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APPEAL OF THE SECOND INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF VICTIMS OF AGENT ORANGE/DIOXINE
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André Bouny - Wednesday August 31, 2011
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Hanoi, Socialist Republic of Vietnam, 9th August, 2011
The Second International Conference of Victims of Agent Orange/dioxin, held in Hanoi from August 8th to 9th, 2011 included participants from around the world: Agent Orange victims, victims of other toxic chemicals, scientists, lawyers and social activists. The conference is a significant and important historic event, marking the 50th anniversary of the first spraying of the toxic chemical Agent Orange (1961-1971) by the U.S. forces (...)
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Video: Ahmadinejad: Europe & US need freedom most of all (Exclusive Interview)
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Russia Today - Sunday August 14, 2011
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Iran: A Bridge too Far? The weapon that could defeat the US in the Gulf
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Mark Gaffney - Sunday August 14, 2011
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A word to the reader: The following paper is so shocking that, after preparing the initial draft, I didn’t want to believe it myself, and resolved to disprove it with more research. However, I only succeeded in turning up more evidence in support of my thesis. And I repeated this cycle of discovery and denial several more times before finally deciding to go with the article. I believe that a serious writer must follow the trail of evidence, no matter where it leads, and report back. (...)
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Dichter’s Law
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Uri Avnery - Sunday August 14, 2011
“THE PEOPLE Demand Social Justice!” 250 thousand protesters chanted in unison in Tel Aviv last Saturday. But what they need – to quote an American artist - is “more unemployed politicians”.
Fortunately, the Knesset has gone on a prolonged vacation, three months. For as Mark Twain quipped: “No man’s life or property is safe while the legislature is in session.”
As if to prove this point, MK Avi Dichter submitted, on the very last day of the (...)
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State to OK 4,300 new homes in East Jerusalem
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JERUSALEM - Sunday August 14, 2011
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Palestinians oppose all Israeli construction in East Jerusalem because they hope to establish the capital of a future state there.
Interior Minister Eli Yishai gave final authorization to build 1,600 apartments in East Jerusalem and will approve 2,700 more in days, officials said Wednesday.
Actual construction likely will not begin for years, because building plans have to go through multiple approval processes. But the decision could complicate diplomatic efforts to dissuade Palestinians (...)
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Australia quits Iraqi Genocide: 4.6 million Iraqi war-related deaths, 1990-2011
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Dr Gideon Polya - Friday August 12, 2011
Australia has been involved since 1990 in the Iraqi Holocaust and Iraqi Genocide (4.6 million war-related deaths, 1990-2011) but has just withdrawn its last remaining 17 soldiers, replacing them with Chilean mercenaries to guard the Australian embassy.
Racist White Australia – an Apartheid Australia because of its race-based laws and regulations applied to Indigenous Australians and to Afghan and Tamil refugees - must be held to account for its complicity in the ongoing Iraqi (...)
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Putin says US acting as ’parasite’ on world economy
Monday August 1, 2011
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Putin says US acting as ’parasite’ on world economy
SELIGER, Russia — Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin on Monday accused the United States of acting as a "parasite" on the world economy by accumulating massive debts that threatened to shake global finance. "The country is living in debt. It is not living within its means, shifting the weight of responsibility on other countries, and in a way acting as a parasite," Putin told a group of pro-Kremlin youth in central (...)
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Another stinging blow for Libya
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Victor Kotsev - Saturday July 30, 2011
The killing of Libyan rebel military commander General Abdel Fattah Younes could lead to a violent split inside anti-government forces and comes as a major rebel offensive is failing to produce significant gains prior to the onset of the holy Muslim month of Ramadan in August when extremely hot weather and all-day fasts makes warfare very difficult and slow.
The death of the general, whose body along with those of two senior aides was reportedly found badly burnt on Thursday, brings into (...)
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UN Commission Flotilla Massacre Report
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Stephen Lendman - Thursday July 28, 2011
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Despite irrefutable evidence, including the UN Human Rights Council (HRC) concluding last September that Israel committed serious “violations of international law, including international humanitarian law” by massacring nine Gaza Flotilla activists, injuring dozens more, in international waters, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon appeased Israel by appointing his own commission.
On July 25, Haaretz writer Barak Ravid headlined, “UN delays flotilla report as Jerusalem and (...)
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Israel shouldn’t brainwash its children
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Haaretz Editorial - Wednesday July 20, 2011
There is nothing easier than getting preeschoolers to parrot an anthem and getting them excited by chauvinistic and religious ceremonies.
The Ministry of Education gave preschool supervisors and teachers a packet for planning and preparation for the coming school year. The first chapter is on "education to Zionist, Jewish, democratic and social values," much like the educational goals for elementary and secondary schools. After perusing it, it is hard to decide whether to laugh or cry: The (...)
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Israeli ship attacks international solidarity boat crew off Gaza coast
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Hama Waqum - Monday July 18, 2011
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I am writing this exactly twelve hours after I was attacked by an Israeli warship, off the Gaza coast.
As a member of the Civil Peace Service, I board the Oliva boat around twice a week to monitor Gazan fishermen’s human rights. But today, it wasn’t just the fishermen who were targeted.
