Lawmaker Lee Seok-ki acquitted of plotting an insurrection The appeal hearing for Unified Progressive Party lawmaker Lee Seok-ki on charges of inciting an insurrection at Seoul High Court in Seocho district, Aug. 11. (photo…
Category: Global Issues
Day Six: Turning the West Bank into a “Pastrami Sandwich” and packing all Palestinians into “Three Sausages” Our bus took us through the winding/narrow alleyways in the East Jerusalem to the City of Ramallah after passing by Qalandia, one of notorious IDF…
Why We’re Bombing to Protect Erbil Why is Obama now re-committing the U.S. military to Iraq? Why is France strongly backing military action? Obama says it’s to protect minorities. That’s nothing new. Obama is the fourth…
The late, great critic of the American Imperium, Chalmers Johnson, popularized the salient concept of “blowback”. That is, the notion that if you bomb, drone, invade, desecrate and slaughter—collaterally or otherwise— a people…
Israel’s offensive against HAMAS in the Gaza Strip is stymied. The operation Protective Edge has produced no results. With 2 thousand civilians dead and hundreds of houses demolished not a single mission is accomplished; no…
By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept, when we remembered Zion.—Psalms 137:1 Heads of the IDF Southern and Northern Commands reached the headlines on August 11, 2014. The first acknowledged…
Who Authorized Preparations for War with China? Part I http://www.4thmedia.org/2014/08/who-authorized-preparations-for-war-with-china-part-i/?preview=true Part II The White House and Congress To judge by several published reports which will be discussed in greater detail below, including…
A Dispatch from the Israeli Occupied Land of Palestine (Part I) http://www.4thmedia.org/2014/07/a-dispatch-from-the-israeli-occupied-land-of-palestine-part-i/ July 15 2014 Day Three: Placing the besieged Arab community of East Jerusalem in a chokehold On my first morning at the hotel…
The ‘two-state solution’ is perennially misunderstood. The solution envisaged has nothing to do with a possible spatio-political division of Israel-Palestine and the ending of the Occupation. Rather it is a public relations device to quell…
Israeli missiles and artillery shells began striking Gaza again Friday, after a 72-hour ceasefire with Hamas, the Islamist ruling party in Gaza, ended at 8 a.m. local time. Hamas fired a barrage of about 40…