Tag: Imperialism

Bertrand Russell’s Last Message on Israel and Palestine

This statement on the Middle East was dated 31st January, 1970, and was read on 3rd February,the day after Bertrand Russell’s death, to an International Conference of Parliamentariansmeeting in Cairo. See/hear on YouTube. The latest phase of the undeclared war in the Middle East is based upon a profoundmiscalculation. The bombing raids deep into Egyptian… Read More Bertrand Russell’s Last Message on Israel and Palestine

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Messages arrive from Gaza with news of dead children. It has become a graveyard for humanity’s conscience

Gaza has become a graveyard. A graveyard for children and for mothers. But Gaza has also become a place where the conscience of the world is being buried, alongside the failure of the world’s institutions to protect civilians. Gaza is the graveyard of human rights. Ghada Ageel Over the past week, I attempted to reach… Read More Messages arrive from Gaza with news of dead children. It has become a graveyard for humanity’s conscience

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As Gaza War Wages On, Israeli Settlers Attack Palestinians and Create a New Reality in the West Bank

While the IDF and the Shin Bet are busy in the Gaza Strip, West Bank settlers are exploiting the war to invade private lands, attack Palestinians and arm themselves with military weapons Yaniv Kubovich While public attention in Israel is gripped by the fighting in the Gaza Strip and the rising tensions along the Lebanese… Read More As Gaza War Wages On, Israeli Settlers Attack Palestinians and Create a New Reality in the West Bank

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Obsession, jealousies and Joséphine: has Ridley Scott captured the real Napoleon?

Andrew Hussey Napoleon Bonaparte is probably the most famous Frenchman of all time and is, according to academic sources, second only to Jesus as the most filmed figure in cinema history. Napoleon is a complex subject whose aura, monstrosity and genius is a perfect fit for great cinema and who is therefore an irresistible challenge… Read More Obsession, jealousies and Joséphine: has Ridley Scott captured the real Napoleon?

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‘I sent them a good boy and they made him a murderer’

Lieutenant accused of murdering 109 civilians: By SEYMOUR HERSH The Pulitzer prize winning My Lai story, as readers experienced it when it was first published in 1969 In the fall of 1969, a friend with a source in the military called a part-time political columnist for The Village Voice with a tip: a U.S. soldier was being… Read More ‘I sent them a good boy and they made him a murderer’

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Gangsters are the villains in ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ — but the biggest thief of Native American wealth was the US government

Forced removal touched every tribe east of the Mississippi River and several tribes to the west of it. In total, about 100,000 American Indians were removed from their homelands to western reservations. Director Martin Scorsese’s new movie, “Killers of the Flower Moon,” tells the true story of a string of murders on the Osage Nation’s land in Oklahoma… Read More Gangsters are the villains in ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ — but the biggest thief of Native American wealth was the US government

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The US invaded the island of Grenada 40 years ago. The legacy of revolution lives on

Bhaskar Sunkara You wouldn’t have guessed he was in enemy territory. Addressing 2,500 people at New York’s Hunter College one June night in 1983, Maurice Bishop won the crowd over with ease, covering everything from the Palestinian struggle to Ronald Reagan’s Medicaid cuts. At one point, the 39-year-old prime minister of Grenada described a “secret report” from… Read More The US invaded the island of Grenada 40 years ago. The legacy of revolution lives on

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