INTERNATIONAL

On a warm spring day, strolling in south London, I heard demanding voices behind me. A police van disgorged a posse of six or more, who waved me aside. They surrounded a young black man who, like me, was ambling along. They appropriated him; they rifled his pockets, looked in his shoes, inspected his teeth. Their thuggery affirmed, they let …

  Bashar al-Assad's shelling of towns and killing of citizens leaves country at risk of imperialist invasion, says author. August 19, 2011 "Al-jazeera" 08/15/08 —  The news this morning that the Syrian navy were shelling the water-front of Latakia – including the Palestinian refugee camp there – shook me to the core. Not just because I lived in that camp last year, on that water-front, …

Allegations of Libyan civilian deaths as a result of NATO bombing have often been covered in the corporate media as an opportunity to scoff at the Gadhafi regime's unconvincing propaganda (FAIR Blog, 6/9/11). But dramatic new allegations that dozens of civilians were killed in Majer after NATO airstrikes on August 8 have been met with near-total media silence. According to Libyan …

The crowd stretched as far as the eye could see. By the very strength of their numbers they provided a dramatic tribute to three men who died defending their community from rioters. Around 20,000 turned out in Birmingham yesterday for the open-air funeral of 21-year-old Haroon Jahan and brothers Shazad Ali, 30, and Abdul Musavir, 31. The trio suffered fatal …

When President George Bush was reelected  on 2 November 2004 , describing it as a tragedy for the entire world, Nobel Peace Prize nominee, Dr. Helen Caldicott expressed her fears  that she wasn’t sure if mankind would survive another four years.                        Justifying her fears five days after his re election, Bush bombed and incinerated the Iraqi city of Fallujah, with a population …

In one of the most severe crackdowns on civil liberties in decades, four pro-Palestine activists were arrested in dawn raids this morning in Melbourne. The raids are part of an ongoing attempt by the Victorian government, the Victoria Police and the Zionist establishment to target activists involved in the Boycott Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) campaign. The campaign, part of a …