John Berger reads Ghassan Khanafani’s Letter from Gaza
In an address to the inaugural Palestine Festival of Literature (2008), John Berger gives a moving reading of Ghassan Khanafani‘s “Letter from Gaza“.
Hasbara Headquarters: 'There is no humanitarian crisis in Gaza'
Meet the israeli foreign press liaison unit in Jerusalem, as profiled by the Jerusalem Post. They are slick and ready to spoonfeed journalists the insta-mix IOF version, in which “Of … Continue reading
Der Spiegel's Sensational Hariri Tribunal 'Breakthrough': "Hezbollah Did It" (Updated)
With six updates appended. Der Spiegel has just come out with quite a sensational(ist) piece by Erich Follath, translated from the German by Christopher Sultan. Follath claims that his sources … Continue reading
The Shift Eastward: World's Biggest Banks 1999 and 2009
One interesting indicator of the financial shift eastward and the rise of China is indicated in the first two graphs, just over the fold (hat-tip: Syd Walker). As Michael Hudson … Continue reading
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