By David Cromwell The local elections in England earlier this month saw the right-wing UK Independence Party win over 140 council seats, gaining around 25 per cent of the vote where it stood. This led to a deluge of media headlines and stories echoing UKIP leader Nigel Farage’s gleeful claim of a ‘game changer’ in domestic politics. The Conservatives ended […]
By James Burgess A group of nine student journalists from the Medill National Security Journalism Initiative have created a website as part of a project to report on the US energy security situation. An incredibly interesting article on the site, and written by Dana Ballout, looks at how oil travels around the world on the seas, and where the vulnerable […]
The conviction of former Guatemalan dictator Efrain Rios Montt on charges of genocide against Mayan villagers in the 1980s has a special meaning for Americans who idolize Ronald Reagan. It means that their hero was an accessory to one of the most grievous crimes that can be committed against humanity by Robert Parry The courage of the Guatemalan people and […]
By Elisabeth Malkin GUATEMALA CITY — A Guatemalan court on Friday found Gen. Efraín Ríos Montt, the former dictator who ruled Guatemala during one of the bloodiest periods of its long civil war, guilty of genocide and crimes against humanity. Judge Yasmín Barrios sentenced General Ríos Montt, 86, to 80 years in prison. His co-defendant, José Mauricio Rodríguez Sánchez, who […]
It’s an anthem that is usually sung with chest-thumping pride and misty eyes by British imperialists. “Rule Britannia, Britannia rules the waves”. This jingoistic celebration of Britain’s former global conquest may yet degenerate into “Rue Britannia, Britannia rues the waves” by Finian Cunningham This is because, as The Guardian newspaper reports this week, the London government has at long last […]
The Zionist Story, an independent film by Ronen Berelovich, is the story of ethnic cleansing, colonialism and apartheid to produce a demographically Jewish State. Ronen successfully combines archival footage with commentary from himself and others such as Ilan Pappe, Terry Boullata, Alan Hart and Jeff Halper. “I have recently finished an independent documentary, The Zionist Story, in which I aim […]
Published on Nov 17, 2012 Brave Israeli Soldier, Yonatan Shapira, speaks out about the Zionist Israeli governments crimes. Read the blog “The Dark History of Modern Day Zionism” – http://choiceandtruth.blogspot.com/20… You can also follow Choice and Truth at; – https://www.facebook.com/CHOICEandTRUTH – https://twitter.com/CHOICEandTRUTH
Lecture by Ilan Pappé, Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies at the University of Exeter (UK), given Tuesday, November 15, 2011 at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Organized by the A.E. Havens Center for the Study of Social Structure and Social Change, havenscenter.org
Professor Ilan Pappe is Israel’s leading “new” or “revisionist” historian. The terms new and revisionist really mean “honest”. The title of his latest book, The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine, says everything about his integrity and commitment to the truth of history. As well as his passion for justice. One of very many revelations in Ilan’s latest book is in the […]
By Simon Wood “The inaction of world leaders in the face of mass slaughter goes back well before the holocaust, and genocidal leaders have taken note” – Daniel Goldhagen Over the last century more than 100 million civilians have died in genocides. The Turks killed over a million Armenians during World War I. The Japanese, Communist China and the Nazis […]
There are a lot of sound reasons to critique Keynesian economics, but the fact that its creator was gay shouldn’t be one of them by Rev. Irene Monroe Niall Ferguson, the Laurence A. Tisch Professor of History at Harvard University, has sadly, in 2013, just found that out. Ferguson’s speech to investors and financial analysts at the Tenth Annual Altegris […]
Will Masada II be the endgame? by Alan Hart (www.alanhart.net) I am withdrawing from the battlefield of the war for the truth of history as it relates to the making and sustaining of the conflict in and over Palestine that became Israel, and the following is an explanation of why. More than three decades ago when I made my commitment […]
