Monthly Archives: November 2015

Silence, please: noise and the disharmony of modern life

Noise Graham Peebles writes: The worlds Read more [...]

The American progressive’s dilemma

US corruption Lawrence Davidson reflects on the sad reality of US politics, where principled parties such as the Green Party are unlikely ever to be elected and where “the most likely thing to kick the US out of the rut is catastrophe – something even worse than the fiascos of Vietnam and Iraq”. Read more [...]

Jewish mother flees Israel to give birth in Palestinian-run Bethlehem

Escape Marianne Azizi recounts the story of a pregnant Jewish mother who fled Israel to Palestinian-run Bethlehem, in the occupied West Bank, so that her child is not snatched from her and trafficked by the Israeli authorities. Read more [...]

A Palestinian call for “unarmed warfare”

Palestinian non-violent resistance Jonathan Cook looks at the arguments for non-violent resistance – or “unarmed warfare” – being put forward by some Palestinians as a means of discovering hope, reclaiming their dignity and winning freedom from Israeli oppression. Read more [...]

Yes, Jews are the victims – of Zionist propaganda

Paranoia Alan Hart argues that the question of how to treat Israeli and other Jewish paranoia is one that should be encouraged by world leaders and urgently addressed by the world's most eminent and universally respected psychiatrists. Read more [...]

Palestine’s “can’t deliver” chief negotiator promoted to secretary-general

Saab Erekat with Tipi Livni Stuart Littlewood laments the continued political existence of Saeb Erekat, the Palestinian Authority’s chief negotiator with Israel who, despite his solid track record of failure, has been promoted to secretary-general of the Palestine Libation Organisation. Read more [...]

The Iraq war, Blair and the other sucker

Saddam Hussein, George W. Bush and Tony Blair Jamal Kanj argues that the Iraq war was not based on “wrong” intelligence, as war crimes suspect Tony Blair claims, but was cooked in Israel and sold by Israel’s pimps in the US and Britain. Read more [...]

Look who’s in charge of UK government cyber security

Matthew Gould Stuart Littlewood examines implications for UK security of the appointment of Matthew Gould, a self-declared “passionate Zionist” who is suspected of plotting with Israel stooges Liam Fox and Adam Werritty to start a war against Iran. Read more [...]

The cats of Ariel and the deranged politics of Israel’s far-far right

Uri Ariel Uri Avnery describes what happens when you mix religion with far-right fascist politics, as is the case in Israel now with its mix of surreal, religiously-inspired policies, supremacism and racism. Read more [...]

Culture and conflict resolution: the Israeli-Palestinian conflict

Academic and cultural boycott of Israel Lawrence Davidson says the belief – advocated by UK-based Culture for Coexistence – that cultural interaction would promote Palestinian-Israeli peace is unfounded and camouflages Israel’s policies of ethnic cleansing. Read more [...]