturday, June 26, 2010 Protester? or Terrorist? "Problems Remain" - Dennis Loo (5 comments)
In response to the ACLU's June 10, 2009 letter demanding that the DoD pull a question from its DoD training exam that equated protest with "low-level terrorism," the DoD has removed the question from the exam.
This is good news. The problem, however, goes deeper than this one question.
Friday, June 25, 2010 Dennis Kucinich Introduces GE Food Right To Know Act
Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH), a long-time advocate of family farmers and organic foods, has introduced H.R. 5577, The Genetically Engineered Food Right to Know Act, as well as supporting legislation that will provide a comprehensive regulatory framework for all Genetically Engineered (GE) plants, animals, bacteria, and other organisms.
Friday, June 25, 2010 Detroit Urban Agriculture, Reclaiming Motor City.
Malik Yakini, chairman of the Detroit Black Community Food Security Network, gives us a tour of D-Town Farm, one of the biggest urban farms in Detroit. [Video & transcript]
Tuesday, June 22, 2010 Deepwater Drilling Moratoriaum Ruling (2 comments)
U.S. District Court Judge Martin Feldman said he will decide whether to grant an injunction to stop the six-month moratorium on deepwater drilling in the Gulf of Mexico by noon on Wednesday (possibly Tuesday)
Monday, June 21, 2010 Drowning in Oil - The American Dream
A discarded flag, or one that has fallen from one of the many vessels in the area, rests on the ocean floor amid the oil and the bodies of dead crabs. Given that the oil spill is killing not only fish and crabs - but the American dream for millions of Gulf Coast fishermen, shrimpers, tourist industry workers, and others - the image is very powerful indeed.
Monday, June 21, 2010 Where is the Spill? - Gulf Topography. Washington's Blog (2 comments)
A series of topographical maps and diagrams of the ocean floor under Deepwater Horizon. The site is a giant underwater canyon system. The author also notes that "Many deepwater, oil-rich areas within the Gulf are tectonically active."
Tuesday, June 15, 2010 Mars Once Had a Huge Ocean, Study Suggests (1 comments)
A new study suggests that more than a third of Mars was once covered by a huge sea. Larger than the Atlantic Ocean, it would have contained the equivalent of a tenth of Earth's water.
Friday, January 30, 2009 Israel's leaders Attempt to Forestall War Crimes Proceedings
Mounting fear in Israel that the country's leaders face war crimes charges over their involvement in the recent Gaza offensive pushed officials into a frenzy of activity to forestall legal actions abroad. - Jonathan Cook
Saturday, January 24, 2009 Avnery: "A Crime Against Ourselves"
The Israeli author warns that his country has made a tragic mistake: "This war is a crime against ourselves .. a crime against the State of Israel."
Wednesday, January 21, 2009 President Obama suspends Guantanamo cases (2 comments)
HOURS after taking office, US President Barack Obama ordered military prosecutors in the Guantanamo war crimes tribunals to ask for a 120-day halt in all pending cases.
Wednesday, January 21, 2009 World Celebrates Obama
The world watched the inauguration of Barack Obama as the 44th President of the United States along with American citizens. What they say they saw, read and heard was a message of renewed cooperation and leadership.
Wednesday, January 21, 2009 Earliest weapons-grade plutonium found in US dump
An old glass jar inside a beaten up old safe at the bottom of a waste pit may seem an unlikely place to find a pivotal piece of 20th century history. But that's just where the first batch of weapons-grade plutonium ever made has been found - abandoned at the world's oldest nuclear processing site.
Saturday, January 17, 2009 All Welfare Payments End in California (2 comments)
Payments owed to Californians, including tax refunds, student grants, and all welfare payments, are to cease at the end of this month. California is no longer able to pay its bills. Total amount owing: 3.7 billion.
Thursday, January 15, 2009 US Rabbis Urge Obama to Push for Gaza Ceasefire
A coalition of American rabbis and other community leaders bought a full-page ad in the New York Times on Wednesday calling for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza and for President-elect Barack Obama to convene an international Middle East peace conference. The initiative was led by Rabbi Michael Lerner.
Wednesday, January 14, 2009 Army Creating Security Zone Around Gaza; JPost (2 comments)
dispatched reserve units to the Gaza Strip on Sunday as the IDF was said to be carving out a "security zone" along the border, which it would retain even after an end to the fighting and use to conduct routine patrols aimed at halting rocket attacks against the South.
