Posts Tagged ‘oppression’

The Nakba: Seventy Years of Oppression, 1948-2018

May 15th marks the 70th anniversary of Israel’s statehood. Palestinians refer to this as the Nakba, the Catastrophe, when more than 700,000 Palestinians left their homes from fear or were forcibly removed by Israelis who took their homes. On this 70th anniversary of the occupation, the people of Gaza have been staging a non-violent demonstration, The […]

The Youth in Palestine Must Break Free from Dual Oppression

As global voices continue to demand the freedom of 17-year-old teenage Palestinian girl, Ahed Tamimi, Israeli authorities have arrested nine additional members of her family. Those who were detained on February 26 include Ahed’s 15-year-old cousin, Mohammed Tamimi. Israeli troops had shot Mohammed in the head last December, shattering his skull. The teenager, who is […]

Has So-Called ‘Humanitarian Aid’ Become a Euphemism for Oppression?

The latest Oxfam sex abuse scandal does not exist in a vacuum. It is not the first time that aid groups have been accused of sexual misconduct towards the very people the entities purport to protect, and without significant change, it will not be the last time that such allegations emerge. The current debacle began […]

Going Underground – The Ballymurphy Massacre – Oppression, Amnesty and Collusion in Northern Ireland w/ Chris Hazzard

Going Underground – The Ballymurphy Massacre – Oppression, Amnesty and Collusion in Northern Ireland w/ Chris Hazzard Going Underground with Afshin Rattansiyoutube.com We investigate the Ballymurphy massacre – 36 hours in Belfast that left up to 11 civillians dead in August 1971. Sinn Fein member of parliament Chris Hazzard denounces proposals to give British Crown […]

‘Symbol of oppression:’ German college in hot water over controversial burqa course

The “Headscarf and Hijab in Dresden – dress codes in Islam” – listed by the Dresden adult education center as part of its curriculum for the spring and summer semester – stirred the wave of public indignation. The one-day course offers participants an opportunity to get an insight into the “origin and meaning” of various […]

Vic Mensa’s searing piece in ‘Time’ on Israeli oppression is prefaced by clunky disclaimer re anti-Semitism

Rapper Vic Mensa has published a wrenching piece in Time Magazine about “oppression and abuse” in Palestine. He saw elderly women being “punched in the face” by Israeli soldiers, saw hundreds of children being harassed and detained, and felt a solemn obligation to bear witness. But check out two of the opening sentences in the article: […]

Fauda: An Israeli Netflix Series that Makes Oppression Sexy

JERUSALEM (Opinion) — Palestinian resistance is legitimate and sanctioned by the inalienable right that all oppressed people have to resist their oppressors and occupiers, even with the use of arms. Israeli violence is raw and unchecked brutality intended to keep Palestinians from raising their heads. But the conventional wisdom is that Palestinian resistance is terrorism […]

Tearing Down Monuments Of Oppression Is First Step To Decolonization

Hundreds of activists from various groups crowded into the American Museum of Natural History in New York City this past Columbus Day to take part in activist group Decolonize This Place‘s unofficial tour of the museum. As the activists stopped at each of the sections of the museum displaying the culture and history of various non-European […]

Balfour Centenary: Celebrating 100 years of injustice and oppression

“It’s God’s work…” By Stuart Littlewood On 7 November, in London’s famous Royal Albert Hall, there’s to be “a unique event drawing Christians and Jews together in celebration of the centenary of the Balfour Declaration and all that it led to”.  Christians will be reaching out to support the Jewish community and the state of […]

Israel’s occupation: 50 years of Palestinian oppression

After 50 years of Israeli war crimes on Palestinian land, the world has to act and ban Israeli settlement goods. “Everyone has a right to live in his home and no one may uproot him.” These were the words of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at a Knesset event this week marking 50 years of […]

Iraq’s Sunni Mufti said oppression led Kurds to seek independence

nsnbc : The mufti of Iraq’s Sunni community, through a representative, said the Iraqi governments’ oppression against Kurds prompted the Kurdistan Autonomous Region to […]

Boiler Room EP #127 – The Oppression Commiseration (And Similar Topics)

Tune in to the Alternate Current Radio Network (ACR) for another LIVE broadcast of ‘The Boiler Room’ tonight 6:00 PM PST | 8:00 PM CST | 9:00 PM EST for this special broadcast. Join us for uncensored, uninterruptible talk radio, custom-made for bar fly philosophers, misguided moralists, masochists, street corner evangelists, media-maniacs, savants, political animals […]

UK banks ‘complicit’ in Palestinian oppression, rights group claims

British high street banks including HSBC and Barclays are a “crucial link in the chain” of Palestinian oppression as they invest in and loan money to companies who supply arms to Israel, a campaign group has claimed in a report. The “Deadly Investments” report by War on Want explores the business relationship between the UK’s financial sector […]

HSBC "crucial link" in oppression of Palestinians

Asa Winstanley Activism and BDS Beat 12 July 2017 Campaigners protest inside an HSBC branch in Brighton. (Brighton BDS) UK financial institutions hold almost $14 billion worth of shares in companies that provide equipment to the Israeli military, a new report shows. High street banks are some of the worst offenders, with Barclays holding $1.5 […]

Black Oppression and White Guilt – Do You Feel It?

