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Iran’s elite Guards fighting in Iraq to push back ISIS
In early July, hundreds of mourners gathered for the funeral of Kamal Shirkhani in Lavasan, a small town northeast of Tehran.
Proposition 1: How to Swindle the Middle Class
By Cathy Stripe Lester On August 5, Michigan taxpayers will be asked to vote on Proposition 1, which is being presented in commercials as a […]
Do you Think your Smartphone Location Data is Private? The Police Don’t
By Hanni Fakhoury via EFF The Fourth Amendment protects us from “unreasonable” government searches of our persons, houses, papers and effects. How courts should determine […]
“Mr. Netanyahu is Engaged in the Liquidation of an Entire Nation” – Powerful Palestinian Statement from West Bank
BBC: Spokesman for Fatah, Dr Husam Zomlot tells the BBC News that Israeli PM Netanyahu is guilty of ‘ liquidation of an entire nation’. ‘We […]
UN on Gaza: Health System Collapse, 25% Displaced, 5% w/ Clean Water, Epidemic Threat, Generally Mad Max
By United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs Occupied Palestinian Territory: Gaza Emergency Situation Report Highlights • The Rafah area was subject to […]
“Dead Children Names Too Threatening For Israel” – Something being Covered Up (Young Turks)
The Young Turks: “”The Israeli Broadcasting Authority has banned a radio advertisement from a human rights organisation which listed the names of some of the […]
Boycott of Israel Spreads in European Civil Society over Gaza War, Could Cost $5 bn/ yr
By Juan Cole The ill-considered and remarkably brutal Gaza war likely will give further impetus to the Boycott, Sanction and Divestment movement by Western civil […]
Gaza: Khuzaa district Flattened, Evidence of Israeli Atrocities
Channel 4 News: “WARNING – this report contains graphic images some viewers may find distressing. Paul Mason reports on the end of the proposed 72-hour […]
Obama steps up to call Bush-era CIA Torture “Torture,” Despite Legal Implications
CNN points out that President Obama’s forthright condemnation of Bush administration-era CIA torture could cause legal problems for Agency employees, and that the Congressional report […]
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