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Israel Authorizes 455 New Settlement Units

Mon, 07 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Common Dreams - Sep. 07 (News) - Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak has authorized the construction of more than 450 new housing units in settlements in the occupied West Bank, his ministry said in a statement on Monday.

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The Dark Side of Climate Change: It's Already Too Late, Cap and Trade Is a Scam, and Only the Few Will Survive

Wed, 08 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

AlterNet - By Alexander Zaitchik - Jul. 08 (Investigative Report) - the time is nigh to accept that a massive culling of the human race is around the corner.

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Peruvian Police Accused of Massacring Indigenous Protesters in Amazon Jungle

Mon, 08 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Democracy Now - By Gregor MacLennan, Amy Goodman - Jun. 08 (News Report) - Dozens of people are estimated to have been killed in clashes between police and indigenous activists protesting oil and mining projects in the northern Peruvian Amazonian province of Bagua. Peruvian authorities have declared a military curfew, and troops are patrolling towns in the Amazon jungle. Authorities say up to twenty-two policemen have been killed, and two remain missing. The indigenous community says at least forty people, including three children, were killed by the police this weekend.

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The Storm Widens

Mon, 06 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0700

TruthOut - By Dahr Jamail - Apr. 06 (News Report) - Just days after the aforementioned detention, Iraqi forces arrested two more Sahwa guards in the al-Dora neighborhood of Baghdad, which is controlled by their forces. In an article for Truthout last week, I voiced my concerns of these government attacks against Sahwa forces spreading. I am surprised at the rapidity at which this is occurring now, as this trend, if it continues, appears almost certain to spark a dramatic flare of sectarian violence in the capital city.

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Iraqi Army Turns on 'Sons of Iraq'

Mon, 30 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Consortium News - By Leila Fadel - Mar. 30 (News Report) - The U.S.-backed Iraqi government has struck against the “Sons of Iraq,” Sunni paramilitary fighters who have taken U.S. money to turn against al-Qaeda in Iraq and who now believe they are being betrayed as the Americans prepare to withdraw.

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Death Squad Leader Was Top Cia Agent

Sun, 22 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0700

sundayherald.com - By Gabriel Ronay - Mar. 22 (News Report) - THE LATE President Milosevic's secret police chief and organiser of Serb death squads during the genocidal ethnic cleansing of disintegrating Yugoslavia was the United States' top CIA agent in Belgrade, according to the independent Belgrade Radio B92. The claim that from 1992 until the end of the decade, Jovica Stanisic, head of Serbia's murderous DB Secret Police, was regularly informing his CIA handlers of the thinking in Milosevic's inner circle has shocked the region.

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As Chinese Troops Seal off Tibet, Dalai Lama Warns Tibetan Identity 'Near Extinction'

Fri, 13 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0700

AlterNet - By Antoaneta Bezlova - Mar. 13 (News Report) - In the run-up to the anniversary, Beijing launched a blitz propaganda campaign designed to drum up support for its policies of heavy investment and tight political control in Tibet. An exhibit showcasing the "democratic reforms" brought by China into Tibet opened at the Cultural Palace of Nationalities in Beijing on Feb. 24, while the China Central Television (CCTV) aired a three-part documentary featuring Tibet’s evolution from "autocracy to democracy," according to the People’s Daily.

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An Arrest Warrant for al-Bashir, Could Bush Be Next?

Fri, 06 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Huffington Post - By Jamal Dajani - Mar. 06 (News Analysis) - The court's decision grimly spelled out the suffering of the people of Darfur, a history full of murder, torture, rape, pillage and deliberate attacks on civilians. Could the ICC's decision set a precedent?

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A Handy Guide To What the Hell Just Happened in Darfur

Thu, 05 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0800

humanitarianrelief.change.org - By Michael Kleinman - Mar. 05 (News Report) - Exciting past few days in Darfur-land, if by excitement you mean the very real possibility of millions of people suddenly starving. A quick guide to what happened, and what it means.

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Crisis Worsens for Civilians in Gaza

Wed, 14 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0800

The Real News - Jan. 14 (News Report) - (VIDEO) Sameh Habeeb, a photojournalist based in Gaza City, gives a first-hand report about the worsening humanitarian crisis, which includes shortages of water, food, gas and other fuels, amid fears that Israeli bombs will hit any vehicle that moves.

