February 2009
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Secret police unit set up to spy on British ‘domestic extremists’ By Jason Lewis
The Confidential Intelligence Unit (CIU) has the power to operate across the UK and will mount surveillance and run informers on ‘domestic extremists’. Continue reading
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David Halpin – Requiem for principle and law in Britain
How many citizens of this sceptred isle even know of Friends of Israel, let alone which member is an acolyte when he or she is speaking on Palestine. Continue reading
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Richard Silverstein: The Israeli foreign ministry itself is asking volunteers to flood news websites with pro-Israel arguments and information
I view it as a cynical attempt to flood the web and news media with favorable flackery in a vain attempt to tilt public opinion toward Israel. Continue reading
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COHA: “The Rock in the Sun”: Haiti’s Préval Pleads For the U.S. and Rest of the World to End Global Negligence Towards Latin America’s Poorest Country
The question now is will the new Obama administration further assist Haiti, or will it proceed with a 200-year-old pattern of inadequate response to the island’s crushing needs? Continue reading
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Video: Gaza and the Media
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OCCUPATION PALESTINE: Zionism Up Close, Personal And Despicable
If you disagree with the tenets of Zionism or the actions of Israel in the slightest, then you’re an anti-Semite–or in my case, a self-hating Jew. Continue reading
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Housmans Bookshop (London): Miners’ Strike 25th Anniversary: Party and Book Launch
Book launch for The ‘Dirty 30’ – an oral history of the Leicestershire Miners who struck throughout the entire dispute. By Dave Bell and published by Five Leaves. Continue reading
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EDUCATING IDIOCY INTO AMERICA – PART 1 by Mark S. Tucker
“The teacher gave us a test on The Scarlet Letter, and we were required to know who was saying what in a set of random quotes. It didn’t make any sense at all.” Continue reading
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GazaFriends: “Disappeared” Free Gaza Activist Theresa McDermott Found in Israel’s Ramleh Prison
Scottish activist Theresa McDermott has been found in Ramleh prison four days after she was “disappeared” by the Israel government after being forcibly removed from a seaborne Lebanese aid mission to Gaza. Continue reading
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Video: Racist JNF’s “Canadian cover-up to a war crime”
The Canadian Broadcast Corporation airs this thirty minute story on CANADAPARK Built on the ruins of three Palestinian villages totally destroyed in 1967 paid for by Canadian Jews and Christians to the Jewish National Fund, an organization established before Israel and owns most of Israel’s land.Palestinians are not allowed to buy from the JNF. For Continue reading
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WIKILEAKS: Change you can download: a billion in secret Congressional reports
The 6,780 reports, current as of this month, comprise over 127,000 pages of material on some of the most contentious issues in the nation, from the U.S. relationship with Israel to abortion legislation. Continue reading
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Sami Jamil Jadallah – The Forbidden Debate
I am sure all Palestinians and the Arab world, with the exception of the very few Palestinians who are on the payroll of the PLO know well that the PLO lost any and all of whatever legitimacy it had to begin with 20 years ago. Continue reading
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Israeli forces open fire on Palestinian farmers and internationals in al-Faraheen
Israeli soldiers again opened fire on Palestinian farmers and international Human Rights Workers (HRWs) on Thursday 5th February, as they attempted to harvest parsley in agricultural land near the Green Line. Continue reading
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Video: Gaza: A family’s devastation
7 February, 2009 Majdi al-Athanma describes how the recent Israeli offensive has shattered his life again http://widgets.vodpod.com/w/video_embed/Groupvideo.2061833 Posted with vodpod Continue reading
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Liebermania By Yotam Feldman: The Growing Trend Toward Fascism in Israel
The youths, ages 16-18, many of them good friends from school, had stood for a long time before the event began at the intersection near the hotel, waving Israeli flags and shouting “Death to the Arabs” and “No loyalty, no citizenship” at passing cars. Continue reading
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By Andrew Wander: Passengers of freighter seized by Israel return home with tales of abuse
A group of activists arrested after the Israeli navy seized an aid ship bound for the devastated Gaza Strip were expelled from Israel on Friday, a day after being detained by the military. Continue reading
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Haiti policy statement for President Obama and Congress
Haiti has been ravaged by neocolonialism and its attendant power grabs through the tools of endless debt to the former colonial powers, their plundering of resources, and unfair trade that promotes famine and dependency. Continue reading
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PalestineJustice: Articles of Occupation 7 February, 2009 Part 2
Israeli forces seize Gaza aid ship Al Jazeera – Gazan children denied treatment abroad Jonathan Cook – Gaza Burn Victims Exhibit Signs Of White Phosphorous Wounds By Amira Hass – Army Won’t Confirm Or Deny Sale Of Arsenal’s Phosphorous To Israel By Amy Riggin Continue reading
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Palestinejustice 7 February, 2009: ARTICLES OF OCCUPATION
The philosopher who gave the IDF moral justification in Gaza – ‘Myth of Exile’: Justifying Slaughter in Gaza – Did the Israeli army wage a Jewish jihad in Gaza? Religious extremists’ rapid rise through the ranks – Continue reading
The New Dark Age 