Liberty, Equality and Fraternity

Netanyahu Seeks to Capitalise on anti-Semitism Demonstrator in Paris holds a giant pencil aloft Cartoon from Martin Rowson of the Guardian with the riot police setting the limits on free speech! It must have caused Cameron to choke.  The very idea of liberty, equality and fraternity is anathema to this political opportunist without an original…

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Je Suis Charlie?

In Defence of Secularism and the Right to Criticise Religion Not surprisingly the news this week has been dominated by one story, the murder of 8 journalists on Charlie Hebdo.  The two assassins have in turn been killed after a siege. However those racists who attribute what happened in Paris or Pakistan today to something…

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Fundamentalism and Modernity

Religious Fundamentalism and its Colonial Roots A discussion on Facebook thread on US fundamentalist preachers led me to write this. Mike Cushman Dear E You say ‘Europe is not burdened with the Bible literalism that gives life to this insane trajectory {of US susceptibility to fundamentalist preachers].’ I agree, but my question is why is…

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Israeli Military Riot in Village of Kaddum

Israeli Forces Use Live Ammunition Against Stone Throwers However there are some stone-throwers who are not attacked by the Israeli military.  They are Jewish settlers who attack American diplomats! Israeli Settlers Throw Rocks At US Officials On West Bank Tour The Huffington Post UK   Paul Vale Posted: 02/01/2015 Adei Ad Outpost from which settlers…

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Brighton Police Arrest Santa!

Santa is Nicked as Protestors Shut Down Barclays Bank  By Leon Siciliano, video source Newsflare Daily Telegraph 12:11PM GMT 22 Dec 2014 An amusing video has emerged of police arresting a man dressed up as Father Christmas during an anti-arms protest outside a Barclays branch in Brighton on Friday. The footage shows the man being…

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Truth Commission on Nakba

Israelis rattled by search for truth about the Nakba 14 December 2014  First ‘truth commission’ avoids issue of reconciliation as veteran Israeli fighters due to confess to 1948 war crimes Middle East Eye – 9 December 2014 The first-ever “truth commission” in Israel, to be held on Wednesday, will feature confessions from veteran Israeli fighters…

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ISM in Hebron “I hate Arabs. I wish I could kill them all.”

An Interesting Account of ISM Activists in Hebron and the Everyday Brutality of the Israeli Army Tony Greenstein  An Activist’s Last Day in Hebron by RICHARD HARDIGAN, 14.12.14. Anti-Arab slogans were not new to me. “Tomorrow there is no school in Gaza; there are no children left”, had been chanted during the recent Gaza massacre by…

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