Pressure mounts on Libya’s Gaddafi

Pressure mounts on Libya’s Gaddafi Al Jazeera Demonstrators remain on the streets as leader defies international condemnation. Most of Libya is out of control of the government, and Muammar Gaddafi’s grip on power may soon be confined only to Tripoli, Libya’s former interior minister told Al Jazeera. General Abdul Fatteh Younis, called upon Gaddafi to [...]

Gaza: Israeli warplanes blast targets, wounds civilians

Israeli warplanes blast targets in Gaza GAZA, (PIC)– Israeli warplanes launched a series of air raids on different targets in the Gaza Strip at dawn Saturday, local sources said, adding that no casualties were reported. The sources told the PIC reporter that Israeli F-16s bombed a deserted land area west of Breij refugee camp, in [...]

Settlers set fire to car in Burin amid attacks

Jewish vandals set fire to car in Burin amid attacks NABLUS, (PIC)– Jewish settlers have attacked the south Nablus village of Burin setting fire to a car amid a fierce outbreak of similar assaults. A gang of Jews from the Yitzhar settlement, south of Burin, infiltrated the town Saturday and set fire to the yard [...]

Death toll of Yemen unrest rises and major tribes join protesters

Death Toll of Yemen Unrest Rises Al Manar Yemeni police killed four protesters demanding the downfall of President Ali Abdullah Saleh after three decades in power. Security forces used live ammunition on a demonstration in the southern city of Aden, which has seen the worst violence, bringing the death toll to four on Saturday from [...]

Protests in Palestine: Palestinians injured and infant died

Israeli troops attack protesters against wall, settlement in W. Bank, J’lem RAMALLAH, (PIC)– Dozens of Palestinian citizens suffered tear gas suffocation and two were injured at noon Friday when the Israeli occupation forces (IOF) attacked them using grenades and rubber bullets in the villages of Bil’in and Masara, and Silwan district of occupied Jerusalem. The [...]

Iraqi protests: Videos and Two teenagers killed in Iraqi Kurdistan

Two teenagers killed in Iraqi Kurdistan Press TV Two teenage protesters have been killed and around thirty others injured in separate clashes with forces loyal to Iraq’s Kurdistan Democratic Party. The two victims were killed in the cities of Chamchamal and Kalar in Iraq’s autonomous Kurdistan region. Several people have lost their lives in similar [...]

Rights movement: Israeli soldiers stole organs of Palestinian Christian in 1988

RAMALLAH, (PIC)– The popular movement for the support of prisoners and Palestinian rights renewed its accusation against Israeli soldiers of torturing and killing a Palestinian Christian young man called Khader Tarzi before harvesting his body parts in February 1988. The movement had obtained a videotape illustrating in detail how the young man was hunted, beaten [...]

UNICEF report says “Israel” killed 11 children in 2010

OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)– UNICEF released Friday a report illustrating Israel’s abuse of Palestinian children in 2010, highlighting the killing of 11 and wounding of 360. The UN Children’s Fund is the UN’s only agency devoted to the welfare of children and releases annual reports detailing its works and challenges. The report says Israeli security forces [...]

Egypt protesters dispersed by force

Egypt protesters dispersed by force Al Jazeera Army uses batons to break up demonstrations in capital Cairo demanding purging of Mubarak loyalists from government. The Egyptian army has used force to disperse activists gathered in Cairo’s Tahrir Square to demand the removal of Hosni Mubarak loyalists from the interim cabinet. Egyptian soldiers fired in the air [...]

Bahrain sacks ministers amid protests

Bahrain sacks ministers amid protests Press TV Bahrain’s king sacks four cabinet ministers as tens of thousands of people pour into the streets of the capital, Manama, calling for an end to the monarchy. King Hamad bin Isa Al-Khalifa dismissed the ministers of cabinet affairs, housing, health and electricity in an attempt to pacify pro-democracy [...]

Algeria’s Police out in Force to Block New Anti-government Protests

Al Manar Algerian riot police were mobilized in the center of the capital Saturday in a bid to block a new opposition attempt to stage a march against President Abdelaziz Bouteflika. The demonstration was set to start two days after the government lifted a state of emergency in force for 19 years, amidst a split [...]

A Jittery GCC: Bahrain and the “Freedom Contagion”

RB note: The protests in Bahrain are not sectarian in nature but the country mainly consists of Shia Muslims who have been persecuted along with others. Many Sunni Muslims are protesting too. The protests are for all the people. by RANNIE AMIRI, source “Saudi Arabia did not build a causeway to Bahrain just so that [...]

Aspirations for Independence: Intifada Beyond Palestine

by ISMAEL HOSSEIN-ZADEH, source Remember the neoconservatives’ plan of “domino effect” following the overthrow of the Taliban in Afghanistan and Saddam Hussein in Iraq? It was supposed to be followed by the toppling of other “unfriendly” heads of “rogue states” such as those ruling Iran and Syria who do not cater to the US-Israeli interests [...]

Till September: The PA’s Meaningless Deadlines

by Ramzy Baroud, source Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and his supporters in the Fatah party want us to believe that dramatic changes are underway in the occupied Palestinian territories. This is part of a strategy intended to offset any public dissatisfaction with the self-designated Palestinian leadership in the West Bank. The PA hopes the [...]

The economic mirage in the West Bank – Ramallah

MEMO Ramallah in the West Bank is seen as a beacon of economic success and the symbol of economic development as the Palestinian Authority has pursued peace with - Israel. As a sprawling metropolis has begun to develop and the sound of construction can be heard echoing across the city, Ramallah is viewed as evidence of [...]