America’s Addiction to Violence

America’s Addiction to Violence by MARK GRAHAMDecember 17, 2012The United States is the number one supplier of weapons on the planet, its military the world’s largest employer.  Violence has become America’s major export to the world and we have reaped the financial rewards.  The only problem is we’re addicted to the drug we’re peddling beyond our borders.  The addiction passes on to the next generation through the discursive...

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A Route to Sanity? The Beginning of the End for Mindless America Support for Israel?

A Route to Sanity?The Beginning of the End for Mindless America Support for Israel?by JOHN GRANTDecember 13, 2012    The legacy of the Zionist revolutionaries who once enraptured the parlors of Europe and America with talk of a Jewish homeland as a moral beacon in a benighted region has instead bequeathed to the Jewish world and the West a highly militarized dependency — a state that has achieved great feats of cultural and economic...

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In Gaza, It’s the Occupation, Stupid

In Gaza, It’s the Occupation, StupidBy Amy Goodman“The Palestinian people want to be free of the occupation,” award-winning Israeli journalist Gideon Levy summed up this week. It is that simple. This latest Israeli military assault on the people of Gaza is not an isolated event, but part of a 45-year occupation of the sliver of land wedged between Israel and the Mediterranean Sea, where 1.6 million people live under a brutal Israeli blockade that...

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International Film Festival of Marrakech

International Film Festival of MarrakechThe International Film Festival of Marrakech is an international film festival held annually in Marrakech, Morocco since 2000. It is one of the biggest events devoted to the film in Morocco; a location of the principal photography of many international productions.The jury of the festival gathers international writers, actors, personalities and endeavors to reward the best Moroccan and foreign productions of...

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THE ATTACK ZIAD DOUEIRI

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Bollywood ‘demigod’ Khan casts spell on Moroccans

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Why Were They Killed?

Why Were They Killed?Truth and Trauma in Gazaby KATHY KELLYDec 02, 2012Dr. T., a medical doctor, is a Palestinian living in Gaza City.  He is still reeling from days of aerial bombardment. When I asked about the children in his community he told me his church would soon be making Christmas preparations to lift the children’s spirits.  Looking at his kindly smile and ruddy cheeks, I couldn’t help wondering if he’d be asked to dress up as “Baba Noel,” as Santa Claus.  I didn’t dare ask this question aloud.  ??“The most recent...

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The Strong and the Sweet

The Strong and the SweetThe UN and Palestineby URI AVNERYDec 02, 2012It was a day of joy.Joy for the Palestinian people.Joy for all those who hope for peace between Israel and the Arab world.And, in a modest way, for me personally.The General Assembly of the United Nations, the highest world forum, has voted overwhelmingly for the recognition of the State of Palestine, though in a limited way.The resolution adopted by the same forum 65 years ago to the day, to partition historical Palestine between a Jewish and an Arab state, has at long last been...

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Knocking on the Iron Wall

Knocking on the Iron WallPalestine, the UN and Australian Labor by RICK KUHN Dec 02, 2012 One week Australia’s Labor Party Prime Minister Julia Gillard cheers on Israel’s murderous assault on Gaza, the next the parliamentary Labor Party caucus rolls her over recognition of Palestine by the United Nations General Assembly.In the United Nations, Labor foreign minister Bert Evatt pushed for the partition of Palestine and in 1948 as the President of the General Assembly in 1948 supported the new Israeli state. Ever since Australian governments,...

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Elites Will Make Gazans of Us All

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Glory to Those Who Torture Us Abdellatif Laâbi

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