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UN Rapporteur on Palestine Francesca Albanese: A Noble Woman
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UN Rapporteur on Palestine Francesca Albanese: A Noble Woman

H. Patricia Hynes

Francesca Albanese stands head and shoulders with the great Nobel-Prize women.  Women won for her dedication to international peace

How 3 local BDS campaigns won the divestment of millions in Israeli bonds

How 3 local BDS campaigns won the divestment of millions in Israeli bonds

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Iran has more Options up its sleeve than Trump and Netanyahu Assume

Iran has more Options up its sleeve than Trump and Netanyahu Assume

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Where Books Are Banned, The Internet Can Be a Lifesaver

Where Books Are Banned, The Internet Can Be a Lifesaver

By Jillian York via EFF The censorship or banning of books is a phenomenon that occurs in countries around the world. Books that are considered […]

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Barack Obama
Why Obama underestimated ISIL in Syria and Iraq

Why Obama underestimated ISIL in Syria and Iraq

By Juan Cole President Obama admitted on CBS’s “60 Minutes” on Sunday that the US had underestimated the military potential of ISIL. Obama understands that […]

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Iraq
Iraq's Humpty-Dumpty Factor:  Even if ISIL is Defeated, Can it ever be put Together Again?

Iraq’s Humpty-Dumpty Factor: Even if ISIL is Defeated, Can it ever be put Together Again?

Nawzat Shamdeen | Berlin | via Niqash.org As local forces appear to be preparing to take on Sunni Muslim extremists in charge of their hometowns, […]

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Super-Rich Oil and Gas Companies Routinely Underpay own Workers

Super-Rich Oil and Gas Companies Routinely Underpay own Workers

By Naveena Sadasivam via ProPublica A ProPublica review of U.S. Department of Labor investigations shows that oil and gas workers 2013 men and women often […]

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Fundamentalists
Michele Bachmann (R-MN) declares Christian Jihad on all Muslims

Michele Bachmann (R-MN) declares Christian Jihad on all Muslims

The Young Turks: “Michele Bachmann took the stage at the Values Voters Summit today, and fired up the crowd with shots at President Obama and […]

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Iraq: Shiites Paralyzed by infighting as ISIL menaces Baghdad

Iraq: Shiites Paralyzed by infighting as ISIL menaces Baghdad

By Juan Cole The pan-Arab London daily “al-Sharq al-Awsat” [The Middle East] is reporting from a source inside the new Iraqi government that former prime […]

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Arab Spring
Syria: If Violent Extremists are the Problem, why is al-Assad Jailing Peaceful Democracy Advocates?

Syria: If Violent Extremists are the Problem, why is al-Assad Jailing Peaceful Democracy Advocates?

By Lama Fakih, Human Rights Watch In a speech before the European Parliament in 2009, Syrian activist Mazen Darwish warned that unless civil society was […]

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Apartheid
Palestinian family forced to demolish own house in Jerusalem

Palestinian family forced to demolish own house in Jerusalem

JERUSALEM (Ma’an) — A Palestinian family has begun to demolish part of a building it owns in East Jerusalem to avoid paying fines after the […]

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Democracy
'You killed a million people in Iraq' George Galloway tells Blair Cabinet Member

‘You killed a million people in Iraq’ George Galloway tells Blair Cabinet Member

BBC “George Galloway told a former member of Tony Blair and Gordon Brown’s cabinets she killed one million people in Iraq. The former Labour MP, […]

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