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“Cuban Democracy” versus “American Democracy” By Arnold August and Julie Lévesque
Part I of an interview with Arnold August, author of Cuba and Its Neighbours: Democracy in Motion Continue reading
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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel News and Articles 11 May 2013: Israel’s ethnocentric experiment
11 May 2013 — VTJP News Ma’an News Israeli soldiers detain injured man from ambulance5/11/2013 – HEBRON (Ma’an) — Israeli soldiers on Friday detained an injured young man from an ambulance in Ithna near Hebron, locals said. Jihad Theeb, 22, was shot by an Israeli soldier in both his thighs while working in his farm. Theeb, accompanied… Continue reading
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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel News and Articles 10 May 2013
10 May 2013 — VTJP News International Middle East Media CenterNon-violent protester shot in head by Israeli troops; 4 others woundedIMEMC – 21-year old Ibrahim Awad was shot in the head at close range by a plastic-coated steel bullet fired by Israeli forces at a protest in Beit Ummar, in the southern part of the West Bank.… Continue reading
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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel News and Articles 5 May 2013
6 May 2013 — VTJP News International Middle East Media CenterArmy Kidnaps 13 Palestinians In Bethlehem, 2 In JeninIMEMC – Monday at dawn, May 6 2013, Israeli soldiers invaded Beit Fajjar, Al-Khader and Beit Sahour, in the West Bank district of Bethlehem, and kidnapped 13 Palestinians. Army also invaded Jenin and kidnapped two residents. … Continue reading
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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel News and Articles 5 May 2013
5 May 2013 — VTJP News International Middle East Media CenterIsraeli court rules to allow mosque demolition in JerusalemIMEMC – An Israeli court in Jerusalem has decided to allow the Israeli government to demolish part of a mosque, despite appeals from the mosque’s imam and several Palestinian members of the Israeli Knesset (Parliament). … Continue reading
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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel News and Articles 2 May 2013: Settlers torch olive trees near Ramallah
2 May 2013 — VTJP News International Middle East Media CenterHebron Governor Meets EU Representative In PalestineIMEMC – Thursday May 2, 2013, Hebron governor, Kamal Hmeid, held a meeting with the representative of the European Union in Palestine, John Gatt-Rutter, and informed him of the ongoing and escalating attacks carried out by Israeli soldiers and settlers in… Continue reading
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The Manifesto of the Mediterranean Meeting in Tunisia
1. For more than a quarter of a century, neoliberal capitalist globalization has extended its dominance over the entire planet. The processes launched have accelerated the commodization of the world in favour of a minority and have confiscated people’s citizenship and nations’ sovereignty. They are exacerbating economic insecurity and social inequality in the North and… Continue reading
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ICH 30 April 2013: Did Muslims Attack America on 9/11?
30 April 2013 — Information Clearing House Why Would Syria Use Chemical Weapons Now? By Tim Marshall Why attempt a very limited attack, resulting in no obvious military advantage? http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34776.htm Continue reading
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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel News and Articles 29 April 2013: Bedouins await Israel’s forcible relocation plan
29 April 2013 — VTJP News International Middle East Media CenterAl-Eesawy Slowly Recovering Following His 9-Month Hunger StrikeIMEMC – Monday April 29 2013, Palestinian Minister of Detainees, Issa Qaraqe’, stated that Palestinian detainee, Samer Al-Eesawy was moved from the Kapalan Israeli hospital to the Al-Ramla prison clinic, adding that the detainee is slowly recovery from his… Continue reading
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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel News and Articles 28 April 2013: Creeping dispossession destroys Palestinian agrarian communities
28 April 2013 — VTJP News International Middle East Media CenterArmy Kidnaps A Disabled Palestinian At The Al-Karama CrossingIMEMC – Army also kidnapped a Palestinian in Jaba’ town, near Jenin Sunday evening April 28, 2013, Israeli Soldiers kidnapped a disabled Palestinian young man from Jenin, in the northern part of the West Bank, as he was… Continue reading
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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel News and Articles 27 April 2013: Israeli coalition parties join forces to reduce land allocated to Bedouin
27 April 2013 — VTJP Peace, Love and Occupation? Tell Ben & Jerry’s to Stop its Complicity with the Israeli Occupation! News Ma’an News Israeli forces assault worshipers in Jerusalem, detain 44/27/2013 – RAMALLAH (Ma’an) – Israeli forces detained Friday evening four young Palestinian men following clashes near Jerusalem Old City’s Lion’s Gate, says eyewitnesses. Locals told… Continue reading
