By Noel Brinkerhoff | AllGov | September 10, 2015 Federal agencies trying to determine if Israel’s nuclear program received uranium from the U.S. during the Cold War were kept in the dark by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). Grant Smith, who runs the Institute for Research: Middle Eastern Policy, has long contended that Israel was […]
RT | September 6, 2015 More than 90 percent of the Gaza Strip’s water is undrinkable. The rest is quickly running out. A combination of factors is rapidly depriving the population of this most basic of needs. RT investigated day-to-day life under these conditions. Just one fresh water source exists today, according to the locals […]
Ma’an – September 5, 2015 HEBRON – Israeli settlers from the illegal settlement of Beit Hadasa in Hebron on Saturday attacked a young Palestinian man with pepper spray, witnesses said. A Ma’an reporter identified the Palestinian man as Ayman al-Fakhori, and said that he had been transferred to Hebron hospital for medical treatment. An activist […]
Ma’an – August 30, 2015 TUBAS – Israeli troops on Sunday morning evacuated 14 Palestinian families from their houses in the al-Ras al-Ahmar area of Khirbet Atuf village east of Tubas in the northern Jordan Valley area of the West Bank, local sources said. Local sources reported that the “Israeli occupation” told the 14 families […]
International Solidarity Movement | August 28, 2015 Occupied Palestine – On Friday the 28th of August 2015, two peaceful demonstrators were violently arrested and a child viciously attacked by Israeli soldiers in the Palestinian village Nabi Saleh in occupied Palestine. Every Friday the people of Nabi Saleh protest against the illegal settlement build on the […]
Ma’an – August 27, 2015 NEGEV – Dozens of Palestinians protested Thursday in the Bedouin village of Umm al-Hiran near the town of Hura in the Negev, as Israel’s construction of a Jewish town on the village’s land continues, local sources said. The Umm al-Hiran community — around 700 strong — is unrecognized by the […]
By Mark Weber | The Journal of Historical Review | May-June 1995 Fifty years ago, on April 15, 1945, British troops liberated the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. The anniversary was widely remembered in official ceremonies and in newspaper articles that, as the following essay shows, distort the camp’s true history. Largely because of the circumstances of […]
By Margaret Kimberley | Black Agenda Report | August 26, 2015 It is obvious that Bernie Sanders functions as the political “sheepdog” of the 2016 presidential election. The sheepdog makes certain that otherwise disillusioned Democrats are energized enough to stay in line and support the eventual candidate, in this case Hillary Clinton. That is reason […]
By Lenni Brenner | CounterPunch | October 24, 2003 A friend once got a bit of a reputation by pointing out that “you don’t need the weatherman to know which way the wind is blowing.” But you do need a demographer to know which way the Jews are going. Some readers will recall the journalistic […]
Ma’an – August 17, 2015 BETHLEHEM – Israeli forces on Monday destroyed more than 100 trees as they leveled Palestinian-owned land in the Beit Jala area to make way for construction of the separation wall, locals said. Israeli bulldozers reportedly destroyed the trees in an area known as Bir Onah, near the illegal settlement of […]
