The Amazigh or Imazighen (Berber) and the Phoenician Punics The presence of Phoenician colonies in North Africa started out as peaceful traders among the Amazigh original inhabitants of the region. These colonies, though initially inhabited by Phoenicians from the eastern Mediterranean, became a mix of the two peoples as they intermarried with the local Amazigh. … Continue reading
On March 13, 2012 different media outlets reported that former Guatemalan Special Forces (aka Kaibils) soldier, Pedro Pimentel, had been sentenced to 6,060 years for his role in the 1982 Las Dos Erres massacre during the military’s genocidal war against the indigenous Mayan population. Survivors’ groups have sought justice through the courts for more than … Continue reading
The circus came to town and the clowns fell around. Yes another AIPAC conference was held in Washington, in the heart of the American powerbase. The zionist lobbyists that keep the blood flowing to that heart. And let’s face it: that’s what this lobby group likes best – flowing blood. For so long now they … Continue reading
Having been invited to Belfast by my friend Fra Hughes, I was excited to see how it had changed since the Good Friday Agreement and the 30 years that had passed since I first visited Belfast during The Troubles. Fra, like my self, is a pro-Palestinian activist and had invited me up to a fundraising … Continue reading
The following documents show the plan to divide Cyprus almost 20 years before the Turkish military invasion in 1974.
It’s a Fact of War that the deaths of soldiers in a war zone can either be a cause for sadness or celebration _ it’s the Nature of Combat that the vast majority of battle participants would be pleased by any setback suffered by their enemies _ And it doesn’t really matter whether we approve … Continue reading
It concerns a previously independent country that was invaded by communist China in 1949 and since that time has been brutally occupied, its people and culture ruthlessly exploited and oppressed. Tibetans are a distinct people with their own language, and culture, having had previously their own currency, postal system, Government and treaties with neighbouring countries. The … Continue reading
IF YOU WANT TO START A WAR WITH IRAN USE AN iSRAELI SUBMARINE TO SINK A US AIRCRAFT CARRIER! The USS Enterprise is about to be decommissioned anyway so why not have her sunk then blame Iran? One added bonus for the United States is that the 8 nuclear engines that power this floating war-machine … Continue reading
An Analysis of U.S. Drone Strikes in Pakistan, 2004-2012 (map) PREAMBLE On 30th January 2012 the social network Google+ and its ‘affiliate’ Youtube carried out “the first-ever completely virtual interview from the White House” with US President Barack Obama _ In what many viewers have since described as “not much more than a publicity stunt” … Continue reading
By Protesilaos Stavrou Greece is practically bankrupt since May 2010 when the country could no longer borrow from the international markets, since interest rates were exorbitant. Ever since Greece has been under a bailout programme by the so-called troika, a collective of technocrats coming from the European Commission the European Central Bank and the International … Continue reading