September 10, 2008
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Double Standards: Israeli military occupation is not a bar to EU partnership By David Morrison
On 28 November 1995, the EU allowed Israel to become a partner, under Euro-Mediterranean Partnership arrangements with states bordering on the Mediterranean. At the time, Israeli troops were occupying parts of Lebanon and Syria and the Occupied Palestinian Territories (the West Bank and Gaza) and had been for many years – Lebanon since 1978, the… Continue reading
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Bad News From Haiti: U.S. Press Misses the Story
It is the latest episode in a pattern of U.S. reporting on Haiti that has given many of the most important stories only a cursory glance. To get an idea of how and why this happens, I interviewed several U.S. journalists who have reported from Haiti, some of whom spoke on condition of anonymity. Continue reading
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“Liquid Bomb” Plot: Trumping up the charges By Dr. Sahib Mustaqim Bleher
Whilst the government is gloating at having secured convictions of sorts, the fact is that its whole story of a plot on account of which every traveller in Europe had to surrender drinks at airport check-ins and carry toiletries in a clear plastic bag has been exposed as fiction. Continue reading
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UPDATE FROM GAZA ON FISHERMEN ACCOMPANIMENT THIS PAST SATURDAY By Andrew Muncie
It was just 09:30 in the morning, and we were only 4 miles out to sea, having barely left Gaza’s coastline behind, when the gunboat’s heavy machine gun opened up, spraying the wake around our hull with bullets. Continue reading