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Israeli Settlement Continues To Steal Palestinian Land
By Michael Galvin

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Surrounded by rich agricultural land Palestinian farmers have been using for centuries, Karmei Tzur is gradually expropriating this land through the insidious use of “security fences” guarded 24/7 by the Israeli Occupation Forces – the IDF in the occupied territories – and armed settlers

Police Protect Settlers, Attack Protesters,
After Invasion Of Palestinian House In East Jerusalem
By Michael Galvin

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On Sunday, July 26th at 12:30pm, three internationals, one Israeli and two Palestinians, including the former Minister of Jerusalem Affairs, were arrested in an attempt to block settlers from entering a Palestinian home in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah

World Will Warm Faster Than Predicted In Next Five Years
By Duncan Clark

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New estimate based on the forthcoming upturn in solar activity and El Niño southern oscillation cycles is expected to silence global warming sceptics

The Palestinian Centre For Human Rights 2008
Annual Report
By Stephen Lendman

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Part One assesses the overall human rights situation in the Occupied Palestinians Territories throughout 2008. Because they affect regional peace overall, this article focuses solely on Israeli crimes, not those committed by Palestinian elements in Gaza and the West Bank that pale by comparison. Part Two covers PCHR’s local and international efforts over the same period

Gaia Wizard Sets Doomsday Time Bomb
By Robert S. Becker

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James Lovelock, pre-eminent British wizard who authored the stunning Gaia Theory, predicts 90% species die-off when heat storms erupt – and without a sharp tipping point, “just a slope that gets ever steeper.” Post-apocalypse, planetary carrying capacity: 700 million, 10% of today’s booming population

Iraq As “Actor And Stakeholder”
By Dahr Jamail

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Just like the myth of Iraq’s “sovereignty,” the myth of US withdrawal is just that. Until the latter occurs, the former does not stand a chance. This is particularly so, as long as Iraq, like Afghanistan, are arenas where the US military is being used to “ensure that all major and emerging powers are integrated as constructive actors and stakeholders into the international system.”

Socio-Economic Inequality Leads To
Gender-Based Violence
By Nasiruddin Haider Khan

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If we want to counter and prevent gender-based violence, we have to think about the reasons for violence in the society with all its complexities

Obama’s Inheritance
By Jim Miles

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Book Review: “The Inheritance – The World Obama Confronts and the Challenges to American Power” by David E. Sanger

A Century Of Frenzy Over The North-West Frontier
By Juan Cole

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Despite being among the poorest people in the world, the inhabitants of the craggy northwest of what is now Pakistan have managed to throw a series of frights into distant Western capitals for more than a century. And it hasn’t ended yet. Not by a long shot. Not with the headlines in the U.S. papers about the depredations of the Pakistani Taliban, not with the CIA’s drone aircraft striking gatherings in Waziristan and elsewhere near the Afghan border. What most observers don’t realize is that the doomsday rhetoric about this region at the top of the world is hardly new. It’s at least 100 years old

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