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Diana Buttu, Palestinian Canadian lawyer. She used to work with the Negotiations Support Unit of the Palestinian Liberation Organization, or PLO.
Rev. Edwin Makue, General Secretary of the South African Council of Churches.
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JUAN GONZALEZ: The United Nations refugee agency, which distributes food to half of Gaza’s 1.5 million people, has warned that […]
A United Nations human rights team has found “convincing evidence” that at least 90 civilians — including 60 children — were killed in US air strikes on a village in western Afghanistan on Thursday night. The Afghan government estimates puts the number of killed in the incident at 95 civilians. Mohammad Iqbal Safi, […]
For those in the war torn Caucasus this has been a week of unfathomable turmoil. It has been a week filled with images of displaced peoples, and the instruments of modern warfare doing what they do best, dispensing death. This has been a week that can only serve to remind us of the […]
Contrary to what the mainstream media are telling us, the real tragedy of South Ossetia has nothing to do with Georgian territorial integrity or Russianhumanitarian efforts to preserve peace and stability in a volatile region.Rather, the real tragedy of South Ossetia is that a nation — the Republic ofSouth Ossetia — is being deprived of […]
The following article is a brief examination of the political situation in Pakistan, its historic roots, the need for a progressive party of the people in Pakistan and the way that US aid should be redirected to help the fortunes of the multitudes of Pakistanis toiling in systemic poverty.After almost a decade of uninterrupted rule, […]
This article is syndicated from Bread and Roses, but Mostly Roses.
I need to talk about Venezuela. I promise not to make a habit of this, because I hate when American leftists go on and on valorizing leftist politics in other countries. (Exception: Evo Morales, because he’s so beautiful.)
However, there’s hella disinformation runnin’ ’round about […]
Why this short-term defeat could help consolidate the gains of the Bolivarian Revolution
Hugo Chavez’s supporters in Venezeula, mostly the poor who had been forced to the fringes of society for generations in the oil rich country, and his allies in the United States […]
Anyone who follows political events in Venezuela knows that the government of Hugo Chavez narrowly lost a referendum to reform the constitution. If you read the American press, though, you’d have a hard time understanding anything more than that.
Mainstream U.S. media have consistently portrayed Chavez as a “would-be dictator” and and “authoritarian”. Never mind that […]
