refugees
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Information Clearing House Newsletter 25 January, 2011: The Corruption Game
25 January, 2011 — Information Clearing House Rice: US Army Presence In Iraq Protects Israel By JPost Staff Former US secretary of state Condoleezza Rice reassured Israel that the US military presence in Iraq should calm any Israeli security concerns “from the east,” minutes from a 2008 trilateral meeting between Rice and the Israeli and… Continue reading
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Papers reveal how Palestinian leaders gave up fight over refugees By Ian Black and Seumas Milne
Palestinian negotiators privately agreed that only 10, 000 refugees and their families, out of a total refugee population exceeding 5 million, could return to Israel as part of a peace settlement, leaked confidential documents reveal. PLO leaders also accepted Israel’s demand to define itself as an explicitly Jewish state, in sharp contrast to their public… Continue reading
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Refugee Diagram by Atelier Collectif
10 January, 2011 — MRZine There are many reasons for leaving one’s country. . . . N.B. Click on “Subtitles” to view this video with English subtitles. Directed by Atelier Collectif. Animation by William Henne, Caroline Nugues, and Lionel Seneterre. Produced by Zorobabel. 2006. Continue reading
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On the day Yafa’s refugees return – zochrot 2010
Zochrot [“Remembering”] is a group of Israeli citizens working to raise awareness of the Nakba, the Palestinian catastrophe of 1948. Continue reading
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Sabah al-Baghdadi – Iraq: Disastrous and Shocking Official Statistics
The following official governmental statistics, up to December 2008, show the disastrous conditions prevalent in Iraq since the American invasion and occupation of that country. One million widowed Iraqi women; Four million orphaned Iraqi children; Two and a half million Iraqis killed; 800,000 Iraqis have disappeared in secret holding places connected with the different ruling… Continue reading
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Media Lens: The Faceless and the Dead – The Guardian and Iraq’s Refugees
MEDIA LENS: Correcting for the distorted vision of the corporate media December 6, 2007 “See The World Through Their Eyes†For several months now, non-UK visitors accessing the Guardian website have been shown an endlessly revolving animation in three segments that would not look out of place on FAIR, ZNet, or indeed Media Lens. The… Continue reading
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Media Lens: Loaded Words: ‘Surge’, ‘Reconstruction’ And ‘Withdrawal’
News media this week are devoting huge swathes of coverage to the report by General David Petraeus, the top US military commander in Iraq, on the impact of the so-called ‘surge’ of US troops. The surge boosted the number of US troops in Iraq earlier this year by 30,000 to 168,000. Continue reading
The New Dark Age 