Update on the FreeGaza21

Da: iristulip
Oggetto: [GazaFriends] Update on the FreeGaza21
Data: 07 luglio 2009 17:29:50 GMT+02:00
A: gazafriends, FG-Coordinators, FG-MediaList, FG-Discussions
Cc: hq2600, dondebar, kathysheetz, adamsop
Many of you have been asking us what has happened to the kidnapped passengers and our boat, The SPIRIT OF HUMANITY. Here then is our current update.
All [...]

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prisoner video

free gaza prisoner video
July 7, 2009 by irishingaza

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Ri8jWj_KbY
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(http://irishingaza.wordpress.com/2009/07/07/free-gaza-prisoner-video/)

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Irish Nobel Laureate Mairead Maguire and Derek Graham to be deported from Israel tomorrow, speak at press conference upon return

Da: jennygraham7
Oggetto: I: derek, free gaza
Data: 07 luglio 2009 12:29:33 GMT+02:00
Irish Nobel Laureate Mairead Maguire and Derek Graham to be deported from Israel tomorrow, speak at press conference upon return
IPSC Press Release, for immediate release: 6th July 2009
The two Irish citizens kidnapped by the Israeli state last Tuesday – Nobel [...]

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Is There Life After Democracy?

A Few Facts About the Honduran Military Coup
By Ken Silverstein
There’s very little truth to anything you’ve read about the coup in American newspapers.
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22989.htm
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John Pilger on Honduras, Iran, Gaza, the Corporate Media, Obama’s Wars and Resisting the American Empire
By Democracy Now!
Award-winning investigative journalist and documentary filmmaker, John Pilger, joins us for a wide-ranging conversation on on [...]

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Open Letter to the American People on Independence Day, 4th July

Reflections on a siege that hasn’t stopped: June 8-14, 2009
Eva Bartlett, In Gaza

Monday: In Um al Nasser, I meet 17-year old Saleh Ahmed al Madani who was injured in three places from Israeli ‘flechette’ shelling. The small, razor-sharp darts pierced and remain lodged in his neck, shoulder, and calf muscle. Tuesday: A demonstration is being [...]

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We ask you to help by mailing / phoning….

Da: c.chantegrel
Oggetto: De nouveau du “lobbying”  /    We ask you to help by mailing / phoning….
Data: 07 luglio 2009 9:19:48 GMT+02:00
A: gazadelegation
Pour tous ceux qui veulent faire quelque chose, même si obligés de rester ‘at home’
For all those that want to do something, even if they [...]

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How Cynthia McKinney honored America on the 4th of July from an Israel Jail

Saudi denies would let Israeli jets pass for Iran attack
AFP

Saudi Arabia denied on Monday a report that it has agreed to allow Israeli warplanes to fly through the kingdom’s airspace to attack Iran’s nuclear sites. “Of course this is not true. We don’t have any kind of relationship with the Israelis,” Osama Nugali, spokesman for [...]

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Confirmed

Da: iristulip
Oggetto: [GazaFriends] Re: [FG-Projects] sorry all- pressed “reply all” without looking
Data: 06 luglio 2009 11:44:06 GMT+02:00
A: fg-projects
Cc: fg-medialist; gazafriends
Confirmed. Six UK passengers on flight OV315, arriving Heathrow, 14:15 today.
And I want to add my thanks to Caoimhe’s for everyone’s hard work. You all have been [...]

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Iran brings formal charges against UK embassy official

Legal fight to stop US destroying torture images –Binyam Mohamed says photographs are evidence of abuse at Guantánamo 05 Jul 2009 Former Guantánamo detainee Binyam Mohamed has launched an urgent legal attempt to prevent the US courts from destroying crucial evidence that he says proves he was abused while being held at the detention camp, [...]

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Monday a.m – I’m up!

