The Largest Minority

March 4th, 2009 by Manila Ryce

Gaza’s international airport was opened in 1998 by Hillary Clinton and closed in 2001 due to destructive Israeli campaigns she also endorsed. The radar station and control tower were destroyed by the IDF in 2001 after the al-Aqsa Intifada, and bulldozers cut the runway in half in 2002.

Now Clinton is back in the region as Secretary of State but a visit to Gaza is not on her schedule. Photo opportunities with fellow war criminals are obviously far more important than acknowledging the existence of their mutual victims.

March 1st, 2009 by Manila Ryce

February 23rd, 2009 by Manila Ryce

The Obama administration has surprised many of its supporters (while confirming the suspicions of many rational people) by embracing key parts of the Bush administration’s illegal policies, including indefinite detention, kidnapping, and invoking state secrets privileges. Salon blogger Glenn Greenwald joins Democracy Now! to address this abuse of power while Jane Mayer of the New Yorker plays the role of standard Obama apologist as she begs the audience to give the president the benefit of the doubt while hypocritically denouncing the very same policies when they occurred under Bush.

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January 19th, 2009 by Manila Ryce

Under growing pressure from the world to do something, America/Israel decided that rather than ease the humanitarian crisis by opening up occupied Gaza and engaging in diplomacy with it’s legitimate government that they would instead try once more to force their Fatah puppet upon Palestine and restrict even more movement into the territory. In this clip, Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni was actually challenged in Washington by a few journalists familiar enough with international law, human rights, and history to call bullshit.

Livni’s position is that Israel is actually doing the Palestinians a favor with this aggression, much like Bush did the Iraqis and Afghans a favor. Hoisting up the claim that Israel cares about civilian casualties because they’ve given notice to victims of their impending death with 90,000 phone calls (a figure which should give Americans some pause about how many civilians are actually in danger), Livni fails to mention that despite the warnings there are no safe places for Gazans to hide - as is evident by the bombing of a UN school which housed civilians fleeing previous attacks. When journalists question the long-held assumption that Israel is always right they are bullied and their mics are simply cut off.

January 6th, 2009 by Manila Ryce

Kudos to Rick Sanchez who does the research and finds that Israel violated the terms of the ceasefire first by killing 6 Gazans on November 4.

January 2nd, 2009 by Sam

November 26th, 2008 by Manila Ryce

Not more than a few years ago, no country would have dared put on such a defiant display right under the nose of the world’s only superpower. American imperialism is weakening due to an economic collapse and the victims of capitalism the world over are rightly taking advantage of it.

President-elect Obama has stated that we must strengthen our control over Latin America once again to combat the rise of democracy, especially in Venezuela, but that goal will hopefully take a backseat to more pressing issues when he gets into office.

November 22nd, 2008 by Manila Ryce

There is concern whether al-Sadr will call off his ceasefire if the pact passes parliament.