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When Hedy Epstein was a young teen her parents smuggled her away, then perished in Auschwitz in 1942. No wonder she supports the people of Gaza.
Hedy Epstein, the 85 year old Holocaust survivor and peace activist Photo courtesy: Intifada-Palestine.com
(CAIRO, Egypt) - Hedy Epstein, the 85 year old Holocaust survivor and peace activist, announced that she will begin a hunger strike today as a response to the Egyptian government’s refusal to allow the Gaza Freedom March participants into (…)

By David Glenn Cox
“Fascism is a political ideology that seeks to combine radical and authoritarian nationalism with a corporatist economic system, and which is usually considered to be on the far right of the traditional left – right political spectrum.
"Fascists advocate the creation of a single party state, with the belief that the majority is unsuited to govern itself through democracy and by reaffirming the benefits of inequality. Fascist governments forbid and suppress openness and (…)

America’s New Crusade: Imperial U.S. vs Political Islam
by Rodrigue Tremblay
Global Research, December 25, 2009
"I am as intolerant of imperialistic designs on the part of other nations as I was of such designs on the part of Germany. The choice is between two ideals; on the one hand, the ideal of democracy, which represents the rights of free peoples everywhere to govern themselves, and, the ideal of imperialism which seeks to dominate by force and unjust power, an ideal which is by (…)

By Nicola Nasser*
"In the absence of all hope, we cry out our cry of hope,” Palestinian Christian leaders, representing churches and church-related organizations, meeting in Bethlehem on December 11, concluded in their 13-page document titled “Kairos Palestine – 2009: A Moment of Truth,” enlisting Christians worldwide in proactive efforts to end the Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories. Their “cry” symbolizes the popular mood of their people as well as the political status quo. (…)

As everywhere in Europe, in Hungary, the Nation was created based on the romantic idea starting growing in importance during the 19th century, that is to say „one people, one nation”. This created a nationalist stream in the political life of the country which managed to create an independent state. At first we will define how nationalism is created and analyse the forms under which Hungarian nationalism is present or can appear in society (myths, symbols) then we will see what role is (…)

Here are fifty-one of my favorite photos of 2009.
“What is true of the individual will be tomorrow true of the whole nation if individuals will but refuse to lose heart and hope.” - Mohandas Gandhi, Spiritual Warrior

The European campaign 2009- 2011 for the liberation of political prisoners in Colombia was launched on October 2009 in Brussels, Belgium. The prisoners number 7,500, and they are mainly prisoners of conscience and social activists - when they are not workers, peasants, indigenous people or students fighting for a dignified Colombia, one with peace and social justice!
Because of the September 11 2001 attacks in New York, the United States conceived and imposed the “Colombia Plan”, (…)

By Ethan Sacks
A video suggesting that the attack on Silvio Berlusconi was staged has hit the Internet with enough force to be an embarrassing blow to the wounded Italian premier. An eight-minute YouTube video in Italian — "Was the attack on Berlusconi a montage?" and consisting of stills and video clips from the Milan incident — notched 500,000 hits in the first few hours after it was posted, London’s Daily Mail reported. Berlusconi was hospitalized with a broken nose, two broken (…)

Regular readers of my Pravda.Ru articles may have observed that I frequently promote the following three hypotheses: 1). That evil is the primary motivating force in human nature; 2). That even though human beings praise goodness with their words, they consistently produce, promote and reward evil with their deeds; 3). That human mortality ensures that the profits derived from doing evil shall not endure, and that those who turn away from evil will eventually be rewarded.
However, I also (…)

It was a bright, blue-topped Saturday in the spring of 1963. Dave Walker met me at the front door of his house in Glen Burnie. He was a big guy, with red hair, and I knew he had played football, unlike me, but like me had been a favorite of our English teacher, Mr. Forsythe. That’s why we were getting together. Dave was just finishing his freshman year at Johns Hopkins, and I had just been accepted, so Forsythe gave me his phone number and suggested we get together.
His parents weren’t (…)