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Longest Palestinian hunger strike ends in deal
(Reuters) – A Palestinian held without trial ended a 66-day hunger strike Tuesday after Israeli authorities promised to release him in April in a deal that avoided judicial review of its detention policy. Khader Adnan, a 33-year-old member of the militant group Islamic Jihad, had been refusing food since mid-December and doctors had voiced fears…
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Assassinating Iranian Scientists
The Original Sin: Assassinating Iranian Scientists by ISMAEL HOSSEIN-ZADEH To avoid restating the obvious, or repeating what others have already established, I take these facts as givens: that the main perpetrator of the assassination of Iranian scientists has been the Israeli spy agency Mossad, assisted by various covert operations agencies of the United States and…
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Karzai urges calm as six die in Afghan Koran protests
(Reuters) – Afghan President Hamid Karzai appealed for calm Wednesday after officials said six people were shot dead and dozens wounded in protests over the burning of copies of the Koran, Islam’s holy book, at NATO’s main base in the country. The U.S. embassy said its staff were in “lockdown” and travel had been suspended…
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98-year-old Conn. woman facing eviction by son says her home means ‘everything’ to her
NEW HAVEN, Conn. — Peter Kantorowski wanted his 98-year-old mother to move into a nursing home or live with him. She wouldn’t go; she didn’t want to leave her home of nearly 60 years. Finally, Kantorowski went to court — and served his mother with an eviction notice shortly before her 98th birthday in December.…
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Video Exposes Chevron’s Decimation of Indigenous Groups In Ecuador’s Amazon
NEW YORK, Feb. 16, 2012 — A Sordid Tale of Crime and Cover-up By Major U.S. Oil Company NEW YORK, Feb. 16, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — In the Ecuadorian rainforest, far from the eyes of the U.S. news media, sits one of the world’s most devastating environmental disasters — one that has killed numerous people and…
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If A Tree Falls…
“If a tree falls, and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?” This question has become iconic in our society and has inspired many debates. The idea behind it is that, if one is not able to experience a phenomena or event directly, one cannot attest to its existence. While…
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Palestinian prisoner on hunger strike poses challenge for Israel
JERUSALEM — A Palestinian prisoner who has refused food for two months to protest his detention without trial is in “immediate danger of death,” according to his attorneys and a doctor from an Israeli medical rights group who examined him at the hospital in Israel where he is being treated. Khader Adnan, 33, accused by…
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Western Libya Militias Form Alliance Against Government
Leader of New Federation Lashes NTC for Gadhafi Ties As the nation still suffers the aftershocks from last year’s civil war, the battle lines for the next Libyan Civil War are starting to take shape today, with the announcement that some 100 militias in Western Libya are forming a new federation to demand reforms. The…
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Taliban Warns US to Learn From Soviet Defeat
It was 23 years ago this week that the Soviet occupation forces finally gave up on a bloody decade-long war in Afghanistan, limping out of the country with their own economy in tatters, and the Soviet-backed Afghan government on the brink of collapse. If that sounds familiar, it should, according to the Taliban’s latest statement.…
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Myths About Socialism: Is It Really Just a Matter of Corporate Greed?
Unlike other political philosophers, Karl Marx did not simply dream up an ideal society or concoct ad hoc solutions to the social problems he saw in his time. Marx was an observer who devoted far more of his time and energy to observing and recording the inner workings of capitalism, not socialism. In short, Marx was…
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