We approached a cluster of hasaka fishing boats that were being attacked with water cannons at midday on July 13. As we got closer all I could focus on was the officer manning the machine gun, (...)
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Gaza-bound ship carrying pro-Palestinian activists sets sail from Greece
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Amira Hass - Monday July 18, 2011
SOMEWHERE IN THE EAST MEDITERRANEAN – On Saturday evening a Gaza-bound boat left Greek territorial waters. Its 10 participants regard themselves as representatives of the entire abortive flotilla to Gaza, and are determined to exhaust all possibilities in order to reach their destination, or at least carry out the symbolic act of protesting the blockade. They are well aware of the Lilliputian dimensions of their venture, compared with the massive impact organizers had initially (...)
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A flotilla to stop deaths in the Mediterranean
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migreurop - Monday July 18, 2011
Hundreds of thousands of people fled Libya since the crisis began in February 2011. As of June 14, according to the International Organisation for Migration (IOM), one million refugees had left the country ; more than 500,000 heading off to Tunisia, more than 300,000 to Egypt and 70,000 to Niger.
Every day, refugees arrive in Tunisia to stay in already overpopulated camps [1]. The majority are nationals from Sub-Saharan African countries themselves in conflict like Somalia, Sudan, Eritrea (...)
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AFGHANISTAN: NATO RAID KILLED 6 CIVIIAN
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himalove - Friday July 15, 2011
Afghan officials say NATO raid killed 6 civilians Men in the crowd carried the bodies of the dead on their shoulders
By Amir Shah - Associated Press,Heidi Vogt
Government officials in eastern Afghanistan accused NATO troops on Thursday of killing six civilians in an overnight raid, and more than 1,000 people poured into the streets in anger.
The military alliance said the joint patrol with Afghan forces in Khost province killed six fighters from a militant group allied with the Taliban (...)
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Uri Avnery: When imagined memory replaces the real in Israel
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Uri Avnery - Monday July 11, 2011
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By Uri Avnery
People see elderly, nonviolent human rights activists as dangerous provocateurs because the government and the media tell them so.
For several weeks now, our army and navy have been in a state of high alert, bravely facing a deadly threat to our very existence: 10 little boats trying to reach Gaza. These vessels are carrying a dangerous gang of vicious terrorists, in the form of elderly veterans of peace campaigns.
Benjamin Netanyahu has affirmed our unshakable (...)
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Wikimania 2011 Sponsored by Israeli-Government Company that “Develops East Jerusalem”
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Wikipedia skeptic - Thursday July 7, 2011
Wikimania, the annual conference of the Wikimedia community to be held in the Israeli city of Haifa this August, is to be partially sponsored by the East Jerusalem Development Company (EJDC), an Israeli government-owned company responsible for “the development and operation of tourist sites in eastern and greater Jerusalem.”
Source : The Alternative Information Center
Tuesday, 28 June 2011 06:26 Nikki Hodgson for the Alternative Information Center (AIC)
EJDC projects, (...)
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Statement of Support for the Gaza-Bound Freedom Flotilla
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Gaza - Tuesday July 5, 2011
We, Israeli organizations, Jews and Arabs, full-heartedly support Freedom Flotilla, aim of sailing to the Port of Gaza with the proclaimed goals of breaking through the sea and land siege and blockade of Gaza, which is a manifestation of a continuing occupation by Israel. We condemn the campaign of slander which the government of Israel is waging against the flotilla and those who take part in it. There is a very real reason to worry that such lies might be designed by the government as a (...)
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Israel to charge Palestinians for bulldozing their homes
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Amerikagulag - Friday July 1, 2011
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And what next? Israel to charge Palestinians for killing them?
A Committee of the Israeli Knesset (Parliament) passed a first draft of a law that will require that Palestinians whose homes are destroyed by Israeli forces pay the Israeli government for the demolition costs :
http://www.imemc.org/article/61573
Followed shortly by Israel to charge Flotilla for making them attack and sink the ships.
Hypocrisy know no bounds when it comes to (...)
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It’s Official: China Is The "Mystery" Daily Buyer Of Billions Of Euros
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Tyler Durden, ZeroHedge - Thursday June 30, 2011
by Tyler Durden
06/29/2011
Over the past two weeks, we have been suggesting, tongue in cheekily, that despite the relentless desires of everyone to sell the EUR, it has continued to drift higher, due to some inexplicable force with bottomless pockets, which, after some deductive logic, we assumed was China. It turns out we were correct. Naturally, figuring out what China does with its $3 trillion in foreign reserves is sometimes more complex than brain surgery (except what it does every (...)
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OH LOVELY: Residents Near Fukushima Are Pissing Radioactive Urine
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Bob Nichols, Project Censored Winner - Wednesday June 29, 2011
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You could be, too.
(San Francisco) - Business Insider’s Joe Weisenthal reported Jun 26, 2011:
“Newsflash: The radioactive crisis near Fukushima isn’t getting any better. This has been something we discussed in the last few weeks, but now there are some new disturbing details.
From Japan Times:
More than 3 millisieverts of radiation has been measured in the urine of 15 Fukushima residents of the village of Iitate and the town of Kawamata, confirming internal radiation (...)
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