INTERNATIONAL

by Alex Kane It was a shocking event in a twenty-two day assault filled with them:  the Israeli military shelled a United Nations compound in Gaza City January 15, where humanitarian aid like fuel and water pumping stations were stationed as well as hundreds of Palestinians displaced by the Israeli bombardment.  John Ging, the Gaza Director of Operations of the …

Arms traders (merchants of death), oil tycoons and all other businessmen are ready with their bags to reconstruct Libya? By Latheef Farook The NATO military strikes on Libya, claimed to free Libyans from Gaddafi’s 42 year long dictatorship, were supposed to be “humanitarian intervention”. However more than three weeks later, killing scores of civilians, Gaddafi’s forces continue to advance forcing …

Nearly 1,100 Palestinian children have been arrested by Israeli troops in 2010, a new report by the Palestinian Authority (PA) Ministry of Detainees' Affairs shows. The ministry said on Wednesday that about 500 of the above-mentioned figure were detained in the city of al-Khalil (Hebron) in the occupied West Bank, Maan news agency reported.  PA Detainees' Affairs Minister Issa Qaraqe …

  Plans to exploit Iraq's oil reserves were discussed by government ministers and the world's largest oil companies the year before Britain took a leading role in invading Iraq, government documents show. The papers, revealed here for the first time, raise new questions over Britain's involvement in the war, which had divided Tony Blair's cabinet and was voted through only after …

  An unbeliever argues that our language and culture are incomplete without a 400-year-old book—the King James translation of the Bible. Spurned by the Establishment, it really represents a triumph for rebellion and dissent. Accept no substitutes!   BIBLICAL PROPORTION The title page of the New Testament in the first edition of the King James Bible, published by Robert Barker (“Printer …

Students who interrupted a speech at the University of California at Irvine by Ambassador to the U.S. Michael Oren face charges of ‘disturbance of a meeting’. Ed Note–we can JUST IMAGINE what would take place if the same thing had been done to JEWISH students protesting the speech of, oh, let’s say the President of Iran. The officials responsible for …