Heed the warning signs of results
By Dr Firoz Osman – Secretary General, Media Review Network (source: The Star, Friday 13/01/2012, pg 15) The matric results… Read More »Heed the warning signs of results
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Holocaust denied
January 8, 2009
Holocaust Denied
The lying silence of those who know
by John Pilger
"When the truth is replaced by silence," the Soviet dissident Yevgeny Yevtushenko said, "the silence is a lie." It may appear the silence is broken on Gaza. The cocoons of murdered children, wrapped in green, together with boxes containing their dismembered parents and the cries of grief and rage of everyone in that death camp by the sea, can be viewed on al-Jazeera and YouTube, even glimpsed on the BBC. But Russia’s incorrigible poet was not referring to the ephemeral we call news; he was asking why those who knew the why never spoke it and so denied it. Among the Anglo-American intelligentsia, this is especially striking. It is they who hold the keys to the great storehouses of knowledge: the historiographies and archives that lead us to the why.
Leave the children alone
By Joharah Baker (source: miftah.org) Last week, six-year old Mohammed Dirbas was arrested by Israeli occupation forces, held and questioned… Read More »Leave the children alone