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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel: News and Articles 29 June 2013: Maximum Land with Minimum Palestinians: The Annexation of Area C
29 June 2013 — VTJP News Ma’an News Frequent border closures add to Gaza gas woes6/29/2013 – GAZA CITY (IRIN) — Frequent closures of the only crossing for commercial goods between Israel and the Gaza Strip have left the coastal territory short of gas for cooking and heating, businessmen say, affecting businesses, agricultural production and health services. Continue reading
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Enemies of Syria Plan Escalated Aggression By Stephen Lendman
So-called “Friends of Syria” are their worst enemies. They’re a rogue’s gallery of scoundrels. They’re complicit with Washington’s imperium. They violate core international law principles. Continue reading
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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel News and Articles 18 June 2013: House demolitions: Zionism’s constant background noise
18 June 2013 — VTJP News International Middle East Media CenterSettlements Budget Exceeds Allotted Finances By MillionsIMEMC – Israeli daily, Haaretz, reported that the Israeli government budged, allotted for settlement activities in the occupied territories, is hundreds of millions over the allocated annual budget. … Continue reading
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Who Killed the Syrian Peace Talks? The Rebels have been Defeated. Is the War Over? By Shamus Cooke
The peace talks are dead because the U.S.-backed rebels are boycotting the negotiations, ruining any hope for peace, while threatening to turn an already-tragic disaster into a Yugoslavia-style catastrophe…or worse. Continue reading
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Subversive Nun’s Sophisticated Plot to Incite Peace By Peter Rugh
Tears welled up in my eyes when I heard that 83-year-old Catholic nun Megan Rice is facing 20 years in prison — a sentence that, if delivered to the fullest extent this September, would essentially condemn her to spend the rest of her life behind bars. Unlike me, however, she reportedly smiled when the jury… Continue reading
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Subversive Nun’s Sophisticated Plot to Incite Peace By Peter Rugh
Tears welled up in my eyes when I heard that 83-year-old Catholic nun Megan Rice is facing 20 years in prison — a sentence that, if delivered to the fullest extent this September, would essentially condemn her to spend the rest of her life behind bars. Unlike me, however, she reportedly smiled when the jury… Continue reading
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Nobel Prize Laureate: Peace Is Possible In Syria By Mairead MAGUIRE
Report and Appeal to the International community to support a process of dialogue and reconciliation in Syria between its people and Syrian government and reject outside intervention and war. Continue reading
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Iowa City moves to ban drones, traffic cameras and license plate readers
The residents of Iowa City, Iowa have moved to ban drones, red-light cameras and license plate readers in what is likely the most thorough action taken by a town yet against modern surveillance technologies. Continue reading
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Kerry and Blair’s $4 Billion Mystery Plan for Palestine: Crony capitalism under the guise of peace? By Max Blumenthal
In a speech brimming with optimism, Kerry introduced an ambitious initiative that promised to turn the whole situation around. Calling it, “Breaking The Impasse,” Kerry claimed the plan would triple tourism to the occupied Palestinian territories, double or triple Palestinian agriculture production, increase the Palestinian GDP by 50 percent, and foster the construction of a… Continue reading
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Assad’s army retakes control of strategic Lebanon-bordering Qusayr
Syrian regime forces seize control of the strategically important town of Qusayr on the Lebanon border after a long battle with rebel fighters. Victory is being hailed as a turning point in the civil war, rebels blame defeat on the exiled Council. Continue reading
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Syria has the right to peace and to self-defense, despite western claims By John Robles
There can be little doubt that the lifting of the arms embargo to the armed insurgents and terrorist groups operating in Syria is one of the most egregiously callous, self-serving, reckless and irresponsible moves made by the international community since the beginning of the internal conflict in the country. Continue reading
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Bradley Manning: Prisoner of Conscience By Francis A. Boyle
Since the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, the peoples of the world have witnessed successive governments in the United States that have demonstrated little if any respect for fundamental considerations of international law, human rights, and the United States Constitution itself. Continue reading
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Bradley Manning (not) on TV Network News By Peter Hart
If you care at all about war and peace, press freedom, whistleblowers’ rights and the public’s right to know what the government is doing, the trial is of enormous consequence. Continue reading
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ICH 1-2 June 2013: Perpetual War – and Obama’s Perpetual Con Game
2 June 2013 — Information Clearing House Syrian Opposition Fighters Arrested with Chemical Weapons By Bill Van Auken Turkish police rounded up 12 members of Syria’s Al Qaeda-affiliated Al Nusra Front along with chemical weapons materials. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article35150.htm Continue reading
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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel News and Articles 31 May 2013: ’Superland’ and the normalization of segregation in Israel
31 May 2013 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Child Seriously Injured In BethlehemIMEMC – Palestinian medical sources has reported that a Palestinian child was seriously injured by Israeli army fire, late on Friday evening, at the entrance of the Aida refugee camp, north of the West Bank city of Bethlehem. … Continue reading
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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel News and Articles 26 May 2013: Kerry against the wall
26 May 2013 — VTJP News International Middle East Media CenterIsraeli troops decimate Bedouin village in Negev, leaving 24 children homelessIMEMC – The village of Atir-Umm al-Hieran is considered an ‘unrecognized’ village by the Israeli government, and has experienced home demolitions in the past, in 2007. But this week, residents say, 600 Israeli officers came and “destroyed Continue reading
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Fact-finding Mission Concludes: Proxy War in Syria By Mairead Maguire
Report and Appeal to the International community to support a process of dialogue and reconciliation in Syria between its people and Syrian government and reject outside intervention and war Continue reading
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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel News and Articles 24 May 2013: “This time they destroyed everything”: Uprooted Bedouins face more evictions
24 May 2013 — VTJP News International Middle East Media CenterDetainee Continues Hunger Strike, Demands ReleaseIMEMC – Palestinian detainee, Ayman Issa Hamdan, who went on hunger strike 27 days ago, rejected an Israeli “offer” for an additional six-month extension of his Administrative Detention, without trial, and demanded his unconditional release. … Continue reading
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Video: Unedited video of Woolwich attacker
Unedited Version of London Woolwich Murderer Interview + 2nd Video By Another Bystander Continue reading
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