Tag Archives: Children

Reality in Occupied Palestine

Stephen Lendman

Gaza’s attacked regularly. Dozens of West Bank incursions occur weekly. Police state harshness and arrests follow.

In the week ending April 5, one Palestinian was killed and dozens injured, including 18 children. They were nonviolently commemorating Land Day.

Many others, including an international human rights… Continue reading

Posted on April 9, 2012 by FG

The Ghost and the Machine: Drone Warfare and Accountability

Kathy Kelly and Afghan Youth Peace

Fazillah, age 25, lives in Maidan Shar, the central city of Afghanistan’s Wardak province.  She married about six years ago, and gave birth to a son, Aymal, who just turned five without a father. Fazillah tells her son… Continue reading

Posted on February 29, 2012 by FG

Europe’s Own Human Rights Crisis

Benjamin Ward

To many friends of human rights in Europe, the Arab Spring has been the most thrilling period since the fall of the Berlin Wall. Judging from their soaring rhetoric about yearning for freedom among Arab peoples, European Union leaders share that enthusiasm. Today there is an… Continue reading

Posted on February 12, 2012 by FG

UN Expert Concludes: Israel Implements a strategy of Judaization

ICAHD

Prof. Raquel Rolnik, UN Special Rapporteur on the right to adequate housing, has concluded this morning (Sunday, February 12th 2012) of a two week visit to Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory. Speaking in Jerusalem this afternoon Prof. Rolink said: “From the… Continue reading

Posted on February 12, 2012 by FG

61 Homes Demolished in Gaza!

Barbara Lubin

I am writing this letter to you late at night and I am asking you to help me. Over the years I have asked for you to step up and reach out to the people here in Palestine because to be honest with… Continue reading

Posted on February 12, 2012 by FG

Israel Teams With Terror Group to Kill Iran’s Nuclear Scientists, U.S. officials tell NBC News

Richard Engel and Robert Windrem
NBC News

February 09, 2012 “NBC” — Deadly attacks on Iranian nuclear scientists are being carried out by an Iranian dissident group that is financed, trained and armed by Israel’s secret service… Continue reading

Posted on February 11, 2012 by FG

OPT: Boosting protection and tackling food insecurity

IRIN

The humanitarian community’s 2012-2013 Consolidated Appeals Process (CAP) for the occupied Palestinian territory (oPt) has a narrower scope than in previous years, focusing on two strategic objectives: improving the protective environment, including access to essential services like health care and education, and tackling… Continue reading

Posted on January 31, 2012 by FG

The World War on Democracy

John Pilger

January 20, 2012 “Information Clearing House” — Lisette Talate died the other day. I remember a wiry, fiercely intelligent woman who masked

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Posted on January 21, 2012 by FG

The Afghan Dust is Settling

A Sourcebook on Media Censorship in America

Book Review of Project Censored’s Censored 2012

Dr. Paul W. Rea

Even more than its predecessors, Censored 2012 makes for highly engaging and informative reading. This collection is a well mixed bag containing much that we need to know… Continue reading

Posted on January 21, 2012 by FG

Stop Warmongering in the Middle East

Richard Falk

The public discussion in the West addressing Iran’s nuclear program has mainly relied on threat diplomacy, articulated most clearly by Israeli officials, but enjoying the strong direct and indirect backing of Washington and leading Gulf states.  Israel has also engaged in covert warfare against Iran… Continue reading

Posted on January 20, 2012 by FG

Terror Attacks, U.S.-Israeli War Games Raise the Prospects for War with Iran

Tom Burghardt

Amid rising tensions over bogus Western claims that Iran plans to build nuclear weapons, upcoming American war games with Israel have the potential of escalating into a deadly confrontation.

A miscalculation, or deliberate provocation by the West

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Posted on January 18, 2012 by FG

2012:  The Dawning of a People’s Global Movement, March and Computerized Resistance

Dr Rachael Rudolph

Hands outstretched and faces lifted to the sky, the young look upward as the rivulets of rain pierce their flesh.  A mother yells to come inside, before they catch their death. Death is not something that crosses the… Continue reading

Posted on January 18, 2012 by FG

Martin Luther King Day Speech 2012

Transcript of the King Day at the Dome address by NAACP President & CEO Benjamin Todd Jealous at the South Carolina State Capitol Monday, January 16 2012.

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Posted on January 16, 2012 by FG

Israeli Soldiers Leak Classified Info

The Israeli Army has been grappling with a series of massive leaks of classified information by its own soldiers through online services, a report says.

Israeli Army secrets are beaming around the world, mostly from the inside, Russia Today reported.

The report added that with just one… Continue reading

Posted on January 15, 2012 by FG