When I was young, we were taught at school that as we lived in a post-modern and affluent multicultural society, we had the moral and
Tag: International Law
North Korea’s Right to Self-Determination Supported by Communist China (4.7.2017)
As hundreds of thousands – if not millions – of Chinese men and women gave their lives fighting US aggression in the Korea in the early 1950’s, it is highly unlikely that Communist China would desert the DPRK – which operates as a buffer-zone between Communist China and the capitalist South Korea.
9/11 – A Modern Islamophobic Fairy Tale
The post-9/11 US Government response was to state that the US (and other Western countries) must aggressively attack the Middle East as a matter of ‘self-defence’. This is exactly the same rhetorical position adopted by the Modern State of Israel.
My Letter to SF Leather on Behalf of Turkish Workers
I consider these dismissals to be illegal under National and International Law, and immoral under any measure of common decency, and call upon the Management of SF Leather to immediately:
1) Reinstate the dismissed workers
2) Respect workers’ rights and freedom of association
A Clear Example of Zionism
The Palestinians have been kept in a state of arrested economic and industrial development since the creation of the state of Israel in 1948. The Israeli state receives unconditional support from the Judeo-Christian influenced USA, and their European allies. This essentially renders Israel exempt from the strictures (and punishments) usually associated with International Law, as the international community refuses to hold Israel to account for its many military and paramilitary actions that are a clear violation of Human Rights.
Palestine and the Asymmetric Value of Life
Any attack upon Israel, or Israeli interests, is automatically interpreted by the Israeli state as being motivated by ‘anti-Semitic’ sentiment, and no distinction is made between these acts, and those that are genuinely ‘revolutionary’ in nature. This is how the propaganda of the Israeli state deliberately conflates and confuses genuine anti-Semitism with genuine revolution.