Da: eliza.ernshire
Oggetto: [GazaFriends] Fwd: Monday a.m – I’m up!
Data: 06 luglio 2009 9:35:49 GMT+02:00
A: gazafriends

For immediate release: July 6th 2009
‘Freegaza21’ deportees to arrive at Heathrow 13.30 hours  Monday 6th July’

Press conference: 16.00 (4 p.m.) at the Renaissance Hotel, Bath Rd. Heathrow TW6 2AQ (opposite the Marriot)
On Sunday 5th [...]

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The Israeli Idea of a ‘Palestinian State’

Attack on Iran would be ‘very destabilizing’ — US military chief
AFP

A US military strike on Iran’s nuclear facilities would be “very destabilizing,” top US military commander Admiral Mike Mullen said Sunday, warning that any attack could have serious “unintended consequences.” “I’ve been one who has been concerned about a strike on Iran for some time, [...]

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“Where do you think the U.S. learned how to torture?”

Da: iristulip
Oggetto: [GazaFriends] Cry for the prisoners, express your outrage
Data: 06 luglio 2009 9:18:49 GMT+02:00
A: gazafriends, FG-MediaList, fg-projects
This video needs to be sent far and wide. There are 11,000 Palestinian prisoners, many without benefit of trial, many in prison for years without being able to see their families. Israel [...]

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“Am I being anti-semitic — or just being anti-injustice?”

Da: kobrenj
Oggetto: Janet’s Gaza/Palestine Digest (7/5/09)
Data: 06 luglio 2009 5:02:29 GMT+02:00
Thirteen items today…Janet
Free Gaza Boat Hijacking
1. Some UK FreeGaza 21 detainees likely to be deported Monday
2. U.S. State Department “response” to boat hijacking
3. No Comment on Kidnapping of McKinney
4. “The Israelis hijacked us because we wanted to give crayons to [...]

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Lenni Brenner on Zionism

Lenni Brenner, Zionism in the Age of the Dictators: A Reappraisal, Lawrence Hill & Co, 1983, http://www.marxists.de/middleast/brenner/index.htm

Lenni Brenner, The Iron Wall. Zionist Revisionism from Jabotinsky to Shamir,  Zed Books, 1984, http://www.marxists.de/middleast/ironwall/index.htm

Lenni Brenner, 51 Documents: Zionist Collaboration With the Nazis, Barricade Books, 2002

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Ralph Schoenman, The Hidden History of Zionism, Veritas Press, 1988

http://www.marxists.de/middleast/schoenman/

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Some UK FreeGaza 21 detainees likely to be deported Monday

Da: rrkysia
Oggetto: [GazaFriends] Some UK FreeGaza 21 detainees likely to be deported Monday
Data: 05 luglio 2009 22:36:15 GMT+02:00
A: gazafriends
Some of the UK FreeGaza 21 detainees likely to be deported Monday, should arrive to Heathrow 13.30 Monday.
We have just heard that at least 3 of the 6 British FreeGaza [...]

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Independence, Interdependence and HUMANITY

A life in ruins
Peter Beaumont

The force of the explosion that destroyed Shifa Salman’s house in the northern Gaza district of Jabal al-Rayas folded floor into floor as easily as pastry. It pushed pillars through concrete, reconfiguring her home into a bristling dome. The tail-fin of one of the Israeli bombs responsible still sits on top [...]

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PLEASE HELP US BREAK THE SIEGE OF GAZA

Da: iristulip
Oggetto: [GazaFriends] PLEASE HELP US BREAK THE SIEGE OF GAZA
Data: 05 luglio 2009 13:34:13 GMT+02:00
A: gazafriends
05 JULY 2009
PLEASE GIVE GENEROUSLY AND HELP US BREAK THE SIEGE OF GAZA
http://www.freegaza.org/en/donate
“The landing of two wooden boats carrying human rights activists in Gaza is an important symbolic victory … Above all, [...]

