America must be proud of its close friend, Bahrain.
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The importance of visual anonymity in times of crisis
What activists and human rights workers in repressive regimes have the right to demand.
So, finally, acknowledgement that Serco simply can’t manage the problems in Australia
Here’s a rare a piece in the Australian mainstream media that actually discusses the role of British multinational Serco, its dysfunctional relationship with the Immigration Department and neither being able to handle the influx of a few thousand refugees: The case of nine-year-old Iranian orphan Seena’s return to Christmas Island highlights just how dysfunctional our…
Dispatch from East Jerusalem’s Sheikh Jarrah protest
David Shulman documents the daily ethnic cleansing: It took the Planning Committee of the Jerusalem City Council less than fifteen minutes to approve plans for the next wave of evictions in Sheikh Jarrah. We knew it was coming. Six large Palestinian families—some fifty souls– are to be expelled from their homes, the houses will be…
Because Iran deserves to be truly free
I stand in solidarity with the brave Iranians protesting today against a brutal police state.
And we can dream that Palestine will be truly free
Gideon Levy in Haaretz reminds us that the struggle there for independence from Zionist occupation may take a little longer but justice is on the right side: This week, Jenin’s wonderland was to be found in Egypt. Residents of the refugee camp closely followed events in the land of the Nile, in a mood of…
The complex chaos for some Afghan women
Mother Jones magazine: For Afghan women, self-immolation has become a way to externalize private injustice, to push hidden pain into the public square. They are expressing a demand for human rights in a culture that does not allow them to articulate that wish.
Habib: my torture at hands of Egypt’s new de facto leader
My following article appears in today’s edition of Crikey: According to Sameh Shoukry, the Egyptian ambassador to the US, Hosni Mubarak has now transferred all powers to his recently appointed Vice-President Omar Suleiman. Despite a barrage of speculation that Mubarak was going to step down overnight”‰—”‰including comments from head of the CIA, which makes one…