Paul Davis, ContributorWaking Times To my white brothers and sisters, what did you feel when you read the title of this article? Did you feel put off? Did you think ‘here we go again’? If so, you may be suffering from white guilt defensitus. Or it could be that your just ‘sick and tired […]

Memo to Trump: US won’t escape Mideast wars until Israel ends oppression of Palestinians

     As Donald Trump heads out to the Middle East, the Israel supporters are in panic mode. They are confused by statements from the U.S. consulate saying that the western wall is not in Israel. They are afraid that Trump will put pressure on Israel over its neverending settlement project. They are concerned that Trump […]

Memo to Trump: US won’t escape Mideast wars till Israel ends oppression of Palestinians

As Donald Trump heads out to the Middle East, the Israel supporters are in panic mode. They are confused by statements from the U.S. consulate saying that the western wall is not in Israel. They are afraid that Trump will put pressure on Israel over its neverending settlement project. They are concerned that Trump seemed […]

Saudi clampdown on Awamiyah reminiscent of Israeli oppression: Ex- Bahraini MP

Alwaght – The former Bahraini member of the parliament Jalal Firuz compares Saudi regime’s crackdown on protests in Al-Awamiyah with the Israeli regime’s oppression of the Palestinians.  Al-Awamiyah, a small town in Saudi Arabia’s Eastern Province of al-Qatif, has recently witnessed violent clashes as Saudi regime force have responded with iron fist to minority Shiite […]

Collective post-traumatic stress disorder – Jews, apartheid and oppression

Fear and anxiety are emotions that have evolved to ensure the survival and procreation of many species of animals. Humans have been able to manipulate fears and anxieties as weapons of population control that involve and promote violence and apartheid. These societal conditions are familiar to many historically and presently oppressed groups, including Jewish and […]

World central banks selling off U.S. debt at highest levels since 1978

     In March, central banks from around the world dumped $17 billion in American Treasuries. Since the beginning of the year the sell-off has reached $123 billion, which is the quickest pace since 1978. China sold $7.7 billion in US debt in March, lowering its holding by $26.4 billion since last June. Russia dumped $1.6 […]

Taking Page from Israel War Tactics, US Military Employs Controversial ‘Roof Knocking’

An Israeli tactic deemed “ineffective” at preventing civilian causalities by a United Nations commission has now been adopted by the United States in its fight against ISIS, according to a U.S. military official. Air Force Maj. Peter Gersten, the deputy commander for operations and intelligence for the U.S.-led coalition, explained at a press […]

‘NYT’ exposes Clinton as most hawkish candidate when it’s too late for readers to choose

After Hillary Clinton has the nomination nearly sewn up, the New York Times decides to run a Sunday magazine piece titled “How Hillary Clinton Became a Hawk,” by Mark Landler revealing conclusively that she has a greater “appetite for military engagement” than anyone else in the race, on either side. Here’s the nut graf: Clinton’s […]

Say it ain’t so: Glyphosate in German beer?

(NaturalNews) German beer – as in, beer made in Germany – is almost a food group in and of itself. For beer connoisseurs, German brands are generally at the top of their lists. But that may be about to change, after new scientific analyses of several German brews found them to contain varying […]

Say it ain’t so: Glyphosate in German beer?

(NaturalNews) German beer – as in, beer made in Germany – is almost a food group in and of itself. For beer connoisseurs, German brands are generally at the top of their lists. But that may be about to change, after new scientific analyses of several German brews found them to contain varying […]

Say it ain’t so: Glyphosate in German beer?

(NaturalNews) German beer – as in, beer made in Germany – is almost a food group in and of itself. For beer connoisseurs, German brands are generally at the top of their lists. But that may be about to change, after new scientific analyses of several German brews found them to contain varying […]

Say it ain’t so: Glyphosate in German beer?

(NaturalNews) German beer – as in, beer made in Germany – is almost a food group in and of itself. For beer connoisseurs, German brands are generally at the top of their lists. But that may be about to change, after new scientific analyses of several German brews found them to contain varying […]

Air pollution insurance

Iranian Insurance firms will offer air pollution coverage following the record air pollution in the capital in recent days, an official at the Iranian Insurers’ Syndicate said on Saturday. Ali Akbar Oliaei said innovation in the industry should be based on public demand rather than imitating their foreign peers, risknews.ir reported. Such measures can help […]

The last colony

Editor’s note: In the new collection, Apartheid Israel: The Politics of an Analogy, twenty scholars of Africa and its diaspora reflect on the similarities and differences between apartheid-era South Africa and contemporary Israel, with an eye to strengthening and broadening today’s movement for justice in Palestine. Melissa Levin’s essay is an excerpt from that Haymarket […]

Judge Calls For US Marshals and FBI To Arrest Congress and The President

On November 28th, 2015, Alaska State Judge Anna von Reitz (Anna Maria Riezinger) addressed an open letter to all federal agents, including the FBI and US Marshals to arrest Congress, the President and the Secretary of the Treasury. She goes into incredible detail on the fraud that has been committed. Anyone who reads this is […]

“Angst” Against Encryption: National Security and the Surveillance State. The Global Crackdown

State bureaucracy has a universal operating rationale: if an error occurred because of a flaw in the system, an oversight perhaps, or because of ill-planning, the solution shall relate to something else.  It should be termed the iron law of non-resolution.  It is one that holds resolutely in intelligence and security circles. For the vast […]

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