Two of Mass Palestinian Prisoner’s Hunger Strikers “On Verge of Death” (VIDEO)
Over 1600 Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails are holding a mass hunger strike. Two of them have now gone 70 days without food. This video can be found at YouTube…
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Israeli Spy Chief Slams Netanyahu, Barak as "Messianic"
The recently retired chief of Israel’s Shin Bet intelligence agency is warning his countrymen not to buy prime minister Netanyahu’s and defence minister Barak’s justifications for bombing Iran. Yuval Diskin…
Israel Metastasizes in West Bank Again
Israel has supposedly legalized three more illegal settlements in the Palestinian West Bank. The Palestinian Authority strongly condemned the decision. “Every single settlement built on Palestinian land is illegal”, Chief…
They’re (Still) Just Not That Into You
Sorry, Evangelicals: Only one in five Jewish Americans holds favorable views of those aligned with the Christian right, a category that includes most of Israel’s evangelical supporters. The survey, conducted…
On Israel and Apartheid
Message on a wall at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg Last month, university students and activists around the world marked Israeli Apartheid Week, an annual series of lectures and…
Video: Can boycott, divestment and sanctions stop Israeli apartheid?
On July 9, 2005 , Palestinian civil society put out the call for an international campaign of boycott, divestment and sanctions to compel the Israeli state to follow international law.…
Progressive Bloggers: abortion-‘bortion, what’s that contortion?
I do enjoy reading the differerent blog posts on the Progessive Bloggers aggregate. There are a diversity of opinions expressed by bloggers who post under the progressive label. Bloggers include…
Progressive Bloggers: abortion-‘bortion, what’s that contortion?
I do enjoy reading the differerent blog posts on the Progessive Bloggers aggregate. There are a diversity of opinions expressed by bloggers who post under the progressive label. Bloggers include…
Progressive Bloggers: abortion-‘bortion, what’s that contortion?
I do enjoy reading the differerent blog posts on the Progessive Bloggers aggregate. There are a diversity of opinions expressed by bloggers who post under the progressive label. Bloggers include…
Progressive Bloggers: abortion-‘bortion, what’s that contortion?
I do enjoy reading the differerent blog posts on the Progessive Bloggers aggregate. There are a diversity of opinions expressed by bloggers who post under the progressive label. Bloggers include…
Video Report: Colonialism & Indigenous Rights in Canada & Palestine
As a part of Israeli Apartheid Week 2012 in Winnipeg, Paul Burrows and Cheryl-Anne Carr discussed the impact of colonialism on the indigenous peoples of Canada and Palestine. The similarities…
Why Thomas Mulcair gets it when it comes to Israel
Not surprisingly, Thomas Mulcair won the NDP leadership last month, replacing Saint Jack Layton as the man social democrats hope can rally left-of-centre voters to defeat Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s…
Emotionally devastating documentary explores Israeli bombing of Gaza – Friday Film Pick: Tears of Gaza
Dozens of Palestinians have been killed or wounded in Israel’s latest bombing campaign of Gaza, while the Israeli military stubbornly insists the child-killing attacks are necessary to stop “terrorism”. Such…
Why I’m Voting for Nathan Cullen
Nathan Cullen has my vote. Let me begin by saying that we are at an historical moment in Canadian history. We are being besieged by an increasingly draconian corporatist, neo-conservative…
Video: It Kinda Scares Me
Here is a recently released scene from It Kinda Scares Me, a 2001 documentary about a gay drama coach and the troubled boys he teaches. From my favorite documentary filmmaker,…
Video: It Kinda Scares Me
Here is a recently released scene from It Kinda Scares Me, a 2001 documentary about a gay drama coach and the troubled boys he teaches. From my favorite documentary filmmaker,…
Video: It Kinda Scares Me
Here is a recently released scene from It Kinda Scares Me, a 2001 documentary about a gay drama coach and the troubled boys he teaches. From my favorite documentary filmmaker,…
Video: It Kinda Scares Me
Here is a recently released scene from It Kinda Scares Me, a 2001 documentary about a gay drama coach and the troubled boys he teaches. From my favorite documentary filmmaker,…
North Korea is no Iran
Iran has an elected President. Iran allows for protests against the government. Iran does not have nuclear weapons and is years away from having the capability to build them.Iran has…