Amnesty International
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Interrogating the Amnesty International Apartheid Report
The following interview conducted by Daniel Falcone appeared in COUNTERPUNCH in February 11, 2022. Small modifications have been made. While the Report significantly strengthened the civill society consensus to the effect that Israel is guilty of the continuing crime of apartheid, it has not [had an] overt impact in governmental policy circles in the West nor… Continue reading
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Will Scathing Amnesty Apartheid Report Lead to Change in Israel’s Criminal Practices?
Friday, 11 February 2022 — MintPress News The reality that the Amnesty report has brought forward opens doors to a much more aggressive anti-apartheid campaign than we have seen so far. by Miko Peled LONDON – The Amnesty International report about Israel’s apartheid system states that, since its founding in 1948, Israel has in fact constituted a “cruel system Continue reading
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Amnesty apartheid report: The walls protecting Israel are finally crumbling
The walls protecting Israel are quickly crumbling. A year ago, it was Israel’s most celebrated human rights group, B’Tselem. Months later, it was the New York-based Human Rights Watch, whose senior staff have often enjoyed a revolving door with the US State Department. Continue reading
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France defies European court ruling upholding right to boycott Israel
The government of President Emmanuel Macron is defying a landmark judgment from the European Court of Human Rights that protects the right of people to call for a boycott of Israeli products. Continue reading
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Venezuela: Amnesty International in Service of Empire by Roger D. Harris
Amnesty International calls for justice about as often as it calls for punishment with the subtext that punishment of the Empire’s victims is justice writes Roger Harris. Continue reading
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Israel’s espionage crimes in Gaza and abroad By Maureen Clare Murphy
Amnesty International is demanding that Israel’s defense ministry revoke the export license from a company whose spyware has been used in “a series of egregious human rights violations.” Continue reading
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US Military Sent over $1 Billion Worth of Light Weapons To “Multiple Armed Groups” in Iraq By Prof Michel Chossudovsky
In 2015, US Congress appropriated $1.6 billion for the ITEF program. The funds were earmarked to fight against the ISIS in response to Obama’s counter-terrorism campaign launched in Summer of 2014. In a bitter irony, a large number of these weapons landed up in the hands of terrorists including the ISIS. Continue reading
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Amnesty to sue UK intelligence over intercepted emails, phone calls
Human rights organization Amnesty International has declared it will take legal action against British security services. Amnesty claims its calls have been intercepted by UK intelligence agencies. The group has issued a claim at the Investigatory Powers Tribunal (IPT) saying that the alleged actions by UK intelligence would be in breach of article 8 (right… Continue reading
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Amnesty Intl. Tries to Explains Why It Won’t Oppose All Drone Murders By David Swanson
Shah [of Amnesty Intl] explained that AI cannot oppose all drone strikes in an illegal war, because Amnesty International has never opposed a war, because doing so would make it look biased, and A.I. wants to appear to be an unbiased enforcer of the law. But, of course, an illegal war is a violation of… Continue reading
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New Kind of War Is Being Legalized By David Swanson
There’s a dark side to the flurry of reports and testimony on drones, helpful as they are in many ways. When we read that Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch oppose drone strikes that violate international law, some of us may be inclined to interpret that as a declaration that, in fact, drone strikes violate… Continue reading
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Media Lens: Thatcher’s Tyrants – The Tanks, The Guns, The Christmas Cards By David Edwards
Indicatively, according to Lexis, over the past month, there have been 461 UK national newspaper articles mentioning the word ‘Thatcher’. There have been 29 articles mentioning ‘Thatcher’ and ‘Saddam’. None of these has mentioned that Thatcher armed and financed the Iraqi dictator. Anyone interested in gauging the true extent of freedom of speech in the… Continue reading
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Mali: the scramble for Africa by Paddy McGuffin
Western powers are once again using anti-Islamist rhetoric to justify colonial interventions, anti-war campaigners Stop the War Coalition claimed today. Continue reading
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Video: An indie film takes up Bradley Manning’s plight By Bob Calhoun
As the army private’s hearing begins, this harrowing short imagines his detention Continue reading
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Video: An indie film takes up Bradley Manning’s plight By Bob Calhoun
As the army private’s hearing begins, this harrowing short imagines his detention Continue reading
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Video: Omar Khadr Returned to Canada After US and Canada Ignored International Law for Years
Michael Ratner: The Khadr case and others show how human rights have deteriorated in the US; Assange right to fear extradition Continue reading
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After NATO’s War On Libya, Nation Turned Into Concentration Camp By Vladimir Gladkov
Militias keeps terrorizing civilians, spreading death, suffering and bloody chaos across the nation. At the same time, the fall of Gaddafi’s regime grants endless possibilities to all kinds of extremists, including radical Islamists. And the West, which, in effect, sponsored the turning of Libya into a war zone, could face the bitter consequences of its… Continue reading
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Media Lies Used to Provide a Pretext for Another “Humanitarian War”: Protest in Syria: Who Counts the Dead? By Julie Lévesque
According to numerous reports from the Western media, human rights organisation, as well as the UN, countless peaceful civilians have been killed by the Syrian forces since the beginning of the unrest in the country in mid March. But where do the numbers come from? Continue reading
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