Category: Rest of World
Is this the best that Christianity can do?
Stuart Littlewood says the Church of England, which is shamefully silent over the ethnic cleansing of Palestinian Christians and Muslims by the Israeli occupiers, has much to learn from its Scottish counterpart.
Church of Scotland unmoved by Zionist bullies
Stuart Littlewood says a Church of Scotland report rebuffing Jewish claims to exclusive rights to Palestine remains largely unchanged in the face of Zionist bullying and will go before the Church’s Assembly.
Will Church of Scotland cave in to Zionist bullies?
Stuart Littlewood sees worrying signs that the Church of Scotland may be about to surrender to Zionist bullying over a report in which it rebuffed false claims to exclusive rights to Palestine.
In praise of UN rights rapporteur Richard Falk
Lawrence Davidson says UN rights rapporteur Richard Falk is guilty only of telling Americans the truth: that much of the terrorism they fear is a product of their own government’s continuing barbarism.
The struggle for justice in India’s Manipur
Graham Peebles looks at how emergency laws introduced in India’s northeast in 1958 and still in force 61 years later are allowing the army and paramilitaries literally to get away with murder.
Under darkness in the Somali region of Ethiopia
Graham Peebles recounts the state-sponsored crimes – torture, murder, rape, land theft and the burning of villages – inflicted by the Ethiopian regime on the Somali inhabitants of the country’s Ogaden region.
Freedom and high anxiety in the USA
Lawrence Davidson says US-type freedom has encouraged the heartless disregard of poverty, allowed the evolution of interest groups that work against national interests and produced a media environment that breeds exaggeration.
Who’ll mourn Margaret Thatcher?
Stuart Littlewood recalls Margaret Thatcher’s legacy of industrial carnage, selfishness, greed and subservience to Israel, and says only the privileged – the products of Britain’s public schools – will mourn her most.
Corporate India vs indigenous peoples
Graham Peebles calls for an alternative to the greedy corporate-driven capitalist totalitarianism that is confining millions of India’s indigenous Adivasi and Dalit peoples to poverty and the margins of society.
Critical thinking gone missing – worldwide
Lawrence Davidson explores the reasons for the absence of critical thinking among Americans and others, from lack of interest in matters that don’t affect their daily lives to bureaucratic groupthink and ideology.
