Da: Omar Barghouti2
Inviato: martedì 30 giugno 2009 20.32
Oggetto: CSQ Trade Union Federation (Quebec, Canada) passes BDS Resolution!
Another major BDS achievement in the Canadian trade union domain …
The Centrale des Syndicats du Quebec (CSQ), the third largest labor federation in Quebec, Canada, passed a decisive BDS resolution today.
CSQ represents over 180,000 workers.
Letters [...]
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Iranian Elections: The ‘Stolen Elections’ Hoax
by Prof. James Petras
Global Research, June 18, 2009
“Change for the poor means food and jobs, not a relaxed dress code or mixed recreation… Politics in Iran is a lot more about class war than religion.”
Financial Times Editorial, June 15 2009
Introduction
There is hardly any election, in which the White House has [...]
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Da: rrkysia
Oggetto: [GazaFriends] TAKE ACTION! – Update on HR workers kidnapped by Israel
Data: 30 giugno 2009 22:07:54 GMT+02:00
A: gazafriends
Cc: fg-discussions, fg-medialist, FG-Coordinators
Dear Friends,
Earlier today, Israeli Occupation Forces boarded the Free Gaza boat, SPIRIT OF HUMANITY, and kidnapped 21 human rights workers and journalists who were on [...]
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June 29, 2009 Lies & Illusions: UPDATE on The Iraqi Charade.
Layla Anwar, An Arab Woman Blues
This is a detailed update on the Iraqi charade or you may also call it – HOW THE PROPAGANDA DISCOURSE IS CONSTRUCTED. In that other post I argued the following : – the puppet government will market 30th of [...]
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A Street in Baghdad…
Layla Anwar, An Arab Woman Blues
…Those of you out there who are familiar with Baghdad’s streets and neighborhoods, and who are of my generation, this is not quite applicable to those born during the sanction years or just a little before, because they would have no recollection whatsoever…and of course this [...]
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Da: c.chantegrel
Oggetto: ça passe et ça casse !
Data: 29 giugno 2009 22:58:56 GMT+02:00
A: gazadelegation
June Monday 29th :
Rafah Border has been open for three days ! Hundreds of Palestinians got in and out of Gaza Strip, but after waiting for an amazing length of time (hours and days, but some have [...]
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Da: iristulip
Oggetto: [GazaFriends] URGENT ALERT – Israeli Navy surrounding SPIRIT and threatening to open fire
Data: 30 giugno 2009 0:52:04 GMT+02:00
A: gazafriends
Cc: FG-Coordinators, FG-MediaList, fg-projects, FG-Discussions
At 1:40 am, the Israeli Navy surrounded the SPIRIT while it is on its way to the Gaza Strip. We got a call [...]
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Da: ramzi
Oggetto: [GazaFriends] Free Gaza Boat “Spirit of Humanity” Departs Cyprus
Data: 29 giugno 2009 10:19:35 GMT+02:00
A: gazafriends
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Free Gaza Boat “Spirit of Humanity” Departs Cyprus
For more information, please contact:
Greta Berlin (English/French) or Caoimhe Butterly (Arabic/English/Spanish)
tel: +357 99 081 767 / email: friends@freegaza.org
(LARNACA, 29 June 2009) – The Free Gaza boat the “Spirit of Humanity”
departed Cyprus [...]
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Secret US-equipped ‘Dirty Brigade’ in Iraq forefront 26 Jun 2009 Iraqi security services employ an elite, American-trained force [death squad] with a reputation that leads many Iraqis to call it “the dirty brigade.” Its real name is the Counter Terrorism Bureau. The elite units, armed with high-tech U.S.-made equipment, often pair up with American special [...]
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Israeli ill-treatment and torture of Palestinian children – a report
DCI-Palestine* released a report which documents the widespread ill-treatment and torture of Palestinian children at the hands of the Israeli army and police force - Palestinian [...]
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Tony Blair and Gordon Brown to Blame Over Iraq War, says Army Report
By Rupert Hamer
Flawed US plans were rubberstamped by Blair. Brown blocked vital funding for five months.
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22933.htm
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7 Years In Chains
Detained At 14, Tortured and Released At 21
Video
El-Gharani was treated with appalling brutality. After being tortured in Pakistani custody, he was sold to US forces, [...]
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http://www.scottishpsc.org.uk/index.php?option=com_hwdvideoshare&task=viewvideo&Itemid=200481&video_id=57
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Thoughts out of Season: Critiquing the European Left
Hisham Bustani
… Whether advocating a ‘two-state’ solution or a ‘one democratic state’ solution (the only solutions currently “acceptable” by different forces on the European left), and completely disregarding objective realities and mechanisms of struggle, the European left wants to push and shove Arabs towards adopting its desired [...]
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Da: c.chantegrel
Oggetto: Rafah Camp 28 06
Data: 28 giugno 2009 13:26:38 GMT+02:00
A: intmorb
Rafah Camp 28 06
EN FRANçAIS PLUS BAS
Yesterday night (10 p.m. Rafah time) Paki told me on the phone that she is still in the international camp at the border, with another US citizen, a French woman and [...]
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Da: iristulip
Oggetto: [GazaFriends] Call Takis
Data: 27 giugno 2009 19:13:09 GMT+02:00
A: gazafriendst, FG-Coordinators, FG-MediaList, FG-Discussions
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9w_zoqXH7o
–
Greta Berlin
Free Gaza Movement
357 99 081 767
www.freegaza.org
www.flickr.com/photos/29205195@N02/
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Oggetto: TR: Prenez des forces avec Fairouz
Data: 27 giugno 2009 12:57:41 GMT+02:00
A: flespa
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4emkL-FMq0
voici la traduction de la chanson “Jerusalem” de fairuz
AL QUODS
Jérusalem, Ville de l’Ascension (ya Qods)
(Traduction de la chanson “Li adjliki ya madinet essalla”)
Pour toi,
Oh! Ville des prières
Je prie.
Pour toi,
Oh! Belle des cités,
Oh! Rose des villes,
Oh! [...]
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THURSDAY, JUNE 25, 2009
Obama State Dept. intervenes to block Free Gaza aid voyage
By Free Gaza Team
June 25, 2009
LARNACA – This is not the statement we in the Free Gaza Movement intended to release today. We had hoped to announce that our two ships, the Free Gaza and the Spirit of Humanity, departed from Larnaca Port on [...]
