Posted on September 21, 2009 by marcy/مارسي newman/نيومان
the headline on the united nations website reads: “un mission finds evidence of war crimes by both sides in gaza conflict.” here is the news brief in full and if you want to read the full 575-page report download this pdf file:
The United Nations fact-finding mission on the Gaza conflict at the start [...]
Filed under: Apartheid, Colonialism, Egypt, Gaza, Human Rights, International Law, Iraq, Kurds, Media, Militarization, Obama, Occupation, Palestine, Racism, Resistance, U.S. Foreign Policy, Zionism | Tagged: Adolf Eichman, aharon barak, Al Jazeera, Amnesty International, As'ad AbuKhalil, Augusto Pinochet, barak obama, bosnia, cambodia, Chile, China, christine chinkin, crimes against humanity, desmond travers, Fourth Geneva Convention, Gaza, geneva, Ha'aretz, Hamas, hebrew, hina jilani, Human Rights Watch, ian c. kelly, institute for internationa criminal investigation, international criminal court, international humanitarian law, iraqi kurds, jerusalem, libya, london school of economics, nazi holocaust, nicole goldstone, operation cast lead, pol pot, rafah, richard falk, richard goldstone, Rwanda, Saddam Hussein, serbia, sherine tadros, shimon peres, South Africa, supreme court of pakistan, tel aviv, the economist, the hague, thomas friedman, UN security council, United Nations, united states, uri avnery, war crimes, wesr bank, Yugoslavia | 1 Comment »
Posted on April 7, 2009 by marcy/مارسي newman/نيومان
there are certain journalists i want to clone: jonathan cook is one. nora barrows-friedman is another. jeremy scahill is another. i have been ketir frustrated by the reports on barack obama’s visit to turkey and the way in which people in this region are so easily duped again. what is it about hungry people who [...]
Filed under: Afghanistan, Colonialism, Egypt, Gaza, Genocide, Imperialism, International Law, Iran, Iraq, Islam, Kurds, Militarization, Obama, Occupation, Pakistan, Palestine, Racism, Turkey, U.S. Foreign Policy, Zionism | Tagged: ankara, anti-normalization, armenia, axis of evil, China, comprehensive test ban treaty, czech republic, davos, electronic intifada, George Bush, hijab, India, indonesia, Jeremy Scahill, Jimmy Carter, jonathan cook, n. shcherbak, new york, Nora Barrows-Friedman, nuclear arsenal, nuclear proliferation, nuclear weapons, pacific ocean, peace action, poland, prague, recep tayyip erdogan, russia, security council, susan rice, taepodong-2, United Nations, united states | Leave a Comment »
Posted on April 6, 2009 by marcy/مارسي newman/نيومان
having lived in jordan i spent much of my time working with refugees. at the beginning, it was just palestinian refugees living in camps. some had fled in 1948 and some had fled in 1967 when they were ethnically cleansed from their land in palestine. but midway through my year in jordan i read about [...]
Filed under: Afghanistan, Apartheid, Colonialism, Human Rights, Imperialism, International Law, Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Kurds, Literature, Media, Militarization, Obama, Occupation, Pakistan, Palestine, Refugees, Syria, Turkey, U.S. Foreign Policy, Zionism | Tagged: Human Rights Watch, Al Jazeera, Saddam Hussein, Democracy Now!, CIA, terrorism, Nablus, Mahmoud Abbas, Jenin, Tulkarem, Jerash, nuclear weapons, al Qa'eda, jonathan cook, Mossad, United Nations, Benjamin Netanyahu, Chile, Washington, jalal talabani, seymour hersh, Canada, electronic intifada, haifa, baghdad, amy goodman, gulf war, tehran, mohja kahf, europe, anas al tikriti, amman, israeli terrorism, save the children, sanctions, italy, rome, amos yadlin, al ruweished refugee camp, south america, nisreen el-shamayleh, gaza refugee camp, nuri al-maliki, anaheed al-hardan, al tanf refugee camp, ayn hawd, basra, mosul, al baladiyyat, al durra, al za'faraniyya, inside iraq, jassem azzawi, mordechai kedar, richard perle, snowfall on the colossal ruins, data khel, bajaur, kacha garhi, nuclear warhead, white ouse, dennis blair | Leave a Comment »
Posted on December 4, 2008 by marcy/مارسي newman/نيومان
i think that press tv could learn a lot from watching al jazeera’s “inside story” in terms of learning how to shut people up when they need to be shut up. though i think al jazeera should cease putting these racist american and zionist mofos on the air. we get enough of their hatred in [...]
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Posted on November 27, 2008 by marcy/مارسي newman/نيومان
In Mumbai this morning people woke up in a state of shock. People are mourning. And it’s not over yet. In the U.S. Americans woke up to a day off, a day when most “celebrate” a holiday called Thanksgiving. In theory, if this were merely a holiday where people had a day off to give [...]
