Children in Military Custody – new report by leading UK lawyers By Defence for Children International-Palestine Section (DCI-Palestine), 28 Jun 2012 On 26 June a new report on children held in Israeli military detention was published in London. The report – Children in military custody – was produced by a delegation of UK lawyers …
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Jun 27 2012
Sense of scale
If you collected all of Earth’s water into a sphere, how big would it be? By Robert T. Gonzalez, May 8, 2012 8:00 AM Imagine the Earth in your mind’s eye. Now round up all the water on the planet into a sphere (we’re talking oceans, icecaps, atmosphere, everything — even the water bound …
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Jun 26 2012
Modern-day version of maktab thani
Free the refugees of Nahr al-Bared By Marcy Newman, 26 Jun 2012 22:06 Last week at a candlelight vigil in Baddawi refugee camp for the camp’s dead and injured, signs posted on the school wall asked why, after five years, was Nahr al-Bared still a closed military zone? For the past five years, all …
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Jun 25 2012
It’s racism, pure and simple
Tea Party Racism Stirs the Republican Martini. By Reflections of a shallow pond, June 21, 2012 3:55PM Really? Last weekend at a Republican party convention at the Missoula, Montana Hilton, an outhouse labeled “Obama Presidential Library” was plunked down in the middle of the hotel parking lot. Ha! Good one. The exterior of the …
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Jun 25 2012
Freedom, justice and peace in the world
A Cruel and Unusual Record By Jimmy Carter, June 24, 2012 The United States is abandoning its role as the global champion of human rights. Revelations that top officials are targeting people to be assassinated abroad, including American citizens, are only the most recent, disturbing proof of how far our nation’s violation of human …
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Jun 24 2012
Trojan horse for the New World Order
Alabama defeats communism with anti-sustainability law By Leah Nelson, Saturday, Jun 23, 2012 11:00 AM CDT With chronic budget shortfalls, dangerously overcrowded prisons and the nation’s biggest municipal bankruptcy filing, we here in Alabama have a lot on our minds. But at least we can cross one worry off the list: Our property cannot …
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Jun 24 2012
A man born long before his time
Morsi is no revolutionary and not much of a nationalist. The army elite has already laid traps for him By Robert Fisk, Monday 25 June 2012 While 50 million Egyptians were waiting yesterday to hear that they had elected a Muslim Brotherhood mediocrity over a Mubarak bag-carrier, I paid a visit to the home …
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