Category Archives: Highlights
Why would anyone vote Conservative in the UK election?
Graham Peebles explores the role of the media – and ignorance – in propping up the present, unjust status quo in Britain and making it likely that those who suffer most from Conservative policies will vote Conservative. Read more [...]
Manchester bombing: message still not understood
Stuart Littlewood argues that British foreign policy, from the Balfour Declaration of 1917, to the coup against Iran’s democratically elected prime minister in 1953, to the failed “war on terror”, are inextricably linked to terrorist atrocities in the UK. Read more [...]
The tragedy of world-wide forced displacement
Graham Peebles stresses the misery driving people to migrate, and the miserable conditions they endure en route to and after arriving at their destination, and calls for compassion in treating these victims of circumstance. Read more [...]
Israel – a curious national home
Uri Avnery examines how attention-seeking Israeli politicians are racing to propose laws so outrageous that the media cannot possibly ignore them, the latest being a bill on "Israel – the National State of the Jewish People”. Read more [...]
Grotesque inequality and anxiety
Graham Peebles examines the relationship between inequality and the expectations arising from the socio-economic model that creates such inequality on the one hand, and anxiety and depression – which are reaching epidemic proportions – on the other. Read more [...]
Blasphemy and terrorism: Catchall phrases to repress dissent
James Dorsey says the abuse of labels like terrorism and blasphemy by governments, institutions, groups and individuals creates an environment that fosters violence, intolerance and disrespect for the other, and enables vigilantism and extremism. Read more [...]
Politicising anti-Semitism: the USA’s and UK’s flawed definition
Lawrence Davidson argues that the “working definition” of anti-Semitism adopted by the US and UK is not only illogical, but is also the product of the corrupting of Western political systems by Israel’s surrogate Zionist lobbies. Read more [...]
Why Palestinian President Abbas fears the prisoners’ hunger strike
Jonathan Cook explains why the Palestinian prisoners’ hunger strike, and possible mass disobedience that may flow from it, threaten to undermine Abbas’s approach of reliance on Israel’s Western friends to achieve Palestinian statehood. Read more [...]
The Pope in Egypt: Tiptoeing through a minefield
James Dorsey explains the religious and political complexities of Egypt as Pope Francis visits in the hope of improving the fragile position of Christians and other minorities in the Middle East, North Africa and the larger Muslim world. Read more [...]
Pimping for Israel remains undiminished since UN report branded it an apartheid state
Stuart Littlewood views the UK government’s refusal to apologise for the crime of the Balfour Declaration in the context of the Zionist lobby’s deep penetration of the British political establishment. Read more [...]
