March 2010
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Full Circle: NATO Completes Takeover Of Former Yugoslavia By Rick Rozoff
Until the end of the Cold War and the dissolution of the Warsaw Pact and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics in 1991, NATO had never staged operations outside the territory of its member states. In 2004 it ran eight operations in four continents, including a training mission in Iraq and combat deployments in Afghanistan.… Continue reading
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NO2ID Supporters’ Newsletter No. 145 – 25th March 2010: Mandating ID
*Contacting us:* Call or email the office – 020-7793-4005 or (office@no2id.net). + MANDATING ID + While the Minister for Identity tries conjuring up possible uses for the ID card – more fantasy than reality, but telling nonetheless [1] – the Home Office has continued to use every trick in the book to manufacture ‘demand’. Its Continue reading
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Civil War Certain as “Afghan National Army” Now Over 60% Tajik By Craig Murray
There has been a consistent parroting by the Western media of the line that NATO troops operate ‘in support of’ the Afghan National Army, and that this is a genuine force reflecting the whole nation. This propaganda has gone as far as releasing falsified figures of the ethnic composition of the Afghan National Army. Continue reading
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Climate Justice Newsletter 24 March, 2010
The COP15 process has been and gone. Grassroots pressure came up against an ineffective process as well as resistance by governments and corporations to basic parameters of social justice in dealing with the climate crisis. Since then many things have been happening in the networks built during the lead up to Copenhagen. Attached you will… Continue reading
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Occupation Refusenik Shir Regev
My name is Shir Regev and I have been a deserter since 1/12/09. I believe it is my personal duty to refuse and defect from an army whose main purpose is to serve as an occupation police for maintaining “Israeli order” and imposing it on defenseless Palestinians who are denied citizenship. Continue reading
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Dear Kibbutz: Can You Give Us Our Land Back?
I have come to ask you to return my family’s land. I am a descendant of the Hussein and Ayad families who, together, inhabited the village of Malkiya before it was stolen from them by Zionist colonists in 1948. All of our fields, homes, and property were lost, and you and your families are currently… Continue reading
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UK: Sign petition to DEFEND THE GAZA PROTESTORS
More than 20 of the 78 people charged have been sent to prison in an unprecedented campaign by the police. Almost all of those charged are Muslims. The campaign to defend the protestors has resulted in some good press coverage, and one of the first defendants to plead not guilty was acquitted last week. Continue reading
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10 Lessons for the Climate Movement By Damien Lawson
Last year we got comprehensively rolled. While it was important and correct that we opposed the polluter-friendly carbon trading scheme (Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme – CPRS), we failed to successfully communicate why we opposed something that most people didn’t understand in the first place. Continue reading
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HLLN 24 March, 2010: Haiti's Great White Hope? by JOHN MAXWELL | What's Clinton's empty apology worth to Haiti?
History is littered with treachery. In the noisome Slough of Dishonour are mired thousands of reputations, most of those who betrayed their own countries, like Pierre Laval, Vidkun Quisling, Jonas Savimbi and Augusto Pinochet. Continue reading
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Haiti’s Yawning Leadership Vacuum: René Préval Runs his Crisis of Confidence Quietly, if at all
In the aftermath of his nation’s tragedy, President Préval repeatedly was criticized for failing to show leadership in a time of awesome catastrophe. According to Amy Wilentz, at the University of California at Irvine, ‘President René Préval of Haiti is odd…his reaction to the destruction of his country is to walk around with his shoulders… Continue reading
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US panel debates drone legality
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UVA’s) or drones are remote-controlled aircraft without people onboard, which can carry and utilize missiles. It is widely suspected that the US has used drones frequently to target al-Qaeda and Taliban fighters in Afghanistan and Pakistan, although Washington has never admitted nor denied it. But in alleged UVA attacks targeting the fighters,… Continue reading
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Palestinian teens killed as tensions rise
Four Palestinian youth were killed this weekend in the West Bank. Army denied live ammo despite evidence Continue reading
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Live Israeli fire suspected in Palestinian deaths
Israeli soldiers killed two Palestinian youths on Saturday during a demonstration in their village, Iraq Burin. The Israeli army then issued a statement alleging its soldiers only used rubber-coated steel bullets in the village. But doctors and human rights organisations say their evidence disproves this account. And Al Jazeera has obtained pictures with the clear… Continue reading
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Tariq Shadid – Going it alone: a Third Intifada?
It may well be that the citizens of the world, tired of hearing newscasts about Israel and the Palestinians, are not in the mood to hear it. Still, pressure in Palestine is building up quickly due to Israel’s continuing defiance of calls from around the world to halt settlement building in East Jerusalem and the… Continue reading
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HLLN: Helping Haitians to work | Heavy Rains Destroy Makeshift Camps In Haiti
Helping Haitians to Work |Editorial, New York Times, Heavy Rains Destroy Makeshift Camps In Haiti Continue reading
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38 Degrees | Harriet – Debate The Digital Economy Bill
The Digital Economy Bill has suffered from huge manipulation by lobbyists, including insertion of entire new clauses at the behest of music lobbyists the BPI, and accusations that Lords amended the Bill without declaring their interests. Continue reading
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The detection of phosphorus in the tissue of bomb victims in Gaza
One of the authors went on a fact finding mission to Gaza immediately after the termination of the Israeli invasion. One of the allegations towards the invading Israeli army was the use of phosphorus bombs. The author was able to take samples of tissue from burn victims. Attempts were made to demonstrate the presence of… Continue reading
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