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The full extended interview in two parts. A few zionists in the audience had predictable responses, but the two or three disruptive petulant hasbarats were shown the door and far more in the audience were audibly supportive.  (Jon Stewart’s own corporate liberal hasbara was more irksome: for heaven’s sake, stop repeating the ‘wipe off the [...]

A montage — thanks Dave. “Do you have permission to be here?” Funny and wonderfully subversive. Crossposted at PULSE.


You can see the whole Everything is OK series here.

An interesting interview with the international coordinator of Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions (ICAHD) Jimmy Johnson speaking about the extension of Israel’s matrix of control internationally, from Palestine outward. This constitutes another reason why the liberation of Palestine is an international struggle, important both in its own right and because the orwellian-titled ‘pacification industry’ [...]

I’m keeping this post ’sticky’ (web parlance for on top) for awhile as I maintain a very spotty posting schedule for the rest of 2009. In the meantime, please also visit PULSE, at which the following has been cross-posted.


Spearheaded by Norman Finkelstein and other organizers, a bold new plan has been hatched to break the [...]

The year was 1968, the occasion the Mexico City Olympics. In one of the most powerful moments in Olympic history, Americans Tommie Smith and John Carlos gave the Black Power Salute alongside their silent (but active) supporter, Australian Silver Medalist Peter Norman.
In a pre-medal awarding deliberation among the three, Tommie Smith (Gold) and John Carlos [...]

The BBC in particular has been identified by a number of protesting Iranians both in the UK and Iran for misleading post-election coverage, with one such instance picked up by blogs and subsequently corrected. Iranian protesters as well as the foreign ministry have accused the BBC and Voice of America of fomenting unrest in Iran, [...]

Latest from Free Gaza:
In three days, the Free Gaza movement sails 240 miles from Cyprus to Gaza, its eighth mission to break Israel’s draconian siege on 1.5 million Palestinians there. In the holds of the FREE GAZA and the SPIRIT OF HUMANITY will be tons of cement, and suitcases full of toys, crayons and coloring [...]