DhafirTrial

Keith Rosenthal lefthook.org December 2003

While Saddam Hussein remains locked up in an undisclosed location in Baghdad under the authority of the United States, another Iraqi man remains locked up in Jamesville Penitentiary in New York state (more…)

A documentary film by John Pilger

‘Global economy’ is a modern Orwellian term. On the surface, it is instant financial trading, mobile phones, McDonald’s, Starbucks, holidays booked on the net. Beneath this gloss, it is the globalisation of poverty (more…)

Kerala Throws Out Coke and Pepsi
By CounterPunch News Service 8/12/06 Trivanrum, India.

The state government of Kerala in south India has banned the production and sale of Coca-Cola and Pepsi in the state (more…)

Should Alan Dershowitz Target Himself for Assassination?

By NORMAN FINKELSTEIN Counterpunch 8/12/06

As Israel’s military bravely fires away shells and missiles to lay waste the fragile human and physical infrastructure of Lebanon (more…)

By NORMAN FINKELSTEIN Part One:Descent Into Moral Barbarism 8/12/06

Since the outbreak of hostilities between Israel and Lebanon in July 2006, Dershowitz has used the war on terrorism to target yet another branch of international law (more…)

I would love to have the Met in Beirut to counter terror in my part of the world

By Robert Fisk Independent U.K. 8/12/06

When my electricity returned at around 3am yesterday, I turned on the BBC World Service television (more…)

by Ira Chernus Commondreams.org 8/10/06
 
“I can talk to my Jewish friends about anything — except Israel. When that subject comes up, they just shut down.” (more…)

By KARIM MAKDISI, Beirut. Counterpunch 8/7/06

It is impossible to speak of a Hizbullah victory’ when nearly a thousand Lebanese civilians have been killed, thousands more injured, a million people internally displaced; and Lebanon’s infrastructure, environment and economy laid to waste as the world watches. (more…)