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PCHR: A new UN Report Finds Closure of Gaza Illegal and Calls for its Complete Lifting
The report has widely acknowledged that the Israeli-imposed closure, and its wide range of practices and policies, neglects education, health, housing, work and human development in the Gaza Strip. Continue reading
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The execution of Gaddafi and the attempted humiliation of Africa By Horace Campbell
Horace Campbell reconstructs ‘the decision at the highest levels’ to execute Libya’s Colonel Gaddafi and considers ‘the urgency for organising to oppose the remilitarisation of Africa.’ Continue reading
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Video: ‘NATO has bombed Libya back to Stone Age’ — RT
Former MI5 agent Annie Machon says that the US wants to reinforce the myths that public has been told about NATO’s ‘humanitarian’ intervention, while Libya is being bombed beyond the point of no return. Continue reading
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Video: ‘NATO has bombed Libya back to Stone Age’ — RT
Former MI5 agent Annie Machon says that the US wants to reinforce the myths that public has been told about NATO’s ‘humanitarian’ intervention, while Libya is being bombed beyond the point of no return. Continue reading
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Video: Zainab al-Hosni, the "Flower of Syria," Alive and on TV: Will Human Rights Organizations and Mass Media Issue Corrections? By Yoshie Furuhashi
Zainab al-Hosni, dubbed the “Flower of Syria,” who the Syrian opposition claimed was tortured and murdered, burned and decapitated, by the Syrian government, has just appeared on Syrian TV, very much alive. Here is the video of the TV interview with Zainab, who says she fled from her family home because her brothers were beating… Continue reading
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NATO Responsible for Crimes against Humanity in Libya
The situation is deteriorating badly with every day and every hour that passes in Sirte and Bani Walid as these two major cities have been held under siege for months and their citizens are suffering critically from a lack of basic necessities. NATO and the Rebels are bombing civilian areas, killing innocent people and families,… Continue reading
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Yemen Newslinks 4-7 October 2011
7 October 2011 — williambowles.info Women’s rights trio wins Nobel Peace Prize CBS News (CBS/AP) OSLO, Norway – Africa’s first democratically elected female president, a Liberian peace activist and a woman who stood up to Yemen’s authoritarian regime won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for their work to secure women’s rights, … http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/10/07/501364/main20117103.shtml Continue reading
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1st Amendment Victory in Goodman v. St. Paul, MN Police
Yesterday, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) celebrated a landmark settlement in Goodman v. St. Paul, a federal lawsuit brought by Democracy Now! journalists Amy Goodman, Sharif Abdel Kouddous, and Nicole Salazar against the Minneapolis-St. Paul police departments and the U.S. Secret Service, arising from law enforcement’s unlawful arrest and use of excessive of force… Continue reading
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Video: A Panel on BDS, in a synagogue
The relationship between American Jews and Israel is complex. On the one hand, numerous members of the former group tend to regard support of Israel as a major constituent of their Jewish identity (perhaps even the glue that holds them together), and Israelis as their Protégés. On the other hand, Israelis are also perceived as… Continue reading
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Video: ‘NATO need to be brought to justice’ for killing civilians
‘Clearly, they are not protecting civilians when they are bombing cities that are considered to be pro-Gaddafi, when they are killing people, not because they’ve done something wrong, but because their own political beliefs are contrary to what NATO wants in terms of the kind of government they want for Libya’ Continue reading
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Video: ‘NATO need to be brought to justice’ for killing civilians
‘Clearly, they are not protecting civilians when they are bombing cities that are considered to be pro-Gaddafi, when they are killing people, not because they’ve done something wrong, but because their own political beliefs are contrary to what NATO wants in terms of the kind of government they want for Libya’ Continue reading
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Libya: Black Africans continue to be killed and persecuted by rebel forces By Boutros Hussein and Lee Jay Walker
‘Reports for many months have stated that Libyan rebels have been killing and persecuting black Africans in Libya once areas came under their control. The number of reports highlighting this continues to grow and many images have been shown which show Africans being mutilated and having their bodies abused and mocked by non-black African Libyans.… Continue reading
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ADC Calls For Immediate Internal Investigation of FBI Training
The American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC) expresses deep concern over the FBI’s apparent dismissal of repeated calls from civil rights advocates to cease using any offensive, inaccurate, and inflammatory material as part of its counterterrorism training. Despite past reassurances, the FBI has persisted in its practice of vilifying Islam and Muslim-Americans in its training material. Continue reading
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PAMBAZUKA NEWS 546 12 September 2011: LINKS AND RESOURCES
12 September 2011 — Pambazuka News The authoritative electronic weekly newsletter and platform for social justice in Africa Pambazuka News (English edition): ISSN 1753-6839 CONTENTS: 1. Announcements, 2. Zimbabwe update, 3. Women & gender, 4. Human rights, 5. Refugees & forced migration, 6. Social movements, 7. Emerging powers news, 8. Africom Watch, 9. Elections & Continue reading
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Walter Fauntroy, Feared Dead in Libya, Returns Home—Guess Who He Saw Doing the Killing By Valencia Mohammed
In an interview inside his Northwest D.C. home last week, the noted civil rights leader, told the Afro that he watched French and Danish troops storm small villages late at night beheading, maiming and killing rebels and loyalists to show them who was in control. Continue reading
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Social justice also means ending the occupation By Zeev Sternhell
Be the internal ills of Israeli society as they may, and they are too numerous to count, most of them can be treated and even cured; but the occupation and colonialism are terminal illnesses. Continue reading
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Syria fears Libya’s fate By Oleg Gribkov and Natalya Kovalenko
Damascus fears that NATO may redeploy its forces to Syria after the termination of its military campaign in Libya. If this happens, Syria’s prospects for democratic development will be killed stone dead, according to both left-wing and liberal groups of that country’s moderate opposition. Continue reading
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Michel Chossudovsky: 'Innocent Libyans': "Blood on NATO Hands"
A political analyst says the leaders of NATO member states taking part in the bombing campaign in Libya are guilty of spilling the blood of many innocent Libyans. Continue reading
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Michel Chossudovsky: ‘Innocent Libyans’: “Blood on NATO Hands”
A political analyst says the leaders of NATO member states taking part in the bombing campaign in Libya are guilty of spilling the blood of many innocent Libyans. Continue reading
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PCHR: In the Widest Military Operation since 2004, IOF Arrest Dozens of Palestinian Civilians in Hebron
In conjunction with the current escalation in the Gaza Strip, the Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) launched in the early morning of Sunday, 21 August 2011, a large-scale military campaign against many neighbors and streets and dozens of houses in Hebron. Continue reading
The New Dark Age 