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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel News and Articles 22 April 2013: Jahalin Bedouins face new eviction
22 April 2013 — VTJP News International Middle East Media CenterPalestinians Injured As Army Attacks Nonviolent Protest In JerusalemIMEMC – Monday April 22, 2013, Palestinian medical sources reported that a Palestinian youth was shot and injured in the face after Israeli soldiers attacked Palestinians holding a nonviolent protest in solidarity with Palestinian detainees, in Abu Dis town,… Continue reading
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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel News and Articles 21 April 2013: UNICEF tones down report on child detainees in wake of Israeli pressure
21 April 2013 — VTJP News Ma’an News Lawyer: Sick prisoner stops taking medication4/21/2013 – RAMALLAH (Ma’an) — A sick prisoner on Sunday stopped taking medication in protest against Israeli medical negligence, according to a lawyer from the Palestinian ministry of prisoners’ affairs. Ahmad Saed al-Damouni, 43, from the Gaza Strip, has been held in Ashkelon jail… Continue reading
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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel News and Articles 20 April 2013: Senior EU officials: ’Oslo process has nothing more to offer’
20 April 2013 — VTJP News Ma’an News Israeli forces raid Jenin villages, no arrests4/20/2013 – JENIN (Ma’an) — Israeli forces on Saturday morning raided residential communities in the Jenin district. No detentions were recorded, locals said. An Israeli military force raided Beit Qad, Dier Abu Daif, and Jalqamus villages east of Jenin. They also stationed… Continue reading
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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel News and Articles 19 April 2013: Detained: Testimonies from Palestinian children imprisoned by Israel
19 April 2013 — VTJP News Ma’an News 17 injured in clashes in Beit Ummar4/19/2013 – HEBRON (Ma’an) — Seventeen Palestinians were injured with rubber coated steel bullets in clashes in Beit Ummar village near Hebron, a local official said. A spokesman of the popular committee against the wall and settlements told Ma’an that the injured… Continue reading
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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel News and Articles 18 April 2013: The quiet population transfer that dares not speak its name
18 April 2013 — VTJP News International Middle East Media CenterUC Berkeley student senate votes to divest from companies that profit from Israeli OccupationIMEMC – After a ten hour debate that began Wednesday evening and continued through the night, the Student Senate at the University of California – Berkeley voted to divest University funds from three… Continue reading
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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel News and Articles 17 April 2013: Israel is the only country in the world that has devised military courts for children
17 April 2013 — VTJP News International Middle East Media CenterArmy Opens Fire At Palestinian Ambulance In BethlehemIMEMC – Wednesday evening, April 17, 2013, Israeli soldiers opened fire at a Palestinian Red Crescent Ambulance while trying to provide medical care to family members, including an infant, injured by gas bombs fired by the army at their home, in… Continue reading
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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel News and Articles 15 April 2013: Israel destroys West Bank community center, arrests 20
15 April 2013 — VTJP News International Middle East Media CenterFor The First Time Since 1990, Palestinian Embassy Opens in KuwaitIMEMC – Palestinian President, Mahmoud Abbas, conducts his first visit to Kuwait for the first time since the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait in 1990, and officially participates in the official ceremony to open a new Palestinian embassy in… Continue reading
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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel News and Articles 14 April 2013
14 April 2013 — VTJP News International Middle East Media CenterTurkish PM To Visit Gaza In MayIMEMC – Turkish Prime Minister, Receb Tayyip Erdogan, stated that he intends to visit the Gaza Strip by the end of this coming May following his trip to the United States. Erdogan did not set an exact date for the visit, but… Continue reading
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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel News and Articles 13 April 2013
13 April 2013 — VTJP News Ma’an News Israeli forces prevent visit to Samer Issawi4/13/2013 – BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) – Israeli forces on Saturday refused to let 12 Israeli leftist visit hunger-striking Palestinian prisoner Samer Issawi at Israel’s Kaplan Medical Center. Israeli media said two female activists were briefly detained after they tried to break into Issawi’s room. Earlier… Continue reading
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