Filed under: Academic Freedom, Activism, Africa, Colonialism, Genocide, History, Indigenous, International Law, Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Kurds, Media, Militarization, Obama, Occupation, Palestine, Prisons, Racism, Refugees, Resistance, Syria, Turkey, U.S. Foreign Policy, U.S. Policy, Universities, Zionism | Tagged: Germany, Gaza, Geneva Convention, George Bush, Al Jazeera, 9/11, Ward Churchill, Bill Clinton, India, Blackwater, Native Americans, food, war crimes, marwan bishara, Oslo, unrwa, palestinian liberation organization, black agenda report, African Americans, PLO, democracy, baghdad, malcolm x, deir al balah, world war ii, congo, uganda, north kivu, unhcr, shi'a, qassam rockets, california, christopher columbus, massachusetts, status of forces agreement, bakeries, mercenaries, massacre, mumbai, thanksgiving, national day of mourning, plymouth, pilgrims, jamestown, holland, jails, sexism, wampanoag, cape cod, homophobia, classism, john winthrop, mystic, connecticut, pequot, claremont, smallpox, biological warfare, leonard peltier, lakota sioux, Turkey, pardon, christmas, keetoowah band cherokee, university of colorado, free speech, john f. kennedy, crimes against humanity, u.s. troops, moqtada al-sadr, sunni, green zone, japan, korea, carlos latuff, warsaw ghetto, mustafa al-banna, al-banna bakery, mahdi temraz, abu-samir nafel, abdul-nasser al ajrami, ishasha, rutshuru | 4 Comments »
Posted on November 21, 2008 by marcy/مارسي newman/نيومان
jeremy scahill of blackwater fame–whose book should be a must read for every american–was on democracy now! today and has an important article on alternet that i’ll post in full below. the interview and the article make it abundantly clear why activists have our work cut out for us if we don’t want more of [...]
Filed under: Afghanistan, Africa, Economy, Elections, Genocide, Globalization, Human Rights, Imperialism, International Law, Iran, Iraq, Kurds, Labor, Media, Militarization, Obama, Occupation, Pakistan, Palestine, Turkey, U.S. Foreign Policy | Tagged: AIPAC, al Qa'eda, albright group, Ali Abunimah, allan nairn, alternet, amy goodman, ann wright, ansar al islam, anthony lake, aristide, baghdad, Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, bill richardson, Blackwater, brad simpson, central america, China, chuck hagel, CIA, clinton doctrine, Condoleeza Rice, Darfur, david petraeus, Democracy Now!, denis mcdonough, dick cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, east timor, free market, free trade, g20, George Bush, george h.w. bush, glenn greenwald, Haiti, halliburton, hans von sponeck, Henry Kissinger, Hillary Clinton, imf, indonesia, insa, iran-contra, iraq liberation act, Israel Lobby, ivo daalder, jack reed, jami miscik, Jeremy Scahill, jerusalem, Jimmy Carter, Joe Biden, john brennan, John Kerry, John McCain, john podesta, kabul, kosovo, latin america, lesley stahl, los alamos, madeline albright, mark lippert, martin indyk, maureen dowd, michele flournoy, nafta, nato, noam chomsky, patrick leahy, paul wolfowitz, pentagon, philip giraldi, pnac, project for the new american century, rahm israel emanuel, rambouillet accord, richard danzig, richard holbrooke, richard lugar, robert dreyfuss, Robert Gates, robert parry, Saddam Hussein, sam husseini, sarah sewall, scott ritter, serbia, spencer ackerman, Sudan, susan rice, tehran, tom daschle, tom donilon, torture, un mine action coordinatoin center, United Nations, vietnam, war on drugs, wendy sherman, wesley clark, wmds, world bank, Yugoslavia, zbigniew brezinski | 7 Comments »
Posted on June 27, 2008 by marcy/مارسي newman/نيومان
I made it to Beirut after spending a week in Sham and Halab. It was great seeing more of Syria, but it was insanely hot and difficult walking around during the day. Halab is beautiful with so many parks and green spaces in the city (picture to the left is a view of Halab from [...]
Filed under: Apartheid, Art, Film, Kurds, Lebanon, Militarization, Occupation, Palestine, Refugees, Resistance | Tagged: 1948 Palestine, al nakba, Amal, Armenian, Deheishe, fidayeen, futball, Gaza, Ghassan Kanafani, Hassan Nasrallah, Mai Masri, Michel Khalife, Mustafa Abu Ali, Nabatiyeh, Nizar Hassan, Shatila, SSNP | Leave a Comment »
Posted on May 4, 2007 by marcy/مارسي newman/نيومان
After months of trying to get back into the No Man’s Land area between the Iraq and Jordan border, also known as the Al Karama border, I finally received permission to return from the Jordanian government. I went this time with a different objective than my previous visits during which my main work was to [...]
Filed under: Human Rights, Iraq, Jordan, Kurds, Occupation, Refugees | 1 Comment »
Posted on March 17, 2007 by marcy/مارسي newman/نيومان
I guess you know that you’ve been away from blogging too long when friends begin to email you and ask if you’re alive or not. I sometimes forget that people check this website to see how I’m doing on a number of levels. It’s been an insane month and I’m finally catching up this week. [...]
Filed under: Activism, Human Rights, Iraq, Jordan, Kurds, Lebanon, U.S. Foreign Policy, Zionism | 7 Comments »
