December 2, 2008
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Judge rules that the jury in the Charles de Menezes murder cannot consider the killing as unlawful
Coroner at the inquest into the police shooting of Jean Charles de Menezes has ruled that the jury cannot consider the verdict of unlawful killing. Instead he has ruled that they can only return a verdict of lawful or open. Continue reading
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Africa Bound By William Bowles
The irony of Dowden’s many misleading notions about Africa are that they could just as easily apply to Europe or indeed anywhere on Earth, perhaps in different forms due to different circumstances and at different times, but always reflecting the nature of who holds real political and economic power. That Dowden chooses to make a… Continue reading
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Journalist Amira Haas Arrested entering Israel
Hass, the child of Holocaust survivors, became the first and only Israeli journalist to be ever based in Gaza, moving there in 1993 to live and work. Today, she is still the only Israeli journalist to based in the Occupied Palestinian Territories moving to Ramallah in 1997. Continue reading
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BBC: Brown ‘psychologically insecure’
Psychotherapist Lucy Beresford tells Daily Politics Gordon Brown is ‘deeply insecure’ and bringing Peter Mandelson back was “Freudian” bordering on “self-mutilating behaviour”. http://widgets.vodpod.com/w/video_embed/Groupvideo.1818568 more about "BBC: Brown ‘psychologically insecure’", posted with vodpod Continue reading
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Kobi Ben Simon: God’s Little Acre
Israel inside the Green Line may be the new frontier for extremist Zionist settlement. Apparently, the West Bank settlement project is considered secure enough to move on to more challenging pastures. As the Rabbi himself notes in the article, “we had carried out a great project in the settlements for the past 30 years, but… Continue reading
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Evo Morales on Climate Change: Save the Planet from Capitalism!
‘Humankind is capable of saving the Earth if we recover the principles of solidarity, complementarity and harmony with nature in contraposition to the reign of competition, profits and rampant consumption of natural resources’ Continue reading
The New Dark Age 