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Archives for July 2015

Apartheid
No Fish for You!  Israeli Navy arrests 6 Gazans for Fishing While Palestinian

No Fish for You! Israeli Navy arrests 6 Gazans for Fishing While Palestinian

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By Palestinian Center For Human Rights – PCHR | Gaza Report | – – Israeli Naval Forces Continue Chasing Fishermen In The Gaza Strip Sea On Tuesday morning, 7 July 2015, Israeli gunboats chased and opened fire at a Palestinian fishing boats. They also arrested 6 fishermen, and confiscated 3 fishing boats. The Palestinian Center […]

Foreign Policy
The Confederate Flag flew in Iraq as Symbol of Empire and Militarism ("Valor")

The Confederate Flag flew in Iraq as Symbol of Empire and Militarism (“Valor”)

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By Greg Grandin | (Tomdispatch.com) | – – The Pentagon just can’t let go. In the wake of the Charleston Massacre, Amazon and Walmart have announced that they will no longer sell Confederate flag merchandise. Ebay says it will stop offering Confederate items for electronic auction. Mississippi’s Republican speaker of the house calls his state […]

Children
“Books, Not Bullets,” Malala Yousafzai Urges at Oslo Summit

“Books, Not Bullets,” Malala Yousafzai Urges at Oslo Summit

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By Aruna Dutt | (Inter Press Service) | – – UNITED NATIONS (IPS) – Nobel Peace Prize laureate and education activist Malala Yousafzai spoke Tuesday of her mission to bring 12 years of education to all children, rather than the previous goal of nine years, at the final day of the Oslo Summit on Education […]

Balkans
Desperate Afro-Asian Migrants flee war, famine through risky Balkans on The Road To EU

Desperate Afro-Asian Migrants flee war, famine through risky Balkans on The Road To EU

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By Iva Martinovic | (RFE/ RL) | – – These days, the park flanking Belgrade’s bus terminal and the nearby railway station teems with migrants. They are from Syria, Afghanistan, Iraq, or Somalia, and they are on the last leg of a grueling journey they hope will take them to the European Union. Inside the […]

Featured
Obama: No more US troops to fight Daesh/ ISIL, but more Training

Obama: No more US troops to fight Daesh/ ISIL, but more Training

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By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – President Obama on Monday went for a briefing at the Pentagon on the fight against Daesh (ISIS, ISIL). In remarks afterwards, he acknowledged that training of Iraqi troops has been going much slower than originally envisaged (about 5,000 have been trained in the past year, and […]

Latinos
Donald Trump Tries To Backpedal But Can’t Stop Saying Racist Things

Donald Trump Tries To Backpedal But Can’t Stop Saying Racist Things

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Cenk Uygur | (The Young Turks Video) | — “Donald Trump continues putting his foot in his mouth, Trump retweeted something he probably regrets and made hideous comments about Univision. When Trump was asked by Fox & Friends whether or not his brand has been damaged he gave a surprisingly honest answer. Cenk Uygur, host […]

Climate Change
California's Drought Is Part of a Much Bigger Water Crisis. Here's What You Need to Know

California’s Drought Is Part of a Much Bigger Water Crisis. Here’s What You Need to Know

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By Abrahm Lustgarten, Lauren Kirchner and Amanda Zamora | (ProPublica) | — Why do I keep hearing about the California drought, if it’s the Colorado River that we’re “killing”? Pretty much every state west of the Rockies has been facing a water shortage of one kind or another in recent years.  California’s is a severe, […]

Human Rights
Daesh/ ISIL Marked Women and Children for Death in Syria's Kobani

Daesh/ ISIL Marked Women and Children for Death in Syria’s Kobani

Juan Cole

Human Rights Watch | (New York) — Armed militants believed to be members of Islamic State, also known as ISIS, deliberately targeted people they knew were civilians in a June 25, 2015, attack in and around the northern Syrian city of Kobani. Syrian Kurdish authorities and local human rights groups said that 233 to 262 […]

Apartheid
Security Zones Being Used to Further Expand West Bank Settlements

Security Zones Being Used to Further Expand West Bank Settlements

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By IMEMC | – – “Land confiscated from Palestinians for the purpose of security buffer zones around illegal Israeli settlements in the West Bank is actually being utilized as “land reserves or for agriculture,” according to an investigation by Israeli newspaper Haaretz.” The buffer zones were originally created during the Second Intifada [Palestinian Uprising] reportedly […]

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