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Monthly Archives: October 2011

Confusing Syria with Libya? Fact checking AI’s “hospitals investigation”

by Franklin Lamb, Al Manar En route to Niger This observer counts himself among Amnesty International’s more than 3 million supporters and members in more than 150 countries and territories who also strongly endorse AI’s campaigns to end grave abuses of human rights. I share AI’s vision for every person to enjoy all the rights [...]

More testimonies of tortured Bahraini women & forces attack anti-regime demo

More Testimonies [of] Tortured Bahraini Women (Video, see in original source) by Sara Taha, Al Manar From Bahrain, in a another report by Al-Manar TV channel, more Bahraini women tell about the torture they were exposed to during custody. These women were arrested for the charge of participating in the peaceful public protests that Bahrain [...]

UNESCO grants Palestine membership

Press TV Palestine has been admitted as a full member of the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) despite strong opposition from Washington. Palestinians won the UNESCO seat in a Paris vote on Monday. The membership bid required two-thirds approval and was passed with 107 countries out of 173 voting in favor and 14 [...]

Communique No. 1 of “The Global March to Jerusalem”

Al Manar The International Committee of the Global March towards Al-Quds issued the following Communique: Since the Zionist occupation of 78% of Palestine in 1948, and the subsequent occupation of Jerusalem and the rest of Palestine in 1967, we have witnessed growing efforts to Judaize Jerusalem and colonize Palestine. These crimes against humanity are done [...]

Palestine: Two fighters killed In southern Gaza, totalling 12 since Saturday & settler violence

Two Fighters Killed In Southern Gaza, Totalling 12 Since Saturday by Saed Bannoura – IMEMC & Agencies Palestinian Medical sources reported that the Israeli Air Force (IAF) bombarded an area in the southern part of the Gaza Strip on Sunday, killing two Palestinian fighters. The latest escalation raises the number of Palestinians killed in Gaza [...]

Fresh protest rallies hit Moroccan cities

Press TV Thousands of Moroccans have staged fresh anti-government protests in the capital Rabat and other cities, calling for an immediate release of political prisoners, Press TV reports. The peaceful rallies were organized by the youth-led opposition February 20 Movement. The protesters also slammed the government for banning the main opposition Justice and Development Party [...]

Financial Times: Bahrain royal accused in 6m$ UK corruption case

Moqawama Member of Bahrain’s royal family has been named as a co-conspirator in a UK fraud probe into deals made by a London-based businessman man between Alcoa, the US aluminum group, and state-backed Bahrain Aluminum (Alba). “Financial Times” newspaper reported Sunday that “Sheikh Isa bin Ali al-Khalifa, cousin and adviser to the Kingdom’s prime minister, [...]

US sows discord in South Asia

by M K Bhadrakumar, source Two templates in regional politics are seriously debilitating the United States’s campaign to bring Pakistan down on its knees in the Afghan endgame. One is that Delhi has distanced itself from the US campaign and pursues an independent policy toward Islamabad. The second factor frustrating US policies to isolate Pakistan [...]

Palestine: Death toll in Gaza rises to nine & “Israel” violates truce

Death toll in Gaza rises to nine Palestinians after renewed Israeli aggression GAZA, (PIC)– Two more Palestinian resistance fighters from Islamic Jihad Movement were proclaimed dead at an early hour Sunday during another Israeli air raid west of Gaza city. Al-Quds Brigades, the armed wing of Islamic Jihad, said two more of its fighters, were [...]

US to reposition in Kuwait & NATO’s Libya experiment encourages US aircraft production

RB comment: The US (or its allies) wars killed hundreds of thousands of civilians and counting in Iraq, Afghanistan, Lebanon, Palestine, Pakistan, Libya, Yemen, Somalia, etc. Also many of these wars failed yet the US gov. even with many problems at home still makes plans for war. Do they ever learn? Those governments are no [...]

Police arrest 30 protesters in Oregan

Press TV Police in Oregon have arrested at least 30 peaceful ‘Occupy’ protesters, dragging and carrying them to waiting vans, after they refused to leave a park in an affluent district. The arrests came after protesters from the ‘Occupy Portland’ movement refused to leave a park in northwest Portland on early Sunday, CNN reported. “We [...]

Bahraini opposition vows more protests

Bahraini Opposition Vows More Pro-Democracy Protests until Demands are Met Moqawama Deputy Head of Bahrain’s main opposition party al-Wefaq, Khalil al-Marzooq stated that “this struggle will continue through peaceful means and will combat government violence with even more peace”. In an interview with German Press, al-Marzooq indicated, “We are keen to continue a popular protest [...]

‘Israel’ finds new “home” for Bedouins: a garbage dump

by Jillian Kestler-D’Amours, The Electronic Intifada JERUSALEM (IPS) – As Israel moves ahead with a plan to forcibly displace tens of thousands of Palestinian Bedouins in the occupied West Bank, Mohammad al-Korshan and his family are facing the real prospect of not only losing their home, but their traditional way of life. “The Bedouins depend [...]

Israeli man pleads guilty to human organ trafficking in NY

NEW YORK, (PIC)– An Israeli man from New York pleaded guilty on Thursday for his involvement in human organ trafficking in the US, according to US press reports. Levy Yitzhak Rosenbaum, a 60-year old man, confessed before a federal court in New York to four charges brought against him on the sale of human organs. [...]

Palestine: Israeli airstrike kills six Gazans, settlers assault Palestinian farmers & prisoner issues

Israeli airstrike kills six Gazans Press TV An Israeli airstrike has killed at least six Palestinians and injured 11 others in the southern city of Rafah in besieged Gaza Strip’s, local medics say. Gaza Health Ministry spokesperson Adham Abu Salmia said the Saturday airstrike targeted a military compound in Rafah, AP reported. Israel has again [...]

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