There are 26 registered lobbyists for every elected representative on the hill, with experts suggesting the true amount is closer to 100,000. Yet transparency laws that people believe help combat this system of pay-to-play politics have been weaponized against them to further cement corporate control. Congressional researcher James D’Angelo argues …
Read More »Roger Waters on Palestine – 03-01-2018
Roger Waters, talks with award-winning Palestinian-Australian author and activist Randa Abdel-Fattah and Jewish-Australian author and activist Antony Loewenstein about the struggle for Palestine and the importance of the BDS movement amongst musicians. Recorded on the 9th of February 2018 at the Athenaeum Theatre in Melbourne. Hosted by APAN. Filmed and …
Read More »Video: Ivan Pernar speech about Ahed al-Tamimi in Croatian parliament
Ivan Pernar, a Croatian MP, delivered this speech about Ahed al-Tamimi today in parliament. Ivan Pernar (born 14 October 1985) is a Croatian politician and anti-eviction activist. In June 2011, he founded the Alliance for Change party, which later became Human Shield. He is a member of Croatian Parliament since …
Read More »Netanyahu or Not, Israel is Corrupted (1/2)
Israeli society “lives in denial” more than any other society, says Haaretz columnist Gideon Levy, referring to the suffering the occupation of Palestine causes
Read More »Gideon Levy: The Zionist Tango: Step Left, Step Right
Speaking on the eve of the AIPAC summit in Washington DC, Haaretz columnist Gideon Levy says that across the mainstream Israeli political spectrum, there is no challenge to the occupation of Palestinian land.
Read More »Video: Palestinian worker suffocates while waiting at crowded Israeli military checkpoint
A Palestinian man suffocated on Tuesday morning before dawn while waiting in the narrow corridor of Checkpoint 300 in the southern occupied West Bank city of Bethlehem, where hundreds of workers were waiting to pass through on their way to work inside Israel. Video footage of the incident shows the …
Read More »Video: Israeli soldiers throw tear gas at Palestinian couple running with baby
Israeli NGO Yesh Din posted a video on Friday showing an Israeli soldier throwing a tear gas grenade at a Palestinian couple holding their baby in the northern occupied West Bank village of Burin in Nablus. According to Yesh Din, a Palestinian couple with a young baby were attempting to …
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