Democracy Now! interviews Iara Lee about the video she managed to get past Israeli jamming, from the Israeli raid on the Mavi Marmara aid ship in international waters. She later that day released 15 minutes of footage at the website, Culturesofresistance.org. It shows scenes from the period before and during the Israeli commandos’ boarding of […]
Colbert: Palestinians Should Go Back where they Came From
Stephen Colbert, who parodies rightwing t.v. pundits, debates himself on the Israeli assault on the Gaza aid flotilla and tells the Israeli ambassador to the US that ‘the Palestinians should go back where they came from.’ The Colbert Report Mon – Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30c Formidable Opponent – Michael Oren www.colbertnation.com Colbert Report Full Episodes […]
Video Shows Israeli Commando Executing American
Update: Paul Woodward has discovered an earlier video posted to the Web from which the following was apparently culled, via what he calls ‘creative editing.’ Obviously, raw footage is preferable, but it isn’t clear if the effect of the editing was actually any falsification of the sordid reality of what occurred. Original posting: The Israeli […]
BP Spills Coffee
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Israel’s Gift to Iran’s Hardliners:
Cole at Tomdispatch
My essay on the anniversary of the protests in Iran and the ways in which Israeli and US Mideast policy has strengthened the hard liners is up at Tomdispatch.com. Excerpt: ‘ Iran’s Green Movement is one year old this Sunday, the anniversary of its first massive demonstrations in the streets of Tehran. Greeted with great […]
40 Killed in Afghan Wedding Bombing;
4 US Troops killed in Helicopter Downing
A wedding in Nagaan in Qandahar province was bombed on Wednesday, killing at least 40 persons and wounding at least 70. The new violence comes as it is being reported that President Hamid Karzai has lost faith in the US & NATO’s ability to defeat the Taliban, and is turning to Pakistan instead as the […]
A Sign of Modernization: Saudi Clerics Promote Kinship by Sharing Breast Milk
Two Saudi clerics have followed an Egyptian one in advocating breast-milk feeding as a way of establishing kinship between men and women, which would then allow the two to be in each others’ presence when the woman is alone and unveiled. The things driving this legal advice or fatwa are first of all that Saudis […]
Mystery of Iranian Nuclear Scientist and the Duelling YouTube Videos
Aljazeera English reports on the two contradictory videos that have surfaced, in one of which Dr. Shahram Amiri, an Iranian nuclear scientist, maintains that he was kidnapped while on pilgrimage to Mecca and is being held against his will in Arizona (an irony, since he would then be an involuntary illegal alien in a state […]
Raid Survivor Says he Disarmed 2 Israeli Commandos in Midst of Shooting Rampage
Kenneth O’Keefe, a victim of the brutal Israeli raid on the Mavi Marmara on Memorial Day that killed one American citizen and 8 others, at least, speaks of how he grabbed Israeli commandos’ weapons after they went on a shooting rampage, and then saved the commandos. And here is O’Keefe’s interview in which he ridicules […]
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