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Many Avatars of Indian Corruption By Satya Sagar
To call Anna Hazare’s crusade against corruption a ‘second freedom movement’ may be hyperbole but in recent times there has been no mass upsurge for a purely public cause, that has captured the imagination of so many. Continue reading
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Video: The Real Source of the British Riots
So in the UK, only one in five homes is occupied by couples with children. Nine out of ten couples face a tax and benefit penalty worth more than 100 pounds a week if they live together – so in other words, they are 100 pounds a week better off if they live apart! Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 14 August, 2011: All Israeli kindergarteners are required to sing the national anthem— except for ‘Arab sector’ children
14 August , 2011 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Israeli forces abduct three children in East Jerusalem IMEMC – Sunday August 14, 2011 – 21:10, According to local sources, Israeli forces invaded the neighborhood of Silwan, in east Jerusalem, on Sunday morning and abducted two young children and a teenager, taking them Continue reading
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Video: Make No Mistake: NATO committed War Crimes in Libya by grtv
This video reveals the crimes committed by NATO, as well as those committed by the Western media, which has decided to obfuscate the casualties and human suffering of the Libyan people and uphold the humanitarian fiction of NATO’s R2P mandate. Continue reading
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Video: NATO Missiles Target Libyan Hospital, Kill 50 Children
On August 5, 2011, NATO air missiles targeted a children’s hospital in Zlitan, Libya, killing 50 children. This event clearly reveals NATO war crimes and shows that civilians are being targeted during the bombing campaigns. Continue reading
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End Game For Benghazi Rebels As Libyan Tribes Prepare To Weigh In By Franklin Lamb
According to NATO spokesperson Lavoie, allowing Libya’s population to watch government TV, and by implication, to hear terrorist public service announcements concerning subjects such as gasoline availability, food distribution for Ramadan, updates on areas to be avoided due to recent NATO bombing, prayers and lectures by Sheiks on moral and religious subjects during Ramadan or… Continue reading
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When the revolution comes By Gaither Stewart
In the Blue Ridge Mountains of Western North Carolina where I started out my life, I ran into the story of the Asheville-based self-professed Communist writer, Olive Tilford Dargan, of whom I had never heard before. Visiting then her gravesite in the little known Green Hills Cemetery in West Asheville and researching her and her… Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 1 August, 2011: PA: ‘Alarming’ rise in Israel’s attacks on Palestinian children
1 August , 2011 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Israeli Municipalities Go on Strike as Israel Continues to Face Widespread Housing Protests IMEMC – Monday August 01, 2011 – 14:10, Most municipal authorities in Israel carried out a one day strike on Monday, as an act of solidarity with the popular protests Continue reading
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Narratives under siege: stranglehold on farmers tightens
Between 1991 and the second intifada in 2000, Hate’em exported various produce, including tomatoes, potatoes and flowers, to Israel and Europe. He notes that since then, however, the “borders have become impossible” and he is unable to export his produce. Continue reading
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Libya diary: Day 1 (27/7/11 1.20 AM) By Lizzie Phelan
Yesterday (25/7/11) NATO bombed a wedding party and a hospital in Zlitan. NATO is bombing Tripoli as I write, I can hear the planes and the bombs dropping outside the hotel. Sukant saw smoke rising from the Bab Alziza compound. I saw just a few minutes ago on the TV that there were people at… Continue reading
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Israeli Army storms Freedom Theater in Jenin
Special Forces of the Israeli Army attacked the Freedom Theater in Jenin Refugee Camp at approximately 03:30 this morning. Ahmad Nasser Matahen, a night guard and technician student at the theater woken up by heavy blocks of stone hurled at the entrance of the theater. As he opened the door he found masked and heavily… Continue reading
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Yemen Newslinks 26 July 2011
26 July 2011 — williambowles.info 12 suspected Qaeda militants killed in south Yemen DAWN.com File Photo by AP ADEN: Twelve suspected al Qaeda militants were killed in overnight bombings and clashes near Zinjibar, the capital of Abyan province in south Yemen, a military officer and a local official said on Tuesday. “The Yemeni air force Continue reading
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PressTV – ‘1,108 Libyans killed in NATO attacks’
Libya’s prosecutor general has said that NATO airstrikes have killed more than 1,100 civilians and injured thousands of others since the end of March. Continue reading
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Statewatch News Online, No 2 of 2: 13 July 2011 (19/11)
Home page: http://www.statewatch.org/ e-mail: office@statewatch.org ITALY: Statewatch Analysis: Italy: Series of defeats in court for the ‘security package’ UK: Still spooked – Greater emphasis on the Channel project in the revised Prevent strategy gives much cause for concern EU: Statewatch Analysis: ?The Dialogue for Migration, Mobility and Security with the Southern Mediterranean countries EU: Council Continue reading
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The invasion of Australia – official at last By John Pilger
The City of Sydney has voted to replace the words ‘European arrival’ in the official record with ‘invasion’. The deputy lord mayor, Marcelle Hoff, says it is intellectually dishonest to use any other word in describing how Aboriginal Australia was dispossessed by the British. Continue reading
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Video: Qaddafi Did NOT Threatens Attacks on Europe
Gaddafi is challenging Sarkozy, Cameron and Obama to switch on their TV and watch the crowd. He is saying that they will find out that they are delusional because they entered a war which they will never win, he also says if you continue targeting our houses we can do the same because Europe is… Continue reading
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Why is the flotilla heading for Gaza to break the blockade? Nadezhda Kevorkova on Flotilla Free Gaza 2
In May, Egypt announced that it was lifting the blockade of Gaza from its side. This has prompted many to wonder why the upcoming Gaza flotilla is necessary. We found some compelling reasons. Continue reading
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Greece: The beginning of the end, or a new beginning? By Timothy Bancroft-Hinchey
It is by now patently obvious that there are two languages being spoken in Athens: that among the political class desperate to keep the Euro-wagon on the road and that of the Greek people, who at this moment represent the hearts and minds of the Europeans, which spells out the message that we do not… Continue reading
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A Message from Aisha Qaddafi
Libya is involved in direct and indirect talks with rebels trying to overthrow Muammar Gaddafi, the Libyan leader’s daughter said, although the Benghazi-based opposition has ruled out further contact with Tripoli. Continue reading
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