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Obama Warned Israel May Bomb Iran

by RAINman on 05. Aug, 2010 in Hard News

By Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity
MEMORANDUM FOR: The President
FROM: Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS)
SUBJECT: War With Iran
Information Clearing House – August 04, 2010
We write to alert you to the likelihood that Israel will attack Iran as early as this month. This would likely lead to a wider war.
Israel’s leaders would calculate that once [...]

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Pakistan Pushes Draconian New Terror Bill

by RAINman on 28. Jul, 2010 in Hard News

Secret Trials, Unchallengeable Summary Detentions on the Table
by Jason Ditz,
AntiWar.com – July 27, 2010

Pakistani Interior Minister Rehman Malik today proposed a massive expansion of government power with the “Anti-Terrorism Bill 2010,” a bill which is set to go through parliament in the near future.
The bill dramatically redefines the concept of “terrorism” to encompass such things as [...]

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Revealed: how Israel offered to sell South Africa nuclear weapons

by RAINman on 25. May, 2010 in Hard News

Exclusive: Secret apartheid-era papers give first official evidence of Israeli nuclear weapons

Chris McGreal in Washington
The Guardian, Monday 24 May 2010

Secret South African documents reveal that Israel offered to sell nuclear warheads to the apartheid regime, providing the first official documentary evidence of the state’s possession of nuclear weapons.

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Religious edict to expand sphere for targeting Palestinians in “Price Tag” campaign

by RAINman on 19. May, 2010 in Hard News

Middle East Monitor
MEMO – 17 May 2010
Has called for an expansion of the ‘price tag’ campaign – a settler policy of retribution against Palestinians and their property
Rabbi Yitzhak Shapira, leader of the Yosef Chai Yeshiva; a religious institution in the Yitzhar settlement, has called for an expansion of the ‘price tag’ campaign – a [...]

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ECESG eyewitness report: The tragedy that is Gaza today and the role of the EU

by RAINman on 13. May, 2010 in Hard News

The European Campaign to End the Siege on Gaza- ECESG
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http://www.uruknet.info/?p=m65897&hd=&size=1&l=e

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VICTIMS OF URANIUM MUNITIONS USED BY THE US FORCES IN AFGHANISTAN

by RAINman on 24. Mar, 2010 in Hard News

Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan - 22 March 2010
WARNING!!  these photos are very disturbing: http://www.uruknet.info/index.php?p=m64423&hd=&size=1&l=e
Dear readers and viewers:
These photos of newly-born infants have been taken by Dr. Mohammad Daud Miraki, a well-known Afghan researcher, anthropologist, sociologist and scholar. He visited Afghanistan to find out about the situation after the American invasion of Afghanistan. The deformed infants are the result [...]

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Israeli raids targeting children

by RAINman on 18. Mar, 2010 in Hard News

Nora Barrows-Friedman
The Electronic Intifada - 17 March 2010
Silwan, Occupied East Jerusalem (IPS) – Three thousand heavily armed Israeli security service forces locked down large parts of the Old City of Jerusalem on Tuesday, as battalions of police fired rounds of tear gas and rubber-coated steel bullets at Palestinian protesters in the occupied eastern part of the [...]

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European Union found guilty at first session of Russell Tribunal

by RAINman on 17. Mar, 2010 in Hard News

Ewa Jasiewicz and Frank Barat*
The Electronic Intifada – 15 March 2010
The first session of the Russell Tribunal on Palestine (RTP) was heard in Barcelona, Spain earlier this month. The RTP is a peoples’ legal initiative designed to systematically try key actors responsible for the perpetuation of human rights violations in Palestine.

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UK troops ‘executed Iraqi grandmother’

by RAINman on 13. Jan, 2010 in Hard News

Royal Military Police investigate latest allegation of abuse in Basra

By Robert Verkaik, Law Editor
Independent  – 11 January 2010
Allegations that a 62-year-old Iraqi grandmother was tortured and executed by British soldiers after her family home was raided three years ago are being investigated by the Royal Military Police.
The Army’s involvement in the death and abuse [...]

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Israel’s treatment of Ethiopians ‘racist’

by RAINman on 12. Jan, 2010 in Hard News

Jonathan Cook, Foreign Correspondent
The Nation  -   5 January 2010

NAZARETH, Israel // Health officials in Israel are subjecting many female Ethiopian immigrants to a controversial long-term birth control drug in what Israeli women’s groups allege is a racist policy to reduce the number of black babies.
The contraceptive, known as Depo Provera, which is given [...]

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Women’s Deaths, and Inquiry’s Findings, Enrage Kashmir

by RAINman on 29. Dec, 2009 in Hard News

By LYDIA POLGREEN
The New York Times      24 December 2009
SHOPIAN, Kashmir — The case had all the hallmarks of a grisly and politically explosive crime, and it plunged the volatile Kashmir Valley into months of violent protests and political turmoil. Two young women were found dead in May in a stream flanked by military and [...]

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Gaza students stuck in Strip

by RAINman on 22. Oct, 2009 in Hard News

Palestinians say hundreds of scholarship recipients unable to leave due to Israeli siege
Yaheli Moran Zelikovich
Ynet News 21 October 2009

With the 2009-2010 academic year under way, 838 Palestinian university students are still waiting for the authorization that will enable them to leave the Gaza Strip in favor of overseas universities.

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