Welcome to another episode of the Splash where we hit you with a round-up of interesting links from all genres of life.
Dahr Jamail on birth defects in Fallujah’s newborns.
Obama’s latest arms deal with Saudi Arabia.
How the Syrian revolution’s media war has become almost as fierce as the battles on the streets.
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Video: Film Footage from Palestine back in 1896
It is becoming a trend among influential GOP candidates to call out the Palestinian people as “invented” or even “non-existent”. First we had Republican candidate Newt Gingrich calling the Palestinians an “invented people”. Another rising star, Republican candidate Rick Santorum, has also said “There is no Palestine”.
In Iraq, War Without End
Home is the hardest place to find children of immigrants. But for me, nothing hits closer to home than when a bomb goes off in Baghdad. Last week, just days after American troops pulled out of Iraq, 63 people died and 176 were wounded in Baghdad.
Effect of the Arab Spring on Migration
The events in the Arab world, which was a center of illegal international migration even before the Arab Spring began, caused a surge in forced migration flows, which represent a serious challenge for both the Arab world and its European neighbors.
Iraq. Began With Big Lies. Ending With Big Lies. Never Forget.
Iraq is forced by Washington to continue paying reparations to Kuwait for Iraq’s invasion in 1990, an invasion instigated in no small measure by the United States. How much will the US pay the people of Iraq?
Fallujah Babies: Under A New Kind of Siege
While the US military has formally withdrawn from Iraq, doctors and residents of Fallujah are blaming weapons like depleted uranium and white phosphorous used during two devastating US attacks on Fallujah in 2004 for what are being described as ‘catastrophic’ levels of birth defects and abnormalities.
Framing Syria
Over the last forty years, the Assad regime has mastered the method of burying our stories almost as well as burying our people. Our cities, like their residents, carry the scars of brutality, hiding decades of bloody secrets within their thick stone walls. One city in particular, Hama, lives with a 29-year-old secret, its 1982 massacre.
Arms Dealer Obama Will Win by Default
Not only has Obama been a savior of the banking conglomerates that so generously financed his campaign, but he also has proved to be equally as solicitous of the needs of the military-industrial complex. He entered his re-election year by signing a $662 billion defense authorisation bill that strips away some of our most fundamental liberties and keeps military spending at Cold War levels, and by approving a $60 billion arms deal with Saudi Arabia.
The Army and the Economy in Egypt
Until this very day, the role of the military establishment in the economy remains one of the major taboos in Egyptian politics. The Egyptian Armed Forces owns a massive segment of Egypt’s economy – 25 to 40 percent, according to some estimates.
