February 25, 2009
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Amnesty International’s scandalous obliquity By Khalid Amayreh in occupied East Jerusalem
With all due respect to AI and its efforts to safeguard and defend human rights, there is no legal or moral equation between a rape victim’s right to defend herself against her attacker and the criminal act initiated by the rapist Continue reading
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A Congo Journey By Makeda Crane
He spoke of U.S., Britain, Rwandan and Ugandan companies profiting from the unregulated mining and selling of Congo’s vast mineral deposits, and I wondered: How many Congolese lives had been sacrificed to produce the coltan in my cell phone? Continue reading
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Video by ISM Gaza Strip of target practice on Palestinians by Israeli snipers
Palestinian farmers, accompanied by international Human Rights Workers (HRWs), were fired upon by Israeli forces in the village of Khoza’a, near Khan Younis, this morning. The farmers and HRWs were attempting to work on land around 300m from the ‘Green Line’. Continue reading
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Never Forget The Lessons Of Yesterday For The Sake Of Tomorrow By Vincent Guarisco
300,000 Atomic Veterans (including my father) know they are the government’s best-kept-secret when they were quickly deemed “expendable” by Uncle Sam’s nuclear weapons testing programs. Continue reading
The New Dark Age 