Wednesday, January 14, 2009 Demands Grow for Gaza War Crimes Investigation
Israel is facing growing demands from senior UN officials and human rights groups for an international war crimes investigation in Gaza over allegations such as the "reckless and indiscriminate" shelling of residential areas and use of Palestinian families as human shields by soldiers.
Wednesday, January 14, 2009 Pentagon Official: We tortured in Guantanamo
Ms Crawford, a retired judge who also worked in the Reagan Administration, is the first senior
Bush Administration official responsible for reviewing practices at Guantanamo to publicly state that a detainee was tortured.
President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney have said that the US does not torture.
Wednesday, January 14, 2009 Nine Israeli Human Rights Groups Call for War Crimes Inquiry
NYT: Nine Israeli human rights groups called on Wednesday for an investigation into whether Israeli officials had committed war crimes in Gaza since tens of thousands of civilians there have nowhere to flee, the health system has collapsed, many are without electricity and running water, and some are beyond the reach of rescue teams.
Wednesday, January 14, 2009 Nowhere to Bury the Dead
"Gaza is all a graveyard," gravedigger Salman Omar said Tuesday as he shoveled earth in Gaza City's crammed Sheik Radwan cemetery. Just six miles wide and 25 miles long, Gaza has always suffered from a shortage of burial space. But Gazans say Israel's shelling and ground offensive have made it impossible for residents to reach Martyrs Cemetery - the only graveyard in the area with space to dig fresh graves.
Tuesday, January 13, 2009 Jeremy Ben-Ami: Obama Must Sieze Opportunity From Crisis (1 comments)
On the U.S.'s watch - in fact, with the U.S.'s protection and implicit blessing - Israel is marching slowly to the edge of an abyss. Those of us who truly love the country and care about the future of the Jewish people cannot stand idly by, watching it commit national suicide.
Tuesday, January 13, 2009 General Smedley Butler: War is a Racket
War is a racket. It always has been. It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives.. We must take the profit out of war.
Tuesday, January 13, 2009 Ru Freeman: Barack Obama's Silence on Gaza
Seven years ago, another American president took the sympathy of the world and transformed it into hatred. Just two months ago, Barack Obama won it back on the backs of ordinary Americans. Today he stands on the brink of repeating the biggest mistake of his predecessor.
Monday, January 12, 2009 Systematic targeting of civilians
Ewa Jasiewicz writing from the occupied Gaza Strip, Live from Palestine, 11 January 2009 - Very detailed account of life inside Gaza
Monday, January 12, 2009 A Sderot Woman Speaks Out Against Gaza Operation
"Sderot is not monolithic. Here is what I received a couple of hours ago from Israel, written (in Hebrew) by a member of Kol Aher (another voice) - a Sderot-based peace group. As the tranlation is mine and this is the first place it appears, it is posted in its entirety." - Daily Kos; 10th January 2009
Monday, January 12, 2009 Gaza a 'Test Laboratory for New Weapons' - Mads Gilbert (1 comments)
"There's a very strong suspicion I think that Gaza is now being used as a test laboratory for new weapons," Mads Gilbert said at Oslo's Gardermoen airport, commenting on the kinds of injuries he and his colleague Erik Fosse had seen while working at the Shifa Hospital in Gaza.
Monday, January 12, 2009 Israel Is Comitting War Crimes - Bisharat in WSJ
Israel's current assault on the Gaza Strip cannot be justified by self-defense. Rather, it involves serious violations of international law, including war crimes. (Published in Wall Street Journal.)
Monday, January 12, 2009 Israel Must Abide by International Law - SMH
Palestine has no air force, tanks or gunships to counter such an onslaught. The tiny strip of Gaza, with its 1.5 million people, only has its human resources to resist an attack from the region's most powerful army.
It is easy to understand why Israel continues to ban foreign journalists from seeing the results of its war crimes in the Gaza Strip.
Monday, January 12, 2009 John Lyons: Israelis Split on do-or-die Decision
The changing mood in Israel was reflected in the country's second biggest-selling newspaper, Maariv. A headline on its front page last week said, in Hebrew, "Not by Force".
The paper said solutions to Israel's problems in Gaza needed to come by negotiation.
This was not Haaretz.. Maariv is a tabloid with a big blue-collar audience -- middle Israel, the people who will be important in deciding the new government.
Monday, January 12, 2009 Gideon Levy: Things one sees from The Hague (1 comments)
The public, moral and judicial test will be applied to the three Israeli statesmen who sent the Israel Defense Forces to war against a helpless population, one that did not even have a place to take refuge, in maybe the only war in history against a strip of land enclosed by a fence. Ehud Olmert, Ehud Barak and Tzipi Livni will stand at the forefront of the guilty.
