DhafirTrial

[KH: See this 2 minute video at ICH. Similar conditions were created in Iraq during 13 years of U.S. and U.K. sponsored UN Sanctions; Dr. Dhafir responded to this crisis.]

Gaza’s 1.5 million residents are struggling to cope without electricity and other basic necessities on the fourth day of an Israeli blockade. (more…)

Le Monde | Editorial Translated by Leslie Thatcher of Truthout 1/17/08

In expectation of possible appeals, nothing yet guarantees that the Paris High Court’s judgment in the Erika affair will become established precedent. But we must hope that it does. (more…)

How Many Share His Dream Today?

By JEAN-GUY ALLARD Counterpunch 1/21/08

Philip Agee, the former CIA agent who in 1968 had the courage to resign from an agency that was known for its criminal support of bloody dictators (more…)

$100 Billion and Counting

By PAM MARTENS Originally posted on Counterpunch 1/21/08

The massive losses by big Wall Street firms, now topping those of the Great Depression in relative terms, have yet to be adequately explained. (more…)

The American Media’s Complicit Failure to Investigate and Report on the Sibel Edmonds Case

DANIEL ELLSBERG, BRAD BLOG Op-Ed 1/20/08

For the second time in two weeks, the entire U.S. press has let itself be scooped by Rupert Murdoch’s London Sunday Times on a dynamite story of criminal activities by corrupt U.S. officials promoting nuclear proliferation. (more…)

[KH: A brilliant exposition of the “War on Terror.”]

By Edward S. Herman and David Peterson Z Net 1/20/08

One of the most telling signs of the political naiveté of liberals and the Left in the United States has been their steadfast faith in much of the worldview that blankets the imperial state they call home. Nowhere has this critical failure been more evident than in their acceptance of the premise that there really is something called a “war on terror” or “terrorism” (more…)

On Nov. 27, 2007, in Annapolis, MD, Rabbi Yisroel Dovid Weiss, a spokesman for the Neturei Karta International, ripped into Zionism. He blasted the Zionists for its supposed “fearmongering.” He also accused the Zionists of “beating” Orthodox Jews in Jerusalem. (more…)

By Mike Whitney ICH 1/18/08

The White House is now in full-panic mode. In fact, the falling stock market has the administration so worried that Bush will deliver a speech later today that will lay out the details of a “stimulus package” designed to rev-up flagging consumer spending. The desperation is palpable. (more…)