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		<title>Obama Warned Israel May Bomb Iran</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Aug 2010 11:52:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity MEMORANDUM FOR: The President FROM: Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS) SUBJECT: War With Iran Information Clearing House &#8211; 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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pakistan Pushes Draconian New Terror Bill</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Jul 2010 13:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Secret Trials, Unchallengeable Summary Detentions on the Table by Jason Ditz, AntiWar.com &#8211; 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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Revealed: how Israel offered to sell South Africa nuclear weapons</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 May 2010 13:06:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>RAINman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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&#8217;s possession of nuclear weapons. see document here: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/may/23/israel-south-africa-nuclear-documents [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Religious edict to expand sphere for targeting Palestinians in &#8220;Price Tag&#8221; campaign</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 May 2010 08:04:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>RAINman</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Price Tag campaign]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[rabbi yitzhak shapira]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[retribution]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[settlers]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://rain.org.za/?p=3348</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Middle East Monitor MEMO – 17 May 2010 Has called for an expansion of the &#8216;price tag&#8217; campaign &#8211; 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 &#8216;price tag&#8217; campaign [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ECESG eyewitness report: The tragedy that is Gaza today and the role of the EU</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 May 2010 07:31:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>RAINman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The European Campaign to End the Siege on Gaza- ECESG 1271081945[1] http://www.uruknet.info/?p=m65897&#38;hd=&#38;size=1&#38;l=e]]></description>
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		<title>VICTIMS OF URANIUM MUNITIONS USED BY THE US FORCES IN AFGHANISTAN</title>
		<link>http://rain.org.za/victims-of-uranium-munitions-used-by-the-us-forces-in-afghanistan/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Mar 2010 10:40:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>RAINman</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Dr Mohammad Daud Miraki]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan - 22 March 2010 WARNING!!  these photos are very disturbing: http://www.uruknet.info/index.php?p=m64423&#38;hd=&#38;size=1&#38;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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Israeli raids targeting children</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Mar 2010 12:53:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>RAINman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nora Barrows-Friedman The Electronic Intifada - 17 March 2010 Silwan, Occupied East Jerusalem (IPS) &#8211; 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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>European Union found guilty at first session of Russell Tribunal</title>
		<link>http://rain.org.za/european-union-found-guilty-at-first-session-of-russell-tribunal/</link>
		<comments>http://rain.org.za/european-union-found-guilty-at-first-session-of-russell-tribunal/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Mar 2010 10:41:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>RAINman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ewa Jasiewicz and Frank Barat* The Electronic Intifada &#8211; 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&#8217; legal initiative designed to systematically try key actors responsible for the perpetuation of human rights violations in Palestine. In the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>UK troops &#8216;executed Iraqi grandmother&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://rain.org.za/uk-troops-executed-iraqi-grandmother/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jan 2010 08:20:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Royal Military Police investigate latest allegation of abuse in Basra By Robert Verkaik, Law Editor Independent  &#8211; 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&#8217;s involvement in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Israel’s treatment of Ethiopians ‘racist’</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jan 2010 09:19:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Women’s Deaths, and Inquiry’s Findings, Enrage Kashmir</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Dec 2009 12:13:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gaza students stuck in Strip</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 13:41:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>RAINman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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. According to Gisha [...]]]></description>
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