Sunday, January 11, 2009 Welcome to Hell
The earthen walls of the lagoon – which contains 450 million gallons of sewage – are being weakened by the bombardment and the build-up of water pressure because pumps have run out of fuel. If they burst they will bring a death toll far greater than that of the military action so far. The World Bank has asked Israel to provide fuel for the pumps, let staff and spare parts through to the lagoon
Sunday, January 11, 2009 Uri Avnery: How Many Divisions?
From the point of view of the population, the Hamas fighters are not a foreign body, but the sons of every family in the Strip and the other Palestinian regions. They do not "hide behind the population", the population views them as their only defenders.
Sunday, January 11, 2009 Rights Groups Condemn US Role in Gaza Attacks
"The Israeli airstrikes represent serious violations of international law -- including the Geneva Conventions and a range of international humanitarian law -- and the U.S. is complicit in all of it"
Sunday, January 11, 2009 Fuelling the Slaughter
The devastating Israeli firepower, unleashed largely on Palestinian civilians in Gaza during two weeks of fighting, is the product of advanced U.S. military technology. The U.S. weapons systems used by the Israelis -- including F-16 fighter planes, Apache helicopters, tactical missiles and a wide array of munitions -- have been provided by Washington mostly as outright military grants.
Sunday, January 11, 2009 Letter to Israel (1 comments)
Signatories include: Rabbi Dr Tony Bayfield, head of the Movement for Reform Judaism; Sir Jeremy Beecham, former chair of the Labour party; Professor Shalom Lappin of the University of London; Baroness Julia Neuberger; Rabbi Danny Rich, chief executive of Liberal Judaism; Rabbi Professor Marc Saperstein, principal of Leo Baeck rabbinical training college; and lawyer Michael Mitzman, who set up Holocaust Memorial Day Trust
Sunday, January 11, 2009 Gideon Levy: Time of the Righteous (2 comments)
"Anyone who justifies this war, also justifies all its crimes."
Sunday, January 11, 2009 Robert Scheer: Moral Blindness on Gaza
Why are we so indifferent to the death and destruction in Gaza? The major news outlets meekly accepted Israel's banning of journalists from entering Gaza as an excuse for downplaying collateral civilian casualties..
Sunday, January 11, 2009 "I know it when I see it" - Jewish dissent in Canada
Anton Kuerti, internationally acclaimed concert pianist, said:
"I am not an expert on what is a war crime, but I can recognize one when I see one."
Sunday, January 11, 2009 John Nichols: House refuses to encourage Gaza Peace
The overwhelming majority of members abandoned Israelis and Palestinians who are seeking peace in the region and endorsed an over-the-top "Supporting Israel in Its Battle with Terrorist Hamas" resolution..
Sunday, January 11, 2009 Robert Fisk: Time to Stop the Mideast Comparison
Travelling on both sides of the Atlantic these past couple of weeks has been an instructive - not to say weirdly repetitive - experience.
Friday, January 9, 2009 John Pilger: Holocaust Denied (5 comments)
"When the truth is replaced by silence," the Soviet dissident Yevgeny Yevtushenko said, "the silence is a lie." It may appear the silence is broken on Gaza. The cocoons of murdered children, wrapped in green, together with boxes containing their dismembered parents and the cries of grief and rage of everyone in that death camp by the sea, can be viewed on al-Jazeera and YouTube, even glimpsed on the BBC.
Friday, January 9, 2009 Former guard, on Guantanamo torture (3 comments)
A former guard at the US detention centre at Guantanamo Bay has spoken in his first television interview about the brutality he witnessed to inmates.
Chris Arendt told the BBC what he saw amounted to ''torture'' and that some of his fellow guards were so violent as to be ''psychotic.''
Daniel Sandford reports.
Friday, January 9, 2009 UN levels War Crimes Warning at Israel (3 comments)
Killing of 30 people in Gaza when army shelled house full of evacuees 'has all hallmarks of war crime', says high commissioner for human rights.
Thursday, January 8, 2009 Robert Scheer: "Why do so few speak up for Gaza?"
Why is it that there is such widespread acceptance, beginning with the apologetic arguments of President Bush, that whatever Israel does is always justified as necessary to the survival of the Jewish state?
It is not.
Thursday, January 8, 2009 Conyers Seeks Probe of Bush Crimes - Jason Leopold
In one of the first acts of the 111th Congress, House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers proposed legislation to create a blue-ribbon panel of outside experts to probe the "broad range" of policies pursued by the Bush administration "under claims of unreviewable war powers," including torture of detainees and warrantless wiretaps.
