Letter to Barack Hussein Obama by Tun Dr M

 

Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad: Letter to Barack Hussein Obama
Saturday, 3 January 2009, 2:49 pm
Opinion: Dr. Mahathir Mohamad

 
Global Research Feature Article
Open Letter to Barack Hussein Obama, President-elect of the United States of America
by Dr. Mahathir Mohamad and Former Prime Minister of Malaysia 
Global Research, January 2, 2009January 1, 2009
Dear Mr. President,
I did not vote for you in the [...]

An Open Letter from Anti-Zionist Jewish Youth in Canada

An Open Letter from Anti-Zionist Jewish Youth in Canada
 
Like much of the world, we have spent the last week watching in shock and disgust as Israel continues its assault on the Gaza Strip.  With the body count rising and a new tragedy in full bloom, we feel that it is important to speak out as [...]

Photo: Action at Israeli Consulate

     Photo: Action at Israeli Consulate 
 
 

 

Photo: Activists at Israeli Consulate in Montreal.

 
Photos documenting the Montreal protest outside the Israeli Consulate in Montreal protesting the current siege on the Gaza Strip. Effectively shutting down daily operations at the Israeli Consulate this morning activists severed an eviction notice and successfully shut-down the daily operations at the [...]

Jewish women freed after anti- Gaza invasion protest at Israeli consulate

Jewish women freed after anti- Gaza invasion protest at Israeli consulate
 
Eight Jewish Canadian women who were arrested while holding a protest inside the Israeli consulate have been released.
 
 
The RCMP arrested and handcuffed the women, who were staging a sit-in protest against the ongoing Israeli assault on Gaza inside the consulate at 180 Bloor St. W. [...]

Jews Against the Occupation – Sydney, Statement on Israeli Military Attack on Gaza

Jews Against the Occupation – Sydney, Statement on Israeli Military Attack on Gaza
 

Jews Against the Occupation – Sydney is appalled and horrified at the events in Gaza following the Israeli military attack. Coupled with the economic and political siege against the population of Gaza, the attack is collective punishment and must be identified for what it [...]

Jews Against the Occupation

Jews Against the Occupation
Jews Against the Occupation is an organization of progressive, secular and religious Jews of all ages throughout the New York City area advocating peace through justice for Palestine and Israel.  Our points of unity are as follows:

 
 NO OCCUPATION IN OUR NAME
We as American Jews reject the Israeli government assertion that it is [...]

MASSIVE DEMONSTRATION AGAINST THE WAR in Tel-Aviv

MASSIVE DEMONSTRATION AGAINST THE WAR  
in Tel-Aviv
 
photo gallery

[Now also on Social TV] [Updates on activism]
At the same time as Ehud Barak was ordering the army to start the bloody ground offensive against Gaza, some ten thousand protesters from all over Israel marched in Tel-Aviv in a massive demonstration against the war. All four lanes of Ibn [...]

Irrawaddy:Singaporean Activists Detained after Protesting Burmese Migrants’ Plight

By LAWI WENG
Two Singaporean activists were detained for five hours on Monday by police after they had protested outside the Ministry of Manpower in solidarity with Burmese migrant workers in the country.
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A War Correspondent Speaks

A War Correspondent Speaks
 
So once again, Israel has opened the gates of hell to the Palestinians. Forty civilian refugees dead in a United Nations school, three more in another. Not bad for a night’s work in Gaza by the army that believes in “purity of arms”. But why should we be surprised?
 
Have we forgotten the_

17,500 [...]

A Jew for Human Rights in Palestine

A Jew for Human Rights in Palestine
Championing global human rights: interview with Richard Falk 
Victor Kattan, The Electronic Intifada, 24 December 2008 
Earlier this month, Israeli authorities deported Professor Richard Falk, United Nations Special Rapporteur for Human Rights in the Occupied Palestinian Territories, who had arrived in the country to conduct his duties to investigate rights abuses in [...]

Combined Average Ratings: Independent Countries, 2008

Combined Average Ratings: Independent Countries, 2008

7.0 = worse amongst not Free

Burma
Cuba
Libya
North Korea
Somalia
Sudan
Turkmenistan
Uzbekistan

Burma ranks among worst nations for civilian freedom: Rights Group

 
Burma ranks among worst nations for civilian freedom: Rights Group
A United States-based Freedom House in its annual global release on freedom in the world, has ranked Burma among the ‘worst of the worst’ countries, where civilians enjoy negligible political and civil liberties.
The Freedom in the World 2009, which examines the state of freedom in 193 [...]

Burma (Myanmar) (2008) Freedom report

Burma (Myanmar) (2008) Freedom report

Capital:Rangoon
Population:49,800,000

 
Political Rights Score: 7

Civil Liberties Score: 7

Status: Not Free

 
Trend Arrow
Burma received a downward trend arrow due to increased economic mismanagement and exploitation, including dramatic fuel-price increases in August 2007, and for the violent repression of subsequent protests.
Overview
A 500 percent fuel-price increase in August 2007 exacerbated already dire economic conditions in Burma, [...]

Israel killed nearly 1,000 in Gaza including 400 children

Israel killed nearly 1,000 in Gaza including 400 children
Israeli forces battled Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip’s main city early today and bombed the enclave’s southern border with Egypt as the death toll from the war on Hamas neared 1,000.

As the war entered its 19th day, witnesses said the number of air strikes on Gaza City and [...]