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Memo confirms Bush and Blair knew claims Iraq had WMDs were lies
By Paul Bond
A confidential memo obtained by the Observer, detailing a meeting between President George W. Bush and Prime Minister Tony Blair, confirms their determination to press ahead with the invasion of Iraq in 2003 without any evidence of weapons of mass destruction [...]
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Video: Depleted Uranium Children Iraq
ConflictingTruth
June 26, 2009
VIDEO: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=m55510&hd=&size=1&l=e
There is widespread contamination with cancer-causing depleted uranium munitions in Afghanistan and Iraq causing dramatically rising birth deformities. This video was censored on you tube… Lets see how long it will stay up this time…
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(http://www.uruknet.info/?p=m55510&hd=&size=1&l=e)
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Wednesday, June 24, 2009
Remembering Rachel Corrie
An 23 yo American girl gets savagely crushed by an Israeli Occupation Force armored bulldozer and hardly a peep is uttered by the American MSM. One Iranian girl gets shot, by someone, we don’t know who and the American MSM runs her story non-stop.
I guess it was just a coincidence [...]
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Israeli children vs. Palestinian children
May 5, 2009 by attendingtheworld
Can you tell them apart?
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U.S. Dollars Support Iranian “Dissidents”
By Ken Dilanian
The Obama administration is moving forward with plans to fund groups that support Iranian dissidents, records and interviews show, continuing a program that became controversial when it was expanded by President Bush.
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22919.htm
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Deadly US Air-strike on Afghan Village
Channel 4 Video Report
- Warning – The report by Jonathan Rugman contains scenes [...]
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Israel’s Crimes, America’s Silence
by JOHN DUGARD
June 17, 2009
President Obama’s recent speech to the Muslim World failed to address allegations that Israel committed war crimes in Gaza. Palestinians and people throughout the region were shocked at the firepower Israel brought to bear against Gaza’s civilians and do not want Palestinians’ ongoing misery to be further ignored. [...]
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FBI report: Saddam Hussein ‘would have sought security agreement’ with US –Iraq leader ‘would have cut a deal’ with Bush 24 Jun 2009 Saddam Hussein feared Iran’s arsenal more than a U.S. attack, and even considered asking ex-President [sic] George W. Bush “to protect” Iraq from its neighbor, once secret FBI files show… Asked how [...]
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Families Battle for Assets in Court
Israeli Firms Accused of Profiting Off Holocaust
By JONATHAN COOK
Nazareth.
Israel’s second largest bank will be forced to defend itself in court in the coming weeks over claims it is withholding tens of millions of dollars in “lost” accounts belonging to Jews who died in the Nazi death camps.
Bank Leumi has denied [...]
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A Thousand Nedas…
Layla Anwar, An Arab Woman Blues
…Hundreds of Iraqi women have suffered a worst fate than that of Neda, and only in total 3 articles and a couple of videos were circulated in their names. Not even. Why ? Are we the black sheep of the international community ? Or maybe we are [...]
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Da: iristulip
Oggetto: [GazaFriends] We will not be deterred, we try again today
Data: 26 giugno 2009 5:39:30 GMT+02:00
A: gazafriends
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KH1n_8U9Xkg
–
Greta Berlin
Free Gaza Movement
357 99 081 767
www.freegaza.org
www.flickr.com/photos/29205195@N02/
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Jewish school breaks Race Relations Act
A leading Jewish school, JFS in Brent, broke the Race Relations Act by refusing admission to a boy because his mother was not officially recognised as a Jew, the Court of Appeal has ruled.
Published: 5:12PM BST 25 Jun 2009
Three judges held that the entry criteria at JFS, formerly the Jews’ [...]
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Da: iristulip
Oggetto: [GazaFriends] Public Advisory – We did not leave Cyprus today
Data: 25 giugno 2009 21:08:43 GMT+02:00
A: gazafriends
PUBLIC ADVISORY
(25 June 2009, LARNACA) – This is not the statement we in the Free Gaza Movement intended to release today. We had hoped to announce that our two ships, the [...]
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The “Neda video,” torture, and the truth-revealing power of images
Glenn Greenwald
…For the last question at his press conference yesterday, Obama was asked by CNN’s Suzanne Malveaux about his reaction to that video and to reports that Iranians are refraining from protesting due to fear of such violence. As Obama was answering — attesting to [...]
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Who Are We?
By Bob Herbert
Proof of guilt? In 21st-century America, there is no longer any need for such annoyances. Human rights? Ha-ha. That’s a good one.
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22900.htm
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The Propaganda War Against Iran
By Bill Van Auken
The opposition is lauded as democratic and reformist, while incumbent President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and his supporters are portrayed as virtual fascists. One would [...]
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Death on camera
Gabriel Ash
The following video, which probably half the world has seen, captures the death on camera of young Iranian woman killed while non-violently protesting for her rights. CNN broadcasted it. It a “symbol.”…The video on the other hand, is of the death on camera of Bassem Abu Rameh, a young Palestinian non-violent [...]
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Public grilling for Gordon Brown and Tony Blair in Iraq inquiry –Evidence to be heard in private if could jeopardise national security or upset allies 23 Jun 2009 Gordon Brown and Tony Blair face being questioned in public over their roles in the run-up to the Iraq war after the chairman of the independent inquiry indicated [...]
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Inmates at American prison in Afghanistan were ‘beaten and threatened with dogs and guns’ 24 Jun 2009 Former inmates at an American prison in Afghanistan have accused their captors of subjecting them to torture and death threats. In a series of BBC interviews, prisoners who were held at the Bagram Airbase, near Kabul, said they [...]
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Da: iristulip
Oggetto: [GazaFriends] Mile by Mile
Data: 25 giugno 2009 5:42:00 GMT+02:00
A: gazafriends
For Immediate Release
Contact: Greta Berlin, Cyprus: +357 99 08 17 67
Angela Godfrey Goldstein, Jerusalem: +972 547 366 393
(Larnaca, 24 June 2009) As the Free Gaza Movement gets ready to set sail on our eighth mission, many of our passengers [...]