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“The Israelis hijacked us because we wanted to give crayons to the children of Gaza”

In Israeli jail, McKinney expects more from Washington

Sat, 04 Jul 2009 18:15:02 GMT

Former US lawmaker Cynthia McKinney is still in Israeli custody.

Former US lawmaker Cynthia McKinney, who is in an Israeli jail for trying to take humanitarian aid to Gaza, says the White House has done nothing to secure her release.
Speaking to Press TV from [...]

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Message from Mairead

Da: iristulip
Oggetto: [GazaFriends] Message from Mairead
Data: 05 luglio 2009 10:23:59 GMT+02:00
A: gazafriends, FG-MediaList
The Israeli prison guards are denying the right for Mairead to access her medicine. Continue to email and call Mark Regev and Shlomo Dror and express your outrage over the treatment of the FreeGaza21 while they [...]

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Can you *imagine* what would happen if Iran intercepted a vessel and/or incarcerated a former congressperson and Nobel Prize winner?

Da: iristulip
Oggetto: [GazaFriends] “I have to refer you to the Government of Israel…”
Data: 05 luglio 2009 6:42:18 GMT+02:00
A: gazafriends, FG-MediaList, fg-projects
U.S. Department of State Middle East Digest <http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/mideastdigest/125541.htm> 01 Jul 2009 briefing on the kidnapped passengers (with the U.S. State Department). The sheer stupidity of the answer boggles [...]

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I just want to be allowed to live a simple life

Da: iristulip
Oggetto: [GazaFriends] I just want to be allowed to live a simple life
Data: 04 luglio 2009 21:15:29 GMT+02:00
A: gazafriends
Cc: FG-Coordinators, FG-MediaList, web

Report from the Kidnapped Passengers in Ramle Prison, July 4, 2009

On Monday, June 30, 21 passengers going to challenge the blockade of Gaza on [...]

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Forbidden fruit

Please sign letter to the UN: Free Ahmad Sa’adat and all Palestinian political prisoners
Campaign to Free Ahmad Sa’adat

We are asking for your endorsement and that of your organization to the below letter, inspired by the hunger strike of imprisoned Palestinian national leader Ahmad Sa’adat, calling upon United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon to uphold his [...]

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“Huwaida just got out.”

press releases, photos, 04-07-09
July 4, 2009 by irishingaza

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Press release & photos of Irish Noble Peace Prize Laureate Mairead Maguire & Derek Graham -STILL HELD IN ISRAELI JAIL
Please find our last two press releases attached along with a statement from Michael Martin and some photos of Derek Graham and Mairead Maguire. Mairead was interviewed yesterday on the phone [...]

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Youngest prisoner in the world – Yousif, 17 months

A Brothel…
Layla Anwar, An Arab Woman Blues

Have you ever loved ? Like seriously loved someone ? If you have, do you remember what it felt like ? Do you remember when you were like a tiger/tigress when anyone approached your love and tried harming it ? Do you remember how you were so protective, [...]

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Not Even Nixon Tried to Control the Media Like Obama

U.S. Uses False Taliban Aid Charge to Pressure Iran
By Gareth Porter
The Barack Obama administration has given new prominence to a Bush administration charge that Iran is providing military training and assistance to the Taliban in Afghanistan, for which no evidence has ever been produced, and which has been discredited by data obtained by IPS from [...]

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Sarah Palin will not seek re-election [Alaska's polar bears and wolves rejoice!]

Maliki reassures on security as car bomb kills 41 01 Jul 2009 A car bomb in the northern Iraqi oil hub of Kirkuk killed at least 41 people and wounded 120 others yesterday just as Nouri al-Maliki, prime minister, sought to reassure the country that Iraqi forces were capable of providing security. The blast, in [...]

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the end of dollar hegemony

China Business

Jul 2, 2009

Dollar’s future in US hands

By Henry C K Liu
Since 2008, I have been widely recognized on the Internet as the person who changed China’s policy regarding the US dollar by advocating since 2002 that Chinese exports should be denominated in yuan. Chinese readers doing a Google search on my Chinese name will [...]

