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Angie Tibbs – Spotlight on Palestine: an interview with Stuart Littlewood

By Guest Post • Nov 15th, 2009 • Category: Internet and Communication, Israel, Newswire, Palestine, Zionism

By Angie Tibbs*
British writer and photographer Stuart Littlewood talks to Angie Tibbs about his experience of Israel's occupation in Gaza and the West Bank, and comments on how British and American collusion, under the auspices of the Jewish lobby, is helping to sustain the world's most lawless, brutal and unjust occupation regime.
"Lawlessness must have painful [...]



How Does the World Protect Itself from Israel and the Scourge of Zionism?

By Guest Post • Sep 28th, 2009 • Category: Analysis, Hasbara Deconstruction Site, Internet and Communication, Israel, Middle East Issues, Newswire, Palestine, Zionism

WRITTEN BY ROGER TUCKER
 There are many people, "progressive" Zionists included, who loudly object to the Occupation in the Palestinian territories, but see no problem with the continued existence of an Israel that privileges Jews over all others who happen to live there, particularly the Muslim, Christian and other non-Jewish "citizens." These people are referred to [...]



Rethinking the Concept of Diaspora (mobility and connectivity)

By Guest Post • Sep 25th, 2009 • Category: Analysis, Internet and Communication, Newswire

…a displaced and dispersed population cannot automatically be identified as a diaspora as it is not sufficient for it, as for any social formation for that matter, objectively to fulfill the material conditions prescribed by a category, such as diaspora in our case. The crucial element that makes the concept meaningful and legitimate to use is their self-mobilization around their awareness of themselves as a diaspora. In other words, it is their ability to imagine themselves as such, to imagine and construct the relevant transnational linkages and to construct the appropriate discourses. It follows that this self-awareness and the processes of self-imagination as a diaspora, if they are to be sustained over time, require diasporic institutions, which construct and sustain a diasporic space of communication and exchange where definitions of the diaspora are elaborated and reproduced.

It is this, little studied, capacity of diasporic media that, together with a host of other diasporic cultural, political and economic processes, can transform diasporas from little more than aggregates of migrants into active and vibrant diasporic networks.



Madonna: "The Harlot's Dance" & "Israel's New Best Friend"

By Adib Kawar • Sep 13th, 2009 • Category: Biography, Internet and Communication, Israel, Newswire, Religion, Zionism

WRITTEN BY: Satia’a Nouredine
TRANSLATED BY: Adib S. Kawar  
She slowly spreads her legs, then she raises them high, before she rests her right leg on a couch’s armrest, and waits for seconds, then she quickly jumps up, she slackens the reins of her body another time proceeding with its hysteric movements, which don’t lack defiance, and [...]



Iqbal Tamimi – Why would Rupert Murdoch want to buy a stake in Saudi Media?

By Iqbal Tamimi • Sep 5th, 2009 • Category: Analysis, Biography, Internet and Communication, Iqbal's Choice, Israel, Newswire, Religion, Somoud: Arab Voices of Resistance, Zionism

It seems that the Western media is after Arab media platforms, or are they only after the deep Arab pockets? People in the Middle East are still in a state of shock after last week’s Yahoo business venture of buying Maktoob.com, the only Arab internet portal based in Jordan.
Now the latest news is that Rupert [...]



Yahoo has to acknowledge Palestine should it want to flirt with our pockets

By Iqbal Tamimi • Sep 2nd, 2009 • Category: Internet and Communication, Israel, Newswire, Opinions and Letters, Palestine, Zionism

WRITTEN BY IQBAL TAMIMI
One can't help but see malignant projects of gigantic companies committing forgery to steal the history of some nations in broad daylight.
As an example I would say Yahoo. For many years yahoo published pages on its websites and created online services where it has deleted Palestine from its charts, not just Palestine [...]



The World Can't Be Changed Without Fighting Western Propaganda

By Guest Post • Aug 18th, 2009 • Category: Analysis, Internet and Communication, Newswire, Opinions and Letters, Resistance, War

WRITTEN BY Andrei Vltchek
Sometimes I am chased by nightmares: I am in the middle of some bombed out refugee camp, maybe in Congo (DRC) or in some other desperate country at the periphery of media interests. Children are running around with swollen bellies, clearly suffering from malnutrition. Many women in the camp have swollen bellies [...]



Trial by Indymedia

By Guest Post • Aug 12th, 2009 • Category: Analysis, Biography, Education, Internet and Communication, Israel, Newswire, Opinions and Letters, Religion, Zionism

WRITTEN BY JAY KNOTT
"Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is strong" – Nietzsche
On 25 June, the Portland Indymedia website published an article entitled 'Rose City Antifa: Statement on Anti-Semites and their Collaborators' [1]. Rose City Antifa is part of the Anti-Racist Action Network.
Since its creation in 1999 during the protests against the World [...]



Another political site blocked by Google/Blogger

By Mary Rizzo • Aug 7th, 2009 • Category: Counter-terrorism, No thanks!, Ideas and Projects, Internet and Communication, Israel, Newswire, Resistance, Zionism

The censorship of Google/Blogger does not cease. Many have fallen victim to it, and when it happens, it's quite shocking, especially if you have many thousands come to read each day and what you print can't usually be found in mainstream media. I ran Peacepalestine, which was a very popular blog. It had faced quite of [...]



The People Have Already Won in Iran – The Bankrupt Rulers Are Losing More Each Day

By Guest Post • Jul 22nd, 2009 • Category: Analysis, Counter-terrorism, No thanks!, Internet and Communication, Israel, Newswire, Opinions and Letters, Palestine, Religion, Resistance, War, Zionism

WRITTEN BY Mozhgan SAVABIEASFAHANI مژگان صوابی

The dreams, aspirations, and accomplishments of millions of Iranians (youth and others), who have filled the streets of every city in Iran for a month, did not even get as much as a sentence in Mr. Paul Craig Roberts’ long article “Threatening Iran.” His article reflects the attitudes of his public [...]