Challenging injustice through the courage of faith
On the Occasion of the 8th International Israeli Apartheid Week: A letter from the SA Council of Churches to all… Read More »Challenging injustice through the courage of faith
On the Occasion of the 8th International Israeli Apartheid Week: A letter from the SA Council of Churches to all… Read More »Challenging injustice through the courage of faith
By Jesse Lieberfeld (source: Carnegie Mellon University – Dietrich College News) I once belonged to a wonderful religion. I belonged… Read More »Fighting a forbidden battle how i stopped covering up for a hidden wrong
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.
The Silence Surrounding Sri Lanka
By Arundhati Roy
March 31, 2009 "Boston Globe" — -NEW DELHI – The horror that is unfolding in Sri Lanka becomes possible because of the silence that surrounds it. There is almost no reporting in the international press – or in the mainstream media in India, where I live – about what is happening.