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Da: c.chantegrel
Oggetto: le camp retranché de Droadelum résiste encore et toujours!..
Data: 24 giugno 2009 20:47:12 GMT+02:00
A: intmorb
Hi All,
here are some information I got by phone some minutes ago :
Today, wednesday June 24th, the camp is still on the border, demanding the end of the israelian siege and the total [...]
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ADL Director declares war on freedom of speech
June 1, 6:07 PM
The Anti-Defamation League Director for the Plains States Alan Potash, has just declared war against our First Amendment right to freedom of speech. Potash made the following statement, which was published in the May 26 edition of The Omaha World Herald.
“Dangers of hate,” was right to point out [...]
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Da: iristulip
Oggetto: [GazaFriends] PRESS ADVISORY – Free Gaza & Spirit leaving LARNACA PORT 10am Thursday 25 June
Data: 24 giugno 2009 16:09:56 GMT+02:00
A: gazafriends
PRESS ADVISORY
24 June 2009
The Free Gaza Movement will depart Larnaca Port for the Gaza Strip at 10am on Thursday 25 June. We are sending two ships, the [...]
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Why America is a Bank-owned State
By Samah El-Shahat
America has become a bank-owned state, allowing its banking oligarchs to suffocate the economy so they can survive at any price.
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22897.htm
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International Bailout Brings Us Closer to Economic Collapse
By Ron Paul
Last week Congress passed the war supplemental appropriations bill. In an affront to all those who thought they voted [...]
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Da: ramzi
Oggetto: [GazaFriends] Official Notification of Intent to Enter Gaza
Data: 23 giugno 2009 22:24:17 GMT+02:00
A: gazafriends
Official Notification of Intent to Enter
June 24, 2009
To: The Israeli Ministry of Defense, Fax: 972-3-697-6717
To: The Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Fax: 972-2-5303367
From: The Free Gaza Movement
This letter serves as a formal notification [...]
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Tel Aviv vegan bar bans Israeli soldiers, settlement products
Posted : Sun, 21 Jun 2009 09:05:39 GMT
Author : DPA
Category : Middle East (World)
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Tel Aviv – A new Tel Aviv vegan bar run by anarchists bans products made in settlements in the Israeli-occupied West Bank and denies entry to [...]
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In Iraq People Die Every Day
Steven D, Daily Kos
I know Iran is the total and complete focus of every media person on the planet right now, but in all honesty, I see stories like this one about the ongoing slaughter in Iraq all the time and I wonder where all the outrage and concern [...]
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Da: c.chantegrel
Oggetto: news from the border! (June 23)
Data: 23 giugno 2009 12:18:19 GMT+02:00
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
June 23, 2009
The International Movement to Open the Rafah Bord
March for the Martyrs
Wednesday, June 24, Noon
Rafah, Egypt
On the eleventh day of a sit-in camp at the Rafah, Egypt border, the International Movement to Open [...]
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Da: iristulip
Oggetto: [GazaFriends] Boat by Boat
Data: 22 giugno 2009 17:56:24 GMT+02:00
A: gazafriends
For Immediate Release
Contact: Greta Berlin or Ramzi Kysia, Cyprus: +357 99 08 17 67
Angela Godfrey Goldstein, Jerusalem: +972 547 366 393
(Doha, 22 June 2009) In three days, the Free Gaza movement sails 240 miles from Cyprus to Gaza, [...]
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Iran Updates (VIDEO):
Live-Blogging From Iran
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/06/13/iran-demonstrations-viole_n_215189.html
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Moussavi: Election rigging was planned months in advance:
Mir-Hossein Moussavi, the presidential candidate defeated in last week’s contested poll, has written a letter to Iran’s Guardian Council on Saturday, saying that he believes the election was rigged in advance. In the seven-page letter, made public as clashes were going on between police [...]
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Netanyahu’s “brilliant” peace plan
Hasan Abu Nimah and Ali Abunimah, The Electronic Intifada, 17 June 2009
The Har Homa settlement in the occupied West Bank. Netanyahu defied calls for a halt to settlement expansion in his speech on Monday. (ActiveStills)
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu proposed a peace plan so ingenious it is a wonder that for six decades [...]
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Settlers to Ethiopian troops: Niggers don’t expel Jews
Border Guard officers of Ethiopian descent report rising number of racially motivated verbal attacks from Hebron youths; Druze officers also suffer racist remarks
Danny Adino Ababa
Published:
12.04.08, 11:39 / Israel News
Not only do they serve long and tiring hours in the reserve forces, and not only are they forced to deal [...]
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Obama’s 100 days – the mad men did well
30 Apr 2009
In his latest column for the New Statesman, John Pilger describes the power of advertising – from the effects of smoking to politics – as he reaches behind the facade of of the first 100 days President Barack Obama.
The BBC’s American television soap Mad Men [...]
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‘Hello, Pot? This is Kettle. You’re Green.’ –US Hypocrisy Toward Iran By Lori Price 21 Jun 2009 The world’s biggest hypocrite and meddlesome nosy parker, the United States, has outdone itself with its reaction to the post-election events in Iran. At least five glaring ‘grand hypocrisy’ categories have emerged, with more likely on the way. [...]
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Dexter’s Legions: The “Good” Killers of the “Good” War
Chris Floyd
…On Friday, an internal investigation by the Pentagon into the American airstrike with B1 bombers on villages in Afghanistan’s Farah province in May was released. [For more on the attack, which Afghan officials say killed more than 140 civilians, see "Tales of Yankee Power."] As [...]
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Sa’adat receives further punishment from the occupation as solidarity continues around the world
The Campaign to Free Ahmad Sa’adat
Ahmad Sa’adat’s steadfastness has inspired solidarity and action from thousands across Palestine, throughout the Arab world, and internationally. His nine-day hunger strike has drawn attention to the brutal, illegitimate practices of the Israeli prison authorities, and the [...]
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Videos of today’s protests in Iran
Read the full article / Leggi l’articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.de/?p=55329
From a Bloodied Street in Tehran…
Layla Anwar, An Arab Woman Blues
I have just been watching a series of videos regarding today’s protests in Tehran…The last two videos gave me the shivers… In the first video, from the bottom up, lies [...]
