News/Politics

 

 
 
By Finian Cunningham
In a breathtaking display of absurdity, US secretary of defense Chuck Hagel and Britain’s Foreign Minister William Hague were among senior Western delegates to address the annual conference on “regional security” held in Bahrain at the weekend.

 
Graphic: Coalition For a Free Palestine (South Africa)
 
 
 
John Chuckman
 
 The press has echoed for days with admiration for Nelson Mandela and his genuinely heroic fight against the apartheid government of South Africa. There have been many recollections of the brutal quality of that government, all perhaps carrying an unstated sense of how could people live that way?

 

 
Saudi Prince Bandar Bin Sultan, Director General of the Saudi Intelligence Agency has commanded thousands of militants to prepare to attack the Christian city of Saidnaya in the war-torn Syria.

By Felicity Arbuthnot
 
Accusing politicians or former politicians of “breathtaking hypocrisy” is not just over used, it is inadequacy of spectacular proportions. Sadly, searches in various thesaurus’ fail in meaningful improvement.
The death of Nelson Mandela, however, provides tributes resembling duplicity on a mind altering substance.

 
by Adri Nieuwhof   - The Electronic Intifada
 

 
 
Paul Balles
 
Helen Thomas
 
When Helen Thomas told a Rabbi that the Jews should go back to where they came from, he asked where that would be.
 Her response was as honest and appropriate as it was direct: “Poland, Germany, America…” For that she lost her job as the best White House reporter America has had.

 
 
Obama Can’t Do Multitasking
 
by Philip Giraldi
 

 
Franklin Lamb
Damascus

 
 
The American Studies Association leadership has endorsed a boycott of Israeli universities over what it describes as the Israeli regime’s violation of international law and ethical codes.
The decision posted Wednesday follows a contentious debate at the group’s annual meeting last month and 10 days of deliberations that were supposed to last a morning. The boycott resolution was approved unanimously by the 20-member national council.

 

 
After the humiliation of the last papal visit.  Will the Pope insist on seeing Gaza this time? Or should he, too, boycott Israel until Jerusalem and the Christian and Muslim communities are freed from occupation?
 
 by Stuart Littlewood           Intifada Palestine