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Gaza officials: Massive sewage flood imminent

Sat, 10 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0800

imemc.org - By Saed Bannoura - Jan. 10 (News Report) - Due to the ongoing Israeli invasion of Gaza, nearly 700,000 Palestinians have gone without water for days, and sewage pumping systems have stopped. In many places, raw sewage is running through the streets, and officials have warned that a massive sewage flood, like the one in 2007 that killed 5 people, could occur at any time.

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From Burma's Mountains to Carolina's Piedmont

Wed, 07 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Project Report - By Eileen Mignoni - Jan. 07 (Special Report) - The Karen are an ethnic minority group from Myanmar. The Karen, and much of the world, know their homeland as Burma. Beginning in 1984, the military dictatorship has been systematically eradicating the Karen minority. Some of the Karen have bonded together into the Karen National Union, with a military branch called the Karen National Liberation Army dedicated to battling Myanmar's military and fighting for an independent Karen state.

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Orwell, blinding tribalism, selective Terrorism, and Israel/Gaza

Sun, 04 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Salon - By Glenn Greenwald - Jan. 04 (News Analysis) - If you see Palestinians as something less than civilized human beings: as "barbarians" -- just as if you see Americans as infidels warring with God or Jews as sub-human rats -- then it naturally follows that civilian deaths are irrelevant, perhaps even something to cheer. For people who think that way, arguments about "proportionality" won't even begin to resonate -- such concepts can't even be understood -- because the core premise, that excessive civilian deaths are horrible and should be avoided at all costs, isn't accepted. Why should a superior, civilized, peaceful society allow the welfare of violent, hateful barbarians to interfere with its objectives? How can the deaths or suffering of thousands of barbarians ever be weighed against the death of even a single civilized person?

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U.S. Branch of Amnesty Calls on Rice to Drop "Lopsided" Stance

Sun, 04 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Inter Press Service - By Jim Lobe - Jan. 04 (News Report) - The U.S. section of Amnesty International sent an "urgent" letter Friday to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, calling on her to end what it called Washington's "lopsided response" to the ongoing Israeli air strikes on Gaza that have reportedly killed more than 400 Palestinians, including scores of unarmed civilians.

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Rafah - Report from the ground

Thu, 01 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0800

therealnews.com - Jan. 01 (News Report) - Fida Qishta of Rafah, Gaza describes the past few days as Israeli bombing kills hundreds

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The True Story Behind This War is Not the One Israel is Telling

Sun, 28 Dec 2008 00:00:00 -0800

Huffington Post - By Johann Hari - Dec. 28 (News Analysis) - The Israeli government wants peace, but only one imposed on its own terms, based on the acceptance of defeat by the Palestinians. It means they can keep the slabs of the West Bank on 'their' side of the wall. It means they keep the largest settlements, and control of the water supply. And it means a divided Palestine, with responsibility for Gaza hived off to Egypt, and the broken-up West Bank standing alone. Negotiations threaten this vision: they would require Israel to give up more than it wants to. But an imposed peace will be no peace at all: it will not stop the rockets or the rage. For real safety, Israel will have to talk to the people it is blockading and bombing today - and compromise with them.

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The Pattern of this World

Sun, 21 Dec 2008 00:00:00 -0800

Sojourners - By Emmanuel M. Katongole - Dec. 21 (Special Report) - Looking back at the history of Rwanda, it is striking to see how the church could name the injustice of the colonial system without fundamentally questioning its power to determine who people are. In all of this, no one was ever able to say that the racial categories of Hutu and Tutsi were part of the colonialists’ propaganda. Rwandans didn’t even get rid of their identity cards. Hutu and Tutsi had become so fixed—so natural—that people could not begin to imagine how they might live without these categories.

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Savage on the Mumbai attacks: "Should the tribal areas in Pakistan be wiped out and the rats killed in there once and for all?"

