A Poem for Gaza

Shireen she was a martyr She died for our sins Some people want the dirt so bad That’s how it all begins One side says to the other I need what you got If you don’t give it up I’ll shoot you on the spot If we don’t learn nothin’ We will never stop the rain If we don’t...

Pittsburgh Speech on the Israel-Palestine Crisis

Last Friday night I gave a speech to the Libertarian Party Mises Caucus in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania about conflict in Israel-Palestine https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AVlFBflw7bU Correction: I misspoke at 9:00~ when I said they sank the Liberty. They only damaged it...

This Morning On Antiwar Radio

If you missed the Sunday morning live show, check the archives soon at scotthorton.org for this interview. Sheldon Richman on Trump's horrible "Vision" for Palestine. 8:30 Pacific, 90.7 FM, KPFK in L.A. kpfk.org.

Israeli Sadists Mock Dying Boy

"Die you son of a whore!" "Faggot!" the Israelis scream at Ahmad Salih Manasra, 14, as he lays gasping for breath after being shot by an Israeli colonist. Charlotte Silver reports he is still alive, in critical condition. His cousin was killed. The killers claim the...

The Gaza Strip: “It’s just that dystopian”

Max Blumenthal tells Glenn Greenwald: “And for all I knew about the Israel-Palestine crisis, I was not prepared to come in to such intimate contact with so much human destruction. And to really come to grips with the fact that the Gaza Strip is an open-air prison, and...

Essential Reading for Nakba Day

The Nakba, 65 Years of Dispossession and Apartheid The Real Story of How Israel Was Created by Alison Weir Asking the Hard Questions About Israel by John Feffer The Unmentionable Source of Terrorism by John Pilger By Murray Rothbard: War Guilt in the Middle East Rand...

Israel’s Repression of Nakba Day (May 15)

Tomorrow is Nakba Day, which commemorates the mass dispossession of Palestinians that accompanied the foundation of the State of Israel. Read "The more Israel represses the Nakba, the stronger the memories" by Gideon Levy in Haaretz. Use the printer-friendly or Google...

Back to Black and Back to the Stone Age

You know how sometimes a cop will turn off his dash cam (often "mistakenly," or it "malfunctions") right before he brutalizes or executes a victim? That's what Israel did yesterday, when it knocked out Gaza's only power plant, killing the power for most of the...

Bombing a Prison Camp for Children

Even the shameless Israeli state seems momentarily shamed, as it has announced a five-hour ceasefire in their bombardment of Gaza after having shelled to death four Palestinian children who had been playing soccer on a beach, thereby presumably serving as "human...