The Labor Movement in Egypt

Democracy Now!’s report on the mass strikes in Egypt and the role of the labor movement in Egypt.

Israel`s Security through Mubarak

Defense Minister Ehud Barak on Wednesday stressed the importance of U.S. support for Israeli security in light of the political unrest in Egypt, while Ambassador Michael Oren urged the Obama administration to reaffirm its commitment to that regard.

In other words, Mubarak and his regime will stay. What also comes with this is the torture of Egyptian activists, the continuous moment of commdofication of necessary life that put Egyptian families and workers in a more precarious situation. Oh, also the patronizing attitude the elites will have on the Egyptian people (Mubarak calling Egyptians “his children”.

Wow

Mubarak just doesn’t get it

David Harvey on the Crises of Capitalism (animated)

Class War

“Yet the ruling classes are unperturbed.  Their main concern is not simply to manage the fallout from the financial crisis.  They have a long-term plan to completely smash the working class, drive down consumption, and reshape expectations of how a human being is entitled to live.“

Oil

Excerpt from a Book called Oil.

Many photos.

Racist Video making fun of the activists on the Freedom Flotilla

Nothing will change the fact that Israel is a colonial regime that is oppressing and occupying historic Palestine. It is a racist regime that completely separates people and holds  Palestinians as prisoners in open air prisons. The Gaza strip, an incredibly dense settlement is choked off by the Israeli military. The West Bank is being partitioned and settled, where olive groves and farmlands of the Palestinian residents are destroyed and where Palestinians face systematic discrimination and violence.

Take a look at this disgusting video making fun of those who tried to deliver well needed supplies to the Gaza strip, precisely because Israel controls and disallows supply routes through all land borders (the Rafah border too) and all sea entry routes. You can also see the blatant racism and caricature of the man in the Kuffiyah. The lyrics are incredibly sinister: “There’s no people dying, so the best that we can do is create the greatest bluff of all?”  The funny thing is, Israel is trying to con the world with its PR campaign. But it won’t work.

Israel and its blame game

Take a look at this Haaretz article. It, as a clear and undoubted mouth piece of the Israeli government, clearly wants to instigate a blame game onto the activists of the MV Rachel Corrie. It wants to posit the activists as people who are ‘unwilling’ to find a liberal kind of ‘middle ground’ in order to deliver well needed resources to the Gaza Strip. If there is anything I’ve learned while following the occupation of Palestine, it is that Israel always posits itself as a ‘fair guy’ by saying “hey, we tried to negotiate, it’s the others that are to be blamed”. Even the foreign minister of Ireland who is supposed to be a ‘fair mediator’ said:

“The entire cargo, including what is understood to be 550 tonnes of cement, would then have been transported to Gaza.  Two persons from the Rachel Corrie would have been permitted to accompany the cargo to the Israeli border crossing into Gaza at Erez.

“In my view, such an arrangement would have offered a useful precedent for future humanitarian shipments, pending the complete lifting of the blockade,” he said.

The whole issue is the liberation of Palestine from apartheid Israel. The current issue with Gaza right now is to completely destroy the blockade that is strangling the Gaza strip, causing malnourishment, poverty. Hell, the Israeli forces even forbid PAPER to enter, the same kind of disgusting blockade that was forced onto the people of Iraq in the 1990s.

Interview with David Harvey on BBC HARDtalk

In three parts.

Israelis Celebrate “Death to the Arabs” After the Attack on Aid Flotilla to Gaza

Just look at this video. Israelis complaining that the IDF didn’t destroy the whole aid ship that was delivering well needed humanitarian aid to the urban prison known as Gaza. Oh, they also chanted Death to the Arabs… Of course, the New York Times, Fox News, CNN, or any major western news source will never report this. Can you just imagine however if Arabs were the ones who were doing this? It is always Arabs who are stereotyped as angry mobs.