Israel launched a witch hunt against Palestinian educators and pupils who commemorated Land Day by participating in the community’s declared strike. Education Ministry supervisors visited Palestinian schools on Land Day and schools were ordered to send lists of teachers absent that day. On 30 March 2011, the 35th commemoration of Palestinian Land Day, the Israeli Ministry of Education launched a …
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Turkey: The sultans of swing. By Pepe Escobar
To follow Pepe's articles on the Great Arab Revolt, please click here. At the sixth al-Jazeera forum in Doha in mid-March, Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu gave a remarkable speech. He argued that the great 2011 Arab revolt was "necessary in order to restore the natural flow of history". According to him, "abnormalities" had to be corrected; the carving-up strategy …
Read More »Mounting evidence of CIA ties to Libyan rebels By Patrick Martin
Numerous press reports over the weekend add to the evidence that the Libyan rebels fighting the regime of Muammar Gaddafi are under the direction of American intelligence agencies. Despite the repeated claims by Obama administration officials that the rebels are a largely unknown quantity, it is becoming increasingly clear that key military leaders of the anti-Gaddafi campaign are well known to …
Read More »Israeli-Palestinian Tensions Escalating: A Special Report
ZIONISTS KNOW WHEN TO GRAB MORE LANDS. THERE MUST BE OLYMPIC GAMES. THERE MUST BE WORLD TENSION. NOW THAT ALL EYES ARE FOCUSED ON THE PEOPLE REVOLUTION IN THE ARAB WORLD – KILL AS MANY AS POSSIBLE, GRAB AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE. A LAND BORN IN BLOOD, LIVING ON BLOOD, WHAT NEXT???????? Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has reportedly delayed …
Read More »Be Consistent—Invade Saudi Arabia By Robert Scheer
It’s the black gold that drives nations mad and inevitably raises the question of whether America and the former European colonial powers give a damn about human rights as the basis for military intervention. If Libya didn’t have more oil than any other nation in Africa, would the West be unleashing high-tech military mayhem to contain what is essentially a …
Read More »Is Another ‘Cast Lead’ in the Offing? By Alex Kane
Are we witnessing the stirrings of a new, large-scale Israeli military operation? Haaretz today reports that “Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed Wednesday that the Israel Defense Forces would continue to use ‘firm determination and assaults’ on Gaza…[Netanyahu said:] ‘It could take the form of exchanges of fire, it could continue for a particular length of time.’” Indeed, the stars seem to be aligning …
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