US trains Gulf air forces for war with Iran

The American air force is working with military leaders from the Gulf to train and prepare Arab air forces for a possible war with Iran, The Sunday Telegraph can reveal.
Neocons seek to justify action against Teheran
Iranian president Ahmadinejad
An air warfare conference in Washington last week was told how American air chiefs have helped to co-ordinate [...]

Shock at SA lion murder acquitt

A South African man convicted of murdering a man whose remains were found in a lion enclosure, has had his life sentence overturned on appeal.
White contractor Mark Scott-Crossley and an employee were alleged to have beaten up black former worker Nelson Chisale and thrown him to lions.
Scott-Crossley was convicted of murder and given a life [...]

BINGO! American democracy

Photos Show Rape of Iraqi Women + US soldiers stories

“Let´s call things by their real name – killers r killers and liers r liers”

U.S.A soldier tells how he Raped A muslim girl in Abu Ghraib

Today, new photographs were sent to La Voz de Aztlan from confidential sources depicting the shocking rapes of two Iraqi women by [...]

The Rape of Latinas in the US Military

Los Angeles, Alta California – May 10, 2004 – (ACN) Today, I heard and viewed the “goody two-shoes” First Lady on ABC’s “Good Morning America” and almost vomited when I heard her say that the sexual torture of Iraqi POW’s and female detainees at the Abu Ghraib prison was not what the USA stands for. [...]

War on Words – (Mis)labeling isn’t an exclusively Iranian prerogative

Less than a week after Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad left a bemused and scornful audience at Columbia University, Iran’s parliament voted by a margin of 215 to declare the “aggressor U.S. army and the Central Intelligence Agency…terrorists [who] nurture terror.” Their reasoning might seem dubious—apparently based on the U.S.’s decision to drop atomic bombs 60 [...]

Israeli Apartheid: Time for the South African Treatment

By now, most Palestinians recognize Israel’s entrenched system of colonialism, racism and denial of basic human rights as a form of apartheid. In fact, Palestinians are far from alone in holding this view of Israel; leading South African intellectuals, politicians and human rights advocates subscribe to the same school of thought. For instance, in an [...]

Israel and Censorship at Harvard

Since Vietnam, Israel has become the heartbeat of U.S. foreign policy and a litmus test of what can be debated—and even of who will be allowed to speak—on university campuses. This year, the Congress of the University and College Union—the British lecturers’ union—proposed a boycott of Israeli universities and academics for what it regards as [...]

A double standard on academic freedom in the Middle East

Two hundred thousand Palestinian children began school in the Gaza Strip this month without a full complement of textbooks. Why? Because Israel, which maintains a stranglehold over this small strip of land along the Mediterranean even after withdrawing its settlers from there in 2005, considers paper, ink and binding materials not to be “fundamental humanitarian [...]

Mural under (pro Israeli) attack

Dear SF Arts Commission,
I am writing to express my support of the mural on 24th and Capp in its entirety, including the positive images of Palestinian liberation struggles. I applaud the SF Arts Commission for their encouragement of self-expression and youth leadership development and want to ensure that the commission continues to allow for and [...]