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Letter from an Israeli Jail, by Cynthia McKinney

Da: rrkysia
Oggetto: [GazaFriends] Letter from an Israeli Jail, by Cynthia McKinney
Data: 04 luglio 2009 10:52:30 GMT+02:00
A: gazafriends
Cc: FG-Coordinators, fg-medialist

This letter was originally broadcast on WBAIX on July 3rd

Letter from an Israeli Jail
By Cynthia McKinney

This is Cynthia McKinney and I’m speaking from an Israeli prison cellblock in Ramle. [...]

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Meet two young Palestinians who cannot leave Gaza to accept scholarships

http://www.philipweiss.org/mondoweiss/2009/07/meet-two-young-palestinians-who-cannot-leave-gaza-to-accept-scholarships.html

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Interview from a kidnapped passenger, Adie Mormech – Prison Cell, Givon Jail, Ramle, Israel

Da: iristulip
Oggetto: [GazaFriends] 14 of us in the 7 by 7 meter cell
Data: 04 luglio 2009 6:51:08 GMT+02:00
A: gazafriends
Cc: FG-Coordinators, FG-MediaList, fg-projects, FG-Discussions, web
Interview from a kidnapped passenger, Adie Mormech
Prison Cell, Givon Jail, Ramle, Israel
Adie Mormech, one of over 21 human rights workers and crew [...]

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Seizure illegal, Gaza blockade “crime against humanity”-UN

Da: kobrenj
Oggetto: Janet’s Gaza/Palestine digest (7/3/09)
Data: 04 luglio 2009 5:04:36 GMT+02:00
Lots of items today.  Remember, it’s about the Palestinians and the people of Gaza.  That’s what these boat trips are about…Janet
Free Gaza Boat Hijacking
> Cynthia McKinney
1. Cynthia’s Phone Call from Israeli prison on RunCynthiaRun YouTube Channel
2. Forwarded email from David Josue on [...]

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Netanyahu’s “Peace” Plan: Ethnic Cleansing as State Policy

When Torture Kills: Ten Murders In US Prisons In Afghanistan
Andy Worthington

There’s been a lot of discussion in the last few days about the long-awaited (and twice-delayed) release of the 2004 CIA Inspector General’s Report, which, as Glenn Greenwald explained on Tuesday, “aggressively question[s] both the efficacy and legality” of the Bush administration’s interrogation tactics [...]

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“It is logically consistent for an aid mission to be both the transport of humanitarian aid and a public relations effort to raise international awareness of the plight of a suffering people, which public relations effort is in itself an humanitarian effort meant to bring relief to a victimized people.”

Thursday, July 02, 2009

Qui veut noyer son chien l’accuse de rage

Christopher Jon Bjerknes
Max Nordau stated at the First Zionist Conference in 1897:
“‘If you have to drown a dog,’ says the proverb, ‘you must first declare him to be mad.’”
Jews often accuse their accuser in an effort to avoid the accusation. Note the Israeli spin in [...]

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together

Da: silviacattori
Oggetto: un projet vers Gaza qui associe les Egyptiens organisés par les Arabes eux mêmes; le but réussir en s’associant à toutes les forces
Data: 03 luglio 2009 15:50:54 GMT+02:00
http://www.droitpourtous.ch/Communiques/egypt%20book%20eng.pdf

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Attn: LONDON Gaza Supporters! Protest at Israeli Embassy at 5pm!

Da: rrkysia
Oggetto: [GazaFriends] Attn: LONDON Gaza Supporters! Protest at Israeli Embassy at 5pm!
Data: 03 luglio 2009 15:16:32 GMT+02:00
A: gazafriends

Family & Friends of Free Gaza detainee Alex Harrison will be holding a protest outside the Israeli Embassy in London today in support of the immediate release of all the [...]

