Por Fernando Báez 28 de mayo, 2009 ¿Qué es lo verdaderamente latinoamericano? Esta pregunta interesaba ya a Simón Bolívar, y su testimonio de dudas lo expresó en la llamada Carta de Jamaica de 1815: “Nosotros somos un pequeño género humano; poseemos un mundo aparte, cercado por dilatados mares; nuevos en casi todas las artes y ciencias, aunque [...]

by Jonathan Cook, Foreign correspondent June 9, 2009 NAZARETH, ISRAEL // The decision to prosecute 12 Israeli Arabs over what the local media have described as the “lynching” of an Israeli soldier on a bus shortly after he shot dead four passengers has been greeted with outrage from the country’s Arab minority.

Por Organización Fraternal Negra de Honduras (OFRANEH) La Ceiba, 28 de mayo, 2009.- Como parte de la ofensiva neoliberal en contra de los pueblos indígenas del continente, se han elaborado y se están poniendo en práctica leyes relacionadas con el manejo de los territorios y sus recursos naturales, cuyos remanentes en su mayoría se encuentran dentro [...]

by Dahr Jamail May 27, 2009 Transgress The geo-strategic expansion of the American empire is an accepted fact of contemporary history. I have been writing in these columns about the impact of the US occupation on the people of Iraq in the wake of the “hard” colonization via F-16s, tanks, 2,000-pound bombs, white phosphorous and cluster bombs. Here I [...]

The Future of Israel and the Decline of the American Empire By ARNO J. MAYER June 4, 2009 Israel is in the grip of a kind of collective schizophrenia. Not only its governors but the majority of its Jewish population have delusions of both grandeur and persecution, making for a distortion of reality and inconsistent behavior. Israeli [...]

An Open Letter to President Obama From the Free Gaza Movement By Free Gaza Movement June 3, 2009 Tomorrow you travel to Egypt to give one of the most important speeches of your presidency. With the words you deliver you have said that you want to “reset” U.S. relations with the Muslim world and create a fundamental change [...]

Palestinians losing out in access to vital shared aquifer in the occupied territories By Rory McCarthy (in Jerusalem) May 27, 2009 A deepening drought in the Middle East is aggravating a dispute over water resources after the World Bank found that Israel is taking four times as much water as the Palestinians from a vital shared aquifer.

From a South African By Farid Esack April 25, 2009 Open Letter Farid Esack, 2009 My dear Palestinian brothers and sisters, I have come to your land and I have recognized shades of my own. My land was once one where some people imagined that they could build their security on the insecurity of others. They claimed that their lighter [...]

By Gilad Atzmon 25 de mayo, 2009 Contrariamente a sus hermanos y hermanas cosmopolitas, que difunden el sionismo y el racismo tribal bajo un disfraz liberal y progresista, Melanie Philips no esconde sus cartas. Hace unos días definió claramente lo que es el sionismo: “El sionismo”, escribe Philips, “es simplemente el movimiento para la autodeterminación del pueblo judío [...]

By Norman Solomon May 21, 2009 To understand what’s up with President Obama as he escalates the war in Afghanistan, there may be no better place to look than a book published 25 years ago. “The March of Folly,” by historian Barbara Tuchman, is a chilling assessment of how very smart people in power can do very [...]