The Porcupine

The Porcupine enters the global struggle against injustice, to help create a more equitable and compassionate world. It not only believes that such a world is possible, through critical thought and collective action; but, that such a world is coming into being, now. The Porcupine is not here because it's voice is essential, but because silence in the face of injustice is unconscionable. Read more about us.

Christopher Meets Bornstein: Chapter one of Mina Berkeley

Eric B. Ross

Christopher could never forget when he first heard Bornstein’s voice. It was a year earlier, on a cold, rainy evening. He sat alone in an empty pub called The Mine in West Belfast. Even before he took off his overcoat, he started to look through a newspaper that someone had left behind, carefully folded, with its unfinished ...

Louisiana: Blowout Preventer Is Removed - New York Times

Hurricane Earl weakens as it scoots by US east - BusinessWeek

Army wanted in quake-hit Canterbury - Stuff.co.nz

Australian among dead in NZ plane crash - Sydney Morning Herald

Peres hails 'promising start' of newly launched talks - Jerusalem Post

School of the Americas Watch

Truthdig

Playgrounds for Palestine

Pesticide Action Network North America (PANNA)

Z Magazine

No Room for Arab Students at Israeli Universities: New Rules Favour Former Soldiers

Jonathan Cook

Measures designed to benefit Jewish school-leavers applying for places in Israeli higher education at the cost of their Arab counterparts have been criticised by lawyers and human rights groups. The new initiatives are viewed as part of an ongoing drive by right-wing politicians in Israel to demand “loyalty” from the country’s large minority population of Arab citizens. Critics have termed ...

Crisis. What Crisis? Profits Soar!

James Petras

While progressives and leftists write about the “crises of capitalism”, manufacturers, petroleum companies, bankers and most other major corporations on both sides of the Atlantic and Pacific coast are chuckling all the way to the bank. From the first quarter of this year, corporate profits have shot up between twenty to over a hundred percent, (Financial Times August 10, 2010, p. ...

The Porcupine – A Work in Progress

The Porcupine Editors

As you may have noticed, The Porcupine has been offline for several weeks while we have been busy redesigning the site. Now that we are back up, we hope you are pleased with the results! However, The Porcupine is still a work in progress. There are almost certainly a few little things to sort out over the coming weeks, and we ...

Israeli MP tells of Terror on Aid Ship

Jonathan Cook

An Arab member of the Israeli parliament who was on board the international flotilla that was attacked on Monday as it tried to take humanitarian aid to Gaza accused Israel yesterday of intending to kill peace activists as a way to deter future convoys. Haneen Zoubi said Israeli naval vessels had surrounded the flotilla’s flagship, the Mavi Marmara, and fired on ...