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The Conquest of Iraq – Appropriating the Body
Layla Anwar, An Arab Woman Blues
…A sexualized Occupation. A “hot”, “beefed up”, “sexed up”, Occupation. How can an occupation be sexualized ? you may wonder… I ask you how can this occupation not be sexualized ? An occupation is NOT an abstract phenomena. To occupy something or [...]
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NOT GOOD ENOUGH
Malcom Lagauche
… The current administrations of the U.S. and Great Britain are stonewalling the issue of lying to the public of both nations about the reasons for going to war against Iraq in 2003. On both sides of the Atlantic, despite previous statements of an open discussion, Obama and Britain’s Prime Minister [...]
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Taliban defectors: US, Israel funding militants 19 Jun 2009 Two militants’ leaders who defected from notorious Taliban chief in Pakistan have revealed that their comrade was pursuing a US-Israeli agenda across the country. A prominent militant leader, Turkistan Bittani, who broke away from Baitullah Mehsud, called him “an American agent”. Mehsud, a warlord in his [...]
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Iranian Elections: The ‘Stolen Elections’ Hoax
By James Petras
There is hardly any election, in which the White House has a significant stake, where the electoral defeat of the pro-US candidate is not denounced as illegitimate by the entire political and mass media elite.
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22868.htm
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The Waning Power of Truth
By Paul Craig Roberts
Until 1978 the US ruled Iran through [...]
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Experts See So ‘Smoking Gun’ for Iran Election Fraud
By Andrew Beatty, Agence France-Presse
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s election victory is disbelieved by hundreds of thousands of Iranians who have poured onto Tehran’s streets in protest, but experts say hard evidence of vote rigging is elusive.
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22862.htm
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Does U.S. Poll Rule Out Fraud in Iran?
Video
Western media, along with thousands of Iranians [...]
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Fruits from a Jungle…
Layla Anwar, An Arab Woman Blues
…End result is the Jungle. You actually have 20 million (or less) Iraqis trying to survive in a Jungle… What is the law of the Jungle ? ” La loi du plus fort” – the law of the strongest. When there is no State of Law, [...]
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We ‘Dirty Arabs’ Have Had Enough
Joharah Baker
What unwritten law is out there that allows Israelis to sling racist insults at Palestinians with impunity? After all my years in this country and the absurdities that come along with it, this is one absurdity I still find hard to digest. Obviously, my outrage has been most [...]
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http://it.groups.yahoo.com/group/libertari/message/60776
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Israeli Army Beats and Tortures Children
by Jonathan Cook, June 18, 2009
The rights of Palestinian children are routinely violated by Israel’s security forces, according to a new report that says beatings and torture are common. In addition, hundreds of Palestinian minors are prosecuted by Israel each year without a proper trial and are denied family visits.
The findings [...]
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Da: iristulip
Oggetto: [GazaFriends] Hedy Epstein attacked yesterday
Data: 18 giugno 2009 13:03:07 GMT+02:00
A: gazafriends
Hedy Epstein, our wonderful 84-year-old Holocaust survivor, the woman who has been determined to come with us to Gaza this year, was attacked yesterday while walking home in her hometown in Missouri.
“Someone came up behind me and [...]
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Da: iristulip
Oggetto: [GazaFriends] Getting ready to go
Data: 17 giugno 2009 16:19:43 GMT+02:00
A: gazafriends
This week’s update is lighter in tone than last week’s update. It gives you an idea of what we are doing to get the Free Gaza ready. We are hoping this time to entertain you a bit [...]
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Da: iristulip
Oggetto: [GazaFriends] You will cry and smile at the Wednesday update
Data: 11 giugno 2009 9:03:45 GMT+02:00
A: gazafriends
Dear Supporters, friends and interested observers:
Our update this week took a bit longer to finish, because we wanted it to be a piece that would stay with you. Thanks to Michael Heart, [...]
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Da: e.colonna
Oggetto: Hunger Strike at Rafah Border
Data: 16 giugno 2009 23:49:15 GMT+02:00
—– Original Message —–
From: International Movement to Open Rafah Border
Français à suivre
MEDIA ADVISORY
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
June 16, 2009
WHO: The International Campaign to Open the Rafah Border
WHAT: Hunger Strike at Rafah Border
WHERE: The Rafah Gate
WHEN: JUNE 16, 2009
Contact: Don Bryant 0020 177543411 [...]
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Afghanistan’s Operation Phoenix
Stephen Lendman
On June 15, AP reported that “Gen. Stanley McChrystal, a four-star American general with a long history in special operations, took charge of US and NATO troops in Afghanistan (today), a change in command the Pentagon hopes will turn the tide in an increasingly violent eight-year war.” McChrystal is a hired gun, [...]
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Are You Ready For War With Demonized Iran?
By Paul Craig Roberts
How much attention do elections in Japan, India, Argentina, or any other country, get from the US media? How many Americans and American journalists even know who is in political office in other countries besides England, France, and Germany? Who can name the political leaders [...]
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Breaking: Perpetual wars, deadly vaccines we can believe in: House Approves $106B Supplemental War, Vaccine Spending Bill –Wasted billions includes $7.7 for pharma-terrorists’ flu vaccines 16 Jun 2009 The House has narrowly approved a $106 billion bill to ensure financing for war operations in Iraq and Afghanistan over the coming months. The vote was 226-202. [...]
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Larger Context of the Iranian Elections
Reza Fiyouzat, Revolutionary Flowerpot Society
… Now, it is of course true that imperialist mainstream media have their own agenda and will take advantage of the situation on the streets of Iran. But, what is new there? All manner of media will (as they always do) look at any situation [...]
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THE PALESTINIAN STRUGGLE….. WHAT’S IT ALL ABOUT?
June 16, 2009 at 8:47 am (Israel, Palestine, Videos)
In the midst of the struggle, and the dust of battle, many people still don’t realize what this is all about… It is not only about land and rights…… take 2 minutes to see what it’s all about.
VIDEO: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Frm8xv5wuvs
Thanks TO: http://palestinethinktank.com/2009/06/13/the-palestinian-cause-in-2-minutes/
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MONDAY, JUNE 15, 2009
NETANYAHU’S SPEECH: IT JUST BUYS MORE TIME BY OFFERING THE USUAL PLATITUDES, A GIFT BOX WITH NOTHING IN IT AND IMPOSSIBLE DEMANDS.