Thursday, January 8, 2009 Israeli Voices for Peace - Amy Goodman (1 comments)
Avnery: "A criminal war"
Levy: "this is unheard of. This cannot go on like this."
Jonathan Ben-Artzi: "tell out government, stop doing this."
Neve Gordon: "..the Palestinian Resistance is rational." -- Gordon attended a large peace march last weekend in Tel Aviv with more than 10,000 other Israelis.
Wednesday, January 7, 2009 Marjorie Cohn: Israel's Collective Punishment of Gaza (1 comments)
Since Israel began its war on Gaza 11 days ago, more than 560 Palestinians – about a quarter of them civilians – have been killed. Some two thousand Gazans, including hundreds of children, have been wounded. Israel's "Operation Cast Lead" marks an escalation of Israel's two-year blockade of the Gaza Strip..
Wednesday, January 7, 2009 How Israel Brought Gaza to the Brink - Avi Shlaim (5 comments)
"How Israel brought Gaza to the brink of Humanitarian Catastrophe."
Oxford professor of international relations Avi Shlaim served in the Israeli army and has never questioned the state's legitimacy. But its merciless assault on Gaza has led him to devastating conclusions.
Wednesday, January 7, 2009 The US Pipeline - Funding the Israeli Military (2 comments)
Millions of Americans face home foreclosures, health care, job and pension losses. However, none of these crises currently threatens to alter the flow of their tax dollars to Israel's government. It takes these greenbacks and buys F-16 jets made by Lockheed Martin to drop bombs on Palestinians in the Gaza Strip. - by Seth Sandronsky
Tuesday, January 6, 2009 "Ask Congress to Speak Out About Gaza Violence" - Naiman
If you're a Member of Congress, and your name doesn't happen to be Dennis J. Kucinich, can you still speak out in opposition to the carnage that President Bush and Secretary of State Rice are actively promoting in Gaza?
Yes, you can!
Tuesday, January 6, 2009 Israel's New War Ethic - Neve Gordon (2 comments)
"My mother, like most Israelis, is a devout news consumer, and last night I decided to keep her company in front of the TV."
Neve Gordon is chair of the department of politics and government at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Monday, January 5, 2009 Dreyfuss - 'Bush's Last War Crime?' (1 comments)
"The Israeli invasion of Gaza, launched Saturday, might very well be George W. Bush's last and final war crime." - Robert Dreyfuss, in The Nation
Monday, January 5, 2009 "Extreme Double Standards on Terrorism" - Robert Parry
"The long and bloody hypocrisy of US/Israeli Acts of Terrorism" - Robert Parry, Consortium News
"Without an extreme double standard on terrorism, it's hard to see how today's bloodbath in Gaza would be possible."
Saturday, January 3, 2009 UN; Gaza Facing 'Critical Emergency'
The UN has warned that Palestinians in Gaza are facing a serious health and food crisis, as Israeli air strikes continued for a seventh day.
Saturday, January 3, 2009 Tara & Bella - Unlikely best friends (Includes video) (3 comments)
Today, their love - and trust - is stronger than ever. Bella even lets Tarra pet her tummy - with the bottom of her enormous foot.
They harbor no fears, no secrets, no prejudices. Just two living creatures who somehow managed to look past their immense differences.
Take good look America. Take a good look world. If they can do it - what's our excuse?
Saturday, January 3, 2009 Pentagon is Muscling In (Military takeover of US Gov) WaPo (13 comments)
We no longer have a civilian-led government.. While serving the State Department in several senior capacities over the past four years, I witnessed firsthand the quiet, de facto military takeover of much of the U.S. government.
Wednesday, December 31, 2008 UK PM: "Humanitarian Crisis", Calls for Ceasefire
UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown has called for an urgent ceasefire in Gaza amid a "humanitarian crisis" in the Palestinian territory.
His plea came after the UK pledged to give £6.9m [$10 m.] in emergency aid for those caught up in the violence.
Wednesday, December 31, 2008 Memo for Obama - from Uri Avnery
The following humble suggestions are based on my 70 years of experience as an underground fighter, special forces soldier in the 1948 war, editor-in-chief of a newsmagazine, member of the Knesset and founding member of a peace movement:
Wednesday, December 31, 2008 Party to Murder - Chris Hedges (3 comments)
Can anyone who is following the Israeli air attacks on Gaza .. wonder why we are hated?
