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The Forgotten Palestinians
Inequality Inside the Green Line by PATRICK O. STRICKLAND Tel Aviv. On May 15, the New York Times ran an editorial authored by Aaron David Miller under the title of “Preserving Israel’s Uncertain Status Quo.” Miller argues that the Israeli government’s attempts to achieve a “more peaceful and prosperous future” must “count for something.” In…
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Israel falsifies documents to deport Sudanese migrants
Israel has deported Sudanese asylum seekers by issuing documents with purposefully incorrect nationalities, a recently published report by the London-based Bureau of Investigative Journalism revealed. More than 100 Sudanese nationals in Israel were given passports or birth certificates incorrectly labeling them as citizens of South Sudan, the report said. Israel has no repatriation agreement with…
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Breivik ‘supporter’ accused of plotting copycat attacks in Czech Republic
Commandos find arms cache in raid on home after tip-off from neighbours An alleged sympathiser with the Norwegian mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik was charged by police yesterday on suspicion he had been planning to carry out a series of copycat terrorist attacks in the Czech Republic. The 29-year-old unnamed suspect was charged with unlawful…
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Why the world can’t tolerate a preemptive Israeli attack on Iran
Under the UN Charter, neither Israel nor the US would have a legal right to preemptively launch a military attack on Iran. Do we want a world in which leaders are free to launch military attacks on other countries simply on an assumption of hostile intent and military capacity? Now that negotiations with Iran over…
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Obama turns back the clock on Guantanamo
By Baher Azmy New rules from the Obama Justice Department threaten to return Guantanamo Bay to the legal black hole it was in during the early days of the George W. Bush administration. The rules, which began trickling out in May, are to be reviewed Friday in a hearing before a federal judge in Washington.…
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At Least 30 Killed as South African Police Open Fire on Thousands of Striking Miners
South African police opened fire at striking miners at the Marikana platinum mine, killing at least 30 protesters. The incident became the bloodiest industrial dispute in South Africa in the 20 years since the end of the country’s Apartheid regime. South African Minister of Police Nathi Mthethwa confirmed the death toll: “A lot of people…
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The NYT and the School of Assassins
by JOAN ROELOFS Saturday, August 11, The New York Times printed a front page article about the nun, Sister Megan Rice, age 82, who committed civil disobedience at the Oak Ridge Tennessee nuclear reservation in a protest against nuclear weapons. The article also informs us that she had been arrested in 1998 protesting at the…
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Families of assassinated Iranian scientists’ sue Israel, US, UK
The families of Iranian nuclear scientists assassinated by foreign-backed terrorists have filed a lawsuit against Israel, the United States and the United Kingdom, for their involvement in the murders. Rahim Ahmadi Roshan, father of Iranian scientist Mostafa Ahmadi Roshan, who was killed in a terrorist attack in January, told a press conference in Tehran on…
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Act Now! General Motors Workers on Hunger Strike in Colombia
A long-running struggle by General Motors workers in Colombia garnered new attention last week when five workers went on a hunger strike to protest the company’s firing of sick workers, sewing their lips together to draw attention to their cause. Workers say their illness is work-related and the firings unjustified. General Motors “is firing us…
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Off-duty police officer shoots dead outraged father who confronted him after he mowed down his four-year-old daughter
An unnamed, off-duty officer has killed the father of a little girl he crashed into late Saturday night. Authorities say that Taniyah Middleton, 4, was crossing First Avenue in the Maywood section of Chicago with her older cousin when the officer approached on his motorcycle. He didn’t see the girl until it was too late,…
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