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how BBC views Gaza through a Zionist looking glass Amena Saleem Amena Saleem is active with the Palestine Solidarity Campaign in the UK and keeps a close eye on the media’s coverage of Palestine as part of her brief. She has twice driven on convoys to Gaza for PSC. More …

How military leaders have let us downBy LT. COL. DANIEL L. DAVIS I spent last year in Afghanistan, visiting and talking with U.S. troops and their Afghan partners. My duties with the Army’s Rapid Equipping Force took me into every significant area where our soldiers engage the enemy. Over the …

About 1,000 Afghans took to the streets in a southern town on Thursday to protest the killing of 16 civilians in a murderous rampage by a US soldier, police said. Shouting anti-American slogans the demonstrators poured into the main town of Qalat in Zabul province neighbouring Kandahar, where the shooting …

South Africa Israeli Apartheid Week a success By: Qaanitah Hunter 08-03-2012 The success of the Israeli Apartheid Week (IAW) thus far has been absolutely phenomenal, according to spokesperson for the Boycott Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement in South Africa, Muhammad Desai. He said that this year’s turn out at events …

The Media Review Network (MRN) has denounced the recent spate of bombings by Israel in the occupied Gaza, calling for the international community to be more vociferous in condeming the Netanyahu regime for “inhumane brutality”. The latest attacks lasted four days and saw the death of 50 innocent civilians. According …

Seventy percent of South African companies surveyed believe they are at direct risk from water scarcity, according to the 2011 Water Disclosure Report released on Monday. “Water scarcity is a significant risk for South African companies,” the National Business Initiative (NBI) said in a statement on the report it helped …

Prof. Thomas H. Naylor: We are You and You are Us? The Absurdity of US/Israeli Relations Thomas H. Naylor is Founder of the Second Vermont Republic and Professor Emeritus of Economics at Duke University; co-author of Affluenza, Downsizing the U.S.A., and The Search for Meaning. CounterPunch March 06, 2012 “We …

The cost of America’s police state Hundreds of billions have been spent to militarize our nation against a terrorism threat that barely exists By Stephan Salisbury Stephan Salisbury is cultural writer for the Philadelphia Inquirer. His most recent book is Mohamed’s Ghosts: An American Story of Love and Fear in …

Ismael Mohamad / United Press International Hana al-Shalabi’s health worsens after 19 days hunger strike against no-charge  detention by Israel Ali Abunimah Amnesty International has expressed concern over the worsening health of Hana al-Shalabi, a Palestinian woman who has been on hunger strike since 16 February against her detention without …

Umrah figures up 15% There has been a 10 -15% increase in the number of Umrah pilgrims this year compared to the same period last year, the Makkah Chamber of Commerce and Industry’s national committee on Haj reported on Wednesday. Closer to home, the South African Haj and Umrah Council …