The following essay by Matthew Lyons comes from the Three Way Fight blog. Lyons is co-author (along with Chip Berlet) of Right-Wing Populism in America: Too Close for Comfort, as well as numerous essays and articles about repression and the far right in America. I’ll add some of my own …
From the Palestinian News Agency Ma’an (direct link to story here): Bethlehem – Ma’an – In an unprecedented incident, an Israeli artillery officer has refused to bomb Lebanese villages.Israeli press sources have stated that Corporal ‘Umri Zaid, from the Israeli city of Safad, who serves as an artillery soldier in …
While a majority of Israelis seem to be backing their government’s murderous aggression against the Lebanese people, there have been some voices of dissent.On July 23rd thousands of people (some reports say as many as 5,000) – from Arab, “left zionist”, peace, feminist and anarchist organizations – came together to …
The following from Mohawk Nation News: Women Title Holders object to NYS lands-into-trust scam This objection is being sent out again with additional information because these corporate pirates continue to rob Indigenous people. They have just hired a sell-out “Indian” Assistant District Attorney [Peter J. Herne] to do their dirty …
Earlier this year, as many readers of this blog surely know, there were several heated crises within a larger standoff between First Nations people, the Canadian government, and settlers in the Ontario town of Caledonia. The Native people had been (and are still!) standing their ground in a “reclamation” of …
From today’s edition of the Israeli newspaper Haaretz, an interesting contradiction to the official colonialist line on the Qana massacre so far: As the Israel Air Force continues to investigate the air strike, questions have been raised over military accounts of the incident. It now appears that the military had …
Robert Seth Hayes, who has been a political prisoner held by the United States for over thirty years, was recently denied parole for the fifth time. He cannot appear before the parole board again for another two years. He was refused based on the purely political – as opposed to …
On November 17th, 2005, Charles Gagnon – a veteran of the revolutionary struggles in Quebec in the 1960s and 70s – passed away. Gagnon was a critically important figure in the development of revolutionary politics in Quebec. Unfortunately, most non-francophone comrades who were not themselves active in the 60s or …
At least two thousand people – possible many more than that – came out to protest Israeli aggression, marching through the drizzling rain in downtown Montreal yesterday. Media reports than “1,000” were there are bullshit, but i can’t be sure exactly how many there were, as this was the most …
From the morning newspaper: The Bush administration is rushing a delivery of precision-guided bombs to Israel, which requested the expedited shipment last week after beginning its air campaign against Hezbollah targets in Lebanon, U.S. officials said yesterday. What a moving display of international cooperation – like aiding like in their …