Tag: Terrorism
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.
Newly-released UK documents speak of Zionist Nazis, terrorists and savages
It is 65 years since Israel was forced upon the Middle East through terrorism, murder, ethnic cleansing and theft but so little has changed. Then as now, Britain, the occupying power that
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.
Terror and the Israeli occupation
Alan Hart argues that ”bleeding and hurting” Israelis is no longer a viable option for the Palestinians, but that steadfastness, and Israel’s own obnoxious policies, will finally deliver a modicum of justice.
Israeli film-maker, Jewish donors and the Salafis
Nureddin Sabir considers the possible motives of the Israeli creator and Jewish financiers of a film which gratuitously insults the Prophet Muhammad and Islam and has sparked riots in Egypt and Libya.
The fear obstacle to freedom in the West
Ziad El-Hady argues that freedom in Western societies is compromised by people’s fear of crime, and that the post-9/11 fear of terror has facilitated more surveillance and social control.
Reaping terror’s reward
Stuart Littlewood looks at how modern terrorism was in fact pioneered by the Zionists and how Israeli and the US behaviours fit the US definition of terrorism like a glove.
Libya in peril
Today a huge car bomb exploded near Al-Jalaa Hospital in the eastern Libyan city of Benghaz, killing and wounding dozens of people, including children. The attack is the latest in a wave