Yesterday Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivered his much awaited speech in response to US President Obama’s call for a two-state solution and the creation of a Palestinian state.
Netanyahu’s response was predictable. [...]
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Video Report : Shooting At Tehran Protest
Read the full article / Leggi l’articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.de/?p=55185
Neo-Nazis are in the Army now
Why the U.S. military is ignoring its own regulations and permitting white supremacists to join its ranks.
Matt Kennard
On a muggy Florida evening in 2008, I meet Iraq War veteran Forrest Fogarty in the Winghouse, a [...]
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Does Israel Really Have a Right to Exist?
Susan Abulhawa
Following Netanyahu’s much anticipated policy speech, politicians and journalists, like mindless automatons, have set about repeating Israel’s tired mantra that Palestinians should recognize Israel’s right to exist. Never mind the fact that the PLO and Palestine Authority have obliged this ludicrous call, not once, but four [...]
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Da: cats4jazz
Oggetto:
I: Call to ACTION Parole hearing for Leonard Peltier. Scheduled
Data: 16 giugno 2009 1:20:24 GMT+02:00
Greetings all,
Please forward out to as many people as you can.
in solidarity
Donna
Begin forwarded message:
From: sampson wolfe
Date: June 15, 2009 12:02:42 PM PDT
Subject: Call to ACTION Parole hearing for Leonard Peltier. Scheduled
Call to ACTION Parole hearing for Leonard [...]
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Iraq inquiry to hear evidence in private –Findings will not be published until next summer 15 June 2009 The Prime Minister today announced his inquiry into the Iraq war would be held in private – to the dismay of campaigners. And its findings will not be published until next summer, after the date of the [...]
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The American Empire Is Bankrupt
By Chris Hedges
This week marks the end of the dollar’s reign as the world’s reserve currency. It marks the start of a terrible period of economic and political decline in the United States. And it signals the last gasp of the American imperium. That’s over. It is not coming back. And [...]
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British union votes to boycott Israeli universities, academics
June 1, 2009
(JTA) — Britain’s main academic union voted overwhelmingly to boycott Israeli universities and colleges.
The University and College Union passed the boycott resolution at its annual meeting last week. It is the fourth year in a row that the union has passed a resolution condemning Israel and [...]
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Da: e.colonna
Oggetto: News From Rafah Gaza Border/dernières nouvelles de Rafah frontière de Gaza
Data: 15 giugno 2009 19:25:36 GMT+02:00
French and English
—– Original Message —–
From: International Movement to Open Rafah Border
Steadfastness and solidarity at the Rafah border
Under pressure from the Egyptian army and the police, the International Movement to Open the Rafah [...]
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Netaniahu’s Kafkaesque vision of Palestinian statehood
Khaled Amayreh
There is no doubt that Benyamin Netanyahu’s odious screed at Bar Ilan University Sunday night was a slap in the face to all those who gave the so-called “peace process” between the Palestinian people and Israel the benefit of the doubt…. Undoubtedly, Netanyahu’s speech amounted to a complete negation [...]
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Netanyahu’s no’s
Marcy Newman, body on the line
1. No to al Quds “Netanyahu’s remarks have sabotaged all initiatives, paralysed all efforts being made and challenges the Palestinian, Arab and American positions,” said Nabil Abu Rdainah, noting Mr Netanyahu’s demand that Jerusalem be the undivided capital of Israel and that Palestinian refugees not be allowed into Israel. [...]
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De-Dollarization: Dismantling America’s Financial-Military Empire
The Yekaterinburg Turning Point
by Prof. Michael Hudson
Global Research, June 13, 2009
The city of Yakaterinburg, Russia’s largest east of the Urals, may become known not only as the death place of the tsars but of American hegemony too – and not only where US U-2 pilot Gary Powers was shot down in [...]
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You’re on the Battlefield Right Now
Arthur Silber
My head began exploding when I read the opening paragraph of this NYT article: A plan to create a new Pentagon cybercommand is raising significant privacy and diplomatic concerns, as the Obama administration moves ahead on efforts to protect the nation from cyberattack and to prepare for possible offensive operations [...]
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Da: e.colonna
Oggetto: news from the Rafah camp in Gaza Border
Data: 14 giugno 2009 21:55:12 GMT+02:0
—– Original Message —– From: “dinecc”
I spoke with Chris by phone… here are some news from the Rafah camp
All were tired and weakened after a night at the Rafah gate. Their internet connection, which [...]
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Da: iristulip
Oggetto: [GazaFriends] Absurdity Is the Norm in the Gaza Strip
Data: 14 giugno 2009 18:37:27 GMT+02:00
A: gazafriends
Upon returning home from Gaza, a friend commented, “It must have been horrifying seeing all the destruction.” And it was. The 22-day Israeli assault on the Gaza Strip laid waste to [...]
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Domingo 14 de Junio de 2009
Laboratorios experimentales del “nuevo orden”
¿La solución final?: Cómo funciona el exterminio militar en masa de “población sobrante”
(IAR Noticias) 30-Mayo-09
Victimas civiles de los bombardeos en Sri Lanka.
Dentro de los parámetros funcionales del sistema capitalista (establecido como “civilización única”) la “población sobrante” son las masas expulsadas del circuito del consumo [...]
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Pentagon Plan: Cybercommand Will Be Run by Four-Star General –DoD views cyberspace as its domain as well, a new battleground after land, sea, air and space. 13 Jun 2009 A plan to create a new Pentagon cybercommand is raising significant privacy and diplomatic concerns, as the Obama administration moves ahead on efforts to ‘protect the [...]
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Abuse Photos Part of Agreement on Military Spending –Deal: Obama would use all administrative and legal means to prevent release of the release 12 Jun 2009 Congressional negotiators reached tentative agreement on Thursday on a $105.9 billion spending measure that would provide money for military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan through September but would drop a [...]
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Our Convoy to Gaza
By George Galloway – Video and Text
On July 4, the Vietnam vet Ron Kovic, myself and hundreds of US citizens will fly out from JFK to Cairo where we will form up a convoy of hundreds of vehicles carrying medical aid and head into Gaza.
