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Salim Nazzal – Zionists can threaten but can not intimidate me

By Mary Rizzo • Feb 1st, 2010 • Category: Biography, Israel, Mary's Choice, Newswire, Palestine, Resistance, Zionism

WRITTEN BY Salim Nazzal – At the beginning I got “strange” e-mails which hinted towards assassination and the like. The Zionist character in these e-mails was obvious. I simply paid no attention. I know Zionists fear the voice of the victims. My voice is the voice of my people who were murdered and uprooted from [...]



Palestine Think Tank Editorial, Common Activist Error Series: Following Zionist Discourse and Not Leading Our Own

By Mary Rizzo • Jan 29th, 2010 • Category: Hasbara Deconstruction Site, Ideas and Projects, Israel, Newswire, Palestine, Resistance, Zionism

Three proposals: Framing our own arguments – ignoring Zionist rhetorical traps – developing strategic thinking and implementing our strategies 
While watching most Western mainstream news and current events shows, how many times do we activists for Palestine find ourselves arguing with the television, pointing our finger at the screen and saying, “NO! That’s not true,” or [...]



Common Activist Errors and Some Proposals to Rectify Them

By Mary Rizzo • Jan 22nd, 2010 • Category: Analysis, Grassroots Activism, Ideas and Projects, Israel, Newswire, Palestine, Resistance, Somoud: Arab Voices of Resistance, Zionism

A Palestine Think Tank Editorial
WRITTEN BY  Yousef Abudayyeh, Mohamed Khodr, Mary Rizzo, Haitham Sabbah and Saja 
Activism and activists for Palestine have been getting some media attention recently. This is absolutely great news. It is an opportunity that we need to take advantage of, especially since Palestinians themselves are denied space in almost all mainstream mass [...]



Humanitarian aid or military occupation in Haiti?

By Mary Rizzo • Jan 21st, 2010 • Category: Mary's Choice, Newswire

SOCIALIST WORKER –  WRITTEN BY Ashley Smith, who explains why help hasn't reached most of the victims of Haiti's earthquake–because the priority of the U.S. government is on imposing its control.
WHEN HURRICANE Katrina struck New Orleans in 2005, George W. Bush displayed a callous disregard for the Black victims of the disaster.
When his administration finally [...]



It's a long march to freedom

By Mary Rizzo • Jan 8th, 2010 • Category: Features, Israel, Newswire, Palestine, Resistance, Somoud: Arab Voices of Resistance, War, Zionism

–A PTT editorial
Just one year ago, Gaza and its people were subject to the ultimate crime, victims (both living and dead) of the genocide of the Palestinian people. It is a genocide that began 61 years ago, and it’s had moments of escalation, the peak of which was reached with the attempted destruction of part [...]



Atilio Boron – Obama, an "F" in Political Theory (First Word War)

By Mary Rizzo • Dec 29th, 2009 • Category: Analysis, Mary's Choice, Newswire, War

The paranoid and pathological-to-the-core line of the neoconservative ideologues reappears on the lips of this champion of U.S. liberalism: the ever-present threat to the well being and security of the American people, whether coming from Communists, populism, drug trafficking, Islamic fundamentalism or international terrorism. But these threats, more imaginary than real, are a necessary ingredient in justifying the unlimited and ceaseless expansion of military spending and the enormous profitability that this provides to the giant oligopolies that depend on the immense business of war.



cartoon of the day

By Mary Rizzo • Dec 17th, 2009 • Category: Cartoon of the day, Maps


Obama: A Monument to Hip-ocrisy

By Mary Rizzo • Dec 14th, 2009 • Category: Biography, Israel, Mary's Choice, Newswire, Palestine, War

WRITTEN BY MARY RIZZO
 
Barack Obama is a very handsome man. He has the charisma of a showman. He speaks very well, and what’s more, he can even dance. It’s not clear whether that is sufficient criteria to make one into a president, oops, not “a” president but “The President”, but it certainly was enough to get [...]



Let My Kafka Go! Israel’s Ridiculous Ownership Claims

By Mary Rizzo • Dec 9th, 2009 • Category: Biography, Culture and Heritage, Features, Israel, Mary's Choice, Newswire, Zionism

WRITTEN BY MARY RIZZO
“Someone must have been telling lies about Josef K., he knew he had done nothing wrong but, one morning, he was arrested.” 
I doubt that anyone has read that devastating incipit from Kafka’s “The Trial” without feeling a bolt of emotion. In its naked simplicity, crude force and powerful arrangement, we see facets [...]



Phyllis Bennis – President Obama's Afghanistan Election Speech

By Mary Rizzo • Dec 5th, 2009 • Category: Counter-terrorism, No thanks!, Features, Mary's Choice, Newswire, War

There was one way in which President Obama’s escalation speech brought significant relief to the 59% of people in this country, as well as the overwhelming majorities of people in Afghanistan, Pakistan, the Middle East and elsewhere who oppose the U.S. war in Afghanistan: It was a pretty lousy speech. That is, it had none [...]