Israeli filmed shooting prisoner

The video shows a soldier aim and fire his weapon at a Palestinian man’s legsAn Israeli human rights group has released a video that shows an Israeli soldier shooting a blindfolded Palestinian man with a rubber coated steel bullet at close range.BTselem released...

Mrn arrest of two south Africans in uganda

26 August 2008The Secretary General Mr. Gwede MantasheAfrican National CongressLuthuli HouseJohannesburg.SirThe Media Review Network is concerned at the arrest and incarceration of two South Africans, Mufti Hussein Bhayat, a cleric from Lenasia and Mr. Haroon Saley...

Dehumanising metaphors in war on terror

By Iqbal Jassat In the light of fresh debates centered on Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan, particularly within the United States whose armed forces are deeply entrenched in the military conquest of the region under the guise of the ‘war on terror’, many...

United against peace

Only by vigorously subduing the US and Israel to the authority of the world community will it be possible to end the intractable Israeli-Palestinian conflictBy William Cook (source: Al Ahram Weekly Online) A confluence of news stories emerged this past week that, if...