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The IDF Abuse of Palestinian Children
Israel’s system of military law for Palestinian children has become a major issue, as our Middle East correspondent John Lyons reported in The Weekend Australian Magazine. Here he continues his investigation of the military court system, looking at the effect detention can have. Fadia Saleh runs eleven rehabilitation centres in the Palestinian territories, or West…
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Egypt protest against military rulers is biggest yet
Close to 100,000 Egyptians fill Cairo’s Tahrir Square to call for the military generals to cede power to a civilian government. The U.S. also urges the military to step aside. Reporting from Cairo— They came by the tens of thousands, swelling through neighborhoods, marching over bridges and pouring into Tahrir Square on Friday in the…
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Disappeared: Thousands of Libyan Blacks Turn Up Missing in Rebel Offensives
Entire City Depopulated, Declared ‘Closed Military Area’ Before the Libyan Civil War, Tawarga was an agricultural city of some 10,000, mostly black people, with an economy centering around palm trees and date production. Today, it is entirely empty, and declared a “closed military area” by the rebels. But where did the Tawargans go? That’s not…
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The American Thanksgiving: Rejoicing In Genocide And White Supremacy
By Glen Ford 27 November, 2006 Black Agenda Report “Thanksgiving as presently celebrated is an affront to civilization.” Nobody but Americans celebrates Thanksgiving. It is reserved by history and the intent of “the founders” as the supremely white American holiday, the most ghoulish event on the national calendar. No Halloween of the imagination can rival…
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Celebrating Genocide!
Dan Brook Many people annually get as stuffed as their turkeys in celebration of the Thanksgiving holiday. Thanksgiving is a quintessentially American holiday, so much so that it is not just a holiday, but really is (as the etymology implies) one of our Holy Days, almost universally celebrated by Americans. In its sacredness, families get…
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Israel Shuts Down “All for Peace” Radio Station
JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel has ordered the shutdown of a dovish Israeli-Palestinian radio station, officials and the station’s operators said on Sunday. The station and other critics said the move was politically motivated, and part of a broader assault on democracy by conservative forces in the government. Some members of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s coalition…
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Libya’s Liberation Front Organizing in the Sahel
by FRANKLIN LAMB On the edge of the Sahel, Niger “Sahel” in Arabic means “coast” or “shoreline”. Unless one was present 5000 years ago when, according to anthropologists, our planets first cultivation of crops began in this then lush, but now semiarid region where temperatures reach 125 degrees F, and only camels and an assortment…
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Myths About Socialism: Under Socialism, is Everyone Equal?
This is one of the most common myths about socialism, often trotted out to explain why socialism “doesn’t work,” how it goes against “human nature,” that there is a lack of incentive to work, and so on. As is the case with most mistaken ideas about socialism, this is caused by a basic misunderstanding of…
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Review: “Genocide and the Second Reich”
Intro The genocide of the Herero and Namaqua tribes of Namibia is a part of the history of the German Empires, and imperialism and colonialism in general, which has been forgotten and blanked out. It is not commonly known that this genocide in southwest Africa was the first genocide of the 20th century. One of…
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