The Enduring Palestine Land Day

by Brenda Heard, source For nearly three decades the Palestinian people had been brutalised and belittled.  Then on 30 March 1976 they took a collective stand.  They were not the nomadic nuisance denounced by the Western Israeli Alliance.  They were a people with the same inalienable rights as any people.  And they would determine their [...]

Palestine: Youth killed in hit & run accident, more land theft in OJ and other Israeli crimes

“Israel” earmarks financial allocations for building hotels in OJ NAZARETH, (PIC)– The Israeli ministry of tourism announced its intention to allocate huge financial sums of money for the sake of constructing new hotels in occupied Jerusalem. Stas Misezhnikov, the Israeli minister of tourism, said on Wednesday while participating in the international tourism conference that he [...]

Bahrain: Rally decries teenager’s death and HRW denounces targeting hospitalized protesters

Bahrain rally decries teenager’s death Press TV Protesters rally in a Bahraini village, condemning the recent death of a male teenager there at the hands of security forces. Fifteen-year-old Sayed Ahmed died from a headshot in Sa’ar on Wednesday, Bahrain’s Al Wefaq political party announced on its page on the social networking website Facebook. The [...]

Saleh makes new ’offer,’ faces another scandal

Al Manar Yemen’s President Ali Abdullah Saleh has made a new offer to protesters demanding his ouster, proposing he stays in office until elections are held but transferring his powers to a caretaker government, press reports said on Wednesday, as he faced another scandal suggesting that he has tried to “get rid of” his rival. [...]

Libya: NATO takes operations command in Libya, CIA deploying covertly, and FM defects

NATO Takes Operations Command in Libya.. CIA Deploying Covertly Al Manar NATO assumed command of all operations in Libya from on Thursday, taking over from a US-led coalition that has conducted air raids since March 19. The 28-nation alliance “took sole command of international air operations over Libya,” NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said [...]

Assad forms panel to study lifting emergency law & judiciary committee to investigate incidents

Al Manar Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has set up a committee to look into replacing a decades-old emergency law with anti-terrorism legislation. The state news agency SANA said on Thursday the panel would study and prepare “legislation, including protecting the nation’s security and the citizen’s dignity and fighting terrorism, paving the way for lifting the [...]

Inching towards Complete Moral Breakdown

by Ahmad Barqawi, source Beyond the sensational news headlines of America’s ‘humanitarian’ interventions and democracy-spreading escapades lies a grim reality; one of a brutal military occupation, systematic torture practices and horrendous abuses of basic human rights. The entire world got to witness first hand what an imperial power, drunk on its military supremacy and callous [...]

Bahrain: Attacks on protesters persist and brutal arrests

RB note: New report of death of a teen picture. Bahraini attacks on protesters persist Press TV Bahraini forces have reportedly staged more violent attacks on anti-government demonstrators. The regime’s forces were spotted while using violence against the protesting public in the villages of Diraz, Nuwaidrat and Sanabis as well as the town of Belad [...]

Who Will Protect the Freedom Flotilla to Gaza?

by Stuart Littlewood – London, source The European Campaign to End the Siege on Gaza (ECESG) has issued a press release to remind everyone that what promises to be the largest flotilla yet, comprising 15 ships carrying passengers from 12 European states as well as Latin America, Africa, Asia, Canada and the United States, is [...]

Commemorating Palestinian Land Day and supporting BDS in Grand Central Station, NYC

Palestine: Demolitions, plans of 1608 new units in OJ, and more Israeli violence

IOF assaults six senior citizens during demolitions east of Yatta, raids Gaza AL-KHALIL, (PIC)– The Israeli occupation forces used sticks and fired tear gas during clashes with senior citizens as they rushed in to demolish makeshift homes owned by the Al-Jabour family in the village of Um Neir east of Yatta. The IOF rushed in [...]

Libya: More aerial attacks, ground troops possible and Gaddafi forces retake cities

Video shows civilian areas in the city of Misrata attacked by Gaddafi forces (date 28-3-2011) US intensifies aerial attacks on Libya Press TV More than one hundred warplanes belonging to the US military have bombarded strategically-important Libyan cities over the past 24 hours, the Pentagon says. At least 115 strike sorties were carried out over [...]

“Israel”, Tunisia Spar Over Jewish Immigration

by Eslam al-Rihani, Al Manar Israeli and Tunisian diplomats were locked in a war of words on Tuesday over Jewish immigration after Israel said it was upping funding to help Jews move from the North African country to Israel. On Sunday, the Israeli cabinet signed off on a package of funding to help Tunisian Jews [...]

Yemenis renew call on Saleh to resign

by Mohammed al-Attab, Press TV As the dialogue between the Yemeni ruling party and opposition has reached a deadlock, protests continue across the country. Thousands of protesters took out to Sana’a’s 16th street and chanted slogans calling for the ouster of the regime and an end to President Ali Abdullah Saleh’s 32 year role. The [...]

US soldiers killing, torturing civilians in Afghanistan

by Batoul Wehbe, Al Manar Afghan President Hamid Karzai spoke out for the first time Wednesday about the “heart-rending” media accounts of a rogue US army unit accused of deliberately killing civilians for sport. In his first public reaction to the scandal, Hamid Karzai said he wanted to ensure ordinary Americans knew about a rogue [...]