teleSUR – March 2016 The G77 and China affirmed their solidarity with Venezuela after President Barack Obama renewed an executive order classifying Venezuela as a threat. The Group of 77 and China reiterated this week, “its rejection to the latest decision of the government of the United States of America to renew its unilateral sanctions […]
Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov reaffirms his country’s friendship with Venezuela. | Photo: PSUV teleSUR – March 25, 2016 Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said that his country has been closely following the situation in Venezuela and stressed that such is exacerbated by external interference. “Venezuela is a friend country that they (opponents) are trying to […]
Senior Saudi cleric Ayatollah Hussein al-Radhi Press TV – March 22, 2016 The Saudi regime’s security forces have arrested a prominent Shia cleric over his anti-regime comments as Riyadh continues its crackdown on the minority sect. Media reports said on Tuesday that security forces arrested Ayatollah Hussein al-Radhi shortly after he led prayers in the […]
To UN Special Adviser on the Prevention of Genocide and ICC Prosecutor: I am a concerned person of conscience, who fears that I am witnessing the genocide of the Palestinian people by the State of Israel. Witnessing Israel’s daily violations of Palestinian human rights- military take-over of land, restriction of movement, economic strangulation, house demolitions, […]
International Solidarity Movement | March 15, 2016 Bil’in, occupied Palestine – Rani Burnat is an extraordinary human being in more ways than one. He was left paralysed from an injury sustained during the second intifada, learned to live the remainder of his life in a wheelchair, fathered three children (triplets) and now continues to resist […]
By Peter Lazenby – Morning Star – March 17, 2016 A Weekly vigil outside a military base by a 74-year-old peace campaigner has been put under threat by a police dispersal order. Lindis Percy, who stages a one-hour vigil at US communications base Menwith Hill in Yorkshire every Tuesday, told the Star yesterday that police […]
Author’s Note: An elaboration of the Israeli-imposed deprivations on the Palestinian population is presented in an extraordinary , data-driven web-site called “Visualizing Palestine”, which also formed the basis of a student presentation at Hamilton’s (ON, Canada) McMaster University. Information from the site, and the McMaster outdoor presentation, form the basis of much of the information in […]
Israel’s Attempt to Put Up a ‘Firewall’ Around Itself… By Richard Edmondson | Fig Trees and Vineyards | March 10, 2016 We are approaching a pivotal time in America. With the aging of the older generation–that is to say those who grew up prior to the age of the Internet–the percentage of the population relying […]
MEMO – March 10, 2016 British private security giant G4S has announced plans to sell its entire Israeli business within the next 12 to 24 months. The news has been welcomed by activists in the Palestinian Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) campaign, for whom G4S has been a long-standing target. The decision to leave Israel […]
IMEMC News & Agencies – March 9, 2016 Israeli forces, on Tuesday night, have kidnapped iconic activist against the apartheid wall and settlements, and mother of six, Manal Tamimi, aged 43, from her home in Al-Nabi Saleh village, near Ramallah. On International Women’s Day, 8th of March, at 1:30 AM, dozens of soldiers stormed Manal’s […]
