Monday, January 30, 2012 It is always lamentable when killings become a common everyday occurrence and in particular when many of the victims are innocent civilians, children women, and old people. It is especially chilling when death and destruction becomes a daily affair by the forces that were meant to protect the population against foreign [...]
Archive for January, 2012
30 Jan
In Memory of A Hero (a repost)
Sep 11 Posted by OFF THE WALL Ghiath Matar, the 26 years old activist was murdered after three days of torture at the hands of Assad’s goons. Orders for such inhumane murderous treatments could only come from the highest levels Yesterday, and as the Secretary General of the Arab League was meeting with Syria’s chief [...]
30 Jan
Yassin Haj Saleh – Regarding militarism and violence and revolution
At Walls حيطان OTW : Yassin Al-Haj Saleh just published this article in Al-Hayat about militarism, violence, and the revolution . Given that it falls right in our discussion, I have spent sometime to translate it to English using machine translation as a start and then performing very heavy editing. I think it is a good [...]
29 Jan
Support a Palestinian family fighting to stay together under Israel’s citizenship law
by Udi Aloni on January 29, 2012 There has been a flood of new laws, practices and rules of apartheid in Israel. Sometimes many of us feel paralyzed because of the racist manifestations in the judiciary, legislature and executive and don’t know where to start fighting. Yet when those laws begin to destroy the lives [...]
29 Jan
The Global Worth of Human Life
By Jahanzeb Hussain 29 January, 2012 Jahanzebjz.tumblr.com I wonder how Europe and North America would react if the victims of 9/11, 7/7 and Madrid bombings were universally declared as nothing but “collateral damage”. It is simply unthinkable that victims who happen to be citizens of imperialist countries can be deprived of their humanity, the value [...]
26 Jan
Jonathan Miller I encountered the vicious reality of life under Gaddafi but nothing prepared me
25 Jan
The Colossal Folly of War in Afghanistan
January 24th, 2012 § Leave a Comment by Ralph Nader The U.S. war in Afghanistan is testing so much futuristic detect and destroy weaponry that it can be called the most advanced all-seeing invasion in military history. From blanket satellite surveillance to soldiers’ infra-red vision to the remotely guided photographing, killer drones to the latest [...]
