Tord Björk on September 1, 2010 0 Comments
We need solidarity with Russian environmentalists and anti-fascists
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Omar Abdullah: A requiem for Kashmir’s dying blossom
Huzaifa — August 31, 2010 6 Comments
Omar Abdullah is a classic example of this trend. Once a blossoming red rose in the blooming garden of leadership, it lost no time in being corrupted with the lust of self-indulgent power. The result, as Shakespeare quite accurately predicted, has been an irreparable damage to his image and his prospects in politics. Gone are the days of the turmoil when he would appear as an advocate of Kashmiri aspirations in parliament and debate endlessly on the facets of populist separatism.
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The US occupation of Iraq will last another decade
Marwan Bishara — August 30, 2010 0 Comments
A new report shows that the Obama administration is intensifying its secret war and covert operations in the Muslim world, including assassinations through the use of drones.
Politics
The class basis of the UK’s Conservative Party
Richard Seymour — August 25, 2010 0 Comments
Unless there is a revival of class struggle which plays out inside the parliamentary system, the franchise is liable to become once more the property of the ruling class, with the sharp-elbowed middle classes that David Cameron speaks of bargaining for largesse. On the other hand, to the extent that Labour is successful in rebuilding its support, business may well transfer its loyalties to Labour the better to manage the fall-out. Indeed, as in 1945, it may be that an upsurge in class struggle gives Labour the opportunity to be the agent of that new economic paradigm that the more far-sighted capitalists are looking for in vain
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Pakistan’s disaster was man-made
Recep Korkut — August 23, 2010 0 Comments
Pakistan’s call for help should not go unheard, and Pakistan should not be left alone in this struggle. This is because it cannot recover from this disaster and its aftereffects alone. We have a humanitarian duty in Pakistan. By putting ourselves in someone else’s shoes and sharing their pain and happiness, we will understand their history much better
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Thanks America: Falluja, malformed births and depleted uranium
International Coalition to Ban Uranium Weapons — August 15, 2010 1 Comment
Recent research and a tide of media coverage are indicating that something is very wrong in the Iraqi city of Fallujah. The rates of certain cancers and birth malformations seem to be far higher than those of other countries in the region. Such is the level of concern, that the World Health Organisation is currently undertaking research in the city, elsewhere experts are trying to gauge whether environmental factors may be responsible. One such risk factor could be the possible use of uranium weapons in the US Marine-led assault on Fallujah in 2004
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Vicious circle of Serbian untruths about World War II
Branimir Anzulovic — August 12, 2010 127 Comments
Yugoslavia would have been less susceptible to violent disintegration if, at the end of World War II, there had been a reconciliation between the nations and factions that had fought one another. All of them, and especially the most guilty ones, Croats and Serbs, should have admitted the mistakes and crimes committed since they entered the Yugoslav union and taken the steps necessary to prevent another conflict in the future. The enormity of the crimes committed by various parties made such action urgent.
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Chavez, Morales and Correa must speak out on Iran
Matt Kennard — August 9, 2010 0 Comments
As I said some months ago, when I get depressed about the state of the world I’m always cheered to think of the movements in Latin America that are genuinely empowering the hitherto marginalised sections of those societies. This movement has the power to make itself felt throughout the world – but it needs to apply itself consistently. That can even take the approach of Lula who stopped short of denunciation and just put forward an offer of sanctuary in an effort to shame the Iranian regime
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Chomsky on what we can do for Palestine
Noam Chomsky — July 29, 2010 2 Comments
The media and commentators — unanimously, to my knowledge — evaded the central fact about the war: the issue was not whether Israel had a right to defend itself from rockets, but whether it had the right to do so by force. It surely did not, because the US-Israel knew that peaceful means were available but refused to pursue them: accepting Hamas’s offer to renew the cease-fire, which Hamas had observed even though Israel did so only partially
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Examination of Serbian deaths in Jasenovac Camp
Dr. Josip Pecaric — July 27, 2010 19 Comments
The Serbian Ministry of Information, in conjuction with a nationalist ‘researcher’ Dr. Milan Bulajic and the Serbian Orthodox Church, took a leading role in propagating the myth of Jasenovac.
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Jon Snow v Zac Goldsmith: Those missing Tweets
Tim Ireland — July 19, 2010 17 Comments
Last Friday, on July 16, Zac Goldsmith appeared on Channel 4 news in a spectacular car-crash of an interview with Jon Snow. If you’ve not watched it yet, I highly recommend that you do, not least because watching this and then reading through some of the reactions from the right will help you to better understand what it means when certain Conservatives assure you that so-and-so ‘destroyed’ or ‘exposed’ an opponent, or that such-and-such a blogger/journalist is ‘vile’ and/or a ‘liar’.
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Number of Serb victims inflated to justify Srebrenica genocide
Daniel Toljaga — July 12, 2010 55 Comments
By presenting falsified and grossly inflated figures of Bosnian Serb war victims around Srebrenica as accurate, Serbian nationalists are seeking to whitewash the genocide at Srebrenica as an act of retribution. Their exaggerated claims are derived from propaganda concocted by a notorious Srebrenica genocide denier, Milivoje Ivanisevic, whose allegations have been extensively examined and shown to be false and misleading