Tear down that wall

16Nov09

Great cartoon from Steve Bell:

via Luna17.

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Tags: apartheid, Steve Bell, wall

Twenty years after Berlin, Palestinians crack Israel’s wall

07Nov09

Ma’an News reports:
‘Marking the 20th anniversary since the fall of the Berlin Wall, Palestinians tore down a section of Israel’s wall in the West Bank village of Ni’lin on Friday.
During a weekly protest against the barrier, which cuts through the Ramallah-area village’s center and isolates residents from 60 percent of their [...]

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Tags: Activism, annexation wall, Berlin Wall, Nil'in, nonviolent resistance, protest, West Bank

Noam Chomsky: Afghanistan invasion was ‘one of the most immoral acts in modern history’

05Nov09

Today Kim Howells, Labour MP and chairman of the British Intelligence and Security Committee, urged a withdrawal from Afghanistan – significant given that he was the former Labour foreign office minister and a strong supporter of the war. Support for the war is waning in both the US and Britain while, as Johann Hari points [...]

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Tags: Afghanistan, HARDtalk, Noam Chomsky, Stephen Sackur