A timely exert from Noam Chomsky’s book, Understanding Power, in which he proves yet again the gutlessness of the mainstream media: [A] few years ago George Will wrote a column in Newsweek called “Mideast Truth and Falsehood,” about how peace activists are lying about the Middle East, everything they say is a lie. And in…
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The quiet Jewish calm
New York Times columnist Roger Cohen on the relationship between Iran and its Jewish minority. Like I wrote in my book, The Blogging Revolution, the myth of Jews being oppressed in the Islamic Republic is simply propaganda.
Where responsibility lies today
In this powerful speech, the great author Haruki Murakami explains his controversial decision to accept a literary prize in Israel and why we need to fight the System.
Who really is fully at fault here?
Noam Chomsky argues in a recent interview, in views that I share, that Hamas is far more amenable to peace than the US or Israel: Well for several years Hamas has been very clear and explicit, repeatedly, that they favor a two state settlement on the international border. They said they would not recognize Israel…
Spreading the good word
Internet evangelists, from West Africa to Sri Lanka, are finding that their efforts to empower the 80 per cent of the world that still waits for Internet access often bring unexpected results. Rural communities have their own way of participating in the digital age.
What kind of friends are they making?
One of the founders of al-Qaeda has written a message to Obama Bin Laden from his Egyptian prison cell: Attacking America has become the shortest road to fame and leadership among the Arabs and Muslims. But what good is it if you destroy one of your enemy’s buildings, and he destroys one of your countries?…
And towards Gaza they move
PressTV on the Moroccan-Algerian border opening for the UK Gaza aid convoy:
Paying a price for collusion
Israeli chocolate company Max Brenner is a perfect target for a boycott against companies that support the Jewish state’s occupation of Palestinian land. From small acorns, bigger campaigns will grow: Palestinian solidarity activists launched a campaign last week targeting Israeli-owned chocolate franchise Max Brenner as part of a growing international movement to boycott Israeli products.…
Define Jewish democracy
Leading Israeli commentator Bernard Avishai on the dirty little secret of the Jewish state: That Israel is for Jews, and let’s not be too fine about what Jewish means. That “Jewish and democratic” means doing what we’ve done to privilege “Zionism”–exclude non-Jews from “nationalized” land, empower (or pander to) orthodox rabbis, root identity, even citizenship,…
Jews need to learn the new rules of the game
Neocons have long tossed around the “anti-Semite” and “anti-Israel” accusations to stifle debate over American Middle East policy. It doesn’t work any longer.