Noam Chomsky habla con Nermeen Al-Mufti sobre Gaza, el capitalismo y las responsabilidades del intelectual

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.

Por Andrés Bianque 27 de mayo, 2009 “La muerte me dice que me ama, porque sabe que estoy vivo. Porque somos puros los que no tenemos amos” Mauricio Morales D. Que pesada se debe hacer una mochila donde se cargan tantos sueños y proyectos. Reventar en esquirlas óseas como pago por la consecuencia en aquello, no debiera ser epílogo [...]

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 Abdul Malik Mujahid May 24, 2009 During the last thirty years of wars in Afghanistan, Afghan civilians have had one safe place to escape to: Pakistan. They fled the Soviet invasion. They fled civil wars. They fled US bombing. Pakistan took care of millions of these Afghan refugees. Now that safe haven with its lush green valleys is [...]

Por JAVIER CÓRDOBA MORALES (j.cordoba@semanario.ucr.ac.cr) 27 de mayo, 2009 Pueblos costeros piden detener los desalojos y administrar su propio desarrollo. Representantes de 36 comunidades costeras de las provincias de Puntarenas, Limón y Guanacaste presentaron la semana anterior un proyecto de ley con el que pretenden garantizarse la permanencia en los territorios que han habitado durante años. Con la nueva [...]

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 Eva Bartlett 22 May 2009 On the morning of 4 May 2009, Israeli troops set fire to Palestinian crops along Gaza’s eastern border with Israel. The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) reported that 200,000 square meters of crops were destroyed, including wheat and barley ready for harvest, as well as vegetables, olive and pomegranate trees.

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