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We Will Head Toward Gaza Again

Da: iristulip
Oggetto: [GazaFriends] We will head toward Gaza again
Data: 03 luglio 2009 11:44:30 GMT+02:00
A: gazafriends
Cc: FG-Coordinators, gazamedialist, web
Press Update From The Free Gaza Movement
We Will Head Toward Gaza Again

Greta Berlin (English)
tel: +357 99 28 41 02/ friends@freegaza.org
Ramzi Kysia (English)
Tel: + 357 99 08 17 67 rrkysia@yahoo.com
Caoimhe Butterly [...]

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A message from Cynthia from a cell block in Israel

Da: iristulip
Oggetto: [GazaFriends] A message from Cynthia from a cell block in Israel
Data: 03 luglio 2009 9:13:49 GMT+02:00
A: gazafriends
Cc: FG-Coordinators, FG-MediaList
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_zVJXnTJxuA&feature=player_embedded

Greta Berlin
Free Gaza Movement
357 99 284 102
www.freegaza.org
www.flickr.com/photos/29205195@N02/

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“we’ll burst it open like a f…king watermelon!!!”

Da: c.chantegrel
Oggetto: “we’ll burst it open like a f…king watermelon!!!”
Data: 30 giugno 2009 21:05:34 GMT+02:00
A: intmorb
Mardi 30 juin :  ENGLISH BELOW

A Rafah, quatrième d’ouverture.. comme un roman ! Et même, il est prévu que ça continue demain ! N’empêchent que les conditions continuent à être inhumaines, (violence, extorsions, etc.) Aujourd’hui, les toilettes [...]

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Italian-Palestinian concert

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1RQCar0eL0

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WILL COME

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4e89xNcVTZM

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UN Expert denounces seizure of aid boat by Israeli forces

Da: rrkysia
Oggetto: [GazaFriends] UN Expert denounces seizure of aid boat by Israeli forces
Data: 03 luglio 2009 2:16:12 GMT+02:00
A: gazafriends
Cc: fg-medialist

PRESS RELEASE
UN Expert denounces seizure of aid boat by Israeli forces
2 July 2009
GENEVA – The UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the [...]

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[GazaFriends] Our website is down

Da: iristulip
Oggetto: [GazaFriends] Our website is down
Data: 02 luglio 2009 14:04:35 GMT+02:00
A: gazafriends, FG-MediaList
Has it been hacked? We don’t know. We’re working on it, so some of the stories you might have received through our website, we will post here for all of you.
http://alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L1271412.htm

Greta Berlin
Free Gaza Movement
357 99 284 [...]

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I’M SURE

Oggetto: I’M SURE

Da: flespa
Data: 30 giugno 2009 17:52:19 GMT+02:00
A: iristulip
Cc:  (…)

Dearest Greta, in this moment of sorrow I want to let you know that I’m more and more with you and all my brave friends of Free Gaza: you did your best, with courage and honesty. My admiration towards you all [...]

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Israeli naval abductions and shooting at Palestinian fishermen: it’s routine

This Shame is Yours.
Layla Anwar, An Arab Woman Blues

So what’s with this endless torture business in Iraq ? Fawziya al-Jashami said she had seen “horrific traces” of torture during a visit to a prison in the southern Province of Babel of which Hilla is the capital. “I saw types of torture which are so vicious [...]

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“Translation”

June 30, 2009
Has the CIA Been Caught in Iran’s Cookie Jar, Again?
Iran and Washington’s Hidden Hand

By ESAM AL-AMIN

Only weeks after the September 11, 2001, attacks, Charles Krauthammer, the Washington Post columnist and mouthpiece of the neoconservatives, revealed the target list of the Bush administration as it set out on its post-9/11 war footing. The list included [...]

