As people of conscience around the world marked the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People, ever new actions help bring Palestinians closer to achieving a state of dignity, says Eric Walberg
Just in case there was an iota of doubt left in your mind, Israel was officially declared an apartheid state during a session of the Russell Tribunal on Palestine in Cape Town on 7 November.
Middle East
BDS update: BDS unites East and West
- Written by Eric Walberg Эрик Вальберг/ Уолберг إيريك والبرغ
When will Pakistan’s spring arrive?
- Written by Eric Walberg Эрик Вальберг/ Уолберг إيريك والبرغ
US friendly fire knows no bounds. The deaths of Pakistan soldiers and civilians is just the tip of the iceberg, which will only disappear in the heat of a national uprising, putting an end to Pakistan's neocolonial dependency, says Eric Walberg
Morocco gets Muslim Brotherhood PM
- Written by Eric Walberg Эрик Вальберг/ Уолберг إيريك والبرغ
Morocco beats the other Arab Spring nations to a constitution and elections, with mixed results
A whiff of Egyptian freedom for Gaza
- Written by Eric Walberg Эрик Вальберг/ Уолберг إيريك والبرغ
Israel got a
taste of the new people’s Egypt with the arrest of an Egyptian journalist on the
flotilla to Gaza and plans for the biggest aid convoy yet, reports Eric
Walberg
The ongoing Freedom Waves campaign to break the siege of
Gaza hit the world headlines last week with the attempt by the Canadian Tahrir
and the Irish Saoirse -- Arab and Irish for freedom -- to bring aid to Gazans
directly. This time the boats left from Turkey, not Greece, where last June
authorities refused to let the Freedom Flotilla depart. “Our efforts in Greece
only fuelled our determination to challenge the imprisonment of the people of
Gaza. We said we would continue to sail and so we are,” according to a Freedom
Waves press statement.
Egypt and the IMF: ‘Topple their debts’
- Written by Eric Walberg Эрик Вальберг/ Уолберг إيريك والبرغ
There really is a magic bullet that can make sure Egypt’s revolution triumphs, discovers Eric Walberg
The Popular Campaign to Drop Egypt’s Debts was launched at the
Journalists’ Union 31 October, with a colourful panel of speakers,
including Al-Ahram Centre for Political & Strategic Studies
Editor-in-Chief Ahmed Al-Naggar, Independent Trade Union head Kamal Abu Eita, legendary anti-corruption crusader Khaled Ali, and the head of
the Tunisia twin campaign Dr Fathi Chamkhi.
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