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22784.htm
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From The USA To Gaza
“We Have To Break [...]
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US Media Campaign to Discredit Iranian Election
By Charting Stock
Was the Iranian election a fraud? That’s what our great western media sources want us to believe. While scanning through the coverage, I could not find one mainstream news article which covered the election results in an objective, unbiased manner.
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22827.htm
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Israeli Spy Case
Sentence Reduced for Pentagon Analyst Who [...]
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US opposes Iraqi popular vote on troop withdrawal
By Tom Eley
An Iraqi national referendum on last year’s security pact with the US is currently scheduled to take place on July 30. According to Iraqi law, if voters reject the pact, which calls for the US to remove all troops by December 31, 2011, Washington would [...]
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Da: e.colonna
Oggetto: International Community Activists Establish Camp at the Rafah Border
Data: 13 giugno 2009 22:31:15 GMT+02:00
—– Original Message —–
From: International Movement to Open Rafah Border
MEDIA ADVISORY
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
June 13, 2009
WHO: The International Campaign to Open the Rafah Border
WHAT: Camp at Rafah Border
WHERE: The Rafah Gate
WHEN: JUNE 13, 2009
International Community [...]
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http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22820.htm
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New US Commander in Afghanistan Assembles Team of Assassins
By Bill Van Auken
In its escalation of the US war in Afghanistan, and its increasing extension across the border into Pakistan, the Obama administration has chosen as its senior commander an officer who is among those most deeply implicated in the criminal operations carried out under Bush [...]
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Israel’s Attack on the Liberty: Insiders and Survivors Speak Out
Paul Craig Roberts
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20132.htm
… The USS Liberty suffered 70% casualties, with 34 killed and at least 171 wounded … It is now established fact that the attack on the Liberty was intentional and was covered up by President Johnson and every administration since. There has never [...]
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Obama’s Animal Farm: Bigger, Bloodier Wars Equal Peace and Justice –
James Petras
“The Deltas are psychos… You have to be a certified psychopath to join the Delta Force…”, a US Army colonel from Fort Bragg once told me back in the 1980s. Now President Obama has elevated the most notorious of the psychopaths, General Stanley McChrystal, to [...]
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US moving to appeal Bagram detention ruling 11 Jun 2009 The Obama administration is moving to appeal a ruling that some prisoners at a military air base in Afghanistan can use U.S. civilian courts to challenge their detention. The Justice Department asked a federal appeals court here Friday to hear its appeal on an expedited [...]
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The Culture of ” No Limit ” – 3
Layla Anwar, An Arab Woman Blues
…So America, In the Night of your souls, I am asking you the same question — what the hell were you thinking ? Were you thinking that your all permissiveness will go unnoticed, or unexposed ? Were you thinking that the [...]
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Da: silviacattori
Oggetto: TR: Dayton’s Joy
Data: 11 giugno 2009 15:53:37 GMT+02:00
Dayton’s Joy
Prof Sattar Kassem
June 11, 2009
I read Dayton’s congressional hearing of May 7, 2009, and I noticed the enthusiasm that filled his heart, and the joy and jubilance that appeared on his face. He talked in details about his great achievements [...]
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The Normalization of Violence, Torture and Annihilation
Arthur Silber
…. How often do you hear or see mention of more than a million innocent people murdered in Iraq, a genocide of historic proportions by any minimally civilized standard? With less than a handful of exceptions, all national politicians have supported and continue to support this criminal [...]
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BY ALEXANDER COCKBURN
FIRST POSTED MAY 19, 2009
How long does it take a mild-mannered, anti-war, black professor of constitutional law, trained as a community organiser on the South Side of Chicago, to become an enthusiastic sponsor of targeted assassinations, ‘decapitation’ strategies and remote-control bombing of mud houses at the far end of the globe?
There’s nothing surprising here. As [...]
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Da: iristulip
Oggetto: [GazaFriends] You will cry and smile at the Wednesday update
Data: 11 giugno 2009 9:03:45 GMT+02:00
A: gazafriends
Dear Supporters, friends and interested observers:
Our update this week took a bit longer to finish, because we wanted it to be a piece that would stay with you. Thanks to Michael Heart, who gave us permission [...]
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Red Cross urges Israel to let relatives visit prisoners:
“Families of Palestinians detained in Israel, who have been prevented from leaving the Gaza Strip for the past two years, must be allowed to resume visits to their relatives,” the ICRC’s chief representative in Israel, Pierre Wettach, said in a statement.
http://snipurl.com/jusrz
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UK ‘terrorism suspects’ win appeal:
Britain’s [...]
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R.I.P. Industrial USA. The Banksters Win, Even When They Fail
A Black Agenda Radio commentary by Glen Ford
… Barack Obama put the finance capitalist Steve Rattner in charge of finally bankrupting the auto industry – which left economist Stanley Aronowitz has described as the largest exercise in union busting in U.S. history. President Obama’s own [...]
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Lawsuit: Blackwater/Xe is operating illegally in Iraq 10 Jun 2009 The latest in a series of war-crimes lawsuits against Blackwater and its affiliated companies alleges that they continue to operate illegally in Iraq a month after the expiration of their lucrative security contract with the U.S. State Department. The new lawsuit, filed Wednesday in U.S. [...]
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The American Ship They Just Couldn’t Sink
A Photographic Essay of Israel’s Treachery The USS Liberty, June 8, 1967
INCOG MAN
…In this stark color photo, Napalm (to burn alive the bridge crew), Zuni rockets, machine gun and cannon fire damage is easily seen. The Israeli’s first attack priority was on the communications antennas and bridge — [...]
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London’s Metropolitan Police accused of waterboarding suspects 10 Jun 2009 Metropolitan Police officers subjected suspects to waterboarding, according to allegations at the centre of a major anti-corruption inquiry, The Times has learnt. The torture claims are part of a wide-ranging investigation which also includes accusations that officers fabricated evidence and stole suspects’ property. Senior policing officials [...]
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Afghan Taliban Responds To Obama`s Cairo Speech
By Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan
Barack Obama claims good-will and tolerance towards Muslims at a time when their occupation forces are committing mass murder and disturbing and imprisoning Muslims in Afghanistan and Iraq. They violate their legal rights and mercilessly martyr them to defend their rights. They put them in [...]