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Interview from Ramle prison of Kathy, Mairead, Cynthia

Da: iristulip
Oggetto: [GazaFriends] Interview from Ramle prison of Kathy, Mairead, Cynthia
Data: 02 luglio 2009 10:27:43 GMT+02:00
A: gazafriends
Cc: FG-Coordinators, FG-MediaList, sgreavess
They all sound fine.  http://www.livestream.com/wbaix

Greta Berlin
Free Gaza Movement
357 99 284 102
www.freegaza.org
www.flickr.com/photos/29205195@N02/

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Statement from Cynthia McKinney inside prison at Ramle

Da: iristulip
Oggetto: [GazaFriends] Statement from Cynthia McKinney inside prison at Ramle
Data: 02 luglio 2009 9:35:43 GMT+02:00
A: gazafriends
Cc: FG-MediaList, johnjudge
One of Cynthia’s friend received a phone call from Ramle prison. The incarcerated prisoners are calling themselves “Free Gaza 21″ even though Huwaida and Lubna have been released. Below [...]

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best regards

Da: majedbaitonayaraatpal
Oggetto: letter to President Obama from a Palestinian activist in Gaza
Data: 02 luglio 2009 15:15:03 GMT+02:00
A: (…)

Dear Mr Obama,
as a community activist, peace maker. project coordinator and journalist I respect all that you are doing for this world. However, until now I don’t see anything for [...]

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Sharp Drop In US Support for Israel, New Poll Shows

Israeli ‘Settlements’: Fictions on the Ground
Tony Judt — The New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/22/opinion/22judt.html
… Thus President Obama faces a choice. He can play along with the Israelis, pretending to believe their promises of good intentions and the significance of the distinctions they offer him. Such a pretense would buy him time and favor with Congress. But [...]

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Banks Own The US Government

Iraq: Troop Movements Are not a ‘Withdrawal’

By Dennis Kucinich

“This is not a great victory for peace. On May 19, the Christian Science Monitor reported that Iraqi and U.S. military officials virtually redrew the city limits of Baghdad in order to consider the Army’s Forward Operating Base Falcon as outside the city, despite every map of [...]

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$2,000 for a Dead Afghan Child. $100,000 for Any American Who Died Killing it.

$2,000 for a Dead Afghan Child

$100,000 for Any American Who Died Killing it.

By Jay Janson

Shocking? Shame provoking? Embarrassing that no Afghani or Pakistani child or parent has any human right at all, including the right not to be blown to pieces in a US drone air strike? – the final insult being the value of [...]

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Checkpoint stops Palestinians with ‘too much food’

I Want My Money Back! (Pres. Obama!)

By Marie Marchand

Betrayal is a part of life. After awhile, you just come to expect it. Yet, the initial shock always hits you as a surprise. Alas, the nature of betrayal. Humans are vulnerable to being betrayed because underneath our husky shells, our pain and hardened hearts, we are [...]

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Israeli doctors colluding in torture… while world’s medical ethics chief turns blind eye

ISRAEL ATTACKS JUSTICE BOAT; KIDNAPS HUMAN RIGHTS WORKERS; CONFISCATES MEDICINE, TOYS AND OLIVE TREES
Free Gaza Team

Today Israeli Occupation Forces attacked and boarded the Free Gaza Movement boat, the SPIRIT OF HUMANITY, abducting 21 human rights workers from 11 countries, including Noble laureate Mairead Maguire and former U.S. Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney (see below for a [...]

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Update on kidnapped passengers, impounded boat, and the right for EVERYONE to see an attorney

Da: iristulip
Oggetto: [GazaFriends] Press Conference, Today, Journalist House, Nicosia, 17:00-17:30
Data: 01 luglio 2009 11:27:26 GMT+02:00
A: gazafriends
Update on kidnapped passengers, impounded boat, and the right for EVERYONE to see an attorney
Journalists’ House
12 CyBC (RIK) Avenue
Aglantzia, Nicosia 2120, Cyprus
Greta Berlin (English)
tel: +357 99 28 41 02/ friends@freegaza.org
Ramzi Kysia (English)
Tel: + 357 99 [...]

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