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M. Shahid Alam – How Eurocentric Is Your Day?

By Guest Post • Nov 10th, 2009 • Category: Culture and Heritage, Education, Features, Maps, Somoud: Arab Voices of Resistance

At the outset of the classes I teach, I always address the question of bias in the social sciences. In one course – on the history of the global economy – this is the central theme. It critiques Eurocentric biases in several leading Western accounts of the rise of the global economy.
This fall, I began [...]



cartoon of the day

By Mary Rizzo • Sep 24th, 2009 • Category: Cartoon of the day, Israel, Maps

This is not a cartoon.  It is the map used by the early Zionists to show where "Israel" should be… from river to river (Euphrates to Nile).



Israeli military set to demolish 55 Palestinian homes in Nablus Saturday

By Guest Post • Sep 23rd, 2009 • Category: Action Alert, Counter-terrorism, No thanks!, Israel, Maps, Newswire, Palestine, Zionism

WRITTEN BY Saed Bannoura – IMEMC News   
Despite the outcry raised by Palestinian and international human rights organizations, the Israeli military announced this weekend it plans to go ahead with 55 home demolitions in Nablus — a city deep inside the West Bank which is supposed to be under the control of the Palestinian Authority.
The [...]



Ali Hattar – Israel's thirst for the Nile's water

By Adib Kawar • Sep 22nd, 2009 • Category: Features, Israel, Maps, Newswire, Somoud: Arab Voices of Resistance, Zionism

The Nile Water… When would water go after gas to the Zionist state?
It is a declaration of war
WRITTEN BY Ali Hattar, TRANSLATED BY Adib S. Kawar
What is taking place regarding the Nile’s water is not a simple matter… Without exaggeration… It is as important as war itself…
Lieberman, the foreign minister of the wrathful Zionist entity, [...]



Sabah al-Baghdadi – Iraq: Disastrous and Shocking Official Statistics

By Guest Post • Aug 7th, 2009 • Category: Analysis, Counter-terrorism, No thanks!, Features, Maps, Newswire, Somoud: Arab Voices of Resistance, War

Translated and adapted from Arabic by Khalil Nakhleh
 
The following official governmental statistics, up to December 2008, show the disastrous conditions prevalent in Iraq since the American invasion and occupation of that country. 
 
1.      One million widowed Iraqi women (according to Iraqi Ministry of Women Affairs). 
 
2.      Four million orphaned Iraqi children (according to estimates by the Iraqi [...]



Israel's obsession with nuclear Weapons: Back to Square one

By Guest Post • Jun 25th, 2009 • Category: Analysis, Hasbara Deconstruction Site, Israel, Maps, Newswire, Palestine, War, Zionism

Israel's obsession with nuclear weapons reveals just how ephemeral the Zionist project is, discovers Saleh Al-Naami in Al-Ahram Weekly. A highly recommended article about what the nuclear balance has to do with the demographic projections in Palestine / Israel and the role that this plays in the economy, as well as how Israel positions itself [...]



Lieberman: Wishing for World War III?

By Guest Post • Apr 24th, 2009 • Category: Analysis, Counter-terrorism, No thanks!, Hasbara Deconstruction Site, Israel, Maps, Newswire, Palestine, Religion, Resistance, War, Zionism

WRITTEN BY BRENDA HEARD  We have already become accustomed to the brazen statements of Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman. And it is certainly no surprise that Israel considers the US to be firmly in its political pocket.  So it is but a mild irritation to read Haaretz reporting that Lieberman, confident that “the Obama administration [...]



Strange Maps: Palestine's Island Paradise

By Mary Rizzo • Mar 31st, 2009 • Category: Artwork, Ideas and Projects, Israel, Maps, Mary's Choice, Newswire, Palestine

Thanks to Miguel for forwarding this incredible map. (Strange Maps) The Bible contains at least two stories equating the aquatic with the amoral. As Red Sea pedestrians, Moses and the Israelites didn’t even get their sandals moist, while the Lord did some expert smiting on the pursuing Egyptians, by way of the gurgling waters closing [...]



Palestine 1948

By Haitham Sabbah • Mar 17th, 2009 • Category: Maps, Newswire, Palestine

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Roadblocks and checkpoints in West Bank – Occupied Palestine

By Haitham Sabbah • Dec 5th, 2008 • Category: Maps, Newswire, Palestine

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