2009 May | FPJ

“Comrades, your enemy is yourselves!”

The participant was silent when Mavivi as her last point spoke about the struggle in southern Africa and the need for unity, and unity behind a strategy. To work towards a common goal.

May 27 2009 | Posted in Africa,Featured,Israel / Palestine,Mats Svensson,Opinion | Read More »

How Green Was My Valley

The Wali of Swat, Prince Miangul Auarngzeb, speaks to Azhar Masood about the troubled Swat district of Pakistan in an exclusive interview for Foreign Policy Journal.

May 26 2009 | Posted in Azhar Masood,Featured,News,Pakistan | Read More »

What Obama Isn’t Going to Change About Military Commissions

President Barack Obama reiterated in a speech on Thursday that he would continue with the Bush administration’s policy of trying prisoners of the U.S. “war on terror” not in the Federal court system but through military commissions, which he described as “an appropriate venue for trying detainees for violations of the laws of war.”

May 22 2009 | Posted in Editorial,Featured,International Law / Human Rights,Jeremy R. Hammond,Politics / Government,United States,War / Terrorism | Read More »

My Message To Obama: Great Speech, But No Military Commissions and No “Preventive Detention”

More worryingly, Obama also confirmed that, in some cases, he would indeed be pressing for trials using a revised version of the Military Commissions that were first conceived as an appropriate venue for “terror suspects” by Dick Cheney and David Addington, arguing – wrongly, I believe – that they have a noble history, are “an appropriate venue for trying detainees for violations of the laws of war,” and will, with some tweaking, be “fair, legitimate, and effective.”

May 22 2009 | Posted in Andy Worthington,Featured,International Law / Human Rights,Opinion,United States,War / Terrorism | Read More »

Guantánamo: A Real Uyghur Slams Newt Gingrich’s Racist Stupidity

Newt Gingrich, the former Speaker of the House of Representatives, hit a new low in the debate by lashing out at Guantánamo’s Uyghurs (also known as Uighurs), 17 men from China’s Xinjiang province, who, after a stunning court victory last June, are the only prisoners in Guantánamo to have persuaded the Bush administration to drop its claims that they were “enemy combatants.”

May 21 2009 | Posted in Andy Worthington,Featured,Opinion,United States | Read More »

Western Media Propagandize Iran’s Missile Test

Iran announced on Wednesday that it had successfully tested its Sejil 2 surface-to-surface missile, and Western media sources took the opportunity to portray the Middle Eastern nation as a threat to world peace and, specifically, as a threat to Israel.

May 21 2009 | Posted in Analysis,Featured,Iran,Jeremy R. Hammond | Read More »

American’s Stunt Serves as Pretext for Aung San Suu Kyi Trial

Daw Aung San Suu Kyi is on trial under the State Peace and Development Council (SPDC), the ruling military junta in Burma that prevented her from taking her rightful position as Prime Minister after she was democratically elected in 1990.

May 20 2009 | Posted in Burma,Featured,Jeremy R. Hammond,News | Read More »

After Pressuring Pakistan to Act, U.S. Offers Aid for Resulting Displaced

The U.S. has announced $110 million in aid to Pakistan as the number of refugees fleeing the fighting in the country’s Swat district is quickly approaching 1.5 million.

May 20 2009 | Posted in Featured,Jeremy R. Hammond,News,Pakistan,Politics / Government,United States | Read More »

Stop The Press!

Last Tuesday, prominent Israeli journalist Amira Hass was arrested by Israeli authorities upon entering Israel from Gaza. Hass, a correspondent for the daily Ha’aretz, had been living and working in Gaza for months, reporting on the lives of Palestinians and revealing many devastating truths about the brutalized and besieged community.

May 20 2009 | Posted in Featured,Israel / Palestine,Nima Shirazi,Opinion | Read More »

Obama and Netanyahu Reaffirm Status Quo in Talks

U.S. President Barack Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reaffirmed the “special relationship” between their two countries on Monday after their meeting at the White House, which focused mostly on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and on Iran.

May 19 2009 | Posted in Featured,Iran,Israel / Palestine,Jeremy R. Hammond,News,United States | Read More »