Outgoing Prime Minister of Israel, Ehud Olmert, recently quoted as saying: (I am saying) what no previous Israeli leader has ever said: we should withdraw from almost all of the territories, including in East Jerusalem and in the Golan Heights. Palestinian Foreign Minister Riyad al-Malki, in response: We wish we had heard this personal opinion … (before)…
Interview with economist Dr. Michael Hudson on the proposed $700 billion heist in the U.S. BASILONE: So this neoliberal economic model, then, is this proof that it doesn’t work? Or are we going to still see more of this? HUDSON: To its proponents it’s not proof, they’ll never admit it. It’s a demonstration of the impossibility of the…
He calls himself a maverick, but he’s just a bullshitter (via onegoodmove).
This, presumably, is why they’ve been trying to keep her away from the media.
Sometimes nothing explains current events like satire: Your Urgent Help Needed.
Bush Junior at today’s UN meeting invoking, I kid you not, the UN Charter: The United Nations charter sets forth the equal rights of nations large and small. Russia’s invasion of Georgia was a violation of those words. Bwahhh… haha! He’s not seriously suggesting that UN bollocks about justice means anything these days is he?
A rather unsettling story from the Independent today: The first evidence that millions of tons of a greenhouse gas 20 times more potent than carbon dioxide is being released into the atmosphere from beneath the Arctic seabed has been discovered by scientists. The Independent has been passed details of preliminary findings suggesting that massive deposits of…
U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders: For years now, they’ve told us that we can’t afford — that the government providing healthcare to all people is just unimaginable; it can’t be done. We don’t have the money to rebuild our infrastructure. We don’t have the money to wipe out poverty. We can’t do it. But all of a sudden,…
A pediatrician traces the rise of the anti-vaccine movement that falsely linked thimerosal with autism and turned parents away from the most lifesaving medicine in history. Wakefield’s research was secretly bankrolled by a personal injury lawyer whose clients were suing MMR makers. Wakefield himself was given close to a million dollars to prove that the MMR…
Here’s recent recent footage of the Israeli navy firing machine guns at unarmed Palestinian fishing boats.
The Sunday Herald reports (webpage removed):
The footage, taken on September 6 by Andrew Muncie, who is from the Highlands, shows an Israeli gunboat engaging fishing boats while international observers hold their arms in the air and scream for them to stop firing.
No-one was injured in the incident, but Palestinian fishermen claim 14 colleagues have been murdered at sea by the Israeli navy since the onset of an economic blockade imposed after Hamas took control of the Gaza Strip in June 2007. Israel says patrolling these waters is a vital security measure to stop weapons being smuggled into Gaza.