I know that because of this announcement, that reportedly Osama bin Laden was killed, Bob [Truthdig Editor Robert Scheer] wanted me to say a few words about it … about al-Qaida. I spent a year of my life covering al-Qaida…
Author: Engelbert Luitsz
Interesse in evolutie, filosofie, kunst en wetenschap en speciaal het lot van het Palestijnse volk.
Plastic eilanden/plastic soep
De wereldwijde groei van de productie van plastics leidt onherroepelijk tot een milieuprobleem. Zonder maatregelen, zoals het sterk verminderen van plasticgebruik en betere recycling, eindigen de oceanen als ‘plastic soep.’
11 april 2003 De moord op Tom Hurndall
“…when I die, I want to smile because of the things I have done, not cry for the things I haven’t done.” Tom Hurndall Op 11 april 2003 werd de Britse fotografiestudent Tom Hurndall in het hoofd geschoten door een…
Redenen om de Israëlische bezetting van Gaza op te heffen
“It is something of an irony that a land whose timeless beauty has survived basically unchanged since biblical times is being transformed by a people who base their claim to it on biblical history. Ugly, ever-expanding Israeli settlements sprawl on…
A Morning at an Israeli Checkpoint
By ALAIN SALOMON and KATIA SALOMON PARIS — We have just returned from a week in Israel and Palestine. We organize a chamber music festival in Southwest France and are interested in bringing Israeli and Palestinian students to our master…
Een betere wereld?
Richard Lewontin merkte al eens op dat de elites van voor de Franse Revolutie slechts vervangen zijn door andere. Nu zijn het de financiële instellingen, de bankiers, de farmaceutische industrie, de wapen-, landbouw- en voedsellobbies die aan de touwtjes trekken. Met meer macht dan de vroegere aristocratische elites en met beduidend minder moreel besef
US War Crimes: Cancer Rate in Fallujah Worse than Hiroshima
The Iraqi city of Fallujah continues to suffer the ghastly consequences of a US military onslaught in late 2004. According to the authors of a new study, “Cancer, Infant Mortality and Birth Sex-Ratio in Fallujah, Iraq 2005–2009,” the people of…
The Outrage at Helen Thomas
By ALISON WEIR Whenever Israel commits yet another atrocity, its defenders are quick to redirect public attention away from the grisly crime scene. Currently, there are headlines about allegedly anti-Semitic comments made by senior White House correspondent Helen Thomas. Pundits…
The War On Terror is a fraud
Webster Tarpley: “The War On Terror is a fraud – it is not meant to be won, it is meant to be continuous” (Photo: Frank Kitson) Webster Tarpley is a member of the “world anti-imperialist conference” Axis for Peace, of…
EXCLUSIVE: NETANYAHU EXPLAINS VIDEO OF ISRAELI RAID
“Take for instance the bulky orange boxes that many of the passengers are shown wearing over their shoulders. To the untrained eye, these appear to be life jackets, and at one point, in fact, the video shows a large white…