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Posts Tagged ‘Spain’

Why Iran’s is a ‘regime’ and Afghanistan’s a ‘government’?

By Guest Post • Jan 13th, 2010 • Category: Analysis, Middle East Issues, Newswire

WRITTEN BY: Grupo Antimilitarista Tortuga (Alicante, Spain)
Translated by Ana Atienza, Revised by David Brookbank (Tlaxcala)
If we paid attention to the terminology used by the mass media to refer to certain issues, perhaps we would learn more than a few lessons about the interests behind those media and the subterfuges they use to present the news [...]

Aminetu Haidar: In Spite of Everything. Saharawi on Hunger Strike

By Guest Post • Dec 5th, 2009 • Category: Arabian Coffee House, Biography, Newswire, Resistance, Somoud: Arab Voices of Resistance

WRITTEN BY ATENEA AVECEDO
Aminetu Haidar was arrested at the El Aaiun Airport (former capital of Western Sahara, a country under Moroccan military occupation since 1975) because in filling out the corresponding entry form she wrote "Western Sahara" as her country of origin instead of "Morocco". The Moroccan authorities confiscated her passport and forced her aboard another aircraft [...]

Ángeles Diez – The limits of the Spanish “Left” on its defence of the Palestinian people

By Mary Rizzo • Feb 5th, 2009 • Category: Analysis, Counter-terrorism, No thanks!, Israel, Mary's Choice, Newswire, Opinions and Letters, Palestine, Resistance, War, Zionism

Translated into English by Manuel Talens and revised by Mary Rizzo

During the current Israeli aggression to Gaza both the Spanish Left and Right have built linguistic fences to position themselves around the problem. The case of the Spanish institutional Left is without any doubt paradigmatic: on one side there a party now in office – [...]

Is Palestine a Province of the Monstrosity called Israel?

By Guest Post • Sep 14th, 2008 • Category: Analysis, Israel, Mary's Choice, Newswire, Palestine, Resistance, Zionism

WRITTEN BY JORGE ALDAO
Translated by Ernesto Paramo and revised by Machetera
In a recent piece titled "The Hottentots Morality" Uri Avnery makes some truly amazing assertions.
The most surprising of them is the one that states: " *in my view, there is one simple principle, and it applies to everybody: every province that wants to secede [...]