December 12, 2013
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Israeli government kills plan to uproot Bedouin By Alex Kane
The “Day of Rage” protests held last month by Bedouin Arabs and their allies to protest the Prawer Plan were met with defiant rhetoric from Israeli officials. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed to move forward with the Israeli government’s initiative to demolish Bedouin villages, uproot their inhabitants and build Jewish towns on top of them. Continue reading
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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel: News and Articles 11 December 2013: To end the occupation, dissolve the Palestinian Authority
11 December 2013 — VTJP News International Middle East Media CenterU.S. University students receive ‘eviction notices’ in satirical action by Palestine supportersIMEMC – Students in dorms at the University of Michigan were awakened to eviction notices on their doors, which said that they needed to vacate their dorm rooms by December 13th, at which point… Continue reading
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Information Clearing House 11 December 2013: U.S. Lied About Biological, Chemical Weapon Use in the Korean War
11 December 2013 — Information Clearing House India, Pak Nuclear War Could Put 2 billion People at Risk: Study By Lalit K Jha A nuclear war between India and Pakistan would result in a global famine that could kill over two billion people – a quarter of the world’s population – and end human civilisation, a… Continue reading
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General Electric Knew Its Reactor Design Was Unsafe … So Why Isn’t GE Getting Any Heat for Fukushima?
Questions persisted for decades about the ability of the Mark 1 to handle the immense pressures that would result if the reactor lost cooling power, and today that design is being put to the ultimate test in Japan. Five of the six reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi plant, which has been wracked since Friday’s earthquake… Continue reading
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Chavez vs. Mandela: Why did the media scorn one and mourn the other? By Hassan Reyes
For those many who identify with a progressive or liberatory politics, 2013 will be remembered as a year where two recognized leaders of the Left passed away. Continue reading
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How the ANC Sold Out South Africa’s Poor By Ronnie Kasrils
South Africa’s young people today are known as the Born Free generation. They enjoy the dignity of being born into a democratic society with the right to vote and choose who will govern. But modern South Africa is not a perfect society. Full equality – social and economic – does not exist, and control of… Continue reading
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Shared values: Likud member says Prawer Plan akin to what ‘Americans did to the Indians’ By Alex Kane
“You want to transfer an entire population,” MK Hanna Swaid (Hadash) said. Committee chairwoman MK Miri Regev (Likud) responded, “Yes, as the Americans did to the Indians.” Continue reading
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Where is Palestine’s Mandela? By Alan Hart
11 December 2013 — Alan Hart The answer to my headline question is that he, Marwan Barghouti, is in an Israeli jail where he has been since his arrest in Ramallah by an IDF unit in 2002, after which, in 2004, he was sentenced to five life terms in prison. Some months before his arrest one… Continue reading
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