We have become monsters, militarized bullies, heartless and savage. We are a party to human slaughter, a flagrant war crime, and do nothing. We forget that the innocents who suffer and die in Gaza are a reflection of ourselves, of how we might have been should fate, time and geography have made the circumstances of our birth different.
Wednesday, December 31, 2008 Israel Ordered to let International Media into Gaza (3 comments)
Israel's supreme court today ordered the government to allow the international media into Gaza to report on the effect of the air strikes on Palestinians.
Tuesday, December 30, 2008 "We Have No Words Left" (1 comments)
Diplomatic fronts, such as the US-dominated Quartet, continue to treat occupier and occupied, colonizer and colonized, first-world high-tech army and near-starving refugee population, as if they are on the same footing.
Tuesday, December 30, 2008 International Call for Gaza Truce
The Quartet, of the US, EU, UN and Russia, urged "an immediate ceasefire that would be fully respected".
"They called on all parties to address the serious humanitarian and economic needs in Gaza and to take necessary measures to ensure the continuous provision of humanitarian supplies"
Tuesday, December 30, 2008 Lights Out in Gaza, News Blackout in US
To justify U.S.'s carte blanche to Israel, the mainstream media restricts American readers to an echo chamber in which the following claims are repeated ad nausem until they are mistaken for fact:
Monday, December 29, 2008 "100 Eyes for an Eye" - Norman Solomon (1 comments)
"The closing days of 2008 have heightened the Israeli government's stature as a mighty practitioner of the moral imbecility that Stone described."
Monday, December 29, 2008 Gaza: Where Civilians Become Targets (1 comments)
"If we accept – by silence or without questioning – that anything and everyone can be defined as "terrorist infrastructure", then we are designating all civilians in Gaza as being targets."
Monday, December 29, 2008 The Gaza Crisis: December 2008
The Israeli airstrikes on the Gaza Strip violate important tenants of international humanitarian law, including violations of the Geneva Conventions.. The violations start with collective punishment - the entire 1.5 million people who live in the Gaza Strip are being punished for the actions of a few militants.
Monday, December 29, 2008 Statements on Gaza: Kucinich, & Hoyer - CONTRAST! (1 comments)
Hoyer: "Israel is acting in clear self defense..."
Kucinich: "Israeli government attacks civilians in violation of international law"
Dennis is calling for an independent UN inquiry on Gaza.
Sunday, December 28, 2008 To be in Gaza is to be Trapped
Once it was possible for Gazans to pass with relative ease in and out of the Strip to work in Israel. In recent years, the noose around the 1.5 million people living there has been tightening incrementally, until a whole population – in the most densely settled urban area upon the planet – has been locked in behind walls and fences.
Sunday, December 28, 2008 Hospitals in Gaza Cannot Cope
Russia Today has a video on the situation in Gaza, where Israel has launched an air strike attack. It reports that the strikes happened while children were leaving school, and many parents are still trying to locate their children. Watch it here:
Sunday, December 28, 2008 Israel's P.R. Offensive (1 comments)
Global PR campaign launched ahead of Gaza invasion.
Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni has instructed diplomats across the globe to launch what is being described as a "PR blitz" to shore up international support for an Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip.
Sunday, December 28, 2008 UN Security Council urges End to all Military Activities in Gaza
The UN Security Council Sunday urged an immediate end to all military activities in the Gaza Strip, scene of deadly Israeli air strikes, and called on the parties to address the humanitarian crisis in the territory.
Sunday, December 28, 2008 Haaretz - Anti-Israel protests draw thousands across Europe
More than 1,000 people staged protests in Paris on Sunday against one of Israel's strike on Palestinian militants, police said, as the French government pushed for a halt to fighting.
Sunday, December 28, 2008 More than 1000 Israelis protest Gaza war, in Tel Aviv (2 comments)
More than a thousand people marched from the Cinemateque to the gates of the "Kirya" - Israeli Defense Minstry in Tel Aviv. PM Olmert was visiting there at the same time [Elsewhere, Olmert's daughter, Dana, is protesting the war.]
Friday, December 26, 2008 GOP's Double Standards Applied in Minnesota Recount
When Republicans lawyer up, that's "preserving the sanctity of the vote"; when Dems don't roll over and concede immediately, they're "stealing" ... something.
Friday, December 26, 2008 Buying back the Land - Support for Student Activist (2 comments)
Supporters of a man who disrupted an auction of land for oil and gas development near some of Utah's most famous national parks are trying to raise money to buy the land themselves.
