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PCHR: Palestinian Civilian Deaths Rise to 27, Including 10 Children and 5 Women, and 520 Wounded, Including 140 Children and 83 Women
PCHR Palestinian Centre for Human Rights PRESS RELEASE Ref: 129/2012Date: 18 November 2012Time: 12:00 GMT Continue reading
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GazaFriends: Names of Palestinians Murdered by Israel
These men, women and children had hopes and dreams of the future. They were mothers, fathers, sons, daughters, and they had faces that lit up in smiles. Israel has murdered them. They must not be forgotten. Below is a list of names, ages where possible and details when provided. Please share this list with others.… Continue reading
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GazaFriends: It was a night of horror
Report from Gaza: November 18, 2012 i could not sleep , as the naval operation continued for more than 3 hours, against Gaza Beach , and mainly south of the beach, as they try to search the wreckage of the destroyed Israeli jet fighter many successive shelling non stop, i was awake, as were most… Continue reading
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PCHR_e 17 November 2012: Ongoing Israeli Offensive on Gaza: Palestinian Civilian Deaths Rise to 17, Including 2 Women and 6 Children
PCHR Palestinian Centre for Human Rights PRESS RELEASE 012 012 Time: 11:30 GMT Ongoing Israeli Offensive on Gaza: Palestinian Civilian Deaths Rise to 17, Including 2 Women and 6 Children, and 381 Wounded, Including 107 Children and 64 Women Continue reading
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Video: Israeli Occupiers Suppress Gaza Protest in Jerusalem By Martin Iqbal
Today at approximately 12:30pm Israeli forces put down a Gaza protest at Damascus Gate in Jerusalem. Several youths were abducted by the occupying forces, and women were shoved to the ground by soldiers and border police. Continue reading
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Book Review: Wages without work
It is no longer a question of being out of work. The question is: on whose terms will we be unemployed? The financial crisis has thrown millions out of work and destroyed the future possibility of decent work for millions more. Many, if not most, of the unemployed and unemployable are women. With the TUC… Continue reading
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PCHR_e 16 November 2012: IOF Continue the Offensive on the Gaza Strip
012 – 11:00 GMT — PCHR Palestinian Centre for Human Rights PRESS RELEASE 012 IOF Continue the Offensive on the Gaza Strip:Civilian Deaths Rise to 10, Including 6 Children, and 253 Others, Including 62 Children, Wounded Continue reading
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PAMBAZUKA NEWS 606: THE STRUGGLE FOR POLITICS OF HUMAN DIGNITY
16 November 2012 — Pambazuka News The authoritative electronic weekly newsletter and platform for social justice in Africa Pambazuka News is delivered free to you with the support of donations from Friends of Pambazuka. Continue reading
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Gaza Friends: IOF Attacks Gaza Again
On November 14, 2012, the Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) unleashed another massacre in Gaza. In just one day, 15 Palestinians were killed, most of them women and children. Dozens were injured, homes destroyed and the hospitals in Gaza are overwhelmed with the wounded. Israel and its apologists say this is a war, but the people… Continue reading
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Leader of Hamas’ Armed Wing and His Bodyguard Extra-Judicially Executed-Death Toll in Rises to 13, Including Two Children and a Woman…
Since Wednesday evening, 14 November 2012, Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) have escalated military attacks on the Gaza Strip. They first extra-judicially executed the leader of the Izziddin al-Qassam Brigades (the armed wing of Hamas) and his bodyguard. This attack was followed by a series of aerial, ground and sea attacks on civilian and paramilitary targets… Continue reading
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Looking for Revolution in Kuwait By Mary Ann Tétreault
If one were looking for a revolution in the Middle East, the Gulf might be the place to start. The usual mental images of revolutions feature teeming masses and blood in the streets, and there are examples of each in the Gulf. But to see a revolution that may be in progress one has to… Continue reading
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Video: Siege of Bani Walid: Foreign fighters, phosphorus bombs and nerve gas – RT sources
The besieged Libyan city of Bani Walid has been plunged into chaos. RT sources say that the former Gaddafi regime stronghold is under attack by militias bolstered by foreign mercenaries, and they used banned weapons like white phosphorous. Continue reading
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Syria: Turning Back the Clock on the Arab Spring By Ahmad Barqawi
Whatever genuine grievances and demands for political reform the Syrian people might have had a year and half ago were trodden underfoot by this stampeding sectarian drive that the Syrian opposition itself worked so hard to foster among its own supporters. Continue reading
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Syria at the Mercy of the West's "Ministers of Terrorism" By Finian Cunningham
Murder, sabotage, bribery, contract killings — and that’s just the behavior of Western political leaders and their Arab allies. Forget the fancy titles, manners and clothes — ongoing violence in Syria shows that the foreign policy of these powers is being conducted by terrorists and thugs in high offices. Which let’s one glimpse what level… Continue reading
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My Visit to a London Embassy Under Threat By Jeff Cohen
On Friday, I visited Ecuador’s embassy here in the capital of the former British empire and saw a building surrounded by a phalanx of cops, with several of them at the front door. The embassy is in an upscale neighborhood near Harrods department store. The intimidating police presence was ordered by a Conservative government that… Continue reading
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How the Chosen Ones ended Australia’s Olympic Prowess and Revealed a Secret Past By John Pilger
Wally MacArthur was one of the “stolen generation”. The victim of a eugenics-inspired campaign to “breed out the black”, Wally was taken from his mother as a small boy and was destined to become a servant in white society. His gift was speed. Running without shoes, he was the Usain Bolt of his day. Wally… Continue reading
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THE HOULA MASSACRE: Opposition Terrorists “Killed Families Loyal to the Government”
The report is based on a chronology of events as well as eyewitness accounts. Entire pro-government families in Houla were massacred. The terrorists integrated by professional mercenaries were not pro-government militia as conveyed in chorus by the mainstream media, they were in large part mercenaries and professional killers operating under the auspices of the self-proclaimed… Continue reading
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Video: Bifront Saudi Arabia: Mediaeval freedoms for export
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is bound for Riyadh this week to mull over the Syrian crisis with Saudi King Abdullah. But while the Arab Kingdom rules with an iron fist at home, double standards abound in every way imaginable abroad. Continue reading
The New Dark Age 