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De : haidar eid
Envoyé : mardi, 9. juin 2009 12:22
Objet : Press Release: READING AS RESISTANCE-Free Gaza Movement in Partnership with Al-Aqsa University launches its “Right to Read” Campaign
FREE GAZA MOVEMENT
June 9, 2009
For Immediate Release
(…)
READING AS RESISTANCE
Free Gaza Movement launches its “Right to Read” Campaign
[Larnaca, Cyprus] In partnership with Al-Aqsa University, the Free [...]
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Sunday, 07 June ]
Tel Aviv has 936 lawsuits against them for Gaza assault
Israel set for blizzard of war crimes charges
Structural damage in Gaza was estimated at $ 1.6 billion (Courtesy of PCHR)
CAIRO (AlArabiya.net)
Israel was set to face an avalanche of war crimes lawsuits from Palestinian lawyers who accused Tel Aviv of dozens of crimes five [...]
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From: Chris
activists under occuption
International Community Activists Under Occupation by Egyptian Police June 6/7
Six international community activists representing the International Movement to Open the Rafah Border, and the Raging Grannies arrived in El-Arish under a full moon on June 6, 2009 at 9:30 p.m. On public bus the cost was $30/ticket. The buses depart from the [...]
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De : sattar kassem
Envoyé : lundi, 8. juin 2009 21:06
Objet : blood for bread الدم مقابل الخبز
Blood for Bread
Sattar Kassem
June 8, 2009
Obama has come, Obabma has gone and the theme is still the same: blood for bread is the magic solution for the Palestinian problem. You Palestinians must abide by the necessities of Israeli security the way Israel sees fit, if you want to [...]
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Don’t discount Israel pre-emptive strike, Hillary Clinton warns Iran 08 Jun 2009 Hillary Clinton refused yesterday to rule out a pre-emptive Israeli military strike on Iran. It was the first time that a senior member of the Obama Administration had openly discussed such a possibility. The US Secretary Of State, speaking a few days before elections [...]
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Obama’s Obscene Speech in Cairo: Lies in the Service of Death
Arthur Silber
…How would you characterize a person who would act in this manner, who would commit endless murders while always being convinced of his own superiority, of his “right” to dispose of the lives of others, even when those lives number in the millions? Perhaps [...]
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Life Inside Gitmo: Former Detainee Speaks
Held Seven Years, Former Aid Worker Tells ABC News He Was Tortured
Video and Text
He said he was kept awake for 16 days straight, and physically abused repeatedly.
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22792.htm
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Hold Your Applause
By Chris Hedges
Did they play Barack Obama’s speech to the Muslim world in the prison corridors of Abu Ghraib, Bagram air base, [...]
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Obama’s Speech: Great Oratory, Wrong Message
Ramzy Baroud
If great oratory is a prerequisite to peace, justice, and human rights, then President Barack Obama’s speech in Cairo, on June 4, shall be enough to cure every ill afflicting every Muslim nation. But since rhetoric never solved any real problem, one is left to question the wisdom behind [...]
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Free Gaza websites:
http://www.freegaza.org/
http://www.freegazamovement.org/site/
Free Gaza blogs:
irishingaza
ingaza
gazatoday
talestotell
gaza08
wewillrememberyourname
oxfam.org.uk/gazablog
guerrillaradio
gazahumanrights
peaceforgaza
rodcoxandgaza
rabble.ca//gazadelegation
fishingunderfire
farmingunderfire
laila
palestinianprisoners
3071 Km
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Homeland Security Nominee Withdraws Amid Questions About Torture 06 Jun 2009 President Obama’s nominee to be U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Under Secretary for Intelligence and Analysis withdrew his name from consideration Friday after it became clear lawmakers would question his involvement in interrogation and detainee policies under President [sic] George W. Bush. Philip Mudd, [...]
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The ever changing story: Anatomy of a typical US military propaganda campaign.
Christopher Dowd
One month later, after the bombings of a village in western Afghanistan that killed up wards of 150 civilians, we now get this half assed admission of culpability on the part of the US military. The US military is now saying that “errors” [...]
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Da: e.colonna
Oggetto: (From Cairo to Rafah) International Community Activivsts Greet Pres. Obama in Cairo
Data: 07 giugno 2009 12:10:13 GMT+02:00
From Chris in Cairo
—– Original Message —– From: gazadelegation
Subject: International Community Activivsts Greet Pres. Obama in Cairo
On June 4, 2009
Protest for Obama in Cairo
In response to US President Barrack Obama’s visit [...]
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Da: peter.myers
Data: 07 giugno 2009 5:27:27 GMT+02:00
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George Galloway branded a terrorist in Canada for relief to people of Gaza
From: Mark MacCuish Date: 05.06.2009 12:29 PM
I am from Canada. I live in Calgary on the West coast. Calgary is the native home to not only to the Canadian Prime Minister, Stephen Harper, but also [...]
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Message From Guantanamo: “America is Double Hetler in unjustice”
Winter Patriot
I direct your attention to the following article, dated June 3, 2009, by Michelle Shephard of the Toronto Star: Gitmo protest captured on film WASHINGTON – A Guantanamo Bay detainee committed suicide late Monday just hours after two Chinese Muslim captives staged the detention centre’s first public [...]
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Auschwitz survivor: “I can identify with Palestinian youth”
Adri Nieuwhof, The Electronic Intifada, 2 June 2009
Hajo Meyer (Christiane Tilanus)
Hajo Meyer, author of the book The End of Judaism, was born in Bielefeld, in Germany, in 1924. In 1939, he fled on his own at age 14 to the Netherlands to escape the Nazi regime, and was unable to attend [...]
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MAY 15, 2009
Barack Obama, Murderer and War Criminal-in-Chief
[Updated at the conclusion.]
I will be blunt, for certain conclusions are now inescapable, even this early in the miraculous, transcendent Age of Obama. Insofar as those who regularly follow political matters are concerned, and especially with regard to those people who write about politics and foreign policy — [...]
