by MRN | Jan 1, 2013 | Archive 2012
Obama and Israel: No, I Can’t! By Uri Avnery After months of a tough and bitter race, a merciless struggle, Barack Obama has defeated his formidable opponent, Hillary Clinton. He has wrought a miracle: for the first time in history a black person has become a...
by MRN | Jan 1, 2013 | Archive 2012, Uncategorized
(source: Palestine Return Centre) A delegation of members from the Palestinian community met with Ivan Lewis, the Minister of State at the Foreign and Commonwealth office for Middle East and North Africa, on Thursday 12 November 2009, to raise specific concerns...
by MRN | Jan 1, 2013 | Archive 2012
By Gwynne Dyer “Terrorism,” like “fascism,” is one of those words that people routinely apply to almost any behavior they disapprove of. We had a particularly impressive spread of meanings on display last week. At one extreme, the US State Department released its...
by MRN | Jan 1, 2013 | Archive 2012
Picture: (AFP/Deshakalyan Chowdhury) A Bhutanese woman smiles while shopping at a market in Thimphu, as seen in March. a Dutch professor has concluded that the effects of happiness on longevity are “comparable to that of smoking or not”. Keep humming...
by MRN | Jan 1, 2013 | Archive 2012
US Knife to the Heart of World Future Energy By Finian Cunningham (source: Global Research) The scheduled start of drilling this month by China National Petroleum Company (CNPC) in Iran’s South Pars gas field could be both a harbinger and explanation of much...
