KENYA: CLASS, ETHNICITY AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF A FRAGMENTED POST-COLONIAL SOCIETY Simon Kimani Ndungu[1] 20 June 2008 “A government that… Read More »Kenya class ethnicity and the construction of a fragmented post colonial society
By Nat Weinstein
You load sixteen tons, and what do you get?
Another day older and deeper in debt.
Saint Peter, don’t you call me, ‘cause I can’t go;
I owe my soul to the company store.1
I was struck by the number of unusually pessimistic reports on the deplorable state of the American and world capitalist economy in the July 20 New York Times. But in the days following, the bad news only got worse.
(source: Ma’an News Agency) Rafah – Ma’an Exclusive – Hamas is critical of the Goldstone commission’s report on alleged war… Read More »Hamas leader Gaza authorities will investigate goldstones findings
By Stuart Littlewood – London
(source: Palestine Chronicle)
If there’s one thing the Israelis are good at it’s making war on women and children.
They killed 952 Palestinian children in their homeland between 2000 and the start of the Gaza blitzkrieg in December 2008 (according to B’Tselem statistics). They murdered at least 350 more during their Cast Lead onslaught and have kept Gaza under daily attack ever since. So the brave Israelis must have eliminated nearly 1400 youngsters by now. Would anyone care to guess how many they left bleeding, maimed and crippled?
The "most moral army in the world" also loves waging war against Palestinian university students. Not long ago I wrote about Merna, an honors student in her final year majoring in English. Israeli soldiers frequently rampaged through her Bethlehem refugee camp in the middle of the night, ransacking homes and arbitrarily arresting residents. They took away her family one by one. First her 14-year-old cousin and best friend was shot dead by an Israeli sniper while she sat outside her family home during a curfew.