Mon, 01 Dec 2008 00:00:00 -0800

Media Matters - Dec. 01 (News Analysis) - Discussing the terrorist attacks in Mumbai, India, Michael Savage said: "Should the tribal areas of Pakistan be wiped out and the rats killed in there once and for all? Should we nuke the tribal areas in Pakistan's wild-man region and wipe out the terrorists once and for all?" Savage later added: "What the heck do we have nuclear weapons for? What are tactical nuclear weapons for but to wipe out an enemy? The enemy lives there -- kill them and their families, and show them that the terror they inflict on the West will come home to roost and will be inflicted on them."

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Mass Stigma Scars Congo's Rape Survivors

Sun, 05 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Women's eNews - By Dominique Soguel - Oct. 05 (News Report) - A psychologist in a Congo hospital says decades of war have produced a rape-friendly culture with a double standard. While perpetrators go unpunished the victims, including children, are ostracized. Amnesty International has issued a new warning.

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At OpEdNews: Our Place in the World

Mon, 22 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Op Ed News - By Mark Overt Skilbread - Sep. 22 (News Analysis) - Pretty Close to what John Lennon would say today if he was still walking this Planet.

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Law School Dean Calls Conference to Plan Bush War Crimes Prosecution - ABA Journal - Law News Now

Mon, 23 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0700

ABA Journal - By Debra Cassens Weiss - Jun. 23 (Special Report) - The dean of Massachusetts School of Law at Andover is planning a September conference to map out war crimes prosecutions, and the targets are President Bush and other administration officials.

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Unburying the Evidence of Peru's Biggest "Dirty War" Massacre

Sun, 15 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Upside Down World - By Ángel Páez - Jun. 15 (News Report) - (IPS)-It was not hard to find the remains of the victims, some of whose bones were actually exposed to the elements. But it took 24 years for the people of the highlands village of Putis in southern Peru to get a response to their insistent requests for exhumation and identification of the remains.

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Hollywood gets political with its stoner movies

Fri, 25 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Canada.com - By Katherine Monk - Apr. 25 (News Report) - Around the same time Cheech and Chong started their big screen puffing, the American government banned the word "hemp" from all school text books, insisting any mention of the once powerful hemp industry (predicted to be the No. 1 crop in the U.S. by Popular Mechanics in 1938) would only confuse youngsters who didn't understand the difference between useful hemp fibre and the combustible of choice among teens.

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Ten facts about the Nakba

Mon, 10 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0700

IMEU - By The Institute for Middle East Understanding - Mar. 10 (News Analysis) - "We thought it would be a matter of weeks, only until the fighting died down. Of course, we were never allowed to go home." Nina Saah, Washington, DC "My family's farm of oranges, grapefruits and lemons, centuries old, was gone." Darwish Addassi, Walnut Creek, California "Those of us who left unwillingly in 1948 are plagued with painful nostalgia. My house in West Jerusalem is an Israeli nursery school now." Inea Bushnaq, New York, New York "The people of New Orleans woke up one morning to complete devastation and had to flee. The Nakba was our Hurricane Katrina." Abe Fawal, Birmingham, Alabama Sixty years ago, more than 700,000 Palestinians lost their homes and belongings, their farms and businesses, their towns and cities. Jewish militias seeking to create a state with a Jewish majority in Palestine, and later, the Israeli army, drove them out. Israel rapidly moved Jews into the newly-emptied Palestinian homes. Nakba means "catastrophe" in Arabic, and Palestinians refer to the destruction of their society and the takeover of their homeland as an-Nakba, "The Catastrophe."

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Iraq Refugee Problem Still a Growing Crisis Despite Denials

Mon, 03 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0800

AlterNet - By Dahr Jamail, Maki al-Nazzal - Mar. 03 (Special Report) - "I shall never return to Iraq until the last American soldier and Iranian mullah leaves," Alwan says. "It is their country now, not ours. The only thing that might take me back is when I decide to fight for Iraq's real liberty." Iraqi refugees in Syria speak of lack of security back home, lack of services, fear of the future, mistrust of Iraqi politicians, and loss of homes. Most are simply too afraid to return. A UNHCR report issued last month contradicts reports by mainstream media in the U.S., and claims by the Bush administration, that more Iraqis are returning to their homes than the number leaving.

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