Daniel Patrick Welch
As Christians in the US and the world over flock to church to celebrate the martyrdom of their lord and savior, American predators are noiselessly cruising the skies above yet another Arab land, holding their hellfire missiles in abeyance until they are sure, damn sure, that the wedding or parade or market convoy or whatever crawls beneath their cold techno-gaze is linked to the terrorists who will destroy our way of life. Whew! That was a mouthful. But then, piss and (…)
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Hasta la Vista, Baby! Skynet is already here
23 April 2011 par (Open-Publishing)
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True Colors
22 April 2011 par (Open-Publishing)
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Israel’s Masada Attack Palestinian Prisoners
22 April 2011 par (Open-Publishing)
Hundreds of Palestinian have died inside Israeli prisons and now an Israeli television channel has aired shocking footage of Israel’s so-called Control and Restraint unit, or Masada, attacking Palestinian prisoners.
Activists have demanded people in charge of the operation, carried out in 2007, be charged and the family of one of the victims told Al Jazeera that they would consider suing Masada.
Al Jazeera’s Nisreen El-Shamayleh reports from Seida in the occupied West Bank. (17 Apr 2011) (…) -
Mother of Slain Italian Activist to Sail to Gaza, Flotilla Change Name in Honor of Vittorio
20 April 2011 par (Open-Publishing)
Gaza-PNN – Agidea Prata, the mother of Vittorio Arrigoni, the Italian activist and journalist killed in Gaza on Friday, said that she will be sailing to Gaza on May with the Free Gaza flotilla.
Prata on Saturday told Italian news sources that “I want to see Gaza that my son loved and sacrificed for, I want to meet the good people living there that my son Vik always talked about”. She added that Vittorio work will go on though his friends.
Vittorio’s mother added that her son received (…) -
Vittorio Arrigoni, a winner (video)
20 April 2011 par (Open-Publishing)
1 commentIn the beautiful scenery of Gaza’s cemetery, where soldiers of WWI are buried, Vik explains how he would want to be commemorated if he would die (in a hundred years or so).
It’s true words, from a true winner.
You’re dreams will live on, we are guarding over them.
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A Civil Peace Service for Palestinian waters
20 April 2011 par (Open-Publishing)
General Goal
Deploying an international third party non violent civil peace service in Palestinian territorial water that will support the rule of law and monitor potential human rights violations.
Specific Goal
CPSGAZA will deploy a limited peace team of around 10 trained professional international observers in Gaza territorial water. Those observers will be in charge of implementing the general and specific goal of this statement and will strictly follow the mission and principles of (…) -
(video) London vigil to pay respect to Vittorio Arrigoni (WARNING IMAGES OF WAR WITHIN)
20 April 2011 par (Open-Publishing)
Vittorio Arrigoni, author of ’GAZA stay Human’.
Vittorio Arrigoni’s middle name was Utopia, yet he chose to spend most of the past three years in the hell of Gaza, acting as a human shield for Palestinian fishermen harassed by the Israeli navy and reporting to a worldwide audience.
His "Guerrilla Radio" blog about life in Gaza was required reading among radical circles in Italy and he published passionate newspaper commentaries about the plight of the Palestinian people and the "crimes" (…) -
If Cairo Came to Kabul
20 April 2011 par (Open-Publishing)
Before Tahrir Square happened almost nobody predicted that President Hosni Mubarak would be forced out of office by a movement that didn’t pick up a gun. Had President Barack Obama expected that outcome, he might have publicly backed Mubarak’s departure before, rather than after, Mubarak stepped down.
Obama can be seen as overcompensating for that performance in Libya, but there he is placing faith in weapons. Anybody can do that. Egypt still has a long way to go on its path to a just (…) -
Did Israel Murder Vittorio Arrigoni? (video)
20 April 2011 par (Open-Publishing)
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Builders submit plans to dismantle Fukushima plant
19 April 2011 par (Open-Publishing)
The builders of the troubled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant have submitted draft plans to dismantle the reactors over the medium to long term.
updated at 21:49 UTC, Apr. 18
Tokyo Electric Power Company, which operates the plant, issued a schedule on Sunday for putting the crisis under control in 6 to 9 months.
However, various issues remain over the medium term for completely decommissioning the crippled reactors.
Toshiba, which helped build the 2nd and 3rd reactors, has (…)