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ICH 18 January 2013: Burn, Burn – Africa’s Afghanistan
18 January 2013 — Information Clearing House Iraq: A Twenty Two Year Genocide By Felicity Arbuthnot Incredibly it is twenty two years to the day since the telephone rang in the early hours and a friend said: “They are bombing Baghdad.” http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33657.htm Continue reading
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PCHR_e Weekly Report On Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (03- 09 January 2013)
10 January 2013 — Palestinian Centre for Human Rights LTD (non-profit) Israeli Forces Continue Systematic Attacks against Palestinian Civilians and Property in the occupied Palestinian territory (oPt) Continue reading
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Mleeta, Khiam, Sabra, Shatila and Resistance In General By Gilad Atzmon
It was my second visit to the country. 30 years ago I crossed the Lebanese border along with an IDF convoy escorted by tanks and armed vehicles. Then I was an occupier, this time I came with only my saxophone and a desire to share my thoughts and deliver some beauty. Continue reading
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PCHR_e Weekly Report On Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (27 Dec.- 02 Jan. 2012)
2 January 2012 — PCHR – Palestinian Centre for Human Rights LTD (non-profit) Israeli Forces Continue Systematic Attacks against Palestinian Civilians and Property in the occupied Palestinian territory (oPt) Continue reading
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Video: US Blocks UN Condemnation of Israeli Settlements
Vijay Prashad: Most European countries including UK support statement denouncing new settlements (inc. transcript) Continue reading
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ICH 21 December 2012: NRA Wants Guns in Every School
21 December 2012 — Information Clearing House House Approves Bill Authorizing $633 Billion in War Spending By David Alexander Reuters The Republican-controlled House approved the 2013 National Defense Authorization Act by a vote of 315-107. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33406.htm Continue reading
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ICH 20 December 2012: UK Government warned on direct Syrian intervention
20 December 2012 — Information Clearing House Syria: Palestinian Camp Empties Pending Government Counter-Attack By Franklin Lamb Souha said she passed about a dozen bodies on the steps and front ground next to the Abdul Qader Al-Hosseini mosque as she left Yarmouk. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33391.htm Continue reading
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Top Censored Stories of 2013
Links to Project Censored top 25 stories ignored by the mainstream media. Continue reading
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Video: Israeli Army Killing Palestinian Protestors with Impunity say Activists
Last week, in one of the first actions of its kind, activists released the names of Israeli soldiers involved in the killing of a Palestinian protester. Mustafa Tamimi, a 28 year-old demonstrator from the village of Nabi Saleh, was killed when a soldier shot a tear gas canister at his face in December last year. Continue reading
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ICH 19 December 2012: Unbelievable – Outrageous! – Do you agree?
19 December 2012 — Information Clearing House Egypt’s New Pharaoh By Chris Hedges Morsi and the Brotherhood have been exposed as the heirs of the old dictatorship in new garb. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33380.htm Continue reading
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ICH 18 December 2012: What If Children Mattered No Matter Where They Lived –
18 December 2012 — Information Clearing House Obama’s War on Syria and Its Implications By Shamus Cooke The Obama administration has already declared war on Syria, even if it isn’t “official” yet. Consider the facts, all of them acts of war: http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33365.htm Continue reading
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ICH 17 December 2012: ‘Useless, useless, useless’: the Palestinian verdict on Tony Blair
17 December 2012 — Information Clearing House West has Lured al-Qaeda into Syria to be killed: Nasrallah By Tehran Times “I warn al-Qaeda: the Americans and the European countries and Arab and Islamic countries have set a trap for you in Syria, and opened for you a battlefield so you come from across the world… to… Continue reading
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ICH 16 December 2012: Thinking the Unthinkable
16 December 2012 — Information Clearing House Syria: Insurgents On The Run? By Moon Of Alabama The “western” and Gulf support of the insurgents continues even after nearly all insurgent groups pledged their continued support for the jihadist Nusra Front which the U.S. designated as a terrorist organization. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33342.htm Continue reading
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PCHR_e: PCHR launches campaign ‘Palestine to the ICC’
On 10 December, 2012, on the occasion of Human Rights Day, PCHR is launching its ‘Palestine to the ICC’ campaign. The campaign aims to encourage the relevant stakeholders, namely the State of Palestine, the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court and the international community, to fulfil their responsibilities in ensuring justice and redress for Palestinian… Continue reading
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PCHR_e: End impunity in Palestine: calling for investigation and prosecution by the International Criminal Court
In January 2009, in the wake of the 2008-2009 Israeli offensive ‘Operation Cast Lead’, the Palestinian National Authority lodged a declaration accepting the exercise of jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court, pursuant to Article 12(3) of the Rome Statute. Continue reading
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Israel’s “Operation Mow the Lawn” by Steve Niva
One can only imagine the nods of self-satisfaction when an Israel Defense Forces planner came up with “Pillar of Cloud” to name Israel’s subsequent eight-day aerial assault on Gaza. By lifting this metaphor from several well-known passages in the Torah, the IDF sought to portray the operation as a divinely sanctioned mission to clear the… Continue reading
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PCHR_e Weekly Report On Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (29 Nov.- 05 Dec 2012)
6 December 2012 — Palestinian Centre for Human Rights Ltd (non-profit) Israeli Forces Continue Systematic Attacks against Palestinian Civilians and Property in the occupied Palestinian territory (oPt) Continue reading
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Israel’s Doomsday E-1 Settlement. Diabolical Encroachment to Prospective Palestinian State By Nicola Nasser
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has definitely crossed an international red line to vindicate a swift and firm rejection from Israel’s closest allies when he announced plans recently to build a new settlement on a corridor of occupied Palestinian land in East Jerusalem, which will render any prospective Palestinian contiguous state territorially impossible. Continue reading
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ICH 2 December 2012: Bradley Manning: A Tale Of Liberty Lost In America
2 December 2012 — Information Clearing House The Mother Of All Worst-case Assumptions About Iran By Stephen M. Walt The U.S. national security community forgets that similarly dire warnings were uttered before many of these others states got the bomb, yet none of these fearsome forecasts took place. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33196.htm Continue reading
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ICH 30 November 2012: Treated Like ‘a Caged Animal’ Bradley Manning Breaks Silence
30 November 2012 — Information Clearing House Reining in Obama and His Drones By Ralph Nader Obama’s drones roam over multiple nations of Asia and Africa and target suspects, both known and unknown, whom the president, in his unbridled discretion, wants to evaporate for the cause of national security. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33188.htm Continue reading