Alaa Alhattab

Sep 4, 2024 | countercurrents.org | Gideon Polya |Rakesh Shukla |Nora Barrows-Friedman |Alaa Alhattab

During the Gaza Genocide I have sent numerous Letters to the editors of major Australian Mainstream media but only several have been published, this testing the limits of pro-peace free speech and factual, science-based and humanitarian communication in US-, Zionist- and Apartheid Israel-perverted, look-the-other-way Australia that is endlessly fed lying propaganda by mendacious and traitorous Mainstream journalist, editor, politician, academic and commentariat  presstitutes.

Sep 4, 2024 | countercurrents.org | Rakesh Shukla |Nora Barrows-Friedman |Alaa Alhattab |Kevin Reed

If you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss also gazes into you – Nietzsche Fredy Perlman, author and one of the founders of the Black and Red collective in the US , all of whose cousins, aunts, and grandparents died in Nazi concentration camps or gas chambers except two uncles surmises in the early eighties[1] “I think I’ve now shown that the experience of the Holocaust, whether lived or peeped, does not in itself make an individual a critic of Pogroms, and also that it does not confer special...

Sep 3, 2024 | countercurrents.org | Nora Barrows-Friedman |Alaa Alhattab |Kevin Reed |Jay Janson

Gauze, diapers and antibiotics. Kitchen utensils, baby formula, fresh vegetables and shampoo. These basic supplies are included among a long list of items that Israel has restricted entry into Gaza for months, as diseases and hunger soar across the coastal enclave. Historically, such items and similar essentials have been banned or restricted entry into Gaza during Israel’s 17-year-long siege.

Sep 2, 2024 | countercurrents.org | Bhabani Nayak |Sumanta Banerjee |Alaa Alhattab |Kevin Reed

The Union Minister for Higher Education in India started a political debate by suggesting the renaming of Ravenshaw College and University in Cuttack, Odisha, due to the controversial role of its founder, Thomas Edward Ravenshaw, in the Odisha famine, which claimed millions of lives. Renaming universities and educational institutions is not a new phenomenon in the state.

Sep 2, 2024 | countercurrents.org | Alaa Alhattab |Kevin Reed |Jay Janson |Huda Skaik

I once objected to an assignment I was given by my English literature professor. The assignment was to record voice-overs for a video reciting lines from Shakespeare’s “Hamlet.” But I didn’t really like my voice. “Your voice is a revolution, not a shame,” my professor, the late Refaat al-Areer, said to me. It was a concise sentence, yet it affected me deeply, both personally and professionally.