Bamford Brings the Goods
On October 14, 2008, James Bamford talked about some of the shocking research in his new book on Democracy Now!, with Amy Goodman:
Along with the mass surveillance being conducted on all...
by Richard Falk, United Nations Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in the Palestinian Territories
Huffingtonpost.com
For eighteen months the entire 1.5 million people of Gaza experienced a punishing blockade imposed by Israel, and a variety...
In a companion essay (reprinted below), I discussed the response of some articles in the mainstream press to the claim, made by some defenders of Israel, that Professor Richard Falk should be removed from...
No, we have not digressed into "yet another" progressive news site. The situation in Gaza at the moment is a dire emergency, following years of gravely worsening conditions. Because the US continues to fund Israel to the tune of Billions of dollars a year of our money (i.e., in OUR name!), and because today "we" gave them carte blanche approval to essentially annhilate the PEOPLE of Gaza, after last week "we" vetoed a UN Security Council Resolution calling for a ceasefire, we feel it is important to post information you don't find at corporate TV or newspapers. We hope you will read articles from Israel's Ha'aretz, Electronic Intifada (Palestine's voice for years now), and other sources, use due diligence as always, and then take action you deem appropriate. Action ideas and links are included here.
"Well, ahem," muses the UN Third Committee Member from the US, "of course, if we support the 'right to food,' we can't very well support Israel's 'right' to starve the citizens of Gaza to the point of eating grass or any of a number of similar 'unfortunate situations' ... and we don't want to appear hypocritical ... rather a delicate situation we have here ... ahem ... Let's just state we're not signing it based on a technicality in the wording based on lack of 'enforcement' power. Yes, yes, that's it. Of course, the other 180 nations don't have any issue with that technicality, but at least we'll have something to say we objected to so we won't have to just admit we don't really believe that all people have a right to food. Yes, I think that will work..."
