ED NOTE: SEASONS GREETINGS AND HAPPY HOLIDAYS FROM ALL OF US AT MY CATBIRD SEAT! Veterans for Peace White House Civil Disobedience to End War More than 100 people arrested in a Civil Disobedience at the White House protesting the continuing wars in Afghanistan, Pakistan and in Iraq. Chris Hedges extraordinarily anti-war soliloquy is inter-cut [...]

Displacement is the key to this mental and emotional manipulation. Within hours of WikiLeak’s November release of diplomatic cables, peace talks were displaced by renewed talk of war with Iran. Those tracking the agenda now advancing behind the WikiLeaks façade should check for the undisclosed bias among editors at the four newspapers chosen to select [...]

In issuing its findings of fact and conclusions of law ACMA found that Al Manar did not violate Australian law, and was free to broadcast in the country Franklin Lamb’s Saturday Mideast Report –- Al Manar Australia’s Parliament and main stream media may not differ all that much from other western countries when it comes [...]

Lawson is right in saying that, “Wiki Leaks has given the mainstream media yet another opportunity to vilify Iran.  A typical headline, from the New York Times was: “Around the world distress over Iran.” And, ironically, it is true, but not in the way the headline writer meant. Around the world there is distress over [...]

ED NOTE: In a recent  interview Prof. Francis Boyle, professor of international law,  states categorically that “any ‘criticism’ at all of Israel in the United States, is deemed to be anti-semitic….  Hypocrisy is shot through the entire Academy…. The whole American academic world  in my opinion are racists and hypocrites when it comes to Palestinians” [...]

We Think it’s Important to Stand by Helen Thomas We also think this is an opportunity to reach Americans whose curiosity is now piqued by all the controversy If Americans Knew – what every American needs to know about Israel Veteran journalist Helen Thomas is under attack again. The ADL took away her job; now [...]

The joint MEMO and Palestinian Solidarity Campaign (PSC) event at the prestigious Senate House in central London,  was packed even with the snow and chaotic public transport, to hear Professor Falk speak on Israeli human rights abuses, his experiences and recommendations for peace and justice in the region. The event was chaired by Michael Mansfield [...]

Church leaders from Palestine tell the Irish… “We need only one thing, to be protected by the world against the crimes of  Israel” By Stuart Littlewood By coincidence John Ging, director of operations in Gaza for UNWRA, happened to be in town and bumped into the Holy Land trio at the gates of the Irish [...]