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Feeling The Hate In Jerusalem On The Eve Of Obama’s Speech In Cairo
Posted by Max in June 4th 2009
Max Blumenthal writes: On the eve of President Barack Obama’s address to the Muslim world from Cairo, Egypt, I stepped out onto the streets of Jerusalem with my friend Joseph Dana to interview young Israelis and American Jews about their reaction to the speech. [...]
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Israeli army applauds itself with the removal of two checkpoints, UN discover these claims are false
Katherine Orwell
The Israeli army proudly declares on its website the removal of two checkpoints inside the West Bank to “further ease the daily life of the Palestinian population”. One day later UN workers have found the checkpoints still to be [...]
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Obama in Cairo: A New Face for Imperialism
By Patrick Martin
The vague and flowery rhetoric, the verbal tributes to Islamic culture and the equal rights of nations, constitute an adjustment of the language being used to cloak the policy of US imperialism, not a change in substance.
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22774.htm
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Breaking Bibi
By Pat Buchanan
In Israel, the betting is that Barack [...]
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Popular Rabbi’s Comments on Treatment of Arabs Show a Different Side of Chabad
By Nathaniel Popper
Published June 03, 2009, issue of June 12, 2009
Like the best Chabad-Lubavitch rabbis, Manis Friedman has won the hearts of many unaffiliated Jews with his charismatic talks about love and God; it was Friedman who helped lead Bob Dylan into a relationship [...]
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Military Admits “Errors” in Civilian Bombing in Afghanistan, But Still Defends the Attacks
Jeremy Scahill
The May 4 US bombing in Farah Province in Afghanistan was reportedly the single worst aerial attack by US forces since the 2001 invasion began. Afghan sources said as many as 130-140 civilians were killed. At the time, The New York Times [...]
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Will the Senate Ask McChrystal About Torture Under His Command?
Rethink Afghanistan
On Tuesday, the Senate Armed Services Committee will hold a hearing on the confirmation of Lt. General Stanley McChrystal to take over command of Afghanistan – but as Spencer has reported, the hearings are being stage managed to generate a swift confirmation by combining it [...]
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Netanyahu Cites Secret Deal with Bush to Justify more Settlements
Revelation puts more strain on relations with US as Obama heads for Middle East
By Donald Macintyre in Jerusalem
The Israeli government of Benjmain Netanyahu is seeking to deflect Washington’s demand for a total settlement freeze by complaining that it ignores secret agreements between his predecessors and the [...]
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On the Other Side of the Fence, re-writing Torture
Layla Anwar, An Arab Woman Blues
…Sitting on the other side of the fence, I have a serious problem with this assumption, having witnessed the torture of my own people at the hands of Western morality. Sitting on the other side of the fence, and having witnessed [...]
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Tuesday, June 02, 2009
Jimmy Carter calls for release of pictures and investigation of US war crimes
by Larry Geller
Obama would clearly like to “disappear” America’s disgraceful legacy of torture and human rights violations, but he can’t actually do that. The more he attempts to hide information or avoid prosecuting Bush-era perpetrators, the more that calls for [...]
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War Is A Racket
By Major General Smedley Butler, USMC
WAR is a racket. It always has been. It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article4377.htm
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Manufacturing [...]
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The Rape of Gaza
By Roane Carey
Make no mistake about it: the blockade, directly enforced by Israel and Egypt but conspired in by their superpower patron in Washington, is a continuing act of war against an entire civilian population of 1.5 million, a form
of collective punishment and a crime against humanity.
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22756.htm
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Viva Palestina
A Lifeline From The United [...]
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Abuse Photo Controversy Reveals Obama Lies
Thomas R. Eddlem
…Barack Obama is now engaged in covering up crimes of the past in order to ensure that he has the same unchecked power to conduct violations of the U.S. Constitution. And he’s not without allies in the media. “Barack Obama, whose first act as president was to re-criminalize [...]
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Jesus killed Mohammed: The crusade for a Christian military
By Jeff Sharlet
From the May 2009 issue. Jeff Sharlet is a contributing editor ofHarper’s Magazine and the author ofThe Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power.
When Sergeant Jeffery Humphrey and his squad of nine men, part of the 1/26 Infantry of the 1st Infantry Division, were assigned to [...]
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Prison Abuse Photos
http://www.presstv.com/detail.aspx?id=96365§ionid=3510203
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Action, cut!
Pornography, feminisation of the enemy? Confused over what Obama’s view on
Guantanamo and the backlog of torture images from Abu
Ghraib? Join the club, laments Eric Walberg
The centrepiece of United States President Barack Obama’s PR campaign to show
the world the US is the nice cop was to end the military tribunals, which he
called “an [...]
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AfPak war depopulates and devastates north-west Pakistan
By James Cogan
A little over a month ago, the Pakistani government acquiesced to the demands of the Obama administration to use brute force to eradicate radical Islamist influence in the north-west of the country, as part of the so-called AfPak war to secure American interests in Central Asia. [...]
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Sunday, May 31, 2009
Johan Galtung’s view from Europe: Dialectics of History: Germany-Israel
“Careful, Israel. You are very close to overstepping the borders where even the status quo West has some stoplights. Nobody believes you as a beacon of human rights and democracy in the problematic Middle East when you break all human rights and laws of [...]
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REPORT On the use of radioactive weapons in the Gaza Strip during « Operation Cast Lead » (27 December 2008 – 18 January 2009)
ACDN – Action of Citizens for the total Dismantling of Nukes
…Genocide means the extermination of a human group. DU weapons are weapons of extermination. They strike indiscriminately against a whole population, even [...]
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Da: iristulip
Oggetto: [GazaFriends] I asked her why she said Gaza is worse than the prison she worked in back in Pennsylvania
Data: 01 giugno 2009 7:29:05 GMT+02:00
A: gazamedialist, gazafriends
By Philip Weiss (in Gaza)
Mondoweiss
May 31, 2009
My group is leaving Gaza over the next couple of days. A few of us [...]
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In Pakistan, an Exodus that is Beyond Biblical
By Andrew Buncombe
Locals sell all they have to help millions displaced by battles with the Taliban.
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22740.htm
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Iran Secretly Helped U.S. Bomb Taliban Units, Find Al Qaeda
By Jeff Stein
Iran supplied U.S. diplomats with the location of Taliban military units in Afghanistan after the initial bombing campaign in the fall of [...]
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