An international boycott against Israel, not unlike that against Apartheid South Africa, finally looks to be gaining traction. Naomi Klein has made a good case as to why is long past time and reports in Israeli media indicate that, since Israel’s recent massacre of 1300 Palestinians, the boycott is starting to have an effect. If…
Chomsky speaking at the Social Summit in Venezuela a couple of weeks ago.
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?
Transcript of CNN interview with Vladimir Putin. Part 1: Part 2: Part 3: Update, 2 Sep 2008: video added.
U.S. second-quarter growth came in a little higher than expected today, on the back of exports which grew at a 13.2% annual rate, thanks to a weakened dollar. Result: fears of recession this year quelled. Seems to me there’s never been a better time to boycott U.S. goods.
It appears as if someone sensible finally has Bush’s ear. Maybe Tom Engelhardt is right.
A few points to keep in mind if you’re bothering to follow the current propaganda campaign being waged against Iran.
Statements from your favourite armchair war criminals.
“The central fact is that overwhelmingly suicide-terrorist attacks are not driven by religion as much as they are by a clear strategic objective: to compel modern democracies to withdraw military forces from the territory that the terrorists view as their homeland. From Lebanon to Sri Lanka to Chechnya to Kashmir to the West Bank, every major suicide-terrorist campaign — over 95 percent of all the incidents — has had as its central objective to compel a democratic state to withdraw.”
Scott Ritter, former UN Chief Weapons Inspector in Iraq, writing for Aljazeera, argues that the invasion of Iran has already begun, much the same way as the invasion of Iraq begun in the summer of 2002.